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Actually, the richest man isn't completely without options. As a jungler, he has a more viable method: immediately invade EDG's top jungle to counter-jungle.

The crocodile now has lane priority and can quickly clear this wave of cannon minions, then follow him into the jungle.

Kennen, facing this massive pushback, couldn't immediately enter the jungle to help, otherwise he would lose too much.

Although EDG has lane priority in the mid lane and Syndra can reinforce the jungle first, EDG is unlikely to be able to beat them due to Renekton's strong early-game dueling ability. They might even have a chance to lock down the enemy when Twisted Fate arrives.

Even if we can't kill anyone, we can still steal two jungle monsters and make up for some lost economy.

But that would be too much of a sacrifice for the top laner. If the Crocodile wasn't on the lane during this push, Li Chen could control the minion wave, and the Crocodile would lose experience from at least two waves of minions, which is unacceptable for a champion like the Crocodile.

Therefore, abandoning the level 3 push and quickly pushing the lane into the tower, and then waiting for the next push back, is the best option for Snake Esports right now.

But the richest man forgot that this game wasn't a single-player game hosted by Snake Esports; they couldn't do whatever they wanted.

Faced with this situation, Li Chen already had a solution.

Upon arriving in Ueno, the factory manager didn't farm jungle camps. Instead, he entered the river from the raptor pit and deliberately clashed with Zac near the river crab.

With the factory manager holding Zach back, Li Chen became much bolder, pressing forward to find opportunities to wear down the crocodile.

However, Li Chen was very careful to suppress the blood rage emanating from his body.

He first attacked the nearest minion to build up his auto-attack passive, then found an opportunity to hit Zz1tai with a Q that went through the minion before continuing forward.

Seeing that Li Chen hadn't maintained a safe distance, he immediately shouted, "Richest man, can you come over? Can you come over? I can bite him!"

However, at this moment, the richest man was busy fighting with the factory manager for the river crab, and the mid lane Syndra had lane priority and was always near the top river, which could provide support at any time, putting him under great pressure. He had no time to pay attention to Zita.

Although he did not receive a response from the richest man, he still couldn't resist taking action.

The minion wave is still far from the red team's first tower. If a fight breaks out now, as long as he can use his E to close the distance, he can chase and whittle down Li Chen's health. If Li Chen gives him more space later, he might even have a chance to Flash and W to solo kill him.

However, if the minion wave pushes forward and intersects with the next wave, Kennen can stand at the edge of the turret and harass him. At that point, Kennen will face a situation where he can neither push the wave nor hit anyone.

"Closer, closer... now!"

Seizing the opportunity when Kennen raised his hand to attack minions, Zita suddenly sprang into action and pressed his E skill to dash forward.

But Li Chen had anticipated this and pressed S to retreat before the crocodile could use its E skill.

He currently has a passive auto-attack ability in his hand, which he can't use to attack minions. He keeps moving forward to attract the crocodile's attention, so he's doing this regardless of whether the crocodile makes a move or not.

At this time, the commentators were also very busy. Sejuani and Zac had just clashed in the river when they started fighting in the top lane at the same time. The director could tell which side was more important and decisively abandoned the two big tanks, moving the camera to the top lane.

Miller quickly explained: "A fight broke out in the top lane too. It was Renekton who made the first move. He used his E to dash forward, but he couldn't reach Kennen because of the distance. Renekton started to retreat, but Kennen countered with an auto-attack and W, stunning Renekton."

Kennen continued auto-attacking, while Renekton woke up. He still had one part of his E ability available. Should he fight or retreat? Zz1tai chose to fight, turning around and using the second part of his E to continue diving. This time he landed a bite, but it seemed like he couldn't win; Renekton had run out of rage.

Li Chen was caught in the trap, but he remained calm. The crocodile's second E skill depleted his red rage, leaving him with only a little over 20 rage points, which was far from enough to deal damage.

After withstanding the crocodile's WAQ combo, Li Chen drank a health potion, activated E, and ran down. After creating distance, he deactivated E and countered with AQ to apply the second stack of the crocodile's passive.

He forced himself to finish a combo, but had no skills left. He barely managed to chase after Li Chen for two steps before immediately turning around and retreating.

But Li Chen obviously wouldn't let him off so easily. With attack speed and attack power bonuses, his basic attack damage was not low. He chased after the crocodile and attacked it twice, then stunned the crocodile again after triggering the passive mark. He then attacked it twice more before retreating when the minion wave approached.

After this fight, Li Chen's health was still relatively good, but the crocodile's health had dropped to one-third.

After using a health potion, Zac, who had been driven back to his own jungle by Syndra and Sejuani, looked at the minion wave stuck in the red side's territory and felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

At this point, his game was already over.

The best opportunity for them was when the factory manager didn't arrive in the top half of the map. If they could control the minion wave to the tower, it would be very difficult for EDG to clear the wave, and they would need the mid laner to help.

However, Li Chen's Void Control allowed him to push back the lane without even touching the minions, thwarting all of Snake Team's early-game plans.

Now that EDG's mid and jungle have shifted their focus to the top half of the map, his teammates are no longer able to help clear this wave of minions in the short term.

Backstage at the Snake team's headquarters, Zhu Kai observed the current situation in the top lane, his expression remaining largely unchanged.

In his established strategy, the crocodile's task in this game was not to feed kills, not to give Li Chen the opportunity to develop ahead, and then to build a Rylai's Crystal Scepter to stick to the enemy in team fights and create opportunities for Tristana to clean up.

But as a professional top laner, Flandre couldn't help but sigh when he saw Renekton standing behind the minion wave, using potions to heal and not daring to go up and farm minions.

If it were him, he would rather be caught and killed by Sejuani than give up this wave of minions and send it under the red team's tower.

Even if Kennen gets the kill, with Renekton's early-game fighting power and the push-back rhythm later, the top lane isn't completely unplayable.

After all, Zz1tai is not behind in experience at the moment, it's just that he has not last hit enough minions, only five, but he can make up for it with the advantages of the Renekton champion.

However, if we cannot make this firm decision, then we can only watch helplessly as the market collapses.

Back in the game, Li Chen cleared minions while slowly adjusting his position to move forward, finding an angle to throw a Q skill at the crocodile.

Having been marked, Zitai could only hide in the grass to avoid Li Chen's attrition.

"Factory, go farm some jungle monsters, he's not pushing the lane!"

After confirming that Zita really had no intention of pushing the lane at all costs, Li Chen told the factory manager to retreat first.

Upon hearing this, the factory manager, who had been hiding in the tri-bush in the jungle, silently turned around and left the top lane.

He wasn't worried that the richest man would make a surprise return, betting that he wouldn't forcefully help Zita break the deadlock, because the other party didn't have that guts.

Looking at the entire league, only Spicy Hot Pot dared to do this, risking being double-killed by a counter-gank.

After all, the other party is a brute!