LOL: Reborn in S9, Coaching the Trident

Chapter 64: The ultimate laning phase, but without roaming.

It's not entirely fair to blame Mafa for being affected mentally; sometimes you can tell how the mid-to-late game will go from the early game rhythm of a match.

For example, if a late-game hero like Vladimir is killed in the first five minutes, it gives TES a huge advantage. With an early advantage, Vladimir can develop and reach his full potential earlier, allowing him to step up in the mid-game.

Most players who have played vampire games understand this feeling.

Mafa would naturally think of the mid-game team fights of IG, where Knight's Vladimir easily melted IG's lineup, which lacked a frontline.

Some people might say that IG has Kennen's ultimate in front to tank, and Kindred's ultimate in the back to protect them.

But don't forget, TES's jungler is Gragas.

It's highly likely they'll unleash a powerful ultimate ability, forcing a displacement that could blast Kennen or Kindred away.

Whether it's Kennen or Kindred, if either of them gets blown up by their ultimate, then IG will have a very difficult time in subsequent team fights.

At this moment, TES's Irelia and Vladimir forcefully dive in and engage. What can IG do?

TES players' lounge.

White Crescent leaned back in his chair with his legs crossed, wearing headphones and staring at the screen with his head slightly raised. After Knight secured a solo kill, he couldn't help but nod. Now, with both sides trading kills in the mid lane and Knight getting another kill, he even felt that the game was in the bag.

The happier the white crescent moon face looked, the more anxious Mafa became.

"Tsk...tsk...tsk..."

Seeing Chen Song staring at the screen without moving, Mafa shook his leg and finally couldn't help but say, "Chen Song, look, TheShy is also being pressured in CS in the top lane. I have a feeling that this Irelia and Vladimir are going to take over the game in a bit."

"Why do you say that?" Chen Song asked in return.

"TheShy isn't doing well, and facing this farmed Vladimir, our team doesn't have any frontliners. If Vladimir uses Ghost, our team will be completely disrupted."

Mafa sighed, "Besides Kennen, we don't have any hard crowd control. If Gragas uses his ultimate to blow Kennen away, we won't be able to deal with this Vladimir at all. If we can't kill Vladimir immediately, we have absolutely no chance of winning."

Chen Song smiled helplessly: "Vampires are a troublesome issue, but they're not as unsolvable as you make them out to be. Judging from your tone, these vampires are practically gods descended from heaven."

"The key to this game lies in our bottom lane."

Back in the game, Xx is stealing the first dragon.

Unfortunately, Xx's attempt to steal the dragon was spotted by IG's wards in the dragon pit.

Ning seized this opportunity and stole TES's blue buff.

Before the mid-lane minions reached the lane, Forge quietly circled around from his own river.

Knight, playing in the mid lane, didn't dare to make any rash moves when he saw Forge retreat. He knew very well that Xx was currently stealing the dragon, and if he rashly moved towards the mid-right, it was very likely that IG would notice. At the same time, he did not actively report to Xx that Forge had disappeared.

"Xx is stealing the dragon, and Forge is ready to stop him. Xx's health is very low, I don't know if he has a chance."

Guan Zeyuan held his breath: "Forge, fire first..."

"Great! Not only did the dragon steal it, but it also took the barrel. Forge's Ignite did a great job; it reduced Smite's healing to only 7%."

I remember jokingly adding, "At this moment, the only four words in the comments should be 'Emperor of Hired Managers'!"

"I'm so stupid!"

Xx was so angry that she gritted her teeth.

He's annoyed.

The dragon is gone, and the people are dead.

The game lasted 10 minutes and 16 seconds.

After clearing the lower jungle, Ning used his Q skill to teleport, successfully jumping onto the TES Golem and then circling around to the bush below.

At this moment, JackeyLove happened to send the bottom lane minions to the tower.

"Go! Go! Go! Let's bypass them!"

After Ning shouted something, he walked out of the bushes and stared intently at the TES bot lane duo.

"Let me carry it first."

After Ning's Kindred activated W, Ben immediately applied Exhaust. Ning calmly used E on LokeN first, and then followed up with Q to unleash the three-hit combo of E.

The combined damage output from the two marksmen and Lux's abilities instantly took down LokeN.

Without its owner, Yumi naturally wouldn't live long.

After taking down Ben's Yuumi, Ning calmly unleashed Kindred's ultimate.

A brilliant bot lane gank, bypassing vision and tower diving, resulted in Ning securing a double kill.

"Take off! Take off!"

Ning suddenly shouted.

He really had a blast playing jungle in those two games.

"Now you know why I'm not in a hurry, right?"

Chen Song explained calmly, "I don't deny that it's a bit troublesome for Vladimir to get two kills in the early game. But even if Vladimir gets two kills in the early game, he still has a fatal flaw."

"A fatal problem?"

Mafa turned and stared at Chen Song.

"That's right, the Vladimir champion is different. Even if he has already gotten two kills in the early game, have you noticed that at this point, he can't directly help the team with the gold from those two kills? Instead, he continues to stay in the mid lane to steal gold and farm."

Chen Song smiled and said, "That's just how the Vampire hero works. It's just that Knight can step up in the mid-to-late game, but he'll still play the same way in the early game. There's not much difference in his performance."

Mafa suddenly realized: "That's true, it's very difficult for vampires to get away and go out to help."

"There's one more thing."

Chen Song pursed his lips and said, "Knight's individual skill is indeed undeniable; he plays the laning phase exceptionally well. However, his support capabilities are far inferior to his laning ability. In other words, no matter how much of an advantage his Vladimir gains, he will most likely only continue farming in the mid lane during the early to mid-game."

After JackeyLove secured the first tower kill, he was now 1,500 gold ahead of his AD carry in the bottom lane.

After dismantling the bottom lane, JackeyLove and Baolan immediately switched to the top lane.

The game has been going on for less than 14 minutes, which is a good time to farm tower plates and snowball your economy.

Just as JackeyLove was about to push the top lane minion wave to the tower, 369, who was standing under the tower, quickly used his E skill to successfully stun Baolan. Immediately afterwards, 369 used his ultimate skill and actually chose to go forward and fight two opponents at once.

Compared to JackeyLove, who was the farmiest player on the field, 369's actions were utterly irrational, amounting to nothing more than feeding kills.

After eliminating 369, they took down the top lane tower, giving IG a 3,000 gold lead.

Since no TES players came to support the top lane, JackeyLove, along with Baolan, charged forward and continued to push the minion wave to attack TES's second top lane tower.

Just as 369, who had just respawned, reached the top lane's second tower, Ning circled around from behind the tower.

The outcome was predictable: 369, who wasn't supposed to be targeted by the military training, chose to be targeted instead, so the only result was that he gave away his life.

[IGNing is almost going berserk! (Irelia icon)]