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Chapter 174 This thing about dealing with stress, it's like nobody can't do it!
Mouse, already on guard, reacted the moment Yasuo turned around.

Immediately control the crocodile to move horizontally to the left.

Hasai!

Yasuo landed a Steel Tempest (Q) at the perfect angle, accurately slicing through the Renekton.

The crocodile's health dropped a little more.

A whirlwind also appeared around Yasuo's blade.

Mouse was startled.

He really didn't expect that Zhou Dian could predict his movement.

Although Renekton took another Q from Yasuo, it didn't have a significant impact on him.

But this movement was anticipated.

This gave Mouse the feeling that his opponent could easily manipulate him.

For a moment, Mouse recalled the previous game and the fear of being dominated by Zhou Dian in past matches against LGD.

A sense of panic welled up in my heart once again.

Mouse quickly took a deep breath and told himself to stay calm.

Crocodile can easily defeat Yasuo, don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid.

However, in the game League of Legends, once you develop a sense of fear, you become hesitant to make any moves.

That is, what is commonly known as being cowardly.

Therefore, no matter how advantageous the matchup is, it will be difficult to achieve the desired effect.

Viewers didn't see the scene where the crocodile was hit twice by Yasuo's Q on his way to the game.

The main problem was that the observers reacted too slowly and failed to capture the situation in time.

When the observer switched the view to the top lane, they saw the crocodile take down three melee minions with a single Q.

Yasuo used basic attacks to kill two melee minions, but he couldn't kill the other one in time, so it died naturally.

And Yasuo is holding a wind amulet in his hand.

So all the viewers wanted to see if the wind could blow the crocodile away.

This is a subconscious expectation.

However, Yasuo did not blow the wind away even after the duration of the wind ended.

The observers then switched their focus to other lanes.

Mouse, who had been carefully wary of Yasuo's whirlwind attack, relaxed a little at this moment.

He was genuinely afraid of being blown by the wind.

If this gets blown up, it means he'll get hit by three Yasuo Qs as soon as he logs in.

If that really happens, Mouse feels his confidence is going to collapse!
Therefore, he had been maneuvering the crocodile intensively left and right to avoid being hit by Yasuo's wind attack.

However, Zhou Dian had no intention of letting this gust of wind blow out.

The crocodile was always near the minions; whether Yasuo's gust of wind reached the crocodile or not was not the key point.

The key issue is that it's inevitable that some low-ranking soldiers will get caught in the crossfire.

Once the minion wave hits, the minion wave will slowly push towards the crocodile.

Therefore, Zhou Dian had no intention of releasing this Q.

Just watch as the breeze disappeared over time.

Zhou Dian could tell. The enemy crocodile had been constantly making small, inching movements, clearly trying to dodge Yasuo's whirlwind.

Because Yasuo's whirlwind skill automatically disappears after its duration.

The crocodile's movement frequency has noticeably slowed down.

This shows that Mouse has only been a support player in the top lane for a little over a year, and his understanding of the top lane minion waves is not deep enough.

If Zhou Dian were to play this crocodile,

He would stand behind his own minions, reducing his movement frequency while revealing an opening, making a positioning mistake, and luring Yasuo to use his ultimate to hit his own Renekton.

Even if you can't position yourself in time, you won't be able to dodge Yasuo's whirlwind.

However, Yasuo's whirlwind will blow on the crocodile as well as the blue team's minions.

If the minion wave isn't dealt with afterward, the top lane minion wave will naturally push towards the Renekton.

At that time, heroes like Yasuo who lack mobility will face greater pressure to avoid ganks.

Compared to that, getting hit by Yasuo's wind and losing a little health is really nothing.

Even if Yasuo ultimately didn't use his Q skill to blast the wind.

That's okay.

There are no other effects!

And Mouse just now controlled the crocodile's high-frequency movement.

Clearly, they hadn't considered the possibility of intentionally taking damage from abilities and then using the minion wave to suppress Yasuo.

Through this incident, Zhou Dian has already sensed Mouse's inherent cowardice.

This is something that can't be changed no matter what strong heroes you play.

Zhou Dian felt that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he should be able to develop smoothly in this game with Yasuo.

Given Mouse's cowardly nature, he might be content with simply being able to develop peacefully with me.

As for the issue of crocodiles becoming useless after peaceful development.

What does it matter?

I'm laning against Zhou Shen, currently the strongest top laner in the LPL!

As long as I don't get solo killed or out-farmed, isn't that good enough?
Before the start of the second game, the rest of EDG had high hopes that Mouse could use Renekton to suppress Zhou Dian's Yasuo.

Once in the game, after being hit twice by Yasuo's Q, Mouse had long forgotten about him.

What is a "slacker"?

This is a real slacker.

Whether you're a "carry" or not in a competition has never depended on what hero you play.

It's not about what kind of mindset you have when you play the game.

In the most crucial early game matchup, the jungler matchup is paramount.

For EDG, the Rengar started with the F6 camp and then went for the red buff.

After clearing those two jungle camps, they headed to their own upper jungle area.

On LGD's side, Eimy's Gragas started with the blue buff and then took the wolves.

After defeating the three wolves, they headed towards their own upper jungle.

The jungle routes taken by the junglers on both sides at the start of the game are almost mirror images of each other.

It's not just that they brush from bottom to top.

Even their thought processes are similar.

That is—the situation on the road is extremely critical.

At least that's the case during the laning phase.

Even though both sides chose a strong laning combination in the bottom lane.

However, both bottom lanes lack strong crowd control.

This also led to both junglers showing little interest in going to the bottom lane.

Because it's easy to make a wasted trip.

Wouldn't it be better to just farm a couple more groups of jungle monsters instead?

For the remainder of the game, the movements of the junglers on both sides remained remarkably similar.

