Chapter 217: The Uncontrollable Undead God of War!
Blue side RNG: Jayce on top, Lee Sin in the jungle, Corki in the middle, Ezreal and Leona in the bottom lane.
Red side IG: top lane Sion, jungle Gragas, mid lane Syndra, bottom lane Jinx and Nahmtan.
The red team IG locked Sion as the last pick, and the commentator on the stage began to analyze the strength of the lineups on both sides.
Wawa stroked his chin and said, "I feel like RNG was a bit relaxed in this game. Their lineup was very powerful in the early and mid-game, and it was a lineup that charged into the enemy lines."
Miller nodded and added, "And he doesn't mean that assassins can only rush the back row. If your front row isn't strong enough, RNG's lineup can rush your front row as well."
"That's right. Now I understand why Brother Fu chose Sion instead of Graves. This lineup cannot survive in a team battle with only a supporting Titan. There must be a solid front-line hero, and the Undead God of War Sion is obviously a very good choice." Guan Zeyuan also nodded.
"Well, Sion is a hero with a shield and enough tankiness. He's the kind of hero who can hold his own against RNG's top, mid, and bottom Jayce or Corki and Ezreal in a stalemate river fight and go to the front to clear vision."
"I also think IG's clever pick of Sion as their last counter pick is that Sion's power curve peaks in the mid-game with two or three items, which perfectly matches the mid-game strength of RNG's Jayce and Corki. Other top lane and frontline heroes don't have this same growth curve."
"Yes, and RNG's lineup is obviously also playing against the rhythm of the 'Speed Dragon'. As long as IG can play around the rhythm of Sion, the front row, and play a good team fight to interrupt the rhythm of RNG's Speed Dragon, then RNG's charging lineup will become weaker and weaker as time goes by, and there is a high probability that it will be difficult to charge."
"The hero is a good one, of course. The only thing worth worrying about now is Brother Fu's proficiency with Sion, because he has never played Sion in either the jungle or top lane positions."
"That's right. In addition, Jayce, who was laning against Looper in this match, had short range against long range, which put him at a natural disadvantage in the laning phase. If the details of the laning phase are not handled well, it is easy for the laning phase to explode, and the growth curve will completely collapse."
"Okay, without further ado, our game has been loaded. Let's wait and see whether it's a mule or a horse."
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The game started. In the third life-and-death game, both sides returned to the caution of the first game. There was no large-scale group invasion like in the second game. Both sides started with a long snake formation defensive position.
After the wild monsters refreshed, RNG's lineup for this game was for the Athlon, and the first dragon was a very important water dragon, so Mala Xiangguo's Lee Sin undoubtedly started from the blue buff in the upper half of the area and cleared from top to bottom.
With this jungle route, he can reach the little dragon on time in about five and a half minutes after the second round of jungle monsters reset. The mid and bottom lane of RNG only need to push the line and gain control in the early stage, and then return to the city for supplies at this point in time.
You can easily cooperate with the jungler to take the little dragon.
Although RNG's move was not detected, from the moment the lineup was selected, it was basically obvious to the professional players on the field with amazing sense of smell.
It depends on how IG responds.
For a moment, A Xun was unsure and turned to ask Li Fu for advice.
"Brother Fu, how do I brush this?"
There's nothing shameful about this.
Li Fu is not only a top laner with a rising reputation, but also the FMVP champion jungler of MSI. It is not shameful to ask Li Fu for advice.
Li Fu glanced at the small map after hearing this, and after a brief pause for two seconds, he said, "You should start jungle in the lower half. Try to exchange resources as much as possible in the front. There is no need to compete with the opponent for resources."
When it comes to rhythm, the more you try to control it, the more passive you become, and you may even be led by the opponent - because when the opponent formulates this tactic, he must have been prepared for confrontation.
They often do not play according to the routine, but instead make a move at the critical moment, which can unexpectedly disrupt the opponent's rhythm.
But after hearing Li Fu's words, Ah Xun was still only on the first floor. He said thoughtfully, "I understand. I'll start from the bottom half of the area, from the bottom to the top. After clearing it, I can gank the upper part. Brother Fu, you're laning against Jayce, short-range against long-range, cold weapons against hot weapons. The pressure must be quite great, right?"
