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Chapter 161 This is the playoff semifinals, are you trying to play games with me?

When the spider entered EDG's blue buff area.

PYL's Thresh also left the bottom lane and entered the river, essentially preparing to support the Spider in advance.

imp's Ashe also fired an E skill towards EDG's blue buff area.

Ashe's E skill flew along the way, revealing vision along the path.

No trace of the male gunner was found.

It seems Graves is still farming in the top half of the jungle.

When Ashe reached level 2, Imp learned the E skill.

Because EDG's bot lane retreated, a fight couldn't break out in the bot lane at all.

Therefore, imp didn't learn Q, but instead learned E, which can reveal vision.

In professional matches, when playing Ashe, most of the time, players will learn her E skill at level 2.

In professional competitions, vision is the most important thing.

none of them.

After Thresh entered EDG's blue buff area, he placed his trinket ward in the open space between the blue buff and the wolves.

Then they quickly returned to the bottom lane.

A large wave of minions is pushing towards EDG in the bottom lane right now, so leaving imp alone for a brief one-on-two situation shouldn't be a problem.

After Spider destroyed EDG's blue buff...

Eimy, driven by greed, then started attacking EDG's Gromp.

Eimy still held the same idea: they couldn't afford to lose money.

He figured his swamp frog must have been killed by Graves.

Even the three wolves in his own territory could be taken down by Graves.

Which Graves player doesn't crave jungle monsters?

So, I have to steal a toad again.

After nervously eliminating EDG's Gromp, Eimy controlled the Spider and left EDG's blue buff area.

Actually, he really wanted to continue farming EDG's three wolves.

But I really don't dare to do it again.

He was really afraid that if he continued stealing, he would run into the male gunman head-on.

It would be terrible if we ran into Graves.

Because the position of the three wolves was too deep.

Even if LGD's bot lane has lane priority, it's unlikely they'll gank there first.

Moreover, EDG's mid laner Karma will definitely be able to get to the three wolves position very quickly.

Eimy hadn't expected to withdraw from EDG's jungle.

I actually gained an extra set of jungle monsters this time.

Of course, this is Zhou Dian's advantage in using himself as bait in the top lane, walking a tightrope to create a group of jungle monsters for Spider.

Spider left EDG's blue buff area and returned to his own red buff area to start fighting the Krugs.

The situation on the field finally calmed down completely.

There was no jungle invasion, no intense trades of blows, and no kills.

The commentators finally had a chance to analyze the keystone talents, item builds, and gameplay of the ten heroes on both sides.

This is the first thing to pay attention to.

This is naturally a rare sight – a top lane Tristana.

"Zhou Shen went straight for the extraction move this time, very confident!" Wang Duoduo said.

Upon hearing this, Hao Kai said, "After all, the little cannon has a long range to fight against a short range, so there's not much pressure in the laning phase."

“But…” Hao Kai changed the subject.

"As long as Mouse himself doesn't cause any problems, it doesn't seem like it will be easy for Little Cannon to crush the barrel too badly!"

"Oh, what do you mean?" Wang Duoduo asked at the right moment.

"Firstly, Gragas is a champion that is easy to synergize with junglers. Although EDG's jungler in this game is Graves who focuses on farming and isn't very good at ganking, he is still quite good at ganking top lane when paired with Gragas."

"Therefore, Xiao Pao is at great risk of being arrested!"

After a pause, Hao Kai continued, "Furthermore, Tristana has a major problem: she can't control the minion wave because of the splash damage effect of her E skill's passive!"

"In the top lane, if you don't control the wave, the only way to gain a significant CS advantage is to tower dive!"

"But I think with Mouse's rich experience in dealing with pressure, and the fact that he plays a champion like Gragas with excellent sustain, he should be very careful to maintain his health and not let himself get low on health so that he can be tower-dived!"

"Furthermore, with Gragas' skill set, his E skill provides hard crowd control, and his W skill provides damage reduction, making him one of the most difficult champions to dodge!"

Haokai's analysis is very reasonable and there's nothing wrong with it.

It's indeed difficult for Tristana to significantly reduce Gragas's creep score through lane control.

Gragas is indeed a champion that is relatively difficult to tower dive.

However, Haokai's premise for analyzing the problem was wrong.

When he saw that Zhou Dian had chosen an ADC to play top lane, he subconsciously assumed that Zhou Dian wanted to dominate the lane.

If you're long-ranged and short-ranged, when will you put pressure on your opponent in lane if not now?

Are we just going to farm peacefully with the enemy's regular top laner?

These are the first thoughts of most viewers when they see Zhou Dian playing an unconventional ADC top laner.

But who says that when a long-range character is playing against a short-range character, you have to relentlessly dominate the lane?
Moreover, Tristana is a different kind of unconventional top laner than other heroes.

Even if the little cannon can peacefully farm and develop with the enemy top laner until the late game.

However, the late-game potential of the small cannon is still very strong.

In the late game, when damage output is high, longer range is the key to victory.

Of course, Zhou Dian definitely doesn't intend to peacefully develop with EDG until the late game.

Because LGD doesn't have a front line!

In terms of overall lineup, LGD was indeed not as strong as EDG in the late game.

Just like this.

Zhou Dian had no intention of aggressively controlling the lane to reduce Mouse's level and last-hitting.

They also had no intention of suppressing Mouse by tower diving.

It's not for the sake of the cannon's late-game capabilities.

Why did he pick Tristana for top lane?
The answer is simple.

Of course, it's for the turret-pushing ability of the cannon.

At this moment, Mouse was a little confused about what the enemy Tristana was doing.

He plays Gragas, and he starts last-hitting under the tower at level one.

Because the sniper starts pushing aggressively as soon as it comes online, and the level 1 sniper pushes the lane very quickly.

