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Chapter 509: A well-thought-out and steady offensive and defensive battle!

However, although they gave up chasing Sejuani, the three SKT members did not turn around to fight Baron, but instead headed straight to the top lane.

At that moment, in LGD's team voice chat, Eimy shouted, "Damn it, I lost my Flash, we've lost Baron!"

"I still have flashbangs, let me see if I can find an opportunity to steal one!" Zhou Dian said to reassure the troops.

The Gragas was level 11 at this point, and the damage from Smite wasn't even as high as the damage from Cho'Gath's ultimate.

"Damn it, I'm gone!" Zhou Dian suddenly shouted.

After Varus and Malzahar were killed, the remaining three LGD players scattered and fled through the river.

PYL's Lulu had no one pursuing her, and Eimy's Sejuani was running away to her own blue buff area.

Zhou Dian's Big Bug escaped to the top lane, with the Barrel in hot pursuit.

Just as Zhou Dian had shaken off the pursuit of the Gragas and was about to reach the top lane's self-isolation bush, a Karma suddenly appeared from the lower right corner of the path.

The giant bug used its Q skill towards the path Karma had come from.

Faker skillfully maneuvered Karma to dodge Cho'Gath's Q ability with a clever backflip.

Karma then used her E skill to accelerate herself forward, and used her W skill to chain Cho'Gath, blocking Cho'Gath's retreat.

Then, SKT's top, bottom, and support players appeared behind Karma.

Zhou Dian sighed inwardly, knowing he couldn't escape. He was too lazy to use Flash anyway, as it would be a waste.

The giant worm didn't run away; it immediately started fighting the troll on the spot.

It's not that Zhou Dian wanted to increase his damage output.

The main purpose is to take the opportunity to stack two Undying stacks, increasing the maximum health of the big bug.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat!

Don't be fooled by the fact that the big bug only has Righteous Glory, a small Thornmail, and cloth boots; it's actually quite tanky.

Without Troll Warlord's ultimate ability, SKT players ganged up on the severely underfarmed Cho'Gath for several seconds before finally killing him.

The big bug's head was intentionally given to the little cannon.

Bang's little cannon got three kills this time!

With the big bug dead, SKT can rest easy once they take down Baron again.

For SKT, if forcing Sejuani's Flash earlier meant that this Baron was practically a sure thing, then...

Now that the giant worm has been killed, the dragon is practically guaranteed.

SKT's meticulous game strategy is truly admirable.

In a typical team, after killing Varus and Malzahar, they would immediately start Baron Nashor.

To be on the safe side, at most, when you chase down Sejuani's Flash, you should turn back to fight Baron.

But SKT relentlessly pursued and eliminated Cho'Gath, preventing any possibility of the Baron being stolen, before finally taking control of the Baron.

In the commentary box.

"Oh dear, the big bug has also been killed, SKT is going to take Baron!" Miller, whose mood had just improved, started sighing again.

"SKT finally saw a great chance to win a game in the third game of today's finals."

"This is an opportunity that Wolf found. Leona's Flash Q is crucial for SKT!"

"The most important thing for SKT in this wave is..."

After a pause, PDD continued, "While winning a team fight and securing Baron, Bang's Tristana also managed to get three kills."

"Conversely, for LGD, if Tristana gets fed and loses Baron, this game will be very, very difficult to play."

“Yes.” Remember nodded. “Three kills. Little Cannon can go home and immediately build an Infinity Edge.”

At this moment, on the big screen at the venue, Faker's Karma was not fighting the dragon with his teammates.

Instead, he came out to drive away the still somewhat persistent Pig Girl.

After driving away Sejuani, he headed straight for his own second tower to deal with the minion wave under it.

At 21 minutes and 31 seconds into the game, SKT secured the first Baron Nashor with Gragas' Smite.

The moment the Baron was destroyed, the economic gap between LGD and SKT approached 5,000 gold, making the situation extremely unfavorable for LGD.

At this point, Varus, who had died the first time, had respawned. Imp controlled Varus and headed straight to the top lane, where he farmed a large wave of minions.

After clearing this wave of minions, Varus went back to base and built Wit's End, now with two items in hand.

Bang's Tristana immediately bought an Infinity Edge after returning to base.

I had some money left over, so I bought two individual items.

After the replay of that team fight ended, the observer switched back to the live feed, and LGD's five players were already grouped up in the mid lane.

The objective is clear: to defend their own low-health mid-lane tower for as long as possible.

The longer this mid-lane tower holds, the more room LGD's players will have to develop and drag the game into the late game.

As another wave of minions, buffed by the Baron buff, pushed towards LGD's mid-lane tower, Bang's Tristana turned and entered the bottom river.

