I just turned eighteen, and you want me to make a comeback?

Maokai and Lucian are both popular choices in the competition.

Therefore, the audience and commentators have often seen the scene of Lucian fighting Maokai.

However, what they often see is that even with a full set of damage, Lucian can only knock down about a third of the tree's health. When have you ever seen Lucian kill a tree like a cardboard mannequin?
Barrage--
“…I’m afraid I’m not playing a fake Lucian.

"This Lucian's damage is super doubled?
"Master Yuan should just shut it down, it's boring.

"Auto-aim + headlock + damage cheat, it's confirmed."

The tree died again, the kill money was given away, and two waves of soldiers were lost.

But this is not the point.

The point is...

"WE's top tower might be vulnerable," Wei Xiao said. "At this point in the game, the damage reduction mechanism for defensive towers has disappeared. The outer towers in the middle and top lanes are similar to the bottom tower—they're both very fragile..."

As a shooter-type hero, he has a fast tower-pushing speed.

Not to mention, when the big tree was pushed into the lane, the health of the outer tower in the top lane was not very healthy.

Lucian quickly destroyed the upper tower.

Just take the first blood tower, 650 yuan of economy...

The director brought up the economic panel and just over ten minutes later, the economic gap between the two teams' top laners had reached 2000.

The team's economic gap was so poor that it directly broke through the "2500' life and death line and reached a gap of 3000.

"WE collapsed again in the early game," Wei Xiao sighed. "They were too focused on protecting the bottom lane and didn't provide any help to Tui Ge. They let Yuanshen get the advantaged hero matchup, but didn't target him. This is really..."

In the middle of his words, Wei Xiao suddenly realized the difficulties faced by WE.
Targeting Yuanshen is a countermeasure that all teams will try to take when facing Flash Wolves.

Yuanshen is very difficult to catch. This person is "steady and fierce", and his anti-gank awareness is amazing. Every time he makes a solo kill, he calculates the damage and the position of the jungler accurately.

If you want to catch him, you have to plan carefully and take him by surprise.

WE has already done this in this game.

Condi's Lee Sin ganked at level 2 and ganked against the rhythm.

What is the result?
Yuanshen's weird operation ruined the early game's development and rhythm.

Yes, even if you carefully plan an attack, catching Yuanshen is still a matter of luck. If you are not careful, even the jungler will lose.

In the history of League of Legends, there has never been a top laner who is so dominant online and yet so difficult to target.

It may not be possible to restrict him.

But if you don't target him, after twenty minutes, you will find that a big devil has emerged in the top lane. This version drives the mid and jungle to cause trouble around the bottom lane, and the status of the top laner in the team has declined.

Because the team resources that the top laner can get are reduced.

If you want to carry, you must get resources. This is common sense.

From this point of view, it does weaken the carry ability of the top laner in disguise.

Flash Wolves' mid and jungle, whether it's Wei Shen or Scout, have rarely gone to the top lane recently. They have all been ganking the bottom lane and making trouble around it.

But, from a deeper perspective...

Does this mean that both teams' top laners are left alone?
With both teams' top laners being left alone, what if Flash Wolves always let Yuanshen get the heroes with the advantage?

After figuring it all out, Smile got goosebumps all over his body. He suddenly felt that Riot had made the worst version change possible.

No matter how smart the designer is, he is just an ordinary person with a relatively high IQ. He is not a real "god" and cannot truly control this game.

In fact, there are many examples of Riot designers getting slapped in the face because of mistakes at work.

Heroes like Ryze and Metal who have been reworked many times are one of them.

The most amazing thing is that they remade a hero from 'A' to 'B', but found that it was useless, so after more than a year, they remade 'B' back to 'A'.

Riot designers all agreed that this change weakened the top laner's carry ability and indirectly suppressed Yuanshen. Judging from the recent ups and downs of Flash Wolves, they feel they have succeeded.
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Is this really the case?
Smile had deep doubts in her heart.

Flash Wolves' previous performance was up and down, which may not be because Yuanshen was really weakened, but it may also be because they have not yet found a playing style that suits them.

Judging from their performance in this game against WE, perhaps... Flash Wolves has found its own style of play.

Guan Zeyuan and Jiede didn't notice that Wei Xiao had suddenly become silent, and they were still discussing the situation on the field.

The focus of the discussion is on Lucian's equipment.

"During this wave of returning to the city, Lucian directly made the Ruined King and the Hammer. This should be the Black Cleaver. Black Cleaver and the Ruined King, this itemization idea is very novel." Ze Yuan said:
"I remember that the current mainstream build for Lucian is Essence Reaver, Cannon, and Endless Critical Strike..."

