League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 72 Thanks to the Stain

Eimy, the jungler, quickly arrived at the top lane using his excavator.

He watched as Graves quickly pushed the fourth wave of minions into the tower and prepared to harass the enemy under the tower, and he felt that this was indeed an opportunity.

He first ran to the enemy's tri-bush and placed a ward to ensure that the Spider wouldn't come to counter-gank, and then the Excavator rushed towards Graves!

"Go! Go! Go!"

Marin's Chinese wasn't good, but he could understand what the sentence meant, so Rambo immediately accelerated and charged forward!

"The excavator is coming to the top lane! LGD's top and jungle are trying to gank Graves!"

Guan Daxiao's words were now inevitably tinged with excitement, his voice rising considerably, "But! The Spider was counter-ganking! QG predicted this move!"

As the two LGD players got closer and closer to the trap, the LGD fans in the audience went almost crazy, shouting wildly, but to no avail!

Eimy, the jungler, felt it was about time, so he started to crawl behind Graves. As soon as he crawled through, Graves threw a smoke grenade, depriving the excavator of all vision!

But the jungler was not alarmed.

Because he knew perfectly well that Graves' E skill's displacement distance was absolutely no match for him!

No one's coming to your rescue this time!

Wait to die!

Just then, a ball of scalding liquid shot in from outside the smoke grenade and landed precisely on his face.

kindness?

Eimy knew that Graves couldn't produce this white liquid, at least not in the game.

In that case...

It's a spider!?

The spider was already camping in the bush so early!?

Immediately afterward, Graves's "Desperate Strike" slid across his body, and then he saw a ferocious spider bite him!

The level 3 burst damage from Spider and Graves is more than enough to instantly kill a level 3 Excavator.

"You take it, you take it." Xiangguo immediately gave up the kill, "I'm still going to build tanky this time."

In this version, Elise can build Cinderhulk jungle item for utility, and many people play her this way. After all, the champion's stats are what they are, so even if she builds tank items, she still deals damage.

Of course, this is actually a helpless move due to the limitations of the lineup. All three lanes are core in this game. If he still plays damage dealer, then the fight for resources will break out.

"Okay." Chen Dongqing nodded, and the male gunner quickly used AEA to take down the excavator, earning 400 points.

"First blood!"

Because the excavator was killed inside the smoke grenade, Eimy only gained vision outside the smoke grenade after he was killed.

At this point, we can see that Marin's Rumble has returned to the tower and started farming minions under the tower, showing no intention of saving him.

Although this approach was correct, Eimy still felt hurt.

"Should we take down this Rambo too?" Xiangguo wasn't satisfied after killing people; he was still thinking about what was in the pot.

But Chen Dongqing shook his head: "I can't tower dive. I only have one Q's worth of mana left, and it's a bit stupid for Graves to tower dive. I'm afraid something might go wrong."

Xiangguo said with some regret, "Alright then, I'll head back."

Mana is the only weakness of Graves in a solo lane. If he keeps using Q to push the lane, he will run out of mana very quickly. Moreover, in this game, he also tried to harass the enemy and used an extra set of skills to kill Rek'Sai, so his mana dropped even faster.

If we can get a blue buff, that will be the final blow.

Unfortunately, I can't take it.

Chen Dongqing deliberately held onto his skill for a while, and only used his only Q skill after the sixth wave of siege minions spawned, quickly pushing the sixth wave into the tower. Then he quickly recalled to base in the bush.

With six waves of minions and the first blood, Chen Dongqing had a huge amount of gold in his hands. He recalled to base and immediately built a small wooden hammer, then bought a reusable potion and a true sight ward.

In the current version, jungle Graves players typically build Phantom Dancer and Death's Dance after acquiring the jungle item.

This dual-dance build provides Graves with up to 24% pseudo-damage reduction, along with attack damage, attack speed, critical strike chance, lifesteal, and movement speed—basically, everything Graves needs.

