LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 496 As a pig, you have to know how to eat

Fiora came to mid, and Ryze went up – this was an ultimate flex pick that no one expected.

Moreover, the so-called role swap is not an in-game exchange, but is actually based outside the game. Faker plays Fiora in the mid lane, while Kiin plays Ryze in the top lane for a solo lane matchup.

If there are no issues with hero proficiency, Wang Duoduo can sense the usefulness of this exchange, which is equivalent to both lanes gaining lane priority in reverse.

Firstly, Ryze switching to top lane is obviously a sure way to suppress Gnar, and the bigger effect is that this suppression is accompanied by a lot of ganks.

With Fiora in the top lane, it's definitely not easy for Score's Taliyah, who is in charge of jungling, to gank. However, if Ryze is in the top lane, it's obviously much easier.

If Gnar uses EW to bind Gnar and doesn't use Flash, he'll basically be lifted up by the Taliyah who comes up. The coordination is quite easy.

This naturally leads to a much worse survival environment for Chinese teams in the top lane compared to the normal Fiora.

What's worse is that Fiora going mid isn't necessarily a bad thing for Korean teams.

With the W skill [Laurent's Eye], the mechanism is very effective against Irelia's kiting, which means that the Korean team also has a certain advantage in the mid lane matchup.

So when the two most important split-push lanes for the Chinese team were suppressed in the mid-to-late game, the situation was obviously somewhat unfavorable from the start.

The South Korean team's substitutions were a bit too much, while the Chinese team couldn't follow suit and had to accept the situation.

"So the lineups for both sides have been finalized, and the exciting battle of the League of Legends finals at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games is about to begin."

Wang Duoduo, who was in the commentary booth, was a little depressed, but when he saw the Chinese team's players in the final shot not looking so bad, he immediately cheered up.

The LPL of today is no longer the region that was easily dominated by Korean teams two years ago. Now, the only ones who should be worried about not being able to win are the Korean teams, not the united Chinese teams.

"The blue team, China, consists of Gnar in the top lane, Sejuani in the jungle, Irelia in the mid lane, and Varus and Alistar in the bottom lane."

"The red team is the Korean team, with Ryze in the top lane, Taliyah in the jungle, Fiora in the mid lane, and Ezreal and Gragas in the bot lane."

"Both sides are ready, let's hurry up and enter Summoner's Rift."

Wang Duoduo finished speaking.

The atmosphere at the stadium was clearly that of a Chinese team home game, with cheers rising and falling for a long time.

With the relentless rhythm, the ten people on both sides quickly entered Summoner's Rift.

The final match has now begun.

"Standard positioning is fine. The enemy's lineup can't enter our jungle. I'll start from the bottom."

After buying equipment and heading to the jungle, Lin Ruo briefly discussed the team's strategy for the game with her teammates.

Besides the top and mid lanes pushing the lanes, the most important aspect of the Korean team's lineup is that they will also play around the top and mid lanes in this game. Or to put it more simply, the top lane is the core of the Korean team's territory.

The situation for the Chinese team is somewhat the opposite; they might have to focus on the bottom lane. This was indeed the case in the pre-match communication between the team and Abu.

However, after the Korean team changed their positions, this argument about playing around the bottom lane was rightfully overturned.

Lin Ruo won't deliberately help the bottom lane. The bottom lane might not be good for lane kills in this game, but they can definitely get through the laning phase comfortably. In that case, Varus's development won't be bad.

Lin Ruo believed that what he really needed to do was to help relieve the pressure on the top and mid lanes.

Especially in the top lane, Mouse's Gnar is too easy to collapse; if you're not careful, the game could be over.

So we must help, we absolutely must help.

At 1 minute and 40 seconds, with the help of the bottom lane duo, Lin Ruo played Sejuani and leveled up to level 2 with red buff.

There's no need for vision control in this game, and it's obvious that Taliyah will be farming from the bottom to the top, otherwise Ryze would have been a wasted pick.

In Lin Ruo's opinion, Score wouldn't gank the bot lane much, and that was indeed the case. After Taliyah, who started with blue buff, reached level 2, she obediently went top lane.

However, Score's jungle route was a little different in this respect. He didn't pay attention to the Gromp, and even the Wolves, which he was supposed to farm, seemed to be not fresh enough after he attacked them a couple of times.

Score didn't find anything smelly and left quickly, heading straight for the Ueno area.

This was quite unexpected for Wang Duoduo in the commentary booth: "Even if you're in a rush to gank top, you should at least kill one more jungle monster in the bottom half of the jungle, right? Are you really not going to kill any?"

