Chapter 176 Tunnel Incident! A Game Design That Was One Step Behind!

“They actually practiced Nightmare as well,” Oner in the T1 base sipped his protein powder and commented to himself.

“Although this hero version is a bit rubbish, a 1v1 matchup with the Ruined King in the jungle is definitely a one-sided beating, there’s no problem with understanding this!”

Nightmare only appeared once in this S12, and is definitely not a strong jungler in this version.

It’s still because of durability.

A hero like Nightmare who has to rush into the crowd alone, but cannot kill the opponent instantly and may be killed instantly by the opponent, and who needs to reach level 6 very much, is obviously not suitable for the current version rhythm.

But coincidentally, Oner was the only user of Nightmare in this World Championship—and that was against the Ruined King!
So his remarks were clearly based on experience.

However, Keria on the side had a different opinion: “I think the main purpose of EDG choosing this nightmare should be to put pressure on the bottom lane, right?”

“It’s obvious that they are mainly targeting Cat in this game. The mechanism of this hero is too unhealthy. Obviously, there are so many shortcomings, but if one side can’t kill the opponent in the early stage, this hero will become a rogue in the middle stage of the game.”

“And this Nightmare and Skateboard Shoes are definitely targeting the bottom lane, not allowing your support to run around everywhere because the opponent is Cat, otherwise they will directly surpass your AD!”

Keria’s understanding of the version was clearly better, and he quickly saw its true purpose.

The reason why DRX’s bottom lane in the last game was able to survive while the support was running around was not only due to Deft’s stable playing style and experience, but also because the support’s extremely meticulous eye protection allowed him to always detect the opponent’s intentions in advance.

But for Nightmare, a hero who can GANK directly from the “sky”, these two points are difficult to play a role!

A skateboard shoe, if it is still not enough to solve the problem of too little pressure on the cat in the early stage
What about adding another nightmare?

With Cat, EDG has no reason to fight for the early rhythm. After all, they just need to be able to stabilize the situation until the mid-game like in the last game, and the balance of victory will naturally tilt gradually!

Of course, this is actually the reason why DRX still released the cat – they know that EDG is best at early-stage offense, and releasing the cat can at least prevent the opponent from fighting in the area they are best at.

However, Ye Bo also thought of this aspect that the opponent wanted to take advantage of, so he made a lineup change in this game and simply chose a “Big Group Battle” lineup with a slower tempo.

You think of one thing, I think of another, and he thinks of another. These are also games of war.
Li Xianghe did not participate in the discussion of his teammates, but just stared at the scarecrow’s avatar.

‘Another strange trick.’

He thought of the second match against EDG in the group stage, when the opponent also chose the surprising mid-lane Snowman, breaking through their defense in a variety of incomprehensible ways, and even making a fool of himself in the end by saying “the mechanism is the mechanism, it’s not something that was invented on the first day.”

As for the Scarecrow in this game, he seemed to have vaguely thought of some mid-lane confrontation scenarios based on his understanding of the game.

At this moment, the game screen has finished loading.

Before everyone had time to look at the rune choices of both sides, they discovered that something was wrong with someone’s first level!

While loading the game, Ye Bo was still reminding his teammates: “We must be careful in our positioning at level 1. Bard is a hero that is not in our plan. We must be careful whether they have any plans!”

As soon as we stepped into the canyon, several signals were immediately marked on the map: “Except for the top laner, we will look out at these places when we go out, and then directly retreat to the jungle to see what the opponent is doing.”

Ye Bo was deeply afraid of this Bard.

Not only because this was an unexpected hero, but also because Ye Bo had no idea about this hero. He could even say that he only knew the approximate extent of this hero’s skills.

Ye Bo felt that his knowledge was still insufficient.

But facing this crucial match, he really wanted to try his best to win.

In the first-level team fight of this lineup, EDG also has its own advantages——ample ward position!

As one of the teams that is best at level one design, Ye Bo is naturally very clear that in a normal level one group fight, not too many wards can be placed to avoid vision gaps at critical time points.

But EDG’s lineup in this game is different.

Jungle Nightmare is a stand-and-shoot king who is not afraid of being counter-jungled in 1v1.

Auxiliary Cat is a special hero who can buy {True Eye} at level 1 without having to buy recovery items.

As for the mid-lane Scarecrow, since the passive skill [Witch Scarecrow] will replace the ward with [Grass Man], both the CD time and the duration mechanism are stronger than the ordinary reconnaissance ward!

