League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 245 See you in Nanjing!

Backstage at EDG, Abu saw this scene and couldn't help but put his hands to his forehead, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness welling up from the bottom of his heart.

Ilex! You've done so many bad things!

From a rational perspective, his teammates did a pretty good job in this wave. The timing of the three-man gank was even perfect. They anticipated the lane swap in advance and attacked the moment Aatrox showed up in the bottom lane.

Indeed, the team encountered a minor coordination issue when protecting Syndra.

But this small problem should absolutely not be a reason for Yi Dashan to criticize him!

After losing three players in this counterattack, the game was basically over.

Why?! Why?!

This cry also resonated in the hearts of everyone in EDG, and in the hearts of the audience.

[Three men trying to catch one got wiped out! Do they even know how to play?!]

This sword demon's combat power is ridiculously high!

[The main problem is that the recovery is too powerful; Tahm Kench's damage isn't even as much as Aatrox's recovery!]

Is this response even reasonable? Has the designer lost their mind?

[It's kind of ridiculous. The moment Guan Gou sentenced Sword Demon to death, Sword Demon was wiped out.]

Indeed, it seems like dog-management is a bit of a jinx.

Of course, if they asked Chen Dongqing this question directly, he wouldn't even bother to answer.

This is nothing!

The strength of this sword demon is probably not even a hair of the later Star Eclipse Blood Demon style sword demon.

Have you ever seen a passive character go from low health to full health by being stabbed?

Moreover, even with the old version of the Sword Demon, a single set of equipment was far from his peak!

After killing someone in the bottom lane, Chen Dongqing still didn't recall to base. This hero doesn't need mana and has plenty of sustain, so there's no need to recall. He continued pushing the bottom lane and easily took down the bottom lane tower single-handedly!

Meanwhile, good news also came from the middle lane: Uzi destroyed the middle tower.

The advantage began to expand rapidly.

Just as Abu had in mind, the game then entered garbage time, and EDG was unable to make any waves.

QG quickly pushed towers, secured all neutral resources such as the Rift Herald and Dragon, and maintained a very aggressive invasion of the jungle.

Xiangguo invaded the top half of the map, while Chen Dongqing invaded the bottom half. EDG couldn't get any jungle monsters and could only pick up scraps.

As Guan Daxiao said before the match, QG, having chosen a superior lineup, would not give their opponents a chance to complete their lineup.

The economic gap between the two sides is widening, and the equipment of the Sword Demon is becoming increasingly outrageous.

With 6 kills, last-hitting ahead of the timeline, and countless turrets destroyed, Aatrox's economy is far ahead of the other nine players!

In 23 minutes, Aatrox already had three pieces of equipment.

Moreover, these are all very expensive items: Greed, Trinity Force, and Bloodthirster.

With the help of Aatrox's equipment, QG decisively started Baron!

EDG made their classic decision to give up the Baron Nashor and then retreat to their high ground.

But this is nothing more than a prolongation of life.

QG didn't even need to return to base to rest; the five players immediately grouped up and pushed down the middle!

The minion wave pushed to the base of the high ground tower, and EDG had no way to clear the wave. Uzi and Lucian, with Karma's shield, accelerated forward, used their E, and then unleashed a barrage of W and R shots at Syndra!

Scout's health plummeted, and with Spider and Titan right next to Lucian, Scout didn't even dare to fight back.

Meiko's Tahm Kench devoured Scout in one bite, saving the team from disaster.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened on the other side!

Aatrox flashed forward and used his Q [Dark Leap] to charge towards Ashe. While Zet was still hesitating about whether to use Flash to create distance, he was already knocked up by Aatrox's Q!

Immediately afterwards, the sword in the sword demon's hand seemed to create afterimages!

ARAE Greed A!

This is the fastest combo for the Sword Demon.

If it's a normal AEA combo, then you have to wait until the E skill's aftercast animation ends before you can use a basic attack, as there's a fixed recovery time.

However, if you use AE with greedy A, it's different. Greedy A can cancel the long aftercast of E and can be instantly followed by a basic attack.

In other words, with the same E release time, you can use your hand speed to force in a Greedy Shot and a basic attack afterward!

It can hold a lot.

If we were to draw an analogy with other heroes, like the Bloodthirsty Crocodile from later generations, if you were to cast Bloodthirsty, Q, A in that order, the casting time for those three skills would be extremely long and clunky.

