Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 214, Section 211: Teaching GENG a lesson.

Whether you're someone who's been waiting for the arrival of a new god like Shimamura Yuna.

Or rather, they want to see GENG, as the defending champion, win the match.

Regardless of their expectations, the yearning for the unknown outcome drew everyone into the live stream room, or rather, into the live stream venue.

"Dear viewers, after a long day of waiting, we have finally arrived at the finals of this year's League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational."

"The match we've all been eagerly anticipating is finally about to begin!"

"Was it CFO from the LCP region who won the championship, making regional history and making Shimamura from Japan the unprecedented ONLY ONE?"

"Or should we let GENG, this well-known powerhouse team, win another MSI championship?"

"Let's look forward to it!"

As the commentators began their opening remarks, the members of both teams officially entered the arena.

Kiin, Canyon, Chovy, Ruler, Duro on the GENG side.

CFO Fang: Shimamura, Junja, HongQ, Doggo, Kaiwing.

It's worth mentioning that Shimamura Yuna still has a substitute driver for this MSI.

However, due to the improvement in Shimamura Yuna's physical condition, there is no longer a need for a substitute. Therefore, so far in this MSI, Driver has played very few times.

It's fair to say that everyone has almost forgotten that this person ever existed.

Actually, it's not fair to say that the driver is bad.

Even compared to all the other top top laners in the world, Driver may not be the strongest, but he is at least good enough.

In fact, viewers in another parallel world would know that in that parallel world where Shimamura Yuna doesn't exist, although Driver also can't beat many strong top laners, his performance is still much better than CFO's other substitute top laner, REST.

Driver can barely hold his own against the world's top top laners as long as he gets a tank champion.

Rest is a completely stinky area no matter what you take.

However, compared to these two, REST is barely usable.

Compared to Yuna Shimamura, she's simply not good enough.

One of them only plays tanks, and the other only plays damage-dealing heroes; they're both very extreme, so it's hard to say who has the advantage in terms of hero pool.

However, given the similar skill pools, it's undoubtedly true that Shimamura Yuna is the stronger player.

The CFO is an absolute phenomenon.

She's so phenomenal that she'd be a virtually undisputed starter on any team she joined.

Even if he goes to BLG, T1, or HLE, teams that already have strong top laners, there's a high probability he'll be a starter.

Not to mention his performance in a team like the CFO's, which is essentially a wildcard team.

This leads to a phenomenon.

In other teams, if a player rotates to a position, the player who rotates might not complain, but they will still have some competitive spirit.

If two people of similar ability never get a chance, they might even feel a little resentful.

However, Shimamura Yuna was different.

Given this absolute disparity in strength, Driver and Rest wouldn't even harbor the slightest complaint about palace intrigue.

Because they know that if it were them, they definitely wouldn't be able to take the CFO that far.

They knew that without Shimamura Yuna, the CFO would never have reached this level.

Therefore, they now even offer their blessings.
'Please take the CFO with you and go even further.'

then
Yuna Shimamura actually did just that.

Now, I'm carrying the audience, my teammates, and everyone's expectations and desires.

"call"

Take a deep breath.

Amid cheers from the audience and shouts from the host, Yuna Shimamura stepped onto the field.

They've already played a lot of matches.

But today, she still felt
'Unprecedented and unlike anything before.'

Although the venue was much more lively during the finals than before, the number of spectators and the scale of the event were different.

However, in terms of the content of the competition, there is no difference.

Before the competition, the referees came up to check the equipment and confirm the precautions with the athletes.

Once everything is ready, the competition will begin immediately.

This gave Shimamura Yuna a subtle sense of disorientation.

It's clear that everything is no different from the previous matches.

But winning the game can lead to different outcomes.

It's no longer about advancing.

There will be no more revival matches.

A loss is a loss, and a win is a win.

The winner is the champion.
Realizing these things left her with very mixed feelings.

The coach's next words only intensified her feelings.

"Very likely. I mean very likely."

"While it may not be certain, this might be the last game for our CFO team, for the five of us."

"The five of us have achieved so many successes and made so much history along the way."

"From winning the FS championship to reaching the MSI finals, we can proudly say that we are perhaps one of the strongest teams in the history of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. We may not be as good as our predecessors TPA, but we can still hold our heads high."

"In the process of the continuous decline of League of Legends esports in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, starting from the LMS, we are perhaps the only team with an upward trend. Do you know how amazing that is?"

"Be proud of what you've accomplished, I really mean it."

The coach paused slightly at this point.

It seems that this pause is an opportunity to let emotions ferment a little.

It also seems like they are simply organizing their language.

Whatever his purpose was, he did use this short pause to make everyone more involved in his speech.

"I don't know if Shimamura will renew her contract. Right now, her thoughts are incomprehensible to us, and perhaps she herself hasn't made up her mind yet."

"So, I can only think that this is very likely our last match. After this match, we may go our separate ways, and perhaps the next time we meet, we'll be opponents."

"This is the last time this team, which has made history for LCP and for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, will be in its complete form."

“Junjia, you’re probably used to sitting next to a girl now. You’re used to keeping your distance from the top laner, not being able to hug or kiss her casually, and not being too aggressive, since the genders are different.”

"The other teammates are also used to having a girl in the training room. They probably can't do anything indecent or make jokes that can only be made when everyone present is a boy."

“At first, you might feel awkward. I’ve heard quite a few people complain that having a girl in the team is indeed more inconvenient. But gradually, everyone has come to realize that it’s a matter of course.”

