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Chapter 293 Human Cannon, Blasts Through SKT!

Most players who are considered very stable are not actually stable.

They simply couldn't assess the situation clearly.

In different situations, it's unclear whether something is truly safe.

So I opted for the safe, no-brainer approach.

This kind of stability, frankly speaking, is just getting by.

Players like Bang seize every opportunity to farm gold and develop their strength.

When there is danger, not a single soldier goes out to eat, giving the enemy no chance whatsoever.

This is true stability.

In comparison, Zhou Dian has never been a particularly consistent player.

He has always been a risk-taking development type.

This is why he develops faster than other top laners in the game.

Because he was literally risking his life to develop!

Back to the game.

After clearing a wave of minions in front of LGD's second turret, SKT's bot lane duo quickly retreated.

However, Eimy, who had already arrived in the lower half of the map, had some ideas about SKT's bot lane duo.

He originally planned to farm a Gromp first, waiting for his bot lane duo to arrive.

But to everyone's surprise, Varus and Zyra immediately withdrew.

He couldn't care less about farming the Gromp anymore and quickly maneuvered the Gragas downwards, passing through the red side's bottom lane tri-bush and arriving on the bottom lane, where he immediately encountered the SKT bottom lane duo.

However, the two SKT bot laners did not hug each other when they retreated.

Instead, they kept a great distance between each other.

The barrel suddenly appeared at this moment, and even if they wanted to keep someone, they could only choose one of Varus and Zyra.

This is the experience of SKT's championship-winning bot lane duo.

Details are always everywhere.

Eimy naturally chose to stay and kill Varus, who didn't have Flash.

Gragas raised his hand and threw a Bursting Gragas (R) at Varus's front.

Varus turned and moved, trying to dodge Gragas's ultimate attack.

However, he did not dodge it.

Dodging Gragas' ultimate with positioning isn't that easy.

Varus was blasted back a bit.

The original plan was for Gragas to use his E skill to hit Varus and get him blown away.

However, just as the barrel was about to unleash the flesh bomb (E).

However, he was trapped by Zyra's E skill and couldn't use his abilities.

After landing, Varus immediately continued walking forward.

Immediately, Gragas broke free from Zyra's E skill's restraint and rushed headlong into Varus.

However, Varus suddenly turned around and moved back.

That was a close call; he narrowly avoided Gragas's E skill.

It looked like the barrel's large belly was almost touching Varus's body.

But in the end, they didn't crash.

Once Gragas used his two hard crowd control abilities (ER), there was no way to stop Varus from escaping.

PYL's Braum was still quite far away when Gragas made his move.

I can't keep up right now either.

So Eimy could only watch helplessly as SKT's bot lane duo slipped away.

However, based on the principle that since we've already come all this way, we shouldn't leave empty-handed.

After Varus and Zyra escaped, Eimy first controlled Gragas to return to the jungle and kill Gromp.

Then they went straight to fight the little dragon.

This was the first dragon of the game, a wind dragon.

It was precisely because it was a wind dragon that no one was interested.

So when Huni's Rumble teleported down, after driving away LGD's bot lane duo, Peanut immediately recalled to base, too lazy to waste time fighting the dragon.

Based on the current attributes and mechanics of the dragon.

If the first little dragon is a wind dragon.

If a jungler has anything else to do, they won't choose to go for the Wind Dragon.

Eimy really had nothing to do at the moment, and couldn't just wander around aimlessly.

So we decided to fight the little dragon.

Just over ten minutes into the game, LGD secured the Wind Dragon.

Better than nothing!
After the Wind Dragon was destroyed, a green mark appeared on the inner wall of the Small Dragon Pit.

This means that the next dragon in this game will be a water dragon.

Water dragons are naturally more valuable than wind dragons.

Even when it comes to determining what kind of dragon is the first dragon in the game, the competition for it is the most valuable.

That's definitely a water dragon.

Having a Water Dragon during the laning phase will make the laning phase much more comfortable, as it restores health and mana.

However, this is on the premise that the water dragon is the first small dragon in a game.

This water dragon was born more than 15 minutes ago.