However, Graves in lane doesn't have a high-value jungle item like the jungle knife, and he can't rush Phantom Dancer either, as a Graves rushing Phantom Dancer is too stupid. So he needs to find a substitute for Warrior jungle knife to increase his attack damage first.

Without hesitation, Chen Dongqing immediately thought of a piece of equipment.

Black Cutter.

The difference between this version of Black Cleaver and the S13 version isn't significant; both are based on attack damage stacking with percentage armor penetration.

Graves has an additional advantage when building Black Cleaver: one of his basic attacks consists of four projectiles. If all four projectiles hit, he can stack four Black Cleaver stacks with a single basic attack.

Moreover, the Black Cleaver's cooldown reduction, attack damage, and health are the attributes that Graves needs most, making this item very cost-effective—a high-end version of the Warrior jungle item.

The only downside is that the individual pieces are a bit clunky before you can build the Black Cleaver.

But that's not a problem. Top lane Graves doesn't need to stack damage to get kills. Before getting Cull and Explosive, it's a safe farming period. So what if he's a bit clumsy? As long as he still has the advantage in lane, that's fine.

After logging back in, Chen Dongqing became even more arrogant. He placed a true sight ward in the river and then began to relentlessly pressure his opponent.

FMVP was furious at the sight of this guy in front of him who was disgusting him so much, but there was nothing he could do. After all, Graves' skill mechanics were what they were, and he couldn't push him away or fight him.

As wave after wave of minions pushed into the tower, the CS difference between the two top laners widened.

On the other side, the jungler, who was down 0-1, did not give up. He once again began to show his unique ability to make funny faces.

Just a second ago, Xiangguo was speculating based on the jungle route that the Excavator might be attacking the newly spawned blue buff.

The next second, the excavator appeared in the bottom lane and used a burrow followed by a flash to knock Uzi into the air!

Uzi: ?

Fortunately, LGD's bot lane support was Janna, whose ability to lock down enemies was average. Uzi used Flash and Heal, and managed to escape back to the tower with low health.

Xiangguo was also a bit dumbfounded. He said, "I really can't do anything about this. I did see him walk up after clearing the F4 camp, and he was definitely about to farm the blue buff. I didn't expect him to be in the bottom lane."

"It's alright, it's alright, as long as no one dies." Chen Dongqing was also cheerful at this moment. After pushing the lane, he rushed into LGD's top jungle and took the jungler's blue buff with tears in his eyes.

Who says you can't take it?

Now we have it!

Thank you, stain.

This blue buff not only made Chen Dongqing feel comfortable, but it also indirectly changed the laning balance in the mid lane.

Doinb had the blue buff, while GodV didn't. With this one move, Doinb immediately gained control of the mid lane.

Therefore, at the 8-minute mark, the mid-jungle synergy from QG finally kicked in.

Seeing that Doinb wanted to farm jungle camps after pushing the lane, Xiangguo quickly called Doinb over in voice chat, and the three of them headed straight for the top lane to tower dive.

Ma Datou is very experienced. Seeing that he was about to be tower dived, he used his ultimate skill to clear a wave of minions that were about to enter the tower. However, QG had a Spider on their side.

"Come on, I'll tank it, this wave is easy!" There were no minions, but Xiangguo wasn't worried at all. He directly controlled the Spider to enter the tower, and the three of them rushed in and killed Rumble. Doinb got the kill.

Immediately afterwards, Xiangguo was low on health and ascended to the sky. Doinb, who was closer to the tower, took the opportunity to switch tanks. Xiangguo landed, and the three of them went out of the tower together, completing a perfect tower dive.

"After this, Ilex and his teammates can actually take down the top lane turret together!"

Looking at the screen, the commentator said, "But QG didn't push the tower. They probably wanted Graves to continue laning in the top lane for a while, since he still has over twenty stacks of Cull to complete!"

"But no matter what, Graves has completely snowballed the top lane situation!"

(End of this chapter)