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Chapter 451 In Crisis, Being Led by the Nose by Samsung!
At the same time that the prince returned to the city.

After defeating the Demon Swamp Frog, Master An's wine barrel reached level five.

Even after dying once, Gragas was still a whole level ahead of Jarvan IV.

The prince went home and upgraded his Sightstone jungle item, while Galio went home and bought a pair of Mercury's Treads.

LGD's mid and jungle players have completed their key early-game items.

After both junglers died once, the pace of the game slowed down, and both sides entered a rhythm of farming minions and developing their resources.

The OB camera focused on the bottom lane again, and Miller finally noticed that LGD's bottom lane tower had lost half its health.

"Well, the good news is, Rambo wasn't bothered!" Miller forced out.

"In that case, we don't need to ask for too much!" Wawa added. "With our lineup, we're stronger by grouping up in the mid-game!"

"Initially, we were quite worried about Rambo and the rat's development, but now it seems that their development has not been affected."

If Zhou Dian heard this, he would definitely be speechless.

Rumble is a champion that has always been targeted in various ways in the LPL.

So, LPL commentators have developed a misconception, I don't know when it started.

That is, Rambo is very fierce.

If you're not aggressive, why would you target someone?

But in fact, there is no necessary connection between these two things.

They might be targeting you simply because you're easy to target.

Rumble, a short-ranged champion who is also good at pushing lanes, is undoubtedly very easy to counter in the long lane like the top lane!

To be honest, Rumble isn't as powerful as you might imagine!
Ignoring team composition, Rumble in the top lane is actually less versatile and weaker in the late game than Kennen.

Of course, Rambo also has his own advantages.

Ultimately, it depends on the specific lineup and performance.

For some reason, two common opinions about Rumble emerged in the early LPL.

First, you have to relentlessly gank the enemy Rumble player.

Secondly, if you wait until Rambo develops, he will become very powerful.

These two viewpoints are inherently connected.

It was precisely because they thought Rumble was strong in the late game that they kept targeting him in the early game, preventing him from developing properly.

However, Samsung presented a different interpretation than LPL in this match.

They're too lazy to even gank your Rumble; the top laners on both sides are just farming.

Samsung believes that Nalby and Rumble will be useful in the later stages of the game.

In the mid-to-late game, Rumble is definitely no match for Gnar in terms of split pushing.

In team fights, Gnar is vulnerable to rage and needs to be active during team fights.

However, Rumble's ultimate damage is inconsistent, and his main damage skill, Q, requires him to get close to deal damage, but Rumble is also a squishy champion.

Rumble's damage output pattern dictates that, even in team fights, he's not necessarily better than Gnar.

Gnar has crowd control abilities and can create opportunities for himself, while Rumble relies on his teammates' crowd control to deal damage.

Cuvee had no offensive pressure in this game, and Gnar bought a Ghost Cloak on his first back to base.

First, build tank items to stabilize the lane. If you have extra money, buy a Cull and slowly farm to reach the mid-to-late game.

In short, they've been taking a very cautious approach!
When Zhou Dian saw Gnar's equipment, he knew that all his previous vigilance against ganks had been in vain.

They had no intention of arresting you at all.

Often, when LPL teams lose to LCK teams, the difference often lies in their understanding of the game and their tactical discipline.

In terms of reaction time and skill, how could the players selected from such a large player base in the LPL be worse than those in the LCK?
At 7 minutes and 40 seconds into the game, Eimy's Prince destroyed his second red buff and leveled up to level six.

In the last two or three minutes, neither side's jungler did much; the prince focused on farming jungle camps and managed to catch up in levels.

The prince, who had just reached level six, went to the top lane river bush.

There are three-star eyes in the grass; Cuvee has already spotted the prince.

Gnar was positioned slightly forward and was hit by Rumble's harpoon, which slowed him down.

Eimy's Prince used his EQ combo, targeting behind Gnar, seemingly trying to anticipate Gnar's jump.

If you had predicted it and interrupted Gnar's E skill, you could definitely have forced a Flash.

Unfortunately, Cuvee remained calm, and Gnar didn't even flinch. The Prince's EQ combo missed its mark.

After failing to gank in the top lane, Eimy returned to his own jungle to farm Krugs.

Zhou Dian pushed the top lane minion wave to the enemy tower and then chose to recall.

Rambo hasn't gone home yet.

Upon seeing the Prince appear in the top lane, Ambition, who was in the bottom half of the map, immediately maneuvered Gragas to the tri-bush behind LGD's bottom tower.

There's a ward for LGD in the grass.

However, at this moment, the bottom lane minion wave was pushed into LGD's tower, and Gragas brazenly attacked the control ward right in front of them, forcing LGD's two bottom laners to cower under the tower and farm minions.

Fortunately, Gragas had just destroyed LGD's control ward, and the Gem under the tower had leveled up to level six.

