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Chapter 328 Who is the true mid-lane dominator!
But the current version is different!

Most of them are head-on, face-rushing lineups where Darius doesn't need to chase after others; instead, the enemy will actively engage in melee combat with him. The weakness of being clumsy is greatly masked by the meta.

Furthermore, SKT also chose Zilean to synergize with Darius. After Zilean's E skill is upgraded, the speed boost is much stronger than Ghost, and his ultimate's resurrection provides Darius with an extremely high margin for error!
The lineups for both sides have been officially finalized.

EDG (blue side) fielded Ornn (top), Sejuani (jungle), Tristana (mid), and Kai'Sa and Rakan (bot lane duo).

The red team is SKT, with Darius in the top lane, Trundle in the jungle, Zilean in the mid lane, and Xayah and Alistar in the bot lane.

"For us, who are used to the recent flexible system, it is a bit hard to get used to both sides suddenly returning to normal lineup selection."

"However... both sides have gone all out! Faker even brought out Zilean, which shows that SKT is indeed very serious and fighting hard!"

"On EDG's side, Kshine also picked Tristana for the mid lane. This may be his personal interpretation. We don't know how the game will develop yet, but we can be sure that this game will satisfy everyone!"

Both sides are essentially a hedging system, except that SKT has a single core player, and Bang shoulders the responsibility of output for the team.

EDG, on the other hand, has two marksmen and two cores, giving them higher frontal damage output, but their overall utility is not as good as their opponents, and they are more dependent on gold.

The cannon needs to be well-developed to achieve the corresponding effect!
"Ghost, Faker even picked Zilean, EDG is doomed to lose! I'm telling you, if EDG wins, I'll eat shit on live stream!"

"Are you here again, trying to freeload? Can you please get lost!"

"Dude, I've been in a bad mood lately. Everyone move aside, let me wake up these Korean traitors. They think Lee Sang-hyeok is invincible? He's just a locust that got spawn-camped and killed!"

"Go, go, go! Hurry up! I can't wait to watch the game!"

"..."

The tens of thousands of spectators at the Dalian Sports Center did not disappoint EDG's expectations. Cheers and applause merged into a huge wave of sound, as if they were about to overturn the entire stadium.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the two sides officially began the match.

Wang Yao immediately showed everyone his confident side, choosing the [Extract] item as his starting item, which was basically saying that he had no pressure in laning against Zilean!

The talent choices remain the same: the primary tree is Precision, the secondary tree is Resolve, and the talent is Fleet Footwork. At the same time, the talent "Demolition" is also selected to increase the speed of destroying towers.

The summoner spells are the standard Flash + Teleport!
Lee Sang-hyeok's talent choice is [Unsealed Secrets], and his summoner spells are also Flash and Teleport.

Neither side had any intention of invading the other's jungle, and both opted for a standard start.

It can't be called a conventional start, because EDG's jungler Sejuani didn't farm all the way up, but instead chose to farm the bottom half of the jungle and quickly reach level 3!
Meanwhile, in the middle lane, Wang Yao didn't engage in any detailed battles with Lee Sang-hyeok!

Learn E [Explosive Spark] at level 1 and immediately use it on the backline ranged minions, then start auto-attacking.

The bomb was detonated, creating terrifying AOE damage. Then, the passive effect of the E skill was used to quickly push the lane!
At level 1, Zilean can't use W to refresh skill cooldowns, so he can't clear minions with QWQ double bombs and can only watch helplessly as Tristana quickly pushes the minion wave over!
Soon, SKT figured out why Wang Yao was pushing the lane mindlessly from the start!
When the troll chose to start with red buff as usual, and then farmed all the way to F6, wolves, and blue buff until reaching level 3, he wanted to control the bot lane river crab!
He then discovered that Sejuani had been waiting for him there all along, with only a red buff at level three, clearly indicating that she had been waiting for him on purpose!

It's important to understand that even two Sejuanis wouldn't be enough to defeat Trundle in the early game. In terms of early jungle fighting power, there are almost no heroes who can stand and fight Trundle; even a powerhouse like Olaf can't beat him. But Xiaohai didn't dare to contest the Rift Scuttler with Xiaotian.

Because the mid and bottom lanes both sent signals at the same time, the Zilean hero in the mid lane was pushed under the tower and had to farm under the tower.

The same applies to the bottom lane!

Both sides' bottom lane supports are melee champions. Neither Rakan nor Alistar has the ability to help the marksman push the lane, so the lane priority in the bottom lane depends entirely on the marksman's ability to push the lane.

Both Xayah and Kai'Sa have a range of 525 yards, so neither has a range advantage.

However, Kai'Sa's wave clear ability in the early game is stronger than Xayah's!
To clear waves quickly, Xayah needs to use her Q or W to leave feathers on the ground, then use her E to pluck the feathers and create area-of-effect damage.

However, Kai'Sa doesn't need to go through so much trouble. Her Q [Icathian Rain] can effectively push the lane, making her superior lane-pushing ability compared to Xayah!
The troll was originally thinking of competing with Sejuani.

But when he saw Kai'Sa and Rakan coming to support the river from the bottom lane, Xiaohai was forced to give up the river crab.

At this point, he had a headache again.

It seems the river crabs on the way up don't have a chance either!
It's mainly due to line weight!
The mid-lane Zilean player couldn't push the lane control out of control. Logically, after the minion wave reached the tower, there should have been a pushback wave.

However, when Wang Yao kept the Time Elder under the tower, he used his range advantage to keep clearing the minions under the tower, so it was difficult for the minions in the middle lane to come out!

But the scene on the road is completely different!
On SKT's top lane, Darius opted for a slow push strategy at the start!
Given that the Troll Warlord farms from top to bottom while the enemy Sejuani farms from bottom to top, Sejuani is very likely to gank top lane at level 3.

If it were a casual game, Thal wouldn't mind trying a 1v2, but this is a professional match, and a decisive game that will decide whether you live or die!

If you win, you're a champion; if you lose, you're nothing and you get criticized.

He didn't have the courage to try that; he had to find a safer way to prevent himself from being ganked!

Darius has only one option to avoid being ganked!

Push the lane right away, sending the minion wave into the top lane's turret, and then have the top laner push back around the 3-minute mark, blocking the minion wave in front of their own turret for self-protection!
Thal wasn't wrong to do that.

This is a very normal strategy for top laners; any top laner would make the same choice in this situation.

But it's wrong in the current context!

Sejuani and Trundle are going to contest the Rift Scuttler in the top lane.

Normally, Darius should have lane priority in the top lane, but by chance, EDG has now also gained lane priority in the top lane, and Trundle has completely lost the chance to compete with Sejuani for the Rift Scuttler.

He could only watch helplessly as Piggy quickly arrived at the upper river channel and subdued the second river crab.

He then immediately turned around and went into his own upper area to farm the three groups of fresh monsters that hadn't been dealt with yet!
(End of this chapter)