Chapter 214: Selfless Jungler!
Win the coin toss.
IG chose the blue side in the first game and banned Thresh right at the start.
"Talk is talk, laugh is laugh, don't make fun of your brother Mata's Thresh, let's be honest, I'm just joking about the hook-type hero of the support named M. It's not a bad decision to ban this Thresh." Guan Zeyuan said with a smile.
"That's right, Brother Fu will start as the top laner today. What does RNG say?" Miller turned to look at the big screen.
"Wow! Two Bans on the top lane? Brother Fu can't play with Crocodile and Vampire today."
The doll exclaimed,
Everyone's attention was also focused on the Ban positions of both sides at the beginning of the game.
Blue side IG: Thresh, Minotaur, Nahm.
Red side RNG: Vampire, Crocodile, Leblanc
At the RNG competition booth on one side of the stage, Mata frowned and asked, "Didn't we agree to triple-ban the top laner? If you want to ban him, do it thoroughly. Why put Graves out there?"
During the Spring Finals, RNG's game was ended by Li Fu's pentakill on Graves, but he was a jungler at that time. However, it also left a deep psychological trauma on Mata.
"There are not enough ban positions."
Coach Fly looked calm. Realizing that he might lose his job in the playoffs, he was no longer as weak as before. He said directly, "We can take Graves and Looper. If the opponent grabs it first, we will play tanks, Poppy and Tree. We just need to develop steadily in the top lane."
But IG did not grab Graves first. Instead, they helped Wuxx lock down the strongest ADC in the version, which is also one of his best shooter heroes.
"Oh! Lucian was picked. It seems that Wuxx's tactical position in IG has improved this season."
"Well, the main reason is that Lucian is really strong in the current version, and if he doesn't pick him, Uzi will definitely grab him. So we might as well grab him first. Oh, RNG directly picked Skate. This hero is not bad against Lucian. What about the second pick? Graves?"
"Mala Xiangguo's jungler male gun... or?"
The commentator's confusion was quickly resolved when RNG chose the excavator next.
"It's top lane Graves!" Wawa said excitedly, "I didn't expect that after not seeing him for a long time, Looper would also play top lane Graves. It seems that the intensity of today's game will be far beyond our imagination."
Miller crossed his arms in front of him, rubbing his chin with one hand and said, "Then the pressure is now on IG. As for the top lane Graves, it means that all three top lane heroes that Brother Fu practiced some time ago have to be either rushed or banned. Then his hero pool for today is completely blocked. I wonder if Brother Fu has not practiced any new heroes to break the blockade during this period?"
"Fiora? Poppy? Actually, I think tanky is a better choice." Guan Zeyuan smacked his lips and said, "Anyway, when I played ranked games, the Graves I met were all quite afraid of heroes like Poppy who are both tanky and can limit your movement."
Unexpectedly, the next second, RNG's fourth and fifth floors were also selected.
"Pigsy plus...Kennan?"
Eh? Kenan?
The audience at the scene and in the live broadcast room were stunned when they saw this, and the barrage in the live broadcast room was also flooding the screen with comments.
"If I remember correctly, Kennen should be countered by the male gun, right?"
"I don't know whether it was a counter attack or not, but I know that in the second round of the regular season, Fu Ge's Graves beat Looper's Kennen."
"He must have been countered by the male gunner, otherwise how could he be so powerful?"
"What the hell is this? Why did Brother Fu choose Kennen who is countered by Graves?"
"Is this guy trying to show off by using his own method to retaliate?"
"Hahaha, just wait for the car to overturn."
“…”
As soon as Li Fu's backup Kennen came out, there was a heated discussion at the scene and in the live broadcast room.
However, during this period, the final lineups of both sides were also locked.
IG on the blue side: Kennen on top, Sejuani in the jungle, Clockwork in the middle, Lucian and Minotaur on the bottom lane.
Red side RNG: top lane Graves, jungle Digger, mid lane Tsar, bottom lane Skate and Braum.
Judging from the BP, RNG was more proactive in selecting players, while IG was more adaptable and tended to fight positional teams in the middle and late stages, while RNG's lineup in this game was more inclined to charge.
While the game was loading, Ah Xun turned to Li Fu and asked, "Brother Fu, do you want me to protect you this time?"
"No, I like to grow." Li Fu said with a smile, "Kennen still needs some growth."
"Okay, then I'll take a closer look." A Xun nodded.
In this game, IG's bottom lane is Lucian, a hero who is strong in laning phase. If Ashun can help Wuxx establish an advantage in the early stage and get two kills or something, then let alone the opponent's bottom lane is Uzi, even if a god comes, he will kill you.
At this point, the game loading is complete and the competition officially begins.
In the first game of BO5, both sides started out very cautiously, standing in a long snake formation without too many invading moves.
