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Chapter 510 Let's just drag it out and see who has a better bladder!
Thanks to the extra tenacity provided by Mercury's Treads, Varus was able to escape the control effects of Gragas' ultimate as soon as he landed.

So as soon as Varus landed, he immediately flashed back.

Although Leona had already raised her hand to cast Dawnbreaker (Q), Varus flashed out first.

So, although Varus was stunned by Leona's Q skill, he had already flashed back to his teammates, and the location where he was stunned was relatively safe.

Wolf got a little anxious and raised his hand to unleash his ultimate ability on Varus in front of him.

The center of the solar flare (R) is directly above Verus.

However, SKT couldn't connect any skills at all, and Leona's ultimate was completely ineffective.

At the same time, PYL overreacted, and Lulu used her ultimate on Varus, who was at full health, but it had no effect.

imp's Varus countered with a Corruption Chain (R), hitting Gragas and spreading to the rest of SKT.

Faker's Karma quickly used her RE ability, which greatly increased the movement speed of the entire SKT team, pulling them out of Varus's ultimate range.

However, the Gragas that gets hit by Varus's ultimate is immobilized.

No matter how much the movement speed is increased, the barrel will be unable to move immediately.

Sejuani, positioned on the side, quickly unleashed her ultimate ability, Frostfire (R), landing on Gragas to provide additional crowd control.

Then Sejuani charged in headfirst, while Varus followed behind, relentlessly attacking Gragas.

Team battles have resumed on both sides!
When Gragas was reduced to half health, he broke free from crowd control, and Karma quickly used her E skill to shield him.

Karma's E skill cooldown is now very short.

The barrel's rapid pull actually caused Sejuani to be positioned somewhat deeper.

Eimy quickly maneuvered Pig Girl to run back.

Huni's troll was now at the forefront, trying to chase down Sejuani.

However, Malzahar's Hades Grip (R) pinned him to the spot, rendering him unable to move.

LGD players then focused their attacks on the Troll.

However, before being suppressed by Malzahar's ultimate, the troll managed to suck up a mouthful of Cho'Gath's energy with his ultimate, and with his good equipment, he actually managed to withstand a round of damage from LGD's players.

As Zhou Dian's Cho'Gath landed a powerful ultimate on the Troll Warlord, but failed to kill him, Malzahar's ultimate's suppression effect on the Troll Warlord was about to expire.

The troll still had over 200 health left and retreated behind his teammates.

While LGD was attacking the Troll Warlord, Cho'Gath was always at the front, taking the brunt of SKT's attacks.

At this point, the giant worm only had a few hundred points of health left.

Seeing that his ultimate skill had failed to finish off the troll, Zhou Dian quickly used Flash.

The giant bug flashed behind its teammates.

However, at the same time that Cho'Gath flashed away, Tristana's basic attack also landed on Cho'Gath.

At this moment, with the three-piece critical strike set on Xiaopao, the critical strike chance is as high as 70%.

This basic attack, unsurprisingly, was a critical hit, taking away over two hundred drops of health from the giant worm.

The giant worm's health bar instantly dropped to zero, leaving only double digits.

With a giant insect having a maximum health of over 4,000, having only a few dozen points of health left makes its health bar appear empty.

There was almost no blood left.

Luckily, that critical hit from the little cannon almost killed him!
If the big bug dies, LGD's mid-lane second tower will definitely fall.

The mid-lane inhibitor tower might be threatened.

But at least he's still alive with a sliver of blood, which is good.

The giant bug has Berserker Armor, so its health quickly recovers after disengaging from combat.

On the main battlefield, Zhou Dian's Cho'Gath used Flash to create distance and then retreated to the back to heal using Warmog's Armor.

Feeling that LGD was missing a player in the front line, Wolf controlled Leona and pushed forward.

However, Varus with a full stack of Guinsoo's Rageblade deals incredibly high damage.

Without the troll tanking in front, Leona lost most of her health in just a few hits from Varus, and hastily flashed over the wall to escape to the F6 camp.

After Leona flashed, Faker's Karma used her RE, and the remaining four members of SKT in the front line suddenly gained increased movement speed and retreated.

The two sides temporarily separated.

LGD lost their top laner and AD carry's Flash, while SKT lost their support's Flash.

It appears to be a point that ended after a period of intense back-and-forth.

"Leona used Flash over the wall, and in this team fight, none of the ten players on both sides died!" After a passionate commentary, Miller took a breath.

Leona circled around F6 and returned to her teammates.

At this moment, another wave of red minions arrived, and the five SKT players continued to group up and push towards LGD's second mid-lane tower.

