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Chapter 364 TheShy: Am I done for?
"Long-range heroes start to tormenting melee top laners from the very beginning, ah, that's the feel of it!"

"This is the Zhou Shen we know and love!" Guan Zeyuan said with a smile. "Zhou Shen has been playing too many tank heroes lately, he's just not the same anymore!"

Back to the game.

Game time is 2 minutes and 40 seconds.

The Prince, who chose the Red Buff-Wolves-Blue Buff fast level 3 route, took down the Rift Scuttler in the upper river.

Prince Ning glanced at the screen and set off.

Although the top lane minions are close to IG's side, they are not very deep.

Moreover, Ning happened to see Vayne leave the minion wave, walk to the top lane river bush, and then retreat back to the minion wave.

Vayne's action most likely means she went to place a ward in the river bush in the top lane.

"There's no way to catch them!" Prince Ning thought to himself.

If the prince walked straight up, he would definitely be seen.

Let's flank from the tri-bush on the red side's top lane. Vayne will already be level three by then.

The big bug is only level two, at most he can hit Vayne with a Flash.

However, going up to attack Vayne with Flash doesn't gain any advantage at all.

why?
Because if the prince goes in to gank, he will inevitably be attacked by LGD's minions.

This makes it even harder for the top lane minions to push towards Cho'Gath.

Therefore, either don't make a move, or if you do, kill Vayne.

Failing to kill Vayne will only make things worse for your own Cho'Gath.

He couldn't possibly drive Vayne away; he was specifically stationed in the top lane to let Cho'Gath farm the lane.

That's unrealistic. This is a professional match; the early game tempo is very important.

Moreover, their own bot lane was also in dire straits, waiting for him, the jungler, to come to their rescue.

"Let's see if the top laner can withstand the pressure for a while. It's better for Cho'Gath to withstand pressure than for Tristana!"

Having figured it out, Ning controlled his prince to cross the river and take a look at LGD's F6.

Upon discovering that it wasn't there, they immediately headed towards their own F6.

Upon seeing this, Guan Zeyuan exclaimed, "Wow! Ning is giving up on ganking top lane and letting Cho'Gath tank the pressure. TheShy is going to suffer a lot!"

The prince deliberately avoided the central route and took a small detour before arriving at his own F6.

This is also to avoid revealing one's position, and to put some psychological pressure on Vayne in the top lane, so that she can suppress Cho'Gath without being too reckless.

However, it's not only junglers who study the habits of laners.

Online players also study the habits of junglers.

If LGD's opponent in this game were RNG, Zhou Dian thought that Spicy Pot might actually just wait near the top lane.

Once Vayne pushes the minion wave too far into the enemy territory and can't escape, then come out and kill her.

However, if the opponent is Ning Wang, Zhou Dian doesn't think he would waste time doing something so uncertain.

At the 3-minute mark of the game, Zhou Dian guessed that the Prince, who hadn't shown up yet, was probably no longer in the top half of the map, so he immediately started pushing the lane with Vayne.

A dozen seconds later, two waves of minions, along with cannon minions, were pushed to the base of the giant worm's tower.

Vayne's torment of the giant bug is only just beginning!
When a short-range hero faces a long-range hero.

Once the minion wave piles up under your own tower, the pain begins.

Especially against melee champions like Cho'Gath, whose crowd control abilities are unreliable, Vayne can freely harass him in front of the tower.

If the big bug is afraid of being worn down, it's okay if it doesn't last-hit and only takes experience.

Vayne just needs to focus on attacking the tower.

Some top laners who are good at withstanding pressure might be able to endure it and watch the large wave of minions in front of them without actually farming them.

But TheShy clearly doesn't belong to this type of top laner.

While the giant Cho'Gath was waiting for the minion wave to arrive, he recovered a lot of health thanks to Doran's Shield.

In addition, he can occasionally use his Q skill to last-hit one or two minions, and his passive also restores some health to Cho'Gath.

The giant worm's health was around 70-80% at this point.

TheShy deliberately skipped the health potion he brought with him when he left home, all for the sake of last-hitting minions under the tower right now.

The first minion to enter IG's top tower was a melee minion from the red team, and it wasn't at full health.

The melee minion was hit by the turret, and Cho'Gath stepped forward to auto-attack once, then immediately followed up with Dread Spike (E) to reset the auto-attack and finish off the melee minion.

However, in order to finish off the enemy, Cho'Gath was hit twice by Vayne's basic attack followed by her Q skill.

Zhou Dianka's skill in timing the attack intervals of defensive towers has become unparalleled.

Vayne sniped the giant bug twice, managing to pull it out of the tower's range each time without taking any tower damage.

Of course, TheShy is also an expert in this area.

When Cho'Gath's basic attack followed by his E killed the red team's melee minion, it was precisely at the moment Vayne pokes him and pulls him out of the tower.

