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I'm gonna get some of this stuff
I hope you'll see the world
I hope you'll see the world
I hope you'll see the world
I hope you'll get some of this stuff
I don't know where I'm going
But I know I'll get there
I'll find peace in the land
To drive the ocean's path
Try to dive into my oblivion
Fire my life, it's just a run
But burn fire my life into my oblivion
These two parts are hiding further
Don't you ever know, don't you ever
Don't you ever know
The gift running
Oh, the gift running
Oh, the patrons in disguise
I keep on getting hard
These deep breaths provide me thunderous
Thunderous, thunderous, thunderous
Thunderous, thunderous
It keeps running
Oh, it keeps running
Oh
I don't know where I'm going
You keep smiling, oh, you keep smiling, oh
I'm on top and I know what that brings Got it like action
I'm in charge, pulling them strings I don't lose, everyday wins
Got it like challenge and I'm getting locked in Got it like action
Can't steal my money, not giving up now Always said that I get it all out
I'm doing them proud, yeah, watch me work
All the talk talking, getting shut down
I've been a king and I'm telling them loud
Little subjects not picking my crown
Yeah, watch me work
Stand here, then do my thing
I still fly, it's like I got wings
I'm on top and I know what that brings
Spotlight action
I'm in charge of pulling them strings
I don't lose, everyday wins
Spotlight shines and I'm getting locked in
Spotlight action
Getting to the top than I do before
Every day fresh when I'm dripping in sauce
My destination I'm staying on course
Get right on track
They wanna test me up in through walls
Never boxing, nothing breakin' down walls
For my whole team I've been up and in port
Couldn't not buy
Getting kicked in through my things
I stay flat, it's like I've got wings
I'm on top but I know what that brings
Spotlight action
Pulling them strings, I don't lose
And everything wins, spotlight shines
And I'm getting locked in, spotlight action
Oh my gosh
I'm a charge, I put on the strings
I don't use everything, wins
But I'm like chains and I'm getting locked in
But I'm like action, part of my passion
On this green young one, climbing out the walls
Screaming at it's self of it's voice
Money in lawn, blood in going out of style
If you're drinking on it's no small act
No need to hold a stamp of cloud wine
Telling me much, really much
Long-hanging birthday, love bracing anyway
Sometimes it's easier to play
Friends, you don't get to play
If you're falling in love
Storm in the tank, burn in the chimes, your love will never be contained
Wines! You can't change!
And bunch of junkwines! You can't change!
And bunch of chimes!
It's not the time to cry
If I'm here to say
Cry
It's not the time to cry
If I'm here to say
You said I'd love your presence, that's enough to burn
You said I'd need a brother, she is over you
You said I'd love your presence, now I know you'd burn
You said I'd need a brother to take the pain off
Now we want all the girls, boys and girls, girls, girls
Here we come, we're creeping, coming for your pain
And I'm me and Mara, baby, not today
Here we come, we're walking, talking with big mouths
Don't look to us, cause this ain't a town
Here we come, we're running, coming for your pain
Like me a model, baby, not to do ya, ya, ya, ya, ya
With the gun, I'm a rider, gun, I'm a fighter, player, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Like me a model, baby, not to do ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ha, ha, ha
I know all those feelings keep your wounds from healing, all the hate you're dealing, draining life.
The people turn their heads, communication's
Did you block your mind, ifs and you're alright?
Locked in time, I know you can't unlock
No more being to the core
And still you fight, still you fight
Still you fight
Raise, taste, hold up your mouth
Your sun is being stained in the sky
Break out into the light
Your pain is creeping, killing time
Oh
Rusting all your thoughts around
No more your car in a trip that starts to take the pain
Spraying like a fire straw we'll never touch
We can't let the love go, you'll see
Oh, come on, let's make some new memories
So, can I take your mind?
Who's to blame?
Who's to blame? Who's to blame?
Raise, taste, hold one of your mind
Your son is being spanked in the sky
Break out into the light
Or your hate is creeping, killing time
Raise, taste, hold one of your mind
Your sun is bleeding, the sky is shining
Ready, out, into the light
Your hate is creeping, killing, dying
Your hate is creeping, killing, dying
Your hate is creeping, killing, dying
Yeah..
Cracking all your thoughts
Random all your thoughts
Cracking all your thoughts
Random all your thoughts
All you need to know is that you're a son of a sort
Get my chain on the horse to play
Rage, change, hold, look around
Your sword is bleeding, standing most high
Break out into the light
Your hate is creeping, killing time
Great taste, cold of mind
Your sudden bleeding sting of sky
Break out into the light
Your hate is creeping, killing time
Your hate is creeping, killing time
The night is breathing, dealing to death
We've got our days, we've still got them
No direction, we're even aware
We're even aware, nowhere is at home
The screams so loud, the sound of the breaks
The screams so loud, the sound of the breaks
No brown, we are different men
No, we are unknown
Doesn't make sense, we got one
We have one
Okay, it's the sun
So come on, make our lives black, we learn
To listen, to our pain
To listen, to our pain
I'm not a threat to you
Destiny is just
a lie
around
Turn your eyes behind us
We're all in a boat
You're such a mess
You're such a mess
My God, my sister
You shut up, my heart
Look out, look out, look out
We're from the night of night
My God, my sister
My God, my sister
When I wake up, I'm just gonna keep walking on the night
I'm just gonna keep walking on the night
I'm just gonna keep walking on the night
I
Hear your
Get set you free.
Get set you free.
Get set you free.
Fire!
Fire!
Fire! Fire!
Conception, ready?
Fire!
I am the fever inside your soul I am the crimson I am the bone I am destruction I am the rage I am the lion who won't be tamed
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, then I let it go again.
Why, why, why did you let it go?
I will see.
I am fire!
Fire!
I am fire!
That's it, you greedy!
I can't no matter what they say
So I can't, I can't no matter what they say
So I can't, I can't no matter what they say
The pressure clouds your life
Too much to deal with mine
The pain you will find
But she won't be the same
She's got nowhere to go
No way to run
So I can't get, can't get
No better than what's next
The wind's singing in spite of the lightning up in the south
Down in the rain and the bush is high enough
Gently, gently, gently, gently down the stream
There was a night in the morning
And I was about to turn it back
I'm up there to you
I'm up there to you
I'm up there to you
I'm up there to you
I'm up there to you
I
Call me the butcher
I'm the only thing in this class to have the best team to go to fight kids!
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Thank you, sir!
It's a challenge!
Oh, I think it's going to be good!
I think it's going to be good!
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Alright, then!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Escalade Barrier!
Let's go!
I'm super excited to have made it this far.
I'm pretty close to reaching the final now.
It's almost serious.
Yeah, I think we have a very good chance to understand them.
There are many fans who are more excited than us.
There are many fans.
I think that since we have lucky-out players, they might be nervous.
Better to do the wrong thing together, rather than just skew the right things separately.
If a drop can make me kinda jelly.
Can I handle it? Can we do this? I think we can.
Maybe in front of the arena I'll play if it doesn't matter.
MacroPyre from the high ground punched up epicenter, everything they've got.
And still, BZF is going to be the one to die for it. Why did they try that?
So that was the insane kill!
Look at that triple kill! Cut up them!
And take down the back rider!
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the damage from Zedaddy.
He is ripping them to shreds, notifying all the micro, and GG is just called.
But there's the Elise there on the 2. Both of them core is punk and Kunkka go down night far.
I'm also cooking up on Tim Wurz and make sure that Tamada will go down.
Now look at the tank, he'll take it down the path on the ranking and snaking as well.
The rapist and catcher, Demistition, comes in and they go for the H4.
We won last time, we're here in Birmingham and we're going to do it again this year.
I'm doing great just waiting for liquid of play preparing ourselves whatever we show up, you know, I'm excited
What's the end of the day, what's the end of the day?
It's so good. Hey, Jack, how you doing this morning?
It's great to be here. I love to see the early morning, Friday, middle of the day crowd.
Those are always the most insane go-to fans that we have.
So, a shout-out to you guys. Thanks for coming up.
And it's coming out loud as well.
Yeah, we're going back today.
We're here in great form today. First, how are you?
Doing great. It's been a great tournament.
It's been a great awesome patch.
So excited to see what's been cooking in the last day or so.
A lot of scrims happened, but we're gonna see new drafts for sure.
We are gonna see so many crazy things, I can only imagine, because also Low of Racket does bring out the best in teams.
Or the worst, because depending on how you look at it, of course, they're all fighting here for the grand prize of first place.
That's very important, but this is also the third and the biggest stuff in the E.P.T. Jenkins.
Yeah, and we're on an entirely new patch, so there's, you know, some unprecedented territory
that we're getting into going into the playoffs, but as you can see, 35,460 points.
This is the LAN.
I would not want to miss this one if my team missed it.
I would be horribly, horribly disappointed as an individual.
Yeah, that's why I'm glad that we're here playing last again, like I said.
After everyone finishes, we'll have our match.
You're so good.
You're on the list at the moment.
Let's go. 8th there, of course. Keep in mind, top 12 gets a direct invite to Dota 2 at the
Esports World Cup, so you want these points, and on top of that, and something I bet will
that you are going to be a little sad about that you're probably not going to get enough
points to get direct invites to future tournament rather.
Yeah, I think we have to play the dream league qualifiers, and that's actually just
a lot of time that you have to use, so for these like bubble teams like a mouse
or something, the ability to just skip that. I know burnout was a huge issue for them, and
so for them to just be able to transition and be like, we're safe. It's not just getting
enough points, it's being able to skip the qualifiers. It's a big deal.
It is a very big deal, and we already saw that, so much the updated points with how
far teams got so far. But of course, they can go further by winning a lot perge. We
have a prize pool and we've divided it in, obviously, money, a lot of money
in the line, club rewards and points. Yep, that's the point distribution that we're looking at. We're
at top eight now, so every single further step you get gives you a giant chunk of points. If you
go two or three rounds in top three, it's a huge amount of EPG points. It basically guarantees
that you're going to EWC is likely what I expect. So these matches mean a lot.
They do mean a bunch already. Top eight secured means 1,300 points. That means the first two
matches especially today goes from 1,300 points to 2,800 points that's a massive increase there
more than double with just one best of three and of course yesterday we already had two best of
threes being played in the upper bracket and we just wanted to make sure you guys were aware
of all the things that happened yesterday because those were the first uh you know upper
bracket matches played on the new patch and both series went to distance Jenkins.
Yeah, there's a lot of awesome stuff that happened yesterday.
We saw a feeding to the Tormentor, which is really hilarious.
And then still Aurora was able to defend with Night God getting a Rampage.
The Spirit versus Yandex game.
I mean, this series was just like insanely high-skill.
And we saw a lot of new stuff as well.
Like people using new items, people trying new heroes.
You know, Meruta with like the infinite scaling looks really interesting.
the off-laden item, consecrated crap, so whatever it's called, Blitz,
this one seems to be completely broken, the new Ghost Scepter item.
Like, there's a lot to be explored and discovered on this patch,
and we're seeing people like hyperbolic time chamber this shit,
because you got it right now, like, this is play-offs of a major tournament we're talking about here.
You know, we saw incredible performances of all from Yandex here,
Watson had a crazy 20 kill beast master game, that was one of the earlier clips.
We saw a ton of Alchemists in this day,
And it makes the things look a little lower reactions, seems a little frustrated, but understandably
It's a really big series, so not being able to move farther towards the Winterbracket semifinals or Winterbracket finals
Notice also had a crazy performance in this series as well, which is kind of cool because on both series we have
people that had stand-ins for them and a team performing very well without them
And then players who really want to prove themselves like you have a Makoto in one of the series and then notice
In the in the first series playing it super well
Yeah, and on top of that will I believe you at some point played on a dream league where you also had to play in the
This was right on new patch. Oh, yeah for pressure surely
It's also really fun though because you have no idea what's gonna be good
I remember at that one we were theorizing like Xi was rushing travels to on necrofoce every game
And we thought that was the wave
It turned out to be dog shit and we didn't do that
But sometimes you just kind of shoot your shot and the funny part is like if you're a good team
It'll work and people will get baited into believing that your ideas are correct. That's what they'll just kind of blindly follow it
But yeah, always a really really fun time
I think that's a very important part you mentioned because there are just some teams that are taking other people's ideas and work them into their
Own and there's a bunch of teams that come up with their own style of playing. You've got to really balance that out
Yeah, for sure. It's just whoever's the nerdiest
Who is the nerdiest of the teams that you see here in the bracket will?
Uh, it's tundra. Okay. We all knew the answer
I had that on my team. He's gonna be sitting there in demo mode just trying out like 90 interactions
I think you remember when shovel came out. He had me and jabs shovel to see if it was giving enough gold
Or if it was giving too much gold, so me and jab just shovel for like an hour and a half
We were just clicking the shovel button. This is what I'm counting the amount of gold
Which is the, oh my god, what a juicy gig.
Yeah, they are cooking, absolutely.
Like they picked Alchemist in every single one of their games yesterday,
they being Conjura, and then they drafted a whole lineup
that was around like having Agatom Scepters,
and the build was like radius, BKB, Ags.
You go for an item, and then you go Ags after that item,
and then an item, and then Ags, and it's so funny.
This is unique styles for sure,
And we're going to see all the random stuff teams are coming up with still today.
And it's not just, you know, heroes that you see come up.
It's also, there's a bunch of new items for people that haven't watched Dota up until this point.
Yes, new patch, loads of different changes with a lot of teams experimenting,
but also a bunch of new items you'll see.
And maybe you'll see one a little bit more than the other.
And I'm talking about the consecrated wraps. Am I saying that correctly?
That's right. It's called the consecrated wraps.
But we're going to call it today the consecrated slabs
because this item slaps hard. In the previous day, we saw two offlineers building this item. It gives you way too much. You're basically getting like
2,000 gold worth of stats for a 700 gold recipe. So if Netta is going for something, you know that it's efficient and it's too broken.
And then I can't remember what this smaller item is called on the right, but it's I think it's like a shawl, 10% magic resist for 450 gold.
It's super valuable.
And this item has the consecrated slaps, of course,
has a 57% win rate in pubs, which is insane,
considering there might be somebody on the other side
with the item as well.
And still the win rate is 57%.
So it's just, it's overtuned.
This always happens in Dota when a new item gets added.
There's some active component.
And so the stats are higher because it's more fun
that the active doesn't get nerfed
when a letter patch comes out.
So if you want to win a lot of MMR right now,
just go for the new items, especially this one.
It sounds very popular in offline heroes mainly.
Yeah.
But I think we'll be seeing it on other roles as well.
Especially if it's on Kunko, Queen of Pain, Mid.
Some hero that they just need to not be bursted.
It's really, really good on these heroes.
How much are you looking at the teams that are playing now?
Do you feel like the next week is a little different?
I think right now the meta will probably shift pretty heavily.
This item right now is probably just way too good.
Stuff like that we'll look at.
But at the moment I feel like it's hard to know just because the only way to really test anything is to scrim
Yeah, I doubt these guys have played more than like five or six games
As a team and so it's hard to know every interaction and right now you have some weird internal meta like maybe a week from now
Alk won't even be good, but right now obviously he's being picked all the time
And something new will always pop up. That's a cool part about Dota
What I love is just what you thought was like two weeks ago. Oh, this is uncounterable. You will find a solution to it
Yep, something new will always pop up like two fresh faces potentially somewhere in the crowd
Or actually, where are you guys Gareth in the cross? Where are you hiding?
We have our own boots shiver and the super explains VIP boots exactly, but I do love the team
I gotta say as a pledge enthusiast that this is one of the best-looking teams we've ever had
You're ready also ready to make some noise for the crowd and have the crowd react to every single look you gotta be really funny
And the cost nested a real test
Because
Now I'm in the pressure, now I'm going to have to go to the left, Cheever.
Now you've got to know that every single one has to hit, or you get live feedback, which is always good as well.
Surely.
I'm really nervous right now. I'll have to dig deep.
The Birmingham crowd, don't you afraid?
No, no, no. Last time, the crowd was amazing.
Show them the cobalt!
The cobalt and the cup, and they're going to be good.
Easy, we'll get them for you. Of course, we're at the start of the day, so maybe the cobalt action, you know, will ramp up.
towards the end of the day. I can only imagine that many cups will ramp up towards the end of the day.
Oh yeah, I will. I remember.
Alright, we'll come back to you when the series begins. Love to have you there, love to have you part of the stage at this point as well.
And it is at this point also very soon ready to start up for a series, but I still want to hear some final words here from before we head into the series.
Perge, what do you reckon is going to happen with Extreme and Miles?
It's really hard to say. I think Miles is in a precarious position. They have kind of a unique style with their picks
And I feel like that may not be great for like four days past a major pass
So it could be a little bit tough for them
I feel like extremes and fix them really standard draft that fits together in good ways with some slight new ideas
And they're gonna crush with it. How about it Jenkins? I think all may enjoys cooking
He enjoys cooking on patches where he can pick bad heroes and try to make them good
But I think right now he can't pick bad heroes and make them good because you just don't know what's bad
All right, so if he wants to play like Spectre juggernaut, whatever it is he can get that it might actually work
So I think this patch really favors extreme gaming going into this one. Are you echoing the sentiment for me
It's kind of interesting because I think mouse is like the litmus test for how good are you at holding?
the line because if you're bad at it you're just going to get rid over and
lose in 30 minutes. I feel like Maus is one of those face rush teams. There's no
backup plan. It's either we're going to win by 35 minutes or like dominate by
this point or we're probably going to lose because we don't really play the map.
And so I think it'll be kind of interesting in a new patch whether they
figured out a way to enable that style. I think if anything this patch
probably helps them because they're just going to do their thing anyways. It's
not like anything will change for them. Okay it's going to be a fun match.
That is for sure it is time to focus our attention on our first series of the day, Miles for Zixtreme.
I think my team confidence though right now on the scale of one to ten it would be like
Six or five
Why did they try that?
I mean right now, I currently don't think everyone knows
truly about the patch yet.
Actually people just play their own old stuff.
They are decent, you know, they are not bad.
That's why they are here and for me it's like if I lose I lose.
The action is only moments away, a mouse in extreme, they'll play one best of three for
almost more than doubling the E.P.T. points they're getting out of this Birmingham and
elimination on the line is spooky for sure.
We're going to focus our attention on mouse first.
In particular, first of all, actually, let me just quickly say yes, we did change people.
We got a cousin joining me and Perch, how are you doing T?
I mean I just replaced Blitz, I'm so sorry everybody, I'm so sorry I'm here, yeah Blitz will be back at some point but...
Yeah, you're gonna do great.
Why couldn't you stand him?
I'm sorry brother, you had to take that out.
But you're replacing Jenkins!
Yeah I'm gonna do great, you know I got to, I stole his hat, I'm here for him, I'm gonna try to crack the jokes, let's keep it up.
Alright all good, we are gonna take a look at some of the heroes that have been doing really well,
particular in relation to mouse because as we heard from will they are they're
doing the same stuff anyway and they'll just rush it yeah that's right I mean
that it's been a recent catch there haven't been that many programs only
four teams have shown what they did in the last day so these are the pub win
rates for the for heroes that got the biggest one percent this isn't
necessarily going to mean everything for programs but if these are your
mechanical these heroes are just better this is a good way to look at and a
lot of these heroes have been very popular in the last couple days
Leshrac especially, we've seen tons of teams play this hero.
Doom...
Techies just does more damage, so even when he dies, which is great.
And Rating also got squeezed in a lot.
Now, Maus played some of these heroes in their matches.
They got smashed 0-2.
That might mean that they are trying the heroes out, which is good, but I'm a little
bit worried about how they're going to integrate these new heroes into the playstyle
because they have kind of stubborn hero picks.
5 position players like playing here is out of the meta. They want tower pushers.
Are they going to be able to adapt their style to a brand new patch with heroes
while cross-referencing that to what heroes are the best in the patch? I have
some doubts I think it could affect their team but with that said they're very
good players they had some other weird picks you might see mid one play
something goofy that he feels confident in and that could also give them a big
chance. Yeah I think mid one and Yamage could be the players that you
can look at I think especially with the graphic Yamage plays techies I
want to see this hero I think it's really good so bust it out. Let's run.
Just give me less right every single game. I'm a simple man everyone wants less everyone's flesh
That pretty much you pay me to say that that's it. But that is so so good on the hero
Yeah, as we do have two players that do like playing together quite a bit. Oh, absolutely
And you know everyone always talks about you know, I'm a here I'm a dare the uncron king
But you know, it's about the duo like ex Nova and him they've played a long time ago
They both play second at TI twice together. You can see here. It's over 600 games
It's a 60% win rate and it's not just in the stats like also in this patcher when you look at some of like
They're drafting, you know, their heroes, the way they do it now.
There's like a small shift where they pick the heroes very closely together.
They've got like the buddy-buddy system, you know.
They're kind of the best, he's not just in the game, but also in the draft and with how they play.
And I think, you know, with these two players, it's just, you know, it's China.
You want them to do well, like this team, you're expecting more.
They had the second place at TI in Simpsons and it's kind of been downhill.
And now, I think they're on the way up.
On the way up, that is very much needed because they are consistency.
They've been doing well and then they, because this is just not their team.
No, no it hasn't. I think actually they always suffer from whatever the
pacing of the game changes because they always seem to be stubborn in how they
want to play the game. It's the traditional team fight, the slower game.
Even though I feel like we say every tournament, they keep doing it every tournament, right?
So maybe at some point it might switch, but no, they are going to be that stubborn late
game team as always. Yeah, they probably will be, which is going to be definitely
against Maus, an interesting combination as we did say. Maus likes to play relatively
fast or extreme gaming is trying to play relatively slow. And I do believe T-Gov, you do really
like Leshrac because you wanted to talk about it more.
Yes, yes, more Leshrac! Yeah, bring it in to show me the graphics, show me the itemization
because of course in 7.41 we did have the addition of some new items into the play.
So I think of course we are seeing that from NTS. The utilization of Bloodstone coming
back into meta, getting that 12% additional spell damage around you. Of course Leshrac
is just a big boy who wants to be in the middle of any fight he's in. So I think
we are going to be looking at the battle between NTS and mid one.
I think this hero to me, I've already said it twice on this panel,
it's quite a one-note I'm hitting, but it is going to be so important in this series, I believe.
Yeah, it's also like, this seems to be like the new Exodia item build, at least on this hero, right?
You have this Sheva's card, you've got the Bloodstone, you get your AoE, Gold Shovel,
Thrysailia, whatever it's called, like, you know, you slow everyone.
It seems so, so strong, and we've seen it in multiple games.
This, you have to look out for it.
Yeah, I think the hero just kind of fits the perfect draft as well,
because you know it's strong, you pick it first,
and then you just pick any other stun, and now the hero is like a crazy guaranteed kill.
So he's like a strong mid hero who can push towers,
who can solo kill, who does AUE, who's a little bit difficult to kill, has a great item build right now.
And if any stuns happen, boom, you're giving solo kills. It's great.
And it's great. It also means that maybe a little bit extra pressure on that mid lane coming out in our upcoming series,
and who's putting that pressure on other than the mid laners themselves is of course the supports.
And one of the supports of Maus is Celery, who got the chance to talk to Perihan earlier today.
Hello, I'm here with Celery from Mouth. Celery, first of all, how are you doing? You guys had a bit more time to prepare and look at this new patch we're playing on?
Not very good. Ten is still not the best, so not the best day, but as of now, I'm feeling good.
Nice. And what have you guys done in terms of prep? How much of this was just pubbing and scrimming, if you've had any scrims, preparing for today's, running over the new patch trying to find all those little weaknesses to exploit?
Yeah, we also had some time to watch the other teams, the other bracket games yesterday so that was nice.
We didn't end up playing any scrims together, we just played our own games and talked and watched some games.
Because we need to understand what's happening ourselves, it doesn't do that much to try to play as a team when you don't know what's happening yet.
So, we're feeling good, we had some nice time.
Awesome, and obviously like you said you've been watching the other teams, who do you like to look of so far?
Who do you think, gosh, those guys have got their finger on the pulse in terms of this patch?
The teams from our group, right? We were in the hard group, of course, no, no.
I think Yandex really understood how to move them that well, so we looked at their movement a lot,
and I think we learned a lot from it, so hopefully we can show them today.
I do like that conversation topic where...
Yeah, there's two teams in the upper bracket finals already in Tundra and Yandex,
and both of those did come from Group A, where indeed Maus was as well,
heard how much of an intergroup meta do we think there was I mean I think it's a
little impactful but it's so different now because most the best majority of
groups they've just played old patch so like the stuff that we learned you can
slightly throw it out the window but you can also retain it some heroes are
still okay that writer still okay these masters still good so there's gonna be
a little bit that lingering but there's gonna also be new creative stuff and
since we're on close to elimination games or elimination games like it's
It's gonna matter, teams can't make mistakes here.
I guess you can talk about the skill, but yeah, when it comes to the patch,
I will take it with a grain of salt, like so much change,
because most of the days we're on the old patch, so let it do the talk.
All that matters is that mouse actually tried to do new stuff, right?
They already played Bounty, they tried to invent a monster,
mouse came into the patch and was like, we are gonna try and invent other teams.
They're a bit boring, they're still playing the old heroes.
Boring, you know? So mouse might become a crowdfavor
with some of the flare picks that they might kind of surprise us with.
That's what I want.
The crowd favorite show you come on guys we're in the freaking butcher shop
That's right hudges the crowd favorite. Actually, I know also who is a crowd favorite and we're gonna check in with him right now
period
Hello sheeps. How you doing?
Crowds looking lively already for a Friday morning. I'm still waking up myself
All kinds of people here already sir. May I ask you quickly? I'm gonna have a sit down some old
Have you been to Birmingham before? Yeah, you've been to see though here before
No, I was upstairs what happened upstairs many things
Fantastic, let's find someone else this guy's been around. Let me look at this. Oh
This is too sure
All right, have you been to grown before is that we've got all these signatures last time ever since 2018
Fantastic on which team are you looking to look up here today? I'm like a little team spirit
All right of these two teams though
We'll forget ours we'll figure that out as we go. I
Recognize this fella from last time I was in Birmingham
Big man, could you stand up for me, please?
We've got
Not anymore. It's just English give us a fucking flex there, but you look even bigger than last time
What's he like to look up here buddy?
Uh, Maes and Kristallis.
Maes and Kristallis specifically, very cool.
I'm the biggest four-regendator.
Wow, all right, well we can stay that kind of stuff.
Have a sit down, have a sit down.
Who else we got, sir? May I?
Will you save in the seat for someone?
Okay, good, that's kind of sad.
All right, have you been to Birmingham before?
Yeah, I have been.
And which of these two teams are you like?
I'm here this morning to watch...
Uh, Mouse.
Mouse?
Have you been a fan of them for a long time,
consistent with one of those old names in those?
No, I'm a fan of Falcons, but after two teams, I pick Mouse.
Fair enough! Fair enough! That was a pretty good team!
Alright, sir, who are you here to root for?
Sorry?
Who are you here to root for?
I am Spirit Tundra.
I have been so out or so busy travelling,
I haven't had time to keep up with the torrents so far.
I haven't kept up with them either and it's my job, but it is also my job to welcome our first team to the stage here, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's give it up for MAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
And they will be taking the three cameras!
It's not even noon yet, but I saw my first picture ladies and gentlemen.
That was quite something.
I have a very important question, because one of the men on the very stage plays the
signature hero of the tournament, and if he's not playing it, nobody is.
I still have hope, because who I still have hope will damage play Pudge!
If anyone will, it might be this guy. I will say I think the hero's been, uh, he didn't get the nicest changes in the patch,
but if anyone will do achieves, I think it's my boy.
Because you have hopes for the Pudge, I have hopes for the Techies.
I think he will show us something cool no matter what.
I'm not, okay. If no Pudge, then Techies.
Here we go. Lock that, lock that in.
Lock that in, lock that in. Alright, we're getting very close to getting the teams of fours in that lobby
starting the draft, and that gives us some time to focus our attention on what we expect
other than the pressure, and other than Broom being banned, because I wanted to focus a
little bit on the offlaners, because both XHS and BOOM, I feel like even though both teams
purge have such different play styles, both teams are still very reliant on their offlaners
doing well and setting a pace.
Yeah, I think they have a little bit of pure crossover, but BOOM's definitely
more of like the team fight or a we type guy you know underlord tied under type
heroes ex-excess on the other side I'm expecting him to play playmakers and to
get things done his Mars is fantastic it is like a big staple of their team and
it sets up really nicely for possible draft combos the the Mars plus Phoenix for
example so we're gonna see slightly different styles but they will have
some head-to-head stealing each other's heroes and the Mars he survived
the patch really nicely right like the fact is he could buy refresher
compared to other heroes right in the game, right?
You can't utilize the Double Arena, and then, yeah, very strong.
Easier than before as well, because it has less mana cost.
Like, he doesn't care as much about the BKB,
it's about getting two ulties off in four stunning four heroes.
And agonist.
You can actually buy an agonist in a late game.
That one is quite crazy.
What does it do now?
It's like old victory fees faster, but it's now inside your ag.
Except to buy that, you know,
and it's like, I think it's higher percentage.
Like, when I saw yesterday, when it popped up in a game,
it tealed so much.
It was actually nuts.
You get surprised by it, like when you hit 14 minutes, you're like, oh god, he just picked this item up, you're not ready for it.
We are ready for the draft for game one of this best of three elimination series.
We are going to have Maus on the dire, and they will have first pick for this first game.
So we're going to learn a lot already from some of the bans to Doom.
We're going to see banned out almost every single time by the second pick team,
because nobody will want to let that through, especially not in the elimination.
Respect Pooch on Celery's Enchantress.
there as well with the first phase. And Maus also protects the boom's typical
tanky melee offlaners by banning Ursa in the first phase, so they're definitely
ready for both things that they're expecting and they're not going to let
Xtreme get Phoenix plus one either. Quick question because boom especially played
a lot of tight hunter at the start of this season and he he picked it up
again also this event already never mind. My question is, is Maus out?
Yeah, with the Ursa out there's not really any, their carries that can
work well against it but that's by far the best one and if that here gets off to a good
start and starts collecting his little fishies, watch out you're gonna block 5 extra damage.
In the land of fish and chips you know. That's true. Anyway, so yesterday in the upper bracket
we did learn about Alchemist that was a hero that we saw quite a lot. We even saw Nightfall
of course play a bit earlier in the tournament as well but I wanted to at least consider
Later on in this draft, they go for the Largo on the first pick.
They get a Tundra, wins 33, utilizes the Offlane Largo.
The damage is now locked into your Ball Belly Blitz,
so you do need to get some levels for it to really get flowing.
But, you know, I think we showed how strong it was because it takes longer,
but it still does the same thing.
Yeah, I'm surprised, like after reading the patch,
I wasn't too sure what this hero stands,
but it seems like it's still, well, obviously very high up, you know,
on the rating, like off the teams, he has won, he has looked good.
So I want to see like a little bit more,
because of course, you know, a new patch,
everyone has a lot of new things to process, what heroes do you like, are there new counters to him, but, you know, new patch, same first pick, Largo, who's so good so far.
And there's the Mars we already talked about as well, we talked about that that would be the overlap for both of these offlaners, it has a great record so far.
An exceptional hero, like, I don't think you can really fault Mars, of course, I have no idea what really happened to Gez, I'll be honest, there's always one hero and a couple on nerves.
Sure, but do you have in patch notes one hero that you just refuse to read on first pass?
Maybe not you, but like for me, Kez is the guy I will just ignore
and then maybe like two days time once I've digested other things I'll go back to Kez.
It's like Kez, it's Mipo and like whoever has like 20 lines I'm like I'm gonna get to you tomorrow.
Yeah, okay cool.
I'm gonna let the players through the playing and then I'm like okay this is what the serial
does. I bring it up because Kez is the hard lane counter to Mars at least in 7.4.
Who knows we'll find out some some information in this draft at least.
Yeah, and if Kirstalis is comfortable enough on it, of course it's one of those heroes.
We had the Temporous Assassin band at this point because both teams have, I think, most
likely selected their offlaners, Largo we see sometimes on Falcons being put to support
and I know Likert has done it in the past as well, but I don't think Maus has.
So for now, I'm assuming it's offlane.
I assume so too.
I mean the Ursa band would have protected from it as well.
I'm surprisingly very few cause 5 bands, whereas that has been the normal for the
previous patch. Tons and tons of possible events but most of the really strong ones did get nerfed so
kind of curious to see what ends up filtering out and saying like this is the new jikiro.
Or is it just still jikiro? It might be. It's still jikiro guys. That was the fakest nerf I've
ever seen on a hero. 20 mana. Ooh, what the woo. Like I buy mana boost. I've got the little wizard
hat and my twin headed dragon like yeah. And you have no other mana cost to level one anyway
so it's like oh no liquid fire when I'm not spinning mana. Of course twin terror doesn't
So there is less damage in the lane phase but the tower progression, the ability just to be there, but the map is there so yeah, we are going to be seeing Jikiro on 7.41
That's also a lot of damage, but I'm afraid of waves, Friday.
And I think also having supports, because every support can choose greedy and turn on tier 2 and 3, if you have supports that can build into bigger items or have good agonist zepplers, which this guy does, pure damage later is, it's a very broken concept, it's very strong.
But they value their teamfight, they're gonna have it already.
And for Maus, I think heroes that they've generally played on Grisada so far is like DK, plus some other ones.
I wouldn't be too surprised if that comes out later, or is Lifestealer, Lifestealer is also still on the pool.
Like this hero is so high in the win rate and the one game I've seen it, he is scary.
Yeah, no, Lifestealer, it's got a lot of nice buffs there, that's what I was trying to say.
But for Maus though, I look at their heroes, and there's so many combinations in play, right?
Venom also, when you get your Agadum, there's magic resistance reduction, you then have Tusk with the tag team.
The shot is insane! I don't know why, but Spirit earlier apparently didn't buy the shot on the new patch, but getting drinking buddies at 1,000 cast range...
It gives armor now?
Yeah, it gives armor.
And movement speed.
Yeah, and movement speed. But you're just dragging an ally from 1,000 units, you meet in the middle of 500, you always get that snowball save.
It is going to be an insane kind of skirmish land from mouse. A lot of layering and damage between all three heroes.
Now, Venom is one of those supports that has been seen in some play. You did see the record, it's not great, it's one of four right now,
But I think there is a little bit of understanding left to the hero that needs to be explored
But your new second skill deals damage to the enemy extra if they attack so in these early fights
Which usually results in little to be two skirmishes. You can almost guarantee that the enemy hero died the question
Yes, I know
Yes
Yeah, but that would mean you'd have to play the Venom in the lane against your cure
They're both typically more like fives true
So are they gonna match up against each other less likely?
And at that point I don't think I'm just I'm talking attack is a jikiro. I just don't care that much
You know the fun thing with the Venom and that snake bite
It's like how many points do you want to put in it right?
I think white money you only put one point in it
So it's one one one then maximum play goal to farm the jungle because there's in these easier camps next to a tower
It's like it's kind of easy for Venom 5 to just know you know what I'll go back
I'll go farm a jungle real quick. I'll come back to you
So I'd like to think that's probably gonna be the standard build
You don't really want to over snake bite on the Venom monster. It might be a bit of a bait
Yeah, it seems like a very good one-pointer to be honest and also like with what he said
You know with the earlier, you know potential neutral items if you do have a small moment
Maybe quick jungle you come back and overall I also like what mouse have going with like their support duals like putting these heroes together
You know Taz plus Venom
There's a lot of pressure no matter who they go with no matter which core they go with and extreme gaming
I think you kind of should be anticipating some of the 18 picks that mouse could be going for you know
Largo he wants to partners that have high magic damage anti tankiness, you know tea governor loves the lash rack
I think mouse that's what you're they could be looking at and other things too
So next jeep they go with the puck for now at least a very classic answer tusk can really gank me until I just have one question now
Husker is it still a hero because when you pick it pucks like this when there's a clockwork as well the little coax like
7.4 you're slamming husker. Hey, we're even bad and I live right but we've quarter rise getting moved towards a shard
Like is that enough also the percentage generally going from like current to max like there's enough changes that the house
God players might just hate it, but
Yeah, most players the LESH hasn't been touched yet
Obviously extreme so I can go for now and I don't like it as much on the mouse side because with the Venos support back in the Larvo
Offlane they're lacking set up stuns
So I feel like the LESH is gonna get dumps her like it'll be killed repeatedly by multiple stuns and ran it
But I'm also surprised to see clock a little bit with the the removal of the cog fasted
That was arguably the reason that the hero was good
But it still can work certainly and in terms of trading damage like getting batteries salted like batteries
something on top of a Venom that's probably fine trade. You don't have to worry about right-clicking
as much. You can force some kills, you can gank Largo a lot in the early mid-game, like
extreme gaming with all four heroes, they are ready to go fight mouse heroes and not let
them play slow.
This is an iconic draw from XT, right? It's four dudes that can set up the math flow all
made to be the main character of the show.
So previous patch Monkey was avoided against Puck because he just wasn't that good.
Did that change? Is he good enough now?
He did receive some small buffs, but I don't know if they're super strong when it comes to the laning, but it is mouse.
You have to talk about, you know, carry monkey king, the flex is there, but no monkey king is a nasty lane.
You get galed and slowed and these guys are just going to beat you to bits.
So overall, I think mouse have at least XG, they don't really know where it's going, but I think I understand the voice for it.
You can do super, super starless, take out the heroes that they want to help you catch the bug.
map play, right? Master's entire lineup is built on, gets them early levels and just run
through the map. Monkey King now has the 0 second cooldown on his True Spring, so be it
from the mid that everyone can play all the carries, you're going to see just movement
across the map, a lot of pressure getting applied. Actually they have all the tools
to deal with that, they invite this aggression because you run into an ice path, an arena,
a coil, a hookshot, a cog, you will disappear. So actually they already have the tools
to deal with a very kind of scripted Master's lineup.
Yeah, I'm kind of curious to see how well the Monkey works. He's not as strong
of the laner as he was before because of the lifesteal but he's going to be against a double
melee lineup so that part looks pretty strong for him.
So now we have to pick out of phase, you're looking for like a mid one hero at least most
likely, I think one that gives you some catch in the draft.
Is he going to do the nix that he's been playing against fuck?
What happened to that hero this patch, I don't even know.
I think he does more mana burn with all of his spells if I'm not mistaken.
I mean I guess clock is annoying for you but you know it's mid one and I think
this guy always has some spice available. I think something more casual, maybe it's
like some Ember Spirit, I think it's quite okay in this game. It's not like the
hard lockdown, maybe there's something else that gives you like a more secure
catch on the puck. I kind of like it because I mean Mage Slayer is arguably a
little better on the hero. You do more, you do physical damage and you're gonna
reduce the magic damage they deal so fast. Mage Slayer against puck, against
secure against Mars, could really save his allies. And with heals paired on top
of that, AWE heals, I mean maybe that's gonna be enough to get in the oomph.
But there's also the date where it does mouse one another lockdown, right?
It would simplify the draft, but they could also go for some of the, you know,
the nature of profit that's got a couple buffs towards the core role.
If you want to go for map play, 10 points, break the game.
That's what they used to do that.
They used to do that, right?
But I kind of agree.
I think the safer answer is going for one of these, like, skirmish-y stun-based heroes
because it gives you kind of your entire game kind of an insurance policy.
I wonder what else would, like, stick out.
I mean, I know that, like, Midwander, he's a very, very unique player.
Like he will have reads on this Patrick just a few games in he's like yo the mortal faith this hero is good
You can take me this and it's gonna slap
That's a stanking. That's safe. I mean they didn't have that much a we damaged prior to this pick
So I think this is definitely a good thing to frontline with if they do some
Disable and they get an epicenter in there that could really just clear up the fight in a big way
It's also a very good Largo combo
I think I don't know who it was in the groups who had like a 10k comeback at Nathan Falcons
Or someone else, you know, you get the accident and I suddenly you poke it up and stanking just goes
You just goes ham-squeezy and like a fight, but it's life story
It's doing a lot more damage with reverberation
It's likely there's a hero that's getting first-rate banned trolly into masses heroes. Isn't it pretty good?
Yes, it's an option to consider
I mean like some yeah some BKB guys also kind of cool in the mid game or like high range
I don't know if...
Range Shields will go slow, slow because both Monkey and Tusk can address on you,
but if you get through the game with a range carry, it's kind of nice for the next phase.
Oh, yeah, we have a height.
Oh, yeah.
A balloon, man, that's nice.
I can tell him by the balloon floor.
Yeah.
Oh, there it is.
Okay.
He's got to worry about Tusk Punch, so he can't...
He can't Rage TP, but other than that, and Monkey King ulti's a little bit annoying,
but you can definitely fight the hero.
It's fine.
Do you have some major damage problems on XG?
I think their entirety of their draft is setting up other people to succeed, up until the point
where Arme has all the items to do the killing blow, right?
So for Maus, they have to identify that.
I want to see the overlapping of their calls really play through each other early on.
Don't allow Arme just to cruise control his way through a radiance and then conduct his
team to get fights.
Yeah, because it is a pretty scary LISO game.
I think for Maus, later on, the one thing I do see for Maus, and it's generally
how they win, I think they want to play fast, and they can.
They can collapse on the safe lane, go on to the Slyster who needs a lot of time.
You have Kristallis on his Monkey King, which is arguably one of his two best heroes he can play.
Yamage as well, on the Tusk.
So for Maus, I would definitely look for them to speed up the early game, look for your good lanes,
go to mid one, make some stacks, and keep progressing and keep playing on high pace.
How does this whole translate to what we talked about before the draft even began?
If this does go late, will Maus run into a wall?
because it sounds like they won't with the Largo and the Sand King combo.
No, they quite literally will.
Moz will be able to play over there and the pressure.
There'll be two wolves actually, and then we'll be running into it.
I mean, I have a little bit more faith in Monkey King and the Lakin
because he's going to be so mobile that should increase his GPM a little bit
because sometimes he does struggle to have as much carry potential.
I don't know if he's going to go like a battle for your build
or is he going to go on the same vein as his other heroes
which is get shit done to buy time for a Largo to get agged.
So those tempos and those choices are going to change a lot.
And one of the best monkey kings in the world is gonna make probably a good decision about that.
He would help us out.
See what he does.
Yeah.
I'm gonna assume he plays on high pace.
I think he saw that he's not like the pure type guy who's gonna,
I'm gonna go Belfure, I'm gonna go Reigns, I'm gonna farm an upheats like the guy.
I'm gonna win my lane, you know, mid, what I'm gonna make space for you so you can do your thing.
He's more like the, the type of team player.
But I also think that's what he should do in this game.
Like extreme, they're kind of slow.
Abuse that.
You know, play fast, make it happen.
Because XG for them, I think their lanes could struggle a little bit here.
their lanes could potentially struggle that being said Largo has also got a
little bit of a slow timing to him no for sure yeah Largo is all about the
early efficiencies right he's got to get his early levels he's gonna farm those
camps if he gets blocked out he's gonna struggle so Largo he has to try and
find his early game well let's see what's gonna happen it is time for our
first series of the day a mouse versus extreme gaming
I'm not a bad pick, but now there's still three of them in a crowd!
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to stall from the marketing as well!
Now, look off!
How do you think this is going to set up Tenco-wise against extreme gaming?
Oh, Miles, they want to set the tempo. They want to play this one fast because if you look at their heroes,
this is one of the best heroes and one of the best heroes in Gota in general to be able to go through the pin gate,
try to backstab the enemy carry, and you can see that Largo needs a little bit more time.
Like, Sanking from the mid lane, he comes online pretty quickly, he buys that Blink Dagger,
and then you're going to be seeing maybe a little bit more extra aggression, Yamash on his signature tusk.
Better match, there's still a bit of a question for me to see how much he's going to be able to get from the lane, but it is still a very strong lane.
This is slow, and you also have Monkey King with the stun in the lane against two melee heroes, so not going to be the easiest lane for extreme gaming.
We'll see if there's going to be a lot of wave dragging, and we also have Clockwork, a hero that has been nerfed.
He doesn't have his facet, he has the worst facet actually, the power.
Yeah, the one that doesn't give him much.
Yeah, we do have the off-lane meeting a little further away from that safe lane tower,
so maybe that's something they can play into a little bit, but it's a tiny, minor improvement in quality of life for them.
We'll see how it goes.
Already extreme gaming, trying to drag things out by pausing the game, making sure Maos can't get off to a running start.
Well, that's the end of the game, right?
Yeah, we've heard so many times in interviews, you know, ex-exhaust, a bunch of Chinese players from extreme in particular saying that they, you know, in China they want to try and drag out to the top three or four items, wait until that mid-game,
whereas miles are literally just run at you.
Yeah, so if they can't harass them in the lane,
they should also pause the game and harass them in the old chat.
Seems like that would be the case.
But yeah, they are a bit on a slower side
when it comes down to the way they play.
Bows, they are a team that do tend to end their games
in like 35, even slightly earlier,
depending on the draft that they do have.
I'm slightly worried about their ability to end the game
with the heroes that they do have
if they really want to push the tempo,
because these heroes don't have much stour,
then make sure you have some like Veno words.
Let's see what build Monkey King is gonna go for, but other heroes they really don't do any tower damage whatsoever.
They rely on team fight and killing before they get this.
Yes.
Before they get it going.
And how do you think that whole storyline step will run a new path?
You know, is there more room for error, or is it gonna be more difficult, expectation-wise, with new heroes and changes?
I think the games also in general might be slower because of the refresher of BKD.
Nerf because you don't have the double BKD.
And this is something that the players did use, especially certain teams like Falcons, building multiple refreshers and making sure that they have that WBKB, they have that like 35-40 minute timing to be able to go for the high ground with the Aegis.
But we'll see how much they're going to be able to get out of this lane, X-X-Vest. I always talk to him, I always talk about him that he is in the top 3 Lars category, he had some extremely good performances in the last two games that he did play.
And not of easel lane as we said, so they're gonna need to manipulate, try to make something happen because they can't really square up against these two heroes.
Now they made a third lane for themselves, back the waves around. Yeah, we saw the highlights of MaxXS earlier on.
We have some real, I think, mass fears into those arenas.
We're gonna get through the laning stage first though, because it's Kristallis Monkey King, one of his signature heroes that we haven't seen in a whole that much recently.
He's down a bottom damage, doing a very similar thing. What the clock has been up to, dragging wave.
I'm not going head-on into the lane, but I guess that Jikiro is taking a...
...- amount of damage.
I'll already harassed down to about 200 health.
Such a fun part, though, for his draggy waves.
Flash does move these creeps over somewhere else, but we can farm them safely.
Very interactive gameplay indeed, and we're seeing it from both of the offlaners.
They really can't play the game.
And looking at the mid lane, nothing to say.
He's off to a really good start. He's starting to sit against 13 and 4 mid-1.
He's going to catch up. I also want to see how many stacks are going to be able to get in the triangle for this tanking.
This is also something that Largo wants to be farming. Maybe first he farms the outer ring.
Lattask is also a hero that can't really stack two camps at the same time unless he uses his shard.
So it's quite a lot of mana commitment for him to be able to get those stacks going for his tanking.
It is, and that does a pretty good point as well. The fact that Maus do rely on these stacks to get to that item.
ganking lago item dependent heroes where we look at extreme gaming more level dependent with the Mars Park
Plotwork needing level sixes before they can really start off fights
No, but that's the large camps. We'll get that pull across
Yeah, Mitch double Dice entry try to keep control of this area
That's a good start. This is what you want to be seeing the more go about. You want to
have him starting very good. Like we've seen this hero getting complete the rune. There
There was one game where Falcons played it from the off lane, he was like 0 and 9.
It was very difficult for him to play the game and this hero has been nerfed so you definitely want him to have a good start.
And this is also pretty similar to the way that Dawnbreaker plus Tuscabbe been playing when Dawnbreaker was a really popular hero.
Keep them inside, have that extra bit of a damage with the tag team.
And Bellargo does the same thing with the Frog Stomper, you catch them inside with the Ice Shard, use the tag team as well, nothing to say.
Not in too much trouble, but boom.
He's gonna be fine.
He is alright, even has a salve.
And boots are coming out in Courier 2.
I'm not able to put any pressure on Armageddon.
That's the big problem.
While top lane's gallery is under pressure,
the spear and cons push back,
send him on the tower though,
and now headwinds the body,
shove up and he's dead!
That's the deny!
X, X, X!
That's absolutely not.
A monkey king giving chase.
Jingus stacks now.
All taken out.
Mars doesn't have mana for spear,
Looks like he's going to be okay to survive.
Meanwhile, Yamage continuing the lane dragging.
Just keep the aggro on him so he's able to pull that wave all the way across again.
Haspier under Cogs, Cogs.
On the interaction.
Yeah.
You can push and bounce around.
Yeah, small Cogs also looking very funny now, there's because nobody was playing with it.
It's much easier to like bounce them back because with the big Cogs you needed to get out and then maybe try to stop it.
But now you can just do it the old school way.
Item-wise on Crystallize, what do we think?
We're now going to tread, we're going to see many items, we saw a bit of diffuser blade,
and I've been giving it to him.
Yeah, let's see if he wants to go more for a scaling build, so just that they have
something for the late game, because we said that this type of a lineup, they are very
good in the first like 30 minutes can definitely fall off in some of the
later engagements when you start to have multiple ways of resetting the fight
to not sitting inside a bukhong command but also the team fight is going to be
strong having bukhong's command having this sanking with the blink dagger
agonist center so the scaling in the mid game is still fine I'm just slightly
worried if this game goes like super late if they are not going to be able
to close it out fighting in the arena fighting in the fuck as well
Boom, gonna come across and help out Yammitch.
Nothing to say, can't come in here with an orb,
but they've already finished off the Jikiro while Yammitch gets back to Hydra.
Stay firing up and a boss strike in onto the pot.
Looks like he's gonna stay in trouble.
Battery hits him.
Another orb back away.
Left-way bodyguarding, nothing to say means everyone has to fully retreat.
Nothing to say, unable to finish off the kill.
They definitely need that coil to connect.
Who's been pretty much hate?
I think this matchup, we've seen it multiple times throughout the group stage where Punk just uses a coil on the tusk
Doesn't matter if he's playing 4 or 5 so that he can't get the snowball off because of the leash mechanic
And then they deal with the rest. Fair to start from mouse. One K-Goes lead already, two kills on the board
Yeah, I mean on that topic of monkey king
I guess the worry for me is if you go for some kind of battle theory scaling build, there's some overlap with your lago
scanking farming jungle
Yeah, I think you want to be getting something
Back to something active for the early game like we've seen good amount of mage players from the mid lane like even
Pangos going for it instead of the beautiful blades might be the item that he wants to pick up
They're all coming in here to try to test the shrine first of all directs
No one to find the jacquero with his dollars showing his face down south mid one picks up the shrine of wisdom as they're on
Apply as well for another couple of kills going their way no deny on the neutrals
Mid one getting involved feels real good as the lick back into family stride
Oh man, he's a life stealer though, so he doesn't particularly care.
Armour should be okay in most of these early engagements, but Chrysler, this is why we said Monkey King,
one of the best heroes in the game to go for a TP or Twin Gate rotation, so you can always be active
and now he's got things out to maybe thinking about sticking around.
F.Y.?
No easy action through the portal, even pushing him down from the trees.
Every irritation for the Monkey King.
Yeah, Monkey doesn't like carrots. He likes bananas. That's when a man should can feed to him.
I don't know, I just go through the gate himself.
What's on the other side?
He's ready and waiting for him.
Nothing to say, though. His first time at the offensive coil here.
Holding back to high ground, Sharks?
Not gonna be there.
Oh, I'm gonna get the kill anyway.
Nothing easy for this fucking man.
Oh, not playing.
And then Cork is dolled inside the Corks, Armies also rotated up. Monkey King trying to stand and deliver.
And he probably gets the G.G. Stacked up faster now.
Dead! Whereas he gets surrounded by X3. First kill up on the port for them.
And Armies the one who got it.
Lysdiller is the hero that's got like the biggest buffs pretty much in the whole patch.
His win rate went up by like 7 or 8%. He received 10 damage in the laning stage.
Which makes this hero very difficult to lane against.
Like we've seen in Serious, our bar vision, they were losing pretty hard, thinking he's going in with one.
I wanted to get active, play in these side lanes as often as possible.
It should be a simple one here on Xenoma, Zero just trying to defend himself with what he can.
Let's not even fake pumping the episode at all.
Yep, let's go back to the point where we saw Leistor having that 0-4 start in a bar vision game
and then he didn't die a single time.
They also have the same exact combo with the Fox, so this combo has been, I think we can go back in time, 15 years ago.
It was still super popular in the Infest Bomb, so you always have something to kill off the heroes, especially supports in the backline.
Maybe even a fine Blarger, especially once you get to that third to fourth item on the Life Stealer.
Yeah, because it's been a long period where Infest was used as like a saving tool, or this ability to, you know, agonize, jump into it, and you carry.
Now, if you see that Infest Bomb come back into play, that's Fy, that's get protected by the Sphere, but the will go on command.
Chris Dallas gonna clear out the clockwork in all the time
Mounds showing they're really not afraid just to throw bodies and numbers at these early game skirmishes
Those are extreme gaming holding that line though like a panel was saying right you want to weather the storm against miles in particular as a team
Ten minutes in you down five kills won't be net worth difference as well. It's not a drastic
Situation for them. Yeah, I've seen extreme gaming cabinet like 5k gold deficits and still winning the game
they're a bit on the slower side. Any kind of a kill they can get is gonna feel good,
exactly. Exit crest also not committing with the arena, so they're gonna have that available
as well. One of the good things here for Maus, though, is that Largo hasn't really been
shut down in lane. Right? We've seen him maybe struggle sometimes and have to rely
on farming back in the jungle. Boom has got a lot of lane farm, which is obviously
much more efficient for him to get to that agon instead of the faster. Yeah,
Leisler might be good throughout the game against Largo, but in the laning stage, you just don't have enough damage to push him out.
Something that we've seen other Chinese teams do, pick Marci, and then go try to completely go ham on to Largo, where he's unable to play that lane.
Leisler, a bit of a different hero, that's why we're seeing Doom having a much better game.
Oh, that's mid-1 stand game. Phase Boots and Blink Dagger, 11 minutes in.
Already eyeing up a jump on this mid-lane Park.
There we go, with the first right pull, it's Kerbalz coming in!
Nothing that's bad, he gets connected on!
MOUTH!
I'm gonna get a party again!
A killing spree for mid-1 and they got Catapult behind them!
Perfectly executed, and the timing is also...
...right of perfect.
He's playing with the Catapult, as you said.
Celery.
Level 6 available.
He's putting multiple points into playboards,
so he can get some extra bit of a farm.
He can put some pressure on the tower and express it.
He goes in!
Bend the arena!
Put it in the snowball!
Then it will dodge back!
Still gonna die if you go from view!
Damage in trouble and Armit comes in!
Click!
I don't know the damage, but he saved up and mid one is still in here with a snap-stomp, but runs again and another kill!
It looks like it will step-
Oh, you took an F-Wise level 4?
He's got nothing to give it, he's the invite!
Yeah, this is pretty much the old school build as well, because with the cogs being nerfed, or you don't have that passive anymore,
I think you need to go for battery assault, which is gonna be slightly more damage, but you don't have that follow-up initiation with the hug shot.
Sure.
Like, there was also a very nice Jade coming out from the homage.
This is the way to case Spask is such a menace to play against.
Oh, mate.
He puts him in mid-spear.
Yeah, it was so good.
Ah!
See it back.
It just delays the whole fight.
So, X-XS can't go for the task.
He's like, oh, fine, I'll go for the Ven-O there.
And he gets a snowball save.
Ice path is too late.
It just ruins the fight completely.
And then big ones able to jump back in with that nice two-man stun, finish off the two supports.
It seemed easy for them. Flaring out the tower while it's all happening.
And now very swiftly down at that bottom lane.
Astalis going for the mage player. We're going for these earlier items.
Yeah, mage player are an item that has been changed, so you don't get to 30 attack speed anymore,
but you get extra bit of damage. Damage has been changed with physical,
Plus, also on top of that you are dealing more damage per second over those three seconds.
Mid one, another fine.
It's turning up a heat, isn't it? He feels it now.
With a space loose plank, you can keep chasing people down.
Venom throws them through here and exits.
Yes, yes. Mid one will come in to finish him off.
I think Chrysalis wanted that bottle too.
He won't be handed it.
It's like they might not be done, Mid one.
They're not.
Yeah, I'm actually nothing to say.
After case, trying to reposition here, the coil already spanked means it's a free reign opening for Midwold to jump MTS.
Lacking the follow-through damage though as Yarrick is taken down.
Midwold feeding forward with Chrystalis there, found a strike across two,
but Armageddon rival might be tough on another one!
Another one from Midwold!
A big stun! MTS has the jaw to the left, but this tank can keep on chasing!
Celery, Chrystalis, they're in trouble looking for the final blow on this buck!
One more touch will do the trick there for Midwold to pick up a double!
Arena out, Max X-Dash wanting something, mid one's low, but this place, we're still right, they'll blow him up!
Oh, mid mouse, they're super aggressive, playing behind the enemy lines 14 minutes in, and let's see, they're probably going to be able to steal the XP rune on top of that as well.
Mid one, he is popping off, but this is also a pretty big kill, she wasn't a massive streak yet, X-X-X-Z gets 600 gold from that one.
All they have to do is get some return kills because right now mouse they are playing a turbo game while the rest of the extreme gaming
They're playing normal Dota
That's what it feels like every time mouse play
All made ones is to run and actually don't stop
Leave these boros tracks at a gorgeous load every single time he's able to line it up with a 3 in a row here
Spectacular
Ah man, his lifestealer is like, please, can I just, they've got a target and kill someone?
It's not happening.
I'm here right now, he still doesn't have the damage. Maybe he can get some like, impest
save on one of the allies, but the damage is definitely not there. Still needs another
component to be able to finish off that radius.
Well done by Axe, just to gather anything from that fight, right? It looks a little
bit wild going in there and dying, but value-wise, he gets a pretty massive take-down.
And it's a massive influx of gold for him, because he was really good.
him because he was really not having that good of a time. Still leaves another 400 gold
to finish off his Link Beggar.
And when you lose your streak like that as Midlaner, the pressure's off now. Okay,
I can just keep playing aggressively. See what I want? Nothing to lose anymore. 7, 1
and 3 on the Sand King.
It's not like that streak actually stopped them from playing aggressively. But this
guy's one of the most aggressive players that we've seen from the Midlaner.
This is crazy.
Oh, he's got the few games where he's just flying back to where it's in.
Yeah, there was one game where he bought back twice in the first 18 minutes, I think they were one of the latias.
I'm gonna start this.
I'm gonna force F1 to hookshot back to Osamae.
That was extreme gaming, looking for a player map top lane.
I'm not gonna pay off.
This makes me, it's gonna be causing them a lot of issues.
Pretty much all abilities that they do have is magic damage.
So reducing that by 40% is gonna be super effective.
a life stealer even like his radiance damage that he is going for until he starts to put in some right flicks.
Alright, would you call that spell damage?
And I also like that Monkey King is going for Deso. We talked about them not maybe having enough tower
damage. This is going to be another item that is going to be speeding things up as well,
allowing them to go for Tormentor, go for Roshan, and also take towers.
And Largo has got through the most difficult part of the game now, hasn't he?
Yep, now it's easy peasy for Largo.
It might not be in a moment, but the hunting squad is coming in.
Ex-SS wants to have a nice click-dagger debut.
Claring up with FY and trying to roam through that Boston jungle.
So far, no contact.
Largo is tucked by his tier one.
one. He will walk over a radiant ward though, but Maus are already preparing with their three
heroes through the Tweed Gate, laying into some vision of their own.
Oh, great, you're gonna cross the map. Balustrike into Burrowstrike, the pot, waiting
Rift and Facetip, can NTS with the wave from this?
He cannot.
No, you can't!
And FY also a big tag that my celery, Balmincogs has hit one! What a lot of chance there.
So one of the issues that you have when you're playing against Venomancer is you need to be able to use smoke, especially in a losing game.
So every single time you want to make a move, Venomancer will take a certain area of the map to just park himself there, steal your farm, reduce the vision, xxs, he does have a blink tag already.
Metcalfenno now as well. Like the timing there, you see, oh, let's look at where you can see it, that's great for extreme gaming.
But it's Lager, Ag, Metcalfenno, Roshan time for Maus.
It's a thing
Come back to thinking okay, we're much way to exit just his shoulders
Define the right target in these arenas
extreme
They're wrapping around it's trying to find some eggs it kills out of lunch
There's a big blue gongs and extreme will pay they got a minor victory though
Snatching that aegis out of the nose is a mouse!
Sneaky!
That was pretty massive.
Not allowing them to get to tempo, get that aegis on your monkey king who can go in and try to
maybe kill these two two towers with the fresh debuff decelerator, but he does go in and
it's still like team fights on their side is still pretty insane.
You're fighting into blue comps, you're fighting into exocentre, beno alti on top of that.
I got a bit confused because tell me didn't I have a shield rune at the same time?
Yeah, I was like, oh, I didn't even like it!
No, that's what I snatched it.
Something out of nothing for X-XS Gaming.
Incredible speeds.
This is what X-XS needs to do.
Delay the game, drag things out, don't let Marius have any more momentum.
Slow things up as much as possible.
Good for Amig.
As long as he can get the farm, right now he's sitting at almost 10K, 19 mils in, which is still pretty good.
And always be careful about X-XS.
guy whenever he gets the jump they have really good follow-up they have a also
good amount of steamflight couple of circles you have a coil you have ways
of snapping the coil as well with the cogs like some small interaction there with
the spear of course but also the hero never underestimate the amount of damage
that this hero can deal. I think Ex-Nova is maybe on the less
greedier side but new scene Yandex the maladich whenever he plays the
hero he buys one small item is most pretty agonist sector most of the time
It is from yeah, but X know I think he realizes if they can finish off this game
You have greedy GPM always available as a tier 2 and tier 3 neutral enchantment which does allow you to farm your items
Yeah, go for the scaling. Yeah, that's why I like this agonist that for a lot of it's looking for something
No, but mid one
To play
It feels like every single time they get something done, there's also gonna be a kill in return.
Now, ready to respond. Sanking damage through the roof. Agate interceptor, steering, cigarette, and if you're playing with Margo as well, if he gives him Trocogeenius, there's gonna be a lot of that extra damage coming through.
And what? I mean, not at all.
That's what it's enough.
I thought about how shot, how goodbye midwinter sides better.
And then in with another two man.
Mid one has been connected to these baro strikes on the two, three, four.
Sometime and we see a mara call giving the thumb cut from the right.
ATF approved.
Still, there's nearly had a jump on cockwork there.
By the metrics though, looking at a fight recap we saw, it wasn't through far away.
You know, between gold swing, XB swing.
Even though it seemed like Mao was having the upper hand, a dream game is still getting something and dragging this one out.
Now, even in a longer fight, they can keep Largo alive, which is kind of easy for Malus
because they want him to play the longer fights, and then maybe he can get another Trope Genius,
another Burrow Strike, then a mancher loves to play longer fights once that damage starts
to kick in.
Not really.
I think he's still a little killed.
Not really.
Not so charged.
Not gonna go up.
Nothing to say.
I'm a pretty fly one.
Nothing to say, I'm a pretty quiet one.
Don't get a coil installer in this mid lane.
Pops the mag and has mid one's eyes died.
Yammer's coming in with a punch.
Ooh, running around, strumming, and there's FY.
They get finished off, and Armey pops out and dies as well.
They go for the Venom, and they pay big time.
This is not the target that you want to go for,
especially because they're still at your one tower in the mid-stating,
so you know that rotations are going to get there.
That fight we kept, not so good for R.A.M.A.
Usually we say it's good for R.A.M.A. but not this one.
Not this one. I mean, the fact of the matter is they didn't have X-XS there.
He is the one who will end all of their teamfights. He's the guy who's got to go in.
And we can see the difference in damage numbers.
Like, Xenomancer has dealt more damage in these teamfights.
More than any hero on extreme gaming.
Peraxma definitely going to help the Puck out in X-XS.
Like I said, the Agadem's on Jakiro is gonna add in things as well.
A long way down the road right now.
Currently the main goal is get XXS to this DKB.
Crystal is he also purchased a Shard of his own. You are playing against Clockwick, you're playing against Mars, even Jakiro.
So you want to be able to get out of these very annoying abilities and also go for a second round of...
...a strategy to stay out, which is going to be BKB.
Be careful. Luckily they have Largo. We see something very dramatic happening yesterday.
Celery again for a splint of contact. Arena onto him.
They want to kill this man real bad and they'll get him.
Miles though gonna jump back in. Clockwork's in the rear going for hookshot play but it's the
stand king onto XXX. Takes Xenover with him and Armey's gonna run and bail again.
This guy's opened up to kill up F-boy. That initiation in the rear didn't pay off.
Nothing to say. He has to blink back.
Armey's a little bit run out.
Raising two seconds, always bound with...
They got him! They got the damage!
Oh man, Medwan, he's really popping off.
In every single fight, he's doing way too much work.
This agon-inceptor-searing-signate-playing-playing-with-trope-of-genius is just doing way too much.
We're 21 hours, 27 kills!
We're doing a monumental performance for Medwan.
And another big swing from out!
All humans doing that team fight.
Extreme gaming, now it's time to struggle as they bleed out.
They held the line for so long.
The 10k lead for Maus.
That's not gonna be aiming for these tier 2 towers now.
Now we hear the crowd cheering for Maus. They like what they're seeing.
They're playing extremely fast Dota, mid one popping off.
and often they have a lot of these circles they have stanking they have monkey king as well basically same king Kong version if you
Want to call it it's pretty impossible to take some of these fights because they have no pipe from the off lane Mars
This is not the item that he wants to buy and most of the damage
They do have is magical and on the other side mouse they have Guardian Greaves
So they have at least one aura plus also mage learn from monkey king which reduces all that spell damage by 40%
I've got visions of the stanking planning the Mars arena now
Heh.
They're flying out in the map.
I'm trying to do what I can.
Big goal here for now.
Keep these waves away from peer-to-peers.
Trying to prep the map the best they can.
And extreme gaming do have some pretty good heroes that are doing that.
You clutch one of the slipperiest in the game.
And just go and cut waves and throw things out in one lane.
Now those are very good at tightening up and playing as five.
Wherever they go, destruction follows.
Oh, there's this big man.
Come on, kill the creep wave.
Nice team role play.
Croker of Genius, he was there ready to maybe get a surprise kill.
And with the Deso, they have more than enough.
Also, a newer big timing where you can actually go for the high ground.
It's going to be second ages and 30 catapult.
Double catapult plays, something that we've seen before.
before was in 35 for the earlier ones. Yeah, yeah, so five extra minutes earlier.
Just makes a lot of difference in the way the teams want to be closing out the games.
Sure.
Out on the map as best they can.
12 push-ups at top lane.
They're tucked on their way in the pocket, farming safely for now, but
Mows are approaching. They want tier 2s.
Look out in that mid lane, mighty on the menu.
Well focused on the objectives.
They showed the Monkey Key and Venomance the poppin lane, but the other three heroes hidden off map for a good minute now is absolutely a cause for concern for extreme gaming.
Damn it! He really had the jump on nothing to say!
Won't get away in this room. Let's engage.
I'm just going to back off.
A minute and a half till Roshan though, so I've got a time there for extreme.
Yeah, because he snatched that Aegis and also used it immediately,
we haven't seen even more aggression put on the map by Maus
that we'd definitely love to have that one, haven't we?
They'll try to farm up with these Mantae illusions, they won't.
We find them.
OH IT DOES!
OH IT DOES!
Ex-Novem!
Guess how the ice craft, nothing to say didn't get changed done.
Sellerie also got the Ex-Ex-Ex, but Kostalas has found NTS.
I know that Orban Jorn is ready.
He's gonna jump into the right with Link's Lord Wasteless.
Yeah, well, look who's waiting for him!
There's always Midwong!
Alright, check this guy's BC.
This is some backstop going on.
Check it!
Midwong's playing too well.
He knew exactly where F*** is gonna play.
Oh, what a read.
Really godly stuff from Midwong.
Hey, Christales, he's killing it now.
They're hunting Armei.
Life stealer.
Very early rage.
He's fast into one of these ancient croakers to try and run away.
And he's put out here with a speedy can.
Now Luzac Lino in the meantime.
There's a big man on the map mid-long himself finds another bit of assistance, but you've boomed the kill.
He's playing so fast, the change to Monkey King where he can three-dance with no cooldown whatsoever.
So he's anywhere on the map.
didn't go for the cast ring on level 10 because you are playing carry monkey king
gear you have that jingo on level 15 as well
but he is ready to go they have bkbs available one available on
sanking that's a 9 second bkb and also monkey gear did not use his at all
Radiance middle tower is under attack.
There's a white place as well.
They know Roshan is up.
Oh, so the pit.
Already tripled dialing circles all the way from mid to bottom lane.
I will see every approach coming, because then they can keep someone smoke-brake on the front lines.
Roshan has wrought...
...mouse...
...was hitting the pit.
No little soft retreat, no disengage, just full-on.
It's getting me into this battle shit.
I know it's been getting all wounded right now.
Right now it's also bringing in another big item.
This is your Position 5, pretty much having the offlane items,
having Guardian Greaves, and also having Plyp Plus.
You have the Mage Lair, some Decarier Roll.
This combination between two items plus.
Mage Lair has been looking so good.
We haven't seen it as much in the previous patch
because Mage Lair was like a very, very situational item,
but when the item was busted and the fight was still a good item, like we've seen this combination especially against a lineup that feels only magical damage
Like you have some right clicks on lifesteal, but you can see that he doesn't feel too comfortable sitting inside a mookong shaman
versus ekb piercing tool and once the rage is down they have enough to lock him down as well
That long period where Lashrack was popular and my spirit was just
Every single game we might see it best because Lesh right right now seems like a must-band hero
Somebody doesn't ban Lesh we're definitely gonna be seeing the mates there
LoL in play give it this extreme gaming time to play up that
Armade and this is the big timing that we talked about 30 minutes to catapult their approaching
They are right across the river right now
This is the timing for mouse. They want to be finding something from genius again on the stanking
Let's see army retreating this camp and then jump again. It's started off with much no more Boris right here
The change funds that good army dead with no buy back
Also not allowing him very good charts for me on it's not allowing him to get close to the creeps
And maybe get the impress like he did in the previous engagement
Maki King, this is also another item that I wanted to see when it comes out teaching the high ground.
Deso plus Agadon Scepter, if you could just sit there with Venomance Rewards and again, two catapults, they are approaching.
Okay? He just bought out. He doesn't have buyback available.
He bought out Rabashna.
But now with the Roshan's ban I'll double-shot a bolt for this tier 3 and let me know if you're aware.
They can go bottom as well.
At lane has a tier 2, the bottom lane could be open.
That's one side.
Extreme game and they don't want to take
Fight here is just feels way too difficult
But even with the Lysol, fighting into Aegis, fighting into Banner as well
And it feels like they potentially want to close it out, 30 better than them
Now it's days to be pretty strong, they are feeling themselves
I mean they caught them there with Army having no buyback
Also catching the Kira elsewhere
Well Puck makes a play on the Banner man, sir
That's the tank man
And there Panno with tons of Horus means alive through MTS's initiation
And why he died to Crystallis?
Extreme gaming.
I don't know how to come back with this now.
It is a real rough one. Maybe one fight left in them?
It's 4v5. Takira doesn't have buyback.
Valkyrie debuts his buyback.
Refresher ready on X-XS. Let's see if he can land two man arena.
So reliant on this jump from him.
He needed buyback. He needs it beyond him.
He is cracked by Yammet!
But he can focus though the damage on Crystallis!
Takes the first life down!
Aegis gone, but Midwars in! The two have done! Army's done!
But they might be in, Gary.
They've got it now! MTS gonna get cleared out under his tier four towers!
And Mounds will be closed it out!
Oh man, what a fast beam. I sure take sacrifice one of their heroes, but rest of the beam they are ready to clean up.
They also don't use the BKBs, and they are feeling themselves. 50 seconds without Army sanking again, he goes in.
I also want to see the amount of damage that the Midlaner did in this game, because it's pretty ridiculous.
Oh, Arena, that's a connect.
Crystal has got BKB up, they'll focus the throne, Shakiro's down, Mars falls back the fountain, GT calls!
And now, the game won!
This is the type of game that we expected from Mouse. These are the type of traps that you want to see.
You want to see something new, and they are bringing in some old stuff, what's not the new stuff.
This thing from the Midlane completely dumps you down.
just bow down to the king your lord mid one incredible performance
I'm not particularly happy though, they just had another knee in the office
yep
incredible things
wow, it's definitely game one in their classic fashion speeding the game up
and Xpring Gaming, yes they held that line for a good 15 or 20 minutes but they broke
yeah I mean I'm just looking at the damage number Gary mid one
They're almost more damaged than all three cores on the side of extreme gaming combined away
Massive maximum of the push is up by him. I'm very good stuff. I'm ours. Maybe it's one of things to come
As we head back to the panel
Thank you very much. Time to burn mouths
They set that high tempo and they do not give extreme gaming any chance to put their foot in that door purge
Yeah, they did a great job. They were constantly being aggressive across the map. They were getting kills
They were rotating to side lanes monkey king rotate for the wisdom room like they're taking
Rochefights and yes, the ages got stolen, but they still convinced me one this nobody died in this thing
Oh, it's the seven out one guy. Yeah, I mean everything about mouse though
It's like when they want to go aggressive they did it together
They were a team the entire time sorry like a pack throughout the map
Just like they see here or they kill here and that just wasn't a thing for xg
I'm gonna be critical on army my guy. He was hitting more jungle the enemy creeper
Mixed returns to Birmingham. He did get a damage buff in the patch of course from itself
But yeah, I'm gonna say xg they were just kind of victim to this pressure
And they never really found a time to take a good fight
Oh, yeah mouse definitely had their number like all the rotations you guys are talking about and it's I mean
It shows here the highlights to I think mid one had an insane game on this tanking like you know
the early game, the mid game, they talked about the damage numbers.
Cristales is like as well on his monkey king. It is his staple, it always has been, you know,
10-1 and 14. I really like this build and I mean, I agree with T. I think XG,
they were caught a little bit slipping. I think they all, they have a ton of deaths on their
support. You know, could be, you know, day one, you're playing on stage, get the nerves out
of the way. Now game one is done, you know, go into game two clean, but mouse,
they looked incredible in this game. What allowed Bloom to be basically that active
on like Largo, which we've in the past, even before, before the changes are said,
You know you you want to take some time to get all your items online. How come he could be so active so early?
I mean mid one of course popping off in the Sankeng he's a natural croak target, right?
If he gets buffed by the croak, you're gonna even do more damage to my head like what 33,000 damage probably croak is buffing
That a bit and I think the fact that you have to rush eggs to use ball belly plus the movement speed song that alone makes
Good food. Maybe I joined my team a bit earlier like there's no argument of maybe I go kai or whatever from old patches
Like you just want to be with your team with Sankeng's and just making moves happen
It's also nice that he had this draft where everyone is already fighting and he can just join in and give a little buff here, throw your frogs, and it's easy to connect because everyone like me already talked about it.
They made nice moves around it to make space for him and make it easy, so I think both Maus and Tundra, they're very good at understanding how you want to draft the frog.
The frog was first pick and it played out very nicely as we also got a couple of extra tips for you to look at, Perch.
