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Chapter 361: Incorrect Command and Incompetent Teamwork Lead to LGD's Demise in the First Game of the Semifinals!

Neither side managed to gather any useful information from their initial defensive positioning.

The jungle monsters are about to spawn at 1 minute and 30 seconds.

The heroes on both sides withdrew from the riverbank.

In this game, both junglers started with the F6 camp as usual, with the mid laner helping out.

In the bottom lane, with both players at level one, Tristana and Galo definitely cannot secure lane priority against Kalista and Kennen.

After Eimy activated Sejuani's F6, the overall attack pattern was from bottom to top.

LGD's bot lane needs to be very careful in the early game.

Similarly, Ning's Gragas spawns from top to bottom, while TheShy's Cho'Gath starts to shrink as soon as he comes online, using his Q skill to last-hit minions, and if he can't last-hit, he just soaks up experience.

Preserve your health as much as possible to prevent being tower-dived.

In the first three or four minutes, neither jungler could find any opportunities and they were both farming and developing their jungle.

As mentioned in the BP phase, Gnar can't actually pressure Cho'Gath too much.

The giant bug's passive healing ability, combined with the Resolve tree talents and Doran's Shield.

The most striking thing is that he's lazy!

Before Gnar gets his full build, unless Cho'Gath makes some ridiculous, low-level mistake, it's impossible to lower Cho'Gath's health bar.

Game time is 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

Zhou Dian switched the screen to the mid lane and took a look.

Just then, I saw the plane with only half health left, and it was hit by Lucian's Piercing Light (Q) through the minions.

At 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the game, GodV's Corki in the mid lane was in poor condition and had to recall early to buy a Cull.

Rookie's Lucian pushed the minion wave to LGD's mid-lane turret before recalling to base.

Zhou Dian pressed the Tab key. In the mid lane, the score was 36 CS to 23 CS, with Lucian having a lead of more than ten CS.

This doesn't look good!

It wasn't that Zhou Dian was focused on the mid lane; it was mainly because Gnar and Cho'Gath weren't getting any results, so he kept an eye on his teammates' situation while laning.

Although, based on the characteristics of the heroes, Corki is indeed no match for Lucian in lane.

However, as a ranged hero, it's only been 4 and a half minutes and he's already down 13 CS, which is indeed a bit too much.

Wei Shen's technique on that plane was definitely not top-notch!

At 5 minutes and 25 seconds into the game, Lucian used his E ability to dash in and attack the enemy plane.

With a Cull on the plane, facing Lucian's Vampiric Scepter, coupled with the natural early-game gap between the two heroes, it's simply impossible for them to fight head-on.

Therefore, when faced with Lucian's slide-in attack, the aircraft should immediately use Valkyrie Dive (W) to pull away.

You have to be timid when necessary.

However, perhaps because it was the first game, Wei Shen was a bit stubborn.

Instead of pulling away immediately, the plane chose to counterattack Lucian.

Both of them were reduced to half health.

At this moment, Prince Ning's wine barrel emerged, and the plane finally took off.

The barrel used a flesh bomb (E) to try and bait out the plane's Blink, but it didn't work.

However, at this time, the mid lane minions were closer to IG's side, the Corki had less than 40% health, and Gragas was wandering around in the mid lane.

The plane can only return to base to replenish its health, while Lucian has the Vampiric Scepter, and his health will slowly recover.

As soon as the plane returned to the city, Gragas took Lucian to invade Sejuani's F6 camp.

With multiple mid laners on the opposing team, Eimy had no choice but to watch as Gragas stole his F6 camp.

Now, there's a skill gap between LGD's mid and jungle players and IG's.

Lucian is level 6, Corki is level 5; Gragas is level 5, Sejuani is level 4.

Although it's not a full grade difference, it's about half a grade.

However, LGD's mid and jungle players are already in a very passive position.

Game time is 6 minutes and 50 seconds.

Ning's wine barrels walked down the path and found themselves in the bushes on the bottom lane.

At this moment, the two bottom lane duos are fighting.

Although Xiaopao and Luo couldn't trade blows with IG's bot lane in the early game, the minion wave was in front of their own tower at that point, so they weren't too worried.

PYL's Rakan used his E to hit Tristana, then made a grand entrance (W) and lifted up his skateboard shoes.

Then I saw a wine barrel emerge from the grass.

Luo quickly used his second E skill to return to the little cannon.

Ning's Gragas decisively used E-Flash to knock Rakan unconscious in mid-air.

"First Blood!"

The system notification sounded, indicating that Rakan's first kill had been taken by Skate Shoes.

Meanwhile, Tristana, who already had two layers of Kennen's mark on her, was hit by Kennen's ultimate move, Chidori (Q), which brought the mark to three layers, stunning her on the spot.

Imp had no choice but to use his barrier to survive the 1.25-second stun, and then Tristana used Rocket Jump (W) to pull away.

However, the little cannon's health had been reduced to only 30%, and it couldn't stay under the tower any longer, so it had to return to base.

Then, another chain reaction occurred, and Gragas led his bot lane duo into LGD's lower jungle.

