LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 408 was supposed to end in 2 minutes, but it was dragged out to 15 minutes.
Next, continue clearing out the three wolves in the lower half of the area, as well as the red monsters and stone beetles in the upper half.

Just four and a half minutes into the game, Graves had already outfarmed Trundle by almost half in CS, a difference that was clearly visible.

Following the principle of leaving no one behind, Lin Ruo turned around and brushed away the river crabs left in the upper half of the area.

Upon reaching level five, carrying a huge sum of money, Lin Ruo made a decision that left the audience wide-eyed.

That was to turn around and launch the same invasion operation as before, using the E skill to pass through the wall and arrive at the triangular bush outside the blue team's first tower, and set his sights on the frog that had just spawned a few seconds ago.

Judging the timing, Lin Ruo controlled Graves to start with a smoke grenade from the bush to attack low-health enemies, and with double buffs, he used Q followed by a grenade to start the fight.

Peanut, who had already returned to base to resupply and bought two longswords, arrived late. Having just taken the wolves that had respawned early, his first instinct was to go to the jungle entrance to kill the Seer Fruit to check vision and prevent Graves from invading.

However, it wasn't until he glanced at the empty toad's nest that Peanut became alert and hurriedly activated his acceleration field to go up and investigate.

As a result, Lin Ruo had already lured the frog to the outer edge of the tri-bush area through smooth kiting, without giving the arriving troll a chance to steal it. He then used his A skill followed by Smite, turned around, and used his E skill to pass through the wall and head towards the river area.

Little Peanut could only watch helplessly; there was nothing he could do.

The Graves can pass through walls, can he? He only has a pillar that's out of reach, he doesn't know where to push against.

Now everything has been turned upside down, and the level gap between the two sides has widened further, especially in terms of equipment. Lin Ruo, who returned to town, took out a small guerrilla saber, two longswords, and a pair of straw sandals in one go.

This contrasts sharply with Peanut's meager starting gear: the Hunter's Broadsword.

Lin Ruo's next move was simple: go down and wait for the spawning of the new frogs and wolves, then move towards the bottom lane river area once he reached level six.

Since the KZ duo maintained a steady lane pressure, they couldn't possibly miss any defensive vision, so Graves' position was undoubtedly exposed to the Xuanming Elders' gaze.

The suppression came to an abrupt halt, and Ashe and Lulu both began to retreat slightly, giving up some space.

Seeing this, Lin Ruo turned and left. What he wanted was to temporarily stop KZ's duo from pushing the lane, so that his own bot lane duo could relieve some of the laning pressure.

Obviously, achieving this goal is very simple; just take a walk along the river after dinner, and treat it as a form of exercise.

Peanut was in a disadvantageous situation at the moment and couldn't care less about the pre-planned support for the bottom lane.

After moving into the inner part of the dragon pit, Lin Ruo, controlling Graves, slid up the wall and arrived in the lower half of the blue team's jungle, heading straight towards the newly spawned red monster.

As Peanut had predicted, he was currently in the upper jungle. Due to the different order in which the blue monsters were destroyed, they respawned much faster than the red monsters.

He had no reason to come down and wait for the red monster to respawn immediately. He could only try to kill the blue monster before coming down, so as not to waste time farming jungle monsters.

However, since the choice has been made, the red monster can only be wasted unavoidably.

Although BDD's Raven in the mid lane experienced a qualitative change in combat power after reaching level six, the Troll's excessive weakness in the early game directly caused his combat power to drop by a significant level.

Ultimately, it's because he couldn't push Ryze away. Without the help of the Troll, even the strongest fighting ability is no match for him.

Scout could push the lane and then walk into the river to cover Lin Ruo as he took down the red monster. However, Peanut, who hadn't reached level 6 yet, couldn't defend the red monster. They were forced to hold out for a while until Swain reached the battlefield.

If he dares to get off, he will most likely be greeted by Ryze's hearse.

After clearing the red buff alone, Lin Ruo calmly stepped on the blast cone and landed, instantly appearing in front of KZ's first tower.

After unleashing a set of skills and inflicting slight damage on the KZ duo, they made a graceful exit.

He didn't need to force a kill on KZ's bot lane duo, but given his lack of crowd control, he was likely capable of doing something to the heavily guarded KZ bot lane duo.

Therefore, Lin Ruo chose to check on the KZ bot lane from time to time as the future MSI champion jungler, and try to force their form, so that the KZ bot lane duo could not achieve strong suppression as desired.