Yeah, that's right. Let me look at what they did so effectively to make space for the Largo to basically as a team do cohesive things
They took turns participating in fights. Here's the wisdom shrine on the dire side
You're gonna see the monkey King teleport from the safe lane. He's gonna go fight here
He's the classic wisdom shrine fighter. He loves being here. He's gonna end up getting a kill
He secures wisdom shrine for his team in fact mid one ends up getting it
They get a double kill off of this and you might think oh, that's the carry supposed to creeps
That's not his job this game
His job is basically to set tempo throughout the game and once he's done
Here's mid one at 11 minutes with his click there. They kill a puck
They take another fight around the mid tier one here this tower ends up dying
The fight that happens there is not that bad for them. It goes fine, and here's the next fight
They're only 1k up, but they've got six more kills over their opponents and they're being aggressive again
They landed a two-man stun from Monkey King
They landed three-man stun from Sand King and on the extreme gaming side
They're just like desperately trying to slow this down, but Ami's not really doing that much damage
He doesn't actually have ratings yet the Mars eventually shows up trying to sack or trying to get something out of this
And he does end up eventually killing mid one here
But it takes a little bit of doing for him to be successful on that so like they're trying to go even here
But they're not really matching it and look at the smoke at 16 minutes
Actually smoke doesn't hit at all and on the other side mouse starts invading this area
They're gonna end up finding a puck here over in the jungle getting the fall ups time getting this kill
So the moves that extreme are looking for aren't actually getting aren't actually hitting on their side
So it's making a really big deal difference here for miles
They they got to play the early tempo they hit their stuff everything went well
I speaking of moves just a quick intermezzo or just a quick interruption if you're in the arena right here
Don't move you'll probably want to be in this arena
During that regular will not have to yet, but that will have a little bit later
so keep that in mind as I do want to go back to the
game that we just witnessed and I think one thing that was very important
were the the last bit you can you're gonna you know you got to kind of compare
the overall first bit which is the advantage you get from first bit with
the overall last bit where you get that gotcha life stealer kickoff gotcha got
nothing little redundant unfortunately because army again he had the last
look good on paper but the time he needs to get online was not the same
when you compare it to Christmas right Christmas 728 GPM on his monkey King
carry, but his itemization right going for the mage slayer is now physical damage
then going back to the desolator utilizing the fact he has a zero second
cooldown on spring, taking the twin gates like Purge was mentioning being very
active on the map. I saw a carry in chrysalis that wanted to win this game
and for Arme he just never he was not the same as I night and day difference
between the two of them. That's also I really like the itemization
chrysalis like I want to talking about mage slayer was buffed and he
wants to play this aggressive way and he does like the mage slayer into the
desolator and like with what he is mentioning also like I think Arme
Like he's like the type of Harkay that takes time in order to win the game
And I think sometimes these guys you know like the crystallises and the skaters the mikes
You know it's not as easy for them to like get the like limelight, you know because they're moving around
They're not gonna have the most network but they're making all this space and all this stuff happen on the map
So I think crystallis he cooked in this game
And maybe they have to shut him down right in game to XG rather than first pick in the Mars
They need to find an off-lane duo that can stop crystals from making these moves get the early levels
Because if he's active, Mausers on paper will be the faster, more clinical team in the early game.
So maybe it's less about Armey and more about the other side lane.
What can they do to stop this inevitable aggression that we are seeing already again with the Gold League that they have in the highlights?
Yeah, the Clockwork didn't solve that problem.
And on the other side, Liquid Venom accomplished.
He was a strong laner and he transitioned to Auras, which was perfect when they're already winning the game.
And Largo has heals.
You have this Paws 5. He doesn't care about some little glimmer cape.
He's like, I want to dump tons of HP into my teammates, which has made these fights even more one-sided when they went well for them.
It's also like something I saw in XG, because maybe it was also not like...
I think nothing to say didn't have the best game himself, but like, Mars, Pog, aren't like incredibly high damage heroes, same with Flock.
You're playing that into Largo, which then kind of made it hard, I think, for them in like the mid-game to make a comeback.
So, I think XG need to make a small swapperoo for the game to here.
This is also, previous patches wasn't the case, because Monkey King wasn't that good.
In the past, whenever Chris was on the team, the other team would always ban Monkey King,
there was no debate, he's the best Monkey King, so why wouldn't you just start banning it again?
Considering the hero, apparently he's back.
I mean they might start, this is one of those moments in a tournament where there's a new patch,
where you just get a gimme game basically, where you're like, oh, this is one of my best heroes,
it's perfect for the game circumstance, they whipped it out to get a win,
and now there's one more to move forward in the tournament, so it's a big moment for them.
moment for them. Yeah I mean that's the treat of Newpatch right I think when you
look towards mouse it's gonna be the monkey king, Tundra they had the pangolitas
getting banned against them, the alchemists like every team is gonna have
one or two very flavor specific bands. When future tournaments it probably won't
happen, we'll see a meta develop but in in ESL and Birmingham it's all about
like the respect of their hero balls right now. It's also like it is
literally like you said it is the problem of like a Newpatch you have so
many different things that pop in your mind of like oh I want to play
this year with this item build this year got buffed this year and
suddenly like you forget you know this guy plays this year and it's
really good but it was trash the last one year so you kind of just end up
forgetting but I wouldn't be too surprised you know in the next game you
take it out. We have Lifesteen that's a first-phase ban for some teams right?
Here for 24 pick, last pick in the draft and they're just losing the game right?
So maybe there's also overreaction to certain heroes. Lifesteen is still very
good but I love when teams just let the heroes, don't just follow this
script of doom is broken. You can beat doom with certain aspects. The best
teams in the world right now will exploit the fact that people very
quickly come to conclusions that this early in the patch what we
fundamentally probably wrong. Yeah, we also saw a lot of carry bands in the first game and maybe
they will just be higher priority now to pick up earlier, so you want to get the one that is
the best. We're going to of course find out what happens in game number two and with the draft of
that before we do that though, there will be a break. But if you are in the arena, do not go
anywhere because I believe something is afoot. See you soon.
Don't go away if you guys are in the arena, don't worry, because it's something to entertain
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When was Punch the Butcher first added in Dota 1?
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Question two, what unit in Warcraft 3
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Was it the butcher, the abomination,
the boomer, or the ghoul?
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Sir Rax and Slag.
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Extreme Gaming has a fantastic track record when it comes to taking theories to a third
game of the series and on top of that the last three times they faced against Miles they
one of the ones on the winning end at the end of it all.
So you'd imagine that they have what it takes to bounce back
and force that third game out against Maus here as well.
And they need to because elimination is on the line.
Maus however had a fantastic game one
and looked to be on the form
that they were at the start of the season.
Kezu, when they looked on fire, they are so again.
Yeah, no, they look great.
And I like that they went back, you know,
the comfort and I think playing fast, which is obviously very good for them.
I think actually during this break, there's like a high chance at what they talked about
isn't like necessarily hero specific, but more like this minute 8 to 15 was a problem.
We couldn't fight them back. It was rough. So, you know, maybe small adjustments.
I mean, that's the other thing, the small adjustments. Will it come from maybe the mid lane matchups
or NTS can try and thwart mid one? Will it come from the off-lane matchup?
Is R me going to change his play style coming into a game two of a lower bracket?
That's the three probably not so you are gonna look towards all the other elements to amplify them
But actually they can do they have so much experience the understanding of mouse like she was mentioning with the historic matchups that
Yeah, we are gonna see already with a venom monster. That's a statement of we are gonna try and start winning some lanes
Now the band differences we saw Batred in the first phase instead of Ursa
This could open mouths up to some stronger offline heroes
Which gives them more options here when they're already up against a strong laner with the Venos
So we'll see if that shifts their priorities here or gives them a good idea
They're just consistently putting respect on both Ench and Tidehunter, right, the promotion
of Lago, it's the first phase ban, that is their reach from the previous game.
It isn't the Monkey King and all the other aspects that we could have maybe analysed
is just, you know what, let's get rid of Lago.
It would be really good against Venom as well.
You can catch it off the annoying debuff set he provides.
I also thought that the Monkey King into the Mars, I think a few times we saw the
Monkey King overlaid on the arena perfectly.
It might sway you away from Mars a little bit, doing that again.
There's definitely one thing to think about, because if you're like XG, I think they love
Mars, and they love XXS's Mars, I think they would also overanalyze in terms of how can
we pick it again, how can you make it happen again, because I think it's one of his best
hero-player combinations, but yeah, absolutely, I think Kristal is in the last game, he
kind of put a stop to that one.
Nix, that's like an obvious gimmie, or if you have other like Junk Stunner heroes, Puck doesn't integrate with it extremely well, I think there's a little bit of overlap in that they're teamfight control, so I feel like I'd rather pair it with like a Stunner Nuker rather than like a destruction mild Nuker.
It also helps when you see the enemy plus 5. If the enemy plus 5 is a more static style position 5, you know that the Mars can apply more pressure elsewhere.
On top of that, you are then going to have, like you mentioned, the 4 position matchup and all the other elements.
But I just wouldn't be surprised if Mars was a later face pick for XG.
Tosca's, I think, what hero that has really just regained the equal value between last patch and this patch.
Teams were consistently opening with it early. It gives you everything.
Basically there's obviously something it's like a jack of all trades here BKB piercing stun you have saves you've good lane control
You have a varied skill build that you can get based on what you want. You can gank side lanes
It's just so safe opening
It also helps that it's one of Yama just like absolute best heroes
I think he had a while where he picked it like 15 out of 20 games in a row where obviously this guy is very good
And I think like now you have the tank team later
You can still get the drinking buddies if you want with the shard which honestly I think that's quite cool
And I think also when you have boomer the offline it's quite nice to pair it up
I think boom is kind of happy, you know, if he leaves you be he gives you some space
This is what I'm able this is what Barber comes up out
Yeah, this is only the first fight guys. We have three more days of this
Please be ready crowd and the camera is on you. Of course street response. If you can't it's okay, but here it is
There we go
Beautiful
The whole crowd has to do it. Sorry, mate.
That's a jikiro.
Jikiro was obviously on the losing end of the previous game,
but still a very stable hero to go for as a position 5.
Yeah, Maus pretty much standing in the foundation of,
you're not showing anything to us,
so we're not going to show anything to you, right?
When you pick supports like this, such strong laning supports,
it just means that all the cores will have a lot more information
to be able to counter-pick.
Can we learn something from Maus being on dire side two games in a row?
Obviously that means that the teams prefer
Where they are at right now
It's going to be outpost control right with the swap of Roshan moving
You want to be, you want to have the close to outpost to Roshan
And whenever it swaps, whatever team that has it, you're going to take it
Oh god, I'm sorry Lash
Keep it up, keep it up brother, you can do it
You can come on!
Keep it up
We are proud of you
Not you, keep it up
It counts
Yeah, we'll take it
The Pangolier has seen a bit of a resurgence here, higher stun duration on the ulti, slight
buffs on the second skill, and it was kind of training up a little bit.
I'd definitely like it against Tosca, I would say.
You have nice area control, makes it harder for Tosca to do his job, even if they worry
about ice shards, but as a whole, nice itemization, good item buffs that the Pangolier can
take advantage of.
It's like overall good pivot, I think, like you can tell that XG very likely at least
did have a talk like, mouse, okay, you know, it's new patch, playing fast, let's
give us some more stuff where we can actually battle back into them, so for that reason,
I do also like the pangolier and I think with the double sub I want to see where mouse take this and I will also
Need to talk about other crystallis's heroes. I don't know if how people view pango overall. I was he's very good
You know crystallis. Yep. That's the one here. It's like the age old counter to pango. Yeah, because rupture
Yeah, see you later. You don't want to play into that spell
Just feel so nice to be miles in this position
They had draft that could go anywhere and then you see finally a key here and they're like, okay
This one here's our here's our identity and that is just such a beautiful benefit of having the double supports
Yeah, actually like as I was mentioning is it's actually really cool the idea that they're matching mouse
And you know what we're not gonna let you out find us. We want to be able to fight you
But then yeah surprised by blood seeker that I was in his shard now
It's just send it's damage on his click. Is that those angles pure BK through BKB, right?
Yeah, that's one of the changes
If received something else don't quarter us on all the changes guys
it's tough. Is this is this then crystalis's patch when monkey king and bloodseeker both pickable? Yeah, that's mad. Yeah
I mean it could be. I'd be pretty happy. Yeah, like I can't tell if it's like I don't even know if he knows whether it's good
But I think on a new patch like a few days you're taking the invitation to like give me this guy
Give me this guy. If you also have heroes already that want to go find kills that want to put people to know HP
so bloodseeker will look pretty happy.
Yeah
Like take the drink and then not finish it
It looks like it's more red than beer.
Oh, I'm the next person.
Double it.
Double it, too.
Alright.
Razor also picked up on the side of Maus.
I'm going to assume this one is not for Crystallis,
even though that's the right hero.
True.
A good play by the animals.
It should be your mate or off-link.
At least when you look at Blastica Razor,
there should be heroes that I think kind of owned them
because they both rely on single-target,
like run you down during their BKB, like you know, Ropture, Link, like some range carries potentially,
or like Faceless Void, if you want like the Giga carry matchup, but I think that's very slow.
So for now they just go with Brumaster. Seems, seems chill.
Seems chill and of course is the thematic hero of previous Birmingham, so I bet that one is
also a crowd favorite there. And it's time for our final couple of picks coming out.
What are we lacking? It seems like on the side of extreme gaming we are looking for a carry because
I don't think Arme has his hero yet. On the side of Maus, if we are assuming Chrisless has taken
the Bloodseeker and the Razor will be either for mid one or boom, we are looking for either a
mid laner or an off laner coming out. With Rissabak being removed, it implies that extreme
gaming is thinking off laner. Yeah, and actually we'll have a problem for where Maus would
have so many tanky calls, right? If you have to deal with a Razor with potential auras,
Bloodseeker naturally wants BKB as like second item, there's just a hurdle you have to overcome, and then for XG, carry-wise,
like, part of me just wants to see a terror blade, but I'm worried about the patience, right? Like, the eventual Mantis Guard is like,
I stand my ground, you never kill me as a Bloodseeker, but can you get to that point after how we saw the first game kind of unfold?
Right. They kind of have like two problems, right? They have to worry about getting ruptured, because you don't want to get Bloodseeker like,
multiple targets to like, pick and choose throughout the game, but in the same vein, yeah, if you stand and fight your ground, then you're kind of bad against Razer,
So do you want something arranged? If you get ruptured, you can still contribute to fights. There's a couple different options
I could do I suppose
You know the TV I definitely could see I think it's good against these chords if you feel like that with the bands
You know, you could cover it like nicely enough. I think that's one of the heroes that can come out
I just want to pose like I feel like I see a bit of a problem for XG
So you're not playing mid pango
Potentially either against Razor or a counter pick and into rupture and most like like this is not an easy position
Like for your mid-pangolier to be in so I just I do hope that actually can find like this middle ground of Kerry
That yeah, he does do the stuff later
I like this where you can also like in the mid game do some stuff
But also I know I need to see his item build cuz rupture is annoying. Yeah, it's great outside of rupture if he gets rupture
He's gonna have a bad time. They're gonna be putting ice baths
They're gonna be chasing him down like forcing pressure and he's gonna have to like time-lapse or stick to a
It solves the razor problem, but it's spooky against both secret fillings. At least it brings the damage right with the desolated build
I think he has to go desert luckily for for the sake of the series army and the Chinese region has always got about
Desolated more than the European weavers and that will be I think to lean on yes rupture is a problem
But if we was getting ruptured the pangels gonna shine if pangels gonna rupture we was gonna shine right?
I think the fact that brew willow and Venom will
Complement that aggression you have to I think they have the tools to 45 certain fights during rupture
That's true, and they are way higher tempo than the previous game. They're ready to go from the laning stage on
They're gonna definitely match what mouse wants to bring towards them
But if they do hit a lot of these ruptures these slight chains is perfect this game because they have
Moderately mobile heroes between the pango. It's gonna beat up the weaver as well
There's definitely more problems that they have to worry about now mouse just it feels so simple from today's game
Right there's a force will secure side lanes and then they'll run through mid get a rune for the ember
Then they'll go break the bot tower. I think that mouse it's like it's all about how good they are with their skirmishing
and never allowing XG to, you know, you want a full axe on a brumos, you want a lincoln's and maybe a blink and another item on tango, same thing for weaver, so
I think XG have got more aggression in them, but there's still this kind of like tempo that I'm looking at mouse having a kind of the early game advantage.
I like the adjustment from XG, but I'm fully on board with the fact that what XG need to do is like, you need to fight together.
Like if pango is eating the rupture, weaver has to make use of it and vice versa, like fight together with the minus armor,
you combine this split with the roll, fight together, bring your weaver, because mouse overall, I think they're once again very happy.
They have very many staples, like mid one ember is a legend, like even of the past.
You look at the Starless Bloodseeker, kind of same story, and I think if you play this game like very casual in XG,
I don't think you're getting very far, but I like the adjustment and I think we will see a lot of skirmishes in like this early to mid game.
At least I hope so.
I'm a little bit worried about the damage potential of the XG side, because once they get like a pipe,
Grieves, maybe Crimson Guard on the Razor,
couldn't really stop a lot of the damage output of the enemy squad,
but the Dark Willow looks amazing in this game.
Bramble Maze against Razor, against Bloodseeker, against Ember,
all excellent, so if FY can sit in the back and drop mazes like crazy,
it could really disrupt their fights pre-BKBs.
I think my main question would be if the mid game
is where Extreme Gaming this time is able to show up at big time,
and Maus is still going to be able to play the same type of tempo
that we saw in Game 1,
a lot of it will also be decided
Then in the laning stage itself, how is that looking?
Is there any team over the other that has just a stronger laning stage
with these 5 heroes on the board for team?
I guess we've said weaver, weaver-venom bottom should do quite well, I think,
even if it's Razor Tusk, I think you can fight through that whereas mid,
I think both are kind of happy farming, so maybe both the safe lanes are quite strong,
I think for the respective teams.
But outside of lane also supporting, both teams have the ability to rotate to mid
to make the group move first. Whoever makes that first move will waste the enemy's TP,
will break the map set up to then find other kills through smoke so I think both supports
they have the ability to own this game so I think it's really on who can make that first
move.
It's time to find out can extreme gaming extend their stay here in Birmingham they
need to take down Maus to do so let's see if they can do that or if Maus will take
this one two and oh it's time for game two.
Having to look good against mouse so hard is yeah, we've got like one game with three series.
Well, yeah, it goes out the window with a new patch and now they're one game away from elimination as mouse have run at them relentlessly.
Oh man, I'm just excited to see Bluntseeker back in action because this hero, Ethan, received a lot of small buffs.
Nothing like too crazy, but I think he's in a good spot to be played right now, especially because Pango's back in the meta.
This is one of the hardest counters in the game against Fango not allowing you to get to roll pretty much
So you have to stand your ground and some of the changes that did happen the blood seeker is blood rage
You can't use that on enemies anymore. So it's only for yourself. It doesn't silence anymore
But also the amount of damage the amount of scaling damage that you do get
I think one of the biggest changes is shard now also is your damage, but it also does go through debuff immunity
So you're always gonna have that no matter what and one of the heroes that can stand his ground and take the fight
And behind, the blood splish near the Spokes break, Christalis, the first point of contact.
He throws down the blood right for the blood grenade, go his way, he's a 30-by-wee, doesn't like that!
First blood for X-XS!
Extreme gaming showing the no slashes now, already playing very, very quickly.
Yeah, this time around they did have a bit of a different approach from what they need to do.
They wanted to have heroes that now plays extremely fast.
extremely fast, so pick heroes that can actually do stuff at these early engagements, no real
big cooldowns, sure you have rolling thunder and the blue master's quest, but you also
have super active carry who can join some of these early engagements, something that
Paisa doesn't like to do as much, especially when there's like a B2B piercing cool I
could see in the previous game, and that will also discuss about the support rotation.
I think I would like to see Maus rotate to the mid lane relatively early on because
you have one of the best rotating supports, the same amount of damage, a lot of things
that you can combine with your Ender spirit.
Mid-1, he completely dumps for the previous game,
and now he's playing Ember into pango.
Both of these heroes are kind of back, especially with pango.
We also have to see what kind of item build he's going to be going for.
We've seen good amount of mage layers as well,
and the pubs as well,
and I think we've seen it in one of those games,
but the Fuse of Leg is kind of king on this hero.
Yeah, it is.
Especially three levels to extract this.
And also something Penel talked about
is this offline duo for extreme gaming.
This is a super strong duo, which, especially when they hit the level 2, you have Bramble Maze, nobody outside of Maus likes to play into Bramble's blood secret, he can't maneuver through them, it's very good against Razors to stop the static link, and Emerson is on top of that as well, Fy, off to such a better start compared to previous games.
Oh, that close to it.
Yeah, I think Clotcher, I don't think we're going to be seeing much of this hero anymore.
horrendous time for him
well you're right, the way that now is done of Operate
once we get into that mid game portion is
dog pilot people, right?
yeah, there's rupture, stat blink, try and chase someone down
then you're like, oh terrorize, bramble maze, all these
Celtic spells can just
join you from the team fight
first up the lane stage, we're going to get through that
and we did one, eight and one
time to bring the hangar in
nothing to say coming out ever so slightly ahead
hangar did receive some of the
good buffs in the previous batch
Gero was one of the most annoying heroes for the past like two or three years and then it got completely dumpstered and if we buffed it up, blood grenade they have no stuns available until Gero hits number three.
3.
Let's keep you back.
We'll go to the tier 2.
We have to go back to Pango.
His watchbox is closed now for 0.2 extra seconds.
His shield crash is better.
And most importantly, rolling thunder.
It is a stun that is 1.2 seconds in all levels
compared to the previous battle.
Only on level 3.
Thank you very much, Lollisa.
I'm going to put the ground board to click.
I'm sure they can't advance to the next attack.
This is a pretty good spot.
I'm going to pop him down a little bit like the Starless.
I don't want to hit him from the blue master.
He should be able to stick around and get away from his left.
That's a little maneuvering though by the bloodseeker.
The whole berating wave is from his tower.
And we've got that longer lane to chase people down.
There's a mid lane, mid one.
Bottom lane, boom.
All ready with the...
Oh, damn!
I didn't get it.
Ah, man, he takes it now.
Now he's looking for the bonus kill here as well.
A few more hits as he does get that.
He's got a lane attached to the top.
Can't quite chase it down.
and mid lane, really, both of them on a nice end, very low HP value between Pango and Amber.
Usually we say good for Ami, but this is good for Chrysler's, having that extra bit of a movespeed into thought lane,
and we're seeing the items as well, and Blutty could double.
Fairy fires a turn-around potential, maybe he wraps a kill.
They're really pushing the limit here.
Both of them, yeah, just poking at each other.
I don't know how far they can take it.
Pango with the steps, because I haven't...
...want to help top up a little bit.
He's delivering tangos. Four minutes in.
Delivering tangos to me.
Keep playing out this late. And so far...
We'll see these supports rotate.
Come on, we'll get room.
It's actually important to try and control.
Yeah, majority galed.
Well, nothing to say.
Bottle's up the water room.
Embus spirit won't get his hands on one because F1 has already made the move.
Not playing. That leaves AxeXX isolated and exposed.
No way to stop his TP back to tier 1.
Let us price teller you didn't go for a point in ice path.
Sure you have more mana to use in the lane, because right now liquid fire and liquid frost cost 20 mana to use.
But also knowing that you have nothing to stop the TP with, this is the second time that they managed to get that out of trouble.
Do you know if the cobalt camps can deal with wage now?
This was the most pathetic small camp in the world.
Well they buffed a bunch of the numbers and it looks like it wasn't enough.
They can't deal with wage!
It's never enough! They got too damaged, Harry.
I was like, well, please let the curveballs kill away.
No.
Well, I should drag it back out of the tower anyway.
There's definitely a coming back up the player's lane.
It feels like extreme gaming with that first blood and TP's back.
What's the more of a rhythm here?
What I'm having now is the steamroll within the first five minutes of the lane stage.
Without having those big lane counters now,
now they're more for the mid game teamfights with the rupturing and the rolling thunder kind of thing.
Whilst they also have pretty limited amount of stuns, they have shards to maybe snowball punch,
but these are all relatively difficult skills to get before you can get your blink daggers as well.
Ember needs to pop off and it's not the easiest way to set things up.
But your offlaner is Razor, he's going to be going for Aura, so in terms of lockdown, he's not going to be providing much, and something that was there for Razor is that he's all innate to the order of the Old Passive, I'll call that talk.
Yeah, excellent.
Well, in the open, the boom is losing a lot of health, though,
with these friends of Armei giving him even more potential
to keep gap-closing, chasing and dishing out the damage.
One more step back to damage.
One is Armei, he's opening up 1v2,
might even get both of them for his trouble.
Another two-coaches forward.
And Armei gets another tower,
and it looks like Armei's gonna give up on the chase
because the creeps are more important.
Yeah, he's also very close to level 6.
There's threads of faith, new innate ability for Lever.
He's just saw it in action.
It gives him extra 20% of the damage.
On a hero that has Geminate Attack, that has Shikuchi, it feels really good, but now Aame is level 6.
Throughout the whole game, I think he's gonna have a good matchup against this Razor.
He's never gonna be Link. I also wanna see what that Invisation's gonna be.
Fennel had kinda the same question.
You are playing against Bloodseekers, so...
You might wanna be getting Link instead of Everon,
and whether he's gonna be going for, like, more right-click-oriented build, if they feel like this.
Most likely this is gonna be Deso. You are playing with Fangle, so there's a lot of synergy.
very good Randall from that line by such a big fight shift here
who's lanking cool
does get a time-lapse job in the nick of time
shabu shi of the right hand side
wisdom shrine attempted to be contested here by treem as they bring numbers down south
and a TP out from Aquais
successfully gets them out of danger
so double wisdom shrine here
incredible start for extreme as they've also already shut down mid one who's the king of game one
Yeah, I think we understand who's gonna be the playmaker in this one.
If they can maybe kill Mid one one more time, if he overextends, we know that Mid one likes to play super aggressive if he loses his remnants.
It's gonna be a much easier game for extreme gaming.
You see Pangos, E's level 7, as he says he did pick up the XB rune in the top lane, about to crack level 6.
Couple of nerfs that happened for Blue Master, his Cyclone doesn't last as long to show both of them as well.
No Ultion on it, but he's gonna be just fine.
I think extreme all the fears are being run over again to now dealt with the worlds gone and they have settled into a very nice comfy landing stage.
8 minute rune about to pop up.
Midlan is gallery guarding down the bottom, but that's Moshbuckle who puts the fear into Yamich.
And Midlan will bottle up their haste and chase towards Xlova, with a Venomancer against Low.
Slogan's support does get caught out, but he has a 3v2 mount.
Midlan also picks up the urn. He was in the range to be able to get it.
Even Crystalus, he was thinking about maybe coming to the mid lane, getting something done.
He wants to be able to ruin this pango. That's going to be his job throughout the whole game.
Alright, lift mid one up a little bit, 2700 net worth, not worry once the beam and the pangor is already about to hit 4K.
The fuselblade well on the way here for nothing to say, and that was a massive power spike for extreme.
Yeah, pre-9 minutes, that's gonna be super strong, like, especially against the support, so,
let's see here, he doesn't use that much mana, Razor's gonna be AOK, he does have our team boots available.
But against the supports, their mana pool is pretty limited.
Ex-Excess is still yet to see his first Primal Split being used, so I want to see a rotation to that lane, I want to see him get something done out of it, because you want to be grabbing the kill, and you want to be grabbing the big one.
Ah yeah, it's a kill in the tower, most likely here.
We'll move in on the damage, that's why the Curse Crown starts it off.
And yes, he's beeping.
No more, he believes things. Ex-Excess is holding that Primal Split for as long as possible.
Thinkin' about it now, three of me, three of me, now he's gonna throw it in, little damage.
About to die, the ice bath does come in, looking for FY, can start us and boom, we'll get the kill before damage falls.
A primal split now, a disengaged tool for XXS, trying to get away from here.
Could be successful, throws a petal back, but another blood right comes in and the chains hold him in place.
Doesn't get the distance, there's nothing to stay, he'll arrive.
Ahme's coming, keep this Broom after a dive.
In the back line, but David is good to take on X-X.
That's been your right. Ahme in the back, he's finished off the bloodstream go.
TP out from Ember, but the Razor's now left alone.
He has the rolling thunder and a Weaver, tethered up and killed.
MTS with a double.
Mid one.
He's back here on this.
The slight change with the Urn charge going.
He's rooted up.
Remnant gets a bit of distance, but Ahme's getting chased.
And the kill is there for a boy.
This time extreme, they are bringing in numbers.
Ahme came in slightly later, but he was ready to clean up
to get to pretty much the kills and also making sure that he's collecting all of that at speed.
Right now you can see that Ex-Excess, he is not afraid of going in,
knowing that they don't have enough damage, they don't have enough silences to burst him down from
100 to 0. And every single time this happens with the Brewmaster, it feels like you have to like
get, you need to get an item, something that can control him, some kind of a silence. Sure,
you get it here, but he also has an extra bit of a status resistance and he's super tanky,
switching between the stances. Sure, he's gonna die, but the rest of the team is gonna be able to clean up.
These are very elusive heroes. This is Vango with the defuse blade, 3-10 minutes,
and also Weaver who's super farm. Incredible ass damage play on extreme.
And this is the classic as well of mid-1 movement, where he likes to overextend.
Thank you. If you find something there, there's a frustration kicking you.
Master of difference. You get a forward game on with Hero Game 2,
And he's gonna get a runner again in this mid lane,
reddance into the root,
Fied now by FY and Armey coming in for another try.
He's having them there from FY and a TP out,
cancelled by the slow ball.
Yamage is gonna cap close up the weaver,
but now he's out of place.
FY focused down, if I did one and boom.
Armey, and nothing to say though,
chasing forward, good shot,
blocks out the rolling thunder.
Time out there, it's ready.
Armey in sky, but he's got the time left to right
to get away from danger.
So they finish off the toss,
NTS on the killing spree,
shield crashed but stuck,
trapped in between mid one and boom,
tanking through it though until that when a physical finish him off army on the run
Let's see if they can get it on top of it. X move it could offer a bit of protection
Meryl's realizing they can't keep chasing while X X S. Please come back in with another primal split
Start float, stop the tp. He's off the booms razor and army can come in and unload more damage
The razor he's done for
The X X S brood comes in big time
Oh, I was looking at Bloodseeker. He was trying to get into a fight then he comes back
But the rest of extreme gaming they are also willing to come back into the fight again killing Razor who just finished off the mech
I think with the mech it could have been slightly different fight, but right now it
Feels much much different game for extreme gaming. They are ready to take some of these early engagements
Extreme gaming have the same amount of kills now as they did in the last game which took 33 minutes
Why way better from that?
Desolator done for the weaver, they are ready to go!
And next over, we take a little base cap here, able to farm through the jungle, very similar to Chen,
where this support is very good at laning, then can dip it in the jungle, farm into the aura items,
and actually kinda scale through the aura.
Excellent!
Different thinking than Celery in the previous one, going for a bit more damage-oriented build,
knowing that this item is gonna cripple Bloodseeker, and also damage over time,
They are gonna be playing longer fights with fever with pangolir. These are the type of fights that they really enjoy to play
Crystal as he is struggling lowest network tour right now. They're like a slightly above ember, but
It's a little bit more time to finish up his melstrom, which is a farming item
FY level six
Talking into the trees, placing vision down, but hunted by Celery in mid one, terrorize at the TP. Nothing to stop it, hey?
Celery, he got hit by terrorize and immediately on the other side, I made with the freshly bought death, so he wants to get involved.
He wants some of those deaths with charges to go up, and their approach taking potential, like even Tormentor, is going to be through the roof.
And yes, he's been scouted here though.
Under the dire vision, so mid one with a double damage rune.
Snowball forward into the blood right.
The pango is going to be punished here.
Christos will get the kill.
Now is extreme trying to set up for some kind of fax down
into the wisdom shrine.
But instead there is pango and probably the Venom here.
Now as well.
Getting mid one involved, a nice boost to morale there for Maus.
Maus realizing which heroes they need to go for.
They're going for the heroes that then don't have that many
Escapabilities instead of going for Viva instead of going for brew master
They are focusing on different heroes grabbing them kills and then going back for farming
They know that they are playing from far behind
Definitely love to get the next round of items bloodseeker would definitely love to have his vkb razor to buy another aura
Mech is finished. I think full guardian group is getting delivered as well
This is something that we've seen from the offlane razors most of the time building into two sometimes even three oras
Yeah, three string with DKB pipe
Buy all the fun stuff.
I'm going to cancel the TP down, give Array the dominating streak.
Number go up on a Deso. Good for Array.
Everyone can get scouted by FY.
I dream our inviscidity here.
That's more recon play by the Dark Willow, just a spot out.
Couple of members of Mounds.
There's not much vision in the area.
Mounds with the high ground warp.
will come and de-worn.
They have the same idea.
So a couple of centuries spent.
Mami's throwing a mini map here showing where he wants
the rest of the team to play so he can easily join,
because he is playing relatively close by,
and now Shard coming on the courier.
This is the big damage increase.
This also allows him to kill the wave much easier.
Boom.
Continues to farm up.
And it seems like mouse, they want to stabilize,
but maybe get a pick off.
I don't go for anything too crazy.
Yeah, they'll pick off on the pangor,
kind of put the thumb on the scale,
level of playing a little bit. This game is starting to spiral. It's extremely
interesting. We're going to bring it to these positions and find it's likes.
The two supports now paired up. And we've got a little warding mission.
That's why there's no room to bring it towards.
It's laying potentially well. I think this thing is ready.
The Rage of Scan gives them that little extra bit of information.
My God, in top roof.
What are they going to be started on?
They don't have the best lockdown for him either, so it's pretty free for midwars to disengage like that.
As long as he doesn't get caught by a bramble again.
So it doesn't mean neither of the midlaners get their bottle filled up by the RK, and Yamashan will take it himself.
Yeah, and we see some of the downsides of Mouth's lineup where they can't delete start fights,
they are waiting for another round of items, they are waiting for this second aura to come out on Razor,
Mage Slayer is being purchased by Ampersons. This is the item that they've got buffed in the previous patch and we're seeing it more and more.
Especially even though they have a bit of a mix damage and they have quite a lot of physical coming up from Beaver and Fango.
Brumaster now is a level 18 hero, though, isn't he?
Agadem step 2, level 12, he's got three points in all teams.
A massive palace fight for extreme gaming as they ready themselves with this cat's bolt.
There's a lot of damage to tier 2 and so far, I'm not really mounting a defense, just letting it fall.
I'm actually still splitting the map in front of find the extra gold to head into these items, but it gives the entire map to Extreme to do what they want.
Welcome back in the vent mid, though, Celery.
It shows his face, they make a play onto the pangolier, Extreme Gaming trying to react, but the damage comes through too quickly.
A flurry of spells and death of the pango while bottom lane, boom!
What was the target of choice that Xtreme wanted to try and play into?
Yamach?
TP home?
Successful!
Back into fountain!
Miles, right now they are out playing them.
They were waiting for NTS to come to the mid lane, and this is also going to be a tower.
And they also said that now they don't have the most lockdown.
And Nader does extreme gaming.
It's very difficult for them to start a fight.
Both of the offlaners are not blink initiated by any mean.
I want to see if maybe Xtreme has wants to pick it up, or if he has something difficult.
Something more different in mind.
Mid one.
pushing that extra bit of a wave using Permanent and then going back.
Stealing?
I guess so.
I'll have to steal it.
Going for the pound of feathers?
Speed himself up.
Not a bad one.
It's a good way to disengage a fight if you can still hold onto Kobo Kapp on one of the supports,
have that extra bit of a movement speed because, again, there isn't that much lockdown.
to be Rue Master if he's using his ulti, slow is coming up from Beno or Bedlam, Flash
Terrorize to be able to control them.
Immediately changes into a safety nuke's lambo, just a nimble man draft.
Army and F1, they found the kill here on Yammich.
No real chance of survival, just global delay inevitable.
Yammich beats his demise, more damage than a death slow of Army.
The Threads of Time and Fate first now, it belongs to the old days of darks here, like
80 minutes into the game, all these animations are still popping out.
Yeah, in most of these early engagements you could see it was Razor using the Link
or it was the Thread from Weaver.
Another aura about to be purchased, then you see that Boom is going for Shard that
basically his old fasted thunderstorm.
This is scary for Xtreme looking at his timing mouse.
It feels like there's a pretty big swing in terms of
the kitty plug seek and the ores on the razor.
Makes my amber spirit.
When mouse pick up a spy, you think,
is he getting out of the defense of tools?
They feel pretty strong.
You see, Brewmaster you said level 2 ulti with Aghanim Scepter is basically level 3 ulti.
And also, Eever, Ame didn't die a single time, so now they are swapping things around, as were also swapped for O'Shawn in tormentor position, so they wouldn't be killing this tormentor in the bottom part of the map.
It's good you're so unnatural, swapping the sides of the ocean to me.
Except I've nicely hit the radio, folks.
20 damage to dump into it.
Mouth's jamming.
Can they know what's going on?
No illusions of contesting it, though.
There's a three-master blink dagger now.
5-man smoke from Extreme Gaming.
They've gone through the gate top, Yanich with some good shards, blocked the advance of our mate.
Full retreat. The man was just saying, okay, evacuate this area, play back together.
Maybe try and get him moved to work out bottom lane.
Well, actually, yes, his smoke breaks and he just walks on forward, blinks in onto boom.
Ice path, though, hold back FTS, boom, from the break free of this one, but he's fine with the bow.
The Vance has a starbow.
And in comes the Arme Weaver.
Blood right thrown in though.
They darken the line.
Close on this Razor.
And now they hold the line.
The Snowballs stay in there.
They pick them up and turn to kill off the Brewlegs.
Exa-Tess has to pop out of the ulti.
Turns and tries to whack into them.
But it's just the Vanguards.
The Pango.
And the Plague is spreading.
Tied us back by Arme.
They've killed them off with Crystallis though.
Pango's dead.
Tusk and Razor with the Jukiro.
3-4 on the side of Maus.
Extreme gaming come out on top so far
Where's one going zipping?
No bramble available another big victory for extreme gaming even though they lose pango in this one xxs
He's too difficult to deal with like you always have ability to cancel the split even if the broolings are dying
And you also don't have that much aoe. It's not like you're playing with Luna
You're playing with Sven who can actually kill these ruling while also attacking something else
And we're gonna see that fight again
Going on the razor immediately a little bit of
They were not on the same page with the spell, even though he used it immediately after, but
it took them long enough time to be able to kill this Razor.
Another good save.
Bloodshaker, he goes in and also pops his BKB and then...
Ah damn, it's coming up from Venomancer.
It's not just Venomal thief, it's Spirit's Vessel, it's his innate ability, Flage Ward,
and he also does have Steering Signet, and at one point they almost...
All of them kind of explode, Christmas gets a little bit of a heal,
But it's still not enough. They don't have control for Ame.
I don't think Ame also used Alti at all in the previous fight. I think that says
quite a lot about how the fights are going.
Well, it starts to look so good with Kristalln's death, but you would have spent this
rupture on the pango who rolled away and hid in the tree.
She was actually able to wait it out before returning to the fight.
It's pretty much an attack to continue these fights.
And that starts with X6, when X6 has an NTS,
basically 2v5, jump in and say, we're starting this, whether you like it or not.
Well, there's some kind of retribution here.
And of course, now, the Pango spell, nothing to say.
So, roll and cancel, hold his ground, it's pistols, BKB, TP, he wasn't having a headway from here.
Haha, he does not want to take this fight.
They're going to spike London's Seller on the right-hand side as well, finding a kill on a Jukiro.
It's rush on time for them, they have more than enough damage with Deso with minus armor from Lucky Shot.
The most difficult part of the game, I would say, is behind extreme gaming, they are playing with 8k gold extra in their pockets, but also, they are getting very close to their Lincolns here, and then it's not going to be Lincolns, I mean, you can't Lincoln with Razor, you also can't rupture them, I see Agadam Scepter being built by Crystallis, which gives you two charges on it, but also not many abilities that you can proc the Lincolns with, that's also one of the issues.
Then you can start replacing Lincoln with a hangar of a broom, send him forward, let him tank some spells.
God, I weave has been a real use of it.
Not dying a single time in 24 minutes. It was really good.
And he's also going to be buying into some smaller items, some cheaper items.
We're going for the hurricane fight because you already have Dragon Lance
and he can push himself against the link.
I think, again, mouse, they don't have the control.
Where did they get it from?
Should it buy a Hex on Razor or something?
Who's buying it? Like, Basher on Bloodsweeper?
They might need to have, like, Basher later in the Hex that you mentioned,
but this is really, really far away.
We're talking about, potentially, like, 15, maybe even 20 minutes
depending how the next fights are gonna go.
I've got something right down the line here.
They've got a new Hex up.
Into terrorized fear, damage to the Bedlam, and mid-1, flight dodge with a drop to remnant, not enough!
A cursed crown lands!
I think I'm gonna go 1, de-throwing the M2.
After 40 seconds, that's a lot of room now for extreme gating.
Three and a half minutes left on Aegis, they can play out multiple lanes and get some tier 2s.
Mal was really relegated to sticking together and farming his three holding hands and sort
of shut lanes wherever they can.
Voxica's BKB is also down to seven seconds.
This is the new six second BKB, but seems like he needs to do a lot during those seven
seconds.
Don't fly.
I'm toying with the damage here.
here. He says hello to the tusk and then goes to the Shadow Realm TP. Just showing the
mouse hand there to make sure there was no sneaky maneuvering with Smoke Gang coming.
Armey though is going to step up in towards Delery with his flight, Chains catch, Lincoln's
pop, time lap 40 spent. Armey getting stunned off, they've got a catch on the weaver but
his condition's good, she's off to the right. He has nine and turns, why'd he die?
In comes Ex-Ex-Ex-S though. He gave even Cristalus trying to deal with the weaver,
Focus on the armor and kill off the silencer.
God damn it!
They've got to be killed!
As long as they need it as Maus, as Midland goes for more, but he can't quite kill off Daveno.
That's a massive kill.
He's out with that too.
Popping two of the Auras, Crimson Guard and Guardian Dreams, keeping them alive.
And finally we see damage coming up from the Bloodseeker.
4,000 damage, pretty much the whole squad from Extreme Gaming did the same amount.
get the right clicks going. Problem is you're blundering, you can't use it to pop the linkers
in a moment. They play. They shall move for mid one. They brought an extra one. This time,
a little different in the outcome, but Yamich is going to try and turn it. With Blum and
Pistals here, they'll trade out for FY. Mid one dying. One more time, though, a painful
experience as nothing is saved. Nice bar. Look away, they're rolling thunder and just can't
deal the Yamich. This is the... Off you go. You have Tusk King on one side. This is FY,
But Yamich also he's been pulling some weight with this hero if you remember his performances during Valakia
Oh, the one that they won, I believe was the season 6. I think he had over 90% win rate on that hero
And this is the hero that also received a huge but that luck not many things have changed around the hero because I would say that
In the past 10 years this has been my favorite position for it does have everything
BKB piercing tool, you have good ways of saving people,
Roche taking potential, and now he also got drinking bodies
for free potentially if you can get the Tormentor,
which was another facet, so it feels really good.
It gives armor now, and you can also save people,
have another way of pulling people out of the trouble.
Still kind of insane to me,
but it feels like Midlander's having a turret game,
but he's still up there and does damage dealt.
There's plenty of this Ember Spirit.
They've got shut down quite a lot and his net worth is reflecting that and the big
difference is kind of not from the support so both of them are holding on
to the Canadian champions they also got chart from the previous store mentor
Venos farming quite a lot thus can't really farm I think one of the
downsides from his short is you don't get to clear the waves as fast
anymore and Jakiro as well has been quite silent he does have solar crest
which is gonna be super strong item that you're gonna be throwing on
to your Bloodseeker. I think this Bloodrage, it needs to get dispelled. You have now upgraded
Shard, which gives you 2% of targets max HP, it's pure damage, it goes through debuff immunity,
but Brewmaster needs to be the one dispelling it, or even use the Yule Scepter, you're
reducing quite a lot of damage from him.
It would be great if they could use it against the Brew. There was no Orcid,
no Hax or nothing. It's pretty easy, right, to get off the Orcid.
Yeah, it's not a- the four maybe eight would have been- not maybe, 100% would be better
because you could silence people to remember when people were abusing silencer plus blood seeker in the lane.
Yeah, it's not great. They see boom first up, that's a straight one, we'll split the damage out
in the vento and we were tremendous as they appear up boom and clear out the lane immediately.
And now mid one with the curse crown on him getting bumped around by this rolling thunder.
He's got the remnants to disengage.
Cyclones down on Kristals as well.
High-spat and cover as they get onto army.
The Weaver though tie-lapses back.
Extreme perfectly fine down for give-takes.
That's Maud.
They get separated and cleared out.
The Bloodseeker's down.
Ember Spirits run the Holders Brown.
And like that from Raiders taking a lot of damage.
And Razor has come back in.
The mid one Ember down though as NCS falls.
Weaver can keep ditching it out.
And boom!
F1 is nice, a double kill for Yamich, but Arne is still alive.
X-Nurban, X-X-X-X can still keep going, if we were unstoppable.
One last snowball, the last hurrah for Yamich to blink away.
Some safety in a TV home.
That's successful, but X-Prin Gaming just stops them.
Still a massive victory for X-Trim Gaming, this is also a tieback from Razor.
He's the first point of contact, they pick him out easily, X-X-X realizes that he can just pop the ulti and with all of the
rulings they have more than enough damage even through crimson guard even
through guardian views it's still more than enough extra bit of a minus armor
now that they have it's starting to add up lucky shot to this own Viva swarm and
also full AC completed
yeah it feels like crystal is needs to do so much they also don't have enough
to bring down this fever from 100 to 0 they tried and they were unable to do
And again, you see Lickensphere in action, it's not gonna be doing as much, it stops completely with what Seeker wants to do with the rupture.
It looked okayish for a second, but then again, the way that they can reset the fight, because they're super tanky fighting around Venomance or with the Guardian Gears.
But initially they trade three cores for a pangor, and then buy back Razor, die back out of Boon.
The problem is they don't have explosive damage and they don't have control, so a lot of the
times you see extreme gaming taking a slower fight and just waiting to see how the fight
is going to go.
They don't necessarily have to respond immediately with the time lapse, with the VTB or with
the primal sled.
Oh man, I've got to pick out the pieces somehow.
Get some of these individual kills, like X-Nova is out here trying to push wave.
It's pretty safe and protected by playguards, by radiant vision that they've gone up in that top lane.
Extreme Gaining showed the Venom top of the Twin Gate as they prepare for the next Roshan.
We know how long it'll take to respawn.
Already meddling themselves.
Oh, his carrier got killed as well. He'll stall on it.
That's a 3D as well, a magic hero.
Nobody's gonna come and help Celery here. He's left stranded and slain. Army dominating!
This means his entire territory now belongs to them. Outpost grabs to hit you in their sights.
They cannot kill Berlin, so X-XS, he can go in, use the primal split and just control
pretty much everybody. They'll try to buy a little bit more time, but FY this time around
He's been on the money you'll scepter into bramble maize into terrorize as necessary to have extra bit of a control
And we see two catapults now spawning at 30 minutes doing the work getting some gold for mouse
But still 20k gold lead. There's still this. This is risky business. Mid one's gone in to try and find ex-nova
He'll get the kill but now kind of starting for stars have to peek any TV and they've lost the ember spirit again
costly indeed
He died way too many times six bets on mid one
I think he needs to play a game like this otherwise you're gonna be getting out farmed too much
So he needs to risk it get out of the base go for this type of a play extreme gaming
They were quick to response
Good idea for miles, but even better reason extreme and now for Stullis
I think he's gonna get the solo kill on the tier 3, but he can't!
Good for Ame.
And now he's level 24 as well. Once you get to that level 25, I also want to see which one he's gonna be picking up, because we saw...
What is that? Like 2300 damage coming out?
I think even if he has V, he can be there, he's still dead. That's not gonna protect him against Giver.
I want you to get the 25, the big damage increase, one extra Geminate attack.
Maus, they have pretty much one more fight.
Right now, Extreme Gaming, they are ready to potentially close it out.
Look at that, no bloodstains for a while, though. No buyback.
Maus away from money for it.
So it looks like tier 3 is just going to be claimed without any noise being made by Maus.
Ah, they're having that Lincoln's popped on him.
Fuel protection from Extreme Gaming as they'll fall back and start thinking about the Roche Pit.
It's starting to feel like a foregone conclusion with Roshan and Roars and they're still not moving.
Now you've got to deal with two armies.
Is it two or is it three armies when he's got time lapsed?
It's going to be three and it's going to be also two brewmaster splits.
splits. If Tuskens somehow, man, he's gonna get the agonist scepter, maybe that's gonna
be a bit of a different case, because he's holding up the 3D. Extra 100 gpm definitely
helping out, but still far away from it. Needs another 1400 gold, and seems like extreme
gaming, they are ready to go for the high ground. A super difficult hole to be made.
immediately split-used. They usually say they've got defenders advantage but buyback wise it is just the
tusk. So a set of barracks being demolished. Now the base being shaken here by extreme.
I didn't pick up the butterfly on Bloodseed here and they're looking for an angle.
I'm not gonna find anything though as extreme. They'll retreat to push out the lanes.
smoke already broken as army shows in that mid lane.
1200 crits coming up from army but he's gonna be next to pango and next to ac from
brewmaster plus also vladzora has just been picked up on xenova it's a lot of
damage. I mean your Venno is about the same net worth as the ember spirit
hey 14k versus the 15k, we're 16 if you round up if you're nice you kind of mid one.
And there's gonna be kitty queen.
Just gonna get there.
This smoke has to pay dividends from ours.
One last investment, one last pilot.
He had to come out of this middle lane, but they had been scouted and rustled by FY.
A dark willow. I mean, does she even die here?
Yammets with a snowball? The catch on FY? The punch to the kill?
They're gonna done but nothing to stay is in on to mid one the damage out of army nearly annihilates him
It won't have to fall back
TP BKB out of the razor boomers out of that too
So now this week through get a kill in retreat a little victory. Thanks. That's always be turned on the bruise
I tried to zero. Oh
Dead for 80 now can they reset army?
He's still chasing the first salary the sacrifice here. He's in a sacrifice
The kill on Weaver is huge here for Maus.
Aegis down.
Get them in trouble.
The stars and boom.
It's on the blood right.
Trying to get back towards them.
Damage.
The stars doesn't quite catch here and there's blocks he can stay.
He's there.
Die.
Can't retreat.
Army just opens up.
We're dead by a long side.
Nothing to say.
He's getting focused by mid one and boom.
Razor with the help of Ember dealing with a pango.
Where is Army though? In the back! Clearing out one by one!
Weaver damage too much! That's Chris Land! Boom nearly dead!
But Yavitch, he's got a storm with a bomb!
It's so close! It's a net!
Army kills Boom when he's dying breath, but Maus have hold on!
Maus they're holding it now, they're chasing, they want another one.
Mid one can kill him!
Orpheb in a second, getting punched!
Getting forward off to FY! That dive back out of him!
It took a couple of bi-mats to Maus, but they hold the line!
Oh, it's a 24k gold lead, but the fights, they don't look like that.
Look at the damage coming up from Ami.
Brewmaster 31 damage in the previous fight.
He did not get the split off.
It might be time for him to queue up, put some A on this,
to make sure that he can't get it off,
and to do not underestimate the damage coming up from the Bloodseeker as well.
But you could also see damage on...
What's he doing?!
He's going in!
He's going in on the Barret!
Oh, fair enough!
XXXX is my job is to kill off buildings.
Oh man, got an Invent in that last fight, but I can't job done one way or the other.
A second layer of barracks falls.
That's not bad, the action, that's rat action happening right now.
XXX, level 22, but also, I'm not sure if you're gonna be seen to fight again.
Chrystalus, he was dying to...
Everything from Battle Manager damage over time.
He also got a Spirit's Vessel on him, and then he also got stuck in the bramble.
Oh, there's no way to run from his line, all his spells.
A bit of a longer fight than Boob.
The manager's against a relatively good static, Clank-Off.
A bit of a split-off fight than Ame, unfortunately for him.
Time-lapse, it was in cooldown for like, two, three seconds.
It was super close.
Well, his final touch, he does kill off Boob, but damage on this touch.
The fireback from him, just keeping the fight going,
adding in that layer of lock damage, they so desperately need it.
And he also switches the atom belt. I thought he might go for that agatum scepter
But that's off the goal for BKB as his item on top
Also have extra bit of a protection wants to have that save most importantly. He wants to have save because
Terrorize and brambles can be very very difficult for you to get it off like even rolling thunder
There's photo on a may that's a big damage increase on top of everything that he already has
What's to stop extreme gaming now, though? Just going bottom lane, splitting, refreshing, splitting and getting mega free.
I thought that's how they wanted to play it, but since they took a fight in a bit of a different place,
Refresher is going to be ready for Brewmaster another split ready in a couple of seconds.
I guess the idea now is just keep the waves pushed out across the river and playing through bottom as extreme.
But a new lease on light here for Mouth as they show that they can fight.
the fight then caught the damage. It's just a matter of finding the targets like in that
previous fight. Target activation for now. Just spot on.
NTS there with a basher. Mid one, scottie. What's up with Kaia's hand?
He's super tanky. 3.5k HP. Tipping up 30 plus armor.
Extra bit of a control of Chrysalis. Can't get to his basher. He has
Insane amount of attack speed
No one backs again so a kill here is big for extreme and they get onto the razor
Boom fear death rolling from the crashes on any damage couldn't get a snowball safety BKB's and then dies
To dead for 19 gem on the floor an ex ex death with his primal split gonna be looking to open up the door in this bottom lane now
Installing flying from inforce tier 3 the fountain
As ex ex death splits the gopher buildings
These buildings are gonna make people now. Here our plan to get to Mega Creeps.
X-XS is controlling the backline for Amé is taking care of the building.
So many brambles mazes, no hard to maneuver.
Everspree, you're dying! Has to run back to Fountain.
The foundation's amount is base shuddering here out of the weight of XP and Gaman's damage.
Tier 4 tower's being shredding.
We're at 5 vs 3, mid one can trial as he might.
Get on to X-XS, the damage looks good, the pro master's dead.
Mid one gets a kill but loses life 4 and he's gone as well.
Ristalus and a Jekiro alongside, trying to stand and deliver.
But there's too much extreme gaming.
The Blood Sneakers stand back towards fountain.
Cyclone into kill.
They're all gone and GG's gone.
Extreme gaming.
In this second game, they were ready to punch back.
They said, we don't want any of this nonsense.
Any of these shenanigans about to get put in game number one,
where they overwhelmed us 30 minutes in.
So they pick the heroes that can't fight back early, and you see Ame.
He's the one who's getting early on, like he's getting active, he gets this vessel.
They are controlling pretty much every single objective, but also lacking a little bit of control on Maus.
And I think this is the issue that they're gonna need to fix coming into the third game.
That's got to be remedy for sure.
X-Gain getting the vote, showing a really nice smoke maneuver to start that game off.
Not allowing the steamroll.
The lany stage, we head back to the panel.
That's the way we like it going to a third game here with their opening series in Birmingham
and of course Xtreme makes it happen. They go for a third game, three game series every
single time TGP. Yeah, I've got absolute whip flash watching
this game, right? Game one, Armageddon, game two, completely different story on the Weaver,
you know, conducting this team, going for the early deso, just leading the charge.
Also got to get a shout out to FY on the start cooler, like the map that he was
bringing, they set the pace in this game and they did not let it off. They did
not allow mouse at any point to have the grouping of the heavy game one like again
like I said I am I'm in pain watching the second game actually it's so
different they feel like they took game one personal and I think like all of
their players they kind of woke up like a lot of the early moves you know
they're going together and actually like making stuff happen where it's in
game one it was all miles but in game two it's then that's right back which
really leads me also to think that in game three you're gonna have both
teams like flash even more and even harder like the battle of the
Vendome man so because this hero in both games has really really led the
early game like from start to finish.
Yeah, it was a really nice pick against the Razor because it just made all the early fights
pretty good.
The Weaver pick ended up being really fantastic I think, against the Mouse lineup.
And one thing that I think was a little bit off about their draft in hindsight was the
Ember Spirit was not quite the right mid hero.
The disable that it provided is great against the heroes you're playing against, but they
actually needed to pair it with like a damage dealer because Razor's going like aura
items.
Who's killing the guy that's ruptured?
And there's no way that you're going to kill Weaver in a rupture duration without
more single target damage.
That was not what Ember brings, Ember brings mitigation, survivability, like mage slayer
and an AoE, so it's just really hard for them to do anything to Ame for 30 minutes.
And at that point he had a huge advantage, his in-aints are just strong, so yeah, hard
game for them.
Yeah, super difficult game for Miles, I mean we talked about how it should be a
fairly brawly mid game, but at that point Miles was already on the back foot,
it kind of felt like we saw one good fight from the Antigua, and then that was
feel by the time that happened they were already 27kc
yeah I mean it was testament to kind of the first 7 minutes from xg right the
fact they get the double wisdom when you look towards your hero task you want
them to get some wisdom ruins to keep compounding that aggression go towards
mid take a tower like ember's gonna look like a good hero when he supports the
playthrough if they don't get wisdom this is not actually winning the
side lanes ember's kind of on an island going like what am i meant to do
guys like i need you to help me to help you so yeah i think xg identified
exactly how to win this game and it was that first 10 minute window of
the game that's also like what you said like with the ember because i
I agree now at least looking back but also what happened I think at minute four like they camped his water room because you would expect mid one to do better and there's like if
Because he's the one saying I want this last pick like this is the one I want to do good in this matchup
Which didn't end up happening
So I think that's definitely something that mouse will talk about now during this break
But what I just really liked is that XG did like a big like switch up from game one to game two with how they play it
How they move going together with the heroes because that's what we want to see
Yeah, and we also want to see a little bit more of the game
And we just already saw just a relive some moments with Perch.
Yeah, well the early game was a big advantage for XG, in fact.
They had a 2k advantage just before the Wisdom Shrine fight, and XG brought that advantage
in big ways.
This is a big deal.
If you look at the net worth in the upper left, Ami is way ahead.
He's playing so aggressive, taking the focus of three heroes, barely gets his time left,
often time throws bugs to Kuchii.
He's gonna heal basically up the fold with the wand, and nobody ends up dying here,
but what ends up happening is they take both Wisdom Shrines as a result of this.
use that early net worth to transition into an experience advantage. This is a big deal
because as they continue and take these fights, Yamateur's level 4 90 minutes into the game.
So this early pressure that we saw, game 1, this early pressure that we see, game 2 for
either teams, just transitions them into this really good team fight situation where
Crystals has to play safe, they don't really necessarily have great rupture targets
and they do get some kills but ultimately Bruce Blight and things like that are going
to make it a good engagement for extreme gaming. They finally do get a good jump
at 17, that's in 6k gold advantage here, is massive.
They end up putting everything into killing the Pangalir,
and the bot lane, Yamachep leave on the Tusk,
ends up barely surviving.
So things were looking a little bit up for Maus here,
but ultimately what ends up happening
is it's kind of just same thing after same thing.
Big team fight wins for extreme gaming,
they're able to slowly run down their opponents,
they make it really hard for Maus to actually kill any heroes
between the brew split,
between the weaver being survivable,
and the supports playing in the backline.
So rupture gets counteract counteracted here
They get to take this really long eventual fight here where Amme's poking on the back side and ultimately this all just added up to
Extreme gaming winning way too many fights in a row for mouths that have an easier chance to burst them down
Amme was just too out of control to be honest
Shall we I think he really cooked like this around I wasn't like super sure was like just weaver look good
But he could have some trouble in the game, but him together with the pango and all the clips you showed
I think you can just see how strong it is
I think also the new innate with like this threads where he gets bonus damage. It's showed it did a lot in this game
It did do a lot and now I'm also curious the difference between game one and game two also
It was a very different arc type of offline heroes we saw for this game to go
Yeah
But one thing that we do know is exercise no matter what offline he's playing he will have presence in the game right even in
The Mars game you could feel like he gets to refresh it
He feels like he's making the moves in the brewmaster game as well
We saw the highlights from pergolite whilst we've was farmers side lane brew makes the moves and then when Breva wants to sit
Sorry, when Brewmaster wants to sit back for a second, that's when other people step up.
So I feel like the XSS, even though the fight participation stat doesn't look too good for him,
he was, you know, a thorn in the side of, uh, of Maus. And he was, yeah, I mean, the Brewmaster,
you could even argue, Chris just had too many good rupture targets right here. You know, rupture
paralysis entire game. Like, we didn't really see that come into play because of the brew
split, because of the pango just having a lingon, the weaver as well, how skirmishy they were.
I think it is really built around the offlane of quite a lot.
It's so hard to get the good rupture off. You're basically like,
I'm here to stop the rolling thunder, but if that doesn't happen then I have to play safe.
If I engage the fight, I have to use BKB, and if you use BKB, then he's got to deal with Willow,
Rambles, and other mild disables, so it was like very tough for Bloodseeker, I think to get the right circumstance.
Unless they could say, rupture this guy, kill him within 5 seconds, and then we take the rest of the fight.
That would have made it easier for him to play this game, but defensive rupture, and it can't be Weaver,
because they don't have enough first handers, the game just got really complicated for him.
With also lack of burst damage, you can't, earlier this week I heard someone say that the new, the current brewmaster, if you want to kill him, it's not about killing him before the split goes off, but it's about killing the panacea, but if you don't have burst damage, how are you gonna kill the panacea?
Yeah, they have horrible panacillus, like none of these heroes really do it, they're all very slim to target. Maybe if you go into like the next game, if you're Maus, you could look at, okay, like player comfort, yada yada, of course, boom, he can play whatever, but he generally looks very good, I think, on like the bigger teamfighters as opposed to like the single target, I'm Razor, I buy it.
I'm Razor, I buy my Mekron and whatnot, but for XG, I really like their Tri-Core.
I think they played incredibly well and they should be feeling very good going into game 3.
I just feel like this game around, like I'm not looking at XG going,
why is this core not here? Right in the first game there was multiple moments where like,
there just wasn't any synergy, it just kind of felt like they're just surviving the game.
This time around, like they really had just a clear idea, like you need to be in this fight,
if you're not here, you can farm, that's fine. Hence why Brumoss is killed by this space and
it looks low, that's because they were very effective. So I just want XG to maintain that
as they move to game 3.
Yeah, do we think that this game is a little bit of proof of, okay, now Xtreme is awake, so Game 3,
there will also be more on the ball, or what are we expecting from Game 3? Because both games were so different.
More fight. I just want both teams to have shown that they've won the game through early aggression,
so I want Game 3 to keep levelling up. I want that aggression to be just two,
you know, battering rounds running into each other, because they've shown that that's how they can win a game in this message.
Yeah, I definitely think we will see, like, very similar tempo, and for Mastery just tweak it a little bit,
because they were the good ones in Game 1, now in Game 2 it was hard for you to fight back
so in Game 3, put it all into this one clash and this early to mid game.
With that said, I don't want both of them to pick rock, I want...
The draft is all about rock, paper, scissors, no joke, it's about the counters, you have
to get the right draft, otherwise this early aggression isn't going to work.
We'll see if they both go rock or scissors, rock, paper, scissors, rock.
Why does paper beat rock?
We'll see what's going to happen in game number 3, what?
Why does the paper beat the rock?
Like seriously.
Because the rock can't beat the paper and eventually the paper will win, if you
wear it, no whatever.
Paper surrounds rock.
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Looking forward to getting three in this series. Let's go!
extreme gaming coming your way here live from Birmingham and the pressure is on
because one game is all that it takes to continue here and try to get as many
points and as deep in the tournament as possible we've seen two games we've
seen two very different games and of course with different results as well
and it will lead us to game three where I'm hoping that we're gonna see the
best of both teams come to Lightpearch. Yeah I think it's a very
interesting third game for sure because of how the games have progressed from first to second to now
third. I do think draft is going to be extremely important here. It's about hero counters. It's about
do all these aggressive pieces fit together and creative in good ways. And sometimes it's really
hard to do that with this much stress in the game after this much history. Especially on day,
what is it, three of the patch? Yeah, like also when you like you in the like lower bracket
now and like you in game three and it's like kind of hard to go like from some of these
matches that you're losing, you need someone to like also understand and like chat up and be like
this is why we're winning this is why we're losing this guy is a problem this guy is not a problem
and at the same time I would also say that both these coaches even though it's a new patch I think
they have shown us new things which is good because I can speak for both of them that they
are kind of known to be very stubborn both Xiao8 and Immortal Faith they have like it's like
their way or the highway so I just want to see what they have installed for us here and if
I remember correctly both games have been won so far by the first pick team. Yeah and also
So you have the Venomots, which is a big theme of Game 2, actually promote the first phase of Bands,
where Tidehunter used to live there for XG.
That's now available, mouse, they jump on it straight away.
What will be their response?
Because you need this hero always has been the case, this guy needs to be checked.
If a Tidehunter is unchecked, it is so incredibly hard to play the entire game, and especially team fights.
How do you check a Tidehunter? Because Ursa is out.
Jarek, Jarek Ops is at the second place, right with the barrage, the chase down in lane.
The fact that you have 5 positions like Task and Clock really becoming potentially prevalent once more,
you can just keep killing him.
Play on the back foot.
Titan just thrives when he has a good lane.
He gets to walk up front with, you know, the Kraken, the blubbers,
getting a free Sheeva's eventually, the Agadims, and just standing his ground.
So just find ways to kill him in the early game.
Speaking about Sheeva's, I think it's kind of interesting where the item is in a place,
because it did lose some of the things it did, like the anti-heal aura and the Amplify magic damage.
But in some ways it's better. Like if you just want a armor item that can a-wee-slow your opponents,
it's just better. You get it faster, you can hit these timings, and that's one way where Leshrac can become really scary.
Because you can just have Bloodstone, which gives you heal, and then also this 17 armor item
that makes you effectively immune to physical damage if you compare it with the light steal you're getting back.
So that item is very, very interesting right now, for sure.
I'm just happy with seeing Leshrac. I spent a good hearty amount of the pre-game one talking about the hero,
for it not to be picked, and now we do get a hit, but yeah, it is going to be the mid Leshrac
playing for just the bloodstone, all this kind of nuisance damage, you're going to throw yourself into the fight.
Sure, NTS might have 4 or 5 deaths to his name, but he's going to take down multiple heroes with him.
Your damage is just really nice, and like being able to run over like a tight hunter, because he's slow.
He wants to be in this one place and be like the guy, you cannot kill me, you know, I dare you.
But Lesh can kind of over damage it which is also why sometimes you see heroes like Timbersaw have always been great against Tide
You've got the pure damage stuff like this or whether it's heroes like Slark that can you know stick on him and just kind of be happy with that
But when you play Mao and when you play Tide versus Lesh
I think you can play on like the minus armor aspect of like gush and maybe going the agonist of like a range carry because
It's the same on the flip side. You need to stop Lesh from not beating the guy that is permanent running into you
You need to stop this guy. You also need to think about how the map is played when you have a tight hunter
your 4 positions freed up quite early to make moves on the map.
We've praised both teams in Game 1 and Game 2
at how quickly the supports have made these moves.
So if Maus already have set this foundation of freeing Yamich,
I think XG needs to respect that with their support picks.
Like, make sure you can mirror the moves.
Either for killing the tides, you drag the floor into the lane,
or when he leaves the lane, you follow him in the tusk.
I think it's a good example of having that freedom
to make moves on the map.
Taking some comfort away from Yamich
is really the first game of the series
that he will not get his hands on his tusk.
Leaving options for...
The podge and the techies that you wanted.
There we go, Sarrot.
Sarrot, install the one line there.
That's where I was going.
That's how you win.
You just picked the two biggest hero models possible.
You can't kill both.
Easy.
It's definitely added value.
Like we said, you take it away from damage.
FY, of course, himself needs an introduction to the hero.
And it's super good. You get to save with the leash.
And it can be four. You know, it also can be five.
Maybe you're thinking of like, I want range carry against Tide,
then Toss can still be there. Maybe you want him offline. He can also TP in within the first couple minutes to the tight lane.
So I definitely like to set up here for X3.
Mid lane match also so scary, right? Toss can TP to the same one tower under cover of the nighttime vision.
He's in snowball lane, shards. He's going to die to E-Dick.
We saw Para vision do this in the tiebreak.
Ducales has played it. He has showcased the return of sacrifice.
Hell yeah, what a great spell back in the game.
It is a little different. You don't get into like 200 seconds in a game.
We don't need that for minutes.
I assume this is going to be their Faust 5, though most likely since we do have a lot of other solo heroes out.
It's going to be a lane winner. It's going to give some physical resistance.
So whoever Tusk goes on, you can just pop the Frost Shield on that guy and he's not going to die.
It's always been a very nice answer to the Tusk.
And it's also nice, I would say, for Tide.
Sometimes you run into this situation where he gets super edged later in the game.
So having like a pseudo save or bonus armor you can throw on him is great
But overall LESH doesn't really care too much like about Lich obviously you overpower it
You don't care about the shield.
Question, if we're gonna put a lot of extra pressure on the mid lane in this case Lichrach
Is it worth it because every two minutes he has to sacrifice starting at minute two
It's worth it for Lich to move over to sacrifice something in the middle. You don't think that's worth it
I think it's too early on to really know how important it is because it's so late into the laning phase
It feels like a casual thing you would be throwing down in your lane, but yeah, you might be right
It might be some tech down the line. Mm-hmm. That's Nick's assassin and it is a mid one specialty hero
But it's still flex potential this would be for Nick's for sure
But it's quite cool. The hero has a lot of mana burn now
I think this very realistic would be for him like his mid the hero because you're playing against a lush
I cut what better way to beat him you're doing percentage-based damage
I believe or does it just rain? I don't know it does do a lot of mana drink drink his mana low
Don't give him the capability to spell Light Seal because he's got no mana.
I mean, Maus have just constructed a draft which is all about the burst, right?
Lich with his shard, with the chain frost. If you go too deep, you can get soloed by a position 5 Lich.
That is something that you need to know. A hero that has forgotten in multiple tournaments in the past.
If the pro players aren't ready for it, they will be surprised by the damage.
And then of course, Nix, with Vendetta, you can do the same thing.
So for Maus, when Lesh goes in by himself, you'll get blown up.
That's why I think the Dazzlepicks, that should be quite smart.
because you know the LESH is a major target throughout this entire game.
You've got Snibble saved and Grave.
If Maus don't get a kill with their big spells,
they might lose a little bit of steam in their fight.
XG have played this...
except...
like the exact three heroes before.
I think just a few days ago, the Tusk, LESH, Dazzle,
it looked incredibly strong.
Now they do take the Monkey King themselves against the Tide.
I need to see where Maus take this.
Obviously, if you put Nix Tide in this offlane,
you're pulling waves and you're calling it an L,
like you're straight up taking it.
Maybe then you can also do it by having a mid hero where you can then go around with nix plus storm or nix plus something and have this kill combo.
Okay, that works for me.
But that also reveals instantly that it is a nix assassin support.
Yeah, so the lane is going to be bad, but once the invoker gets aggs or at some point they're going to be doing stuns and dead heroes.
They've got graves, so that's one solution, but you can't grave the whole team.
So if you do get a monster ravaged, that could just be a one teamfight at some point and that's going to add up over the course of the game.
I mean it is it is it helps the mix a lot like later you're not necessarily
shutting down the Lashwack early as an invoker like we all know that invoker
loves to scale like through the game but now it's also important okay what is
gonna be your carry matchup like you want a guy that can abuse alacrity
having overall I would say range carries are nice that's why also like DK
obviously kind of a pseudo hero they could also be going for EMP drain like
that you can get the shard on invoker to do more mana burn so they
They could be doing man-burn on man-burn.
Oh, that's cool, actually. I like that.
It is kind of interesting, the idea that Invoker now has, like, choice throughout the game, right?
The fact that you can load up the Ag's menu, you've got three options, you can kind of read the game.
Of course, if you made the wrong choice, then you're kind of stuck with it.
But being able to make the choice mid-game is quite a fun concept for a hero that used to be very, kind of...
You know what he's doing from minute zero.
Oh?
Oh, he's ready.
Oh, that's good speed.
Keep it up, brother.
Keep it up.
Keep it up, brother. You've got this one.
We are proud of you.
There you go!
Good job.
Very good, very good.
So we need an offline hero on the side of Extreme Gaming, a carry hero on the side of Maus.
For the offline hero still in the pool that Ex-Excess likes to play, what are we looking at?
Because Mars and Slardar have been removed, while Extreme Gaming does remove the Razor, one of Crystal's specials.
I think they will see the carry first, obviously. That helps. Some form of jump or team for generic heroes, I would say, for him.
It could be simple as taking the central, having another way to find the backline, you bike for lords.
I think they've already got all the fight, but last mouth they are to pick first and they take the Wraith King.
And Purge, this hero was visible at the very start of the day of a list you were showing.
It was yeah, he's got automatic skeletons here, which means let's reckon clear them
But you can farm faster you the old spectral blade thing is built in your shard now
But it does 75% set of 50 so it's you have to pay for it
But it's gonna do 25% or 50% more damage than it did before so you have a lot of good single target damage pairing him plus stuns with
His stuns they've got tons of stones on mouse. There's so many stones over on that lamp
They have so many stones
But we're talking about the aggression how they won their games now going to game three mouse
It's all about the efficiency of their farm right all the all their damages look behind getting levels the right thing these items evoker
Of course needs like an agonies five hundred and fish. He doesn't he loves fish. He loves fish
So now so that they're gonna be playing on the counterplay right they are they actually all about go break the map go make the moves
It kind of feels like the roles are a verse exactly. That's why yeah over correcting
Honestly, I feel like both teams actually done a really fun job in this draft to kind of
They want what they want and they do take the brewmaster for XSS.
I think it helps a lot, right? When you see how formidable mouse will become with time,
just being able to cycle up one guy like a farmed side hunter, like you're a chill bro, you're not cycling, we don't care about you.
Putting the rafting up, I think it can be enough to overcome some of the tankiness that mouse might have in play.
I really like to strike off from XG, like the brew monkey with the lush together.
Can the king do it?
Oh my god, about a doubt. Yeah easy. That was speedrunning. But if for XG
I'm a little bit afraid for mouse
I think when that these early fights break out like Lesh running in with the two supports behind him you have Bruce split like if you
Lift this tight. I think mouse was draft really falls apart with these other heroes
They need to do well in lane so like stabilize and keep the game together
Yeah
Bruce gonna get split off basically almost always and that it is like the perfect solution against these like chain stone lineups
You're gonna break up the back line. They're not gonna be able to later their stuns correctly if you get to go first
And you kill brew master first or if you manage to kill dazzle first, maybe there's quite potential here
But mouse is gonna have to execute a well or they're gonna have to
They're not gonna win lanes probably so I'm a little bit word for him
It sounds like there's a lot of pressure for mouse on Yammich to be able to find the target
So they can basically have every fight be 5v4
Yeah, it's not finding the target buying time because once you get online mouse is what's off
is very scary, but this entire series has been who's been more aggressive the defensive team has kind of failed
So it's interesting that mouse opted for this route
But maybe when you look at these here's like, you know the simplicity like if as long as we get to 30 minutes
We're going to be fine
The one thing I see from us is that they have like a lot of goals push you have skeletons your forge burst
Maybe you can like you know squeeze them around and have extreme game like split them up a bit to give yourself more time
But yeah overall I would have more faith in extreme gaming here for this game three
Hergers still see you frowning. There's still something on your mind.
No, not really. They have a rough laning stage.
I like the next. I like the interesting heroes. They got the mana drain.
They can maybe exploit Leshark a bunch, and they've got the teamfight if they can execute it,
but I'm a little bit worried about the Brewmaster provides on those side lane fights.
There's so much pressure on this third game.
That's obviously placement, and you want to go as far as possible.
But the amount of points you more than double your E.P.T. points by just winning this one game of Dota 2
And that's surely, would that be on their mind's team? Maybe it wouldn't be, but for the game it's like
They're not thinking about that at all, after short then it was thinking, uh oh, we fucked up, but outside of that
This is type of game where, I want it to be a 60 minute game
I want to see the, you know, the refreshments of a Tidehunter ravaging multiple categories like her
Like, I want to see Tidehunter eat so much fish, he doesn't fit in the screen anymore
Okay, that is... I don't know if it's possible, we can check it.
Maybe this game can do it, but I feel like if there was a game that it deserves to go the full distance, this game would be beautiful if it could.
Yeah, I think the main thing I want is... it doesn't necessarily need to be 60 minutes, but I do want both teams to have their full game plan come to fruition.
I want this Niles to clash and everybody to have a fair shot.
Obviously, it's nice for the team that can blow the other team completely out of the water,
but I feel like this series, it deserves that little bit extra-extra.
No, for sure, and also like for Mausik, if I just envision Falken's playing the Strat,
you know, you have the Wraith King, you have the Invoker, you split some stuff around,
you keep getting picked off, like, you drag the game out more and more,
and Invoker gets one item, he gets another set of items, you get the Cataclysm,
like, you slowly get your way back in the game, because for them, they don't need to be even.
If they're down a little bit, it's fine, it just cannot be like this catastrophic moment
as in game 2 where XG just keep upping the gold lead, if Maws can keep it chill, they're fine.
Can they keep it chill? It's been a while since they have played in front of an audience with this much pressure on the line.
We're going to find out as we are heading into the final game of this series.
Game 3 tied and a changing tack for Bowsky, we see all of the mobs reversed, mounds for
the poor lanes into this big team fight, you listed a draft where all of the pieces have
to come together while extreme gaming, two saving supports behind the left track, and
the army won't be kicked, man, there's a lot of tempo.
It really is a big stand as well of the double saving supports, especially in this one,
because you have like changing of the guard with the Wukong's command, you have
Leshrac, who likes to have these saving supports behind him?