Since there was no invading ward to scout the opponent's jungler, at 1 minute and 30 seconds into the game, Li Fu, who was standing guard at the grass in the river in the top lane, directly cast a ward towards the river.
"Eh? Brother Fu gave the ward a little too early."
"Well, the main reason is that both sides were very cautious in this game. My teammates were not able to catch the excavator's position in the wild, so Xiang Guo might have been able to catch him directly at level 3. "
"Hey, you know what, this Xiang Guo really started the game in the upper half of the red buff. He really just cleared the upper half of the area and caught it directly."
“…”
However, the spicy hotpot has been prepared for too long.
Most of the time, the attention was focused on the top lane, even including Li Fu's movements at the beginning of the game.
The opponent is coming online from the river?
Is it possible to start the game by looking at the river grass?
Mala Xiangguo thinks it is very likely.
He has been studying IG's games during this period. Although Li Fu is a temporary top laner, his eye position awareness may not be so good as a top laner, but as a jungler he is very good.
Li Fu only needs to put himself into the jungle, and he will know clearly where the eyes are that can effectively prevent "his" gank, and then he can extend it to others, so that his awareness and sense of smell for the eyes in the top lane are frighteningly good.
This situation is very unsolvable.
The value of the MSI champion FMVP jungler can only be understood by those who understand.
Under normal circumstances, Li Fu could think of all the ganking opportunities that Mala Xiang Guo could think of, so this was an unsolvable deadlock, which meant that the opponent could anticipate the enemy's moves before Mala Xiang Guo could make any moves on the top lane.
In this situation, Mala Xiangguo pondered for several nights before the summer finals, but still had no clue.
Until the very end, he suddenly had an idea and remembered the style of LGD jungler Eimy whom he met in the top six promotion match of the playoffs - yes, what if even I don’t know what I want to do?
How can the other party guess me?
What is this called?
This is called selfless jungle!
At this time, Mata, who was laning in the bottom lane, saw that Kennen in the top lane was trying to grab the second player and that the spicy hotpot was opening in the upper half of the area, so he quickly said:
"Don't use the bottom lane yet, we can fight, you go gank the top lane."
He was afraid that if he didn't tell him in advance, the team would let Looper bear the pressure in the top lane because of someone's mindless help.
Looper is not stress-resistant.
The key is that person must not get fat.
Unexpectedly, when Spicy Hotpot heard this, he narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Shanglu, and said calmly, "Don't worry, I know what to do."
Mata frowned and said nothing.
The commentator on the stage discovered something wrong at this time.
"Eh? What happened to Xiang Guo this time? He cleared the upper zone but didn't gank the upper zone? Why didn't he go to the lower zone to continue clearing?"
"Why do I feel a little bit like I'm lost?"
"I don't understand, but judging by Xiang Guo's movements, he probably wants to catch him."
"Oh! Brother Fu on the top lane grabbed the level difference in the front lane, and pressed a little deep."
"That shouldn't be the case. With Fu Ge's sense of smell and the position of his wards, he should have guessed at the beginning that the opponent's jungler might gank him at level 3. Logically, he shouldn't have pushed the lane so hard."
"Wait! What if... Xiang Guo passes the time required to be caught at level 3 and then comes over?"
Under the director's lens on the big screen, when the line of troops was about to reach the red side RNG's top lane tower, because Graves would rather not last hit but block the line, at this time Li Fu could only use Kennen's few AOE skills E in the early stage to transmit electricity and clear the line.
In fact, this action of clearing the line shows that Li Fu has realized that the next moment will be a dangerous time.
However, Li Fu did not expect that after Mala Xiangguo finished clearing the upper half of the area, he did not catch up or go down, but was stuck in the blind spot behind the wall, lurking on the ground without moving, until... the moment he used up his E.
"Oh! Xiang Guo is on the way! He's taking advantage of the opportunity!"
The commentator on the stage exclaimed at this moment.
The next second, Xiang Guo, who used his E skill to drill through the wall, flashed directly to W and instantly pushed Kennen up.
The sneaky Looper in the early stage also quickly followed up with a W smoke bomb and then a Q.
“Ah, this…”
"How can we run away? Brother Fu can't run away."
The director's perspective was given to Li Fu at the right time. Under the camera, Li Fu laughed in surprise, and then the contestant left the keyboard.
I didn't hand in any of the double moves.
"RNG-Mlxg killed IG-Padre6!"
"FirstBlood!"
Done!
Mala Xiangguo immediately showed a look of joy!
As long as I myself don’t know what I want to do, I ask you, how can he guess me?
At this moment, the audience seats at the summer finals were cheering loudly. Getting the first blood within more than three minutes of the start was really a morale booster.
“6666!”
"Good catch! Xiang Guo is awesome!"
"Hahaha, if someone is so arrogant that he wants to teach Kennen how to backhand, then let them know what cruelty is."
