LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 522: Starting with a library?

The main role of this hero isn't even as a front-line tank, but rather to push lanes, especially the mid-lane mage's lane in the early game.

Edgar was somewhat taken aback.

Although Scout was the first to use Sion mid in the LPL, he only played it twice in a single match. During the peak of Sion's popularity at MSI, Scout didn't use it even once.

Therefore, he has reason to believe that Scout doesn't play Sion often, even though Sion is a very strong lane pusher, because he thinks it doesn't suit his carry mid lane role.

After all, Scout has never been a utility-focused mid laner.

But today... that's the day we've chosen.

With Syndra destined to be pushed back in lane, Edgar was left with nothing but helplessness.

The lineups for both sides have been finalized, and there's nothing he can do to change anything now.

"The way they're playing, they might change their tactics and try to gank bot lane. You guys be careful."

Edgar was trying to follow the opponent's draft strategy and explain the key points of the game, but before he could finish speaking, the referee invited him to the center to shake hands.

Seeing that the opposing coach, Mingkai, hadn't said much since finishing the draft, Edgar felt a sense of unease creeping into his heart.

After making a buy/sell statement, you don't need to explain anything. It either means you're very confident or extremely confident; both undoubtedly mean the same thing.

"Alright everyone, the drafts for both sides have been finalized."

On the live commentary booth, Wang Duoduo, who felt that EDG's last move was very good, had his confidence soar several times over.

Guan Zeyuan, however, suddenly seemed to be in trouble.

He felt that GEN had been completely outmaneuvered, since if Syndra couldn't exert pressure in the mid lane, her effectiveness would definitely be greatly reduced.

Furthermore, with a tanky character stationed in the mid lane, how easy is it to kill them?
With GEN's jungler being Skarner, killing him is practically impossible, which means Sion's rampage is not a dream.

The only disadvantage for EDG in bringing out Sion in the mid lane might be that the team would lack a mage for damage output.

In this way, Lin Ruo's Taliyah becomes the only magic core, which is also the point that GEN can target the most throughout the entire game.

If Taliyah doesn't develop well, EDG's output will be too monotonous. After all, Taliyah is a jungler, and compared to normal development in the mid lane, her economy will definitely be much behind from the beginning.

However, considering that Lin Ruo is the one using Taliyah, should this issue really be considered?
Guan Zeyuan sensed something was wrong, but he still hoped EDG could win, provided that GEN didn't lose too badly, otherwise his mood might not be very good.

Wang Duoduo, standing nearby, was already eager to try, and he shouted out the lineups of both sides:

"GEN (blue side) - top lane Urgot, jungle Skarner, mid lane Syndra, bot lane duo Varus and Tahm Kench."

"EDG is on the red side, with Aatrox in the top lane, Taliyah in the jungle, Sion in the mid lane, and Miss Fortune and Alistar in the bot lane."

"Both sides are ready. Let's immediately dive into the opening battle of this global finals and see who will take the lead and secure the first victory!"

The words fell.

The LCK fans at the scene cheered loudly to encourage GEN and try to create public support outside the arena.

They clearly succeeded.

As expected, LCK fans, who have been frustrated for nearly two years, have also regarded this home-based World Championship as an opportunity to rise again, and they have put all their fighting spirit into it.

"I didn't expect that a few thousand people could shout with such momentum. That's impressive."

Tianye, who vaguely heard cheers, was also slightly shocked in the players' seats.

LCK wasn't like this before.

This made Tianye feel like he was part of a strong team. They really respected EDG. Not only GEN, but even the LCK fans in the audience were giving it their all.

Hearing this, Lin Ruo remained calm: "I hope they can still shout it later."

It's probably too late to shout anymore, because it's going to become a library.

Although Lin Ruo didn't want to hurt the audience, based on GEN's performance that year, many people thought they could advance as the second-place team in their group.

However, in reality, the group finished at the bottom.

In this stronger group with G2 and TL, they will most likely be at the bottom.

Yes, in Lin Ruo's mind, GEN was the weakest team in the group, so it would be easy to beat them, just like playing against a wildcard team.

