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Chapter 352 I can't get it right!

"Alright, everyone, welcome back!"

"Next up is today's highlight match, between WE, currently the top team in Group A, and LGD, currently the top team in Group B. I'm your commentator for this match, Ji De."

"I am Abu!"

The commentators were changed today after the first two matches.

The third match will be commentated by Remember, who is now the manager of EDG and is working with former EDG head coach Abu.

Abu is currently nominally the manager of EDG, but he doesn't really have much to do, so he's often invited to commentate on LPL matches.

The two players did a preview of the match beforehand.

"There's another point worth mentioning about today's match," Ji De said.

"That's WE's AD carry player, Mystic. He currently has 988 kills in the LPL. If he can get 12 kills in the two or three games against LGD, then Mystic will become the 12th player in the LPL to reach 1,000 kills!"

"Okay, without further ado, let's get right into the business plan (BP) phase."

"In the first game, LGD had the first choice of side, and LGD chose the blue side, while WE chose the red side."

At this moment, the BP interface appeared on the large screen below.

Blue side LGD, red side WE.

First round of BP.

LGD banned Kalista, Jarvan IV, and Kog'Maw.

WE banned Spider, Zac, and Caitlyn.

Skateboard is such a great hero to pair with a support.

Instead of blocking WE's support, they should just ban Kalista.

Immediately afterwards, LGD secured the excavator on the first floor of the blue team's base.

"Did LGD release Galio? But LGD banned Jarvan IV, which means they've dismantled the Jarvan IV-Galio combo."

Then, WE picked Galio on the first floor and Rakan on the second floor for the red side.

"But LGD releasing Galio doesn't mean they just let you have him like that; they must have had some preparation."

"On LGD's side, the second pick is Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia can indeed counter Galio. Let's see how Wei Shen's Cassiopeia performs in this game!"

"Of course, Zhou Shen has a top lane Cassiopeia pick, and it's possible that LGD will use that Cassiopeia in the top lane!"

Next, LGD picked Tahm Kench on the third floor of the blue side.

In the first round, WE chose the Rat on the third floor of the red side as their last pick.

We've moved on to the second round of draft picks.

WE banned Fiora and Varus.

LGD banned Rengar and Kled.

"WE had to ban Fiora when playing against LGD. It seems like Zhou Shen's Fiora will be hard to get released," Remember said.

Abu continued, "Fiora is arguably the strongest split-pushing champion in the late game, and she's really too difficult to deal with in Zhou Shen's hands."

In the second round of ban/pick, it was the red team's turn to pick first.

WE chose Camille on the fourth floor of the red team.

"Camille? This is probably a pick-based ban strategy, and Camille paired with Galio has very strong single-target burst damage!"

Then, LGD picked Jhin on the fourth floor of the blue side.

Both sides' draft picks were too focused on AD carries, leaving very few ADCs to choose from.

"So, what will LGD choose for their final top laner pick?"

"Yesterday, Flandre picked Camille first in front of Zhou Shen, and was solo killed twice by Zhou Shen's Jax. Will Zhou Shen pick Jax again today?"

"Lucian? Camille and the jungler have such a good gank on Lucian."

As they were talking, LGD locked in Lucian on the fifth floor of the blue side.

WE's last pick on the red side was Sejuani jungle.

"Lucian can only suppress Camille in the early levels. Once Camille gets Trinity Force, she won't be afraid of him anymore."

Abu is, after all, the former EDG coach, so he thinks more than he remembers.

"Could it be Lucian mid? Cassiopeia top?"

“AD champions have an easy time against Galio, and Cassiopeia’s ground stun can break Camille’s hook, so LGD’s mid and top lanes can both counter.”

“Indeed, that’s more likely!” Ji De nodded.

With the selection process complete, the countdown preparation phase confirmed Abu's suspicions.

On LGD's side, Lucian was moved to the third floor, while Cassiopeia was moved to the first floor.

"It really is Cassiopeia top lane! Only Zhou Shen in the LPL knows how to play this special top laner!"

At this moment, the director's camera panned across Zhou Dian, whose face was expressionless.

With Cassiopeia in the top lane and Lucian in the mid lane, LGD's draft picks in this game were somewhat unexpected.

However, unexpected player selections often provide an advantage by taking advantage of situations that the opponent is unfamiliar with.

As for the actual effect of this combination of top and middle.

LGD had a trial run in last night's scrim, and it went quite well.

After giving some final instructions before the match, Dgc took off his headphones and walked towards the center of the stage.

After shaking hands with WE's head coach Hongmi, the two turned and walked into the players' tunnel.

At this moment, the game entered the loading screen on the large screen at the venue.

Blue side LGD:

Top lane Cassiopeia, jungle Rek'Sai, mid lane Lucian, bot lane Jhin and Tahm Kench.

