But just now it was a little wrong, when this hammer stone hooked this shape, this hammer stone was obviously a more dreamy auxiliary, and it flashed directly and then came over and swung us back, and then a big move trapped a lot of us.

Obviously, Hammerstone seems to be doing a good job, but this guy still ignores one thing, and that is that you come in and are you sure you won't be killed in seconds? And one more thing is that you really think your teammates can keep up that far?

You already have 500 to 600 yards in the second Q, and then you add a flash to reach more than 1,000 yards, and even the position of the second Q skill I calculated is still relatively conservative, I mean that the distance I calculated is also relatively conservative.

To be honest, it should be longer than this, except for the prince on the other side who can keep up, in fact, there are not too many people who can keep up with the output in the first time.

Our clockwork finally made the most correct thing, and our clockwork looks much better than his mentality at the beginning, and the operation also has a little bit of a feeling of keeping up, probably because we are driving.

Anyway, I'm really not bragging about ourselves, we played really well in the middle of the game, and if it weren't for us to turn the tide, I guess it would have collapsed a little bit later in the middle term.

The time for the opponent to fight the big dragon was delayed for at least three minutes, and then the time for us to take the big dragon was delayed for another five or six minutes, and then the confrontation continued, and it seemed that it lasted for a lot of time.

If it weren't for the fact that we dragged on for ten minutes, or even nearly 20 minutes, I believe that the equipment of this clockwork would not be so good, although it is not particularly good, but it is completely enough for this group, otherwise the damage just now would not have exploded so much.

The other party rushed in except for the shooter, in fact, the time for them to rush in has been delayed by three to four seconds, because Mo Xiang did a good job this time, and I have to say that his strength has improved a little.

For example, the displacement skill that interrupted the prince at the beginning, and there was a control to dodge the hammer stone during that period, these two small skills or two small operations made me feel more pleasing to the eye, although I can't say it clearly, because the words that come out will make this Mo Xiang feel inflated, but I can still say it in my heart.

His ultimate, which is quite quintive, almost blocks the attacks of everyone on the opposite side, and also entangles the shooters on the opposite side, which is a relatively big contribution.

Of course, it is a great contribution to be able to make the shooter on our side care about the output, except for the flash that he took the first step to force the shooter away, in fact, there is no big contribution, or there is no way to break through again, that is, the legendary lack of stamina.

But they output to me for the first time is quite powerful, I am obedient, I am about to despair when everything hits me, of course, it is just an adjective, of course I know how many pounds and taels I have, and I also know what kind of situation I am in.

Actually, I didn't make much of a contribution, and if I threw out an ultimate, I would have been killed.

But at this time, of course, I have an invincible skill, in fact, I have been having a deep communication with Dieyan, cough cough, of course, it is not the deep communication you imagined.

Ahem, I guess you're probably thinking too much.

The two of us are just mouth-to-mouth, and I phew! This should be the exchange between words and words, which means that the two of us have been having some discursive conversations.

But when I said to collect it, Wukong was suddenly closed into the gourd, my god I was thinking about some messy things, as if this thing was not what I should think about.

But when I received it, I went in all of a sudden, cough cough, I was put into my body by the butterfly smoke all of a sudden, how do I feel how to say how huang ah, cough cough, if you want to be calm, you must be calm, that is, I was recruited by Calista's big recruit into this jingzi ball, uh! It was recruited by Calista's master into this Poké Ball.

Then I dodged a lot of damage, but when I was released, you said I was able to control when I was released, and then I just shot the two people in front of them away.

At this time, they are basically in a vacuum of skills, so I am not afraid at all, and just throw the skills into his feet.

Then they were directly killed in seconds, this one came in with the hammer stone first, so it was the first to die, that is, you died not unjust at all, you say that you are not good at protecting your shooter, why do you come here to suffer this crime, do you think about what you can do with this small body?

And then the prince is next, the prince is a hero who looks like he is wearing armor and full of meat, which is a material that can be carried, but if you think about it carefully, this guy really can't do it.

After all, it's a royal family, pampered since childhood, otherwise it wouldn't be wearing armor, if it is more able to carry damage, wouldn't it be okay to be directly stabbed naked? Just wear a big pants.

