Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 180, Section 177: Dolan? Just a spinning top!

The side that chose Jayce was Shimamura Yuna.

Although people often say that Shimamura Yuna's best heroes are those magic-based champions.

Vampire and Gwen are undoubtedly her most iconic and representative roles.

This might lead some people with stereotypes to think that she is only highly skilled with magic-based heroes, and that she is not particularly proficient with other heroes, but only plays them based on her personal skill.

Especially for a character like Jayce, who faces time pressure in many versions (not all versions), needs to exert pressure in the early game and end the game as early as possible, she is even less likely to suit her taste.

But actually, Shimamura Yuna really likes this character and is very skilled at it.

Although this character was indeed positioned as an early to mid-game hero in many versions, especially the early versions.

But the feel of this character and the laning phase are just so comfortable to play.

For a while, Shimamura Yuna was quite immersed in the feeling of Jayce, who could fight against melee opponents with long range and also burst damage as a warrior.

It felt like she was an omnipotent character who could do anything.

In contrast, Dolan used the Weapon Master.

This character just doesn't seem to fit Dolan's personality at all.

Dolan has always given people the feeling
Both the audience and the team felt that he was just going to use a silly tank or heavy armor warrior to make a quick buck.

Simply put, he needs to play more functional roles.

The Weapon Master, however, is a character who wields the ball.

You need to gain an economic advantage and maximize your laning advantage.

Such roles offer even lower returns.

However, T1 still let him choose this role for two reasons.

First, T1 needs someone to step up.

Although it seems that if Doran were chosen, it would give people the feeling that "then we're doomed".

However, the fact is that Doran did defeat Zeus in the second playoffs and indeed became the strongest player on the team, making him the biggest contributor to T1's qualification for MSI.

When the whole team is in a slump and no one is stepping up, if we don't choose to trust the team's biggest contributor, then who else can we trust?

Who else can be trusted?
It really is only Dolan.

Even if Dolan is unreliable, he still feels like the one person on the team who can be trusted relatively.

The main purpose, which is the second point, is to replace banning with stealing.

Yuna Shimamura has played this character so many times that it's basically one of the characters she plays most often.

T1's consideration is that this character can compete with Jayce in the laning phase, and also has a late-game potential to develop and become a damage dealer position that T1 currently lacks.

At the same time, it can also burn a hero that Shimamura Yuna plays very well, which can directly reduce Shimamura Yuna's hero pool in this BO5.

It can be used by oneself, but the opponent cannot use it.

How could this be invalid?

Ultimately, they still chose to pass the ball to Dolan, choosing to believe that he could withstand Shimamura Yuna and defeat her.

But
Is this correct?
The answer is self-evident.

During the draft phase, Dolan didn't say anything, just remained silent and listened to the coach's instructions.

He did not offer any specific opinion on the coach's "I believe in you" statement.

I neither oppose nor agree with it.

I simply followed the coach's instructions almost numbly, selected a hero, and entered the game.

However, at this point, he had already mentally admitted defeat.

A complete and helpless surrender.

Such an admission of defeat may never have happened between him and Zeus.

Even if Zeus is incredibly powerful, he can still be given some room for imagination in terms of strategy.

This is not even a fantasy.

Rather, it's a sense of distance that's close at hand, that can actually be broken, and that isn't so insurmountable.

His victory over Zeus and leading his team to victory in this playoffs is proof of that.

However, Shimamura Yuna's style is one that can completely sever all his thoughts and make him lose the desire to resist.

He knew better than anyone that he couldn't win.

But what can you say in a situation like this?

Should I say, "I feel like I can't do it"?

I just can't bring myself to say those words.

And so, I entered the game.

However, once he entered the game, knowing better than anyone the consequences of defying Shimamura Yuna, his choice in terms of gameplay was...
I don't want to appear weak.

Yes, I don't want to show weakness, I don't want to exchange with Shimamura Yuna, and I don't want to be constantly beaten like a dog by Shimamura Yuna in rounds of small games, thus creating a gap between us.

then
He chose complete conservatism.

The best way to avoid appearing weak is to reduce the number of choices you have with the other party.

You can't go wrong if you don't make a choice.

However, this means that you are just taking a beating on one side.

The initiative is entirely in the hands of the other party.

The chances of your opponent hitting you have decreased, but once they do, you'll definitely be the one getting hit.

Such things have happened before.

This is what people call a spinning top.

Thus, the second match presented a very bizarre scene.

Not long into the game, when everything was on the top lane, everyone could see that Jax had no desire to contest lane priority with Jayce. Instead, he stayed in the back to farm experience as much as he could, as if afraid of being pulled back by Shimamura's Undying.

The main point is that you only need to have experience smelling it.

If it's like this at level one, then so be it.

The problem is that no matter how the level develops to the second or third level, he just keeps going back to the turtle.

Sometimes I can't stand being a turtle anymore and want to come up and fight back.

The result was that they were attacked in one wave, and then died and went back to the back to continue to huddle, remaining inactive.

And so it went, turtle, being pressed down by the knife, turtle, being pressed down by the knife.

In terms of gameplay, it's actually quite similar to how Shimamura Yuna plays heroes like vampires, who are completely unplayable in the early game.

However, unlike others, even when Shimamura Yuna plays vampires, she tries to minimize her losses.

Her philosophy is that the turtle is designed to get as many last hits as possible with the least amount of damage.

She wasn't a tortoise for the sake of being a tortoise; she simply recognized the objective gap between herself and the heroes and knew that it was pointless to try to be strong. Therefore, she chose to be conservative within the limitations of the hero's abilities.

