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Chapter 370 The Game Around the Cassiopeia's Ultimate Move: I Predicted Your Prediction!

The prince kept attacking the F6 camp, but Eimy was thinking about what Zhou Dian had said half a minute earlier, when they had just killed Cho'Gath: "Hurry up and go to mid lane, maybe someone will get a kill!"

"This kid is really only ganking mid lane!" Eimy muttered loudly.

Upon hearing Eimy's words, Zhou Dian chuckled and said, "He's not just ganking mid lane, he's only helping Rookie!"

"Let them help me however they want, I'm not going to play with them in the mid lane anymore!" Wei Shen said as he controlled the newly respawned Taliyah to leave the base.

After the resurrected Taliyah came down from the high ground, it did not continue to move in a straight line.

Instead, he turned around and went into the upper jungle, walking behind his own red buff wall.

On the IG side, Cassiopeia had just come out of her house.

Rookie looked at the empty mid lane and sensed something was wrong. He subconsciously reminded his teammates on the side lanes to be careful.

A few more seconds passed, but Taliyah still hadn't appeared.

Rookie immediately realized that Taliyah was definitely going to use her ultimate to gank the side lane.

But by then, it's too late to know.

A stone curtain quickly spread across the river, extending all the way to the base of IG's top tower.

They're just blatantly grabbing your big bug.

Without a word, Duke used Flash to leap over the stone wall created by Taliyah's ultimate and escape towards the second top tower.

The Rock Sparrow, sliding down from the stone curtain, also used its Blink ability, which had just been reactivated.

Following up with a precise Rock Slash (W), the giant bug was lifted back.

Zhou Dian's Fiora followed up with damage, and together with Taliyah, they killed the giant Cho'Gath.

Giving the kill to Taliyah somewhat mitigated the loss from being ganked and killed in the mid lane earlier.

The big bug's record has now reached 0-3.

As a result, the chat in the official tournament live stream was filled with:

[Have some decency, Zhou Shen, stop calling for backup!]

No, I was thinking my sister and I called for more people; they came of their own accord!

[Can any of you with good eyesight check this out? Is IG missing someone?]

[Duke: Where are my teammates? Where are they? Help me!]

I can't get there!

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Less than ten minutes into the game, the giant bug had already been forcibly killed for the third time.

Even though Duke is usually very good-tempered, he almost blurted out "Shiba".

But he ultimately held back his native tongue and wanted to vent his frustrations in Chinese.

But after thinking for several seconds, he realized that with his current level of Chinese, he couldn't come up with a single sentence, so he simply shut up and remained silent.

The team voice chat for IG was quiet, and the atmosphere seemed somewhat subtle.

The child, lost in thought, felt sweat starting to bead on his forehead again.

He raised his left hand to wipe it, then picked up the water glass and took a sip.

On the other side, after Taliyah used her ultimate to kill Cho'Gath, she immediately returned to the mid lane.

After Fiora cleared a wave of minions past IG's top turret, she didn't attack IG's top turret but instead chose to recall to base to buy items.

Zhou Dian felt there was no need to destroy the giant worm's first tower so early, as that would give the giant worm more room to grow.

If we're going to make things happen with Duke, we have to make things happen big!
At this stage, IG seems to have lost its composure.

Game time is 9 minutes and 50 seconds.

imp's rat ran to the mid lane and used his ultimate to shoot the Cassiopeia.

Although it didn't kill her, it reduced the snake woman to only 30% of her health.

A few seconds later, the Rift Herald spawned.

Due to Cassiopeia's poor performance, IG had no choice but to give up.

Even if Cassiopeia were in good condition, IG wouldn't really want to contest the Rift Herald.

Because Fiora and Jarvan IV have such good equipment, the risk is too great, not to mention that LGD also has the unpredictable Taric ultimate.

LGD successfully secured the Rift Herald, and Jarvan IV picked up the Herald's Eye.

The two sides then continued their normal laning phase.

Two minutes later, Zhou Dian's Fiora solo-pushed down IG's top lane tower, which was already low on health.

