Chapter 693

The director's camera switched to the bottom lane, where SKT's mid and bottom laners were destroying the tower.

Rock Sparrow destroying the tower had no special bonus, but Jinx is a tower‑destroying ace; once his mini‑gun maxes attack speed it's like a Gatling (uh, it actually is a Gatling), BiuBiuBiu very fast, the HP bar of VG's bottom tower visibly shrinks, and now it has lost half its HP.

Meanwhile on the top lane, Fu Lan Duo had just started destroying the tower; taking it would probably still take twenty or thirty seconds.

And Liang Yan had just met up with Easyhoon; capturing the Valley Vanguard would also take considerable time.

Trying to contest SKT for the first blood tower is now impossible.

In the LPL broadcast studio, Guan Zeyuan muttered, "emm… I think this exchange still leaves VG slightly behind, after all the first blood tower's bounty will be taken by SKT."

Miller retorted, "Behind? I don't think so. Although VG is slightly behind in immediate economic gain, after all the first blood tower still gives a lot of money, but I think the Valley Vanguard is far more useful than a small dragon; with good macro, I think VG using this Valley Vanguard to take another tower is completely fine!"

Guan Zeyuan: "What I mean is the current profit; after all, how much profit the Valley Vanguard can bring is a later matter."

Chang Mao: "Yes, and SKT's macro play is also very strong; VG wants to profit greatly by relying on a Valley Vanguard like they do against other teams, but I think that's not very realistic."

Miller stopped rebutting, merely keeping a stern face and holding to his view.

In the match view, each side was destroying a tower on a side lane—SKT taking the bottom, VG taking the top. The difference was that on SKT's top lane there was nobody; minions were continuously being killed by the turret, while on VG's bottom lane, although Sima Laozei couldn't get last hits, he didn't retreat to the second tower to hide; instead, he boldly stood in the back to soak experience!

Liang Yan, however, did not stop Sima Laozei's bold action; for such risky behavior, he even approved.

Faker's Rock Sparrow had no flash, and Bang's Jinx lacked any instant crowd control; the only two threats to watch out for, Titan and Excavator, were busy fighting the dragon.

Also no need to worry about SKT's jungle support sneaking around to gank from behind, because VG's lower half has vision in the triangular grass and the blue buff jungle entrance!

Therefore, as long as Sima Laozei keeps a proper distance, the two SKT players destroying the tower really can't do anything to him!

Of course, if Sima Laozei chooses to retreat to the second tower and obediently wait for SKT to finish the tower and push the wave, Liang Yan wouldn't say anything.

But the reason Liang Yan originally singled out Sima Laozei was precisely his aggressiveness; sure, Sima Laozei's old playstyle was like a berserker, but after Liang Yan's remodeling, Sima Laozei now deserves the prefix— a brave and strategic berserker!

Time to go, Green Steel Shadow is about to respawn.

At some point, Liang Yan finally sent a retreat signal to the bottom lane.

The announcement of the dragon's kill hadn't appeared yet, but if Sima Laozei stayed there, he could be caught by the resurrected Green Steel Shadow teleporting down; even without flash, Green Steel Shadow has a near‑2000‑unit extreme grab range, and for a Frost Archer who lacks mobility and has lost flash, the threat is still strong.

"Good." Sima Laozei replied in affirmation and promptly turned and left.

The dragon's death roar echoed across the valley.

Soon after, VG's bottom tower collapsed with a roar.

Faker and Bang shared a large sum of tower‑destroying bounty.

After another ten or so seconds, news arrived that the Valley Vanguard had been slain by VG.

Finally came the announcement that SKT's top lane tower had fallen; VG's top laner Jax exclusively enjoyed this tower demolition bounty, and together with the profit from that kill just now, Jax should be able to directly pick up a Trinity Force when he goes back home.

The director immediately pulled up the lane matchup gold panel.

Undoubtedly first in personal gold is Fu Lan Duo's Jax, with a score of 1-0-1, highest last hits in the game, plus the bounty from exclusively destroying a defensive tower, making his development extremely explosive; compared to Huni's blue steel shadow, in four words: far ahead.

Easyhoon's Syndra, with a score of 2-1-0 and second-highest last hits in the game, has personal gold in second place, closely followed by Faker's Orianna, whose gap is minuscule.

If it were a minute ago, Easyhoon's gold would have been outstanding alone, but now Faker got a kill in the bottom lane and also collected the bounty from destroying the first blood tower, quickly making up a lot; currently the two mids' gold is nearly even, with Easyhoon having only a slight lead of under a hundred gold. If it weren't for the small last-hit difference between them, he might already have been overtaken by Faker, after all Faker died once and roamed bottom lane, still losing a fair amount of last hits.

It's somewhat surprising that the fourth-place gold belongs not to the Jinx who shared the first blood tower bounty with Faker, but to Liang Yan's Miss Fortune!

Hiss!

In the LCK broadcast, a commentator sucked in a breath of cold air and exclaimed in shock: "Mo Ya, why is his gold so high? He's even richer than Bang!"

"Wanghu obviously has kill income, yet he actually has over three hundred less gold than him—this is unscientific!"

"He has three assists… and moreover, Wanghu had some of his jungle monsters stolen by him."

Liang Yan always picks up something extra whenever he goes into the SKT jungle to do things; for example, after just catching Huni and walking toward the river, he casually stole a group of Magic Swamp Frogs. Now he has Little Sun Flame in hand (already enough gold to craft a tier 3 blade but hasn't returned home to buy it), his jungle clearing efficiency is greatly increased— a pig head thrust, two skills tossed, two auto-attacks, and a smite take down a Magic Swamp Frog in just a few seconds.

As the saying goes, small amounts accumulate, and the jungle gap has widened like this, while Xiao Huasheng is like a frog in warm water, feeling nothing intense.

Bang's Jinx is over a hundred gold less than Liang Yan's, placing him fifth, still considered the first-tier development group in this game; from sixth place Xiao Huasheng's Rek'Sai to tenth place Wolf's Titan, they make up the second tier.

"Xiao Duan died in that wave; Sima Laozei lost the last hits from two minion waves, which feels pretty damaging."

"Each side blew up a lane."

"Yes, but it's not a big problem; Ashe is essentially a utility-type AD carry, so whether she develops well or poorly doesn't really affect the overall situation. What matters mainly are Marquis and Sheng Qiang Ge; as long as Syndra and Jax develop okay, VG has nothing to worry about in this game."

"Well, Syndra holds up the early-mid game, and Jax lifts the late game……"

"No late game," Chang Mao interjected, "In this match we absolutely must not go into the late game against SKT, otherwise Gleaming Shadow plus Jinx would still be too strong."

"Um……"

"Indeed……Chang Mao said that, and I suddenly feel a bit nervous."