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Chapter 141 Mlxg's Three Soul-Searching Questions

Once the game finished loading, the ten heroes from both sides landed in the fountains at opposite ends of Summoner's Rift.

The first game of the BO3 match between LGD and RNG, which will determine the top seed in Group A, has officially begun.

The cheers and shouts of encouragement from fans on both sides began to rise from the scene.

In comparison, there were significantly more RNG fans than LGD fans at the event.

Once the cheers and shouts of encouragement started, the volume was noticeably louder.

Both players controlled their respective heroes, emerging from the fountain and heading straight for the river.

Starting position is essential.

This game is of great importance, so both sides are being quite cautious.

They didn't launch any initial invasion; they simply held onto their own half of the map.

The large screen at the venue displayed the keystone talents carried by the ten heroes on both sides in this game.

They're all pretty standard, nothing special about how to carry them.

Then, Guan Zeyuan noticed Lucian's outfit.

"Zhou Shen's Lucian actually started with a Cull run!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "Zhou Shen chose Lucian for the top lane because he definitely wanted to suppress Renekton in lane."

"I think building Doran's Blade is the best way to maximize Lucian's pressure!"

"Extraction is more suitable for development; the suppression effect doesn't seem quite right!"

Guan Zeyuan is the kind of person who is like a "full bucket that doesn't slosh around, but a half-full bucket that rattles vigorously!"

Whenever he comes across something he knows a little about, he can't wait to offer his "insights".

But most of the time, he's on the second level, thinking others are on the first level, so he offers "guidance".

However, the others were actually on the fifth floor, and he didn't understand it at all.

Hearing Guan Zeyuan's words, Su Xiaoyan said, "Zhou Shen probably still feels that RNG's top and jungle duo of Renekton and Gragas is too threatening to him, and it's too easy for them to get caught when they pressure him!"

"So he chose to start with Cull and focus on farming in the early game!"

Upon hearing this, Guan Zeyuan immediately said, "If you want to develop, I don't think it's necessary to pick Lucian. Long-ranged heroes can easily suppress short-ranged heroes, right?"

It can only be said that both commentators were only partially correct.

Sometimes, when choosing a hero with an advantage in the laning phase, the starting point isn't necessarily to gain an advantage in that phase.

Rather, it is to ensure their own development.

In the game League of Legends, especially after the lane-swapping mechanic was intentionally "removed" by Riot Games designers.

The laning phase is the most important thing.

Having an advantage in the laning phase gives you the initiative in many things.

This includes last-hitting and farming.

The popular saying in real money games is, "Only the living have the right to finish off the enemy."

From a certain perspective, there is some truth to it.

Zhou Dian was well aware that RNG's top and jungle players would definitely target him heavily during the laning phase.

However, Lucian is a good matchup against Renekton.

No matter how much Lucian is targeted, Zhou Dian is confident that he can keep up with the development.

After all, it's not just RNG that has a jungler; his team also has one.

Even if Mlxg wanted to target Zhou Dian indefinitely, he couldn't do it.

We can only target as many as possible.

Anyway, Zhou Dian felt that no matter how much he was messed up in this game, he would always be able to finish off the enemy.

The crocodile becomes useless in the mid-to-late game.

If his Lucian develops even slightly well, he can carry in the mid-to-late game.

This is enough!

Soon, the first wave of minions converged on the top lane.

Letme was positioned towards the back.

He felt that Lucian would definitely try to push past the minion wave to pressure him for experience at level one.

Because a level one crocodile is basically useless.

Letme still vividly remembers his first encounter with Zhou Dian, where he played Renekton against Zhou Dian's Fiora, got completely overwhelmed at level one, and was then solo killed.

Not to mention that the opponent in this game was playing a marksman hero with a longer range.

The crocodile probably won't be able to eat a single one of the first wave of minions.

Anyway, Letme was mentally prepared to miss out on the first wave of minions.

I'd be content with just a little experience.

Press as hard as you want, the harder the better.

The barrel will come up and take care of you in a bit.

However, Letme discovered that Lucian was actually standing behind the red team's backline minions and hadn't moved forward at all.

There was no A-class minion pushing the lane.

What do you mean?
Last time you played a short-range Fiora, and you completely dominated my Renekton from level one.

Why didn't you press the button this time when you were playing with someone with long arms?

Letme immediately realized that Zhou Dian must have been unwilling to push the lane a few minutes earlier, which led to him being caught.

So Letme controlled the crocodile to move forward, ready to deliver two more blows.

He refused to believe that Lucian could stand being beaten up like this.

As long as Lucian auto-attacks the Renekton, the minion wave will quickly move towards RNG's side.

The crocodile moved forward and began attacking the minions.

Then, Letme discovered that Zhou Dian's Lucian was standing motionless in the back, not attacking the crocodile at all, just watching the health of the front-line minions on both sides decrease.

It's obvious that Lucian is only planning to finish off the enemy.

After the crocodile attacked the minion twice, Letme quickly stopped.

We can't attack anymore, if we keep attacking, the minion wave will just push towards LGD.

Letme felt like his brain wasn't working properly.

There really is a player who uses a long-range attack against a short-range one, without actually hitting anyone!

Forget it, I don't want to.

Since we can finish off the enemy, let's do it quickly!
Maybe Lucian will choose to pressure people again in a little while.

If the jungler isn't around, he'll have a hard time last-hitting minions.

On the large screen at the scene, when the observer view switched to the top lane.

The resulting image looks somewhat strange.

A level 1 Lucian and a level 1 crocodile are actually coexisting peacefully.

Both of them only finish off the enemy.

Therefore, when the second wave of minions arrives, the minions in the top lane will still converge in the very middle of the top lane.

