League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 71 A Lamb Enters the Tiger's Den! (First Update, Please Subscribe!)

Seeing this arrogant build, the chat was buzzing with discussion.

[Top lane Graves starting with Cull?]

[This guy is seriously arrogant! What does he take Ma Datou for?]

[What makes a top laner who doesn't play a single game even qualify?]

[Don't be so harsh on him, this guy is really skilled with Graves, you probably didn't know that.]

Indeed, I've seen him play an S686 game on stream, and he got over twenty kills. This game should be similar.

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"Bro, your extraction build is way too overpowered, isn't it?" Uzi asked over the voice chat, "Is this even going to work?"

Chen Dongqing laughed and said, "Don't worry, didn't I pick Graves in practice matches?"

"Yes, you did choose it, but you got a Doran's Blade!"

"Because that wasn't against Rambo," Chen Dongqing said calmly. "Don't worry, it'll definitely work. Trust me."

Chen Dongqing was well aware of the matchup between Graves and Rumble; it was a pure 90/10 matchup.

What's Rumble's strongest point? His fire breath, which has no cost, allows him to push lanes and harass without any strategy. Just based on this, he can bully 90% of top laners.

Clearly, in terms of pushing lanes, Rumble has been completely outclassed by Graves.

When it comes to pushing lanes, no one in the entire league can compare to Graves.

Secondly, while Rumble's greatest strength lies in his attrition, Chen Dongqing also has countermeasures: the healing from extracted auto-attacks and the talent [Warlord's Bloodlust].

Coincidentally, both of these items received a buff in the official version of Season 6.

The attack power of Extract has been increased from 5 to 7, and the reward has also been increased from 300 to 350, in order to encourage players to make Extract as soon as they leave the game and walk the tightrope.

Secondly, the Warlord's Bloodlust has also undergone its first rework.

In Chen Dongqing's memory, this talent has undergone two reworks and three versions.

The first version provided lifesteal on critical hits and also increased attack speed, but this version was only active in the preseason.

Because the condition of only granting lifesteal on critical strikes is too demanding, it's basically only useful for Tryndamere and Yasuo in the early game. For other champions, taking it is simply making the laning phase a pointless exercise. It's incredibly stupid, resulting in an extremely low pick rate.

Riot Games eventually reworked this talent in the official version, and this is the second version after the rework.

The attack speed bonus is no longer provided, but lifesteal is available unconditionally without critical hits, and the lifesteal is stronger the lower the health, up to 20%. At the same time, the lifesteal effect against minions is halved, and the lifesteal effect against ranged heroes is halved again.

This version of Bloodlust has top-notch lane sustain, providing lifesteal throughout the entire lane. It's almost like having a half-life advantage in lane, and with the healing from Cull, it can completely withstand Rumble's poke.

What? You're saying Graves' E skill doesn't grant magic resistance, putting him at a disadvantage against AP champions?

Dude, this version of Graves' E skill grants both armor and magic resistance, and at level one, it adds ten points to both resistances, making it a game-changer against everyone!

In this way, Rumble's poke and wave clear abilities are sealed by Graves, making him essentially useless.

Neither side engaged in a level 1 team fight; instead, they positioned themselves to guard their respective jungle areas and minion waves spawned.

After temporarily guarding the jungle, Chen Dongqing followed the minions to the lane after the minion wave spawned. As soon as he entered the lane, he saw Marin, who had also followed the minions.

After the minion waves were exchanged, Huang Wen Rumble immediately activated his Q to push the lane!

This version of Rumble can learn Q at level 1 and stack temperature out of thin air. With this mechanism, he can reach the yellow temperature limit and start roasting people from level 1.

But Graves won't fall for that.

Chen Dongqing didn't hold back at all. After the minion waves were connected, Graves hit three melee minions with an auto-attack, and then hit all six minions with a Q, also managing to hit Rumble in the process.

To avoid the backfire damage, Marin had to move sideways out of the skill's range, but this resulted in a slight loss of damage from his Q skill.

The Q skill, Gunpowder Reversal, still damages all six minions simultaneously.

Marin gasped in shock, because with that Q rollback, his first wave of minions had already reached half health!

After he finished roasting the melee soldiers with a single Yellow Warm Q, he had only managed to reduce their health to half, and he hadn't even managed to touch the ranged soldiers!

Moreover, after he finishes using Q, his skills enter a cooldown period, while Graves' AOE auto-attacks are non-stop!

With such terrifying wave-clearing ability, Chen Dongqing quickly cleared the first wave of minions, and the wave began to push forward.

At this moment, the second wave of minions had just come online, and the minion wave was already stuck in front of LGD's tower.

Without wasting any time, Chen Dongqing used his Q skill again, and with the advantage of his team's minion numbers, quickly cleared the second wave of minions. At the cost of losing a little health, he pushed the minions directly into the turret.

Seeing this, Marin immediately felt immense pressure.

He had just used his Q to burn minions while pushing the lane with Graves, which resulted in the minions having around half health, allowing the tower to take them down one by one once they entered the lane.

How do I finish him off?!

The eight minions that entered the tower were quickly killed.

Marin managed to finish off four of them with great difficulty, and that was only thanks to his exceptional finishing skills.

