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Chapter 262: Zhou Dian's ominous premonition: He aggressively targets Faker at the start of the game!

SKT's confidence is certainly justified.

After acquiring their best lineup.

From the very beginning, they started putting pressure on LGD.

Although there was no instance of them grouping up to invade the jungle at the start of the game.

However, 1 minute and 10 seconds later, SKT's Galio and Lee Sin went into LGD's jungle one after another, placed their trinket wards, and then ran away.

For the champion Ivern, planning the first wave of jungle monsters to clear is extremely important.

However, SKT completely mastered the jungle farming, or rather, the "farming" route in the early stages of this game.

Clearly, SKT has done in-depth research on LGD's Ivern jungle strategy.

Actually, it was already during the semi-finals the day before yesterday.

In the first game of LGD vs. Flash Wolves, when Eimy picked Ivern.

They had already suffered losses in the early stages.

It's clear that Flash Wolves have already figured out most of LGD's Ivern playstyle.

But in that game, Flash Wolves' bot lane gave them an opportunity.

LGD's bot lane secured a kill, coupled with Eimy's gank on the bot lane.

They immediately turned the tide of the game and reversed their disadvantage in the jungle.

However, SKT's bot lane duo is far superior to Flash Wolves' bot lane.

They will never easily give their opponents any opportunity or any weakness.

Or rather, based on the overall tactical awareness of the SKT team.

The other players on their respective lanes also rarely make mistakes that give them opportunities.

In this regard, the only one who might mess things up is Huni.

Huni had previously been playing in the European and North American regions.

They've just been used to being carefree and undisciplined.

Even though he had already played for SKT for the entire Spring Split.

However, in terms of discipline, they haven't fully adjusted to the same level as the rest of SKT.

However, Huni was playing Galio in this game.

This is a hero who doesn't give opponents many opportunities.

In other words, Galio is a hero with a very high margin for error.

Back to the game.

Actually, LGD was playing quite smoothly at the beginning of the game.

The game lasts 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

Eimy's Ivern cleared his own jungle and reached level four.

He went straight back to town and made Boots of Speed.

They've started taking unconventional approaches.

After acquiring Boots of Speed, Ivern emerged from the fountain and headed straight for the mid lane.

Actually, SKT knew the approximate time when Ivern would recall.

Therefore, Faker wanted to take advantage of the time when Ivern was recalling to base, when he was no longer threatened by ganks, and push the mid lane minion wave to LGD's mid tower before recalling.

The Cassiopeia started pushing the mid lane minions aggressively.

The game lasts 4 minute and 50 seconds.

Middle road.

The Cassiopeia, leading SKT's minion wave, has already reached LGD's mid-lane tower.

We can push the minion wave to the tower immediately.

Normally.

If at this time, the Jade Goddess did not make shoes, or rather, only bought straw sandals worth three hundred coins.

At this point in time, the Green God should have only recently descended from the high ground, and at most reached the middle two towers.

The Cassiopeia had ample time to calmly push the mid-lane minion wave into LGD's mid-lane tower.

However, Faker did not expect this.

Eimy surprisingly bought Boots of Speed ​​immediately after his first recall.

This happened a little too fast.

Ivern has already detoured through the jungle and is heading into the upper river.

They saw that their jungler was almost in position.

Wei Shen decisively controlled the Rock Spear (W) to make a move.

This rockfall was released in a rather tricky spot.

Even though Faker tried his best to position himself.

However, the fact that the Snake Woman cannot buy shoes, and her low movement speed in the early game, has a real impact at this moment.

The snake woman was just a hair's breadth away from escaping the coverage of the rock protrusion.

However, they ultimately failed to get out of it.

It was lifted back at the edge by the rock spout (W) of the rock spout.

Immediately afterwards, Eimy's Ivern emerged from the river grass on the left side of the mid lane.

After being lifted up by Taliyah's W skill.

The snake woman was too far away from her own defensive tower.

Even with LGD's mid and jungle players, Taliyah and Ivern, having no damage items at the moment, they really weren't dealing much damage.

But Emerald is very clingy!
Not to mention the red buff on the Green God, which hasn't expired yet.

It also has the added slowing effect of a red buff.

The snake woman's escape route was such a long one.

Taliyah and Vermilion chased after A and managed to kill the Medusa.

LGD's mid and jungle duo chased their leader for a while, until the Cassiopeia had a sliver of health left and used Flash to return to her own base under the first tower.

Taliyah flashed and followed up with a Q skill, finishing off Cassiopeia's last bit of health.

Actually, Taliyah's mana after Flash was just enough to cast her Q skill.

There was an element of luck involved in this.

Of course, if Taliyah doesn't have mana to use her Q.

Ivern immediately used Flash to follow up and deal additional damage, which would have killed the Cassiopeia.

However, this would require Ivern to use one more Flash.

The Cassiopeia was killed, and Taliyah got the kill.

First Blood!
The game notification sound of "First Blood" echoed throughout the entire arena.

In the commentary box.

"Flash Q, Faker must be dead!"

"Taliyah got First Blood, great!" Miller's voice suddenly became louder.

"Wow, Eimy rushed five-speed boots and ambushed Faker in the mid lane, catching him completely off guard!" Wawa exclaimed.

“Yes!” Rita nodded. “Faker probably never expected Ivern to suddenly appear in the mid lane at this moment!”

“However, Taliyah’s lift is also very important!” Miller chimed in.
"If Wei Shen hadn't managed to lift her up, none of this would have happened!"

At this moment, in the official LPL live broadcast room.

The screen was also filled with comments like "666".

In the LGD team voice chat.

