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

Chapter 129 Zhou Shen's understanding of the game is indeed beyond my comprehension.
Sunset's laning skills are indeed not very good.

He had only been laning for a few minutes when he was already sweating profusely from being pressured by Zhou Dian's Rumble.

The CS difference between the two top laners started to widen.

By the ten-minute mark, Rumble had over ninety CS, while Sunset's Poppy only had sixty.

Even so, it's because Eimy didn't gank the top lane much this game; he only helped Zhou Dian counter-gank once, but he didn't manage to gank anyone.

During this time, OMG's jungler also came to the top lane twice, but failed to catch Rumble.

Given OMG's lineup for this game, the jungler needs to focus on the mid lane and can't just stay in the top lane.

With the enemy top laner being more affected by the jungler, Xiyang Chun was still down by more than 30 CS in ten minutes, which is an extremely exaggerated gap.

This also illustrates one thing: Xiyang's skill level is simply not good enough; he's just taking advantage of the current environment in the LPL where the top lane competition isn't intense to get by.

Players who are still in their prime but can't make it in the mid lane and switch to the top lane are all just slackers.

The sunset is like this, and so is its posture.

Of course, Zz1tai still has some ambition. After joining Snake this year, he switched back to the mid lane position, wanting to prove himself.

Eleven minutes into the game, Eimy and Wei Shen arrived near the Dragon Pit and began fighting the Rift Herald.

OMG didn't want to give up on Rift Herald just like that.

Soon, the mid, top, jungle, and support players from both sides gathered in the top river, leaving the AD carries on the bottom lane to play around.

The vanguard team battle is about to break out.

Zhou Dian's Rumble unleashed a perfect ultimate, and with Rumble's current excellent development, he directly dealt an explosive AOE attack, causing OMG to collapse instantly.

LGD secured the Rift Herald after a 0-for-2 exchange.

Zhou Dian's Rumble secured a kill, then returned to the top lane and pushed down OMG's top lane tower, which was already below half health, securing the first tower kill of the game.

After that, Rambo took off immediately.

As Rumble joined the team fights, OMG members began to struggle against his damage. A single harpoon shot could take away more than a third of a squishy target's health.

This resulted in OMG being completely unable to engage in any team fights in the mid-game, whether it was small-scale team fights or 5v5 team fights.

LGD has a Rumble who is ahead of the game in terms of development. As long as they don't give up easily in the weekly peak, LGD can easily win team fights in the mid-game.

Even if Zhou Dian gives up easily, as long as Rumble uses his ultimate well before dying, LGD won't lose this team fight.

As a result, in the mid-game, LGD gradually built up an economic advantage over OMG.

The wider the economic gap, the greater LGD's chances of winning become.

Next, LGD gave OMG no chance to turn the tide, playing steadily and winning the first game of the BO3.

As the blue team's base crystal exploded on the big screen, Guan Zeyuan shouted, "Then let's congratulate LGD on taking the first game. They are now leading OMG 1-0 in the BO3 series."

On the main stage, the two teams of contestants quickly got up from their seats, turned around and walked into the contestant tunnel, returning to the dressing room.

Below the stage, many LGD fans cheered.

OMG's fans, on the other hand, were somewhat silent and disheartened.

It seems like there's quite a gap between them and LGD!
This result is a slight blow to OMG fans who were hoping for a revival and believed they had already seen a glimmer of hope for the team's resurgence.

Of course, only one game has been played, and the outcome is still uncertain, so it's too early to say anything definitive.

Who knows, OMG might just come back from a 0-1 deficit to win 2-1 and turn the game around!

The live broadcast showed the post-match results panel for the first game.

As expected, Zhou Dian's Rumble dealt the highest damage in the entire game, and by a wide margin.

Ultimately, the MVP of the first game was awarded to Zhou Dian's Rumble.

With this, Zhou Dian is now only one player behind Doinb in terms of MVP awards during the Spring Split regular season.

At this stage of the regular season, only Zhou Dian and Doinb remain as contenders for the Spring Split Regular Season MVP.

The other players have gradually fallen behind and no longer pose a threat to the regular season MVP.

Many viewers believe that Zhou Dian has a high probability of overtaking Doinb in the final rounds of the regular season and ultimately winning the Spring Split Regular Season MVP.

The LGD lounge backstage at the competition venue.

Dgc began discussing the draft and strategy for the second game with his teammates.

During this discussion, he directly assumed that OMG was on the blue side and LGD was on the red side.

"No, Xu-ge, how can you be so sure that OMG will definitely choose the blue side in the second game?" PYL asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Dgc chuckled and said, "I didn't just coast through my year at OMG last year. I know the OMG players very well."

