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Chapter 536 The secret to winning the game lies outside the game!
The third draft phase begins.

Blue side FPX, red side TES.

"In the third game, FPX had the right to choose sides, and they chose the blue side!"

After a pause, Guan Zeyuan continued, "In that case, TES still has a counter-pick on the fifth floor of the red side in this game. It feels like Zhou Shen might perform well again!"

The person next to him nodded repeatedly, expressing their deep agreement.

The first round of ban/pick was very quick for both sides, as there weren't many fundamental changes compared to the first two games.

Most viewers are well aware that the key to this game's outcome lies in the top lane.

Soon, the second round of draft picks and bans began.

After both sides completed their fourth ban, FPX, on the blue side, banned Fiora on their fifth ban.

Upon seeing this, Guan Zeyuan immediately said, "Oh, Fiora is banned! It seems they're still very wary of Zhou Shen's Fiora!"

“Yes!” Remember nodded. “Zhou’s Fiora performance in the last game was outstanding, and FPX probably doesn’t have a good way to deal with it for the time being.”

"Since there's no good way to deal with it, let's not rack our brains for ideas. Banning it directly is the most appropriate thing to do. After all, this is a decisive game that will decide the outcome!"

Not just the two commentators, but the vast majority of viewers felt the same way.

But actually, FPX's decision to ban Fiora in this game wasn't because of the champion herself, nor was it purely because Zhou Dian played Fiora well.

The main reason is Fiora's W skill, which is very troublesome for FPX's plan in this game.

FPX plans to pick Mordekaiser for top laner GimGoon in this game, and then force a one-for-one trade with Zhou Dian.

However, if Zhou Dian can still play Fiora in this game, then there's no way to force a one-for-one trade.

the reason is simple.

Mordekaiser's ultimate has a very obvious skill animation, so it will definitely be blocked by Fiora's W skill.

Without their ultimate abilities, how can they trade one for one?

At this moment, on the LGD players' bench.

When Zhou Dian saw FPX playing Fiora, he immediately thought of Mordekaiser.

He knows GimGoon quite well; he knows GimGoon is a great Iron Man player.

In the current situation, FPX picking Mordekaiser for the top lane is undoubtedly the least costly way to counter him.

All you need to do is give up one Fiora ban slot.

After picking Mordekaiser, FPX doesn't need to make any adjustments to their playstyle; they can just stick to their original, most effective playstyle.

As for TES, since Zhou Dian had anticipated that their opponents might have such a move...

Then it's easy to deal with.

Just ban Iron Man and you're done.

It's just a matter of giving up a ban slot.

Actually, the ban slots in the second round aren't very valuable; they're mostly for banning individual players, so you can ban whoever you want.

Zhou Dian immediately said, "Ban Iron Man!"

Upon hearing this, TES support Ben was a little confused, but he immediately found Mordekaiser and banned him.

"Hey, why did they suddenly ban Mordekaiser!" Guan Zeyuan, the commentator, was also a little puzzled.

As he spoke, Guan Zeyuan didn't notice that Doinb and GimGoon from FPX both looked dejected.

"It feels like this ban was specifically designed to target GimGoon, as he plays Mordekaiser exceptionally well," Remember added.

But Guan Zeyuan's confusion at this point wasn't about the ban on Mordekaiser, but rather about TES banning a top lane champion.

Even during Zhou Dian's time with LGD, the team he played in rarely banned top lane champions.

This also highlights Zhou Dian's consistent absolute confidence; he is not afraid of the opponent's top laner at all, and he can play no matter what you choose.

Even without banning Mordekaiser, Zhou Dian has some ways to deal with him.

However, this method is not as reliable as simply banning them.

Zhou Dian really wanted to win this game; he needed to shut his opponent up.

In fact, Zhou Dian has never cared about being criticized or attacked by the audience.

The audience is our bread and butter, and they also have the right to comment.

But he really doesn't want to be mocked by people like Doinb; it really gives him goosebumps and makes him feel disgusted.