But Dolan's "weapon master" has a completely different meaning.

He genuinely chose to play as conservatively as possible in order to avoid getting completely destroyed.

He has truly lost confidence in his own abilities. Therefore, what everyone sees in this situation is a Dolan who constantly backs down and takes all the beatings.

This scene immediately reminded all the viewers of the familiar Dolan.

Dolan, the one who got whipped by Bin, the one who was laughed at by everyone, the one who was considered a comedic character.

He is back.

Seeing this scene, the audience couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.

Dragon God exclaimed, "Holy crap, this is the Doran I know!"

"It's back, it's all back."

"He was so dominant in the playoffs before, it was like he was really that good. I thought Dolan was really that amazing. It's okay, this is how he should be playing now, this is the kind of performance we should be seeing."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Sigh, no, why did Curse-Hokage get so humiliated by this guy? I really thought he had some kind of special power, I really thought he was so awesome."

"Sigh, Tadpole is lying again. I don't see what's so great about Dolan."

The Dragon God is a somewhat deliberate string of characters.

However, the audience's thoughts were not dictated by him.

Seeing that every time the top lane is switched to, it's Shimamura Yuna's Jayce spinning around like a top, everyone really thinks, "Why is this guy still the same old idiot?"

Many people haven't watched LCK and don't know how amazing Doran's performance was in LCK.

People were just hearing rumors that "Doran seems really good this time, unlike before."

After watching the qualifying rounds, everyone felt that "although they performed quite well, they weren't particularly amazing, just average."

At least, at that time, he didn't seem to have any obvious advantage over Bin.

Then, when the best-of-five series came around, everyone exclaimed, "Now we understand!"

That's right, I understand it completely now.

The dish was being whipped by a top and couldn't retaliate.

This is the Dolan we all know.

This is the Dolan we all remember.

What do you mean by beating up Zeus or leading the team to carry? We don't know anything about that at all!

【Back, all back】

It seems that Zeus was indeed too incompetent, not too powerful.

[After leaving T1, Zeus became a spinning top that could be whipped by Doran, and T1 also welcomed a spinning top like Shimamura. Is all of this really right?]

Yes, that's right, I love watching this.

However, in this game, although Shimamura Yuna still gained a significant CS advantage in a very short time in the top lane.

But this match actually looks like it has a slightly better chance than the last one.

Because of this game, the other lanes of T1 didn't look as damaged.

From the mid lane to the bottom lane and then to the jungle, T1 consistently maintained an advantage.

The success of the first-level jungle planning and invasion further compressed the jungler Junjia's room for maneuver, making it very difficult for him to play.

Although no kills were achieved, Junjia's disadvantage was no different from dying once in the early game.

I left my jungle and the enemy team took three of my jungle areas; I had no idea how to play anymore.

It may seem like nothing's wrong, but in reality, they're already at a significant disadvantage and desperately need a victory in a small team fight to reverse the tide.

However, it doesn't matter, the expected victory will come soon.

It is precisely at times like these that Shimamura Yuna needs to step forward.

It is precisely at times like these that Shimamura Yuna's value is revealed.

Even in another timeline without Shimamura Yuna, CFO could still play a full game against the current, struggling T1 team.

However, Shimamura Yuna is a variable.

She is a variable large enough to change the timeline.

Yuna Shimamura realized that she needed to take the initiative to do something.

She knew that if things continued this way, the game would inevitably veer in a negative direction.

If it were last season, she might have chosen to play her own game at this point, focusing on having a lead in last hits and experience, and then running for "Hero of the Day" after losing the game.

In this situation, can we say that she has any fault?
No, that's true. She didn't take any jungle resources, won her solo lane, but lost the game. What fault could she have?
But this kind of thinking is very negative for the game.

If the goal is simply to win, then considering whether you're at fault or not is meaningless.

Rather than that, it's better to try to win proactively.

With this in mind, Shimamura Yuna took the initiative to try to expand her laning advantage.

When Shimamura saw her Sejuani get knocked back to base once again, and was at a loss facing the empty jungle with only some broken pieces left, she said, "Let me go top lane."

At this moment, in her top lane, the enemy Jax had just been forced back to base and teleported back up. He had full health and, although he didn't have many items, he had managed to get some.

It doesn't look like it can move at all.

So Junjia asked with some skepticism, "Are you really coming?"

Yuna Shimamura nodded: "Really?"

Junjia asked, "But I feel like I can't kill them when I get here, given the enemy top laner's condition."

Yuna Shimamura said, "We can't kill him now."

"But by the time you arrive, it will be almost ready."

I still don't quite understand.

However, as the core member of the team, Shimamura Yuna rarely gives orders and usually plays the role of a passive fighter who follows instructions.

However, when such a character occasionally issues a command, it can give people the feeling that "this command is not mandatory."

Therefore, he abandoned any judgment on rationality.

They were simply following Shimamura Yuna's instructions.

Then, it turned out that Shimamura Yuna was right.

Indeed, when Shimamura Yuna first made this call, everything was unknown.

The opposing team is still at full strength, and the upper half of the map is completely empty.

The lower half of the area is currently empty, but it will refresh soon.

If Sejuani shows up in the top half of the jungle at this point but fails to catch anyone, and the enemy has already traded kills in the bottom half of the jungle, then Sejuani is completely doomed.

However, Shimamura Yuna kept her promise.

'It'll be almost ready by the time you arrive.'

On Sejuani's way, Shimamura Yuna, despite not having returned to base to replenish her equipment and only having half health, forced her way in and traded blows with Jax.

This wave of attacks has been remarkably effective.

(End of this chapter)