"No, isn't Lucian going to attack the crocodile?"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "I don't quite understand. These first two levels are the best time to suppress the crocodile!" "Why did Zhou Shen pick Lucian if he's not putting any pressure on the crocodile at all?"

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoyan smiled and said, "Maybe they were specifically chosen to attract attention."

"That's certainly possible!" Guan Zeyuan nodded with a smile.

Of course, the two commentators were just joking.

No one really thinks that any player would choose a hero with the intention of "drawing fire".

Mlxg's targeting came earlier than Zhou Dian had anticipated.

Surprisingly, Gragas didn't choose F6 to activate Speed ​​4 in this game.

Instead, they opted for a red buff and a speed-up to level 3.

After Gragas cleared the blue buff and reached level three, Mlxg wanted to gank the top lane.

Upon closer inspection of the top lane, the minion waves were found to be converging in the middle of the top lane.

How do we catch them?
We can't catch them!

How could the minion wave be in the middle when you're playing Lucian against Renekton in the top lane and the game is almost three minutes in?

Mlxg doesn't quite understand.

So he pressed the tab key and took a look.

Once you see it, you'll understand.

In the first minute or so of laning, Letme's Renekton had the same number of CS as Lucian.

It seems Lucian didn't pressure the crocodile at all!
If you use a long reach to fight a short reach, won't you be able to overpower your opponent?
So what did you choose them for?
Were they chosen for peaceful development?
Mlxg asked himself three soul-searching questions.

But no answer was found.

If you can't gank the top lane, then you can only keep farming the jungle.

This isn't a good time to stay nearby and camp.

Since LGD's jungler is definitely still in the top half of the map, it would be counterproductive to try and ambush the enemy jungler.

So Mlxg maneuvered the barrel to the upper river, ready to hunt the river crab.

Barrel walked to the middle of the river and had just swatted the river crab twice when Eimy also arrived at the upper part of the river.

The two bumped into each other, looked at each other, and neither of them backed down.

It's obvious that everyone has their eyes on this river crab.

However, LGD's mid laner is currently pushing the lane.

After GodV noticed that Eimy had run into Mlxg, he immediately abandoned a creep that he could have easily last-hit and turned to head towards the top river.

Seeing the opposing mid laner approaching, Mlxg had no choice but to give up contesting the river crab.

After Mlxg left, Eimy happily ate the river crab.

"Wei Shen has really changed a lot!" Eimy thought to himself.

GodV came to protect Eimy and secure the river crab, knowing full well that they wouldn't gain anything from it and would even lose players.

But he still came.

Although the number of soldiers lost was not large, four soldiers were lost.

If it were GodV from two months ago, he definitely wouldn't have bothered to move an inch in this situation.

He will only go to his teammates' aid if he has already pushed the minion wave to the enemy tower and is sure that he will not lose minions when he goes to the river to provide support.

After taking down the river crab, Eimy headed straight for the bottom half of the map.

When the game started, Zhou Dian told him not to pay too much attention to the top lane this game, and just to keep an eye on it when he was farming the jungle near the top lane.

At other times, the focus is still on the lower half of the bracket.

Playing like this will make this game much easier to win.

Eimy didn't quite understand what Zhou Dian was saying.

In Eimy's opinion, if you pick Lucian in the top lane and your teammates completely ignore you, it's very easy for the game to fall apart!

But he did as instructed anyway.

Because LGD's matches over the past two months have proven one thing—

Listen to Zhou Dian, you can't go wrong!

While Eimy was heading to the lower half of the map, Mlxg returned to his own blue zone and started farming the Swamp Frog.

He is not ready to leave the upper half of the bracket yet.

Mlxg plans to farm the Gromp and then gank Lucian in the top lane.

You absolutely have to squat down.

He had studied Eimy's jungle routes and knew that Eimy was most likely heading to the bottom half of the jungle right now.

At this point, you can go to the top lane and camp Lucian without worrying about being counter-ganked.

"I refuse to believe I can't catch you, you damn top laner Obama!" Mlxg thought to himself.

However, what no one noticed was...

When the two junglers met in the top river, Zhou Dian immediately broke the peace between him and Letme.

Lucian began to press forward.

Seeing this, Letme quickly maneuvered the crocodile backward.

Kid, you finally couldn't resist wanting to cheat on someone, huh?
I told you, there's no such thing as someone with long arms beating someone with short arms without being intimidated.

You're good at betting, but the problem is if you don't bet!

If you press down, the minion wave will push forward.

Then just wait to get caught.

At this point, both Lucian and the crocodile are level three.

After Lucian pushed forward a few steps, and seeing that the crocodile was about to be pushed out of the experience zone, Letme couldn't stand it anymore.

That's enough, damn it!
Do you really think I'm afraid of you?

After all, the crocodile had reached level three and had reached its first point of strength.

The saying "A level three crocodile can kill you" is not just a casual remark.

Letme was about to unleash a combo on Lucian to pressure his health.

This will be very beneficial for his subsequent solo laning phase, as well as for Gragas ganking him.

So, the crocodile, which had been retreating, suddenly turned around and used its E ability on Lucian.

The crocodile suddenly turned around and used E.

Furthermore, Lucian is moving forward, so if any other top laner comes along, they'll basically get hit by Renekton's E.

After the crocodile uses its E to reach Lucian, even if Lucian uses his E, it won't create much distance between them in a short time.

Because the crocodile has a second E to follow up, and then it chases after Lucian and attacks relentlessly.

But Zhou Dian is not "other top laners".

When the crocodile turned around and used his E on Lucian, Lucian had just used his slide (E) to move a small distance to the left.

The crocodile's E-skill went straight into the air without touching anything.

"It's over!"

This was Letme's first reaction.

(End of this chapter)