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Chapter 426 Likes to use long-range attacks? Barbarian forces Jayce to flash with two slashes!

"If Jayce dares to push too far into the lane, Sejuani will kill him instantly!"

After saying that, PDD added, "How well the top lane performs in this game depends on the specific strategies of both top laners, as well as the performance of both junglers!"

While supporting his own team is understandable, this is, after all, an official commentary booth, and PDD wouldn't dare to make any definitive statements before the match.

While the commentators were discussing the top lane matchup in detail, the two coaches shook hands and left the stage, and the game entered the loading screen.

The first game of the BO5 quarterfinals between LGD and Longzhu.

Blue Dragon Ball:
Top lane Jayce, jungle Jarvan IV, mid lane Syndra, bot lane Xayah and Thresh.

Red team LGD:

Top lane Tryndamere, jungle Sejuani, mid lane Malzahar, bot lane Tristana and Galo.

While waiting for the game to load, the Dragon Ball team's voice lines were playing.

"Donghe, be careful when playing Tryndamere in the top lane, that champion is really easy to beat!" BDD had a bad feeling and said to Khan with some worry.

"Don't worry, he's a stupid hero. I can kite him easily. Just be careful of his tower dive when he reaches level six. When Tryndamere reaches level six, come over from mid lane to support him, and we'll win this game."

Khan continued in a relaxed tone, "Besides, Tryndamere is useless in team fights, what's there to worry about!"

Meanwhile, similar conversations were taking place in LGD's team voice chat.

"Wei Shen, remember to push the lane aggressively at level six, you must hold Syndra back!" Zhou Dian said.

"OK, don't worry! This round depends on whether you and Eimy can crush this Jayce." Wei Shen said with a smile.

Eimy goes without saying; he's extremely skilled at ganking the top lane.

Actually, Zhou Dian's choice of Tryndamere for the top lane in this game was a bit too extreme.

Following this line of thought, Fiora would be a more reliable choice in both laning and team fights.

A few months ago at MSI, Zhou Dian used Fiora to crush Huni's Jayce.

However, even setting aside version changes...

There is also a gap between Jayce and others.

When facing a top-tier Jayce like Khan, Fiora lacks the ability to forcefully break through the situation!
In the 4-1 split push, the most important element is often not the "1," but the "4."

Just because you have an advantage doesn't mean you can bring someone along haphazardly or without thinking.

If you're pushing a lane at a disadvantage, and your four teammates don't create space to avoid fights, you'll push the lane, your teammates will get engaged on, and you'll feed.

If you push a lane, your four teammates won't compress the space and distract the enemy forces. If you go to push a lane, you'll get caught by several people all the time.

The worst thing is when your main advantage lies in your solo lane, but your teammates are obsessed with engaging and insist on having you join team fights.

Of course, LGD's players certainly wouldn't be as brain-dead as in the last scenario.

LGD's 4-1 formation was quite well played.

However, facing a Korean team that excels in strategic maneuvering, Zhou Dian was still worried that the opponent would pull him back in the head-on battle.

Korean teams generally do a good job of avoiding matches when they are at a disadvantage.

Especially in recent patches, the influence of top laners is nowhere near what it was during the Spring Split and MSI in the first half of the year.

When facing Jayce, and the situation on the field becomes deadlocked, Tryndamere possesses an ability that Fiora does not have.

That means the Barbarian can solo tower dive and forcefully break the deadlock!

In the mid-to-late game, as long as Jayce's equipment is decent and his skills are up to par, even a strong Fiora cannot solo tower dive and kill him.

Similarly, he can't ignore the opponent's attempts to force a tower push like he does with some tank heroes, because Jayce's damage output is quite high.

If a strong Barbarian has an advantage, in a 1v1 situation, Jayce will die if he tries to defend the tower!
After the loading screen finishes, you will enter the game.

PDD immediately noticed the Barbarian's Summoner Spells.

"Hey, didn't you bring TP? Why did you switch to Ignite?"

Zhou Dian switched Teleport to Ignite in the last second before loading, but none of the commentators noticed it immediately.

"Wow, Zhou Shen is so aggressive!" PDD said with a laugh. "Zhou Shen's playstyle in this game is pure random play, a burst damage Barbarian build, using Sprint and Ignite!"

"I'm Khan, and when I saw those two Summoner Spells, I started to panic."

"But what if we don't have teleportation?" Guan Zeyuan said with some concern.

"The impact isn't that big; Wei Shen's grasshopper here brought a teleportation."

At this point, the keystone talents for both sides are displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Upon seeing this, PDD immediately said, "I feel like Khan is going to be in big trouble this game. He brought Fervor of Battle against the Barbarians?"

“I originally thought Jayce was leading the Wind Riders!” PDD continued.

