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Chapter 385 Prepare to freeze your hands, prepare to freeze your hands!
“Eimy’s Graves jungle is a signature move, but I’m more inclined to believe that this Graves is the one Zhou Shen is going to play!” Wawa said.

"After all, Zhou Shen used to play Graves top lane and achieved very good results!"

"You'll see soon enough!" Miller added.

"Let's take a look at RNG's last two picks. They still haven't picked their bot lane duo."

"As for the bottom lane, there's still Xayah outside."

Before the words were even finished, RNG locked in Varus on the fourth floor of the blue side.

Miller truly couldn't forget Xayah, the hero he was referring to.

In the draft phase of both games, Uzi would mention Xayah every time it was his turn to pick a champion.

"As for Varus, this champion is more afraid of champions like Jarvan IV and LeBlanc who can engage in fights."

"However, RNG may have felt that their team-up strategy was very strong, so they directly picked Varus, which means they need a protective support."

Miller was a little disappointed that Uzi didn't pick Xayah again, but he still carefully analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of Varus.

Subsequently, RNG picked Lulu on the fifth floor of the blue side.

It was LGD's turn to pick their last player.

PYL immediately picked Janna, then switched to Lux a few seconds later.

When Lux was revealed, a huge cheer and scream erupted from the audience.

You don't even need to look closely; they're almost all girls' voices.

Among the heroes who don't get much playing time, Lux is definitely one of the most popular among female players.

"Huh? Lux support?"

Before the baby could finish speaking, Lux was switched to Janna, and a few seconds later Janna was switched back to Lux.

"Hey, you're just messing with everyone, aren't you? PYL, you're so mean!"

"It really could be Lux, it's confirmed!"

Just as Miller finished speaking, PYL switched Lux ​​to Janna at the last second of the champion selection countdown.

"Oh my, I thought they would actually make a choice!"

"A few days ago in Korea, I think it was the support player from the Dragon Ball team who practiced Lux ​​in ranked games and went on a winning streak. At the time, some people said that the era of Lux support was coming, so I was quite excited when I saw PYL pick Lux," Miller said with a smile.

At this point, both sides have completed their ban/pick phases, and we are now in the final minute of the countdown before loading.

This time is used to switch heroes and adjust runes, masteries, and summoner spells.

In this game, RNG encountered a situation that is quite rare in matches.

That means each position selects their own hero during the ban/pick phase, and there's no need to switch heroes after the ban/pick phase.

LGD's adjustments were also minor, with only a swap between Zhou Dian on the first floor and imp on the fourth floor.

After Tristana and Graves swapped positions, LGD made no further changes.

Clearly, LGD is playing Graves top lane this game!

"Hey, this is interesting. Zhou Shen really is playing Graves top lane!" Wawa said with a smile.

Miller added, "Graves top lane was popular for a short time during Season 6, but not many people played it after that. I wonder if Zhou Shen will have any new insights in this game."

Wawa suddenly chuckled: "Letme is going to suffer again in the top lane against Graves!"

"That's not necessarily true. Mlxg is playing Elise this game, and Graves is easily ganked by Elise when pushing the lane." Miller clearly had a different opinion.

"You'll see, you'll find out soon enough."

In the official live stream, after viewers saw that LGD had confirmed Graves as their top laner, the chat was filled with jokes and memes.

Holy crap, guys, body odor!

[Zhou Shen has body odor?! I can't accept this!]

[Graves top lane, I want to roar!]

[Sparrows are eating it!]

[Brother: "Don't come any closer!"]

[Coming right up, getting ready for frozen hands!]

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Both head coaches took off their headphones, closed their laptops, and stepped down from the players' bench.

They walked towards each other, shook hands, and then turned and entered the players' tunnel.

The live stream camera gradually zoomed out, hovering above the LPL championship trophy in the center of the main stage.

The camera work clearly suggests who will lift the championship trophy today.

On the large screen at the venue, the game entered the loading screen.

RNG (Blue Side):

Top lane Maokai, jungle Elise, mid lane Lucian, bot lane Varus and Lulu.

Red team LGD:

Top lane: Graves; Jungle: Jarvan IV; Mid lane: LeBlanc; Bot lane: Tristana and Janna.

In the commentary booth, as the camera lingered on the championship trophy for a long time, Wawa suddenly exclaimed, "Wow, time flies! It's already five o'clock!"

“Yes, it’s five o’clock!” Miller added.

"No, no, I've been standing for too long, I'm tired, I need to drink a bottle of War Horse now!"

