Bad news: IG's bottom lane is a bit difficult to break through.
Good news: The opponent’s top laner has a lot of ideas.
Recalling what NB coach said during the BP phase of the game, Swift couldn't help but come up with a plan and took a deep look at the opponent's top laner.
A breakthrough on the road?
Thinking of this, Swift had an idea in his mind.
…
At the same time, RNG Club.
Although there is no RNG game on the first day of the summer season today, everyone is paying close attention to this opening game.
Because IG is in this opening game.
MSI's world champion team.
Although RNG has reorganized into an invincible galaxy battleship on paper this season, as players and coaches, they will definitely not take it lightly. Only by paying attention to every opponent can they allow their galaxy battleship to sail further in the summer season.
"Now it seems that IG's bottom lane has really found the optimal solution."
RNG coach Fly recalled the performance of IG's bottom lane in the previous game, and couldn't help but turn to the new manager Su Xiaoluo with some emotion and said, "Speaking of which, this is also the vision of General Manager Su."
Su Xiaoluo twitched the corner of his mouth.
As the current manager of RNG, he is strengthening his current opponent.
Now some people praise him for his good vision. It is not good for him to admit it or not.
However, Su Xiaoluo was speechless because he had brought two "substitutes" to IG's bottom lane during the summer transfer window, purely to consume the club's budget and thereby reduce Li Fu's signing fee.
Who would have thought that after he left, Chris, that short guy, would actually pick a pair of bottom lane duo.
Unexpectedly, just as RNG coach Fly finished his sigh, Mata, who was sitting next to the conference table watching the live broadcast of the game, said mercilessly, "Can a second-rate support and a third-rate AD be the optimal solution?"
"Well……"
Coach Fly didn't know how to respond to this.
He smiled awkwardly and said no more.
But think about it, today IG's starting bot laner Wuxx was publicly dissed by Mata for being too bad in an interview after last season's spring finals. If he praises Wuxx now, isn't that just embarrassing for Mata?
Uzi, who just joined RNG, did not comment on his former AD. He just frowned slightly at the opposing support and said, "I think there are some problems with IG's new support."
"What's the problem?" Coach Fly was stunned.
“There is a lack of ability to proactively control the map and set the pace.”
Uzi recalled the previous game and frowned, "Although he also went to the opponent's jungle to help with vision in the early stage, that was after jungler Padre6 set the pace. I can only say that the cooperation was good, but I have observed his subsequent games. If his teammates don't set the pace, whether it is the bottom lane or the jungle, he rarely takes the initiative to set the pace or set the vision to start a team fight."
"Maybe it's a new player coming on." Coach Fly said.
“Maybe.” Uzi smiled and turned to look at Mata. “So in comparison, I still prefer our team’s support.”
"No, no, I'm actually... I'm fine." Mata couldn't help but smile and be polite when he heard that.
The next second,
The little fat man and the big quail looked at each other.
There is a feeling of mutual appreciation and mutual understanding.
Well, before everyone loses in a ranked match, they should all appreciate their teammates.
Aren’t we good brothers?
Su Xiaoluo coughed dryly and spoke again, "Let's not talk about the bottom lane first, let's talk about their top lane. Next time we meet them, maybe we can find a breakthrough from the player Save."
"Is he a sucker?" coach Fly asked.
"Well... it's not a question of whether I'm good or not." Su Xiaoluo pondered for a moment and said hesitantly, "Anyway... it's quite easy to break through."
“I understand!”
Upon hearing this, everyone in the RNG meeting room understood.
Since he is not bad, he is easy to be broken through.
If you dare to catch him, he will die.
…
Hongqiao Tiandi Center.
LPL live.
As the game started, there was a thunderous cheering from the audience.
IG attracted a lot of fans after winning the championship. In addition, NB was reorganized from QG, so the cheers on the scene firmly put them in the lead.
In the competition booth, Swift glanced at the audience and said with a cold face:
"Remember the key point of this game, you must get the line right in the middle and lower lanes."
"You can hold back on the top lane. I will focus on the top lane this time."
"Okay." Top laner V responded.
To be honest, I support arresting him.
After the last game, V felt that IG's new top laner was "too aggressive and not stable enough" compared to his previous performance. If the jungler could target him a little, it would be easy to turn the situation around.
In addition, in the previous game, the opposing top laner was jumping on his face.
If the opponent is Marun, Saint Spear or Looper, then V will just accept it.
