League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 89 You will lose!

After the lineup is determined, the game enters the loading screen.

Looking at QG's solid lineup, Clearlove frowned, pondering where the opponent's breakthrough point might be.

As a professional player, he definitely sees things much more clearly than the two commentators on stage.

The opposing team's lineup is a perfect counter to them.

One Vayne turned their three-frontline composition of Maokai, Sejuani, and Braum into a joke.

Moreover, with VN equipped with Purify, it's difficult for them to initiate the fight first.

On the other side, the top laner Malphite is able to maintain a deadly threat to Kog'Maw, who has no mobility.

With their strengths and weaknesses diminishing, their early game is extremely difficult to win against.

"Should we switch lanes this game?" the factory manager asked in the voice chat.

"Let's not trade," Meiko said. "We're not at a disadvantage laning against Vayne and Alistar, but if they want to trade, let them. It's fine with us."

"Either is fine," the factory manager nodded. "Then let's position ourselves normally and defend the jungle."

"Okay, now we can see that Uzi from the red side has switched to the top lane, and EDG seems to have realized this but did not stop him. It seems that this game will be a lane swap game."

Lane swaps are quite common in this version. It's basically about sacrificing the top lane in the early game to allow the bottom lane to get ahead in farming. Then, after the bottom lane takes down the first tower, they continue to push the lane, while the top lane takes the opportunity to catch up in farming.

Of course, there are variations of the lane-swapping tactic. For example, SKT in S5 would usually swap Marin back to his lane before taking down the first tower, then solo the tower to help Marin catch up in gold.

The reason for playing like this is because the top lane meta in the S5 World Championship was dominated by Fiora and Rumble. These top laners need to farm gold, so they need to farm tower gold solo.

In this game, the top laner Maokai and Malphite are both champions who don't rely heavily on gold, so there's no need to do that.

Chen Dongqing was already standing with Xiangguo in the lower jungle, switching screens everywhere to see what was happening. After spawning in the jungle, he followed Xiangguo all the way up to gain experience and score. Then, when the third wave of minions pushed into the tower in the top lane, Chen Dongqing went to the top lane alone.

Liu Qingsong retreated on his own initiative, and Chen Dongqing and Uzi split the turret bounty equally.

At the same time, EDG's bottom lane also saw the same activity, with A Guang appearing in the bottom lane and taking down the bottom lane tower along with Deft.

Immediately afterwards, both sides recalled to base in the bottom lane. At this point, they had to perform another lane swap and push down the first tower on the other lane.

The top laners on both sides stayed in place, farmed the lane, pushed the minion wave forward, and then immediately recalled to base to continue sharing experience with the jungler before heading to the other lane to split the tower.

The lane swap version obviously doesn't mean much to the top laners on both sides; Chen Dongqing is just mechanically following the path he's supposed to take.

But that's how this game was supposed to go.

Even if the top laners on both sides are laning normally, like Malphite versus Maokai, it's still a boring matchup. This lane matchup is absolutely impossible to produce a solo kill.

The key is to watch the mid-game team fights.

While Chen Dongqing was still playing in lane, EDG made a move.

The factory manager and Tong Yang were clearly not satisfied with just continuing on this comfortable path; their daughter, Pig Sister, and Ueno, with their exceptional ability to catch people, were formidable.

After clearing their own jungle area, the two headed straight for the mid lane.

This game still emphasizes getting the mid laner!

Cherish is still too inexperienced. Although he diligently bought control wards and placed them in the bushes on both sides of the mid lane, his wards had already been clearly spotted by pawn.

After knowing the exact location of the ward, the factory manager relied on his rich experience to bypass the mid-lane vision and quietly moved to Cherish Ahri's side.

Immediately following was the Tree of Tree's Flash-Binding combo followed by Sejuani's charge!

Then Crystal Maiden used her E to stomp on Ahri, and the three of them executed a perfect combo, easily taking down Ahri.

The first blood was born.

Chen Dongqing, who was still gaining experience in the wilderness, was amazed by this scene.

This is really going too far, targeting a rookie mid laner like this!

