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Chapter 108: A Masterful Move with the Orb Hidden Beneath the Clockwork Tower; Zhou Sheng's R-Flash Decides the Fate of the Battle.
In the live stream, netizens started discussing Zhou Li's selection of people.

[This is just right, this is my Zhou Ge! The second game was a complete tutorial.]

[My brother Zhou has been bringing a megaphone to the stage since his debut, providing on-the-spot explanations and instruction. He's the most knowledgeable about teaching.]

The knowledge of the League of Legends taught by the sage Duke Zhou is something that summoners worldwide should diligently study and master.

Can't Zhou Sheng give me, Xiaotaitai, a little face? Didn't IG thank Zhou Sheng for helping them beat TPA before? The two teams should have a good relationship, right?

[Shut up! Zhou Sheng is doing this for the sake of spreading his teachings and enlightening the world; this is a great act of love. Before such great love, what is there to talk about small love!]

[Zhou Sheng is like this: in front of foreigners, everyone is Chinese; in front of Chinese people, he is not human.]

[How dare you! You dare to speak ill of the Sage Zhou! I think you're already courting death!]

At this point, both sides had entered the game.

IG continued their aggressive style, grouping up as a five-man team at level one and charging straight into WE's jungle.

For a weak team playing against a strong team, only this kind of unreasonable recklessness can help the team find opportunities.

Xiaoxiao's robot took the lead and immediately spotted the wind-up robot in the distance.

Xiaoxiao instantly became excited!
"I'll flash and hook! I'll flash and hook!"

If we can hook her, with the help of Twisted Fate's crowd control and Ezreal's damage, we can definitely take down Orianna.

Of course, this hope is not high. The best hope is to exchange Flash for Flash and force Orianna to use Flash.

Even so, it's still a good deal.

Without any hesitation, Xiaoxiao immediately used Flash!

Amid gasps from the crowd, the robot decisively used its hook, aiming for the Card Master behind it.

At this moment, one hand is still gripping the hook.

Suddenly seeing the hook in front of him, under high pressure, his brain instantly lost its ability to judge, still stuck in the mind that the robot in the previous game was Curly Hair, and his muscles reacted by pressing his Flash.

"..."

This scene completely stunned Zhou Li, who was used to seeing all sorts of things.

In the commentary booth, Changmao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

As a professional commentator, he generally doesn't smile.

Unless you really can't help it.

"Hey, we see that IG made a huge, huge, super, super basic mistake. After the robot flashed, it used Q in the opposite direction, which actually scared their own teammate Twisted Fate into flashing out!"

Joker couldn't help but suppress his laughter as he said:
"It's clear that the IG players are still extremely nervous."

The voice chat on the IG players' bench remained dead silent for a full five seconds.

"Fuck you, Sun Yalong, reverse Q?!"

The opposing Orianna seemed to be shocked by Sun Yalong's incredible move, standing still in place.

Sun Yalong scratched the back of his head somewhat awkwardly.

"Bro, I did this on purpose. When playing Blitzcrank, you have to feign weakness to lower the enemy's guard, and then strike at the crucial moment to hit the enemy's carry."

PDD spat.

"Wow, bro, if you're a human, I'll eat you."

After IG made a brilliant play as soon as they entered the game, they awkwardly retreated to their own jungle.

【6666. 】

[The most exciting level 1 team fight of this World Championship.]

[See that? This is the power of our Zhou Sheng! Just standing there, he scared the enemy into using Flash!]

[This strength is probably already at the Nascent Soul Realm level.]

[That's outrageous, 60e is about right.]
[Hey kid, watch your words. Zhou Sheng can now send lightning through thin air; he might just send it at you through the internet.]

Zhou Li was unaware that he had become a Nascent Soul level monster without having done anything.

He had already started focusing on finishing off the enemies.

Orianna is arguably one of the most classic champions in League of Legends.

Since the launch of League of Legends, most of the champions from the same era as Orianna have been completely reworked or even redesigned after version updates.

The only thing that hasn't undergone any major changes is the clockwork mechanism.

The reason for this is that the hero's skills are perfectly designed.

It has acceleration and deceleration, shields, area-of-effect (AOE) crowd control, and burst damage.

This is why Orianna is considered a versatile mid-lane champion.

