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Chapter 317 This dark horse really has some strength!

"Just do it! Just do it! Get him!"

Before anyone was even in position, Eimy was already loudly "giving orders."

"Don't rush, don't rush!" Zhou Dian quickly said.
"The excavators might be here too. If we get caught out in this counter-gank, we're going to be in big trouble. Let's wait a bit longer!"

This looks like a good opportunity to tower dive and kill Gragas, quickly expanding the top lane advantage.

However, opportunities often conceal risks.

LGD cannot determine the location of the excavator at this time.

Then we must be wary of excavators.

Otherwise, what if an excavator suddenly appears when you're trying to tower dive?

Neither he nor Eimy can escape.

The Kha'Zix, who had just arrived, stayed in the blue team's top lane tri-bush without moving.

Therefore, the excavator's passive ground sensing technology failed to detect the mantis in the grass.

Next, Karin's excavator A destroyed the Explosion Fruit behind the Triangle Grass.

It landed in the triangular grass.

As soon as he entered, he was startled when a praying mantis's claws scratched his face.

The excavator quickly broke through the ground (W) to knock up the flying mantis, and then ran away to the top tower of its own base.

The barrel, in poor condition, stayed under the tower along with the excavator.

It can be described as very safe.

"It really is there. Luckily, I didn't recklessly jump over the tower!" Eimy said with some relief.

Zhou Dian was also somewhat helpless; this opportunity to expand his advantage in the top lane had just slipped away.

But there is no way around it.

The jungler had good awareness and arrived in time.

After attacking DAN's top lane turret twice, Zhou Dian controlled Kennen to retreat into the bush and recall.

Eimy's mantis then went back to farm its own rock beetles.

At this point, the game time has reached 6 minutes.

Taliyah pushed the cannon minion wave into the tower despite LeBlanc's resistance, then recalled to base to replenish supplies.

At the same time, Taliyah also leveled up to level 6.

Ggoong's Taliyah went back to base and immediately bought Mercury's Treads.

After Taliyah got Mercury's Treads.

Not only was the Enchantress completely helpless against him, but her ability to roam the lane was also greatly improved.

Meanwhile, in the top lane, Kennen replenished his equipment.

Online, you still need to eat and drink.

The pressure on the laner, Gragas, is increasing.

Even with the barrel right in front of him, the barrel could only watch from the sidelines and dared not approach Kennen at all.

With the game nearing the 7-minute mark, Kennen had already dealt over 20 CS to Gragas.

However, Gragas, once equipped with magic resistance items, also has healing and damage reduction, making him extremely durable.

Furthermore, Zhou Dian was always wary of Taliyah's ultimate move.

They did not suppress it recklessly and ruthlessly.

Otherwise, there would be far more than just the blows from the barrels.

Right now, Zhou Dian can only say that he's making sure to finish every attack and help Kennen develop as quickly as possible.

Seven minutes of game time have passed.

No first blood has yet been drawn on the field.

The buffs in the lower jungle on both sides respawned, and both junglers headed to the lower jungle.

The time came to 7 minutes and 33 seconds.

Eimy's Kha'Zix was not attacking the blue buff.

Instead, he and PYL's Rakan crouched in the river bush next to the bottom lane.

Wei Shen's LeBlanc also started moving towards the bottom lane before Taliyah.

However, the scans of LGD's jungler and support were still on cooldown, and the bushes under their feet had not been scanned.

After crouching for two seconds, the Rek'Sai and Braum, both equipped with red buffs, walked to the bottom lane river bush.

They seemed completely unaware of what was happening inside.

However, Braum suddenly raised his hand and threw a Winter's Bite (Q) into the grass in front of him, hitting the Mantis.

The excavator simultaneously teleported and lifted up the praying mantis.

Then, with the Queen of Excavators' Wrath (Q) activated, two basic attacks brought the Kha'Zix down to half health.

It's obvious that there are wards in the grass in the bottom river.

Eimy and PYL, this time they've ganked the ward.

Since the "squatting in front of your eyes" has already happened, there's no going back.

Then the only option left is to counterattack.

PYL immediately placed a ward on the spot.

This eye is used to teleport Zhou Dian's Kennen.

At the same time, a stone curtain rapidly spread across the river.

