LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 514 The Story of a Group
This is what is meant by "a single hair can affect the whole body".

Gragas is Urgot's biggest protector in the early game in the top lane. Without Gragas' help, Lin Ruo would definitely not let go of the great opportunity to weaken RNG.

Now that the vampire has reached level 8, he already has the ability to fight Urgot, so Lin Ruo has no reason not to help.

Compared to Irelia in the mid lane, Vladimir has a greater impact on RNG's lineup in the mid-game.

The reason for choosing the vampire is not only to compensate for the so-called magic damage output, but also because of the vampire's strong entry and output capabilities.

Against RNG's lineup with relatively concentrated crowd control, Vladimir can create more space, and with enough items, a single W can deal considerable damage.

However, all of this is contingent on the vampire having sufficient development in the early stages.

With the Gragas' jungle now exploding, Vladimir's safe development progress has undoubtedly reached over 90%.

The remaining 10% is about preventing Urgot from dominating the lane and giving him a clear advantage in terms of solo kills against Vladimir.

Xiaohu, who wasted his ultimate move in the previous wave, only now truly realizes that going to the bottom lane is the best move to deal with EDG's invasion. However, when he actually went to the bottom lane to do something at the 10-minute mark...

Without Shen's ultimate ability, which prevents him from moving, it will be quite difficult to catch the EDG duo.

The so-called "pushing the lane into the tower to initiate" is nothing more than Xiaoming's Alistar using Flash-WQ to try and force an engagement, then coordinating with Ryze and Swain's damage to instantly kill Miss Fortune.

However, when iboy, who is never lacking in reaction speed, used a backflash to dodge Alistar's initiation, this attempt to exchange flashes ended in a blatant failure.

RNG's bot lane chased away the EDG duo who were trying to farm under the turret.

But they only drove them away.

Due to Miss Fortune's strong wave clear ability, the number of minions pushing into the tower was not large, and RNG couldn't even manage to take down the tower's health from multiple points.

Ryze had barely left when the EDG duo returned to their lanes, with minimal loss of minion experience.

On the contrary, in the top lane, Letme's Urgot was the one who really couldn't farm the lane.

Without her ultimate ability, Lin Ruo would find it difficult to kill Urgot with just her E skill's crowd control. But that's okay; sometimes, gaining an advantage doesn't necessarily require getting kills.

Kim Gung understands this point as well.

While facing Urgot in the mid lane, seeing Lin Ruo rushing over from the river, he immediately used his R skill [Blood Plague] without reservation, covering Urgot's feet. Then, he used Q to poke him, followed by E and W to accelerate and close the distance to deal as much damage as possible.

Letme knew without a doubt that Camille was already approaching from behind.

Urgot's ability to withstand attacks and deal damage kept him from panicking, and he prepared to retreat while preparing to face Camille's attack.

Lin Ruo's method of capturing people was also very simple.

While still in the river area, use E to hang on the wall and flash-attack Urgot as quickly as possible.

With a single E-flash, he teleported extremely far, kicking the ugly head of Urgot who was retreating in the lane.

Letme, who was on high alert throughout, used Flash to dodge in time, avoiding being kicked and inevitably entering an unstoppable state of sudden death.

He escaped.

Because he had been beaten up the whole time, his health was not good enough to stay under the tower any longer, not to mention that Camille and the vampire were coming in later.

Although the barrel also arrived.

However, Irelia's figure also disappeared from the mid lane just in time, and she is very likely heading towards the top lane.

Even Karsa wouldn't dare go in to help defend any of the towers now.

They could only hand over the game to EDG, losing more than half of their health and unfortunately losing two waves of minions.

Without TP, Letme is completely powerless in this regard.

Comparing the arrest operations on both sides, it's clear that RNG suffered a greater loss.

Judging from their failure to gank the bottom lane in time earlier, and their subsequent attempt to salvage the situation, it's clear that the entire RNG team's mindset is somewhat chaotic.

Lin Ruo remained calm and focused on ganking the top lane. The timeline was set for 11 minutes after his ultimate skill refreshed.

I've grown up, but you haven't dodged it.

If they meet again, it goes without saying who will live and who will die.

Letme knew he was in danger, but he was a strong Urgot in lane, so he couldn't just go back to lane and ignore the minions, not even doing the basic task of pushing the lane.

If Letme gets pushed, then Camille's chances of catching him are really high.

At this point, the best course of action is to establish good vision control, or to call for the jungler to come and help.

Casa was powerless to help.

He's already cleared out the top jungle, so there's no reason for him to stay any longer. Is he going to invade the enemy's top jungle?
That would be better than just camping in the bushes online and trying to protect Urgot.

That's just what I said.

Karsa couldn't possibly camp for more than 2 minutes, but Urgot's Flash cooldown was a solid 4 minutes. At this point, they still needed to establish vision control, or call for another player, like Ryze in the mid lane.

