League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 139 Three Minutes, 2-0!

After reviewing the team compositions, Abu analyzed the situation: "This time, Doinb didn't pick a mid-laner who can create tempo, but instead chose his old favorite, Viktor!"

"This will put them at a relatively passive position in the early game, which is probably an experiment they're making for the new version."

As an LPL champion coach, Abu's vision is clearly unique.

With the arrival of the new version, the choice of mid-lane champion pool has changed the most. In addition to the roaming system that he has always used, Doinb has also had to pick up his old Viktor to adapt to this slower version.

Of course, another reason is that Doinb hasn't found a better way to deal with Aurelion Sol yet, so picking a farming champion to farm in the mid lane is also fine.

They have Fiora, Viktor, and Sivir; if the game drags on, they'll definitely be stronger.

Remember nodded and said, "In that case, it depends on how well QG plays defensively in the early game. Aurelion Sol and Caitlyn—this fast-push strategy is CLG's forte."

Abu narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile, "Perhaps they won't necessarily play entirely on defense? Ekko is very weak before level three, maybe QG will take advantage of that."

At this moment, the audience below the field began to cheer, but there was no doubt that most of them were cheering for QG!

As the host team, QG enjoyed full home advantage.

But this makes it even more crucial for them to avoid losing this match.

The loading was completed quickly, and the entire Summoner's Rift was revealed to the audience.

The doll narrowed its eyes slightly and said, "Huh? The Dragon King's Summoner Spell seems kind of interesting!"

Moving your gaze over, you can see that the Dragon King didn't bring teleportation, but instead brought blink and healing.

"But that's understandable." Ji De added from the side, "After all, Aurelion Sol has an E skill that passively increases map movement speed, and also has an active effect for long-distance map movement, so he doesn't really need teleport. Bringing a heal can give them an absolute advantage in mid-jungle skirmishes."

This information was also noticed by the QG team. At the start of the game, Doinb pinged the Dragon King's heal and said, "We can't win this 2v2 in the mid and jungle. Brothers, play it safe and let's wait for the late game to come out strong."

Xiangguo nodded immediately.

At the same time, Liu Qingsong asked softly from the side, "Do we need to change the suture holes? It doesn't seem like it's easy to do."

CLG has Caitlyn and Braum, and these two are too strong at level one. It's really risky to recklessly enter the enemy jungle to place wards.

However, if the female police officer's fast push strategy can switch lanes at the start, it will be very comfortable to play, and QG doesn't want to see that happen.

Chen Dongqing shook his head and said, "No need to do that. We'll just take our normal defensive positions and wait for the minion wave to spawn to gank and switch lanes."

"Catching a lane swap" means that regardless of whether the opponent swaps lanes or not, we are directly in the second tier, and we swap lanes up and down to make a blind gank.

Both sides quickly set up their level 1 setups. The two AD carries clashed head-on in the bottom river. Caitlyn fired a shot at Sivir, and Sivir used her Q on Caitlyn, resulting in a trade of health. They then retreated to their jungle and disappeared.

This scene couldn't be more obvious.

Amidst the fog of war, both sides' bottom lanes have begun recalling to their respective cities.

"Judging from this, it seems both sides are planning to switch lanes?" Abu said with a smile, "Then QG has successfully caught them off guard in this lane switch!"

After returning to the city, Uzi quickly headed to the top lane and arrived at the Marsh Frog camp precisely at 1 minute and 40 seconds. The two of them farmed a set of Marsh Frogs and logged in.

Meanwhile, he was also switching between the top and bottom screens, looking slightly uneasy.

Whether this lane swap is successful is quite important, as it directly determines the direction of the game in the early stages.

Soon, the minion waves clashed, and both AD carries appeared in the top lane at the same time, while Fiora appeared in the bottom lane!

This left CLG's bot laner Stixxay completely dumbfounded.

He got caught switching lines!

This is terrible!

Although he had an advantage in the lane against Sivir, his opponent was Uzi!

Meanwhile, CLG's top laner Darshan was also dumbfounded.

So what should he do?

How does Ekko counter Fiora?

His original plan was to help the jungler get the blue buff first, then go back to lane and use his Q skill to eat three low-health minions before going back to farm experience with the jungler.

But now that the plan has been completely abandoned due to the possibility of being caught switching lines, it has become utterly meaningless.

"It's okay, bro," said jungler Xmitheie. "You should be glad you're playing Ekko instead of Maokai. Just stay in lane and wait until we switch lanes, then you'll be free."

