League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 360 Just One Step Away!

The game then progressed smoothly into the middle of its run.

However, Uzi didn't rush to switch lanes after pushing down the tower, because QG hoped that Galio could continue to play a role in the mid lane.

Chen Dongqing was a clear winner in this game. After returning to base, he immediately built Mercury's Treads and a Small Hexdrinker, maximizing his magic resistance!

KT's top, mid, and jungle trio of Kennen, Sejuani, and Taliyah were completely unable to deal with Camille, who had a pure magic resistance build, and could only let Chen Dongqing fly around in the air!

Chen Dongqing seized an opportunity when Camille arrived in the mid lane and used her ultimate to help Gao Dewei secure the kill on Taliyah!

Meanwhile, Gao Dewei headed down to the bottom lane, where he and Xiangguo applied pressure and easily secured the Earth Dragon.

Uzi finally switched to the mid lane after the dragon was secured, and started taking towers with his team.

From then on, the competition became simple.

This time, the Kalista's development was ridiculously poor; her CS was almost twice as much as Uzi's!

Mata's Karma needs no further explanation; he wasn't much better.

Faced with this kind of developed Skateboard Shoes and Incense Burner Monster, Chen Dongqing doesn't even need to kill the Incense Burner Monster first. He can just ignore the Incense Burner Monster's protection and forcefully kill the Skateboard Shoes!

At 16 minutes, Chen Dongqing launched a flying kick into the mid-lane tower, and with the help of Gao Dewei's ultimate, he powerfully killed the Kalista!

Immediately afterwards, Shi Senming used his R-Flash to catch Karma, who had flashed away, adding another kill to the team!

Although KT launched a counterattack and killed Chen Dongqing, finally securing the team's first kill, it wasn't very significant.

This kill has nothing to do with their bot lane duo.

At 19 minutes, Chen Dongqing knew that Mata's Karma didn't have Flash. This time, he teleported behind the enemy to initiate a team fight, kicking into the crowd again and locking Karma down with his ultimate!

Galio unleashed his ultimate ability, and the remaining QG players charged to the front!

Deft wanted to use his ultimate to protect the support, but Camille's ultimate was too powerful. Karma entered an invincible state under the power of Kalista's ultimate, but the spirit was unable to leave the range of Camille's ultimate!

The next second, the skateboard shoes suddenly disappeared, and Karma's body reappeared, only to be knocked away by Galio's butt!

Camille kicked Karma, instantly depleting her health bar!

In two team fights, Chen Dongqing coordinated with his teammates to forcefully kill the Skateboard Shoes in one fight, and ignored the Skateboard Shoes' ultimate skill in another, kicking the Incense Burner Monster to death.

Kalista's much-vaunted ultimate ability to protect supports is utterly insignificant in the face of [Hextech Ultimatum]!

What truly defines a quirky system?

I heard you had a 100% ban rate in the group stage?

I heard you got a pentakill as soon as you entered the qualifying round?

QG didn't refuse to believe in bad luck; they shattered the invincibility of the skateboard shoes with a single performance!

Without the blessing of the Incense Burner Monster, what kind of trouble can a poorly developed skateboard shoe cause?

The skateboard shoes bounced around in place, accumulating countless spears on Camille, but the next second Shi Senming jumped up, and Braum raised the security door high, directly cutting off Deft's hope of killing Camille!

Xiangguo's Ivern seized the opportunity, placing Redemption at his feet, and with the help of the Incense Burner to apply a collective buff, the five members of QG rushed down like tigers descending the mountain, easily wiping out the team!

At this point, with 20 minutes remaining, QG's five players moved to the Baron pit, helping Baron Nashor finish his shift at lightning speed!

Below the stage, countless cheers erupted instantly, celebrating QG's overwhelming advantage!

"The game is over!" Wawa shouted. "Even though KT got Kalista, the strongest champion in the current meta, no hero can turn the tide when they're so far behind in items!"