If you change the order to A (Bloodthirst) and Q (Q), then these three damage instances can cancel each other's animation and be unleashed in a very fast sequence.

Just like the Sword Demon's entire combo, with various canceling of the pre- and post-cast animations, the whole sequence is truly completed in a single second!

Combined with the damage from his Q initiation, Aatrox completed the original seven-hit combo in one second!

Hanbing's health bar was already empty the moment he landed!

"Zet got instantly killed!" Amidst Remember's exclamation, the high ground team fight reached its climax.

The high ground turret and the remaining four members of EDG were all focusing their fire on Aatrox.

But with his resurrection ability and a thick Bloodthirster shield, Aatrox is practically impossible to kill in team fights!

Chen Dongqing tanked the tower from start to finish, taking a lot of damage, but he managed to hold on until EDG was wiped out before being forced to revive by the high ground tower, which was quite absurd.

"Alright, a 0-for-5 exchange! QG can easily take this game!" Coach Guan exclaimed excitedly, "This Aatrox's performance is absolutely terrifying! Perhaps from today onwards, other teams will need to seriously consider the existence of this champion!"

The camera panned to the QG players' bench, where the five QG players wore satisfied expressions. Chen Dongqing glanced at the damage display and, after confirming that he was unstoppable in both damage output and damage taken, nodded in satisfaction.

What is dominance?

He was extremely satisfied with the designer's changes to Aatrox and suggested that more of them be made in the future.

"Awesome! Awesome!" Uzi patted Chen Dongqing on the back with satisfaction. "That 1v3 was absolutely outrageous!"

That move was indeed exaggerated. When Uzi cut to the bottom lane, everyone thought Chen Dongqing was doomed. His first thought was to push down the mid tower to stop the damage.

But to everyone's surprise, he had just finished pushing through a wave of minions when all three of his minions in the bottom lane were wiped out.

This was a game-winning move.

Chen Dongqing was grinning from ear to ear, shouting triumphantly, "Basic stuff, basic stuff!"

In fact, when he thought back to that one-against-three situation, he still found it unbelievable.

Actually, what he was thinking at the time was that even if he couldn't escape, he would have to find another one, so his idea was to fight one for one.

But who would have thought that after Syndra died, the two opponents didn't do much damage at all, and he relied on his on-the-spot reaction to kill the remaining two opponents.

The director quickly switched to the post-match data charts. On the damage list, Aatrox's unparalleled 8-0-3 KDA and the towering damage bar chart both demonstrated Aatrox's unstoppable dominance.

So much so that the MVP award was no longer in doubt after the game.

In the EDG rest room, everyone watched Chen Dongqing win the MVP award and fell silent for a moment.

Even Abu fell silent.

He, who is used to waking up his opponents with a gentle nudge, didn't know how to criticize them in this match.

He knew that the team's decision-making was actually quite good, but QG's decision-making was even better.

After much deliberation, Abu decided to criticize the factory manager.

"Mingkai, your starting lane was a huge mistake. Why did you go top?" Abu said mercilessly, "This lineup we picked wasn't for you to protect the top lane. If the top lane gets ganked, just let them get ganked!"

Mingkai scratched his head, unsure of what to say for a moment.

Actually, he also felt that he should drive from top to bottom.

After losing so many games to QG, their biggest lesson learned is that the top lane is truly beyond saving.

Knowing this lesson all too well, he still foolishly tried to protect Shanglu.

I'm so stupid, really.

Ah Guang glanced at Ah Bu, his heart heavy.

"And what about that gank at six minutes? What happened?" Abu asked, frowning. "You played way too timidly. If you retreat every time the opponent makes a bluff, how are we supposed to play this game?"

The gank at six minutes was basically Chen Dongqing pretending to have someone behind him and aggressively attacking EDG's mid and jungle. Mingkai retreated instead of advancing, and then Xiangguo stole EDG's blue buff alone, causing EDG to lose control of the mid lane and the initiative in the 7-9 minute period.

A hint of helplessness flashed in the factory manager's eyes: "How was I supposed to know they were so cunning? If I had forced a gank and then got counter-ganked by the enemy jungler, wouldn't we have lost even faster?"

Abu fell silent for a moment.

He could actually understand the factory manager's thoughts at the time.

But from his God's perspective, this move was really stupid, so he just hoped that the factory manager could play more aggressively in the next game and not be too worried about winning or losing.

