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Chapter 492 Top Lane Counter Failed, Faker Launches a Frenzied Attack!

Yasuo retreated too far, causing the three blue team front-line minions that had just died to miss out on the experience.

"Now Zhou Shen has regained the advantage in the top lane, and it's Huni who's having a hard time picking Yasuo to counter Huni!" PDD teased Huni in a subtle way.

"Hehe!" Miller couldn't help but laugh out loud.

What just happened did seem rather comical.

The red team picked Yasuo as their last pick to counter Gnar on the fifth floor. Despite Gnar losing both summoner spells at the start of the game and his teammates managing to gank Gnar three-on-one, Yasuo was surprisingly pushed out of the experience zone by Gnar.

This is just plain ridiculous!
In the small window showing the live feed of the SKT players in the lower right corner of the large screen, Huni's face also appeared somewhat dark.

Of course, given how cowardly and patient Huni is now, Zhou Dian doesn't have any good solutions for him.

It's probably unlikely that they can kill Yasuo.

I just pushed Yasuo out of the experience zone, just to annoy Huni and mess with his mentality.

It's already 13 and a half minutes, and continuing to control the lane and reduce Yasuo's experience gain won't be very beneficial.

It would be better to push the lane quickly and disappear from SKT's sight; the intangible benefits would be greater.

At this point, both sides' support characters had already crafted incense burners.

With Janna and Lulu now the two strongest Ardent Censer meta champions, it's time to shift our real-time strategy and game focus.

Abandoning the previously focused attack on the mid, top, and jungle lanes, they shifted their focus to the bottom lane.

At just over 14 minutes into the game, Ryze, who had pushed down the mid lane first, started moving the Earth Dragon with Gragas.

Prior to this match, neither side had made any attempt to attack Xiaolong.

Malzahar cleared the minions under the tower and then went to the lower river.

The prince has also arrived at the blue team's bottom lane tri-bush.

Meanwhile, on the bottom lane, a wave of minions converged, and Xayah and Varus quickly cleared the enemy's minion wave, leaving the two bottom lane duos facing off in the middle of the bottom lane.

Lulu casts a shield on Varus, who, empowered by the Ardent Censer, steps forward and taps Xayah.

Imp didn't hold back either; Xayah immediately activated Deadly Cloak (W) and attacked back, while simultaneously unleashing QE.

Xayah unleashed her WAQE combo, instantly hooking three feathers back.

Bang quickly maneuvered Varus to the left, but Xayah also immediately moved to the left, adjusting the angle of her barbed feathers.

Varus was then pierced by three feathers and imprisoned in place by Xayah's Arrows (E).

The AD carry has already started making moves, so the support naturally doesn't want to lag behind.

PYL controlled Janna to step forward, using her Q skill to blow up the immobilized Varus, followed by a follow-up control.

Then a flash of yellow light appeared, and Janna flashed to Varus's side and behind, activating her ultimate ability.

Varus was pushed directly into the river by Janna's ultimate.

The prince had already emerged from the bottom lane's tri-bush and arrived at the river.

The prince used his EQ combo to knock up Varus, who was being pushed into the river.

Throughout this time, Xayah continued to deal damage to Varus.

Varus's health is less than one-third.

As the prince unleashed his EQ combo, a blue circle appeared beneath Varus's feet—Ryze's ultimate ability, Warp Leap.

SKT's mid and jungle players immediately gave up the dragon to support their bot lane duo.

At the same time, a red teleportation whirlwind rose up in the river bush next to the bottom lane, it was Yasuo's teleport.

Upon seeing SKT's mid and top laners come to their aid, LGD's bottom, jungle, and support players naturally prioritized focusing fire on and eliminating the low-health Varus.

After all, both Ryze's ultimate and Yasuo's teleport have a considerable channeling time, so they can't arrive at the scene immediately.

After the EQ combo, the prince landed a basic attack on Varus with his passive active, triggering Thunderlord's Decree.

Then the prince unleashed a devastating attack (R) upon Varus.

However, during the process of Prince Jarvan IV's ultimate ability landing, Lulu's Wild Growth (R) was also applied to Varus.

Varus's size instantly increased, and his health bar suddenly surged.

Thus, Varus, who should have died immediately, miraculously survived with a sliver of health remaining.

At the same time, Ryze and Gragas appeared in the blue aura beneath Varus's feet.

As soon as Ryze teleported over with his ultimate, Faker immediately used his Heal to give Varus another life.

In this game, Faker's Ryze, like his Cassiopeia in the previous game, used Flash and Heal as his summoner spells, aiming to combine lane dominance with gank prevention.

As soon as the barrel appeared, it immediately launched a flesh-ball impact (E) towards Xayah.

Xayah soared into the air, unleashing Storm Feathers (R), her body becoming intangible and untargetable, thus dodging the barrel's impact.

