You actually want me to...

I don't expect him to die instantly with one strike, but he should at least be finished within three strikes.

Why pick Nightmare otherwise? It's better to just pick a Barbarian to backdoor and take down towers. Isn't Barbarian's three-hit combo better?

Of course, matches with high kill counts are always exciting for viewers, especially between two teams of similar skill levels—a classic case of gold against gold, and silver against silver. Putting a Challenger player against a Silver player isn't a war; it's a massacre.

cough cough.

Although there is indeed a Challenger player playing against a Bronze player, this Challenger player only tested the waters slightly and pushed to the crystal without even getting a kill, but that's not important.

That's not a problem with the matchmaking system; it's that weak players buy accounts thinking they can play in high-level matches and then get completely destroyed.

With the most troublesome top and support lanes resolved, the next round naturally falls to TES. As long as the opposing team doesn't have any players with unclear combat strength like the Smiling Soldier or the Pixel Head Snowman Belly, TES doesn't need to worry about EDG suddenly launching a counterattack in the short term.

Since Lilia was forced to go up and protect Nightmare's development, it was natural that the first elemental dragon was easily captured by Haro.

"Prepare the vanguard team, and then... Jack, after you finish pushing the lane and recall, head straight there. I'll go first."

"What? You're leaving again? You took the money, you can't leave."

"Don't worry, I'm an experienced driver, I won't betray you. Let me go to the mid lane to help Knight deal with the siege minion that's about to come online. He's an AP champion, so he probably won't be able to do much damage."

Knight: ? ? ?

Like Rakan, Alistar is a champion who undergoes a significant power spike at level six, so figuring out how to quickly reach level six becomes a difficult problem.

However, this problem is Meiko's problem, but not Roland's problem.

In the previous two ganks, he was secretly gaining experience by hiding in places where he could, but Knight was so focused on the enemy dying that he didn't notice this detail at all.

Even now.

Despite the fact that Tsar had already died once, the experience difference between the two mid laners was not significant.

So where did all that experience go? The answer is obvious.

Soon, eight minutes later, all five players from both sides gathered at the Rift Herald.

This pioneer.

If it's given to EDG, with the Nightmare-the-Lights-Off strategy, it'll be a one-shot kill, and they'll get at least 3000 gold.

If TES gets the champion, Fiora will take off, and Ale's split-pushing will be so powerful that the opponent will be terrified, unable to kill even if two of them go.

Such an important map resource is naturally something neither side would want to let go of.

The only slightly strange thing is...

The entire TES team is currently lingering in the river with their mid, top, and jungle, while their bot and support are farming minions in the mid lane. On the surface, it seems like TES is giving resources to their ADC, but in reality, everyone is watching Roland's experience points with excitement on their faces.

[Experience points for the Ultimate Technique: Five Divisions]

This is a unique skill that TES learned during scrims with players from other regions after the Rift Herald's weight changed. It involves slightly sacrificing the resources of the mid laner or even the jungler in the early game to allow the bot lane to reach level six quickly. Then, taking advantage of the moment when the enemy is level five while TES is level six, they can unleash a powerful attack on the enemy team with the Rift Herald.

It's not really innovative.

In fact, this gameplay had already appeared quite a few times before the S11 World Championship. It's just that everyone's expectations were too high and they didn't pay much attention to the low-level games. In the Silver rank of Roland's hometown before his time travel, it was common for the support to have the highest level, economy, and equipment.

As for why it's such a powerful weapon in competitions?

Isn't that obvious?

Although this is commonplace, try it on your random teammates in ranked games. It's one thing if they have a good stat and clear the bot lane, but even though it's Season 11, there are still some players who are obsessed with ranking up and think that ranking up is more important than life.

But what if the record is poor or mediocre?

Then you should first consider whether you can protect your family tree. Although our brothers in the lower ranks may have terrible skills, when it comes to arguing, they are all keyboard warriors and keyboard masters, specializing in attacking three generations of ancestors, and never bothering to talk back to you.

Soon, EDG suffered the consequences of this playstyle.

Just as both sides were still locked in a fierce battle at the entrance of the vanguard, a decent opportunity arose, and Flandre immediately chose to activate his ultimate.

Nightmares are all about striking first; there's no such thing as a nightmare striking second.

At the same time the lights were turned off, Meiko's Luo Bifang launched an attack.

He had already scouted the positions of TES's two carries, planning to block the enemy bot lane duo from entering the river from the mid lane the moment they emerged from the bushes. Then he would lift both of them, and Nocturne would fear the AD carry, allowing both sides to finish off the enemy Xayah in one fell swoop.

Should the bottom lane duo be separated from the frontline and sent to farm lanes?

What are you thinking about?

Do you really think you're invincible once you reach level six? A level five bot lane duo would be at the mercy of their dive composition and slaughter.

Just when Meiko thought the attack was flawless, a very unexpected voice suddenly rang in his ears: "Feathers flying everywhere!"

Just before entering the grass, I saw a level 5 Xia and a Minotaur.

After he jumped into the grass to take control, his level suddenly jumped from level five to level six??

Holy crap, referee, he's cheating!

Before he could even react, an even more shocking scene unfolded before him.

Beside his wife (Xia), a bull that had awakened the power of a minotaur was berserking, its bell in Hongru's hand sounding like a death sentence.

"Ding~ Ding~ Ding~ Ding"

Contest: Chapter Thirty-Five: Just Superficial Brothers

"Holy crap, Level 6!?"

"Brothers, let's get out of here!!!"