Originally, it would take 3 and a half minutes to place the second ward, but Kusama only needs to wait for 2 minutes and 10 seconds to place the second one.

Therefore, for EDG, they don’t need to worry about anything at level 1. They can directly invest in {three eye positions} to control the jungle area and they are fully capable of defending the jungle!
But Beryl didn’t use Bard very often.

But the understanding and reserves of this hero are no less.

“DRX, what’s going on!?” Wawa was very nervous: “Oh no, they have a big plan!”

“It looks like Beryl’s Bard is really a secret weapon!”

Miller couldn’t help but clench his fists: “Although EDG’s position when they went out looked absolutely careful, and they even directly invested three wards, but DRX’s position was so fast!”

“Can’t EDG see this?!”

Can be seen from the OB perspective.

The EDG bottom lane duo just followed the command and rushed out at high speed. Cat also directly gave Skates E to speed up and rushed towards the point.

However, just as Skateboard Shoes came to the blue BUFF wall to place a ward and just turned around——five people suddenly walked out from the corner on the right!
“What the hell?!” Viper blurted out in a clear and loud voice.

“Damn it Viper, run!” The cat hanging on his body could only shout in panic.

“Don’t worry, don’t worry!” But Ye Bo, who was obviously more clear-headed, shouted even louder, “They are out of control, don’t use your skills randomly, just run down first!”

At such a thrilling moment, people can easily be affected by the sudden sound.

Viper almost wanted to use his flash to run away.

Fortunately, there was a sudden louder warning, and he reacted quickly enough. He immediately ran in the opposite direction towards the river below.

Although they were also shocked as to how all the members of DRX could arrive here silently, it would be much easier to find the problem based on the answer – it could only be Bard’s E skill [Magical Journey]!
In this case, DRX obviously does not have too much additional control.

I just want to fight a team with numerical advantage!

“Hong Changxian, keep him! Change his skills!” Beryl shouted immediately.

The Ruined King immediately learned W, and while charging power, he aimed at the Skateboard Shoes who were escaping below. When the power was fully charged, he flashed forward and took it out!
But this kind of flash W that starts from a long distance is not difficult to react to, Skateboard Shoes immediately flashes down at the same time.

“EDG will definitely lose if they switch to flash. The team with Cat only has one flash, so it will be difficult to push the bottom lane in the first few minutes!” Wang Duoduo couldn’t help but sigh.

“You have a plan, but I have a plan. Although EDG wanted to use Skateboards to put pressure on the bottom lane, DRX’s level 1 team fight design seemed to force EDG’s bottom lane to fail to develop its early rhythm!”

“In this case, this Bard will probably start running at level two or three!”

Miller also shook his head: “DRX’s design is indeed difficult to defend against for a hero as unpopular as Bard, and EDG was so generous in placing wards, but they couldn’t defend against it.”

The director called up the playback.

Bard uses his E ability twice at level 1.

When he was born, Bard built an “exit tunnel” directly at the corner of the fountain that led to the Highland Tower, and five people got on the car together!
Then reach the corner wall in front of EDG’s bottom lane tower and release “Wall Tunnel”!
It was precisely because of the two tunnels, one for rushing and the other for crossing the mountain, that DRX was able to take advantage of the time difference and get all the players in position ahead of time!

Otherwise, with EDG’s positioning, they would just leave after placing wards, and with just a single wall-penetrating tunnel, the five DRX players would be completely left empty-handed.

But at this time, the director urgently replayed the footage and cut back to the front battlefield.

“DRX seems to be cheating!”

“Oh my god! Are they going to do it again?! Aren’t they afraid that EDG just put a ward here?”

When chasing Skateboard Shoes, the DRX team deliberately walked back to their own jungle in front of the opponent, and the top laner even appeared from the middle lane in a swagger.

The Sword Demon indeed walked back to the top lane obediently.

But the other four people took a detour through their own jungle area, turned back through the bottom lane and headed back to the intersection they had just entered!

Obviously he wants to repeat the same old trick!

The reason they dare to do so is nothing else.

Just because when invading just now, Bard had deliberately waited for Skateboard Shoes to turn the corner and lose his sight——and quietly put an eye under the foot of the Magic Swamp Frog where no one expected it.

It was also this eye position that detected Nightmare’s movements at this time.

In DRX’s field of vision, he watched as Nightmare turned on the scan function. He came over and scanned the blue zone, but he couldn’t find the vision hidden under the feet of the Frog!

“Beryl’s ward position is so tricky!”

