You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 147 (2)

Ming god, with a folder in hand, held onto the back of Lu Sichengs chair, bent over laughing-- --Though perhaps due to a guilty conscience, Lu Yue would usually hang around Ming god and run errands for him. But Ming god didnt seem to appreciate it too much; every time anyone mocked Lu Yue, Ming god was the one who laughed especially loud

Tong Yao couldnt help feeling sympathetic to Lu Yue.

While ZGDX was joking around, the ban & pick phase ended. ZGDX was shocked by CKs Irelia pick. When the game officially started, Tong Yao somehow felt that Irelia would cause trouble for them.

-- --In the end, it seemed that a womans sixth sense is always accurate.

-- --Especially when it was a premonition.

Since Irelia was rarely picked, ZGDX as a team hadnt spent much time studying her neither when playing skirmishes nor during their data analysis. Once Irelia was picked, ZGDXs players thought about her abilities and champion mechanics and then realized that she was truly an odd champion to challenge Rumble.

CK had prepared for this. They were mustering their true strength now that they had lost the first round.

Tong Yao, a bit concerned, couldnt help but remind her teammates at the beginning of the game: Old K, you better be more watchful at top this round. I just feel that Come Good Luck isnt picking Irelia randomly. Theyre definitely planning something for top lane.

Old K agreed.

Indeed, at about 7 or 8 minutes into the game, CKs was at top-- --Old Cat thought he had a 2 to 1 advantage and it should be easy to take care of Irelia. He was too confident and didnt cast his ultimate in time, but fought all the way under the turret and died to Irelia before he could get away!

CK easily took first blood!

The situation wasnt looking good for ZGDX. Then Irelia held down Old Ks RekSai and prevented him from building tunnels At the same time, Tong Yao kept pinging to inform her teammates that Xiao Hua had disappeared. Old K knew very well that Xiao Hua couldnt be going back to base, so the only reasonable assumption was that Xiao Hua was heading to top. However, Irelia was jumping around and wouldnt let Old K get away until Xiao Hua reappeared to strike Old K from behind. Xiao Hua took the second kill of the round.

Xiao Huas Lissandra was a champion that could counter Tong Yaos Kassadin to begin with, now that Lissandra had a kill

Both top and mid lanes were falling behind.

Given the current state of the game, unless the ad was strong enough to crush the enemy, top and mid falling behind in the early game pretty much meant that this round would be hard for ZGDX to turn around-- --Lu Sicheng was laning normally, with a slight advantage. Lu Sicheng could be considered an invincible ad, but the Butterfly and Old Wang duo had also won the spring championship. Even if they couldnt gain an advantage against Lu Sicheng, they wouldnt let Lu Sicheng develop to the point where he could carry the game.

...So far, it seemed that the whole game was being dominated by Irelia.

At about the 25th minute, the gap between both sides economy was almost 8000 gold. Tong Yao felt that the round was pretty much over by now-- --She also considered whether Lu Sichengs hand could sustain the whole five rounds. She began to wish they could end this round and move onto the next round.

Not every round was worth the time and energy to try to make a comeback-- --It seemed that she was not the only one who was thinking this way. This round ended in a little over 30 minutes. The moment ZGDXs base was destroyed, Tong Yao took off her headphones and turned to take a look at the red lights on the screen behind her which signaled they were the losing side.

The scores showed that they were now tied after this round.

CK truly wasnt a team which could be easily taken down. 

However, Tong Yao felt quite at ease, far from being disturbed like the time when they lost to YQCB-- --Usually when the opponent used some unusual and unexpected strategy, it was very hard for them to prepare for it. This round, CKs Irelia was truly an unexpected choice and Come Good Luck had played her well. But it wasnt something to be concerned with as long as ZGDX could ban Irelia in the next round or pick someone other than Rumble.

They could still win.