"Okay." Darshan sighed; he had no other choice.

On the QG side, Chen Dongqing couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the opponent's bottom lane had also switched to the top lane.

Then don't blame me for being too cruel, buddy!

He didn't help the jungler at all, but came to the lane early. After the minion wave was cleared, he started attacking the minions to reach level 2 first!

Regardless of whether the opponent switches lanes or not, he will definitely do this, only the follow-up actions will differ.

If the opponent doesn't switch, and he's facing two opponents in the bottom lane, then he should quickly farm the experience from the three minions and go to the jungle to farm.

If the opponent switches lanes, then he's laning against Ekko.

Chen Dongqing spoke into the voice message: "Xiangguo, you know what I mean."

Xiangguo grinned wickedly: "OK, OK."

On the other side, Darshan had no choice. Fiora had come to lane first, and the lane control had already been secured. If Ekko got any closer, he would definitely get attacked, so he could only wait for Fiora to push the minion wave over.

He waited until a melee minion appeared with low health before finally advancing two steps, intending to finish it off with a Q.

But just as he was doing that, the Fiora suddenly moved!

Chen Dongqing used his [Sky-Piercing Slash] to directly pierce through the minion wave!

Fiora blocked Ekko's Q with her own body, and at the same time, she stabbed him with a QA combo!

Who gave you permission to last-hit minions?!

Ekko, at level one, had no say in front of Fiora and was chased all the way back to his tower before finally being safe.

Darshan became even more frustrated.

You're not gaining any health points by playing like that!

You're trading your blood with Doran's Blade and my Potion of Corruption?

What exactly are their intentions?!

Darshan couldn't help but recall the practice match between the two teams the day before yesterday.

That time, Ilex also played Fiora, and he pushed Ilex out of the experience zone at level one. Then, Ilex's Fiora completely dominated that game.

But this time... it probably won't be like that, right?

Darshan checked his experience points; although he hadn't last-hit any creeps, he'd still gained experience.

At least the start of this game was much better than the last training match.

Darshan nodded in satisfaction upon hearing the experience. His health was slowly recovering, so he was fine for the early laning phase.

On the other hand, Chen Dongqing didn't control the money at all and pushed things forward quickly.

Because of his previous attempt to reach level two first, coupled with his fight across the minion wave which attracted extra aggro, his minion wave push was even faster than before and was already unstoppable.

But this was exactly what Chen Dongqing wanted. When the second wave of minions came online, he continued to push the lane quickly. Whenever Ekko tried to use his Q to farm minions, he would block it with his body. He played extremely aggressively!

Until the second wave of minions all died, Ekko had zero kills, and his experience points were fixed at the level of three melee minions.

At 2 minutes and 26 seconds, the minion wave reached the tower.

But at that moment, the audience below the stage began to cheer; they had a god-like perspective and saw more.

At this moment, they saw that Xiangguo's excavator had circled around to the back of CLG's next tower!

Xiangguo's jungle route selection this game was quite aggressive. He chose to solo the Gromp and headed straight to the bottom lane after reaching level two!

He's going to jump two levels directly over Ekko's tower!

Two-level tower dive!

Young Darshan had never experienced such treatment before, and his mind went blank.

What does this mean?!

Chen Dongqing said directly, "He only has the experience from three minions, he can't level up to level two, and he only learned Q at level one, you can just one-shot him!"

"OK." Xiangguo nodded.

Of course, he knew what was going on. He saw the turrets already firing at the melee minions, and fearing that Ekko would level up to level two by farming minions, he quickly moved forward with the excavator, using Q and W to knock them up!

The range of W is larger than that of the right-click attack, and in this version of the excavator, W can knock up all units within the range, so he is not afraid of knocking the wrong one.

Seeing Ekko get launched into the air, Xiangguo followed up with an A followed by a Q!

On the other side, Chen Dongqing immediately unleashed his burst of power, with Fiora closing in with an AEQA combo, accidentally creating an opening along the way!

A level 2 excavator and a level 2 Fiora can easily one-shot an Ekko who has a Corrupting Potion. There's not a single fancy move involved; he's taken down by a single basic attack from Fiora.

Xiangguo didn't even need to use Flash. He ran towards the outside of the tower in advance and finally managed to escape the tower's range when he was low on health. This tower dive was perfect.

At this point, the cannon minion wave had barely reached the tower's position, and the two players definitely couldn't clear it. So, they went straight into CLG's bottom jungle, seemingly recalling to base.