TheShy immediately controlled Cho'Gath to retreat a step, preventing Vayne from using her third passive skill. The damage taken was still within an acceptable range.

Vayne's W skill, Silver Bolts, is a passive skill that deals true damage based on a percentage of the target's maximum health when it hits three times.

This is arguably the most effective counter to Cho'Gath in League of Legends.

After the melee soldier who first enters the tower dies, the tower's target becomes the siege vehicle.

TheShy absolutely needs to finish off this siege minion.

Moreover, Cho'Gath's Q and W skills are both ranged skills, making it very easy to last-hit the siege minion.

But as I said before, TheShy is more greedy than the average top laner.

His skills are usually used to kill, not to finish off enemies.

If all else fails, it's not a bad idea to save them for later to replenish ranged units.

After taking several hits from the defensive tower, the siege engine's health was almost depleted.

Zhou Dian was originally targeting IG's defensive towers, but when he saw that Cho'Gath was actually trying to walk up and take down the cannon minion, he certainly couldn't let Cho'Gath get the cannon minion so easily.

Vayne took a step forward, walked under the tower, and landed a basic attack on Cho'Gath.

However, Zhou Dian did not pull Vayne out of the tower immediately this time.

Vayne rolls sideways to dodge a sudden attack (Q), resetting her auto-attack, and prepares to auto-attack the giant Cho'Gath again.

At that moment, a beam of red light shone down from the top of the turret and connected to Vayne, an attack about to be launched at her.

TheShy reacted quickly.

When he saw Vayne rolling sideways under the turret, he understood Zhou Dian's purpose.

The opponent clearly intended to use the AQE combo to force Vayne to use her third passive skill.

Vayne's E skill can also push the giant Cho'Gath away, preventing it from attacking the cannon minion.

If Vayne can successfully execute her combo, then taking a hit from the turret won't be a big deal.

After all, the damage from a turret increases with each hit, so the initial hit doesn't do much damage.

Zhou Dian's idea of ​​wasting blood was also very greedy.

Perhaps "greed" is a common characteristic of top players!

Vayne tanking the tower and harassing Cho'Gath is also giving the opponent an opportunity.

TheShy saw this opportunity and acted decisively.

The giant bug stomped its foot on the ground, unleashing a burst (Q) towards Vayne's landing spot after she rolled.

However, after Vayne dodges the attack (Q), she does not immediately perform the reset auto-attack.

Because Zhou Dian also instantly realized that if Vayne were to attack the big bug at this moment, Vayne would be in a frozen state and unable to move during the brief pre-cast animation of Vayne raising her hand to attack.

Vayne will then be hit by Cho'Gath's Q skill during the brief period of stun.

Vayne already takes a hit from the turret while tanking, and if she gets knocked up by Cho'Gath's Q, she'll take another hit from the turret. Moreover, Cho'Gath's Q doesn't just knock up for a single second.

There is also a 60% deceleration effect that lasts for 1.5 seconds.

Therefore, Vayne will most likely take a third hit from the turret.

With Vayne's small frame, she'd be done for after about three hits from a turret.

If the big bug uses Blink again and deals a little more damage, it's basically dead.

Unless you teleport directly out of the tower to avoid its third attack.

But if Vayne were to actually get hit by Cho'Gath's Q skill, would TheShy not seize the opportunity?
The big bug will inevitably flash and W to silence Vayne the moment she is knocked up.

The level 1 Wild Scream (W) of the giant bug has a silence duration of up to 1.6 seconds, enough to prevent Vayne from using any skills until she dies.

Although TheShy was under pressure, he was still constantly thinking about how to kill his opponent.

The reason he chose to let the big bug go up and auto-attack the cannon minion was to create an opening, allowing Vayne to attack him.

In TheShy's view, Zhou Dian is also a very aggressive player, and he would never miss such an opportunity to attack Cho'Gath.

As Zhou Dian had expected, he controlled Vayne to push the tower and bring down some Cho'Gath.

The two players in the top lane engaged in a deep battle over securing a siege minion.

However, the scene displayed on the big screen at this moment looked somewhat comical.

Vayne immediately followed up her basic attack with a quick dodge (Q) roll to the right, her skill combo was incredibly fast and looked very elegant.

However, after rolling, Vayne didn't use that attack; instead, she immediately took a step to the left.

After Vayne uses her Q skill, if she doesn't auto-attack, she walks with her body hunched over, looking like a thief, which is incredibly comical.

After Vayne took a step to the left with this comical gesture,

A cluster of sharp spikes shot out from the ground beside Vayne, piercing her skin.

Vayne narrowly dodged Cho'Gath's Q skill, and then landed the Q skill arrow.

TheShy couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he saw Vayne dodge Cho'Gath's Q skill.

The giant worm raised its front claws and struck the cannon vehicle in front of it, which was now only slivered with health.