He likes to have some really big front line in front of him, like the brewmaster,
who can control the fight, and then he can pick and choose which star that he wants to go for.
Have you seen Leshrac being highly contested ever since the patch dropped for a good reason?
This hero just looks like the men is being able to go together,
tell the tower, take the fight.
Who he is?
Trying to get into Roche a bit, but, uh...
Well, here's my friend.
I'm a friend, yeah.
On an FYI, next known, we're also having the same happen to them.
They're extreme gaming. The all-wrap-around track set doesn't quite snap into action as they would have wanted, so well done by Boomb to have a little read on that situation.
Make sure to not spin the trap.
I grant board already de-warded by Celery and Midwan as well.
Decent start, huh?
Could, like, have fun throwing into the mix.
Ah, you don't say good luck to the enemy team. Like, we're talking about them getting, like, all the runes and...
...missing up hill and stuff like that.
that they are just doing max damage on your hits exactly just do have fun that's
that's enough give them the way to dodge now as well this are my monkey king
cosmetic set it freaks me out every single time one and one three pull the
teeth spooky looking guy really is this is gonna be the lane where things are
gonna be quite difficult because you're are playing with as we have like a
stun plus this low and I see X know is starting with the boots of speed
The next assassin doesn't have, he has windlace only, so he wants to be able to give him click.
He wants to be able to follow him around if he wants to be dragging the creep wave.
This is where this Boots of Speed is gonna come in very handy.
Yeah, and usually we think about Bane, Shadow Demon.
That's two of these heroes that stops the lane shenanigans from happening.
Yeah, I don't think Yamashiro's gonna be able to do it.
He's gonna give him the click, so he's gonna give him the slow on the other side,
and Blood Grenade is also available.
Top lane, Gravefire blasted the Blood Grenade there, puts FY very low.
Man, Yamashiro's in a lot of trouble here.
Is he just going to get clipped down and dying?
No, he's got TP to get back to his tier one.
That means the jig is up.
He's not able to drag that wave around, leaving boom out in the opening as a monkey kick.
That's trash caps for the tides.
What is that Leviathan's cap for the tides?
Enemy's dying near him to get some fishes?
Yeah, you get some HP, you get some attack range and bonus damage block.
He gets fish for every single level.
I like that one because all of his voice lines are he's a different kind of sea animal
Whenever he levels up and they can check later his efficiency how he's going to be doing
How long have you been sitting on that one ever since I read it?
Yeah, I think we also need to talk about the
The support duo from mouse like lich this is a bit of a new hero
Oh, hello strike
They're gonna let the mid one take it very nice
Retribution! There's Yamagin Poon actually playing out of the lane, helped out by mid-1 and they give him the tips.
Making sure they get that kill means they can actually play the lane now.
Guess wave dragon, maybe even slurp a courier.
That has unlocked now his potential big time in that bottom spot.
Yeah, it's going to be a very scary lineup to play against once they get the ball rolling.
Nix's assassin plus Invoker, this is going to be such a deadly combo.
And also, Nix's Assassin doesn't break ability built in now.
You don't necessarily have to buy Shard.
There's a lot of these changes that we're gonna be talking about throughout the whole game, boo.
We're taking the full brunt of the Jingu stacks.
I'm trying to get that final touch for another round, but can't quite get there.
The boots on the Tidems are letting slip by at tier one.
Yeah, the big change is Nix's Assassin, his newer ability,
because he does have mana burn built in.
Every single ability, even the right clicks, is gonna burn some mana,
Which is gonna be super annoying for Leshrac. This has been always one of the better
If not the best like position for in the game against Lesh
It doesn't allow them like you need to buy a relatively early VKB in this matchup
It doesn't allow you to get what you want locked onto a target then kill it
You get stunned and there's a lot of follow-up damage that the mouse can do afterwards
Especially when NTS was to stack up all that in
Which one could as I always go in
The mid one currently 30 in the 1 though against the 21 and 5 Lash, in fact across the board
Extreme Gaming having a better lane stage as expected, as the panel was saying, is going
to be reasonably difficult for Maus to challenge and contest.
Early doors here.
And that means there's a lot more openings for Extreme Gaming to play through Twin Gates
because they can leave these self-sustaining core heroes in the lane pretty happily
once we've developed...
Got a few levels on them.
Decent lanes still up atop the celery and chrysalis.
Hold the wave in front of their tower.
A lot of protection, and lane down from the lich.
What a view showing off the task.
Down the bottom, once again, the pairing up of Dazzler and Monkey King.
Bullies the tide away.
Knowing that this assassin is nowhere to be seen.
I like what celery did.
Celery did, he did place observer near the Twin Gates knowing that he is playing against Monkey King
so he wants to see those rotations. This is one of the best if not like the best hero in the game to
rotate through the Twin Gates, jump on the trees, find whoever is farming near the small camps and
FY, trying to get something done here gonna drag three out of four creeps.
I arranged creep first here to aggro to the small camps, so well done by Celery to get
something from it. And Xenover fight those in war spots and I bought the jungle,
He has to look out of the way, take a frost blast or so on his way through, and a curious
micro-litch.
Observer and sentry down.
Already FY is angling towards that middle lane, trying to get a play towards the invoker
because that is a hero that you can absolutely get on top of and slay early on.
I'm keeping the track of Mano and Celery, lich even with this sacrifice ability it
Feels like he has less mana than he did before with his other innate ability.
With the creeps dying around and then him replenishing it right now.
He's not even using that much mana, but still keeping his mana very, very low.
who is still able to get his levels,
playing some old school dota,
hiding in the trees, gathering XP whenever he can,
and dragging these individual creeps out with the aggro
to make sure he can get a last hit every now and then.
And Nick's is what, just focused on stacking,
so you've left Poom completely alone for him.
He's level 4 tied, being run out again,
but he's the boots, windlace, bracer,
and another tower he's perfectly fine to stay alive.
That's only one point in Kraken Shell.
That's right.
With a toss, some strike thrown in,
The damage turns, Snowball saves and swings back to kill off the Nixus Assets, even bringing Dazzle here as they try and guard the runes.
In the end though, it's gonna be the haste up top which Celery probably grabs.
He's gonna have to click it.
There's definitely needed extra bit of a damage coming up from Lich, level 4 right now.
One thing that they can't allow themselves to do is lose the XB Shrine.
Like, these two supports and mouths, they definitely need to have it.
Lich getting level 6 and most importantly, Nick's assassin getting his level 6 since you have a Joker on the team
which would allow you to grab some of the kills on the sidelines.
Monkey King brought up the better heroes to go and try to contest the enemy extra your room
but this would seem like it's gonna be the case.
The real threat is when the landing stage breaks down, right?
When these two raiders support start pivoting, Monkey King said,
through the twin gates you can play for actively.
The marons have a lot of stacks to farm, catching up to do, trying to get themselves towards invoker
aggro instead of the tide with his auras.
So far, they're going to get their hands on the wisdom shrine trade.
I'm racing invoker but it's farming very well through their lane.
Rettink has built-in skeletons now and he also does have his old shard, by shard
I mean, the old facet, which is going to be spectral blade, still slightly better, but
you also need to invest the gold for it, but it also gives you super strong scaling.
We saw Falcons played the other day and it looked pretty good.
Yes, they were all built as we used to see, right?
There's Regents.
It's a Link Vaggar, Orchid, Bloodborne, BKB, if necessary, AC.
There's a lot of ways that you can go for with Raid King, pretty much every single
item still is really good as well.
Vals, I think they're okay with having a bit of a slower game until they get to that level 6
that takes Assassin until they get Meteor...
...Stellery.
In the middle of FYI, nothing to say.
Mid one with Sports Spirit's Cold Snap, though, and the snowball saved.
Ganslashwrike had a danger for now, trying to turn back on Stellery, but there's Sunstrike coming in.
Flare's out the Lash, Mid one's taken down as Aztec's Gans makes his appearance, well, no.
Maus, lose two for the price of one.
Their damage is a bit limited at these early stages, especially because you're playing with the two saving supports, even X-XS making a move to the mid lane.
If he managed to get something done with the Primal Split, it could have been an extra kill, and maybe they could have gotten his tower out of it.
That's a very good start for Extreme Gaming. Again, X-XS, he is the one who is getting quite a lot of farm on this RooMaster.
This time they have slightly more control so he's not gonna feel as comfortable coming into a fight
Just blinking in because much of a single hero on their side has some kind of a lock down
Like last game you didn't have to buy you here eon disco. No, not at all
Nothing to be afraid of
There's something that
You're back in the old days
We used to pick monkey king into the rave king right you kill him once then put the wukong
Command on top of the rave king when he's respawning is that still the same
It kind of is. I also am seeing Amé's item build. He's not going for the fuselblade. Instead, he wants to get a bit of an older slash newer tech, especially because Ekko's saver upgrades got a pretty huge buff. You can use it on the trees as well. Damage.
Two hands done. He's already spent his carapace though. Trying to run as far away from his teammate to his town as possible as he dies.
Yeah, but to go back to your point, having this monkey king, having Lashrak,
whose Diabolic Edid can reset in a flight that's relatively short for down 19 seconds,
so if you can kill Rating once, control him with either both of the supports,
or if you can control him with the Panda, it's gonna feel really nice.
And the surgates are gonna come at this time.
Baaag!
He's got the dazzle behind him as well, but he's gonna roll in with a snowball
towards that next stun, but a grave, and Lashrak's arrival.
Shieldrun, he's gonna pick it up, maybe?
Oh, hit him on the face!
He did not wanna use it, I guess he said,
ah, may not screw it, I'm gonna give it to him,
I'm not gonna say we might get extra value out of it.
Just let my life shine a bit,
maybe they can get a core kill off the back all then.
It's funny though how you say it,
from newer but old tech,
just showing how sickly cool do it can be,
you know, it's from the old days,
they come back again.
I would have picked up that Shieldrun accidentally on purpose.
I'm sure you would have.
And fall through beast-bream.
Haha!
Or mid one.
If you need a core out of this mid lane for the push tower, Yamage holds the back of the nice stun,
the snowball gap close, get nothing to stay on top of mid one.
Good damage here to clear out the invoker, and that's what the shield runes for.
Keep the Leshrac alive and play aggressively through MTS.
What do the supports on Extreme Gaming today have?
The defensive tools that has Ash Legion Shield on both of the supports.
Plus the double save and Leshrac also has extra bit of the boost,
the having windlace and having cobalt scup.
The trees are moving like ghosts.
There's a monkey king I see before me.
Bloom is gonna pop the ravage here.
There's not four of them.
Nothing to say. Graved up and the Wukos command comes into play.
Crystallis is TP'd in. They try and battle back
but loses his first life immediately.
So that's right. It's good.
Can it finish off nothing to say with Boom chasing forward?
They can't play catch up, but Crystallis has been left alone.
Monkey King jumps over the canopy
in towards the ledge in the back.
A lot of skillies. And Crystallis focused down by the promise.
They will die. Trapped inside the shaft.
He's all dead, the wraith king falling, only his ghost remains and boom with Maus on the run back
as they'll snowball forward here again, on to mid one, all the damage is done, Maus bleeding out in his middle lane
They have so much sustain on their side, using the primal split
This was enemy carry by the way, ETP's in but he doesn't have a single item
He has 2000 gold saved up so that's also missing in a fight
They would love to have Lich being level 6 so they can combo Ravage
But unfortunately, as we said, if they're not level 6, the teamfights are gonna be much more difficult for them in extreme gaming.
They cannot realize that and again, two defensive supports, two Ashley and shields, keeping them alive in these engagements.
And if Exit has Brumas, then just charge up Bulle, rolling his way through everything.
But I have to mind is to scale and still is able to fight through his ulti.
And now extreme gaming, really feeling the rhythm here with a full K lead.
Aw, nothing to say, he's coming in, amplified damage plus a blink-dagger ready.
And Monkey King is here as well, onto booms surrounded by 5 of Xtreme.
They know the rabbit is down, so it's a freebie here on the tide.
They wanted to just blow themselves down to the tower and protect it, but it doesn't have the chance to do so.
Now this is that tempo shift, this is where Xtreme getting really just picked things up.
Nice speed through this mid-game.
They can easily go from lane to lane, group up, as you said, brewmaster, whatever he has
ulti available, they can try to make something happen.
Mix-assassin also not level 6, 13 minutes in, they would love to have that so they
can pair it up with the front strike, maybe find one of the supports to try to get the
kill on them.
It's a massive stack.
Leshrike is 3rd place, fine too, he's got 14 raids, wants to catch up, there are all
the ancients, he's getting himself a 6k network, he's very quickly moving into that
kayak.
Doesn't clear them all out though, so there's going to be some left over.
Now, we're unable to put all the pieces together, there's still a bit of a
waiting game for them. Their main combo is that ravaged cataclysm. Rates being used yet
to scale it to his full potential. That's his radius looking.
Oh, still needs another 1,500 gold to finish it off.
Gotta be quite difficult fights for mouse, especially if they don't get the combo off
in the next fight. XP Rune is gonna go their ways, so both of the supports are
level 6 now.
track of him instead focusing celery with nothing to say picking up the double
no reveal though for a mid ones invoker just walks and walks it off
and now straight to the bottom tower they know how strong they are right now and this monkey king
I think we're going to be seeing more of the hero especially because you have zero cooldown
on your three jump so you can pretty much be in every single fight and with the build that
he's going for that's going to be a lot of tower damage as well it gives you double hit it
gives you this so it also opens up pro should opens up tormentor nothing to say
We talked about his atomization specifically for this matchup against Nick's Assassin, so casual Kaia just to have that extra bit of a mana and then going straight into BKB knowing that they have no abilities that go through the E-Buff immunity, even with the two saving supports behind him, he still kind of needs to have it.
Relic ready for Kristallis.
Nothing that can really do to fully extreme gaming away from these lanes.
When your opponents are farming three lanes plus jungle, there is a rough spot to be in.
Religate to yourself to stacking camps and hook into the best.
Who, at least, is able to play out this bottom lane?
Oh, it's about the patch apparently. Consecrated raps.
Yeah, this has to be one of the best items, if not the best item of the patch.
I think other teams are going to start to, like, maybe the more nerdy teams
that are going to be picking up more of those.
Tundra most definitely. They probably did the math on it.
It seems like the most cost efficient item in terms of how much you're getting.
Because it gives you everything. It's pretty much like the Gale Guard of the previous patches
where you would see like 7, 8 Gale Guards in every single game.
What a surprise is he ever buying that.
He saw it, day one.
Triple S on his Bristol back.
Bristol is... he's got his ulti here.
Now he's trying to bring back up into the area, but that's first life down and the Wukong's command gives us a round.
The chain stuns come in and Bristol is dead again.
Now there's no chance of any kind of amster.
Losing their carry like that, but they've got the jump on the leshrack,
Loving up nothing to say. Something finally going mouse is weighing here, but the two supports are going to get chased down by the Monkey King, the Dazzle, the Lich is in trouble, a Clap by Exxias, and the Shard there from F5.
And this is something to double. Something panel did mention is that Leshrac, he's not going to be too afraid to sacrifice himself for the greater good, where even though he has two standing supports behind him, the rest of the team is going to be able to clean up, because he already did the damage.
And we're seeing that, kind of the downside of this match up Monkey King against Raid King
where they kill him once, he respawns inside of the Blue Con's command and then dies again.
It really does.
So what can you do as Maus?
You don't have this Rammage Cataclysm anymore.
Okay, if there's a Blink Rammage Cataclysm, sure, you're able to turn this fight for
that ten minutes down the line at least.
Very simple stuff, extreme gaming.
And yeah, nothing to say, maybe overstepping.
Definitely overextending is welcome.
That mouse did actually get that kill.
David's a mid one as well.
A dominated streak is a nice bit of cash.
He blocks there for the invoker.
That face. Sensible.
They know they're in a lot of problemo.
Deep water.
What's that, mate?
We'll be back momentarily, I'm sure.
But we're now 800 gold away from this invoker agonist.
a pivotal item here for Maus to have a chance in this game.
The next sequence...
I don't really want to be able to get that bit of gold,
so he's farming the enemy side of the map,
just looking for any little pocket where he can hide and gather gold.
It's pretty good, like the panel saying though,
there's Ghost Push, not committing a hero,
just sending four spirits and skeletons.
That's how they need to play,
they need to get the most out of the map,
and finally, Radiance has been completed 18 minutes in.
Yeah, not the best timing.
Pretty rough, especially when that's kind of your farming item.
Still needing to scale through.
Extreme yet again, flying up and play on boom.
They start with FY.
Rukon's command spent here to deal with the tide.
Maus, they are trying to approach the area as boomers survive the initial flurry of spells.
An extreme game, you might be overexposed here.
The damage is lurking, hunting.
My Lexx just threw massive, like two and a half thousand health, not really the first point of contact they wanted to go on by.
Testing the waters to see how much damage they need to pump in to be able to kill Tidehunter.
Consecrate Raps plus his Kraken Shell is just way too much damage to...
Oh look at Mous! They've come in and found a Sniper on the ledge! That's perfect by themselves and Tide!
They need these type of kills, this is pretty much the first time we're seeing Nix's assassin going in with Invoker.
And a big item on Invoker, Agatam Scepter about to be completed.
Now he gets to choose which way he wants to go.
Yeah, that's the wall effect, that's the whole book.
And then it's like, it's better than it was planned.
It's pretty much the all the way fastest that you could choose from, but now you get to choose it later.
Damn it.
We dusted up.
From the Capra's and Storm turned back on the brew, but that means he's now being sharded.
They're all down, they're trying to secure it for themselves, but it belongs to Fy and XXS.
Extreme Gaming, they are prepping for Tormentor. Both of the supports have insanely good shards.
The Dazzle, this is a bit of a newer one. It's applying weaves to an ally, heals them for 60 seconds per stack of beef.
And also, Drinking Buddies, which is the old facet on Tusk, so you have another way of saving people.
people you also have Polar Locket coming on Dazzle in the next couple of seconds.
Armey, let's go for round two.
Trying to go for the chain stuns.
This time he has Frost Shield on top of it.
He's very tanky, they'll ravage and try to cataclysm.
They've got the Monkey King low, but the Graves gonna come out into play.
It's Yamash Balls, Dory's dropping and the Wukong's commander's turned them all away.
Extreme don't lose a single soul and they're onto Kristars as well.
At least they get something.
Cataclysm does connect snowball, I think pushes him into two cataclysms so they share a good
amount of damage.
The stain is definitely there. This is Dazzle, there's a Stasper talking about, so what a
difficult one. And again, we're seeing the downside of the raking. He dies instantly and
can't really fight back. Usually a lot of the times you see raking, even though this
is a rare occurrence from the hero. He wants to jump in, he wants to be able to deal
the damage and maybe set things up for the enemy team and...
Yeah, they all, she had a couple of them, don't they?
Grave on Army, stays full health, Wukong's command too much to flight into, Maus have
to do a full reset.
And of course X-XX is just psych-loading people, zoning them all out and having all the control
in the world.
The frustrating game for Maus, that was the first big shot to try and land that
combo and it doesn't pay off.
Seems the only person they can kill is nothing to say.
Not gonna be as easy for the next fight, nothing to say does have a new 9 second BKB that is
coming up.
What a great task, I'm assuming FYI is gonna think about a BKB at some point, right?
Yeah, I think so, so you can jump in, not care about the ravage, you don't care
too much about Nick's assassin as well.
Hey, what a kill the Tormenter! We talked about how strong their shards are on both of the supports.
And it's go time! Knowing that the Ravager's still in cooldown for another good 20 seconds,
and they're also showing in the lanes, which means that they can go and try to take Tormenter for free.
It is a stronger Tormenter, so it takes a little bit more time.
I'll pull the damage back to them.
Another saving tool, drinking bodies. It's also going to give them 10 armor.
That's pretty handy already, because we've seen the Tidehunter giving up the Aghanim
Scepter.
Look at that long-range poke against the Lash Rack.
That's pretty handy.
I don't know how I need something to do the chicken scales here.
Look for a big teamfight.
Start a battle on their own terms.
Vision is lacking though.
They've got that one dire ward, and a process of elimination kinda says that extreme gaming have gone through the gate and played up the top.
Armaday showed on the map, he's gonna get blink, ravage, cataclysm, but snowball, FY, same zip!
And now Armaday can be caved in and punched back, oh mouse, you tried your best, but you're gonna lose out on this one!
Down goes the tide, and full retreat time, as mid one dips back to fountain, celery, same story!
Yeah, I'm just going to tuck in the trees and hide next to a centaur who...
...are for war.
That's king in action. What can you do?
Unlock and they can go for rush.
Problem is with that mouse, they need to heavily commit.
They need to be able to get this ravage, get the chain frost and get the cataclysm.
If they don't, if they don't get the stuff done, they're losing to 500%.
Because you see the heroes on extreme gaming, they are going to be taking longer fights.
longer fights and again xx this on brewmaster going for a refresher not
dying a single time link dagger agate and center completed we'll have her fresh
ready in the next couple of minutes that's so rough to be so far behind with
the execution based draft as well level playing field extreme gaming is
gonna be ramping up to about a 10k lead holding ages now on the monkey
King. A comfortable position here for the Chinese team. There's always a chance though
with these Ravage Cataclysms. Vistalis, Yamich, FY says no! Don't you dare! They'll still continue
and try and fight into them though. Killing the Tattle first, Income's Ex-Excess, Cataclysm,
That's not really the land and the damage is going to get hunted down by FY, along with
a brew, Fystarla's in trouble now too, Lich, Nix and Wraith King all dead.
An army, which says I don't even need to move Gull's command.
We've got the gap loads with NTS, popping DKB to dodge the stun, the sideclone tries
to hold them away, but the chase forward will find Fystarla's here, army will clear
it through the Wraith King.
Wraith tries to chase, but FY are not going to say, they got away.
Another resounding victory there for extreme gaming.
Ah, Chrystallis, he can't stand his ground and take a fight.
He is getting controlled by the brewmaster.
One of the reasons why he's going for a BKB mediate after he picked up that blink bagger.
He doesn't want to get controlled.
It's way too much damage taken out from every single fight.
Wait, what?
As we've seen in the previous game, he's the one who's trying to spread push using his meteor hammer.
As he did on Ember Spirit.
Trying to get something done still on the map.
9k Gold Day for extreme gaming, but the fights are not gonna be...
getting easier at all I would say because all of these items that they are
getting especially refresher and brewmaster I think it's it's a scary one
I feel like it is fights dodging time for now just try and progress the map where
you can push out lanes sacrifice a few lives here and there just to make sure
that extreme can't really approach your tier twos it is an uphill battle though
for sure that's what happened in the ideal world actually executing it
That's a completely different matter.
Trask's lifting up top.
I think I've fought away for what's going on with his nicks and invokas, both lurking in the shadows.
I can just say, Andex Nova, both nearby as well.
Mid lane, I'm ain't going for the solo kill.
Oh, I see, he's nicked.
A cellaried.
Hmm, maybe not so easy. Supposed to do a thing.
And now, with a capitalism on task, oh, a distraction!
Smoking mirrors out of cellaried.
Everyone look over here at the mid lane, while Midlan and Yamich can even kill on FY.
Monkey King, just to make a meal out of this one, he's gonna jump across, get stunned by the trying to come down from the treetops.
Nothing to say though, we'll land the stun and find the Nyx Assassin.
Back through the mounds, mid on escape, on escape.
If they could keep dodging these fights, maybe get a kill with Nyx Assassin, sacrifice him, this is supposed to 8th bet on Yamich.
They're still okay with these type of trains, as long as...
Extreme gaming's not getting too much out of the map.
And we gotta check efficiency of the Tidehunter.
How many fishes did he eat?
How many?
Only one.
Only one?
Yeah, he's sitting at...
There's zero, two, and one at the moment.
I'm very upset.
But he tanked a lot of damage, okay?
I need to see a team for Extreme.
And the pivot bottom as quick as they can, but it's a long walk to the twin gate, the
dreamy three heroes.
And all things considered, it's not been that bad to the past couple of minutes of play
from Maus.
They've crashed a dodge away from any massive consequences of this, ages.
You're losing a tier two, losing out on the farm.
And in Voker, oh, is Aliyah having a strike?
No, he used it on a creep wave.
I think we're all very happy about it though, as that's bought them time now to get BKB
on the race kick.
Zuboka really utilising these groups of travel just to bounce from side to side.
Confiner enough to play through Middleth.
Watching your tier 2 dive, of course.
Not really going to make a conservative effort to come back and defend them.
These effectives are not worth losing the game over, which is probably what you're looking at.
Maus has done a good job in the last couple of minutes trying to stabilize the game.
This network deficit review. Still getting something done. They are getting the farm, dodging the fights.
Exactly what they need to do.
What's the big step to buy some of the change of the game for the fun?
What are they actually waiting for?
See, it felt like the capitalism was meant to be here.
Now it's the BKBs.
BKB unbreaking so he can get to right clicks and we saw him suffer against Brewmaster.
You're now going to be playing into two Brewmaster alties.
Probably his rulings are not dying.
This is level three alties soon to be on Brewmaster, which is kind of level four with Agonim Scepter.
And this level 15 talent extra 600 HP makes them almost unkillable.
Damn it.
He shows up on the wave.
Let's get off the car base so the Boundless Strike is held back in now.
I'm going to scuttle away.
Pretty quick Monkey King.
Not quite catch up.
I'm at very speed, Nix.
Nix now has break mechanic by default.
That also needs to purchase his shard if he wants to have the old faster, the scuttle faster,
so that he has case and that he can move through stuff.
Die, I'll scan you.
I don't know what the read is there from Extreme Gaming, knowing this move is being made.
Bro Master, he's gonna refresh, try to split, fly again, snowball, buy time,
Ravage counter does come in though, crept up the brook, can he get a split off?
He's here!
And the ulti's there!
Wukong is out!
Celery's dead, Yavage falls!
Miles, they thought they had it, but Extreme Gaming, they outplayed them!
All region on the ground, we've got a pretty dirty dead.
Boom picks up the read, Jen, but Crystalis,
This ballast is gonna be giving TP home, try and run best you can!
Another...
The saving support man!
It's so hard, like you need to be able to get to jump them.
It seems like, oh why don't they just jump to support?
It's very difficult because extreme gaming position has been top tier.
They're keeping the distance and as you said, kind of having to read what's gonna happen.
Refresher or popped immediately, he gets great, he gets snowballed as well, allows him to get that split off.
And again, they can't really fight inside of the Wukong, so man.
Even though you have Tidehunter, you have Solar Frost Shield, it's still not enough, Ranking doesn't feel too comfortable sitting inside of it.
I'd watch out for Y.
Then Xmova, the layering of support is beautiful.
Perfect timing, keep XXX alive, and then the next round of spells comes in, from army and nothing to say.
Yeah, and as we said, now they need to get stuff done during their big alties.
Once the alties down, it seems like they are running out of steam.
And now boom is trapped in trouble, slugged between trees and shards.
Damn, now what right hand corner?
That's Nova.
Hey, she's mid-wad out here.
Turns them into a little piggy.
Snowball forward, invoker completely caught.
Well, jump from one side to the other, core at the core.
Kill at the kill for extreme gaming.
27-9 with a 14k lead.
It's crazy how fast Monkey King moves through the map with the...
He did go for a 3-10s cast range on level 10 and also 0-2 cooldown on the 3 jumps of EZ-1 to the Twin Gates,
putting quite a lot of pressure on the map.
Whoever shows up on the map and they find somebody with Tether Tusk or with Leshrac, he's ready to join.
And honestly, we sing the praises of Ex-Ex-S Mars Centaur Batrider.
This brewmaster this series though has been phenomenal.
Slightly good.
Zero bets, flip's ready.
He can pop it and they can go for the buildings.
Of course the clip initially.
Now we'll split so they can cyclone in the back
to stop any kind of play from Maus.
Ristala's gonna try and deal with one of the broolings
while FYI, nothing to say.
It kills off Celery who immediately flies back.
Maus hold their base at least for now.
Well, the next team gaming know they've got the entire map to play.
And after that play, Brumas was like, I don't want to die a single time in this game.
Picks up A on this for himself so he has double A on this, potentially with a refresher,
double saving support behind him.
Multiple saving abilities.
Holy locket, snowball, grave, even drinking buddies from Tusk.
You can't double A in this game, okay?
With a refresher.
I think you can.
Yeah, I mean, the andisk is still gonna proc unless something changed that I missed.
Because it's gonna, like, you're gonna have an andisk, and then again, you're gonna take the damage with one instance of damage afterwards.
Oh, the first time, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's look up the mouse.
Try and something.
Don't want a fishing expedition, but they'll heal the Roshan roar.
It's been gaming, going through the reset.
Giving something coming, but they'll very quickly realize that Mow's have come for a tormentous deal.
Hang on, we could have just been taking Roshan this entire time.
Swing back into the pit and go for it.
One of the issues is that you are kind of low. If you don't have creeps, if you don't have any kind of heal, now the Tormentor being much stronger, it doesn't allow you to go for Tormentor into a rush contest potentially through the Twin Gate, so that's not happening.
You can see the amount of HP that they do have, so everybody needs to go back. Another Aegis for Arme.
I'm not a big damager, I'm newly done.
Bloodstone is the big item on Leshrac and it gives him so much sustain.
This is going to be the item of the patch, one of the reasons why the hero is popular
is you have change coming to his Davao.
Edic again working on the towers, being pure damage and then also with the combination
of the Bloodstone.
much lice steel or spell lice though should I say.
I love how on a bunch of items we've got huge walls of text for the changes and then
Bloodstone is just item reworked.
Too much text to put in there.
Round two in this top lane though for extreme gaming.
No glyphs from ours currently.
Yeah, the aura around it is the big one, increases the damage I was put by 12% and
it's still 100 AoE.
So pretty massive, X-XS. One more time, going in with a jump.
Small enemy particle from Extreme Gaming.
No need to risk anything. Even Army get a pallet onto the trees.
Think about the re-entry.
The primal split, dealing with the parrots.
And no real commitment here from Extreme Gaming.
Nothing that Mowls can bite onto.
They'll just lose buildings without any answer.
And X-XS is also just linking a waste in play.
An entire set down, an extreme gaming could just come back, reset, hold a high ground somewhere.
Do you know that Maus would want to come out of their base and try to do something with a smoke?
I'll play Gravage of capitalism, that's how their draft works, they need to get there.
Double Ravage now available, and he does have mana to use both Ravages.
325 for refresher and 325 for each Ravage.
What's up, Travage?
Can't they find a jump?
Ex-Excess, A on this, is ready.
Very difficult to bring down, especially with the two-set supports behind him.
Who's the ideal target?
Like, going on Monkey King with Aegis seems rough.
You can't even jump to supports.
It's very difficult.
The Dazzle also has A on this, Tusk has a BKB, so if he gets that off, you're kind of wasting the ravage.
Multiple BKBs on all the cores and other A on this, on Broomaster, so very difficult fight.
This is something that we've seen during Valakia, when people were picking up like four A on this, playing against Mars.
I'm able to get the jump, it feels very difficult, and knowing that playing a longer fight is not in your favor.
This is why they're drawing the map.
X-Nova has been on the money with the Reeds so far knowing where Maus are trying to come from and where they're attempting to go to.
X-X-Ash is just gonna face tank this one and walk into Chrystalus.
Aeondisk in the primal split, but in the back mid one's blown up.
Invoker dead, but 70 already gone.
Where's Jigs? Same story.
First life out of here and he's gonna blink north-west and try and disengage.
Has he stopped out of the way?
Nothing to say.
There's gonna have something to say about this one.
First one, Clipster with a stun! Move out from the Amix, though! Keep the rating in the game for now!
But no, Invoker 50 is a big one. You don't have your Wombo combo anymore.
Extreme Gaming will just pummel your buildings.
Tier 3, even through that Frost Shield. Now with a Primal Split going again onto the Barracks.
A second lane being lined up by Extreme Gaming.
They forced the glyph out of mouse, the bloomer tried to step forward, can't even anchor
smash before he's fight-cloned into the sky.
Another frost shield, delaying things out, but not enough.
He's got his eyes on the prize here to take down the buildings, and that's what Extreme came for,
and that's what they'll get.
The Epodical.
Every single time he is getting control, Ravking just dies immediately, and they also
manage to take down Invoker, which is the big piece of the puzzle.
You need this combo to go off. If you don't have Invoker, you don't have enough damage to take the fight.
And you were right about to be on this game, not refreshing.
And this is also pre-AC. They're also getting another aura, which is going to be another aura on top of that.
So Vlad's about to be completed.
and AC still relatively far away from it, but we'll get it in the next minute or so.
But there he is, he just sold an item and he's ready to go.
Eh, I've already picked it up.
Down with Invoker alive, and Aegis expiring in 15 seconds.
As Twenteke leads to his insurmountable, but Maus have got to do something to keep their tournament hopes alive.
A game away from elimination against extreme gaming who have been so dominant in these past two games.
Orchid and Rage-D, that could be the difference maker if they can get on someone and blow them up.
But they're gonna, again, they're gonna find these supports!
It feels like FLY next to over and visible the entire time.
They're not on the map. They're not existing.
And also another big upgrade, Sheva's Guard, which was super...
Like, very good item in the previous patch, it's still a very good item in this patch.
You don't have the reducing healing component, but you do have quite a lot of armor.
Now sitting at 17 armor from a single item, and it also pierces through debuff immunity,
so your attack speed is not going to go through it.
We've seen Brave King struggling to deal the damage.
Now with this Sheva's Guard, it's going to get even more difficult.
They're keeping their ages. Extreme approaching is bottom lane.
They scan that right-hand side. Turn red for a moment.
Someone was lurking or vision was planted.
It's time to repeat what they've been doing. Try to go in, push out the waves, and get a split.
Get this refresher of cooldown. Make sure that you are going to be playing against mega creeps
or with mega creeps on side of Xtreme.
Devoker is holding buyback this time.
Doesn't want to have the same situation happen again.
Because we're at that stage of the game where one big poor kill could just swell into a game-ending move.
Yamich acting as a board, he's stuck on the high ground.
Let's have them dead already.
X-XS, Gem jumping forward.
There it is with a primal split to go.
He's safe and sound and he's actually chasing forward here.
Extreme gaming, not really rallying around him, just letting the prulings step forward and go to work.
We'll see that Maus are all sat in their base, so we'll stop reset here for extreme gaming.
Then, they're in no rush!
They know that they can choke this map out. Potentially wait for next Brochan.
If Maus do step up, they're gonna match them, meet them in a fight head-on for sure.
But they don't have to go diving Tier 3s.
Yeah, I think it might be time to disassemble this Radiance and get another Fire instead
so you can at least deal with these A on this.
They've been very annoying to be able to get to jump and get to kill.
They can definitely burst down this ROOMaster.
It feels like Christales has been an item behind this entire game.
That delayed Radiance really, really hurt his chances.
Next thing we'll come back and gather up all the resources on the map.
playing to be pushed, anxious to be farmed.
I've got 20 seconds in the room to be grabbed.
Potentially, Roshan to be grabbed as well if it's fast-form.
The speed at which the monkey jink can play,
and macro maneuverability can get him from one side of the map to the other very quickly.
Yeah, he would also love to have level 25 for the next fight.
He also want to reset the refresher, reset A on this, connect XS.
Oh, mid-range roast respawn, a minute and a half.
Bit of leeway here for Mao's to play out the map and maybe delay things until that next round of items.
Yeah, I'm actually gonna go for a Wisdom Shrine Steel. Nothing to say here with Ex-Nova.
Reveal placed on the floor.
Mid-One trying to give some covering fire, lays it down to give Yammer some space, but it was never enough.
to say he's had enough plots to BKB and grab the kill there.
Next in mid one. Maybe they're gonna be able to find him.
They are holding the gem on Brewmaster. Level 23 on him.
Monkey King just hit level 25. Oh, the ghost walk hit army.
He knows the boat was nearby, but they weren't quite able to catch up in time.
Still gonna gather up around him.
Forty seconds to the store once she's back up again.
See how many crystals they're trying to reclaim, a bit of control over an area near them.
Near their base.
You can't just be stuck by the tier 3s, you need a bit of space out of the base to actually try to fight into when you've got a big combo like this.
Did you let the extra information actually get to your tier 3s if you never have a chance of fighting the scouts?
Yeah, if they get to Wukong, especially level 25 Wukong, and they get split or a double split, you are not going to be winning that fight.
And again, you have Jeroz who are not that great at dealing with mega creeps anyway.
Rage King, he doesn't have that cleave talent anymore, it's long gone.
Yeah, what are all these neutral items?
It's just tankiness.
Just give me any kind of tankiness to survive.
Rattle, Cage, Dandelion, Amulet, Prophet's Pendulum.
30% have been going down to Lade over 5 seconds.
Pretty big ones there.
And Roshan left out a bellow knowing that he has been started.
It'd be a decent spot for Maus to go in and try and collapse on that small choke point area with the combos they've got,
but they are not comfortable, not confident in their map space.
That means Yamage gets sniped out of that top lane.
If you free them to go and gather up this Aegis now for army.
Swing into the pit.
Little wiggle room here for Maros to push out bottom.
Maybe get in towards mid.
Do what you can to keep the lanes at bay.
Yeah, you said if they park themselves in front of your Tier 3 tower,
you are losing the fight most likely and you are also going to be losing your Barret.
It shouldn't feel like a game over if that happens.
Refresher now completed on Invoker.
So double Cataclysm, double Ravage ready.
Oh, he's taking a dump!
Mid one wasn't far off on that.
But with the radiant, killing Roshan, Arme gathering the Aegis.
Just bring it quickly into action here.
FY thought maybe Mid one would stick around and farm down south.
Now he heads north.
The Tusk Guard is gonna fight the guard.
In onto Mid one with Arme's damage, he's dead.
That's rough for Maus.
FY really showing off some prowess here.
Luckily for him, his refresher didn't show.
It was coming on the career that would definitely know that he didn't.
He does not have that buyback, but they're still gonna go.
No matter what, you still want to get the buyback out if he has it,
but unfortunately for them, he doesn't.
And this is the scenario that you talked about.
If they get themselves in front of the Tier 3 Tower, how do you take this fight?
All the hard work done by Stellarix, warding, de-wording,
setting up this area, gonna be cleared out by the Gem of Ex-Ex-S.
Lich on the run out of that middle lane.
A low HP range creep giving nothing to stay in the target to move to travel to and FY here again to claim some names.
Yamich, he gets the stun, start off on the tusk, they've had enough of FY and his nonsense, but as a BKB tusk,
running circles around you while you lose your bottom lane of Barracks, BKB TP home, FY, bye bye!
Now's what they've done! They've left their base completely wide open!
And they pop the glass 18 seconds without Invoker full butterfly now completed a monk
He has double root cons is already if necessary
I refresh up from xxs no cliff
Rammage spares the follow-up is still dead
And this monkey king can open up with a damage now boom and Kristars in trouble first life claimed already
Rains King will respawn as nothing stays guys back in on the salary jumping the lid
Bursting through the ghost chapter mid one has come back into this one
but the throne is being pummeled by the brewmaster.
The cyclone on the tide buys even more time for extreme gaming.
Yamich, taken out by the beyond godlike monkey king.
Another big stun there.
Catches boom in mid-1.
Extreme can't quite finish the job though.
Maus have held on just for a little bit longer.
Forsling the army monkey back.
Exit chess on the right hand side.
Cataclysm coming in but snowball dodges.
Armies graved on the left.
Yamich tries to get there, takes him down once.
And he got the refresher, it doesn't work on BKB.
There's another cat up.
Where the left track. He's dead.
Yamage finds the kill. In comes FY though.
They want to close it out.
XXS plans another life, and booms in trouble.
By the dead of GD's call.
Mound around it.
Remove on.
Oh man, what a performance coming out from extreme gaming.
Amé not dying a single time.
XXS also not dying a single time.
Just playing together as a unit and testing.
Tossed a game. He would be my MVP for this game. The saves that he did keeping everybody alive are allowing everybody else to get the second round of spells
completely break the formation of mouths and what they want to be doing with this cataplysm and
Ravage combo it just didn't go off you could not feel the damage because of these snowball saves. You can feel the pieces were there
There's lacking the instructions to try to put that Lego building together. Air Mounds
They have all these tools, but it couldn't quite execute this extreme gaming shown in game two and three
They're not just a mid to late game team. They can actually smoke gank, burst blood, outlay new, then out execute and out skate.
Yeah, they definitely did the right adjustments after losing that game 1 in 30 minutes.
Knowing that they can't allow mouse to play super fast go to like they used to play in now extreme gaming.
Game 2 draft, Game 3 draft as well.
Jawa, you really cooked and everybody on the team was hungry and they were also hungry for getting that victory here.
Hungry for the title of the fish as well.
Yeah.
up. You just have to see how it goes, the happiness of the extreme gaming flourishing
and thriving here on a new patch. It's better off to draft them, shall we? You're right.
Really good, you're doing very well for yourself. Bringing things together with some nice plastic
simple stuff. Gotta say, XXS Brewmaster Boat. Ah, I say it's a hard, the hard
hard shout between FY and XXS. We're going to head over to an interview now.
Yes, indeed, I am here with Armei from X-Teen Gaming.
Yeah, let's give it up!
Chid will be translating. First of all, I'd like to say, after a slightly rocky group stage,
you guys must be feeling great to get back to winning ways.
How does it feel to win the first series here on the main stage?
and the team was successful in the first round, what did you think about mouse team?
I think...
the B-sports team was so funny, they came in the middle of the game.
We found that Group B was like an absolute clown fest.
We felt like we didn't win a single series,
and somehow we managed to get into the elimination series.
So, I'm not sure what happened there.
Okay, fair enough.
Um, we've seen you play five different heroes in the last five games.
It really feels like you're either experimenting a lot with different heroes or you feel like I already know what's good. All of these heroes are good. Which is it?
I'm still picking those carries based on what the opponents are picking.
If I think that this carry is good for them, I'll do against them, then I'll pick it.
Fair enough. Alright, next up we are up against Spirit.
How do you think you guys are going to do?
How are you prepared to play against them?
What are you expecting when you play against Team Spirit in the next round?
Well, Team Spirit is either we are owning them or we are getting owned, so 50-50.
Fair enough. And I know that we've got some Chinese fans here supporting XG.
How much does it help you guys when you're playing on a live stage?
I'd like to have those Chinese fans here cheering for you.
There are many Chinese fans coming to the stage to support you and to cheer you up.
Do they have the right to stand up for you?
So that you can perform better?
Yes, yes, thank you everyone.
attying most theories, losing to others, and then winning one series.
I could see where he comes from, as he said, like, you know,
wasn't the greatest showing of them to being in this elimination stage.
And I think somehow, being on this page,
and maybe with a little bit of help from the new patch,
it creates the best poetry game.
No, for sure, right? Utilizing that first game,
sure it didn't go their way, but all the experience they gained from it,
it was a completely different team in Game 2 and Game 3
from the draft, from the play.
You could feel just the shift and that took mouth of God.
And it's why XGI was going to progress through the lower bracket today.
It's also why Lanzen, just being in between these games is so important.
I think Jawae, all the adjustments we were talking about, they did them very nicely.
And I think not just that, but also all the gameplay and connecting your heroes and being deathless.
I think in this game, XXS and Army didn't die.
They weren't all the moves you can see in the highlands.
You know the supporting cast coming through with the clutch stays and all the right moments.
Honestly, XGI in this series compared to all the ones I've seen before,
At least in Game 2 and 3, they looked very clutched.
Yeah, they did. The game kind of got out of hand really early though, I feel like.
Yeah.
I mean, Miles's heroes who were a bit interesting, it was a little hard for them to coordinate.
I feel like I never really felt like Wraithing was a big threat, ever.
He just kind of got blown up, almost every fight, pretty quick.
Second time he would usually blink to safety and run away.
Didn't really feel like he got to man up and engage, and the support duo as well on the Miles side.
Cool on theory, but very difficult to execute against the Snowball saves against the Grave, the Grave and against the Bruce Split.
It needed to go to 60 minutes guys. It had to go the full distance and the mouse is 47 minute loss
If only they could claw a little bit longer, but then he did like a like a whole week
I think this breaking to get online. Yeah, we said that you know, ideally we see a very close game 3 where both teams
Get the best out from one another, but it just was very clear that one team
Was just especially within the series one step ahead of the rest
And that does mean that we have a winning side with extreme gaming
But it also means that we are saying goodbye to mouse and peering is going to do just that with them
Yeah, thanks shoes. I am here with boom very sadly. We're gonna have to see them lead the tournament
I've got to say I thought at times you guys look fantastic in this tournament the first game of this series
Everything went your way. What do you think went wrong in the other two games?
I have no idea
It's just a bit random. I felt we were not super well prepared on this patch and some heroes coming out,
like some weaver that we're not ready for. I don't know what went wrong. We're just not consistent.
Did it feel like perhaps because this patch dropped mid-tournament all the plans and everything that you had,
you had to toss him out the window and quickly adapt? Do you think that in a situation like that
it's just literally about maybe a little bit of luck? You land on a hero that's busted and good,
Less time to prepare
Yeah, for sure. I mean, but it's always about luck, you know, but I mean when the pageants I guess it's a bit more
but I
Felt very well prepared like we felt very ready before the patch dropped, you know, we were actually playing really good
I felt and
You know happens. It does happen. We're very sorry about that
I'm overall though taking a side the exit here
Are you guys happy with how you performed you think actually, you know what?
the patch kind of screwed us other than that we did pretty damn well yeah I mean
looking at our recent results I think it's pretty good I'm happy with my
performance like individually so that's all I can thank you boom thanks for
taking the time to talk to us we're sorry to see you guys go let's give them a
big round of applause boom and Massey sports
yeah they did perform admirably top 8 is nothing to scuff at but it's extreme
gaming that will make it to top six and we'll get the chance to play against Team Spirit in the next round already and later today
We are gonna still break down this game that we just witnessed a little bit more because there was a lot to say about the way
Extreme gaming played and a lot to say about the movements purge
There were so many movements coming out from extreme that played so fast. Yeah, they did
And that's what we saw the first two games though the early mid lane was kind of interesting
They had tons of vision control at the six minute mark here. They had centuries being placed down
across the board, they're fought over them, it looked like the average low MMR,
oh you de-warded my sentry, well I'm gonna de-ward your sentry kind of thing,
which does happen sometimes, so I was like, is he gonna fight it? He did!
He wanted to make sure that they controlled this area, and get this,
even if Fy goes and does the exact same thing, they're trying to make sure that the next time that they fight
around the room, that they're gonna have a favorable engagement, and the game was very very equal here,
Celery gets to reduce the damage, Delta, it looks like nothing to say is gonna die instantly,
but that snowball save was fantastic. He gets so many ulti pulses off before he does end up dying,
and ultimately they end up winning this little engagement, which kind of starts cascading.
10 minutes in, 2k gold advantage, they're ready to dive this tower.
Womb recognizes how dangerous this is. They stacked their stuns, unfortunately.
They don't have chain frost there. It would have been absolutely perfect,
but because they don't have chain frost, because that lane goes bad,
because the raking is a little bit underleveled, this all just starts to produce nothing,
unfortunately. Dazzle heals are helping them. Yamages looking for kills.
All of these engagements just don't go that great for extreme gaming.
I'm gonna jump board here at 16 minutes. Same thing, dive on raking.
He doesn't have relic yet. He pops. His ultimate ends up not being useful.
We're gonna jump ahead to the ideal fight at 30 minutes for Maus.
Look at this, they changed stun onto the brewmaster.
The first one gets dodged with snowball, but this is the first good cataclysm.
And with the grave, he still doesn't die.
So this fight was supposed to be a win for them.
They finally got perfect conditions, but they still didn't win this fight.
So it was Mao's fighting uphill the whole time against these better heroes against the better draft
And they just couldn't quite execute it the way that they needed to win the game. It's just it's so difficult
I think like 40 at draft which is also like at the end you're like
You're a bit scared for mouse over cause you can't get run over and like having invoker against these supports
Like you can see it in the highlights like they're just saving each other like all the time
You don't have like the spec line jump with like a storm or someone else
So I think mouse obviously notes a new patch you can talk about luck because there is luck involvement
but you choose your heroes at the end of the day.
Yeah, and speaking of saves,
and of course that fight that we saw
that should have been the fight for Miles,
it just meant that Ex-Nova was on the right position
to not be hampered to be sure
that he could get that great buff to your gov,
and that's why we highlight position five.
No, yeah, I feel like the position five in this game was,
you know, we had the tail of the Dazzle
versus the Lich, of course, the Dazzle,
we saw in that final clip how much work he could do.
Unfortunately for Miles, they were trying to experiment
with the Lich, see what it could do,
but that's where you're gonna lean towards Jawe,
and like, he sees the draft here,
He goes, you know what? I'm locking in Xlova. He's going to play the Dazzle.
He's going to go to make all these moves. And Dazzle Tusk, it's an iconic pairing of historical play, right?
Strong lanes, they run through the map, and you can already see from everything that Purge broke down,
that the supports of XG, they gave a lot of life in this game, so that the monkey could run in,
so that Lesh could run in, so that Brew could get his spread off.
Like, if the supports didn't play as well as they did, we probably wouldn't see XG in this position,
because they were really just allowing them to push themselves to the limit.
Yeah, and they will potentially be pushed to the limit themselves today. Let's take a look at where it puts them in the lower bracket still
Scary place to be but they're good company
Lot of good teams down there team spirit didn't fall yesterday
But they took it close against the index and that they won one game
So that's gonna be a tough one or extreme gaming to push through and even if they win that one
they have to win the winner of Aurora Gaming for just somebody else.
The craze!
Aurora is incredibly good.
Yeah, it's that.
But the Spirit vs XG, yeah, that's...
We all know how this series goes every single time.
It's one of the best series that you could ever ask for.
And like, wasn't they daughter?
Like, these two teams against each other?
It's just a bang.
It's a bang at every single time.
Yeah, we might be burning the Midnight Oil for that one, already stream gaming,
of course, pushing into distance in this one.
But the third series today will absolutely be a blockbuster.
That's to be fair, every single series today is a blockbuster.
The next one is no different because it's Falcons vs Paravision.
We are going to take a quick break.
But when we're back, it's time for more Dota action here for ESL One Birmingham 2026.
Hello, Birmingham!
There they are!
There's the best crowd in the world.
Don't go anywhere!
I know you guys like to go out and, you know, go to the restaurant, go eat some stuff
in between games.
Those are the weakest Dota players.
A true Dota player!
I know you guys like to go out and you know go to the rest room go eat some stuff in between games
Those are the weakest Dota players a true Dota player sits as butter their butt down for eight hours
Loses 10 hours worth of games
Fantastic what we're gonna reward you guys who are still here in the area and you guys at home
Here's how it works.
There'll be a QR code on the screen.
I need you guys to scan that code at home.
Now I know if you guys are at home watching this on the stream, you don't see a QR code.
That's because this is not for you, but you can still play along at home because only
people here at the arena get this incredible prize.
A commemorative coin to show that you were here today.
This is not an NFT! It is actually worth something! This is a real coin!
Woo!
Alright, let's get this Kahoot game started. It's very easy.
It matters how quickly you answer and how fast you answer and how accurately you answer.
So make sure that you're getting the right answer as quick as possible.
We've got five questions. And we have people coming in right now with some very actually, you know, PG-13 names.
So, I'd like to thank you guys in the audience
for not doing anything disgusting.
All right, my friends, you have 10 seconds left.
Don't forget, you guys at home can win
for incredible prizes of your ego.
Watching Dota is a win in itself.
Don't you worry, my friends.
All right, the time has come.
Are you ready to kahoo?
Here we go.
Question number one, oh, of course.
This is hero ability games.
Three, two, one.
What is this ability called?
Ooh, a tough one, because nobody plays this hero.
Don't say I do in the audience, don't lie.
You've got this.
20 more seconds.
You know, I did see one guy play this
in the entirety of Pro Dota,
and that guy's a panelist now.
So if you are a person that plays this hero,
Move on my friends, completely worthless hero, unless you are in a high MMR.
Here we go! It was, of course, Purifying Flames from Oracle.
And that is eager, eager and well done.
Here we go! What is the next ability called?
Oh, there we go. That's a good one.
A lot of answers coming in quick.
I'm surprised at how many support players are able to make it to these events.
Carry players usually can't make it because they die on the way over without someone walking them to the event.
So very, very interesting.
So yes, support players in the building, you can say they're instantly walking in.
Let's see what that answer is.
Do you know what is this sinister gaze?
There you go.
And I'm going to give you guys a hint.
All the answers are A.
As you just saw, the rest of them will be A as well.
Now, just kidding, don't do that.
The next ability, my friends.
Ooh, this one's for all the furries out there.
Easy, easy, easy.
You guys, have a great time.
Shout out to Admiral Bulldog and all the other freaks
who go on that one Reddit that we don't go to.
Here we go!
This is, I'm gonna give us a very good hint.
What could it be?
All right.
There we go, it was actually C, Bushwack.
What do I, of course, powerful sloth.
Oh yeah, that guy's definitely a furry.
Next up, here we go!
Oh, wow.
Now that's a tough one.
Have you ever played this hero?
Do you know what this little creature does?
Is this hero still good?
We will find out.
What?
Hello?
Oh wow, someone had shown me a picture
of the little guy on their phone.
That's the background.
Someone sitting together with someone else
and the person sitting next to them is not the background.
It is, in fact, a cute little frog.
That's not good.
That's okay.
Here we go!
Frog stop!
Well done, well done.
It is very tight and tight.
I think it's almost a tie there.
Here we go, five and five, last question.
Ooh!
Ooh!
I like that one.
Ghosts!
That is what I say every single time I walk into a dark room
as loud as possible.
Ghosts!
Here we go.
What could it be?
Chat?
A toughie indeed.
We will find out very soon who the winner will be.
Thank you guys so much for playing it.
Cahoots!
And we will give you this commemorative coin
that in a hundred years.
There we go, they're calling, that is right.
And our winner is the delightful salamander.
Who is that delightful salamander?
Right, what, really?
All right, we got him at that laser job,
we give it up for the delightful salamander.
Don't you worry, my friend,
we will get this coin right to you.
Take a picture on your phone or your friend's phone.
Don't you worry and find us,
someone will give this to you
and if they don't, I will take it.
Thank good luck to you, sir.
Alright everybody, that is some concludes.
Thank you guys so much for playing in the arena at home.
Don't go anywhere.
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Hello, we're glad you're still here, thank you, Jay, hi, hi, oh yeah, there's a real
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It's gonna be spin to win but first we're gonna meet our fabulous
contestant your name
Adam
Adam
let's give it up for Adam
Adam what do you say your chances are?
I don't know I don't know
It's 1 in 6
Yeah!
Well done
What's your name?
Max
Max!
Good solid name Matt
Well done, love you 12 U.M.A
What do you think your chances are, lad?
50-50
I've got a winger I don't know
That's too many of the wins or he doesn't
That's good
Thank you Matt
Amzad.
Amzad?
Amzad.
Amzad.
Do you think that you've got what it takes to win, spin to win?
Because this is a game of pure skill.
Yes, definitely.
Yes, definitely.
I like that comment.
We've got one in six, fifty, fifty, hundred percent.
Where can we go from here?
Your name?
Zai.
Zai?
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We've got a one in six, fifty, fifty, hundred percent.
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Hide.
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Have you ever been more excited?
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I'm sorry, I was told you were not in and to ignore you, but I'm stepping over the line and I'm asking you
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Low odds and Liam Liam gives himself low odds. I like that confidence Liam good stuff
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No, don't do that. No, not go do that, Matt. Just take it.
I was so smooth it went perfectly.
Perfectly, Matt, you must be delighted to win.
You gave yourself 50-50, turns out, no, you said 100%, didn't you?
No, I was 50-50.
Oh, I'm shit at this.
All right, well done, mate.
We're gonna go back to a break or something,
and then the next games are coming up.
Cool.
Oh, yeah!
Yay!
I think there's a flame, a little bit more additional pressure,
pressure because we are the reigning champions of ESL one burning him. It's definitely a sign of relief
that we made it to the playoffs. I think we're a bit stressed with our performance as the team
hasn't been great lately so I think being able to make the playoffs is definitely a sign of improvement
for things to come in. We're happy.
We had to fight in 10 breakers, but we made it to play off, I think 5-cons is worse, I think they're in time.
I'll say shift, shift, shift, we'll just play a tryout or something. I think we're super fast all-out, but I don't know how other teams like about...
I have to kill 100 seconds, no heritage!
Gathowing in dire straits as well!
Arab vision, swing in hard!
I've super excited for the next round of the game.
Yeah, I have good ideas about the game. We're gonna be strong.
To me, it's not relatively that I want to leave a legacy.
I just want to enjoy and achieve it as much as I can in this time.
I just have to really live in the moment, try your best and make the most of it.
We won last time and we're gonna do it again this year.
I love it! For both teams they are looking to enjoy some time on the new patch! Let's
see how deep their run this ESL 1 Birmingham will be as they will have to win every single
series from here on out to stay in this competition. Falcons vs. Paravision coming your way and
for it we've changed a little things on the desk. We got ourselves Quinn now you're
doing Quinn?
I'm doing very good. I'm excited to be here. Birmingham is an awesome crowd.
It's a pleasure to get to be a part of it.
Yeah, it is a good time, FB, I love you!
I mean, saying I love being in Birmingham last one was amazing, so this one's got really high expectations.
You guys better get loud today.
It has already gotten pretty loud, and there has already been a lot of reminiscing from...
That was a word for short, to the previous Birmingham with a lot of points, right?
It's been a good time, it's been a good series as well,
where, of course, hoping the best is, of course, for the upcoming series.
And rightfully so, because both of these teams, they're defending champions, Quinn.
They are, and I think that, you know, Snaking said it adds a little bit of pressure, and I think it does.
I think when you want to turn them in the past, when you come back through the scaling of not quite deserving, but you've been there before,
you know what it takes, and I think you want to, you want to be able to repeat that, and it's true for both of them.
No one has won Birmingham way back in 2018, and Falcons won it last time.
And so I think that, that changed the dynamic a little bit, and I think it's very, it's very exciting and it's cool.
And I'm honestly looking forward to see how both of them do.
I walk past their team booths in the back,
and I think you could feel the tension.
I think both of these teams not.
I don't know if either one of them is fully free and chilling.
I think they can feel the excitement.
It's the first stage game.
And like you said, it's lower bracket.
So that adds that extra dose of every match
you've got to win it or your clip.
You're not just lower bracket, right?
But new patch lower bracket, which is even more stressful.
And we heard from the interview that maybe
snaking was feeling a little nervous,
but it's been a very stressful time for the team.
on ParaVision's interview, they found it comfortable.
They're like, we have good ideas.
We're quick to adapt to the new patch.
We might see a difference here in terms of how quick to adapt.
Yeah, potentially for ParaVision,
the patch came at exactly the right time
because they were struggling a little bit before it.
Also, important to note, and this is something,
and that could wreck me a front-run, Quinn,
but players' minds, this is playing a big part.
So whoever beats the other team here, or rather, I would say whoever loses the series has to go through qualifiers for the next Dream League.
So winning doesn't guarantee you to skip them, but it gives you a higher odds and obviously otherwise you're out guaranteeing how big of a thing is that. That's big.
It is a very big deal. I mean essentially going further means you have a chance at a vacation because otherwise you're stuck in the gridlock of qualifiers and stressed.
stress and here we go but if you if you get to actually make it and you skip
those qualifiers that means you get a break which is huge for those later
tournaments in the year if you're going into EWC and stuff so it is it is very
important I think they care more about that than they do most other things.
That's interesting because I would also wonder like how many teams go through
qualifiers and stay at a good peak because if you have that break off
some teams they slack a little bit too much and then they go in the next
tournament and they maybe don't make it on a group stage and that affects
morale and other things so I think there's a lot of interesting different
ways to look at the positives and negatives of the routes these teams are
taking but ultimately I think this refresh of the patch was good for both of
these teams because both of them were underperforming what they expected.
Yeah and there's one player in particular that might be re-envigorating with the patch,
with the heroes changed. I'm talking about the position for Paravizion 9 class.
Purge this is normally a player we saw on all the weird heroes and for a while he couldn't do that but maybe it's all back.
Yeah this is some of his recent games here since the patch he got to play
Rubik twice, he played a Nature's Prophet with the Daedalus Sanemy older and he played a Weaver as well with two new items here
So this is the guy that was kind of doing wild stuff at TI
They stuck with the same roster
He kind of gave that up a couple months ago and it looked okay, but like not amazing
So I think this new patch is definitely gonna give him lots of creative ideas
And he's the guy that wins games for his team because he picks some weird here
And he plays it in a way that nobody else is playing well
And that's the kind of stuff that like destroys best of threes sometimes routine.
Yeah, and if you look at his item build on his Rubik and Weaver games
He's buying Essence the Stiller then you earn item and even in a game where it looked like a good Vespa game
It was like now I'm trying the new stuff
He's always the type of player to just embrace any kind of new idea and not be
Overwhelmed when it comes to patch time. I think having a player like this is such an advantage.
Yeah, anything he drives on it.
Yeah, absolutely. I think I mean you look at the drafts even as a whole apart from him
They're very weird like the both their games in the tiebreakers
I didn't understand what was going with their drafts at all
But they won anyway
And so I think that goes to show that maybe they have a little bit better of a patch understanding other people
But also I think this is a team that's always been willing to sort of throw draft integrity out the window and pick comfort picks up
They think is cool or interesting or playing a specific way
And so I think going against Falcons
They need to be very careful because it's a very widely wacky sort of widely coyote team
Now this is a difficult question. Who do you think has deeper pockets when it comes to comfort heroes?
Between Falcons and Paravision, mind you, that is high quality teams with deep pockets, but comfort in particular.
Do you mean deeper pockets are newer heroes that we haven't seen before?
And the heroes.
I think Falcons are the comfort team.
They still win?
Yeah, I mean, when you think about players who specialize in certain heroes, I can't think of a single team that beats Falcons
and how many grandmaster heroes they have on all of their cores.
And it's been a patch where all of their heroes were meta and that's not working for them.
So now that they're heroes with them slightly nerfed, we're going to see those same heroes
just with different priorities.
And if we do a quick patch checking with Falcons, I wanted to look at how they played
on the last day of group stages.
And it is a lot of the same. You see the Bristleback.
You see the Senkin. You see the Pug, the Shaman, the Largo.
But Skeeter did have a new hero in the Raid King.
This used to be a Skeeter specialty way back when he was on Tunger Days.
100 days. It's one of the heroes he loves the most. So if we ever see a doom come up at
Rape King, it's very likely to come out as well. And if we look at ATF's heroes, he did
play an off-lane Void Spirit. It was really strange, I don't know, from his experimentation
or if he believes in it as a concept, but he won on that game. It looked good.
To hear about Buffed in terms of some right-click damage, his old NA, well it's the same
NA basically, but it's better, gives you like extra bonuses for the stats you buy
and he actually just did okay damages. It kind of was reminiscent of the patch
where universal heroes right click very very effectively. So with just like stat items,
survivability, and good gameplay, he can actually DPS okay while staying alive and he definitely
was a really big nuisance that game. So I expect him to have other stuff like that up his sleeve.
Yeah I mean not to mention all that but I also think their first phase has been helped a lot by
some of the heroes that were buffed like Batrider becoming more of a support and also Doom
becoming this insanely giga broken first phase ban every game. Those are two heroes that
Falcons are very comfortable on snaking on Batrider and the Doom and the Offline. So that
So that means two bans are free, that means potentially you get your razors and vipers,
muskars and all the stuff that was getting banned before.
Now they can actually get it maybe later on in the draft because there's a couple more
bans that are musk bans and I think that stuff helps them a lot because this team,
once they're ABC, if you pick your poison and last, you know, last batch they had no
poison.
There was no picking of anything and now I think they've got a little more poison
up their sleeve.
So let's get real, which one of these teams do we feel like has the upper hand going
into this series?
because the way we're talking right now,
I feel like it's kind of leaning Falcons.
I mean, it's hard to say,
because Paravision are so comfortable
when it comes to patches,
and from their interview,
they sounded really confident.
Honestly, listening to them talk about the new patch
made me think,
oh, my goodness, are Falcons in trouble?
But with Paravision,
like Quinn mentioned,
on Tiber Grid Day,
they had a bunch of wacky drafts,
and they won because they were confident,
and they played better than their enemies.
But Falcons are a team that aren't going to get overrun
overrun just by you playing better than them.
They always press their buttons well,
just their strategies haven't been that good.
So it's hard to say,
but I wouldn't count ParaVision out at all.
And I feel like before the patch happened,
I would say Falcons were definitely playing better
than ParaVision as a whole.
So multiplying all these things together,
it's definitely hard to say,
but I think Falcons also has the potential
to pick weird heroes.
Elmarr has been that kind of guy for a while,
so they might have to step up their sleeve
and might match what the kind of sub-9 class is doing.
They might have some of those strats ready
to beat the weird 9-class heroes that he was picking.
They're going to keep that in their mind.
They're going to have stuff that they can potentially ban.
So there's strats given away on both sides.
Yeah, I mean, I agree.
But for me, the sider is that this is SSS's first time
on a Tier 1 line stage before.
And that's a lot of pressure.
That's a lot for the newcomer.
And I think offline is a very important role for this team.
And so for me, I'm looking at this guy saying, this game 1,
show us what you're made of.
Are you going to clutch up?
Because if he does, then I think
they've got a great shot at the series.
But if he looks shaky, if he's a little fragile,
then I don't know how they're going to be able to handle Falcon to his team is incredibly veteran players some of the most maybe of any team
We will see if ParaVision is ready to deal with that pressure I do know that both teams are ready to take the stage so we are going to head down the period
Hello, thank you Sheeves
Going well so far I think as you can see the crowd are all here waiting for this match Falcon against ParaVision
I'm gonna go and test the waters and see what they all think about this. Good!
Hambricks! I don't want to try one of these balloons. Who's that here? Me! It's a trick question.
All right, where'd you get this?
The balloon guy?
The balloon guy, of course! Did you just make this for you? Is it Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street?
Oh, this is... I don't know, man.
Let me have a look. May I?
That's pretty bloody good. That's pretty bloody good.
We're gonna... I think we're gonna be seeing more of balloon guy later.
Who do you think is going to do well in this series?
Paravision or Falcons?
Falcons.
Falcons, you're a Falcons guy. You don't think Paravision could upset the Apple cart, so to speak?
Oh. I mean, Apple cart, Cider. I'm down.
Hell yeah. You got a tight hunter hat as well that goes with your balloon. Well done. Well done.
Nice. Well, we'll see. May I trouble you guys for a prediction if I make all my knees?
Okay, so, we've got Falcons, Paravision coming up next.
You seen much of these two teams?
Yeah, I saw them last time here.
Nice! And who do you think is going to win?
Falcons or Paravision? Give one of those two teams all of your energy.
Definitely Falcons.
Falcons? Fair enough. Do you believe that?
I agree, Falcons.
Falcons? We're the Paravision fans. Any Paravision fans? Really?
There we go! Those lads are all about Paravision.
First we're going to start introducing the team. The first team of course coming out is...
PIM FAKER!
Yeah.
Under the cover of flame...
...HARVITAL!
The last two titles, ladies and gentlemen, to a team's face...
Both series were in favor of Paravision, both of them at Dream League season 28, at Dream League season 27.
But I think a lot more people might have a clearer memory of this matchup on the main stage,
on the international and the upper bracket finals where Falcons knocked Paravision down.
I know Paravision, they have a new offlaner, a new coach,
and they're ready to return the favor by eliminating Falcons out of this ESL one of Bermingham.
We'll see if they manage to do that.
It will be one best of three deciding which one of these two teams moves forward to tomorrow.
And we're going to talk about what they might be looking for.
Now we're assuming there's a whole host of heroes that's going to be banned anyway.
Is there any odd one out that normally doesn't get banned anyway?
But we will see potentially in this series.
Something to get banned or...
Something to get picked!
Something to get picked. I think this definitely sees a lever.
Yeah, I think either support or four, I think it's a very high chance.
I'm curious to see if they prioritize Nature's Prophet.
It's something that we saw them first pick in one of their games in the new patch, and then ignore otherwise.
I haven't seen many teams picking it up, but they have shown that they could not care less if another team is doing it or not.
And so I'm really interested to see if Paravision goes back to the Nature's Prophet, what type of style they play.
If they pick more teamfighters, they continue to pick just solo heroes that do their own thing.
It's so interesting because all these heroes we're talking about, we didn't even see them in the, except for the Weaver carry we didn't see them in the last series.
So like, teams still are developing their identities in these new patches, and it just makes drafting against them so hard.
Yeah. I mean, on Tigercruiser they did have odd drafts.
Not in the sense that the heroes were strange, but in the sense that they didn't have any inherent synergy
and there was no real game plan that they were able to in any way.
What I'm worried about the Nature's Prophet is that it did work in that one game that the patch came out,
and it got banned a couple of times actually, I think during Tidebreakers,
but I don't think it's the kind of hero you want to play against Falcons.
I feel like they're too used to playing, they're too disciplined to lose to a Nature's Prophet.
Yeah, I mean, that is the balance, right Falcons?
Everybody knows them as the structurally sound team.
We we always hear about the hard work and the structure and the way they talk about teamfights
But there's like the counterpoint to that is can you play fast enough to break that you play so fast?
They don't get to the point where they have structure or not
I think that's the reason that Paravision in the past has had good matchups against them is because they play just sort of crazy
Wacko style in the early game nine classes causing chaos and nonsense happening in that you know messes up the game
I think that goes somewhat to the weaver you were saying which is sort of the most chaotic stories been playing recently
And so I think there there can be that match of like, you know
paravision with the nonsense weird speedy draft and falcon saying we're gonna sit
we're gonna chill we're gonna do our thing fire point daggers and then we're
gonna out team fight you. If we're saying that the main pressure for
paravision is on a triple S for the off-lane is on 9th class also off-lane
position 4. Where is that type of pressure for falcons if anyway? I mean I
think this mid lane is really really important. Malorain he's got a few
heroes in flying he's applying the puck in the stanking on the new
passion. But I think when you take some of Malloryn's core heroes away that he's playing
every single game, I think his hero pool can lack the depth because he's not the most
versatile player. He wants to play his grandmaster heroes. He wants to play his guys, whereas
I think no one has a much wider spread. So depending on how the bands work, I think
there can be a situation where no one gets a favorable matchup and then things can
start to shift into favor.
I think there's also always pressure that could come from Skeeter here. With his hero
pool being a little bit more diverse now, we could definitely see him getting active
in early fights, and if they win those fights off of these rotations, it creates space for
Omar or Malarino or whoever else to get extra network to be taking, you never know, and they're
going to be able to channel in the items that impact teamfights in a big way, and it could
just be a slow economy victory after that.
Yeah, I'd agree.
I think the skater plus Snake and the safe lane is where they should feel the pressure
to shut down the off-end of Paravis, and we talked about how they're the key
that we're looking at, as does us, because he may be nervous.
He's the first time we're on a stage like this, and nine plus because he's
kind of got all of that pressure on him to be the one with the good ideas. If making
plus Peter can have a really strong fundamentally stand on safe lane and shut down SSS, who
knows if he'll be able to recover it. He's not used to this kind of nerves.
He is not. But he's got good leadership and good teammates to get used to that real fast.
Trial by fire also, if you will, but a lot of experience on the side of Paravision.
a lot of experience, of course, on the side of Falcons as well, and we'll see which one
comes out on top with our first game of this best of three, having Falcons on Dyer.
They have first pick, Paravision will be radiant with second pick, and that means that Falcons
has just a little bit more freedom to ban more flavorful heroes, if you will, whereas
Paravision will be having to ban out the usual suspects, or rather the heroes that
either are A, too strong, insert doom, or maybe heroes that people haven't really figured
out yet. Although that is an unusual one! Quinn, Pango, already out.
My boy, yeah, I mean, Falcons, I think they're the best Pango team in the world. They've
got two incredible Pango players, so if you're gonna ban it against anyone, you're banning
it against them. But I think Falcons taking first pick, it's somewhat normal, but I
think especially on a new patch, first pick is generally preferable, because you
get to sort of call the enemies bluff on if they think it's as good as you do.
So if you have some really good idea about a hero that's really powerful, then you sort
of get to see, do they know?
And if they don't know, then you seek a free win in there, because the hero's broken and
they don't know it yet.
And so I think there's that special quality about the first phase, especially in the
new patch.
Another question is, the Nature's Prophet, that Paravision showed us, they believe
in, and then you've had to, how much do they really believe in it?
Because they've got a pick of it if they want it.
Falcons have not addressed it at all.
to ban out more Skeeter Heroes at the Dragonite, who's seen up and down success. Some builds
that were just like Link PKD were kind of weak, but Dammit builds from Dragonite have been
semi successful. But Falcons are going to go for the Venomance
are opening, we saw it last series as well, two out of the three games third game, those
banned first fate before any picking is possible, and it just looks great for stabilizing
lanes. Yeah, and that fits along the line of wanting
to really shut down the hero vision off lanes, they want to not give them the
means to play into that mid game.
I also think it fits snaking specifically very well. When you think about his play style,
it's you know you have a dominant lane, you make good moves early, and then you sit in
a side lane, you farm and you get really fat. He is like one of the fives with the highest
net worths. There's a reason he's the best champ in the world. He's a former core player
and I think all the former core players who switch to support have this tendency to
get a little more gold and also potentially use a little bit better. And so I think this
Venomance, they're not only is the hero very strong, but I think it fits snaking
really, really well.
He goes through the gate as well, which is a snaking signature.
If he wins lane, he loves to make these lovely rotations to the enemy's lane.
Watermelon man.
So this is a kind of good solution against us.
I mean, you will get some Dispel against the Venomancer, which isn't terrible.
And you're just relatively tanky.
Looks fine.
Isn't it also though, I kind of feel like Parvizion now has to ban out the Ursa,
and they only have one ban in the next phase.
Yeah.
And I'm living some on that front.
Yeah, Venom Ursa is a nasty lane, especially against Tainana, but really, against anything that's melee, you will just kill them 100,000 times.
So, it does open up options like, we haven't seen Huskar that much recently, the hero did get changed quite a bit, you don't have to cauterize Vasa anymore,
you're essentially forced to have Incendiary, so they have the extra damage on Spear, but no Dispel anymore, so, that's a hero that is historically very good against Tainana,
and they do have 18, so, it opens up things like the Huskar, more of these cheesy Falcons picks later on the line, because I agree, I think the Ursa ban is somewhat forced.
Well, the hero we wanted to see on 9th class, Nages Prophet, is eliminated.
Expected Falcons doing their homework.
Yeah, I think there's a lot of good homework across the board.
I mean, look at all these vans from Falcons, they're so targeted.
3 against 9th class.
The funniest thing about Paradis in the spams is I feel like throughout the last 2 years,
you could always open up your draft against Falcons banning these 4 heroes.
Nothing changes throughout the years.
Yeah, it could have been six months ago, we would know.
Or a year ago.
Alright, well there's the Earthsman. Let's see, Paravision...
They knew that that was coming, so they have a plan.
How to deal with what's coming in the rest of the draft.
It is Paravision that have overall last pick,
but indeed it does mean that Falcons on their fourth pick,
they will pick a hero that Paravision has to kind of anticipate.
And that's tough.
It is tough. You have to have a really structurally sound draft going into that pick to the point
where you don't really care what they pick because you've got all your weaknesses stored
up, either you've got a flex or you just have heroes that work really well together.
So even if they have some catcher lane pick, then you're still fine as you go into the
15-20 minute mark. You're strong enough to fight the Tormentor and keep the game solid.
You're thinking about it for quite a while though.
Yeah.
And they're still a jerk hero. I feel like even though the hero has gotten nerfed,
he does a lot by way of securing lanes.
Yeah, we saw a lot of a tusk in the previous game as well
But I would imagine that they might want to get their hero for the callus as that normally is the
The safer more nothing say although that is an ancient operation coming out very very but it does
Just a non-zero chance
Or a potential alchemist that heroes that heroes been trending up and especially if you're a diary safe lane
It does feel easier to connect to those camps that you can now stock since the ancient camp has been removed
Plus Skeeter does love to play stunning safe ladders like the DK's the wraith kings, but I'll just get into that
Castle even senior, but I'd be curious. I guess life-sealer counts as well with all the armlet heroes
Sure, you can combo there. I'm just surprised they spent so much time to pick AA though
Feels like they didn't necessarily plan to be in this drafting position
Yeah, they have their next picks figured out. I feel like already
I mean, Venomancer is historically a hero that's quite good against AA because
well, first of all, you buy auras and you get farm, so you'll have pipe and things like this to survive for the AA blast.
But also, you've got these random snakes over the place you see AA.
