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Chapter 389 Strike hard at the breakthrough point, pick the softest persimmon to squeeze!

Zhou Dian's Graves reunited with his teammates, and the five RNG players had also gathered in the mid lane.

In a 5v5 team fight, RNG's fighting strength is still stronger.

LGD's five players did not engage in a team fight, but instead retreated to the middle tower.

Xiaohu's Lucian chased after him, sweeping away everything in his path with his Holy Lance, and it wasn't all for naught, as he forced out Janna's Heal.

Next, the RNG players started clearing minions quickly, and Lulu also destroyed the Herald's Eye, releasing the Rift Herald.

RNG wanted to take advantage of the situation and destroy LGD's mid-lane tower.

The blue team's minion wave pushed into LGD's mid-lane tower, and the Rift Herald charged into it.

Although Janna shielded the turret in time, the impact still caused it to lose a significant amount of health.

With the health Lucian chipped away at during the laning phase, LGD's mid-lane tower was down to only one-third of its health.

However, just as the Rift Herald crashed into it, LeBlanc suddenly used her W ability to dash forward, and her Phantom Chains (E) accurately hit the spider, who was swaying from side to side.

At the same time, the Mark of Malice (Q) was also applied to the spider.

Before the spider's flight was fully recovered, Mlxg had no choice but to use Flash.

boom!
A bomb flew from a distance from under LGD's mid-lane tower. After reaching its maximum range, the bomb exploded outwards, covering a fan-shaped area.

Unfortunately, the spider teleported into this area.

The Spider, with just over 300 HP remaining, was instantly taken down by Graves' Ultimate Bomb (R).

"That was a great shot, Zhou Dian!" Wei Shen shouted excitedly in the LGD team voice chat.

Zhou Dian smiled and said, "We worked well together, Wei Shen!"

With their Spider down, RNG naturally dared not push LGD's mid-lane tower anymore, and the remaining four players quickly retreated.

In the commentary box.

"LGD really made a killing this time. They held the mid tower, forced Varus to use Flash, and even killed Elise!" Miller said.

"LGD even secured an Earth Dragon earlier. Their series of decisions caught RNG off guard!"

"RNG should have initiated the fight. Maokai couldn't have held off the team fight in the confined terrain, and LGD doesn't have anyone who can tank the damage right now."

At this point, Doll suddenly interrupted Miller.

"That's not necessarily true. Look how high Graves' level is, two levels higher than Maokai!"

"If Graves had all the manly layers stacked up, it's hard to say who would be tankier, him or Tree!" Wawa said.

Miller nodded and said, "RNG needs to be more vigilant about Graves. At this stage of the game, a Graves who has farmed this much is both tanky and powerful. I have a feeling that RNG is going to fall into Zhou's split-push rhythm again this game!"

"It can only be described as another typical Zhou Shen-style game. He doesn't eat his teammates' minions or jungle monsters, but his development is always much better than the enemy top laner!"

After RNG's attempt to push the Rift Herald in the mid lane failed, both sides dispersed and no longer gathered in the mid lane.

After all, someone needs to handle the side lanes and the jungle.

Both teams' bot lane duos remained in the mid lane, while the top laners went to the bot lane to defend their lane.

At 17 minutes and 10 seconds into the game, Zhou Dian reached the blue team's bottom lane tri-bush before Letme.

Letme was fairly alert. When the tree came over, he first threw a tree offspring into the triangular bush, where he discovered Graves standing.

Now that he'd been discovered, Zhou Dian decided to stop trying to hide it.

The Graves initiated with an EQ combo, charging right up to the Tree of Life, then used a smoke grenade to block the Tree of Life's vision.

Judging by this, the tree is bound to get a good beating from Graves.

If you want to go from here to farm minions in the bottom lane, did you even ask me, the Outlaw, first?
In this game, Zhou Dian used the Graves' "Godfather" skin, so he had to be a bit arrogant.

Zhou Dian originally just wanted to beat Letme up, but suddenly he heard Wei Shen's voice in his ear.

"Go ahead and kill! I have a tank, I have a tank!"

Zhou Dian immediately understood Wei Shen's meaning and promptly inserted the eye of the ornament on his body.

Immediately afterwards, a teleportation vortex rose above his eyes.

As soon as the big tree emerged from the smoke bomb, it saw the Enchantress's teleportation.

Letme acted decisively, immediately using Flash, and the tree flashed over the wall to its own stone beetle.

At the same time, turn around and release the Natural Grip (R).

As soon as LeBlanc landed via Teleport, she immediately used her W skill to follow the tree and go over the wall.

As soon as the Enchantress passed over the wall, she was firmly bound to the spot by the vines summoned by the tree's ultimate skill.

Actually, it was pretty good to force out Maokai's Flash, but Wei Shen felt that since he had already come all this way, it would be too frustrating not to even touch Maokai.

