League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 250 The Apocalypse of 60E

The second game was about to begin, and as usual, the director first showed the commentary booth.

The commentary section is now a diverse mix of opinions, each offering its own unique perspective.

Longhair, who was sitting in the middle and in charge of setting the pace, was actually fine. He didn't favor either team, and he didn't really care about the result of the last game, feeling that it was just as it should be.

But the smiling one sitting to the right of the long-haired man was a bit hard to bear.

He came here as a WE legend, only to witness his own team getting brutally beaten.

If this were his live stream, he would probably be a popular celebrity by now.

Unfortunately, this was a stage, so he could only force himself to appear "I'm actually fine," but his forced composure was just as obvious as Guan Zeyuan's.

Doinb, sitting to the left of the long-haired man, had an even more varied expression.

One moment he has a bitter face, the next he's all smiles in front of the camera. He's a complete two-faced person, and it's hard to tell what he's really made of.

When Changmao threw the question at him, Doinb had to stand up straight and say things like, "QG's people are all my brothers, so I'm very happy."

This was undoubtedly torture for Doinb.

Fortunately, the commentary booth didn't occupy a large portion of the screen, and the camera quickly switched back to the commentary booth, finally ending Doinb's ordeal.

The three commentators took over and began analyzing the situation in the second game.

"This game is crucial for WE," said Wawa, arms crossed. "Because this is their side selection game, if they can't win this one, then their chances in this series are in jeopardy."

"But fortunately, they still have a slight advantage in this game," said Guan Daxiao. "Looking at QG's overall draft strategy, when they're on the red side, they don't seem to have many good options against Gragas; they usually ban him. This is a potential breakthrough point that WE can exploit!"

"That's right!" Miller nodded in agreement. "Gragas is the key to the draft in this BO5 series. Whoever can solve this problem will win the game! Let's see how both sides will clash in their drafts against Gragas!"

The BP screen cuts in perfectly, showing that both sides have completed their first BP.

"We can see that, for the blue side's first pick, WE chose to ban Jayce, while the red side chose to ban Poppy. This means WE will likely ban Fiora as well!"

Both sides banned Zyra quickly, with QG swiftly banning her as their second pick.

Seeing this ban, Miller had a feeling.

There aren't many popular supports in this version; they're basically Zyra, Karma, and Lulu.

Banning only Zyra is pointless; both sides can still get strong champions, and you'll just waste a ban slot.

Unless you ban two and keep one, but in that case, QG, being on the red side, also needs to make sure the opposing team won't pick it.

In that case...

The third ban by both sides quickly provided the answer.

WE still chose to ban Caitlyn, whose priority is no less than Chen Dongqing's Fiora, both of which are must-bans. QG, as expected, banned Lulu later, leaving Karma out.

QG's draft strategy for this game is quite clear.

On the WE player bench, Redmi looked at the scene before him with a slight frown.

QG banned two supports and released Gragas, clearly intending to make a trade.

In other words, QG definitely has a way to deal with the barrels.

But can they avoid falling into this trap?

"Let's choose the barrels," Redmi said. "We have no other choice."

The blue team locked in the first floor with a Gragas, while the red team quickly picked up Karma and Ezreal, maximizing their bot lane strength!

WE had no choice but to pick Ashe and Braum as their dual Glacial composition to counter, while QG quickly locked in Elise to advance to the second round.

In the second round of bans, QG banned Lee Sin and Malzahar, while WE banned Camille and Aatrox.

QG members were somewhat surprised to see that WE had banned Aatrox.

This move was somewhat unexpected.

They thought WE would ban Syndra or something similar.

But since WE didn't ban it, they naturally picked it directly.

"Okay, QG has locked in Syndra on the fourth floor, still giving the counter pick to Maokai. It seems they want to wait until Gragas's position is confirmed before choosing a champion!"

Immediately afterwards, WE quickly selected Viktor and Jarvan IV, and placed Gragas in the top lane.

Upon seeing this, all three commentators focused their attention, looking at the selection box in the lower right corner.