You know where the blast is coming from.
AA drafts are typically about the jump of bursting some hero.
And now you have Lunamanta illusions on top of the Venom snakes.
It's not that easy for AA to just see you and blast you and jump you with a stun
because there's all this stuff giving vision, pushing wanes.
And normally A is really punishing against any carry, but Lunican resists the damage by base 20% now, 30 if she buys her shards.
So, just some counter play to the anti-healing. That's coming after.
I mean, I would imagine it's just a somewhat standard 4 right now.
I mean, on Paravision's side, I'm curious to see what 4 they go for.
As a Venomance or Luna is not a lane, you can really pull waves against that easily because if you try to pull, then I was going to gaily you and hit you, he might just sulk kill you.
Honestly, if you try to pull the wave, so...
They're going to need to try to lane it straight up, and a lot of the ranged heroes in the 9th class have been playing, right, the Weaver, Furion and Rubik are all banned, so I'm curious what his 4th string is.
There's always Rubik's D!
There's so many!
Oh, shoot.
Sorry, I got very much distracted.
There's so many.
We're giant.
Oh, it's coming our way.
I can't reach it.
Jump forward.
That guy's nothing.
Take off the headset first.
The Ursprit's kind of interesting for Falcons.
Crit's been playing it through group stage.
It got further buffs since the patch,
but it's very good for pushing people out of position
or pulling an ally to safety.
So it could be really useful against an Ice Blast combo.
What?
Useful against a crab, but plus.
Ooh, it's my combo!
It's back!
Take that!
I'll let Holy... Holy...
We've got... Give me up there right now!
Move over!
It's a wild draft for Paravision.
Here it is.
I'm telling you, these guys, they could not care less about what other people are picking.
AA, Ayo, Lesha would not have predicted any of these three, and it's crazy.
I love that. I love that. They came to play for sure.
Whether it will work out, we'll see.
We know that Falcons is normally one of the more stable teams.
We'll see how they deal with this on the fly.
I mean, it makes the AA look a lot cooler, right?
Because the counter to an Ayo draft would have been an AA,
and the respect that the enemies could have taken about two.
But about Ayo, so Ayo got changes,
and now on his overcharge he gives spell amp.
Before you needed a shard to do that, now you just give a tax feed and spell amp,
so when you're filling with a Lush, that makes that combo even stronger, even earlier.
Yeah, there's no...
The one thing I worry about though is that I worry about their initiator right now,
because their support duo is an AA and an IO, so yeah, Lush can run in, but...
It could be one of those situations where you struggle to, like, land your spells super effectively,
you struggle to have, like, three-man AUEs hitting.
That's what I'm worried about for him.
No, I fully agree. I think it's a great point. And he's like he's also playing as Viper, right?
So it's one of the hardest counters to Tide in the game
Like you said, he's their only jumper with three sort of heroes that want help the one start and Tide has been
Counterpicked in lane by Luna and he's also playing as Viper. So will SSS who's already playing on his first land stage game?
Will he have a good enough game to actually get in and be the initiator that the draft needs?
Is that something like a Tina weakness that you can also make up for in your final pick have a carry that
kind of does similarly. Active early, maybe also pairing well with the IO, gyrocopter
comes to mind. Yeah, that is very possible. It's just you've got this weird balance of
you have to lane against Viper and there's not a lot of carries that want to
lane against Viper. The ones that do tend to not be the space making ones, they
tend to be the hyper carries that have the longer range or to have some some
a mechanic to abuse Viper.
Holy crap, that was fast.
Racious.
As an American, that noise is not good.
That was crazy.
Oh, I got one! I got one!
Oh no, I'm stuck.
Yeah, I think they'll carry for paravisions
in a bit of a tough position anyway
because it's Viper and Earth Spirit.
Like that AA is basically gonna feed.
Whoa, wait!
Damn, she hit it so hard her headset fell off.
I'm sorry about that.
I lacked it good though.
Yeah, I could have owned it.
Look at the team fight from Thalgan.
The same king looks excellent here.
You got a Quinn? No?
Oh, I don't know.
There's an updraft that's going the wrong way, guys.
That's a workout.
Sand King. Cool.
I gotta get this one.
The rest talk about the travel.
We're just doing more important stuff.
Like I was mentioning, this Parisian carry is going to have a tough time regardless of what you pick,
because AA cannot withstand a Viper and Earth Spirit lane.
So, it's either you go for something like a ranged carry and the two potential ranged carries
that would have been good are already banned out in Medusa and in Terrorblade with his Metamorphosis.
Now it's just kind of like, you have to dig deep into your pockets.
You have to even think about like, do I want to play Faceless Void?
Are we going really old school?
What kind of melee hero who can provide sun can sustain on lane versus Viper?
Yeah, this is a very, it's a very risky draft of Iolash. This combo, if it gets online, is incredibly powerful.
But if you fall behind, you're running into a pipe, you're running into Viper with innate magic damage,
you're running into a lot of heroes that have a way to kite you and space you to get away from that edict,
which is most of Iolashwak's damage. So if you're not ahead in this game on Iolashwak, you can run into big-time problems.
It's surprising that Falcons still wanted to have the one minute of extra time they didn't
end up using it.
That's another balloon that pops.
I don't know how much that translates to the microphone, but all viewers at home, that's
what it is.
We have a Naga Siren carry coming out.
Pops?
They had to do something weird here because they were looking for a carry that works
full with IO, but also lanes okay that isn't...
There's a lot of AWD damage on the Falcons side, so I feel like delusions are going
to die, but that's what they need to do.
They need to avoid fights, they need to do song setups and to relocate, I think it's the right way to go for this game.
I mean, Static loves this hero. Ever since this hero got changed, he hasn't really been able to play it that often, but he is one of the best non-assiren players in the world.
And when you look at the wave shove that this hero provides for Paravision, the on-the-side of weapons is not that easy to address it.
Like, Metamaster's quite slow and doesn't enjoy moving from lane to lane. He likes to just kind of establish a base on the side of the map.
Earth Spirit doesn't do much by way of Wave Shove as well, so you're gonna be dependent on your Sand King
plus your Luna to push out these lands. You have to be able to deal with the Naga ghost push if you're gonna make any moves.
So it does give them a bit of a map advantage in that sense.
Yeah, there's definitely pros and cons to it.
It's traditionally quite bad against both Sand King and Luna because they can't get both good at pushing out the waves
and you don't really do that much to the Luna naturally by his Mantis.
You can purge the net, but it's great against the other three heroes, and so it's a mixed bag.
I think Paravision Draft is very odd, very cookie, but there is some validity to this Naga Siren.
But I do think the burden of execution is on Paravision to play better this game and to be very clean or it came tough.
We start in case of Paravision with the pressure on SSS and 9th class.
9th class is playing in IO this game, which is not your typical like, oh my gosh, I'm going to do crazy things by myself.
And as it says on a Titan Hunter, which is very solid, but those ults do matter a lot.
How do we feel like they'll do with these two in particular?
I think Nanklas is going to do his best, but he's paired up with a hero that can be slowed by like three different targets.
So I'm worried that they're not going to get to outmaneuver their opponents as well as they want to.
They need to split up the enemy squads so that the Lechra can snowball slowly.
They need to not get super out-laned by the Viper. It's going to be an uphill battle, I think.
That's the one lane that I'm really concerned about is that AA plus Naga lane, I feel like Naga is going to have to hit the jungler really early,
but I'm excited to see what 9 classes are going to do on the IO because I feel like IO and Lesh, with the new changes to IO and Lesh and Bloodstone,
can really do a lot this game. Like if they start snowballing, it might be hard to deal with for Falcons.
Yeah, I mean it's some fancy tech, I think SSS is the sacrificial lamb this game and they're setting up Nolan for success,
So they've chosen who their superstars are in this game.
It's known and satanic, the classics on the team.
And as success, we'll have to keep smiling right now.
It's a good sign.
I'd love to stock it up and play for a little bit
of a later timing.
Yeah, we're talking about Ayo and Leshka being able to set
a high tempo.
Naga is traditionally not the hero that joins high tempo
games.
I don't feel like that's going to match up,
or is that just going to buy more time for the Naga
Siren?
I think it is a buying time sort of thing.
Nagasara is interesting because the hero is a hard carry in some ways, but also doesn't scale the best
So she forms for like 15-20 minutes gets her timing and then she wants to help her team
Okay, we're gonna find out game one
Falcons versus Paravision elimination on the line. Let's see who takes the lead here with game one
Two ESL 1 champions on either's pride!
A TI Championship winning team!
Hershey's a TI Championship winning coach!
Parivision versus Valkyries!
There's been a lot of questions about the Parivision roster.
It seems like our panel had even more questions about their drafts.
I think both these teams have a lot of questions.
answered as well in terms of what is your form right now these two teams stood out
to me in this tournament in terms of coming in with a lack of confidence and
trying to build it up here trying to run the gauntlet especially from the
position there and in this lower bracket this is where it all starts for these
two squads one of these is going to be really disappointed in this event
right because I think the expectations for both these squads are we want to
win we're here to win another DSL one we're here to stack that trophy
room with that another first place. It's gonna be a long road for both these teams.
Yeah absolutely especially under the the guys of a new patch having to battle
through all of that make sure that you're ahead of the meta when it comes to
the rest of the teams. It feels like Falcons have picked up what is a little
bit more stock standard from what we seen from the first couple of days
while party vision opting for pulling back the IO less rack which has a
lot of potential here especially with some of the new items coming into
playing the Naga siren carry though that one fell out of left field for me I do
not see why they picked this year does give you a lot of map pressure to play
with maybe you're concerned about the lanes coming in who's gonna push the
lanes out set up for some of the relocate games who's gonna help you
around the Roche pit you really want to get an ages on the slush rack as many
times as you can and just play through him though I will agree maybe the
Naga doesn't help your ILS draft the most directly I think it can
indirectly help set the map and set the stage for this ILS to shine you
You have to imagine this combo is pretty terrifying with the new Bloodstone coming in.
You put a Sheeva's on top, Ios giving you Spell Amp, he's giving you Heal, he's giving
you some Attack Speed.
There's a lot of buffs coming out from this hero.
You have the Equilibrium now as well, so you're giving more damage output when he's
full, more Heal when he's low.
You kind of have to pick your poison with this hero.
9-Class could definitely be the X-Factor in this game.
That said, look at this Falcon's line of depth, so many signature heroes.
It's kind of disgusting, and all of these signature heroes are disgusting.
Veno and Viper on the same team. How dirty can you get here?
We have the return of that Maureen San King that was an absolute menace at TI.
There's a lot of firepower in this lineup. Like I'm just looking at this lineup. You have IOSH,
a pair that has to run into them. You have to get close. You have to get on top of them,
deal the DPS. Is this a lineup you want to run head on into?
It looks miserable. It does look miserable. We talked a lot about how Falcons coming into this
tournament. It seemed to me that they came into this tournament saying,
We're just going to go back to what has made us successful.
Absolutely.
And, you know, if it works, it works.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
And then you have this new patch coming into play.
And I felt like this would give teams like Valkyries
who already have the structure in place
an advantage over everybody else, right?
It's more of a question of what does this patch allow us to do
within our skill sets, rather than what's good.
I would agree.
I think that's why they're busting out to these heroes
that they're super comfortable with,
but we haven't seen in a long time.
Right, it's almost independent of the note.
Maybe they're good, maybe they're not,
but hell, we're gonna play Leipzig for the 8,500 in a row,
and they're gonna bust out that Crit Earthspear,
which to me is one of his signature heroes.
Very cool to see him back on this
because it has been a long time
since I've seen Crit bust this hero out on land.
And this goes back to, you know,
like Manila Major seven years ago,
when he was playing this hero as an absolute beast.
One of the best four position Earthspear
to ever play this game.
You know, they're of course Jarax,
but somewhere you're probably smiling right now.
Let's see how much we can get done with this hero.
It's looking pretty successful in the last patch.
I have to imagine he could do some similar things here.
Got some small buffs to get a little more stones early now.
Old puzzles, a little more damage.
Be curious what items he goes for, but if he can get the levels,
he's so much locked out for a lineup that just has a insane amount of damage to output,
as long as you can keep heroes close by.
What do you think about this deadmatch?
I'm not necessarily his heroes, but his players.
No one versus Maury.
I feel like these are two different styles of In-Hooks.
It's like old school versus new school, right?
You have Maulry who does all these lane shenanigans,
abuses the stack, and you have no one who's more of a traditional.
I'm just gonna beat you in the isolated one-on-one mid
and try and play for some of those better matchups
as some of his cheese heroes like the Sniper and Boker as well.
Maulry, you kinda share some of that pool,
but also doesn't play a lot of those traditional spellcasters,
whereas no one will.
No one getting the better of him here early
with the ranged hero against the melee.
I think this draft is centered around no one a lot more.
See if that comes into play, Skeeter, he's very low, getting low, Glaives trying to keep
him alive, but it's not class to snipe out the first flood.
At level 2 into the Spirit, it's maybe not expecting the extra damage coming in, you
gush him, you hit it with the Spirit, you run him down.
It's high up, getting some aggressive action done for Farry here early in.
I mean, they're kind of cruising away with a triple lane victory.
These lanes are not going Falcons way, whereas you invested a lot into the early
here with the Viper and the Venom on your two side lanes.
If you're okay with losing because it's a Sand King,
you can always recover, you can always make those come back.
Maury might be in some trouble here, pop the glyph to try and keep this Sand King out of position.
I'm even able to kill the creep away, and no one just cleans them up with the dive ball,
getting easily.
You won the Century battle. He places the Century, goes to the kill.
There's a Century now on the Sand King, but if you get that Fishing Control early,
you can go for the kills on the Serenade.
It's super valuable, super important to try and shut them down in the lane.
You do not want to end up in a situation where Malory disappears to the jungle.
You don't see him for five minutes and he comes out the highest network you're only doing.
Hey, I'm kind of surprised Malory hasn't done any pulling of the lanes and I played it straight up, yeah.
See how many stacks they build for him as well.
You got to start thinking about these stacks with team in terms of like you removed that other
ancient camp. If you stack ancients for the sand can you give it to him?
Is this Luna gonna have anything to play for?
I love that Noah just gets him this entry.
He says, that's fine. I'm gonna get double water rings. So you come back in full resources. Well, I'm gonna be full resources, too
He's almost a level ahead. You could absolutely go for that kill at six.
I think this IO is also a pretty nice response to the Venom because to me Venom is one of the most dangerous laners right now in the patch
The fact that you can go 1-1-0, 1-1-1 and just have so much damage to pour into enemies
It's very difficult to trade against. IO is a traditional counter to this hero. You just sit there
you sustain, you buy an early headdress, we saw a 9 class rush it here.
It's a lot of regen over time, just helps you get through this early DPS.
Like Snaking's, his impact's been a bit muted here, and if you don't win the lane early
with the Venom, the offlaners can oftentimes run away with it.
You have a great pipefire in this hide, there's some sustain in this line of it, looks pretty
good for them.
They're getting low and he's going to take out here, find the Falcons, find
a win here, they're off lane.
The Viper begins to cook.
This lane has really strong kill threat if you're going to leave the Naga alone.
You see the A going mid, so to cause you have to make up for it.
With something here,
you're following off of the creep wave, they do have a catapult timing mid.
Power room coming up in 30 seconds.
And Great, it's already here with the catapult rotation too, so that'd be playing Flash, whatever it's going to be.
It's kind of hard to fight this Rune for Falcon, so if you don't have that in the center, the little track is already level 6.
The IO can also just TP into mid or walk to mid and tether into the slash.
Right, he could have stick charges. He already has a Lotus. There's a lot of extra HP they can pump into the disco pony here
Not an easy power room for Falcons
I think you just can see this entirely maybe quick tries to roll in and steal it
Yeah, if it ends up being away from the last track, but it is not in the regen room
That's the last with an aisle and the regen room. He is damn scary on the map right now
The sustained mechanics part you're gonna have in this game is it's gonna be an issue for Falcons
They don't have a lot of burst damage early a lot of the early game damage magnetized the Viper GPS the Venom DPS
You want to kill heroes over time? They just stay all in they actually try for something here
But crit he whiffs it and he just makes a run
But he's just gonna get a run down by the dive ball key. He tries to go for the kickback
It doesn't really work now Maureen is left alone
We'll see what party vision wants to do here to they keep pressuring this myth. Oh, yeah
You're free to run wisdom shrine. You're the region running on the left
so you absolutely just dive here and force the sinking out.
There's gonna be a lot of tower damage if Falcons are unwilling to bring the supports back into mid here.
Yeah, look at no one. Just zoning them out, not letting them get back into the tower and hit a good standstorm.
Just on mid tower gone.
I like the support rotation for Kari. They know who they're playing through this game.
And they know that Falcons are not going to want to respawn here.
Their spirit does not want to roll into this mess mid.
And the battle went to jungle, which, by the way...
...is jungle.
Not gonna be jungleing for long, and easily run down by party vision.
This is getting a little out of control.
This is a lot of extra gold and experience for no one early.
A lot of extra experience for the high, too.
Sometimes you can get a little level star, so the fact you're getting kills, he's already level 5.
Especially since they didn't do any stacking for the titan or anything like that.
Now, circling around, catching Skeeter from behind.
Skeeter, not seeing this one coming.
Slow down for the lightning, it is easily run down again, again, falkings!
It feels like they gotta wake up!
This is a sleepy start for sure.
I mean, that was the rotation that just went through mid, you saw that coming.
Then it ran through the jungle, okay, maybe that was a bit of a surprise, but...
They already took mid tower, like where else are they gonna go?
Exactly.
It's also really easy to rotate, take in, do you have this tide getting to level 6?
If the loot is there, you just ravage them into some kill.
Sure.
Super straightforward.
Even nine classes actually farmed some of the
Snack neutrals on the falcon side. It's about that reload. Yeah, this is an insane lead
This is one of the largest things we've seen on this new patch. This game is snowballing incredibly fast. Falcons lost three lanes
They lost early tier one
And you the echoing out again. They're trying to show up at lane. They ravaged him. Honestly was it even necessary?
They had him dead to right. Barre Pusion, they could do anything they want in this game right now
Now, a 5000 net worth leader at 8 and a half minutes, your reload is online.
I mean, your IO is almost higher level than your Naga.
That is how much this pair has gotten done early.
Yeah, gotta eat that fish.
Oh, killed a fish.
Yeah, okay.
Great, he doesn't like fish, you know?
I guess not.
He's a meat man, I felt lost value, I should bless him.
And I think that it really sucks for Falcons because one of their strongest heroes is this Viper,
but I feel like Leshrac, Io, when you're ahead like that,
a relatively mobile hero like Viper
is gonna be very easy for them to run down.
Digi sort of set up in a reload cage,
he's just kinda screwed.
Yeah, look at the stats.
They're here for party, they're not there for falcon.
Zero stacking done on that triangle.
So an even larger gold injection
and the entire time you're playing
around all this mid-action,
your Naga just sits bottom.
It's a great hero to put against Viper.
Viper can do nothing against Naga in the back use.
Sure.
She just sends illusions to the wave,
clears that out. There's nothing for Amar to hit bottom. He's sitting in an empty lane.
Same guys, I would like to fight right now. I'm barely strong. And all I see are Naga illusions
for the last five minutes here. This does hurt Satanic's experience a little bit, but
he's super chill. You may not have to interact with this game the way the early game is
going.
I'm in a power room looking for something juicy on this Sanke. My room's kind of
only way to get Maureen online right now otherwise it's waiting for the blink
dagger but it's an arcane rune bottom another one scooped up for no one in
arcane rune at that he's got some nice early runes here
as an early shawl to just straight into the concentrated wraps he's going to be
very tanky with the extra magic resist iobuffing him up I think if nine
class gets to a mech here before how this can make a move on to no one he
if he comes invincible, I'll read he can't sit underneath his own century.
The other century just outside of range of it.
Yeah, this y'all is going to be nasty.
I feel like they're the consecrated rap.
The early meta of this is going to be some of these heroes like
Leshrac who really take advantage of that tankiness that this item provides.
Or because it does feel like a bit over two.
So anybody who just does damage through the tank is really better.
Our wraps are going to see this item a lot this event.
The early EHP it gives you is insane ass rotations here from Falcons this bottom lane
It's a nine-class no one smoke. They didn't find anything
They are now gonna go through the game
So it's be a little careful here as barry not overextending into a falcons turn around because they do have a lot of a we they can put
Into a clumped aisle pair
No, absolutely. This is very sneaky maneuver and breaks a little bit too far away though
So Masked Man is popped in full movement speed to get on out of there.
And no gap quote.
Downside of not going that old bling flesh build.
Sure.
Making solo plays like that's a little difficult, but you're farming so much, you're scaling
so well here.
And the net does not land, there's an A.O. down.
Oh, the mar.
Maybe he had an opportunity for a kill there.
But Falcons playing pretty skittish.
Oh, again, you have to think about this reload.
Yeah.
Once on these heroes, there's a song that could potentially come out, there's a reload that can come into that play, Tidehunter, P.P.'s.
That fight doesn't look as appetizing. They're eye-nuff triple.
This guy has 2,000 HP.
It's a hard kill to get.
And on the Power Room 2, it's not gonna spawn there. They kick him back into the Sand King, and hit with Vyper Strike.
He's broken, but he did manage to get the Glesne just in time to get off a good ravage that completely halts Fountain's momentum there.
They will still be left on one kill.
Maybe Stanky ain't Hollis.
Did these damage over time?
Look at it, DeCullis.
The Mars gonna join him.
Alright, they do manage to get a kill.
That's something.
Something around this mid lane.
Bringing a lot of heroes to get a power rune to the Sand King.
This should finish up Maureen's Blink here.
I mean, nice for Maureen, but I don't think the hard vision is a whole or completely
unconcerned about that.
Oh, they're just farming on the low track.
Yeah.
Almost surprising.
I didn't reload.
We're actually considering how well this early game is going.
But again, when you look at what they're farming around the map right now, the Nog is clearing
out bottom, the tide is continuously farming those ancient camps in the Isle of Lesher
playing top, so they're utilizing the map a lot more efficiently right now.
Still need to magnetize on Crit too, he is.
Oh man, still not level 6 in 13 minutes.
There's a couple creeps off.
No no no, it hasn't happened very often.
And here it comes.
There's teams here, into relocate, so Amar is going to be surrounded and Crit
really can't pull heroes far enough away. In fact, he's just gonna give up an extra kill.
Two-parre vision to now hit that off-lane tower.
Very clunky early in to say the least here for Falcons.
Just unsure of where they're supposed to make the move traditionally.
You would go into this fight for lane where Mars creates some pressure,
threatening to take the tower.
There's the Raps for you, Canada.
He's just gonna be run down.
Nine-class, nice body blocking.
They don't really have to blow much of anything here.
And that's the mech done for the isle, the wraps are done for the ledge, so your EHP just went through the loop.
Even if you get this magnetized, are you gonna be able to kill anybody?
Yeah, if you get to the pipe on SSN, they put it all together, then epicenter and magnetize and all of that magic damage may just be a flood of whimper.
You might get to a point where you're gonna just sit there and face tank it for 10 seconds and then start the fight and maybe still win.
Call us to try and just sneak something there.
14-0 with Utrechtron.
Alright, Falcons are going to smoke. They've had enough of how this game is going right now.
They need to find something. They also need to allow a Marta push in bottom lane without getting reloading,
which means you kind of have to go to this fight pulling right now.
It may have moved to this side of the map before, and it's hard, but it's a big damage.
Oh, they're going to break on St. Tannick here, and St. Tannick trying to activate the phone.
Got off the epicenter, chaining up the stun, nope, the match has dodged, but it's still enough.
They have enough AWP to be able to cover the Naga Siren for sure, especially as she's below.
That is a beautiful fight. That relieves so much pressure in this game right now.
You get a good core connection and it's on the slip-raised hero.
They're trying to get the map right now, but look at what Baibishen are doing.
They're playing for Greek right now. They're going to glip up the tower, TP in, go through the gate.
Here comes an ice blast on its way to, and Amar has already been caught out.
He's going to die. He's just going to try and slow down these heroes as best as possible.
possible. Falcons get to take a tier 1 tower at 15 minutes.
They brought 5 heroes bottom, they get the core kill and still
rebuked on the map. She can't open up the map control.
The lead continued to grow. There'll be another tier 1
papari. The pipe is done. So that's going to complete your early
survivability trifecta here. And how far do you take this?
Like you just run around his floor, right? And just lid the Naga Siren, clean up the lane.
No, I think you want to keep the high-olush pair farming.
You're either setting stuff up with the tide re-loaning in, or you're just threatening
people with the high-olush or letting the tide fall.
But you definitely don't want dog in any of this, and you want to keep pushing the
waves in as much as possible.
Back to crit.
Maybe we can get a roll away, he is fine.
It's not even like Fire Division where really each and for that kill too much,
they just want to keep the lanes pushed in.
in these falcons heroes, keeps them always guessing. Just got to force heroes off the
map right here. At least Naking got to parry side of the map.
Forward from Maury, gets the other side of the Tidehunter and does manage to get the
amp damage, he relocated on him too, so he manages to force out or relocate. Parry
vision, that fights, nothing. Not too bad here. It's a little bit of space, a nice
power rune, especially for a level 2 ulti that he's half a level away from. That
would be a nice little timing if he can get there. Yeah, if he can farm it, and
two minutes. Snaking is farming on their side of the map which is at least give you some
equilibrium here. They're ready to go to farm right now. Yeah that is the issue. I mean
five of these are taking every bit of map you got.
Oh my god. Okay well even the Neutrals hate Falcons apparently. Snaking no luck today but
it's going to be an epicenter though they don't have a relocate to be able to bail
out the Lush Rack so he's definitely going to die here surrounded by heroes. He tries to
I'm asking that old skank out of it, it's gonna be long enough!
The second though, not quite good enough.
Triple S rides, just a tad bit too late to take advantage of the situation.
They will get Maureen though, okay.
So they still find another kill off of it.
Even when Balkans strike in parry vision, and seemingly have an advantage,
they still trade two for three.
They threw everything onto that IOLash and...
You looked a little convincing.
I mean, better than I thought, given how much survivability they have early.
The pipe came in late, so that helps Balkans a lot there.
Just able to power through the survivability with everybody joining that exchange.
That's kind of what it takes right now.
You get a decent amount of gold out of it.
Not the worst outcome with that anti-image room.
Of course, you're not going to win this fight overall.
Let's move on to that.
We are going to see that constant spread from the Venomancer.
Put everything on the I.O. then it's spread over to the Leshrac.
That'll feel pretty decent, but...
The fact that it took him so long to get through the ledge right that last bit of like 300 HP, he almost did die, the pipe came in.
Almost keeps him alive there.
Imagine if Triple S has a blink dagger, which he is so close to, right?
In that same situation, he's hitting a ravage and they're getting even more kills out of that.
Satanic, he went the orchid, so he's gonna create a threat of his own with this Naga.
If you're just trying to push a wave out as a support or something, he's gonna solo kill you on that side of the map.
It's going to be very nice and playing on the same side as the Luna who yet to have the Manta.
So there is actually a potential kill there for the next like 30 seconds, but a lot of problems to solve in this game.
You're Falcons right now. You have to take her shot, put your force and power the slush even more.
This game has been going so fast, spiraling so fast, and you can't believe it.
Not even 20 minutes yet.
Any anti-healing you can build as falcons is gonna be mega value here. So you have a vessel on the Venom
Soon, you're gonna want to get a Scotty on Luna in this game at some point. It's just you're so poor on Skeeter
That is but a dream right now. Yeah, it's going for the Ags next to a full combo up with the same king
kind of hauling play. Yeah
Trying to take one or two heroes down at the very start of the fight.
Zag's LUNA sneaker hitter miss, snagging, dying to LUNA, get out of there brother.
Again the map control that these heroes are putting out individually.
So let's keep in part of the advantage here though the lead has gone flat a little bit and stagnated.
That falcon's efficiency even in the tight quarters they're able to find a decent amount of farm here.
They're really just looking for Sanke and Agz that's the biggest lighter for falcons to try
I'm trying to turn this game, take a great team fight where party clump, maybe around
Tormentor, maybe on Rosh, you go in with a massive epicenter magnetize, you can chunk
some of these heroes down.
Alright, Craig picks up a blink dagger, what's the game plan here for Falcon?
I don't think you want to make a move without that same king, alright so I'm just chilling
right now, I think you have to give up this Tormentor.
I guess I'm asking why didn't you pick up blink dagger?
Is he going to be doing the blink kickback?
Is he trying to break his tether? Is he just trying to isolate a target?
It's about being able to go in from a super long range away, kick that hero back, roll on top of him.
It's kind of like that traditional boxy air spirit play we've seen over the last month or two.
Isolate a target, be able to burst him down, and force Parry to chase that hero in,
which in theory could force him to clump a little bit more, maybe set up some piece of the sanking.
If you can break the tether and isolate the IO-Lash force with that pair up,
that could be really nice. I think that's going to be a little much to ask for,
but it is clear spirit, so...
Maybe he will find a very clutch opening here.
There it's that axe on Maureen,
so this is definitely going to be a true test of how powerful this tanking actually is.
Level 2 epicenter with an agonim scepter,
but you're down 10k against a very tanky lineup.
They have a lot. They just got the bloodstone on the left too.
They just got wraps on the IO too. They have triple wraps.
Yeah. Essence Rage, pretty disgusting.
Consecrated wraps on 9 class. He is super tanky.
This is a lot of magic resists to play into.
Gonna have to hit a sick combo here.
If you're barry, just take everything right.
Start taking tier 2s with the Naga solo, go into the roach, take it quickly,
get a little bit of minus armor to put into that.
You can go early high ground here if you really want to just damage test this.
Yeah, for sure.
Hey, we don't believe you have the DPS to take us down,
especially if you put an Aegis on the ledge.
Just go high ground with Eda.
So I'm putting the pressure on Falcons to respond early here and don't let them do their usual map shenanigans.
I don't like that. I don't see what parry vision you choose to do because that's not really the game plan for Siren in the first place.
So are they going to play more for what the Lestrak feels like they can do or what's Satanic?
I think you play for the Lestrak. I think you should always be playing for the Lestrak in this lineup.
They were threatening the Roche. Falcons, they do respond with that Sanking timing.
Nobody in the pit they're gonna scan the high ground which hits might be wasted smoke
Beating with the illusion. Okay, that's a good playing and just get the anchor out of dribble s
Nothing more
Another nice power in bottom two if you can score it here over the mints
You get it on the same thing. All right, that's something
Now we wait. Wait to see if our addition are going to force the Roshan, which I just don't
think they're the kind of team to do that. I don't like they have to either. Yeah, much
more likely they just play the map until they feel like Falcons is out of position
enough to either get a pick-off or do Roshan without them contesting. You're gonna build
a golden gear with the Nagasire being able to consume so much on our own. Man,
He's still haven't given up that safe lane tower. It's deniable, but it's 23 minutes Falcon shut out of objectives
No, it's your one tower for you. I agree with keeping this up. By the way, this is a tower that
Is honestly a little scary to go and try and last it when you get real long
I assume staking will go down here at some point just drop a playboard or something
You can have that safe late words really scattered out ahead of time the other way they're being at a hundred
so there's a way for somebody to
Down here try and score some free gold
That's a big items on the menu as well you get the BKB on last she's gonna be
Super tanky on that front line butterfly for Naga same thing. You're just upping the HP even more
And of course, you know a classic little heart on the aisle if you can get there as my class that would be here
That'd be quite what you're ready
You think that's a stronger now in this new aisle
right now going damage application closer to full health it shouldn't matter
right sure yeah I guess you're playing for the damage pretty nice yeah
definitely a damage problem here looks beyond so I feel like if you get some
parts on my own a competitive game I don't know what your odds are but they've
Got me pretty good.
Yep.
For Garmin to the path.
I got him.
80%.
Maureen, company orchid has a haste rune,
but will not be able to use it here.
Mass rotations from parry vision, and that's the sign.
They finally found the opening.
And full out for Roshan.
Yeah, but the bottom tier one claimed by the Viper.
The bigger prize on us are Falcons.
ETP'd for Revenge for his tier one tower.
They're going to come back in with the relocate ETP in.
And then the Roshan path.
That is really surprising, your falcons actually do it while they're all laying on a mar, this is kind of a weird situation that falcons have found themselves in, I just don't have the damage for it.
Yeah, who's gonna do it here?
Oh, Luna?
Yeah, Axluna?
Yeah, Axluna, yeah, you don't really have the best physical damage to do so.
No threat, I guess, from falcon stealing it away.
I mean, I think we all knew someone was gonna die on this bottom tier one, somebody had to pay the price, but you have to claim a talent.
You can't lose this game without claiming a tier one.
That's just too embarrassing
Well, it's gonna switch over to the other side which is where party vision already is so
Honestly, not a bad death if you're going to die for this hour because it stopped the Roche
Maybe now you have another chance to contest it here. Yeah
Maybe the biker's not up in time
I think you have to contest it though
You just don't have a better comeback opportunity in this game than already clumping around that pit as scary as the fight is
It's kind of awkward that this whole Roshan, throwing away the Lesser Rack and stuff, has just slowed down to play significantly.
This fight is super split in terms of where heroes are though. Falcons are like, trying to approach it from three different angles at the same time from the back, but Harrier knocked Klump.
They're not overplaying their hand right now. They're really respecting the T-fight.
They just let no one step in the pit with a BKB and he's going to take the Roshan, grab the Aegis, no response whatsoever from Falcons, if anything, they're going to be the ones to lose heroes here.
Okay, here goes the epicenter. They're going for the IO where they can. The clips goes off, but the damage is being split, and I'm lost.
Look at how tanky is. He's gonna relocate away.
He crits, comes in, hits him with the stun, but doesn't matter if you stop the IO.
But you lose every single one of your heroes.
It is absolutely not worth it. They aren't gonna be able to get the Aegis out of the Lush Wreck. That's one.
But, your damage is dead.
Yeah. You've lost all of your damage. It's just the Viper left in this case.
This case four step forward from staking. That is a dieback for the captain of a falcon's five position goes down yet again
And our vision now up 17k
That might be the nail in the coffin on this one. The survivability is way too high
You threw everything on an aisle and you walked it off
That is pretty disgusting that is the amount of heal that's coming out from the slide up the amount of buffs
You have that Naga song going off as well, which is stopping heroes coming in also healing them up
then you're getting the double heal on the Lash.
The Lash is completely untouched in the majority of this fight.
Yeah, like you're able to bring him down, but he's still doing so much damage.
Now his cores are basically out of control.
Maybe if you give me a move there, I can kind of see that fight come together.
You can stand your ground a little bit?
Yeah, maybe.
This feels more than likely, especially with the extra life. You're just gonna run out of time.
Yeah, so I think, like, yeah, you get him the first time, but the second time, he has three rings.
Look how much they committed. Double Oldsmen, even the Venomancer Oldsmen ends up getting spread over the 9th class.
But they kinda wasted the Lush BKB.
That's kinda the stat thing for it over here. That doesn't really matter.
Like, he's like, okay, I'm just gonna throw the life away. You can put all of your core damage onto me after 20 seconds
and buy them the fights over.
And when Snakey shows up, he still doesn't have any spells.
Throw him all around in the first life, bought back, came back and didn't have much.
Oh, see Hanok? He's gonna stop him. Real fast reaction from Alreda. At least get a bro strike.
And he's a prayer, especially with the neutrals potentially stopping up. But there's the dustbin relocate of nine class.
That little fog will almost save them.
That's the hero he...
Well, I guess he didn't deserve.
And it was way more than he needed. Way less than he needed.
Well, BKB next for Luna, but it feels like you're so far behind in item timings, you get to that, but then, Satanic is, he's coming online.
Like, the Lestrak is still the biggest threat, but his siren is creeping up.
Feel more wraps when you throw them?
Yeah, that's kinda what it looks like right now.
That's all I'm learning from this game.
Nice hit from Zecalus.
Let's get the kill.
Oh, I'm stinking.
Triple S.
Bang! There's a fat Tidehunter.
Maluna's gonna die like this!
Dude, come on.
It's just way too easy right now.
22 kills, 22,000 net worth lead.
There is seemingly nothing that is stopping Partyvision from taking this game one,
and no one is gonna slay just that.
Goes up to high ground brazenly.
He's got Shielder in the bottle too.
Right. In case you needed some more tankiness here.
Yeah.
He hits mid, satanic,
Hill at top and these tier 3s are gonna be chipped away in the 35 seconds. The Luna still needs to come back alive
Rolled that partisan brand too, so
More spell damage and mystical for magic resist. He's doing more. He's tanky morphs
He was at 54 60% magic resistance in the fight. Ravage just catches three before they even get the Luna back out of play
They're trying to keep this fight for out of play for party vision
We'll actually manage to keep them alive.
Something gets your Luna back here with everybody alive.
Oh, your axe is gone.
Yeah, one lane of Erics.
Five seconds left for Luna and partners to say art.
Little bit of reset.
And if they want, they can just play the map.
They have Scotty on the Naga Siren.
She is getting very tanky over 3000 HP with the wraps as well.
Art is at level 20 for the extra illusion.
It's even more wave cutting, more map control.
Satanic sending illusions to all three lanes here directly outside falcon's base basically saying if you don't do something
This map is over for you
DKB for nine class there's no way they can kill him now
I would have opted for the heart you know style
Stylish yeah, I guess what you got puppy on the team now. Yeah, you got to watch the crazy
Let's see, I think it's a screw.
Shard for the IO.
Little bit more damage and some more healing to the IO.
I think I've got everything I need.
He's got a DKD, he can't actually kind of play frontline.
Oh, he's just gonna go in.
Absolutely no doubt about it.
All right, Falcons, what kind of miracle hold
are you gonna put together here?
Otherwise, this game is gonna be closing out at 35
because Vardation's not gonna wait for another Roshan.
No, it's just gonna keep it going, no need for an Aegis.
just keep sending it down the lanes here.
Gotta look for some sort of clutch kickback,
isolate a hero.
Cause there is no Aegis right now,
so you can just fall in first one of these fours,
particularly the Lesh,
take the big DPSer out of the fight.
That's a big condition.
You can always get relocated out though.
That's another option.
It's like the Viper has to put the threat
on the Lesh track and then somehow either
the Earth Spirit or the Sanking
have to intercept the IO.
You can't, right?
Those are the relocated out.
just BKB real. Yeah it's true. There's nothing that stops that play on the no
one so I'm surprised they didn't force the fight there. They don't know it but
there's a timing coming here very small ones are Falcons but they finish up the
agonist separate on the Viper and then it's gonna be the BKB for the Luna.
How do you find a fight though? That's the Naga problem this game. Falcons
have never been able to force an engagement unless part are willing to
to give it to them. Yeah. Just not killing waves forever until
sorry hit their timings and they force the issue. You don't
want to fight then you give up more objectives you fall farther
behind your catch on the map against the Naga is just so
pitiful that you can't regain any of these camps during your
map control. It's a very very strong Naga pick in a
vacuum. It's almost so debilitating for Falcons to
play against. It doesn't really matter what it's doing
for part. It just makes Falcon game impossible to play.
He's quite farm here. Some nice CS, almost 600 CS for the game.
Sure, he's adoring himself. This is every carry player's dream.
That's true. 30,000 net worth at 32 minutes on the main stage.
Feels pretty good. Hard up next for him.
Oh, C.G. moving to top.
Yeah, our vision is just seeing if they can sneak a pick off
and take yet another objective away from Falcons.
I want to come deal with this illusion.
No one's going to show up with this fresh sight device
and immediately the ravage to try and stop the Urspirit pullback.
It does need to get him out of the Ice Blast, but does it matter?
There is plenty of damage.
Comes to party vision, full squad.
Damage, one or two spells. It doesn't really matter.
Plenty more where it came from.
Nice little surprise game through the stop lane.
Don't even give Falcons an opportunity to stop now.
Take a stable engagement, now you get one lane more to go.
Roast spawn, potentially 20 seconds here, I don't know what that is.
Yeah, the parties don't even have to go back.
All the lanes have been so well controlled that this bottom lane was pushed into the tier 2 already.
No one take that.
And in quick succession, let's poke at the high ground.
Now, why do not they send me?
It's like you said, there's no way to spike right off in a game like this.
Oh, he went for the kickback, the ball got it!
Oh, they're nearly gonna be sliced by stand! Here comes the epicenter, trying to do what they can!
Nightclust, he's actually gonna live it low with the BKB being committed, but look at the damage that comes out from the Leshrac and Satanic's Naga Siren.
They easily overwhelm the Falcon's heroes as they push into a crit.
We'll try and kid-smaking the safety, not even that!
is going to work for you.
Triple S just going to gobble up more and more of the fish.
They buy back where they came, but the damage is done.
Megas are almost here, blinked in,
burrow strike, no damage behind it whatsoever.
They try and hit a magnetized immediately.
The side device on the Viper.
Amar, the only damage dealer they've got.
Hurricane Pike managing to push away from the stun,
but he can't stop.
Satanic will just run him down.
A gone-like spree to clean it up,
But it's the IO LESH track that took over this game one.
That was a disgusting game.
That was just like a formal execution of the back, right?
We're not even gonna let you play Dota.
We're gonna run you over with a stronger, faster mid-tempo.
We're gonna control the early towers, the early runes.
We're gonna create space for a carry
that makes the map impossible to play
because you just don't have the cores
that can stand on the lanes to shove it back out.
Extremely well executed.
Maybe not the most exciting game
for like a teamfight standpoint or big plays,
but in terms of how to win a game, how to control map, control farm, be more efficient, create the invisible threat on the map, right?
Because you're always afraid of this reload coming in. You see a tight solo mid, you're afraid of what he can set up.
There's these phantoms stalking Falcons that game. They can't overcome it.
And Falcons, they got all their signatures, but it doesn't work in game one. Where do they go now?
Well, now they go to the back of the ropes because that's where they are. It's a crazy game from Paravis.
And this IO Lush knocks it out of the park quick.
Yeah, this is incredibly high octane and incredibly impressive for both these players.
I think they were all over the place, making kills happen constantly, and being exactly
the temple of the team needed.
I think, I mean, this is exactly how you play this hero pairing.
It brings a tear to my eye, just to get done so beautifully.
I mean, I just love that 9-class identified that IO got that buff on Overcharge.
Like, in the past, you had to buy a shard on IO to get the Spiral Amp on his Overcharge.
He got that for free and then he popped.
So I was wondering if any players would be willing to experiment with that given that
Bloodstone is back, there are spellcasters that could be more viable from the mid lane
like Leshrac.
They identified that, they played it today, it looked incredible.
How many fish would he eat in the end?
Do we know?
Like seven right?
Very important.
It was okay.
You're not getting as much damage block as you used to be getting like four for a kill,
but yeah this combo was great.
I was a little bit unsure about their ability to initiate based on having an IO support
in an A, but with Leshrac being fast, and Ion making him faster, he just simply ran enemy
heroes, and he killed them, and he didn't even need to land a stun, he just needed a little
slow from his lightning, he needed to walk next to them, those heroes died, and he snowballed
the game in a huge way, just putting pressure on the map, and they got so far ahead that
every fight after that felt much, much easier, and Naga eventually gets to be the hard
carry of the game.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, what fans often need from this game is that, and from
the prior games too, is that television has a higher understanding of the meta
right now than some of these other teams, right?
I mean, when I look at their draft, I didn't necessarily think it was better.
I thought it was worse going into this game, but they clearly showed that was not the case.
And some of that may be execution, but I also think that they are understanding some hero combinations
and some heroes that are either frauds or not frauds very, very well.
It's very impressive, and they've clearly done their homework.
I think more than maybe any other team has so far.
I guess it's up to us to really try to decipher what part of this was like,
Oh, actually, this hero might be Buster right now, and where the other part is we'll actually
parry him and just play this strategy, this style so well.
I think they just played incredibly well, and Lushruck is really strong right now, and
Io, if you pair him with Lush, is really strong, and AA, with his ice vortex that
gop after as well, you pair it on top of that, and it's just so much damage.
But they played incredibly.
Like, 9-class on his Io, we keep talking about him, but we talk about him for good
reason.
He's not afraid of new patches, he's innovative, and we watched him in that
top lane. He got early points in wisps and he was just farming facts from the enemy jungle.
He just took their stacks away. Not many ISP would get that early point in wisps just
to be greedy. He plays for his own game as well.
Yeah, it's a good place for IO to be really because the wisps I think got buffed. I think
they do about 150 damage with one skill point if they all connect on heroes. So it's
not bad to get in the lane. It actually contributes to getting kills. And then like
you said, the Ice Vortex amplifies the damage that usually in magic wise. Well,
He also has an innate, that if your HP is full, you're doing minimum 5% more outgoing damage to the guy that you're paired with.
So, he has a spell amp talent that he got, and he's doing 5% more, and all of those percentages are being amped by the ice vortex, like...
You're basically increasing your lesh's damage once you get 4 points in Overcharge, or Overcharge by 20%.
Like 20% spell amp to that mid guy.
And you could do that by like level 7, level 8. What time did he max it out by?
Uh, he actually only got 1 early. But still, it's 8% plus the 5% if he's full. It was just a lot of damage up.
Yeah, and I'm assuming some of that damage is also highlighted in that some of the clips you check
That's right because early game was really a lot of it. I mean six minutes into the game
They already had a 2k gold advantage, right? They wanted to kill the slash rack the crit ends up missing the jump
Look at this run down the damage is like crazy crazy high
Seven that's in then they just crossed the map. They're super fast. He's got extra mana regen. They can run at their opponents
Snake King who wants to sit back in the jungle and farm
He doesn't really get to do that as much as he would like to and then the after getting that cover like okay
Well, we're also in for the lunar just look at this damage output
Spear damage
Full snow a damage lightning damage edict damage all of this is getting amplified
But by what the IO is providing here and that allows them to take towers afterwards and accelerates their game in a really big way
They get the tier one here at seven minutes and Luna doesn't have a lane anymore
She's forced to AFK jungle and while she tries to catch up look they just run at her again
What she what can she do to defend herself against us?
There's there's very very little and as the game continues this is much later 25 minutes 13k gold advantage
But that's gonna be the same thing
No one's gonna run in deal lots of a we damage they've got pipes
They've got ravaged and nine classes just amp in this damage up
He's got some anti healing on him, but he's gonna stay alive for a very very long time
He didn't even have to press this Mac until just now and they they they have an ages as well
So all of that in Lashrex still ends up shredding them and so yeah the IO buffs definitely make any big difference
And that's clutch as well like no one was top net worth early on the key crushed that mid lane
I believe he's solo killed Malrin as a Sun King that he just outs us and then he went top with like that
1.5k extra net worth and everybody else and completely annihilated that side of the month
Yeah, I mean they're playing in the zone right now
I think you know we question SSS is he gonna perform on stage and he absolutely did
I think this guy just has the clutch gene both in the tiebreakers and also in this first game
He's locked in he's doing his thing. It doesn't feel like he's stressed at all
I think you can see that and the way people play that the tenseness the moving backwards you can see it in their clicks
You can feel it losing through the screen and all I feel losing through the screen when I watch like I play is confidence
He's owning he is the youngest player in the lobby and he is he's playing like a beast
So mad respect to him and I think Paris is a hole
I think all of them are in their element and playing their game
They're not inhibited by the pressure by the crowd
So I think Falcons you said backs against the wall
And I think in a lot of ways they are both in gameplay and also in their actual, you know serious position
Yeah, it makes me a little worried because we've seen Falcons play through a lot of patches
and normally their heroes don't necessarily change too much, they are just solid enough
on the ones that they play that they make it through and they're on top level every
single time.
This is the first time where on the new patch I'm like, hmm, was that just not them just
not getting used to the tempo that Paravision was setting or where did it go wrong?
Because even if this game would have lasted 18 minutes, I don't think they would have
come out on top.
I don't think so.
I genuinely believe the problem is that Paravision walks into that, ready with the 1-2 combo,
which is the Lashrack plus the IO, and we saw something similar right when the patch
dropped.
Extreme Gaming was like, oh, by the way, second phase, we're just going to pick Mars
plus Phoenix.
You just have this cool combo, and in this case, it's even more powerful because
you're pairing new patch heroes with heroes that are also staples.
So Lashrack got ignored some of the series earlier today.
Well this one, it was the perfect Leshrac game,
and then they paired a hero that they thought
was overpowered to I.O.
Those two together just broke the whole game open,
and when they win the lane's that hard
and he roams that much to kill heroes and kill tower,
the game is just kind of destroyed
from where it was supposed to be for Fuffins.
I'd also say that Viper is a bit of an outdated hero.
Like, he was quite popular in the last patch
for a good reason, you know,
but he got it taken away from him,
then another toxin tripling in effect.
Like, he gets that later, I believe,
from a shard or something.
I didn't even read it.
All I read was Viper got nerfed.
I was like, yep, that's good.
So the fact that they picked Viper even after the nerfs is like, you've got a bigger hero pool, ATF, let's dig into deeper pockets then.
They'll definitely need to do that for the next game, because one more loss here and they are eliminated.
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I
There's a lot of work that Falcons need to be doing right now to prepare for game number
two, Paravision, full of it out of the war, in game number one, they smashed it.
They did very well.
And to be honest, if previous results are anything to go by in previous drafts, more
importantly, there's not a lot that Falcons know about what is coming next, because
I feel like Purge, you talked about how they came in with the Io-Lesh combo that they knew beforehand, what they were going to do.
If you're ParaVision, you're not going to do the same thing again. You're going to have the seconds trapped ready, you know?
Yeah, probably. And it's also going to put Falcons in a position where they're like, uh, I guess we can't go into the second phase without banning one of those two heroes.
It's probably going to be the Leshchak, that's the most obvious one. But maybe they have another combo that they want to pair up with.
What if there's another IO Convo and then you have to worry about the IO?
Because he looks great this spot.
Yeah, I mean I think the most important thing for Volgans is that they lock in in terms of gameplay
because drafts obviously is very important. I think this IO Lush was clearly a problem
and I agree they'll probably ban it out, but I think this is where your resilience as a team really shows.
Can you bounce back? Can you get over the fact you lost the game that felt hopeless?
You kind of got ransacked and you know recovered because I think that is what defines your run throughout the tournament.
If they do bounce back from this game and they start going on a run, then this game is the pivotal point
Yeah for this game number two, we're gonna have everything swapped around so para vision will be a second pick and dire and Falcons
They chose a radiant pick as not the big prayer together
Paravision got the choose first they chose second pick
So they might have something in mind for their overall last and
Respect is given here by Falcons with the ioban also the tight hunter and beast master having to suffer there
I feel like the tide them just means they want to run back the Venom but they believe in it because I
Don't really see them having a tide response in the first phase for any other hero, right?
And the Ioban makes a lot of sense
I think it was the more important piece in the IO plus slash puzzle
But now they've given away the weaver as well that paravidion have been very happy to play
Yeah, I mean they can definitely pick that on nine and receive a second lash and silver and drifter
But they can definitely respond to
The Venomans are with Weaver. It's a slippery hero. You don't care about any of his slows or any of his garbage
You can get on top of them on the back line. So there's definitely definitely some validity there and they're clearly thinking about it
Pervers and Stani if they want to ban the Venom how?
Well they ban a instant pick voice pair for Falcons. This is a flex pick.
That's very common to pick your offlaner first in your opal draft.
Say you let them get tanked a little bit.
I mean, I understand it because they've left Puck in the drops for Paravision, which they banned out in the previous game.
So they think, OK, if we're going to give away the Puck potentially, we're going to secure the Void Spirit before it gets banned out in Phase 2.
And if it's the Weaver that they're going to respond to, Void Spirit does fine.
I mean, also with this Paravision team, they're so incredibly random and off the cuff that I think it's a little bit of, if you can't beat them, join them.
Like, if we can't predict what they're doing, then screw it. You can't predict what we're doing either.
And that's Lushrakh pick without IO in front of him.
Because I see the Void Spirit.
Why do you think it's good against the Void Spirit in that case?
Well, it's quite good against the Void Spirit mid.
Like it's a strong laner against him.
So you think it forces Void to be the off laner in some ways?
At least makes it easier for them?
Definitely a possibility. It is Falcons. They have played off lane Void Spirit.
I don't know if I want to see that in a potential elimination game for Falcons, but
We've seen them win TI with an Ursa off-lane pick. Anything is possible.
I think it's the kind of hero that Amar can clutch up on. I think he's honestly between the two of them.
I think he's the better voice-bear player. And I also think these sort of weird-zane heroes.
You mentioned the Ursa. I think that is sort of Amar's we-haves, just saying,
I'm playing this hero, this game. And they're like, alright, you're the drafter. You click the button.
I'm kind of surprised to see the A get banned as well. But there were fixtures of the last game.
was amplified damage with magic resistance amplification. But just see both of them banned out. I guess
they're just worried about the Lush getting out of control. They're just gonna have to
deal with a normal Lush. But I worry they're putting too many bans in this basket.
Yeah, it is generally not a good sign to just sort of be blindly banning heroes from
the last game without. Like you look at this game, Lushrack and AA, there's some amplification
there, but there's also redundancy in that it's a lot of damage heroes. There's
not catch to back it up like picking those heroes back to back can give you a
lot of vulnerabilities and it's also not good against voice here because you want
catch you want locked down you want some beef against voice spirit so banning is
very much a you picked it last game and you want so we're banning it not like
it's good for this game man they will also have the a band just in case if
they go for their fourth pick on the alchemist they've already preemptively
bounded so they don't need to waste a band for it for the last two picks
we talked about alchemist we also talked about the lifestealer that a
potentially good against it with fair vision feel like it's not comfortable for
them maybe just take it out with that
we're doing it he's not drinking that quickly but he is drinking
whoo
that's harsh he gave it his best all right we got the the Ursa ban by
paravision yeah I mean I'm honestly just I have no idea what for they're
gonna pick. This guy, you can see him, he's thinking, he hasn't said anything yet, so they're not sure yet either.
And you just pick your five and you let him cook for a little bit, let him think, because he does love his Rubik. I mean, he just picks it here. I was gonna say, he wanted maybe it to stay one or two heroes to go for that Rubik pick, but they think of what spirit is enough, you steal the remnant? Sure.
Yeah, a lot of his spells are really solid for sure. It's gone quite a few buffs. You can reduce overall damage, so he's a little safer to pick two because before it's like, if they didn't have physical damage, it
you're reducing your third game goal?
Ooh, double kill.
He just felt a little bit rough.
Triple kill.
No.
Double kill and a half.
I mean, I'm honestly, I'm so impressed
and I'm so enthralled by this Paravigian team right now
because they're just picking.
I have no idea what they're going
to pick at any given point, but it's working.
And I think that's so cool and it's so rare.
Not just for in general, but I think also on a new patch,
people tend to gravitate to what gained the most
win rate, what is everyone else doing?
they're saying we don't care and I think that's that's really awesome and it's
working and I'm I'm really curious to hear the keys working yeah I mean that
brings me back to the post-game interview when snaking was talking about
how stressed dolphins are it but there's a new patch and they have a lot to
prepare and say Tannick in nine class we're just like oh yeah we're good at
new patches we're chillin we have a lot prepared I mean Phoenix is I think
this to me is a very sensible pick it's good with Void's beer because you've
got the catch you've got the guy who goes in with a lot of fall up
damage behind him. I think it's also here with this pretty good against
Zolashrak and Rubik both. You're very good at...
I don't think he knows.
I don't think he hears.
It looks like hot tea also, guys.
Okay, that's a good meme. I like that.
Do that again.
He realized towards the end.
Oh, that's wonderful.
That's so much.
That's a fast drinker that guy's
gulping okay that's a lot of
boys
guys laughing
this guy's fighting
he's got a beard on the floor right now
just keep tilting your upwards
What the...
I stood up for you, good sir.
I'm the Lord and Tusk, you picked up.
What I like about how Falcons responded to this rubik was they picked two supports that don't really give rubik good spells to steal.
You can't ever really steal Supernova unless Phoenix took his hands off the keyboard.
And with Tusk, again, it's fine to steal Ice Shards, it's fine to steal Tag Team, but that's not like the ideal Rubik's steal, you know?
When you think about Rubik, you think about big ultimates, you think about Time Rovers, you think about Ice Fats.
I'm curious to see how the Underlord works out, because he doesn't get as fast anymore, so he's gonna farm slower,
but they buffed Firestorm a little bit, they increased his aura a little bit.
If you think about Underlord and Rubik together, they're both damage reducers, basically.
Underlords, I mean, both of them are gonna reduce physical damage with the Fadebolt hitting.
But especially the auras on top of that means Damage out of Falcons could be kind of mitigated.
With that said, they don't see the heroes yet that they're trying to mitigate. It's probably the mid hero and the carry.
But these two heroes should be good at a lot of the different things that they could be picked.
Yeah, I think it's a really cool pick. And I think somewhat the story of these two games is
Paravision's got a pipe off-liner, they've got the tank ability, they've got heroes that are beefing up and being impossible to kill.
to kill and Falcons is picking typical Falcon style applying more of a carry offlaner and
I think you can see the effect of that playing out through the game right Falcons just has
trouble killing paravision and they still have a chance to put Void Spirit mid pick that
aura hero but I'm somewhat doubtful I think it's probably offline Void Spirit which
means we're in a pipe vs no pipe scenario again
I think it's cool to know how you can deal with a pipe that's a no pipe, you just pick
only physical damage, then what do you do about that?
That's true, but then he just doesn't buy a pipe and he's double beat you.
He just says okay crimson guard I guess.
Guys that's a clean.
It hasn't been doing too hot on the new patch but people do feel like it's worth
it.
I mean, for good here at a kind of shunt, under the word, out of the lane,
he's very high down, which is good.
Oh, that's bad enough for it.
So, celebrating before he's finished.
He's given the heckin' so-so, so I don't know if this guy's...
Oh!
Oh, his arm's going to go so fast.
No, he's doing it.
He's doing it.
They're almost...
This guy's bruising.
That guy gave up.
Galeos, Tris.
Don't, don't, don't.
You didn't finish it.
Sometimes you just gotta admit defeat
Yeah, I mean, I think the the clink's is also a classic Lesha counter
Especially here that runs in he's just sort of blobby and clink stands from far away and shoot to the million arrows
Tea
There's no way
The smallest tips ever. It's like a little baby bird.
Somebody has to spend that to him. I hope he sees that.
I don't think Klinkz really got nerfed much. I just looked at his patch logs.
It's very, very small stuff. Should still be very viable.
And the upside for him is that his opponents have a really bad jump.
So he can kind of just sit in the back and arrange his opponents.
If they overcommit on him, he's got a big supernova.
He's got a toss that can cover him.
It looks like a definitely good pick for this game.
Yeah, that's a great point.
The jump is going to be very minimal up until Lush gets the blink, which is a much later on item.
So they're just going to have to address that with maybe Kerry who jumps from Satanic.
But I think the clinks looks great.
It's just a matter of Skeeter clinks.
How do we feel about that?
Hmm, that's a good point.
I think he can pull it off.
I think Skitter is...
It's obviously not like his Ursa Gyrocopter tier of Comfort,
but I think it is a hero he's played a lot.
And I think it fits his style of it.
It's not a hero that farms a whole lot.
It's a ganking gear with more tempo, but he's sort of playing a pseudo offline for his two very farmy mid and offline
So I like it and I think it also plays into the point you said about it's physical damage
Right, you've got a better mix of damage now
You're not too committed in a magic damage against a you know
Eventual pipe coming from this underlord like last game guys
There is something else going on here because para vision is using as minimal amount of bonus time as they can whereas
I've only got that one second left.
So they are kind of being pressured on time here, and maybe partially because ParaVision
has been picking pretty rapidly the last few picks and bounce.
Puck is still in the pool?
That could be their last second here, they have 5 seconds to pick.
Yeah, you better decide.
Yeah.
Oh, that's not bad.
We have not seen that here in a while.
Talk to me.
I kind of got nerfed.
She lost all of her facets, so our ulti does less damage.
I think that the ghosts come out faster, but there are a bunch of new items that could
change her success, like Bloodstone hypothetically could be good on her.
It's physical damage, right?
Yeah.
He's playing against this Pipe Underlord Tyring that we've talked about.
It provides Lotto to provide you with Tower of Fish.
Maybe they thought that that's something that they were lacking early on, but more
importantly, lane's against Lush Rock.
Last game, Lush Rock Snowbolt began from the mid lane.
It began from Malian, just getting beat up on one of his melee heroes.
Yeah, I mean, I think how the lane goes and how the support rotations work around mid is very, very important in this game.
DP is a hero that is horror-induced from behind, but can snowball the game really hard.
You start opening up towers and suddenly underwars in time to get to his auras.
Woohoo!
And I think it also is a hero that Malone's been practicing.
I saw him playing into the pub, so it's not like he's pulling inside a nowhere.
Because he didn't have the idea that it would be good.
Drink that, too.
Ooh, big one!
That was a good step.
Somebody betters on that to him.
I will lose my mind if he doesn't see that.
Alright, Paravision's final pick coming in.
A hero for Satanic.
A hero that can deal with the Void Spirit Tusk Lane.
Tap-closey, ideally.
I was looking at Faceless Void for him until the Death Prophet came out.
If you're losing your towers early on and you're depending on a chrono,
it might be too hard to pull off.
Ooh!
Ooh, Brutemalier. Okay.
So, TAC has played this year in the past.
It's a swarmy type hero.
You can gap close for sure with the webs.
You can get on top of it.
Blinks.
Miss chance when you attack. This looks pretty nasty.
This is a terrifying third game.
It has...
It's so funny.
It's so funny.
So, it has great core matchups against Blinks, DP.
It's great against both the supports.
awful against brood because you shards I don't care I'm a spider I walk right over him so it's this is an amazing pick and
I am really worried for the birds
I got some buffs as well in the most recent patch so it's life stealer is better
But what I like about brood mother versus high cooldown here is like that prophet is like sure with that prophet you'll get that extra
So then you'll take a tower you'll take an objective
But in that entirety of downtime brood has the entire mouth like she can move from lane to lane you can't really do much
About it until your cooldowns are
Yeah, I think the script has been flipped, I think instead of a game where Falcons, you know, they want to like chill and farm and get to their timings, I think they need to play fast, they need to make moves, they need to have, you know, they only need to be one setting the tempo or this spider is going to ransack them.
And I feel like they don't have the best tools to actually catch her. Death Prophet is a, like the A. We sound so great prior to the brood pick because all of these enemy heroes need the cast spells, but how are you going to lock down Brood and guarantee her death?
her death. Like, you almost need to buy an 8-toaster or something so you can layer all
of your disables. Is Offlane Void gonna have the setup in the disabled to get kills on
her? He's not a traditional Offlane, so it just seems kinda difficult.
Oh, I fully agree. I...
Nice. Nice.
This shirt even kinda says nice. Drink something, Snakey.
Oh. Oh. Oh!
I think there's a big lesson here to hydrate well before you play a Dota 2 game, that's
for sure.
I think there's a lot of pressure on Falcons to do well, right?
They open up with that voice spirit, they put it on the offlane so they clearly have
a game plan in mind, they saved the cool reveal to the very end, which must be real
at this point, is it really revealed?
We kind of were expecting that that voice pair was going off lane.
So they must have that plan in mind.
How fast are they going to play here, we feel?
Because you kind of have to put the pressure on Paravision this game, if you're falconed.
You do.
You need to pop off on this board spirit, if you're ATF, your death profit does not
have the pop-off ability that you do, it's a very cool down dependent hero.
You have to be the one.
Okay, let's see if they can be the one, or let's see if the Paravision can 2-0 the Falcons.
That's the question.
That's going to be answered in game number two!
The pressure is on for Team Falcons, but they dealt with pressure before.
The question is, will their style trump them here in game two?
Because we heard from our panel, they're going to have to play a faster game of Dota 2 than we saw in game one.
Definitely equipped to do it here. They have some nice skirmishers, a lot of low cooldowns they can play around,
a carry that can get active, and a support duo that should be able to hold the line a lot better than that game one.
They are against another really cheesy last pick, though. I think that Naga did a really dirty in game one,
and here we got a last pick Rude Mother. A death sentence in some hatches on this one, who the hell knows,
but Satanic is super comfortable with the hero, and I have to expect that if he ever gets to build up some spiderlings here,
who is clearing that out.
So the pick definitely looks very scary here
as we go into another game where Pari
have a lot of lane shove, a lot of team fight
and a scary last bit.
For me, it was the laning phase of game one.
We had Amar picking up a Viper against a carry
that he couldn't pressure.
We had Sankeying Maureen just to give up that lane
up against the last rack.
No one did an excellent job of pushing him out
and taking as much as he could mid-match up.
And they couldn't even really do much about the Tidehunter
would compare it up with the IO.
So this time around, does Falcons have lanes
that they can actually lean on,
or has Parry Vision managed to deflect that once again?
The lanes should be better for them.
Something that was interesting last game
is we discussed backstage,
like why not put that Viper mid against the lush
and the same king against the Naga, right?
Why did they force those heroes into the rolls,
into the lanes that were the worst matchups?
That game could've looked a lot different
if they had swapped those cores around.
Here they did a similar thing
where they had to flex here with this void spirit.
So you have an option of
Who are you going to put against this Lush?
DP is a kind of good matchup against this hero, like you have to gap close on both sides,
but in theory, DP is a hero that can outrange Lush a little bit, you siphon it into him,
you sustain, you can just bring him down with an overwhelming ultimate.
That's kind of what you're looking to do, exorcism is not a spell Lush enjoys playing
and do, he doesn't have early armor.
You also do not want to send DP against Gru here, that is a death step for the hero
over time.
Jarrah, Void Spirit's going to fare a little better.
You have a double melee lane against Venom, that's a little concerning, but you have an all-in kill threat with the Tusk, which is one of the ways you can abuse this hero.
I don't think the lanes are super convincing for thousands, I do think they can maybe out-skill party a little bit here if they really step up.
But I think party's a lot of flicks easier to execute to me, and I favor it, because they just outplayed them in Game 1. Yeah, straight up. Absolutely.
I was a little doubtful of that draft in Game 1, certainly not going to question Clarivision again,
because they were really cooking something.
And that Game 1 had the game well in hand by pretty much 5 minutes, it felt like it was already doomed for Falcons.
I also want to find out if this Rubik underwars. This lane we used to see a lot,
I want to say like 3 or 4 years ago because it's a double damage reduction lane.
Yep. This Rubik got buffed a lot, he got changed.
This damage reduction now affects spell and attack damage.
Right.
So it also has a talent.
You're gonna get up to 36% reduction from this fade ball going through.
The Underlord aura also got buffed slightly, it's now up to 32% so you're looking at what, you know, 67%, 65% reduction on average later in these fights.
Heard the right click coming through on a hero like Clinkz.
Yeah, that's pretty nasty.
I mean, adding in that spell reduction is just kind of crazy.
I mean, this means that normally the bonus damage of the Clink through the Hysterian arrows would be kind of fine.
against that damage reduction, but hit by a fade bolt,
he's gonna be feeling that real bad.
So I'm wondering if it's gonna be some of his hybrid carries
that used to do better against Rubik.
Is it that good anymore?
Right?
I really don't know, this change on paper
seems super busted to me,
and I expect to see a lot more Rubik
because if he lost his magic resist,
but he gave a lot more potential for the team.
Get into a battle here,
managed to pull him back into the tag team.
That is gonna be your first flood.
Going to Amar.
Now will Amar die here?
Team, you have to get the deny.
It's open, there's Titanic,
Pumpfake, Pumpfake,
who's gonna outplay the other Amar.
He's not going to make a run for it with the shell and he's not going to die at all.
Static would rather let Amar live rather than let the opportunity for Crit to get the denying.
Meanwhile on the other side of the map Skeeter is already dead.
Snake King will try and get the cleanup kill, it's core for core.
On the other side of the map, Snake King, oh what a done it!
Snake King will play for the Lotus and get that Lotus.
He does not live for it.
Oh, he had fairy but nine class also had one.
So maybe a smart idea not to waste it here.
Yeah, better just die, keep the extra resources for the next round.
A value Lotus to steal, you don't want that Lotus going far his way with the Underlord coming back in the lane.
Rough lane for Skeeter early on.
Nice for Falcons, they do get that all-in kill top, I think that's exactly how you want to play against the Venom.
Just 100 to 0.
Don't let him play this Atrician lane.
Your lineup does have that capability though.
Marge is gonna stay up here, he's very low.
This is painful to just linger in the lane like this, he did get us out.
Though, should be able to boost back up here if he can remove some of the DPS going into him.
And the equilibrium is in a really good spot right now.
So that's why they didn't want to, you know, have to go to base here.
You want to keep them on the lane while the equilibrium's in good spot.
Get that juicy XP.
Try to block just all camps that creep.
We'll get to it so this will maintain position for this lane for a long time.
Have to have a good start here.
The brood is going to be terrifying once the oath comes out.
So you need to get as much now as you can and try and set Satanic back.
And these two are the guys to be able to get that initial jump on the brood mother
from the first place right because you're two and eight is all in one lane this is your entire catch
of the entire game so them having a good start will bring this lineup together falcons also have
to start thinking about this level six mid it's a very even lane right now but mauling has a slight
edge he's gonna get to six at a pretty nice time maybe you have an opportunity to go mid with that
xo try and find the kill in the lesh with the the tusk plus dp which is a super strong
He's got us lights. Yes, Lee, but he's got a pretty massive network Lee. He's a big chunk or hundred
Out of the flesh
And this is gonna be a nice opportunity for falcons around the spin lane the tusk depth profit combos been a classic forever
It's one of the best force to roam into that DP lane you lock people in to that exo sighting
You can also snowball save him to kind of reset the sight and heal get another one off
It's pretty nasty if you end up skirmishing into it
Hmm, so I think this is a huge point of attack for Falcons this game. They need to get some value going there
Especially was what happened game. I feel like no one just I
Mean what was it? That was like a pulp for it right?
Yeah, it kind of did look like it throw it down by the plug grenades
He they're gonna be pulled back into the pit here and tries you might from snaking
To stop the attacks for coming with the fire spirits
They will come through all the same nine glass the one big blast it well thank you
You are the carry now pretty much he is higher level. This is not what you want to see
For your clanks. He is suffering xp y's by a large degree. He's okay, but
He's on the run here, but he's got no more spills left
He is certainly dead that is going to be a fourth kill out of parry vision and a fifth as
Crit tries to make a move around that level six you were talking about Maureen pops the exorcism
But he's got nobody anymore
Time to be behind the tower isolated
Kind of a poor move from Critty yet.
Yeah, well that's not even the rubik to be there, but very aggressive nonetheless.
He's a big price.
Yeah, I don't like Crits having with that kind of play.
Like, he has done this kind of play with Tusk around a mid lane, a million times.
Yeah, I mean it's been a decade of that for him.
Especially on some of those old teams with Auburn, so...
Gets to come back in here.
Nice catch there.
Minutes get to Sharpe, blocking in 9th class.
You know what?
He's gonna try and threaten these supports.
He's not gonna state 9th class his life, nor will he be able to get a turn kill.
Axel runs down with the pressure on mid.
I guess the upside there is you used a lot of the Lush resources, yes, nothing left to play with.
This should be his tower effectively going on.
Either get it low enough and all in it, or you don't get it low enough so it's deniable.
We're gonna keep it out of deny range for now.
Amar will be the one to take the wisdom shrine, so he's struggling a little bit in experience.
And he certainly can't be left alone in this lane for much longer.
So it's going to weird period where he's not point six. I think you have to give it to him here
It'll go to him in the tusk so the Phoenix misses out
But it's making God all that extra XP bottom to kind of bounces out here
Much more even Laney face though
Oskens will get to play some dough to this time around I feel like your three four and five are all so experienced
Impended it really sucks that a Mars not having a good enough time in Lane that he has to take the wisdom trying to wait
It's starting to add up here, the Brute is just...
There's that level 6, and if you leave a turn around though with the tag team, they're really
made the call that they can fight this, but it's certainly not the case.
Titanic is healing way too much, it's not even close, and Crit is just gonna be the
one to die for.
No chance you're fighting that.
There's a significant amount of life steal early on in the game.
He has the web regen as well.
Good luck.
The spider's gonna start to build up here, and this is the real problem in
this game.
to me it's yeah the brood's gonna be a crazy carry later on but who goes in here
these spiders and bites you don't have some heroes and that's your best spell
yeah it's pretty pitiful it's look a little girl up here and even with the
support satanic she's not afraid whatsoever they have to bring four heroes
and they're gonna get a bento on this something it's something but it's not
the satanic room exactly I think we're seeing the pressure that this
hero is gonna put on this line of this you have to respond you have to
respected that's gonna mean bringing a lot of numbers that's gonna open up
opportunity for party around the map they can utilize it already got a
little bit of a victory with the power room going no one's way or region for
the left you define these really nice rooms working first for the brook so
killer build here the manor region yet to build some sort of an origin fight
on this year early there's an exo exo number two going into tower and with
The high level is Cribswarm, if you can't at least take some of the spiders out of here, so this is going to be hard if we're just warfitting another tower, it looks like.
They are going to make a mass rotation to the other side of the map to try and equalize things, take a safe lane tower of their own.
I'm sure they don't want to fight this because you do have to peek.
So you could sit the Underlord bottom, make the smoke fight often and connect.
The Brutal is very low on resources though, that might have dissuaded them from taking that fight.
And they were still missing ult from the support.
So Ruvik just hit 6, still missing the Beno 6, and that is a lot of the early teamfight there.
They'll just trade it out, but more gold for Maury having himself quite a strong early game on his death profit.
He is the most frontier on this game, and he will be rushing the wraps.
They've learned from Game 1, Austin.
And on backstage, I'm sure the first thing AUI said is, you guys need to buy more wraps, because that was really cool.
How many wraps are we going to be seeing in this game?
Underlord's not going to go for it. He wants the Rod of Ethos and sent Meanwhile mid lane, Crit makes the initiation, 9th class is caught here.
Here comes the big bad Underlord though with Pit caught onto 2, no one looks to run them down.
Still, with a jump in from Amar they've got a bit of damage. Maureen's not sure can I take this fight against Noir or not.
He's being burned out by the Dive Ball getting pretty half the damage to at least kill the opposing mid laner.
He'll die for it but it was all of Parry Vision's heroes showing up into this mid lane matchup.
matchup. Skeeter arrives just a bit too late to have any impact. It's not the worst outcome for the
DP considering you're stuck in that fight without XO and it's usually that can be a really rough
moment and you were out nothing. Skeeter saw something there he thinks maybe I can get a
cleanup kill but it's already out of sight. He just needs to get a fast SSO this game and then
you can join these plays. The fast SSO and a fast shard right? That's another tool that they
would have to drill with the grandmother. How about the DP? He gets a lot of damage done in
in this fight, almost 3,000 damage coming out from Death Prophet here, 4 Grip Swarms, triple
Siphon, double earned, and the Underlord's just a big juice tank that he's able to keep
his HP pretty high through just siphoning up the Underlord if he wants and fights.
If you get a little bit more there, that's a really nice Siphon Falcon, so how are
you going to have to respect the Siphons going on?
Maybe a reason why they didn't win a contest for that safe lane tower.
Well they will be nice spells for the Rubik's cube.
The Siphon on Rubik is absolutely nasty.
Yeah, combined with the HRA, it's pretty interesting.
It has level 4 Crypto right now.
So some nice spells for the Rubik's cube in this game that are a little difficult to cover.
Yeah, what do you do with Deathbrawl, but if you don't want to give up Spirit Siphon for Crypto,
your best tool is you just silence Rubik, go on him, kill him early, and cheer him up.
You do not want to let him turn those plays around.
So, yeah, he told us so they wanted to work out a new team.
Not a single RAPS being built by a barge this time around.
Not for the Lesterak anyway, he's going Kaia for now.
A very strong departure from all the itemization in game one.
Yeah, that seemed very patch focused.
You know, we're going to get the EHP up really early.
We're going to tank up, we're going to take this game over and get it 30 minutes more.
This seems a bit more spread across the board fighting scrimmage.
Nevertheless, he can get out of here with just the TP,
but it's the damage already overwhelming him.
He's making a run for it.
It's out of range and goes to the TP and they have some stunts. Stop it!
He's created as the smoke comes through.
Oh, flash Rubik.
Gonna find Cr-
Oh, I'm running to him and Telekinesis killed before he can even get a snowball off.
That's a lot of damage coming out. Level 4 Bable, level 4 Crypt Swarm.
Do not want to skirmish this Rubik early, you big birds.
Also, the CDR that comes out from the spells deal now, really nice for these early Skrullers,
but it adds up right.
If you get some fourth Crypt Swarm off instead of three in a fight, that's a big difference
as this gets leveled up.
This change is also really powerful.
You have some Rattavatos, Rattavatos, into Pit, and Snake King.