As the system notification sounded, all ten players from both sides quickly entered Summoner's Rift.

After buying the equipment and leaving the house, Lin Ruo immediately focused her attention on the Dragon Pit.

Let me see what kind of mark it is.

Oh, fire dragon.

That's brilliant! We can't let the first dragon go. Since that's the case, I'm sorry, but I'm definitely going to gank the bottom lane today, even though I never like going there.

Because EDG was on the red side, Lin Ruo believed that they had a natural advantage in ganking the bottom lane.

The reason is simple.

The jungle clearing strategy is basically to start with the red buff, which is located in the top half of the jungle. Lin Ruo can start without the help of the bottom lane duo, and at the same time, he can take advantage of the situation to farm in the bottom lane.

However, the situation is definitely different when compared to GEN.

We definitely need to help with the red buff in the lower half of the map, because jungler Haru is using a scorpion that has no damage. If he dares to solo in the early game, he's probably going to AFK.

This means that GEN's bot lane duo will be available later, while EDG's Miss Fortune and Alistar duo, who have direct lane priority, will naturally have a better experience farming in the early levels.

What Lin Ruo needs to do is go down and make this eating experience even better.

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"It feels like EDG started with a new lineup right from the beginning. I really didn't expect this veteran Sion mid laner, but his dominance isn't as strong in this version as it used to be."

In the RNG lounge.

The RNG team, who also have group stage matches today, are watching this game as well.

Upon seeing that EDG's mid laner was Sion, Xiaohu, who has considerable experience in this area, immediately began to assess the game's viability.

Meanwhile, Uzi was thinking about the scrim against GEN the day before yesterday. He wondered if it was due to his form, but he felt that GEN didn't seem as strong as before after Ambition was removed from the starting lineup and Haru was promoted to the starting lineup.

After all, they played three scrims the day before yesterday, and RNG won two of them.

"Do you guys think GEN has a chance in this match?" Uzi couldn't help but ask.

"They shouldn't be a match for EDG, anyway, I think we're stronger than GEN," Xiaoming replied.

RNG's performance in scrims these past few days has been pretty good, but there might be a small problem: it seems that many other teams are shifting their focus to the top, mid, and jungle positions.

While RNG is trying to rely on this strategy, they still primarily focus on the bottom lane most of the time.

Not following the version completely, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

Judging from the nerfs to Kai'Sa and the rise of Aatrox and Urgot, this patch clearly belongs to the top, mid, and jungle.

"Lin Ruo is under a lot of pressure this game. He has to be the absolute damage dealer in the early game." As a jungler himself, Karsa is more concerned about Lin Ruo's performance in the game. Taliyah jungle has always been one of his favorite junglers.

Because this hero's ganking is really smooth, and with Lin Ruo's abilities, Karsa had a feeling that the first blood would break out very soon.

The results were as expected.

Less than four minutes into the game, the first blood was secured in the bottom lane in a very rhythmic fashion.

Lin Ruo's thinking was still too clear.

Start farming at level 1, take the red buff and then casually destroy the next F6 camp. Farming the six raptors early game is very difficult for many heroes, but it's too easy for Taliyah.

It's easier than fighting other monsters.

Therefore, Lin Ruo, who greatly reduced the speed of clearing jungle camps, went down and successively ate the three wolves and the blue monster.

It quickly reached level three and entered the river to kill the crab around 2 minutes and 50 seconds later.

Compare it.

At this moment, Haru's Scorpion was still violently attacking the top jungle's Gromp. Before they could even see the River Scuttler, Lin Ruo had already taken down the River Scuttler and started the first wave of ganks on the bottom lane.

First, enter the lower jungle from the river entrance, following the path behind the red monster. This avoids Tahm Kench likely leaving a ward in the tri-bush.

Since the GEN duo is currently on the losing side and can only operate in their own half of the map, the probability of Lin Ruoyanque being able to gank directly from the river is extremely low.

So if you still want to catch them, you basically have to go around them from the triangular bushes.