The moment they saw Xayah activate her ultimate, Flandre and Meiko sensed something was wrong. But after seeing the Alistar support's level, they completely lost any will to fight.

Everyone else is level 6, while you're only a three-man team with two other players. It's not like you're not high enough level for the dungeon; it's just that you're getting utterly crushed.

Roland activated his Alistar ultimate, then quickly located Xayah's landing spot and used his combo skill "Shadow Follower." "Shadow Follower" involves overlapping your own model with the ADC's model, preventing the enemy's dash from hitting your ADC. This move is only effective against champions like Nocturne who rely on auto-attacks; against champions like Aatrox, it's a complete waste.

If Roland had used a fully stacked Cho'Gath instead of Alistar, this move would have been upgraded from "Following in the Shadows" to the ultimate skill of Umbrella King in Season 4, "Crotch Damage," and anyone who used it would know how powerful it was.

After the two used their ultimate skills, Flandre, who couldn't hit the AD carry, said he was completely dumbfounded.

You two are animals, aren't you?

Back when we were on the same team, I never saw you two act so ruthlessly. Now that you've finally met your old teammates on the field, you're just throwing out your ultimate moves one after another like they're free.

Humph.

They're just superficial friends.

Despite having a lot to complain about, Flandre couldn't hit anything; he just couldn't make a move. Right-clicking only brought up the Minotaur's model, and auto-attacking the ground was impossible without Roland's support. With time running out, the task was heavy, and the pressure was immense, Flandre, realizing he couldn't think of a solution anytime soon, simply started clicking randomly.

I'll attack here, I'll attack there, my damage output is all up to chance.

There's no way around it. It's one thing if this minotaur isn't at level six, but once it reaches level six and comprehends the power of the minotaur, it immediately becomes thicker, stronger, and harder when it unleashes its ultimate attack, and its combat power skyrockets. It directly evolves from the level of a juice man to the level of being able to fight against that... well, you know. What's there to fight then?

Open for business~

Then, Xayah broke his shield with a Q skill, and Alistar used his Q skill to send him soaring into the sky.

One step wrong, step by step wrong.

The idea of ​​flanking the backline and engaging in team fights completely failed. The other three members of TES were even more unfazed. They didn't even need to kill the enemy; they just wanted to hold them off and prevent them from escaping. Once the bottom lane duo finished off the enemy jungler and support, the enemy would almost certainly die. Did these three squishy heroes think they could turn the world upside down?

Although it's just a technique commonly used in low-level games.

But as soon as it appears on the professional stage for the first time, it turns out to be a hidden trump card.

A 0-for-3 exchange plus the Rift Herald, and while chasing someone, they also placed the Rift Herald on the top lane, allowing the top laner, Fiora, to reap huge rewards.

Well, what's even more shameless is that during the chase, people kept falling behind. They would either run to the minion wave or go to eat jungle monsters. In the end, only Roland and Haro, who didn't really need to farm, were running around chasing the enemy's low-health carries.

This setup is reminiscent of Chechen troops; even passing dogs get slapped, earthworms are dug up and cut vertically, and ant nests are doused with hot water.

Wherever it goes, not a blade of grass grows.

[Tsk tsk tsk, this isn't about chasing people, TES is about raiding the base, isn't it?]

[Hilarious! They were chasing after them and then they all disappeared. If they kept chasing, they might get killed instead.]

[The classic case of emotion succumbing to reason—that's how one survives.]

I'm still very curious, how exactly did this Minotaur reach level six?

Honestly, they can understand why the ADC reaches level six. After all, everyone has witnessed JKL spending so much time soloing. Without a support stealing experience, it's faster for one person to get it all.

But you're just a support?

How did you manage to reach level six so quickly?

At this moment, countless tutorial video creators have already seen the topic for the new episode, while a small number of viewers who saw the potential from Roland's first-person perspective chose to remain silent and quietly started a ranked game.

If you have something that can help you rank up, you have to use it secretly and make sure too many people don't know about it.

Many people said they would make money from stocks in the early years, but now they have basically all lost money; during the stock market crash, almost everyone was talking about funds, but do you think they would still dare to go for a night run on the Huangpu River now?

As for the recent resurgence of gold...

cough cough.

All I want to say is that when you find that everyone around you is recommending something, you should carefully consider whether you can actually afford it.

When the game returned to the dominance TES favored in the first 15 minutes, EDG's game became very difficult. As a late-game composition, they lost all their dragons and Rift Herald to the opponent, and due to the impact of losing team fights, they even had to concede the second elemental dragon.

The first time, let's let the elemental dragon go; the second time, let the vanguard go; the third time, let's let the elemental dragon go again. Maybe it'll be a dragon that's close to winning or a big dragon. If we keep letting it go, we'll be like the Chinese national football team, with nothing left to let go. We probably won't even be able to hold out for the Dragon Soul.

"No, we have to find a chance to regain some momentum."

"What do we do?"

"We should pick off their Fiora, but if we're down to three or more, it'll attract their attention. So, let's go top and jungle. If we can kill Fiora once, we can slow down their 4-1 slow death strategy." Even though they knew this might give A-Le a chance to make plays, they had no other choice.

How do you say that?

Either attack or defend; indecisiveness is annoying.

Just do it.

Although disappearing from the map would likely attract the other's attention, as long as they are fast enough, just like in Grand Theft Auto, they can finish their job and run away without any problems.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the players' bench...

"Ah Le, your chance to shine might be coming." Suddenly, Roland blurted out this in TES's internal voice chat.

"Huh? What happened?"