Chapter 92

"This..."

Beishang was silent. No, this works too?

Such a big AD, and just like that, they're gone?

"My assessment is that the AD is nothing more than a toy."

Uzi chuckled, "Isn't that just how it is?"

Su Xing's demeanor was nonchalant; he didn't find this situation surprising. Even top-tier professional players make such mistakes, let alone a group of old men. "Should we end it in one wave?"

Uzi asked, "The minion wave position isn't great."

"Don't rush."

Su Xing switched screens to glance at the situation in the bottom lane and said with a smile, "At this stage, death timers are quite short. There's no need to force a one-wave push. Let's just take one inhibitor first."

The tempo of this match wasn't as tight as the previous two.

It made many fans in the audience call it unfamiliar. In past matches, at this point, Uzi's side might have been thinking about preparing for a one-wave push, but this time they weren't taking such risks.

"It's clear that Uzi's side is also very cautious, choosing not to force a one-wave push but instead taking one inhibitor and leaving."

Mi Lei said in a deep voice, "This is the most correct approach, because the fallen AD's respawn time is very fast, and shifting to take the Dragon next is also a good choice."

"Both junglers can only continue to farm for now."

Guan Zeyuan began to analyze, "However, I think the Ning Wang team could try to help TheShy build more of an advantage. After all, one can feel from the CS that Xiaocaobao is under quite a bit of pressure in the mid lane."

In this game, the CS gap between the two mid laners was simply too obvious. Compared to Su Xing's LeBlanc, Xiaocaobao's Lissandra was down seventy CS, which was enough to reflect the gap in skill between the two mid laners.

However, compared to the disastrous starts of the first two games, having just a slight deficit in the mid lane now wasn't actually that hard to accept.

"Indeed, Xiaocaobao needs to head back to base now; he should be rushing Zhonya's Hourglass."

Through the footage provided by the director, seeing Su Xing and Xiaocaobao meet in the top lane once again, even Wa Wa had to admire Su Xing's laning ability after a round of maneuvering.

Lissandra's health was only at one-third.

Logically speaking, it should have been Su Xing's LeBlanc consuming her health through multiple skill uses, but in reality, Su Xing's LeBlanc had kept her mana controlled at around three-quarters.

Comparing the two, the gap was truly too obvious.

"Then logically speaking, Su Xing's LeBlanc should also be heading back to base; perhaps he's going for a Void Staff."

Mi Lei thought for a moment and said, "As for whether he'll add a Rabadon's Deathcap later, that depends on what Su Xing himself thinks."

In the game, after Xiaocaobao returned to base, Su Xing also used his skills to quickly push the wave and then walked into the nearby river bush, disappearing from the vision of the Ning Wang team and the others.

"Be careful, he might be going for TheShy."

Xiaocaobao gave a warning at the first opportunity.

Although this was a good time for both mid laners to return to base, who knew if Su Xing would suddenly gank TheShy, who was in the jungle?

One cannot judge Su Xing's behavior by conventional logic; this was the conclusion Xiaocaobao had reached after multiple encounters.

However, Su Xing indeed didn't return to base, but he also didn't choose to go to the mid lane to find the AD who had just respawned not long ago.

"Is it a coincidence, or...?"

At the commentary desk, Mi Lei was dizzy, because he saw Su Xing's LeBlanc actually choosing to invade the Ning Wang team's jungle! That's right, Su Xing's LeBlanc actually ran over to farm the F4 that had just respawned in the Ning Wang team's jungle. "This is just too..."

Guan Zeyuan was hesitant on the side. Wouldn't this really be a waste of his own time? "One can only say he's lucky; otherwise, if the Ning Wang team caught him, he'd probably have to burn his Flash."

Wa Wa shook his head and said, "Is this really worth it?"

Mi Lei and Guan Zeyuan shook their heads; the two naturally couldn't judge whether this behavior of Su Xing's was worth it.

However, for Su Xing, all these actions were naturally worth it. In reality, Su Xing did this to suppress Ning Wang and TheShy, who was looking for farm everywhere.

For the jungler position,

In the early game, there are only two choices to gain experience and gold:

One is farming the jungle, and the other is pushing lanes to soak up some experience while ganking.

But in the early stages of a match, regardless of the lane, there are actually very few situations where a jungler is needed to help push a wave.

Plus, in professional leagues, the jungler really doesn't have much status; you can't sacrifice lane minions to satisfy the jungler, right? In this situation, the only way for both junglers to reach Level 6 is by farming the jungle.

But the number of jungle monsters is fixed,

The respawn time for each group of monsters can be calculated, so under normal circumstances, both junglers can basically reach Level 6 simultaneously.

