Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 287 Ruthless Tower Push! Desperate Brother Ma!

Sion, who was already level 10 at this point, didn't lose any health when cutting off the minion wave because of his shield.

Moreover, since there are no minions to interfere with, Sion can easily take down each wave of minions with a well-placed Q skill.

As for Kai'Sa, let alone last-hitting minions, she even had a hard time getting experience, and could only watch helplessly as her second turret in the bottom lane kept clearing the minion wave for her.

"Come and catch Sion! If you don't catch him soon, he'll be taken to the base of the high ground tower!" Ma Ge couldn't help but say.

"Can we catch them?" Haro gritted his teeth, seemingly wanting to go but then seeking Doinb's opinion.

"Grasp!"

The saying "help the good, not the bad" may not be a universal truth, but it applies to most situations, and even bronze-level players understand it.

RNG, with Xayah and Rakan as their core, couldn't afford to let Rw gank them. If Gragas and Galio successfully counter-ganked, their momentum would be gone.

And
Rw and the others were also angry.

Are you really not afraid of death, you undead god of war? Your jungler and mid laner have both shown up on the map, and you dare to come to the bottom lane second tower and cut the lane?
As Doinb's Titan moved towards the bottom lane, Elise also sneaked up from behind, seemingly cutting off Sion's escape route.

But under everyone's watchful eyes, Sain acted as if nothing was wrong, completely unfazed. Even as three people were hammering him, his only target remained the same—
Defense tower!
The resolute iron fists landed on the turret again and again. Even though three people quickly focused their fire and killed Sion, unfortunately, during the interval when Sion respawned, the second turret's explosive charge had already begun to charge. When Sion stood up, a fist mixed with explosive charge fell down, and the turret crashed to the ground.

Sion actually traded his life for the turret!
The sudden influx of money left everyone present speechless.

Kai'Sa got 220 gold for killing Sion, while Doinb's Nautilus and Haro's Elise each got 55 gold for the assist.

However, when Sion destroys a turret, the entire team gains 150+ gold and Sion gains an extra 100 gold. In the end, it's not a loss at all, and it's even a profit.

Now everyone understood.

On the field, although the development is still stable, the pace has begun to tighten, and the economic balance of the two teams has been tilted in RNG's direction.

The commentators from each major competition area gradually discerned the trend of this game.

"It seems like there will be two tough bosses to deal with in the mid-game," Wawa said.

“That’s right. If things continue like this, both Xia and the old driver will get very fat.” Miller also noticed this.

"Xia is so fed because RNG's strategy revolves around her, and the Xia-Rakan combo is already a Tier 1 pick. It's because of the current meta; this champion is very difficult for the opponent to counter. As long as the opponent can't separate Xia and Rakan, Xia will definitely get fed," said Coach Ma.

"But I never expected that Sion, the Undead Warrior, could get so fed."

"Rw has been making their target too obvious. Now that Sion is out there, are you going to gank him or not?"

The more popular and ubiquitous the "suicide Sion" strategy was when it first appeared, the more overpowered it was!

This is a strategy that requires absolutely no skill. As the name suggests, the suicide Sion strategy involves sacrificing your own kill count and farm in exchange for a large amount of team resources and minion wave advantage, making it easier to win.

The core of this Sion playstyle lies in whether he is tanky enough, for a simple reason: the Demolish rune is linked to health.

This is why Sion is the preferred champion, while no one plays Zilean, who can also resurrect. It's so that Sion can develop properly and have enough health and melee advantage.

To put it extremely, if you're a Sion with only 10 last hits in 10 minutes and no health items, the enemy support can take away half your health in one combo. Even if you trigger Demolish, you won't be able to take down much of the tower's health.

Like a mutated 4-1 split push, it was virtually impossible to counter or counter in versions where the portal was still active. Sion's tower-less high ground demolition was incredibly mindless; he would drive into the high ground and place the portal.

The portal damage is calculated based on a percentage of your health. Normally, you would have 3500+ health at this point, which means you would be vulnerable to void minions (the first and fourth) that deal less than 600 damage.

Basically, as long as the opponent doesn't respond immediately, you can push it all in one go. Even if the opponent reacts immediately, you can take advantage of the passive state to dismantle it.

