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Good afternoon folks, I hope you're happy to see us, we've got some dota for you, that
you know, we're going to be
going to be a little bit
different. Yeah, change your
minds if you weren't, we've got
some more T I qualifiers here
coming out of the EU clothes
regionals as we get on the road
to T I 2026 and why are we being
down to the lower bracket
eliminated some teams, but now
it's time to qualify some teams
to the slots today. Yeah
exactly. We're looking at a
powerful matchup as well. We
have team Nygma Galaxy versus
team spirits sitting up here.
They've been looking very,
very strong, both of them,
the game. I think that's the
most notable, uh, like standout
one for me so far. Yeah,
especially in 38 minutes doing
it kind of average game time
looked pretty solid and I
tuned into some of those games
they double picked sniper in
those in those games for
Lauren off and he just walked
to the enemy base. They were
literally just a steamroller
rolling over Navi in those
games. It was incredible to
of steam as they're currently on a pretty long win streak as well. Yeah, I believe they're on like
12 or 11 win streak right now. Crazy stuff from the qualifiers of course from the road to EWC and
now here in these qualifiers as well. So looking pretty damn hot. So we can look at the entire
bracket. We see the lower bracket there too. And yeah, of course, after the Team Spirit versus
NIGMA Galaxy, there will be VP versus Team Vision as well going up next. Of course, Team Vision
and, you know, probably the top dogs, I want to say,
in the entire qualifier here for me.
Just their performance is, of course,
as expected, very, very strong.
VP, however, not looking as convincing.
They dropped one game in a series against IC Insanity,
dropped one game to Yellow Submarine.
I mean, they're no slouch teams,
but still not as dominating.
Yeah, it hasn't been as flawless
as some of these other ones,
where it's just felt like even post draft,
you're thinking, oh, oh, God,
they've just, they've got this game already.
you know, if they go into pilot this as intended, they've already got an upper hand. It's felt
like that in some of these games through the qualifiers where you get this draft advantage
and you know, the underdog really can struggle if they don't have that against some of these
big squads. Yeah, focusing on our first one, best of three, one of the four slots going.
I mean, two of the four slots going today, leaving two remaining down in the lower
bracket, but Nick Mcalaxy against Team Spirit, you know, two of these teams,
obviously fan-favorites in the galaxy,
people kind of hoping for them to head to a TI,
but it's firm resistance against a team spirit
who have looked very good obviously since their creation,
they've been one of the top five teams in the world
for a long time now.
Recently they've been powering up for TI calls as well,
and historically they've done pretty well
against the neighbor galaxy.
Since 2021, these teams have been around long enough
to have such sort of long record between each other,
But overall, Spirit have beaten Nigma Galaxy twice as many times as Nigma Galaxy picked up wins against them.
They're 12-16.
They have a long history and I mean there's a lot of lore there, right?
But obviously, I think Team Spirit has just generally been the stronger team.
So it's less about the specific matchup, it's just Team Spirit is a very dominating force.
Whereas Nigma has always been this kind of wild card top tier team, I want to say.
Sometimes they come in and play amazingly and other times they don't look as convincing.
But the fact that they took out Navi 2.0 might mean we're in for a power stack of Enigma Galaxy.
So I'm interested to see how our matchup is going to go.
I'm also interested to see who's going to be the gatekeepers down there.
There are four slots in total.
And as we mentioned, these teams, obviously whoever wins will be qualified immediately.
But if they drop down here, there will be the gatekeepers in the lower bracket
that these other teams have to go up with eight teams.
They're still duking it out.
But after these top round or upper bracket matches are done,
you will have your final boss waiting for you.
It's a bloodbath down there, isn't it?
Looking at some of these teams, the rosters, the player names on them,
you've got Navi versus Maus down in the lower bracket,
not even in round three, not even round four.
You know, they're not near a qualification spot.
One of those teams already going to get knocked out
before they get to meet, you know,
Nygma Galaxy or Spirit or whoever it might be that dropped down to face them.
It's crazy times man.
This region is so close.
Yeah, just give them time, you know.
Sometimes we talk about teams having these
epic lower bracket run. They go all the way.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see
at least if one of those eight teams has
what it takes to maybe take
on one of the gatekeepers to drop down in
these series. But that will be
an exciting story to see. For now though
we're going to focus on these top dogs
and see what they will bring to the table.
Have they been hiding any strats? Have they been keeping
away from us for this big showdown.
As we see the players getting some stretches in, get ready,
wake up, you know.
I mean, that's good to bring up, right?
Because as we've been saying through these qualifiers,
Team Spirit bringing back with Posca
as another coaching staff alongside Milan.
They've already got that Corbin system,
which Team Spirit players always like to talk about
when they bring these new players in
and they just immediately kind of snap into place
with the system that they've got.
I like Spirit.
Overall, the fact that they are a team that feels like they adapt to the meta quite cleanly,
very often they find an identity pretty quickly and then they develop that over time.
Whereas Nigma Galaxy, I feel, they've been a notoriously patch-based team where they've
looked very good on one patch and then they disappear off the face of the planet the
next patch.
This might be that perfect constellation of, you know, player's patch timing heading
into TI where Nigma Galaxy have all the stars literally align the namesake for
them where it feels good.
They're playing signature heroes.
They've got Lauren off coming into this mid lane and looking like a solid fit.
It's a really scary roster to go up against.
Yeah, it certainly is.
But uh, Tearsprit, you know, nice to see that they seem to be in good spirits.
They got Milan there pacing behind them, cheering people up, you know, making sure.
Yeah, he's hilarious.
I mean, we've we've cast together at some point to actually think Milan
and I did a double cast.
I'm not sure if it was when you were unavailable, someone else didn't show up, but he and I did a duo cast once.
He's obviously a former pro player and now turned coach.
Very, very interesting guy to talk to because he has this unique view of the game.
He always looks for those angles for wing conditions.
I love just picking Marana.
If Marana is a hero that's popular now, well, might see him as Team Spirit Marana.
Maybe four thousand to play it.
He likes Marana, Shaker, those type of heroes, you know, some good stun and joy for sure.
As we see here, the most contested heroes, Lulrid, is actually stepped up one percent higher than last time we looked in Gareth, he's now at 97 percent bandrate.
Yeah, Backray belongs on the band list. Get him out of here.
Draeranger, Treant, Io, Kotl, Viper also removed. They look like spirit.
Obviously doing their homework, they know Nigma Galaxy.
They know Io has been a problem not just for Nigma Galaxy,
not just in the hands of Nigma Galaxy,
but also in the hands of Team Vision.
We've had nine class show this.
Io be a very strong hero.
Cottle, same story, rising in the meta,
and in the hands of GH, an absolute nightmare.
So they've shut down a lot of these potential very
strong meta picks that are, again,
signature heroes from Nigma Galaxy
that they've found this position in the meta,
in these drafts, and feeling comfortable
with it and then Viper trade story. Just remove Lauren off Viper.
They address a lot of their comfort. However, if we look at
what they've been playing so far in this qualifier in the
Galaxy, they've been running Phoenix first pick and they've
been running X first pick in the four games they played. And
both those heroes being available means they could go
back to what has worked for them. Let's see if they have
tailored something new, though. This has to be scary,
though, seeing Yathro SF coming out as a first phase
pick statement. Obviously, there's a lot of combination
still to pair with an even though tree and protector is gone we still got that
tusk clockwork you know many many different good options yeah bane is
fantastic as well we seem to sleep in the nightmare or asleep in the race some
laughs across the galaxy that are the goodness of phoenix let's just go for it
but on that
Yep, anyway, we have the Phoenix and Gareth seems to be out for a second.
