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

Chapter 287 Ah P's smile grew even brighter.

"Discovered?"

"I guess they just quit, and Kirei, you just took over the prince's jungle."

G2's bot lane duo caught Olaf completely off guard, leaving him stunned for two seconds.

On the other side, Shi Zhenyu, observing the reactions of AG's sidelane heroes, subconsciously shook his head.
"This level of discipline is just too poor!"

Olaf invaded the enemy's bottom jungle, and the top laner Renekton even dared to push the lane so far. The most basic half-jungle principle is something that even a secondary league team in the LPL knows to abide by. Is this AG really an LCS team?

However, Shi Zhenyu did not rush to help Long Nu in the top lane.

The level 2 crocodile has a second E skill that can quickly create distance. In the early game, Shyvana doesn't have her ultimate, so she lacks both damage and crowd control. Relying solely on Jarvan IV's EQ combo, it's difficult to achieve the desired effect.

He chose to move to the middle lane.

"Ding!"

Shi Zhenyu, who wanted to ask the mid laner to "act" a bit, realized that he didn't know the word yet, so he had to use words as a signal, hoping that G2's mid laner could understand his intention.

If their lineup allows the Bomber to develop, the purple team AG, lacking strong initiation tools, will have a very difficult time.

The prince remained hidden in the shadows, not in a hurry to show himself.

In this way, they continued to put pressure on the crocodile, forcing it to retreat and creating space for the Shyvana to develop; at the same time, they kept a close eye on Syndra's movements in the mid lane, looking for weaknesses.

"GO! GO! GO!"

“Syndra!”

Wow, nice!

Overjoyed, Ah P watched as Syndra was knocked up by the Prince's EQ combo. The newly leveled-up Ziggs then unleashed his QEW combo on his opponent's face.

puff! Poof!

A series of bomb explosions rang out, and Dark Sovereign's health plummeted. After landing, he had no choice but to hastily use Blink to escape.

"Pity."

Shi Zhenyu pursed his lips and glanced at Perkz in the middle lane out of the corner of his eye.

He's such a greenhorn. If he and Ming had teamed up, Ming would have definitely waited until Syndra flashed before using his Ziggs' W.

While it's not guaranteed that you can blast your way back and kill them, it shouldn't be like this, where you go all in and use up all your skills.

Believe it or not, the Bomber, who was first introduced in Season 4, does have the ability to make opponents explode instantly.

QWER plus four damage skills in addition to the passive!
Top mid-lane players, if they calculate the refresh of their passive bonus damage properly during early skirmishes, have a chance to deal two instances of passive damage in one go.

After severely damaging Syndra in the mid lane and forcing her to use Flash, Shi Zhenyu didn't rush to leave. Instead, he turned around and helped Ziggs clear a wave of minions. Then, he used his refreshed Smite to farm a group of F4 camps before returning home.

He knew very well that the bottom jungle was currently empty, and if he didn't farm a group of F4 camps, his development would fall far behind Olaf's.

Doran's Blade!
On his first return home, Shi Zhenyu didn't rush to upgrade his jungle item. Instead, he bought a powerful item from Teemo's cunning merchant, which greatly boosted his combat power in the early game.

"What's the point of upgrading to Doran's Blade? Wouldn't it be better to farm up faster by upgrading the jungle item?"

"Are you going to forcibly arrest him?"

G2's original jungler sat in his seat, also observing the scrim through the observer mode in the friends list.

The young man tried to adjust his mindset. After all, if it were a competitor of similar strength joining the team, it would be understandable for him to try his best to compete with the other party. However, if the opponent was not on the same level at all, it would be better to take this opportunity to learn a few tricks than to sit there and feel sorry for himself.

Even if they can't stay at G2, they can find a job at other clubs.

He quickly understood why Stone had upgraded Doran's Blade.

It turned out that the prince, who had gone out for the second time, did not head down the road, but went straight to the road where the dragon girl was.

Smittyj's laning phase was a bit rough. After several pokes from the crocodile, his health bar was almost empty. However, from a bird's-eye view, it was clear that the purple team's jungler Olaf and Syndra were gathering.

AG is going to dive the tower!
"Why did Stone stop moving forward when he reached the second tower? Wasn't he supposed to be helping Shyvana counter-gank?"

Jens, standing outside the training room, was quite puzzled. Although he had invested in Ocelote and founded the G2 esports team, his actual gaming skills were actually quite average.

“Jarvan is using vision control, and he is indeed counter-ganking, but it seems more like he is using Shyvana as bait.”

Ocelote explained to his partner, "Riot Games updated turret damage again in Season 4. Now, tower diving in the early game is extremely risky. If Jarvan IV is exposed, the purple team is very likely to abandon the operation."

Conversely, if there is only one Shyvana under the tower, in a three-on-one situation, the purple team is still willing to invest resources to execute this attack plan.

