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Chapter 155 Taking a Gamble

Guan Zeyuan, observing the troop movements on both sides, said, "It seems G2 is going to gank the bottom lane again, and it'll be a five-man gank. However, EDG doesn't seem willing to give up the bottom lane tower easily; Gragas and Morgana are also there."

"That's normal. I don't think there's anything wrong with EDG's decision in this round. If G2 wants to tower dive, they have to bring Shen with them, then there will be no one to defend the top lane. If EDG can help C-God take the first tower at a small cost, then they will have made a huge profit."

Rita nodded: "This is also an advantage of EDG's lineup. They picked Nasus, who will be very strong if he gets farmed up in the top lane. So G2 will have to take this risk if they gank bot lane and figure out how to deal with Nasus's unstoppable farm."

[Actually, I feel G2 isn't wrong either. The top lane Nasus is impossible to gank now, so it's better to target Ezreal instead.]

Is EZ's farm still important in this game? How will you deal with Morgana and Nasus in the mid-game?

[G2's draft was pretty good, but they were caught off guard by C's Nasus pick.]

No matter which team plays against EDG, their top lane always collapses. Helping top and bot lanes is problematic; nothing they do seems to work.

While the chat was buzzing with excitement, the G2 members were already ready.

Ivern circled around from the tri-bush to the lane, and Perkz controlled Ryze, standing behind the dragon pit and activating his ultimate, preparing to take Shen down behind the bottom lane's first tower.

Z-Emperor and Meiko knew they were surrounded, but the factory manager wouldn't let them run and ordered them to hold the first tower, so they had no choice but to stay put.

Everything must serve the top laner's development; this is EDG's unspoken rule.

Braum, carrying a door panel, stood in front and forcibly pushed the bottom lane minion wave under the tower. The blue teleportation circle behind him lit up, and Shen, who had just respawned, activated his ultimate at home.

G2 came here with a do-or-die mentality.

If the five-man gank on the second lane succeeds, then taking down the bottom lane tower and the dragon will bring the game back to a balanced state, allowing it to drag on.

But if this attempt fails, and you don't get what you want, or even suffer a loss, then you can basically just wait and see.

Li Chen was still pushing the lane in the top lane. Nasus wasn't pushing the lane fast either. He had just finished clearing the minion wave and hadn't pushed it under the tower yet. The situation in the bottom lane would determine who would get the first tower.

G2's players took their positions first, with Braum leading the way, flashing into the tower to auto-attack and apply his passive to Ezreal. Ivern and Ashe immediately followed up with damage.

Ryze, accompanied by Shen, flanked from behind. Meiko knew he couldn't protect Ezreal alone, so he chose to give control to Braum, hoping to trade one for another.

Faced with the combined fire of five people, EZ's small body couldn't withstand the damage at all. In order to buy time, Z first used E to reach the bottom lane wall, and then used Flash a second before being controlled to run over the wall into the jungle.

However, Perkz reacted quickly, immediately following up with Flash and W to stun the enemy, then unleashed a combo to secure the kill.

Braum, who was taking damage under the tower, was controlled. Although his W skill and Ice Heal helped him speed up and escape, he still had less than 200 health left when he ran out of the tower.

Gragas and Morgana arrived late, but they still made it in time.

The two circled around from the tri-bush to the side. Gragas first used his E to stun Ivern, and then used his ultimate to try to blast Braum and Ashe under the tower.

At this point, there weren't many minions left under the red team's tower. If the enemy team got hit by Gragas' ultimate, they would be wiped out completely. If they went under the tower, they would likely be attacked by the tower. So Ashe didn't dare to take the ultimate and chose to use Flash to dodge it.

However, Braum had no mobility skills left, so he could only watch helplessly as he was blasted under the tower. Although he wasn't killed instantly by the ultimate, he was left with only a sliver of health and was eventually finished off by a single auto-attack from Nautilus.

Perkz was close to the barrel and was thinking of focusing fire on it with Ivern, but Scout was right behind the barrel.

He first gave Gragas a shield that made him immune to crowd control, then used his Q skill to stun Ryze, and then used his ultimate to pull Ivern and Ryze together, trying to run under the tower and group up.

At this moment, Shen, who had been watching the show for a while, finally made his move.

He ran straight towards us from under the tower, using his E skill to pass through Gragas and Morgana. Although he failed to control Gragas, who had crowd control immunity, he left Scout in place.

Ashe immediately switched her target, dealing damage to Morgana.

On the European commentary booth, the commentators all stood up, staring intently at the screen: "Morgana has been caught. Can we kill her? But Morgana still has Flash. We can't let her second ultimate take effect."

"Ah, Morgana used Flash and didn't control the follow-up. He flashed under the tower. Should we dive again? Can we catch Gragas and the others together? If we kill Gragas too, this attack will be perfect."

G2's roster flaws are beginning to surface.

Although they have no shortage of crowd control, they are clearly lacking in sustained damage output. After killing EZ, their damage skills couldn't even kill Morgana, a squishy champion.

Using his ultimate ability to speed up and Flash, Scout, with low health, ran to the tower and then recalled on the spot.

Perkz quickly glanced at the situation in the top lane and saw that Li Chen had already knocked down the top lane tower to low health, so he immediately stopped worrying about anything else.

"Don't go, don't go, cross over one more time, and leave all three of them behind."

"OK, OK, I'll go first and carry the tower." Shen was still at full strength and took the lead.

Although Gragas, Nautilus, and Morgana were all low on health at this point, with the highest being just over half health, G2 didn't have any minions to help them, so this was a tower dive purely by their own bodies.

Li Chen listened to the constant notifications coming from the bottom lane, but remained oblivious to everything around him, tapping the turret with his cane one after another.

Nearly ten seconds later, the 4v5 situation in the bottom lane finally came to an end.

G2 traded four EDG players for Braum, Shen, and Ivern.

However, judging from the reactions of both sides, EDG was clearly more satisfied with the exchange.

The factory manager grinned and said, "EZ is almost online. Without minions, G2 can't push down the bottom lane tower, and they don't have time to defend the top lane either. This is a huge win for them."

Li Chen failed to push down the top tower with his first wave of minions, and is now leading the second wave of minions into the tower.

He calculated his finances and felt that with a little help from the factory manager, he should be able to get three items plus shoes and cloth armor in ten minutes.

So he said, "Clearlove, help me clear some jungle monsters later. Morgana will come to top lane in ten minutes, Ezreal will switch to mid lane, and I'll go to bot lane to push the first tower. If the enemy bot lane doesn't go to mid lane, Clearlove and Meiko will come together to help me dive the tower."

"Understood, coming right away."

Upon hearing this arrangement, Meiko immediately knew what to do. So, after respawning, she ran straight to the top half of the map to set up vision in G2's top jungle and help her teammate counter-jungle.

At this point, G2's team voice chat had become somewhat silent.

After paying such a high price, all they got was one more kill, and none of their strategic objectives were achieved. G2 is definitely not satisfied with this result.

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