I think Team Spirit should be very aware of this pick though, so seeing that they already
had the Shadowfiend, that one range hitter, probably going to add some more heroes that
can easily kill the egg, but more importantly, you want to get heroes that can trade decently
and not get destroyed by this Phoenix in the ending stage.
I'm back every good boomer fingers like I closed the tab
Before we started to stream as well
I'll do it now, you know get one mistake per calf do it now during draft not during the middle of a team fight or anything like that
But honestly, I'd rather see spirit ban this I'll cuddle viper than than ban the axe or the Phoenix first pick
simply because I feel like IO Cottle you need to draft more heroes or you need to draft like an identity to deal with those heroes rather than just individual hero picks.
Like if Phoenix you can think okay we're gonna pick a snap-fire or a Murana, someone to kill the egg or someone to cancel out this dive in like a silencer or an axe.
We're gonna pick the Necro or the Doom to deal with him in lane whereas in Iona Cottle you're kind of just like well we've got to pick like a storm or a zoo so we've got to find some vision here to find him.
Then we've got to hunt them down, we've got to stop them stacking jungle, we've got to get healing reduction items, we've got to change our item, you know, there's so many tick boxes you have to deal with when it's Viper, Cuffle, IoKun, Heroes are out there.
Yeah, it's very true. And at the same time, I feel like for Nigma, they're pretty happy. They get to Phoenix that also secures them good lane, gives them good teamfight, and this is very, very comfort zone for Nigma Galaxy.
probably you know one of the most iconic heroes for them they have been using
this so much in the past I see some good smiles and laughs coming in here for
Sumail just discussing now what to go for next he's had some spectacular games
on this necrophos in particular he's had very fat
laughing because he get his storm yeah
it's unknown of course I don't know that why they're laughing in storm you know it
maybe it is Kerry yeah it was done for a little bit not that long ago I don't
think many teams have done it in the past like three or four months but there's
the what one percent potential I want to say to flex that storm to save Lane it's
one of the harder meteors to flex done to save Lane since he relies on mana so
much and mana usually comes in the form of those runes it's the easiest
It's the easiest way to get it.
It all comes in the form of Iocothal, which don't exist in this game.
That's true.
Even with those little steroids being gone, Storm, still a priority pick for them here.
It does give a lot of time for T-Spirit to counter it though.
I mean, yes, you remove the puck, but there's plenty of good heroes against it.
T-Spirit's not going to focus on getting a disabled just yet.
They go for Enchantress.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Rue because of follow-up here.
Again, that insta combination is very good.
can also go for the bane if they want the SF bane combo and lane.
And yeah, it might not be a direct counter with a disable like you're saying against
the storm, but I feel like Enchantress fares pretty decently with that early game pressure
towards mid lane, guarding the water runes, guarding active runes, pressuring mid tier
one with the summons.
And then also just being this hero that's kind of difficult to kill, like storm, yes
he does magic damage, but he's quite reliant on right clicks to do them.
Having a chance to who can you break vision?
Maybe even five man group up together make storms life a little more challenging just in terms of the
dynamic of the game that he's facing
Yeah
There's the bane of the support that played it both of them have won one game with it
Nice to have that little flexibility because obviously what we expect is the bane and SF pairing in the lane
But if enchantress for whatever reason wants to go to a safe lane, she could as well
well, NHSFS, not really as strong of a combo, but it's still a potent lane in its own record.
You do have to be careful with the name of Galaxy though, looking at this kind of draft.
Spirit could easily pivot into some pretty swift death ball stuff, you know, Enchantress
Plus, Beastmaster, or Nature's Prophet, more summons to like run at you, and things
could build up pretty quickly. Or like an Underlord with auras.
Yeah, we're liking for that matter. A heroine is still available in the pool and
Actually, I need to look up my like and stop and see if he's still keeping track
Yeah, you're pulling out some big numbers for that like and yeah like it was
Very good success
There's like three games on a great KDA. Well third pick for Nikki McGalaxy
They're considering their options and then where they want to head
I'm assuming this is just gonna be the gh phoenix put him down in that safe lane protect your carry
So potentially look for the duo there
He's holding a hammer on my screen oh, yeah
There's the whole events happening right now if you're not
Tuned in viewers if you haven't been there then acts has been removed and then acts has been returned
Maui's in the tomaton very very ringmaster style and uh wielding a hammer instead an
automax tom actually he's a clanker oh look it's the axe and ringmaster again
i feel like the teams are doing this on purpose we've had several times now ringmaster against
axe and ringmaster with axe it's like they've been told to do it yes they're on the payroll from
Val, you will make Ringmaster and Axe happen. It will be good PR for our event.
Generally though.
It's amazing pairing.
Yeah.
They're good.
The Ringmaster just either works well with Axe or against it.
It's box is great against him, and if you're with him, then you have the whip, the ulti.
It's fantastic.
Yeah, I mean, SF and Bane kind of want to commit for kills, but against this double
damage over time with battle hunger and the daggers, things can get nasty pretty quickly.
I think the ringmaster pick is mostly because of Bane as well.
The moment you fiend script someone box just stops it.
That's insanely annoying.
There's got three ways to stop it, right?
Yeah, yeah.
There's multiple different ways to break it here.
I mean, later on you could even see an agonem some fiends and then you could pick him
up with the egg as well.
It also stops the fiend script.
Spare gonna bring out the lull, amber spirit.
They've got their safe lane still flexible with their supports probably Baynett's.
Definitely waiting for the cracks.
They technically have five ways of stopping it right now without buying an item.
They can box, they can whip, they can ringmaster ulti.
They can call, actually hold up, they have six ways.
They can call, they can vortex and they can Phoenix ulti to stop it. The obvious counter.
Or they can just kill him. They've got ten ways to stop it.
Just culling blade or static remnant.
It's much more streamlined, I guess, the sort of 8 to 15 minute mark for the support where
you start moving around looking for action.
If you have an ember mid, if you have a storm mid, these here are so easy to play with.
Do we...
We've already removed, I was going to say, do we remove in respect to Sniper ban for
Lornoff?
It's already gone.
Necro is going to be the ban now.
just in case they had that storm flip to safe lane, it looks like they're just going
to cover their bases, Oscar and Necro2 heroes that counter Ember spirit pretty heavily.
And that lane sets up as the overall last pick as well.
I think the Doom Band is also mostly to cover the storm spirit.
It could be telling for what they want to run as a last pick but just making sure
storm doesn't get caught by a doom here is pretty nice.
As far as storm games go, I mean this looks pretty nice, you're not against that many
disables.
As long as you keep track of where the banus and the ember, it looks pretty free for storm.
Is it Beastmaster time?
Like Mars doesn't feel like a hero anymore?
I would be shouting for collapsed Mars every other patch, every other matter, but we're
just not seeing that hero at all.
It's okay, there's a lot of good stuff against Beast here though I feel.
If you've brought someone the ringmaster boxes and there's a lot of a weed clear your summons.
I'd like to see him on something else.
Then I guess you'll actually get the double box charges as well.
So it's like, okay, you've got grip and raw.
He's going to double box you.
Yeah.
I mean, they could just go towards, wait, did the ban arts, oh yeah, Centaur was banned
as the last ban.
Centaur has put up a nice fit.
I think I'm still feeling the underlord that I was looking at a few picks back.
a buyer plays with Enchantress pretty recently just walking at opponents. Yeah, it's okay.
