Chapter 318: Three Straight Sets
After winning the second game, Lin Cheng took off his headphones and looked at the post-match panel with some entanglement.
Why is his 4-5-5 data so eye-catching?
You know, the entire T1 team only got 7 kills, and he gave more than half of them alone.
It's all Lee Sang-hyeok's fault. Why do you always arrest me?
In the third game, T1 took the initiative to choose the red side when they had the right to choose the side.
T1 still repeated the ban in the previous game and released Aphelios.
KT also chose to grab Aphelios first, but T1 did not grab Qinggangying again this time, and gave up the combination of Kalista and Taric first, and locked Varus and Taliyah first.
Although there are only playoff games recently, the priority of Poke Varus is indeed getting higher and higher in the training of each team, but Taliyah, which T1 picked up second-hand, is really not a popular jungler now.
I don't know what secret tactics the opponent has, KT locked Qinggangying and Card on their own, and got the double-sided system used by T1 in the previous game.
In the second round, KT kept banning the mid laner, preventing Faker from getting heroes like Tsar and Zoe to push the lane in the early game and restrict Twisted Fate's roaming.
However, what KT didn't expect was that T1 added Elise in the red side at the end, and moved Taliyah to the middle lane.
T1 still looked like it was targeting Lin Cheng.
In the last game, Neeko controlled the lane in the early game and could torture the Blue Steel Shadow. In this game, Lin Cheng was not as comfortable in the early game as in the last game.
Elise was not the Gragas in the last game. In this game, Cuzz entered the blue side's semi-jungle in front of KT's vision.
Bono's Sejuani couldn't fight Elise head-on, so he could only choose to exchange jungle.
Lin Cheng knew that he couldn't be pushed, so he played very actively in the first two levels, but Cuzz walked over from the river unreasonably after killing the blue buff and forced the Blue Steel Shadow to use E and retreat.
Then Crocodile began to accumulate anger and chose to control the lane.
Lin Cheng felt what Canna felt in the last game. The soldiers were controlled in front, which made the Blue Steel Shadow very uncomfortable.
The difference is that in the last game, Canna's pressure came from Lin Cheng, while in this game, Lin Cheng's pressure came from Spider in the jungle.
After the crocodile gathered the soldiers, it finally began to push the defensive tower, and Spider's tower crossing came as expected.
Although the vision had been cleared long ago, Lin Cheng also guessed that Spider must be nearby, but choosing to give up so many soldiers was more uncomfortable than dying.
Lin Cheng could only bite the bullet and eat the soldiers under the tower.
Spider came out from the triangle grass and blocked the Blue Steel Shadow under the tower with the crocodile.
Lin Cheng gave up the hook and wanted to run.
Crocodile flashed directly with Red Rage W to stun Blue Steel Shadow by the wall, and Spider followed up with Cocoon.
There was no room for operation. The damage of Red Rage Crocodile and Electrocute Spider directly killed Blue Steel Shadow.
Lin Cheng had expected this outcome since Bono was forced to change the jungle.
There were times when he beat Crocodile with Spider, but at least his own jungler had to give him some protection. It would be difficult for him to go 1V2 alone if the jungler exchanged the jungle area.
After all, Crocodile and Spider have terrible damage and control capabilities in the early stage, and they don't even give you room to operate.
Fortunately, Bono did not give up on Lin Cheng. After the first round of jungle brushing, he came up in time to provide protection and placed a true eye for Lin Cheng in the grass opposite the blue buff.
Spider was discovered by vision in advance for two consecutive tower dives. Although Lin Cheng died once, he didn't fall behind much in last-hitting due to the existence of TP.
At 6 and a half minutes, Spider once again cleared the blue team's vision in the river. Lin Cheng's Qinggang Shadow cast a line directly through the triangle grass, hooked the river and kicked Spider.
Kuro's card fell, and cooperated with Qinggang Shadow to kill Spider first.
Taliyah arrived later and wanted to cooperate with Crocodile to counterattack.
But Bono's Sejuani also arrived in time, and Crocodile was left behind.
Lin Cheng's Qinggang Shadow got a double kill and things got better immediately.
Ze Yuan: "Wow! Orange brother seized the opportunity very well this time. Actually, Canna's Crocodile was pushing the line, but he came a few seconds later than Orange brother, resulting in the spider being killed in one second when T1's top and mid came to support, and Crocodile also joined in."
Ji Ji: "KT's coordination in these three games is indeed better. When seeing Spider's wards, Qing Gangying, Card and Sejuani all approached the river at the same time, while Crocodile and Taliyah only reacted when they saw Spider being caught in the line, but it was too late."
Ze Yuan: "I think T1's choice of shaking Taliyah to the middle lane in the last hand is not effective at present. Although the burst is higher than Card, the ability to clear the line is reduced after the Q skill loses AOE. Taliyah has no advantage in pushing the line with Card in the early stage, and the control is also unstable."
T1's calculations were very good. They used the strength of Crocodile and Spider to put pressure on Qing Gangying. Taliyah in the middle lane also has extremely strong support capabilities. It should not be at a disadvantage in the upper half of the zone.
But things soon exceeded T1's expectations.
KT did not choose to fight against the crocodile in the early stage. Lin Cheng's Shen's first small item was Tiamat, which has a strong ability to clear the line.
Although the line of soldiers was not an absolute advantage, Lin Cheng took the opportunity when the crocodile could not move and went into the opponent's jungle to gain vision.
Finally, when Spider was hitting the red buff, he was caught by Lin Cheng's Shen.
Spider has high burst in the early stage, but is a super fragile in the true sense. Shen took the initiative to kick him and used his ultimate to keep him.
Although Taliyah also came to support, Spider was killed by Taliyah's ultimate after his E skill landed.
Crocodile had just left the line at this time, and Taliyah alone could not keep anyone, so he could only watch the two leave.
Seeing Taliyah return to the line, Sejuani, who arrived after Bono, happily ran to counter the opponent's red buff and then went to control the Rift Herald.
When T1's next red buff was resurrected, Tusin's Titan also came one step ahead and followed Sejuani into the opponent's jungle to counter the red.
The two squatted for a while and waited for Spider to come over again.
Sejuani used his ultimate first, and cooperated with Titan's control to kill Spider again.
In this way, Spider, who should have been crazy in the early stage, became T1's breakthrough point instead. Not only did he fail to lead the rhythm, but he was also killed continuously.
The result of the death of Spider in the jungle was that Crocodile on the side lane could not defend the line, and Lin Cheng cooperated with his teammates to successfully take down a tower.
KT's familiar snowball began to roll again. After Lin Cheng had the equipment advantage, he continued to cooperate with his teammates to plunder the jungle and switch lanes to support the tower.
The economic gap gradually appeared, and T1's top, mid and jungle, which should have gained the advantage, became more and more defeated.
T1's lineup itself was betting on establishing a clear advantage in the early and mid-term. After being defeated in a team battle for the dragon at 24 minutes, it no longer had the capital to fight against KT.
The next two consecutive team battles ended with KT's crushing, and KT successfully won the game.
The duration of the three consecutive games did not exceed 30 minutes, and KT easily won the game in three straight games.