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Good morning, Dota people. We've got some more action for you today, would you believe
it or not? A couple more best of threes here as we get back into the thicker things for
the international qualifiers out of Europe. I'm so like coded to say Western Europe, Eastern
Europe stuff like that. No, one region, four slots, 16 teams. It's a blood bath. We're
already some little upset. Some big teams dropping to the lower bracket.
Yeah. We used to have this, you know, separation and then you had teams kind of playing in
one region or the other. If they wanted to, whichever they wanted to join because they
thought it was easier. I don't like that. I like this. This is really high because you
are so many strong teams in the same region. There's still plenty of qualifier slots though
for these teams. So we can have a look at the bracket, see what we've got for ourselves. And
can you believe that we have Nigma Galaxy just going 2-0 against Na'Vi and they're in this
upper bracket next round against Team Spirit. Whoever wins this, I believe, are already in
the qualification. Yeah, yeah, you're right. One series away for Spirit or Nigma Galaxy to get
qualified to TI. And you're right. The way they've done it, 2-0ing Rooney to 2-0ing Na'Vi,
pretty good team spirit. Same
story, though, pretty dominant
performance up in that top
portion of the upper bracket
and see the yellow submarine
there. It took miles down to
to nothing. And not not
necessarily like a big surprise,
but the way in which yellow
submarine did it, you know,
Mao's not going to be happy.
Definitely not. No, they were
looking for more. Um definitely
not the result they wanted, but
as team Bald. The fact that they get too old by Team Spirit as well just shows that class
difference right like Team Spirit is such a strong team. And then we have the rest of
the bracket of course we got plenty of games coming like Power Rangers versus Team Visions
can be an exciting one there in the lower part of the upper bracket. But having a look
at specifically lower bracket yesterday we have to say farewell to some teams VP Prodigy
didn't really make the cut against Team Bald who stepped up in the lower bracket.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they did. Drafting, play-wise, you know, really unlocking sanctity, I think was a key element for them,
because in that previous upper bracket series, we just didn't see anything out of the team board.
Mid laner, and then he was running games against VP Prodigy and looked very good.
And then we had Modus against Runeaters, which was an odd series, a stomp into a stomp,
and then Game 3 was actually competitive and enjoyable, but it was...
One of these things where you could feel the pressure was on these players down in the lower bracket,
you know, they're kind of scraping every ounce of, you know, ambition and strength that they possibly could to get into and through this series.
And eventually, you know, it was Modus who showed and proved the most resilient.
Yeah, having looked at the schedule for today and the games that we have coming up though, we got that mouse versus Icy Insanity.
Icy Insanity, which, you know, looked very interesting to me, but not quite strong enough against Virtus Pro.
They did go 2-1 in that series and was pretty even, honestly, pretty close fights there.
So, I do expect them to be a pretty tough opponent.
Mouse, however, they need to do what Team Bald did.
They need to lock in.
This is lower bracket.
You only have one life now.
Yeah, I mean, the expectations are still there, right?
Expectations of Mounds going through this lower bracket,
not necessarily guaranteed a slot,
but they definitely should be, you know,
as one of the invited teams,
definitely should be one of the squads
that are pushing through this lower bracket
towards at least round four.
But I see Insanity, this was the team
that had a little scuffle with the team ball during the opens as they got themselves this
position where you know they had the chance to stay in the upper bracket but they obviously
dropped down to VP like you said in that two to one series and they've got some very solid
players you know it feels like this is the kind of squad that if they get the right draft
on the right day they could defeat some of the big squads.
100% yeah they have the potential definitely looking at the individual skill there's no
team. I mean, I'm not sure
that I know that about it, but
that's so true for so many of
these teams. So feels like I'm
going to be a bit like a broken
record saying that about a lot
of these teams like, Oh, look
at all the talent. Yeah, look
at all the skill you have, but
it is very tricky to get all
the players working on the same
level rights. Players are so
unique in Dota. There's such a
different like skill set for
what makes a good player and
someone who might be a great
you know, it's a lot of
things that you need to do
to get yourself in your
partner. But also how you want
to play the midgame. There's
a massive difference in how
some teams approaches somewhere
a little bit more methodical.
Some are very crazy, and you
need to have a draft that
supplements that. So, uh,
there's a lot of puzzle pieces
that need to fit together.
Yeah, it's always kind of
interesting to bring that up
because I see insanity do have
a lot of that kind of pre
built synergy. I want to say,
you know, the two Mongolian
boys playing together. Obviously
different squads and then playing together as your one and five and you've got the Ukrainian duo with Lays and Fernans playing in the off lane together and
Storkars you know sat in the middle the lone North Macedonian like yep I'm just gonna play out the mid playing the side lanes no matter what
You've got the kind of nationality synergy already there, but I've seen Sanity
We've got some of the most picked heroes in the EU qualifiers looking at it overall
It's been pretty good success for Doom. I like what teams have been doing with him
He's one of the most played also been played as Kerry looking really really good overall
some of the other heroes, I can understand why they're going for them, but they haven't had ass great success like, you know, hoodwink sitting only at three wins of nine games and honestly, all the 10 pick heroes are all negative win rate technically four wins a piece for clock Rubik and Ember, but doesn't mean the heroes a week.
It's just, you know, these are good heroes and people will try and play them. However, you will find counters as well.
as well. Yeah, I mean, I think the big one that I'd pick on and I don't know if I start saying the numbers now you're probably gonna be like, yeah, that guy undying, right? He was up there with a ton of picks and his win rate has not looked good at all.
I've got the stats for all regions up currently. I've looked at Europe in a second, but undying is like 27% win rate with 20 games across all regions. So everyone's trying to play him in his off lane role and not many are succeeding.
I'm looking specifically at EU numbers, the ones we had on screen there and there he is two wins out of eight games, which is, you know, not too impressive.
I've been talking about him being not too great, but yeah, there was either regional overall stats, fantastic production, bringing up the good info.
And even looking beyond EU, it hasn't been amazing.
I honestly don't understand the infatuation that teams have with Offline and I'm like, I feel like it's weak.
I feel like it brings you a vulnerability. You need to play
strongly. You need to dominate. Otherwise, he just becomes a
support. How many times, Gareth, have we been there? And we've
said, I have this also not buying is kind of like a support now.
It's like half the games at least.
I'd say 75% of the games, right? The 26% where he's winning.
He's like, okay, he's a core. The other 74%. Yeah, he's looked
like a support. Yeah, I don't know. I guess it is this
the game. That's what Dota has
always become. How can you out
outmaneuver out speed out
greed. Just level up and have
that step ahead of your
opponents. I guess I'm dying
gives you that through his lane
presence and then that midgame.
It's just if you don't close out
the game, if you don't get that
advantage, will you come up? You
come up against the team like
team spirit who are very good at
finding that individual moment
like, okay, well, I'm kind of just lost now. Yeah. I feel like maybe I'm buying you see a
false sense of achievement as well, because you're like doing these things that typically give you
a marker in your in back of your mind, like, oh, we are winning fights, we're doing things means
we're winning. But it's sort of a false sense of security, because you're supposed to win early.
And if you don't do it with undying, then it's super bad. Whereas if you're winning early,
you have a lot of players that
are really good at the game.
You have an off lane, you know,
doom or whatever, then that's
great. You're very likely to
win as you go late game and you
still have the impacts. But
yeah, I'm you know, I've been
ranting a lot about women the
games we've had. I'm sure he's
going to keep getting picked.
The players are very stubborn
about this here. Being good.
Maybe it's just a fluke that he
has a 25% win rates here. But
from my perspective, it has not
and I'm dying something pops back up and he's the best hero because that's something I was you know
as I do pouring over the stats of the last couple of tournaments to prep for the day ahead of me
I was looking at Storm Spirit because he's a hero that at Blastlams 7 was 36% win rate out of 30
games but then he's looked incredibly good through these qualifiers 50% win rate out of eight games
in Europe but across all regions he's looked pretty tasty honestly as a hero that you know
not only comes out of the mid game swinging but counteract heroes like Zeus which have become
very popular. Yeah by the way do you want that bullshit stat right now I'll bring it for you.
Oh great I love it. Okay the highest KDA in the Western or in the European qualifiers uh how high
do you think it is and which hero do you think it is? I'll give you a guess and then I'll tell you.
the highest KDA so ridiculous I watched the things I watched I watched a bit of the Nigma
Galaxy series last night so I'm wondering if it's the Sniper of Lauren off the 10 and 0 for
for all the games that's been played it's uh three games played yeah so then it has to be
here that's like not picked often but had a really good performance yeah so it's either like lone
druid who has only been through a couple of times um because I think he's been banned 97% of the time
So he would have like three games Sniper was my second option is like Lauren off playing it last night looked good
But I don't know I saw that
The okay, do you have a number ballpark for what you think the KDA? Oh what the KDA is?
Eight oh across okay the KDA across three games is
76
Like and I am not making this up
He didn't buy in two games and then one game he died a single time
So like I just picked three times one every game and has a current
76 KDA sure this is a boy. You know, it's a bullshit stat because very small
Ridiculous, you know, just a very funny thing to look at
Honestly though, I do think this hero
House looks very good because even in games where I thought it would be bad and we feel like he should be countered
I had a bad laning stage about four start a lane early. He's still come back very very hard
We saw him combo with a don't break in one game and with tiny in another Agadam's biting the tiny or the don't break or in late game
And that Agadam's play it does give you some serious late game from a hero that normally is seen more as a
Take towers take Roche and like try and win early like and isn't really all in anymore if you combo with a melee carry
And you just go jungle as well as the lane is bad so you can kind of just pick him whenever, right?
I was like, throw into the wolves, send him out there.
He is the wolves, he is the wolves, exactly.
He'll come back with a pack.
Yeah, we'll head into the draft here.
We'll see if any of the stuff that we talked about
will be relevant at all.
Will we see a lion, will we see a lion?
However, we are here with mouse
versus inner circle insanity.
Doom, puck, nature's prophets, and bane,
laundry, and tree and band out so far.
Very usual suspects. Puck may be confusing to some viewer, but we've seen a lot of first-phase pick Puck and teams are still struggling with it.
My mind is still stuck on this, though. You said he's 76kDA.
So he's got 25 kills per game with one death?
Yeah, he died in one game one time and then he's got roughly like 25 kill per spade in 30 years, so...
I've got my calculator, it's open, I can't believe it.
Yeah, I just looked I was like looking through his stats like I wonder which here is highest KDA to see 76
It's just a stupid number. Like that's not a real number
Oh, no, we'll get to see some today first up
That was the axe for inner circle in 70 hero that they did play as a pos 5 with
Grabbing it in one of their previous games. It didn't look tremendous, but there was a cool idea behind it just having this axe who
Doesn't necessarily require anything apart from a blink dagger to go and get stuff done
Yeah, yeah acts has been played as support in multiple series by the way, it's a little bit interesting
I saw Omar was playing support acts. I believe as well
Right. Yeah post a few teams have been flexing
The acts to either plus five and plus four
It's dangerous to do it. You and I saw a first-hand case of why it can be bad if you do get your blink canceled
You're just a random melee support acts running around hoping you can get to call someone
you can become very useless very quickly. Positioning is insanely important, but it keeps some flex.
Overall, his off-lane is super strong though, so we are likely to still see him just run off-lane.
Yeah, and I guess it in particular can feel much better in the lane stage when, for instance, Omar did it against the TA.
He was axe 4 with Beastmaster 3 against the TA, and they were kind of harassing and zoning her through that off-lane strength.
flame strength and then we had in a circle do it with a clink's so you had a situation where
clink's could help out in the 1v1 where acts is battle hunger in the other support and trading
clink's could actually help out and get additional damage in there as well so you've got some way to
add into the trades that battle hunger gives you yeah yeah that's very true and i guess he also
fills that slot right of of pos 5 support who helps the turret hero he's pretty good with the
a drow, nature's profit, Clint's kind of guys.
Yeah, and Sniper who dad in that game in particular, so very,
very good. It's being a front line type hero who can, you know,
get in there and keep your backline safe. That's for sure. I,
you know, wasn't a big fan of the Largo overall going into this
qualifier, but some of the teams have impressed me with what
they have done. Four picks, 16 bands, 50% win rate so far,
nothing too special. But the amount of bands does signify
that the teams are still saying, this hero can be annoying.
And we've seen it in the games that UNI casts.
Largo has become very hard to kill.
Yes, if you already have tanky, annoying heroes to take down,
like Enchantress as a support, a Timbersaw here,
or a tanky Luna out of the safe lane, having this Largo,
just buff them all up is very annoying.
Yeah, we'll think about their second pick, though.
We've also seen Largo be a bit flexible.
It could be 3, 4, 5, 2 as well,
has been on the rise recently, honestly.
I've seen plenty of mid lane has just grabbed this lago
and run with it.
Place similar to a mid snapfire, to be honest,
sure doesn't bring that massive ulti for the burst damage.
But he's pretty tanky on the mid lane.
He has high elastic potential and later on,
very good at fighting.
So all those things very similar to having a mid snapfire.
Caudal coming in for mouse, though.
This is already scary.
Yeah.
Caudal is a hero that I've seen a lot in high level pubs and I've played with and against it, you know
Overall can be super oppressive on a timer the big thing about him
If you play a mid he can come in with a vessel plus work it before people really have mental styles and their items to counter it
And then he's ruling supreme. He's very hard to deal with you also need heroes to jump him
The main thing when you see a Caudal you need something to get on to him
So sure once axe gets blink dagger that is easy, but maybe you would want some other heroes to get in there
Hmm in a circle
I guess his cuttle stats can also be a bit deceptive as well, right with four picks one win three losses
25% win rate, but he's one of the most bandest heroes in the qualifiers
So with 17 bands, it's like you don't let the good teams have cuttle and some of the you know
Good teams letting the bad teams have cuttle so it hasn't looked particularly good. Yeah. Yeah, that's true
for the European qualifier, he is the fourth most banned hero, it's a 3 way tie between
him SF and Drow, so quite a few bans coming out from him.
They don't get heroes that can jump the cauldron, instead they go for the hoodwink and AA to
really follow up the axe.
I mean if anybody gets axe called here, you are almost guaranteed to die.
That AA ulti and hoodwink combo is crazy strong to follow up.
in the mouse. They slow it down a bit. They say, okay, we have Caudill and Largo, very
good temporary heroes, but then back for the tiny, who can be a very, very good carry so
far, four picks, four wins, and he has like 17 average KDA looking fantastic overall. We've
seen how tanky this hero can be pretty early on as well.
Yeah, very strong. And then when he hits that shadowblade timing, he becomes the assassin
as well. Yes, could have been an AA, can go around blasting people. And if they get caught
even slightly out of position. They just get avalanche toss killed.
Yeah, it's really scary to do the right thing, even without the axe hit level six
on these two radiant supports, and they can kill anyone on the map.
Yeah, they they can do a smoke and find somebody and just burst them
actually if they get their ulties. However, both of them are essentially
food to tiny and maybe you want to put more heroes to abuse that.
There we go. That's a storm. Very good here to abuse both hoodwink and a
as sure they both technically have disables, but they're pretty telegraphed.
Bushwack even is not the fastest way of catching a storm.
A, you know, technically has a stung?
Ish!
But a storm is pretty hard to... it's always a follow-up stung.
Yeah, I'm just wondering, quite often we see against, especially now with an off-lane
axe, we see people buying Yuleceptors to try and deal with them.
Yules to try and break free of this initiation from Hoodwink or Engine Aperture can be
cool. But I don't know if there's a hero that'll do it. Largo hasn't really slotted
Jules into his build. He's very much the kind of sand and agonist kind of guy.
I think we could see a Jules coming out on Caudal. Would be really nice. Good. And honestly
going into late game potential to go for a Wind Waker here would be amazing. But could
save anybody against the axe jump. Viper comes out though. That classic cheesy counter to
Hero who wants to have a good start storm definitely wants to get popping early, but leaning into a viper is always annoying
You know that viper struck against the tiny all this damage over time to tick down the ice blast
That's pretty nasty entering any of these early game skirmishes or fights
And if in a circle have their level six is on the supports
They're gonna be a very imposing threat
But even even before that just having this ability to pick people apart or move into this mid lane and help the viper is very scary
Yeah, it truly is. And in a circle, in a tough spot here, because they do need to reveal what their carry is going to be, and obviously there's still a last pick for Maus.
They have some flexibility potential still. They can say that Largo is just going to run a support, or they can run them off lane.
So now their last pick needs to deal with potentially a Largo off lane, or a last pick counter pick. It's a bit tricky.
It looks like we'll take out the Beastmaster first, maybe just saying, okay, if Logo's
there.
At five, we'll get rid of some of these more annoying off-laying heroes.
And now it's taken out.
I don't have good value in this game, by the way, with the Dispel.
Looking at what he's against, Viper with a poison attack, the cold feet coming in from
the ancient apparition, even the battle hunger can be removed.
So, Lick can do quite a good work saving your teammates here.
You know what you know, what's out there the offline and dying still in the pool. I know it's not his bad
Devan him. Devan him. Yeah, I
Think they could have dealt with an offline on dying in a way because they have the AA so
A is pretty good at countering all that healing mechanic
however
They do need a carry hero who's you know, maybe good at getting in there as well
I feel because sure that acts to initiate but that's really their only frontline at this point
Yes, Viper will eventually get tanky. He will go for some high survivability build so he doesn't get bursted by Tiny and Storm, but you probably need a melee carry that can pair up with the AA really well here.
Yeah, it's been an odd one though. We used to see a lot of Sven, CK, but I don't feel like those heroes have felt good in recent times.
It's been very much about the turret meta, right? This Muerta, Drow kind of deal.
Yeah, they're not amazing, necessarily.
And then there's no doom either. Kaz is out of there, so Terriblade is the option for them.
I don't love TB here. I mean, it's okay, I guess, but there's a lot of magic damage already.
And normally we talk about, okay, for countering TB, you want good magic damage on your team.
You have Caudal, Storm, Largo, even Tiny has a fair bit of burst coming out magically.
Theoretically though, TB is good against Tiny in the sense that Tiny has a massive HP pool,
of HP pool and Sunder can do great damage to him. At some point like a few years ago
TB was like repeatedly picked as a counter to Tiny, specifically due to that Sunder just
was mega value against him and they've got Sunder Ice Blast they've got some cool tools
all but the like is arrived the big KDA boy. They're talking about him before they get
you and they pick him now for boom. Road to 100 KDA he's gonna do it. Unbelievable chat
76 KDA average on like well not average in total KDA so far across three games
It was like 25 average. I think it was 25 kills. Yeah, exactly 25 average in three games
But yeah, boom see if he can do it as well
I do like liken against these two supports and I think it's not even bad against Viper pretty good at
Running in and just swatting him down with a few auto attacks later on
However, like an into TB is not a good matchup. That is just overall seen again as a TB favored
Matchup so TB has a good matchup against the post three good matchup against the post one
He just has to worry about the supports and the storm those guys can be really problematic here for four two three
It feels like there's quite a bit to do for inner circle to make like make sure you get through the landing stage on
skates get to level six on the supports get your axe this point where he can
front line and blink and initiate and you've got the tools to do it for sure
axe pretty strong laner Viper's gonna be super irritating and playing through
Stoikov's gonna be a great thing for Icy and Santy to do I just worry about
that it's the culmination right the big timing hit of Maus you look at the
lichen with that helm of the overlord stomper you know some smaller items
whatever it might be, but he's going to be strong with his level 2 ulti roaming around
and then tying him with that Shadow Blade. The 25 minute point in the game, it could
be 25 minutes of domination from inner circle, but it's one of those drafts where one fight
or a couple of pick offs from Maus allows him to swarm the map and take objectives.
They've got so many tower hitters, if you lose traction, as I see, you lose 80% of all map
space that you could have gained through the laning stage.
Yeah, I think I see inside they have a lot of pressure here to keep on winning fights
early because basically both their supports are food to every single core on the side
of mouse if they get their items. If Shadowblade, Echo Saber is up, if Storm has just a little
bit of farm, Witchblade, maybe Witchblade of Kaio, it doesn't really matter, Kassan's
fully. And similarly, if Lichen gets Helm of the Overlord, like an AA and a hoodwink,
They die so quickly.
They could just disappear.
And the same, I don't feel is true with the supports on the side of mouse.
If you look at the course on the side of Radiant, Viper, Axe and TB are not going to be as scary.
Sure, if you run into Terrorblade, but a lot of times he's not looking for those kills.
If you run into Axe with supports, then sure, but it's an easier game to play positionally
from mouse's side, I think.
Yeah, yeah, I think you've fully spot on there because the amount of maneuvering it takes to set up for a gank or a fight for I see is
A bit more challenging when Viper's so slow acts needs to blink. It's pretty much all down to hoodwink
To give vision and start things off. Whereas mouse, you know, have this lichen with wolves
They've got storm hook and zip in. Cottle's very quick. Cottle even acts as a scout sometimes just zooming around
as I get themselves already de-warding that mid lane.
Yeah, just a pre-placed sentry, so they suspect that there will be a ward placed there and
they were completely correct and get paid off.
I think a lot of times it's worth using one sentry on mid lane just as a gamble, because
the ward is going to be either on the upper part or the lower part, so just put a sentry,
maybe you get paid off.
It's essentially a 50-50 that you get a de-ward and that's a really good proposition.
Yeah, yeah, sure is.
And if you don't try, you're just gonna miss it every single time anyway.
Yeah, however, the hoodwink says, you know what, I also want some of that.
So it comes in and gets the countered, you word.
I'm kind of surprised, there's a lot of pings there on that ward.
Maus were, I think, contemplating just denying it already, but they left it up.
Yeah.
So they also take a bit of a risk there.
The reason being, they shouldn't have seen the observer on the other side,
Since it was night time, otherwise, you know, so they had to have had a word basically.
December is one thing, but the fact that they ran up and de-word that immediately was very suspicious.
So that tipped him off, yeah.
Not the suspicious, you saw him venting.
He's for sure guilty.
He's caught.
He's caught, for sure.
And then Bounty Rune, Blaze, Boom, 4-2-3, and then Fernans gets another one.
So three over on this radiant side.
We're going to settle into the laning stage. Storm against Viper in that mid lane, always
going to be a tough one for mid one, but he's already 4 and 0 against Storkovs 2 and 3.
Last hits don't matter as much as the onslaught of harassment in the early stages though.
There's this old Finnish knowledge, you know, Finland has a very close and dear relationship
to Viper in Dota history. They always were the nasty Viper pickers, I'm just going to
it and finish knowledge says don't care about level one viper poison attack doesn't hurt level one
however once it's level two you just leave you know like watch out uh mid one tried to get the
most he could when poison touch or poison attack was only level one now though it's coming in it's
got potential to level it level two when he will now it's nasty and it's painful yeah panto wandering
around trying to reclaim his small cat but it looks like he missed out on the
sentry battle still a radiant sentry over there blocking it up so won't have
access to the pools but it's crystal is in a situation where you have to lane
head on into an axe in the creep wave but does a good job with the avalanche and
the harassment on delays and now a wave pushing forward shoves them away
I'm down at bottom lane some lane dragging boom is gonna settle in behind
instead of one tower as he actually does a lot of things around he can't really in an
honest way against the uh terribly but look at this body box coming in oh he still gets
frozen though not gonna be able to do too much good blood grenade him actually the wolves
are are taking in some damage if he had not been cold feet it's footed whatever the conjugation
He could have actually body blocks and a blood grenade and body box, yeah he would definitely kill him.
I'm still waking up, I don't know how to speak English apparently.
Yamich is going to drag the next wave and keep things going.
Another courier Sniper Sphernan takes out Christos as one in that top spot and Laze will take the Lotus.
Panto just gets grabbed by the bushwhack on the very edge and that's first blood for him.
That was a very nice long-range bushwhack there getting him despite the fact that he tangled the three.
free and meanwhile that bottom call finds the AA so while TV is strong and
doesn't take any damage from like him having 14 armor you know when he goes
on the tower he's completely safe here 15 even his support you can't say it's
anything for him AA against like and horrible feeling you get wolves on you
not much you can do now it's not an easy time whatsoever and yeah that that
logo has a quelling blade as well but it might have been a tango or a quelling
He's already prepared for the acorn shot tree cut ahead of the curve and so
Thank you and make sure you pull out pull out all the stops right you're in the lower bracket
Maus not happy with the situation they're in this is a must win series for them and I feel like the
The pressure is really on them the pressure not really on IC Insanti you know they've got no real
expectations about them no you know no air of the necessity to make it through this is a nice happy
time for them. I fully agree. Not only like the pressure that a lot of teams
necessarily or fans necessarily want them to qualify, we're expecting to qualify here,
but it's also the part where you can't bomb out this early, right? We're still in
the early stages, aren't they? Take you some serious damage. Down to 0%.
Yeah, I don't want to walk next to an axe who's farming a double stack. That's scary.
He spins a lot. A little too spins there. Fantastic last hits across the board on
radians don't look at that. 24-15, 21-15, 21-9, like this is absolute domination in the last days.
Oh man, he's not having a great early laning stage. Even with the kill on that A down bottom lane,
the boomer's just getting harassed back and he's every time he steps the lane,
43's giving it to him. Laning, he's gonna drag that wave back. Every lane you look at,
it's just nonstop harassment and farming. Very efficient stuff.
Yeah, Lace is threatening with the dive a little bit, but yeah, this bottom lane, I
was confused about the Lycan mass pick in this game, to be honest. Into the Terriblade
feels like such a rough lane to play, and TP having a completely free lane is not something
you necessarily want. I expect him to pick a counter to him. Oh, the stun from the creeps
that's up and go on the Lycan. Yeah, boom, he gets sent or stunk, but he's going to TP
back through tier one just about getting away from the cold feet and the bone chill.
good sense for his flag, come here boy
Kotor was there to keep him safe with the blinding
and he's gonna run over and try and help out mid one as well
mid one has no HP at all but he wants a power rune
that's a predicament to be in but I guess Viper is pretty low as well
he's still crazy stuck though
like 2k lead at 6 minutes
nice, a pretty insane start here from IC Insanity
And Mao is obviously, like we were saying at the end of the draft though, right, looking
for that kind of 25 minute time.
So the first 25 minutes, I'm not going to say it doesn't matter.
They've obviously got to not completely lose out on the game.
They've got to still hit their timings, not bleed out and die on the floor.
But this is a great start for the Radiant to pick up the pace already and potentially
shut down some of those timings.
If you're going to remove one of the elements, like slow down this Overlord and Lycan, make
sure the Shadowblade and Tiny isn't too quick, or this Storm Spirit, you know, remove him
from the game and forcing the jungle for a while give you so much map space.
Yeah it really does and I'm curious to see how they're gonna connect once they
have a few levels you know the AA plus hoodwink pairing need to see them play
together a lot because they seriously have some great kill potential.
Yeah that catapult wave coming in mid but with Cottle here defending I don't
think Viper's getting too much damage.
There's no one can lane into him though, un-lanable, Storm's left potholes like screw this, I don't
want to be here anymore, I've got to go get the Wisdom Shrine and 7 minutes about to click.
Terrible.
Sense of illusions up there, those like Yammich with the help of Booms are going to gather
it on the right hand side while Phenanus will take the one on the left after having already
stacked up a bunch of ancients.
I think I'm sort of pointing out some good stacks being made.
One leg is just going to walk away.
Capable of farming them.
Panto has got this small cap back trying to nestle this tiny in front of his tower to
keep him farming.
But at any point this level 7 viper could just show up in a lane somewhere and say hi,
you're going to die now.
You're going to keep your wits about you.
He could go and put some pressure on some different side lane.
It's gone for E-partridge builds.
The ring of health was bought just to have sustainability, and now I'll go back to partridge.
Hoodwink working.
Trying to get in onto this mid lane.
That's the power room.
Storm running up and protesting.
We'll just grab the shield.
That's a good one to have.
And so Dias saw the hoodwink moving down here, which means Panto is going to mirror the movement,
the hoodwink around and even zip into this mid lane viper. Three heroes from Mao surrounding
Stoikov, he pops fairy fire, Wand has raindrops to go and he's still sat at that quarter of his
health. Mid one still giving it to him though, finishing off Stoikov. A pretty swift move there,
mirroring what the hoodwink was doing and making sure that Icy and Santi lose their viper and lose
the pre-important hero on the map. You know what Gareth, you and I are waking up here as early in
the morning, I think the same is true for Stoikov. He got his boots delivered from the courier,
had them for like 45 seconds in the backpack when he got gone on and still have them in
backpack and dies because of it. He would have lived man. He just didn't use his boots.
It's early, I get it, but this is elimination time you know. You cannot be uh you know so
sleep the wheel here. You can't leave the house without putting on your boots. What's
What's he doing?
Trying to step out there.
But you know, he won't lose too much for it.
He doesn't lose any tower, HP or anything like that.
But any bit of early game advantage here for the side of Maus would really be nice since
there are two, almost three thousand gold behind right now.
Yeah, anything to just push back, right?
Any little bit of resistance goes a long way for Maus.
this this acts after a winning lane already going back to jungle to accelerate faster tons of camp
stacked there nine over on the right side ten on the dire getting a lot of gold in flux
they've not made any big moves yet still waiting for some of these initial items to land before
they can actually go and push objectives instead it's going to be timing coming in this is unexpected
chrysalis going with this early smoke joining his support normally you don't see the carry
participating like this i think it was the ogre yeah the ogre acts gank he's coming with his
first thought in for the game trying to activate as soon as possible of avoiding the game it's gonna
be huge oh he doesn't have large bow lays face boots he steps away
keeps himself safe but at least something stolen however with the amount of time that you spent
not farming for running over here, it's about a plus-minus zero, right?
Like, you're getting farmed that the opponents should have taken, so that part is good, but also
tiny running around is putting him behind her. Yeah, I was just trying to pick up the pace here.
Diving in onto this Viper to send him back, forcing a metamorphosis to come out defensively,
as they snip into Yamich with Acorn's shot into the sharp shooter, now the call from Laze,
catching out Yamich is dunking him down, panned through the next target.
Yeah, well, I was trying to cover him as he TP's, but that won't succeed.
Two support kills there.
I see Insanity is there. Bring five to defend that mid tier one.
I like this move from 4-2-3.
He also runs to mid lane, right?
But he took out the bottom tower.
Bottom tower is gone.
Running to mid, taking mid tower.
This is very natural for a T.B.
And he doesn't have to worry at all about Lycan.
He can straight up just TP into Lycan with Dominator.
Not a lot of carry heroes can do this, but T.B. can.
yet another reason why I feel the light can pick into TV is kind of weird man he's just not going to be able to take the tower
keep it fenced
Not just yet anyway boom has to go back through a jungle which 423 cuts the pass off
This is my jungle
It doesn't mean boom could come back and maybe hit the tower a little bit with next wave coming in or even just sends
His creeps forward to get some chip damage going
Yeah, I mean, eventually he will crack the tower, but we're 12 minutes in, normally Lycans
they'd want to take it as early as possible, so I think TBS done a great job slowing this
down.
Well, also they're building their other heroes.
Axe is looking fantastic right now, Bladebill complete, BladeTagger is next in, his sights.
He's dipping towards mid, and give a catch on the ancient apparition who launches the
angest class onto mid one.
Viper Strike gonna fly in onto him, trying to dodge away with his ball lightning.
And he's ticking low, bushwag not with a land though, is he to cut out some of the trees, try and dodge the sharpshooter?
Still gets hit by it, but mid one survives it, regardless.
Quite a bit of damage, but he has two lovely supports healing him up.
Giving him mana, topping him off, you know, he's going to be back to full quite shortly.
And that net worth lead, I mean it was meant to build and build for the Radiant.
Got up to 3k, then plateaued a bit, got stuck as mows.
Even though they lose the two supports mid lane still making some moves to force this radiant side to kind of get stuck in the mud
Yeah, but that allows you three
So clean dude. He's gone mid tower earlier bottom tower already and now with the next method
He doesn't waste any time perfect on the minute on the second to his metamorphosis. He just goes to the next time
You can get it
Essentially that view right though. They should go in and swipe it
He had to go and stop the lycan from pushing his tower.
So he gave up on the mid-push just to make sure the boom didn't get anything.
So not only is he doing things great for himself, but he's shutting down that lycan, like you say, even further.
Yeah, that's true.
The boom is going to send some rally skeletons in there, try and clear out this objective, whittle it down.
No deny.
From 4-2-3.
Boom, we've got the tower and open the bottom lane a little bit here for Maus.
A map could get quite small though.
They've got to take every opportunity they can to find this farm,
because they need this tiny shadow blade to really utilize Crystallis and the aggression that Tiny can bring once we get to 20 minutes.
And like in even pre-Helm of the Overlord here, he's not that far away from it,
but he wants to make a move alongside Crystallis.
they're on to Fernans and sir the AA and Hoodwing both get annihilated and you talk about 43 being
Chris going from tower to tower boomed is the same thing yeah this is really good and this was one
of like concerns about their draft right both these supports being so easy to punish and
suddenly they get a bit out of position this is the hard part of the game where Axe doesn't have
blink yet so they can't just non-stop go with Axe obviously Viper doesn't really catch people like
a storm does so it's a bit of a lul right now for the supports where they will need to
keep good positioning because they're not making ganks of their own.
I splanced on the panto, not gonna bother them too much.
But on that topic of axe, I know this blade mail always makes sense, it's a good farming
item, it's gonna make you tanky, it feels good. I feel like in this game in particular, I might
might have liked to see the blink first and just go go for it play fast you
activate this viper try and run through the diet team knowing that you're
gonna be shutting down their timing or might just be a bit too caveman about
things um it would make the sports life easier I think from a selfish off-laner
perspective though you kind of need to go for scaling yeah it would be more all
in and I don't know that they necessarily need to do it just play play
towards your own strengths here he's right going to have a little decent
timing anyway. It's so funny. When you're right, you're right. I am 100% seeing this
game through the lens of an ancient apparition. Why don't I have a guy who can go and stun
such an ice-glass people? Where's my axe blank? It's absolutely true though. Like, A.A.
and Hoodoo's game is very difficult right now. It's not been natural, but now with the
axe blank that you're completing, instantly we see them smoking up. Love this initiative
here and they will go anywhere they can. Straight on the Storm Spirit.
Oh hang on, disengaging mid one, not enough, they're gonna dunk him down, quickly blasting
through his HP and chasing Panto back with his TB, damage onslaught, comes through quickly,
right outside the Roshan doorstep, they're one with the pit, 16 minutes in.
Yeah, just kind of stumbling into a Roshan, they're gonna go for it. They just put the
early respawns though, I'm not sure this is gonna work out. Storm is up in 15. They gotta
I don't think twice about this.
All right, ladies, gonna make a jump onto Boom.
Like him, wanted across here.
He's got his helmet, the overlord, big old purple lizard creep,
gets into the mix of things.
43 is about half HP, as Boom disengages with a shapeshift.
And Crystal is gonna avalanche onto the AA,
but it looks like both teams just gonna step back,
hold the high ground, and rethink their maneuver.
It's a smoke from mounds, in fact,
repositioning back through the river,
looking to cut off.
And then we're on cooldown so this is a big timing for mouse, they can go and do whatever they want.
Yeah, straight jump onto the hook link.
Cristless.
And he finishes off and and the storm zips in.
Deep onto the Viper.
Stoikov has this main slayer, Strength Threads.
1500 health.
There's quite a lot to break through as they surround him under tier two,
but the blink call from Lazy's axe turns it on his head.
Down you go, mid one found.
Cristless falling.
Mal is biting off more than they can chew.
Beautiful AA ulti coming in there as well. Securing the second kill onto the tiny. Fantastic stuff.
And this is while TB is farming, impression on their lanes.
Miles got a little bit of... I guess I did say they can do whatever they want. Apparently what they want is to get punished on the tower.
It's a bit too much.
Yeah, Viper...
Viper just wanted to move on the Viper.
Yeah, they thought they could kill him quicker.
Unfortunately, I think they're going to need the Silver Edge before he's that easy of a fast kill.
Even with the team is dying, who says maybe we can go for Roche?
Having the Overlord definitely looks like he's great.
Overlord, Shard, three Wolves, and then Storm Spirit going in to finish the job.
Mid one takes the Aegis.
Overall, even though they lost two cores, it's a victory for mouse.
They put the network lead down to 1k, 2k.
It doesn't feel that bad.
It's acceptable. However, it's not...
It's easy to ignore the TV, but look at what he has done as well.
He pushed up Secure's and early tier 2 tower crack.
I think this is very valuable.
Sure, they're setting up the push bottom tier 2 tower as well, but we'd like it to be being used and on cooldown now.
Um, potentially we could see a defense coming in.
Smoke, go around, taking the bottom area is really massive right now as well, because the tournament is going to spawn soon.
They're coming in from multiple angles.
They're smoking through the gate.
They're looking clean today, man. They're looking pretty damn good.
Now these moves have been spot-on.
Like Direvision here gives a false sense of security to Maus.
But damage, boom and Panto all just sticking around, leads to the blink call, ice blast
onto the light, and they miss the sharp shooter.
So boom, they're gonna step away.
And now with that, off the bushwhack, and keeps him safe.
I re-smoke in to ball lightning zip in, and mid-1 stages mad, find the target, jump straight
onto the ancient apparition.
Looking for a bit more here.
Under tier 2, I mean, they might have some trauma. They want to go diving under Stoikov again.
He's not under tower this time though, if they can just catch a glimpse of the Viper.
I think they know he's there, and they do with the wolves on him now.
So another zip in with the Solar Bind on him.
Damage comes through quickly, they lick the storm away from the axe as Stoikov drops to half health.
Mid one, bush back, he's being stunned up, nearly dead.
But they'll zip back over again, Yamagin licked away by Panto to try and disengage while Storm's first life is gone.
Laze has killed off Yamage, but the Lycan is ship-shifting back in with his Helmcrate killing off Stoikov,
and I see his sanity kind of struggling to stick on a target.
The manoeuvrability of Mavis has been good until another cool lamp on Boom,
but have they got the damage to bring anyone down? I don't think they do!
A double kill for Boom, Laze on the run, Blade now going to the deal with Midwan,
but the storm just keeps on going, the two lives of Midwan bring this fight together!
Yeah, very impressive stuff from the storm.
Obviously having Aegis is such a big power spike for the storm,
But he made the most use out of that as well.
So, fantastic fight one with Tiny Farming. This is what mouse need going for them.
Just completely inverting the game.
Five minutes ago you would say now it's...
Oh yeah, I've seen Santi fighting with TP farming.
I think the key thing is they survived the smoke gank of an axe hoodwink AA gank with just a lick.
That was really, really important for them.
Oh, they got some health.
Oh yeah, Fernan's TP's there, dusts him. Roots with a rod of H.R.S. but can't really chase forward.
Yeah, here our Poon's away even on the tiny, so not on for the Echo Saber into Silver Edge
instead of going with our Poon a little bit earlier. Kind of like the choice to be honest.
Yeah, big kind of Harpoon.
We've already seen the, you've pointed out several times now, right? Panto with his lick,
his lick, displacing people to get them away from this blink call or from a bushwack or
something. Having lick, having blinding light, harpoon now, storm spirit with the manoeuvrability,
lycan with a shapeshift. There are a ton of ways for mounds to get in and out of teamfights.
Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And there's that late game threat as well. While I do favor a TB
late game, we talked about it before the game, before the draft even. Lycan and Tiny is a
a very strong combination. He gets the aghanims, like Tiny, Tiny gets a few damage items and
probably he's going to be absolutely tearing people apart. As strong as a TB can be against
Tiny and Lycan, if he's all alone against the entire enemy team, then I think I don't
like his Hobbs.
That's a good TI strat. Actually in Sand, you're going to smoke though. Feeling the
game slip away from them, they want to make some more big moves. Nice flash-crash on Hamto
Also here with a call for that zip jump from mid one, stops them in their tracks, tiny
half-latches back.
His mid one just keeps going for the supports, looking for Fernhands on the left-hand side.
And as I see him, Sanci, trying to reset around mid one Storm Spirit, they get him with a
couple of stuns, catching and killing.
4-2-3 finds his man as Yamish dives to the illusions.
Further for North as Boom has picked up a double kill.
That's Lycan, unable to shift in there, pick up some pieces, start to look like miles who
run out of gas, but I get something. It's very interesting to watch the fights, the way they
scrap around and run. Basically, I see Insanity have to play around TB as a turret, right?
Imagine him as your fountain. If you run towards TB, it will kill stuff. He will absolutely massacre
anyone who comes close to him, but he keeps getting kited. Storm zipping around, lichen,
without full speed, even the tiny harpooning away. He's kind of struggling to lock onto a target.
I wouldn't mind seeing TV go for like, I don't know, a disperser next after his butterfly,
something where I have Scotty, you know, it's fine normally, but against flying, against storm,
it doesn't really help you keep them, keep them close.
He needs a pistol blade. He needs, he needs hands.
But this, this is the thing, right? We pointed out all the maneuverability for Maus, the fact that
Axe is basically Beall and all of, of teamfight, of catch, Fyze and Santi. So it's pretty much,
It's all down to Laze finding not only the initial jump on an important target to allow the supports to do the damage through their ultimates
But Laze also has to then reset going to fog to allow him to find a second target
It's a difficult, you know, balancing act for this axe to actually maneuver in and out of fights to find multiple goes on people
Yes, pretty true
It's in particularly important as well that he gets strong because if he isn't frontlining talked about earlier how
there's not much to shield the supports right and they keep getting overrun so
we'll be very determined that he has BKB just about to complete however he has
the observers pointing out some damage ramp coming in the light and by the way
keeping the KDA oh my god I didn't realize this is 12 more today so we're at
70 it was 76 so we're already sitting up at 88 KDA wow my god dude like him what
a hero. He might hit 100. You're right. I might actually get 12 more kills or assists
without dying and we will hit 100 KDA total for the European region online. Let's make
it happen. Boom. Come on. Yeah, you got a series here. You don't have to do all the
one game. You're going to do a bit here. Do a bit in game two. Just hope Lycan doesn't
get banned. But this hero has been going. But yeah, getting some big items on his
radiant side the hurricane pike finished on viper and that bkb set on the axe
terrible aid man to butterfly ready looks good but this is mouse now with the net worth lead
hitting minute 25 which i think is you know their timing without items right you've seen
his agonist set the storms were on top of kai sand level 16 like and put the salt carass
tiny has his bkb now it's very difficult to travel into fights and that wind probability 58% to
I kind of think it's the other way around.
Well, I mean, it's hard to really say how it is.
I do favor TV going late games still, but definitely we've seen what Miles had going for them.
And the way they take the team fights is really impressive right now.
And the choice to go for this early agonist on storm, I think,
plays nicely into the Tiny and the Largo, having Avalanche, having the Frog Stomp,
pairing that with the Electric Vortex AoE.
they could do some serious lockdown I see stacked up too much and right now
they're smoking behind them when this clash is so important smoke's gonna break
they'll get a jump on tiny Chris bless the first point contact with a call in
the ice blast this vortex and mid one though traps them three locked in place
Storkov's gonna get blown up in 423 you need to send us somebody needs to
send a no we just dead Maus come in thanks to mid ones agonist
of vortex hiding that cancellation of the initiation and Fernandez gonna get
punished as well mid one storm yeah fantastic stuff coming in there and
part of that was they broke the smoke and sent in the like and rolls to scout
so opening the eyes of the storm allowing him to see his target fantastic
initiation not only that the damage he did absolutely crazy in that fight it's
just kaiassange and agathams most of time we see storms go for a bunch of other
items like acts a later item but I like mid one being different here look at the
scouting on the viper what are you almost a hoodwink too he did yeah that was
nearly a four-man catch but all eyes were on Christmas right you don't well
as tiny you think it always got him that's a big kill to have I can live
there's a big fight happening it took the racks back to fallen but I don't get
anything on the way out I see the 70 can't defend their base can't catch
anyone so mouths just sweeping get the buildings in full retreat yeah they're
kind of low on catch after the axe call was used and who wouldn't not being there
you know, they didn't have a way to stop the Lycan from just pressing TP, so he goes out close to safety
And he's working on the Aghanim Scepter to buff up his timing now
So more than halfway towards Ag's
This game is definitely now I'm definitely with you 12k lead at this pin, you know part of the game 27 minutes in
I do think you have what it takes to dominate this game
Even if it was to drag out
Too late you now
No, no, no, no stock prices have settled down screwed you didn't you didn't come in on the ground floor you knock it out of here
Stock prices gonna plummets do not they
Still going up dude, it's it's 91 KDA now total
Nine more kills man
And there's no contacts on this roadshack either.
Now this is looking pretty damn free and they will take it on tiny it looks like.
Although Storm does do really well with the natives normally.
I think they have their eyes set on buildings and Chrysler's is going to be the one cracking the high ground for even more damage.
Can I just say I don't like Forty-Thirty's choice of going working.
I know the Bloodthorn is a strong item on TB but he's pretty squishy.
He's also pretty easy to kite right now.
Yeah, it's nice against a storm who doesn't have a VKV, but
I just feel like this item is sort of an in-between item compared to either going Scadi and being strong and tanky,
or going for something earlier, like an earlier dispercer with a different itemization altogether.
Even just finishing Hurricane Pike or something to be able to maneuver around in fights.
Yeah, this dragon lance but didn't finish it. This is a problem that we've even seen Yattaro have on Terrablade
I remember again I was casting not that long ago where he did a very similar build to this
But he was constantly changing. Oh, do I need pike? Do I need bloodthorn?
Do I need to know get a Skadi quickly or a Daedalus? Do I need MKB against his Windranger?
There's so many things that TB kind of needs
But they are such big items that by the time you finish them that need may have already gone
Yeah, yeah, I think you're completely right and at the end of days just a
2300 HP hero without PKB and there is a lot of magic damage right?
Yeah, show us you did 4,400 damage in that one fight and there's a lot more
magic damage as well within this team even though it's mainly physical with
Lycan and Tiny.
Lycan's mouse, like he said, Chris Lester's goes up high ground. Tiny with the
The Aegis slaps the building a couple of times and half of them is down to low ground.
Lichen nearly has the axe, 150 gold so they don't really want to crack high ground yet.
Let Lichen finish up his item and then you will see a nasty tiny ready to go high ground
with Aegis, Wolf Form, maybe even level 20, it's pretty close for him.
The Rock Wolf.
We'll be right back.
X doing what he can.
Finally the afterling of Jungle Camps.
He's got three wards position.
Fortunately enough to defend him so it can see stuff coming.
Can you think that cutting waves?
He might want two spots in 30 so they're playing to control the Torm.
You might think we're found in TV here if they're lucky.
He might go for next.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Oh, Crystallis makes a jump on Fnans though, the hoodwink. That's the target they go for, they see the hoodwink first, and a zip and a kill, this is a crit land from Boom.
Still gonna get 4-2-3's Terrablade found, and they stop his TP, he's gonna hit the ground after that, you'll step to the Sunder's back on the mid one, but not much he can do.
When he's got everyone from Maus by his side, killing him off. Dead for 60, and that leads straight into the Tormentor as well.
Yeah, things are going from bad to worse. You were gonna lose to Tormenter, but now you lose to Kerri as well as the support and Tormenter
It's it's all falling apart for them. I
Love the chrysalis in his wolf form just TP's mids draws the line runs right down this mid lane. Yeah
You know what I think the little wolf when tiny is wolf form it should hold the tree come on though
I get on the important updates. I should be a wolf staff branch in stop, you know exactly
You know, none of the brand for the log.
A dog carrying it.
You know those videos?
A dog's trying to go through a gate holding a massive freaking brand.
You should be unable to go through the little side passage, you know, into the base.
His hero model is like 10x.
He can't actually slide through.
And the roach and spanner.
And a mid lane push.
Wow, stop getting closer and closer.
They think they're killing time, but that's just a neutral.
It's not time to quit.
not dining
just a little cousin
that's a difficult hole he is
slowly taking down the building
quickly once he's hitting but
he's being hurried in the particle bar
and with a blink call into lick back
taking some poison hits here
silly andro well
shape-shifting and yes
the flailing wolf
he's digging
He's trying to find the bottom of an underground.
Someone's buried something in the raiding base.
Chris Bliss has got to go and find it.
Oh, is it Stoikov's dead body?
It might just be.
Lays and Stoikov both dying as Midwater comes in
with a vortex to grab him.
BKB's galore as they try to entail and run.
Aegis is gone, tiny going to respawn in a second.
Blinks back.
A bit of distance there as Maus.
They know that they can just fall back, reset.
Stoikov has died all the way back by the tier four towers.
You're like one of the dummy creeps, but this is rough because now you used metamorphosis and this basically is showing your hands.
You pop the meta, you want to fight, you lose the fights and now the pressure is going to come in, they know meta is about to run out, so this panic move coming out from Icy and Sammy.
Yeah, I mean this is so difficult to do, they jump onto the hell creep, Laze doesn't find the target he wanted, now he's vortexed back in with mid one, getting a grab on the TV and the axe.
That's got the signal to the end. GG called.
You can't stop this Largo-Cothal push with infinite mana HP.
Tiny, like and storm, incredible heroes to go into this mid to late game timing.
My mouse will come out with a victory.
So, I have an update. Important update here, Gareth.
Like an update?
He's sadly not at 100 KDA. He is at 98 KDA at the first fourth game, played total.
One death and 98 kill participation for this hero so far.
Looking pretty good. Not gonna lie.
This was a game where I questioned it, I doubted it.
I didn't think this was a good liking game and still he worked, you know?
It prevailed. Impressive stuff coming out from the side of Maus and they needed this.
They needed some confident win in game number one.
Yeah, I still feel like, I know maybe I'm being a bit simplistic,
But in a circle, in this kind of matchup where you're against Maus who, you know, okay,
ICR the underdog, right?
And you're trying this strategy with the axe being your only initiator, maybe an earlier
blinks you can play.
I just want faster play, right, because you let Maus come back in the game, you let them
hit their timings, and you kind of fell short, but maybe it's like, you know, a bit of execution
went wrong, a little bit of lack of confidence, or Maus just had the better reads through
this game.
But there's definitely some things here where in a circle could have stormed away with things
and just didn't get the ball rolling properly.
You know what I think? I think it could have worked,
but I think vision makes it hard to be the only initiator when you're axed.
If you had like a storm or a zoosmith instead of a viper,
then maybe you could open the eyes, you know, get some vision or something like that,
because ultimately their draft doesn't have anyone to provide vision for axed.
Look at this, again the wolf scouting sets up for the storm, he jumps in,
He jumps in, there's always something to allow them to go in, either Tiny in the Silver Edge, or Wolfsorning around, even just a night vision from Lichen.
There are tons to utilize.
23 to 10 in the end there.
Lichen, 9, 0, 13.
21,000 that worth.
Spanking good time.
But you're right, yeah, the reliance on, like, TV illusions are never going to be scouting for you, they're just pushing waves.
the hoodwink never felt comfortable because she's against like and storm tiny. Usually would see
Fernans on his hoodwink, you know, playing forward, scouting, playing in the trees,
hunting and looking for people to help out lays. That's just not possible against Mouses heroes.
I feel like overall everything got answered very nicely. Yeah, mid one. I agree with this MVP.
While we hype up like and stats mid one made the crucial decisions. Kaya's on into acts. So many
a really good team. He's
really good. He's a really
good team. He's got three
storms almost every storm
player would have gone which
played it would have gone for
maybe a ULs to counter out,
you know, potential goals on
him or something like that.
However he went ags second
item, and I think that was a
game winning decision. I
think you really made it work
as well. And he showed that
even though you go for this,
you can still deal insane
damage even if you don't have
all damage items. So impressive
stuff coming out from him.
Um, very, very cool to see
what they did in game number
from mid one on his storm as well. You know, plenty of times I've seen him pick this hero and just
the ball lightning in start to fight die and buy back at minute 12. That's the kind of player he
is. He sees these moments where he's like, okay, I am going to sacrifice my life several times for
the greater good. He knows they can make these jumps and be like, okay, I'm unlocking the potential
of boom and chrysalis. And he did that several times in this game as well as mouse. Take the
initial game victory in this series.
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Hello hello Dota fans, let's get ourselves back into the thicker thing shall we?
Game 2 coming away shortly here as we return to the lower bracket for the EU regional qualifiers
the game. We saw some moves
coming out from in a circle and
early game looked pretty good.
Uh, CS was amazing across the
board. They felt pretty, uh,
confident, right? They had the
terrible aids should be good on
late game, but the moves a lot
of them were thwarted by this
large. Oh, they jumped one
target. They jumped one target
and they were able to hit the
by this Largo. They jump one target, they try and burst that target and then Largo just licks,
repositions, makes the fight a little bit more complicated. So as much as I was singing the
praises or hype about the Lycan, the Largo I think was a real sleeper hero in that game as well.
Yeah, for sure. Even just the fact that he's flexed in the draft, you know, opening pick and
then flexed from three, four, five, two, three, four, five, you're like, okay, where the hell's
this guy going? We don't know. And it's not necessarily the hardest save, right? There's
It's no false promise or disruption from Shadow Demon, but it's like soft save with displacement
It's still pretty cool to grab you away from in particular an axe call
So plenty of times just saving you and that and a fair amount of magic damage coming out from as well
It's really nice as we saw there playing against into those
Agi heroes with very low HP pool
I do think it was a little bit self-inflicted by inner circles some of the itemizations may have been different
you were calling from super early bling to go and fight with the supports which could have worked honestly and
From my point of view, I think the the carry out of my stations kind of put him in a in a weird spot
Where he's both squishy, but also not really like
That mobile to get around so we'll see if they can get a better hold of game number two on inner circle
Or if it's gonna mouse taking it again. Yeah, that's the thing, right? I think we both agree that
Inner circle needed to shore up the holes and just play a bit faster to
use their timing to have more of a concrete mid game, right? A lot of these little skirmishes
and setups just didn't work for them. And it meant the two supports on their side were kind of
languishing and waiting for their cores to be ready to go. It didn't really have this opportunity
just to, you know, play as a pair or play as a trio to go and run at people and get stuff done.
I think maybe a little bit scared, respecting Mavs a little bit too much. I think you've got
to disrespect them. I think in a circle here has to just be like, screw you guys, we're going to
a steamroller you can't just sit back and let you know a team with a system with a coach with a
management system figure out within a series how to deal with you because this could now snowball
out of their hands. Yeah certainly and I think maybe you know as good as they were dominating
all the laning stage you perhaps need heroes that complement the supports that you have a little bit
bit more. I liked the Axe plus AA and Hoodwink. I think that was insanely strong. Like, that
can kill anything. I do think Viper coming out of mid lane was a little bit slow. Sure,
you counter the opponent in the laning phase, but then what? How many fights do we see where
Viper does not give a shit about, or Storm doesn't give a shit about Viper in the mid
game and late game fights? So, I would like to see Storkov get a more active hero, and
That's what we get. We get puck immediately. First face. Yeah. Come on. So come. Let's go straight out there. We've seen this a fair amount. Usually though it's been overall first pick puck and the answer has come through like an ember spirit or a night stalker we've seen in the past couple of days.
So interesting here that it's clockwork outright first pick for Panto to take one of his signature heroes then pluck as a response with the option to ban some heroes out as well.
Yeah. And uh, Brutemother banned from mouse as well. They have the one game up. They don't want to lose some cheesy stuff. You said that there's not that much cheese anymore. Oh, there's still a fair bit of cheese in Dota. Um, can happen. So mouse trying to avoid that.
Yeah, I guess it's just like the definition of cheese feels like it's you know shifted over time. I don't know
For me cheese is one of those really sort of unexpected never seen before
Really weird annoying things like oh, we forgot about it. This guy exists
Broodmother now just like oh, she's she's just an annoying carry here
Yeah, you can see it that way for sure
Eventually the cheese transforms leave it out for long enough
You know, like the Protoss Tower rushing, Protoss Tower rushing goes from being a cheese to an actual strategy that's used by top players
Mm-hmm. I can become legitimate
So with only one ban, I'm assuming Ember Spirit ban
I don't know if you've got other thoughts on what to protect your puck with or
Shadowfiend
Because they're still shadowfiend a clockwork combination here. Oh, yeah
I mean, I think it's pretty
annoying for Puck still. You
don't have the best burst
against him. He doesn't care
about silence. Oh, I'm the tiny
right? That was another option.
Hmm. I guess if you go down the
line of banning Chateau fiend,
you're thinking, Well, if I'm
banning SF, I'm still leaving
in the the drow clink kind of
guys. Yeah. That's true. And I
guess you just don't want to
lose to the same thing twice,
right? You don't want to give
him a repeat on Christmas
picking his tiny again. He
He played really well on it. I do think when you see clockwork, you could probably have paratest something else
Night Stalker comes out again a counter to the puck and also very good against hoodwink when you use ulti
Hoodwink normally relies on fog of war probably more than most heroes in Dota, right?
You want to hide in the tree line sit there and be unpredictable and suddenly land a bushwork
I guess Night Stalker popping ulti. You're not gonna be hiding
You are not
X-ray vision and this might be a mid nice soccer against puck we've seen used quite a few times now and
It is overall a very annoying thing for puck to play into with a super long silence duration
Yeah, kind of assuming it's the mid one hero, but I could see boom grabbing it if they they want to flip things around
And for now kind of looking for Yamagish hero at this point
What was he going to play?
We can finish off the safe lane like clock plus drow or clinks and then grab Yamachi's
little boy.
Yeah, I'd just like to see some insta catch again on puck.
You have follow up stun, you have follow up silence when I stalk her.
Just grab yourself a rubik for telekinesis here.
Then go for Marana instead.
I mean we saw Marana work out really well in the previous time that we side picked.
However, it is not an insta-disable against Puck.
It's follow-up again, so I'm not blink-dagger on Nistaka feels pretty necessary for them
to catch the Puck later on.
