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Chapter 454 Samsung Opened? Sect Leader An Fooled Everyone!

As the game entered the loading screen, shouts of "LGD, keep going!" echoed from the audience.

The unified sound was louder than in the previous two rounds.

The audience also realized that this game was a crucial battle after the score was tied 1-1, and the players on the field needed their encouragement and support.

After the logo of Mercedes-Benz, the number one sponsor of this World Championship, flashed across the big screen, the ten players from both sides entered Summoner's Rift.

Blue side LGD:

Top lane Jayce, jungle Jarvan IV, mid lane Orianna, bot lane Tristana and Karma.

Red team 3 stars:
Top lane: Shen; Jungle: Gragas; Mid lane: Taliyah; Bot lane: Varus and Taric.

The few minutes between the end of the draft phase and the start of the game.

The commentators, Wawa and Miller, kept expressing their concerns about LGD's lineup for this game.

"I still feel that LGD's first pick of Jayce disrupted their own draft rhythm, which made Samsung's subsequent picks too comfortable!" Miller's understanding of the game strongly believes in the advantages and disadvantages of the draft.

He believes that the quality of the draft picks (BP) is even more important than the players' performance on the day.

As usual, Wawa started by praising the game first, then added, "Indeed, LGD's early game tempo relied entirely on Jayce, but how should I put it..."

"I believe in Zhou Shen's Jayce. I have great confidence in him as the world's best Jayce player!"

If Zhou Dian heard this, he would quickly wave his hand and distance himself from the baby.

This is just flattering me to death! I didn't say that, it has nothing to do with me.

When the ten heroes from both sides emerged from the fountain, the director gave a very special shot.

Following in the footsteps of the heroes, looking down at the high ground, the Summoner's Trophy pattern is displayed on the open ground between the twin turrets and the mid-lane crystal.

To the left of the small crystal in the middle lane are the numbers [20], and to the right are the numbers [17].

Together they represent the 2017 World Championship.

"In this crucial battle, whoever wins will take the lead in match point, bringing them one step closer to the finals and the Summoner's Cup, the symbol of the world champion!"

Upon seeing the large logo on the high ground, Miller remarked sincerely.

"This match is very important, so even after LGD first picked Jayce, they still chose a very stable double carry combination!" Wawa breathed a heavy sigh of relief, putting aside his worries about LGD.

Both sides started by lining up along the river, each in a defensive position.

However, neither of the mid laners stayed in the jungle; instead, they went to the mid lane.

As soon as Orianna and Taliyah met, they started hitting each other.

Clockwerk cast Thunderfury, and Taliyah cast Wind Rider.

After each player lost half their health, both junglers arrived in the mid lane, and Wei Shen and Crown separated.

From the outset, both players seemed to be very angry, which set a tone for the game.

The reason why Wei Shen's Orianna didn't stay in his own jungle but went to the lane was mainly because he wanted to place a ward at Samsung's F6 camp to see if he could catch up on Gragas' jungle route.

Taliyah also ran to the lane to block Orianna, naturally because Crown didn't want him to place that ward.

It was almost 1 minute and 20 seconds before the two mid laners spread out.

Going home was definitely too late, so I could only start laning with half health remaining.

However, just a few seconds before the minion waves converged, Wei Shen still found an opportunity.

Taking advantage of Taliyah's temporary absence from the online zone, he immediately maneuvered Orianna forward a few steps and placed a ward into Samsung's F6 pit.

Although Taliyah immediately attacked the ward twice, Gragas was too far away to help attack it.

The eye of this accessory has been hidden.

Even with LGD's wards, Ambition still chose to start at F6, without changing his jungle clearing strategy.

After F6 refreshed, Taliyah helped Gragas use his Q skill before returning to the mid lane.

The barrel ate five small birds at F6, leveled up to level 2, and then turned to attack the red buff, without attacking the big bird.

On LGD's side, Eimy's Jarvan IV chose to start with the red buff in this game.

Generally, when Zhou Dian plays a damage-dealing top laner, Eimy usually starts in the bottom half of the jungle and farms from bottom to top.

After imp and PYL helped the prince take down the red buff a few times, they turned and headed to the bottom lane.

Samsung's support, Taric, was currently crouching in the bottom lane tri-bush of the blue team.

He was the only one camping in the bush; Ruler's Varus had already gone online to farm minions and push the lane.

imp's Tristana was walking ahead of Karma when she got close to the bush and was suddenly stunned by Gem's E skill.

However, Gem simply used his E skill on Tristana and then left the bush without looking back, heading towards the lane.