“Nightmare’s intention to start with blue buff has been exposed. No wonder the opponent sent four people into the jungle again. They must want to take advantage of this opportunity to forcefully gain early priority in the bottom half of the area!”

1 minutes 10 seconds.

Bud opened the time tunnel again, and the four people took the tunnel to their second location.

The Ruined King started scanning and confirmed that there was no vision in the bush!

Beryl’s idea was simple.

Even if they came over by car for the second time this time, EDG spent a huge amount of money to place a ward in the bush and discovered them, so they could only evacuate directly.

The first-level combat effectiveness of EDG’s lineup is not strong. Regardless of whether they can win or not, at least the opponent will definitely not be able to hold them back, and there is no threat at all!
And once you can sneak in again. Whether you try to counter-jungle and forcibly occupy the jungle, or squat and go online with Skateboard Shoes without flash, at the very least you can steal and counter-attack the opponent’s jungler’s wild monster.

It can be said that the harvest is guaranteed regardless of drought or flood!
There was only one problem.

Just as Bard opened the portal again, a voice suddenly came from EDG’s voice channel.

“Hey? It seems like they’ve come in again!”

Ye Bo, who was waiting for the troops to arrive, was staring at the lower area on the screen, as if he was thinking about something.

What he was thinking was that if the enemy couldn’t see the tunnel of the hero Bard, then the roaming defense pressure in this game would be really great.
But right now.

Ye Bo suddenly saw a “golden light entrance” appearing in the corner of the wall, which would not be shown on the small map!
In fact.

The mechanics of Bard’s Tunnel are somewhat unique.

Under normal circumstances, the enemy cannot see the tunnel created by Bard. The tunnel will only be visible when at least one of the two ends of the tunnel has an “edge radius” exposed to the enemy’s field of vision.

The command that Skateboards received at level 1 was to place a ward in the bush below the blue buff, an equally unusual position!
I bumped into three people head-on after I had just put the eye in!

But in Beryl’s opinion, the placement of the first-level eye position is particularly valuable, and the opponent will not place the eye in this position.

After all, if EDG places this eye in the bush, the information they can obtain is extremely limited. At least the information about the entire lower river is completely blank, which can be called a “waste”!
This is the “conflict” in the level of understanding between the two people.

Of course, perhaps the real reason is that Beryl doesn’t know that Scarecrow’s {草间人} CD is different from the normal eye position and is nearly twice as fast.

In addition, with Ye Bo’s special “playing style”, there is actually no vision pressure near the middle lane!
Therefore, even if all three vision points are placed on the bottom lane, the worst that can happen is that the jungler will give the true eye that was supposed to be placed on the mid lane to the bottom lane – even Scarecrow himself can go to place a Swarmer on the bottom lane!
Ye Bo doesn’t understand Bard.

But Beryl doesn’t understand scarecrows even more!

The entrance of the third tunnel was now exposed within EDG’s field of vision. In addition, Ye Bo happened to be staring at this place and witnessed the scene with his own eyes.

“What do you think, Master Ye, will you do it?” Jiejie felt like making trouble.

“Can we win?” Meiko asked worriedly.

The bottom lane duo who had just come out again were preparing to head out.

“Wait a minute, don’t go over there yet.”

Ye Bo was also thinking about this battle scene.

Even though Bard chose the E skill at level 1, his combat power is actually no different from that of the cat, or even weaker!

Theoretically, the difference in their 4v4 combat effectiveness is not that big.

But EDG’s first-level team fight was really nothing to say. Even if Scarecrow absorbed a full W, there was no follow-up, and Nightmare also lacked burst.
The important thing is that Skate Shoes didn’t have flash, and the opponent had King of the Ruined King.

Once the four opponents forcefully go All in to kill Skateboard Shoes, and they take the lead in reducing the number of their own to help the Ruined King to hit his body, Skateboard Shoes’ fragile body will definitely not be able to withstand it!

If the Ruined King really transforms into him, it will be hard to say what will happen in a 4v4 situation.

If something goes wrong in the level 1 team fight in the bottom lane, even if it’s just a 1-for- exchange of equal numbers in the end, it’s obviously a situation that DRX, a “battle-seeking lineup”, would be extremely happy to see.

This is also the reason why DRX dares to advance so boldly.

They can accept even the worst outcome!

However, for EDG——since they already know the opponent’s position, they can actually let Nightmare quietly move to the jungle area to avoid the fight.

However, Skateboard Shoes’ flash was replaced, which directly led to the fact that he did not dare to push the line in the next 5 minutes.

