Chapter 392 Sweat Covering the Neck

In the Dragon Ball training room, everyone from the coaches to the players was on high alert, including Khan, who was extremely focused.

During the three-day break from the group stage, they arranged matches against several strong teams that performed well in the first round of the group stage. Apart from RNG, the other teams, including EDG, were easily defeated.

However, Longzhu is not particularly reassured about this result, since Li Chen, the team's true core player, did not play in the training match against EDG that day.

So on this last day, Longzhu chose to challenge EDG to another match to thoroughly investigate EDG and Li Chen's background.

Before the training match began, Hirai received a message from Abu that everything was ready. He earnestly told Khan, "Donghe, EDG is the last obstacle on our road to the championship. If we can defeat them, we will be the champions this year."

So promise me you'll take this practice match seriously. Your matchup against god_C will directly determine our outcome. You need to find out his true strength and see if that's all he's got.

"I understand, Coach!" Khan nodded.

The team members from both sides entered the room and began the character selection screen.

In the first game, Longzhu was positioned on the blue side. They chose to respect Li Chen's Jayce pick and then promoted Karma and Lulu to the ban/pick phase.

EDG, on the other hand, banned Kennen, Gragas, and Kalista.

Afterwards, both sides quickly selected their characters, and then entered the loading screen:

Dragon Ball Blue Team:

Top Lane - Fiora

Jungler - Sejuani

Mid laner - Azir

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Support - Janna

EDG Red Team:

Top Lane - Camille

Jungler - Gragas

Mid-lane - Airplane

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Support - Rakan

The two players in the top lane seemed to have a tacit understanding and swapped the heroes they had previously picked in ranked matches, as if they were both testing each other's skill level.

Before going live, the factory manager turned to look at Li Chen and asked, "Are you going to win or lose this game?"

He knew perfectly well how Li Chen was setting traps for the top laners of various teams, so he wanted to see how Li Chen performed in this game to decide his fate.

"Basically a win!" Li Chen replied casually.

Factory Manager: ? ? ? ? ?

Once online, Li Chen played rather aggressively. Under his control, he gained a slight advantage in the early game and pressured Khan a few times.

"Is this all the strength you have?" The Khan's lips curled into a slight smile.

In terms of skill mechanics, both Fiora and Camille are skill-intensive top laners with strong solo kill potential. However, Fiora seems to have a slight advantage on the field due to her W ability to block.

However, this is only on the surface. In the current version, Camille is slightly better than Fiora in terms of stats. Although it is not much, it is enough to affect the duel between experts.

At least in ranked games, when he picked Camille to counter Li Chen's Fiora, he completely dominated Li Chen in the laning phase. But now that Li Chen has Camille, he can only slightly out-farm him by a few CS.

The outcome is decided!

Since neither jungler intended to interfere with the top lane, the two players traded blows from the start to the 12-minute mark, with Li Chen having the advantage but no kills being secured.

But at that moment, Li Chen made a mistake while attacking, and Khan seized the opportunity to use Flash.

Then the situation on the top lane began to reverse, with Khan gradually taking control of the lane and putting pressure on Li Chen.

With nearly twenty minutes of gameplay remaining, Longzhu held a significant economic advantage, prompting EDG to type "GG" and exit the game.

In the Dragon Ball training room, Hirai asked, "Donghe, how do you feel? Is god_C hiding his true strength?"

Khan said confidently, "No, Coach, he is definitely not hiding his strength. I admit that the difference in strength between him and me is not that big. I think it will be difficult for him to kill me in lane, but he will definitely not be able to gain any advantage over me."

"If we meet them in the knockout stage, I'll study their playstyle more. If I find a weakness, I'll deliver a heavy blow in the knockout stage and show them who the real world's best top laner is."

Hirai was more inclined to believe Khan's explanation this time, since he had just watched the two laners play. Li Chen did play well, truly a top-tier top laner, but that was about it.

As for the world's first?

impossible!

"Okay, let's keep playing. I'll try to let you switch heroes this game as much as possible. Give it another try!"

Soon the two sides started the second training match. This time, the top laners switched heroes again, with Li Chen taking Fiora and Khan taking Camille.

Unlike the first game, this time Li Chen took the initiative to let the factory manager give him a tactical advantage in the early game, which gave him an advantage in the laning phase. However, the cost was that EDG's bottom lane was under tremendous pressure and the disadvantage was difficult to overcome.

As expected, Dragon Ball won the second game.

After that, the two sides played two more games, with Li Chen picking Kennen and Cho'Gath respectively.

Kennen performed admirably during the laning phase, and in team fights, he delivered a spectacular "Heavenly Thunderstrike" that electrified five opponents, leaving the Dragon Balls reeling and leading his team to victory.

The performance of the giant bug was rather monotonous, remaining silent throughout the game. However, this time, the factory manager and Scout stepped up, and with the significantly increased number of wards, they managed to force Dragon Ball to quit the game.

Ultimately, the training match ended in a 2-2 tie between the two teams, with both sides gaining the information they needed.

"god_C is indeed a good player with a perfect hero pool. His team fight handling is even better than Donghe's. However, it is impossible for him to beat Donghe in lane, and he is mostly at a disadvantage in the late game when split pushing."

Hirai gradually gained confidence, his tone slightly excited: "I've already come up with a preliminary plan to counter EDG. If we meet them in the match, we won't be afraid of them. Khan, you did a great job."

Khan nodded slightly, somewhat unwilling to admit defeat, and said, "His team fights are indeed quite good, but I'm no worse than him. I can play Kennen too."

"Well, but that's not necessary. The most effective way to defeat them is to beat them in the areas where EDG excels."

Meanwhile, during EDG's training match, nofe was also explaining the situation with Dragon Ball, and his face was full of smiles.

"Dragon Ball is very similar to us. Their advantage is that their players are individually very strong. Their top laner, Khan, is good at offensive heroes and likes to open up the game through the mid, top, and jungle. This is exactly what we can counter."

Li Chen added: "Dragon Ball has two obvious weaknesses. The first is that the jungler Cuzz is very poor. I saw that he could still go toe-to-toe with Clearlove in the last scrim, but this time he was completely led by the nose by Clearlove."

Secondly, their vision, strategy, and resource control are simply unlike an LCK team. If their IDs were covered, I would have thought they were a strong LPL team. There's no need to waste time studying a team like that.

After being unintentionally praised by Li Chen, the factory manager immediately straightened his head and puffed out his chest, looking confident and proud, just like a child in kindergarten who had been rewarded with a red flower by his teacher.

"As for Khan, the world's second-best top laner, I'll make him sweat profusely during the match."

Li Chen spoke arrogantly and confidently, but no one thought there was anything wrong with it.