After breaking free from her restraints, LeBlanc uses her ultimate ability, "Shadow Step," to teleport once more and chase after the tree.

Before the Enchantress could even unleash her Phantom Chains, the Tree delivered an Asian Binding blow to her.

The tree's W skill immobilized LeBlanc in place.

Wei Shen didn't take it seriously at first, but then a clump of spider webs suddenly flew out from behind the wall.

Mlxg's spider was nearby!

It was a bit of a coincidence that after the spider respawned, it went straight to its own Krugs. Just after it finished clearing the Krugs, it saw the Graves blocking its way and beating up the tree.

Then LeBlanc teleported, and Maokai used Flash to escape in a sorry state.

Mlxg was just about to say that Letme had recklessly used Flash and run in the wrong direction when he saw LeBlanc chasing after him with two Ws.

"Tie him up! Tie him up!" Mlxg shouted repeatedly.

The spider hides behind a corner to block the view.

Upon hearing Mlxg's command, Letme stopped running forward, and the big tree turned around and bound the Enchantress.

Then the spider spun a cocoon, and the enchantress was unable to move.

Then Spider and Lucian, who had just arrived at the battlefield, pounced on them together.

The Demoness's health bar was immediately reduced to zero.

Fortunately, the brief invisibility triggered by her passive clone helped LeBlanc survive a little longer.

When the demon queen broke free from the controlled state, she still had a sliver of health left.

Wei Shen pressed R and then Flash in quick succession.

LeBlanc returned to the original position of the cloned Shadow Step, then flashed over the wall and instantly escaped a long distance.

But this did nothing.

The distance LeBlanc ran was matched by the distance Lucian's second bullet, which followed her after triggering his passive.

They followed her all the way to the bottom lane's tri-bush and took LeBlanc's life.

LeBlanc's 3-0 score was ended by Lucian.

He even used a death flash!

A huge cheer erupted from the crowd.

In the commentary box.

"Oh no, Wei Shen has fallen for the trap! Lucian landed that basic attack, and LeBlanc didn't escape!" Miller shouted.

"Letme's decisive turn and tie was crucial!" Wawa added.

"This is crucial, absolutely crucial! LeBlanc secured a huge kill, and she used Flash and Teleport, completely disrupting LGD's momentum! LeBlanc is now LGD's Achilles' heel, the starting point for their rhythm!"

"The only thing that Wei Shen can be thankful for in this wave is that he only gave away LeBlanc's ultimate and gave away this big kill, which will not cause him to lose towers or resources."

"Actually, it's not that bad!"

The doll knows she doesn't understand games well, so she never speaks too definitively.

Meanwhile, in the LGD team's voice chat, the atmosphere, which had been quite lively just seconds before, suddenly became tense.

When Zhou Dian saw that the big tree didn't run away immediately, but instead turned around and used its W skill to bind LeBlanc, he felt that something bad was about to happen.

As expected, the Enchantress was caught in a chain of crowd control effects and gave up her life.

His Graves used his ultimate ability to escape the scene.

"Brother, you're getting too cocky!" Zhou Dian couldn't help but say.

"Oh my god, Chao, I was totally out of my mind just now. If I couldn't catch up, fine, but I had to be so impulsive as to hit the tree twice!"

Wei Shen quickly apologized to his teammates for his irrational behavior.

"Fortunately, no other resources were lost."

Zhou Dian knew this wasn't the time to assign blame, so he continued, "Wei Shen, you should focus on split pushing and harassing. Everyone else, follow my split-pushing rhythm. I'm very strong right now!"

The sudden death of LeBlanc, who was 3-0, caused LGD, which was only a few hundred gold behind RNG, to widen the gold gap to two thousand gold in an instant.

Both sides entered a brief period of dormancy, awaiting the next wave of action.

Because imp's Tristana had too many individual components, he couldn't get the Infinity Blade for a long time, so he simply made a Hurricane first.

Among the attack speed items, the cheapest is Hurricane.

This game's Tristana is really poor; she should get her completed items as soon as possible.

Moreover, Hurricane has another advantage, which is that it can greatly improve the efficiency of clearing minions, but Tristana doesn't really need this effect.

The best-equipped players on the field were naturally Uzi's Varus and Zhou Dian's Graves.

Varus now has the Blade of the Ruined King and Hurricane two-piece set, while Graves has the Youmuu's Ghostblade and Black Cleaver two-piece set.

At the 19th minute of the game, Zhou Dian called up Wei Shen and Eimy, and the three of them went to the blue side's bottom lane tri-bush.

At this moment, Letme's Maokai was farming under RNG's bottom tower.

After LeBlanc was eliminated, the situation on the field became unfavorable for LGD.

LGD's chances of turning things around may depend on whether RNG gives them a chance.

It's clear that RNG is a team that rarely gives opportunities.

Since there's no opportunity, then create one yourself.

Zhou Dian decided to use a very simple and brutal method.

