freeallnovels Chapter 5 Switching Lines
Chapter 5 Switching Lines
Judging from Lin Weixiang's confident voice, he had obviously studied at TCS as well. Lin Kong was saving trouble, at least he didn't have to teach him from scratch.
"Hmm, it seems the system has taught you how to switch lanes. Follow my draft picks this game."
"Jungle: Rek'Sai, Mid: Ryze, Bot: Tristana & Trundle."
"Top lane counter: Fiora."
"Fiora?"
Liu Qingsong hesitated for a moment, then looked back at Lin Kong, thinking he had misheard.
In the lane-swapping system that he and Lin Weixiang learned in TCS, the top laner should always be a tank, such as Maokai, Poppy, Rammus, Mundo, etc.
How do you play Fiora and switch lanes?
The essence of lane swapping is sacrificing the top laner's development in exchange for the development of the bot lane duo. The top laner who is swapped has no chance to resist the pressure from the enemy AD + support. He can only grit his teeth and play on his phone under the tower, waiting for the wave to push back into the tower and trying to get some tower minions.
At this point, the opposing jungler will likely be eyeing the enemy jungler, ready to launch a perfect three-man gank.
If it's a tank hero, they can be tower-dived once, then use TP to return to lane and farm minions. It's basically impossible for the opponent to tower dive twice.
If you're playing a squishy champion like Fiora, then it's hard to say.
Don't even mention twice, you have a chance even three times!
Not to mention, Fiora is a champion who relies heavily on farming; without items, she's practically useless.
"Okay, I'll take it."
Hearing Liu Qingsong's hesitant voice, Lin Kong understood that these two guys didn't seem to know the tactics of coordinating jungle clearing.
In terms of lane-swapping tactics, they really only stay at the level of internet cafe tournaments, without going any deeper.
After the draft phase ended, EDG secured a standard lineup: top lane Mundo, jungle Elise, mid lane Lissandra, and bot lane Kalista and Alistar.
This is a snowballing, tempo-based lineup that EDG likes.
"Chenglu, you and Xiaotian are going to start in the red lane. Judging from the lineup, EDG will definitely have to switch lanes."
"Don't be afraid during the laning phase, Xiaotian will help you watch out. You can be a little aggressive," Lin Kong told TheShy in Korean.
Turning to Xiaotian, the process was repeated once more before continuing the arrangements.
"Xiao Tian, when you launch your next three-stage invasion, scout out the spider's location, and then you can capture Cheng Lu's side."
"Find a way to clear this road quickly. K, you keep a steady mid lane and make sure the Lissandra doesn't interfere with Fiora's side."
"Go back to split pushing with Fiora and coordinate with Xiaotian to gank and support in the jungle. Get yourself fed and the responsibility of clearing waves in the mid to late game will fall on your shoulders."
Lin Kong immediately launched into a detailed explanation of the game, which lasted for an unknown number of minutes, leaving Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong dumbfounded.
But can it really go that smoothly?
Just by analyzing the lineups of both sides, we were able to discern EDG's strategy and plan the overall direction of the game.
It sounds so far-fetched. I feel like EDG might not follow suit with the first lane swap.
EDG could have chosen to play in the bottom lane.
Welcome to Summoner's Rift!
Amidst their confusion, the match officially began, and they headed towards the top lane.
One minute and forty seconds after the game started, the two finally spotted EDG's top laner, Koro1, who appeared in front of the bottom lane's first tower!
They really did change it!
But where are the people?!
Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong looked at each other in bewilderment. Where did EDG's bot lane duo go?
Wait a minute, why is our top laner at the red buff?
Watching TheShy help Tian get the red buff, the two were completely confused, wondering what was going on.
At 1 minute and 50 seconds, Deft and Meiko showed up in the top lane, and Xiaotian shouted into the mic.
"They logged on so fast, the Spider was initiated by the Stone Golem." He tapped the ping a few times to warn the two players in the top lane to be careful.
Huh? How did you know that?
From the time of the BP meeting until now, both of them are still in a state of confusion.
However, for Xiaotian, this was nothing out of the ordinary. Ever since Lin Kong brought him to KG, he had been instilled with the concept of coordinating with the jungler at the start of the game.
