League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 334 Forget it, you can play it yourself.

The moment the dog head lit up, not only the commentary booth, but also the audience and the live broadcast room reacted immediately.

Question marks filled the entire live stream room.

The fact that revealing a single hero can elicit such a huge reaction is probably only possible with Nasus and Chen Dongqing's Fiora.

But it's normal for Fiora to elicit a reaction, after all, it's a championship skin for a legendary champion.

As for the dog head, that's purely because it's too much of a prank.

I've never seen this hero in a competitive match before!

"No way, are we really going to choose?" The doll's voice was full of surprise. "Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

It's not hard to understand why the three commentators were so surprised.

The hero Nasus, or rather, the Desert Reaper, last appeared in a competitive match back in 2013, four years ago.

At that time, the LPL had only been established for a short time, so most viewers had never seen a match with a dog head.

"Actually, choosing this isn't a bad idea," Miller thought for a moment and said, "I remember Nasus received a huge buff in patch 7.15!"

The camera then panned to the players' bench, and judging from their expressions, the QG players were in a very cheerful mood. Chen Dongqing couldn't stop laughing, clearly looking forward to this game.

"Are we really going to choose?" Shi Senming asked over the voice chat. "Wouldn't that seem too pretentious?"

Chen Dongqing raised an eyebrow: "What's there to pretend about? We've played this hero in practice matches."

"But we only played one game."

"Who cares how many rounds there are? Just ask if that game was a C or a C!"

"walk slowly."

At this point, Xiaoming didn't hesitate and quickly locked onto the dog's head.

Another cheer erupted from the audience, and Wawa, his face filled with disbelief, exclaimed, "It's really locked! After who knows how many years, Doghead has finally returned to professional competition!"

Once the hero was confirmed and both teams' lineups were finalized, the chat in the live stream instantly went wild.

Among League of Legends players, there is a group of people collectively known as the "Dog Head Bar Bros".

Because of Nasus's unique mechanics—weak in the early game but with extremely high scaling—players in this forum have come up with many ways to get through the early game in order to help him reach his power spike.

Various creative ways to gain experience, and even actions like cutting off minion waves and sacrificing towers at level one, highlight an optimistic, patient, and creative personality.

This kind of gameplay is obviously quite frustrating, which makes the old guys in the Dog Head Bar stand in stark contrast to the current restless player group. They are usually winners in life, and they only seek torment in games because their lives have been too smooth.

Now, seeing their idol finally appear on the stage, these players were all in an uproar!

[Holy crap! A tree!]

[Based on this dog-head hand gesture alone, I'd call Brother Tree the moderator of the Dog-Head Bar!]

[Outside, you should call him the Desert Reaper!]

[Waaaaah, Tree Bro played Nasus, I feel like this hero is going to be nerfed again soon]

【Huh? No way! I've only been in T1 for a little over a week!】

Although he couldn't see the comments, Chen Dongqing could still vaguely guess what kind of comments they were. He nodded happily, immediately clicked to switch heroes, swapped the Nasus head to his own, and then quickly selected a Wind Rider talent.

His choice of this dog head wasn't unfounded or a blind attempt to show off; it was a very reasonable one.

In this 7.15 patch, Nasus received an epic, massive buff.

E技能的护甲缩减从15/20/25/30/35固定护甲缩减改为15/20/25/30/35%护甲缩减。

Changing the value from a fixed number to a percentage is a huge boost to Nasus's mid-to-late game capabilities; as long as his armor exceeds 100, it will be a positive benefit.

Secondly, the Q skill has also been changed—during the ultimate's duration, the cooldown of Q [Soul Drain] is reduced by 50%.

(Dog head edit: I saw someone say that the previous screenshot contained too much content and the text was too small, requiring them to click to see it clearly. So this time I deliberately cropped the content to be less, and didn't include the version number on the right. This makes the text larger, but don't worry, this is indeed the 7.15 update.)

Tell me, isn't that outrageous?

These are all purely incremental mechanisms, and they come without any negative consequences.

This change, if applied to any hero, would be enough to increase their win rate by at least five points!

And the same is true for Nasus, whose win rate increased directly from 48% to 53% after the changes, ranking him in the top tier across all servers!

Given this situation, Chen Dongqing couldn't wait to try it out in a training match. After giving Flandre a good beating, he added the hero to his hero pool.

And now, he has finally brought this hero to the competition.

Choosing the big tree, huh? Just trying to get by, huh?

I'll slowly stack up a dog head icon and see who gets impatient!

After preparations are complete, the match begins!