QG's actions all indicate that they have a way to deal with the barrels.

As for what the solution is, that's the key.

Soon, the mystery was solved.

The bear reigns supreme!

Thunderous Roar, Volibear!

Another bizarre hero has been chosen, leaving countless viewers stunned.

Like the previous Darkin Blade, this champion remains a type that is ignored in competitive play.

Now that QG has been selected, fans are all confused.

Is this a top lane champion? Or is it a jungler?

If it's a jungler Volibear, does that mean Elise is a top laner?

After a series of positional exchanges, QG finally provided the answer.

Blue side WE: Top lane Gragas, Jungle Jarvan IV, Mid lane Viktor, Bot lane Ashe and Braum.

Red team QG: Top lane Volibear, Jungle Elise, Mid lane Syndra, Bot lane Ezreal and Karma.

"It really is Volibear top lane!" Guan Daxiao exclaimed in shock. "If I remember correctly, Volibear did receive a slight buff in this patch, but it shouldn't be enough to make him viable in competitive play, right?"

After the buff to Aatrox, it's understandable that QG brought him to the competition, since he received a complete buff from start to finish, which is a case of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

However, this buff to the bear is minimal, which can be summarized in one sentence: the E skill can now knock back enemies and deal additional magic damage to enemies in the air or while charging.

This slight buff is completely insignificant; it only raises Volibear's win rate by one or two points, bringing it back to normal levels. It shouldn't be viable in matches.

At this point, Miller spoke up, saying, "But all I can say right now is to trust Tree Bro. Every new hero he releases is pretty powerful."

Hearing this, Wawa could only agree, "Then let's see how Brother Tree plays his top lane Volibear."

The draft phase ends, the camera zooms out, the coaches shake hands, and the game begins!

Amidst the loud cheers of their fans, both heroes officially burst out of the fountain!

At this point, we can see that Chen Dongqing's choice of equipment is incredibly arrogant; he directly bought a Doran's Blade.

The bear's skills in this version are actually quite simple. The passive skill is a healing passive; when the health drops below 30%, it will recover an additional 30% of its health.

Q skill is a speed boost; the next basic attack will carry the enemy behind you. Importantly, it can reset the basic attack and also deals additional physical damage.

W is a stacking skill. Each basic attack increases attack speed, stacking up to three times. Once fully stacked, it deals high physical damage. The key feature of this skill is that it has a health bonus and an execute effect. For every 1% of the target's maximum health lost, this damage increases by 1%.

Because of this skill, even if Volibear builds pure tank items, he can still have considerable burst damage.

The E skill is a self-centered area-of-effect skill that has been buffed in this version, giving it a small knockback and dealing additional damage to airborne and moving enemies.

R goes without saying; once activated, every basic attack is imbued with an electric blade.

Once you see these four skills, you'll understand. All four skills are damage skills, which means this hero's damage output will be high.

Therefore, Chen Dongqing chose Doran's Blade as his starting item, which has both attack power and health, with the goal of completely crushing the top lane.

"Liu Shiyu, don't forget how to play this game," Chen Dongqing said. "Make sure to stop the enemy jungler."

"Don't worry, I understand!" Liu Shiyu replied immediately. "Play whatever you want. If the enemy jungler comes to top, just yell at me, okay?"

With his jungler's assurance, Chen Dongqing felt relieved and went online with the minions.

Meanwhile, on the other side, WE's voice channel was also constantly communicating.

When QG picks a jungler like Spider, they almost always gank the top lane, so they are planning how to protect the top lane.

Of course, they didn't forget that in the semifinals, Clearlove's jungle was invaded because he tried to protect the top lane, so Condi decided to rush to level 3 and go to the top lane this game.

The prince's speed in the third stage is faster than the spider's. If both sides are on the speed-third route, the spider will definitely not be able to stop him.

However, Xiangguo was on the third tier this time, and he moved out earlier. The spider only cleared the blue buff before heading straight to the mid lane!

He went to mid not to catch anyone, but to help Godve push the lane!