Red Team WE:

Top lane Camille, jungle Sejuani, mid lane Galio, bot lane Twitch and Garen.

After the loading screen finishes, you will enter the game.

The match started with the audience taking turns cheering for both teams.

The shouts from fans on both sides were quite loud.

Hearing these cheers, Abu said, "There seem to be a lot of people at the game today?"

"Yes, I just did a preliminary estimate of the number of people on site, and it's probably over 60 billion."

"With so many people, are you scared?!"

I remember he also pulled a little prank, using the old joke about WE team's 60e (presumably referring to a specific esports team or group).

WE and LGD are among the oldest teams in the LPL.

LGD has made a comeback this season, and WE is also on the road to revival. Some long-time fans of both teams have also come out to speak.

After the cheers, the ten heroes on both sides had taken their positions on either side of the river.

Both sides chose defensive positions at the start of the game, and no one invaded.

At this moment, the keystone runes of both teams' heroes were displayed at the bottom of the large screen.

WE's side is all green, with the mid, jungle, and support trio possessing the courage of a colossus.

They're clearly going all out on tankiness, determined to protect their bottom lane.

Therefore, Condi's Sejuani chose to start in the top half of the map, first attacking the F6 camp.

As for LGD...

Eimy's excavator is also opened with F6.

Both sides had their mid laners helping the junglers clear the jungle.

However, while the excavator was attacking the F6 camp, LGD's bot lane duo was simultaneously helping him take the red buff.

This means that the excavator will have a significant lead over Sejuani in the early game jungle clearing speed.

However, the result of doing this is that LGD's bot lane has no lane priority in the early game.

Of course, it doesn't matter, since Jhin and Tahm Kench's bot lane playstyle is purely utility-based.

On the other side, 957 is very experienced.

His Camille started the game standing in the tri-bush of his own top lane, waiting for the first wave of minions to arrive so she could go to lane with them.

As Zhou Dian predicted, Cassiopeia had already positioned herself in the bush on the top lane. As soon as Camille respawned, Cassiopeia emerged from the bush and unleashed a Twin Fang (E) on Camille.

However, if you're not poisoned, being hit by the Cassiopeia's E attack doesn't actually hurt much.

As the first wave of minions converged in the top lane, Zhou Dian began controlling Cassiopeia to push Camille across the minion wave.

If you can't completely dominate a melee hero with long-range attacks, then what's the point of playing long-range heroes?

Cassiopeia crossed the minion wave and unleashed another Twin Fang (E) at Camille.

However, if the Cassiopeia uses this pressure, she will be attacked by the red team's backline minions.

Cassiopeia cannot buy boots, and her initial movement speed is lower than Camille's.

Therefore, 957's Camille advanced instead of retreating, directly unleashing a tactical sweep (W) at Cassiopeia.

The moment the Twin Fangs made their move, Zhou Dian manipulated the snake woman to walk back.

The Cassiopeia's turn of the head even preceded Camille's W skill's upward movement.

Thus, Camille's tactical sweep (W) barely grazed the outer edge of Cassiopeia, failing to hit her.

"Wow, Camille's W didn't hit? How could she dodge that?" Abu exclaimed. "957 is really hurt now!"

"It seems PDD was right the day before yesterday, Zhou Shen really understands Camille too well!" Remember added.

Back to the game.

After dodging Camille's W skill, Cassiopeia quickly walked into the bush, drawing the aggro of the red team's minions.

Then emerge from the grass and continue to suppress Camille.

Camille's level 1 W skill has a cooldown of over ten seconds.

Once the W skill is used up, there's no way to get close to Cassiopeia.

Its passive shield is also useless and cannot be triggered at all.

Zhou Dian knew very well that WE's focus in this game was on the bottom lane, and Sejuani was farming from top to bottom.

If we don't suppress it now, when will we?
Cassiopeia took advantage of Camille's W skill cooldown to push Camille out of the experience zone.

Next, 957's laning experience in this game can be summed up in two words—torture.

When Camille reached level four, 957 finally saw Sejuani recall to base to upgrade her jungle item before leaving the base.

Camille, who was reduced to half health after being tortured, immediately used her E skill to initiate and try to catch Cassiopeia.

But just as Camille was about to be pulled to the wall by the grappling hook.

A cloud of poisonous mist landed at Camille's feet, instantly interrupting her E skill.

It was Cassiopeia's W skill – Poisonous Mist.

Enemy heroes affected by the poison mist will be slowed down and bound to the ground, preventing them from using any movement skills.

At the same time, Cassiopeia used Flash to dodge Sejuani's Wild Boar Charge and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the low-health Camille.

Camille's health quickly dwindled, and 957 immediately used Flash to escape.

Without Camille, Sejuani, alone and without the red buff, is no match for Cassiopeia.

Condi had no choice but to control Sejuani and retreat in frustration.