Finally, at 27 minutes into the game, during the team fight for the second Baron, KT was under immense pressure from the super minions pushing up to the inhibitor turrets, and had no choice but to force a team fight!

Kennen flashed in with his Force Staff, but Goldwyn was quick to react, immediately using his ultimate [Hero's Appearance] to apply a [Durand's Shield] damage reduction effect to Uzi.

With the added armor and magic resistance from Braum's touch and Ivern's shield, Uzi took a full combo from Kennen but barely lost any health!

Immediately afterwards, Uzi unleashed his full damage potential, and Ashe unleashed a barrage of arrows. With their massive economic advantage, QG easily wiped out the entire team with overwhelming force!

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing and Gao Dewei teleported directly to the super minions under KT's inhibitor turret. The two of them worked together to turn KT's base into pieces!

"Alright, let's congratulate QG on winning the first game in 28 minutes!" Miller's voice on the commentary desk was clearly tinged with excitement. "What a clean and decisive victory!"

Wawa nodded in satisfaction and said, "The most crucial point is that QG broke Kalista's invincibility in this game! From now on, other teams might need to reconsider Kalista when facing QG!"

"In the next game, KT will have the right to choose sides, and now they face a question: should they choose blue or red?"

Although it was just a small victory in the quarterfinals, the subsequent benefits that this match brought to QG were definitely not that simple!

In a hotel in Guangzhou, the various teams that hadn't come to the professional arena all had their own exciting moments after witnessing this scene.

Inside the SKT break room, everyone's expressions were particularly solemn.

Seeing the situation, Kkkoma turned to ask, "Jun-sik, what do you think of QG's casting strategy?"

"That's terrifying!" Bang responded immediately. "I put myself in their shoes and looked at it, and I couldn't find a good solution unless I banned Ashe and Camille together!"

QG's two top laners, one handling the laning phase with Kalista and the other handling team fights, are simply too overpowered. Bang doesn't think he can overcome them with his mechanics alone.

"Ban it?" Kkoma simulated the draft phase when facing QG, then immediately shook his head. "That's impossible."

When facing QG, ban slots are an extremely scarce resource, so how could we possibly ban Ashe?

Furthermore, if you ban Ashe, what if the opponent still has champions that can counter Kalista?

Should he bite the bullet and snatch the skateboard shoes? That wouldn't work either; Kkoma's cautious nature wouldn't allow him to take such a risk.

Giving the skateboard shoes to QG? That's even worse!

Banbazi pondered for a long time, then turned and said, "It seems we also need to find a way to solve the skateboard shoe problem."

If QG can handle skateboarders, then they will have a huge advantage in the draft phase.

If they can't handle it, then they have no chance of beating QG!

Other teams, such as Samsung and EDG, all shared the same idea.

Tonight's training match is destined to be another fierce and bloody battle.

The same problems that SKT is facing are also troubling the five members of KT.

The difference is that the five members of KT didn't have time to adjust or practice.

Kalista's problem is like a mountain, blocking their path forward.

Rob me? I wouldn't dare.

Release it? I wouldn't dare!

"In that case," the KT coach said, a hint of despair in his voice, shaking his head. "We guess we can only choose the red side?"

If they absolutely have to ban skateboard shoes, then it would be more reasonable for them to ban them on the red side.

Then another problem arose.

If they are on the red side, their bans are fixed; they can only ban Kalista, Caitlyn, and Fiora.

So, if QG bans Karma and Lulu, and then picks Janna, how will they play?

Soon, both contestants returned to the stage.

With KT also choosing the red side, the bans for both sides are easy to guess; even Wawa could predict them.

"Okay, as we can see, on the blue side, QG has chosen to ban Karma, Lulu, and Rakan! A three-ban support! On the other side, KT has banned Kalista, Fiora, and Caitlyn, which is completely unexpected!"