This kind of gank doesn't have much impact because Ahri has Teleport, so she can Teleport directly to lane without losing the tower. It's just giving away 550 gold, a small loss.

Chen Dongqing continued to use his experience points, and then went to the bottom lane to share the tower gold. His development in this game was still steadily improving.

After both outer turrets were destroyed, the top laners on both sides resumed their normal laning phase.

However, because Chen Dongqing had taken more gold from one tower and more minions, he was slightly ahead in both experience and gold.

A little over seven minutes later, the Stone Golem finally reached level six.

Chen Dongqing didn't have much to say. After pushing the lane across the river, he immediately recalled to base and headed straight for the bottom lane!

There's no tower on the side lanes right now, so he has plenty of time to roam!

Upon arriving at the bottom lane, Liu Qingsong immediately reminded everyone, "There's vision in the river."

"It's nothing!" Chen Dongqing said boldly. His Stone Golem fixed its gaze on Kog'Maw and flashed to use its ultimate ability to charge at him!

This really startled Deft, but a professional player can easily dodge a Malphite ultimate with Flash, so he immediately Flashed away!

Seeing that the bottom lane was under heavy attack, General Pawn had no choice but to decisively teleport to the bottom lane.

Seeing the TP light up, Chen Dongqing immediately shouted, "Slippery!"

He quickly used Q on the Braum next to him, gaining a speed boost, and then made a quick getaway.

This retreat decision was quite decisive. Pawn's Crystal Maiden teleported down and only saw the taillights of the QG team.

With a Flash + R combo, Kog'Maw's Flash and Lissandra's Teleport were swapped.

Blood earned!

After returning to the city, Chen Dongqing headed to the top lane and said, "Brothers, wait for my next ultimate."

QG's strategy is simple: if the Malphite has his ultimate, they fight; if not, they turt.

Two minutes later, Chen Dongqing quickly came back for a comeback.

His target is clearly still Deft.

Mr. Dai was still laning fiercely with Uzi in the bottom lane. Neither of the two late-game AD carries, Kog'Maw and Vayne, had much of an advantage. The two even had the same number of CS.

Clearly, the appearance of this stone man disrupted this balance.

Xiangguo placed a ward in EDG's bottom jungle with his green jungle item, and then Malphite immediately teleported there, instantly appearing in a flanking position.

Seeing the stone golem arrive, Liu Qingsong immediately used Flash to unleash a double hammer strike!

Next up is the Stone Golem's "Unstoppable Force"!

Meanwhile, on the other side, the factory manager's Sejuani appeared on the flank and used her ultimate to imprison both Malphite and Alistar!

The factory manager anticipated QG's gank in the bottom lane and cleverly came to counter-gank there in advance, but it had no effect at all!

Kog'Maw, who had been knocked away by the Stone Golem, was now down to half health. Although Braum immediately stepped forward to set up a security door, Uzi had already activated his ultimate and closed in, using his E to knock up Braum and finishing off Kog'Maw with his three-hit combo!

"Come on, come on, we can still kill!" Xiangguo immediately responded, Gragas used E to catch the Braum that Vayne was charging at, and then used WQ to finish him off.

Braum had just used his W, and now he clearly had nowhere to escape, and was ultimately taken down by Vayne!

Upon seeing this, the factory manager who came to provide support turned and ran.

"Double kill!"

"The puppy got two kills this time! They're starting to take off! And they even managed to take down the dragon, so comfortable!"

From the commentary booth, Wawa shouted, "Tree's two ganks, one with a flash and one with a kill, were incredibly nice!"

At this point, the damage suffered by the EDG players went far beyond that.

Chen Dongqing's stone golem was standing in front of their tower, frantically pressing Ctrl+2.

Clever Murphy began flexing his muscles, striking a robust pose, while repeatedly saying:

"You will lose!"

The Stone Man's honest voice kept ringing in the ears of the EDG players, annoying them to no end.

Frustrated by having been hit twice by the rock golem, Deft pressed ESC and turned the game volume up to the maximum, deciding to ignore it all!

Thank you Nan Nianjun for the 100 Qidian Coins reward.

(End of this chapter)