Who was it laning against?
Is it like an annoying hero to lane against a Murana to tech it right?
Yeah.
Is it the same story here where Murana's going to out-trade the hoodwink and secure your safe
lane like that?
Wait, is it for Murana?
Yeah, exactly.
That's also the question. I would say it's probably post for Marana just knowing well
It depends how they link nice doctor if nice doctor goes mad against talk
Which is a good matchup then we still don't know what the safe lane or off lane is going to be in which case you could
Clock or Marana on either depending on who you want. We're gonna suck in the round out
Yeah, if they go SF then they put clockwork safely and some Marana as a post for if they go for some
Some form of melee carry then Marana post five would be needed
Yeah, with the Phoenix, yeah, it's really nice for Maus though. It's a easy way to draft
them. And Phoenix comes in a funny little interaction there, you know, getting Phoenix
with the ulti, making it daytime. True. Screws up and I still look a little bit. And then
a ton of damage through this Phoenix. And now another hero that can be solid in lane
and also play that catch game. So way more abilities here for Inner Circle to activate
these two damage dealing supports with a coil, the stampede into stomp, and a tanky frontline
through the center, slippery puck that can get into the backlines. A much easier game
to play with more back and forth rather than just like stand next to TB Viper and hope
things work out.
I mean, I like what Inner Circle are doing overall here. Mahaskar comes up. But to finish
I thought in a circle previous game. I gave them a little bit of flak that okay
They put so much on acts and he had to be the solo initiator with no vision
It's kind of hard now
It looks much easier to play support on the side of in the circle because you have buck to play towards you have center to play towards and
Now would we get Phoenix will not really feel homeless around that like 10 to 15 minute mark where everybody's still farming
They can actually go and just make something happen with anyone
I mean, that's a lot of
time. Yeah, much more simple,
but Husker is going to come out
so that moves nice talker to
off lane and Husker gets puck
in the mid lane. I'm pretty
difficult one for puck. Definitely
a hero that we've seen players
like Nisha do okay in this kind
of matchup with like lane dragging
and recovering in the mid game.
But the first, you know, seven
minutes is just not fun. Yeah,
I mean, that's also Nisha. He's
but Huskar can be a serious problem.
You don't have a way to really kill the Huskar.
Maybe you can pick up a blood grenade on the puck
and surprise the Huskar.
That's one thing that I've seen done
and have done as well.
It can be a nice little tool,
but good Huskar player will not allow you
to get a kill potential as a puck.
And then remaining hero slots for the carries.
It's in a circle that has the ultimate last pick.
So they can see what the matchups are going to be like, but already we have Maus answering
like they've answered the puck tremendously in lane and in game through Huskar Night
Stalker. They've got this AoE crippling fear to kind of irritate Phoenix and Hoodwink.
You said this night time also going to be good to hunt down the squirrel. Rocket Flay
gives vision. Murana Moonlight Shadow gives repositioning. So getting to positions where
they can actually launch themselves onto targets is much simpler. Yeah, even though in a circle
I think we're looking at this kind of happy that the ease of execution is there for them.
Mous again have a lot of responses and answers just ticking all the boxes.
Ember ban?
Wow, so they're expecting it to be like, what, Chrysler's Husker carry Nightstalker
and Ember as a last pick?
Yeah, I did not expect an Ember to come into Mous' line-up.
Carry Husker I get, like Chrysler's Husker maybe?
Yeah, yeah.
I guess, boom, does play Nightstalker really well, so that's, you know, pretty big odds.
But what is the Karauska coming out?
Yeah, looks like it.
Unless?
No, I think you're right.
Karauska, who's going to be pretty annoying for Centaur, who normally is this hero who can tank a lot of damage from different harassment,
but with the Burning Spears, it can be quite painful.
And the only thing is, Oscar could be brought down as well,
Well, by a center and hoodwink they have so much damage between two of them.
It's an interesting game.
Kes comes out as the final pick for Inner Circle.
I think it's an okay Kes game, it's not great.
Clockwork can be really annoying.
The miss chance coming out from the brewmaster can be frustrating as well.
But you do theoretically counter out the Huskar.
If you get items on Kes, then you should be able to deal with the carry Huskar pretty well.
You're right, though, into a clockwork, into this cycloning brewmaster.
You just get sent out of the fight over and over again.
You can be very irritating.
You know, birds, I'm sure they love to fly, but not in the middle of a cyclone from a
brew.
Yeah, he's a wingless fellow.
Just give him a cyclone, let him feel the wind, a little theme park situation.
Why doesn't Kez have wings?
It's the entire lore.
It's all of them.
being oppressed by imperia rights that's something like that it's a skyrath and
their nasty oppression was it them again flightless yes against the flightless
ones it's the whole event we add
he's the hero that rises I've spent my entire life ignoring Kes
ignoring Kes is a lore I don't want to know anything about his hero nasty little
bird boy. I can't imagine anyone who would enjoy playing, would enjoy playing Kess.
He's so much fun. If you're not a Kess player chat, you should be. You really should be. If
you're a support, you should also pick. Don't let the snake oil salesman.
You actually have great support because when the enemy harasses you, you just parry it. And then,
you know, you hit them. You ever play, uh, you know, Expedition 33, you hear this voice in the
back of you. Perriot! Yeah, you can do that with Kess.
Put a lot of tripe. Don't you dare pick Kess in your pubs, anyone. Leave Wagon to do it.
You want to enjoy it, believe me. It is pretty fun.
Played by Kess. Kess came out like a bit after Expedition 33 and I still had that voice in
my head. Perriot. It's still stuck, man, for every single attack.
Not time for an expedition across the river.
But he solved the smoke. Mid one. With his night mission.
Trying to step up the staircase with mid one leading.
Di already placing the observer ward. Watches the two tanky boys. One were over the cliffs.
Now here, game two. In asbestos three. Mows one stuck closer to advancing towards one of those four slots to TI.
And I see and sound to you one step closer to getting dropped out of the tournament
Showing the Oscar away there's double support behind it though, so maybe they will fight this
Punching Lays
Now I bought some jungle
Oh, now on to Fernans as well bodyblocked and called up the hoodwink
Trying to sneak in behind to grab the bounty rune but gives over first blood to mid one
What a fantastic first blood to get as well.
This matchup is already pretty okay for an ice stalker.
We've seen it be maybe a little bit intense with harassment early on, but this first blood
gives him an early bracer and tango coming out.
It's again three bounty runes for the dire side though.
I see Insanity.
Two games in a row where they get that little upper hand in the laning stage, but losing
first blood, hands it straight back to Maus.
Yeah on the mid lane it's gonna be favored for mid one however the side lanes getting that little bit of gold advantage always feels good
So the pause coming out
The Tri-cam is getting baited right now. It's like we're gonna watch the action on all lanes
Then we just pause it
There we go snap your
So Oscar and Clockwork bottom we've been looking for other heroes to fit this turret style
Oh my god
Pantel was just landing triple Manneburn with pyrocogs
impressive stuff a lot of harassment on the finance and lays and then even tracks back to deal with a hoodwink
But it would be like like changing trying to find this
backup plan when Drown SF a band
So we found clink snitches profits and these pos one range turret carries husk
I feel like fits the the bill as well potentially here
Just stand and deliver run at people with the help of this clockwork in lane. They're doing a tremendous job already
I
Sure, I can't tell people to pick cast but you can tell people that the house car is a good alternative. Okay. I see how this
Yeah, of course
You can't be on me for thinking guests anymore. What do you mean? The house car is a respectable family man
Family from hell
My pantal
Arrange. Oh, I think it. Yeah, actually, I think it is
Hmm. Yeah, he didn't actually block it with his body and the sentry may be outside. I'm not sure
That's not Fernan's gonna die
But he chased by this clock was he tries to drag the wave
Burning spears three stacks on him drops into about 50 health and Panto five seconds for cogs
Fernan's probably gonna try and deny to these neutrals get into the camp the frauds
He took the aggro away by auto-attacking him, so if you try to deny yourself a neutral,
Panto, auto-attacking the hoodwink, pulls the aggro onto himself.
Aggro-pulling works on neutral as well, so another nifrm, and rough start here for hoodwink.
Fails the block with the sentry. I mean, that just shouldn't happen.
I'm telling you, man, it's early in the day and these players are sleepy.
What am I seeing here?
It's not been smooth at all.
and I have some crisp maneuvers with the actual button pressing and they've been up there.
Let's see if they can recover and bring things back.
So far, not an easy time for the Centaur, 7-1 has a kind of double wave coming in towards
him but Chris has just been laying in the burning spears every time Centaur steps up
and then top lane.
Brumas are 12-5 against the Kessars 9-1 so a victory in this top lane thanks to Yamich
trading out with his phoenix very nicely and then brew basically there's one
b1 in the case yep I've been winning the last hits however the jungle is not
set up so they can start pulling if they want Phoenix is gonna run over start
making some pulls happen
both side lanes having their small camp is really really nice for them and
mid lane just farm trade right like nothing's gonna happen there for the
foreseeable future yeah it should be
impossible we have seen before nice
doctor get pressured a lot by the puck
auto attacks in the same but that was
when nice doctor didn't have the first
blood
first blood makes a difference look at
Oscar though coming in with a bit of
harass here and lost Panther to just
run it for nuns
it's been a really tricky one have this
hoodwinked just to try and keep this
clockwork arms reach you don't know
means oh no is you gonna die
I shoot through the roast pit but Rocket Flare is there giving Panto another kill while Ascento drags the wave, Huskar just chases him.
Christmas is going to lose a wave on the tower it looks like as Laze will TP out of the situation.
TP to try and get most of the creeps, he's got Mr. 1 there, Mrs. CS as well, Mrs. Another 1.
It's early man, it's early. I'm telling you these players, he's just auto attacking like those are not complicated last hits man.
Oh man.
Oh, Chryslus, he's settled the lane in front of his tower now, and he did the hard work
of pushing the hood we're going to center out of there, and now he's like, okay, settle
into the last hits.
That's true.
That's true.
I guess a bit impatient, you know.
Hospital players just want to attack attack.
Sometimes you need a bit of patience.
But with this wave pushing in, center is licking his lips, hoping he can get some of these
CS.
Spusky doesn't want them to get them for free.
Trying to do the large camp pull across.
So Krista's drags the Dire wave off to the right so they can try and anchor a piece into camp.
I'll dive on the groove.
This can be fine. Action on both the sidelines.
And the Stoikov and his mid lane sat below half HP.
Yammich, under Dire vision is gonna get scouted on his way towards the mid lane.
two points narrow he's looking for an angle yamich waiting waiting for his
moment to strike what's the time it with the creep wave going under tower so
that mid one can dive it but look at the nonce is coming over
everyone's gonna come and try and scout looks for a deep ward that may have been
placed by Yamich this is very patient from the Marana
scouted though as he gets surrounded by Phoenix hoodwink pot the double leap to
low ground not good enough dead but mid one might get the trade out here on the Phoenix
as Panther comes in to help out. Very nice play, well done Panther and mid one.
And Centaur says okay people leaving my lane I'm just gonna run and pull the creep wave
I don't want to deal with Oscar but Christmas he's feeling a bit left off he's like come
back buddy. You said it the other day this is where the mid laner gets triggered into
Reacting responding
Straight onto the center now with an arrow flying in they've got enough
Beautiful arrow to secure the kill Yamich making sure he's getting his arrows worth
Yeah, this is problematic center having very very bad game
um, against this Haskar, trying to do whatever he can to cut the wave. At least he did double up the creep wave,
so it's gonna push. He will respawn and should theoretically be able to farm it,
but we'll see if any support comes in to help Chrystle's put pressure on the tower.
Tons of stacks being made on the left-hand side now. Panto has just left the safe lane, says I'm gonna go build back.
Start investing in my cores.
No contesting the wisdom shrine, it's just going to go one for one.
Even with the wisdom, actually the brumasters also having a pretty rough game, sitting at
a very close game to what Centaur's having.
And barely cracking level 5, 25 last hits.
Well all the melee creeps decide to go to a tier 2 tower.
They can still lay some damage into this Tier 1, but Phelous is coming in to defend.
And Puck has Teep you ready. Could join his team to defend this one.
Under Wild Maus bring all this action out of bottom, don't really get anything from it.
Chasing Phelous all the way back, Mid one just poking at them, seeing what he can find.
That's quite a bit of time invested by Mid one.
He's gotta make it back in time for the room control, and with the fear, I don't think Puck wants to go in.
My name died.
It's not a danger.
Marana's gonna keep giving chase here.
Aw, gets out of range.
No time to arrow.
So mid one grabs the illusion room.
And keep going.
As they look at Stokov.
Another crippling fear in a second.
They just need some way to line up his arrow.
It's very challenging for Yamich with the lack of setup stuns.
Yeah, it's so, so difficult.
But Puck also has to be very careful about the silence from mid one.
It's pretty intimidating.
You can't go up and just farm these creeps.
So Nightstalker is having the impact that we want to see from this counter pick as well.
And during nighttime, he's going to get something done.
By the way, Lalkirk is getting a lot of cash this game.
He's just, you know, done really well.
Finding some kills, finding a lot of pulls, sitting already at 2200 net worth, he's almost
the same net worth as the center.
Yeah, great time.
And Broom has to try to catch up, it's like he's going to dip into jungle for a little
bit.
Well, we've watched off-screen center several times in that picture in picture, just farming
the right hand camps to try and get laced to some point of stability.
How long the dominator's super important for him to grab, but it's been heavily delayed.
And Broom actually doesn't go jungle to farm, he's going to recover through aggression.
playing into this mid lane, getting onto Stoikov with that crippling fear slow from mid ones void
into the arrow, finding the puck, forcing a response out of 4-2-3's cast now. He comes in to slice
the Murana down. The boomster has the primal split going for a few more seconds. Stoikov's up one,
but he's on the run, trying to slip away from now is an impossible task. Blood-grenaded,
sliced up and bushback, and he's going to get taken down by 4-2-3 of the tower in the end.
Yeah, no way out for him. He tried to join his team and have some impact, but
Indien dying actually slows down his Midas even more. He's going for this
Midas on Brewmaster, which sure is a very common item on Brew. Again, though, not a
massive fan of Midas with it, you know, being as strong as it used to be. The
whole experience advantage thing was one of the major reasons it was good on
brew because levels the hitting early levels on your ulti is what feels nice
here it just feels like boom it's going for whatever you can to be able to farm
at all it definitely indicates that they want to again head into this kind of
25 30 minute period as well because Nightstalk is always gonna do the same
thing you've got this double Midas lineup of mouths even though they're ahead
kills net worth it feels like the entire map has been run by them but you have
this ebb and flow right during nighttime they feel strong they play
aggressively but during daytime they're kind of thinking okay sit back and try and farm
so they need something that keeps them on the map and in the game as long as possible.
And Pantheon at the bottom?
He can't run at by four of the IC heroes as they try and play through his catapult wave
to kill off the tier one.
Yeah, this is normally a tier one that Centars can end up killing on their own but with him
not getting a very good start, the Dominator is pretty damn late so coming in and helping
him getting this kill, securing the tower is a pretty important move.
move. Curious knife up top. Gonna get boom enough gold for his minus. And this is an
interesting thing by the way. Christmas on his housecar. A lot of times you see armlet
on housecar and you think okay now he needs to go and do stuff immediately. Now I actually
think that you can take a little bit just a few minutes of a breather and get some farm
going because look how fast he farms right now it's absurd. So build yourself that advantage
get the Sanch going and then I think you want to turn up the pace. Yeah 100% agree. I was looking at
the same thing thinking what's the deal with Huskar who wants to maybe play aggressively,
you're looking at double Midas on the other two cores, but it's perfectly fine from the
Huskar to farm into this next item and get tanky. Stoikov, wow. Under that silence, crippling fear,
hook shot, disable, trapped in the cogs, that's a pretty good combo. Cogs plus crippling fear.
Yeah, I should feel bad for him, but first pick puck, I feel like it deserves it, you know?
I just want to see it get countered.
Ultimately, this is a very shameless first pick hero, and there are many heroes in the
game who counter puck, so anytime I see it, it feels like when Ember was not there.
You remember the first pick Ember all the time, and then people who are hustling it,
it's like, oh, yeah, it sucks to landing as a Huskar, it's like, yeah, there are counters.
Yeah, I mean, I
You've heard me several times, you know for an infinite time saying let's get the Necro
Let's get the Necro
I was waiting for three years for Necro to become meta again
Because it was used occasionally against that Ember spirit in that in that exact meta
Necro is back a little bit
Little bits
Seeing some play
You know whenever you see Necro, there's a chance that either team goes for the
Cruella Crocier as the game goes later, the Cruella item. It's very good on him
and also quite good against him with the help of restoration reduction.
Well, I've seen players just spam spells and focus on these Helm Creeps,
Panto, Cogs, Chuck the Cat set him, kill off the central's Helm Creep, make sure it
doesn't have that lane dragging capability. And every time you can play
during the daytime in these lanes and actually get lane creep farms safely
feels so good as Maus yeah crystallist making good headway on his farm and he's
even queuing up a heart of terrasque so making his intentions pretty clear he
wants to be a very very strong center of the fight I mean this is a carry house
car so a little bit different priorities than a off lane or mid house car
Maybe allow him to survive to that burst from Cairns and Centaur.
Moonlight Shadow gets used, trying to be sneaky on the rune play.
Stoicav immediately hook-shotted, orb already spent, silenced up.
He's trying to jump away with a waning rift and a stampede.
Picks up an arcane rune, dodges the rocket flare.
So ready to go? Stoicav's still dying!
Burned down by Crystallis and now there's Phoenix in a lot of trouble.
Laptop on by Yammitch's Marana.
I should jump into the Phoenix so quickly.
It feels so good that you can chase very easily, but also you have the attack speed to deal with the egg should he use it.
And yeah, on the back of that, Chris Liss just goes straight into Roche.
And Chris Liss, you know, he's walking up the tower. He missed his last hits on the tower, but there's no way he would ever die to Roche.
So we're just gonna sit here and silently watch him as he dies now, right?
Yeah, right? Yeah, I mean, of course.
Eastern right thing though, just toggling non-stop is basically a very effective way to do it.
You don't want to wait like too many auto attacks and then toggle,
because then you run the risk of a bash into you dying.
But if you do toggle basically after every single auto attack or after every other auto attack,
you shouldn't be dying no matter if you get bashed or not.
It is always more toggles to mess up though.
Poor Phoenix.
This Night Stalker has felt very good.
You're winning the game during the day with Night Stalker.
Mid ones making moves thanks to this clockwork cog to trap people in.
You're allowed to munch on them. Then it's night time so you can all of a sudden
get out on the map and find even more with less help.
You're also winning fights while going double-knighters, so that feels really good.
And we're not really seeing too much action coming out from Icy and Sammy, despite the fact that I said that it should be easier for their supports to find moves.
The center was so under farmed and Puck is countered by the Nightstalker, so it's kind of awkward for them.
They really need to, I don't know, rally the troops. They need to find some surprise goal onto Mouse.
Because they're possibly kind of just losing the game right now.
Yeah, it's another situation where I'm just not sure I've seen Sanity have the necessary intricate delicate moves that they require to set up the team fights.
Pre-Sentral Blink, it is so difficult for them to just go on people. They don't have puck blink either, so finding that catch or that turnaround is pretty challenging.
I think you just got a triangle together with a coil like look for something with coil and make a play
By the way, Panto is scouting with an in this room. He has a blink dagger on the clockwork
This build that has become more and more popular
Mid one just goes 1v2 bottom lane by the way. He just runs into the center and woodwind doesn't give a damn
Yeah, as long as puck is not on him. I think he's completely safe and they saw a puck up top
So, uh, yeah, it feels fairly safe down here.
There's four heroes, though.
No kisses here.
Uh, I mean, you might not be safe anymore.
Hookshot from Panto, though.
That offers some safety for mid-1.
They're even turning around on this Kessler some good damage.
And I've got the blow-up on Fernand on the left-hand side.
As Chrysler arrives, cycloning Kessler with a boom,
primal split.
The dive wave from Phoenix along with the pot
gets in distance to try and disengage,
but 43 is being scouted, hunted, and killed.
Chrysler's with a double, while Yamich chases Marana,
trying to arrow.
I'm not going to connect it on the puck on the orb, but they've got a cyclone under Sleuchov,
enter Cogs, push back!
Oh, that was nasty. The arrow was onto his orb, so if he did orb, he would have died.
He phase shifted before he would have orbbed out.
I think he needed to jaunted orb and then phase shift the arrow to try and live there,
but that was a nice play by Marana.
Actually denied his jump with the arrow.
Yeah, it was very nicely done.
And hoska yeah three and a half thousand damage chrysalis just shows up and burns people to the ground
That's feels like it's getting our hand now
This is snowballing spiraling very quickly 7k lead ages still there for two minutes hoska's running at your tier two minute 18
Yeah, and this is a temple play
He has the ages so he can just siege up and the building damage you can see it
He takes out the tier two and one single creep wave so pick up the next creep wave
Oh, actually the glyph might hold it alive for a while
back to a region kick in and save it. He has to go mid quickly. Meanwhile mid one, he runs across the other side of the map, kills off the phoenix thanks to the damages Marana.
Wherever you step as I see insanity, you are getting hunted.
That's very aggressive stuff now with the blinkdagger nice stalker, the blinkdagger clockwork, the Marana being so mobile.
Again, Kes has to ulti just to run away. He's also pretty delayed on his timing on Kes.
nitch layer into desol 18 minutes in he doesn't have it doesn't feel great for
4-2-3 yeah I mean icing sandy now very much relying on some kind of wombo
combo play some way to stampy in coil super nervous sunray try and sharp
shoot it down one of these cores like broom after before he splits probably
ideal I stress you got so much to deal with three tanky cores on mouse with
3,000 health Oscar, 2k on the nice smoke from the brewmaster individually.
Now start on boom to try and blow him up, 10 seconds for primal splits, that's good timing,
but they've lost Fernand in the meantime.
Yeah, Panther keeps playing really well on this clockwork, he's looking so good.
All the time landing perfect power cogs into pushing people and then you know, he pushed
around the hoodlink and then hook shot at her after knocking her with the cogs.
Finally, the first surest guy come in down Bologna, so Oscar could again look to open
up Tier 2 Tower.
Twin unit Mark as well as the Tormentor is going to be on the menu.
I think Oscar being massive is one thing, but the fact that Nightstalker is also sitting
at 10,600 net worth, having not died a single time, being part of 11 kills, he's having
such a good game.
My brother, Haskar is on your high ground.
We're in the 21st minute of gameplay.
Chris Liss is already trying to break tier three's.
And he's got a heart, yeah.
It's a good luck right now.
His DPS is pretty bad
because he's regaining full age build time.
So he's not pushing that fast because he's too strong.
It hit me, somebody hit me.
Please activate my Barbarian rage for God's sake.
There's no Haskar problem.
I'm too rich, I'm too tanky.
Seriously though, what is it? It's 20 to 12 to get close to lunchtime. I think Mao's are hungry for victory here
They want to shut this one down
I go for the tormentor as a smart play before you start cracking the high ground
You don't have ages right now anyway, so just go through the motions
And that means you're on a time if you're icy insanity right now
You know the pressure high ground is going to come with the next ages
So tormentor scared them in and you have very limited time to get your shit in order
You need to get the items you need, the position you need, and start making plays.
Oh, mid one, the test for the wisdom.
Oh yeah, more than contesting in here.
You get a munch on the hoodwink, roadkill for the Night Stalker.
Unstoppable mid one, and you get the wisdom shrine for Yannitch.
How good is mid knife feast as an ability, man?
You get life steal on every single attack, quite a bit of it, and then you have this massive health and mana restoration tool.
You never need to go mana item on Night Soccer, you can just keep playing the map.
That feels so good.
They're not going to wait around for the Aegis, they're actually just going out to pick off, pushing high ground.
Ah, why the hell not? Just keep this armor toggled on.
Hit the big red button and you're going high ground.
ChrisLess even steps away from the Laze initiation while Soikov jumps in aggressively straight into the arms of mid one who brings him to half health, forcing a defensive stampede already.
Yeah, Stampede to get out of the fear, crippling fear is such a good counter to the puck.
We see why it's picked and puck gets first picked.
Do you think the teams should start banning Nightstalker if they want to make puck their
first pick?
I feel like you can't really get away with this.
Yeah, it just feels like if you ban Nightstalker you have to ban Ember as well.
Are you wasting two bans to protect a puck in the first phase?
I think I'm much happier than Neil with Ember, because Ember at least you counter as well.
What are you going to do?
Coil the Nightstalker?
He still doesn't die.
If you coil and silence Ember, he dies to quite minimal effort on top of that, but if
you coil and silence the NS, you need so much damage to bring him down.
Yeah, that's valid.
He's got a big smoke move, though.
Honestly, I know they need to do something, so they jump on Chrysler's here.
The Sunray damage, it looks good, with 4-2-3 chasing forward, but they glimacate, saves
And he's gonna turn and slay the cans jumping on Fernans to get three in a row
Oh, I mean I see and Santi knew they needed to break out the rut some way somehow
But this just wasn't it Chris list stands and delivers
So downside with that tier one tower being available, right?
They got TP and be there they were actually hanging in the nearby area as well
So we saw the blink daggers coming into play brew blinking in front of the hoodwink stopping the hoodwink ulti from laying into this combo
And that kept the huskar alive
I believe at least he tanked it. Let's see it again here. I think he got in front and took it
Brewmaster is there. Actually, no the shot does go through because he uses ulti on brew. Never mind. Huskar is his strong healthy tank.
The shot shooter as well. Huskar has tanked everything. Holy crap
Yeah, you don't kill Huskar. It's just easy from there on out for miles. He has
177 strength. We're 23 minutes into the game. What do you mean you have 180 strength almost?
I'd like to imagine
Mithy and Mithy got gritted and smug there
but he did a little, his eyes shifted down to his keyboard
I'd like to imagine he's thinking about all chatting but he decided not to
he chose to be a well-mannered good lad
mid one and a pub would have rithed and something, you know
he's a funny guy, I remember first times that he came to EU and started chatting
he, you know, we got him some banter
it's not necessarily anything like mean or, you know, demeaning or anything
He could literally just be LOL, you know, a well-timed smiley face or a LOL or something, really can cut the...
NS, sees the Kes here, keeps track of him, ready to cancel the TP outs.
Ah, boom, he's here as well.
What about Kes? Dude, this is why, this is why you pick Husker, not Kes.
They're respectable heroes, they win games.
Very respectable, yes. The fair and honest...
All I need to say is that Sing Sing played like a hundred games of Husker in a row.
That's all you need to know to know that it's not fair or honest.
He's disgusting, disgusting man with disgusting desires.
And Husker is one of them.
Jeez!
Leave Sing Sing alone!
No.
Also, did you know that he's bad at AOE 2?
I defeated him in 3-2-1 in a tournament.
Very important.
Congratulations!
Well done!
We've got a bit of microcode out of boom here,
trying to shuffle past the walls which Panto has created. Doesn't have any
manganelles or anything though, so it's not get past them.
Centaur goes down quite easily and I think the high ground push is very close to
coming here as the brewmaster ulti, they want to get some more value out of it.
Even if you don't have Aegis, even if you don't have BKB, I think the respect, you
know, we talked about Inner Circle, they need to disrespect Maus. I think Maus
can now disrespect Inner Circle. They don't have BKB, they don't have Aegis to
can still do whatever they want here just pushing out all the lanes for some kind
of weird reaction out of the door you see the rush on respawn with a plopper
rocket so that's gonna prompt them to just go and take that and I'm looking
over to try and see what tools they have at their disposal Kess is desperately
trying to get an agonist after completed the problem is this build up
with mage layer into Dessal doesn't work well unless you're winning the game
Like, you need to be winning for this to be good. If you're on the back foot, the timings are too late.
Oh, Puck was spotted, but it's a bit too safe, I think.
I know.
Just now.
Mid one's here.
Wherever the Puck is, mid one will follow.
But yeah, the fact that there's desolators is unlikely to get any charges in this game really just stinks, doesn't it?
Oh, yeah.
It looks like the pre-buff desolator. It doesn't have charges. It doesn't exist.
No number.
No, nobody go up and Dorphine's release number stay gone sad
Very sad very sad
Just like my back. He's not very sad right now. It's Christmas as he doesn't even need to arm the toggle to best this will show
Understand there and hit him
I mean blink glimmer tranquils cool consecrated ramp for the 2008. Yeah, good luck killing Panto now
Yeah, he's actually nothing I get bursted. I think it's just goes on him. He's just gonna kind of laugh maybe hook shot away, you know
There's no way you die to
So it gets going on you maybe with agonist combo do a full combo you can perhaps burst him, but even then it's not easy
Why this and not pipe though
Just cheap because it's cheaper
Yeah, I mean he has glimmer to help teammates pipe is not really a good item on on supports almost ever
The exception being like maybe Phoenix sometimes because Phoenix doesn't need any items really you can buy whatever you want
But this just makes clockwork very very strong on his own
I think it's still have that saving teammates impact from Glimmer Cape
You better start goblin chain mails. That's what we want to see from clockwork. Oh, yeah
He could afford one right now. Thank you
the chain meal
I see in Santa you're going to watch the bottom lane barracks disappear
playing on the left hand side but boom in smoke break range sees them coming
disengages and now we jump in from Yamich looking for the arrow
connection flies past the mid one he's on the forces staff feed lays jumps on the
Yamich gets a stun on the Marana boom gonna step back and they've healed this
Marana back up as Priscilla's becomes the focal point around the supernova
which he kills they've lost their Phoenix pluck is low
blaze is trapped in the middle of the three cores of mouse and taking them down
a notch and force the GG out. We'll see Maus move on and knock out ICX Insanity. Impressive
stuff coming out from them. I do think this game, you know, obviously was very one-sided,
but I think it could be less one-sided with some changes in itemization coming out from
inner circle. Like, this guess needed DKB. I think the mage player doesn't do much in this game. It
does nothing to Brewmaster. It doesn't really do much to Nightstalker and sure it kind of helps
against Huskar, but not really. Does mage slayer counter Huskar? I mean, it removes some burning
spear damage, but I still think you would rather have B to be desol'd than have mage slayer desol'd.
And sure, the items are not equivalent, but it's a timing thing.
I would do this whole series, felt like a timing thing. Right, Mao's making sure they hit all their
item timing, getting ahead of the curve. I've seen Sanji just often felt a little bit behind,
missing out on a smoke gank here or an item timing there, not able to really connect into this series properly.
Game 1 was a little closer, but there's game 2 with a complete shutout.
You know, Maus had that number, had the hero counters, they were able to take them down in lane and then in game.
And Miles fans rejoice as they stay alive here in this qualifier and move onwards.
Of course, like I said, it would be a real shame for them to bomb out early here,
as we unfortunately have to say goodbye to IC and Sandi,
I think they still had a lot of promise, but not quite to the level that mouse was in this whole thing
Yeah, I mean I don't know about rejoicing maybe a sigh of relief
This series and you know march on to their next one
But the thing is the next series is gonna be a difficult one
Their opponent is not V in that next round two in the lower bracket
So now you definitely got some hard cutout work for them there
that. Yeah. For sure. This
game. 4010 Husker 10 0 11
middle of a night stalker.
Spectacular stats being posted
up. At least if you can feel
confident that they won the
second game super hard, and
you know, overall, the serious
was pretty one sided, so that
should give them the pep in
their step that they need to go
up against Navi because Navi in
the second round of lower
bracket is a horrifying
opponents like that. It's just
not what you want to see. Um
the Marana had very good impact. Good rotations. We spoke about the arrow, you know, on the
loser or thing. A lot of little details came out from Yamage that were very on point.
Yes, one of those heroes that doesn't have an obvious outward impact. There's just lots
of little things that she does like letting stay trading with heroes, you know, protecting
your carry, playing the map and looking very good like that. But yeah, I was rounding up
a resounding Tuesday victory there against IC in Sancti as we say goodbye to them and
we try and figure out, you know, obviously knowing Mao's against Navi the next round
for them, we'll try and figure out who goes up against and joy further down in that lower
bracket because next up Huligani versus Chiqui Bamboni, our next guest for three, we'll take
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If you didn't miss us, you missed the Dota. I'm sure we've got more games for you. Another
best of three here in the lower bracket for the TI qualifiers heading to TI 2026. And we're
about to get into things as quickly as we possibly can as we're going to see two of
these teams looking to progress through the lower bracket, hopefully not get eliminated,
and a cheeky, Bamboni. Well,
I guess. Yep. And both these
teams, you know, going into
this need to get some wins.
Here we are in a scary situation
as we have been with the mouse
insanity situation, but now in
the lower brackets, you need to
get a win. The winner of this
will go up against the joy as
well. So maybe not as scary as
Navi being your next opponent,
but still a fearsome opponent,
so you need to power up in this
course, we just got the mouse confirmed against Navi after winning against ICX Insanity.
But Hooligani versus Chicky Bamboni. You like this Chicky Bamboni name. I like the Hooligani
name. So this is a Liga team. And it still is the Liga team. They're just also called
Hooligani. Yeah, I was looking at him like, wait, don't I know this, this players by a
different name? I had to go and look. And when you, when you click into them, they actually
brings you to the Liga, you could PDA them as them.
So the little rebrand as we had the TI, we'll find out how things
progress here, getting to the draft was also the journey that
they took to get here, right? We saw in that bracket, briefly
seeing that Hula Ghani and dropping down into slow bracket
had a rough time. Power Rangers look pretty good. Chika
Bambodi just defeated Power Rangers over in the EPL in a
best of five, three to one. So if Power Rangers can beat Hula
Gany and and and cheek about only can be power ranges. I mean, obviously it tracks that cheek about you're gonna be
Well, the Gany here as well does that?
Sometimes you think that it is that way, but the rock paper scissor of Dota is pretty confusing at times
Can have these weird weird matchups where someone just figured out one team, but they cannot beat the other team
But we'll see exactly what we're gonna bring into the draft here because I do think the draft has been a very big component of what the teams that
that have stumbled on the draft quite largely,
or atomization, gameplay has been pretty impressive
across the board in most of the series that we played,
or scene played.
Yeah, I feel like we've got to the point now
where a lot of these players at this level,
button clicking is just second nature to them,
actually casting spells, actual gameplay that we see,
pretty straightforward, it's all these
nuanced decision-making moments
where you're trying to figure out what hero goes where,
which item to buy next, how to progress the map.
And that comes through experience.
And Cheeky Bamboa, they had an experience
in that upper bracket getting defeated
to ObliVision and they got the treatment.
Yeah, I mean, that's just a rough first seed.
You go into the qualifier, okay, nice.
Who's our first opponent?
Oh, Team Vision.
Yeah, I mean, sure.
Sure, I guess.
You can't really fault them for falling down here.
So obviously they're looking to have
what should be an easier matchup here.
And at the same time though,
Huligani having taken one game
against Power Rangers before dropping down,
they might not feel as bad
because all their games were even,
or they lost the best of three,
but they went the distance.
It was a 60 minute game, 52 minute game, 46 minute game.
They did not get run over.
So still had a very competent showing there.
I love that we have to show
with three different roles for Axe now.
Offlane and then POS4, POS5.
the game. It's been shown
across multiple roles and
stays pretty flexible. As this
initiation hero will see where
Chiqui Bamboni wants to chuck
the acts as they did play it in
that best of five up against
Power Rangers. Not too long ago,
and that was, I believe they're
offline. Yeah I'm a little bit
surprised that we see trained
protector going all the way
through. You know the bands
coming out from Chiqui Bamboni
I think this is a risky thing on paper though. They give the opponent a tree and they pick an axe. I mean
The five-year-old could understand that this is a good drafting idea, but I don't know
I'm still scared about this tree. Yeah, it is very very powerful
Especially if he does get one of those turret heroes to lane with so with SF
Viper draw ranger and I guess like loan drew it being banned
we're left in that situation where teams have got to try and hunt down one of these long range carries to sit with a tree
We've seen clink's kind of fill that role. Nature's Prophet does a decent job
Crystal showed Huskar in that previous game can also step up to the mark
Yeah, that's very true. I mean snow knowing snowy and what he plays snowy could play on like
Some some different range heroes fit in better than others. I'm trying to remember
exactly which range once I've seen him play a lot. I remember his gyro was always very good.
Yeah, Medusa is one of the heroes that he's been playing a lot actually in the past. Morphling is
well but I don't like Morphling against Axe. I think that matchup... I mean if you destroy the
Axe and Lane it's fine but Morphling isn't that good in this patch as well. I had another like
high rank Morphling spammer message me. He's like, what do you think about my hero pool in this
patch isn't just really bad because he's like a morphing spammer and he's got some other off
meta heroes I'm like yeah you're just screwed over dude just wait a few months until you can play
Dota again I did I mean go to be fair that guy is level 30 huskar so I should have just told him
pick huskar all the time but I will never tell anyone that oh give me this give me this I'll
tell him don't worry my friend just pick huskar he's a respectable hero we get ourselves through
that second band phase, snapfire gone, ember spirit removed. I think I sell the lago to
go along with the tree and so a ton of heal and sustain. Oh my goodness, hula ghani. I
mean tripling down on this roaming fountain. They don't need to go to base. They've got everything
they need. Yeah, they're setting up the impenetrable fortress of healing here. Gonna have all the
mana recovery, the HP recovery, decent team fight as well. It's a little bit of a wonky
triple hero opening though as we don't see too much bites yet right the damage output isn't quite
there uh from the hooligani drafts they're very good at licking their wounds and now resetting
and stuff like that but need damage uh that's where it's going to give you some of that aoe magic
damage and gap close which they desperately needed to be able to chase people and catch them so i
guess we're settling into offline lago mid-earth spirit kuffle four triant five leaving carry till
last. Huligani are drafting like they're in a hurry to the next game or something. They still
have two minutes on the reserve time. They snap picked that Earth spirit. I do like Chiquimamboni
set up a lot more. I have to say yes a lot of saves, yes a lot of sustainability for Huligani,
but Chiquimamboni they have the threat, threat of the axe call, threat of Clockwork catching someone
in Murata comboing with it. That's also one of the most scary Clockwork combos in the game because
because if you do get caught, you can of course get feared by Myrta, run into the cogs and it's just nasty with the silence as well.
Do you think Myrta brings enough damage?
I'm kind of looking at cheeky bamboni thinking, okay, they've got lots of ways to catch and return fire, but damage-wise, I'm a little worried they're lacking.
I think their last pick still needs to be a damaging hero as well, but I mean, it's a mid hero, every mid hero brings damage, so I think they're completely fine.
Myrta is very glass cannon and this looks like a good game to be a glass cannon to be honest.
And in terms of concern, might be if you get kited here as Myrta, generally a hero struggles to keep up with the teamfight if everyone is very fast and seeing Largo, he's super fast,
Earthbeard rolls around, Caudal is running around at Mach 10, Entry and Protector might just be role playing as a tree, so Myrta needs help locking onto targets.
Yeah, and they're against Clockwork Rubik's acts, so I could imagine four staffs, Yuleceptors Galore, for who the guy needs to be able to even further reposition themselves in those teamfights.
Yep.
Last pick for them.
We've had the Lifestealer and the Spectre band.
It seems like they didn't want to deal with an invulnerable hero.
Can you imagine a Spectre or a Lifestealer with a living armor, all the croaking, froggy music, the chakra magic on them?
It would be disgusting.
would be very hard to bring down. I have wonder though what they're gonna slot in here because
it feels like they need to go for some form a range hero, but I agree with Chiki Bamboli
that like this Lifestealer or Spectre would have countered their draft better.
Yeah, Snowy looking into his hero pool, maybe it is gonna be Gyrocopter. You know, it's
an easy hero to center your draft around.
Ah, the fake Gyro.
alternative alternative goth gyro is the Luna. Exactly. Luna is a very nice hero. I feel like every
time we ask for a Luna, they don't go for it. Every time we don't ask for a Luna, they go for it.
But I like it. It feels a very similar role to a Darkopter. She can get a few items and then
just be the the heart of the team fight to push with her, give her ages. If you ever get Roshan,
then very, very easy to have her be the one cracking hybrid. I'm a very big fan of this
this for the gunner draft. You put it out already. This is another fast hero. It's a
hero that buys Hurricane Pike potentially to outrange and kite around this murder.
You dump all these heels into a Luna who is this, you know, steroid infected, massive
damage dealing, hyper carry basically after assuming acceleration out of Laming Stade
with Farm. And Cheeky Bamboni going to come out with a Queen of Pain last pick to try and
round things out. And that is a ton of damage.
It is. This is one of the higher damage mid heroes they could have picked and it also abuses the sort of, you know, it's triple, but almost quadruple melee.
Luna hasn't really a full range here. She's kind of getting close all the time in the fights. So once you get agonized up during the queen, you can do tons of damage in this game.
in this game and they need to deal with Queen, which they don't have the best lockdown.
Sure, silence or merc spirit and you could root her maybe a tree and protector, but not
the best lockdown coming out from Largo, Caudal, or Luna for that matter.
I'm struggling to put my finger on it, but there's something about the cheeky Pamponi
draft I just don't like.
It looks good, but it doesn't feel good in my bones when I'm trying to figure out how
their entering flights, killing people, moving out across the map, trying to break down laning stage.
I can point out one weakness, right? So the draft is very nice overall. I think it's a,
you know, at least an eight out of 10 drafting performance here. I think they have a great
drafts overall. I'm not like going to go full crazy about it, but good synergies, very nice,
and it makes a lot of sense. Also, countering your opponent with the Queen was a very nice pick.
the weakness that could be
senior. The Luna pick brings
potential for Agadam scepter.
Agadam's Luna against Mert is
insane. You drop the ulti on
top of the murder and she will
just take tons of magic damage.
So pre BKB. This is a scary
threat and murders don't really
want to buy BKB early. You
want to buy your mule near you
want to get hurricane pike, and
then maybe you want to get some
other items as well. You know,
shadow blade is really nice, but
have an aura, this is what I was tying back to. They don't really have like a pipe buyer
at, will definitely not go pipe. And with all the magic damage, looking at the gunny,
insane magic damage coming out from this team, with Lunality and all the rest of the spells,
it feels bad that they don't have a natural pipe buyer.
Yeah, I think all those things tie into, I figured out what my brain has been looking
for here. It's this, this draft, if they go behind, I've seen so many times, you know,
to getting booted out of lane and just not having a game acts struggling to get from blade mail to
blink dagger and not being able to do anything. Queen of Pain, if you don't stomp the lane,
can struggle to try and get back into things. I think the reddit draft in my head is one that
has to get ahead and stay ahead or else they're going to flounder and that might be challenging
against this sustained healing lineup that's difficult to kill of Hulagani. It's possible,
yeah, it's definitely possible that it could happen. I think Mertha needs to get a good game,
I think she needs to get quite a few items, but they can also lean on the queen of pain if she gets to a point of like
Kaya plus agonim scepter
I think she should go for the kaya into then ag skip the kaisange upgrade
To begin with just to get the agonim as early as possible
That could make her a very serious threat and like I said, not the best tools to deal with her
But the game is going to be quite centered around which carry starts having the most impact around 20-minute mark Luna
known for farming very fast and then able to fight pre-roach on, same as you said about Mercos.
Yeah, I think actually the carries tip each other, a little bit of fun coming up.
Yep, not how important they are.
Carry respect, carry.
Yeah, it's just, I don't know, a bit spooky playing this radiant draft.
We'll see how it goes. I still feel like the leading stage is gonna be important for them.
and then just try and hold on to stuff.
And Hula Gani, obviously the ones coming into this little
favorite as well, just in terms of team and player matchup.
And that's probably also playing tricks on my mind
where I've already had the internal bias
leaning towards the dire.
Yeah.
I mean, I would say they're coming in definitely
the favorites into this.
They're an experienced team.
They should be performing pretty well here.
And I think their draft was very premeditated.
Because you could tell by how they drafted, they snap picked all the way until their fourth pick even.
They picked the Earth Spirit like so fast, that tells me that this is something they're very happy with.
They are there in the draft that they already had premeditated.
Yeah, it felt like we got Triant, we got Larko, we got Kotl, we got all these meta heroes who feels better to get for them.
We'll see them around that top bounty rune, getting Kog pushed away, but Anisand does not want to stick around a bit of extra gold going into Snowy there as he farms up a Kog or two.
We'll get ourselves one for Mirage, Ethereal and Yoai getting one apiece, and then Snowy's going to get the fourth to give us the two for two bounty runes.
Getting ourselves started off evenly in this game one, best of three, lower bracket situation, so elimination on the line in this series.
We have ourselves to wall CI 2026.
Mid lane should be pretty rough for Ursprit against the Queen of Pain.
I think Queen is very favored on this matchup if you know what you're doing.
He's got to try and trade back though. Good use of this moment here to go in.
Deal some damage.
It's nice to see Sairge on this cockle go and de-walled his medium camp near the ancients as well.
So he's already set up for stacking time.
time and then gets to lane on time as well to help out corrupted and deal with
these cogs early on. Maragh taking a bit of a beating that mid lane through the
dagger already even just at level one from ethereal dropping this Urspirit
quite low that's gonna be the name of the game for him though is towing the line
staying low and getting farm without dying as an Urspirit against a Qop. Yeah
he's taking more than a little bit of damage and he's still away from the
bottle right he doesn't have it and Queen has her bottle coming in so she
You could get an advantage on this lane if it doesn't get the next last hit.
Basically needs it to secure his bottle before the water rune is spawning.
So a little, yeah, bottom lane is crazy, a lot of harassment.
A little guideline generally for a bottle, by the way.
If you want to get bottled before the water runes, you typically need to get it roughly
at like 130 at the latest.
If you get at 140, then you're not really going to get delivered in time.
when you're against heroes like Park or Queen of Pain who can go to one then blink back to the other
you need the the early option for you to decide where you're heading. So right now with Aerial is
using bottle charges to harass and like controlling with body positioning top rune but ready if she
had blink you're ready to blink bottom if needed. Yeah but he's committing for a double point in
Shadow Strike which in itself is pretty annoying for Mirage. He gets Shadow Strike one more time
here so now he normally would want to go and pick the room but with a chance like on him he's got
to make it hard to bottle up with top lane. Top lane Trident, Danta, Wayne form, Rubik and Ack,
just level one battle hunger, level one fadeball enough to grab the Trident, lift him back in and
kill him. Yeah and I like what they did with the sentry ward on that lane as well, put it pretty
far back but just making sure Trident couldn't harass them if they kept the lane far back close
the tower and just uh even with a lot of trees up right they haven't gone for
crawling blade on rubik even with a lot of this natural habitat staying alive
he's struggling a little bit. Yeah a pretty important one anchor on this act
was starting to fall behind a little bit in last hits now he's able to help get
that kill recover drag lane equilibrium back to tier one so the whole process
works out really nicely there for cheeky bamboni. This bottom lane I would say is
pretty favoured for the clockwork and right though they're actually looking for a kill
attempt. Yeah, straight onto Corrupted and put the calling down. Pull little frog, getting
blood granaded. Not there just yet though. Gets given a chakra magic. Maybe thinks about
turning around and licking. Takes another shot from your line, a dead shot as well.
Hey, stuck around for too long. Hey, walked too close and that's really bad timing to
die. Uses three melee creeps because of it. Yeah, lose the range creeps as well. Five
creeps missed and the next creep we're being pulled into a stack double or a stack big camp.
Ah yeah, yeah, not good stuff for the lago. Not ideal. But that's the thing, right? Both of
these safe lanes have access to small and large camps, so great ways for everyone to master this
equilibrium. Something that wayform at Anku. Making sure it doesn't happen and playing forward here,
using that large camp to their advantage. Oh, taking the queen away, but he gets body blocked.
It's got to take a lot of damage still here.
Sure he has the rune, but it's pretty painful.
He's got TP coming in, and these side-stepping cogs does get hit by one of them.
And Kotl is going to come in to try and top him back up.
And that's all your bottle charges being used just to stay in the lane, though.
Kira says the clockwork can take the water rune as well, which is fine.
And, uh, yeah, this Earth Spirit's got the rune, but lost so much HP and mana.
And then back to awarding up that medium camp another sentry another
Another move that the couple has to make to come and do a little bit
They enjoy you're not building up all these stacks
And that means that the frog is left stranded level three lago
Trying to find a way to manipulate creepway from self, but
Very difficult
My clockwork are looking on that left-hand side
Always looking for an angle
A dead shot push back into cogs
frogs. The frog is going to try and walk around the left-hand side. I don't think I'm going
to land any of those cog kicks. So, corrupted lives, but I don't know what kind of life
this is in the bottom lane. And they actually come down here with rubics. Well, not going
to show himself just yet. Hanging around, maybe they can get a kill still. Got to go behind.
They're really low HP. You could grab a caudal, but they want the larval. Yeah, how is there
So Rubik here coming from the left hand side, lift him up into the cogs, he cobbles right
next to his tower trying to break free but he's going to get cog bounced around.
Thanks for that dead shot.
There he is, very hard bottom lane right now.
It was already difficult and then Rubik comes and ganks it as well.
And mid lane, you can say the same thing, there he's just about to hit level 5 on Earth
Spirit but Queen is getting level 6 from this catapult so a big advantage for Queen.
one more melee kit, just barely.
This living arm is definitely paying off, though.
Level 2 being spanned by this mid lane to keep the Earth spirit in somewhat plight and shape.
I'm gonna call in place down bottom around the Lotus Pool to zone the frog away,
while an Invas rune spawns at the bottom spot,
with a bit of defying for control around it.
But corrupted, it's just full-zoned out of lane.
Mirage rolls onto the Rubik mid, but suddenly realizes that the clock and the grid of pain
Queen of Pain is still ready to fight here with a sonic wave.
The heal, the Lotus and one being popped over onto Mirage keeps him alive and Isan's dead.
Cople, Treance, the sustain, the roaming fountain comes into play big time.
Yeah, gonna stay alive and be quite okay and that was the first Queen of Pain ulti not
getting any value, in fact losing that fight.
This does leave Sidelane's 1v1 and we saw Mertha winning hard bottom.
Top lane, Luna is not gonna do that well against Axe either.
we see him just deny right in front of her face kind of crazy to watch
earth spirit go from like a hundred HP back up to half you know like 600 burst
heal from his wand and elotus just immediately heals him he mirage is
going for a solo kill mid by the way he's like a kick away and a punch to
kill the queen of fate alone that shouldn't happen that was definitely a
mistake right there yeah I don't know what he did I was watching the
wisdom contest there where by the way they get the double wisdom the side of
radiance a big advantage but yeah that loses a lot of the advantage she had
built on ethereal he plays such a good laning stage stayed ahead and now
suddenly Mirage with two kills is a heaven experience to the Queen of Pain
who he was a full level behind just moment ago and that 200 net worth
advantage as well yeah I had a somehow I lost lane stage oh three to three no
net worth lead anymore and the yeah little advantages rating the built up just down the drain
well a lot of a lot of things can shift when you uh get solo kills like that on mid lane
and when you have Kotal Lago Trian responding and healing up mid lane over and over again
and denying an arcane rune as well by this Kotal nicely done to stop the queen of pain getting
the refill and while this is all happening yeah we've got the two carries farming right the
Both squads are going to be relying on this Murta and Luna to hit their stride.
They're actually on equal farm right now, both of them had 61 last hits.
Little bit of a net worth lead for the Murta as she has two kills to her name,
and Luna has not killed anyone yet.
But yeah, it's a game where I think overall like real late game, Murta does win,
but Luna is going to hit a more important timing earlier on.
One on the deadshot.
Corrupted being shoved around here with all their displacement tools, but with a living armor and a wand pop. It's back to 500 HP
Waddles away
Stays alive, but it's one of those what kind of life is he living, you know 2.7k gold
He is uh, definitely having a struggle the laning stage here. His mana is super looper low
No, uh, soul ring yet as well
Yes, uh, I would not want to be in corrupted shoes right now. It's a jungle life a half life
go go back and hide somewhere and get one more lane but when this is done time
to say goodbye not worthy as that snowy did go for the mask manas by the way you
and I have a cast some lunas in the past where somebody skipped mask manas and I
was about to lose my mind I think it's such a good item a Luna go for mask
manas into Yasha seems to be the build here straight into Manta sometimes we
see the detour Yasha into Dragonlands but I like the Manta rush just accelerate
that farm even more. Yeah, gives you a chance to break free of the calling or a blink call
from axe if that comes into play, get away from a dagger. Lots of little things you can
do with a man to style. Yeah, generally just shoving the dangerous lanes, right? Because
there's pretty good catch in this game, axe when he gets blink dagger, the clockwork with
hook shot and Queen of Pain has a lot of damage. So you don't want to be the one shoving lanes
super far instead just send an illusion. Let them do their job.
In Queen of Pings, gonna farm up a couple of jungle camps on the way back to
mid lane. Axe a similar story as he clears that left-hand side before
returning to defend his tier one top. I'm really trying to get a little advantage
for little extra bits of farm where they can. Queen is queuing up exactly the
items that I was hoping he would go for, the Kaia into Aghanim Scepter. Definitely
the strongest build path. Look at Luna though, come on! Straight onto Ethereal! Ah, that's
great from Mirage and Snowy. The move from Luna, the set up from Earth's spirit. Straight
on the Queen of Pain, who's now dead the second time in this game. That's good stuff. Playing
Luna is similar to playing, like, Faces Void. You have this massive ulti that does a lot,
so you want to get value out of it, and that was beautifully done there. And now Axe gonna
get shoved out of lane as well. So, there's this chunk of damage there as he tries to contest a
large camp and belongs to Snowy. Now Quinn of Pain, 0-2-0, had a tremendous start, great
laying stage, but now is ahead of the Largo, sure, but behind everybody else.
They're five manning, everybody top. Death are up. That's an overgrowth holding them
back though, and Snowy's still half HP. Right, screw that, back to full, healed by the rest
of his team. Ethereal, blink in two seconds, but that's not fast enough, gets dealt with
by Mirage. There were a reaction from Hulagani too strong. Chiki Bamboni not respecting the
defensive tools that Hulagani have.
I mean, things going bad from Batch Wars. The Queen had the right idea. They are five
manning top, but she went a little bit too early. Linking that aggressively just gets
her stuck in a really bad spot. And now after having a very good performance, I was actually
singing his praises a bit and thought he played a super good laning stage. Now he's 0-3-0
on Queen? It's so baffling to me that he's being Titanic so hard for him.
Hey, but Tiger, man, that's... I don't know, maybe it's Team Riz's team, it's just Hulagani
a little ahead, an echelon above, that gut feeling. The scary looking radiant line-up
has weaknesses behind it. It seems like it's the player's eagerness to try and recuperate
after getting counted and killed off a couple of times.
They still do have a minor lead, 1k gold lead for them right now, so it's just a lot about
how that bottom lane went, right?
Even though Queen of Pain has died 3 times, they're still ahead somehow, um, Mertha with
a 6k net worth versus the 3.5k off laner.
I'm also, I don't want to say cursed or blessed, whichever way you want to look at it, but I'm
pretty sure, I need to look at the stats for this, but I'm pretty certain whenever I cast
Queen of Pain or Naga Siren. These are the two big ones, Quap and Naga. They lose like 80% of the time.
Other people are like, Queen of Pain is such a good hero. Naga wins all her games.
I do not witness this happening. Every time I see these heroes, they just lose.
Yeah, I mean, Naga is definitely in a weird spot nowadays, I feel.
But Queen of Pain, I'm one of those people that, hey, Queen is a good hero.
I mean historically over the past 10 years these two heroes in in my mind are just bad no matter what
No matter what pattern it doesn't matter if they're good or not, you know by the numbers if I'm casting this
You're the jinx. I am the unfortunate here for a cheeky bamboni
It was especially true thought about that
I I did a little check not long ago because the way the way I felt this was whenever I cast in particular Quinn's Queen of Pain I
I cast four games of his Queen of Pain within like a two-month period and he like hard lost all of them
And that's what triggered this whole thing. I mean, that's just a Quinn issue though
No, that's that's not Queen that's Quinn issue. Well, that was a Quinn issue
And then I realized it's also Queen of Pain issue. I thought it was a Quinn issue, but it was the quap
We'll see if they're able to recover though. Ethereal 0-3-0, but still hitting some decent timings
On these items. That's that good lady saved in the farms. He's getting
It's working on that tire, but earth spins.
Oh no.
No jinxing.
Very quickly.
Waveform with a nice lift in to steal the roll and rolls to safety himself.
And a shield run like Queen of Pain, obviously helping out too.
Oh no.
Nobody's on the wisdom.
Triant.
He's gonna steal it.
And 40 Mineran gonna spawn bottom as a haste for Earth Spirit.
Radiant vision's gonna see them coming.
they wandered down to the bottom lane so I think Mert is going to be pretty okay to step back
and is protected by the clockwork as well. This haste room does open up the possibility for him
to make a plate bottom, play towards the Merta, maybe crack open the tower. I would love to see
Luna going through the gate and joining our team. May feel a little bit dangerous but actually think
that they're the stronger team 5v5 right now with all the sustain and heal they have we see them
Going through the gates so far, Luna has the only one not joining.
And we got ourselves a double wisdom shrine as well.
There's a roll, Dodgers roll.
Moran is connected on the waveform.
Many dips.
Then I'm worried to clockwork, evacuate.
The deep dollar wall coverage, it's sort of quite a pain farming,
but they couldn't connect with her.
So it seems like they're just gonna aim at killing off this tier one tower,
as they bring Snowy through the gate as well.
Chicken mamboni, at least they get away from the idea of defending this.
I think it's the correct call would be a very hard place to set up a defense
Especially with the boards, of course, they don't know that yet, but is that both a pressure on mid pressure top?
Defensive Ho-Champ. Rocham's walking through the river as well. Gotta be careful. Stepping down.
