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Chapter 434 A corny solo kill, the urge to smash has kicked in!

Cuzz was controlling the prince, wandering around near the top lane, basically just standing guard and doing nothing.

Cuzz really wanted to team up with Maokai to gank Darius, but as soon as the thought popped into his head, he chickened out.

Neither the prince nor the great tree had a particularly high burst of energy, and neither of them had ignited their potential.

Even with plenty of crowd control abilities, it's not always possible to catch and kill a Darius who has a significant advantage.

If you try to gank Darius and get counter-ganked by Sejuani, then the game is basically over.

It's common knowledge that LGD's jungler loves to gank the top lane.

Cuzz really wouldn't dare take that risk.

So what was LGD's jungler doing at this time?
Pig Girl had already arrived at the Little Dragon Pit and started moving the water dragon.

At the same time, LGD's mid-laner Taliyah also disappeared from Dragon Ball's sight.

Since they didn't have the location information for LGD's mid and jungle players, Longzhu's bot lane didn't dare to push forward at all, and the minion wave was pushed over by LGD's bot lane duo.

After pushing the minion wave, imp and PYL headed straight for the dragon pit.

The moment Gorilla, the support player from Longzhu, saw Tristana and Taric walk into the river, he immediately realized what was happening and said to Cuzz, "Sejuani is taking down the dragon!"

Knowing Sejuani's location, Cuzz's first reaction was to gank Darius in the top lane.

However, when I switched the screen to the top lane, I saw that Darius had retreated a large distance.

This guy is playing a reckless hero, how come he's so steady!
Cuzz couldn't help but feel a little irritated.

LGD's side.

Just as his own bottom laner pushed the lane into the river, Zhou Dian immediately controlled Darius to take a few steps back.

Although there was no vision of the enemy jungler, Prince, at this time.

But Zhou Dian was certain that the prince was near the top lane at that moment.

You have to be a little cowardly when you need to be; after all, Maokai will never beat Darius.

Don't give opportunities that aren't necessary.

Wasting your advantages will be punished.

"Such smooth teamwork, is this really an LPL team that's always been so rough around the edges?!" Cuzz muttered to himself.

Cuzz switched screens to check the mid lane again; Taliyah was in good condition and had no chance to gank.

Wei Shen's Taliyah went all out from the start, trading health for Orianna's mana.

At level 4, my mana and health were both low, so I immediately recalled to base and then teleported back to continue pushing the lane.

In the early stages, Clockwork really has no way to deal with this kind of shameless playstyle.

In games where the enemy team operates incredibly smoothly in the early game and achieves all their expected goals, Cuzz's limitations as a jungler become apparent.

A good jungler cannot simply wait for the opponent to reveal a weakness.

When the opponent has not revealed any weaknesses, you need to find an opportunity to take the initiative and break through the opponent's defense.

In the past, in the three Dragon Ball storylines, there was always one storyline that could expose an opening in the opponent's defenses, and he would just focus on exploiting that opening.

Now that Dragon Ball has no advantage in any of its three lanes, Cuzz is a bit at a loss.

To put it bluntly, he's just a jungler who benefits from his teammates' momentum.

A few seconds later, the sound effect of Xiaolong being killed was heard.

In just the first few minutes of the game, LGD secured a Water Dragon, making the subsequent laning phase incredibly comfortable.

Cuzz wanted to make up for the loss of the water pipe so early, but for a moment he didn't know what to do.

The prince wandered around the upper half of the bracket like a headless fly for a while.

The monsters in the upper half of the Dragon Ball jungle have respawned.

Since there's no chance to gank, let's farm the jungle first!

The prince went back to the jungle to farm the wolves and grouse, which was a bit far from the top lane, and Khan immediately showed his fear.

Zhou Dian keenly noticed this and immediately controlled Darius to push forward, preventing Maokai from last-hitting minions.

Fortunately, after the prince dutifully stood guard, Maokai pushed two waves of minions, and now the top lane minion wave is being pushed back towards Maokai.

First, gain some experience, then last-hit the minions when they reach your tower. You won't lose many minions.

There's nothing Khan can do right now except console himself.

However, the people most concerned about Maokai's last-hitting right now are probably not Khan himself, but PDD and Guan Zeyuan in the LPL commentary booth.

The scene has been rather quiet lately.

There was no game of last-hitting minions or farming jungle camps; everyone was focused on farming and there was no strategic maneuvering involved.

As the commentators chatted, they drifted off-topic again, with Guan Zeyuan bringing up the bet between him and PDD that was worth a meal.

"It's been a little over five minutes. Although Da Mao was killed twice by Darius, he hasn't fallen behind in last hits compared to Darius!" Guan Zeyuan said with a smile.

"It seems like Zhou Shen will have a hard time getting Khan down by 50 CS in ten minutes!"

"Oh dear, looks like I can't escape this meal!" PDD scratched the back of his head.