But what if someone secretly steals a group of camps? Then, by the time his own jungler, Beishang, reaches Level 6, his opponent, Ning Wang, will still be one group of camps short of the experience needed to reach Level 6.

According to Canyon Relativity, in this situation, Ning Wang is effectively losing two groups of camps.

"Farm mine, you're taking too much of a risk entering the jungle."

Beishang noticed Su Xing's actions; he thought Su Xing was short on gold for items. "It's fine, I'm just farming for fun."

Su Xing wore a relaxed smile and said, "Don't worry, I'll farm your jungle in a bit."

Still the same point: in professional leagues, the status of a jungler isn't high. Once they reach Level 6, the monsters in the jungle no longer belong to them.

The top laner goes to farm a Gromp when they have nothing to do, the mid laner goes to farm the F4, the bottom lane goes to farm the Krugs, and that's not even mentioning the Red and Blue buffs. "Hmm, farm away."

Beishang didn't have any objections; after all, he's the jungler, and as long as he has enough to buy two Control Wards when he returns to base, it's fine.

Meanwhile, on the Ning Wang team's side, Ning Wang happily arrived at his top-side jungle, preparing to farm the F4, only to find that there was nothing left.

"Eh?"

Ning Wang was full of confusion and said, "Wait, when did he enter my jungle?"

"Ah?"

Xiaocaobao perked up upon hearing this.

"Maybe he's still in the top-side jungle; go find him at the Krugs."

For a Lissandra, a small-scale team fight is the most suitable thing.

"Alright, I'll go take a look."

Ning Wang said carelessly, "This kid is getting addicted, isn't he? I'll catch you and humiliate you properly!"

At the same time, the top and mid laners of the Ning Wang team consciously began to lean toward their own jungle. This scene naturally made the top and mid laners of the Uzi team a bit confused.

"No, why is he in the bottom lane?"

Just at this moment, a wail came from the Ning Wang team's AD in the bottom lane.

Hearing his teammates' communication, he thought the Uzi team's jungler was in the top-side jungle, so he wanted to play aggressively to put some pressure on Uzi.

As a result, this aggression brought out a jungler. It scared the Ning Wang team's AD so much that he pressed Flash and Heal at the same time, fearing that if he were a second late, he would have to leave his life here.

"Ah..."

Ning Wang was dumbfounded. Wait, if Beishang is in the bottom-side jungle at this time, he simply doesn't have the time to invade his own jungle. Then what about his F4? "What's going on..."

Ning Wang still didn't understand what had happened and could only comfort the emotions of the bottom lane duo.

After all, if it weren't for his own wrong judgment, the bottom lane duo wouldn't have been forced to burn all their Summoner Spells.

"It's fine, it just gave me a scare..."

The Ning Wang team's AD didn't say much more. Although he lost Flash and Heal, he had at least preserved his passive stacks.

As long as the passive stacks were still there, there was still hope.

"It's alright, they are playing very steadily this game. Let's find an opportunity to dive the bottom lane later."

The Ning Wang team's support glanced at the experience bar and also felt that it wasn't a big problem.

A champion like LeBlanc has too strong of a snowballing ability. As long as she doesn't die in the early game, then after reaching Level 6 or getting a kill in a mid-game skirmish, even just one kill can instantly create a huge economic gap.

Meanwhile, the Uzi team continued to maintain a steady rhythm, and Xiaocaobao didn't continue to stay in the side lane to lane against Su Xing.

He wanted to use the characteristics of the Lissandra champion to forcibly disrupt the Uzi team's rhythm, but Xiaocaobao soon found that there was no opportunity at all. He wanted to gank the bottom lane,

but the moment he disappeared from the mid lane for less than three seconds, the Uzi team's bottom lane duo directly retreated.

He wanted to coordinate with Ning Wang to invade the jungle,

but he couldn't catch a trace of Beishang at all, as if the Uzi team had the whole map lit up, not giving any chance at all.

This made Xiaocaobao feel troubled, but at the same time, he discovered a more thorny problem.

LeBlanc's CS was a bit off! At twenty-five minutes, his Lissandra had about 160 CS, which seemed fine.

After all, being suppressed too hard,

he had to lose a bit of CS, so 160 CS at twenty-five minutes was completely normal.

But LeBlanc was different; Su Xing's LeBlanc had already reached 260 CS at twenty-five minutes.

"No, how does this guy have 260 CS?"

Xiaocaobao racked his brains but couldn't figure out where Su Xing got this 260 CS. The minion waves of these twenty-seven minutes didn't even add up to 260 CS.

In professional leagues, being able to keep your CS on par with the time is already a very remarkable thing,

and yet now Su Xing's CS had actually exceeded the time? "Damn, could it be that he entered my jungle?"

Ning Wang, who was slow to realize, suddenly woke up.

