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Enter Summoner's Rift.
Blue side: EDG
Red side: SKT
Top lane: Rengar vs Kennen
Jungle: Gragas vs Ivern
Mid: Syndra vs Ahri
AD: Varus vs. Policewoman
Support: Thresh vs Braum
In terms of cornerstone talents, the choices for other heroes are relatively conventional.
On the EDG side, there are Gragas, Thresh Colossus, Syndra's Thunder, and Varus the Warlord's Bloodlust.
In the SKT team, there are Kennen, Ahri's Thunderbolt, Ivern's Windtalker's Blessing, Caitlyn's Bloodlust, and Braum's Colossus.
Summoner skills are also flash + corresponding needs.
The most eye-catching Warwick is very special. Not only did he choose the 'Storm Rider's Surge' which rarely appears in professional competitions, he also gave up the flash that is essential for most heroes and chose the alternative combination of teleport and ignite.
"???????"
"????"
"Hit the human machine?"
"It's a bit of a shame to not treat Huni as a human being..."
"I know Wind Rider, I know Ignite, I know Teleport, but when you put these three together, I don't understand."
"There's no margin for error. If you catch one, they'll die."
“…”
The audience felt a little strange when they saw this combination.
This season, the top laner Warwick appears in the professional league for the second time.
But before the three major nerfs, he was an OP hero that had to be banned and had an explosive win rate.
At the most exaggerated time, when the level 1 big red potion comes out, the brutality is accumulated in the wild area, and the double Q is stacked, even the tank hero may be killed by one set.
Old players have a very deep impression of this.
In addition, Xing Dao can always deliver outstanding performance using any non-mainstream hero, so there are not many doubts.
I just feel like something is not right with the teleportation ignition.
"General's choice of skills and talents is quite radical!"
Miller subconsciously suggested: "Without Flash, you will lose a certain amount of displacement at critical moments. When chasing, you will have to use up your ferocity points to move faster and use Wind Rider, but you won't be able to make up for it when escaping."
"That's right." Wawa always finds a unique angle: "Does SKT have a way to force General to escape?"
"Eh..." Miller thought for a moment and said, "Looking at it this way, it does make sense."
It is hard to judge whether Kennen can beat Warwick with normal skills.
But if Lee Sin has Ignite, Kennen has a 99% chance of not being able to beat him.
As for Ivern...
Compared with the conventional rhythm hero, this new jungler is more inclined to the support position.
Can add icing on the cake for teammates, but not suitable for hard-nosed attacks against the odds.
Simply put, it means helping the good and not the bad.
As long as the Warwick has enough advantages, Ivern basically dares not to come up and cause trouble.
Because SKT's support is Braum, who has extremely strong combat power in the first-level group, EDG did not adopt the most common invasion strategy against Ivern, and chose the conventional opening method.
Xing Dao naturally activated the card of the tower-stealing devil king Strawberry.
—— Caomei - IPL5 semi-finals - Rengar (number of uses 3/3)
Rarity: Grandmaster
Operation: 95 (+8)
Reaction: 95 (+8)
Awareness: 95 (+8)
Last Hit: 90 (+7)
Suppression: 93 (+7)
Skill, Tower Stealer: When near a defense tower (including ruins), all attributes are increased by 20%.
Overall evaluation: Do you want to be a coward for the rest of your life, or be a hero? Even if it's just for a few minutes.
The basic attributes of Strawberry are on the low side among Grandmaster cards.
After all, he is the king of stress resistance.
but.
For Xing Dao now, basic attributes are no longer a problem.
Even the Elite and Legendary/Epic character cards are only a few points apart.
The core is skills, and the hero proficiency they provide.
There are many unpopular heroes that are only suitable for specific environments and may not be used once in the entire season.
It is neither worth practicing nor possible to practice it.
With the support of character cards, you can ensure good results when needed, and you can also strengthen the attributes to a higher level.
Enter the battle.
