Chapter 288: Next Year Sky‑High Price

Guan Zeyuan took a few breaths, his voice a little hoarse:

Now you know why G2 took Syndra and not Leopard Girl, right? The importance of Zhong Lu priority is fully demonstrated in this game!

Yeah, I've realized now—giving you Leopard Girl doesn't matter; you have no Zhong Lu priority! I just pick a fast-clearing champion, and your Ye Qu becomes mine. Leopard Girl can't show her fast jungle clear advantage because there's nothing for her to jungle!

Exactly, and I also noticed something—Perkz seems to have carried over the hot hand from the last game of the semifinals; his performance today is still excellent!

It feels like that game with Zed gave him confidence!

No, I think it was the third game against SKT—Jiao Shen's desperate kick changed the whole G2 team's mentality somehow.

That means someone has their back, the support is very solid, so a few buddies started playing more boldly!

Pretty much like that……

The three suddenly fell silent.

Just a moment ago they were chatting heatedly, the next moment they suddenly went silent.

Because the three LPL commentators all thought of the same question.

And someone also brought it up in the bullet comments.

【The stronger Firrrrrre is, the better his performance, the more it shows that LPL is blind despite having eyes】

【Being able to force someone this strong to go to Europe, these people really deserve to die!】

【Which boss is willing to spend money, buy him back to save LPL, waa waa waa】

【Buy? Next year it'll be sky-high price!】

【Once you looked down on me, now you can't reach my level】

Sigh……

Wawa let out a soft sigh, changing the subject,

At around 9 minutes, G2 was leading by just over two thousand gold, and it looked like ROX's bottom turret couldn't hold; it would probably break three thousand soon, the gap really was huge.

More than ten seconds later, ROX's bottom turret collapsed with a boom.

The economic gap indeed broke past three thousand.

A three-thousand-gold economic gap in under ten minutes—how to put it? Anyway, that's the saying: ROX probably lost this game.

In ROX's backstage lounge, Nofe's face turned grim.

He thought this game's BP was actually fine; the problem was that the enemy jungler seemed to know Xiao Huasheng inside out, giving him a big surprise right from the start.

More than ten minutes later, ROX's base exploded with a boom.

One‑zero! Congratulations, G2!

With over 30% damage share, Jiao Shen as the male gunner can only be described as still invincible.

MVP is decided.

You see, I wasn't wrong, I said it at the start: that three‑minute river skirmish set the tone for the whole match; after Jiao Shen got two kills he began to dragon across the whole map, while Peanut could hardly make an impact.

Indeed, from that point on the whole game felt off; the ROX coach needs to think of a solution. Although ROX is indeed a Wild Core team, they can't just focus on protecting the jungler—they also need to consider whether the Zhong Lu can hold up.

Exactly, this game already showed that Zhong Lu importance goes without saying; even if you have no advantage, you at least can't keep being pushed, or the jungler will suffer terribly!

This patch is actually like that—Ryze, Syndra, Dragon King, and even the previous version's Orianna all serve lane priority and support; besides, I personally think that if Orianna hadn't been nerfed so hard, with her Q wave‑clear ability directly cut, this patch would actually have nothing to do with Dragon King……

……

On‑site commentator bench.

The four commentators' expressions were a bit awkward, yet they also showed an excitement that was hard to hide.

In the pre‑match prediction session, all four of them predicted ROX would win, but the result was G2's victory—and it was as easy as cutting melons and vegetables, they effortlessly overturned a game, the whole match lasting under thirty minutes!

G2 is too strong!

Could Europe really be rising?

No, it has already risen.

Think of a way, bring Firrrrrre over!

But will G2 be willing to let him go?

Never mind, just throw money at it!

There aren't many teams in our region more extravagant than G2—just those two or three—but their junglers are team cores, so swapping them would likely cause a major upheaval; whether they can integrate successfully is a big problem!

I think there's no problem—you know Firrrrrre joined G2 less than half a year ago!

But what's the point of us saying this here? We need the bosses to nod.

Maybe…… I'm saying maybe, perhaps the bosses have already……?

Huh?

No no no.

Of course not, haha—their contract hasn't expired yet, so contacting them now would be a violation. We'd better not talk about this, otherwise the fist of Riot will come smashing down.

……

G2 lounge.

Nice job!

Great performance this game!

Lu Ka, come give a kiss!

Ka Lao Si excitedly greeted the returning soldiers, hugging everyone who came in.

After everyone had gathered, Ka Lao Si suppressed his surging emotions:

Brothers, there are still two games!

Now is not the time to celebrate!

First, let's settle our minds; let's study the BP for the second game……

Liang Yan watched Ka Lao Si's face flush red with excitement, thinking it was you who needed to calm down.

Suddenly feeling someone's gaze, Liang Yan turned his head and saw Tang Anna swiftly turn hers away.

Tang Anna's side profile flushed slightly.

Liang Yan: "……"

"Next round, we're Red Side!"

Ka Lao Si's voice rang out strong and clear as he stood before a small activity board, pulling off the magnetic fasteners stuck under a dozen or so hero names and holding them in his hand.

"We have quite a few points to deal with."

"First, highest priority: Syndra."

Ka Lao Si said, sticking a magnetic fastener under Syndra's name,

"In the next match we'll bear the pressure of banning Syndra; we've discussed this many times before, no need to say more—it must be banned."

"Alright, next up second: Smeb Jayce."

"Third, Ashe."

"Fourth, Dragon King. It should be noted that the Dragon King + Sheriff combination must not be given to the opposing team, but the threat posed by a single Dragon King is not as high as the previous few."

"We have three ban slots but need to deal with four champions."

"Come on, let's discuss."

Next, everyone began to voice their opinions, sparing no effort in offering strategies.

In the ROX locker room, Coach Nofe faces more problems to solve; compared to the G2 coach, who has Tang Anna and Liang Yan to help share the pressure, the ROX team lacks such professional coaching assistants, so Coach Nofe can only bear the pressure himself.

Although Coach Nofe can also discuss with the players, they can only talk about tactical details and cannot provide him with strategic advice on the ban‑pick phase.