"Little Peanut, run to the top half of the blue buff and start farming with Khan's help!"
Under normal circumstances, if the top lane started farming, the minions would have already clashed with each other by the time they returned to the lane, and they would naturally lose control of the first wave of minions.
But in any case, Khan was using Jax to face Vampire in this game, and it was impossible for him to gain an advantage at level 1.
Khan simply helped Little Peanut farm faster, and after he went online, he would let the minions out and take care of them slowly.
Jin Gong looked cautious, but when all three melee minions were at critical HP, he couldn't help but step forward and kill them with AQA.
Meanwhile, Khan was squatting in the lane closest to his own defense tower to farm experience, and didn't kill any minions at all.
As a result, the minions started to move towards the top KZ tower.
Jin Gong also looked very cautious. Seeing that he couldn't control the minions, he immediately used normal attacks to whittle down the minions' HP, striving to push the minions forward before Little Peanut arrived.
"Khan goes forward and waves his hand, activates Counter Storm, and firmly blocks the minions in front of the tower!"
"Isn't that a little obvious?" Mille laughed when he saw this scene. "He's obviously going to control the minions and wait for Little Peanut to catch them!"
If even the commentator could understand, Jin Gong naturally knew as well.
"He's taken the bait!" the Siberian urged in the team voice chat. "Look at me!"
"I know, I know. Keep selling." Lin Yan was still clearing minions in the middle lane. When he heard his teammate's call, he immediately glanced at the screen. "Just pay attention to the minions."
After eating the blue buff, Little Peanut farmed another group of Magical Swamp Frogs, and crossed the river to head straight for the red buff in the top half of YM.
He planned to find an opportunity in the top lane as soon as possible.
"I can force Jax out with Teleport, and then hit Vampire with a buff." Pinat communicated with Khan in advance; otherwise, it would be bad if there was a mistake in coordination later. "Don't rush too far ahead!"
He didn't want to kill Jin Gong this time. The early damage of Jax and Nanqiang wasn't as high as he had imagined, and they were easily delayed by Vampire's blood pool. If they couldn't kill Jin Gong within 3.5 seconds, Lin Yan would be able to finish off the battlefield as soon as he landed.
"No problem. Don't show your face yet …" Khan mumbled in the team voice chat.
"It's almost two minutes and fifty seconds. Little Peanut has already leveled up to Level 3 after eating the red buff." Doll saw that Vladimir's position on the minimap was still close to the KZ tower. "Brother Gongzi is still holding the line. Is he not planning to leave?!"
Khan, who was facing off against the Siberians, was not surprised by this. As Jin Gong was already pushing the line, the position where the minions would be handed over was right in front of the KZ Tower.
If Jin Gong retreated at this time, the Khan would only need to block the troops at this position, and the Xiba people would lose a lot of experience and economy.
He definitely had to push this line.
"Jax is blocking the gap between Vampire's A troops. He activated Storm Counterattack and jumped up!"
Khan did not stop his Spinning Hands immediately. Instead, he used a normal attack to hit Vampire's body, allowing the YM minions beside him to focus fire on him to increase the damage of Storm Counterattack.
"Nanqiang is coming from the back of the top lane. Jin Gong is finally retreating!"
The Xiba people held back all three of their skills until they saw Nanqiang appear. They smiled in satisfaction.
"Jax has disappeared. Be careful of teleporting!" BDD, who was eating minions in the middle lane, reported Lin Yan's position to his teammates.
Lin Yan had switched forms earlier and used two sets of skills to push the Cannon Troopers in. BDD could not stop him and could only let him go.
When KZ Ueno heard this, he was already prepared for Jax to teleport to the top lane.
"Khan's Storm Counterattack dealt damage. His normal attack hit Brother Gongzi again!"
Doll explained everything that happened on the scene. "However, Jax is only level two at the moment. His damage isn't enough!"
This was the disadvantage of being pushed. Although Khan used Storm Counterattack's AoE damage to kill two Binns, he was still one bar away from leveling up to level three.
"Nanqiang slid forward and threw a Smoke Bomb. His Q [End of the Road] dealt the first damage and added a normal attack!"
