League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 474 The Lights Are Still On

After waving to the audience, Chen Dongqing turned his gaze to the opposite side of the stage.

On the other side of the stage, four European faces and one Asian face were standing there; these were OG's five starters.

Position 1: Ana, Position 2: Topson, Position 3: Ceb, Position 4: JerAx, Position 5: Notail

Chen Dongqing remembered that Asian face; he remembered it even before his rebirth.

Ana.

He was the key figure who led OG from a chaotic team to the championship.

Ana's early professional career was far from smooth. Originally a position 2 player, he was aggressive and daring in the mid lane, resulting in an exceptionally high number of deaths per game. Feeling lost about his career, he decided to take a break at the end of 2017.

In mid-2018, OG, betrayed by their teammates, was in a state of chaos. With their carry and mid lane positions vacant, they desperately needed two players to fill the gaps.

A confused player and a chaotic team hit it off immediately.

OG announced the recall of veteran player Ana and officially announced his transition to the carry position, and found a high-ranked pub player, Topson, to play the duo role.

Unexpectedly, this summons resulted in a two-time champion, with the two temporarily recruited leaders becoming the strongest players in their respective positions.

Confused team members, a chaotic team, creating a wonderful chemical reaction.

In his previous life, after Ana returned to OG at TI8, his career seemed to be on a winning streak. He first led the team to victory after victory, and then retired to enjoy life. He chose to take a six-month break from the competition. When he returned in the second half of the year, he led OG to a successful title defense with an even more invincible attitude, winning two consecutive championships!

Before winning the championship, Chinese DOTA2 players called him God, but this was actually a derogatory nickname.

But after winning two consecutive championships, "God" became a sincere and genuine praise.

This person is QG's biggest rival on their road to victory.

Chen Dongqing gave the Asian man a few extra glances before turning his attention to the others.

Among the four European faces, one man was staring intently at Chen Dongqing with a contemptuous smile on his face.

Chen Dongqing wasn't very familiar with the DOTA2 players, but he knew that he was N0tail, OG's position 5 player.

This person is the founder and captain of OG. It was he and Doublelift who started the first round of online arguments about "which is more difficult to operate, LOL or DOTA2". It was also he who loudly boycotted ilex online a few days ago, stirring up the second round of the "LOL vs DOTA2" controversy.

He was the instigator of all public opinion.

It seems that N0tail is ready to send Chen Dongqing back to the LOL league.

Unfortunately, Chen Dongqing was also prepared. He was ready to show Notail what it meant to be outmatched.

"Come on, give me Sven!" Chen Dongqing said confidently, "For the first game, I'll reward myself with an easy hero."

Sven, the wandering swordsman, is indeed a simple hero.

Four skills: one point-control ability, one passive ability, and two buffs. Simple and straightforward.

All this hero needs to do is buff himself, then stun the enemy with a hammer and get close, then just keep attacking. In terms of operation, it's practically a no-brainer.

The only thing to consider is whether to activate [Battle Cry] or [Divine Power] first.

Its value is similar to that of Xu Sheng in the intellectual world, who asked whether to drink alcohol first or pick up the ancient sword first.

The debate between LOL and DOTA2 has been going on for years and never stopped. The main representative of the LOL faction, Doublelift, has always maintained that DOTA2 is a simple game that doesn't require much skill.

Of course, there are also many opponents to this view, because they believe that the skill ceiling of heroes like Invoker, Meepo, Tinker, and Arc Warden in DOTA2 is something that LOL will never be able to match.

But this statement is actually somewhat one-sided.

In reality, heroes with such high skill ceilings and complex controls are rare in DOTA 2, and these heroes usually don't have a high pick rate in ranked matches; in fact, most players will never even touch them in their lifetime.

Is life too perfect? ​​Why torture yourself by playing with Meepo electric dogs?

On the contrary, simple heroes like Sven and Juggernaut, who are not difficult to operate, are the mainstream.

