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Chapter 572 Winning without being a carry means you're just coasting? Giving away kills actually makes you a hero!

Even though Akali was in the Twilight Shroud and invisible, she was only briefly exposed when Morgana hit her with her Q.

But that one move was enough.

Kai'Sa took the opportunity to hit Akali with an AQ.

With no red minions around, the Icathian Rain fell entirely on Akali.

Then follow up with Void Targeting (W).

With the stacks from Morgana's Q skill, Kai'Sa's W skill directly detonated her passive plasma.

In addition, even though Morgana is a support, her Q and W skills still deal some damage.

This attack reduced Akali to just over a third of her health.

There's nothing we can do; the defensive towers can't hold the line anymore.

GimGoon, controlling Akali, quickly retreated towards the bottom second tower.

However, just as they stepped out of the first tower's range, the tower was destroyed by the TES bot lane duo.

TES secured the first tower kill in this game.

The moment FPX's bottom lane tower exploded, Morgana cast Black Shield on Kai'Sa.

The plasma marks on Akali's body have not yet faded.

Kai'Sa used Hunter's Instinct (R) to fly towards Akali.

However, at this point, Akali's ultimate ability (R) doesn't require a target, making her exceptionally strong at escaping.

Kai'Sa flew behind Akali, and Akali used her ultimate (R) to create some distance. Then she flashed to prevent Kai'Sa from auto-attacking and to delay the second part of her ultimate.

Then Akali's second R is ready, and she dashes out a lot more with her second R.

Then the E skill was ready again, followed by another reverse E dash.

In just three seconds, Akali darted from behind the first turret to behind the second turret.

LokeN can only sigh in despair, unable to catch up at all!
Fortunately, Akali was forced to use her Flash, and they even managed to secure the first tower kill.

This was a profitable move.

While most of TES's players were concentrated in the bottom half of the map, FPX's mid, jungle, and support went straight to the Baron pit and started fighting for the Rift Herald.

At this point, Yasuo had acquired the Statikk Shiv, and Renekton could no longer push against Yasuo.

There's no way around it, the electric blade is just too good at pushing the wave.

Especially on Yasuo, the power is more than doubled.

For FPX, the reason they chose this lineup was to control all the neutral support in the early and mid-game.

Losing a small dragon is hard enough, but we absolutely cannot lose the Rift Herald.

That's why Akali was alone in the bottom lane just now.

Because after FPX's jungler and support finished off the dragon, they went straight to the Baron pit.

Since TES has already released an Earth Dragon, they will naturally release the Rift Herald as well.

Knight, playing top lane, immediately maneuvered his plane backward, abandoning his own top tower.

Kai'Sa and Morgana continued to push forward with the minion wave in the bottom lane.

Xx's Spider also went to the bottom lane to join his own bottom lane duo.

As for Zhou Dian's crocodile, it didn't go anywhere and just stayed in the middle lane.

He predicted that after FPX secured the Rift Herald, they would immediately move to the mid lane to release it.

At times like this, only the big crocodile can single-handedly defend the middle tower.

This time, FPX seems to have learned their lesson and didn't have a bunch of players fighting the Rift Herald together.

Liu Qingsong's Titan went to the top lane and followed his own ADC.

It was just Gragas and Yasuo fighting Rift Herald.

When FPX took down the Rift Herald, TES's jungler, support, and bottom laner also pushed down FPX's second bottom lane turret.

With that tower gone, TES's economic lead immediately jumped to 4,000 gold.

At this point in time, this is a rather large economic gap.

Even if Lucian can quickly take down TES's top lane turret and recover some of their economic disadvantage.

However, TES managed to take down two towers in the bottom lane, and the bottom lane was almost completely destroyed.

This is still hard for Doinb to accept.

No, we have to push down the enemy's first tower.

If FPX can take down TES's most important outer turret, the mid-lane turret, then this move is not a loss for them; in fact, it could be considered a gain.

So, FPX's mid and jungle players, who had just finished taking down the Rift Herald, immediately rushed to the mid lane.

With the Statikk Shiv, Yasuo cleared a wave of minions in a few seconds and pushed his own minion wave to the front of TES's mid tower.

The barrel then crushed the newly created Herald's Eye, summoning the Rift Herald.

However, Zhou Dian's crocodile was already crouching under the tower, waiting.

FPX's minions and Rift Herald pushed into the tower, and Renekton charged in and cleared the minions right in front of FPX's mid and jungle.

