Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 104, Chapter 101: He's really going to the World Championship (4K)

In a state that was almost unbearable to watch, Azhi finally got his turn to switch lanes, a time when he could theoretically avoid being separated from Shimamura Yuna and let both top laners flop together.

Finally, we can wait until both top laners are struggling and their development is restricted.

However.
Would a CFO so easily make Shimamura Yuna uncomfortable?
the answer is negative.

That's when the significance of their choice of Sion became apparent.

It has to be said that Sion is a bit unconventional in the current version. Basically, apart from CFO, it's unlikely that any team would insist on having their mid laner pick Sion to support the top lane.

Furthermore, Sion's effectiveness against Viktor is extremely limited. His only viable strategy is to trade health for experience and minion waves.

As for fighting back, that's definitely impossible.

But now that this role has been chosen, it must have its significance.

What's the significance of that?
The significance lies in the fact that this champion, Sion, can be played as a top laner.

Yes, that's right.

After Shimamura Yuna returned to base to buy some equipment during the first wave, she did not choose to switch lanes with the enemy during the second wave.

Instead, they told Sion to go to the side lane to withstand the pressure and be bullied by the enemy's duo lane, while she went to the mid lane to farm a good wave.

Even with such a short minion wave in the mid lane, Gwen, a hero with short range and who needs time to deal damage, doesn't have much of a way to deal with Viktor.

But it doesn't matter at all.

Because Shimamura Yuna came to the mid lane not to beat Viktor.

For her, it doesn't matter as long as she can get the minions and keep developing.

As far as CFO's overall strategy is concerned, it's fine as long as Shimamura Yuna is not affected by the lane swap and can continue to maintain her CS lead.

Everything is done in order to serve this purpose.

If that's all the goal is, then Viktor's early-game damage is simply not enough to pose any threat to Shimamura Yuna.

Viktor is a champion known for his poke damage in lane, but almost no kill potential.

Now that Shimamura Yuna has some basic magic power, she can simply wait for Viktor to push the lane in, then auto-attack a couple of times and use her Q to devour the entire lane.

No matter how hard Viktor tried to limit Shimamura Yuna's ability to take hits, it was all in vain.

This situation is certainly particularly bad for TLN.

'It's happening again'
There was a slight sense of despair in their hearts, even in everyone else.

Once again, they couldn't stop Shimamura Yuna's development.

Not only did they fail to limit Shimamura Yuna's development, but in fact, a huge gap appeared in the top lane. After only a few minutes of laning, there was a difference of more than 20 CS, and it wasn't even a long-range player against a short-range player. It's hard to imagine that the person sitting in the top lane position of TLN is a human.

This huge gap in matchup essentially allowed Shimamura Yuna, who played Gwent, to develop too smoothly in the early game.

Given this premise, thanks to Gwen's early lane advantage, Nidalee, who was playing around the top side of the map, completely dominated Jarvan IV's jungle, making Karsa's game very uncomfortable.

A series of chain reactions turned TLN's entire early game rhythm into a complete mess.

The only lane that was on par was the bottom lane, but everyone knew that in the CFO vs TLN match, the bottom lane was not the key point at all.

They finally made it to the transition period, hoping to make things a little tougher for Gwen, but the CFO really wouldn't let Shimamura Yuna suffer any injustice.

This situation was causing TLN a great deal of anxiety.

Even if you want to exert pressure from other aspects, such as ganking other lanes or controlling resources.

Because the jungler was completely suppressed, he was unable to play freely.

In short, TLN is currently in a state of utter helplessness.

There are flaws in many aspects, and there are parts that need to be repaired in many aspects.

And when you want to delve into "which part is the most critical problem?"
Basically, it can be attributed to the fact that the gap in the top lane was too large, so large that none of the other teammates could fill it.

If AZHI can counter Shimamura's late-game carry champions and pick a strong laning champion that can hold its own and makes her play less comfortable, then...
Or, to take a step back, if he could avoid such an absurd matchup when playing champions like Gragas or Udyr against Shimamura Yuna.

In fact, many problems can be easily solved.

But he just couldn't do it.

Or rather, given the strength of the LCP region, there are probably very few top laners in the entire region who can do this.

Given this, some outcomes were inevitable once Shimamura Yuna took the stage.

As the economic gap between Shimamura Yuna and her opponent widened, Ryushin couldn't help but exclaim during his livestream, "Why is this happening again? Haven't I seen this before???"

