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Chapter 464 A simple, brutal, and effective single-push strategy to control the game – is the decisive game about to begin?
Zhou Dian wasn't in a hurry to deal with Samsung's slow and methodical approach.

Go ahead and stall! I'll take down all your defense towers then, and see if you'll still stall then.

Because sometimes you have to slowly grind down Fiora's stats.

Playing Fiora too hastily is not good.

Zhou Dian was afraid that his teammates would get impatient and start making mistakes.

Therefore, in LGD's team voice chat, Zhou Dian kept reminding his teammates.

This can't be rushed.

After the female police officer's fast-push rhythm was broken, the game was destined to be taken over by his Fiora.

Of course, Caitlyn is also very strong in the late game, and LGD can easily win team fights in the late game.

However, raiding is inherently risky, and no one can guarantee a win.

However, Zhou Dian dares to say that as long as his teammates don't make mistakes, his Fiora can definitely grind down a three-star opponent by split pushing.

After Zhou Dian outplayed him during that 3-star tower dive, his Fiora was unstoppable.

Of course, this always comes with one condition: that the teammates don't cause any problems.

This is, after all, a game for five people.

Samsung might really be a team that's as slow as a tortoise.

Given the current state of the game, they have heroes like Blind Rakan who have extremely strong initiation capabilities, but they just don't actively look for opportunities.

It's basically a passive, half-hearted approach to farming minions, clearing jungle camps, and establishing vision, all in a repetitive cycle.

It's obvious that even if I lose, I'll lose later.

You really don't have a good way to deal with him; you can only keep at it.

With Zhou Dian's incredibly stable mindset, he naturally has no fear of hardship.

When the game was nearly 25 minutes in, Zhou Dian's Fiora had already taken down Samsung's top lane second turret and bottom lane second turret.

The economic gap between the two sides has widened further.

But time keeps flowing on.

As is well known, for the same economic gap, the value decreases as the game progresses.

Samsung's two side lanes no longer have outer turrets.

However, Samsung's mid-lane tower remained standing.

After LGD destroyed Samsung's side lane tower and started swapping lanes, Samsung kept heavily maneuvering in the mid lane, stubbornly defending that mid lane tower.

If the mid-lane tower doesn't fall, Samsung's vision in the jungle won't be completely compressed by LGD.

Midway through the match, LGD also took the Rift Herald and used it to ram Samsung's mid-lane tower.

However, on that occasion, as soon as LGD released the Rift Herald, Samsung immediately sent five players to their own base under their first tower.

The Rift Herald simply made that one impact, and that was it.

So now, 25 minutes into the game, Samsung's middle tower still has one-third of its health remaining.

Eimy almost couldn't hold back a few times, wanting to use his EQ combo to charge into Samsung's mid-lane tower, and then use his ultimate to directly hit Ruler and CoreJJ, who were defending the tower.

Fortunately, with Zhou Dian's constant reminders, he resisted the urge to tower dive each time.

Zhou Dian was certain that if Eimy's Prince dared to attack the Samsung bot lane duo defending the mid tower...

A Lee Sin or Galio might suddenly appear from the nearby jungle, or both of them.

Zhou Dian kept telling his teammates that there was no need to rush.

However, the fact that the advantage has been slow to turn into a victory is quite frustrating.

Now that Samsung's outer turrets on both side lanes are gone, Fiora's next move will be to push Samsung's side lane inhibitors.

In this situation, Zhou Dian would naturally choose to continue leading the way.

Don't worry about the top lane minions; let your teammates handle them.

Fiora pushes the bottom lane while teammates focus on Baron Nashor; this is a simple split-push strategy that even Gold-ranked players know how to play.

However, the simplest often means the one with the fewest flaws.

It's naturally the best to use!
LGD had some bad luck in this game. After Samsung took the first Fire Dragon, the two subsequent dragons LGD got were Wind Dragons.

For Zhou Dian, these two wind dragons are quite useful, as they provide a significant increase in movement speed, making it easier for Fiora to move around the lane.

This effectively strengthens Fiora's ability to control the battlefield.

However, these two wind dragons were not very useful to the four LGD players facing them.

If those two wind dragons were replaced by two earth dragons, it would be a death sentence for Samsung.

If there are two earth dragons, then LGD's speed in taking down Baron Nashor will be incredibly fast.

At that time, facing the Fiora pushing the bottom lane and LGD's other four players forcing Baron, Samsung will be in a predicament where they can't defend themselves.

However, now, although it's a bit of a stretch, Samsung has managed to cover both ends.

With just over 30 minutes into the game, Zhou Dian's Fiora was pushing down Samsung's bottom lane inhibitor tower.

At this point, the turret's health was less than half, and Gnar was defending it from below.

At the same time, Zhou Dian's four teammates had already started the Baron.