Taliyah arrived first, using her ultimate ability to reach the battlefield before LeBlanc.

A teleportation vortex swirled above both of their eyes.

Kennen and Gragas used their teleports almost simultaneously.

At this point, Braum's passive mark on Kha'Zix had reached three stacks.

The excavator arrived after receiving a red buff and was already level 6.

The Kha'Zix didn't take the blue buff and was still one jungle camp away from reaching level 6.

Without level 6, there's naturally no ultimate skill to become invisible and avoid damage.

Before the Kha'Zix could land from the knock-up, Kalista moved in and auto-attacked the last stack of Braum's passive.

The praying mantis was stunned and remained motionless.

As soon as the Taliyah arrived, the Mantis was caught in a chain of control.

PYL knew this counterattack was impossible.

Time to get out of here!

Rakan applied Weakness to Excavator, then used E on Kha'Zix, and then used his second E on Varus to escape the Twisted Fist.

Rakan's E ability grants an allied champion a shield.

The mantis was lifted up by the shield, and after the stun ended, it still had a little health left, so it quickly blinked over the wall.

Whoosh!

A deep whistling sound echoed through the canyon.

The excavator vanished into the void, and when it reappeared, it had already pounced on the mantis, reaping the mantis's last bit of health.

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

Kha'Zix died, and First Blood was secured by DAN's jungler, Rek'Sai. Neither Gragas nor Kennen's teleports landed.

The blue buff that the Kha'Zix didn't take was also cleared by the Excavator.

In the commentary booth, Ji Xiang was speaking at a rapid pace.

"LGD is ganking from the ward! Taliyah uses her ultimate, Rakan uses his E on Varus and he's gone."

"Both top laners activated Teleport, Kha'Zix flashed over the wall, and Rek'Sai followed up with her ultimate, securing First Blood."

"The Kha'Zix is ​​dead, and Gragas and Kennen have both canceled their teleports. LGD's blue buff is also going to be gone."

PDD chimed in: "With this change to the excavator's ultimate skill, I feel it's better than the old one."

Before he could finish speaking, PDD suddenly shouted, "Damn it! How did Gragas die?!"

The words I remembered also came to an abrupt end.

At this moment, the image on the large screen at the scene split in two.

A replay was shown for both the top and bottom lanes, showing what happened in Summoner's Rift.

PDD pushed up his glasses and said, "Come on, let's watch the replay."

"Look, Kha'Zix is ​​dead, so the fight in the bottom lane seems to be over. Gragas canceled his TP."

"But Kennen didn't cancel. At that moment, DAN and the rest of the team were in the river bushes. Kennen's TP position meant he could have easily ganked them from behind!"

"If Kennen teleports down, it will still be a 4v4 situation on both sides of the bottom half of the map. With Kennen flanking, LGD will definitely have a better chance in team fights!"

After a pause, PDD continued, "Moyu also understood that Kennen couldn't be allowed to go down this wave, so Gragas immediately threw out his ultimate."

"But this ultimate move seems to have been thrown a bit too hastily, it overdid it, it blew Kennen into his own face." He said, laughing as he spoke, his laughter accompanied by a "snort" sound that sounded a lot like a pig.

Remember to pick up where you left off.

"After Zhou Shen's teleportation was interrupted, he decisively attacked the barrel directly."

“Yes!” PDD nodded. “And Kennen was very careful this time. After activating E, he didn’t immediately use his ultimate. Instead, he moved sideways and dodged Gragas’s Body Slam.”

After Gragas' E skill missed, Kennen used his ultimate.

Gragas immediately flashed, and Kennen followed with his own flash.

The barrel was already low on health, and after taking all of Kennen's damage, even with the damage reduction from his W skill, he was still killed by Kennen.

In the LGD team voice chat.

“Nice!” Eimy shouted loudly as the screen remained black and white.

"Solo kill, awesome, Xiao Zhou." PYL was also a big fan.

"Let's farm up a bit, it'll be easy to win. The enemy team lacks damage in the late game." Zhou Dian didn't respond to the jungler and support duo who had just "committed a crime."

Game time is 11 minutes and 03 seconds.

It was at the same spot where First Blood had occurred before—the river bush next to the bottom lane.

This time the roles were reversed; DAN's jungler and support went into the bushes.

Of course, DAN won't make the same basic mistake that LGD just made.