After pushing the mid lane, QG's mid and jungle players headed straight for WE's top and jungle!

Syndra can use her W to gank jungle monsters. Condi, who was fighting the Gromp, saw QG's mid and jungle coming over and had no choice but to give up the jungle monster he was holding and pull it away.

Xiangguo, however, showed no fear and decisively took over the buff with Gao Dewei.

A level 2 Spider is actually a bit of a struggle against a level 2 Prince, but Xiangguo's goal in this game wasn't to counter-jungle at all; his goal was simply to stall for time.

QG's reckless jungle invasions immediately raised questions on WE's side.

What's the point of all this? Going through all this trouble just for a toad? It's unnecessary!

Of course, this situation is not a bad thing for Condi.

After all, he went through so much trouble to quickly reach level three and go up, just to prevent the Spider from diving under the tower. But now the Spider is right in front of him, so he has to try his best to call Xiye over as well to delay the Spider!

Thus, the mid and jungle players from both sides engaged in a fierce battle over the Grubfur!

In the end, it was Syndra who made the difference, using her W to take down the low-health Gromp and help Xiangguo secure the jungle monster with Smite!

Condi, who failed to land a penalty, decisively counterattacked, but ultimately failed to secure a kill, and nothing happened between the two sides.

With no other option, Condi had to switch to the Three Wolves camp to farm.

But in any case, he has successfully completed his counter-ganking mission.

At least the enemy Elise didn't manage to tower dive in the top lane.

Even now, the commentators still don't understand QG's purpose in doing this.

After all, no matter how you look at it, this makes no sense.

Going through all this trouble just to get a Swamp Frog? Isn't that a bit unnecessary?

Just then, the camera switched to the top lane, where a wave of minions had already pushed into the tower.

The bear, nearly at full health, had already started drinking a potion and was eyeing the barrel under the tower, which was at 80% health!

Everyone noticed something amiss from the bear's action of drinking the medicine bottle.

"Huh? No way?" Colonel Guan shouted, "Are they going to tower dive?! The Gragas still has a lot of health left!"

At this point, we can see that the bear's movement is very aggressive, even walking directly into the barrel's face.

But neither of them made a move.

Chen Dongqing knew that Gragas had W and a lot of health, so he wanted to put some pressure on Gragas first and see what the other side would say.

957, of course, didn't dare to make a move. He knew that if he attacked the bear, he would immediately be focused down by the minions, which would be bad for him.

Therefore, 957 was simply keeping a high level of alertness, ready at any moment to retaliate against the bear's actions.

The two top laners were stuck together, and for a moment there was an awkward silence.

Just then, the bear suddenly raised his right fist and slammed it down on the barrel!

957 reacted quickly; he immediately pressed W to apply damage reduction to himself by drinking alcohol!

But just as the barrel took a sip of wine, the bear's fist didn't come as expected.

Chen Dongqing slapped him back.

Oh no, I've been scammed!

957 was immediately startled.

Chen Dongqing's experience in tower diving is truly extensive. He first gets close to the opponent, applies enough pressure, and then uses only a fake auto-attack to bait out the opponent's W and passive healing!

Chen Dongqing watched as the purple light on the barrel slowly dissipated and grinned.

Then you're doomed.

Once the damage reduction effect from the barrels completely wears off, Volibear quickly makes his move, starting with a basic attack followed by Q, rapidly stacking two layers of W's attack speed buff. Then, while using Q to launch the enemy into the air, he uses E to stomp out and deal extra damage!

To ensure a powerful burst of kills, Chen Dongqing chose Thunderlord's Decree as his rune, aiming to leave the enemy Gragas with no chance of survival!

The three skills AQE triggered Thunder, instantly reducing Gragas's health to below half.

After using E, follow up with a basic attack to fully stack Volibear's W to three stacks.

At this point, Gragas was only level two and hadn't even learned his E skill yet. 957 could only use his Q to slow down Volibear and then try his best to level up to level three!

We're still missing one soldier's worth of experience!