For example, the Hulk, forehead, for example, the people Mondo, look at the people, there are just a few needles on the body, and they don't wear any colorful armor, and they don't look particularly handsome, but they are much stronger than you in terms of damage resistance, which I think this prince has to admit.

It is not particularly glorious for the prince to die in the last wave, and the pace of escaping this time is also swaying, oh, it is really embarrassing for your Demacia, you look at Zhao Xin, the head of your family, and now he is unwilling to pay attention to you.

What kind of face do you have to meet your father?

I really let that guy run.,I thought I wouldn't be able to run away.,But that little bit of blood really let him run away.,This guy doesn't seem to have flashed.,If there was a flash, it would have been used a long time ago.。

In fact, this wave of team battles is not particularly chaotic, and even the situation is particularly clear, almost one-on-one, so it is more gentle, for example, Zhao Xin is relatively normal to this wheel mother, and it is also a combination of men and women who are not tired.

It's just that our top list and Ike are not particularly normal, they are two men, not to men, you said that you are a Noxus and a Zuan people back and forth, I think it's really a bit bad.

Especially this undead god of war, I don't think you're a little embarrassed by your Roxus, so it's better not to talk about this matter.

The entanglement between the two of them finally came to an end, and the result ended with the defeat of the people of Noxus, this undead god of war was indeed a little unworthy of his title, and was killed by a small person from Zuan, I think you can be regarded as a character of Noxus.

Then this matter really can't be said, if you say it, the whole face of Noxus will be lost by you, and then it was a person who once strangled the king of Demacia, and now tsk, things are people who want to talk and cry first.

And then the rest is the three of us entangled here, when we were entangled, in fact, their hammer stone had been killed in seconds, and then there was the prince and the big tree left, these two people don't need to say more, I guess if there is no help from others, this is our shooter standing there, not necessarily able to kill our shooter.

What I mean by that is that our shooters also need to attack normally all the time, don't look at our shooters who only have a broken vampiric equipment now, but this vampiric equipment is more than enough to deal with them.

What's more, now there is my help by the side, not to mention that this prince has left his subordinates and ran away.

The remaining big tree is also unsustainable, although Ike has already helped him, but this Ike is not so much of a threat in front of us now.

The first is that the shooter is far away from him, and it is impossible for him to bypass me to attack the shooter, because if he uses his movement skill for a while, he will probably be stunned by me.

What's more, his current state is really poor, and he doesn't have a few life-saving equipment.

Then he turned his goal at me, as if I had caused the rout of their teamfight, so it looked like he wanted to take all his anger out on me.

Big brother and big sister, okay, what does this matter matter to me, you have to cut that clockwork!

I knew I shouldn't have hit the front, I think this clockwork hurt him the most, I just stayed in the Poké Ball for a while, and this clockwork has already released two QWs.

But I'm sorry.,It's impossible for you to come over and kill me.,I know that my blood volume is not very much.,If that's it, wait for him to come.,There's a possibility that he'll kill me in seconds.,I'm very convinced.。

I don't know if I have a rocket belt on my body, but he has a mark on my body with a displacement skill, and then uses a Q skill to attack in the ordinary, and I don't think my HP will be particularly high if there are three marks.

Although I avoided most of the damage just now, so the state is particularly good, but I don't believe in the Noxians' health bar, and I don't believe in the Zuan's attack.

I didn't believe it when they attacked, so I flew over directly in his second Q skill, and pressed this golden body, Lao Niang a little, cough cough, I'm used to learning a little bit with Dieyan, and Lao Tzu won't give you a chance at all!

I didn't even have a chance to let you imprint a mark, and after that guy lost his skills, he would definitely be beaten by Clockwork.

But I found that this Butterfly Smoke is a bit of a frightened bird.,Now Butterfly Smoke hears this Ike use the W skill.。 He had no desire for Ike at all, and after using two normal attacks, he hurried back and continued to output the big tree.

I can't help but be a little funny when I see Dieyan like this, in fact, it's really funny, Dieyan doesn't go back to hit the big tree directly, it seems that as far as this shadow problem is concerned, it has made Dieyan very scared.

Of course, this is also better, after all, there is no need to output this Ike, although Ike's current state is a little poor, it will definitely not be able to second him.

It's better to output a big tree that can't be parried, this Ike really wants to attack, and his W skill is not placed on a retreat route, but on an offensive route.