However, he no longer knew how to bring it up.

The atmosphere froze again.

The break time passed quickly, and EDG, who still hadn't come to any conclusions, could only force themselves to cheer up and prepare for the next game.

Abu watched his teammates leave before returning to the rest room and letting out a slight sigh.

EDG is currently at its lowest point since the team's inception.

The entire team couldn't find a single person they could trust.

When will EDG fall to second place in the group?

If we finish first in the group, we're guaranteed to face QG in the finals at the very least!

I caught a glimpse of iboy sitting in the corner.

Perhaps EDG will only be able to truly rise again when this kid can play in the Summer Split.

Abu quickly dismissed the idea.

Can we defeat QG with iboy?

That's ridiculous; even he doesn't believe it.

Once both players were seated on stage, the two commentators immediately began warming up the audience and providing analysis.

The main focus of the analysis is still to provide advice and strategies for EDG.

"No matter what, they'll definitely ban Aatrox," Guan Daxiao said with a smile. "In such a short time, EDG should have a hard time coming up with a solution to deal with Aatrox."

"Yes!" Remember nodded. "But fortunately, they are on the blue side this game, which gives them a certain advantage in the draft phase. They should have a spare ban slot for Aatrox."

The two were chatting when the ban/pick screen quickly switched to the same scene: both sides had already completed their first three bans.

Colonel Guan looked closely and nodded.

"Okay, we can see that EDG on the blue side has chosen to ban Fiora, Aatrox, and Jayce! Three bans on top laners, that's very targeted!"

"QG, on the other hand, didn't make many changes to their bans; they chose to ban Poppy, Zyra, and Karma!"

To secure lane control, QG effectively shut down both of their strong supports, but at the cost of releasing Gragas.

This is actually a kind of exchange.

Once the barrel is released, EDG will definitely pick it first, and then QG can seize the opportunity to lock down the strong bottom lane.

Even if Gragas is strong in the top lane, he's still just a tank. The plan for this game is to let Uzi carry.

Throughout the regular season, QG has been honing their bot lane. Now, QG's bot lane is no longer a weakness, but a tactical focus that can be directly utilized on the field!

As expected, after EDG locked in Gragas on the first floor, QG made a very aggressive move, immediately picking Caitlyn and Lulu!

QG actually has a hidden trump card to counter Gragas, but of course, it would be a waste not to use it against EDG.

So Chen Dongqing just played casually this game, picked Gnar to dominate the lane, and then waited for the mid-game split pushing and the late-game team fights to finish.

And as it turns out, Gragas is indeed a strong laner.

Compared to Maokai, he can clear lanes and his tower diving ability is also outstanding, making him less likely to be tower dived.

Compared to Ekko, he has stronger teamfight initiation and combat capabilities, making him the top laner who best suits EDG's needs.

After acquiring the barrel, A-Guang finally managed to establish a foothold in the top lane.

Although Ah Guang was still being stabbed more than twenty times after ten minutes, at least he wasn't killed, which was already a great success.

But while A-Guang had a great time in the top lane, his bottom lane was completely destroyed.

When choosing heroes, Banbazi asked Uzi a question.

"Which AD carry are you most confident picking this time?"

Uzi's response was: "Caitlyn! I feel like I could take on five opponents with Caitlyn!"

As Uzi's champion hero last year, this is the role he is most confident in.

Lulu, the support champion, is also the champion that Shi Senming plays best.

Therefore, after these two heroes were locked in, the bottom lane matchup became a complete rout!

EDG didn't have Zyra or Karma, so Meiko could only pick Nami, a champion he was very good at, to lane against them, but that didn't really help.

They didn't even help the bottom lane much, and Uzi destroyed the bottom lane tower in eight minutes.

Meanwhile, the aggressive mid-jungle duo of Gao Dewei and Xiang Guo also played their part, achieving a great victory in the mid-jungle 2V2 and suppressing Clearlove and Scout!

Although Chen Dongqing didn't gain a significant advantage in the top lane, his four teammates in the mid and bottom lanes were completely outmatched.

"Chen Dongqing, go farm the bottom lane." Uzi rotated to the top lane to push the tower, and Chen Dongqing nodded in satisfaction, then happily scurried to the bottom lane for another long period of farming.

The advantage of both sides gradually widened, but the top laners of both sides still had a score of 0-0-0, as if they were indifferent to the world.