The key point is that the opponent is just a young boy who was promoted from the secondary league. This made V feel a little suffocated. He took out Gnar this time and was determined to teach the opponent a lesson.
At least let the other party know.
The water of LPL.
It's also deeper than you think.
…
"Do you want to fight in a level one group?"
"Ask Brother Fu."
"Our first-level lineup is stronger than the opponent's, so we can give it a try."
"Okay, let's go ahead. Even if we can't defeat them, we'll help Brother Fu capture the opponent's jungle route."
“…”
At the beginning of this game, IG did not have a long snake formation for defense, and the presence of Braum gave them an advantage in the level one team fight, so they simply grouped together to invade the opponent's upper half.
Miller and Ze Yuan on the stage also discovered IG's intention.
"Eh? IG has some ideas on this issue."
"Yes, IG's lineup in this level 1 teamfight was stronger, and there was nothing wrong with this invasion."
"What do NB say? They are standing in a long line, and the jungler is also in the upper half."
"Eh? V's Gnar is heading towards the upper zone!"
"Oh no! A lone Gnar, is IG going to have a good start?"
Accompanied by the commentary's exclamation.
In the game screen on the big screen, the five players of IG have already reached the blue buff in the upper half of the blue side NB.
At this time, NB top laner V seemed to be worried about the safety of the upper area, and came around from the entrance of the upper jungle area, as if he wanted to help stand guard.
He didn't expect anyone to invade.
Because in the conventional sense, the first-level group gathers together, and in most cases it invades the lower zone. The chance of encountering people in the upper zone is too small, unless the opponent is targeting him in the top lane from the beginning.
But even if there is this subconsciousness.
The next moment, when he was about to reach the blue buff, V suddenly glanced at his teammates in the upper and lower half of the small map. The auxiliary Bard had already gone around from the triangle grass to the river but still did not see anyone on the opposite side.
Something seems wrong!
V immediately smelled a hint of danger.
Almost subconsciously, before he got close, he placed a trinket eye into the bushes from a distance.
It doesn't matter if you don't plug it in.
I was startled by the insertion!
The five people who suddenly appeared in front of him made V tremble with fear, but his hands reacted like muscles and instantly learned Gnar's E skill. The moment Braum threw out a Q, he flashed and used E to move away.
"Depend on!"
"Shit!"
“You run so fast!”
"It's okay, I'll dodge out."
IG also dispersed.
Miller, on the commentary desk, took a breath and said with a smile, "Oh my god! When Gnar went there just now, I really felt my heart almost jumped out of my chest. Fortunately, V was very alert."
"I feel like it's fortunate that IG's support wasn't Thresh. Braum's threat range is relatively small, so it's reasonable that he ran away."
"But he flashed at the beginning , and the level 1 Gnar learned his E skill when he came online, so IG's new top laner Save had a very comfortable game."
"What do you think, Brother Fu? If you are discovered, it doesn't seem like a good idea to continue to forcefully camp at the other side's blue. You may be swapped out for jungle. So, should you go back to your own upper zone and start at red? Lee Sin still has an advantage when starting at red."
"Well, Swift's Graves obviously started from red buff and went up. In this case, the junglers of both teams started the game in a mirror image. After clearing both jungle areas, they each controlled a river crab and everything went smoothly."
"Wait? Brother Fu isn't going back to his own upper half?"
"Oh, Brother Fu's Lee Sin went straight across the middle lane to the bottom zone. Lee Sin got his blue buff in the bottom zone?"
"Brother Fu is...forcing the opponent."
"However, IG's five-man gank at the start meant they gave up on the vision defense of the lower jungle area. There was a NB invasion ward at the river entrance. If Fu Ge wasn't careful, he would easily be caught by the opponent in the jungle."
"Eh? Wait! Brother Fu is so... amazing!"
In the game footage on the big screen, Li Fu came from the middle and his first move was obviously to enter his own blue zone through the river in the shortest straight line.
But the next second, he seemed to remember something and turned around and walked around the back wall of the blue buff camp.
Not only that, when the blue buff refreshes at 1 minute and 40 seconds,
Li Fu also performed two actions successively.
He first gave a ping signal to the top laner, asking him to go around his own upper area and come back online later.
Then he quickly instructed the support Baolan who came to help, not to leave the bush next to the blue buff when helping to clear the jungle, but to pull the blue buff into the bush directly.
At this time, the director cut out NB's unilateral vision.
