League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 356: Should I choose Diana or Riven for the championship skin?

Because Samsung's bot lane played very well in this game, the game is still even so far.

This made it difficult for Uzi to launch a tower-pushing campaign for a while.

It wasn't until the fourteenth minute that Uzi managed to push down the bottom lane tower, thanks to Chen Dongqing's distraction in the top lane.

At this point, it was clearly too late to start pushing towers again, because SSG had already made ample preparations.

In this game, the pace inevitably slowed down again.

The entire SSG team was like a turtle, with its arms and legs retracted into its shell, perfectly embodying the word "defense".

Even if they give up the tower, they will still try to get something back.

Change to a different tower, a different buff, or a set of F6.

Even when Uzi was pushing the second tower in the bottom lane, SSG used the vision advantage they had created by constantly warding to run to the top lane and kill Chen Dongqing's Vladimir!

Even with Chen Dongqing's 93 points of awareness, he still managed to get caught and killed. This only shows that Samsung's vision tactics and team coordination have reached a very high level.

Of course, SSG doesn't make a profit either.

Thanks to Chen Dongqing's distraction, QG successfully secured the bottom lane's second tower and the dragon, further expanding their advantage.

QG initiated a team fight by attacking Baron Nashor, but SSG skillfully grouped up and approached, applying pressure with their well-balanced composition and overall strength. QG couldn't fight to the end and had to retreat.

Faced with this situation, Uzbekistan couldn't help but feel a little sad.

This scene reminded him of those two years in Seasons 3 and 4.

Back then, they were in the same boat. Their skills were just as good, and they could gain an advantage in lane, but even with that advantage, they just couldn't get to the enemy's high ground!

But this time, Uzbekistan is not worried about this happening.

Previously, when Korean teams were at a disadvantage, they would focus on defense. This was a proactive choice made under the guidance of the draft and tactical options, because the Korean teams knew they could hold on and wait for their lineup to reach its peak to complete a comeback.

This time, SSG focused on defense because they had no other options and could only retreat!

This time, it's the other side that should be worried.

Twenty minutes passed quickly.

At this point, it can be seen that the economic gap between the two sides is still very close, with QG only leading by 2200 points!

This scene was heartbreaking for countless QG fans!

The economy is over two thousand, it's unstable!

At this moment, Chen Dongqing's vampire cleared the lane and returned to base to replenish his equipment.

When he went out again, he had the perfect equipment: Incense Burner, Force Staff, Hat, Void Staff, and Cooldown Reduction Boots.

Combined with the 10% cooldown reduction from the blue runes and the [Intelligence] talent in the Agility tree, the cooldown reduction can be brought to the maximum of 45%!

With the high spell power from the four-piece hat set, the vampire has now reached its absolute complete form!

QG first split up the top and mid lanes, pushed the minion waves, and then grouped up to go all in on Baron!

Samsung, as always, quickly rushed towards the Dragon Pit and positioned itself on the flank to harass the enemy!

Seeing this situation, Chen Dongqing remained calm and simply said, "Ignore them, fight to the bitter end!"

Seeing this, Shi Senming did not hesitate. He took control of Lulu, first giving Uzi an attack speed buff, and then when the dragon had 5000 health left, he directly gave Redemption at the feet of his team!

Uzi first used the Ardent Censer to relentlessly attack Baron Nashor, and with the help of his teammates, quickly reduced Baron Nashor's health.

Meanwhile, Gao Dewei, playing a tanky Galio, charged straight to the entrance of the Baron pit, blocking all the three-star players!

That's the advantage of being on the red side. When QG went all-in on Baron, the blue side's Samsung had no choice but to engage in a direct team fight!

Samsung's team is certainly not weak, and they are even hoping that QG will take down Baron Nashor, because that would be their best chance to turn the tide!

Seeing this situation, they immediately grouped up and pressed forward, with Kennen and Rakan standing at the forefront. A team fight was imminent!

Uzi landed a basic attack and reduced Baron's health to just over 1,000!

In that instant, everyone on both sides made a move!

Anzhangmen used his excavator to drill into the flanking area and attempted to use Smite, but it was clearly too late. Xiangguo took the initiative and used Smite to secure the Baron!

The redemption also took effect, instantly restoring all the health QG players had lost while fighting the dragon!

On the front, Kennen uses his ultimate and flashes in, followed closely by Rakan who activates his ultimate!

At that moment, both sides seemed to be in complete chaos!

"Here it comes! QG has secured Baron Nashor, but they're also trapped in the Baron pit! This fight might not be easy!"

At that moment, the vampire's rage bar silently rose to the red rage level!

Facing Kennen's overwhelming ultimate, Chen Dongqing didn't retreat but advanced instead, directly using a Force Staff to reach the front of SSG's lineup. He then unleashed his ultimate, hitting both of the enemy's carries, and quickly used EW to burrow underground, not giving Malzahar a chance to use his ultimate!

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing pressed D again, and the vampire flashed directly to the center of the SSG lineup, and E [Blood Tide] exploded!

Boom!

The value of the four-piece vampire set is undeniable. After this explosion, apart from the shielded grasshopper, the health bars of the other four members of SSG dropped by a visible large number at the same time!

