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Chapter 413 I don't know if I can hold on!
Hit the road.

Jayce, who had been pushing the lane slowly, suddenly increased his pushing speed.

After Jayce took down the last two blue team ranged creeps, a large number of red team creeps carrying siege minions surged toward the top tower of C9.

Shen, still at level two, was already waiting under the tower.

There was nothing he could do; with that much health, he could only wait for Jayce to push the minion wave over so he could farm minions and gain experience under the tower.

As a large wave of minions pushed into C9's top tower, Zhou Dian said, "Shen is just two minions' worth of experience away from level three. Make your move as soon as your skills are ready!"

“OK!” Eimy nodded vigorously.

At this point, the red team's leading melee units were all low on health, and the C9 turret could take them down in one hit.

By the time it takes for the turret to kill two minions, the Prince's E skill will still be a little short of being ready again.

However, this wave of minions includes siege minions.

As the first low-health red team front-line minion to enter the tower was killed by the tower, the tower's firepower immediately shifted to the siege minion.

Shen's experience bar is just a tiny bit away from leveling up to level three.

On the other side, seeing Jayce suddenly accelerate and push the lane into the tower, Impact sensed something was wrong.

Not quite right!

After all, DaMu is a veteran top laner with many years of experience. He has a wealth of experience in handling pressure and possesses the basic instincts that a top laner should have.

He sensed that Jess across from him seemed to have some feelings for him.

But he couldn't just leave the defensive tower like that.

If you can't even get experience from such a large wave of minions, then Shen is worse off than dead.

So Impact didn't wait for the turret to slowly kill the siege minion. He immediately moved to attack the red minion with the lowest health under the turret, wanting to level up to 3 and learn the W skill first.

At this moment, C9's jungler Graves finished clearing LGD's F6 camp, took two steps forward, and prepared to take a look at LGD's red buff.

After all, the jungler Jarvan IV takes a lot of damage to farm. When playing with a blue buff, many jungle Jarvan IV players will choose to clear all three camps in the blue buff area first, then go back to base to buy a talisman before going back to farm.

Contractz, controlling Graves, ran to LGD's red buff and found it completely empty.

The red buff has already been taken down by the prince!

Where is the prince now?
It can only be in C9's upper jungle.

Contractz immediately realized what was happening and frantically signaled to Shen while also shouting for Impact to retreat.

Impact heard his own jungler's warning; it seems LGD's top and jungle are really going to dive his tower, and it looks like he should retreat.

But at this moment, Shen is just one auto-attack away from killing the red melee minion in front of him and leveling up to level three.

A level 3 Shen with Flash can definitely make some plays under the tower.

Faced with the conflicting ideas, Impact's thinking became momentarily sluggish.

Just then, the prince's E skill was ready again, and Eimy didn't hesitate at all, immediately pressing Flash.

A flash of yellow light appeared, and a Prince suddenly emerged from the triangular bush behind C9's top tower, flashing to the base of the tower.

The prince then unleashed a double EQ combo.

Impact, whose mind was in a state of hesitation and stalemate, was unable to react to the Prince's sudden Flash-EQ combo.

Shen was thus provoked by the prince's EQ combo.

Just as the prince planted the Debon military flag at Shen's feet, Zhou Dian also made his move.

Jayce, standing in front of the tower, fired a powerful shot at Shen, then immediately switched to hammer form and used Sky Leap (Q) to smash Shen.

To increase the burst damage of this wave, Zhou Dian's Jayce specifically leveled up his Q skill twice at level three.

A level 2 Shen with half health is no match for the onslaught from Jarvan IV and Jayce.

Moreover, the damage from the prince and Jayce was also considerable, all of it hitting Shen.

Even when Shen was launched into the air by the prince, the red melee minion that Shen was just one hit away from killing was killed by the fourth wave of blue minions that had arrived. Shen leveled up to level three in the air and gained a little more health.

However, the burst damage from Prince Jesgar was still excessive.

Shen was killed by LGD's top and jungle players after only the control time of Prince's EQ combo.

Shin, who fell from the sky, turned into a corpse.

First Blood!
Jayce secured the first blood in this game.

The prince, who made the first move, only took damage from the turret; once his W skill shield was activated, he barely lost any health.

Only then did the audience, who had been holding their breath the whole time, start to cheer as if they had just woken up from a dream.

LGD's top laner and jungler's tower dive was a perfect example of speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness.

In the commentary box.

"Huh? That works too!" Miller exclaimed in astonishment.

After a pause, Miller continued, "Impact got ganked without even using anything; Shen didn't even get to use his Flash or E skill."