"I'm actually fine." Li Fu shook his head and said, "You don't need to fight in the front lane. Sion is not a hero that can help you."
This is true. Sion's W passive ability increases health by last hitting, so he is not one of those snowball heroes. It doesn't make much difference whether he helps or not.
Upon hearing this, A Xun nodded, but he still had some doubts in his heart.
This... Can Sion really have no pressure when fighting Jayce?
Li Fu didn't explain much when he saw this. A slight smile appeared on his lips, but a data panel that only he could see appeared in front of him.
[Position details: 91]
[Hand speed reaction: 100]
[Others: omitted]
Apart from anything else, the two most important attributes in laning are Li Fu's 100 [Hand Speed Reaction] and 91 [Position Details].
One is world-class, and the other is at the peak of world-class status. He really doesn’t think there will be any problems with his laning phase.
Moreover, Li Fu did not think that his Sion would be at a disadvantage in the early stages when fighting against Jayce, with short arms against long arms - perhaps that was not the case, as Jayce was better at consuming Sion in the first few levels, after all, he had longer arms.
But once Sion's equipment reaches a certain level, the situation becomes more complicated.
To take a step back, even if Looper fully utilized the advantages of the previous levels, frantically exchanging blood and consuming energy, he really killed Li Fu once.
But so what?
Is the hero Sion afraid of death?
This was completely within Li Fu's acceptable range.
What's more, Li Fu didn't think the other party had a chance to kill him.
The hero Sion can have a place in the top lane after the rework, facing many long-range heroes, more because he can counter the opponent from the mechanism.
Take this game against Jayce for example.
At this time, after the soldiers in the top lane come up, Looper will stand in front of the soldiers in the early stage and use the advantage of long reach to drive Li Fu out of the experience area. However, if they play like this, the soldiers will always come over and reach Li Fu's tower at around level 3.
At this time, when Li Fu was last hitting the tower, Looper would often use W to attack within the tower's extreme range to consume Sion - this was also the tactic Li Fu often used last time when he was a top laner with long hands. The tower kept beeping, but he couldn't attack at once.
However, Li Fu is so capable.
Naturally, it is impossible for Looper to succeed easily.
The commentator on the stage was the first to notice the clue.
"Eh? Brother Fu's handling of this wave of tower soldiers was very detailed."
"Yes, he wasn't consumed in vain. Instead, he looked for an opportunity to use Q. As long as he didn't go for the knock-up and gave Jayce a chance to move, he could still hit Jayce, and the damage was not low."
"That's right. If we exchange blood like this, even though Fu Ge Sion is at a disadvantage in terms of health now, Sion's W passive can increase health. Overall, I don't think it's a loss."
"Hey! Here, Looper accidentally got hit by Fu Ge's E to kick a minion and got slowed down. The minion line just happened to move outwards, and Fu Ge chased him directly. What should I do with this Q? Jess changes form to speed up and move!"
Bang!
The Undead God of War's powerful attack came down, and Jess immediately flew up.
Moreover, Sion's E can reduce armor by 20%. Looper's health was originally higher than Li Fu's, but he was hit so hard.
Jayce's health suddenly dropped to half.
Li Fu's health bar gradually recovered from half to just over half, and he still hadn't taken the blood medicine he brought with him.
The situation on the line was reversed at level three.
"Wow! Brother Fu paid so much attention to detail in this wave. It's a bit of a loss for Looper to be replaced."
"I think it would have been better if he had used E to interrupt Fu Ge's Q charge just now."
"That's a bit unrealistic."
"Oh? How do you mean?"
"You see, when Sion is charging up to use Q, whether Jayce uses Q to interrupt or walks up to use E, the E action has a release animation, so Sion can use Q immediately at the moment Jayce uses E."
"Huh? It seems like that's true. Then it's 100% guaranteed to win."
The commentator was talking over there.
In the top lane, Looper suffered a loss in the previous wave and was trying his best to fight back. When the line of soldiers retreated to the middle of the river, Li Fu charged Q at him again and tried to switch to hammer form and use Sky Leap to interrupt.
