Chapter 211: What is the lower half?

Top lane, stay steady and don't feed; we have an advantage in bottom lane.

After Looper gave up first blood, Mlxg, who was farming the jungle in the bottom half, said this in the team voice channel.

Looper could only awkwardly laugh and say okay, while also clicking his own blue buff.

Mlxg had gone down without taking the blue buff.

In the match, it's a common tactic for the Blind Monk to start jungle in the top half without taking the blue buff.

The reason is similar to Rek'Sai; the Blind Monk is also a champion without mana, and since RNG is a team that absolutely cores around the bottom lane, Mlxg tends to head to the bottom half early to protect the bottom lane while looking for an opportunity to engage.

Moreover, his jungle route was discovered; after clearing the Magic Swamp Frog and going straight for the blue buff, he's very likely to be invaded and harassed by the enemy gunner who has taken the red buff.

Taking all factors into account, Mlxg chose this jungle route.

Now this blue buff will naturally end up in the gunner's pocket.

However, for Mlxg, he's certainly not at a loss, because RNG's bottom lane has an advantage; he can likewise go to G2's jungle to take back, and if he takes all three camps, his farm will be better than normal.

Of course, Liang Yan won't lose either.

When he finished eating the river crab, then came to take the blue buff, the time was already three and a half minutes— the blue side's second group of Magic Swamp Frogs had just respawned.

After Liang Yan took the blue buff, to prevent Malaxiangguo from breaking the rhythm and coming up to coordinate with the resurrected Jayce's dive on him, he first placed a ward at the five-way intersection, then went back to clear the Magic Swamp Frog.

At this moment, Malaxiangguo's Blind Monk appeared in the bottom lane and caught Mithy's flash.

Thus Liang Yan, after clearing the Magic Swamp Frog, came again to catch Looper.

Looper's Jayce had already used TP to return to lane; at this moment he was being blocked by a big wave of minions under the tower, though his level had already risen to three.

But Pantheon had already reached level four.

The gunner, also at level four, walked out from the Triangular Grass.

Looper hid in the tower crevice, torn. He didn't run at first because, when he earlier pinged the blue buff, mid lane Xiaohu's vampire moved toward him, so Looper asked, 'Come?' Xiaohu said, 'Wait a moment.'

Looper thought the 'wait a moment' meant after finishing this minion wave he'd come over, so he boldly used TP to return to lane, but…

What Xiaohu meant by 'wait a moment' was actually after the next minion wave.

If Looper chose to walk up to lane, Xiaohu finishing the fifth minion wave and then coming to support would still be in time.

However, due to a communication deviation, when the gunner emerged from behind the tower at around three fifty seconds, Xiaohu had just finished the minion wave and was starting to rush up.

"G2's jungle again trapped Looper under the tower; Xiaohu is on his way—can Looper hold out a bit!?"

"It feels impossible to hold; he has no flash, Jiao Shen walks up and auto-attacks to draw tower aggro; Looper's positioning is good, using the tower to block most of the bullets, but Pantheon, shielded by the gunner's smoke bomb, Q steps on and jumps right up!"

"The gunner, in one second, finishes his auto-attack, chains into a smoke bomb, then into a desperate last stand wall slam, bursting out two instances of damage and then another shot! Terrifying four shots in one second combined with Pantheon's Lightning! One burst instantly kills the full-health Jayce! Then he quickly pulls out his gun and slides away, having only taken one tower hit and walks out safely!"

"Oh my god... this damage."

"Looper died again, and the kill is still taken by the gunner!"

"It's over, top lane is blown apart..."

"Have to say, the gunner's combo is truly smooth, flowing like clouds and water......"

Xiaohu's vampire, seeing this, immediately turned back to mid; although the big minion wave before the first tower is very tempting, he estimates he doesn't have the life to eat it.

At the same time, Malaxiangguo reappeared in the bottom lane, after driving away the duo, wanting to forcibly destroy the tower to feed Uzi's farm.

But Perkz's Malzahar quickly arrived.

"Perkz drove Malaxiangguo away; G2's duo returned under the tower, this tower still has nearly half a health bar, so in a short time it shouldn't be pushed down so quickly."

"This opening is not good; the gunner already has two kills, later his farm will explode insanely, and to be frank, Graves taking the first blood tower... its effect is far less than Caitlyn's."

"It feels like Malaxiangguo's opening strategy has been thoroughly studied by G2."

"But there's nothing we can do; RNG can only fight around the bottom half!"

"The good news is the economic gap isn't actually big—less than seven hundred dollars; our Looper's farm is exploded, but G2's bottom lane farm is also exploded!"

"Each side has a lane that's exploded, it's just that this gunner......"

"His hands are short, his frame isn't very tough, and in team fights it's not easy to deal output."

"But this version of the gunner actually......"

Guan Zeyuan had spoken halfway when he suddenly thought of something, swallowed his words without finishing, shifted his tone, and said:

"Forget it, let's still see how he builds his items."

After counter-jungling the blue side's second wolf camp, the gunner with two kills and seventeen knives returned to base.

After arriving home, he bought a hammer and a pair of straw sandals, then added a true sight.

Leaving, he continued toward the top half.

First he collected the F4, then turned toward the Stone Armor Beetle direction.

At this moment, Malaxiangguo's Blind Monk appeared in mid, wanting to catch Perkz pushing the lane, but Xiaohu's vampire has no crowd control, making it really hard to cooperate; after Malaxiangguo's Q missed, he had to give up. Still, this slight interference does affect the mid lane lane state, giving Xiaohu a chance to push the line.

Liang Yan ignored him, using a signal to mark the blue side's Magic Swamp Frog camp.

"Lu Ka, take a look—if the vampire comes over, just follow."

AP responded with an acknowledgment.

Liang Yan, after finishing the Stone Armor Beetle, grabbed his gun and rushed over, first placing a true sight in the grass at the river mouth for Lao Zhang, then directly charging alone into RNG's blue buff jungle.

"What's going on, how did he come again?! Is this gunner completely without a bottom half?! Why does he keep causing trouble in the top half!!"

"Don't worry, he might not be able to beat Malaxiangguo!"

"Pin has signaled; RNG is aware of it! Moreover, Xiaohu this time learned from loss—he didn't even finish clearing the minions before directly flanking!"

"This gunner is too arrogant! We must make sure he never returns! Flank and kill him!"

"Wow! Can he even snatch this?!"

Liang Yan calculated that Malaxiangguo was right there, so after entering the jungle he directly face-checked the wall with E, gaining vision behind the wall and indeed seeing a bald monk and a wounded Magic Swamp Frog; he immediately applied Smite.

Boom—, 89 dollars in hand.

After snatching it, he slipped away.