As soon as Xayah's ultimate ability landed, imp immediately used Flash.

Peanut timed his skill perfectly; the moment Xayah's ultimate landed, the Bursting Barrel (R) was thrown at Xayah's feet.

But Xayah managed to dodge it with a flash.

PYL's Janna used her Heal at this moment, and she and Xayah accelerated towards their own turret to escape.

Behind him, at the intersection of the bottom river and the bottom lane, the prince, whose ultimate had just landed, was turned into a sheep by Lulu.

Varus, who was trapped inside the prince's ultimate and had very little health left, took the opportunity to attack the prince relentlessly.

It has to be said that the blood-sucking effect granted by the incense burner is truly powerful.

Varus, without any lifesteal items, saw his health bar visibly increasing rapidly.

Knowing the situation was hopeless, Eimy frantically pressed Flash.

As soon as the polymorph ended, the low-health prince immediately used his ultimate ability and escaped along the way he came.

The reason he was able to escape was mainly because Faker's play was a bit rough.

Ryze miscast his abilities, failing to use the enhanced version of the EW rune root on Jarvan IV.

The timing of using the W skill alone was also problematic, as it was used together with Lulu's Polymorph, resulting in overlapping control effects.

Otherwise, the prince would definitely not be able to escape this time.

As for Huni, she was teleported away again, but to no avail.

Yasuo teleported down, and both sides, who were locked in a fierce battle, had already fled, leaving Yasuo with no opportunity to use his skills.

Yasuo did all he could do: cast a Wind Wall and use Steel Tempest (Q) to kill two of Malzahar's minions.

Malzahar, who was walking down the river, used two skills on Yasuo and then quickly ran away.

In this battle, nine players from both sides appeared on the bottom lane battlefield.

The only one who wasn't there was Gnar, who was just a few seconds away from being teleported back to full health.

The observer immediately switched the camera to the top lane.

Then you see the enlarged Gnar headbutting SKT's top tower again and again.

"Ah, this is so awesome!" Zhou Dian thought to himself, "Huni, why do you love providing support so much?"

Overall, SKT actually made a pretty good profit from this.

Although no kills were achieved, all four summoner spells of LGD's bot lane duo were forced out, and Jarvan IV also had to use his Flash.

If we're talking about losses, the losses are all due to Yasuo alone.

After the crowd gathered in the bottom lane dispersed, Huni immediately controlled Yasuo to rush to the top lane.

Unfortunately, walking from the middle of the bottom lane to the top lane, which almost spans the entire Summoner's Rift, takes far too long.

Zhou Dian's Gnar had a blast farming in the top lane. He even managed to take down most of the health of SKT's top tower, which was previously almost at full health.

While Yasuo was rushing back to the top lane, Gragas and Ryze took down the Earth Dragon.

SKT secured the first dragon of the game.

LGD was naturally powerless to defend against this earth dragon and handed it over to SKT.

A yellowish-brown icon appeared on the wall of Xiaolongkeng.

This means that the next dragon will also be an earth dragon.

This time, LGD will be facing the pressure from the dragon.

The observer view switched back to the top lane, and Yasuo finally returned to his own top lane turret.

Looking at the equipment panel at the bottom of the big screen, Gnar has now overtaken Yasuo by twenty CS.

Seeing this, Miller said, "Zhou Dian in the top lane has stolen another wave of farm!"

"In that case, the counter to Gnar by Yasuo in the top lane is basically non-existent."

While Yasuo was farming under the tower, Zhou Dian's Gnar tanked in front of the tower and harassed Yasuo.

Yasuo skillfully maneuvered around LGD's cannon minion wave under the tower, using his E-E combo with great fluidity.

Then a gust of wind was gathered up, and suddenly it blew, hitting Gnar.

However, that was all it was about; there was no follow-up, and Yasuo continued to farm minions under the tower.

This is also the first time that Huni's Yasuo has hit Gnar with his Wind Walk in the 15-minute mark of the game.

"Yasuo's wind is blowing, Huni doesn't dare to engage with his ultimate!" Ji De said, "If we go in this wave, it feels like it would be a loss to trade blows with his ultimate."

“As long as Zhou Shen can control his rage and keep Nar at a yellow rage level or half rage, Huni will really have a hard time trading blows with him,” Miller added.

"To be honest, Huni's double Doran's Blades are actually slowing down the pace of the game. He originally wanted to strengthen his laning phase, but after two ganks, those double Doran's Blades started to hold him back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yasuo, having cleared the minions under the tower, chose to recall to base.

Back at the fountain, Yasuo pulled out his Green Crossbow.

With attack speed boots and a Phantom Dancer, Yasuo has become quite formidable in combat.

However, the game time was already almost 16 minutes in.