In this situation, the other four members of Samsung, besides Gnar, could only defend Baron Nashor and could not send anyone to support Gnar.

With most of his items being tank items, Gnar and Fiora were in a one-on-one situation. Fiora could completely ignore Gnar and push down the three-star bottom lane inhibitor tower, which was less than half health.

With the high ground tower gone, Gnar, without the protection of the turret, naturally couldn't defend the bottom lane's small crystal by himself.

However, Zhou Dian did not choose to forcefully destroy Samsung's bottom lane inhibitor tower, but instead chose to retreat.

This move left everyone somewhat puzzled.

"What are they trying to do?" Miller asked, puzzled. "They could push it, are they trying to teleport to the front and force a fight for Baron?"

"Probably not? We definitely can't take down Baron! All three of our main forces are still there, Gnar has Teleport, and his rage meter is pretty good," Wawa added.

Under the bewildered gazes of the audience, Fiora retreated from Samsung's bottom lane high ground and turned to enter Samsung's jungle.

Eimy's Jarvan IV had previously cleared vision in this jungle area before going to pressure Baron Nashor.

Samsung's jungler and support didn't even have time to regain vision before they were forced to go and defend Baron.

Therefore, Samsung does not have a field of view in this area at this time.

Cuvee was also a bit confused. Where did Fiora go?
Fiora plunged headlong into Samsung's lower jungle, while Gnar cleared out most of the minions under his own bottom lane inhibitor tower.

Cuvee didn't have vision of his own bottom jungle, and he originally wanted to push the bottom lane minions out a little.

But at that moment, the four LGD players who had previously given up on taking Baron Nashor started taking Baron Nashor again.

Cuvee quickly scanned the map again but didn't see Fiora showing up.

However, the four LGD players fighting the dragon in the dragon pit fought with such determination.

It looks like Fiora has secretly teleported to the front lines.

Whether it's true or not, Samsung can only treat it as if it were true.

Gnar's rage level was just right.

So Cuvee immediately pressed the teleport button, and Gnar was teleported to the front.

Before Gnar's teleportation even landed, Rakan immediately pushed forward. Samsung clearly wanted to take advantage of the terrain and their complete roster to initiate a team fight.

However, the four LGD players inside the dragon pit, upon seeing Rakan approach, immediately used their mobility skills to jump over the wall and leave without hesitation. As for PYL, he escaped even faster, with Karma flashing away from the dragon pit.

Samsung was surprised by how decisively LGD's players left.

Now that LGD's players have all left, this skirmish at Baron Nashor is over.

Samsung definitely can't take over the Baron fight. LGD has all their abilities except for Karma who doesn't have Flash. Taking over the Baron fight would be suicide for them.

However, Samsung did confirm one thing: Fiora did not teleport to the front.

Otherwise, these LGD players wouldn't have left so decisively.

Master An was still thinking that Fiora must have gone back to destroy their own bottom lane inhibitor again, so he quickly recalled to base.

In this situation, it's almost inevitable that the enemy top laner would be tricked into using Baron Nashor to teleport out.

If you quickly return to base at this point, you can still defend the bottom lane's small crystal.

The high ground tower has fallen, and that's it; thirty minutes have already passed.

The next moment, Fiora appeared in the mid lane.

The minion wave near the first tier 3 tower was quickly pulled under the tower by Fiora, who then destroyed the tower with a few auto-attacks.

This was thanks to the movement speed boost from the two Wind Dragons, which allowed Fiora to quickly move from the bottom lane to the mid lane.

Teleportation was useless; Fiora gained three stars for free, defended the mid tower for 30 minutes, and even tricked Gnar out of his teleport.

This is the 4-1 split push, simple, direct, and effective!

Of course, "simple" means simple in appearance.

In practice, it requires excellent team execution and a very clear-thinking leader.

"This is great! We've finally taken down Samsung's top tower!" Miller said with a smile.

"As for Samsung's bottom lane inhibitor tower, it's bound to happen sooner or later, no need to rush."

Another player might go back and continue pushing Samsung's bottom lane inhibitor turret after Gnar teleports away.

But as Miller said, given the current situation, barring any mishaps, Samsung's bottom lane inhibitor will eventually be Fiora's.

Samsung's mid-lane tower, however, has a higher strategic value than the bottom lane inhibitor tower.

With the mid-lane tower down, it will be much more difficult for Samsung to establish vision control in the jungle.

The increased difficulty in establishing vision control in the jungle means that it will be more difficult for Samsung to defend Baron Nashor.

This also means that Fiora's split-pushing in the bot lane will be even more difficult to deal with.

Zhou Dian's choice of Zhongyi Tower between the two was absolutely correct.

However, Zhou Dian did not expect that his perfectly correct choice almost indirectly caused all of LGD's previous efforts to be in vain.