But Looper obviously has little experience with Jayce against Sion. After all, Sion is not a top laner in this version and is not even ranked in T2. Li Fu only uses him because it is more suitable for the lineup in this game.
As a result, the timing when he switched forms, swung the hammer and jumped up was actually a little late. Li Fu's accumulated power had just reached the critical point of the knock-up effect, so he pressed the release button in advance and directly interrupted Jayce's Q in mid-air.
Now that's better.
Looper's goal was to interrupt Li Fu's Q and use his own hammer-form QE damage to trade blood, but he was countered by Li Fu and took a charged Q that knocked him away in vain.
Oh, that’s not all.
Sion's charged knockback stun lasts for at least 1.25 seconds, not counting the stiff state at the moment of being knocked back. Li Fu decisively came up with an EWA set to consume the opponent's energy!
All of a sudden, Jayce's health dropped to one third.
The RNG fan who had been clamoring for Looper to break Li Fu's legs with Jayce at the beginning of the game saw this scene and suddenly looked confused and at a loss, and then he gritted his teeth again.
"Fuck! How can a long-armed man lose against a short-armed man?"
"This top laner is so lame, is he even good enough?"
"Please ask the club to change the top laner. He's really holding me back in this state."
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Hosting the commentary stage.
"This is the lead in personal laning strength. It's unbelievable! It's simply unbelievable!" Guan Zeyuan said exaggeratedly, "It's hard to imagine that a temporary top laner can suppress the former No. 1 top laner in S4 in terms of laning strength."
Miller nodded and analyzed seriously, "Yes, Looper is in a very bad situation now. If he continues to stay in the lane until level 6 with this much health, Sion might slow down first and then step on the accelerator to knock him flying. He might even be able to kill him."
"And do you know what the scariest thing is?"
Wawa deliberately left the question in suspense, and then continued, "The most terrifying thing is that now is the early stage when Jayce should be taking advantage and snowballing, but Looper is losing so much in the laning phase. When Sion's level grows and his equipment is ready, Jayce will become increasingly difficult to beat. I think Looper and RNG should be mentally prepared."
Guan Zeyuan shook his head and said, "There's nothing we can do. Even if we are mentally prepared, there's no use. Xiang Guo's Lee Sin started with blue in the upper half of the map, clearing from top to bottom, obviously aiming to control the dragon. It's too far to turn around and help."
"Well, but there is an interesting point here."
"Eh? What did you find out?"
"I'm talking about Ah Chuan. Ah Chuan was scouting from the bottom to the top. I originally thought he wanted to help in the early game. After all, in theory, Sion would be very tormented against Jayce in the early game, and RNG seemed to have noticed this. At 1 minute and 30 seconds earlier, Xiaohu in the middle lane went around to F4 in the upper half of IG and set a ward."
"What's so interesting about this?"
"The interesting part is that Axun didn't gank the top lane, nor did he hide his jungle route. They had vision at the beginning of the game and saw the invasion ward placed by Xiaohu in the river. Axun cleared F4 right in front of the invasion ward."
"Oh, no wonder. At around 2 minutes and 40 seconds, when the top lane soldiers hadn't entered the tower yet, Looper's Jayce was still crossing the soldiers to force Fu Ge out of the experience zone and torture him. But he suddenly turned around and entered the river. The director's perspective didn't follow him at the time. It turned out that he went to the triangle grass to place a ward."
"That's really interesting. A-Chun didn't catch the enemy in this game, but he used Xiaohu's wards to put pressure on Looper in the top lane, which made it difficult for Looper to suppress Fu-ge with all his strength."
"That's right. I was saying, if there's no jungle pressure, Sion can gain an advantage against Jayce in the early game. That's ridiculous."
"There are even more outrageous things."
"Ah? Go ahead."
"Achung started the game by clearing from the bottom up. He didn't try to catch the upper jungler, but instead directly cleared all six groups of jungle monsters in the upper and lower jungle areas."
"That's not outrageous."