We're gonna try and skirmish at this point in time.
Everyone gathering up in this mid lane though. Clark Rubik behind the Queen of Pain,
coughed a lago behind the Earth spirit still get to see a queen of pain ulti
result in something good so let's smoke up now looking for the Luna as she moved
down bottom there massive kill to find but snowy is pretty far ahead of where
they expect he is he's gonna walk under the radiant walls again it might
survive or he gets there but I've seen him wandering back but the pings are
coming it looks like snowy is saying hey guys I'm farming stack come and help
They'll bring numbers across so cobbles here to stack one more time the first point of contact on to say
I should they'll blink in with a theory of trying to deal with the couple
But they can't actually get the grab so now the Luna with the Earth's spirit
They're on to waveform dealing with Rubik
blowing up waveform and trying to chase forward with Mirage keeping this magnetized going I could maybe go up high ground
But they're expecting the staircase
That's a little bit indecisive there they go in they split the focus on to the anchor actually a blink ax though
Link's in with a blade mail onto Mirage, but that's a tanky Earth spirit.
Alright, he's perfectly fine.
Living armor. Living armor is making a difference over and over here.
It saved the caudal, it keeps the Earth spirit nice and healthy.
Respect is keeping his friends alive.
I genuinely don't know what the Raiden has to do to kill a hero in this game.
Just dig on time.
I mean, it's not even that they can't kill something.
It's just their efforts have been pretty lackluster.
There was two heroes jumping the Earth Spirit on mid.
Two heroes to kill a mid hero is typically pretty low investment.
Normally you want at least three.
And when they try to kill Foto, again,
it was the two heroes latching onto him out of the three heroes in the smoke.
So they need to get all their efforts working towards the same kill.
Because of the saves, as you mentioned, the heals are very strong.
Well yeah, this game, you know, early on we saw a minor, minor net worth lead for chicken
bamboni, but I do think that Fuligani are going to have the stronger late game if we
can get there, or like this mid game power spike, I should say, not late game, because
ultra late I think Merta is the hard carry that wins.
I'm going to jump onto the cuttle.
Get that.
That was good dunk, guys.
Three heroes on one target. Do you see how fast it disappeared?
So we have the potential to kill. They just need to do this. Decisive moves.
One big bang.
Oh, kill the cuttle.
A good steal on Ruby.
That's the chakra magic. I actually think that's a very nice spell to steal.
That was a cuttle, team. That's really nice.
So now we're going to be with Axe, right?
You can lure the cooldown on the berserkers pole.
Pretty damn good.
Not too shabby.
I'm hardly going to try and gather up.
I'm thinking about a smoke out this mid lane.
That looks like he's just going to go for it on his own.
Mirage is sprinting out from mid to one across the top.
I'm trying to play in towards where Snowy's set up.
They have good words behind here. They saw everybody moving in and they bring more resources to fight.
No silence and then kick. Mirage rolling towards Axe, but he doesn't connect.
Now because Gord is still scary, who'd be gotten in with the beat board behind everything?
Five heroes up here for Radiant. I'm trying to go with a blink call, missing though. Mirage
step back, respect Hanno the brook if needed, Snowy's come in with the eclipse and the damage,
Mantar dodged and now tries to heal against Anku's axe, reburting them down, the blade
now return, and then the clear out. I have killed the three of them off, trading out for
a three of their own. We've got two heroes remaining on either side. Kothal Lager gets
Queen of Pain and Rubik. Corrupted and saiyosh, they're still chasing with a lick back on waveform.
Solarbind into further damage, take him down and get that fourth kill of a fight.
Very nice good defense by them when you're playing tree and protectors so important to not give away your towers for free and I think
Maybe a misplay by my brother to keep auto attacking into the blade mill. He just kept going man. He took
1,400 damage from the blade mill that is a lot
I ring, you know at some points. Yes, you want to kill your opponents, but
Blade mill is a very strong counter to myrta. So a great choice by the earth spirit to go back for that
I did a ton of damage.
And as the Anku Blademail as well was spilling back on the Luna, both the carries just dying
with the Blademail damage.
That's so true.
The Queen of Pain Ulty was unfortunate too, it only clipped onto a tree and protect her
and didn't even kill him when she threw it.
She saved that Ulty a little bit, this fight could have been way cleaner.
Well the rough thing is, they don't get to touch Teo on Tower or anything.
went for this bold move. Kind of goes even. And die come out with like slight advantage
towards the tail end. So they don't get to touch the tower and now they're back to resetting
lanes and trying to play towards the tourn in the bottom right corner. Yeah, Luna by the way is
doing what I said. She's going for the Agamon Scepter build. Respect. She's been going for the tourn
or mentor, who's I on them?
That is enough to just discourage them.
Just him being there.
First one, Cottle.
First smoked up top.
The rest of the raid, yeah, come through the gate.
Interesting position to be in, honestly.
I'm group links forward and then the smoke breaks.
Yeah, Huligani realizing hang on.
There's far too many heroes around here.
I've got the dive vision on the gate and in the lane
So they've seen it all coming.
I think they want to defend.
If the push comes in again, Luna will just TP and use the agonist to defend.
This is a very nice timing.
21 minutes, having Mantle, Masked Man as Agnes is super strong.
I should say, the Merkel is pretty damn farmed as well.
She's only sitting 200 gold behind, so her timing is fantastic,
but she hasn't hit it yet.
The BKB is still 600 gold away, so if they make a move right now,
it could be very decisive for Huligami.
Yeah, this could be teamfight into Roshan.
There's a lot of scribbling on the map out of the lunar there saying hey let's play into
the enemy ancients in towards mid lane.
There are some high profile targets here showing on waves, they've seen the Muerta.
They'll know where the axe is up top so they know this is a free entry to the fight on
the clockwork and they can keep on diving.
They know there's no axe nearby, Queen of Pain is very distant so it's just actually a quick
snipe on the clock into tier one tower.
Let's hear one call, so that's the last outer tower being removed for them, and of course
they're keeping both their side lane towers pretty healthy, Trayant Protector has been
on point, just spamming that winning armor.
I don't know about Luna, has the agonist up there, she's not going crazy, he's still
farming, this is a hybrid build, so just because you're going axe doesn't mean you're going
for any form of like full spellcaster. Just look for an opportunity to drop the ulti.
Just gotta do that top again as the axe has been spotted. Watch out for the blade melt
damage though. Yeah gotta be wary of that. Respect is
going to get blown up by this YBKB Muerta. Mirage also going to get shredded. Oh essence
ring, deadshot flies. That's not enough. Mirage barely stays alive. Very close there. I gotta
respect this murder. We're diving, we're looking for Saoirse over the top,
blind light pushed back, ethereal thinking about the continuation blinking
aggressively with a sonic wave stolen loose and being they get the kill but
maybe now a lick back into aggressive play? Huligani not gonna go for it. I'm a
little bit disappointed Luna doesn't click ulti at any human point here. I feel
like you could maybe have killed the axe with the initial goal there or at the
At least when Queen of Queen is blinking down and killing your caudal, force her to use her BKB.
Drop your ulti on her, get that BKB down because this is a 9 second BKB.
It doesn't feel great for Queen to have to use it.
And the cooldown is about the same as your Eclipse anyway.
As a matter of fact, you know, he bought the Aghanim's, had it for 3 minutes now, and hasn't found a chance to use it.
Which is, you know, it's super long range. It's pretty easy to see an opportunity for it.
That's pretty sad, don't they use it?
No chance to go for a cheeky
Yeah, you got that top tier one got to push out into that top jungle still no chance to get torn or Roshan or anything
But we're getting all these bkbs up
Not a quarp. You already said how there's
Luna closing on hers though on the other side with the Earth spirit
hundreds of gold away
Don't kill a guy and have them, teamfights become a lot easier.
So our bros ptv is flying out, um, he's the one missing along with Mirosh and Seraphim,
but it's going to be a 4-monter vs. Rosh trade right now.
About to get the news that Roshan has fallen.
Aegis on Murta at this stage of the game feels amazing.
Didn't die to the Aghanem's reveal, hasn't really been slowed down much at all.
it all. I think she's in a pretty good spot. They can protect this monitor through axe,
rubik, clockwork. They've got the tools to be able to reset or initiate for her.
Yoai has all the items needed to dish out that damage.
Yeah, yes, her can pack flying in so that will help him not only be able to get
safety but maybe chase people down as well as one of the weaknesses of Murtha is getting kited.
The aggressive force staff can be good too.
Every time I hear axe call, there's something internal.
Blood pressure rises, your eyes wide open, pupils dilate, oh he's on creep, never mind.
Seb!
Oh wait, there's a sudden flash across my nervous system, it's like, Seb, no never mind.
He's just farming creeps, he's fine.
Your wife sneaking behind, we're actually gonna roll away.
He's not too bothered, he saw them walking a little bit closer to the tower there.
They revealed themselves, they have to be wary, the tier 2 night kitchen isn't that low.
They've tucked the Luna away over near the ancients to farm out at the outpost.
There's an amplified damage ruin at bottom as well, so potential here for Huligani to
gather up their forces and defend that top tier 2.
Looks like that's what they're going to go for with a smoke from mid lane with three
of them.
Trion and Luna need to find some way to join.
Top tier 2 is taking a lot of damage and they're slowly inching towards this.
I think they give it up. It's a little bit too late. They're not quite in position to go and defend this.
Unfortunately, they're in the worst kind of limbo where you want to defend so you're running over, but you're also not defending it.
So now they lost quite a bit of momentum.
I'm losing time on his damage rune as well, would've loved to be able to use this with
a Luna.
I get the agonim scepter, Eclipse going, but instead it's a Tertutau for Radiant,
cheeky bamboni smoking up, and maneuvering his foal to push out this mid lane with Moira
to the only one showing.
Dara Visions Cesar coming and Mirage gonna make the immediate move straight onto your
line, force of BKB.
Overgrowth without sonic wave, onto free though, Eclipse flies in, Annie-san and Ury dropping
low, the axe is pummeled down by snowy, ethyl has to blink away as Mirage goes rolling and
chasing. Hooligani have killed off three already, I thought this looked okay for the
rage, but YoA is now trapped and stuck! The displacement, the sustain and heals enough
to withstand the initial onslaught. Hooligani say no, absolutely not, we're gonna slay you!
Yeah, the Luna ulti and her auto attacks in that fight were just absolutely popping off.
She got a very good positioning, even though she got called, she had the safety as well
of her own BKB and all the protection in the team.
Overgrowth holding people in place.
We can have a look again here.
Despite the BKBs being used with Aegis, still a lot of damage coming through.
And Mertha just gets kited.
Again, look at her.
She tried to get some auto attacks out, but didn't really get to shoot much during that
Oki.
Yeah, BKB rolled Merth's Spirit, Heal, Scepter and Force Staff from Kotal, the movement speed
that they've got blink tree and this little frog just skipping and dancing around with the face boots and a windlace
Luna doesn't even need a piker of four stabs. She just stands and delivers
Such a brick wall to run into and even though you get some execution out of these raiding heroes
Just not enough to burst anybody
We have seen tankiness be very very good in a lot of these games, right?
There's definitely no shortage of damage on either team
But I think you can easily say that huligani is the tankier between the two
You deserve that
Triant has cloak of flames and he's like I've got a radiance
I'm gonna stand in three place and burn the creeps actually sees the creeps burning. He's like, you know what?
I was gonna call and call you chop down the stupid tree with my big old axe
That I had a sense. Okay. I had a century ward fine. He saw him anyway
Yeah, but you know, it's it's so stupid. He wouldn't have stood there under the century board
Had he just not gone in like this. He doesn't need to make your scratch. This is enough damage. It will push the creepy
No, well seconds 80 damage per second and ensure 35% less
One second is still a long time.
He deserves that death, but you just know he's going to do that kind of move again in
the future.
I know I will.
I have to look at flames.
I'm going to freaking use it.
It's going to happen.
Are there some tanks to gank?
Yeah, I thought it was going to die.
Trapped in a cage of his own design.
Puts the cogs down to block the path, but it's still going to get slapped into the ground.
spirits rolls after, but can't really catch the Rubik who rolls away.
And there will be a scary powerspike moment here again with Butterfly on the Luna.
Not really there yet, but she's got enough gold for the Eagle Song, so getting pretty
close.
getting to a point now where she skipped ahead of the, weren't a couple of
thousand gold advantage now for snowy off the back of these couple of team
flights. I'm gonna say Queen of Pain after that 0-3 start has recovered
decently in terms of net worth. Been quite greedy on the map taking a lot of the farm.
Hasn't found any kills yet on the theory which feels kind of sad though.
0-3-5 still. Yeah, Queen of Support, the classic.
apparently so. I mean this is theoretical damage it's very high in the
fight still. You know why? Hold up Bertha. Yeah getting kicked around,
corrupted being chased by Anko but this mariner's being kited.
Trying to hurricane plight down, gets the low ground into river, I've got an
Eclipse and a Lunar chasing forward in onto this axe. Where does the stand and
try and deliver with a BKT up but the overgrowth is whole through in place
while they dive on a tier 2 tower. They've completely isolated this mariner
After the hard carries of Rageon get shredded while diving into tier 2 corrupted, the frog
he gets healed and doesn't land still dies inside the cogs.
Trian and the Largo for the Moatches so far and it looks like Hulikaon ain't gonna say
that's good enough.
Yeah, just gonna run away.
A little bit unfortunate they lost the Trian there, he underestimated the damage of the
Myrta.
They had her fully locked down but he walked in, got too close, got punished.
I think that could have been executed a little bit cleaner.
Murta was in such a bad position and started a fight. I'm surprised that Chica Bambolni
managed to get a good fight out of it still.
Really, God, he's just going a little bit too deep on the tier two.
Tier two's a no joke. I'm trying to dive this far.
Yeah.
Larga could probably just zone them out and fall them back. If they all dog par the Murta,
she just dies and you run away.
still though it's again widening that gap between the Luna and the Mertha if
Mertha gets to a butterfly plus satanic timing she will hit the par-spec that
every Luna is looking to play towards crack high ground with satanic and butterfly complete
and if you don't have MKB on Mertha but that time it's hard to deal with her
There's queuing up a Zetanic for herself. Makes a lot of sense since Life Steel works
now even in the ulti form. It's a while back. Yeah, the amount of sustain the Dio has, he's
going to need some of her own just to have time in these fights to get the damage going.
And both teams are thinking about this next Roche. We know he's a minute away. And Ruby
just going to lift himself out of that potentially dangerous spot of the lunatic illusion show
on that top wave and I was just eyes in the forest for this tree and so they're going to
start seeing all the approaches and the advancement towards the pit. I think Hulu got in a very
good spot here to ready themselves this next gross engagement. There really are and they just got a
massive item coming in as well. Sayu has a Wind Waker. It was scouted right off by a rocket from
buffer but still this is a massive item to have a 33 minutes in on a support so
this bottle could save people against the axe pole. Yeah for sure that's great to
have and now it looks like they've broken a smoke the tree in in position and then
he blinks away to push out the lane at the same time that's why this hero is so
strong gives vision through the shard eyes in the forest sees them coming he's
in position to smoke break without really committing anything they're trying to
Chasing with a gem?
I was like, okay, he's been found, but respect has dragged the attention so far away from any objective that they're wasting all this time to catch a tree who cannot be found, and he just tucks himself further into the forest.
Oh my god, so stupid.
Cannot get him in the end. He gets the safety, and meanwhile his team has set up a smoke move. All this space created.
Yeah, I mean, Annie's time is completely isolated. So you go chase, chasing a tree and lose your clockwork.
and might just be losing out on Roshan here.
Green of Hane getting eyed up by the Luna,
Cothal, EarthSpirit can't quite grab onto her.
Enforces an offensive blink and now we pop into the pit.
She gets enough distance from the gang,
but like you pointed out, this Roshan is the big thing to fight for.
Queen doesn't really want to leave the area,
but she doesn't have anyone nearby.
Axe will TP in, but it feels like it's already almost too late.
The C Roshan HP though, that's really valuable,
really valuable, knowing exactly how high his HP is,
we could maybe steal for the blink and VKD.
I could try for it.
It's an arcane rune, Earth Spirit though.
And Roshan's died, ages in the hands of Snowy,
no chance of contesting for the radiant.
Very nice advantage, this time the ages
in the hands of Luna.
We saw the Murta not have the best success with the ages,
but Luna is more set up to utilize this to good success,
having the butterfly already.
I'm not being too far away from the full satanic.
2000 gold to go.
Largo level 20 now as well.
Two catchy lift charges.
Pretty nice.
And Largo also hit this power spike.
We talk about how Volactia season 7.
Power spike was around 20 minutes for Largo.
Now I think it's around here.
Like 35 was what I said back then actually or in our earlier game in this qualifier.
And it's 35 minutes in.
It's got BKB, Kaisange, Chivas.
killable how do you kill it it's so hard
serial GPS in and blinks back when mirage has been blown up that's what they
were jumping for snowy it's gonna get licked back into windway to save a
theory was pretty low with the BKB going more to dealing with respect forcing
tree and back that all kicks off in the blink of an eye trading out the earth
spirit for the clockwork immediate damage is blowing people up and now good
Yo, I worked without any save behind her has the PKB to run to high ground.
They jump with the ax under corrupted now, hoping with the Lucent beans
for long range in the windway.
It was a bit of time to save corrupted frogs at PKB and run back.
Crazy fight.
Crazy fight, not too many kills happening, but I think they should be very happy
on cheeky bamboni.
That was a scary fight to take into the ages.
They only lose their clockwork and get to kill on Earthbeats.
So pretty amazing execution.
And Luna's 8,700 damage.
It's a lot of damage, but they guided it fairly well.
The moment they started dropping low, they just back out.
No, my eyes were on the other side.
Tower being pushed, Queen of Pain,
TP's into the middle of them, then blinks away.
I'm like, oh, shit, what's going on?
And then all of a sudden, they're on the Earth spirit.
Yeah, Earth got too close.
He got caught by the telekinesis,
lifted back into Expo.
I've got a blip call on Snowy now.
The Cotl is just behind the Luna, trying to offer some protection, but he's gonna get
zoned out by Ethereal, so this Luna is completely stranded.
A Wind Waker buys a bit of time, but Sonic Waves the damage there they need it, and
now we've got a catch on the Cotl.
Two in a row for Cheeky Bamboni, the Earth Spirit, the Mirage, BKB, Blade Mail, roll
straight on into the middle of them.
Ethereal's gonna go shine the golden himself, as Anken stepped back with a BKB of his own.
Mirage, he's forced to reaction out of Cheeky Pamponi, but he might be dying for it with the body-blocks in the calling,
and he's sand-holds him in there for more to get the kill.
And now it's on the call.
The Trian, dragged back in towards them, a dominating axe, picks up another one.
What a wild sequence of events, that bottom lane fight was crazy enough, but this top one was madness?
Yeah, Hooligani are dropping the ball pretty hard.
not playing close enough to each other, first down bottom, getting caught alone on the Earth Spirit and his team not being close enough.
And now they're walking in after the pick-off already happened. Luna was dead, the portal was dead, and then he elects to go into 5 heroes alive.
We get a replay of this. Luna had satanic, couldn't use it for the first life.
Second life, I'm almost surprised you did get a Manta into satanic moment out here.
What happens? It's Lyft. Lyft gets Wind Wakered and then the fear immediately grabs him so he couldn't get Stamikroin.
Yeah, with no BKB, it's a good smoke, good timing for them to hit as now...
Back in line?
And then jumping onto high ground to try and grab corrupted and he's going to be okay.
Walks away.
Yeah, I mean Mirage in every play, just...
Mental, honestly.
I think Bodyblock's not paying out.
Hey, for some BKBs, sure, but it's not as though he's like stopping them from roaching or anything.
Yeah, he was hoping he could do more damage to them because some of the BKBs were expended for the Luna kill.
He thought maybe, okay, they're weak enough that I can go in and do something now,
but overestimating their capabilities.
Win probability definitely has shifted quite a bit.
Now saying 38% according to Dota plus, I think maybe even higher right now is near dead even.
I would say
Well four minutes ago it was 81% for hula gani. Yeah
Yeah, it was looking really great. I mean the lead was massive the ages was in the hand of Luna
The high ground push was coming with a satanic on on the way, but then they just split up and get picked off
So yeah, that's what I mean hula gani. Definitely missed a an important time there
behind it a ton back to cheeky bamboni look at the graph just spiraling all the
way back up brings dead even pretty much so now we're looking at Daedalus
complete on water yeah Daedalus and satanic blink dagger will be our next
item she's getting pretty fierce and jump all to her fault the two-man call
Coltel and Luna he's gonna get the windbreaker off on Coltel snowy trying
to stand and get the damage going but a sonic wave pushback means Luna trapped
in the cogs, hang on lifesteal, trying to get back up with the crit, lands!
Your eye with a 1200, slap down, shoot, flew, and it hits the deck.
And another move forward, to corrupt it, finds a go-hiff, a cheeky-breeky-banbo,
need to go and get freaky onto this frog! Collapsed! Collapsed, corrupted, he collapses!
That was a fantastic fight for them, and the MVB is, you know, an unsung hero, usually a wounded
hero, it's the Observer Ward. The little sentry and observer combination over there,
Revealed them walking in acts patiently ignores the tree and who he sees right in front of him
Blinks on the back line gets a two-year catch just very very nice stuff
And that was only possible due to this good work. I know the straps high ground for the other ones looking for this first lane
Two three lift up, but we're looking at 50 seconds without Luna 50 seconds with no high ground defense
There might be two sets
This is definitely gonna be at least top and mid and they're looking to you know get more advantage
So probably gonna swing out to get that bottom lane shoved in all the way and take over the triangle suddenly
Poolygawney what looks so promising
That's just fun of course
Yeah, I say Dubai's your buildings. They can't go bottom straight away. There's still a tier one never mind the tier
That's a full in tier one full HP. Thanks the tree and
Well, that's like a great swing out from cheeky bamboni, I mean, I go in from this situation
where Huligani felt almost an inevitable force going up high ground with the Aegis Luna, looking
to close out the game, just gets turned on his head.
Yeah, we get to elaborate a bit on what I've been talking about on lots as we see the win
probability again.
It's looking rough now.
Now we get to this complicated thing of the carry-to-carry matchup where late, late game,
six slots there's no way Luna is favored against Merta so you have to do
stuff on timing that's why the ages play was so important and now the Merta is
very close to being complete six slaughtered and it's super tough to manfighter
and his axe with the jumps making it problematic for Daya to try and react
corrupting in a BKB and step back and through getting routed up but YoA is
gonna stand with a BKB going past the retreat now though respecting who the
gun is they've killed off the axe and you know why at half HP you can even chase down as well.
I'm gonna pop the ult, pierce the veil and run people down looking for a kill on respect but
getting kited around tremendously with another you'll scepter up and mirage jumping in.
Now you've got the damage and the control but you see Tannix spend the full HP, kills Mirage,
yo I'm still going for it but Luna has her number. Yeah that's how big thing I have to do is kill
off her teammates first, kiter for a long time and then you know try and bring her down it took a
a lot of effort, but they do get this Murta down. Some signs of life coming out from Huligani
afterwards. You know, a few bad fights in a row.
What is the fricking Chuckle Brothers over here? To me, to you, to me, to you, passing
back and forth this league. Wow, are we going to see Daa team go take some barracks?
Oh, passing quite a bit of damage as well as both the carries did 10,000 damage in that
last fight. So some serious numbers. Of course, the Satanic on both of them is kind of cheating
really printing HP on either side I mean you can get a lot of damage done when
you're both healing that's true I've got a long rush and respawn as well so
plenty of time for more of these crazy team fights they're enjoyable the
initiation is very important and targeting of course
post squad's gonna look for control over the pit I know he's still a pretty
distant from me spawning vitally important because of lanes out right now
yeah she might estimate the impact of Queen of Pain as we go late game here I
do think she becomes more of a powerhouse in late game than what we see
from her spirits you know a good frontline body but he doesn't quite
scale to become this insane monster that Queen now with the offering bloodstone
is starting to look quite intimidating if you ever stack up you can get punished
by her alone.
Clockwork is one job, standing in the Roshan pit.
One man, one desire to know when the Roshan responds.
The movie trailer for Clockwork?
It's just him sitting here again, the trailer is just literally this.
It's like a time lapse, right?
You see the daylight night time shift, you know, stars flying over his head.
the sun rises, the sun sets, it's still Clockwork standing here, waiting for Rochane to respawn.
Small coming in though, they want to contest it, they don't know exactly when it's up,
they don't have the Clockwork rockets for themselves.
Same to move over.
Also by the way, that Clockwork trailer of him just standing in the Roche pit, probably
still better than most modern movie trailers.
They reveal everything man, those trailers destroy the entire show, it's like okay,
I feel like I've watched a movie, no I'm good.
Now our trailer won't even show if Rochane respawns, you'll never know, you'll have to
the move to find out. It's clockwork standing next to a swing set looking dejected down at his feet.
Well the smoke doesn't lead too much but we have shifted to night time so the teams will shift
to the other side of the map. Anku's axe walking up high ground here, quite bold with ethereal and
anistan getting onto mirage though a good start let's see if they can follow up with anything.
BKB's galore, overgrowth is good, respect catches them all as they move on deeper. Mirage and snowy
standing and trying to get the damage back out onto UI. The morons are forces in even further,
getting deep in the midst of Hulagani, but only the axe has fallen so far, buys back and returns.
Treant traded out as UI finds to get something done. Mirage dying to the Queen of Pain in the
back, but he's going to get the Cyclone into the sky to stay alive until the final touch from
Aetheril bring him down again. Another jump, a clockwork hook shot, trying to catch up Snowy,
Luna, what would have got left? Satanic in five, Mantle ready, tries to stay alive but the dunk
is there axe gets the kill buybacks are ready for luna and lago but mirage he's gonna roll into
the ethereal and kuduo and dead with no buyback himself fantastic fighting coming out there nice
patience as well from both teams actually at first they don't want to be the first one to use their
bqbs and overcome it to the fight so we saw luna backing out transplant tentatively forcing out
the queen we can be but ultimately this is a team fight against an axe against the queen
against Mertha with a calling it is not easy to fight the nutspot. Look at the damage both
queen and Mertha did holy. 10 blinks yeah two bloodstone uses. What a wild game. Madness.
I mean late game queen is one of the most fun things to play as well you just get to do so much
licking back and forth in and out into his fights.
I'm now looking for the third lane. Cheeky Bamboni.
Already with two sets of racks for their name, pushing up this bottom lane high
ground. 50 seconds, no worst for it. And they know he died back.
Luna can buy back, but I don't know if she really wants to without the full
arsenal of abilities behind her. So we'll wait this one out and it's mega
creeps on the menu. With ages and five people alive,
If you don't have air spirits, there's no point buying back here, so you're just gonna accept the Magakus,
but you need to put up a fight before the air spirit respawns, I think.
30 seconds is too long.
Ah, it's a long timer.
Watching that clock tick down.
It's markets 4.55pm waiting for that 5 o'clock to hit.
Try and start the move slower and slower as the clock shifts down your eye,
just hits your buildings and kills off all the tier 4s.
Exposed throne now
Damage being done from pretty far away as well from this tree just mark up one double lick back, but no follow through yet
the ancient heal up
Next creep wave he could satanic on the mirth I get full HP. It's right now. It's very low and banner dealt with finally by snowy
Creep wave respawning in about five seconds
And hula ghani there advancing trying to de-walt this area whole a plateau around their throne
Don't allow these Barbarians to get back up the staircase.
They are up against Mega Creeps now and they are backs against the wall.
Ethereal is going to stop poking with a blink of the daggers,
calling on the ground as well, making life a little annoying for Snowy.
Watch for Rubik, he has stolen Overdress still from the previous fight.
He could potentially get a massive impact in this next team fight.
I was just watching their throne get clipped by UI though.
This Aegis Murata loses her first life.
They clip from Luna, clears her out.
But look for the axe the hookshot misses you anchor is trying to find an opening as you I
VKB ready static charge used out of the mule there now shiny and golden with a blue color mirage
They're aiming for the search for it to take him out
But you'll step to win wake up buy some time respect son stop doesn't get the other growth down
Ancient mobbing focused down at mirage. He's the first one to fall as you I clears up snowy as well
GG straight up called well buy back the Luna after calling GG
Hey, the game is over already!
Cheeky Bonboni, take game one.
No more games, says UI, as they win this game.
Very impressive stuff coming out.
Ultimately, a little bit shaky if I'm there.
Loosing the roach, losing the ages earlier.
It felt like we were gonna see Holy Gawday run away
with it at a timing that they couldn't match,
but they split up too much, Garrett.
One guy you can't pick up here, another one there.
Over here, the Luna dying with the ages
and then they run in and feed afterwards.
I think Huligani lacked some discipline there.
They did all the hard parts
and then the easy thing of just stay close to your friends,
you know, protect the Luna.
Yeah, both together.
Yeah, I'm leaving Snowy alone.
I mean, Mirage also going a bit psycho
diving into some of these flights alone,
trying to find something out of a tough spot.
I just gave so much to Cheeky Bamboni.
The discipline, right?
Like, you could probably just have gone away
from this entirely, but now you lost Aegis, you lost Luna, you lost Caudal, and now you
lose the Urspirit as well as your Trian Protector who went in as well.
The only one I managed to TP out was the Largo, so what could have been just one guy
getting picked off, turns into everyone dying.
This fight was crazy though.
This area is just insane, both teams are patient here.
The amount of Yul's Wind Waker's full stance, BKB's, like everyone, it's Tokyo drift down
here.
going muddy degrees around the fricking corners and Johan is murderous stands and shoots machine guns people down
Watching it back. That's told an overgrowth. It was really big. We didn't ask you, you know catch so much on the screen
It's like impossible to see everything at first glance, but
Very very nice play from waveform
Way from by the way playing support in this pretty funny because I do know in pubs
I've seen him play a lot of times. He plays carry as well. He's actually a more fleeing player. He's learning more finger thing
But that's a lot of times the case, you know, you have
You have these players who are maybe carry or maybe core and then you want to play pro Dota and it's like someone has to support
You know, you can have to do it
Well, there you go 13 4 13 quick Queen of pain is going 0 3 0 into 3 3 10
And oh, beautiful, really good comeback story for Thereal.
Yeah, it's crazy that he didn't die a single time
in all those latest scenarios is super impressive.
So for whatever flak we gave him in the early game,
took him 18 minutes to get into his first kill.
But once he got going, he definitely
stayed on the money, good positioning, good play.
And Rubik, some amazing steals from this man.
Just overall throughout the game,
his speedy catches as well.
His telekinesis was, uh, what gave them the initiation a lot of times.
90% kill participation in the 50 minute game is also pretty bonkers.
So nice stuff there.
That just speaks to what we said though, going together, go with your friends,
play together. Cause if, uh, you know, I was to make that point again,
Luna was only part of 17 out of the 25 kills, which isn't that low,
but compared to the side of cheeky bamboni who grouped up a lot more,
I feel like they, that was like the main advantage.
and the team's team has been
doing a great job. The
team's team's team has been
doing a great job. They had
little bit better positioning
for these big fights. Well,
there we go. Hula Ghana getting
a little bit lacks a little bit
undisciplined, like you say,
and it's in this lower bracket.
Very often. We see the
situations where it comes down
to teams not making mistakes.
Yeah, you can win the next stage.
You can do all these things
perfectly have 20 minutes of
flawless gameplay. But if you
make some big cockups when you
I'll Hula Gani got to go back to the drawing board and figure out how to deal with this cheeky team
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Welcome back to Crazy Dota Zone, we've got Chikybamboni taking on Huligani down here in the lower bracket for the European and closed regional qualifiers for TI 20-26, the international.
We've got four slots, we've got 16 teams, what we did have 16 teams have started knocking them out and we might have another one. We will have another one, damn it, we'll knock another one out today as well.
Well, it might be hula gani if they continue playing like this because cheeky bamboni said, okay
We see your two mistakes. We raise you a throne took the game from right out under their feet
They did it was a very closely matched game though overall
There were moments where hula gani probably should have been able to close it out
But at the end of the day cheeky bamboni definitely stepping up
Which is nice to see because they have the first matchup
We talked about earlier against team visions in the upper bracket, which obviously was a super hard match
going here against the hooligani who had Power Rangers. Looks like these two teams are fairly
closely matched though. Yeah, I would say that that loss against Team Vision, the two
are lost there. It was a bit of a slapping by Team Vision, of course, as you'd expect,
but there was still a bit of resistance and fight back from Jiki Bamboni, some interesting
drafting ideas. But I think it really lit a fire under them. They've been performing
Okay in their previous tournaments and you know taking series off of VP prodigy you're losing then winning its power Rangers
but then
Directly after losing the team vision they what three one power Rangers now
They've one zeroed Hula Ghani looking pretty good in this series
It might be the start something beautiful
Yeah, could be and I get the way it's nice to see them
You know kind of powering up here as of course the lower bracket
No one wants to go out with a win period you want to put up as good of a fight as possible
possible. I'm always going to
back the underdog. T. I always
think about the underdog story.
Make it through open qualifiers.
Get through closed qualifiers.
Do lower bracket run at T. I've
got some magic. See some which
really just means that we would
back either of these team after
they win here. Who loses here?
We care about your out. You're
gone. But if you win this, then
you are, you know, immediately
down in lower brackets. You are
the team that we choose to root
for, which also means, by the
way, Gareth is now converted.
converted also is rooting for team bald. They made themselves a big underdog by dropping down
into a bracket. Yeah, after that, winning against VP Prodigy for sure, but fully converted. Yeah,
it looked very, very good. I mean, as a Brit, obviously, I also have to root for every underdog
possible. It's just in our blood. We never have teams of our own performing. We never have a
chance to follow our own players and squads. We have to choose the poor, whimpering puppy who's
suffering. Let's go. You've been
transition to this by the UK
daughter players overall.
Pretty much players.
So you've got a few a handful,
right? Yeah, we've had a couple
that we had BLR for a little bit.
Of course, Ari now is like
most of the burden.
He's he's you know, doing this
Sys-Sphian in task.
What was it to carry?
pushing the ball up the hill, pushing UK Dota out of the gutter. Yeah, he's carrying like seven
torches as well, you know, making sure that he's got all the flags and stuff. But anyway, enough
of that. No UK players here. Yeah, looking at looking at the draft we have going up against these
players, we have Drow as an opener coming in. She's been banned in the first phase a lot. We
haven't seen her play that much, but I've been hyping up that she is a very, very strong hero in
in the current patch. I think that she lanes well into most things nowadays. And Huligani,
they're going to try to break it with the Darkseer as a reaction pick. Not typically what I see
as a counter to Drow, but it's the beginning of a lineup that runs on top of Drow, right?
Yeah. One of the major counters is getting on top of Drow, don't let her just stand there and shoot,
and Darkseer is at least a fast hero. Yeah, I just want to say a bit of team fight with it,
right as we had I think it was mouse where we were not super happy with their darks here because they only had a spirit breaker as
Like as a cool combo in lane and then game feels good
But didn't have anything to follow through in the later teamfights with that vacuum
So I'd love to see even just like you know a tiny with an avalanche or something to actually go with it
Some tiny carry some less wreck on the mid lane. Maybe you know get yourself a few different
Abilities and suddenly the darks your vacuum is going to be a very serious threat. No, I completely agree
I wouldn't mind seeing something
like spirit breaker getting
picked, you know, that's fine,
but at least get some other stuff
and here's the beginning already
tree and protector massive ulti
so vacuuming people together,
holding them in place with the
roots. This is a good start. Yeah,
go for the wombo combo. And I
guess just thinking about this
Drow Darkseer kind of thing.
Darkseer has very often been picked
up against these Agi carries. I
same realm where dropping a wall on her is going to be super annoying. Oh, to a degree.
The wall is good. The wall is good. It's not insane like it is against Morphling, for instance,
but the illusion definitely does a fair bit of damage if you get it onto a draw. And you
could even consider going for, you know, depending what the early build up is, but you could consider
going agonimceptor at some point in the darks here and just smacking the draw range.
First pick of the tournament. Ogre Magi. No, that's a bit of fun. A bit of alright coming
in here, 0% win rate not being touched at all. So we've got a bloodlust and drawranger now.
This is a classic combo. Fantastic hero standing in front of drawr and bloodlust feels so good
because not only does it give you the attack speed, like that's pretty obvious that drawr
enjoys the attack speed but then movement speed is pretty impactful. Drawr is so slow and feels
really sluggish sometimes but having bloodlust kind of solves that and makes positioning easier
in the team fights.
Yes, it's, I mean, I think I called for it once the other day, kind of jokingly, because
we had a situation similar to this, where Clockwork, Tusk were banned and we needed
that, you know, tanky five who brawls and sits in front of the, the drow or clink, so
whoever it is, it looks like Ogre is actually going to get played.
Then a win ranger, I'm assuming position four going to come out for cheeky Bamboni, and
we return to the speedy drafting.
Kotl-Ember combo coming out for Hulagani.
All strong heroes make a lot of sense from them as well.
If they do get to the point of having like Aghanim Scepter on the Keeper of the Light
and then get a vacuum, you know, I can start seeing the vision here.
A lot of lockdown.
This spell is going to be super important for Chikibamboni, by the way.
All these different things.
Searing chains, root from tree ent, or possibly solar bind from Keeper of the Light.
They're going to have to itemize some, some Manta style and draw and maybe even get some
more stuff like Lotus Orb is gonna be massive here for Ogre if you can get it.
Yeah try and get those defensive tools. Now where are we going? Do we round out
that off lane to pair with Windranger? With one of our tanky melee off lane
heroes? I'm assuming Windranger 4 right? Windranger Mech doesn't really get
played all that much. It's like Largo Windranger lane seems like what it's gonna
to be. Yeah, and that seems
a good flexible until the last pick if they want to.
You can also I said they need dispel and they pick up the
Largo. It's very good. Now you have licks so you don't need to
wait for the point where you get Lotus Orb. Obviously if Largo
gets Lotus Orb later on, that's even better. But yeah, I like
this. I like this pick a lot here. I think it solves solves the
threat of hooligani
Oga feels like the old one out here
You got a draw ranger with a bow with a string
I'm gonna win ranger with a bow with a string you've got a logo with a loot with two strings
Where we're a club the strings on it though. I got it
Uh, there are no strings. That's true.
No string instruments. They've got three people with string instruments and one guy with a club.
Oh, he's the conductor. Ah, right. He's the conductor. Okay, we've got it.
Ah, yes, yes, yes, of course. Stand in front.
Yeah, we want an intellectual, like, augur conducting the entire orchestra here.
It makes sense.
Strung instrument.
Then who else can pull some strings?
We have the thematic grad going. That makes so much sense.
We're the puppet master.
Bring back the puppet master, Dota.
We'll get DT, Laundroid, Phantom Lancer, Band,
Queen of Pain, Gon, and Cheeky, Bamboni.
Gonna pick up that last hero.
That's a really late Laundroid, Band.
I didn't even realize that you skipped him in the first phase.
But yeah, probably a smarter Band amount
would have been a nice fit with the iron shell in the bear,
Surge, just running you over,
hitting an early timing and not letting Draug get to that late game.
It is this weird spot again where you look towards what Kerry Huligani want to play and again
I want to say like Sven would be good, but here is just not playing the current method
He's really not being used a lot
Honestly, I want some kind of little clinksy guy
No run around to be annoying
Oh snap fire for cheeky bamboni. That is a good strong hero mid lane snap against ember spirits
Yeah, she should be doing really well in that lane.
It's a lane that you can definitely excel at.
And looking at the previous game,
sure things faltered a little bit for the mid laner,
for the aerial there in the start,
but he came back really hard.
And I do think the first five minutes is
laning and last thing was really good.
If he does the same thing here,
he should be dominating the Ember.
Yeah, we've seen this mid-snap just take over games.
My GPK throughout Dream League was dominating, in particular it was Snap vs Pangolains, but
then after that it was just any lane you enter, the Snap was hammering you, no matter what
you pick.
It was very strong with the base damage, the two nukes, so you shove wave, you control
rune, you deal with everything.
And Huligan are going to come out with a spectre at the end for another hero to get
on top of Drowranger.
I mean this was a classic counter to Drow, does it work that way anymore?
It's still pretty good. You can take a lot of damage if Drao is ever allowed to hit you in peace, but it can be difficult to lock down Spectre in range of the Drao.
Normally, the Spectre waits until the fight starts, then hops in with Ulti, and suddenly people are preoccupied with other stuff happening in the fight.
I think the Spectre is a pretty decent pick here.
I wanted something melee that can jump into the draw ranger and obviously Spectre is able
to join at any point in time.
More importantly perhaps, he can also bully the snapfire if he gets decent game on Spectre.
Later on can set up kills on him together with Ember.
Yeah, scout with Treant, jump with Ember, then follow through with Snowy.
And it goes tons of ways to get on top of people.
add in the surge iron shell as well and this is a I mean this is the old school
lawnmower ember spirit living armor iron shell flame guard he just rolled over
people if you don't have ways to deal with him yeah fortunately they do have
ways to deal if you run in with all those buffs and one little lick and that's all
gone so it's gonna be curious to see how it plays out I think Largo is gonna be a
very important player to keep an eye on teamfights see if he can get good value
out of those dispels because there's certainly it's almost overloading there's
so many things to dispel that he's gonna struggle to deal with everything. It's like when you're
Doom and there's too many heroes to Doom, you're like, oh which one do I go, which one do I go,
let's do it. Too many options. We'll find out how things pan out. Cheeky Pamponi, one game to the
good here in his best of three, lower bracket on the path to the international from the European
region. Gulligani, the favourites heading into this down the game, definitely got to pick things up
and make sure they shore up, catch up all the holes and exploits that they left in that game,
one to figure out how to manoeuvre here in game two.
Yeah, I think they have some nice tools to work with though.
It's typically common to see these four plus one lineups.
It's not for protect one.
It's for go fight somewhere and one do something else.
Spectre get a farm and chill whenever she doesn't have a
will to she's just going to be, you know, jungling way,
working on this radius timing and the rest of the draft is
really good at just going together and fighting tree and
protector and caudal and once you get, you know, mech perhaps
on the Darkseer as well, you can go really high-pace.
You know why smoke already breaks, and they know that somebody's around here, I don't
know what they're going to guess, it's the tree ant, lurking in the shadows of the trees.
Yeah, that's going to plop down the sentry, probably a wise choice to hold on to the sentries.
I like that sentry on the mid lane just to try and view the world, but throwing one there,
it's quite likely you don't catch a tree anyway.
So Drought Ranger takes the long path all the way around to the secondary stream to get
to a tier one tower.
vision has kept tabs on ethereal and anisam we get the two for two bounty
runes like ember spirit with a slight there trying to go for the slight attack
where you can slight and pick up the rune on someone but doesn't get it it's a
cute attempt but that doesn't mean that he's slide of his now on the lane which
is probably fine you can try to slide of his dodge to scatter blast I guess an
anisam on his ogre I'm suddenly realizing there's a trial in set up here
They wanted the Drow but they walk into the big fat double headed Ogre Magi.
He drops to 150 health but he's gonna survive.
Actually pretty nice to get him solo because now he has to be careful.
The Caudal auto attacks don't normally do that much damage but when you start out with
you know 30% of your HP pool this lane is actually kinda dangerous.
And isn't this POS super unfortunate for him?
Look at the double iron shell.
Next to a range creep that's dying.
They have blinding light ready.
But they just push him into the two creeps
Yeah, I might just do
We think he dies. I don't think it dies. I think he's gonna live with like very little HP
already looking good for him
73 health
Yeah, I think roughly like 60 60 HP 50 HP. He'll probably live but it's gonna hurt
Level one iron shells aren't insanely strong
But you don't want to be next to both of them. I mean he doesn't want to be first blood
But he probably doesn't want to be stuck around this lane with such low HP
Get him admin. I think the reason of the pause is snapfire has disconnected
We would like to play 5v5
There's a very very sudden just yeah snap disconnect the internet drop it sounds about right
So snapfire in a mid lane against the ember spirit
He's gonna reconnect now a theory already
already sent at one last hit and the same story. We'll see how they're able to manipulate
that wave though as Mirage. Gonna give a couple of clicks to Ethereal early on. Gonna have
to auto attack a lot, but there's that slide of his dodge on the, um, on the scatterblast.
Good stuff from Mirage. And Fogamash. Can you dodge like one or two? Yeah, he lived, but
barely. 20 health. Now, Seyo's actually getting frost arrowed pretty low, but he's dragged
wave doesn't get to block the small camp though usually when you're doing this you want to make
sure that small camp is unreachable but amisan has access to both camps and uh where is ogre
actually going uh i mean he's just trying to prevent people from uh messing with the pool here
going on from drow so that's that's it's a bit awkward he's very low resources and so you might
be able to steal this new blinding light on the last hit. Nothing. When he blocks up the camp though,
removes the enemy sentry, gives this camp blocked up. Just going to try and make sure this small
camp is inaccessible as well. It doesn't mean the dark seer behind his own tier 1 tower gets a
few additional last hits in complete safety and can start stacking camps for himself as well.
I think you can stack both here if you want. If he uses the iron shell on the ancients,
he could stack the ancient camp as well. Let's go try it. There we go. It should be good.
Nice, of course the level on Ion Shell doesn't really kill an Ancient, but this is preparation
for later.
If you get like a Drupal, Quadruple, maybe even a Pentastach on the Ancient, the Ion
Shell can clear it later on.
Pretty close on that mid lane, so we'll keep eyes down at bottom where Snowy, 9 and 1,
we'll get with a Windranger and a Largo.
Fire 14-2. I think we'll to really bully this Mirage Ember spirit too much with
Flameguard and Living Armor. He's actually stayed quite healthy and even
gets a D-Ward for himself in that mid lane. Yeah that's what I was trying to say
that if you just slide off his dodges like one or two Scatterblasts I think
he's gonna be completely fine in HP. Staying high enough that the bullying
doesn't really bother him. Then it's just a farm trade which Ember is very happy
would. Oh, the magi zoning darks here away while Peltal continues to try and drag waves.
No shro- heads up laning here. Oh, great, like, what can I do? I can't really stop it.
There's not much that you could possibly do. I wish I was a bane, not an overmagi at this
point. A bane. Shadowed demon. Pugna. Oh, mid lane. Blood grenade off the mark. Wait
misses but the power shot lands. Yeah I should still have enough here. He's got
chains and mirage but the body blocks coming in scatter blast there from
ethereal. Mirage pops the fairy fire and the bottle charge to try and get up to
high ground but they'll keep chasing him with a cookie and waveform with the
final touches as first blood. And of course if you get to slide with his dodge on
the cookie I think you live because of the living armor but in the end he
just go down took a lot of doing though in our waveform completely our resources
probably gonna go stack and then head to fountain and think about the place that
she wants to go to it does leave the Anku logo alone 15 8 currently but
Triton stag that could maybe shut him out of lane for a little bit wait for
I'm just gonna go and take one of the water rooms if you're we'll get the other
one. Back to full resources for that snap flat.
So far pretty free game for the drawrangers though. This is the boy I don't like. Darkseer
picked into drawrangers so much because you pretty much know that she's gonna free farm.
She is very good against Darkseer in the laning stage. Yes, Darkseer can find his own farm
and they're pairing jungle stacks for him and what not. But you're basically just accepting
that she's gonna have a good game on draw.
Yeah, I guess I don't mind it because it's kind of difficult to find a duo that does well against a Drow, like a Drow Clawk or Drow Ogre, and we had, what was it, Clockwork? I don't know, is it Undying Rubik?
But we saw actually, no, that's SF Lane, wasn't it? My mind is all over the place today.
Yeah, yeah, I was about to say this different one, but we'll see. Kind of large P, gotta be fine though, much on cooldown.
There's just so much damage in lane, trying to find a way to harass her out, get on top
of her is pretty challenging.
37-11, going to crack in time.
One K.L.E.L.E.L. ready here for Chiqui Bamboni.
The Lago has got himself the phase boot, so I think he's gone over that bridge of danger
against this Trin Inspector.
There's a pretty slow defensive lane, you know, just heal the Spectra up, keep her farming,
25-1, not a tremendous amount of last hits with Snowy when you compare her to Drow.
Yeah, it's the Bloodlust difference as well.
Right, you have Steroid for farming on Bloodlust, and then you have Protection in Living Armor.
And if you're a carry, you would rather have Steroids than Protection.
You need to keep going here and just get CS.
Suspector will have to work hard to get whatever she can.
It's contested on Big Camp, though.
Anko steals the big creep away from him.
Mm-hmm, that's done.
Mid lane, level 6 is hitting.
ethereal got here is that bit faster of course with the pressure and the kill over on mirage
in my spirit it's about to get there needs another creep to die and he's kind of finally reached
remnant situation with a jump over towards arnie san gets some damage onto the ogre magi and ethereal's
low on mana here pops the one to allow him to get a scatter blast on a cookie ready but he doesn't
have what it takes to deal with mirage who says okay you're trying to gank me i don't think that's
happening what a couple behind me a living armor and the chakra and also the
Deedirun was missed by waveform he walked over the Deedirun and left it for
respect he took it and then started punching into him so train protector
just zoning out the wind ranger in that exchange as well now it's looking to go
over and set up for a wisdom steal
let's just sneak across here has to wait for the creeps to pass looks like he's
thinking better about it he's like no not happening. Do you think someone at Valve placed trees specifically
or like tested Treant to see and make sure they can walk from one tree line to another?
There have actually been small adjustments where they're like literally added one tree here or
removed one tree there so yeah there are definitely places that are designed with tree in mind.
I remember like maybe four or five years ago, Triant often struggled and Triant had to buy
Trankul's Windlace, right? In order to like bridge the gap between one tree line to another.
Now it feels like he never has that problem. He's always in business.
Was there a shack of shot into kisses? Yeah, nice setup with the lick coming in.
It's moved snowy away from Mortimer's Lava Gloves, but they've got enough of them to bring the spectre down.
No real response on the mid lane, but however, they're actually going to lose out Korra as well on top.
Good strike on both the lanes.
Specifically on the Trian thing, they did change him at one point to give him more time between going revealed,
so you can walk out of the trees for quite a while and not get revealed instantly.
That's true.
That's true.
Make it guys.
I'm shielding for ethereal, so we go to his bottom, get a kill on Spectre, back towards
me to gather the shield rune and bully this Ember spirit back a bit.
Dratranger also getting that kill up at top lane on Kotal puts Yoai at 4,400 net worth,
8 minutes in.
That's insane.
He is so farmed by the way.
Like for a carry to have this amount of CS at 8 minutes is crazy numbers.
at 77 last it's at eight minutes this is absolutely absurd almost keeping 10 per minute
in this part of the game is uh yeah that's like I've heard of since there's only eight
lane creeps all right for the minute that's crazy stuff well I'm doing this cuttle now
there's no tp and Sayre's not going to get hit by the power shot but waveform's going to walk
back into him oh it doesn't see him night vision it's too dark by the trees cuttle very thankful
to scrape away with his life there and it's just level one bloodlust by way they keep spamming
the order magi is still going back for ignite because he kind of wants to be useful on his own
not put all his eggs in same basket um he's a smart choice just level one is already very good
for the bloodlust and after uh early landing stage lead looks like cheeky bimbo and he's
He's just going to sit back and farm a little bit through the jungle, protect these cores
who need to get to that initial item, Lago goes jungle, then back to fountain, Draranger
goes from lane to creeps, and that leaves the support kind of open here.
Ogre, Windranger can pair up with his snapfire now, every time Kisses are ready, they could
look for these kills on core heroes, as long as they can isolate one of Hulagani.
Yeah, if you look for the Aspector, respect walks straight into the smoke gank.
I think he's going to be alright with that. Make sure none of his cores die.
As long as Snowy's able to get out of his bottom lane alive, which I'm not sure is the case, the damage from the Drow is too much.
That's the player right there. He tanked one gank, but he can't tank both.
Nice move through the gate to begin, and uh, this is the advantage. Drow is a little bit stronger early on.
I've got someone blind on this ethereal snapfire mid lane. Already spent the cookie, but 700 HP remains.
Wall dropped on the windranger now as waveform, windrun, already expended, so getting burst down, finally finished off, but the kisses are landing onto the stunned Mirage Ember Spirit.
It'll slight and try and dodge some of the danger. 200 health left, falling through, lacking a little bit there from Cheeky Bamboni.
They don't have the gap closed, whereas Snowy does. The media jump in onto this snap to find a kill for Mirage.
That's very nice right there, coming in with the punishment. Meanwhile though, while all this is happening, pressure is still on the bottom tower, it does fall in the end, and now they can TP mid if they want.
Drow and Wind Ranger coming in. Yeah, come back in with a shackle shot on Spectre. They'll surge up, snowy, turns and burns back onto Yoai, they realize, I'm gonna send, we can fight this! Drow Rangers TP'd into die, Ogre has fallen!
Wow, the Ember doing so much this early on, the Coddles spamming the Chakra for the Slider
Fist spam as well, Slider Fist and Blame Guards, a lot of damage.
Yeah, the Iron Shell, obviously, and we're spurred as well, doing a Tom.
Yeah, I did say that, you know, watching Largo and what he can do is going to be a big thing.
Largo, I don't know if he didn't have TP or if he just didn't want TP, but I expected
him to keep him in good the Raranger to defend this, but he didn't show up, so the Dispel
wasn't there, they just get punished.
I seriously think he's going to be the key hero right now, like if you don't have him
in the fights, this Ember with the Spirit Vessel and Flamengard, Searing Chains, all
these different tools, he's very very strong right now.
He's very potent.
There's also this situation, whenever Haunt is down, there's that chance for Cheeky Bamboni
to go play aggressively, because that was a pretty big moment to strike from the Radiant.
Top lane Arcane for Mirage, immediately smoking up and surging him as well as they sprinted
to action up north.
Trion is leading and scouting, trying to keep Tamps on the Drow Ranger who they might just
walk into.
Ah, Yoai Rowe, he runs left, he's walking right into them, sprints on top of Mirage basically,
throws the gust for the overgrowth comes in, and a quick follow through.
Snap Smoke Gang out of their Sulegharni side, Leesawoog.
Second kill on Drown, quick succession.
It looked easy and yet the drawl may have had a million CS in laning stage, but we've seen people dominate laning stage
And then just kind of not connect in the mid game. That's twice now that she gets taken down in like you said short succession
It's really got slowed on her game and meanwhile they can look to open this top tower
And I crack it open themselves the network lead
And play through that top lane which is great for the dark seer who loves farming these ancient
and his ancient camps, jungle camps, pushing lane, gathering all the resources he can.
Top of the network already is corrupted with Greaves ready, he's set.
He has sustainability difference, having caudal plus the treant with living armor
and then now the Greaves as you pointed out.
I think they can just start going together a lot, like five mandora,
or at least four mandora and just have Spectre hop in and join for ganks.
Speaking of Spectre, she has Brella coming in, so closing in on her radiance.
1200 go all the way. Looks fantastic for a timing.
And going for the greed build, 404. Within a few people go for this like shadow step in lane
and depending if they have a lane they can play active in. But as you've been saying,
with a triant, with this heal, the sustain difference, just very sit back and farm for snowy.
Ember spirit gonna jump away from the frog in the wind range in the mid lane,
Corrupted. I'm thinking about the greaves and the wall drop here on ethereal. They've got him.
The snapfire disappears and his anchor lago getting eyed up with a stirrup as a charge on him.
Ember spirit with another slight change could easily catch up here with the two man.
Grab onto Annie-san and anchor who is dangerous territory for cheeky bamboni.
They'll sustain themselves through it though. Nobody after snap dying.
But a real signal there from the hooligan-y side. We don't even need our spectre to really come in and join.
And he's still dying.
The ogre is getting punched around, urn is on him, and he's gone.
Iron shell on the tree as well, there's a lot of damage coming in, but like I said,
this Guardian Greaves already is very early, and it's hard to fight into.
You don't have enough single target burst damage on the side of cheeky bamboni to burst
through.
And if you only have AoE damage, like a lot of AoE abilities on their team, then that only
increases the value of the mech component of the Guardian Greaves, right? Healing everybody.
That's good.
And Snowy pushes that bottom wave all the way out, then returns to Ancients to farm.
Gonna get a bit of help from the Gothel here as well. Shackler restores some of that mana pool,
and heal him up with his Holy Locket, which is done.
Do some nice stuff, by the way, with the Darkseer. They put the Aynshell on the tree and
and he's just running around in the jungle, moving up to creep camp to farm it, speeding up his darkseast level farming and speeding up his own leveling.
Sheen keep on booing and kind of pumping the brakes a little bit, okay, we're being run over we need to just sit back
Farm some ancient camps now regroup join together as five place with this mid lane
They're going to gather this mid tier one tower, but they need to bring numbers to do it
And you're arranger has finally changed man to style
Here's a blink dagger, which you know I've said stuff about before I don't think the blink is that terrible
I like that he has least wind power treds
you know it's not stuck on brown boots a snap fire yeah it was the brown boots
blink which is kind of what's going on here
not the biggest fan of that but he will of course work towards shard next item
needs to get more farm speed shard is a fantastic tool and crippling crossbow
over the docks here can hobble the lago would you saw that restoration of health
So it's a good active easy to forget using it. I see a lot of pro players also forget to use it
But it's overall a pretty damn strong tier 2 item
No respect a little bit too far
Crosses the bridge at the die side of the map basically
Now for someone named respect. He's pretty irrespectless walking in like this just playing opponent's side of the map
But it's what a tree and wants to do
Spectre walking base now gonna get full HP so Ulte is ready. Maybe she wants to get level 2 Ulte as well though
Very close to getting that level 2 before she uses it. And Trion at least got some valuable information about the high ground ward there
Which she pings out. He knows he was spotted somehow
We get ourselves a second crippling crossbow. Ember spirit picks one up as well
He said they can target down this lago and go hunting on frogs
some frogs spearing down in the air with late frogs with crossbow seems over to
it sounds like some Louisiana Mississippi shit right go out into the
bayou you get onto one of those hovercrafts with the crossbow start
hunting frogs we got frogs and gators out here gonna shoot down and crossbows
oh what's it in the u.s. they're hunting hunting boar from helicopter are they
Really yeah calling him pork choppers
Wine problem too many too many work so too many raise your back. Yeah, exactly
The beast math is being busy breathing the balls with we've too many in Dota as well
That's why I picked our copter to hunt my boars
And they're actually good against the boar. See, it is actually, it makes sense.
