You promised a top lane tutorial, but you're just using Worlds as material for your videos?

Chapter 412 Top lane collapses, it's the jungler's fault!

At this moment, on the big screen, the Graves who had flanked the enemy had already moved towards the tri-bush.

Zhou Dian's Jayce showed no signs of retreating; he simply switched to hammer form, moved two steps downwards, and delivered a finishing blow.

"Ah! Zhou Shen didn't see that? No way?" Miller's tone was tinged with anxiety.

The jeers from the audience grew louder and louder, and they all got anxious along with Miller.

Of course, Zhou Dian, who was wearing noise-canceling headphones, couldn't hear any of this.

Impact felt a surge of excitement as he watched the Graves suddenly appear on the top lane.

He also added the skill points he hadn't learned when he reached level 2 to his E skill.

When Graves said he was going to gank Jayce in both lanes after clearing the double buffs, DaMu saved his skill point for Shen.

Just as Graves was about to appear in Jayce's vision from behind, Shen suddenly darted forward and used his E skill to taunt.

Jayce, who should have been completely unprepared and was naturally moving upwards, suddenly made a downward movement, narrowly avoiding Shen's taunt.

Because they thought Jayce was completely unprepared, Da Mu didn't use his E-Flash.

Shen was positioned slightly above and to the side of Jayce, but he didn't manage to taunt Jayce.

As Shen's E skill taunt missed, Graves appeared in front of LGD's top tower.

However, Shen's taunt was now gone, and Graves was still some distance away from Jayce, so he couldn't attack Jayce immediately.

When Graves came to the top lane this time, he couldn't even force Jayce to use Flash, let alone reduce Jayce's health.

C9's jungler's gank was destined to be a wasted trip!

However, while the opposing jungler intended to let Zhou Dian's Jayce go, Zhou Dian had no intention of letting them off the hook.

Da Mu wanted to make one last attempt, but Shen took a step down, adjusted his angle, and then used his Q skill to retrieve his Soul Blade.

If Soul Blade can pull Jayce and slow him down, it might be able to chase him down and reduce Jayce's health.

Just as Shen was adjusting his position, Jayce, in hammer form, landed a basic attack on Shen and immediately followed up with Thunder Clap (E), sending Shen flying.

As Shen flew out, the Soul Blade pulled by his Q skill went astray and failed to hit Jayce.

Then, Jayce calmly launched his Thunder Strike, immediately switched back to his cannon form, auto-attacked Shen twice, and retreated towards the river while auto-attacking.

The Graves had only applied two buffs and was only level two.

Graves, who hasn't learned the W skill, naturally can't use his smoke bomb to slow down Jayce.

After Jayce in his cannon form attacked Shen twice, Graves finally used his E skill to quickly reach Jayce and get within range of him.

The Graves raised his shotgun and fired a basic attack at Jayce.

At the same time, Jayce turned around and used his QE combo to fire a powerful shot at Shen.

For Zhou Dian, things like the "crooked footwork" technique are just basic skills.

As Jayce fired a shot at Shen, he also placed his E skill, the Acceleration Gate, at his own feet.

Jayce's movement speed suddenly increased dramatically.

The surge in movement speed not only negated the slow effect of Graves' red buff, but also allowed him to dodge Graves' Last Stand (Q) which he unleashed along with his basic attack.

Graves' Q skill didn't even hit Jayce in the first hit.

Once Jayce entered the river and received a speed boost from the acceleration gate, C9's Ue and Jungle duo could no longer catch up with him.

Of course you can use Flash to chase, but it's pointless and a waste of Flash.

Jayce then walked up to the red team's top lane tri-bush, and then returned to the top lane, retracing the path that Graves had just taken.

This week's top laner completely outplayed C9's Ueno.

Jayce's only cost was the loss of a minion's experience and being hit by Graves.

As Jayce escaped the gank with virtually no damage, a huge cheer erupted from the audience.

In the commentary booth, Miller's anxiety had long since subsided.

"It seems Zhou Shen was prepared all along. I knew that with Zhou Shen's past experience in preventing ganks, there was no way he wouldn't have seen Graves!" Miller said with a grin.

“Yes, C9 really lost out this time!” Wawa added.

"Not only did Graves waste his jungle clearing time, but it was even worse for Impact's Shen."

"You mean Jayce just ran away, but before he ran away he had to hit Shen with a combo. Shen's health wasn't full to begin with, and after that combo, Shen's health was less than half."

"Jayce barely lost any health. I feel like Graves' gank actually crushed his own top laner!"

“Yes!” Miller nodded. “C9’s top and jungle didn’t coordinate well this time. If they really wanted to gank, Shen should have just used his E-Flash!”

