Chapter 410 More Suffering, Part 1: The Bitter Khan
Soon, the minion waves on both sides started to appear. In this game, no one was stealing the bushes on either side's top lane; they all appeared along with the minion waves.
After encountering Camille, the first vulnerability appeared in the lower left corner of Camille's body. Just like Khan faced the same situation in the previous game, Li Chen was unable to directly exploit the first vulnerability.
Here, Li Chen made the same choice as the Khan, retreating several steps to prepare to exploit an opening.
But Khan mirrored Li Chen's actions and began to follow Li Chen forward.
"No, you've actually started studying?"
Li Chen almost burst out laughing, so he controlled the Fiora to walk halfway and suddenly turn around, but did not use any skills.
Khan was startled by Li Chen's sudden turn around, thinking that Li Chen was about to attack. He quickly turned around and ran back, because he was now beyond the minion wave. If he were hit by Fiora's Q, it would not be worth fighting head-on.
However, Li Chen did not use Q. Instead, after the Khan turned around, he began to move towards the river.
The Khan then returned to the sides of the melee units and stood above the minion wave.
At this moment, the two, one above the other and one below, separated by melee soldiers, began to engage in a battle of wits around the low-health minions.
Li Chen had no area-of-effect damage, so he had to take the initiative and raised his hand as if to last-hit minions. Seeing this, Khan immediately seized the opportunity and used a tactical sweep to advance.
At this moment, Li Chen held down S to retract his basic attack, first moving forward into the inner circle of Camille's W, and then using his Q skill, Sky Slash, to destroy the first vulnerability in Camille's lower left corner the instant the Tactical Sweep damage was dealt.
After quickly observing the location of the new opening on Camille's body and confirming that he could continue, he retreated to the minions to farm.
Seeing that Li Chen hadn't used his speed boost to create distance, but instead was greedily trying to finish off enemies, Khan decisively chased after him.
With a scissor kick, Khan landed a basic attack that triggered Fiora's passive shield. Khan then chased after Li Chen, trying to use the duration of his passive to land another attack, but Li Chen didn't give him the chance and started to keep his distance.
The reason Li Chen stopped attacking the minions here was to deliberately let the Khan trigger his passive ability.
Camille's level 1 passive has too long a cooldown. Once the passive is gone, she can't gain the upper hand in a fight at all.
Seeing that he couldn't hit Li Chen and his passive was about to expire, Khan had no choice but to turn around and retreat. But at that moment, Li Chen controlled Fiora to turn around and hit Camille.
Just as the attack landed, Camille's shield disappeared, and Li Chen dealt damage with a basic attack, which also destroyed the newly spawned weakness in the lower right corner, triggering the speed boost effect.
Then, Li Chen staged a textbook-perfect aircraft carrier turnaround.
As Khan turned to retaliate with a basic attack, Li Chen also turned around and quickly created some distance, just outside Camille's attack range.
Seeing that the basic attack still hadn't landed, the Khan frowned slightly, but since the loss wasn't too great, he continued to retreat.
However, Li Chen turned around again and followed, deliberately waiting for the Q skill cooldown before using a basic attack followed by a QA combo.
He was hit twice more with a basic attack and a Q for nothing. Even though Li Chen took some damage from minions, it was still a huge loss for Khan. He immediately put on the Mask of Pain, wanting to get an item ahead.
What's even more frustrating is that he doesn't dare to turn around and auto-attack, because he knows very well that Fiora's Fervor of Battle has already been stacked up. If he stops to auto-attack, he will only give Fiora time to find a way out and exploit her weakness.
Given my current half-health state, I'll either die or lose a dodge.
As Camille ran away without looking back, the two completely distanced themselves. The level 1 trade in the top lane ended there, with Camille losing half her health and basically losing the right to farm minions.
On the commentary stage, Miller watched Khan consume a health potion and said, suppressing a laugh, "How did Khan get beaten up like this? This is such a waste. C-God has already crushed him in terms of health. It's going to be very difficult for Khan to lane in the top lane."
Rita continued, "That's right. If you want to compete with C-God in terms of skill, this is the result in most cases. Khan loses half his health at level one and can't farm minions anymore. If C-God sticks to him again, he might die."
I don't understand it at all.
【No, I thought it was just me getting free auto-attacks in lane, how come pro players are doing this too?】
Khan: Why can't I get any auto-attacks?!
This was purely a difference in jungle skill.
If it were me, I'd already be sending insults to the jungler's family.
The audience didn't understand the details, but some professional top laners watching the game did. Khan was simply at a disadvantage due to his lower movement speed, attack range, and attack speed.
Li Chen's distance control was excellent. The two heroes differed by 25 attack range and 5 movement speed, and if they weren't mistaken, Li Chen also had attack speed runes.
These three extremely small data differences were manipulated in Li Chen's mind, becoming like an insurmountable chasm between the Khan and Li Chen.
This attention to detail is so meticulous that even they feel a chill just looking at it, and the Khan, who is experiencing it firsthand, must feel immense pressure.
Khan's hands began to tremble as he watched Fiora slowly farm minions and control the lane.
If he could still make excuses for not winning the last game, then the last encounter truly shattered all his pride and confidence.
Even if his health were full, let alone not full, he wouldn't dare to go up and fight Li Chen.
"Camille has collapsed."
As he leveled up to level two, Li Chen immediately announced the result of the game with Camille.
Camille's initial tactical sweep quickly cleared the wave, becoming the final straw that broke Khan's back. Now, the blue team's minion wave is gradually gaining an advantage, and without the jungler's help, Khan doesn't even have a chance to last-hit minions.
"Cuzz, can you... gank top lane?" Khan suppressed his immense humiliation and began calling for his teammates' support.
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Cuzz quickly shifted the camera to the top lane and saw Fiora controlling the lane while Camille hid behind and gained experience.
"Brother Donghe, how did you get into such a state?"
Cuzz's tone was full of confusion, because in his impression, Camille had an advantage against Fiora, and Khan had always dominated Li Chen's Fiora in scrims. Why did things suddenly change?
"I made a small mistake early on!" Khan said in a low voice.
However, BDD spoke up at this moment: "No, the main purpose of this game is to put pressure on the bottom lane and prevent Clearlove from creating opportunities in the top half of the map. If we don't put enough pressure on the bottom lane, what's the point of picking Caitlyn?"
"Donghe, play it safe for now. Fiora isn't easy to kill Camille, at least you can hold your own, right?"
"I...I will!" Khan's voice was tinged with despair.
"We believe in you, Dongha, you're the best!"
BDD continued to praise him, determined not to let Khan continue calling for a jungler.
The main reason he did this was because he was under a lot of pressure laning against Tristana in the mid lane. If he couldn't keep Clearlove in the bottom lane, he would also be in danger in the mid lane.
Since the Khan has already collapsed, let him suffer a little more and bear the infamy!