Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 89 86 The Little One's Shock as a Top LPL Top Laner

Chapter 89, Section 86: The Shock of a Top LPL Top Laner (4K words, please subscribe)
It's not that you can't lose a solo match.

just
As a fellow top laner, even from just this small wave, he could clearly feel that the pressure Shimamura Yuna was putting on him in the laning phase seemed a bit too much.

He felt that all his intentions had been seen through, and that his few moves were as vulnerable as if he were naked in front of Shimamura Yuna.

It's the genuine feeling that you're on the second level, but the other person is already on the fifth level.

This level of laning intensity is something a player from the Vietnamese region like him can't handle.

If he's already like this in a solo match, what will he do if he gets completely destroyed in the main tournament?
This was just a solo match, yet it already made Kratos feel a little nervous.

Perhaps his mentality collapsed a bit, plus dying so early in a SOLO match basically meant he couldn't recover.

After returning to lane, Kratos started playing erratically, making even more mistakes than in the first wave.

It's reasonable to suspect that he felt he couldn't win the solo match and wanted to end it quickly, so he sped up the pace.

Of course, Shimamura Yuna would grant his request.

Soon, Shimamura Yuna naturally completed her second solo kill.

Thus, the solo match ended, and Shimamura Yuna effortlessly secured the right to choose sides for the CFO.

The moment the game ended, jungler Junjia couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Haha, I knew we were going to win as soon as I saw the characters on both sides. If AZHI were here, he definitely wouldn't dare to pick Wolf Mother against Shimamura."

Doggo from the bottom lane chimed in, "Shimamura-nee is awesome!"

Faced with her teammate's direct praise, Shimamura Yuna simply smiled shyly and politely, pursing her lips, without saying anything more.

But at this moment, the comments and chat rooms have already exploded.

Although it was just a solo match, it's important to know that Shimamura Yuna is now a professional player being watched by countless eyes with a magnifying glass.

Every move she makes will be magnified.

This applies to both the good and the bad.

At this moment, her pure spinning top performance against Kratos has clearly made many of her supporters extremely happy.

At least many of Yuna's fans who watched the pirated LCP regular season broadcast on Bilibili are already celebrating.

Holy crap, Yuna is amazing! How is Yuna so incredible?

[I think Yuna can easily crush those noobs in LCP.]

[Can God-Brother really handle this?]

[God might not be able to pull this Wolf Mother while playing Jayce, but he'll probably get a much better feel for the Wolf Mother from Yuna's Jayce.]

In fact, Shimamura Yuna has always given people the impression of being very impressive during her live streams.

Her reasoning and her meticulousness are very familiar to the audience.

However, everyone subconsciously felt that "that was just something displayed on the ladder to heaven."

Based on past experience, the audience has a certain feeling.

That is, what is presented on the ladder may not be able to be replicated in the competition.

Even players who are very skilled on the ranked ladder, even those who have reached the Challenger rank, may not necessarily maintain the same level of skill in competitive matches.

For this reason, they did not expect Shimamura Yuna to perform at the same or even close level on the court as she did on the ladder.

But now it seems
At least from the perspective of the solo match, the Vietnamese player opposite Shimamura Yuna was not fundamentally different from the players she encountered on the ladder.

This may indeed be true, since Shimamura Yuna's MMR and win rate are significantly higher than those of the Vietnamese player.

However, Shimamura Yuna's fans shouldn't be too happy yet.

After all, it was just a solo performance, so you can't really tell too much from it.

The main competition that follows is the crucial part.
And so, Shimamura Yuna's fans, even more nervous than Shimamura Yuna herself, continued watching the main competition.

After winning the solo match, the CFO chose blue, while MVKE was forced to choose red.

The ban/pick phase for the first game started quickly, and the picks for both sides were finalized in no time.

The CFO, on the blue side, banned Nightmare, Quesanti, Airplane, Riel, and Poppy.

The team composition selected was Jax (top), Sejuani (jungle), Yone (mid), Varus (AD), and Nautilus (support).

A lineup that leans towards initiating team fights.

On MVKE's side, it seemed that because they were a little hesitant after being beaten by Shimamura Yuna in the solo match, they immediately pressed Jayce as their first pick.

Ultimately, five champions were banned: Jayce, Leona, Rumble, Skarner, and Ashe.

