Chapter 304

Guan Zeyuan's voice just fell, Lu Xi An burst out from the grass at the river entrance, and the duration of his sprint also came to an end.

Liang Yan's wine barrel ran out of the grass following him.

The ROX duo were all stunned, desperately running down toward the tower.

Perkz shouted "Hello!" and charged forward, directly initiating.

Liang Yan's wine barrel followed, puffing out its big belly and launching a charge.

「The wine barrel's meat-bang impact surged forward; Pray flashed out, Jiao Shen instantly followed the flash, but the one he hit was GorillA leaning against the wall on this side! 」

「For a moment, Karma's RQ, the female police officer's Peacekeeper, and Lu Xi An's Holy Light all struck together! 」

「GorillA had just landed and hadn't even had time to flash when he was instantly killed by focused fire from four players! 」

「Lu Xi An's final two shots secured the first blood! 」

「But it's not over yet! 」

「Jiao Shen's E-flash collided with the female gunner's rolling barrel, but he aimed at the frost's flash landing spot; the maneuver was extremely slick and smooth, clearly intending to kill two! 」

「After taking the barrel blast, Frost's leg was blown off, his movement speed halved within two seconds! 」

「After hitting the female gunner, the barrel immediately chased Frost, catching up just as the slow wore off to land a basic attack and reapply the red buff's slow! 」

「Lu Xi An had just finished taking the kill and flashed in to deal damage! The female police officer flashed in as well! 」

「Pray turned and fired a volley of arrows, slowing the barrel, but the barrel used its bulky body to block the arrows for the two behind! 」

「The female police officer and Lu Xi An kept auto-attacking him! 」

「Pray, low on health, used a heal to try to speed up and create distance, but the female police officer also cast a heal! 」

「Another two basic attacks hit; Pray finally made it into the tower, but he was down to a sliver of health while the female police officer raised her gun once again! 」

「Zven! The final basic attack! Successfully took Pray's head!! 」

「ROX! The opening exploded again!!! 」

【Jiao Shen is awesome!】

【Holy shit, all three games opened with explosions】

Zhong Lu level‑1 gank down, Perkz is outright inhumane!

G2 has too many tactics, impossible to defend against.

Could it be that…

We're gonna GG.

I'll go first: Congrats, G2!

In the stands, the loyal G2 fans had already risen to their feet, a row of people linking shoulders, singing and dancing.

The faces of the ROX duo appeared on the venue's big screen, as if they had already donned painful masks.

My…

Xiao Huasheng's apology, filled with guilt and pain, echoed in the ROX members' headsets, and it even sounded somewhat choked up,

"It's my misjudgment, I gave everyone the wrong signal… Clearly we had seen similar tactics in the group stage, but I just couldn't recall them…"

"It's not your fault… Let's fight well!"

The elder brother GorillA comforted Xiao Huasheng, trying to steady morale.

Kuro also said:

"Wanghu, don't rush, our timing point is after level six."

Hold steady, it's not a big problem!

That's right, it's not a big problem, just the two lanes have split open.

Zhong Lu needs no more explanation; it's naturally Lu Xi An's advantage. Perkz this time roamed down lane and even got a kill and an assist, but on his way back he only lost a minion—whether experience or gold, he came out ahead. Orianna simply can't match him.

The bottom lane double marksmen had no advantage against fan mom Caitlyn to begin with; this wave they both died, and Caitlyn even took a kill, while they at least lost a wave of minions—suffering a massive loss.

If nothing unexpected happens, after pushing this wave's cannon lane, Caitlyn will pull out a pickaxe worth 875 gold, providing 25 attack damage.

Ashe, having been sent back too early, died before even finishing a minion wave, with less than 300 gold on her. This means they returned to base without upgrading any equipment, and Ashe merely spent 150 gold to refill a reusable potion.

Wawa, seeing that Caitlyn indeed returned home and crafted a pickaxe, shouted excitedly:

"Caitlyn directly gets ahead with a pickaxe; after returning to lane, her damage will look especially high!"

Guan Zeyuan let out a puff.

Miller also couldn't help but silently complain in his mind about his old partner:

"Isn't this nonsense? It's only been three minutes, Caitlyn's attack damage has jumped 25 points, she's even ahead a level—how could her damage not be high…"

Guan Zeyuan changed the subject:

"Why is it that ROX was clearly ambushed by CLG like this once before, and not much time has passed, yet they have no preparation at all?"

"I feel it's not a lack of preparation, but that this kind of thing is inherently indefensible; ROX's bottom lane vision opening is actually already the safest opening—there's vision in the side brush, vision in the Triangular Grass, and they don't push the lane, their position never crosses the river; when the second wave arrives, the vision timing is up, but Ashe can learn E at level 2, perfectly filling the vision gap, making it a flawless opening defense."

"But G2 just happened to hit this timing, miraculously seizing the only possibility; they came from the river where ROX had no vision, a 4v2, plus Jiao Shen's perfect execution, directly pouring damage to secure the kill."

"There's really nothing to be done; ROX has been figured out—G2 has surely studied exactly how ROX sets up vision at the start."

"Actually there is a way; given the same opening vision setup, Xiao Huasheng choosing to start from the lower half could perfectly defend against this G2 wave."

"But Xiao Huasheng feels that if he clears from bottom to top, he'll have no early chance to establish tempo, because without the red buff at level three, whether ganking bottom or mid, the success rate is extremely low; and if he clears a full round to gank top, G2's top lane is inherently steady, Jax being a late-game champion makes it impossible to duel Nautilus early in lane, and Vi and Nautilus have little synergy, making it nearly impossible to kill that Jax."

"ROX picked this composition with Nautilus top and Ashe bottom; if Xiao Huasheng wants to gain early tempo, he's destined to only clear from top to bottom, focusing on the lower half."

"On Europe's analyst desk, guest analyst Trashy, the starting jungler of SPY team, after analyzing, summed up:"

"From the moment Peanut's opening was confirmed by G2, ROX's bottom lane was basically doomed—either get caught or lose lane. After all, they're facing Fire."

"Main commentator PiraTechnics burst out laughing:"

"Oh, turns out the most important part is this latter sentence, right?"

"Well, that's for sure."

Trashy recalled the three matches in the finals where Firrrrrre harshly punished him, and a rather helpless smile appeared on his face.

Facing G2's ferocious level one pace, Xiao Huasheng knew he should immediately go to G2's Shang Ban Qu to counter-jungle and stop losses, but he had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue pushing down, because he feared that Wine Barrel would go berserk and come over again one more time; after all, the ROX that went out to fight still only had level one……