Mille raised his voice. "Jin Gong's Blood Pool dodged Nanqiang's Rebound Q. He's still running toward his own tower!"
Khan was slowed down by Blood Pool. He could only follow behind Jin Gong with difficulty.
"Where's Jax teleporting?" He shouted in the team voice chat.
"I don't know?!" Little Peanut was also puzzled.
'How am I supposed to know?'
"He's really not online …" BDD puffed up his cheeks and reported to his teammates.
The Khan was at a complete loss.
'You're not teleporting?
Aren't you afraid that your teammates will die? '
"Kill him, kill him!" Khan made up his mind. 'If you don't teleport over, I'll gladly accept Vampire's head.'
However, just as Little Peanut and Khan were about to continue their pursuit, Jin Gong appeared from the Blood Pool. With a Q [Blood Conversion] and a second charge E, coupled with the Blood Pool from before, he dealt three damage in a Phase Rush!
Vladimir's immunity to speed reduction made the red buff on the gunner's body useless. Vladimir ran towards the embrace of his own defense tower as if he was flying!
"Nanqiang fired another shot. Jin Gong doesn't have much HP left!"
As Vampire's HP bar continued to shrink, Mille's voice became more and more urgent. "But Little Peanut has run out of bullets!"
Vampire's HP was less than 150, so he probably wouldn't be able to take two shots.
Nanqiang used Slide Step as soon as they met. After all, Little Peanut hadn't thought that he would be able to kill Jin Gong with this wave. He had only planned to deal damage as soon as possible and lure Jax out. Who would have thought that Lin Yan wouldn't care about Jin Gong's life at all!
Now that he didn't have any means of displacement, he would have to use Flash to continue the pursuit.
Just as Little Peanut was about to kill, he saw a row of YM minions walk over!
It was the fourth wave of minions on the top lane!
In the KZ lounge, Head Coach Hiari slapped his forehead, his face full of vexation.
It would be fine if Little Peanut had used Blind Monk's Troll, but he had used Nanqiang.
This hero was afraid that minions and towers would block his scattershot when he wanted to catch people!
"Mountain after mountain and river after doubt, there is no way out; at the end of the tunnel, there is a glimmer of hope!" Doll even recited a poem. "This wave of minions saved Brother Gongzi!"
"Vampire hides in the minions, and the Nanqiang can't do anything to him!"
Once the minions passed, Jin Gong could hide behind the tower. If Little Peanut forced Flash and chased him into the tower, he would probably be able to kill him.
But without displacement, he would still be killed by the tower.
It had to be known that Vampire could teleport. If he died, he would also lose his double buffs. No matter how you looked at it, it would be a huge loss.
"Little Peanut has given up the chase and resentfully dropped the matter. He's going to farm YM's Stone Beetles!"
Seeing that Jin Gong was safe, the YM supporters below the stage heaved sighs of relief, and then burst into cheers!
The bullet screen was filled with 666.
KZ's first attack had been blocked!
"Ahh …" Little Peanut clicked his tongue, his delicate face a little gloomy. "He ran away!"
"The minions are here. There's nothing we can do." Khan was also very helpless as he turned back to deal with his own minions.
When he had chased after Jin Gong just now, he hadn't been able to block the minions on the top lane, which had caused a wave of artillery to enter the tower.
Later, the minions would be pushed back towards Jin Gong's tower.
In other words, KZ's wave of gank not only hadn't been able to release Lin Yan's teleport to relieve the pressure on the middle lane, but had also blown up the wave of minions that they had previously planned!
They had simply suffered a double loss.
It was all because the arrival of the fourth wave of minions had ruined Nanqiang's plan to continue attacking!
Khan was still thinking about the surprise attack when he was finishing off the minions.
He realized that everyone in YM had been abnormally calm the entire time. It wasn't just Lin Yan who hadn't used his teleport, even Jin Gong had been calm and unhurried in the face of the gank.
It was as if everything had been calculated.
In the YM lounge, Red Rice and Gou Ba high-fived in celebration!
Little Peanut's gank failure this time was completely within their expectations.
This was part of the strategy.
Jin Gong's calm handling was because YM's coaching team had already arranged everything.
