Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 97, Page 94: The Grand Finale! (4K, Please Vote)
First, he analyzed Shimamura Yuna's most specific problem in dealing with the drugging incident.

Simply put...
Yuna Shimamura doesn't mean she can only play mage carries, or only Yone, or only late-game champions.

Analyzing Shimamura Yuna's problems based on hero type is actually quite superficial.

If you insist that Shimamura Yuna can only play mages, then why is her Rumble only so-so, just playable?

Logically speaking, Rumble is the mage champion with the highest pick rate in the top lane in recent years, so why can't she play him?
Why not play Mordekaiser? Isn't Mordekaiser a typical top lane champion?
Ultimately, the core reason is not because playing AP champions is easier to win.

Instead, in Shimamura Yuna's mind, there was only one stable and reliable path to victory.

Focus on farming, ensuring your own development, dribbling solo, and then winning the game with the ball.

After consulting with Dr. Chawy, he believes that Shimamura Yuna may have gained an advantage when she first started playing the game because of her strong laning skills.

Then, as she gradually gets stronger, she will discover that, based on the premise of being able to dominate the opponent in lane, the more ball possession a hero has, the more likely they are to win the game without interference.

In terms of overall win rate, there might not be a significant difference in the statistics between dominating your opponent in the early game and taking over the game in the late game.

But if you play a character that dominates others in the early game but has limited usefulness in the late game, you might feel frustrated for a long time after losing just one game.

Yuna Shimamura is someone who dislikes this kind of frustration.

Therefore, she always tends to choose roles that she can definitely win after gaining an advantage. If she can't win, it's because she didn't do a good job. Thinking like this makes her feel much better.

As a result, from the time she first started playing the game and her talent was just beginning to emerge, until she gradually became a top player and started competing.
She used this method to win games throughout her entire journey to becoming a top player.

In other words, the strategy is to maintain an absolute advantage in the laning phase, maintain an economic lead, and win the game by split pushing or achieving absolute economic dominance before engaging in team fights.

She feels insecure about any game that requires speed or variation, so she subconsciously chooses to reject it.

It's fair to say that her playstyle is not something every player can imitate.

This playstyle requires a strong laning ability, which in turn depends on a person's learning ability and talent.

It can be said that in some aspects, Yuna Shimamura truly possessed top-tier talent.

But for her, talent was, in a way, also a curse.

Even if a typical player has gone through a similar phase, as their rank increases, they will soon hit a wall, realize the problems with their gameplay, and then improve their gameplay in order to rank up and become stronger.

They tend to become more and more versatile as their rank increases, and their ability values ​​will gradually become more hexagonal as they encounter obstacles.

There may still be some areas where one's abilities are particularly outstanding.
But generally speaking, most top players can achieve a score of 80 or above in their area of ​​expertise, while also managing to pass with a score of 60 in areas they are not good at.

As the saying goes, the environment is there to mold people and help them grow.

Those who are completely unable to make changes often gradually get stuck at a certain level and are unable to go any further.

But Shimamura is helpless.
Her talent for online play is simply too outstanding.

Some problems that urgently needed improvement were directly overcome by her strongest advantage.

Even in the most competitive ranked matches, there was no significant pressure on her gameplay, nor did it give her the motivation to feel that she was playing poorly and urgently needed to change.

She thought, "There's nothing wrong with me playing like this. Nobody can beat me. What's wrong with that?"

This results in other players being able to achieve a minimum score of 60 in all stats and an outstanding score of 80 in their individual abilities after practicing and honing their skills in the Korean server.

She can score 98 points in the laning phase, but in some aspects she might not even score 30 points, which is a serious imbalance in her abilities.

This problem only came to light after she started playing in competitions and entered the professional gaming environment.

No one can punish your playstyle on the ladder, but there are plenty of people who can punish you in the professional scene.

Or, even if we can't punish you, what can you do if we ban your hero?

What's more frightening is that by this point, her approach to the game was almost fixed, and her mindset had become ingrained.

Getting her to change her mindset is actually harder than getting some diamond geeks who haven't yet formed a fixed formula in their minds.

She feels uneasy once she steps out of her comfort zone.

When she feels insecure, she performs poorly, thus falling into a cycle of insecurity and anxiety.

She'll start to question herself: Am I really useless at playing tanks? Are my warriors really trash?
Then he went crazy and continued practicing on the ladder.

But practice is useless, because her terrible performance with these heroes isn't a problem with her skills, it's a problem with her brain. If you practice these heroes using the wrong methods from before, it will only make your brain more and more problematic, it won't cure your brain.

I told you to practice Ornn, but you're instead studying how to make Ornn's combos more powerful, and you're researching the little operational details of this hero when laning against other heroes.

What's the point? Is this what you're supposed to practice? Is this what you're lacking?
This is why it's said that her talent in laning was, to some extent, a curse for Yuna Shimamura.

Coach Chawy explained all of the above statements to Shimamura Yuna in detail that day, and his analysis was very logical and reasonable.

Then Shimamura Yuna listened, somewhat bewildered, and after listening, she said...
Wow, all correct!

She felt as if she had been enlightened.

Chawy, in particular, said that after she started to doubt herself, she would go crazy practicing these heroes on the ranked ladder, and the more she practiced, the more strange it became.

This is almost exactly the same as her situation.

In the past, when her coaches in the LPL faced these problems, they would only tell her "then practice more" without being able to analyze where the problem lay.

Finally, someone spoke to her heart, resolving some of her long-standing confusion and insecurity.

At that moment, Shimamura Yuna was even a little moved.