At the same time, Taliyah used her ultimate to fly straight to the bottom lane, and together with Jarvan IV, they launched a four-man gank on IG's bottom lane duo.

Fortunately, Baolan reacted in time, controlling Thresh to retreat in time, and then used a lantern to rescue the Tristana under the tower.

Although they failed to kill anyone, LGD achieved their goal by driving away IG's bot lane duo.

At this moment, there were only four LGD minions under IG's bottom tower. Prince immediately crushed the Herald's Eye and summoned the Rift Herald.

IG's bottom lane tower, which was almost at full health, was pushed down in one go by LGD's mid, bottom, jungle, and support.

Meanwhile, in the mid lane, Cassiopeia and Maokai were relentlessly attacking LGD's mid lane tower.

After Fiora solo destroyed IG's top lane turret, Zhou Dian controlled Fiora to defend the mid lane turret.

Both Cassiopeia and Maokai are AP champions, so their tower-destroying speed is not good. When Fiora arrived at her own base's Tier 1 tower, the tower still had nearly a third of its health left.

Fiora has Tiamat, and the blue team minions under the tower are being quickly cleared by Fiora.

Seeing the minions dwindling under the tower, Cassiopeia and Treant Protector had no choice but to retreat.

Just as Cassiopeia turned and retreated, Fiora used her Q to stab the blue minion under the tower.

Suddenly, the snake woman turned around, her eyes fixed on the sword maiden, and used her petrifying gaze (R).

Given Zhou Dian's reaction speed and concentration at this moment, dodging the Cassiopeia's ultimate move wouldn't be difficult, even though Rookie's timing for skill release was very clever, the ultimate move still came very suddenly.

Zhou Dian quickly moved the mouse and clicked the right mouse button.

In the game, Fiora made a split second, turning to the side, and Cassiopeia's ultimate skill landed on Fiora's back.

Therefore, Fiora was only slowed down by Cassiopeia's ultimate, but was not stunned.

Rookie's face immediately showed a look of regret.

He certainly didn't expect the ultimate to stun Fiora directly, but in his mind, Fiora should use Laurent's Mind's Eye (W) to block Cassiopeia's ultimate.

Then the big tree next to her can use W to bind Fiora, who doesn't have her W skill yet. Fiora hasn't built any tank items at this point, so she's actually quite squishy.

With the help of the tree's crowd control, Cassiopeia can kill Fiora in just a few hits.

IG's chances of turning the game around will greatly increase if they secure the kill on Fiora and disrupt the rhythm of LGD's fed top laner.

But Rookie didn't expect that Cassiopeia's sudden ultimate move wouldn't even force Fiora to use her W skill.

Fiora simply turned her head slightly and dodged Cassiopeia's ultimate stun.

With Fiora's W skill still active, Maokai naturally dared not bind her, rendering Rookie's subsequent plan to kill Fiora impossible.

Rookie shook his head and sighed.

He knew that if he missed this opportunity, IG would have a very difficult time in this game.

The kid didn't see Rookie shake his head, but he heard Rookie sigh and felt inexplicably uneasy. He thought Rookie was blaming him for having no rhythm in this game.

As a result, the sweat on the child's forehead poured even more profusely.

In the commentary box.

"Wow, Cassiopeia's ultimate didn't even stun Fiora, and she didn't even force Laurent's Mind's Eye. Zhou Shen's backstep was amazing!"

As a well-known Zhou Xun enthusiast, Guan Zeyuan couldn't help but start praising him.

The person next to her, Zhihuan, chimed in, "Fiora is holding the tower alone; she's actually giving them a chance!"

"Rookie probably wanted to coordinate with Maokai to take down Fiora, but unfortunately, his ultimate didn't even get Fiora's W to land, so there's nothing he can do!"

"This game is going to be very difficult for IG!"

Back to the game.

Zhou Dian's Fiora's successful defense of their first turret was undoubtedly crucial. With IG's first turrets on both top and bottom lanes falling, the game became very straightforward for LGD.

Fiora returned to base and built Trinity Force, then began to push the bottom lane.

Wei Shen's Taliyah went to the top lane to push the lane.

