Every time Lin Cheng's hero choice is always unpredictable in the last move on the red side, the appearance of top laner Varus has caused a lot of discussion among the commentators and the audience.
The top lane options in the current version are quite diverse, unlike in the MSI period where it was mainly Captain Gwen's duo, but the top laner Varus is still too outrageous.
To be honest, it's even more exaggerated than top laner Kalista.
After all, Kalista is still flexible enough, and it would be unscientific for Varus to appear on the top lane with his short legs.
"Come on! I'm looking forward to Brother Cheng's top laner Varus. I really want to see how he dresses up."
In terms of runes, Lin Cheng chose the main series of Precision: Deadly Rhythm, Calmness, Joy, Cut Down, and the secondary series of Resolute: Explosion, Skeleton Plating.
Last year in Iceland MSI, Lin Cheng played top laner Varus. In that version, armor-piercing bottom laner Varus had a high priority, and KT used a swing to play very coolly.
A year has passed and Varus has also gone through some adjustments, but what has been affected is the armor-piercing Varus in the bottom lane. Lin Cheng's three-front-row lineup in this round definitely makes no sense.
In last year's game against Gnar, Lin Cheng chose Cluster Blade Verus, and his equipment was a dual cultivation route of starting with Demon Sect and switching to AP.
It sounds a bit strange, but since the top laner Varus' level rises very quickly, if the main Q is used, the small damage caused by the Demon Sect in the early stage is not low.
Although the damage of the first Demon Sect is definitely not as good as the armor-piercing armor of the Sawtooth Dagger series, the advantage is that it allows Varus to frequently release skills online to consume and deal with the army line. A fragile guy like Gnar will be killed by two arrows.
It was impossible to jump in front of the Cluster Blade Verus. Lin Cheng defeated his opponent online at that time.
In the mid-term, the Naked Demon Sect's Varus Poke ability began to be greatly reduced, and the opponent basically had some armor. Lin Cheng's second move from Nash to AP happened to change the output method of his Varus.
When using the two-piece set of Magic Cut + Nash, Varus has the shadow of attack speed special effects, and the level A combined with skills will detonate the withering damage explosion.
After the three-piece set, Varus begins to become a pure AP character. If the output environment is not good in the later stage, he does not even need A. He can produce huge output with his big move WQ.
A truly ten-second team fight and nine-second positioning can still cause explosion damage.
Of course, if the skills are not placed correctly, there will be no solution.
Once AP Varus's ultimate move is empty, he must risk sudden death by going up to person A to manually wither. If A is full of wither and has no small skills...it is recommended not to play this hero.
(AP Varus has not been hacked before, and his ability to kill in seconds is much stronger than the later version of Electric Knife Varus)
Varus is a hero with a mixed damage mechanism. Like Kai'Sa, his equipment is very flexible. At that time, Lin Cheng's style of play not only ensured the strength of the early line but also had the exaggerated ability of AP in the later stage.
In this situation, of course, Lin Cheng is not prepared to continue to adopt the dual cultivation style when facing Ornn. The first demon sect's benefit from defeating Ornn is too low.
It will be more comfortable to start with Nashor's Fang against Ornn.
This kind of pure AP Varus is basically in a strong period from the beginning to the end, from a one-piece set to a six-piece set. Its weakness is that it has no poke ability and is extremely afraid of being cut by the opponent.
However, Lin Cheng's cornerstone rune selection of Fatal Rhythm obviously has a good output environment. If the output pressure is greater, he will use Cong Blade + Wang Mian to abandon the AD Soul.
Entering the game, KT did not reproduce the first-level design of the previous game.
It's enough to use the same routine once, and you can't expect the opponent to be a fool.
Of course, the main reason is that KT Varus is in the top lane. If Scorpion switches to the jungle with Bobby in this game, it is a naked murder of Lin Cheng.
"Lin Cheng, you can use your vision to suppress the damage. I'll brush it up and help you patch up the eyes."
Varus is a hero who must be suppressed in the early stage of the laning. Scorpion is ready to open his blue hand and brush upward.
The bottom lane was not taken care of by the jungler in the early stage. Beryl did not go out to help Lin Cheng in the bush ward in this game. Niu Bao's Ornn stopped in advance and hit the grass on the side lane.
When short-handed heroes face long-handed heroes on the side, the grass is crucial, and Lin Cheng also guessed that the opponent might stand on the side grass.
Varus chose to go online before his own minions. The blue melee soldier at the front of A moved on the flanks, pulling the two minions in the front row apart while adding A to the rear row of soldiers.
The military line was completely dispersed.
Ornn couldn't find an opportunity to clear three minions comfortably with one Q. In addition, Lin Cheng kept twisting and moving when pulling the line. Niu Bao tried to Q the minions while consuming Varus, but only replenished one remaining health.
soldiers.
Lin Cheng turned around and dealt AE damage, and gave up when he saw Ornn entering the grass.
At this time, it still hurts to hit people with small soldiers. Regardless of which school Varus comes to, he only reaches his strong stage after level three.
Without getting Bobby's information about opening the jungle, Lin Cheng didn't dare to fight too hard at level 1, for fear that Canyon would come in blue and catch him at level 2.
Don’t doubt it, Fu Bao has done this many times before.
Lin Cheng stood firmly on the line, and the number of minions on the blue side began to fall behind. Seeing Varus moving forward to find Ornn, he decisively gave way to the grass.
Grabbing second place, Ornn was rushed to the back, and Lin Cheng took the right time to go to the river to expand his field of vision.
This vision will last until Cuzz comes up, and without fear of being caught by Poppy's variation monster, Lin Cheng can start to suppress it with confidence.
Varus pushed slowly across the line and put pressure on the grass in front of the station.
Ornn shrank back and didn't want to be drained of blood.
On the top lane, there is an iron rule when it comes to resisting pressure: blood volume is greater than experience, and the last hit is greater than last hit.
The biggest advantage of long-handed heroes in the top lane is that they can put pressure on the opponent's blood volume and force the opponent to lose experience and swords, thereby achieving the purpose of suppression.
As for when to exchange one's blood for experience and last-ditch damage, the choice often lies with the pressure-resisting side.
To put it bluntly, the biggest problem for some people who are not able to withstand pressure is that they cannot balance when they can use their blood volume to trade for their own development. They have to forcefully attack the soldiers they shouldn't take, and then they can't stop once they die.
Lin Cheng also gave the choice to his opponent.
When there is a chance to replenish troops by throwing Q, of course Niu Bao still has to come up with Varus's arrows and throw Q. As long as he doesn't get hit three or four times in a row, Ornn with Doran Shield can still accept it.
Niu Bao's overall blood volume remains good, and there is still about two-thirds of it when the troops enter the tower.
However, the hero is in trouble.
When troops enter the tower, the artillery vehicle becomes the primary target of the defense tower. If Niu Bao's skill CD is available, he chooses to force the artillery vehicle up to repair it.
At this time, Varus has reached level three ahead.
Lin Cheng released his E in advance, and the evil spirit arrows fell in front of Ornn and slowed down. When Ornn finished replenishing his sword and retreated, Varus happened to hit the third level to level A and reach the third level of passive.
W is activated, Varus charges up Q and shoots an arrow.
Ornn failed to move back and forth, and his health instantly dropped to an ugly level under the tower.
"Literary friends like it, there is a chance to go on the road!"
"Wait for me! Come right away!"
The scorpion, who was about to hit the river crab, sent out a signal.
Zeyuan: "Eh? Do you want KT to surpass? But Ornn is about to reach level 3. Is it too much to surpass Ornn's tower in the early stage of this version?"