Level-Two Bot Lane Gank!

Guan Zeyuan watched Takuya's movements. Seeing him head straight for bot lane without even clearing Krugs, his eyes widened. "Oh, Relife is changing things up, changing things up! He's coming bot! A level-two bot gank? My god!"

Although Hope and keal knew Zyra had started in their jungle, they hadn't expected the enemy to gank bot at level two before even reaching level three. They had originally planned to trade aggressively for lane priority, but Zyra appearing behind them made their scalps tingle.

"Give it up, give it up! Leave me, just get one out!"

Hope shouted.

Keal nodded as well. In this situation, there was no way both of them could escape. Getting even one out would be a success.

Blitzcrank turned and ran without looking back. He was only level two himself and hadn't learned W, so he couldn't run very fast.

Fortunately, Zyra ignored him completely and headed straight for Hope's Corki. Takuya knew he couldn't stop Blitzcrank, so taking down Corki came first.

First Blood!

Zyra claimed first blood.

Hope struggled to trade for Leave, but failed.

The kill went to Takuya's Zyra.

After taking Corki's head, Takuya didn't rush back to base. Instead, he returned to his blue-side jungle, cleared the camps, then took the newly spawned Scuttle Crab before finally recalling to upgrade his items.

Four minutes later, the level-five Zyra soloed the Elemental Dragon. Lucian and Nami's powerful bot-lane priority let Takuya take it without worry.

AL hadn't planned to repeat the mistakes of the previous two games by giving up all the early objectives, but NIP's response was simply too good. Their bot lane had winning matchups every game.

That left AL's bot lane unable to support the jungle, which made things extremely difficult.

They had no choice but to give up