He'll make a dive away, and he still has the HP, he's gonna go for a TP out, so he will not have to use his Supernova.
That's nice. You're gonna need these spells alive if you're falconed.
You need to find some objectives or teamfights with the XO and the Eggdisc.
Because you're not gonna have a lot of interaction with the TK.
He's gonna continue to farm up, he's going to outsmart.
Oh, grab, catch the Rubik immediately.
Start off with Silen's, float the Rubik first. Got that kill.
Now, chasing after SSS, he's gonna gank!
No stuns available.
He's gonna gank to mid, and yeah, Crit has nothing left in the tanks.
Maybe you can take the spot tower with the amp damage in the X-O?
Yeah, I'm learning it's gonna pop it immediately.
This'll be the last level in X-O, but if he gets three tier ones,
and with all three of the level in X-O's, he's pretty happy with that.
As it does pop it, continue to push up the network chart.
As the early wraps, as the Legion Shield is pretty tanky here.
And in the timing where they still have their off-lane tower,
and the Whistler Shards are gonna spawn in 15 seconds,
Our vision what are you gonna do here? They don't seem in position to take either one. Okay, they're gonna TP back
They're gonna spend their own and with the exorcism dying out soon. It's not a fight Falcons feel confident taking they got another smoke
Yeah, they read the situation saw the smoke. It's a lot of early smokes here for party
They'll have some later on person
are they ones really that have to set the tempo in the first place right don't
our vision just kind of sit back largely for the most part let this group another
get nice and fat yeah you want to play around satanics time is this game I
think game one was a lot about no one on that leash with the aisle pair he's
driving that game every time he gets an item you feel super strong in this
game it's gonna be a lot more about the brood keeping heroes on the brood
giving him some support oras making space for him in the fight that's
He'll deal a lot of damage, he's going to scale really well here.
He also doesn't want to be the first point of contact.
That's the biggest thing for Polly.
Don't want Falcons jumping your brood early or at the start of a fight.
Need to let him come in with all the spiders and just clean up.
Got him on the Orc in snowball pickup.
And that probably means the Toskey's dead.
He can now mark it out, makes the step away, hits him with a remnant,
and another step gets some distance there.
So, Crick gets up his life to bail out his off-laner Amon.
It's hard for us to keep this voice here on the map.
People are in the game. Also going raps now.
The rap advantage will go about this way this time around.
Winstay early yules, which will help against the orchid.
But it does also mean you may just get set up like there's still telekinesis in split earth that can catch you on the come down from yules.
I think it's just about having another stun on the line.
Their stuns are very limited. They need more lockdown.
To keep heroes in place and control them so they don't just keep the out on you, the clink's in the AP kind of chase them down.
Like, you don't want to end up in a position where you have to go A, no sir, you was on DP too.
If you want the ball ring to buy whatever he feels is going to scale the hardest and keep him in this late game,
it does have level 2 extra available.
It is interesting by the way, they're taking advantage of the double burn potential.
Telekinesis toss back into the pit once again, here confused, but he's still going to come down if he hit it.
Yeah, not those two dead.
Like, I can see it, feels, and like, why he would want it,
but there is gonna be a lot of counters
when it comes to the self-gears, at least.
The pit is really going for Falcons on it.
It's a strong Underworld game.
Especially if Trimblast gets the first.
He has Crimson Fight.
Oh, look at this play.
We're dead still in Exorcism.
They're gonna turn into Roshan.
This is super, super fast.
You have Tag Team, Gesso, Exo, Level 2,
and you have a Shield Root and Maureen's Ball.
So he feels a bit slow right now.
Absolutely the strongest hero in the game.
In Fire Spirit, make sure that Roshan doesn't do any damage to you in the first place.
The only downside for Valkyrie is that DP is one of the worst Aegis carriers out of mid.
Sure. They give it to the Klinkstu who is not one of the best carries with an Aegis.
Yeah, it's like, is Aegis doing a lot for you?
Not really, but you are accelerating the game.
If anything, you kind of won it on Void Spirit this game, honestly.
Yeah.
I wonder when Crit is going to pick up the Shard and get Drinking Buddies for himself.
Because it does feel like a very good...
Like, he's gonna have to play both initiation, but it also feels like a lot of times he's gonna have to play safe for these heroes.
Pull them out of the pit, or snowball safe.
I can see being nice this game, the armor is actually quite nice.
I don't know, because they have a lot of squishy, high damage heroes that don't buy a lot of early armor.
You can get Drinking Buddies enough, like 10 armor on a medium, so I mean, one of the best heroes to armor on.
Here comes the Orchid, and yeah, Hamar knows.
Okay, what do I do here?
I sell fuels, I'm just gonna get pitted on the come down, so.
He's caught a lot of ATOs, even just to ensure it.
It really had his number,
not letting him get the slain out against the Brute,
and no one else can go up here against the Brute,
so that Dewey falls to him every time.
Feels like two very different ways
that they're just canceling out of Mar's impact.
They leave him at a ghost slain,
initially in game one,
and now they're just killing him over and over again.
They really neutered him here in the series.
and starts to convert onto another pit, another Xel'Kinesis, Rana Beytos if needed, and that
chain stun is just nasty.
B4 staffs here at some point for Falcons, some way to get out of the Underworld area
we can control.
Look at how fast they tan, he's taking the Sphere too.
Here's the point in the viking where this food is taking a lot of real estate,
starts to pose the question towards Valkyries, do you have the catch to find me?
Yeah, I think they do not. It looks rough. You can scout them a little bit with
these clings if Skeeter's Combing going up here in terms of where are their
Sentry Obstraps, but I've already been on point with it. They are putting up
defensive traps to scout these clings to be ever invades through the area.
There's just no ability to set up on your enemy, you can always engage into him if the blow comes.
9 class.
Well, that's Skeleton Walk, so he's going to be running around the map invisible too, which is just perfect for 9 class.
Oh, he's in his element right now.
That's right.
2 ward action, a lot of them.
Trying harder and harder to catch the Atanic here, Skeeter's trying to scout things out.
Amarzo's running through some Venomance rewards.
This is the risky play.
Trying to scout this group as it clinks.
High reward hydra.
They have this entry there already in place, because you need to be working it in some trouble.
some trouble. Amarzo's managed to get a nice step forward. Jakallus is going to die immediately
and Glinks is already gone once. He's going to come back and make a run for head for the
hills. He's got to get out of here, but no one. He's going to track him here with his
eyeball key and they got him under the dust as well. He's going to die twice. Falcons
try way too hard. The pressure is beginning to make them crack.
That's what the Brute decided to do. Make you feel like the map is unplayable.
aching out the way out.
One for three.
Such a risky play, and all that is way too easy to set up
because you have that sentry obbs in that top lane.
Just scouts all that movement going to that upper jungle
to try and contest the food, and you pay a massive price.
Straight to the other side of the map
to take a quick tormentor while there is zero threat.
Stand with broods, this Titanic.
We're not going to catch him sleeping.
Another issue with that play is that's a play
the DP just cannot do it.
And yes, she is your strongest hero right now.
You're playing through somebody as Falcon's.
It has to be Maury on his death profit.
That's not an area of the map you can confidently
go into and take a bite.
He's level 15 already.
I mean, he's hurting himself.
A beast of a game here.
You have to waste your music.
Falcon's kind of seem to be settling in for, especially
after that failed pick-off.
Oh, they're just going to farm now.
Yeah.
You have one shot fast. If you blow it, you're gonna feel like you're behind. You're not gonna be able to go back up there.
So... which Malarine is probably gonna feel terrible about it.
He was having a pretty good game and now what do you do?
You've already taken all the tier one towers. Your team probably doesn't feel like they want to get aggressive.
You can't back an arm. You do a plus point?
If you have some more aggressive potential to bring the DP into the play,
smoke into party, just jump somebody XO run-in.
He does have Yashakaya, so he's pretty high boosted already.
Even with the Treads, he's still sitting around 460 on this DP, that's enough to close the
gap.
He mid, makes the initiation off the step, couldn't get the dive fast enough away.
Here comes Crypt though, trying to catch the last drake, didn't get him inside the shard.
If now the response from the Underlord and Maureen is left with nothing this life
been on to.
He has to find something.
They're gonna run after to cause this gonna be a bit of a stretch, but they are going to try and get this one kill
They're running in the safety of the struggle area the green mother
They don't get that kill and now they're in trouble pull back in this death prophet has to fight her way
We've been keeping up. Yeah, they're just in on deep to cause turret and comes back in to get the poison
Knowing that Maureen is gonna die for all this ran out of siphons. They use so many early
Don't put a second half of this fight and now Falcons are in big trouble
The Supernova is the only thing that is protecting these two Falcons' cores, and Skeeter cannot get out.
He gets bursted down, Snake King can't get away,
Night Class jumps after him with a stolen step and finds a fourth kill for ParVision.
Talk to the devout play hard in this series.
ParVision are playing the map better, they're utilizing the last pick in the draft better.
And they're just outclassing him in these teamfights, the way they're kiting it out, playing the distance game perfectly.
I think the Tusk Punch went on to the Rubik as he jumped out.
Yeah, what was that? He like, like, the astral step dodged it, so you didn't have a punch on the ledge, which really hurt you in this chase.
And look at the kiting here! Like, they're just wasting all of Maularin's siphons early before fully engaging with the brood.
Yeah, like, he gets like one second of siphon there on no one. They outrun the snowball, and he has nothing left here.
Yeah, the stain. They're still kiting him out.
Charles kind of blocked the brood there but now you cut out the edge right you're
still waiting to engage. Take panic where you're going. Perfect game play in this
keep fight. Ghostseptor great choice there from knowing it's well made of a
lot tankier. Has the whole out. Crella scores in now. So he's a thiefy boy.
It's a nice little like mini meat.
Oh, this is a type I have for the hero.
Yeah, exactly. Be able to run it and he goes up there, ignore a lot of the clink's physical, steal deal a lot of damage, so okay.
Just slows down the restoration of the Death Prophet as well.
Oh, this is going to be a brood mother game through and through at this point in time.
BKB, really nothing to touch. Like, what is it? They got to blink punch him, and then what?
Once he gets off BKB, he's untouched.
Can't do anything with shards. He's just gonna web walk over
There's a very scary point this game for Falcons and the map
gets constricted once again my class getting the quick little jumping talcadesis and
Snowballs Dave on two different heroes that are quite low. They're gonna come back in immediately die
He's trying to make a dive away stinking still gonna be in some trouble as the poison is on him
That's just high ground.
Yeah.
Just Rubik is doing so much work in terms of the setup of this game,
especially with some random spells like the Skeleton Walk, the Astral Step.
It's increasing Night Class's range by a huge margin and that's it.
They're not ready for it.
And again and again, Night Class finding the opening,
not expecting the extra mobility on this Rubik,
and Telekinesis Tons back is all it takes because Bargizian up 16,000 networks
will crush Falkins in any teamfight.
This has been an extremely one-sided series.
Yeah.
We've already just had their number in multiple ways.
The draft, the map, the teamfighting, the itemization, it's just all felt better here.
Even the lane.
Right, I don't think we really saw Falcons win either, because they got crushed in Game 1.
This one was closer, but...
Was it too busy?
I can eat the green.
Now you're down a rack.
Your best play now as Falcons is you have to use this next EXO,
Secure yourself, Roshal.
And try and swing it off the back of that.
You will not have Death Prophet BKB for that fight.
Skeeter's sitting on no Deaths or Charges.
He's got one kill so far.
Those up the shore, does have Dragon Boots.
Snake King, who had been farming so peacefully for the first 20 minutes of the game,
had a relatively early Spirit Vessel level 10.
Now he's still sitting on that Vessel and he has yet to hit level 12.
It's not the part of the map you can go to.
Now that's going to be entirely controlled by the bridge mother.
Everything else is under the territory of this Underlord's Lestrack.
They can be anywhere on the map.
Oh, Bargey.
Can I get caught there?
No, get that.
Okay.
You saved somebody there, but the map is shrinking so fast.
Yeah, caught on the left side of the map, caught on the right side,
barely escaped in the mid lane.
There is nowhere you can go to farm at this point.
Just a couple of camps that's really all the control they've got and certainly zero control over the roadshod pit.
BariVision seems like they can take at their leisure.
They can't, it can't be made to call that he wants to get butterfly first, but we'll see.
And Hage's coming in for the other one as well, that's important to look around that pit.
Closing in on the Lesh Sheeva's, they're just huge items.
You have to contest the right.
There's no way you can just get this up.
Well they're not going to.
They think that BKB on death profit is a must-ask perhaps?
I'd like to be true but I think this is also a must-task.
Yeah.
There it is.
Let's have it.
Yeah, but here, late.
Too late.
He's start pushing out towards the Roshan pit.
Well guarded by triple S.
He's going to be positioned here.
They can kind of block things off with the shards perhaps.
A shield rune, keeping the last shred, very healthy, nice health and he's caught back there from 9 class.
And a throw, supernova's gonna be pop, but satanic pop to BKB and just goes to work.
And they don't have enough to threaten satanic.
Oh, he got satanic.
The damage of both the exorcism and the clicks are just not doing nearly enough.
You're not killing him out there.
Trying to outrun the broodmother and go for the backline, or is another telkenny to stay?
Maureen does what he can, does damage, gets no kills.
He knows he's fully committed in that fight.
The Siphon Steel on Rubik means you're never even killing that lone support.
A last salvo from Falcons here...
in an extremely dominated series.
We talked about this, uh, backstage a little bit, the Rubik.
That talking instant save is gonna be way better with the increased AoE.
Look how far he was able to throw him.
That's all, that's just full force now.
And it's pretty fast, so...
Yeah.
Absolutely bailing this underwear out from a lot of single-target TPS.
Unfortunately, you have no stunts to throw into the groove here to protect the egg as the pus goes down and he's going on.
Siphon on Siphon. I don't even know if Nicos had to throw himself away there.
Yeah, he was actually far enough away, but still the extra touch.
Leaving Maul Ring with absolutely nothing while they got out of that was the last track that's what Skeeter managed to cobble together,
and that does give him a crystal-less and halfway-to-datalist.
He's also just not able to steal that much on DP.
Yeah, no. Not in this game, not in this situation.
Broodmother takes that pretty easy, makes that kill on Snake King.
Look, simple as one, two, three.
Did you have...
Oh, the Undalord.
And still the Undalord. That's something.
But Stingtanic is barely not concerned that he's missing it off later.
takes his tier three and forces them by back out of snaking
got three minutes on this ages they can manage to get to Daedalus I don't know
if that actually changes things too much there's a five on more type of like
they're trying to find something they just don't have XO for five see Tannock
does have ages so he's strong enough for I think two or three heroes this
Might actually just be garbage and being the stronger of the two even without the underworld. I also had underlord eye back
So that's true
You're a little wearier to a future of grief
To a future of
Don't have it a good time with the voice lines because they are quite happy and it's falching
They're having their game-free garbage of 25,000 net worth again just go monstrous net worth we buy 30 minutes
The GPM they've extracted seriously over tickets
Making the map small for Falcons who are normally able to play all three lanes all the time
Farm up some of the jungle play here. They're left with a pity
He goes for the Tanks, huh? That's the biggest item you're going to get in this game, problem
in terms of the damage upgrade. Do you need as much damage as you can get right here? Yeah,
it's just not cutting through the butterfly. The other cores have nothing. Telekinesis toss
back on the Death Prophet trying to get the DKB out of him, and they got it. Static
has a poke at him just a little bit of a damage test, see what he can do to the
Death Prophet during DKB. Well, now you can do that again. Exactly, right? The
you tell these cops back what is falcons gonna do well they're gonna try and make the initiation
first that class already tries to make the jump does hit that telekinesis right around with the
amp damage bill they managed to make the jump with the speeder amp damage they've already killed
nine class now looking at the underlord but he's got a ghost scepter they can't even kill the
underlord gotta get the scepter off it and all they give up is a ruin come on no one barely
outside of the rain speeder just gets run down by the gate the agonist scepter stomps him in
his tracks, a basher for the brood mother, and skill. A minute on the ages. This is going
to be another lane of barracks. If not, full out mages with 55 seconds left for the clanks.
Just absolute destruction. Series not close at all. These two teams were not evenly matched
whatsoever. Teams by addition have come up with some much better ideas. Oh, he jumped back
Get into the pit, sell fuels, still stuck in the pit,
snowball still stuck in the pit, you ain't going nowhere.
GG is called and parry vision, just like that.
Make short work of Falcon.
Oh, there will be no repeat here at Birmingham for them,
is they'll make a swift exit.
Parry way too prepared today.
They were better in the drafts, better on the map,
better in the teamfights, better in the lane,
better in the itemization.
Did I leave anything out?
I mean, it's just across the board.
just better all around.
They're just better today.
I don't even think Falcons can argue it.
Like, this is maybe you're sometimes, you know,
better in one area, worse in others,
you get a little out, but this was just absolute outclass.
So that's definitely some confidence
from Ari going further in this tournament,
in terms of our ideas working.
Yeah, they're working quite well.
Yeah, very, very well indeed.
I mean, talking about a team that, you know,
had a little bit of a roster shuffle,
new off laner, new coach, and a new patch.
This is the best they've worked, I think.
Absolutely.
I mean, really confident in their ideas.
It almost blended some of their old ideas,
where they gave Satanic like a map control hero
and played away from him.
But he's still creating a problem you have to address.
I like that aspect of it.
They had some global mobility.
They had crazy catch on 9-Class.
Everything came together.
All right, well, let's go to the main stage.
We got Splash on stage with 9-Class.
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for 9-Clars!
Yeah, it's super good to play in front of crowd. I missed it from Ty, but it was like
Like, uh, sticks must, and now we're back.
And the crowd loves having it back, am I right?
All right, all right, all right.
Let's talk a little bit about IO.
This hero looked absolutely busted in your hands.
Obviously, you're carrying the old man, no one on the Lushrack,
but it was a lot of the IO plays, huh?
Do you think you're ever gonna get this hero again?
I think, no.
We're back to the time when the enemy stood behind my heroes.
Or...
I don't know.
We saw him broken, I think.
But a lot of pros have been saying that Rubik might be super broken as well, of course, besides Doom, who has been banned every single game.
Rubik seems super, super strong. Did it feel good in your hands?
Yeah, it's Rubik. You have save, you have magic, physical reduction now.
It's just a good hero, yeah. If you play good, it's basically good.
Okay, if you play good, the hero is good. Very surprising. Thank you so much, Naikolai.
Now, I do have to ask, you guys seem extremely prepared to face off against Falcons.
You knew what they were gonna do, you did extremely well against them.
What was the prep going into this?
Were you looking to take them out?
What?
I...
I really...
I don't know, we just played our game and...
Papi prepared like dross, and we...
We're not like super prepared to falcons, we just...
We know I, O, L, S, we will destroy them.
We know Rubik, a good hero, if Underlord.
We just playing cowardly.
So you didn't even care!
You just destroyed the guys who just won!
Uh, uh, uh, Burby had my, you don't even care?
It was just another team?
Yeah, yeah. I don't care.
Goddamn! Alright!
How are you?
Alright, any words out there for the fans?
Obviously, it's a big deal.
Lot of Paravision fans out there that I've talked to personally today.
Any words out there for the nine class lovers?
Uh, thank you for your support.
Last time in the Birmingham, I was top three in our team.
So, I will try to reach more this time.
No, that wasn't good, and I will try to tell them that you are taking this whole night class, you will win this!
Just a lot.
Okay, great, I won! Top 3 for sure, thank you so much, Night Class! Let's go!
Let's go! Back to the battle.
Oh, Paravision is looking so scary here on the stage.
This was just another game where they get a strategy out that is like, okay, you know,
this is good in this patch.
We're just going to play our Dota and it's, once again, they just do it.
Yeah, this is dominant.
There's no other way to put it.
And I think this is a draft that looks more cohesive and they showed it.
They just ran them over.
This game was not close at all.
Slack said it's the previous Birmingham winners and they made them look like
a pub stack of 4Ks.
This is crazy.
Yeah, it also forces Falcons to have to go through dream league qualifiers, because they
cannot get any more points out of this ESL-1 Birmingham.
And correct me if I'm wrong, Perch, but does this mean that Paravision is undefeated on
this patch?
Yeah, that sounds about right, because they had a bunch of wins that one day, the type
breaker day, right?
They did.
They're sitting really good.
And it feels like Satanic is a Satanic when he joined the team, which was like,
he's going to pick some random hero.
It's the perfect hero for the game, and he's going to outplay everybody.
On the last patch, he got a little stale, he's picking heroes that everybody expected.
Then you had to play against it, you know, punish it, and he didn't get to do his special
soft stuff like we just saw there.
Yeah, satanics, pockets are deep when it comes to heroes, and it's easy to forget
that when meta has become very established, and all of a sudden you see, okay, that
one patch, he played terribly at every game, and more fling.
Oh, another patch where he has to play carry DK, like every game.
Oh, another patch where we see satanic on Bristleback, like every game.
That's not the case with this one.
We saw his Naga Siren, we saw his Voodmother, he has so many heroes that he climbed the
pubs with and he got his ranking that got him scouted to Yellow Submarine, so many heroes
that he's capable of playing and I'm just glad that Paravision are willing to give their
players what they're feeling.
Yeah, it's spooky of course in the first game, game focus was aware of what Paravision
was going to do, they banned the Rubik, they banned the Nature's Prophet because
they knew and then they couldn't ban those in the second game and then at some point
You're gonna run out of bounds. Yeah, I mean that's what happens when you play against team that to be honest
It's just outclassing you you feel like there's a million holes in your boat
You got a roll of duct tape, but there's too many holes
You can't cover all the holes and that's that's how it is with these bands
They're banning everything they can but Parisians honestly just a better team today
It was not it was not close it was not close on the receiving end of
Paravision's aggression it was team Falcons and for the final words of Falcons
We're gonna head over to slacks we're starting by with snaking
We're great. Are you guys good?
Hello everybody. Yes, we are here with Snaking.
Snaking, thank you guys so much for coming in.
I know that it sucks to do exit interviews,
but they said you're because you're the most professional
and you give the best answers and you're so handsome and cool.
So let's talk a little bit about that series, unfortunately.
I mean, can't feel great coming out of it.
What do you think happened?
Honestly, it's a bit of a blare for me personally.
I didn't play very well. I think I could have played a lot better and you know, I'm disappointed myself. So
You know, it's a shame. It is a shame. You got a lot of fans in the crowd
I mean, but not to give you a little bit of copium, but it is you know new patch all that
I'm sure you guys worked very hard, but maybe with some time. It will be a big improvement. I would assume
I mean, hopefully so I think
We just have to find what exactly we want to do. I think today we was bit off
our synergy in the second game definitely didn't work very well. I think the game
was 50-50 and then we just kind of lost control. Absolutely. All right, well it was
a very tough competition. A lot of guys on fire this tournament with you being so
educated in the scene and so intelligent on these teams. Who do you
think will be taking it from here? I think Tundra probably has the best
chance of winning this tournament. I think they're in good shape and a
a good understanding of the patch, so they're probably the favorites.
Okay, very well. And since Paravision was able to knock you out,
would you like to provide the other teams with information to sabotage them
to make sure that they cannot make it? Is there anything that you would like to say on one word?
You don't have to answer that. You do not have to answer that. But you can.
No. Okay, great. Now, I'm a consummate professional as always.
Ladies and gentlemen, can we please give it up for this goat
who takes free and excellent interview every single time.
We love you, Stade.
Please, torture Stade or make him do one of these one time.
I would really love to see someone cry again on one of these.
And I bet he's a crier, right?
Yeah.
OK.
Well, we'll get tears next time.
Thank you, guys.
Tears next time.
But this time, I mean, it's Phil Olesmiles.
He got a respect opposition there as well.
And focus on yourself for the next one.
But for us, we were going to focus on just how
Paravision did it this time around because it was once again very dominant still as a very
different strategy that Paravision went for compared to that first game. Yeah, I mean that first game
was really all about the eye on Lush and while this game was very dependent on the Lush being
able to burst the Death Prophet, it was for me really about that Lost Pickbrew mother. The
Lost Pickbrew mother created so many problems for Falcons to deal with. It was strong on
lane versus the void spirit. It exploited the high cooldowns of that pocket where I was able to
take the entire map. He just farmed so quickly, and they didn't have a great way to fight him
to have an Aslat game progressed. He could feel Stoikannak becoming superior and
superior, and it didn't really seem like that counterplay to this.
Yeah, the Orc hit was really effective as well. Against Void Spirit, it forces him to
use it defensively, but every time that he does that, Hit-A-Mouse is there to guarantee
and catch him afterwards. So it basically turned this like supposed to be cool offline here
who's evasive, into just a problem in your draft.
So, Ana gave them gap clothes and movement speed.
He could run wherever the heck he wanted to in the fight.
They didn't have good disable against him.
It was such a great last play.
Yeah, I think, to be honest, this series just highlights
to me the difference between when a team is in the zone,
when a team is clicking, and everyone is synergizing
with each other compared to when a team is just off.
You could feel it.
Thogun's just off today, and ParaVision was super on.
They trust each other, and everything they did
just felt natural.
There was no weird force moves.
It was just doing good stuff all the time.
It felt almost flawless in the way that it just kind of just had control the whole time
Yeah, I'm just surprised with how much of a change it's been since their group stage performances
And the patch came out like this patches are godsend for them and they're exceeding our expectations too
They've come in with ideas that we weren't even theorycrafting when we were talking about nine class
Nobody talked about I only word theorycrafting what here was he'd bring out?
Yeah, it has been a really good patch for Paravision for sure and in this game, Purge, what stood out most to you?
The stuff that I wanted to look at had to do mostly with the pressure on the map that Paravision did.
I mean, at this point in the game, 9 minutes in, Malarine on the Death Prophet, it's a strong hero.
He went for a fast vessel that gives him kill potential, more damage, raw HP, all things you want.
And Cryptstorm looks great here. If he had 3 man Cryptstorms like this, he's doing 900 damage, he's tanking the whole team.
This is the glory of death profit is at this point in the game, but eventually it's gonna start falling off a little bit
Here we are 15 minutes into the game. Omar does seem like sideline ganks, but look how vulnerable he is to these these ganks here
The orchid the pit of mouse. He's just a vulnerability
He's somebody on the map that can die and this is when they started getting their net worth lead when they're getting kills like this here
Here's a Aegis fight Falcon slightly behind
The first death for clink's was not difficult for him to get much done there
Then they're gonna see void spirit try to escape same thing hit a mouse damage over time
Stealing spells to kill and even no one ends up catching Skeeter on the on the escape as well
Edict is gonna spot him too
So they just started getting more and more gold advantage of the death prophet who looked decently strong before is kind of just a
Vulnerability or you can like delay his death, but he doesn't do that much damage
His disables starting to get countered by DKBs and horrors and things like that
So their draft just kind of fell off. I wasn't super inspired by the death prophet items
They were fine, but it just wasn't the perfect hero to win in the game
Yeah, I mean DP against Brutus is a horrific matchup. I guess time passes. You can't do anything
He kites all of your spells. He likes to steal through your damage. It's just this matchup is a joke eventually
Yeah, it was it was a rough one for Falcons and we talked earlier a little bit about how there's a lot of teams that
They've come up with their own ideas and how there's a lot of teams that try to see what other people are doing and doing well
And they're like that's something that I'm gonna use is do you think Brut mother is gonna be one of those quick?
that we see here come out. Oh, what's this very specific as I know you wanted to take a little bit of a closer look at the carries
Yeah, I wanted to look at satanic versus skitter because I think satanic I think sense the patch
I agree with me or he really has shown a lot
I think he's getting been getting to play more of his heroes
And I think I also agree with the way they've been drafting they've been going back to the previous
I was just last pick satanic heroes
Just don't think about anything else they prioritize second pick in this game
And they give him the last pick both times and I think it really shown
I think he is the best player on this team to give last pick to and I think he is the player that shines
whenever you give him all the tools. I don't think he's the first pick player.
He's not the kind of guy who wants to play in counter matchups. He wants the best possible game matchup.
And I think with the new patch it lets him dig into his, you know, his brain bank of all the good mash-ups,
all the, this is the best hero against that hero.
I think you can see it here. Like, Roo Mother is something that I think other teams could try,
but it looks so great here because he picked it in such a perfect game.
I think that, you know, lends itself to Satanic's excellence in the series because I agree he looked like the Satanic of all those
The kid that drops on the scene everyone's like holy crap. How can we beat this guy? It's too good and
Good news for everyone. We're gonna see me continue to see him sip some tea during the drop
That turned out to be
As a provision does move forward now
They're not the ones that still have to play today in the low bracket
But we're gonna take a look at the bracket and see where it does put them because their opponent is already known because it's gonna
be Aurora that dropped down to the lower bracket yesterday and
And that seems like a tough matchup as well, Paarge.
Yeah, I mean, every single team that's left is amazing, frankly.
We're looking at top six now of a 16 team tournament, so...
Getting to the end, I mean, you've got to beat these teams if you want to get through,
and after watching Paravision do what they just did, I have a lot of hope for them.
They looked on fire like I could see them upsetting Aurora Gaming right now,
and I don't think I would have believed that at the start of the day.
Yeah, I agree with you entirely.
They've just powered up so much with this new patch and you can see it on their faces as well
Like they look happy they look excited to play in their interviews
They sounded so confident and they're the kind of team where even though Aurora has been excelling this entire tournament
How do you really prepare to draft against Paravision because nobody knows that they're gonna pick until the day that they pick it
Yeah, with other teams
They're still picking along in the same maybe one or new one or two new bands sprinkled in maybe a new hero
It's sprinkled in but it's been Beastmaster
It's been a personal back to the Phoenix now. There was one big question mark
We had at the start of this series in particular in regards to para vision because new on the stage was triple S
Yeah, he is very much new to the stage. We talked about it being his first major
I mean, you know his first land performance and I think he knocked it out the park
I think he's been playing amazingly
I think he's really crucial to the way this team plays right they got what they consider doing more of the typical
Offender right DM plays sort of the situation of weird heroes
SSS plays all the standard stuff. They pick him as hero early. He gets countered and he doesn't care. Both times
They get countered and he owned anyway, and I think if they keep playing like this and SSS keeps flying like this
I could see them make a run all the way through and win the entire tournament
I genuinely think that is not even a stretch and that is rare that you see a team go from the state
They were into the group which was a travesty to the state. They are now which is looking
Insanely strong, maybe bordering on unbeatable so far, right? They haven't lost the game since the patch
Yeah, potentially also extra good for triple S that with nine class the way he says it
You know we're gonna go back to you got about nine class heroes
Otherwise you lose and if you are banning nine class heroes
It means that triple S can get his time can get his underwear with no problem
Yeah, he's been able to get like good heroes for the game. Honestly, like he got some little response
They did pick underlord. Maybe it looks a little bit goofy, but good against the void
It synergizes with the rubik to reduce the damage that the enemy squad is doing like he's just
doing staple stuff, he's not getting stressed out, and generally when players like this start
off on their new land and have a couple good games, it usually carries them for the whole
term. It might not last for months or something, but to have one good turn around your belt
is going to do so much for your nerves long-term.
Yeah, it's looking good for Paravision. If it continues, we'll of course have to
find out tomorrow morning when they're going up against Aurora, see if they can
continue their success. For now, we're going to see if other teams can continue
their success we're gonna have a break and of course things are gonna happen
here in the arena no worries for that but after that more DOTA here for ESL
on Birmingham with extreme gaming taking on team spirit.
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anti-mage he swore to eradicate all magic leading a blood-soaked path in his
wake but even a path of endless vengeance leads somewhere and for the
The animatron led straight to her.
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And Tails from the Lorekeeper, Wei, Part 1, brought to you by DHL.
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And I'm here
She's in pain
When you see I'm in your mind
I'm in your soul now
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If I step on and you know I won't miss
Head in the clouds, I was never looking down
Had these real big dreams, trying to hear that crowd
Think of my family, I wanna make them proud
I can't hear my haters guessing
I hear another voice that's sitting on the ground
Now I can't hear all of the sound
I can never slow it down
Until I take the ground
Can you back on me?
Just because you see?
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The things I've done really seek all of those wicked dreams
I turned you back on me I just because you see
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I'm on top and I know what that brings
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I'm in charge, pulling them strings
I don't lose, everyday wins
Spotlight change and I'm getting locked in
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Caustic of my shine, I'm giving up now
Always said that I get it all out
With a big family, I'm doing them proud
Yeah, watch me whip, on the top
And get in to town, I've been a king
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They want to test me up in two boards. Never boxed in. I've been breaking down walls. I'm a whole team. I've been open in fours.
One, not five.
It's time for another Chex predictions. We've got the playoffs ahead of us, Avery.
So we're gonna be talking about making our way through all the way through the play-up predictions all the way through to the grand final
All right, we'll start off with team yandex versus team spirit team spirit team spirit
We're not gonna go yandex, you know whatever you want
I'm going to you smart where I think we're supposed to agree
No, that's how this works off. So I'm sure give my opinion and then you deal with it
Okay
Well, I guess we're going spirit because I don't think every student changes mind great Aurora versus tundra
Tundra, okay, at least we're agreed on that one lower bracket mouse versus extreme stream
I knew you were gonna say extreme mouse
No, it's a mouse speed
It's going to run extreme out of the game. No xxs was popping off back in prime form
It's a new patch, which means joway can't mess the draft up easy dog. Yes, we're going extreme
Valkans versus Parivision. I think Valkans, they have a system. Things haven't been going well for them.
They went back to that system. Even if that system isn't going to work for this patch, it's going to work right now.
Okay.
Alright, Valkans. Back to the Upper Bracket. Upper Bracket Final would be pretty due to you, Spirit versus Tundra.
Please tell me you're going Tundra.
Y'all go Tundra. I mean, they're going to be the home crowd favorite. That's why I'm favorite.
Oh, okay.
I wouldn't actually favor them, but I think that is the secret checks back here.
They have the one British lad right right the crowd is gonna go insane for the one British lad
So whole advantage speaking to a people under a Aurora versus Falcon's say Aurora when then we would have yandex versus extreme
Oh, yeah, thanks. I think so too. Thank you top four teams are the top 14
I don't think anyone's making a run and then claim to agree with that
Which means then the matchup is going to be Aurora versus yandex Aurora
They do look good
But I do not think that they're actually going to be as good as they are.
People keep underwriting this team, and then they just keep winning.
Aurora to the lower bracket final, where they will meet Spirit.
Team Spirit on land.
Aurora might have more momentum, especially going through the lower bracket.
My heart says Spirit, but my mind says Aurora.
I'll take Spirit.
I'll take Spirit.
I think I might go Spirit as well there.
And then we come back down to Spirit versus Tundra, the rematch and the best of five.
They no longer have aura when it comes to best of fives.
They're no longer like, oh, damn, you can't take on spirit
and a best of five.
Too many teams have beaten them in finals.
I think it's Tundra.
I think spirit only, man.
It's about time.
No way.
Actually, no, spirit's not going to win.
No, they're not.
Okay, I'll take it.
Yeah, we can agree.
Tundra.
All right, so there you have it.
Our check's predictions.
Tundra is going to win ESL one Birmingham.
Look at our creative signs, we're going to see who did the best job, and the winner will get a very special prize.
It is a golden ticket to join us on grand finals to see who will win the mega prize on the Super Drop.
So, let's go ahead and take a look at some of the signs. How are you guys doing? You ready?
Fantastic, all right, I'm going to review some signs here. Let's see what we got.
Greed is good, very good. Yachto Road, go to twoirland.com. What's it like being the only Irish go-to player?
We're doing a LAN party in three weeks' time in Belfast.
You know, come on.
I'm sure, yeah, yeah.
You get even more drunk than here.
Thank you, my friend, absolutely, all right.
BKB has an active question mark.
By Carrie dying of 15 minutes, no buyback,
I think they had vision there.
So true, so true, absolutely.
Oh, this is nice.
Windrangers trash, very nice violence there.
I love it, you're sucking up to me
and that always works, well done.
All right, nice picture there.
A punch theme one.
Look at like Largo, you don't have to ask me twice.
All right, Ari, you have my heart.
Lean us feet, hello, so good to see you.
Hello, all right.
Big Techies great again.
What a slacks feet smell like.
What just for a chin?
You're so right, you're so right.
Thank you so much.
Electricity, that was tsunami, you win a one.
All right, Birmingham beer, Quinn meeting at the 1v1.
Where is the cobalt?
This is a pretty good sign.
Oh, oh, the real NPC to MVP.
That is a good cobalt, that is very good.
Say once they panic, oh, the Largo Brut!
Ah, beautiful!
Legion Commander Jungle, not again!
Get out of here, dude, nobody likes that again.
Boo!
I heard one boo, and I agree.
What is the best feud in Dota 2?
And they're flipping, Tusk versus Bristleback.
Absolutely true, oh my God, look at that!
They made a Tusk versus Bristleback!
Oh, okay, that is pretty tough.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, all right, all right.
What does Slugz know about the hoodwink, Webz?
Thank you so much for coming.
You can't be satanic, there you go.
Fantastic, hello, are you streaming here?
What is this?
It's just video for our...
For just our home load.
Oh, okay.
It's like, you can't lean on the loose.
You can't lean on the left,
you can't lose in the right and vice versa.
Okay, well, we only have one broadcast here,
so I'll have to ruin yours.
All right, I just said a nasty little word there,
so they can't use it.
I was stupid and this guy, do you know each other?
Yeah.
Who is this stupid guy?
My best friend.
Aw.
I don't think you're stupid.
What's your favorite hero?
Yeah, he's got stupid.
What's your favorite hero?
I mean, the sign might be true.
Oh, no, no, no.
Well, keep thinking about it.
We'll come back to you.
Don't worry.
Smells like Team Spirit.
Love it.
Love it.
Oh, nice.
Kaz here.
Beautiful.
The White Kiz.
Ka-ka!
All right, very good, very good with the outfit as well.
All right, well, crowd, I've got some finalists here for you.
I'm going to need your help.
Excuse me, Lena Spee, could you please come up to the front, please?
All right.
All right, everybody, everybody's here!
All right, crowd, I need your help on this one.
I've got three for you, and I need your applause to find out.
Do you guys think it should be the Largo-Bah, the Largo fans?
Largo!
Should it be the custom 30 printed tusk and bristleback fight club?
And should it be king Lena's feet?
Damn this guy already thinks he won Jesus Christ
All right. Well, we're gonna burn it down to the bottom, too. I love you Largo boas. You guys did great
Alright, final two. Let's hear it crowd. Should it be Toss versus Bristleback?
You're cheering for them, Lienus. Alright, it should be King of Lienus beat.
That is so unfortunate. I think you did win.
Clearly these guys should have won. You're incredible. I'm so sorry. Come back tomorrow with another great sign.
I love this, but the crowd is out of their minds and they chose you. Any victory words?
My name's Jeff.
Okay, thank you so much.
Alright, well, congratulations my friend.
You have won the Golden Ticket, baby!
Free!
Well, if you survive to Sunday, my friend, we'll see you then.
I might do it, I don't know what to ever see.
I might die tomorrow night.
Based, alright, let's go!
Thank you so much, Lena Speed!
We're gonna get out of here!
Guys, check out this fantastic piece on Team Spirit
as we get ready for our next series!
Making the playoff still good, to be honest.
We wanted also the first play, but the second one is also okay for us.
I'm actually so excited because Crowd gives energy like nothing does.
The duo comes out too late, all your fart is a liar, but we've talked about this before.
The son with the same kanto is there, not letting a single member of his team die, a responsible captain through and through.
80% sure that we can win this tournament.
Like usually we either suck at tournaments at first and then or just we win.
But for now it's like kind of hard to deal with.
I mean we won a lot of tournaments. Yeah, it's the odds, so in price there's... I'm missing only if you're so one.
At that point, he will have the entire Thanos hand of rings completed, but I think he's
maybe underplaying things if he said that they've only won a few tournaments, but so
many of them are against a Disapponent.
It's time for our final series of the night, and I'm not biased, but I do think we saved
the best for last.
It's time for Spirit taking on Xtreme.
I get chills every time I see this match up, too.
an absolute banger, especially in Birmingham, one of the best crowds in the world.
I'm sorry with everyone, but when I say that, people always say, like, no, actually it is
better, but there's something beautiful about a Birmingham crowd.
And with this series, it is a match made in this camera, I'm very good at my job, match
made in heaven.
Not pandering in the slightest, obviously, but so far they've been showing up after
both the players and the crowd as well.
Day one is delivering in spades.
They really have.
It's been a great day.
I heard from Klaas in that pre-match interview. He said nothing gives energy like the crowd does.
So if you guys want to see him play better, you have to get really loud.
Any Klaas fans in the house? Any Spirit fans in the house here in a Birmingham?
There we go. They're holding back for XG. I know it's dinner time. They're going to come back quickly midway through the draw.
Haste yourselves. Especially because often times when these two teams go head to head, it goes a long into the night.
Yeah, these guys are are no strangers to barn burners. I think they have the tendency to have the longest most epic games
And I agree with what collapsed as of the crowd powers them off
I think both these teams play much better on a stage and specifically a stage with a crowd
I think that energy it makes them play better
I think a lot of these players on the XG especially our older school players
And so I think having that that crowd is more what they're used to in an older age of Dota
And so I think this brings them back to that that old era where they were the dominance teams
They were the goats I think especially for army think back to some of his iconic roster
So I think for both of these teams, it is awesome to be here.
And I'm just excited to get to watch these two goats go at it.
It is tragic though that one of them will have to go home because this is still the lower bracket.
This is still elimination and extreme only just narrowly fought their way out.
We got to see them just like five hours ago, T.
And it was not the smoothest way to move through this bracket.
It wasn't, but it was the perfect way to progress for a bracket, right?
The fact is you lose a game, you know exactly why you lost it.
And then to show the adaptation.
There's some reason why this series is going to be good, because both Spur and Extrude, they're not afraid to go,
you know what, we kind of fucked up, but we know why we fucked up and we're going to go fix it.
So this entire best of three, we might be seeing things in game one, that won't even be seen again in game three potentially,
because both of the captains, the coaches, they're not afraid just to throw a new hero into the mix.
There's so much value in, at this point, what? We've seen four series in Bracket,
and then we have the tiebreakers, so there have been like seven series of tier one Dota on this patch so far.
and I don't see a trend yet at all.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's legitimately...
I don't think I've ever seen a patch quite like this
with so much diversity, if heroes between teams, it's honestly crazy.
Yeah, it's starting to feel like you and your players, right?
Like, what is it that stood out to the players on these teams
when they look through the patch?
And that's why we saw Paravizion have such a standout performance
because they have players that look for kooky things.
So you're in extreme gaming, might not get that crazy,
Not that clunky, but there's still teams that have busted out pocket picks time and again.
Maybe, you know, you know, it deletes fast, you make a pretty good tournament.
Next time round, Valve can maybe delete talents, and then they delete inmates and delete aggs,
and then we have like nothing.
Well, all the things, you didn't even mention neutral items.
That's usually number one on most of the...
I know Cinder and Loveson, that's why I want to keep them in the game.
But, you know, I think there is a product of deleting sign, which was so, you know,
gripping towards competitive Dota.
Wouldn't you take that away from a pro player?
It is really anyone's game on kind of how to play the game once again.
And for Spirit in particular, they are no strangers to having to adapt quickly whenever a patch drops,
especially mid-tournament.
But what does that mean in terms of their trajectory for success?
Yeah, so I actually took a little bit of a deep dive into seeing how Team Spirit have done on recent patches.
And no, these aren't all the patches.
These are the tournaments that dropped within seven to ten days of a new patch or during a new patch.
And what I thought was really curious was that the ones highlighted in yellow, as you can see,
adrenly, season 27 and season 25, these are the ones that the patch dropped mid-tournament.
They got first place in season 25 and second at season 27. So it feels like when it comes to patch
adjustment, they can do it mid-tournament quite well, but when the patch cooks for a little bit,
when it's been like a week or two, they just fall off suddenly. So I would say, based on this
history, they're in a good spot to just clutch through things with touch.
Thriving in the chaos, that is something that we have never been too surprised that Team Spirit is able to adapt to, but still, the results being that clear are shocking, and these are the five players that are going to be making it happen.
Quinn, we got to see the opening ideas of these teams. We got to see Spirit play their upper bracket series earlier.
Where are you putting them right now in terms of adaptation to this new match?
I think they're not fully there in the way that maybe a paravision is in terms of having all their ideas clearly battened out.
I think they are decent on it for sure and I think their form has been steadily improving over the course of the tournament.
And I think that's always like the spirit thing is they're always improving, they're always learning and they have to hit this breaking point
where they've learned enough that they don't drop that series and get eliminated because I think they keep the winning going.
This team becomes an unstoppable snowball.
And by the time they've reached the lower bracket final, it's just, it's topless.
And they're going to annihilate you in the lower bracket and then win the grand final after that.
But I think they're around the breaking point where they need to have a really good grip on things
and get through this series because they can get through it, then the confidence and then the, you know,
at least not a guy eaves, Gatoro comes through and then you've got problems.
And Yandex did find a way to add that roadblocks.
He, they took them down and brought them down to lower bracket. How'd they pull that off?
I mean, they had some really nice bands against the spirit in the upper bracket series.
And what Quinn was mentioning, I think that variety check, the spirit on the new patch,
you learn a really great lesson.
And like their game three draft, you look back at it, it wasn't the one but for Yandex,
of course they were able to win out both game one and game three.
And of course if there are two heroes here that Quinn is very well versed with, the
Leshrac and the Panglir, they had just a really good focus instantly, right?
What is good?
And why we've seen today succeed a lot of times throughout the series, is these
heroes.
So I think maybe XG, if you are wanting to make this a competitive series, take
a little look at Yandex.
steal a couple of their bands and I want to just denote the life stealer band
right the one that Spirit won with. To me I think life stealer a great hero got a
really nice buff but should it really be first base band I think that's maybe
reactionary and that could maybe we get forgetting about between these two
teams for now. Yeah we've seen the life stealer go through and just not look
that great even though it's a strong hero on paper I still think that it's
a hero that has to come out later in the draft and be countering a lot of
different kinds of heroes especially for teams like extreme gaming and Spirit.
While they do have players that on paper are super hard carries, they look best when
the carries are able to connect to their team.
Like we saw Ame play Leicester today, not looks so good, pick heroes like Weaver and Monkey
King that can connect and look so much better.
Yeah, I mean I think they also want their hero picked later in the draft, which goes
back to first phase NAICS ban, it's going to be getting a little ahead of yourself,
right?
I don't think Ame or Yatora wants to have first pick carry.
They want that last pick, they want the 18, they want those juicy spots because
they're the star of the show, they're the anime protagonist and in some ways they
kind of are, right?
They put their money where their mouth is, and so I think you have to give them tools to succeed in the way that they want to succeed.
And if they want to succeed ahead to head, what is the last time that Extreme Gaming have succeeded, Quinn?
It has been a bit of a hot minute since we've seen them want to land, but these two teams have some history in that regard.
Yeah, so the last time that XG won a Tier 1 LAN was Snow Rui over a year ago, almost two years ago, against Spirit.
You know, we all know these teams have a story matchup.
But I think whenever it comes down to the really clutch moments, XG tends to have a little bit of an advantage.
I think there's always the yator vs. ame, the too much respect, all these memes, right?
But I think there is some truth in that. I think extreme for whatever reason, when it comes down to the line,
I think they have a slight advantage over spirit.
So I think even if, you know, maybe you can say spirit's form is a little bit better.
I think XG, it's been a long time. I think they're better on land.
And I think it's got that slight advantage over spirit.
So I'm looking for them to show up and show us the true, you know, like TI level, XG form.
I mean the clutch factor from extreme gaming to me really comes from one player and that player is xxs
Whenever extreme gaming or like popping off on land, it's off of his plays and him holding it together through really difficult matches
We even saw that TI where they got grand finals most recently
It was all xxs powering them through some really difficult situations
Yeah, I mean you cannot fault the guy right even earlier today in their loss in the game 1 to Mars
He's still putting on a show the brewmaster as well
And then you look towards the support and they stepped up a lot for XG with the dazzle tusk one thing to note
No, I think XG they they're showing more depth in the patch with their drafting
Well, I think spirit the reason why they are in the low bracket is because they just had a really mad draft day in the upper bracket
I'm yet to see XG refold her with their drafts on the new patch with spirit
They've already shown like they're not really accustomed to it
I think that maybe the experience in the coaching role might come to light as well in the series
Like that prep has to be you know S tier to progress through the lower bracket
So then how much am I allowed to read into the series that these two teams played, what, like three days ago, where it was a 2-0 for Team Spirit?
Do I attribute any of that to what's moving forward, or the environment's changed? We're in the front of the arena now, and I think that was also pre-patch as well, that series.
I think so. I think the patch and also the time, I think both these teams benefit a lot from having a little more space, a little more time.
I think they benefit from a longer tournament with more games to learn.
I think in some ways they can be slower learners compared to maybe like a team like a paravision and so I think they've both changed a lot
And I don't think that series is too indicative of what we'll see here today
I honestly think a lot of it comes down to who woke up today who's on form who is you know done the good prep
I agree that I think the coaching plays a big deal. This is Milan's first. I think major tournament is coach
Ford spirit for sure and I think for any team in general in a long time
You compare the Dejawey who's like one of the most legacy people in the entire scene
And so there is a little bit of a differential there
and I wonder if that plays an impact on the series.
It also helps that P-Vision handle Falcon so quickly, right?
XG, they're not tired, right?
If this was like a repeat of the Liquid series that we had at Valahia
where they're playing like the longest day in the history of something,
or second longest, that could play into fact.
But XG, they look at that series, we've got to play already.
So, yeah, they're going to be pretty good.
And then in terms of that previous series,
FV, if I'm ignoring the Spirit vs. Extreme result
that was three days ago,
I can at least get some data from Extreme series earlier today against Maus.
How encouraged or discouraged were you watching them get that victory?
I'd say I'm encouraged, but just to backtrack to a previous point,
what encouraged me was when Ami was playing fast heroes that could play with his team.
I felt encouraged there. That game won, like these lifestealer-type of heroes.
I don't think he should be bringing them out in these lower bracket finals
because while they can work for him throughout this whole tournament, even during group stages,
when he was on an AFK farmer, they did not look good.
Like a... like jug maybe?
He's a big fan of Jug.
Yeah, for sure.
I'm not buying that one.
No PTSD whatsoever.
No negative associations.
And I guess in terms of spreading his wings, he's been not really locked into any one hero.
He has been doing a little variety platter in terms of carry picks.
Yeah, he said in the interview that he's happy to play whatever he thinks is good,
but that's pretty much how he's always drafted.
It's like a strong foundation in the off-lane with some teamfighter support
that will hold his hand the entire time, die to 12 smokes in a row, and then Armae will be like,
I will out-carry you. Like, that is always their archetype. So he is going to be creative.
Sometimes, you know, I think he might be too creative, like he picks too many heroes, and if
you just clean it up a bit, maybe they'd play better, but I respect the fact that they always
seem to stick to their guns on it. Yeah. On that note, I really hope that they could
break that archetype a little bit, because even though Team Spirit did lose in their
upper bracket series, Lara looked pretty strong. And I think when Lara was playing better,
You have to think about drafting around the mid lane and shutting him down
So if you're extreme gaming and you're building these drops just around Ami and not about how to activate NTS with your support
You may you might run into the Laurel issue because especially in his storms here. He was putting games on his back
He looked he looked good. That's why I guess Yandex is focused on that upper bracket
As you had pointed out to you was quite a bit of Laurel targeting in those first-phase bands
Yeah, no 100% and the return of large spirit has given them a new lease of life
I think pre Lars return the ability to play the comeback to the late game
It was fading like spirit was losing all their aura and then lull back in the mix like the things he does in the early game
Sure, he might die here and there
But it's those deaths that kind of like create a domino effect you wait now collapse has got an extra jungle camp to farm your
Toro's now got a BKB like these things all stem because lull is willing to stack up on himself
So that is like a big thing that you have to be ready for like if you fall into the lull trap
You now have you know ti winning off late enough cause sorry
I think you were telling me, Quinn, that Laurel sometimes shows up to a tournament and
decides to be the best player of that tournament.
Yeah, I think he's incredibly clutched, and I think he's also specifically better on a
stage, better with a crowd.
I think he's someone who shines under pressure, and in these random online games you see
a Laurel game as, what was that?
But I think on stage, when it really matters, Laurel can massively own, and I think he's
a seriously underrated player, and I think that lends to his strength, that people
don't think of him very much when they think of top mid players, but he is.
That's why I feel like maybe the best opportunity to see him power up in front of the crowd
is get to talk to the crowd.
Slex, what you doing out there?
Hello, Tsunami, and hello, Birmingham!
You guys all right?
Birmingham, I'd like to share with you a very small but deep story.
Alright?
Hello.
Would you like to hear a small but deep story?
Okay.
Alright, great.
Thank you so much.
I was speaking to some of the teams yesterday.
Some of the teams that were playing here today.
And you know what they said to me?
I said, are you excited to play in front of the crowd?
Are you pumped up?
And one of them said to me, no,
because I don't think anyone is gonna show up
on a Friday to watch us play.
And now, burming him, I want you to remind them
of how wrong they fucking were!
These boys have been here all day.
They have been pumped.
They have been hyped, and Byrne has shown up, especially for this next match.
We've got a lot of people excited in the crowd cheering out there.
Let's talk to some of them.
Bybcheck, we got a wave, man.
Why did you rave and then point to him?
What was that?
All right, what is your name?
Sorry?
What is your name?
Oliver.
Hell yeah, Oliver.
Who do you want to win this match?
Who do you, do you know who's playing?
No.
That's great, Oliver.
Another classic interview for us.
Now, why did you point to this man?
He wants to get interviewed.
What do you want to say?
Hi to my family, the Philippines, and my wife.
Hi, how do you want to eat?
Woo!
Now, I mean, I mean, he's in the breakdown.
After 10 years, this is my first plan.
Woo!
Let's go!
Guys, Philippines, go!
I got to give it to you very much.
Absolute clutching that you are married.
Well done.
Well done, my friend.
Absolutely.
Hello! How are you doing, Michael? You look amazing, man. How are you feeling?
I'm good. Good.
Who do you want to win this one?
Uh, Thunder.
Okay, well, keep those brusquies going, my friend. You don't absolutely don't go anywhere.
We'll get there eventually.
Hello! What does this say on here?
P-A-S-G-L-G.
Do you people know who's at this tournament?
Did you just show up?
What is this guy?
P.S.G.L.G.D.
Pickpock.
Okay, great, man.
I hope they're listening.
Alright, fantastic.
Okay, does anyone here
want to get ready for the next match?
Burn, I love you.
I need you, and I will tell you.
Coming out to the stage,
put your hands together
for Team
Our team's dead!
And their components, a team that many people in the crowd are ready for,
You guys have been in the front row all day cheering for Extreme. Can you help me yell for Extreme!
The players are taking their seats and we are preparing for the final series of the night.
elimination series that Xtreme is going to have to STAY BUFF if they want to remain in
this tournament, but boy is it going to be a tough one against a team spirit.
And as we prepare for the draft, Quinn up in the nose thing is something that's a little
bit troubling to me.
What's that Neil?
Is Pangal a hero again?
I think it is.
Oh I knew it all.
Man!
I don't think he's broken.
He's not what he used to be.
not the fearsome terror pangolin we saw in the past, but he is pickable and he's a flex
which is something that teams always like to have.
And I think for both these teams is a hero that all four of the players are comfortable
on, so collapse, Laurel, both prolific pangol players, and for XG, same thing, NTS and
XXS both really, really solid pangos.
And so I think it's definitely a hero we'll see either pick or banned in most of
these games, if not all of them.
T, the reason I sided with it is because in both of those wins that Yandex had
against Spirit, they first faced Dan the Pango, and I was led to believe that after Double
Jump gets taken away, I mean, Homie basically had his classes taken away before everyone
else anyway.
But he had some subtle buffs right, 7.4, he had extra duration as Rolling Thunder, he
does have the 20 talent to reduce the shield crash, so if he does get to the Ag, he
gets to level 20 with Diffusal and Glink, he can kind of role play Old Pangolier,
so he can consistently getting buffs to his ultimate, and that thing is scary when
you get to just run through the fight for what feels like the entire engage of it,
12 seconds plus.
He got some slosh buckle, shield crash damage buff, you know, slight little tweaks, but I like to think of it as heroes that didn't really have facets going into this new patch where facets were removed.
They got buffed by virtue of that, by the playing field getting leveled. It's why we see Earth Spirit feeling a lot better too in these rendered killing modes.
Yeah, that covers one of the flexes, Effie. You've been giving your flowers to Ex-Express, which has been well-deserved. Anything that should be keeping my eye on for the off-lane pool in this new patch.
I mean, his Brumasterd looked good.
So I would be really afraid of that one, if I were Spirit.
Not only that, it's like Tidehunter, it's been rising up a bit, just the little blob in the offlane that can exist and buy time.
And that's often something that you want to look towards XG. If they weren't playing like they didn't game 2, game 3,
I would be looking at talking about these slower offlanes that can just like stand in front and then give our main information.
But now that I've seen them succeed earlier today, I don't want to see that anymore.
I want to see aggression, the bruise, the play forward into the map.
to the map. There's a lot of opportunities for XG to mirror some of Spirit's moves.
They want to do the aggression, Quinn. A lot of aggression is coming out of F5 because
the homie has been on his tusk as the king well deserves it.
That's right, the tusk king, back way rightfully belongs on the throne, maybe, they're trying
to. And I agree, I think the aggression from XG is very good. The last time they
played versus Spirit in that 2-0 earlier in the tournament, I think part of the
big problem was XG tried to pick for a late game, and then Spirit just picked
better late game. It's just that I run and farmed, but lost late game anyway.
And so I think you've got to make a choice in this draft whether or we actually
play for late game and if you are actually pick the better late game.
So if you chill and if a farm, it's good for you.
And if that's not the case and you need to be okay to push the tempo and
run them over, play fast.
They tried in that second game early in the tournament, but just didn't succeed.
And so I think if they can execute a little better, then that could be a
very good style for them.
I wonder if FY watched the last series and was like, is Rubik a hero?
Oh, there we go.
Is that a time?
Or has he just abandoned that hero entirely?
I feel like if the draft enables it, they will pick it, right?
They're not going to be afraid to go for it.
Nine class is out here picking it, even if the draft doesn't
enable it.
I'm always picking it like second hero in the draft.
It's nine class, all right?
That's John.
Let's not try to over-analyze his hero pool, right?
He does what he wants to do.
Well, consistently, the thing that whenever we got FY
for interviews during Dream League,
the thing that he cited, and I'm sure most Rubik players
would say it, is that he was historically just
two-week in lane to justify picking him. So what has 9 class been leveraging now in this 7.41
Rubik that justifies these early picks? Rubik's got damage reduction now, right? Like, that just
makes him trade better and makes him a stronger presence than teamfights. So that actually cast
his falls. Yeah. Imagine casting falls on top of that. That's the correct response again.
I mean the man we just saw on camera there, we see him now, Panto, I think for me is always
kind of a big question mark for Spear, because I think when you think Spear it's
Dominic you think I'm a post-ca team you think of him just owning always being a big influence and they have not won a
Tournament yet a tier one tournament with Panto and so for me
I have my eyes on him
Can they actually win on the big stage because they have lost multiple finals in a way that is not typical for spirit
And I think he very much has yet to prove himself and has a chip on his shoulder
Yeah
I think the pressure is on him because in some of their losses all like the clutch potential of the late game when you see
Panto in those moments
He isn't able to clutch up and of course you can then reference the post-war of the past would have been able to do it
But he unfortunately has had moments on toss some more lots of 7.4 that hasn't really worked out
But it is a matter of like he has the skill you just need to get the confidence at the point and maybe at Birmingham
You can find that confidence just like this man is finding the confidence to down an entire picture on screen
Oh, wow!
We take those.
We take those.
We take those.
How of an attempt, my friend, but it's only day one.
Don't worry.
You'll get plenty of opportunities in the future.
Can we do that tsunami?
Can we do that, please?
Are we allowed to?
Are we allowed to?
Put it in the maybe pile for right now.
Maybe?
Maybe.
We're going to spit all over the monitors.
I'm pretty good at it.
I'm glad that you're pointing out Panto, though, because in terms of the picks as
well I don't feel like he has been spreading his wings as of 7.41 hero picks. I've been
seeing like the warlocks, the tree protectors, stuff that I would have seen a week ago which
granted I don't know if the five position pool has widened as much as other roles other
than like what, lich?
And we've seen Venomancer, I think that's a hero that I think I look toward to him
to see, you know, are you playing this hero? We've seen Enchantress and Paravision.
There are some, a spread a little bit and I think Warlock has kicked off some. Like
we saw Yannex prioritizing Jekiro but I don't know if Warlock is even close to
the same long labels before. I mean there's Batrider as well, right? I think 5 Batrider
looks really solid. If Spirit are willing to drop that for Panto, I can see that being
a very effective pick for them. I mean, Venom monster is kind of ignored in the Spirit Yandex
series right in the first phase of Bands. Earlier today, it became a first pick priority
or a band for XG as well. So Venom monster is suddenly getting respected or even picked
up. Other heroes like the Pangolesshrac, Michael should then become available. As
more time passes, these teams get more opportunities to trim, to pub, to look at the statistics
and see what heroes are the most likely to bring them to success.
As we get into game number one of the Elimination series, it's Spirit taking on Xtreme, with
Spirit targeting out the Shadow Demon, the Ursa first phase ban, as well as a Timbersaw
Xtreme, they stick to business as usual, they take out Doom and Largo.
I like the idea of banning Timbersaw, I'm not sure what first pick is going to come
out to justify it, maybe something like a Headwing or an Enchantress, but when
When you think about X-Lexus and his clutch factor and his ability to carry games, Timber
sells one of those heroes to do that.
Like, that's the hero that he does play, even though he hasn't been picking it recently.
It's something you always have to think about.
Yeah, I mean, it's also the double banner protection, right?
Ursa and Timber, they delete the bristles, the tides, the centaurs, kind of the foundation
of your mid-game.
Well, let's say your tour is trying to sit back and farm a bit, you need that guy
to stand up front.
Both of these heroes will delete that hero.
Yeah, I mean, it makes me wonder if they have something specific in mind, if they
I feel like it just generally counters collapses hero pool, you know
Like if this is if this is banning for a hero
It's also interesting because these heroes counter a lot of heroes like it's all the melee offlaners
So it's not easy to just directly ban something like you see these heroes and you're like that leads to something
But what is it exactly to tie it at Centaur is it you know, there's like a million of these fat stone offlaners
That's the joy of early day seven point four one right like you see the bands now maybe in a month's time
You're like, ah obviously make sense by the moment
There's a or a mystery kind of it also means that there aren't as many high-priority first-phase bands like a week ago
You have to take out the tree and protector the doom the shadow demon. I don't know them yet
They don't know why it is up in the air
Maybe if they can continue this logic for the entire patch that would be great when teams get like when they believe
They know what the matter is and they start hitting down these foundations. That's when it gets boring
First pick alchemist though. That's uh, it's not boring yet
Yeah, to be fair, I think post Birmingham, I'll say it's boring, but during Birmingham,
does he buy the axe, is he given an axe the way, is he actually going for the orcid and
breaking the game by himself?
There's a lot of new ones to Alchemist.
Quinn, I like your justification as to why Alchemist has kind of re-entered the meta,
you mind explaining it again?
Yeah, I mean the ancient camp behind the safe lane tower is back to a medium camp,
which is kind of why Alchemist was broken maybe a year ago before they changed that
camp was because you could drag the two camps together you have to spray them both or your five can just chain stack them and now
That's back alchemist he has those two camps again
Which means you get a much faster radiance and the faster you get that the faster you farm
It's it's it expands itself or whatever that you know what I mean
It's the grievous greed it multiplies and you farm faster and faster and faster the earlier you get it
So it matters a lot and I am shocked though
They first pick it because your Toro is not a player that typically likes alchemist very much
It contradicts the previous point made on the panel
Yeah, like when you think of him you think of the agile carries
You don't think of Alchemist even in patches where Alchemist is broken where everyone is first banning Alchemist
Spirit will just completely ignore the hero because they don't like this hero
What if it's a game on bait where it's like the Alchemist we've seen back in the day when giving acts was a thing, right?
It used to be also an off-hater, right?
I think 33 and set in that era of Dota would go, you know what?
I'll just shove my wave. I'll still want my acts for my guy because yes
There's a better camp for the safe lane, but there's also multiple camps for the off-lane Alchemist
Maybe Spirit have like a little cheeky playbook available or it's very simple
We want carry out maybe or maybe it's far as just blossoming as a player
Yeah, right here is that he didn't like before and when we sing carry alchemist look really good
It paired on this pouch
It paired with something like a Largo who buys an early axe and then alchemist eventually refunds the axe very early on gets the bonus
GPM the bonus damage it looks like busted actually refunding the axe to your teammates
So I wonder what kind of axe heroes beard are drafting around like what are they picking for?
Collapsed or Laurel that justifies the alchemist pick. Yeah, this time goes as you could argue
there's a little bit of voice work for science and then there's lagoes and there's so many
different options because to join that multiple heroes have really good acronyms but you don't
get to see them in light because realistically it's going to be a third item for the hero
or the fourth but when you get it thrown into your kind of inventory like for sure I'm
now pretty good actor right so I think there's 20, 30, 40 great options that we don't
even know about yet.
How about in terms of countering him as the hero, health restoration counters got
buffed significantly.
We're saying ancient apparition show up post-fascist support. Why not just go back to the traditional anti alchemist heroes?
Yeah, I mean there's also the I forget what it's called the staff the Corella the vill thing when you press and steals all the HP
Regen right that item is very very good against alchemist
I think they've already responded with the Phoenix, which is a classic counter against out because
It means a melee hero first of all
So he's not to go to killing the egg
But also you have all this high HP damage you have this percent burn and you're pretty good at going through the gate
and they'd be killing and fighting those camps and shutting him down before he gets to the six and reaches that unkillable
I'm farming dupe dupe dupe dupe point like I have supports that just don't you know like
Block the camp crazy idea, but just do something
This is the most extra thing I've ever seen those pick two team fight at the start of the draft
Oh, we're playing in front of a crowd. We're in lower back and we're picking team fights
But like a puck in this position
I think on 7.4 would be scared for the puck right there's multiple counters still in the pool
but moving into 7.41, I think teams are just getting more confident, just going, you know,
we'll throw into the mix. And I say that spirit, they go for the 7.4 counter to the mid puck
by taking the mid slaughter. You outsize the puck, you run down the river, you're getting the rune,
so you kind of win the rune trade. You kind of accelerate the game too quick, that puck always
feels like he's kind of chasing into the game rather than like controlling it.
Yeah, I mean, I think the two things these the slaughtered alcove in common is the minus
armor strategy, but I think this armor, that can be an avenue for puck to actually
defend himself and that you have a clear Sheeva's purchase here so your build has like been given
some clarity you're already thinking about that really early in the draft when you know your hero
is taking one of my builds even just starting build but these three heroes it's difficult you can't
buy a lincoln's because there's too many stuns you can't buy yule's if he buys an orchid so
i think your strategy is to tank up is to play on sunray behind you and to be not a tank
pocket is a little much but to be okay getting stunned a little bit because you're not going to
get 100% bursted so he's looking for things like Sheeva's he's looking to tank up a little
and NTS I think is insanely good on this hero.
You always talk about niches and players like this,
but when you play against this guy's puck,
you can tell why he picks at this early in the draft.
He's very, very competent on it.
Yeah, and so Hero that's hard to bully regardless of what you pick.
And Spirit have gone for the Lion counterfeit.
I mean, in the old patch it would have been the Shaman, right?
With the Hex, they go for Lion and Slade.
Lion did get a little bit of buffs,
but in essence it's very much a team Spirit here.
Like, Slade's up on Slade lanes, is another stun.
Now they've got three stuns.
This is where they can play make on the map.
Because this is where they can clutch up and find kills that maybe would not have existed without this pick.
They just push wave so easily that everything they mention AFE comes to light, right?
Like, sure they go for the Tusk and just keeping it simple, right?
I think the Tusk can have an incredible game this time around.
Any Sturble save on a Slardar initiation, out or lying, you have to blink in.
And I was like, oh, this guy's not snowballed.
I'm now out of place.
Do I have EKB available on my team following up?
I think Tusk can actually be a real, you know, sort of big playmaker here.
But they need extra damage.
I see Fenix as you toss, it's control, you want to fight in one area, but there's not that kind of killer hero right now to really kind of chop the heads off some of these heroes.
Yeah, I mean I wonder if Wyeth held the Offline this long, right? They could have picked it on 13 if they were sure there was Alchemist Care, so I wonder if they're actually uncertain if it's Support Alchemist or like you said, some Offline Alchemist, like if there's some trickle...
Surely there's some cooking behind it.
Behind the curtain.
There has to be.
Well, they went for the Mars anyways, they weren't willing to hold on for that long.
Yeah, I mean this is interesting because Mars is not generally a counter to Alchemist.
Alk is a farming hero, he's like tanky, he's speed farms, and Mars is relatively low damage
so it's not typically a hero you would see against Alchemist, he's better at his drows
and the squishy guys, right?
You've already got a couple stuns in your team, you've got Cust, you've got Puck for
Coil so there's some control already.
So it's an interesting pick to me compared to something like an Underlord or, you
know, I mean Timbersaw's band is something more of that nature that's higher damage
against the Alk.
Spirit, all of their heroes, they need the hero to initiate to do the damage.
They can't just throw a spell from the fog, right?
And when you look at all of XG's heroes,
they invite that type of aggression.
When you initiate, like, I've already mentioned it once,
but with the mask because, well, it's now four heroes
that if you jump into a fight on Spirit,
you're gonna be reminded, like,
are you taking the correct fight?
Because if you're not ready and on the same page,
XG will happily rebut to that.
Yeah, that's a great point.
Their counter-initiation is quite bonkers right now
on extreme gaming.
And teams here at Cat necessarily matched
that counter-initiation with a team fighting
spell of their own.
I'm sure they could take a team fighting hero now
18 but it's really gonna be hard to play into so they need something that can just make sure that once the initiation is there
It can stick to that task something that can hunt him on backlines like search for him
Make sure that whoever slaughter plus lion are fighting don't get saved
Laps is talking and that man talks you listen. He said piggy Dremel
that here was zero and three though so far and
This is an extremely weird reference. Yeah, it's four single targets done guys
I don't know if I've ever seen something quite like this, especially from Spirit of Teen the Prioritizer's teamfight and scale so much
This is straight up bizarre, and I don't know if I like it
Here's the thing though on the new patch
We said the same thing on tiebreaker day about
Paravid and picking the heroes that look really weird together
All they had to do was press their buttons well, and it worked so maybe it can work
It's all the Spirit's heroes will naturally be thinking about again
Ignorant some fun item, BKB and Blink. All three cores are saying the same thing and against XG was pretty good, a BKB and initiation
So yeah, I think for Spirit they are just playing for the you know what?
We'll farm our game whilst XG is farming and trying to get little old army online
We're gonna have a Slardar and XG to just delete army when he steps up
And we'll also naturally itemize in the first 20 minutes of the game, 25 minutes of the game to try and deal with you
I think Spirit's respecting XG by going we are just gonna hit creeps
We might play a slower game on paper, but when we're online we're ready
But I feel like they still need to diversify a little bit, like, assuming that it's an
Alchemist carry, then they would need the 5 to correct in terms of like, alien teamfight,
and the 5s that are historically good at that are things like what Winter Wyvern, Crystal
Maiden, like, maybe they're not the easiest to pick.
Ancient Operation potentially.
Yeah, I definitely think those are options, like they're considering all of them.
I'm still so interested by the fact that the first pick is Alk, but it honestly ended up being a pretty decent out game.
It's good against Mars.
It is bad against the two supports, but at the end of the day, any given court doesn't particularly care about support matches
unless it's like Huskar vs. A, then you care.
But generally, items can deal with counters.
So if they have some support counter, if you just farm enough, then it's fine.
So it's a game where Alk was first picked, but he's not fully countered.
Like it's still a pretty decent out game.
Now, oftentimes the carry can be the nail in the coffin for that, so I'm curious what Omnit goes for in terms of
is he shutting down Alchemist's late game, or is he saying we want to play faster and stop you from getting to the point where you're farmed?
I mean, how many spirits to provide?
Because he knows you will be triple quad jumped by Spirit.
So he does need to find that hero, and then for Spirit, is Alc just a carry?
Are they going to surprise us on the last pick by defining a new hero?
Even if they do, though, they don't get 24.
Check hero! Oh, great, sorry.
It's a carry Alchemist.
There it is, nothing special.
Jakiro is the most boring teamfighting 5 that they could have come up with.
It feels like they didn't want to try anything too crazy.
They could have been the fifth stunning guy now.
It's a macro fire, they needed something this real up there.
I mean, that could have been like a Winter Wyvern, so that could have been something fun.
But Jakiro, the twin-headed dragon, it rounds it out.
You can't really complain, it does what you need.
Secure the lane, get spur on lane.
I mean, there's an idea that when you're killing somebody,
you throw it down the ice path and Tusk can't really snowball
because he's blinking into the ice path, so maybe they see it as their security against that site.
Maybe. Drinking buddies can also potentially also then change it back the other way.
It's very true.
I'm just scared for army. Like, his draft already needs some holes to be filled
and now needs to run outscale and do enough damage to kill a primal
and a slaughter and an alchemist. It's a lot of damage needed for a carry.
Well, there's a carry who eventually builds a rapier if he needs to.
Gyrocopter is the 24th pick.
I think it harmonizes very well with the draft that they have going and what I like about it is that it'll get active early on
It's not some on the AFK farming game
That's not how you play Dio you need to move this hero to other lanes and make plays and it you know
It's a nice well rounded draft by extreme gaming
It gives life to the laning phase right the best way to delay spirit get online of course is win out the laning phase and then
As much as you joked about the rapier
I'm actually looking at for them to get some kills in the mid game
I'm like fourth item rapier potentially get the satanic the BKB like stand your ground
But yeah, it's a pretty simple looking lineup from XG whilst I think Spirit they're the ones who have been changing the script a bit
More than next year. Yeah, man. I think it's really cool. They picked right here
I think they chose the route of we're gonna play fast. We're going to attack you
We're not caring so much about like the late game of the scaling
I think slaughter and alchemists are both generally considered pretty good against gyro in the long stretch
So they've decided I think it's really good for their team chemistry and for the way their draft works together
They've got the aggression they can make moves and things and so I think they've decided and we talked about it during the draft
Are they gonna go the faster out of the slower? I think they've gone the faster out
And I think that's very exciting interesting to see yeah
The only comment that I would make is that if this patch has taught me anything from the games that we've watched is the drop
So it's very cookie cutter and makes sense
Don't end up working out as well as the ones that look very strange with a bunch of unique heroes the way that's fear it has
Embrace the uncomfortability although. I'm still left wondering why the alchemist if not the original idea of
here's some agonist scepter synergies that I'm able to be able to whip out but
I don't really see that out of spirits heroes picked so then I'm still left
wondering why the Alchemist but perhaps spirit will justify it as you said Effie
it does seem quite clear to me that everything I did used to enjoy about
oh yeah this draft makes sense to me it's wrong it's not how you look at it
it's a brand new era of Dota and a spirit and extreme are hoping to
prove that in front of you all in the crowd so let's get ready for our game
number one with Odiepixel and Fogs.
Good evening Birmingham, what a dream we have for you tonight here is extreme gaming going up against the experience.
I can't wait to see how this one goes down.
Both of them are coming in with pretty different approaches, right?
We've got this insane amount of team fight from Extreme Game where it's fixed for it.
It's all about the single target lockdown and just blow them up with the burst.
Yeah, much more single target and much more perhaps sitting back and waiting for those specific timings.
Like a complete DKB, looks incredible whenever Spirit's able to get them versus that mass team fight.
But definitely looking at XG, looking to set that pace.
This should be exciting.
We've only gotten to see Alchemist really played by Tundra.
We've seen the way that they economy play for it, right?
gets that Radiance, gets the Agonyms. He kind of just farms forever.
Well, everybody else just gets him that extra gold, of course, from that Ag's bonus,
and then they just play the game as kind of this four-hero.
So I'm looking forward to see what the strategy is going to be from Spirit
in terms of playing against this monstrous amount of team play.
And what you make of both ways the teams rounded up that draft.
You know, from Spirit's side of things, it wasn't the most exciting final pick, right?
They're coming to this.
Shakira, I think a lot of us felt that we might have seen the last of last
patch with these changes coming in, but it ends up being the one that they want to rest their final pick with.
And then from extreme side of things, you were sort of standing at me during the draw after you were
kind of wondering if they would have enough damage online to end with this gyro.