The laning phase is almost over.

At that point, it's likely that both sides will ignore this water dragon.

Anyone who has a spare moment can give it a try.

Meanwhile, on SKT's side...

After Varus and Zyra replenished their equipment and left the fountain, they continued to the bottom lane.

After SKT destroyed LGD's bottom lane tower, they did not choose to move the bot lane to the top lane.

SKT has thought this through very clearly as well.

Rumble is a champion who relies heavily on farming and items.

Although the gap in last hits was widening as Graves continued to grow.

But that's mainly because Graves gets so many last hits.

Rambo's physical development is not bad, by normal standards.

By staying in the top lane, Rumble can continue to farm safely and securely under the tower, allowing him to continue developing.

But once Rumble is moved to the bottom lane...

Because LGD's bottom lane doesn't have a tower.

The bottom lane minions can easily cross the river.

At that point, Rumble will either choose not to farm lanes, which will severely slow down his development.

Alternatively, you can choose to cross the river and farm some minions.

But doing so would make it easy to get caught.

It's a difficult choice.

Moreover, even if Varus and Zyra are moved to the top lane, it will be difficult to stop Graves's development.

Therefore, it's better not to change the line and just maintain the status quo.

This was a situation that Faker would normally be very happy to see.

Because he can continuously use his equipment advantage and blue buff advantage to relentlessly suppress the opponent's Orianna.

To maintain his current strategy, Faker's Jayce didn't even build Tear of the Goddess, instead using his resources to build Youmuu's Ghostblade first.

It's been ten minutes, and Jayce still hasn't gotten the Tear of the Goddess. It's really, really late.

It'll probably take Jayce over twenty minutes to get Manamune.

This is very disadvantageous for Jayce's poke in the mid-game.

The difference between having Manamune and not having Manamune is quite significant.

Originally, it was acceptable to not build up Tear of the Goddess first in order to suppress the burst damage bar.

However, now that Jayce has lost his blue buff, the problem of lacking mana without Tear of the Goddess has become apparent.

Moreover, the blue buff that Jayce lost appeared on Orianna.

This kind of long-range teleporting mage, when he has a blue buff, is virtually unstoppable in lane unless he intentionally throws it away.

With this shift in power, Jayce really couldn't do anything to Orianna.

Wei Shen finally stabilized his laning situation.

Therefore, it is now Faker who needs to change.

Jayce can't keep playing like this with Orianna, taking turns pushing waves of minions in the mid lane.

We need to get Jayce involved in the fight now, instead of just farming minions.

Therefore, it is necessary to change the pace of the game and allow players to move around instead of staying on one lane.

This will increase the probability of a fight breaking out and allow Jess to fully utilize his current strengths in combat.

We need to change the pace of the laning phase.

Naturally, the cable needs to be replaced.

Therefore, SKT's bot lane duo recalled to base after farming two waves of minions in the bot lane.

Then they headed towards the upper road.

Huni's Rumble has already returned to the fountain.

After purchasing the large mask, Rumble headed towards the bottom lane.

"Oh, SKT only chose to switch lanes at this time, maybe they're waiting for Rumble's items!" Miller said.

"Possibly!" Wawa nodded. "Rumble didn't have enough money to build a Liandry's Torment before, but now that he has it, it'll be safer for him to go bot lane!"

Rambo completed the Mask of Madness in just over 11 minutes, which is actually quite fast.

This is considered normal development.

But when I think about how there might be a nearly 1,000 gold difference between myself and Zhou Dian's Graves, I realize that there's already a significant economic gap between us.

Huni felt a wave of weakness wash over her.

Hit the road.

After seeing Huni's Rumble suddenly recall to base.

Zhou Dian knew that SKT's bot lane duo would soon appear in the top lane.

However, Zhou Dian still followed his usual strategy of quickly pushing the lane and into the tower.

After Graves auto-attacked SKT's top lane tower a few times,...

Upon seeing Varus and Zyra approaching from afar, Zhou Dian immediately controlled Graves to retreat.

Even though the two sides are still quite far apart.

But Graves doesn't need to be greedy and attack the tower a few more times.

