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Chapter 207, 957: "A sudden inspiration" brings Zhou Dian an unexpected surprise!

To put it bluntly, Zhou Dian didn't treat this immortal barrel as a human being.

It's not that we don't consider player 957 a human being.

If 957 plays an AP Gragas, then Zhou Dian will naturally make corresponding adjustments and choose to bring a Doran's Blade at the start.

At 1 minute and 40 seconds into the game, the buff monsters spawn.

Both junglers chose to start with buff monsters in this game, instead of starting with F6 or similar monsters.

Furthermore, both Lee Sin and Elise chose to start their jungle camps in the top half of the map.

Lee Sin started with blue buff in this game.

Spider started with the red buff in this game.

Both Condi and Eimy chose to farm the jungle from top to bottom in this game.

Both junglers focused their efforts on the bottom lane.

This is also normal.

The two mid laners are Vladimir and Orianna, two farming mages; let them farm each other.

As for getting on the road.

In this game, 957 played Gragas. This champion has passive healing and his Q skill allows him to farm minions from a distance, making him incredibly resilient.

For Condi, it's best to let Gragas handle the pressure on the top lane.

The main issue is that the profit margin for a pure meat-focused wine barrel is low.

Zhou Dian was already a very difficult person to catch.

Even if you go to great lengths to help him kill Vayne, the Gragas still can't beat Vayne!
There's no need to waste time on the road.

Of course, if he happens to be on the road and has the opportunity, Condi would certainly not mind making a gank and giving it a try.

Eimy shares the same view on the top lane.

waste time.

It's also because WE's top laner was a Gragas in this game.

With good crowd control and a damage reduction effect from his W skill, he's not so easy to tower dive.

Why not just let Zhou Dian's Vayne farm alone in the top lane?

On the other hand, both teams' bot lane duos are combinations that can reap extremely high benefits when assisted by their junglers.

Therefore, Condi and Eimy both chose to start their jungle in the top half of the map in this game.

Both top laners were helping their junglers clear the jungle.

For Zhou Dian, helping Spider clear the jungle naturally means that his Vayne cannot cross the minion wave to suppress Gragas during the first wave of minions, causing Gragas to miss experience.

However, it doesn't matter. Vayne is not much worse off than having a slight experience advantage from two minions.

Because of Vayne's tanky playstyle against Gragas, Zhou Dian was confident that he had the advantage no matter how he played.

Moreover, Vayne, when paired with the right team composition, has the right items, and is played well, can carry the game.

On WE's side, after helping Lee Sin auto-attack the blue buff several times.

957 maneuvered the barrel towards the top of the path.

He chose to walk along the river.

Instead of going up the triangular grass first and then following it to the top lane, you should go up the top lane first.

Because 957 felt that Vayne was very likely already camping in the bush in front of WE's top turret at this time.

According to 957.

With Zhou Dian's laning style of relentlessly pressuring his opponent whenever he gets the chance.

In this game where we're playing a long-range character against a short-range character, how could we not try to take the first bush in the lane and pressure the enemy at level one?
Therefore, 957 was hesitant to follow the path to go online.

Since we helped the jungler get the blue buff, we might as well go up to lane from the river.

957 decided to let the barrel sit in the grass in the upper river for a while.

By crouching at the very edge of the top lane river bush, you can collect experience from the minions that die in the middle of the top lane.

There's actually nothing wrong with the idea of ​​957.

Both the predictions about Zhou Dian's Vayne's opening moves and Gragas's response were correct.

However, plans can never keep up with changes.

If Zhou Dian didn't help Eimy's Spider clear the jungle, he was indeed planning to seize the lane bushes in front of WE's top tower early on, preventing Gragas from getting experience from the first wave of minions.

Unfortunately, Eimy was going to start with the red buff in the top half of the map, so I called him over to help with the jungle monsters.

Zhou Dian naturally gave up his plan to contest the bushes on the lane.

After Vayne landed a few auto-attacks on the red buff for Spider, she headed towards the top lane.

Having just passed the triangular bush on the red side's top lane and arrived at the river, Zhou Dian saw the wine barrels that were also in the river.

The barrel was about to disappear into the grass along the upper river.

Wow, there's an unexpected surprise!

They can even catch barrels like that!

As the saying goes, meeting is fate.

Now that we've run into each other, there's no reason for you to let the Gragas pass through here and return to the lane.

So Vayne chased after the barrel.

957 is currently standing on the edge of the river grass on the top lane; he could easily step into the grass.

If he were playing a level 1 hero with combat power, he would definitely choose to immediately enter the bushes.

If Vayne chooses to face-check the bushes, she'll definitely get beaten up.

If Vayne places a ward in the bush, then it won't be too late for him to leave.

For top laners, the ward trinket they have is very important at the beginning of the laning phase.

It's mainly used to prevent ganks, and there's a specific time and place to insert it.

This can be considered a waste of Vayne's trinket ward, but at least there's some gain.

But 957 played a game where he was playing a barrel.

A level 1 barrel deals absolutely no damage.

If he dares to go into the bush immediately, Vayne can face-check the bush without wasting her only ward.

Seeing that Vayne was closing in, 957 had no choice but to swallow his anger and control Gragas to walk back, preparing to circle around his own tri-bush to rejoin the fight.

At the same time, he said, "The spider is red!"

957 is truly a team player; even at a time like this, he doesn't forget to immediately report the enemy jungler's information to his own jungler.

“OK, got it!” Condi nodded.

It already took some time for Gragas to help Lee Sin clear the jungle. Then, walking halfway down the river took a few more seconds.

