LPL History

Chapter 34 Dopa's Prophecy Comes True: One Attack on the Minion Lane Reveals the Victory or Defeat

Discussions had already begun to rise in the audience.

When League of Legends was just starting out in China, those who could come to watch the games live were naturally die-hard fans.

Their understanding of the game is naturally not too bad either.

The verbal sparring between Lu Benwei and Zhou Li, while providing plenty of emotional value for the audience, was still quite intense.

However, as a 60e, fans quickly began to criticize Zhou Li.

"This substitute is such a jerk, Twisted Fate solo-killing Fizz at level six? Is that something a human would say?"

"Even with the Wind team here, Twisted Fate can only play defensively under the tower when facing Fizz."

"This White, your mother looks like a gorilla that hasn't eaten for three days, so dark and sleazy, he's fucking disgusting. All he does is bark like a dog when my Captain Feng isn't around."

"That's right, if Captain Feng were here, he wouldn't dare to call out even if he had a hundred lives."

"Stupid WE, why didn't you let my teammate Feng play?"

"This Lion made a complete fool of himself right from the start, he completely disgraced WE."

Amidst the murmurs of the audience, both sides have already begun the game.

Zhou Li maneuvered the cards and headed towards the middle lane.

They went straight to the blue team's tower and started dancing "Oppa Anal Death Generation".

Despite Zhou Li's risky maneuvering, no one from CLC showed themselves.

WE did not plan a level 1 team fight; they simply lined up in a long, single-file formation.

Upon noticing that no one from CLC had shown themselves, Zhou Li immediately realized something was wrong.

He glanced at the minimap and immediately signaled Strawberry, who was stationed on the top lane, to retreat.

CLC player bench.

Lu Benwei was shouting excitedly.

"Go, go, go!"

They devised a plan to encircle and annihilate the strawberries.

CLC helped Aya secure the champion Renekton, aiming to find a breakthrough in WE's weak top lane.

The champion Renekton can be described as a pure lane bully.

Gaining an early advantage puts immense pressure on the opponent and can snowball the advantage.

However, as an early-game champion, if Renekton fails to gain an advantage in lane, then his laning phase is essentially a failure.

CLC naturally understands this.

CLC will naturally go all out to come up with various strategies and tactics against WE, a top professional esports team in China.

When Strawberry spotted the approaching Renekton and Lee Sin in the top lane tri-bush, the other three members of CLC had already appeared to his right.

First blood!

Even though Strawberry used Flash, he was still caught up by Lee Sin's second Q and got the first blood.

WE gave up first blood at the start of the game, causing a gasp from the audience.

Zhou Li, however, said calmly:

"Strawberry is great, this one's in the bag."

Strawberry blushed, wondering if Zhou Li was teasing her.

Strawberries have always had a nickname: "blood strawberry".

This refers to the fact that WE almost always wins the game whenever Strawberry gives up first blood.

This seemingly fantastical statement actually has a certain logic behind it.

If Strawberry, who plays extremely well in lane, gives up first blood, it usually means that the opponent is targeting him.

In this way, the bot lane, which is the core of WE, will be able to develop.

The Lee Sin who secured First Blood did not choose to recall, but instead stayed in WE's upper jungle with the Renekton.

It's obvious they intend to directly take over WE's top jungle.

WE also realized this, and DaoGe said:

"The enemy team is changing their jungle, Strawberry, you'll have to bear the pressure on your own, I can't help you anymore."

Strawberry nodded upon hearing Brother Dao's words, but her heart remained largely unmoved.

Whether or not you switch jungle camps has little to do with whether or not Dao Ge helps you.

Both sides' minion waves have been pushed to the lane.

This time, Zhou Li didn't follow his usual strategy of using long-range units against short-range units and instead pushed forward to disrupt the minion wave and try to gain lane control.

Fizz's skill mechanics are very effective against Twisted Fate. In addition, the enemy jungler has changed jungle camps, so the focus in the early game will definitely be on the top and mid lanes, while our own jungler is practically useless.

Pushing the lane yourself in this game will be very dangerous.

Now we'll see if Lu Benwei will give him a chance.

When the minion waves of both sides met, Lu Benwei, controlling the Fizz, arrogantly walked up and auto-attacked a minion.

Seeing Lu Benwei's actions, Zhou Li smiled and said:

"CLC has already lost this game."

Zhou Li's words surprised everyone in WE.

"What do you mean?"

"CLC lost?"

"I don't know what you're pretending to be."

Zhou Li was too lazy to explain to his teammates.

When Lu Benwei's Fizz auto-attacked a creep, his game was already over.

From this moment on, the movement of the minion wave in the middle lane will be entirely controlled by Zhou Li.

Zhou Li could then directly control the minion wave in front of his own tower. In this way, he would not only avoid the risk of being ganked by the jungler, but also be able to more easily whittle down the Fizz.

This puts the Fizz in a dilemma: if he pushes the lane, he has to worry about being ganked; if he doesn't push the lane, he'll be blocked by Twisted Fate and his development will be limited.

Meanwhile, Twisted Fate can develop steadily because of his passive ability to gain extra gold, while Fizz cannot get close enough to harass the enemy, causing the economic gap between the two sides to widen.

After reaching level six, Twisted Fate can use his ultimate to support the side lanes or jungle at any time, while Fizz, due to the minion wave, can neither stop Twisted Fate from roaming nor push towers solo, thus becoming a complete "outsider".

At this point, Lu Benwei clearly had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem.

Seeing that the card didn't even use a basic attack to whittle down his health when he went straight in to finish off the opponent, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Damn, this guy is so weak, he wouldn't even dare to touch me."

Chris, in the bottom lane, also said with a smile:

"When we get out of here, Weixiao will probably be cursing us out."

WE player seat.

As soon as Zhou Li finished speaking, Wei Xiao, who was usually not very talkative, suddenly spoke up:

"Why are they so annoying? How am I supposed to lane against them?"

Zhou Li glanced at the bottom lane.

The opposing policewoman was clearly wearing a red buff.

Version S2 still has many issues with its mechanisms.

For example, at level one, the bottom lane duo can easily take down the red buff.

CLC's jungler opted to switch jungle areas, taking WE's red buff first.

Their bot lane duo, on the other hand, directly destroyed their own red buff.

The female police officer already has a long reach, and now that she has the red buff, she can make the Graves suffer terribly.

And the jungler, Daoge, was also greatly affected by this.

This means he can only activate a single buff in this game.

CLC's first-tier team design was clearly a series of planned schemes.

The match had barely begun when WE found themselves at a complete disadvantage.

Only Zhou Li was leisurely farming minions in the mid lane, completely unaffected.

"Don't worry, we're five against four, how can we lose?"

(End of this chapter)