Before arriving online, Gem dropped his trinkets into the river.

After being harassed by Taric, LGD's bot lane duo returned to lane as normal.

However, behind Tristana and Karma, there was also a prince.

Eimy didn't intend to gank bot lane at level two, since Karma, as a support, has absolutely no crowd control at level one, making it unrealistic for Jarvan IV to gank bot lane at level two.

He wanted to invade the enemy jungle!

In the last game, the attempt to invade the enemy jungle failed, and the enemy jungler even managed to invade and kill the enemy, giving up first blood. The main reason was that the vision control was not good, and the enemy failed to grasp the enemy jungler's early game movements.

In this game, Wei Shen placed a ward in Samsung's F6 camp and discovered that Gragas started from F6 and only killed five raptors.

At that moment, Gragas would definitely be attacking the red buff.

With this information, Eimy's desire to rebel resurfaced.

The prince followed the two on the bottom lane to the triangular bush, and just as he was about to continue forward, he suddenly stopped.

Eimy remembered that Gem had just returned to the lane from this point, so it's very likely that Gem placed a ward on his way back.

Eimy then controlled the prince to turn around and leave the tri-bush, then used an EQ combo to go down to the dragon pit, and then headed straight for the three-star blue buff.

The prince's choice of route conveniently bypassed the eye that the gem had placed in the river a few seconds earlier.

In the commentary box.

"The prince is going downstairs, what's he going to do?" the doll said. "But it seems like Eimy's thoughts have been read, look at the eye on the gem!"

"Trickery!" Miller nodded.

“Samsung has definitely researched this eye feature,” the doll continued.

Seeing that the prince chose to go through the dragon pit and avoid vision, Miller couldn't help but say, "If one plan fails, another will come up. Gragas is still attacking the red buff, and the prince has Smite on him. He should have the blue buff by now!"

However, the research Samsung conducted on LGD, as mentioned by the doll, went beyond just the eye of the gem.

Just because something isn't visible doesn't mean we don't know it.

When the prince arrived in Samsung's lower jungle and started to take the blue buff, the second wave of minions in the mid lane had just met, and both mid laners were still level one.

However, instead of farming a minion to level up to level two, crown immediately controlled his level one Taliyah to rush towards his own blue buff.

"Hey, what's Taliyah doing?" Doll asked instinctively when she saw Taliyah's strange behavior.

Taliyah walked behind the blue buff wall and placed her trinket ward directly into the blue buff camp.

Then I saw the prince who had just auto-attacked the blue buff three times.

"Hey~~ Is this how Samsung plays?!" Doll exclaimed loudly. "How did you know that? It feels like we've been completely figured out!" After spotting the Prince, Taliyah immediately went down to the river, clearly intending to flank him.

Meanwhile, from the observer's perspective, the two Samsung bot laners who had lane priority went straight to the top lane and pushed the lane.

Although the three support and mid-tier players from Samsung are all still at level one, if a prince at level two is surrounded by these three, he will surely die.

"We're leaving! We're leaving!" the doll shouted. "We definitely can't take this blue buff!"

However, the prince did not abandon the blue buff and run away into the river as the commentators had suggested.

Instead, it lingered in Samsung's blue zone for a while, seemingly having some other ideas.

On Samsung's side, Taliyah arrived a little faster than her own bot lane duo, reaching the narrow passage between the blue buff area and the bottom river first.

Upon seeing Taliyah, Jarvan IV used a combo of EQ, and Taliyah, who was leaning against the wall and unable to move, was knocked up by Jarvan IV.

Then, the prince landed a basic attack on Taliyah with his passive ability, triggering Thunderlord's Decree.

Taliyah, whose health was already low, was left with only a third of her health after taking Jarvan IV's EQA combo.

"Use EQ to initiate, unleash a combo, Orianna is coming to support too!" Miller shouted.

After leveling up to level 2, Wei Shen's Orianna immediately came to the river to support the Prince.

"Ugh, it's still not working. Samsung's bot lane is coming. We still have to leave, we still have to leave!" Wawa said repeatedly.

Eimy originally wanted to team up with Wei Shen to block Taliyah's route back to the mid lane.

Since you didn't get the blue buff, you should at least lose some experience as the mid laner.

However, after his bot lane duo arrived, Crown immediately used his heal on his teammates to speed up the chase against the Prince, while also raising his own health.

After chasing for a while, CoreJJ saw that the distance was about right, and the Gem's Aura (E) began to charge up.

Just as Gem's E skill was about to be released, CoreJJ suddenly pressed Flash.