Little Cannon arrived at Little Dragon Pit and fought the Fire Dragon with Barrel.

At 22 minutes and 57 seconds into the game, SKT secured their third dragon of the match.

And the next little dragon will also be a fire dragon.

After taking down the Fire Dragon, SKT started split pushing with a 1-3-1 formation.

After all, all five SKT players have the Baron buff, and a 1-3-1 split lane can maximize the use of the Baron buff.

The troll was pushing the top lane, Karma was pushing the bottom lane, and the remaining three were pushing the mid lane.

To counter SKT's split-push strategy, LGD had no choice but to send Cho'Gath and Malzahar to defend the side lanes.

If only three people are left in the middle, they actually can't defend the middle tower which only has half health left.

At 23 minutes and 21 seconds into the game, LGD's low-health mid-lane tower was destroyed by Tristana's Explosive Spark (E).

The economic gap between the two sides has reached six thousand yuan!
At this moment, SKT's Baron buff still had a full 100 seconds remaining.

However, of LGD's six outer towers, only one mid-lane second tower and one bottom-lane second tower remain.

However, the high ground towers are not so easy to take down, and with the Baron buff remaining for 100 seconds, SKT was not able to continue to widen the economic gap too much.

After taking down LGD's mid-lane tower, Blank's Gragas took the lead, along with his bot lane duo, and charged aggressively into LGD's red buff area.

Upon arriving at the red buff, they stumbled upon Varus and Sejuani fighting the red buff, which was nearing its end.

Eimy wanted to give the red buff to Varus instead of using it on Smite himself.

Hesitation in the thought caused a slight delay in the action.

Then the red buff was stolen by Gragas with a single Smite.

After securing the red buff, SKT's jungler, support, and bot lane ganked the bottom lane.

Faker's Karma has pushed the bottom lane minion wave to LGD's second bottom tower.

At this moment, Wei Shen's sense of danger seemed to have returned somewhat.

After Gragas appeared in his own red buff area and stole the red buff, GodV quickly controlled Malzahar to leave the area of ​​the second bottom tower and retreat to the bottom lane inhibitor tower.

They weren't surrounded under the tower by SKT's main force.

With Karma's Ardent Censer buff, Tristana quickly pushed down LGD's second bottom lane turret.

After pushing down LGD's second bottom tower, SKT still had a little over a minute left on their Baron buff.

The four SKT players did not retreat, but continued to push towards LGD's bottom lane inhibitor tower with the minion wave.

imp and PYL also rushed back to the bottom lane from the mid lane to help Malzahar defend the bottom lane inhibitor tower. Only Eimy's Sejuani remained in the mid lane.

After the Troll Warlord pushed the minion wave to the tower in the mid lane, Huni ignored Sejuani and directly controlled the Troll Warlord to move forward and destroy LGD's second mid tower.

Fortunately, Zhou Dian returned to defend quickly and followed the Troll back to the mid lane, which prevented his second mid tower from losing too much health to the Troll.

With just over 30 seconds left in the Baron buff duration, SKT knew that they couldn't take down LGD's mid-lane second turret or bottom-lane inhibitor turret within the remaining Baron buff duration.

So they all returned to the city to replenish their health and equipment.

They really prioritize stability and aren't greedy at all!

The first player to return to base upgraded his equipment to the Yellow Cross and Mercury's Treads.

Among these, the mercury ribbon is undoubtedly crucial.

After all, SKT's support in this game is a tanky support, while Karma is a mid laner, so she has to take on some of the damage output responsibilities.

In other words, no one from SKT is giving Tristana a crucible right now.

Bang can only rely on himself!
Moreover, Malzahar's ultimate has a suppression effect, which is ineffective against the Crucible; only the Quicksilver Sash can counter it.

Karma, upon returning to the fountain, immediately crafted a hat.

This is a bit exaggerated.

At this moment, Karma possesses the best equipment set in the game: Grail of Athene, Ardent Censer, and Rabadon's Deathcap.

Compared to LGD's support Lulu, Faker's Karma is practically an Ardent Censer monster plus.

After acquiring the Rabadon's Deathcap, Karma's E skill shield will become extremely thick.

On the other hand, LGD's mid laner, Malzahar, went back to base and upgraded to Void Staff, barely managing to get two items.

Although the magic penetration stick is a very cost-effective piece of equipment.

But no matter which mage hero it is, the second item is always the Void Staff, and there's basically only one reason for it—being poor!

When SKT's Baron buff expired, the game time was just 25 minutes.

LGD is also about 7,000 gold behind SKT.

At this point in time, the economic gap is, frankly, quite large.

But it's not to the point where it's unplayable yet.