LGD's two camps of jungle monsters in the lower half of the jungle were stolen by Gragas, and Sejuani had no way to stop them.

Then, Kalista went back to lane to push the lane, while Gragas and Kennen went to the mid lane again.

Wei Shen's plane could only retreat to the second tower, and the mid lane lost another wave of minions.

Zhou Dian, who was farming in the top lane, saw all of this, but there was nothing he could do but farm alongside Cho'Gath, at most managing to out-farm Cho'Gath a bit.

Although LGD has only lost the first blood so far.

But Zhou Dian could tell just by glancing at the lineups of both sides and the situation on the field.

This first game is probably going to be a disaster!

The bigger reason is probably the champion selection. Both the mid and bot lanes are at a disadvantage in lane, and the jungler is a passive champion, making the early game too passive.

It's not that you can't choose, but if the chosen person doesn't survive, then that selection becomes a death sentence.

I feel like they were overconfident in their own abilities.

Or rather, their player selection showed a bit of disrespect for the opposing team, IG.

Zhou Dian knew that under these circumstances, Gnar's advantage of a dozen or so slashes was practically useless.

On the road, one must find opportunities to expand one's advantages.

If Gnar can push the lanes effectively, he still has a chance to turn the tide and drag the game out until his two carries get ahead.

In the 10th minute of the game, the plane got its first bomb. Wei Shen's plane went back to base, picked up the bomb, and went out.

Zhou Dian wanted to use the airplane as a bomb to do something.

Taking the first turret in the top lane is a good option.

IG's top lane turret has been reduced to half health by Gnar.

The plane returned to the mid lane with the explosives. Wei Shen had the same idea as Zhou Dian: to clear this wave of minions and go to the top lane to see if they could find an opportunity.

However, Wei Shen's positioning was a bit too cautious, as he was positioned slightly too far forward.

Rookie's Lucian immediately glided in (E), and his scimitar sucked at the plane, slowing it down.

Then, the Holy Lance Baptism (R) rained down on the plane's face, directly triggering the plane's W, which was like a bomb.

Well! The plane is out of explosives, we can't count on it anymore!
But such a slow death is not a good thing either.

So, after the plane pushed through the minion wave, Wei Shen still controlled the plane to move towards the top lane. Game time: 10 minutes and 48 seconds.

At this moment, the minion wave is in front of the giant turret. Gnar is in his giant form and has gathered two waves of minions to push forward.

Gnar and Cho'Gath exchanged some health. When Gnar's rage was down to 20%, he pretended to turn back and distance himself.

TheShy's Cho'Gath instinctively took a step forward after Darius.

With this step, Zhou Dian felt his opportunity had arrived!

Gnar immediately turned around and used his E ability to jump onto Cho'Gath's face, then used his ultimate to slam Cho'Gath against the wall.

Then, after Gnar finished his entire combo of skills and basic attacks, Cho'Gath still had 30% health left.

Once he was out of the stun state, the giant bug quickly used his Q skill to knock Gnar into the air, and then walked towards his own tower.

In the commentary box.

"Gnar used his ultimate directly. Zhou Shen probably just wanted to use a combo to whittle down Cho'Gath's health. That definitely won't kill Cho'Gath."

"The big bug used a Rupture (Q) to stomp on Gnar, and then Gnar shrunk just in time to escape. What amazing rage control!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed.

The person next to him, Zhihuan, also shouted, "Gnar has shrunk! There's a chance to tower dive and solo kill Cho'Gath!"

When Gnar uses his ultimate to slam Cho'Gath against the wall, you can adjust your position while dealing damage, always staying in front of Cho'Gath.

Although Gnar was knocked up for a second by Cho'Gath's Q skill, Cho'Gath was unable to escape Gnar's basic attack range.

The newly shrunken Gnar uses a basic attack followed by a boomerang (Q) to slow down the giant Cho'Gath, then another basic attack to unleash a triple attack. The shrunken Gnar gains a speed boost and chases into the tower.

"He landed a three-hit combo, but the damage was a bit low! Chase him into the tower and keep attacking."

"Can I get another three rings? Just one more, just one more!"

"Oh dear, I can't auto-attack now. Should I use Flash to auto-attack?" Guan Zeyuan's tone was a little regretful.

At this moment, on the large screen at the scene.

After taking a few basic attacks from Gnar, Cho'Gath had less than 200 health points left.

In the game, Gnar did not use Flash to auto-attack the third hit.

Because Zhou Dian had quickly determined that the three-hit combo wouldn't kill the big bug, and Little Gnar would have to chase after it to finish it off.

But if you chase any further, you'll get killed by the turret; Gnar isn't tanky at all.

There's no need to trade kills with the big bug in this wave.

With Q skill still on cooldown for one second, Zhou Dian used the same trick again, and instead of chasing Cho'Gath, he turned around and pulled him out of the tower.

TheShy watched as two waves of minions pushed into the tower, and he was a little reluctant to let them go.

He immediately decided to seek fortune in danger and take a small risk.

So the big bug turned around too.

