You promised a top lane tutorial, but you're just using Worlds as material for your videos?

Chapter 455 Ambition's top-tier map control completely shuts down Zhou Dian!
At level 2, Jayce, after learning his E skill, has an acceleration gate in cannon form to speed up, and can knock back Gragas in hammer form, making it easy for him to escape.

So Zhou Dian controlled Jayce to retreat into his own minion wave, while simultaneously leveling up his minions to level 2.

Retreating into the minion wave was naturally to dodge Gragas's E skill.

Master An immediately saw through Zhou Dian's intentions. He first hid among the soldiers and maneuvered around them, while simultaneously upgrading Soldier A to level two.

The barrel took two steps forward, but did not use its Q skill to slow Jayce first.

A flash of yellow light appeared, and the barrel teleported directly into the pile of soldiers, landing right in front of Jayce.

Then came a flesh bomb impact (E), which knocked Jess unconscious face-to-face.

Master An acted too decisively!
No matter how fast Ren Zhoudian reacts, he can't react to such a sudden, unannounced flash-to-face E.

"It's over!" Zhou Dian's heart skipped a beat.

Getting hit by a Gragas with red buff using his E skill from this position would likely mean certain death.

While Jayce was circling around the minions, Shen had already moved in close.

After Jayce was stunned by Gragas's E skill, Shen used his Q skill to retrieve his Soul Blade, which grazed Jayce during its flight.

After the dizziness ended, Zhou Dian subconsciously used Flash.

However, he was just a tiny bit too slow, and Jayce was already grazed by Shen's Spirit Blade.

If you try to run now, you won't be able to escape due to Shen's Q skill slowing you down, Gragas' Q skill slowing you down, and the red buff slowing you down.

I used a Death Flash.

At the same time, in the lower river, Eimy's Jarvan IV had just flashed to dodge Taric's E-Flash.

Immediately after this scene, the OB (observer) switched the camera from the bottom river to the top lane.

"Huh? How did they get ganked top lane?" Miller exclaimed in surprise. "Jayce's going to die!"

When the camera cut to the top lane, Jayce was already below half health and was running towards the tower, with Gragas and Shen sticking to him from behind.

“Zhou Shen used Flash. Oops, Flash has already been used!” The words were on the tip of Wawa’s tongue, but when he glanced at Jayce’s portrait in the upper left corner, he realized that Jayce’s Flash had already been used.

Two seconds later.

First Blood!
Jayce died, and Gragas secured the first blood.

"What's going on with Master An?" Miller said, clearly annoyed. "He ignored the blue buff and went to gank top lane at level two!"

"Zhou Shen didn't expect this at all; he got caught and lost the first blood."

"I don't think there's anything we can do about it. Nobody could have predicted this. Everyone thought that after Gragas finished the red buff, he should go back to defend his blue buff. But then Ambition pulled this stunt, and I didn't even notice it," Wawa said.

While Wawa's statement was his habitual "LPL will never lose out," he was indeed right.

“I didn’t notice either.” Miller shook his head, then said, “This is getting a bit tricky!”

"Jayce died right away, and even used Flash. In my memory, Zhou Shen has almost never given up first blood!"

“It seems so, Zhou Shen is indeed very difficult to kill!” the doll added.

"This Ambition is ruthless! Zhou Shen, a top laner with such strong anti-gank awareness, just died at level two like that!"

In a fit of anger, Miller stopped calling him by his nickname "Master An" and started calling him by his ID.

At this moment, in the LGD team's voice chat.

"Damn it, I shouldn't have gone to steal the blue buff, but I shouldn't have been seen by vision, how did they know?" Eimy said with some annoyance.

As a teammate, Eimy is very familiar with some of Zhou Dian's gameplay.

He could roughly understand that Zhou Dian's capture was most likely due to information interference from the blue buff controversy in the lower half of the map.

Otherwise, with the way Sect Leader An is trying to capture someone, it would be very difficult to catch Zhou Dian.

"It's alright, it was my own fault for not being careful enough. Let's take it slow," Zhou Dian said.

He didn't want to affect his teammates' mentality.

That's what they say, but Zhou Dian knew very well that the Jess he picked had died as soon as he reached level two, so he was already half useless.

When the big screen at the scene replayed the entire process of the first blood breaking out in the top lane, it also showed a close-up of Zhou Dian's face when Jayce died.

Zhou Dian frowned deeply, his eyes narrowing as he did so.

Then he took his left hand off the keyboard and rubbed his forehead.

From his body language and facial expressions, it's clear that Zhou Dian was extremely upset and regretful about being caught and killed.

Jayce respawned quickly, Zhou Dian bought a control ward, and then teleported back to the lane.

