Chapter 103

Not long after, both sides in the game had already started laning.

This time Su Xing breathed a sigh of relief; at least no jungler or support came straight at him to do something so inhumane.

Thinking of this, Su Xing felt that the earlier LPL team bunch of beasts were just complete idiots. His lane opponent was Hu Li, but after just the first wave of minions ended, Hu Li started doubting life, because he found he couldn't land a single Q ability.

It was as if a script had been enabled—his Q looked like it was being thrown randomly.

When both hit level 2, Su Xing instantly skilled up, used W's speed to close in and struck Hu Li—one hit and Hu Li's face went green. 'Damn, didn't you dodge with your positioning?'

After such repeated poking, Hu Li had exhausted all his supplies; a glance at his health made him think he needed to recall, otherwise he feared Draven would tower-dive.

"Su bro, Su bro, need help?" Xiao Tian came over, double buff in hand, feeling pleased; as soon as the game started, mid lane was his domain.

"No thanks, I'm just farming." Su Xing quickly shook his head to refuse, but at that moment he spotted Hu Li opening up—he thought he might have a chance to solo kill.

Xiao Tian just watched as a certain mid laner finished saying he liked to farm, then instantly flashed and tower-dived.

"What happened to liking to farm???"

"He made me miss a minion; he has to die!"

Upon hearing that, Xiao Tian silently glanced at Su Xing.

Fine, as long as you're happy.

Moreover, this tower dive was a kill trade, but first blood went to Su Xing, so strictly speaking he didn't lose out; most importantly, the minion wave pushed into Hu Li's turret, making the enemy lose a few minions.

"This guy is crazy."

Hu Li stared for a moment, then couldn't help but curse: "You think this is ranked?"

"Don't worry; if he dares to keep trading kills, he'll be the one losing." His teammate also consoled, losing a bit on the minion wave doesn't matter anyway because we have teleport.

"Let's do it again later." Hu Li was mildly annoyed, feeling Su Xing looked down on him—does playing Draven let him do whatever he wants?

"This tower dive, speaking reasonably, is a bit too scary." Guan Zeyuan on the commentator desk stared for a moment, so he intended to stay as silent as possible and hand the speaking rights to Mi Lei. As a result, just a few minutes into the lane, Su Xing started being inhuman? As for that. "If he tower dives like that, the first blood gold is definitely a profit, and when both die the minion wave is in front of Hu Li's turret; even if he uses TP to return to lane, he'll still lose three minions." Mi Lei slowly said: "Probably this is to prevent his teammate's jungler from coming to tower dive, so he went first."

Guan Zeyuan: Seems pretty reasonable.

In the game, Su Xing's gold was exactly enough for two longswords; he happily returned to lane and the minion wave just happened to push toward him, all of this naturally being in his calculations.

Actually, nobody would guess he'd turn murderous just because he missed a minion last hit; because this excuse is ridiculous, having the advantage's support, Su Xing's Draven can recklessly use his W speed to rush in, strike once, then retreat—each time Hu Li takes a hit, his HP drops a chunk.

Once, twice, three times. Hu Li angrily cursed: "This is too painful!" Draven's ranged EQ combo is indeed very painful, but he can't dodge it—that's the scariest part; no matter whether he twists left or right, Su Xing predicts it perfectly.

After taking three long-range Qs, he was forced to recall.

Besides that, this Draven's positioning is outrageous to the extreme, dodging all of my E abilities; from start to finish I never landed a single E, which seems unbelievable.

"We can hardly imagine how terrifying a Draven would be if it didn't eat any enemy crowd control." Guan Zeyuan's voice full of helplessness, he could only force himself to hype it up.

"After two minutes online, Hu Li has to recall again; this time without TP he's really losing out." Mi Lei lamented: "How much experience will be lost going back and forth?"

"There's nothing we can do; after all, Su Xing's Draven is still strong, we need to see if the jungler can give Su Xing some pressure, just as we saw—when Hu Li intended to go back, Draven started clearing the wave; this big wave will push into the turret, will Hu Li not leave?"

"If he doesn't leave, something will happen; Gen's jungler has already come to help clear the lane, this Gen jungler is also stretched thin."

"You want to go up like that? Forget it, Su Xing, no no no, it's unnecessary." Under Guan Zeyuan's near-wailing commentary, all viewers saw via the livestream that Su Xing's Draven tower-dived and killed Hu Li. Because Hu Li was greedy for that minion wave's experience, he thought he could confidently position to dodge, and then there was no afterwards.