It was indeed one that wasn't played.

From Wang Duoduo's omniscient perspective, Score's target wasn't the red monster or the F6 camp, but rather to head straight through the upper jungle towards the river. His objective gradually became clear as time passed.
"He wanted to catch the river crabs in the riverbed!" Wang Duoduo finally found the reason.

After leveling up to level two by defeating the blue buff, he immediately went to eat the river crab. This kind of operation was indeed unheard of, but Wang Duoduo could easily figure out that Score was expressing his determination.

This is to do everything in their power to maintain the rhythm of the top and middle lanes, even slowing down their own early development.

Taking down the river crab in the upper river undoubtedly gave the Korean team a much clearer view of the river, which ensured that Ryze had a more comfortable environment to farm lanes.

The strategic intent couldn't be clearer: they didn't want Sejuani to have too many opportunities to target the top lane.

Although the Chinese team's lineup should theoretically focus on the bottom lane, Score clearly realized that the Chinese team wouldn't succeed by solely focusing on the bottom lane, and they wouldn't make any mindless moves that only targeted the bottom lane.

"Score's strategy was very clear in this game; he obviously knew exactly what he was supposed to do."

Wang Duoduo continued his analysis, and couldn't help but look forward to Score's next move: whether he would stay in the upper half of the map to monitor Sejuani, or where he would go next.

But the results showed that Score's actions surprised him greatly.

Because Score was acting very strangely, after taking the river crab, he sneaked back to the bottom jungle.

Yes, that means returning to the Shimonoseki area.

By pushing the lane with Fiora in the mid lane, moving under the turret, and constantly pinging signals towards the bottom lane, it was obvious that she was about to gank bot lane.

Moreover, the so-called probability is quite high.

After finishing his jungle clear, Lin Ruo arrived at the river and saw the dead river crab. Her first thought was that Score should be in the upper jungle, which would give her teammates the wrong information.

But who knew that Score, who was still only level two, was not farming jungle camps or in the upper jungle, but had already come to the lower river and headed towards the blue team's tri-bush.

He wanted to flank them and cut off the Chinese pair's escape route as they were pressing the line.

"This puppy and Meiko might be in danger. They were clearly unaware of Score's actions behind them."

Wang Duoduo looked somewhat tense in the commentary booth.

The Chinese team's bottom lane is no pushover in this game, so they can't afford to fall behind in development. If they get caught out now, things could get really bad.

But in reality, it's far too easy to get caught now.

The Chinese duo, completely unaware of the danger, only realized it when they saw the barrel trying to crush them.

Obviously, trying to run away with both opponents in this situation would be treating the opponent like a bot.

So Meiko decisively chose to stick close to the approaching Gragas to draw the opponent's attention. He used his W skill to push forward, forcing Corejj, who didn't want to be knocked away, to use his level 2 E skill to counter-push and avoid being knocked away, thus completing the task of harassing the opponent.

Without Corejj's prowess and forward charge, he undoubtedly poses no threat to Varus.

Score, who came out from around the corner, was not to be outdone. He knew he couldn't kill Varus at full health; the opponent could quickly walk past him with a single heal.

Even if you manage to land a full combo, it's only one combo. There's no guarantee that you won't land any damage on the Minotaur, giving the lone Minotaur a chance to escape, which would be troublesome.

So Score chose to ignore Varus in front of him and instead threw stones at the trapped Minotaur, chipping away at his health and giving him no chance to escape.

Estimating the Flash distance and judging that he would likely die before he could Flash under the turret, Tianye ultimately chose to give up and not waste the Flash.

The Korean team's duo deliberately gave up kills to allow Score, who hadn't been farming much, to catch up on his development.

First blood.

Three minutes into the game, Score, who had been quite sluggish in the group stage, finally stood up and secured the first blood with his unique rhythm.

This unexpected gank can be said to have been entirely due to their success.

"Nice, well done!"

The long-absent Korean team's voice chat was finally filled with cheers and excitement, and even a small number of Korean fans at the scene started to celebrate wildly.

They hadn't had high hopes, but to their surprise, their team gained an advantage within the first three minutes.

How long has it been since this happened? LCK teams rarely have this kind of early-game rhythm when playing against LPL teams anymore, because they are usually dragged down in the opposite direction.

Especially when facing the invincible EDG.

Normally, by this time, the all-powerful Lin Ruo would have already taken the first blood.

However, this time, Score took the lead.

