Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 257, Section 254: Shimamura-san, switch to mid lane.
All I can say is that, since Yuna Shimamura joined the team, WBG has been refreshing everyone's impression time and time again.

Everyone's expectations are being raised little by little.

At first, people were rather conservative, wondering: Shimamura just joined WBG, shouldn't she need some time to adjust? She shouldn't be so amazing right from the start, right?

Then I discovered that it was really impressive right from the start.

Then I wondered if the opponent was weak, and that I would be no match once the opponent's strength increased.
Then they discovered that WBG was still awesome once the opponents' strength increased slightly.

Then, everyone started to think about it.

WBG might really be that awesome.

But you can't have just strengthened your team and suddenly gone from being on the verge of the playoffs to being able to beat BLG and TES, right?
AL was in poor form and you won.

BLG is coming soon, why don't you give it another try?
In short, people's attitudes are constantly changing.

Everyone's ideas are constantly being flexibly modified.

At this moment, everyone finally couldn't hold back anymore.

No, so BLG, you're still crushing them too?

This team seems to be the strongest in the LPL already, with their recent form and roster being top-notch.

Then you're still abusing me, what else is there to say?
Isn't this ridiculous? They just gave you the championship.

Although this was only the first game, and BLG didn't seem to be completely without a chance to fight back.

But the audience had a vague feeling that BLG was unlikely to beat WBG.

All of BLG's recovered matches seem to have been part of WBG's plan to give to BLG.

On the contrary, WBG's core game plan was never compromised.

It looks like BLG has been constantly getting kills, constantly diving towers, and actively trading resources in the early game.

However, WBG's game plans were not significantly affected.

Their goal was simply to hold out against BLG as long as possible before Shimamura Yuna gained decisive teamfight capabilities.

On the contrary, BLG wants to use this wave of momentum to defeat WBG.

Therefore, it seems that the two sides are deadlocked, and it is a 50/50 match before the small team battle is lost.

However, from a game plan perspective, one side's goal is to maintain a stalemate, while the other side's goal is to break the stalemate.

BLG, whose goal was to break the stalemate, failed to do so, and kept creating a rhythm that might be dry or unprofitable.

That's why, in that crucial team fight, Shimamura Yuna was able to get the equipment she wanted and achieve the desired output and effect.

It's impossible to say that the two sides were evenly matched until that team fight.

Rather, the defeat in that team fight was the ultimate consequence of the previous dry pace.

Although the audience may not fully understand the game, they can still see the helplessness of BLG, as if their punches were hitting cotton.

The same as the CFO during the MSI era.

Having Shimamura Yuna on the team, someone who can always deliver the expected damage output, provides an incredible sense of security for the team's late-game carry.

As long as the game progresses according to plan until the later stages, the team fight will definitely be won.

This is an immense source of confidence.

Ultimately, after a snowballing team fight that lasted 18 minutes, the first game was predictably won by WBG.

After the game ended, all the WBG members showed expressions of relief.

Using such a reverse-version mid-top swing system in the main competition, or even directly changing the position of your own core player, is too risky a tactic.

It also poses a huge challenge to the players' individual abilities.

Xiao Hu took to the stage under pressure, afraid that he might make a mistake.

In the end, there were no problems.

This gave him a huge sigh of relief.

On his way back to the backstage, he laughed and said to his teammates, "Thank goodness it turned out like that. Damn, I'm telling you, I was really afraid that I would have been crushed if I had gone up there. If I had been crushed, I would have been done for."

"I haven't played top lane in ages, I was under so much pressure just now."

Xiao Tian replied with a smile, "It's alright, Brother Hu, you're still got it."

When we win a game, the team's atmosphere is always very optimistic and positive.

Positive expectations for the future always give people strength.

Those who believe the future will get better often find that the future truly does get better.

Those who believe the future will be worse will often find that the future is not actually that ideal.

It's not because of idealism, nor because believing is magic.

Rather, it's because only realistic expectations and signs can make people believe.

Only when you feel that something wonderful is right before your eyes can you truly believe it.