As I said before, this defensive tower has always been here.

This money will be his sooner or later.

Not urgent!
If you get greedy and end up getting yourself into trouble, you'll lose a lot.

We might just give away the whole game.

Often, the outcome of a game can be decided in a single moment.

Zhou Dian's Graves retreated to the range of his own top tower and stood there, waiting for the minion wave to come.

the other side.

Varus and Zyra led the minion wave forward, quickly clearing the red minions from their own top tower before continuing to push forward with the blue minion wave.

In the middle of the top lane, Varus and Zyra cleared another wave of red minions and then pushed towards LGD's top tower with SKT's minions.

And Peanut's Green God has also come up.

The objective is clear: SKT intends to take down LGD's top lane turret.

However, LGD's top lane tower can be pushed, but not now.

As the minion wave reached the tower, Graves unleashed his Q and R skills.

Then, Zhou Dian immediately controlled the Graves to turn around and escape.

Behind them, the wave of blue team minions that had just arrived had already been wiped out by Graves' two abilities. SKT's bot lane, jungle, and support would have to wait for the next wave of minions to arrive before they could push the tower.

Zhou Dian's Graves didn't stray far either.

After unleashing his Q and R skills, Graves immediately went into his own red buff area and started fighting the Krugs.

On SKT's side, Peanut arrived in the top lane but was unable to immediately help his teammates push the tower.

While waiting for the next wave of minions to arrive, he simply controlled Ivern to enter LGD's red buff area, wanting to see if LGD's Krugs were still there.

As Green God walked to the Stone Beetle camp, he saw Graves kill the last two small Stone Beetles with a single shot.

Well, I didn't leave him a single one!

Peanut could only retreat to the top lane, waiting for the minions to arrive with his bot lane duo.

He dared not stray too far from his bot lane duo at this moment.

If something happens to Varus, it will be a huge disaster.

And in the bottom lane.

Similarly, Eimy arrived near SKT's bottom tower early on to help his bot lane duo push down SKT's bottom tower.

In this situation where towers are being traded on the side lanes, the jungler can't linger at home; they need to get to the lane as soon as possible to join up with the teammates pushing the tower.

This is a basic skill in the operation of professional competitions, and Eimy certainly possesses it.

However, just as Gragas passed through the blue side's bottom lane tri-bush, preparing to head to SKT's bottom lane to meet up with his own bottom lane duo...

Zhou Dian suddenly called out to Eimy.

"Let's go and take down the stone beetles on the other side first!" Zhou Dian said.

"what?"

Eimy didn't react for a moment, but still subconsciously did as instructed.

Just as the barrel was attacking SKT's Krugs.

The female police officer and Braum, along with a wave of minions, arrived at SKT's first tower and were about to enter it.

Suddenly, a line of fire descended from the sky and landed on LGD's minion wave.

Having already retreated from the vicinity of SKT's next tower, Rumble, who was standing in front of the self-isolating bush, unleashed his ultimate and collected this wave of minions.

Huni made the same choice as Zhou Dian, using his ultimate to clear a wave of minions first.

This slows down the enemy's push on your bottom lane tower.

The minion wave was cleared by Rumble's long-range ultimate, and imp and PYL had no choice but to wait for the next wave of minions to arrive.

With nothing else to do, Huni decided to brush his beetles.

When Rambo entered his own red zone from the entrance in front of the second tower.

At a glance, you can see Gragas' Q skill explode, wiping out a group of small stone beetles.

Not a single one was left for him!

As soon as Eimy saw Rambo, he immediately understood the true meaning behind Zhou Dian's words.

Huni isn't even on the same page as Brother Zhou anymore, so how can Brother Zhou still predict what Huni is going to do?

"Brother Zhou, how did you know Huni was going to fight the stone beetles?" Eimy asked curiously.

“If you were top lane, you would also go farm the Krugs!” Zhou Dian immediately said.

“Uh, I don’t think I’ll go!” Eimy added.

"It's right not to go!"

Eimy was still pondering why "not going was the right thing to do."