I don't think any major problems for him in this game, but he is into a last pick. So
yeah, the possible last pick counter is a bit annoying because you normally want to pick
underlord when you know that you're against some illusion carry and there are certain carries
that are pretty annoying for underlord to lane into. That's not like Arisa or something there.
Yeah, they got pangol. I like that choice. I think pangol makes a lot of sense here.
There's nothing good against his roll if he gets the rolling thunder out he can be pretty oppressive in these teamfights
Give some a bit of more team fight presence as well because if we look at what team spirit had it was like what S of ulti, that's it
And both carries going for the same arm stretch behind the headrest
Chillin, I was prepped for this game. Yachter was like I'll play Shadowfiend again
Windranger opening the galaxy so I'm assuming Sumail's hero gonna be in that safe lane spot
One of the ranged turret heroes that we've seen plenty of can stand and just right-click into collapses pango as a shackle shot to deal with a bane
Cancel out a grip and stop the advance coming in and a fair amount of quick damage. So when you've got a limited
Limited jump and disables you really relying on obviously divide and law enough here to get that catch and kill
You need some quick damage and smell can offer it
I think it's nice for multiple reasons partly the disable from shackle shot
this nice against the Ember and Pangol just getting a little bit of extra lockdown is always good.
The focus fire on rolling thunder is a great way to counter Pangol later on in the game. If you
have a bit of damage from Windranger you can straight up just kill the Pangol when he normally
would be pretty much immune to focus. And finally I think Windranger is pretty annoying for SF.
SF is one of those heroes he's not really a hero that hates buying MKV the way that you
you know, certain carry heroes are, but he doesn't necessarily like it.
You know, he wants to go for other items.
He has to silver edge on his mind, maybe a Daeguards to get prox
with his level 25 talent, but he will buy an MQB because he needs to,
but it doesn't feel great.
Yeah, I mean, there's also the potential for like collapsed by a quick disperser,
which we have seen team like team spirit is a squad.
I'm sure due to Yattaro that loves to just rush disperse or as an item.
You've also got Enchant against this Windranger so that could cause some problems for Sumail.
I'm sure he'll find a way around it when an earlier BKB or something after the Mjolnir.
And try and play through the axe. Just hide yourself in the fight. Don't get
clipped by this collapsed or rude dispel. Yeah, it will be interesting to see what item I say
she's going to go for. I'm Sumail. I've seen a few carry Windrangers slot in the Aghanim.
It's like either second or third item already. And it's actually looked really strong.
It's not a bad item at all, but of course you need to get some damage, you need to get
perhaps a BKB as you alluded to there. His itemization choices are not obvious to me in this
game, so we'll keep an eye on what he does. I definitely got to try and find a pathway
to keep himself protected against some of these spirit heroes. We'll get into it. Game 1,
best of three. Up in the upper bracket, the victor of this series goes through to TI. Game
one, the first step in that journey. Let's see how these squads do. We've got the Grand
Master Storm for Laurenoff. That's what the smiles were all about in that start of the
draft. It smells like, yeah, go on. Passes the crown over to Laurenoff. You can be
the prince for now. I'll stay the king. You can join my regal group.
Yep, and the game is going.
We're heading out on the map,
and we'll see if these players are gonna be able
to get some award advantages.
Yeah, I'm just looking for that setup,
buy some observer wards, delay the smoke
from behind the tier one tower,
and then look for a rack round play.
I think both teams,
thinking about doing a very similar maneuver.
Smoke my break on LAL though, steps up,
places the OBS ward. He's hiding. Hides in the trees. The smoke broke but I'm not sure
that they saw him place that ward or sauna at all to be honest. I think he stayed nicely
behind the trees and walked away without being revealed. Omar, the divide heading up to that
northern bounty room spot where Yattaro was trying to tuck himself behind a tree line
of his own. And then down in the bottom jungle, Rue wandering forward, already gonna
get a d-word here with collapse and takes that an early observer so bonus money for them and they're
gonna go out both of those southern bounty runes and we'll trade out two for two. Two for two is
still fine and yeah that d-word is a minor little advantage you get always feels good to get some
experience so I'll just pangle, ench and uh getting some some head start towards level two.
I'm already looking for this play in the creep wave, they've brought GH very low already.
He's got fire spirits level 1, no way to dive away, so first blood inevitable to come.
I'll just click him down, collapse picks it up.
I'm not sure if they were going for a kill, they might just have been going for the range
creep but either way they get something big.
Yeah, I think, you know, the fact that there were 3 there, they were ready to
get the kill if they were contested, otherwise they would get the range creep, but it's
like a double win win win situation for them some damage being done back at least
though the pangolos quite a bit of HP but yeah very good starts here coming up
for two tiers they're set up full possibilities
4-1 storm 4-0 amber spirit first wave or so pretty easy just to get what
comes to you of course with a spam of the static slide remnant yeah a decent
of harassment coming his way it's a completely fine lane for for ember even
if storms should be getting good farm more interested see how these side
lanes play out as we could see quite a bit of aggression already we have
shenanigans being done pull through and collapse is doing a great job it's
going to deny a lot of creeps away from from some mail
He's just not letting me head up.
Against those double range lane, Phoenix and Windranger offer a lot of harassment.
So not me just trying to make sure that small camp stays blocked up.
Don't let them get any pulls going.
Try and keep the large camp blocked as well.
So Phoenix is kind of stuck there without a job to do until he de-wards the camp eventually.
And up at top lane, Omar from the high ground just trying to harass back Rue as
we also have a small camp battle up at top.
He's dropping his drone and divide with Battlehunger.
They've got a blood grenade and tame the beast to kill off the shadow fiend.
Oof, offering a tremendous amount of damage.
No more. Very low.
Ringmaster nearly dead, but yeah, bottom lane also going head to head there is not me nearly dies.
Yeah, the Power Shop just barely missed on the Bane, so he lives a lot of scrappy fights coming out.
He's trying to contest the pull, but in the end, the small camp did spawn, so GH will pull the ghouls.
This is a great camp to get as well. A little bit of RNG on which small camp you get, but these ones have high DPS.
So we'll deny away some creeps.
Anything but the Cobalt family.
Yeah, those garbage creeps.
That was so bad at pulling. They've got no idea what they're doing.
They should really buff them in some way. They should make sure.
It's so weird that one of the camps is absolutely useless, and the other ones are all pretty similar.
Rue, thanks for the tendons up.
The damage over time comes through pretty quickly and Omar is getting a unicycle over
the top to finish the job.
Shadowfiend also getting tanked up by the battle hunger and so long walk back towards
his tier 1 tower making sure that Omar doesn't get too close though, Raze is spent but
that means Omar plays the edge of the fight beautifully to get another dagger on
the aphor.
Yeah, not gonna dive, the vine may have been able to go for a glyph if the tower
died there but I think you're respected that there was still a fairfire on the SF
and says you know what if I just deny the creeps here this is a big win as
well. Looks funny he's hitting with his hammer.
And got the old hammer for the the strength gate right try and dig the
bell. I'm surprised every creepy hit doesn't go
BOOM! That will be a job. 17 and 5.
Some room control coming out from the Bane saying that you know what Mid lane, Lornav
having too easy of a time so no water for you, gonna hold it and actually just gonna
grab it for himself. It's still pretty even in that mid spot. This is a matchup, I'm
I'm sure both players have encountered a tunnel as Ember vs Storm.