Based on this premise, Corejj's Tahm Kench placing wards in the tri-bush area beforehand to prevent him from ganking is perfectly fine.

With her own plans in mind, Lin Ruo naturally chose to go around from the entrance of the wilderness below.

He was very patient and didn't immediately go from the stone beetle area to catch them online.

Lin Ruo first chose to destroy the stone beetle and continue to wait for the time to pass.

It wasn't that he particularly wanted to farm jungle camps, but rather that there simply weren't any opportunities at the moment. The GEN bot lane duo was being pressured under their turrets, and diving at level 3 would be a drastic move, potentially a counterproductive one.

"Xiao Zhao, let's create an opening. Also, we need to find a way to force Tahm Kench to use his W skill," Lin Ruo suggested in the voice chat while fighting the Krugs.

To force the enemy duo to push forward, you need to give them an advantage so they can start pushing the lane.

Another thing is to put Tahm Kench's ability to devour people on cooldown.

Otherwise, if Tahm Kench swallows it whole, at most he'll force a Flash, which is clearly not worth the effort of this detour.

However, iboy is still very easy to expose his weaknesses. Being young, he is still considered a complete kid by Ruler and Corejj.

So it's perfectly normal to make some mistakes in positioning.

So, the GEN duo, who seized the opportunity to take down half of Miss Fortune's health, didn't think much of it when they saw that there was no unusual activity in the tri-bush.

They pushed the minion wave out, and although it didn't reach the mid-lane, at least it got out of the turret's range, right?
At this point, there's no need to worry about defensive towers at all.

Tianye's Alistar also feigned a counterattack here, charging in and taking damage from his own health to tank Varus.

Since Ruler had basically used up all his skills at this point, in order to prevent a counterattack from the EDG duo, Corejj swallowed the AD carry without reservation, thus preventing Ruler from losing health.

One wave after another.

The female gunner and the taurine both started drinking potions to try and bring their health back up to around half.

Ruler's Varus still had more than two-thirds of his health remaining, and there was no urge to use a potion.

He considered himself to be very safe at this health level.

Little did Lin Ruo know that this amount of health was far from safe.

Sorry, but the champion I'm using this time is Taliyah.

There is no jungler who deals the highest damage with a single skill combo in the early game.

Roughly speaking, even without Miss Fortune, just by teaming up with Alistar to deal full damage, taking down Varus would be no problem for Lin Ruo.

Of course, this is based on the premise that the skill will not miss.

At this moment, Lin Ruo had already taken advantage of the end of the melee between the two sides to come to the back of the wall outside the defensive tower, waiting for an opportunity by exploiting the blind spot.

At this point, Varus's positioning is no longer a problem; what he needs is Alistar's EQ combo to help him connect with crowd control.

Tahm Kench's Devour ability has a very long cooldown, making it impossible for him to keep up with Alistar.

So when Varus's field skill was restored, and he was outside the tower preparing to continue pushing the lane, his so-called vulnerability was exposed without reservation.

Ruler had no idea that a pair of eyes were intently watching him from a shadowy corner between the tower's outer walls.

These eyes shifted as the field's Alistar initiated the flash combo. Varus had no concept of being caught, so naturally he had no chance to dodge the EQ combo with angelic reflexes.

The next moment, he was caught off guard by the sudden attack of the bull's head and was sent flying to the ground, unable to move.

As soon as the incident occurred.

Corejj quickly realized that Taliyah must have arrived, given that Varus's secondary ability was Teleport.

Corejj immediately used his healing ability without holding back, hoping to raise Varus's health and prevent him from dying suddenly.

However, he still underestimated Lin Ruo's timing of attack and the explosive damage of Taliyah.

The moment the healer used his healing ability, Lin Ruo, hidden in the darkness, used Flash at lightning speed to quickly place his W skill [Rock Slash] at Varus's feet, matching the timing of Alistar's control.

Ruler hadn't even recovered from the knockback when he landed and, without even using any skills, was once again launched backward by a rock slam.

Next.

A barrage of stone projectiles, combined with a stone-scattering formation, spread around the area, causing slowing effects and various types of damage.

