You've only been playing for half a year, and you've already reached the finals?

Chapter 227 The Champion!

"EDG Flandre has killed FPX Tian!"

"EDG Jiejie has killed FPX Crisp!"

Two kill announcements were broadcast in succession, eliciting cheers from the audience.

The three commentators were all smiles.

"This is the price we pay for targeting Xiaofei!" Miller laughed. "EDG isn't a team where Xiaofei can carry the whole team, and his other four teammates aren't made of dough either! This one-for-two trade makes FPX look like they lost a lot!"

Upon closer inspection, EDG didn't use a single Flash in this exchange, yet still managed to secure two kills.

On the other side, FPX paid the price of two Flashes, but only managed to get one kill on Irelia.

The difference between these two flashes is much greater than the loss of a two-for-one trade!

With FPX's top, mid, and jungle all without Flash, EDG has a lot of room to maneuver!
"And most importantly, is this really effective against this person?" Colonel Guan also raised a question. "It seems like he can still score if he's supposed to!"

"That's hard to say." Remember disagreed: "It seems like Xiaofei was quite restricted this game, mainly because Cassiopeia was such a bad counter! Irelia couldn't fight back at all!"

Miller smiled mysteriously from the side: "All I can say is, trust Brother Fei."

At this point, it can be clearly seen from the equipment bar that Irelia, after recalling to base, has already purchased a Vampiric Scepter.

Clearly, given that he is countered by the opposing team's Bloodthirst, Ming Jing is no longer planning to follow the Bloodthirst build with his main W skill. This is the real way he's taking the initiative to become a spinning top.

To break the deadlock and reverse the disadvantage, we must return to the traditional Q-focused attack speed build.

The wave clear ability of the Q-max build hasn't actually deteriorated much; at least compared to Cassiopeia, it's still more than enough.

In contrast, this strategy significantly increases the initiative in the laning phase!
This also gave Ming Jing the ability to fight the snake woman head-on!
Ming Jing has already decided to kill him.

After one minute, the game time will reach eight minutes, and his Flash will be ready again.

The opponent just used Flash, and their cooldown will be 12 minutes.

That four-minute window of opportunity is his chance!
Of course, Mingjing needs to be patient until the opportunity comes.

"Keep it up, brothers!" Ming Jing laughed in the voice chat, "I'm about to collapse from waiting."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Flandre immediately replied with a grin, "I'll carry this game!"

Saint Gun is indeed quite confident now.

Kennen vs. Gragas is actually a very difficult lane matchup.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it's a long-range vs. short-range matchup. In reality, Gragas's sustain and poke are both incredibly powerful. Against a long-range champion like Kennen, who doesn't have much lane pressure, he's a guaranteed win!

That's why Flandre, unable to control the Gragas, chose to push the lane and then look for opportunities in the mid lane.

Fortunately, he found a good opportunity and got a kill, which allowed him to build two cost-effective items, the Generator and Sorcerer's Shoes, after returning to base, greatly increasing his lane dominance!
From this point on, his laning pressure increased significantly, keeping Khan firmly under the tower and initiating a period of torment in front of the tower.

Moreover, JieJie's strategy was clear this game. He first helped Flandre establish vision in the top lane, and then quickly moved to the bottom half of the map to counter-gank.

Jie Jie's idea was simple: to restrict Xiao Tian's movements.

Now that we have the advantage, as long as the enemy jungler doesn't do anything wrong, our teammates in the lanes will naturally expand our advantage!

This is the confidence that comes with being on a strong team; everyone acts with composure.

If you don't rush, the other side will naturally rush.

This line of thinking is certainly correct.

Eight minutes passed quickly, and with the Vanguard spawning, Xiaotian finally couldn't hold back any longer.

Judging from this rhythm, EDG is about to take advantage of their top lane advantage to control the Rift Herald, but FPX's bottom lane still has no advantage at all, and Xiaotian can't even control the dragon to stop the loss!
If this pace continues, won't things get increasingly worse?

Fortunately, Xiaotian's Flash in the mid lane three minutes ago has now been restored. With Flash and R, Lee Sin is still dominant. He circled around from the Dragon Pit into EDG's bottom jungle and launched a flanking attack on the bottom lane!
But this was exactly what Jie Jie had been waiting for. The prince had been crouching in the grass along the lower route for a long time!
The Lee Sin had just circled around and hadn't even had a chance to use his ultimate when Aphelios blocked his attack with a purple blade AQ, and then Thresh hooked him right in!

The next instant, the prince also emerged from the bush using his EQ combo, and the three of them—bottom jungler, support, and jungler—perfectly coordinated their crowd control!

On the other side, the FPX duo, seeing this scene, didn't even need to communicate, and decisively chose to retreat and flee!

It's hopeless, beyond saving, I've sent it.

Even if Aphelios and Thresh don't do much damage, the three of them combined their crowd control and attacks to kill a Lee Sin!