Then Zhou Dian continued, "Otherwise, why do you think an idiot can defeat a master? It's because the master can't guess what the idiot is thinking!"

"Damn it, you're insulting me, aren't you! Don't eat my monsters!"

Ten seconds later, both sides received their respective minion waves.

Immediately afterwards, LGD's top lane tower and SKT's bottom lane tower fell almost simultaneously.

After taking down SKT's bottom lane tower, LGD's bottom lane duo chose to recall immediately.

Meanwhile, SKT's jungler, support, and bottom laner continued to advance with the minion wave, attempting to push down LGD's second top lane tower.

But it's not that easy.

Varus had only attacked the tower a few times when GodV's Orianna arrived in the top lane to help Graves defend the tower.

Upon seeing Orianna arrive, the three SKT players decisively retreated, no longer lingering in the top lane.

After Clockwork leaves the mid lane.

Jayce pushed the mid-lane minion wave to the tower, and after only two hits on the tower, Gragas appeared in the mid-lane and used his ultimate to blast Jayce away, preserving the health of his own first tower.

After all, this is the most important outer tower.

Similarly, in the top lane, Zhou Dian immediately chose to return to base.

After returning to base, Graves headed straight to the bottom lane to clear the minion wave that Rumble was pushing.

Meanwhile, LGD's bot lane duo, having acquired more control wards, were already close to their own mid-lane tower.

LGD's five-man lane rotation demonstrated their solid operational fundamentals.

In this era with Sightstone and Green Jungle Item, the map is full of wards.

No matter how good a team's skills are, they can't succeed by just brute force.

After each side took down an outer tower on their respective flanks, the game entered another long period of development.

Actually, SKT always wanted to find an opportunity to fight, but LGD was too slippery, and they couldn't find an opportunity.

SKT isn't the kind of team that recklessly charges in without thinking; they'll push forward even when there's no opportunity.

So the game froze, with both sides focusing on their own development.

The economies of both sides have always been very closely intertwined.

In terms of overall economy, SKT has always been in the lead, but the lead has never exceeded one thousand dollars.

At 16 minutes and 30 seconds into the game, SKT secured the Water Dragon.

LGD did not participate in the bidding and gave it away directly.

The next dragon is a wind dragon, which isn't very useful, so LGD is prepared to give it to them again.

Right now, all LGD players are focused on farming and leveling up.

At 18 minutes into the game, SKT couldn't hold back any longer and launched a mid-lane offensive.

During the tug-of-war between the two sides in the middle lane.

Faker bypassed Braum, found an angle, and fired two consecutive shots, accurately hitting Caitlyn and Orianna. Varus was also hit by two Q skills.

After a successful poke, SKT finally managed to push the minion wave into LGD's mid-lane tower.

However, just as SKT was about to take down the tower, a cannonball suddenly flew out from the nearby jungle.

It was Graves' ultimate ability – Final Bomb.

The cannonball exploded, instantly wiping out all the backline troops under the tower.

The front-line soldiers were also badly damaged by the bomb, and the policewoman flew over from afar with a skill and took them all out.

Meanwhile, Graves' ultimate also hit Varus and Ivern.

The Green Goddess fared alright; she cast Redemption, which restored some of her health.

In addition, Ivern shielded himself in time, so the amount of health he lost after being hit by Graves was not too much and was still within an acceptable range.

However, Varus was hit by Graves' ultimate, losing almost half of his health in one hit.

This time, it hurts much more than Jess's current pain from a single shot.

Bang immediately realized that something was wrong with Graves' development!

After retreating from near LGD's first tower to a safe area, Bang quickly pressed the tab key to take a look.

The Graves already had Youmuu's Ghostblade and Black Cleaver, plus two more Long Swords.

A Graves with a 0-0-0 score, and this item at 18 minutes?

Moreover, its level is as high as 13.

No wonder the damage was so severe.

Bang figured that Graves was now going to fight his own support Zyra, who was only level 7.

I reckon two shots would be enough to take him down, no need to reload.

However, what Bang didn't know was that Graves was more than that.

The Graves still had some extra money on him, and he wasn't just at level 13; he was already halfway to level 13, not far from level 14.

