Chapter 70: The True Gap in Game Understanding

"Charge! Charge! Charge!"

"Slow exit at level one means half the team dies before the match even starts."

Entering the game, in the LGD voice chat, support NT shouted frantically, frantically pinging the bottom half of the purple side, "Last game we lost because our exit was too slow, and DD ambushed us. This time, we invade proactively."

"Ah Quan's Gragas has a passive; at level one he can tank like crazy. We just need to focus fire and kill one."

"Don't go mid; let's move along the lane."

NT's plan was very beautiful: Gragas flashes to knock someone back, Ryze provides point-blank crowd control, and with Brand and Draven behind plus Janna adding damage, they could easily secure the kill.

However, there was one thing the Old Ganmen team, who imagined such a beautiful scenario, failed to consider.

"The purple side's exit is still very fast; overall, they are one or two seconds faster than the blue side's Old Ganmen."

Joker pinpointed the crux of the problem in one sentence.

If your blue side wants to fight at level one, you must exit faster than the opponent first.

NXG's five players bought items one or two seconds faster; after confirming their level-one positions before the match, their fixed exit route saved another one or two seconds. This three-to-four-second gap means you never know who is ambushing whom.

"Old Ganmen's five are grouped in the bottom; Old Song and Stone, you two invade the blue buff area directly."

Having arrived first, Pang Ran quickly placed a necessary defensive ward, and the vision happened to catch the sneaky LGD heroes.

"Alright, are we swapping jungle starts?"

The top lane Shyvana and Jayce moved synchronously toward the blue side's top half.

"Let's wait and see; Old Xu will use his body to provide vision, but don't learn any skills yet."

"Oh, we see Old Ganmen's five heroes moving from the lane toward the river at level one, attempting to invade NXG's bottom jungle."

"But they've already been spotted by vision." Wa Wa laughed heartily. "This is what we often say in games: a slow exit loses half the battle."

With their position exposed, Pang Ran quickly hid in the tri-bush behind his own first tower, while Xu Jing's Graves physically held the edge of the vision; if Gragas advanced one step, he retreated one step, maintaining a distance where they could see each other but Gragas couldn't flash in to knock him up.

Controlling the distance of both teams' skills, including flash, is an operation that looks difficult but is actually not simple at all; it was a supreme skill he achieved only after spending a long time practicing bitterly.

Brother Ming actually said someone could rely on talent to block auto-attack range; isn't that just a joke?

"Start! Start! Start!"

"Ah Quan, what are you doing? You're attacking Graves directly."

"The distance isn't enough!" Tao Bao Quan roared, trying to probe forward further. "If the enemy Graves learns E at level one, I'll be blown up!"

"Lulu isn't visible either; she's probably hiding in some bush."

"Retreat, retreat..."

【Pfft, are the five LGD players idiots? They exit much slower than the others and still want a level-one fight.】

【This shows how many opportunities to rank up those slow-exiting bastards have caused us to lose in the past.】

【Gragas is so cowardly; seeing Graves right in front of him, he still dares not flash to knock him up.】

【To the person above, just watch Graves' quick pistol draw and you'll be silenced.】

【Then the blue side would be blown up at the start; look at the top half, Jayce's ward is already thrown to the intersection near the three wolves.】

【What I admire most about this NXG team is their teamwork; once one lane detects an enemy attack, the other lane immediately takes corresponding action; they absolutely won't just stand there and watch.】

【Right, right. Sometimes when you gank their top lane, your bottom half suffers; conversely, if their jungler is in the top half, the duo on the other side absolutely won't take risky actions.】

【What is a pro team? I think this is what a pro team is; fighting randomly relying on mechanics doesn't count as pro.】

In the game, the Old Ganmen top and mid laners, having recalled on the spot, began to feel their way toward their own top jungle.

Click! Click!

"Hmm, no one?"

After firing two electronic harpoons to scout the void, Little Xingxing was somewhat at a loss. "Doesn't the enemy plan to swap jungle starts?"

"Not swapping is best." Tao Bao Quan arrived at Stone Man's position, preparing to start the Stone Man and share experience with the bot lane. "Help me hit the buff a few more times."

"Xingxing, freeze the top lane; I'll come to gank you directly at level three."

Jayce, leaving mid to roam top, isn't that just asking for death?

One minute forty seconds, the jungle monsters respawned.

The Kha'Zix, having learned W at level one, threw an energy blast into the F4 pit, while Jayce, after changing his basic attack, quickly switched forms and used his E skill to kill the small monsters.

In the current version, the top lane is extremely bloody; one reason is that level-one minions arrive too late, forcing everyone to eat one or two jungle monsters before going to lane.

With the experience boost from jungle monsters, the leveling speed becomes very fast; a true man's duel at level two is a common occurrence.

Speaking of which, the early popularization of this technique is also related to Jiang Ming.

Since playing it a few times in the livestream at the end of the season, the bot lane helping the jungler and the mid laner helping the top laner at the start has become standard in major tournament matches.

Of course, as the team that pioneered it, they naturally mastered some more refined opening techniques.

For example, deciding the next gank route based on the starting point of the jungle monsters.

Shyvana starts at the three wolves, then moves through F4 to the red buff position in the top half to clear, arriving at the top lane exactly at level three to initiate a gank.

"Old Song, remember to freeze the lane!" Stone sent a signal.

For the hero Shyvana to catch people, she must learn E at level three; relatively, she loses two levels of Q damage, so her jungle clearing speed slows down, meaning he must communicate with teammates in advance.

Song Yuan nodded; his Jayce learned E at level one, plus he was moving up from the F4 position, so freezing the lane at the position where Brand pushes forward was easy.

"Okay, we see the minions are heading to the battlefield, the monsters have respawned, Brand ate the three wolves with Ryze's help, and the purple side's Jayce had Kha'Zix help him clear the F4 small monsters."

"Ah, Jayce learned E at level one?"

Just as the broadcast camera started looking for highlights across the three lanes, Wa Wa and Joker noticed something was wrong.

Although both were eating jungle monsters to reach the lane with little difference, Jayce arrived at the top lane before Brand, and strangely used his body to push the blue side's minion wave.

And when Brand walked up from the river, wanting to eat the experience from the colliding minion wave, he was knocked over by Jayce's hammer.

"Damn, is this how you play the game?"

Little Xingxing cursed in one second, looking at the rich, handsome Piltover man standing before him, feeling intuitively nauseated to the extreme.

Who learns Jayce's E at level one just to go online early and then block their own lane so they can't farm?

The key is he dares not fight the opponent; after all, even if Jayce, stuck in the middle, doesn't auto-attack the minions, he can still gain the experience. If he falls, won't he be facing a level-two against a level-one later?

Snap!

A sonic shockwave forced a reposition; Star controlled Rumble to push forward immediately, launched a second sonic shockwave, and only then managed to farm the low-health melee minion before him.

Fell one, farmed one... that should be acceptable.

Fortunately, he learned E at level one; mainly, if he had learned Q, the first three would probably have all been lost.