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Chapter 547 It's so cool to be teammates with Zhou Shen!
At this moment, in the lower left corner of the large screen at the venue, the live feed of the RNG players was displayed.

Langx tilted his head, seemingly looking at the screen in front of him, but in reality, his eyes were unfocused and he seemed a little dazed.

Clearly, this has been a major blow to Langx.

Langx had just figured it out: the fact that Irelia dodged his Renekton's red-rage Q beforehand wasn't just bad luck.

Zhou Dian really did predict it.

Or rather, the crocodile's red-rage Q was tricked out by Irelia's series of actions.

Langx found it hard to understand why Zhou Dian was so confident that he could definitely bait out his Renekton's Red Fury Q!
Why did my Renekton's Red Fury Q always get tricked out "right on time"?
Am I just a puppet in front of God Zhou, completely at his mercy?

In the very first exchange of blows in the first game of a BO5 series, Langx was dealt such a blow by his opponent, which was definitely a blow to his mentality!
For the rest of RNG, Langx being solo killed so early was naturally shocking and surprising.

Langx himself remained silent, leaving the rest of RNG at a loss for words.

In past matches, after Langx was solo killed, he would usually say things like, "Oops, I made a mistake!" or "Wow, he was so lucky, otherwise I would have killed him back," to lighten the mood.

Then the other RNG members chimed in, cracked a few jokes, and that was it.

But now that Langx hasn't said a word, the other RNG members can sense that something is wrong and don't know what to say to Langx.

After an awkward silence, Uzi said, "It's okay, let's take it slow. I can carry this game!"

As the absolute leader of the current RNG team, Uzi felt it was necessary to say something at this time.

There's nothing wrong with saying something.

However, what Uzi didn't know was that after he said those words, Langx felt even more pressure.

He was a little afraid that he would be solo killed by Zhou Dian in the next round and get completely crushed.

Then they lost the game, which hurt Uzbekistan.

Thinking about the firepower of the online GSL players, even Langx felt a little scared, even though he was a teammate.

Xiaohu also experienced a surge in psychological pressure due to Uzi's statement, "I can carry."

Because of his vampire, he was also feeling extremely uncomfortable due to the pressure from the plane.

Xiao Hu was also afraid that he wouldn't play well in this game!
At the same time, in the TES team voice chat.

A chorus of exclamations like "Nice!" and "Awesome!" filled the air.

Xx, who hadn't even finished clearing the third group of jungle monsters, said in a very exaggerated tone, "Seriously? You can kill people just by going out with a longsword!"

"Let me tell you, the reason we were able to kill the crocodile this time was because of the longsword!" Zhou Dian said with a smile.

"Huh! What kind of logic is that?" Xx said, finding it hard to understand.

After all, he didn't see the whole process of Irelia solo killing Renekton.

"My damage to the crocodile was just right this time. If I had switched the longsword to a Doran's Blade, I would have lost a few points of attack power and would have been lacking in damage!" Zhou Dian explained.

"Did you hear that, Knight? It was the right thing to go out with the longsword. Don't question Zhou Shen's understanding anymore!" Xx suddenly steered the conversation towards Knight.

"I've learned something, I've learned something!" Knight mumbled.

After Langx's crocodile revived, it teleported directly to the top lane.

However, facing a fully healed Renekton who was only at half health, he still didn't dare to go up and finish her off.

Because the crocodile is only level 1, while the Irelia is level 2.

The crocodile could only crouch in the back, waiting for Irelia to push the minion wave over.

On the TES side, Zhou Dian did not choose to push the minion wave slowly, but instead chose to push the top lane minion wave as quickly as possible.

Because the overall trend of the top lane minions is towards RNG.

If the minion wave is out of control, there's no point in slowly pushing the lane at this point in time.

The benefit of losing a few minions for the crocodile is not worth the risk of being caught.

Once caught, even if you survive by sheer luck, the top lane minions will be held back in front of the tower by the Renekton for a long time.

In this way, the previous solo kill was wasted, and the advantage was immediately returned.

Zhou Dian is someone who knows very well how to snowball and expand his advantages.

In this situation, he naturally made the right choice.

That is to push the minion wave quickly.

The level 1 crocodile didn't dare to block the lane and could only obediently let a large wave of red minions into the tower.

Furthermore, he was worried that if a large wave of red minions pushed into his tower, his Renekton would be tower-dived.

Langx had already called for jungler Karsa to keep an eye on Irelia while waiting for her to push the lane.

