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Chapter 460: LGD continues their stubborn counter-jungling, with a classic three-man gank on the top lane!

Zhou Dian's gamble paid off; Master An indeed failed to secure a second-level victory.

This is certainly not because Master An thought Zhou Dian wouldn't fall twice in the same place, so he simply didn't try.

Instead, right after they finished taking the blue buff, Master An saw that the Dragon King had already pushed the minion wave to the base of his own mid-lane tower.

What kind of push speed is that!

Master An was a little unaccustomed to it at first.

The fact that the female police officer and Karma bot lane quickly pushed their own bot lane under the tower was something Ambition could have foreseen.

Under these circumstances, how could Master An dare to go on the road at level two?

If the blind man shows up in the top lane at this moment, Samsung's lower jungle will definitely be gone.

At least F6 and the red buff will be stolen by the prince.

Eimy is not a timid or cautious jungler.

If the blind man shows up in the top lane right now, he's definitely going to invade Samsung's bottom jungle.

He went to his own bottom lane even when they didn't have lane priority in the previous game, let alone in this game where his own mid and bottom lanes got lane priority early on.

After finishing his own blue buff, Eimy switched screens and looked towards the mid lane, only to see Galio about to start last-hitting under the tower.

Gee!

That push speed!

If we don't go and counter one or two groups of jungle monsters for the blind man, it would be a disservice to Wei Shen for picking the Dragon King hero in this game.

"GodWei, look at me, look at me, I'm about to enter the Blind Monk's red zone!" Eimy said quickly in the LGD team voice chat.

As soon as he finished speaking, the prince rushed into the river, heading straight for Samsung's lower jungle.

Wei Shen, who was a bit confused by Samsung's strategy in the previous two games, finally understood.

With Taliyah banned, Zhou Dian insisted on letting him pick Aurelion Sol instead of Ryze, a champion he hadn't played in a long time and was rusty with.

The key to defeating Samsung lies in suppressing their jungler, Ambition.

Suppressing the jungler cannot be achieved solely through matchups in the jungle position.

We absolutely need help from online sources!
This is different from the online situation.

If there is a significant difference in skill level between online players, they can dominate the lane solo without needing teammates.

Returning to this game, Aurelion Sol's early wave clear speed is so fast that even three Ryzes combined can't match it.

A thought flashed through Wei Shen's mind—

Even if Taliyah wasn't banned, Zhou Dian would probably still insist on letting him pick Aurelion Sol in this game.

At this moment, in Samsung's jungle.

After taking down the blue buff, the Blind Monk started attacking the three wolves.

Ambition wasn't in a hurry to go to the bottom jungle, even though LGD's mid laner already had lane priority and the bottom laner was about to gain lane priority as well.

He felt there was no need to rush.

After LGD's painful defeat in the previous game when they tried to invade the enemy jungle at level two, the Prince in this game probably won't dare to invade their jungle at level two.

But after completely dominating two consecutive games, Ambition clearly underestimated Eimy.

Although Eimy isn't as headstrong as Mala Xiangguo, he still has a certain stubbornness about him!
While the blind man was attacking the three wolves, Eimy's prince had already started attacking the three-star red buff.

The counter-jungling route is the same as in the previous game.

In the previous game, after taking the buff, I used my EQ combo to go into the dragon pit to steal the blue buff from Samsung.

In this game, after taking the blue buff, I used an EQ combo to come up from the dragon pit and go to steal the red buff from Samsung.

One of the main reasons Eimy's counter-jungling attempt failed in the previous game was Samsung's mid laner crown's miraculous prediction without vision.

The level 1 Taliyah suddenly left the mid lane and ran to the jungle to place a ward for her own blue buff, catching the Jarvan IV who had just started taking the blue buff.

In fact, in this game, Crown also raised the question of whether the prince would come to steal his own red buff.

Crown's personality is more cautious than Master An's. While Master An believes that something will not happen again, he feels that there is still a certain possibility.

However, the situation in this game is different from the last one.

In the previous game, when Crown's Taliyah abandoned the minion wave at level 1 to go to the jungle, the mid lane minion wave was still roughly balanced. The opponent was an Orianna who couldn't push the wave in the early game. When he wandered around the jungle, he only lost one or two minions, which was not a big deal.

But now Galio has been forced back under the tower.

If they go for another stroll in the jungle, this wave of minions will probably be completely wiped out by the turrets.

If he loses a wave of minions at level one, then he's basically done for.

So although Crown had the idea of ​​going to the bottom jungle to see if the Prince was counter-jungling, he could only stay under the tower and farm minions.

"Damn it, Aurelion Sol, that monster, how can he push lanes so fast!" Crown thought to himself.