The retreat route is basically the direction in which he escaped, if someone chases, maybe he will be able to stun and kill, if no one is chasing, then just give himself a shield, and he can also order some damage for himself.

But Ike's w is completely under the feet of the clockwork and this butterfly smoke.,And want to come to that set.,So of course you can't be fooled by the trick.,If you are fooled this time, I think they have no brains.。

He doesn't have a brain now? Why don't you zoom in!

Ahem, let's get down to business.

When Dieyan and Clockwork were not fooled, this Ike had no desire to attack, and then directly began to attack this Zhao Xin.

After fighting for a long time, I suddenly forgot one thing, we still have a Mo Xiangna here, and I am still entangled over there, or I responded to that sentence, things between men and women are entangled, and you have been entangled for so long without any result.

It is estimated that Mo Xiang is also more willing to do this, of course, when Ike puts his target on our Mo Xiang, we will not have such good luck if we can Mo Xiang, I said that at this time we will support the past, I mean that without Ike's help, maybe we can save this Zhao Xin's resurrection armor.

But now it's not much hope.,Ike's displacement skill is indeed relatively short.,I'm talking about cd.,When it hits Mo Xiang, the damage is actually quite explosive.,After all, there's also a passive of the Lich Scourge.,That is, the two-second passive is quickly refreshed.。

It is true that Zhao Xin's resurrection armor has been beaten, but it is limited to this, they can't wait for this Zhao Xin to kill Zhao Xin in the same place.

We have already gone up, whether we can kill Zhao Xin or not, but what is certain is that the two of them will not be able to run, and Zhao Xin's state is estimated to be less than half, the key is that his equipment is still meat, so it is impossible for them to wait stupidly in place.

Then the two of them ran to one by one, and forced our move with skills, so that we had no way to continue to output, and of course we forced it over.

And the good news is that our top order is still not dead, and the other party's two states are still relatively good, and I think it's a little difficult to push the high ground.

There is no doubt that the opponent's ability to clear troops is still relatively strong, but when our top order is teleported to this gun carriage, I know that our opportunity has come.

But if it were me, I would have thought of this method, to be precise, I would have thought of this method, but if it was for my teammates to implement it, especially in this server, it would still be relatively difficult.

I may not be able to understand the words I marked, I really can't express this English clearly when I ask me to type some of this English at this time, but my English is really not very good, some basic communication is still okay, I can't do it if I know that I express such clear words.

But when our top order teleported to this gun carriage, I knew that our chance had come, as long as we could push this highland defense tower, basically the crystal would have exploded, after all, the threat level of the crystal is simply not worth mentioning compared to the painting of the highland defense tower.

The threat is completely on two levels, the threat of the crystal is limited to the other party's personnel, but the opponent's personnel are two violent deaths, and the fastest one has a resurrection time of ten seconds, so there is no need to worry about this at all.

We will break this highland defense tower by dividing it by two, and the other party is basically declaring defeat if we can break this highland defense tower so quickly.

Even if we have two less teleporters on our side, I have a good chance of being able to take down this big dragon, teleport down and then take it into place, which is a completely different concept than standing in position first, especially in a situation like this.

One of the main reasons is that if the five people are there, I mean the five people opposite, and I say that if the five people on the other side are all there, the position they need to stand in or can stand in is relatively high.

But if there are three people, or four people, because of the uneven number of people, their position is a little back, since it is a little back, the teleportation position is not controlled by them, and their vision is not too deep, which leads to their teleportation position will not be particularly forward, unless there are eyes that we can't sweep.

There's no way around this, blaming ourselves for our own negligence, I think this is understandable.

After all, who makes some mistakes in the course of the game, and who can guarantee that they can do their best 100 percent? I don't think professional teams would dare to say that.

What's more, the professional team also has mistakes that make us laugh, and these mistakes exist, and even some of them I haven't made myself.

So these two are completely different, when the other party dares to lead the line, don't say a word, just start to fight the big dragon, don't think about those who don't have when you fight the big dragon, when you can fight a team battle, you must first fight a team battle, and when you can't fight a team battle, you will force the other side to come over and fight a team battle.

This is a typical advantage game strategy.,I usually don't fight with you for this kind of luck component of punishment.,But if you don't come, I'll beat him.,If you come over, then I'll play a group with you directly.,Anyway, I'm in the advantage game.,I'm not afraid at all about this?