"As a result, if he brings Fervor of Battle instead of Wind Rider, Jess will easily get chased and killed by the Barbarians after they summon chickens!"

Zhihuan then said, "I guess Khan still wanted to pressure the Tryndamere in lane first, but he didn't expect Zhou Shen's Tryndamere to go straight for Ignite instead of TP!"

"I'm honestly pretty good at igniting things!"

"Okay, we've said so much, we'll find out the actual situation in a bit." Guan Zeyuan ended the topic.

Back to the game.

Both sides adopted a conservative starting position, hovering around the river.

With the jungle monsters about to spawn, both Jarvan IV and Sejuani returned to their own jungle.

Both junglers started with buffs in the bottom half of the jungle, with the bot lane duo helping to clear the jungle.

The focus of this game is undoubtedly the top lane.

Both top laners are heroes who can't afford to die in the early game.

Therefore, both junglers chose to farm from bottom to top to protect their top laners in the early game.

Jayce went online as usual, but still managed to steal the front bush and slightly pull back the first wave of minions from the red side LGD.

Zhou Dian's Barbarian had circled around and emerged from the top lane river bushes to reach the lane.

As a result, Jayce's original plan to block the Barbarian outside the minion wave and suppress him across the minion wave failed.

Because the Barbarian can already attack the creeps.

At this point, it's not impossible to forcefully drive the barbarians off the lane.

However, as long as the Barbarian just wanders around in the minion wave, Jayce will get aggro from the red team's minions, and the minion wave will easily push forward, making it easy for Sejuani to catch him and kill him.

Therefore, Jayce didn't dare to push the lane too fast in the early game, and could only steal a few auto-attacks while Tryndamere was last-hitting minions, which Tryndamere was able to handle.

The jungle monsters had just spawned, and the observer's view was still switching back and forth between the two junglers.

Guan Zeyuan noticed something and suddenly said, "I'm not seeing things, am I? Tryndamere's starting item is Doran's Shield!"

"If I remember correctly, this is the first time Zhou Shen has built Doran's Shield on a warrior hero in a competition."

"There's not much you can do about it, after all, Jess has long arms," ​​Haunt said with a shrug.

“Yes!” PDD nodded in agreement.

"Moreover, Tryndamere's basic attributes completely overwhelm Jayce's. I'll buy a Doran's Shield and let you poke me a few times first, then I'll farm and wait for the jungler, no problem!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the observer switched the camera to the top lane.

Jessla only slightly pulled the first wave of minions before stopping, failing to fully spread the wave. Therefore, the three front-line minions on the blue side lost health at roughly the same rate.

The Barbarian emerged from the river and immediately began hacking at the minions, without making much effort to avoid Jayce's sneak attacks.

As a result, the Barbarian took several basic attacks from Jayce.

Khan immediately understood Zhou Dian's intention: he wanted to forcibly build up rage before engaging in a direct confrontation.

However, he felt that the Barbarian had been hit a few times by Jayce first, and at this point Jayce had the advantage in health.

Moreover, Jayce's fighting spirit has already reached several levels.

At level 1, Jayce has both speed boost and speed debuff, allowing him to kite melee heroes. Even if Tryndamere comes up for a head-on fight, he won't be afraid at all.

Normally, Khan's line of thinking is perfectly sound.

However, the Barbarian is clearly not a normal hero.

Here, Khan lacks sufficient understanding of the Barbarian champion and experience in laning against him.

After all, Tryndamere is indeed an unpopular hero in high-elo games, and he's rarely seen in competitive matches.

You can still occasionally see Barbarians in high-elo games on the Chinese server, but you almost never see them in high-elo games on the Korean server.

Zhou Dian's sudden use of the Barbarian style was indeed unexpected for Khan.

But he has full confidence in his ability to pull off Jayce's plays.

In Khan's opinion, the Barbarian is nothing more than a brainless, reckless hero. How could he possibly do anything special?

Little did he know that what Zhou Dian wanted was for this hero to be "brainless" enough.

At this moment, two red front-line soldiers were low on health, and the Barbarian happened to walk next to them.

Khan felt this was another good opportunity to wear them down.

He controlled Jayce to take a step upwards, adjusted the angle of his attack, and unleashed Jayce's Q skill. A small electromagnetic cannon flew out, killing two minions and also hitting Tryndamere.

The barbarian's health has dropped even more!
But isn't this also an opportunity for the barbarians?

After enduring Jayce's damage and clearing a wave of creeps, the Barbarian's rage meter was now at forty points.

Just as Jayce's Q skill hit Tryndamere, Tryndamere also used Whirlwind Slash (E), killing three low-health blue minions and also hitting Jayce.

At the same time, the barbarian's rage value increased to eighty-five points.

E's into Jayce's face, and with a single slash, the Barbarian's rage meter reached ninety points.