Anzhangmen's Lee Sin used Smite to quickly clear the three wolves, then went down, passing between his own mid-lane first and second towers, and arrived in the lower jungle.

The user uses Heavenly Sound Wave (Q) to kick the large bird, then uses a second Q to fly over.

Just as Lee Sin started attacking the giant bird, Ambition didn't expect that not far from him, a Jarvan IV was attacking his red buff.

And it's almost over.

While Ambition's Blind Monk was halfway through attacking the giant bird, the Prince below had already used Smite to take down the three-star red buff.

Then, the prince used the Blast Fruit to jump into the Little Dragon Pit and escaped!
The main reason is that the minion wave in the bottom lane has already pushed up to the Samsung tower, otherwise he would have had to flank and harass Ruler from behind.

"Great! This was a successful level 2 steal of Master An's red buff!" Miller exclaimed excitedly.

The prince stepped out of the small dragon pit and immediately began attacking the river crab.

After defeating the giant bird, the blind man took the next step and unleashed a Sonic Wave (Q) into the red buff camp.

Naturally, I didn't get anything.

Master An's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately realized that his red buff had probably been stolen.

The blind man turned to the front and saw that, sure enough, it was empty; there was no trace of the red buff.

"Damn it, how can this guy be so bold!"

Master An was puzzled. Eimy had been caught stealing jungle monsters in the first two games, but he still dared to steal them this time.

Seeing that his red buff was gone, Ambition intended to head straight to LGD's bottom jungle to counter-jungle, just like he did with Gragas in the second game.

But then I thought, at this point, neither my mid nor bottom lanes had lane priority, and Samsung was leading in the overall score of the BO5, so there was no need to take this risk.

So Master An swallowed his anger at having his red buff stolen and turned to attack his own stone beetle.

After taking down the river crab, Eimy's prince did not immediately return to his lower jungle to farm.

Instead, they went straight up, crossing the middle lane from in front of their own mid-lane tower.

With Galio pinned under the tower, the Prince simply traversed the mid lane, completely outside of Samsung's vision range.

So Samsung didn't know that after the prince stole Lee Sin's red buff and left Samsung's jungle, none of the remaining jungle camps in their own blue buff area had been cleared.

Instead, it ran directly from the lower riverbed to the upper riverbed.

After the prince took down the river crab in the upper river, Eimy still showed no intention of returning to his own jungle.

He maneuvered the prince to turn left, directly entering the blue zone of the three-star base.

There was definitely no blue buff; everyone knows Lee Sin starts with blue. The Prince moved forward further, and the three-star Gromp was still there, so the Prince immediately started attacking the Gromp.

"Wow, Eimy, this prince is having a pretty good game! Double river crab opening," Miller said.

"Stealing your red buff isn't enough, I'm going to steal your jungle too!"

"This is a really bold move. Look at the prince's house, it's full of jungle monsters, but I'm not going to farm any of them. I'm going to farm your Blind Monk's jungle monsters!" the doll said with a laugh.

The vast majority of viewers and the two commentators only saw the surface.

Eimy abandoned his own jungle camps and traveled all the way from the bottom half of the map to the top half, clearly not just to fight a single Swamp Frog.

The counter-insurgency was merely a side effect of the operation, something done incidentally.

On the other hand, the early stages of the game are quite slow for blind players farming stone beetles.

After painstakingly clearing out the Stone Beetles, Master An went to his own bottom lane tri-bush to camp.

Naturally, he wanted to see if he could find an opportunity in the bottom lane; he couldn't let his red buff go to waste like that.

As soon as the blind man stepped into the tri-bush, Samsung's support CoreJJ told Ambition that there was a ward from LGD in the river bush in the bottom lane.

If the blind man leaves the tri-bush and takes two more steps forward, he will inevitably be spotted by LGD's vision.

LGD's bot lane duo were still pushing the lane.

Master An observed the extent to which the female police officer Karma had crossed the line; it wasn't too deep.

Even if they try to force a kill from their vision, and their support, Rakan, is only level two, it will be difficult to keep any of LGD's bot laners alive, and they might not even be able to use their summoner spells.

After thinking it over, Ambition decided to give up on ganking LGD's bottom lane.

The blind man turned around and used a Sonic Wave (Q) to hit the dragon, then used a second Q to fly to the dragon pit.

Master An certainly wasn't going to fight the little dragon; he was just using the little dragon's movement to get to the river.

Just now, the blind man walked directly into the river, which meant he was going to pass through the wards set up by LGD in the bottom lane river bush.

Although the prince was able to steal the blind man's red buff, he must have guessed the general location of him.

However, Ambition didn't want to be directly exposed to LGD's view.

