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Chapter 491 Huni suffers a great loss despite her great efforts; the prince exchanges one for three!

"Holy crap, this works!" Godv shouted in the LGD team voice chat, his voice filled with resentment.

He wasn't angry that he was forcibly tower-dived by SKT's top, mid, and jungle.

This is indeed due to his own lack of awareness.

He was angry about something else.

SKT's move was a fluke; Yasuo was the first to tank the tower, and then Yasuo followed up with his ultimate under the tower.

In other words, throughout the entire process of killing Malzahar, Yasuo was the one tanking the tower for SKT, and no one helped him tank.

Just as Malzahar died, Yasuo, who had been tanking the tower to low health, used his E on Malzahar's little bug to slide directly out of the attack range of LGD's mid-lane tower.

Of course, Yasuo wouldn't have died without that bug.

But Yasuo's Flash definitely won't be able to save him.

The thought of giving Faker first blood and saving Huni's Yasuo a Flash made Wei Shen incredibly angry.

After hearing Wei Shen's angry outburst, Zhou Dian said, "It's okay, I'll force out Yasuo's Flash for you. Nobody can stop Yasuo's Flash today, I'm telling you!"

Although Wei Shen gave up the first blood in this play, on the bright side, he also helped relieve the pressure on the prince.

This also indirectly created an advantage for Zhou Dian's Gnar.

Yasuo left the top lane to take LGD's blue buff, and then rode Ryze's car to the mid lane to tower dive, which wasted a lot of time.

The time Yasuo lost allowed Gnar to catch up on his previous CS and experience.

More importantly, Yasuo, after tanking the tower until he was low on health, couldn't go straight back to top lane; he had to recall to base to replenish his health and mana first.

Furthermore, Yasuo's teleport wasn't ready yet, so he had to go back to lane.

With the time it takes to recall to base and the time it takes to return to lane, Gnar can farm another wave of minions.

It can be said that Huni's Yasuo's solo run of stealing the blue buff and tower diving in the mid lane helped Faker's Ryze secure the blue buff and first blood.

But he himself was already heading down the path to his death.

It seems Zhou Dian's Gnar is no longer able to be suppressed.

This game seems to be turning into a battle between LGD's top laner and SKT's mid laner, namely Zhou Dian and Faker.

In the commentary box.

"Malzaha has nowhere to run, Faker gets First Blood!"

"Wow, this is SKT! They showed their attitude in this game!" Miller said. "Including Faker's Ryze and the synergy between the top, mid, and jungle."

“Yes, the timing of that Ryze ultimate was excellent!” PDD nodded.

After Malzahar gave his instructions, no one bothered the prince to farm the red buff anymore.

Eimy quickly took down his red buff.

Huni's Yasuo retreated to his own base under the first tower and recalled.

Although time was tight, Huni did not recall to base as soon as Yasuo left LGD's mid tower. Instead, he cautiously went to his own tower before pressing the B key.

Huni was afraid that a prince would suddenly appear beside him, and a flag would fall from the sky, interrupting his return to the city.

He couldn't accept that.

He's already lost a lot of minions in the top lane, and he can't afford to waste any more time.

Peanut's barrel, on the other hand, headed straight for the road.

Zhou Dian's Gnar had already pushed two waves of minions to SKT's top tower.

It looks like Yasuo won't be able to get any, but we can't let them go to waste.

If the barrel arrives now, it can still eat more than half of the wine.

The main reason is that there were siege minions in this large wave of minions, which withstood many hits from the turrets; otherwise, even the Gragas wouldn't have been able to get many minions.

After consuming all the blue minions under his own top tower, Gragas leveled up to level seven.

Then, after helping Yasuo block LGD's next wave of minions in front of his own tower, he recalled to base on the spot.

Zhou Dian's Gnar had already replenished his equipment from the fountain.

Bonal bought two separate pieces of the small wooden hammer—a longsword and a red crystal.

In contrast, Yasuo, who helped gank the enemy's blue buff, suffered a great loss despite his efforts.

This time, Yasuo left home and only bought a short sword with attack speed.

He was also overtaken by Gnar in terms of last-hitting.

However, with Wei Shen's Malzahar dead, Ryze was more than 20 CS behind in last hits.

In just 9 and a half minutes, Ryze had already built a Rod of Ages and had a Tear of the Goddess on him; he was incredibly powerful.

For the entire SKT team, this gank in the mid lane was undoubtedly very profitable.

Huni is the only one who suffered a loss.

Ten minutes into the game, Gnar reached level eight before Yasuo.

Yasuo's level was pushed back by Gnar, which meant that SKT's last pick in the top lane to counter the enemy was basically a failed counter.

