Chapter 63: NXG's True Level

"Bro, play it safe on top, how the hell did Kai'nan get killed over the tower chasing the crocodile?"

The jungler ultimately couldn't resist sending a question mark to top lane.

After playing this game for a while, he now deeply regretted choosing to specialize as a jungler in pro matches—in normal games it's fine, everyone treats you like their adopted son, constantly yelling "Dad's on top!" or "I've wandered half my life in the wind!"

But in pro matches? Good luck—jungle resources get split, if you lose lane you gotta call the jungler, and when you lose, you're the one who takes the blame.

Damn it, it's only four minutes, and bottom lane already gave away two summoner spells plus first blood, while top lane got single-killed at level three.

What could a poor little Imperial Prince possibly do?

Scold bottom lane?

Nah, bottom lane's captain is MP—better to just roast top lane instead; after all, top laners getting roasted by the jungler is just routine.

Guess I'll have to step in myself!

BLQG's top laner sighed, "I was being careful—just now the Blind Monk forced a trade and drained my health, I had to flash out, and the crocodile's level-three burst with red potion was just too high."

He really wanted to retort to his own jungler: "How dare you ask me what's wrong with top lane? The Blind Monk already wandered over here, yet your Imperial Prince is just sitting in bottom lane doing nothing—aren't you the one with the skill gap?"

But the words stuck in his throat—he thought better of it and swallowed them back.

The situation was stronger than him—he was already behind; if he dared complain to his "jungle dad," the guy might just stop helping, and top lane would be stuck in jail forever.

In fact, BLQG's top laner's inner complaints about the jungler weren't without merit.

In the early minutes, the rhythm is often controlled by the jungler—skilled junglers can even coordinate with laners to set up plays.

Just now, the Blind Monk had actively asked the crocodile to bait out his position to set up an opportunity for a gank on top.

In contrast, the Imperial Prince, even after seeing the enemy jungler appear on top, didn't apply pressure to bottom lane, didn't invade the Blind Monk's jungle to steal resources, and didn't even consider ganking mid to help the Syndra and free up the Twisted Fate.

Remember, Syndra doesn't have Cleanse, and the Imperial Prince holds an EQ combo—he could easily coordinate with Twisted Fate's yellow card to land a skill.

Yet when Syndra slightly moved toward the upper river, BLQG's jungler, the Imperial Prince, seemed to lose all interest in mid lane.

From this perspective, there truly is a gap in jungling skill.

Sometimes, less skilled junglers, after being assigned the jungle, encounter this: while you're still clearing camps, the enemy jungler has already ganked every lane, and in your vision, your teammates clearly gave up the opportunity themselves—but still blame the jungler, leaving you feeling deeply wronged.

Actually, it's both right and wrong.

The laner who got ganked is naturally first to blame, but that doesn't mean the inactive jungler is blameless.

Laners can't avoid last-hitting minions, and once they need to farm, they expose themselves to ganks.

When the enemy is aggressively ganking, as a jungler you must either focus on the opposite lane or control team objectives as compensation—otherwise, just farming in the jungle won't make up for what your team lost during that time.

Besides, you're an Imperial Prince, not a Sword Saint—can you really save the world by farming in the jungle for thirty minutes?

But just because BLQG couldn't find an opening didn't mean NXG would slow their rhythm.

"Damn, this Blind Monk is cursed, doesn't he have his own jungle? Why does he keep coming after me?"

"Like a sticky note—you can't shake him off, and you can't kill me."

"Whoa, bros, he's back again—can anyone help me in the jungle?"

"..."

The jungler who had just been mentally roasting the top laner soon got his own special meal.

At 5:30, after gaining advantage on top, the Blind Monk began invading the Imperial Prince's jungle.

Stone didn't greedily chase—his mindset was simple: if he could steal a camp with Q, fine; if not, just harass the Imperial Prince.

For him, top lane advantage was already locked in, Syndra had mid lane advantage too—so long as he kept the Imperial Prince from ganking bottom and let the Ashe build momentum, it was a blue-side victory.

NXG's players already had significantly higher raw skill than BLQG's; now that the jungler's movements were transparent and the jungle threat was gone, they could play without any fear of consequences.

This was completely different from what fans had expected—no tactical clash, no disciplined domination.

NXG didn't even need to try hard to beat BLQG.

First, Song Yuan on top—after just a tiny bit of wave management, the crocodile tanked the wave, dragging Kai'nan along to keep the minion line centered, waiting for the second wave. After returning with boots and long sword, the crocodile began using vision-blocking techniques, repeatedly entering bushes to cancel Kai'nan's auto-attack wind-up and trade health, slowly whittling Kai'nan's health down to half without anyone noticing.

This time, he didn't even need the jungler—once the crocodile hit level six, he baited out Kai'nan's E, then chased him down mid-tower while the E cooldown was still active, securing another solo kill.

Less than seven minutes, top lane was already destroyed.

In mid lane, Yihan, though usually quiet in the team because his captain was also a top-tier mid laner, had learned his Fundamentals and details exceptionally well.

By five minutes, he had already last-hit over ten more minions than Twisted Fate, and after hitting level six, he won a trade, forcing BLQG's mid laner back to base, then rushed to bottom lane to set the pace.

Seeing Syndra arrive, Xu Jing—who had a thousand hidden plans—pretended to fall back under tower, then instantly turned around and stunned the enemy Jhin with a flash + R.

Ashe tried to save, but Pang Yuan's pre-placed Q wind gust lifted her high into the air.

At that moment, Syndra executed a flawless QRW combo through the wall, effortlessly pulling BLQG's duo together.

DoubleKill!

【G!】

【Every lane is getting crushed—the skill gap is too huge.】

【No tactics needed—just pure raw power domination.】

【Who says there's no strategy? Just ignore the Blind Monk's opening setup and subsequent jungle pressure?】

【And Syndra's creative roaming—Twisted Fate was already set up by Syndra's early pressure, the gap is obvious.】

Amid a flood of "GG" comments, a brutal massacre was unfolding on the rift with an absurdly wide skill gap.

Jiang Ming had expected this.

During the qualifiers, against PE—the strongest team in the 2013 LPL—NXG had beaten them like bots; even without him on the roster now, they'd still easily dismantle BLQG, a team that couldn't even qualify for the main event.

Right now, NXG was unstoppable in rhythm control, team fights, and overall operations throughout the entire S3 era—as long as they didn't face a lane monster who outright destroyed them in lane.