League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, Tuning the Entire League

Chapter 131 Two to zero, the terrifying dominance of the ultimate dream team!

"Let's congratulate LPL!"

"Yes, congratulations to them for winning the first game, they are currently leading 1-0."

The three commentators' congratulations came as NA's blue team crystal shattered. Xiao Cang took the initiative to steer the conversation, "Hey, who do you two think will be the MVP of the first game?"

Who will be the MVP?
Sister, isn't that a rhetorical question?

Tsk tsk, it's true that talented, rich, and handsome guys are the ones who attract people.

Thinking back to all those girls who had asked her for Jm's contact information during this time, Wawa gave them a knowing look.

"Who will be the MVP of the first game? It's so hard to guess!"

"Ha ha!"

Offstage, the audience burst into laughter at the dolls.

To be fair, while Wawa may lack the professionalism of others, he is absolutely competent as a commentator who controls the flow of the event.

Hard to guess?

Yeah, the kind where the answer is written all over your face.

After watching this match, even die-hard WE fans wouldn't dare to steal the MVP from a Riven player who was nearly godlike with a score of 7-0.

In this game, Smile was able to develop steadily and deal damage without pressure in team fights. Ninety-nine percent of the credit goes to the mid laner who would flash into the enemy's face at any time and stand in front of him.

"Ugh... It makes me feel even worse when I think about it like this. We really wish we had a mid laner like JM."

After the match ended and all the players had left at halftime, the director promptly displayed the MVP selection results on the big screen.

CNLPL vs LCS.NA (1:0)

MVP of this match: CNLPL-JM (Jiang Ming)
KDA: 7-0-5!

Group tour participation rate: 80%
Last hit: 227
Damage percentage: 44%
In the TGA live stream, a flood of comments appeared instantly after Jiang Ming's MVP stats were seen.

[My goodness, 44% of the damage!]

[One person dealt half of the team's damage, and that's with the help of Spider in the early game and Caitlyn in the late game.]

[Team fight damage was off the charts; one QR combo upon entering the fray, and the North American team's heroes' health bars were slaughtered like pigs.]

In short, JM's blade was practically shoving into the enemy's mouth during every team fight; Doublelift was practically developing PTSD from it.

[Turtle's 80% teamfight participation rate—that's what you call an ultimate carry mid laner.]

We often forget that Jm, being both the owner of the club and the head coach of the team, is still the number one player in the Chinese server.

JM: You'll only be qualified to see me if you defeat my teammates.

[I just want to know if the North American guys on the other side, who've already been stomped by Riven three times in solo matches, will dare to let us win the next game.]

【put!!!】

[All-Star Game is all about having fun!]

……

North American LCS.NA backend.

The five players, who hadn't even played a match but were already each ahead of the LPL in having one Pain Mask item, sat together.

Doublelift's nonchalant expression faded somewhat as he solemnly patted his mid-laner's shoulder. "Scarra, I know you really want to prove yourself, and I also know that your performance today was just a problem with your form."

"We always believe in you."

"I……"

Scarra was deeply moved, and tears welled up in her eyes. "I won't let you down in the next match," she said.

"No, there's no need. I just wanted to say, let's ban Riven for the next match."

Scarra's face darkened immediately, but faced with the facts, she could only nod helplessly, "Okay."

“In fact, we can’t just focus on JM alone. Both the top and bottom lane duos on the other side are very strong.” Xpecial was still quite clear-headed.

In the previous game, his robot was completely destroyed from the laning phase to the team fight, leading him to wonder if he had bet on the game while drunk.

You could say it's one thing to miss once or twice, but it's ridiculous that anyone from the purple team can dodge and dodge his Q.

"We need to change our tactics. Either we can shut down the mid lane early on, or the mid laner can safely withstand the pressure while we open up the game from the other lanes."

"Yes, it's not cool to take the results of our training matches and use them in the upper bracket or something."

"The All-Star Game is a stage for the players to showcase themselves, and we can't become the ones being showcased."

……

The truth is, once the gap in strength reaches a certain level, no matter how much you struggle, you cannot change the final outcome.

In the second game, the two sides switched sides, and LPL came to the blue side and got the first pick.

After a brief draft phase, both teams quickly finalized their lineups.

Blue side CNLPL: (Playing Ezreal, Twitch, and Janna)
Picks: Top lane Renekton, Jungle Lee Sin, Mid lane Twisted Fate, Bot lane Varus and Nami.

Purple side LCS.NA: (Riven, Zed, LeBlanc banned)
Picks: Top lane Shyvana, Jungle Jarvan IV, Mid lane Orianna, Bot lane Vayne and Sona.

Looking at the lineup, North America (NA) made a thorough change, from banning only one mid-lane hero to completely shutting down Jiang Ming's signature picks, including the Shadow Master he used in the previous game.

They were terrified of being taught a lesson by their opponents.

"Be careful, the enemy might switch lanes."

Having finalized the lineup, just in case, Jiang Ming quickly arranged the level 1 positions for entering the game.