"correct."

Ji De looked thoughtful and said, "However, Lucian was hit by Riot a while ago, so his passive second attack can't trigger a critical hit...

Hmm, now that I think about it, Ruined King is really useful. Lucian can trigger Ruined King's passive effect multiple times. Combined with Black Cleaver's armor penetration, it feels very powerful in the early and mid-game, whether it's against tanks or squishy targets.

Lucian was popular for a long time in the spring season of S6. Whether facing Sivir or Jhin, Lucian could gain the advantage in the line.

A tall tree attracts the wind. Lucian took a hit some time ago, and his abilities were weakened in the mid-to-late stages, causing his win rate to plummet.

There were many people watching the semi-final between Flash Wolves and WE, such as Uzi, who was eating KFC in the base while watching the game.

After seeing Yuanshen's build, Uzi was stunned. After just a moment's thought, he immediately knew that this [Ruined Blade + Black Cleaver] build for Lucian would be a huge hit. It would likely replace crit builds and become the mainstream Lucian build.

"As a top laner, why do you have such a deep understanding of ADC..."

Uzi was speechless for a while.

Many new players who have only recently watched the game, due to the club's marketing and Uzi's own preferences, believe that Vayne is Uzi's best hero. Others, based on some of Uzi's poor plays in the best-of-five game between RNG and G8 at the Season 2 World Championship, believe that he can't play Lucian.

After that game, whenever someone made a brilliant play with Lucian in a game or live stream, the screen would often be flooded with messages like, "Did Uzi learn it?"

But this view is actually wrong.

Regardless of which hero Uzi himself prefers, in fact, his most powerful hero in the World Championship is neither the Night Hunter Vayne nor the future Void Daughter Kaisa.

Neither of these championship skins belongs to him.

The fans are pushing this, but no one is buying it at Worlds.

On the contrary, it is his Lucian, who is the most criticized, who is the real face of the World Championship.

In the Season 4 World Championship, everyone who faced SH Royal Club would ban Lucian. Even Samsung banned Lucian in all four games in the final series. In that year, when it came to Lucian alone, Uzi was a textbook example.

He killed TPA team's ADC Tristana at the speed of light, and the eldest brother was completely reduced to a nobody, also because of this hero.

Regardless of whether he is the world's No. 4 ADC, in the year of S, Uzi was indeed the world's No. Lucian.

The hero who was once the most prestigious became a black spot and was considered by many to be unplayable... This plot is something that even online novels would not dare to write.

After the previous tower was destroyed, Flash Wolves' pace suddenly accelerated.

With the advantage in the top lane, Flash Wolves controlled the Rift Herald, making Lucian's advancement ability even more unstoppable. Afterwards, the mid and jungle continued to make trouble around the bottom lane. As soon as they had a chance, Spider and Crocodile would move down, forcing WE's mid and jungle to move down as well.

Not going?
Then your ADC is gone.

With all eight players in the bottom lane, the top lane was completely left alone, and it really became a 1v1 single-player game between Lucian and Maokai.

But with a 0/2 record, two and a half levels behind, and over gold behind, how could a tree possibly beat Lucian?
The tree before was just like a piece of paper in front of Lucian, but after Lucian got the Ruined King... it was like a piece of paper soaked in water.
Coupled with the minions enhanced by the Rift Herald buff, the tree couldn't even clear the minion line.

How to defend?
In just two minutes, the second tower in the top lane was pushed down.

After pushing the second tower, Lucian just ran out of blue.

Yuan Shen returned to the city and made Black Cleaver, then took the mid laner's blue buff and controlled Lucian to return to the top lane.

There is only one reason why Flash Wolves chose to send Lucian to the top lane even though the first and second towers were destroyed.

"Yuanshen wants to demolish the high ground?" Guan Zeyuan said in disbelief.

"Hey, hey, that's an exaggeration!" I also subconsciously denied it.
In professional competitions, after pushing down a tower, the teams often have to work together to operate and push forward.

There are only a few people who can push down the second tower by their own strength.

Break through the highland tower and clear the level on the top lane?
Brother, this is not a bully game.

In professional competitions, the history of top laners who killed their opponents and won all the way to the finals can be traced back to the ancient times of S3, when a monkey man named 'otto' killed Gogoing's Ryze with a crocodile... Those who know the S3 version will understand.

In today's increasingly team-focused meta, this kind of thing is basically impossible to happen.

