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Chapter 387 Your Jungle, My Home: Taking Over RNG's Upper Jungle!

The game had only been going on for a little over 7 minutes, and with the first tower still standing, the opponent in lane ran up to the second tower and cut off the minion wave.

Even in a casual game, this is an extremely embarrassing thing to do, and your teammates will be bombarding you with question marks.

Moreover, this is a professional competition.

This isn't your average professional match; this is the LPL Summer Split Finals.

Wearing noise-canceling headphones, Letme couldn't hear much of the noise from the venue.

But seeing the Graves facing off against the second tower, Letme felt bad too.

He could only console himself that it was a hero's problem, and there was nothing he could do about it!

This Graves can out-farm me in lane, but right now I have an advantage in my mid, bot, and jungle. Can he win?

We can't win, you know that!
Thinking of this, Letme's mood instantly improved, and he happily finished off the tower's minions.

On Zhou Dian's side, once Graves' Q skill level is up, don't clear minions too quickly.

After quickly clearing the minion wave, Graves used his E ability to quickly draw his gun over the wall and enter RNG's upper jungle.

The Swamp Frog hadn't respawned, so Zhou Dian, controlling Graves, walked over to the Wolves and checked, finding that the Wolves were still there.

Spider is currently in the bottom lane. It would be a waste to leave such a good jungle monster here unfarmed!

So Zhou Dian casually wiped out RNG's three wolves.

Such behavior also caused a surge in comments in the official live broadcast room.

[Just arrived, anyone know who can tell me what hero Zhou Shen played this game? I've never seen him before.]

[Let me tell you, this is the new hero—the Alchemist!]

[Having eaten minions and monsters, I definitely have body odor!]

[Stop making baseless accusations; it was eating the opponent's jungle monsters!]

Both the mid and bottom lanes have collapsed, I'm really worried about your B3 wolves!

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Back to the game.

After clearing the three wolves, Zhou Dian controlled Graves to look back at the Gromp, only to find that the Gromp had just spawned.

So Graves happily accepted RNG's Gromp.

In the commentary box.

The doll laughed and said, "It's good that Spicy Hot Pot played Spider this game. Spider doesn't rely much on farming. Otherwise, if he had run into Zhou Shen's Graves, it would have been really tough!"

Miller was speechless for a while, then as if he suddenly remembered something, he said, "Actually, Zhou Shen, when he first started playing in the LPL Spring Split this year, seemed to really like farming the enemy's jungle monsters. He could dominate the lane and counter-jungle at the same time!"

"However, since the start of the Summer Split, Zhou Shen's playstyle has become more composed, and we haven't seen him go to invade the enemy jungle during the laning phase much anymore!"

"I thought he had just let loose and was returning to his true nature!" Miller said with a chuckle.

"As expected, in a little over two minutes, once the frog and the three wolves respawn here, Graves should come over to spawn right on time."

After clearing RNG's Gromp and Wolves, Graves returned to the top lane and did not go to the second tower to cut the minion wave again.

Because at this point, LGD's bottom lane tower was already in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the health of RNG's top tower had been whittled down to below half by Graves.

Zhou Dian wanted to see if he had a chance to secure the first tower kill.

However, Zhou Dian still greatly underestimated the support that Uzi's team would provide to the bottom lane.

Mlxg's Spider only cleared the red buff, without touching any other jungle monsters, before heading back to the bottom lane.

At this moment, Eimy's Prince was farming his own red buff, too far from the bottom lane.

LGD's bottom lane duo had no choice but to retreat from the first tower.

LGD's bottom lane tower, which was low on health, was easily taken down by RNG's bottom laner, jungler, and support.

At this point, the game time was only 8 minutes and 50 seconds.

Following their first blood, RNG secured the first tower kill of the game.

For LGD, the situation on the field seems a bit unfavorable.

In this game, LGD's bottom lane was relentlessly targeted by Mlxg, and Eimy hasn't been able to accomplish much so far.

Fearing that his teammates might lose their composure, Zhou Dian quickly said, "Don't rush, let's farm first. My Graves is very fed this game, I'll take them down one by one!"

As soon as Zhou Dian finished speaking, his teammates also chimed in.

"Where are you going!"

"That's right, we have a good lineup, so we're not worried at all!"

"This game is a breeze to win!"

Zhou Dian listened attentively to his teammates' comments, finding them quite enjoyable.

LGD is now a well-tested and mature team!

After glancing at the timestamp in the chat box in the lower left corner, Zhou Dian controlled Graves to quickly push the minion wave to the base of the Tree Tower.

Time's almost up, the enemy's three wolves are about to respawn!

After RNG's jungler, support, and bot laner took down LGD's bottom lane tower, they immediately turned around and went to fight the dragon.

LGD was naturally powerless to contest this fire dragon.

