Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 6. League of Legends: It's Not as Simple as You Think

League of Legends has been quite popular in Japan recently.

Because of Valorant's popularity, I wanted to try out League of Legends, which is from the same company as Valorant.

However, they weren't very interested in League of Legends itself, but rather saw it as an add-on to the Valorant culture that was popular in Japan.

Or rather, in their view, Valorant is a simple, easy-to-learn, and popular game.

League of Legends, from the same company, is a game that many people know, but not many people actually play, which makes it somewhat niche and inaccessible.

If you tell people you're a Valorant player, they'll say, "Oh, you play Valorant too."

But if you say you play League of Legends, people's tone might change to, "You still play that game? That game is too difficult, I don't know how to play it."

When someone hears another person say that, the person who claims to play League of Legends will naturally feel a sense of superiority.

Therefore, in Japan, some players try League of Legends not because they want to play, but simply to show off that they are "high-level League of Legends players".

They want to gain a sense of superiority through this method.

It's a kind of trend label, I guess.

To be honest, it's not a big deal.

It's just a social technique.

People will always find a way to gain attention.

But Su Qing is a bit more yin and damp.

She can't stand people who like to show off, especially those who use their favorite games as a tool to attract attention.

At this moment, Shimamura Yuna has the typical appearance of an underage Japanese girl, and to her, she is a very stereotypical junior named Wa.

Even though the two of them didn't know each other, Su Qing had already imagined that this was a trendy Japanese girl who had started playing League of Legends after watching some matches or live streams.

She was ready to thoroughly humiliate Shimamura Yuna by saying, "You don't even know how to play League of Legends, so why are you playing it?"

At this moment, Shimamura Yuna was completely unaware that the other person was having so many strange imaginings about her.

I'd say even if she knew, she probably wouldn't care too much.

The only thing she cared about was finally being able to play a couple of games of League of Legends.

She's played quite a bit of League of Legends.
Even during the period shortly before she transmigrated, when she was semi-retired, she did not waste her time.

But she had indeed been away from things like a 17-year-old body and 17-year-old reactions for a long time.

Will she be any different from me at 22?

Will I be stronger than I was at 22, or... will there actually be no difference?

Thinking about this, she felt somewhat excited.

Su Qing helped her log into a Chinese server account for Ionia.

The account name is "World's Cutest Xiao Qing".

I took a quick look and it seems there are no Solo/Double ranks this season, but the Flexible rank is Platinum, and I play a lot of ARAM.

Commonly used heroes: Nami, Lulu, Yuumi.

There's a rather stereotypical preference among female gamers for support champions.

When she saw the account's data, she knew that the account's hidden score was probably not very high.

Although it looks like "unranked", the actual level of the opponent in the first ranked game is estimated to be between Iron and Silver.

This made her slightly disappointed.

I was hoping it would be a slightly higher-ranked account.

She doesn't like stomping noobs; she prefers evenly matched laning and balanced macro play.

The stronger the opponent, the stronger the sense of reward she will feel after winning the game.

Defeating a powerful enemy is a very different experience from defeating a weakling who is not worth mentioning.

However, there's not much to complain about right now.

'Just consider this a warm-up exercise.'

Thinking this, she started a solo/duo ranked game, familiarly locking her primary role in top lane and her secondary role in jungle, then clicked "start matchmaking." Meanwhile, Su Qing, standing behind her watching her play, began to sense something was amiss.

She had originally expected that Shimamura Yuna, as a complete novice, would cluelessly enter the client, not knowing how to start the game or how to choose a hero.

They can't even understand the UI.

Then, you have to pitifully ask yourself, "How do I start ranked matches in this game?"

However, to her surprise, as soon as the other party entered the game, they immediately went to her personal homepage and checked her ingredients.

See what heroes she likes to play, and what rank she is.

After checking my score with great interest, I entered the solo/duo queue interface, quickly selected the top lane and jungle positions, and started the ranked game.

This doesn't seem like a lot of fun.
They must have at least played games.

This made her a little curious.

She leaned against Shimamura Yuna's chair and asked curiously, "You really don't have your own account? You've really never played before?"

Shimamura Yuna then noticed that Su Qing hadn't left and was watching her from behind.

She was startled at first.

After pausing for a moment, he finally spoke, "I guess you could say I've never played before. I don't actually have an account."

Su Qing was a little confused: "What do you mean by 'probably never played it before'?"

Yuna Shimamura didn't know how to explain it.

I played it in my past life but not in this life, so I don't have an account. Is there any way to explain this?

After thinking about it, she decided to just give a perfunctory answer. After all, she wasn't familiar with Su Qing, so there was no need to explain it in detail.

Yuna Shimamura: "I only played two games at a friend's house."

"I've played it, but I don't have my own account."

Hearing this, Su Qing felt relieved.

No wonder you know the League of Legends UI, no wonder you don't look like a complete newbie.

So you've played it before.

But if you've only played two games, and then you want an account to play ranked matches, isn't that just being overly ambitious?

She remembers when she first started playing this game, she spent months playing against bots every day before daring to play in matchmaking.

This girl played a couple of games at her friend's house and then immediately wanted to play ranked matches. Isn't she just asking to get crushed?
Thinking of this, she felt reassured.

"It's okay, I'll still show you that League of Legends isn't as simple as you think!"

And so she continued watching Shimamura Yuna play the game, waiting to see Shimamura Yuna get beaten up.

Of course, Shimamura Yuna was completely unaware of her little schemes.

She assumed her boss simply wanted to watch her play games and didn't think much of it.

Soon, the game was scheduled.

I was lucky in the first game; I didn't have to fill any other roles and instead got to play my preferred top lane position.

After entering the game, she immediately locked in Vladimir after banning all the heroes.

Su Qing, who was watching from the side, was slightly stunned.

'Wait, is the Vampire hero suitable for beginners?'

'Doesn't she play as a rock golem?'

At this point, she finally couldn't help but speak up.

"Um... if you're a beginner, is it really a bad idea to play this kind of hero?"

Shimamura Yuna turned around and gave her a brief, indifferent look.

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