In a match, the jungler's precise location information in the early game is crucial.

If a jungler doesn't reveal their position, they will always pose an invisible threat to the enemy's three lanes.

In fact, this applies not only to matches, but also to any player in ranked games who has a habit of observing the minimap.

When Master An arrived at the lower river channel, he found that the river crabs had already been eliminated.

Of course, this was within his expectations.

So Ambition carefully maneuvered the Blind Monk around the river crab's vision range, and then entered LGD's lower jungle through the narrow pass behind LGD's blue buff.

This was certainly not for the purpose of counter-jungling. In Ambition's mind, after the prince stole his red buff and then took down the river crab, he should have returned to his own blue buff area to clear the remaining grouse and wolves.

If they fight quickly, the three wolves will already be defeated.
Even if the prince is a little slower, the three wolves should have been almost defeated by now.

The main reason Master An came here was to flank and gank the Dragon King who was relentlessly pushing the mid lane.

Even if you don't catch it, you can go to the middle lane and then to the upper river to take down the remaining river crab.

At this time, Master An was unaware that after Eimy finished killing the lower river crab, he went straight to the upper river and ate the other river crab as well.

Not only that, but by this time, the prince had almost eaten his swamp frog as well.

Master An glanced at the middle lane; the Dragon King was positioned next to the upper river.

Wei Shen's cautious positioning was also within An Zhangmen's expectations.

Knowing that the Lee Sin is in the bottom jungle, Aurelion Sol's positioning near the top is a basic quality of an excellent professional player.

If you can't even do this, how can you possibly make it to the semifinals of the World Championship?

So Master An only ganked the mid lane incidentally, he didn't expect to catch the Dragon King at all, his main goal was to take the top river crab.

But the Dragon King's position is way too high up!
Is it necessary? We're practically standing in the riverbed.

The next second, at 2 minutes and 54 seconds into the game, the Dragon King leveled up to level three.

Then the Dragon King dived directly into the upper river channel and disappeared from Samsung's sight.

Crown then sent two MISS signals in the mid lane.

Seeing this, Sect Leader An suddenly felt something was amiss.

He controlled the blind man to take a step upwards and unleashed a Sonic Wave (Q) towards LGD's three-wolf camp.

Then Q got the big wolf out of the three wolves.

The prince did not fight the three wolves!
If the three wolves weren't attacked, then the swamp frog definitely wasn't attacked either.

After the enemy prince finished clearing the river crab, why didn't he farm the two camps of jungle monsters in his own lower jungle? What was he doing?
Master An reacted instantly and guessed the prince's location.

Then he started pinging his own lane repeatedly!

At this moment, on the large screen at the scene.

Fiora, who had been pushing the lane, managed to push the top lane minion wave all the way to the three-star top tower, despite the long-range poke from Gnar.

At the same time, the prince also finished off the swamp frogs he was dealing with.

The Dragon King, who had just reached level three, left the middle lane and moved to the middle of the upper river.

Astute viewers immediately realized what these LGD players were up to.

As for the two commentators, Wawa and Miller, in the LPL commentary booth, they haven't noticed anything unusual yet.

Even Master An, who wasn't on the field with a god-like perspective, knew what was going to happen before they did.

Until Aurelion Sol took flight!

With Starfall (E) activated, Wei Shen's Dragon King flew straight towards the top lane, passing through the river, bushes, and walls.

The destination is clearly the upper tower of Samsung!
"Here it comes, LGD's classic top lane 3v1 gank!" Wawa shouted excitedly.

On the right side of the first tower of the three-star tower, the head of Aurelion Sol peeked out from the thick wall.

Eimy's prince has already walked to the back of the first tower on the three-star base.

Little Gnar was all alone under the tower, with the edge of Summoner's Rift to his left, Aurelion Sol to his right, Fiora in front of him, and Jarvan IV behind him.

Gnar had nowhere to run, and none of his teammates were able to come to his rescue in time.

Eimy made the first move.

This kind of tower dive coordination has been done many times by LGD's top, mid, and jungle trio throughout the past seasons.

A Demacian flag fell in front of Gnar, and the Prince used his EQ combo to charge at Gnar.

Cuvee remained calm and composed, using Gnar's E skill to jump to the side and rear, dodging the Prince's EQ combo.

But just the moment Nar jumped out, a flash of yellow light appeared.

Eimy used Flash to follow the trajectory of Gnar's E skill, and Jarvan IV used EQ Flash to knock Gnar up.

After a brief knock-up, Gnar landed from the air and quickly used Flash to run away.

But appearing at this point is a bit too late.

Gnar has already benefited from the Prince's red buff and the slow effect of his W skill.

(End of this chapter)