"In their first pick, QG acted decisively, quickly locking in the only available enchanter support, Janna! Now KT faces the predicament of having no support champion to choose from!"

The support options in this version are actually quite limited, mainly consisting of Wind, Lulu, and Kaka, as these three can balance lane control and protection.

As for things like Nami being a healer, those are just for fun.

Without any support champions available, Mata had no choice but to lock in Thresh, his most proficient champion, and completely abandon Ardent Censer.

Soon, the lineups for both sides were finalized.

Blue side QG: Top lane Camille, Jungle Sejuani, Mid lane Galio, Bot lane Tristana and Janna.

Red team KT: Top lane Rumble, Jungle Jarvan IV, Mid lane Ryze, Bot lane Varus and Thresh.

Before leaving, the KT coach said earnestly, "Jinghao, you should be able to win the top lane matchup this game, right?"

This game specifically featured Rumble as the tenth pick, with everyone hoping Smeb would make a strong impact.

"Ah," Smeb said after a moment of confusion, "I'll do my best, Coach."

"Keep it up! If we drag this game into the late game, the advantage will be ours!" KT coach gave a final word of advice before walking to the center of the stage to shake hands.

KT's plan for this game is to select a three-core lineup to counter QG's Ardent Censer strategy.

If you're at a disadvantage in the center position, then make up for it with numbers!

But then, a problem arises.

A three-core lineup is destined to dominate the economy.

On QG's side, Gao Dewei's tanky Galio didn't farm the lanes, while Chen Dongqing and Uzi each farmed half of the map, with neither of them interfering with the other, and their last-hitting time was far ahead of the timeline.

On the other hand, KT is in a much more difficult situation. Each of their three carries is on a separate lane, and even though Peanut has gone on a hunger strike and given all the jungle resources to the carries, it is still far from enough!

Therefore, if QG wants to win the game, it's very simple: seize the sensitive time between 25 and 35 minutes, when QG's two cores have an economic lead while KT's three cores haven't yet developed, and try to expand their advantage as much as possible!

The match started quickly.

Because the previous game was won so easily, Chen Dongqing, who hadn't even changed his champion, picked Camille and slowly walked to the top lane. He said, "Don't forget what Coach Cui said, don't give Rumble a chance this game!"

Because KT picked Thresh for their bot lane, they will definitely have an advantage in bot lane fights.

But those who know, know that Thresh becomes less useful as the game progresses.

Therefore, QG's strategy for this game was to avoid fights in the bottom lane and focus on ganking Rumble in the top lane, quickly bringing the game to its power spike.

In this round, the tactics were executed very successfully.

This time, Xiangguo didn't rush to gank top lane at level 3. Instead, he focused on speed-up tactics, clearing all six jungle camps first, and then ganking mid lane.

This gank in the mid lane was ineffective; they didn't manage to do anything.

But Xiangguo wasn't in a hurry. Sejuani pretended to return to base, but actually switched to the lane!

Sejuani took advantage of Rumble's disappearance from vision to flank and gank from behind. With Chen Dongqing's E skill as the first move, she easily forced Rumble to flash and sent him back to base!

Once you reach level six, Camille uses her ultimate to lock down Rumble who doesn't have Flash, and easily takes him down without any fancy moves.

Although it took QG's top and jungle players six levels to get a kill, it's already considered slow. But don't forget, their opponent is KT, a top LCK team!

The camera then cut to the bottom half of the map, showing Peanut still aggressively farming QG's bottom half, also intending to dive Uzi.

But at that moment, Godve's Galio cleared the mid lane minions and headed straight for the bottom lane!

Galio's ultimate ability forced Peanut to abandon his tower dive attempt and instead secure a relatively insignificant Water Dragon.

Ten minutes later, Mata planted a crucial ward in the bottom lane bush, but Shi Senming was momentarily careless and didn't notice this detail.