Just then, a huge crossbow bolt flew in, piercing the giant worm and knocking it back.

The giant bug's basic attack, which was still in progress, was interrupted by this arrow.

It's Vayne's E skill – Demon Judgment!
Although the big bug didn't manage to finish off the siege minion, the siege minion was still alive with a sliver of health because the turret's attack was now directed at Vayne.

However, TheShy is destined not to get the cannon minion this time.

Because the giant bug was pushed onto the turret's base by Vayne's E skill.

She barely made contact, but the giant worm was already pinned to it by Vayne's crossbow and stunned for 1.5 seconds.

Vayne's AQE combo triggered the passive of Silver Bolts (W), and her E skill, which stuns the target, also deals an additional 150% physical damage.

The giant worm's health plummeted, dropping to below half.

Vayne took a hit from the turret and calmly pulled herself out of the turret's range.

The turret immediately switched its firepower to the siege minion that was left with only a sliver of health.

1.5 seconds later, the giant bug recovered from its stun, and TheShy quickly pressed the W key.

The giant bug unleashed its Wild Scream (W) forward, but unfortunately, the turret had already killed the cannon minion before it could.

The cannon, which should have been an easy target, was missed.

Two skills were used up.

Not only does it waste mana, but you also can't even last-hit ranged creeps under the tower until your skills are ready again.

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

The big bug used its W skill in vain, which made it seem a bit silly.

What's even funnier is that Vayne took advantage of the turret killing the siege minion and then, during the turret's attack interval, walked in and auto-attacked the giant Cho'Gath.

Laughter erupted from the crowd.

Unfortunately, the director of this match was also a troublemaker.

He immediately switched the live feed of the IG players in the lower left corner of the big screen to a close-up of TheShy's face.

However, TheShy did not show any emotional fluctuation in the video.

In the commentary box.

"Hey, Cho'Gath's Wild Scream was a little too slow, he still couldn't finish off the cannon minion. Zhou Shen is really messing with TheShy's mentality!" Guan Zeyuan said.

His hallucination level is much higher than Guan Zeyuan's, so he can see things more deeply.

"Actually, Zhou Shen was in a very dangerous situation just now. If Vayne had been hit by Cho'Gath's Q under the tower, she would definitely be dead."

"I can only say that Zhou Shen is really daring. I haven't commentated on LGD many times, but every time I have, he has done something like walking a tightrope!"

Viewers in the official tournament livestream were amused to see Vayne manage to prevent Cho'Gath from finishing off the cannon minion.

Holy crap, this Vayne! Her skin looks like Li Shizhen's, it's making me so itchy to punch her!

【Hey! You want to eat a cannon car? No way!】

[Zhou Shen: Don't eat! Don't eat!]

[No way, this is so unfair! If I were TheShy, I'd be completely out of my mind!]

[This is how Vayne top lane works!]

[Damn, isn't Vayne top lane a total toxic champion?]

[AD carry in the top lane, their parents can just watch from heaven!]

Oh dear, you're in a panic!

[Get ready to be in a rush! We'll help you get ranked games where your own team is playing Vayne top lane every time!]

Wow, so many people who like playing marksman top lane have surfaced, huh?

【.】

Back to the game.

After taking Vayne's third ring, Cho'Gath's health bar dropped to a dangerous level, so TheShy quickly used the health potion on Cho'Gath.

After killing the last melee creep under the tower, I looked around and saw that all that was left under my tower were ranged creeps.

TheShy suddenly felt a headache coming on.

A quick glance at the minimap revealed that their jungler, Jarvan IV, seemed to be looking for an opportunity near the mid lane.

From the very beginning of the game, the mid-lane heroes, Corki and Lucian, were trading blows very aggressively.

With Cho'Gath's Q and W abilities both on cooldown, Vayne blocking the tower and watching intently, and the jungler not nearby, it was destined that most of these ranged minions would have to be abandoned.

TheShy seized the opportunity to control Cho'Gath and land two more hits.

But every time the giant bug enters Vayne's range, a crossbow bolt will immediately be fired at it.

When Vayne's Q skill is ready, she can auto-attack and then Q, hitting Cho'Gath twice in a row.

Actually, it didn't take too long for the two waves of minions to be consumed by the turrets, but TheShy had never felt that time was so long.

Of the dozen or so minions under the tower, Cho'Gath managed to farm four.

They didn't even get to eat the most important artillery pieces.

Having given up so many minions under the tower, Cho'Gath's health was still quite good. After being tormented by Vayne in front of the tower for so long, he still had 40% health left.

Thanks to his passive ability, the big bug can barely survive in lane with this amount of health.

But with all the minions under the tower dead, the top lane minion wave reset, and Vayne began a new round of torment for Cho'Gath.

In the current situation, the big bug alone cannot break the deadlock; the jungler needs to come and help.

So where is the jungler?
(End of this chapter)