"The problem is that with Axun's farming, not only did Looper dare not push too hard in the top lane, but Xiaohu's Corki in the middle lane also stayed in a lower position during the laning phase, obviously afraid that Axun's Gragas wouldn't be able to catch him and he would attack him in the middle lane. The weird part was that after Axun had farmed all six groups of monsters and cleared the top Golem, he circled half of the canyon, then suddenly emerged from the river below and forcibly hit Corki, even forcing Xiaohu to use his first TP."
I have to say that the top lane was constantly exchanging blood, and the director's camera didn't have time to cut because the mid laner wasn't killed. It would be difficult to notice if you didn't pay attention to the minimap.
As soon as Guan Zeyuan finished speaking, the director, perhaps realizing his "negligence", quickly cut out the replay of the center lane.
As expected, Xiaohu placed a ward on the upper side of the middle lane and stood in a lower position, but Achuan unexpectedly appeared from the bottom lane, slowed down with Q, and broke the W of the airplane with the E skill. In the end, he could only go home and TP to the line without using flash.
Not only that, there is another detail here.
That is, after Ashun attacked the middle lane, he directly crossed the middle lane and headed towards the river above, forcing Looper to go deeper into the river to add the second trinket eye.
As a result, just arrived online,
Li Fu blocked the wall vision and used E to slow him down, but Q knocked him up and he did a set of attacks, which was the blood exchange that Looper lost the most in the top lane just now...
The audience at the scene was numb after watching it.
As expected, the intensity of professional competitions is not comparable to ordinary Rank. The top, mid and jungle are integrated, and one move can affect the entire body.
At this time, the laning situation in the top lane became increasingly worse.
After the last wave, Jayce consumed too much energy in the early stage, and instead of gaining a health advantage, he exhausted all his mana. At this moment, he is equivalent to losing all his health and mana.
Although switching to hammer form can also slowly restore mana and stay on the line.
But if the hero Jayce relies solely on the lane and Sion to develop, then there is no point in using Jayce's long arms to fight against short arms. Not to mention that he can insist on reaching level 6, as he may be killed with this much health.
To put it bluntly.
At 4 minutes and 45 seconds into the top lane, although Jayce was not dead, he had already lost the qualification to fight in the top lane.
Looper can only retreat to the grass in front of his own tower and return to the city.
"Eh? Looper went home?"
"Jace was beaten back home by Sion at level 5. To be honest, this is the first time in history that this has ever happened. I don't know what to say."
"The key is that Looper's handling of this wave of soldiers was a bit bad. If both sides go home, the soldiers who go online again will still be in front of Sion's tower. Jayce will have a hard time fighting."
"Eh? Brother Fu didn't go home this time. He was gathering his troops and heading towards the tower."
Ding ding ding—!
At the same time, three support signals were pinged on the top lane of the small map.
At the IG competition seat under the director's camera, Li Fu turned around and was talking to the jungler Axun with a smile, and Axun nodded repeatedly.
The audience at the scene suddenly smelled a scent of conspiracy.
The big one is coming!
As expected.
After Looper's Jayce returned home, he TPed back online with full health and mana. At this time, if he wanted to take back the initiative in the line, he had to force the top lane line under IG's tower to reset the line.
There is nothing wrong with this idea itself.
It is the optimal way to solve the problem.
The problem is that Li Fu predicted Looper's prediction at the fifth level.
As soon as he pushed the line into the tower, Axun's Gragas, with the support of Li Fu, walked straight towards him at the right time when there was no vision in the triangle grass.
E flash!
rise!
Sion charges Q!
Rise again!
Two people were hurt.
At this time, Xiang Guo's early jungle rhythm was all on the water dragon in the lower area, and he was completely out of reach of the top lane.
Looper's teleport really became a "teleport". He transmitted up and the first blood kill notification resounded throughout the venue.
"IG-Padre6 killed RNG-Looper!"
"First Blood!"
After getting the first blood, Li Fu took advantage of Jayce's lack of TP and pushed the troops back to the Looper tower. In this round trip, Looper lost at least two waves of troops.
Sion was supposed to be beaten in the laning phase.
But at this moment, the development speed was accelerated.
Backstage, RNG lounge.
Coach Fly was originally calm as he watched Xiang Guo control the dragon according to the plan, but at this moment, a hint of panic clearly appeared in his eyes.
This rhythm...
Why do I feel like I've gone off track again?