Red Rice and Gou Ba had also calculated that the fourth wave of minions would obstruct Nanqiang's pursuit.
They knew that after Little Peanut had strengthened Graves, this hero's priority had increased infinitely. He was even second only to Troll and Olaf, the two strong junglers of this version.
This was because Nanqiang's hero could maximize Little Peanut's characteristics. He was very suitable for this type of hero who could constantly counter jungle invasions and let everyone in the team surround him to attack, just like the S6 Tigers.
Thus, YM's coaching team had specially prepared several sets of tactics for Nanqiang's hero. Depending on the team's various lineups, the specific implementation of the tactics would be different, and they would weave an inescapable net for Little Peanut's Graves.
This ending battle at the top of the rankings had come in handy.
The prerequisites for the tactic were very simple. YM's lineup would be able to execute it as long as the mid laner had the absolute advantage in the bottom lane.
YM's first-tier team would first force Little Peanut to run to the top half of the map to clear the jungle. Before the second wave of monsters spawned, they wouldn't be able to attack the bottom lane to ensure that Jack and Liu Qingsong's progress in clearing the lane wouldn't be affected.
At the same time, the coaching team had also calculated the time it would take for the minions in the top lane to arrive. If Little Peanut wanted to attack the top lane quickly, as long as Jin Gong could stall for five seconds and retreat to the back of the middle lane, he would be able to wait for the fourth wave of minions.
With the help of the minions, he could block most of Nanqiang's damage and make it so that he couldn't use his strength.
Although Jin Gong's Vampire had been hit with Blink in the first-tier team, he clearly wasn't someone KZ could stop with Phase Charge. With the addition of the blood pool, it wouldn't be a problem for him to stall for five seconds.
The Siberian just needed to follow the prescribed order to escape.
At this point in the strategy, the only counter was for Khan to choose a character who could continuously apply slow crowd control or had strong pursuit abilities. This kind of hero could keep Jin Gong here and work with Nanqiang to get first blood.
This was also the reason why Red Rice's expression had been so grave when he saw Cheyenne with Glacier Buff in KZ's first match against YM.
He had banned Cheyenne for this round so that Khan wouldn't get this hero that would seriously affect YM's strategy.
After Little Peanut's gank failed, he had already fallen into the trap that Red Rice and Gou Ba had carefully set up.
The next set was the most important.
Thinking this, Red Rice couldn't help but laugh. This feeling of strategizing gave him the pleasure of ruling the entire situation.
"YM's bottom lane is still pushing the minions. The Xuanming Elders can't resist at all!"
Grace could only control Wind Lady to use Q Hurricane Howl to reduce the minions' HP as much as possible to prevent them from entering the defense tower.
But this was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket. Morgana's Gutter Oil and Policewoman's Q Peacemaker easily pushed the minions away, and continued to grind down the bottom lane's HP.
"After Little Peanut killed YM's Stone Beetles, he went all the way down to the Sharp-Beaked Birds' camp …" Mille followed the caster's camera as he watched Pinat's movements. Suddenly, he exclaimed softly, "Brother Ran planted an accessory eye here!"
When Jin Gong had been caught earlier, Lin Yan had disappeared from the middle lane for a short while.
He hadn't gone shopping, but had run to his Sharp-Beaked Birds' camp to plant an accessory eye. At that moment, he had caught Little Peanut's position.
Lin Yan watched as Little Peanut used Q End of the Road to bounce back against the wall, and combined it with a normal attack to reduce several small Sharp-Beaked Birds to critical health. Lin Yan seized the opportunity to shoot behind him!
"Electric Surge!"
Rose Gentleman roared, and a scientific Super Electromagnetic Gun shot out, crossing the wall and hitting the Sharp-Beaked Birds' camp!
"Little Peanut reacted very quickly. He used Retribution to capture the big birds!"
Doll was dazzled for a moment when she saw the gold coin numbers jumping above Jayz's head. "But Brother Ran still took away four small Sharp-Beaked Birds!"
"He's determined to disgust the Nanqiang." Mille was amused.
Little Peanut pursed his lips. The Sharp-Beaked Birds' camp was a little special in Summoner's Canyon. Although the small monsters gave less experience and gold coins than the big birds, there were more of them.