Law-accurate, real-life imitates art.
I found the Drow Ranger.
Oh, UI.
Solarbind, the hole, the jump on in.
And now you're kind of in disarray of Cheeky Phamboni.
You wanted to play around your Drow, but Anko's frog has been isolated further south,
corrupting the Mirage on his tail.
Well, Ani-Stan is pummeled into the ground by snowing,
and just one by one falling apart.
They'll drop the wall and heal up the spectre.
plenty there with the essence ring and the grieves to take down ethereal three
in a row the frog will make the fourth as this windrangers the only one left
standing running as far as you possibly can away from the onslaught
Huligani 5k leads can accelerate quickly this game is spiraling so fast
it really is the carry difference right now is pretty big as well sure spectre is
less farmed than the draw but effective strength the radiance is so good on
And they tried to burst her but with all the heal they have it's pretty hard to get her down to zero
It's just chasing away from almost price. She didn't jump to it there and throw it back
Too busy CSing
And it's farmed to be had
Well, what fun to see my
The danger of first picking draw rats you went into this game picked draw immediately because it's a broken carry
but if you picked Rao and the enemy have multiple heroes who can get on top of you,
you might just die and that's exactly what happened in that team fight.
Ember jumps in, Spectre has ulti, Darkseer runs in, everybody's something on top of you
and Rao doesn't do well in that situation.
Yeah, because you feel so strong as Rao when you're able to stand there and click people.
No one's touching you, ah, King of the World, Queen of this high ground.
As soon as you've got the Ember Spirit Spectre, Trian Darkseer literally on your head,
Doesn't feel so good now, does it?
Yeah, corrupted by the way.
Can we talk about his farm on this Darkseer?
Like, it is kind of scary.
12k net worth on the Darkseer right now.
He almost has a full Sheeva's.
And Sheeva's, of course, amazing choice against Drao.
She has the, you know, piercing base armor component.
But if you get a lot of bonus armor,
suddenly you can't get killed by Drao that easily.
And now it's early. It feels like we're heading to game three.
Yeah, no, I have the same unshakable feeling here.
Drow dying three times, snapfire not having a good game.
I'm looking towards who, like, which core is gonna have
some game deciding impact from the side of Dyer.
It's just, if we take game one into account,
I think that unshakable feeling does get a little wobbly.
Yeah, Hooligani have shown that they can definitely make some unforced errors,
but if they're allowed to keep running the map like this,
with a vacuum back after overgrowth trying to blow up the logo.
Solar bind into spirit vessels, plenty of damage and mirage as the slight catch on the
wind ranger in the back. Defend the tower, living armor it back up, and cheeky bamboni
making a small move and getting punished heavily for it.
Yeah, right now I think that they're very much on the money with their play.
You were right that in the previous game they dropped the ball, but here
it looks like they're playing very nicely together and that's one thing the inspector
kind of passively enforces when you pick Spectre, like your team will naturally just run together
and look for ways to set up for Spectre ulti, and that was one of the problems they had last
game, they split up a little bit too much. Straight to the full mentor. Plenty of sustain here,
and damage out of Spectre. It is a shot for 12, but they have a lot of sustain like you mentioned.
We'll be fine.
The classic scan connects as the Torbentor dies, you know for sure they're down there.
What a good charge to get to a 3 as well.
The tree in charge, the charge has been nerfed a little bit but still very very good.
Visions is always king and dota.
They're so helpful for this Ember Spirit Inspector to find their targets.
Oh now we're looking at amplified damage rune to refill the Ember's bottle.
You could imagine here with smoke on the cuttle, it could go and make a move somewhere.
The tree is already scouting out in that top area of the map.
And Drow Ranger.
It could be a target they go on.
She's a nice target if they get the vision on her.
Gets her fresh bloodlust coming in and maybe Ogre can tank the gank.
Darkseer is close though.
Oh, barely didn't get vision.
Run!
I think we would blink immediately if you saw her.
Run!
You know, like, when he gets the medallion put on him, bloodlustered, shielded, protected, and, guess the distance.
Little bit defensive there, yeah, nice dust, or nice dust connecting, silencing up the dark sea.
I thought he would blink forward anyway and just, you know, commit with a spectre jump, but they let her live this time.
Ultimately, you know, fire are not in a completely terrible spot, they just need to get the
value out of their droughts farm.
And Waveform's having a pretty tough one though, wherever he goes, the Ember follows,
and it's a pretty simple kill to follow through on that Windranger.
But yeah, once the drought gets like Silver Edge, and then I guess BKB afterwards, things
Definitely change in terms of dynamic, but it's the fact that we're only talking about drought like snap fires kind of fallen off
Lager doesn't do too much right now
It is a much later timing that she bamboo and you're waiting for and it's that waiting periods
It's very scary against the team that can swarm they can take objectives
And it's just absorbing and hoovering up the entire get the map with a 10k lead now
Hulagani have ages on the spectre
A decent hand, can feel completely safe to play really aggressive, has to have Mantis
style as well, takes that way to farm even more.
Spectre is massive, but with Drawn and Spectre both being quite far in Drawn and 14,000 net
worth of them, the entire net worth difference is really coming from the off-lane, where
we see this 15k Darkseer, absolutely enormous, Largo taking his moment.
We talk about how he gets his stride around 10 minutes from now, is normally what we see.
This is already so powerful already.
Lago and Dran get to find a little pocket of farm down south.
Just trying to find any way to weasel across the map.
I think they're sniffing out the Lago right now. The smoke is coming in.
They're gonna see him.
I'm dancing little froglets.
Can we also protect him to Anku?
He's at the crossbow thrown at him, Lotus all boardy expanded too.
He's pretty tanky, but they've got a Darkseer arriving from the west.
No, they can't follow.
Can't chase him.
That tier 1 still standing means there could be a response and they're going to respect
it.
It's a hard hero to lock down at least.
When you don't have any proper stuns, like Radiant only have these roots or Solar Binds
to rely on, then Largo is pretty free to go.
They cannot hold you against your will, Largo.
And here we go, as the pot was hot.
Just gonna hop on out.
Spacked up, jumping mid.
Not only getting aggressive on his windranger, but dodging the gank that was approaching her from that top lane.
And down bottom.
You have to kill this time, Largo.
Not gonna be as lucky.
two quick kills and quickly into a push on mid lane that catapult alive and
sadly cheeky bamboli even though they have a good farm just feels like they
can't really get together and take any fights it will just is such an awkward
period where you are you are legitimately waiting for drow to make the call and
say I'm ready that's just please give me time give me space you die die for me
die for me peasants let the queen gather up all the farm that's what lago ogre winranger
have to do they've got to play the map they've got to be out there somewhere pushing waves
and making a bit of space if that means it's at the cost of their life and so be it.
I'm looking back at this snapfire and just thinking to myself that the spectre is just
always going to have her number right the blink kaya bkb builds I think you just get
jump by Spectre and it's gonna be very difficult stair-life.
The first step, Aetherial now, BKB and Cookie back into fountain, you're being dived in your freaking base!
The Hooligans have arrived! They've been put an ASP on them!
The Hooligans are definitely here in force, and that was with the Overgrowth only connecting on two.
Even so, it's not as strong the combo is, the wall vacuum wall into Overgrowth is crazy powerful.
That's why they haven't really been going for these teamfights as well, and with the Kodo dealing everybody up, the push is still going.
I'm in the Shackle Shop Mirage or something. I don't think it matters all that much.
Tier 3 already taken down and no rush here from Hulagani.
They have the Spectre Ulti available as well. There was a fight without the Spectre Ulti as it was used in the previous pickups.
Definitely concerning stuff if you're a Chiquin Bamboni fan.
Looking at this from the darks here though. Beautiful stuff.
They waited for a perfect moment.
Yeah, and then Ember. Ember just sees Drow and his eyes go red. Look at him. He does not let up. He stays on her. She gets cooking back. It does not matter. Focus fire. I do not care. And Mage Slayer, I think, is what kills her in the end there.
A tiny bit of DPS from Mage Slayer at the very end kills her. Salivating.
We come here. He's also gonna find Windranger in the mid lane and he's sure to glim a cape
and windrun, but dead to Corrupted with our Sheva's Guard. Darkseer 8011, 18,000 net worth.
You've been pointing it out as Corrupted Guy having a cracking game with the first big
Darkseer. I guess this is why. You see the Drow Ranger and you say, alright then. It's
Darkseer time.
Yep, I mean, a lot of times when you see Darkseer pick early, a counter pick comes out, right?
Some Oracle or whatever to dispel, and we didn't have that in the lane, so he wasn't
necessarily dealt with by Chicky Drafts, but yeah, I didn't expect him to have this good
of a game.
He's insanely strong.
The Hagenem Scepter is online now, so now he can do that thing, blinking in, hitting
the Drow, and I honestly think he can solo-killer.
pretty nasty if that happens. I mean wall wall plus the punch is a lot of damage from the illusions
coming out. replica damage is 90% you get held in place a little bit by shiva's vacuum and the
slow from the punch. I'm not asking if you can, I'm just saying if it happens the drought is going
to be very upset. yeah big problem. army's on the way back, still in the willow is on another
Oh, another four of them walked into a massive vacuum.
Corrupted says, all right, there are enough.
Cheers, mates.
We'll take that every day of the week.
Oh, I'll just call it now, honestly.
Hooligani are running roughshod over cheeky,
breeky, bambonis and bony.
Wrong, says Snowy, as they wipe them off the face of the map.
Ow, it's crazy.
Again, how do we get two four-man vacuums like that?
Corrupted.
Amazing place coming out.
And I don't see a way they lose this at all. Their teamfight is so clean the way they execute this
And now they have the agonies on Bottle as well
That's just one more thing to deal with and they are not even dealing with what was already here
It just makes a desperation. I don't know. The bottom lane 4 man vacuum that's all
corrupted
This top one they walked into him. You know, he's sitting there in the stream
Flourishing hydrated super happy with his life for enemy heroes to walk towards him
Well, the pointy-headed purple conehead boy comes in and does it again.
Top of the net worth 23k lead over here by Hulagani as they try and get up to the high
ground for another lane of Barracks.
Top is cleared out.
Bottom is without tier 3, but mid is what they're aiming for.
Spectre and Amber Spirit on the front line, knowing how strong they are right now.
It feels like Giki Bamboni have very few responses.
Yeah, I mean, they need to try out to be auto-attacking, non-stopping.
At this stage, there's so much reliability.
There's this she-bus, there's the Skadi, there's a lot of tankiness.
And kisses.
Onto the Spectre.
Oh, nice.
That's nice.
There's Snowy.
Snowy's gonna get forced out of the lone ground though.
Mantis runs away.
Now it's an open season for Mirage to go in deep hunting and another move from Corruption!
Guess they grab on even more of them!
Mirage has the Ultra Kill, what's the rampage?
Wave form, he's getting gap-closed on!
Mirage salivating again, he knows he can taste it!
The spirit vessel ticking her down!
The game ends before she dies, but I'll say I will give it to him!
The rampage for Mirage at the end of the game!
I don't think he gets that one back.
Shut up, Lager! He does know!
It wasn't on my screen, Gary. I don't know no rampage here. Sorry. She was dead
Guaranteed to see her on she lived happily ever after
She's still regaining HP on my screen the victory screen is up and she is recovering she's soon about 30% HP
I've been talking about if she's dead.
Yeah, this was an impressive game.
Seeing the temple they played with here was, you know, night and day difference from how they kind of slipped up in the previous game.
Went a little bit too alone here and there.
Now it looks like the communication was on point.
Moves were just looking great and this is not like a highlight reel that we're watching.
I should not stop.
There's this vacuum bow. Corrupted just gives it to him.
Yeah, and the Emperor's Choice. Mirage immediately recognizing that he has enough to kill the Drow here is also just really impressive.
I mean, maybe you didn't know for sure, but he's gonna take his chances, and it worked.
That sure did.
For the moment. All right in that pressure spot.
Back in the fountain.
Game two, ties things up.
One apiece between Hula Gani and Chiki Bamboni now, and we had, again,
elimination time to a game three and an individual single game to decide whether you stay in the
qualifier or you get dumped out of it. Yeah, this fight was crazy. They're so out of place. I mean,
sure, the network difference is pretty big, but they were completely just encapsulated by the
ember coming in from behind here. And I gotta say, they were not able to make much happen with either
their POS 1 or POS 2 in this game. Chikimaboni, we saw some nice plays, right? Got good farm early on,
on. But didn't really see the
massive farm coming in
separation. Minute 10 draw was
by far the most farm in the
game. 1600 ahead of the specter.
The snapfire was second most
formed and yet I didn't really
see any impact from them at any
stage of the game. No, the fall
from Grace is pretty dramatic
for that Rair Ranger. All down
to this fella here. twenty
thousand and to the palindromic
hero damage from corrupted
beautiful movie. Did I
participation. Oh, wow. Yeah.
Dude, he's not a global hero.
What? How do you 93% participation?
I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah. That's
true. Give I'm shelter Ember
Watch him run off and kill some
hero. Pretty well. He's not
global, but he kind of is. He
can be. It can be put on
show number spirit. There we
have it. Yeah. What one of
pieces we tie things up in this
against and joy and who gets knocked out of the Chi Qualls momentarily.
A short break before Game 3 comes up.
Every word is obvious.
In every move.
And we return with Game 3 here as we get ourselves back into Cheeky Bamboni against Hooligani,
lower bracket for the Regional Close qualifiers on the road to TI 20 at 26. Game 1, Wago's
kind of close back and forth. Cool drafts against each other. Game 2 felt like draft
diff as Hulagani had this Ember dog-seer against the Drow first pick. Game 3, any expectations?
What are the vibes like?
I feel like Hulagani and the boys are going to take it now. It looked so confident from
them. Corrupted, absolutely demolished. The strongest offline performance probably that
We've seen all qualifier was probably this dark seer.
He absolutely owned against the carry who was really big and strong.
He still managed to solve it really, really well.
So, um, yeah, impressive stuff from him.
The iron show was used to maximum potential in this game.
And even though the Largo was theoretically a good pick with the dispel,
I never saw that be relevant.
No, like the dispel just didn't really feel like it was, uh, enough.
They needed like five dispels.
You can't lick anyone if you've been vacuumed into a brick wall and shelled down while it is dark, so you can't do it.
Corrupted on a great game.
Spectacular stuff.
Yeah, I think here heading into this hooligan, he's definitely showing their experience and the tight drafting and squad gameplay that we should expect from them.
Cheeky Bamboni had a good comeback and turn around in game one.
I'm not sure they've got the resilience to take it all the way,
but you know, underdog story, TI quals, we can expect great things,
maybe a bit of magic to get thrown in here.
And of course, drafting.
Lower brackets on these tier two teams, this kind of situation.
Having the upper hand and draft matters so much.
Yeah, I like the difference shown there by the stats production put up,
with laundry being 96 plus percent band rate by the way and then the second most band is like 70
something it's a puck and uh i think laundry is just in a league of his own so it's kind of surprising
in the previous game where we had him go all the way to pretty late at the band phase here i think
he's where he belongs in the first phase band yeah triant and park both in exactly the same spot
with 21 bands. The draw range is up there as well as we do remove her.
Treant being left in yes again. It's going to be an axe first pick for Hula Ghani though.
It's the strap. Pick axe, give treant. Axe counter tree. Just chop him down.
Chop him down low. The tree remembers what the axe forgets.
Oh the doom against the axe wait, but you can't chop down a doom that's not the same
No, you can't Satan does not get countered by axe
Yeah, we see a doom who have been praising a bit in the games that we've seen you need to break in really really good
You need to bring out the logo to defeat the doom. Don't you have a fiddle contest with Satan? Oh
Yeah, you got tenacious D that shit
Just head on down to Georgia
little battle yeah exactly that's where the devil went I hear yeah that's where
you went we'll see if we get that well there's that's hoodwinkers well right
she's got a little instrument and I was a loot or a fiddle whatever it might be
I have some of these heroes to deal with the devil musical play you were looking
for this in the previous game now we're back to it again you might get your wish
that might be a logo who knows might say a decent chance
Rubik got a bit. So is it Lundra, Drow, Puck, Storm, Tusk, Viper, Shaddafiend, Rubik?
Yeah, all these heroes.
The Rubik ban is interesting to me. The Huligani removing that. I mean, I don't feel like you care so much about Rubik when you pick axe.
So this feels more like they're setting up for their next pick.
What's the spell that's not allowed to be stolen?
Honestly, I think it's less about the spell steal. I think it's more about the catch still.
It can use this. I think they want to play Ember. I think they want to Ember or do something
similar to that. And they're just trying to set up that it's okay because that makes
sense with the snapfire ban as well. It's a more match up to play.
Or maybe there's some, I don't know, Bane, Peco, something that I said.
I mean, Bane and quite a few of this evening heroes combo really well, so even though Draw
and SF are banned out, I wouldn't be against the Bane pick.
Snapped Fly now gone, and Dave the Trion finally being removed.
There it is, they picked the Bane themselves.
Yeah, they pre-empted and steal the Bane.
Exactly, you picked Ban Rubik, we're going to pick Bane then, you can't lift him to
stop him, you can't steal my Grip, feels good.
And also Bane, one of the stellar heroes that's stopping the wave dragging and lane cutting,
which acts lanes very often or always bring.
Yep, Bane is a very well rounded laner, he's insanely good at, you know, trading hits
versus support, also can stop the shenanigans like you mentioned, but in general, I also
think it fills a similar role to the rubik in catching those elusive heroes.
You have very fast catch with the fiend script or even nightmare.
So I like the start here from cheeky but bonie their drafts speaks to me a lot where as accent
clockwork you can't really go wrong with these heroes, but it doesn't look as promising to
me.
Yeah, I still need to fill in a lot of the holes there.
And I think Bane on that topic very good at stopping the initiation, stopping these slippery
heroes but also very good at initiating for them, right?
If you have an ember of your own, a Bane who wanders into the jungle and nightmares and
grips can set up for some of this global strength.
Oh, here we go. A hoodwink with a little string instrument turned into a crossbow.
Yeah, sure. A string instrument for sure. A golden fiddle.
I also want to point out that this Doom pick, we've seen it before, most likely it's flexing towards safe lane here that is countering out the axe in the laning stage.
So if Axe lands against Bane and Doom, it is a hard lane.
Very likely that they're looking to get some off-laner added into this for Chiki Bambuni.
There's going to be the Ember Spirit for them, so Bane can set up for the Ember.
Don't know what he's going to be leaning into here. We could have him get Huskard.
But it's a doom, so maybe the Huskar is deterred by the doom and the bane?
Yeah, I think the Huskar can win the lane, but it runs into issues later on and I think it's very complicated to play Huskar against doom in general.
You're basically always a free kill, so I would prefer to see them pick something else that maybe activates nicely around the clock or can hoodwink,
hoodwing because Oscar also wants to farm for like a little while. I would like to see a fighting
hero coming out from mid lane. We don't have a snapfire to do it could be a good option.
Invoker. Okay we've got some setup here. The three heroes able to in lane and in game set up for
sun strikes. Yeah amazing combination of sun strikes and uh also sun strike has a setup on
the enemy team. If Bane fiendscripts someone he's setting up on himself automatically so if he's
He's low HP and fiend scripts, so the Sunstrike will just stop that.
Yeah, sure.
That's a whacky molly's channeling.
That's what you said, with Offlane looking for that for cheeky bamboni, and then Carrie
for hula gani, right?
Yeah, most likely.
The can, of course, also send Doom to the Offlane, but it feels more likely at this
point that we're going to see Doom as a Carrie.
I like it here a lot, because then you don't have to worry about Blade Mail call from Axe
just destroying you.
you destroy the axe and lane and even if he does get blademail blink you don't really care that much
Doom doesn't really destroy himself on a blademail
What are we lacking? Hulagani don't really have much in the way of tower damage. They've got lots of catch
Decent amount of actual damage to kill heroes, but then transferring that into map space is kind of hard
Luna Luna Nova I think
something like that they could also go full in and just go face this void it's
the downside that doom is very strong against you but on the other hand they
have fantastic stuff to throw into it like hoodwink dump spells into the
chrono you have invoker who's the best here in the game with chronosphere and I
think it's a decent carry overall against a lot of these heroes like time
dilation just looks like you can do a lot of work against bane ember wind that
could be nice. But there's, you know, there's the downside where they have clockwork and
hoodwink, hoodwink wants to go with axe, and a clockwork faces void lane is playable, but
it's pretty passive. It's literally just a farm focused lane and clockwork burning a bit of mana
here and there. So it would make more sense if you want to have a strong lane to pick something
like Luna. That's why my initial gut read is that Luna fits really well here. Could also go murder.
Yeah, it's one of those kind of heroes for it, right? Like the Luna, Marta, we always throw in
these kind of clinks, nature's profit as well, seeing a Chateauphine, Drow, already banned,
and Luna does get removed, so your call seems correct.
Gyaracopter is another one. Also good. But yeah, I think we're on a very similar idea.
Yeah, I do say it's a hero that Snowy does play.
Five seconds remaining.
Let's take care of some of the global strength.
Dawnbreaker, very strong laner,
and able to play onto an ember spirit very nicely.
I think I'd maybe be worried about the enigma as well, something
that has been played by Chiki Bamboni
in a number of their recent previous games.
Huh, yeah.
I've had a bit of this enigma, death profit.
they've definitely got heroes up their sleeve that they can pull out because they've got last pick right so if you don't
Have a pretty big counter to an enigma you're kind of kind of sad
If you pick like faces void here and you have faces void clockwork safely and you get a mud that would be absolute disaster
So yeah, that that's definitely a good point
That enigma could be strong to abuse one of those weak lanes as long as you have decent lane for yourself though
Play something strong and solid with the clockwork. I think an enigma would be hard to pull off
game. It's a very good idea to
play with a lot of stuff.
Since every single hero in the
game has a disabled ending, but
will struggle to get those
black holes out. Yeah I mean if
you go to face this void, would
you then entertain the idea of
putting hoodwink five and then
clockworks the four who wave
drags for the acts instead of
playing straight up. Maybe
have that conversation as well.
It's worth considering I would
probably still. I mean, yeah, it
have hoodwink with axe because their damage is going to be better. If you put clockwork
with axe, your only lane dragging can never do anything else. Whereas, hoodwink and axe
can still find avenues of play.
Well, they go for the pseudo turret. Terribly, you can have that math morphs is going for
himself. So, tb clockwork lane it looks like.
Hmm. Yeah. I mean, it's okay tb game. He does fairly well against the bane who is very single
targeted and he's not terrible against win ranger either but I don't know there's tools
to deal with him right a lot of magic damage coming out from the ember doom one of the
best ways to deal with tv is just dropping the ulti on him and now a potential aura
carrying underlord you know crimson god could undo a lot of this terrible damage honestly
the hula gunny draft doesn't fill me with confidence I kind of like cheeky bamboni
I mean, what they've cooked up here.
Yeah, no, I feel the same way.
I think you why on doom. I like this.
This is the team bald way of drafting, right?
A lot of teams have done this in the past,
but I'm going to coin it as the team bald strats.
Right, no, just pandering this.
Pandering this.
Take of simplicity here.
Let's say it's their strats.
You go with an off-laner as you carry.
So you have a really strong safe lane,
and then you grab an aura carrying off-laner,
or some form of, you know, high-impact early off-laner.
You know high impact early off later and now you play on a power spike and I think
They could run away with this game for sure
I'm a little bit greedy from hula gani invoker Kara blade
Axe here that we see needs a bit of time to get that blade now and the blink dagger going
Yes, the potential here for you know the Sunstrike kills to keep them in that game
But I think it very much is weathering the storm and buying time for your TV to be ready
You've got to really pick your moments very carefully here in these fights as well when you're dealing with an M M
spirit and the Lord who can play globally, right?
We've got this fiends gate the speed of wind ranger across the map the ember spirits gap closing capabilities
There's lots of ways but cheeky Bamboni to get on top of you
But as we've seen through this series that can also be a downside if you go too deep if you get turned on or
Called on your bluff and as the potential to throw away any kind of leave you've gone
Yeah, I mean the TV is probably just comfort zones with snowy is one of the heroes they enjoy is playing a lot but
Getting counterpicked by underlord is a horrible feeling. It's a great hero against the terrible aid
So we'll see how well he can get online here
And I was team hooligan, but now I feel cheeky, you know, I feel a bit cheeky going into this
You feel a little bit cheeky breeki, a Zamboni
I don't know what I'm talking about.
Right, nice.
Chicken brickie.
Yeah.
Well, again, right where we are.
Lower bracket.
Game three and a best of three.
Elimination on the line for whoever loses this.
Whoever wins moves forward to play against enjoy
in lower bracket round two.
Do you put yourself in a three series away from TI
if you're able to win this one?
It's a bit of a longer road down there,
but in the past, well traveled,
enjoyed buying these journeymen in Toto 2
as we already get ourselves smoked up
and prepared for this landing stage.
Yeah, and uh, swap this guy go and check the higher ground, we'll run into Bane who could
maybe get a nightmare on turn point back, and drag him in towards Anku and Waveform.
Throw a blood grenade and a firestorm on him, and Sarash gonna try to hold him back with
a bushwhack and a terrible air-deriving.
With these illusions, get onto the Bane Elemental now, Annie's sound, Sunstrike coming, first
blood spill along, respect already.
Bane is gonna drop eventually to Mirage, Invoker picks up the kill, but Ethereal will
get one for his own as well.
his pockets with a few acorns, kill off the hoodwink, and Terra Blade has been zoned back
to his tier two.
I eternal shame a core player being outspammed clicked by a support player, that's just,
you know, you lose a lot of, a lot of street cred there really, you need to be faster.
Can't have that.
Can't have that.
And three Boundary Runes again, was that three games in a row where cheeky, cheeky Zanboa,
I'm, I'm, I'm, cheeky breeky just stuck in my head now, I can't, I can't get rid of
it.
We've got Columns even Chicky Bicky.
Ooh.
There we go.
Set up for a good, strong, early laning stage.
Ember Spirit with three bounty runes plus a kill.
Gonna feel pretty good with that very early bottle that's already coming on Korea.
Yeah, it's not bad at all and he's playing very aggressively here, just running in, using his early level for the Flameguard.
And Yoai gonna go and grab the Watcher while he drags the waves around.
Double them up, make sure it sits in front of his tier 1 tower, while Amisand, in-mike
ring reacts, making sure there's no more shenanigans.
So we've got Clockwork with a terrible head up top, Axe with a winranger down bottom,
right next to the hoodwink down bottom, looking at winranger with the underlord up top.
Yeah, I think bottom lane is going to be the most exciting lane to look towards, but with
the Invoker, any lane could potentially have some kill potential.
It's not easy as a Clockwork TB to lane into Underlord and Windranger.
The passive harassment of just Firestorms, Power Shots, and Windranger's auto attacks
should be winning that lane.
Mid's, Ethereal with a fantastic start, 9 and 2 in last hits right now, just beautiful
stuff from him.
3 in 1 Mirage.
Just get one last hit on the tower there very nicely under the nose of Ethereal.
Yeah, this is what happens when you get this super early bot all good early advantage for
an ember spirit. You know, he feels very happy with how the slain progresses.
Embarker does go for both the water and spell, denying both with his hero and his
forward spirit, but that gives him time for ember to just get more denies.
I think there's going pretty well for them in that off-lane though.
6 and 3 axe, 5 and 2 doom being shut down pretty decently.
Terrible, races up towards the top at 11 and 2, bodyguard protected by respect who gets
a large camp pull through.
Playform is going to stop at them.
A lot of lanes going pretty funny because both of them are struggling with the CSing
and a lot of coops being all around.
We're going to get a bit aggressive here onto this hoodwink though.
Sunstrike.
try to place it as the chase might have continued but yo I decide to step back and not get dragged
in for this dangerous position but he's still being punched by this axless corrupted axe.
Yeah corrupted just feeling pretty brave after spells we use on the hoodwing.
Just keep fighting.
Just keep here fighting.
Yeah a lowest pull battle.
Kog's pushing around waveform he's out of mana now completely just gonna pop his wand,
Drop the Cycler and hold the Lotus in the Inventory for later.
Well, I know I'm taking a lot of damage from bottom.
Yeah, Battlehunger, Blood Grenade, Dropping Loan, Nightmare, Saves himself.
The Nade is still ticking and the Battlehunger, we'll see how she's fine on touch.
Well, some strike, one more.
Askin' to come in, Mirage kills the Doom.
They set up beautifully for two kills.
Yeah, this lane was supposed to be pretty strong for the Bane and Doom, but very well
played by Sayu and Corrupted.
of course corrupted, popped off in the previous game so shouldn't be a surprise at this point.
Now he's got momentum on his side.
And a kind of classic thing, you know, Invoker struggling to get last at mid lane,
just sun strikes, gets him back up, nice bit of net worth, kills the enemy carry,
he's 2-0-0-0, exactly right. A nightmare onto this hoodwink trying to get the doom on top of
Sayush, but a bushwhack drag back and a runaway holding a lotus hoodwink. Why still dying?
The frost creep, infernal blade in the brain sap, chicken down and finally falls.
Man, the frost creep, it's killed me so many times as well, and so you've goose down to it there, gets auto-attacked by it and couldn't really run away, create the distance.
Nice wall, defensively placed by Mirage.
And the spirit is going for this, but there's very far, 6-1 charges and a cold snap used, so Ethereal needs to give a little bit more, and he doesn't quite have it.
So with the hoodwinks arrival, can I kill the Ember spirit here?
He's trying to juke around and not get touched by trees, but the Bushwax Sunstrike combo comes in big time.
And Hulikani just running this game.
And top lane too.
Hulikani finding might drop something here, but respect is actually going to be fine.
Nah, walks out with a pit.
And Terrible, he's back with the Batamorps this up and running as well.
You don't want to be walking into him.
Ah, he's just shoving away this Underlord.
So you will counter me later on with the aura, but for now, Mepha is pretty damn strong.
Not much in it by the numbers, like that worth and kills, very close between them, but there's that
feeling, that hula ghani of the ones upsetting, you know, kind of tilting the boat a little bit,
rocking the boat, saying okay we're gonna make the moves, we're gonna make things uncomfortable for you,
a lane which, like you said, a lane which Doom should be doing okay in has been shut down.
The top lane we're underlord with this Windranger by side who feel like maybe
should do more to deal with the Terraplate have done nothing to him at all.
They only struggle to have his through Mirage and they've recovered in Voker's
game entirely.
Pushback has off the mark giving maybe a chance to fight down here.
Deal some damage to the axe, scorched earth, run down. Don't have an ability on the
Doom though. No. He ate the creep with up.
His ability there are...
What do you mean?
Corrupted?
He just keeps whacking the Spain!
I'm realizing there's not, like I said,
no abilities left to give to him.
Arcane rune gets stolen by the clockwork.
I spot the sportsman thing that does to it.
Invoker is ultimately fine with that though.
Ember is the one who's dependent on the runes.
Invoker completely fine without it.
try a shackle shot fire still on top snowy only three stick charges so this
blood grenade and right clicks rain down onto him trapped into a pit important
kill that to kill off this terror blade and try and reclaim that territory in that
top lane that's the problem you leave to go and control the room but windranger
states or got back faster I should say she actually didn't stay she just had
boots and copper dinners it's back to push the pressure and kills the terror
There we very good set up and now cheeky bamboni a 2k leaders emerged even with a lot of these nice kills
From hula ghani. It's the ember spirit and doom who have obviously recovered and caught up
Spending a fair amount of gold and consumables there
635 out the ember spirit, but that's kept him in fighting shape and on stop on the TV
You're right through the twin gate your eyes here with that shackle shot lining up onto snowy
I'll chuck everything onto the terror blade
There's a good Sunstrike to get something out of nothing there for Mirage, but you've lost your terribly twice in a minute
Sad times for him while Sayosh on his bottom lane is hunting Arnisan
Corrupted trying to catch up with a battle hunger. Let's see if they can go for it in Nightmare's back the hood wink
Axe is still chasing though
Battle hunger. Oh, but can't get the call. Oh
Jukius
He's dodging everything but it doesn't matter. He's gonna spun down
and ultimately still goes down. Corrupted can take this creep wave and go into the jungle.
We're just gonna farm it here. Come on man, get your efficiency. I guess he doesn't want to
stand under vision. Bottom tower is gonna drop by the way after all this. Doom, sure he made a
move up top and got to kill onto the car blade. Very good timing as well. TP who didn't have TP
to do a walk out from base, but meanwhile this happens Corrupted opens the bottom lane.
Yeah, killed off the tier one.
Haste Rune was denied by the Invoker, so again, shutting down his Ember Spirit and not allowing him to have any active runes.
Definitely being halting Ethereal's acceleration into this game.
It's Invoker who's top of the net worth, surprisingly enough, and a lane that has felt entirely lost against his Ember Spirit.
They found recovery across the map into these side lanes because he's 3-0-1.
Yeah, he's 20 last hits behind, but that doesn't matter. When you get towers, you get kills. That's all you need.
Oh the park shot is coming!
Do you feel good about this clock?
Look at that!
That is some sad news on the horizon right there.
Oh goodness.
Just side step bits.
That's level 2 power shot.
Yeah, he's not dead.
He's not dead, but it's going to be very painful.
And then the Doom comes in.
And now he's dead.
One more hit.
From a thing called Slicer.
Your line gets it done.
Now the guy in ethereal is a slight a fist there, but he's like now I'm doing you can have the kill
Make sure that he gets it
He's I think embers feeling good because he's got a good game going no matter what so just give doom a chance to recover a little bit
Probably more important get himself closer to that night us that he's going for first item
So that net worth lead the actual big gap of the like three then down to two now down to one K. Lee
That has been whittled away at was mainly from the support the clockwork is pretty far behind
I'm gonna try on to ethereal here with the tornado meatball
Immediate fiendscape though as they kill the bane with corrupted down bottom and then gating into mid ethereal low HP
Who will skip away back up has come with the underlord and the doom arriving?
Respect on the run and mirage trying to juke away with a power shot landing is a lot of damage that comes his way
Sun strike with a bushwag has gonna go across two heroes no individual kill and way full
It's pushed to high ground by the cogs and your eyes disconnected at the most unfortunate time the doom
Zora farming. Oh, that's standing there. The doom with doom ready
Dota crash is a very sad sad time to have that happen because this doom he's in position to fight
But he's just standing there
He listen, he's taking a nice little break. Relax a bit
Ultimately looks like he will probably not be able to kill someone, but we'll see I think say you is gonna
to back out as he realized the boom reconnects. Who is a yogi bear having a
freaking picnic in the forest? What's he doing? He sat there in the trees. It's a
cheerful lad. It's a happy guy enjoying life.
Ten minutes in. Six to seven.
Cheeky Bamboni. Trying to find the way back into this game. Get the doom to his
Midas. Ember Spirit has a spirit vessel. Underlord trying to finish off a rod of
ATOS. It's a little bit of time they need to get these initial items onto their
side lane cores. So it's down to Ethereal now to try and get out on the map and do
stuff. But every time Ethereal shows up he just gets tornadoed and his flame
guard is gone.
Hit your hammer on the tower, do some damage and actually combo it onto Ember.
Is he dead? He's gonna remnant off the side, but he's gone. So he comes back to lane.
Flamethrower gone to tornado, Bushwack into the combo and he's gone!
You know, a lot of it comes back to him accidentally tanking the meteor hammer there.
He took 250 bonus damage from standing in the meteor hammer under a tower.
Didn't dodge it with Slider Fist or with his ulti, and then Bushwack comes in, surprised, suddenly a really low HP.
And by the time he realized and tried to get away, it was too late.
Yeah, that was not great.
especially as I've just been just been saying I feel like he's the hero that
needs to be out there doing stuff well he gets out there and dies classic
cast a curse it is I just passed stuff to that now you're in the back foot
embers Brits farming jungle dooms the only one out kind of shoving lane but
that means he's wide open axe and it's gonna get doomed up seems great come
through as well even the doom without the open they've got back up here to be
able to defend your Y and get himself a kill.
Good kill and nice use of the Underlord making sure to come through this portal and just
having some impact.
Mostly we're going to see Underlord just farming, but making sure he helps out on sidelines
can give them the advantage they need.
Respect from ahead himself, Bubbleshakes.
Yeah, I really, really like the Meteor Hammer in Woker build compared to Midas.
It feels so much nicer.
It's active.
already cracked open that mid tower. He can farm stacks with it so farming wise it's not even that
much worse than a Midas. Yeah I don't know it just feels like the spell lamp makes it great.
Oh a nice nightmare save. I'm still gonna take a chunk of damage but he'll get the remnant
away this time. So scary though is this hoodwink invoker offering infinite damage from super long
range. Oh that's just the two of them as well wait until Axe gets online and starts getting in the mix
for these things as well.
Not for sure.
But yeah, I'm with you.
I don't know who invented it, but I know BGM was what I saw make it kind of popular with
this.
Ghostwalk, meteor hammer, stacking camps, farming with meatball, pushing waves, pushing towers,
the wide map invoker gameplay, and threatening.
He plays kind of like old school clinks with Orcid.
You know, you're kind of farming enemy side of the map, making life incredibly difficult
for supports to lurk around.
a killer, an assassinator, and you're also this split pusher and teamfighter. He brings
so much to the table.
Hey, does a lot. I don't have much love for the shards, you know, farming stuff, the ghost
walking is too broken in my opinion, but let's see if he can defend his stacks here. He tries
to tornado the ember, but he dodges with Slider Fist. Still not going to be able to stick
around and farm this though, so I'm hoping to thank you for doing hard work. I'll farm
this with a just one ice wall.
Yeah, I feel like that ghost fork shard needs to be like halved in the numbers
Yes, pretty crazy. It's or Lord damage versus creeps only right it can have high damage versus heroes
I'm fine with that, but the whole farming versus creeps. Yeah make that half the damage or something. Yeah, yeah
I can see that. It's way too fast
Slow and steady for this doom hand of Midas into the radiance
No, I trying to get there, but it's gonna take a while
Bane currently his bodyguard playing at the twin gate scouted flared hook shotted
honey son can get caught pushed back in towards corrupted and say oh shoot we're
gonna get blows on him no some strike he's dodging everything I swear
and he's honest the craziest you choose though he didn't dodge the hook shot and
that's why he died but he dodged the Sun strike dodge the you know the nice
little bushwreck attempts same as previously
I can say that a lot of people were there to kill him at least, so some space was created,
but yeah, another nice pick off for the side of Huligani.
Yeah, he's got the little winged boots of Hermes on, just floating around, duking, zipping
left and right.
And they're spotted.
Oh yeah, under sentry ward.
Tornado, Rottomatos, Meeple, Deathling Blast, comboed, killed.
Snowy, the one to pick up that kill on the mid laner and this Metamorphosis.
I wasn't sure about the initiation by Mirosh there, but the fact that he has brought up 8 us as well, he just combos it fully and Ember no way out unfortunately.
That's been difficult for him to connect into this game. Like, lane stage was good, but he died twice and made pretty quickly. That's a third death for him now at 1, 3 and 0.
zero and Ember Spirit the guy that you want to be out there playing forward you know it's meant to
be Bane walks into enemy area of the map sets up for a shackle shot a remnant searing chains
the fiends gates meant to come in and follow up we just haven't had that process of A to B to C to D
it's been Ember Axe dies slept up and they bring in Underlord the quality and this is gonna be an
easy kill but just do the doom I think that's fine so they have the choice between doom or fiend
script there and they chose to use doom which seems like the more expensive
ability in a way right but doom just wants to get back to farming and
hitting creeps so if he uses ulti now bane is still ready to fight so it's
actually a smarter choice to blow the doom on this kill.
Now bane can pivot mid, play with ember spear who desperately needs someone to stay by his side
and wave form goes on this hoodwink with an attempted kill but is suddenly
finding mass resistance. I have brought numbers there to defend him.
He definitely overplayed a bit there, very aggressive and didn't really have anybody
with him other than Underlord being a little bit behind.
8-11, Hulagani finding a mild net worth lead here, 16 minutes in.
Right, you want to hear the cope, the cope for Ember, he's 1-3 and 0, however, dying
three times and then owning is how he played in the first game, right?
Oh, the cope, yeah.
Yeah, the Queen of Pain game, he died three times and then never again, so he already
yes at the standard. No more deaths for December. From here on out. That's how it's got to be.
His wind probability is already showing a pretty drastic number there. 70, 80 plus 81 percent.
12 plus really hates games where you don't have a hard carry. I will say that though.
And this is a Doom carry game. So Dota Plus is based on pub games and if you, you know, nobody picked carry,
a lot of times you just auto lose those games. So it's read maybe a little bit
inaccurate. I think the chance is higher for Chiki but I would agree that TB, TB
Invoker, Axe, all these heroes look great for late game here.
Another smoke. I'm gonna find the Underlord I think. It's always hard to
gank something else when Underlord is able to just TP in, similar to Dawnbreaker,
but unfortunately he's not on his area, he's tipped base.
Wasting a bit of time with the smoke, I'm not connecting yet.
Nobody nearby just yet.
Alright, it's fine.
Not only are you looking for potential kills, but your also bodyguarding is terrible,
as he makes his march towards objectives.
lane that tier 1 top tower without even popping that to more assists.
Doesn't leave pretty easy tower, doesn't leave the invoker maybe susceptible but
looks like he's done a good job just tucking in behind his mid tier 2 farming that northern
jungle and not being found. The hooligan is straight through, get tier one, they've got
ward coverage now in enemy ancients, they're shutting out this part of the map.
I mean, I guess the Midas, Radiance, Doom, the Invoker is still keeping pace so far,
which is pretty impressive.
Invoker is not supposed to be farming this fast and he had a pretty rough lane versus
the Ember too, so super impressed by what we're saying from him.
Of course, a lot of it comes from those kills, the Sunstrike setups have been really, really
good.
for uh giving him easy some specs respect clockwork it's lurking in the shadows
hops in looking for something more where's my bane come over here
kills a sentry in that bottom jungle there's gonna be a cheeky bamboni who smoked
ember and winranger holding hands and anisanne it's a bit of intel saying hey clockwork's over
here and we've got an angle that we can attack this bottom lane through the small screen straight
off of the hoodwing. I mean that fiends gating onto this as well to make damn sure the squirrel falls.
I think Fero was a little bit too far forward there. Didn't really have
axe nearby. Ember was nowhere here. Sorry, Invoker was nowhere close.
What? Invoker has his travels. 2000 gold working on a BKB. BKB is pretty amazing in this game.
Uh, since they're playing against Doom, you're not able to just pop up.
One is a call into some strike.
Oh, hang on a second, the Nightmare save?
Hookshot, great though.
From respect, traps and bows in the cogs.
You come here to Nightmare, to Nightmite, he makes a kill, I think not.
Very nice.
Very nice stuff from respect there.
Finds the angle.
And this coincides very nicely with the Tormentor, of course, that's why they were down there,
trying to contest the fight for the area.
But with the Laptop TTV this will be a quick and easy tournament or taken out
Straight onto that tolom
Okay, self the shot for the hoodwink
This is at least time the doom has been farming so he gets himself blink BKB is queued up for next
But I can't help but feel that cheeky have to make something happen
they cannot go slowly into this game, they cannot go late game, it's going to be very difficult.
And I think the timing that they're looking at is the Agadamn Scepter on Underlord.
This is a really impactful item. Getting the Pit of Malice, you know,
is going to be massive and your Agadamn is suddenly going to set up kills across the map.
I'm still trying to find a way to get ethereal involved in stuff, though.
And he's going for this agonism set that we're just definitely going to help out, because
he needs a way in and out of teamfights.
I don't know how many of you have been tornadoed or on an H.O.S.
court.
I'd also imagine a BKB this Ograx might just be a BKB that he buys now
Yeah, that's something to protect it. I think BKB might make more sense, but
We'll see what he ends up going for
Respect with his tumblers toy and for stuff
It's trying to get whatever vision he can for his team
And we'll see the doom pop in and out of lane
Doom and Bane smoking themselves from that bottom spot all the way back towards mid.
So far Hulagani have been playing this game of cat and mouse, where Enghok has done a
great job like showing himself when he can kill, then hiding the jungle when he can't.
Terrorblade, same story when Metamorphosis is up, feels very powerful, pressing forward,
then sitting back and waiting.
Meta is back up now, so I'd imagine Hulagani feel pretty strong to gather up and fight,
So it's a decent timing here for the jumpy man to buy cheeky bamboni to catch snowy.
They've got the game.
There we go.
Straight towards this Terrablade, dooming him up.
And Volka tries to fight back with his BKB, but they've lost snowy already.
Good pickoff. Super bit of patience, but in the end they get him.
Terrablades getting shut down.
I'm not sure they can turn this into a Roche kill.
Normally, you know, get a big pickoff going to Roche,
but their lineup is uh not the best rush takers to say the least all the arrows are pretty bad actually
not even any sustain or anything to make it a you know a slow but long rush in
yes it's just a bad rush on and the spirit should be able to catch the hoodwink finally
collapsing on the saiyors over the top spot ended the kill as well kill
finding these pick offs even if they don't get to take a big objective at least they're
playing the map and Vayne is now going bottom, things better of it.
Yeah I'm trying to figure out, does it feel good though, killing tb obviously feels great.
You invade, you kill tower blade, you come back, you kill hoodwink, you get to play mid
and top lane, two lanes and farm jungle so obviously that part feels good but in terms
of, you know, bigger picture stuff. Taking a step back and thinking about Terrablade
and Voker scaling into this mid game. Have Cheeky Bamboni done enough? How many more
moves did that? Oh nice, jump away by Ember Spirit. How many more moves do they have to
main?
They need to create more stuff for sure. BKB and Agadam Scepter abuse needs to come in.
BKB is just now finishing up on the Doom. Agadam Scepter on the, on board has been done
for a while but need to make more moves with this and ideally you want to find the TV since
he doesn't have a BKB on his own he is a pretty easy kill I think Doom is our invoker's a harder
kill due to his BKB he could always get away that's actually hooligans who are making the move now
oh yeah I imagine they feel pretty strong when Matt is ready the thing is TerraBlade isn't actually
join them snowy just continuing to farm well this death squad trio who's out
there smoking towards the doom yo I or the yo are AI about to get caught here
corrupted with a blank call meatball some strike enough I try to gate pit to
stop any more advance but the damage comes through too quickly yeah gets
bursted quite easily there interesting by the way that the invoker is still not
opting to go for an agonist at any given point. They have great heroes to pair with it. Oh,
safety. But he's opting to go on OctoRain for next, which I think makes a lot of sense.
You don't necessarily have to go Cataclysm. Just having OctoRain will make him more impactful
in every regard. You have three active items, you have a million spells. It's a pretty damn good
good upgrade here.
That just feels nice of patting your mana regen, your HP stat as well.
Man, I met your tank here.
Maybe let's me survive a dune.
Hope shot from respect.
Straighten on toward this Windranger who also gets tanked by the Rod of Atox, Link calls
Sunscry out easy.
Who the Garni can just execute, but now a potential turn around play, respect, get
to run down by the Doom until the Terraplate arrives.
They've got double route, he'll break free with a Mantis-style, and you know why I'm
realising, you can't really stand and fight against the Terraplate who's popped his
Matta.
Yeah, that's the problem here, even though he has a 2000 gold advantage, the carry
difference is in the chassis itself.
The Doom is meant to dominate game early, take over, run the game, get the roast, you
you know, win with a big gold lead advantage right now, they're at a gold disadvantage
overall against a terrible late who's insanely hard they can carry.
Now I think there's a big problem where their two supports are really bad against the T.D.
right?
The Bane and the Windranger, I think both of them are pretty useless, you would like to
to have some big magic damage or easy control spells to throw.
And while Bane, yes, has control spells,
I spoke about it before.
It's super hard to go in and just fiend, script, a TV.
You always die two delusions if you try it.
Yeah.
If you've got a losing meta up, it's impossible.
I think that's a good point to hammer home, right?
Is that whole concept of ease of execution.
You know, we throw around that phrase,
but like looking at this game in particular, the fact
that you just don't have anything
to throw a terror blade that's easy,
so just catch him or nuke him.
It's, we must doom him.
We must fire Storm on Phelous, get him.
You know, there's so many, we must,
and when you have, we must,
you're locked into a certain way,
and if you're locked into a certain way,
your enemies know what's gonna be coming
so they can prepare for that exact situation.
Yeah, and TB, by the way,
is just now finishing up at Butterfly.
He has enough gold for it finally,
so 27 minute, Mantisal, Dragonland, Butterfly.
pretty strong timing coming out from him even though the doom is ahead right it's a Midas devour doom so obviously it's going to farm super fast
Um, but we need to see that turn into some real value gold is only so useful
We need to see them actually make stuff happen
Looking at the bottom lane hoping someone shows here but corrupted
That's gonna tuck himself in the trees and then spots the doom
Who's making the move here?
I thought it was Radiant moving onto the axe, but it's the axe in his clockwork going straight
onto the doom, forcing that defensive BKB and the grip which gets cancelled by the tornado.
Now a meatball drop, corrupted, he's in trouble still, focused down and killed, TP out by
the invoker, looks like he's successful with his BKB.
Both teams clashing there, kind of awkward head to head.
No Terrablade involved, that means the Radiant come out with the advantage, killing that
axe and trading supports.
Yeah, exactly. The difference was that all of Chicky were in the area and TV was no-rex-less, so
Nice initiation and nice attempt to kill the Doom, but the nightmare
Was there to save him just disrupting the chain-stun allowing him to get the BKB out and then he just walks away
That's why the BKB is so necessary
Still no Roshan attempt though
I'm kinda wondering if Hulagani are thinking about going for it themselves.
I know that when Doom is down and some BKBs were spent, there's a timing here where Snowy
has Metamorphist Mantastyle Sunder.
Pretty much everything he wants is ready.
And they're in this roach pit bringing it down to about half, but it's been scouted.
Oooo, awkward timing for a pause.
Great ward for Radiant here, so could play this area, as we see Terrible Lady just say
side lanes guys side lanes and they're very right. The side is looking pretty bad right now.
It's a great time for a pause and for preparing for the next 30 seconds. It's a five round team
wiping coming isn't it? The incoming inevitable fights yeah. The Unlord doesn't have ulti yet
though. 20 seconds cooldown on the fiendscape so he cannot backstab if he had it. Right now he
could just drop the ulti on the invoker hood wink and axe. It would be amazing.
But I think they could just back out of this.
Let's see.
I mean, Radiance sees a lot.
It's observable.
The Dio sees nothing coming.
So Snowy, got a man to style, get away from danger,
and realizing there is high ground vision there.
He pings it.
He wants someone to plot the sentry down.
So the Forbry set, and then Hula Garni go for the smoke of their own.
I think we'll have to sample for damage or no.
Smoker reposition, and Volker has the Ockfairing Core ready.
I do respect that he didn't go shard yet though, and Volker by the way.
He also doesn't like the bullshit, Gareth.
He's like, you know what, shard is too broken, not going to do that.
Yeah, someone else did it the other day as well, and one.
I think we've seen it in Volker three times in our games we've cast.
One who bought shard lost, and two who didn't.
Well, one who bought didn't buy shard.
One, and this is the third one.
I mean, in fairness, if you do have shard and you run around and do that whole kill and creep wave thing,
you become very predictable in that that's your pattern, and if people crack it, they will pick you off,
and it's really awful to die because you're being predictable.
So, to a degree, it might be bad for you to go for it, even though it's super OP overall, I would say.
Pigeon holds you into doing something that maybe you don't want to do?
also the type of thing that works way better in top games than pro games.
Pro games will coordinate, they will try to counter it,
ooh, axe call off the mark. I'm trying to go for something in the mid lane.
A theory, I'll just BKB's up. They've got these pit-fee place,
and Mirage has to go show any golden just to disengage.
Oh, look at this, waveform, Shackle Shot, gonna latch onto Clockwork and Invoker,
and the Hook Shot defensively to try and save him, while the
The axe is being pummeled by this doom and underlord.
Look at them go just charging in towards Hulagani.
They've lost the axe, the TB got doomed and had to run home.
Respect has fallen now as well, and the terraplane barely surviving back in the fountain.
And a good shot there coming out, sealing the deal, killing off the ember and, I'm sorry,
the challenge is broken.
The three deaths only didn't happen.
Oh, he's dying too many times now.
Turnado into Sunstrike and then of course the hoodwink there as well with a bushwack. Very good kill.
It started so well for them though, like they're losing to Ember Spirit.
That feels kind of rough. Still good by the metrics. A thousand net worth going into the hands of cheeky Bamboni.
But the fact that Terriblade and Invoker survived the fight another day and Roshan is still alive to be taken.
and who can still play that bottom right corner of the map
and play towards Roche at the top left.
I think one of the major issues,
what went wrong in that fight,
is that they dropped the doom on TD,
but they don't have anybody who can get over there.
They didn't have fiendscaped anymore
and they couldn't position themselves that far forward.
So, TD literally just walks away.
Sure, they lost a few heroes,
but TD just walking away safely
is really important for them.
Well, I thought it would be a straightforward
into the roast but the difficult format to take corrupt is gonna make a jump on
this windranger some squirt talking to land because the cogs push around in a
cyclone out this windranger buying some time but hula ghani spend an initiation
spend a bkb don't get a kill on a support
yeah I saw this way of timing this could be the timing for roast for sure
little awkward for hula ghani and it could run over there maybe make it in
time but we'd have to run immediately. Terrorblade, white going there so I think this is gonna be free.
We'll see. I dunno. There's nothing to say something about it.
Enging forward stores this Roche pit. There's no hookshot just yet. Roche has not
dead and the Doom and Biscariot walk up high ground to stop any of the fans but the blink call
the Doom and the Bane both found by Corrupted dumps them down they've both gone. They'll
grip up the axe and find the kill but the Terrorblade now can stand tall and dish the damage out with
Oh my god, what a big win there. That catch with Axe was beautiful and I think it was forced by Invoker running over, throwing the tornado into the pit.
jump out of the pit then they get stuck on this high ground saying okay uh who do we go on they
end up seeing a support there was clockwork nearby but it didn't really matter much like look here
they're so clumped up and axe makes the most of it together with the bush back and nooks coming in from uh
hudlin
ah yeah yeah yeah from there on out flight was on
it wasn't too far away from getting a hookshot on that underlord
Oh, Windranger.
Also, I said the Doom, you know, is the area where he doesn't really kill himself with
Blade Mill, but he did take 900 damage from Blade Mill in that fight.
It's a fair bit of DPS coming in still.
That's no joke.
I got TB Aegis and a 5K left.
Again, they may fall.
Cash on the Doom.
Jeffling Blast meets you.
You know why?
I have the BKB.
Trying to turn a fight with a Grip and a Doom.
Chuck the inhale to the hoodwink, Mariahs kills the doom and the hoodwink says cool you got me and then what?
Everything for me. Clockwork is the bonus kill.
A nightmare's there on the Terraplate as Snowy goes in behind them, deep trying to Sunder finding a target.
It's difficult though, he's BKB'd up, he's mad at Dodgers projectiles but he's sniped down by the power shot.
Her automator's thrown onto a BKB Denver spirit but this Terraplate is trapped inside the pit,
It shackled up, surrounded on all sides by raging heroes.
You'll get the Sunder down now,
and Anku finally allowed to use it,
but he's being burst down into oblivion.
Mirage has come round from the northern side,
looking to continue the fight
and corrupted his low HP in dying.
Mirage picks up the kill on Anku,
sure finishing off the Underlord,
but a messy, scrappy fight
leads to Invoker being the only die hero still alive.
That was, yeah, messy is probably the best way
to describe it, but Tier 2 Tower
really put a stop to Hooligani. They couldn't really run through it, awkward situation overall.
They get stuck on one side with the Aegis. I think maybe you should try to run away towards the
right instead of running towards the left, since he basically trapped himself with the enemy and
his team was like, okay, how do we help you now? Also the soul read by this Sunstrike. Look at this.
Wait, wait for it, Sunstrike. And he runs back into it. Walks right back into it. So many times,
yeah, so many times he's thrown Sunstrike and you know, it's missed a little bit by the enemy
running away but this time it's beautiful. But here's the thing right the
fight is won. All Snowy has to do is like BKB and run. Yeah, just walk away.
But he's like I'm just forward. He's looking for that Wind Ranger man. He wanted
that Wind Ranger Sunder and now he's like oh I've done an oopsie. I think also a
big mess read on the BKB. Maybe he thought that Ember or Underlord had
used or the BKBs were on cooldown because he ran in there thinking I'm
going to Sunder someone and his fight is completely over. You could you see the
idea it just it was a bad idea it was fine even if that was the initial case
that's still fine just run towards the right but he over commits to this
chasel win-manure uh possibly for sure should have been a good fight and it's
up being a pretty bad one for them and maybe this gives enough fuel for them
to come back in the game that might just do man it's meant to be hula ghani
gathering up even more of a lead now settled around 5k but you've allowed
cheeky Bamboni to come out of their base one more time and they excel if
they're able to get on top of you if they can have the vision to start the
fight through a bane or ember initiation the things get really scrappy
quickly so the Ghani much more suited to setting up on an objective right with
TB front-lining, Matamorff's ass up, action invoker the reactive heroes who
can return fire they want the information game they want to be able to
a bunker down hold an area of the map.
