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Chapter 545 Top laners can't stand being pulled around!

The cheers from the crowd subsided, and the screen on the big screen returned to the normal OB interface.

After both players bought their starting items, they quickly controlled their respective heroes and rushed out of the fountain.

If you're slow to leave home, you'll lose half your investment.

In professional matches, you won't see anyone leaving the fountain a step slower than others; all five players in the fountain basically rush out at the same time.

After the five TES players rushed into the fountain, they dispersed.

However, the destinations are clearly all rivers.

It's quite obvious that TES opted for a long, straight defensive formation at the start of this game.

On RNG's side, the five players were also lined up along the river.

Both sides chose the safest positions at the start.

Since it was the first game of a best-of-five series, everyone was quite cautious.

After landing on the riverbank, Xx habitually pressed the Tab key.

After all, at the start of the game, everyone is wearing their starting gear, so there's nothing to see.

He pressed the Tab key purely out of subconscious habit.

After pressing the Tab key and bringing up the equipment panel, Xx subconsciously glanced at the upper half of the equipment panel.

I don't know if I don't see it, I'm startled when I see it.

Xx immediately said in the team voice chat: "Holy crap, Zhou, you started with a longsword and a green potion!"

Upon hearing this, the three TES players – mid, bot, and support – quickly pressed the tab key to check their equipment panel.

As expected, Zhou Dian's starting items for Irelia in this game were Longsword and Refillable Potion.

Physical heroes have a longsword reusable potion, and mage heroes have a killing ring reusable potion.

This is definitely the most pretentious and disdainful starting item build in League of Legends.

Moreover, the Killing Ring also has the attribute of increasing the healing amount of potions.

There's an inherent logic to this set of equipment: the reusable murder-repelling potion.

For some AP champions, starting with a Killing Ring or Refillable Potion is actually a mainstream starting item.

For example, alchemy.

However, starting with a longsword and reusable potions is a bad idea, except that it saves money and makes it much faster to get items.

The only advantage of this starting build is that it saves money and allows you to quickly acquire equipment. However, you have to bear the other side effects of this starting build to win the lane against your opponent.

If you can win the lane like this, wouldn't starting with Doran's Blade items make it even easier to win the lane?

Even a Longsword with three red gems is better than this; at least it has more supplies and stronger endurance.

To put it bluntly, going out with a longsword and refillable potions just means you think your opponent is weak and want to speed up the process of crushing them!
When Knight saw the starting items for the Irelia, he immediately thought, "My ability to stomp noobs still can't compare to Zhou's! Why do so many people say I'm too ruthless when stomping noobs, but nobody says that about Zhou!"

It can only be said that each contestant carries some degree of stereotype.

But these long-standing stereotypes are not unfounded.

While it may not be entirely logical or well-founded, it does illustrate some points.

Upon hearing Xx's words, Zhou Dian replied, "Is there anything wrong with my outfit for going out?"

"Can this really fight a crocodile? It doesn't seem as useful as a Doran's Blade!" Knight also commented.

The left hand thought that since this game's Irelia was playing against Renekton, even if it was a stomp on a noob, you shouldn't start with a Long Sword!
Besides, Langx's performance for RNG this year wasn't bad at all!

"Trust me, I can fight!" Zhou Dian said calmly, ending the topic.

At this moment, in the commentary booth.

The two commentators finally noticed Irelia's starting items.

"Here it comes, here it comes, Zhou's outing outfit!" Miller said with a smile.

"Zhou Shen really likes to build like this!" Wawa added. "All you top laners can learn from Zhou Shen's starting items. Let me tell you, this way you can get your first big item incredibly fast!"

"They died pretty quickly, didn't they!" Miller chuckled.

After a pause, Miller continued, "Don't copy Zhou Shen's starting build. If you're not at Zhou Shen's level, stick to building Doran's Blade! Or, for an even safer option, start with Corrupting Potion!"

"But to be fair, this Irelia is playing against Renekton! Even if it's Zhou Shen playing Irelia, I still have to question the starting items. It's just making things harder for them!" Wawa said half-jokingly.

After the two commentators chatted for a few minutes...

On the big screen at the scene, the minions in the middle lane were about to converge.

The ten heroes on both sides had naturally left the riverbanks and gone to their respective positions.

As soon as the crocodile and Irelia met, Langx naturally noticed Irelia's starting items: a Long Sword and a Refillable Potion.

Langx frowned immediately.

That's too arrogant, Zhou Shen!

They really don't take me, Wolf, seriously at all!
Even if your name is Zhou Dian, you can't play like this!
My uncle can bear it, but my aunt can't!
Wolf was immediately a little angry. He felt that he needed to show Zhou Dian what a big crocodile was!

At this moment, Langx even thought that if RNG won this BO5, he would definitely tell everyone in the post-match interview that Irelia should not start with a Long Sword when playing against Renekton.

The thought that he might even have the chance to teach Zhou Shen how to play the game in front of everyone made Wolf feel an urge to hum softly!

Then, the wolf-like fantasy that had just begun was brought back to reality.

The crocodile suffered a huge loss after its first-level blood transfusion.

Irelia has a tough time laning against Renekton in the early game.

However, Level 1 is an exception!
A level 1 Irelia is very strong once her passive is stacked up, far stronger than Renekton.

However, if Irelia doesn't have passive stacks, even at level one, she can't gain an advantage over Renekton.

Although the crocodile starts to reach the pinnacle of his life at level three, he wasn't exactly weak at level one either; he just wasn't that strong.

Crocodile's Q skill is a great tool for trading blows.

Before the top lane minions even met, Langx controlled Renekton to split up the red team TES's minion wave.

In this way, the three front-line minions on the blue side, RNG, will not be at low health at the same time.