Moreover, the game mechanics of DOTA2 dictate that, unlike League of Legends, the game does not rely on reaction and positioning. From a player's perspective, DOTA2 does seem to be less demanding in terms of skill.

After all, DOTA2 movement involves turning around, so you can't just flexibly shake your head back and forth. Also, the skills in this game are abnormal, and various point-and-click movement is often ineffective. Many times, the carry either has to activate BKB to tank the skills and output damage, or they die. The requirements for movement and dodging skills are not as extreme as in LOL.

From this perspective, it's true that the senior brother is partly right to say that DOTA2 doesn't require much skill.

QG's first floor pick, without any hesitation, immediately locked in Sven.

It was the early hours of the morning in China, but due to TI, the DOTA2 section on Douyu was incredibly popular, with countless streamers opening their live streams to watch the matches.

Fathead Fish looked at the hero locked on the first floor and immediately said with a smile, "Sven? Sven can do it."

"That's definitely possible."

At this moment, the live chat was filled with a chaotic cacophony of comments.

[Is this really possible? I've never seen Tree Bro's Sven before.]

[Indeed, mainly because Tree Bro hasn't played ranked games for almost a year, so I don't even know which carry heroes he's good at.]

[This is what Brother Tree is like]

[Sven seems a bit weak in the late game. Will OG give him a chance to snowball in the early game?]

YYF glanced at the chat and immediately said, "Don't worry, I heard Tree Bro's Sven is really strong! We might not necessarily lose this game!"

As the TI2 champion and a top streamer on Douyu, YYF does know some inside information.

What he knows so far is that, apart from early-game fighting carries like Little Dog and Juggernaut who need to coordinate with teammates and group up, which I'm not very good at, all of Ilex's other cores are top-tier!

As for Sven, who comes with the ability to farm in a frenzy and whose combat power is at its maximum as soon as he comes out of the mountains, he is the ultimate in Ilex!

After hearing YYF's words, everyone in the live stream felt much more at ease.

That's enough.

Meanwhile, besides YYF's live stream, another popular streamer on Douyu is broadcasting the DOTA2 TI tournament.

What's a bit funny is that this streamer is more popular than other DOTA2 streamers.

"That's terrifying, guys! This guy went straight for Sven!" Reed shouted. "I only have two words for this game: invincible! I'll eat my hat if OG can last thirty minutes!"

Compared to YYF and his live stream's subtlety, Luwei, the most filial son under the tree, was much more direct, essentially sentencing the other side to death!

This exaggerated praise left countless viewers in the live stream bewildered.

How could Ilex be that powerful?

At this moment, the match has officially begun in the live broadcast!

The DOTA2 director was clearly not very familiar with Chen Dongqing. Unlike the LOL team, he didn't give Chen Dongqing excessive camera time, but instead switched between the three lanes.

This action clearly displeased the reeds.

"Does this director even know who's in charge?" Lu Wei complained. "If he doesn't, then let me do it!"

As he spoke, he opened the DOTA2 client.

Putting aside which game is more fun, just looking at the client, DOTA2 is at least fifty years ahead of LOL.

You can enter training mode at any time, there aren't many fancy recharge events, and you can even watch matches directly in the client, which is far ahead of LOL.

Luwei clicked into the TI theme interface and immediately chose to watch the game.

After clicking in, he immediately locked the camera on Sven and began praising him frame by frame!

The bounty rune spawned at that moment, and both sides finished controlling it and returned to lane. Looking at Sven's positioning and movements, Luwei couldn't help but comment, "Did you see that? Did you see that? Tree is playing incredibly aggressively! This laning phase is crucial!"

It has to be said that Chen Dongqing's Sven was indeed crucial in this game.

Looking at OG's overall lineup, they opted for a fighting strategy with Gyrocopter and Io on the safe lane. They will definitely play extremely aggressively in the top half of the map, and they might even abandon the offlane without hesitation, allowing their position 4 player to participate in the safe lane's attack, in order to help Ana establish a significant advantage as soon as possible.

In contrast, QG's Sven + Lich combination seemed rather ineffective.