The doll laughed and said, "It's possible that the prince and Jess's move was too sudden, without any warning."

"You know, in our LPL, there are quite a few players who have been tower-dived and killed like that by them!"

In the official live stream, the screen was filled with "666" comments.

【What's wrong with you, Ooki? You haven't used any of your skills?】

[Stop unfairly criticizing DaMu, I think it's Zhou Shen and Eimy's offensive that's been too intense!]

[The familiar LGD top and jungle synergy has returned! It's a nostalgic moment!]

These two have great teamwork; who knows how many more top laners will suffer next!

That's more like it!

[Zhou Shen gets the first blood, I can only say the game is over!]

【.】

Many viewers may wonder why LGD's strategy is simply to have their top laner push the lane, then have their jungler come over and tower dive the top lane, and then start snowballing from the top lane.

Why does this seemingly simple trick work so consistently, causing countless top laners to suffer and countless teams to fall victim to it, making it impossible to defend against?

But in reality, the simplest things are the hardest to do well.

Only top laners who have faced off against Zhou Dian truly understand how terrifyingly strong his control over details is.

LGD's top and jungle players also have excellent teamwork and rarely make mistakes.

After Shen respawned, Impact teleported to the top lane turret and started farming minions.

The resurrection time is very short, and there's also teleportation, so there's not much loss in experience.

But Impact's heart was already half-broken.

The person opposite him was even more terrifying than he had imagined.

Not only are they extremely capable, but they also know how to leverage existing resources.

This momentum naturally refers to teammates.

"Truly, a new generation surpasses the old. I wonder if I can hold on!" Impact thought to himself.

He knew his main task in this game was to withstand the pressure.

It's already good that Graves can get two levels in once; he'll have to bear the pressure himself afterward.

And next, LGD will obviously continue to launch an offensive against his Shen.

After killing Shen, the prince and Jayce both retreated to the bushes to return to their city.

Graves left after clearing a group of F6 camps for Jarvan IV, not daring to continue clearing Jarvan IV's Krugs. Contractz wasn't that bold.

This kind of "I don't care about your teammates' situation, I just want to farm your jungle monsters" behavior is something only a certain Vietnamese jungler would do.

The prince's flash, combined with a F6 camp, secured First Blood for Jayce, a very profitable trade. Jayce recalled, and Zhou Dian bought a Serrated Dirk and a Control Ward before heading up the top lane.

After the large wave of minions pushes into the tower, the minion wave will push back, so Jayce won't lose more than two minions. There's no need for Jayce to use Teleport in this wave.

Back online, Serrated Dirk went for Doran's Shield, and the creep wave was still pushing towards LGD.

Shen won't be able to play for a while.

As for calling teammates to come and clear the lane, that's not very realistic either.

Calling the jungler over to clear the lane so early severely hinders the jungler's development.

It just so happens that our jungler is Graves, a champion who needs to farm.

Even if the jungler comes to help clear the lane, it's not very useful.

After the jungler leaves, Jayce can push the lane directly to Shen's tower.

Unfortunately, Jayce has a long range, so Shen, even when pushed under the tower, can't safely farm minions and has to keep getting poked, trading his health for minions.

Trading health for last hits might mean not getting many last hits before the enemy Jarvan IV dives the tower again.

Therefore, Impact doesn't dare to let Shen's health drop too much right now.

Jayce controlled the lane, preventing Shen from farming.

Jayce was pushing the lane too far, and Shen didn't dare to last-hit any minions.

Moreover, even if Jayce is pushing the lane, Graves doesn't dare to gank him at all.

Jayce has Flash, making him fully capable of 1v2 situations.

If the prince were to ambush them, they could simply be sent away.

What? You mean you want to call on the top laner to be caught together?
In this game, Jianhuang picked Syndra hoping to dominate the lane, but the enemy Lucian dominated the lane even more, and now he can't even move.

In short, after Shen was given first blood by Jayce so early, C9's top lane is now in an unsolvable situation.

Impact could only endure the pressure alone in the top lane, hoping his teammates would have a good game so he could just coast along.

Or Jayce might make a mistake and hand over the advantage.

But is this possible?
Totally impossible!
Given C9's overall strength, Zhou Dian had already told his teammates, "We've won this game!" when he got the first blood a little over three minutes into the game.

Miller, who was in the commentary booth, also noticed the equipment comparison between the top laners on both sides.

He immediately said, "You see, this is where the advantage of using a longsword comes into play."

"It seems like this happens a lot with the LGD team. The jungler helps the top laner get first blood, and then Zhou Shen uses Tiamat against the opponent's starting items, or Serrated Dirk against the opponent's starting items. How are you supposed to play like that!"

