Mingkai, if you're this cowardly, you should just go home and raise pigs.

After securing their second dragon, EDG began establishing vision around Baron Nashor.

The first wave was pushing the lane, the second wave was securing vision, and the third wave was starting to force a team fight around Baron Nashor.

This was a classic EDG 20-minute Baron Nashor forced team fight.

Skateboard Shoes and Rumble already had two pieces of equipment at this point, while NB only had three core items and one piece of equipment.

NB knew they were no match for EDG in team fights, but they had no choice but to engage in this team fight.

The planes came hurtling in with explosives, but EDG still crushed them with an overwhelming difference in combat power.

NB completely destroyed them in one team fight!

EDG players won team fights easily even while tanking the enemy's W skill.

At this point in the game, it's basically just wasted time.

The lineup already has a 5000-gold lead in combat power, and the economy is also 5000 ahead!

With a combat power lead of nearly 10,000 in just 20 minutes, even SKT couldn't win this team fight against NB.

After winning the team fight, EDG secured Baron Nashor and smoothly began their push.

At 28 minutes into the game, EDG successfully destroyed NB's base crystal.

In the first game, NB picked a late-game composition and seemed completely stunned. After returning to the meeting room, everyone fell into a state of depression.

Especially top laner V, who was completely dumbfounded.

Because he was frustrated in the first game, he was treated like a bot in the second game.

EDG easily secured victory in this best-of-three series.

After winning the match, Iboy and Meiko went on stage together for an interview, and the EDG team then returned to the club together.

That evening, the hashtag Iboy trended on social media.

[Rookie Iboy!]

With their three core players still alive, EDG can still fight!

[Is LPL blessed by the heavens? Will EDG truly live up to its reputation as the "national esports team"?]

[There's an attack going on – bot lane Iboy?]

……

Iboy was clearly happy and excited to get a chance to play.

Because of his outstanding performance in this Bo3, he became even more aggressive in scrims.

Both Mingkai and Meiko were prepared to bring up Iboy's aggressive play during the post-match review.

However, as soon as Mingkai and Meiko started to talk about this, Zhou Hanyang interrupted them.

On the evening of July 15th, after the training match ended at midnight.

Mingkai and Meiko specifically sought out Zhou Hanyang.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Mingkai and Meiko looking preoccupied, Zhou Hanyang knew why they had come, but asked with a puzzled expression.

“Xiao Zhao has no discipline at all,” Meiko said bluntly.

“Why don’t you go talk to Coach Nofe? Coming to me won’t do any good!” Zhou Hanyang pretended not to understand: “It makes it seem like the three of us are gossiping about the newcomer and ostracizing him.”

“…You son of a bitch.” Ming Kai saw Zhou Hanyang pretending to be confused and immediately shouted through gritted teeth, “Pretending to be confused, huh? We were just about to say something, but you interrupted us.”

"Hahaha..." Zhou Hanyang laughed immediately after Ming Kai exposed him: "Actually, I personally think that his way of fighting has both advantages and disadvantages."

Currently, the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages. Now is the time for him to expose his problems, and we don't need to suppress him too much.

Only by letting him fully expose the problem can we then raise targeted issues later.

"Intentionally letting him expose his problems?" Mingkai was slightly taken aback: "Is that really a good idea?"

“Tianye, from now on, you’ll be the one working the hardest in the entire EDG team.” Zhou Hanyang didn’t answer Mingkai’s question, but instead said to Meiko, “You have to work together with the AD until you’re completely in sync.”

"Simultaneously training two AD carries?" Meiko frowned immediately.

“That’s right!” Zhou Hanyang nodded deeply, sat down on the steps outside the club, and gestured for Mingkai and Meiko to sit down as well. He said with a somewhat heavy look in his eyes, “Have you thought about this question?”

"What?" Mingkai was slightly taken aback.

"Win the championship!" Zhou Hanyang's lips curled up slightly: "Take the S-series championship."

Meiko and Mingkai both fell into deep thought.

"Actually, the strong teams have never been LCK, but SKT and Faker!" Zhou Hanyang chuckled softly. "The MSI schedule is relatively short, and the data sample size is also relatively small. In addition, we prepared a lot of things, so we beat SKT, but what about the World Championship?"

“…” Mingkai opened his mouth, but didn’t know what to say.

Meiko listened quietly.

"Therefore, we must prepare multiple tactics." Zhou Hanyang raised his head slightly, gazing at the bright moon hanging high in the night sky.

"So we need to break through from the bottom lane?" Mingkai raised an eyebrow slightly.

"Yes and no!" Zhou Hanyang took a deep breath: "What we need is not for Iboy to break through from the bottom lane, but to use Iboy to practice tactics that use the bottom lane as a breakthrough point."

"What do you mean?" Meiko was a little confused.

"We need to practice our bottom lane breakthroughs until we're completely proficient," Zhou Hanyang said with a smile. "That way, all the teams will study how to defend against our bottom half attack."

Once they get used to how to attack from the bottom half, we'll switch from offense to defense in the bottom half, and then break through from the top half!

"Think about it yourselves, in a crucial best-of-five series at Worlds, we suddenly put Zet in! The opponent will definitely target the top lane, and then we'll focus our attacks on the bottom lane around him. What will happen then?"

“The opponent must be completely dumbfounded!” Mingkai blurted out.

“So, Meiko will need to work a bit harder.” Zhou Hanyang looked intently at Meiko: “Can you manage?”

The World Championship version of S7 was essentially a bot lane version.

However, the Ardent Censer raises the floor of ADCs too much, making it impossible to determine a winner in the bottom lane, so the winner can only be determined in the top lane.

This is why the bot lane meta was forcibly distorted into a top lane meta.

However, there is a prerequisite for the top lane meta to become the top lane meta: the bottom lane must be in a stalemate before it can become the top lane meta.

But once the bottom lane can determine a winner, then the top lane is essentially irrelevant.

Throughout the entire S7 World Championship, only the bot lane could determine the winner.

Only Uzi!

In the group stage, Uzi secured a decisive victory by winning in the bottom lane, successfully achieving a double kill against Samsung.

Ruler's defensive attributes are far inferior to Bang's, and he simply cannot withstand Uzi's attacks.

Including the semifinal match between RNG and SKT, where the outcome was decided in the bot lane, RNG won.

In games where the bottom lane is evenly matched, RNG loses.

Apart from Uzi, other teams couldn't determine a winner in the bot lane when they picked soft supports.

The reason SKT was almost sent home by the Rabbit team in the quarterfinals was that the Rabbit team took a different approach, using a hard support to decide the outcome in the bottom lane, which led to a full five games against SKT and almost sent them home.

There's no doubt that Iboy's potential is higher than Zet's.

Even at the World Championship, the bot lane was still evenly matched.

When everyone's attention is focused on the top lane, EDG can go against the grain by bringing Zet on, which should allow them to steal at least one point in the best-of-five series.

This point was the decisive blow that Zhou Hanyang had prepared for SKT.

As for SSG?

Although they were the S7 World Championship winners, Zhou Hanyang wasn't that afraid of them.

[Requesting some free small gifts...]