So Sect Leader An gave up his idea of ​​climbing the tower and turned to leave.

But after this wave of minions arrived, and with Gragas lurking nearby, the turret was hit a few more times.

LGD's next tower has only a quarter of its health left.

Zhou Dian was originally going to teleport back to the top lane, but the Gragas appeared behind his own bottom lane tower, forcing Zhou Dian to leave the teleport to protect the bottom lane.

As the bottom tower's health dwindles, Samsung will likely launch a coordinated attack on LGD's bottom lane to kill and take the tower sooner or later.

Originally, it was mid-laner Wei Shen's job to protect his weak bottom lane duo at all times.

However, as Malzahar leveled up, his wave clear speed was terrifying. Wei Shen's Galio was constantly pulled by the minion wave and could not leave the mid lane to move towards the bottom half of the map.

Furthermore, Galio's CS (creep score) has gradually fallen behind Malzahar's.

We can't blame Wei Shen too much; this is just how Galio usually plays against farming mages.

In yesterday's semi-final match between SKT and RNG, Faker's Galio roamed around farming and didn't fall behind Xiaohu, which was really hard to understand.

I can't figure out whether Faker or Xiaohu is being too over-the-top.

Zhou Dian chose to leave the teleportation point to protect the bottom lane, while Rambo walked up to the top lane.

Eimy stayed in the top lane to defend a wave of minions before Rumble returned to lane.

With the prince consistently playing top lane, LGD's second blue buff was naturally stolen by Samsung's mid and jungle.

Without the blue buff, Galio in the mid lane will have a much harder time pushing lanes against Malzahar, and this is a chain reaction.

When Samsung's mid and jungle were stealing LGD's blue buff in the bottom jungle, LGD's bottom lane duo chose to recall because they were afraid of being ganked by Samsung's four-man gank.

After this recall, the bottom lane tower was basically gone.

Zhou Dian deliberately left the teleportation point to defend against a 3-star four-man gank on the second tower, as he felt the lower tower could still hold for a while.

But perhaps because the bot lane couldn't take it anymore, PYL decided to just give up the tower.

Since this first tower is going to fall sooner or later anyway, why risk being surrounded?

That makes sense.

In situations like this, the bottom laner's subjective ideas are quite important, and PYL is also the team's shot-caller.

Then let's give up the lower tower!
With the next tower down, the Samsung bot lane duo will definitely come up to torment Zhou Dian's Rumble.

If they don't give up the tower, LGD's bot lane will have to bear the pressure alone. If they give up the tower, Rumble will help relieve the pressure on the bot lane.

If I had known the bot lane would be this difficult, and Samsung hadn't ganked Rumble, Zhou Dian would have completely dominated Gnar in the early game.

Because of his fear of Gragas' ganks, Zhou Dian gave up many good opportunities to trade blows with Gnar in lane.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs"!
As another wave of minions pushed into LGD's bottom tower, Samsung's bot lane duo destroyed the low-health LGD bottom tower.

With just over nine minutes into the game, Samsung secured the first tower kill.

Moreover, they directly destroyed towers in online matchups.

Despite not being killed, LGD's bot lane had their first tower destroyed in nine minutes. It has to be said that LGD's bot lane played rather poorly during the laning phase.

The good news is that Imp's rat wasn't crushed by Varus.

However, Galio in the mid lane has already been out-farmed, and Zhou Dian in the top lane has also been out-farmed by Gnar due to saving teleport.

At this point, a difference of two thousand dollars had emerged between the two sides.

LGD is in a very passive situation right now!

In a passive situation, there are generally two ways to handle it.

One approach is to drag out the operation in the later stages, and the other is to break the deadlock through fighting.

Competing with Samsung in terms of operations is clearly unwise.

In this situation, the appropriate response would be to break the deadlock through fighting.

Taking advantage of the fact that LGD's mid and jungle champions don't rely too much on items and that the economic gap hasn't widened yet, they can use the strong initiation ability of the Jarvan IV and Galio combination to find an opportunity to turn the tide!

Samsung could obviously guess what LGD was planning. The guys were very shrewd and wouldn't do anything risky.

After Galio returned to base, Wei Shen watched from the fountain for a long time but didn't have any opportunities, so he had no choice but to teleport back to the mid lane to farm minions.

After Samsung destroyed LGD's bottom tower, their bot lane duo didn't switch to the top lane to push the top tower. Instead, they continued to restrict Twitch's farming space in the bot lane.

That was a very skillful move.

Zhou Dian wanted to help his team's bottom lane relieve some of the pressure, but Samsung wouldn't give him that chance!
On Samsung's side, Ambition's Gragas was always camped in the bottom half of the map.

Malzahar pushed the lane relentlessly in the mid lane, and Galio couldn't move at all.

So the two Samsung bot laners brazenly pushed the minion wave all the way to LGD's second bot lane tower, without any concern about being caught.

