“He’s talking to the viewers watching the livestream! What does he think this match is?!!” the coach roared.

“Pfft!”

“Pfft!”

“Pfft!” Who knows how many people in front of their screens just sprayed water all over them...

“So shameless, but I really like this kind of money-grubbing man... God, I want to have your babies!”

...

When Ethan Carter controlled Riven to return to lane, he already had an extra longsword and a health potion. After getting first blood just now, he couldn’t even be bothered to use his potion...

The Gangplank was completely intimidated, standing behind the minion wave. Ethan Carter grew impatient watching him and just started diving past the minions to chase him down. Gangplank ran away like a startled rabbit. Ethan Carter smacked his lips—well, scared silly, now it’s a bit hard to kill him in lane. He just pushed two waves of minions straight under the tower.

Here’s a bit of Ethan Carter’s personal understanding: when you’re back on lane and completely dominating your opponent, you have three choices. First, kill him—clearly not possible this game, since Gangplank is playing so cowardly. Second, freeze the wave so he doesn’t dare come up for farm, suppress his gold, and if you’re ruthless enough, even deny him experience. But this game, the opponent is Gangplank, and everyone knows how scary Gangplank can get if he scales—he’ll serve you a family bucket! But Ethan Carter has never been someone content to just stay in lane. He always has his own rhythm in mind, commonly known as “strategy.” Even in solo queue, you can’t put all your bets on your teammates in other lanes, so he wants to use his advantage to help suppress the enemy team.

So he chose the third option: quickly push two waves under the tower and completely ignore Gangplank, retreating into the shadows.

There are two details here. First, if you’re going to push, you have to push cleanly, get the wave under the tower, but never stand in front of the tower trying to poke the enemy. Instead, back off, wait for your cooldowns, then go back in to push again. This reduces your chances of getting ganked by the enemy jungler. The second detail is, if the enemy jungler hasn’t ganked any lane by level 2, then he’s probably in the top jungle right now, and he’s likely not in great shape. Based on Ethan Carter’s long experience, this probability is as high as 70%.

If the enemy top laner goes to ward the jungle or river, don’t wander around and waste time. But Gangplank was forced under tower before he even had a chance to ward, and there were two full waves under the tower. I’ll invade the jungle, you come help, you’ll lose minions; if you don’t come, your jungler dies!

Everyone always talks about “strategy” in League of Legends. What is strategy? It’s calculation.

Ethan Carter chose to loop around from the tri-brush along the path by the Krugs. As soon as he got there, he was delighted—hey, found a wild cousin! Lee Sin was indeed taking red buff. This is a guaranteed kill, no question. I can only say you’re digging your own grave...

Ethan Carter didn’t even use any abilities and just walked over. Lee Sin hurriedly tried to leave the red buff pit. If he’d hugged the inner wall of the red buff, he might have escaped, but you just had to be stubborn, huh? Hahahaha!

Once in melee range, he immediately activated Broken Wings. The livestream viewers were in for a treat—another lightning-fast QA combo! For a slow “lightning-fast” QA, 2.5 seconds is standard; the faster ones are 1.6 seconds!

What does 1.6 seconds mean? In the blink of an eye, half of Lee Sin’s health was gone... Lee Sin realized it too—at this point, even flashing wouldn’t help, so he just threw his keyboard.

Yep, this match should be called “The Tempo Demon King Bloodily Crushes His Little Cousin!”

When Riven returned to lane with red buff, Gangplank had just managed to push the wave back to the middle. Their CS was exactly the same... Look at their top laner—same CS, but look at how much more he’s accomplished than you!

Gangplank went back to not daring to farm. This time, Riven didn’t even push the wave. In fact, because Gangplank’s side had two extra ranged minions, the wave was slowly pushing back to Ethan Carter’s tower. Gangplank couldn’t take it anymore—how is this even playable?

Gangplank turned to Henry Thompson in frustration and said, “You lost red buff, can’t you just come top and gank him? How did you even get promoted to Bronze 1 as a jungler?”

“If you hadn’t given up first blood, would I have died?” Henry Thompson shot back immediately.

“Shut up, both of you. Twisted Fate has teleport. Lee Sin, after you finish this camp, go top. Three-man gank to punish him,” the coach said coldly. League of Legends is never a one-man game. No matter how strong you are, if it’s three versus one, you’re done for.

If Ethan Carter heard this, he’d definitely start taunting: “Are you serious? Oh my god, how amazing! In my eyes, the three of them together are at best just one person.”

Level 5 Riven, level 5 Twisted Fate, level 4 Gangplank, level 4 Lee Sin...

“Feeling bad for Gangplank and Lee Sin...”

“Feeling bad for Gangplank and Lee Sin +1”

“I need to borrow some money to tip for three extra lives...”

...

“Gangplank, go up and bait him, trade with him,” Henry Thompson said.

Gangplank stepped forward and used his Q skill, Parrrley, but Ethan Carter countered it with an E, Valor. Ethan Carter smiled—here we go!