However, SKT currently holds a significant advantage in this game.

In terms of economic advantage alone, SKT is more than 1,500 gold ahead of LGD.

Besides Faker's Ryze's lead, Bang's Varus in the bottom lane also out-farmed Imp's Xayah by about ten CS.

This is the true situation when Varus faces Xayah in lane.

When Xayah and Rakan are not combined, Varus's laning ability is definitely superior to Xayah's.

Bang seems to have regained his form.

This is undoubtedly another piece of good news for SKT.

"LGD needs a rhythm point now!" Miller's tone was very serious.

"Now let's see if Wei Shen, this grasshopper, can do anything now that he's leveled up and has teleportation."

Although LGD's most disadvantaged lane is currently Wei Shen's Malzahar.

But at this point, the only one who can really do something and set the pace is Malzahar.

Because on LGD's side, only Malzahar has reliable point control, while the others are still focused on farming at this point.

"Compared to the last game, Wei Shen is under a lot of pressure now!" PDD added.

At this point, the observer's view switched to SKT's blue buff area, where Gragas helped Ryze take away his own blue buff.

In those few minutes, Ryze's blue buff never stopped; he took LGD's and then his own.

This has given Ryze absolute initiative in pushing the lane in the mid lane recently.

Therefore, Malzahar, who is theoretically the only player on LGD with the ability to make plays and set the pace of the game, can actually do nothing.

The minion wave can lock Malzahar in the middle lane.

SKT's mid and jungle blatantly entered LGD's red buff area and came to the bottom lane, forcing back LGD's bottom lane duo, before Ryze returned to the mid lane to farm.

Gragas then came out to help Varus and Lulu push down LGD's first tower.

LGD's first tower's health is dropping very quickly!
But an opportunity for LGD has quietly emerged.

"Actually, SKT currently controls the lane pushing priority in all three lanes: top, mid, and bottom!" Miller's tone was somewhat helpless.

He then added, "As long as SKT's minions come over and force LGD's players back to base, with just a little coordination, we'll lose our towers."

When Miller said this, SKT's jungler, support, and bottom laner were frantically attacking LGD's bottom tower.

At this moment, on LGD's side, only Prince was watching from behind the tower.

PYL's Janna has just passed the second turret and is almost at the first turret.

imp's Xayah had just returned home to replenish her equipment and had just left the high ground; she was still far from the next tower.

No sooner had Miller finished speaking than Prince suddenly unleashed a double EQ combo, charging single-handedly towards the three SKT members. Prince's EQ combo was aimed at Gragas.

After all, among SKT's jungler, support, and bot laner, only Gragas is a melee champion. When attacking towers, Gragas is the deepest point under LGD's tower.

When the Prince uses his EQ combo, the Gragas uses his Human Bomb (E) to move out of the tower.

But this time, Peanut's skill was released a little too late.

Gragas had barely started using his E skill when Jarvan IV landed his EQ combo next to Gragas, and Gragas crashed directly into Jarvan IV.

Gragas' E skill has a higher priority than Jarvan IV's EQ combo.

The prince was stunned by the barrel, but the barrel was not knocked up by the prince's EQ combo.

However, since Gragas' E skill collided with Jarvan IV at the start, it only moved a little distance, which was no different from not moving at all.

Most importantly, Gragas bumped into Jarvan IV inside LGD's bottom tower, immediately drawing the tower's aggro.

The turret's attack immediately shot towards the barrel.

Peanut immediately maneuvered the barrel towards the outside of the tower.

When the turret's attack landed on Gragas, Gragas had already reached the edge of LGD's next turret's coverage area and was about to walk out.

But by this time, the prince had already escaped the stun effect of Gragas's E skill.

While the prince was still in a dazed state, Eimy was frantically pressing the R key.

As soon as the prince recovered from his dizziness, he immediately leaped high into the air and smashed down on the wine barrel.

Just then, Varus and Lulu walked up to the barrel.

The prince's Earthshattering Strike (R) completely trapped SKT's bottom laner, jungler, and support.

Besides trapping three SKT players, the Prince's ultimate also cleared out three red team ranged minions in LGD's bottom tower.

At this moment, SKT's minion wave suddenly disappeared from LGD's bottom tower, leaving only SKT's bottom, jungle, and support players trapped under the tower by Jarvan IV.

"The prince's ultimate skill landed, covering three people and dealing massive damage!" PDD exclaimed in surprise.

Meanwhile, to the left of LGD's next tower, a teleportation vortex was generated on one of LGD's wards.

Teleport from Gnar in the top lane.

After being trapped by the Prince's ultimate, Gragas, who had already been attacked by the turret, immediately used Flash to escape the attack range of the Prince's ultimate and LGD's bottom turret.

