NOVEL NEXT Chapter 180 (2)
Tong Yao: “6666. I expected that your Weibo profile page is exploding right now and they’re painting a target on your face on Tieba……”
“It’s alright, I’ll be dissed anyway if we lose this round. If we win, I’ll be a god, the incarnation of confidence……” Little Fatty shook his legs as he banned the champion that Jin Yuguang had played so well in the last round, Corki: “Have you come up with any countermeasure during the time you were off stage? I saw your face when you held Cheng Ge’s hand which said that you’re going to carry him……”
Lu Sicheng: “That’s right. What are you going to take this round, wife?”
Nowadays, Lu Sicheng would address Tong Yao, in addition to “hey”, “shorty”,and “our mid”, in various ways as he pleased without any consideration to whether it was in a public place or not…… Tong Yao gave him a glance: “Twisted Fate. I’m not going to play the laning phase with him, I can’t fight him anyway.”
Old Cat heard Tong Yao and immediately took Twisted Fate for her.
Commentator D: [Twisted Fate.]
Commentator F: [I was in shock for a moment.]
Commentator E: [OP’s coach looked like he was also in shock…… What, you know how to play Twisted Fate as well? !]
Commentator D: [Does every mid from the LPL teams know how to play Twisted Fate? Heavens, Twisted Fate! I’ve never seen Tong Yao play him!]
Commentator F: [What’s happening? Didn’t they say that ZGDX had the last trump card of LPL which was Lu! Hey, wrong information! You can see that OP didn’t even try to ban Twisted Fate when facing Smiling!]
Commentator E: [...................................................That’s why I said their coach seemed to be in shock.]
While the commentators were chatting, Old K took Kindred. Then Tong Yao locked Tahm-- --At this juncture, everyone thought ZGDX is going to copy OP’s super life saving duo with Tahm as support to work with Kindred as jungler. Therefore, OP immediately picked Zilean to counter without giving it much thought…… What they didn’t expect was that the moment they locked in Zilean, ZGDX’s Ming god, who was responsible for the ban & pick phase, would say: “Nice!”
Another unexpected scene happened right afterwards-- --
It was a trick ZGDX had used during skirmishes-- --
ZGDX locked Kalista and Annie for their last two picks. Then Tahm whom everyone thought was the support was switched to top. The bot duo became the classic pair during S5, Kalista plus Annie!
Commentator D: [We can see that OP seems to be a little surprised…… Actually, if they didn’t take Zilean, there’s other better choices for their line-up. Does this count as being tricked?]
Commentator F: [ZGDX seems to have made some adjustment to their strategy. I don’t think, under normal circumstances, Smiling would be a player who likes to use Twisted Fate……]
The game started as the commentators went on.
-- --What happened next proved that ZGDX truly had made a lot of adjustments in this round…… Hrm, to be more exact, it’s the way their mid played the game that had changed a lot. From the beginning when the minions entered the lanes, Tong Yao had been keeping her cool. She managed to keep the minions in the middle, between the two towers, and didn’t engage in much training……
Jin Yuguang also returned to the more consevertive way of playing in the first round.
Both of them stayed low.
When their mid reached level 5, everyone could see that Tong Yao had picked up her speed in clearing minions-- --When the minions pushed over, she quickly cleaned them up then turned to leave…… Everyone thought she was in a hurry to get her own first blue buff. However, after a short while, when the video feed switched to a direct shot of her, everyone was surprised to see that ZGDX’s mid had shown up at top!
She wasn’t even at level 6 yet!
She walked all the way to top!
OP’s top, who had been calculating the direction of ZGDX’s jungler’s movement and knew that Old K was at bot at the moment, was happily farming and surprised to see Twisted Fate suddenly showed up at top-- --But this realization was too late for them. Together with ZGDX top’s Tahm, Tong Yao took out a yellow card, stunned, and delivered a series of blows to OP’s top. Along with Old Cat, she didn’t even give her opponents a chance to counterattack or run away before she got her first blood. She then quickly returned to the safe zone before Jin Yuguang could be there and went back to base!