My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 179 Muscles won't betray you, but laziness will.

After the game starts.

No matter how much Ale complained, he had to grit his teeth and keep playing.

Unlike the spectators who were just watching for fun, they knew that the reason for picking Kennen was actually to pave the way for the "ultimate play" in the playoffs, and that not picking Nocturne in the mid lane was already a big concession.

So what else can he do?
There was no moment of mourning for PandaC's departure; next up was:
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The moment the two met online, Luo Ji immediately used his E skill, giving the opposing Kennen no chance to dodge. How the hell could he dodge such a sudden, overwhelming attack?
There was a "pop" sound.
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A blue "83" damage number appeared above Kennen's head, making Ale's lips twitch. He glanced at the continuously dropping health bar; this guy even had Scorch active!?

Be born!
This is where the designer's pro-M role comes into play.

Before version 12.14, Ale could have easily countered this by building Doran's Shield and taking Revitalize. Even without the Doran's Blade's stats, a ranged champion could still dominate the lane against a melee champion, it would just be more difficult.

Can be biased.
To make the game more exciting, the designers just nerfed everything that allows you to lane effectively, including potions, the Biscuit Delivery talent, and almost everything in the Resolve tree. The Revitalize talent was even nerfed by half.

ohh~
Now I'm just a fuzzy ball being poked and pounded all by myself.

With several E skills coming off cooldown in quick succession, from a god's-eye view, countless viewers even saw Kennen barely touch Jarvan IV before his health bar was constantly dropping to -80, forcing him to even use the health potion he bought at the start of the game.

[This is outrageous! This is actually possible.]

[Demacia's Malphite, Dream Teacher is going to torment the opposing team.]

Theoretically, the current version of Jarvan IV is weaker than 95% of top laners, and Kennen happens to be in that 5%.

Specialization is key.

Hit the road.

Ale was so disgusted by Luo Ji that she lost her bearings.

However, in the jungle, both junglers coordinated perfectly to farm the top half of the map at the start of the game, showing no intention of going up.

Yes.

As mentioned earlier, in version 12.14, the effect of Elemental Dragons was buffed by 1.5 times, which has led to a renewed increase in the use of Elemental Dragons in competitive play.

this will.

Aside from the jungler occasionally moving towards the top half of the map when contesting for the first kill, no one else comes to help. Right now, the top lane is truly a 1v1 solo for real men.

At least that's how Luo Ji sees it.

But in Ale's eyes...

There may still be some controversy regarding whether Luo Ji is human or not.
Since the top lane has been completely abandoned, Tazan has set its sights on Rookie in the mid lane. Regarding the matchup between these two mid laners, based on data from the "rejecting imagery" school of thought, the conclusion is that Rookie usually wins more in best-of-three (BO3), while Doinb wins more in crucial best-of-five (BO5) matches.

Similar to their record against EDG and RNG.

In other words.

In the current BO3 match, Rookie has the advantage, and unsurprisingly, he is pressuring Doinb's lane in the mid lane.

Tazan naturally chose to go to the mid lane to lend his support.

Although Crystal Maiden can't be killed by her E, she can at least relieve some pressure on Doinb.

in contrast.

There's no need to worry about Karsa in the mid lane; he just focuses on farming and only returns to the mid lane area to place his river ward after clearing the jungle.

Then they started grabbing the river crabs.

Pierce's opening is somewhat similar to that of a jungle carry, which involves farming and being careful not to die. Everything in the early game is geared towards the Vanguard team fight at the eight-minute mark.

The first wave of vanguards is just as important to Pierce as the marked monsters are to Kindred.

of course.

This hero is only good at this kind of gameplay.

Although Kanavi later used this thing as his signature move at JDG, it's worth noting that this thing was subjected to a total of 11 revisions by the designers after it was designed. Anyone who can still play it is practically a god.

"My dream, I've rushed over to the enemy jungler for you."

"You can come here anytime, I'm not afraid."

