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Chapter 181 Top-notch flanking maneuver, securing the victory!

This highlights the importance of knowledge level.

The two commentators were actually trying to express the same meaning.

When Wang Duoduo said it, it was a genuine compliment to Zhou Dian.

But coming from Hao Kai, a former professional player and former internet addict, it sounds like he means, "This wave doesn't require any skill; it all depends on the strength of the hero and the equipment."

That's really hard to hear.

LGD fans and Zhou Dian fans will inevitably feel disgusted by this.

Of course, other, more neutral viewers didn't care much about what the commentators said.

Their focus is still mainly on the game content.

At this moment, the chat in the live broadcast room was filled with:

Wow, Zhou Shen managed to take on two opponents in this game! EDG is finished!

[I find it strange, Zhou Shen's move looked like he didn't do anything special, but it also looked incredibly smooth!]

Playing Yasuo smoothly is all about skill!

Indeed, Zhou Shen's performance this time lacked flashy maneuvers, but his fundamental skills were still very solid!

[Something's not right. When I play Yasuo, I'm even better farmed than Zhou Shen's Yasuo in this game, but I still feel like my Yasuo is dealing more damage!]

What are your first three items as Yasuo?

【I'm building Berserker's Greaves, Statikk Shiv, and Infinity Edge!】

"That's right. With your gear, in that situation, a single empowered W from Renekton would kill you. You wouldn't have any damage output left."

[No problem! Zhou Shen's Yasuo build, as long as you have a certain level of skill, seems like you can easily take on two opponents at once!]

[All I can say is, this is tanky Yasuo, terrifyingly so!]

So, does that mean Yasuo should build tank items?

[That's right, this Yasuo, he's really going to build tank items!]

【.】

Any evenly matched game.

Once a situation arises on the side lane where a solo laner from one side is fighting two opponents, that's a problem.

That would directly break the game's balance.

The situation on the other side will take a sharp turn for the worse.

For EDG

The side lane where Yasuo was originally located was under some pressure.

But it's still acceptable.

Because Yasuo is only slowly chipping away at the side lanes, this approach has had very little effect.

EDG is relatively more acceptable.

If EDG can find a rhythm elsewhere, the effect will be better than Yasuo slowly pushing the lane for ten minutes.

But now that Yasuo has gotten a double kill in a 1v2 situation, it means that the lane where Yasuo plays will be completely ruined for EDG and they won't be able to play at all.

EDG will always have two, or even three, players who are restrained by Yasuo.

So, how can EDG compete head-on?
They'll either be slowly worn down by LGD.

They could either go all in and send even more people to catch Yasuo.

Only if they can be captured and killed can the situation be changed.

However, as long as Yasuo isn't caught and killed, or if the gank on Yasuo takes too long, then EDG's front line will be completely broken.

This is also considered walking a tightrope.

Out of deep fear of Zhou Dian and distrust of Mouse, they did not want to walk a tightrope.

EDG decided to look for opportunities in other lanes or the jungle.

As for Yasuo?

Let's ignore that for now and just let Mouse survive as long as he can!
It seems EDG can break through the rest of LGD first.

Yasuo completely dominated EDG's side lane.

Two minutes later, both sides traded two second towers on the side lanes.

Mouse's crocodile couldn't defend the bottom lane's second turret by himself, so he chose to retreat to the high ground turret.

Yasuo single-handedly destroyed EDG's second bottom lane turret.

On the other side, the rest of EDG grouped up and pushed down LGD's second top lane tower.

Overall, EDG didn't lose out.

However, Yasuo single-handedly consumed the gold from a tower, so his equipment will only be upgraded even faster.

The two sides exchanged resources like this, but in the end, it was EDG who couldn't hold on and ran into problems.

The game lasted a little over 26 minutes.

Zhou Dian's Yasuo was pushing the bottom lane.

LGD's mid, jungle, and support trio inexplicably went to the top lane to gank Ryze.

Of course, they didn't catch a single hair; they had absolutely no chance.

Scout ran away beforehand.

Then, LGD completely left the mid lane empty.

At the base of the second tower, only Imp's female police officer was guarding it.

EDG's bottom laner, jungler, and support immediately pushed the minion wave into LGD's mid-lane second tower and started attacking it.

Mouse was also very clever in this move, taking advantage of the fact that the bottom lane minions hadn't crossed the river yet.

He had positioned the crocodile ahead of time to reach the mid lane and reunite with his teammates.

It was this very meeting that caused the problems.

LGD's mid, jungle, and support trio failed to gank Ryze and have already crossed their own red buff area towards the mid lane.

But Meiko felt that with the four of them in the mid lane, they could easily destroy LGD's second mid lane tower before leaving.

So, the group clicked on the defense tower a few more times.

They destroyed LGD's very important second mid-lane tower.

However, while the tower was demolished, the people were unable to leave.

A stone wall rose from LGD's upper jungle and stretched all the way to the mid lane, directly blocking EDG's retreat.

That's Taliyah's ultimate move.

Meanwhile, the wine barrels arrived ahead of time near the middle of the road.

An E-Flash precisely struck EDG's bot lane duo.

Then Gragas used his ultimate to blast Varus and Karma back.

PYL's Lulu walked between the two who had been blasted back and used her ultimate on herself. The enlarged Lulu once again knocked Varus and Karma into the air.

Varus was so controlled that he couldn't use any skills and was killed on the spot.

Karma, who wasn't the target of focused fire, had half her health left when she recovered from the stun.

As soon as she broke free of control, Karma immediately used her E skill to accelerate.

Karma's movement speed increased dramatically, and she walked a few steps to the wall formed by Taliyah's ultimate.