He had been puzzled when a group of F4 went missing earlier, and later he discovered that a group of Wolves and a Gromp were missing from his bottom-side jungle.

He was still wondering why Beishang's jungle path was so strange,

but now he finally understood: the thief wasn't the jungler Beishang, but the mid laner Su Xing!

"This..."

Xiaocaobao suddenly fell into silence.

The key was that they also left some vision in the jungle, but they had never seen a trace of this LeBlanc.

"If this LeBlanc farms a few more groups of jungle camps, won't he get a Rabadon's Deathcap?"

At this time, the commentators at the commentary desk also began to sigh.

The Ning Wang team in the game couldn't see what was happening, but as commentators, they saw it clearly!

The playstyle of Su Xing's LeBlanc was extremely exaggerated.

At first, they thought stealing a group of F4 before Level 6 was an impulsive idea, but after Level 6, Su Xing's operations made them understand that this must have been a long-planned idea! Unlike Xiaocaobao, who would roam to find opportunities after pushing the wave,

Su Xing would go to farm his own F4 after pushing the wave; if they weren't there, he would farm his own Wolves; if neither were there, he would use his ultimate to enter the Ning Wang team's jungle in the river's blind spot.

At first, they all thought Su Xing wanted to use his ultimate to catch the bottom lane by surprise, but Su Xing's idea was very simple: just use his ultimate to enter the Ning Wang team's jungle to see if there were any monsters. If there were, he'd farm them; if not, he'd return to base to update his items.

Moreover, the sufficient mana provided by Luden's Tempest meant that LeBlanc's efficiency in throwing skills to farm jungle monsters wasn't actually that bad.

This was why, just around twenty-seven minutes, Su Xing's LeBlanc's CS had already reached an extremely exaggerated 260. "Is this appropriate?"

Mi Lei was silent for a moment, then said, "What kind of strategy is this? LeBlanc eating both sides' jungle?"

"I think it's reasonable."

Guan Zeyuan gave a sharp critique, "Whoever eats the most resources should carry. Since Su Xing, as the mid laner, needs to carry, it doesn't matter if he eats a bit more, right?"

"That's one way to put it..."

Mi Lei was hesitant. You'd better be talking about Su Xing and not that person from RNG... Meanwhile, in the game, the Ning Wang team began to lose their composure as they saw Su Xing's CS growing higher and higher.

If he keeps farming like this, who can handle it? The key was that the others on the Uzi team also didn't give any chances. No matter how aggressive the Ning Wang team was, they didn't react at all.

They gave up the Dragon,

in short, they were steady, almost as if they had the words "Wait for my big brother to come out of the mountain and slaughter you all" pasted on their foreheads. "No, I really can't take it anymore."

As they played, Ning Wang completely couldn't hold it in anymore; after all, he really had nothing to do.

He tried to gank, but couldn't.

He wanted to farm the jungle, but found the jungle was empty. "Then what should we do?"

Xiaocaobao was also a bit helpless.

After all, he chose Lissandra because he wanted to compete with the Uzi team in roaming and small-scale team fights.

Now it's better; the Uzi team chose a LeBlanc who does nothing but one thing: farm.

Farming his own jungle is one thing, but he even has to farm the opponent's jungle. Not a single kill occurred, yet he was already down by over a hundred CS. "Think of a way."

Ning Wang was anxious,

but there was indeed no good way in the short term. Due to the CS lead, Su Xing's items also had a gap-level lead.

Besides that, the level was also extremely exaggerated. Being two levels ahead of his counterpart, Xiaocaobao, was one thing, but as a jungler, his own experience was already behind his laning teammates, and now, due to the jungle monsters being stolen repeatedly, his level was four levels behind Su Xing! In this situation, how could they kill Su Xing?

To put it bluntly, even if Su Xing gave them the opportunity, their mid-jungle duo might not necessarily be able to kill this LeBlanc.

On the other hand, the atmosphere on the Uzi team was much happier.

After all, who wouldn't be happy to encounter a teammate who is ahead in development? "To be reasonable, it's time to come to the bottom lane."

Uzi muttered. It had been almost twenty minutes and not a single kill had occurred on either side. If you didn't know better, you'd think it was an LCK match.

"Soon, soon, don't rush."

Su Xing glanced at his CS and said calmly, "Let me farm a bit more..."

Anyway, it's the last game, so no need to rush. Can the five people on the other side really turn the tables? He wasn't worried about this problem at all. The Ning Wang team's top laner, TheShy, might not have fallen behind in levels, but if an eighteen-level, six-item LeBlanc appears, what are you going to do? "Let's fight them at the fourth Dragon."

Beishang spoke, "That's too extreme, not very good."

(End of chapter)