The designer didn't want to modify the clockwork's skills, so later on they could only keep reducing the clockwork's damage.

So much so that later on, a well-developed Orianna couldn't even one-shot a squishy ADC with a single combo.

However, in the current version, Clockwerk's damage is enough to one-shot a light warrior.

The card in the stance no longer has Flash, and this time it doesn't dare to linger in front of Zhou Li at all.

This gave the Zhou rituals more room to develop.

Mingkai started with Maokai in the bottom half of the map. He didn't go to eat the Krugs, but after taking the Red Buff and the four wraiths, he went straight to IG's jungle.

Upon seeing Mingkai's movements, the long-haired man remarked with a sigh:
"I never thought I'd see a mid laner actively going to invade the enemy jungle! That's the value a good mid laner can bring to the team."

When the big tree arrived in IG's jungle, the shadow had just finished fighting the four wraiths.

Upon seeing the scorpion, Mingkai charged forward with an air of utter indifference.

Because he knew that someone was holding his hand.

In this game, WE picked Pantheon for the top lane.

Although Strawberry is good at withstanding pressure, it makes no sense that he picked Pantheon, a champion who is almost invincible in the early game, and then got suppressed by PDD.

At this point, Strawberry not only had lane priority in the top lane, but was also in better condition than Jarvan IV.

They immediately came to our aid.

Left with no other choice, Shadow had to give up his red buff.

But as the saying goes, "Today we cede five cities, tomorrow we cede ten, and then we can have a peaceful night's rest."

With neither the top nor mid laner having lane priority, IG directly lost control of the upper jungle.

IG's four ghosts became easy prey for Orianna.

WE's emphasis on vision control in the jungle meant that Shadow dared not venture into WE's completely dark lower jungle.

IG knows it is on the verge of a slow death.

He kept his eyes glued to his experience bar.

The moment he reached level six by clearing minions with his Q skill, he ignored the remaining wave of minions and activated his ultimate.

The entire Summoner's Rift was instantly illuminated!

At this point, the card's ultimate ability is still a global teleportation with no distance limit.

This allowed Zz1tai's Twisted Fate to land directly behind WE's bot lane duo!

"Zz1tai made a very decisive move! He even abandoned the wave of minions in the mid lane and chose to use his ultimate to fly down!! Smile's Corki was stunned by the yellow card, and Blitzcrank hooked Corki over!!"

With the plane in a daze, Xiaoxiao's robot naturally couldn't miss, and immediately followed up with a topspin as it pulled EZ over.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the plane's health bar dropped below half!

Although the curly-haired Japanese woman wanted to protect the plane, her protective abilities were quite limited as a Japanese woman.

Even if you control the cards, you can only watch helplessly as the plane gets auto-attacked to death by Ezreal.

First blood!

"IG! A selfless gank from the mid lane helped Kid secure First Blood!"

After securing a kill in the bottom lane, Zz1tai seemed to instantly find a way to strategize.

Once the ultimate skill is available, regardless of how many minions are in the mid lane, the enemy will fly straight to the bottom lane.

He knew that whether he was in the mid lane or not, he couldn't stop Orianna's growth.

Instead of doing that, it's better to just give up laning and help your teammates gain an advantage.

The match quickly reached the 20-minute mark.

To everyone's surprise, the kill score at this point was WE 1:7!
WE's only kill came when Mingkai helped Strawberry force a tower dive in the top lane.

However, Pantheon is an early-game champion, but in the late game he's no different from a super minion, so this advantage is hardly an advantage at all.

On the other hand, IG has been relentlessly targeting WE's bot lane.

kid's Ezreal had already secured five kills!

In terms of economy, WE is actually lagging behind IG!

In the commentary booth, Joker watched the match and began to speak:

"It feels like IG has found the right strategy! In the past, when other teams faced WE, they would choose to look for opportunities in the top lane, but this time, IG put the pressure on WE's bottom lane! This is the first time in the twenty minutes of the game that WE has fallen behind their opponents in terms of gold!"

Looking at the equipment of both sides' core DPS characters, Changmao didn't seem very worried.

"But we can see that Lion's development here is very good! Although he hasn't gotten any kills or assists, his gold is about the same as Ezreal's 5-0! This Orianna has already farmed 278 CS in 20 minutes!! She's simply a ruthless last-hitting machine!!"