The four small birds that Jayz had harvested gave more experience than the big birds. Little Peanut was at a disadvantage, but there was nothing he could do about it. He could only helplessly cross the river to kill his own Third Wolf.
Fortunately, when he had captured the top lane earlier, he had made good use of the Nanqiang player's tradition and leeched off a lot of small soldiers' experience.
Otherwise, he might not have been able to reach level 4 in time if he had lost these four small birds.
"Little Peanut is still on his way to the Third Wolf camp. Mongoose has already killed all six groups of wild monsters in the second half of the zone. He's going back to the city to resupply!"
Peanut's initial route was quite complicated: KZ blue BUFF, Magical Swamp Frog- YM red BUFF, top lane Gank-YM Stone Beetle, Sharp-Beaked Bird, and finally his Third Wolf.
He had gone in a big circle and wasted a lot of time killing wild monsters.
On the other hand, Phyllostachys Pubescens started with the KZ red BUFF and swept through all the wild monsters along the way, not leaving a single one behind. Although Blind Monk wasn't particularly efficient at killing wild monsters, he was still a lot faster than Little Peanut.
With six groups of wild monsters and the bonus from the system, Mongoose bought a blue hunting knife and True Eye and rushed to the second half of the zone.
Lin Yan's mid lane was particularly fierce, especially after he ate four small Sharp-Beaked Birds. His positional suppression became more and more aggressive.
However, the Rock Sparrow mid laner's lane style was quite similar to S7 Gario's. The Rock Sparrow mid laner's lane style was quite similar to S7 Gario's. The Rock Sparrow mid laner would turn around and leave after pushing the minions. He basically wouldn't engage in any meaningless lane swaps with his opponent.
Moreover, BDD was also an expert in Rock Sparrow, so he knew very well how this hero should deal with Jayz. His control of the minions was also at the point of perfection.
More than two minutes had passed, but Lin Yan still hadn't found a suitable opportunity to make a move. Lin Yan's lead came from the small Sharp-Beaked Bird that he stole.
He took two deep breaths to calm his slightly impatient state of mind.
The opportunity would come later.
There was no need to be anxious now.
"Xiao Tian has rushed to the second half of the zone ahead of time and planted an accessory eye in the bushes beside the Sharp-Beaked Bird. Then, he crouched in the bushes directly facing the red BUFF camp!"
Not long after he crouched down, Little Peanut ran over with his shotgun after eating the Three Wolves.
It couldn't be helped. After going around in a big circle, Little Peanut had cleared all six groups of wild monsters and was on his way with a gank.
If he returned to the city to replenish his equipment, it would take him about five minutes to return to the city in eight seconds plus twenty seconds to rush to the jungle.
The wild monsters respawned in 150 seconds, which was two and a half minutes.
Little Peanut calculated carefully. If he arrived at the second half of the zone in five minutes, not to mention the Stone Beetles, even the Sharp-Beaked Birds would have respawned.
More importantly, Mongoose knew the respawn time of these two groups of wild monsters.
If he went home to replenish his equipment, Little Peanut might steal the wild monsters again.
In order to ensure his development, Little Peanut didn't care about returning to the city. He first came over to finish off the Stone Beetles and Sharp-Beaked Birds that had respawned one after another.
"Blind Monk has already seen the nanqiang's movements …" Graves passed by 100 yards in front of Blind Monk and headed for the Stone Beetle camp, which had respawned first. When Doll saw this, she couldn't help but lower her voice. "Xiao Tian still isn't going to make a move?"
The noise below the stage died down as a large number of YM fans held their breaths, afraid that they would disturb Xiao Tian.
But Blind Monk, who was in the bushes, gave Little Peanut a Muay Thai warning on the spot and let him go.
Mille hissed softly, baffled. "There's no point in Mongoose crouching here, right?
Little Peanut has Slide Step and Flash Step, and the Xuanming Elders are protecting him! "
The bottom lane of the KZ zone had been suppressed under the tower all this time, which made things easier for Little Peanut — after all, the tower was very close to the Stone Beetle camp, and the Xuanming Elders could easily protect him from being invaded.
With Mongoose crouching here, it was impossible for him to counter the wild monsters.
