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Chapter 97 Eimy takes an unconventional approach, the Lucian takes the first blood on the Lucian.
As soon as he entered the game, Zhou Dian felt his mind lighten and he felt better than ever before.

Both their reactions and thinking seem to be more agile than before.

It seems that God's capriciousness is starting to take effect.

After buying a Doran's Blade and a health potion, Zhou Dian controlled Lucian and headed straight for the lower river.

Lucian was accompanied by four teammates.

LGD's five players grouped up and went to the bottom river, then ventured into Snake's red buff area.

"Brothers, charge! Charge!" PYL's Braum took the lead.

On LGD's side, with three marksmen plus Braum, they are invincible in level 1 team fights.

Therefore, PYL also chose to invade the enemy's red zone at the start of the game to establish vision.

Snake, of course, knew they couldn't handle a level 1 team fight.

When they saw LGD's five players grouping up and coming over, they decisively retreated to their lanes.

LGD's five players wandered around Snake's red buff area, and Braum placed his ward into the bush next to the blue side's F6 camp.

Then, the LGD team left!
"It seems LGD doesn't intend to switch jungle areas; they're just grouping up to establish vision!" Guan Zeyuan said.

As soon as LGD's players retreated, Sofm, who had been lingering in the river, ready to enter LGD's red buff area at any moment, immediately controlled Kha'Zix and returned.

"Shall we start with red?" Holy Gun asked.

He naturally hoped that SofM's Kha'Zix could start with red buff and quickly reach level 3 to gank top lane.

Whether they can catch them or not is another matter.

But you have to come and catch them!

However, Sofm only said two words: "Six birds!"

The mantis headed straight for his own F6 camp, and casually sent a "On the way" signal to the F6 camp, indicating to the mid laner to help him open the F6.

Saint Gun Bro suddenly felt a little numb!
The mantis starts at F6, which is clearly a strategy to quickly reach level 4 by clearing five camps of jungle monsters.

The problem is that Kha'Zix's F6 skill is very damaging, and before level four, he is in a low-health state the whole time, making it impossible for him to gank.

Forget it, I won't place any bets then!

Saint Gun abandoned the idea of ​​taking over the lane bushes and instead controlled Jayce to go to lane with the minion wave.

On the other side, Zhou Dian's Lucian circled around the jungle to reach the top lane tower, and waited for the minion wave to arrive before going to lane with it.

He had no intention of dominating the lane bushes at level one.

Although Lucian is a ranged attacker, his range is the same as Jayce's cannon form, which is 500, so he can't use his range advantage to kite Jayce.

In a head-on confrontation, even if he has [Fervor of Battle] which makes him stronger the more he fights, he definitely can't beat Jayce with [Thunder] at level one.

It's better to play a standard laning phase and slowly wear them down.

Flandre's nickname "Holy Gun Guy" is naturally related to the hero Holy Gun Ranger.

Back in Season 4, he was matched with Dong Xiaosa in a ranked game, who was playing the hero Lucius.

Because he carried the game so badly in that ranked match, and Flandre's Lucian had over 500 CS by the 39th minute, Dong Xiaosa jokingly called him "Holy Gun Bro".

And so the nickname has been passed down ever since.

The former Flandre Brother was naturally very skilled at playing the champion Lucian. After all, he reached the Challenger rank in the Chinese server as soon as Lucian was released.

But he hasn't played this champion much for several years, and Lucian has undergone at least seven or eight changes in those years.

At this moment, Flandre couldn't really judge how strong Lucian was as a top laner.

However, it's better to play it safe.

The enemy jungler is a Rek'Sai, who has a very strong ganking ability, while our own jungler is a pure farming Kha'Zix, so he has to be careful of being ganked at all times.

Therefore, Flandre decided not to push the lane in the early levels. Lucian's attempt to harass him would inevitably lead to the minion wave slowly pushing towards him.

The minions on the top lane are touching.

Jayce and Lucian each stood behind their own front-line minions, so far apart that they couldn't attack each other.

The two players simply kept moving left and right without attacking any minions, clearly neither of them wanted to push the lane.

In comparison, Jayce's movement frequency is significantly higher.

Although they are all hidden behind minions, Lucian's Q skill can pass through minions.

Suddenly, Lucian stopped, his two guns combined, and a beam of light shot from their muzzles.

歘!
Even though Jayce kept moving left and right, he was still accurately hit by Lucian's Transparent Light (Q).

"It's alright, getting hit by Q is acceptable. Although I lost some health, Lucian's abilities will slowly push the minion wave over!" Flandre thought to himself.

However, ten seconds later...
歘!
Jayce got hit by Lucian's Q through the minions again.

Damn! How did he predict my movement again?!

After being hit twice in a row by Q, Flandre seemed to be having a hard time.

Jayce would occasionally auto-attack the minions a couple of times and use Doran's Blade to heal a little.

However, Jayce was quickly hit by Lucian's Q through the minions again.

This time, Flandre forcibly changed his movement habits, but his next move was still caught.

With no other option, Flandre increased the frequency of attacking minions, as he didn't want to waste his health potion.

On the other side, Zhou Dian also maintained restraint, only using his Q skill to poke through minions, and did not take advantage of Jayce's minion attack to attack Jayce.

Because Lucian can auto-attack Jayce, it means there's a significant distance between them. Jayce can not only counter-attack Lucian, but also switch to hammer form and Q directly at Lucian's face. Zhou Dian certainly wouldn't give Jayce the chance to charge in.

