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Chapter 573 Easily wins the first game of the Summer Finals, is this all there is to being the first in the regular season?

Over the next few minutes, Crocodile and Airplane each took a line and started pulling.

Zhou Dian usually goes to whichever side lane is in danger.

Let the planes take the bait from the safer sidelines.

Kai'Sa and Morgana were in the mid lane, and Xx's Elise also mostly lingered around the mid lane, rarely going to the side lanes.

When the game time was approaching 23 minutes.

Knight finally destroyed the FPX top lane tower that he had been longing for and had almost lost his life for several times.

Taking down this turret gives TES a nearly 5,000 gold advantage.

Actually, this turret only had a sliver of health left.

But Knight waited until the plane picked up the explosives before daring to come over and make the final move.

He almost got killed in the top lane several times before.

And he actually died once in the top lane because he was greedy for lane kills.

It's perfectly normal to become cautious.

At this point, with explosive charges hanging from the plane, Knight became much bolder.

After taking down FPX's top tower, they pushed the top lane minion wave all the way to FPX's second top tower before retreating.

Meanwhile, FPX is increasingly forming alliances.

They knew that continuing to develop like this would be suicidal, so they joined forces more and more frequently to see if they could find a good opportunity to take the initiative and turn the tide.

Game time is 22 and a half minutes.

TES caught the enemy Titan recalling with good vision.

At that moment, all five of our teammates were clustered together in the middle and upper half of the map.

So Ben suggested that everyone try taking down Baron Nashor.

With two Earth Dragons in hand and a double marksman lineup, TES's dragon-slaying speed is incredibly fast.

FPX's biggest headache right now is the Baron Nashor issue.

After only a slight hesitation, when Lucian's blue trinket revealed the situation inside the Baron pit, Baron already had only half its health left.

"FPX has to make a decision now!" Guan Zeyuan said. "It seems like it's too late. They're taking down the dragon very quickly. Should Xiaotian go down and try to steal it?"

Although Elise has a high burst damage from her Q and Smite, she is definitely stronger than Gragas in terms of Smite-based damage.

However, given their favorable situation, TES is definitely unwilling to engage in a smite-based battle with their opponents.

There were only four people fighting the dragon in the Big Dragon Pit.

Zhou Dian's crocodile wasn't in the dragon pit right now, but in the bush behind FPX's red buff.

If the barrel wants to enter the dragon pit from the back to steal the dragon, it will inevitably have to pass by this patch of grass.

Sure enough, after seeing that the dragon only had half its health left.

The barrel, which was originally lingering in the open area in front of F6, headed straight for the Baron pit.

If it weren't blocked, at this rate of damage reduction, the Baron would still be alive when the Gragas charged into the Baron pit.

However, the barrel had only just reached the bushes where the crocodile was when...

The crocodile in the bush used its red-rage W to stun the Gragas on the spot.

Morgana, inside the Dragon Pit, simultaneously threw a Dark Imprisonment at the barrel.

Yasuo, who came along behind Gragas, quickly cast a Wind Wall in Gragas's direction to try and block the skill for him.

However, Yasuo was a little distance from the barrel.

The wind wall was placed at the rear of the barrel, but it didn't block anything.

Gragas, stunned by Renekton's W skill, was then hit by Morgana's Q, leaving him completely immobilized.

Xx calmly activated Smite and secured the Baron.

When Xiaotian was hit by Morgana's Q at the Gragas, he knew he had no hope of stealing the dragon, so he could only vent his frustration on the Renekton blocking his way.

Being imprisoned does not prevent the barrel from using its abilities.

The barrel unleashed its ultimate attack, hitting the crocodile.

But the crocodile wasn't blown away.

Because Yasuo immediately followed up with Last Breath (R) on the Renekton.

Fortunately, the crocodile activated his ultimate in advance, which allowed him to withstand a burst of damage from FPX's mid and jungle and avoid being killed.

Then, the crocodile and its two silky E-segments darted into the river to rejoin its teammates.

The Holy Lance Baptism, chasing after them, only managed to hit the crocodile with the first two bullets; after that, it couldn't hit it anymore.

The crocodile escaped with a sliver of blood!

They even saved the need for Flash.

