Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 364 Pace Shift, Shocking All

"That's incredible, Tarzan. Do you have the confidence to go head-to-head with this jungler in a match?"

Inside the Griffin training base, people were also watching the match.

When asked by the coach, Tarzan didn't speak, but simply shook his head slightly, a smile on his face revealing his true feelings.
Tarzan was full of confidence.

"This guy is pretty strong, strong in his judgment of timing and his psychological understanding. Of course, it's also inseparable from the overall strength of the Edg team right now. All of their lanes are quite strong."

Viper, standing to the side, picked up where the coach left off and began to analyze the situation with an air of importance.

"There's not much to say. Daoxian, their weaknesses are huge, but they're just masked by their strength. If it weren't for Clearlove's performance, Edg would have suffered a huge loss."

As soon as Viper finished speaking, Taishan frowned and retorted.

He mentioned points that no one else had noticed and pointed out the current coordination issues within Edg.

"If we meet in a match, I'll definitely show this player what real aggression is."

...

Elsewhere, at the giant tortoise's base.

Everyone was watching this match.

As a long-time rival of the LCK region, LPL's top teams are usually among the first to watch major tournaments.

And offer your personal opinions during the competition.

Learn from each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses.

It is also a good way for teams to improve their strength.

Compared to the gunpowder smell of the Griffin, the big tortoise was much more normal.

Ever since the S9 World Championship, when a team with a super strong triangle offense, including Niu Guli, Canyou, and Showmaker, lost to G2.

The team's initially impetuous style quickly settled down in a short period of time.

G2 brutally exposed the wounds of their past frivolity and prejudices during the four matches, laying them bare before everyone.

"Canyon, what do you think of Kindred?"

The same questioning took place at the Turtle Base, but this time the questioner wasn't the coach, but the mid-laner ShowMaker.

"He's very strong, strong in his clear thinking and organizational skills."

"Oh? Is that so?" Niu Guli, who was standing to the side, adjusted his glasses.

"Yes!"

Seeing that canyou still insisted on his opinion, the entire Big Turtle team immediately raised their mental assessment of Edg's strength.

The fact that Li Luo received such praise from Canyou means that his skill had already been recognized by these top LCK players.

On the other side of the scene, wild cheers erupted as the director replayed the footage twice.

"Everyone on Edg played exceptionally well in this wave, each of them perfectly utilizing their skills. Wow! Edgg achieved a 4-for-0 exchange, and Suning is completely crushed!"

"Especially SofM, his Kindred already has three kills, and being level 7 with three stacks of the mark is terrifying."

The comments section was also buzzing with discussion.

"Guigui, I'm stunned! What is this all about?"

"There's no way around it, the factory manager's idea is just too terrifying, it's made me wet, it's made me wet."

"I got goosebumps! This battle between the two sides was so exciting, especially Clearlove's instant R, classic!"

"Who said EdgG was going to rely on Uzi as their carry and continue playing the 'four-protect-one' strategy? I think Clearlove is the real carry now, he's just too strong!"

"Edg had such a comfortable game after this fight. The enemy jungler, mid laner, and bot lane duo are all dead, so they can easily take the first Earth Dragon. With Edgg's lineup, the Earth Dragon buff is just too good!"

"That's right, and wait a minute? Aren't the four Edg players going to fight the dragon? Are they going to keep pushing the towers?"

In the game, after Edg killed four Suning players, Shen recalled to base to replenish his equipment and teleported back to lane, barely losing any minions.

The remaining four players turned around and began pushing down the bottom lane's first tower.

At this moment, Edg's bottom lane tower is intact, while Suning's bottom lane tower has had one and a half layers of its plating stolen by Uzi at some point.

Everyone was a little dumbfounded, because it had only been eight and a half minutes!

"Huh? That's not right. Edg's lineup is pushing towers too fast. I'm only just realizing it now. A pure AD lineup has a huge advantage in pushing towers in the early game," Wawa exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, and it seems Edg is planning to take down the bottom lane tower before Suning's bottom laner spawns, because the second wave of minions has already arrived, and as for the dragon..."

"Is the factory manager so sure that he's too afraid to operate the small dragon excavator now that it's a level four machine?"

The commentator speculated suspiciously.

Edg team.