KT finally seized the opportunity. Smeb teleported directly to the bottom lane and launched a four-man gank on the two laners, killing Uzi and Shi Senming who were pushing the lane and were about to recall!

"Holy crap!" Uz slumped back in his chair. "This is insane! All that effort for just two heads?"

"Oh my god, I forgot to scan the wards behind them," Shi Senming immediately chimed in the voice chat, taking the blame. "They really like the teleportation packs, I forgot!"

"It's alright, it's alright, I'm not blaming you." After more than a year of championship experience, Uzi's temper is now remarkably good. He waved his hand and said, "They won't profit from this!"

The camera now cuts to the top lane.

On the top lane, Chen Dongqing's Sheen Camille was relentlessly attacking the top lane turret, easily taking down the half-health turret thanks to the frequent reset effects of Sheen and Q skill!

At the same time, Xiangguo also controlled the vanguard.

After returning to base to rest, Xiangguo and Chen Dongqing took the Vanguard and ran to the mid lane to meet up with Uzi. After releasing the Vanguard, they pushed forward and easily took down the enemy's mid tower!

Trading two kills and the bottom tower for the enemy's top and middle towers is a win no matter how you look at it!

After the mid tower was destroyed, Uzi also stood in the mid lane and entered a high-speed farming mode. Because the enemy's mid tower had been destroyed, Uzi could even occasionally take the enemy's F6 camp and farmed very quickly!

At this point, the weaknesses of the three-core lineup, which were mentioned earlier, became apparent.

At the start of the game, Uzi was behind Deft in CS, but as the game progressed, Uzi quickly overtook him in CS.

By the 28th minute of the game, Uzi had already out-farmed Deft by 30 CS.

Meanwhile, the top lane was even more outrageous. Chen Dongqing's Camille already had Trinity Force, Ravenous Hydra, and Maw of Malmortius, and was practically shitting on Smeb's face.

Chen Dongqing kicked into the tower with a true damage kick, taking down half of Rumble's health with one kick. Then he used his ultimate to ascend into the air to avoid the tower's aggro, followed by another true damage combo, killing Rumble instantly!

The underdeveloped Rumble had no say in front of Camille and couldn't even unleash Camille's Maw of Malmortius shield!

With a huge gap on the flanks and Uzi having already secured a leading equipment advantage, KT's decline is gradually becoming apparent.

Next up is Camille and Galio's unstoppable team fight initiation, and Uzi's explosive damage output!

With a mere 5,000 gold lead, QG decisively initiated a team fight around Baron Nashor. When Baron Nashor was reduced to only 5,000 health, KT's five players finally made their way to the front!

"Murder!" Standing in the dragon pit, Chen Dongqing, who had activated his scan to block KT's vision, decisively hooked onto the wall inside the dragon pit. He first used Flash, then used E. A classic E-Flash-E crossed mountains and rivers, and an R locked onto Deft's head!

Galio's ultimate magic circle is activated!

This is a very familiar scene: Camille, who has an economic advantage, charges into the AD carry's face under the protection of Galio's ultimate. In the last game, Deft's Kalista died countless times under this kind of team fight initiation!

And this time was no exception!

Xiangguo also unleashed his ultimate move from behind, and QG's top, mid, and jungle charged into KT's group, throwing the entire team fight into chaos!

Once the team fight got chaotic, KT naturally didn't have time to pay attention to Uzi's crazy output from behind.

Uzi activated his Q skill, instantly increasing his attack speed to 2.5. The Tristana then leaped repeatedly, eliminating all five members of KT!

Winning the team fight and securing the Baron Nashor, the gold difference now officially exceeds 10,000!

Next, one more push, and the game is over!

"Alright, let's congratulate QG again for winning the second game in 31 minutes! They are just one step away from advancing to the semifinals and returning to Shanghai!"

There should be two more chapters before this BO5 against KT ends. This BO5 isn't important, so I sped it up a lot.

(End of this chapter)