"Wow, only 30 points of health left, Zhou Shen is so lucky to be alive!" Remember exclaimed loudly.

"In that case, TES took down the Baron without paying any price!" Guan Zeyuan added.

After securing Baron Nashor, Knight's Corki went to the top lane to push a wave of minions.

The other four members of TES chose to return to base to resupply.

FPX could only take advantage of the absence of minions to push the mid and bottom lanes forward slightly.

It's better than nothing, I guess!
After resupplying, the five TES players gathered in the mid lane.

I remember noticing immediately that Kai'Sa had a new Mercury's Sash in her inventory.

"Kai'Sa has completed the Quicksilver Sash build, it seems FPX has no chance left!" Remember said.

"Either Morgana builds the Crucible, or Kai'Sa builds the Mercury's Treads. Either way, if either of these two items comes up, Kai'Sa is basically unkillable!" Guan Zeyuan added.

Besides Kai'Sa, the other four members of TES each have a stopwatch on their person.

Judging from this build, it's clear that TES is aiming for a decisive victory in this one battle!

After pushing the mid lane minions over there.

TES left Crocodile alone in the middle, while the other four went straight to the top lane.

When they passed through FPX's red buff area, the TES team naturally didn't hold back and swept away all three groups of jungle monsters, including the red buff.

At 25 minutes and 13 seconds into the game, TES took down FPX's second top lane turret.

TES's economic advantage has reached 7,000.

After taking down FPX's second top turret, TES did not press FPX's top lane high ground, but instead returned to the mid lane, preparing to take down all of the opponent's outer turrets first.

Knight's plane swaggered ahead, almost like he was rampaging through FPX's jungle.

However, FPX did not put any resistance to the second tower, and the mid, top, and support players ran to their own red buff area to ambush.

The plane was in a blind spot around a corner in the wilderness when it was hooked directly by the Titan.

Yasuo immediately followed up with his ultimate.

Fortunately, it was the spider following behind the plane that hit Akali with a cocoon.

Without Akali's immediate follow-up damage, the Corki was able to activate his Stopwatch when he still had half health left.

Then Knight started spamming Flash.

The golden body ended, and the plane instantly flashed over the wall.

If the plane is compromised, FPX is in serious trouble.

The few people who were lying in ambush in the wilderness scattered and fled.

Gragas and Akali ran towards the middle lane, which was the closest lane to them.

However, their retreat was blocked by a crocodile that came from the middle.

The crocodile, enraged, used his W ability to bite the barrel, and Kai'Sa used her ultimate to fly over and finish off the barrel.

Akali delivered a classic performance, once again using three consecutive dashes to create a significant distance and escape with low health.

Immediately afterwards, TES took down FPX's second mid-lane tower.

After destroying the second tower, the TES team chose to continue moving forward.

Akali, missing a barrel, returned to the fountain to replenish her supplies.

It's clear that FPX's three players can't hold the high ground tower.

They also chose to simply give up the mid lane.

Game time is 25 minutes and 56 seconds.

TES destroyed FPX's mid-lane crystal, breaking through FPX's lane first.

The economic leader has reached nine thousand yuan.

At this point, the bot lane minions, which had been dealt with in advance, were already close to FPX's high ground.

TES's five players then moved to the bottom lane.

Buffed by the Baron buff, they crossed the minion wave and entered FPX's bottom lane inhibitor tower.

Doinb's Yasuo came over and placed a Wind Wall, blocking the attacks from the ranged minions and TES's two marksmen.

But it can only stop it for a few seconds.

Once the wind wall disappeared, the tower's health plummeted, and it was quickly destroyed.

"Wind Wall has a cooldown; one Wind Wall won't do any good!" Cat King shouted.

"These two earth dragons are demolishing towers too fast; the towers are like paper!" Guan Zeyuan added.

In addition to dealing true damage to Baron Nashor, Earth Dragon also deals true damage to turrets.

After destroying FPX's bottom lane inhibitor turret, TES chose to retreat instead of forcibly destroying the bottom lane crystal.

The main problem is that the plane is at half health and out of mana, and the stopwatch is dead.

Kai'Sa and Renekton didn't have their ultimate abilities either, and the enemy Gragas was also alive, so there was no need to risk it on the enemy's high ground.