The top lane minion wave was blocked in front of Samsung's top tower, and Jayce would actually lose minions even if he teleported up.

However, not paying for the teleportation will only result in greater losses.

Furthermore, Zhou Dian didn't dare to teleport directly to the minion wave because he didn't know if the Gragas had left.

With Jayce out of Flash, Ambition could very well still be lurking in the bushes, ready to launch a surprise attack.

Zhou Dian and Eimy often use this tactic against other top laners.

If Jayce carelessly teleports directly to a minion, and a Gragas actually pops out from the river bush in the top lane, then Jayce will basically be rendered useless for the rest of the game.

After all, if Master An stays on the road a little longer, it will only waste a little bit of time.

His vast lower jungle area was now safe, with all three camps of jungle monsters safe, so the prince definitely couldn't invade the enemy jungle.

Jayce teleported to his own top turret, carefully walked to the riverbank, and placed his trinket ward in the top lane river bush.

There was nothing in the grass.

Then Jayce walked into the first bush on the top lane and fired a QE-enhanced Electromagnetic Cannon into the third bush.

After confirming that no one was camping in the three bushes along the lane, Zhou Dian then controlled Jayce to go forward and finish off the enemy.

"Oh dear, once bitten, twice shy!" Miller said.

"The minion wave in the top lane was too weak. Zhou Shen scouted all the bushes around the top lane before he could safely farm minions."

From God's perspective, Miller naturally knew that Master An had returned to his own jungle to farm.

"There's really nothing we can do. Samsung accurately predicted every move LGD made in the early game. It's terrifying!"

Wawa continued, "However, this wave had a significant impact on Crown; he probably lost some minions."

“Yes! Clockwerk is almost at level 3, while Taliyah should have just reached level 2.” Miller nodded.

"Furthermore, Samsung's bot lane duo also roamed, but failed to take advantage of their level 1 strength, and now our bot lane has taken over the bot lane priority instead."

Although the prince's jungle invasion didn't result in stealing the blue buff, it would have been a worthwhile move if Zhou Dian hadn't been caught and killed for first blood.

They even made a small profit.

Therefore, Eimy's decision to use the second-level vision bypass to counter the blue buff was not problematic in itself.

The problem lies in Samsung's blind guessing of the prince's location without any vision, and Ambition's subsequent response, which completely defied normal thinking.

The result is that Jayce has been captured and killed.

Jayce is a champion that cannot die in the early game.

Unable to invade the enemy jungle, Eimy controlled his Prince to go directly to his own blue buff.

Destroy the blue buff, then enter the river and take down the top river crab.

At this point, LGD was pushing their lanes in both the top and mid lanes, so they had no chance to gank and Prince could only continue farming the jungle.

However, Taliyah's condition in the mid lane clearly didn't allow Crown to stay in lane any longer, so Crown chose to go back to base.

This wave that's going home isn't from the artillery line; they'll lose a lot of soldiers going back.

But Crown decisively recalled to base under the tower, giving him no chance whatsoever. Wei Shen's Orianna pushed the minion wave to the mid-tier tower at three stars, and then also recalled.

Just then, Clockwerk ran out of mana.

The countdown to recalling to base had already passed more than halfway when suddenly a barrel of wine jumped out from below.

The Gragas placed a Q at Orianna's feet, interrupting her recall, and then walked away without looking back.

"Ugh, this is so frustrating. Actually, this was a perfect time for Orianna to recall," said the doll.

"But it's frustrating to be interrupted like this, Taliyah pushes the lane too fast."

By this time, Taliyah, who had returned home, had already reached her mid-lane tower and started pushing the lane.

If it weren't for the interruption from the Gragas, Clockwerk would have already left base by now, and this recall wouldn't have resulted in a loss of creeps for him.

Returning to the city now would mean losing at least half a wave of troops.

But not replying isn't an option either.

A mid-laner who is not in good form and stays in lane can only hinder the jungler's rhythm and make the jungler play more restrictively.

In the jungle, after clearing all three camps of jungle monsters in the blue buff area, Eimy's Jarvan IV recalled to base before Orianna could.

Meanwhile, Gragas, who interrupted Orianna's recall rhythm, moved downwards and disappeared into the bottom river in LGD's vision.

After entering the river's barrel, he immediately returned to his own blue zone, then headed upwards to the red zone and began fighting the stone beetles.

Meanwhile, in the top lane, in the past two minutes, Zhou Dian has regained control of the situation and caught up in last hits.

Jayce regained control of the lane.

In those two minutes or so, thanks to Zhou Dian's well-timed minion wave management, the top lane minion wave gradually pushed back.