This is also an extension of the line change.
The so-called coordinated jungling means that the top laner gives up farming lane and goes into the jungle with the jungler to farm jungle camps at the start of the game!
The reason for this playstyle is simple: when the top laner is swapped to another lane, it's like being locked up in lane.
Furthermore, in the current version, the experience gained from regular monster camps, just like from minions, can be shared among multiple players.
Why not simply leave the precarious top lane and let the top laner level up to level 2 in the jungle with the jungler? This way, the top laner might burn through one or several waves of minions, but it's much better than dying in the top lane and feeding kills to the enemy.
Furthermore, it speeds up jungle clearing in the front, greatly increasing the threat of the first gank, so even if the mid laner gets a strong hero, they dare not push forward rashly.
This is the advantage of coordinated jungling, but since someone has been able to develop this playstyle, there are naturally countermeasures.
With the presence of a synergistic jungler, the jungle speed on this side increases, which the opposing team definitely doesn't want to see. Therefore, when EDG's bot lane duo went online, they also went to help the Spider jungler.
Xiaotian was able to pinpoint the exact location of the Spider's attack on the Krugs based on this. As for why it wasn't the Red Buff, it's due to the timing. If it were the Red Buff, EDG's bot lane duo wouldn't have been at it so early (1 minute 50 seconds). Therefore, it could only be the Krugs.
"They really did switch lines."
"They're even using a rock golem; they really want to crush you guys, they completely look down on you."
Lin Kong stood behind Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong and started complaining. He could guess at first that EDG would definitely switch lanes because of the draft phase, which showed that he could take down towers very quickly with Tristana and Trundle.
He gave EDG a signal, indicating that he wanted to switch lanes this game.
EDG then brought out the combination of Kalista and Alistar to catch the lane swapping duo.
All of this was within Lin Kong's expectations, except that opening the stone man was not.
EDG clearly underestimated the two of them, choosing to sacrifice a bit of the Spider jungle route to ensure that Kalista and Alistar could reach level two early and take over the lane, directly dominating the lane here.
This brings greater benefits, offsetting the negative effects of exposing the spider route.
"But it's okay, it's still too difficult for you guys to wear this outfit."
"Hold on tight. It's okay if we take a few less hits. We'll wait until Xiaotian gets the information about the spider."
"Just be careful of the enemy tower diving. As long as you don't die, this Fiora will be invincible."
Lin Kong continued to arrange things for the two, just make sure they didn't die.
There's only one reason why Lin Kong is so confident.
theshy!
The confidence this ID brings.
When TheShy arrived at the bottom lane, he was a little late because he was helping Tian clear the jungle.
Meanwhile, Mundo, played by Koro1, was clearly much more relaxed and cautious. His dominant performance in the first game made him take TheShy for granted.
He made the biggest mistake of all top laners: he pushed the minion wave too quickly right from the start.
If facing other top laners, they might seize this opportunity and lose a significant amount of health, still within Koro1's range.
Unfortunately, his opponent was TheShy, an absolute berserker.
Back in the bottom lane, TheShy made an extremely aggressive move. After Fiora closed in and auto-attacked a minion, she unleashed a long Q, breaking right up to Mundo.
"What is this guy trying to do? Is he going to fight me in my push lane?!"
"I have so many soldiers around me, why would I be afraid of you!"
Seeing TheShy rush forward, Koro felt annoyed. He was a top-tier LPL top laner. Just because he was EDG's top laner, did those stereotypes make this guy think he was a noob?
He picked up a kitchen knife and smashed it directly at TheShy.
I'll do it to you!
Kou Rou silently muttered to himself, and then launched another basic attack.
However, they overlooked the biggest problem.
Because of the long Q just now, TheShy wasn't aiming at Mundo himself, but at the minions in front of Mundo.
After taking Mundo's Q skill, TheShy didn't rush to retaliate. Instead, he gently landed a basic attack on a melee minion.
A flash of white light appeared, and TheShy leveled up to level two!
"Laurent's Heart-Piercing Strike!"
TheShy instantly leveled up his W skill, blocking Mundo's auto-attack while simultaneously hitting Mundo with W to slow him down.