“…”
Hosting the commentary stage.
Miller couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Don't tell me, don't tell me, when Xiangguo was caught, even we didn't understand what he was trying to do from our God's perspective, but he actually caught him."
"Haha, how do you say it? If you want others not to know what you are doing, first you have to not know what you want to do. This is what a top jungler does, deceiving others and then deceiving yourself." Guan Zeyuan boasted mindlessly.
Wawa also laughed cheerfully and said, "But let's be honest, although Brother Fu was caught a little too suddenly, when the director showed the camera just now, I saw that he was laughing, but he was still very calm at the critical moment, and he didn't use either of his two skills."
Miller nodded and analyzed seriously, "That's right. Brother Fu TPed to the lane this time and had flash. The troops were also pushed to the opposite side. Graves didn't get any kills, but he wasn't at a big disadvantage in the laning phase."
"That's right, you see, Brother Fu didn't even use his TP, he just resurrected and went straight to the lane."
"Hmm ... But we can all see this problem, and Xiang Guo should be able to see it too. He got the first blood in this gank, and the jungler got fatter, but it didn't bring much substantial help. What do you think... Will Xiang Guo's rhythm focus still be on the top lane next time?"
The commentator's speculation soon came true.
The game lasted 6 minutes and 50 seconds. Although Looper did not get a kill in the early laning phase, he had the advantage of experience lead and gathered a wave of soldiers on the line to push under the tower.
Almost at the same time, the soldiers had not yet entered the tower, and Mala Xiangguo's excavator was in the grass behind the tower!
"Oh! RNG wants to make a move! Mata should have seen Ah Sturgeon's Sejuani show up in the bottom half of the area."
"Yes, they are very quick. Now the soldiers are entering the tower, but Kennen is only level 5 and still lacks some experience to reach level 6."
"The excavator is coming straight up! Xiang Guo didn't dodge this time, but he can just walk up to the person's face and hit him!"
"Brother Fu is moving, but the space under the tower is limited. Oh! Kennen is pushed up!"
It happened in the blink of an eye!
Looper, who was originally circling around, raised his hand to fire a shot, then suddenly raised the barrel of the gun and launched a series of skills.
The ultimate bomb!
Draw your gun quickly!
The end of the road!
flash!
It's the close-range AREQ flash that maximizes the damage of the male gun!
There is no doubt that given Kennen's fragile body, if he is hit by this attack, he can be wiped out with just two attacks.
However, just under the smoke-filled tower on the top lane, the space suddenly twisted!
flash!
"Oh my god! Brother Fu used this flash to dodge the AREQ flash of the male gun! He only took damage from a basic attack!"
"The key is that Brother Fu's Kennen has reached level 6! He used his ultimate right away! Xiang Guo's excavator just retreated slightly after being knocked away. Now Graves is holding the tower, and he's been stunned under it!"
"Brother Fu's flash is too extreme! What do you think of this wave?"
Forbidden Secret! Ten Thousand Thunder Prison Induction!
Yes, as the first person in the LPL professional league to use Graves' AREQ to flash kill Deft and Miss Fortune, and a top Graves player who used Graves twice to get pentakills in the LPL Spring Finals and MSI semi-finals, he knows too well the burst mode of this hero.
Just now, Looper just raised his butt, and in a split second, Li Fu smelled the smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and with a split second of flash, he dodged the male gun's fatal bomb!
Thus, the situation under the tower was reversed!
"IG-Padre6 killed RNG-Looper!"
"RNG-Mlxg killed IG-Padre6!"
One for one!
"Wow! This Bofu brother's reaction is so fast!"
"Yes, actually there is nothing wrong with Looper's operation. He has really mastered the hero Graves. At least the AREQ flash is something that most people would not be able to react to... But there is nothing we can do. Brother Fu is still too old in his proficiency in Graves."
"That's right, but after all, Brother Fu was trapped in the lane and crossed the tower. I feel like he was at a slight disadvantage."
"Wait, look at the data on both sides again, do you really think Kennen is losing?"
After Miller asked this question, everyone's eyes fell on the data panel at the bottom of the screen.
Graves: 52; Kennen: 59.
How come Kennen is still leading even though he died twice and got the last hit?
Everyone was stunned, and the scene suddenly emerged in their minds after Kennen electrocuted the Graves under the tower and then frantically moved around to avoid the excavator with low health. At that time, everyone thought that this guy was struggling to death.
It wasn't until I saw the finishing blow that I reacted.
Oh shit!
This is fucking clearing the line!
Take another look at the kill...
Graves: 0/1; Kennen: 1/2
Although Graves died once, he got zero kills, while Kennen got a kill.
Relating this to the last hits above, a sense of unreality arose in everyone's mind - how come RNG's top lane jungler is getting worse and worse?
