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

Chapter 213 Reversing the Heavenly Gang 2.0!

"Let's change routes!"

"Zz1tai, don't even think about going one-on-one with Faker!"

With the bottom lane pushing the tower and gaining momentum, Xiao Wu didn't forget to remind Zi Tai in the mid lane, "The enemy jungler is linked with the mid laner, it's unwise for you to go head-to-head with him."

"I……"

Zz1tai really wanted to say that he also plays jungle, but the training from the competition team during this period has played a role to some extent.

It's definitely not wise for a jungler like Kha'Zix and Orianna to go head-to-head with a mid-jungle duo like Gragas and Jarvan IV.

Not to mention that Faker on the other side has already built the Athene's Unholy Grail, making him stronger than me in terms of damage, poke, and sustain in lane.

The correct approach is for the bot lane duo to rotate to mid, with the support and top laner/jungle duo working together to continuously expand their economic lead.

"Okay, we see that in the mid-game, because the dragon has been taken, the focus of both sides has shifted. IG's jungler and support have started to whittle down the vision in the top half of the map, while SKT's Jarvan IV has been constantly providing protective vision for Gragas who has moved to the bottom lane."

Bella hit the nail on the head, "That's normal. Right now, the purple team's early to mid-game tempo depends entirely on Gragas!"

During the lane swap, Kennen, playing as Pyke in the top lane, didn't want to lose the gold under his tower, so he was caught by IG's jungler and support, and the three of them dove him.

Meanwhile, Jayce solo-killed the top lane's first turret.

Benji initiated an attack in the bottom lane. Knowing the skill level of the opposing mid laner, Zita didn't overestimate his abilities or try to outplay the opponent. He simply used QWR to clear the minions under the tower.

Benji was in an awkward position. Without minions, even if he and Nami could help Gragas control Orianna and secure the kill under the tower, it would be impossible.

However, with the laser damage now enhanced by Riot Games, he and his support are very likely to be traded by the opponent.

"We still have to catch him!" Benji gritted his teeth, preparing to sacrifice himself to allow Faker to develop.

After all, that's what he did when his team was at a disadvantage in the OGN league before.

I don't know if it was just my imagination, but on the very first day I met Lee Sang-hyeok, a voice in the darkness told me that if I protected the naive young man in front of me, I would get everything I wanted.

"Guangzhen Middle Road can be evacuated now!"

Fuman sent a signal to the mid laner, indicating that since they were going to gank the bottom lane, they had to consider the possibility that the jungler and support might rotate to the mid lane after ganking the top lane.

"Uh, it seems like I can't leave."

One second they were still in a 1v1 solo match between mid lane AD carries, with Varus missing all his Q and E abilities, while Pig's wicked smile made him look awkward.

Zyra bound him from behind, and Varus flashed and used his ultimate, combined with Kha'Zix jumping in to take him down.

At fourteen minutes, IG and SKT completed a trade between their mid-lane AD carry.

"It's not profitable!"

"Hey, we can't play games like this, you stupid chicken, wake up!"

However, during the one-to-one voice announcement, the three commentators in the OGN studio were shouting at the top of their lungs.

Because of the severe lack of interjections in the Korean language, people often need to raise their voices to express excited emotions.

On the surface, it was a one-for-one trade, but the AD carry in the mid lane died, and the mid tower was essentially left empty.

PDD's Jayce pushed the lane top and immediately rotated to mid, arriving a little later than Kha'Zix and Zyra. However, he still managed to take down SKT's turret before their reinforcements arrived. The four of them worked together to easily destroy SKT's turret.

South Korean viewers were outraged when they saw this!

[Damn it, what is SKT doing? Where's their brain? Where's their strategy? They don't even bother to look at the video lessons that other teams post online?]

We can thoroughly study our 5,000-year-old culture, so why can't we understand an operations team?

[What's the point of targeting just one Orianna? We go through all that trouble to get a kill, and then the enemy just seizes the opportunity to kill and push towers. We keep losing crucial resources.]

[I said before the match that Bengi's strategy was seriously flawed!]

The increased gold income in the jungle indicates that the designers want junglers to be included in the late-game carry meta. Bengi is just mindlessly protecting mid!

Indeed, with Jayce, Kha'Zix, Orianna, and Varus forming a four-core lineup, even though SKT managed to get Zz1tai's Orianna to 0-2 early on, it didn't really change the situation much.

Not to mention the team's economic boost from the three outer towers and the dragon in the early game, Orianna's overall development is not much worse than Gragas'.

On the purple team's bench.

The young man named Faker frowned deeply!