Yeah, also keep in mind by the way there's Wind Waker on the Wind Ranger now so she's
able to save against the axe, they also have the Aghanims on Bane so obviously his Fiend
Script now could be a bit more useful, he had a really hard time getting a Fiend Script
on the Terrible later earlier as I mentioned but now it's not completely out of the question.
of luxury items being flown out and queued up.
Kai sounds kind of like being completed by Aetherial, I mean he's got this veil working
on a bloodstone it looks like.
I'm TB going for an MKB here, I think it's pretty fine, he gets some true strike not
only against the Windranger but the 25% invasion on the Doom, I think he just wants to be able
to DPS Doom much much quicker.
I would have been okay with them going dangerous here as well, but 25% of the animation is pretty annoying.
Focus Scythe of Ice Q'd up.
I need some more item slots though.
We're gonna have to sell Rod of H.O.S. to slot it in.
I feel like selling an item is not a great situation to be in.
I kind of would have liked to see him just consume Agatom Scepter almost as a next choice,
but I understand the Hex will counter Ember,
ember and will also deal really well with this aggressive place.
Did you already point out, sorry if I missed it, the Invoker Shard did go for the EMP option?
Yeah, I didn't point out that he bought it, but it makes sense at this point of the game,
since we're so late into the game now, I think you don't need to run around and delay, drag
out the game with the ghost walk, and the EMP is still very very strong.
Many black holes.
into their their AoE. Yeah, a little black hole together with the axe and so on. It's not bad.
Just thinking if I say... It also makes it quite a bit stronger. The EMP damage is increased quite
massively by having a shard, I think. If I say what color it really is, it sounds a bit rude, honestly.
The windranger is going to wander away from that top lane, getting chased out as clockwork
guards up the twin gate top left corner and going to rejoin with the hoodwink down south.
Everybody's under vision, Raiden and Daru are observed seeing literally everything.
Oh, but he doesn't know a clockwork, he's sense a rocket but doesn't put a sentry down.
Get to safety though before Bane gets over there and catches him.
It was not too far away from Bane being able to blink him and set up.
There's a game of millimetres.
Smoke coming in now.
Getting a little bit impatient.
Wanna go and fight again.
Hungry for it.
Terrible, it's like a guy that spent 39 minutes, 40 minutes farming.
Let's go find a kill.
I save up the underlord with the Wind Waker.
Five at a time for him.
acts getting forced to Lotus back to safety while the Ember goes diving deep. A shackler
shot up onto Corrupt Cave but he got returned by the Lotus Lord which bounced him onto
Windranger. A few spells being spelt. Oh god, are you dying? I still see a setup suing.
Another tornado. Into the roof though. Mirage forced to BKB as the gate comes in looking
at the TV, Snowy's being surrounded. He's got the VKB and get the Lotus up. No
Thunder Target just yet. He's just being clicked down and annihilated. They've got the Thunder
though, forced back in to return Fire and Anku. The death of the Terra Blade
inevitable though, as he falls inside these goddamn pits. The Doom's still going,
cold snapped up, but doesn't care. Turns them corrupted, giving the damage to the
Axe. Oh, look at this! Axe and TB dead, and Cheeky Bamboni are going for it.
It was there under Lord, the Doom still alive, he's being pushed back back and the hookshot comes in.
Mirage opens up as the real carry, showing here who the Garnet can follow through,
because Ethereal is out of mana, resources lacking, Mirage and Steyosh on his tail,
finding the third core kill, and a triple for Mirage, beyond Godlike Invoker.
Oh, he lost a fifth. Looking for the wind, not quite on mark.
He didn't get his rampage in game two, did he? He's hungry for it.
a kill on a windranger, how do i miss that one?
very close there, they got the terribly but the hidden carry of the invokers sitting behind and dishing out some serious damage
he even missed one of his sunstreaks there but it didn't really matter, need for the ice wall, you know the auto attacks going
he's actually doing so much
so lepas pointed out as well, 4 sides of vise used by vile in that fight for the wild
octurine core, you said it, octurine super good
super good. Yeah, when you have this many active items, and I mean it even helps the
Lincoln Sphere defensively, so um, he's having some major impact and cannot be ignored at
this point. It's crazy, they don't have that terribly, but they're still going high ground.
Catapults plus Forg spirits, and tier 3 tower looking a little worse for wear. I'm sure
if they'll get a lane of barracks here, it's probably just tier 3 and run. Yeah, I think
They open the tower and then back out
Respawns are coming in may as well back up to the wisdoms double wisdom gonna go their way
Next I respect clock is about to level 23 is getting some serious experience born here for a support
Thank you super level
So that racks down about half health
Snowy gets an amplified damage rune and I'll accurately placed on him right outside Rochon who had just respawned
He roars out across the map and that indicates that Shiki Vamponi have to react.
They've got to do something to get here if they want to stop it.
And on the move, Terriblade's pretty low.
He gets forced out of the Roche pit.
Roche end up dead yet.
They've got the pit on three in the back.
The call came out.
The Ember Spirit texts up, but they're now doomed on the Invoker.
They found Mirage, chasing him down.
The shot was shot.
He's going to come through and the damage is there.
Godlike streak taken out by Ethereal.
And Anisa is on to Seyosh.
The bled calls him corruptive.
tries to turn us back with a go on the bane, but the terraplated snowy, he's very low
I can't thunder anybody, he's just dead. He's out there. And now the chase is on towards corruption
From one side to the other, corrupted, he's trying with a corner blade, male
Can't dunk anybody down, though, as your wire theory will have got him all locked in place
One side to the other, left and right, up and down, a rollercoaster ride of a series and a game
His waveform is killing off Roadjad to give them the angers
Small swings and madabars in this game, that freaking Charles Playground!
Absolutely crazy. Okay, I have one major reason why that fight went so well for them.
It is because of the left talent of Underlord. Do you know what it does?
160 DPS around Fiendscape made it impossible for them to stay there. They had to run away.
The moment the Fiendscape came down, TV took a lot of damage, everybody else had to back away and leave the Roche pit.
And yeah, they didn't take so much damage from it necessarily, but it denied the area in a way that, you know, I've never really thought about it.
I've never seen people use this talent and how strong it can be, but it's actually oppressive.
I think credible. And you asked me a question as I was taking massive gulp of water, by the way. I needed to hide you right after that.
Oh no, Lord.
No, it's good stuff.
Oh, thank you, Water.
I'm impressive.
Also that fight recap, 6,666 gold goes the way of the Radian.
I think that's very fitting when you got a Doom on your team.
It's all going to cheeky bamboni here.
Game 3, 4K lead, 28-28, 45 minutes in.
They've got Aegis on the Doom, they're trying to prep for high ground,
but they've got to respect the Hooligani Hole.
Act Invoker, incredibly strong hero.
I'm going to start saying though, I feel like not having Agathams at this point in the game,
in the game with these heroes on your team feels a bit
underwhelming, no? On Invoker?
When you act who can call into Cataclysm, yeah.
You also have Clockwork, just a hookshot into, you know,
multi-hero hogs. We've seen that happen multiple times as
well. I think there have been many chances to get big Cataclysm
going, and the fact that they don't have it makes these fights
kind of hard, because they don't insta-burst multiple heroes,
and in a drag-out fight, Doom, Amber, at least yours, they burn
you down over time even the underlord right the damage over time is pretty serious it absolutely is
yeah a dps around fiends game that's great I honestly if you asked me before the game what the
left talent of unbroad is I would have no idea
mirage Lincoln's pop grip is there fiends grip hi is that on the open hi's are dead
That's costly. Nice double bounty going their way as well.
The pick-off on the walker. Sure he has buyback, but you might be able to force it.
And forcing this buyback could be a big wing-con opening up.
There was a game during Dream League where this topic came up about the Underlord talent,
because it was like a losing game for Underlord.
And then we looked at the stats, and in 40 minutes, right, he had done like 20k damage in 40 minutes.
And then the last 9 or 10 minutes of the game, he tripled his damage out of that talent.
It was actually freaking insane.
I mean, you can do a lot of damage in late game actually.
We, you know, I was quick to say that this is a late game favor school, the Gany situation,
but they are proving their strength as well in Chicky.
base trading a little bit
yeah the gun is going mid yeah you've got to respect the push strength of hula
gunny here cheeky van bonie they obviously already claimed that mid lane
earlier on now finishing off the bottom top lane on the radio side destroyed and
it's hula gunny get to hold the engines area high ground it's no longer a base
trade now it's just a base scan you use your base and you get nothing going on the
ember I'll be booted up nice and difficult ask to try and find him and now
your terror blades being run at snowy the ae we do miss gonna arrive the terror
blade trying to stand his ground and fight but he doesn't offer enough him
and clockwork out of here with buyback available sure the clockworks death he
We took 1200 damage from the Talons, what the hell did he do?
I just died to the gates?
Yeah, not even kidding you.
He went from like 20k damage on Underlord to like 60k in the matter of 10 minutes.
It is a monumental amount of damage.
That's a good talent.
Four pets in range up.
Rangers first up.
Yeah, it's annihilated, corrupted, they get caught in the pits, but it doesn't look
like there's any follow-through just yet from Cheeky Pamponi and the...
He did lose Gem on that.
So, a little bit costly there.
That's a really great...
Come on, grab up the gem.
They tornado into two-man call.
Doom and Underlord as a save from Wind Waker.
And these tanky cores, not taking a lot of damage.
There wasn't follow-through.
We've got a grip on Invoker now as well as we dive with the Ember Spirit.
And not to Invoker by the fountain.
Not enough to finish him off just yet.
Now try and catch up as they buy back TB and Clockwork.
Corrupted is gone for a two-man call again.
The Doom, he's tanky as he couldn't get out of here with the safety of his life.
Oh boy. Axe has to kill everything and I don't know how he can. He doesn't even have a catatouille to drop him.
Everybody's full HP. This looks already like it's over.
Ah, cheeky manvoni, they're doing it! They're doing it here in the Ci-Quals!
They've got a nightmare on Mirage! They're jumping from the doom, finding him! They've got him down!
Bi-Baxe available! God, you're not going to have to use it, but...
They're scrambling here, grasping at straws, as well as...
They've got a nightmare on Mirage! They've got a nightmare on Mirage! They've got a nightmare on Mirage!
God, you're not to use it, but it's scrambling here grasping at straws as Huligani getting fountain died by this ethereal invoker
And the same wind ranger with a wind waker comes in clutched to buy time for ethereal
After the astral planes and dodges away from danger
You can't touch this boy. No physical corporeal form for the ember spirit
He's just dancing flame and fire flickering in the faces. Oh, holy God. Is they're losing their base
your eyes gonna grab back the clockwork a we do going cook we get past the cops
though so Mirage able to stand and hold at least a defensive line but I could
spamming them down another difference of BKB falls down here as they get on the
wind ranger but the wind waker saves her yet again hookshot required to kill her off
she's there for two minutes as hula-gulling up onto their base until they don't catch
on a cockpush back another maybe good move from axe to the two-man call
Corrupted!
The damage needs to come through now.
Mirage from the high ground, raining it in.
Kills off the Underlord as this doom.
Half HP, 30% UI.
Road back in with the EMP.
The track back to the hole and it's gonna wrap kid with another call!
Oh my god, what is this defense?
I'm really gonna need a whole meal of buyback coming out from the doom as well.
I guess he buys back because it feels like the counter pressure is gonna come,
gonna come but I feel like that's a waste of buyback no like the mega creeps
I'm not sure they can even push yet but maybe it's true they need to take this
gate they buy back to take the gates so they don't just TP across the map
that makes sense looking rough right now I wasn't so sure about that doing buyback
but I guess that makes sense no he would he would have to buy back I mean I
question it first but he would get forced to the rushing across the map of
course all alive forcing back the mega creeps insane hold though without
turblade this invoker and the disable they cook absolutely insane how they
combo the corrupted axe is getting two-man call after two-man call on the
call heroes like the untold and doom four or five times in that fight spot on
the sports playing their heart out to a lot of nice bush wax and hook shots
coming in there and now they're at the door to taking some nice racks evening
out the situation. Terribly he's queued up a rapier. That's time. He's got 5k golds.
These buildings would give him the gold in each. You're against Magikreeps. You're going
for TF4s. You're ignoring the barracks. You've got a time ahead. 30 seconds no underlord.
Doom is ready. Ember is ready. Oh boy. Rapier's commanding before.
They're bringing it out in hand. He's got the rapier and he's looking at TF4s. Hookshot
They find an opening to kill off Annie-san, dead with no buyback.
All the doom though, find us in Bukam, but Raj is going to fall, gone for two minutes.
Now the base throw, the throne is gone, the template has done the job.
They win the Vesta 3, they move on forward to continue their run through the TI quals.
Jumping, cheeky, bricky, van Boney out of this tournament, it's been great hearing their name,
saying their name, watching them play a great series as well as they almost had it.
But Hooligan is showing their experience to take the game in the end.
What an insane game, dude. That was quite the finish there.
And I think sadly for Chicky, they have to be kicking themselves after that.
Little bit too much sent in there, fighting close to the fountain, losing key heroes.
And then ultimately, with an insane hope.
I mean, I can't even describe all the shit that went down in that final fight.
Dripping and sweat.
Insane stuff.
Especially the tail end of this game.
Holy gawd, he's pulling out an incredible hold.
I felt like Snowy, dying, buying back, dying back, and then falling flat.
Didn't feel like this Terrible Blade was able to latch onto anything in this game.
All he needed was one push.
I think Snowy is thanking his team for carrying him in this game more than the other way around
because he did not really have the best Terrible Blade game, he got focused a lot, granted.
Yeah Invoker picked up the slack 16-4-11 beautiful performance
They had a lot of setup from his teammates and they made it work. Obviously these guys are very synced
But yeah, TB TB was like the decoy
You thought you got our carry, but no it was Invoker all along. That's so much
Mistakes happening here dooming himself on the doom sure like for aoe, but unfortunately this doom did nothing
It didn't hit anyone, they just walk away from it.
And this is what I mean, fighting into the fountain.
They get guided to take a fight that's so easy to defend, basically.
And that's when A-Dog's PUSH just about flipping the underlord on his TP out,
and then the call again on those two calls.
Going in there as well, both the Ember and the Doom going back into this fight,
because sure, losing the underlord is not great,
but they go in with the Doom, he gets caught, and now that forces buyback.
Costly mistakes all around coming out. Oh, holy moly. Yeah, exactly
Exactly that reaction
Goodness gracious me
52 minutes your
Rapier to seal the deal towards the end. That was noise carry carry impact at least dislike guys
I can kill the building. I'll do it keep them off me. I will do it and
My god, he did so funny there. You know, you get baited in a little bit
You're watching that fight at the very edge of the radiant base.
You can't see the throne HP.
You're just watching Invoker die, or maybe a chance.
And then you look back, thrown 30% health, 15% health,
dead to the TB rapier.
Just gone out of there.
35 to 37.
And this is what we live for.
Lower bracket stories, lower bracket comebacks.
That's incredible back and forth
between Cheeky Bamboni and Hooligani.
I mean, it's not the Christmas or cleanest dota,
but it is enjoyable and entertaining, that's for sure.
definitely. And I wish the best for you know, Hooligani going forward here because easy to root for an underdog team. It's always a lot of fun. I think this was a crazy close match between them and cheeky. I think cheeky, you know, definitely showed their strength. That last game was really theirs to win, but fell on the finish line really
Snowley is the stand-up player today. I guess he killed the Throne, he ended the game, he won the game, he won the game, production makes a good point, that's true, that's true.
Also, he didn't tilt, right? He got targeted so much, all these dooms, all these hatreds, you know, teen scripts, whatnot.
He really didn't have the hardest game to play on-dier, so, you know, he held it together, did what he needed to do, but ultimately, yeah, fantastic teamwork by Houdigani.
I think I'm able to do that.
10 minutes earlier.
No, great, great stuff.
Yeah, resilient holds on and get
themselves another chance, another
step forward, so they'll face up
against enjoy in that lower bracket
round two, a little closer.
Now three series away from a
qualification slot, and we've got
four of those to give out and we're
going to get a little bit closer to
TI as we'll be handing some out, I
believe later on down the line, but
we've got some more upper bracket
Ah, getting closer to it as we hand over to...
I was involved with, I think, some more upper bracket games, so Waga and I will see you next time.
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the upper bracket. Fault. How
are you doing? Looks like we've
had the I'm pretty sure you were
tuning in as well, right? We had
some pretty crazy games just
now. Uh yeah, that was pretty
We had some pretty crazy games just now.
Yeah, that that last one in particular got pretty wild, right?
It was impossible to actually know who was gonna win in any state of the game.
It's like, oh, yeah, one team looks like they have better late game.
And then it doesn't matter because they're just losing every fight.
The TV just keeps dying.
And then I think they end up just winning or something.
So kind of wild how it all had to go.
Yeah, definitely an unfortunate loss there for cheeky bamboo.
And you gave it their all.
But unfortunately, the end of the road for them there.
Hula guarding they move on to play yes enjoying that next round at the ribs lower bracket today though for the rest of today
We're looking at the upper bracket yesterday
We saw spirit to oh enjoy and nigma galaxy to a navi today
We're gonna see yellow submarine go up against versus pro and then power Rangers go up against team vision
So we'll talk about this first one going into it now draft is about to start
We'll be able to get on your screens very shortly this first one fog yellow submarine versus versus pro
I think on paper right this should be a win for Verdi's pro right there. They're coming in as the favorites
But the last move we saw from them. Yeah, it wasn't super clean
So yellow submarine they could absolutely turn up today and you know keep versus pro at the least on their toes
Like that this it might not necessarily be a walk in the park here for versus pro
No, I don't think so either by any means. I'm curious to see how this matchup is gonna end up going
Because they ended up losing what I think the first game it was the other day. Yes, they did.
I mean it wasn't really like clean by any means too, like they kind of lost pretty just decisively.
So yeah, I think this is not going to be the easiest by any means. I wouldn't say 50-50 by it,
like for in particular, but I do think they're also ranking on it. It's like 45-55, maybe 60-40
something like that for VP. VP just has to play clean and they've been pretty sloppy. So
see what they do do and let's see what type of drafts we get because we've been starting to see,
I don't know, like the rise of some of these supports that I think look super busted and thank
I think that's all the drafts from earlier this morning, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's been back to just being banned by everyone.
Even those we saw, you know, they left it in and they beat it. So yeah, hats off to Nigma Galaxy yesterday in that series against Na'Vi.
They let it through and they beat it. So that's quite the power play from Nigma Galaxy.
We'll see how it does them in that final series that they'll be playing later on up against Team Spirit in the upper bracket, not today, later down the line.
Yeah, first pick for Yellow Submarine, they'll get themselves to Shadow Fiend.
I hope they ban the Drow. I think we've seen this matchup too many times now. One team picks SF, the other team picks Drow and it's like this SF has to win the game at some point or you're just going to lose because the Drow counter matchup is very difficult for the SF.
I hope to see yellow superman either ban it or have a preparation for a draw pick
Because I've just seen that too many times now, although
Tomorrow plays quite a bit. I mean he plays a lot of different heroes
So it's not the easiest to just ban out his pool by any means either
Dawnbreaker has been a big one too. So when peeps pick shadow fiend a lot of times
I'm seeing they firstly like immediately ban the dawn breaker just because the gap close on it is very strong in most situations
If you get left alone, you can just die
Maybe they think about something like that because Saberlight, he's a bit targeted in this game, there's an undying band, maybe an indicator that they do want to put a bit of focus on Saberlight.
I'm sad that he changed his name away from that by the way, I'd really like to call him that.
Well let's see, I read a few name changes on teams and the players.
True.
Well bang, coming into this next pick phase, this last one here from Yellow Submarine.
Are you more worried about Dawn, are you more worried about Drow, is it the other carries
you're worried about?
I feel like I think you're right about maybe the Dawn but I think they go for Neva, let's
go take out the Clinks instead, so at least both of those options open here versus Pride.
That's interesting, we did see the Clinks, they looked really nice, at least in the game
that they'd picked it versus this like undying. Sure it was Q1 team versus like
tier 2 or tier 3, but it didn't look, it looked pretty good. So Ringmaster,
excellent save versus Bane, right? Fiendscript, you box them. Always gonna have a
way to cancel it as well too, with the Q or maybe the ult, you can zone people away
from the target that gets Fiendscript, so I mentioned to you this every time I see
Ringmaster, underrated, happy to see it. Hard to execute though, that we have to point out.
Can be a bit of a difficult one with all the skill shots. They'll just get the axe
They really like their willow lately it's gonna say yeah, so it's not picking this a lot
Yeah, one of one of those supports that's very team specific. Yeah, I some teams they most teams
Don't care about this at all. I think there's only a few of them that do really like to run the wheel out
It's very interesting to me because I don't put this hero at like a top of the list in terms of supports right now
Like you said, very team-specific, very player-specific.
Why is that? For you, what is it about the Willow that, I guess, for you and all these other teams that don't play?
Do you think that you look at the hero and say, well, it doesn't have something that the other supports have?
Like, what is it missing?
The ultimate is just incredibly hard to use, right?
Badlum is, in a lot of situations, feels almost unusable.
The rest of the kit is awesome. Don't get me wrong.
It's just the ultimate, right? It's very hard to actually find a specific situation to find the use of it, so...
And laning, right, you're in pretty close range as a 4 position in comparison to some of the other ones, so sometimes it's a little harder to play.
But, yeah, we'll see. Could you do trade pretty effectively because you have good base attack time on Willow?
So I think it's just very player specific, but I'm just sometimes shocked to see because House Cream plays a lot of support heroes.
He plays the techies, etc. All the things under the sun.
And sometimes with Axe, right, you want a follow-up that's big burst damage early.
Sure, nowadays Axe does most of the damage on his own with Blade Mail, but...
Bedlam? You're not going to run into Bedlam on top of your axe call. That's kind of suicide, right?
So, let's see if it works for them. Yellow submarine?
We'll get the Tiny and the Snap. They're flexing a bit here.
Now, kind of like that, I mean. Offlane, Snap potentially? Carrie, Tiny?
I feel like
they have a lot of options that are also just kind of good, you know, like these three cores,
probably if the Tiny is indeed a core,
Like they
They're kind of a nightmare for all of the three here as a VP. I feel I feel like this is a pretty scary showing from yellow submarine with these four it is
and
VPs looks a lot more vulnerable the opening to their draft
And the like the dark willow now at this point your your shadow robbers not really gonna protect you just dead
Yeah, you're just dead
Literally pretty much like what doesn't everybody it's actually
Every single ability hits you right.
I think so right now.
I think maybe...
Yep.
No, I think even if...
Yeah, everything hits, so okay.
Everything hits.
You're hit by everything.
And now they have the Tiny versus the Axe matchup, which is...
I think this is like very likely like 90% to carry, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it should be like that.
So...
Okay.
They'll pick a Nature's Prophet.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Is there something...
The vibes about the Shellis submarine lineup, it just looks like they're out to just kill
and they're going to have a pretty good shot at killing VP's heroes.
Yeah, they have so much burst damage and I'm seeing a lot of vulnerability in VP.
They're squishy, like very squishy.
That's the thing, right? Yeah, it's going to take some, you know, it's a straight up outplay.
It feels like to kind of get through this early to mid game from VP,
which could be risky to try and lean on as, you know, Yellow Submarine, they are, you know, a pretty formidable squad.
So the shadow feet mid we don't see this that much if it is gonna be this right very likely
It will be the NP can abuse this if it is gonna be safe lane
So you come in if they get a strong mid laner you come in and kill cuz that stuff is quite fragile. Yeah, but yeah, this
So strong y'all see number also reads very good at setting up these type of picks to and they force a lichen band
Since there's a nature's profit. They have a tiny they've done the wolf bite if I'm not mistaken earlier in this tournament already
So it's something you have to keep on your mind wolf bite tiny always super hype
There's a fun combo
And do they want to ban something like the beast master also because the summons are a problem for them with the two supports
The problem thing is that they have snaps so they can flex it's just not the easiest to ban
Even though this is likely a four position snap. They can't still run this as a three
Yeah, okay, so they'll bend the dog the other gap closer.
Hmm.
All right, because they, well, yeah, they're thinking the tiny support.
Underlord looks pretty strong for submarine if they want to go that route and play the
four snap.
true true true they are that probably works out nice so that's like insane
teamfight for them I'm yeah I'm the local crazy actually yeah yeah more set up
to land all these crazy other abilities to get out that would be a very nice
finish for the Yellow Submarine style VP hmm some of these spirits are a bit
vulnerable since it isn't SF mid very likely right so see what Abid wants to
play did they just put the NP mid maybe and pick a different carry I mean NP
mid's fun but it can be very risky because you know the next thing you know
you're trying to teleport to gank and then you're losing a tower losing a
wave and when that's the mid hero doing that I can get really rough and SF can
farm the treants right NP mid is about playing with your treants especially
He can raise them. So I think it has to be safe. I know they've got to be
Get something because like I said, it's just they probably want another melee hero to rally round but picking a melee versus SF in the mid lane now is
Dangerous, I'm kind of just go storm or you don't like that. That's also dangerous that matchup
It's gotten better for the storm of course, but that SF still I've seen I mean
I think we could go storm mid and just hope that the SF doesn't go mad and he's safe like so just you know cross your fingers
And please don't please don't be mid
Well, they could a lot of time they go with the airspirits
So you're gonna for one of them, but yeah, so now you're saying you definitely do put this SF mid and
They just don't play the SF mid I guess so yeah, they keep the SF safe and
Go in with the storm as the last pick
They instant pick this this is yeah
I
It's a storm versus the nature's profit. That's why they've rushed it so much
This is one of the best counter pick matchups even though it's from the mid lane
It's incredibly strong to punish him at all stages. This looks really good for yellow submarine
I will say I like that draft. Yeah, I like that draft
I feel like it's it's gonna be kind of pressure on our bed to really pop off from the mid on his air spirit
And if he does and if they don't get kind of run over early by yellow submarine, you know
I can definitely get behind tomato just out farming anybody else in the game. I'm being this incredibly fun
They just profit, but yeah if you go by just kind of the ideas
It seems like yellow submarines makes a lot more sense and has a lot of strengths into some of the weaknesses of VP's draft
I think yellow submarine overall have really like really good early game
I'm really good early and yeah the thing for VP
They can respond it depending on how our spirit does in particular like if I'm it's able to have a good time
And then when they have BKBs, I think that's the big timing for VP is when they have the triple core BKBs because looking at yellow submarine
They don't really have anything that goes through it show you have some right clicks to come in from the SF and all that
But it's majority magic damage. It's gonna be coming out early
So these BKBs for VP if they get that timing that can be pretty solid for them as well, too. So okay
This is the first wait a minute actually check something to last me a tiny in the off lane
I
I don't think we've seen that in ages right? Off-lane tiny at least. I mean again who knows
there's been a lot of qualifiers could have been in one of the other regions but yeah as
just an idea I mean even in your games right in pubs like do you ever see people pick up
off-lane tiny? It's not some of that's really gone for so a bit of a rarity but as we saw especially
with how quickly they picked up a storm at the end it wasn't it wasn't like the tiny was likely
be considered in other roles. It was very likely that this was picked for the fallback
you have to take it to the offlane. And we can see obviously he is very high Dota 2,
Dota plus level on the tiny. So, let's see what he could do. Maybe some sort of offlane tiny specialist.
It's going to be fun to see. And let's see if that actually ends up hurting them as well too,
since it's not the traditional offlaners that we do see compared to something like Axe. Let's see
if it just ends up not having as much of an impact as we've seen. Because I just, what do you build?
Right now I'm seeing he's looking to build like a carry, right? He has treads plus echo saber queued up. So
Yeah, well to see I'm curious to see what the approach is gonna be fully from this one and
I guess looks to play I guess you kind of have to right so indeed he's saying like it's gonna be greedy
You know a literate storm and an ass in a tiny that won a farm
So we'll see how that ends up working save the light
There's a couple of raises but man they don't have the burst ready to truly threaten the axe
They're playing hesitant because they don't know if someone's wrapping from behind, in particular the Earth Spirit, so you can see she gets to just throws one raise, backs away.
It should just be a two for two.
Okay, and let's see how the mid lane goes. Since it is the Storm versus Earth Spirit, it's not the Shadow Fiend in the mid lane.
I've been liking this Earth Spirit quite a bit lately too, and I've been mentioning it.
Little bit of a volatile hero, of course, but it does feel like it's fitting better into games just with this high base damage now
You've got 67 in the laning phase. I think it is. Boy, you're the stones
That seems pretty nice and you just need to be careful with the storm rights case. Yeah, spirits have a kick you under the tower
Sure
You should usually be pretty okay if you're the one, you know
You're shoving and you can have your creeps pushing under as well too as the storm easier than the air spirits
You should have some of the tank, but yeah, definitely just be a little bit careful because there can be a TP rotation, can't look together, really kill.
Hey, I'm wondering how this top lane's gonna go. Is the Tiny gonna build the quick pressure after the Nature's Prophet all in this pain behind?
We'll have to see how Buckeye does.
Because why did we not see Tiny on the offlane? Is it just because it's...
It is very greedy to have this hero that kinda needs these core...
Two items, the Echo and the Shadowblade or the Echo and the Blink to actually get stuff done.
Yeah, he's just traditionally been better in the other roles as well too, right?
So, just hard to find a position for him sometimes in this offlane.
Fly, getting aggressive onto him here. They did give bot to you at level 2 first.
Won't quite be able to get him, he's still on a spare fire, he's okay.
And yeah, you don't provide team, you don't provide a, like a big team fight, right?
You have just a two spell combo, and that's it. So that sometimes is like an off
later, maybe not the most desired as well.
So, if I'm mid, it's not looking easy for Albert, he is having a tough time getting up to the creeps here against Rain on the storm.
And Bottom's not really looking the easiest either for Mr. Saber-Lake.
To be expected though, the Willow does have a hard time through the throw harassment versus something like Ringmaster,
because Ring just has that extra range, and Shadowman must have said he won't save him, so he has to be careful, even when he does have the play to do.
This is tough, man.
I'm getting really bullied, like he's getting demolished.
He's nearly dead. I mean, he's got the bottle on the way.
But not having a fun time whilst he waits for that to arrive.
The rain is playing this nice.
Yeah, he's smashed the CS, he's going to be able to get the refuel.
This is going to be hard for Albert to recover from, at least in the laning right.
I feel like catching back up to the CS of a storm that's at this sort of start,
So start 16 to 6 against the 7 and 0s. That's very difficult for any any any Baylor here
No, absolutely not gonna be the easiest recovery for Abed by any means and top tomato is not last hitting well on
Yes, there's a base damage advantage of course for the tiny, but he's just missed quite a few of them here for us
Yeah, that is rough. You're right seven CS so far
That is a one definitely one of the slowest starts we've seen from kind of like I say Flynn and Pete
mm-hmm this approach the triple lanes are looking off-drain looking super good
right now across the board but as we said we do like their early game timings
that yellow submarine has with this yeah heavy team-flight draft too so I mean
this this rain lad in the middle and he is he's crushing it we've all seen it
before I don't think I've cast this guy before oh you have you sure 100% no
There's no you say it do you have a different name?
No, you've been right. I know me and you've been a floor. It must have been a long it's been a while ago
It's been a while right since we've seen this guy then I do not remember because of that
Because he is destroying our bed in this move matchup. I want to say he's almost missed no CS at 28. Is that perfect?
There's no no
I mean it might be close. I think it might be is it
dude who is this guy this guy's great look at it right 28 yeah this is the
eighth wave he would 32 yes I think he's got all of it maybe he missed
one or two whatever he missed one there so if he did a perfect in anymore but
yeah pretty much to damages adding up he's running the same time in the river
rain nearly kills Arbat I'm an Arbat I'm gonna go back up and find Sable I said
I said what's gonna go for a suicide and try he will not as a coach has got him
This is an insane
Something about the vibe at the draft but then apparently on top of it the vibe at the players these guys are playing great
Yeah, they're playing yeah, they're playing yeah, these guys are good here to start
They've looked very good in most of their showings too, so this is impressive
I mean, because with the Camus, they had right the snap pick.
They, they bought two owed miles on the previous round, the other submarine.
So...
Now, already knocking down some big names to the lower bracket.
And, uh, this first five minutes, they look fine to do it again, mid.
Ah, mid.
He's going down.
He's going down.
Nice rotation there from Jakota, comes in, helps out Rain.
This ringmaster already cruising two kills for him.
He's got whoopie cushion too for the lane now too.
He's got a lot of different plays that he could, that's why I'd like to see this ringmaster pick
because there's so many different things that trip players up to.
Like you're playing axe and you normally get here to pick,
I'm gonna get these good calls, I'm gonna dunk somebody,
then you get a strong man tonic and it turns it to, so.
Yeah, I'd love to see that this hero is getting picked up in a phenomenal start for them as we keep saying.
Storm now, almost level six, so we're about to be finished up.
Nice continue to dominate the lanes.
Cemetery, we'll go down.
Oh, there we go. Tomorrow, we're gonna get a kill on the board here for VP.
And there's that six. So, Hal Scream tried to make a rotation before the six came out for the storm.
Not gonna be the case. Powered in. Six is already there for the storm. He's got the
double supports coming in. Yeah, they want to fight for this. It's gonna be a haste, so Hal Scream
We'll be forced to pick it up.
Can't leave it behind for his mid.
Yeah, taking it away from Reindal, very important at this point.
If he gets a haste, it could be devastating.
Bottom Shigetsu is just pressuring as well too.
Saberlecht's having a difficult time because he doesn't...
He can't really cut the wave at this point.
If he does try, this ringmaster with three impalement arts can just chase him out.
So he's having to play the lane in an honest way, which is not great for some reasons.
Top, they went for a three-man play here to try and kill Batyuk,
Yuck, but Yuck, he's got his supports in as they're going to keep him safe.
And their damage is very lackluster at this point on the side of VP this early.
It's a 1500 HP timing. Probably need to bring the whole squad to kill him at this point.
Shigezu though, they can get the wraparound onto him, but he's got the scan.
He's got backup. Rain's going to get in ultimores and we'll get the call.
Shigezu, he gets the Requiem off. They don't have anything to stop it. So Saber-Lite is dead, the term of the race is on to Arbet.
Tamada will TP over to help out, does allow them to bring down Shigezu, but they've lost the two of them.
Both Arbet and Saber-Lite dying for that play on top of the entire team having to turn up to that bottom lane.
So the other submarine, I think they'll take that any day of the week. They're getting some good pressure onto the tier one top as well.
This guy's applying super good super fast and brain I mean a little bit of fortunate stuff there, right?
He's in the position to block the roll that would have hit directly him to stop it at least there too
So rain five galvanize off of that rotation for him
And yeah, like you said top tower pretty much dead the second that's him out of leaves
They're looking to continue trying to pressure she gets you down here. He's got backup though
They'll be ready to bring tipi's in if they do any sort of dive play
and VP they're not able to get anywhere near as much damage as the tier one after losing their
own on the other side of the map. Saberlight continues to try to pull these ways but it's
not safe for it to do so. They've got control with these slows. There's two more hits,
then it got him. Killing spree here for the ringmaster as you code up. VP's got to wake up,
I besides they're gonna cross this is we like yellow submarines draft all up
We're getting they're getting stomped in the lanes like absolutely stomped
They're just getting outplayed
Absolutely outplayed on all fronts and that is just really just accelerating and the fact that just line up from yellow submarine
It you can feel it it looks scary and we're seeing out exactly how scary is they're crossing it
And look at but you they're gonna try for a play but this is a 1300 HP tiny they have to bring a bed
We're getting with the roll, with the magnetized bat yop.
Should die.
Time is brought though for Reign to come in and get the counter play.
We'll find a trade at least.
He's got the regen running, a little limited on mana.
I want to chase this, Arbet, put it around the roll.
Kickback!
Very nice, he's done it.
Get the kickback, finally VP able to find a trade that they're happy about, getting
a couple, maybe even more, and get the drag back with the Nightmounds Cemetery, and they'll
jump away. Tomorrow they'll have Sprite in a second, good body box also, with the Trients,
another one for VP, as they finally are able to strike back.
They wake up. A little bit of save-your-body syndrome. Rain thinks that he can get in and
get out with the Regen Rune, but they keep hitting him so they don't let it get that
full type of regeneration going. Good rotation, and super needed for Abed. He's still so
so far behind, but, how good do we have to get them back into the game?
And to get to motto back into the game, because as we say, he's not having the best opener.
Three kills for him now.
Yeah, feeling comfortable.
Yeah, save the lay-knobbed.
Let's see what the recovery outlet is for them.
They do have some stacks that have been formed, but it is spotted as we see there.
Jakota is completely aware.
Jump through fifth.
They're clipped first here with the cookies, and they've cooked the lockdown perfectly with the fear.
Big damage. Wheel, perhaps not needed there, but even with it, you get the kill, you get some good damage from the tower here too.
And you see Saberlight that he isn't semi-low HP farming, so they know they can keep pressuring here.
Great with the shield rune.
They look to dive as well.
Flyhouse, we're not quite 6 yet.
Yeah, they're getting these effects super early. 10 minutes in.
Continue to play very nice.
SF going for, ooh, Matt, oh, and it's your build.
Look at him, look at him.
Got the Mask of Madness.
Oh, that's true, because the SFs don't really do that right.
They don't.
He's not doing the full good build.
That should be Mask of Madness' deso, but we'll allow it.
Oh, I thought you were going to say the,
what, the Yatoro, right, the Mask of Madness disassembled
into a ray, because I think that's the one
that I've seen some players do.
Oh, yeah, well, that's, yeah, that's probably
quite a smart one to do, yeah.
Yeah, but when he doesn't have a Q'd up,
He wants his man to first make sense to split the play around these, you know spells dodge the axe call potentially with the clutch man
It's just a good item. So
This is exciting to watch this team and they're doing it with this line at the we say it's an off-lane tiny
So they they went 3d. They're absolutely getting away with it now back young Scott is that co-saber
He's gonna start working on the blink dagger
it
It looks and feels very good here from yellow submarine and the eyes just
the VP, you know, who do they look to sort of set up these plays?
Your arbed, he's trying to get an earn, he's nearly got the goal for it.
They just have to be ready to react extremely fast, and right now we are seeing them make
the move.
Maybe they're anticipating this step of aggression coming here.
They are, they just get the scan connection, so they're already we're getting the wrapper
out here.
So at the summary, he does get the cookie off though.
Just the cookie in the block will strip you dead, Timon or TP's in.
They instantly bailed out the butchirk. He's like I'm not gonna do some save your buddy syndrome
No, I'll just lose my support get out. You said tomorrow. He's the one having a good game
Save the line though. I'm gonna try and cover the gank on save a light
They've got the control from rain damage from she gets it
Bro, I'm good from save a light. This is one of his better heroes as well, too
He's zero and four entering in this game and not easy for him to go for like blink blade mills in this game in particular
right first the SF share of the storm but there is a lot of coverage with the ringmaster a lot of stunts and disables
Yeah, and I think that that's pretty robust right this lane was just tough because of how it's really hard good this duo from Yellow Submarine is already at the
SF which is as we've seen many times one of the great answers to the acts in the name and there's your code on his ringmaster
He's been fantastic
See him get the push going down bottom. That's gonna be the third tier one taken so
313 minutes taking all the tier ones and they barely take a much damage at all.
The bottom one is a little bit beaten up but the mid tower and the top tower pretty much full HP after the other ship meets.
He needs to be able to farm his stacks.
I think it'll get him.
What? I was gonna try and run over to help but the control's there! The wheels down, Shakoda does it again!
This ringman, you can feel the master tier level ringmaster here from Chitano.
He TP'd into this.
He's over towards him, Tamato's going down.
That was, I can't believe he TP'd in after the fight was looking like it was, and now
also House Cream.
And House Cream.
Oop!
Okay, he's able to get into the tree, so he will live.
This is rough, VP, they gotta step it up, they're not winning this series if they're
playing like this, folks.
No, not at all.
They got a good read top, right, they did this type of scan play, that was a good little
macro play but then this one they want to protect saber like stacks but that was
the way they approached that one is just suicide Alvin rolls in kind of to his
death he's so scratchy at this point in this airspirit does finish off some of
the ancients at the least they're put my goodness yellow submarine the aggression
that they're putting on a K. Lee 14 minutes I get the wisdom of this stuff
I don't let that get stolen away but have you these times these timings he's got
Blinkette guy as an offlane tiny
They have so much gap close now for this nature's profit tomato
He as you said it's super vulnerable and has to itemize greedy to has to just go for them
You all near build so he's gonna he could potentially just die to have a toss combo if they do see him so many different ways to get on top of him
Seeing cemetery also this game. He's going back so different approaches were seen from them
I think they're looking at their like guys. He has no damage. They're so far behind that if you can itemize like this
They might not be able to kill most of our heroes. Like a mech is just going to counteract most of the limited damage already.
It's like, my yuck. There's the blink reveal. Easy kill. Solo.
That's very impressive stuff coming out from in here.
Man, it's about to be done too. If you get to a tier two starting to get beat up on DP, you're probably starting to feel like, what do we want to actually do?
We have no mid laner and no off laner essentially in this game because of how hard they've been shut down
They've got us to cheer at least one of those lanes better
I mean we saw see what the mid matchup this storm pick was like instant instant
So they were like, okay, you want to do a spirit?
We're gonna pick storm and rain is gonna crush you and he does and the rain dominates the mid lane
But then and then that bottom lane even though they see the SF coming up early
They just weren't able to really set up something that was gonna be strong against it in lane
And we're feeling the repercussions of that
This is I don't know if they were trying to go for a play on budget
But this is a three foot almost three thousand HP tiny they do not have to damage from at this point in the game. I
Just think they also really did a really clever job of the way they set up this draft right because they flexed tiny snap
As they were flexing and then they just pick a storm. It's like oh, yeah
makes total sense and then they just have this tiny off lane even though nobody's doing it
it looks good this game looks very good so looking for rain mid
as they can't commit onto rain they just you know they just turn and kill the two supports
immediately i mean as yukota's there every time just making sure that you cannot go on the court
i feel like that might actually have to be the top of the band priority out of these eras next
game you might need to take shikota off the ring master this guy's good now you
see why I've been like hyping this here up yeah player that's what I do like yeah
yeah the concept of it on like versus axe and versus bane another one talking
about the axe the concept of ring master versus bane and versus axe right as a
hero he feels like he can kind of just counter them completely if he does play
Well, right your box is amazing first axe impalement are in lane is brutal versus most melee physical
And then you know the way axe likes to play right you blink call your team follows up
You just put a wheel wonder behind him. This actually feels like a super good answer with what they're playing against here
And yeah, he's playing it really nice the whole team
Have to give them all credit right now on the side of yellow submarine
Not hemorrhaging too many kills. It just had so far pretty much that one little slip up top that I've seen
That botchik's gone shadowblade, so he's playing carry tiny from the offlane, so they're essentially
having three carries on the way on the side of yellow submarine.
They're looking over at him, fly.
This doesn't look so often, this is so tanky, let's say they do, they don't have to commit
absolutely everything
pick ideally they want to find the asset first
player on these powers yellow submarine
it's a nice room
the real nice one here
will at least be spotted out by vp so they're gonna know that this is coming
Andrain, if you see the build that he's going for this game, since he's playing versus Air Spirit, Willow, those two in particular, he is actually moving the BKB up in priority on the storm, which makes sense when he has this type of advantage.
He doesn't want to lose his galvanized charges.
Cemetery?
Find a pick off on two ulties.
And the triple grip and the magnet's eyes.
You have to point, don't let him suicide.
it's going to be very slow though.
Abed's getting close to it.
They should get another one here maybe?
They have four heroes.
Did they have damage for them?
I don't know.
Let's see.
It doesn't initially get the call.
If we get it off now but a little slow.
It did seem like they were a bit hesitant to go for that.
get the call for get it off now but a little slow they did it did seem like
they're a bit hesitant to go for that I don't know if they have the exact amount
of damage to just commit for them there's a pretty dangerous neither two to
might be full commit for them there but you don't know what's fully behind so
they hesitate they go back so tomorrow how's his BKB looking he's getting close
all beds it's getting close as well to saber light is super cool so it won't be
a triple BKB timing but at least they'll have a double BKB timing to play against
all this heavy magic. But at this deficit it makes it a lot harder because it's not just that magical
damage by any means, you know.
I'll bite you up. On the HUD.
Oh, shadow blade.
Hello. He's gonna firefly. I'll go for the bane.
Click, you should kill.
He's playing really nicely, 3-1 and 0, only the one death so far, top 3 net worth keeping
up with the Shadowfiend.
And just pretty crazy gets away with doing it from the off-lane, like it's terrifying.
They literally playing against two carries, I mean three really, you can see how the Storms
have a good game.
Yeah, three very high-scaling carries, whilst they kind of have just the Nature's Prophet
that can scale. The other two are very much just sort of falling into kind of a supporting
cast, Arvett and Saberlight after a rough start.
I'm waiting to see if I see one of these support scooper ULs too. I haven't seen it just yet.
Looks like they're just building to play for their allies just right now instead of countering
the Axe. They're probably like, you know what Saberlight's countered enough, we don't need one.
But eventually they could just get a ULs too. You know Saberlight's BKB is gonna take forever
to come out so they can't just counter his blink. If they'd like to. They don't need to though.
Harpoon, soon finished also for Batyuk, they're just hitting the creeps.
Alright, Blank done for Axe, BKB done for Abed, I believe BKB done for Tamato.
Dude, they want to look to strike here.
And can they? It's all depending on where the lane positioning is too.
And Yellow Submarines, the one to smoke up themselves first, I believe that's the BKB also for Rain to protect himself.
and has a regen for the fight too.
So a gen pick up.
Didn't say no man.
Starting the rush.
TP.
How do you want to approach this?
I can't if they can't. I mean...
Stepping up with the refresh hand seems...
incredibly risky. Yellow Submarine are being super careful about it. They're not committing
there. They're just going to try and get the wraparound on the wraparound.
They don't see any heroes on the map, right? So they're anticipating that VP's looking
for a jump. So they're covering their bases, checking all the angles. Gem on rain, so checking
to see if there's any extra ward that was placed down also.
Tread will scout things. They do see that that roaches half HP.
See if Yellow Submarine has the read of where they are.
They're looking for a long wrap around at least from what we see Tron by DKB right now,
brain.
Go break.
They catch him.
C'mon.
Cool.
They don't.
He's able to easily get the BKB off.
Arbem will have to put the BKB as well.
Kisses coming in.
It's Fly Dead.
Saber Light as well taking heavy damage from the Mortar.
Miss Kisses.
The toss from Batyut finishes him off.
As Arbem with his BKB up will come into an end, he cannot survive.
That was very messy there from VP, but very hesitant again.
They get the call, but they're like,
oh, we're not really close enough to follow up on.
And he's calling to nothing.
Call into nothing.
Oh, yellow submarine.
This team looks super good, dude.
I don't know.
They're actually playing,
like the way that they're playing the macro game,
I'm really impressed with,
with the way they stop the rush,
back up, reset, and die, things like that.
That's things we see tier one teams do, right?
When you think a team is contesting you,
I know a lot of the teams always talk about,
When you take a team's contest at your brooch, you want to fight them first.
And they literally just did that.
So, super impressed by them this game.
5-1 and 10 on Rain, 17 galvanized stacks.
It's starting to look quite hopeless for VP.
It's been a bit hopeless, but now it's looking very hopeless.
It's just Tomato has any farm at all to support.
They're going to overtake Saber-Leg soon.
I look it back because we didn't ourselves cover the series against Maus that Yellowson
brings.
But looking at some of the graphs, game one, they kind of made a bit of a comeback, but
they only fell back about 10k gold behind, so not that much.
And then game two, they didn't fall behind at all.
So against Maus, they're able to have a victory where they basically controlled the game by
looks for the entire time and it looks like they're able to do the same at least in one of these games against VP
So a very very impressive track record with the showings that they've had so far as qualifiers
And you've got to be ready for how they charge
Yeah VP look like they don't stand a chance yet
It I mean was it was it said that some of the bands from VP are off?
You know because we we felt it right looking at this job that was unfolding for yellow submarine. It looked really nice
it did
top
got you
They're trying to go on him.
He should have a solid chance of bringing him down here.
He gets the trade.
But they do get him. They'll kill him all.
I will say, Botch, this might be a little bit of a,
okay, I'm having some fun in the game, not going BKB here.
He's going SNY. He's playing versus Axe, it makes sense,
but he could just go BKB and it's the safest route.
So, dies for being a bit over-aggressive with the build.
He's just going for the super scaling, the super late game, right?
SNY and then eventually he'll get BQB and he's just gonna have like 5,000 something HP
and not have to worry anyway, so...
I'm fine with it anyway in this game.
They are this far ahead.
Bottom.
Looking to set up.
She gets it.
He's not back up of Chakota.
the quick use dodge that sleep I'm saying Sal I also did one in this say
something else to about the mask of madness this game I did really like
that he kept it because this little extra life steal I say little it's quite a
lot actually that I like so that you get when you're playing versus like a bkb
air spirit if you're able to actually stand you're gonna just pop the mask
he's just counteracting the full magnetize when he's this far add just
heals so I did like that he went for it this game also you see some players
stupid
And let's see what the backup plan is from VP
I said all in on tomato really open that the nature's profit is gonna be out of carry for them
Build all the damage items right get those five thousand plus little diamonds next on tomato go data list butterfly
Scotty something along those lines is to have our MKB depending on what the SF buys if you can get to that point then perhaps you
can have a chance
Perhaps, but yeah, it's still three cores you're gonna have to play against.
And it's also, it's Shadowblade cores on top of a storm too, so playing the map on the side of VP when you're at this disadvantage is so,
it's so dangerous. A Shadowblade Tiny, a Shadowblade that's a storm zipping from a galaxy away too.
So limited space for them to find any extra farm too.
This guy is really nice to watch, very clean, not forcing the issue here too, you can tell
they're playing very relaxed and careful.
It's closing in on the next few items, SMY is done, she gets pretty close to having the
Shadowblade uprated into the Silver Edge.
They're farming what feels like 85% of the map.
Well, VP's getting very, very little.
Saberlet trying to get to that BKB, but like I was mentioning,
the triple BKB timing was something that I was looking for for VP to be able to fight back, but not at this deficit.
If it was like a 5k disadvantage or something, sure, the triple BKB timing maybe could have a showing, but these aren't even coming in unison.
This is like one BKB came out in the second after a couple minutes, then the third, five, ten minutes later.
So none of their timings coming in together while Yellow's submarine all of them are.
A small chop.
I'd be seeing if they find VP trying to make a play.
If VP were going to try and time something in the Aegis expiring.
Oh they're going for the shrine steal too.
If they can get an initial stun, Jakota will be seen by the ward.
now you get there stolen on the other side fly he's there oh I'll be looking
for him he's gonna have to be KB but the right clicks will take him down way too
much damage nice zip there rain rolls gets in front of him blocks out the
roll away level 20 now hit for rain 19 galvanized stacks that poke I ground
botchik might be able to get somebody to if he sees them if anyone shows that
dead. Or does he want to go for the jump? Won't get the chance. Nightmares there from
flight. Smarter will tip you back to help out. Now back away. Come to have a just kind
of forcing VP to back up into the base. Yep, just wait for rush. They can just play, they
can continue to play the super safe. Not making any mistakes. I think literally, I've only
Unless you want to stay from them so far, it was around that top side with the 10 minute mark or something.
It was when they lost the rain and they lost the tiny.
Besides that, yeah, this game has been smooth sailing.
I love seeing discipline, Dota.
And I didn't fully anticipate to see this type of discipline coming out from Yellow Submarine.
This is a treat to see.
No, no, because he said these are names of players that we've sort of seen across qualifiers over the past here and there.
But never quite been able to kind of rise up to the top but with this level of performance there they could go pretty far
Tomorrow does have the data list finished it does have that big damage. I was you said he is still keeping up with the SF
It's just these other two cores
So it's all about tomorrow for protection for him
Yeah, I mean if they seem in the fight and jump in those game over
Mm-hmm if he dies yeah, and it fights instantly over so they have to literally it's all to model
I am shocked. He didn't actually build solar crest again this game
I know for Bane fine, but I thought maybe house cream would build for his teammate
Because I just think he needs every little buff if possible drums anything at this game in this type of game
Yellow submarine mid
Saber light
It's the call off, all the two supports, it's not a bad call but again the full-ups not really there.
Cemetery will finally die, Shikoda still alive, gets the box off, Tamada tries to TP out but Shigetsu's got the damage to kill him off before the TP's successful.
Saberlight dies, triple kill for Shigetsu, the damage just far too much from Yellow submarine at this point.
They get this call, but they kind of come out with more health than they were able to bring down during it.
The heals come out. Sure, they still are able to kill them at the end of it, the supports, but the damage has been done.
It took them some time. He got Greaves off. They got Cookie off. I think he got Box off as well. They actually all got a build off before they were able to get brought down.
It's a good catch, I'd say, but it gets a few supports, but they're just too far ahead at this point.
This is this is not no follow-up. I mean it's been a few times around with the calls have just not really had anything else connect with them
We did kind of mention though like the axe and the willow sometimes
I think this can happen because willow you don't you follow to the fear right you can't throw a bedroom by them
So they don't really have the greatest follow-up for an axe call
You know submarine with that fight they don't need to wait for a rush to go for the high ground push
They'll get another set of racks now. They can back up go for that
And picking up even more big items now, Parasma too.
That's a model, his damage just did not look that strong.
Also to point out, I think he didn't get a good neutral item on Tamato from his tier
one, tier two or tier three.
He didn't get Serrated Ship, that's for sure, because he kept weighted dice while she gets
to Pass Serrated Ship.
So just from the neutral item too, it deals way more damage.
Well yeah, that feels kind of rough right if you still got weight and dice at tier 3.
Feels pretty sad.
Surely there must have been something better.
I didn't see what he had.
Well I can't, I guess there wasn't but yeah, plus 6 damage and a slightly better mathematical
roll outcome is not what you want from your tier 3.
Compared to a serrated ship which does
He didn't get something like that, but maybe one of the options was
Potentially something that was a bit more used for them plus a little tiny bit of damage
It wouldn't change the tides, right? It wouldn't change at all, but still it hurts it hurts more
Yeah
Abed she was done but quite a bit tankier now. He needs that armor as you saw him under the SF and multiple fights
Just gets evaporated
attention fly that it happens you know when you get gifted that tormentor
chart sometimes the tormentor takes you away with it up to high ground about
chick has a satanic this is the 5,000 HP tiny we were talking about all the back
find the staff at the side they'll go for the call and we'll catch him and
kill him with this. They go for anything more though. They've already lost Hellscream.
As we see, killing the supports, they can kind of do it. They throw a lot down on them,
but the Claws, very hard to kill. Saber-Lite. They do have the grip, but the Box is there.
It's going to be able to keep Reigns safe. He's able to get the BKB off. He's fine. Saber-Lite
falls, the saves are too strong here, the Yellow Submarines out about one another out, two
buybacks from V3.
This tiny is way too strong.
He couldn't have died back there.
Fly pretty much bought back and died immediately right?
He did.
Pretty much instantly.
The grip comes out and it gets instant cancelled and Avalanche covers I believe all the areas
well too on top of the box just being able to protect.
I want to see more ringmaster on.
I gotta say it's it. I mean you'll see it next game if they don't ban it if they don't ban it
You code is gonna pick a game to absolutely especially if they're gonna pick axe beam
Yeah, I mean it does for like axe being kind of get destroyed by well just the lane as well
Just it's super strong land this SF bring the last back. Honestly probably gets most of things to try right now
tomato, no, no
He's running destroyed and rain's able to chase him and he's dead tomorrow and buy back
pretty much up to the fountains and they're getting killed off now, but he'll get the
chance to roll away.
They botch your key.
Literally cannot be killed here.
He has 5000 HP.
They have to commit literally every spell and he still might survive.
That's the mega creep sound.
That's the mega's.
It's still 2.5 minutes on the stages for Shigetsu.
One death, two death, four total deaths on their course.
Just the supports, as you said, have been dying this game.
They just crossed the lanes.
They're mid and the same thing.
Take care of that.
Top lane, back, your thing gets slowed down at all.
You know, this free farm off-lane tiny,
second highest net worth at the moment.
I mean, yeah, quite a game.
And doing it on a hero in a role, as you say,
we don't really see.
People don't really take the tiniest, the off-lane anymore.
But back, your keepers, and he just smashes it.
They're gonna try and bring him down, they'll get him at once.
She gets it.
Can they do it a second time?
I'm gonna imagine they can.
And she gets it. He's ready to fight back here with round two.
Ancient exposed.
Gonna buy back from Saber-Lite.
Trying to stop this final push.
Did you get the fiend's grip onto Bat-Yup?
Cookie there to help out.
Into the corner of the box.
Come on Jack, he's still alive Bat-Yup.
Can he live or get the toss off?
He dies, but the damage is done.
a sabrelight, a dive back on him, flies gone without fire back,
they get the vortex onto Hellscream, three dead, it's game over, Gigi is called Yellow Submarine.
Excellent showing here, and as you said, VP, they gotta wake up, this game won performance from them.
You know, for the caliber of players that they have, you expect a whole lot more.
