As everyone knew, the LCK of this era was still hopelessly enamored with tightly structured macro play.
Their standard was simple: if they could avoid fighting, they avoided fighting; if they could avoid flaming each other, they avoided flaming each other.
As a result, their matches often went thirty or forty minutes without a single kill, only to culminate in one teamfight. With respawn timers exceeding fifty seconds, whichever side had more survivors could simply end the game in one push.
Teams with no kill tempo naturally had no turret-pushing tempo either, so reaching the high ground before fourteen minutes...
"Silence, this Korean import, really has given us an enormous surprise the moment he stepped onto the stage."
Roaring Emperor turned to CT and said with a smile.
"I have to admit that. And I also have to admit that the early game of this match has indeed been very entertaining," CT remarked.
"Hey, hey! The way you put that makes it sound like the game is already over. Neither side has actually finished the other off yet, right?" Roaring Emperor teased.
CT burst out laughing.
At this moment, the gold difference between the two teams was 3,500. Strictly speaking, it was not all that much.
But when the broadcast displayed everyone's individual gold totals, even the casters fell silent.
Of that 3,500 gold lead, the top laner alone accounted for 2,500. Poor CuVee really had it rough!!
"How was he supposed to lane against that?" viewers on AfreecaTV and YouTube jokingly mocked CuVee.
Of course, the most honest comments were not that. They came from Ruler's fans: "Bot lane hasn't even finished laning, and top lane is already pushing into their base. What the fuck are we supposed to play, damn it!"
"Junyan, focus on split-pushing. I'll keep my