From the time Li Fu opened the middle blue buff to the time the wild monster was pulled into the bush along the wall, the entire process was detected by the unremarkable invasion eye.
"Alas, it's a pity that NB's ward is in such a bad position. If you go a little further inside, you can see it."
"Yes, but I think Doomsday should have taken the river vision into consideration when placing wards. If he moved further in, the river vision would not be blocked."
"It feels like NB was tricked in this game. Fiora came online relatively late, and IG appeared in the top half at the beginning. They probably thought IG started in the top half."
As expected.
As soon as the commentator on the stage finished speaking, on the small map on the big screen, Swift pinged a few times at the empty red buff in the upper half of IG when he was refreshing the red buff in the lower half, and then told the bottom lane to be careful.
Little did he know that with the help of the auxiliary in the lower half, Li Fu almost killed the first Buff monster at the same time as him, and then they headed towards the upper half together.
"It seems that Fu Ge's plan is to gank the top lane at the beginning, or to counter-camp the top lane. Now it depends on the top lane. IG's top laner Fiora is at a disadvantage against Gnar. Gnar was hit with flash at the beginning and was forced to learn E at level 1. Now it is Fiora who has the advantage and is pushing the lane."
"Oh! Then there is a chance. Fiora is pushing the lane. Swift misjudged that Fu Ge is clearing from the top to the bottom. He should be in the bottom half now. After he finishes clearing his own top half, he will definitely go to clear the Fiora that is pushing the lane in the top lane."
The commentator's analysis and prediction were not wrong.
The game time is 2 minutes and 35 seconds.
Li Fu's Lee Sin cleared three groups of jungle from bottom to top, including blue buff + F4 + red buff to level three. Then he didn't even look at the Stone Man, and went straight to the top lane and ambushed in the bushes near the wall in advance.
On the other hand, Swift was not in a hurry. He thought that since Li Fu was in the lower half, he might as well clear his own upper half. After clearing the blue buff, he ate a toad and then headed towards the top lane with a shotgun.
"I'm here. I can exchange blood on the road."
"good."
"Does river grass have eyes?"
"No, I just went into the bushes and blocked his vision, forcing him to put his trinket ward on the bushes."
"Nice!"
Swift couldn't help but smile.
He has two buffs in hand, and Fiora's troops have crossed the river. The health of both sides is almost half, so even if Fiora uses flash, he has a high chance of getting the first blood with flash.
Thinking of this, Swift's heart suddenly became hot.
"I'm almost there, let me try to force him to W first."
"Okay, I'll try."
V glanced at Swift's position and found that the latter had approached the top lane. He quickly chose to take the initiative and directly used a boomerang to slow down and then went up to attack.
As expected, Fiora refused to accept the defeat and also crossed the line of soldiers to fight back.
The health of the two was already less than half, and after this sudden consumption, their health dropped rapidly.
Seeing that his health was low, V quickly used E to pull away.
As expected, the next second, Fiora stabbed with W and slowed him down.
Logically speaking, Fiora had flash in this wave, so she could just flash and use basic attack followed by Q. Even if she could hold up the tower for a while, she would still have a chance to replace Gnar. Save, who had been acting according to the plan, even had such an impulse.
It’s better to take the head yourself than to give it to anyone else!
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a voice came from my ear.
“Turn off the lights!”
The next second, Graves with double buffs rushed out from the river and was immediately killed by a W smoke bomb.
Damn it!
Save cursed inwardly.
The next second, he decisively turned back and flashed according to the plan.
Swift saw that Fiora's health was less than one-tenth, and immediately stopped his teammate Gnar who was trying to turn back, "Don't go up, I'll take over, be careful not to get replaced."
Well, actually I want K-head.
V was too lazy to expose Swift's little thoughts. The hero Graves really needed money, and his health was really low, so he simply stayed in front of the tower to make up the losses.
Swift is decisive!
Almost at the same time when Fiora flashed away from his smoke bomb, his Graves also flashed and directly forced Fiora to retreat from the bottom, killing her.
Where are you running!
Sure enough, in order to avoid being hit by Graves, Fiora, who was originally retreating to the tower, had to move up into the grass.
Swift immediately used his E skill to get to the edge of the grass. At this time, he had most of his health left, while Fiora had less than a quarter of it. Without W and flash, he felt he could kill the opponent with his eyes closed.
However, the next second, when a gun was quickly drawn and the distance was closed, and a blindfolded bald man appeared at a ward in the bushes, Swift's pupils suddenly trembled violently!
