League: Educating LPL is my duty.

Upon entering the game, both sides lined up in a row on either side of the river.

The captain and the tree probed each other at the mouth of the upper river. The captain took two steps forward, and the tree retreated. When the captain retreated, the tree turned around and chased after him.

Li Chen knew that 957 wanted to use his Q skill on him, so he simply didn't bother to fight back and turned to walk to the lane, then went into the mid bush.

957 originally planned to rob Yicao, but after thinking about it, he felt it was unnecessary, because as long as the captain came in to put down the bucket, Yicao would still have to give it up.

So, just before the minion wave was about to reach the lane, Li Chen walked into one of the blue team's bushes. However, the interesting thing was that he didn't put any barrels in either of the bushes. It was purely a psychological game; he was betting that the big tree would dare to try.

With the two lanes of troops intersecting, Li Chen placed the first barrel between the blue team's ranged and melee troops, close to the river, so that the explosion blast radius did not cover the ranged troops.

This makes it difficult for Maokai, who plans to take down all the melee minions with a single Q from the side, to succeed. Unless he gets into the barrel's blast radius, his Q skill will only hit two minions at most.

"Is this guy really that outrageous? He even has to haggle over a bucket."

957 muttered to himself for a moment, and finally chose the safest option: he would stand in the back and let his son bomb the soldiers.

Seeing that the big tree didn't seem to be trying to take the lane, Li Chen quickly placed a dynamite barrel behind his own melee minions, connecting it to the first barrel.

He did this to prevent himself from attracting the aggro of the blue team's ranged units after his own melee units died, because that would have scattered the blue team's ranged units and quickly formed a wave of forward pushes.

In this game, he doesn't plan to push the lane too quickly, as that wouldn't benefit him at all. If the Captain doesn't get the Fire Blade early on, the damage is simply not enough for Maokai, and he won't be able to out-harass the opponent in front of the tower.

The two cleared out the melee minions, and Li Chen placed barrels among the ranged minions. Then he began to push forward. The Tree of Souls hadn't leveled up his Q skill at level one, so he couldn't trade blows with the Captain and simply ran away.

Soon the second wave of minions arrived, and by this time the melee minions on both sides were already low on health. At this point, Treant Protector would face a problem.

If you walk up to A minions, you'll definitely get chased down and hit by at least two Fire Blades from the Captain. If you use the Tree of Life to clear minions, you'll also hit the newly spawned minions, and then gradually establish a pushing rhythm.

957 hesitated for a moment, then decided to squat in the grass and quietly gather experience. He figured he could just ignore the soldiers.

"You beat me, bro."

Seeing how decisively 957 abandoned the minions, Li Chen couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. The opponent was really planning to play a fasting strategy with Treant Protector.

The captain finished off the minions with three basic attacks, and a push into the tower was inevitable.

However, Li Chen didn't let the tree get away with it either. Since it wasn't going to eat minions, it wasn't going to eat experience either. After getting to level two, it scouted ahead with the barrels, then squeezed its body into the bushes, directly driving the tree out of the experience zone.

Here, as long as the level 1 minion of the tree is prevented from leveling up to level 2, even if it takes damage from minions, the tree will not be able to out-trade the minions.

957 controlled the tree, crouching under the tower, watching the red team's minions being constantly worn down, but showed no anxiety.

Since we've already been thrashed twice in front of everyone, what's one more game?

It's just a matter of losing some economic experience, what's the big deal!

Just bear with it!

Although Condi's task in this game was to protect the mid and bot lanes, he still cleared the jungle from bottom to top at the start of the game because he was afraid that the top laner Gangplank would come to the jungle with Lee Sin at level three to check on him.

However, even if he farms high, he won't gank top lane. He already learned his lesson in the last game, and since he doesn't plan to win this game anyway, there's no need to take the risk.

So the tree sat under the tower for almost two minutes, and by the time the top lane minions reached the tower, the fourth wave of minions had already accumulated.

During this period, the red team's minions missed out on at least one and a half waves of experience for the Tree of Life, but this had little impact on the Tree of Life and was still within acceptable limits.

With a powerful damage reduction ultimate, even if you're two levels behind and have an extra item, Maokai can still disrupt team fights and become a nuisance. That's the charm of the three legendary heroes.

If it were the new Maokai who gets reworked next month, with his ultimate ability changed to vine control, playing him like that would be tantamount to losing the lane.

Although the captain couldn't whittle down the Maokai under the tower, it wasn't realistic to expect Li Chen to just watch the Maokai farm minions without doing anything. So, he started putting pressure on the Maokai under the tower.

Place a bucket in front of the tower, then stand at the edge of the defensive tower to monitor the tree's every move.

Once the artillerymen and melee soldiers are eliminated, 957's tower attack test will officially begin.

He cautiously took a few steps forward, shuffling along the edge of the barrel, but unfortunately, Li Chen had a firm grasp on which ranged minion the defensive tower would attack first, giving the tree no chance at all.

There was no other way but to keep moving forward despite the pressure.

The two sides moved into basic attack range. The captain raised his hand and unleashed a fire blade attack, then quickly retreated after receiving a verbal warning from the turret.

957's Q skill wasn't ready yet, and he was busy farming minions. Plus, he knew that auto-attacking the captain wouldn't do much good, so he simply didn't retaliate.

The moment the captain leaves the tower, he turns around and places a barrel at the foot of the tree. He then uses his Q skill to hit the tree, and then auto-attacks to destroy the barrel in front of the tower, also detonating the one at the foot of the tree.

One shot, one barrel, one fire blade – this standard health-trading strategy under the tower is very effective against cumbersome heroes like Maokai.

Finally, under the captain's pressure, after four waves of minions cleared the tree, there were only eleven minions left, and the level just reached level three.

In less than four minutes after logging in, the Tree had already missed fourteen minions and was also a full level behind the Captain in level and experience. In terms of gold, that's a difference of nearly a thousand gold.

After clearing this wave of minions, the next wave will be a pushback. The Maokai can only farm the minions near his own turret. Once the minion wave crosses the river, he will be unable to gain any experience.

The solution for 957 is simple: trade blows with the captain, then go back to base to replenish equipment and status, choosing to minimize the loss rather than inflict a greater loss.

After about five minutes of peaceful development on both sides, the camera panned from the top lane to the middle lane.

Miller said, "Neither side in the top lane has any intention of killing. C is just playing around with the minion wave and farming. But isn't there going to be an opportunity in the mid lane? After both supports went back to base, they both ran to the mid lane at the same time."

"The jungler is here too. Scout is playing very aggressively here, his positioning is very aggressive. He's trying to lure Condi over to gank him. But WE probably realized that, so they called their support over as well. But EDG's support is here too. Everyone is calling for reinforcements."

Guan Zeyuan checked the time and said, "WE needs to act quickly if they want to fight, otherwise the top laner's captain will reach level six and be able to use his ultimate."