League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 377 Seeing Da Long for the Last Time

"Solo kill!" Doll shouted excitedly, "In six minutes, Cuvee died three times, he was completely destroyed!"

Below the stage, countless spectators cheered excitedly!

Looking at the scene before her, Lin Yuanhua smiled and took out her phone, snapping many photos in a row!

Beside Lin Yuanhua, Chen Dongqing's parents watched this scene with happy smiles.

"What's up? Was Chen Dongqing really that good?" Mom asked Dad, who was sitting next to her.

Before his father could answer, Lin Weixiang, sitting one seat away, laughed and exclaimed, "Amazing! Unbeatable!"

Dad laughed and said, "That's right, invincible!"

Seeing her screen turn black and white again, Cuvee felt utterly dejected.

Throughout his journey through the World Championship, he has almost completely dominated every top laner except for Ilex.

G2, SKT, TSM, GAM—he knows he's won after just two minutes in lane, and he's always right.

The only exception is against QG; every time I go up, I get completely destroyed.

The difference was truly hard for Cuvee to accept.

Looking at the mess on the top lane, the SSG members were also somewhat troubled.

They can't even stand under the tower anymore in the top lane. If they don't deal with it, they'll definitely be defeated.

With no other option, they had to abandon protecting and attacking the bottom lane and shift their focus to the top lane.

If a top laner without Flash can be ganked twice, the huge hole in the top lane can be largely patched up!

SSG's mid and jungle players are quite confident about this.

They have a Sejuani and a Taliyah, both excellent at ganking. How could they not kill an AD top laner without Flash?

With this in mind, SSG's mid and jungle duo quickly implemented their strategy.

But after they made several attempts to probe the top lane, they gradually became dumbfounded.

Within eight minutes, Taliyah and Sejuani both had their ultimate abilities available for a gank on the top lane, which should have been a sure win.

But unexpectedly, without any vision, Kalista managed to get stuck in the extreme range of Sejuani's ultimate and make a last-ditch retreat!

Master An could only forcefully unleash a powerful move, which was easily dodged by Skateboard Shoes using his movement skills.

Behind Sejuani, Crowned Taliyah used her ultimate to block the path, but this obviously couldn't stop Kalista.

Chen Dongqing used Q to jump over the wall, then used a basic attack to dash to Taliyah, dodging the damage from [Stone Scatter] and [Rock Smash], then used another basic attack to jump back and avoid Taliyah's Q [Stone Pierce] projectile, returning to the tower with one-third of his health.

The cheers from the audience erupted again, and countless spectators began to clap and cheer excitedly once more!

Want to catch Tree Bro? Dream on!

Neither of their two ultimate moves could take down the skateboarder, leaving SSG's top and jungle players somewhat dumbfounded.

what's going on?

This isn't their first wave of arrests.

Kalista seems to have a third eye. Every time she pushes forward, she gives them the illusion that she can catch them, but when they actually try to catch her, Kalista will retreat at the most precise moment, slipping away from their grasp!

This time, the skateboard shoes took the "inch stop challenge" to the extreme, managing to squeeze through the gaps using sheer skill!

But most importantly, these skateboard shoes don't offer any visibility!

Master An was 100% certain that his several raids had gone undetected before the players went online.

But I still couldn't catch it.

Master An always felt that he was being calculated by the other side.

The reason the other side kept acting like they were easy to catch was probably because they were confident they wouldn't die, so they were deliberately luring them in and wasting their time!

When Ambition switched the camera to the bottom lane, he saw that QG's mid and jungle had arrived there, intending to launch a four-man gank on the bottom lane.

Fortunately, Ruler was steady and clever enough to retreat to the self-isolated bush near the bottom lane's second tower early on, narrowly escaping with his life.

But obviously, we can forget about taking the bottom tower.

With the four players pushing forward, the turret was clearly no different from being made of paper. After pushing it to low health, the other three members of QG retreated, allowing Uzi to solo the first turret bounty and secure the ultimate victory.

Of course, QG's team, with their excavator, Galio, and Karma, didn't really qualify to take the first tower.

Ruler wasn't idle during this time. He and CoreJJ secretly farmed a group of Krugs, then ate the minion wave pushed over from the bottom lane, and then moved to the mid lane to continue farming.

After clearing the mid lane, they immediately returned to base to replenish their equipment, and then went back to the bottom lane to farm.

During that minute or so, he ate and traveled without stopping.

Hiding money from the crotch and stealing opportunities to develop while at a disadvantage are the basic skills of Korean AD carries.

Players like Ruler, who exemplify the ultimate Korean-style AD carry, are naturally well-versed in this art.

In this game, Ruler continued to farm in the bottom lane, while CoreJJ went to the mid lane to defend the mid tower with Crown.

Upon seeing this layout, the QG players immediately understood and recalled Chen Dongqing's words.

"In the mid-game, they always have their jungler and support protecting them very closely, warding everywhere and playing defense, regardless of the bot lane AD."

This is clearly a rare opportunity.