And overall, so we slightly fistboxed a little bit like we saw there.
The Ember typically is, in my opinion, favored, but Storm should give good farm as well.
But it's like, it's better for Ember to have a farm grade than for Storm.
actually dead even in last test by the way 29 and 4 versus the soon to be 29 to 4 on
the storm as he's holding on creep because the man is gonna miss that last hit you know
no way there we go it's impossible to miss it's not being super easy the shadow theme
in lane and last it wise he's doing alright as an SF does but it has been uncomfortable
As he keeps getting hit by all this damage at a time,
every time he clears the wave, he's getting that longer and these impalement arts being put on him.
As Enchantress hasn't really been able to protect the SF and with the Phoenix arriving through that twin game,
he'll find Yathrow again, just another kill on a Shatter theme.
Meg Magar is starting to twist the dagger into Team Spirit in his pop lane.
Yeah, this is actually very impressive to me as well because I think SF, you know,
SF with Enchantress is a potent lane.
They're doing a great job playing around it.
Laurel going for a dive on mid?
Does he have the solo kill?
No, there's a one there from the storm.
Even pinging out Laurel saying,
hey maybe this guy can be killed.
The safety remnant's trusted TP from the trees.
I mean that's a greedy play from Laurel there.
Good play from Omar.
They did not have vision of him TPing, but they kind of knew.
The moment he sends out the remnant in vision like that,
they know that, okay he's TPing right now.
And then six minute rune,
not me trying to protect it.
Voronoff won't get his hands on the region just yet.
It looks like the Bane is going to be able to get it.
So at least something there for Spirit to stop
the snowball from rolling out by Nygma Galaxy.
GH come in and forces him to take it
so that Ember can't hold on to that region.
Very good stuff coming out.
Good rotation.
It feels a bit sluggish from Spirit these first seven minutes.
Nygma Galaxy absolutely has woken up
and decided to go for full violence.
4-1 already. You're winning out on that top lane. Mid lanes look pretty good.
Win range obviously is now free farming. So I've got all three lanes, Nimmigar actually
sitting pretty. Everything looking really good, but we do see a move coming out.
Lawl going for the top lane. This is a strong Ember spirit. No TP ready on
Storm, so he's cutting off the Bane instead. They're trying to find not me
back in the ancient area. Dips into the medium camp and dies to a neutral
Meanwhile, Wisdom Shrine being grabbed by Yattaro on the left while Lala just bodies the rest of them.
1v4 zones them away.
Guests of Wisdom Shrine, there's Rook and they can't, a few bits of damage over time, tank up on him.
Devai doesn't want to get triple raised, doesn't want to walk up the little ramp to the bridge.
So instead they'll focus the Enchantress with some long range, Sunray and Daggers.
And Yattaro swagger back to his tier 1.
I think at the consolation prize kill on Rue, but they do not get Yattaro as he took the wisdom and walked away.
This salvaged the top lane a little bit, that wasn't going too well for him.
Now feeling a bit better about himself.
And so far no stacks being made on the ancients for this axe.
Normally we see perhaps some early preparation, go in and get some farm,
but he's going to go and make his own stack on the big camp instead.
We're just fine with the medium.
Usually Axe likes to do stuff that rhymes with Axe, and hang on.
Lala chains.
Ah, Sunray.
She's almost there holding them on.
And then Arun is the bottom Invis.
Grabbed by Lala as he comes back into mid.
Oh no, just Nightmare pulled back.
I'm just going to go to his mana to zip towards his high ground again as we have this back and forth.
4th, Team Spirit gonna get blown up though with Sumail's arrival, bringing that additional bit of nuke damage from level 4 Power Shot which they needed.
Early rotation from the carry, we've seen this a few times from different teams bringing the carry towards mid.
Thinking back to the qualifiers that we've had already, I mean just the TV rotations towards the mid, you know, random draw rangers showing up and now it's gonna be Sumail on his wind ranger.
sure to try and stay competitive early. Just one move from the carry can sometimes change
the entire mid game.
But yeah, usually Axe talks about Axe attacks, Axe hacks, Axe stacks, everything that rhymes
with Axe he likes to do. Now he's holding a hammer. Do we have to change that to things
that rhyme with Hammer? No, no.
Axe likes Grammar.
A Hammer-Slammer.
A Hammer-Slammer makes a clammer with his grammar. What's he going to be doing?
is your English teacher. He opens up the Soros and he's like axe no more, axe, axe, hammer,
axe, grammar. I've also run out of rhymes with hammer. I feel like hammer is harder, right? Jammer.
Oh it is for sure. I mean, so few words that end with hammer. An hammer.
Axe is a namad. Hammer is namad. Sorry don't don't get the name wrong like that. My bad.
That's my bad.
Oh, 6-1, I felt like I couldn't see.
The ones making all the right moves, stepping forward, playing aggressively.
They hadn't been able to make an actual net worth lead until now, though.
It had been Team Spirit who had been a little more efficient with the gold game,
spending their money before dying as well.
And Sif were able to get anything on Laurel here.
Seems like once again, he's able to get the safety remnant on the rune, pick it up,
and Laurel gets nothing with troubles.
The male's gonna go for not me, he's down to the thing, wanders into the enemy
entrance area. And long zips back here but doesn't have anyone to help him.
Pango's trying to reposition to maybe force a flight, but there we go, let's see.
Yeah, okay. Looking around the corner saying I was a free kill. This is the male missing
being a mid player so he just runs to mid as a carry. He's getting to be a mid laner
in a, you know, a small way. But on a serious note it's a really really good
move to activate a little bit like this and try and help your team get advantage.
However it does give space for the SF who was having a hard game to pull ahead
and they're making a big move down bottom has to watch out for the
dispell from the enchants. Yeah, I gotta keep you wits about you.
When the defense is here the ringmaster's ulti ready.
He's trying to bait to last. He's half HP and he's getting rolled on.
All lighting at the wheel is wonder and Shadowfiend and Enchantress were on this
Twin Gate high ground maybe considering a fight but when they saw the storm arrive
it's like okay guys bye wait where did they leave you class?
Yeah very quickly just getting out of there they at least only lose one hero
and meanwhile Ember's trying to do the best he can shopping in the mid lane
Phoenix aptly grabs up level six from it though
We're just trying to get back into acceleration mode, I don't want to say they're in recovery
mode.
We're looking at this massive amount of shadow fiend, definitely want to go back to jungle.
The pangalare would love to get into this diffusal blade before he gets involved, there's
a little bit of a waiting period here for him to get that 400 gold he needs.
So for the next minute-
We have a mailed rotation again, that's the third one.
It's just the gravitational pull, isn't it?
We just get dragged in towards the room spots.
We're gonna get on to Loll again.
He sits down and dabs the Artane room, though, another active room for Loll's Ember spirit.
A Smele giving a fair amount of damage back to him, but it's perfectly fine for Ember to remnant TP home, return to lane.
This definitely is a lot of pressure that Smele is putting, but he has to watch out not to fall too far behind the SF while doing this.
All these moves, not getting any gold for it.
Um, at least not losing too many creeps on a safe lane, but I would like to see him finish up this specialist array that he's going for as a first item.
Not going Mjolnir builds. The old build. Not going for the Manta either.
I would kind of like to see a Manta-style rush though. The Dispel against Ember is really, really good.
Yeah, so is this- are we rushing Hydra's breath or is this like specialist array back into Mjolnir?
So, I'm still in a lot with the Hydra Breath Rush.
Overall, my conclusion is Hydra Breath is a really bad item to rush.