The overly easy laning phase even gave Luo Ji time to observe the performance of other lanes.

Karsa secured the bottom river crab, so Tazan's only chance to catch up in experience was to target the top river crab. With Rookie in the mid lane holding his E and Luo Ji in the top lane playing a bit more cautiously, Tazan was forced to recall, and then the second wave of farming began.

By contrast.

Knowing that Karsa's Bervis was in the bottom lane, LNG's bot lane duo, Lamp and Green Hair, also let the lane in.

Okay~
You guys push it.

You guys have more people, so you're all awesome. As for whether you'll get poked by the enemy Sivir and Yuumi under the tower?
LNG's bot lane duo said they didn't care about this.

Before level 6, the combination of Sivir and Yuumi has no ability to keep enemies in place or burst damage. In other words, besides getting us all spitting, what the hell can you two do?
I'm already exhausted.

"That's strange, what exactly is the synergy between V5's lineup?"

Commentary seat.

Tongxi was still in charge of carrying this game, while the other two male commentators were not well-known, so they were omitted.

Among a group of female commentators who were competing to be the worst, Tongxi won by being a normal commentator. Even so, she couldn't understand what V5 was up to for a moment.

But a woman's intuition told her otherwise.

This lineup is off.

Before level six, the Rift was eerily quiet, with V5's lineup only slightly exerting its strength around the six-minute mark.

The buffed Sivir is getting lanes way too fast.

Middle road.

Rookie's early game pressure on Doinb was also evident. Karsa and Pylvis focused on farming, which allowed them to reach the bottom river earlier. Combined with lane priority in the mid and bottom lanes, they quickly seized vision control in the bottom river.

There was no problem getting the first dragon.

The push efficiency of Sivir paired with Yuumi completely exceeded LNG's expectations.

"Is this hero that powerful now?"

“Normally it wouldn’t be this fierce, but it’s different when you add a cat.”

The Lantern King is originally a bot lane champion. After Sivir was buffed, many teams have been picking her up again because her skill set is too simple. It depends on how well you are at auto-attacking. However, she doesn't have such strong wave clear when played in the bot lane.

Putting aside the possibility of various bugs.

That leaves only the cat.

Due to the information gap, LNG had no choice but to give up the first elemental dragon, which was even a fire dragon. With the buff in version 12.14, the fire dragon's single-dragon bonus increased from 4% attack damage/ability power to 6%.

For champions like Lissandra and Sivir, even a slight increase in damage or wave clear speed can drastically change their performance.

This fire dragon.

It was exactly what I wanted.

"Nice, Fire Dragon, this way the lane control is 100% ours." "What did Vanguard say, Vanguard?"

"It should be fine. I dreamed of having an advantage against Ale in the top lane, but what's the situation in the top lane?"

"What happened!?"

With Xiao Yan's exclamation, Rookie, Karsa, and even PPGOD all subconsciously looked towards the top lane.

It’s better not to watch.

one look.

The top lane was surprisingly a half-health Jarvan IV facing off against a low-health Kennen. In fact, their health bars were so low that anyone with a discerning eye could easily kill him with an EQ combo.

"Basic operation, no 6, everyone sit down."

Despite the gazes of his teammates, Luo Ji remained calm and composed.

In fact.

Prince Aery is too much of a counter to Kennen. If he only used E to poke, it would be fine, but the problem is that he also used EQ to engage from time to time.

And the key is that the EQ was right!

Before level 6, Kennen has less than 1,000 health and little to no regeneration. But starting from level 3 with Jarvan IV's E, every E skill hit deals 150 damage. If it's an EQ combo, a quarter of his health bar disappears.

This doesn't even include the occasional hard poke with the Q skill.

Ale has been able to hold on for so long.

This was beyond Luo Ji's expectations. He thought the other side should have already recalled to base. However, seeing the low-health Kennen hovering in front of him, he wisely refrained from using his EQ combo.

Instead, he would throw an E every now and then.