"TES chose the safest option: go back and take the Infernal Dragon, then go back to base," Remember said.

"If TES retreats rationally here, I think the situation on the field is probably 91-90 for FPX, basically they have no chance!" Cat Emperor added. "I even think 91-90 is a bit conservative!" Since the topic of predicting the outcome was brought up, Guan Zeyuan naturally couldn't help but express his opinion.

Immediately afterwards, the TES team turned around and secured the Fire Dragon.

The next little dragon will also be a fire dragon.

After defeating the fire dragon, the dragon buff will have less than 30 seconds left.

It's clear that TES doesn't intend to use this remaining time to launch another push.

This can also be seen from the fact that the plane did not immediately return to the city to resupply, but instead went to farm in the wild.

In that case, if FPX doesn't have anyone feeding, TES might have to wait for the second Baron to spawn.

During this period, the Baron Nashor respawns every six minutes.

However, the duration of the Baron buff is a full three and a half minutes.

In other words, once the Baron buff disappears, you only need to wait another two and a half minutes for the next Baron to spawn.

This is very beneficial to the side with the advantage.

However, TES had too much of an advantage at this point and didn't want to just wait for the Baron to spawn.

We still need to push it forward for these two minutes.

So, after the supplies were replenished.

With Zhou Dian's Renekton leading the bottom lane, the other four members of TES pushed the top lane.

FPX completely abandoned their bottom lane, which no longer had an inhibitor turret, and sent all five players to defend the top lane.

Their determination to hold the last high ground tower was unwavering.

The plane had a bomb at this point, so Knight once again had to tank the front A tower all by himself.

Seeing that the minion wave under the tower was about to disappear, the others pulled back.

The plane didn't leave; it was still at Tower A.

So, before Ben's Morgana retreated, she casually cast a Black Shield on the plane.

Immediately, all the TES minions under the tower were cleared.

But Knight still refused to retreat. Relying on the explosive charge and Morgana's Black Shield, he managed to attack the tower one more time before finally backing down.

It was at this moment that GimGoon's Akali went in.

Akali's damage hit the Black Shield, breaking it.

At the same time, the plane's explosive charges also reached their time!
Now, the plane, slowed down by Akali's Hextech Gun, couldn't pull away at all.

The plane's normal W skill can only fly a little bit.

Without a flash, without a stopwatch, the slowed-down plane was easily hit by the barrel.

He activated the speed boost from the wolf's head barrel, charged straight at the plane's face, and stunned it with his belly.

Yasuo immediately followed up with Last Breath (R).

Yasuo's ultimate hadn't even landed before the plane was already killed.

Then, Gragas used his ultimate ability, blasting three TES players—bot, jungle, and support—to the flank.

A Gragas built with pure AP items can cripple three opponents with a single ultimate.

Morgana used her ultimate and Stopwatch to dodge a wave of follow-up damage.

But Kai'Sa suffered a much worse fate.

Even with both summoner spells available, he was already locked onto by Titan's ultimate. Without Morgana's protection, he was doomed.

Even if Morgana doesn't activate her Zhonya's Hourglass and no one attacks her, allowing her to survive, Morgana won't be able to defeat Kai'Sa.

Morgana's magic immunity shield was used on the plane earlier, and it's still on cooldown.

Before Kai'Sa died, Zhou Dian's Renekton also teleported to the ground.

After landing, the crocodile activated his ultimate skill and immediately used Flash and W to stun Lucian behind him.

The Spider, who was blown apart by Gragas's ultimate, was completely ignored by everyone at this point.

Xx quickly flashed over to finish off the crocodile and killed Lucian.

At this moment, Morgana, with low health, ended her invulnerability state and quickly moved towards her own top laner.

The equally low-health Gragas caught up and used his E-Flash to kill Morgana.

But he also ran headlong into the cocoon, and his head was taken by the crocodile.

"Ah, no way!" Guan Zeyuan was dumbfounded when he saw TES's two carries suddenly die without doing anything and get killed.

Am I really that toxic?

Despite having a 9,000 gold lead and a stronger lineup, TES almost suffered a crushing defeat in a team fight.

