Shirona Shizuku Streams Six Hours of League Practice the Day Before #LTK Matches

NEO-PORTE — Shirona Shizuku of Neo-Porte streamed about six hours of League of Legends practice on Monday, the evening before the official #LTK matches. Tachibana Hinano of VSpo, Neo-Porte’s Tentei Forte and the streamer Maitake took part in the same voice chat, and Hinano streamed the session from her own channel as well.

The night opened with coaching-style review, with coaches asking what a player should be thinking at a given moment of a lane. About 15 minutes in, the group laid out the plan: three games over roughly three hours, with the team on red side the next day. They also traded questions about which champions each player trusted if a first pick was banned, and Hinano asked what she should play if her Renekton was taken away.

“Don’t teach me how to hit a home run. Teach me how to hit a single.” — Tachibana Hinano, after watching a coach’s model game

The longest stretch of the night was aimed at Hinano’s top lane. Asked why she kept pushing the wave in one game, she said she had meant to set up a dive, but could not say when that plan had changed. A coach then showed his own Renekton game as a model of how far a top laner can carry a match. Chat marveled at it, and Hinano said it was more than she could copy but that parts of it were within reach. When the coach compared her play to a schoolchild swinging only for home runs among softball players, she answered that she did not know how to hit one and asked to be taught how to hit a single.

A loss about four hours in turned the session toward the next day’s plan. The review traced the defeat to missing vision before a fight rather than to the fight itself, and the group agreed that each player would say aloud what they were aiming for before making a move. Hinano set her own goal for the matches: even if a game was lost, she wanted to win her lane. Chat called the loss a big step forward all the same.

Near the end of Hinano’s stream, she told viewers she had learned that she would receive the 3D outfit from the Cross Border project, something she had not expected. She said she might wear it if she gets another 3D live. Chat cheered the news.

Shizuku’s stream carried on for another hour and a half, with a two-versus-two lane demonstration and mock drafts for the next day’s matches. She closed the night by saying she planned to play steadily.