If you lose to someone like that once, who knows how long you'll have to keep nagging them.

Therefore, the best way is to defeat him and shut him up.

Ultimately, GimGoon picked Renekton, the lane bully, in this game.

Zhou Dian chose Camille, a champion strong in both team fights and split pushing.

Since Camille has no problem in team fights and split pushing, her problem lies in the laning phase.

The changes to Camille in recent years have all been nerfs, with no buffs.

This has resulted in Camille's current base stats being extremely low.

It is very dependent on equipment.

Of course, Camille's powerful mechanics also mean that once she develops well, she will still be a hero who can play a decisive role in the battle.

In contrast, even with an equipment advantage, the late-game crocodile is mostly no different from a super minion.

However, the most difficult part of playing Camille is how to develop well.

Camille's laning ability is currently very average, even weak.

Furthermore, it lacks any wave-pushing or wave-clearing capabilities.

This leads to a problem: Camille, despite having her E skill, is difficult to catch.

But it's very easy to cross!
Especially if the enemy top laner is playing a champion with strong laning ability and fast wave clear.

It's quite common for Camille to be tower-dived three times before reaching level six.

Whether you're a jungler or a mid-laner, just keep coming and dodging.

Unfortunately, the Camille in this week's Grand Slam match is facing a Renekton, a champion that perfectly fits the characteristics of strong early-game laning ability and fast wave clear.

Even after level six, it also has the characteristic of strong tower resistance.

These characteristics all allow you to target Camille so effectively that she's either killed or rendered useless in the early stages of the game.

However, the prerequisite is that you can target it.

Why did Zhou Dian dare to pick Camille after GimGoon had already picked Renekton?

It's not that he looks down on GimGoon.

It's because the opposing team is called FPX.

Their tactical core, the main commander, has the ID Doinb.

Zhou Dian knows Doinb too well.

In this situation, which can be described as a close encounter, and without any special contingency plan made before the match.

Doinb has path dependencies.

He would absolutely choose the playstyle that he is currently most proficient in and that the team is most skilled at. He wouldn't dare to risk completely overturning what he and the team are best at at this time and try to play a different style that he is not so familiar with.

Of course, this is all human nature and there's nothing wrong with it.

These types of players are naturally typical version-based players.

In the right version, they can be very strong.

In the wrong version, they'll be terrible.

The truly great players, those who achieve success in various vastly different versions, are the very few who dare to constantly push beyond their comfort zones.

Ultimately, talent determines your minimum potential.

The upper limit is actually determined by mindset and luck.

But people with a strong mindset often have good luck.

In esports, the secret to winning lies outside the game!

Returning to this game, based on Zhou Dian's understanding of Doinb, he felt that Doinb would fall into path dependency.

If that happens, then GimGoon's crocodile will basically be playing by himself in the top lane.

I won't be targeted in the early game with Camille in this match.

Without much specific targeting, even against a Renekton who is very difficult to lane against in a 1v1 situation, Zhou Dian is confident in handling the laning phase and getting ahead.

that's the truth.

The opposing team picked Renekton as their top laner, seemingly just to avoid falling behind in a one-on-one lane matchup.

Nothing extra was added to this crocodile.

When Zhou Dian's Camille reached level six without being tower-dived even once, Zhou Dian felt that the game was about to be won.

Moreover, Camille not only survives safely to level 6, but she even gets one more last hit than Renekton.

All I can say is that in a pure 1v1 fight, there is truly no one in the world who can overpower Zhou Dian.

When GimGoon pressed the Tab key and saw that his Renekton hadn't been able to out-farm Camille at all, and even had fewer CS than Camille, he realized that...

He felt that his side was in great danger in this game.

Actually, Camille hasn't been outmatched so far, except for FPX who don't have this match plan.

Another point is that his crocodile never gained any advantage over Camille in the blood exchange, and he was never able to reduce Camille's health to a dangerous level.