So this is the strategy of some typical advantage games, when they play the advantage, they can use this kind of initiative, this power is endowed by their efforts.

In fact, after taking the big dragon in the last wave of team battles, I knew that our economy was ahead, and then after taking that highland defense tower, and then adding that crystal, I estimated that the economic lead would be about 3,000.

Then I fought this wave of team battles, and after this wave of team battles, I estimate that the economic lead will have to be five thousand, and looking at a general equipment, it's almost the same.

In fact, I don't care about this economic difference when I am in the college league, and I don't calculate how much this economic difference is, on the one hand, this advantage and disadvantage can basically be seen at a glance, on the other hand, if the disadvantage is too big, this economic difference and teammates will definitely affect the mentality of teammates, which is not a particularly good choice for a turnaround.

Originally, I was at a disadvantage, and I needed to concentrate on facing the negative situation caused by this disadvantage, but when you said that, it was quite promising, but after you said this, teammates may feel that there is not much hope in this game, and even say that they have a little bit of giving up when operating.

It can be said that when deliberately calculating this economic difference, I don't have much meaning, and that's it in the passerby bureau, if the mentality is particularly good, introduce it to know where the gap is, and see if it can be made up by factors such as operation or terrain.

Of course, it is limited to a particularly good mentality, if the mentality is not good, look at the gap between the two pieces of equipment, what is Lao Tzu fighting, just surrender directly, this kind of thinking is definitely not good.

But when the economy is ahead, I think it is still appropriate to think about it, and now I think about the economy is about 5,000 to 8,000 or so, so it should be better than the other party, but the head is taken by the shooter a lot, so the shooter may have most of the rights.

For the economic disadvantage of other monomers, this cannot be explained too much, and it is impossible to explain it so clearly.

I originally came up with the hat, but after thinking about it, in fact, I can just play control as a person, so let's buy a little less CD equipment, so that my control can play more in a certain period of time.

In fact, Uncle Ghost can give this CD reduction is the most.,It seems that this equipment is the most cost-effective for some mages.,But at this time, this equipment seems a bit redundant.,I'm actually ordering the talent of reducing CD as an auxiliary.。

But for now, if you want to reduce your Q skill to less than four seconds, you still need a certain amount of equipment, but I think the only way to do it is to buy a ghost book, so I decided to buy this equipment.

Originally, I was going to buy a big mask, or buy a big hat, but in order to reduce the CD, I still reluctantly came out of this equipment, and in the later stage, I will definitely give this magic wear stick, and then sell my magic shoes, buy a CD shoe, so that it will be richer.

And my assumption is enough, but it hasn't reached that state yet, so I'm still reluctant to make this ghost book first, and I made a small piece minus CD first, barely to a little more than four seconds, but it's really not particularly comfortable to have a continuous control.

It's still unrealistic to want to have Q and throw q directly.,So I just need to pay attention to one thing next.,CD fire man has really appeared for a long time.,I guess you deliberately designed it by Riot.。

The designer also had such an idea in his heart.,Just let the player dig it out for himself.,I can clearly feel it.,It's because of this CD time.,If the CD store doesn't point to that 5% talent.,Let your CD be in 40%.,And then take a look at the CD of this Q skill.,You'll find that it's just four seconds.,Of course, it's not so evil.,Three seconds a few times.,Rounding it up is definitely four seconds.,So as long as you still Q and then throw Q can also be controlled.。

I guess this is because the designers already know it, and if the players know it, then everyone will be happy, and let the first player who knows it have a huge sense of accomplishment and explore the game more deeply.

In other words, I became more addicted to the game.

I think that's the original idea of the designer, otherwise how could it be so coincidental, maybe we're all in a huge trap.

The key is that this trap is still something we jumped into voluntarily, you say that this thing is not angry, you are willing to jump in, and you are willing to be very happy, obviously the essence of our people is to shake m.

People say that the essence of man is a repeater, and I can say this, the essence of man is a repeater.

The other party's two roads were broken, and the next thing was to divide one person to threaten the crystal on the lower road, and the crystal on the lower road would not be resurrected for long, and then the rest of the people would be directly brought to the road soldier line.

In this case, the opposite highland defense tower will also be threatened, and it depends on whether the opposite side is defended or not.