In response, Yasuo and Gragas only dared to use their basic abilities to hit the crocodile twice, reducing its health by about 300.

Doinb and Xiaotian didn't dare to use all their skills on the Renekton at this point.

They might not actually be able to beat each other.

This Azure Dragon Saber Crocodile is even higher level than them; it can truly kill people instantly!

Therefore, FPX's Rift Herald offensive was nothing more than the Rift Herald knocking down TES's mid-lane tower, and then there was no follow-up.

Since the crocodile consistently had the advantage in the laning phase, TES's mid tower was always at full health.

After being hit by the Rift Herald, he still had nearly half his health left.

As long as TES doesn't inexplicably neglect their mid-lane, their mid-lane tower, at half health, can hold out for a long time.

Zhou Dian's maneuver was essentially a one-on-two defense, plus the Rift Herald, or even a one-on-three defense, maximizing the protection of his own first tower.

Aside from not getting a solo kill, Zhou Dian has made the most of the Crocodile's abilities.

As for solo kills, the middle lane is too short, and if the opponent doesn't give you the opportunity, you basically can't get a solo kill.

TES's current economic advantage is entirely built around Zhou Dian's absolute laning dominance in the mid lane.

At this moment, Knight's plane also arrived in the mid lane and quickly took down the Rift Herald, which was low on health under the tower.

Meanwhile, lwx's Lucian also solo-killed TES's top lane tower in the top lane.

As soon as the plane arrived, Zhou Dian immediately froze on the spot.

After recalling to base and buying his items, his Renekton wasn't as comfortable as before.

The next step is basically to deal with the bad lines on the sidelines.

The comfortable lines are left for Double C.

At this point, the game time was only a little over 17 minutes. Generally speaking, at this stage, the crocodile still needs to develop its abilities.

Especially for the crocodile with an advantage, it is far from the stage where it becomes a super minion and its economy is useless at this point.

The reason why Zhou Dian's crocodile "retired" early is naturally because his own center position came out of retirement early.

They secured First Blood, took the first tower, and FPX pushed down the second tower, extracting the destroyed Karsa.

At this point, he already had attack speed boots, Manamune, and Guinsoo's Rageblade.

It can definitely be called fully formed.

By the time the next dragon spawns, Kai'Sa's Manamune will be fully stacked, becoming a Muramana. Plus, with Corki also having a basic build by then, the damage from Renekton won't be a problem.

In subsequent team fights, all the Crocodile needs to do is flash, use his red-rage W to bite the key figures of the opposing FPX team, and the team fight will be much easier to win.

This is Zhou Dian's current approach to top lane: everything is for winning the game.

Therefore, many people in the esports industry are now commenting on Zhou Dian, saying that Zhou Shen may no longer be the most skilled or capable top laner who can carry the game alone.

But Zhou Shen is definitely the top laner who is most likely to win the game.

However, some of these evaluations subtly belittled Zhou Dian.

To put it another way, winning without playing center is what's called "playing it safe"!

The same evaluation has different interpretations. Some people genuinely praise Zhou Dian, while others say that Zhou Dian is not as good as before and now has more of a "slacker" attitude.

However, Zhou Dian will make everyone know about this final match.

No professional player who can win matches year after year has won by chance.

After a few minutes of peaceful development, the game time reached nearly 20 minutes.

The third dragon of this game is about to spawn, and it's an earth dragon.

Currently, both TES and FPX have an Earth Dragon. Whoever gets the Earth Dragon will have two Earth Dragons.

The addition of two earth dragons is already enough to disrupt the balance of power.

For FPX, they absolutely must secure this dragon; they can't afford to lose it.

It remains to be seen whether TES will continue to play it safe and hold back, or whether they feel that their team fight strength is already quite good and they can challenge FPX in large-scale team fights.

With half a minute left before the dragon spawns, Knight's Corki went to the top lane to farm.

The opponent is Akali pushing the top lane.

The plane emerged from the top lane's tri-bush and initiated a QR combo on the unsuspecting Akali.

With an additional EA, Akali lost nearly half of her health.

GimGoon chose to simply leave.

Knight, however, directly controlled the plane to use W to charge in and deal damage.

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Akali managed to force Corki to use Maw of Malmortius and Flash with just half a combo.

"That left hand just pulled off a flash, that was a bit too flashy!" Cat Emperor said.

"If Akali's Flash hadn't been off cooldown, the plane would have died!" Remember added.