The same chorus of "Nice!" and "Awesome!" echoed throughout the room.

In the first game of the finals, he secured the first blood against Faker at the start.

Although a single "first blood" is far from determining the outcome of a game.

But at least this is a good sign, a good start!
After all, the name of the opposing team is SKT.

The player who secured the first blood for LGD has the ID Faker. Therefore, it's understandable that the LGD players were a bit excited at that moment.

Of course, they quickly calmed down.

This game is far from over!
After replaying LGD's gank on Faker in the mid lane.

The image on the large screen at the scene was restored to a live feed.

The OB camera immediately switched to the top lane.

Then we saw Rumble and Galio giving him a good beating.

They then pushed the top lane minions into SKT's top tower.

They retreated to the bushes near the city to return to base.

At five and a half minutes into the game, Rumble had already dealt fifteen hits to Galio.

To be fair, at this point in time, the difference in last-hitting is significant.

It's quite big.

Huni was under a lot of pressure.

But Zhou Dian personally felt it wasn't enough.

That's not enough pressure!

But he had already done his best to suppress it.

This is already the limit for the hero Rumble.

This is the Lamborghini of today.

Their laning ability is quite strong.

But it's only considered relatively strong.

This is not the Rumble that was later reworked and jokingly referred to by players as the "Red-Hot Sword Saint".

The online suppression is far from reaching that level.

Add to that the recently reworked Galio, and laning against AP champions is really frustrating.

Being able to out-smash Galio by a dozen or so hits is already the limit.

If someone else were to play Rumble, they could at most out-score Galio by a few hits.

Of course, Zhou Dian can suppress so many attacks.

Huni's personal factors also played a role.

Huni is used to being a core player in both the European and North American regions.

His skill in playing tank top lane and withstanding pressure is far from top-tier.

Huni has a high win rate when playing Galio in the top lane.

It's simply because this hero is currently strong, and the SKT team is also strong.

It's not that Huni is particularly good at it.

to be honest.

Let's get a tanky, high-performing top laner.

Galio versus Rumble.

In just a few minutes, Zhou Dian really couldn't suppress those dozen or so last hits.

However, even though it has been suppressed to the limit.

However, Zhou Dian was still not entirely satisfied with the current state of affairs on the top lane.

He always had a feeling that the game might not go well.

This premonition made Zhou Dian eager to take down Huni online.

However, Rumble simply can't do that against Galio!
Therefore, Zhou Dian thought that if Huni picked Galio again in the next game, he would definitely pick Vayne as his top laner.

Galio, who's just been reworked and is incredibly annoying right now.

It really is only Vayne and Fiora who can cure it.

Of course, Zhou Dian doesn't think SKT will give him the chance to play Fiora.

That is, when Zhou Dian was preoccupied with how to cripple Huni and wanted to establish a significant advantage in the top lane as soon as possible.

Their mid and jungle ganked and killed Faker, securing first blood on Cassiopeia.

This first blood also calmed down some of the more eager thoughts.

It seems like there's no need to rush when we hit the road!

We should proceed steadily and gradually.

After all, Rumble is a champion that can't be easily killed!
"I hope my ominous premonition is wrong!" Zhou Dian thought to himself.

The game lasted a little over 6 minutes.

Both mid laners had already returned to their lanes from their bases.

At this moment, the mid-lane minion wave is in the middle position.

Neither of the mid laners made any moves, simply focusing on farming minions.

However, after Eimy's Ivern secured the first blood against Faker, he returned to his own jungle to farm a small amount of jungle camps.

Now we've returned to the upper river channel.

The Emerald God crossed the upper river and entered SKT's red zone through the narrow passage between the red zone and the upper river.

Next, Emerald God followed the narrow passage under the red F6 and went forward.

It's obvious that Ivern is going to gank mid lane again.

Seeing this, Miller lowered his voice and said:
"Hey hey hey, Ivern is at it again!"

It was as if he was afraid that if he spoke too loudly, Faker would hear him.

They've completely immersed themselves in the game, providing an immersive commentary.

On the large screen at the scene.

Ivern walked through the passageway next to the red side's F6 tower and suddenly appeared in front of SKT's mid tower.

He appeared behind the snake woman.

However, although Emerald successfully bypassed the enemy's defenses.

But when Ivern appeared in SKT's field of vision, Faker spotted him.

There's still some distance to the snake woman.

If the snake woman runs directly down into the river at this point, she has a good chance of escaping.

And that's exactly what Faker did.

The moment he saw the Emerald God appear behind him.

Faker immediately controlled Cassiopeia to run towards the lower right side of the river.

However, Eimy was incredibly decisive.

The shield from the E skill was directly transferred to Ivern himself.

Then, a flash of yellow light appeared.

The Emerald God appeared not far behind the Serpent Woman.

The shield of "Sowing Melons and Reaping Beans (E)" exploded, hitting the Cassiopeia within its maximum range.

While dealing damage, it also slows down the snake woman.

Then, Emerald unleashed Deeprooted (Q) on the Serpent Woman.
A bundle of thorns flew from the Green Goddess's hand, heading towards the Snake Woman.

At close range, the Cassiopeia, slowed by nearly half, had no Flash and couldn't dodge Ivern's Q skill at all.

The Cassiopeia was hit by Ivern's Q skill and was immediately rooted to the spot.

Then, the Rock Sparrow connects with Rock Spike (W).

Taliyah has already gone home and bought some items.

This time, Taliyah's entire skill combo deals much more damage.

The Cassiopeia was hit by all of LGD's mid and jungle abilities and was quickly killed.

Taliyah got the kill again!

(End of this chapter)