And now, everyone at WBG has sensed it.

This beauty, so close at hand, further empowered them.

On the other hand, the atmosphere at BLG was not so ideal.

That's right, the feeling of wanting to break through the opponent's shell, but no matter what you do, it's all in vain, left BLG in a very low mood after the game ended.

They were acutely aware that they had not cracked WBG's tactics.

All the things discussed before the game were useless.

The discussion on the spot concluded that the probability of it being effective was not ideal.

In this situation, how can one win?
The entire BLG team is quite pessimistic about this.

This is a feeling that almost every team facing WBG has now.

I felt immense pressure even before the match started.

After the first game, it started to get mentally taxing, and I began to think, "How can I break this deadlock?"

Then, I kept trying in this brain-burning process, and found that no matter what I tried, the results were just so-so.

He eventually died of natural causes.

Viewers have seen this kind of plot countless times.

As a viewer, seeing the first match start like this naturally puts me at ease and reassured.

However, as an opponent, feeling like you're facing this kind of opening match for the first time is a very insecure thing.

A strong feeling that they might lose at any moment is making everyone in BLG uneasy.

Especially Brother Bin.
He's furious right now.

He had prepared a strategy for so long in order to defeat Shimamura Yuna.

I practiced so many heroes specifically for Shimamura Yuna.

In order to compete with Shimamura Yuna and make Shimamura's hero selection less comfortable, he even practiced Vladimir a lot on the ranked ladder.

The goal is to be able to steal Shimamura Yuna's vampire in actual combat and create some advantages for BP.

BIN is a man who loves to boast.

But Bin is also someone who refuses to admit defeat and wants to win.

This unwillingness to admit defeat has even turned into a sore loser.

That's why he broke so many records this year.

That's why he's been the subject of so much controversy this year.

He always wanted to fulfill all the grand promises he made to the audience.

Especially this year.
But sometimes, not everything goes as planned. Efforts may not necessarily translate into tangible results.

After a very somber debriefing session, BLG's coach tried to lighten the mood by encouraging the team before the match: "Actually, we could have won. Last game, we just didn't handle some details well. We'll just pay attention to those next game, right? Right?"

However, what I received was not the very enthusiastic "good" response I had imagined.

Some people said "good", others said "okay".

But whether it will work or not, people may not be very confident.

No matter what, we'll only know the result after the fight.

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However, in the subsequent matches, BLG ultimately failed to break through WBG's mid-top lane swivel strategy within the limited time available.

This is also normal.

After all, it's inherently difficult for a team with already strong fundamentals to suddenly come up with such a new tactic that creates such an information gap in a crucial game. Trying to counter it on the spot is inherently challenging.

In the second game, they targeted Shimamura Yuna by banning her vampire ability.

BLG believes that many of the heroes that Shimamura Yuna can play are actually viable for both top laners, and even if they are picked, there are ways to deal with them.

After all, the current version has a large number of match data samples available, and the coaching staff is also studying and analyzing this data.

A qualified team and qualified players should be able to learn the basic strategies for these commonly used heroes within a certain timeframe of a tournament.

However, the vampire character is the only one that remains a complete unknown for BLG.

Based on the current WBG match recordings and results, this character is undoubtedly strong.

In team fights, it's both tanky and deals high damage, and it also has a survival skill that can compete for the toughest in the entire game.

If Shimamura Yuna gets it, we win; if she gets it, she can face off against the MVP.

But this is completely unreasonable.

If this hero is really that strong, why don't other heroes use him?
I really don't understand BLG's situation.

They even did some research to find out if "this hero is really that awesome."

turn out
That's it.

Both Zuo Shou and BIN have tried this character in ranked matches in their respective positions, and even tried it out in scrims.

They all wanted to figure out what made this character so powerful.

The conclusion was that I didn't see what was so impressive about it.

He's just an ordinary character.

They come in late and are weak in lane.

They have a certain advantage in the mid lane.

In the top lane, it's just like the stereotype, with almost no obvious advantages in the laning phase.