“You may know the players, but the side selection is most likely the coach’s choice, right? Xu Ge, are you very familiar with the OMG coach?” Eimy followed up with a question.

“Not familiar with it!” Dgc shook his head. “But in the current situation, if OMG picks the red buff, then there can only be one purpose: to have Xiyang build a top laner to counter Xiaozhou, and then target Xiaozhou!”

"At this point, it would be meaningless for OMG to assign the counter position to other positions."

"Does Xiyang have that ability? He doesn't! Then why did OMG choose the red side? It would have been easier to draft on the blue side!"

Dgc spoke with great conviction.

And just as he guessed, OMG, who had the right to choose sides in the second game, took the initiative to choose the blue side in the second game.

However, contrary to Dgc's prediction, Sunset did not continue to play a tanky top laner and play passively.

In the second game, Xiyang directly picked out a big crocodile.

Crocodile is arguably the most confident warrior hero in the sunset.

OMG's jungler picked Spider.

The combination of crocodiles and spiders from Ueno Zoo is clearly meant to give Zhou Dian a taste of his own medicine.

This Ueno duo is quite brainless; anyone on the opposing team will get killed, and Zhou Dian is no exception.

After thinking it over, Zhou Dian chose Ryze for the top lane.

Since you'll get ganked and tower dived no matter what you play, just play a champion that's strong in lane and farms minions quickly. Even if you get ganked and killed repeatedly, you can still ensure that your development doesn't fall behind.

However, it is clear that most viewers did not understand his game logic in choosing Ryze for the top lane.

Ryze top lane? How can he fight Renekton and Elise without any mobility?

[I didn't understand either. Maybe Ryze has a root from his W and a speed boost from his passive, so it feels like he can dodge ganks!]

【It's useless. The crocodile just flashes and uses W, and the spider follows up with its skills. How are you going to escape?】

"So, according to you, even if you choose a champion with mobility skills, you're still doomed if you run into a crocodile or spider!"

[That's true. When playing against top laners like Renekton and Elise, you can only tank the pressure. If the game drags on, those two champions become useless!]

Is it possible for Ryze to also withstand pressure?

How can Ryze, a champion who's not very tanky and relies heavily on items, withstand pressure?

Your understanding of resilience is too superficial. Just because you put a tank on your back doesn't mean you can withstand pressure!

【Let's see, I'm not optimistic about this Ryze pick!】

【.】

Of course, it wasn't just the audience who didn't understand.

Guan Zeyuan, as a commentator, also didn't understand Zhou Dian's logic in choosing Ryze. However, not understanding didn't matter; Guan Zeyuan insisted on showing off his own understanding of the game.

"OMG on the other side already has Renekton and Elise in their top and jungle, Zhou Shen, what do you mean by picking Ryze for top lane?!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "It feels like this Ryze pick was a bit of a feed!"

When Guan Zeyuan was expressing his "brilliant insights," Zhihuan, who was standing next to him, seemed to be deep in thought and did not respond.

As a commentator whose actual game rank is several levels higher than Guan Zeyuan's, Zhihuan roughly figured out the logic behind Zhou Dian's choice of Ryze.

However, despite his clear understanding, he felt that this game logic might only be suitable for Zhou Dian himself, and not for other top laners.

Therefore, Zhihuan chose not to express his own opinions.

Soon, the loading screen finished, and the second game officially began.

Just over three minutes into the game, OMG's jungler, Spider, ganked the top lane.

The crocodile flashed and used its red-rage W to bite Ryze, and the spider followed up with its skills, resulting in Ryze's death.

Zhou Dian gave up the first blood.

At 6 minutes into the game, the crocodile used its ultimate to tank the tower, and the spider appeared behind the tower. The two of them dove the tower and killed Ryze.

Ryze has died twice in this game!
"I said this before the game started, Zhou Shen's Ryze pick was a bit inappropriate!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "The Zoo duo wants to kill Ryze? It seems like it's going to be too easy!"

Guan Zeyuan's tone at this moment was somewhat smug.

After all, he successfully predicted that "this Ryze pick was a bit of a waste."

However, Guan Zeyuan only noticed Ryze's performance of being caught and killed twice in a row, but did not notice anything else.

Before Ryze was caught and killed in the first wave, he had already pushed the minion wave to the Crocodile's tower, so he didn't lose any minions in this death.

During the second tower dive, Ryze was able to teleport back to lane and didn't lose many minions.

This resulted in Ryze's level consistently keeping up with the crocodile's.