As the commentators predicted, the veteran player replenished his equipment and headed straight for the bottom lane without looking back, his target being the high ground tower that was not protected by the second tower.

At first, Ma Ge was patient enough to wait for Sion to push the lane into the tower, thinking that since Sion had just been ganked and killed in the last wave, he definitely wouldn't dare to be reckless this time.

After all, in professional matches, if you get caught and killed every two minutes, won't you be able to farm properly?

However, this time Sion had plenty of patience and slowly pushed the minion wave. Basically, each wave of minions would only advance a few dozen yards, while Gragas was frequently spotted in the lower jungle and was constantly roaming near the bottom lane.

In just fifteen minutes, the CS difference between the two ADCs reached 60 CS!

In professional matches, how could there ever be such a significant difference in CS (creep score) between players in the carry position!

"This is outrageous! If Thresh doesn't come down to protect Kai'Sa, RW isn't just changing their strategic focus, they're sacrificing their bot lane altogether. Uzi already has two items, while Xayah has only just completed her first. If they wait until Xayah has three items to fight... well, sorry, Gangplank's farm is pretty bad too."

Just as Wawa was about to say that Rw couldn't possibly beat Rng with the captain alone, she was stunned when she took a closer look.

The captain's finishing blows were a full 20 hits ahead of the Undead Warrior!

The audience was increasingly alarmed as they watched. Previously, RNG had used various strong heroes to completely dominate the early game and gain a huge advantage. Their gameplay was also pleasing to the eye and logically acceptable.

After all, RNG is a team that only needs the S championship to achieve a grand slam. Basically, the players in all five positions are among the best in the world. It's only right that they can exert such dominance.
But in this game, RNG's actions completely overturned everyone's impression. To be honest, even if the champion is not as good as Garen or Xin Zhao, he is one of the simplest champions in terms of the difficulty of operation in League of Legends.

Moreover, this hero is well-known to be countered by the Captain, but RNG's tactics turned this seemingly hopeless situation into a game-changer, making it an uncounterable point for Rw. This contrast is truly baffling.

This ability to suppress the opposing team regardless of whether our hero is strong or weak, or how we play, has only been achieved by SKT so far, and only during Season 3.
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Rw is finished! I don't know who first posted this sentence, but soon, as RNG started to stir up waves of controversy on various live streams, more and more people were supporting RNG.

After six waves of minions, the minions in the bottom lane finally made their way to the base of the high ground tower.

Even the usually serious-looking Ma Ge showed a smile after a long time. As he fired one basic attack after another at the minions, he looked like he had been starving for days and was suddenly seeing a feast, full of longing.

Eighteen minutes in, the laning phase is still going strong. The top laner is controlling the lane, the mid laner is controlling the lane, and it seems like everyone except the bottom laner is farming.

However.
As the bottom lane minions pushed into the tower, four figures and a blue Rift Herald suddenly appeared in Rw's top lane.

This time, RNG is going to launch an attack!

Doinb and Haro, who were planning to see if they could cover Sion, rushed to the top lane to help defend and try to stop RNG from pushing forward.

As soon as the two men showed their faces, Ma Ge's terrified voice came through the earpiece:
"Sion Sion is charging into the high ground tower! He's going to demolish the high ground! I can't break through!"

In the video, Kai'Sa is desperately kiting and channeling all her skills into Sion, but the effect is minimal. At this rate, Kai'Sa would need to attack continuously for at least fifteen seconds to kill Sion.

However, the turret's health clearly couldn't support such a long time. As the explosion landed, the extremely exaggerated damage directly knocked off half of the turret's health.

In the version before the demolition was nerfed, the visual effects were extremely terrifying.

In just three seconds, the turret collapsed. Under everyone's watchful eyes, Sion ignored Kai'Sa, who was retreating with her E skill active, and continued to unleash his damage on the enemy base crystal.

"My god, that Sion is demolishing towers way too fast!!!"

"RNG! RNG actually pushed straight to the high ground with Sion all by themselves! OMG, what am I just seeing?! Dude! This is unbelievable! This is too outrageous! Omg!"

"This Sion is absolutely invincible!"