Leave a ward at the blue buff to ensure that it is not stolen by Ivern.
Xing Dao moved directly to the upper road.
Grab the bushes first.
As luck would have it, Huni made a bold statement that he would send Xing Dao back home at level 2, and he also wanted to use the bush to steal some damage first.
The two heroes traveled at almost the same speed.
Meet.
Xing Dao laughed.
Enter the bushes and jump directly!
The Q skill [Cruel and Ruthless] draws a fan-shaped line in the air, then stabs forward, inflicting a second level of damage on Kennen!
Use normal attack, and then follow up!
Huni's life was not in danger, so he didn't learn the E skill and his escape speed was not fast enough.
Xing Dao turned and walked into the bushes, triggering his passive jumping effect the moment he entered the bushes, and then he turned back and grabbed again.
AQAA dealt damage four times, reducing Kennen's health by a large margin.
So much so that Huni could not wait for natural recovery and had to return to the city for supplies.
When Peanut saw what was happening on the road, he seemed to want to say something, but he opened his mouth and then held back.
"Ouch!"
Wawa in the commentary booth was very naughty: "Huni was beaten back home when they met!"
"The level 1 combat power of the lion is indeed quite strong." Miller analyzed the hero: "After the revision, although the ferocity value is reset to 0 when out of combat, and you can't use wild monsters to accumulate two layers to go online, but now the Q has a small displacement effect, which is more suitable for pursuit."
"Another advantage is that you don't need to buy the Bone Tooth Necklace." Su Xiaoyan added: "The attributes of Doran's Blade are much higher than those of the unupgraded Bone Tooth Necklace."
At 1 minute and 15 seconds, the entire army attacked.
The soldiers walked to the front little by little and started to exchange fire.
Huni lost the game at the beginning, swallowed his initial bold words, and stood honestly in the safe range.
but.
There is a critical issue here.
That is, during the four years from S4 to S7, Warwick was rarely seen in the high-ranking segments of the Korean server and even in the professional leagues.
Half a year ago, the Lion Dog was reworked again.
As a result, Huni’s understanding of top lane Rengar was not even synchronized with S7.
It can basically be said that it is stuck in the S3 season.
Xing Dao's understanding came from the video analysis done by S12's master. Even if he could only remember some of the operations and details, it was enough to form a "dimensionality reduction" type of suppression.
First show off your Q jump out of the grass.
When the lion leaves the bush, his jumping ability is retained for 0.25 seconds.
Considering the operating ability, you can regard it as 0.23 seconds.
With an initial movement speed of 345 points, you can move 79 yards during this period of time, plus a jump distance of 725, and a little bit of error tolerance, and you can ensure safety by moving to 820 yards away.
——This is Huni’s perception.
But...
The Q skill of the Lion Dog is cast at a distance and has a displacement effect, but does not affect other actions.
Xing Daoxian pressed the Q skill [Cruel and Ruthless] to advance forward.
Dance Huni again.
Although a damaging skill was wasted, Rengar's combat effectiveness is much higher than Kennen's, and Huni is standing far away without ranged soldiers to help.
In a pure one-on-one duel, you don't have the ability to fight back.
Just run.
After finishing the attack, Xing Dao went back to finish off the enemy, and at the same time drew the hatred of the red team's ranged soldiers, forcing the soldiers to stay close to the bushes.
Trick Huni over here.
After confirming that Kennen was in the right position, Xing Daoxian entered the grass in his own half.
Jumping soldier.
Close the distance.
Go into the bushes in the middle and jump.
This time, there was not only a normal attack, but also a QA combo. Combined with the previous attack, Huni's health was reduced by half.
Consume two waves.
Xing Dao directly pushed the line.
The method used is to repeatedly enter the grass and jump out.
Faced with such a situation, Huni could only come up and get the last hit when Xing Dao was walking from the line of soldiers to the bushes.
And set up wards at the fork in the road in advance to prevent Gragas from crossing the tower.
"Do you need me to protect you?"