At least in the most important position for both sides in this game—the AD carry role—Varus was not significantly behind Tristana in terms of equipment.

Therefore, this game is still quite playable for LGD.

In the commentary box.

"Wei Shen is actually really poor this game," Miller said.

"Did you see that? It took him twenty-five minutes to get his second item, a Void Staff, and he rarely got any last hits."

"To be honest, Wei Shen is under a lot of pressure this game," PDD added.

"Faker's Karma is really something. I really didn't expect it to put so much pressure on GodV's Malzahar."

“That’s right!” Remember nodded. “At the end of the first game, the three of us were discussing that SKT had to come up with a counter to LGD’s move of picking Malzahar in the mid lane. Faker’s Karma in this game provided his solution.”

"Because Malzahar is honestly a teamfight champion, and he's rather clumsy in the early game. Faker completely utilized Karma's early-game mobility to dictate the pace of the game."

"And in terms of team fight impact, a mid-lane Karma can provide a shield that makes things very difficult for Malzahar," Miller added.

Back to the game.

After the Baron buff ended, SKT's main force went to the top lane and pushed the minion wave to LGD's top lane inhibitor.

Huni's troll was pushing the mid lane alone.

LGD now only has one mid-lane second tower left out of their six outer towers, and all three lanes are in a difficult situation.

When faced with a challenge, LGD maintained the same lane split as SKT.

Zhou Dian's Cho'Gath was defending the second tower in the mid lane, while his four teammates were defending the high ground tower in the top lane.

The big bug had already pulled out its second major item—the Warmog's Armor.

The HP has exceeded 4,000!

The main reason is that the meat items that Big Bug is going to release are all quite cheap.

Even though the game was so badly messed up, the Cho'Gath still had two and a half items, and his equipment was even better than Wei Shen's Malzahar.

The troll facing off against the giant insect already possesses the Ravenous Hydra, Adaptive Helm, and Frozen Heart set, making him incredibly powerful in a one-on-one fight.

After SKT's Baron buff ends and before the next Baron spawns, LGD can catch their breath a little.

LGD players continued their consistent practice since the start of the finals, constantly buying true wards.

Even though the economy is much behind now, everyone still carries real eyes when they go out.

Only if they don't lose vision can LGD, the losing side, drag out the game.

Only by seizing the initiative in terms of vision can we find opportunities to take the lead.

After SKT retreated, LGD's top, mid, and bottom carries quickly farmed minions to develop their strength.

Sejuani and Lulu quickly went to the jungle to establish vision control.

There are two minutes left until the next Baron Nashor spawns.

The current situation on the field is that SKT pushes the minion wave and then retreats.

Or they could sneak into LGD's jungle and collect any jungle monsters they find.

LGD's players waited under the tower for the minion wave to arrive.

The game will remain relatively peaceful until the next Baron Nashor spawns.

During this time, Bang's turret returned to base and upgraded the yellow cross to a cannon.

The current Tristana has the Infinity Edge, Statikk Shiv, and Rapid Firecannon critical strike set, plus a Quicksilver Sash.

Therefore, the SKT team once again grouped up and pushed forward in the mid lane.

The goal is to destroy LGD's last outer turret before the next Baron Nashor spawns.

At 27 minutes and 20 seconds into the game, Troll Warlord and Gragas emerged from LGD's red buff area and arrived at LGD's mid-lane second tower.

At this moment, all five members of SKT gathered near the ruins of LGD's first mid-lane tower.

LGD's five players gathered in front of their second base tower, preventing the red team's minion wave from reaching the tower.
Because once the minion wave gets into the tower, the sniper can chip away at the health of the mid-lane second tower in just a few hits.

imp's Varus directly stood in front of the tower to clear the minions, preventing SKT's minion wave from entering the tower.

Blank's Gragas emerged from LGD's red buff area and used his E skill to dash to the mid lane, casually throwing out an Explosive Gragas (R). It landed right behind Varus, blasting Varus out from under the tower and sending him flying towards the SKT team.

But at this moment, Wolf lost the decisiveness he displayed in the previous Flash-engage Varus.

Varus was blown away by Gragas's ultimate and flew towards Leona.

Wolf didn't choose to use Flash to follow up with crowd control; instead, he headed towards the spot where Varus was blown away.

In fact, Varus's landing point is very close to Leona's. Generally speaking, Leona can take a step forward and use her Q on Varus in time.

This is also why Wolf didn't choose to Flash to Q Varus in mid-air.

But Wolf overlooked one thing at this point.

That means imp got Mercury's Treads in this game!

imp didn't react in time to dodge Gragas' ultimate.

So when Varus was blasted back by Gragas' ultimate, he kept spamming Flash.

(End of this chapter)