The baby was indeed responsible, never forgetting to advertise for the warhorse.

In the official tournament live stream, after Wawa deliberately mentioned War Horse, the chat was immediately filled with comments like "Driving a Mercedes, drinking War Horse, playing Rita on a gaming chair!"

From the audience seats, the cheers of the two teams for their respective teams could be heard, creating a chaotic atmosphere.

Basically, they just shouted at the top of their lungs to see who could shout the loudest.

Before entering Summoner's Rift, the camera panned across the faces of both players one last time.

As the camera panned across Mlxg, Miller said, "This Mlxg's Spider is the kind of champion with no way out!"

"Hmm," Wawa hesitated for a moment, then said, "But if a team wants to win the championship, it can never take the path of retreat to the path of advancement, so I think we should believe in ourselves and keep moving forward!"

"For RNG, winning this second game is absolutely essential. Picking some extreme heroes and going all out is something I think is fine!"

At this moment, the team logos of RNG and LGD appeared side by side on the big screen at the venue.

Then, the screen switched to Summoner's Rift.

The second game of the BO5 finals of the 17 LPL Summer Split has officially begun.

"Let's take a look at this crucial second game. The first dragon is a fire dragon!"

"This is the first time a fire dragon has appeared in our final today!" the doll exclaimed.

"However, judging from the lineups on both sides, RNG has a better chance of getting the first fire dragon!" Miller added.

“Yes, because RNG’s mid laner has a stronger fighting ability in the early game.” Wawa nodded.

At the start of the game, both sides lined up along the river to defend their respective jungle areas.

The keystone talents of ten heroes will pop up on both sides at the bottom of the OB interface.

The keystone rune setups used by everyone were fairly standard.

The only slight difference is that PYL's Janna took Windspeaker's Blessing, while Ming's Lulu took Thunderlord's Decree, probably aiming to gain an advantage in the laning phase. Letme's Maokai in the top lane took Courage of the Colossus.

If you're facing a ranged champion in lane and can only take damage, then Grasp of the Undying is pretty much unnecessary.

"Oh, come and take a look, Graves' keystone rune is Bloodlust."

Doll continued, "A fairly standard foundational talent!"

The word "normal" was emphasized.

"Do you think Zhou Shen is going to come up with some new tricks again?" Miller said with a smile.

"However, Graves' starting items followed Zhou Shen's consistent money-saving approach, starting with a Long Sword and a Refillable Potion."

"Look at RNG's bot lane. Ming's build this game, with Ignite and Thunderlord's Decree, plus that blue support item, proves that RNG's bot lane is planning something big this game!"

Miller could see these things, and naturally, everyone in LGD could see them too.

With RNG's strong mid and bot lane champions, plus the jungler Elise, Eimy felt that RNG was going to make a big move in the early game.

So in this game, Eimy chose to start in the top half of the map, and the Prince went straight for his own red buff.

At 1 minute and 32 seconds into the game, RNG's mid, bot, jungle, and support players gathered in the bottom river.

Next, the four of them followed the narrow pass behind LGD's blue buff and entered LGD's lower jungle.

The game started out calmly, but RNG chose to invade LGD's jungle at level one before the jungle monsters were about to respawn.

To be honest, losing the first game of a best-of-five series, falling behind 0-1, isn't a huge disadvantage.

However, when RNG was only down 0-1, they immediately chose to invade the enemy jungle at the start of the second game, which is very rare in the current version. It is unclear whether this was a quick response or a sign that they were starting to lack confidence in their own strength.

At 1 minute and 40 seconds into the game, the buff monster spawned, and RNG's mid, bot, jungle, and support players were already standing near the explosive fruit next to LGD's blue buff camp.

“You have an idea,” Miller said.

Lucian detonated the explosive fruit with a single shot.

Lulu, Varus, and Lucian all landed in the Blue Buff camp, but Spider scraped along the wall and landed on the other side instead of bouncing in.

A chorus of jeers immediately erupted from the crowd.

"Hey! We didn't get past the crucial spider. What a mistake!"

"It's alright, it only took a little time, but it's not a big problem!"

After helping Spider take down the blue buff a few times, RNG's mid and bot lanes returned to their respective lanes.

imp had previously placed a trinket ward in the river bush in the bottom lane.

Then the ward spotted RNG's bot lane duo coming from the river.

In addition, Lucian was also released late.

LGD immediately realized that their blue buff had been stolen by Spider.

It's alright now that you know. Eimy's Prince just swapped the blue buff jungle with the Spider, so he didn't lose anything.

