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Chapter 96: Facing Jayce, not picking Lucian this game is idiotic!
Half past four in the afternoon.

Grand Plaza.

Hongqiao Tiandi Performing Arts Center.

The Snake team's lounge backstage.

The players were all playing on their phones, while head coach Zhu Kai was holding a notebook, pretending to be looking at something.

After glancing at it twice, Zhu Kai couldn't bear to look any longer and began to scan the lounge with his gaze.

Great, the team members all look very relaxed.

That's true, what's there to panic about playing against LGD, who just got their first win of the season?

Although they just beat RNG 2-0, which looks pretty impressive.

Suddenly, Zhu Kai noticed the slightly serious expression on Saint Gun's face.

"So serious, what are you thinking about?" Zhu Kai casually tossed his notebook onto the table and walked over to Holy Gun Bro, asking.

If Flandre has anything bothering him, he's prepared to help him get through it.

While Zhu Kai's drafting skills are among the worst in the LPL, his motivational speeches are unparalleled in the LPL.

"Nothing!" Flandre turned to look at Zhu Kai, "How about we choose the red side for the first game?"

In today's BO3 match between Snake and LGD, Snake had the right to choose sides in the first game.

"Actively choose the red side? Why?"

"I want the special seat on the fifth floor of the red team!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Kai immediately understood that the new top laner of LGD was a bit intimidated!
"Hey, what was his ID again? Zhou just crushed Letme!" Zhu Kaihao waved his hand angrily. "Letme can't compare to you. In my heart, you, Li Xuanjun, are the number one top laner in the LPL!"

First, we'll give you a bowl of chicken soup.

Saint Gun drank the bowl of chicken soup for the soul, but showed no reaction; his expression remained solemn.

"He only knows how to play Fiora and Jayce!" Zhu Kai had a second plan: "If we, the blue side, ban Fiora and pick Jayce, wouldn't that solve everything?"

"How could he only play Fiora and Jayce! Brother Zhu, you never study your opponents?" Flandre's words left Zhu Kai speechless.

“Why don’t you listen to me, Brother Zhu, we really have to choose the red side!” Holy Gun Bro continued.

"But I already chose the blue side and reported it in the first game!" Zhu Kai shrugged.

"Damn it! Why didn't you say so earlier!" Saint Gun Bro was speechless.

puff!

A strange laugh came from the side; the sound seemed to come from the back door exhaust.

Zhu Kai turned to look at Zita, "Liu Zhihao, what are you laughing at? How about you go up and play a couple of top lane games later? Haven't you been saying you wanted to play?"

"No, no, no, I'm a mid laner, not a top laner!" Zz1tai shook his head like a rattle drum.

Zhu Kai turned around again and patted Flandre on the shoulder, "What's the rush? I'll have Saofen gank top lane for you during the match! These rookies are easy to catch!"

After saying that, Zhu Kai walked back to the table and picked up his notebook where he recorded business plans and started looking through it.

Completely unaware, Flandre's expression darkened even further.

The person next to him was trying so hard not to laugh that their face turned red.

Of course, Saint Gun knew what Zz1tai was laughing about.

Should we tell SofM to gank top lane more often?

This is utter nonsense!
Sofm just laughs and spams his skills when his teammates get caught.

If you're close by, SofM won't mind helping you "push the minion wave" after you die.

In their first match on Sunday, IG swept IM 2-0, with neither game taking long.

Therefore, the next match between LGD and Snake can start promptly at 5 PM.

Just after the post-match interviews on the main stage ended, staff members notified the players from both sides of the next match to go for pre-match equipment adjustments.

During the equipment setup, Eimy glanced towards the Snake players' bench and said, "Brothers, we're going to win this match today!"

"Wow, you're so confident, Brother Dan!" Zhou Dian immediately exclaimed.

Upon hearing this, Eimy raised her chin and said, "Beating SofM is a piece of cake!"

Immediately, the LGD players burst into laughter.

Eimy's statement is actually quite accurate.

When SofM first came to the LPL last year, his bandit-style counter-jungling made life miserable for the junglers of all the LPL teams.

Even Clearlove, who led EDG to an undefeated record in the Summer Split and was at the height of his power, suffered a lot at the hands of SofM.

But when Sofm faced Eimy, he was immediately punished.

Sofm's bandit-style counter-jungling relies on calculating the enemy jungler's jungle route and timing the jungle monster respawns with extreme precision.