He felt a little powerless!
This doesn't mean he's inferior to the opposing player;

Conversely, whether it's Jayce or Kha'Zix, he can handle any one of the blue team members alone.

However, the three defensive towers were destroyed too quickly, causing the overall situation to fall far behind.

The direct protection provided by defensive towers and their ability to extend vision over the jungle have become significant problems.

and also……

Boom! Swish! Swoosh!
At the sixteen-minute mark, different skill effects sounds burst forth, and three distinct skill beams struck simultaneously.

The lineup chosen by the blue team IG is too overpowered.

Jayce's long-range artillery harassment, Kha'Zix's high slow and damage after evolving into Spikes, and even Varus and Zyra possess semi-core-level long-range suppression capabilities.

When defending a tower, it's impossible to completely avoid these skills. Once your heroes' health is depleted too much, the enemy will immediately group up and push forward to apply pressure.

Open from the front?

With Zyra's ultimate ability countered by Orianna's magic orb, even if Jarvan IV and Kennen manage to break through, their formation will be disrupted due to the presence of these two abilities.

What about flanking from behind?

Faker stared at the mist on the other side of the river, his brow furrowed.

This feeling is like going back to the training match against JM and his team.

But there's no other way; if you want to win, you have to take the plunge, no matter how low the odds are.

Time moved forward little by little.

Even the five-man IG team had to admit the strength of SKT. With their poke composition having almost no way to deal with the damage, Gragas was able to coordinate with Jarvan IV to find a mistake in Kid's positioning and successfully knock the AD back to launch a counterattack.

If SKT hadn't accumulated a significant advantage in the early stages, and their damage output hadn't been on a completely different level due to their superior equipment, that counterattack might have been SKT's moment of reversal.

A chorus of regrets rose from the commentary booth.

"There's nothing we can do, Faker did his best!"

"A four-bar zero-damage Gragas game is over if he dies even once."

"The margin for error on both sides is completely different. As long as IG doesn't have five people standing in a bunch and let Kennen ult five of them, even if they kill one person first, the remaining carry can still end the game."

"IG showed players around the world their new understanding of the World Championship version, proving that the responsibility of carrying in the late game is no longer solely the domain of lane champions." "Jungle Kha'Zix tore apart SKT's defense."

"At the same time, we also need to congratulate Shadow on his first MVP award since the Summer Split!"

Group A Round Robin: IG vs. SKT.

IG wins!
……

On the first day of the group stage, the first day of matches in Group A concluded, with IG taking first place in Group A with a score of 2-0.

The next step was to enter the cycle of Group B.

Just when everyone thought that Group B would be dominated by FNC, the European powerhouse and S1 champion, an unexpected change occurred.

Team Vulcun, the third seed from North America, completely overturned FNC!

What's even more unbelievable to countless viewers is that the tactics used by Team Vulcun are exactly the same as the operational style of LPL region NXG in the Summer Split.

The lineups for the first match in Group B are as follows:
Blue side VUL: Top lane Renekton, Jungle Vi, Mid lane Orianna, Bot lane Corki and Zyra.

FNC (purple side): Top lane Jayce, Jungle Elise, Mid lane Syndra, Bot lane Caitlyn and Sona.

Logically speaking, FNC, on the right side (purple side), has a stronger mid-jungle duo in the early game. Given their superior individual skill and overall team composition, FNC shouldn't have any major issues.

However, such an unexpected event occurred during the World Championship.

VUL opted for a lane swap, with Zyra going to pressure Jayce, while Renekton moved to the bottom lane to face Caitlyn and Sona.

Not only that, but even when FNC was completely unprepared, VUL used a little trick at level one to steal the two red buff monsters from the Spider, preventing it from leveling up to level two immediately.

To maintain a smooth rhythm, the two carries and the support used a total of six summoner spells to engage the enemy, killing the spider before it even reached the F4 camp.

FNC exploded instantly!

"Holy crap!"

"JM, you've done so many bad things, I never expected that our Group B also had some big treasures hidden away."

In the Royal Club team's rest room, watching VUL play a familiar game on the field, Waiter cursed and felt a pang of pain in his heart.

They originally thought that being placed in Group B, despite having a European powerhouse that won the S1 championship, would allow them to avoid the two strong opponents, IG and SKT. However, their joy was short-lived, as in the very first match of the group, their formidable opponents in Group B were completely crushed by VUL.

Tabe's eyes were equally serious. In the game, VUL's smooth lane swapping and jungle-support synergy were practically a carbon copy of NXG.

In China, most people have a very interesting ability: you only need to demonstrate one or two skills to others, and they can often determine where you came from.