The moment Chen Dongqing stood up from the pool of blood, he frantically pressed Q, sucking the red rage into the grasshopper, reducing it to low health. Then, in the next instant, he was directly pinned down by the grasshopper's ultimate skill!

But Chen Dongqing remained completely calm; this move was entirely within his expectations.

The moment Chen Dongqing was pinned down, SSG's focused fire was all directed at him!

The vampire stood in the very center of SSG, absorbing a huge amount of damage, but he remained standing!

Because Chen Dongqing also has teammates.

Lulu unleashed a powerful attack, granting the vampire a significant amount of health, effectively locking him in with very low health!

The next second, the vampire's ultimate attack exploded!

Xayah, who had been hit by the vampire's E skill before, had her health bar drop significantly again, and was brought to near-death!

The grasshopper, who was already low on health, had its health bar instantly emptied after being hit by this damage!

The grasshopper's ultimate skill control was thus interrupted!

The vampire, who has the healing bonus from the incense burner, regained a significant amount of health!

A blood-damaged vampire is immortal!

Once Chen Dongqing regained his freedom of movement, he ignored Xia who had already dodged and used EQ to take down the half-health Rakan next to him!

Offstage, countless spectators witnessed this scene and were incredibly excited!

Yes, yes, yes! That's the taste!

One person charged into the enemy's group, took down two and crippled another, and still survived!

This is a vampire in the very late game!

In the back, Uzi was only being targeted by Kennen, so of course he wouldn't die. Having dodged Kennen's ultimate, he was also dealing massive damage. Tristana, with the Ardent Censer buff, managed to kill Kennen!

Xiangguo's Prince used EQ Flash R, a combo that needs no explanation to take down Ruler who had flashed away!

Uzi took advantage of the situation and jumped up, finally taking down Master An's excavator as well!

A clean sweep of zero-for-five, and we took the game!

Seeing this, the three commentators in the LPL commentary booth were somewhat taken aback. Miller even burst out laughing and said, "What's the use of having excellent defense and top-notch macro if you can't win team fights?!"

The live stream chat was flooded with comments!

[Take it down!]

[I was getting sleepy watching the first few minutes, but team fights like this are so much more exciting!]

[It's really funny. Samsung held on for half an hour, managing to hold the line, only to have their main team wiped out in a 5-0 wipeout. A classic case of all that effort for nothing.]

[But it's not bad either. QG usually pushes through other teams in just over 20 minutes, but Samsung can always hold on for 30 or 40 minutes, which is quite remarkable.]

[Haha, now the way to judge a team's strength is how many minutes they can last against QG, right?]

QG, forever a legend!

Amidst the cheers of the audience, QG pushed the minion wave in the mid lane, making a triumphant advance and directly taking down SSG's base, securing their fifth victory in the group stage!

Chen Dongqing readily stood up and went to the Samsung players' bench with his teammates, only to find that the Samsung players all looked grim.

However, it's not hard to understand.

Samsung's team worked hard, played with great concentration and vigilance, but were ultimately defeated by QG in a single team fight, wasting half an hour of effort.

If you put yourself in their shoes, anyone can understand the immense sense of frustration involved.

Indeed, no matter how well you manage your mid-game, it's all for nothing if you can't win the final team fight!

Just like Yuan Daying in Basketball Fire, even if you use your blue butterfly-like movements to dribble past people like crossing a road in the early morning, in the end, it's just an ordinary dunk, and you can just block it.

During the handshake, Miller laughed heartily at the camera, saying, "QG's recent form has been truly outstanding! Perhaps they can achieve a perfect record in the group stage again!"

In the history of the World Championship, only three teams have ever achieved a perfect record in the group stage.

S4's SSW, S5's SKT, S6's QG.

And without exception, all three teams won the Summoner's Cup that year.

Miller believes that a perfect record in the group stage is a crucial stepping stone to the championship, and QG is about to achieve this again!

Guan Zeyuan forced a smile and said, "Yes, that's right. QG's dominance is still beyond doubt."

On stage, Chen Dongqing smiled and said to Master An, "See you in the finals."

Upon hearing this, Sect Leader An's heart skipped a beat.

To be honest, even Master An himself didn't know the true strength of their three-star team.

Sect Leader An thought they were very strong, extremely strong.

However, they were defeated twice by QG, ​​and the losses were almost without any suspense.

"How do you know we'll definitely make it to the finals?" Master An asked helplessly. "We might be eliminated in the quarterfinals."

"No, I believe in you guys." Chen Dongqing laughed. "It's very rare to see a team that can put up such a close fight with QG."

Upon hearing such arrogant words, Sect Leader An was immediately enraged and said, "When we get to the finals, don't expect to win so easily!"

"Then good luck!" Chen Dongqing patted the Korean veteran on the shoulder one last time, and then he and his teammates went to the center of the stage to bow in greeting.

On their way back to the backstage area, everyone in QG appeared relaxed.

After winning this match, their group stage is practically over.

Finally, all we need to do is crush Vietnam, and we can achieve a complete victory.