"How come Shimamura always becomes invincible like this? I have a feeling she'll be unstoppable in a team fight soon. Tell me, which of these guys on the left can handle Gwen?"

"Jhin and Viktor, they can't do anything to Gwen. Gwen's W can kill both of them. And to put it bluntly, right now, even if Viktor uses his W on Gwen, he can't kill her. Don't you believe me?"

"Wow, this lineup really doesn't do any damage, TLN's lineup."

Yes, from God's perspective, the Dragon God also saw another problem with TLN.

That is, the Viktor + Jhin dual carry combination actually lacks the ability to deal with tanks.

While Viktor is a late-game carry, he actually deals relatively limited damage to high-health, high-resistance units.

In the early stages, it was even worse; the only word to describe it was scraping.

With such a mid and bottom carry duo, facing Gwent who has advanced far ahead and has high health and lifesteal, it's hard to imagine Gwent being instantly killed by TLN in a team fight.

Once W is activated, there's no way of knowing how Gwen is going to die.

It's fair to say that Shimamura Yuna had already sensed this at that point.
She sensed that she was truly only one step away from her first world championship. No, only half a step away!
She only needs half a step to enter that field!

And this half-step will be achieved soon.

Overall, this game was not as eventful as the previous ones.

Perhaps because they've reached match point, TLN is playing exceptionally cautiously, almost to the point of being defensive and turtling.

Aside from the occasional, extremely dry kills where one side would gank my AD carry once and the other would gank yours once, there were almost no large-scale clashes between the two sides.

With their jungle and top lane under pressure in the early game, TLN completely abandoned the contest for almost all jungle resources.

After all, if they really wanted to fight, they were simply lacking in fighting power.

Although Viktor is a formidable fighter, he clearly struggles in small-scale team fights against a Gwen who has developed far ahead of her.

These neutral resources are something we have to give up whether we want to or not.

At most, the CFO would take the Slugs, and they would take the Dragons, engaging in this passive, neutral resource exchange.

All they could eat were the leftovers from the CFO's side, and even eating those leftovers was a nerve-wracking experience, requiring them to pay a price.

When they run out of Tidebringers and only have Dragons left, they can't even trade neutral resources anymore; they can only try to push lanes and towers.

Under this passive tactical strategy, CFO's jungler Junjia controlled three dragons around the 25-minute mark, and it looked like the dragon soul team fight was just around the corner.

The dragon soul in this match is the Earth Dragon.

For TLN, this is undoubtedly adding insult to injury, or even worse, a bit like kicking someone when they're down.

Their lineup is already severely lacking in damage output and has a severe lack of ways to deal with Shimamura's Gwen.

And then an earth dragon spawned.

Once the CFO team secures the Earth Dragon Soul, it truly means the game is over.

Although its implementation phase can be considered almost complete.
Viktor and Jhin are completely helpless against Shimamura Yuna now, while Shimamura Yuna is hitting both the tanky and squishy heroes of TLN with devastating force.

Team fights are already beyond my control. The difference lies in...
There is still a theoretical possibility, similar to late-stage cancer, where it is said to be almost hopeless, but the patient is still alive. After chemotherapy and radiotherapy, they might struggle for another six months to a year.

But if the earth dragon is gone, it's like issuing a critical condition notice; you can start preparing to collect the body.

Everyone in TLN knew that this game was almost over.

However, there are still reasons why this final team fight must be fought.

With this in mind, the TLN team launched a fearless charge towards the CFO from the Dragon Pit.

Jungler Karsa kept saying things like, "We can fight this wave, we have to fight, we absolutely must fight."

While controlling his Jarvan IV, he charged into the battlefield like a sacrificial lamb, attempting to kill the female police officer in the back row.

He knew that the CFO's core output now lay not with the policewoman, but with Gwen.

But he also knew that Gwen was beyond his control at this stage, and there was no point in him trying to get rid of her.

Instead of trying to kill Gwen, it would be better to try killing her teammates first to create a situation where they outnumber the enemy.

However, this action was destined to be meaningless.

The prince's long-range EQ flash engage did indeed knock Caitlyn into the air, leaving her with only a sliver of health.

He forced the policewoman to use Flash, and then followed up with an ultimate, leaving her nowhere to escape.

However, such a long-range engagement made it impossible for his teammates to follow up.

Seeing this, Shimamura Yuna did not go back to save her own policewoman.

