Atbash mirrors the alphabet (A↔Z, B↔Y…). We decrypt the string letter‑by‑letter, but the result is non‑English, so Atbash alone fails.
Let’s check “lw” — if l = 12th letter, w = 23rd letter. If we shift backward by 1 (l → k, w → v), we get “kv” — not yet meaningful. Let’s try shifting backward by 11 or forward by 15 — not immediately clear. lw vwb apizm bpm nyqqambc
v (22) ↔ e (5) w (23) ↔ d (4) b (2) ↔ y (25) “vwb” → “edy” Atbash mirrors the alphabet (A↔Z, B↔Y…)
Another approach: sometimes people use a shift of +1 in the opposite direction reading. But here’s a better guess: Atbash mirrors the alphabet (A↔Z