Before entering the grass, Brown had already scanned it and found no LGD wards in the grass.

After crouching for six or seven seconds, PYL's Rakan came over to place a ward, with Varus following behind.

Braum's Winter's Bite (Q) flew past Rakan and accurately hit imp's Varus behind him.

Then Brøns leaped high into the air, crashing down into a glacial fissure (R) that extended to Verus's feet.

The excavator dug a tunnel to get under Varus, burst out of the ground (W) and knocked him away.

DAN's ADC Kalista is also approaching.

PYL's Luo walked in front but was not attacked at all, so he quickly turned around and used RW.

They charmed the excavator and Bloom, then lifted them up.

imp spammed Flash, and as soon as Varus landed after the knock-up ended, he immediately Flashed away.

After creating some distance, Varus swung out the Corruption Chains (R) and imprisoned the excavator and Brown.

At the same time, Wei Shen pressed the teleport button.

The TP on LeBlanc was finally used for the first time in this game.

Eimy's mantis also arrived on the battlefield at this time.

All I can say is that he finally got a chance to get back at them.

The previous teleports by Gragas and Kennen, one canceled by itself and the other interrupted, were both ready again in less than five minutes.

The two of them immediately used their teleportation abilities.

As soon as the barrel's TP was used, Moyu felt that things were not going to work.

The excavator absorbed all the damage from Varus and Rakan, instantly becoming critically wounded.

Kalista immediately used Fate's Call (R) to pull Braum back and quickly ran away.

Subsequently, the excavator was killed, and the head was taken down by the arriving Mantis with a single Q.

Gragas quickly canceled the teleport, and Taliyah, who was halfway there, also started to return to the mid lane.

Seeing the teleportation vortex still swirling around Kennen, Moyu was still shaken and dared not interrupt it this time.

Zhou Dian's Kennen landed and used his E skill to dash towards Kalista, which startled Kalista into using Flash.

With LeBlanc also landing via Teleport, LGD instantly gathered five players in the bottom lane.

With only the bottom lane duo, DAN was unable to defend the bottom lane tower, and LGD's five players pushed down the first tower.

When the tower still had about half its health left, Wei Shen retreated to rush back to the mid lane to farm.

After the first tower was destroyed, imp's Varus recalled to base early and then went to the top lane to farm, entering the lane swap and tower pushing phase.

Zhou Dian's Kennen was accompanied by the jungler and support, and after farming another wave of minions, the three of them returned to base together.

LGD really made a lot of money from this fight.

In the commentary box.

PDD said, "This way, we'll become passive against DAN. It feels like the tempo is slowly shifting back to LGD. If we drag this out into the late game, DAN won't be able to win."

Remembering had the same opinion, he added, "DAN's mid and jungle originally had the initiative in the early game, but the two ganks from the Rek'Sai made it feel like Taliyah didn't coordinate well."

"Yes, DAN's mid and jungle players seem to lack chemistry today. If DAN wants to win this game, they need to find a way to speed things up," PDD said.

But after LGD destroyed DAN's first tower and then swapped lanes in the top and bottom lanes, the game entered a farming phase again.

This is undoubtedly quite disadvantageous for DAN.

The members of the DAN team also understand the current situation and are eager to find an opportunity to do something.

The opportunity actually came to Ggoong, the second brother from South Korea.

Game time is 14 minutes and 35 seconds.

LGD's bot lane duo failed to retreat in time after pushing the minion wave in the top lane.

Taliyah, who had already reached the Dragon Pit, used a precise Wall of Despair (R) to separate Rakan from the nearby Kha'Zix on the right.

Verus had already reached the foundation of the wall, but the wall rose up, pushing Verus down and leaving him alone on the left side of the stone wall.

imp's Varus hadn't even used Flash yet when DAN's bot lane and jungler followed up, and together with Taliyah, they killed Varus.

DAN also took the opportunity to push down LGD's top lane tower.

"Wow, DAN team seized this opportunity perfectly and turned the tide!" PDD exclaimed.

"To be honest, the fact that DAN, this dark horse team, can go toe-to-toe with LGD shows they really have some strength!"

"They definitely have the ability!" Remember said with a smile. "They wouldn't be a dark horse if they didn't have the ability!"

(End of this chapter)