Chapter 246: Why do we keep brushing fire dragons?!

After being hit by Ashe's Hawkshot, Liang Yan's gank plan fell through again.

But Liang Yan still came to the bottom lane, cleared the ward at the river mouth, slightly eased the pressure on the duo, and then started clearing from the Stone Armor Beetle upward.

The time was approaching six minutes.

The male gunner had just reached level five.

Such a slow development pace was also a first for Liang Yan.

Going on like this definitely won't work.

The situation was extremely unfavorable for G2; Liang Yan knew that forcibly helping bottom would result in poor bottom lane development and himself being dragged down as well.

A decision had to be made.

Either completely give up his own development to guarantee the duo's development,

or the opposite.

How to choose?

This is actually something that doesn't require much thought.

Liang Yan was about to speak when Mang Seng burst out from the tri-brush behind the blue side's first turret.

Lao Zhang's Kennen was pinned under the turret.

Meanwhile, Duke's Rumble had already reached level six.

Lao Zhang tried his best, ultimately trading one-for-one with Mang Seng.

But Rumble got the kill, and Lao Zhang had used his teleport half a minute earlier; now he died, and this wave would be completely taken by the turret.

"It's over, top lane also collapsed......"

Liang Yan silently started clearing.

As long as it didn't affect his own development, he would help bottom if convenient; otherwise, he would prioritize his own development.

At 8 minutes, Ashe's arrow hit Zven, who had no flash, killing him. AP teleported to bottom to defend the tower and pick up some farm, but on the way back to mid he was caught by Mang Seng, used flash to escape, but was already very low, only able to go home; when he returned to mid, his level had fallen one behind Faker's Orianna.

At this moment, Ashe used Hawkshot again to scout the jungle.

Liang Yan's male gunner also appeared in the top lane at the same time.

Lao Zhang, when dove under tower, had already used flash, then used E to rush up and barely managed to hold the person.

Liang Yan used flash to get the Rumble kill, then directly pushed the lane with Lao Zhang to take the turret.

In the end, both sides exchanged one turret, but SKT's bottom lane destroyed theirs faster, claiming the first turret bounty, then took the second dragon.

Thanks to the huge advantage in bottom lane, SKT's dragon control pace was very fast, securing the second dragon at just over eleven minutes.

And both were fire drakes.

In this version, dragon respawns are completely random; in extreme cases, even four drakes of the same element could appear……

And unfortunately, G2 encountered almost that extreme situation.

"Ah?! Still a fire drake?!"

On the LPL commentary desk, Wawa watched the marker for the third drake's element appear on the dragon pit wall after SKT killed the second drake, her eyes wide with shock.

"What's going on? Why do we keep brushing fire drakes in this game?!"

This version's drake buff is pretty weak.

But if you eat three of the same element in a row, the situation is completely different.

One fire drake grants an extra 8% attack damage and ability power.

Two drakes give 16%

Three drakes……24%

A 24% stat boost, in the late game, is equivalent to SKT having an extra damage item per person; assuming an average of 3000 gold per item, that's over 10,000 gold in value, and in the very late game when everyone has six items, the extra 24% stats amount to SKT each having an extra item slot……

This is still worth playing, der.

On the European commentary desk, several commentators were so angry they started swearing.

And backstage in the G2 lounge, Ka Lao Si was already cursing Riot's relatives—no matter whether a company has relatives or not, he was swearing profusely.

Just swearing wasn't enough to vent; Ka Lao Si then jumped up and kicked the gaming chair, after being warned by staff to compensate for damaged property, he switched to kicking the sofa.

"If we could steal one back, there would still be something to play for."

Miller said that.

At this point SKT had two fire drakes, enjoying a 16% stat boost; if G2 could snatch the third, G2 would also gain an 8% boost. According to the jungle relativity theory, taking what the enemy didn't equals the enemy losing it, so SKT's 16% would shrink to 8%.

So if G2 could get the third drake, there would indeed be something to play for.

But……

When the third drake spawned at seventeen minutes, SKT already held a gold lead of over four thousand.

Trying to contest the dragon was impossible.

A team like SKT would never give a male gunner a chance to contest the dragon at such a critical moment, so if G2 wanted to stop SKT from taking this fire drake, they could only engage head-on.

Liang Yan's development this game was okay but not far ahead.

In the other lanes, top and mid development were barely keeping up with the timeline; the disadvantage wasn't big, the lane-specific gold differences were all under a thousand, but bottom lane……

Put it this way, it's two items versus one.

The enemy had tier two boots while Zven did not.

"Jiao Shen's gear is half an item ahead of Mang Seng, mid and top differ by half an item, which actually looks okay, but the bottom lane gap is really……"

"It's too big; I feel we can't take this fight, if we engage we'll blow up."

"If we don't engage, the enemy gets three fire drakes, making things even worse."

"It's indeed difficult……"

"And the most frustrating part, you know what it is? G2 didn't engage!"

Yes, this itself is a poke-oriented comp that aims to press down the enemy HP, and only with vision advantage can Kennen flank and go in. But your situation is that G2 not only lacks advantage, but is actually at a disadvantage.

Even the enemy female gunner's E poke effect can match your Jayce's empowered shot; that's terrifying.

Moreover, SKT now has vision advantage; it's SKT's turn to flank, Bengi starts flanking, Kennen's position is about to collide, oh no! In an instant upon contact, Bengi directly smites, R-flashes, and delivers a spinning kick that kicks Kennen into the river!

Everyone on G2 rushes forward to try to save!

Kennen lands, flashes, and runs!

Rumble unleashes his ultimate, then advances with flamespitter! This ultimate is utterly devastating! It directly burns Kennen to death and burns G2's two squishy backline to low health.

Rumble flashes, pursuing the flames!

Jiao Shen fights while retreating!

Ashe's arrow forces Jayce to flash!

Janna, on the brink of death, throws out her ultimate to cut off pursuit!

But Faker flashes forward and lands a shockwave! Jayce and Jhin are pulled in! Jhin is instantly killed! Jayce also dies in the female gunner's barrage!

Jiao Shen flashes to dodge the shockwave and follows up on Rumble's auto-attack to secure Rumble's kill!

But his teammates are all down! He throws a smoke bomb back to block Orianna's vision and tries to flee! Bengi directly smites, flies up, lands a basic attack and applies E to slow him!

Jiao Shen stops fleeing! He reloads, turns, fires a shot to the face, uses E to adjust angle, fires a wall-bouncing Q, then another shot! Bengi is instantly low health! He turns to flee!

Jiao Shen still has one bullet!!

But he can't kill him!!

Orianna gives him a shield!!

Bang simultaneously flashes up and heals a bit!!

One shot couldn't even break the shield!

Moreover, he himself was slowed by Ashe's basic attack!

He can't escape! He can't be killed either!

Too desperate!!!