League: I really didn't tank!

055 Poppy really counters Fiora?

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"Xuanjun, what's the deal with this top lane situation?" Crystal asked with a smile, "You've managed to pull off a Poppy vs. Fiora matchup, you're aiming to gain an advantage this game, right?"

Flandre grinned and said, "That top laner on the other side is playing really well. I can't guarantee we'll be able to gain an advantage."

Li Xuanjun still remembers that in a previous training match, the opponent played a Doran's Aegis Captain, standing under the tower and showing off his oranges, which he couldn't suppress at all.

Crystal asked again, "But you can't be at a disadvantage, can you?"

"A disadvantage is impossible." Flandre waved his hand. "I can guarantee that. But you, don't get crushed by Uzi."

"You think I'll get crushed?" Crystal grinned crookedly. "I was last year's Spring Split kill leader. Do you think I'm that easy to crush? Alright, alright, just focus on your own game."

The two brothers from the Snake Team spurred each other on, and soon both of them entered a state of high alert.

On stage, the two commentators were still explaining the Poppy vs. Fiora matchup.

Poppy was only reworked in patch 5.24, which was at the end of Season 5, and this matchup was the first time Poppy had appeared in the LPL after her rework. Many people don't understand what it means for this champion to lane against Fiora, so it needs to be explained.

In short, it's 90/10.

Because of her W ability, "Unwavering Demeanor," Poppy can easily ride Fiora's face after reaching level three.

As they were being introduced, both players had already stepped out of the fountain.

"Okay, we can see that both top laners chose Grasp of the Undying as their rune. This rune is normal for Poppy, but it's less common for Fiora. It's probably because Poppy put a lot of pressure on him."

"As for starting items, Poppy's Doran's Shield and Fiora's Doran's Blade are fine!"

Chen Dongqing crouched in the Ueno area, already planning his laning strategy.

Poppy was just reworked, and although many people know that she counters Fiora, there isn't a clear strategy or system for how to play her effectively.

Many people only have a general idea of ​​when they cannot perform certain actions, and cannot be specific about each move.

Chen Dongqing believes that even a professional player like Saint Gun might not have a wealth of experience.

Then he can take advantage of this point.

Soon, the minion wave appeared.

Chen Dongqing didn't hide anything and went straight to A minions, as he needed to charge up his Undying skill as soon as possible.

On the other side, Flandre first glanced at the vulnerability on his body and saw that it had refreshed on the far right, which was his butt. He felt much relieved and then used his passive ability on Fiora.

After the shield hit Fiora, it bounced off in another direction. Flandre then walked towards the shield. If Poppy picked up the shield, she would gain a shield of considerable thickness.

Poppy with a shield can trade blows very well at level 1 using her Q skill; that's common knowledge.

But Flandre didn't know that this shield shouldn't be picked up when facing Fiora, especially against a top-tier Fiora with an aggressive playstyle.

In later generations, experienced Poppy players would never fight Fiora at level one, because Fiora at level one was too strong, one of the strongest.

Poppy often uses her passive to last-hit minions, then bounces her shield back onto herself, allowing her to trade blows with Fiora using the shield.

Flandre chose to use his shield to attack, which can only be described as an intuitive choice, but it will inevitably put him at a disadvantage at level one!

Just then, Chen Dongqing also made a move.

Fiora auto-attacked a minion again, and then walked towards the shield as well, directly beating Poppy to the punch and knocking it down!

And because both sides were chasing the shield, the two heroes were now face to face.

Saint Gun immediately followed up with a basic attack and a Q on Fiora, then retreated.

Chen Dongqing remained calm and unhurried, first launching a basic attack at Poppy, and the two exchanged blows.

At this moment, a green light appeared in Fiora's hand.

Chen Dongqing pressed Q, and Fiora moved to the right by the maximum distance, directly positioning herself in Poppy's retreat path and exposing the opening at her rear!

When both Immortality and Vulnerability are triggered together, Poppy's health drops by a significant amount!

And that wasn't all. After exploiting the opening, Chen Dongqing didn't move and unleashed another basic attack, letting Poppy walk right past him.

Fiora's vulnerability refreshes in a certain pattern; the four vulnerability points are separated by a diagonal line, divided into the upper right and lower left sides.

The weaknesses will be refreshed alternately on both sides.

For example, if the weakness is on the right, then the next weakness will definitely be on the left or the bottom.

So Chen Dongqing stayed put, letting Poppy escape. When the next opening appeared, Fiora was standing right in Poppy's bottom left corner.

At this moment, the opening appeared below, and Chen Dongqing moved slightly and unleashed another basic attack.

