Chapter 49: Plucking Feathers from a Goose, Bandits!!

LPL Preseason Qualifier, TGA Platform, Penguin Live Stream Room.

Many teams that had already secured qualification sat before their computers, watching the clash between NXG and PE, two top-ranked teams in the server qualifiers.

No, perhaps it couldn't be called a clash of titans.

Inside the OMG team, the tall Liang Xiaosan's eyes bulged like brass bells, a hissing sound of gasping for air escaping from his mouth.

"Wait, is NXG really that strong?"

"That's a bit too exaggerated!"

"Top and jungle can't gain an advantage, mid is getting crushed, and Xika is pinned down bot lane, unable to move."

Liang Xiaosan even started to suspect PE was throwing the match; last time OMG faced PE, their base was pushed down in over thirty minutes.

PE is definitely a strong team; that is beyond doubt.

Yet it is this very PE that defeated them, now facing NXG, and you tell me they are getting hammered across all lanes on the ground in less than ten minutes.

This, is it possible?

In the room, gogoing's signature raspy voice spoke: "I actually don't find it surprising. JM's command is very strong; I queued with him before. Every single minute and second, he could clearly arrange what the entire team needed to do. The day he streamed to the top of the server, even with the WE four-man squad on the other side, they were still suppressed."

"I watched that match too," said Jungler Ling Yao, Face Grim. "JM and his NXG team's jungler coordinated perfectly. Ming Kai and Ruofeng's mid-jungle combo was suppressed from start to finish."

"Just with mid-jungle synergy they produced that kind of performance; now with JM paired with four NXG members, it's not impossible."

"I say, you guys are boosting the enemy's morale too much."

Hearing his teammates' discussion in the room, Cool, who was in a corner watching an indescribable little movie, rebutted dissatisfied.

"Maybe PE just had a bad day today; professional matches don't guarantee who will win."

Ever since Gragas in ranked was turned into a highlight reel by JM's Zed, he couldn't stand looking at that person, and now with teammates' words all praising the opponent, Cool naturally couldn't take it.

gogoing looked up at Cool; all he heard was the sound of Japanese artists displaying their loud singing voices in romance action films, so the words of admonition on the tip of his tongue were swallowed back down.

That's just how his personality is; saying anything is useless.

However, it was obvious that Wuzhuangtai's stubbornness alone could not represent the will of the professional circle.

As for the strength of these PE players, teams with connections in the circle naturally knew; now they were being thoroughly crushed by NXG, making it hard for them not to take notice.

WE, IG, Royal, LM, countless professional team members all sat before the live stream room, watching this Penguin LPL preseason pilot broadcast.

It's normal for young people to be unwilling to yield and talk big, but actions don't lie; for future strong opponents on the professional stage, any team with a normal brain wouldn't choose to ignore them.

What exactly is NXG's strength?

This point, PE, currently still in the match, has the most say.

After the mid outer tower was pushed, the first to fall was the jungler's spider jungle; the top-side Blue Buff, the bottom-side F4 and Red, were all swept clean.

To describe that group of bandits as 'plucking feathers from a goose passing by' is no exaggeration.

Bandits, but bandits with strict discipline!

As the team's commander, Xika now felt as if a large stone was pressing down on his head.

The five heroes of the purple side, having gained the advantage, gave them no chance at all; after pulling down the mid and bot outer towers, they didn't recklessly dive towers, nor did anyone appear isolated to give them an opening.

They also tried to ambush NXG's heroes, but half of their own jungle map was completely blacked out, making it hard for hero movements to go undetected by the opponent.

Whenever a hero appeared in a vision blind spot, the opponent simply didn't approach the spot where they were ambushing.

Orders were obeyed and prohibitions enforced to a terrifying degree.

It was as if the five people... no, it should be said the top, jungle, bot, and support four people, had practiced a thousand times, executing various commands under the mid-lane brain's command without a single mistake.

Farming the jungle, pushing lanes on the sides, focusing on taking towers; to Xika, it felt like a precision instrument constantly repeating a set program.

Thus, unable to counterattack, Xika, who needed to make vision, was caught by Jiang Ming's fox several times.

However, if Xika could synchronize with the communication voice inside NXG's underground base at this moment, Jiang Ming and his teammates, he probably wouldn't find the current situation so hard to accept.

Fifteen minutes, another small dragon spawned on the map.

NXG-door (Pang Ran): "Dragon spawns in twenty-one seconds!"

"The enemy support's Flash has forty seconds left; the dragon teamfight won't go well."

"I'm going home to update my items; my ultimate is ready; I'll go back to push the top lane."

"Old Xu, bring a true sight ward, place it in PE's tri-bush."

"Good!"

"Rock, follow me to force position; we can stand a bit further forward."

Calm, orderly, information feedback simple and clear.

Unlike the vegetable-market-style team voice chat that players highly praise, from the perspective of a team manager or LOL coach, that noisy team voice chat communication doesn't directly indicate how good the team atmosphere is, and professional matches don't need to prove the team's atmosphere with teamfights.

When both sides clash, the correct team voice chat should contain nothing but information feedback and the commander's decision on the next move, with no other interfering information.

The kind of behavior where people shout "protect the AD" with their mouths, but in actual operation, a group of people leave the AD at the very back, is not worthy of praise.

Just like right now, before the dragon spawned, Shen voluntarily rotated top lane to apply lane pressure, the support updated vision early to set up, while the AD stayed inseparable from him, helping to alleviate some pressure.

And Jiang Ming, possessing assassination capability, moved forward deep to conduct harassment work on the enemy.

PE's reaction had the characteristic of this era, letting Xika, a female tank, come alone to scout vision while lagging behind in both economy and level.

Teammates were busy spreading out on lanes to farm minions and develop.

It was incomprehensible whether they wanted to fight a teamfight or just give up the dragon!

If they were going to give up, the most correct choice at this time should have been to create a Baron defense barrier.

Or did they think a female tank as support could tank the damage from his over-leveled fox?

"Finish it quickly, we rotate to Baron."

Whoosh!

Jiang Ming didn't waste any more time; after basically getting the information he wanted, he actively accelerated the pace of this match.

Nether Flame!

【Deception Pearl】

【Feral Foxfire】

【Charming Demonic Art】

Facing Sikka, who was cautiously probing the wild brush, Jiang Ming, possessed of great mercy, did not let the opponent feel much pain.

Ahri, who had not yet transformed into the Queen of Scraping in Season 3, with the support of the Nether Flame, turned the full-health Dawnbringer into a dried corpse in less than a second.

NXG-JM killed PE-Sicca!