Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 197, Section 194: Absolute Peak - Shimamura Yuna (Part 3 of 4)
So what if I don't play with meat?
So what if you're not very good at playing heavy armor warriors?
The problem is, if she can carry the game without playing these heroes and achieve the same effect as you playing certain meta heroes...
So, what difference does it make whether you play the meta heroes or not?

AL's coach, Tabe, has a feeling.

That is, Shimamura Yuna is not a player with a 'promising future' at all.

Now 18 years old, she has reached her peak.

This peak is not in terms of skills and tactics.

Tabe has been involved in League of Legends for a very long time and has coached too many players.

He had seen too many similar things.

A person is not necessarily stronger as they become more mature.

As a competitor, you need to have a strong spirit.

A kind of indomitable spirit forged by the desire to win, self-confidence, and the times.

This sharpness allows players to perform beyond their theoretical limits.

And Shimamura Yuna is currently in this situation.

In terms of maturity, she is currently a flawed player.

Whether it's the difference in hero pool or judgment in certain situations.

But she's invincible right now; she can dominate her opponents in every laning phase and outperform them in every team fight.

If she plays a hardcore carry, she'll definitely be able to carry the game when she returns to the meta.

Playing an aggressive character in the early game will definitely allow you to dominate your lane and prevent your opponent from gaining experience.

She always seems to have an overly idealistic way of performing, always managing to execute the tasks the team needs her to do ten times better than expected.

Gradually, because her performance was always good, the team and the audience also raised their expectations of her.

People might think, "If Shimamura can't get a 50-CS lead in lane, she's being pressured," or "If Shimamura can't face the MVP, she's a liability."

But this is unreasonable.

Just like CVMAX commented on Dolan during his home broadcast, saying that Dolan's exaggerated performance in the playoffs was unsustainable and could not be maintained forever.

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'Wouldn't that be a bit of an exaggeration?'

Tabe also said that Shimamura Yuna's current performance cannot last forever.

She was actually propelled forward by a kind of momentum.

As long as this momentum continues, she will always be able to maintain her supermodel performance as a norm.

As long as she keeps winning and maintains this momentum, she will always present an unparalleled performance.

Now, with a winning streak and a victory over T1, her momentum finally reached an insurmountable peak in the match against AL.

These are things that Shimamura Yuna herself may not have realized.

She herself did not realize why she could be so invincible despite having an incomplete hero pool, immature skills and tactics, and being a very mediocre player.

A counter-attack can crush the opponent, and a counter-attack can prevent the opponent from even gaining experience.

Can such extraordinary players really exist forever?
Tabe has a kind of intuition.

Perhaps Yuna Shimamura's professional career has a long way to go, and perhaps she can achieve even better results and more championships than she did this year.

Perhaps in the future, she will become more mature and composed, and will become a more well-rounded player, far surpassing her current abilities.

However, the spirited and sharp-witted Shimamura Yuna of this year may never return.

Just like how Faker can win 5 championships, but he will never come back from S3.

This year, at her peak, this is likely to be her last year.

After that initial sharpness fades, she will become a more "reasonable" player in the eyes of ordinary people.

Every year since then, she has only been able to catch up with her younger self by constantly improving her skills and tactics, expanding her hero pool, and refining her gameplay.

Tabe has seen far too many examples like this.

In fact, they are everywhere.

This is what is called
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Once lost, it may never be regained.

Once you miss it, you can only keep waiting.

When Tabe encountered Shimamura at her peak, he felt utterly powerless.

He felt that no matter how he executed the tactics or how he drafted the draft, it was all wrong.

Because the top lane will always be a weak point, and it will never be able to hold out until the whole team starts to operate and make plans.

With such a large laning gap, AL's advantage in understanding the current version is simply not apparent.

The team's so-called "version understanding" and "operation" that they rely on for survival seem insignificant in the face of absolute numbers.

And the final result of this game was not surprising.
AL lost.

As expected, Shimamura Yuna, with a huge advantage in the top lane, ended the game with a dominant performance from Camille.

HolyGun's Ornn didn't seem as bad in this game as his Gwen in the previous one.

At least it's not completely useless now.

They looked quite professional, having executed all the necessary crowd control and participated in all the team fights.

The equipment is indeed a bit lacking.

But what makes Ornn so great is that even without items, he can still have a basic role in team fights.

But this was completely useless.

Saint Gun's individual performance in this game was better than his performance in the previous game, but that couldn't stop Shimamura Yuna's individual performance from being restricted in any way.

Almost every subsequent team fight was a microcosm of the first team fight.

Saint Gun can initiate two or three team fights and use his ultimate to deliver significant crowd control.