As Jayce continued to auto-attack minions, it balanced out the wave push caused by Lucian constantly using his Q on minions.

The mid lane minions remained in the middle, even slightly biased towards LGD's side.

Flandre was a little worried, so even though the minion wave hadn't passed yet, he still placed a trinket ward on Jayce in the top lane river bush.

Eimy chose blue as the starting color for his excavator and started brushing from bottom to top.

With the help of his own bot lane duo, the excavator quickly took down the blue buff and leveled up to level two.

Eimy switched screens and saw through the ward Braum had left in Snake's red zone that Kha'Zix was still struggling to kill the six raptors. His health had dropped below half, and he was constantly glowing green, indicating that he had used a potion.

Upon seeing Sofm's opening move, Eimy immediately envisioned Kha'Zix's next route: red buff - wolves - blue buff - Gromp, then level up to four and return to base to buy items.

A bold idea suddenly popped into Eimy's mind.

Glancing at the top lane where the minion waves had just clashed, Eimy asked, "Brother Zhou, can we trade more damage in the top lane?"

Ok?
They're trying to arrest me!

Zhou Dian immediately replied, "No problem!"

"OK!"

After clearing the blue buff, the excavator headed straight to the upper jungle to clear the F6 camp.

His original plan was to clear the lower jungle before moving to the upper jungle, which was also a quick way to reach level four.

But now, he's not even planning to finish playing F6.

Using the AOE basic attack effect of the Q skill, the excavator quickly cleared all five small birds in the F6 camp.

Then, without even glancing at the big bird, they went straight to attack the red buff.

Eimy needs to level up to level three as quickly as possible to gank the top lane.

This is because he's playing Excavator, and to gank the top lane, he needs both of WE's skills to be available, which means he must be leveled up to level three.

If he's playing a champion like Jarvan IV, Eimy plans to take the blue buff and then the red buff, and then gank the top lane once he reaches level two with the red buff.

By surrendering the penalty, the excavator quickly destroyed its own red buff and leveled up to level three.

Next, the excavator arrived behind the Dragon Pit, stepped on the Blast Fruit to descend into the Dragon Pit, and went straight up into Snake's blue zone.

Not far away, the mantis was attacking its own three wolves.

Both junglers were in the same jungle area, and Eimy knew where Sofm was.

Sofm, however, thought that the excavator should have just finished clearing the three camps of jungle monsters in the blue zone and was heading to the red zone.

He has a very precise understanding of how long it takes to clear the entire blue buff area when his teammates help him with the blue buff.

However, Eimy's jungle route is always arbitrary, and SofM could never predict it accurately.

The excavator arrived next to the triangular bush on the blue team's top lane, ready to dig a tunnel through the thick wall in front of it to reach the top lane.

Seeing the excavator in place, Zhou Dian subtly revealed a weakness to Saint Gun Bro.

At this point, both top laners were level two.

Lucian moved upwards and used his Q on Jayce through the minions, but in doing so, he slightly revealed himself behind the minions.

Flandre didn't let the opportunity pass, and Jayce immediately used QE to hit Lucian.

Furthermore, Jayce's Acceleration Gate (E) is placed at his feet.

As soon as the cannon shot was fired, Jess switched to hammer form.

The combined acceleration from the switch form and the acceleration gate allowed Jayce to instantly close the distance with Lucian, delivering a Sky Leap (Hammer Form Q) that slammed into Lucian's head.

This combo was executed flawlessly and with great precision and speed, showcasing Jess's impressive skill level.

Jayce in hammer form used QA followed by E to knock Lucian away, a perfect two-level poke. All four of Jayce's abilities in both forms hit Lucian, and with the damage from Thunderlord's Decree, he took away more than half of Lucian's health.

The health that Lucian had previously whittled down by using his Q through minions was all recovered in one wave.

"Holy Gun Bro's hand speed was incredibly fast, but..."

Guan Zeyuan shouted, "Zhou hit him on purpose!"

After finishing two sets of skills, Flandre was satisfied and prepared to retreat when he suddenly saw a hole appear in the ground behind him.

Suffer!
How did you get here? And so quickly?
The excavator used its E skill to pass through the thick wall and arrived in front of the blue team's top tower. Without any hesitation, it used W flash the moment it appeared, directly knocking up Jayce and then started beating him up.

Lucian, who had been knocked away, then threw a Fever Shot (W) to help finish off the damage.

However, the control time for the excavator W is only one second.

LGD's top and jungle players couldn't unleash enough damage on Jayce in a second; Jayce, low on health, flashed away and ran towards the tower.

However, almost at the same time Jayce flashed, Lucian also flashed and fired two shots from his passive.

Even with those two shots, the damage is still a bit lacking.

However, after Lucian landed an auto-attack on Jayce, he triggered the speed boost effect of his W skill, gaining 60 movement speed.

A second later, Lucian caught up with Jayce in front of the tower, raised his gun, and fired a bullet, taking away Jayce's last bit of health.

"Flash + A, not dead! With the speed boost, can I catch up? I caught up!"

"One shot and it's over! Zhou's Lucian has secured the first blood of the game!" Guan Zeyuan said rapidly.

First Blood!
The game's notification sound echoed throughout the venue.

There will be another chapter later, it might be quite late. Yanzu, who needs to get up early, should get some rest now. You can read it tomorrow.
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(End of this chapter)