However, he was also slowed down by Volibear's E skill at this moment, and he couldn't create any distance at all. He could only watch as Volibear slapped him again and then directly bit him with his W!

Volibear's level 1 W deals 60 + 15% of maximum health as damage. At level 3, Volibear has 892 health and deals a total of 194 damage.

At this point, Gragas only has 30% health left. According to the execute mechanic, this W will directly have a 70% damage bonus, resulting in 330 damage!

Even after the damage reduction of 35% by the barrel armor, the damage is still as high as 214 points!

This is what makes this version of Volibear so outrageous.

A level 1 skill that can deal over 200 damage is simply terrifying.

The last 30% of Gragas' health was wiped out by this single W and A combo!

First blood produced easily!

The turret had already fired its third shot at the bear, but that shot triggered the bear's passive ability, "Storm's Choice," and its health began to rise rapidly.

The bear, relying on its health regeneration, withstood another blast from the turret and easily left the turret.

This scene left everyone speechless.

The people at WE were collectively shocked.

Condi had arrived near the top lane, but it was too late; he could only watch as his top laner was killed.

At that moment, he suddenly understood what QG's arrangement meant.

It turns out they knew from the beginning that Volibear could dive the Gragas on his own, so their initial plan was to stop the Prince and let the top laner do the show.

Are you that confident?

"That was a one-shot kill?" The three commentators were collectively shocked, with Colonel Guan exclaiming in surprise, "Was the damage that high?"

"Wow!" KT's Ueno was even more shocked, and Smeb was somewhat incredulous: "What is this? Can the damage be this high?"

"The bear seems to have been buffed in patch 7.7, right?" Peanut scratched his head, then opened a webpage and checked the latest patch log. "It seems like it only got a 40-point damage buff?"

In this version, Volibear's E skill will deal additional damage to airborne enemies. Although the additional damage at level 1 E is only 40 points, this amount of damage is actually very crucial.

Because of Volibear's skill set mechanics, he is a hero who can instantly kill.

For heroes with this kind of positioning, being able to kill someone instantly makes them invincible, while not being able to kill them makes them useless. Therefore, directly increasing their damage is a way to enhance their strengths!

Many times, the bear is just 40 points short of dealing damage!

This increase in E skill damage allows Volibear to go from being unable to kill people instantly to being able to kill them instantly!

For example, in this wave, if the damage was less than 40 points, the Gragas would have survived, and he might have been able to farm minions to reach level three, or at the very least, he could have withstood more of Volibear's auto-attacks, allowing Volibear to be traded for by the turret.

Unfortunately, that's not possible.

After being overtaken at level three, the laning phase in the top lane was essentially over.

After returning to the city, Chen Dongqing immediately bought two red crystals to maximize his tankiness.

Because of the health bonus from Volibear's W ability, this champion can deal high damage simply by stacking health, making his snowballing ability extremely strong.

After all, the thing top laners fear most is their opponent killing them once and then building tank items.

If the enemy team builds tanky items while also dealing high damage, then it's an absolute kill.

After returning to town, 957 couldn't afford anything and could only reluctantly buy a cloth armor. But when he logged back in, he saw that the bear's health had reached a terrifying 1400, and he couldn't help but feel dizzy.

That's almost twice as much as him!

Immediately afterwards, Volibear seized the opportunity to last-hit Gragas, using QE to pull Gragas behind him, and then unleashing a full combo of AAW, taking Gragas down to below half health in one bite!

All 957 players were stunned. They never expected that a small last-hitting minion would cause such a huge loss. All they wanted to do was go back to the tower, drink some wine, and recover their health.

But what made him even more numb was yet to come.

A spider crawled out from behind his tower.

Although less than five minutes have passed, 957 is already facing the crisis of being tower-dived for the second time.

957 is even more numb.

When the minion wave pushes into the tower, Gragas is practically helpless against Elise and Volibear.

The spider spun a cocoon, and the bear followed with another. The two even managed to kill the barrel before the spider could ascend into the sky. Only then did the spider ascend to avoid aggro and slowly descend.