However, Zhou Dian's Cassiopeia pressed her advantage relentlessly. After her Q skill was ready, she landed a Plague Explosion (Q) on Sejuani and chased after her, spraying her with poison fangs.

Fortunately, Sejuani is tough and doesn't need to use Flash, managing to withstand the damage and escape.

The result of Sejuani being severely damaged by Cassiopeia was that Eimy's Rek'Sai, along with his mid-laner Lucian, forcibly stole Sejuani's F6 camp.

In the top lane, Zhou Dian's Cassiopeia engaged in a 1v2 situation, then turned around and pushed the minion wave to WE's top lane tower before retreating into the bushes to recall.

Faced with the minion wave already pushed into the tower, Camille could only teleport back to lane after recalling, while Cassiopeia went to lane.

Therefore, Zhou Dian managed to gain a TP advantage at level four.

However, Camille still has a chance to turn the game around, just a few minutes later.

The game is at the 7-minute mark.

In LGD's team voice chat.

"Be careful, Zhou Dian, Galio is heading towards the top lane," Wei Shen warned.

"It's alright, let him do what he wants, you guys can go and gank their bot lane!"

Despite saying that, Zhou Dian still controlled the Cassiopeia to retreat a bit, not giving WE a chance.

However, the strength of the Camille and Galio combination lies in their unparalleled single-target burst damage.

Camille's ultimate hits the pillar, then Galio's ultimate comes down, and no one can escape.

"Get ready to unleash your ultimate, I'm going in!" 957 shouted to his mid laner Xiye in the WE team voice chat.

From a great distance, Camille used her first E to hook the wall, and then used her second E to fly over.

The snake woman did not have Flash at this time.

At this distance, Cassiopeia's W skill cannot reach Camille, so she cannot interrupt Camille's E skill with W.

Camille's E and R combos are seamless, and Cassiopeia can't even land her R on Camille before getting trapped by Camille's ultimate.

At this moment, Zhou Dian stared intently at the screen in front of him.

Blue Steel Shadow charged at Snake Woman with his second E attack.

It's now!

The snake woman suddenly turned around and unleashed her ultimate move—Petrifying Gaze.

On the other side, 957 kept pressing the R key while Camille was still in the flight of her E skill, knowing that Cassiopeia was going to turn around and use her ultimate to try to block Camille.

However, once Camille closes in to Cassiopeia and gets her into range to unleash her ultimate, it's useless for Cassiopeia to use it.

Hiss!

After a shrill scream, Blue Steel Shadow was petrified on the spot!
Then Cassiopeia began to unleash a barrage of attacks on Camille.

Seeing that Camille failed to use her ultimate to pin down Cassiopeia, Xiye didn't want to use his ultimate rashly, since Galio's ultimate had a very long cooldown in the early game.

Two seconds later, Camille's petrification ended, but she had already been reduced to only 30% health by Cassiopeia's attacks.

Seeing that Camille was about to be killed, Xiye had no choice but to use Galio's ultimate on Camille.

957 kept pressing the R key, but after the petrification ended, Cassiopeia's W skill was seamlessly thrown at Camille's feet.

"I can't get it to work!" 957 shouted, filled with immense frustration.

By the time Galio's ultimate landed, Cassiopeia had already killed Camille.

Cassiopeia was immediately knocked up by Galio's ultimate, but it didn't matter at all; what could Galio do to Cassiopeia?

In the commentary box.

"Galio is coming over too. Is he going to use his ultimate move on Cassiopeia?"

"Oh no, 957 made a mistake! He got petrified by Cassiopeia, and Camille didn't use her ultimate to dodge it," Remember shouted.

As the former head coach of EDG, Abu's insight is much sharper than these commentators'; he immediately identified the problem.

"It wasn't 957 who made a mistake, it was Zhou Shen's excellent distance control!"

During the replay, Abu said:

"The range of Cassiopeia's ultimate is larger than the casting range of Camille's ultimate."

"Look closely, Camille, who is flying with her E skill, is petrified at the extreme position by Cassiopeia's ultimate. At this distance, Camille cannot reach Cassiopeia with her R. She is just a little bit short."

"I'm sure 957 kept pressing R, but he couldn't reach it! If Camille had Flash, there wouldn't be this problem, but unfortunately he didn't."

"There's nothing we can do about it. We can only say that Zhou Shen's snake woman's timing for casting her ultimate skill was just too perfect."

The viewers in the live broadcast room understood after Abu's explanation.

[No wonder 957 seemed like a fool this time; turns out Zhou Shenqi was one step ahead!]

[There are still people Galio Gaim and Camille who can't catch? I'm impressed!]

[This distance judgment is absolutely ridiculous!]

[That's incredibly meticulous!]

I've watched Zhou Shen play a few times, and he's really good at it!

Can't this Nan Tong just get lost?!

(End of this chapter)