Simplicity often means difficulty in cracking!

That means you have to pick the softest persimmon!
Seize the opportunity to attack relentlessly, even if it means exchanging some resources.

The disadvantaged party is always happy to exchange resources.

Seeing LGD's top, mid, and jungle players approaching the bottom lane, Wawa said, "Is LGD planning to force a kill on Maokai under the tower? I don't think that's a very wise choice."

Miller added, "It's quite difficult, because if you kill this big tree, you might have to push up the other roads."

As soon as he finished speaking, the observer switched the camera to the mid lane, where RNG's mid, bot, and support were crouching in the river bush on the left side of the mid lane, clearly waiting for someone to come and farm the wave.

"Hehe, they're both waiting for that unlucky guy on the other side!" the doll chuckled.

"I'm coming!"

RNG players swarmed the Tristana who came to clear the mid lane minion wave.

However, imp was cautious enough to keep the cannon positioned on the right side where there was vision.

Due to the distance, RNG's control skills couldn't be used to initiate on Tristana, so they could only rely on dealing damage.

Tristana quickly used Rocket Jump (W) to return to the mid-lane tower, but Lucian's Baptism of the Claw (R) dealt too much damage, chasing after Tristana and spraying her with bullets, forcing Tristana to use Flash.

The little cannon successfully escaped, and the esports observer immediately switched the view to the bottom lane.

A brutal and inhumane gang fight has begun under RNG's bottom lane tower.

Although Maokai is a champion with strong crowd control abilities, a poorly developed Maokai is unlikely to withstand the combined damage from LGD's top, mid, and jungle trio, who possess both AD and AP capabilities.

After the rework, Maokai no longer has the damage reduction from his ultimate, and he is no longer the ridiculously tanky Maokai he used to be.

Zhou Dian and his team didn't hold back on their skills at all, unleashing their ultimate abilities to quickly take down the giant tree.

The kill was secured by the Graves.

The big tree died, and the camera immediately switched back to the middle lane.

At this point, the other four RNG players had already pushed down LGD's low-health mid-lane tower.

With LGD's top, mid, and jungle players appearing in the bottom lane, RNG continued to push forward.

"Although RNG lost Maokai, they can still push down the mid lane!" Miller commented.

"Overall"

Miller was interrupted by the doll before he could finish speaking.

"Letme is so pitiful, what did he do wrong? Hehe!"

"Letme was playing Maokai this game, not Kennen! LGD, you guys messed with him like that, two three-man ganks and he was killed under the tower."

"If Maokai gets caught again, he'll still be useful in team fights, unlike Kennen, who's useless if he gets caught."

Miller continued, "I really don't understand. In the last game, Letme played Kennen, and LGD barely managed to gank him. It was Zhou's Jayce who dominated the lane. In this game, he's playing Maokai, so why are they ganking him all the time?"

Not only did the commentators, including Miller, not understand, but most of the viewers also didn't understand.

Only a small number of people have a general idea of ​​what LGD is trying to do.

Their main goal is not to destroy the tree trunk, but to raise male guns.

Of course, poor tree development is also beneficial to LGD.

RNG's main strategy in this game was to protect Uzi's Varus.

Under similar development conditions, in the mid-game, the ADC's role is often not as significant as that of the mid-laner or top-laner.

The reason is that the top and middle lanes are single-player lanes, where the player's level is definitely higher than that of a duo lane.

After killing the tree, Graves reached level 13, while Varus was still level 10, making Graves three levels higher than Varus.

The difference of three levels is, without exaggeration, equivalent to a major piece of equipment.

Despite LGD's current economic deficit, their top, mid, and jungle players are all at a higher level than RNG's.

It's perfectly normal for Graves to be a higher level than Maokai in the top lane.

However, RNG's mid and jungle players were behind in level because Xiaohu and Mlxg spent too much time protecting the bot lane duo.

RNG's four players pushed forward relentlessly, taking down LGD's first mid-lane tower and then their second mid-lane tower before dispersing.

Zhou Dian's Graves also pushed down RNG's bottom tower in the bot lane.

Judging from this resource exchange alone, RNG came out ahead.

There are still nearly two minutes until the Earth Dragon spawns. Before the Earth Dragon spawns, neither side will make any moves and will focus on developing their own resources.

At the 22nd minute of the game, RNG easily secured the Earth Dragon.

LGD chose to give up the dragon.

Immediately, a tan icon appeared in the upper left corner of the screen.

The next little dragon will also be an earth dragon.

LGD already had an Earth Dragon, so their need for a second Earth Dragon wasn't as urgent. Therefore, instead of contesting for it, LGD made a resource exchange.

RNG secured the Earth Dragon, and Zhou Dian's Graves took down RNG's top tower in the top lane.

As the game progressed into the mid-game, the extra teleportation ability of LGD gradually became apparent, providing them with real control and pressure.

(End of this chapter)