However, this tactic completely fails when facing Eimy on the other side.

Eimy himself doesn't know what to do next, so how can you, SofM, predict his jungle route?

"Alright, everyone, welcome back! Welcome back to the third week of the 2017 LPL Spring Split regular season!"

"What we're about to bring you is a best-of-three match between LGD and Snake!"

"I am Guan Zeyuan, the commentator for this match!"

"I am Su Xiaoyan, the commentator for this match!"

As soon as Guan Zeyuan and Su Xiaoyan appeared on the live stream screen, the chat was immediately flooded with idioms containing the character "妍".

Of course, the most frequently occurring one is definitely 【妍夹管叫】.

After a purely subjective pre-match analysis, Guan Zeyuan said, "Alright, both players are ready, and the draft phase of the first game of the BO3 is about to begin!"

At this moment, the BP interface appeared on the large screen at the scene.

Snake (blue side), LGD (red side).

First round of BP.

Snake banned Caitlyn, Varus, and Fiora.

LGD banned Camille, Graves, and Rengar.

"LGD banned two of SofM's signature heroes, while Snake banned two marksman heroes!"

"Then they banned LGD's top laner Zhou, who had a very impressive performance with Fiora in the match against RNG the day before yesterday!" Guan Zeyuan continued.

At this moment, Snake locked up Jayce on the first floor of the blue team's base.

"Oh, banning Fiora and picking Jayce, those are exactly the two champions Zhou used in the match against RNG the day before yesterday. It seems Snake wants to test Zhou's champion pool!" Su Xiaoyan said.

"However, I think Snake's plan may fall through, as Zhou is skilled with more than just these two heroes!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "I don't know if you're familiar with the content creator 'Top Laner Ancestor'."

What followed was a long introduction, and this kind of "off-site knowledge" is exactly what Guan Zeyuan excels at.

At this moment, in the LGD players' seat.

Dgc stood behind Zhou Dian and asked, "Little Zhou, have you decided what to use against Jayce? If not, you can use it in the second round!"

Snake has already picked their top laner, so LGD doesn't need to wait until the end to choose their top laner.

"I haven't decided yet, but get me an excavator first. Jayce is a tough champion to play against!" Eimy added.

"I'll choose now! I'll try to sway the other side!"

After saying that, Zhou Dian revealed Lucian on the first floor of the red team.

Dgc was about to ask how the "flex lane" strategy worked when he saw Lucian and immediately said, "Huh? Can this thing be played top lane?"

"They're facing Jayce, and if they don't pick Lucian this game, they're idiots!" Zhou Dian exclaimed with unwavering confidence.

Upon hearing this, Dgc coughed twice. "Yeah, Lucian is indeed good against Jayce, and he can also flex across all three lanes!" Actually, Dgc couldn't quite figure out why Lucian was good against Jayce, since he had been a coach for quite some time and had never actually seen Lucian in the top lane.

But he didn't want to be seen as an "idiot," so he pretended to know a lot.

And it was also out of trust in Zhou Dian.

Since Zhou Dian is a master of Jayce, he must know which heroes are good against Jayce.

Afterwards, Eimy selected an excavator for himself on the second floor of the red building.

"Uh, LGD picked Lucian first, which is a bit rare in the bot lane lately! There are still AD carries like Jhin and Ashe out there!" Guan Zeyuan said with some surprise.

“Perhaps imp has his own understanding!” Su Xiaoyan said.

"However, there's a very slim chance that Lucian could be a mid-laner!"

Next, Snake picked Jhin and Zyra on the second and third floors of the blue side.

LGD chose Braum on the third floor of the red side.

"Snake has picked a very strong bot lane duo that can also form a poke composition with Jayce!"

"LGD picked Braum, so Lucian will definitely be going bot lane. Lucian and Braum is a pretty classic bot lane combination, good for both offense and defense!"

In the second round of ban/pick, the red team had the first ban and the first pick.

LGD banned Twisted Fate and Gragas.

Snake banned Tsar and Clockwork.

"Hey, why did LGD suddenly ban a card? I don't quite understand this card ban!" Guan Zeyuan said.

Next, LGD chose the airplane on the fourth floor of the red side.

"Oh, they gave Wei Shen a mid-lane Corki, which is basically a way of picking it instead of banning it!"

"We can't give this pick to Snake, otherwise Snake's Jayce, Corki, and Jhin will have too much poke power!"