"That feels good, that feels good. After taking the tower in the bottom lane, we'll go straight back to base. Then, you two, Xiaogou and Tianye, will rotate to mid, and Scout will come down to farm," Li Luo said with a smile, and the entire Edg team laughed out loud in a strange way.

"Everyone thought Pantheon was picked to play the laning phase and roam, but too bad, they don't understand Pantheon as well as you, old man."

Brother Zaozi chuckled and cursed, his smile seemingly overflowing from the camera.

Since the rework, Pantheon's skill set has been designed to make him a very tough and dominant mid-laner.

Therefore, when facing Pantheon in the top and mid lanes, other teams often choose more agile champions to prevent Pantheon from synergizing with the jungler.

However, agile heroes often have a drawback: their wave clear ability is greatly lacking in the early game.

That's exactly what happened to the Black Angel's Enchantress at that moment.

Following the original plan, after the bottom lane tower is destroyed, the best place for the bottom lane duo is to move to the top lane to continue pushing towers and taking the Rift Herald.

At this point, Edg changed their strategy, and the direct consequence was that LeBlanc, who already had poor wave clear ability, would have an even harder time facing the pressure from Miss Fortune and Thresh.

This is why they didn't attack the dragon this time, but instead pushed down the bottom tower.

In the early stages of Season 10, the Dragon Soul wasn't really that important.

Before the jungle rhythm has been adjusted to its full potential, contesting for the Dragon Soul is often a choice made when the game is difficult to break through.

With Edg's current explosive pace, Xiaolong is dispensable.

Seeing this, Suning immediately understood Edg's intention. The excavator originally wanted to go to his own upper jungle, but seeing this, he had no choice but to come over immediately.

As for Tristana and Leona, they had already left the second tower and were trembling as they watched the four Edg players destroy the tower.

I really don't dare to come over! Edg's team is taking down towers. They have Miss Fortune, Pantheon, and Kindred, three excellent early-game tower takers. They are extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, the tower plates are falling off one by one, and the first tower's health is about to be almost gone.

"Wow! Edg is pushing down the tower so fast! They've got it! They took the first tower nine minutes ago, the pace is incredible!"

The doll exclaimed in surprise, and the scene immediately erupted into a thunderous roar of shouts and cheers.

"Edg!! Edg!!"

"Edg is awesome! Edg is awesome!"

"Dark Kai is so handsome!"

"But the excavators have arrived too. What do we say about this? Is Suning planning to launch another attack?"

In the game, the bottom lane minions were about to disappear, while the turret had only a sliver of health left. The excavator was already walking out of the bush near the Krugs.

Suning's bot lane duo also instinctively moved closer.

Just then, Pantheon, who had been destroying the tower, used Flash + WQ to jump right onto the Rek'Sai and control the poor Rek'Sai.

Seeing this, Li Luo didn't hold back his skills and immediately flashed up, activated Wolf Spirit, and jumped onto the excavator's face to deal his damage.

Two level 7s against one level 4. Pantheon's Press the Attack perfectly amplified Kindred's damage. Before the Rek'Sai could react, her health was down to just over a third.

At the same time, Edg's bot lane duo also destroyed the turret and then surrounded the excavator!
Seeing this, Suning's bottom lane duo had no choice but to retreat. The excavator died again, and also lost his red buff.

Edg.clearlove7 killed Sn.sofm
Rampage!

"Wow! Edg is playing so aggressively right now. Two flashes just to kill one person. Kindred and Pantheon are just too ruthless!"

Everyone present was speechless as they watched the sudden outburst from the Nakano duo.

"They opened it, they opened it directly, and now Suning has been directly put into a ranked game," Miller said with a sigh.

Teacher Ma was also filled with excitement: "Someone said that Clearlove and Scout had achieved a 20-plus-game winning streak in Korean solo queue. I was wondering what tactics or skill could enable the mid-jungle duo, who were quite mediocre last season, to achieve such results. Now it seems that I'm right!"

"Hey, what does Teacher Ma say here?" Seeing the situation on the field calm down, Wawa deliberately changed the subject to give the audience a break.

"Looking back at Edg over the years, Scout and Clearlove have been teammates and partners for a long time, but Edg's performance has been too inconsistent. The mid-jungle duo sometimes works well, and sometimes they seem to be far apart, as if they were just temporarily put together."