Instead, he positioned himself directly between the prince and his teammates, activated his summoner spell, and quickly moved towards Viktor, who was trying to finish off the enemy.

Neeko used her E skill to try and limit Gwen's damage output, but Gwen, with her W activated, was unaffected!

Jhin, Viktor, Neeko – the damage output from these champions was largely neutralized by Gwen's W.

Meanwhile, the prince who rushed in alone to start a fight, with no one following him, also died on the spot.

At this point, the team fight had predictably ended in defeat.

This was a team fight whose outcome was basically predictable before it even started; all we could do was hope for a miracle.

But the miracle did not happen in the end.

Karsa's Prince started the team fight, and naturally no one could keep up.

As a result, no one could control Shimamura Yuna's Gwen.

Before this fight even started, TLN's team voice chat kept saying, "This is a tough one for us, we need to think of a way."

They discussed many countermeasures.

Let him get seriously injured.
Release a mask.
Let's build some magic resistance.
They've even come up with specific strategies for positioning and handling team fights.

However, none of these methods worked in the end.

After all, the gap in equipment and team composition is sometimes not something that can be bridged by a few simple countermeasures that can be discussed.

The game had been saying since the early to mid-game that it would be a difficult level to handle, but it was never actually solved until the very end.

No miracle happened.

In this team fight, TLN suffered a devastating 0-for-4 exchange, with Gwen securing three of the kills.

At this point, the outcome has been decided.

Before this Dragon Soul team fight, although the CFO had the upper hand in reality, the economic gap wasn't that big.

Thanks to TLN's strategy of mindlessly releasing neutral resources, the CFO couldn't really do anything to them. They couldn't force team fights or engage in actual team battles, so the snowball effect they could generate was limited. Therefore, the economic difference was only around 2000, with the vast majority of that concentrated on Shimamura Yuna.

But after that team fight, TLN's rhythm was like a string that had been taut for a long time but suddenly snapped.

It flowed like a torrent.

Dragon Soul, Baron Nashor, Tower Push.
With this team fight victory, the CFO got everything he wanted and started snowballing his ambitions.

The economic gap between the two sides increased from over 2000 to 7000 in just this one team fight.

With the added blessing of the Dragon Soul, Gwen has become a truly immortal monster.

At the beginning of the game, Shimamura Yuna still had some tears left in her eyes, but by this point in the game, only red eyes and some faint tear stains proved that she had cried.

She cried in the game where she had match point.

But at this moment, she felt only a tense, compressed calm.

She realized she was close to winning.

She realized she was about to go to the world championship.

Thus, a powerful emotion, about to erupt but now contained, began to brew and accumulate within her.

She couldn't say a word, and even breathing became difficult.

She felt completely numb.

My head started to feel dizzy, and I couldn't even hear my teammates' commands.

To be honest, her mental state at that moment was somewhat dangerous.

The feeling was detached and blurry, to the point of feeling somewhat dizzy.

If the economic gap between the two parties is not significant, there is a considerable possibility that she might commit a crime.

Fortunately, by this point, the equipment gap had become so large that even a chicken trying to eat rice on a keyboard might not be able to win.

She followed her teammates' lead and team fights almost instinctively, without thinking at all.

"That's how we divide the responsibilities here, and then..."

"I feel like this can be driven, can it be driven?"

"Come on! We can fight, we can fight!"

"Wave after wave!"

She felt that her teammates' words had simply passed through her mind without leaving any trace.

She followed her teammates up to TLN's high ground in a daze, and with the Baron buff and Earth Dragon Soul, she completed a quadra kill on TLN's high ground without any thought. She just walked up, activated E, W, R, and Q, and then she and her teammates wiped out the enemy team.

It's as simple as chopping melons or cutting vegetables.

And just like that, they won the team fight and ended the game in one fell swoop.

It wasn't until the moment the TLN high ground was dismantled with scissors that all those suppressed and restrained emotions erupted.

Shimamura Yuna took a deep breath and slumped into the chair.

"Really. He's going to the World Championship."

Looking at the word "Victory" that popped up on the screen, she felt that everything in front of her was very unreal.

Everything that I so longed for in my past life has now been obtained so easily in this way.

The discrepancy between reality and imagination made her feel dizzy and unable to open her eyes for a moment.

Yuna Shimamura felt that her brain was not receiving enough blood, and she was even unable to think.

It wasn't until her teammates' cheers snapped her out of it that she finally snapped out of that out-of-body state.

(End of this chapter)