WDNMD!
Didn’t Blind Boy go to the lower half?
Why are you here?
Li Fu didn't waste any time and just took action!
The commentator on the stage also became excited when he saw this, and explained at a very fast speed, "Oh! Brother Fu counter-camped on Graves! Graves didn't have flash this time, it feels like the situation is a bit bad."
"The key is that Gnar didn't keep up. This wave of Swift is equivalent to one against two."
"Swift knew he couldn't run away, so he wanted to switch!"
"But Fu Ge's Lee Sin has been stuck between Graves and Fiora, and his movement is very enchanting!"
"I can't A! The male gunner can't A!"
“…”
While watching the game on the big screen, a duet was started in the bushes on the road.
Swift's Graves tried his best and just wanted to attack Fiora, but Li Fu's top-level [hand speed reaction] at this moment, coupled with his top-notch [positional details], enabled him to complete perfect defense time and time again.
Finally, when Graves used a refreshed E to break through Li Fu's defense and wanted to make that A attack.
Before he knew it, his health had dropped to the killing line.
Tianyin wave!
AA!
Echo Strike!
The moment the second Q was kicked out, coupled with the low-health Fiora's air-breaking slash that took away the last bit of health of the Male Gunn in an instant, Li Fu also successfully took the first kill of the game again.
"IG-Padre6 kills NB-Swift!"
"First Blood!"
The first blood kill resounded throughout the venue!
The audience at the scene couldn't help but be slightly startled, and then they all reacted.
"Fuck, they got another first blood right away?"
"It's so funny! Fu Huang's positioning is too extreme. He can only defend Kobe Bryant so well."
"To be honest, I think Fu Huang's opening design is quite interesting."
"Hahaha, Swift is living in Fu Huang's shadow again. This guy's face is green!"
“…”
In IG's game seat.
"Brother Nessif!"
"pretty!"
"This wave of counter squat is good!"
Teammates congratulated one after another.
Save's mouth twitched, he wanted to laugh but couldn't quite smile, and finally he smiled in agreement.
I wish the head was mine.
He thought so in his heart.
At the same time, in the NB competition area.
Swift, who suffered another setback and gave away first blood, looked at the gray screen in front of him, recalling in his mind how Lee Sin had just been stuck between him and the low-health Fiora, making him run around in circles. It seemed like a joke now!
When he thought of this, Swift couldn't help but feel angry!
Almost subconsciously, he took out his anger on V and said, "Why don't you follow me? Are you just going to watch me fight two people alone? How can I kill two people on the opposite side?"
V was stunned by what he said.
He believes he has a good relationship with Swift, and he also stood on Swift's side when the mid and jungle split last season.
But the clay Buddha also had some anger. At this moment, he was questioned by Swift so fiercely that he was a little embarrassed and asked back, "Did you forget? Didn't you tell me not to go up?"
This sentence instantly pushed the rest of Swift's words back into his throat.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he was really worried that K could not be completed, so he asked him to finish V.
But he finally got the right to speak in the new NB, and was retorted by V. After he reacted, he still said with a sullen face, "But the opponent's jungler has come out. Is your head wooden? Don't you know how to adapt to the situation?"
V's mouth twitched.
Damn it!
Who could have thought that Fiora had so little health, and you were blocked by a Lee Sin for half a day?
Is it because Lee Sin is too good?
Or are you just too bad at horse riding?
Some things are not so nice to say.
V has a calmer personality and simply ignored Swift.
The latter was asking for trouble. He looked at the blind monk who was 1/0 on the opposite side and felt even more angry. But now he could only suppress his anger and said, "It's okay. This wave was my mistake. You guys take the lane control, and I can fight back."
Hosting the commentary stage.
Guan Zeyuan and Miller also analyzed this wave of catching up.
"Tsk tsk, this wave of Swift really follows Brother Fu's design step by step."
"Yes, I don't know if it's an illusion, but I feel that after returning from the MSI mid-season tournament, Fu Ge's jungle style has become more and more oppressive. I guess no one would associate the current Fu Ge with the Pig Girl who made her first appearance in the LPL last season after coming off the IG bench."
"Well, maybe this is the different styles of players in different periods. Brother Fu in that period was more defensive and team-oriented, more like a thread, threading the needle to unite the team together, but now Brother Fu is a knife, he can cut a path by himself."