"Seeing the synergy between Clearlove and Scout now, all I can say is that their styles finally match in this version."

"Or rather, the factory manager gained absolute control over the mid-jungle duo, allowing Scout to execute plays with impunity!"

In the live stream, the fans who listened to Teacher Ma's analysis all nodded in agreement.

Although everyone's understanding may differ slightly, the general framework is roughly the same.

Edg's current success is inseparable from teamwork, and cannot be achieved without the cooperation between team members.

For a strong team, the strength of the mid and jungle players almost determines the course of the game.

This is why RNG was able to make it into the World Championship with Uzi's individual efforts in S9, but couldn't break through the top 16 with Uzi alone.

RNG's mid-jungle synergy was terrible in S9!
Just like before with Edg, the styles of Kaka and Xiaohu clashed significantly, making it impossible for them to work together effectively.

Moreover, Karsa is the type of jungler who will desperately try to counter-gank if he falls behind in the early game, making it extremely difficult to turn the tide of the game with Karsa.

On the contrary, the biggest reason why the mid-jungle duo of FPX fits each other's style is that, just like Edg now, one of them can take full control between the two, while the other only needs to play the role of the playmaker.

The scene was still buzzing with excitement.

In the game, Kindred, after obtaining the Red Buff from the Excavator, calmly soloed the Dragon.

The pace of things on both sides seems to have returned to calm, but the gap on the economic panel is becoming increasingly apparent.

After Edg's bot lane moved to the mid lane, they made a lane swap that no one expected, which completely disrupted Suning's rhythm.

With nowhere else to go, the Enchantress could only linger under the mid-lane tower, barely clinging to life.

The excavator constantly faces the pressure of Kindred invading the jungle.

As for the bot lane, with Pantheon's E ability, Suning's bot lane wouldn't dare to act recklessly, otherwise Shen would fly down and teach them a lesson in no time.

The shifts in pace and the timing were impeccable, resulting in a continuous surge in the economy for everyone on Edg, who also secured the first tower and the dragon.

Suning on the other side didn't even have time to react; they were stunned and completely dumbfounded.

From the moment the bottom lane collapsed, Suning fell into Edg's carefully prepared trap, completely powerless to resist.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Edg's seemingly clumsy, physical damage-heavy lineup finally showed its true colors for the first time in the S10 competition.

This lineup also clearly demonstrates the terrifying depth of Edg's tactics.

A team with Uzi can even play a jungle carry strategy.

No one could find a way to describe the helplessness that other teams felt when facing Edg.

The audience cheered.
Li Luo's Kindred also showed great respect, pulling out his jungle item and a short sword, rubbing his hands together, and launching a devastating attack on Suning.

"Wow, this is unbearable! The excavator can't even look at Kindred's mark!"

Off the field, everyone was speechless as they watched Kindred once again obtain the mark in front of Suning, completing the fourth level.

If you can't stop the opponent's Kindred from acquiring marks without limit, the consequences are obvious.

It's likely that in the mid-to-late game, Kindred will be able to one-shot opponents simply by farming!

Mid laner Zaozi's Miss Fortune already had high damage, and in order to make the team strong in the early and mid-game, he didn't choose to build critical strike items, but instead chose armor penetration items.

This significantly accelerated Edg's pace.

"Suning is having a really tough time right now. I'm a little curious about who's in charge of the shot-calling for Edg this game? At this rate, I don't think Suning will even last 15 minutes," Miller said in surprise.

"Edg has given us all such a surprise just a few days after the restructuring. I think other LPL teams must be having a headache now. Even if FPX or IG were to use this tactic, I think it would be extremely difficult for them to handle it right now."

On the field, apart from Abin's decent development, after a brief three-minute lull, Black Angel in the mid lane was practically exploding with frustration: "Let's switch lanes! I can't even farm minions right now, my development is terrible, I'll be useless later."

"The enemy's damage is so high?" Sofm frowned, feeling that his condition had started to go wrong after dying twice in a row in the bottom lane.

Anyone familiar with SofM knows that SofM's mentality is in serious trouble right now.

He would AFK and sell his gear when he was losing in ranked games, and he also used that classic phrase "sbchi" (those who want to know can find out for themselves).

It's clear from various aspects that SofM's mentality is extremely poor.

This situation became even more pronounced under the constant pressure exerted by Li Luo.

(End of this chapter)