Chapter 95 (2)
ZGDXs players walked up to the stage still engaged in a lively conversation. Tong Yao sat down next to Lu Sicheng, took a deep breath, and put on the headphones-- --With the headphones on, she was cut off from the noise coming from the audience. She put her mind into the ban & pick phase of the first match against the team Doomsday Orcs.
When they finished banning, Twisted Fate, Syndra, Viktor, LeBlanc, Vladimir, and Ryze had been banned. Tong Yao took a look at the list and couldnt muffle her chuckles. It also stirred up some commotion in their voice chat-- --
Little Fatty: Wow, all six are mid champions. They didnt let LeBlanc, Syndra, or Twisted Fate get by. The other team is prepared to give you a hard time, little sister.
Ming god: We also banned 3 strong mid champions ourselves. Now there arent many good mid champions left. Doomsday Orcss mid doesnt have a deep champion pool and well see wholl suffer.
Tong Yao took a glance at the opposite team and as expected, she saw their mid had already frowned and was biting his fingers.
Tong Yao took her eyes away: The bullet comments on the stream right now must be bustling right now.
Lu Sicheng: You care about that?
Tong Yao: I do.
Lu Sicheng: Itll explode after you finish choosing your champion.
Tong Yao: ......
As they were talking, the other team took some time deliberating before picking Lissandra, then Karma-- --Lissandra could be used at top or mid. Karma could be a support and was a good choice for mid as well. Doomsday Orcs took away two popular champions for mid, though it wasnt clear how they were going to use those two champions, their intention to block Tong Yao was obvious
Evidently, Doomsday Orcs had given some thought and played a little trick in the ban & pick phase...But Tong Yao and her teammates hadnt planned to pick regular mid champions in the first place. When it was ZGDXs turn to pick, Old Cat immediately picked Lulu for Tong Yao-- --
Tong Yao and her teammates couldnt hear the reaction from the audience. If they had taken off their earphones right then, they would find the roar from the audience was enough to blow the roof off-- --
Commentator A: [Lulu again! My goodness, whats happening to all the teams today!]
Commentator B: [Hahahaha, probably Smiling was influenced by that YQCB match-- --You wanted to take Lulu? You couldnt make it work? Alright, Ill take Lulu too and teach you how to play Lulu!]
Commentator A: [It doesnt make sense.. Smiling cant play this kind of champion better than Ai Jia. If she really thinks this way, then shes really inflated herself.]
Commentator B: [Im just saying! Look, the lineup now, Old Cat took Trundle. Hrm, ZGDX is going to play 4 protect 1! !]
Commentator A: [Whats wrong with 4 protect 1?]
Commentator B: [Just now, YQCB used 4 protect 1 to protect Pope but failed. What do you say about that? Thats Pope, hes as good as Cheng Ge.]
Commentator A: [......You can eat whatever you wish but you better watch your words. Hehe, dont say I didnt remind you not to talk nonsense. Wait till after the game, you can go take a look at your Weibo account then youll know what its all about.]
Commentator B: [...............]
Commentato B imagined how he would be dissed by both ZGDX and YQCB fans on his Weibo account and hurriedly changed the topic-- --From their conversation, it was obvious that these two commentators didnt really understand why Tong Yao wanted to take Lulu and ZGDX wanted to play 4 protect 1.
Then the match officially started.
Doomsday Orcs bot wasnt even a close match for Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty-- --Lu Sichengs Sivir worked with Little Fattys Bard to pressure the enemy Kalista from the very beginning. With low health, Kalista had to back away and was unable to even farm minions, missing 4 or 5 of them in the first wave.
With such a start, Lu Sicheng believed the enemys bot was pretty much over.
Lu Sicheng was the first one to reach level two. Tong Yao pinged that the enemys junger had shown himself in mid lane. Lu Sicheng cleared the minions immediately then pushed the other teams support and AD back to their own turret. They could only farm under the turret and were being harassed from time to time, messing up their ability to farm.
Lu Sicheng and Little Fatty had utterly neutered the enemy bot. Within the first ten minutes, Old K carried out the 4 protect 1 strategy every second he could. He would pass by bot lane from time to time, causing Doomsday Orcs AD to only farm a little over 40 minions in those minutes. Doomsdays AD and support died twice, with Lu Sicheng and Old K each getting two kills each
In the mid game, Doomsdays top, playing Ekko, wanted to hit Lu Sicheng from behind. But whenever he got to hit Lu Sicheng, the very next second Lulu would cast her ultimate on Lu Sichengs Sivir, followed by all sorts of protective abilities-- --
Li Sicheng was well developed and well protected.