On the other side, Zhou Dian's Graves helped Jarvan IV clear the jungle and then moved to the top lane.

If both junglers had started the game normally, Zhou Dian should have been constantly wary of Spider's ganks after 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

However, now that both junglers have swapped blue buff jungle areas, Spider won't be coming to the top side of the jungle for a while.

This is like a pillow delivered just when you're about to fall asleep—it's so comforting!
After Graves was released, Zhou Dian put all his unused skill points into his Q skill.

Next, Graves used his Last Stand (Q), which directly blasted all six minions of the blue team's first wave of minions.

Then the male gunner unleashed a barrage of shotgun fire, pushing the lane at an incredible speed!

After Mlxg's Spider destroyed LGD's blue buff and Gromp, it began to return to its own red buff area.

On LGD's side, Eimy's Jarvan IV went straight to RNG's blue buff area after taking down his own red buff and F6 camp.

At the same time, both sides engaged in a fierce exchange of blows in the mid and bottom lanes, resulting in a slight loss for LGD on both sides.

In a skirmish in the bottom lane, RNG forced Janna to use her Heal.

The mid-lane LeBlanc also lost two stacks of her Corrupting Potion.

In this game, Xiaohu's Lucian did not choose Heal as his Summoner Spell in the previous game, but instead chose Exhaust.

imp's Little Cannon replaced the Barrier from the previous game with Purify.

After entering RNG's blue buff area, Eimy's Prince did not immediately go for the blue buff, but instead took down the three wolves first.

After taking down the three wolves, Eimy glanced at the mid lane and saw Lucian pushing the lane, and suddenly an idea came to him.

"Can we gank mid?" Eimy asked.

"Sure, sure, just wait a moment. Lucian should come up and unleash a combo on me after he gets to level three!" GodV replied immediately.

"OK!"

So the prince gave up on taking RNG's blue buff and quietly circled around to Lucian's back, hiding in the shadows around the corner in front of RNG's first tower, waiting for the two mid laners to start fighting.

Lucian, who has been slowly pushing the lane since the first wave of minions, will definitely reach level three before LeBlanc.

As the cannon minion was destroyed, the moment Lucian reached level three, he used his E ability to dash towards the level two LeBlanc's face.

Because the two junglers swapped jungle areas at the start of the game, Wei Shen didn't learn any skills when LeBlanc was level two. He was waiting for this moment!

At this moment, Wei Shen immediately added skill points to his E skill, and LeBlanc's Phantom Chain (E) was unleashed.

In this situation where you're trying to get three kills, Lucian will most likely use EAA followed by Q to unleash a combo.

By taking advantage of the pre-cast animation of Lucian's Transcendental Light (Q), LeBlanc can definitely hit Lucian, who is in a brief stunned state, with her E.

Surprisingly, after Xiaohu's Lucian used his E to engage, he didn't auto-attack with either of his passive shots, but instead immediately moved sideways.

The Enchantress's phantom chains were easily dodged by Lucian with a deft twist.

In this round of competition, it's clear that Xiaohuqi has the upper hand.

Having not seen LeBlanc use her second skill for a long time, Xiaohu realized that Jarvan IV might be about to gank from behind.

This led to the scene where Lucian immediately repositioned after using his slide.

If a high-ranking random player had played Lucian in this situation, they would have been basically dead after getting three E into the air.

The difference between professional players and casual players is actually more about awareness.

Eimy's prince appeared behind Lucian and saw that LeBlanc hadn't chained Lucian, so he knew that the gank was basically over.

Upon seeing the prince, Xiaohu remained calm. Lucian used his passive to fire two shots at LeBlanc, followed by his Transcendental Light (Q) attack, and then two more basic attacks.

The already low-health heroine was hit by this attack, leaving her with only a little over a third of her health.

GodV quickly removed the last layer of corrupting potion from the Demoness's body.

At this point, Lucian leisurely retreated into the lower riverbed.

Eimy glanced at the distance between the prince and Lucian, then manipulated the prince to leave dejectedly.

"Damn it, the chain didn't connect!" Wei Shen exclaimed repeatedly in the LGD team voice chat. "I'm so damn angry! I really didn't expect his Lucian to use his E and then not auto-attack anyone!"

"Sigh, he probably guessed my gank!" Eimy shook his head. "If you hadn't released the chain so hastily, you might have had a chance!"

Just as Wei Shen was about to say something, PYL's urgent voice suddenly came through the LGD players' headsets.

"Watch the bottom lane! Watch the bottom lane!"

(End of this chapter)