Chapter 56

After swapping lanes, the one who got hit hard is actually mid lane?

When the game entered the loading screen, Su Xing activated Prophet Replay again, but the result was extremely unexpected for him.

At the start of the game, doinb's side didn't realize they were going to swap lanes; by the time A Le realized this, he didn't stubbornly insist on taking experience, but instead chose to retreat back to the jungle and then come to the grass patch in the mid lane river, waiting for the jungler's Broken King to arrive.

Soon after, the three teamed up and struck mid lane, successfully taking first blood. From then on, the Broken King began to gradually control the pace, and even Kai'Sa, who should have been heavily suppressed, eased up thanks to the assist's gold.

"It seems that lane-swapping tactics have been appearing frequently in recent matches, causing some professional players during the off-season to also know what to do when a lane swap occurs."

"If there's no sense of caution, this level-two wave is indeed extremely deadly."

Afterwards, upon entering the canyon, Su Xing gathered his thoughts,

What's notable in this game is that I must not die at level two; otherwise, if a champion uses Flash at level two and still dies, the impact on the overall pace would be too great.

The earlier positioning wasn't particularly particular either, and doinb's side didn't realize that a bunch of old-timers would actually employ the currently hot lane-swapping tactic from the professional league.

After the minion wave appeared, A Le looked at the duo showing up in the top lane and fell silent. "No way, man, are you really playing the game like that?"

"Hey, holy shit, how did they swap lanes?!"

doinb was also frightened by this scene; for most professional players, lane swapping equates to avoiding laning, and generally they only choose to swap lanes when they admit they're inferior to the opponent.

But he never expected Uzi to actually choose to swap lanes at this point, which sounds somewhat absurd.

"Le Yan, come, let's go to mid lane together."

Regarding the lane swap, A Le didn't have much emotional fluctuation, after all, during recent scrims these active professional players had also practiced this lane-swapping tactic quite a bit, so he now clearly knows what he should do.

If he insistently tried to take the experience from three minions, his HP would definitely be knocked down; then, when the enemy duo pushes the lane in, the opposing jungler would show up on time in the top lane and dive him, and worst of all, in that situation he couldn't even use Teleport to return to lane.

If I can't take the experience, then I won't—I'll just go straight for your mid lane!

"Level two?"

Le Yan blinked slightly, then said, "Alright, doinb's minion wave position is actually not bad."

"That's right, I deliberately sold that opening!"

doinb felt a bit pleased, "Even if my last hits aren't as many as the opponent's, that's all me selling openings!"

"I'll Flash with W to initiate; you just follow up."

There's no way; currently, in the top/mid/jungle, only Le Yan's Broken King has a W skill that counts as crowd control. As for Meng Yan's... honestly, you can't just walk straight up to Su Xing and drop an E skill and call that control, can you?

If I do that, even an idiot would notice someone nearby.

"OK."

doinb nodded,

Besides the jungler's Broken King, this wave also has A Le's Kai'Sa; although Kai'Sa is only level one, all we need right now is for him to chip in a basic attack, and that's enough.

You have to realize that's just a champion; even if Su Xing is incredibly strong, could he really pull off a 1v3 in the early game?

What Le Yan didn't expect was that, just as he began charging his W skill in the grass, the next second Su Xing's card master immediately stepped back several steps! "Fuck"

Seeing this, Le Yan burst out cursing, "Is that card master even human?!"

If you don't move early, you don't play; but I'm here charging my skill, and you just run as far as you can?!

"RIP!"

A Le's face was full of black lines,

This time he's truly RIP'd; he painstakingly came to mid lane and didn't even snag an assist, so how is he supposed to go back to top lane and "sit in prison"? "Forget it, nothing happened."

Seeing this, doinb said somewhat embarrassedly, "Maybe my positioning was too aggressive? No, wait, my positioning isn't aggressive at all—could there be wards in the grass?"

"Impossible, who wards mid lane at this time?"

Le Yan shook his head and said, "Maybe it's his intuition."

As a result, he didn't expect that the next second Su Xing typed a sentence in the all-chat, directly leaving all three of them bewildered.

"Dude, stop pretending; you guys don't really think we're actually playing a match, do you?"

Everyone: At this moment, the three were utterly puzzled, trying to figure out what went wrong that made Su Xing realize his side would "patronize" mid lane at this time.

"No, there's no one in mid lane!"

doinb defended, saying, "How could I possibly call for help?!"

"Right, right, right, have A Le say something."

A Le: "Looks like my acting still isn't up to par, or maybe it's that those old-timers on the opposing side, who constantly commentate matches, also roughly know what will happen to mid lane or the jungle after a lane swap occurs."

"Retreat!"

Le Yan's Broken King, seeing this, also didn't want to waste more time, openly walking out of the grass and heading to his own lower jungle.

"Level two."

Bei Shang noticed Le Yan's level and CS count and was somewhat surprised; targeting Su Xing I can understand, but targeting him like this?

A Broken King actually foregoes jungle clearing just to target mid lane, thinking at level two to do something in mid lane; if it weren't for Su Xing realizing something, they'd probably have actually found an opportunity.

"It's fine, just keep clearing."

Su Xing gestured to Bei Shang that he only needed to clear his own monsters, completely ignoring Su Xing himself.

Because he knows full well that, over the next two or three minutes, A Le's Kai'Sa won't leave mid lane—not because he doesn't want to go back top to farm, but because he can't! If he were to go back top now, Uzi's duo could reach level three while he's only a pitiful level one; in that situation he thinks even if the enemy jungler doesn't come, he's still very likely to be tower-dived by Uzi's duo.

"After the bot lane minion wave pushes, wink come up and take me for experience."

A Le slowly said, "If I go alone I'll get tower-dived."

"Mm, right away."

As for wink, he also had no recourse; he didn't expect a bunch of old-timers to be able to employ the latest lane-swap tactic so proficiently—if he'd known this game would involve a lane swap, he as a support would have just brought Teleport straight away.

At the same time, Su Xing also spoke up in the team voice chat, reminding: "wink's missing; he might be going top to help Kai'Sa ease pressure."

On the minimap, wink had already disappeared for several seconds, which means there's a high chance he chose to go straight top.

"Come?"

Uzi, bluntly, said: "If he comes, we'll take him down!"

The enemy jungler just headed toward the lower half of the jungle; in a short time he couldn't possibly ignore the bottom lane jungle monsters and directly come to the top lane to help A Le counter-gank.

"They can't easily cross."

Su Xing slowly analyzed, saying: "You also don't need to fight; just keep developing at this pace."

"(End of chapter)"