After RNG secured the first dragon of the game, Varus and Lulu immediately recalled to base to prepare for a lane swap.

The OB camera switched to the mid lane, where Wei Shen's LeBlanc emerged from the river and charged forward to unleash a combo on Xiao Hu's Lucian.

However, LeBlanc's Phantom Chains (E) missed again.

If you can't reach him with the chain, it's definitely impossible to solo kill Lucian.

"He dodged it again! It seems like Wei Shen's chain hasn't hit Xiao Hu this time!" Miller couldn't help but say upon seeing this.

"Yeah, I've basically never won," the doll chimed in.

The two commentators were so focused on praising Xiaohu that they failed to notice the subtle shifts in the game's dynamics.

LeBlanc failed to chain Lucian again this time.

However, after using QWR skills, along with the damage from Thunderlord's Decree, Lucian's health was reduced to below half.

In addition, Lucian was almost out of mana, while LeBlanc was still at almost full health, so Xiaohu had no choice but to return to base to replenish his supplies.

With Lucian's return to the city, Wei Shen achieved his goal.

After all, Lucian carries Exhaust, so he's practically impossible to kill solo.

Wei Shen's original goal was to force Lucian back to base, not to kill him; whether the chain was empty or not didn't matter.

The observer camera then switched to RNG's upper jungle.

Graves had already reached RNG's three wolves.

One second later, the three wolves respawned.

After clearing the three wolves, Graves took a few steps to the left and cleared the Gromp that RNG had just spawned.

In the commentary box.

"See? I told you so!" Miller said with a smile. "Zhou Shen's timing is just too perfect. These two groups of monsters arrived right on time as soon as they spawned."

"It feels like Graves has monopolized these two jungle camps!" Wawa laughed.

"Isn't this your jungle, my home?!"

After clearing the Gromp, Graves didn't leave RNG's jungle. Instead, he took two steps up and went to the blue side's top lane tri-bush.

Eimy's Prince had already reached the top lane and was blocking RNG's top tower.

Letme's big tree stands alone beneath the tower.

Seeing this, Miller said, "Judging from their positioning, it seems like Graves is the jungler and Jarvan IV is the top laner!"

"Are they trying to jump over the big tree? But it seems like two people can't jump it down!" Wawa said with some doubt. As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Dian placed a ward with a trinket behind RNG's top tower, and the whirlwind of the teleport immediately swirled up on the ward.

It was a teleportation from the Enchantress!
"Hey, LeBlanc teleported! This is a three-man gank!" Miller shouted.

What should Letme do?

The red team's minion wave was about to reach RNG's top tower. When Letme saw LeBlanc's teleport, he knew that this wave was probably over.

But he couldn't just give up and wait to die.

The giant tree walked up to the tower and enlarged itself, with several huge vines rising from the ground, trying to block the minion wave in front of the tower and prevent it from entering.

Eimy didn't hesitate either, controlling the Prince to decisively use Cataclysm (R), taking advantage of the fact that Maokai was not under the tower at this time, and covering Maokai in the ultimate.

Zhou Dian's Graves charged up under the turret, bringing LeBlanc, who had just teleported in, with him.

Under the combined attack of LGD's top, jungle, and mid laners, the tree's health plummeted.

Letme was too lazy to use Flash anymore, and just kept running forward, hoping to stall for as long as possible.

In the end, the tree's head was taken by the Enchantress.

After all, the Demoness paid for the teleportation, so she deserves a kill as compensation.

In the commentary box.

"Big Tree didn't even use Flash, and the kill went to LeBlanc. With that kill, LeBlanc made up for all the CS she lost to Lucian earlier!" said the doll.

Miller added, "Actually, Letme should have retreated to the isolated bushes earlier. There were no teammates in the top half of the map, and the enemy top and jungle were clearly in the top half. He was still staying under the tower, which was honestly a bit too risky!"

"I guess Eimy didn't gank Letme much in the last game, which made him relax and think that LGD's strategy today was to let the top laner play freely."

"But... the kind of three-man gank on the top lane that we just saw is the strategy LGD has been using the most this year!"

After killing the tree, LeBlanc and Jarvan IV returned to the mid lane and jungle respectively.

Graves continued pushing the lane in the top lane.

After all, RNG's top tower was already down to less than half health, and they could easily take it down at any opportunity.

Just as Zhou Dian pushed the minion wave to RNG's top lane tower, RNG's bottom lane duo arrived, so he had no choice but to recall to base and buy items.

The Graves returned to the fountain, bought a pair of straw sandals, and then pulled out a serrated dagger and a warhammer, clearly intending to use Youmuu's Ghostblade first.

In this game, Zhou Dian is planning to go for an armor penetration build for Graves.

After all, the Graves' range is too short, and against RNG's lineup, there isn't much opportunity to keep auto-attacking. So, it's better to go for an armor penetration build to unleash a burst of damage and AOE, and then let imp's Tristana clean up the rest.