The doll then chuckled and started making its own joke, "Miller, have you noticed that when you use Serrated Dirk against Doran's Shield, the damage is exceptionally high!"

"hey-hey!"

For the next few minutes, the situation remained peaceful as both sides focused on farming and developing their jungle resources, with neither side making the first move.

In the mid lane, Jianhuang played quite well in the laning phase this game.

Syndra was only out-farmed by Lucian, who was a tough opponent.

Once Syndra reaches level six, she will regain control of her matchup.

C9 is naturally very satisfied with this peaceful development of the game.

After all, LGD is a physical damage team; once Shen becomes tanky in the late game, they can easily win.

As for Shen, he was suffering under the tower, getting beaten up every time he tried to go up and finish off a minion.

The damage from a Serrated Dagger against a Doran's Shield is incredible; anyone who uses it knows how much damage it does.

In just over 5 minutes of the game, Shen had already been down more than 20 CS by Jayce.

This difference in last-hitting is a bit exaggerated.

If LGD's advantage is limited to a significant CS lead in the top lane, they won't be able to win this game.

After all, the physical damage-dealing team has too many inherent weaknesses, and LGD doesn't have any overpowered heroes that are strong enough to compensate for the physical damage-dealing team's weaknesses.

Zhou Dian understood this, of course, so he was waiting for an opportunity.

Waiting for an opportunity to extend his online advantage to the entire team.

Zhou Dian has always been a player who is good at maximizing any advantage he has over the opponent's top laner in a game.

For example, Jessie might teleport multiple times at this moment.

At 5 minutes and 20 seconds into the game, the Prince placed a ward in the C9 jungle and caught Graves recalling.

Jayce then pushed the lane directly to Shen's tower, and then retreated a considerable distance, disappearing from Shen's vision.

At the same time, the prince circled around to behind C9's bottom lane turret and placed a trinket ward on the ground.

A teleportation vortex swirled above his eyes.

3.5 seconds later, Jayce teleported to the ground.

Meanwhile, LGD's Varus and Rakan in the bottom lane, despite being harassed by the enemy's Xayah and Lulu, had pushed the minion wave all the way to C9's bottom tower.

A legitimate four-man-two-man game has already taken shape.

In this exchange, LGD's top laner, jungler, and bot lane demonstrated excellent teamwork, showcasing the qualities expected of a strong team.

Shen was not yet level 6, did not have his ultimate, and his teleport was not off cooldown.

Syndra didn't bring Teleport, and Graves had just come out of his base.

C9's bot lane duo had no chance of escape.

LGD's top, bottom, jungle, and support players swarmed in, and even the level 4 Xayah and Lulu, who used both of their summoner spells, could not escape death.

LGD did a great job of taking turns tanking towers, and no one was replaced.

Two C9 players were killed in a zero-for-two exchange!

Zhou Dian's Jayce got one kill, and imp's Varus got one kill; the kill distribution was perfect.

After this four-man gank and tower dive in the bottom lane ended, C9's bottom lane basically collapsed.

Jayce found a bush and recalled to base. The prince and the bot lane duo pushed the wave again before heading to take the dragon.

Although this version doesn't favor taking dragons, the first dragon in this game was a water dragon, which greatly boosts the laning phase, so we naturally wanted to take it if we had the chance.

In the commentary box.

"Wow, that was a beautiful tower dive!" Miller exclaimed.

"Jayce's advantage of having multiple teleports immediately came into play. He also managed to gank C9's bot lane before Shen reached level six."

"But I feel like those two C9 bot laners had a chance to leave earlier, they were a bit too slow to retreat," Wawa added.

What Wawa said makes some sense. For C9's bot lane, seeing LGD's bot lane pushing the lane while being poked down should have made them realize something was wrong.

At this point, their jungler Graves went back to base, their mid laner was being pushed back and couldn't get close, and their top laner Shen wasn't level 6 yet.

Meanwhile, the enemy top laner has Teleport, and the enemy jungler Jarvan IV is nowhere to be found.

After gathering all this information, Xia and Lulu should retreat.

The ADC might be too busy last-hitting minions to notice all this, but the support absolutely needs to think things through at this time.

Actually, there were already some obvious signs before LGD made their move against C9's bottom lane.

If they were on a more cautious and disciplined team, the bot lane duo would definitely retreat immediately.

The two C9 bot laners were clearly hoping for a lucky break.

By the time you see the prince appear behind the tower, it will be too late to leave.

They both perished at the foot of the tower.

This is also a common problem among European and American teams—a lack of discipline.

(End of this chapter)