Another wave of minions arrived, and the two sides' minion waves converged in front of LGD's top tower.

In this situation, Zhou Dian can effectively control the top lane minion wave and thoroughly dominate CuVee for a while.

Cuvee's Shen went home at this time, resulting in a huge loss of minions.

If you don't go home, you basically can't farm minions; you can only gain experience.

After all, the difference between Jayce and Shen is significant, and Shen faces a much higher risk of being ganked.

However, Zhou Dian's painstaking efforts were quickly thwarted.

On the big screen at this moment, from the observer's perspective, the barrel had already finished farming the Krugs and was continuing forward along the top path.

The top lane minion wave had only been stuck in front of LGD's top tower for a few seconds when Zhou Dian saw a Gragas emerge from behind.

Then Gragas and Shen together forcefully pushed the top lane minion wave to under Jaxta.

After helping his top laner clear the wave, the two retreated a bit and recalled to base.

"Is this the intuition of a seasoned jungler?" Zhou Dian shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The barrels arrived just in time.

This wave of wave clear helped Shen a lot.

In less than a minute, Gragas interrupted Orianna's recall in the mid lane and helped Shen clear the wave in the top lane.

It may seem like they haven't done anything, but in reality, they have regained the initiative in the laning phase that they had gradually lost in the top and mid lanes.

In the commentary box.

Seeing Gragas appear in the top lane just in time to help Shen clear the blocked minion wave, Miller couldn't help but say, "Wow, Ambition's sense of smell is too sharp!"

"First, he messed with Orianna in the mid lane, making her uncomfortable. Then, less than a minute later, he helped Shen clear the wave, making Shen feel better."

"Actually, Master An didn't gank. He just wandered around two lanes for a bit, but he genuinely helped his teammates."

"They even spawned a wave of Golems in the middle of the barrels!" Doll added. "It didn't waste any time at all!"

"This Ambition is playing too smoothly; he reminds me of someone," Miller said.

"You're the factory manager, right?"

As the doll spoke, she and Miller exchanged a glance, and then they both chuckled.

After the two joked around like that, a lot of people started spamming "7777" in the chat of the official live stream.

Seven Sauce is awesome!

[They didn't even come to the World Championship, yet they're still acting all high and mighty!]

To be honest, Ambition's jungling style is exactly the same as Clearlove's. Is this how all older players are?

[Come on, Seven's level this year is nowhere near Master An's!]

To be honest, both are map-control type junglers, but in terms of performance at Worlds, Ambition's strategy is at least ten times better than Clearlove's!

"Isn't there any difference?"

[Is Mala Xiangguo brainless? Hahaha, you understand Mlxg!]

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Back to the game.

After Shen returned to base, Zhou Dian finished clearing the minion wave under the tower and also chose to return to base.

After returning to the spring, Zhou Dian did not immediately craft the Serrated Dagger. Instead, he bought two longswords and then an Extraction item.

He knew very well that after the first few minutes of the game, it was unlikely that he could use Shen to gain a significant advantage in the lane.

Master An has clearly got his sights set on him this time, and he'll probably launch another offensive next.

Calling the jungler didn't work either; Eimy's Jarvan IV completely lost his rhythm after that counter-jungling attempt at level two.

LGD's top and jungle, Jayce and Jarvan IV, had a strong advantage in this game, chasing and attacking anyone they saw.

However, once they lost their advantage or disadvantage, the problem of neither of them being able to maintain stable control became apparent.

Samsung's top and jungle champions are both heroes with mobility skills.

Even the prince's ultimate move wasn't very effective against these two.

Zhou Dian had no choice but to build an Extract item and focus on farming for a while, hoping to make a strong push in the mid-game and find some opportunities.

As long as he develops normally, Jayce's damage output in the mid-game is still quite considerable.

It just doesn't achieve that "getting pregnant in one go" effect that no one can resist.

Based on the actions of both sides in the first few minutes, the game has shifted back to Samsung's preferred development and management style.

The situation seems to be starting to resemble the second game.

Samsung operates steadily, while LGD seeks opportunities to break the deadlock.

In this game, LGD's support was Karma, and they maintained lane priority in the bot lane, keeping Samsung's bot lane duo under their tower.

The most suitable way to find a breakthrough is still the bottom lane.

The top lane couldn't break through at all, and the Gragas would occasionally peek out in the top half of the map to intimidate Zhou Dian.

Cuvee's Shen also stubbornly refused to trade hits, letting himself miss as long as he maintained a healthy health level.

You can develop your Jayce however you want.

Jayce, can he really turn the tide just by last-hitting minions?

This is also why Zhou Dian chose to supplement with extraction; every little bit of speed up development is a good thing.

(End of this chapter)