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Chapter 49 Xiao Cang's keen insight reveals the secrets of the battle; Zhou Lang's skillful hand rewrites destiny.

Having secured the first win, Ehome is clearly brimming with confidence.

After the two sides switched sides in the second game, they still chose the exact same lineup as in the first game.

Blue side: WE Esports Club VS Red side: Ehome Esports Club.

Top Lane: caomei's Twilight Eye vs. MAX's Blade Dancer.

Jungle: YJTM Eternal Nightmare VS Lucky Lee Sin.

Mid Lane: Lion Twisted Fate vs. MM Clockwerk

ADC: wiexiao Explorer VS TS Night Hound.

Support: IF Gem Knight vs DD Minotaur Chieftain.

Looking at the lineups of both sides, Xiao Cang spoke up:

"We see that both sides have selected the exact same lineups as in the first game. The only difference is that WE has changed their mid-laner."

TT nodded and began to analyze.

"In the last game, WE's global flow system did not have much effect. The main reason was that the mid lane was suppressed too much in the early game, so it was unable to move."

“Yes,” Xiao Cang continued, “In fact, Twisted Fate vs. Orianna is a 40/60 matchup. In the last game, we often saw Ruofeng’s Twisted Fate get slowed by Orianna’s QW skills, taking a full combo of damage, but he couldn’t even get close to the opponent.”

Meanwhile, in the live stream, the same lineup had already sparked another argument among viewers.

What does "lion" mean? Is someone trying to create a card game tutorial?

[To kill someone, you must first destroy their spirit.]

[Twisted Fate can't lane against Orianna; this is determined by the champion's attributes.]

[Purely clownish behavior.]

[The Wind Team's cards can only withstand pressure; what is he pretending for?]

[Damn, this game is over again.]

Zhou Li naturally knew that it wasn't easy to play the clockwork card game online.

However, at this stage, the global flow tactic is indeed very powerful.

First, this version lacked the later turret plating and Rift Herald, and the dragons only provided gold, which made the game's resource weighting very low.

In other words, the way for a team to establish an advantage is more to gain economic advantage through kills in small-scale team fights.

At this point, the card's ultimate ability can teleport across the entire map.

A person can instantly teleport to the bottom lane while on the top lane.

This makes it virtually impossible for opponents to defend against the card's gank.

Furthermore, the fact that most of the mainstream heroes in this version lack mobility skills further increases the success rate of Twisted Fate's ganks.

In general, the core logic of the global support strategy is to quickly provide support to create local numerical superiority, and then snowball to end the game.

At this point, both sides had entered the game.

Without a second thought, Zhou Li took out a pair of straw sandals and three bottles of blood medicine from the old shopkeeper.

Ehome player bench.

After thinking about it, MM finally chose the Doran's Ring as her starting item.

When facing a disadvantageous opponent like Clockwerk in lane, there's no way to compensate for it through skill alone.

As a traditional mage card, it only has two simple output skills and methods.

Orianna is not like an assassin hero such as Fizz.

To solo kill Clockwerk online with Twisted Fate, you'd need to be playing against a bot.

On the contrary, their own Clockwerk can use its long range advantage to frequently harass Twisted Fate, and even at level six, it can use its ultimate to burst down Twisted Fate in one combo.

All he needs to be careful about is avoiding getting hit by Twisted Fate's Q skill. With his Q and W skills available, it's virtually impossible for Twisted Fate to get a hit on him. Even if he does, Orianna can rely on her E skill's shield and her passive effect of dealing magic damage with her basic attacks, making her completely unafraid to trade blows with Twisted Fate.

So MM chose the Doran's Ring.

While enhancing his own online mana sustain, it also strengthens his dominance in the online arena.

In the last match against Ruofeng's Twisted Fate, I used this method to keep the opponent under the tower so he didn't dare to lift his head.

The two sides' minion waves have already converged in the middle lane.

MM controlled the clockwork to go online, while the card walked out of the bushes nearby.

The card emerged from the bushes and charged straight at the clockwork.

Seeing the card's actions, MM almost laughed.

Instead of retreating, he stood in the minion wave while releasing his Q skill, ready to directly fight the card.

But after a couple of tries, MM realized something was wrong.

Because he realized that he couldn't seem to beat the opponent's card!

This shouldn't be!
Although Orianna has the lowest attack damage among all mages in the game at level 1, with only 40 attack damage, her passive ability and Q skill damage mean that trading blows should definitely not be a loss for her!
MM subconsciously glanced at the card panel.

The glaring 65 points of attack power on the attack power column were so bright it hurt the girl's eyes!

Looking at his armor again, level 1 Clockwork Armor only had 19 points, and that was with the rune bonus.

MM couldn't help but want to curse.

This guy, even though he's using AP masteries, he's using AD runes!
What disgusted MM even more was that Zhou Li's card had the E skill learned at level one.

This gives him a faster attack speed, and the fourth basic attack with the passive effect hits Orianna especially hard!

When Clockwerk was forced back to the tower by Twisted Fate, his health was reduced by half by Twisted Fate's attacks.

However, because Twisted Fate was chasing Orianna and taking damage from the minions, his health dropped to half.

TT, seeing that a fierce battle had broken out between the two sides in the mid lane at level one, said:

"We saw that Lion's Twisted Fate played very aggressively, immediately engaging MM's Orianna in close combat. Moreover, Lion unconventionally chose to bring a set of AD runes, seemingly wanting to catch MM off guard. However, MM's response was also very good. The exchange of blows was almost even on both sides. It feels like Lion didn't achieve what he wanted. Sacrificing magic penetration and some movement speed just for this one-level exchange doesn't seem very worthwhile."

Upon hearing TT's words, Xiao Cang shook her head and explained:
"No, for Clockwork, this game is over."

TT nodded.

As a professional commentator, no matter what your partner says, nodding in agreement is a basic professional quality.

But this time, TT's head got stuck.

"Um...you mean the game with Orianna is over?"

"Yes."

Xiao Cang nodded her head smoothly.

"Their health is almost the same now."

Upon hearing TT's question, Xiao Cang began to explain.

"The biggest weakness of Twisted Fate against Orianna is that you can't even touch her. Take Ruofeng's Twisted Fate in the last game as an example. He wanted to trade blows with Orianna, but he often ended up getting hit for nothing, which led to him being pushed under the tower and falling into a disadvantageous position. Normally, there is only one solution for Twisted Fate against Orianna: give up trading blows with her and use your own health to gain lane control. Rely on Orianna's weakness in pushing lanes in the early game and deal with the lane pressure by constantly pushing the lane and recalling to base to replenish your supplies."

"In casual games, there's no problem with doing this, but in professional matches, Twisted Fate is almost always out of form, which can easily lead to the loss of your own jungle."

"Now, Lion, by carrying AD runes, broke Orianna's health at level one. Orianna started with a Doran's Ring and only had one health potion, while Twisted Fate had three health potions, allowing him to quickly recover his health. This gave Twisted Fate an advantage in lane from level one, allowing him to control the lane and gain a level advantage while maintaining healthy health. After that, Twisted Fate only needed to push the lane, and Orianna would be forced to stay under her tower until she got her items and levels."

TT was somewhat bewildered by Xiao Cang's analysis.

He couldn't understand.

If Xiao Cang's commentary in the previous game was due to WE's Lion sending her scripts from the sidelines.

Now, Lion is already playing in the game.

Where did Xiao Cang get these words coming from?!
(End of this chapter)