Moreover, this doesn't count as a tower dive; it's just using his longer range to two-shot Hu Li.

As for the Gen jungler who rushed over, seeing the full-health Draven he could only hug the turret and silently soak up the minion wave—this DNMD lane, his HP hasn't dropped at all after half a day? "Xiao Tian, come up."

Xiao Tian's jungler naturally also appeared nearby; then Su Xing said he wanted to tower-dive the enemy jungler: "Bro, is this necessary?" Xiao Tian stared wide-eyed: "Does the enemy jungler coming to clear a lane also have to die?"

"Just a bit short of money to buy a Control Ward, you know." Su Xing sighed.

Xiao Tian: "No, hearing that sounds a bit off. Lacking money to buy a Control Ward?"

Fine, you're the bro, as long as you're happy.

Shortly after, Xiao Tian's Huo Nan also approached from the flank near the enemy turret, threw a WQ over the wall, precisely hitting the Mantis under the turret; this scene made Guan Zeyuan nervous again.

"No way, do we have to tower dive like this?"

Under Guan Zeyuan's gaze, Huo Nan and Draven forcibly tower-dived, taking the Mantis with an extremely individual play; they almost lost Huo Nan, because the whole time Huo Nan was tanking the turret, but finally they also flashed out for an extreme escape, the kill naturally went to the thick thigh.

"Now it's comfortable."

After Su Xing killed the Mantis, his record became 3-1; he directly returned to base to replenish items and also bought a Control Ward. Seeing this, Mao Kai showed a relieved smile, "Vision, vision, vision!" If I were to score Su Xing, I'd give him 99; the missing point is because he refuses to buy wards! Not because he dislikes them or forgot, just refuses. "I'll just stare at where you put that ward." Mao Kai muttered. Meanwhile on the commentator desk, Guan Zeyuan laughed and cried: "Su Xing's Draven has already taken off; at this point 3-1, I have to say his laning ability is incredibly strong, even to the point where you can't find any flaw."

"Yes, we can also see that after Su Xing built armor he updated his items and also bought a Control Ward. Speaking of vision, let's share an interesting statistic: in the Summer Split, Su Xing's only two appearances had vision score 0, whereas in this World Championship he has only bought Scouting Wards twice." "Such statistics are hard to imagine among pro players, yet despite that Su Xing has never been successfully ganked; we have to say his anti-gank awareness is extremely strong." Guan Zeyuan sighed: "Now let's see if Gen's other side lanes can step up; given the current situation, mid lane is already impossible to lane."

"A 3-1 Draven vs a 1-2 Hu Li—how can we lane? If caught by the jungler we could barely survive, but the key is Hu Li died those two times from solo kills! After Su Xing returned to lane he found Hu Li completely unwilling to lane against him, not even having the courage to poke. "This is no fun." Su Xing shook his head, "How can we even lane?"

"A sudden idea—he then placed the Control Ward in the middle of the minion wave."

"This move was seen by everyone; they were all clueless—what is this for? A Control Ward costs 75 gold. Backstage Mao Kai immediately covered his eyes, he just knew. "Cough cough, maybe this is Su Xing's misoperation." Mi Lei thought it over and could only use this excuse to explain to Su Xing; otherwise he really couldn't explain why he placed the Control Ward in the middle of the minion wave."

"Hu Li looked at the Control Ward, didn't understand but it's fine; he just went over and auto-attacked it to destroy it—carefully he A'd it once, and the next moment Draven immediately disliked it; given the level and equipment gap, that one hit directly took half of Hu Li's HP! "Damn.""

"Hu Li couldn't help but curse, 'What the hell damage is this TM?' He turned to leave, but didn't expect Su Xing to go crazy, using W's speed to charge in; Hu Li's face changed, looking at this Draven he didn't know what to say."

"Big bro, are you tower diving again?"

"Trying to use E to charm Draven, but got dodged again—he wanted to smash his keyboard. At this distance E can be skewed; is it my Hu Li's fault or Draven's positioning? As Hu Li's E becomes total crowd control, Su Xing becomes even more reckless—tower diving, so what?"

"After a few basic attacks, Hu Li fell again, resentful: 'What the hell is this guy?' Hu Li completely had no way against Draven; he didn't even want to lane anymore, what else could he do?"