By this point, Marin had already sensed that something was wrong with this laning phase.

This is much harder to fight than he imagined!

Meanwhile, Chen Dongqing was not idle either. After pushing the lane into the tower, he immediately went to the depths of the river to set up vision.

Actually, it's a bit too early to get eye surgery now.

But considering it's Eimy on the other end, I'll make one anyway.

If this person suddenly pulls a double-top gank, who can you complain to?

After the minion wave was quickly cleared by the turret, the third wave of siege minions reset in the mid lane.

Chen Dongqing stood behind the soldier, unleashing one basic attack after another.

The first reason is to push the lane, and the second is to heal.

Watching his health points rise steadily, Chen Dongqing felt a sense of comfort throughout his body.

The recovery effect of this [Warlord's Bloodlust] is much better than that of [Swift Steps], which was nerfed countless times in later generations!

In Season 13, Fleet Footwork restores 15 health when triggered at level 2. However, the most crucial point is that this effect only restores 20% health to minions, and it is halved for ranged heroes!

In other words, if Graves triggers Fleet Footwork on a minion at level two, he can recover as much as 1.5 HP!

Now, each of his basic attacks restores about 6 health points, 3 of which are from Extraction and the other 3 are from Bloodlust.

Every basic attack is equivalent to two Swift Steps!

That would be so awesome!

The third wave of cannon minions was quickly cleared by Graves, who, thanks to his double healing, had already fully restored his health.

On the other side, Rumble lost over a hundred health points, and he'll be facing another tower dive next!

This is practically like being in jail!

"Marin is having a really tough time!" Wawa exclaimed in surprise. "Graves is pushing the lane so fast, Marin can't even leave the turret!"

And that's not even the worst part.

The most impressive thing about Graves in online mode isn't just his wave clear, but also the turret torture he inflicts after pushing the wave!

Watching Rumble trying to finish off the siege minion, Chen Dongqing was extremely focused, watching as the siege minion's health was gradually reduced by the turret.

Just as the siege minion was low on health, Marin was about to finish it off.

"Lights out~"

A smoke grenade hit Rumble directly in the face, blocking his surrounding vision and forcing him to stop his basic attack that he had already raised!

Marin was immediately alarmed. He pressed E, trying to finish off the siege minion, but it was too late. The harpoon passed through the siege minion's corpse and hit a full-health ranged minion, reducing its health to two-thirds.

At this moment, the turret also locked onto the ranged soldier and killed him with another shot.

Not only are the artillerymen gone, but the ranged units are gone too.

Marin's blood pressure rose.

But it's not over yet.

Chen Dongqing pressed his advantage, taking advantage of Rumble being in front of the tower, he used a wall bounce Q followed by a basic attack, reducing Rumble's health by another 200.

I'm starving!

Marin suddenly felt suffocated by the dual trauma of mental and physical suffering.

How could this male gunner be so disgusting!

Jungler, come help me out!

If you push the lane too far, there's one thing you have to consider: preventing ganks. Now that the clock is three minutes, it's a sensitive period when you're easily ganked by the jungler.

Chen Dongqing didn't hold back and immediately started remotely controlling the jungler: "Liu Shiyu, hurry up and get ready to counter-gank, the enemy jungler is probably coming soon."

"Okay, okay, coming." Xiangguo nodded as well. "I was planning to rush to level 3 and come straight to the top lane to counter-gank. I know what I'm doing."

They knew from the start that the jungler's excavator started with red buff and farmed top.

Based on this information, Chen Dongqing dared to speak definitively this time: even if the opponent is a top jungler, he will definitely come to the top lane to give it a try.

For more than a minute, he had been pushing the river lane, and he really didn't believe that the jungler wouldn't come!

Meanwhile, on the other side, Eimy's excavator had just finished eating the swamp frog, and he switched screens to take a look at the situation on the top and mid lanes.

The jungler had his own unique understanding, and he thought about it for a moment.

Although he had a terrible time in the top lane, he felt that he wouldn't gain anything by going to the top lane, because Graves is very mobile and Rumble has no crowd control, so there's no point in ganking top.

He decided to recall to base and then head straight to the bottom lane to surprise the enemy.

This route is incredibly unpredictable; no one could possibly anticipate it, and it will definitely catch the opponent off guard!

But just then, Marin saw that his jungler was recalling, and he immediately panicked. He quickly pinged twice and then said in Korean, "Annyeong, you need to come to top lane this time. Even if you can't kill him, at least help me reduce Graves' health!"

"Huh?" Eimy couldn't understand Korean, but he still canceled his return to the city, worried that something might go wrong.

In the bottom lane, Imp was simultaneously laning and translating, turning Marin's words into Chinese.

But in that moment of distraction, he was caught off guard by Uzi.

hiss.

imp's blood pressure also rose, and he immediately focused on the laning phase.

After hearing imp's translation, Eimy had no choice but to obediently continue on his journey.

The top laner is the team's leader, so he has to listen to him.

However, LGD's top laner and jungler were unaware that Xiangguo's Elise had only cleared three jungle camps (Blue, Gromp, and Red) at the start of the game, and after reaching level three, she immediately camped in the top lane bush.

The excavator's action of grabbing the object was undoubtedly like throwing a lamb to the wolves!

(End of this chapter)