There's no way around it, if TES really gets overtaken in this wave and we lose teleport, then we're really doomed!
Karsa is well aware of the predicament his team's top laner is facing.

Without knowing exactly where the opposing TES jungler was in the jungle at that moment, Karsa had no choice but to change his pre-planned jungle clearing strategy and head towards the top lane area ahead of time.

"Damn it, we shouldn't have played purely defensively this game. We should have gone into the enemy jungle to establish vision at the start, otherwise we wouldn't be in such a passive position now!" Karsa thought to himself.

At the start, all ten players on both sides stood along the riverbank, and no one grouped up to enter the enemy jungle to establish vision.

This meant that Karsa had absolutely no idea about Xx's jungle route at the start of the game.

If RNG had entered TES's jungle at the start of the game and established vision, they would have known which jungle monster Xx started from.

At this point, Karsa could naturally deduce where Xx was.

Karsa wouldn't be forced to rush to the top lane to protect his top laner and help them farm this wave of tower minions.

On the TES side, they did not go to RNG's jungle to establish vision at the start of the game.

Actually, Xx also didn't know Karsa's jungle route in the early stages.

However, given the current situation, Xx can easily conclude that Karsa is currently heading to the top lane.

Therefore, the current situation for both junglers is that Karsa's planned jungle route at the start of the game has been disrupted.

Meanwhile, Xx continued to farm and explore the map according to the planned schedule.

Furthermore, this was all done without being exposed to the enemy's line of sight.

Karsa doesn't know where Xx is, but Xx knows where Karsa is!
This information asymmetry has given TES a hidden advantage in the jungle position from the very beginning.

Whether this can be transformed into a real advantage depends on Xx's ability to seize opportunities in the future.

But at least, Zhou Dian's early solo kill in the top lane created an opportunity for his jungler to gain an advantage.

Xx could naturally understand these things.

He glanced at the top lane and saw Irelia counting down to recall in the top lane bush. He couldn't help but think, "Other teams have the jungler create advantages for the laners in the early game, but Zhou Shen is creating advantages for the jungler directly from the lanes!"

"It's so great to be teammates with Zhou Shen! It feels like if I had been a jungler for LGD in 17, I would have been a champion too!"

It's understandable that Xx has this idea.

Because he's not the only jungler who has this idea.

"However, it's not too late to latch onto God of War now!" Xx thought to himself.

Actually, when it comes to which lane in the game can best boost the jungler's performance, it's important to consider...

That's undoubtedly the mid lane.

While Knight's mechanics are impressive at this stage, his strategic thinking in other areas is lacking, making him somewhat reliant on passive abilities and lacking synergy with the mid-jungle duo. In contrast, 369, the other solo laner for TES in the past, also focused almost entirely on mechanics during matches.

Without synergy with the online team, Xx's proactive jungling style of seizing opportunities is not well utilized.

Previously, Xx could only work in conjunction with support characters.

Because LokeN is a relatively resilient ADC who can solo, it frees up support Ben to roam more with the jungler.

But today TES is facing RNG!

What kind of suppressive power is Uzbekistan!

Ben definitely won't have many opportunities to leave AD's side and roam around in this game.

Fortunately, we have Zhou Shen!
Xx had actually noticed long ago that he was having a much more comfortable time after Zhou Dian arrived.

Even though Zhou Dian doesn't play tanks and instead plays damage-dealing top laners, which looks like the same playstyle as 369 before, Xx can still clearly feel a big difference.

Xx can only attribute this to his own twin stars – 369 and Knight. Even in the areas where they are most confident and put the most effort into their games, they are still far behind Zhou Shen!

Of course, Knight's talent is higher than 369's, and Xx also acknowledges this.

The three players' skill levels were completely different.

Moreover, this was only because Zhou Dian focused some of his energy on the actual gameplay, and used more of his energy to think about the overall situation and direct his teammates.

Back to the game.

After Irelia B returned to base, Zhou Dian immediately upgraded his starting item, the Longsword, to a Vampire Scepter.

Then, with the remaining three hundred or so dollars, I bought an attack speed short sword and left the fountain, heading towards the top lane.

There's no need to bring a true sight ward anymore; the trinket ward is still there. With this trinket ward, Zhou Dian felt he could defend against ganks for the next few minutes.

Clearly, Zhou Dian is planning to go straight for a Ruined King in this game.

But this build actually gives the crocodile an opportunity.

