Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 83, Section 81: A Flawed Genius

Yuna Shimamura's opponent in this match is the Iron-Blooded Wolf Mother, played by player AZHI.
At this point in time, the Wolf Mother is a character who has only recently been introduced.

Although it is widely regarded as a very strong character with good functionality in both laning and team fights, it is considered to have great potential in professional matches.

However, due to limited practice time, many professional players are still not very proficient in developing this character.

It's a situation where everyone knows this character is strong, but when they bring them out in a match, the effect is just average, neither strong nor weak.

In Shimamura Yuna's memory, it's usually only after the first stage of the competition has progressed to the second half and many professional players have become much more proficient with the character that this character can truly shine on the field.

In this respect, she did have a bit of an unfair advantage, since she had two more months to play the character than others and knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Wolf Mother character well.

This character's weakness in the laning phase lies in the long cooldown time of their skills in the early game, which can be quite troublesome due to the gap between one skill combo and another.

The advantage lies in the fact that the skill upgrade system is really strong, ridiculously strong.

It could even be described as somewhat shameless; a true blood transfusion without injury is a role that completely seizes the initiative.

But Shimamura Yuna knew how to use high technology to fight against cold weapons, long arms against short arms, and men against women when the wolf mother was out of skills.

AZHI, however, was clearly still in the stage of practicing heroes, and her understanding was far inferior to hers.

Therefore, almost naturally, Shimamura Yuna immediately put pressure on AZHI.

Azhi first ambushed in the bushes, intending to use his first two Q attacks to unleash a burst of damage.

However, after missing the second Q, the damage output became insufficient.

He was then relentlessly attacked by Shimamura Yuna's Jayce, and in that one wave, his health was reduced to a very dangerous level.

Subsequently, due to the long skill cooldown period, Wolf Mother had no chance to compete with Jayce for levels.

Next, you need to reach level three before you can trade blows with Jayce. At this point, you can use the huge shield from your W to avoid Jayce's burst damage and gain an advantage in the trade.

However, precisely at this crucial juncture, the wolf mother still failed to handle the situation well.

Jayce baited out Wolf Mother's W with a series of maneuvers, then dodged the damage from Wolf Mother's second Q.

Wait until his shield disappears before launching a counterattack.

At this point, Wolf Mother's laning phase can be considered a complete failure. All she can do now is try to avoid being solo killed, minimize her losses in this unavoidable disadvantage, and wait to coordinate with her teammates to try and turn the tide.

So far, none of Shimamura Yuna's actions have been considered radical.

However, it gives people an indescribable feeling of precision and flawlessness.

As someone who plays League of Legends regularly, teacher Chawy could tell at a glance that Shimamura Yuna's gameplay was so meticulous that it bordered on academic.

It's as if she would make all the most reasonable moves at every point in time.

Any unreasonable behavior on the laning side will be punished by her reasonable actions.

"Absolutely reasonable for online play" is a simple-sounding phrase, but it's not so simple for the game League of Legends.

To achieve this, firstly, a large number of countermeasures are needed.

You need to understand your own hero, as well as your opponent's hero, and you need to understand the theoretical effects of your hero clashing with your opponent's.

You need to use your eyes and hands to operate first, and then use your brain to record what happened.

On this basis, you need to be able to select the appropriate strategy from the countless options stored in your mind at any time.

This requires a high degree of concentration.
At the same time, a certain amount of talent is also required.

According to Yuna Shimamura, League of Legends is essentially a quiz game.

You need to keep practicing questions, memorizing questions, and then answering the questions correctly.

And this is precisely what she excels at. During the laning phase alone, she can be almost absolutely flawless.

This is why she can play well with powerful late-game carries.

Because her late-game carry champions can transition to their power spike with relatively minimal losses and in the most reasonable way, she knows how to lane effectively.

This is a skill that many players, even professional players, do not fully possess.

When this laning ability is applied to Jayce, a traditional lane-dominant champion, it feels like her Jayce is a suffocating suppression machine.

“It’s not simple”

Chawy once again uttered this exclamation.

Just by standing behind Shimamura Yuna and watching her laning phase firsthand, he immediately had a feeling.

Compared to the two current top laners, Rest or Driver...
Her operating style has the potential to make her a "star".

It's not that she's necessarily better than Driver and Rest at this stage, nor is it that she's a more mature professional player than Rest and Driver.

It's just that her gaming habits and special abilities make people feel that she is indeed a high-rarity card, and her training potential is obviously quite high.

'To become a superstar, you need at least this kind of charisma.'

But at this stage, Shimamura Yuna may only have a minimum of that.

'She has great potential, but that doesn't necessarily mean she'll be a good professional player right now.'

Chawy's idea soon came true.

Although Shimamura Yuna did gain a huge advantage in the solo lane, she was easily limited by Karsa's ganks and TLN's lane swap strategy, preventing her from maintaining an unstoppable pressure on Wolf Mother.

After that, although her economy was always ahead of AZHI's, she failed to convert her personal advantage into a team victory.

They simply followed their teammates, who were also at a disadvantage due to various mistakes, and ended up in a predicament.

Looking at it from the looks of it, it can't be said that Shimamura Yuna is to blame.

After all, she had an advantage in the laning phase and didn't feed the enemy afterwards.

I did deal less damage in team fights, but that can also be attributed to my teammates dying too quickly and creating a poor environment for me to deal damage.

Can.
'You can do more, can't you? More than just this, right?'

'Shouldn't we take this kind of performance for granted?'

Chawy inevitably has higher expectations for players like Yuna Shimamura.

Moreover, in just this one training match, he immediately identified a major problem with Shimamura Yuna: her playing style was too conservative.

Despite having an economic advantage and leading equipment and level, they are unwilling to take risks.

Despite being the only player in the team with the ability to break through, he doesn't try to break through and find opportunities, but instead always prioritizes ensuring his own development.

Yuna Shimamura seems to be a flawed genius, but she has great potential.

Chawy felt excited at the thought.

Next, he wants to use more training matches to verify his ideas.

P.S.: There should be another chapter after I wake up tonight.

It should be available for purchase next Tuesday. As I said before, I will try my best to process the plot to a suitable level for release before next Tuesday.

I'm constantly asking for your continued reading and votes.
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(End of this chapter)