In the video, Sven, starting with a small round shield and a Quelling Blade, has already maximized his laning ability. He is laning against Tiny and Bane, whose laning abilities are not strong, but rather nonexistent.

All you need to do is have Xnova, the position 5 player, act as a slave, spend more money to buy him some medicine to withstand the enemy's damage, and then Chen Dongqing can just focus on last-hitting minions!

So he didn't back down from the start and went straight to the front!

After the lanes are crossed, both sides continue to engage in skirmishing.

The hook will disrupt the minion wave, causing melee units to shift aggro to ranged units first.

The ranged units on both sides rapidly lost health.

This is the first point of contention between the two sides online.

In DOTA2, a wave of creeps consists of three melee creeps and one ranged creep. Ranged creeps have the highest experience and gold, and getting denied by a ranged creep can cause your blood pressure to spike instantly.

At this moment, you can see that Xiao Xiao on the other side has already uprooted the tree next to her.

This is Xiao's third skill: uprooting trees to use as weapons, which grants bonus attack power and attack range to the next five attacks.

The last hit after grabbing the tree isn't too difficult; just casually auto-attack the low-health ranged minion!

With its limited attack power, it won't give the opponent a chance to deny.

But Chen Dongqing was prepared and simultaneously unleashed a [Storm Fist], stunning and interrupting the small attack before it could be completed!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Dongqing and Xnova simultaneously raised their hands and headed towards their own ranged unit A!

Chen Dongqing alone couldn't kill the ranged minion with that much health, but with two people, the health was just right!

This move made OG's 34 duo a little more serious.

JerAx, in position 4, reacted quickly. He used Bane to quickly finish off the creep that was about to be denied.

In the early game, the source of chaos only has one damage skill, which is the first skill [Brain Erosion], similar to Vampire's Q, which drains the health of others while restoring health to himself.

Chen Dongqing remained calm. Having anticipated this, he pressed S to sheathe his sword, turned around, and took two steps to the opposite ranged creep. At this moment, the creep was low on health, and the minor stun had just worn off. Moreover, this hero's basic attack animation after grabbing a tree was notoriously slow, so there was clearly no time to deny the creep.

Chen Dongqing easily finished off the ranged minion with a single strike.

"Shit!"

On the other side, Ceb, in position three, angrily slammed the tree trunk in his hand onto Sven, dealing a considerable amount of damage.

With just one ranged unit, the two sides were already scheming and fighting like madmen.

"Great, that was fantastic!" In the livestream, Luwei exclaimed loudly and exaggeratedly, "QG's safe lane is truly top-notch!"

At this moment, the live stream chat was filled with question marks again, with people exclaiming how incredibly filial the son was, even a simple last-hit was worthy of praise.

But I have to say, this wave was actually pretty good.

The enemy support last-hit the ranged minion, but the offlaner didn't. That's one point.

Chen Dongqing successfully acquired a ranged minion, which is the second point.

The third point is that the opposing team's Chaos was forced to use a skill in order to finish off the enemy.

Kill three birds with one stone!

The most crucial point is the third one.

The devastating "Brain Eater" is the most crucial poke skill for this enemy team in the laning phase; it deals high damage, has a long cooldown, and consumes a lot of mana.

That suck on the soldier is equivalent to Chen Dongqing getting one less suck, which is equivalent to him gaining two hundred more health.

That means you've already won the lane.

Next, we'll finish them off.

Because the small tree grab can provide a significant boost to base attack power, it does offer an advantage in last-hitting minions.

But it didn't work.

Because Xiaoxiao's attack animation is extremely slow and the damage value fluctuates greatly, his last-hitting ability is very unpredictable.

This allowed Chen Dongqing to seize some opportunities.

If you seize the opportunity, the knife will be used to finish you off, it doesn't matter.

But if you don't time your attack well, attacking too early or too late, don't blame me for denying it.

Sure enough, for the rest of the time, apart from occasionally managing to land a last hit, Xiao Xiao's other attacks were either blocked and denied by Sven, or he was directly denied without any regard for reason.