"It's rotten." Seeing this, the doll had already sentenced 957 to death.

Being outmaneuvered twice in five minutes and losing at least three waves of minions, no one could play like that.

Moreover, QG's top and jungle players were planning to continue their "pig farming" strategy. They didn't even intend to take down the towers. After killing someone, the two of them pushed forward and cut off a new wave of minions before returning to base together.

After returning to base, Volibear now possesses Bambi's Cinder, which addresses Volibear's lack of wave clear ability.

As Chen Dongqing went out, he said, "Find the location of the opposing prince, I'll use another jump attack on them."

Such arrogant words sent chills down the spines of the other four members of QG.

Are you even speaking human language?

But when they recalled Chen Dongqing's terrifying performance in the training match, they couldn't deny that what he said was indeed true.

During training, he was just that inhuman.

Xiangguo kept his mission in mind, and Spider quickly ventured deep into the jungle to find the location of the Prince.

It's now been over six minutes. Xiangguo stood at the entrance of WE's bottom jungle and used a Seer Fruit to find the Prince who was farming the red buff.

The WE map was immediately flooded with pings, and the entire lower half of the map was on high alert.

But Xiangguo had no intention of invading the jungle at all; after finding the prince's location, he left.

Seeing the prince below, Chen Dongqing, who was on the top lane, suddenly became more energetic, and his eyes gleamed as he looked at the wine barrel under the tower.

Gragas now has Doran's Shield, Cloth Armor, and Ruby Crystal.

Yes, it's very meaty, but it's useless!

The level 6 bear charged into the tower and landed right in front of the barrel.

Sunfire Aegis passively burned the Gragas, immediately attracting the turret's aggro, but Chen Dongqing didn't care at all. Volibear activated his ultimate and slapped the Gragas!

After Volibear activates his level 1 ultimate ability, each of his basic attacks will deal an additional 75 magic damage, which can be said to be perfectly integrated into Volibear's combo.

AQEA's combo, a mix of physical and magical damage, was too much for the Gragas, who only had cloth armor, to withstand; his health bar plummeted.

At this moment, Gragas turned around and rammed into Volibear, then activated his W to reduce damage, and the turret's damage also hit Volibear!

But the bear was fully tanky and wasn't afraid at all. He just tanked the turret's damage and kept hitting the barrel. When the barrel's health was low enough, he used his W to bite it down and killed the barrel under the turret!

In this version without Bone Plating, Volibear's tower dives are completely unpredictable; once he reaches level six and is at full health, he's a guaranteed kill!

The turret damage landed, triggering Volibear's passive effect again. With high health and high regeneration, Volibear easily escaped the turret.

In less than seven minutes, they traversed the tower three times.

After Chen Dongqing chose the bear, 957 was destined to have little gaming experience.

This is QG's counter pick designed for Gragas. Big, clumsy champions like Gragas have absolutely no way to deal with Volibear's tower dives!

After this kill, Chen Dongqing took the opportunity to push down the top lane tower.

At this moment, the broadcast switched to the economic panel of both sides. Although it was only seven minutes in, the economic difference between the two sides in the top lane had already reached a terrifying two thousand!

After returning to base, Volibear immediately built a Sunfire Cape. He's all about being a solo lane bully, and now he can easily take on two opponents at once!

Chen Dongqing went online again, pushed the minion wave, and headed towards WE's top jungle. He managed to clear both the lane and jungle thanks to the efficiency of Sunfire Cape's jungle clearing.

After clearing the jungle, Volibear successfully leveled up to level 7, gained level 4 W, and his ultimate was ready. Chen Dongqing continued to threaten WE's top lane second tower!

As long as the Gragas dares to defend this second tower, we can still just dive it directly!

957 doesn't even have the ability to stand under the tower, let alone defend it!

This terrifying threat forced Condi to go to the top lane to help, but as soon as he went up, Xiangguo easily took down the Fire Dragon.