The team composition chosen was: top laner Wolf Mother, jungler Zyra, mid laner Renekton, AD Miss Fortune, and support Rakan.

After the players were selected, before the game started, Coach Chawy kept talking to the team members and giving them instructions on tactics.

"To be honest, you went a bit too far in your solo play just now, which actually disrupted our strategy. We had analyzed that MVKE is a team that doesn't like to actively switch lanes, which is actually a good fit for you."

"But you went too far in the solo lane just now, so MVKE might change their minds. They'll definitely think they can't beat you in a top lane duel, so they'll definitely want to switch."

"Later, when we enter the game, we need to find a way to catch them switching lanes and engage them, understand? We absolutely cannot play by the rules."

The coach had actually mentioned this lane change before the match.

According to Chawy, due to Shimamura Yuna's limited champion pool and gameplay flaws, she shouldn't have been able to secure a starting position, especially in the current lane-swap meta where top laners generally have a lower status.

The CFO is a team that excels at handling and operating across different channels.

However, Shimamura Yuna is a top laner who cannot utilize her strengths in lane swap games, which does not fit the CFO's style.

A lane swap means both top laners are running out of resources, and the competition is about which top laner is more effective in this situation.

However, Shimamura Yuna is not a player who is very good at playing a game where both sides are out of resources.

She's like a marksman in Overwatch encountering patch 303; her style is truly being countered by the patch.

However, since it was her debut, Chawy still gave her a chance and tailored a strategy for her that would avoid lane swaps as much as possible, allowing her to make the most of her abilities.

Chawy said, "Everyone thinks you have potential, but you have to prove to me that you can turn that potential into real ability."

'I will prove it.'

And so, the game began.

Yuna Shimamura officially ushered in her first regular season game.

At the start of the game, the entire CFO team followed Coach Chawy's plan, trying to switch lanes and exploit the opponent's lane swaps as much as possible without revealing their intentions.

As Coach Chawy predicted, when the minions were released, things turned out exactly as they had.
MVKE, a team that doesn't usually like to switch lanes, actually did it.

When the two teams finally appeared online, it was surprising to find that both AD carries and supports were in the top lane, while both top laners were in the bottom lane.

This scene made both the audience and the commentator feel a little tense for a moment.

And Coach Chawy was right; the opponent really did change his mind because of the solo match just now.

In just one solo match, the opposing top laner, Kratos, realized he had no chance against Shimamura Yuna in their lane, and he felt the huge gap in skill between them. Out of fear of being outplayed and the pressure of not wanting to take responsibility, he proactively asked his team to let him switch lanes.

However, what he didn't expect was that his thoughts had already been detected by the CFO.

Kratos tried everything to avoid facing Shimamura Yuna, but when he logged in and found that he was facing Shimamura Yuna again, the expression on Kratos's face was worse than if he had eaten shit.

And this was exactly what Shimamura Yuna wanted to do.

Although in the current version, even if the lane swap fails at the start, you can still find a way to switch lanes later.

When facing an opponent who is determined not to switch lanes, no matter what, you can only lane against them for a few minutes at most.

But it doesn't matter. For Shimamura Yuna, these few minutes are enough to crush a top laner of this caliber.

In her opinion, defeating the Wolf Mother hero is actually quite simple.

It's simply a matter of trying to avoid getting hit on the outer edge of the Q skill or maintaining a good distance to avoid being hit.

Then twist the second q if you can.

If you can do these two things every time, you will most likely have an absolute advantage in the first-level blood exchange with the wolf mother.

That's all that's needed.
With this in mind, as soon as she logged in, she actively suppressed the wolf mother's position, trying to trade blows with her by preventing the wolf mother from finishing off enemies and gaining experience.

While the opposing top laner may have some instinctive apprehension and fear towards Shimamura Yuna, she's a wolf mother, not exactly a weak champion. Against a Jax, she can't just mindlessly turtle, right? She has to give it a try, can't she?
So he tentatively took a step forward, wanting to start with Q1 and then trade blows with Q1+Q2 without taking any damage.

However, Shimamura Yuna completely saw through his intentions.

Yuna Shimamura always maintained a very ambiguous position, making the other person feel like they could get close to her, but also like they couldn't.