Peanut did not see Blind Monk's figure, so he was very cautious and did not hand over the four-and-a-half-minute punishment, planning to keep it just in case.
"Brother East River, take a look at the Magical Swamp Frogs, Blind Monk might be there!" He commanded Khan as he farmed.
He himself knew that his Magical Swamp Frogs and the Stone Beetles had been respawned around the same time. Since Blind Monk did not invade the Stone Beetles, it was possible that he had gone to the Magical Swamp Frogs in the upper half of the map.
Ever since BDD discovered that Xiao Tian had been farming the KZ Beaked Bird two minutes ago, they had completely lost track of Blind Monk's whereabouts.
Since the two-man team was at a disadvantage, their vision could not be set up at all. Furthermore, BDD alone could not control the lower half of the map's vision.
Little Peanut urgently wanted to know Blind Monk's whereabouts. He looked at the pitch-black fog of war around him and felt uneasy.
He raised his gun and cleared all the Medium Stone Beetles, which split into four cute Small Stone Beetles. However, he did not clear them immediately, and instead pulled the wild monsters out of the camp.
"I don't see Blind Monk." Khan had been hoarding troops earlier, and had only pushed them to the bottom of the Jin Gong Tower when the four-and-a-half-minute artillery unit arrived at the top lane. He ran to the jungle with the street lamp and took a look. The Magical Swamp Frogs were still crouched there, and their health bars were full. "He's probably gone somewhere else?"
"Somewhere else?" Little Peanut frowned.
Since he had ganked once in the early stages, and Lin Yan's vision at YM's Beaked Bird camp had seen his movements, his farming route in the first round was almost completely exposed to YM.
That Blind Monk definitely knew the approximate respawn time of YM's Stone Beetles and Beaked Bird camp …
There were currently no wild monsters in YM's entire jungle to farm.
On the top lane, Jin Gong was dealing with the minions under the tower, and Khan's Jax couldn't dismantle the tower in front of Vampire, so his position was very safe.
The middle lane BDD Rock Sparrow was also in front of the tower. His health was quite healthy, and there was basically no chance of him being ganked.
The bottom lane Xuanming Elders were still in front of the tower. Blind Monk couldn't come over now, could he?
There was no way to gank in the third lane, and there was no wild monster to farm in their own jungle.
What could this Blind Monk do?
While Little Peanut was still thinking, he adjusted his angle and cleared out all the Small Stone Beetles with one shot, then continued to advance towards the Beaked Bird camp.
When the effect of Pure Man was about to disappear, he took out the E Quick Draw and passed by Blind Monk again, who was crouching in the grass.
This was Nanqiang's usual way of farming. He would pull the Small Stone Beetles out of the camp, continue Pure Man's passive with normal attacks, and leave the E Slide for hurrying along and maintaining his passive armor.
That way, when he reached the Beaked Bird camp, Pure Man's effect wouldn't disappear. The high armor could reduce the amount of health Nanqiang lost when he farmed, and at the same time, he didn't have to be afraid of physical heroes coming to counterattack.
But the moment he used the Slide, Blind Monk used his Eye of Truth to close the distance and punch Nanqiang. After the E Thunder Break, he followed it up with a normal attack!
"Xiao Tian's made his move!"
Doll's tone was excited. "He used Blind Monk's passive Tempest to throw out two quick punches, and even added a Heavenly Sound Wave!"
This was the advantage of a sneak attack. While he was crouching, Mongoose had already thought of a combo sequence for this wave of confrontation, so the combination of skills and normal attacks was unusually smooth, and could be described as flowing clouds and flowing water.
Realization dawned on Little Peanut. Only then did he understand why Mongoose hadn't come to invade the jungle.
He actually had his eyes on him, the mobile 400 bucks!
"Retreat, retreat, retreat!" BDD sent out a signal. "Jesse and I arrived at the same time!"
Although they said they arrived at the same time, Little Peanut knew that Jesse still had a QE Enhanced Cannon in his hands.
In other words, Lin Yan's damage support would definitely arrive earlier than BDD's.
He couldn't continue fighting, he had to retreat.
"Little Peanut has nowhere to run, his position is very awkward!"