In that case, Irelia won't be able to instantly stack three passive stacks by Q-killing three front-line minions in a row, and she'll be pressured by Renekton from level one!
After spreading out the minion wave, the crocodile immediately pushed forward.

This is a standard way to suppress Irelia in lane, which Langx can easily handle.

And it's not just Renekton; other champions can also play this way against Irelia. Many people laning against Irelia often get caught out by her Q-killing minions repeatedly at level 1, stacking her passive, and then getting Q-killed in the face by Irelia's ultimate. The main problem is that they don't know how to manage the minion wave at level 1.

Once the front-line minions are scattered and their health drops at different rates, a level 1 Irelia becomes completely useless and won't dare to use her Q at all.

In this situation, Irelia usually learns E at level 1, which allows her to last hit a few minions and also deal some damage.

After seeing her Renekton spread out the minion wave and push forward, Irelia still came up.

Langx immediately realized that Irelia had leveled up her E skill at level 1.

So, Langx started micro-managing.

The crocodile's frequent left-right swaying prevents Irelia from wasting a free E-A combo, and he might even manage to E-kill minions and get some last hits.

This high-frequency swaying in place allows you to make the correct movement the instant the enemy raises their hand to unleash a skill.

This significantly increases the probability of dodging skills.

Those who can click the mouse in a small area at a very high frequency and move around very frequently are often experts.

Of course, it's also possible that a noob likes to randomly tap the buttons, making all ineffective movements and failing to dodge a single skill.

However, these kinds of dishes only have a high click frequency, but the click accuracy is completely lacking, with the mouse flying all over the screen.

The only drawback of clicking the mouse so frequently over a small area is that it can cause hand fatigue, especially after prolonged periods of doing so.

Furthermore, it consumes a lot of energy, and if the time drags on, it's easy to run out of energy.

Langx was completely focused on the screen in front of him, his gaze almost entirely fixed on the area where the minions met in the middle.

Irelia's E skill has a relatively slow casting speed.

Langx was absolutely confident that he could dodge Irelia's first E skill in this game.

However, the Irelia just walked straight up without using any skills, and from a distance, she auto-attacked the Renekton once.

The reworked Irelia has a basic attack range of 225 yards.

Among melee heroes, he has one of the longest basic attack ranges.

In close combat, it was indeed like attacking the crocodile from a great distance.

The crocodile's basic attack range is 125 yards, which is among the shortest.

After being auto-attacked by Irelia, a top laner's first reaction is naturally to auto-attack back.

Top laners can't stand being face-runners and getting auto-attacked for nothing!

Wolf immediately controlled the crocodile and walked up, wanting to hit Irelia with an AQ combo.

Although Irelia's basic attack range is almost twice that of Renekton.

But to put it bluntly, it's only a difference of 100 yards.

With Irelia's extremely low attack speed and the recovery time before and after her basic attacks, Renekton could close that mere hundred yards of distance.

However, when Irelia finished attacking Renekton and turned to walk back, Renekton still couldn't hit Irelia.

If you can't attack Irelia at this point, and Irelia doesn't turn around, then you'll never be able to attack Irelia.

Wolf also noticed this, and immediately bared his teeth, a little annoyed.

The fact that the crocodile failed to land an attack on the Irelia is entirely due to his reaction being outmatched by Zhou Dian.

The crocodile's upward thrust was a tiny bit too slow.

However, the speed at which Irelia turned around and ran away immediately after auto-attacking was slightly faster than that of the average top laner.

This gradual shift in power prevented the crocodile from using Irelia's slow auto-attack animation to close the 100-yard gap.

Naturally, the result was that Irelia got that free auto-attack.

After taking one step, Wolf knew he couldn't catch up.

However, he was unwilling to let Irelia get away with it for free.

So, the crocodile used his Q skill, chipping away at Irelia's health, which helped him regain some ground and make up for the health he had lost to Irelia earlier.

However, just before the crocodile used his Q skill, Irelia suddenly turned around.

If Langx isn't planning to use his Q skill at this moment, then Irelia will just be sending herself back to get auto-attacked by Renekton.

But at that very moment, Wolf's brain had already issued the command to use the Q skill.

By the time my eyes saw Irelia suddenly turn around and my brain started to react, my fingers had already pressed the Q key, and there was no going back.

Just as the crocodile unleashed his Q skill and his body briefly froze, stopping in place, Irelia, who had turned around in advance, attacked the crocodile again.

Then, after Irelia finished attacking, she immediately turned around and ran away, and Renekton still couldn't hit Irelia.

That means the crocodile used his Q skill for nothing again, and the health he gained was used up for damage.

In other words, he was pulled!

A top laner can't accept being auto-attacked for nothing by their opponent.

Otherwise, top laners wouldn't generally dislike marksman top laners.

However, top laners are even less able to accept being kited by their opponents.

Moreover, when Zhou Dian pulled Lang Xing just now, it wasn't by using the hero's skill mechanics to pull him.

Instead, it's purely about basic attacks and kiting.

In the top lane, being kited and kited by the opponent using the purest auto-attacks, and getting hit by a few extra auto-attacks for nothing, is like being played like a fool by the opponent.

This represents the most obvious difference in basic skills.

This is what breaks the defenses of top laners the most.

The Irelia's "starting item humiliation," coupled with being pulled back by basic attacks, made Langx lose his temper.

After being pulled, the crocodile could only slink back and stand directly in the middle of the minion wave.

Wolf felt that they couldn't let Irelia finish off the enemy.

Preventing Irelia from getting last hits at least allows us to regain some ground and save face.

But Zhou Dian didn't care about any of that. After the crocodile turned around, he immediately controlled Irelia to follow.

When Wolf saw that the Blade Girl had followed, his eyes lit up.

Now the chance to get revenge has truly arrived!

(End of this chapter)