"That's right. I believe everyone is the same as me. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that a veteran didn't become more and more exhausted as the game went on. Instead, he seemed to be more and more sharp as the game went on!"
"The older she gets, the more evil she becomes! She simply becomes more evil as she gets older!"
"Although IG's top laner Fiora didn't get a kill, she got the first blood and an assist. Plus the advantages accumulated at the beginning, IG's top laner opened up the situation."
"Brother Fu helped push the wave line and is now heading towards the river. It looks like he's going to control the river crab in the upper zone."
"Swift's Graves has also revived. Is he going to go up there to help or fight for this river crab?"
"No, Swift didn't choose to come to the top half. He crossed the river from his own bottom half and wanted to counter-jungle. In this game, the combination of Miss Fortune and Bard in the bottom lane of NB gained lane control in the early stage."
Yes.
However, the reason why Swift came to counter jungle this time.
On the one hand, the team gained control of the line in the early stage in the bottom lane.
On the other hand, although he had just had a brief contact with Li Fu in the top lane, as an experienced jungler, he quickly deduced from Li Fu's last hits that Li Fu had probably not cleared the first round of ordinary monsters in the bottom half in order to get to the top lane early.
Then he is a male gunner.
If you want to regain the rhythm after giving away the first blood, the quickest and most effective way is naturally to farm.
But just when Swift thought he had the line control in the bottom lane and the opponent's jungler was controlling the crab in the upper half, and he could easily counterattack the opponent's jungler in the bottom half, an inadvertent glance at the minimap made him slightly stunned.
On the minimap, the bottom lane duo who were trapped in front of the tower by the soldiers disappeared.
"Oh my god! IG's bottom lane is fighting so hard!"
"No way? Lucian and Braum didn't even want to leave the tower soldiers, just to come back to protect the jungle!"
"Wow! It feels like IG's bot lane is very different this season."
“…”
Winter's Bite!
In the lower zone, Swift, who had just invaded from the river, had no time to get around Toad before Braum's Q suddenly flew out from the bushes and slowed him down instantly.
Immediately afterwards, Lucian appeared, and used E to perform an AAWAQA to instantly activate his passive.
Damn it!
Swift was a little dumbfounded!
Fortunately, he was not stupid enough. Seeing this, he quickly used a W smoke bomb to turn off the lights for Lucian, then quickly used the E skill to go over the wall and went to the other side of the blue buff camp in shame.
At this moment, he was just wondering whether he should take the risk to kill three wolves.
Unexpectedly, the next second, Victor on the opposite side also appeared.
Finally, needless to say, the Graves, who left the house with full health, crossed the river with great vigor and ambition, wanting to counter-jungle.
However, he was surrounded and blocked by IG's bottom and mid laners in the jungle, and in the end, he was left with just over a quarter of his health, and he fled out of the jungle in a panic.
Even if Dade hadn't had a yellow card in his hand, and he hadn't had flash and was hit twice by Rookie, he might have been trapped in the opponent's jungle.
However, even though he escaped, Swift did not feel happy at all.
He glanced at his center lane, then glanced at the duo in the bottom lane.
Suddenly, I felt a surge of anger in my heart!
It feels so numb!
In the last game, I had no lane control and was chased and beaten by the opponent.
I was chased and beaten by the opponent during this game with wired rights.
Then wouldn’t this right to the fucking line be taken for nothing?
Before he had the time to question his teammates, the next second, the blind monk who had just controlled the crab in the upper half did not even return home, but rushed to the lower half without stopping for a moment.
Once again controlled the river crab in the lower half.
Swift: …
On the commentary desk, Miller and Guan Zeyuan also shook their heads and smiled bitterly.
"To be honest, Swift's male gun was a bit damaged at the beginning."
"It's really hurtful. The Graves hero needs to develop, especially in the non-jungle core version. If you want to play the jungle core effect, then the jungle rhythm at the beginning of the game should not be interrupted. However, Swift was cut off by IG twice."
"Yes, Graves is now far behind, and is still at a disadvantage in the top lane. Although the mid and bottom lanes have gained control of the lanes, it is difficult to open a breakthrough. I feel that it will be difficult for NB to open up the situation in the early stage of this game."
“…”
The commentator on the stage was speaking.
Unexpectedly , at this moment, without any warning, a kill notification suddenly came from the top lane.
"NB-V killed IG-Save!"
This sudden kill stunned the commentator.
What's the matter?
Where is NB’s disadvantage in the top lane?
This is... a solo kill?