At this moment, the director was quite savvy; he quickly pulled up the data he had temporarily retrieved.

The last match featuring Nasus was on August 31, 2013, in the LPL Summer Split, during the match between PE and EP.HK.

It has been 1464 days since then.

This data once again elicited a sigh of disappointment from the three commentators.

It's no wonder that ilex is so popular, given that he boldly brought this player, who hadn't appeared in four years, to the LPL finals stage.

After this statistics page ended, the director then switched to show the talents and starting item choices of both players.

The doll glanced at it and immediately felt dizzy again: "Brother Tree's fighting style is too arrogant!"

I won't go into detail about choosing a Wind Rider rune that's hard to trigger in lane, since runes are ultimately a matter of personal choice. Against Treant Protector, it's clearly a game of playing passively, and there's really no need to take Undying.

But what's the meaning of you going out with a tree-splitting knife? Do you really not consider the other side a human being?

Aren't you afraid of being hammered to death by a big tree?

I'm really not afraid.

Chen Dongqing stood in the wilderness, humming a tune.

Nasus' passive ability grants him life steal, so as long as he has the opportunity to last-hit minions, he doesn't have much trouble sustaining his health.

Clearly, the tree doesn't have the ability to deprive Nasus of the right to finish off enemies.

Furthermore, Chen Dongqing was still somewhat confident that A Guang might not be able to beat him this time.

When the minion wave was released, the combination of Nasus's Tree Blade and Wind Rider immediately enraged A-Guang.

So you're just going to let me fight with only starting items and runes?

They look down on people!

Seeing this, A-Guang didn't hesitate and went straight for the second spot!

Level 1 Dog Head is someone everyone bullies. A Guang A's minions are relentlessly killed, and then he immediately steps forward to suppress them.

Seeing this, Chen Dongqing remained calm and retreated immediately.

A true man can bend and stretch. Since I've chosen to start with the Extraction skill, there's no need to make pointless trades, since I'm not aiming for a solo kill anyway.

Chen Dongqing watched from behind. He waited until the three melee soldiers were low on health before he stepped forward and, at the cost of a little health, used AQA to eliminate the three melee soldiers.

He then immediately retreated.

Emphasizing stability.

In this situation, Ah Guang really had no way to deal with it.

Actually, he doesn't encounter Nasus often in ranked games, but he understands that a champion like Nasus is definitely not someone that Maokai can suppress.

If you want to stop this dog's development, there's only one way—call for backup.

However, it was agreed before the match started that the jungler wouldn't be coming to gank.

That's when the problem arose.

Ah Guang didn't want to raise a dog head that was invincible in the mid-to-late game and then have them both beaten to death with elbows!

"Can't you do something about this top lane situation?" A-Guang asked in the voice chat, "Level 3 can just jump over!"

This person has no choice but to shake!

The combination of the Great Tree and the Prince is indeed capable of defeating the enemy.

Hearing this, the factory manager, standing next to A-Guang, was slightly tempted; he genuinely thought it was a good suggestion.

But then he suddenly remembered the tragic ending of the previous game.

The reason we lost so badly in the last game was because we lost two games in the top lane!

"Forget it, you can play by yourself." The factory manager refused without hesitation, "I'll come if there's a suitable opportunity."

He feared that if he forced it, it would collapse again.

"Ouch." Ah Guang responded with some disappointment.

If you don't gank top, then Nasus will take over the lane and you can't blame me.

Of course, although that's what Ah Guang thought, he didn't hold back with his actions and continued to try his best to suppress Chen Dongqing.

With his Undying and Q skill, Maokai is quite a skilled laner. If Nasus dares to come up and last hit, he'll definitely be dealt with by QA.

But Chen Dongqing remained calm and continued laning at his own pace. He would even stand in the minion wave to lure Maokai into using his Q, just to encourage Maokai to push the lane faster.

Nasus is a champion who loves to push back the lane. Every Nasus player enjoys the feeling of pushing the lane back and then slowly using Q while stuck in front of the tower.

Every time I use Q to kill a minion, I feel a deep sense of satisfaction.

Of course, this is on the premise that you can't be tower dived.

If you let the lane through and a champion like Elise or Nidalee pops out from behind the tower, that's a heartbreaking moment for Nasus.

Fortunately, that won't happen this time.

EDG's overall strategy indicates that Clearlove won't be playing top lane this game, so Chen Dongqing can easily give up some lane space.

With a little trickery, relying on the AOE of his E skill and the help of the enemy Maokai, he can keep the number of minions at a reasonable level, so that he can block the minion wave in front of the tower and comfortably Q the minions.