He continued, "There's nothing we can do about it; the prince is just too dedicated to his security duties!"

"If the prince doesn't come to the top lane and stand guard for even a minute, Maokai won't be able to get those dozen or so last hits, and Darius will control the minion wave for another two minutes. That back and forth will probably result in twenty or thirty last hits!"

"Fortunately, because the prince was guarding the top lane, LGD easily secured the water dragon," Guan Zeyuan said.

“Yes.” Zz1tai nodded. “Even if he can’t suppress Maokai at any time, Darius can at least play a strategic role in containing Maokai.”

The prince devoured the three wolves, and Cuzz switched to the top lane to take a look.

At this point, the minions on the top lane have not yet crossed the river, so Maokai can only farm experience from the back.

However, the minion wave is pushing towards the Dragon Ball.

At this moment, the jungle monsters in the lower half of the Dragon Ball jungle were about to respawn. Cuzz hesitated for a moment between going to the top lane to stand guard and going to the lower half of the jungle to farm two groups of jungle monsters first, and then chose the latter.

Surely nothing bad would happen the moment I left the upper half of the bracket!
What prompted Cuzz to make this decision, besides his deep-seated desire to farm, was Darius's cautious behavior just now.

Despite having a significant advantage, they resolutely refused to push forward without knowing the enemy jungler's exact location.

In Cuzz's mind, Zhou Dian has already been labeled as extremely stable!

Yes, Zhou Dian is very cautious when playing matches, but at the same time he is also very decisive.

Caution and decisiveness are not contradictory; they can coexist in one person.

Cuzz seems to have misunderstood caution as cowardice.
When the prince used his EQ combo to knock up the giant bird, a red square ward placed in front of the Dragon Ball F6 revealed the prince's vision.

This ward was placed by Taliyah about half a minute ago.

Wei Shen's Taliyah frequently pushed the lane and then disappeared in the mid lane, which not only put some psychological pressure on the Dragon Ball team, but also had a practical effect.

For example, the ward I placed in the Dragon Ball jungle revealed that the Prince was farming the F6 camp.

And the discovery was perfectly timed!
Because the next moment, Darius's Ghost was ready again.

Knowing that the prince was in the lower jungle, Zhou Dian immediately activated Sprint as soon as it was ready and rushed towards the tree that was hiding in the back and absorbing experience.

Upon seeing this, Khan immediately manipulated the tree to turn around and run down the tower.

how to say
Zhou Dian's move was simply "rustic".

Darius just kept chasing after him with Ghost activated.

Just before the tree was about to run back to the base of the tower, a merciless iron hand pulled it back.

After a flurry of attacks, the level 5 Darius dove the tower and killed Maokai, then escaped the tower with only a few dozen health remaining. No wonder, his items were too good!
After a series of simple, unskilled solo kills, the audience erupted in cheers.

In the Dragon Ball team's voice lines.

"I just left the road, Donghe, what are you doing?" Cuzz whispered.

Turning his head and seeing Khan's extremely unpleasant expression, Cuzz quickly swallowed back what he was about to say.

On the LPL commentary booth.

"Such an easy tower dive and solo kill?" PDD looked bewildered. "He's taking off! Zhou Shen's Darius is unstoppable!"

"It seems we can draw a conclusion now," Guan Zeyuan said.

"What conclusion?"

"Dormitory's tree-chopping skills are truly remarkable; that axe is incredibly powerful when he chops down trees!"

Standing at the very edge, Zhihuan silently rolled her eyes, thinking, "Do you even need to tell me that?"

With the tree dead, there were no Dragonballs players in the entire upper half of the map. The low-health Darius confidently pushed a large wave of minions to Dragonball's top tower before calmly recalling to base.

This time, the big tree didn't teleport up in time to fill the gap.

Once the minion wave was cleared by the turret, the top laners on both sides would have a level difference of nearly two levels.

At this point, the game time has only been six minutes, which is really a bit exaggerated.

“Darius is level six and has three kills on him. Now even if Jarvan IV comes to guard the top lane, it won’t be effective!” PDD exclaimed.

"If the prince dares to gank top, he's just giving away a double kill. Now, if Longzhu wants to take down Darius, they'll have to send their mid and jungle together to top!"

Darius's equipment was incredibly luxurious after leaving base this time.

Cuzz was well aware that as long as Zhou Dian didn't have a relapse, if he went to gank top now, he would definitely get double-killed by Darius along with the jungler.

But you can't just ignore your own vehicle when it's on the road.

If we don't do anything about it, Darius will finish the game in a bit.

If you want to control the road, you can only call on the mid laner to join you.

To be honest, the three players from Dragon Ball's mid, top, and jungle teams can't even field a single seriously injured player. Even if all three of them attacked together, Zhou Dian still had room to maneuver.

Of course, 1v3 is very risky, and there's no need to take the risk.

