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Chapter 395 Does a Three-Person Attempt to Kill Count as a Forced Kill? (Second Update)

The ever-expanding stone wall stretched out into the distance, blocking the defensive tower in a short time, along with the Rock Sparrow that landed in the area in front of the tower.

One stone projectile after another was fired through the air, continuously attacking the retreating IG duo.

Not daring to be negligent, JK manipulated Kai'Sa to use E followed by Flash to pass through the stone wall and return to the base of the turret. Braum, holding up his shield, followed closely behind using his skill to dash.

The massive stone wall became useless in the blink of an eye.

However, the crisis for the IG duo was not resolved, because another figure suddenly appeared behind the tower while they were focused on what was in front of them.

Lin Ruo, who had been lying in ambush in the bushes behind the tower, was waiting for this moment. Kai'Sa, who has no mobility skills, would have to use Flash to get through the wall.

And then, a flash...

hum.

Lin Ruo pressed the W skill to gulp down the strongest liquor, and with a satisfied expression, she manipulated the barrel to move along the corner of the wall, out of the bushes, and into the tower. She then used the E skill to push forward and used Flash to create a distance displacement.

The moment Kasha turned around, he swiftly and decisively charged forward without waiting for a reaction.

one stone two bird.

Kai'Sa and Braum, who had teleported over the wall, were both knocked unconscious and unable to move for a moment.

Scout immediately controlled Taliyah to place her Rock Shove, and the well-placed rock shove instantly pushed the two back to an area outside the turret.

JK, stunned by the barrel, had no way to avoid the obvious control skill, and Varus's Piercing Arrow and Unholy Arrow Rain followed.

"Swallow me, swallow me." As the damage poured out, Lin Ruo repeated in the voice chat, instructing Tian Ye to use Tahm Kench to open his blood-red maw and swallow him, luring him out of the tower.

The damage from turrets at levels 6 is considerable. With his straight E-flash into the turret and charge, if Tahm Kench doesn't react in time, his health will be depleted in just a few hits.

Before leaving, Tianye pressed his tongue against Kai'Sa's face to slow her down, and then lifted her out of the turret. Tianye calmly swallowed the barrel and turned around to spit it out.

With the combined damage from Taliyah and Varus, Kai'Sa, who had no Flash or crowd control, had no chance of survival and died instantly.

First blood!

The notification sound of First Blood rang out from Summoner's Rift, and cheers erupted from the crowd.

With their coordinated efforts, Scout, actively roaming around, secured the kills.

Although Baolan's Braum was also pushed outside the tower, no further damage could be dealt to him. He managed to flash back to the tower with half his health remaining, without any serious injury.

"What a pity, what a pity. Lin Shen is too cunning. He actually came out from behind the tower to mess with me."

On the IG players' bench, JK shook his head helplessly.

Although they were aware of the possibility of a sudden attack from EDG, and their teammates were constantly giving them instructions to retreat, they did not expect it to happen so quickly. Even though they managed to get back to the tower at the right moment, they were still inevitably being watched.

In particular, the unexpected placement of the barrel into the tower with its E-flash caught the JK, who was fully prepared to turn and dodge the subsequent Rock Slash, off guard.

All I can say is that EDG's deployment was excellent.

The timing of the attack, the order and direction of the strike—everything was done better than they had anticipated.

Later, Ning Wang not only missed his target, but also failed to farm the minion wave under the tower.

Because EDG controlled the lane in their half of the area, the EDG duo would recall to base immediately after going there without pushing the minion wave, which naturally caused them to get stuck.

This is undoubtedly a more costly situation for JK, who gave up the first blood.

"EDG has achieved their initial goals in the early stages. Whether they can expand their lead later depends on their continued offensive pace. IG, on the other hand, needs to be more careful."

In my memory.

Both sides have extremely strong lineups. IG managed to hold out for 20 minutes without any major incidents, and once their lineups developed, they could easily put up a fight.

EDG's goal is to prevent IG from getting through the first 20 minutes safely.

Therefore, targeting the bot lane is the first step. EDG cannot target the top lane or even the mid lane; their only target can be IG's bot lane.

Neither Kai'Sa nor Braum have Flash left, so they'll only get easier to catch if they're not careful.

Therefore, Lin Ruo's next step was clear: take advantage of the time when his own Taliyah's ultimate skill was on cooldown to return to the top jungle and quickly clear the jungle monsters, so as to make more room for activities in the bottom jungle.

"Taliyah's ultimate ability refreshes every 3 minutes, so they should be back in 10 minutes."

In IG's voice chat, Ning kept repeating the same message, reminding his teammates to watch out for Taliyah's next gank.

However, EDG's actions are not necessarily centered around the cooldown of their ultimate abilities. Gragas can still be quite effective at catching people when he has his ultimate.

Therefore, they need to be wary of many things. In addition to keeping an eye on Rookie in the mid lane, they also need to extend their vision beyond the jungle as early as possible.

Back in the Ueno area, Lin Ruo continued to only farm the red monsters that respawned every 7 minutes, and the F6 below; there was no need to look at anything else.

He then headed down into the jungle to clear the three wolves and preemptively placed wards in the river area. To stop his next move, Ning couldn't simply place wards in his own jungle; that was clearly a poor strategy.