Yeah, wake up perhaps on the drafting a bit there, and also just on the play, because this time,
I mean you said right like from the opening to it seems like yellow submarine
They were just not really toying with them with the draft
But just flexing so hard that they knew exactly what VP was doing and they just countered absolutely everything
It was a three lane win into yeah, just total map domination super impressed by them
Yeah, yeah, this this lineup looking really really nice had a great idea with what to do with their draft and VPs
I mean
We have seen VP do well with similar lineups. You know again, they've played very high level heroes themselves
Saberlight and Hellscream on the Grandmaster too
But they just did not have a game, you know
It's in particular right the offlane and mid
Arbed and Saberlight they just could never really start anything because of how rough a start that they had and
Obviously they are both one heroes that if you don't get that good start on an Earth spirit axe
You do tend to be that hero that jumps in or rolls in and dies and then it's kind of hard to stop the feed train
Yeah, I do I do want to say though
I think y'all submarine they just they covered their base is just super nice
See it feels like they knew exactly what to pick and also just not having some of these heroes get banned, right?
The fact that it was a nature's profit carry and they get the storm last pick
This has been a traditional pick now versus the NP carry from a lot of teams
So just I've got to wake up got to be prepared for this
Let's see what they can do for this next game. Yeah, this this one was not close at all
No, not at all. No, absolutely not. The Yellow Submarine looking on a completely different
level with this performance and it's scary for VP. As we say in the first round, Yellow
Submarine, they've already knocked down one big name organization, Miles, to the lower
bracket and here they are looking for VP in this game one. Looking very, very good and
on track to potentially get another 2-0. Standout player, we've got to give it to Batyuk,
in the tiny to the off lane.
No, I mean, the problem if you're playing
is that want to play this, but they're probably not allowed
to by their team.
They're like, no, we're not doing tiny off lane.
Yellow submarine though, they have the trust in Bat Yuck
to let him take this here at the off lane
and get away with it.
And my goodness that he got away with it.
Massively farmed, insanely stacked tiny
and played very nicely.
To the point where there's kind of what that one death
where you say was kind of clearly kind of a little bit
too relaxed is like, ah, you know, whatever,
I'm just going to be a pair.
I'm gonna start farming this SMY not go for the BKB and he didn't need a BKB the end of the day
He doesn't
So fair play there. Well, we'll see game two VP. They've got to have more in the tank
I'm sure we're gonna see something more from them because this game one was a rough one from them a very impressive one from Yellow Submarine
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to the European regional qualifiers, we're currently
going for the series of Yellow Submarine versus versus pro. We just a game on fogged. It was
a bit of a beat down Yellow Submarines. They kind of had them covered on all fronts, right?
Great draft, great play. And was not much hope there for VP.
No, they played, like I said, I looked like a tier one team, not going to lie. It looked
super nice from them. Very impressed. VP better wake up. So let's see what they do to at least
fix with the draft. Because step one draft, that was my first problem. Step two, it didn't
Yeah, so let's see what they fix already seeing some change ups coming in. So you draw bands your bats in SFN
Tiny first pick they're confident with it now and
Probably because as you say they do have that flexibility because we know it can be played obviously in other lanes and other positions
But they also have just shown us that they do do it very nice in the off lane
So with that in mind quite a nice hero to just fry out as the first pick right
Yeah, if you think it's very good versus this team as well, too
You know you left axe in the pool, which is one of the top first picks for a lot of teams, too
You just put the tiny out there now
They probably don't want to go for that axe especially after that last game Saber Lake's probably I don't want to put that again
So where's the guy who's going for the dawn
No, because you wanted to pick dawn if you see something specific like an asset for you know one of these you can punish
I don't think you can just random pick a dawn. Okay
Well, yeah, we missed the lore last game by the way, we had a literally had a ringmaster versus axe
We talked about it ten times and it's literally the lore, you know, and then he came
Pango first pick here for VP was banned out last game
And there's I think it was like the final bomb from yellow summary
but yeah
VP they want to let it get banned out this time. They take it first
Nobody else is doing this anymore like literally no people aren't even picking pango besides just like now pango is kind of on the
He's not a great sport really is it the moment
No, he doesn't really seem to be but I do like when you can just draft like I make a strategy around him with the minus
Armor and all that still it does still feel quite nice. That's SF is banned though
That's the best one that I like with it right pango SF your presence plus the the proc all over the place
So it ends up being super high physical damage, but
Not gonna be the case, but I guess I'll be just wants to play this right just putting it out there
See if they cover it though. Make sure you cover it with these bands
Because if rain is able to get a counter pick again, I don't know I have worries for Abed
Yeah, we go to what's that made like rough? Yeah rain seemed to have him. You know, I just have his number
They it's a hard match up for the air spirit. Don't get me wrong. I don't know that not that bad maybe
Yeah, not like Storm Spirit getting perfect CS bad, which is kind of a KCS.
Okay, so let's see what they do want to try to cover with.
That's, I guess, offline panga. Yeah, they think it's Saber like panga.
Which I don't mind. I mean, you know, they obviously themselves
We've been quite smart with their role switch up. So they probably feel that oh, maybe VP's gonna try and color
Copy us in that sense and try and put this pango out first and then switch it to a different role to try and catch us off
God, but a hard they're not gonna get caught off guard. They're already banning out mids anyway
Yeah, they've been doing it ever so they're like, okay. Yeah, we're not too sure you're so and then and they're showing VP that
Right as well that they are that they they like hey, we know we know that you try to maybe flex on us
we're ready for it. So it's dangerous here well not dangerous but it's like for VP
you don't want to just like full counter pick this tiny maybe you do but the problem is right
we could just see yellow submarine shift it if you do go for some like too many full out counter
picks for it because in the past or the timber and some of these would just like if you see tiny
it's a hard carry you pick timber it's gonna probably have a good game blah blah blah not the
the case because they can flex it all over the place. So VP keeping it open, Bane pick, it's a one
in us. Did you just go for the ring monster again? I look really good. I love it. Pango is good
for us though so perhaps that's why they also picked Pango since everything just goes through the
box. So maybe that's another reason that they moved this up in priority for VP that they know how
how good Jakota is on that.
Mike still pick it.
Yeah, I mean, I really, he showed us in that game
that he really is kind of black good on it,
but it's gonna be a safe, you know,
very safe pick every time, I think, from this team.
Yeah.
And even though Pango is good versus Ring,
Ring is good versus Pango.
You know, you can just whip him during his shield crash
and all that too.
You have some pretty cool ways to be able to trip around him
and get a hard control.
And I'll just pick the start again.
I like it.
I like it.
I think that definitely puts you off putting the pango mid right or no, you think pango is okay there?
I've always liked the storm vs the pango in the lane.
Yeah same same. So I feel like they're gonna like this one. I think they're gonna want to get something else for Arbett and indeed just keep this pango in the side lane for Saber like.
He has played, I mean he's played a lot of pango vs storm too and this one can be, it can be a bit of a 50-50.
I just personally like the storm in more situations, you know, these pain, these, uh,
Pangos can trip them up with some of these shields, but yeah,
I do like the storm usually so it put an advantage.
And we, I mean, y'all, some rates through the same heroes.
So maybe just going to substitute it is two heroes, two picks.
So yeah, they need an SF replacement and they need a snap replacement.
Well, the snap's still in, right?
So they could go for the snap again.
Mm-hmm, and they probably will right or maybe not because of the panga the panga is kind of annoying
Let's we'll say it's still such a strong whatever yeah, I think I think they could just go for the staff again
Okay, so this is the strat they did I literally was just bringing this game up
It was actually pretty funny because I was looking up the last the pangover storm that VP did have and they had tied plus pango
versus storm
So looking to build a similar kind of strategy, Kato is left in the pool. That is a nice pick.
Kato I think is one of the top heroes period in the game. Sure, some players don't play it in particular,
but I think, you know, I think it means you every time we see it, the heals that you can provide is insane.
And then of course, he's got pangos, so he's got a clear combo to play with.
I think I would be kind of fine with them going to snap again if they want to keep it
the same.
It's just good here.
Yeah, good.
Get to raiding the kisses from the back line versus Tide.
Get to kill the anchor.
It's one of the best heroes to kill the anchor, which is absolutely going to be annoying if
they don't get to that point.
Oh, they did it fast.
They all got the clink through.
was bad. The cases look good. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Right. It's only 50% win rate, but I'll say even
in the losses. That's not good. That bad. True. True. True. But for four games, it's lost. It's
lost. The wins, the wins that is had have looked very, very good.
In your distance here versus tide, you have bonus physical. So you can potentially go for
pressure plays in terms of the lane firm since you're not going to be getting hit by the anchor
smash. And honestly, this hero, when I saw versus coddle, even though it was a core coddle yesterday,
Dude, he owns Coddle. I support Coddle versus Clinkz, you die in four hits in the midgame.
You have to be super careful.
Why do you think they did go for the Clinkz now, rather than saving it for last pick?
Because it would have been unlikely to be banned, right? Or might they have been banned?
No, I think they would have banned it.
Clinkz banned. You think they would have been in Clinkz banned?
Okay.
Oh, well, Yellow Submarine was the one that banned it last game, right?
Were they? So I think maybe these teams are just on top of that this hero is popular now,
So they just really wanted to have it.
That's what it tells me.
And it's good versus, it's a turret hero versus pango, right?
So you're able to distance.
You have the skeletons also that can hit pango during roll.
You're good at hunting coddle.
Like they're light up right now.
The three cores that we see, quote unquote,
if unless Tiny gets moved somehow,
it's great for hunting, right?
Tiny storm clinks, blink, Tiny storm zipping in,
clinks bypassing into backlines.
But I do think VP this time,
the draft looks much better than that scheme.
It looks like they can actually play
if the lanes go badly as well.
Which is why I would not be support.
You know, do you think it is likely
that the tiny will be support
and you get something else for the offlane last?
Like this feels like a harder game
to get away with an offlane tiny, right?
Or no?
He doesn't know his carry matchup.
I think they can decide.
Actually, they have the first pick.
Sure.
Yeah, they're gonna have to show first
which way around they wanna do it.
Right, so we'll see which one they wanna do.
They do wanna prioritize here.
I don't know, it's still versus Bane.
Yeah, it's probably gonna be a turret here for a tomorrow, so he maybe just feels like he can.
I mean, they're look at their bands, right?
So VP is also thinking some kind of flex.
They think that they don't want to play the Tiny Offlane this game and it's just my support.
So we'll see if they're right.
I mean, if they keep Tiny as the Offlane, that means that, you know, that they're that confident with it.
Because obviously VP are like, there's no way they want to play Offlane Tiny. We're gonna ban over Offlaners.
Like what I was still playing cool tiny mm-hmm this game you're playing versus lucky shot
Which tax beats slow you're playing versus Banes and feeble you're playing versus tiger
It feels like it does produce a lot of what you want to do in the game. I
Think you want to get something else for the offline. I don't know. I think I want to get someone else
You know what to say
Because I think we've only seen one I think it was one soft support tiny did I did I see that right?
Maybe two
We have to see it in the next one game there we go there we got the stats there
100% win rate though this era nerf it
On the fact that you're taking the time done that and all were all the different roles that it's been in
Not something you'll see from pretty much any other here
By the way, what does botchuk have in his background?
it's a wallpaper because it's like copy pasting right yeah axlar zoom in on that chat and
you can find out when the patch is being released but you're real real nice frog they're taking
their time. They're really discussing things here. Yeah, do they want to move the time?
It's up to botch. You're great. I think they do. I think you get someone else for offline.
No, they're going to keep on offline. They're confident. Rubik comes in as the last pick.
Now this is probably this is where I would imagine you like to see the Rubik pick, right?
Because a lot of the time you don't like to see Rubik pick, but here you don't mind it,
right? Or you mind it a little less. I mean, I'm still not crazy about the hero, but I
i think in this type of situation when you see all this you have a lot of
really s tier spouse to steal you have great ways to save also to right now
they have the box and also that you will have rubik with the shard to protect
people from
whichever one it might be right the anchors ravages fiends grips etc too so
if you still fiends grip
your play versus pango
you can fiends grip the pango during his role too so
i'm more co i'm more happy with this rubik than a lot of the other last big
rubiks that i do see
last year comes out
Okay, so this is just much better for VP than last game. It is much better. It is 100% this draft is way better
Than what they had in game one
And this was maybe the concern the yellow submarine had about keeping the tiny as this as this core
Slash three now because now he's he's very countered right besides other things. Yeah, it was a nice deal there
So we'll see how about you can do to deal with this one because that feels yeah decent there
for VP. Yeah, this is going to be the first test, right? Well, yeah, absolutely right.
Absolutely. But they definitely have an easier kind of baseline to work with with this draft.
This, I feel like this is definitely VP favored off the draft. So if Yellow Submariner ever
get the win here, they'll definitely be making quite the statement that they can do this,
continue to stick with this offlane tiny, even in a game where this last picked last
the game. It's not going to
be easy for that young. So if
he ends up having a good making
a good game out of this. That
is, you know, hats off to the
Yellow Submarine and VP. Uh I
going to look at a very rough
spot. If they kind of can't
close the game apart, at least
give a competitive game with
this lineup because this lineup
it should be able to play itself
at fault. At least to stand
behind. Yeah, even if they don't
do the best in the lanes in
particular, they have good
It's got lots of physical damage, so it's not like this all-in magic type of draft too.
It's a lot of minus armor strategy, so it's the lucky shot plus that.
It's all grandmaster tier heroes also on VP, so looking to play as comfortable as possible.
But yeah, let's see what we get going on, because Yellow Submarine, they looked like
so much better than the last game, so.
Let's see.
One first place for a tool start off, it's going to be in those lanes, the mid lane in
particular gonna be having eyes on Abed making sure that he has a bit of a better time than
he did last time round having a very rough showing in the lane against Reign.
And let's see if the group up and the team fight composition that VP has gone for is
good enough versus the storm too because they are a little lacking on the cheap stunts in
particular right.
Until they have anchor it's not the easiest ways to lock down the storm unless they get
him inside the rolling thunder so a lot of pressure on Abed because the fiends grip it's
It's not going to be reliable versus the box every single time as we've seen Shikota look
super good on his ring.
Alright, let's see how these legs go and see who gets the bounty since they're going to
be a level 1 fight.
Probably not.
It's either side's too interested in taking this, or let me show this to Marine don't
want to get caught in a level 1 fight, but the heroes they have.
Let's see how Housegain plays on his caudal, because I will say this, I'm not a big fan of Willow still, I'm a massive fan of caudal.
This hero has clearly shown its power, has so many good ways to be able to play.
Yes, there's heroes that can bypass and get into the backline for him, but if he's not fully addressed in this game, this caudal can do so much.
With the heals, with refreshing spells of the pango, very, very strong.
Storm doesn't really like to play into sustained too much. Sometimes the damage can be a bit limited in the early game.
so yeah the game over all right for the storm I'm having to worry about the
ultimates yeah yeah it does seem nice mm-hmm
you're watching bottom see how they can do versus this double range this lane
feels super strong from yellow submarine again they're gonna just go for
shigetsu immediately just blood grenade plus gosh good knock back enough to kill
it's not and say blight he takes a tower hit that's first blood and also hell scream oh
He's going down
They're just gonna let him live for the boys. Yeah, and not in a happy position as long as he is I
Don't know Lenin against your coders ringmaster doesn't seem fun. No, this guy knows what to do
And I think they just went for the play right VP's like this Lane is gonna be super hard
We gotta kind of have to go for just this level one kill thing
but walking under the tower giving his life that ends up being really sad to say okay
So she gets it already set up for success at least in the lane as we said mid rain
We'll see how he does in this matchup versus I'll bet I'll bet already looking to be more comfortable
Yeah, this this should be much much easier to play for our bed from the match up to play with the barriers has better animation
But still rain he did look super good on this storm in the last game besides just the laning phase to
In your top, let's see if that lane, on paper I should go infinitely better for Tomato than
I've been on the Nature's Prophet.
I've already had more last hits at 2 minute mark than you did at the 4 minute mark.
There you go, like no farm.
Sanitary.
Last time round at the start.
A lot of right clicks, sloping wounds.
He'll be okay, has a south to reset as well.
Yeah, I think you're pretty much at the top lane as long as you have the submarine to
to live through the lane and get farm on Batyuk. They're going to be happy with this.
Unlikely, they can never really get a kill up here unless a huge mistake comes out from VP.
Yeah, bottom Saberlight's going to, again, have a very, very rough time, it feels like in this game.
It's going to have to have some type of recovery, and Iqadol is one of the better ones to assist in
recovering. It's something like a tider on the right with stacks, but I'm already seeing
Jakota perhaps anticipated this. He did put a sentry down blocking the medium camp
for whatever they do go back to go for those stacks here and house cream Jesus be careful
There's kind of anywhere close to kind of the ringmaster and the pools that he's making so it's gonna be super tough to
Get this lane in a position for Saber like
They already you already have to go back to stocking at three minutes
It's usually not the case that you want to see from that
But something usually kind of have to do Saber like try to take it's your code here
Yeah, he's going to be able to contest this, he has to back away.
Not versus the strong man, Tonic, he looks like he wants to try to go for the kill here
on Jinkota, but he has Tonic.
He's got TP, he plays it safe, TP's back over to the tower.
Saves the Tonic for his core potentially, will have Salve, he'll have Lotus if he wants
to use it, unlocks the camp.
Yeah, this is gonna be a tough start to recombin' from, for Savorlite, for sure.
Chagodas is bossing.
Look at this.
Essentially the 1v2.
Now level 2 whip is online.
Savorlite's heavy burst.
He's got stick.
Another dagger.
Ah, just bell.
Immediately procs right there.
True.
Wooo, Nettius car.
Chagodas.
Got it.
He's got strong mentality, careful Saberlight, don't get baited.
He got baited.
Oh!
Is he gonna die?
He dies.
My goodness.
And Jakota's gonna suicide.
I guess I have to get ringmaster.
If you're gonna be each other's something, you gotta consider this ringmaster band.
This guy's, he knows exactly the limits of his hero.
And he's getting it Saberlight's hand.
Like Saberlight turns to go for the kill.
I mean he definitely, did he, like, I guess he didn't click on him there.
Oh, Sable actually gets the fish out of that at least though, so as awful as it was, at least he gets a fish for the kill after.
Yeah, this guy's good. Jakota definitely getting in their head.
She gets to getting complete freedom, 12 denies on him as well.
And now Scrimmiser said, he's gonna try stacking through the tide, but it's ancient, and if the tide is this far behind him, he'll be about killing a stack of ancients.
And look who's there, Jakota. He's coming to mess around.
Another sentry place to block to ensure that the tide has no recovery outlet.
Man, this guy is annoying. Blocks the ancient as well.
Blocks the stat.
Very smart.
Top lane, we didn't get to go back to look it again.
Yellow submarine, but they are surviving the lane, right?
Batjuk doesn't die.
They are.
Cemetery doesn't die.
They're getting some last hits as well, too.
Although Tomoto's free farming, that's to be completely expected.
the expected rotations now even before the power room looks like they're trying
to go for rain here
it's gonna Chicago by his side does super super defensive word to for
nighttime to protect him as well right on top of the tower they anticipate it
they will get the view word looks like they knew that because of the way that
he was playing with the vision on the side
I'll get 600 hit.
That ranges about half a wave away from his, and how about this one coming in?
I'll get this time 600 ahead of the storm, so infinitely better with this matchup.
She's much more comfortable, and yet able to play around with this barrier does help a lot with this one.
Now it's a cemetery!
He's going to get caught off the side, we'll have to use the road to get him.
I was wondering if he was going to actually put the point and roll or not, so if he DCs
and the players skip it versus Storm, I would say absolutely put the point at a 6.
Wisdom, 30 seconds.
It's great.
We'll be able to clear out these creeps.
And Saberlight now at this point is enough.
Same at Worth as the Tiny, starting to get these extra last hits under the tower there
when Starr started to rotate with the Ringmaster.
They yell some ring, they have to bring a couple extra heroes here since they're playing versus the Bane
to ensure that they can protect that Shrine of Wisdom.
So VP, they'll get theirs, they'll get some stacks going also to recover Saber Light.
Nice and even early game here.
Bit of an advantage coming out for VP in these lanes this time.
Man, looking a lot better. A lot better from what we saw in Game 1.
Thank goodness, because that was... Yeah, that just looked... It looked pretty sad.
It didn't even look kind of... It didn't really look like VP, even though they've had some rough games.
That would look like a completely different team, so...
Oh, save a lane, okay? Well, that's nice.
Three little courier for him.
Doesn't take away the item from Shigezu if he gets it on the cart.
Get some extra money.
the flight, nothing catch on the cemetery
they'll be able to easily help bring him down
easy pick up there for the two of them
I do still like the ruby pick more than some of them but this lane so far is not
looking so great for him
he will have some big spells
I had a bit of a blunder there, I mean, he tried TP now underneath the ringmaster,
Jakota, he had to tame the beast ready, so the TP just gets cancelled.
We'll miss the one dagger here, but...
He's got nowhere to go, really, I mean, she gets him, he's going to be ready to
time off should be dead here Lotus barrier dagger dodge dodge is a dagger
another whip another way I mean yeah he starts and ends that's a jacuzzi say
he stopped him teeping out with the whip and then stops him living with the
second win. Top, top.
Put the avalanche off, Barbed.
Summon the rolling thunder.
I should quick try and get back to the tower. Try and dodge the rolling thunder, but can't be done.
Guess core, Arbed.
Thank you for your patience.
The cemetery can't really help him. The end is from a big step.
She's looking quite sad, similar to the ones that I don't like.
He's super low level, they're just diving him.
They might be dead again.
It's definitely feeling like you're disdain for Rupert, it's kind of justified.
When it doesn't look great, it really doesn't.
We'll see the game, right? Because he has good spells to steal, but my goodness, this lane looks pretty horrific.
Versus Life Stealer is one of the worst to play against, but even versus Bane, yes, in mid-game you have good spells to steal,
but they have to find a way to give him some levels, because he's only level 4 at this point.
Doesn't have any stacks too, to go back to for the timing as well too.
Housegain stacks.
They are getting spotted here, RIM.
We're trying to get...
This is not the end just not gonna happen.
RIM gets the kill.
Power Rune.
Shigezu making the rotation to join his team, looking to help out.
Sematari's gonna get slept again.
See if they anticipate Shigezu here.
He's stalking Abad, he can't quite close that gap.
They wanted to go for the big kill, not for his own gain.
Still sticking in the area, maybe going for a tower push here, he'll eat the catapult.
So it looks like they're trying to put some emphasis on me.
This is a rotation with an intent to kill, but then he just eats the catapult and now
there's decent damage on this tower just because he did that, so that's actually kind of clever.
She gets her turn up, back down bottom, Saberlight will have to back off.
one of the faster life stealer radiances I think we do get to see with the
absolute freedom and the extra kills that he's been given the relic is
essentially done. Yeah he's playing it after him and the lane was probably one
of the more dream scenarios right? Your life stealer against a tiny rubik, you
are, you're chilling. They literally can't touch you. So yeah he's absolutely
chilling and now he has his sabrelight, has those stacks to go back to so getting
the recovery that he did need. Abed, going the diffusal route, pretty close to finishing
it. As we do mention, he has the Coddle behind him too, so the Shocker is going to be very
powerful to enable these double swashes and shield crashes. 2k lead now out of these lanes.
Much more passive from Yellow Submarine, you can feel the way that they are postured around.
Can't make nearly as many aggressive plays versus VP this time. And yet his supports
just still at least a real big bit low level he has hit the five now fly has
hit six might look for a rotation with him
she gets you ready to come back over the walls the mid here for the 12 minute
power okay look how active he's being yeah he's been up and down trying times
Well, I'll bet, ulti at the rune, they're cautious to contest so at this point on the
side of Yellow Sun Raging, super careful, waiting till the Rubik can participate a bit
more too.
Still not six.
They're anticipating a movement here, good read.
Get the scan successfully, they're getting in position to block the enux move, Jakota's
here, got the ulti.
look at the star and again my goodness
ban the ringmaster this guy get rid of this guy's ring he is so ready for them
and they're just getting caught out we saw it last game he was landing these
combos every time this game it'll end the common and that's a huge one I'm
at the cemetery who called it though because he's yeah scan because they did
give the credit to him because that was a great read they knew exactly where
they were going essentially stood on the high ground you literally cannot ask
for better situation. My god this guy's the dream scenario walking right into him. I mean
you know this is he's got he's got to be getting into a few of their eds this ringmaster you
know they try and make a plan it's like he's just there. Part of all six kills so far last
game I believe yeah like 80 something or 90 percent kill participation to the radiance
as we said still one of the fastest ones tomorrow does have it finished up already here but
but that's also what she gets to, is keeping in pace.
Got you.
They actually got the dive on him.
They've got the fiend script.
Is he gonna get any TP back up?
Doesn't look like it.
That's just gonna...
A hole as well.
I mean, they just let him go.
When he respawns, there's no role fiend script.
You can definitely see, you also bring setup
for the play here around there stride of wisdom.
I'm surprised they didn't TP to assist in any way.
No, they just completely just accepted that the Tanya was dead there.
Yeah.
And that means they're going to lose the Shrine as well too out of it.
So double Shrines for the side of VP.
Rain.
They see Tommado.
He's in Viz.
Can they combo him?
Cortex.
Into the Whip.
Into the Whip.
Oh, we've got the Rage Off.
He gets the rage off, he'll be able to run, fly, he'll get left behind, but tomorrow he'll escape.
Did they lift while he was whipped?
Like, one of the stunts, you know how that happens if you stun someone when they're in the movement?
It stops it from them walking into the wheel.
I think they may have messed up with one of the spells.
Oh, because it looked like they kind of were landing everything sequentially quite nicely.
So, something must have messed it up.
He was getting...
We'll see him replay.
Yeah, who messed it up?
I think it might have been the lift.
I'm not sure
Well, because you're saying the lift won't stop the the fear or what or because if you know like the wavering master works
Is when they're getting pulled in and hypnotized the wheel?
Yeah, like the disc another stonic can prevent the hypnotize in a way, too
So I don't know I mean it happens. Let's do a Liz because of it. They didn't get the chance done
There's the one I'm telling her tomorrow starting to move around the map
That top. That top. Cemetery. Get the shield crash off. Might save him. Taking him on fire.
Ah, that zone shield crash. Rain? So...
She gets it. They do get Saberla on the other side of the map.
That's all stacked acquired. She gets it. We'll start getting those rolling.
Also have the shard now so we can start enabling and boosting up that farm speed as well on this click soon.
Pango blink. Can jump in, can't find the back line. Wait, let me see, I don't know, am I
dumb? Did I slip something up? Let me see. So you got the vortex, the wheels down.
Because they lifted during the fear, right? Because the fear was going to push with the
lift. Okay, whatever. Anyway, they mis-executed and now when we're watching the replay, we
actually can find the curve. So now you're right, well isn't like the lift overlapped
with the finna duration.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Back at mid.
She gets it.
Steal caught here by the rolling thunder and the ravage, they'll get him.
Cemetery not able to do much more off the back of that, we'll have to get out.
Here's your code up.
And he's got the illusion.
And the box for diving the tower.
He's trying to escape, he uses everything there in an effort to survive the point.
So VP, they'll get three of them.
You lose to Mato, the first time that he goes down in a fight, but a big win.
They get the two, Kari and the mid, and then on top of that the bonus ring master.
Sable ain't able to get a good ravage, Shugetsu just right on top of his face.
Even though the Rupik does get a good spell steal, it doesn't really do much of anything.
But that time they did get the combo.
That time they were able to find Mato there with the whip plus the ulti.
Armlet finished up for tomorrow.
She's going to be able to get a bit more involved now.
She's been quietly farming the Blink, the Blink's online, so...
Blink can't go, still good to go at a reasonable timing here, considering it's the off-lane tiny.
It looks like this is when the game will start to kick up in case, right?
Both teams are going to look for constant battles, while for VP, they're a bit more cooldown reliant.
So, Yellow Submarine, especially with Ravage on cooldown right now, can look to take advantage of it.
that's 60 seconds or so and it's just that it does feel like it's it's another
draw from yellow submarines where they are greedier with their three cores and
the fact that they've got to 17 minutes in and they're only like 1k gold
behind I don't think they feel too bad about that you know yellow so no no
definitely not any time you kind of get to this position when you have some
look at all the time you feel good
I'm trying to set upon to sleep safe box safe not gonna help him too much damage to go around it
Rain is she gets you though looking to see if they can get away back in on this
Checking to make sure that this sleep fog doesn't happen. I don't know if you've seen this before when Rubik steals nightmare. I can break pain. I
Don't know if they fixed it all where you can't un-sleep or your judges constantly stuck without the ability
Was that a reputable situation or that was just a very rare
Or you think that can be replicated I've had it happen to me
So that's why I pointed out instantly when I saw him get it so we'll keep eyes on
Wait, so we'll can trigger it sleeps
It's something about the way that unseeps. I have no idea how it exactly actually happens, but we'll keep eyes on if it does happen
TP.
Soon time for Tormentor and Roche that they can look to start doing pretty soon with their
draft.
They can't kill it very effectively with all their minus armor.
Botchwick.
As you said, those have the Blink Dagger to get more involved as we're indicating in the
draft in particular.
Very hard game for him to get in and then even get out.
after to see some of these backline heroes which is just difficult
it's going for the greed
it's my 40 seconds yeah tormentor time to set up for it
house obvids agonist looking it's pretty close they're actually gonna make an
aggressive play first before going back for it this might catch you a submarine
I'll watch you're stepping up. Don't go straight for him.
Sleep.
Bring TP Zemba. Won't be able to save Fatima.
The question is if they can fight afterwards.
They'll put the jump onto Tomato.
Sleep there.
I'm going in an effort to help him out, but the damage is coming in from Shigetsu.
Tomato's dead.
They strike back at the Yellow Submarine and they're ready to catch more over the Hellscream.
He'll heal up.
Rain.
You won't have enough mana to finish the Colot.
They got it back away.
Hop it's in.
She caught up.
A whip off them.
You will slowly die here under the tier 2s.
VP.
Get both of them.
Very strong with the apple.
The sides.
She gets two.
What are you looking for?
A support.
No.
They don't want to get pulled onto the high ground here.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
Five.
You might get pulled onto that high ground though. You can sleep himself down. Okay, he just
can suck.
It just lasted just long enough to take him over.
She gets you still seeing if someone hangs around and you can get a pick off.
Rain?
I want to go for this. They get the avalanche under the boat for them.
Good control.
It's a decent amount of damage. Saberlight taken super low.
Good control.
Good control, botch instead of the potabulate and toss.
That was scary there for even Saberler, he was pump-finking rapid,
just died before he could get it off.
They're smoking again.
And they're starting to turn really fast.
Tomato would be a huge kill.
They can change stun him.
There's the opening.
I think it's the rage off.
They couldn't change stun him.
It's the chance to rage.
Now with the fiends, they've just got a bail on the tiny, let the tiny go.
They weren't able to land the combo that time.
They're going for the plays, but it's difficult to fully execute as we do see.
They've done it two times, but they're able to get it.
But they failed twice now too, also trying to get this lifestealer.
They're losing, but you've fought it.
Start to pull behind on this tiny.
Even though they have this triple scaling, it's such a good lifestealer game for Tamato.
Even though he has died twice, you're seeing, if he just gets rage off, he lives.
Almost every single time here.
I'm sure she's gonna go for the super aggressive build, but the death so straight into the agonins
He's you know a bit of a halfway on the gold towards the agonim. So it's gonna be a fast timing on that
Vulnerable versus the
Versus pretty much everything will be me if that's the case because now the agonins is gonna be out for sabre life
So he's not just a ravage. These gushes are very threatening once you start getting all these talents in with the agonins
Now, Klinks isn't going to be able to run. You just get hit by two or three gushes and
you're stuck in place.
Yeah, especially because you've got no defensive items on Klinks. He's not looking for any
soon.
No. Dust instantly popped from Sabley expecting something from Shigetsu here. Doesn't have
the agonims yet, so can't get to this bit though, too.
Torbethir, as we said, Cowscreen will get it. So, kind of a dream, one of the better
shards you can get. Cottle, extra healing, you get two Solar Binds. Fantastic. It's all
about playing with the heals of the zero in the mid game.
Another smoke. Got all their ulti's at the ready. See if Yellow Submarine is prepared
for this movement here. Looks like they are at the moment. Jakota. Two scans thrown out.
We'll get successful on one of them
Ah, bad
And these upcoming fights now everybody anyone who gets hit by gosh is gonna have like minus 14 under with a lucky shot on top
great
We'll get away now Dakota not so lucky
Do they try and stop the Roche
4v5? I don't know if you can, that's pretty quickly to all this minus armor.
Can Rango for a steal? It doesn't look like I'm looking to watch the pets all though.
No, I don't think so. He has gem, doesn't want to lose the gem.
Let's have to give this one up. VP.
Even with just one kill, we'll be able to set up for that. Reigned out, did get to hold
the BKB, which is pretty important for him to get the profit earlier.
Tommado with the Aegis.
Well, for the past year next.
Is this going to be an Aegis of Farm, or are you just trying to approach the high ground
early if you VP?
Now how much of a rush are you in?
They don't hit high ground really, that effect is new with your heroes, right?
It's an Aegis to fight.
But Tommado, you think you get caught here before they start?
Can you see that off?
Gets us in trouble. Yeah, I think they might have overestimated the physical damage
They had the submarine when they went for that because they didn't really have close to enough to even take it down the wand
Can't you go toss?
Sosback hits them under the tower, they're all dead!
Disastrous toss. Yeah, I mean I guess they felt tempted because they said they're coming up close to the base, but oh
No, they had no reason. That's a big win there for VP
That's a team one
Yeah, that blows the game completely open there for them. She gets it
We saw the build he went for with this aggressive agonims. It's not working to model too much to stand the open wounds
He heals off it and then just the coddle with the heels afterwards on to him
And even though he's just ravaged
Come at you use just open woods
Yeah, I really felt that they were gonna be much more damaged than they did
when they go for that sort of play.
I did feel like the perfect pick for tomorrow, honestly, this game.
Playing versus that tiny, and I think this is why we were seeing them
so hesitant to keep that core tiny. We're seeing the effect of it.
This last pick, Rubik, sure, I was mentioning he has some spells he can seal,
but man, is it looking as sad as most of the Rubik games that I've been seeing as the last pick.
On top of not having a different 3 position, they have this hero that's also super shut down
and isn't contributing too much.
The yellow submarine these next few moments look super impossible for them to take this
team fight.
They somehow have to take a fight without one of these ulti's on grind mode.
They will catch Fly, not on his own, just trying to go out on a warding mission.
It's hard for them to, yeah, it's hard for them to take fights with one of these ulti's
on cooldown.
All thunders back up.
All by you.
He's in a lot of trouble.
He's easing a lot of trouble
They don't want to try to help him man, but you got the rolling thug to steal that
If you've got good spouse they just don't do anything. I don't know
I don't know what it is about this here right now
Very difficult to make it work into some of these games
Even though Jakota has bossed up a bunch in this ringmaster
If we see any of the struggles VP full basher now a pistol suit on the horizon for tomorrow more and more control for the storm
They can start taking fights even without ravages, we say, just this would be a full cleanup item.
I'm going to have to look for some solid kind of toss plays into the base, into the fountain from back here.
She gets to probably needs the BKB, but also wants more damage.
I should go to the top.
Yeah, I'm gonna catch him out.
Got Mike here for Arbett.
Much better game this time round.
Had a rough game one.
Let's tell you, indeed, this game two, the pango, level one and ten.
Very different story from Arbett.
They just needed to wake up, it looks like.
On top of get a better draft.
Which is when those look better said.
It's a much better draft than the game one one.
Yeah.
The game one one looks...
A little rough, I'll tell you, this one.
Hey, I've had it.
Truly enabled.
What, is he 90% kill participation?
11, 1, and 10?
Besides that one player at the bottom?
No, he's been everywhere.
He's been everywhere.
I just, yeah, great way to close the draft up with the life stealer for Tamada.
It's a very nice game for him.
I've had it.
They set up.
The wall gets kind of caught sleeping there.
They'll find him.
That's a lot of money.
That's the end of his godlike straight going to bat yuck
But your gets it though. I would have liked to she should get to oh, she gets you does switch
Oh, yeah, he was going he was tempted to go for BKB
But he maybe he's thinking guys who can't go for BKB go all out for the big damage items
Absolutely go all out go all out you've gone for this axe there so you just you have to play for the high ground play for setting up the burning army
They have to play around these cooldowns they're gonna smoke right now. It's just no pango
Could look for perhaps a fight if they can catch the back line in particular
Rolling Thunder up in about 20 seconds
They can play around this. It's pretty strong. They're starting to make a comeback at least in terms of gold and scary pieces
Pay those dead during the pages. Oh
Oh, Ravage here, now blow it straight away for the storm, Rain trying to zip it to initiate.
No hesitation, ready to drop the Ravage there, Saber like.
Obyssal coming into play, he just picked that up too. They had the fiend's grip to cover anyway.
I think he actually did end up casting it for like a 0.1 second fiend's grip, but they had him anyway.
So tried to take advantage since they did kill the pango they had a 4v5 essentially in a
way even though there is that Aegis can't quite do so in a blizzard rain.
They're looking for Jakoda.
Another one here for Arbett on the pango.
I'm infinitely liking Abed on the Pango and Hellscream on the Coddle more like I said a couple times, just looks much, much easier to play.
I think Abed is done for that yet. So I have a bit of a safer chance of jumping in and looking for these toss backs without getting interrupted.
She gets me very close to the Demon Edge, so having that big damage on the Daedalus before the high ground push comes in might be a possibility.
They have so many ways to get on him though, right?
Even if he does have the positioning to blast it, they can just bypass positioning with these blinks.
All they need to do is connect either a rolling thunder or a ravage on these clanks.
He's everything at this point. It does feel like Rain is pretty far behind on this storm.
Oh, they know he's around. They've seen him.
Oh, and he loses a fair bit of gold too.
They've got a few minutes of time. This is a 400. Fly with the reed.
That is going up pretty far on the top. Fly. They're looking for him. They got him.
Is it worth it being a try to run? I think they just do a grip on my shot.
He's dancing over there. You can. He's dead.
And after the Grimstone, there's no point.
Tomatoes on top of him with the Bash of Bissell.
Really solid stuff from this lifestealer.
Couple of these lifesteals we've seen in this tournament.
I think this is the second or third one that me and you have seen.
It just feels untouchable.
After a certain point.
Picked in a great position.
Yep.
Because Lane gets away with what was a 13 minute radiance timing.
Yeah, drop a star.
Let me try.
Diving the tower is here for cemetery.
I know, get him.
Big damage.
Tons of minus armor, plus a life stealer being able to thrive off of it with a good backline support.
Yellow submarine, perhaps speaking about what's going to happen in this next game.
Only Shugetsu can really do anything and he still does not have this datalus.
Yeah, they're not going to try and find that funnel, something under gold, somehow.
Some way.
We might want to close the game down here, if you could just stick in the area if they
want to.
I have all the three lanes pushing in.
See how safe they do want to be.
It doesn't feel like they do need to back up too much here, but it looks like they will.
Go back and check to see what the timer is.
Full Sheevas now for Abed as well.
But they can park themselves in this area and wait in case Yellow Submarine does come out and just wait for the Roshan if they want to be super safe.
Yeah, Abed, Night and Day difference really on this Pango in comparison to the Ear Spirit. Good lane, good plays.
I'm gonna go for the smart. They're gonna go see like some fun big wrap-around.
What's does he have a spell stolen on Rubik right now? No, it's nothing big.
I'm gonna say let's go ravage at the ready so don't really want to go on this tide.
He is insanely tricky. See the pangs they're gonna try. They're gonna try all in on RB first.
See if they can take it out. He's so tanky.
Ah, maybe it's the shield crash or the source bug off. He's perfectly fine.
That might have been their final effort here at Yellow Submarine and indeed it was GG.
It was called Game 3 coming up. Game 2, VP. They sought themselves out.
They fixed the draft. They fixed the play.
They come in with the level of performance that you expect from these players.
Yep, Saberlein gets the recovery. His lane started really sad to be fair, but did get the recovery.
The rest of the team had a good time overall, and you also, you could see that last pick, right?
They waited a minute and a half debating what they wanted to do with this Tiny.
Did they want to pick a different one, pick this Rubik? It ends up being a pretty bad Rubik, honestly.
It ends up doing next to nothing, even though he got a couple decent spell steals.
The lane, he can't assist the Tiny, and if they just switch things up right then it's a Tiny support,
and they have a different three versus Lifeslayer, or there's a different hero, so...
whole game ends up being pretty hard for them because of this whole scenario even though they were able to shut down same way
Yeah, and even with the shutdown though so the light ever to make an excellent recovery this time round
I'm gonna good impact but overall as you mentioned definitely our bed the one that stands out here 13 2 and 15
Had a very rough time in game one against rainstorm spirit
But this time round he goes up against rainstorm spirit again does it differently though this time on the pangalir 13 to 15
and involved in what did it end up being 28 at the 31 kills.
Very impressive stuff.
Just a little question of what we're going to get from the game three.
You know, now that both teams have managed to push each other to it.
I imagine for a start, as you say, Yellows and Marine,
probably just, you know, Rubik, that's been tried here.
It's not going to get tried again.
It was last pick.
It was very unimpactful.
And then looking at what VP got through,
maybe if you do want to play this off-lane tiny,
you might have to ban out the live stealer,
especially if you're going against Tomado,
and it's left in, because Tomado's
is a very, very, very, very good live stealer player.
It was left in, and when you consider,
not just the game, but the lane in particular, right,
it's you're just inviting them to pick a hero,
such as live stealer.
100%.
And then, like smaller things too, right,
If they want to if this pango gets first picked
I think they probably thought that rain was going to be able to destroy him in the lane or do better in the lane
So you could just hard counterpick it because what we've seen in the past of some people pick like pango
Not so much nowadays, but you get like you get snipered you get vibe
You get like one of these disgusting heroes picked for you and you have no way to play the lane and no way to recover
So they had options. I think we'll see something pretty different from yellow submarine next game
I think so I think so we saw kind of VP fix the game one drop gun into game two
I think after this we'll definitely see Yellow Submarine patch up some of the ideas that didn't work out here in the game to approach.
One to one now, ladies and gentlemen, between VP and Yellow Submarine.
Both teams coming in with quite a bit of a stomp.
We'll see who's able to find the stomp in the third game after the break. We'll see you soon.
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So we'll get you straight into a Yellow Submarine versus versus pro here game three
With we've just had two pretty one-sided games, right?
Fogged in terms of the outcomes and and the play. Let's see what we get here the opening. It's looking very
very similar
Yep, just the bay in his band. So they move up the coddle and priority instead everything else looking pretty much set standard from what we saw before so
see what yellow submarine looks to adapt with their draft in particular. Largo did not get
banned this time though, so he does make it through. They'll immediately snap pick that and yes!
Dude where's my lich bin? Hell yeah I've been waiting for a lich again. Dude also am I, am I like
going crazy or does our overlay look super banger? Look at these heroes. It looks really banger. I
don't know what's going on. I was like am I going crazy maybe it's always looked like that but I'm
I'm looking at these look look at there. Yeah, we're just gonna brand new look at that production
But I love it these heroes look they're like in 4k
This is actually the patch guys. This is all we're getting. This is new models for the hero
I production that no no no that's not true. Yeah, it's not
This is not some like shadow reveal of like every hero getting remodeled
this is just production making the overlay look very nice for the hero pics. Yeah. Good
job production. We love it. Yeah. The pics look great. The pics look great. And the heroes.
Hey, who not? A lich. I don't think we've got to see the off-lich portrait because it
was never picked. But yeah, talk about lich. Why is it not picked? Why did you like it
and why is it good here?
Lots of physical reduction that you can come in versus the pango. And I think the hero
is just, I think the hero is good. I just think this hero is actually very strong still.
The way that you can play in the lane, you deny every single money creep still, you need
the flag bearer creep, whatever you want to call it, the business creep.
You're able to just play with that, the sacrifice constantly, it's very strong, good spam.
I like this hero.
I think it's not underrated too much, but a little bit underrated because we did see
it played a lot across like the last two months.
It's not something that can be a big guy for.
It's also an instant disable, which I think some people kind of don't really regard into
the hero, which I really like.
having this is something like pango instant yeah you get a pretty big when
there's a wind up here there's the tide coming in again so you know VP they're
like we're gonna run it back we're just gonna run it back mm-hmm did look
strong no I mean it's it's Largo though this time not probably tiny in the
offline it's still flexible of course so you can't just probably pick something
like the life here maybe you can I think you can though I don't know I think you can
and you just ask tomorrow you go you need you can't even again get the clock
the support leave tomatoes picked to be the last one I did dude how did they
draft like that the first game and then like this these next two games it looks
like a completely different drafting stuff from the game one yeah we don't
talk about the game one drop I'm sorry Bobo if you hear this even he knows as
Well, he's I don't talk about the game wonder off now
Have a game to work very good. Yeah. Yeah, they have to wake up a little bit and get prepared to play versus yellow submarine
Because this is how yellow submarine drafts, you know, they love this tiny
They've got a lot of time now to be able to pick up if they want to go for more of these counters
Do they want a full counter the pango? Are they gonna put Largo mid versus pango? I'm curious what they're actually gonna do with this
because right versus the shield you're actually also able to reposition versus
pango too I'm just laying could be kind of decent and then the mini stuns
versus the pango roll to admit game I don't think I've seen pango versus
Largo mid so it's pretty okay for the Largo though I think that's what they
want to do I can't have it done to it because I yeah I think I know you don't
It's kind of, no, Lager mids just.
Let the off-laner play, let's go.
Whoa.
That does something different here.
Lich is coming out, Primal Beast is coming out.
They're addressing Pango, right?
That's the difference between last time
where last time they're like,
let's just pick our heroes
and let's pick a Storm mid to counter him
and it didn't work this time.
We have Primal Beast to BKB grab, cancel the roll
or just grab the roll
if he can get the positioning for it.
We have lich barrier to block out some of the physical damage.
We have lich instant pull to stop potential.
Well, they're definitely looking to counteract this pango this time around.
And then the eventual primal beast versus the tide as well, too, right?
You can get the agonims.
You can break.
They have ways to be able to burst Saberlight as well, too,
in the eventual parts of the game.
Oh, Necraban.
And they do have some pretty beefy high HP heroes that would not enjoy playing against that.
I will say something quick is that uh, even though the primal versus pango and tide and cuddle is nice
They did pick it at the clockwork, which has been the literal hardest counter versus primal beasts
for a long time
She can't really use trample very effectively on slot gets canceled by everything he has a bkb cancel hook
So that's a concern for me about the primal pick because nobody out not really many people are picking it
not many people picking pango either so perhaps that's why we're not seeing either like kind of the reason of them all but
i would love to see because even though i do like the primal versus the first three
i don't really like it for his clock at all
no final bands probably with the fact that they're playing the primal they feel that there's not the
necessity to ban out the live stealer unimaginable they feel that it's unlikely that they pick it into this
They are like triple strength course though, right? So but yeah unlikely I guess
Mike's bad. They bend the Necro
Yeah, maybe babies do you know like the problem is not enough to turn if you just getting in and grabbing him
You don't really care as a blouse tiller. It's
Like if that's the only thing because it is right, that's the only it's the only one
You just still ban it
We'll see
Yeah, I've been I've done nothing. Yeah, safest things to just ban it
Yeah, pretty much the same drafts on the sort of VP, right?
Yeah, I mean it is it fits strong with pango coddle tide hunter as we saw you know
Coddle can even chakra for the rage in some situations if he doesn't throw it out to the pango or tied to so there's
Okay, so they'll talk at the lunits that they're talking to motto heroes
Okay
I'm curious to see how these heroes are going. Where everything is going to go. Because Yellow Submarine, it could still flex a little with the Largo and Tiny, right? I'm just curious what they're going to think about.
The tiny honest time can go and kind of any of the roles and then Largo
mid offlane or support as well
The primal and the lich and much will locked in they take a lot either
Okay, that's I'm gonna like that. I was it. I was a little like okay. They didn't ban it. Why not?
Well, it's because they're gonna take it
Make sense. Yeah, so now it's a
So, wait, is it Largo or Tiny Support?
Does that mean, do these guys play Largo Support?
Because I don't think almost anyone is.
I think they clearly just really like Tiny Offlane,
so I think it's just gonna be back, Tiny, again.
And Largo supports.
I think so too.
Yeah.
MVP.
Could you go with Tomato Spectre here?
Is it a good specter game or you don't get away with that greed?
Specter?
And the lifester is a good respecter for most situations.
Okay.
Just open wind and turn on you.
Ooh.
For the windy.
For the nature.
I, I gotta be honest, I think I'm back on kind of the Yellow Submarine train for this
draft.
I think I might be too.
I, I, I mean Wim Rage is sure great against the life
I've seen the right times the matchup. He's not going to be able to hit you. You're going to be able to hit him.
But there's a fair few other things you're going to have to be worried about and they are switching stuff around.
So it's not going to be back. Your tiny isn't going to be a support tiny. As you said, then it is.
Off-flame primal and the mid-largo. Actually, hold on. I don't really like mid-largo. Never mind. I'm on the VP train for this.
I don't know. What would you make of this with the way things have finished up here in this game three draft?
Yeah, I think I actually know I might think I'd like VPs more. I'm just worried because the primal beast first the clockwork as well too that matchup is really difficult and tiny support sometimes can have no.
No impact and then in Largo can fall off so yeah.
I mean, yeah, VP's got the safe stuff. They've got the safe stuff yellow submarine
It's it's risky. I was seeing some different as well. I was like the lich being played was to what you could do with it
It's not a hero that we've seen a lot recently
VPs
Yeah, it feels like it makes just a little bit more sense and
But maybe I'm just underestimating the potential of the Largo mid
I just I especially have to sing kind of rain do what he can on like a storm spirit mid
I was just so you take these kind of flashy mid laners and put them on something like a lago and
And you're holding them back. You know what I mean? I
Think we both we both have said that right? It was time long
And it was Niku both of them who tried the Largo in the mid lane and they had decent early games pretty pretty good early games
And then it's like it's become useless. Yeah, they fell you're just running around playing your guitar
Master ancient fools, you know, at least they could have some nice music boss to lose the game
But it could be rough. You know things go down here when you're in the mid-largo, but let's see
Let's see if rain can show us what's what and continues to stay on top in this one as we're getting to game three
Here between VP and ELS and Marine both teams and considering the cut of the rush showing they had
In the losses that they've had respectively in the series so far
They've got to step it up though because the winner of this will go on to play against the winner of Power Rangers and Team Vision
team vision. And you know, maybe
Power Rangers come in with an upset, but it's probably going to be team vision.
And in the state that both these teams are, team vision is probably going to walk over these teams.
Yeah, I would say so. They're even experimentally, we saw a little bit on vision, right, going for the
Earth Spirit and he looks super good on 9 class with it. So there's a lot of extra things you've got to
worry about versus that team. So yeah, let's see how these lanes do end up going down.
Let's see how everything is and let's see if the Primal Beast in particular is able to get
Get into the game. I'm just I'm really worried because of this clock
I did it feels it's not just about like the lane or anything. It's the whole game. This has become very very deterred
By the five position, which is really annoying
But let's see also the the largo right like you mentioned
He does have some good stuff to lick off in particular right? He can lick off the win run
He can lick off the shield so they can do some big burst damage and cast heroes that perhaps thought they would survive
I mean that that is true actually because I feel like that that's one thing that might have been overlooked or at least
They don't think it's a problem, but picking the win range carry into a logo, especially when it's like a mid-largo
You know you're absolutely right
He is going to be able to hold and get the lick off on you when you win run in these team fights
Yeah, almost every single time right? It's it's when it's a mid-largo to he's gonna have a lot more levels a lot more damage
Yeah, like he'll be able to get in and click it on you. Yeah. Yeah, so
I don't know what to say.
Top lane, this one's going to be pretty top, I would say.
Free yellow submarine, playing into this win range.
Plus clockwork, it feels super free again for Tamato.
And playing with this tiny support, we'll see what Cemetery can do
because he did also play that rubik in the last game
and it did look quite underwhelming.
And Tiny is another one of those supporters here
who can look pretty underwhelming nowadays.
Takes you forever to get to the blink.
Your spells are so expensive nowadays too.
You're playing this clockwork was actually burning your man or two, which is very annoying.
Sad.
Now I'm bottom lane, Saberlight knows out of a couple of top stars to lane.
So obviously last game he was out of pick it back up as the tide.
Is this a bit of an easier lane for him?
So he actually be able to get some farm out of the first few levels, first few waves.
Yep.
He can actually play the lane quite easily I would say versus the Lyfts and the Lifestealer.
He shouldn't die to the span that comes out from the ledge and the right click to the
left.
Especially with the backup of the cauldron with the blinding light, unless he steps up
just way too far forward.
But that should not be the case.
This should be a nice lane for saver lane.
You said unlike the last two times.
And I'm watching mid mostly.
Definitely seeing that kind of what we felt yesterday also where Largo's first few waves
are insanely strong.
27 damage, repositioning, it's very nice.
Top, this is going to be what cemetery trying to grab the creeps, playing the lane seems
kind of impossible against this clock, the two melee heroes up there.
And this is one of the rare games, I mean rare games where we'll see the pros do this right,
the battery assault early, because most of the time they just of course go rocket but
but you're playing versus Primal Beast so you always want to have this battery assault.
At least at one point early, because we've been seeing people even skip it until level 9.
Now, Life Steer is the one even being slowed down in fact down here,
because we're seeing versus this Caudal plus Tide,
which is extra little bit of Denyze, extra base damage,
since he has the Anchorage built to trade effectively versus Shigezu.
I just have to rely on the sort of the early rotation to get a chance for kill in Cemetery.
Tommado's ready for the start.
Pushes advantage in mid lane, Abad should be okay here.
primal he's usually struggling as we kind of anticipated we'll see if he does
have ways to recover back in the game through some stacks or something but
him both him and the tiny going to be very low level low farm
yeah that's concerning so you get the range creep at least he does not even
with that lunch
now how do you even get you going as a tiny here just check no place to really be up on
the lane top yeah you just check ruins and stack I think it's the only thing the best
thing that you can do at this point just block out obit from getting one of them there but
it's actually not be going bottom getting the room anyway then the clockwork just following
him on the meantime inside lanes are not going so well the slice there is getting okay farm
but it's Saberlight actually getting stuff too, so.
With House Cream Rotating,
they did get a bit of bullying on Saberlight.
Is he bringing himself?
Okay, he is good.
He's gonna say he has kept it very low right now,
needs to get pushed up.
Sorry, sorry.
Every time he tries to step up,
he's getting pushed back by these cogs.
And these heroes are super low, very limited on their mana pools and their playing vs.
Clockwork.
So in mid game also you just get hit by one or two Cods and you may not even have mana
for your toolkit.
From the bitch shop that they did, even though you can see the reason why they wanted the
Chrimal Beast, picking it with the Clockwork still available, to see how he ends up dealing
with that F-game.
Continues.
They're doing similar as last time to these planes versus Coddle Tide. Disrupting, trying to block some camps.
But God save her like the second that they do see the Coddle away from the lane.
It just feels inculable.
They're trying to...
With the raindrop.
They've got to spend hitting him, yeah.
They need a rotation, you know, a plus one to come in if they want to try and get a kill there.
Yeah, they're gonna try again, but raindrop just absorbs pretty much every single one of those frost blasts that come in from the niche.
Power rune time, Jakota, he's gonna leap the bottom lane.
Start to run toward mid, they have cemetery in the area as well.
Abed is 6 though.
Top flight.
They found him.
Yeah, he just...
That was 100 to 0.
Like they just caught Batja with the battery assault.
He can't onslaught away.
It's rough. It is absolutely as rough as you're making it out to be that much of that is it just looks like you can't
You cannot lane there
Against this ball when primal like when primal first got added of course it's been quite some time
It was clockwork and Venom where your two literal nightmare scenarios that you played against so
Definitely seen the result of that here so far two points and cards now brain has it the six in the mid
Obet has stacks to go back to enable him too.
Since this time it's Saber-Lite actually having a better time, he doesn't need to take the
stacks.
They'd rather prioritize Obet's timing on his farm than Stinky's.
Just give the Coddle the mid lane too since he also doesn't really have the most xp, both
of these four positions.
Okay, Cemetery.
Let's see where he looks to go here.
Let's get the cock.
There we go.
Can they go for a steal?
Jakota is going, she tried to get in position for it.
What? Then they can.
Yeah, Jakota, we should be able to mess around with Saberlight long enough for the backup to come in.
Falkwick's come in.
Won't be able to stop Rain from closing over to Ward Saberlight, but now our bet's in with the rolling thunder.
I'm brain he is in a lot of trouble. He is not getting out of this
It's my move to play from Abed there and sharing that he can come in to make sure they get that shrine brought the numbers
I'll bet again having a good entry into the game and as we said tomorrow
It's a complete free game for him and the matchup of the win ranger versus the life stealer. It is pretty good
They're going to be happy with the start.
It's close on the numbers, but overall it does feel a lot more difficult for Yellow Submarine.
A lot harder for them to make plays, it feels like.
Two supports, especially the Tiny, only level three.
Damage is going to be limited from their side.
level five now online so these cops these cops are going to be actually very strong this game
at every game they're strong but into more strength heroes they're even stronger right
because these heroes have limited mana pools so saying if you do get hit from even two of them
as a primal beast you cannot cast your combo
and bottom save a lot just continues to sit down here without much
much threat of dying.
I can try. I can try again on Tomb but without the chain frost it's very unlikely. No six
yet. Closed yet for Jakota. Nine and five.
And what time did we get the relic at the least on the life of the Alaskan? Was it nine minutes or so?
It was crazy fast.
It was very fast. I mean it was ten minutes, I believe it.
Yeah, I doubt it. She gets who's not going to be able to match that. That was pretty crazy timing that
with the lane set up.
He did buy us a gloves in between
so we do see that from Shugetsu.
Top, Cemetery.
Ooh, get the combo.
Hit!
He's gonna live.