It can even be said that as long as they push the line, they are exposing the jungler’s protection behind them and continuously exposing the jungler’s position. Just this one flash can be said to have far-reaching impact.

Therefore, even if they change the jungle area now, DRX has already achieved its goal.
Ye Bo suddenly had a bolder idea at this moment.

“Brother Saint Spear,” Ye Bo said very quickly, “Can you come this time? But you may lose a lot.”

“Don’t worry about me, just tell me how to do it!” Li Xuanjun replied without any hesitation.

Ye Bo made a prompt decision: “Then don’t go out of the bottom lane yet. They dare to come like this, which means there must be an enemy in our jungle.”

God’s perspective.

You can also see EDG’s sudden personnel changes.

“What does this mean???”

“Why did Ornn come down from the jungle? The troops have already been sent out, they will be missed!”

“EDG seems to have discovered the opponent’s movements, and is this their position?!”

No one in DRX noticed anything.

Looking at Nightmare standing alone outside the blue BUFF pit above the field of vision, he saw that the duo in the bottom lane had not appeared yet.

They naturally guessed that the opponent should let the bottom lane go directly online to avoid exposing the jungler’s route to the wild.

Wild monsters refresh at 1 minute and 30 seconds.

The DRX team came out directly and rushed to the blue BUFF camp!

This time they must act immediately and cannot wait, otherwise if Akali fails to come online when the mid lane soldiers meet, her intentions will inevitably be exposed.

The four of them walked out and saw Nightmare working alone in the wild.

Nightmare saw the four people walking out from behind him, and they rushed to the edge of the wall in a panic. While taking the attack from the blue BUFF, they seemed to be hesitating whether to use flash.

Four strong men cornered Nightmare!
But Nightmare still didn’t use his flash.

“Just dodge and don’t chase them too far. If they come to attack us again, we can kill them instantly. We will definitely get a kill.”

Beryl’s words were still lingering.

An inaudible explosion.

Immediately afterwards, four figures suddenly fell from the sky across the wall!

And when they saw the number of the other side clearly, the eyes of the four DRX players all trembled.

“Why is the top laner here too?!”

“Sit at my door! Run!”

Bard reacted extremely quickly, turning sideways to open the door towards the river below.

The four figures reacted extremely quickly and immediately turned towards the portal.

{Bard’s Door, friendly troops riding in it will receive a 33% speed bonus}.

Even if the five people on the opposite side came over, they still had some room to pull them back, because the other side didn’t have any more skills to keep them.
However, when Ornn landed, he used E and crashed into the wall of the portal!
Yangjiao was not sent away by the portal. Instead, he instantly interrupted the four people who were sitting near the wall, pulled them out of the wall, and knocked them all high into the air!

“Just kill the Ruined King! There’s no way to dodge!”

Scarecrow learned the Q skill in seconds, and was followed by Fear when he landed. The four people focused their fire on him.

Seeing that the Ruined King, who also didn’t have flash, was obviously unable to escape, and there was no chance of winning in a head-on battle of 5 vs. 4, the other three DRX players decisively sold out the Ruined King and left without looking back.

“Head to AD!”

With clear command and distribution, the Ruined King’s head was smoothly distributed to Skateboard Shoes.

Ornn waited for the battle to end before TPing to the top lane tower.

“First blood is born!!!”

“DRX never expected that their level 1 design would be exploited by EDG! They gave away the first blood and even fed it to Skateboard Shoes!” Miller instantly breathed a sigh of relief and shouted.

“Even though the cost is one more TP in the top lane and a slight loss of troops, it is definitely a big profit!”

“Brother Holy Spear played well. This wave was really crucial. Without Ornn’s spiritual interruption and additional damage, the opponent would either have to go straight to a 4v4 or just sit in the door and run away!” Wang Duoduo praised without any concealment.

“The two teams that we praised as the best at arranging the first-level design in S12 showed their skills in the most crucial game. In the end, DRX was just one step behind!”

[Brother Saint, I am crying so hard, he is really a team player! ]

[OK, I declare that Ornn has the legal right to win this game without doing anything! ]

[Last year, he helped Jiejie go all in at level 1 to invade Sanshu’s jungle area, right? He always puts his teammates before himself. Even a top laner like this would still be accused of giving up!! ]

[Longcha suddenly had an idea. Didn’t he know that there was a guy on the other side whose nickname was “King of Ideas”? ]

[It’s a pity that it’s the skateboard shoes’ head. If it was the scarecrow’s head, I’m afraid some people would be really upset.]

(End of this chapter)