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Chapter 132 You, the champion top laner, know how to call for help; I, ​​the rookie top laner, know how to call for help too!

As the players who had placed wards returned to their own jungle, the situation calmed down completely, and everyone waited for the jungle monsters to respawn.

Before the minions could push out, the keystone runes of the ten heroes on both sides were displayed on the large screen at the bottom of the screen.

"Alright, let's take a look at each side's core talents!"

Doll continued, "They're all pretty standard, right? Zhou Shen's Karma here has a Grasp of the Undying?"

Most viewers only noticed Karma's keystone rune in this game when it was mentioned by the commentators at this point.

A murmur of discussion arose from the audience.

"Karma with Grasp of the Undying, that's interesting!" Miller pushed up his glasses. "In that case, Zhou Shen's top lane Karma in this game will probably be going for a semi-tank, or even full tank build!"

"Very likely!" Wawa nodded. "After all, LGD's lineup in this game doesn't lack damage output!"

"Let's see what's going on with Zhou Shen's Undying Grip Karma!"

Half a minute later, the monsters respawned.

On the IG side, Kid's Gragas chose to start at F6, with Rookie's Jayce helping him clear the jungle.

IG's bot lane duo went straight to the lane without helping to take the red buff, allowing their jungler to enjoy an easy start.

A pure tank Gragas doesn't need a high-damage start; just farm slowly. The main strategy should be to gank more.

For LGD, Eimy chose to start with the blue buff, with the bot lane duo helping to clear the jungle.

For the champion Kha'Zix, taking the F6 camp first is too risky; it's better to start with buffs.

In this game, both junglers farmed from bottom to top, focusing their efforts on the top half of the map at the start.

The two bottom lanes don't have hard crowd control before level 6; they only have relatively soft crowd control like slows, so ganking the bottom lane might not be very effective.

Moreover, for IG, the role of Jayce and Ezreal in the mid and bot lanes is more about providing poke before team fights.

When it comes to 5v5 team fights, Kennen's AOE damage is the main factor.

If Kennen gets fed, this game will be much easier.

But since Zhou Dian has even picked Karma for top lane, will he let Kennen farm smoothly?
Don't even think about it!
This old woman with a steel frame is no joke.

Hit the road.

After the minion waves converged, Duke carefully stood behind the minion wave to attack the minions, not giving Karma a chance to hit him with her Q.

Karma is a champion who has always been very strong in the laning phase.

Karma's main advantage is her short Q skill cooldown, which allows her to push lanes quickly.

Heroes with skills that have short cooldowns and fast wave clear generally have good laning ability.

However, the top lane is different from the mid lane.

The top lane has a long minion wave, and if you use skills aggressively to push the wave in order to dominate the lane, you are likely to get ganked.

In a lane like the top lane, if you get caught and killed before managing the minion wave, the laning phase can easily end.

"You little brat, who are you trying to annoy by picking Karma? Just wait until you get caught!" Duke thought to himself.

At this moment, Duke noticed that Karma moved a step to the side and forward, seemingly looking for an angle to use her Q on Kennen.

Duke quickly maneuvered Kennen to move laterally as well, ensuring that there were always minions between his own team and the enemy Karma to help block Karma's Q skill.

Suddenly, a chain appeared out of thin air, with Karma and Kennen at each end.

It's Karma's W skill – Unwavering.

Duke felt a little dizzy for a moment.

Are there still people who play Karma and learn W at level 1?
However, Duke immediately understood the logic behind Zhou Dian's Karma learning the W skill at level one.

Firstly, the W skill is a targeted skill, making it reliable for trading blows.

Most importantly, unlike the Q skill, it won't accidentally hit minions while harassing, thus preventing the minion wave from being pushed back quickly.

That would make it easy to get caught!
Kennen and Gragas are both champions with hard crowd control, and their control abilities are very reliable. The difficulty of casting their control skills is also not high.

Zhou Dian knew that the barrels were brushed from the bottom up.

Therefore, if the top lane minion wave is pushed too early, he is basically doomed if Gragas flanks him from behind.

But since they've already picked Karma for top lane, it's impossible for Zhou Dian to put no pressure on Kennen and not trade any damage.

Therefore, Zhou Dian came up with a compromise.