Regardless, it at least shows that the team was in good form today, which means they definitely had a chance to win the game. It's nothing like the group stage, where they were outmaneuvered from the start until the end.

"The enemy team's move was strange; why did they suddenly appear in the bottom lane?"

After giving up the first blood, the Chinese team quickly discussed their mistakes in the voice chat.

Lin Ruo, who had just finished clearing the jungle, calmly took a sip of water and could only laugh and say, "It's obvious that I was tricked by Big Brother. Big Brother is still Big Brother after all, he actually played like this."

This was indeed a bit beyond Lin Ruo's expectations. After all, what jungler would walk up and down every 3 minutes? You'd think they were just strolling around.

There's no other way; we can only invade the jungle and take a small amount of red buff to mitigate the damage.

Does it smell good? Yes, it smells quite good.

It's amazing that Sejuani was able to turn the tide. Lin Ruo never expected that he would be able to profit from the bloodshed of the top and bottom laners.

After a quick glance at the situation in the upper and middle sections, it became clear that the Korean teams, who were just being pushed back, had now chosen to temporarily retreat and give way.

Kiin is incredibly consistent, and so is Faker.

With their own Taliyah going to the bottom lane, no one could fail to anticipate an invasion of their jungle, so both players opted for the same strategy: letting the lane go to avoid being suddenly ganked.

Lin Ruo was naturally at a loss, having already retreated back under the tower, what was there to grab a hammer for?

But could this be considered a way of indirectly relieving the laning pressure on their top and bottom laners, since they can push the lane and then recall to base to leave first?

To be able to recall without losing lane gold while being pressured in lane is something I never even dared to dream of.

"It seems like we've actually made a profit."

Lin Ruo didn't want to admit it, but it seemed to be true. Cough cough, thinking about it carefully, they were still at a slight loss. If Taliyah hadn't gotten the first blood, then they would have truly profited.

However, it was actually Taliyah who picked it, so it was inevitable that they would start at a slight disadvantage.

There's nothing we can do about that.

Lin Ruo could only go up and eat some more stone golems to replenish her strength; her teammates had all died, and they couldn't have died in vain.

At this point, Taliyah didn't care. If she didn't clear the bottom jungle soon, it would take root and sprout, and the top jungle would most likely be swept away. Score was well aware of this.

Even if he went up there, he wouldn't be of any use except staring at the pig's ass.

The top and mid lanes had already voluntarily given up lanes because of Sejuani's invasion, fearing a counter-gank. Now, even coordinating with him to chase Sejuani is a hassle.

All Score can do is clear the bottom jungle, eat a river crab to replenish his strength, and then use the first blood bounty to go back and buy some good stuff.

At least with Fiora watching over them, F6 can still remain intact in the pit, cleaned up, and waiting for him.

After Lin Ruo invaded and returned to base, Xiao Hu, who hadn't learned the ropes, was once again pinned under the turret by the Great Demon King Faker, barely able to breathe the minion wave.

Xiaohu had considered that he would pick Irelia mid, since he had experience playing this champion in the mid lane before, but he never expected that he would run into this guy named Fiora in the mid lane.

It’s uncomfortable.

"I think I need help, Brother Lin." After returning to base and buying some equipment, Xiaohu still couldn't beat Fiora, and he desperately wanted to call for help.

Of course, Lin Ruo, who had just come out of the spring, would refuse.

The bot lane's Gragas isn't currently online, and Taliyah's location is unknown, so they obviously can't help at all. They should just focus on farming the F6 camp.

Lin Ruoke dared not be careless. At this moment, after Fiora finished pushing the lane, the most likely thing she would do was come to his jungle to check the situation. Who knows, the mid, jungle and support might group up and come in the next second.

Getting there as soon as possible is essential; lingering even for a second longer is disrespectful to your own life.

As expected.

Fiora and Gragas arrived in the next second. Taking advantage of the mid lane, the Korean team very meticulously tried to establish vision and lock down this man-eating pig.

Since that's the case, let's lock it then.

Having revealed her movements, Lin Ruo pinged the possibility of being ganked in the top lane, and then went down to farm the Krugs, which she hadn't farmed much before.

He must not be impatient, especially when he is unable to do something.

Lin Ruo understood better than anyone else that, after all, she was playing Sejuani, and a Sejuani who couldn't drift and make big moves wasn't a good Sejuani.

Simply put, the period around Level 6 is actually the most suitable and best time to do things.

Of course, this excludes Mingkai, who likes to get things done at both levels.

(End of this chapter)