For LGD, if they can't find a way in the mid and bot lanes, they might have to look for opportunities in the top lane.

However, Rumble and Prince Jarvan IV simply cannot kill a Gnar who builds tank items as his first item.

The situation on the field is still unfolding according to Samsung's strategy.

LGD is now completely stuck; they can only initiate a fight if Samsung gives them the opportunity.

LGD soon got this opportunity.

After failing to gank Gnar in the top lane, Zhou Dian and Eimy both chose to recall.

From Samsung's perspective at this point, LGD only had two players in the bottom half of the map: Gem and Twitch.

Then Ambition's Gragas emerged from the jungle, and Samsung's bot lane, jungle, and support began to recklessly push LGD's bottom lane second tower.

Janna had already crafted the Incense Burner, and with its enhancement, Varus could attack towers at an exceptionally fast speed.

Before the wave of minions under the tower had even died, LGD's second tower had already lost most of its health.

LGD's passive situation of being pulled back and forth was extremely distressing for the commentators, Wawa and Miller, whose voices waned as they began to commentate.

But when they saw Rumble return to the fountain, Jarvan IV head straight to the bottom lane, and Galio also heading towards the bottom lane, the two realized something, and their voices suddenly became excited.

"LGD wants to fight. If the Prince comes up, can he coordinate with Galio to initiate a fight?"

"There's a good ward in the bottom lane's tri-bush, wanna ward?" Wawa's voice suddenly became louder.

When the prince reached the bottom lane's second turret, Rumble in the fountain finally used his first teleport of the game.

The teleportation point was the red team's bottom lane tri-bush, and they circled around to behind Samsung's bottom, jungle, and support trio.

"Here it comes, this is the wave!"

"TP'd Zhou Shen, let's see how the Prince engages, EQ flash, he's got Varus on board!"

"Kill Emperor Ruler!!" Miller blurted out these three words.

The prince used his EQ flash to knock up Varus, followed by Rumble who teleported to the ground and used his ultimate, which landed at the feet of Varus and Janna.

At the same time, the gem was given to the prince's ultimate ability.

At this moment, a wave of blue team minions has already moved up to the bottom lane.

Cuvée's Gnar in the top lane used Teleport on a minion, and the teleport point was right in front of Jarvan IV.

Eimy feinted an attack on Varus, but when Rumble emerged from the tri-bush, Jarvan IV used his ultimate to land a devastating blow on Janna.

At the same time, Rumble's EQ combo also hit Janna's face.

In team fights, prioritizing killing the support champions with the Ardent Censer buff has become a consensus among everyone in this version.

Unfortunately, they couldn't kill Janna instantly. With a sliver of health, Janna flashed to summon Jarvan IV's ultimate, activating Monsoon (R).

Zhou Dian immediately flashed to follow up, and Janna was killed by Rumble just as she activated her ultimate.

Varus, who was temporarily unaffected by the attack, turned around and unleashed his ultimate ability.

The chain of corruption spread, engulfing the four LGD members present, all of whom were imprisoned.

The Gragas, who had already fled into the jungle, returned and unleashed his ultimate, scattering the four LGD players in all directions.

At that moment, Gnar teleported down, appearing as a completely unangered Gnar. He landed right in front of the rat.

With the Wind Maiden dead, Ruler, who was already surrounded, did not attempt to escape.

Varus used a reverse Flash, flashing right in front of the rat, and incidentally getting out of Galio's ultimate range.

When Wei Shen used Galio's ultimate, it landed but didn't hit anything, instead creating a crater in the ground.

The rat, who was trapped in place by Varus's ultimate, was quickly killed by Gnar and Varus, and even used a Flash to escape.

However, it's clear that neither Gnar nor Varus can escape.

The two split up and ran away, but LGD used various flashes to catch up and immediately chased down and killed the low-health Gnar and Varus.

Malzaha, who had hiked down the mountain, finally arrived at the scene of the battle.

Four LGD players chased into the bush, but were stunned by Gragas's belly slam. Gragas then flashed over the wall and escaped.

After all LGD members were hit by the Human Bomb Impact, the player with the lowest health, Gem, was killed by Malzahar who arrived at the scene.

So Zhou Dian and the others could only vent their anger on Malzahar.

Crown used Flash but still couldn't escape; Galio took the kill.

LGD managed to trade two for four in this exchange.

LGD's bot lane duo is dead, and Samsung's entire squad except for their jungler is dead.

In the commentary box.

"I've got it! I've got it!" Miller shouted. "The crown has fallen, and only Master An has slunk away!"

Wow, this is amazing!

After a pause, Wawa continued, "As soon as I saw Zhou Shen recalling to base, I knew LGD was going to fight. The ward placement in that tri-bush is extremely important!"

"Two for four, can we get it again?"

"Ugh, Samsung's bottom lane tower has way too much health!"

(End of this chapter)