League: Educating LPL is my duty.

[C, you didn't manage to solo kill Smeb, and you even let him get first blood.]

[Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. Losing two waves of minions in the early game is something that can't be compensated for by a single kill.]

Indeed, early-game experience is extremely important for top laners.

[The top lane is pushing back again; I can already imagine what's going to happen next.]

Some people in the comments were right; Li Chen is indeed going to show Smeb his true colors next.

The two are currently in roughly the same economic condition, and the captain has acquired a red crystal and a longsword, while the captain has acquired red and blue crystals. The captain is stronger in combat and his weapon is even slightly better.

But the real difference between the two top laners at this point is that one is level four and the other is level three, a whole level difference, and the minion wave is still the Captain's push lane.

Q!

Q!

Q!

Li Chen knew exactly how to play in this situation: slowly clear the minion wave, keep the red side's minions three to four more than his own, and basically only finish off the last one.

At the same time, place buckets at your feet and unleash a barrage of QQQ attacks to deplete the weapon.

Smeb's head was throbbing from the gunshot wound, but he had no way to fight back.

He tried to jump up with E, but Li Chen immediately used A to bomb him with a barrel. He was stunned, but Li Chen used W to instantly break free and also managed to hit him with a fire blade.

So now he can't catch up, and he can't outlast him, so he can only grit his teeth and push the line while enduring the gunfire.

However, Li Chen would not let him push the minion wave under the tower. The two fought twice in front of the tower, but in the end, due to the poor condition of the weapon, he could only choose to return to the city to replenish his supplies at a loss, and watched helplessly as the minion wave stopped in front of the blue team's tower.

The red team's jungler, Gragas, knew that Smeb was having a hard time, and at one point wanted to come over to the top lane to help clear the minion wave.

However, Li Chen's jungler, Lee Sin, didn't give them a chance. He ran into Gragas in the jungle, and both sides were severely punished. In the end, they made peace and went back to their respective jungle camps.

Li Chen controlled the minion wave in front of the tower, farmed enough gold for a Sheen before returning to base, and then used Teleport to return to lane.

With the captain now equipped with the Radiant Blade, the damage output has undergone a qualitative change, and one shot from him left Smeb shivering.

Smeb couldn't push the minion wave forward, but he couldn't afford to miss out on minions and experience, so he had to keep trading his health for gold.

So, after only a minute and a half online, the weapon had to go back to base to resupply because the captain was already level six, and if the damage continued, he might die.

"You want to go home, but did you ask me?"

Li Chen watched the weapon retreat, pretending to move forward to finish off the enemy, but the next second he placed a ward in the bush in the top lane.

The figure of a level 5 weapon with half health appeared. The captain raised his hand and used Q. The bullet landed on the weapon, and a value of -213 appeared.

"Damn it!"

Smeb's head was throbbing from the torment, but he was no longer in a position to fight the captain, so he could only continue to retreat, while Li Chen controlled the captain to keep chasing.

Seeing that the captain was still chasing him, the weapon chose to retreat all the way back to the tower before pressing the recall button.

Seeing that his powder kegs weren't going to blow up the weapons, Li Chen turned around and went back to farm minions, muttering to himself, "5, 4, 3, 2... Time for a super attack!"

The captain raised his hand, and the next moment, a large wave of cannonballs rained down at the location where the weapon was supposed to return to base, interrupting the weapon's return-to-base tutorial.

This scene was witnessed by the audience, who then began flooding the screen with comments.

[Is that all the ultimate skill was used? Just to interrupt the weapon's recall?]

[Holy crap, I never expected this route! C's move is way too ruthless.]

[If I were the weapon, I wouldn't want to play anymore. Being dragged out like this by the carry, how many minions are they going to expose?]

[I don't know why, but I always feel that C's understanding of laning is completely different from other players.]

After Li Chen cleared the minion wave and farmed a few minions, he decisively recalled to base. Only then did he begin to teach the chat: "Everyone, remember that when laning against opponents who are two ranks below us, we can try to get a solo kill."

However, if our opponent is weaker than us, but not by much, then we shouldn't blindly pursue solo kills. Instead, we should take lane control, manage the minion wave, and gradually expand our advantage through the minion wave. This is the right approach.

Smeb is a good opponent; his laning skills are among the top tier below streamers, so he won't give us many solo kill opportunities. But that's okay; it's six and a half minutes now, and the gap between us and him is already apparent.

After Li Chen finished speaking, he pressed the scoreboard for the audience.

此时对面武器的战绩是1-1-0，而李辰船长的战绩是0-1-1，从战绩上看武器打的还不错。

However, looking at the last hits, everyone noticed that the weapon's last hits were only a pitiful 27, while the captain's last hits reached 52.

Including the minions he had accumulated online, Li Chen was now twice as much in CS as Smeb.

Moreover, Li Chen had at least suppressed the experience of his weapon by a full level, which, in economic terms, was worth at least six hundred coins.

In other words, Li Chen had already gained a lead of over 1,000 gold over Smeb without securing any solo kills, and the game had only been going on for less than seven minutes.

Wow, how did you even do that?

[I didn't seem to do much with C, so how did Smeb already crash?]

[This is how masters spar; you silver and gold level players can't understand it.]

[Laughs, even I, a master in the first server, didn't understand it!]

At this time, there were many professional players watching Li Chen's live stream. They naturally understood how the weapon collapsed. It was nothing more than controlling the lane and interfering with the weapon's farming of minions and experience.

But the more I understand, the more alarmed I become.

Because Li Chen's opponent wasn't some nobody, it was the officially certified S6 World's Number One Top laner, Smeb. Controlling the opponent's lane is something anyone could do.

This is also the key to Li Chen's confidence in others learning his lane management. The top lane is too far from teammates, isolated overseas, and most of the time it is a 1v1 struggle, where skill is the foundation of everything.

If your skills are inferior to your opponent's, you'll get easily attacked by their basic attacks as soon as you log in. At that point, learning anything won't help.

The captain and weapons reappeared, but the scene was almost identical to before.

As long as Li Chen doesn't want to push the lane, the minion wave will always be stuck in front of the tower. Smeb's weapon doesn't have the ability to fight a wave and push the minion wave forward, and can only be slowly bled out by Li Chen.

In a professional match, teammates might try to rescue Smeb by switching lanes or using a three-man or four-man gank, but it's not easy to do that in ranked games.

Because the captain is in such good condition, he's not easy to catch. If there's a mistake in coordination, the whole operation can collapse in an instant.

Eleven minutes later, Li Chen went back to base to replenish his equipment and then teleported back online. At that moment, the top lane was filled with a level 10 Captain wielding Trinity Force and a Cloak of Critical Strike, facing off against a level 8 Jax with Ninja Tabi, Ruby Crystal, and two Long Swords.