Chapter 750: What does it mean to suppress the opponent by three levels in lane?
Han Guo, SKT base.
After finishing a practice match, everyone's training had paused, and they all opened the LPL match broadcast website on their own computers, quietly watching VG's match livestream.
Kkoma stroked his chin, standing behind Faker, looking at the screen in front of Faker, and asked meaningfully:
"Xiang He, if it were you at this moment, what would you do?"
"I wouldn't go disturb him either."
Faker answered without hesitation.
Kkoma nodded in approval.
The Prince is so fat, and it's not like mid lane gave him to us—what's there to be embarrassed about?
Avoiding his edge is the most sensible choice.
Otherwise, even if you fire two missiles and a Q to snatch all the little birds, what's the point? Even if the Prince doesn't hit you with an EQR combo right away, he'll still target you later—why bother?
In the screen, after the Prince cleared F6, he directly used an EQ to poke into the red buff camp shrouded in mist beside him.
Kkoma's eyes widened slightly, then he slowly narrowed them. He turned his head slightly, catching a glimpse with the corner of his eye of Peanut, who was intently watching the livestream.
If it were our guy, he'd probably just casually plant a control ward, right?
Besides, speaking of which……
Kkoma looked back at the screen, where the Prince was hitting the red buff while pulling monsters toward the bottom lane, and his heart filled with all kinds of complex feelings.
This guy really is like a sword.
……
Xi Ye placed his ward right in front of Liang Yan, but Liang Yan left without swapping his trinket, so he only had one control ward left and naturally didn't want to waste it here.
After both monster groups were cleared, Liang Yan circled behind to the bottom lane; when he reached the jungle exit before the second tower, he happened to run into Condi, who had just respawned and was heading straight for the bottom lane.
Liang Yan's eyes lit up.
Condi felt a pang, his PTSD flared up again.
The moment he came face-to-face with the Prince, Condi's index finger instinctively hovered over the D key, then he realized he hadn't flashed, blushed fiercely, and retreated back toward the second tower.
Liang Yan smacked his lips; he wasn't so bloodthirsty as to dive into the tower to kill a tree that had died three times in a row. He tossed a flag over, scaring Condi out of vision, then followed the jungle's goat‑track path toward the river.
The WE duo once again retreated to their tower.
Liang Yan didn't camp them; he placed a control ward in the triangular grass, saw there was no ward there, and then left straight to clear the river crabs.
The WE duo had no idea where he was, so they could only huddle under their tower, shivering. After a while they noticed the Prince never showed up; finally they grit their teeth, grouped together, walked toward the second tower to fetch Condi, and only then breathed a sigh of relief.
The VG duo shoved the minion wave in, while the WE trio, lacking flashes, grouped up to soak the lane.
Seeing the VG duo pull back, Condi finally confirmed they had no intention of tower‑diving, so he dared to come out from under the tower and began cautiously placing vision with his sapling step by step.
Actually, by now Liang Yan had already cleared the monsters in his own half of the jungle and recalled.
On the commentator's desk, Wawa frowned and said: "This…… WE is losing a bit too much; Condi feels like he's playing overly cautiously, falling far behind in tempo."
Wang Ji said: "Not only is the tempo behind, but development is also far behind."
Rita: "In fact, you could say it's already collapsed—the Prince is already level seven, almost eight; even after stripping the extremes, he's still a full two levels ahead of the tree."
"Condi still hasn't hit level six yet—it's exaggerated."
"Almost nine minutes into the game and the jungler still isn't level six… that really is a collapse."
Wawa covered his forehead, unable to bear watching any longer.
Wang Ji let out a light sigh: "But there's really nothing we can do—the Prince's advantage is too great; he holds all three kills on the map, Condi has no flash, I have no flash, not to mention the bottom lane lacks flash either. Without mobility, any hero facing such a explosively fed Prince…… can be put this way: unless protected by a tower, once you enter his vision range it's just one word—death."
"Hiss!"
Wawa suddenly sucked in a breath, his eyes widened as he stared at the big screen,
"My goodness? Jiao Shen didn't even buy a jungle knife, he just picked up a Tiamat! Is the next item going to be a Black Cleaver?!"
At this moment, the Prince walking out of the spring had three separate items: a tier‑2 jungle knife, Kauri's Warhammer, and the Tiamat blade.
It looks ugly, but the damage is explosive.
The jungle clearing efficiency is even more exaggerated.
After clearing the upper‑jungle monsters on his way out, Liang Yan came to mid lane just as a cannon‑wave arrived; he fired a Q to wipe out all the back‑line minions, then used Tiamat, leaving the front‑line minions barely alive, which Easyhoon's clockwork Q finished off; a follow‑up auto‑attack left the cannon crippled, and Easyhoon followed Liang Yan a few steps into the blue side jungle before turning and landing a Q to finish the damaged cannon.
Xi Ye stood behind, watching the two clear a cannon‑wave in just a few seconds while walking and attacking; he was stunned, realized they were going for bottom lane, and hurriedly spammed pings to his teammates.
Wawa let out a startled cry: "Bandits, is this what this is?!"
Wang Ji also froze: "A Prince at level nine in under ten minutes—my goodness……"
Rita stared at the VG mid‑jungle duo rushing straight from the WE jungle to the bottom lane: "Here they come—it feels like VG is going to take WE's next tower outright; Xi Ye is being held back by the minion wave for now, while Condi is clearing the upper jungle and has just hit level six."
The chat exploded completely.
【What does it mean to suppress the opponent by three levels in lane?】
【Am I really watching an LPL professional match? Not a bot game?】
【Pure jungler gap】
【What does a jungler hitting level nine at nine minutes even mean? I can't even clear that fast in a bot game!】
【Jiao Shen is too abnormal!】
【So cruel—if I were Condi, I'd feel like retiring after this game】
【No suspense left—2‑0!】
【WE really is tragic……】
"With the hand revealed, the WE duo can only run to the second tower to hide! But VG doesn't seem to intend to let them off—Jiao Shen circled out from behind the second tower, my goodness!"
"Huh? Did you go in? You just went in like that! An EQ knocked Lulu into the air! Ben couldn't cast his skills! His ultimate was aimed at Mystic instead! Marquis QW followed up with the ultimate! Instant kill!"
"Good grief, Lulu couldn't even polymorph or cast her ultimate! The AD vanished in an instant!"
Actually, when Lulu landed, Mystic still had a sliver of health, but the two of them chose to stand apart to avoid being both hit by the Prince's ultimate; Ben was out of range, so he couldn't immediately give his ultimate and shield to his own AD.
Just this tiny loophole was caught by the prince.
End of Chapter
