You actually want me to...

[TES_BAN kills UOL_BOSS]

Seven minutes in, 0/3, in the top lane against a level 6 opponent who was only level 4, he shamelessly called for a 3v1 gank.

In that instant, the top laners of each team in Groups B, C, and D pulled out tissues to wipe the cold sweat from their foreheads. Damn it, thank goodness they weren't in Group A. Is this how the game is played?

[To kill someone, you must destroy their spirit! To kill someone, you must destroy their spirit!]

[I could guess with my eyes closed that this was a move orchestrated by the King of the Board. What grudge could they possibly hold against them?]

Some people play top lane, and they really play top lane; some people play top lane, and they're just "playing" top lane.

If Banhuang had chosen top lane when he was a professional player, Xiaohu wouldn't be in the running now.

"If you keep playing like this, I reckon people will be interacting with you on Twitter again tonight." After happily dividing up the spoils and heading up the tower, the Emperor, in a good mood, jokingly teased Roland beside him.

"It's just a game. Their goal wasn't to take points from us anyway. Do they really think people can post whatever they want late at night? This Twitter account might not even belong to him."

Behind every professional player's public relations campaign, there's often a club involved.

After all, they are a bunch of underage players. When they get angry, they might say something they shouldn't.

Don't be surprised. At midnight, countless people post on social media or write long essays to someone, thinking they've moved others, but they're actually just moving themselves. People aren't sober at that time, including those who are drunk late at night. When you see what you posted the next morning, you'll be so embarrassed you could dig out a three-bedroom apartment.

The club is behind us, fearing precisely the occurrence of such extreme situations.

Ok.

Aside from some players like Flandre who use their social media accounts to follow girl groups, this guy has successfully brought his slick gameplay from the game into real life, and the club doesn't even bother with him.

"No... can you guys do something about me?"

"Who's speaking? Emperor Hara, can you hear me?"

"No, I got ganked like this in the bot lane, isn't anyone going to come and help me? Help me out, bro."

In the top lane, Roland and others were making great strides under the tower, but as a consequence, in the bottom lane, JKL and Prophet were also being targeted by the enemy Lee Sin. Even though there are differences between professional AD carries, the margin for error in a 3v2 situation shouldn't be so low that you two can get a triple kill, right?

After Lee Sin shifted his focus to the bot lane, JKL's bot lane life became a nightmare.

"Oh, it's Ah Shui. You should have said so earlier. Don't worry, we've been keeping an eye on the pressure you're under in the bottom lane, and we've already come up with a plan."

"Any method will do! Hurry up! I can't hold on much longer."

"Oh, I see. I don't know if you've ever heard of the idiom 'besieging Wei to rescue Zhao'?"

"???"

The Battle for Supremacy: Chapter 18: The Most Terrifying Contestant

With the top laner pushing forward, the Rift Herald at eight minutes was undoubtedly secured by the TES team. Of course, Roland's Lucian was the one who took the Herald in the end. As the team's highest damage dealer at this stage, he had to keep the benefits of the first wave of Herald in his own hands.

Then... he started to go wild.

Although Roland is currently playing top lane, he played support before MSI. What is the most sensitive role for support?

That naturally means being sensitive to ward placements in the enemy jungle.

With his E skill's ability to slide through walls, his Lucian almost circled around several potential vision points in UOL's top jungle. Mainly because the top lane was in such a mess, UOL wouldn't consider giving much vision to the top side of the jungle.

Since it's already rotten to this extent, let's just leave it there.

The consequence of this was that Lu Xian, who had already cleared the top lane, secretly moved to the vicinity of the mid lane and was now lurking in the F6 pit, waiting for the enemy mid laner Viktor to make a mistake.

To open up a road?

That's the playstyle for ranked top laners. Because you can't trust any teammates in ranked games, you often end up turning your advantage into an advantage for your teammates, and then those idiot teammates will feed you back, wasting your own development time and accelerating the enemy's item progression. In short, you'd be better off helping a piece of char siu than helping them.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, many top laners will choose to go their own way and strive to become a lone wolf on a certain path.

But the professions are different.

In the professional game, the real fun is when everyone is having a good time. So, Roland, who had a huge advantage, naturally had to contribute his advantage. For example, in this wave, due to the changes to Viktor's passive, it would take about 10-12 minutes to upgrade the first skill without any kills. At this point, Viktor's wave clear ability was not as fast as Ryze's.

Just as the minion wave reached the tower, Roland's Lucian suddenly rushed out from the entrance of UOL's jungle. As the saying goes, "Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, three thousand six hundred revolutions in one breath," Roland, in the name of saving all living beings, rushed in and unleashed a combo of E-click + Q-click + W + R-click-click-click-click~ A series of firepower suppression combined with Ryze's pinpoint control left UOL's mid laner Viktor unable to fight back, not even able to move, and was directly taken down by this mid and top duo.

Then, release the vanguard.

Don't ask why it's not placed in the top lane. If the top laner can reliably harass and torment the enemy top laner, having the jungler place the Rift Herald in the top lane is essentially sabotaging their own top laner.

But the situation is different in the middle lane.

Not only can giving up the mid lane allow you to share the gold, but it also draws the attention of the enemy jungler and support back to the mid lane, making it safer for the top lane to keep feeding. It's like taking the gold and leaving the risk to the mid lane; this is pretty much the strategy for asset transfer.

clam?

Won't you have any objections to asking about the mid lane?

Not everyone can see this clearly. If you encounter a naive mid laner, he might even thank you.

Then came the endless torment.

TES relentlessly tormented the opposing top and mid lane duo, while UOL's mid laner Viktor channeled his anger into strength, even abandoning mid lane altogether and rushing down to gank JKL and Yuyanjia.