Then it teleports over the wall.

Meiko was quite lucky this time; the policewoman chased Karma and fired three shots, but none of them were critical hits. This allowed Karma to survive and escape with low health by flashing over a wall.

Imp was so angry that he yelled "Shiba!"

However, imp did not use Flash to chase the low-health Karma.

Because there's still a crocodile to deal with.

In an encounter like the one we just saw, Mouse, a crocodile with subpar equipment, was completely useless.

Lulu just casually turned him into a sheep.

By the time the sheep transformation ended, one of the two bot laners was dead and the other had escaped.

He can't save his teammates from dying, and he can't kill anyone on LGD's side either.

Without Flash, there's no way to escape this wave.

The crocodile managed to run away a bit with two E dashes, but against champions like Gragas and Lulu who have extremely strong sticking abilities, he was quickly caught up and killed!

As for Ai Luoli, the only one left from the four-man tower-destroying group of EDG.

He was the fastest to react.

Seeing the bot lane duo get flashed by Gragas's E, I knew this wave was going to fall apart.

So his Rengar decisively activated his ultimate ability and rushed straight to LGD's red buff area.

In this wave of support for the mid lane, GodV's Taliyah was at the very back.

When he used his ultimate near the red buff, he didn't dare get on the vehicle. Instead, he placed a stone wall to block the road and then walked towards the middle lane.

That's normal; if you send Taliyah to flank, she'll easily get killed.

It would be better to block the road and then take the middle road.

Anyway, it's not far from the middle lane.

However, Taliyah had only taken two steps and hadn't even crossed the area of ​​her own red buff.

The poodle suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

With a fully upgraded E, Taliyah was bound to the spot.

At the same time, a blue halo appeared beneath Taliyah's feet.

It was Ryze's ultimate ability – Mirror Warp.

Wei Shen knew that if he was left behind and caught by EDG's mid and jungle players using their ultimate abilities, he would definitely die.

However, even in death, one should die with value.

He needs to stall EDG's mid and jungle as much as possible so that his mid lane teammates can come over and engage after they've finished their tasks.

However, three LGD players in the mid lane went to chase the crocodile.

The crocodile was running in another direction, so it was definitely too late to come to his aid.

Then
Yasuo can come and keep them here!
Out of the corner of his eye, Wei Shen had already seen the teleportation icon on the minimap.

Then, Wei Shen handled the situation very calmly.

When Rengar used his ultimate to jump out and used his fully-charged E to bind Taliyah, GodV did not press Cleanse.

Instead, they waited a moment.

When Ryze's ultimate appeared, EW's enhanced root hit him, and then he unleashed a double DF combo.

Cleanse to remove Ryze's stun, then Flash away.

It also helped it avoid a lot of damage.

Scout quickly used Flash to catch up; he needed to kill Taliyah as soon as possible.

Although EDG's mid and jungle still managed to kill Taliyah.

However, in order to hunt down Taliyah, the two had already penetrated quite deep into enemy territory.

"Let's go, let's go, the two of us can't die!" Scout urged repeatedly.

Ryze and Rengar traversed LGD's red buff area, desperately running towards the river.

So far, EDG has achieved a two-for-one trade.

Varus and the crocodile died, but Taliyah was also killed.

If this is the end of the game, EDG should be able to save Baron Nashor.

In this unfavorable situation where the bot lane duo is engaged on first.

If they could save Baron Nashor, Ai Luoli's quick thinking and Rengar's rush into the jungle to find Taliyah would be considered a great achievement.

But if more people die, then the dragon will be lost.

Scout kept glancing at the minimap as he ran.

He's looking for Yasuo.

Yasuo has long since disappeared from the minimap, and we have no idea where he is.

Then, EDG's mid and jungle duo just turned a corner.

They ran right into Yasuo.

"Damn, he teleported behind me!" was Scout's first thought.

Scout then spotted Yasuo's longsword.

It's windy!

"Oh no! How can Yasuo have wind?" This was Scout's second thought.

They collided head-on, catching everyone off guard.

Without Flash, EDG's mid and jungle were both knocked up by Yasuo's Wind Walk.

Earlier, when chasing Taliyah, Rengar had taken a full combo from Taliyah, leaving him with less than half health.

The wind blew up Ryze and Rengar.

So Yasuo landed another EQ combo on Rengar, which allowed him to follow up with his ultimate at the last moment.

Then, after landing his ultimate, he used Q to maximize the damage and instantly took down Rengar.

Zhou Dian didn't bother chasing the remaining Ryze.

Ryze is a champion who is difficult to chase down without minions to provide mobility.

Killing the poodle is enough.

Zhou Dian, controlling Yasuo, headed straight for Baron Nashor.

On the other side, LGD's jungler, support, and bottom laner trio, who had chased down and killed the crocodile, were also heading towards Baron.

With Rengar dead, EDG is left with only their mid laner and support.

This dragon is already in LGD's hands.

But in the commentary booth.

The two commentators didn't mention taking down Baron Nashor; instead, they continued talking about Yasuo's kill on Rengar.

Actually, Yasuo killing Rengar just now was a basic Yasuo double-wind maneuver.

The commentary's focus was clearly not on this.

"Zhou Shen's flank was so ingenious!" Hao Kai said sincerely. "I never thought that Yasuo could achieve such a flank effect!"

"Yes!" Wang Duo nodded heavily, indicating his deep agreement.

He continued, "Yasuo will teleport to intercept Ryze and Rengar; Scout and Ailoli definitely anticipated that!"

"But what neither of them expected was why Yasuo was experiencing wind?"

(End of this chapter)