Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 148, page 145: Shimamura-nee, you opened it?
Having played for a while now, Shimamura Yuna has clearly begun to feel somewhat powerless because of her limited hero pool.

My most frequently used heroes, like Vladimir and Mercy, are not very effective against strong teams like HLE.

And I don't play heavy warriors and tanks much.

The result is quite natural: the further the game progresses, the fewer heroes she can choose from.

You can also choose some characters that have both strong late-game team fight capabilities and good early-game laning and small-scale team fight capabilities.

For example, Camille.

Although this character has very low theoretical stats, he can still be quite effective when paired with the right heroes.

Shimamura Yuna picked this champion only after the opposing team had chosen Gnar, which made the champion seem very suitable.

But this game was clearly not so good.

After Camille's appearance, she had very few options left in her mind.

So, she gradually began to prioritize either lane strength or team fight performance to ensure her safety.

In this game, she chose to prioritize ensuring her laning strength.

This is the significance of the Fiora character.

Putting everything else aside, this hero is indeed good at dealing with tanks in lane.

Although many people say that after the character lost the Holy Separator and his stats were weakened, it is actually not easy to fight some tanks with high stats, and he needs to wait until the very end to be able to exert his strength.

However, in Shimamura Yuna's opinion, such a situation does not exist.

She believes the character is still useful.

But after hearing this option, the coach hesitated for a moment and did not reply immediately.

He clearly didn't think Fiora was a good choice.

Indeed, the current version of Fiora may not be very effective in the laning phase, but she is generally very weak in large-scale team fights.

To put it bluntly, this hero is weak in the early game and weak in the late game in the current version.

Its only function is to be able to push lanes when you have good mid-game items.

But if that's the case...
"Then why not pick Vladimir? If you want to counter tanks, wouldn't it be the same to pick Vladimir and farm slowly? The enemy didn't ban him either."

When asked about the coach's question, Shimamura Yuryo replied, "If I pick Vladimir, the pace is too slow. I can't be of much use in small-scale team fights in the early game."

"I don't think that's a good idea against HLE."

That's right, while the champion Vladimir can hold his own against Sion in the laning phase, he is still a formidable opponent.

In theory, if you farm peacefully with Sion and play until the late game, you can indeed be invincible.

However, the slow wave clear speed and extremely poor damage output in the early game mean that no matter how advantageous the lane is, this hero will be useless in small-scale team fights.

When facing teams like HLE, Shimamura Yuna was terrified by the fact that she was useless in small-scale team fights.

On the other hand, while Fiora may have some difficulty making an impact in mid-to-late game 5v5 team fights, she is at least very difficult to deal with in split-pushing situations.

On this basis, it also possesses a strong early-stage small-scale combat capability.

Coach Chawy originally wanted to tell Shimamura Yuna: You should choose to trust your teammates, trust that they can hold on even without you in the early game and help you through to the late game.

but.
I don't know why, but I ultimately couldn't bring myself to say those words.

I feel somewhat powerless and pale.

Are these team members, including the CFO, worthy of Shimamura Yuna's trust?
Chawy feels that everyone is growing and getting stronger, and that it won't be long before they reach an unprecedented level.

Even without Shimamura Yuna, the remaining CFOs are growing and integrating at an extremely fast pace, and they will achieve their own good results.

But that's clearly in the future, not now.

Yuna Shimamura would pick a late-game champion like Vladimir and play well in lane, but then fail to help her teammates in small-scale team fights. This would lead to her teammates collapsing and her being unable to play either. This has happened in both scrims and official matches.

The fact is, when facing HLE, CFO is not very able to hold his own in the early to mid-game after losing his top laner in team fights.

In this situation, how can he expect Shimamura to trust his other teammates to cover for him?

Ultimately, he chose to agree with Shimamura Yuna.

"Then let's go with Fiora. Choose whichever you prefer."

Ultimately, Shimamura Yuna's hero was Fiora.

The BP phase ends here.

The game officially begins.

……

The moment Shimamura Yuna locked onto Fiora, a deafening roar of cheers erupted from the crowd.

From the CFO's perspective, the choice of this hero was essentially because they didn't know what else to play.

This is like Olaf in a classic do-or-die situation in Europe and America; it's a last resort.