Khan remained calm, and Jess immediately switched to hammer form.

Jayce landed a basic attack with extra damage on Tryndamere, while simultaneously using the speed boost from switching forms to pull himself back.

Of course, when Jayce in hammer form attacked Tryndamere, Tryndamere also attacked Jayce.

With that one strike, the barbarian's rage meter reached 100 points, it was full!
The reason this attack increased my rage by ten points was because it was a critical hit.

click!
Jayce's health dropped sharply.

Even after taking that critical hit, Jayce still had a significant health advantage over the Barbarian.

This was accumulated by constantly stealing and weakening the barbarians.

Khan couldn't swallow the anger of being critically slashed like that.

So Jayce, who had just used his form-switching speed to create distance between himself and the Barbarian, turned around and used Sky Leap (Hammer Form Q) to slam down on the Barbarian, trying to further reduce the Barbarian's health.

While Jess was still tumbling in the air, before he could even hit the Barbarian's face, Khan heard a whoosh of wind.

This is the sound effect when you activate Sprint!
Jayce's Sky Leap has a 30% slow effect.

But against a Barbarian who has activated Sprint in advance, this slowdown is practically negligible.

Khan's attempt to pull the Barbarian back failed, and the situation turned into Jayce in hammer form and the Barbarian attacking each other.

"Jayce turned around and launched a Sky Leap, and the Barbarian immediately activated his Sprint!"

From the commentary booth, Guan Zeyuan shouted, "Are these two going to fight to the bitter end?"

At this point, Jayce's Battle Fever was at its maximum of eight stacks, and his health was higher than the Barbarian's.

Khan is not afraid at all and is going head-to-head with the barbarians!

But after Jayce and Tryndamere exchanged a few auto-attacks, Tryndamere's second auto-attack landed a critical hit.

This slash completely intimidated Khan.

Jayce quickly retreated, but the Barbarian stepped in and they exchanged another attack.

The barbarian didn't land a critical hit this time.

If Zhou Dian gets two critical hits in a row, then he's truly a lucky player.

However, at this point, both Jayce and the Barbarian's health had reached a dangerous level.

Khan glanced around and saw that Jessie form had one second of cooldown remaining.

After Jayce lands another hit on the Barbarian, he can switch forms, use a basic attack followed by a cannon shot, and take down the Barbarian!
However, the Barbarian also has Ignite. If the Barbarian lands a critical hit, Ignite can be applied and the Barbarian can take down Jayce instantly.

Khan quickly made a decision in his mind.

He couldn't hold back any longer and dared not gamble on whether the barbarian's next strike would be a critical hit.

A flash of yellow light appeared, and Jayce used Flash to create distance between himself and the Barbarian.

“The barbarian just activates Sprint and starts hacking away, one critical hit, then I hack away!” PDD shouted.

"Jayce flashed away, Khan couldn't hold on any longer, and dared not fight back!"

"Damn it, Zhou Shen is just a complete brute this game!"

After Jayce flashed away, Tryndamere took another step in the chase, then suddenly turned around and stopped.

Just as the Barbarian turned around, Jayce switched to his cannon form.

Zhou Dian knew Jayce's form-switching cooldown perfectly, and his turn around was timed just right, pulling Jayce out of the range of his basic attack in cannon form.

Jayce in cannon form couldn't hit the Barbarian, and could only fire a newly cooled electromagnetic cannon at the Barbarian.

However, without the boost from the acceleration gate, how can the electromagnetic cannon hit the Barbarian King when his sprint effect is still active?

The barbarian easily dodged the shot.

Then he ducked into the bushes, drawing the aggro of the blue team's minions, and immediately ducked back out, standing in front of the minion wave.

In the commentary box.

"Wow, Zhou Shen is really daring! He dares to chase after Jayce and slash at him with that much health?" Guan Zeyuan said.

"But I didn't expect the Barbarian to actually force Jayce to use Flash. I think Khan lost his nerve and got scared!"

"You can't be afraid, anyone would be scared just now," PDD said with a smile.

"If Jayce hadn't dodged, and the Barbarian had landed a critical hit with his next attack, Ignite would have finished him off and given him first blood."

At this point, the hallucinogenic result chimed in: "Actually, in theory, it's more likely that the barbarian's next attack won't be a critical hit, but looking at this barbarian's attitude of 'I'll kill you in two hits,' if I were Khan, I would also chicken out!"

"This is the S-series knockout stage, not a regular solo queue game. Which player would dare to gamble on whether Tryndamere's next attack will be a critical hit?"

"That's why I said Zhou Shen's move was pure recklessness!" PDD added. "That's the kind of momentum we're looking for. When playing a reckless hero like this, you have to go all out. You like poking people, right, Khan? Want to poking again?"

(End of this chapter)