Fortunately, Zhou DianXx handled the situation well, managing to eliminate the enemy jungler and ADC despite their two carries being killed before they could contribute.

That's considered turning the tide.

Two for three!
TES still has a fully healthy crocodile and a low-health spider left.

FPX still has a low-health Akali, a half-health Yasuo, and a fully healthy Nautilus left.

At this moment, TES's top and jungle players were positioned directly below FPX's top lane inhibitor.

The three FPX players were behind them, blocking Zhou Dian and Xx's retreat.

At this moment, Xx's mind was racing, trying to figure out what to do. The enemy's best player was a support. Did he and Zhou have a chance to fight two against three?

But Titan's excessive control is a big problem.

Just then, Zhou Dian shouted, "Ignore them, let's take down the tower!"

At this point, FPX's top lane inhibitor turret had only one-third of its health remaining. The Renekton and the Spider took two steps forward and destroyed the turret in a few hits.

Then, Xx ran towards FPX's inhibitor turret, and Zhou Dian immediately turned around.

FPX, seeing the fully healed Renekton, were unsure of themselves and chose to let him go, instead sending three players to gank the low-health Elise.

Zhou Dian essentially sold out Xx.

However, it's not a bad deal to trade Spider's kill for taking down FPX's last inhibitor turret.

Anyway, the dragon will respawn in one minute.

FPX's victory in this team fight was indeed impressive, making one wonder if Guan Zeyuan (the game's creator) is truly cursed.

However, FPX's situation has not changed at all.

Zhou Dian's final reverse escape resulted in the loss of all FPX's high ground towers, potentially making the situation even worse.

Zhou Dian said with a smile, "Xiongxiong, I'm trading you for a high ground tower, isn't that a good deal?"

"It's not a loss, it's not a loss. As long as the other side doesn't take the Baron, we can still win easily!" Xx replied with a smile.

Neither of them mentioned that Knight's reckless actions almost led to the team's defeat.

This can be considered a temporary reprieve from the matter.

There's no need to mention it now; let's win the game first.

One minute later, TES, with all members revived, made a comeback.

The Baron Nashor has spawned, and both sides have begun to skirmish around the mid lane and near the Baron pit.

Kai'Sa got a Stopwatch this time, so even without Morgana's magic immunity shield, she's no longer afraid of Nautilus's ultimate.

However, after the team fight loss just now, Ben, as the main commander, was a little hesitant to engage in team fights.

We wouldn't dare to directly attack Baron Nashor.

He decided to take a safer approach to winning.

Let's postpone the game time!

The further the game progressed, the more powerful TES's two carries became.

So, TES made a decision that no one expected.

They actually let the dragon go.

Then he traded for FPX's two small crystals in the bottom and mid lanes, as well as a fire dragon.

For the next three minutes, TES switched to defense.

Even with the Baron buff, FPX, who were at a disadvantage, only managed to push down one of TES's mid-lane second turrets.

Looking back now, what TES got in return—breaking FPX's mid and bot lanes and a Fire Dragon—was a complete win.

Destroying two lanes of FPX allowed TES to maintain a minion wave advantage in the mid and bottom lanes for the next few minutes.

Taking advantage of the minion waves in the mid and bottom lanes, TES positioned all their players in the bottom river before the Elder Dragon and immediately began rushing it.

Two earth dragons, two fire dragons, plus two archers, and even in the late game, the dragon-slaying speed is too fast.

In just eight seconds, TES rushed down the Elder Dragon.

At 37 minutes and 10 seconds into the game, TES secured the Elder Dragon.

At this moment, the FPX team had just arrived at the bottom of the river.

Seeing this, they quickly retreated to defend their home.

However, with no high ground towers in existence, FPX was essentially defenseless.

Unable to watch their opponents break through all three lanes, FPX chose to fight to the death on their own high ground.

Then they got hit and traded one for five, so they switched planes.

The ancient dragons were simply too powerful.

Immediately afterwards, TES pushed down FPX's base crystal in one fell swoop.

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

Guan Zeyuan shouted loudly: "Then let's congratulate TES for winning the first game of the Summer Split finals with a close call!"

"Congratulations TES!" Cat Emperor and Remember said.

(End of this chapter)