"Snake's mid laner picked Ryze, so they only have one jungler left. Let's see what champion SofM will pick?"

At this moment, the Snake players' bench.

Zhu Kai pretended to flip through his notebook a couple of times, then said, "SofM, what kind of jungler do you want?"

Before sofm could speak, Flandre interjected, "Definitely Elise!"

In Flandre's opinion, is there even a need to ask this question?

With so many junglers banned on the opposing team, isn't Elise the only viable champion left?

Coincidentally, Jayce and Elise are also quite strong in the top and jungle, diving towers aggressively in the early game.

Seeing that SofM didn't say anything, the support Crystal said, "Then I'll pick Elise!"

"Mantis, give me a mantis!" Sofm said this in perfect Chinese.

"what?"

Crystal didn't quite understand. Why pick a jungler who can farm effectively when picking a spider would have been a good choice?
"Then let's go with the praying mantis!" Zhu Kai closed the notebook in his hand.

They didn't even notice that Flandre's face had turned green!

Snake locked in Kha'Zix as his last move.

LGD secured Ashe on the fifth floor of the red side.

This Ashe pick completely baffled everyone; the live stream chat was filled with question marks.

"Ashe? Ashe top lane?"

"Unlikely!" Guan Zeyuan shook his head repeatedly.

"The plane should be mid lane, no problem! Then let's see if Ashe or Lucian is top lane?"

Meanwhile, viewers in the live stream were wildly speculating about who would be playing top lane for LGD.

[LGD is pretty amazing, they even managed to draft a three-marksman lineup?]

[Shouldn't it be Ashe top lane? You Jayce have a long range, right? Well, mine is even longer, I'll definitely kill you!]

How do you play Ashe top lane? She just dies instantly if ganked!

I think it should be Lucian top lane?

[Wasn't LGD playing Rek'Sai top and Lucian jungle in this game?]

【What do you mean? Are you implying something about Uzbekistan? Dog fans, give this guy a shout-out!】

【No, I didn't do it, don't talk nonsense!】

【.】

With the ban/pick phase completed on both sides, heroes were swapped for each position, and the questions from the commentators and viewers were answered.

On LGD's side, Lucian stayed on the first floor the whole time without changing his position.

[Obama's donkey hits the road, 6]

[Wow, it really is Lucian top lane!]

[Was Zhou forced to play Lucian top lane?]

[Don't be ridiculous! Although LGD and RNG's ADCs both have three-letter IDs, they are not the same person!]

Can Lucian play top lane?

[Trust in Top Lane Master's understanding! Are there any Top Lane Master fans here? Let's flood the chat with "Trust!"]

【believe!】

【believe!】

We already have Lucian top and Lucian jungle, when are we going to get a Lucian support?

I don't know if Lucian can play support, but Snake's Jayce can definitely be used as support!

【.】

"Lucian top lane!"

"It can only be said that Zhou truly deserves the title of 'Grandmaster of Top Lane,' he's starting to understand the game!"

"Regardless of the final result, I think that daring to choose something new in the competition deserves our applause!" Guan Zeyuan said loudly.

"Then let's hope Lucian can have a great performance in this top lane game!" Su Xiaoyan added.

In the center of the stage, the two head coaches, Dgc and Zhu Kai, shook hands and then turned and walked into the players' tunnel.

Before leaving the players' seat, Zhu Kai specifically instructed SofM to gank the top lane more often.

If you're playing a marksman top laner, you have to gank him relentlessly!
Remembering Sofm's serious nod, Zhu Kai felt confident this game was going to be a sure thing.

You dare to play Lucian top lane? You really don't take my Snake team seriously!
Wait for death!

On the other hand, as soon as he left the main stage, Dgc's old problem started to resurface.

He was starting to regret agreeing to let Zhou Dian pick Lucian for top lane.

Can this thing really be used in the top lane?
How could I have agreed to it so easily?

Forget it, I'll trust Xiao Zhou!
If he says it's playable, then he must have his reasons.

On the large screen at the venue, the game had reached the loading screen.

Blue side Snake: Top lane Jayce, Jungle Kha'Zix, Mid lane Ryze, Bot lane Jhin and Zyra.

Red team LGD: Top lane Lucian, Jungle Rek'Sai, Mid lane Corki, Bot lane Ashe and Braum.

Amidst the cheers and encouragement of fans from both sides, the first game of the regular season BO3 between LGD and Snake officially began.

(End of this chapter)