Chapter 327

After all, this lineup of V5 has been chosen many times, and everyone is very familiar with the tactical system and conventional solutions, mainly guarding against the level-one jungle invasion.

And V5 didn't do that.

Sion appeared conventionally in the top lane river, and Kindred also appeared in the bottom lane river in an orderly manner. Both sides gained vision of each other, which undoubtedly made the WBG members slightly less vigilant.

Little did they know... this was actually just V5's 'Empty Fort Strategy'.

Minion wave clash.

Jayce against Sion is clearly a counter-matchup. Naturally, he wants to maximize his long-range advantage at level one. TheShy immediately pressed forward, crossing the minion wave to start his signature 'not-a-human' playstyle.

Sion retreated to the three-bush area behind his side, while Jayce approached directly and placed a fake ward, completely revealing Sion, who had started charging his Q after entering the bush.

Jayce immediately switched to hammer form to gain speed, intending to escape the 【Decimating Smash】 range.

But just at this moment—from the second bush behind Jayce, almost within reach, a crow's scream carrying 【Fear】 suddenly burst out!

"Ugh!?" TheShy was clearly startled by this sudden situation and let out an exclamation subconsciously.

At the same time, Beryl's Fiddlesticks walked out of the bush, still carefully adjusting his position.

He used the {Fear} mechanic, where 'enemies will move in the opposite direction of Fiddlesticks', to force Jayce, who might have unconsciously escaped the Decimating Smash range, back to the original spot like 'herding sheep'!

Sion's fully charged giant axe smashed down, knocking Jayce up for a full 2.25 seconds!

Jayce, who had already penetrated deep behind enemy lines, directly ate a full set of 3.5+ seconds of crowd control chain, and was finally sat to death by Tristana's Rocket Jump, harvesting First Blood.

"TheShy! TheShy! TheShy!!!"

"Why! Why! Why is V5 targeting TheShy like this!!!"

The commentary desk was performing the 'Filial Child Crying for Shy' segment, with a tone full of righteous indignation!

And Guan Zeyuan smiled and searched his memory: "I suddenly remembered, didn't Master Ye use a similar routine when he first met TheShy after his debut?"

Angel next to him, hearing this, immediately widened his eyes as if his memory had been awakened: "Yes! I remember too, it seems he used Zoe, right!"

"Haha, Teacher Da An, you should remember, that game was you and Master Ye laning against each other..."

【So hateful~ so hateful~~】

【Sigh, only today did I know that Dave's surname is actually Ye. It turns out Master Ye is the real mastermind behind the plants!】

【What does this have to do with Ip Man?】

【Still young, didn't Guan Dog just say it? This is the routine Master Ye specifically used to beat TheShy before, it's just that TheShy forgot after a year~】

【Guan Ge and Da An, stop chatting, the person next to you seems to have been dead for a while.】

The two at the commentary desk chatted to themselves, not caring about the life or death of the person next to them.

Xiaohai Youshen's face was ashen, and his tone was a bit lifeless: "It's really my first time seeing a duo start by crouching top. What is the point of doing this..."

"Jayce gave First Blood but can still Teleport back to lane to eat experience, but what is the point of V5's bottom lane being top? The bottom lane will definitely lose turret plating! They can get this small loss back sooner or later!"

After Sion assisted in the kill, he directly Teleported to the bottom lane in front of their faces.

Just as Xiaohai Youshen said, this lane swap really looked a bit confusing at the moment.

You know, why did the 'Lane Swap Tactic' popular in the ancient era almost completely disappear after the S9 season?

The answer is simple: Turret Plating!

Since the addition of the turret plating mechanic in S9, laning is no longer necessarily an advantage just by getting kills—as long as you eat the gold from 2 plates, it's equivalent to having solo-killed the opponent once, adding a key extra channel for gold acquisition.

This change directly led to the death of {functional top laners} like Letme.

Before, as long as you didn't trade health and farmed well under the turret, even if the King of Heaven came, he would at most press a single-digit CS advantage.

Laning was indeed 'equality for all'!