Before the Blade of the Ruined King is actually assembled, the damage difference between its individual components and the completed item is enormous.

After Irelia solo-kills Renekton, recalling to base to replenish armor is actually a better way to solidify her advantage from that solo kill.

Because the crocodile is still the stronger side in the laning phase.

However, after being solo killed, he wasn't as strong anymore.

If Irelia doesn't build armor and health and continues to focus on dealing damage, it significantly increases the chances of Renekton turning the tide.

Although after the Vampire Scepter was released, I'm not so afraid of the crocodile draining my health anymore.

However, the reason why the champion Renekton is strong in the early laning phase is that, in addition to being able to sustain himself, he is also very capable of fighting back.

Zhou Dian was certainly aware of all these things.

The reason he chose to rush Blade of the Ruined King was that he wanted to get it as early as possible to reverse the laning relationship between Irelia and Renekton.

Once the Blade of the Ruined King is available, if the Renekton's equipment isn't as good as Irelia's, he's no match for her.

Zhou Dian isn't building defensive items right now because he's confident he can maintain, or even expand, his current advantage in the top lane.

To gain an advantage in the laning phase, besides relying on strategies and mechanics, you can also rely on strategic play.

Without defensive items, Zhou Dian couldn't utilize anything else to further extend his laning advantage with Irelia.

Only through effective operations!
So how do we operate it?

It's naturally done via teleportation.

The crocodile doesn't have Teleport now, while Irelia can go to lane after pushing a large wave of minions to RNG's top tower, saving her Teleport.

In the hands of a skilled player, using teleport and Ignite in the top lane can create an advantage.

Not to mention that now it's purely a matter of having teleportation to fight against someone without teleportation!

Just as Irelia went online, Xx headed straight for the bottom lane.

As mentioned earlier, Xx is actually a player with a very aggressive jungling style.

This doesn't quite fit with TES's past style of solo kills in the top and mid lanes.

But after Zhou Dian arrived, the top, mid, and jungle players of TES immediately became more "harmonious," and their overall coordination became much smoother.

This is the role played by diverse abilities combined with rich experience.

To achieve this effect, both ability and experience are indispensable.

It's definitely not something a newly debuted young contestant could handle.

With Zhou Dian's support, Xx is indeed becoming increasingly "daring" in playing games.

After observing the situation on the top lane, it was basically confirmed that Karsa's location was not in the bottom half of the map.

Xx decided to abandon the original jungle route and launch a heavy attack on RNG's bottom lane.

If we go after the Uzbeks now, even if we don't kill them, it's still a win.

Because he himself won't lose the rhythm.

It's common knowledge that RNG's win rate will plummet whenever Uzi isn't playing well.

During this summer split, RNG's reliance on Uzi reached an unprecedented level.

Xx charged straight down the bottom lane, and Ben decisively flashed to initiate. Xx followed with a flash, forcing out all four summoner spells of RNG's bottom lane duo.

Then, Xx left satisfied, ready to go back to farming jungle monsters.

He planned to clear the remaining two camps of jungle monsters in his own lower jungle before continuing to annoy Uzi.

At the same time, in the RNG team voice chat.

"Damn it, why is the enemy jungler coming down now? We have absolutely no information!" Uzi's tone was already unconsciously tinged with frustration.

Of course, he wasn't killed, but he lost both his skills.

Uzi managed to keep his composure and didn't immediately call for the jungler. He just complained and subtly expressed his need for a jungler.

Karsa, of course, understood the implied meaning in the Uzbek language.

But since he's already in the upper half of the map, he can't just teleport back to the lower half.

There's only one group of neutral monsters in the bottom half of the map right now. Are we going to go there and get nothing?
Karsa isn't the kind of jungler who gambles by completely neglecting farming.

Therefore, Karsa chose this moment to try and catch Irelia.

If you gank my bot lane, I'll gank your top lane at the same time. This is a very standard, but also very reasonable, tactical exchange based on the principle of half the map.

The half-zone principle is very basic and conventional, and it's something that every professional player is instilled with by the coaching staff when they first start their professional career.

Not just every professional player understands this.

Many viewers who watch games a little more often understand this.

However, the simpler something is, the harder it is to truly achieve.

In actual competitions, players often temporarily neglect the implementation of the half-group rule for various reasons.

Therefore, even in top leagues and world championships, it is common for players to be eliminated because they did not follow the rules of their respective brackets.

(End of this chapter)