Does that sort of bring everything together the way you'd like to see it from them?
I can absolutely see it, yeah. You've got some bonuses, of course, too.
Because everybody's just going to be held inside of an area either from a coil,
either from that, or from the Mars arena.
You're going to be able to dish out that damage early on.
And eventually, we got to see it yesterday.
It was yesterday, right?
The agonims from the Mars.
Maybe we can get to these type of realms and bounds
where this gyro gets to have that crazy amount of damage that he's spreading.
I'm looking forward to a lot of things.
But the Jekiro that you mentioned, I think like the panel was talking about, they were just looking for that kind of...
Eh, let's get the round-up teamfight hero. He can get agonims eventually. It's one of the best support ones too that can actually function too, so...
Yeah, I can see the reasoning. And you said it too to me. There's a double hit. Sure, it's not the best versus...
Yeah, I've announced it.
But something to this maybe catch at a golf cart.
And also with just that additional hero, or, you know, they obviously could spoke to his primal.
Things that the toss is not going to have an easy time getting to save himself against. It's the panel that's on as well, right?
Jakira could also sort of first banner in the works when it comes to trying to bail someone out
Yeah, there's I mean everybody's got stuns right there could just be a splitbuck where FY blinks into a lion stun blinks into an ice path blinks into a
Unable to save primal beast all of it
So gonna have to see how that ends up going down and let's see how these lanes go
Yeah, because in terms of what happens up top as you say with this outcome is right now
You have the potential to get so much gold early on much
How do you play against now obviously with the change of the camps?
You know that's what referring to how much easier it is for the out to find money early
Like what do you do about that if you're playing against this safe line up? Can you slow that down somehow?
I think so. I think there's definitely potential for like X Nova to take you know moves through the gate block even those camps
I want to see players even do that right early on put a century or anything to block the camp versus this alchemist
Because that was literally the strategy when it first came out when it was super broken when I had those backcamps
You just have to slow it down somehow because in the famous words of course of sin alchemist games can be alchemist games
And maybe we are back to something like that. Well, you have to just deal with this elk
Yeah.
And I was certainly seeing some of the scenes already very much feel very comfortable going with the Alchemist on this new patch in that position.
I wanted to mention something else like, I just, I don't know, I'm seeing like the, you know, this recruiting champion now that you get two on a tier two.
It's so powerful for a hero like Alchemist. It's all about that health regen and attack speed and farming. It gives you everything that you want.
Kind of the lane setup so far. Also, Kame is having a pretty nice time on the first few waves down here.
Should be pretty free for him overall as long as you know the Phoenix doesn't leave him
If the Phoenix leaves him you can get killed pretty easily from that
The duo that they do have on spirit, but as long as the two of them are there should be a pretty good lane for on that
I want you to expect out of the mid matchup with the slaughter
Can you start to get a little bit of edge against the pocket?
You're able to get some extra denies in this matchup
At times, but I think that nothing is said should be able to hold his own
Just gonna be about the matching of the rotations and then the eventual early rotations where if the puck
it's caught from one stun the slaughter could kill you because you have used so much physical damage
That's something we're definitely going to have to talk about the physical amp panel did bring it up for spirit
They're gonna have that cross of case plus acid spray early on they can give them potential for any of these early objectives to if they get
Off to a good start because as we were mentioning xg overall, they definitely want to be the tempo setters this game
Now we'll see if I would have pulled that together
Yeah, mainly around what when when those first thoughts come online, and they're gonna have that kind of huge
We potential useful top-deck of thought
Well, they were stunned up from the neutrals my lannes instead of on some pannies. Oh, I guess was a quite pretty low this big
Oh
They'll get the first blood here extreme gaming and xxs should be able to walk away safely
You're sorry won't have anything at the moment of throw his way
So getting the kill in that first blood not losing anything in return for it
Got a love when the creeps turn against you stuns him right under everything there gets a nice tag team for fy
Toro will get killed get that Lotus will spend time bottom team spirit strike back over to get in under the
And he's down, run down next Nova, and Raph's coming out from our mag, and he closed it.
See, it's a little low, yeah, doesn't want to continue to chase on the map, so some of
that bit of an edge for the movement speed.
But Raph's going to be happy, you know, knows that both of the members of Team Spirit,
relatively low now in HP on this bottom lane.
So Raph's going to be able to, very likely continue to pre-fire.
The top of the CS right now at this gyro, he could ask for anything more here in this
landing stage.
Yeah, he's absolutely happy.
If Xnobar dies like that, sure, they're getting a kill, but he's, you know,
using so many resources for him, he's set up for success down here as he's already free-farming 24-5.
I like this hero, it's very interesting now, sure you lost this chop-shop capability which not everybody was using for the most ways of disassembling items,
but now you just get this afterburner for free which is pretty cool in terms of landing phase and chase potential.
Yes, your ulti course is a little bit nerfed compared to what it was before without the secondary strikes,
but I'm looking forward to see more gyro-copter.
Yeah, that makes for a bit of mobility, it's very handy against these kind of speedy heroes.
speedy heroes running after, Primele or the Slardar running you down and trying to run
away.
Now you have the difference faker.
Now you have the difference faker.
Now you have 5 heroes with stuns but it's a little fix to point out.
So in terms of sort of stage across the board, it's going to be a lot of weight on the
shoulders of fy to make those moves for the snow.
But yeah, it's not always gonna be that easy indeed as we said earlier, because of
how much spirit you have to kind of mess with those attempted tough plays that
FYI, getting this first blood is actually quite important, I would say.
The fact that you get to just have like boots, windlays, you're kind of off the map,
you're giving your Mars solo experience and you're able to just move and make this stuff with extra pressure is pretty nice.
It's something that Tusk's kind of dream of having to start with.
You don't really need too many items, like your items, your spells are expensive,
but usually when you commit all of them, you're going to get that kill anyway, so...
Having this stuff to start with is very nice, and he can definitely make moves to these lanes.
You can look to shut down on mid lane, you can look to shut down bottom as well.
Absolutely no one is surprised to see Fy get pretty mobile across the map around some of these early objective timings.
Because overall now for X-XS, he's got boots and double bracer, and yes, the hero is pretty threatening in a lot of situations, but you know, he should be pretty fine versus the two of them up here, if Fy wants to play around these ruins.
Yeah, if Fy's not messing around with the pool, they're going to be able to maintain the way even a pretty good position for X-XS up in that top lane.
lane. You can see already, you know, five and a half minutes in already getting 2k gold more out of the map with this lane set up, it's, you know, pretty impressive starting in the first five minutes from Extreme in terms of how they're handling all three lanes pretty much coming out on top of all three of them as you can see on the CS right now.
Exactly. The mid one especially, right, we've seen this spot are doing pretty good versus the parking situations but nothing they say.
He's stepping it up.
Yeah, he's had some, you know, not some of the greatest games that are on this tour.
He's had some rough appearances, but this one, you know, looking to be on this top four and over.
Did we jinx him?
We might jinxed him. He's got backup.
Ex-Nerva's gonna be here, and maybe he can turn and get a killaxe.
He'll get the dreamclaw out on towards the two of them,
and that's gonna set up for outfine Ex-Nerva to maybe bring all the other eight to him
and will cost him likely both of their lives.
Stuns backup from Rue, the Spirit will take out two supports, but it is low going down.
Good rotation's coming in.
And around that timing as well.
He gets the rune.
power in so nothing to say you know the enemy mid dead sure he lost with two
supports but he lives he gets the power in he'll probably take that yeah and a
thing for Laurel overall in this game is definitely gonna be concerning right
because he is playing versus that Phoenix and versus the Tusk there's a lot
of attack speed slow oh and I was just watching him attack and I'm like huh
he doesn't really hit that fast between the bitter chill and just the Phoenix
spirits that's gonna be really annoying for Laurel in the mid game yes his
crush will be very effective for his initiations but his overall building
up of these dashes? Might be hard for him. All that attack speed is slow. Seven minutes.
XG wants to steal this. Apparently do nothing to stay for it too. Looks like there's not
going to be much contest to pull from Spirit here. Yeah, they got a sack of it. Routy
besover, but there's no way they can push them off this stream game. We'll be able
to find both of the seven-minute Shrine of Wisdoms in that favor. A pretty beautiful
start when they're a team-fight heavy-focused draft. They're going to have a full, like
a big level advantage going into this early mid game, just from getting those.
Team Spirit.
I'm gonna lose this tower, it looks like.
Two of them.
Some decent damage has been done to it, though.
Yeah.
It's the half HP left on that tier one, but...
I mean, the big thing is, they don't want to lose this stack, at least.
Nice little juicy one that's actually just gonna steal a piece.
Hey, what can you do about this?
Oh, man, nothing to say.
Start to clear through it.
Team Spirit.
And they can't really do much to stop that at all.
They can just watch.
Laurel's too scared to swing in.
As we were mentioning, there's definitely some problems for this Lardar running into this lineup.
You can just get caught by so many different abilities.
And in terms of sort of the play style when you're playing with the safe lane out in this patch,
you know, how long is it until we see the out considered getting involved?
He doesn't want to be getting involved, don't worry.
To the river, they get the scone open over the walls, nothing to say, he has to follow up.
They've got the controls first and then the river.
If LoL can get out it looks unlikely, the arena's down from X-XS and he turns up, make sure that they get the kill and return.
Die 4 from X-Nover allows them to chase down Roar as well.
So even when they're losing their mid, losing up to the straight, they're still able to make Spirit pay for it.
Getting LoL, the mid and return, and also getting a support kill on top of it, Spirit.
It's losing 2, and XG, they're kind of fine with this.
As long as they stay ahead of Roar, keep that momentum going, and Army just continues to get all the space in the world down here.
Exactly.
So far the early game, kind of, but feels like it's all going to planet for X-Treme.
It does feel like it, and a little bit of, you know, pointing out small little changes that we've seen in this new neutral item.
I think this is one of the really nice ones for Gyrocopter early, because you just gain 25 damage.
There's no real 25 damage to your one item that ever existed before, and you're split shot against them.
This would be very useful for that increased farm.
Yeah, very valuable, extra bit.
Yep.
Straight off, you don't even care about it. Too much tools to gyro, and you die of the gang.
Yatana will be very happy. He's an Alchemist, and he got weighted dice.
Okay.
So he's going to be getting that extra, extra bit of gold too.
Let's see how the pace of the game starts to occur, right?
Is Spirit going to be able to slow things down, get that timing up?
Is XG going to be able to just continue accelerating things, as we said, with those levels that they got from the shrine as well?
See where the next big hit is going to be.
Put the three of them down on the squadron lane, Spirit.
Set up. It is Collapse Level 6.
He's got Lotus, 16-1, Double Ferry as well too, if you don't burst him, the toss comes
in or any of the other teamfight controllers, we're disastrous, they're going to invade.
Okay.
Try and take this tier one away from the top side, try and get vision control information
around that area that you thought it would have liked to stack up and abuse early on,
and then get the chance, they want to take the spot of the map away from Mervin.
They're very strong at the moment, fighting them pretty much.
Everybody having that level 6 hood, FY, very close to having it, Ex-Nova as well.
The supports on Spirit, as we said, a little star, flying only level 4.5 at the moment.
Spirit, they're probably gonna wait, let that tower drop, get their timings.
But the 3K lead, so you're already building up for XG.
And they're getting stacks too, that's the important thing that I'm watching from them as well.
At the same time that they are pressuring towers, XG does have a double stack ancient and triple stack medium at the same time.
It's pretty back down to the bottom lane, ready to keep that one held and safe, get their towers.
Any potential push from Spirit, and if you keep from Spirit, like they're playing very cautious right now,
they know that they're in a position where they can't really afford to overstep the mark and make any mistakes.
In the river, Lull, you try and get aggressive there onto wards.
Now, why, but they close down and snowballs up.
They're going to try and turn with the burst onto Lull.
And Lall's gotta run, the stripper knows it's gonna take down Lall, the final one!
I see damage reduction opens up getting the kill.
That's Lall dead again.
Not having an easy time around this pit lane.
You can see on the net where if he's falling behind,
it's gonna be a hard game to play the slaughter from behind.
And they kinda need him to rally around, right?
Collapse is probably gonna have to just be that difference maker
in terms of sacrificing himself now at this point
to maybe get Larl back in the game,
because the supports are struggling, they're mid-struggling.
Someone might have to take an extra back foot,
Let him get online. This tower is dying.
The smoke's up, Spirit up.
They're really anywhere to start this.
It's too hard.
I don't even have any sort of chance of getting in for a tower deny.
The comp risk showing themselves.
They're gonna continue to need to slow things down.
Until Collapse probably has the Blink Dagger, which he is pretty close to.
And they do at least now have Ruin Level 6,
so maybe they can look to make a dual move when they have that combo,
but for now, does feel like XG.
Great control of the map.
Level 7 on FY, Panto's still quat, not level 6 on the Jikiro.
It's gonna be scary too, because I'm mentioning for a collapse, right? He wants to probably get blinked and maybe try to make a move, but there's so many counteracting plays that XG can set up, or either to toss the puck to Mars.
They have three different, pretty much perfect ways to respond.
Let's see where they do go.
As we said, they do want to just hit the creeps on the side of Spirit, at least for those timings.
Let's show you what SG wants to do to accelerate things. It looks at bottom tower.
It's going to be the choice.
And their life, I mean, it's going to be a lot of investment into Blink, actually.
It is.
Blinks and BKBs, in particular.
It's going to be a lot of money from the initiation, and if they're behind, they're going to continue to be as they continue to lose kills across the map.
Now, when those Blinks come online, it's going to be so difficult to make plays
to allow you to actually win the fight, I'm sure you might get in there and get the open stun,
but are you actually going to have the damage to kill off any of extreme gaming?
Extreme gaming, their lineup, I mean sure, I sort of outside the puck, you know, you rely on the
control, but the rest are kind of tank play on when you have the burst of the finger and such,
it's not going to be easy kills for Spirit. No, the concern really is if you even do get
that one kill, are you going to be able to get out also, right? You might pop one target,
as we said, a lot of single target on Spirit, but the amount of overwhelming AoE damage that
XG has. Spirit has to be very kind of like perfect with the way they pick and
choose that pick off so they don't take a head-on team fight immediately
afterwards.
You find the chance. Catch Fyre, Fyre went to the courier's
snipe. When Fyre is going to get back up on the way, XG is trying to fire this when he's the
whole five man of team spirit so the rest of XG will fall back. They don't
want to start running to that fight there so Spirit get the kill but as
you're seeing it does require a heavy amount of reaction.
The Toro's got the Radiance though, so he'll be able to keep that farm increased but still showing up the fights for him dangerous.
So much burst damage, so much control, still very fragile until he does have, I mean honestly the BKB in particular but he's not going to go for the BKB next, you go for the ag so you get that extra GPM from your allies.
Well, GPM from killing creeps but they've got bonus.
They're gonna want to fight this 14 minute wisdom and they're not gonna be able to spellpax XS from getting a pick up on it.
They will line up the ice bar from the pulverizer, the enemy Sion has come into play, the enemy gets locked down on the wall's collapse.
The Toro's trying to enter in but collapse, he's already dead!
Dreamcloy holds down Yutora for now. They'll just back off both sides. I mean, extremely got what they came for.
They get the shrine of wisdom, they get a kill on top of it, and they don't lose anyone.
Nope, they used all their ult, and they're going to have to cleanly disengage without having to worry about much of anything.
Spirit tried to get something back for themselves, but just weren't able to.
Yes, I really do feel like it's going to be some time until we do see Spirit really just look to strike back fully.
It's going to be difficult.
That means you're going to be into these three cores that are farming very well, not just the cores.
The two supports are having a phenomenal time, as we were mentioning, for both Fy and Exnova.
And it's a good Phoenix game. Have to just keep looking at it.
There's just limited ways to hit this egg. I think Phoenix is probably going to be on the rise, even though we have seen the blind spot, whatever.
The miss rate disappear. It does feel very effective right now, versus these tanky heroes, anyway.
It's so much setup for a ride. You've got the arena, the recoil.
No one's going to be easy to run away from the egg. You just say, you can't necessarily kill it, and the high chance you're not going to be able to get away from it.
No.
Flaps.
We'll just need to get away.
A 4k lead still.
As Armand continues to be just behind that Alchemist.
Very impressive farm on the Jara to be able to keep up in that fashion because, you know, your Tori is getting the farm right.
This is not necessarily an Alchemist that's been slowed down, so the fact that on the Jara he's keeping up...
Can they get a pick off?
Impressive. They'll look to Fy.
Nice art.
He locks Rarl off with the Ice Pass down.
They will manage to chase and get the kill.
That's how they have to play right now.
Now they have to play right now.
They can get W to turn into a tower as well as Spirit, so they'll take the tier one down
on the bottom lane.
I think that's how they kind of have to play, especially when these cooldowns are on cooldown
right?
And these big cooldowns you just look for any type of pick off with your single target.
Get some type of tower pressure as well, so they will get that tower, you know,
not get the last hit, but either way he's happy.
Laurel.
Does not get the rune, nothing to say, it's a really nice one.
Yeah, but an excellent job of controlling those pyroons each and every time they
They're up in the mid lane extreme.
They have to jump over the side.
They're gonna swing over towards him.
He's gonna have Panto there trying to help out with an ice pop.
The jump forward comes in.
They have the lock down Panto as well.
It's green. They get both with the support.
Double kill.
But nothing to say.
I mean any time you show anywhere near to extreme,
especially when they have their ultimate stuff,
they're gonna be immediately on you.
And with this little lead that they have,
they're barely having to use many at all right.
like that for the arena, the coil to get these kills, they just need one of those
ults and they're gonna be able to take you down. Pretty much any of the disabled
speed you totally know he's just not gonna turn up and even when he has this
accuracy he's not gonna turn up right it's about giving it to your teammates
use it back if the extra greeble but definitely just continue to set that
pace on the side of XG. It's only 2k lead, but this is that kind of
alchemist thing that we see how fast he does arm. It's only gonna go up.
There's gonna be a slight inflected network on Yatora.
I'm curious what XG is going to like really accelerate things, probably that Aghanim's
on the side of Hame to be able to just go for these Roshan strike, go for that Torment
and when it spawns in the next three minutes.
I mean because that Spirit, I don't know if they're going to be able to contest that
Torment because I don't think the BKBs will be online.
It almost feels necessary to have it, at least on one of these two main cores, Collapse
in particular.
It's overall in this patch with these two lineups, you know XG, they do have
Hame on this Jara, is there not always going to still be that potential for
them to also play it slow if they want to and stay?
Or you really do feel there's still going to be, it's a riskier way to try and take the game.
If you have the option of getting ahead and shutting it down sooner.
Yeah, I just think if you have the option to, you know what the Alchemist is going to be doing.
You might as well look for those extra fights to get yourself into that better position.
I'd imagine they do want to continue to accelerate things, play as often as they can.
Pretty much every time they do have one or two ultimate up, at least go try to make it in use.
Spirit, they're just going to stick back.
Just sit back, BKB as we said is probably going to be the next big one for collapse when he has that to go for those team fights.
Still has to watch out for a punch, of course, there is that availability that's going to be there from the tusk.
In the creeps. Here we go. I'm not going to get aggressive here with the smoke.
Okay, number one.
See they can find down here on the bottom side of the map.
map.
You know that Collapse was around, I mean Collapse was around.
I see the snowball timing was there.
Oh my god, the timing!
It tries to cover the pulverize, but the speed comes in and Collapse gets quite a nasty
surprise there.
A bit unlucky he was farming the way through the snowball, but it happens, it does happen.
Blink already finished up for FY, very fast that he has this one already.
They're gonna get ruined as well.
Another kick.
That's great.
Looking very good here with these early moons.
Even being the one that's take both of those kills. It'll be happy about one. Oh, there's an amp damage bottom
If they use this potentially for the first with the amp I've never seen the amp damage
I don't think they did they might just be okay. They will now let them say can have eyes on it
They don't even need it
Maybe he can actually save up her plays elsewhere because they've taken down the bro's pretty reliably
They're looking super comfortable right now. Yeah
FY just cleaning up the wave as I guess you've got a kind of expect right because all the creeps
Well, they weren't that it little it was that way who's going to go new for them
Uh, yeah, unfortunately we got out of jumps here.
Honestly, even though it probably was going to be in trouble,
we could have been with the entire team waiting behind Fy to sort of back him up.
And the space is there, extreme.
If the Roche and now Aegis on this JaraCopter,
they want to keep pushing the issue, they certainly can.
And actually, one of the starter things too about that,
besides it being the snowball kind of thing,
it was also right after he got gifted an Agonim.
So he even gives even more gold,
because he died right after having that four-game crease.
So, unfortunate for the status period, but SG, very fortunate for those moves.
Free Aegis now, for Ame.
Looks like Tormentor, right? Tormentor time.
I think so, just keep taking off your objectives at this point if you're extreme.
And for Spirit, just keep him in the creeps, get those BKBs.
I do not want to get involved in a fight anytime soon, at least not until you're Toro makes the call.
When he's ready to get involved.
They're keeping the gold, right? This is the thing about this Alchemist, how insane it's really going to be, because of how much you enable your teammates and yourself.
It has looked pretty strong in some of the games that we've seen it, on teams play around it.
Another catch, XXS. He's quick to make the move up top whilst the rest of them are finishing off the Tormenter. Catches low by surprise.
They may be farming, but they still aren't able to fight.
And in the river as well, Fyre's ready to chase down further kills. Fyre's pan-soaked.
I mean, they're recognising.
He's got nowhere to go as apply and nothing to say or finish off the job.
Yeah, they're truly recognising. They are just completely avoiding us.
If we see anybody show somebody better be there to get that catch.
You can see that nice play from X-XS109 getting closer and closer for his BKB,
which will be quite good this game, of course.
This is the lack of teamfight that they do already have on the side of Spirit.
Alright, Yotaro, it looks like his call is one agonims is enough.
I need, I need BKB and you guys need me to start getting involved.
Absolutely, right. They need, they need this alchemist.
Just in case he continues to speed up that much more from X-Rainer.
So Far X-Rainer has been very proactive around the map.
My worry really is though, he is not strong on Yatorra.
He's got the BKB Radiance and this Gyrocopter is pretty tremendous now at this point.
Amé, all that gold and speed infuse onto himself of course.
They put us somehow.
Obviously once the Aegis is expired, find that chain still, right?
They have to kind of catch them before they get the chance to put the BKVs.
A lot of weight's gonna be on the line to get in there without opening hex,
so that they can just burst through this gyro before Army just starts raining out the damage with the flat.
Exactly.
I think I'm gonna look for a potential smoke move here.
There's a ward place. Ex-Nova sees them. They see this.
Oh, it's gonna be hard to catch them by surprise then.
And it's into Aegis.
This is a risky move from Spirit.
I'm the one that XG is going to be very aware of, maybe XG allow us support to get picked off?
Yes, why?
They will.
He'll tank it.
He sort of trades his life for denying them the amplified damage room, off to take that.
What?
Yeah, it's pretty good, but not bad, right?
You break the smoke and you stop a DD from them potentially getting to be able to catch your gyro or catch your puck.
You total, we'll be able to turn up, don't get the tier one.
Open up for that for themselves for once a year in this game.
How's the build looking for the puck?
I saw nothing to say going for the Parasmo build and then yeah, the Shibos is definitely going to be necessary
This game versus the Sardar and versus that Alk, super good. Sure
It's not going to be the heal reduction, which used to be amazing, but this armor is very effective this game
And a we increase can't can't write that off either definitely small things for the puck that is pretty cool
Can have some pretty decent impact on my BKB's done
And the spirit I mean we did see there obviously they were starting to get interested and making most sort of aggressive moves themselves
with that smoke. Are we going to see that again from that moment? Was that sort of a rare timing
that they felt that they might have had to be able to catch them by surprise and now
it's back to hitting the creep?
I think it was, I have BKB on Yatoro. Let's try to catch them with this off guard. Now
they know that I have this. Let's wait and be a little careful. But it is XG now with
everything at the ready, looking for themselves that move. At success, I believe his BKB
is coming on the courier as well.
I might just find Collapse here.
That is BKB.
It's true. He's a step ahead. He'll point at the vision. The setup. They could settle
for a straight up tier 2 tower push they want, still with a minute left on Armey's
Aegis. Good vision, start up here from Spirit, we'll build the watch that one over here.
The execution from Spirit has to be pretty insane in these teamfights though at this point. I mean I
say deficit even though the goal doesn't really show up but you can feel that you know the
strength from the ex-guse teamfight draft. Absolutely Armey is just getting it here,
all the timings that you needed to see from him on this gyro to really bring this lineup
from extreme gaming together and he's going to be getting buffed up to this the thing also about like
this drinking buddies is it gives this crazy armor right he gives 10 extra armor to a hero like gyro
copter also so he's actually sitting at what 28 and then plus even more right from the solo crest
though he can be sitting at like 30 what a good catch at the start of the game catch see if they
can turn this into more spirit that's not warded it screams around tiana is going to go straight
out polderax is there they're going to be able to catch up he's still got the ages for 10 seconds
They might wait it out.
Brinks collapse down low, ages five-six away from expiring.
They'll look towards the end and take it in, and it's out of his hand.
They're gonna be able to kill the end.
Oh my god.
Well, while they can turn the looks taken out of second time,
the readers out there is a good spin from Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex.
And maybe it's because they can't kill Arma in second time,
because with the back of Ex-Ex-Ex-Ex,
Arma is ready to turn.
Look for the end, but they won't kill him off.
Everybody's dying in here.
You're throwing collapse directs to the wall to get the ultimate cleanup.
A strong new Axe ended up managing to keep the fight extreme!
That ward, the ward in the jungle catching the puck?
Wow, I mean being able to do that in that situation is what we're straightening the kill-off
army the want and it looks like with Axe there's coming in, getting this two-man
spirit arena, then maybe army was still going to be able to clean them up,
but Spirit they played so careful around that second life off the gyro,
this spirit was actually able to end up coming out on top!
And Collab's going to show that he's very dangerous to deal with as well too,
Yes, he doesn't do the most physical in particular, but overall spread damage with him and moral
It's a lot for some a you saw him get chugged down just when he got corrosive pays from that trample
Absolutely really nice kind of weaving in and out of the fight there by collapse
I've watched this when he gets corrosive tier and then watch collapse get on top of him
I was like oh my god the damage he took was actually sir so fast it gets brought down extra control and down
Get collect collect. He played that perfect. He did and the Pope rise into the BKB used to
It's just over to the side of the fight getting back in there smiles there from your tour as he knows that whole series of events
It's absolutely
Absolutely, just put spirit kind of back in the driving seat this game for sure a massive team fight when for them there
That was probably one of the harder points of the game to get them to get that type of successful fight
But they fact they get the puck before everything starts now Lara also VKB
So now he's got protection to be able to not just get controlled and burst potentially from that Mars
Very nice move from Spirit. And sometimes it's just a ward that lets you get a catch like that, that gets you that ball rolling to get a team fight, even versus an Aegis.
Because that Aegis is about to expire.
It was. Yeah, and then they didn't even have to wait now. They dealt with it twice.
Really nice plays.
Might have been a bit of a different story now.
He must have been pretty close to the Daedalus before that whole kind of scenario went down.
He had a Daedalus in that situation.
He's almost certainly being the one that remains standing and everybody else ends up going down.
going down. And he of course wants to strike back immediately. Now that they do have the
Daedalus online on this Gyrocopter, next fight around it might be quite the different
outcome if Spirit gets caught.
They don't want to be the ones initiated on this time. They do not want nothing. It's
taken time before a fight. But Laurel, if you said he has a BKB, he has a haste, he
has ways to play around a potential catch here. If he doesn't get chain snuck.
Let's have a look at...
Well, let's see. Does he get chain snuck? He's going to himself.
You're going in with the BKB, he's going to try and slither away.
You can walk away?
He's going to be fine, yeah, glimit up as well.
Did not get the chain stun onto him there perfectly, no Mars in the area.
That sort of puts a stop to that approach, the Xtreme when coming in towards that mid lane, where...
They wanted to try and step onto the line, maybe even Yatora who's pushing the wave out.
They're not going to get the chance to jump either there with Lyle putting a stop to that move.
Give you a Toro, gets the chill back, hit some more.
He does.
They wanna go again. They know that they got this incredible teamfight. They wanna use it.
Laro now has the Ags also. So it's starting to wrap up there. Starting to see them really build up.
He's gonna be much stronger in that teamfight also, but XG, wanting to find that catch.
There's no BKV on the slaughter. They know they have that strength, that opening into this fight. They catch somebody.
XSS has queued up the Ags by the way. So we are seeing it that build to come into fruition.
Toro.
Toro.
They're so close to maybe setting up onto him.
Oh!
Down to the low ground, but...
Yeah, they're already starting to back off.
Hope you ever stick around, or at least take a stride of wisdom.
So we'll get themselves another here.
I think they've pretty much had all of them, I think, apart from one that Spirit was able to take.
A flight?
It's a punch!
Alright, we're just gonna be here to help collapse out.
I'm just gonna stay here as well, and they're gonna have to burst.
They dropped down the macro-par and the finger, and they're very quickly doing that.
Why can't they get out there?
He's going to jump forward, get the coil out onto the boat with them.
A lot coming.
Buying time for the rest of Extreme Gaming to connect.
Collapsus took very tanky, glimit up.
He's able to run Lars here by their side as well,
so it's not as easy as they'd hoped for to continue chasing.
Collapsus has a full Shiva's himself.
Now they might turn and go for their own play here.
Lars is here.
Yeah, this might catch Extreme by surprise.
He's going to be...
He's going to be unbelievably tanky on this primal beast.
Maybe trying to bait a bit here, with your Toro cleaning out the mid wave.
That'd be very hard to... what, 23 armor before even popping the uproar?
They might want to go deep here with the wrap round. Spirit.
They want to get the jump first next year. They're going to be ready for this one.
Success.
They see one another, I believe.
Big dangerous to go under the tier two there.
Sure. It's a little bit too much. I think they know they kind of...
Yeah.
Let XG know that they're there and then they immediately start to fall back.
If you jump there, that's kind of your giving the positioning advantage to XG, right?
In the Phoenix good position with this Sunray, then everybody can kinda just...
Extremely short, you're gonna wanna do something about this, right?
They're not gonna let...
Team 3 just take this Roshan.
X-XS, break out.
It's got the gem.
Aw, think about getting in on the front lines.
Oh, yeah.
The illusion, backed away.
Trying to poke the BKB.
The Legion Spirit won't be able to finish the Roshan, so they kind of get XD away from this area.
Alchemist ult on cooldown 20 seconds.
Looks like spirits being a bit patient till that does come back up
Check out the roast situation
They want to get the jump they need to get the jump rich is we've seen if spirit somehow able to pick them apart spirit
Absolutely in position to be able to take these teamfights back in their favor if they get this big pickle for the start
They can hundred to zero most targets because of that function now with the with the probably is grabbed without them being
able to get the snowball saves, definitely the potential.
And so they're just laying down his icepots,
but it's so hard that any of these kind of initiators from XG
to be able to play at the start of the fight,
we see they have nothing to say,
Core immediately tripped up, the fight falls apart.
They can't afford to lose this puck at the start.
Actually, I love how the way Laurel's playing this.
He's playing this very sacrificial type of slaughter
where he's just giving information,
trying to poke and prod these BKBs,
and eventually he does, and eventually, as you said,
they catch the puck again, nothing to say.
Not having a free time on this puck by any means.
Back to back to back, that's for him.
version of ages 12k gold lead now but team spirit the alchemist factor truly
kicking in yeah look at this look at real he's being so patient him and Panto
waiting for that pocket and it's perfect for he gets the dream call off
but the ice park by easy enough time for that hex to come out just say the
room was completely saving for the park and at this day once the BKB the
chemical ranges up on your tour the supernova it's just never gonna stand
a chance to be seen by there's something just like we mentioned it a
a lot of times for Spirit. There's something that's just the way that they recognize exactly
where to use the spells on which hero. It just looks so beautiful right there. Kind of
picture perfect. XG started to fall apart pretty hard, especially their mid laner. And I didn't
even say he's struggling. Arme, he's got his work cut out for him.
He certainly does. The game definitely taking quite a bit of a turn after that fight
up at the top where Spirit were able to deal with Arme two times round and get that
team wipe. Now, Yatori has played a pretty cool this game and we're very much seeing
how comfortable a team-like team spirit are around playing around this type of character.
Which is usually, you know, the panel was talking about too, Alchemist is not usually one of
those big utoro-type of heroes, but you can definitely see just because of how powerful the
hero is, but enabling your other course is great. Marl is super happy in this game because
I mean, it's so relaxed getting these early agonims has been crucial.
Now with a 13k lead with the Aegis and a full AC on your Toro, they're starting to get to
to some pretty over tanky methods where how does XG actually deal the damage versus they only really
have army. I mean that's, I feel like this is probably that point at the game where extreme's
kind of looking at one another and say well I guess we're going late again, they guys, you know,
just farm it up, get army to be six-slotted. Which they can do. Yeah. They can go for the
agonims on the Mars, right? They can go for these damage items on the gyro cup, they're
still to be able to get that scale. The butterfly can be very strong timing for him,
but he does need time and it feels like Spirit, they might be accelerating now where they feel
feel like they can start knocking on the door.
Not for sure, yeah.
They really kept their calls for the early game.
Extreme, they tried to make those two fight moons occur.
And it looked good in the early to mid,
but once that slowdown did happen at the top,
it started to go a bit downhill here for Extreme.
Spirit taking over.
This Alchemist here, definitely going
to be something that a lot of teams just
need to keep their eye on.
He did not die this game yet.
He's been able to kind of sit back with these creeps,
at these timings. Now XG, you can feel the posture of them. It completely changed, right?
They're playing so much more defensively. Very afraid to step outside, which means Alchemist
is going to farm an insane amount of his next few moves. He's going to be able to get
all the acumen, completely slot himself up as well. He's already having a pretty great
game on the Jekiro, giving him an axe on top. So for XG, let's see where they do
look to go from here. Difficult for them to step outside.
Yeah, that's the thing. Like, do they go for another smoke?
You probably just have to wait for some beautiful high ground defense. They're like, uh, not
like high ground in terms of their base, but a high ground in general, and just get this
beautiful arena and get these kills and get that extra damage. Like, that's just kind
of what they're going to need. These army is the only one really dishing out that
damage now at this point for them. Talk to me about this, I bet that was well.
You know, you're going to collapse this build.
He's gonna be on the sustain right.
Picking up the bloodstone.
I love it.
He's gonna be...
How are you gonna kill him?
Right?
This is so much sustain.
So many different things that he can just focus onto him too.
4500 HP before he even costs the upper arm also.
He's at 34 armor.
That is crazy.
Even if you jump in, I'll put a stop to his pulverize right?
I don't know how you're gonna...
It doesn't matter.
Like, he's just gonna be trampling all over you.
His damage is gonna be crazy in the fights and his just damage absorption is gonna
be crazy in the fights too.
And with this Aegis still for about a minute, it looks like they're considering perhaps going for that poke again.
They throw the scan on the high ground.
For a note, you can walk up and beat up a building with that.
Satanic is done.
He's taking the Barret!
He's going fast as well.
Nice, he's gonna walk up and take the range, Barret!
Man, the fact that he really just gets...
You get the extra Grievile Greed stacks,
and you get 50 bonus attack damage from when you're giving these steps, too.
This is crazy.
It's like not even just like a mini Midas kind of thing that you're investing with your teammates,
you're also just getting so many benefits from it.
Pretty sex.
Give it away.
Next fight, there's an axe macro fighter.
That's gonna be so hard to deal with as well.
Yeah.
Because the elements continue to grow from the side of SG.
Especially because they do have so much stunner.
They're gonna be able to hold you down through the entire state of that macro fight.
Won't be easy to save someone from that.
And even just waltzing through the macro pyre is gonna be problematic,
because they're just gonna be kind of stuck taking all that extra damage too.
Yep, after any moment that ticks by, the gold lead is 3,000 or 4,000 gold has gone up in just the last 2-3 minutes.
She just got done with nothing to say.
Maybe that could be one where they look to smoke around, but again, they have to claim a high ground potential.
What's he gonna take? One of these neutral items.
Most stunning to step back out onto the map extreme.
Keeps the crude, gets the screw off, that's a nice one.
Even more damage absorption that he's gonna be able to do versus this gyrocopter.
Smoke up.
X-X-S needs to pretty much get him. He needs a double spear.
He needs to get a pretty much perfect initiation as this Mars.
Or counter initiation that is.
the BKB start to take away. He's going to be crucial to look at for that extra damage for
Arme. Terran seems pretty aware this is going on from their positioning. This is going to
be a tough fight to take for Extreme. Game streams quite a lot since those earlier moments.
And I'm sure Spirit overall in this game wasn't, it was not really any sweat going on,
right? Yatoro's been able to step back and I think they did not. Yatoro is probably
kind of keeping them together saying guys it's fine getting a free farm you're
gonna be able to get your agonins online something's got to be done about this
alchemist in some upcoming games because you just cannot get this type of
free game that feels up to high ground I could just walk up and hit the
barrage if they want but the creep wave coming in they might catch somebody
on the TP also
okay next level TP to the safe spot
I'm trying to slow down your Torah
Get him up the barricade for now.
Laurel?
Jump it in.
They're gonna jump at the same time.
Both of them trying to jump over one another.
Laurel has to put the PKBM run away.
Collapsus got the Poverise in on towards XXS.
They're focusing Lyle here.
Caught him in the Dreamclaw.
They'll be able to bring Lyle down.
There's one for Laurel right now.
Collapsus going in deep there with the odd score.
The Super Novel is out.
They're gonna try and burn it down to somewhere.
This heal up army here to keep the Jaros safe.
Punch up on towards this primer,
but Collapsus is no tanky.
Then put the ice bomb control so he gets money to try and drag him to the side
But the concoction comes in there's gonna be a fly gone
So the hat that's now on to Armey and put the BKB
He's trying to chase down the line and will get room but he cost him his life
He's three dead on extreme gaming
Spirits too strong. Collapses go full health
Charging through absolutely everybody
Yatoros 25
They might just stick around Armey
75 seconds till he comes back up
It's just the damage at this point
Point is to know that from experience only army and he can only really focus one target is we say he got Laurel
They did at least focus that slaughter, but everybody else was in jeopardy
Can't get his blacks off onto everybody else can't get that dream initiation that they wanted as you said
The Mars jumped at the same time as Laurel jumped so I stray over one and up to the end of the day
Definitely favorite spirit
Plus 310 damage bringing this building down very quickly
Can I have a pistol also?
You saw how long the Omni was disabled in that last fight, so I want to stay with 7 seconds.
It's going to be even more now that that pistol picked up.
30 seconds, still no gyro, but the Toro forcing as much as you can.
Respect the fact that the respawns are coming in from extreme gaming.
They got more objectives, more creeps to hit also for your Toro, continues to get
the same amount of net worth.
Can you see that, the split fight? Yeah, definitely favoring the status barrier.
Hacks, excess kills.
Arena off, but he, because Larl made the jump, it meant that the rest of XG couldn't connect with that arena.
And sure, Larl just died, but he's already pretty much done his job.
Like, Amé needs to be able to have, like, arena down, and him flacking everybody.
This one, he flacked nobody.
He literally was just hitting Larl because of that position and kind of break up there that Spare was able to set up.
The Hacks.
Into the ice path.
Into the stun.
All under the stun.
Concoction.
Into the Hacks.
completely controlled and only managing to get the BKB off at the very end.
As for did not manage to get much worth out of that BKB that fight at all.
No it is not easy for him to focus fire pretty much anything.
He's gonna need every little buff up in the world.
Yeah, FYI is what they know. He's got his work cut out. There's only so much
he can do when it comes to trying to make these snowball saves.
It's not easy to do at this point in the game.
No, they even did get like good drinking putties pulled. So you could give him that extra armor
but it still doesn't matter when he's completely controlled and can't really attack at all.
We have the 21k Roche, soon on the horizon, spirit in prime position for it.
Taking over the triangle area, making it very difficult for Stream to get out on the map.
Ami needs this butterfly. He's close.
He really, really needs his butterfly at least for the next fight.
This next fight could be one of the last around that Roche bit.
Nothing to say, does have the Shiva's Raid, does have his Parasma,
but if he gets caught in the stun, he might just die.
You see too much overwhelming damage.
They're smoking up on this road, so fast.
So, so quickly, they're not gonna have a chance of getting anywhere close to them.
How close?
Seven seconds.
He's got the butterfly, but now they're into an Aegis enter on a fresh charge.
I first want to fight this edge, and they might be just getting a little bit desperate at this point, extreme.
Just to peek the pace that they were able to kill, that was insane.
The Corrosive Pace plus the Alchemist.
Oh, he's gonna go for it, he's gonna go for the jump, he's gonna be on a catch for three of them, but the AKBs come out!
Yotori's ready to tie it!
They're right on the war's army!
Can he stay on top of him in the back?
They're looking him down, Army's trying to look at the fast cut through again.
It's Army out for 90 seconds.
If the Pope rise on towards FY,
as he'll get run down, punched down by Yatorov,
and Patsyp, he's throwing around with nothing to stay at the edge of the fight.
That just might be it.
Before dead, it's not looking great here for XG.
Spirit ready to run down the top lane.
Just beautiful little play.
Is that top play pretty much all of it from there, right?
right when they catch the puck initially, when they get that type of fight, when XG had that first edges from there.
And they just call it, GG's goal!
Team Spirit took this game one!
XG, they just put it, deal with this outcome, this lineup comes out first.
You do see their approach from the eyes here in the early to big game, right?
They get this teamfight online, they try and get it going, but perhaps this was just that sort of fragile in terms of strategy.
strategy in that they had that one move up top where things didn't go great, they lose
on me twice to get team-wise, they were never really able to get a hold back on the game
from that point onwards.
It just feels so stressful.
You just have this looming Alchemist thing that's in your head that he's farming so
fast, his team is getting so much as well too, and you're not getting that crazy
type of scaling either.
That was pretty much a picture perfect way that Skrull would want to play this type
of Alchemist game where they're not falling too far behind, only like 3 or 4k at
the maximum.
Something's gotta be solved about this hero.
I think so. You know, we know that some teams right now in this new patch, they know exactly what to do with the Alchemist,
and this game's Spirit, Yutora is showing us that they're definitely one of them.
You've got to consider this pretty heavily going into the drafts now.
I mean, almost certainly, right, we're going to see this one show its face, whether it's a pick or a ban very early in the game.
It's true.
Two drafts by default.
Yeah.
Overall, I think Spirit, these, the Glarl and Klaas, great waves of reset,
are jumping in on the team fight, though.
Yeah, the team, as always, seems to be the case for Spirit.
Yeah, that kind of coordination with T5.
Too much for HB to deal with this time.
Spirit, take game one!
And they do it with an Alchemist.
An Alchemist that was picked very early on, Quinn,
and I was surely expecting a bunch of Alchemist counters
to come out from extreme.
And that didn't happen.
Yeah, they kinda just picked standard XG stuff.
They picked T5, they picked heroes that work together,
but Spirit just had too much beef
that everyone just gets a bunch of HP from the Ags.
This is honestly a really crazy strat that I don't know if they have clear counters for
or even are clear counters for.
It's kind of honestly a messed up strat.
Everyone's just way too tanky.
It looked there like one of those strats that like this looks like it might be really imbalanced.
It's just like the inevitable timing that heroes will come online, right?
Threx dude, they did a decent job.
They have the Aegis, and with pot getting caught off first, the first person is Highlight Package, right?
And then they're fighting where like, Army dies, BKB, and they have to respawn and try and fight.
That fight was maybe actually his moment to overcome this in Agh's timing, but they lost the fight
and now another Agh comes and play for Slardar and then more tankiness occurs and the pick-off and the brawl and Kanjira
really do enough damage to kill these heroes. The answer, clearly no.
Yeah, they were playing quite well in extreme gaming up until that fight all the way up top here Team Spirit
and it does feel like against Team Spirit in general.
You can't really make that many mistakes because they'll capitalize off of it, but versus an Optimus draft on top of that,
You're just giving them so much effective GPM.
I mean welcome back to Alchemist and Tier 1 Donor at 1,036 KPM, 1,025 XPM, right?
Like it is the hero that can do that other heroes.
You know you have to play one of the best games of your life for Alchemist.
You chill, you shove wave, you know force weak acts down the gullet of your other cores
and you're gonna have some pretty good stats.
Yeah I mean it's just...
I mean it's very I think good recovery from Spirit.
It's an early game that is not going so well for them
but they were able to stabilize the game
and they're kind of just chilling and they're farming their eggs.
Like they know that they have this window this timing coming up and I think it's something they prioritize specifically against XG is having some sort of
Some I know they just respond very well with winkidish like they picked very confidently
They just picked the three beefy boys and it looks weird and we're all questioning
I certainly was and they have some clear reason for it that I don't think XG was aware of
I don't think many people were and I think it's I don't know
I think they did really good prep because I think this game is a lot of they came into this game with a strat
We keep seeing that on this patch.
We're coming into games as strats.
It seems to be the way to win games this tournament right now,
and they, I don't know, I just own.
I'm telling you, the weirder, the better.
That's what we're discovering on this new patch.
We can't look at a draft and say this makes sense,
because I mean, something's wrong,
something's not good enough.
So then if I'm to water down what the concept of this draft is,
aside from the top-down idea of it's an alchemist game,
which we have oftentimes heard, is an adage in Dota.
What are the nuances of what makes this such a powerful pick?
It's just the calm and inevitable timings that you're going to hit, right?
Like, I think even Spirit under the pressure of the early game,
they weren't like breaking when one guy dies and another guy shoves another wave.
You buy time through just having the map in a good state,
and it's like the BKBs, the Aggs, the Sheevers, all of it comes together,
and then you fight M1 in the unison.
So I think when you have an Alk on your team,
it's just about trusting each other, going,
you know what, if the game's rough at 25 minutes, that's our window,
but you all have to subscribe to that time.
Yeah, and the way that Extreme Gaming's draft functioned is that it was very teamfight heavy,
it was hard to run into them, it was hard to make plays in the early game,
but that was their play from the start of the game to the end of the game.
We're gonna go in, we're gonna press Arena, we're gonna press Coil, we're gonna press Teamfight spells,
we're gonna kill you inside of the Arena.
And if that didn't happen, they were dropped kind of fell apart in these later fights.
Whereas for Spirit, it was all single-target stun, single-target disabled playmaking,
and we saw that happen when Lion would survive an arena,
suddenly they'd get a hex and turn the fight,
That's how Pyme will be on the outskirts, pulverizing who he wants.
So Quinn, how about you show me how all this beef turned extreme into jerky over the course of this game?
I will show you that very much, and we've got some clips here that I'm pleased to show you.
All the jerky and beef you would like as we will begin now.
And then the start of the game, we'll see it here.
It was going pretty well for XG. There's some skirmishes and fights here.
And it may look bad at the start, but they bring the numbers, XXS, TP's in.
The Jarocop, they rotate, they bring five heroes here.
They get a couple of kills, they end up trading two for one.
and they push Spirit back. I think stuff like this is very, very good in a nice rotation by XXS.
That does very good things for Extreme here, and you can see that they still have the damage, right?
Another fight here where it goes very well for them. It's the early game period where Spirit is not quite in down to their timings yet.
They don't have the BKBs. These spells are kind of just owning them. They're pushing it back. They take their Wisdom rune.
This is all going very good for XG, but you can feel the clock ticking, right? They've got a 4K lead here,
but it doesn't really build a whole lot.
If we go to the next clip, it's only 2K at 24 minutes, and that is not what you want to see.
And this is where things start to turn, where...
Spirit, they get a couple initiations here there. I think that was sort of the story of the game in some ways, is who's getting the jump.
And here, Spirit gets it, they cancel the TP, and now they're stuck in no-man's land, and it's a complete disaster from here on out.
And from this fight onward, I think you can start to see the beef kicking in.
And this fight alone, I think Spirit just outplayed them off of clean execution, off of real, really, really good jumps.
And just impressive play throughout the fight, the way they're kiting in fact and forth.
Some supports die here, but, you know, for the greater good is they clean up the whole fight.
And I think really you start to see in the next fight, the repercussions of this one, where they clean this up and then now,
he ends up dying, they almost get to the next fight, where this is honestly a pretty good counter initiation from XG.
They punch the primal as soon as he ults, the fucker can see he jumps in, he just gets annihilated in one second.
And nobody from Spirit is really that low, and I think that comes down to the draft, to this axe combo.
Giving everyone Agh seems to be really really in balance and something that XG is gonna have to consider for next game because
This was this is a problem and something they just don't have the scaling for and if we're honest XG
They're a slow team
They've always been slow team and I think they've tried to play faster points
But I think against the team spirits caliber who in my opinion is the best team at stalling out hard games ever
I think picking something that you're gonna snowball you gotta be really really confident in that strategy
And I don't think they were all the way there because the game stagnated at some point
and then we see what happens.
And they were starting out that snowball by handing out the first of the Agatomceptors
to the Offlaner.
Effie, let's take a look at the numbers between Collapse and X-XS because I think they're going
to be a little bit more promising for one of them than the other.
Yeah, I mean both Offlaners played a great game as you can see, X-XS had 84% team participation.
That's the kind of spat that you see when you get an X-XS Mars.
And honestly, no notes.
You know, he did his job here.
Unfortunately, it wasn't enough.
Whereas Collapse, you look at him this game, he was the first Ags.
He had the responsibility of making the most out of that first item scepter,
or maybe we could have seen extreme gaming roll over Team Spirit.
He did have that one bath after he got the axe initially that looked pretty bad,
but he was able to just get on top of whoever he wanted when he had that BKB.
It just came in so clutch.
It's just not natural to have heroes get a blink of BKB and an axe all kind of in the same window, right?
Normally it's like you get one, then you have to make a really good move,
and then you get another move, then you get the next item,
and that's why, conceptually, outpins, it will always break the game,
giving an act at the right time, and especially when the Collapse is utilised like that, it
is a busted combo when you can really showcase it. I think Pure and Yatora are probably the
best two at it. Maybe you can throw a Nightfall into the mix, but there are some very strong
out teams at this Birmingham.
Now you've got to come really well equipped to deal with it, because if Extreme Gaming
lose another game, then all that effort that they had this morning against Maus are
unfortunately going to come to an end because they will be eliminated. But I'm expecting
a full series to go the distance
for that to happen though we need to get to our game number two so stick
around everyone
and we'll be back with game number two of team spirit
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Welcome back to game number two of Team Spirit vs Extreme at Gaming where Extreme are clanging
on to their tournament lives.
They are down one game right now, and I don't blame them.
Going up against an Alchemist strat, who could have seen it that coming?
But I will be critical about one aspect of the previous draft from Xtreme, and it felt a bit 7.40.
When we saw them earlier today, it was Ame, Weaver, Carey.
They were doing Venomancer, they were adapting to the new patch.
But T, I feel like most of the five heroes that we saw from Xtreme in this previous game, I could have seen that in 7.40.
You easily could, but the fact is as to why they said that the hero is right, they borrowed MTS on his part.
Sure, they had a good start to the game, but they allowed for Slardars, and Lions, and Jukeros.
So many stuns got thrown into the draft for Spirit, because XG threw him to the wolves on the mid lane.
It's like, again, they answered it quite nicely, but the inevitable ability for them to counterplay MTS on his part was also the unraveling of XG.
So maybe if they want these heroes, protecting just a little bit more in the draft.
I think Spirit has shown us that drafting 5 stuns is better than drafting 5 team fight
heroes.
It's just easier to play, honestly, playing with lowered cooldowns is easier.
He is here himself, he is the guy.
It just felt like they had more freedom on how they wanted to approach fights, who they
wanted to go on.
I respect the XG entering this draft, removing the Alchemist, right?
Because it is so early in the patch, you don't really know what are all the ice
combos.
Are we meant to break the game at 20 minutes?
If we don't, are we able to deal with the fact that everyone's getting the shared economy?
It is a scary concept, but I don't think you want to answer that during a series.
They left Beastmaster through though.
Do you guys hear it?
How have been first players in a lot of Beastmasters, especially during the group stage of this
tournament?
Yeah, I mean, calling spirits bluff a little bit, saying maybe maybe we'll first pick
it, but no, they want the Ponyman.
And I think this hero is really strong right now.
The only hero I've played since the patches come out, I won all my games, and this
hero feels great.
item builds, all the new items that came out are great on him, the wraps, the bloodstone
is changed, and the camera with his ghost after item is called, but that item is really
good too.
So the hero's got a lot of different builds, he can do a lot of different things, and
he is very very strong.
Leshrac will be remembered in this patch because he was revelant, revelant?
That's really prevalent.
Ah, sure.
Relevant and prevalent.
Yeah, I kind of made a new word.
Relevant.
I've been awake since like 7 this morning, and I haven't had a beard, it's crazy.
Leshrac, the fact is he is patched in due to items, it's kind of funny because in Dota it's always that you look for the hero like Quinn's mentioning.
I just enjoy when you see a hero only survive due to Bloodstone.
Like, what other hero in the game is so like, beautifully attached to one item on his survival rate of a patch?
That's true, they're a tried and tested duo.
But also, I do think the loss of facets really benefited Lesh because before you were choosing between if you're Edik that's a lot of damage, or if you did damage to towers.
And now you can do both.
Yeah, I totally agree.
I think that is like also both your facets were kind of like
Kronoptic was nothing.
And then your other facet was like kind of nerfed you.
So we just got like, hey, we're chill now.
It's very nice.
But this is cool.
This is like one of the most old school counters to Lesh.
I've been waiting to see this next week because he got really buffed.
And he's sort of back to like his spirit of the hero, which is be long range.
You can maybe do a build where you actually put more points and take aim
depending, compared to people putting stats over maxing it before.
So, I like to change this to Sniper a lot, and I'm really curious to see how this does,
because this is a true counter to Leshrac, when you go back in the day.
So, I'm excited.
Yeah, when you think about it, it was so silly that Sniper, his entire identity,
was being a long-range fighter.
Right from Hero, and then they just took his range away, and they made it attach to his ulti,
so he's failing. It was enough choice, but I'm glad he's back.
So then it's more than just a lane counter, or is that primarily where Sniper versus Leshrac shines?
It's definitely best in lane.
Leshrac will probably rush blink, and so there's sort of this cat-and-mouse game that happens with this matchup where Leshrac is hunting you,
and then you buy Grenade early, and by force that player keeps himself alive and just stands, because if Leshrac commits on anyone else,
then you peep into death, and so there's sort of one-to-one happen in the entire game between Leshrac and Sniper,
where they're looking at each other and keeping each other in mind.
So it's a very cool matchup, you know, like plays itself out over the whole course of the game
The reason I pause at the question is there any way that we turn Lesser I can to safe lane and
Now your counter pick of the sniper is not so valuable anymore
And potentially if you are willing to run an IO with it like we saw a pair of vision do that could maybe be a safe
Lane, but it's not something I see extreme gaming doing
It's also in full roll
You can find answers to FY where he can gap close on the sniper then he's finding the sniper
Sniper Sniper is wasting his grenade or his Hurricane Pike on the fall position and then Lesh with his blink is like
Ha you've wasted it based on this like little mini fight that both Lesh and Sniper will have the entire game
So maybe the four roll can also kind of answer these problems rather than just allowing it to be an isolated
Mid-verse mid the entire game. Yeah, no for sure
And there's also certain heroes that mess with snipers itemization
There's like Mars where you want to buy pike and grenade against left track
But as a Mars now you need a BKB and so now you've got a really weird massive
You don't want pike into BKB because it's very low damage
But if you buy just BKB then Lesh will still kill you through it and you buy just Pike then you're getting arena and dying
So there's certain combos like that that make Snikers itemization imperfect and so you can almost always die
We'll see who Spirit choose to target out with their one ban. It's a long-range boat jam
Fun fact by the way, I bought this guy at beer earlier today. Did you? Yeah
Well, I went to good use tea. I'll tell you that much. Yeah, I'm just worried how many he's had
4 hours ago I gave him 1 and he was already like maybe 3 in so I have some more responsibility
over this man now.
They are really mulling over this ban.
I'm with you, I feel like Mars would be an obvious take against X-XS so just eliminate
it.
Yeah, makes me wonder what else they're considering.
I think these bans are important so defend the toss like Tew is mentioning, that's sort
of 4 jumper hero.
And they just take it hard.
Okay, so that's what they were considering
Things like this are interesting when you steal a hero it can open up holes in your draft because it's very hard to consider everything
And now you've picked two cores back to back
Maybe there's something that you think of that's now good against both of these heroes because you're thinking shorter term Mars
It's good against our sniper and it's hard to think like sort of chest style five moves ahead
But what does this do for now there draft?
This is what I want to see between these two teams in the first game draft, right?
Like they are thinking always right the less
Described with the counterfeit the Mars now actually go for a dazzle because sure your Mars would get a jump on to long my
Let's wrap that doesn't always have to save me
It does a lot of just back and forth between them. It's not as if they're drafting for themselves
It's just reactionary pics left and right. Yeah, it's nice
But he'll support start really countered by Mars anymore
Maybe not nice for Mars, but nice for the dazzles and the shadow demons and the ringmasters because that blood for it
So now if you're Mars you kind of have to make a decision whether you're going on a core or the supports
We're gonna be saving the course which makes this gameplay much more difficult
Yeah
Classic
You want a gap close on a sniper? That's what his friends call it. This is the one way to do it
Now you found your solution for who's gonna pull the sniper
Someone just popped a balloon every time it pops my heart jumps six
Do you have one of those little phobias? I don't know what the name is, but...
Papaphobia?
Sure.
Wow, Papaphobia apparently.
Well, either way, actually, to go for the Spirit Breaker, you have to note that Mars is pretty
decent at Spirit Breaker with the spear, then Sniper with the Strapfinal Slows. It's just
a little clunky for Spirit Breaker, but in the end of the day, him just going with
the bulldoze, soaking some of these spells will just open up everything, and it gives
all the information you need. Will he go for the Agadim and Wave Shove? Will he
go to the early shard potentially to eat through some spells. There's a lot of options for Fy,
but at the end of the day, EKB on the cowl, get in the middle of the fight, that's all he has to do.
Can you summarize Espy's bajillion changes?
Uh, TRVR, Agadans, when you bash someone, it then also pushes that guy back, and if he hits another guy, that bashes him.
So when you hit Creekwave, you delete every Creekwave in the entire game.
You are bunkers broken, probably a core in the future, and then shard is now playing out of pocket.
So when you put it on an ally, you soak the spells, basically loads of them,
And you can put it on the enemy, so you soap the enemy's four stars and glimpses on that guy, and it goes on to you.
So it's a very cheap way to just eat utility from either team.
It'll be a very cool way to see A's poking in support, but you see that double support fix?
Yeah, and there's also not many single targets as well, so it may be discharging them too good this game,
but supports are great in this one from Spirit.
Does AA plus Willow, this support too is actually quite difficult to play against if you're a Lush Rack.
Like, Lushrack is not a hero that can play well into ranged damage,
and Willow with her round balls on top of the ice blast,
like, it's not going to be easy for him to maneuver on the spikes.
And these heroes can do ranged damage to him as well,
alongside their sniper.
This Lush game looks tough.
It's insanely hard, and it's the risk of first picking a core against Spirit.
They're the best core counter pickers in the world,
because they counter you on a conceptual level,
not just a lane counter, right?
Some teams will say, oh, we're going to pick this really obnoxious thing
against you in lane and they leave it at that. But Spirit says no, we're countering you every
single which way. We've got stuns for you, we've got supports that gank you on runes,
we've got stuff that makes it hard for you to play without BKB and we got stuff that
owns you if you have BKB. Like if I look at this game, I don't see a clear itemization
route and on top of that, Dazzle is not saving him either because he's getting A blasted when
he gets stunned. It's very tough. Yeah, I mean also just the fact that they've countered
him so well on Spirit without compromising draft integrity on their own, I'm just
Really impressive because now they have heroes to enable the Mars arena. They have heroes that are strong side laners
So don't necessarily get run over by anything. They see on extreme gaming and now they're they have their pick of litter
melee carries because 8-8 are as well as fun heroes and range fairies
So I have some balloon management handle
Well, I'm glad you brought that up the referee because it does feel like so much in spirits draft does seem very reactionary
Like you pick the last wreck
I'm counterpicking with sniper then I also need to follow it up with Mars
Now you pick the Dazzle while I'm going to get anti-healing with AA, and you have flesh
racks, so I'm going to make Willow make your life hell.
But still while doing that, they still have a solid draft of their own.
Yeah, it all works together very nicely.
I'd say the only thing that they're really locking is some kind of save for the Sniper
who may be getting run at a lot by the Spirit Breaker, but you know what, TP, it's
a good item.
Just TP in if your Sniper is getting charged.
At least for XG, they have all this chaos in the Spirit, and you're praising all
the spells they have.
It happens if they don't combo the spell that's passing right now.
The blast plus the arena, you mentioned the positioning of Sniper, surely Sparebreaker
and Brewmaster, their job is to eat the arena, eat the blast.
Surely they're going to die, but Army still has all the information available.
Surely they don't have last pick in the draft, but I am looking at Sparebreaker and
Brewmaster.
They need to be like the MVP's of this game, for X-Games to feel good.
Yeah, we need X-Lex to have one of his pop-off games.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean it is a very good Brewmaster game and Brewmaster is one of the types
of heroes that can enable Alesha to have such a hard game because he sort of breaks
spirit's idea of what killing you when you run into us because it's very difficult for
these heroes to burst through. They don't kill the green panda at all and even the other
ones you can throw some random guy up. It's just not that cohesive for them to actually
kill the panda. So when you run in and you have all the magic resistances, they
can't burst you and you press split and you cause chaos and make it to where Alesha
has been created in the past.
That is just awesome!
Yeah, I love this so much!
It's just like, on a new patch, you have to go through more of some classic counters like AA, Willow, Sniper, it's all about hiding in the fog, having the positioning.
Back in the day, Spectre is the counter to that. No fucking idea if it's good on the patch or not, but conceptually, in the history of Dota, it's good against those three heroes.
They've changed their ultimate like five times. What is it currently? Is it the single illusion or the team illusion?
It's the team illusion.
They're buffed on cooldowns. Her cooldowns got buffed, so she has her spells longer.
They made her stronger on lane. I believe she got more HP regeneration on lane, which makes her laning better.
And there's also an online speciality. Back on PSDLGD, he would pick Spectre all the time, versus Lina as in Sniper.
This is something he's happy to play.
But the question is, is it Radiance? Is it Blade Mail? Or is it early Orchid?
There's a lot of, like, old builds, and sort of go for a lifesteal.
These couldn't like 1v1 the spectre in the game, but I think it's less about the lifesteater and that is more
Who lives in the infested gets jumped maybe he can be a little x-factor
But wow, I know I just gonna say I just love the drafts for both teams in this second game
But you have to respect xG creating the chaos spirit trying to bring up this kind of explosive one-core death strategy
Spectre, whoof
Yeah, I mean it's honestly as hard of a sniper game potentially now as it is a Leshrac game
With Spectre, you've got a lot of stuff to deal with.
You have cows and ghosts and all sorts of non-stands.
But it is a very, very good lifesteal.
The game gets good against arguably all five of these heroes.
Spirit Breakers may be a little too side.
But at the end of the day, it's just support.
Lifesteal will have a full free lane against two Melees.
And it's very good against Spectre in the game.
And so I think Xtreme has a lot of, in some ways,
pressure on them to get the ball rolling
and get to a point where their ball can overrun them.
And it's not the lifesteal just beating them to death.
So far as valuable as Spectre is as a counterpick to the snipers and the ancient Abolitions,
she still fell off the face of the earth for like the past six months, T.
Why has she not been relevant in general?
I mean, you can't really contest wisdoms at 7, you can't really fight into the game.
Your itemization path is not understood by anyone.
It's like, Radiance was a thing for a bit, like I said, Vessel was a bit,
Thing for a bit, Flamel was a thing, Orc was a thing.
I'm missing so many items.
No one kind of agreed what was good, but you're just slow,
and you need to have the team play for you.
Luckily this time around they have so much map play from Spirit Breaker, Brew and Lesh.
It kind of makes sense, but yeah, I just...
I think it's kind of a make or break for our mate.
Like, if he buys one, reminds me of this game, I can see things falling apart.
So, he just needs to understand Spectre better than anyone else right now.
Well, let's see if he's able to show it off, or if this will be one in a list of heroes that he may regret picking in an elimination game.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready for it.
Game number two with OD Pixel and Foggs.
Thank you very much, Neo E.S.K.
Two time here at my goodness.
We've got a couple of classic players here.
For classic players, you know.
One star for getting this army specter.
Coming out of here for extreme gaming.
And close things up with the Yatoru life stealer.
What do you make of this phone?
I cannot believe we're getting a specter in 2026.
I know me and Quinn have been talking a lot
about the anti-mages the Giga carries,
the super late game ones.
Really looking forward to seeing how this is going to end up working out.
Because on paper, as we've seen in the past,
a long time ago perhaps, Spectre can be very well versus Nightmare, but the other
repair that he has to watch out for, his life stealer has traditionally had a pretty
good match up versus Spectre in terms of setting the pace of the game, not really
letting him get to those later stages, and just being able to overall maybe out
sustain him if he does get to these late stages. So, we're for a treat, not for showing these, right?
In terms of what the Spectre can offer in this patch as opposed to the last
patch, it's, you know, nothing really changed, right? It's just numbers, buffs
across the board. Just overall number, buffs across the board, it's gonna
to be the Radiance Build I assume. Yeah, he queued it up. Okay, so it's going to be
that Build I assume that he's going to go for it. And let's see if your Toro goes for
a bit of a different style, because I don't know if you want to go Radiance, and I'm
looking like, it's just like the, what do you call it, like the Matamba Man kind of
build that we saw before. The Omelette Deso. The Omelette Deso, if you want to
do it, you benefit both of your other cores with it too, right? Sniper and Mars are
going to be doing that extra damage. I mean, I don't mind it as well, because
you can go for this Omelette Deso and fight right, and the Sniper, yeah, Lowell
can do that extra bit of farming and hitting the creeps right. And then he can do
sure more aggressive as the life stealer. And he can do what Quinn was
mentioning where sometimes can be a problem for Sniper is then maybe he can
go for the grenade and the hurricane pike. Sometimes Sniper can feel kind of
weak because you don't provide damage if you do that build, but if you have a
life stealer going for this gung-haul damage build, that's cool. And looking
at some of the armor values, I gotta say it, Last Rack pretty squished in
terms of armor. A lot of them are gonna be a bit more weaker to that if he
does go for it. And I do like that Extreme, they definitely
addressed the fact that Sniper was thrown out at the start of this
You have heroes to get in his face the spirit breaker on top of the spectra. I these are two
Historically the nasty kind of counts as this knife. It does not enjoy playing against absolutely
I think that's also maybe a partly reason why your total
Why they went for the life stealer on top of it being the benefit of it bring versus double melee and all the other reasons
We said he's a pseudo safe
It's not the best by any means right, but you could go into a teammate help him out some cool little things
You can do
Lovely with the save out Laurel, and now let's see how these lanes end up going
In terms of the bottom lane you know spectre as it always has been right a hero that in the lane
It's kind of happy to play safe and secure you've got this
Solid support that should be able to keep you traditional exact healed up and safe in this matchup
I mean should the dazzle be enough to keep the spectre fine against the Mars the willow because that's a strong combo as well
What to say right if this is the pretty much a traditional kind of thing where used to be the warlock every game with respect
There's something like that. So what to see effects know the tech
It's a lot of damage that comes up between the Mars and the will over
Common might be able to stand through it as long as X Nova doesn't get caught too far out of position
Should be able to keep him sustained in the lane
Well, let's say and in terms of the mid matchup obviously this is exactly what last or anyone into a dress gets this night
But against the Lash very nice. How bad can it get for the Lash rack in this matchup?
It can be pretty rough. In terms of like last hitting, I think the Lesh can be pretty decent because you're just lightning all the time.
But in terms of the game state, you're always going to be running into a sniper, which is the dream for Sniper.
He's just going to put the- he acts as a turret, keeps you from a distance.
And these items, I'm wondering if he does do this orb of frost, right?
Something small like this you didn't see in the past on Sniper?
It can be very beneficial versus something like Lesh now.
Keeping that distance.
Yeah, let's go this top lane. I mean, top lane, we don't really have to look at too much because it's pretty much just going to be tutorial free farming and then just pulling lanes.
But what's gonna come perhaps because of that pulling of lanes is will it give opportunities to fy to get some charges
Perhaps to look for the setup on Laurel for them to get early kills with the lash
Difficult for sure to do so, but a possibility if he does get a good angle
And in terms of the ancient apparition pick here for time
So we did see some of it in the previous pack
But I feel like already in these first few days of the new one was soon a little bit more
Frequent in terms of how many games of that I haven't seen it. Is this hero back for some reason? Is it better?
I think it's better. It's better now.
It definitely feels like you do a good amount more damage at least in terms of things, but I think in this game in particular
it's versus the Lash and there's a Dazzle, right?
They're looking to just not let the Lash do that thing where he gets braved and he healed up and comes back to the fight.
He's just gonna die even through the grave potentially if it's time properly.
The bottom.
There's some good damage here, collapsing rather low.
I'm trying to turn the attention over towards the women's stand to shout around.
It's fine.
I'm just doing pieces though at least in terms of that.
That's a stand, getting these nine last hits now for himself.
You're gonna get easier down here.
Yep.
I wasn't gonna need dispersion.
And he's got a stick coming up too.
There's nothing about armor he never buys a stick at the start versus the Mars.
It's one of a few players he just doesn't care for.
He wants those stats early on.
Don't let your Toro take quite a hit here.
Put the rage and back off.
Decent damage there for that success.
That was actually quite low.
They have reach in, but they're protecting tangos.
And so just decided not to come out.
So as you say, and I still look very fine and bottom lane, look at the spear, Almey!
He's gonna get the kill!
First blood will go the way of Xprey.
He'll get the Lotus on collapse, so should be safe.
Has a salve also to be able to heal up.
But Almey gets the trade, gets the first kill.
Little heal coming in, the dispersion, that stink, maybe one or the other.
He had like what, two charges? I think he just got it delivered, all these little things.
Remember my life just long enough that wave wasn't a bit of an unfortunate position for him though, so...
Top.
We'll have to get a good few denies in before Arne returns to the lane.
Yeah, Toro is just playing at 100 HP because it is this double melee that he should be
okay for a sure.
He could give me.
It's a little risky.
Right?
Like it's double bashed or something ridiculous.
I'm feeling happy to live on the edge for now.
Well, I'm getting a little love tap there.
And we're seeing nothing the same mid lane, as I mentioned.
19-5.
Handling his own versus that sniper for now.
Okay.
Yeah, later on when he's charging in versus sniper what the sniper can do versus him, of course
And in terms of sort of charging in do you expect to see some early sense from my flight
It tries to get an angle in on the mid to set up for kill
I was thinking perhaps right now they might be able to close the gap on pants
Oh, he stepped up a little too far here some along the trans down his ground and try to roll that fly
But it's even useful. Oh, that's the kill and yet or he's the only one actually benefiting from this overall
Because he actually gets a kill nobody there to deny F1 times the neutral creep side that feels bad
That feels very bad for the spirit breaker
Trying to make that move and that means it's the last time that you can maybe make that move on the sniper
But I actually was thinking perhaps there are those opportunities that can't run down
Look at this straight out on the map, Fy is going to TP over to the mid to see if there is an opportunity for the angle on LaL
Might be able to do here, there's TP through enforcement coming in
There's a lot of damage onto LaL, they're here core in the river, LaL will fall and nothing to say is going to be fine
So Fy might have died up top, it's very quick to make that move
It's well same time down bottom spirit they looked to strike back and get in on top of like snow the army
This one's not having enough damage really job for up to get anything in terms of the trade
But that was a quick move made him one that it just seemed love wasn't quite prepared for something
You've got to always be aware of right when that spirit breakers died and is respawning
He could be coming into any of the lane. He also got bashed. He did get the secondary bashings
You can't don't write it right away hundred percent
They're saying cuz I think it perhaps if he doesn't get that second bashed in my maybe get a trade kill short
Yeah, indeed. Very likely that nothing would have had to stick around that little longer.
Just perhaps.
Trade is lifetime. We bring down long.
So yeah, I'm glad that FY did this. It's definitely possibilities.
And now at this point, your brewmaster can probably be left alone.
So I think you can now open up the map either with these, you know, the smog or just these charges when you're not in the bottom.
We'll try with the lead in here. Brambles will hold back X number, but he's taking the poison, touching on a collapse.
Good gods review, though, to put a stop to the charge.
So a little extra time if the collapse to back off.
And he'll be okay.
He's gonna be fine.
Always gonna be the case versus the Maury.
All of his abilities.
You've got to kind of hope that he's already used the Refuge to clear a wave, and even then maybe Spears available.
Not an easy call to gank as the Spirit Breaker in the landing stage.
Yeah, never, not throughout the game mostly. All three abilities just stop your charge.
Even just the Arena stops your charge when he drops it down, too, for some reason.
So it is very pesky type of matchup, at least, to deal with.
Six minutes.
Supports making the moves since Light Steer can now be the 1v1 versus the Brew.
Let's see how heavy rotation is coming in.
It's going to be the haste rune down bottom.
Denying it from it.
But, we'll have to get the pick up before Fyze has to get himself.
Maybe if the haste rune can actually turn and set up,
once Fyze is going to go quickly for the TP out with the assassinate.
Oh, that was exact for the timing almost.
That was pretty much as close as it gets there.
Fyze getting away.
Nicely done from Fyze.
Sure top doesn't have that benefit from getting the kill initially,
So now making some nice little rotations, getting some space.
Any time that you're pulling any type of aggression away, two from the Spectralink can be nice,
right?
Yeah, now he's, you know, just versus that 1v1 in the Mars, so he's getting some fair
extra last hits on Armaic.
And in terms of the carry matchup, you see the overall between the life streamer Spectre,
as long as the life streamer is on a similar level as the Spectre, he's quite alright.
Yeah, he can even back, you know, he can fight right back with him with the
open wounds and yeah just be able to hit him and then increase physical damage. It really does
matter when you have this Decibel Booth. I'm so glad to see it because I feel like I haven't seen
this matchup in so long and I haven't seen this Light Emissation either. That's the cool thing
because the last time I feel like I saw this it was a Radiance Life Stealer probably. But now
we're gonna get to probably see that Decibel. Yeah and in terms of what this pickup and
this itemization you think this was what just very quick thinking from Spir when they saw
this back to the Yutora Poly as the guy I played made the cool say hey the Life Stealer with
with this approach, it's the answer.
And the fact that he has a sniper and a Mars, right?
It's three different heroes that are going to benefit from that desktop,
and it will give them extra objective taking, which...
They kind of were lacking, I want to say, the best at taking Roche on their lineup,
but getting that extra minus armor could allow them to kick the pace up,
which I would say they want to do.
You don't want to play too slow versus Spectre when you're playing a sniper draft.
Oh, we'll see.
It's level 6, for Yotara's been hit.
much more of an even game in terms of levels this time around
we are already filling this patch you know heroes pretty much those two heroes
right such as the doom and the alchemist has kind of changed the game completely
so you know what I'll put up to sad when they're not actually in play
I see something a little bit more exciting back though should be just fine
just gonna grab another bounce arena oh just kidding you watch it open up
And indeed nothing to say we'll let the other pick up a kill while setting over can they get the trade
Assassinate Bramble of the prambles to come in it's a good route down from route catching on to the two of them
Nothing to say triple low will be able to stay just out of vision to that up to turn it was f1
Actually, why I was the back of our next one over and next one was here with a shot. I think it's a turn to kill a frag!
Oh what a claim!
F1 survives for now
Bruin with the final hit for the shot and we'll be able to take him out of the turn of the tour
He's turned up to the action at success, but the split the line it can go straight for Ruiz
He's already used the shadow run so no way to protect himself and X never still alive. You're trying to chase him down
And continue to look towards him. He's gonna head over the wall to creep and jump him with the infest for that final bit of chase down
He's coming for him
Get stopped. He does indeed the prulings there but hold him up in the air still though as he comes to an
He's got that extra bit of movement speed X success can he hold it back to X over?
He can this dazzle just able to walk away
way is that Toro can't quite find the trade. They were so quick to sandwich too, as soon
as I saw the haunt I was like wait are they going to have, they actually brought the numbers
so quickly. Look Spirit, they want to strike back onto
army, they know he's alone, they set up with the arena, back up's on the way, but the arena
gets, you know, that's enough lock down and control to burst him down with backup
Lull and Rue. This is action packs, 5-5. That's a quick move, yeah, to make that
sort of play when they knew that, you know, everything had sort of been thrown into
that top move, the specter was not going to be safe under his tier 1 tower, so Spirit
Whilst they might have suffered in that situation in their own jungle, they do quickly make sure they find something in return for it.