Both Ai Luoli and Eimy chose to clear their own upper jungle first.

Rengar clears jungle camps faster than Gragas.

Moreover, EDG is on the blue side, and the upper jungle is the blue zone.

The upper jungle area of ​​LGD, the red side, is the red zone.

There are more individual monsters in the blue zone than in the red zone.

In terms of jungle clearing speed, clearing the blue buff area is naturally faster than clearing the red buff area.

So, when the Rengar finished clearing the Gromp and emptied the entire blue zone...

Eimy's Gragas had just finished taking down the red buff and was about to go take down his own Krugs.

Ai Luoli glanced at the road ahead.

The top lane minion wave is closer to LGD's side.

There was no chance to gank the top lane this time.

Yasuo's health was still very good, so he had no chance to dive the tower.

So, Ai Luoli had no choice but to press the B key to return to town.

Let's go back and get some new gear and a new control ward first.

While waiting for the recall countdown, Ai Luoli said to Mouse:

"You should trade hits with Yasuo more often. If his health stays this high, there's absolutely no chance he'll be able to tower dive later!"

Although Ai Luoli was not directly laning against Zhou Dian in the top lane.

But as a jungler, he also studied Zhou Dian's anti-gank skills.

The conclusion is that Zhou Dian has a very high level of anti-gank skills.

He knew that Zhou Dian had a deep understanding of the top lane minion wave and was very difficult to gank.

Therefore, the best way to gank at the top of the week is to tower dive.

However, the prerequisite for tower diving is that the enemy laner's health is not very high.

How can you jump over a full health bar?
Unless you call on the mid laner or support to come and tower dive together.

But doesn't Yasuo have any teammates?
The other members of LGD aren't dead.

Three times over, four times over, it's not that easy.

The easiest way to achieve this is for the jungler to coordinate with the laner to gank the enemy laner.

However, this requires teammates to reduce the opponent's health in lane.

Upon hearing Ai Luoli's words, Mouse quickly replied, "Oh, oh, oh, I'll try my best to exchange blood with him!"

But Mouse was secretly groaning in his heart.

The Yasuo on the other side isn't trading blows with me at all.

Most of the time, I just stay in the back and use Q to last-hit minions.

If you can't use Q to finish off an enemy, you have to wait until you have the passive shield before going in to finish them off.

If there's really no good opportunity to finish off the enemy, then just don't do it.

The crocodile itself has few opportunities to hit Yasuo.

In addition, every time the crocodile hits Yasuo, Yasuo's passive blocks a lot of the damage.

Finally, there's the healing effect of Doran's Shield.

This resulted in Yasuo having a consistently healthy health pool.

The health bar remained above two-thirds.

Mouse was genuinely surprised by Zhou Dian's usually aggressive laning style in matches.

They're surprisingly good at handling pressure.

When Mouse pressed the Tab key, he saw that Yasuo's CS count was actually the same as his Renekton's.

There was hardly any leakage at all!
This is even with Yasuo mostly staying in the back.

This is already the highest level of stress resistance.

However, for Zhou Dian, being able to keep up with his opponent in last-hitting even when facing a disadvantageous laning phase is a very common occurrence.

Resilience isn't that difficult.

It's like nobody can't do it!

The key to withstanding pressure lies not in oneself, but in one's opponent.

You can only withstand pressure if your opponent in lane isn't strong enough.

If your opponent in lane has a hero advantage and also has sufficient skill and aggression.

So, no matter how much experience you have in dealing with stress, you will only fall further behind your counterpart.

The problem with the mouse lies in its aggressiveness.

After all, the champion Renekton doesn't require a particularly high level of skill; Mouse's proficiency is sufficient.

It's mainly about ideology.

Mouse was playing a completely formulaic laning strategy, and didn't dare to be more aggressive in suppressing Yasuo.

If Zhou Dian were to play Renekton, there would be several instances where he would directly cross the minion wave to pressure Yasuo.

In those few minutes of laning, if Mouse's Renekton could cross the minion wave a few times and force Yasuo back, that would have been enough.

Even if Zhou Dian is the god of pressure resistance, Yasuo's CS count has long been suppressed.

Where else can you fight a crocodile head-on?

Because once the crocodile reaches level two or three, Yasuo won't dare to touch it for at least several minutes.

The crocodile pressed forward, forcing Yasuo to retreat.

But Mouse didn't dare to push forward too aggressively.

Because the crocodile placed a ward on its body in LGD's red buff area at the start of the game.

It's not ready yet.

With no vision around the top lane, Mouse was afraid of getting caught.

Thus, the top lane entered a phase of "peaceful development".

Thanks to Zhou Dian's solid fundamentals, Yasuo was able to keep up with Renekton's CS.

On the other side, Ai Luoli's Rengar returned to the fountain and upgraded to Sightstone jungle item.

Then I went out and headed straight down the road.

At this moment, there was only one group of Krugs in the entire EDG jungle, and Rengar was only heading to the bottom lane.

Halfway there, Ai Luoli said to Mouse, "Be careful, the barrel should be fighting the stone beetle right now."

It was just a normal reminder.

However, Mouse was a little scared because the top lane minion wave had been pushed forward.

Upon hearing the word "barrel" in Ai Luoli's words, he quickly controlled the crocodile to retreat.

Let's leave first and talk about it later.

Then it dawned on me that the wine barrel hadn't arrived yet!
Just then, the yellow ornament on the crocodile's body recovered.

Mouse quickly placed a ward in the river before daring to move forward and continue farming minions.

Yasuo had already taken advantage of the few seconds that the crocodile suddenly retreated to finish off three low-health minions.

Yasuo wouldn't have been able to last-hit any of those three minions.

Or rather, even if you manage to heal, you have to pay a significant price in terms of health.

(End of this chapter)