This is a difference in understanding minion waves.

Watching Doghead elbow the cannon soldier to death, instantly increasing the stack by six (in this version, cannon soldiers and heads still have six stacks), Ah Guang was extremely anxious but helpless.

There's really no other way.

Meanwhile, in the live stream, countless fans from the Goblin Bar saw Chen Dongqing successfully finish off the siege minion and immediately started spamming the chat.

[Nasus managed to land a Q on a siege minion while at full health? An incredible start!]

OK, we won!

[Tree Bro landed his Q on the siege minion, so the game ended.]

It has to be said that the guys on the Dog Head Bar are really witty, with all sorts of golden quotes coming out one after another.

With their comments on the screen, the tense atmosphere of the final was even somewhat alleviated.

However, it must be said that the peaceful farming between the top laners, with neither able to interfere with the other, was really not a very interesting game to watch.

The director would only switch the camera to the top lane when Chen Dongqing was last-hitting under the tower, and after Chen Dongqing received a barrage of "good last-hitting" comments, he would quickly switch the camera to the bottom lane.

Compared to the relatively uninterrupted top lane, the bottom lane is much more bloody!

In just five minutes, the two sides had already fought two skirmishes in the bottom lane.

One wave was Xiangguo's quick three-minute gank on the bottom lane, which directly forced the enemy's bottom lane duo to use their Flash.

The second wave was a 4v2 gank on the bottom lane by Clearlove and Scout Lucian, but this time GodV teleported to support, and with Xiangguo's counter-gank, the two sides ended up exchanging bottom lane duos.

In less than six minutes, the score was already 2-2.

But both sides know that this is only the beginning.

Currently, all four mid, jungle, and bot laners on both sides are without Flash, while both mid and jungle laners have already reached level six.

Now, both sides have begun planning the next wave of attacks.

And this time, EDG once again launched the first attack!

It has to be said that Lucian's early-game lane control is indeed quite solid.

Even if QG picks Karma for mid lane, it's impossible for them to take lane control from Lucian.

In seven minutes, Scout quickly pushed Karma back, then cleared the minion wave in a few more moves. Immediately afterwards, he and Clearlove dived into the river and disappeared from sight.

Meanwhile, on the bottom lane, EDG's bot lane duo was pushing the minion wave forward, about to push into the tower.

Shi Senming, who was crouching in the grass, obediently withdrew from the grass and chose to retreat to the foot of the tower with Uzi!

"Here it comes! Another 4v2 gank by EDG!" Wawa shouted. "Both the mid and jungle have Flash this time, Uzi is going to be in big trouble!"

At this point, QG only has two choices.

First, Uzbekistan abandoned one tower and retreated immediately.

Secondly, they forced a team fight, with Gao Dewei abandoning the mid lane minions and quickly supporting the bottom lane.

The choice between the two options is obvious, so there's no need to elaborate on what to do.

The mid lane only has Karma; her importance is nowhere near that of Varus.

Godvey cleared the minion wave with just one Q, then quickly retreated and headed straight for the bottom lane!

Meanwhile, Xiangguo's wine barrel also appeared in the bottom lane, providing direct protection.

But at that moment, something unexpected happened.

In the lower jungle, Godve was actually quite cautious. After abandoning the mid lane minions, he deliberately took a long detour, choosing to go around the wolves camp.

Even so, he still suffered a severe injury.

Because EDG's mid and jungle were camping at the three wolves' camp!

The factory manager used EQ combo followed by R, directly trapping Godve in the box. Scout's Lucian quickly followed up, unleashing six shots with three skills, maximizing the burst damage!

After the two of them finished off, Gao Dewei, who hadn't flashed, died instantly without any suspense!

After killing the enemy, EDG's mid and jungle duo headed straight for the bottom lane, clearly intending to force a tower dive!

This time, it doesn't matter if Xiangguo is counter-ganking, they plan to take down all three of them as well!

At this point, we can see that A-Guang's tree has already pushed the lane back to the city and is waiting at the fountain.

This is clearly a five-man gank on three!

At this moment, both coaching staffs were watching the broadcast intently, knowing that this could be the decisive moment in the game!

At this moment, the minion wave had slowly advanced towards the tower.

And in a corner where no one was paying attention.

In the top lane, a certain Nasus had already used his Q to clear the minion wave under the tower and returned to the fountain.

Tomorrow's bath showdown, what do you say?

Is the big one coming?

(End of this chapter)