The best strategy is to invade and place vision in the enemy's jungle to assess all possible movements at any time.

So Lin Ruo didn't deal with the toad monster right away. Instead, she drank wine and waited tentatively with her big belly sticking out in the grass behind the blue monster.

Sure enough, Ning Wang arrived right on time, probably trying to establish vision in the blue pit, so he entered the small path towards the river.

Lin Ruo calmly waited for the troll to approach, first throwing out a bucket to slow it down, then using her W skill to smash the bucket down, disorienting the troll. Immediately afterwards, she used her E skill to cross the wall diagonally to create distance and return to the path.

He didn't need to confront the troll head-on; it wasn't that he was cowardly, but rather that he genuinely couldn't win.

Of course, there's no need to call Taliyah for support, as it would disrupt the mid-lane pressure and could easily leak information, forcing Ning to abandon the invasion. All we need to do is scare Trundle back.

Seeing that Scout on the center line was showing signs of moving slightly toward the river, Ning, who had suffered a loss, dared not linger and reluctantly left a fake ward in the grass on the path before quickly retreating back to the river.

Since he couldn't detect vision in the red team's jungle, he had no choice but to go to the bottom lane instead of the nearby one. He used his advantage of being one step ahead to force the lane and bring Braum to fill the river vision gap, while leaving their trinket wards at the entrance to the red team's jungle.

With both routes leading to the river detected by IG's spies, it will obviously play a role in ensuring online security.

However, from EDG's perspective, this vision control ability is rather immature.

The placement of a field of view depends not only on its location but also on the suitability of the time of day.

It's only been a little over 9 minutes, while Taliyah's ultimate ability has a cooldown of about 10 minutes.

In other words, IG set up the detection vision one minute in advance, which undoubtedly gave EDG time to remove the wards.

Lin Ruo, who helped Taliyah take down the blue monster, arrived right after and placed a control ward at an open angle at the entrance of the jungle, easily clearing the wards set up by IG.

They then went to the river to coordinate with Tahm Kench in the field to clear the vision in the bushes, and then invaded the blue team's triangular bush to leave spies.

This is where Ning's problem becomes apparent. Because the two sides start clearing the jungle at different points, the jungle monsters on the blue side respawn later in the upper half than in the lower half.

So when the blue monster was unearthed, it lingered in the lower half of the area, struggling with whether or not to go up and eat it.

Once they go up there, if EDG directly targets the bottom lane...

But if he doesn't go up there, what's the point of playing this troll?

EDG did a great job helping the enemy solve this problem by having Gnar, who was already pushing the lane, solo counter-pick.

With the blue monster gone from the upper half of the map, Ning won't be thinking about it as much anymore.

Yes, Prince Ning hadn't really thought that far ahead, but he couldn't help feeling a little heartache.

And this doesn't solve the problem either. Does it mean he doesn't want the three wolves and the toad in the upper half of the map anymore...?

After clearing out the red monsters that had been there for seven minutes, the troll then invaded the lower jungle, leaving it unable to move even after more than two minutes.

If EDG doesn't make a move soon, won't he just have to sit there and wait to be killed?

To solve this problem, Rookie's Vampire recalled to base and immediately took over Ning's task to help relieve his stress.

At 10 minutes and 30 seconds, Taliyah pushed the lane to IG's mid tower again and then disappeared from the river's vision, clearly using minion pressure to create pressure.

Therefore, after returning to base to replenish supplies, Rookie decisively chose to change direction in front of the high ground tower and follow bot lane, so as to ensure that he could arrive in time when EDG made a move on the bot lane.

The two sides began their second battle for control of the bottom lane in a clearly visible moment.

Neither side had teleport, making this a perfectly fair four-on-four matchup.

However, as things progressed, EDG's actions seemed to have exceeded IG's expectations.

Taliyah's ultimate can block the road, so since blocking anyone is the same as blocking the road, why not block the IG mid and jungle who are coming?
A little thought reveals that EDG launched a fierce offensive from the position of IG's mid and jungle players. That was, in the gap between the minion wave and the tower, Taliyah activated Wall Movement to directly block the area behind the tower.

After isolating the newly arrived trolls and vampires, Lin Ruo, activating Predator, maneuvered the barrel into the tower, aiming directly at the helpless Kai'Sa.

How to kill?

Of course, the strategy is to use E-Flash to engage Kai'Sa in the face, while simultaneously throwing an explosive barrel at the area behind the tower where she might flash out, thus blocking all possible escape routes for Kai'Sa.

Completely caught off guard, JK barely managed to react before dashing out of the tower, only to be met with a fierce bombardment and instantly thrown out of control, pinned against the wall at an angle.

Taliyah, who was blocking the way from behind, slightly raised her head to assist, and Tahm Kench, who was entering the tower behind, combined with Varus to unleash full damage, easily taking down Kai'Sa, who was completely controlled, right in front of Braum.

Tahm Kench swallowed the barrel that was tanking the tower as usual, while Taliyah used her remaining Flash to create distance between herself and the IG mid and jungle duo who had crossed the wall.

The four EDG players who regrouped were positioned behind a tower, neither under tower attack nor with low health, and had Varus, whose early-game damage output was off the charts.

The other three members of IG remained completely unmoved.

(End of this chapter)