The on-site director also appropriately focused the camera on C9's Ueno and his partner.

At this moment, both Daiki and Contractz had serious expressions on their faces, their playful smiles from the BP phase gone.

As for the online viewers in the official tournament live stream, the chat was practically going crazy when they saw the expressions on C9's Ueno and Nagasawa's faces.

Seriously, C9 jungler, take my advice, don't go top lane anymore, or the top laner will collapse!

[Hehe, is this the Ueno collaboration?]

These two brothers were completely fooled by Zhou Shen!

[Ooki: Ashiba, don't come anymore, I'm scared!]

[Classic jungler carries top laner to defeat!]

[But to be fair, Zhou Shen is really daring, he just wouldn't use Flash!]

[We've known for a long time that Zhou Shen is daring, and that's not an overnight fact!]

[Wait, judging from their expressions, I have a feeling these two from C9 are about to have a falling out!]

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There was no real infighting, but Oki and Contractz inevitably exchanged a few complaints.

After being outmaneuvered by Zhou Dian's Jayce, even if the two were complete idiots, they would realize that Graves had been spotted by vision on his way to the top lane.

Contractz felt that Daiki's judgment was flawed.

It was DaMu who told him that Jayce hadn't placed any vision, which directly led to the outcome of this wave.

Furthermore, he wasn't decisive enough; Shen should have used E-Flash on Jayce at that moment.

However, this is hindsight.

His primary objective at the time wasn't to kill Jayce, since Graves was only level two and it would be difficult for him to do so. It wasn't a problem that Shen didn't use his E-Flash.

Actually, Da Mu hadn't said anything at first, but after Contractz rambled on for a bit, he couldn't take it anymore.

Da Mu didn't tolerate him. "I'm the S3 World Championship winner, what championship do you have?"
The big guy has his reasons. I'm handling the pressure just fine. If it weren't for you, Graves, causing trouble, why would I be feeling so bad now?
You're just a level 2 Graves, what right do you have to gank people?

Isn't this just reckless?

If a laner is at a disadvantage and doesn't have a sure chance of winning, the jungler shouldn't gank, as it can easily ruin the game for their lane teammates.

A well-known Korean top laner once said, "If the top lane collapses, it's the jungler's fault!"

This statement is not absolutely correct, but it does contain some truth to it.

Seeing the two of them keep muttering to themselves, their teammates couldn't take it anymore.

Sneaky immediately said, "Did we lose? No! Were we at a disadvantage? No! Can't we just play the game properly?"

Don't let Sneaky's cross-dressing persona fool you; his hobby is cosplaying female heroes from League of Legends.

However, as the most senior member of the current C9 team, his words still carry some weight.

Jensen, another veteran player on C9, remained silent. He was completely focused on his lane, being pressured by Lucian, and had no time to speak.

Back to the game.

After a failed gank in the top lane, Graves turned around and took down the Rift Scuttler in the top river, leveling up to level three.

At this point, Eimy's Prince's red buff had not yet been depleted.

Jarvan IV's jungle clearing speed is no match for Graves', not to mention that Jarvan IV started the game solo in this match.

Eimy was also aiming for a quick level 3 in this game, with his jungle route being blue buff, wolves, and red buff.

When Jayce was caught, Jarvan IV was on his way to his own red buff, so Eimy watched the whole Graves gank top lane.

"Stupid behavior!"

Eimy succinctly summarized Graves' gank with just four words.

In his opinion, ganking the top lane at two levels is nothing but annoying and completely useless.

This is different from ganking mid twice. Even if you can't kill the enemy mid, you can still help push the minion wave down, and then the jungler can take the mid laner to make plays.

Of course, Eimy had this feeling simply because he had played matches with Zhou Dian for a long time and subconsciously felt that it was impossible for Zhou Dian to be ganked and killed by the jungler at level two.

In that case, the two-level system of coercion would only serve to annoy people.

Eimy just didn't expect that Graves' gank on top lane was actually designed to annoy Jayce.

Eimy underestimated Zhou Dian's notorious reputation.

Graves originally intended to make Jayce's laning phase less comfortable, but his plan backfired, making Shen's laning phase even more difficult.

Shen's health was only slightly over 40%, less than half.

Da Mu didn't use any health potions, since his starting item was Doran's Shield, and he was still able to survive with his current health, so there was no need to use any.

Generally speaking, if you start with Doran's Shield, you'll usually save the health potion you buy at the start until your health drops below 30% before using it.

Either it's the point of leveling up from level 5 to level 6, and if their health isn't very good, they'll use a health potion to prevent being instantly killed by the opponent at level 6.

Da Mu naturally didn't intend to smash the blood vial at that moment.