If things were going normally, a troll should have appeared and been chasing him by now.

But what can you do when Little Peanut is acting so strangely right now...?

Peanut breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the Graves leave, and now his only refuge was the respawning Krugs.

He wasn't even 6 yet, so he couldn't do anything but work with stone beetles.

Fortunately, he had taken down the F6 camp before going to the top lane to farm the blue buff, so Lin Ruo couldn't further damage his survival environment and could only happily go back to farm the respawning blue buff.

The game had now reached the 9-minute mark, and neither side had yet secured a first blood. However, the 1500 gold difference clearly indicated who was in a superior position.

During the brief respite of Ryze returning to base, BDD's Swain was finally freed up to push the lane and roam to the bottom lane, where he coordinated with the KZ duo to exert pressure from the opposite direction.

Peanut finally showed some backbone and stormed into the jungle to steal the spawned Gromp, but that was all. He still didn't dare to give the three wolves and trolls that spawned at the same time a second glance.

Because Lin Ruo returned to the city with his first completed item, the luxurious red jungle knife.

When the camera switched to the top lane, Camille, who already had Tiamat, turned around and started behaving herself, using her E to get close and her ultimate to dodge and then her full combo to send Khan's half-health Ornn back to his turret.

The first eight minutes were clearly Ornn's time to push the lane and gain an advantage, but KZ failed to make any moves to establish an advantage in the top lane due to a far-reaching level 1 team fight.

As a result, once the time was up, the situation undoubtedly reversed, and Ornn was beginning to struggle against Camille's pushing and attacks.

"He's not in good form in the top lane; he'll probably have to go back to base after clearing this wave of minions."

Kim Gong promptly relayed this news, which could potentially impact the subsequent situation, via voice message.

Lin Ruo, walking towards the bottom lane, calmly said, "Let's just gank the bottom lane."

There are no living jungle monsters left on the blue side in the bottom half of the map, so if the Troll Warlord invades and steals the Gromp, and his own team has no supplies left, he cannot stay in the bottom lane for long.

Therefore, this is the best opportunity to seize, bar none.

In the interlocking sequence of events, Tianye, who was waiting for Lin Ruo to arrive in his own triangular bush area, had already activated his ultimate move, Abyss Stealth. In the underground mode, he opened his blood-red maw, ready to swallow the Graves whole, and headed straight for the target location.

This location is locked in the tri-bush area of ​​the blue team's bottom lane.

KZ's duo, with their spies on the map, immediately noticed the vision in the jungle. However, the Xuanming Elders felt a sense of impending doom. They had been preparing to recall after pushing the lane, but they had only just reached the tower and hadn't had a chance to do so yet. So, were EDG coming to send them on their way?

That's probably... that's definitely the case.

Because the rune circle also lit up at the same time in the bush area behind Tahm Kench's tower, along with Camille who teleported down after Ryze landed and placed a ward.

This is an obvious five-on-one attack.

EDG acted swiftly and decisively, exploiting the teleport disadvantage caused by Ornn's inability to withstand the pressure and teleport back to lane, while also anticipating the possibility of Trundle recalling, and launching a lightning-fast gank on the bottom lane.

The fact that the minion wave was still some distance from the tower might be the only consolation for the two elders, but thinking about it another way, a five-man gank on the second tower doesn't really require many minions.
Yes, it's not necessary.

Tahm Kench flashed into the tower and stuck out his tongue, then Camille used her hook to charge in, while Graves threw out a smoke grenade to provide cover.

Even if Ashe and Lulu have Flash, it doesn't solve any problems since they're all without any mobility skills.

As for iboy, who is still in the mid lane, he only needs to use his ultimate to knock the tower into the tower, and he doesn't need to contribute any other damage output.

With Graves' early development combined with the damage from Ryze and Camille, he can instantly kill any enemy unit if he gets controlled.

With absolutely no room for maneuver, this was a major victory for EDG in terms of three-lane operations.

"Smoke grenade clears the way, grenade launcher fires, E to move forward, auto-attack followed by ultimate, Ashe was instantly killed by Graves before she could even see what was happening, wow."

Miller, watching from the commentary booth, was also full of admiration. EDG's rhythm was too good, even better than he had imagined.

Is this still EDG? Oh, it always has been. Since last year, EDG has been constantly redefining my worldview.

