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

"Zhou Hanyang?"

Just as Zhou Hanyang was pondering, Nofe's shout rang out.

"Hmm?" Zhou Hanyang raised his head.

"Tell me your understanding of this version," Nofe said to Zhou Hanyang.

“My understanding of the version is somewhat unique,” ​​Zhou Hanyang said with a smile.

"Oh?" Nofe immediately showed curiosity: "Tell me about it?"

"That's how it is." Zhou Hanyang held up one finger: "First of all, the most basic understanding of the version, as everyone just mentioned. Due to the buffs to Sunfire Cape and Colossus's Courage talents, coupled with the nerfs to Tempo Jungle, the front line has more room to survive."

Top lane should prioritize champions like Maokai, Cho'Gath, and Shen... these top laners. Since there are three frontliners in the top, mid, and bot lanes, the mid and bot lane carries need to be strong carries, such as Twitch, Tristana, Kog'Maw... and Corki in the mid lane.

Zhou Hanyang paused, glancing around before continuing, "Based on this logic, the second version of the game emerged. The mid and bot lane carries would build early-game heroes, gain an advantage in the laning phase, and snowball to end the game early."

"Next, let's consider the third version. Since the mid and bot lanes are being suppressed, could we use mid lane champions like Invoker, Galio, or Malzahar to improve our laning strength?"

But at this point, a problem arises: there's a lack of a carry, so the damage output isn't enough. Zhou Hanyang held up three fingers: "Usually, when there's a lack of a carry, the top laner has to compensate for the damage output."

Whether it's Zac, Sejuani, or Gragas and Jarvan IV... they're not that easy to gank in the early game without their ultimates. Gragas, in particular, is very reliant on Flash for ganks.

Top lane carries struggle to establish an early advantage against tanks, so we can focus on providing damage in the jungle. However, tempo-based junglers are too weak, and jungle carries are practically unplayable. So, could we choose a special jungler? Like Ezreal? Or... Kindred?

When they heard that EZ and Kindred were playing jungle, everyone on EDG widened their eyes.

Mingkai raised an eyebrow, preparing to speak.

Zhou Hanyang naturally understood what they wanted to say, and he waved his hand and said, "Let me finish speaking first."

This is the iterative process of how all the teams that participated in the World Championship in the past understood the version.

In the previous WE tournament, EZ was used as a jungler several times.

"Because of the emergence of EZ and Kindred, Kha'Zix has gained room to appear again." Zhou Hanyang took a sip of cola and continued, "Kha'Zix's pressure... has led to the jungle returning to the domain of tanky junglers."

Upon hearing Zhou Hanyang's words, everyone fell into deep thought.

Zhou Hanyang's words were reasonable and well-founded, convincing everyone.

This analysis is clearly a side quest for understanding the version.

"So we're back to the original question..." Zhou Hanyang pressed his third finger back down, then stretched it out again and continued, "Should we build a heavy damage dealer in the top lane?"

The answer is definitely yes. In the mid lane, situations like Lucian taking down Kassadin might occur, but this is unlikely to happen in the top lane. This is the third version's interpretation.

"But soon everyone discovered that if a top lane heavy armor warrior doesn't have a significant advantage, it's actually very difficult for them to win the game."

Because breaking through in the top lane is still more difficult than in the mid lane, and as the skill levels of the top laners on both teams become increasingly similar, it becomes even more difficult for either side to gain an advantage, and it's also harder for the top laner to influence other lanes.

Zhou Hanyang took a deep breath as he said this: "At this moment... a new version of understanding emerged!!! I call it the Incense Burner Version."

"The Incense Burner version?" Mingkai's eyes widened first: "Marksman top laner?"

"No! It's the Ardent Censer meta for the bot lane." Zhou Hanyang continued, "The jungler will frantically help the bot lane establish an advantage in the early game, allowing the AD and support to gain an economic advantage."

Supports should build Ardent Censer as their first item, while junglers should build the green jungle item. Lulu, Rakan, Janna... with Redemption runes, one heal is enough to reduce a tank's health by half!

In this version, top laners and junglers are responsible for initiating team fights and acting as the frontline, while the AD carry is responsible for dealing damage. In the late game, the AD carry dominates the entire Rift, and their performance determines the outcome of the game.

"Then this isn't RNG's version?" Nofe frowned slightly.

"It's both RNG's version and not RNG's version." Zhou Hanyang shook his head slightly and gave a thumbs up before loudly proclaiming, "As long as the bottom lane doesn't clash, it's as if they won't make mistakes."

Because of the high margin for error provided by the Ardent Censer, ADCs with the Ardent Censer face virtually no pressure in lane and are unlikely to die instantly in team fights.

At this point, it's all about both sides' team fight capabilities! Team fights test both initiation and the carry's ability to clean up. But what if... we don't engage in team fights?

At this point, Zhou Hanyang finally revealed his true intentions, showing a smug smile.

"You damn A dog..." Mingkai suddenly stood up, staring blankly at Zhou Hanyang and said, "You've been talking nonsense for so long, isn't this just split pushing? Isn't this the strategy we're using right now?"

"I called you a pig, but I didn't actually tell you to be a pig," Zhou Hanyang said, rubbing his forehead in exasperation.

"You're the pig!" Mingkai retorted, quite dissatisfied.

"Use your pig brain to think about this properly... Let's assume, let's assume we can defeat them with a higher level of understanding of their version of the game," Zhou Hanyang said with a hint of helplessness.

"So, will they just follow our version understanding? And then we keep iterating the version. In the end, they follow us all the way, only to find that... we've gone back to the version we're best at."

What do we need to do? We just need to keep pulling them along, making them constantly expend their energy on understanding these inevitably iterating versions. When it comes to the split-pushing meta, we've been playing it for a whole year; we know it better than any other team.

Upon hearing Zhou Hanyang's words, Mingkai immediately snapped out of his daze.

He had initially thought Zhou Hanyang was just trying to take the opportunity to criticize him again, but he didn't expect Zhou Hanyang to be seriously discussing his understanding of the version.

"But it's just a playoff game, is it really necessary to make it so complicated?" Mingkai couldn't help but frown.

“Patch 7.17 has already been updated. Go check out the changes yourself. Riot is still following this line of thinking. As long as Riot doesn’t make any major changes in patch 7.18, then my understanding of the patch is the same as my understanding of the World Championship patch, assuming there aren’t many differences between patch 7.18 and 7.17…” Zhou Hanyang glanced at Mingkai and said with considerable disdain.

"Wait, wait, the playoffs haven't even started yet! And you're already studying the playoffs?" Mingkai was completely dumbfounded.

"Isn't this what I learned from you?" Zhou Hanyang chuckled and teased.