The pleasant sound of the vulnerability being exploited rang out, and Fiora gained another 20% speed boost.

Chen Dongqing chose to continue pressing forward this time, chasing after Poppy and attacking her again.

At this moment, green light appeared in Fiora's hand again. This time, Chen Dongqing did not rush to attack. He first chased after her for two steps, and after his Q skill was ready, Fiora once again used his Undying to unleash his ultimate skill. Then, he used Q on the spot to unleash a burst of damage and then left.

This wave seized an opportunity when Flandre pushed forward, exploited two openings and used two Undying abilities, and this combo directly took down half of Poppy's health!

The advantage in the first laning phase has been basically established.

Most importantly, after this wave, Flandre was kicked out of the experience zone, and with his health so low, he definitely wasn't qualified to gain experience anymore.

Upon seeing this, Saint Gun Bro immediately cried out in distress. He never expected that a casual move by a level one player would lead to this situation!

The audience erupted in uproar upon seeing this.

They both recalled what the two commentators had just said.

Phrases like "easy win," "90/10," and "Fiora is very difficult" still linger in their minds.

But this situation...

Many viewers who don't play top lane, or who haven't been playing much gaming lately, have raised a question.

Is Poppy really an easy opponent for Fiora?

At the same time, it can be seen that after pushing Poppy out of the experience zone at level one, Chen Dongqing didn't even bother to last-hit minions. He just stood on the edge of the experience zone, preferring not to last-hit minions rather than let Poppy experience any.

Is it hard for Fiora to fight Poppy after she learns W at level 2? It's simple, just play aggressively at level 1 and don't let Poppy get any experience.

Only after all the melee units on both sides were wiped out did Chen Dongqing finally turn around and begin dealing with the ranged units.

There's no way to slow down the ranged minions' experience gain, because the second wave of minions will be online soon. Poppy will be online with the second wave of minions, and with the protection of the minion daddy, it will be difficult for him to make a move.

What he needs to do now is to secure second place.

Soon, the second wave of minions arrived, and Poppy, with the help of health potions and Doran's Shield, recovered her health to two-thirds, finally giving her the ability to farm minions.

But as soon as he logged in, his vulnerability was refreshed, this time appearing on the left side, which is in front of him.

This is undoubtedly bad news. To find an opening, he must leave Fiora's vision, but he will lose experience points in the process.

There was no other way but to grit his teeth and forcibly move forward, carefully maintaining his distance and accumulating experience points first.

Meanwhile, Chen Dongqing's knife never stopped. Seeing Poppy's opening, he didn't rush to stab her, but instead attacked the second wave of melee minions again and again.

Seeing the melee minion about to die, Flandre knew he had to run, otherwise he would be hit by Fiora's second-tier attack.

But even if he wanted to run away at this point, Chen Dongqing wouldn't allow it.

The moment Fiora leveled up to level 2 by last-hitting minions, Chen Dongqing quickly used his W skill, and then Fiora immediately charged in with a QW combo!

Release W during Q's dash. Although Q only hits a minion, it successfully allows W's sword aura to pierce Poppy's weak point on the left and inflict a significant slow!

Fiora gains a 20% speed boost. According to the theory of relativity in the Rift, if the opponent is slowed down while I am accelerated, it's equivalent to the opponent being immobilized.

The vulnerability has been exposed again, this time above Poppy.

Flandre had no choice but to turn around and use his passive on Fiora, but the shield landed in a spot that was definitely out of his reach while he was slowed down.

Fiora quickly moved above Poppy and brought down a powerful slash with Undying.

Whoosh!

The pleasant sound effect of breaking through the flaw came again.

This time, Chen Dongqing didn't wait any longer and quickly walked towards Bobby's direction.

The two flaws in the lower left corner belong to the same group.

The first two openings were made from the left side, moving upwards.

The third flaw has an extremely high probability of being found at the bottom, almost certainly.

The illusory image of the flaw reappeared, and this time, it indeed appeared below Poppy!

Fiora was already in position, and even before the opening had fully formed, Fiora's slash landed directly!

Another opening!

The fourth vulnerability appeared, this time on the right, but Chen Dongqing didn't want to exploit it. At this moment, Poppy was about to enter the tower again, and Chen Dongqing left.

Another round of one-sided beatings, with the audience below getting excited and excited!

At this point, Poppy was still level one, but she was brought to low health. If it were a more conservative top laner, they would have to recall to base to heal by now.

Should we go back to the city?

Saint Gun Bro also started to think about this problem.

Judging from this trend, it seems like if I don't return to base, I'll be directly tower-dived...