As a professional player, Ocelote, from a god-like perspective, completely understood his team's new jungler's thinking, and was utterly shocked:
He was certain that this was Stone's first time scrimming against AG, since AG had only made it to the LCS last summer and were not qualified to face NXG. Yet, in this very first encounter, Stone had completely figured out NXG's strategy. He upgraded Doran's Blade to prepare for small skirmishes, abandoned the bottom lane and went straight to the top lane, anticipating that the purple team would target the top laner.

"This is the S3 champion! So this is the skill NXG's jungler possesses!"

Without a doubt, with the prince's counter-gank, the purple team's tower dive ultimately ended in a crushing defeat.

Although the Dragon Girl eventually died, the Crocodile who was responsible for tanking the tower was also killed by the dragon's impact. In fact, with the last bit of time left after the red buff, Shi Zhenyu even cooperated with the arriving Ziggs to kill Syndra in the jungle, who had no Flash.

One for two, the purple team makes a huge profit.

In the following minutes, Olaf attempted to gank again, but either the Prince standing to the side thwarted his attempt, or he was spotted by vision and left sheepishly, only to find his jungle completely wiped out when he turned back.

"Farke! Farke!"

"Why can he always predict my position in advance?" In AG's team voice chat, jungler Kirei almost slammed his fist on the gaming table and roared.

"Sorry, buddy, I'd like to know the reason even more than you do, because my Syndra is about to get destroyed by the enemy Ziggs."

"Let's wait for the dragon fight. Stone just joined, so his coordination with his teammates probably won't be very good."

"Hmm, I agree with that idea. After all, our lineup is designed for early-game offense, isn't it?"

As the side lane hero on the field reached level six, the AG team gathered in the dragon area.

"The enemy team is going to take the dragon, should we go and engage?"

After witnessing the prince's incredible counter-ganking skills, G2 players instinctively grouped up around their jungler without anyone needing to tell them, much faster than the two managers on the sidelines had anticipated.

That's the reality of team competitions—when faced with a core player who can lead you to victory and a teammate who performs only averagely, what should you choose? The answer is obviously self-evident.

Shi Zhenyu shook his head, "NO!"

No way. At this point in time, it's not like I'm stupid enough to use Shyvana, Ziggs, and Tristana to go head-to-head with Crocodile, Syndra, and Olaf.

"Push the line!"

With a signal and simple words, Shi Zhenyu managed to convey his meaning to his teammates.

Faced with such a team-oriented strategy from the opponent, the best solution when your lineup is behind is, of course, to exchange resources.

The mid-lane Ziggs can clear a wave of minions with just a few skills, while the bot-lane Tristana has the splash damage passive of her E skill, making her push the lane quite fast. Once the minion wave is pushed forward, the duo lane can quickly move to the top side of the map. This avoids the possibility of multiple purple team members tower diving, and also allows them to achieve a lane swap effect later on.

The AG team members were a bit confused.

Because they discovered that even though they had secured the dragon, they still seemed to have lost a few hundred million in the economy.

Because of the prince's frequent intervention, G2 actually controlled all three lanes. They started the dragon in the hopes that the opponent would come to engage, but they didn't expect that the message would be ignored.

It's almost equivalent to losing a wave of minions on every lane, and what should have been a sure win for the first tower turned into a situation where both sides traded kills.

"What?! Kirei, why didn't you farm the Prince jungle camp?"

After the top and bottom lane turrets were swapped, AG seemed to enter a confused state of being half-drunk and half-awake as they entered the lane transition phase.

Around the seventeen-minute mark of the game, AG's mid laner subconsciously glanced at the scoreboard and discovered that his Olaf was more than thirty CS behind Jarvan IV in jungle clears.

Dude, I can't gank, I can't keep up with the pace of the game, and now I can't even farm the jungle as well as others.

Don't even mention the strangeness of AG's people; even G2's own teammates have a million questions lurking in their minds.

Even though the jungler Prince didn't steal any of their minion waves, and even occasionally came from the jungle to support the lanes, his CS (creep score) stats kept increasing non-stop.

It was also the first time for them to experience what it felt like to not fight the opponent for more than ten minutes. Under the command marker of the jungler, they kept repeating the actions of leaving, regrouping, connecting, and then switching between top, mid, and bottom lanes.

The purple team secured two dragons within twenty minutes, but the blue team, in turn, took a two-tower lead over their opponents.

The extent of the economic disparity is evident in the contrast between a Jarvan IV with a Black Cleaver and two other items, and an Olaf with only one item and basic equipment.

So the blue team won't fight at all?

No, it's just that all the spears used in the attack hit Syndra in the face.

Facing scrim opponents with poor vision and slow lane rotations, Syndra, who often gets left isolated and out of position due to her lack of mobility, became Shi Zhenyu's main focus in the laning phase.

The smile on A-P's face never disappeared from the moment the Prince started his first gank four minutes into the game.

Who in the family understands?

He was prepared to play a supporting role, acting as a lackey for the S3 champion jungler, hoping to learn some secrets from the world's best mid laner. But it turned out that the player didn't play solo at all; he was the type to just stuff resources into the opponent's mouth.

(End of this chapter)