Perhaps two years ago, the LPL, still reeling from the LCK's Korean-style macro-management, could never have imagined that two years later, the LPL would possess macro-management even more terrifying than the LCK's.
The team that executed this strategy was EDG, who were ridiculed by other LPL fans at the time for only using clumsy Korean-style strategies and fighting in internal battles.

Now, their operational skills in international matches are also completely dominating the LCK champions.

With the first tower falling, the gap in pace between the two sides widened further, and the situation became difficult for KZ in less than 12 minutes.

[It feels like KZ can be picked up in 15 minutes. I suggest picking it up directly, so Lin gets too carried away later. Lin is the most inhuman when he's having a good time, and it makes me unhappy.]

Yes, we all agree that we should click 15 minutes in. We can't let Lin get too comfortable. Click quickly; he's playing Graves, not Sejuani. He'll be getting kills in two shots later on. I've seen this scenario before.

Don't assume that if you let EDG gain a 3000 gold lead in the early game, you're already out of the game, especially since 1500 of that gold is with Lin.

[Everyone's telling Peanut to stop eating beef noodles. Look, he's not in good form and Lin has blown him out of the game again. I can't imagine how arrogant Lin will be after the game ends.]

[Lin Gou won the game using despicable means. On behalf of all LPL viewers, I express my disapproval and demand that Lin Gou withdraw from League of Legends esports and become a streamer.]

【No way, only two kills and you guys are already popping champagne? Hmph, that's how LPL fans are. Unlike me, I was already popping champagne when Lin stole the blue buff.】

Amidst a barrage of cheers and comments, even though the match was somewhat dull in its execution, it didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the LPL viewers.

Because they're going to win.

As long as we can win the game, it doesn't matter what method we use to win.

However, this wasn't so friendly to the European audience at the scene, as they were used to the more playful and chaotic atmosphere and preferred the more exciting atmosphere of a free-for-all from the start.

EDG and KZ are representative teams in this regard. Lin Ruo in the LPL can always contribute a lot of kills and tempo within 10 minutes.

KZ's top and jungle duo have always had great synergy in the new season, gaining a significant advantage in the early game, especially Khan, who often achieves solo kills.

But that didn't happen today, because he was playing a terrible Ornn, and he was being chased and beaten by Camille, forcing him to use his teleport back to lane.

However, what offered some consolation to the European audience was that Lin Ruo, who was controlling Graves, once again invaded the jungle to steal the blue buff, which triggered a rather chaotic battle.

In this chaotic battle, EDG executed a flawless initiation, while KZ was caught off guard and unilaterally crushed.

It all stemmed from Khan's Ornn summoning the goat upon arrival. This wasn't a problem for Graves, who wanted to stay in the jungle, but the problem was...

This ultimate skill was cast at a distance not far from Graves. Lin Ruo turned around and casually threw a smoke bomb to interrupt Ornn's skill casting, and then decisively started to counterattack and wait for others.

KZ lost their most reliable initiation skill and immediately became the target of initiation, because they had no more aggressive skills to use.

Even with his ultimate ability active, Swain couldn't withstand the combined attacks of the three EDG players.

Ryze, Graves, and even Camille are all excellent at kiting and can re-engage, which can drag the game out until Swain is powerless to continue.

Camille used her E skill to enter the fray and lock down Swain, instantly killing the retreating Swain with three other heroes. With Ryze's ultimate at the same time, the Trundle, who was retreating towards the second tower, also met his end.

KZ found themselves at a huge disadvantage, and the longer the game went on, the greater their disadvantage became.

Yes, this lineup had absolutely no chance in the later stages.

KZ's coach Sin in the locker room was quite troubled. How did they choose such an odd lineup? It was true that once they fell into a disadvantage, there was no chance of turning the game around.

Because their lineup doesn't have a single late-game hero.

Of course, if this lineup gains a significant advantage in the early game, it will undoubtedly be a perfect offensive push lineup.

The lineup's duality was evident, but they suffered from its weakness: they failed to capitalize on the early-game advantage.

This was something Sin never expected; they were beaten to the point of no return by EDG in the early stages.

It was clear that this was a game where the fate of the entire match was decided by the level 1 team fight. EDG seized the initiative in the level 1 team fight, causing Peanut, the jungler, to become invisible.

And naturally, the situation that followed made it impossible to win the game.

After gaining an advantage, EDG's lineup is far superior to theirs in every aspect.

(End of this chapter)