Yeah, let's see if Almey does want to show himself back up to the lane too much more after that.
They did use the arena, so perhaps for the next 70 seconds or so he can go down there,
but has to be careful pretty much every time arena's up.
He could just get killed from an extra rotation.
Eyes around the mid once again from the turret. Ten minute power room coming in.
Laurel, two deaths already.
It's a difficult sniper game for the team already.
The charging, the spectre, everyone just closing the gap onto them.
Traditional old school counters are at least showing their worth in the sniper.
In terms of sort of saves, they don't really have it, right?
It's just outside of like a clutch sort of in best play.
These supports pretty heavy on the aggression, not a lot of ways to protect the sniper
until those items are online, when he's getting charged in upon and jumped upon by the spectre.
Yeah, when Rue has six, right, that's going to be pretty useful to terrorize
is one of those other great saving factors for the sniper but not quite there just yet.
That's why getting some fun a bit of xp down on this following trying to get that level six online
collapsed because the boss was to be right back in less than 10 seconds of the spare
over the course. There's actually quite line up with the brambles there off the mark so I'm
not going to really have any sort of damage to threaten the spirit break. That's why it's
fine and now it's on my back by his side.
Arena is back online.
Armey will have the horn to play with at the same time.
It's easier to turn around a bit of a surprise now for Fyze going to try and
charge away with the assassinates coming in.
There's nowhere for the spirit breaker to run.
The turret presence allows him to take the kill and to potentially get this push
going on to the tier one tower, Armey he backs off.
Doesn't want to be anywhere near this.
Canid pressure elsewhere here.
Looks like the Bruce should be able to get some decent damage off,
but they're not making a rotation to play around it.
So it looks like Spirits gonna just get this bottom tower for no change from the side of XG.
I'm just gonna be able to fully finish it off here.
And he's committing to it.
So I am super excited to see this Deso build.
How well it's gonna work with his team and work versus the Lash Rack.
Because this Lash can be incredibly fragile, since he is going for the blink build, I'm not gonna say.
Since he's playing versus Sniper, he wants to put the close to that gap.
That could be dangerous.
I mean, the work is gonna be cut out for X-Nurph on the Dazzle.
The shallow graves are gonna have to come in very very clutch
It's like a double-edged sword this blink dagger potentially for nothing to say it could be incredible
I'm just bursting out a target or it could just prove to be as demise if he plays and overplays his hand too far
And they just don't really have any sort of like instant catch or some right to stop this life stealer for getting the rage on
Sure, just a spur breaker if you can get it from an adult
But that's can be kind of complicated for sure
So you saw it's gonna have a lot of freedom in these teamfights to just run around and get to hit people with some of the
Yeah overall their teamfight control is just a little bit easier to execute on the side of Spirit which is with the Mars
With the sniper kind of peeping back the willow follow-up on the side of XG
They have to get the primal split angle with the spirit breaker
Well we'll see here trying to find the angle with FY and nothing to say
They want to go for something big but the blink dagger reveal of the Leshrac
They'll kill anybody they find that's for sure. Let's have a look what they can get here at the moment Spirit pretty far away from this move
And if you can get an angle in on the mid we'll see who shows at the moment just Panto
was uh hovering around to find that xp it's not a big catch and ideally nothing
just wants them in a little bit more than that and even if they go for this one
up by the tier 2 it's spooky lulls around oh if they can get more of them
I did see him for a quick second they know that something's up around there
yeah they said nothing to say you're not able to make a play here with the
embers rune and now bottom the plate army
we have a jump over towards the med army turn on awards lull army has to
Back off with his very low, it's completed!
Takeout both Wild and Panso, collapsed, he's got the arena ready, but the split's up from X-XS to now collapse into a bit of a rough spot.
Bash comes in from FY, Yator is keeping over, wants to see if his presence allows him to sort of turn this teamfight, collapsed, taking a lot of damage from the Brewlings.
So back up under tier 2 tower, he's trying to hold the arena of course, but when the split comes to an end.
6x6, get out of the brown balls, Vitorov wants to move in.
Of course still a Mifkelhammer away from his desk though, so doesn't at this point have
that kind of offensive amount of damage he needs to really be able to strike back.
So, XG they can back off, I mean that was, heads up move there for Mame, right?
No panic as it's getting gone on, looks for the chance to jump over towards the mid,
keep himself safe and stay on track to get a pretty decent timing on the ratings.
As soon as he got the Talons, one of the invasions picked up, which is about 1800 gold, away from the Relic.
Big stacks being cleaned up here as well by H2.
This is great recognition really for Lame. He sees that it's collapsed also on him bottom, right?
And the fact that there's no Mars in the mid-link, that's the protection for the Sniper,
so he does get that great chance to just get the move through on top of him there.
So another death, that's Laurel with 3 now.
As we said, a difficult game for the Sniper with all that gap close.
And we saw the Blink, of course, really pay off for nothing to stay there.
to stay there and there isn't any damage. So again the next time that he goes in
probably just is able to delete one of those heroes if the Mars isn't in that
right position. And collapse looks like it is gonna be the Eul's build this game at
least as the first one perhaps before that blink. He's playing versus the
spearbreaker, he's versus that dazzle, can't have its uses. See if he does commit for that.
And Yatoro, he is showing them that he is the number one farmer though by
decent margin. He is quite a difference between him and Ama actually, 1,300. That's gonna make a
really big difference. Yeah, this Desert Tom is gonna be super solid. And it's gonna be very good,
as we said, with the other two cores as well. And we're seeing Laurel. He is gonna be going toward
that main slayer route. So I'm gonna be able to reduce the damage. So as we said, not really
going for that full scaling. And it does go blink instead. So I was gonna feel like Collapse
was debating which one he did want to fully go for here. And I think this reach is gonna
to be important to get it near the sniper. Exactly and you know having that
set up to lao lao to pop off and yeah I'm just being able to get on top of this
dazzle right you want to try and destroy any chance of Xenova coming in with the
clutch saves. Defensive or aggressive blinks. Collapse allows you to go
slandering and he's going to get the jump and he finds Xenova so we'll get the ult out
but we can't even protect himself so he still ends up getting blown up by spirit.
But the other the core gets away so he'll be pretty happy that that on the
side of X-G was the blink reveal from collapse but he didn't use arena so he
does have potential to look for that with this tower pressure that they're
looking for now
oh my god the edge is the amic
gonna get the chance to get the jump under him the nice blast coming in as well how
is he trouble he didn't expect them to keep looking down that side of the map
all night getting caught out can't be the problem for specter this is we
don't see it very often we're seeing it here but he still is running into
some problems of being incredibly fragile. He gets caught from pretty much anything.
He's just gone. And he's at the bottom of the course. Even though we're seeing the sniper
have the difficulties, it's also Aame. This does not really jungle fast. That's always
been the problem at this hero's farming pace.
Yep.
Until you get the Radiance and your Hamthas and stuff, you don't really hit those creeps
that fast.
Life Stealer is at a way better pace for him.
I mean, this, this is bad for me.
Pretty much. So the two levels ahead of Aame as well.
Yeah. And yeah, level 12. It's actually important, right? Having that extra and
The fast can be pretty important to save if he's in the right place.
Collapsed too, they've got the infest bomb. Anybody they find it.
Very quick. Absolutely. Special with an ice blast coming in, they kill anyone.
He's looking nothing to save health. 1200 HP, 8 armor. He's gonna die in like 3 hits.
And he's gonna blink just to the right. They're gonna stand straight away.
They're in front of blast. Too much. Not even necessary.
Too much damage here for collapsing your thrower alone.
Spirit, starting to get the ball rolling very nicely here for this life stealer.
This is just going to keep happening to the Lestrak cry.
I'm worried for nothing to say.
He's going to be pretty dead even when that BKB is out.
It's unlikely to allow him to farm in any sort of aggressive position.
This is like the old build from last time that we've seen from the past before, right?
Most of the other players have been seeing them go for the Conscreted Raps and then the Bloodstone kind of build.
He's going for this Blinkaya style.
Could be painful as you said X know but he's truly got his board cut out from
to potentially get those saves but it's not gonna be easy collapse I think he gets
to use your enough they get to take the tower 50 seconds until it's gonna
respawn is actually gonna be able to make a move around that timing at all
they have their brew split so he does have that with the level 12 and the
agonims he does have that online so I want to see them make a move around
this brew I mean they're smoking up but it really is hurting them that they
They just don't have this Radiant Shatter on them.
No, it's been delayed so much. 18 minutes, it's quite late.
The playing around the brew. XNXS is very strong with this level 3 split, essentially, with the Agadims.
True, but still getting the jump on Yatora, as we mentioned, it's not easy.
No, not at all.
Leading up to the on-the-life-stay, they're highly likely that Yatora's going to get the chance to rage,
run a decent distance, find a chance to infest.
If you don't pretty much get the initial stun onto them here, you have to run away,
that there's so much counter initiation that Spirit does have so you have to have it come to me in it.
Radiance, 250 away.
They might actually go for X-Excess up here, but he's got parties behind,
and the TPs are coming in here from Spirit. Marina's ready.
I'm charging over to War's Law, but they's already able to TP out.
They get this big connection into the Terrorize. They're looking him down perfectly.
They got him.
Not able to get the ult off the tool there.
X-Excess.
Spirit, more than just feels like a step ahead.
They're losing an AA, but they're getting these big kills.
This Lifestealer is getting truly enabled.
3,000 separation between him and Armin at this point.
That's crazy, that's a high level goal.
19 minutes in.
I mean, Yatora, he's farming like absolutely beast this game.
And as I mentioned in the past, you know, long time ago, because I'm a Dinosaur,
Lifestealer has been able to just eat Spectre when you get this type of timing.
You just rage, open window and hit him,
and there's nothing Spectre really does back to you by any means.
Smoke up there. This time it will be the smoke with the radiance potential from army
So we'll see how much of a difference that's going to make
They didn't have to use the arena before all its spirit can rip they can look for this next fight themselves too
And it could potentially be around that torment or timing
Will XGB prepared for them to fight again?
Nothing to say just goes that link away
Thanks Nova. They're gonna sit in the front of the fight. It's gonna get the oaf. We'll be able to grab himself to buy a little more
time to live here. No arena. They will be able to burst through collapse. He's gone, now they're trying to turn for more.
Armei meeting over was Panto and Lalli. He's closed to go. Lalli's having to jump down to the river though. He gets away.
Panto gets left behind, but Armei is still alive. Lalli's having to turn, take him out with that final hit.
But both Lalli and Yutaro are extremely low. The Stimson makes a mistake. They take out Yutaro.
They continue to close it on to Lalli who tries to turn it with that five, but nothing is safe.
They get the triple, they take out Rue, they get the B-Wipe, it's free!
That's why, how many Bastions is he gonna get?
Collapse just got completely controlled, he couldn't even get the arena down.
AA Blast ends up whipping over everybody because of it too.
They saw the Dazzle, they go for the initiation because it looks nice, it looks clean,
but he gets completely controlled.
Yeah, absolutely, just quick moves as well from Xenova.
Getting off the novel projection, having to grab it by that extra time
They're having to commit to war to dazzle very quickly.
Watch collapse too, this whole time in the meantime.
But the A-Blast is coming over, he gets bashed, then he gets stunned,
and the A-Blast ends up hitting absolutely nobody because of it.
They're coming, they're in over-tall.
And at this point, no army, everybody just goes straight on top of the sniper.
Sure, Lala lives that little bit longer, and army does die,
but it takes so much from them, and they're left so low
that at this point of the game, the point of the fight,
it's gone apart completely for spirit.
And without, yeah, again, it's all on that catching the mass, stopping Collapsion, being able to play his hand at the beginning of the fight.
It's just, that's the crucial part, as Spirit's starting off any team fight, and they have to be able to burst through the dazzle a little bit quicker.
X-Tower's so quick there, with the Nuffle projection.
That was, got a picture-perfect fight you could ask for on the side of XG for them to get all that.
Ami getting some clean up kills, he dies at the end, but it took him a bit of time to really bring him down as well.
That was really nice, and that's the power of this Primal Split also, very early when you have this Agonimus.
Yeah, he's doing a lot of damage he did. He did, I didn't even look, but I think he did the highest damage.
He's definitely carrying a lot in these mid-game team fights as the brewmaster.
He's getting that protection during a crucial moment for nothing instead, you know, he said he went for maybe a double-edged sword build.
He is having one and two right now, so he is getting away with this blink build because of that last fight in particular.
Yeah, and just being able to help close the gap here for Arma, as you said earlier, about 3K go behind that of Yatoro,
back to that fight, starting to catch back up.
And FY2, he's getting close to a BKB himself, he has to baze Trump.
The BKB is gonna allow him to actually play versus that arena potentially if it does get off.
Then he can freely, you know, BKB charge through, pick the target that he wants to go for in like before.
That was exactly when XG needed it. Now Xnobuq has a holy locket as well,
starting to get some really big items for them, the BKB finished for nothing to say.
Let's see if they can probably fight again.
Primal splits up.
Let's see if Spirit wants to sort of try and address this if they feel that this is coming.
I don't expect it.
Ooh, bro.
Broke.
It's looking very dead here.
Spirit, they'll probably just let him go.
They're watching from the side, but nobody wants to get in on this if they're Spirit
right now.
They'll stay away from the play and just be happy with the collapse, being whatever
work towards his DKB, and at Yotaro, getting his Mantis style done. So he's got a little
bit of extra play to protect himself, and play around them in the team fight.
It's very nice for XG when they can walk in and get these type of kills. They don't
have to use anything big, right? Primal splits at the ready, they can still look for that
potential fight if it does come to them too. They actually have vision here of Collapse.
Charge angle. A minute of time, and Yul's on a one, but they can only hold one
of them back. The stun still comes in for nothing to say, Collapse dead again.
Skiii, striking back hard in these last few moments.
And Rosh potentially...
Not really something they do backgrade until they have Manta, but then they could potentially threaten it soon with that brew plong with the frontal split.
And we're getting these sequences of kills, it's not really allowing Spirit to set up for anything either.
And what you're making this was for the AA Panther, an early blink dagger rush.
That's cool.
All about just blinking in and popping that one target, right? We've seen this in the past where if you're...
Getting some difficulty because of the travel time, you just need to blink and get that point blank.
Get the blast off. Yeah, and he has Mars right he has heroes that are gonna try to get the heroes all collapsed together anyway
Joe takes what at the end of the day right if you can get that blast onto army and
Your Torah is in there punching into him. Yeah or the last you're always gonna have a chance indeed if one of those two targets
Is going to shoot die at least relatively easy to the damage of your Torah
Alright, I'm going to get the cleanup.
I'm going to stand up to Don, pull your Torah, 3K lead at the moment, for the side of XG.
And now the specter, as we said, he doesn't farm the fastest, but now once he starts to
get to these points, that's where we do see that crazy speed who doesn't crease mantas
very close to being done.
Spirit.
I feel like their posture changed quite a bit in these last few moments.
FY.
You can get an easy setup onto him.
He's not back up.
Gammals are gone and he's not only just the back of them,
BKB is on the career awards him.
They look for the setup here on a rune,
nothing states but the BKB ready to commit in the vision.
They can jump for more.
Don't forget some collapse.
Will push back.
They tend to charge back in.
He's just caught surrounded by the entire team.
There's no one to stop them.
The two of them.
The two of them are going to rage them right away.
There's nothing as they get the double kill.
And Bestin's allowed to be able to jack behind them to see it through,
but they can chase them forward.
A blast is coming in for luck. He's going to take it out. Gatora will be able to help bring down nothing to say.
But FY standing on top of him and their brave FY, give him a chance to back away.
Gatora is strong.
He's going to punch back now, but Grave already used X-Nove, it doesn't have any further way to save himself.
Gatora able to find a trade underneath the tower.
FY's ready to turn back in on low HP.
It's enough to catch out Gatora and kill him off.
It's only we're left here on Spirit as extreme, masterfully, take them down one by one, this time in an FY able to disengage, looking to get back in, knowing that there was nothing else left to keep your Tori safe on that lowest amount of HP that he was trying to back up to the safety of the tier 2 tower with.
The Spirit Break is getting a little too annoying, maybe this is the answer alone enough really to just kind of mess with this live steal.
He's kind of feeling like my MVP in this game, I gotta be honest with you.
FY is just making way too much happen with his charge and the disruptive plays and the spectre is working very nice,
not just versus the sniper, but it is a traditional old counter to the AA too.
Panto's just playing kind of panicked, he doesn't know how to move, because he's just dying to this Radiance in the fight too.
And just so many fights where it collapses, he's not getting the chance to get the arena outside.
It really is.
You've seen so many ways to just interrupt the flow of the Mars in these team fights.
And now Brew has a refresher, so he's got the double split.
He's closing the gap. I mean, this sniper is not getting to play Dota.
No, it's not an easy one for Lyle.
You see, you know, Yotaro does seize the chance to punch back.
Grave coming in, Fyabra back off in his store.
You know, he did not take his eyes off the rest of the teamfight.
He was ready to look to get back in on there, look towards Yotaro.
Rake is gone. There's no infest.
They know they can get the kill. Back in action.
X-Nova does get caught out here back around the mid.
Spirit might be able to get a roast just because of that kill.
I feel like they've got to try for it, right?
Yeah, they've got the Deso. They kill it perfectly.
There also is no hog for another 20 seconds or so, so they can...
Should be...
Yeah, should be long enough Spirit to get this one clean.
I mean, it's gonna hit by a scan.
They do have the Bruce Split up.
They have both of the Bruce Splits out of Freddy's level 19.
I mean, maybe he alone...
X-X has to get in there and mess with them to buy time for the horn.
Spirit's looking for the fight instead.
Sure.
They've got their rena, they've got the combo, they're gonna try to kill the Deso.
The three exits are still in the split-off!
And they're ready to come in for the side!
The horn's up! They jump back!
So, they try to get onto Woznar!
Fy coming up in the back!
Strikes them back with the ultimate!
Woznar again! The team fight falling apart for Spirit!
XG, they're just ready for them!
And they've got the answers!
They can continue to chase down Collab's Rue.
He's going to try and help out here with the terrorize,
but he can't get them all back.
Yatoro is looking towards Fy.
Can they at least find it? They can't get the graves there!
X-Rome has turned up, they get the Hexen up to make Geforra jump over the Thundercraft, Geforra he's out!
Once again, X-Rome get in the team wipe and Spirit just looking completely counted in these 5v5s.
Literally what, three or four fights in a row that collapse is just unable to really get these type of arenas off.
They're playing it so well around the scene.
It's just a little off the map with the spear, I mean again even if the spear connects it might have still been a tough one because of how kind of farmed and tanky X-X is at this moment but it has been all put start to the play.
Especially because they're versus the DAS, well DAS was dead I guess here right in this type of situation
So that's why they go for that all in play right but they just missed it off the mark
Oh, let's get the last hit on the roach with the blast, but they will get the Aegis onto Ame
Exca, yeah, this all flayed in particular for me right for mech from ex-g right now
They're doing all the heavy lifting allowing Ame to just get in get these clean up kills. It's this brewmaster
It's this spearbreaker. We have follow up of the Lash
And Yatora even for the bomb that he has is just these spikes fit there too much for him right
He spends most of the time kind of infesting in a teammate and hiding and by the time he pops out
It's completely outnumbered and it's far too much for the life stealer to be able to carry alone
And this is only one primal split on he had refresher as well for the potential
He's just a nightmare this game, this brewmaster, you know, 7-1 and 12
And now he gets the split off at this point
He will not really a lot they can do to stop him
And then the fight just seems like it's over any time fighting into these teamfight autobus this point for spirit
It's almost impossible. I mean I'll make out this point to he is top of network and it's just you know specter
May not be the strongest hero in general overall for certain things in terms of early game
But if you get to these type of points, yeah, it's getting seen how strong you know especially versus a a sniper
Yeah, some of these very fragile heroes and hope you got the benefit of the cloak of flame. It's just incredible
Gains upon ways like an ice in the head of your Torah, you know that that matchup definitely plays out
It's just too much right which maybe the life stealer has potentially against us back there
but the rest of the team at this point, they're certainly not looking at any positives when it comes to that matchup against the Spectre-Honstein on top of them.
Which is crazy, right? From 10 minutes ago, when Yatoro was the one with the 3,000 gold advantage over that Spectre, it was just three or four fights in a row that they got completely destroyed.
Am I bringing the Spectre back in fashion here around? I'm a very nice sort of team lineup.
And it's good to see, you know what, honestly, I might be a spectre-hater myself in terms of the hero,
because it ruins a lot of supports, but it's good to see a hero maybe potentially coming back into the meta that we haven't seen for so long.
Oh, Nitora.
Charged up.
Let's find the tier 2 FYC.
I'm not standing down to the thought of the charge.
Who can I look with though with the ultimate?
And they're moving in here as well, Armey, he'll turn, put me to kill off Ranzo.
Nitora's in trouble.
Take down the illusion indeed, Nitora's got Rage back up in a second, please, Lord of God, Armey!
Gets the double kill!
boys who's looking pretty rough now for spirit six or what six times or seven
time just able to kind of run through them there spirit on it all in a box
it's all for a part from when they caught next over the front line
fight essentially because of how that whole fight kicked off turn around it
turn around top games in the past it's gonna be pretty nasty and it does
sort of show as well that it's been this way in the past right way sometimes the
sniper as a first pick it can get dealt with and we've seen this game XG they've
had a very good approach to that but Laugh he's just so vulnerable in his team fight
and Spirit Breaker overall is looking he honestly is looking really really good
maybe it is because of that sniper as well too but FYI is making it look like
he's a very strong hero right now he's having a lot of fun on this one for sure
very farmed as well and he gets the point where he's pretty much overtaken
Collapse and he's gonna have fun too. You know why he's got agonies
All right, so now we get to see the real fun of the bonk back and forth
So what do we go?
Let's explain for the viewers it on they did that but you change it with a patch right?
Yep
Let me see was saying it before right if you bash people you bash them again if they bash into another target
But if you if you get it on creep waves, it can be pretty crazy
How much are fans and all people all over the place and you farm very fast. It's just amazing on the zero now
Of course
Dome sees moral and phanto the dream
back to the high ground the grenade
So I'm trying to get the damage into our may your tour is gonna try and step in onto it
He says take a look now at this point and I'm afraid of punching back especially what's it's super the stages here for a minute on respect
The bash the next army so it's gonna be even more frustrations for those of spirit that get jumped on by this vector during the horn
moves in
Starting to get pretty overwhelming of which chord. What do you want to actually burst down and there's a dazzle behind them as well
Who are you gonna focus on just now at this point on spirit?
You have to just go for that 100% all in on a one target, but you have to know where this dazzle is
And yeah, the deficit is truly starting to show into how you're gonna actually burst them right this brew is tanky
This spirit the specter incredibly tanky and even the lech now at this point has gotten a point
That's very durable
So you can't actually go for that play that you kind of wanted to that you we saw collapse try to do before in the
in the river. Panso, pulled out here in the mid.
Might just be able to start pushing the walls to high ground with that one.
Yeah, XXS straight in, he's ready to pop the split and go down here on the mid barracks.
He kills it so fast.
There's no way to deal any sort of damage really to these broolings right now.
They can't take them down and they need that.
I mean, the AA is crucial for them to try to even burst the target.
30 seconds without him.
XXS is trying to see if he has some sort of setup there behind the barracks.
We're going to pop the Lincolns into the laps.
Charge on, they're ready with the jump, they're trying to close the gap in onto Wozla.
They'll pop the BKB in, nothing to say ready to chase though, right up the wall.
He'll bounce in, it's low, dead!
Now your tourney's going to call out for the bash, he'll get the rage off.
He tries to turn the WozFY, but he's getting so low, he has to back off.
To the bounce, he has to heal up, and they cannot push Xtreme off the barracks.
There's going to be a second set of barracks taking him on the bottom lane.
I hit RumiX, it also looks insane how much he's been able to do this game.
This one, of course, just seeding freely.
20k lead now for them getting back-to-back pick offs on the course spirit might have to do something desperate
Which is any sort
Come back mechanism from the high ground. It's it's got our answers right from extreme
You know you look towards the sniper one of those here is a fantastic a holding it
But that's just so many so many ways to break the high ground right and just jump straight past the buildings
They need this go for the sniper like these bikes are never gonna be safe now below
They need this to connect and it might just be mapped by a whole force of XG as well.
I think that's you just joining us team.
Tormentor, aren't here for X and over.
Try to go through this here.
Maybe just hoping that somebody actually goes through themselves.
Not gonna be the case though, but they're gonna look to hunt.
I feel like they have to do some of their desperation moves like this to try to have a recovery in this game.
With all of XG, very aware they back away.
And back to the healer, and why can't you just really clear those waves?
Can they get the set up on Timmy as well, Dose?
You'll be pretty dead here.
I don't know, status resistance to protecting anywhere in the world.
I was gonna make him look after this!
Oh my god, did you see that?
Oh, that was close!
But we'll be able to get the final touch on him and take him out.
Gitaro got the hit as well too, so he did get a death so stack after at least a small gain.
They're very mounted.
I'm not going to climb it.
Closing in on the still, Wretch.
They're on the lifestealer, about 700 gold, and we have that demon edge.
Full butterfly though for this backflip, so continue as you set a full item or more ahead now at this point after those 5-6 fight wins.
Yeah, I was looking at the Bashir first, but the Jeng is lined up here, aren't I?
Hoping for the butterfly, yeah, because he knows exactly that he's that far ahead.
With the butterfly, it's going to be pretty much invincible there, but we'll have no real easy way of taking down these illusions anytime soon.
They don't need that extra bit of control versus the rage lifestealer at this point. They can just kind of walk through on this. We're seeing
Top looking for xxs
You're gonna burst it. Let's say he's very tanky. Yeah, he's gonna get to press the ultimate. No problem
It's all their xxs. Can they kill the brewing? I don't know if they can. They're very tanky as well
Yeah, he's gonna be able to run
So indeed they will not be able to do the only thing they get out of that is just forcing that that's at least one of the splits out
Which doesn't mean there's gonna be a small very small window. He's got refresher. You might have to go
Yeah, the smoke comes out. I think you have to do something with this you kind of just have to yolo
It feels like yeah, maybe they can
They do full connect his bit split away from his team
It's hard to kill. He's got butterfly and the radiance. It's very hard for them to focus here
I'm trying to make this place 24k behind his spirit
Looking to see if they can abuse the fact that there's at least one of the splits on cooldown
But you can see with the formation of extreme right there like but they're probably gonna come looking for us looking for this fight
But we're still ready doesn't matter. We still got a refresher ready for the next one. He is under vision
Get the charge the opening poison that job to set up. They get the not back as well
You're talking about 100 to zero and not able to press anything or fight back at all
Of the side they're trying to look for more here with the horn collapse
Just to push back on me with the spare. We'll give them the chance to blink away
It's been a long time since I've seen that type of global threatened odor
We're just like a spirit breaker charge in the specter just because you don't see the specter anymore
But what a combo even a life-sterter carry dies in seconds now collapse and stuck around for the creep wave
And pleasant after them coming in with the bashes
Collapsed I'll have to blink back up
It's got the TV and they should be fine here
So at least I'm gonna make some sort of space here with them chasing him
He's also able to get through the
I mean, he needs everything at this point anytime that he's dead, you just need all three of these cores getting that insane farm.
Fy is about to surpass the Mars. I mean, Fy is massive this game.
He played so well this game, honestly. The top kill initially, but then the charge on mid, he's kind of been setting the pace, getting these amazing teamfights for his team, even getting those bashes, the RNG.
I mean would you consider the Sierra still like a
Very situational one or do you think we might actually see teams look towards the spirit breakers quite a solid pick in this
I think we could perhaps
Holy he was started pretty much
I want to see it with the fire recap I want to see how much he actually took from the spirit break
Absolutely terrifying for spirit now stepping out in the map was this fair break is charging about me. You see that going away
1800 damage.
1100 magical damage coming in with our opening.
Oh, shout.
Easy pick up here, Armae.
Thanks for the edges.
They are truly trying to start a cruise in this game.
28,000 boldly, something you don't really see with a Spectre lineup.
What's a Spectre?
I might have sent a bit more of that.
Especially in these drafts, let's say when you get something like a first pick sniper coming through, you know,
Armae and Xtreme ready to look towards those old school
ways to play against it.
You can imagine, even though it did come as that last pick, soon that's not for sure.
It all made us start to talk about the specter potential.
I mean, they're the old school players, right? They're the ones saying,
hey guys, I mean, these girls are still going to be good versus Sniper, and absolutely the case.
Yeah, well, it was having a difficult game.
All of them really at this point after sequences since the 20-minute mark.
It's been 20 minutes of domination from XG.
The limited moves, it's first been able to really catch,
because every time they try, the ulti from the Mars, it's just kind of in stopped by something.
They haven't really been able to get anything going around any of the cores on Spirit.
All of them seemingly having some pretty strong counters coming out from XG.
And it was Spirit who was the one who was counterpicking, essentially, right,
that the panel was talking about for the majority of this one.
But it's been XG who just got that big window around the 20-minute mark
to get themselves in the spot.
And now four minutes at this age is very comfortable.
I just want to see FY charge again and get like I want to see FY get like a
three-man charge on the group because he's got the yasha kai as well too so
the damage is gonna be pretty crazy 30,000 gold lead here for extreme looking
in a great spot to be able to push this series to that game three
the chunks of respect at least of going that just straight for the
high ground even though they have this crazy advantage at the moment. There is the Silver
Edge on Yatoro. He's pinging, scouting people out. Our troops came to get me here and though.
I'm streaming with that position and they are so ready to react to any kind of move
from Spirit. An army now with a full Orca II, the nightmare for the support continues.
They have jewels to at least play around a bit and it goes after but
Toro he's found straight away up was on top of him
They just don't know he's not gonna get a chance to live whatsoever
You just cannot show out on the map right now and a base jump
You're nearly kidding off that so it's gonna jump forward himself there with a real special close to two and a half minutes on the ages
So our mates not really bothered about much whatsoever. No light stealer. There's no damage
There's no buyback available even if you're Toro next to the ready to dive up towards the back to the damage
Back there, it's knocked between them three of them.
That looks so cool.
And the push is coming in.
The tier three taking on the top lane, XG, onto the barracks.
They're going to be able to get the mega creeps.
And as I say, Yatora, not 45 seconds.
Available with the buyback.
He's just going to sit back and watch the base get destroyed here.
Buy XG, XG is ready to come in with a second split
to get this game over, whereas the tier fours are gone.
They're onto the ancient collection.
to try one final stand there around the arena but they've got nothing to follow up
the icebox brought me there on to our base but this game is so far we're gonna be going to a game pretty here as HG
strike back incredibly hard with this game too strong to play the spectre comes out
looks pretty good here they knew exactly when to pick it and if anything catches
a pair of flies to fries right maybe that life stealer reaction was the one hope
of having a way to deal with it but it got so far behind them they just
We're never really able to pull anything together from that mid-point onwards this game's first.
Literally from 20 to 40 minutes it was just XG just running the show and I think it, I think the
draft compliments the Spectre a lot is the big thing, right? I think the Spectre of course versus
the Sniper and versus the AI he has his merits it can be incredible but I think the fact that he
has this spirit breaker that's able to do this and enable him as well and he has this
blue master and last that he can play around is what a loud Spectre looks so good in this
game after that 20 minute mark. They kind of just rolled over him after that and you can
You've seen that Yatoro, at that moment too, he was what, 3,000 gold ahead of the Spectre.
You just threw the bomb at the start. That kind of initialable armlet deso timing is pretty much as fast as you could hope for on this life stealer.
Just a broken teamfight when the Collapse couldn't get that arena off and they just couldn't finish off that dazzle, and then from there, XG played it beautifully.
Yeah, absolutely. So many times where Collapse just couldn't get that opening, couldn't get that chance to make the move.
X Nova and FY the two supports dancing around, the X Nova with the saves and FY just getting in their faces every single time.
What a performance there from XG, cannot wait to see what goes down in game 3.
It's one to one now between extreme and spirit.
The series is going the distance and that's what we like to see here in Birmingham,
especially in a fashion like this.
The teams that seem to be breaking the mold of what we've expected so much
for the past eight months of Dota are getting punished
punished and the ones that are exploring new horizons are being rewarded like with a spectre.
I mean this is why I love Dota, right? That you see a problem, you need to find a solution.
Some teams they want to follow a script or a playbook. People say life is good, people say this is good.
But for XG, the reason why they're potentially making this lower bracket run is because they understand that
there is like this little concept in play and then they find the little things like this time around
it was a spectre and sure, the early game was sus. The reason why we don't expect it was because of that early game.
early game. It was a great walk of the army, eventually due to Leshrac, the spirit breaker,
mud guy, they eventually came online and then it was just a clinic from HG in the late game.
Yeah, Fyre was just in his element this game. I mean, I like he's charging in,
he's just setting up for everything. When he got his VKV later, he was going to one before,
he was a menace. And look at him. This is the Fyre show and this brings me back to Dream League
season 27 where he was busting this out when no one else was playing it. This is a hero
She really enjoys it when you can get active on something like this makes it really hard for enemy mid laners
Yeah, I mean, I love to see when creativity pays off like this
I think this is why part of why watching these two teams of particular play is one of the best series in Dota is because
They're so creative. They respond to each other not just saying well, we picked the same stuff
We always pick they're responding to whether the enemy team does it's a back-and-forth there this a dance in some ways
I think the draft is almost as interesting as the game is it is really fascinating to watch what these teams do
especially in a new patch like this. So I think it's awesome that they pick Spirit Breaker,
Inspector and all this crazy crap. They're countering each other. This is a really fun
game to watch, not just from a gameplay basis, but also the ideas and the strategy to go into it.
That was awesome. Especially in terms of progression of from game one's draft, leaving the
Alchemist effectively unanswered to now incredibly effectively answering the Sniper problem,
because there was the back and forth initially where Spirit, they saw the Lash Rack and was
I was like, okay, I got Sniper, and I'm going to take the Mars so that you can't counter my Sniper,
and then I'm going to make your Lush Rack's life even harder with ancient operation and willow.
But this time, Xtreme did not just fall asleep with the wheel.
They were like, no, we still got tricks up our sleeve to deal with your Sniper.
You've just described the same thing that's happened to both teams, right?
In the game one, they're the puck. The puck got shut down. There's no game to be played.
In game two, they early pick a Sniper, he got shut down.
So either team, whoever kind of reveals their hand early,
you know, Xiaowei, the Milan, whoever, they kind of full send counter, right?
So maybe both teams need to understand, like, you can't just reveal heroes this easily in this type of best of three.
I also think there was a secret carry on the side of Extreme Gaming in Dazzle,
where it wasn't addressed at all within Spirit Straft,
and we saw a lot of fights when Mihtara was trying to make plays on the lifestealer
and chasing a hero that was low HP, trying to get a trade.
Dazzle was completely untouched in the back, graving everybody,
And the only jump that they had for something like the Dazzle was the Mars.
So if Mars wasn't getting an initiation on Dazzle, no one was dying.
Yeah, I mean, we talked about it in the draft, like when you steal, pick this Mars like this,
suddenly you're opening yourself up in this way that Sniper and Mars, the way they work together,
they're both very vulnerable to being jumped on in a random floaty way, right?
You think of things like Storm Spirits and Embers, they would traditionally be good against both of them.
But they found the perfect pick in the Spectre from the carry position, and it shows, right?
There's all these awkwardnesses in the way they're playing, and when they get jumped,
They kind of just get haunted on, and they just are running.
Everyone is just running for their lives in opposite directions,
and they're just dying, getting picked off as they run through the forest.
That was crazy.
Let's add a bit more context to your point with the lifesteal, and the Dazzle.
The lifesteal did 16,000 damage, Dazzle did 13,000 healing, right?
So it's like, when you look at the numbers, it's like,
you can see that Dazzle kind of shut down what the lifesteal was trying to achieve.
Show me some more numbers on what these carries put up.
I want to see what everyone is here for.
the Amme vs Yutaro show so let's put them to the test and see what they were able to come out with.
Dang, I mean Amme had a pretty rough start this game whereas Yutaro felt like he was free-firing on the lane
but as that game unfolded Extreme Gaming were able to just keep running at the sniper to keep forcing plays
with the spirit breaker and Amme just found his way into the game. All it took was a charge
into him haunting on top of it and his gameplay was great. Also poor little Panto on that
ancient operation. He tried to play Dota but every time he stopped out he was
getting haunted, he was getting charged. Ami made the support lives a living hell
alongside FY. Rezitor, he tried to do the same but he just couldn't. He didn't have
the catching of the force behind him the way that Ami did. If you're as excited as you
want to be about Spectre returning to competitive form, every support player
out there is having PTSD from whatever Spectre is incredibly meta and you
are just not allowed to ever emerge from fog. For the sake of everyone
watching like specter he isn't back because of the sniper and the window and
you know interpretation it kind of created the perfect storm for a specter so
if you are about to go play a pub don't just first pick a specter and say army
did it I can do it to you know that there's a lot of conditions to make
the specter work they justified it well Quinn you want to show us how well they
made this specter pick work I would love to show you as we've got some
clips of an impressing honk and everyone dying because that's kind of
what happened this game starting with the first time I think it's really
important that you use every single haunt.
Cooldown and they did that often and early, see here only already at 8 minutes.
As soon as they get that haunt they get up in the enemy's business and there's a big
invasion here into the woods and I think this is very, very good.
It's important you get these kills early as Leshrac talked about the first pig Lesh.
He had a great game despite the early start because of these kills, because they're
getting involved with numerous heroes.
There's the haunt, they get a sniper kill after getting the A kill earlier and
then Brumaster runs over too and they get an extra willow kill on top of that.
All this XP, this huge XP injection into these heroes is really, really important to get their game going.
They get this last Willow Kill and then we kind of just run for the hills after.
We're going to look at the next clip.
Similar story.
On a Prestus Haunt, he's kind of bouncing back and forth doing the Spectre Classic.
And this immediately just starts...
I don't know, as soon as you press Haunt, everyone, you just see everyone.
You get a perfect jump from this Lushrat going to Blink First Build.
And they all just die.
And it's already off to a great position to go to even the next one here.
It's more of this game.
They jump to Dazzle, he gets Grave on himself.
Oh, you're fried now buddy, as the A Blast comes through and hits Dazzle, sure.
Yeah, you killed their five, congratulations guys.
And now you just get run down to the ends of the earth by Spectre.
Even Ame drops in this fight, but it's just not enough.
As I think XG, they pulled one off the bag here with the Spectre.
And I think they really showed that they had the better idea for this game.
They outthought Spirit and it came through in the heroes and also the play.
I think they played an exceptional game on all five players and this was uh honestly the key success
We got one last clip here. This is really just gravy though at this point
There's not too much fear can do the specter's come to full fruition 7k gold with a specter is like 400k goldly with anything else
Is they just press all of them the whole screen evaporates?
So kudos to them for being brave enough to pick a hero like this especially in an elimination game
I think it's very easy to go back to what is classic what is simple what is easy for they say no
So this is a good specter game and we're going to pick it because it's a good specter game.
We're going to trust our gut or read if this is pickable.
So massive kudos to them for having the massive kahones to do this.
And maybe Team Spirit fighting off more than they could chew about the first place at
night part.
Like, the heroes did get a lot of buffs.
And on paper, great versus Lasharok online.
But as Extreme Gaming showed us, there's a lot of old school counters in this hero.
It's something that you really have to support within your draft with melee heroes
and save heroes.
And no good save heroes were really in the pool for Spirit.
So, Sniper was just free food.
Gotta go deep into the archives as you want to find a solution, and both of these teams being put to the test.
You have solutions to get alchemists. You have solutions against all of these other heroes, the snipers, the leshracks.
We're gonna find out which of these strategies are gonna come out on top, as we have a game number three ahead of us.
Stick around everyone, and we'll be back with the final game of the night here at ESL One of Birmingham.
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Good evening, ESL One Birmingham! So good to see you yet again. Hello, good evening!
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Well, my friends, I've got some great news.
We got your feedback from the stats one.
You guys said too hard.
We got your feedback from the lore one.
You guys said cringe.
We now have another...
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How many of you guys are over 20 years old?
25?
30?
32?
35?
God damn, you guys are bovers! Let's go!
37?
Really? 40?
You guys are just wooing.
There's no way!
There's no way!
Well, don't worry, that's Dota.
Three, two, one, I missed the category.
Who was the winner of ESO One Raleigh?
2025, remember the faster you click,
the more points you get,
but you also have to get it right, okay?
Was it Team Falkings, Paravision,
Hundra, or Extreme Gaming?
2025 ESO Fam, who could it be?
I think I was there.
I should definitely know this one.
Here we go.
In three, two, one, it was Paragazan!
Well done, very even there.
Smoothie-Eddie clutching it.
Well done, Smoothie-Eddie.
Who was the winner of ESL One Bangkok?
2024.
Falcon, Steam Liquid, Na'Vi, or Panavision?
Ooh, ooh-la-la.
I know, guys, that these are inferior to the ESL One
Garbing Hams, but please, I know you guys watch all of them.
Do not flame the other ones.
OK, nine seconds left.
Absolutely.
And five more.
Team Liquid, when did they play at this tournament?
Here we go!
Hey!
Team Liquid was not right, guys.
It was ParaVision.
You guys, fanboys, cute parrotfish into the lead now.
Who was the, oh wow.
Who was the winner of ESL One Birmingham 2024?
Now, we have a lot of people who here was at 2024.
Yeah, welcome home, bird.
All right, if you guys get this wrong,
they're gonna be so pissed off.
But don't worry about it.
Here we go.
You guys were here for 10 more seconds.
That was Falcons Team Liquid,
Bet Boomers and OG.
All right, five seconds left.
It's time for our fanboys to go full copium.
Okay.
Yes, it was Falcon.
You guys remember that one?
Okay, thank you, Shilway Parada.
As we continue, who was the winner of ESL One?
Kula Lumpur 2023, goodness gracious.
Those are gaming gladiators.
Did they ever win anything?
Team Liquid, Azure Ray, and Falcon.
I'm sure Quid won something, and Celery.
They're in the building right now.
Could it be them?
All right, 10 more seconds.
Five seconds left.
Do not liquidate it.
It's too late now.
It was fastest person to say yes,
so it's not worth your time.
And there you have it.
Azure Ray won, you goddamn noobs.
It was not Game and Gladiators, Quinn never wins anything.
Who was the winner of the ESL One Berlin Major 2023?
Boomers in the crowd?
Apparently the entire crowd, you should remember this.
Here we go.
Was it Thunder Awaken?
Team Liquid, Game and Gladiators, or Virtus.pro?
Okay.
Let's find this one out.
2023.
Any guesses?
Oh, that guy said Mineski, that incorrect.
Thank you so much for your help.
Once I got left and it was gaming, they actually won something?
I forgot about that.
Congratulations gaming gladiators.
Back of the day, oh, where is the Vibrant Squid?
Who is the Vibrant Squid?
Start waving.
I'm looking Vibrant Squid.
Vibrant Squid.
Do we have a squid in the building?
Do we have a Vibrant Squid?
Over here?
No way.
No, who ever talked to this guy, all that, get over here!
Show me your phone!
Show me your, oh, okay, now show me the pictures on your phone.
Show me your chat history.
Come on, man, you get the key, congratulations.
Well done, any words out there?
Any shout-outs, our big winner here tonight.
Please give it up for Chainsaw Man.
We all saw the ending of that anime.
Absolute dog shit, this guy needs your support.
Shout-out to LiquidJabs.
Okay, shout out to Jabs.
Jabs, if you're watching, you got a big fan right here.
Thank you so much. Congratulations on whatever made up lie I had about the coin.
Thank you so much. And we'll get back to our game three!
Coming up! Don't go anywhere.
It's better than nothing at all
You gotta let the men fly
It's more this morning than what I did to you
You never touch me until I need you
You're actually just like a true Dota enjoyer.
Well, I'm just I'm a gamer and I'm into video games right you like that the atmosphere this shape the whole thing
Like the ambient creature is you need all of it like it in the dodle world. That's so much to the game
Hello everybody welcome we are an ESL one Birmingham. I'm here with Chris Stahls from the team now's he's gonna take us
I was so his settings good or bad. You know, we'll see what he has in the store sauce. How are you doing today?
I'm doing fantastic. Yeah, yeah confident
My settings, not very, but you know, I mean like...
And Dota, are you confident in Dota?
Also, no, but like, you know.
Okay, but maybe the settings will carry.
I used to not even have a button for my Corridor build for you,
but like a few months ago, so...
But you have one now?
I have one now, because I was told by Moony and like 20 times
to do it, then I put it, and then I just didn't use it.
Like, Moontown, right?
He always looks for like these random things.
Let's go, let's take you through some of the settings.
Aki's number one, what are you playing here?
I don't know how to like a CP easier.
No, it's not even, it's not even sure that I can actually, I think.
I don't know. I don't know if he's one to take a flight.
Are you a quick cast?
Yeah, I'm a quick cast.
I'm a quick cast.
Everything? Every hero?
Yes, only, the only spell I don't is Chronosphere.
That's it, only spell. Everything else is quick cast.
You know, just Chronosphere.
There was another carry player I had earlier today.
He was also a quick cast only except Chronosphere.
Let it be.
That was good.
No, he had to, he used normal cast for any like AoE spell.
Because you wanted to see the AoE.
Yeah.
So it included Chrono.
Oh.
So kind of the...
Yeah, I also have a setting that shows your range on spells when you kick it.
But it doesn't...
It's not the actual normal thing that you have to do.
It's just...
Maybe you pick the button.
Yeah, it hovers a little bit.
Yeah, it hovers a little bit.
But I do have this.
It's a good setting.
This is really funny.
Because you guys are both carries.
Basically, the exact same thing.
I've never seen anybody else do this.
Yeah.
Do you know who it is?
I would just want to throw it on Skeeter.
That is who it was.
How did you know it?
How did you know how to do it?
Because we are both like dog shit at fucking places, so of course we're the only fucking ones that do it.
It makes perfect sense to me. We both suck so much at the same time.
It's a legendary shit that all on my part.
Anything you don't need an hockey player? Your mouse click for anything?
Um...
I feel like...
Well, there's a...
There's a hockey player.
This is also a not pressed button that is to... I do not press.
I figured that, like...
The taunt is probably more important than Activate Scan, although they did kind of enough to taunt these days.
That's true.
Yeah, I will click my three, but then I might click one or two actually.
But I will click the three.
So you have like half of them?
Yeah, like half of them.
I think that's very common.
I won't get further though.
Oh, this is a funny one.
My boss is an F10.
Because there was one time where I had a keyboard where like half of my F5 to like F9 or some shit keys were broken.
And then I was like, well, I can't pause now because the keys are broken.
And then I had to switch to the F10.
So now my boss is an F10.
It's kind of good. It works now, but you know, it's like a format.
Oh, that's something I actually have. I have camera zoom in.
Yeah, why? You don't have a watch?
No, I don't.
So if you go down the setting, the watch zoom is not...
Yeah, I don't have a watch. I can zoom in, I can zoom out.
What? Are you using it?
I mean, like if I'm bored in a pub, then it's possible that I'm using it.
Okay, so you don't use the zoom in any real game?
No, I only like... All I do is like, I will zoom out at the start of a game
because it zooms in for no reason.
Yeah, that's why people turn off.
Yeah, but that's like the only time I use it, to zoom out again from the start.
I'm like, hmm, that screen looks a bit weird.
Something's a bit old, and there's a loud one.
It works.
It's like a fidget spinner or something.
You could call it that.
That is kind of what I use it for.
It's a little degenerative, but I don't expect it.
Yeah, I think it's good.
The camera shake, you're far enough the camera shake, man.
I mean, yeah, I was saying, like, I used to always have this on.
I don't know who told me the turn off.
I don't know if it was like in Secret or if it was like with Poppy or something.
Someone told me the turn off one time.
Smart man.
I'm not a smart man.
Like, what happens when you're like all the way off-screen, right?
You're watching mid, and all of a sudden your screens are like...
Pffft!
And then you're like, oh shit, I've been stunned!
And then you know, but otherwise, now you're just like what?
You hear like a little sound, you hear a screen pull come down, like it doesn't feel that severe.
Like, when you're that ganked, it should be like a fucking jump-scape.
You're like, holy fucking shit!
You're just like, following ancient, you're like looking at the top lane, and you're like, what the fuck?
Your screens are shaking, and then you know that I'm dead.
But otherwise you're like, oh, you know, I've got to go group.
Okay, two things like that.
You don't think in team fights it's disruptive.
No, it's epic.
Do you like that you like that?
Another setting, another setting.
That's very full.
Full everything.
These are full.
Full music.
I mean, full music.
Just blaring.
I got the fucking screen shake and music blaring in the middle of the team.
They did all these poor artists making really good music for the game.
That's like, I don't know what the word for this.
It's like dynamic, you know?
Like if you have five starts, you get some music himself.
If it's five goes down, it goes back to normal.
So you play better in the zone.
Yeah, like it's immersive.
It's just cool.
Yes, like if I turn this off, I feel like, I just feel like it's so empty, you know?
It's all bad.
Once again, I fundamentally disagree with it.
But...
I was the pro player.
I respect it, I mean you finish, you finish, you finish,
but I respect it
because I can see that it's making me better.
Yeah, it makes you feel good in it.
Yeah.
It's like, it's good, I love this, this is good.
Full video settings?
You high graphics guy?
Oh yeah, that too, yeah.
I'm high graphics, yeah, I'm high graphics guy.
I'm high graphics guy, I'm everything, I'm everything.
I'm slow quite.
I'm not a player who likes ten of shadows
and fucking if I have three so ugly
I mean the whole game was like shit.
You're actually just like a true Dota enjoyer.
Well, I'm just I'm a game enjoyer. I enjoy video games, right?
You like that the atmosphere of the shake them like the whole thing like the ambient creatures.
You need all of it like that in the Dota world.
It's so much to the game.
So what do you think about these guys who turn like they turn the music off?
They turn the music off.
I mean, they are boring. They are try hard as if I think it's like it's just cringe.
Like they like you're supposed to play games to enjoy them and these guys
They will take out every single bit of enjoyment. There's nothing like just machines. Yeah, that just a tomaton
Exactly, like they don't have fun playing this. That's just fucking fire. They must have some thoughts of kind of good
So it's kind of shitty, but I don't know. I think I can not play without the size
I need something to be fine. I really you're convincing me. It looks good. It is good. It feels good. Yeah, I'm kind of buying it
That's right. Yeah, no chat no chat
Even in the pubs
That is one you need it. It is in the pubs. I know but you are you one of the guys with no incoming chat
but you still type to people?
No, like I will turn on the chat two types of people
because if I'm going to type to someone, that means that I want to battle.
You know, I'm there for the back and forth.
Like I want to have you flame me back so I can go even harder.
Because if you don't flame me back, it's like, it just feels like awesome play.
What are we doing here?
Yeah, like what are we doing here?
If I call you a fucking bot, then you need to come back and say some shit, you know?
And then I can go more.
Alright, well, thank you for watching everybody.
This has been Kristallus from Malz taking us through a lot of his settings.
His settings, you're mad at what you decide, but thanks for watching, we'll get you next time.
You thought we had Pudge, unfortunately, chewing on a few cables,
But we've stored it all out to get ready for the final game of the night.
Elimination on the line between extreme gaming and team spirit.
And I want to do a quick poll for those of you in the audience.
Surround 9.45 p.m. on a Friday.
Could you make some noise if you went to work today and then came to the arena?
Wow!
Now the others the one that's took a day of holiday for work to then come in spend the whole day here make some noise if you
Took vacation off to come watch them do that
That's a lot more. I know my UK crowd, you know, we have holiday days. We're gonna use them when we need them
This is a very good reason to use your holiday. This should be a bank holiday
There should be an official government mandated holiday. We kind of need like UK teams or players to win
He's on his way
Again, this will be the foundation of the future, the Future Bank holiday for Brom.
I look forward to it. We'll see if he can inaugurate it, but that will come tomorrow.
For right now, though, we need to get to the thrilling conclusion of this final elimination series,
Extreme Gaming versus Team Spirit and Quinn.
So far, I think Game 1 and Game 2 have delivered exactly what I was hoping for.
They most certainly have, and we can only hope for more of the same in Game 3.
I'm really curious to see what they do about Leshrac specifically,
Because that I think was first pick last game, Spirit has first pick this game.
So does Extreme have the answers for it or are they going to ban it out this game?
That and Alchemist.
Yeah.
Yeah, happiness can be bought as Spirit Proof game one.
In both games have been built around the first pick, right?
The first pick Alchemist, we speak about Agonyms,
the first pick Leshrac then activates a later spectre that we praise, right?
So I think the first pick from both teams has been really, really good.
And we'll see if of course XG is going to allow the out throw.
They don't, they ban it out.
And XG they still ban the Leshrac.
They have so much stock in this hero, they do not want it in the pool.
Makes sense, but it does feel bad banning your own hero, so we'll see what Spirit takes instead.
It's still banning the Timbersaw, so I guess that was like, you better ban out, we're making sure you ban out.
Beastmaster slips through, and after you said that Spirit's been leaning on it quite a bit.
Yeah, they also just ignored it last draft, what it was, what there is.
So maybe they think it's just too old school now that a few days have developed in the patch?
Yeah, on 7.41, I don't know how much they've been really going for it.
They've been multiple drafts when they've had access to it and dodged it.
But instead, they want to go for the Pangalir.
They heard that we were hyping up earlier today, but in the hands of either law or collapse,
it can do a lot of work. It's so much back playing finding with Rolling Funder.
Eventual big damage through axe and defusal.
It is a scary hero, especially for Spirit.
It's also a flex, so...
Not that easy to respond to it.
They haven't started getting into the reserve time yet, but there are definitely options here. You could pick a mid, you could pick a carry,
you could pick a support that is just like generally good against, you can look at things like bane, stuff like that.
You just have to consider how much is our counter going to get countered. This is something that I like because it's sort of more general.
This is also a flex in response, so you're not giving away too much, and it counters Pangolou throughout the game
if it's just, you know, core-to-core, if they're not laning against each other,
but it's also good against the in the lane if they're both mid, so this is a pick that makes a lot of sense and also one of the
X6 has his best heroes.
Yeah, I think the starter needs a plus one to make it a true counter to the pangalore,
and this time you want this like TA, this ranged carry hitting the pangalore while he's amplified,
making his rolling thunder basically useless if you have that kind of carry.
Yeah, whenever we used to play spear back in the day, and we first picked pangalore, which we did many times,
their classic response would be Bane or Grimstore plus drawranger, or Terrablade.
That was almost always the go-to.
And so spear definitely knows how to counter a pangalore,
And I think what you're saying is definitely true. You want that range carry type hero draw ranger and TB
I think are what strike stick up me as the two classic ones
So I'm curious if they go for those if they've got a different idea in their back pocket
I don't know if I got a full read through on it, but T what did Shadow fiend just vanish after the patch dropped?
I'm trying to remember it's like souls got reduced and then the damage also got reduced and it scales on your level now
So it's not as simple as just like walk delay and get max souls and the things like rather than 26
It's 20. I think okay, basically souls are a little bit in the bin
Because that I would have thought falls under the archetype of the plus one range artillery to go with the
corrosive hay is it sardar into a rolling thunder
Yeah, they know if just damage cheese crack that he lost his max foals
they've gone down by something like six and it seems like I'm making a push to make us at this
Bellcaster again, like they gave him the raised blows I believe as a shard
I can't remember he gets it somewhere later in the game
And then they made it so that his axe requiem does max damage as well in the returning requiem
So it does feel like they want him to just be a mid hero. They're saying play this hero mid
Stop this mask of madness nonsense
Since you thought those will ever have been scorn for the patch to try to get the S
Then what you got to get the V because of Venom answer shows
I give up
Yeah, then I'm also here that was really important in the previous series for actually earlier today
Kind of forgotten about at least in this one until now most likely the position of five
Because enable your lane to play through you kind of like a budget to Cairo
But you know you kind of bring the same damage and then when you carry moves the jungle
You kind of take over the lane and if you carry wants the lane like a gyro like an out type hero
You then have to go farm the camps behind the tower
So it's just super efficiency that your five and carry can both jungle and lane once you kind of break into that
kind of five to six minute window of the game I do think it's a lot they pick it
into Pangolier it's generally against pango like you want to respond to this
hero if you pick stuff that is just sort of blasé then he gets to roll around and
do his thing then it can it can you know smite you a little bit later then
definitely is not the follow-up damage of the wood and expect that from the
five but it's a hero that's not particularly good against pangolier if
you gale and he's like okay and he practices one of his two mobility spells
or he rolls. Feeding some pangolier both have the same answer right they
don't care about Venom in the game. They'll just fight on their own spells and
the Venom it just goes at the moment so a casual pick to try and enable the
laning phase but there's nothing else to really read into it as of yet.
I picked up the standard for extreme gaming like they will value 5s that can
secure the lane for Aume and if they have teamfight on top of that that's a plus.
That's why they love Phoenix so much.
I hope the games that we've seen so far this is the most conservative of the drafts
that we've seen where no one hero is dictating how the drafts are going to play out yet.
This is making a breakthrough for XG, right?
Normally with Slada, you want to hold it to offlane or mid, right, to the end of the draft,
is Armagan a step up here, pick a carry blind, not knowing his counter carry matchup, and
if they don't pick that, then they're actually going to expose the Slada in the draft,
Spirit to then unflex their pangler, and then they get the counter pick, right?
This double pick for XG, due to the first pick pangu, I don't know if it was really,
really difficult.
It's gotta kind of cook up something right now.
Yeah, and if they want to pick a mid here and say if Karrie for a last pick,
then what mid is it you're picking, right?
The Lush is banned, your puck lost, and if you pick it,
you're instantly getting Void Spirit, which they banned before,
so they're clearly not comfortable with.
I don't know what Tinker's been nerfed into the floorboards,
so you're not picking that.
So what NTS here are you even looking at if you're picking mid here?
I'm not exactly sure what that would be.
Yeah, I mean, there's not his Razor.
Like, that's one of his stable mid heroes as well.
Yeah, that hero just also tanks like 4% winner and even Amar is not picking it.
Okay.
So I wonder if he would still go for it, because it is a hero he's very comfortable on.
When Sanking works, now they've got the flex open between Offlane and Mid.
The Sanking and Slardar.
Mm-hmm.
It does exist for sure.
I kind of feel like it's probably just a lot of Offlane, Sanking, Middle.
I'm a little...
I don't mind it, I'm just worried that if they don't execute on it, then
You are picking heroes that once again Phoenix will egg after you initiate.
Pangalith, he's not the one getting jumped, he'll just rolling thunder.
Scyking Slot of Blinxin, that Pangalith is broken in your backline.
There's not like this cohesive jump next to you.
They do have damage right? They've got big magic damage of Scyking.
They've got Slot off of the physical, even Hoodwink to throw in some amps.
Venom when he gets Axe to throw in amps, they have plenty of damages.
Have to make sure it's really perfectly used in the fights.
They can both get countered by the same style of hero too.
Like the Husqvar-esque hero.
Don't tell me with a good time
Yeah, I mean it's also it is to like blink stun bears and I think that can also definitely open up weaknesses in your draft
When you've got two heroes that are very reliant on blink when you spend, you know
Two of your core spend their first 4500 gold on air
They just let you start fights
Then it can be a bit redundant because the heroes want to do the same thing and you can run definitely run low on damage
What if you get to the mid game period because you're just fine for links, right?
I thought that gets me a clutch factor as well.
You know what also has a clutch factor?
24 pic anti-mage for Armin.
I was already thinking I think the worst two.
Were you actually thinking about it?
There we go.
I'm calling for it.
Alright, okay.
Well, I'm going to jump on the armin.
Okay.
Anti-mage.
Imagine it, right?
Game three.
Book your ticket to a Saturday here for Armin.
It's for Vatican's pangolin.
That here is...
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
We don't care about that.
We're living in the moment, man.
This man keeps specter for crying out.
There it is.
It's the carry vs carry matchup we care about.
Love the other stuff.
Ah well, right, back to reality.
Mira is right, the hero's a winner, good tank.
So, look at these questions about what they are gonna look at.
And it feels like they still need
that ranged damage type of art type
if you have the slaughter plus Sand King.
The issue is if you've got double ranged
on the safe lane, it makes it very easy
to just beat on you and dive your tower and kill you.
Yeah, it raises the bar of execution very high. You have to put a good ward. You need to position yourself well and you need to lane well.
And the bad one are the ranged carries that could have defended itself in Lair.
Yeah.
I mean if you don't if you want to go for this option then Clink's is still kind of a hero.
You can defend yourself for just better positioning hiding in invisibility when your team connects then you kind of burst out with like
deso, Daedalus. I think then there are some kind of quirky ranged options for XG.
It is probably the safer bet.
It's terribly just deadly. What is going on? Why has nobody touched him yet?
There have been a handful of final phase ban terrible.
It's like the Lunas and stuff like that.
It was also banned out in the last game, I think Fred did respect it.
Man, I wanted Drows, such a good Drow game.
I didn't even say it because I wanted...
Anti-mage first.
Yeah.
Didn't want to manifest.
It's like the heart of Anti-mage.
Yeah, of course not.
It's nice sometimes to draw after living in an alternative world.
I respect that.
I respect that.
Yeah.
What?
I haven't seen somebody dead.
I respect that.
I respect that quick pan away.
The cameraman knew his job.
That was good.
The Pterablade Scotty still exists.
I think it looks fine.
Oh, it exists.
It exists.
Don't pick a gyro here next to you.
Underlord ban.
Come on.
Aren't they teasing the Pterablade a little bit?
Aren't they kind of like nudging spirit?
Hey, we're going on more Pterablade.
Yeah, they don't know where this pango's going.
And so we're still leaving the flex option open until now
What other turrets are there?
Sniper not good. TA?
TA is an option, but it doesn't scale very well against morphing is the issue
It's more of an early game thing because butterfly is really good against TA
Right now the problem is morphing will hit a 25 minute timing of I am
technically unkillable and the carry has to be able to match up for xg because if the carry also follows the
let's break down the map and let's kill them, Morphling will just run the show right? The void spirit now picked up with the
pango the supports like they are ready to activate the morphling very quickly through the aggression.
Yeah, the nice thing about this void spirit as well is that we talked about the Veno that came out early on
and how pango doesn't care, Phoenix doesn't care, Morphling doesn't really care either. Now void spirit also doesn't care
you have this mid hero who's going to jump on both of your supports and you're not getting much value at all
Oh, out of your second pick, Phantom.
No, it's very true.
And like you mentioned the range carry,
and I totally agree, but this is one of the weird things
about leaving when you need a specific kind of hero,
but you leave it for last pick.
It's very weird because then they ban those options
because they have eyes and they can see that.
And so now you end up in a spot
where you've got to dig really deep here
because when you look at Morphling,
the classic counters are Animage and Phantom Lizer.
They both suck here, so they pick Beastmasters.
And that is not gonna scale well.
So they've decided we're going to Temple Route,
We need to win quickly because they will not win slowly.
But we've already spoke about the amps that XG have, right?
But Hoodwink and Venu can apply that, of course, Venu for optimization down the line.
Slardar as well, like, all of XG is built on player strong lane phase.
Get your smoke usage and make sure it's really, really clear.
If you smoke, go for a kill, don't connect.
We've said it multiple times.
Morphling will run the show at some point in this game, but it's on XG to keep
breaking down the map and to keep just being super aggressive, like they were in
Game 2 and Game 3 of the series earlier today.
I mean this XG draft is good on paper right?
Because it takes objectives, the laning is fine, they're going to hit a very early timing
compared to a Morphling draft.
But Extreme Gaming earlier they tried to play Tumple and they just couldn't play perfectly.
They gave away the one fight to Spirit and Spirit just took it.
It's not Extreme Gaming's forte to end games quickly.
The Spirit they like some damage with the sign up right outside of collapse of the
Diffusal Blade.
LaL is at the setup.
Lion's setup.
Morphling needs to farm Phoenix Shore.
Little Spirit here and there.
There is a major window where XG do hit their stride.
The team fight should go XG's way for a good 20 minutes in this game.
Yeah.
I mean, I hope for XG that they understand the reasons they picked these heroes right,
that it's not sort of a panic or a last ditch, but it's a...
And we think this makes sense.
We see angles into the game.
I think there's a lot of timings that happen in Pass and Dota that you're not really
aware of unless you're in the game and you're playing, and so I think it's very
possible they have a clear idea of we think this timing is very strong or that timing.
We have this itemization that negates what they have to do and so I hope for their sake
that they have those good ideas and they prove it.
And for Team Spirit, their draft is just pretty obvious, it's like let's get our morphing
to a very strong point, then we have teamfight, we can play around him, make sure that he
can one view on the enemy carry and it'll be easy off of that.
Yeah, and the spirit of Kyle with some old analysis he would use to do is like,
if actually you don't win this game in the first two addresses, then you know,
they're gonna lose the game, right?
Like, some arbitrary thing, but this is kind of what I see here.
All I know is whenever these two teams go head-to-head against one another, every single
time it's a treat to watch, and the fact that it's coming on a patch where we get to see
so many new strategies that we don't even know.
We look at these drafts, never really know which one's going to come out on top.
So Birmingham, I don't care if you took the day off, if you came in from work or
you're unemployed are you ready for game three?
That's right, game here in Birmingham. Game three here in Birmingham.
First is XG, but for that two games, they're kind of halfway, but at a halfway point, they've both kind of looked over right here.
XG and one team sweep it away the second half of the game, and then the second game, they're likewise the other way around.
Here in Game 3, what do you make of this?
You know, at the end of the draft, XG, they end with a Beastmaster. No real surprises there.
We know that they feel comfortable with just getting our May this as they carry.
Spirit, showing us something a little bit more spicy. We're getting this Morphling coming in for Yatoro.
Perhaps a bit more risk-taking in terms of being able to play this hero because we have seen the win rate overall
They'd go down quite a lot, but XG definitely looking to set tempo and let's see his spirit overall like the panel was saying
Can they slow things down? It's pretty much going to be the case this game
Can they get this BKB or this Mantle butterfly timing for the more flank?
Will XG be the team that's just getting these Roshan's getting these objectives getting this team fight
Which they have very strong timings of and just take over the map. We'll have to see
There's some really cool things that I know T was talking about toward the end also in terms of amplification of damage
Hoodwink and Venom, they have some really cool ways to just get this damage amp in order to buff up these heroes like the Stank King and the Beastmaster.
Shermite takes some time later for Agadamns and the Shards, but this is a lot of damage amp that come out with the Slaughter as well too.
They're going to be amping both types of damage at some point in this game, either physical or magical, once they get to these items.
What do you think they saw about this game that made them want to go for the morphing
for Yatoru?
What was there that made him feel like this was going to be the game to take this carry
that could get to the point where there might not be much to deal with?
Elimination game, just play your best, your most comfortable style.
If you think that you can get to the late game, what's the best late game here that
you can play?
I mean, for Ame, his morphing is definitely up there for the ones that he likes to
play.
might not be in the strongest position, we'll have to see how it does. And it is, you know,
he's versus Lara, right? So, already that high armor he's going to be having is probably
one of the reasons that he was already looking at this morph, and we just saw him miss Elastic.
It's where he'll loft you, you know, what's the, damn, how can you play on in the leading stage?
Obviously that last game, he was also able to get insane amount of farm early on on the
lifesteal of the bush. Wasn't enough down the line. I think, you know, this time round,
that I guess is also one of the differences, right, when you're playing a morph in this
in this sort of situation compared to the last year.
This is one way.
If you do get that sort of level of farm
and get ahead early,
there's a lot more you can kind of do on your own.
If things are falling apart around you,
as long as you can kind of push into those later stages,
a lot more potential perhaps,
across the board,
as opposed to trying to do it all on a live stream.
You're a true late game carry.
However, your laning is so much,
everything is just kind of weaker now at this point.
And this is not a weak lane at all from the side of XG.
This is an extremely oppressive pressure based lane
that can absolutely get kills on either here or here.
Okay.
much stronger than the lane of the Phoenix, and at the more of the level 2, Penta might just be dead.
Which waxed there indeed on towards him, pull up with the crush.
Gonna be first blood, very likely Penta can't survive this.
The ZaxxS finishes off the job, gets first blood here for X-Pree.
At least I'm worried early, I would say, for the status pair,
because I think overall XG does have at least two lanes that look really, really strong.
The mid lane, the Sankin can have a bit of an edge over that Void spirit,
and then the bottom should be seeing this Beastmaster kind of free farm.
Top, I mean, honestly, I'm also quite worried up there too, so could potentially be the situation where they have these 3 winning lanes with a lineup that also wants to accelerate and play tempo.
Absolutely right. This is exactly what Extreme needed, and it looks like they might have to set up for it in this laning stage.
Yeah, mid probably made more of an evenish matchup, I just haven't seen it since the barrier kind of changed in a way, so just waiting to see how Laurel does end up doing in that one.
I see Ancestors getting that first blood, you know, our last game on his brewmaster, he did an incredible job of setting the tempo.
Honestly, both of these two, right, they were literally the one kind of setting tempo and just being the ones dictating the pace completely.
And they're on heroes that kind of do the same thing, honestly.
The hoodling can make movements around early to set up for early kills, either bottom or mid, or just enable.
And the Slardar is definitely going to be pretty oppressive in this game.
For us, almost everybody except that Morphe.
And yeah, he set up for success to free farm on this load.
Our Phoenix and Morphe don't really pressure him by any means.
And in terms of tempo, why do you think XG with their last week, you know, going for the Army Beastmaster
when there was a lot of potential, you know, for a greedy, a carry to be picked up?
Why do you think they didn't want to go that route?
Because we have seen in a lot of their games, they don't mind pushing to the later stages of the game.
He likes to just, he likes the Beastmaster.
I think it's just something that he likes to play and it does play perfectly around their tempo
It gives him objective taking like if they get it
They're gonna be able to get an early Roshan or an early torment or maybe set the tempo because of that with this beast
Which just gives him that I mean pretty much free roast right a corrosive haze and a beast master with eggs that rose is that pretty much
Just to those two heroes so at least for me
That's why and perhaps maybe something about the pango right he's got a way to lock him down
They've hit their multiple different ways to at least control
Absolutely, yeah, that's sort of roll follow up right
There's definitely some of their power strikes in the crushes bottom have a bottom lane
You can squash book a dead body collapse. They'll take him out
See how they can find something in return. I love that you get in a second
Getting very low crew finder deny maybe the ball continue to split up. Oh, that's no way die
That's true. I'm always able to turn over towards him the ball will connect the axe another set of the action
Why likes to pick this here? I mean finding these opportunities get both of these kills massive kills here
to vomit, to clean up his carions, and to safe play.
It just feels like it's going to be a strong hero potentially if others want to play it as well.
Sure, this tournament has not had the best success overall,
but Ame has really just been enjoying it.
That's the dream situation there.
Panto, comes to the portal.
He wants to start breaking lanes perhaps a little bit here.
Not too much that he can do really.
How about keeping tabs on him with the play quotes?
And now, I mean, Yatoro is alone versus a slaughter hood.
That's fair.
They can make plays onto him if he steps so far at all.
the lanes in a great position for them to go for this. This is actually a very sad position of lane
for Yatoro. It's gonna stay at this mark where they can go for those aggressive plays on the
morph for the next couple minutes. This is a very good start for the side of XG.
Varsing Laurel, he is handling his own, but the Sand King is ahead,
and getting some extra stacks in the jungle.
Not very difficult for them to trade back against XGXS right now.
Nothing stays actually six and a half already at this point, and Laurel is not just about
to hit the six so a pretty decent advantage for the sanking who's also gonna probably have stacks
to go back to soon from fy as well and picture perfect start in all three lanes as we were saying
xg games set themselves up for success for them and they are playing the lanes very nicely so far
here for so for spirit might have to start breaking lanes a little bit here but to perhaps help larrell
because i don't see if they if they stay kind of passing in those lanes i don't see them
changing the outcomes and how those lanes look right now it's difficult to get any sort of
set up on enough to descend a bit. Even if Rue finds the connection, it might be difficult
to find enough burst unless they kind of fully commit with both of the actual steps and now
to kill nothing to stay off. If he's full HP, I don't think they can go for it, right?
He's the lock. He's got FaZe, he's got raindrop, all these little stats absolutely add up.
And Lyon definitely does not provide the most damage at this point in the game by
any means and support. Not like something like that hoodwink. There's a lot more
Speaking of the hoodwink, that fly is looking to play around up in this A.
Let's have that regen. Maybe looking to check if there's some stacks as well too, they're probably anticipating some, but there's actually none.
Do they want to contest the 7-minute wisdom hit?
Nothing's possible.
He's pretty strong here, level 7.
And Beastmaster has roar, because they gave him all that XP, so he is level 6.
I don't know if they're going to be able to contest.
Spirit might have to just bring all the numbers.
You cannot let extreme get away with trying to push for this right of wisdom. Okay, they bring four heroes
They get the stun owing onto nothing to say
Before strike away, I mean they're still moving over towards this wisdom XG. They got the Venom
I mean, they'll be fine if the Venom dies if it means that they get the stride of wisdom and indeed X never does go down
It's gonna be there to stop on me for at least try and stop on me from getting the stride of wisdom
They're going for different targets
Nothing to say is going for the fight while I'm a is just going for time Panto and the pants
are trying to continue to stop him from getting this. He's playing around here, he's done a great job of
buying time for the rest of the team to come over. I mean, Panto, he did so much!
Is he gonna live? Is he actually gonna survive? Yes he is! I mean, Panto on the Phoenix!
How sick. Perfectly, he can weave in and out of the area that's trying to wisdom.
Just not giving Arme any chance to actually get the cleanup on it.
And nothing to say left him, right? He was like, I'm just gonna go for either kills,
but it actually ends up earning quite a lot for Arme in particular. And Panto,
He sacrifices himself. It requires a heavy shift of movement, but they will at least be able to get that shrine.
But we're seeing a 2k lead for XG because of all these movements. They have the slaughter in a free farm position.
Yeah, the boi for the blink daggers, I mean, should be pretty solid for nothing to say.
And XXS if?
One person got sacrificed, unfortunately it was Aume this time around for them.
But XXS, he was the one as we said in that last game to kind of just completely control everything.
With that boom master, this is going to be a very quick timing of that blink that you were mentioning.
Yeah, they can really get the ball rolling once those two are online for the two cores.
The next level looks like he's just going to do some juggling on the side here.
As the fighter man is still very effective.
In terms of jumping potential with the spirit.
It's going to be a lot harder. More about that counter initiation is going to have to come out with them.
From that rolling thunder in particular, they will catch FY.
Now they catch you with a Revenant. Try and turn with a bushwork.
I'm able to look down the two of them, so I'll get something from his movement up towards the top lane.
Good aggressive moves while they're just, you know, juggling on the other side, so...
At least able to get something here.
How's that vessel timing looking? Not too bad for Laurel.
A very good vessel game too, versus all three cores, it's fantastic, right?
Versus Slardar, Sankin, versus Beast.
If he's able to get this at a pretty good timing, that's gonna enable the supports nicely too for him.
It's gonna pretty much have it after this wave, and maybe another camp.
Nothing to say, just a couple more creeps and that will be his blink dagger coming out.
They can definitely ramp up things quite a bit more on the next side of XG, the double
blink daggers we were mentioning.
The tempo is definitely going to be for them there.
Just like ready to go next and over if they want to make them move straight away here.
This is so fast, 9 minutes, I mean we used to see Malrin of course getting this phase
plus blink timing a lot on his sanking, this is pretty ridiculous.
Might catch them off guard because of how fast it really is.
despite the play. Screens spotted under the ward. It's having the toughest start right now out of the
course so if it can continue to slow down this pangor. He's trying to get that mage slayer online
too to have that little bit of damage you know reduction versus that heavy magic that there is.
Ready to dive this. Gonna say watching from the side. Ready to go in straight away with the burst
collapsed. Can't escape this one. They'll drop the roar. Nowhere for the pangor to run. They'll
They'll take that, turn him to a tower as well, and indeed over in the river.
He's gonna chase down LL, can he find something in return?
He's looking towards FY, but FY's still dodging around the edge of the vision here around the pit.
Still doesn't remember, will grab him, FY tries to run to the burst.
Thank you!
No, nothing to say, coming in, it's the double to clean up, they might just get LL as well.
Looks about well.
He's out of the stage, X-X is closing in for the crush.
Bru will be lucky to TP out of this, but that was a rough move.
I mean, your Tori tries to get involved, this hurts big time.
Turning up this early is the morphine dying. That hurts.
