My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 384 Let's live and die together!
The game begins.

The top laners on both sides have already shown two completely different approaches.

Luo Ji continued heading to the upper jungle camp, while Zeus chose to follow the bottom lane duo and sneak to the lane to steal the bushes.

Just as T1's current understanding of the meta is "four protect one", even if it's not the Sion level 1 gank bot lane strategy, they still instinctively try to increase the chances of winning in the bot lane.

No matter what.

V5 has already seen through them.

With the combined defense of the jungler and support, the enemy team was not given any chance at level one.

"There is no chance."

"Then let's try a different approach; we'll eventually be able to open up their turtle shell."

From the perspective of understanding the version, both teams actually chose an unconventional four-protect-one strategy. However, there are differences in the four-protect-one lineup. At least in the early game, Monkey King's aggression is definitely stronger than Nightmare's jungle-focused strategy.

One level.

With no fight breaking out in the bottom lane, both top laners went to lane as usual.

Kled's outfit is very formulaic.

Conqueror rune + Doran's Blade is very strong in lane, but its strength lies not in the numerical values, but in the general situation.

Few people play this hero, and you don't encounter him often even in ranked games. This makes it difficult for the opponent to figure out your skill cooldowns and kill threshold.

Zeus had to admit it.

He simply couldn't handle the unpopular champion Kled in the same way he would when facing a popular top laner in the current meta.

after all
He was indeed having trouble calculating Kled's damage; he could only roughly guess when the champion would reach his power spike.

have nothing to say.

At the start, Zeus went to the bottom lane to look for opportunities, but in return, Luo Ji in the top lane occupied the bush position early on. After the minion waves converged, seeing the Gragas move forward to try to last hit, he directly walked out from the bush closest to the T1 turret.

I'm not going to argue with you anymore.

Four streets in the east, west, south, north, and north—ask around who's the boss.

Just do it!

Seemingly having discovered Luo Ji's intention, Zeus immediately used his Q skill in place and began auto-attacking with Luo Ji while using the Q skill.

however.

Just as the basic attack was executed, and Kled immediately used his Q skill.

Despite its seemingly large size, the barrel was incredibly agile, dodging the chains with a slight twist of its waist. Then, it moved to the other side of the exploding barrel using its Q skill, enduring Kled's auto-attacks while turning back to auto-attack him as it moved out of the barrel's range.

"Snapped!"

Triggered by a comet.

Kled landed three hits, but missed his Q.

The barrel attacked twice, then exploded with a full Q, and the comet even hit.

The first clash between the two sides ended with a brief victory for Zeus.

"Can you feel it?"

“Mebius”.

"Ever since I lost to you, I've been thinking about you every single moment."

"No one in this world understands your habits, your every move, and your initial probing tactics better than I do."

T1 players' bench.

Zeus, who had already fought two rounds with Luo Ji, not only did not feel tired, but even felt that his energy was becoming more and more vigorous.

The pounding of his heart was a constant reminder to him.

This is the purpose and desire behind his ascetic career that he has maintained to this day.

in front of the screen.

Luo Ji's face showed no extra expression.

However, his attention became increasingly focused. Kled's attacks required his Q skill to hit, and after missing the first wave of Q skills, the failure to trade blows became inevitable.

"boom!"

Another instant explosion from the rolling barrel nearly halved his health, and it looked like he was about to have his passive ability triggered by the opponent.

but.
Q【Bear Catching Cable】

Zeus successfully unleashed his Q skill once again. This time, Zeus instinctively tried to dodge again, but just as he was about to move, the grappling hook shot out and landed precisely on his twisting body.

It was predicted!?
It wasn't like when he studied Luo Ji's competition videos and turned the data into muscle memory; it was purely the observation and reaction ability that belonged entirely to young people.

In the constant confrontation, and also in the smallest details, we carefully judge his movements.

then
It is responding.

Hey!
How could he forget that the person opposite him was only 18 years old and possessed the most terrifying reaction ability of a young person?

Pull back.

Normal attack, and then normal attack again.

Under the damage from the minions, a well-timed dismount and auto-attack, followed by a shotgun blast and a retreat, and after the combo, the Gragas, who was clearly ahead of Kled in health in the previous wave, was now on par with Kled in health.

This even forced Zeus to take the blood potion he had brought with him when he went out.

God's perspective.

The camera was already focused on the roads on both sides.

From the start of the game, Kled's aggressiveness was very obvious. Unfortunately, when both top laners reached level two, Zeus chose to back down, which made many viewers who were hoping to see exciting battles feel quite bored.

There's a type of person who's already taken their pants off.

The frustration of browsing through thirty or forty pages of Pixiv without finding suitable spellcasting materials.

Since there was no information about the enemy jungler on the map, we saw our own jungler starting to farm in the bottom half of the map, and he was farming the entire top side of the map.

Luo Ji thought for a moment.

While Gragas was avoiding the fight, I placed a ward in the red team's triangular bush in the river.

After that, all was well.

