League: Educating LPL is my duty.

When the female police officer and the Japanese woman's portraits appeared alternately on the first and second floors of G2, anyone familiar with the current version was completely bewildered.

After all, in the current version, Leona is not really a strong support, especially when paired with Caitlyn, who has an early-game tower-pushing rhythm. It's really difficult for these two heroes to get the early tower-pushing rhythm going.

Even Li Chen is a bit confused right now. After all, the most outstanding performance of the Leona this year will not be seen until the World Championship in half a year. Someone used Fervor of Battle Leona to humiliate the version's answer, Ardent Censer.

So, what does it mean that G2 released Jayce and then picked the Caitlyn and Leona bot lane duo? Are they fast-forwarding to Worlds and waiting for them to use Ardent Censer?

Unable to understand G2's strategy, EDG could only react to their moves, bringing out a double-glacial combination of Ashe and Braum to stabilize the situation first.

"Pick LeBlanc, Perkz. Your role is very important in this game. Zven and the others will try their best to suppress god_C's development in the early game, but you need to take over the laning role against him in the mid-game and not let him have a chance to develop safely."

Youngbuck has high hopes for Perkz, as this is their only chance to win the game.

Perkz nodded and said, "Don't worry, coach, I will definitely suppress him. He targeted me so much in the last game, now it's my turn to get revenge."

After locking in LeBlanc, it was G2's second round of bans. Gragas, Clearlove's favorite jungler, was banned by the opponent for the first time.

However, EDG is not in the mood to deal with the jungler right now. Nofe is still thinking about which champion G2 wants to use to counter Li Chen's Jayce, but he still can't find the key point after thinking about it.

"C-God, what should we do now? Should we continue targeting the enemy jungler?"

In response to nofe's question, Li Chen pondered for a moment and then said, "Continue to target them, ban both Elise and Kha'Zix, and let Clearlove play Nunu to supplement AP damage this game."

After saying that, Li Chen looked at Scout and said, "Nacan, you might have to sacrifice some of your farm this game. Just play Karma; this champion doesn't need much gold."

"clear!"

Once in the game, Li Chen's words were law, and Scout knew he only needed to follow orders.

As both sides took turns banning champions, the two teams actually banned four junglers in the second round. Combined with the bans in the first round, the currently popular champions Ivern, Graves, Elise, Kha'Zix, Gragas, and Sejuani were all banned.

There weren't many junglers left for either side, and G2 had almost no other choice but to take out the last strong jungler, Lee Sin.

Next up was EDG. After a slight pause, Nunu's icon was locked first, followed by Karma.

Nunu jungle is fine, but G2 really didn't expect Karma mid.

"Kalma? Did they guess we might use her, or is it just a coincidence that they also want to use her?" Perkz suddenly became a little worried.

"It shouldn't be that bad. Who would have thought we'd be playing a lane swap game in this patch? Let's just pick Malphite. No matter what happens in the late game, he'll still have an ultimate, unlike Jayce who's completely useless."

With the final hero locked in, G2's tactical strategy for this BO5 has been fully formed.

Their goal is to use lane swapping, a tactic that has become obsolete, to unexpectedly suppress god_C's early game development.

Then, in the mid-game, LeBlanc, a flexible champion with the ability to burst down single targets, will split push against Jayce to continue suppressing his development.

As a champion who is strong in the early game and needs an economic advantage, Jayce's effectiveness is almost zero if he collapses in the early game. This is why they deliberately let Jayce out.

Furthermore, their top lane picks, such as Malphite or Karma, are champions that don't require much gold, providing a safety net regardless of the game's outcome.

Although this strategy might cause them to lose the bottom lane tower and the dragon, none of that matters anymore. Only by completely suppressing Li Chen can they have a chance to win the game.

After the heroes from both sides were exchanged, the coaches from both teams came to the center of the stage and shook hands.

Entering the loading screen:

Blue team EDG:

Top Lane - Jayce

Jungler - Nunu

Mid laner - Karma

ad——ice

Support - Braum

Red team G2:

Top Lane - Malphite

Jungler - Lee Sin

Mid lane - LeBlanc

ad——Female Police Officer

Support - Leona

At the start of the game, both teams positioned themselves near the river as usual, and G2 even took two steps forward to deliberately face EDG.

Li Chen controlled Jayce to wander around the entrance to the upper river jungle for a couple of steps, then his figure slowly retreated into the mist.

"Scout, you're going top lane this game!" Only now did Li Chen reveal his true purpose in having Scout choose Karma.

Although Scout didn't understand what kind of playstyle this was, he still obeyed the order and headed towards the top lane.

The factory manager asked, somewhat puzzled, "What do you mean? Even LeBlanc isn't easier to beat than Malphite!"

"If you compare yourself to a female police officer or a Japanese woman, wouldn't it be much easier to fight them?" Li Chen asked rhetorically.

Upon hearing this, the factory manager suddenly realized what was happening and exclaimed in shock, "You mean G2 is going to swap lanes this game? How dare they? Once their top lane ironclad defenses are breached, their bottom lane tower will be gone!"

"We'll see in a bit, it's highly likely they've switched lines!" Li Chen said calmly and confidently.

He suspected from the beginning that G2 might be thinking of swapping lanes, but he wasn't too sure, since nobody was playing lane swapping in this patch.

But just now, after the stone golem made a fleeting appearance in the top lane tri-bush, it immediately disappeared, and the two bot laners also disappeared from the river at the same time. There is no explanation other than a lane swap.

Meanwhile, in the LPL live stream, several commentators were also stunned.

"What does G2 mean by this? The top lane Malphite and the bot lane duo appeared in the river and then suddenly retreated, starting to run towards the mid lane. Is this a lane swap? Is this the tactic they came up with?"

Guan Zeyuan was shocked. This was a style of play that had long been a thing of the past. He never expected it to be repeated in the game today.

Miller said with some concern, "This is going to be difficult. G2's top laner is Malphite. If they switch lanes, they can just stop farming and he'll have his ultimate in the late game. But Jayce can't accept switching lanes!"

"I can only say that G2 planned it all out. They had planned from the beginning to let C pick Jayce, a champion that needs gold, and then they would pick Malphite to switch lanes and use the method of taking down a tower to suppress C's development."

Guan Zeyuan belatedly realized what was happening and was just about to make an excuse for Li Chen when he witnessed an even more astonishing scene.

Without any vision control, Jayce suddenly switched lanes with Karma, a move that completely changed the course of the game.