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Chapter 571 White Crescent Moon: Even as a top laner, her roaming instincts are far superior to those of Knight!
The situation has become somewhat deadlocked between the two sides on the middle and upper paths.

Xiaotian didn't dare to gank the top and mid lanes because his mid and top laners weren't doing well in farming, and if they were counter-ganked, he would be doomed.

Xx couldn't find any opportunities in the top and mid lanes either.

Because FPX's mid and top laners are playing very defensively and cautiously right now, they're not easy to gank.

If we're talking about tower diving for a kill, he's afraid of being counter-ganked by Gragas.

As a result, both junglers focused their attention on the bottom lane.

For both sides, the opponent's bottom lane is undoubtedly the easiest place to create an opening at this moment.

As for the top and mid lanes, whether or not they continue to switch lanes, how well they develop, or how much pressure they put on their lane opponents, all depends on individual skill.

The game time is 12 minutes.

After pushing a wave of minions, TES's bot lane duo entered the river again, preparing to ward FPX's blue buff area.

This time, Xx's spider also came to the vicinity to provide protection.

At this moment, Xiaotian's Gragas is recalling in the red team's bottom lane tri-bush.

Of course, this return trip can be canceled at any time.

Liu Qingsong's Titan was right next to the barrel. The Titan took a step forward and went to the Explosion Fruit next to the Triangle Grass.

LokeN's Kai'Sa was positioned near the bottom river, separated from Titan by a wall.

Morgana, who came in from the side to provide vision, also cast Dark Prison (Q) on Nautilus.

However, at this moment, Titan A detonated the Blast Cone, which sent him flying far away, back to the bottom tower of his own base.

This backward bounce naturally allowed him to dodge Morgana's dark confinement.

However, judging from the trajectory of Morgana's Q, it was actually heading in the direction that Titan was knocked away.

Ben made a prediction right away.

The point where the Dark Imprisonment landed was the same point where the Titan was blasted away by the Blast Fruit.

The reason it didn't hit Titan was that when Dark Imprisonment flew over the triangular bush, it crashed directly into the barrel inside the bush.

Hey, there's an unexpected surprise!

Ben quickly maneuvered Morgana forward and placed a ward in the red team's bottom lane tri-bush.

Inside stood a barrel that had just been hit by Morgana's Q.

Xx, who followed behind, decisively used Flash.

A flash of yellow light appeared, and the spider instantly formed a cocoon, then swept it towards the barrel.

This time, Xx did not consider the issue of controlling time overlap.

Since Gragas currently has no resistance or health items, and TES's jungler, support, and bot laner all have their skills available, they can definitely overwhelm Gragas with damage.

However, Titan stepped forward and blocked the spider's cocooning attack from the barrel.

Then Titan would have to die in place of Gragas.

Kai'Sa was originally going to use her ultimate to fly over the wall and attack Gragas, but Elise failed to cocoon Gragas, who had all his abilities available and was basically unkillable.

They had no choice but to switch targets to Titan.

This resulted in TES's jungler, support, and bot laner dealing damage in a scattered manner, failing to kill the Titan within the Cocoon's control duration.

However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Because Titan didn't die immediately, Liu Qingsong quickly used his Flash ability.

The Titan, with a sliver of health, flashed back to his own bottom tower, but Kai'Sa still managed to land the final hit, taking away his last bit of health.

In other words, not only did Titan die this time, but he also used a death flash!
“This time Titan has essentially died in Xiao Tian’s place! He’s a true brother!” Guan Zeyuan said.

With Titan dead, the bottom lane situation is now three against two.

TES still has Kai'Sa at full health but without her ultimate, Morgana at half health, and Elise at low health.

When we were dealing damage to Titan, Elise was at the very front and took a lot of AoE damage from FPX's jungler, bot laner, and support. They almost killed her.

FPX, on the other hand, still has a full-health Lucian and a half-health Gragas.

Aside from Lucian not having Flash, both of them have all their other abilities.

There was even a stopwatch on the barrel.

This was selected from the runes, and it's ready to use now.

Logically speaking, with Gragas and Lucian guarding inside the tower, the three TES players should have no chance of diving it.

However, even when Titan was still on the verge of death, lwx had already controlled Lucian to retreat towards the second bottom tower.

The reason is simple: Doinb had already almost destroyed the signal by this point.

At the same time, he was rapidly saying, "The crocodile is gone, you guys hurry up and leave!"

Doinb turned into a broken record, repeating the sentence several times in a row.

Because Knight played a bit timidly this game and built a Maw of Malmortius first, he felt uncomfortable even laning against a Yasuo who wasn't doing well.

After the effects of the explosive pack wore off, he went to the top lane again, causing Zhou Dian's crocodile to return to the mid lane.

Upon seeing the crocodile return, Doinb immediately controlled Yasuo to escape and head to the top lane.