This Sanky Blink Dagger is just too fast.
Yeah, that's...
That bottom play, there's no way Collapse can expect it to come this fast.
And then the TP, he just immediately has it still available
because he walked all the way bottom for the play.
So he gets the catch, and Yataro is sitting at what, 200 HP?
Super. I mean, we'll see it.
He's literally 200 HP. You can see the bar, right?
It's so risky, and gets caught by the bar astride.
Pretty much immediately blown up there by the burst of Caustic Valley as well.
Coming in for the Sanky.
I mean, he was sitting at...
From the stinger.
He was full Agi. Legitimately full Agi.
That was it. That was a risk that does not pay off whatsoever and Yotaro's gonna...
He's gonna have quite the recovery that he needs to make this game and we can see at the moment on the network
all three of the cores of Spirit falling pretty severely behind it. This early point is 11 minutes in.
And they're very good at pressing heroes in order to take over map when they get advantage too.
The smarter to take objectives, the better to dominate areas with these stupid little warrants as well too.
So overall, XG with a pretty much picture perfect start to this game for himself or Spirit
somehow tries to slow the game down, get these ulties online.
They have RU with 6. Can they get a finger kill?
I'm going to smite them, Yutora wants to get him bald.
Maybe they could get the first one extra, but they certainly can't.
They'll get themselves something to the...
But it's just a fennel kill with your first big ulti, right?
Your first big finger, but maybe just feeling like they need to do something small
rather than go for a big play and get turned on.
They just want to get these small gains for now for the more playing.
This is rough though.
12 minutes in, a 5k lead, multiple blink daggers, agonims about to be done for beast
for Beast and I feel like they can just keep rolling. They're not really cool down dependent
on the side of Edge. Pretty much just relying on the smoke. Anytime a smoke's out they're
going to be ready to go extreme. Yep, XXS has the best prime. They get the jump straight
in with the burst onto Panso. These are very fragile heroes versus a slaughter at this
point early. Both supports pretty much dead in one crush at this point. Mid tower.
Can they hang on to this here? Looks difficult.
I can't start setting up those wards if he has buddies coming over and they have vision
of the same king.
Any alarm will back away.
Super hard for them to hold these towers at this point versus these double blinks and
now that Beast as he exits on they can even start threading that rush pretty soon.
Turn her out.
Spirit.
I'm just not wanting to show up whatsoever.
It's going to be a very slow recovery because Yatoro, he cannot get involved, so they're
completely reliant on the other four heroes to really make this deterrent play versus
XG, who now, the world is their oyster, it feels like, in terms of where they want to
pressure, what they want to go for here, since they've claimed all three tier ones,
and just completely shut down the warfling.
Yeah, they can just continue to go for objectives as they wish.
Unlikely, the Spirit is going to look to make any sort of counterplay, and just
not in a position to do so.
It does feel like they do hit some really nice timings in terms of scaling too.
I'm seeing Ex-Nova going for the Vessel since he's playing versus the Morphling.
Playing versus the Phoenix Sunray. It's gonna be really nice also.
Taking all the boxes and for Spirit, like he said, it has to just be let's slow the pace of the game down.
We need to just not let them just run rampant.
Easier said than done.
I'm having a look free of just...
I think Jilla will be able to get it at a pace that Spirit can't keep up with.
And this isn't one of those games I would say for XG where it's like, okay, we really
need to push the envelope.
They already kind of did it a lot of what they needed to do in these first 15 minutes
getting these core items online.
Nothing to say is going to have what pre 16 minute agonies as well too for that scaling and he's level 12
Spirit have to just find ways to slow things down. Let your Toro get to at least one of these items
Just fight around a egg they do have that online for Panto now they have the finger back up
It's difficult to protect these two heroes versus the blinks that actually does happen moment
Maybe the finger is enough to kind of smoke up around and try and find a pick-off.
But you have to get the kill. If you finger and you don't get the kill, it's going to be disastrous.
And these heroes aren't that squishy, right? The three cores are pretty durable at this point.
Maybe just having to stay on a defensive posture on the side of the spirit,
and just hope they run into you when you've got the setup.
As I said, XG, not in a rush after they got this huge advantage in the game.
the game. Getting this next timing.
Maybe trying to bait a little bit around the mid. Brewing pan sir, ready here in the trees
with the ultimates in case Loll gets jumped. Might be kind of how they have to play, right?
Just play for the bait game and hopefully you can get at least a kill onto one of these
incredibly strong cores right now to get yourself back in the game. But as the
game slows down it's actually just getting more farm on the map.
Yeah, they're farming it, no.
It's a little bit more efficiently.
Nothing to say, hasn't dealt any damage for this upcoming fight.
X-XXXX is in.
Yes, they jump on a rear, they get a push point to pull up.
They're gonna try to serve the controller X-XXXXXXX,
but there he is.
Coming in with the epicenter and the burst right.
Nothing to say.
They get a kill.
We'll lose X-XS! And they're like, I'm gonna dance around the edge of nothing to save us!
To put over stun, does it come into play?
They don't see him. No detection.
And they didn't have any...
...flights of fight in the standstill at the moment.
I mean, all things said and done, man.
Is them losing a line, getting the kill against X-XS?
I'm surprised they didn't lose more versus the DD Sand King, right?
It came in, yeah, with the Bar of Strike happy, but it wasn't enough.
Not bad. All things considered.
Absolutely.
They still have the depth that they're playing at.
They take that every single day.
Quick moves coming up, Avru is actually reading the play. He immediately TP's bottom to protect Laurel.
Looks like they might be able to make their own play.
And they still have the finger ready.
Let's see if they can low and root.
Hey, Ame is pretty hard to kill with this agonist right now.
Can they go for nothing to say? He is a bit more fragile. 1,400 HP.
I think that's the only one that they can catch with this combo right now, because XXS
and Ame are too tanky.
Can't Rue get himself out of here?
I'm looking unlikely.
No TP available.
These are pretty big kills, but they're nice.
They're very nice.
to kill xxs then they kill enough of the sale like that even if rude does indeed go
down here the neutrals not gonna happen at white guitar final hit gets around the
treeline shifting up and that will be enough to stop bomb every now they
come in they can turn the grab on a wall to their average it kills they killed xxs
they killed nothing to say they killed army I'm in the last couple of minutes
they just killed all three of extreme game his cause and they were 8k ahead
I'm a going for a play he got the tree literally has the ward and yatora got around the tree line before the roar comes out
It gets the shift off because of it, but I'm a go for that play alone. It's pretty crazy
Leave that they had things are starting. Oh, you know sure they're still ahead, but they are they can't afford to do that
Just losing all three of their calls kind of individually across the map
Hey, yatora is definitely like guys. I'm catching back up. Oh, he is I mean, you can see it
Yeah, another sort of situation like that. He'll start to take over is the more things
So, extreme for as well as they were playing really for the opening 15 minutes.
A little bit of a slip up there across the board.
Why did Big Shake up too?
No, so they couldn't really just...
And then it just, in the mid, as you say, your Toro, getting the shift going.
They could just moments before the road came in, and at that point it's like,
uh-oh, your army can't finish the job.
Collapsed them all there.
Turn up, back them up, and help your Toro turn and get that kill against Army.
They're very painful, death.
That's a rough one.
Especially with this type of lead that they had, as you said.
The world was their oyster.
They could have...
They could have potentially maybe gone for more of a safe play of going into pit, right?
Forcing the fight around there since they have Corosas, Pays, plus Beastmaster, Aghs.
But Armaic going for a solo play.
He's gonna go for it again, it looks like, onto Yatoro.
Does he get the roaring time?
There's the shift!
It's just not quite enough damage to kill him.
At least this time doesn't result in Armaic dying.
Elsewhere though, do losing teammates, there flies gone.
Yeah, this time it's not right next to a tier 2 where they're gonna TP and have
that follow-up.
Force your Toro back, but he's gonna be able to get back to farming very soon
Try to go for these solo plays though. I
Guess there's a face just sort of worth charge just in case you do capture sure if you do it's a kill right guaranteed
So mid root might be in some danger
Yeah, that's him straight in
Extreme we'll get back to getting the kills themselves even though it's not necessarily the big ones getting a support
But it's a vessel charge, which is pretty important for the Venom at least to be able to go for that.
No, actually the map is not for your Toro, so it's not going to be as effective.
Now will they go for the Roche? I'd imagine so, right? Level 2 corrosive Haze, they've got the Agged Beast.
Looks like they want to play through and kill first.
They've got the jump ready in the mid, epicenter into the barrage, right? They close the gap onto Lowell with the pushback follow-up. They have to lock down.
Get off the voice spirit, potentially there with that core kill. Now they'll see the chance to go into the Roche, and not be too concerned about Spirit entering in.
I saw that on me, on me started running top, he went to the wrong pit there for a moment but we'll join his team
It will be good to get this rush, should be very fast and very safe with the beast plus that Slaughter
Any chance for anyone looking for a steal?
And where is Gauze playing?
Maybe Gauze, Yoloff's worried, yeah he's now showed himself with that sentry so won't be able to
Yatorra though, Mantis done, so I mean methods of recovery he's catching up
He really is, considering again that they were not in a great spot at the school out of the landing stage
Any of the three cores, Toro getting to get online can still just die pretty easily though, even though he has the Manta, there's quite an insane amount of lockdown and damage that they do have on the side of that suit room, keep himself hidden.
20 seconds tormentor, looks like they are starting to prepare for it on the bottom side.
side is going to look for a contest unlikely so wait for your toro to say
I'm ready and usually it is right it's usually that manta butterfly timing that
he looks to play around yeah I mean this is all very much work towards their
favor in the first game and very much trusting in the toros timing on the
alchemist and likewise here he has got to take a game on his shoulders here's
the morphing this is a nice lineup to do tormentor always whenever you have
slaughter and you make extra minus armor any extra sustained to and
with the Redurus Bail down from the Beastmaster and Extra Heal from the Seeds.
They're healthy to look for a fight, and that is the Agonyms that wasn't finished not too long ago for nothing to say.
So a much stronger fight overall, Spirit still very likely wanting to just avoid and look for little individual pick-offs if they're able to.
Laps has got their loads to spare, so that's a little bit of an answer.
It is pretty nice.
Pretty annoying, pretty much for two of the big cores.
Can reflect.
They don't have to be careful as well.
Yeah, he's got some pretty big stuff to catch.
Look at the opening.
Into the burst, jump forward from Lyle.
They're gonna be able to take him down.
Any chance for them fighting back?
X-X-S, he's got a run.
Great play, Spirit.
Recognizing pretty much every single time that X-G's split up,
they're able to find these little pick-offs.
All these matter.
They're doing a lot considering that they're a decent amount of gold behind in this early game.
Absolutely.
And it's before the morphling is really getting too much involved in things.
It's through with this early blink dagger that he's been able to pick off.
He's doing so much work.
21 minutes because of that move.
Looks like they will not get their shrine though.
Most of those have been taken away.
They're playing around your Toro.
All about that move.
HG.
With this age, you've got to imagine that...
they're surely going to want to push for something more.
They have to be linked to these tier 2s.
There's already the fact that Spirit are able to make such moves against them.
I mean, it only just goes to show that if this game, you know, it's totally,
does get lost completely by extreme, it's not going to be an easy one for them to hold onto.
No, Spirit has great late game, right?
Morphler plus Phoenix in terms of scaling potentials,
when he fantastic versus some of the physical damage.
Ami is going for the build that I've seen him do a lot as well too.
He's going for this Manta, then potentially Butter.
So not going to go BKB to kind of force and kind of press that issue
and just kind of close the game out in any way.
So, see if that ends up working out for him.
Amp damage from nothing to say.
And I believe that is the PKB for the slaughter.
So this is what they might want to force for a tier 2 in particular.
Yeah, they gotta turn this into kind of a kill into a tower, and then maybe even into a kill into a high ground.
Oh, and collapse does kill outside a little bit here. They're aware. Perhaps they do get the stun.
They gotta jump.
He loads himself, but it doesn't matter.
The bush waxed in, the burst there from FY.
Taste collapsed down.
Very smart smoke, and they're looking even for fight bottom, huh mate?
Let's get the roar.
He does. Get the opening.
No shift.
Oh, they're here for the celebrate, not gonna be enough to save him, and they bring down Yatoro.
This time, Amai with the roll works out. The Super level will be quickly dealt with.
That was big.
Very quick moves there from Amai. Yeah, from making that play with the Seam of Top,
getting in towards that bottom lane. Three kills, XG gets back on with the momentum that they needed.
Point blank this time. Doesn't do it from a distance, gets right on top of the morphing space.
Yatoro not ready with the shift this time. And that's your two? It didn't get brought down.
Right, because they did end up making that move, but they do get themselves a kill.
get access into the jungle. Three kills.
Bringing the bottom and the mid wave here.
Almost the three are dead on Spirit.
And they can sequence this perhaps into even more kills, right?
When the Morphling respawns, they're still in epicenter done.
Lord doesn't have the craze of cooldown either, so for Spirit,
it's not like they are free on the map.
Now, at this point when they respawn,
could still be extra to look for another play.
Gem picked up. Pretty early one for Panto.
Doesn't want to let his Morphling get jumped.
We're going to have the jump, that's the link for collapse.
So actually has a way to protect now at this point, sure he was here at the Lotus before
to be able to protect the morpher, now he can actually follow up and maybe be inside
of a fight.
But so far that's not what we're seeing Spirit play for right, it's not about the
team fights.
They got to just wait for that timing for the morphering if he does feel comfortable
until he does feel comfortable that is.
Closer and closer to the butter
To get away
But I'm he's gonna have his quite a bit faster, and he is 4k ahead that is actually pretty ridiculous his farm pace this game
I'm pretty much. Yeah, three full levels ahead as well. Yeah, that's actually yeah, that's actually pretty important as well, too
That extra tax be the first if you get from the inner beast
Absolutely jump there on the law push back as well. It's a good amount of lockdown again
It's enough!
And an ult, sharp shooter!
It came through and actually connected on towards Rooveroo.
We'll still get this chance to blink away, but Xtreme, they got the bigger kill.
They take down low.
They can now get his pressure off the tier two top.
Seen Spirit, Phillips to trade down.
Bottom of the lease.
So we'll be able to finish off tier one.
Looks like they should be able to get two tier twos for this pressure here.
That's what they want to do.
That's over.
That's a disaster to finish off the top one.
Let's take over the jungle a little bit more.
I'll make ready to get that Eagle storm out.
Make good moves to blow up the butterfly.
I'm impressed too with X-XS, how he's keeping himself at the top here with all this chaos going on in the game as well too, 4-1 and 5, and he's still 13,000 net worth on the Slardar.
So he's still going to be transitioning and becoming this very strong core on the Slardar as well.
So it's not going to be just like this Beastmaster, he's dealing this hard physical damage. It's also going to be this annoying Slardar in the face of Yotara.
He's going to have the butterfly pretty soon, but it's not going to protect him versus every single one of these right clicks that are going to come out.
BKB done, there's nothing to say, this fight is still looking very very hard for the side
of spirit and they're under vision, a lot of really good vision that XG's been able to
place with these aggressive moves.
Still being careful about how they push for the next objectives, they're at stream.
Yeah without that rush, maybe not wanting to push the envelope too much, they're running
Playing around is like 3 or 4 while Ami is literally just playing his own game completely
in this one and it's keeping himself at this vast margin between the next core so crazy
amount of farmer on the beam spawn step.
It did hurt him the once when he went for the solo play but pretty much for the entirety
of the rest of this game it's been a pretty dream for him to do this.
Level 20 has been hit, swinging around, I've been trying to keep this bottom wave
pushed in.
For the twin gate, he's got XXS to close off his escape. Nowhere from Panto to run
Stick around start getting the push going on this bottom lane
Bringing a very precious 500 gold shot at the butterfly on army
Your Toros got it, but this is not one of those
It might be a timing they go to play around but this is not one of the easiest ones where you can just stand is
When there's a lot of different control and damage from the same king in particular that can come out
I don't think they need Panto.
Still dead for 20 seconds on the Phoenix.
Looking about this fight, they've got that gem, so looking to control this area.
Armey, they're gonna make this jump!
They get the open arms to Armey!
This man first with the glimike comes in to play Armey!
Able to turn, get the wall!
Reflected!
He's gonna hold him in the...
He's burning!
...and he's just burned by the storm break!
Nice Lotus by Collapsed.
Perfect timing as the arms went up.
Got an excellent flyback from Panto.
Coming in, having that extra presence for damage with the storm break.
Indeed, a great turn around there and a punish of armor.
I mean, he's, every time armor dies, it's a huge kill.
Like, he's that far ahead in that world.
I mean, that's why I thought he might go for BKB,
especially after the Manta, but going for the greed of the butterflies.
Well, dude, that gives them windows to actually go for the burst plays onto him.
Yeah, he's got force and glimmer from his two supports,
but if they full commit onto him, you can see they have killed him.
Absolutely. If they get the lowest out.
Yeah.
Once they did, it's, you know, trips up his play quite a bit.
Okay, not having this, this BKB's gonna be stalled out for some time,
and it looks like Spirit's trying to get a big advantage because of that timing here.
See, this is going to be, of course, finishing up that butterfly very likely on Amme.
I feel like I'm going to find more here. BKB is there for nothing to say.
So you're on this wisdom. They're gonna try and
stop them from being able to get the grab on it and have to jump away with the bar strike
But Yatoro's gonna look to try and chase if he gives out for nothing to say
But it doesn't look like it matters. They put the right clicks to take him out through it.
He's plays. Spirit hands up movements.
It's just crazy that I feel like so many times this game was seeing Spirit getting these big kills
And they're costing like 7k, 8k behind, but that net worth difference seems to be nothing whatsoever right now
The spirit, they're just playing as if it's not even there. They're getting huge kills time and time again.
Yatoro's catching up. He's top two net worth just off of that. That was with the butterfly timing
Getting these massive kill. Honestly, I really feel like Almeid needs his BKB pretty soon to collapse
The rolling thunder in the blink looking to Fy. Lawl's ever connects. Fy, ain't trouble. Another kill
Can they get out? I mean, there's gonna be a bye back from Fy. They have to try and punish fear for this
Success. Remember to crush on a waltz, Lawl. They'll find the roll. Time to get this clean connection
There's a buyback from Fy though, a bit of a waste of one. Roche is up though so they should be able to secure that with the kill.
They don't obviously have to put the rolling thunder, the only ult available is to super nervous. I pray I'm lucky the Spirit can do anything about this.
Nah, this will die too fast to the Coruscator's level 18 as well.
An Aegis on army will make quite the difference in the team.
So that's why he doesn't want the BKB, right? He's just having a good of an Aegis. It's kind of a BKB anyway.
But yeah, I absolutely get the BKB next, because then they can't 100 to zero him.
He should be able to get the BKB up in most situations and survive.
And as you'd imagine, if you're still looking for that timing to try to end the game,
just not let Yatora go absolutely crazy and be able to carry against them.
I definitely don't want this to go 40 plus, I would say.
Maybe not even like 30, 35 plus perhaps,
but 40 plus that's when you're getting into the dangerous territories of this morph.
Tier 2's are still available, and Tier 2's are still alive too.
They'd actually been able to claim that secondary one, but it's been a bit of a slowdown. It has been I mean
I'm with this age is like do you want to see them go straight to push because it looks like I see on it's making the
Cool of saying well, but the stages. I'll farm the BKB first and then push
You're obviously gonna go a bit sooner. I would I want to see him get BKB
Honestly, I want to see if you're cool with him following me. I think you can get even the edges control
If you can get some pick offs sure, but I think overall forcing the issue previews dangerous
There is potential for them to burst it. We've seen it now multiple times, so
Okay.
Leaving the way, gets a catch, but the air on disc is there.
His team is coming from behind though, they're on Yutaro.
Oh, see the roll out here, and in fact the turn of the burst, XXX says he's pulling incredibly
low, but come on the bar, try and gaping on to the two of them.
Yutaro, he'll have to wave form out to the side.
Supernova will be a success, forcing them to back off, but now nothing to say is
getting burned down.
Pretty low here.
Has to bro strike away and get out of this one.
Again, getting trades though.
They lose a lion but don't get themselves a sardar X Nova also getting picked off in the back Laurel getting himself a solo kill
It's a big moves spirit playing around your Toro
Ready to take tattoos themselves the force out of the fortification from extreme gaming
You can see that spirit even they they're not really playing as if they do have that big of a disadvantage by any means
Absolutely the crazy thing this guy is pretty much the entire time they've been behind 8k gold
but you don't really feel it because Paris, they're getting the bigger pick-offs, they're getting the objectives
against an extreme gaming that also has like the stages on army that
extreme aren't quite pushing it and going for these advances as much as you maybe
expect them to try for with this lineup and I think spirit
they're gonna feel super happy about that. I think so too especially because I'm looking at Panto
This is an extremely high level Phoenix and he's playing versus three mailay cores
This units can absolutely become that like fourth kind of core, maybe like third core in a way
Concerns for sure for XG of course they've still got this ages the BKB is pretty close
But that gold lead it's pretty much just been staying at that 7k for yeah and plus minutes
And it just seems to not really matter whatsoever right now in a spirit. I'm not afraid of
Making them these moves against extreme look at the catch of two collapse now ahead of this Lardar as well too
They have done incredible work this game to get to this point
Just it with the creep wave should be the vkb. Okay, two minutes of the ages with that vkb as well from a
This goes I gotta get a lot done. It's gotta be go time here for extreme
They've got the banner too. So this is maybe just force even you know tier 2 and force a high ground
I think you want to you do want to try to move the high ground
But it's definitely not going to be the easiest of approaches at this point versus a level 3 egg of
Morphling now who's gotten to the point of online and even the pango as we said he has agonies so his team fights gotten a lot stronger
Level 20 as well. So shield crash cooldown down to four seconds
Have for the twinge a
Find down here see what I get I mean Rue wouldn't be the biggest of catches
Might just sell friends smoke the spells
I mean get the hex off as well you're gonna drive there's no way
I hope we got away with that one
We've been quite something but it was not they kill room off
I don't even mind them killing room in these situations rules been very annoying so these other kids are still fine
Still their illusions can set up the bottom line. They don't have creeps with them on the bottom
They don't they can't actually go for it here to push on this. I mean this ages just one minute left on army
I feel like it's gotten done with they really want sure it secured him a BKB in particular, but
This Morphling is catching up quickly, you know, Lincoln's soon on the horizon of
fantastic Lincoln's game of course versus the Beast, and even versus, um, he doesn't
know this of course, but Fy's going for a hex, actually does know if he showed it, so
could potentially just block one of these big disables for him.
It's a tight game. XG has to be, I feel like they can't really make too many
more mistakes in this game, or it could just become that Yatora Morphling show.
Even Lara is going to have pretty good scaling, kind of what leading into that right click potential, essentially with this Harpoon into...
I mean he was considering this guy, he looks like at the moment he's actually shifting back towards the Lincoln Sphere.
But he's going to be pretty annoying, he's going to be a very tanky Void Spirit, right?
He really is. I mean the Lincoln's, I would really love if they had multiple different Lincoln's, still protecting them.
Well that just makes the game so hard for Arma.
Yeah, even Arma or versus the Hacks, they probably know that FYI is going for it, since he's been showing himself for some time.
And he's very close to having it, so let's see if FY's hex catches them off guard or not.
He just reclaimed. Unable to really get too much out of it, as we said.
Besides just getting that BKB finished.
Surely you gotta look for the smoker now.
That's just the FY hex reveal.
It's complete. It's got the BKB on it, man.
It's just not so straightforward anymore at this point.
It's getting kinda hard.
It is.
Yeah, that lead has just stayed so stagnant throughout the entirety of this game, it feels like an...
And as it's been there, it just hasn't mattered.
Spirit have got to play pretty much exactly as they'd hoped to have some of the room to do so.
I mean, the later and later it goes, right? The less and less an AK lead really matters, especially when it's a war flag on the inside.
Rook, he's up a shrine, he's keeping his cores nice and healthy on the mana too.
I've been watching him a lot during this game, didn't mention it, but just following your Toro around, mana draining him, keeping him pushed up.
10th moments.
The link is the link.
There's a lot of also random control. Nothing to say does have a bash as well too, which can just catch things off guard as we've seen sometimes here from this angle.
Very lucky that if the intro is already got the shift off, it's going to be hard to get him through that.
X-X-S almost has AC, they might wait for this timing since he is close to it.
They are still getting this kind of dual kind of core, right, two and a half core on the
side of X-T, is it enough versus a morphing who also has the backup of a pang on a void
spirit, and this Phoenix who, as I remember, I think this Phoenix is going to be a big
problem for them to deal with, now that he's about to be level 20, he's five levels
ahead of Rue.
Three levels over is opposing, you know, supports as well too, he's insanely high
level on this phoenix is comedy kill that super neither no the panto finds a
solid position not on the course right unless they literally just fully
isolated the three melee course versus a level three egg is very difficult to
break down they seem to know where X know this to their opinion about if
there's ever a point where spirits the ones able to slow things down and get
approach on themselves that's going to be brutal for XG as well
I did mention that there was a lot of T on the panel saying about kind of that second
ages timing you know that's now been and gone
is the real thing. Subsequent ages as you say, pulling into the hands of spirit
Big neutral items getting picked up here, Titanic catalyst
I think we're going to see that one picked up by a lot of people
that one does feel incredibly strong right now
smoke down. That's what the AC, so they're pretty all in.
I have to find something big with this extreme. If this move does not go well, they are going
to be left in a position where they're really going to wonder how to progress.
If they can all in Amé, right? If they can all in Yatoro, he is literally everything
for them, right? But if they can't all in him pretty much instantly, it can be
so disastrous for them so quickly versus this Phoenix, versus this pango follow up.
They're called this month, but they kind of split up.
Yes they are.
No shan, still a minute and twenty until we'll see that guaranteed resport.
X-X-S has the bash prime.
Oh, okay.
Spirit.
I mean, you see with Spirit's positioning right, they know this sort of plays going on.
They're all off the map on extreme, Spirit.
And Panto has an A on this too, so if they jump him, he potentially could just live immediately and get that egg off.
They can catch Rue. That's a pretty damn good jump if they can get initially killed.
But he's been very careful his position and he has a top notch this game.
Every time they've killed Rue, they've actually gotten a pretty decent exchange.
And now it's... okay, no low fire.
Alright, for a low.
Okay, helping for the more aggressive pickup rather than getting that extra Lincoln save for the team first.
They'll allow them. I mean it's all about just all ending a target, right?
right can be very strong for whatever you're playing that type of game
not going to find anything with that smoke attempt
extreme have to head back deal with the waves at least as that big push was
coming in top from the creeps for about 10 40 minutes on this morphing is in
his prime form the ambiator is going to be feeling pretty good i mean even
though as we've seen army pretty much a full item ahead as the beast master
It's just, does this hero have as much potential and much capabilities in the later stages, and then try and match it against a more flank.
And also, is he going to get Roar reflected onto him or something, right?
It's potential that Arme just roars himself and gets completely controlled in the fight too.
Collapse of Fall Octoring as well.
The Phoenix of Fall Refresher.
This is starting to look dangerous for XG.
So, I believe we're going to head into the pit.
You can imagine the Spirit are going to want to have something to say about this one this time round.
Roar comes out.
No way over. There's a few plague walks that are scouting out the situation.
They'll see Panto. They see he's got a full refresher.
This seems pretty terrifying if you're in stream.
How did he get the right angle of approach? Nothing to say. He has to get a pretty massive epi.
Gatoro is about to have BKB himself.
So that without call, the disabled is not going to be there for him.
I mean with that you imagine he's gonna go straight towards the rest of the team and try and get him bolt in this Roshan play.
Quite a few as well, I think either team has been checking around, I didn't see anyone carrying on it.
It's kind of been spamming majority of the time.
Does it have to be a pipe first? Can the extreme just head into the pit and try and take it? No.
Too dangerous at this point now. That just allows the pango and the Phoenix to set up perfectly on top of you.
This next fight, XG has to play it perfectly.
Both teams offering on the high ground on the respective sides they got a smoke available
for spirit.
I want to save the smokes also up for the Venom, yeah, X-Nova also has an exact same
time they have it coming out.
Smoke on smoke.
They can get the big jump.
Commit onto someone with the nullifier from Lile.
Heading in around the mid.
Is Ame going to commit?
I think he's going to commit his gold.
They're all in, at least for Ame.
a swift blink as well. I'll wrap around. Jump in, jump in. Catch a flight. See the jump
in return from Max's coming in with a crook, but if I did, if I will buy back, slip it
over here, you turn over the BKB, turns towards the Zank King, nothing is safe, just dies
in the front of the fight. So fast. He has buyback available, sharpshoot will come
in to snipe Brew. Spirit starting to fall back after the second buyback comes out
from extreme. So actually you might be able to get that rush because of these
buybacks though. Spirit did force a lot in order to get those. She's gonna look for potential
smoke fight first. They want to kill first. Army wants to get in there with a Swift Lincoln
Roar surely. There's another Ag available for Panto. They have eyes on Panto, they're
gonna try to open up on towards in the force at the end, just to put the refresh and
dive away. Buyback comes out from Root. Well, where could they force this? Now
that they've got the full five of them back in, Spirit might want to fight back
Success.
Little Lincolns.
They actually used quite a bit, they used two buybacks.
Ideally they want to be able to get back and hit that rush.
They do kill it very fast with the squad across the beast.
They do see Amplify damage rune as well on the bottom side of the river.
So nothing to say he's going to be able to head over and bot all that.
So Amplify damage ready for the next buy still.
Epicenter on cooldown for 40 seconds.
Carl, he's going to get the nullifier in onto Warsden.
Then a man to the Raw's out onto Law!
Law!
He's getting flowed for this over here!
Not enough to save him!
Law will fall!
He's out for 80 note buyback on him!
No buyback on him, Ex-Nova's gonna get left in the river, Yotaro will clean him up.
But no void spirit for a long time, they know Ex-G, they buy back another one here, Ex-Nova returning to the action.
And now, with the void spirit out on spirit, Lyle not available for the next minute.
They're gone for a steal.
And Collapse is gonna try, he comes in with a jump, gets caught with a stun, and he gets caught!
Collapse!
He gets the agent to push right through, comes through, and also Collapse!
And Yotaro's gone!
Oh my god!
Collapse will be back for round two, but Yotaro, dead for 90!
Gupt, whoops, gets the blink off to the side, trying to run but on the army, he's got eyes on him and get the catch.
The bush break comes in, crushed as well, he might have stolen the roast out of the Aegis, but the fight will be extremes.
80 seconds, they've got a big window to be able to go for this push here.
Yatoro getting stunned, what a beautiful bush break from FY, catching the two of them together.
They both went in, they were both trying to get this Aegis still as it ended up being, it was collapsed, grab it, but...
Killing him off for second time.
Yatora being out for a minute.
There's gonna be a lot of chance to push on fourth.
We'll see again here, collapse in first.
Yatora wants to join in.
Wave forms forward, but the borough strike
jumped in for nothing to say.
With that amplified damage, a lot of just overall
A.O.E damage been pumped out.
They're buying the Sankin King too much
for the two of them to live through.
Even with that second life, even with that Aegis,
he cannot survive.
Back in action, the push is coming in.
A lot of damage being done.
The mid-barrex to fall, he's still 30 seconds.
Without Yatora, 50 seconds.
without collapse. That was like honestly that was so smart the way they just used
these buybacks baited playscore Laurel not having the buyback himself not having
these numbers are massive. Yeah absolutely extreme. They're pretty patient and
trying to get the point where they get this chance to really sort of blow the
game open and they're doing it here off the back of those buybacks off that
Roshan play they might have lost the Roshan they might have lost the Aegis
but it's spirit that have lost two sets of barracks off the back of that
move and they just feel that does not feel too good at the end of the day for
them there for great honesty just such good buybacks great identification just
so many stunts a lot of disabled that perhaps spirit thought that they could
just be able to get in and get out through but too many level 25 now has
been hit for X access of corrosive haze would not be dispellable on that
morphling I mean the best thing that spirit can try and do at this position
Get that gold for their own buybacks.
Try and go for this fight during this next 4-5 minutes,
whilst they are without three of the buybacks on Xtreme Den.
But the two big ones will have it, right?
Shorame and X-X-S are still gonna have it,
so that's probably still is gonna be their best bet though,
to at least try to get the number advantage.
Or just kind of go for these,
they might have to just go for these little crazy plays,
because they do at least have a refresher shard
that Laurel was able to keep from before.
So maybe they can make some fancy play happen with that.
Because we do see they have the damage to kill almost any of these targets
It's just the execution is very difficult. I'm first so much control
Yeah, that's gonna be huge for nothing to say as well or against a great bar of strike entries into the fights now
He's got a refresher himself
Long as he doesn't die at the start of things remember the pressure does not give you the two BKBs of course has to be careful
It's all right about it for 25
Being very close to being able to go today. There's a lot interesting see if it does
He might feel like he needs the damage, but we'll see.
Now up to 13k, back into that comfortable spot for XG for these next few moments.
This quiz is how much of a...
Oh, we got...
Oh, Barma! He's gonna try to get to the river!
They catch up with the stun!
Maybe too comfortable!
You got up at these points of games,
blinking into the river for these power runes!
You maybe too relaxed enough,
but they can still fight you,
they can still kill you!
Yeah, he's gonna be regretting that one there,
back the other way we go.
90 seconds.
They might be out of force at the bottom.
Oh, and they pass over the refresher shard to collapse, so he might be able to roll in third and go for a play
and catch him off guard in these next few moments, and they think it's on cooldown too.
They can hit the building pretty hard around you, Taurus, Mawflink.
XG.
You said, are you feeling a little more comfortable than they should have?
I think so.
This is why he said, if we see some of the best players in the world make that mistake sometime,
they're falling to that comfortable spot, they're blinking for these power rings at a point in the game,
where their deaths could be just so costly.
50 seconds now.
This is gonna give the availability for those buybacks that you were mentioning right now. They have the more flint the pangolin and the void spirit buybacks themselves
Off of that pickoff. There we go. Absolutely bastard one for spirit. Fortification coming out spirit. They're not going anywhere yet
Big creep wave coming in toward the top lane
Trying to get as much as they can. Especially now at this point 30 seconds up to the respawn
They know he's not gonna want to use the buyback so they'll stick around and try their best to force for the barracks
Collapse, I'm faking the role. New round of creeps are coming into the backdrop protection. Once again gone.
You gotta get themselves the melee racks and they'll play it safe. Now back off, so...
That little bit of a slip up in the river there, costing XG their mid melee racks.
Still can't really, yeah, we're seeing. XG, you can't really break your formation at this point.
We're at the late game. This is the morphing time.
He's absolutely gonna be able to burst you down with any type of control. So you have to be careful.
to still approach this game very carefully.
Rancor's got a lot of money as well. Look at his feelings.
He's got 5k gold in the bank.
He's debating about this axe. It can always be this dangerous one to use,
because you can't just get your teammates killed in some situations.
But let's see if he does opt for it.
Torrent not too far off from being able to purchase the Daelus and have his buyback.
At the moment, a lot of them are just sort of keeping that buyback health safe.
I mean, this game, at this point of the tournament, right, they need to be so tense.
Yeah, absolutely. You don't want to make that mistake that Cauchy'll team the game.
No, it's anybody's game at this point.
And you have to be very careful how you show yourself outside.
Sure, you have a two-rax advantage on the, like, one-and-a-half advantage on the side of XG,
but more fling, pango, these heroes can absolutely play.
Even vs. Mega Creeps, even if we do get to these 7 points.
Could be in for a long game.
X-Nobo about to have his aggonyms finished up too, so we'll have that extra magic resistance reduction on top of them having boomerang.
Honestly, it's an insane amount of magic damage that they can't dish out now at this point.
Even if it is toward later stages, this stuff adds up.
What's the cool gonna be from in-frame now?
You've managed to get the two sets of barats.
You probably still can do... Both teams can smoke and fight, right?
It's all gonna be about the initiations in particular.
I
May has a lot of gold I know
I've got to consider what he wants to swap out. I mean ideally right the eggs in the eggs
Yeah, that's gonna take a lot of money to do so and then get the next time and still have that buyback
The sheathers will be nice at least in terms of like survivability for it
But in terms of him being able to fight more right versus that more fling in particular
Yeah, cuz this wondering if there's a better option your tours getting pretty much the point there. Oh
Oh, is that Yatora?
We didn't see that, we didn't see that.
It only goes down to 7.
Yeah, XT didn't see that.
They're gonna go for a smoke up.
This could be a very convenient timing.
Because this morph doesn't have a BKB ready to press.
Does he abide? He doesn't abide.
It's getting late. We're seeing both of the carries slip up.
They're making a bit of a boo-boo in the mid lane jumping in.
Dying at the rune attempt.
BKB getting pressed by Yatora when it didn't need to.
to collapse on himself so again your tour is not going to want to show his face for
the next minute most of it's with the bkb to come back up and also whilst he is
also very close to having to say tannic nearly done no fire please have to keep
eyes on this one from xxs also when they're this panto Phoenix now not
safe with this a on desk can just get popped himself to
so tannic finished up e kb 40 seconds magic spirit plays under defensive
Poster until that does come up at the least extreme that it they don't go too deep with that smoke
Passing this gem back and forth between each other
Being very careful, they're just hugging each other at this point
About teams to say they
They don't want to sort of put the other you know the wrong foot forwards
No, it's not waiting for one another. We'll see if spirit a little deeper with their spring extreme
They try to press my... they don't want to go too crazy.
Spirit?
They've been pretty confident in the way that they just burst the target, right?
When they get the initial jump, we've seen Spirit have a bit of an easier time
in terms of just killing that one guy that goes in.
So if they can get that initiation with the Lion,
could absolutely see them just pop a target.
Level the level 25 hit on... nothing to say.
So a decent step up in the damage output that he's going to have.
That's actually quite interesting.
So he's just looking for more damage rather than looking for any type of
slowdown of damage risk and more.
because you can see arguments versus the for the sandstone blind in this one
but okay he's gonna get caught they find the opening here with the hegs they find him at the start of the map
how many times bruce been able to do this how many catches are going to see this line yet
i mean on the high ground they can look strapped back at the hegs opening they look at burst
break through lock yeah but i'ma come to the play can they kill the hangoff they're gonna try
that best if they can they kill the hangoff they get the two of them they're not looking to watch a tour
catch him with the opening stun just give reflection on toame but he got the B give me
He's gonna be up to four, so no luck.
Stunned at Toro.
And then afterwards, the bush back there,
it break down your Toro.
He has the bind.
Collapse, he's trying to keep the control
over the rolling thunder by lunges.
Does not do enough damage.
Look at this, it gets over the wall through here
with a bar strike.
Brew, get a decent heal off.
Collapse with this rolling thunder
continues to be quite the nuisance,
but Brew's gone.
And now Collapse, he just has to get out of here.
Doesn't look like he can.
Look, he's gonna have to load us back up
leaking a second, but except it's already
on top of him, Collapse gone.
These chains, it's too much stun for your Toro.
He's stunned for like, I don't even know, at 10 seconds it feels like inside that fight.
Look, if you bring it up on the tab there, he's like, bash, forward, bash, stunned, slaughtered
across, he's controlled for 10 seconds.
Alright, HG, only having to use the one buy back there, what's the big one of course from
Armaid?
Good thing he was holding that though.
Absolutely.
Had the money in the bank, ready for that play.
This is a really cool game, great little catch again, now they get the cheese they
use it immediately and they're going to go for the push.
You know and they're started with quite the plate they get the kill but they can't quite get out of it because we see with this
Dead up from extreme
You know they knew that there's a chance maybe that I know was gonna get gone on like that
And they were ready to make this buyback play and supernova tries to save him but at this point
They're big enough with the BKP's up to be able to beat down that egg
And he's just a little too much of this point the authority carry through the rule comes out
Into the bashes into the bush whack. He just can't do anything with the teammates dead around him
And this, this, that's what I've mentioned. Sometimes it's the danger of buying that axe Phoenix.
Laurel maybe had ways of playing out of it, perhaps maybe not, but either way, just when you get your teammate killed, it just feels bad anytime that happens.
And there's the push.
In terms of the buybacks from Spirit, they are going to be naturally respawning soon, with the damage already being done here to the, to the base.
So the range wreck's gone.
He is going to be back up.
And Amig does not have buy, but he does have an Aegis.
Getting the grapple to X-X has to force out the BKB from him.
They play smart this is actually really nice they back off without finishing off that last racks as your toros respawning
That's actually really nice because sure. I'll make he has ages, but he doesn't have buyback
So if somebody dies twice, there's no dangerous position. Absolutely. I like that they play careful there
These are 10 other steps
Towards getting that when warf extreme gaming just that final melee racks is standing on spirit side
Nothing to say has some growth as well that he can go from here after having that successful fight not having to use the buyback
himself. He has 5,000 gold that he can look to spend as well.
He's got 8 and a half thousand on the Slardar.
What's he getting? Moonshark? Moonshark time.
That picks up a moonshark. He's going to be able to get that out on end. I mean we're seeing already right the bashes.
How much they come into play. If he's able to just sort of stay sat on top of Yotaro, the constant punches coming in,
Proc'ing the bashes, it's so hard for Yutori to be able to play if he gets anywhere close to melee range with the Slardar.
X-XS for me has been the most stable in this series.
Just both games, all the games honestly looking like he has an excellent impact, only two deaths this game also.
And now this mooch starts absolutely going to be a problem.
Almost getting the point, not perma-bash, but he's going to be getting closer and closer.
Yeah, he's definitely the one right now that Yutori is going to be the most scared of.
And the Slardar causes so many issues for him.
Yeah, the Slardar is hanking honestly, the two of them is very annoying.
It's J.
It's Amit.
Since he doesn't have buyback, of course, he does spend the gold, eats the axe, has
his shivas.
It'll be a huge smoke for XJ.
Toro.
Ah, he's hanging out.
Gonna stay in with the blank stat.
It's away from Amit.
Rangers.
I'll have to buy back your Toro, 400 from having it.
Very close, I mean you need to buy back soon, it's so crucial.
Especially because of the setting, I mean, yes it has Aegis, but not having buy back
can always just be still dangerous.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if XT do so away until he has to buy back.
Let's see if there's possible.
But I'll go for it.
I'll be careful they've sort of played it.
True, very true.
Now they know it's going to be very hard for spirits so they get the pressure
back out on the map with the back of the creeps and the barracks situation favors
XT right now so maybe they just sort of wait through the stages on our may wait
until he does have the luxury of buyback before they go for anything too
crazy yeah they can look to just play the control constrict game right play
around the ruins play around getting all these healing lotuses as well as I
saw them just pick up a ton of them I think they picked up every single one
of them so they're gonna have these extra heals for the cores as well that
nothing ever it's really to laugh at by any means and what does the growth
Looks like the utor at this point.
Where does he go next with the build?
There's not really much more, right?
It's kind of, he's kind of at his peak, I would say.
It's my time from spirit.
Beady top.
They still feel very much that, as you say,
with the fact that they have all three cores
with BiBak available.
Still not sure.
There's that Aegis on Armae,
They can kill him twice in a fight. Might just be enough to run it down the lane and end the game.
And if they can ever actually, you know, maybe deal with this pesky FY, he's been really annoying this game, to be honest with you.
But he's not easy to deal with, because he has a BKB now at this point in the swaddling, too.
So, he is gonna get his disables off. They give him the bottle. This is clever, so they'll have the DD for the fight.
Okay, I should end up pumping it straight away.
Doesn't want to risk not having BKB in his bags here, I think.
Still a little bit of time now, so smoke's actually coming to an end now, so they won't be able to get that stat up and again, you're actually just playing careful.
They don't really want to care about fighting at the stages, it's about to expire anyway on Armaid.
So, is this...
Two minutes until the buyback.
Is this a moment where Spirit wants to go to smoke out is the question, right?
You're going to have a timing between there's no Aegis on the Bs, there's no buyback on him.
If you want to go for this, I don't know if they have the smoke though.
But maybe they are also feeling like, you know, asked the port, they haven't got buyback yet.
True, it's possible.
Maybe it's just maybe the whole reset for the buyback situation. Obviously both teams know as well that wait for that buyback
They're gonna get the chance to get the 16 and neutrals. Hmm
Panto has hit 25 as well too, so they did kill the egg in that last situation, but now maybe it's enough hits right now
It's up to 15
Started to get to a pretty crazy amount, but they have such wild attack speed
Even though they're melee heroes we saw it before the slaughtered on the Beastmaster can commit for it
And this game is just tense in general and two minutes until we're gonna have neutral items
I don't even know if I've read all of them, I don't even know what they all do.
Is it one you want to hear this tier?
I believe it was the Harmonizer, was it the one right?
Yeah.
So what is this one? Do anything crazy for anyone in the game?
Man, a constant spell amp for every spell on cooldown.
Maybe not in this one, it's super insane.
And spell amp is what, yeah.
Yeah.
But the new enchantment, right?
Hulking and some of these elements.
Well, wait till we get there, we still got a minute and a half, but...
Definitely potential and definitely likely that we're going to get to that point when things slow down.
I mean, they're waiting for the buyback, so you'll be very surprised to see a play come out.
Exactly, especially from extreme side, whilst they don't have that flyback on army, it's just under a minute and you'll have it.
Bitman?
They're opening here, opponent is going to be up in the high ground, Fy's dead, but the rest of extreme should be able to back off from this.
All these kills matter though, it's sure he's got flyback, but he's dead for 110 seconds if he doesn't want to use it.
I need to be shifting toward bottom to push the lane now.
still the final lane with the tier 2 in the game, and we're on the bottom radiance
head plate.
So once again everybody potentially is going to have their flyback at the ready 7000 gold
for Gatoro again now too.
It's very likely waiting for the neutrals now, trying to see which side can maintain
superior map control.
And then you can get the neutrals that little bit quicker.
So our arms that they hit, heroes can potentially die so fast depending on what they get.
Like these regalia, if the regalia is without the Ashes or Desos, there could be some pretty ridiculous stuff that just ends up swinging in here.
Abyssal on the pango, I believe the sinking is going to be beating up on Abyssal too.
So similar on both sides with a midlaner is this deterrent kind of hero on XG.
The deterrent on Spirit now also has this extra control too.
It doesn't have a fresher for itself but...
Sixty man.
Oh my god, what was that?
That's scary.
Let's have a look.
Still there, but a find there from these neutrals.
That's scary.
An importance, of course.
But these buybacks, it's going to mean that we're definitely going to see some heroes try and pick up the...
We should travel.
Mm-hmm.
Can we get away here, Panzer?
Bots too.
Yutaro, he's got the buyback in Bots 2 available.
Let's see what they get.
I think the box there collapsed.
Not the same to be said probably for our ma'am.
I imagine most of these cores are going to want to look for balls now.
Let's see what you want.
For our end zone.
Going with stuffy system.
Crazy stuff.
I mean tier 5's always make things absolutely ridiculous.
Yep.
And there's potential that even XXS gets to the point where he can have perma-bashed,
right?
If he gets enough attack speed now too.
If he gets an audacious or something on the smarter, he can perma-bash people,
right?
What do we have there?
Okay, we collapsed, we're going for the Witchbane this game.
It's a Dispel, it's one of the only neutral items with the Dispel, it's going to be useful
in almost all situations, but it also is really good because you're multi-hitting and you're
doing 4% of max damage.
It's an old-school thing for Pangos back in the day with the Briggins Blade and
whatnot, this is one of the things.
This sounds really nice, yeah.
The fleet for that movement is going to feel fantastic on the Pangos.
Yeah, getting rid of Gale as well too, instead of having to use Lotus to remove
a Gale, there's a lot of different things and it's going to be impossible for me
to keep track of all this.
I'm just playing these for the old-school B-smiles. I have the book of the dead, okay?
I I think nothing to say may have gotten one of the bigger wins though. He got the Dizoon with timeless on the same
Yeah, all that's the dream is the sanking rather pretty much the best thing you could hope for that
That's gonna be pretty insane and it is gonna be fleet-footed it for xxs with the Stygian deso
Insane amount of minus armor. All right, let's see what we get in this next fight
Timeless harmonizer for the lion to oh, yeah big damage on the finger if he gets all of these other spells off first
the thing there's gonna be doing like 1200 damage something like that yes to be
what is yes essentially about three times six right if he uses all three of
them first so 18% spell on right yeah 18% plus that plus the sense so probably
like 1700 but then reductions come in so it's extreme they're on the way out
AXXXX is leading the way.
He's gonna get caught.
Lyle, Corp on the base, the pushback locks in.
They make the raw connection over to Worms.
The Phoenix is gonna be lulzed.
He'll buy back immediately.
Try and turn it back into the fight.
Gatoro tries to stand his ground against AXXXX and Arme.
Arme backing away.
PKB's going to come to an end.
He's gonna get tried back here by the Harpoon.
Everything after strike.
He'll turn with the axes.
AXXXX is cleaning up the support though.
It's gonna be a Phoenix opportunity.
No buyback available on him.
They've got the control on the collab.
Collapse is gone.
He's got the buyback available.
X-XS, you monster!
But it looks like they're just going to bail out for the fight, you tore it!
Turn into Stanking, use the Burst Strike to break away.
Krest is going to be off the mark!
Turns with his Raptors Strike to hold back X-XS!
The Burst of the figure comes in, not enough to kill X-XS!
So forces him to back off, but that's three buybacks having to come out there from Spirit!
And X-XS just jumps in, gets the nullifier on the Phoenix,
and he actually was short buyback, Owen.
He was 40 gold short buybacks on the Phoenix.
And behind him gets the breakback into the action.
Does have that insta buy.
I spin him in the road show, and it's gonna be here for taking for extreme.
And look at the damage that was coming, it sure was kind of spread out there,
but you could absolutely see X-X-X just deleting heroes in a second with this escalator.
How do you deal with this Slardar getting in on top of you and just running you down?
I was saying that he's a bash.
He's been the rock for me through this series, and absolutely right there.
He just went right through the saddest barrier.
Yeah, this AC Stygian, and they're gonna be giving him the Aegis.
What's the minus I'm even looking like with all this?
Minus 23, minus 28, minus 41, right?
Is my mouth right there? I believe it is.
That's a lot.
It's brief.
I can very much taste the victory now. There's so close here with his Aegis.
This Epi coverage as well too. It takes up the 8 bigger than the host screen with this disease.
Yeah, you can't get out of range now. Everyone's just getting pulsed by it.
And Phoenix, since he didn't want to use... Couldn't use the buyback before, doesn't want to use it in these last few seconds. Wants the two lives.
Aw.
It's already showing you at the front, it's got to be so cautious.
Success.
None of the burst onto Wards, X-X-X, but there's Jeff from the burst onto Koryotoro!
They're trying to get Yotaro out of here, and Froggl loads us down onto Wardsville, put
the BKB, looks us down, turns Wards, X-X-X, he's able to bring him down on the Wards.
None of the look for Wotame!
The stone comes into place, they're looking down at the beast monsters, trying to run,
trying to escape from Collapsing Yotaro.
He's getting burned down low by the subray, jump for him with the shield,
crash Yotaro, Collapsing Yotaro, they're breaking the beast down.
He gets away, the waveforms there inside Yotaro, dodges the attempt.
for nothing to say to catch him.
They'll keep themselves alive.
That's the buyback coming out from Armey.
Panto also uses his buyback with 10 seconds remaining out on the Phoenix.
So a little painful for him, but felt like it was necessary to join his morphing.
I don't blame him there.
Nitora, the only one with buyback left now on Team Spirit.
He's got Minotaur horn, so he's got a little extra protection,
but no BKB for the upcoming fight.
If he gets hit by that epicenter, he could have died.
He made the right call to jump back out of the fight
that way from just in time moments before nothing to say came in with that
initiation. It's such a hard game for him. There's so much control. Yeah. Truly.
Just seeing it all come into play. They isolate Armey there for a moment, but
just immediately has to be very careful how he commits forward on that.
It's really extreme turns I want to do something with this because they did use Armey's
buyback there at the end of that fight. But then it's also dangerous right? But
everybody else pretty much has the luxury of it right. They just get on the
side of extreme. Xenova just needs a few hundred more gold and they'll
have it but they have a lot of buybacks to play with themselves but it's just
dangerous the question how careful they want to play it right and it's not like
a maggot creepers end all be all winning the game right you can't just go
for a bag and lose army and lose the game potentially so I think they're
gonna back up slow poke and we could have this game continue you might want
to wait for our mates buyback again XXS can solo kill people though I think
with this shadow blade pickup it's really clever he can just play on
these side lanes and literally kill anybody he sees because he's got the
nullifier so no a on disc is gonna be there to protect them and I mean he
He kills heroes in like four hits.
After the bash, after the crush, once he gets the max and plant his armor on them, they will die incredibly fast even if they're a core.
So look, a lot of money on your Toro again.
You just look, okay, it's just going to look for the Moon Shard up as the next pickup.
But of course we'll still look to try and hold the buyback gold on top of that, which yeah, he has the luxury to do so he can pick up the Moon Shard, still have buyback available here.
On the morph thing.
No, he still needs a little more. He needs 900 more. 900 more for him.
Okay. Okay.
A little bit short of it.
Collapse does commit.
Collapse has gone for the refresher and stuff to walk the double ulti.
Double ulti's to cover.
He's killed a rapier on Collapse, by the way. It does feel like it could actually get to...
That would be fun.
We could be getting to multiple rapiers on either side, right?
I mean, he managed to live for a long duration. That last fight around is rolling thunder, so...
If he can pump up that extra bit of damage with a rapier...
There's possibilities in anything at all.
Screamages, yeah.
Everybody has BiBak apart from Armour.
But is the fact that Armour doesn't have BiBak
still too much of a risk for them to want to try and end it
in this next five minutes?
Because at the moment, it does seem that they very much,
now they respect the fact that,
that one lack of BiBak is, it could be everything.
After you work-
Compared to the fact that Spirit have,
do you have four BiBaks on cooldown?
After you worked so hard in this game, right?
After you've worked for 60 minutes to get to this point,
you have to be as careful as possible.
Two minutes until, I mean,
the neutral scheme just started to get changed
pretty soon too, so,
I can see if there's opportunities that they see.
But they do a pretty damn good one,
so I don't really know if they are gonna look
to change those.
Maybe I may will.
This isn't really like a carry one.
This is more of just the game, folks.
I think the same, it's got eyes on your toe, right?
So careful, now he steps outside of the base,
Of course they will know that the Toro does have firebacks at the same time
They're never really gonna want to drop too much on the more flaying
They don't want us. I mean you're not gonna see your Toro really cross that line right now
He's not gonna cross the ramp very unlikely at this point knows that XG is very likely setting a trap for him
I mean he'll just go hit some creeps on the meantime while his team sits outside
He's got boots of travel to to be able to join them. Sure. He has it level 30
We'll have to refresh his shot as well for a double raw.
Okay, but he is looking to maybe switch his build a bit here, right?
He is looking for that Bloodthorn potential versus that morph.
And at all moments, nothing to say is waiting.
Waiting to wrap that up if he does catch someone outside.
Yeah, because I imagine the play is going to be what nothing to say.
He picks up the Sheevers and then Armey can sell his to get something else instead of the Sheevers on his build.
It looks like there's still disgusting what he wants to really buy too,
because he had the Bloodthorn queued up.
Now he's going for the build that we used to see on the Beast Masters that they like as a second item
It's actually going to be the Disperser
Which has a lot of merit
I'm gonna say is there any merit to him also getting like a bash or abyss? I was kind of thinking that but
Because then you've got that sort of chance to make that plan your own right
Popping the Lincoln's getting that follow up with the Roar. You do the same thing with the Disperser. It's true. I get it
That's true. That's true. That's true. Yeah, I think that's kind of what he's looking at here
And I think something to make that play
Like the Disperser overall is just better for you to be able to get in and out of the fights
they're a happy abyssal on the same thing. So, three minutes.
Wait for the buyback.
That does mean that, I mean, in terms of the money, they are going to have to get a little
bit more on three of them, but it's looking pretty likely that they should be able to
set these up so they do have the buybacks available again. But it's just a question
then of what's it going to take for XG to actually be able to close this game out
Because that last fight, they forced out four buy bags, but that still wasn't quite enough for them to close it up
They do have what I mean they have refresher for everything like they have the refresher shard also for army
Which is really nice because then they have double roar double epi
They have everybody with like a double kind of ability to just go for him the second life potential
I mean it's tough it's tough to say the agonist pick up here for FY
70 minutes. Yeah, Lyle's going to also start looking at war as that divine rapier.
He's queued up with 15 different items. They're all just deciding what they really want to go for,
because it's literally just everyone stalling out until they do have the buyback up now.
So they have the buybacks, so they have the boost of travels, and pretty much most of them.
I mean, except for Yutor on a morphling, it's rapier ever sort of part of the consideration.
It's just not really... It's just tough to replace anything he has. Maybe the
So Lincoln's is gonna potentially eventually, but if he gets forward once then it's just hard to say really.
He might be forced to move it at some point, the blocks too, or his BKB efforts to use it.
I mean Spirit, there, she's starting to head out a little bit with some sort of a smoke move.
I mean they know, they're keeping track of the time where they are gonna have this window where they will have to buy back a bondage,
because Armey's like advantage, yes.
He'll down for a minute and a half.
Panto won't have his as well, but they'll have everybody else.
Let's have a look indeed. We're getting quite the game here to end the first day in front of this beautiful crowd.
And we have 71 minutes here in game 3.
Let's see if they do get any other neutral.
Because they do have a couple of replacements. We were saying FY, he's got Fallen Sky, which he could probably replace with something.
He can still look to upgrade more.
So it looks like they are finishing up those neutrals.
Roche, soon gonna be the case. Tormentor is up and no one cares about that anymore at this point. It's not worth it.
Roche, yeah, as you said. Tormentor, not gonna be our hotspot, but the Roche, we'll still have it's appeal.
Everybody torments this point, he's just pointless.
Yeah, money is not an issue for anyone right now.
And it could kill you. That is the problem too, as we've seen in a couple of these games.
And there's the smog from extreme.
Ready to go as it comes to this point, the army's buyback's about to fall back into play.
Spirit is outside at the moment, which is a bit dangerous for them.
They do have a ward sentry set up, Rua's in the tree line.
There we go.
And with the smog, they're out with the blinks.
Ooh, it's a simulator! Why do I have to kill him?
It's a simulator!
Oh, no!
Oh, no! It's not the stupid one! I was gonna be there to stand him with the...
Go ahead and hit it!
...the egg! The egg!
It's gone!
Now double kill for army!
All eyes back, the Bastion does nothing!
Goro is gone as well!
That is the three buybacks here spirit!
Let's go left.
Good control, good damage as well.
Will be able to bring that Exit system.
Two buybacks now to come out to the side of XG.
Are they gonna go up by the Bastion?
He's alive!
He's alive, healing up, they couldn't even go last.
Finally to get with the blast and he's up to strike.
That's gonna be a buyback for them.
But the crucial thing is the spirit, that was a dieback from L.
He's out for two minutes.
Next, she's bringing the numbers.
And now, here comes the chase down.
That's Gorya Toro!
HG, bring down Gorya Toro!
He's out for good!
Panto!
Also, the trouble collapsed.
He's just really going to try and hold here.
He'll kite out the soup and over.
But they've got everybody.
There's Nermid.
No carry left here for Team Spirit Extreme.
They might have just done it.
They're moving with the ball onto the ball through.
He's out.
Collapse killed off.
She's getting his goal.
The patience pays off the extreme!
Get the win!
Two to one here!
Against Team Spirit, my goodness!
Those last moves, and he went again late into the game, but...
And Lyle, an unfortunate discimulate, ends up popping up right in the midst of them,
tries to jump out of the Astral Steppe,
and they're so quick to get on top of him,
and at that point, the fight just falls apart.
The buybacks are coming out from Spirit,
but Extreme, they're ready to respond.
It may take 70 minutes.
Spirit may have made them work very hard for it, but my god what a game
I have to be xx that's for me what a performance from this water doing so much work
I had concerns for us because the triple melee versus the egg
Nope, they just killed that which was every single time and sometimes this could be the problem right that acts tries to go for these
Saves you can't really believe them though just xg overall up most patients a couple slip-ups here and there from both sides
But overall xg patients pays off absolutely looking fantastic across the form those final moments
I mean, and it gets just the pace, you know, yeah, we got to remember it's extreme
You know, we see that line-up a lot. Well, surely they're gonna try and play it a little bit faster
But every single little bit of progress, they were so careful in how they push the game to the next step
Waiting for everything waiting for these buybacks to come up time and time again
Before they went for these moves to try and progress towards the end
It pays off. It absolutely pays off extreme good in a fantastic fashion here
hour and 30 minutes in water game water series extreme gaming they're gonna be
moving on ahead and he has no one buddy up
Birmingham let's hear it for a hell of a barber in there three games more than
30 minutes a hell of a congratulations to you all man you must be feeling pretty
good pretty patient victory for you guys
First of all, congratulations to you for winning this victory, you can see that your team is very patient, it's hard to win, is that right?
Yes.
We call that the Hawk 2.
I feel like you guys are very important to the team.
The first one is to ban him, and the last one is to pick him up.
Is it because of the Beast King that you can summon two old heroes and hook?
You summon two old heroes and then you can see the other heroes.
Beast King is fine, I think he's fine.
Well, Beastmaster, that's too pretty strong right now, you know, I hope Tullis is pretty effective, yeah.
Okay, okay, because I thought maybe it was about the Boards maybe, the two Boars.
They call that the Hog Tullis, but you can spit on them things, am I right?
Translate that, please, ship.
I've saw that and then put a patch in to make all of the heroes that you guys picked really, really nerfed.
How would you react to that in that made-up scenario?
If, for example, right now, Vise is watching our match,
and then, when you see these heroes, and then you just get a new version,
and then you finish all the heroes you need, what do you think?
Uh, I'll just pick something else.
I'll just figure out some of the heroes to pick.
Well, you better stop figuring it out, boy, because that's exactly what happened.
I'm so sorry to inform you they have released a patch,
and they have nursed most of your guys's shit, so it's gonna be a very interesting day tomorrow for you, I believe.
Did you hear that?
Was that Alchemist nerf?
Alchemist was nerf. Congratulations on that.
Cheers Michelle.
Okay, what a work. That was fantastic.
Well, I mean, thank you so much for coming up here.
I know we had you earlier. It's been a super long day.
Let's close this up. Anything to say to the extreme fans
that never, never thought you were going to lose this one.
hours he was able to take down a mouse continue this lower bracket journey and
now he was able to take down team spirit and in a hell of a fashion 83 minute
game or 73 minute game there's a lot of minutes many minutes but what we are
knowing for me is one bombing of that all the teams are playing some
incredible doda it's more about like the strategies they can quickly create
on the patch right I think actually the reason why they're no bracket run
is looking so good is because of joway because of the drafting that they're
doing like the little things they are taking some of these maybe less
experienced coaches and go, nope, if you want a new patch, you need to have your A game
and XG, they had it all for out today.
They just played that really well from start to finish.
Their laning stage was good and later on in the game where it could have been easy to
falter to a morphling draft, they made very minimal errors in the way that they team
fought.
And I especially want to shout out the supports because FY and Xnova had some really clutch
moments this game.
Especially FY on his headwink, he was getting hexes on the void spirit, he was getting
like double bush racks in the Roche pit.
Like he's just had a fantastic series overall.
And all of that made life quite difficult
for the team spirit supports.
And as a result of this win,
we also have to take an opportunity
to look at one of our eliminations
and slacks is standing by with Panto right now.
Thank you so much, Tsunami.
Yep, we are here with Panto.
Thank you so much, Tsunami.
Panto, incredible series.
I mean, that was very close.
It was super clutch.
It came down to the wire on that last one.
How are you guys feeling coming out of that?
First map, we had better strategies and we played well, maybe some bad days at the beginning,
but then we just buy some agonies on heroes, more agonies, more chance to win, we buy a free win.
And the second game I think our draft was okay, but when we get one bad fight,
a near raw split bottom, then game became hard.
They just run into us, they have blue, they have split breakers, specters, they just can kill easily,
opposition and snipers, so this game was hard if we feed once.
We need to take everything, we need to take Rosh, Storm, a lot of kills, all towers, and maybe then we could win this game.
4th game was more interesting, like maybe, felt like we could play every game better.
They have a lot of, from every lane.
Saint-King was big from mid-pulling waves, I feed top ones and they farming,
and also bottom went double kill for Beastmaster, but we delayed game a lot.
Our heroes are really good in teamfights as they are.
So this game was more about teamfights and for make more mistakes.
Once we go on wave we feed, once Beastmaster jump on rune and die,
and game going like this.
And the final teamfight was just not for us.
We got caught first, maybe they caught us off guard.
Maybe if we're focusing more that they can come,
we will be better prepared than we could win.
One teamfight in 18 minutes.
I mean, one teamfight, one fatal mistake in these kind of games
can really do everything here.
And to me, that's a big question,
What do you take away from a series like this because you guys were very well matched it came down to one time mistake
What do you as a team take away to make sure that your next games don't turn out like this?
You'd stay lens, but okay. All right. Well that's what I have to say about that
But it's like you know a little bit practice. I got some good news for you by the way
You don't know about this yet
They've released a patch during game two. Can you believe it? What do you think they nerfed clutch it?
Then you have to...
Maybe Vienna or something?
Ding?
Yeah.
Items?
Probably this item or wraps.
Ding? Very good.
One more.
Maybe Nippa Buck?
Yeah, they fixed that too. Actually, they fixed a lot of stuff.
But with that being announced,
new patch for you guys,
an incredible performance here.
It was such an honor to have you.
I would like you to have an opportunity to talk to the fans out there,
because I know they send a lot of the senior guys out there,
you know, guitar roles go to a million of these and all that,
and I think it's so incredible that you took the opportunity to do this and say hi.
So please, if you could say something to the fans who have been supporting you
and can't wait to see you at the next tournament.
Yeah, thank you guys for support.
On the last map, we put everything, like our hearts,
and we tried our best, just in the moment we were weaker.
I'm sorry for this.
We will try to be better next tournaments.
I absolutely believe him. Ladies and gentlemen, can we please give it up for him. Thank you so much for coming in, absolute pleasure, and I really appreciate you taking your time.
We'll head back to the panel.
Much appreciated Composure from Panto for a tough exit interview because this was probably a little bit more...
bitter to lose than most series because this was within spitting distance.
So many of these teamfights, so many of these opportunities where they happen to find Aame,
farming alone, or they get the teamfight initiation that lets them get the advantage.
If they just got like two more of those fights to go their way, then we're looking at a spirit
winners interview, but Effie had just seen that the cards were extremes way all of
today.
Yeah, they just clutched it up, they played better, they came in with good ideas on
extreme gaming, and we almost saw that team spirit Williams in that game 3 where
They claw their way back from a difficult game,
but unfortunately for them,
Extreme Gaming have their number.
Yeah, I mean, I think winning games like this
is always incredibly impressive.
The amount of patience and the amount of,
I don't know, you have to really stick through it.
It's a long time you lose focus, you lose patience,
you need to go to the bathroom, you're tired.
Like they've been, there's six game of the day on Extreme.
Like that is a lot of durability
to be able to get through all of that
and to come out and win against a team
that's more fresh, that has had more time
to warm up in practice.
That is incredibly impressive.
I think is a great sign for them for the future of this tournament
I'm super excited to watch in the flight because they are a bit of a blast
It's also the way in this which they win this game right like army jumping in the mid lane him and dying also
Getting picked off against gravity they found beautiful ways to get pickles in the game
It might look like army just dying a couple times
But that is kind of testament to spirit and how they're setting up the map in certain situations
But for XG when they look at their lineup other teams may have crumbled looking at more things looking at the scaling the team
quite that Panto was mentioning, but with XG it was, okay, take a breath, we'd go again.
It doesn't matter if we've had this like critical mistake ourselves, because we can fix it if
we just make a couple adjustments. And again, adjustments from XG, I keep saying it, but
then I think they are the team that are making the most adjustments at any team here, and
I'd love to see it.
I imagine that's so much because they are playing consistently like one game away
from elimination. They're like, oh boy, do we really got to come correct in this
draft otherwise our time at this tournament is over but they are continuing to persist as indeed
you heard they beat mouths at the beginning of the day and now they've managed to beat spirit
and we get to see more of that shall wait magic as we move on. Practice adds up these matches they
matter like T said they're learning they're improving they're figuring out their meta and
their ideas not just that but also their gameplay so every match they survive and that
builds confidence that builds camaraderie that builds belief in your team and I think
it only makes them stronger for the future series.
A lot of faith in their supports as well.
We shined a light on the carries.
We shined a light on the off-lands.
But now, Effie, showing what the supports were up to in this elimination game.
Yeah, for this Tata Hat, we're just, you know, giving some love to the five players
who heard great exit interview from Panto.
And of course, we have the veteran in Exnova.
Both of them played very well.
I just wanted to say that Exnova's Venomancer was really impressive to me,
to me because this is a type of game where late game you can die a lot in
denomancer but he still only ended the game with six deaths. His anti-heal came
in clutch versus the morphling. Like that timing hit very nicely and as we saw
8 boards, 8 d-words to 18, I mean he's just doing it. All of this stuff happens
in silence so it's really hard to see it happening in front of your screen
and really understanding how much impact he had but he played exceptionally
I am just so scared right for the future. All right, because if we're saying that amongst the fives
You know they're poking their head into the jungles it's early day in a patch
It just takes one of these pesky cause and they you know
I can do it too and then you're gonna get buddy legion commanders doing it and you know all these selfish and Anakin
So great great freks know you're playing Venom double thumbs up
But he's setting this message to all these other players that the jungle is
Accessible and it can do these nutty little things. I think there's definitely a reason why whatever slacks said oh
Oh, 7.41A dropped.
Guess I hear that gun nerfed.
The first thing that came to his mind is Venomanser.
Unfortunately, Venomanser did not get touched in the 8-patch.
The B-patch, don't forget the B-patch, right?
If A's off to two, three days, why not have a B-patch maybe Tuesday?
How's that gonna help any of the teams still here, though?
Okay, have it on Sunday then, before the grand final.
Just pick Venom.
Just pick Venom.
That's right.
But don't pick out the same one because that one got nerfed.
It's a lesson that...
Hopefully all the teams have been taking into consideration.
No, we are not memeing.
Indeed, A-patch has dropped during game number three.
7.41a, handful of bug fixes, maybe Meepo's pickable again, who knows, like, actually literally pickable,
now I'm not talking about like Viable, I'm talking about not crashing the game, but who knows,
anything's possible. Elsewhere though, yes, Consecrated Rap's got nerfed, Alchemist's got nerfed,
it was a satisfying patch to read through Quinn, especially given how reactionary it must be
with like 72 hours after the original patch drops. Yeah, I like it, I think the concept of
smaller, more consistent patches that sort of just even things out, I think we're seeing
the effects of a patch that is more evened out, that we see a wider spread of heroes,
we get to see people counter-pick based on historical match-ups, not just like this year
was really good right now, so even though the match-up isn't good, we pick it anyway,
I think that's awesome for Dota, it's super fun to watch and very exciting.
So the concept of to balance people, you don't always have to nerf everything, you can
just buff other stuff.
So when you see a ladder patch, let's say we do get another one in the future, it's
like just buff some guys, keep making the playing field feel even, and then the
competitive teams, the players will always have to say, what's next, what's coming,
right?
So for me, I love letter patches. I hope we get to go down the alphabet
But a already is a really good a patch
And we just need to hope that no monster was created as we get to like letter F
And it's like dude this guy got like seven buffs in a row. Why is no one picking conco?
And you don't scare them away from it. What do you want to do?
Alright, we're gonna ease into it much as how we're easy our way to the bracket
We have already finished the first round of upper bracket that happened yesterday
And now we have made it through three series in the lower bracket, which led to three eliminations
We started the day off with extreme gaming taking on mouse and extreme gaming came out on top of their sending mouse on after that
Par vision got a clean 2-0 victory over Falcons
eliminating the defending Birmingham champions, but the defending ESL one champions who won Raleigh will continue their journey and
The last series of the day was extreme gaming taking down spirit. Let me have to say goodbye to spirit after a
I look at their bracket position, and it sucks that they lost two series from upper bracket to lower bracket, but they all went three games. That's gotta be rough.
Yeah, I mean it's smart whenever you're very, very close. This last game is also, like I understand what Pentus is coming from with this take away.
It's just like we need to play lanes better because what on earth else can you take away from the game?
There were a hundred million teamfights, some of them you played really well, some of them you played badly.
It's like, I don't know, Dota is a hard game and late game is insanely random.
The stuff you can work on is those consistency things right because spirit they were not as consistent
They would like to be this turn right you can see that by the fact
They are they are losing the games right at the end of the day you can complain about I was really close
But you lost for a reason and I think they'll go back to the drawing board continue to improve because of their team
That is very hungry for the w because it's been a little bit since they've gotten one and they don't go home empty-handed
They get a handful of points as we are wrapping up a few of these
awards as we make our way to the eSports World Cup. This 35,460 pool is
getting smaller and smaller as we are eliminating more and more teams. So let's
take a look at the updated leaderboards and see where Spirit currently are. They
will be locked at a 6th place, 6,000 points and moving forward, which is
fine for them because they at least still get directly invited to the
next dream league as a result of this placement because there are no other
teams that can leapfrog them. Every other team that's lower than them is
already eliminated from this tournament, or was not playing him?
I mean it's just awkward if your falcon is on liquid right? Of course liquid not making
it to Birmingham, falcon is getting eliminated very early in the playoffs, you're just looking
at this bracket and it's going, you know there's obviously Dream League to come and
whatnot but it kind of wanted to get some nice juicy points from Birmingham, the
biggest point of all but not to be the case.
Yeah, at least they do get that direct invite into Dream League which Quinn you have
been repeatedly emphasizing how much of a luxury it is to be able to take that
vacation rather than have to sweat bullets for every single qualifier.
Yeah, having to play consistently throughout the entire year is very taxing.
There's a reason we see like Laurel and other players, Mica and Yusha.
They take a tournament off here there because the Dota schedule is packed.
There's stuff all the time so that those little bits of R&R,
you can spend time with family and friends that goes a long way
as you get on the stretch to the big boys.
And our schedule is also packed.
We had three series today and we're going to give you three more series tomorrow.
Not as many elimination series though.
we get to have a balance between upper bracket and the lower bracket.
We're going to start things off with Aurora taking on a parry vision, which is an elimination series.
After that, it's a Yandex tundra for upper bracket.
Winner of that series moves on to grand final.
After we got to see both these teams make their way through this upper bracket after we finished off the group stage.
I am not at all surprised that these are the two teams in contention for that grand final spot.
Do you have a favorite?
I wish that Aurora, but I saw something concerning online about Mira's being such a disaster.
I did see that interview.
Yes.
So that makes me lose a little bit of confidence, but prior to the patch they were in the zone,
they were playing so well.
I still think they're going to play very well, but new patch always give the advantage
to the 33 team.
They always know what the most broken thing is, the most broken item, the most broken
hero earlier than anyone else.
Yeah, for me, past teammates are in my heart. I love Yandex, Yandex all the way, Yandex all the way.
Loser and Maldy are going to carry it through?
That's right, that's right.
I believe in it. Team, who you got?
To win the whole thing? Or what are you saying?
We got what? Five teams left right now?
All I care for is P-Vision or XG, heavily leaning more towards XG.
I just want the lower bracket run. I want like the teams where you've looked at in the group stage and gone,
Yeah, well, they all don't know they play.
Now, P-Vision, everyone's talking about what's DM, the right kid.
Oh, look at the ghost, look at this, right?
And then they come and slaughter Falcons, right?
So for me, it's all about the underdog story and XG and P-Vision.
They're kind of holding that energy.
Oh, you have a team, but you can expect them to win it.
I think those teams right now in their form, maybe not.
So yeah, I'm leaning just towards those two.
Bundling into one predict, if that's okay.
One amazing lower bracket run to survive all the way to grand finals.
Let's see if that becomes a possibility.
That is the end of a lengthy first day of arena play here at ESL one of Birmingham 2026 hope you've enjoyed the show
But we're just getting things started stick around everyone
We'll be back tomorrow with a more a playoff action. We'll see you then
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You think that sets you free?
That sets you free?
I am fire!
Fire!
I am the fever inside my soul I am the crimson I am the cold I am destruction I am the rage I am the life of the broken king
I am fire!
Fire!
I am fire!
And sent you free!
Thanks
Okay, it ain't been forgotten until
A life that's made a campaign behind
In chaos, iron, walking the waist
In the house, hanging into chains
On life
To serve the good
Son of your life
To save the world from the bloodshed eyes
To shudder, there's a magic of the eye
In total, I'm just a mythos woman
Because I'm a sisters of nature
You