This scene was a delight to watch for countless viewers in China.

They rarely see this kind of superiority in AME.

Ilex's laning phase is as fierce as ever!

The DOTA2 client allows you to directly spectate high-elo ranked matches.

Last year, when Chen Dongqing was aiming for 10,000 points, many people watched his first-person perspective to learn things.

But after they finish watching it, they'll find that there's absolutely nothing to learn.

If you look at other mid laners, you can learn some operational strategies and techniques.

But with Ilex, you don't see any strategy; it's just pure dominance in last-hitting and mechanics, showcasing a masterful simplicity!

In this professional league, Ilex's last-hitting ability has not declined at all; it is still at a crushing level!

Because of Sven's perfect performance in the bottom lane, the director couldn't help but switch the camera more often to the bottom lane.

Countless viewers witnessed Sven's smooth last-hitting and denying pressure.

It's not just about last-hitting minions; Sven often sneaks in an auto-attack to finish off minions.

This one cut might not hurt, but as the damage accumulates, it does put a little pressure on his health, forcing him to buy more potions to sustain himself.

This level of laning skill is something many domestic viewers have probably seen before, so it's not surprising to them.

But it's different abroad. Those who don't know Chen Dongqing well saw this comment and their opinion of him changed for a while!

Wow, this guy's laning phase seems pretty good!

At this point, even OG themselves were starting to struggle.

"Unreal, bro," JerAx glanced at his teammate's offlaner's last-hitting and felt it was hard to judge. "What's going on?"

"I don't know!" Ceb panicked as he saw himself get counter-attacked again. "His last-hitting was too safe!"

"Hmm," JerAx hesitated for two seconds and said, "Then forget it, I'll just go wander around."

The position 4 player doesn't lane and keeps roaming, which is the normal way to play in the game, since the position 3 player is meant to be sacrificed.

He'll be playing the laning phase, mainly because it's his first time playing against Ilex, so he wants to test his opponent's strength.

Now it's all right, the test has shown it's an undeniable fact.

After those three waves of minions, I've already been denied four or five times each. How am I supposed to lane like this?

Just by last-hitting minions, you can create an economic advantage of over 200 gold, and being denied will also result in a loss of experience.

The difference created by these three waves of troops is practically equivalent to dying once!

Is it really that powerful?

"Fine, I'm leaving." JerAx simply gave up on the bottom lane and started roaming.

Helping the eldest and second eldest brothers is what the power forward should be doing.

As for my third brother, I wish him all the best on Martyrs' Road.

It has to be said that JerAx's roaming play really had an immediate effect.

The two skills, Sleep and Suck, are considered overpowered in DOTA2. One can put you to sleep for five seconds with a single stun, while the other can suck away a third of your health in one bite. Their ability to gank is indeed strong.

Huo Luan launched a surprise attack on the top lane, catching QG's offlaner, Chalice, completely off guard. He first put Chalice to sleep, then combined the high early-game burst damage of the Gyrocopter and Io combo to instantly kill him without any suspense.

Upon seeing this situation, Chen Dongqing's eyes widened in anger.

You killed my teammate, huh? Well, shouldn't I kill you back?

Seeing that the enemy's position 4 was absent, Chen Dongqing stopped playing the peaceful last-hitting game and pushed the minion wave to the tower with Spread Attack, and then directly launched an attack on Tiny in the bottom lane.

Tiny is one of the tankiest heroes in Dota 2, but his tankiness only starts to increase after he learns his ultimate ability. Before level six, Tiny has virtually no defensive capabilities.

Chen Dongqing, with his teammate Lich's Frost Shield, slowed down the enemy and chased them into the tower, then unleashed a powerful hammer attack!

At that moment, two teleports suddenly appeared under OG's second tower, indicating support from the enemy's top laner and support!

OG planned this all along: first secure the top lane, then protect the bottom lane!

But Chen Dongqing glanced at the mini-map, remained calm, and continued his pursuit, slashing Xiao Xiao with his sword!