Peanut was a little worried about the situation on the road.
Except for pure tanks, the less likely a hero is to explode, the greater the impact will be after he explodes.
Kennen’s importance in the SKT team is even greater than that of the two C positions, Caitlyn and Ahri. If he is killed, the game can be said to be half lost.
"Save?"
“No use!”
After arranging the vision.
Huni looked at the Warwick who had reached level 3 and was pressing forward with his cannon line. His confidence was boosted again: "With Gragas not here, how can he, with just one Warwick, get past ?!"
"..." Peanut was silent.
This is the truth.
It is not realistic to have a level 3 Warwick and level 2 Kennen.
But what is this inexplicable self-confidence?
There's something wrong with the direction of confidence...
The other side.
Xing Dao was also confused.
How could Kennen, with less than 600 health points, dare to stand under the tower confidently?
With the help of the soldiers to accumulate two points of brutality, Xing Dao walked over step by step, tapping the E key with his finger!
The lasso is thrown out!
Press the Q skill [Cruel and Ruthless] again!
The lion dog stretched out his arms holding the sword and fist blade to both sides, and immediately turned to stab forward, with the tip touching Kennen, and followed up with a normal attack.
-46!
-87!
-65!
“???!”
Even though Huni's comprehension ability was a little poor, his abilities in other aspects were at the top level, and he realized something was wrong the moment he took damage.
The distance between the two sides was about four hundred yards. Why could the Warwick use one E and one Q to deal three damage numbers?
How can it hit three damage numbers? !
Without time to think, Huni subconsciously used [Ultimate: Thunder Kai] to transform into an electric ball and increase the distance .
But just when he got started, he was hit by the tip of the Lion Dog's enhanced Q.
This is not the end yet.
A shield of light bloomed on the body of the Lion Dog, and the W skill [War Roar] was used!
-145!
-65!
-41!
Three more numbers popped up above Kennen's head!
This time, there are two reds and one purple!
Reduce the target's maximum health by 30% within 2.5 seconds, and the Storm Knight's Surge will be triggered immediately, and the movement speed of the Lion Dog will suddenly increase by 40%!
The value on the panel changed from 345 to 483!
"General's damage is so high!"
While Miller was shocked, he did not forget to explain the situation on the field: "E and two enhanced Qs knocked Kennen down to low health, and he continued to chase with the acceleration effect of the Wind Rider!"
"Huni used Flash, but General used Ignite!"
"Can you kill him?"
"Not enough, almost." Su Xiaoyan was much calmer.
The Ignite used by the third-level hero deals 110 points of true damage. Kennen's current health is around 120, and the healing effect on him is only half suppressed by "Severe Injury", and he still has a recovery capacity of 6 points per second.
Not to the point of death.
Xing Dao was also very clear about this.
Pull out of the attack range of the defense tower with the wind knight that lasts for 3 seconds.
Get away from hatred, walk back, and get closer step by step.
In the process, he also made an extremely agile swing and avoided the lightning shuriken.
Force Huni into a dead corner and use the normal version of his Q skill [Cruel and Ruthless] with a cooldown of 4 seconds!
Hit!
Two more injuries!
Before the screen turned black and white, Huni finally saw the details clearly. That was the moment when the tip of the Warwick's Q skill dealt damage, it automatically followed with a basic attack without pre-swing and without attack distance restrictions...
Unfortunately, it's too late.
First Blood! !
EDG General (Hunter of Pride) killed SKT Huni (Heart of Fury)!
The sound effect of first blood resounded throughout the arena!
Although Xing Dao resisted 6 hits from the defense tower, he used the W skill to recover 50% of the damage caused by the two attacks.
After gaining experience from kills, it is upgraded to level 4, increasing health by 90 points and armor by 3 points.
In addition, the defense tower attacked in two rounds, and the warm-up effect was reset in the middle. Huni's Q skill thrown out in reverse did not hit, allowing Xing Dao to retain the last few dozen points of blood and survive.