After pondering Samsung's warding strategy for a moment, Xiangguo realized that the opponent was definitely focusing their vision on the top half of the map, and there probably weren't many wards in the bottom half. At most, Ruler would make a couple of protective wards for himself.

If the field of vision is uneven, then there is an opportunity to take advantage of it!

Xiangguo activated his scan, then crawled from the Dragon Pit to the tri-bush in SSG's bottom lane, waiting for the crawl cooldown to expire while observing Ruler's movements in the bottom lane.

Emperor Ruler remained motionless.

Xiangguo switched the screen again to look towards the middle lane.

CoreJJ's Lulu is helping defend the tower in the mid lane, while Ambition is helping to clear wards.

Become!

"Come on, Gouwei, get ready!" Xiangguo said as he charged forward!

SSG likes to place defensive wards at three locations: the narrow path behind the Dragon Pit, the small bushes in front of the Stone Beetle entrance, and the Red Buff area.

Xiangguo drilled into the triangular grass and then stood on the side of the stone beetle camp, blocking Ruler's defensive ward range at the very last moment.

At this moment, a group of stone beetles were lying there quietly.

After finishing off the minion wave under his own second tower, Ruler immediately moved to the jungle and began to enjoy eating the Krug monsters.

With the red buff ward and the vision protection at the entrance of the Krug camp, Ruler's jungle clearing was theoretically very safe.

However, there was a scout who had already figured out the SSG's ward placement and was lying in wait near the jungle camp!

As soon as Ruler entered the jungle, he saw the excavator standing in his blind spot, drilling towards him!

How did this excavator get here?

Ruler was instantly terrified. He immediately unleashed a powerful attack at the excavator and then turned and ran!

But Xiangguo was determined to kill, and hit Ruler with a ground-burrowing Q, and then directly used his ultimate to get close!

At the same time, Galio's ultimate magic circle was activated, Ruler used Flash to escape, Xiangguo followed up with a teleport and then used a right-click to forcefully knock him into the air!

Galio crashed down, sending Ruler flying with a powerful punch; Ruler was now a corpse!

The cheers from the audience rose again, and countless spectators began to scream excitedly!

The commentators, Wawa and Miller, were also very excited and praised Xiangguo's top-notch vision control and ambush!

This kind of jungle invasion, where the player has an intimate understanding of the enemy's vision, is something that commentators have only seen Clearlove pull off before.

I never expected Xiangguo to have this skill!

This is completely different from his usual playing style!

Of course, in the QG voice channel they were unaware of...

"Holy crap, that's amazing!" Xiangguo exclaimed like a clueless idiot, "Chen Dongqing, that gank was absolutely incredible!"

Chen Dongqing grinned and said, "Isn't that right? I told you, no one understands Samsung better than me, not even Samsung itself!"

"Awesome! Awesome!" Xiangguo gave a thumbs up, indicating his absolute approval!

Backstage at QG, Banbazi listened to his teammates' conversation and felt incredibly comforted.

Having a teammate like Chen Dongqing is so reassuring.

Banbazi dares to say that with his awareness and research ability, even if Chen Dongqing were to play jungle, he would be absolutely at a historical level.

Having this awareness, yet only using it to defend against ganks? What a waste of talent.

However, if Chen Dongqing were to play jungle, wouldn't his invincible laning skills be wasted?

Sigh, it's all because this contestant is too perfect.

People like this should play games like StarCraft, where they can dominate everyone in a fair 1v1 match.

It's a pity that StarCraft isn't popular enough.

Banbazi regained his composure and refocused his attention on the game, observing SSG's lane rotation strategy.

After Ruler was killed, SSG will definitely have to change their strategy. In the Ardent Censer meta, AD carries can't stop farming, and every time they die, their chances of winning drop significantly!

With no other option, SSG had to enter a final defensive posture ahead of schedule, surrendering all their first towers and retreating to defend their second tower.

Clearly, this is another measure taken out of necessity.

If Cuvee can't push out in a split push, they can't exchange resources. Every time a tower is lost, it's a real economic loss, and the economic gap widens!

However, QG also had some weaknesses in this game. Their problem was that Uzi was left to fend for himself.

Uzi's development has been poor due to being caught and killed once in the early game, as well as being harassed by Ambition multiple times. He still hasn't gotten a kill.

If the female police officer doesn't have an advantage in the early game, then she obviously needs to go through a long development period, and her tower pushing pace will be bumpy.

But it doesn't matter.

"Don't rush, don't rush," Chen Dongqing said slowly. "This game, with our two marksmen and Karma, we're invincible in the late game. Let's just stall them!"

The tone of this game was set from the very beginning when we locked in Kalista: it would be a late-game showdown!

Therefore, even though they already had such a huge advantage in the early stages, they were not in a hurry to attack.

Uz nodded in agreement, as he understood the point.

Let's stall, who's afraid of who?

Once you get the double marksman three-item set, it's your death knell!

Time began to fly by.

In the following period, Chen Dongqing and Uzi supported each other, one in the middle and the other on the wing.

