Chapter 46

One mid lane gank let Doinb get back into the game.

Before this wave, the mid lane matchup was almost impossible to sustain.

"Be careful, he can still solo kill you." Xu Dongmen warned.

Although Zed died once, he's still in his strong phase.

Ryze wants to make a complete comeback, at least after getting two items.

"It's fine, I still have Exhaust, he can't kill me." Da B said confidently.

Not long after he said that, he broke out in a cold sweat from fright.

SwordArt's Bard threw a long-range ultimate over, almost hitting.

"Holy shit, I was scared to death!"

Doinb patted his chest: "Is this Bard sick? He just keeps messing with mid lane!"

"Good positioning."

Xu Dongmen praised, saying: "If Bard catches us with his ultimate this wave, we'll be knocked up by Nidalee's spear."

Without Flash, Ryze can't escape no matter what.

Da B finally managed to defuse that wave himself.

We can finally relax a bit!

Leaving base, Xu Dongmen enchanted his jungle blade with Devourer.

Compared to the 2625 gold Warrior jungle blade and Fiendish Codex, Devourer costs only 2450 gold, nearly 200 less.

Don't underestimate those 200 gold; hitting full build earlier gives a huge boost to jungle power.

Compared to Graves and Nidalee, Kindred always gets its full build first, which is also why it's prioritized this patch.

Data shows that between 9 and 12 minutes, Kindred has the highest chance of killing its lane opponent.

It's all thanks to Devourer!

Of course, a basic Devourer isn't that strong; you still need to feed it to become powerful.

Let's start clearing!

Xu Dongmen started from the bottom side, not even letting the blue buff go.

Each monster camp equals one stack of its passive.

From bottom to top, after clearing the jungle, Devourer's passive reached six stacks.

Both buffs were back in his grasp.

"Poppy, go up."

Xu Dongmen swung by top lane for a gank, unleashing MMD Ekko's ultimate.

Mimidan~

Every time he sees this ID, Xu Dongmen feels a bit stuck, marveling at how this guy is a naming genius!

"Nidalee is in the bottom side, I'll take a Vanguard."

Xu Dongmen arrived at the Baron's nest; at this time Baron Nashor hadn't spawned yet, and inside was a Canyon Vanguard.

First-generation Vanguard!

Its visage was ferocious, looking not too bright.

This is a new neutral resource added this season; it didn't exist before Season 6.

"Gui Gui, it's a bit hurt..."

Xu Dongmen dueled wits and courage with the Vanguard; in the end, the Vanguard still had two-thirds of its health, while he was left with only half.

Really not smart!

It's basically impossible to kite; you usually need two people positioned front and back to fight it properly.

In a 1v1 against the Canyon Vanguard, it's hard to hit its weak spot on the back, yet it can beat you black and blue.

If no one interferes, you can barely manage to finish it off.

But before halfway done, top lane Mimidan recalled after using his Teleport, and mid lane Mama's Boy finished pushing his lane and also headed up.

"We fought for nothing, really disappointing!"

Xu Dongmen, helpless, could only disengage from the Vanguard and retreat back to his own jungle from above.

The Canyon Vanguard is small fry, but losing your life over it would be a huge loss.

In this patch, getting the Vanguard isn't that impressive; if there weren't no jungle monsters to clear, he wouldn't have taken this risk.

"Dragon in one minute." Tian Zai Mo Ri sent the alert.

"Yeah, the Dragon is about to spawn."

Xu Dongmen pressed B to swing the camera to bottom lane: "How's it going, can we push bottom?"

At this point, both bottom lanes had reached level seven or eight, about to hit their first item.

"No problem, we can do a slow push." Tian Zai Mo Ri replied.

"The enemy can't beat us now." Wu Zhi Yan Yu's words were full of confidence.

He already had Stormrazor and Lord Dominik's Regards, while the enemy Ezreal only had Youmuu's Ghostblade and Kindlegem.

The balance of power has flipped, offense and defense have reversed!

"Okay, we can contest this Dragon."

Xu Dongmen made a decision.

He bought a pair of Boots of Speed from base, then cleared the Three Wolves and Swamp Toad before heading to the river.

He happened to run into Karsa's Nidalee!