In Summoner's Rift, the skirmish on both sides of the top lane had already gone unnoticed.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, watching Kai'Sa unleash her fury on the sidelines, Sion recklessly destroyed the crystal. The moment the crystal exploded, the entire arena fell silent for less than a second before erupting in chaos!
Everyone went crazy; the scene before them was too shocking and too unbelievable.

Just like in the previous game, Rw didn't even have time to start a team fight before they were completely wiped out due to their disadvantage in single targets.

Eighteen minutes in, without the Baron buff or a five-man group, Sion single-handedly destroyed the inhibitor turret and crystal right in front of Kai'Sa.
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, no one would have believed me!
Even online novels wouldn't dare to write like this!
Moreover, this is on the stage of the semi-finals of the League of Legends World Championship, the most prestigious tournament in the world... This kind of strategy is just as shocking as Samsung's first demonstration of the charm of strategic gameplay in Season 4.

At this moment, Sion, who had just destroyed the high ground crystal, had less than one-fifth of his health left. After activating his W shield, in the last moments of his life, Sion's axe fell high down, clearing out the minions coming out of the high ground tower.

Rw.Smlz killed Rng.letme
After a battle that lasted for several tens of seconds, Kai'Sa finally managed to kill Sion with the Nashor's Tooth she had on her. Before Ma Ge could even get excited, the next second, the fallen Sion launched another attack!
The target is clearly Rw's nexus!

"This is RNG! This is RNG! This team has brought us another surprise!"

"This strategy is the first of its kind in the world! My God, at this moment, Rw is in a dead end. It's a terrifying dead end that makes people despair. On the front line, RNG doesn't fight you at all. They just drag you out and let Sion push the tower alone! My God! Letme's Sion is so terrifying!"

"This is amazing! From today onwards, I'm afraid there will be countless fearless Sion players in Summoner's Rift of League of Legends. They only care about the turrets, not kills!"

After watching the resurrected Sion suddenly surge up and take down half of the left inhibitor turret's health, commentators from all regions around the world were no longer calm.

"Nice! Brothers! Yan Junze! Nice!" Xiangguo shouted wildly in the team voice chat. Watching Letme push the tower in the bottom lane made him excited.

"Alright, alright, let's take down the second tower next wave, then head back to base to replenish our health and mana. We'll force a team fight at Baron, and Yan Junze will continue to the bottom lane. If they come over, you drive in and destroy the tower!" Xiaohu said, already starting to retreat and prepare to return to base.

Professional players are ten or even a hundred times more eager to win than ordinary people. Now that they can win the battle without bloodshed, even Xiaohu, who usually likes to show off in the game, can't help but get excited.

In this game, Rw fared even worse than in the last one, getting completely outmaneuvered by RNG using Sion.

It's no exaggeration to say that Samsung was the benchmark for all teams in S4, and from today onwards, RNG will become the team that all League of Legends teams should learn from!

With its unique tactics, extraordinary ideas, and bold innovations, this approach captivated viewers during the semi-finals.

Even though no kills were actually occurring on either side, the highly entertaining tactics kept the viewers in the live stream completely focused and showed no signs of impatience.

Normally, if the total number of players on both sides doesn't reach ten in 18 minutes, everyone will complain about it being a "bladder-filled" game. But today, there were less than five, and surprisingly, not a single person in the chat complained.

"Rw's morale has been completely shattered! It feels like they've lost their rhythm. If they leave their well-farmed Gangplank to defend Sion, who will deal damage in the team fights?"

With the game progressing to this point, seeing that A-Guang's Captain stayed on the high ground to defend against Sion who might rush up to push the tower, while the other four went to defend against Baron, all the viewers could see that this game could be ended prematurely.

As expected, in the subsequent 4v4 battles, Rw had no outlet for damage and was almost instantly destroyed.

After RNG secured Baron Nashor, the five players grouped up and launched a strong push on the Nexus, resulting in a 1-for-5 exchange and securing their second victory.

"Let's congratulate RNG on securing match point in the semifinals. If RNG can win the next match, the world's first team to advance to the finals will emerge!"

"RNG controlled the pace of the game from start to finish. If there were any doubts about the strength of the two teams before the match, now we can clearly see that RNG completely crushed Rw, a fair and square victory. Congratulations to RNG!"

"I also hope Rw won't be discouraged; there's still a chance for them to show their best and leave no regrets!"

(End of this chapter)