Chapter 635: In EDG, it's like this……

The second match officially began, with both sides starting with normal defense.

Jungle monsters respawned; Ai Luoli's spider started alone from the bottom half's blue buff, directing Mouse's Kled to poke the red buff twice without penalty, aiming to create the illusion of helping the spider take red.

As it happened, they ran into VG's jungle invasion; Mouse was essentially working for nothing and got poked twice, losing a lot of health, putting him at a natural disadvantage even before reaching lane.

Liang Yan finished taking the enemy red buff and continued to counter F6; Scout, seeing the ward through the wall, got this information. Ai Luoli, who was in the bottom half, upon seeing it, finished her blue buff and rushed straight to VG's bottom jungle, taking advantage of the fact that the bottom lane Varus and Karma were just pushing the lane, and hurried to recoup the loss.

Liang Yan could guess the spider was in his own jungle, but he didn't bother; after finishing F6 he returned to his own top half to eat the blue buff, then came to mid lane, waited a few seconds and saw that Scout was playing rather cautiously this game, so he simply went in aggressively.

The soft, green rubber figure, like a bubblegum shot from a slingshot, jumped out of the brush, tracing a beautiful arc, whooshing across the sky of Summoner's Rift, landing and flinging its tentacles to latch onto Orianna, then auto‑attacking a minion—

With a pop, under Zac's compulsion, Orianna and the minion came into close contact; that ranged minion probably never dreamed it would have such fortune in this lifetime.

Zzitai's Katarina followed up with a combo, but unfortunately the chain was dodged.

At the moment the chain missed, the shameless old face flushed and said, "Mine, mine…" Indeed, you guys don't play much……

Everyone just laughed; no one blamed him.

Zzitai didn't take it too seriously, just felt a little embarrassed and moved on.

After all, they were practicing champions, and had been reluctantly picked by everyone's urging; neither others nor themselves had high expectations.

Scout lost half a bar of health, retreated under the tower, feeling utterly nauseated, yet could think of nothing to do; the enemy jungler had made his intention clear from the start in both games—he was out to get him.

Ai Luoli, wanting to make up for having lost mid lane last game, saw that mid was about to be locked down; after finishing her red buff she waddled over, hoping to help Scout break the lane.

He thought he'd earn Scout's thanks, but Scout coldly said:

"Don't come, share my experience."

Sacrificing his own rhythm to help, only to be ruthlessly refused, Ai Luoli blushed with embarrassment and slunk back to the river to eat river crabs.

On the other side, after Liang Yan felt sick from a mid‑lane wave, he likewise returned to the upper river, finished the river crabs there, then went to counter a group of Stone Armor Beetles, finally went back to the jungle to clear two monster camps and recalled.

On the top lane, since Kled had lost health at the start, Fu Lan Duo pressed the advantage relentlessly, from the first wave she pushed past the minion line, took up residence in the side brush that belonged to Mouse, locked down the position firmly, and displayed a fierce attitude: "If you dare come up to eat minions, I dare to bully you."

To avoid being knocked down too early, Mouse could only swallow his anger, conservatively standing afar to sniff experience, honestly waiting for the minion wave to push over.

Had this been another team, the jungler would likely have already been cursed by the top laner; but in EDG, all we see is Mouse silently putting on a painful mask by himself.

The director's camera cut over, the commentators furrowed their brows, and, unable to bear it, said:

"Uh… this, top lane seems to have become somewhat unplayable."

"It's indeed a bit difficult, but there's really nothing we can do; in EDG the top laner just has to endure pressure, and A Guang should already be used to it."

Close to five minutes, the camera switched to the bottom lane.

"Wow, the bottom lane is also pushing past the minion line to pressure… but Ma Ge got Boots of Speed, so this situation is normal. Earlier EDG could still poke him with long range, but once the levels came up—ah! Xiao Duan hooked Meiko! He dragged him straight over!"

"He just slapped on Ignite—he's really going for the kill!"

"Sima Laozei used Q to dash in, Meiko responded by slapping Weakness on him while shielding himself and sprinting toward the tower! Xiao Duan's Misfortune Toll tried to pull him back, and that pull revealed Meiko's Flash!

"Meiko's health is about to reach the execute threshold of Boots of Speed! Although the support still has Ignite on him, Zet feared he'd be executed and had to throw out a heal.

"Meiko finally made it back under the tower with less than a hundred health!"

"It worked—Sima Laozei's Boots of Speed really showed their effect this game!"

Miller wiped a sweat from Meiko's brow, still shaken:

"Phew, if it weren't for a minion wave happening to arrive at the tower just then, Sima Laozei might have flashed up to chase and kill him!"

"Given Sima Laozei's temperament, he'd really do something like that!"

Wawa was about to keep praising Sima Laozei with a couple more lines when the camera suddenly cut away, switching to the spider of Ai Luoli near mid lane.

Ai Luoli entered the river from the small path in the red side's mid‑right jungle, apparently intending to loop through VG's jungle to gank bottom; after that earlier clash where Sima Laozei went in hard and got hit by Zet for a lot of damage, he now has only a little over half a bar of health, so there really is a chance.

But Ai Luoli had just stepped into VG's jungle when Meiko's retreat signal came; Meiko also clicked the side brush of bottom lane, meaning the enemy duo was heading home.

Even if we went up to cut off his recall, it wouldn't be impossible, but doing so would make the intention too obvious; plus, Meiko's Karma is already low on health, and the brush lacks vision—if Thresh simply flashed in, Meiko being dragged back by Misfortune Toll would surely die, leaving only Zet to team up with the spider, which might still not be enough to beat VG's duo.

Ai Luoli had to abandon the bottom gank, but when one plan failed he quickly thought of another; the view switched to mid lane where he saw Katarina having just used Shadow Step on a minion, and even after killing this wave she'd still be a bit short of the experience needed to hit level 6. Without level 6 she can't ult, and without ult she can't replicate Shadow Step, meaning that in the short term Katarina only has one Flash on her, her health isn't full, and the spider landing a full Orianna combo plus a bit of extra damage would definitely kill her.

So Ai Luoli placed a ward in front of VG's F6 camp, then slipped from the riverside path toward mid lane.

If no one came to save this wave, Zzitai would certainly die; but just as Ai Luoli peeked out, on the top side the Prince was recalling from the grass at the river mouth and directly placed his Teleport on a mid‑lane minion.

Wawa let out another "wah": "Sheng Qiang Ge just used TP—what kind of treatment is this for his attitude? It feels even better than having the Marquis around! Could there be a new‑player protection period?"

You'd better not say it, you really shouldn't say it—yet he actually guessed it right……