"This damn guy has tower-dived all the way to the second turret!" As for that?

"This" Xiao Tian stared for a moment, completely gone mad with killing! Bro, what happened to liking to farm?

"He auto-attacked my Control Ward once."

Xiao Tian: his heart felt no turbulence, even wanting to laugh—what the hell divine reason is this? He watched Hu Li silently become 1-4, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for him; actually after thinking it over, Hu Li is also quite innocent: in lane, hitting a person once means death, hitting a Control Ward once means death, if someone misses a last hit you also die.

"All that talk boils down to one sentence: if you miss a last hit by one, you die once."

"Don't ask why; the answer is just that I want to farm. If you don't let me farm, I'll kill you."

"Su bro, I think after this World Championship many mids will retire." Xiao Tian finally couldn't hold back,

"Ah, if you play trash you should just retire, what's the problem?"

Xiao Tian:. Meanwhile on Gen's side, Hu Li really couldn't take it anymore, saying: "Switch lanes, I'll go bot to hold pressure."

Gen everyone:. Is it really that scary? They'd rather go bot to face a duo than stay mid.

"No, you guys wouldn't know that feeling if you haven't laned against him; this guy has issues—he'll tower dive at the slightest disagreement, how the hell can anyone stand that?" Hu Li wanted to cry but had no tears: "Besides, his positioning is really strong; I haven't landed a single skill on him so far."

"Lane swap!? Hu Li actually chose to swap lanes at this moment, and the bottom tower hasn't even been taken yet."

Guan Zeyuan looked at the screen, his tone also full of helplessness.

Hu Li actually chose to swap lanes, and not just to a solo lane—he went straight to the duo lane to soak pressure. Gen, what's this strategy?" Mi Lei calmly analyzed: "Draven is now 4-1 in mid lane, which is under absolute domination; if Hu Li gets hit once by an auto attack on top lane, he loses a third of his health, the minion wave can go in for an immediate hard kill, and staying mid would just make him an ATM."

As for the top lane, all we can see is that TES's top laner Quisanti is at a disadvantage, while Gen's Kennen has the edge; in this situation it's absolutely impossible to let Kennen face Draven, so we can only send the bottom duo to mid lane.

But the problem is that, as a mid-game teamfight champion, Hu Li would completely lose his usefulness, and doing so would mean totally abandoning the map resources on the bottom side—this first objective is the fire dragon, after all.

Gen can only hope to let Kennen solo lane or look forward to Jinx's later development while praying that the second dragon isn't fire or earth." Guan Zeyuan seemed to be analyzing, but he was actually feeling sorry for Gen for picking Hu Li; logically, laning shouldn't be too rough, and a Hu Li with comparable farm only needs to find a chance to burst someone in mid‑game teamfights to be solid.

As it turned out, no one expected that the lane would just get crushed outright.

Listening to the two commentators blabber on nonstop, the live‑chat audience was also laughing and crying; those two commentators were really just spouting nonsense with their eyes closed: 'Gen: I myself don't even know if I'll make it to late game.'

'Guan Zeyuan's a bit embarrassed—he can't brag, but he can't not brag either, haha; just listening to his voice makes me feel stifled for him.'

To be frank, Guan Zeyuan did his best—who knew this Hu Li was as fragile as glass, shattering at the slightest touch.

'Su Xing's been pretty fierce aw, he's forced everyone to swap lanes.'

'He must have secretly checked Weibo, Su Xing—yesterday someone said he was bragging, but today he's asking if you want to kill, really just depending on my mood.'

'Face‑slapped live. jip.'

'This lane is way too aggressive, huh? I don't know if you've noticed the details, but Hu Li didn't land a single skill the whole way.'

'Hu Li: Maybe we're not playing the same game.'

'But Gen will still play—send the duo lane to mid to pressure Su Xing's roaming while applying pressure top, contesting the Rift Herald; even if they sacrifice mid‑lane farm, it doesn't matter.'

'But the problem is, then the bottom lane Ezreal would just take off? Getting those plates feels so good before snagging the fire dragon.'

'That's also a no‑choice—if we let Draven lane against Hu Li again, forget teamfights, they'd push to the high ground in fifteen minutes, believe it or not.'

'I don't trust the others, but I still trust Su Xing—this damn thing's Draven is a bit particular.'

(End of chapter)