From God's perspective, although there are some economic gaps between the two sides, the actual gap is not very large.

It's worth noting that Orianna had been farming in the mid lane and even destroyed IG's mid lane turret.

On the other hand, IG only has an advantage in kills, and their bottom lane turret has only just been destroyed.

However, IG, caught up in the game, clearly hadn't realized this problem. Looking at the 1-7 kill score, IG now felt they had a huge advantage!

So they proactively chose to team up and push the middle!
They even learned from WE, having Twisted Fate split push on the sidelines while the other four grouped up in the mid lane.

Faced with IG's overwhelming force, WE naturally had no intention of giving up the mid tower.

After returning to the city to resupply, Zhou Li has already started reading.

IG is currently riding high on momentum and playing extremely aggressively.

Xiaoxiao shouted in the voice chat:

"Watch the ball! Watch the clockwork ball!"

The only danger for IG right now comes from Orianna's ultimate ability.

This hero's greatness is such that he can create miracles.

Hearing Xiaoxiao's words, everyone became even more vigilant and began searching for the wind-up ball on the ground.

But after searching around, I couldn't find the wind-up ball anywhere.

Moreover, at this point, WE's formation had been pushed back due to the advance of IG's robot and scorpion.

This led the IG members to believe that Orianna's ball had gone too far and returned to its original form.

With the mid-lane turret's health dropping to one-third, WE seemed to be losing patience, and Pantheon moved in to engage.

"Hook directly! Whoever gets hooked will be instantly killed!"

Kid shouted with extreme confidence in the voice message!!
Xiaoxiao knew that the turret was about to fall, and it was the best time to start a team fight, so she didn't hesitate to use her Q skill.

He directly pulled the strawberry's Pantheon over!
IG's first thought was to focus fire on Pantheon!

But at that moment, a ball suddenly flew at an extreme distance to the feet of the IG team!

[Command: Shockwave!!]

The ripples spread out from the hero's feet before the IG players finally reacted!

But it was too late!!
"My God!! Lion! He hid Orianna's ball under the turret so IG didn't even notice! One ultimate, and it hit five people!!!"

With a gasp from the long-haired girl, the curly-haired girl stepped forward and immediately unleashed her ultimate attack!

And strawberries survived this concentrated attack!
Instead of running away, he chose to jump right there on the spot!

Mingkai's Maokai and Curly's Leona immediately connected control to Ezreal!
The 5-0 Ezreal couldn't even use his E or two summoner spells; he was instantly melted!
The two sides clashed for less than a second, and IG's team fight collapsed instantly!

This left Zita completely dumbfounded.

Because his card has already activated its ultimate ability and has entered the teleportation channel!
This time, you'll be bombarded with gold coins as soon as you land!

[Double kill!]

[Triple play!!]

【ACE！！】

As the announcement sounded, WeiXiao and ZhouLi each secured a double kill and a triple kill, wiping out IG!
The beautiful team battle scenes immediately left netizens wondering what was going on.

Some of the most satisfying moments in League of Legends include Malphite's ultimate on five opponents, Orianna's ultimate on five opponents, and Teemo's mushrooms being constantly trampled by the enemy, then hiding in a dark corner watching the enemy heroes who dare not move and letting out a sly laugh, and finally blinding them at the last second before they recall to base and securing the kill.

"Wow! Lion's shot was so tricky!! In just one team fight, IG is back to square one! Not only has their slight advantage disappeared, but they're now at a huge disadvantage!"

Joker was still reminiscing in the commentary booth.

Unfortunately, the IG players couldn't hear Joker's commentary.

They are questioning each other with red eyes.

"Holy crap! Where the hell did this ball come from?!"

"It was like it suddenly appeared out of nowhere; I didn't see it at all!"

"What's going on? It's open?"

"When was he ever locked up?!"

"Did you see the posture?"

"I didn't see it either! But it looked like it flew over from the turret."

Hiding the ball behind the turret is a trick that all Clockwork players are familiar with.

However, at this time, no one knew this.

"What the hell is this hook? We fought for ages, and then one team fight wiped us out!!"

