Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 99 96.5 Ban Top Lane? Completely Useless! (Part 2 of 3)
Actually, even as a sister team, TLN doesn't fully know why the CFO hasn't been joining Shimamura.

All they knew was that the CFO's public claim of not being able to attend due to depression was probably only partially true.

The depression is real, but it's not true that I won't play because of it.

But what exactly is the reason?

Karsa and others have come to the CFO to ask questions.

However, the CFO is very tight-lipped and hasn't revealed anything.

After all, there's only one World Championship spot in the first stage, and even the other teams are competitors, so of course I can't reveal that much to you.

But they had a vague feeling that it wasn't that simple.

After all, Shimamura Yuna still occasionally plays in training matches.

They had a very clear feeling.
When facing REST and DRIVER, AZHI can put up a fight, with both sides trading blows.

However, when facing Shimamura Yuna, he was completely outmatched.

Every time I get beaten, it's because of a huge gap in the top lane.

You can either avoid it by switching lines.

Alternatively, you can rely on the jungler and mid laner to support you.

In any case, a normal laning phase is basically impossible.

Basically, it can be said that Shimamura Yuna was AZHI's strictest mother.

Just seeing Shimamura Yuna in a training match makes him feel a little intimidated.

Facing Shimamura Yuna, he dared not choose any character that required a real, head-to-head battle in lane.

When facing Yuna Shimamura, he only dared to choose some roles to try out, for fear of making a mistake.

He wouldn't even be that afraid of playing against TheShy or Zeus.

When facing those opponents, he mainly adopts a "nothing to lose" approach, since he doesn't encounter them often anyway. Relying on his wild and unrestrained spirit, he dares to go up and exchange a few blows.

Ironically, it's players like Shimamura Yuna, who practice with him every day and lane against him every day, that make him feel afraid.

The TLN members can certainly empathize with this.

Rather, it's precisely because they could sense Shimamura Yuna's dominance in the laning phase that they were even more puzzled as to why Shimamura hadn't played for so long.

When Shimamura Yuna didn't play in the first two matches, AZHI even breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness it wasn't her on the other side."

However, after seeing that Shimamura Yuna was confirmed to play, the pressure on him suddenly increased.

It felt like a primary school student with poor grades meeting their parents at a parent-teacher conference; the only way to describe the feeling was suffocation.

To exaggerate a bit, his hands were almost shaking.

As a seasoned veteran, Karsa saw through his mental state and repeatedly comforted him, "Don't worry, this is a lane-swap patch, top laners aren't that influential, so don't be afraid."

"You can just pick a lane-swapping hero later."

AZHI took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.

"I will try my best. I will try my best."

"I won't hold anyone back. I won't hold anyone back."

"I didn't feel that Shimamura was that amazing."

He kept muttering to himself, as if trying to relieve his stress or hypnotize himself.

However, everyone could sense something.
If he's started muttering like that, then he's probably already bursting with stress.

In response, the TLN members could only remain silent, trying their best not to put any more pressure on him.

But everyone started to feel a little uneasy about the outcome.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Shimamura Yuna made her long-awaited return to the court, and she also felt a little unfamiliar with the atmosphere on the field.

The first thing she did upon arriving at the competition venue was, as always, to adjust the height of her chair and find a more comfortable sitting position.

Then, they began to debug the equipment.

Having not played in a competition for a long time, she felt both excited and uneasy.

Having been out of the game for so long, can I really play well?
Such doubts may begin to arise.

However, this doubt quickly dissipated as the competition officially began.

Regardless, she has every reason to win.

LCP is a small stage, far from being a shining one.

Even FS, which came later, was not the highest stage in her dreams.

You must climb step by step and become stronger step by step.

But right now, this is just the first step towards becoming the center of the stage in my dreams.

There is no reason to lose, and we absolutely cannot lose.

Yuna Shimamura was filled with determination.

The draft phase of the match has officially begun.

TLN is on the blue side, while CFO is on the red side.

Generally speaking, the blue side in this game usually has the advantage and a higher winning rate.

Therefore, after the CFO won and handed the right to choose sides to TLN, TLN naturally chose the blue side. But in reality, if Shimamura Yuna had been present as the CFO, they wouldn't have considered the red side's disadvantage to be unacceptable.

because
Chawy said, "We still need to reserve a counter position for Shimamura. We have to rely on Shimamura's counter to win the game."

No one else had any objections, and they all expressed a strong sense of trust in Shimamura.

During the ban phase, TLN showed Shimamura Yuna the utmost respect.

In the first round, three top lane heroes were banned.

They are Weapon Master, Gwen, and Vladimir. All three heroes that Yuna Shimamura plays very well were banned at once.

In addition, there's Jayce, who had already been used by AZHI once before.