After completing his equipment, Graves headed straight for the top lane.

LGD did not follow RNG's lead and swapped lanes in the top and bottom lanes; Tristana and Janna remained in the bottom lane.

With Graves' wave clearing ability, he should have no problem defending the top tower even against Varus and Lulu.

On the other hand, RNG currently has Lucian in the bottom lane and Maokai in the mid lane.

When Lucian faced LGD's bot lane duo, every time the red side minions came in, unless Lucian used his ultimate to clear the minions, RNG's bottom tower would be hit by Tristana's E.

Meanwhile, with the bottom lane no longer laning, LGD's bottom lane was also freed from the endless harassment from the spider.

Therefore, LGD was actually happy to see RNG initiate this lane swap.

After RNG destroyed LGD's bottom tower, their bot lane immediately switched to the top lane, of course, so that Uzi's Varus could farm more safely.

As a result, Mlxg's Spider stayed near the top lane.

He was fine against RNG's bot lane duo, but against RNG's bot, jungle, and support trio, Zhou Dian struggled and had to call for reinforcements.

In this game, RNG's jungler Elise was clearly tied to Uzi, so LGD had no choice but to switch lanes as well.

After pushing the wave in the bottom lane, imp and PYL chose to recall and then headed straight to the top lane.

Eimy's princes also rushed up the road.

Seeing that four LGD players had gathered in the top lane, RNG's bottom laner, jungler, and support retreated from in front of LGD's top tower.

On LGD's side, seeing RNG retreat, Zhou Dian's Graves recalled to base and prepared to go to the bottom lane to defend.

However, the three RNG players did not actually retreat.

Instead, they went to the riverbed, got stuck at the corner of the thick wall, and tried to ambush someone.

The group was positioned in front of the red team's top lane tri-bush. Spider placed a control ward in the tri-bush, but there were no LGD wards inside.

So RNG's jungler, support, and bottom laner quietly crouched in place, waiting for their destined partner.

And indeed, the wait was over.

Just seconds after the ward was placed, Eimy's prince walked into the bush.

Varus raised his hand and swung out the Chains of Corruption (R), which immediately wrapped around the prince, binding him.

The spider then continues to spin a cocoon (E).

Under concentrated fire, the prince's health plummeted.

PYL's Janna had lost too much experience earlier and was still not at level six.

Without her ultimate ability, Janna would have a hard time protecting the prince in this situation.

Even though Janna used her E skill to shield and heal Jarvan IV, Tristana immediately used her ultimate to knock back Elise.

But the prince's head was still taken by Varus's piercing arrow (Q).

At 11 minutes into the game, Uzi's Varus had already secured two kills.

As soon as the prince died, the OB immediately switched the camera to the mid lane.

In front of LGD's mid tower, Maokai was severely low on health, with two chains held by LeBlanc and locked onto Maokai.

Next, the Phantom Chains (E) root effect was triggered, and LeBlanc followed up with a Malicious Mark (Q) and a basic attack, instantly taking down Maokai.

"Ah, the tree was solo killed?" Miller was a little surprised.

"Wow, Wei Shen stepped up at the crucial moment!"

"But why is LeBlanc still at full health after solo killing Maokai?" Doll asked, puzzled.

The director immediately showed a replay of the mid-lane battle.

“Let’s take a look,” the doll said.

The minion wave in the mid lane was blocked in front of LGD's mid tower, and Letme clearly wanted to push the minion wave towards the tower.

After realizing that it was impossible, he manipulated the tree to pull it back.

It was too late!

LeBlanc immediately uses QW to stomp on the tree's face, then uses Phantom Chains (E) to chain to the tree.

At the same time, LeBlanc's second W returns her to her original position, creating distance between her and Maokai. Maokai doesn't have enough distance to use his W skill to grab LeBlanc.

After the Phantom Chains imprisoned the tree, the Enchantress used the same trick (R) to create another Phantom Chains and link them to the tree again.

Letme probably felt that LeBlanc couldn't kill a fully healed Maokai at this point.

Seeing his own turret not far away, Letme did not choose to use Flash to break free from LeBlanc's chains.

And so the tree was once again imprisoned by the enchantress's chains.

Then, LeBlanc took down Maokai with a QA combo, and Letme couldn't use Flash anymore.

"Wow, that was a really simple solo kill," Miller said.

Miller emphasized the words "very simple".

"Hehehe!" The doll chuckled at the opportune moment.

"Both chains were connected, dealing full damage—what a simple and straightforward solo kill!"

"Because Maokai was laning against Graves, Letme didn't build any magic resistance!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a magic resistance cloak worth 450 gold appeared in the equipment slot of the big tree in the lower left corner of the large screen.

(End of this chapter)