Of course, the thing I'm talking about is something that can be done in training matches, but it's really not necessarily now, so the main thing we do now seems to be to force Dalong?

However, the remaining two players also know that they should push the line of troops first, and then stand in a position after pushing over, occupy a position to do a good job of vision, and see each other's every move very clearly, and then the next thing is to catch people and fight dragons, catch people and fight big dragons, and loop such things back and forth, so that the opponent is tired of defense, and I don't know whether to see if it has hit, or should I go over to explore the vision, so that they can't make a faster choice from both aspects.

Then our thing was successful, and our time was more than half successful, and several of us stood and squatted in the place where the red buff was.

Actually, I found a problem, a few of us can't seem to go down, huh? There seemed to be no one else but her, except for our shooter who was able to jump from here quickly.

It's really embarrassing to suddenly find out about this.

The other party came over step by step, and we saw it very clearly, and then lined up the field of vision step by step, and we also saw this matter very clearly.

Then when this side was about to come, one of the prince's chess pieces found us out, and when the prince planted the flag, we were so frightened that we quickly dispersed, and the person on the opposite side did not choose a single belt.

In fact, we are happier in this case, although it is said that the five of them can stand in their positions when they come, but do they really care about the lower and middle lanes?

Because we want Zhao Xin to start here, I will say to Mo Xiang: "Let's go, you take the middle lane and let's go together." ”

I mean, of course, that he took the lead, and that we went around and stuck them in their place home, and I wanted to see if they dared to fight the dragon.

Then at this time, a few of us rushed out of the grass, and then the person on the other side looked at us and slowly groped up, but he didn't expect that we came to the middle lane, and almost three times five divided by two to clean up this super soldier.

I pushed the super creep over, and we were already near the high ground on the opposite side.

And the five of us continue to push, in fact, the three of us can influence the thoughts of the whole team, because as long as the three of us can achieve the same idea, our teammates have to follow it, and if we don't follow, we have to follow.

Then a few people rushed in together, and we had a vision in the big dragon area, so we could clearly see whether the other party was fighting the big dragon or not, and I really hoped that the other party would fight the big dragon.

But the people on the other side are obviously not so stupid, it is estimated that the cat will hurry back to the city somewhere, otherwise his front tooth tower will be pushed off by us directly.

When we pushed their middle lane, and I went over to intercept their troop line, I mean the line with super soldiers on the lower road, my skills are also very strong at this time, three times five divided by two or four skills, and the wave of small soldiers brought by this super soldier was directly cleaned up.

In this way, it will be more beneficial for our side of the army line to push back, and then the people on the opposite side have already come out of the city in a fierce manner, but at this time we will start running directly.

And run a little faster and prepare to start playing near the big dragon area to force the opposite side again, this method is not tired of using no matter what, no matter how you use it in the advantage game, it will make the opponent have a headache.

That's the privilege that advantage gives us.

Needless to say, the speed of the other party's big dragon is not to be said, it is estimated that a few of us will not be able to finish fighting his hometown.

So now let's start to fight the big dragon directly, there is no need to think about it at all, of course, I am squatting in this grass, the vision of the big dragon area is definitely not there, I am talking about the other party, they do not have this vision, once one of the prince's flags is planted in me, their first idea is not to fight up, the first idea is to retreat.

Because if all of us are really here, they won't be able to eat a pot of first move, so the other party's mood is also very scared, if it weren't for the prince on the other side, I estimate that the last wave would be able to successfully ambush it, and the skill of exploring the field of vision on the opposite side is indeed far away and in place.

Of course, it's not like this time, our teammates start to play big dragons, it's the same with me and without me at this time, and then I'm just squatting in this little grass in F6, I'm sure there is no vision in it, after all, I have a scan on me.

Then they sneaked over again, and the speed at which they cleared the line was not particularly slow, but it should be said that they were very fast.

So at this time, you should hurry over and see what we are doing, and I am not in a hurry to use my W skills now.

Sure enough, the prince is the first, and he is the only one who can take the lead, and the uncle's words in front will definitely be hard to beat, which is obviously not particularly worthwhile.

And I also took a look, the big tree on the opposite side hasn't made this exciting armor yet, and if I don't say it's wrong, it should be the fanatic armor.