To be honest, it's a bit slow for a Yasuo picked late in the game to be caught by the enemy jungler and only get Berserker's Greaves and Phantom Dancer at 16 minutes.

Because the Green Crossbow is one of the cheaper items among the big items.

Meanwhile, Zhou Dian's Gnar had already recalled to base before Yasuo.

He went back to the fountain, immediately bought the Black Cleaver, and then headed towards the lane.

At this point, with Gnar equipped with armor, boots, and Black Cleaver, and being a level higher than Yasuo, he wasn't so afraid of Yasuo in one-on-one combat.

It also gives it a teleport advantage over Yasuo.

Gnar has completely seized control of the top lane.

"Okay, Gnar and Yasuo have their completed items now, we'll see how they play in a bit," Miller said.

“Yes, when these two heroes fight, it’s all about the details,” PDD added.

Before the words were even finished, on the game screen at the scene, Wei Shen's Malzahar was attacking his own blue buff by himself, but he failed to maintain aggro, and the blue buff started healing itself while he was attacking it.

"Hey, this blue buff doesn't seem to be behaving very well!" PDD couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"The downside of the bugs released by the grasshopper is that each bug triggers the monster's aggro," Remember added. "So the blue buff's aggro is quickly depleted."

Although I remember that this statement was a slight explanation for Wei Shen.

However, this attempt to take the blue buff reveals that Wei Shen's proficiency with Malzahar is not top-tier.

The good thing is that with Malzahar, the difference in skill level really doesn't matter much.

This hero is the simple, unpretentious type; there's nothing fancy about playing him.

Otherwise, Wei Shen wouldn't dare to pick this hero under these circumstances.

It doesn't matter that Malzahar has drawn away the aggro from the blue buff, as Jarvan IV is right there attacking the three wolves.

The prince, who had just finished defeating the three wolves, quickly came over to help his mid laner secure the blue buff.

The scene then cuts to the top lane, where Yasuo is seen farming his own Krugs.

Clearly, he didn't dare to go online, waiting for Gnar to push the minion wave to the tower before going to farm.

Of course, Huni wasn't afraid of just Gnar; he was afraid of being caught.

Right now, SKT's mid and jungle are just wandering around in the bottom half of the map, and there are no teammates to support them.

As the game progressed into the mid-game, SKT's strategic focus shifted away from the top lane, leaving Yasuo to play independently.

Yasuo has been devouring his own stone beetles for the past few minutes.

I eat the stone beetles as soon as they refresh, right on time.

By sucking up the blood from the barrels, Yasuo's development is still keeping up.

After the Krugs were defeated, Yasuo returned to the top lane, but Gnar had not yet pushed the minion wave forward and was slowly pushing the lane ahead.

Huni could only watch from behind, waiting for Gnar to push the minion wave over.

"Actually, Huni is already having a very tough time in lane," PDD said. "In my memory, Yasuo has already taken down many waves of farmed Malphite."

"Little Peanut hardly ever goes to fight the stone beetles in the upper half of the area," Remember added.

The observer's view switches to the mid lane, where Ryze is pushing the lane aggressively.

Malzahar was under a lot of pressure in the minion wave, so Wei Shen called Eimy over to help him push the wave.

The prince arrived at the mid lane and used Dragon Strike (Q) on the red minion wave that Faker had just pushed over.

The prince's use of Q caused a problem.

Ryze had just cleared the minions with EEQ and triggered his speed boost, so he charged right in front of LGD's mid-lane tower, right in front of LGD's mid and jungle duo.

Then EW immobilized the prince, followed by QEQ to unleash a full combo on him, interspersed with two auto-attacks.

Ryze executed this combo flawlessly, taking away more than half of Jarvan IV's health.

Keep in mind that the prince had built a Cinderhulk jungle item and was also wearing a Spectral Cloak, yet Ryze still managed to take away more than half of his health with one combo.

If this attack were applied to the other four members of LGD, they simply wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Ryze's farm was too good; he not only got first blood, but also outfarmed Malzahar by more than 30 CS.

He truly deserves to be called a Ryze player in a class of his own among professional players.

That wasn't all. After EW immobilized the prince and finished his combo, Ryze took another step forward.

Before the prince could pull away, Ryze hit him with another EQ combo, and the prince's health dropped to less than a third.

In the commentary box.

Seeing this, Miller shouted, "Faker is at it again! He's attacking you right in front of both of you!"

"Very fierce, very fierce, very fierce!"

PDD said "very fierce" three times in a row.

"Ryze's attacks are coming one after another, wow! He's practically sending the prince back to base!"

"Isn't anyone going to do anything about Faker? LGD's mid and jungle were just completely dominated by Faker standing there and getting crushed!" Miller shouted.

(End of this chapter)