If Nakano and Jungle really come together to help Yoshino defend the tree, then I can just leave; it's a sure-fire deal.

In reality, in the next few minutes, Longzhu's jungler and mid laner actually came to the top lane area and held off Maokai twice.

no way!
At the ten-minute mark of the final game, Zhou Dian's Darius had less than forty CS against Khan's Maokai.

Even disregarding the kills, the difference in last hits is quite significant.

"Well, I won this round!" Guan Zeyuan said.

"No problem, I, Liu, keep my word. You can choose the place for dinner!"

While Longzhu's jungler was effectively tied up in the top lane, the rest of LGD weren't idle either.

Not only did they get a free Water Dragon, but after Taliyah and Sejuani both reached level 6, they also ganked the bottom lane with a four-man gank.

He used four Summoner Spells and also killed Lulu.

Zhou Dian then aggressively pressured the top lane to draw fire, and LGD's mid and jungle players once again attacked Longzhu's bottom lane.

Although they failed to catch anyone, LGD's four players managed to push down the bottom tower of Longzhu.

Zhou Dian's Darius used Flash to survive the siege from the top and jungle of Longzhu, without giving away his big kill.

After the Dragon Ball's first tower fell, LGD's bottom lane duo switched lanes to the top lane and pushed down the Dragon Ball's top tower, which was still at half health.

The economic gap between the two sides is widening rapidly!

If it weren't for Prince Orianna occasionally lurking in the top lane, Zhou Dian would have already single-handedly destroyed Maokai's outer turret.

After the Rift Herald spawned, the LGD players immediately grouped up to attack it.

Darius's fighting power has been too strong lately, so Longzhu didn't dare to take on the Rift Herald and simply gave up on it.

Using the Rift Herald, LGD pushed down Longzhu's mid-lane tower.

With this, all three Dragon Ball towers have been destroyed!
LGD had a pretty good rhythm in this game.

Meanwhile, Dragon Ball is doing everything they can to avoid battle – it's all about letting go!

Put it all in! Put anything in!
Let's wait until we have a couple of pieces of gear with Clockwork and Xayah.

It's been almost ten minutes since Darius learned his ultimate, and he hasn't missed a single shot.

Zhou Dian couldn't help but feel a urge to chop, and Darius's great axe really wanted to chop someone up.

However, Zhou Dian didn't have to wait long before Darius's great axe had its chance to strike.

Entering the mid-game, Dragon Ball's team definitely couldn't engage in team fights, as the difference in combat power between the two top laners was too great.

Darius can now both tank and deal damage.

Furthermore, none of the Dragon Ball players have Ignite, and the two carries, Orianna and Xayah, don't have the money to build Grievous Wounds right now. They'll need at least two more items to build Grievous Wounds.

At this stage, the tree is only a sapling at best.

If it's a team fight, the only role you can play is to use a round of crowd control skills before you get killed.

To put it bluntly, the reason this group is currently being formed is to help Darius stack Bloodrage.

We'll have to wait until both Dragon Ball's two core characters have a three-piece set before we can address the issue of the tree's current fragility and inability to withstand attacks.

Dragon Ball's strategy at this time was to avoid battle.

Korean teams have always been very good at avoiding direct confrontations and managing their resources.

However, it's one thing to avoid battle well, but it also depends on whether the opponent cooperates.

LGD's mid laner is Taliyah. Now that all three of Longzhu's first towers have fallen, the pressure on Longzhu's side laners is immense.

In this situation, the bot lane duo usually stays in the mid lane, while the mid laner and top laner go to support the two side lanes.

Without Taliyah's vision, the people marking the edges of the Dragon Ball map will be under immense psychological pressure.

The jungler can't be in two places at once, so they can only protect one of the side lanes.

If LGD manages to secure the position of the Prince, Taliyah can use her ultimate to gank the other side lane. A single kill can sweep away a lot of resources and create a significant economic gap.

What's even more frustrating is the person who shares the same lane as Darius.

Because of Darius's Ghost ability, he can't even push the lane across the river; he basically only dares to farm in front of the second turret and doesn't dare to stray too far from the turret.

If you're too far from the tower and Darius catches you, he can basically kill you with Ghost.

The minion waves couldn't be pushed out, vision was constantly compressed, and LGD kept stealing jungle monsters.

Playing Dragon Ball is quite frustrating, as the economic gap continues to widen.

For the top lane and jungle positions, as long as you're not playing a pure tank champion, you have the greatest impact on the game if you have an advantage in the early to mid-game.

This LGD team is also quite adept at playing around their top laner who has an advantage.

Although Longzhu was under pressure, they didn't give LGD any opportunities after the laning phase ended.

They knew very well that in late-game team fights, the two carries were what determined the team's potential.

Compare the output capabilities of the two center positions.

Orianna's damage output far surpasses Taliyah's, and Taric's buff to AD carries is no match for Lulu's.

(End of this chapter)