Eimy reacted very quickly, almost simultaneously using Flash with Gem.

The prince used Flash to dodge the gem's E-Flash and was not stunned.

Eimy anticipated that Gem would use his Flash to stun him, and his own Flash was also based on this prediction, which is why he almost synchronized his Flash with Gem's Flash and avoided the stun.

Otherwise, if we wait until the gems sparkle before taking action, it will be too late.

"Wow, that was close!" Miller said. "It's good that you weren't stunned by Gem's E flash. Both junglers and supports have exchanged flashes."

"Hmm, it's acceptable." The doll nodded in agreement.

However, both commentators overlooked one thing.

Was someone missing during this river chase?
Not only did the commentators on the field not notice this, but the audience at the scene and those watching the live stream also largely failed to notice it.

Meanwhile, in the official tournament live stream, the chat was still buzzing with excitement as Crown's Taliyah caught the Jarvan IV who was invading the enemy jungle without any vision.

[Wait, how did Samsung know that? I don't understand!]

[They clearly avoided seeing it, I can't accept this!]

Samsung, please be honest, has it been turned on?

[Shut it up, it's pointless!]

[Damn, LGD's secret weapon has been exposed!]

[You like counter-jungling, huh? I'll break your legs!]

[Whose side are you on? Are you taking the Koreans' side?]

[Holy crap, guys, there's KRD in the stream!]

[Krdog, get out of here!]

【.】

Neither the viewers arguing fiercely in the live chat nor those watching the game intently realized one thing.

Where did the barrel go?

When Taliyah placed a ward and spotted Jarvan IV stealing the blue buff, Gragas had just finished clearing his own red buff.

Normally, after Ambition's Gragas finishes his red buff, he should head straight to the bottom jungle to protect his blue buff and also gank the Jarvan IV who's trying to invade his jungle.

However, during this chase in the lower river, only LGD's mid and jungle, and Samsung's mid, bot, and support were in the river.

Who is missing?
It's normal that LGD's bot lane duo was pushed back to their tower and didn't come to support them.

However, the barrel, which should have been present at this moment, was completely absent from the OB view that covered the entire lower half of the river.

Aside from the Samsung team members, Zhou Dian was the first to notice where the barrel was.

With the barrel practically in Jayce's face, how could he not notice?
After crown's amazing blind guess, Taliyah caught Jarvan IV invading the enemy jungle at level 1 without vision.

Everyone assumed that after killing the red barrel, the player would immediately head to their blue side.

However, Master An's actions took everyone by surprise.

None of An Zhangmen's four teammates noticed at first that the barrel was not going down, but going up.

If even his teammates were fooled, then it's no wonder that his opponent, Zhou Dian, was fooled as well.

Zhou Dian's Jayce didn't pressure Shen relentlessly at level one. Instead, he used his usual method of slowly pushing the lane and waiting for the jungler to come, then crushing the enemy top laner in one fell swoop.

This can also reduce the risk of being ganked.

If Jayce isn't pushing the lane, then Shen is even less likely to do so.

Cuvee watched from behind, last-hitting whenever he could, and doing nothing when he couldn't, completely enduring the pressure.

When the second wave of minions arrived on the top lane, Jayce had just finished clearing the first wave of minions from the red side.

The minion waves have connected, and the point where the top lane minion waves meet has only been pushed forward a little.

At this moment, in the lower river, Taliyah had already blocked Jarvan IV. Jarvan IV used his EQ combo to knock up Taliyah and escape back to the river.

With no pressure online, Zhou Dian naturally kept track of his teammates' situations by switching screens.

He also felt that the Gragas should be almost at the Blue Buff by now.

When he saw Eimy invade the enemy jungle, he was planning to clear the first wave of minions and then place a ward in the top lane river bush to guard against a possible level 2 gank.

Although the possibility is very small.

But now that Eimy, who was counter-jungling, has been caught, Gragas naturally won't be ganking top lane.

So I didn't put this accessory around my eyes; I'll leave it there for as long as I can.

And then...
Just one second after the second wave of minions in the top lane met, Gragas, carrying the red buff, emerged from the river bush behind Jayce.

Even though the first wave of minions pushed the lane slowly, Jayce's position is now a bit too far forward, and he has been completely flanked by Gragas.

Seeing the barrel approach, Zhou Dian quickly came up with a solution.

If he runs straight back, he knows that Jayce at this level definitely won't be able to escape.

Jayce is just one minion away from reaching level two, and one of the red team's melee minions is down to half health.

Don't rush to run away. Finish off this minion and level up to level 2.

(End of this chapter)