Karma used her E skill on Tristana, who then had the increased range from the cannon, allowing her to accelerate forward. From a distance, she landed a basic attack on Varus, who was at the back of the group, as Tristana retreated.

At the same time, the passive effect of the electric blade was triggered, instantly reducing Varus's health by 500 points.

Incidentally, the electric attack also drained some of the health of Lulu and Malzahar next to Varus.

LGD's mid, bot, and support players retreated to their own base under the second turret, standing together with Sejuani and Cho'Gath who had retreated earlier.

In just a short while, thanks to the Berserker Armor, the giant worm's health had recovered to nearly half.

The red team's minion wave advanced into LGD's second mid-lane tower, and Blank's Gragas was the first to enter the tower.

On LGD's side, Sejuani was standing at the front, and her boar whip lashed out at Gragas.

But Gragas ignored it and immediately used his E-Flash to crash into LGD's top, mid, and bottom laners.

However, although Blank seized the opportunity when LGD players were grouped together, this happened right under LGD's defensive tower.

Moreover, Karma didn't have RE at this point, so Gragas' teammates couldn't keep up at all.

Fortunately, Huni was quick-witted enough that before Gragas could make his move, Trundle used his E skill, the big rod, to block the turret's aggro, preventing Gragas from being hit by the turret.

Gragas had just used his E-flash to stun three LGD players when Sejuani immediately used her Iceborn Gauntlet (Q) to knock Gragas up.

After realizing that his initial move was somewhat impulsive, Blank quickly maneuvered the barrel towards the outside of the tower.

Although Huni's troll only had a third of its health left, it kept hovering at the edge of the turret's attack range, constantly tanking damage for the Gragas.

At the same time, he maintained his distance from the LGD players to avoid being targeted by their attacks.

With half health remaining, Gragas was taking on the firepower of LGD's two carries. He had only taken two steps forward and hadn't even left the turret's range when Cho'Gath knocked him up with a Q skill.

Then Varus fired a piercing arrow (Q), instantly taking down Gragas.

Even though the troll was constantly tanking the tower for Gragas, even without the tower's attacks, Gragas's tankiness, which was not comparable to that of a support Leona, was not enough to withstand Varus's attacks.

With Gragas dead, the remaining four members of SKT quickly retreated.

Although SKT is down one player, LGD has run out of ultimate abilities and doesn't dare to chase.

After all, Karma is in great shape, and chasing her rashly could easily lead to being pulled back by her.

After clearing the minion wave under their own second tower, the LGD players all recalled to base right there under the tower.

"Hehe, Little Black was impulsive this time! Gragas' E-flash just got him killed." Miller's voice suddenly rose.

"He saw that LGD's overall performance was not good and wanted to make the first move, but this was under LGD's tower. Gragas was directly Q'd by Cho'Gath and couldn't escape." "Yes." PDD added, "We can clearly feel that SKT's performance right now can be summed up in four words - not enough damage! In this kind of 5v5 team fight, they really don't have much damage output."

"To be honest, SKT's damage output relies heavily on Bang. As for Tristana, she hasn't upgraded to a key item yet—Last Whisper!" Miller said.

"Even with the Troll Warlord's ultimate, Tristana is still a bit slow against Sejuani and Cho'Gath."

"This makes me feel like LGD has caught their breath a bit!"

"This mid-lane second tower has remained standing, and SKT has tried to push it down several times but has failed."

“Yes, SKT actually started very well this time, but our front line is just too tanky.” PDD nodded.

"And the further we go, the tougher we, the pig and the worm, will become!"

Back to the game.

After LGD's entire team returned to base, SKT's Trundle and Leona also returned to base to replenish their health, equipment, and control wards.

Faker's Karma returned to his own blue buff area and took it.

Bang's troll barged into LGD's red buff area and stole LGD's red buff.

At this point, the second Baron Nashor had spawned. After both sides' junglers and supports emerged from the fountain, they headed straight for the upper river to establish vision around the Baron Nashor.

Twenty seconds after the Baron Nashor spawned, the Dragon Nashor also spawned.

LGD naturally had no intention of taking the fire dragon, and the entire team was in the upper half of the map, focusing all their efforts on defending the dragon.

On SKT's side, Gragas had just respawned and emerged from the fountain, while the mid, top, and support trio were warding near Baron.

Bang, on the other hand, controlled Tristana to solo the Fire Dragon.

At 29 minutes and 10 seconds into the game, Tristana destroyed the Infernal Dragon, securing SKT's fourth dragon of the match.

With SKT now possessing two Infernal Dragons, they have somewhat compensated for their lack of damage output.