The instant his stun ended, Xnova's Lich followed up with a drain, securing another control effect!

Chen Dongqing seized the opportunity and made two more stabs, successfully taking down Xiao Xiao.

"We killed them!" Luwei shouted in the live stream, "But the enemy's two supports are about to teleport in, it looks like we won't be able to escape!"

At this moment, you can see that the two white TP lights next to the turret are becoming increasingly intense, and the teleportation is about to be completed!

But at that moment, a sudden change occurred; the two beams of white light vanished simultaneously, and everything disappeared without a trace.

"Huh? Is the teleportation gone?"

The downside of not having a professional director is that Luwei focused too much on the bottom lane, causing him to miss the perspectives of other players.

Reed quickly switched the screen to the top lane and saw that OG's 45 duo was stunned by a [Gap], and all their teleports were interrupted!

The culprit behind this "ravine" is none other than Xiao Niu, who is at the far end of the screen and bears the ID QG.FY.

Even before the bottom lane made a move, FY anticipated that OG's position 4 and 5 players might need to teleport. So, with his health low, he cleverly circled around in the dark, seizing the perfect opportunity to stun both of them with a long-range attack!

"**! FY!" Lu Wei sprang up from his chair, shouting excitedly, "Awesome! Great job!"

At this moment, the screen was flooded with "FYGOD" in the comments section, and countless people were extremely excited!

Everyone says that FY is the true core of QG, and that's absolutely true!

This move truly showcases their strength!

Backstage at the venue, the VP team, preparing to go on stage, watched from the lounge as Sven, after killing someone, turned around excitedly, raised his greatsword, and pulled it away.

Sven of Ilex, they understand.

The last time B played a scrim with them, the laning phase was even, but after standing in the jungle for more than ten minutes, he suddenly came out with a lead of almost a whole item. They had no idea where B got the money from.

And now Ilex has actually gained such a huge advantage as early as the laning phase.

They dared not imagine how brutal this ilex would be.

Of course, OG's advantage in the safe lane is also considerable, and the combination of Gyrocopter and Io is one of the most offensive combinations. If OG can snowball their advantage before Sven comes out, they still have a chance to win the game.

Overall, this match was a contest between the two teams' advantageous lanes.

In light of this situation, Xnova quickly adjusted his strategy and joined the team coordination in the upper half of the map. He helped the mid laner place wards and runes while helping the carry farm jungle camps.

DOTA2 is different from LOL. The benefits of a single kill are too small and the risks are too high. Instead of figuring out how to kill, it's better to help your carry accumulate more jungle monsters.

In DOTA2, neutral creeps respawn every minute. You can accumulate a wave of creeps by luring them out of the camp at the exact minute mark.

In professional matches, it's usually the support who does the work of hoarding jungle camps. The support hoards five or six camps at each camp, and the carry goes over to clear them out in one go, easily gaining several hundred gold!

The reason Chen Dongqing was able to farm money so quickly was not only because of his reasonable jungle route planning, but also because xnova's jungle hoarding service was excellent, so he only needed to collect the gold.

Playing point guard is all about enjoyment!

Next, Chen Dongqing maintained a perfect rhythm of suppression. He played very greedily, even rushing a Midas Touch just to maintain sufficient farming efficiency.

Once you've crafted the Midas Touch and the Mad Mask, it's time to reap the rewards.

At this point, it can be seen that the jungle camps in the upper and lower jungle areas have been completely filled by xnova.

Chen Dongqing will be grinding his way up and collecting all the monsters he has accumulated.

The key point here lies in the ancient wilderness.

Ancient monsters are special monsters in the DOTA 2 jungle. They are quite powerful and difficult to farm, but they provide far more experience and gold than regular jungle monsters.

However, ancient camps are usually placed in the offlane jungle, so the carry in the safe lane needs to put in some effort to farm ancient camps.

Chen Dongqing's choice was to call his teammates back first, and together they pushed down the enemy's crumbling first tower and pushed the minion wave all the way forward.