"I feel like I've seen this scene before?" Wawa said cheerfully from the commentary booth, making a pointed remark.

This scene happened during the LPL Spring Finals, when Korol's Ekko was killed under the tower by Jayce and Nidalee in just three minutes.

"That's the dominance QG's top and jungle players have." Abu, a victim himself, lamented, "If you pick a weak champion like Ekko against QG, and the jungler doesn't come to protect you, getting tower-dived is inevitable!"

At this point, Abu laughed: "So in the third game, neither side banned Ekko, but I still didn't pick him. I didn't expect CLG to pick him directly. I can only say they're pretty bold."

Remember, standing to the side, laughed and said, "Actually, there's another reason: CLG's mid laner doesn't have teleport, so QG can freely tower dive!"

But just then, Wawa suddenly exclaimed "Huh?" and whispered, "Eh? Xiangguo and Shuge haven't returned to town!"

At this moment, in the video, QG's top laner and jungler entered CLG's bottom side jungle tri-bush but did not recall. Instead, they waited quietly.

Soon after respawning, Darshan teleported back online. His idea was simple: take advantage of the short respawn time and teleport back online as quickly as possible to get a minion!

But as soon as he teleported, he saw two bullies emerge from the bushes and stand guard under his tower!

???

Darshan felt his life was bleak after seeing these two people.

What does this mean?

We're all here to compete, can't you leave us a way out?

Are you trying to embarrass me?

Darshan was filled with grief and indignation, but after some deliberation, he decided not to cancel the teleport.

The main issue is that if he cancels the TP (Teleport) ability, it's practically the same as dying once, so it's better to teleport in and make some plays.

At least he still had Flash, and the excavator was low on health, so he felt he really had room to maneuver.

Meanwhile, in QG's voice chat channel, Ueno and Junho were having an anxious conversation.

"I'll tank first! I'll tank first!" Chen Dongqing said in the voice chat. "He'll definitely dodge, so don't rush to use your buff. Wait until he dodges, then flash after him!"

Chen Dongqing has extensive experience in tower climbing, and he is very knowledgeable in this regard.

Xiangguo nodded: "OK, OK, I understand."

Four seconds later, Ekko quickly teleported to the ground.

The landing point when teleporting from home to a turret is fixed; the hero will always land behind the turret.

The two were already ready, and Chen Dongqing immediately used A followed by E to slow down the opponent!

Meanwhile, seeing Fiora tanking the tower, Xiangguo immediately fired a Q Mortar!

Darshan's nerves were on edge. He knew he couldn't afford to hit the top of the excavator, or he would be instantly killed.

So when he saw that the opponent was already tanking the tower, he decisively flashed towards the location of the minions under the tower!

He just got a melee minion experience when he was tower-dived, and now he's got a ranged minion experience after teleporting down.

So now he has a special experience structure of four melee units and one ranged unit.

As we all know, melee soldiers gain more experience than ranged soldiers. He only needs to gain experience from one more ranged soldier to level up to level two.

One enemy is low on health, and the other is tanking the tower. Once he reaches level two, he might actually be able to make some plays!

As he was talking, he immediately used Flash, and then used a QA combo to hit the low-health ranged minion!

But Ekko's basic attack dealt too little damage, and even with low health, he couldn't finish him off.

However, Xiangguo was prepared. The moment Ekko flashed away, he quickly flashed in and knocked Ekko into the air with a W, followed by his familiar A followed by Q!

Chen Dongqing quickly followed up with his Q skill, unleashing a critical hit from the second stage of his E skill.

Immediately afterwards, Xiangguo delivered another claw attack, bringing Ekko back to low health.

Chen Dongqing didn't hesitate either, tanking the tower's attack for the last hit and securing another kill.

Ekko never reached the level he so desperately wanted, Level 2, before he died.

At that moment, a turret fired a shot, bringing Fiora to low health, while the next attack was already charging up.

Chen Dongqing remained calm and took two steps before flashing out of the tower. In the end, the tower failed to deal the final blow!

Darshan's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, but his gaze couldn't do any harm to Fiora. In the end, he could only helplessly admit that his game had been disconnected.

At this moment, cheers erupted from the audience, and the Chinese audience went absolutely wild!

A 2-0 start in three minutes signifies that Fiora has completely taken off!

As for what happened after Chen Dongqing took off, well, those who know, know!

Two chapters will be served again. See you tomorrow, brothers.

The group stage matches won't be too long; I'll probably skip to the next two.

(End of this chapter)