However, the current Irelia is no longer someone Ryze can suppress, and Xiaohu's lane pressure is increasing over time.

From the 15-minute mark to the next 10 minutes, the pressure that RNG must bear will be the ability of EDG to quickly assemble for small-scale team fights.

This pressure was first felt by Urgot in the top lane at the 13-minute mark.

Karsa has been trying his best to handle this crisis for the top laner, spending almost two minutes in the top jungle without taking the dragon that should have been easily secured because the bottom laner was pushing the lane.

Instead, they directly targeted the Rift Herald in order to secure resources while protecting the top lane as much as possible.

However, he couldn't be on guard against everything. During the time he was fighting the Rift Herald, Camille came out from under the turret. This time, it wasn't Vladimir who initiated, but Lin Ruo.

If Urgot pushes the lane slightly past the midline, Lin Ruo can use his E skill plus his ultimate (R) for a long-range dash to directly control Urgot.

Against a full-health tanky top laner, you might lack damage output, but what if Shen comes down with him?

So even if the jungler is a Taliyah who can use her ultimate to come and support at any time, it won't save Urgot.

Moreover, RNG's jungler right now is just a Gragas with very slow movement speed.

With Urgot dying once again, RNG's top lane tower is undoubtedly going to fall, which is a significant blow to EDG.

At this point, Karsa realized another problem. He seemed to have made a similar mistake to Xiaohu. In fact, he should have known earlier that the top lane was impossible to protect.

Perhaps he should have adopted EDG's strategy of definitely ganking top lane and instead helped the bottom lane push the lane; that would have been the best outcome.

Because if Shinichi comes to the bottom lane, as long as the three of them gather there, it's an absolutely achievable trade to take down the turret and exchange it for the top turret.

However, he didn't do that.

Given this, even if Shen isn't in the bot lane, iboy's Miss Fortune definitely won't be able to take down the bot lane duo alone, but RNG won't be able to push down the turrets either.

If RNG wants to take down the first tower at this point, the only option is for Ryze to sacrifice minions to go to the bottom lane and help the duo push the tower.

These minion waves that should have been pushed over were instead eaten by Karsa, who came to the mid lane after taking down the Rift Herald, thus barely managing to make a one-on-one trade with EDG.

the difference is.

EDG secured the first tower and also gained a kill, giving them a greater economic advantage.

RNG secured the Rift Herald; whether it's profitable or not will depend on its subsequent use and investment.

In addition, in terms of rhythm, RNG was completely led by the nose, and grouping up for the Rift Herald was probably the only way for RNG to regain their rhythm.

The Rift Herald will definitely be placed in the mid lane. Knowing this, EDG had already moved Miss Fortune to the mid lane to defend the lane, while Scout's Irelia went to the bottom lane to split push and continue to apply pressure.

However, this did not deter RNG from attempting to attack the mid lane. In fact, after 15 minutes, RNG was fully capable of engaging in 5v5 team fights.

Their disadvantage stems from their significant weaknesses in small-scale team battles.

Looking ahead, EDG will definitely need to accelerate their pace in the coming days.

However, this speed-up only applies to the first 35 minutes, because in the late game, there are two half-core champions: Vladimir and Miss Fortune, or even Camille.

RNG, on the contrary, became the team that got beaten again.

Perhaps worried that their current passive state would leave the team with little ability to end the game after 20 minutes, RNG ultimately decided to group up and try to take down the mid tower that Ryze had chipped away at one-third of its health.

The Rift Herald can smash through most of the enemy's defenses, and the rest will naturally need to be taken out and destroyed.

During this period, RNG only had two heroes they could rely on to lead them into the fray: Swain's early-game strength and Urgot's ability to both tank and deal damage.

Therefore, Lin Ruo's approach was quite clear: continue to keep a close eye on the top lane and never let Urgot have any easy days.

He won't go down the road.

Because if he went there, he would most likely become the prey, especially Camille. Don't forget, Ryze's ultimate combo brings along the Gragas and Alistar duo who have been quite active lately.

He may not have even made his move yet, but because the pressure from the top lane wasn't enough, RNG had already focused their firepower on the bottom lane to launch their so-called attack.

The reason why the opponent had a hard time during this period was because the pressure in the upper half of the map was strong, which made RNG hesitant in their coordination.

So if that kind of pressure isn't applied, or if RNG wants to retaliate by being tougher, for example, by pressuring the mid lane at 16 minutes...

RNG almost pushed down the mid tower because before pushing the tower, Ryze took the initiative to drive from the bottom lane to support Alistar, forcing Miss Fortune to use both Flash and Cleanse.

Fortunately, the team's GimGoon used his teleport to land on the flank and threaten the enemy, which averted the possibility of losing the tower.

However, this also gave RNG another opportunity to exploit a loophole.

The upcoming second dragon seems to have become the real trigger for the team fight.

This dragon is a fire dragon, which EDG wants to take, but RNG wants it even more to pave the way for a mid-game counterattack.

(End of this chapter)