Chapter 148 (2)
As the two commentators ran out of things to say and were about to discuss what they should eat for dinner that night, Yang god finally finished farming and went up to top to catch Old Cat’s Gnar. Gnar jumped away– –Old K’s Hecarim came in to protect Old Cat and stepped right on the tunnel that had been dug by Yang god’s Rek’Sai!
At the same time, Gnar stopped feigning retreat and turned around to join Old K. Tong Yao at mid happened to clear her minion lane and also started heading towards top. If Tong Yao also arrived to join up with Old K and Old Cat, CK’s top would die for sure. Yang god, who had failed in his gank attempt, and Come Good Luck had no choice but to use flash to escape.
Tong Yao didn’t chase after them, instead she went into a nearby bush to go recall back to base.
At this time, there was a wave of minions pushing the turret. If Come Good Luck wanted to farm these minions, then he had to use his another summoner spell “teleport” as well. If he didn’t try to farm the minions, then he would fall behind in experience and probably wouldn’t be able to counter Old Cat for the rest of the round! ……In other words, it had been a good beginning for ZGDX. Without suffering any loss, ZGDX was able to make CK use two of their summoner spells. Without flash, ZGDX didn’t need to worry about Yang god trying to gank anytime soon and Come Good Luck couldn’t teleport over to support him in the near future.
Lu Sicheng: “Nice, looks like I’ll be pretty comfortable like this.”
Tong Yao: “What are you trying to imply? We’re in a game.”
Lu Sicheng: “I’m just talking normally.”
Tong Yao: “Then you can only blame yourself for having an indecent face. You look like a hooligan no matter what you say and when you aren’t talking, it feels like you intend to be a hooligan.”
Lu Sicheng: “……”
As Tong Yao was talking to Lu Sicheng, she still kept checking the scoreboard. She carefully counted Xiao Hua’s creep score and experience without letting down her guard– –She kept counting until her own experience had passed level 5 and ¾, then she pinged both top and bot: “Twisted Fate’s going to be level 6 soon. You all be careful.”
Once Twisted Fate reached level 6, his ultimate came with the ability to teleport. Usually in a game Twisted Fate’s momentum is very important– -At 8 minutes and 11 seconds, Twisted Fate reached level 6 and warped directly to bot. When he landed, he showed his yellow card and joined with their support Bard and Jian Yang’s Rek’Sai which had been waiting for the moment. They worked together to kill the support, Little Fatty, and earned this round’s first blood!
At the eighth minute, there was finally a kill. The audience cheered!
Tong Yao came up to top around the same time. When Twisted Fate was collecting a kill at bot, she teamed up with Old Cat to kill the squishy Come Good Luck– —
It wasn’t an easy kill though. Come Good Luck almost trapped them under the turret and Tong Yao had to use flash to escape with a sliver of health left.
Both sides got even.
But CK used a lot of abilities to kill Little Fatty as well. They had traded a support for a top, but Come Good Luck could have farmed instead while waiting for his teleport cooldown timer to end. Thinking it over more carefully, it seemed that CK didn’t really get much advantage with their latest play?
Tong Yao was figuring all this out in her mind and settled down to face the rest of the game.
At the 17th minute, CK’s entire team went up to top to kill Old Cat. They were planning to do a quick kill in order to take the turret. But because they were tower diving to begin with and Old Cat’s rage happened to max out so that he could transform into Mega Gnar, Old Cat secured three of CK players near the turret wall with a slap and Butterfly took several hits from the turret and died. Tong Yao, Lu Sicheng, and Little Fatty all arrived as he died. They avoided Bard’s ultimate, then killed the mid Xiao Hua and the support Old Wang. Only Jian Yang was able to get away by digging a tunnel for himself.
The players on the field were now 4 : 2. ZGDX was in lead with two more kills. CK was also behind in their economy by almost 2500 gold because they had been starting fights too often.
Commentator A: [As we can see now, though CK has been looking for chances to initiate fights, their rhythm hasn’t been as good as ZGDX…… Given the fact that they picked Sivir and Maokai as their champions and their opponent’s lineup has a couple of champions with a strong early game, it feels like they’ve been playing too aggressively.]
Commentator B: [They’re rushing too much. Like what just happened, they should’ve retreated when Gnar’s rage was about to max out– –They can’t be like ‘since we’re here already, let’s just go ahead and have a fight’ and force it……]
Amidst the commentators’ exchange, CK seemed to realize their mistakes and stopped initiating fights to concentrate on developing their champions– –However, with an economic advantage on hand, ZGDX certainly wouldn’t let CK succeed. ZGDX began their counterattack!
At 25th minute 30th second, ZGDX went for the second element Mountain Drake. CK took the chance to go for ZGDX’s mid turret with two of their players and the other three went to fight Baron. After pushing the mid turret, Twisted Fate instantly warped to Baron. And at the same time, ZGDX’s top, jungler, and ad left the drake and moved towards Baron.
When Old Cat arrived at Baron’s arena, his champion slapped Yang god and Lu Sicheng went ahead casting all of his abilities to kill Yang god. Baron now only had one third of its health left! Seeing their jungler die, CK was a little hesitant to continue. In that moment of hesitation, Tong Yao’s Lissandra arrived and blocked Twisted Fate just as he was about to slip away. Lissandra casted a combo of abilities to kill Twisted Fate!
CK’s Sivir ran away under the cover of Maokai. ZGDX went ahead and took down Baron!
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