But to the audience, it was pure enjoyment.

After all, who wouldn't love watching Fiora?

At least on the Dragon God's side, they started shouting and yelling as soon as they saw Shimamura Yuna choose this hero.

"Holy crap, Shimamura-san has drawn her sword!"

"Shimamura-san is really going to spin the Zeus top!"

"Holy crap, Shimamura's Fiora! Shimamura is coming to slay Zeus!"

Thanks to Camille's outstanding performance in the last match, almost no one is questioning Shimamura's hero selection now.

Everyone can only marvel: Shimamura-san has so many heroes she can play.

Yes, from Shimamura Yuna's own perspective, she has no heroes in her pool and can only try to find some usable ones from the cesspool.

But the audience interpreted it quite differently.

Compared to the chaotic mix of strange heroes like Olaf, Garen, and Darius from Europe and America, heroes like Fiora and Camille, who are among the "Four Sisters" of top lane, at least have a good grasp of the entertainment value.

When you pick heroes from Europe and America, it makes you seem like someone without real skill who can only play these weak heroes to mess around, relying on stats to exploit information gaps.

But when Shimamura Yuna picks these heroes, it gives the impression that she has really strong skills. After all, heroes like Camille and Fiora are really hard to play without some skill.

Although both are alternative choices for mainstream, strong heroes that are not viable, they give people a very different feeling.

At this moment, everyone is looking forward to seeing more amazing performances from Shimamura Yuna, who is a true master.

In the eyes of many viewers, a match between Sion and Fiora might be a one-sided beating of Sion by Fiora.

After all, it's common knowledge that Sion is a piece of trash.

And Fiora is a famous tank killer, right?

In fact, if this situation were to be applied to both sides with three sets of accessories, it would be fair to say that.

But the problem is, things aren't that simple.

After numerous nerfs, Fiora's early-game stats are now so low that she's practically unpopular.

Even if you hit a weakness in the early game, the damage and recovery won't be particularly high; it's just average.

It's fair to say that this item doesn't offer much of an advantage against most heroes in lane; skill is the only way to bring the game back to a more even level.

As a hero whose main function is limited to split pushing, he actually needs a lot of farming to fulfill the basic function of being 'very good at split pushing'.

It's fair to say that Fiora is currently a relatively weak character. On the other hand, Sion, putting everything else aside, is definitely strong in terms of stats.

The damage of QWE skills is not low, and the character is also tanky.

If it weren't for Fiora's skills having a slight advantage against tank champions, she would have been completely dominated by Sion.

Although in the late game, a tanky Sion will naturally be countered by Fiora, and he won't even be able to look at Fiora when split pushing, but that only works if you can play until the late game.

If you get crushed by Sion in the laning phase, then there's no point in talking about the late game.

Sion gives you a 1000 gold advantage and an extra Thornmail, making it impossible for you to compete at all.

In other words, the tactics employed by both sides during the laning phase are crucial and are the key factors that determine the outcome of the game.

At the very beginning, both sides played fairly well.

Shimamura Yuna's Fiora tentatively used her Q to poke a weak point.

Zeus' Sion also charged up a short Q and then a basic attack, dealing some damage.

The hero lost a little health due to Fiora's low stats, but it's not a big deal.

In general, both sides reached level 3 with almost no major ups and downs.

But once you get to level three, that's when the crucial part begins.

The main battle between Fiora and Sion is probably between Sion's Q skill and Fiora's W skill.

This is similar to the battle between Fiora and Jax's E skill.

However, unlike the weapon's E skill, Sion's Q skill is very difficult for Fiora to counter.

Sion's Q skill has a very long charge time, and he can attack at any time during the charge.

If you use your W too early as Fiora, then you'll be knocked away by Sion's Q after W ends, losing a huge chunk of your health.

If you use your W too late with Fiora, then you don't need to use it at all. Some Sion players will gamble on your mentality and use their Q early, aiming to deal less damage but at least ensure that the damage hits you.

Objectively speaking, the initiative in this game lies more with Sion than with Fiora.

Sion has a much higher probability of winning this game than Fiora.

In many situations, even if Sion is stunned by Fiora, it's not a big deal. It just means she can come up and poke one more weak point, and get a couple more auto-attacks.