While he has the potential to shine in the late game, there are just too many champions in League of Legends with a strong late-game presence, and Vladimir simply doesn't make the cut.

But Shimamura Yuna is the kind of person who can play this character well and achieve good results.

It's hard to say for BLG now whether the Vampire character was used by Shimamura Yuna to defeat idiots and thus gained a deterrent effect, or whether Shimamura Yuna is truly amazing with this character and it's a signature hero for her.

This is similar to BIN's Camille, which is an urban legend.

They have no room for error right now and dare not try, so they chose to ban it.

All I can say is that RIOT's customization for Shimamura was absolutely perfect.

However, banning this hero doesn't really make much sense.

This hero is actually just one of the powerful characters that Shimamura can use; it's not a must-play.

If this hero is banned, there are other heroes you can play.

In the second game, Shimamura Yuna still went to the middle lane.

This time, she played Yone.

This is also a hero she has been famous for since her debut. Everyone in the world knows that she plays it very well, but it is not a common hero in the top lane due to the version.

However, this hero has always had a considerable pick rate in the mid lane.

At this moment, bringing Shimamura Yuna to the mid lane is equivalent to unlocking a whole new hero pool for her.

When the commentators saw this hero, they couldn't help but say, "It seems like Shimamura can play even more heroes now that she's in the mid lane. She seems to be having a more comfortable time picking heroes than when she was in the top lane."

The comments section was filled with messages like "Shimamura-san is invincible" and "Shimamura-san should switch to Chinese."

And this isn't just about having fun with the barrage of comments.

From the audience's perspective, Shimamura Yuna's move to the mid lane was not a particularly ingenious move, nor was it a decision with significant flaws.

Whether looking at her playstyle or her champion pool, Shimamura Yuna can be described as a very traditional mid-laner.

She can play any of the common mid-lane champions in the current version, including Yone, Akali, and Alora.

She might even be just as good at playing traditional AP carry champions like Azir, Orianna, and Viktor as Xiaohu.

The champion Azir is a major challenge for most mid-lane players in the LPL.

But Shimamura Yuna, who plays top lane, actually plays Azir quite well.

Looking at the current meta mid-lane champions, it seems that Shimamura Yuna is really bad at playing only Taliyah.

The proficiency levels for the others fluctuate between 'barely able to select' and 'completely proficient'.

All I can say is that, as a top laner, she exudes something strange about her, from her playstyle and champion pool to the role the team assigns to her.

But when she was moved to the mid lane, everything made sense.

The hero pool is basically comprehensive.

While the gameplay is somewhat toxic, it's not entirely incomprehensible, given that renowned player Chovy employs a similar style.

As for skill level, it is consistently high.

Seeing this, people couldn't help but wonder: "So why is she playing top lane?"

As the game unfolded, this feeling intensified among everyone.

Yuna Shimamura's Yone is basically entirely Chovy in the early stages.

Avoid too many mistakes during the laning phase, and keep up with the pace of last-hitting.

I last-hit minions while my teammates are in team fights.

Let's be the champion of finishing blows.

This playstyle puts a lot of pressure on teammates.

But it was a coincidence.

Both Xiao Hu and Liu Qingsong are seasoned veterans.

This seasoned veteran is experienced on one hand, but his skills have declined on the other.

With both factors combined, it's really hard not to be able to withstand the pressure.

Isn't it just delaying time?
Isn't it just to buy time for the older brother to develop?
As a result, although the heroes chosen were different, the course of the game was basically the same as the first game.

Then, more and more comments about Shimamura Yuna's split-route appeared in the bullet comments.

【No, I feel like Shimamura Yuna is much better suited to mid lane than top lane?】

[She's really in the wrong position now. Her mid-lane play is flawless; she's actually showing some Chovy-like flair.]

[I always wondered why she didn't play mid lane with her limited champion pool, and a bunch of people came out and gave me a bunch of reasons why she wasn't suited for mid lane. But Shimamura proved in just two games that she's actually not suited for top lane.]

[Shimamura-san, switch to mid lane]

(End of this chapter)