When the opponent was about to use Q, she took a step back and pulled away his Q1, causing him to enter a huge cooldown period because he missed his Q.

Now, facing a weapon master who still has his E ability active, the wolf mother can only smell the experience points and has no right to finish off the enemy.

So the weapon master was the first to reach level two, and immediately jumped in with a combo, gaining some health advantage.

After that, it became a classic situation where a single mistake in the top lane could lead to an endless, snowballing spiral.

Yuna Shimamura always manages to stay one step ahead of the wolf mother.

My leveling up is a little faster than the Wolf Mother's, so I can always beat her in leveling up and take her down in one go.

When exchanging blood, the details are always a bit more precise than those of the wolf mother, dodging more skills and thus earning more.

The so-called difference in laning skill level is accumulated from these small details, eventually forming an irreversible snowball.

If two top laners with top-tier laning skills meet in the top lane, they might end up in a stalemate because they are both playing cautiously and strategically. In other words, there might not be a clear advantage or disadvantage in trading blows, and the differences in skill would simply be due to the inherent characteristics of the champions.

However, for Shimamura Yuna and the current Kratos, Shimamura Yuna almost never makes mistakes, but Kratos makes a lot of errors.

The vast difference in laning knowledge and subtleties between the two left Kratos feeling completely overwhelmed.

At level three, he was already struggling to lane due to the constant trading of health.

He even started to have some self-doubt.

'Is this guy really an LCP-level player? Are there really players in the LCP with such a monstrous laning phase?'

As a professional player, Shimamura Yuna certainly has many flaws, both big and small.

However, when it comes to laning without interference, she is definitely a top-tier player.

Now, she has given the Vietnamese players in the small LCP region a small shock, a small LPL top laner (laning phase only).

Kratos is the type of player who doesn't dare to farm minions even when he's on the lane, because he's afraid that if he goes up to farm minions, he'll get solo killed because of his low health.

If he waited a little longer for the minion wave to reach the tower, he worried that he would be tower-dived.

They were forced to return to the city directly.

Normally, if you want to switch lanes, then this first recall is a good opportunity to switch lanes.

However, Kratos was forced to recall far too early, and his own bot lane didn't have the timing to recall and switch lanes with him.

So he could only return to the city to replenish his health and mana, and then grit his teeth and teleport back to continue laning against Shimamura Yuna.

All of this was witnessed by the audience.
Since Shimamura Yuna was the focus of today's broadcast, the director paid almost all his attention to the top lane, only occasionally switching to other lanes to check the situation, and otherwise watching how the top laner was laning.

As a result, everyone witnessed Kratos being unilaterally toyed with by Shimamura Yuna while spinning a top online.

Everyone was shocked.

【Wow, is Shimamura really that amazing?】

[Didn't someone just say, 'It's just a solo competition, why all the fuss?'? What about now?]

【So, why don't we just play LCP now? Why don't you go fight Zeus instead?】

[Seriously, Shimamura's level is truly supermodel-worthy for this competition, right?]

Yuna is awesome! Yuna is truly amazing!

Even the commentators couldn't help but praise, "Hey, I have to say, Shimamura's playing style is really amazing!"

It can only be said that the double stereotype of being a streetball legend and a female player has led to very low expectations for Shimamura Yuna's performance.

Almost no one really believed that she could perform well in professional matches; they all thought that "we'd be grateful if she could just have a decent, unremarkable performance."

Therefore, the less expectation people had of her performance beforehand, the stronger their sense of awe was when they saw her brilliant performance.

But in Shimamura Yuna's view, all of this was simply a performance that was expected to be played out.

after all
'They're just opponents of this caliber.'

Shimamura Yuna's overwhelming advantage in a single lane completely disrupted MVKE's game plan.

In addition, CFO's bot lane is also slightly advantageous.

Almost predictably, Junjia's jungler felt completely pressure-free roaming across all three lanes, doing whatever he wanted.

First, he helped Shimamura Yuna climb the tower and kill the wolf mother.

After that, he helped her control the dragon and stood guard for her.

MVKE, feeling utterly helpless, continued its relentless march toward defeat.

At this point, it's impossible to say there were any mistakes in decision-making.

There is simply a huge gap in skill level.

Especially the difference in the top lane.

P.S.: This chapter is 4 words long again.