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Chapter 316 Wei Shen's Complete Transformation of Game Thinking

The hero Excavator has a movement skill called Dig a Tunnel, which allows him to move a very long distance.

This makes excavators extremely effective at ganking by bypassing vision lines.

With his jungler absent, Zhou Dian dared not take any risks and could only control Kennen to move back a little to a safer position.

To be honest, moving back at this point to allow Gragas to comfortably farm minions is secondary.

The main issue is that the minion wave is a bit difficult for Kennen.

But compared to being ganked and killed or forced to use Flash, it's not so bad. There's not much pressure laning against Gragas anyway.

At this moment, on the large screen at the scene, from the OB camera's God's-eye view.

After Karin's excavator finished clearing the Gromp at his base, he went to the blue team's top lane tri-bush, stayed there for about seven or eight seconds, and then pressed the B key to recall.

Seeing this, PDD said, "Zhou Shen played so steadily this time. He retreated as soon as the Kha'Zix recalled, otherwise he might have been ganked by the Excavator."

“Yes!” Ji De nodded. “Everyone probably knows that Zhou Shen plays aggressively in lane, but his awareness of avoiding ganks is also absolutely top-notch.”

"That's definitely top-tier. They play so aggressively in lane, pushing the lane relentlessly. If they weren't good at anti-gank awareness, they would have been ganked to a pulp long ago!" PDD added.

"However, Zhou Shen is a little upset about the top lane minion wave in this game. I feel that Eimy should have waited for Kennen to push the top lane before returning. But he is probably afraid that Rek'Sai will invade his bottom half of the map."

Back to the game.

After both junglers returned to base, they upgraded their jungle items and bought a control ward.

Eimy's mantis went straight for its own swamp frog, while the excavator went straight for its own stone beetle.

At this moment, the minion wave in the middle lane was pushed to LGD's mid-lane tower by Ggoong's Taliyah.

Then, Taliyah chose to return to town to resupply.

Just as Taliyah steadily bought a Magic Resistance Cloak and headed back to the lane...

After clearing the minions under the tower, Wei Shen's LeBlanc ran out of mana, so she also chose to return to base to replenish her mana.

After resupplying, Wei Shen looked towards the middle lane.

Since it wouldn't result in a significant loss of lane position, Wei Shen opted to have LeBlanc walk to lane, saving him the cost of a teleport.

However, this has somewhat affected their own jungler.

During the first recall of the jungler, Kha'Zix returned to base before Rek'Sai.

Eimy definitely wants this censored version.

After the mantis finished defeating the swamp frog, the excavator hadn't finished defeating the stone beetle.

But just as Eimy was about to control the Mantis to go into the river to kill the river crab.

Taliyah, who returned to base first and went online first, immediately left the mid lane and dove into the river.

Eimy glanced at the minimap and saw that his mid-lane LeBlanc was still on her way back to lane. Oh well, they couldn't get the Rift Scuttler this time!
Taliyah helped Excavator secure the River Crab, allowing Excavator to start with two River Crabs this game.

Zhou Dian switched screens, glanced at the screen, and knew that LGD might not have a very comfortable early game.

At this moment, backstage at the venue, in the LGD team's rest room.

Dgc frowned.

This DAN team seems to have some talent.

He said he had studied the DAN team, but it was just a casual remark. He had only watched a few of DAN's match recordings and hadn't done any in-depth research.

But White Crescent seems to have done a really thorough study of our LGD team!
In the first round of group matches, DAN managed to achieve a record of four wins and one loss in Group A, which shows they really have something special!
So far in this game, not only has there been no kills, but there hasn't even been any skirmishes.

But LGD as a whole is starting to have a tough time now.

Eimy didn't push the lane to protect Zhou Dian; instead, he went back to base to contest the Rift Scuttler, which wasn't inherently wrong.

Because Zhou Dian's Kennen has no problem laning against Gragas, even if the minion wave is blocked, he won't be in trouble for too long. And Kha'Zix did indeed get ahead of Rek'Sai.

The problem mainly lies in the middle lane.

Taliyah got the recall timing before LeBlanc, which means that at least in the first few minutes of the mid lane matchup, Wei Shen was not as good as his opponent Ggoong.

Actually, things were fine up to this point, but when Wei Shen saw that the mid lane wouldn't lose lane, he decided to save the TP, which seemed a bit inappropriate.

Excavator is a jungler with strong map control capabilities, and now with a double river crab start, the threat to the mid lane is greatly increased. Even with this TP, it will be difficult for GodV to suppress Taliyah.

Once Taliyah reaches level 6, she can then extend her influence to both side lanes.

Wei Shen's decision to save on teleportation caused everyone on LGD to play hesitantly before using Taliyah's first ultimate.

"It seems that Wei Shen has really completely transformed!" Dgc thought to himself.

Before Zhou Dian joined LGD, Wei Shen always prioritized his own development during the game, so he must have used that teleport to go online long ago.

Now Wei Shen has truly become a team-oriented mid-laner; he no longer needs to teleport back and forth to lane.

However, game decisions are generally neither absolutely good nor bad.

Ultimately, it comes down to the benefits gained from the decision.

At this moment, LGD needs a change in rhythm to disrupt DAN's current smooth game flow.

Perhaps the teleportation that Wei Shen saved will play a crucial role in the next few minutes.

However, it's also possible that LeBlanc won't use her teleport for the next five minutes, which would be a waste of her time; it would be better to use it sooner to reduce its cooldown.

The two wards, Taliyah and Excavator, blocked the entire lower river channel.

It seems that DAN's main focus in this game was LGD's bottom lane.

Kennen can be countered by Gragas alone in team fights. LeBlanc is not good in team fights. If you take down LGD's bot lane, DAN will have a good chance of winning this game.

This was what White Crescent explained to the team members after the draft phase.

The idea is very clear.

While the excavator was in the bottom half of the map, Zhou Dian's Kennen regained lane control in the top lane.

Moyu's Gragas on the other side is all about one word – stability!

He had no desire or ambition in the laning phase, no intention of making any plays, and his only goal was to get more last hits.

It didn't matter, Zhou Dian had anticipated this situation, so he directly extracted items at the start of the game.

He can squeeze out several hundred more gold just by focusing on development.

At 5 minutes and 20 seconds into the game, the Gragas, whose health was already low, was caught off guard by Zhou Dian while trying to finish off a siege minion.

Kennen uses his passive auto-attack to hit Gragas with his ultimate Chidori (Q), followed by his ultimate Statikk Shiv (W).

Kennen's passive mark on Gragas reached three stacks, triggering Kennen's passive and stunning Gragas for 1.25 seconds.

Kennen followed up with two basic attacks, reducing Gragas's health to one-third.

The barrel quickly retreated back to the tower and returned to the city.

However, seeing the minion wave being pushed towards the tower by Kennen, Moyu canceled his recall.

The Gragas' passive ability allows him to heal, and his Drunken Fury (W) ability reduces damage taken. Kennen alone cannot kill him under the tower.

Both junglers were already on their way to the top lane.

At this point, the Mantis had already circled around to the blue team's top lane tri-bush, slightly faster than the Excavator.

(End of this chapter)