LPL didn't want me? I joined SKT instead!

"Coach Kouma, get me that." Xiao Yan turned to look at the coach, his eyes calm as still water, yet unfathomable.

Kouma was slightly taken aback, and looked in the direction Xiao Yan was pointing, his eyebrows twitching involuntarily.

That champion does fit the "Ardent Censer meta" support-protect-lane composition, but it demands extremely high individual skill from the ADC player, and in professional matches, the margin for error is extremely low. It's a true double-edged sword; it either kills the opponent or kills yourself.

"it is good"

Kouma nodded without hesitation. This was because Xiao Yan had chosen this hero, and Xiao Yan had proven himself; he played this hero very well.

"Lock!"

On the fifth floor, the red team SKT, the last icon lit up, instantly locked on!

Welcome to the Dray League!

Draven, the Glorious Executioner!

When the arrogant image of a man with a small mustache and wielding two axes appeared on the big screen, the Wuhan Sports Center fell into a deathly silence for three seconds.

Immediately following was an uproar!

"Draven?! My God! Xiao Yan locked in Draven!" The botched lock-in player clutched his head, his eyes practically bulging out of their sockets. "What does this mean? Is he teaching Uzi how to play? You pick Vayne, and I'll pick the most aggressive Draven to hack you down?!"

Miller gasped, "That's insane! Absolutely insane! That's Uzi's Vayne! Nobody in the LPL dares to target Uzi's bot lane like this! Xiao Yan's going to go toe-to-toe with Uzi! This bot lane... is going to be bloody!"

The live stream chat exploded instantly, densely covering the screen:

[Holy crap! Draven! This Xiao Yan is really fearless!]

This is disrespectful to God! I'm waiting for Brother Bath to shoot his head rotten!

[Hilarious! Draven is a sitting duck in team fights; Uzi can take him down with three arrows in the late game!]

Although he's arrogant, that Draven pick... was fucking bold!

However, Xiao Yan's Draven gameplay is quite sophisticated. Is it possible that...?

[Impossible, Uzi is the world's best AD carry!]

The lineups for both sides have been finalized:

Blue side RNG: Top lane Maokai (Letme), Jungle Jarvan IV (Mlxg), Mid lane Syndra (Xiaohu), ADC Vayne (Uzi), Support Janna (Ming).

Red team SKT: Top laner Gnar (Huni), Jungler Gragas (Peanut), Mid laner Ryze (Faker), ADC Draven (Xiao Yan), Support Lulu (Wolf).

The game loading screen.

Uzi's eyes practically blazed with fury as he looked at the opposing Draven's "Golden Streamer" skin with sunglasses.

"Draven, huh... Fine, you like to show off." Uzi sneered, his knuckles cracking. "Let's see how many axes you can catch! Ming, let's hold on this game, wait until I reach level six, or until I get the Incense Burner, then we'll just kill him!"

"Don't worry, Dog Bro, I'll provide the shield quickly." Although Ming said this, he felt a little uneasy.

"All troops, attack!"

With the system's rousing female voice, ten heroes descended upon Summoner's Rift.

Both sides exercised restraint during the level 1 team fight, and no kills were recorded.

The minion wave has reached the lane.

The real contest has begun.

Uzi, controlling Vayne, habitually wanted to move forward and last-hit minions. In the LPL, even when he plays a weak champion, his personal intimidation often makes the opposing team give him a wide berth.

But this time, he was facing Xiao Yan.

Just as Uzi raised his hand to finish off Vayne, a spinning axe, accompanied by a whistling sound, slammed into Vayne's forehead!

"collapse!"

With a crisp sound, Vayne's health bar visibly dropped by one bar.

"Damn it! What kind of damage is this?" Uzi frowned.

He tried to retaliate with an auto-attack, but found that Draven, the moment he threw his axe, had already used the speed boost from his W skill [Blood Rush] to take a small step and pull out of Vayne's attack range.

Uzi couldn't land his arrow, so he could only awkwardly retreat.

But it's not over yet.

Xiao Yan caught the axe, refreshed his W skill, accelerated forward again, and swung the axe at Vayne who was trying to retreat!

"collapse!"

Two axe blows and Vayne lost a third of her health.

"This is...unpleasant." Miller, watching this scene from the commentary booth, said in a heavy tone, "They were outmaneuvered at level one. Xiao Yan's distance control is too precise. He stayed within Vayne's 550-yard range, auto-attacking and then running away, giving Uzi no chance to trade blows."

"It's alright, it's alright. Vayne is always difficult to play against Draven in the early game. As for withstanding pressure, Uzi is very good at it," Wawa explained forcefully.

However, the next three minutes left all RNG fans breathless.

If Uzi's dominance used to be like a raging storm, then Xiao Yan's dominance now is like a precise surgical scalpel.

Instead of mindlessly pushing the lane, he perfectly controlled the minion wave in the middle of the river.

If Uzi dares to go up and last-hit that ranged minion, Xiao Yan's axe will definitely land on his face immediately.

The most terrifying thing is that Xiao Yan's Draven... doesn't drop his axe.

Even amidst extremely frequent kiting and pressure, the two axes seemed to have eyes, obediently falling back into his hands. With both axes in hand and his W ability refreshed infinitely, Draven was like a mad dog, relentlessly biting Vayne's throat.

This isn't an S7 tournament! This is just a massacre by a player with the "Tongtian Dai" (a nickname for a player who is skilled at playing against lower-ranked opponents) in a low-skill game!

"Sang-hyeok, watch the middle lane."

While delivering the finishing blow, Xiao Yan spoke calmly in the voice chat.

Faker understood perfectly.

At this moment, in the mid lane, Xiaohu's Syndra was sweating profusely.

He originally thought that by picking Syndra, a lane bully, he could at least go toe-to-toe with Faker. But he was wrong, terribly wrong.

Faker's Ryze moves like a ghost.

Faker's Ryze moves like a ghost.

Xiaohu's Q skill, Dark Orb, misses eight out of ten times. Meanwhile, Faker's Ryze uses his E skill, Spell Flux, to spread the minion wave and constantly whittle down Syndra's health.

"This Ryze... why does he seem to have longer arms than me?" Xiao Hu gritted his teeth, feeling immense pressure.

Just then, Faker seized on Xiaohu's positioning mistake and immediately used Flash + W [Rune Imprisonment] to freeze him!

A smooth EWQ combo instantly unleashed the effects of Thunderlord's Decree and Phase Rush.

Xiaohu was badly damaged and had to use Flash to escape back to the tower, not even daring to farm the minions.

"Mid lane is destroyed! Xiaohu was forced back to base, he's going to lose a huge wave of minions!" Miller shouted anxiously. "Faker is still the Demon King! His Ryze proficiency is just too high!"

The outlook for the journey is not optimistic either.

Letme's Maokai, though tough and resilient, was a sitting duck against Huni's Gnar. Huni, with his long range, relentlessly attacked Maokai, causing him to suffer a massive loss in last hits, falling behind by more than ten times.

All three routes are under pressure!

RNG fans were extremely anxious, but they still had one last hope – Uzi.

"It's okay, once the puppy gets farmed up, we can win in one team fight later!"

"Believe in Uzi! He's the world's best ADC!"

"Draven is a champion with a low margin for error; one death and he's useless!"