Oh, no, he's not!
Push push push!
Just kidding.
He goes for a little bit of a dive under the tower
to secure the kill.
Cemetery having a very difficult time
getting into this game.
Could be expected this time though
as the Tiny compared to last time.
Top tower is fully dead. Tamato able to just focus fire right down.
Difference in their draft in comparison, right? VP can take towers.
Anything buildings on the side of yellow submarine is gonna have to come way later after some kills.
Leicester doesn't want to just walk up and hit them in the comparison.
He's gonna walk into Triangle to steal an ancient. Thank you.
This is a strong one too, the Petrify is very powerful if they get a target.
Can they look to slow down this way Ranger?
To motto, we'll be okay.
It wasn't an aggressive position that they could have punished him for a second there
instead.
Yeah, look at the cat-shame with the toss back.
Starting to get some kills here for Rain.
Okay, we're seeing a different build at least from Rain this time.
He's going Vessel since they're playing versus the Coddle.
Does make sense.
Coddle, it feels almost similar to something like the IO that I was mentioning yesterday,
where you want to have some type of anti-heal.
It does so much in these games, though.
See, that build works.
except they got only seen the Kaia build every single time is the first day so see if this will make a little bit of a difference for us.
Do you try and go for a gank on Tamada? What are you going to do about the swim ranger?
It's not easy to have a gap close.
Yeah, so you gotta be with these blink daggers.
Yeah, pretty much.
Because the clock will just counteract.
Even when you have blink, right, that's the issue.
It's not easy for this primal to build the gold for.
Because Fly's whole game is just going to be to sit around the Windranger, I imagine,
to build the Protectim versus one of these catches.
Yeah, it's a great spot.
Had a lovely lane.
And I saw what he was able to do with that last game on his life this time of the win
ranger also picked in a position where the hero's matchups looked pretty good.
They do.
And he's got protection as well too, Abed, Mid, going for the all-in on him.
Yeah, right.
Abed catching quickly with the licking to the frog stomp.
So Abed, underestimating the chance that there would be the backup in the area for
right.
Fly.
They tried to close the gap on to their looked up the children not able to get that kill
Can they hit buildings though like I said this for yellow submarine
I think they can get some kills, but hitting these towers. I don't know when that's gonna happen
It's gonna have to be like out of a team fight in particular
Yeah, it's gonna have to be some full-on push with that
Yeah, at least three or four of them
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's like if they're all three cores melee heroes essentially
Just tell them tell not wanting to be able to walk up and get these buildings
None of the supports either no natural push from them but you've taught
Hookshot won't connect and even with a shackle so about you. It's fine
And they punished us
But you
Doesn't want to go for it here still dangerous to jump into this clockwork
quick. They're gonna go for Chaimfrost. Chaimfrost. Oh, is it enough? It is. Just enough air with
the Chaimfrost. You get it. He gets the last tap. The Rallik is done. The Rains is actually
gonna be almost the same time. It's 13 minutes. It's still gonna be very fast. It's actually
gonna be very, very quick anyway. That's a big kill to find in the Tide 2. Saberlight
just playing very far forward, honestly. He has the jungle to be able to go back to,
Watch to go to the lane versus a chain frost ends up just giving him the idea
He did not respect the chain frost. No, you have to respect the chain frost on it. It's a lot
Man looking for our bad
It's good damage, but not enough to stop him from swashbuckling out in fact, maybe turning with the rolling thunder looks straight over to watch your code up
up.
The table will come join his team.
Pouskrim, starting to pump up the mana, Enable Abed, who does have the Diffusal Blade, so
they do have their two first core items on the side of VP to play around here with this
Coddle.
On Yellow Submarine, they also have core items to play around.
Radiance, it is finished.
And I believe the vessel is about to be done, too.
Yeah, it's the most safer way to go rather than the blink rushes, basically you've got
your tiny going blink anyway the hook shot very dead
see if you maybe find more down here but she gets it is gonna be fine it is such
it's just I such a good clockwork game I'm just gonna keep going on this these
cogs are gonna be so brutal for longer all three all three physical strength
melee course this really trips them up so much throughout this game to motto his
timings is million years nearly done so I guess for yellow submarine it'll just
be a bkb from the primal and then try to make plays around there but I think so
yeah that's the timing that they've got to wait for really if they want to try
and turn up and do something the vp is feeling pretty happy at least at the
moment with the current state
Blink is finished up. That's actually not bad at all. Oh, and I will I will give cemetery
No, no consider you's kind of running around was this level one tiny kind of three four
minutes in it. I wish I like these. It's amazing timing actually the fact that gets
it 15 after that it's pretty damn amazing and this could actually trip them up a lot
because I'll bet it's a bit vulnerable at this moment in the game. He's 1200 HP tiny
He tossed back. They have enough burst damage to kill him with the Largo.
The Spud catch VP off guard. I did not see that he was farming this much. You're getting this much on the Tiny.
And perhaps that's the reason that Botchik also was like, you know what, I'm just gonna go BKB instead.
Yeah, because Tiny's got the Blink.
Yeah, yep, yep, yep.
It was still pretty wanna get the Blink next, but...
100%.
For now, I'm just getting the BKB to keep it safe.
Is that the Terrier?
We're going on to Batyuk, Semitor will jump twice, toss on to Tommado, Tommado will dive
to finish off the kill and he's going to be able to TP out as well.
So they are able to get away with the dive there, even with the blink dagger, Tiny reveal,
Yellowstone Marine can't quite punish that play and they lose two heroes.
It looks like they were ready for the play there too, but just a little too slow, Botcher
gets combed off and also Botcher could use the ultimate on the neutrals on the left side,
So it didn't have it for the grab potential under the tower there for the split second.
He did have the mana.
So Blink won't be able to protect the Primal Beast there from the Tiny, but it does reveal
the Blink also, so VP now are aware that this Tiny does have it.
Armlet finished up for Shigezu.
agonist for sure this game in your play versus the win range or the pango
a little bit too quick there arbet this game is the closest one we have
though in terms of numbers and what feels like the hero matchups right it's just what's the
ideal that i contribute right that's yeah that's my major concern here it feels like
They're starting to make moves, starting to make plays.
Yellow submarine, the pressure is kind of around.
They're tiny to be the ones to make those jumps.
Because the lago just in the nature of this here
is limited in what he can offer when it comes down
to starting plays.
So I'm sure you can kind of buff up the team,
keep them strong, keep them alive.
But much less explosive and much less potential
as compared to what our vets are going
to be able to do on the pango for VP.
So I mean, yeah, 100% we'll have to we'll have to see in these fights
I think he could start getting pretty hard pretty quickly for yellow submarine especially now into the stages of tomorrow
That's every light also now having an item radius got the wraps so has a way to front line a little easier
Cheers so likely to be able to get that ravage off
We've seen these lifestealers be able to do it though, right?
Even when he is one of the only kind of like carries, even though it's like a 4-protect
one, some of these lifestealers can slot in to be able to work for this, just it's going
to be the question versus a win ranger, because it does feel like a really solid win ranger
game.
She gets it.
It's the rage off.
I'm just going to continue to run him down as the rage comes to an end.
hook off the mark okay yeah you said me fine there I should see if they can
turn oh so I would cut instead of raps okay
there's gonna be a lot of the early damage right what blocks the radiance
blocks the block it is a very good pipe game it's a very good pipe game we just
don't see it picked up so much from the off-laders not this not like this either
So, hmm, foregoing the aggonyms first.
Yeah, because he's playing into lifestealer and the aggs isn't as useful, and there's
a lot of plus armor that comes from the groven.
Interesting.
20 minutes.
Tormentor's soon gonna be the point of contestion, Yellow Submarine, setting up your top, Shackle
looking at...
Now they get the opening place too, they still have to get the rage off, she gets you, turns
towards Tomato, infesters down over to Cemetery, they'll start to back away.
swashbuckle. Here's our bed. Finishes
Shikoda. They get their hands on rain.
Canals. Oh they can! The hook touch back up!
Fly! He'll hit this one. Straight in onto rain.
They'll catch and kill the Lager. Yep, not
seeing it. At least with the Lager, I think
contributing a lot of these fights. It
does feel hard for him to motto now in the
mid lane. Also looking for Box. He has DKB.
Oh, that's the Aegis.
Oh, that's the Aegis.
Aw, but it has rolling thunder, though.
So he can set up for Tamaru to fight back.
Gonna go for the BKB, TP Batjuck, and he'll get out.
Pop the Sol Ring for the manor for the BKB.
She gets through, though.
He's gone.
He's in a lot of trouble.
They're gonna be looking to run him down.
The rage will soon come to an end.
The shack will persist.
She gets through.
He's gone.
Power shot over towards Cemetery.
They're starting to snowball pretty hard on VP. Using that Aegis like that, honestly, whatever, that's perfectly fine.
Ends up getting a big core kill afterwards until she gets it because of them being able to straight through.
And now pressure her into the top tower. Yeah, seeing the lack of impact from the Largo, at least for me now as the game goes progressed too.
and also the primal. He just can't get spells off. He's 0-2.
No, he has DKB in the game.
Hard to just get in.
Just didn't have an easy start to the game because of that lane.
Up against this clock.
It was not a fun time for him.
And now the blink is finished up for Fly also.
Oh, there we go.
So you always can get the angle to get the hookshot to stop the primal grab
or get the cogs to prevent some of this aggression that can come in too.
Now this DP draft 2 is getting stronger and stronger for yellow submarine.
I feel like only one hero feels like he's getting stronger and stronger and should get to him.
The others are just gonna fall off.
I don't know, it is hard I think as a life stealer alone.
Yeah, sometimes it is possible but there's a lot of ways to kite him, a lot of ways to trip him up too.
Yeah, a lot of damage will come out from this radio, it's just doing it and this will obviously fight the tide that picked up this game, Saberlight.
So until you kind of get the eggs and then some sort of heavy right-click item on the live stealer
I don't think people's gonna care about him too much. Mm-hmm. I don't think so either
It's great ways to reset around him
Pango, I'll bet we did mention also in this draft the yellow submarine
They picked a lot more to try to counter this pango. He's seven one and three. He's having another one of these games. He's doing great
I mean, it's just sort of funny how, how different it is considering when they pick the heroes
as well, right?
It was what VP game one, they were saving Arbed's pick for last, they give him this
air spirit, does not work out, and then game two, game three, they just first pick him the
Pango and apparently both of those games he has an amazing time so it's a very
different draft approach that seem to work out a lot better we'll see Ellis
submarine try and make a play here with the BKB in the pulverize it will not get
close to getting a kill and they have to retreat that's a blink reveal too for
Batjuk an instant smoke from VP since the BKB was used they have everything at
the ready
of it
full agonies ready for his target
all she gets to away
he might just know exactly where he is
he's gonna try and raise him run
buff tomatoes on top of him with the focus fire the cocks it down she gets you trapped
Big carry taken out again
You can never rage TP. That's the other thing right this clockwork besides just being a sort of primal
It's the answer to the life stealer who wants to go for these type of plays on the sides
You don't know and I think I don't want to see any more longer mid I'm down to get on that train with you
Yeah, I think log on mid is
It just it feels like it ain't it I don't I feel like you can only be it if you get some kind of incredible
5 man snowball full snowball, you know running down towers running down objectives
But you know it's 24 minutes in they've only taken one tier one tower and yeah, they're line up anyway outside the logo
It is not some sort of snowball
There's a lot of farming irradiance to try to go for the late game
Butchip jumps in and grabs a creep while tomorrow is making the move at your corner
So can't help his body either but he might just get found as well
Okay, so that's the BKB TP, so he'll get away, but a few times now just having to use the BKB to run away
That joke, but yeah, I don't know
just
Hard to sort of see the idea here with this game three draft from yellow submarine and
They're game to game three. They really stepped it up with the draft TP
I just I don't know what the game one was but the game two and the game three they really got that stuff together
Absolutely. I mean maybe Rain when he's got Kaya Sange and he's got more levels to see what the Lago can do
but usually the point, this is the point, even a little bit before, like after this is when the Lago is just a fall-off on what we've seen.
It's usually early this point where the Lago is looking good. This one it's looking kind of bad with what he's up against.
It just feels like it's this hero that I'd imagine if you're VP, you don't care one bit about.
Like you're probably just thinking about this Lago the same way as if it was a support.
Like there's no part that you'll watch out, they might have the Lago with them at this part of the map.
I don't think they care.
No. It's like, oh, watch out for the overwhelming damage with the overwhelming healers that's
coming out, right?
Well, they have the overwhelming damage.
They have the overwhelming healers on the side of VP, in fact, with the Kha'Zix.
Catch.
Bkb still feeding.
Bkb's on cooldown.
Backup's coming over here.
Can he get back to the safe dip of his base?
He can.
Rain.
Make him ravage for this.
This is very impressive.
They're in.
They're in.
the focus file will do it that's rain dead and on top of that they get the
bonus killer picking up so she could at the side what did you could even died
it casual damage so meal near parks of ravage and just the pangos calls the
kick through so she gets you gotta run he ended up pretty deep we went aggressive
with the agonist infest it's gonna get tossed back to safety but that was a
little bit risky yeah the poor let's just die to the fodder all over the place
Just walked up to try to help a buddy and there's just too many different things flying all over the place, lightnings, tentacles, etc.
Cemetery. They're stepping up to try to go for this defense here. There's no ravage, no rolling thunder.
Jumping the back.
So what they're doing, they'll get the call.
They get the supports.
They get flies. There are D2 supports dead.
Can they touch the cores?
They're gonna try cause all these spells are on cooldown.
Gonna chase out for Saberlight here.
Take some time, but it should happen.
Gonna try for the TP out, but they haven't.
Alright, they get a big kill.
Two supports and then they take down the big old Tide.
Good identification too right there.
Guys, they just dove our tier 3s using Ravage and Rolling Thunders.
We have to try to be able to punish this so you can see why she gets who wanted to chase
out so far there.
got themselves some three big kills.
I mean like a rush.
If it spawned.
Oh no, still one minute.
Yeah, still one minute on the rush.
That would have been pretty nice for them.
Yeah.
How's the axe looking for bot shoes?
We said BKB axe timing also.
Can be something versus this tight hunter to break him.
I don't know how much we'll see VP push like that again with their ulti's but even though
they did get the kills right and it was a pretty forced fight that they did go into
without even going for a 2-2, next time probably just going to play around the objective when
they go for this play because it is a pretty decent swing in terms of gold right, it's
a 4k gold swing, a 3k gold swing off of those few moments.
Bulk is back up though. TP.
Well, hastren as well here for the next move.
And listen, Marine.
And if the ag's online for Batyuk and they're gonna go straight with the smoke.
So they can get the jump first.
If he finishes this, Lincoln's...
Okay, that can be pretty big. It can block out the grab and stop them from laking the rolling thunder in particular from Batyuk.
Yes.
looking for somebody here as you said they have the axe on the primal so they
can't break the tide
team everybody gets a job
same way fly has to be ready to cancel
this primal and you can always with the
blink with the hook shot and start to
rush it looks like fly getting some
information
little roar they're gonna want to do
something about this yellow submarine
Sabalace has lost a thousand HP already.
He's not spamming them with the gushes.
The other team on the top.
Cemetery tries to jump onto Tomatoes,
but Ravage will come out,
allows them to focus Rain,
rolling through his infirmar bed.
Rain is going to try and get dragged to the side,
but Ravage cleans up both him and Shikota.
They'll get the grab on at Tomatoe.
The BKB's out.
He's been infested.
He'll try and run.
He won't survive the infest burst though.
As it comes to an end, that will be the death of Tomato.
Can Bat Yook escape you super low on the Primal Beast?
Won't have enough damage to kill our Vettis Alba, gets another shield crash off.
I mean, they get Tomato, but they did have to use two Bi-Bacs in this fight here, Yellow Submarine.
I think they're looking for the roast with both Bi-Bacs.
They don't want to let VP set up and go back for it here.
Can they go for it? They don't have the same type of minus armor draft to be able to just kill it.
I don't know if they kill it fast enough before this win range will respawns.
That was a pretty huge fight for Shigetsu, able to stick on the targets.
I could save a bit of money there for bringing down Tamada.
They're smoking again.
Looking to catch VP off guard here.
VP's ulti's bar still on cooldown, especially the ravage here.
Rolling Thunder's up in about 5 seconds.
It's a big move from Yellow Submarine.
Rosh, getting low, but shows Shigetsu.
Oh, Cemetery.
Speaking of the Chancellor towards the clock,
the catch fly at the start of the fight,
they eliminate the clock.
He's got buyback uses it immediately.
Arvid, rolling Thunder, has the angle back over towards the Primal Beast.
Batchard trying to turn and run,
but Arvid's got him caught here at the top of the stairs.
Back up to fall.
The two of them gone, no chance of a buyback.
Rain caught here on the cliff.
VP take the fight and with that, the Roche, it's going to be theirs.
They tried to go through this play, catching the clock
against it but he has buyback. Oh they found cemetery. Look at themselves another one here
before they finish off Roshad. Tomato takes the ages. It was a decent idea right going
for this buyback play looking for this whole thing after this whole sequence but even without
the ravage all they need is the rolling thunder from Auburn to build the win this fight.
Insane damage is displayed in this game. VP looking at a few fights up from being able to
maybe close this game up now can we actually get damaged numbers if we have
place you don't mind I kind of want to see how much op-ed is doing in this game
no it feels like if he's doing the mass majority now okay yeah we got the
reductions kind yes we can here we have thank you yeah op-ed's doing so much
work heavy lifting coming in from him we do see tomorrow also getting some
really nice focus fires finishing off these targets banner with the double
siege
It's not bad, huh?
Shigezu needs the next item.
Feels like he does need this nullifier to feel just bypassed fully versus Tomato.
Even though he did get him this last time around that bush, it was very close to him
not getting him.
They need every little bit that they can get at this point as we're seeing Hellscream.
same farm on this coddle that they do tend to get. Has a full agonist, he's catching up to those cores.
Pots to smoke as well VP. Ready to go for the killing blow.
Tomorrow needing the way.
Watch out.
Careful here.
Brain also.
Save lights.
Gonna fight, bro.
It's gonna get left outside of the base and they can't save him.
heroes like a support at this point he's looked like a support now it feels
like for 10 minutes or so just unable to contribute much into them I just
thought those heroes like do you think any of these mid players request to
play it or is this the team telling them to play it like is it a fun I don't
know I don't think it's a fun one right any of these spirits jumping around all
over the place but you're just some like frog running around spamming his
guitar yeah I don't know I'm gonna I'm gonna look after this game and I'm gonna
look up with a lot more data in terms of it because I just I know I see like the
laning concept and all that but if you're yeah because yeah I'm not just in the
wall yeah it feels like oh great as you said well you got super high CS nice
animation and you got some nice abilities to kind of threaten the the
enemy mid but then outside of that you kind of realize you're a log yeah and
usually the the case with Largo the other thing that I always mention is when
you're playing supporter off lane, you're using croak on the mid laner, you're croaking
yourself as the Largo but you're croaking nobody else.
I guess you can croak Primal in this game, but it's not the same, croaking a Primal
beast compared to croaking a Storm Spirit, croaking a Puff.
Although his score doesn't look bad by any means, you're seeing just how hard it is for him to play versus this clockwork.
He has yet to be able to cancel the rolling thunder from the mistaken.
I think so. I think so. The fly's pretty much just had him covered, I mean, it's...
So we don't see a lot of primal and maybe we just don't see a lot because the clock picks are so prevalent at the moment in this matter.
Mm-hmm. It's a hard hero to make work even besides clockwork at the moment. If you're not seeing Maureen playing it, that's always the indicator, right?
15,000 lead, yellow submarine. Looking for the toss back plays, looking to catch VP off guard. Age is 50 seconds still though.
jump. Tomorrow, in the front line. Neither of the targets they want to go for. If they
see p- if they saw pango or any of the supports, they probably jumped there, but the fact that
they see the wind ranger with the Aegis and the tide hunter, deters them from looking
for it. Now they have to wait 20 seconds until that's gone before they try for that final
defense. KB for Talon to just full focus fire at Cargate, but Lifestealer does have that
nullifier to focus at Cargate, and Rain actually has protection now. So let's say if this,
the BKB makes the difference for him to have a long two-drage and teamfight and just get
pump the heals to ensure there's life stealers to clean targets up.
What does this health stream have coming out?
Force staff? Okay.
Casual one to keep the distance to protect his allies versus that life stealer.
Thought we might see a bigger item, like a hex for him coming out soon, but...
I guess he's just going for some of these borrowers after the aggots.
They have double, they have a lot of ways to protect each other. Double four staffs, they have Lincoln's.
Well, for Yellow Submarine, they're looking for these cost map plays. They'll find the Wiggler Ranger.
Oh!
Oh!
gone again it's an ambitious attempt and then it doesn't work at all because they
tossed the life stealer as he pops out to get the tossing.
You're a low end ranger.
I'm not key for them.
Unlikely then it would work.
They could try it!
It's enough!
They do get them!
They do get them this time!
It works out!
The rock's getting thrown over the world towards Arben and Hellscream.
Ravage comes out of the three of them into the wheel of Waze.
To the high ground with his forcebook alive it.
You get to down with shield crashes to be the buyback here from cemetery is now yellow submarine
Seeing if they could catch anything more from this they can't the rest will back out
But hey, they managed to do it. They blow up the wind ranger. I
Don't think VP expects them to do that when it's 3v5
Just jump in and yolo for it and it works
It actually ends up working she gets you has to be careful though
How much he chases forward afterwards because he did run out of manner does have to back up, but they get him you get tomorrow again
the all-in plays shown that it can't work even as a 3v5 that was impressive
see if they can set up to do that again yeah that's a brilliant take a few of
those they can't find a way to get in and take some out of the start I'll be
able to get something going if you caught up it's gonna get caught by our bad
That's the gem on the deck.
Oh.
Oh, that's unfortunate.
This gem is still very, very important in this type of game state.
Bro, she's coming back up in 30 seconds or so.
Shiva's about to be finished up for Batyuk.
Again, like I said, he is still having a pretty solid time,
even though he ends into this clockwork,
especially with that grab there.
The lifestirer has the abyssal,
catching up to the Wind Ranger in terms of farm.
It's impressive how they're able to do this at this deficit.
Now being able to stand around the Largo made it.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Shigetsu is ready to carry this Largo.
He's trying.
Alright.
Then Bachi could try and they're damnedest.
He's working on the Ags halfway there.
What was the Agonyms?
Just sing the song.
Buff up Shigetsu.
Enable him to be able to just run through and just focus onto this Windranger.
Tamato does still have a lot of space to grow, can't go for the Satanic and for the Lincolns
if he does want to have the protection versus that and fasten the all-in play.
And they're itemizing also on the supports as we do see, right?
Double Lotus is immediately queued up after that too, so looking to make sure that that
does not happen to Tamato again.
one minute spawn. Now both teams are going to be all in on the Roche play. No doubt about
it. Which of these insane neutral items do we want to point down to? Here's the shiv,
of course for tomato, Abed gets the giant, small, life stealer, got the botta. And Primal,
I believe he had this last fight also, he does have the time-less partisans which is
super strong on primal beast as long as you get the duration of his ultimate off
yeah it's approaching 25 as well too for the long duration which would be insane if you can actually
get that off see if uh now that there's a bastard too and i'll bet if both teams got a smoke at the
ready they they do right yeah they do uh teams having smokes at the ready here for this roast plate
Oh, okay, so Saber-Lay, I didn't actually see when he bought the boots to travel, but
bought boots to travel, he's going for the BKB, it is delayed a little here, but he will
have that way to protect himself versus the break.
Not too much yellow silver, he could step outside to the farm, so you see they're just
sitting in their triangles still at the moment.
Rain, still a component away from his aggs.
That's it, 20.
The 20 talent is on line.
Two catching licks.
So as I mentioned, there are some things to lick off this game.
Shield plus the win run.
Still possibilities to be able to do so.
So Tannick is done now for tomorrow.
We'll find him.
Fly.
He's getting cheeky here.
Man, he's not getting away with that.
He's not getting away with that at all.
Well, can I get out?
No, okay.
They've got it.
It was one for shot, let's see if he can steal the wisdom.
Not gonna be the case.
He thought he could get out.
He was like, I can get out with the hookshot too.
He got him. They bring everybody there.
Wait, who's Gem is that?
I guess he just dropped it because he picked up another item on our bed.
There's the Spunks.
Now the submarine is gonna start with it first.
Trying with the number advantage.
Infest.
You need to find Tomato.
Yeah, they get tomatoes the dream dream jump here for Yellow summary
Saberlight has BKB so has easier ways to just do the jump in and stop the full combos scan it will connect
VP should be able to be protected here where it gets placed
Can't go for a jump
You just start hitting the roast. Oh, you can't afford to do that
Their line-ups is not the same as the side of VP to hit Roche. There's no minus armor.
VP's coming for them.
They're coming for the smoke.
Full satanic for Tamato for this fight. So a lot harder for them to do that play that they did before.
Cemetery watching.
He's able to take, she gets to back out to safety very quick with a blink reaction.
That's dangerous to do what he was doing there.
You have to turn them and get caught.
If you catch with anything here.
That was great.
Both teams poking for information.
Both teams trying to be so careful about getting jumped.
Okay, we're top.
Savorite will grab that.
Do they have a smoke they do VP might smoke here
Do they want to say because we did see both teams use like double smokes I think it was yeah yellow submarine
They don't have one right? They've gone for this
The Russian it's gonna start shifting as well pretty soon in the next 40 seconds
Both teams starting to switch the way that they are posturing
Cemetery and she gets you they're looking to hope to catch somebody on the side
They actually could get the shrine there, but...
VP being smart, not splitting up.
Not giving the opportunity to this combo that can come out from the yellow submarine right now with this lifestealer.
How are the 25s looking for them? Not quite there on their cores.
Neither side, only op-ed 25. 26 in fact.
I hope he can't be, but he needs to eat his agonims.
I guess for now he'll get rid of the boots, but that's not great.
Need boots on lifestealer.
If he gets it, just engage at all.
Sure.
He's just relying on the agonims.
He's playing on top of them, yeah, he's getting them whilst they're at their solo door, jumping
into them.
Okay, let's see if he can get this connection.
This could look sad if he doesn't stick on a target because he might just be like waddling
at 320 movement speed if they don't get that perfect connection.
I mean, Rain can boost him up a little bit, right?
Oh yeah, true, yeah, yeah, fair.
As long as the law goes by his side and alive.
Both teams super patient.
I really am nobody nobody wants to put the wrong foot forward here
Big ruin top this could be a deciding ruin. This is an amp damage
Pretty massive one can't allow them to get the burst onto the win rate before maybe a reaction
How are those lotuses looking though house cream now has his finished and I believe fly is very close to having his done too
So much harder for them to get the execution of just pulverizing and grabbing that main target
Lincoln's is unloaded says now
Impressive that they've done this though being able to like kind of even though 617 can lead right kind of
Restabilizing the way that they can play and actually take fights
Very specific how they have to do it, but
VP is giving respect, waiting for these next timings tomorrow, about to hit 25 on himself too.
Batyuk also soon to hit his.
And he is getting toward that really big item, the Bloodstone, if you can't get there.
It's insane sustain.
Well teams assumed they were just so careful.
Yeah the standoff has been going on for quite a while now.
In many minutes the both teams have just
postured in this fashion and neither one wanting to make the jump first.
How are these buybacks looking? Next thing to bring up probably for the next contestion.
It's 2,000 away for the life stealer.
Tamato does have it.
I was going to just start doing the rush.
See what happens.
Get the roar out.
that's interesting I think that's the first time I've seen someone take this
talent on Primal Beast it's a newer quote-unquote newer talent but maybe
doesn't think he's gonna get those pulverized durations anyway I guess
right so looking for the wraparound but VP also smoked up 25 his hit on the
Tidehunter
Cemetery breaks mostly to get the spell they're gonna go to jump forward here straight away
They catch the stuff on a rain and whispers down as well try to control she gets who's getting stunk control finally gets the rage off
It's gonna try and turn them what save a light you see the primal beast go straight up towards tomatoes
Got it with the pulverize still though gets put to a stop and now with the BKVs coming to an end
They have to separate again from one another to get soup trying to get on top of Marbelle
But the swashbuckler away is there, Batja jumps forward again, but they turn with the focus fire from Tomato to take back Yookal.
He's going to be the first to fall out of the primal. He's got Rage available.
And put the Rage. They're actually able to turn, take down both Saber-Lite and Hellstream. They'll buy back immediately.
Now she gets to over towards Arboret. They bring Arboret down, flies dead.
There's going to be a quad buyback here from VP in an effort to take this fight
as they will take it at the end but cost them four buybacks there versus Pro.
We'll get them LaRouche. They commit heavily for it there, but Tamato doesn't die.
The big carry ends up getting the full clean up on everybody.
Get her at 3,000 gold, I believe, or so.
Look at the damage Tamato was able to do in the fight.
Really impressive for bot QW.
He'll just run through everybody with this Primal Beast, and she gets it without the boots.
They do get that cost combo to show that he hit a few targets, but to moderate supreme.
Yeah.
And the start of six here, look at Sablex's ravage.
It actually ends up clipping the life stealer at the start of things, which is pretty hilarious.
Yeah, they got a good amount of lockdown on T'Chieh to start things off, but not able to 100 to zero him.
And, as you say, now, Baturet getting in, getting out, and at the end getting back in very nicely
to ensure that they are able to get these kills,
So to set the fight up so she gets who was actually able to kind of get up and close some personal get a lot of hits off as this live
Stealer
Which did force her VP to have to use as many buybacks that they did to get the fight back on them
Obviously VP now with the ages and with this push might have a chance to force out some of the buybacks of Yellow Submarines
So 30 seconds without rain and 30 seconds without she gets to see how much they can do
They'll hold the buybacks and just lose probably one rap site magic, but if it's gonna be two sets
actually have to hold in there, it's not going to be fast enough to do that push.
They give op-ed that Aegis of course, since he did have to use the buyback to motto
it doesn't have an Aegis, it has buyback for itself.
Now the buyback situation is certainly a little bit spooky.
In late August Aegis, are you looking to just go full chill until the buyback is over?
How safe do VP need to play?
Just play together. They're still very strong inside of the teamfights as we see, and Abed will have a secondary life, so he can just play pretty aggressively forward if the fight does come to him, so he can die once and reset for that to give the space for Tamato.
Probably not go for the full push here with everybody alive, but they can still posture around wards.
And yeah, I will say something to you all, the Largo in that last fight, it actually
was doing pretty decent.
The healing that he's providing, it's similar to what the Coddle's doing, and he's just
keeping his teammates speedy and healed, so that you can actually hit these targets, so.
Sabley for next fight though, does have double ravage, so quite a bit harder for a yellow
submarine to be able to take that fight in a similar fashion they're gonna feel very scared
about leaving the base right now yellow submarine let's just say this is in plan less they want to
go for some sort of risky smoke which they might feel honestly yellow submarine has done some tip
of like kind of crazy plays that has caught VPF guard a couple times so
So, tossback, Tomato, towards the BKB.
He's got to back up for 90 seconds, huh?
They like to try and chase.
I'm shocked if Tomato sticks around here.
Okay, he's this engaging.
But he's got no boots himself.
They've got him in the stun.
Ravage will come out of the BKB, he's going to head for brain and she gets on top of Tomato.
is dead I can't believe he stayed for the ancient camp oh that is he has another
chase that's a man that's a lie Scott he does not have buyback our bets getting
ground down he'll be able to blink out to the side that's like border that's a
good I can't believe he stayed in the killing ancients when he used his BKB
you know they're gonna chase you the way yellow submarine plays oh sometimes
creeps you creeps are gotta be hit you know you gotta find those ancients
well all right I mean sloppy sort of slip-ups like that and yellow submarine
as you say you can't make them against yellow submarine they will punish you
all right a lot of time they get they get a full set of items potentially
some of these here is that is a monsters monsters turn around there that
they give up that kill after they used the four buybacks too so now when they
respawn the Aegis is almost reclaimed. I love some ring. Catching VP off guard and VP just
kind of giving it to them there especially tomorrow.
So we are three minutes still where the buyback situation is not great for VP
because of how much they want to just get the Aegis.
Yeah it's pretty much gone just under a minute left on the Aegis.
I mean, if you're saying nothing, absolutely have to be very careful.
A tossback play, they could just lose the game here.
Sam, it's Harry.
Tossback.
That's gonna get the tossback, and Lois is there.
Reflects the abyssal blade still, no, in with the infest,
on towards Arben, Arben's in trouble.
How's the H just gone?
He's got a sense for a round two.
The light, comes in with the ravage, catches rain and batshook.
Killed Shigetsu's, Tomato was able to find the angle to focus him down.
Shigetsu's hit.
And the Rocket Thunder from Arbets is going to come to an end shortly.
Gets the control and swashbuckling onto Semite, that's the timing out for good.
Tomato, he's going to be, Shikoda will get the chain frost off.
Shigetsu's going to go straight for Tomato, but he's in trouble.
The infest in the rain, he's going to hope the rain can get him out of here
because Shigetsu's bought back for this one, he'll jump back up.
We'll be able to kill a fly but will always holding them back but back you try to charge for it gets blasted back by the
Cottle I bet he was up in the cheese
She gets he's tends to get back in here, but that's cool
But that's who backs is there she gets to get the rage off. He's gonna try
He's out for two minutes. They try and put it all in there to make a big play
To push back against VP, but it goes horribly wrong
No life stealing out for two minutes
This should be the window the VP needs to potentially close this game three up
My god, this game got stressful for a second there though
It did playing super aggressively forward tomorrow gets punished, but now she gets you
Goes way too all in to go for this play dies and now it's likely just the game
This game
Taking the risk of the end that submarine was with how they were taking these risks and Kenny
This looked like a clear cut game for VP after the first 35 minutes or so, but it's taken them an extra 20 minutes to do so.
Yeah, they held well. They held well, but now the final buybacks just reigned and cemetery left alive here to try and defend.
There's VP taking out the tier 4s, the fortification does come in.
Is there going to be a chance for what final attempt of the whole is still 30 seconds until
they have a lich up a little longer for both the Prime and then the Lifeline would come
in.
I'll try for a toss back.
Once I save the light.
Rain has to BKB and run.
Cemetery's dead.
The tier 4s fall.
Cemetery does have buyback.
Okay his buyback just came back available. 15 seconds for the Lich.
10-4's are gone. Ancient six both. Cemetery trying again to stop this final push.
Eight seconds till the Lich. Cemetery trying to draw that tension away from
the ancient. Say to be said for Reign but they're both gone. Lich is up and
everybody's dead on Yellow Submarine as VP. Close-up game three.
Celebratory Ravage there from Saber-Lite as this game the series is over VP will take the win
Moving on here in the upper bracket and knocking Yellow Submarine down to the lower
This was a stressful game though
It looks like I said pretty clear cut for the majority of it for VP
But then Yellow Submarine is taking fights somehow and like a 15-20k deficit around some of these things some mistakes from VP getting punished
But overall Yellow Submarine
Yeah, they couldn't really take this one versus this win ranger
It seems like especially versus this pango to the first pick pango that ends with only two deaths
I've been playing pretty beautiful in this series in the lab in the next in the games in the games that we actually are gonna talk about
Because the first game I think a little race from the memory because there's a disaster for VP
Yeah, I don't think that's enough just a
Little bit of a shake up there at the end but other than that
VP if they could bring the majority of what they showed us in game two in game three
And they should be able to give a good fight on the next round of the upper bracket
The Ellison Marine knocked down to the lower here, didn't work out this time with the approach, but definitely gave a good struggle to the end.
And this is a team I think you are going to have to watch out for in the lower bracket, right?
I'm not too sure they're going to go down to face against, but they were quite tough to target.
And especially when they get these sort of drafts, as we saw in the game where they did get the win, they look very clean.
Yeah, and even this one when they're on the back, super hard, they're still making really cool moves, making the game look possible for sure too.
So, they gained a fan, at least a fan in me in this game, because I was really impressed with a lot of things that they were doing in this game.
VP, a little bit more cohesion in this time in this last game, though, with House Cream on this coddle.
I actually didn't get to see the healing, I wanted to check that, let me see.
30,000 healing he did in this game, so it just felt like it.
It was a really nice synergy draft coming out from VP.
Even though Yellow Submarine gave him such a nice battle.
the game. It's just so
good. It's such a nice battle.
And just, you know, this sort
of dynamic of just throwing
out our best hero first in
the draft this time being the
pango twice and just kind of
saving their last pick for
tomato. It worked out really
well, right? Last game against
this life stealer in a pretty
dream position. And this game,
the wind ranger also picked in
a very, very nice matchup 19,
three and 13. He ends the game
on the wind ranger. Yeah, just
to me. 100% agreed to model look at this. It just looked like a totally different team
in these last two games in particular. And yeah, I think, yeah, look at that free L
submarine. Don't beat yourself up too much in this one. I think they they were in a really
difficult spot in majority of this game. You're having this primal versus clock that we talked
about like 50 times how much fly was able to do in this one. So yeah, it's they're an
exciting team to watch. I'm looking forward to watch more of them. I hope they make a
long run. We'll see how their next next series in particular is going to be. Yeah, it's a
of. We'll give him the stand
out. Really have really smashed
a little bit of a slip up at the
end, but they're kind of the
greed of hitting the ancients
got the better of him. But other
than that, very, very nice
stuff on the wind ranger. He
knew exactly what to do. Build
perfect as always and had all
the very high kill involvement
as well. This was not a F K
wind ranger whatsoever. He was
involved in a lot. So fair
play to him and well played to
VP moving on into that upper
Who are they going to play against?
Well, we're about to find out.
The final series of the day, coming up after this break,
we're going to have Power Rangers versus Team Vision.
We'll see you soon.
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Welcome back everybody to the European regional qualifiers for the international 2026.
We're getting ready for our last
series of the day.
It's Team Vision up against Power Rangers.
So far, Team Vision, they've turned up.
They got easy 2-0 against Cheeky Bamboni.
And today, I think they're probably expecting
an easy 2-0 as well.
The question is, is it going to be an easy 2-0,
or do the Power Rangers compose some threat to them?
Probably not, but more of a threat than...
What do you cheat? Is it cheeky? I'm gonna still say for you, but it is cheeky. It is cheeky. All right. Yeah, fair enough. Um, yeah, I mean, it's definitely gonna be I would say harder
But not by too much. And vision just looks insane. Like these guys, we know everything about them. Let's just see what heroes they get away with, right? Are they going to get the aisle? Are they going to get the
They're going to get Urspirit, what's Night Class going to play?
And is Power Rangers going to be able to deal with his pressure besides all the other things?
Sorry, because, you know, we have a pretty lot of focus on him, but there are a lot of
problems that always go on.
And is Kaz going to make it through, right?
Because I think that's what we saw, Satanic play, at least in the last two that we saw.
So, and Grim, I think they were kind of trying stuff out a little bit here.
So I'm looking forward to see what we do get out of vision.
Yeah, let's see if Power Rangers can impress us, because they did do some impressive stuff
the other day, but as you said, you know, it isn't it wasn't too for Iki Bamboni. No, no, it was.
Yeah. So, you know, we'll see. We'll see. But as you say, these guys pretty good. And we'll see
they're expecting nothing less than I think not only qualified to TI, but I would imagine,
you know, not losing a single game in this qualifiers. Right. I think if they lose a game,
then
Daddy call it could they should be look just that much to call it
What we're going but you know because you know what I mean right team vision
They're not expecting to lose a single game on this qualifier
Nope, definitely not mr. Pupon there taking the seat of nine class move over
He's gonna play look at him
Let's see what we got
Yeah, what?
What gives you your best hopes against team vision?
That's what I was wondering, right?
Because if you do ban, if you prioritize nine class,
then the cast is going to get picked.
Do you prioritize no one?
Probably not.
It's hard to ban no one.
He plays everything under the sun.
It's very hard to target a lot of these mid players too.
So I guess you probably do just ban nine class.
And then like one or two satanic heroes,
at least in the early.
Magnus ban, seeing people give respect to the carry
Magnus that we've been talking about that's a rare one but indeed one that
they respect that naive can play maybe satanic wanted to play some like drow or
one of these turret things to that they just like you know what we don't want
even bother to deal with the mag since they did have a win with it
does it up and they do love to at least that's they've been the approach last
two times and is the approach honestly in most of the games that they were doing in previous tournaments and it will continue to be the approach here you leave Kazim the first pick it
Just kind of poses like a I think what they're also doing a lot here is just going okay let's see what people come up with to do with the kids too because I think most of the games I've seen satanic the lane is untouched so I feel like you have to have something to be able to slow down as far
because too many games I'm seeing Satanic get like, yeah, like 12 minute, 14 minute
timings on both of his core items and then just snowballing like crazy.
So, see what Power Rangers comes up with.
Or do they just go for a normal, like you just pick tree and you play a normal strategy?
All right, we have the Tiny Root, a route that we saw taken multiple times earlier today
by Yela Sabine.
Mm-hmm.
love the tiny first pick this is not what Power Rangers has done in the past so
that in the past a couple days ago yes sure not like in the last recent few
days they kind of restraint but it was getting banned away from them so actually
never me actually they were never my bad I apologize they actually yeah they were
it was just getting banned first ban almost every time versus them so and
we'll really just carry just really like it let's see how much it was flexed I'll
check because they played a ton of it it was mid one game yeah it's all over
it's actually all over it is actually all over okay so that's I guess you have
some of the teams do have that going for them that they do have this kind of
potential to just put the tiny wherever yep that one game mid one game carry one
game actually a couple games mid that I'm seeing here so okay maybe we'll see
that coming out. Ben at the Viper so that maybe is an indicator that it probably wants
to go in the mid lane. It's also no one so you know he is one of those guys that will
just pick the Viper more than others. Yeah, nobody wants to play against the Viper. They
left tree though they just got to leave tree they seem like you're out it
Bane's in as well it's quite a few things left in the pool depending which
route they want to go
early whim ranger all right I mean what's this was it this tell you
It's just like a really early carry but flexing just in case of things.
I mean I feel like there has to be some flex with it right if you're picking it like this.
Just straight up second pick.
It can't be locked in as a carry.
Is this their concept of the lane that they want to play maybe?
Like a 3-4?
Like just lots of damage that can spam onto something like that?
It doesn't sound good.
I don't know.
versus Kazz doesn't sound great because it's zero armor.
It's just that hard physical damage that can come out from the Kazz,
does feel like you can just eat him, so this is interesting to see.
But yeah, maybe they just want to have that as their carry anyway,
and they're just going to leave it and just go for this early pick and deal.
But Wyvern comes out very strong, especially if it is going to be a win ranger as a core.
I was already against these two. I'm kind of kind of feeling the no one invoker. It's
been early days, but I'm always feeling the no one invoker and against these two. I don't
care whether I just get a tornado to take a combo to the face. It was kind of nice for
or something. They still might do some night class hero sneak it in here. Yeah, try it again.
He had a great game. And you know, as you said, this is the perfect time to kind of
get the official game practice in with it. And it's very good versus the Wynranger. If
it ends up being like a core Wynranger, you eat her, right? You're going to be able to
do so much to get on top of her and prevent her from doing stuff. And I think like I said,
I do think Vision, they wanted to give it this is the time to test it, make sure it
getting as much practice as you can on all these heroes.
Double save supports too, right?
So you have Paul, you have the Cold Embrace,
multiple different ways to play around,
and great ways to set up teamfights.
A curse into a magnetized, into a silence,
you have good follow-up.
Power Rangers, they're gonna give a bit more
an indication of where these heroes are at.
It's gonna be the Beastmaster.
into the wyvern
that's intriguing
and what what's the lane gonna be then i mean i i i get i get i guess this is
still leaving things open right beast could be in an
number of positions
it's been a burka in the
past right sure played with the snap of the beast master the games that we saw
he would add in in the in the game that we saw too so maybe he's taking ag's
beast is that you know the summons is not as
desirable when you're playing versus Wyvern. Huh. Okay.
Now this next pick will definitely give a bit more clarity on
what Pyrange is going to do.
So this must feel like it could be the three-fourth person.
So versus the Wyvern, this hero has gotten a lot of buffs too,
as we mentioned, I think they were talking about in the last tournament.
It got like a 20% damage buff essentially on like two of the spells.
All right, can prevent the healing from the Kaz too, right?
If you land the AA blast on top of them, you can't just full focus the target.
There is saves though, and there's saves that are displacement saves in particular.
So if there's a roar that comes in, they can pull them with the Earth spirit
when they're trying to go for the AA blast and just explode a target.
But adding their own flare, I want to see more AA.
The lane still can be it's still not the strongest in particular in some lanes
Especially to something like Earth spirit you can't get punished because it's you're all about positioning in the so repositioning hero
But I can see the combo that they're looking at and preventing the healing from the wyvern and the kez
is.
I'm going to be showing that on flan here and now.
Yeah, maybe not.
Are you down a lot, Centaur?
Seems kind of good though.
It's okay, it's just the lane.
I mean the lane's still probably fine, you know, it's airspirits Centaur.
Because you're very tanky and durable versus something like AA.
And the Centaur usually wants to be like, I'm not killable when you're playing versus AA.
It's usually not the case, so...
Um...
Okay, bring any vote on it to see it. They just saved it. It looks good. It looks good
here. Looks great. It's very good. So no one invoker. We'll get to you. You have Kazan
invoker. You have 20 spells between two heroes. Time dilation devastating. They have a plus
avoid potential if they want to do something like that.
Do you want to just be safe?
I mean, they're battling out mids because they think it's going to be a room-range
carry.
I think, I mean, that is what it looks like, that's what it looked like from the start
of things, right?
And Puck is one of the best heroes versus a Puck.
Oh, sorry, or the tiny carry, of course.
Sure.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, support, yeah.
That's taking the tiny carry.
Yeah.
with the AA also the tiny gives you actual ways to use your abilities in lane you can
actually skill cold feet, play around it with the avalanche, it gives protection for the
AA too because AA is a very vulnerable hero in the laning phase if you get collapsed on
top of this gives a nice like blanket coverage stun to maybe allow the AA to walk away to.
It's a ban. Do they just do it anyway though? Maybe they're discussing something else.
Okay, so they're just protecting no one, making sure he has a good entry into this game.
What do you ban now?
The other one was what?
Batrider?
Yeah, not just Batrider, yeah.
Which fits Earth Spirit best, I would say, in terms of lane composition.
I was thinking under law would be safe but maybe they want to try something a bit more
exciting team vision.
Yeah, they'll ban the under law, it would have been that safe for a buyer.
Kind of figured it was going to get banned after the tide ban too because it looks like
tiny carries so they're looking to get rid of the anchor smash and the hatchery
fiora in particular on top of those auras
I'll just go with the naked spy again yeah I this is like this is just like a
cookie cutter draft I feel like we knew exactly what division was gonna go for
almost in a way right like the reason the wife is the only slight surprise why
burns to stand out yeah something a little different there but everything
else is like okay yeah if you leave these areas in team vision at the moment
at least they seem to be vibing with these specific ones.
Notice Bat, no invoker, nine class sports plays Mercer spirit
and Satanic.
He'll play Kez every game that you leave it in the draft.
It's like, if like Doom was in the pool,
they may have grabbed Doom instead,
but Erspirit Bat is also, it's just,
it's probably stronger in a way to be able to pressure
and with what he's up against, these are really,
like these are really good targets.
Any of them that he can go for a lasso play,
if it's a win-ranger carry or a tiny carry,
it's super strong.
So if they do any sort of last two years this final pick
How much can they pivot and do they do like I mean will they do some weird crazy full void or something? Let's say
Okay, so shout is not what I expected
So we'll be the shadow even a a the mid-time offland Beastmaster, but you were their support. Do I talk to me about it?
How do you you're completely reliant on course to do everything you're just set up complete set up heroes I
Don't like these two supports together Owen
I guess they wanted to save versus the bat and the curse all this and like the combos like
Hmm
This is something I'm missing with it like purge is okay versus kez but kez has mobility
So it's not as naturally good as the versus like I'll let a lifestealer or one of these like super immobile kind of carry heroes
Because that's where I like the demonic purges when you just like kill a hero's mobility and kez is still quite mobile
Hmm I
Will say the mid tiny but uh, I
had
It might be a tough one as
It's likely to be the case for any of these teams in the qualifiers that have the unfortunate luck of running up against team vision
Yeah, they had like my worry is the safe lane mostly off for the side of
Power Rangers here this a a plus win ranger that is the lane. Yes, you're double range
You can't get harassed but Earth spirits good at being able to break these double ranged in a way
Yeah, for Cerberus back get on top of the AA.
Yeah, there's one of those things where the AA can feed pretty heavily, right?
Yeah.
Windranger...
I mean, windranger is also not the absolute safest either.
Yes, you have windrun, but if you do get kicked back in the body block, you do get slowed massively too.
I don't know, I mean, vision's drafted, looks like it ticks everything, it looks super strong.
Satanic's playing as Kaz that he's barely lost on.
Power rangers, they have their work cut out for them.
Because besides, I mean, I don't really like the two support duo.
Their teamfight is extremely lackluster, Owen.
Like, there's not really much of it.
It's very single target heavy, which
makes it hard to come back in a game.
Like, if you do get behind in the laning phase with almost no teamfight,
catching Becca can be quite complicated.
And team vision, holy moly, do they have teamfight.
Oh, yeah.
No doubt about that.
That's how we get it.
Yeah, I talked to skater finally because I was curious. I'm like why he was the most egregious one and he did it every time
I'm like why are you blocking your branches every game?
And he was like I just like to keep positioning of my boss up and I just wanted to point this one out
Super random, but yeah, and not only a few players bovards do it right?
Yep, not everybody does it by any means
Okay, let's see how these lanes do go down looks with Power Rangers
They're trying to go for perhaps first blood here with the tri lane emerging setup on top
JK won't be able to find it, noticed in a very careful position here.
Night class actually finds a courier.
I don't know how that happens, but we'll be able to sneak around and find it in a very
funny position there.
He's going to drag the wave.
So that's also the other thing, right?
They had the air spirit versus the AA.
AA probably one of the worst heroes at preventing wave pulling.
Yeah, you just kind of have to just watch them tank creeps.
Yeah, every single time. He doesn't really do that much harassment damage either.
Power shot will help a little here from Naive to stop, like, just to get some damage on Tracer.
But yeah, wave's gonna get pulled. Notice we'll be able to get that level, get that XP.
And mid...
No one does a pretty good job, I want to say, in terms of, like, not losing the lane on Invoker.
Because a lot of times we do see the Invoker until, like, level 4 or 5 he ends up losing it.
No one does a good job of actually holding his own.
And yeah, let's see if this bottom lane, if they can ever touch Satanic as Iceware, every game I've seen Satanic playcast, it's complete free farm.
No, you just got something from the life?
Yeah. Either it's like, it's either him playing it so well, which it probably is, but it's also just the way that Ducales is able to secure the lane for him every single time.
Either it's like some witch doctor wyvern or I think the other games was grim stroke that he was able to do it with
Now in class that's all this is illegal. He just walked the courier through the creep wave that he's dragged
Till the end just loses it for free. My class is just stacking up the waves
Again nine class. He doesn't care about the sale whatsoever
No
This is how you play versus it's a double range lay. Oh, they're gonna try power shot doesn't hit
That's a very nice little dodge there from nine class
If it hits perhaps they can actually kill him there now
I'll be able to keep the wave till the end is gonna continue chasing him have to be careful
How far you chase with this a a dog?
Get the power shot. Oh
The night night class it was to HP. Oh my goodness that that's gotta be frustrating there
He got so close to killing him
I think it may have actually ticked to one HP when he got hit and then he got hit by the ancient
It might it was one or two HP that I saw pop up on my screen
It was one
And it would be nine classes making these sort of moves
He always knows how to get under the enemy skin with these cheeky little plays
And notice this now it's almost a level 4 bat rider 10 and 5 CS is gonna be able to get the next 4 very likely
Or he almost has the same CS as the wind ranger
Not 30 you might kick him under tower here nice careful. I'll probably step up
The slow that's the flame break the flame break. This one's just coming in will not hit
but the stacks so much sticky though a few more it'll get first blood notice
bottom lane bottom safe tannic ever to clean up our burka
a competition there between the two sidelines of team vision on who was
gonna get the first blood first it's a tannix killing Boris too which in this
lane it's always important if you get any extra top nine class you know till the
as nearly a risk of dying that was dangerous from now you're that
positioning whenever you're going for like these extra little denies under
the tower versus displacement heroes it's a it's a risk that's probably not
needed to take gets punished for it does that's a Sun strike at the least there
is a good call Nikki probably tells him Sun strike ink does end up dodging that
but yeah noticed very happy with getting the kill tranquil boots finished up now
for him.
Sotanik?
He's gonna be aggressive again on Tal Burqa.
That's a burst.
Structure coming in, Al Burqa's dead.
And immersion.
Okay, he'll be alright before I protect him, but another bore killed, Sotanik will clean
that one.
He's getting so much out of this bottom lane.
Mid's also going quite well, as I was saying for no one.
Besides him throwing Sunstrikes, he does get the connection on this one.
He is matching it and getting some extra denies versus a Tiny.
It's impressive from him.
Yeah, the best thing they've got going so far is pretty much that the fact that they...
Now on the top lane, making sure that Naut is getting complete free-fall and CS to slow down a little bit now.
I'm taking control of the Flamie, a little bit more than I expected in my mid.
He's the Frizz.
So, can't he turn it off?
I don't know.
Let's see what they can do here with the cold snap onto Nicky Cool.
As the Sun Strike hits there, again, no one.
He knows where they're walking.
Oh, is he actually perfect with the extra little slow and ends up connecting onto him there.
Super high, we do not see that for many teams.
Satanic just TP's in from the bottom lane, joins in to help out his buddy and it's around the power run too, so he's lingering in the area.
Now how Reset go down toward bottom.
This bottom lane bumper guy is super difficult.
top nine class. It's a lone. Playing around with Torbjorn a little bit. And nine class.
He's gonna pay for this one. Naive will easily swing across. Find the angle for that shackle
shot. Tries to go for a solo play. Get punished.
Bringing in the third member now. So they can kill no test.
The time to cold feed properly, they do.
Should be at their bat here, so putting more focus onto this top lane to get
something good going here for Naive.
Old school combo.
Disrupt plus the AA sometimes cannot work, but this time does get the connection there
with the shackle afterwards.
Wisdom.
Immersed in it.
Has the metaphor to disrupt, but there's backup.
Okay, time to end the way with this attempt at steel, no one turns up.
If you kill the invoker, easy kill.
Okay, that's the last hit.
Let's say executed that they can do the SD plus AA.
You know, I should have actually mentioned the 4Q, I still don't like the support queue, but that is one of the plays that you of course can do.
Naive.
No disabled between the top, naive.
I put the silence, and no one's got the controller with the tornado and the ice fall down.
Body blocks from nine class, and there's nowhere for naive to run.
So he's taken out that he did not expect no one to still stick around on this top lane, but he did.
Meteor Hammer also available for the tower.
And it's on the creeper head to the end, show it.
Oh, and 9-plus.
Yeah, perfect angle onto the AA.
Sunstrike's coming in, this one's gonna be a missed though.
Doesn't connect, but no one, he could just walk up with the right clicks instead, still finds the kill.
No response at all, Niki doesn't want a TP or anything, it's a no-boot invoker diving under the tower,
and he says he doesn't want to TP, he's just going to run over instead.
Maybe now he can find no one on the retreat here,
but now no one does have the boots he's going to just be able to walk away.
I thought Nicky might TP.
Can you close the gap actually?
What?
No.
And no one's got back from 9 plus, he's ready to come back over.
They can look for Naive again.
They land the combo with the meteor hammer on towards him,
we'll get the wind runoff, turns with the power shot.
He's going to tick down into the urn, oh he's going to survive.
Will not quite die, but still not in a fantastic position as he's completely out of HP regen.
Bottom, Decalus.
Getting the poison stacks, one more should be enough, it's only level one so nope, just
kidding.
And Satanic, he just wraps around and finds till the end.
Not only not killing Decalus, but getting a chance for Satanic to find the kill.
He's going to chase him, he's got one charge if he wants to go for the Echo Slash, and there it is.
And that should do it!
Ashes close, he might be alright.
Not quite enough.
Where's the Sun Strike?
More...
Is he going to go for it?
Is he looking for it?
No, I didn't invoke it.
I guess he's going to have the intel for it here.
It's so much pressure though, it's pressure on all fronts and the rotations just aren't really connecting.
We saw Nicky try to make the move to react to the invoker to no one, but no one just
stands his ground 5 and 0 on this invoker.
And nine-class still lingering in the area.
He has this Ward 2 for naive.
If he gets the connection, it could just be another kill.
4k lead pre-10 minutes.
Stuns get pretty tricky here for Power Rangers.
Especially for the beast, Alberka.
He is going to go the Dominator out this game, but as I was mentioning in the draft, he is
playing versus Wyvern, which can kind of turn this against you in a lot of situations. So you
don't always play with your creep right next to you, right? But that always was the concept in the
past, at least about Wyvern versus the Meese Master too. The timings are going to be super
slowed down now because of all this for the side of Power Rangers. Oops, they said go and just
pause, there we go. So the blink for Nikki is something they want to be able to rally around,
But it is very very far away. He's super behind no one at this point
I might die naive if set ups that now over time it perfectly with a combo
I was naive. No one should die tier two
Yeah, they've got past to die here. The three of them there. There's no way out
Surely for the emoka Nikki cool comes in with the avalanche
They'll finally be able to punish no one for all the plays that he's been making
And Nikki gets the last it so actually pretty necessary to as we mentioned the blink daggers very important for the
of power Rangers to be able to stop some of this aggression so phase boots gets
handed like 600 gold or so immersion sees nine class gets to disrupt during the
TP immersion dying the creeps so careful nine will come over please go back up
just a shot yeah nine class it made a bit of a mistake there is Korea gave up
his position it because it just flew over the tier two straight term and died
so they're like oh there's a shadow demon around I'm sorry an Earth spirit
around. Bottom lane! Vision, now still makes something happen with the focus that's drawn
up towards that top side of the map. I get the chance to dive and kill off Albuquerque.