However, this time, Yasuo had barely made his escape.

Zhou Dian's crocodile neither rushed to the top lane to gank Yasuo nor pushed the mid lane minion wave aggressively, causing Akali, who would later switch to the mid lane, to lose minion waves again.

The crocodile turned its gun around and went straight into FPX's blue buff area, heading towards the bottom lane.

Just as the crocodile entered FPX's jungle, the Gragas got hit by Morgana's Q, and the bottom jungler and support of both sides started fighting.

Backstage, in the TES team's rest room.

As the observer's camera focused on the players fighting in the tri-bush, White Crescent noticed out of the corner of his eye that the Renekton had already reached FPX's blue buff on the minimap, and he immediately became excited.

The crocodile has now flanked ahead of time, and none of FPX's bot laners can escape!
White Crescent couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "As expected, they are still players of a higher level. Even the top laner's sense of roaming is far superior to that of the mid laner, Left Hand!"

However, the other mid-laner on the field has an equally excellent sense of positioning and movement.

Doinb, who had already slipped to the top lane, immediately realized that the crocodile was going to flank and gank his bottom lane as soon as he saw the crocodile's movements.

Doinb's warning was already quite fast.

But there was nothing else he could do.

Once again, Akali was forced to switch lanes, and as she headed to the mid lane, she was also unable to do anything.

Because Yasuo didn't bring Teleport, and Akali's Teleport had already been used up during frequent passive lane swaps to help her catch up with the lane, it wasn't ready again yet.

On the contrary, both of TES's top and mid laners had good teleport options at this point.

It can be said that TES has all the initiative.

The reason for this situation is still Doinb's Yasuo, who was destroyed by the teleporting Renekton in the mid lane.

On FPX's side, as soon as Doinb signaled, Lucian, who didn't have Flash, immediately ran towards the second tower.

Xiaotian reacted too slowly, and Gragas was trapped under the bottom tower by TES's jungler, support, and bottom laner.

Even though Lucian was moving fast enough, the crocodiles that were walking were even faster.

Before Lucian could even reach his own bottom second turret, Renekton had already emerged from the jungle and arrived at FPX's bottom second turret, blocking Lucian's retreat.

lwx was caught in a dilemma!

Zhou Dian didn't hesitate. The crocodile immediately activated its ultimate, flashed and comboed, killing Lucian who didn't have Flash.

Below, TES's jungler, support, and bottom laner also charged under the tower and killed the half-health Gragas.

Zero for three!
After TES's resounding victory, their advantage in this situation is truly significant.

After finishing, Zhou Dian's crocodile stayed in the bottom lane and pushed a wave of minions.

Kai'Sa then rushed to the mid lane to farm the wave.

This can minimize the overall loss of soldiers.

This allows for fewer minions to be wasted. However, it must be said that FPX's ability to finish first in both the Spring and Summer Splits this year truly demonstrates their strength.

At least in this version, everyone on their team is good at finding opportunities.

Once any opportunity is discovered, they will act decisively.

Akali was forced to switch lanes to mid to help Yasuo withstand pressure, but halfway there she found that Renekton had gone to the bottom lane to kill her own teammate.

GimGoon simply stopped going to the mid lane and abandoned the minion wave.

He immediately controlled Akali to turn around and return to the top lane.

When Akali circled around to the back of TES's top turret, Doinb's Yasuo also pushed the minion wave to the front of TES's top turret.

Then, Akali and Yasuo forcibly tower-dived and killed Knight's plane.

Zhou Dian sent someone to rescue them.

However, by the time the crocodile teleported to the ground, the plane was already dead.

Yasuo and Akali killed someone and fled in different directions.

The crocodile didn't have Flash, so it couldn't catch either of them and could only watch them escape.

It seems Knight's earlier avoidance of Yasuo wasn't out of cowardice.

Without the explosive charge, the plane is indeed easy for Yasuo and his teammates to kill.

Yasuo got the kill on the plane, which greatly boosted his development.

"I don't think the plane dying here will have a big impact. Right now, both sides are more focused on operations related to the next earth dragon!" Cat Emperor said.

After the plane respawned, Knight went straight to the mid lane.

Since Doinb is determined to stick with him, it's safer for him to stay in the mid lane.

It's still more appropriate to let the big crocodile handle the flanks.

The Earth Dragon is about to spawn at 14 and a half minutes into the game.

Zhou Dian's crocodile also started heading towards the middle lane.

The two sides began to pull and tug at the earthen dragon.

At this point, the crocodile was already wearing cloth armor and shoes, and had the Green Dragon Crescent Blade in hand.

I'm too lazy to even make the Black Cleaver Zhou Dian; I'll just use the Burning Gem to combine the Azure Dragon Blade.