It scales very well into late game, it has percentage-based damage,
and obviously it becomes stronger when you have more damage,
because you know, split-shotting is nicer than.
Well, it's pretty nice to just pick up the such a slayer from farming.
Big!
Into the vein.
He might rise himself, delays his death,
but when you throw the Wheel of Wonder at him,
devise axe wandering in. You know the bane is dead and the town's gonna take a decent
chunk of damage afterwards as well. So that's a good move, but I'm not sure that we'll get
the tower for it. Remember even looking to set up Arcane Runemba.
But yeah, I suspect this is just gonna be a casual specialist array and then going
for some value items with it or something to enable you with it. Could see him go
for the map style still, or a BKB even plenty of options here honestly.
So this is your mails from replacement then, you don't want to go back into Milner or anything
after?
Uh, it could, but it's a bit overkill.
Nice solo kill on the bottom.
Yeah, I was watching it happen and I didn't want to say anything because it felt like
Collapsus was just going to roll and run away, but so Milner was able to like
cancel the animation of the roll with Shackler Shot.
Keep the damage going with this Focus Fire, just about finish him off.
It's a major reason why you pick Wind Ranger into the pango or why you feel good about this
matchup in general.
Being able to just Focus Fire is pretty amazing.
Smale actually is going for it, he's sending it.
We'll see how it works, he's going for the full Hyder breath first item.
Again, I'm not a massive fan of this, you do get the Dragon Hands which is really
nice but completing the recipe I think is a lot of gold invested and you don't
get that much value from okay all that I've seen see what he does it might might
end up deciding to go back like in BKB he needs it immediately how you delay
the Hydra's breath you just like Dragon Lance specialist array BKB and then
finish the recipe that's for me yeah you can you can go for that and do some in
between items right now I'm playing aggressively in this bottom lane this
This is an early pressure. Axe doesn't have blink hits, so I'm sure they want to put up a defense here.
Without the Axe being ready with an off-maintain difference where the lapse with his defusor is super strong.
Axe needs to have a little bit more time.
Yeah, we got through that waiting period.
At that time they're kind of ready to fight, but it collapses at the first point of contact.
Getting blown up by the storm with the Wheel of Wonder there.
They've got the control required.
And while Emperor Spirit got shackled up to a tree, trying to slighten Jukuwe with his hasteroom, he's perfectly fine to do whatever he wants.
But he wasn't really able to disrupt the initiation on Topango, yet again, it gets comboed. It's just Storm, Ringmass, the master heroes.
For the need, Requiem, on to Dubai with the help of the Bane and the Enchantress have blown up the axe, and Yattaro stands there to kill off Omar and a couple of spikes of the Shatterfiend.
So Mael is now on the run, in for the shot launched out, Storm slips on to Yatra, looking for the Shatterthin kill and successfully gets it.
Nightmare is just a moment too late, as Lornoff makes popters grieve, stays reasonably healthy here as Pango arrives, ball lightning away though, gets a bit of distance as the rolling thunder.
Comes crashing in towards them, Lornoff what's he got?
Rain drops, two one charges, but no life remaining.
Collapse makes sure of that.
I had some really really nice setup there by Bane honestly, getting the sleep onto one
and then Team Skruth being quickly onto the Wind Ranger when she tried to fight.
That was just beautiful on the axe, despite his blade mail did go down.
Storm overcommitted a little bit losing all his mana and then just gets chased down
as well so very good exchange for two spirit, they took the bottom tower, took the
top tower, sure you lose your SF but you're very happy about this.
It's always crazy to me in these kind of games where Nygma Galaxy would be like 10 to 1, mouth 13 to 4.
They've made all these aggressive moves, they've got kills, got pick offs, but there's nothing in it, no net worth difference at all.
Yeah, I mean the towers are worth a lot of gold honestly, and they have not taken a single tower on the side of Radiant.
True, not me, it's gonna get spotted.
And the story of Zip thing, there's probably no way out.
That's a pretty long Zip, or enough to spend in 80% of his mana pool to kill off the Bane.
pretty costly and as you mentioned in the draft there's no mana refilling hero
this time for Lornoff so he went for his own guardian greaves and soldier along
with the bottle plenty of mana restoration on him on himself
pretty quickly back to half mana already there we go first tower crack
by nigma galaxy immediate smoke up as well as they head towards top they've
spotted collapse on the lane ward and they know he's headed into that
northern jungle. The reed is there from Yattor though pretty much direct on the money knowing
exactly where this move is going. So Klaps has been told by the big man, go through the
gate don't stay tall. Bane under award drops his own observe award which can easily be
de-warded but first they want to look for a pick off on him. Can he stop his TP out?
I don't think they're in time. Oh not going there. At least they get the sentry.
I don't think they got the D-Word.
There's just a long lane to push now, like Devy has got to clear two waves out back at
his tier two.
If they want to push this tier one, they've got to wait a good 30 seconds and that's time
now.
A team spirit gets to make a base camp in that bottom part of the map and maybe even
look at the storm spirit.
Yeah, scary to split up here.
Stormwalk's too close, the group could be on him, but Nornam is speaking his
positioning.
Not getting too close and mid lane meanwhile. It's so silent but just sending an enchantress creep like this is effectively just taking the tower between it so
It's dropping here as well
That's slowly chipping at it
Lawl on friendship being done
Some cover from the slight face to clear the wave so the scepter can stay alive a little bit longer
That's it, it was 3 hours of working health
With the Deedurin on storm, I think the team spirit are trying to dodge this. They don't want to give a good fight to the store spirit
The bottom area is nicely controlled by Team Spirit right now as Tormentor is going to
come soon.
We've got a zip on the enchantress though, Storm and Axe showing off his Link debut.
I'm getting a good catch on Groove but I need the damage and the dunk with the hammer
is there.
The bell goes ding!
Oh no, that Axe is strong enough.
Oh that's what they should have done if they gave it a little ding every time
you go a successful dunk.
That would have been hilarious.
Yeah.
And a little meter, you know.
Yeah, put the meter above it.
Let the take it.
The earlier you dunk, the more you get all
lank cancellation on the fiend script.
Bane didn't see the px.
That's a good reveal of the blink.
Two kills in quick succession.
Two culling blade kills off the back of those moves.
Very fortunate there.
That's just barely walked into vision,
but it was too late. Bane didn't have time to
change his bind.
Between spirit. Gonna rally around the shadow
fiend up at top though. Collapse and Rue sat behind Yattero as they go and clear one wave,
then hold hands through the jungle. And seems like they still want to play in that bottom
right hand corner to control the Torment area. They keep coming top, they go top, push one
wave, defend tower, make sure Nygma Galaxy don't get a free objective and then immediately
gate bottom. They play the map really well, even though
they have died so much this game, two spirits, some all feel like they're the
one stick fading, which is crazy. 16-4, but it really doesn't feel like one sided game.
If anything, I feel like Team Spirit are winning. Pretty odd how it can be that way in Dota.
Yeah, I feel like it's a pretty classic thing between these teams. Team Spirit, you know,
we go on and on about how they're so good at making those decisive moves, where it's
one very deliberate, very calculated play to rein things in and get a grasp on the
game. And that might be what NG is trying to do now, but unfortunately for them, it's
just not me. The Bane shows and doesn't even die to the smoke break initiation, while
Collapse rolls into the back. It finally killed not me with Divive, but his rolling
thunder is dealing with GH. The Phoenix getting blasted down and killed before he
gets to pop the egg. And Storm Spirit, he's got the ball back towards the jungle
camps to the northwest. Still being hunted though by Collapse. So, GH and Omar, both
dying as Team Spirit. Hey, push NG, all the way back to their side of the
river. There was some serious hatred coming out from Collapse onto this poor Phoenix man,
GH just wants to ulti, but getting changed on over and over and over again and finally
of course, there's so much trouble to finish the deal. And now though, you have to run
to the requiem defensively because Devine with some mail, we're getting on top of him.