Whenever one side leads their teammates deep into enemy territory, the other side retreats, farms jungle camps, or goes AFK.

Whenever one side attracts attention, the other side will decisively press forward and increase the intensity!

This textbook-perfect 4-1 coordination is precisely the strategy Samsung relies on for survival.

But when it comes to the best implementer of this strategy, QG is clearly the best!

For the next ten minutes or so, neither side engaged in any major team fights, with only a few kills occurring occasionally in the mid lane.

Twenty minutes passed quickly.

After pushing down the opponent's second tower, Chen Dongqing pressed B to recall on the spot. He was the farmiest player on the field, having already upgraded to the Blade of the Ruined King, Runaan's Hurricane, and Guinsoo's Rageblade.

Chen Dongqing asked, "Jian Zihao, how much more of the three-piece suit are you missing?"

Uz glanced at it and said, "Six hundred more is needed."

"OK, perfect timing, let's get started!" Chen Dongqing nodded, licked his lips, and said, "You put some pressure on the mid lane!"

At this moment, Xiangguo also returned to the city. After the top laner and jungler of QG finished their equipment, they each bought two control wards and then headed straight for the top half of the map!

They were constantly pushing the lanes in the top and mid lanes, and SSG's team couldn't get across the river in the top half of the map at all.

In other words, the entire Dragon Pit is without any wards.

The two quickly walked to the back of the Dragon Pit, placed a control ward to confirm that there was no vision, then one used a tunnel and the other used Q to jump over the wall, quickly entering the Dragon Pit and starting the fight!

With the addition of Guinsoo's Rageblade and Blade of the Ruined King, Kalista's speed in taking down Baron Nashor is absolutely top-notch, with few heroes able to match it.

Everyone saw that as the dragon's health plummeted, the number of spears on its body continued to increase!

This scene thrilled the audience, who cheered enthusiastically!

If it were a regular match in a large venue, perhaps this surging cheer would provide SSG with some kind of information.

Unfortunately, the venue today was equipped with soundproof rooms and noise-canceling headphones, so the sound of the 70,000 audience members was barely audible when it reached their ears. The SSG members are still completely unaware of this!

"Dragon's only half health left! They haven't been discovered yet!" The doll's heart started racing. "It looks like we can take it down!"

Beside him, Colonel Guan's heart was pounding faster than a baby's, and he shouted, "Can you spot it? SSG!?"

Just as anxious as Guan Daxiao was the LCK commentators next door.

Compared to Guan Zeyuan's restraint, the Roaring Emperor was much more unrestrained. At this moment, his wailing echoed throughout the entire arena: "Aaaaaah, Ambition! Ruler! Someone, please find this! We absolutely cannot let QG get this Baron!"

In the mid lane, Uzi's Caitlyn put immense pressure on the tower, pushing a wave of minions all the way to the second tower. SSG had no choice but to group up to clear the wave and defend.

Cuvee, the only one not facing the enemy, pushed the top lane minion wave across the river. As the minions pushed forward without anyone coming out to clear them, a hint of doubt finally flashed through his mind.

"The skateboarder across the street hasn't been seen since he went home."

Cuvee's words sent chills down the spines of everyone in SSG.

Master An suddenly remembered that the excavator on the other side hadn't appeared for a while.

"Zaihe! Here!" Sect Leader An pointed urgently twice at the Great Dragon Pit.

Ruler reacted quickly, immediately casting a [Foresight Modification] into the dragon pit!

A blue-eyed figure was positioned remotely, providing SSG with vision of the Baron Nashor.

But the scene inside the dragon pit caused them to collectively suffer cardiac arrest.

The dragon only has 3,000 health left.

Chen Dongqing pulled out his spear, Xiangguo used Smite, and the dragon's remaining 3,000 health points vanished.

"The Red Army has killed Baron Nash!"

The SSG members happened to see DaLong one last time.

"We took it down!" Miller's roar echoed throughout the Bird's Nest stadium. "QG has secured the Baron buff, and the gold difference between the two sides has officially exceeded 10,000! Uzi needs to be careful in the mid lane, don't get engaged!"

Uzi understood this principle and began to retreat with his teammates when Baron was low on health, successfully escaping.

After securing Baron Nashor, Xiangguo joined the team in the mid lane. With the Baron buff, the group pushed forward and easily took down SSG's second mid lane tower.

On the top lane, Chen Dongqing's push was also quite strong. He chased after Gnar, auto-attacked him three times, and then took down the second tower in the top lane with the help of the Baron buff minion wave!

Immediately afterwards, the QG team recalled to base, and Uzi recalled to base and bought three items, thus entering his power spike.

Chen Dongqing went even further, looking at the remaining money in his hand and immediately buying a bottle of Rage Potion.

"Come on, let's go!"

QG now boasts two marksmen with three core items, an Ardent Censer, and the Baron buff, and is just one push away from victory!

There's not much more to this game; the next chapter will conclude this match and immediately cover the draft and ban phase of the second game.

(End of this chapter)