“Awesome!”
"Just crossed it?"
"Is the lion dog so fierce?"
"limit!"
"Brother Jie is so handsome!"
“…”
The atmosphere exploded instantly.
Although Huni's strength can only be considered at the bottom among the first-tier top laners, he is extremely good at bullying weak players and has performed very .
After returning to South Korea, with the support of the SKT team's system, the data is also quite impressive.
There is even a faint voice in the outside world calling for him to be the No. 1 top laner in LCK.
Audiences from both Korea and Europe and the United States generally believe that Huni's offensive ability is enough to compete with Xing Dao.
I never expected this.
At the MSI Mid-Season Championship, they were beaten back home as soon as they met.
At level 2, he was killed by someone crossing the tower.
"Wow!"
Wawa’s iconic cry sounded: “General was too extreme, he just took Huni away and he wasn’t replaced.”
"With this wave of attacks, the top lane can be said to be crushed!"
"That's right. Being tower dived at level 2 has a huge impact." Miller pointed out a key point: "Zizi.com will be able to catch him now!"
Kennen's so-called strong self-preservation ability is only based on a 1v1 environment.
Before level 6, being tower dived is essentially no different from other ranged squishy heroes.
What's more, Huni was forced to flash, and because of the line-spanning, he gave up another stop-loss skill [Teleport]. If he was killed again, he would be doomed.
Faced with such a situation, Peanut could only frequently go to the top lane to counter-camp.
However.
The factory manager has really studied the opponents in MSI.
The number one fan was studied in particular.
I have also practiced the hero Ivern and know that Ivern must go to the jungle to "harvest" at a certain time.
So, first set up invasion eyes and monitor the refresh status of resource points.
When Peanut turns into a farmer, he comes to the top lane to kill.
E skill [Meat Bomb Impact] directly hit!
Although he was stunned by Kennen's counterattack, he was able to withstand the damage with the Colossus's Courage Shield and [Drunken Fury]'s damage reduction.
Xing Dao followed up, using all his skills, and easily took the second kill from Huni.
During the process, a hole was inserted in the wall very covertly.
Go back to the fountain, upgrade the two long swords on your body into serrated daggers, buy shoes and long swords, and teleport to this shadow where you can't be discovered by the eyes.
The time is 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
The Stone Beetle Camp just refreshed.
Xing Dao uses the grass jump, Q, and E to accumulate three layers of brutality, then walks to the edge of the bush and uses W to recover the health lost within 1.5 seconds, accumulating the fourth layer of brutality.
Exhaust the stone beetle's patience.
Jump back before the 3-second out-of-combat judgment takes effect, so that the brutality continues to be at full value.
I went back into the grass and just happened to see Huni walking towards the line step by step.
Jump out!
Use the enhanced Q skill [Cruel and Ruthless] in the air!
Landing triggers the additional damage of 10+(5*10) of 'Fresh Blood' and 3% of HP of 'Gift of the Green God' in the talent!
Trigger the Storm Rider's surge, and the movement speed increases dramatically!
A normal attack!
Normal Q with a cooling time of 4 seconds and independent CD calculation rushes in again!
Even though Kennen turned into an electric ball and threw out a shuriken with his backhand to create three layers of marks to stun the Warwick, he still got chased!
"Ashiha!!"
Huni has always been called "Hu Bu Rou".
This time is no exception.
In an attempt to cooperate with Ivern and counterattack under the tower, he first bought two yellow books worth 435 gold coins, which increased his magic power by 20 points.
There are only more than 800 blood in total.
Meeting is half the battle.
Looking at the Warwick who went back to the line of soldiers to gain some experience and was upgraded from level 5 to level 6, he let out an extremely complicated cry.
"that……"
Peanut hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "Huni, would you consider going back to recover and buy some armor and health equipment..."
"The small cloth armor combined with the arm guard, the red crystal combined with the rocket belt, neither of them is considered tanky." The support player Wolf immediately added.