Of course, Chen Dongqing would not remain silent; he was simply waiting for an opportunity.

At 17 minutes, Gnar recalled to base and upgraded to Mercury's Treads and Blade of the Ruined King.

Nar's combat power has officially undergone a qualitative change.

When he encountered Gragas again in the bottom lane, he could see that Gragas already had Sunfire Cape and Cloth Armor Boots, as well as two Doran's Rings, making his base stats quite solid.

But Chen Dongqing was not intimidated at all and went straight for A!

When A-Guang pressed TAB and saw Gnar's equipment, he didn't even dare to fight back. He just used his Q skill to slow him down and then turned around and ran away!

Unfortunately for Gnar, he also used a boomerang to generate a triple speed boost. The speed boost and deceleration canceled each other out, so Gnar's movement speed didn't change much, and he continued to aggressively pursue him.

Gragas used his E ability to move backward, and Gnar jumped forward by stepping on the minion, even closing the distance between them by a fraction!

With a burst of energy, Gnar accelerated forward, unleashing another three-hit combo, completely trapping himself behind the barrel.

Having no other option, A Guang unleashed his ultimate ability, but Gnar flashed with golden light, adjusted his position, and used Gragas's ultimate to blast Gnar right next to him.

Ah Guang suffered cardiac and pulmonary arrest.

send!

Immediately following was a series of boomerang-like blows to the face, followed by a powerful counterattack that pushed him back and slapped Ah Guang to death!

Ah-Guang showed a pained expression on camera, while the commentators were extremely excited!

"Once Tree Brother acquires Ruined King, Barrel becomes as fragile as paper in his presence!"

"Once the flanks become ineffective, EDG's defense will completely collapse!"

The game entered garbage time early again.

The piglets in the audience were a little disappointed, but they quickly came to terms with it.

EDG is not as good as it was at its peak, that's an open fact.

Even at their peak, EDG was completely dominated by QG. They managed to take the lead in one game, but were then defeated by QG, ​​resulting in a remarkable comeback with a 10,000 gold deficit.

EDG has no chance of winning now.

At 23 minutes, a team fight broke out around the dragon. EDG was confident and ready to fight to the death.

But when they saw a Gnar with 95% Fury appear from the side, their confidence was instantly shattered!

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!" The factory manager didn't dare to take on this kind of group at all, and could only continuously ping signals to his teammates to retreat.

But by then, they had no choice.

QG has been holding back from engaging in team fights, waiting for Chen Dongqing to arrive!

At that very moment, Xiangguo's Prince took the lead, using an EQ combo to dash into the crowd, and then unleashed his ultimate!

This ultimate move was perfectly timed, covering EDG's AD carry, support, and jungler standing in the back!

biubiubiu!

Several golden lights flashed in succession, and the three of them moved in unison, all choosing to use Flash to dodge the ultimate move!

Just then, a Gnar suddenly charged towards them from the side with Lulu's acceleration!

Gnar stomped on his own teammate, Prince, on the head, and double-jumped in mid-air to become larger!

Gnar cannot use his ultimate ability in mid-air when he stomps on a teammate's head to make them bigger; this is a small detail.

But Chen Dongqing doesn't need it either!

Gnar landed with his second jump, then flashed forward to the three people who had flashed away!

A powerful attack was unleashed, and all three of them, who had no Flash left, were pushed against the wall!

"That ultimate push was terrifying!" Remember's heart suddenly raced: "EDG is completely outmatched in this team fight!"

The three who were pushed against the wall were all squishy characters. When QG's damage swept over them, they melted away like ice and snow, leaving behind three corpses!

Fortunately, Ah-Guang and Scout saw that things were going badly and ran fast enough to save their lives.

EDG suffered a 3-for-0 exchange and lost the crucial Fire Dragon, their momentum continues to explode.

At 26 minutes, QG launched another classic push with the Baron buff. EDG tried to stop them, but Ashe used her W to hit Chen Dongqing's 95-point Gnar, forcing Chen Dongqing to land his ultimate.

Zet wants to wait for Gnar's rage to reset before initiating a team fight with his ultimate!

And that's exactly what he did. Ashe seized the opportunity when Gnar shrank and fired a magic crystal arrow. Then, combined with Nami's ultimate, the five members of EDG went all in!

But in the end, it was all in vain.