Mille shouted. "He's in the middle of the middle and bottom roads, the Xuanming Elders and BDD won't be able to rush over immediately!"
Xiao Tian used a double E, and with the help of slowing down, he threw another punch and reduced Little Peanut's health to half.
Peanut still didn't dare to use Flash — he still had the Heavenly Sound Wave above his head, so even if he used Flash, it would still follow.
He could only throw out a smoke grenade and try to rush over to BDD on foot.
However, since the two of them were so close to each other, the effect of the smoke grenade was negligible.
"Blind Monk, use Blue Punishment, continue to reduce Nanqiang's health with normal attacks, Conqueror has been triggered!"
The pleasant metallic sound effect echoed in their ears, and a golden light appeared around Blind Monk's body!
This was the moment Mongoose was waiting for. After entering the battle state for three seconds, Conqueror provided him with decent attack power, and a part of the damage was converted into real damage!
"Follow up with a double Q echo attack, Nanqiang's health is almost empty!"
Little Peanut finally panicked. He used Flash and wanted to run to the Beaked Birds' camp to use Punishment to recover his health.
However, a golden light flashed, and Jesse, who was holding the Mercury Cannon, appeared in his field of vision!
The acceleration door appeared under Rose Gentleman's feet, and the electromagnetic cannon's firing speed increased sharply!
"Level 5 Jesse's Enhanced Cannon directly killed Little Peanut!" Mille heaved a sigh of relief. "He didn't even have time to use Punishment!"
The audience below the stage burst into cheers. YM fans waved and hit the support sticks in their hands, and screams echoed in the LCSEU studio!
The bullet screen in the competition's live stream was also in a frenzy.
[Good kill!]
[Thank you, Little Peanut!]
[Pinat is still steady. As long as he's here, I'm relieved.]
[Is your LPL friend joking with you?
When he can't make it in Korea, he can consider coming here to develop. After all, he's the Invisible Guardian.]
Backstage, the KZ lounge was filled with wailing and howling. When Hiari had seen Blind Monk crouching in the grass, he had realized that something was wrong.
But from his omniscient perspective, he couldn't provide this information to Little Peanut.
He could only watch as his jungler stepped into YM's trap step by step!
This feeling of helplessness made him extremely depressed.
"It's over, it's over …" Hiari looked at the map and realized that something wasn't right.
Up until now, KZ hadn't successfully executed the tactics they had arranged before the game.
YM's strategy had started too early!
Starting from luring Little Peanut into a level 3 grab, they had successfully interfered with Peanut's rhythm.
Because they had been delayed for a while on the road, the second round of the jungle was about to spawn by the time Little Peanut finished farming. He didn't have time to return to the city to resupply at all, and could only continue farming to ensure that he developed.
This was exactly what YM wanted to see.
Jin Gong had deliberately stayed on the top lane at level 3 in order to trick Little Peanut into coming up and squeeze out the Nanqiang's limited time to return to the city to resupply.
This way, Peanut had almost no combat power and couldn't compete with Xiao Tian at all.
Hiari had no doubt that Mongoose and Blind Monk crouching in the grass ahead of time was also part of YM's tactical routine, and not a flash of inspiration from the players.
Had Little Peanut's entire farming movement been within Red Rice's calculations …
"After Little Peanut died, all that was left for him was the Devil Swamp Frogs in the top half of our zone!"
Fortunately, the Stone Beetles and Sharp-Beaked Birds in the top half of YM's zone were about to respawn, and Little Peanut planned to farm them all the way up.
But now, it was five and a half minutes. Lin Yan finished off the eighth wave of minions, and with the experience from killing four small Sharp-Beaked Birds, he successfully reached level 6.
Pressing forward and pushing back the minions, Lin Yan ran out of mana and returned to the city to resupply.
Synthesizing a Serrated Dagger and a longsword, Lin Yan used Teleport in the spring.
His landing point was the Eye of Truth that Phyllostachys Pubescens had looted to kill Little Peanut earlier!
"Four packs of two!"
Doll yelled. "YM predicted that Little Peanut would go to the top of the jungle, and Jess plans to coordinate with Blind Monk for a mid-jungle combination!"