As I was about to say, Shimamura Yuna suddenly lost four playable heroes.

At this point, Chawy's ability to trick people into banning him becomes apparent.

Is Shimamura Yuna's vampire really that awesome?

Objectively speaking, it's just so-so.

Even when TLN was scrimming with Yuna Shimamura, they didn't really think this hero was better than her Gwent and Jax.

but.
Because of the data from Shimamura Yuna's first BO3 match, TLN didn't dare to be so timid, or rather, "take a gamble".

Who cares if she's awesome or not?

Can you ban it first?
And this is exactly what the CFO wanted.

It's important to know that CFO has a significant advantage over TLN: their jungler is stronger.

Although Karsa is a legendary jungler who was rejected by the LPL.

Although Karsa was a highly successful former leader of the Lightning Wolves.

However, due to her advancing age and declining performance, Karsa's current condition is actually not very good.

He can basically only play support junglers, like Maokai and Sejuani.

Aside from that, the only other champion I played fairly well was Lee Sin and Skarner.

Therefore, in order to counter Junjia, TLN often restricts the jungler when playing against CFO.

They will ban all the strong junglers that are more focused on carry or carry champions in the current meta, such as Kindred, Wukong, and Zyra, in order to prevent Karsa's jungle from being compromised.

However, in order to target Shimamura Yuna, the ban slots will not be allocated to the jungler.

Now Junjia is comfortable.

In the first three rounds, the CFO, who was playing second, immediately picked the jungler/bottom lane duo of Kai'Sa, Nautilus, and Zyra.

TLN, on the other hand, first locked in Udyr for their top laner to withstand pressure, and then picked Xayah and Rakan as their bot lane duo in the next two picks.

The most crucial point of this round of draft picks was that they picked Zyra jungle, a champion that junjia plays very well and is currently very strong in the meta.

This is the significance of Shimamura Yuna's appearance: by using her intimidating presence on the opposing team, they are forced to ban her character, thus giving her teammates an advantage in the ban/pick phase.

But this is only part of it.
If she can only help her teammates gain an advantage through bans and picks, but she herself can't play comfortably, then it's meaningless.

After all, the opponent's draft picks essentially crippled one of your players, so it's hard to say that you lost out.

Therefore, how the second round of business plan (BP) went became a crucial question.

In the second round, seeing that CFO's jungler and top laner had already been picked, but not the top laner, TLN chose to ban the top laner 5 times.

Rumble and Ryze, two very common heroes in this version, have also been eliminated.

It can be said that they showed the utmost respect.

Even Shimamura Yuna, who was mentally prepared, was slightly surprised by this situation.

She opened her mouth wide and said, "Uh, I feel like there aren't many heroes I can play anymore."

Meanwhile, Longshen, who was illegally streaming LCP commentary on Bilibili, started yelling: "Fuck your mother TLN, you won't let us play this one hero? Are you that scared?"

"Sigh, Shimamura-nee, I really don't want Shimamura-nee to be the lead, this is..."

After a brief period of depression, the Dragon God regained his spirits and became excited again.

"It's okay! I believe in Shimamura-nee! Shimamura-nee definitely has other heroes she can use to crush the enemy team. Quick, prove them wrong! Prove they're just a bunch of cowards who're afraid of you!!!"

The Dragon God's excited and immersed state left the audience dumbfounded.

With Shimamura's appearance, the number of viewers in the live stream has now risen back to 5.

And the 50,000 people watching him go crazy couldn't help but send out comments.

Is Shimamura your biological mother?

Look how filial you are!

You're even more filial to Brother Xu and Ma Tou than I am; I don't believe you're not related by blood.

[Brother Shen, are you really that filial to your own mother?]

Although the Dragon God's performance was indeed a bit exaggerated.

However, his guess was indeed correct.

Everything that's happening right now is within the CFO's expectations.

Even with so many heroes banned, Shimamura Yuna still has heroes she can pick.
In the second round, after CFO simply banned Lee Sin and Viktor, TLN on the blue side picked Nocturne and Galio, while CFO on the red side picked Orianna.

At this point, only one character remains to be played, namely the character that Shimamura Yuna chose in the Counter position on the 5th floor.

Shimamura Yuna's choice in this regard was...
Yongen.

It might be because Shimamura Yuna appeared too few times, and the stereotype of her playing a mage was too deeply ingrained.

This caused TLN to completely forget that they had such a signature hero of hers outside.

Due to numerical nerfs and various other adjustments in the current version, Yone is basically the default mid-laner.

No one would have thought there would be such a thing in the top lane champion pool.

But Shimamura Yuna was different.

Her Yone is probably the second most powerful superhero after the vampire.

She loves playing characters with low stats in the early game.

(End of this chapter)