In this way, it will take some time for the minion wave to be pushed back.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Dongqing took control of Sven and ventured into the jungle, advancing northward and clearing out all the jungle camps he had stockpiled.

Everyone saw Sven's economic figures rise steadily, and then he stood in front of Ancient Wilderness.

Chen Dongqing unleashed his ultimate move, battling this wave of ancient monsters for three hundred rounds before finally defeating them!

This huge wave of ancient units alone provided Sven with over 600 gold!

Having reached this point, Sven's jungle clearing journey is now over.

At this moment, the minion wave that Chen Dongqing had pushed forward in the bottom lane was pushed back.

Chen Dongqing decisively teleported back to the bottom lane, cleared the wave of minions that had entered the tower, and then continued his northward advance.

Then, this cycle continues.

Time flew by, and with Sven farming the jungle in circles, twenty minutes had passed.

During this time, Chen Dongqing ignored the fact that the other nine people were fighting fiercely, leaving the entire situation to his teammates.

At this moment, in the upper half of the map, OG's offensive push continued.

The little sprite used its ultimate ability to carry the plane across the battlefield, directly to OG's rear, and launched a siege with its teammates. Relying on its numerical advantage, it successfully achieved a 3-for-1 trade!

At this point, the plane's score had reached 6-1-3!

"The next level player!"

"The next level player!"

At this moment, a voice wheel appeared on the screen, which was a classic phrase from a European commentator, used to praise a player named "Miracle Bro," saying that he was "the next level of player," expressing that Miracle Bro's strength was so great that he was no longer on the same level as other players.

The purpose of sending out this roulette wheel now is simply to mess with the opponent's mentality and praise one's own teammates.

In addition to the roulette wheel, there is an extra message.

"OG.N0tail has tipped QG.ilex. Great job!"

"OG.Ceb has tipped QG.ilex. Great job!"

Tipping is also a form of interaction between the two parties. In League of Legends terms, it can be roughly understood as tipping a player 50 Blue Essence.

These 50 blue essences are useless, as they won't affect the game, but the act of giving them as a reward is clearly sarcastic, since the ten people present and countless spectators can see it.

The game was only halfway through, but the OG players were already popping champagne, feeling that victory was within their grasp!

Offstage, countless viewers were inspired by OG, and their cheers were incredibly loud. Many couldn't help but marvel at how amazing Ana had become since switching to the carry position!

Two months ago, OG was able to defeat QG twice mainly because of Ana. With Ana leading the team, OG's pace was too fast. They usually built up a huge advantage before Ame could even farm, leaving Ame powerless to turn the tide even if he spent money.

However, because DOTA2 does not display the total number of last hits, and the broadcast did not show the real-time economy panel, what the OG players and the audience did not know was that in this game, Gyrocopter was not the farmiest player.

If you are watching the game on the client and you are currently viewing the economy panel, you will see that the plane's economy is only the second largest in the game.

And it's far behind!

At this point, Ana's plane's economy had reached 11200.

Achieving nearly 550+ gold per minute through fighting is actually a pretty good number, considering that it's only been 20 minutes and the carry's farming speed is just starting to pick up.

In a normal match, this plane with 11,000 gold would undoubtedly dominate the game.

The camera then cuts to QG's top jungle, where Sven kills the Black Dragon and the Giant Stone in front of him, and his gold is officially fixed at 14396.

Throughout this disadvantageous match, Sven consistently maintained the highest economy in the game, making him a beacon of hope for Chinese players.

As long as Sven remains number one, the lighthouse will continue to shine.

That game hasn't been lost yet!

Yesterday, someone in the book club called me a "broken chapter dog" (someone who only reads short chapters).

That doesn't make sense. Today I'll show you what a real short chapter looks like.

Haha, just kidding.

It's really not appropriate to end this chapter here, so I'll write a little more and release some of tomorrow's content in advance to finish this part of the story.

(But I have to maintain my daily update of 7,000 words, so I'll have to wait until 00:01 to post any extra chapters. Brothers, please let me know.)

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