You promised a top lane tutorial, but you're just using Worlds as material for your videos?

Chapter 118: Victory over VG, Starting a Winning Streak!
In the following days, Zhou Dian did not do a Cassiopeia tutorial, or Lucian tutorial.

There's no need to try and ride the coattails of the "Teach Saint Gun Bro" meme, even though this matter is actually related to him.

The main problem is the lack of suitable material; there's no need to force a video.

In the game against GimGoon with Cassiopeia, the whole team had a relatively smooth game, and after the laning phase, he didn't have much room to perform.

In addition, after the previous match against EDG, I also made a video about Cassiopeia.

Unless better Cassiopeia content can be produced in matches, this champion will definitely not be taught in weekly tournaments anytime soon.

Of course, in regular ranked matches, Zhou Dian has actually made many amazing plays with a variety of heroes.

However, after using LPL match footage for his tutorials, Zhou Dian no longer plans to use ranked matches for his tutorials.

It is said that people strive for higher positions.

His video content can't keep getting lower and lower quality!
On D station, many people still send him private messages asking "Teach Holy Gun Bro a lesson".

Zhou Dian posted an update stating that his recent focus has been on training and competitions, and due to a lack of suitable material, he has no plans to release any new videos in the near future.

This post inevitably disappointed some viewers who were hoping for some entertainment.

Some viewers also felt that Zhou Dian acted very rationally in this matter and did not try to gain attention by associating himself with the issue.

After seeing the latest update from [Top Laner], both GimGoon and Flandre breathed a sigh of relief.

After GT lost to LGD, GimGoon was worried that he would be used as material for tutorial videos.

Being publicly executed is ultimately quite painful.

Fortunately, he escaped the video torture this time, and GimGoon managed to swallow back all the "shiba" he was about to say.

Saint Gun Bro felt that Zhou Dian was a good person with a broad perspective.

He didn't actually capitalize on the popularity of the "Teach Saint Gun Bro" meme by making a video to become his cheap mentor.

Saint Gun often watches videos of "Top Laner" to learn, but he doesn't think it's a student-teacher relationship.

This is called mutual exchange, you know?

What, you're saying this is one-sided communication?
How can one-sided communication not be communication?

After settling a "worry," Flandre was in a good mood.

He had just finished banning heroes in his ranked game, and it was now his turn to pick.

In a good mood, Flandre immediately locked in Lucian to play top lane.

Since playing top lane Lucian in the match against WE, Flandre feels like he's become a bit addicted to top lane Lucian.

If I don't play top lane Lucian for a day, or torture a melee character with a ranged champion, I feel like ants are crawling all over me.

How about we continue playing Lucian top lane in next week's matches?

Since my teammates are all inhuman, I might as well have some fun myself!
Time flies, and four days have passed, bringing us to Thursday, March 16th.

Today marks the start of the sixth week of the LPL Spring Split regular season.

These past few days, both Dgc and LGD's managers have been in high spirits and feeling refreshed.

Besides the fact that LGD has had a pretty good recent record.

Another point is the change of imp.

Imp only went to a bar once last week, and four days have passed this week, and he hasn't been to a bar at all.

This is undoubtedly a major boon for the LGD team.

Imp's current level of strength may not be as good as it was at its peak a couple of years ago, but it's still quite strong.

If he can break free from the semi-retired state of the past year, stop drinking heavily, and devote himself wholeheartedly to training and competition, he might be able to regain his former form!

As for imp's recent transformation, Dgc can only attribute it to LGD's recent improved performance, which has given imp hope of achieving results again.

Dgc only hopes that the truth is indeed like this, and that imp's recent change is because he still has pride in his heart.

Rather than a fleeting whim.

LGD has a regular season match today, which is the second match in the 7 PM time slot.

For most professional players, this is the most comfortable time to compete.

Given the unusual sleep schedule of most professional gamers, around 7 PM, shortly after dark, is when they are at their most energetic.

When the LGD team arrived at the LPL venue, the previous match had not yet finished.

The first regular season match today is OMG vs. EDG.

In the first two games of the BO3 series, the two teams were tied 1-1.

At this point, the decisive game had only just begun.

With nothing much to do, Zhou Dian watched the third game between OMG and EDG in the rest room, witnessing the birth of a famous scene in the LOL match.

Sima Laozei's big mouth, in a disadvantageous situation where his teammates were either dead or running away, directly flashed forward and sprayed five of them, wiping out EDG's team.