Look at that rolling around the stun. So interactive gameplay, getting five stuns
in a row. Yeah. I was perfectly fine. I was so funny to see that kind of fight recap.
But yeah, it's moves like this where you think, okay, Nimmi guys, you're trying to get this one
decisive move that gets a firm grasp on the game. And Team Spirit, they're already prepped. They're
already ready, knowing what move is coming, reacting to what Nimmi guys are doing. And
they're now, what, two or three thousand net worth ahead. Yeah. Yeah, they're working on a
leave and we even have collapse sneakily going to check the wisdom and he will be happy to see
that it's there however Omar on the lane I think Omar might get jumped by collapse here
the moment he goes for this
it's not rolling thunder ready again he's gonna go for it straight on to Omar
rolls up beats around gets the crutches in on to this ringmaster nearly brings him down
but with Sumail and Lorna both coming in collapsed he's gonna have to TP home
It's worth it still. Collapse still gonna be happy with that before multiple heroes to react and meanwhile your team can make place elsewhere.
Axe doesn't look though. The Viya with a very nice TP out after the Searing Chain.
Here's what first 15 minutes Nigma Galaxy are the arsonists going around setting things on fire.
Team Spirit kind of running around with the Fireflies putting it all out.
Now the roll is reversed so Nigma Galaxy just reacting running from one side of the map to the other
trying to stop Team Spirit from being nuisances.
Yeah, for sure. They're making very active moves, and it's something you said earlier
in this game, how they're very good at making the big decisive moves, where Team Spirit
play on the map, and how they force their opponent's hand, basically, is really impressive.
That was another one of those cases. Collapse going for that wisdom attempt did force everybody
to go top, which is maybe a bit of a back foot, you know, kind of vibe you played
What's your tier two?
Hey man smoke
And bang it and go and join the shadow team with them and smoke does get broken
Phoenix might still get jumped
It's into the Roshan pit
Some slight cool down there on the ruling thunder else. We would have seen collapse just jump in but
Don't want to go too early when we need to open the ranger some males gonna win run off to the West
I'm barely able to get into the fog and the others tend to be going Hydra's breath straight into BKB Lincoln's fear.
So like we were looking for, it has to be defensive items for the Windranger to protect herself.
Yeah, so far we are seeing her kind of lag behind Yathrow in terms of farm growth.
It is to be expected, Wind vs. SFS is definitely the fastest farmer between the two of them.
but I'm still suspicious on how much we're going to see this Hydra Breath work out the first item.
But once she gets BKB she can definitely lock onto a target and just go
has to only worry about the Bane but when you have Storm on your team the Fiends
Skrip isn't even that scary, Storm or Axe could quickly come in and cancel it.
I'm just trying to think this thing has my asthma, my asthma from the Hydra's breath.
There's magic damage, right? Max HP, 2.5%.
So it's not even that good against the pango who's rolling.
No, not very. I mean it's, yeah, I guess Pango is rolling. I don't think she needs much help against that though, because she does hit pretty hard, and Pango will generally kind of need to get away if he gets focused fired, but I think more importantly trying to fight against SF, manfighting kind of vibes later on will be difficult.
is going DKB into MKB as his next items. One good thing about Yathura, other than his
skills and dota, is that he always puts his entire planning. He'll have like 10 items
queued up, like 10 full items queued up in his quick fight.
This is why every castor says Yathura is the Goat Carry. He doesn't care about it.
He doesn't care about his scale or his achievements. It's all about his itemization and the
quick buy slots. Peru, gonna get a shackle shot at him. Did the Affirmation of Tendon
So isn't the easiest kill as collapse comes rolling in to try and pull a bit of chaos
He's on the gh but larl and not me struggling to get a moment here where they can actually bust someone down a box one up
I'll now the supernova to come out and collapse
He's dead or larl trying to escape the right-hand side. Yathrow has been focused to the left
Chateau fiend needs that glimit cage to get a bit of distance, but Lornaf keeps chasing
Rekbund's wound up. Yathrow is still gonna get sliced down
So mail picks up the double kill and the dive is on Lornaf just keeps going for more
Not me, now I'm going to court out, device come on in,
they'll surround the Vayne all around him,
not me trying to grip and buy some time,
but Shaco shot it up again by Sumail.
Fantastic play by Sumail throughout that flight,
nice Shaco shot from the low ground to the high ground on the SF there,
actually was game-winning Shaco shot to land.
And again, without focus fire even, we saw Windranger just be annoying for this pangol
when he starts rolling in, just the auto attacks coming in made it very painful for him.
and ultimately we see why Ringmaster was picked.
How valuable was the ring in this fight with the save on the Phoenix,
allowing him to stay alive through all the focus?
It was very piecemeal by spirit both.
Rue goes in, dies, collapse comes in, Lyle now arrives,
becoming from high ground down to low ground into a situation where you have no vision.
I think it's just a bad location to fight, like you say.
The fact that they did commit for this, they probably felt confident,
felt pretty strong but very very hard to run down into that um rune area when you give up your hygrum
and back to net worth leafening the galaxy 21 to 7 in kills
get a nice juicy team fight but unfortunately they can't go and take a roshan or any big
objective they've got to come back to dealing with waves
what's Omar upset about
I was like, how's it go for like a while.
I was dying under a tower there, when they were diving and Ember Slider fisted in I think.
Going to the bay.
Oh, I hit the tower on Lull.
He gets the remnant back.
I'm still around 300 health but still a little bit of damage.
Could have finished him off.
1.8k damage out of this Windranger.
Substantial stuff.
I mean, the auto attacks there, doing some serious damage and going for Lincoln's next is going to make a lot of sense in this game.
Just to counter at the bane, it doesn't fully stop him necessarily, but it does make it harder for him to mess with her, since every single ability is a single target.
I think his spirit is still not too bothered by the state of affairs.
Not me is still getting some good duke wards, protecting the area of the maviatar at the
farm.
Bodyguard this Chedophine carry for his lonesome, possibly canon as bottom right hand corner.
I'll see if I show on wave.
I'm not sure they just want to go for this.
They're sticking around with pango in the bane, but Chedophine has already fully evacuated
back to ancients.
