Chapter 546: Master Has No Moves Left?

The big dragon's respawn point is on the upper river path, and the point where G2 was broken just happened to be the high ground of the lower lane.

So, a point everyone can see is that VG's biggest gain from this lane's super minion wave is to use the lower‑lane minion wave to pin down one G2 player, then make plays in the upper half of the river to fight outnumbered or directly take the big dragon—both are optional.

After the first 20 minutes of probing, G2 had roughly figured out VG's strengths and weaknesses; without a doubt, VG's strongest point with Liang Yan is its macro, which is the biggest boost Liang Yan, as VG's sole shot‑caller, can give the team.

G2's macro is of course also strong; the "legacy" Liang Yan left for G2 raises the team's floor in every aspect, and the USB drive later given to Tang Anna further strengthened G2's weakness—especially their macro awareness, since good macro awareness is a solid foundation for excellent macro.

So, compared to other teams worldwide, or even to the top LCK squads, G2's macro ability is second to none.

But when compared to VG, there are still some gaps.

Through this match, G2 Zhong Ren have clearly realized this. For example, in the previous round's exchange, VG could stabilize the situation despite a huge disadvantage in the mid‑lane dual‑carry matchup, each time trading enough resources with G2 without letting G2 snowball, which already says a lot.

In fact, even if KT were in that situation, they probably couldn't hold it and would likely have collapsed already. After all, G2's various snowballing tactics were inherited from Liang Yan; they know exactly how to expand an advantage and finish a game.

But now they are facing the master who once personally taught them; all their formidable tricks were taught by the master, so naturally the master also knows their weaknesses.

How to keep those weaknesses from being seized by the master became G2's first problem to solve—and in the opening ten minutes of this match, G2 did very well.

Whether it was the rat sneaking into mid or the later river‑lane team fight, both were G2 breaking convention, carefully prepared, and a big gift presented to the master.

In fact, they really came close to beating the old master to death with a flurry of punches.

But the master is still the master.

VG stabilized on the brink of collapse.

They even seized the initiative with a brilliant move despite being at a disadvantage.

Only a few minutes.

But in those few minutes, if G2 makes a mistake, they could easily squander all their earlier advantages and even collapse suddenly—if VG catches the chance to fight outnumbered, G2 could lose the team fight and then give up the big dragon, which is quite likely.

So G2 Zhong Ren felt like they were facing a formidable foe.

However, the atmosphere on VG's side was unexpectedly relaxed. After taking down G2's top lane, Liang Yan did not issue any special commands.

Everyone went out normally, cleared lanes normally, placed vision normally—just as they had played in previous matches, they kept doing it the same way.

Everything proceeded as usual.

The lower‑lane super minion wave was pushed by Fu Lan Duo's Shen, while G2 indeed sent Galio to lane; consequently Fu Lan Duo had no lane‑pressure, clearing a wave with just three auto‑attacks, and even counting the time to gather minions, the whole push took no more than five seconds. Galio knew he couldn't out‑push her, so he didn't come up to harass, merely last‑hitting from afar.

This gave Fu Lan Duo a lot of free time.

Yet Liang Yan didn't even let the bored Fu Lan Duo come front‑line to help contest mid lane; instead he told her to stay bottom lane to stall Galio, and if there was nothing to do she would safely pick up nearby jungle monsters—our toad or the enemy's Stone Armor Beetle, for example. But killing a pack of Stone Armor Beetles wouldn't really help VG given their current economic disadvantage.

Fu Lan Duo didn't understand what Liang Yan was up to, but simply followed his orders.

Thus Shen's position remained under G2's watch, so mid lane naturally faced no pressure, and even mid‑lane priority stayed with G2, because Perkz, who solo‑pushes the top‑lane wave, has a huge lane‑advantage, each time clearing the wave before Easyhoon's Orianna and then roaming to mid.

But Easyhoon couldn't roam that easily; even after clearing his wave he rarely dared to cross the jungle alone to mid, because Hu li's gear is far superior to Orianna's, and if caught halfway by Hu li, Easyhoon would likely be killed solo.

Therefore Easyhoon could only retreat behind his wave after clearing it, leaving G2's sight, to give his mid‑lane teammates some invisible support.

If they just kept dragging it out, the situation would clearly favor G2.

G2 Zhong Ren were actually quite surprised.

Could it be that the master has no tricks left?

How could VG have no intention to attack at all?

Just keep dragging it out?

After discussing among themselves, G2 still couldn't figure out what VG was plotting, or perhaps VG really had no plan, and their economic disadvantage prevented them from acting easily.

So G2 Zhong Ren simply played it safe, defending as long as they could last these few minutes; once the bottom‑lane crystal respawned, initiative would naturally return to G2.

G2 also refrained from aggressive pushing, which eased the pressure on VG's mid lane, allowing them to hold the wave near the middle tower's remaining base.

The stalemate held, time ticking by second by second.

As the crystal's respawn time drew nearer, G2 Zhong Ren's pressure lessened; although they didn't lower their guard, in terms of decision‑making some preparatory moves for an attack could now begin.

With less than a minute left until the bottom‑lane crystal respawned, G2 quickly pushed the mid and top lane waves, then went home, after returning they actively swapped lanes, sending the stronger Hu li to mid lane while letting the rat go invisible to try stealing a wave top lane.

Although Easyhoon was wary enough not to be killed by Zven's steal, he lost half his health bar; if the rat came again, Easyhoon would die.

Easyhoon knew that if he died his team would lose the big dragon, so playing it safe he decided to return to base to recuperate, and thus consulted his teammates.

Liang Yan spoke into the mic:

"You can go back; meanwhile we'll swap too—Marquis goes mid, Ma Ge goes top."

"I want to go back too," Fu Lan Duo said.

But Liang Yan rejected his request to return:

"Don't go back yet; push this wave out first, then come to mid to help hold it."