LGD's bot lane duo stayed in the mid lane to farm, as the mid lane is relatively safer.

While IG's lineup has good initiation capabilities, its damage output is insufficient at this point in the game.

With Gem's ultimate ability available, LGD's bot lane duo has nothing to fear; they just need to be a little careful of Thresh's hook.

This 131 split pattern has tormented IG to no end, leaving them overwhelmed and often causing them to lose sight of one aspect while trying to address another.

Of course, the prerequisite for playing like this is that you must have at least one advantageous lane; otherwise, you're just feeding.

A few minutes later, IG's bottom lane second turret was destroyed by Fiora after Cho'Gath was tower-dived and killed by Fiora at the bottom lane's second turret.

IG had no choice but to send their best-farmed Cassiopeia to guard the lane that Fiora was pushing.

However, Rookie always felt a lot of psychological pressure when facing Fiora.

Every time the Cassiopeia and Fiora meet, Fiora always seems eager to poke at her, as if she's about to strike.

At the 28th minute of the game, IG's bottom lane inhibitor turret.

Fiora, using the Project skin, applied the ultimate ability, Unleash Challenge, to Cassiopeia, creating four fiery red vulnerability points at Cassiopeia's feet.

Then, Fiora used RWEA Flash to instantly eliminate the three openings in her ultimate.

This was the first classic Fiora combo that Zhou Dian developed in casual games.

This combo ends with a Sky Piercing Slash (Q), eliminating the fourth vulnerability and achieving four hits in one second.

Rookie knew very well that with Fiora's current equipment, once Fiora exploited her four weaknesses, his Cassiopeia would be dead.

However, Rookie did not choose to use Flash.

He felt this was an opportunity, a good opportunity to turn the situation around.

Although Rookie is not a professional top laner, his Fiora A-Flash-Four-Break combo during the week-long tournament was very popular at the time, and Rookie even studied it.

Therefore, he knew exactly the order in which this combo would exploit weaknesses and knew Fiora's next move.

Let's return to the IG bottom lane inhibitor turret at this moment.

The snake woman under the tower lost more than half of her health. As her three weak points were destroyed, her eyes gleamed, and she used Petrify Gaze (R) to target the location of the last weak point at her feet.

Fiora used Flash and W to hit the first three weak points. If she then uses Q to hit the fourth weak point, she will inevitably be stunned by Cassiopeia's ultimate and then killed by Cassiopeia.

next moment.

The Cassiopeia missed her ultimate!
After Fiora exploited three openings, she suddenly stopped in place.

Rookie's Cassiopeia ultimate, which was purely based on prediction, went straight into thin air!
"Wow, the snake woman didn't get the R again!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed.

On the big screen, Fiora stopped in place after quickly exploiting three openings.

The Cassiopeia's ultimate attack, aimed at the fourth vulnerability, failed to hit Fiora.

The next moment, Fiora slid horizontally and used her Q to eliminate the last weakness on Cassiopeia, while automatically following up with a basic attack to finish her off.

Cassiopeia didn't use Flash before Fiora took her down with her four-hit combo.

Rookie didn't use Flash immediately because he wanted to use himself as bait to predict Fiora's next move and use his ultimate to pin her under the high ground tower and kill her.

Unfortunately, Zhou Dian was a cut above the rest.

After the Cassiopeia missed her ultimate, Rookie was so surprised that he was momentarily stunned.

It's too late to use Flash now.

A massive healing array appeared inside IG's bottom lane inhibitor turret.

Fiora stepped on the healing circle and pulled herself out of the tower's range, thus avoiding further tower attacks.

Then they returned to the tower and began attacking IG's bottom lane inhibitor tower.

The healing circle created by destroying the four weak points lasts for a full 5 seconds, and under the effect of the healing circle, Fiora's health jumps up in segments.

Just as Fiora was relentlessly attacking IG's bottom lane inhibitor turret, the other four members of LGD started attacking Baron Nashor.

IG is currently facing a dilemma, with both ends in their favor.