The opposing Gragas didn't give him any particularly good opportunities to charge in. Until...
The moment I was about to enter my third year of high school.

Zeus, who was three barrels slower than him, still occupied a position close to the bushes, which made Luo Ji's sense of danger instantly reach its peak.

someone! ?
In the midst of deliberation between killing and retreating, he hesitated for only 0.1 seconds before choosing to move closer to Zeus's barrel. However, after taking only two steps, he was stopped by Zeus's barrel's E skill. This seemingly reckless move turned into a god-like counter-kill.

This further confirms the possibility that the opposing jungler might come to the top lane at that moment.

then.

The danger signal from the river was immediately detected via PING.

"They've learned to be smarter."

"Do you want to use junglers to drag me into the abyss?"

"That's it."

"Come and live or die with me!"

Gragas' E skill only provides a one-second stun. Once Luo Ji recovers from the stun, he immediately uses his W skill (Kled's classic four-hit combo without learning W) and consumes a health potion.

Normal attack, and then normal attack again.

Anger is building up!

Mount the horse.

As the QA hook lock was used to land the basic attack, the E skill [Sparring] was used to dash past Gragas and appear in front of him.

The defensive tower also locked onto Kled's head in an instant.

But they've already fought like that.

Zeus, however, still held onto his Flash ability and refused to use it. With no other option, Luo Ji had to trigger his E ability again and return to Gragas's back.

Seize the moment when Kled uses his second E to return.

"Swish" x2
On the screen, Zeus and Luo Ji appeared one after the other and delivered their attacks in quick succession.

Catch up!
Kled's timely Flash allowed him to land his fourth auto-attack from his W ability just before the turret's attack landed.

Then, as he was knocked off his horse, shotgun bullets were fired from his dismounted form.

Can I kill him?

All eyes in the audience followed the dance of the two dancers until the camera finally focused on the magnified barrel.

Followed by.

V5, Mebius killed T1, Zuse
But just as the kill notification sounded, a monkey suddenly shot out from the void behind the location where Luo Ji was controlling Kled.

T1, Oner killed V5, Mebius
In fact.

Even if Oner doesn't use his E, the turret can still kill Luo Ji. But if the turret kills him, it's just a 1-for-1 trade in the top lane, and Kled even gets a first blood.

On the contrary, if he scores, they get an extra assist.

No one thought of it.

In less than three minutes into the game, there were already two incidents in the top lane: Kled tower diving and killing Gragas, and Wukong quickly reaching level three and ganking top. Such frequent and rapid battles even made many viewers feel a little dizzy.

Is this really a match between LPL and LCK?
Instead of the LCS vs. LEC Rift battle being fun?

【ah!???】

Zeus wanted to bait out the jungler, but he miscalculated Kled's damage and Meng's reaction, and was forcibly tower-dived and killed.

[That was way too decisive! Seeing the location of the barrels, you immediately pinged the danger signal in the river. Did you even start it?!]

[No matter how much I say, it's not considered open if it's not closed!!!]

"As expected, it still doesn't work."

T1 Lounge

Bengi rested his chin on his hand, lost in thought.

In this particular instance, it's hard to say that Zeus did anything wrong. Selling health was necessary to coordinate with the jungler, and in fact, the jungler successfully ganked top at level three. The problem was that they simply didn't expect the enemy Mebius to be so decisive.

Whether it's rushing in to fight immediately, forcing the barrel to retreat out of the experience zone, or failing to reach level three.

Or perhaps it's a decisive turn back after a double E, followed by a flash A to land the fourth basic attack.

These two moves.

If Zeus had hesitated for even a second, he wouldn't have died; instead, he would have escaped with barely any health, creating another memorable scene.

But no way.

These niche heroes, even those not commonly seen in top lane picks, are not typically practiced by teams. This information gap is the real culprit behind this 1v1 exchange.

domestic.

On Lao Qiang's phone, Ale's messages were almost overwhelming him.

Well known.

Luo Ji was brought into the LPL professional scene by Lao Qiang, who was famous for his acrobatic top lane play in his youth. He has played more than 100 heroes in his professional career, so Kled is naturally no exception.

But surprisingly, he couldn't be taught this thing at the club.

This made Ale unable to hold back anymore.

They immediately began bombarding Flandre's phone, their purpose clear from beginning to end, summed up in one sentence:

Old man, hand over the "Burning Execution" at once!!!

just.

Before the audience could recover from the shock of this top laner swap, the director immediately switched the camera back to the top half of the map.

This time.

The goal is no longer to set off on an empty road.

Instead, it was Oner's monkey who, after ganking the top lane, began invading V5's jungle from the top river. Faker, having gained lane control, immediately moved towards the river.

You can see it from a God's perspective.

at the same time.

Weiwei's Nightmare had just finished clearing the fifth set of jungle monsters, the Blue Buff, and was now facing off against the sixth set of jungle monsters, the Frog Queen.

The junglers on both sides are about to clash!
(End of this chapter)