As soon as he's starting to recover, he walks back to the lane, just delivers them a kill.
Level 9 on satanic now after that kill. Mateslayer's finished up, gonna go for the same build that we
see him go pretty much every single one of these games. The Manta, and then usually deviates after.
And no one's gonna agree. Just gonna go for Boots Trouble this game.
He's super farmed. He sometimes goes ATOS, but that's usually when he's playing versus a Spirit in particular.
So yeah, this game he's just gonna go for the full greed.
To Kallus.
Good thing you're such a don.
Walking camps trying to prevent some of his Beast Masters catch up.
Just get de-warded immediately, Sotanik.
Swing in toward mid, Nicky's here, they have AA blast, so if we can blow him up.
There's the combo dropped onto Satanic, he's going to be able to turn with the ult.
Nicky calls, Nicky calls, gonna tick out.
And Satanic, on the run, he'll get away from this.
The power shot comes in, but the ice blast has already worn off, so Satanic's perfectly fine.
Backup comes in from Nyclash, going to collapse onto Na'eve, kill off the Wim Ranger.
Deftening Blast will hold back the rest of the attempt to chase some Power Rangers.
Talbot is ticking down pretty low, this magnetize is hurting!
They're gonna both die!
Saitranic's backing with the Echo Slash, four dead on Power Rangers, they only got the Wyver.
And that's them trying to be the ones to set up the kill on Saitranic,
but the mage slayer, he's has enough magic resistance to be able to absorb, gets, I think,
I didn't even get the debuff onto them there either, doesn't matter,
otherwise he's able to survive even without that healing,
and his team is there to back him up again.
Kite vision just always prepared for every single one of the fights.
Bukalis always there at the ready.
Knight class, look who perhaps for the next play here.
Team is coming out around the mid.
Immersion.
On the set up on the 9th class block.
Stun the curse.
It's gonna be used.
And he's able to roll away.
Did get hit by the ice blast, but I think he's...
Is he okay?
He's gonna...
He's gonna be close.
I think he's okay.
Yeah, he's good. He gets out.
So another Ice Blast, not warranting a kill.
Well, they just go for this mid tower deny. Looks like they will.
All in the meanwhile, by the way, noticed he's kind of just been chilling
during all this crazy action that's been happening from the rest of his team.
He's just farming. Blink's done. Drunk's done.
Super fun power. He's doing all this pressure.
He's got just as many last hits as that of his Satanic, Keskari.
Hey, Satanic's turning up a lot more than him, right?
Satanic's turning up for all these kills and he's getting the kills. 5-0 and 4 on this
Kez, level 11. I'm wondering why we don't see... I guess it is, uh, qualifiers, so. But
I was gonna say, I wonder why we don't see more of this. Even though the win rate has
dropped drastically in terms of pub, Satanic is showing, at least for himself, that he
never gets pressured. It's just a delaning phase. I've never seen him really get slowed
down on this Kez.
They've got to have a better plan for this, I mean we've seen you know that they're going
to first pick the Kez, like I feel like if you're coming up against Team Vision it's
got to be like right okay we're not going to ban Kez, fair enough, but we have to have
a way of crushing him in the lane.
Definitely not the case this game, the Colossal will steal the shrine, the blink as we said
it's ready there for notice, Nikki has his blink, they'll get the toss back, they'll
Look at the jump.
Musta's going to be there though.
Static with the ult.
Fall off.
They're raw in the blast.
Nice blast.
Static though.
That's heavy burst.
Static this time.
He'll die.
They get him.
There we go.
Curse.
It is pretty beautiful.
We'll cause our Burka to die.
Nikki.
Cool.
Take the Sun Strike to the face.
Mission can get another match.
Four, five minutes.
No one's coming in from the side.
This is chase.
There you go.
Fight's not over yet.
No one's turned up
Little on the man and no one so money have much more to chase on with and they won't
Parages they get the panic they do indeed finally bring down satanic. So something to write
It was a five-man smoke rotation
Which ended up them actually losing heroes anyway, right?
They did run five into two heroes and they'd have losing things anyway
So it's good that they get the kill, but it's still not a great scenario
Yeah over chased pretty hard there they have to be very careful in terms of how far they overextend here naive
This is actually one of the slower timings that they were seeing for these safe lanes for these windrangers. The maelstrom is still not finished
And a big gap still between them and satanic
Mm-hmm
And no one he's going for the octurine build
If you like this one quite a lot, if you don't have, you know, like a void or an axe or some specific ones to go for the agonims,
this seems like it is just the best, best build you can go for in these invokers.
How's the mantle looking for satanic? Getting pretty close to it.
I just need to get more and more out of the map to catch the ton of hits on the carry.
No one's able to board server, bringing that final bit of damage to ensure they bring Naive down.
They have to reach for him.
And to the end, careful.
They're going to dive in very easily with Satanic.
So much jump here from Team Vision.
The air spirit, we saw them do this the other day with it, 9 class always being able to get super deep aggressive and kick heroes back.
This time it's not him doing it, notice with this early timing that he did get this blink and just bypass, always go for the wind ranger.
That's 5 deaths already.
So many answers as we saw in the draft. It was the first 2 wind rangers and they have a ton of different answers for it.
And you're getting the invoker, you know, you're happy right now and eight one and four truly delivering. Yeah, he's giving us a shot
I mean, it just felt like it was coming to the point where I guess it was a little surprised that didn't get banned out
By a power engine, especially if you're kind of opening your draft with this win range a tiny and if you expect to have the win rangers as core
And obviously in this case both of them being core
I feel like until these get a bkb
They both absolutely hate playing against a good invoker and you're playing up against one of the teams with one of the best invokers in the world
He's gonna put it out there. Yeah, they put it out there that these are the two cars pretty early on oh, and I will say
You think the tiny anything else in the surprising
Mm-hmm the tiny they played in mid multiple times and I if I just it just looked like when they picked it there for him
It wasn't gonna be a flex
vision chillin, out efficiencying on the map, Arthurine, suit could be done for no one.
comes the overlord of looking for alberka, it is getting close, that is going to be the
strongest thing for his team to be able to rally around, but again they have a lot of
different ways to answer it, Nikki. Most of the concept about PR's draft, it is just
going to be around the Ice Blast plus Tiny Avalanche combo, and they're hoping that works.
The catch.
It's another catch, but this time the four of them are immediately there. We ought to
win run out of this. Time for the combo, I want to notice. Try an Ice Blast his way.
Should be able to back off there and survive. Satanic, Tim of the wrap around, the curse
set up into the combo from Satanic. It's going to be allowable to allow them to get
the three of them and now they're the fortune only alberka surviving because
you know he's kind of made the executive decision to not be a part these
plays he's like I don't want to be a part of whatever's going on in this game
and it looks kind of rough yeah outplay our class across the board here vision
just jump in they can't even lose a hero there and I don't know that looks did the
tornado cook I don't know something they looked weird maybe just missed it by a
Yeah, we had to get on the replay, I didn't know so much about it.
It looked like it went through him.
I think it was because it was the end of the...
It just... It didn't actually have the range.
And maybe animation looked bigger than the range?
The reach of it?
No.
No?
I guess like the width you mean or...?
No, I meant by the length.
Or did it go straight over him?
Heh heh heh.
I thought it went straight over... I don't know, dude, that looked weird.
Let's have a look.
Maybe.
If we are.
We'll see if we can get a chance to get on the replay that last five.
There we go.
So let's have a look.
The tornado.
He's lassoed.
I did I swear I went through him nice because the Batrider lasso ends at the same time
Yeah, I think it's because it hit him when he was still like in the final like millisecond of the lasso animation, right?
so
Like you can't turn I don't know super weird because you can't turn it to someone this last so bright they stay lassoed on the ground
It's just what's weird. You like no one get it going on
That's classed last
over him
You get the poison stacked up, but Naive is gonna get lassoed again
They do kill no one, but it's gonna cost them so much
Three that this probably gonna be all five of them dying. Nikki Kohl
He's dead. They got the jump over to what's our burka. It will indeed cost them their entire team
to bring no one down
But you know what they got them
Committing literally everything it does
I was pretty concerned because about how single target the team fight is in particular and we're seeing this now time and time again
They're having to throw five like everything onto one target to kill them besides just being at this deficit, right?
It is just a super single target draft versus a very
well-rounded draft the full team fight and single target
I feel like I would just be tempted to ban the Kez, just to be like, play something else
satanic.
You know what I mean?
Like, we get it.
He's got a first bit Kez, he's going to make the game look easy.
Why not just ban Kez, make satanic play something different?
Maybe you ban Kez and Invoker because these heroes together have 20 spells together.
So it's like you're playing versus like five heroes with just the two of them to the end. This is the saddest death ever
I'm so sorry my friend. He's dies to the ghost walk
And it's ironic as well is it is a snow cone dying to ice
Yeah, it's a stronger ice. Yeah, I guess so
Permafreas
Yeah, I mean that does kind of tell the story of the game
Unfortunately for Power Rangers, it's tough as you can see he he has like he has centuries
There's like there's no point on that like there's nothing I could do guys instead to go swap
That was sad
Must be peaceful
Well, and this is a bit of a crazy build right from Nicky cool
Just blink acts. This is what he goes though. This is what they did the other day
Oh, is that okay? Never mind. Oh, this is actually what he does in this bit tiny he goes the yeah
They had um they had Magnus with it a couple games. So I think that might that would make a bit more
because acts on its own I
I don't know. I have a time. You don't really do this to them. I'm sure they're not mid time. He's not very good
It's desperation, right? Maybe it hasn't desperation for quite some time
True I mean it is probably gonna go acts great. That's what you do. They're like, well, what can you do?
We have seen vision games kind of hard. Let's just go acts rape your tiny
I guess it's a lot of gold on this vision
Yeah, I think you just ban ban a couple of these things gonna get I owe
Yeah, I did off
I mean, maybe this is nothing you can do against these guys in this qualifier.
They might just be in that much of a different league, unfortunately, for all the other teams
in this qualifier that's like, well, team vision, probably going to get the 2-0, and
as I say, team vision, they don't expect anything less.
They're dropping a game in this qualifier, and Puppet's going to be having talks with
them.
They're just another tier by another two tiers perhaps maybe three tiers or so because yeah
they just like run around do whatever they want and for power rangers besides the limits
of what we're saying for the draft being super single target they just get it over.
They're just hunting them all over, of course.
Move a limited chase down.
Nice for Kez.
My time for just, I want to say like the 5 man smoke kind of timing thing, right?
But they tried that on Power Rangers and they lost the fights back to back after the 5 man smoke.
So I don't know what you do.
No one, already on top of the next target.
I missed the tornado, there we go.
Chance for naive to run notice
Booted
Ouch
Appropriate during the World Cup that nine class is getting his air spirit in tune true some good kicks it
Another job it's his kill after kill after kill after kill
Yeah, no, I think, you know, in the nine-class airspace, it'll be fun to see if indeed they
do win the series and the next series will go to TI.
See if, you know, when they bring it out against some of the other teams that are kind of up
at the tier one, like if he's able to bring out the same level of performance on the airspace
or if this is just something that is kind of amplified by the fact that they're playing
in these one-sided matchups.
I think it probably is amplified, but I think he absolutely will play it.
Yes, we've seen other players do it too. Like we've seen boxy a couple times
You know has someone didn't look the best like people have tried this and have been experimenting with it, so I
Just kick back thing if you do get to this point it is absurd
They're just kind of
He might be able to turn he's got 20 in a second
If you get to this lens point, it is absurd to be with the Serp Spirit, it just blinks
and freely kicks people.
It's essentially a lasso or a tossback every like 10 seconds with very little risk of
even just roll thunder and vulnerability right afterwards too.
Tom, Wiki, can you go for the Scythe play?
Yes.
Oh yeah, the disruption!
What? Forge Burrets?
Eblast.
He's gonna be fine, Nicky Cool lives.
I'll notice Mike trying to get the angle on him.
I'm watching for Sonstrike, will know and predict he's looking for him.
It's the flame break, Immersion's gonna freeze down, I was gonna say burn down but he's getting both.
Naive shots go for focus, Friar, but the tornado definitely blasts there into the lasso.
naive is dead this is just this is brutal thirty one thousand
just go down to like taking candy
baby that that that that that
yet they've had enough they've had enough we're going down to
that's a game one done and that's it here 14 vision
it's tough as I say this is
This is a team that's looking to just kind of steamroll their way through the qualifiers
He got a ghost walk kill he literally walked on top of someone and just killed him
I add that if that happens in a pro game. It's it's probably just the end is
Yeah, this move here. This was their five man like I write no
This was before it actually but afterwards they go for like a five-man smoke move when they have the blink timing
And that was like a 2v5 and they kind of get these like trade kills. It needs to be more I
I think overall what I want to see probably is just make make doesn't not have fun sure like you want to win
Just go yeah go all in on what we need all the heroes. Oh, sure. Yeah, we'll just
Yeah, make a place to make them play other things I
think
Do you think would you put the satanic cares or the known invokers to higher band like which would you if your parents
Be like let's just make them play something else more out. I would ban
I think I might honestly not even kidding like Kez IO Invoker. Just Kez. Just go guys like whatever
You know what let's play like the kind of busted heroes, but then we get the busted heroes too
Yeah, because this is just this is too much comfort. This is their actual bread and butter
Yeah, this is classic team vision here with the lineup that I got from this one and we were seeing it very much in the play throughout this game
This team vision
I think in this thing if you look at kind of the path that they've got towards here
They fit when the series to zero the next matchups VP and I've got to be honest from what we saw from VP earlier
I think you know para vision
Not that really any other road would have been that much, you know
It would be difficult for them as qualifiers, but with the roads that they could have got it does seem nice and easy the one that they're on
Absolutely, hey, they look like I said two to three tiers above and VP
They're winning games, but they're not looking as impressive as I think people was hoping to see them
They look pretty they look pretty all over the place. Yeah, so
But you know, well, it's only one game anyway, so who knows it is maybe team vision don't make it past power Rangers
Maybe parents are ever coming with a crazy game to could be but this game one. I guess we're probably gonna have to put I
Don't know who to put the stand out
Who've we got with production?
There we go. There we go. What's he gets a chance to play them?
He only had a 56% kill participation fault, I think get him off the screen fair. We're gonna give the we're gonna give a standout
Someone else. Let's give it a give it another one. I think you have the
Yeah, he's got 30. Yeah, we'll give it another bug. Yeah
Okay, yeah, there we go. He goes kill somebody. Yeah, we got 73%
You know, Nicholas played great, but 56% kill participation to get him there are stomping
That's actually, you know, that's that's not good enough 73% there. No, I'm sure it's a little easier. Yes global
but here we go in vaulting 30 of
Because there's game well
You're game to power rangers. I think they can have a better shot than this fault
I agree. I want to see a better draw. I think they can give themselves a better shot than this
So
We'll see we'll see yeah, but they've done that case. I think that's gonna be our first question coming into the game to draw
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What they want to take away from para vision because so far everybody's been leaving that kesin is he gonna go
bad it
Yeah, we'll say bad it
Because if they don't it's gonna get first picked against them
It's just he's too active on it is my one thing right like the the things I always take away from his
Kez is besides what I was saying why he doesn't get pressure in the lane
It's also that he turns up like it was six minutes is five minutes and 30 seconds in he TP men
right so I think in terms of just preparation also from Power Rangers
they have to be more active ready to TP. Nikki I also mentioned too when like
no one went top without boots on Invoker you have to TP to react you have to
make some plays you can't just play the same passive I'm gonna wait for a timing
that you got it you got to look to match the playstyle of course it's an uphill
battle but you can't just let them make these type of plays this has to get
punished a no boot Invoker walking under your tower come on so I want to see much
better stuff from Power Rangers. And besides this draft, there we go.
Kazban. Yes or no? There it is. Kazban. How's happened?
Say, Tannick, he's gonna have to play something different for the first time this qualifies.
Man, they're smiling about that. Yeah, we should just do this. This probably should
have been done before so now they've dealt with it all right let's see what
makes it through tree was ignored before right it is gonna get banned anyway
vision is gonna prioritize that one since they don't really have anything else
to ban and they're looking to ban the really you know quote-unquote really
strong heroes low druid coddle tree do they care about something like drow
I'm going to think about it, it's the reserve here team vision.
What about Magnus again too, they might just bust out the Magnus band again, right?
I feel like I'll be a bit tempted to just leave it in, just let Pyranes play it.
Yeah, maybe, definitely could be a possibility, Poppy might just do that.
You might also just be like why would we give them a hero that they've only won on, so yeah,
we'll get rid of it.
Well, no carry Magnus today, unfortunately for us.
Do they do the tiny again?
Or are they going to try something else out because the tiny did not work out whatsoever.
10 seconds remaining.
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I don't know, I think they might stick with it.
They might be like, hey, the Kez is gone.
going to be different. It's not changed our game up too much. Yeah, they stick with it.
I don't want us to get their first two cores in the first two picks though. I don't want to see
something like that again. Very unlikely, but since they are our second, you know,
our first pick this time, very unlikely we do see that.
10 seconds remaining.
Five seconds remaining.
You have to show something different this time.
Hey, you can't first pick the cats.
So where are you going to go instead?
You do the Viper.
You do some timber that you used to do that you used to like to play.
They'll just move up the draw.
So they'd get left in the pool.
Was banned in the last game.
And it's not versus a Magnus this time.
It is versus a tiny displacement.
So that's one thing she does have to be care about in terms of later stages, but.
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Apparently just they want to ban out any of those other ones that we had last game does the no one in bow could get a band
The other question is for me is how much do they move this tiny?
I feel like they only play this man
If they were happy to keep it mid-last game, I think they'd be happy to keep it mid-most
games.
Yeah, it looks like he always plays at mid and he always does the same build.
More blink aggs.
Yeah, blink aggs, dade, crit, etc.
It wasn't annoying.
It was.
The percent damage is very good versus Tiny at all stages.
It's always super frustrating to play against.
You have to bend, I mean they can viper, and then if you have tiny mid vs viper that does
not sound good.
Yeah, I mean I think at that point you do have to move Tanya right.
But they never have, they haven't.
I'm trying to go through all their games right now.
But have they ever been viper?
Always.
And did they ban the viper in some of those drafts?
No.
not in some of them. And they did not get vibrated in the last 10 that I've looked at. So, okay.
And it did get flexed a couple. All right, I'm finding a couple where they did make a carry
and they ended up picking like a sniper man and switch things around. So, okay, they are willing to
to flex. Team vision. Probably should get their supports out now. Strong ones. Most
of them are out. Yeah, which one does do cars want to play? We're being still in. So the
other one that we've seen a lot of times this qualifiers tends to be the kind of the strong
support that's not considered for a ban. Insane hero. It's not as much as the other supports here.
It's still 17 bads but yeah it gets through 11 times. Not a great win rate though. 36%
No not really. It just picked a lot right that's what can happen sometimes with these
here but the toolkit right always super strong and feeble even versus tiny is good.
Good protection, good saves even potentially versus for the draw.
That's just a strong lane.
Super strong lane.
Draw bane.
Most heroes don't do well versus this matchup.
There's not a lot of things that can put pressure versus a bane draw.
I'm going to go with the Undying route, with the Hubwink, so alright, this is the bottom
lane combo then, the Offlane Undying with the Hubwink trying to plant the Drow.
It's a high damage 4 position with a HP reducing 3, so you can put them down low and then if
you get the connection with the hoodwink plus a soul rip you can't pop something like
drap because it's low HP, so I can see the concept if that's what they're looking at.
But I have seen sometimes these undying is like level 1, they just go on them, they
buy, they don't even care about the CS at the level 1 thing and they just go for like
the orb walk with the frost arrows and they just hit him with brain sap and they just
go for the kill, so have to watch the level 1 in particular, how Power Rangers plays
the lane vision just get the pango we did see the success of the pango versus tiny it was of
support at least in one of the games but the pango in particular in the last series how well
does play it's a tiny
look at the willow
that's my class
i think so right
and then the pango is that there's a chance it could be noticed on now
I guess that's true. It still is flexing, I guess, but in a way, but it's probably no one.
Depends on what character they see.
Yeah, they can react to the full lineup of Power Rangers.
Night class playing Willow, he's definitely played it before. I want to say it's been a while though, right?
Yeah, he used to be one he played, right?
It was, it was when he played quite a bit too. It was kind of mixed in the results, if I remember correctly though.
Okay.
He likes to play with the pango. That's for sure. I've seen him do it before. I remember that. I think it was, was that Birmingham? Yeah, it was actually. Yeah, nice to find the game from it.
So the willow overall its protection for the drought is what I would say because using the bedlam stone this game not the overall best but
Yeah, the the fear the terrorizing with the push aggression off of the drought is probably what he's looking at here
And adding things to the repertoire and if this is maybe not an off lane on dying
If it is like a five on dying which you don't see as much anymore willow is incredible versus five and dying
So perhaps that is what he's thinking because it could be that five on dying with the NP turret
Yeah, they
Yeah, I'm it's still still some flexibility with the last pick
So this NP pick
You know what you make of it
It's been what a bunch of teams have done versus drow, right?
It is yeah play to pressure like early game in terms of lane if you're not getting crushed as the nature's profit you can TP and
Assist to go for these dive plays on the droughts just about bringing the numbers
They'll have to protect the NP though so they'll band it on one of the better heroes versus NP
And if they I mean you might have to ban something like
Actually, I don't know. It's like do you ban storm?
Even though you have tiny as your likely mid laner
Because otherwise you have the NP versus Storm, and the Storm over name is super good at hunting the NP always as we've seen multiple times in these qualifiers.
I wouldn't be tempted, yeah, because they might put this pango off.
Because you can now, right? The pango can go off versus Nation's Prophet, you get the shield, you're able to play around the sprout, you're swashing your shield crash, so I think it's a possibility.
You might use the pango, it submits.
I know because of the past tiny was a one of like a semi kind of carry semi counter versus storm sometimes but not really nowadays
I've now that I've seen almost ever at least in mid
See what they're debating
More worried about the bat off lane I can see that of course to it is one of the better hunting heroes versus nature's profit as well
But I think vision has their options open
I mean, I mean, if I was vision, I'm just putting the pango offline and picking no one invoker again.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I guess you can just do that.
It's pretty, it's a good invoker game again.
They don't have the greatest, like, initial people to start things until the pango is online in particular.
So there's some vulnerability of it, but it is no one invoker, so.
You can't definitely just style and seeing a silencer band, it could be an indicator.
Power Rangers.
I'll say it's still...
Got a shell with 25.
Two guys they could go. Yeah.
Is it the Undying Offlane or is it a five-position Undying?
Five seconds remaining.
Let me see how Berkler... What has he played? Has he played this one?
Not too late.
Okay, so it's gonna be Chen as the five and dying off in with the hoodwink
It's a lot of
Summons and stuff zombies tree and Chen creeps. They're trying to overwhelm and get on top of that
That used to be an approach versus drought that worked nowadays the drought can go eggs
And it's pretty good versus summons as well too sure not versus zombies, but
Versus the healer comes in from Chen plus those creeps. It can be pretty effective
Oh
No, no, no, what if you want to be cool? It's a good shaker mid game
The active the summons he's on it. Hasn't he recently?
No, no one played much mid shaker, doesn't it? I think she does. Yeah
Well, that'd be pretty much be cool
But maybe he's just gonna keep the pan go and they give DM some sort of like aura building off laner
Yeah, which obviously does work very nice. The absolute time no tears
Yeah, gotcha
You've noticed something you know the underlords in this time, right? They didn't ban the underlords true
He could still do that. Yeah, I will see I mean it's up to them what they want issues like no one he is the one talking so
Given the shaker come on all the invoker
They just get a tanky or offline looking for a disengaged for the draw, right? So they've got the stampede to reset positioning
I guess the question is, do you like the chances for parrys is a bit more than in game 1?
Here with this game 2 draft?
Yeah, more than game 1, but again not by a huge margin.
I'd like a vision again, just seemed to have absolutely everything.
The centaur pick not only has protection for the draw, but it's also aggression to get on top of nature's board if it wouldn't be heroes.
This is my favorite hero to play with willow to be honest with you
This is when it actually feels you can use bedlam sometimes you can stamp P to close the gap to use that bedlam early
To maybe catch like a support or something like that. So
Look strong again from visions power rangers going for
Something a bit different with the chance. I don't think I've seen so much Chen recently
Especially not from tier two tier three teams. Do I see Chen played so often? So
They can't do with it because it is
He's got a cool Chen set, though.
Yeah, he plays that line.
Because that's nice.
Yeah.
I like the Chen set here from till the end.
But definitely because, yeah, when you're doing this sort of lineup, right, you are
saying to Team Vision, we're going to run you over.
Essentially, yeah, you kind of have to.
Also, you have to play super clean as well, too, with these type of drafts, otherwise it
can't fall pretty fast on its head.
And you are playing versus Vision, who doesn't really make mistakes, so better playing almost
perfect here.
Yeah, but okay, here's is like one of the highest ones right here. He's not like 28,000 if I remember
Yeah, yeah, he's indeed games, but he's got about 28,200 games. Yeah, so that's you I mean 22 is that's that's pretty good
That's pretty high. This guy's got a lot of Dota
Okay, and his concept is oh
Okay, so starts orbit frost
interesting
all right i'm not as
so what does that sort of say to you like he's all in on just like trading the lane and
yeah just looking to play incredibly aggressive in the lane is what that tells me right
looking to use the zealot every single time get the extra hits
this lane it looks i mean it is it looks a little annoying right the zealot plus treeants and all
that the thing is that there's a centaur who's one of the better heroes that absorbing versus these
summons the willow though having to deal with zealots and trees that'll be a
little annoying in a for nine class for sure but does have the body at the
same time
awesome. Venturion is a gentleman here between team vision and power rangers in
the upper bracket it can only be better than the last game. I think so I think
I mean, the last game was pretty much on his side, so I really, really hope that this one
is a little bit closer.
Let's see if Nikki Cool could have a better time in the mid-match-up since he did end
up losing versus that Invoker.
And this one, say more of a 50-50 in particular, so we'll see how he can do.
On top, let's see if this lane, right, this is a bit of an all-in lane, like I was mentioning,
undying plus the hoodwink to build the pressure versus the drown to bane.
First few waves super important for the undying.
Okay, nine class with this farm is that way.
Interesting.
Cause if this lane doesn't cross the drown, it's kinda hard to go anywhere with this lane
right with the undying.
Yep.
I think that's always the case though, I think I'm dying. He has to play snowball, he has to play to have a laning advantage, if he doesn't then it's like, oh god, why did we pick this hero, essentially.
So right now, lucky bet.
PZO vs. 3-1, he's getting the stacks, Drow Ranger's sitting at like 400 HP, so the level 2 is the time to look at when they can go for the kill onto Sotanic.
But that's the way you have to design this lane though, is you do want to be getting these kills. Passive, kind of just chillin'.
isn't the ideal for something like an undying 250 HP on satanic level 2 now
has been hit
satanic immediately plays it careful yeah you don't want to get caught on a strike
with this they're holding the skill point to just in case of things for either a
solar report a tombstone depending on the situation for the kill if they find it
that is so satanic being very cautious because if you just get caught even in
a bush whack it can't just it can't just kill him he's got the calling blade at
the ready though
I'm not looking at the other lanes though so yeah mids pretty even I mean it's as
even as it can get really 11 and 4 11 and 3 top a burka careful oh my
goodness. Sleeps a little bit. He won't have to kill him and in fact to Carlos, he's got
the brains up. He lives. I will live. I just have to just back up in time. He's not the
one getting Decay spent so he's not actually missing any of that HP himself. It's just
Satanic who now, the Decay is starting to wear off, he's able to turn onto Alberka.
He's out of resources on this one dying now, they have no extra regen for him.
We'll be able to get the loot.
Yeah a little something at least from that.
His resources are still super low, it's hard for them to ever commit for the kill, Satanic
is doing good up here, 16-4.
I can start to look away I think, hopefully up here for myself at least.
Touch the tree.
Very quick timing there from Satanic, not letting the bushwack hit.
And as you said, I'm at Nicky doing a bit better, but no one is having a slight advantage.
Bottom lane.
I just stand at toe to toe with each other also, trade it for him.
Top again for the first time though, it's taking a walk down the mid lane for some reason.
Trying to go for Satanic here.
Does get popped.
I mean, I'll get the first blood
They all say that I mean they do they get cleaned up by the college, but hey, they brought down satanic first
I guess at the least you have to commit for the kills but losing both
Doesn't feel so good
The colors is gonna be I mean, it's gonna be the highest level because I'm to carry now guys. I'm almost level five
5 on B. That's actually crazy that he gets the both of them like that right after the
draw dies. But they do get satanic at the least here. So already, like I said, already
infinitely better than the last game.
One line, the naive's getting freefall.
He is.
He's got a good amount to nize in.
And this Orba Frost versus the Centaur, the little bit of heal negation and all that,
It is, actually, it's something.
Yeah, I also have the Inventum weapon
from the little ghoul assassin.
So little things to just slow down the heal that comes in
from the other side, can I stop?
There's the next profit played, and I have TP's across.
Is there an extra player looking to take down Satanic?
Another big kill here, taking the draw off the map.
And now without the TP scrolls,
I'm cool down for 20 seconds or so more.
I guess I should have looked away myself.
We'll be able to find those two opportunities,
even though Ducalus has the high levels.
They do get the catch on him.
Nice heads up TP. This is the concept that we talked about. The NP versus the Drow in the early game. If you're not getting Dove, you can TP to punish.
There we go. And Albert can now back with resources as well too. He can keep the lane in a good position. They could go for this again.
Static. He might not come back to the lane. He's level 3.
at least maybe he's farming a sprocket or something
we'll say this is dangerous they're gonna have to have somebody
to be able to protect maybe nine class will have to assist
yeah too early to jungle satanic
he's queuing up the recovery might as well
now I can appreciate that he's not having as easy a time as he wants to call it
on the other hand he is up and down the map and easy kill for him to get there
wait he's about to be six on the call us this got be the quickest level six we've
seen on a bayonet yeah wait what the hell I mean to get the double xp right
but okay do that then by my catch I'll work a completely off-guard here she's
able to get like a pole it's a couple bit of xp he's just gonna build a fiend's group from the side
he's gonna have it for it there he's gonna in a second here so it's literally what level six
six minutes in on the position five here we go as he gets the range he does not
could look for stealing oh my god wait he can do that something fancy here for the wisdom too right
with a knife there in the grip he could potentially if they want to try for it but
doesn't look like they do because the MP can TP.
Alright, nicely done. At least the shutdown satanic. The undying did die
the once afterwards though with the persistence able to get the kill with
naïve. Nicely done and naïve is getting close to six himself so they'll have
wrath of nature he doesn't have the TP to commit to be able to put that pressure
for the next one. That's nice at least for satanic I think he ended up getting
the wisdom XP. He did. He actually did. He got buffed up to a 5 now. The cost is so
high level, he just throws the grip out after the bush, there's no other stun.
No, it's a 7. He's able to step up. Alright, look to get the kill. 9 costs to take it.
He does respawn instantly, the Cecil Sturridge is active, so we'll be able to rejoin.
Oh, wait, what happened? He can't with his own TP. Oh, that sucks.
I think he did.
I think he TP'd in place.
Immersion?
Now, Merchant's in trouble.
They're caught by the Brown Bull and the Cursed Crown.
Alpha, Kegul, now get over to help out.
Big breath of nature.
Trees!
Stampede's there as well with Shadow Rowan.
He'll be up and running over.
They will lose 9-class, dies in return.
Over in the mid, no one.
To get him through.
He'll end up dying underneath the tower.
Much better showing.
Get the toss back there from Nicky this time around. They have the wrath of nature damage bouncing through. They get two cleanup kills
Yeah, I think I'll break it. I didn't see if he teleported on himself because of the screen movement or something
But he like instant respawn. I don't think he was
Ready with the Cecil's Darch ends up just keeping in the place
He kills up four to five as an infinitely better than that last game
They've absolutely got a chance this time around Power Rangers.
Nikki off to a much hotter start here. He has FaZe, Soul Ring, and the opposing mid isn't
ready like 5,000 net worth as we saw last time from Vision for no one.
See where they want to go next. Dominator is finished up for notice, so he is starting to
wave drag and started to pull away and not play the lane versus 9. Looks like they are
just going to maximise for some time here for the tiny try to get that blink dagger
online although he did go to the base literally.
Got to set up onto our burka. See if they can get this kill for say tannin not quite.
They didn't have the fiends group up as well. One core down for a couple more seconds.
That's a tannin still low level right he's still only level 6 so it doesn't want to play
super aggressively forward there versus this undying just in case of a TP wrap
around now you should have stepped up there to cause the speedy
it's got phase boots though he's just a bit faster pushing him off the wave though
satanic will be happy to be able to get these extra few creeps but a burka will
TP to the lane again looks like he's just gonna back up and go for this
ancient stack. If he wants to farm it. Joining his mid too. Nikki will get the arcane. Preventing
the fill up there, no one. Oh, Nikki's up. Very deep.
The creeps. They tried to send the sentar creep but no one just swashes it, kills it
before it gets their rage.
Nikki overplayed his hand really hard there.
This overleveled Bane is a problem, Owen.
He's part of all six skills.
Now he's fine to move around though,
because, Centanet, he's pretty chill on top,
as long as he's got kind of TP's ready to help him out.
They're putting a lot of emphasis
around this mid lane on the side of Powerage.
I thought they were gonna put more emphasis around top
and surround him with the nature's profit
and just keep playing around there
to open up the mapping at the tower,
That's not the case. They're looking to play around mid, which it's allowing satanic to catch up
Other sleep disengage
Anybody good to catch under colors. They're gonna use the stampede
Opset satanic up to get in and take our burka down
I wonder when they're not playing around the undying here like this year wants early game pressure around him
I'm surprised that they're not really putting pressure on Satanic. I don't I don't know why you're looking at this so much right now
Nikki again
You might get out this time
Nevermind
Primal and the cursed ground and the rolling thunder
They've got him they do kill us satanic
So immersion headed up there was able to snipe and blow so at least killing off the drow
But they're they're not playing around their strikes too much. Oh, and I will say like then dying you want to take this top tower
I don't think if you're playing with those niches profits 12 minutes in you want to just sit in your lane
You want to be mobile taking these buildings limiting and shrinking the map versus this vision team
Hey, now it was just chillin bottom
Okay, let's send his trans through all right, so that'll be able to get the push gone satanic is coming up here
He's got backup
They're bringing more sleep set up
Didn't nice cost out on the boat for them. I go for the grip
Good angle for no one comes up with a swashbuckle knife TPSM will help take down the bane but our burq is dead
Nikki's on some wars satanic. They're trying to get to the drill the bushwhack comes in. They'll take out satanic once again
There we go. This is the move. I wanted to see them do able to get that even though they do lose our burqa
They're able to get the turret just get the knife might be able to get another kill here, Nikki
You're gonna have to fit, eventually it's a help out.
If you're taking the stampede, they're thinking about turning on to Wars Dive.
Dive's still pretty tanky. They can't get on top of the nature's profit.
Look, he's coming in.
He's got the diffusel done now.
He's got rolling thunder back up in 10 seconds.
Oh, they have to be careful here, Nicky.
Half HP on the tiny here. Use the combo as well.
and the diffuser is slow.
Nice pushback.
He's caught behind the pushback on the both of them,
but the Cursed Crown's got to set up the rolling thunder
from Noa and a come in.
Nikki Kul's going to be going down again,
and Noa, he's looking for more.
Gets the angle straight over towards the gen,
finds till the end.
Might be given a chance for the immersion.
Is it on top of him with the diffuser,
but it's slow, Alperka will turn up to help out.
Noa is thinking about turning back in on the naive.
It's TP'd in, but a swashbuckle from Noa
and a shield crash is going to allow Noa to take naive out.
Massive kill for no one to find solo at the end so much so chasing down. It's not gonna happen, but no one
Soon as he gets that diffuser blade you can you can hear him
He's making the call to just get in there and battle sure they have some casualties
But no one on the pango. He comes out on top
Oh, look click on no one to I've never seen this before when you're swashbuckling. Look. I mean buffs. He's got
Wait
Seen that before yeah, I wonder why the spell works like that. Yeah, is that possessed mask interacting and it's the I have no clue
Is this like a possessed mask thing that's happening or I have no idea whatever I
Notice the most random stuff. I swear to God, but
Overall, it doesn't just do this all the time when you switch buckle. I've never seen it before. I don't know
I don't I don't play pango on
I have like five games of pango, I think
So they tried to make the aggressive moves and they finally do get this tower but I feel like it took them some time to be able to play around it there.
Nikki turns up, ends up dying, they also lose the nature's profit.
Turned to fall behind in terms of not worth it, at least on the Undying and the Tiny.
And Alberka was able to get some setup, but he is being thrown to the walls it feels like.
Yeah, and as you said, no one.
After getting those cleanup kills, since he was the last one surviving, level 12.
Two and a half levels over the next hero.
And also, during all this too, we didn't see noticed, right?
Notice has not been responding, not been doing anything in order to help the team decides
to step east as farming on.
I believe he has a heart.
and he's very close to it.
Uh-oh, 9 plus is found him.
He's dead.
End of stand-up. And now to the end.
He's dead as well. Alright, might start to speed up a little bit now.
Yep, started to look quite rough again. His satanic
did not go over the minus, by the way, of course. Be very sensible of this for normal stuff.
And he's in a perfectly fine spot after having a bit of a rough entry into the game versus the Sun dying
They're making the move now top again
You keep calling the motion ahead
I find the bay
Thanks the gank
Titanic able to reset himself away
If they go for another one on Nicky just keep looking for these plays with this blink dagger
It's gonna see Titanic
Look at the Gus stuff on the slot.
Backup is coming now.
9 class.
Trying to get aggressive.
Do only find the bane.
Nikki's trying to make these movements and there it is.
That heart.
It is finished.
Notice.
the game, top net worth.
What's the problem?
Soon as he's alive, he's dead again.
Dead again.
Well, they're punishing him, and that is the fastest heart.
A 15-minute heart on the center.
He has 3,000 HP on.
Good luck killing him.
Good luck killing him.
And he literally has not responded to any of the moves at all.
He has literally just been doing exactly what we saw
Collapse doing the other day, too, from spirit.
They just play the map and he just chills senses grief with the stampede a couple times
Speaking of stampede it is back up
You want to go any of us a hard centaur?
Alright big kills and for Nikki Cole
Great play great angle to find the two of them as well the two course and it was a
3,000 HP sentile that they're able to bypass through anyway because the naive was there hitting him
All right, you keep cool keep making the moves
Catch these squish well, I say squish your heroes catch some of these squishier heroes buys the shard as well too
Extra bit of damage here the old crash landing sort of
Might be able to actually get to the timing of his items on my glass game, you didn't even get to the aggonyms, right?
So, we'll see if he's able to do it with his style of build since they have now struck back pretty hard in that last one.
Of course, still a big mouth at the climb, since Atanik is able to just sit back and hit the creeps, but Naive is at least still having a good time at least in the farm.
It's just always the concern for me, like I always mention to you, is when I'm dying, when you're not just dominating the game with you and dying, it feels quite lackluster.
and speaking of Mr. Albuquerque here.
Albuquerque.
The car, somebody just walk up and grip,
and no one's around to help him this time.
He's got low soap.
He looks, well, never, well, okay.
I guess Satanic didn't want to stick around
and risk the fact the backup was coming in,
so yeah, he's actually gets out,
even though he's on his own.
He didn't see anyone, I guess, right?
The map was dark.
He didn't see if there was any mixcrafting on him or something,
but Albuquerque will get away with murder there
a little bit there.
vision hitting some creeps getting that next time in pango shard coming out
soon they don't feel rushed in this game in particular they know that they can
scale power rangers they can look to hunt them the same way again
the cool yeah I'm a lot toss into the bush work on in the box to clean play
there from power rangers just play like this you know that you can tell that
vision is just playing to farm right now. You can hunt and punish them when they're
split up around the map. This is very nice here from Nikki so far. Might be able to find
another. Red. Foss. Toss back. Should we get the roll up, no one? Naive is thinking about
keeping him in. No, it's kind of disengaged. Yeah, we'll get the blink away so no chance
them to follow that deep doing a good job here hunting with this tiny shutting down
satan he's killing him again now there's a difference between satanic and that
major problem is all nicky caught by the fear so damage will be able to toss back
notice so nicky calls fine and he might be ready to go back in in a second with a
They take out Ducalis.
Notice?
They'll build the blink away.
Oh, and they're setting the tempo right now.
They're playing super aggressive for your Power Rangers.
I'm-Nicky calls ready with the blink.
Once again, if they get close enough.
Naive is starting to dish out that damage too.
You can see how hesitant Satanic is feeling.
He doesn't want to join into these fights.
He wants to get that next item in particular first.
Looks like a nice difference at least with Power Rangers.
Power rangers making these good moves on Nikki cool this time around no one can they close the gap on to him also immersion's trying
He's got the blink
There you have vision catchers
They're all hitting creeps and I do think power ages
This is their time to be able to capitalize on that since everybody split up all over the place
They have good vision as well. They can't look to make these moves with Nikki
They'll get the tormentor as well
I'm
Visions heading over with the smoke don't want to try and take a fight whilst they're low off the back of the tormentor. No one
He's in
Yeah, Mersion
certainly
Like it's well, okay. No never mind the heel comes in there. We go notice Johnson finishes off the job
It's not down a little for our burka, but now I've got yeah the tombstone down and he's got backup noticed
So notice why he really wants to finish off the job, but he won't get the chance to
Solrup Hill is going to be there for Albert and now notice he's very deep on his own power rangers
They'll they'll nice and take him out. They're doing the gold difference even now
Did some I mean really nice moves really good disengaged as soon as it's just the hoodwink that gets caught at the start of things
It looks good. They're like, okay, we can actually disengage and then they've re go in noticed
He overplays his hand gets caught out there
3,000 gold now for naive
Yeah, what's you considering?
Can he skip BKB or not
Might be tempted to yes, he's playing into the role. Yes, he's playing into a lot of magic
But I feel like he might be tempted to just skip at this game and just go for aggression
Now he's spinning up. It's gonna buy the shout-up leg go for the silver edge. I don't blame him
How's Nikki doing for his timing to he's got he's got the three components already
He's very very close
This is impressive very impressive soft especially when they were you know the kind of this mid this early game
Too is a little concerning with they were with the way they were playing around the and dying as much
So dying is now in a okay spot again and naive is just mount monsters a 3k lead it over the draw ranger
And they have a great lineup to go to take Roche and snowball as we said from the early at least lots of healing lots of group up
I didn't think they'd be able to execute like this, because this is a kind of difficult
draft at times to be able to execute where you do have Chen.
They're doing it for a revision so far here.
This is very impressive.
Maybe this was the key that you just banned the Kez, and then maybe that was what it was.
You know, it wasn't a team vision, it was Satanic on the Kez, and if they haven't got
the Satanic Kez, maybe the game just gets that much harder for them.
Oh the bramble that doesn't actually clip probably will be able to get close enough to get the toss off on some of their
Nages now for the nature's profit silver edge soon done
It's not a lot they need to get done in this game because although the gold it has all gone down right?
You're still playing versus vision. They have a very strong scaling draft your draft is still about wanting to set tempo
Yeah, that agonist. It's done. I want to see how much damage Nicky does with this plus
the shard. I don't think I've seen many players be able to get to this point. This early at
least. Because it's only 23 minutes in and he does have at least the two main timings
with it.
Look at this. Satanic.
They might find it.
sees him. Knives on him.
Are they gonna get the job? They've got him!
Say Tadic, court wants more.
Two-six-two, a rough scoreline here for Team Vision's carry.
Very good macro movements too. It's a lot of it around Nikki, right?
Nikki in immersion. Making all these dudes a lot of it around immersion,
I have to be honest. Seventeen assists for this hoodwink.
He's just as everywhere all over the place.
9 class bottom even looking for the setup. He's got the nature's profit as well
We'll just give the TP out but
So much pressure on the map
Very impressive no one agonist is gonna be there the mid
My goodness they get him with the combo there. We saw the trees come into play with the axe
And the Lotus did reflect and ripped there for a second so it was wasted
Vision is hemorrhaging all over the place and this lineup of PR takes buildings very effectively, as we said with the summons too.
Starting to get that snowball vision, now looking to strike back the noticed.
Doesn't get the catch though.
Still very farmed on the three-quarters on vision, but this nature's profit's damage is no joke at this point,
at this point and neither is Nikki's even though his net worth is low once he's got
the crit the small crit or the BKB whichever one his damage is not he's still
gonna be there especially if he has auras too I was watching the Chen has alpha wolf
alpha wolf plus this tiny is nice and they have lads so look at his damage go up
it goes from 286 to 286 plus 141 same thing for the nature's profit a lot of
damage increase around these auras. Power of Chen when you look up.
Nice tits are going down that I'm not able to hold this.
Vision's looking for the fight. Do you want to try and find a fight though?
It's gonna go for the jump and immersion. In meterly deletion at her point, they need to find more.
They're gonna dust out onto naïve angles there with the rolling thunder.
They'll strike back your vision. Uh-oh. Let's be able to set up here for a second attempt.
I mean, Nicky calling up. Like, do they want to try and help this? I don't think they do.
No, but Nicky calls out she's not going to get the option, because already DeKalus was looking for him.
Re-searching the back lines of the fight, sets up with the nightmare.
Big moves there from DeKalus, making sure that they get a fourth massive kill from this.
Triple kill for notice, and that bit of power that they were building up on Power Rangers, it gets shut down.
And now the Nages probably without BKB looks sad because of the way that he played there.
I thought this was going to be an ages to just take some safe towers and then just get the BKB so you can fight with it.
But plays super far forward, it gets caught initially, they lose their back line.
Oh, that is really rough.
That's it, they were getting that momentum going for themselves too.
It all just stops because of this positioning.
Look at where the Tiny and Undying are during this fight.
They're nowhere near the team, they're just pushing without them as a 5-yen unit.
of risk. What's the car sir at the top? He's like well there's a tiny around there. I don't
need to stick around for this nature's profit. I'm going to start setting up so we get the tiny on
top of this. That word that they placed there. Ducales super ready. Oh that was with their ages
too and now it does feel a bit rough. They didn't go for the BKB as I was mentioning too. Either you
go for the BKB there or you use the ages to farm that BKB. Not the case. Oh that was painful.
Crumble. Too mid. No, I won. Just gonna find the angle until the end and Nicky call. They'll
chase him out with the remainder of the rolling thunder. I mean this is the thing where they're
holding their own very well against Team Vision, but against Team Vision, as soon as you start
to crumble, like it's so hard to just stop the crumbling.
Can't make mistakes versus a tier one team are going to get punished that much more than anything else.
I mean these are two big mistakes that got punished drastically and now Naive.
He was ready.
He has no BPP.
Naive got away out of this. He does not.
Super dead.
The crumbling...
Yeah it is kind of crazy. I mean it is very much as you say that.
If you're like a sort of tier two team against a tier one.
One mistake just can compound into so many more.
so quickly that it's a game that goes from like we have a chance goes to game over and
In is an absolute flash
And their draft is about snowballing
It really is when you look at the drought Pangos center this draft is a scaling draft
The other one is a all in undying core chen it is pretty all in with what they go for so these mistakes that compound even more
So when you're playing versus that tier one team also
And now actually I'm taking back. Maybe he should have just gone to BKB first before this over edge
So anything's a bit too risky. Yeah, cuz they in the situation that it wasn't looking at it
And then very quickly it looks absolutely horrible because another game looks
Hard for it to show up at all. He just dies
Vision not starting to snowball themselves kills all over the place 10
I think we do some of it. We'll survive.
There's the Stamphys here, Carlos. Out of there.
Yep, safety first.
Carlos might still get caught. They're trying to chase Ford for a mirror.
Gets the grip off.
That's a nice grip to all back out there, Ka.
Carlos?
Well, Nicky Cool's still gonna try and jump him in the side.
He's trying to take out DeKalus, Nicky Cool.
He's still alive.
He didn't do enough damage.
Finally, he'll die, but the fear catches on to Naive and Nicky Cool, turning them around.
Notice will run down the nature's profit.
Naive dead till the end falls.
Nicky Cool caught in the river.
They just chased on a little too far, but they do get Satanic,
but it's gonna cost them their entire team
as Power Rangers get team wiped by Team Vision.
Yeah, it's noticed is actually the carry on he truly is just farming the entire game on the centaur
He's like move over satanic. I have the top net worth by significantly. He's doing so much damage
It's nice. It's look at how he's at the fight recap. Look at that fight recap
What is the last time you saw centaur doing by far the highest damage in the team fight?
For a beast
It quickly snowballed was they were having a good snowball to the side power interest and very quickly just that top situation a disaster
Okay, good four out on the bottom lane. Team vision they can get the pressure on to the tier two bottom.
Well they had a solid first 20 minutes. They did! I think you know that's something they can look back on on this one.
And say, hey you know what, we held our own pretty nicely again. Team vision for the first 20 minutes of this game.
Yeah, they've got, uh, 10-7 nuts, so.
Yeah, I mean that's something that's something not a lot of teams able to do that
It's about all the meanwhile noticed notice literally was this for me
I guess that was just the
Yeah, this may be something just be played like this and we've been seeing this more and more out of these centers to this heart
Kind of build that we've seen
It isn't sure you can do top
They're trying to go into Carlos, but he was able to get the fiends group off onto a merchant
So, not only is the car lives, but again, another counter of C on the side of parents.
This must be one of the fastest level 25 centaurs I think I've seen, he's very close to pretty
much having what you've seen before, no one, this time he's got enough of the chain.
Well, Nives got the VKB, but as you mentioned, maybe a little too late, unfortunately for
the game.
Got the lead so much after he was having some crazy momentum for himself.
And now he's trying to chill in with the full octurane that he's able to treat himself to his dark willow.
Yeah, now at this point, smooth sailing really for vision.
Power Rangers draft.
Yeah, just can't really make those mistakes and can't really make those mistakes versus tier one teams. It's it's it is quite all in
Titanic time for the Roshan
Getting some creeps to push out the bottom lane, but they're not getting too much out of the map here
Naive is under the ward and they could look the hunkie creeps through here
They will identify that he has the BKB for the next fight
And now they have some answers to for that BKB basher for no one is done
I
Just
Gonna find a merchant doing it on its own with the agonims the mini stampede from the workhorse immersion
Doesn't know where to go
Wait, why was he kind of running up and down? What was he worried about running away from I think maybe the blank stop
I think maybe you missed the gun meeting after a second.
It's a bit of a challenge.
And that was full party, guys.
Up top, he's gonna be...
It's...
It's...
As this came, looks like it's probably gonna come to an end pretty soon, eh?
But as we said, I'm glad that they had a good start to this one, Power Rangers.
That was...
Most of the other teams here in this qualifiers don't get to do that against Team Vision.
They did it this time.
They did.
They play with them to that.
It's a pretty sad time in general in this game.
I'm sure Satanic is like, man, he's probably telling himself too, he's probably like,
man, I played this game so bad.
They probably made him feel bad, but most of the other players on Vision is probably feeling
pretty good.
Knight class with his Willow, as you said.
Not only does he have Octary, but he's level 20.
That's crazy.
I guess when they're winning all these fights and he's surviving, he is getting so much
of that XP.
Now he has the Bramble cooldown plus the Octary, it's insane when you get this talent if you are able to get an Octary.
Well they tried.
It's top rats.
They did, and they, as I said, this was a much better showing than that of Game 1.
And, you know, moving forward I think if anything, it does go to show that it probably is just worth banning the Satanic Cares, just putting him on something else.
Because he just seems to absolutely dominate the lane this time around he's on something different and he did get punished a bit this time
He said he got punished quite a lot. I will say final smoke. They're gonna look for a play here. Notice has 5600 HP
Final hit
Notice might just jump in
There we go, straight over there, by the catch on to Bo-Far-Burker and Nicky-Kor.
Nicky-Kor caught by the grip. The tombstone will come in to save Nicky-Kor.
Doesn't land to blink away, so Nicky-Kor will live.
Nobody dead yet on Power Rangers to get away from that effort, from Team Vision.
Got a jump.
Put some in the cart, pulls them out.
BKB was used from Nicky.
So is flesh going to it's all going to start going down vision
They just keep looking for the blink jumps from thunders back up in 20, but they don't really need it
Notice but just jump in any second here there it is
Strangels albaca dead without buyback
He's just so bum rap so tanky he doesn't even need to see a hero to jump
it to be a little cleaner than this fault? Yeah, perhaps. Or maybe like Satanic in particular
probably feeling that, but like, noticed he just kind of chilled the whole time while
all these dives were happening. He was literally just farming, not responding at all too, so
maybe it's something that they were accepting that could happen in this game. By the way,
Pirates, you can't make these type of mistakes, but we'll give them the credit. The first
20 minutes, they did make some nice moves, Nikki with these constant rotations around.
It's just, this is where experience comes into play. This top pressure play with the
going with three heroes they don't have the five you can see on the minimap here
when you play for a steal one team they're gonna punish this and they're
gonna punish it harder yeah and I think as you say what you'd imagine naive
might have looking back at this rather picked up that BKB rough and silver edge
when he did yeah because then at least you get just like a baby potentially
BKB TP out or you know any of these type of things but anyway it was it was the
play that ended up hurting more than the itemization I would say as per vision
it's a clean draft and it's a draft that can play with mistakes well
and comparison for power engine draft. It's like an all-in draft where these mistakes start coming out and it compounds very, very quickly on dying corridor with a chen.
You will run into a timing.
For sure. But you can definitely feel right. I think again, a lot of the other teams in this qualifiers, this sort of play and strap from power engines would absolutely, you know, succeed and run them over and probably have been in a position where they would have had the luxury of if they did make a mistake, the game wouldn't immediately fall apart.
has ended up happening here. I mean, that one's from a steak top. And then that, I mean, that
lead came so quickly. It was pretty much, uh, was like a 2k gold difference at like 28 minutes. And
then, you know, that, that went up to 30,000 in the subsequent, um, eight minutes. You know,
the amount of gold gain and just game over the team vision was able to achieve towards the end
was pretty insane. Standout player, as you were mentioning, has to be noticed.
100% and yeah, he really kept his cool did not panic and the fact that say tannic was getting punished elsewhere on the map
Locked in got his early items went for the big items as well getting this hearting into the game
And yeah ends up pretty much doing as much damage as that as no one on the pangalir
Yeah
So essentially up there is that one of the highest damage dealers of the team there's the central war in a fault
That's something you don't you don't usually say right sent are having 33,000 damage the next
Yeah, it's 33 from the center of the pangol and then the drought is 22 the tiny is 20
So that is pretty ridiculous how much he was able to do
It was well, there's a gentleman that is it for the games today. Let's keep you up to date with what that means for the bracket
As you can see with the results that we've had here today
We had earlier the two lower bracket games being played out mouse knocking out ICX insanity
and then hula ghani knocking out cheeky bamboni from the qualifiers and then the last two series we
went through today up in the upper bracket furthest pro getting the two to one against yellow submarine
and we just had team vision of course get the two zero against power ranges which means those two
will move on to be our other two upper bracket round three essentially finalists the winners of
those series will be the ones going to ti and those series are the ones that we will be playing
tomorrow. So big matches tomorrow, both winners of these best of three will be the first two
teams from the EU qualifiers to qualify for the international team spirit versus Nigma
Galaxy starting at one o'clock CST. And then right after that we'll be jumping into Virtus
Pro versus Team Vision. Big games tomorrow, Fogg. What do you make of them?
The first series, it has to be the one to watch. I think most people are looking at that second
second one in their vision probably has like a 70, 30, maybe more advantage over VP.
Yeah, VP's look kind of rough.
Like the first one I think is, it's also going to be quite difficult for Enigma, but I think
they've been showing a lot more prowess and with the Sumail playing this not actual carry
from the carry roll, right, and letting Lorinoff take that carry, it looks much better for
them.
It's still an uphill battle for Spirit, but yeah, that could be like a 2-1 or something
like that.
I'm curious to see that one.
That's the one I'm definitely watching.
Yeah, I think the thing to note, right, of all those teams that we're seeing tomorrow,
so far Spirit on their run have not dropped a single game, and neither have Nigma Galaxy.
So that one is a matchup between two teams yet to lose a single game here in the qualifiers.
Obviously on the other side, Team Vision, they've not dropped a single game, but VP,
both of their series have been two ones.
They've dropped a game against ICX Insanity and against Yellow Submarines.
So very much as you say, Spirit versus Nigma should be very close and VP versus Team Vision
will be a bit of an uphill battle, Fogged.
So as for today and going into tomorrow, final thoughts, Fogged?
I don't know, like Vision definitely maybe saw perhaps like a way to punish them as you
were mentioning, right?
Banning the cat that he's putting satanic for on the back foot.
So I think that's one thing that some people learned.
I'm not sure what else actually.
I don't know.
happy to see at least get to see what the Agony's potential was at the time, even though
he didn't really get to much else.
Sure.
No, just not too much else.
Ah, good stuff.
Good stuff.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I can't wait to see it tomorrow.
As you saw on the schedule, there'll be less series played tomorrow, but the weight of
those series is going to be even heavier, both with those qualification series for the
international.
You won't want to miss them.
So make sure you're back with us tomorrow to see who gets to go to TI from the European
Regional Qualifiers.
We'll see you there.
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