It's very simple~

In the fifth match, Samsung played back-to-back against their final group stage opponent, GAM, without taking a break.

Samsung seemed to be playing this game purely out of frustration, determined to vent all the anger they felt after losing the previous game.

Extreme rationality, extreme synergy, extreme vision.

The captain, who was used to playing a jungle carry style, had never seen such a situation before. Every time he entered SSG's jungle, he was completely bewildered by SSG's support and ambushes, and had no idea what to do.

In 30 minutes, the kill score was as high as 4-0. Although it's a Shakespearean situation, what's noteworthy is that the Vietnamese team hasn't gotten a single kill yet.

Clearly, Samsung's turtle formation is not something everyone can break.

Under Samsung's vision control, Captain Levi can forget about jungle carry; just entering the jungle once is considered a success!

The game lasted until the 38th minute, when Samsung launched a split push and won the match!

In the final team fight on the high ground, the kill score narrowed to 9-0, but the Vietnamese team still failed to score and had to lose the game.

After this match, the Vietnamese team cannot leave the field yet; they still have to be defeated by QG again.

This match is the closing match of this year's group stage, starting and ending with QG.

Backstage at QG, everyone's attention had shifted to 369, who had come with the team.

Chen Dongqing said with a smile, "So, 69, do you want the championship skin Diana or Riven?"

Gao Dewei, who was standing nearby, came over and punched him: "Damn it, don't be disgusting."

369 understood his teammate's meaning and couldn't help but scratch his head: "This... I..."

It can only be said that not everyone has the thick skin of Lin Weixiang.

Last year, when Lin Weixiang was allowed to participate in the group stage to get skins, this guy was more than willing, and even wanted to pick Vayne.

When it came to 369, this guy was obviously a little embarrassed. After all, it wasn't very good to do nothing and just steal the fruits of his teammates' labor.

Chen Dongqing noticed 369's hesitation and said with a smile, "Alright, stop being so dramatic, just go for it. This game is a good opportunity to rest. Anyway, we'll be first in the group no matter what."

369 couldn't resist the temptation of the championship skin and finally nodded.

Linko then contacted his staff to inform them of the personnel change.

At this point, Banbazi started discussing the draft phase, and he asked with a smile, "We're on the blue side next game, so let's pick top lane first. 369, what champion do you want to play?"

This isn't about choosing a hero; it's about choosing a skin.

To be honest, picking a big bug or a big tree in this game fits the blue side's character selection strategy very well.

But 369 was unwilling to choose this kind of hero.

"Could you give me Jayce? If not, Gnar or Kennen will do too," 369 asked tentatively.

These are all popular heroes in the top lane recently, and 369's proficiency with them is also quite good.

Banbazi raised an eyebrow: "But we're focusing on the bottom half of the map this game, so there's no jungler to help you with these heroes."

369 scratched his head: "Then give me a crocodile, that'll do too."

"Don't be afraid," Chen Dongqing said from the side. "The coach is asking if you can handle it by yourself, not that he doesn't want you to choose."

369 turned his gaze to the coach and saw Banbazi nod kindly.

Chen Dongqing added, "Don't be a coward, go for Jess!"

"Okay!" 369 nodded and selected his championship skin.

Watching this scene, Chen Dongqing smiled, picked up his water glass, filled a Coke with water, and then happily took out a banana, sitting on the sofa to enjoy it.

If 369 were to choose a Jayce skin, Chen Dongqing would naturally choose Wu Suowei.

Although Chen Dongqing really likes playing Jayce, he has never considered choosing a Jayce skin.

His true loves are Fiora, Riven, Camille, and Irelia.

So it's good that Jess picked 369.

He's a master at pulling and tugging.

Soon, the final game began.

The audience was slightly disappointed to see 369 playing this round, but they still gave him a warm round of applause and encouragement.

Although it was 369's first time appearing on the world stage, he was not intimidated.

On the contrary, he was more excited than ever after arriving on this big stage, and he spoke loudly on the voice channel.

In the top lane, he focused on kiting during the laning phase, using Jayce's long-range advantage to torment the Vietnamese top laner until he was completely disoriented.

At the same time, he didn't forget to guard against ganks, successfully thwarting multiple ganks from the opposing jungler.

That concludes his mission.

While 369 was still struggling, Uzi's Vayne was already on top of the enemy's bottom lane second turret, rolling and firing wildly!

Note that the first tower hadn't been destroyed yet at this point.

Theoretically speaking, Vayne is a champion who is relatively weak in the laning phase, but fortunately there are many Uzi brothers!

Xiangguo ganked bot lane at level 3, helping Uzi secure the first blood. Then, at level 6, a four-man gank ganked bot lane, and Uzi got two more kills.

Nine minutes are all it takes to create this scene.

Vayne's rolling shot forced GAM's Kog'Maw to his death right in front of the second tower, making Chen Dongqing grin from ear to ear in the rest room.

That was too heavy-handed!

With such a fed Vayne, the outcome of the match was clearly decided. In the end, QG played steadily and successfully defeated GAM to secure their sixth win in the group stage!

First place in the group, advancing with a perfect record!

(End of this chapter)