A pre-match tower dive plan usually needs to be coordinated with the minion wave and the jungler's jungle route.

It allows you to dive and kill the enemy laner when they are at full health or have most of their health under their tower.

But even without these plans...

Whenever Camille is seen with low health under the tower, any jungler nearby will definitely be happy to gank her.

However, this scene has never been seen on the road.

In addition, FPX did not have any pre-match plans targeting Camille.

This has led to the current situation where Renekton and Camille are "peacefully farming" in the top lane.

After sensing that the situation was a bit off, GimGoon did consider calling his mid and jungle to come up and force Camille to make a run, thus slowing down Camille's development.

However, he had long been used to playing games alone in FPX and had no tactical role.

And this method has indeed yielded some results, allowing me to win games.

This led GimGoon, who has a strong sense of teamwork, to ultimately choose not to speak.

He didn't want to interfere with his teammates' choices.

Let's just play like this!
Actually, at two key junctures in the laning phase, Zhou Dian had Xx and Knight move closer to the top lane.

I'm still a little scared.

But in the end, there was no danger.

FPX said they don't care about GimGoon in the top lane, and they really don't care at all!
Zhou Dian's Camille thus successfully passed the danger period and safely developed to the point where he could build Trinity Force.

Furthermore, the timing of producing the three phases is not slow at all.

A well-developed Camille in Zhou Dian's hands will almost always win the game.

Even with the experience from the previous game, Doinb successfully exploited TES's poor 4-1 split push strategy, making Camille's split push very awkward.

However, when Zhou Dian decisively abandoned split pushing and directly joined his teammates to focus on team fights.

The situation is uncontrollably tilting in TES's favor.

Unlike Fiora, Fiora is an extreme split-push champion.

The lack of initiation ability means that Fiora's performance in team fights actually depends more on the performance of her teammates.

In contrast, Camille not only has an initiation ability, but is also one of the most unstoppable initiation abilities in League of Legends.

Therefore, Camille is able to lead team fights on her own.

FPX's lineup in this game wasn't particularly effective against Camille's teamfight performance.

This means that in every team fight, Zhou Dian's Camille can use her ultimate, E skill, or Flash to completely dodge FPX's key crowd control skills and accurately lock FPX's AD in place.

Furthermore, Zhou Dian always seizes the moment to initiate team fights with remarkable precision.

There won't be a situation where he goes too deep into enemy territory alone, while his teammates can't keep up, resulting in him being eliminated.

Moreover, there's a jungler like Xx who's a "reckless" player who never knows what it means to be cowardly.

When Zhou Dian said he wanted to go, he didn't even use his brain to think for himself.

His muscles acted before his brain, and he immediately charged forward with Zhou Dian.

This makes it even more important for TES to maintain cohesion in team fights.

After Lwx, the most fed player nurtured by FPX, was killed twice by Zhou Dian's Camille, TES has established a huge advantage.

And they successfully secured the Baron.

With such a significant advantage, Camille becomes virtually unstoppable.

When TES pushed onto the high ground with the Baron buff, Camille used E-Flash-E followed by her ultimate, crossing half of the high ground from the edge of the jungle where there was no vision. Her Hextech ultimatum locked Lwx inside.

His teammates swarmed him and focused their fire to kill him.

With AD gone, FPX naturally collapsed.

TES wiped out FPX's team under their inhibitor turret.

Then, they wiped out the opponent's base in one fell swoop.

On the large screen at the scene, when the blue team's base crystal exploded.

Guan Zeyuan said loudly, "Then let's congratulate TES for winning the next two games after losing the first one, completing a reverse sweep and defeating FPX team 2-1!"

"In that case, Zhou Shen's second match with TES will also end in victory!" Remember added, "TES has won both of Zhou Shen's two regular season BO3 matches so far!"

"and."

"TES' victory against FPX today also ended FPX's nine-game winning streak in the Summer Split regular season!"

"This breaks FPX's undefeated streak in this year's Summer Split!"

(End of this chapter)