Both Shyvana and Vayne need to farm, so it's perfectly fine to swap positions and sacrifice one to withstand pressure in the early game.

Their blue team's heroes are all rhythm-based, so letting Renekton withstand pressure in the early game would undoubtedly render him useless.

At the same time, Twisted Fate's impact in lane swapping games is clearly not as significant as in normal laning phases.

"Just place a ward in the enemy jungle."

Preventing lane swaps in Season 3 is actually quite simple; it's just a matter of placing lane wards. Since the minion wave spawns much slower than the jungle monsters, even if the support goes deep into the jungle in the early game, it won't affect the duo lane's experience gain.

"Oh, is North America (NA) planning to move Vayne to the top lane to counter Renekton, and have Shyvana go to the bottom lane to withstand pressure?"

"Vaine can easily dominate Renekton in the top lane with Sona, and Shyvana's ability to withstand pressure is obviously better."

"However, the devil is one foot tall, but the Tao is ten feet tall. Our LPL's excellent commander clearly anticipated the opponent's considerations. The support entered the jungle, lowered the vision, and successfully captured the movements of the purple team's bot lane."

"Then both sides will continue with their normal laning phase."

Many teams were once again shocked by this scene. Often, the team that initiates a lane swap is the very farming spot the enemy needs to target. After the top and bottom lanes are swapped, the 2v1 situation allows for efficient farming and the rapid takedown of the turret in the lane that should be their advantage. If you chase, the enemy can continue the swap, easily leading to a disastrous situation. Not swapping, however, means you can't accept a peaceful, farming game. Unexpectedly, the LPL representative team has broken through this seemingly simple lane swap tactic.

get rid of?

That's nothing. In later generations, in order to study lane swapping, they needed to be precise down to the second, including wards at various points, various maneuvers and hiding in bushes, top laners and mid laners sharing experience, how often supports would recall to base, and how they would coordinate to tower dive and counter-dive the top laner.

To be honest, if you asked Jiang Ming to choose a hero that he truly loves right now, he might hesitate a bit, but if you were to pick the one that's easiest to win a match with, Twisted Fate would definitely be on the list.

Before being nerfed, Twisted Fate's ultimate could cover almost half of the jungle from the F4 camp. For a team that knew how to manage minion waves and macro play, such a champion was practically a bug.

"I should have chosen LeBlanc or Ahri."

As the heroes went online, Scarra, who had switched to the purple side, felt somewhat frustrated as she watched Twisted Fate constantly switching cards above her head.
Against Twisted Fate, he could easily dominate with assassin-type champions, but now he can only play Orianna and farm against his opponent.

"Old Park, play aggressively in the top lane, I'm going to steal their red buff."

Because of the lane swap design in the level 1 jungle, the Prince had Shyvana help him start the jungle in the bottom half of the jungle. Zhuge Kai played a little trick. Facing the duo lane that had also switched to the top lane, instead of honestly returning to his own bottom half jungle to start the game, he went back and touched NA's red buff area.

Unlike the jungle experience gained from drastically reducing monsters in later generations, jungle resources are extremely scarce nowadays. Two buffs are enough to help Lee Sin reach level three. For Jarvan IV, losing a crucial red buff is undoubtedly a huge blow to his early-game ganks and development.

Of course, the reason why Mingkai was able to be so bold as to directly invade at level one was due to the help of his teammates online.

Facing Orianna, the card player started pushing the lane by drawing a red card at level one. The top lane Varus and Nami also had stronger wave clear capabilities than the Vayne and Sona combination. With the initiative in the minion wave, they could go anywhere in the vast jungle.

Don't ask, the answer is simply leveraging existing trends!

On the commentary desk.

Watching the actions of various heroes as time progresses in the game.

The three children exclaimed in amazement.

"Wow, that's a great deal. Clearlove stole the Prince's red buff at level 1, and then came back to take his own buff. In the bottom half of the map, Renekton's early wave clear and fighting power are stronger than Shyvana's. Even though Saintvicious has already discovered Lee Sin's movements, he doesn't dare to go to the bottom half of the map to trade."

"The main problem is that there's still a card in the deck. Clockwerk has level 1 and learned E, but it's hard to help JM who keeps drawing red cards."

Can the prince come and make an exchange?

Of course!
But whether they can leave after they've arrived is another matter entirely.

Just a few minutes into the game, some viewers with good game sense realized that the LPL side's playstyle seemed different from the previous game after switching sides.

"Old Park, what do you say?"

"Yes, he can come. He's a bit unconvinced and has switched states with me several times."

PDD chuckled. After being thoroughly taught a lesson by Lao Jiang in the LPL, he has now returned having learned his lesson and is finally letting the opponent experience the consequences of being unfamiliar with the minion waves after switching lanes.

The top and bottom lanes appear to be mirror images, but due to the design of Summoner's Rift, there are actually significant differences. The most direct difference is that in the top lane, you need to lock onto the feet to cast skills, while in the bottom lane, you need to lock onto the head to aim!
Using this trick, he managed to dodge two of Shyvana's E skills in a row. Without the passive damage boost from the E skill, Dyrus was no match for him in trading blows.