Although a gank occurred in the top lane, the main battle took place near the river or had already entered the river, and it did not have much impact on the minion wave situation in the top lane.

The third wave of minions and artillery has arrived. Jayce still has control of the top lane, and the minion wave is pushing towards C9.

After the prince finished taking the red buff, Eimy glanced at the minion wave in the top lane and saw that Shen was less than half health. He immediately had an idea.

"So, Brother Zhou, is it possible to cross over?" Eimy asked.

He knew that Shen was studying E in Level 2.

Without the W skill, Shen with this much health could easily be overtaken.

“Come on, Shen will die if you come here. I’ll push the lane slowly and try to delay Shen’s level 3. Hurry up and come over!” Zhou Dian replied immediately.

"OK!"

"By the way, there's a ward in the river bush on the top lane, it's positioned quite high, so be careful to use vision control."

“No problem!” Eimy nodded, then controlled the prince to step on the explosive fruit behind the red buff camp and go down into the dragon pit.

Seeing this, Miller said with a hint of doubt, "Hey, what is Eimy doing? The river crab in the top lane is definitely gone, and Jayce is pushing so far forward in the top lane now, it's not easy to gank him!"

However, he soon realized what Eimy was up to.

The prince took two steps to the upper left, used an EQ combo to exit the Baron pit, and arrived at the upper river.

Below the Prince is the acceleration zone created by the river crab that Graves destroyed.

Above the prince, there was a ward placed in the river bush in the top lane before Shen returned to the top lane after failing to catch Jayce earlier.

However, there is a gap between the field of vision of this accessory and the range of the acceleration circle of the river crab.

At this moment, the prince was walking forward in this empty area, crossing the river.

"Hey, is the prince heading to Yue Shang Road?" Miller realized what was going on.

Based on the prince's actions at this moment, it's nothing more than either invading the enemy jungle or diving the top lane tower.

It's highly unlikely that the prince would actively counter Graves' jungle.

Eimy isn't quite at the level of crazy players like Mala Xiangguo, who can go crazy in the enemy jungle even when playing Sejuani.

The answer is obvious.

The prince is going to eliminate Shen, who has less than half health.

The observer also switched to the perspective of the blue team's C9 at this moment.

There was no sign of the prince in C9's field of vision.

Eimy's Prince perfectly traversed the river through the gap between the two vision zones and entered C9's blue buff area.

"Eimy's play was a perfect example of vision control!"

Watching the prince's careful maneuvering to avoid being seen, even the doll's voice softened.

The scene gradually fell silent.

The audience seemed to hold their breath as the prince walked forward.

They were afraid that if the prince's positioning wasn't perfect, he would be exposed to C9's vision.

C9's jungler Graves did not return to his own jungle after clearing the river crab in the top lane.

Although Graves has only cleared two buffs in his own jungle, he hasn't touched the other four jungle camps yet. Now he can go back to his own jungle and farm to his heart's content.

But when playing Graves as a jungler against Jarvan IV, Contractz felt a little uneasy just honestly farming his own jungle camps.

This is such a waste of Graves' matchup advantage against Jarvan IV.

Graves can easily defeat Jarvan IV in the jungle!

Previously, Contractz was somewhat wary of C9 losing lane control due to lane pressure on all three lanes.

But in fact, he had long planned to cause some trouble in the Prince's jungle.

With the mid lane minion wave being short, after Lucian aggressively pushed the lane in the first two minutes, the mid lane minion wave was now pushing back towards LGD.

As a result, C9's jungler Contractz became bolder.

The male gunner headed straight for LGD's F6 camp.

When I went over to take a look, all six birds, big and small, were there.

The male gunner then happily started farming other people's big bird.

While Graves was farming LGD's F6 camp, Jarvan IV had already reached the blue side's top lane tri-bush.

C9 was completely unaware of this.

In the commentary booth, Miller said nervously, "Will it work? Although Shen only has half health, he's about to reach level three. Once Shen learns his W skill at level three, it won't be easy for LGD's top and jungle AD champions to dive him."

"And Shen has Flash and E, so it doesn't feel like he'll be easy to dive!" Wawa added. "It feels like LGD took a bit of a risk this time."

Theoretically speaking, it is indeed a bit risky, but Eimy is determined to dive Shen this time.

The "cleaver team" has already been chosen, so we definitely need to finish this quickly. How can we win if we drag it out?
Besides, he and Zhou Dian had worked together on this kind of thing countless times, so they were very skilled at it.

At this moment, Zhou Dian asked in the LGD team voice chat, "How many seconds?"

"Six seconds!" Eimy naturally understood that Zhou Dian was asking how many seconds left on the cooldown of the Prince's E skill.

“That’s enough!” Zhou Dian replied immediately.

(End of this chapter)