SWDnovel Chapter 68: Leopard Girl Training
Chapter 68: Leopard Girl Training
Ning was visibly taken aback when she heard this.
"He taught me?"
Ning turned to look at TheShy and found him quietly fiddling with the peripherals in front of him, seemingly not quite understanding the Chinese sentence he had just heard.
It's not that Ning looks down on TheShy; quite the opposite, he genuinely admires TheShy's skills. But having a top laner teach him, the FMVP jungler, just feels a bit awkward.
Chen Song noticed his hesitation, smiled, and said, "Don't think about anything else for now. Play a game of Nidalee first, and I'll have TheShy share his thoughts while you play. After comparing the two, you'll get a feel for it."
Ning didn't say anything more, opened ranked matches, and started solo queue.
The key to playing Nidalee is to be aggressive in the early game and learn to counter-jungle. By counter-jungling, you can suppress the enemy jungler and quickly gain an advantage in levels and gold.
In this respect, TheShy's Nidalee can achieve this effect in almost every game.
This is also due to his personality and playstyle. Chen Song clearly remembers an interesting anecdote: when TheShy went to SKT for a jungler interview, Kkoma gave him a questionnaire, one of the questions of which was:
[If you've played for 5 minutes and there are no more jungle camps to farm, what should you do?]
A normal person's answer would be to focus on ganking online, controlling the dragon, and counter-ganking.
TheShy directly replied that he would go to the enemy jungle and solo kill the enemy jungler.
Kkoma: ? ? ?
He confirmed it several times, and in the end, TheShy still said with a serious expression that if there were no jungle camps, then go kill the enemy jungler.
Then, in the high-elo Korean server, TheShy's Nidalee constantly invaded the enemy jungle, chasing and killing the enemy jungler, and he also dominated in ranked games.
This little incident happened after IG won the S8 World Championship. In an interview, Kkoma publicly regretted his decision, saying that he thought TheShy was brainless back then, but now he realizes that he didn't understand the world of geniuses.
This is why Chen Song chose to have TheShy teach Ning how to play Nidalee.
In the first game, Ning instantly picked Nidalee.
When the game was loading, Chen Song deliberately got up and asked TheShy to move his chair over, while he stood up and stood behind Ning.
At the start, Ning chose to start with the red buff.
A perfectly standard start: place the W trap at the feet of the red buff, auto-attack in human form, switch to cougar form and use W, and finally finish it off with Smite.
Can you hear me?
Chen Song stood behind Ning and asked a question.
Ning didn't take off her headphones, but turned the volume up high enough to hear outside noises, and gave a muffled "hmm".
TheShy spoke, his voice not loud, his Korean slow and deliberate, as he worried that Chen Song wouldn't be able to translate his technical terms too quickly.
Chen Song relayed in real time: "TheShy said that you should place more traps in places like the wolves and raptors at the beginning of the game, which will greatly improve your jungle clearing efficiency."
Ning frowned but did not respond.
He thought to himself: I've been playing for so many years, do I need you to teach me where to put traps?
When hitting the toad, Ning skillfully pulled and tugged, and although the toad licked him a few times, the overall movement was still quite smooth.
TheShy spoke up again at this point.
Chen Song translated: "TheShy said that when you're attacking Tahm Kench, don't pull back when you raise your hand for the third time. Instead, move to the side or behind Tahm Kench. Tahm Kench's attack animation is longer than it looks. Moving to the side allows you to time your auto-attack one more time."
细！
I have to say, TheShy is incredibly meticulous!
Ning frowned even more after hearing this.
Side and rear? What nonsense! He continued scrolling according to his own understanding, completely ignoring it.
After defeating the toad, Ning's health dropped to three-fifths. He habitually walked towards the river, wanting to take a look at the river crab as well.
Just as he emerged from the blue buff spawn point, TheShy suddenly spoke, his speech becoming much faster.
Chen Song translated simultaneously: "Stop, go ward the enemy's F6 camp, the enemy jungler is coming soon."
Ning was stunned for a moment.
Place a ward at F6? What can he see with his current vision? The enemy jungler is Graves, and according to the normal jungle route, he should be finishing his red buff by now.
Instead of placing wards, he went straight for the river crab to attack.
After attacking the river crab a few times, the enemy Graves indeed came from the F6 direction and threw his W smoke grenade. Ning, with his low health, was forced to use Flash to give up the river crab.
"Holy crap..."
Ning gritted her teeth.
Chen Song didn't embellish the story; he simply translated TheShy's next sentence calmly: "Graves starts with blue buff and then farms top. His jungle route to contest the river crab is almost identical to yours. If you had placed a ward at F6 earlier, you could have even ambushed him beforehand."
Ning fell silent.
After being resurrected, he subconsciously began to spare a bit of attention, waiting for TheShy to speak.
While farming the Krugs, TheShy said, "After the Krugs raise its hand for the first time, switch to cougar form, pounce with W, and then use E to hit as many as possible at once." Ning started trying it out, and the speed at which he farmed the Krugs definitely increased.
When preparing to invade the enemy jungle, TheShy said, "You are now one level higher than him and have red buff. Don't go through the river. Jump down from the dragon pit and use the wall at the river entrance to go around him."
Ning hesitated for a moment, but did as instructed.
I used my Q skill to hit Graves who was farming blue buff through the wall, pounced on him and used my combo to force him to flash. Then I used the red buff to chase him down and kill him, and successfully stole the wolves.
TheShy added, "When fighting Graves in the jungle, don't rush to use your second Q before he uses Flash. Predict your position in the direction where he will land with Flash."
During the third invasion, Ning jumped up from the Baron pit. Before making his move, he thought about what TheShy had said.
He slightly adjusted the mouse cursor, and his Q skill passed through the wall, accurately hitting Graves who was attacking the red buff. He had no vision of that spot and had to guess.
Graves used his E skill to retreat from the Krugs, but crashed into the wall.
Ning switched to leopard form and pounced, killing Graves once again.
【? ? ? 】
The Graves typed a few question marks in the public chat.
Ning stared at the question mark on the male gunner's face and suddenly couldn't help but laugh.
The laughter was short, as if it were squeezed out of a nose, but Chen Song heard it, and TheShy heard it too.
In the following time, Ning took off his headphones and hung them around his neck. Before Chen Song could even translate, he turned to TheShy and asked, "Should we continue to counter him this time?"
After listening to the translation, TheShy shook his head and gestured.
Chen Song translated: "He said not to rush, you already have a big advantage, and you should use that advantage to take the dragon and the Herald to help the other lanes start pushing towers."
Without saying a word, Ning went to the Dragon Pit, dropped a True Sight Ward, and then signaled the Dragon that it was on its way.
At the end of this ranked game, Ning's Nidalee score was 18/2/5, while the enemy Graves was three levels behind and completely disappeared in the mid-game.
Ning took off her headphones, leaned back in her chair, and stared at the screen for a while.
Then he turned his chair around to face TheShy.
TheShy was watching him quietly, his expression calm.
"Could you take another look at that last counter-jungling attempt?"
Ning's tone changed; the previous awkwardness and reluctance were gone.
"When I was stealing the third red buff, I went into Graves' jungle. I thought I could kill him, but I just couldn't."