Given the huge economic disparity, QG doesn't need to initiate team fights at all these days.

With the Ruined Trinity Force in his hands, Chen Dongqing didn't even need to lift a finger. Gnar transformed into Vayne, wildly throwing boomerangs, and the damage was almost as bad as Caitlyn's!

In the end, QG executed a perfect 1-for-5 trade, taking down EDG's base crystal in one fell swoop.

With a score of 2-0, the QG players were essentially on their own, and their mentality was quite relaxed as they strode back to the rest room.

Chen Dongqing waited until the two players had walked to opposite sides at an intersection before grabbing Shi Senming's shoulder and saying with a grin, "See? I told you EDG was bad, didn't I?"

"Yes, indeed." Shi Senming had to agree with the topic.

He won both games without putting in much effort.

But then he became a little frustrated.

While it's tempting to win without effort, doing it too often can feel a bit unsettling.

You can take it easy against weak teams, but what if you need to exert yourself when facing strong teams?

With this seriousness and dedication, Shi Senming stepped onto the stage for the third time, determined to play more aggressively this time.

Based on his idea, the team still chose to ban both Karma and Zyra, and then picked Nautilus for him to encourage offense.

It must be said that the results were equally remarkable.

Within five minutes, Titan landed a precise hook on Meiko's Lulu, allowing Uzumaki and Lucian to secure a kill in the bottom lane.

Immediately afterwards, Shi Senming pretended to push the lane and recall, but actually seized the critical moment when Scout's ward disappeared and attacked the mid lane with half health!

This catch was full of inspiration, exceeding everyone's expectations!

Gordesine quickly initiated with crowd control, helping Titan land a successful hook. The two then unleashed maximum damage, securing a near-perfect kill on Scout.

"Wow, nice!" Chen Dongqing exclaimed in the voice chat, watching Xiaoming's two plays in the top lane: "Awesome! Awesome!"

Shi Senming received praise from the team's eldest brother and nodded in satisfaction. He then quickly turned his head to the second brother.

Uzi was standing under the tower, too afraid to even leave it. Seeing that the Titan was about to recall, Uzi knew he was destined to lose a wave of minions, and his face turned ashen.

He hesitated for a moment before finally nodding and saying, "Nice, nice, go online quickly."

Having received the approval of his two uncles, Shi Senming chuckled and resumed his online battle.

Thirteen minutes quickly passed, and the crucial moment arrived!

On the bottom lane, although Uzi lost a wave of minions, his laning advantage was still quite stable. Taking advantage of this, QG simply launched a gank!

The minion wave pushes into the tower, the mid laner teleports, the jungler ganks from behind, and a standard four-man gank on the second lane!

This time, EDG reacted quite strongly, with Scout teleporting to the bottom lane and Clearlove's counter-gank appearing at the right time!

Upon seeing this, Chen Dongqing's eyes widened, and he decisively synchronized with TP!

Ah Guang's teleport had already been forced out by his opponent in lane, so he hadn't recovered at all.

A massive five-man gank on four opponents unfolded immediately!

Shi Senming, Xiangguo, and Uzi didn't even wait for the teleportation to land. Under Uzi's guidance, Xiaoming's Titan flashed close and used a basic attack followed by his ultimate to finish off Zet!

The other two unleashed their damage instantly, eliminating one of them before the four-second teleportation took effect!

Immediately after, Goudreau landed via teleportation, Scout's expression changed, and he chose to cancel the teleportation.

Needless to say, the factory manager had already fled and sold off his assets.

EDG's massive counter-gank by their mid and jungle was swiftly crushed.

Chen Dongqing raised an eyebrow and also canceled the teleport. Then he watched as his four teammates focused fire on and killed Meiko. Uzi even deliberately gave the kill to Godway.

After taking down the bottom lane tower, QG resumed their familiar rhythm.

They've used this four-man gank and tower push strategy ten thousand times, and they've won every time.

At 26 minutes and 43 seconds, EDG's crystal shattered once again!

"Congratulations to QG!" shouted Guan Daxiao from the commentary booth. "As the defending champions, they defeated their old rivals EDG 3-0, successfully securing the first ticket to the finals!"

Their opponent will be decided in the next semi-final match!

See you in Nanjing on April 29th!

I didn't have time to check today, so please forgive any typos, brothers, I'll correct them.

See you tomorrow, guys!

(End of this chapter)