Most of the time, the person who was most familiar with a strategy and could easily identify its flaws and find a way to deal with it was the one who made the strategy.
Nian Thirteen had been the first to participate in the simulation experiment of this strategy since last night. Furthermore, after watching the match between SSK and God this morning, he had been trying to figure out how to deal with this strategy if it was used by the opponent.
Then.
He had indeed figured out a way to deal with it.
Although it was far from perfect, at least he had some ideas on the details.
For example, the opening at the start of the game was the most successful example of this strategy —
If you were on the purple side, you would normally start with a blue opening. If I invaded your upper half of the jungle and successfully counterattacked, your jungler would lose a red buff and the rhythm of the game would be broken. There was no way for you to coordinate with the mid lane.
On the other hand, if you were smart enough to switch to the bottom half of my jungle after you started the fight, then everyone would still have double buffs to start the fight. Moreover, my teammates would be able to track your movements and won't be able to easily gank you in the early stages of the fight.
This was the second scenario.
Fate's Jungler Prince noticed that Olaf was invading his own jungle, so he chose to turn around and invade the bottom half of the blue jungle to get the red buff. However, this had already wasted a lot of time, and a certain someone's Master of Shadows would be able to play more fearlessly in the middle lane.
Just as Ceng Rui had praised, the blue team's response to this opening was very successful, and the pressure on a certain someone's mid lane Master of Shadow Stream was greatly reduced.
In other words —
This was Fate's second attempt at using this strategy, and they were already at a disadvantage.
However, An Xin's evaluation was not wrong either.
Although it seemed like Nian Thirteen's jungler Olaf had messed up the situation, Fate's jungler Prince still started with a double buff and continued to farm the jungle.
Next …
He still had the ability and opportunity to gank.
…
The game time slowly came to a little over four minutes.
On the battlefield, the blue and purple teams' headcount remained at 1: 0.
In the mid lane, after both teams' mid laners had reached Level 3, there were obviously more clashes. The smell of violence was also getting stronger.
The Master of Shadows and Crafty Enchantress were both heroes that possessed explosive damage after reaching Level 3. If they were used properly, they could even single-handedly kill their opponents. Not to mention, both Lin Feng and Moon had the summoner's skill [Ignite].
This was the confidence that a top mid laner of the Yonko should have.
Of course, it was also the standard for Assassin Heroes.
Both of them had already emptied their health potions, but after a few rounds of probing and poking, the health bar above their heads began to slowly drop. Both of them were gradually entering the range of the other party's theoretical kill line.
However, it was very difficult for a wave of solo kills to occur in a confrontation between two top mid laners.
After all, both of their reactions and hand speed were extremely fast.
It was impossible for the opponent to casually grasp an opening or use a combo to its fullest potential. Even if you flashed forward and forced an opening, the opponent would most likely be able to dodge it with their reflexes and hand speed.
Therefore, the two mid laners were still waiting.
They remained patient.
They were either waiting for the opponent's health bar to drop a little more, or waiting for a better opportunity to attack, or … waiting for the opponent to lose control and attack first, so that they could counterattack with an even fiercer stance.
In any case, the situation in the mid lane was still in a stalemate.
At this time, it could be seen that in both the top and bottom lanes, the purple team Fate had a small advantage. In the bottom lane, the purple team's ADC, Obama, was facing the blue team's ADC, Policewoman. He had already begun to take the lead in healing and dealing damage. Just now, he had found an opportunity to cooperate with his support, Ox-Head, and even forced the opponent's ADC to use a heal and a buff.
As for the top lane.
Lan Bo had just killed Jayz with the help of his teammate Olaf.
However, when the purple team Fate's future guardian, Jayz, returned to the lane, he had completely regained control of the tempo within a minute or two. He directly suppressed Lan Bo under the tower, not daring to go out. Even his last hits allowed Jayz to slowly pull away from him.
From this, it could be seen that the other main players of Fate were ahead in terms of individual ability.
"According to the evaluation of most people in the esports circle, although they are both top veteran teams, the overall strength of Fate … is indeed slightly stronger than Assassin Guild."
An Xin said slowly from the front row of the crowd.
Tang Bingyao didn't understand this, but Ceng Rui already had a look of agreement and nodded slightly.
Yes.
The current match wasn't the only one that could reflect this problem. In fact, the overall strength gap between Fate and Assassin Guild had always been publicly acknowledged.
As the undisputed strongest team in the LMS region, Assassin Guild had always been able to make it to the top eight and even the top four of the S Series League every year with Nian Thirteen, a top-tier jungler.
However, as the second strongest team in Korea, Assassin Guild had always lost more than they won in the past few years.
There wasn't much luck or accident involved in this.
It was just that they were not as skilled as Fate.
Nian Thirteen's jungler was the core of the team, and the effect he brought to his team wouldn't be any worse than Moon's mid laner in Fate.
But in terms of the individual abilities of the players in the other positions, Assassin's team was basically weaker than Fate's team by several notches.
The top laner was weaker.
The AD was weaker.
The support was weaker.
It was all a little bit, but when added together, it would affect the balance of victory and defeat.
In reality, Fate's overall situation was a bit similar to Team SSK. They both had top-tier mid laners who were dazzling. The other players in the other positions were slightly inconspicuous, but that didn't mean that the players in the other positions were much weaker.
Think about it from another perspective —
To be able to fight side by side with Moon, one of the Four Emperors, in the most competitive and cruel LCK region in the world, defeating countless top-tier and terrifying opponents one by one, and maintaining their position as the second strongest team in the LCK, how weak could the other players of Fate be?
"It's just that their brilliance was overshadowed by their own mid laner."
Ceng Rui shook his head and sighed.
"This team … is the most low-key and underestimated team out of all the top teams."
An Xin smiled faintly.
"That's right."
"That's why, the more low-key they are, the more we shouldn't underestimate them."
Indeed.
Because you simply didn't know how many things were hidden under the dazzling brilliance of the Four Emperors Level mid laner. You also didn't know if there were any other players in the team that could surprise you … or scare you.
"An-enemy-has-been-slained."
Game time: 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
The system's female voice suddenly announced the kill from the middle lane of Summoner's Canyon.
The entire training room was in an uproar!
The OB's camera quickly shifted to the middle lane.
On the screen.
It was the fallen figure of the blue mid laner.
There was also the purple square single Yao Ji, who had retreated from her opponent's corpse, and the wild prince.
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