After the fire dragon, Godve also pushed the lane and launched a blatant four-man gank on the tower!

This four-man gank on two is obviously unlikely to result in a kill, but QG's original goal wasn't to get any kills either.

Ben's brother-in-law led Ben to retreat to the second tower, watching as their bottom lane tower was destroyed by QG in one fell swoop.

Sigh, I sent it again.

The WE team members couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

They could already tell that this round was over.

It was even faster than the last time.

It's been less than ten minutes, and the disadvantage has already reached this point. Who can possibly win this game?

In subsequent matches, WE continued to team up, trying to find a way to turn the tide.

At the very least, we should kill this bear, right?

Unfortunately, Chen Dongqing's split-pushing ability is unparalleled in the world. He can always anticipate WE's moves to gank him and always manages to break through the encirclement by using his Q skill to accelerate at the last second.

On the contrary, WE's attempts to gank the side lanes were always unsuccessful, resulting in the loss of towers and resources on the front lines.

For the next ten minutes, Chen Dongqing did indeed go invisible. The hero Volibear is only strong in the first ten minutes; in the mid to late game, he becomes a tanky mess.

But that's enough.

Uzbekistan seized the opportunity to extend his lead.

At 21 minutes, QG, having already destroyed six outer towers, launched an attack on the mid-lane high ground!

This time, Chen Dongqing also arrived at the front line.

At this point, Volibear's equipment consisted of Sunfire Cape, Dead Man's Plate Armor, and Bloodthirster, which was simply outrageous!

With Karma's RE shield, Volibear, with the double speed boost from Death's Plate, charged straight into the high ground tower. With the triple speed boost, he managed to use his Q to pull the enemy Viktor back!

Lightning immediately burst forth from the bear's claws, and the lightning bolts bounced wildly under WE's tower, dealing considerable damage even with a full tank build!

QG immediately followed up with damage, fiercely initiating a team fight on the high ground!

With their backs against the high ground towers, the WE players were not afraid and decisively engaged in a team fight.

The prince used his Q to fly through the bear, Braum followed up with his Q to apply his passive, Viktor flashed away, and then turned around and placed his W Gravity Field.

Three consecutive controls rendered the bear completely immobile!

As the ADC, the brother-in-law could only deal with the bear in front of him first, but Master Ai shot countless arrows at it and saw that the bear's health bar didn't drop much at all.

After finally managing to reduce the bear's health, a Bloodthirster shield appeared and almost filled the health bar to the maximum.

At this moment, Master Ai fired a [Magic Crystal Arrow], and the arrows continued to rain down!

Master Ai, in coordination with the turret, shot for a long time before finally managing to break the Bloodthirster's shield. But then the bear's passive was triggered again, and his health bar started to rise rapidly!

At this moment, the bear seemed to be annoyed by Ashe's attacks. He landed on all fours again, activated his Q skill for the second time, and flashed to rush up and grab Ashe!

After bringing it back, W took a bite out of it, and Master Ai's health was reduced by nearly half!

Uzi then followed up with his Q and W skills, instantly taking down Ashe at half health!

At just over twenty minutes, EZ's Trinity Force and Manamune are at their strongest, and his damage is ridiculously high!

By this time, the bear had almost finished tanking and was dragging itself away from the turret while recovering its health.

The bear took tons of damage, but still had half its health left!

This level of tankiness is simply exaggerated!

The first burst of damage failed to secure a kill, and the AD carry was also killed, leaving WE's entire lineup without a damage dealer.

The remaining four members of QG quickly contributed their damage output, achieving a beautiful team wipe at WE's doorstep!

After executing a perfect team fight, QG gave their opponents no chance, pushed through the middle lane, and won the game!

0-2, all 60E fans on the sidelines fell silent.

Is today the end of the world for 60E?

You guys always say I only get thirty points per chapter, which I'm definitely not happy about.

Today it should be at least 35 points.

I've finished writing about this match in one chapter. This best-of-five series will end tomorrow.

No internal traitors, please give me some monthly votes!

(End of this chapter)