The ensuing scene was the so-called "health bar disappearing spell," where, with more than half of his health remaining, he was lifted up by the rock spike and plunged into a bottomless vortex of death.

In the eyes of all the spectators present, the moment Taliyah revealed every bit of her damage, Varus instantly went from looking perfectly healthy to completely drained.

Then he collapsed and couldn't get up again.

First blood.

And that's how the first blood was born.

Ruler died amidst his own bewilderment.

Corejj had no choice but to retreat. Their intense battle in the bottom lane lasted less than ten seconds before being completely extinguished by a bucket of cold water.

It seems that the refreshing coolness was accidentally poured on Ruler, who had already died once at the very beginning of the game and couldn't help but start wiping his sweat.

Is he going to die right away? That's interesting.

If I die in the next wave, can I just leave the game running and play on my phone?

Ruler didn't dare to think that if things continued like this, he would definitely become the number one seed who gets criticized after the tournament.

The LCK audience at the scene seemed to have been gulped down; just three minutes ago, they were cheering enthusiastically when the game started, but three minutes later…

The Busan venue suddenly felt like a library.

The constant noise was gone; all that remained were the unanimously distressed expressions on the faces of those in front of the camera, along with helpless sighs and huddled heads.

Fortunately, a small number of Chinese fans cheered below, which prevented the scene from falling into a long period of dead silence.

However, this did not affect the voices from the LCK commentators.

The Korean commentators weren't mute; all they could hear were constant "ahhh" sounds accompanied by a terrifying, almost hysterical, expression.

"Lin Ruo, you found this opportunity so well and were so patient. EDG's jungler and bot lane duo completely understood the psychology of GEN's duo."

This whole thing was a psychological game from the very beginning; it started as soon as we got around the triangular bushes.

Miss Fortune's aggressive push back resulted in a mistake and she was pushed back, followed by Alistar dodging and coordinating with Taliyah.

Ruler's death was almost inevitable the moment he left the tower.

"Is this EDG? As expected of the current world number one, they have shown extraordinary dominance from the very beginning of the game. GEN must withstand the pressure and continue to move forward."

Helpless, the Korean commentators, especially the "Roaring Emperor," could only wail in despair as the opposing LPL team took first blood in their first World Championship match on their LCK home turf.

The leading team remains the rival LPL team.

The commentators who could truly be happy at this moment were the LPL commentators on the high platform in the other corner.

"EDG's teamwork was excellent this time. Most importantly, Lin Ruo got the kill. Wow, that first blood was really important."

"If we do things well in the early stages, then this lineup will be very useful."

Wang Duoduo was grinning from ear to ear.

EDG's key player in the early game is Lin Ruo's Taliyah, and he also needs to farm the most.

Getting that kill is half the battle won. As long as Taliyah's damage output is fully amplified, EDG's mage damage can completely compensate for the loss in team fights after 15 minutes.

in short.

Then there are several tanky characters in the front row acting as a protective shield for damage dealers.

That first blood was incredibly profitable.

Don't forget, Varus is also one of the key pillars of GEN in the mid-game, so catching Varus is undoubtedly a double blessing.

After all, Varus' collapse is obviously more fatal to GEN than Syndra's collapse.

"Lin Shen, what the heck is going on?"

In the RNG rest room, Karsa, who was watching the game intently, couldn't help but shout.

Here, I'll give you the nickname "Radar Jungler".

Is this the god of the jungle role right now? Look at this incredibly beautiful rhythm, it's exactly what Karsa dreams of. He also wishes he could take off and kill like this in the early game.

mlxg on the other side seemed used to it: "Isn't that how Lin Ruo is?"

In his opinion, it would be surprising if Lin Ruo lost her rhythm in the early stages.

But rhythm has never been.

After all, Lin Ruo always takes off quickly in the early game, dominates the game before 20 minutes, and ends the game before 30 minutes.

Like a game that's never turned off, Lin Ruo's game just keeps going until the very end.

Disadvantages? There aren't any.

(End of this chapter)