When it comes to getting the second earth dragon, he needs to be more aggressive and maximize his damage output.

And at this point, the crocodile was the only level 11 player in the entire game.

With two levels of ultimate ability, this is when the crocodile is arguably at its strongest.

However, the fact that the crocodile doesn't have Flash right now is a minor concern.

If he had Flash, then in a team fight at this point, Renekton would be absolutely unbeatable.

Even if a crocodile is fed and deals a lot of damage, it's still easy for someone to control it until it dies without Flash.

Apart from the crocodile and spider, TES's two carries were not very effective in team fights at this point.

Kai'Sa only has one completed item, and even with better economy and some loose items, her combat power is still inferior to a shattered Lucian.

Not to mention airplanes.

Because he crafted the Lesser Demon-Drinking Blade first, he hadn't completed the Three Phases yet, and only possessed the Two Phases, rendering him completely powerless and a useless cripple.

FPX, on the other hand, is at the peak of their lineup. Even though they are behind in overall economy, they might be stronger than TES in team fights.

After careful consideration, Ben, as the main commander, decided not to engage in this team fight and instead give up the dragon in exchange for gold.

Since they already have an Earth Dragon and their lineup is more late-game oriented, letting FPX take an Earth Dragon won't have much of an impact.

Zhou Dian also agreed to this strategy of trading small dragons for economic gains.

It's because the crocodile didn't have Flash.

If he had Flash, Renekton could now reliably kill one of the enemy's carries and win this team fight.

That way, Zhou Dian would insist on taking on Xiao Long's team.

But since there's no Flash available, it's probably okay to play it safe!

Taking risks is something to do when things are going against you, but it's not wrong to play it safe when you have the advantage.

As FPX's five players gathered in the river, they began to fight the Earth Dragon.

Guan Zeyuan said, "Then TES must have made the decision to let it go. They think the left hand's equipment is too bad, so they won't fight you in team fights. We don't need this earth dragon!"

"TES probably felt it wasn't necessary, since FPX's lineup is at its strongest right now," Cat Emperor added. "If I mess up this wave, we might not be able to hold on in the mid-game!"

"Give up the dragon, exchange some resources, and let TES develop to the later stages. They'll definitely still have the advantage!"

“That’s right!” Remember nodded. “Given FPX’s lineup, both Earth Dragons should have been theirs. Actually, TES already came out ahead by securing one of them!”

Subsequent events proved that TES's decision to forgo contesting the Earth Dragon was absolutely correct.

Even after TES showed signs of giving up the dragon, FPX still huddled together, waiting for the dragon to spawn.

Then, all five of them fought the dragon together until the earth dragon was down to only half its health and they had secured it. Only then did FPX's three carries disperse to their respective lanes.

All I can say is that FPX was a little too scared, or rather, too cautious.

Of course, for them, they had to get their hands on this earth dragon.

It's unacceptable for TES, a team with a stronger late-game composition, to secure two Earth Dragons in the early to mid-game.

However, this means that FPX will be completely out of position for a bit too long.

The economic gap that TES created during this period, compared to the abandonment of the Earth Dragon, was no longer a helpless compromise, but rather an equivalent exchange.

TES even made a profit!
The plane went ahead to push the minion wave in the top lane.

Since 14 minutes of the game have already passed, the tower pushing speed is very fast after the plating is removed.

By the time FPX finished taking down the dragon, the plane had almost destroyed FPX's top lane turret.

There was nothing FPX could do but send Lucian, whose teleport was still active, to the top lane to defend the tower.

The top tower was successfully defended, but FPX's mid and bot lanes were left wide open.

The mid lane is okay, although the mid tower is low on health because the mid laner has been at a disadvantage in the laning phase.

However, they can quickly defend and even protect the middle tower.

However, FPX's bottom lane tower was also destroyed by TES's bottom lane duo, losing more than half of its health.

At this point, Akali is the only option left to defend the next tower.

When GimGoon arrived at his own turret, the turret only had one-third of its health left.

There might be a TES siege minion and a few ranged minions under the tower.

Kai'Sa and Morgana can completely ignore Akali and take down this turret.

There was no other way, so GimGoon controlled Akali to counter-E and Q the ranged minion.

Then quickly use the Twilight Shroud to enter stealth mode, to avoid being hit by Morgana's Q.

However, Ben still seized the opportunity.

Just when the siege minion's health was almost gone, Ben used his Q skill behind his own siege minion.

Akali did indeed step in to repair the sports car at this moment, and was immediately hit by Morgana's Q.

It has to be said that Ben's Morgana Q skills in this game were very crucial; they were the kind of Qs that could directly open up the game.

This is also Morgana's Q skill, which is why it's often said to be a "lottery" skill.

It's really hard to find people on QQ.

But as long as you can connect with someone on QQ, it's like winning the lottery.

(End of this chapter)