Therefore, the second wave of soldiers arrived only a short while ago.

The little cannon had already pushed the first and second waves of minions together to EDG's top tower.

Mouse started focusing on last-hitting minions under the tower.

He truly never imagined that, despite his long reach, he could still deliver a powerful finishing blow.

Even last-hitting under the tower is very comfortable.

As long as you manage your tower attacks well, you won't be pressured too much in terms of creep score.

That's what makes Mouse so strange.

Normally, when a long-range hero fights a short-range hero, the first priority is to control the lane. If you're going to be more aggressive, you can directly push the minion wave and drive the short-range hero out of the experience zone.

Forget about finishing off enemies, you won't even get any experience points.

Zhou Dian used to do this when playing ranged heroes in the top lane.

"Trying to wear me down while I'm farming under the tower?" Mouse thought to himself.

That's the only explanation.

You can't just pick a long-range top laner who doesn't fight in lane, right?
So what's the point of choosing it?
However, Zhou Dian really doesn't hit people.

While Gragas was last-hitting the tower, Tristana used her Explosive Spark (E) to hit EDG's top tower.

Then activate Rapid Fire (Q) and unleash a barrage of auto-attacks on EDG's top tower.

Yes, the level 2 cannon did not learn the movement skill Rocket Jump (W).

Instead, he learned the Q skill, which increases attack speed.

All I can say is that Zhou Dian is highly skilled and daring.

They're really not afraid of getting caught!
After the cannon attacked the turret three times.

Mouse's Gragas uses a diagonal E skill.

While creating distance from his own turret, he also accidentally killed a ranged minion under the turret and finished it off.

At this moment, the cannon also fired its fourth attack, igniting an explosion.

The blast radius was considerable.

But the barrel just had that flesh bomb impact (E).

Just as E was outside the blast radius of Tristana's E skill, she wasn't hit by the blast.

Mouse was quite pleased with himself.

Although I play top lane, not ADC, I've basically never played Tristana.

But I'm pretty good at understanding the range of the little cannon's skills.

According to Mouse.

Zhou Dian planned to use Tristana's E skill to paralyze himself in other places, and then suddenly explode to deplete his own health.

After all, if the cannon directly attaches the Explosive Spark (E) to the barrel's head...

Then I would definitely pull myself back immediately.

You can skip last-hitting the enemy with a tower strike; preserving your health is the most important thing.

Then, the cannon can only attack the barrel once at most.

There's the explosion spark that automatically explodes after just one click (A), and the explosion spark that explodes immediately after four clicks (A).

That difference in damage is just too big.

Mouse felt that he had seen through Zhou Dian's strategy of chipping away at Zhou's health.

However, from Zhou Dian's perspective...

He didn't even glance at the barrel.

What does it matter whether the sparks from the explosion hit the barrel?
Zhou Dian glanced at the health of EDG's top tower that had been destroyed by the explosion.

Hmm, not bad!

It was a little higher than I had imagined.

It seems that it won't even take 10 minutes to take down EDG's top tower.

If all goes well, we might be able to take down the Barrel's defensive tower in about eight minutes.

While Gragas was still farming under the tower, the third wave of minions arrived in the top lane.

This wave of minions is a wave of cannon minions.

The little cannon blocked the tower, and after attacking EDG's front-line minions twice, her E skill was ready again.

Therefore, Zhou Dian directly attached Explosive Spark (E) to the red team's siege vehicle.

Then start attacking aggressively.

After four basic attacks, an explosion erupted, blasting away a significant amount of health from the surrounding red minions.

Of course, the barrel dodged the explosion damage again.

Meanwhile, LGD's blue team's siege minion line also surged under the Barrel Tower.

The barrel is used to finish off the tower.

Meanwhile, the cannon was aggressively attacking minions on the other side.

The two did not infringe upon each other's privacy and each went about their own business.

Mouse was absolutely thrilled.

So far in this wave of tower dives, Tristana hasn't provided any harassment.

With complete concentration, he didn't miss a single strike.

I pressed the Tab key and checked the number of last hits for the little cannon.

Mouse quickly did some mental calculations.

With the remaining few tower kills that haven't been completed yet, it seems like we've even surpassed Tristana by one kill!

The Tristana's E skill's splash damage was difficult to control, and the lane push in the top tier was too aggressive.

After three waves of minions, it's inevitable that one or two last hits will be missed.

While Mouse was feeling quite pleased with himself, a question also arose.

What does "this week's peak" mean?

Why did you change your gender today?

It's not pressing down on people anymore?

Could it be that this top laner was just picked to mess with?
Dude, this is the semifinals of the playoffs!

You picked Tristana for top lane just to mess around with?

They really don't take my Mouse seriously at all!

Am I fucking that bad?
Mouse felt a little hurt in his self-esteem.

"Fine, let them look down on me, as long as I can win!" Mouse quickly calmed himself down.

At this point, the small cannons blocking the front of the barrel tower had been cleared from the red side's cannon lane.

He actually stepped directly into EDG's top tower.

There were still quite a few LGD minions under the tower, so the tower naturally wouldn't attack the Tristana.

Then, the little cannon ignored the barrels under the tower.

I walked straight past the barrel and continued forward.

It looked like the little cannon was about to reach the back of EDG's top tower.

Mouse realized what the little cannon was about to do.

This is about to disconnect!

Because the next wave of minions in the top lane had already reached their respective top lane second towers.

And it continues to move forward.

Soon, the dart will intercept the red team's minion wave between EDG's top lane first and second towers.

On the top lane, the opposing top laner will likely disconnect as early as two or three minutes into the game.

What are you trying to do?

The answer is self-evident!

(End of this chapter)