This scene shocked all the viewers watching the live broadcast of the game.

Many netizens have compared Sima Laozei's big mouth move to the three most famous team fight moments: [Heavenly Thunder], [Earthly Fire], and [Ascension], calling it [Annihilation].

Before the competition even ended, netizens created hilarious images of the four most memorable moments, which then went viral.

In chronological order, Pawn's Gangplank's "Earthfire," Smeb's Kennen's "Thunderbolt," Faker's Orianna's "Ascension," and Sima Laozei's Kog'Maw's "Annihilation" are collectively known by Chinese LOL players as the four most memorable moments in League of Legends.

With that annihilation from Kog'Maw, OMG won the third game.

OMG's victory over EDG was somewhat of an upset.

Although OMG has performed well this year, they haven't beaten EDG for several years.

After defeating EDG, OMG's regular season ranking rose to second in Group A, just behind RNG.

For OMG, who were mired in relegation struggles in both the Spring and Summer Splits last year, ranking second in Group A now represents a significant improvement.

Compared to last year's summer season, OMG's main roster remains largely unchanged this year.

The only change is that the coach has changed.

Therefore, Dgc, the former coach of OMG, had a complicated expression after seeing OMG defeat EDG in the rest room.

Damn it, am I, Chen Xu, really that bad?!

After they replaced me, OMG, it looks like they're about to take off!

The most outrageous thing is that OMG's current coach, Mingzhe, has no prior professional experience in esports.

Previously, he was just a "mouthy king" who liked to post post-match analysis on Tieba.

According to those working in the LPL, Mingzhe was definitely an outsider.

"Damn, am I, Chen Xu, really inferior to an amateur?" Dgc began to doubt himself.

However, Dgc then remembered that since he officially took the stage to draft on behalf of LGD, LGD had won four out of five games.

This performance is significantly better than OMG's during the same period!
I, Chen Xu, am no less capable than you!
Perhaps it's just that OMG isn't a good fit for me.

LGD is perfect for me!

Looking up, Dgc saw the back of Zhou Dian's head, who was also watching the game.

"Okay, I admit that LGD's recent performance is outstanding, and Xiao Zhou deserves the most credit, so it's not unreasonable for me to take the second credit!" Dgc thought to himself.

"Trying to sign Xiao Zhou was perhaps the best decision I've ever made as a coach!" After the match between OMG and EDG, the next match is between LGD and VG.

VG has been ambitious and eager to achieve great things ever since they appeared in the LPL in 15.

The owner of VG is also quite willing to invest.

In the 15 LPL Spring Split, VG acquired Dandy and Mata, the champion jungler and support players from Samsung White, at a high price.

However, VG's performance that year was not ideal.

Forget about winning the LPL championship, they didn't even get to participate in the gauntlet tournament that ultimately determined the S5 World Championship spots.

In the Spring Split of 16, after Mata left, VG made a big move by bringing in Easyhoon, the mid-laner who had just won the championship with SKT, maintaining the configuration of having two championship-winning Korean players in the team.

In the LPL environment, the carry potential of a champion's mid-jungle duo is naturally stronger than that of a champion's jungler and support.

VG's performance in 16 was an improvement over that in 15.

Ultimately, VG was eliminated in the gauntlet and missed the S6 World Championship, leaving only commentator Miller's words: "Easyhoon, VG's savior!"

In 17, Dandy's contract expired and he left the team. VG's owner made a bold move and directly brought in SKT's jungler Bengi, who had just won his third career championship.

The reunion of the former SKT champion mid and jungle players in VG has rekindled many people's expectations for VG.

However, after the start of this year's Spring Split, VG plummeted all the way down, with a dismal record.

They are currently ranked second to last in Group B, only slightly better than GT.

The entire LGD team is quite confident about today's match against VG.

To put it bluntly, this VG team now relies entirely on Easyhoon to carry the team.

But Easyhoon's playstyle is to choose a powerful core and grind through the late game.

Unlike GodV, who also preferred to hard-farm the game with big cores in the late game.

Easyhoon's core has developed, and it can truly deliver.

The problem with VG is that they often lose the game before they even reach the late game.

VG's top laner, Long, is a pure support player who only knows how to play tanks.

VG's bot lane is definitely one of the worst in the LPL right now, on par with Snake's bot lane.