If you turn back and take a detour at this point, you'll waste a lot of time.

Even though the minions on the top lane meet much later than the jungle monsters spawn.

By the time the Gragas were actually released, the experience gained from the front-line minions had already been missed.

For Zhou Dian, this is truly getting the best of both worlds!
He both helped his own spider get the red buff and forced the Gragas to miss out on experience.

The barrels of wine actually came to Zhou Dian's doorstep, something he never expected.

All I can say is that 957's cleverness backfired!
Once both top laners were online, there wasn't much more to the story.

The top lane has entered a standard rhythm of long-range versus short-range combat.

One applies pressure, the other resists it.

How much pressure can the oppressor exert?
How long can the player on the defensive hold out, and how many last hits can they get?

It all depends on the individual skills of the top laners on both sides.

But overall, there definitely won't be a surge of kills in the top lane in the short term.

Forget about a kill count, there probably won't even be a bloody battle.

Therefore, the early game tempo changes in this match can only be dictated by the junglers on both sides.

Eimy's Spider, after clearing the red buff and reaching level two, ignored the F6 camp and headed straight for the lower jungle to farm the wolves.

It seems they're planning a quick third time.

On the other side, Condi's Lee Sin, after taking down the blue buff and leveling up to level two, also started attacking the three wolves.

It's clear that Condi is also planning to take the double buff and three wolves jungle route to quickly reach level three.

However, Eimy's spider was fighting the three wolves.

It's pulling jungle monsters to the left, which is closer to the mid lane.

Clearly, Eimy didn't plan to go for the blue buff after finishing off the three wolves.

If he were to continue attacking the blue buff, the spider would definitely pull the jungle camps towards the lower right, closer to the blue buff, while attacking the wolves.

Sure enough, after defeating the three wolves, the spider went straight down and arrived at the lower half of the river.

"Hey, is Eimy going to counter Lee Sin?" Miller immediately noticed the spider's movements.

"They should be counter-jungling. Both are level two, Elise has red buff, but Lee Sin doesn't. Lee Sin shouldn't be a match for Elise!" Remember added.

Besides the reason mentioned earlier about the red buff, what supported Eimy's decision to counter-jungle was...

There is another reason.

That was LGD's bot lane duo, who had already secured absolute lane control.

The EZ-Karma combination is extremely strong at level one.

Fight a Lulu with average combat power in the early stages.

After EZ Karma was released, a few Q skills were enough to force Kog'Maw and Lulu back to their tower.

Condi, seeing his bot lane being completely pressured from level one, also took note.

After Lee Sin cleared the wolves, he went to the lower jungle.

First, I went to the open area behind the red buff, near the narrow entrance to the river, and placed the trinket I was wearing.

Then the Lee Sin threw his Q skill into the red buff camp.

Then, he used his second Q to pass through the wall and attack the red buff.

The Lee Sin had just used his second Q to jump over the wall when he spotted the Spider.

The spider crossed the river and has entered WE's red zone.

Spider walked down the wall of the red buff camp, heading to steal Lee Sin's red buff head-on.

Meanwhile, PYL's Karma had already passed through WE's bottom lane tri-bush and was heading towards the red buff.

Imp's Ezreal was left in front of WE's first tower, where he could take on two opponents at once.

However, at this moment, the eye Condi had left a few seconds earlier played a crucial role.

Seeing that the spider was spiraling downwards, Condi quickly controlled Lee Sin to pull the red buff upwards.

This bought him a little more time, allowing him to land a few more hits on the red buff.

When the spider circled three-quarters of the way around the red buff camp and finally arrived in front of the red buff, the red buff only had 700 health points left.

With this much health, you can already fight with Smite.

If it weren't for that trinket ward seeing the spider, and Lee Sin hadn't pulled the red buff up, the spider would have reached him a few seconds earlier, and the spider could have attacked Lee Sin directly.

With Karma following behind the Spider, the Lee Sin has no chance to fight back.

Then Lee Sin's red buff will be gone.

But now, Condi at least still has a chance to use Smite to take down the red buff.

With Q-Smite-Q, Lee Sin instantly killed the red buff.

"Hey, one Q Smite, the Spider didn't get it, Condi got the red buff!" Miller shouted.

Lee Sin's kill threshold was a bit high this time. Eimy's Elise only managed to bite the red buff with her Q skill and didn't have time to use Smite.

After taking the red buff, Lee Sin leveled up to level three.

However, even though the Blind Monk had reached level three, he didn't dare to attack the level two Spider in front of him.

Because Karma has already arrived.

Condi also used Lee Sin to escape directly from the bushes.

Because the spider was fighting the red buff with the blind monk, it had just transformed into spider form and couldn't revert to human form for a short time, so it couldn't catch the blind monk at all.

Of course, even if the spider could transform back into human form at this point, it wouldn't be able to catch the blind monk.

Because a level 2 spider hasn't learned the skill "Cocoon (Human Form E)" at all.

"It's a pity that the Spider didn't manage to steal the red buff. Otherwise, once the Spider reached level three, it might have been able to force out Lee Sin's Flash!" Remember said.

Killing Lee Sin was impossible, because WE's support Lulu finally arrived.

Therefore, Eimy and PYL decisively withdrew from WE's red zone.

There's no need to waste time in there; you're clearly not going to get anywhere with it!

Karma knocked down the Blast Cone above the Dragon Pit and bounced into the Dragon Pit.

Then head down the path.

The spider went straight back to its own blue buff area and started farming its own blue buff.

Let's upgrade to level three first.

(End of this chapter)