On Zhou Dian's side, as soon as Little Gnar's Q skill cooldown was over, he immediately turned around and flashed to auto-attack (AQ).

However, it must be said that TheShy's reaction was surprisingly fast, and Cho'Gath instantly used Flash.

Gnar's basic attack landed on Cho'Gath, but the boomerang (Q) flew past Cho'Gath's rear without hitting him.

"What a pity!" Zhou Dian thought to himself.

"I'm here, I'm here." Wei Shen's voice suddenly came through Zhou Dian's earphones.

The plane has circled around to the IG's stone beetle.

Next, the plane performed a Valkyrie dive (W) over the wall and onto the line, taking down the giant bug that had less than a hundred health points left.

Then the plane went up to help Little Gnar push down IG's top lane tower.

Unfortunately, Rookie's Lucian arrived too quickly; the plane had barely attacked the tower when Lucian was already there.

After Lucian cleared the minions under the tower, IG's top tower was left with only a quarter of its health, so Zhou Dian and Wei Shen had no choice but to give up their plan to force a takedown of the tower.

At the same time, both junglers arrived at the bottom lane.

At this point, the bottom lane minion wave is closer to LGD's bottom tower.

Ning's Gragas had somehow gotten to the bush closest to LGD's bottom tower on the bottom lane.

Eimy's Sejuani was crouching behind the tower.

The Gragas had selected the talent that reduces the cooldown of Summoner Spells, and at this point, Flash's cooldown was ready again.

At this point, Rakan's position was slightly forward, and Gragas decisively used E-Flash to hit Rakan, followed by Explosive Gragas (R) to blast Rakan back.

Actually, Luo's positioning wasn't a big problem, but PYL never expected that Gragas had gotten so close to him.

Rakan was blasted back, and Kennen followed up with his ultimate, Thunder Prison, a series of crowd control abilities that killed Rakan instantly.

Fortunately, Rakan unleashed his ultimate ability, and the already low-health support Kennen took a full combo from Rakan, leaving him with only a small portion of his health.

IG used two ultimate abilities to kill Rakan, and LGD's jungler and support both felt that they could turn the tide.

Eimy's Pig Girl immediately went up to her.

Since his teammates wanted to fight, Zhou Dian's Gnar immediately used his teleport.

Gnar teleported to a spot right on the retreat route of IG's bottom laner, jungler, and support.

But IG's jungler, support, and two other players showed no intention of retreating and directly counterattacked Sejuani.

Kalista's damage was too high at this point; before Gnar even landed, Sejuani had already lost half her health.

Sejuani turned around and used her ultimate to hit Kalista. Tristana's exploding sparks landed on Kalista's toe, and she jumped right onto it.

But before Kalista was stunned by Sejuani's ultimate, she had already activated her ultimate, pulling Kennen back.

Seeing that Kennen was about to charge out, Imp got a little anxious and used his ultimate to deal damage.

As it turned out, this ultimate move didn't push the skater against the wall; instead, it saved the skater, who still had 200 health left, and sent him on his way.

Zhou Dian's Gnar had just tower-dived a Cho'Gath in the top lane, and when he teleported down, he only had 30% health left.

If Tristana and Sejuani had instantly killed Kalista, he could have fought back even with his current health.

But now, imp's Tristana pulled off a life-saving R move, leaving Zhou Dian completely dumbfounded!
Kalista's damage was too high; Little Gnar was knocked down by Gragas and instantly taken down by Kalista.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield nearby, Kennen, using Kalista's ultimate, collided with Tristana and Sejuani.

Then Kennen used a QEW combo to instantly stun Tristana.

With a sliver of blood remaining, Kennen transformed into a ball of lightning and quickly created distance.

After the stun wore off, the little cannon immediately used Flash to try and finish off Kennen.

Imp's idea is fine; he can flash and auto-attack Kennen to kill him, and Tristana can refresh her W skill and possibly escape.

Since this wave has already been a huge loss, killing Kennen would at least mitigate some of the damage.

But just as the little cannon flashed out, Kennen disappeared into the bush.

The cannon's muzzle was raised, but suddenly it lost its target, and the basic attack failed to land.

imp quickly placed a ward, illuminating the vision in the bushes.

However, while the vision was there, the distance wasn't enough, and the cannon couldn't reach Kennen.

The Tristana, without Flash or W, was killed, and Kalista secured another kill.

LGD's Sejuani was the only one left who managed to escape with a sliver of health.

After a series of clumsy plays, LGD's top, bottom, and support players all perished in the bottom lane.

And Gnar, the only character with an advantage in his position, lost that advantage after his death.

"My bad, my bad, I misjudged the situation. We shouldn't have counter-attacked. We should have retreated!" PYL said repeatedly in the LGD team voice chat.

"Oops, I used my ultimate move too hastily, damn it!" imp chimed in.

"It's not a big problem, let's take it slow, we're strong in the late game!" Zhou Dian ended his teammates' conversation about this wave.

However, even though that's what he said, Zhou Dian knew in his heart that this game was already very difficult!

(End of this chapter)