And immediately after throwing it, he subconsciously took two steps back.

"As expected, it was too naive to think we could find his weakness."

Tazan sighed.

The moment the elemental dragon in the lower half of the map was given to the opponent, he quickly moved towards the top lane, just to let Ale lure the opponent so that he could see if he could catch the opponent's prince.

However, Luo Ji was not fooled.

no way.

Unable to withstand the pressure, Ale was forced to return to base. In his place, Tazan's Monkey King appeared in the top lane and successfully took over the minion wave.

[Six hundred and sixty-six, I'm not even going to act anymore.]

[It's just some basic X-ray vision; on Apex, that's considered green-hat hacking.]

[My dream is like this: you think he's not strong, but he's the MSI FMVP; you think he might get arrogant, but he's so stable that you feel like he's a defensive turret.]

[Prince Aery, alright, I've learned it. League of Legends, start!]

After helping Kennen take down the tower, Tazan also started recalling. Luo Ji didn't stop him because he also needed to recall to upgrade his equipment.

Let me mention this here.

Prince Aery's strategy is limited to the early laning phase. His item build is still normal. If you want to play it safe, go for Bloodlust and Death Dance. If the meta changes, go for Divine Intervention and Manamune (S12 exclusive). If you want to smurf, go for Starfall and Heavy Wounds. But this time...

Luo Ji, however, intended to choose Ice Fist Giant Nine.

He was short a few thousand dollars, so he released a Pinduoduo version, which involved making magic resistance boots and a longsword first.

It focuses on functionality.

Without the interference of both junglers, Luo Ji became unusually aggressive after re-entering the lane, so aggressively that he would immediately use his EQ combo to engage as soon as he was within range.

Ale: ?
Someone is coming?
That’s not right either.

Although he had just come from home, he had done all the necessary defensive vision work.

Just over six minutes after Karsa secured the Elemental Dragon, he should be back in town like his jungler, upgrading his gear and then farming jungle camps in preparation for the Vanguard team fight.

What the hell is this now?!
at the same time.

The two arrived at six almost one after the other.

Ale activated her E skill to pull away from the prince, and Luo Ji was not to be outdone. He activated his W shield, and at the same time, he successfully slowed down Kennen, who had activated his E skill.

He pretended to take a step outside.

Immediately afterwards, he turned around suddenly and unleashed a powerful attack!

R [Heavenly King Covers the Earth Tiger]

While being stunned by Kennen's W skill, the ultimate skill also successfully trapped Kennen in front of her. After regaining her freedom, she began the simple and unadorned "cake hand" combo.

Interweave basic attacks with normal attacks, cancel the aftercast animation of normal attacks with normal attacks, and cancel the aftercast animation of normal attacks with normal attacks.

Such retro combos.

It even allowed Luo Ji to relive his youthful days as an LDL player and a niche streamer on the platform.

"Swish X2"

flash!

As Ale's health dwindled with each chase by the prince, and he was about to retreat into the turret's attack range, he finally couldn't hold back and used Flash.

No matter what.

At the same time he used Flash, the prince also used Flash to follow.

Anticipate and flash!

前面提过的12.12版本皇子更新的福报来了，被动的【战争律动】，从固定的6s，加强为了6/5/4/3（分别在1/6/11/16）

In other words.

The current level 6 Prince triggers his passive skill one second less than before. If it were a popular top laner in the current version, Ale's muscle memory would not have allowed him to suffer such a betrayal.

But the prince.
He hadn't run into him at work for far too long.

I would never practice it myself, let alone know or remember even the slightest detail.

The difference between top players often lies in these subtle changes.

Another basic attack was landed.

It was the final [Dragon Strike] that struck suddenly.

Because the basic attack before the Q skill triggered the passive effect again, Ale, who should have been able to escape by the skin of his teeth, had his health completely reduced to zero the next moment after being hit by the Q skill.

V5, Mebius killed LNG, Ale
First blood is obtained.

(End of this chapter)