At fourteen minutes, FNC attempted a tower dive on VUL's Renekton, but VUL's top laner stalled for too long, allowing Zyra to rotate to mid lane and, together with Orianna, destroy FNC's mid lane.

"Wuhu, nice guys, that's how you play!"

"Defeat FNC, NA's third seed is better than EU's first seed."

VUL team voice chat.

The cheers and celebrations of the five young men never stopped from beginning to end, whether they were giving feedback or encouraging their teammates.

"Sycho Sid, I hereby declare that from this day forward, you are my god!"

"Haha, shouldn't we thank JM? He is the one who gave VUL the greatest gift."

“That’s not how it works. Sycho Sid, your uncle provided a car, and we got ten days of training. It was an equal deal between us and JM.”

Faced with his teammates' praise, Sycho Sid remained calm, saying, "Don't get too excited, guys. There are teams like Royal Club from the LPL waiting for us in Group B, and even the other team, GMB, is no pushover."

"If we want to advance, we must make sure we don't lose too many points to them."

FNC was clearly bewildered by VUL's lane-swap strategy.

Despite having a strong mid and jungle, the team was still 3,500 gold behind the blue team in the first sixteen minutes. The Spider Queen was so badly developed that she didn't even dare to build a Rabadon's Deathcap like the jungler in Group A. She could only build a Fist of Fury to increase her health so that she wouldn't be useless in team fights.

The gap is even greater in AD carry stats. Varus already has Bloodthirster and Berserker's Greaves, while Caitlyn's Infinity Edge still seems a long way off.

The bearded guy with the ID Zuna from the VUL team has reached another peak in his competitive performance since switching from jungle to AD.

At seventeen minutes, Varus used himself as bait, luring FNC's top laner Jayce to engage. Before the enemy jungler could catch up with Jayce, Varus flashed to the other side of the wall, and with the Corruption Chains combined with Orianna's ultimate, he instantly killed FNC.

Thirty-one minutes.

The ratio of people to heads is 13:5!

With Varus's auto-attack, VUL secured their first victory in Group B, much to the disbelief of countless players.

North American players were having a field day. TSM, who had been highly anticipated, was utterly crushed by IG. Now, their own third seed stepped up and completely humiliated the European number one seed.

The rules for S3 this year were well arranged; they didn't give the number one European seed a direct qualification for the quarterfinals. Otherwise, how would we know that NA > EU?
You mean TSM?

So what if Teemo dies a couple more times in professional matches? As long as everyone's happy.

The second match in Group B didn't attract much attention.

GMB, the second seed from Europe, also achieved a crushing victory against the wildcard team MSK (Philippines). However, since the large score difference was achieved against a weaker region, similar to the previous situation with TSM in Group A, it was not well received by the players.

It's easy to imagine that before FNC decisively defeated the North American team today, European viewers had to endure the blatant taunts from their rivals throughout the day.

The match between GMB and MSK ended less than ten minutes later.

The third match is between LPL Royal Club and LCS.NA VUL!

Besides LPL fans watching their own teams' matches, many fans from other regions, especially NA and EU fans, also sneaked into the live stream.

They need to use the LPL's third seed to test whether VUL defeated FNC by luck or sheer skill.

At the start of the match, Royal Club's bot lane indeed demonstrated its unparalleled dominance. At 3 minutes and 40 seconds, in a 2v2 lane matchup, they broke through EZ's barrier and forced the opponent to recall to base for supplies.

The top and mid lanes also gained some dominance through individual skill. However, just when the audience thought Royal Club would take the lead without lifting a finger and save face for FNC,

VUL's sudden operational change caught Royal Club off guard.

Six minutes in, after VUL Fox reached level six, she boldly crouched in the bushes and successfully ambushed Orianna. Spider-Man, controlling Jarvan IV, was supposed to counter-crawl, but unexpectedly, there was also Chu Yuxun who had completed her charge-up attack behind Fox.

hum!
At the same time, a purple shield appeared above the fox's head.

"Wow, interrupt, interrupt? Can Shenchao interrupt?"

"I can't interrupt him, I can't find Shen's position."

With a 2v3 situation in the mid lane, and after being caught out, they were counter-ganked. The fate of Royal Club's mid and jungle was predictable.

If the pace had stopped there, it would have been at most a result of a clever decision made by the players. However, after getting the kills, VUL's mid and jungle, along with Shen, moved to the bottom half of the map, forcing UZI's Caitlyn to retreat and then starting to fight the dragon.

The duo even recalled to base on the spot and turned to the top lane to catch the minion wave that Kennen had delivered to their faces!
(End of this chapter)