Xiao Tian's desperately roused surprise attack ended in another crushing defeat!
"Wow, Xiaotian doesn't seem to be having a good rhythm this game." Miller was speechless when he saw this. "It feels like he's playing a bit casually, like he's playing a ranked match!"

Eight minutes have passed, and Xiaotian has already initiated three waves of ganks, which is quite a high frequency.

However, all three ganks were somewhat abstract.

A frenzied mid-lane flash trade, a mid-lane feeding, a bot-lane feeding – every gank brought the team one step closer to second place!
"It seems that being down 0-2 has affected the players' mentality," Colonel Guan said leisurely. "Xiao Tian is a bit too anxious!"

It's common knowledge that Xiaotian has a bad mentality. In the S10 jungle carry meta, Xiaotian almost retired on the spot because he didn't fit the jungle carry playstyle.

However, it's a bit of an exaggeration for such a big problem to occur on the final stage.

EDG's top and bottom lane carries have kills and are in a lane advantage, so FPX has lost the right to control resources!
From an operational perspective, failing to control resources is a dead end!
"Then it all depends on Doinb." Guan Daxiao looked at the scoreboard. "He's FPX's only remaining strong lane now. If he can extend his advantage to the side lanes, then they still have a chance!"

The disadvantages brought about by Xiao Tian are still triggering a chain reaction.

In the mid lane, Doinb's Cassiopeia had a great laning phase. It should have been a sure thing for Cassiopeia to farm Irelia and then exchange half of the map resources with EDG, waiting for the late game to carry.

However, due to the team's disadvantage, Doinb had to play more aggressively and began to actively seek out pressure-reduction strategies, trying to free himself from the laning phase.

This transformation, of course, did not fool Mingjing's eyes.

Ming Jing, who had never fought back or retaliated in the past few minutes, licked his lips when he saw the change in the other party's pace.

As the minion wave slowly advanced towards him, Ming Jing knew that his opportunity had arrived.

Cassiopeia didn't hold the lane this time, so there weren't many minions. Mingjing had a plan in mind. Irelia took two steps forward, pushed the minion wave outside the tower, and released her W [Dance of the Distance], clearly intending to block the lane.

How should W be submitted?
Doinb frowned slightly upon seeing this. He quickly pressed down on her, unleashing a W, hoping to deal a significant amount of damage to Irelia.

However, Mingjing's distance control was precise; he knew the casting range of Cassiopeia's W like the back of his hand. Just before Cassiopeia's W was cast, Irelia's W [Dance of the Distance] also struck the ranged minion hard.

Even a level 1 W is enough to take down most of the ranged minions' health!

The moment W is cast, Irelia quickly dashes forward with Q [Blade Impact], and before Cassiopeia's W can land, she uses Q on a minion to close the distance.

The moment Q skill lands, the ultimate skill [Vanguard Blade] is released!

"Ionia will never perish!"

Irelia's voice echoed throughout the arena through the speakers, and her ultimate, Blade of the Blade, struck Cassiopeia, forming a sword array!
Seeing this, every audience member's heart skipped a beat!
Brother Fei, are you serious?

Doinb was also slightly surprised at this moment.

He didn't expect that the Irelia, who had been taking hits for the past few minutes, would suddenly erupt and come out with such a fierce momentum!

But he wasn't afraid.

She's just a female Irelia, why should she fight against Cassiopeia?
No sooner said than done, the Irelia who had landed her ultimate had already charged in with another Q!

Doinb's reaction time is still good enough. He immediately used his ultimate skill, Petrifying Gaze, in an attempt to control Irelia head-on!
But Mingjing's reaction was even better.

During the sprint, Ming Jing was extremely focused and clearly saw the snake woman's action of bowing down to unleash her ultimate move.

He was prepared for this and decisively used Flash!

The gap becomes apparent at this moment.

A flash of golden light appeared as Irelia used Flash to interrupt her own Q skill's dash, arriving beside Cassiopeia and dodging the deadly Petrifying Gaze!
This ultimate move didn't even petrify the target, let alone deal any damage!
Ming Jing unleashed a basic attack, followed by two segments of the [Twin Blades] technique centered on the Snake Woman!

The accuracy of her E skill was so great that Cassiopeia, who couldn't get her boots or land her Q, had no chance to dodge and was completely stunned!
At this moment, the passive of the Fiora finally reached the maximum stack. Ming Jing was not in a hurry to use Q. Instead, he deliberately took a step back and kept the Cassiopeia at the limit of her attack range, and swung his blade continuously!
With his WR skill empty, Doinb had little room to maneuver. He could only throw out a Q, trying to escape using the speed boost from the Q skill.

Ming Jing had created some distance for this moment. He used his Q [Blade Impact] to dodge the attack and charged back into the Cassiopeia's face!
The snake woman was also formally sentenced to death.