However, on the other hand...
"While I think what you said makes sense, I've actually done some research on how to play heavy armor units. But so far, the results are still very poor."

Even if you point out the problem, how can I improve it?

Chawy smiled slightly and said, "The right medicine will do the trick."

After that, he would regularly select some recordings for Shimamura Yuna to watch. After watching them, he would privately give her extra lessons on POV analysis, comparing other people's gameplay with Shimamura Yuna's gameplay, so that she would realize why she was not good at playing other heroes.

He didn't actually select any random match videos for her to watch.

Instead, we let her watch recordings of REST, one of the team's players.

It's not that REST plays exceptionally well, nor is it that he's better than the top laners of those universally recognized top teams.

It's just that, as a veteran top laner who has been playing since the early days of the LMS, REST was able to become a starter when the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions were still quite competitive. Over the years, he has experienced both lows and highs, and he is still able to stand on the field today.

He may not be considered among the top tier in terms of skill.

However, years of competition have given him a high level of experience and a very mature understanding of his gameplay. Nowadays, he may still lag behind younger players in terms of operational details and reaction speed.

However, for a top laner of such advanced age to still be able to play for a top-tier LCP team, his fundamentals and game sense are still sufficient.

Building on this foundation, the team's current top laner, Driver, was personally mentored by REST, demonstrating that mentoring is REST's forte.

For a long time afterward, Shimamura Yuna felt as if she had returned to school.

Every now and then, her homeroom teacher, Chawy, would assign her a video assignment to watch, and then ask her to share her feelings after watching it.

At the same time, her teacher REST would also come to tutor her from time to time, so that she would know where her problems were.

It has to be said that REST, as a veteran player, has a wealth of knowledge stored in his mind that is invaluable to many professional players.

Many times, problems that had puzzled Shimamura for a long time seemed to become much clearer after he gave her just a few pointers.
Under the guidance of REST and Chawy, Shimamura Yuna's mind gained a lot of knowledge in a very short period of time, which she had never had before.

This really surprised her.

'Isn't this a bit too academic?'

This feeling of having someone guide and nurture you is something Shimamura Yuna never experienced when she was on that bottom-tier LPL team.

She felt that at that time, she was simply growing wildly and playing games based on instinct.

She even always felt that games couldn't be taught by others; they were all about understanding them through one's own talent.
However, Chawy, REST, and the other members of the CFO training team truly gave her a small but impressive academic take on League of Legends.

So this is how it can be taught to others in such a systematic way?

This unprecedented experience has really energized her lately.

It's just
Although Chawy and REST have made efforts to teach.

However, in terms of effectiveness, it's only so-so.

Anyway, it's hard to describe that feeling of suddenly unlocking Shimamura Yuna's full potential.

There is definitely growth, but the pace isn't very noticeable.

Basically, every now and then, Shimamura Yuna would be asked to play a training match to verify the effectiveness of her training.

As a result, Shimamura Yuna went from being completely clueless when playing heavy warriors and tanks, not knowing what to do after the laning phase, to having a slightly more purposeful approach.

But it really is only a little bit.

For example, Chawy will tell her "what you should do in this situation", and Driver will tell her "how you need to handle this situation".

People will tell her many ways to handle it.

She slowly collected and summarized this information in her mind.

In the same scenario, there are often many choices, and not just one.

In situations like these, she needs to make on-the-spot judgments.

However, in such situations, Shimamura Yuna's performance is characterized by a lack of common sense, and she often makes mistakes.

But this kind of thing can't be rushed.

You need to play more games and make more judgments during games to gradually realize what kind of different decisions are correct in different situations.

This is similar to Shimamura Yuna's skill in online battles.
Why is she strong in lane?

To put it simply, she plays a lot, thinks a lot, and is very clear about the outcome of each matchup, so she can always make the right choices.

In the context of game decision-making, as long as you always know what the consequences of your decisions will be under different conditions, you will naturally always be able to make the right decisions.

Unlike laning, you get effective training in every ranked game you play.

However, there are very few competitions and training matches that can effectively train your decision-making skills.
This is what veteran players refer to as the "experience advantage".

More matches allow veteran players to accumulate more historical decision-making data.

This is something that cannot be caught up with in a short time.

Shimamura Yuna was not discouraged.

because
Compared to the past, at least now she has truly entered the field.

It's like finally unlocking a new growth path called "Decision-Making Ability Regarding Top Lane Fighters and Tanks".

Although the level is only one now, it's still better than when it was locked.

At least now we can grind experience points, right?

And so, Shimamura Yuna immersed herself in a kind of pleasure similar to doing exercises every day, growing slowly and steadily.

She is obsessed with this kind of rewarding effort, and has always been so.

While she was in seclusion cultivating...
The CFO competition has gradually progressed to its most crucial stage.

For the CFO, the regular season is a foregone conclusion.

Even the first two rounds of the playoffs were a foregone conclusion.

For these two teams from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in the LCP, the championship or any other achievement in this region is almost meaningless.

The sole purpose of this region is to qualify them for the World Championship.

Only by achieving a breakthrough in the World Championship can CFO and PSG be considered successful.

The current first stage of the world championship, namely FS
In this competition, each region has only one spot.

In other words, only one of the two teams from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan can ultimately go to the World Championship.

Only by becoming the LCP champion can one obtain this sole qualification for the World Championship.
The two former brother teams are finally about to have their own ultimate showdown.

After a season of silence on the bench, Shimamura Yuna is finally going to make her grand entrance in this most crucial match.

P.S.: Some people might wonder why the regular season ended so quickly and why the playoffs were barely mentioned.

The main issue is that LCP (Limited Line Component) performance is indeed not good.

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