This was their first one-on-one meeting, so they naturally felt each other out a bit.

As luck would have it, the Swift Crab respawned just in time, becoming the focus of the two men's contention.

Boom—

Smite landed, and Thresh collected the river crab bounty.

Although the dragon was about to respawn and his Smite only had one charge left, Xu Dongmen still didn't relent.

A normal camp counts as only one layer of Devourer Spirit.

The Swift Crab is an exception, counting as two layers.

Karsa was unhappy, biting Xu Dongmen and refusing to let go.

When the junglers clash, the laners definitely can't just stand by.

"Mid missed, Zed's coming, Zed's coming!" Da B gave the signal right away, but mid lane priority wasn't in his hands.

"Dongmen, hold on, we're coming too."

Stitch and Zombie gave a strong response; by then the two had already pushed the minion wave under the tower, coming to support.

More crucial than them was the top lane; upon seeing the river fight break out, V quickly activated Teleport.

"I TP! I TP!"

V's TP landing spot was the dragon river grass patch; as soon as his TP landed, it directly cut off the Leopard Girl's retreat, forcing Zed to turn back and abandon support, otherwise he'd be trapped together with the Leopard Girl in a surround.

The radar-type jungler used the wrong navigation software and drove into a dead end!

Karsa's only retreat was to enter the dragon pit, flash over the wall back to his own jungle.

But Xu Dongmen wouldn't give him that chance, rolling up and unleashing a crippling slow; the Leopard Girl couldn't move at all.

Sigil of Echo was already more expensive than Devourer, plus he was missing a kill, so Karsa's entire gear aside from jungle items was just a pair of straw sandals.

How could straw sandals outrun Swiftness Boots?

"Sell me!"

Seeing he couldn't escape, Karsa simply turned and lunged at Xu Dongmen.

He chose to die standing.

"Brother Jia, you went overboard this wave; XDM brothers outnumber you!"

"Mainly because top lane had extra tanks; Mimimi Egg this wave had no tanks."

"It's still the karma XDM sowed; last wave they went top and caught Mimimi Egg's TP!"

"If both top laners go tank, this wave we can fight the Lightning Wolf!"

"Mama's boy looks for a chance to solo kill Ryze, but Jin Gu Gu has weakness, damage totally insufficient…"

In the picture, QG everyone started fighting the dragon.

One minute ago, Xu Dongmen's Devourer still only had 8 stacks.

After eating the river crab, 10 stacks.

After killing the Leopard Girl, 11 stacks!

And when they took the dragon, the stacks directly reached 16.

Epic monster, +5 stacks!

From enchanting Devourer to now, Xu Dongmen took less than five minutes to stack half.

"So fast, so spicy!"

Wang kept praising: "Just as you see, XDM's early game rhythm every game is this excellent; regardless of whether the early lane is advantageous or not, he always manages to seize those fleeting opportunities."

"And look, see what he's trying to do!"

Su Xiaoyan stared unblinkingly at Thresh on the field; Xu Dongmen this game used the Darkflame Dual Soul skin, which was released together with Thresh's launch at the end of 2015 as a classic skin, featuring a head of fiery red long hair that sways up and down with his walking motion, and the feel is quite good.

After taking the dragon, he ran to mid lane to catch a wave, then took big steps toward the Jungle Vanguard.

At the same time, Doinb, having finished recalling and resupplying, also turned from the second tower into the jungle, heading straight for the Vanguard.

Dragon Vanguard, we want them all!

"Even Braum came, just to protect Thresh eating this Jungle Vanguard, hiss…"

Su Xiaoyan took a deep breath, inwardly marveling at Xu Dongmen's boldness—after finishing the dragon, he didn't recall but went straight for the Vanguard: "Will the Lightning Wolf come to contest? Zed didn't have big or ignite this wave; QG seized exactly this timing!"

"Key Maple just recalled a wave, giving up his position; this wave the Lightning Wolf won't make it in time."

Remembering the tone full of resignation, watching helplessly as Xu Dongmen took the Vanguard's eye into his bag: "Five stacks, again five stacks!"

"Already 21 stacks, the top lane Swift Crab just respawned!"

"My goodness, 23 stacks!"