Combined with the advantage of long range against short range, and Zhou Dian's excellent kiting skills, even though Ryze had already died twice, he could still farm minions without pressure when facing Renekton one-on-one when the Spider was not around.

Even if you choose the top laner and jungler combination of Renekton and Elise, Elise can't stay in the top lane all the time. She has to farm jungle camps to catch up on her own development.

It's just that I come to the road more frequently.

Even when it's clear that the Spider isn't near the top lane, Zhou Dian's Ryze can still push the Renekton out of the minion wave area, causing the Renekton to lose CS.

Around the 8-minute mark of the game, Ryze's CS (creep score) had already surpassed Renekton's.

However, Guan Zeyuan did not notice these things.

Because a minute later, Ryze was killed again by the mindless chain of crowd control from the crocodile and the spider.

"He's died three times already!" Guan Zeyuan shouted. "Zhou Shen's Ryze play was a bit reckless!"

But is it really so hasty?

The game lasted 10 minutes. Ryze, after dying three times, barely reached 90 CS, leading Renekton by nearly 10 CS.

Of course, Crocodile's economy is definitely much better than Ryze's right now.

However, in a 1v1 situation, Ryze's cooldowns have already been stacked up, and Zhou Dian is confident that he can easily kite the Renekton.

In the top lane, sometimes you don't need to look at your win record. As long as you can beat the enemy top laner in a 1v1 situation, you can often play a huge role.

In this game, LGD had an advantage in both the mid and bottom lanes because OMG's jungler frequently targeted Zhou Dian.

When OMG's advantage in the top lane is no longer so obvious, that's when OMG will lose the game.

This time came sooner than anyone expected.

At 12 minutes into the game, the Crocodile and Spider destroyed LGD's top lane tower, securing the first tower kill of the game.

At 13 minutes into the game, Ryze had over 130 CS, catching up with the timeline.

Sunset began to sense that something was wrong, so the crocodile became more aggressive with its line.

He wanted to put more pressure on Ryze.

However, at 14 minutes and 30 seconds into the game, when Ryze teleported to the top lane, Xiyang, who was waiting in the nearby bushes, decisively took the initiative to attack, only to be stunned by Zhou Dian.

The crocodile was brutally killed by Ryze!

Upon seeing this, the audience erupted in noise.

"Why did he hit me so hard?" Xi Yang thought to himself.

Pressing the Tab key revealed that Ryze already had 150 CS, his farm was incredibly good, even a little bit ahead.

Moreover, Ryze had just returned home to replenish his equipment before teleporting back down.

Although the crocodile had two kills and the gold from the first tower kill, his total economy was still significantly higher than Ryze's.

But the crocodile still had some money left.

At this moment, the value of the equipment they were wearing was exactly the same.

With similar equipment, a long-range Ryze with some crowd control and speed boost can easily dominate a short-range, clumsy Renekton in the weekly rankings.

"Huh? He actually got a solo kill?" Guan Zeyuan was a little confused.

What's going on? This crocodile is so useless!

Meanwhile, the chat room was already buzzing with excitement.

Holy crap, a 0-3 solo kill against a 2-0 team! Is this Zhou Shen?!

Oh, sunset, I gave you a chance, but you were useless!

[I think I know why Zhou Shen picked Ryze, this guy clears minions way too fast!]

[Indeed, I died three times, yet my last-hit count exceeded the timeline! Three deaths had absolutely no impact!]

[Isn't the lack of impact due to the nature of the Renekton champion? If you replace Renekton with Fiora or Camille, how can Ryze turn the tide with such a huge advantage?]

[You seem to be a bit... well, how could Sunset have killed Zhou Shen three times if he hadn't chosen Crocodile first?]

[The sunset is really no good, let's hurry up and call the spider up to continue catching it!]

【.】

As the comments said, two minutes later, the Spider came to the top lane, ready to team up with the Renekton to continue ganking Ryze.

However, after killing the crocodile, Ryze's level skyrocketed.

At this point, Ryze was one level ahead of Renekton and a full three levels ahead of Elise, who had fewer jungle clears.

In League of Legends, level advantage is often more important than equipment advantage.

After surviving a full combo from OMG's top and jungle, Ryze unleashed his full potential, kiting and killing both Renekton and Elise, securing a double kill.

When the announcement of "Double Kill" rang out, a huge uproar erupted from the audience.

"After this double kill, OMG's top and jungle duo of Renekton and Elise is completely useless!"

"This Ryze pick actually seems to be the right one!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "I can only say that Zhou Shen's understanding of the game is indeed beyond my comprehension!"

(End of this chapter)