But since the turret plating mechanic, pure avoidance in laning is no longer advisable. The opponent doesn't need a solo kill to get gold no less than a solo kill!

At the same time, because of the newly added {Turret Differential Protection} mechanic, the turrets for the top and mid single lanes have {50% damage reduction} before 5 minutes, while the bottom lane turret remains unchanged...

—This means that whoever dares to swap lanes will definitely be at a natural disadvantage in terms of turret plating!

Theoretically, that is indeed the case.

However, Guan Zeyuan noticed the movements of both sides at this time: "No, although Sion Teleported to the bottom lane, Kindred is on the way!"

"V5 might still want to dive!"

"But at the same time, Karsa also seemed to realize something was wrong without information. Radar activated!"

"Karsa is also leaning towards the top lane!"

Actually, from the perspective of player playstyle, Danny prefers another jungler, Weiwei, in the team.

After all, Karsa is known as the 'Ultraman Jungler', with an active brain and clear thinking in the first 15 minutes, and a very strong ability to capture and analyze information, so he can often achieve a 'radar perspective' feeling.

But after 15 minutes, once entering the chaotic lane transition period, Karsa, who lacks information, will immediately become blind.

And the reason why Danny has been using Karsa since the playoffs—actually, it's to fight V5!

He needs Karsa's early-game ability to help the team resist V5's highly aggressive early-game offensive.

"Although Kindred also came directly after starting the bottom buff, Viego is also heading straight to the top lane with an extremely clear goal. The two bumped into each other directly in the bush behind the turret!"

"In this case, V5's plan to dive should be blocked... No, no!"

"V5 seems to want to turn and take advantage of the situation to counter-invade Viego's blue zone!"

Karsa's choices and actions, even in the eyes of everyone from a god's-eye view, are absolutely correct and wise, and one just wants to praise his superior awareness.

Only in the eyes of the V5 members: they think this is a wrong choice!

The logic is very simple.

The top lane duo got a kill at level one, and at this time, after pushing the minion wave into the turret, both have reached level 2.

Conversely, Jayce landed after Teleporting and didn't eat the wave, only level one.

Admittedly, if Viego didn't come, Jayce couldn't stay under the turret 100%. The best result would be being driven out of the experience zone and hiding in the 'autistic bush' before the second turret to hang out, which can be called a must-collapse situation.

But Viego came, and the result was just changing from a single collapse of Jayce -> to both top and jungle collapsing!

"3 versus 2! And it's 3 level-twos fighting 1 level-two! WBG doesn't even have the qualifications to fight!"

"Even if the mid-lane Lissandra can arrive slightly faster, Ryze can't be much slower. The difference in numbers is here, and it will only lead to the mid-lane collapsing together!"

"Karsa and TheShy are both so uncomfortable!"

Viego ran all the way from the bottom half to the top lane with great difficulty, but watching the support Fiddlesticks following closely into the jungle, and then looking at Jayce, who was rushing to eat the wave and level up under the top turret...

This, what should be done!?

The most intuitive and simple train of thought seems to be: let their own bottom lane combination rush to the top lane and swap lanes.

But this is precisely the most stupid train of thought!

Because if WBG's bottom lane duo wants to swap up, they must first push the wave to the turret to have the 'initiative to roam' -> only with the initiative to roam can the opponent not grasp their position, so they won't be synchronized and swapped back.

But pushing the minion wave to the turret, if you don't A the turret plating, you will first lose the gold that could have been recovered in the bottom lane!

Plus the time to return to base and rush to the top lane, and the vacuum period when you can't eat the wave in the top lane—in the end, it will change from losing one lane in the top to losing both top and bottom lanes together!

And even without roaming information, there is still a possibility of being caught by V5 through blind vision game theory, forcibly finding the lane swap rhythm!

Simply put.

If you want to swap lanes: if you don't swap, both sides will explode and lose blood, and if you do swap, both sides will lose a lot!

Karsa figured this out.

Clearly, in the current scene, the only solution that a clear-headed decision-maker can think of is to let both top laners 'suffer the same prison disaster'!

You dive my top, I will dive your bottom—only in this way can the loss be barely even!