Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 289, Section 286: GENG's Worries

After watching the T1 vs WBG match, GENG, who should have been a favorite to win this tournament, was now sweating profusely.

If it weren't for WBG, GENG would have been a shoo-in for the world championship.

The reason is simple.
Because there's really not much competition.

T1, the league's biggest rival, has been significantly weakened compared to last year.

Judging from their performance at the World Championship, T1 is far inferior to GENG.

HLE and KT are also two teams with relatively poor team synergy.

Conversely, GENG has maintained its competitiveness from last year; in fact, it can be said that GENG has undoubtedly made further progress this year compared to last year.

The breakup between Zeus and T1 was indeed a lose-lose situation for both of them.

T1 reduced its competitiveness.

Zeus' popularity declined as a result, and the team he joined was no better than T1 last year.

The direct result of this is that LCK, which used to be a two-horse race, has become a one-man show by GENG this year.

GENG is a team with few obvious mistakes and a very strong lineup in the top, mid, and bottom lanes.

Their weakest point is probably their jungler.

But compared to many other teams' junglers, this jungler isn't weak.

Other teams, on the other hand, always have one or two fatal weaknesses.

Thus, GENG became the only team in the LCK region that seemed to have an invincible record.

And it's not just within the LCK region.
Even compared to other regions, GENG is invincible.

Even if they were invincible in the LCK region in previous years, when it came to winning the championship, they still had to consider what the LPL outside the region would do.

But this year, I had absolutely no such worries.

joke.

The LPL has fallen so low that it can't even be considered the second-best region anymore; it can only be considered the third-best.
The overall level of the competition has plummeted, so there's nothing to fear.

The only team that truly poses a threat to them is the CFO from LCP.

However, the CFO at that time had already been effectively dissolved.

After all, the team's oldest member has left.

What kind of trouble can the remaining underlings cause?

In other words, the situation was very favorable for GENG until the third stage of the regular season.

They are the only Galactic Empires in the world this year.

It is the only super team.

Other teams either disbanded or their performance declined.

Everyone else is getting weaker, only they are getting stronger.

They have truly outlasted all their competitors.

However, to everyone's surprise, Shimamura Yuna announced her joining WBG in the third stage and started playing in the playoffs after only one regular season game.

At that time, GENG felt a bit of a crisis.

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"Could they have actually assembled a very strong team for them?"

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be possible.

After all, WBG's overall performance was very poor.

Even with an additional top laner, there shouldn't be any dramatic changes.

Or rather, it takes time to adjust and work things out.

If someone were invincible from the start without doing anything, that would be far too illogical.
Then, this illogical thing happened.

Under the watchful eyes of the world, WBG, a team that had just been reorganized a few days ago, overcame all obstacles and directly defeated the LPL to enter the World Championship as the number one seed.

A team on the verge of making the playoffs suddenly became a top team after one player joined.
Such a contrast seems a bit exaggerated to most people.

Building on this foundation, WBG, the team led by Yuna Shimamura, showed no signs of falling behind after entering the World Championship. On the contrary, they swept through the competition, easily defeating both LPL and LCK teams.

Now, they have defeated T1 and reached the finals.

What happened in the previous match terrified GENG.

There's not much to say about defeating T1.

T1 is not at its peak this year; occasional bursts of good form are not enough to carry the team.

Let alone WBG be able to beat T1.

GENG can do it himself.

The problem is that they defeated T1 far too easily and simply.

The score looks like 3-1.

However, judging from the content, it is even more exaggerated than 91kai's claim that "it is impossible to win".

The game T1 won really made it seem like WBG was a bit careless.

This is something even GENG couldn't do.

GENG believes he has a greater chance of winning against T1.

But if we're talking about "we'll definitely win" or "we absolutely must win," then...

They really lack confidence.

You might win 7 out of 10 matches, but it's entirely possible to lose exactly 3 of them in the main event.

But even though they watched WBG's matches, they couldn't imagine what those three games would look like.

That's not a case of winning 3 out of 10 games.

It felt like you were lucky to win 3 out of 100 games.

If T1 can win even one game, it's the only and best possibility that Faker has seen in a hundred possible timelines.

Yuna Shimamura's boost to a team is so exaggerated that it's hard to describe in ordinary terms.
It's fair to say that whoever gets Shimamura Yuna has the strength to contend for the championship.

As long as the other personnel are barely acceptable
As long as other people don't overdo it with supporting their fathers.
Yuna Shimamura is the kind of player who can transform a team from the fringe to a championship contender.

This is what a CFO is like.

The same applies to WBG.

Before Shimamura Yuna joined, both of these teams were not considered strong contenders.

However, after Shimamura Yuna went there, their strength improved dramatically.

Regardless of what people said before we went, such as "It's no use sending an island village girl" or "The adjustment period is too short."

But once they go, the team will be different.

This is especially true for teams like WBG that lack a strong core player.

All I can say is that Shimamura is an absolute supermodel.

As for whether the team she joined can win the championship...
That depends on how well the integration goes.

However, it seems that the probability is very high at present.

While it's not quite as exaggerated as saying the dog's legs were trembling...
But the entire GENG team must be under a lot of pressure right now.

This pressure largely stems from the fact that they also play scrims with WBG.

Their win rate against WBG in practice matches is actually lower.

Yes, although it's roughly a 50/50 split, WBG has a slightly higher win rate overall.

However, this is conditional on the fact that WBG has hidden many tactics.
This tactic of swapping the top and mid lanes seems to be incredibly effective.

This could completely extinguish T1's initial momentum.

The core of this tactic is to have the mid laner, who would otherwise be overwhelmed, interact with the opponent's less aggressive top laner.

Let your top laner, who is theoretically guaranteed to win the lane, crush your mid laner.

And coincidentally.
In this respect, the T1 and GENG have somewhat similar configurations.
(End of this chapter)