League: Educating LPL is my duty.

Once both sides re-entered the game, Li Chen, with a 1200 gold lead over his opponent after seven minutes, immediately began aggressively pushing the lane.

Perkz glanced at the Maw of Malmortius in Li Chen's equipment slot and knew he had no chance at all. He couldn't even break Jayce's Maw of Malmortius shield with his current combo.

If he could, he would even like to switch lanes with the Stone Man again, but that's obviously not realistic.

EDG currently has a firm grip on lane control in both the mid and top lanes. If he and Malphite want to switch lanes, it means they will lose minions and experience, and their towers will also be damaged.

Moreover, EDG can switch lanes with them at any time, and if they keep switching lanes, they will only end up losing more and more.

Fortunately, they weren't planning to win this game anyway. They were just going to let it go and wait for EDG to push down their base.

Therefore, G2's behavior in the following period can be described as quite passive.

The factory manager visited the top lane twice in a row within a few minutes, but Trick remained unmoved and showed no intention of counter-ganking.

Perkz himself didn't have much of a defensive intention. Every time he saw Nunu appear, he would immediately use W and R to double-step backward.

At the eleven-minute mark, G2's top lane turret was the first to fall.

At twelve minutes, the factory manager circled around from the jungle to place a ward behind G2's bottom lane tower. Li Chen and Scout teleported in and launched a five-man gank on G2's bottom lane.

Seeing the burly men surrounding him from all sides, Mithy's lips twitched as he said, "Guys, shouldn't you use your teleportation ability?"

As she spoke, Mithy even tapped the teleport skill on LeBlanc and Malphite.

"I can't help you this time, buddy. The bottom lane turret's health is too low; they can easily take it down before engaging in a team fight. You guys should try retreating!"

Perkz has no intention of supporting the bot lane. This isn't because he's trying to protect his KDA, but because the bot lane simply can't be protected.

Because the Malphite was alone in the bottom lane in the early game, facing the EDG bottom lane duo, the bottom tower had already lost a lot of health.

After switching lanes, the factory manager went to the bottom lane to gank twice more. Although he didn't get any kills, the turret's health was significantly reduced.

So now G2's first tower has less than 500 health left, and EDG can take it down with a single round of focused fire and basic attacks. There is no chance for them to rely on the tower to fight back.

In the European livestream, Dracos was almost numb. Watching G2's bottom lane turret fall and their bot lane duo get killed, he calmly said, "G2's choice is quite rational. Since they can't hold the bottom lane turret, they might as well give it up."

Three minutes later, Dracos said again, "G2's choice was decisive. Faced with EDG's five players suddenly grouping up to attack the mid lane, they didn't have time to regroup, so they could give up this tower."

Eighteen minutes later, a calm voice rang out again: "G2 team didn't act rashly. This top lane second tower can be given up; it won't affect anything. The current gold difference between the two sides is only... a little over six thousand, so we can continue to give it up."

If G2 doesn't want to play, they should just come back. Stop making a fool of themselves.

[God, I feel like G2's players are like machines; all they can do is farm minions and abandon turrets.]

The bottom lane's second turret is also gone; a wise choice.

[Go EDG! I'm already a fan of god_C.]

Add me as a buddy!

European viewers were a bit angry about G2's tanking behavior, but it really can't be blamed on G2.

They did try to take the initiative, but every time they did, EDG thwarted their moves and even seized the opportunity, resulting in a significant loss of economy and resources.

In this situation where the more they struggle, the more they lose; the harder they try, the more embarrassed they become; and lying down and giving up can actually buy them more time, what can they do?

At the 28th minute, as G2's base crystal shattered, Guan Zeyuan said in a less than enthusiastic tone, "Congratulations to EDG for winning this match. In this semi-final BO5, EDG has already taken a 2-0 lead and secured match point."

"To be honest, G2's performance in this match was a bit unexpected. From their initial lane-swap strategy to their subsequent... stable performance, it all gave me a feeling that I can't quite put my finger on."

Miller really wanted to say directly that G2 seemed to have already tanked, but out of professional commentary ethics, he couldn't be so blunt.

On the other side, after G2 returned to their rest area, the atmosphere became somewhat silent.

Even if they had the strongest mentality, they knew that there were problems with their performance in the second game. To put it bluntly, in the eyes of industry insiders, it looked a bit like they were throwing the game.

Of course, if that industry insider were to play a game with EDG, he might not think that way.

Coach Youngbuck glanced around at the group and said, "Alright guys, don't overthink it. I know you've tried your best. I saw you making attempts down there, but EDG's tactical judgment is definitely stronger than ours."

Perkz, who was the main strategist in this match, scratched his head and said, "I don't know who EDG's strategist is, but he's really good. He reads through all my thoughts."

"It might be god_C. I've observed several of EDG's actions, and it was always god_C giving signals. He might be taking on some command responsibilities."

After explaining things to perkz, youngbuck didn't linger on the topic: "Now we should talk about the draft for the next game. The boss just called me, and he hopes we won't do the same thing next game."

"Coach, we're the ones playing on stage. To be honest, we're no match for EDG. god_C is a mechanical monster, a walking AI machine. We just can't win!"

Perkz readily admitted defeat; he was truly convinced of his loss.

"I didn't say you had to win. The boss wants you to play with style, understand? He wants to see your energy, not lying there like a kidnapped little girl. Let's get back to the game itself and have some fun," youngbuck said.

Returning to the essence of business, G2's owner also knows they can't win, so now they want to make the game more exciting and bloodier to win over the audience.

If a best-of-five series ends with G2's performance feeling weak and boring to the audience, then that's a real failure.

Expect looked around and, seeing that no one else was speaking, he said timidly, "Can I play Riven once? I want to face off against god_C head-on."

When he first faced Li Chen, Li Chen had already proven himself in the game, so the team didn't have high hopes for him and directly let him play Shen to protect the bottom lane.

Now, if given the opportunity, and without having to worry about winning or losing, he felt he could give it a try, since opportunities to compete against his idol in a match are rare.