I'm just leaving the mantle style to keep farming. We have Aghanimceptor just now completing for the pangol and he's 30 gold and he'll have it
It'll be pretty good for him since he already has the defusal
He needs to hit more people
Sumail's about 1200 gold off that Lincoln Sphere which is gonna make Windranger close to invulnerable in these fights
and maybe go for another smoke this time bringing all five together they want to try and unsettle
team spirit get some way to find a core kill but would you believe it the first person they
meet is the not me bane not make himself into the roach pit he's a little cheeky yeah try
to dodge away from this not possible i think he was dead no matter what they're probably
but guarantee just a funny funny little movie was hoping they didn't see they
snuck in there so you could keep the outfit we've got blink so maybe like
nightmare into blink trying to get away he's got blink now I don't think he had
it on him yet I do you know we just got the gold so yeah otherwise I would
win away immediately there but yeah blink frame when he respawns at least there's
a blink on the ring master's those supports are getting some positional
tools a lot of emphasis by the way on radiance to pick up arm rides with
crimson solar crest coming out on gh so heavy heavy armor lotus orb and blade
middle of course on the axe
but it's these kinds of moves that the pangol it hurts several times now you know
nigma gals you go for these big smokes they want to make that decisive move
and they just get the you know the read a little wrong whereas team spirit have
the perfect understanding of putting vein or enchantress on the front lines
to tank the gank entire smoke wasted which means team spirit back in the
driving seat in terms of network lead but also dictating where the fight is
going to take place because they've smoked and wrapped around all the way
behind the secret shell and towards the male. Lincoln Sphere is here with a BKB
for Windranger and gonna pop the wind run straight up now the BKB to protect
herself on the run away. Thanks gonna jump on the aftero with the blade
mouth going but Nightmast saves him half HP shadowfiend and a BKB
Requiem up as they grip G.H. blowing the Phoenix out of the water
it completely. Devine trying to find this Bane kill but can't quite do it as Yathruh
picks up the double kill. The Storm and the Windrangers both gonna survive maybe looking
for the dive back onto the Bane as Lornoff picks up at least another kill.
And four-packed cleaning from Nygma Gargsy desperate to continue the fight. They want
this to brew a little more as the Roshan could be a nice prize for them at the end.
And Nygma Gargsy cracked the whip down onto Ruz and Chandra zipping onto Yathruh.
Lornoff seems to have infinite mana. He keeps going for more and Sumail he's arrived.
Matthew, don't shackle shot! You have to understand, but cannot deliver!
That is crazy, man. I did not think they could turn this fight as hard as they did,
but beautiful call there to actually buy back the Phoenix.
Without that buyback, they would not be able to go for all these kills.
The threat of the supernova meant they had to keep running away, had to keep them getting out of this.
Ultimately, the chase down from the wind and the storm, this mobility is pretty damn high.
Even in the head-on teamfights, it feels like Team Spirit are getting outgunned.
Okay, you have a nice grip, nice wreck grip, you pop your PKKs, but LAL can't do this thin-out gameplay when he's dealing, like you say, with the gap-closing Windranger and Storm who chase him and kill him.
Super challenging for LAL and Colast to really play their game plan.
I think they fought this really well in Team Spirit as well as we see a recap of how they took this fight. The team script was fantastic.
the attention turn over onto the axe here I think it was very very clean but
somehow they're not able to get away here.
Oh, Sumail just chas- Sumail just walked the dog.
Larl with the little puppy had had the leash put on him.
Oh, Windrunner, just chased him and focused fire.
Like, Emberspirit spent a couple of remnants trying to escape but Sumail is an insatiable hunger chasing him.
Yeah, and that puts him in a very good spot not only item wise if you look at level timing as well level 23
Almost level 24 on this win range here is absolutely insane
So he's getting very good headway towards his level 25 talents the focus fire advance kills
It's gonna be amazing for him here be able to go for one target to the next
and
Genuinely what feels like the first time this game in the galaxy are actually able to convert a
A good move into something bigger. They have Aegis on Storm, now they're playing into this enemy jungle in the top part of the map with a couple of wards already down.
I can start looking for tier 2 towers and finally develop the map, which just hasn't been on the cards for them.
Yeah, he realizes by the way on Enchantress that there's some vision when he died, but I think they desperately need Gem right now to start clearing out the map.
I kinda like this Windranger build, I'm not gonna lie.
There's Hydra's Breath, BKB Lincoln's into Skadi.
How many times have we praised Team Falcons, oh they're three tanky cores, oh they've got
the DK and the pango, they're so strong.
Sumel picks Windranger and says, yeah those heroes suck, I am the 4,000 the hell freaking
Windranger, bow down to me.
Yeah, I mean if he slots in the final item agonims after this I have Skadi,
gonna be very very annoying to play against him. For certain he's super hard to bring down.
I'm just more amazed by how well Nigma and Galaxy have taken some of these team fights.
Like Team Spirit, with that one fight where they went into the ruin spot you could say was on
them, that was their mistake but the fight up top that was just Nigma not playing them.
I'm gonna be real, I think Lael played himself in that fight. I'm not gonna say he caused
as the downfall of Team Spirit in the battle entirely.
The Emperor definitely didn't do a good job
in disengaging from the Windranger.
Yeah, Ember also has a long journey
for getting his items.
He's currently working on Agnem Scepter,
1,000 gold to go.
But at least he doesn't have a Shiva's Guard,
so his armor is not the highest.
No Fire being queued up as the next item
because the Ring Master,
sure it works against the Windranger too,
to spell the windrun, but I think big part you need to have something against the glimmer,
the ghost scepter, the box. Actually, they don't have the glimmer, they don't have the
ghost scepter and the box and so on. Banggood does have his null fire ready, but I think
having one is good, having two is basically going to render a ringmaster useless.
What Falked was saying something during his broadcast the other day about the Enchantress.
We were talking about the little friends being like,
undispellable and being super strong.
I'm not sure if you mentioned it as well
and this wasn't listening,
but I know that Fox said that it turns all the units
that are attacking into units,
like they're obviously units that enchantress controls,
so they all get affected by rabble rouser.
So they all get that amplification of damage.
Well, the rabble rouser is specifically for a unit
that she doesn't,
oh, you mean that she controls the enemy lane creeps?
Yeah, because like if she put little friends on someone
and then all of the lane creeps
Technically under her control because she's controlling them to attack someone
I'm not sure if that counts us under her control. Okay, I think they would need to be first like change team by being enchanted
So don't think it comes. I mean I could double check it if
Yeah, if they if they did the test on it, but
This is a cool outpour here now, right here, right?
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna call, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna call outpour.
Is he sure about this or is he spouting, you know?
Sometimes if, sometimes I'm not sure about the mechanics.
It would be a lot of damage, I don't know.
That's a funny one.
That might be why I feel so strong.
For a long, you know, around, you see, safely away to his tier fours is long enough,
and some ale already taking his tier three down to about 300 health.
Trying to finish it off, but you gotta be a bit careful with this advanced spirit.
I don't want to give up any of that high ground for free, so low enough for his public reed.
The Vi gives a covering call, has the BKB now to break free of the danger.
Collapses rolled in with Lull, going a little deeper, but it seems like Nygma Galaxy have
completely got out of the grasp of spirit now.
They're very cheap for Nygma as well, they only click their focus fire and they get
out of there.
Sure Storm is low mana, but that's the Aegis time's up, he's going to be completely
fine.
some funny sips when you have the Aegis Respawn or Aegis Region roll on cooldown
they can feel pretty confident to stay on the map power runes in 10 seconds
Ember wants the top rune but very dangerous to go for it as they just
smoke up from Nigma. That is definitely one thing to shout out as well as
Team Spirit have had the majority of the active runes this game I know in the
first 20 minutes we had Devai all chatting saying one rune please and
Looks like they're finally gonna get one
And oh no, Lentify picks up the illusion of lowering up
It's like, mine?
My bottle refill?
I have the one once in a room
It's illusion on Axe, it feels good, it's nice
That way it wants it to
But still love this
Running them together
You can really stop with the cup
Illusion rune on Storm, in bottle
Pretty good against like, the chains
Get rid of some of these nasty stuff
The spells and stuff
Screw him
Go farm
Go farm with Axe illusions
at mine now. Oh yeah, that's the downside I guess. She can just take him. We have a counter
smoke coming in, and Kibbe is of course finished on the SF, so he's looking pretty ready to
deal with the Windranger problem. The problem is that it's not just Windranger, Axe and
Storm are doing a lot in these fights. One Dyrum's Everward. See the big move
It's going to seal on up in a second.