However, Snake's bot lane only started to falter this year after they brought in Ohq. Before that, when Crystal played AD, he was quite good.

VG's bot lane has been consistently terrible for the past two years.

The team's two rotating ADCs, xuanxuanpi and endless, are both incredibly bad.

These two are still able to play for VG, but the management just won't try to find a way to replace the AD carry.

After leading VG for a year in S6, seeing that VG had no intention of changing their AD carry, Redmi left overnight to join WE.

When Dandy was playing, he would always pick a damage-dealing jungler. Against weak teams, he and Easyhoon would provide support in the early game and carry in the late game, making it easy to win.

Although it's difficult to beat strong teams, they can consistently dominate weaker teams, and the team's overall record is quite good.

But now Dandy has been replaced by Bengi.

Bengi's strength lies in map control, vision control, and protecting the mid laner, unlike Dandy who can carry the game head-on.

Therefore, this year's VG only has one winning strategy: Easyhoon picks a big carry and drags the game into the late game.

This led to every team knowing how to beat VG: just focus on attacking VG's bottom lane.

If VG's bot lane can hold out until Easyhoon returns, they still have a chance to win the game.

If VG's bot lane is completely destroyed before Easyhoon comes out, then they're doomed!
With this kind of playstyle and personnel, VG has virtually no chance of winning against LGD, who focus on two side lanes and whose two side lanes are top-tier.

In the two consecutive games, the game progressed in a similar manner.

VG's top and bottom lanes were no match for Zhou Dian and imp, and were completely dominated during the laning phase.

GodV picked two games of Taliyah.

While Easyhoon's core mage was farming in the mid lane, he and Eimy were roaming around and ganking.

In the first game, imp secured a lane kill in the bottom lane, so GodV and Eimy focused on ganking the bottom lane and quickly dismantled VG's bottom lane.

Then, LGD's bot lane duo moved to the mid lane, and Easyhoon was unable to farm properly.

Therefore, Easyhoon had no choice but to go to the side lane to develop.

After encountering Zhou Dian on the sideline, Easyhoon realized he was no match for him.

The enemy top laner isn't getting any help, so how come he's so fed?

Easyhoon discovered that he was no longer able to develop.

Easyhoon couldn't get going, so VG naturally lost the first game.

In the second game, the same scenario played out, only the focus of the game was reversed.

Just five minutes into the game, Zhou Dian solo-killed VG's top laner, Loong.

Then, GodV and Eimy started harassing VG's top laner, picking on the weakest link.

On VG's side, Bengi was completely unable to adapt to Eimy's unpredictable and erratic ganking rhythm, and couldn't counter-gank at all, only able to help the top laner with some vision control.

But simply providing vision control is useless; LGD is playing their cards openly.

VG needs to be able to match the number of players in certain areas.

Unfortunately, Easyhoon was farming in the mid lane, and Bengi's long-standing gaming habit of focusing on the mid lane was something he couldn't change.

Then, VG's top lane was quickly destroyed.

Zhou Dian had an amazing game, taking down two side lanes and four defensive towers from VG in less than twenty minutes.

Twenty minutes later, Baron Nashor spawned.

Faced with Zhou Dian's overwhelming split-pushing offensive, VG had no choice but to send Easyhoon, who had the best farm, to defend the lane where Zhou Dian was located.

It didn't take long.

Easyhoon was solo killed by Zhou Dian under the bottom lane inhibitor turret.

VG ships directly!
The game consisted of two rounds, the first lasting 28 minutes and the second lasting 25 minutes.

In less than an hour, LGD easily swept VG 2-0.

"Alright, let's congratulate LGD on defeating VG!"

Commentator Guan Zeyuan continued, "After defeating VG, LGD achieved two consecutive victories, bringing their total record to five wins and four losses, placing them third in Group A."

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"Alright, let's look at the MVP of the second game. Without a doubt, it goes to Zhou Shen for his godlike performance!"

"Since Zhou Shen joined LGD as their starting top laner, LGD's performance has improved by leaps and bounds!"

Then, Guan Zeyuan went on to praise Zhou Dian's performance since his debut.

After commentating on several LGD matches recently, Guan Zeyuan seems to have transformed into a "Zhou fanboy".

Zhou Dian naturally kept his distance from Guan Zeyuan's flattery.

You can praise whoever you want, but please don't praise me.

Xiao Zhou, I can't take it!
(End of this chapter)