But... handing over TP at this point would be incredibly risky.

With that thought in mind, Saint Gun made up his mind and decided not to go back.

He's about to reach level two. Leveling up will increase his health, and Poppy's W will also increase his armor and magic resistance by 10%.

Furthermore, when Poppy's health is below 40%, this bonus to both resistances will double.

In other words, as long as he levels up to two, he will gain 75 health and 10 resistances, which should ensure that he won't be overpowered.

Thinking of this, Flandre decided to grit his teeth and continue to stay in the back, sniffing out experience points. But this time, he really only sniffed out experience points and didn't eat a single minion.

Poppy quickly leveled up to level two, her armor increased from 47 to 57, and her health returned to 200+, which gave Flandre a lot of peace of mind.

But the sudden increase in armor also gave Chen Dongqing a clue: Poppy hadn't learned E.

Meanwhile, Chen Dongqing quickly cleared the third wave of siege minions, and as Fiora reached level three, she pushed the minion wave into the tower.

Seeing the large wave of minions rushing into the tower, Chen Dongqing knew that even if he was traded for a kill, he had to kill Poppy under the tower!

On the other side, Flandre felt a sense of crisis as he watched Fiora push directly into the turret, but fortunately, his opening was there.

This weakness isn't easy to exploit, so he's still relatively safe.

He retreated temporarily, and waited for the melee soldier to come to his low health before stepping forward and finishing him off with a flying shield.

After Poppy kills a minion using her passive, her shield will bounce back to her.

A thick shield appeared, giving Flandre a little sense of security.

He was staring intently at the siege vehicle in front of him. If the siege vehicle was destroyed, he could level up to level three, and then he would have survived this wave.

However, Fiora's desire to tower dive didn't seem to change at all because of her shield. She walked straight up to Poppy with her rapier in hand, but didn't draw her sword.

Saint Gun looked at the Fiora in front of him, not daring to move.

He knew that Fiora was trying to lure him into using a basic attack.

If you attack Fiora at this moment, you will immediately attract the aggro of the minions, which is equivalent to falling into Fiora's trap.

He couldn't withstand a single concentrated attack from those two large waves of minions.

Saint Gun only dared to lightly Q Fiora, and then he stopped moving, sticking to his basic attacks and refusing to make any moves!

Seeing this situation, Chen Dongqing knew that Saint Gun Bro definitely wouldn't A him, so he simply stopped waiting.

Fiora took another step upwards, first landing a basic attack on Poppy, then using her Q [Sky Piercer] to teleport upwards, her target being the opening above!

Flandre reacted quickly; he clearly saw Fiora's Q and swiftly pressed W!

He knew that Fiora might use her QW combo to negate his W, but he had no other choice.

Because if Fiora hits your weak point, you'll die no matter what, so you can only rely on your W to make a move!

Ding!

"They're moving too slowly!"

As expected, Fiora used the QW combo to block Poppy's W, safely moving above Poppy. First, she used her Q skill to pierce through the opening above, followed by a sword aura with a stun effect!

This sword aura that came right up to your face couldn't be dodged by moving around. With quick reflexes, Holy Gun Bro used Flash to pull away!

The vulnerability has been refreshed, and this time it has been refreshed below Poppy.

At that moment, the turret's cannon fire came down, taking away a quarter of Fiora's health in one shot.

Chen Dongqing was quite ruthless. Fiora decisively followed with Flash, quickly auto-attacked and then used E to slow Poppy, then walked below Poppy and used a second E to expose her weakness. At this point, Poppy's health was less than 100!

At that moment, the turret fired another shot, leaving Fiora with only half her health remaining!

Flandre knew he was going to die, and his only thought now was to replace Fiora.

Poppy turned around and landed a Q right in Fiora's face.

Bobby was done with this one slash. Chen Dongqing didn't hesitate. He first took two steps away from the tower, then turned around and slashed down!

This basic attack didn't do much damage, but it was enough to send Poppy back to the fountain.

Actually, this is thanks to Poppy having a 20% bonus to both physical and magical resistances, making her quite tanky.

If it were a normal top laner, they wouldn't survive to this point; they would have died after just one hit and the second part of their E skill.

The third turret shot landed, bringing Fiora to near-death.

But the final fourth attack didn't have time to land.

Previously, Flandre, who was standing under the tower, had been dodging Fiora's stun sword aura by flashing towards the outside of the tower. Chen Dongqing followed suit and flashed over to kill the person. They were already very close to leaving the tower!

Fiora, with low health, successfully left the tower and secured a solo kill!