Since he didn't make it, then he was still a little powerless in the face of consumption, so it was better to be able to throw a flag into the grass from a long distance like the prince, and his current CD should be very short, although there are some meat outfits, but there are also some equipment to reduce CD.

I feel that the flag can also be in about seven or eight seconds, which is not particularly long, and it should even be very short for a displacement skill.

Sure enough, he was about to plant the flag, and the moment he planted the flag and raised his hand, I put a w skill at his feet, and when he planted the flag, this action was too obvious, and it was short-lived, and there was no way to move, I knew the situation too well.

So when I just raised my hand, I just put this w skill out and threw a q, and i quickly ran out, in case this guy's brain twitched a little bit, and i got a q skill thrown over, maybe i could knock me away in this place, then i'm basically cold.

There is no use for opening the golden body, it must be cold and transparent, so it is better for me to retreat a little.

But one thing that made me laugh was that the shooter on the other side was so frightened that he pressed out all the healing techniques, and after seeing this scene, I laughed and said to the two of them: "Hurry up and fight, the other side is about to die of scare." ”

I also have a vision over there, this prince has a layer of white things on his body, unknown white objects, of course it is slowed down, but this guy is also so frightened that he opens his shield.

The fire man's damage is not covered.,Just these two skills basically hit 1/4 of the prince's HP.,After forcing this shooter's healing skills out.,Of course I'm very happy.。

At this time, I took a look at the blood volume of our big dragon, that is, it was less than 3,000, and the speed at which we beat the big dragon was indeed relatively fast.

Then when the other party suddenly heard the sound of getting the big dragon buff, the other party had already given up, and then they knew that there was no way.

Then evacuate as a group of people back as far as they can to clear the line as far as possible.

Since we don't need to be in a hurry after taking the big dragon buff, and we just need to let Sein clean up the line of troops on the lower road, our equipment on the top order is very good, and we mix it up like clockwork, and we also mix up the equipment.

I think our top list should really thank me for this, if it weren't for us, his equipment wouldn't be particularly good right now, but for now, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to withstand Ike's several sets of attacks.

Besides, if he can push the line to the opposite high ground tower, he can also drive to support our road, whether it's from their high ground or from the trail below their high ground, I think it's okay.

Just this little arc is not a radian for an old driver, I once saw a super good old driver, crisscrossing in the wild area, that is the old driver at the peak of the summoner's canyon.

Crisscross the Summoner's Rift.

So it's definitely for Sain to take the way down, not to mention that he teleports to me soon, and we don't need to care about the middle lane at all, or send someone to clean up the beach a little bit, anyway, no matter how far they push, it doesn't take long to push the line back if they have the presence of super soldiers.

So all of us are focused on the road, and Clockwork finally got the first blue buff in his life, in fact, it's not that he won't be allowed to give it, it's a bit of a disadvantage in the early stage, and sometimes it can't be held at all, not to mention that you die most of the time, who still has the heart to leave this thing for you.

Originally, it was a blue buff that I wanted to take, but now that I've given it to you, you can steal the fun.

I regretted it a little bit just now.,As for why I regret it, it's that I forgot to throw that ultimate move out.,Anyway, my ultimate CD is already good now.,I mean if I threw it out just now.。

Maybe you can scare the prince on the other side of the flash.,The main reason is that I didn't look at the blood volume of this big dragon buff at the time.,That is to say, I think I may need to scare the other side again.,Compared to this butterfly smoke.,I think a few people on the other side are more like frightened birds.。

Although it's a bit nonsense, I mean that the story, the story of the frightened bird, is probably made up by others, and then used as a typical case to educate future generations.

But to be honest, this is true in some cases, and it may be more useful for those who have thoughts, so it doesn't seem to be a particularly good thing to be thoughtful and wise.

The line of soldiers on the road is pushed very fast, or that sentence, there is only one aspect that affects our speed, that is, the speed of our minions attacking, this is the speed of their line, if the speed of their line can be faster, our minions can go faster to the opposite side of the high ground defense tower.

Another point is,It is true that you need to clean up those soldiers a little bit in the middle lane.,The small creeps that have been piled up are indeed a bit too much.,Super soldier youth brigade may not be particularly simple.,So I helped my super soldiers.,Don't be polite if everyone is your own person.。

I can still type the word let our top order go down the road, no, it should be this sentence I can still type, after all, Dieyan has already given me a demonstration at the beginning.