After the top laners had switched positions to a certain extent, Mingkai's Lee Sin arrived on time to beg for alms.

Instead of building up his red rage to alert the enemy, PDD, with only around 40 rage points, initiated by using his E on a minion to get close to Shyvana, then unleashed Tyrant's Slash. It looked like a routine trade of blows, the next step being to bite her with his red rage, followed by a second E to pull her away.

Dyrus considered this, but unfortunately, lacking experience in laning in the bot lane, he overlooked a major problem: the positions that the bot lane needs to guard against when facing jungle ganks are not the same as those in the top lane.

With the mid-lane card's pushing advantage, Jiang Ming, who started with boots, used two health potions to quickly place a control ward in NA's blue buff area, which provided the prerequisite for Ming Kai's Lee Sin to gank in the jungle.

The mid laner uses lane control to create a vision advantage, the top laner trades positions to gain a health advantage, and the jungler ganks accordingly—a perfect rhythm!
A white sonic wave flew out from the NA jungle and landed precisely on Shyvana.

With the combined efforts of the LPL top and jungle duo, even though Shyvana used Flash, Lee Sin still managed to take down her with a Flash and auto-attack.

The alms-begging monk returned home with a full load of four hundred yuan!

The tactical changes that the audience noticed were indeed real. In the first few minutes of the second game, Jiang Ming and his teammates exchanged information much more frequently than in the previous game.

If the first game's victory was largely due to NA's top, mid, and jungle players nurturing a fed Riven who was then exploited by individual skill, then the LPL's current five-man lineup demonstrates an absolute lead in operational strategy.

PDD, WeiXiao, and MingKai felt this most deeply, as evidenced by how easily the Ueno and Ye players managed to secure the first blood.

"We're on the road now, we can retreat."

The moment the Blind Monk made his move, Jiang Ming's signal had already reached the top half of the map.

Nami, who had retreated first, applied her skill to Varus. Pangran and Weixiao quickly withdrew, not giving the Prince, who had come to the top lane, even a chance to use Flash.

Five minutes later, after ganking the bottom lane, Lee Sin came to the mid lane and forcefully kicked Orianna's health bar, creating an opportunity for Twisted Fate to recall early.

With his equipment upgraded, Jiang Ming confirmed that his side laner and jungler had sufficient damage output, so he immediately bought a pair of Boots of Lucidity.

Before reaching level six, the Twisted Fate, already at level five, used Ghost in the river to complete a Bolt relay with Lee Sin, once again killing Shyvana under the tower, even though her Flash was on cooldown.

Five minutes in, 0-2, plus the loss of two waves of minions, Dyrus's Shyvana is crippled.

……

When the NA team realized something was wrong and tried to switch Vayne and Sona, who had barely managed to suppress Smile's CS thanks to the jungler's two ganks, back to the bot lane, the now-free Renekton, along with Lee Sin, ganked Orianna in the mid lane again.

Twisted Fate flashes with a yellow card, Renekton uses two E to follow up and bite, Lee Sin applies Q, and the top, mid, and jungle trio deliver maximum damage and control.

Subsequently, with Twisted Fate reaching level six, Jiang Ming accelerated again, and together with his four teammates, they dove the tower, a five-man gank that sent NA's only advantage, the duo lane, back to the fountain.

In ten minutes, everyone in the top, middle, and bottom lanes died once, and the English commentary stole the classic line from the doll.

"Stay calm and wait for the later stages."

"Vayne, Orianna, Shyvana, once they get their late-game items, we still have hope."

[Dragging into the late game? It feels like NA doesn't have a late game at all.]

If you can't even win in the early game, what are you talking about in the late game? Vayne can't clear waves, and the sidelaners will die as soon as Twisted Fate's ultimate is ready.

[A few minutes ago I saw Smile lagging behind in last hits and was feeling down, but the next second the top, mid, and jungle duo fed him the kill. Sorry, I was too loud.]

[It feels like I'm back in the LPL watching NXG dominate other teams; they just outnumber you and get ganks one after another.]

[Tsk, less than twelve minutes, and a three thousand yuan economic gap.]

Last game taught you how to play individual skill in North America; this game will teach you what teamwork is all about (lol).

Wow, it hasn't been that long, and the other All-Stars seem to have improved dramatically in skill compared to before.

Trust me, put aside any feelings, have you ever seen PDD carry a Control Ward every time he leaves the base in the mid-game?

The second game didn't see many kills, with only nine kills in total. However, the game ended more than four minutes faster than the previous game.

Nineteen minutes and seven seconds!

The North American LCS players gradually lost their senses amidst the alternation of being caught and blacked out and returning to their lanes, and they remained in a daze until the final nexus exploded.

　Fortunately, I finished writing the second chapter, which was stuck on the content of a certain chapter, and I got to express what I wanted to say. The rest of the chapters followed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)