But if Fiora gets knocked up by Sion, she's really going to have a blast. Basically, if she gets hit by a full combo, she'll have to go back to base and not play anymore.

Therefore, most Fiora players would not engage in this unfair gamble with Sion.

Once you see the enemy Sion's Q, you'll either use Q to dash away from the side, or if you don't have Q, you'll just walk out of Q's range. You'd rather let them deal some short Q damage than risk your life by using your Soul Reaver.

Generally speaking, that's how it is.

but.
Yuna Shimamura is no ordinary person.

"I must gain an advantage."

"I must expand my advantage."

"I must crush my opponent."

"Because, if we don't do it this way, we can't win."

With this in mind, Shimamura Yuna never intended to play the peaceful development game with Zeus from the beginning.

She was determined to go up and fight with the phallus.

She was determined to go up and gamble.

Even if winning only results in gaining a slight advantage in health.
Even if losing would lead to a collapse in the lane and a disastrous trade of health, she wouldn't care.

If we don't do this, the chance of winning is infinitely close to zero.

Therefore, she doesn't think about "what to do if the game fails".

She will only try her best to get closer to success.

She needs to gain an advantage in one lane.

She must.
Fight to the very end.

At this moment, Zeus on the other side also clearly felt the extremely strong, almost irrational, desire to trade blows displayed by Shimamura Yuna in the laning phase.

This is exactly the same as Camille's situation when he played.

Zeus thought he was prepared for this, and he thought he was prepared for Shimamura Yuna's aggressive performance in the match.

However.
When Zeus saw Shimamura Yuna's Q coming right at his face, and he charged up his Q to counter, but instead of moving away, she stood motionless right in front of him, just standing there and attacking him head-on, Zeus wavered.

'Wow, she's playing this hard?'

'Can she really predict when I'll use Q?'

Amidst this hesitation, he charged up his Q skill to the point where it would send Shimamura Yuna flying, and then unleashed his attack.

But to his surprise, at the very moment he released his Q skill, Shimamura Yuna released her W skill almost perfectly in sync with his Q skill, not a second more, not a second less.

The Dragon God, who was watching the live stream, was dumbfounded when he saw this.

When he first saw Shimamura Yuna standing right in Sion's Q range, charging in with auto-attacks, he said with a slightly puzzled tone, "Isn't she leaving? Is she going to fight Sion with her Shock Blade? How can she even reach him?"

Then, the next second, Shimamura Yuna was really shocked, and it was a W skill whose visual effects were completely synchronized with Sion's Q. He was dumbfounded.

He immediately blurted out a curse: "Fuck your mother, how can this vibrate? This isn't a script, is it???"

It's no wonder the Dragon God is of low quality.

This whole thing looks really amazing, like it was scripted.

Shimamura Yuna never brandished her sword earlier or later, but she did so precisely the moment Sion attacked, making her look like a scripted Fiora.

At this moment, the comments section was filled with question marks.

[Shimamura-san opened a shop??]

[Shimamura-san, what are you trying to do???]

[Please don't suspend him; I hope you don't end up finding a word.exe file in the search results.]

[Shimamura-nee, please don't scare me!]

If it's only one wave like this, it can actually be explained as good luck.

After all, Fiora's Rapier is all about luck; if you just happen to land it by chance, that's fine.

The problem is that in almost every subsequent wave, Shimamura Yuna would not dodge the sword-wielding phase.

She fearlessly pressed her head directly against Sain's forehead, waiting for him to strike.

The result was that no matter whether Sion used a long Q or a short Q, and no matter how he changed his charge time or the timing of his Q, Shimamura Yuna could always outmaneuver him.

It's not that it's 100% guaranteed to vibrate.

However, statistically speaking, it's true that nine out of ten cases are correct.

This left Zeus somewhat dazed.

The most outrageous thing was that he used his Q ability to hide in the bushes and then get hit by Shimamura Yuna's Q, even though Shimamura Yuna had no vision of him. Although Shimamura Yuna could tell at a glance that he was hiding in the bushes and deliberately trying to gamble with him.

But lady, this is supposed to be a no-vision game, right? You can't even see my animations, how many rounds are you going to play against me?
You really activated Fiora?

(End of this chapter)