Guan Zeyuan also said, "Fortunately, the plane didn't die. If it had, the little dragon would have respawned immediately, and the consequences would have been much worse!"

At this moment, in the TES team voice chat, Xx couldn't help but say, "What are you doing, Knight? You're fighting Akali without a bomb?"

"Mine, mine!" Knight quickly said.

Zhou Dian frowned slightly, but said nothing.

It seems we really need to address Knight's disciplinary issues after this game.

After Akali left, Knight, who had been forced to use Flash, turned back to farm a wave of minions and pushed the top lane minion wave forward before pressing the B key to recall.

Meanwhile, the other four members of TES had already gathered in the bottom river.

Meanwhile, FPX took the opportunity to group up and retreat down the mid lane, taking down TES's mid tower.

TES's mid-lane lapse in play was not a mistake.

They deliberately left the mid lane empty so everyone could rush to secure vision around the dragon.

TES also wants to fight for this dragon.

Surprisingly, FPX ended up giving up the dragon in exchange for resources.

With poor vision around the dragon pit, FPX didn't dare to come over, so they took advantage of TES's focus on the mid lane, pushed down the mid tower, and left.

That's still fairly rational.

Zhou Dian originally thought that the FPX team would push their way towards the dragon pit despite their vision disadvantage.

After careful consideration, FPX decided that the chances of winning this team fight were slim and therefore decided to give up on the Earth Dragon.

The lack of vision, coupled with Kai'Sa's excellent equipment and the completion of Manamune, were all factors that FPX considered.

GimGoon's Akali not having her ultimate ability was also part of FPX's overall considerations.

Without Akali's ultimate, it will be much more difficult for FPX to take down this fed Kai'Sa in a team fight.

If FPX can't take down Kai'Sa, they definitely won't win team fights.

So, Knight's Flash to Akali's ultimate actually came out on top?

At 20 minutes and 40 seconds into the game, TES secured their third dragon of the match, an Earth Dragon.

With this, TES's lineup with two marksmen now has two Earth Dragons in hand.

To be honest, the next few minutes are FPX's last chance to break the deadlock.

Continuing to avoid it is no different from a slow death.

While Kai'Sa and Elise were fighting for Baron and Dragon, Zhou Dian and Ben went directly to the mid lane to push back the minion wave.

Then, the plane teleported over, and Kai'Sa and Elise arrived in the mid lane.

TES immediately gathered five players in the mid lane and began to push back FPX's mid lane tower, which was left with less than half health.

When FPX was defending their tower, their jungler, support, and bottom laner were the only three players on the bot lane, while TES pushed hard with all five of their players.

Before the turret exploded, Titan hooked it with his hook and used his ultimate on Spider, who was left with less than half health after tanking the turret.

But then, the turret fell.

FPX was outnumbered 3 to 5, and they simply couldn't win.

The Titan that was hooked was immediately reduced to a sliver of health, and Liu Qingsong quickly used Flash to pull away.

Kai'Sa followed up with her ultimate, then a basic attack, securing another kill.

The barrel, who tried to save the Titan by pushing forward, was instantly reduced to low health by the two marksmen.

Xiao Tian quickly used Flash to return to his own mid-lane second tower.

At this moment, GimGoon's Akali also arrived at the battlefield, appearing behind the TES players.

But what's the point of Akali flanking without her ultimate ability?

They could only watch as the TES team retreated.

"Akali can't engage without her ultimate!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed. "You know what, ZuoShou's Akali that dashed in just now was actually quite effective!"

As a result, both mid-lane towers fell. Even ignoring the Titan's kill, FPX still lost out on the Earth Dragon, failing to gain any advantage in the jungle.

Doinb's Yasuo, however, took advantage of the fact that everyone on TES had spent a long time in the dragon pit and mid lane, and went to the top lane to farm several waves of minions, making a big profit.

But against TES's already established dual marksmen, Doinb's actions were no different from being hanged!

After taking down a turret and a kill.

Kai'Sa's recall directly upgraded her Yellow Cross into Hurricane.

At this point, the game had only been going on for 22 minutes, and Kai'Sa had already completed her core three-item build: Manamune, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Runaan's Hurricane.

There was even a pair of attack speed boots.

Even though LokeN is known for his stability among all ADCs in the LPL, rather than for how much he can carry, he is still a very reliable player.

But with such a fed Kai'Sa and Morgana's protection, if LokeN can't carry, then he doesn't deserve to be a Korean import.

TES has the game in the bag!

(End of this chapter)