After WE wiped out IG in a team fight, they pushed down IG's second mid-lane tower, then moved to the bottom lane, taking down IG's outer bottom-lane tower and securing a dragon, instantly widening the economic gap.

After IG was resurrected, they were no longer able to cope with the immense pressure brought by WE's methodical advance.

Thanks to their awareness of vision, IG quickly lost all vision of the jungle after losing the mid-lane second turret.

WE completely devoured all the resources.

Twenty-seventh minute of the match.

WE has destroyed all of IG's outer turrets.

They then disappeared from IG's sight.

At this point, IG couldn't just stay in their high ground and not venture out.

Because WE is very likely to go for Baron!

Knowing that dragging things out would inevitably lead to defeat, the IG players decided to go all out and try to steal the Baron.

If you manage to snag one, you can still play; if not, it will be shipped directly to you.

To avoid being ambushed by WE in the bushes, IG chose to group up as a five-man team.

After probing around until they reached the red buff, they suddenly discovered that Orianna had appeared in the mid lane.

And there was only one person!

They even arrogantly pushed the minion wave all the way to the second tower.

"Hey! Catch the clockwork! Catch the clockwork!!"

Xiaoxiao immediately shouted loudly.

In WE's lineup, the best-developed and most difficult to deal with is Orianna!

Once Orianna dies, the remaining four members of WE are no threat at all!

Xiaoxiao has even sold his equipment to buy Prophet Potions, and the vision in the upper half of the jungle has already been cleared!
IG's current location is very mysterious!
Meanwhile, WE's bot lane duo appeared to push the bottom lane, while Strawberry's Pantheon appeared to push the top lane!

In other words, Clockwork is currently all alone. Even if there were someone behind him, it would only be a big tree!
On the commentary desk, seeing IG's movements, Changmao was sweating bullets for Zhou Li!

"Hey! We see Lion is playing incredibly recklessly! He's pushing the lane all the way to IG's high ground! Isn't that a bit too arrogant?! His teammates aren't even here!!"

Joker looked at the IG members who had already rushed out and said:

"Wow! Lion seems to have lost focus a bit this time? How did he manage to push the lane to this position all by himself!"

Even netizens have started sharing it.

[Huh? This guy can push the lane all the way to the high ground all by himself?]

[My brother Zhou loves to show off too much; he's going to get himself into trouble this time.]

I feel Zhou Sheng is doing this on purpose, planning to take on five opponents and get a kill.

[Although I'm also a fan of Zhou Ge, let's stop with the excessive hype. Unless Orianna can instantly kill IG's backline with a single combo, and the problem is IG isn't stupid, they're unlikely to be able to land a hit in that situation.]

At this moment, the robot activated its W acceleration from the side and charged forward.

Upon seeing the IG team, Orianna cast a shield on herself and used a speed boost to pull them away.

PDD, worried that things might get complicated, immediately used Flash, which was absolutely devastating!

At that moment, a ripple suddenly appeared on the clockwork.

This is the animation effect when Orianna unleashes her ultimate ability, Shockwave!
"Mistake!"

Longhair's eyes widened!
In his view, Zhou Li's move was a clear mistake.

After all, even the most skilled clockwork player can sometimes suddenly lose their ball when under pressure.

Zhou Li unleashed his ultimate move while the ball was still on him, but it only hit the prince, which was clearly a mistake!
However, the next second, Long Hair's eyes widened!

In the instant the ripples spread, Orianna used Flash, sending herself straight into the backline of IG's team!
R Flash!!

Orianna's ultimate move pulled up four people!

"My God! What is this again?! Lion! He's playing with some terrifying things I've never seen before!"

In the live stream, Orianna's already overflowing damage instantly killed both Ezreal and Twisted Fate, two squishy champions!

"boom!!"

At the Galen Center, the gasps from the audience nearly caused an earthquake!

In the blink of an eye, IG's two carries melted!
At this moment, Pantheon's ultimate ability indicator had already appeared on the ground!
Xiaoxiao watched as Zhou Li easily dodged his Q skill, and roared in impotent rage:
"Holy crap! What is that?!"

"I ordered it!!"

Beep beep beep.

One update today.

I'll make up for the missed three chapters tomorrow.

Because the finals have ended.

I'll finish writing about winning the championship in one go tomorrow at midnight.

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