That means Karma should learn the W skill at level 1.

It neither pushes the lane nor fails to harass the enemy.

It's like having your blood replaced while standing up!

Back to the game.

After Karma chained her W skill onto Kennen, she auto-attacked Kennen once. With the Grasp of the Undying effect, this auto-attack still hurt a bit.

Of course, Duke wouldn't take the beating for nothing.

Kennen also attacked Karma, but it didn't have any additional effect.

Because Kennen learns the Q skill at level 1.

There were also minions from LGD's side between Karma and Kennen, so Kennen couldn't hit Karma with his Q.

Then, Karma's W ability took effect, and Kennen was rooted to the spot.

Karma auto-attacked Kennen again, then distanced herself.

This small exchange resulted in Kennen losing several dozen health points.

Duke couldn't help but regret learning the skill so early.

You should have saved your level 1 skill point until now, and then immediately leveled up your E skill when Karma chained you up.

Then Kennen uses his E to accelerate backward and break Karma's chain, then turns around and attacks Karma.

Kennen gains an attack speed bonus after activating his E, so Karma definitely can't beat him with auto-attacks.

Of course, it's no use thinking about this now; the blood transfusion has already been a loss.

Although Duke couldn't remember the exact cooldown time of Karma's W skill, he knew it was quite long.

A level 1 W skill should have a cooldown of at least ten seconds.

Duke immediately controlled Kennen to push forward, trying to regain some ground.

Zhou Dian controlled Karma to retreat.

However, after taking only two steps back, the effect of the Undying Grip returned, and Zhou Dian immediately turned around.

Karma landed another basic attack on Kennen, this time with the Undying effect.

While taking away some of Kennen's health, a green light floated from Kennen to Karma, restoring a tiny bit of her health.

It is precisely the healing effect that comes with the Undying Grip.

Although the number of replies was not high, and the effect was halved for ranged heroes.

But no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

A lane advantage is often built up little by little by accumulating health points.

Especially in professional matches, where everyone is a master, it's rare to find a situation where someone capitalizes on a mistake to take down a large amount of the opponent's health and thus establish a lane advantage.

When Karma used A to attack Kennen, Kennen also used A to attack Karma.

Furthermore, a shuriken was thrown from Kennen's hand along with his basic attack.

It was Kennen's Q skill.

Kennen's AQ combo was executed very subtly, appearing to be just a simple auto-attack.

However, Karma suddenly made a sideways movement, narrowly dodging Kennen's Q skill.

"Damn it, you can even twist this open?"

Duke's eyes widened in surprise. This kid's positioning was a bit outrageous!
With his Q skill gone, Duke quickly maneuvered Kennen to retreat.

However, while retreating, Karma chased after him and landed another attack.

Well, this proactive exchange of blows resulted in another loss of health.

Duke has completely calmed down and no longer has any ideas about radical personnel changes.

Just wait for our jungler, Gragas, to come and gank us, and that's it.

If the laning phase is difficult, then you should call for a jungler.

No shame!
The only thing that bothered Duke was the minion wave situation in the top lane.

This Karma doesn't learn Q at level 1, nor does she farm minions aggressively.

This resulted in the minion wave remaining in the middle without any sign of being pushed forward!

At this minion wave position, Gragas doesn't have many opportunities to gank!
No, I have to create an opening and lure that guy on the other side to use his skill on the minions.

Soon, the second wave of minions arrived on the top lane and converged.

Karma leveled up to level 2 when another blue melee unit was killed.

It was at this moment that, in Zhou Dian's eyes, Kennen's positioning became slightly problematic.

Although Kennen was still standing behind the minions, he was now slightly closer to the front-line minions.

Zhou Dian certainly wouldn't let this opportunity slip by.

Zhou Dian instantly leveled up his Q skill, and then Karma raised her hand and fired an RQ at Kennen.

A burst of energy flew from Karma's hand and hit a blue team's front-line minion.

However, Karma's Q skill is not a single-target damage skill.

The energy instantly spread to the melee soldier's surroundings, causing damage to the entire area.

This includes Kennan, of course.

Kennen retreated as quickly as possible when Karma used her Q.

But I still got grazed by the edge of the skill.

Kennen's health dropped sharply.