With the barrel flashing away, and no longer having any red minions under the tower, the tower's target immediately became Varus.

Before the turret could even fire its attack, Bang decisively used Flash.

As soon as Varus flashed, Lulu followed suit without hesitation.

Seeing that all three SKT members had teleported away, Zhou Dian immediately canceled his own teleport.

In the commentary box.

"Three of them escaped with a flash, there's nothing we can do!" Miller seemed a little disappointed.

"But we found a very good opportunity," PDD added.

Unlike the general sentiment expressed by the audience, who felt it was a pity.

At this moment, the LGD team's voice chat was filled with excitement.

"That ultimate move is pretty cool!" Zhou Dian immediately praised.

PYL exclaimed, "Holy crap, one against a thousand!"

"Awesome, awesome!" Wei Shen also joined in the fun.

After SKT's jungler, support, and bot laner used Flash, Jarvan IV immediately turned off his ultimate. Janna happened to walk up to Jarvan IV at that moment and gave him a shield.

This shield is a backup measure.

It serves no purpose; just consider it a mood-building element.

The audience and commentators felt it was a pity that this wave only forced out a few flashes and failed to secure a kill.

However, for LGD, the Prince can single-handedly force out three Flashes with just one ultimate skill. Given SKT's current dominant position, this is undoubtedly a huge morale booster.

In practical terms, it's like Gnar using one teleport to trade for three Flashes from SKT, making them incredibly profitable.

Moreover, Gnar did not teleport down.

If you actively interrupt the teleportation, it will recover very quickly.

It's worth noting that neither Varus nor Lulu have any mobility skills.

With Flash suddenly gone, the two SKT bot laners will have to be extremely careful for the next five minutes.

LGD's bot lane pressure has been greatly reduced!
The observer's perspective shifted to the top lane, where Gnar, who had just interrupted his teleport, sent a wave of minions into SKT's top tower.

Then Little Nar grew bigger and retreated.

Huni's Yasuo built up a whirlwind, and the minions came to chase Gnar, but Gnar dodged the whirlwind again, just like every time Yasuo used his whirlwind in the previous ten minutes.

“Oh, that TP wasn’t used by Wei Shen in the mid lane, it was used by Zhou Shen in the top lane,” PDD said.

"In that case, it's not accurate to say that SKT has a lead in TP right now. After all, Malzahar still has TP, and LGD's double teleport strategy in the mid and top lanes has been used several times since the playoffs began."

“Yes.” Miller nodded. “Speaking of which, there’s one more thing I need to mention!”

"Zhou Shen played really well in this game. In this situation, Gnar was able to keep up with Yasuo in every aspect, and was even able to teleport to support in the first instance."

The top lane minions were pushed out from under the SKT tower.

At this point, Faker's Ryze chose to recall.

Meanwhile, Gragas had just returned home and built the Cinderhulk jungle item, and had just come out of the fountain.

So Huni became hesitant to leave the tower.

He had experienced the power of LGD's top laner and jungler duo several times.

Although this BO5 has gone on for so long, Eimy hasn't come up to gank him even once.

But Huni is scared!

He simply controlled Yasuo to fight his own Krugs.

Wait until Gnar pushes the minion wave to the tower before you go for it.

In the mid lane, as soon as Faker's Ryze recalled to base, Wei Shen also immediately recalled to base.

Malzahar didn't rush to build damage items after returning home. Just like in the previous game, he bought Mercury's Treads before building Luden's Echo.

Just stay calm and steady!
Then he immediately teleported back to his lane to last-hit minions.

LGD's pre-match strategy did not require Wei Shen to provide much support in the early and mid-game.

The reason for bringing this teleport is simply because the pressure from Faker is too great, and I use teleport to farm lanes.

Of course, the Teleport summoner spell has an unparalleled strategic role in the mid-to-late game, especially in professional matches.

Miller, seeing Malzahar teleport back to lane, said, "It seems LGD's strategy is to stabilize the game as much as possible in the early and mid-game."

As soon as Miller finished speaking, the observer view switched to the top lane.

A somewhat bizarre scene unfolded on the top lane.

At this moment, the top lane minion wave was in the middle of the top lane, and then Little Gnar actually crossed the minion wave to suppress Yasuo.

Yasuo is some distance from Gnar, so Gnar can't auto-attack Yasuo.

Yasuo was moving back and forth, clearly trying to avoid Gnar's inevitable boomerang (Q).

As a result, despite his fierce maneuvering, he failed to dodge a single skill.

Both of Gnar's consecutive boomerangs (Q) hit Yasuo accurately.

Huni had no choice but to retreat and leave the experience zone.

(End of this chapter)