JKL was completely dumbfounded. It was one thing to be two against three, and although he couldn't win, he could still survive if he was careful.

As a result, they came down the middle lane.

The four members of UOL started tower diving and received a big gift from UZI in ranked games. Among them, the two bot laners of UOL were the happiest when they tower dived.

Although they'll likely lose the match, their bot lane duo completely crushed the opposing bot lane duo! Don't worry about how many players they used to achieve that kill; statistically, they've already won, won by a huge margin.

[Tsk tsk tsk, UOL, are they open for business now?]

[It's obvious. If I were UOL, I wouldn't want to run into such a despicable and shameless Lu Xian either.]

[If you don't understand, just ask: how do you play against this top lane Berserker Ranger?]

I have a strategy called Desert Spider that can counter top lane rangers, provided the top laner can survive until level three.

The gap in strength between the two teams was so huge that UOL was even a team that couldn't beat PGG, let alone their team management after the lane was cleared.

23 minutes.

With Roland Lu Xian's sliding steps and various dominance, UOL finally couldn't withstand TES's advance and gave up a game.

Until the very last moment of the match.

Roland's record was a dazzling 11/4, while JKL's record was also an impressive 1/6, shocking fans all year round.

"No, why should I?"

Ah Shui was really confused. In the early to mid-game, Lu Xian was practically riding on the enemy's face, so why was the enemy still relentlessly targeting their bot lane? Didn't White Crescent say before the match that UOL was a team that focused on the top, mid, and jungle?

This is what they call playing top, mid, and jungle?

Especially when compared to Roland, who switched from support to top lane AD, looking at his impressive stats and then at himself, JKL had a strange feeling of being... well, you know. This analogy is like getting a Pinduoduo cashback coupon on a JD.com purchase, having a package sent by Shentong Express delivered by Zhongtong Express, or receiving a gift meant for couples on a single person's birthday.

In short, it's all kinds of strange and incongruous.

"That's your problem."

"No, is it my fault that they're giving me this kind of military training?"

"Look at Flandre from EDG next door, in every game he's played, he's been targeted like this?"

Before the Spring Split and Summer Split playoffs of S11, Flandre's performance was a source of both love and hate. On the one hand, he was indeed very reckless and gave away opportunities easily, but on the other hand, even when he was targeted relentlessly, he was still the one who could influence the course of the game.

Which two types of players are the most formidable?

He caught three people in twelve minutes, usually four or five. He died six, seven, or eight times in a row, and his team surprised nine people. It was a perfect performance.

He died eight times in nineteen minutes, dragged Qilong with six full items, and suddenly got a pentakill, shocking his four teammates. He won two out of three games and became famous overnight.

These two are essentially the absolute protagonists in the e-sports circle.

Some people are so outrageous that no matter how much they are targeted, they can still play the role they are supposed to play, such as the legendary top laner GimGoon.

Seeing JKL deep in thought, Roland and Harper exchanged a quick glance, then subtly made a hand gesture in perfect unison.

The "difficult" water diversion strategy to the north, get it!

The Chase: Chapter Nineteen: Sometimes, you still have to believe in metaphysics.

The following morning, the news of TES's perfect record in the first two days of the group stage did not cause any psychological ripples among LPL viewers. After all, the difference in strength was so great that if they really couldn't win, that would be a real celebration. At most, viewers could only make fun of the various positional swaps and fancy tricks the team pulled off.

But when the TES team's hero microphones came out, the atmosphere instantly changed.

Throughout the entire game, Roland was either calling for teammates or asking the jungler to gank the enemy jungle, clearly demonstrating the essence of top lane to LPL viewers, reminiscent of his legendary "world's best top laner" days.

Especially in the game against UOL, they completely broke the mentality of UOL's top laner.

"Life is short, so seize the day and enjoy it to the fullest. Reward yourself with a Lucian! Don't let your golden goblet stand empty before the moon. This top lane is a sure win." "Everyone has their own talents, so if the enemy is pushing the lane, they're just feeding. Even if you spend all your money, it will come back. The next jungler will be here."

Basically, it's all about doing all sorts of silly things.

UOL and PGG also had a lot of interaction on Twitter. In the end, UOL won the game by showing a screenshot of their crushing defeat of JKL. JKL had just finished the game and taken a nap. When he woke up, he found himself being targeted by the team again for no reason.

In the following double round-robin period, TES's matches appeared particularly monotonous.

Day 1: Fried Fish

Day 2: Fried fish

Day 3: Fried fish

Day 4: TES, you need to get serious. Playing like this won't get you anywhere.

Day 5: Fried fish

It's worth mentioning that since Roland usually has a lot of support from the jungler when he plays top, PGG and UOL haven't had much of a chance to break through in the top jungle. So the two teams figured they couldn't beat TES anyway, so they decided to have a private competition to see who could kill more AD carries when playing against TES.

This gamble completely drove Ah Shui to despair.

In the last few days, JKL made a snap decision: "Didn't you like 'affinity rock'?"

Okay, since we're looking for excitement, let's go all the way!

When the group stage entered its second round, TES came up with a strategy of having JackeyLove as AD in the top lane and Roland as AD in the bottom lane. This not only stunned the audience, but also gave PGG and UOL a firsthand experience of what it means to have two turrets in the bottom lane.

Ezreal with Frostfire Gauntlet, Kalista with Sunfire Aegis, and Samira with Bloodthirster—these builds have once again made audiences worldwide aware of the bizarre thought process behind this item-building genius.

Group A is fried fish.

Group B was characterized by a significant disparity in skill levels, so the four teams started putting on various antics and exhibition matches.