Of course, this is not his fault.

After taking down Samsung's mid-lane tower, LGD's strategy remained the same: Fiora would carry the bottom lane while the other four players focused on Baron Nashor.

Occasionally, you can take advantage of the time difference when switching lanes to chip away at the health of the second mid-lane tower.

In this situation, Samsung decided to let things take their course with their bottom lane inhibitor; if Fiora likes to push, then so be it.

Samsung focused their main efforts on defending the Baron Nashor, and only defended their own second mid-lane tower as a secondary objective, mainly because it was close by.

The bottom lane is too far, I can't control it.

Three minutes later, Zhou Dian's Fiora destroyed Samsung's bottom lane inhibitor turret.

Seeing that Fiora had started attacking the bottom lane's small crystal, Ambition quickly came from the mid lane to help Galio defend.

The reason Galio is guarding the bottom lane minion wave right now is mainly because Gnar's teleport hasn't finished refreshing yet, and Galio still has a teleport available.

With Samsung's top and jungle working together, they managed to defend the bottom lane's crystal.

However, with Ambition gone, LGD's four players on the front line immediately pushed down Samsung's second mid-lane tower.

Unfortunately, when the minion wave was cleared, Samsung's second mid-lane tower still had a little bit of health left and was not destroyed.

"Retreat, retreat, we'll come back next time, no need to rush." ​​Zhou Dian was afraid his teammates would tank the tower and try to push it down, so he quickly directed them to turn around and pressure the Dragon.

Although the game had been going on for more than 30 minutes, Zhou Dian's teammates remained calm and retreated from under the tower just before the minion wave was cleared.

As LGD players headed towards Baron Nashor, Zhou Dian also controlled Fiora to push the bottom lane.

It looks no different from the previous attempts to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

This time, however, Zhou Dian used his teleportation ability to teleport directly to the Baron pit. Once his teammates arrived, he and his teammates immediately began fighting the Baron.

Ruler reacted quickly; LGD had just started attacking Baron when he used his blue trinket to spot the Baron pit and discovered it.

But what good did they do when they found out? Samsung's mid and jungle duo were already too far from the Baron pit.

After this back-and-forth struggle, it's time for LGD to exploit Samsung's weaknesses.

Although Galio teleported to the scene, by the time Ambition's Lee Sin arrived, LGD had already rushed down Baron.

In keeping with their usual "go all out" playstyle, Samsung didn't dare to force a 4v5 against LGD before the blind man arrived, due to their smaller numbers.

Instead, they watched helplessly as LGD took down Baron Nashor and then calmly climbed over the wall to the Baron pit and left.

This time, PYL's Karma didn't go down into the dragon pit; instead, she stayed above the pit to shield her teammates.

As for the other four members of LGD, they all have mobility skills.

In the commentary box.

"Great job! Baron Nashor secured!" Miller exclaimed excitedly. "Is Samsung giving up on this game? Are they just going to watch LGD leave with nothing?"

Miller believes this time it's a sure thing.

"We can't hold them off any longer, how do we deal with Fiora?" Doll said with a smile.

"I reckon Samsung wants to end this quickly and prepare for the decisive game. Fiora's split-pushing like that is too agonizing!"

The audience below the stage cheered continuously, and like the commentator, they completely relaxed after being tense.

Even the viewers watching the live broadcast felt that this game was over and that it would be another best-of-five series, just like the semi-final between SKT and RNG yesterday.

However, the Samsung team members involved did not "give up" as everyone expected.

After taking down Baron Nashor, all of LGD's players moved to the top lane dragon pit, then to their own red buff area, before collectively recalling to base.

With the Baron buff, everyone quickly returned to the fountain, except for Zhou Dian.

Zhou Dian's Fiora was short of money to buy equipment, so he went to farm a set of Krugs before pressing the B key to recall.

By the time Fiora returned to the fountain, her four teammates had already purchased all the necessary items and wards, and had already pushed down the mid-lane inhibitor.

There's no need to wait for Zhou Dian to push together. Zhou Dian has been acting alone all along, and after getting the Baron buff, he has to split up with his teammates.

LGD only needs its four players to stick together and move in a coordinated manner.

After Zhou Dian replenished his equipment, his Fiora left the fountain and headed towards the bottom lane.

Zhou Dian quickly glanced at the map and observed the minion waves on each lane.

Actually, it would have been better for LGD's four players to go to the top lane at this point.

Because the minion wave situation on the top lane is relatively good, we can directly push towards Samsung's top lane high ground.

After LGD finished taking Baron and recalled to base, Samsung cleared the mid lane minion wave and also took down LGD's mid tower.

However, given the current situation, it doesn't matter whether LGD takes their own mid-lane tower or not.

(End of this chapter)