At last year's World Championship, we might have seen heroes like Fiora and Riven killing their way through the competition.

But that’s the heavy-armored warrior, top lane version!

but……

This year, it's not the top version.

Ruined King, Black Cleaver, and attack speed boots.

In less than twenty minutes of game time, Lucian's equipment was almost unbeatable.

In comparison, Da Shu's equipment was extremely shabby.

Doran's Ring, Cloth Shoes, Catalytic Stone, Glacial Armor... He couldn't even make the first big item that the big tree must make, [Glory of Justice].

“The gap between the rich and the poor is too exaggerated.

"Two kills plus a blood tower, and over fifty last hits..."

"Oh my god, when has Brother Legs ever been beaten so badly?"

After the first blood tower was destroyed, a few minutes passed in a flash, and the audience realized that the gap in the top lane had been further widened, and Lucian's advantage snowballed.

In the impression of W fans, mid laner Xiye's performance is fluctuating. Sometimes he can beat the first-line mid laner, and sometimes he may be suppressed by the second-line mid laner. He is notoriously nervous. When Mr. Kang loses his rhythm, he can only rely on stealing the dragon to revitalize the situation.

The brother-in-law in the bottom lane has also grown up step by step, and recently officially took over the position of team carry.

The top lane is the most stable point since WE's reorganization, so 957 is affectionately called "Brother Legs" by fans.

Because 957 is really stable.

Therefore, WE fans rarely see 957 being beaten so badly. In the last game, he was killed by Yuanshen's Kled while using Gnar, which was shocking enough.

I didn't expect this one to be even more exaggerated. Even the second tower was taken out. The most outrageous thing...

Is this Lucian really going to clear the high ground?
"...I can't hold it alone." 957 took a look at the Rift Herald buff on Lucian, which still had half a minute of duration, and said decisively.

Meanwhile, Flash Wolves were still putting pressure on WE's bottom lane. Crocodile and Elise kept moving towards the bottom lane whenever they had nothing to do, even deliberately appearing in WE's field of vision, as if to say, "It doesn't matter if I can do it or not, as long as I can force your mid and jungle to come to the bottom lane to fight."

Come, let’s go on the road together.

When the top lane becomes a 1v1 solo lane, see who returns victorious and who is completely wiped out.

Both the upper and lower lanes were under pressure at the same time, and WE could only choose one of them.

Which is more important, the highland tower or the bottom lane outer tower?
Even elementary school students know this problem, so how could W not know it? They decisively sacrificed their car to protect their king and moved Ashe and Minotaur to the top lane.

rob Peter to pay Paul.

The bottom lane tower and the little dragon were directly lost, and then even the middle lane tower was directly destroyed by the four Flash Wolves who pushed together.

All three outer towers were destroyed, and the economic gap was as high as 6,000. Two-thirds of the advantage was brought directly or indirectly by the top laner.

However, in this way, WE did curb Lucian's trend of going to the high ground.

Sometimes, losing the outer tower is a good thing for the disadvantaged side.

Because, if the outer tower is there, you must guard under the tower, otherwise you will not get any economic benefits from the military line.

On the contrary, if all the outer towers are destroyed, the economy will be at a disadvantage, but the range of activities of the five people will also be reduced, that is to say... the defense line will be shortened, and the five people on the disadvantaged side will be able to support each other more quickly, forming a deterrent between each other.

Taking the current W situation as an example, it takes at least twenty-four seconds for the middle tower to support to the top lane high ground, but it only takes about ten seconds for the middle tower to support to the high ground.

Viewers who watch high-end live broadcasts often hear phrases like "Let's leave this tower alone, it'll be easier to defend."

Under what circumstances and situations should you place a tower...this is also part of the game operation.

Brother-in-law Ashe guards the top lane, Syndra clears the line in the middle lane, Maokai guards the bottom lane, and the jungler and support keep roaming in the "defense line", providing vision and intimidating Flash Wolves.

"WE barely managed to stabilize the situation," Smile said. "But as I said, this Flash Wolves lineup isn't afraid of dragging the game into the late game. Look at Pu Pu's little mage. In just 200 minutes, he's already accumulated bonus spell power, which is more than three useless bludgeons would add..."

"Hey, Yuanshen is a bit naughty here, he even wants to attack the tower!" Guan Zeyuan said in surprise

The director's camera was focused on the top lane. This game was a bit weird. The two marksman heroes didn't officially meet until 20 minutes in. Lucian was four levels higher than Ashe.

If you were watching the game midway through, you would have thought the bottom lane was a complete mess. (End of this chapter)