Should we defend Baron or the bottom lane inhibitor?
Because there is still a long time before the snake woman is resurrected, this is a decision that must be made.

Of course, the best approach is to send one person back to guard Fiora, while the other three guard Baron Nashor.

However, trying to have both often results in having neither.

Looking at Fiora's equipment, and considering that Fiora had just tower-dived and solo-killed Cassiopeia, no one on IG's side was confident that they could defend against Fiora by themselves.

More importantly, it's the intimidating presence of the ID above Fiora's head.

LGDZhou!

The intimidation factor of this ID comes from Zhou Dian's performance in so many matches over the past six months.

Ultimately, IG decided to give up Baron Nashor, with the bot lane duo returning to defend Fiora, while Kid would look for an opportunity to steal Baron Nashor.

When Tristana and Thresh returned, Fiora was attacking IG's bot lane nexus.

Seeing the Tristana and Thresh approaching, Zhou Dian abandoned the small crystal in front of him, which still had half its health remaining, and chose to retreat.

Don't be fooled by how aggressive Fiora seemed when she charged under the tower to kill Cassiopeia.

But Zhou Dian is actually a very cautious person; he generally doesn't do things he's not sure about.

He was very confident in killing Cassiopeia, so Fiora dove the tower and solo killed her.

Without his ultimate and Flash, Zhou Dian isn't very confident against Tristana and Thresh, so he won't risk destroying IG's bot lane nexus.

Anyway, after taking down Baron Nashor, the bottom lane inhibitor, which is not protected by the inhibitor turret, will be his sooner or later.

On the other side, Kid God wanted to steal the dragon, but couldn't find any opportunities.

The main issue is that IG is on the blue side. Just like the red side wants to steal the dragon, the blue side has an inherent disadvantage due to the terrain of the dragon pit.

The child wandered around the big tree near the big dragon pit for a long time, but really didn't know where to start.

Then, a stone curtain rose up, and Taliyah used her ultimate ability to keep the giant bug outside.

This shows their fear of Cho'Gath's ultimate ability threatening Baron Nashor, somewhat ignoring IG's main jungler, Maokai.

Because the prince was three levels higher than the tree at this point, his Smite damage was more than 100 points higher, so Eimy wasn't afraid to fight with Smite.

Of course, in this situation, LGD will not give the opposing jungler a chance to use Smite.

When Fiora retreated from IG's high ground.

Near the Big Dragon Pit, the big tree and the big bug also left in a huff.

LGD successfully secured Baron Nashor.

At this point, the situation at IG's bottom lane inhibitor and Baron Nashor was settled, and the broadcast then showed a replay of Fiora's tower dive and solo kill on Cassiopeia.

After watching the replay.

Guan Zeyuan said, "Zhou Shen's Fiora's AFK Flash combo with four quick attacks was truly masterful. He deserves to be called the pioneer!"

"Rookie predicted Fiora's move, and Cassiopeia immediately used her ultimate behind her. Fiora actually stopped herself after hitting the third weak point, thus stopping her attempt to hit the fourth weak point and dodging Cassiopeia's ultimate."

"This reaction is terrifying! Is this really the reaction of someone in their early twenties?"

Upon hearing this, Zhihuan shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be a reaction. Rookie's Cassiopeia predicted and released her ultimate in advance. No human can react like that! Zhou Shen must have predicted it too, right?"

At that moment, the replay on the big screen was showing the process of Fiora hitting four weak points in slow motion.

The slow-motion replay shows that Fiora stopped in place immediately after using her A-Flash combo to eliminate her third vulnerability.

The animation is almost synchronized with the Snake Woman's ultimate attack.

If you look closely, you might even think that Fiora's stopping motion was slightly before Cassiopeia's ultimate move.

This was indeed a prediction. Zhou Dian predicted that the Snake Woman would unleash a powerful attack behind her, and he even guessed the exact timing of the attack.

"That really is a prediction. Rookie's Cassiopeia casting her ultimate behind him was a prediction in itself. What do you call Zhou Shen's move?" Guan Zeyuan said.

"Is this what they call 'I predicted your prediction'?"

(End of this chapter)