However, Shimamura Yuna can directly cut into the formation and kill the back row, disrupting the back row's output and making Ornn's control meaningless.

Shimamura Yuna will definitely perform better than Flandre no matter what.

There's simply no way to solve this problem.

With the score at 2-0, AL, as the number one seed of LPL, was pushed to the brink by CFO.

The cheers from the audience grew louder and louder.

The CFO's fans became increasingly fanatical. The entire AL team felt suffocating, almost tangible pressure.

Back in the lounge, Tabe began his debriefing as usual.

"I feel like we should fight hard in this wave, that is, we still have to contest for some resources. We've always been like this in our scrims."

"Also, we definitely need to find a way to limit the enemy top laner. Have you noticed that every time the enemy top laner engages, their impact is so huge that it's almost impossible to avoid them snowballing our advantage?"

"And that's it."

The more Tabe reviewed the situation, the more powerless he felt.

I felt that this was no longer a problem that could be solved by simply reviewing the situation.

If we had to pinpoint a problem with the tactics or the system...
You can't tell at all.

They were both crushed in the laning phase.

They were all crushed in the early small-scale team battles.

So what's there to review?

Replay operation codes?
However, if the process of reviewing and refining an operation always leads to improvement, then the differences between individuals would cease to exist.

Tabe originally wanted to ask Flandre to play it a little safer.

But when I saw his self-reproachful expression, I felt like I couldn't say anything at all.

'He didn't intentionally play badly, did he?'

He knew perfectly well that, as a veteran, Flandre might want to win more than anyone else.

Saint Gun wants to perform better than anyone else.

But this may truly be beyond his capabilities.

He might be a little tired.

Tabe bit her lip, ultimately unable to say anything harsh.

"We'll just do our best, okay? We might not be in great shape today, and we might not have played very well."

"But it's okay, we'll do our best. We still have the loser's bracket, we have plenty of time to adjust."

"For the remaining matches today, we just need to do our best, try our best to win, try our best to take the game, and then, don't let it affect our mentality."

"We'll fight our way back from the loser's bracket, okay?"

In the end, he chose to twist the rope.

Saying this basically means admitting defeat.

The game is unwinnable by default.

It is assumed that this best-of-five series will end in defeat.

He was preparing everyone mentally in advance, so that they could be ready to accept reality.

Only by accepting the reality before them can the entire AL team be in better shape to meet the challenges ahead.

For a team, it's okay to lose a game, but it's important not to lose team cohesion.

Tabe knows this better than anyone else.

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Driven by a certain resolve, the members of AL faced the upcoming match with a determination to die.

The third game started soon.

AL is still making adjustments for this match.

So far, they have tried two different BP strategies to counter Shimamura Yuna's single-line threat.

However, without exception, the final results were all very bad.

Therefore, in the third game, Tabe could only continue to try to change things up.

At this point, everyone realized that AL's inability to win now had little to do with which hero was chosen or what tactics were used.

The problem is simply that the numerical gap in the top lane is too large, and the gap in the top lane is too big.

The result is that, from the perspective of the outcome, it is almost unacceptable.

But what else can we do at this point if we don't continue to make changes?

Are we just going to accept the fact that 'we're noobs and can't win'?
We might as well just surrender.

So, tanks aren't working, and neither are big cores, so let's just play heavy armor warriors.

With this in mind, Tabe chose Renekton for Flandre.

This is truly a blind spot for Shimamura Yuna.

Putting aside whether she knows how to play, she definitely doesn't know how to play.

The fact that Flandre was able to pick this champion was indeed one of the few advantages he had when facing Shimamura Yuna.

For her opponent, Shimamura Yuna chose the Weapon Master.

That's also considered one of her signature roles.

Due to the large gap in the first two games, almost no one was optimistic about Flandre in this third game.

Even though the match hasn't started yet, everyone is already assuming that Flandre will be crushed.

Everyone seems to have already seen the scene of him being chased and hit by Shimamura Yuna, and being whipped with a top by Shimamura Yuna.

AL's fans are basically begging him to stop feeding.

But as the saying goes, things will turn around when they reach their extreme.

Perhaps it's because he felt ashamed and then became brave, perhaps it's because the crocodile is really his comfort zone, or perhaps the weapon master really has no advantage when facing the crocodile.

In short, this is the only game in the three games so far where Flandre truly played steadily, didn't feed, and managed to stay even in lane.

Judging from the early game pace, this game had the most stable early game pace among the three games, and it seemed to have the best chance of winning.

AL even has some minor advantages.

al fans are still fantasizing at this point.

"Is it possible to come back from 0-2 down to win 3-2?"

But Shimamura Yuna is a killer of fantasy.

(End of this chapter)