But whether or not he knew these specific details, it didn't stop Bang from conveying his "anxiety" about Graves to his teammates.

Soon, everyone at SKT realized something.

This Graves, who has 220 CS in 18 minutes, is about to become a "wild horse," completely out of control.

Why is he so good at spending money?!

In a match with very few headshots, comparable to a football game with a high number of goals.

Zhou Dian's Graves relied solely on farming gold to quickly establish an equipment gap with other players.

With SKT's lineup, there are so many squishy champions.

In a little while, the Graves might be able to take them down one by one.

Because SKT's squishy damage-dealing heroes need to build tank items at least in the late game.

However, given Graves's incredible development speed...

Its damage output is absolutely sufficient to completely destroy SKT before their carries can build tank items.

Therefore, SKT now only has one option.

That means gritting your teeth, sticking together, and pushing forward to speed up the game's pace.

Because in terms of overall lineup comparison, SKT's lineup has an advantage in the mid-game.

After several waves of poke damage in the mid lane, they grouped up and pushed forward.

Finally, at just over 24 minutes into the game, SKT managed to whittle down LGD's mid-lane tower.

On SKT's side, with Ivern, everyone can play poke.

Even Rumble can use his ultimate to wear down opponents.

The Ivern, who can't poke with his movement ability, is actually the most annoying.

A row of bushes was planted in front of the LGD tower, and then Jayce and Varus threw their skills inside.

You never know which direction a skill will suddenly fly from, making you more likely to get hit by it.

If LGD hadn't also had plenty of AOE skills, they wouldn't have been able to hold onto that mid-lane tower for so long.

Even so, LGD's first mid-lane tower was still destroyed.

Of course, Zhou Dian also bears some responsibility in this matter.

Like in this play, his Graves didn't participate in defending the tower at all; he went straight to the bottom lane to farm.

Zhou Dian felt that even if he were there, he couldn't hold the middle tower this time. At most, he could hold out for a little longer, which was meaningless. It would be better to seize the time to farm more money.

On LGD's side, during the defense of the mid tower, the jungler and support were severely weakened and had to return to base to replenish their supplies.

Therefore, after LGD's first tower fell, Wolf immediately commanded: "Push the second tower, push the second tower, Graves doesn't have teleport!"

Wolf remembered perfectly well that Graves' teleport was ready to be used.

However, just as the SKT team was closing in on LGD's second tower, Zhou Dian's Graves quietly left the bottom lane, entered his own blue buff area, and headed towards the mid lane.

I've already given you the first mid-lane tower, and you still want my second mid-lane tower? That's really going too far!
SKT members arrived in front of LGD's second mid tower, and Xiaoju was the first to be thrown into the tower by Ivern.

Since Gragas and Braum hadn't arrived yet, Imp and We1less didn't dare to get close and could only stand behind the second tower.

Meanwhile, Zhou Dian's Graves had already reached behind his own wolves, hiding by the wall to block vision. If he took another step forward, he would be spotted by SKT.

It was at this moment that Peanut's Ivern, after his teammates started attacking the tower, walked towards LGD's blue buff area on the right, obviously wanting to provide vision on the side.

Because they also discovered that Graves was no longer in the bot lane.

Zhou Dian's eyes lit up when he saw the Jade God approaching.

The opportunity is coming!

When Ivern entered LGD's blue buff area, Zhou Dian's Graves emerged from the jungle at the same moment and stepped onto the mid lane.

The two players passed each other at the narrow entrance to the blue buff area below and to the right of LGD's second mid tower.

At that moment, Peanut's first thought was, "What does he want to do all by himself?"

This question troubled Peanut for less than half a second.

In that half-second, Zhou Dian had already done everything he wanted to do.

Graves, who had just passed Ivern, used his E and Flash to instantly appear in front of Varus in the crowd.

Raising his gun, a shotgun blast landed on Varus, while his ultimate ability, Final Bomb, also erupted from the gun.

Another flash of yellow light appeared.

Varus, who was almost at full health, was instantly killed after taking a hit from Graves' AR!
He even used a death flash!

(End of this chapter)