Without Flash, W, R, or Q, Cassiopeia can't escape the clutches of a fully-stacked Irelia just by relying on her E skill, Venomous Fang!

With Mingjing's basic attack fully stacking Conqueror, combined with her full passive, Irelia's every basic attack can reduce Cassiopeia's health bar by a large amount!

Anyone who sees this will realize that something is wrong.

"Hey, he dodged all the skills!" Miller was already yelling from the commentary booth, "Looks like he's going to get a solo kill!"

"Doinb is fighting back, but it's no use! Irelia doesn't have poison applied, and Cassiopeia's E skill damage is too low!"

Colonel Guan was also visibly shocked. "Can Doinb escape?! He still has one more chance with his Q!"

If Cassiopeia had landed just one of her Qs, she could have used the speed boost to create distance.

Doinb sacrificed most of his health to barely manage to get another Q off cooldown. He seized the opportunity when Irelia's auto-attack was interrupted and unleashed another Q.

This time, he learned from his previous mistake and deliberately placed his Q skill closer to himself, not giving Irelia a chance to dodge with her Q.

But Mingjing saw this Q and just found it funny.

What kind of person do you take me for?
Faced with this kind of forward-anticipating Q, he doesn't even need any skills; he can easily dodge the Q by simply taking a step back.

After dodging Q, he used his final Q, Blade Rush, to charge back into Irelia's face!
Doinb was extremely anxious at this moment, but he had no room to maneuver and could only helplessly spit out two venomous fangs at the Irelia.

Then I watched as Irelia emptied my health bar with a single Swift Blade.

"EDG Phi has killed FPX Doinb!"

The news of the kill was broadcast throughout the entire venue via loudspeakers!

Off the field, the cheers of tens of thousands of spectators seemed to be about to overturn the entire Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center!
On the Douyu platform, the JDG members were also quite excited.

"Solo kill! Awesome!" Zoon couldn't help but shout, his voice filled with the joy of emotional release. "I told you targeting Mingjing was useless, this guy will definitely get his revenge!"

"Holy crap, Irelia is really having a hard time against Cassiopeia, isn't she?" Kanavi couldn't help but click his tongue as he looked at Irelia with only a third of her health left. "Mingjing dodged all the skills he could, and we still almost lost!"

"The main problem is that the opposing team not only has a hero advantage, but also an economic lead! He got first blood!"

Toothpaste laughed and said, "But it's no use! We still can't beat them! I feel like Doinb has played too many W-max Irelia games and doesn't know the strength of the standard Irelia anymore. Who throws out skills like that?"

“Indeed, he just throws those Ws out directly, isn’t he going to use them to protect himself?” Toothpaste just shook his head at this moment, “Then he sent them, there are no more to get.”

Doinb was FPX's only remaining strong laner, and now with this solo kill, FPX's last hope has vanished.

Professional matches are round-robin, with each other exchanging punches until one person has more health left, at which point the other wins.

But at this point, the turn-based system no longer exists, because FPX no longer has the right to make a move; from now on, it's all EDG's turn!
With FPX's jungler and mid laner dying one after another, the team had no ability to contest the dragon. JieJie didn't hold back and led the bot lane duo straight to the dragon pit, securing the Wind Dragon.

Immediately after EDG recalled to base to replenish their supplies, they collectively moved to the upper half of the map!
At this moment, Xiaotian, who had just respawned, was still trying to seize the opportunity to take down the Herald, but Flandre still had the strength to fight in lane. He only took two steps towards the river and easily drove Xiaotian away.

EDG teammates then stepped in to cover the gap and took over the Herald.

With the help of the vanguard, EDG pushed down the first tower again, giving Viper another big bite!

Once these three waves of momentum were executed, EDG's already considerable advantage quickly expanded!
At the 14-minute mark, EDG secured the second dragon and the second vanguard, and then used the second vanguard to push down the middle tower.

At this point, the economic gap between the two sides had widened to an astonishing 5,000.

At this point, even the FPX players had lost interest in continuing the game.

Trailing 0-2 and then being crushed in the third game, even the most optimistic person would lose the will to fight back.

For the FPX team, what they need to do right now is to hold out for twenty minutes, not lose too badly, and then end the game as soon as possible!
At 22 minutes and 00 seconds, FPX initiated a team fight in the mid lane. Liu Qingsong's Leona used E-Flash-R to initiate, targeting Viper's Aphelios.

With all his skills available, Viper remained calm and collected. He used Purify to remove the stun, then Flash away to create space and coordinate with his teammates who came to support him for a stable counterattack!

With overwhelming economic power, as long as the center position isn't instantly eliminated, there's no possibility of losing the team.

EDG easily achieved a 4-for-1 trade, and then took control of Baron!

At 23 minutes and 44 seconds, EDG pushed forward with the help of Baron Nashor and won the final!

(End of this chapter)