Karma's RQ has extremely high base damage.

While RQ hit Kennen, it also hit most of the blue side minions on the top lane at that moment.

Then, Karma's RQ combo unleashed its second burst of damage, and the blue team minion hit by RQ lost another significant amount of health.

Kennen had already moved out of Karma's RQ range, dodging the second hit.

On the IG side, jungler Kid was farming in the jungle when he switched screens to look at the top lane and was almost startled.

This laning phase has only just begun, how come Duke's Kennen is already so much weaker than Karma?
Is LGD's top laner Zhou really that good?
Keep in mind that his opponent today is Duke, the champion top laner, not one of those lousy or insignificant top laners from before.

The kid was somewhat shocked.

"Duke, let the lane over here. After I finish the blue buff and level up to level three, I'll gank Karma for you right away!" Kid said.

Random junglers might not be very familiar with minion waves.

But professional junglers generally know how to watch the minion waves.

What's more, Kid used to play online.

He glanced at the minion wave in the top lane and immediately figured it out.

The top lane minion wave will soon push to Kennen's tower.

Of course, this is on the premise that Kennan does not interfere.

That's why the term "Kid" came about.

"I know, you can gank, there are no wards on the top lane!" Although Duke's Chinese accent was heavy, he could still manage a few words in-game.

Since you're coming to LPL to earn a high salary, you should still learn Chinese.

We can't expect LPL's local players to learn Korean!

LGD's side.

As soon as Karma released RQ, Zhou Dian immediately realized the problem with the minion wave.

It seems like we've been tricked by Duke?
I was wondering why Kennen made a positioning mistake so early in the game.

Seeing the speed at which the top lane minions were advancing, Zhou Dian estimated that he would soon be caught by the Gragas.

Unfortunately, Karma doesn't have any eyes on her right now.

Duke must have taken this into account as well.

The champion top laner is indeed quite skilled.

But how could I, Zhou Dian, be so easily caught?

If it were really that easy to catch.

In previous matches, I played so aggressively that I was ganked and destroyed by the junglers from other teams.

It's just calling for reinforcements.

Your championship-winning top laner knows how to call for help, and so does my rookie top laner!

"Dan-ge, stop farming for now, keep an eye on things for me, Gragas is probably coming to gank me!" Zhou Dian said to Eimy.

“OK!” Eimy replied immediately, “I wasn’t planning on farming stone beetles anyway!”

Eimy's Kha'Zix in this game followed a fast three-level route: blue buff - wolves - red buff.

Kid's Gragas also chose Speed ​​3.

However, the first three camps for Gragas are the double buff camp plus the Raptor camp.
Farming F6 takes significantly longer than farming the Three Wolves.

Moreover, Kha'Zix was helped by the bot lane duo in clearing the jungle, and he also helped with a lot of attacks.

Gragas only had Jayce helping him clear the jungle, and he only attacked a couple of times.

The combination of these two factors results in Kha'Zix reaching level three much faster than Gragas after clearing three camps of jungle monsters.

When Kha'Zix finished the red buff and reached level three, Gragas had only just started attacking the blue buff.

After clearing the red buff, Eimy immediately controlled Kha'Zix to rush towards IG's blue buff area.

When the mantis reached the front of the IG blue buff, it found the blue buff camp empty.

"Wait a minute, the barrels shouldn't be this fast!" Eimy thought to himself.

So, the mantis took two steps forward and used its W skill in the bush next to the blue buff.

At this moment, Gragas was attacking the blue buff in the bush, and the blue buff only had a few dozen points of health left.

Unfortunately, Kha'Zix's W hit Gragas instead.

Otherwise, they might have been able to steal the blue buff.

Because the effects of the Barrel's penalty haven't fully healed yet.

But it doesn't matter, Eimy wasn't expecting to get a blue buff for free anyway.

He mainly came to find the wine barrels.

Once the barrel is found, the objective is achieved.

At this moment, the Mantis is almost at full health, while the Gragas is only at half health.

Not to mention that the Kha'Zix in the jungle can trigger the "Isolation" effect.

So Kid immediately turned the barrel around and ran away.

At the same time, he said, "Duke, be careful. Kha'Zix is ​​blocking me in my jungle. I can't go to top lane!"

(End of this chapter)