When Xiaopao was soloing the dragon, the bottom of the screen showed the damage output of ten people from both sides in the previous team fight in front of LGD's second mid tower.

On LGD's side, the top laner Cho'Gath and the mid laner Malzahar both had around 2,000 damage output, which was about the same.

imp's Varus barely managed to deal 4,000 damage.

Given LGD's lineup, this is a relatively balanced and reasonable distribution of damage output.

On the SKT side, Bang's Tristana dealt a whopping 7,000 damage.

However, LGD's side was full of low-health enemies, and no one had died.

One reason is that LGD's top and jungle players, Cho'Gath and Sejuani, are indeed very tough.

On the other hand, it's also because the other members of SKT really didn't contribute much.

It's worth noting that SKT currently has a lead of over 6,000 gold over LGD.

Moreover, Bang's Tristana has the smallest gold lead among all of SKT's lanes.

In the last team fight, the combined damage output of the other four members of SKT was less than 5,000.

Not to mention it can't even compare to Bang's Tristana's output alone, it's only two-thirds of Tristana's.

As time went on, the weaknesses in SKT's lineup became less significant and their economic advantage began to emerge.

After taking down the Fire Dragon, the little cannon headed straight for its own upper jungle and took the red buff.

At this point, the economic panels for both sides popped up at the bottom of the screen.

The OB's intention in switching to the economy panel in this game is very clear: to mainly watch the small bettors.

Let's see how much money Xiaopao is still short of Daqingyu.

The Last Whisper is not only crucial for Tristana, but for the entire SKT team right now, and the sooner it's completed, the better.

Xiao Pao currently has 1,300 coins, which is far from enough to craft a Great Whisper.

However, after Tristana finished clearing the red buff, she went to the mid lane to farm a relatively safe wave of minions, and had enough gold to build Last Whisper.

After clearing the mid-lane minion wave, Tristana immediately recalled to base.

Back at the spring, I took out the Whisper.

Although Whisper's effect is far inferior to the full version of Giant Slayer.

However, with the addition of a small Whisper, Tristana's damage output against Cho'Gath and Sejuani has been significantly improved.

When Xiao Pao went home to build a Whisper, Zhou Dian's Cho'Gath went home to build a Watcher's Armor.

This is a separate piece of Randuin's Omen, which adds a significant amount of armor and reduces critical strike damage.

Anyway, all the big bugs are doing right now is stacking armor like crazy.

As for magic resistance, just ignore SKT's mid and jungle.

With Karma and Gragas building meat, their magic damage is quite limited.

The big bug can just tank the extra health from its ultimate; there's no need to waste gold on magic resistance items.

After all, Zhou Dian got wrecked in this game; he was incredibly poor.

When resources are limited, we must use our best resources wisely.

Eimy's Sejuani has already built Randuin's Omen as her second item, and is currently building Locket of the Iron Solari, but hasn't finished it yet; she only has Aegis of the Legion on her.

The Legion Shield has a passive aura that increases the magic resistance of nearby teammates.

The fact that Sejuani has built this item is a major reason why Zhou Dian isn't building any magic resistance items right now.

Compared to LGD's damage output, although Trundle and Gragas are relatively tanky, Varus now has a trio of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of the Ruined King, and Wit's End.

Varus's item build with its special effects, combined with the percentage damage of his skills, makes him very fast at taking down tanks, and SKT's top and jungle are having a hard time keeping up.

Not to mention the damage output from Malzahar.

Moreover, the high true damage of the giant bug's ultimate ability can easily lead to sudden casualties.

The game has reached 31 minutes. Both sides have been very restrained in the last few minutes and have not made any preemptive moves.

Both sides kept pushing the lane in the middle, and after clearing the lane, they went to the area around the upper river to set up vision.

On the field, SKT still has a solid economic lead of over 6,000 to nearly 7,000, which is an advantage.

Therefore, they were extremely eager to secure the second Baron Nashor in this game.

Because if it drags on for another three minutes or so, the Ancient Dragon will spawn.

If both Baron and Elder Dragon are present at the same time, it will be more difficult for SKT to make a decision.

If you want the big dragon, you can easily lose the ancient dragon.

If you want an ancient dragon, you can easily lose a large dragon.

SKT held the advantage throughout the game, and they didn't want LGD to get either of these two key map resources.

As the disadvantaged side, LGD could gain a significant advantage by acquiring either of these two neutral resources.

It can only be said that the effect of economic disparity diminishes over time.

Time is on LGD's side!
After a long and intense best-of-five semi-final match against Samsung, LGD learned a lot from Samsung's strategy of stalling.

Just keep putting it off until the end, and see who has a better bladder and who loses patience first.

(End of this chapter)