"But after this game, you will suddenly find that the habits that have lasted for more than half a year will suddenly disappear."

"Many things that we take for granted are not always taken for granted. When time leaves its mark on things, sometimes when you look back, you will find that nothing is left but the marks."

"Then, what we need to do is very simple."

"That is, to give your best in what may be the last game."

After hearing what the coach said, everyone felt a little conflicted.

Yes
In fact, there will always be various kinds of barriers in the relationship between people.

People with different personalities
People with different lifestyles.
Collective living is like a melting pot, where people with different personalities are forged and tempered.

There may be pain during the fusion process.

However, once they are integrated, they will become inseparable.

Even between boys, there can be barriers; it's even more true between boys and girls. Shimamura Yuna isn't exactly a tomboy.

Although she was a boy in her past life, her personality is awkward regardless of gender, and she is actually quite difficult to get along with.

At the beginning of your time with her, it's almost inevitable that you'll experience some discomfort and awkwardness.

However, as time went by, everyone got used to these things.

Then, at that moment, everyone suddenly realized...
'Perhaps I'll never have a female teammate like this again.'

This feeling is truly subtle.

This was clearly just an ordinary match.

The competition proceeded in a very ordinary manner.

There was nothing particularly special about what they did.

But...
This seemingly ordinary match will inevitably change the fate of everyone on the team.

"Then, let's face the game head-on."

Or rather, facing fate head-on.

The draft phase of the match has officially begun.

This match, both in terms of its practical significance and its content, is completely different from the previous ones.

It can be said that GENG is the only team in this competition with a theoretical win rate of less than 50%, or even less than 30%.

Yes, it’s that exaggerated.

Although CFO felt that GENG was only stronger than T1 and AL when the two teams had scrims before, it was not completely invincible.

However, the more formal and crucial the match becomes, the more unstoppable GENG appears.

Especially considering that CFO was defeated by GENG once, and then had a fierce battle with T1, two BO5s exposed a lot of their cards.

The CFO wants to win.

The team's morale wasn't particularly high, but they were certainly all "willing to fight to the death," and prepared to burn themselves out.

Objectively speaking, this match was very difficult to win.

Kiin, a top-tier top laner who has played in the LCK for many years and carried various weak teams, is truly hard to imagine how he can maintain such a high level of performance.

Even Zeus and Dolan couldn't withstand Shimamura Yuna's attacks, but KIIN could.

He was like a barrier that could absorb everything indefinitely.

It is the true shield of Goryeo.

This is something that CFOs fear greatly.

They possess the world's strongest sword.

They relied on this sword to kill their enemies.

But what if this sword also fails to work?

This is a very troubling problem for CFOs.

The CFO can only rely on this sword, but GENG can rely on more than just this shield.

They have a cannon in the bottom lane and a magic staff in the middle lane.

The CFO had already prepared many countermeasures for GENG before the match.

I'm thinking about how to fight them, and what strategies to use in the draft phase.

However, the final result was...
They can hardly gain any advantage in the draft phase.

Yes.

almost impossible.

Compared to other teams, GENG has almost no weaknesses.

For example, why does the CFO make other teams afraid to pick up meat?
Because if other teams play tanky against Shimamura Yuna, they will really get crushed, they will really get fed, and they will really lose the game.

This is equivalent to using sheer strength to ban several good characters that you could have used in your hero pool.

However, this won't work when facing GENG.

GENG is not afraid of you.

If you dare to put meat out, he dares to take it.

He was confident that KIIN could manage.

And I'm confident that even if you get to the late game, Shimamura Yuna can easily face my two big guys in the mid and bottom lanes.

When the CFO can't gain an advantage in the hero pool and his individual strength in a single lane is insufficient to break through, he is naturally helpless.

In this situation, when the CFO faces GENG, it's like facing a simply degraded team.

The hero pool is weaker, individual skill is weaker, and team operational ability is weaker.
Nowhere is stronger than GENG.

That's all.
They can only win a game occasionally by relying on their performance in the game.

But can such occasional wins allow them to win three out of five games?

Can you do it?

No one, including the CFO, had any idea what to do about it.

With this uneasy feeling, the draft phase of the match officially began.

From the outset, GENG unusually expressed utter disrespect for Shimamura Yuna.

Shepherd of Souls was not banned.

In fact, they didn't ban a single top lane champion.

The meaning is very simple.

That means "You're not a big deal."

T1 was terrified of Shimamura Yuna, but GENG saw her as nothing special, just an ordinary top laner.

It was not enough to disrupt their conventional tactical arrangements.

That's not enough to make them make any special changes to their formation.

That's all.
That's all.

A decent top laner, a skilled top laner.

However, there are no special restrictions on you.

Not at all.

This was not even seen in the last match against GENG.

Although GENG defeated CFO last time, he still maintained respect for Shimamura Yuna and was very targeted in the draft phase.

This time, changing the norm and making this decision, doesn't mean...
After the last match, I realized you're not as amazing as I thought, so I changed my strategy and stopped targeting you.

do you mean this?

Even the commentators were stunned when they saw this draft pick.

The commentator couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "Oh??? Shimamura doesn't restrict any of her heroes??? GENG is very confident! GENG thinks he is different from other teams and feels that Shimamura is nothing to worry about."

This behavior genuinely angered the CFO.

While not banning heroes isn't something to be angry about.

But
Before this, no one dared not ban it.

"Ugh, this is so infuriating! So disrespectful!"

"That's a bit disrespectful."

"They need to be taught a lesson."

(End of this chapter)