Oh, do they know?
Can they find him?
Not quite.
Not quite the angle they needed, and Nigma Galaxy are going to be happy to all live and run back to base.
Team Spirit also going to run back to their side of the river.
There's a lot of de-wording to do.
Like six entries, three observe awards, tons of radiant vision that needs to be cleared out.
said, this gem for Rue gonna get some payoff. So game is overall very even right now. I do
think that Nigma have perhaps a little bit stronger team fight just by hero compositions,
but it's also where Team Spirit are praised over and over again by us casters, players.
They are so good at playing this stage of the game. So let's see how they can handle
the situation. So very, very closely matched game is there's less than a thousand
difference at 40 minutes. So far it's just felt much easier for Storm and
Windranger to find a target with Ringmaster to save them at to have this
covering call. Supernova, good soaring tool in the teamfights as well, whereas
Team Spirit are much more delicate balance to try and find this new
nuanced entry point for the teamfight. A bit of chaos from the
Thunder, back and forth from Lull. Everything has to be extended duration.
They need to draw out BKBs, buy time, get Shadowfiend into position, drag people up to their cases, bait them into situate, you know that?
A lot of things that Team Spirit have to do individually to try and get their teamfight going, whereas I feel like maybe guys just press buttons.
So there's like a cast you spells on them and things will feel good. And if it feels good, do it.
I think overall the big thing they need is just this satanic to complete for the SF.
Right now he's going to go and sell his broadsword and work towards the satanic by farming up the ancient area as the response.
I think this will give him the sustainability and not getting bursted by blademail calls from axe is also a big thing for him.
Just like you said, they need long fights. They need to not just get bursted by one axe or storm jump or focus fire for that matter.
It seems to be really tightening up now.
Another smoke.
Bring Lall in as you push down that bottom wave all the way to tier 3.
So they're forcing the hand of Nigma Galaxy to send someone back.
Spirit see that it's Lornoff, Storm clears bottom wave and then has to sit in fountain
so they know as Spirit that there could be a vacuum to fill in that top lane which
They are currently angling towards going fishing for Sumail.
But Nigma also, you know, we should praise what they're doing here.
Very good read on the map.
So as Storm shows himself bottom, they realize that it's super dangerous to be in the top area.
So instead, they back up a bit, just sort of harmonizing with the moves of their mid laner.
Let him go and fill up his mana pool and then they can look for a fight of their own.
Team Spirit still have some duration on the smoke, but it's halfway timed out.
really just wanting to set up for this next Roche. I'd imagine the supports would love
to go get some wards down in the enemy. Ancient area near the outpost somewhere across there,
but they actually don't have any on them. But this is just a move hunting and looking
for kills. They're not going to be able to prep and set up. As I said, I've checked
Bane's courier. He does have it.
It's right there. He's got one one observer word that they could plant deeply in as
Roshan just have spawned. It would be nice to get some vision onto the high ground.
And Bane just doing some inventory slot juggling.
He got too many items. Ethel ends Glimmer, Blink. Oh, it's a dream for Bane.
Also nice to see that Smeil added his own Blink Dagger so that he can pick his target a
little bit better. She's very strong at running in and killing someone but
it's a pretty predictable playstyle as well, just running up and hitting someone. So now
with a blink a little bit harder to to stay safe against the Windranger.
Some pretty pretty big items on the horizon for Nygma Galaxy.
I don't know if they necessarily need them before the next team fight,
but it would obviously feel good if they could finish off
the shivers guard on the axe with some advice on this.
Storm Spirit, very strong tools that can
Dictate the outcome of a team fight
Phoenix is also saving long term for a she or for a hex as a next item
Makes sense, but only has 1800 gold. So quite a while to go there
But uh, yeah team spirit, I mean, they're the ones who just hit item timings
That's where they are the ones trying to drive here, but this is panic. They want to force a fight right now
Amber also added a little bit of tankiness by getting the plate mail working on the she was as mentioned earlier
Yeah, and and so far spirit haven't really been able to have a fight on their own terms. It's been
Nygma galaxy smoking and running at them forcing
Reactive rolling thunder reactive grip they actually find a way to pop a Lincoln's or get a grip on a key target
It's way way nicer for them to start the fight that way
And Chandra is considering her next neutral item tier four and Chandra's ball
I'm in here.
Pondering as we head back into the game.
No, don't just pondering the orb. Pondering the bobble.
Bore.
Pondering the bobble. Yeah, probably not gonna hold on to the
poor man shield again here. Let's see.
No, let me go and see you're sitting waiting.
Not playing under any vision, so it's still a little bit spooky over here in the fog.
his scan is a little bit off to his side he could get jumped here
oh they're all he's under they're gonna get straight on him with the grip as well
they're trying to come across the name of guys he to try and save long enough that
they're not quick enough the flurry of pain is the realization
very close to him getting away he did get the wisdom at least so he's level 25 now
got to balance talents they can wait until he responds before the next fight happens
that's very good for them but 90 seconds does mean that this rush is on the menu any bounty rooms
he's 30 gold away from buyback
that's true he won't get his buyback soon if you want to go and fight i think he's calling it
he's 10 gold away from buyback now so he will have it you think so they're gonna go for this
they start on lul 9s save or gets lul away he's gonna be able to bkb and stay alive and now
remnant and go to dive onto GH's Phoenix. Lara can chase this one down. Rue and not me,
from the right hand side, trying to catch up to Dubai now. GH has the supernova Sunray to be
placed, Kalec's bouncing between the rocks, Yattaro just opens up and kills the egg as Omar
and Sumail, they're in some serious trouble. They've brought Lona back with a buy back and
he's getting onto Lara, the Embers Spirit, slight dodging some damage with the dunk there.
The bell rings again as Dubai slams down onto him, but Lara is gonna buy. Both Miss
This lane is returning to the fight as a Shackle Shot.
It catches two of them, but they're unable to follow through.
So mid lane and mid lane, a buyback buyback.
We lose two supports on the Radiant, Bane dies on the Dire.
But in the end, Yathrow, he got the Aegis to begin with.
Yeah, T-Spirits have to make something happen now though, because they bought back on Laurel.
I think they could have been happy with the buyback of Storm trying to get out from there and just accept the result of the fight.
But now with this buyback, they need to get some pushing done.
Oh, they'll do it. Yeah, they'll push that tier 2.
Thinking about tier 3 as well with the Roshan banner.
Yatro just steps up by the staircase.
Demi starts with a blink call.
Collapse poking with the nullifier to pop the Lincoln's on that Windranger.
But they've got to deal with the creep wave coming in.
Roshan's banner makes it very difficult to stop the push,
but in regards to throwing everything they can in towards this creep wave.
That's pretty rough.
The banner still stays alive, but the wave did get dragged and killed.
And to fight, they can get rolled on.
He moved in here, trying to play aggressively to defend his base.
Team Spirit not going to go for the cold dive as Lornaugh gets into the back line.
Yathra now shackled up, damage coming in from the Wind Ranger.
The Bay Nightmare is here, but the Wheel of Wanda are well placed there to pop the Aegis already.
Team Spirit have got some heavy lifting now to do to protect Yathra as Shadowfemme collapsed.
He's gonna pick things up, but a grip on the Windranger at the front boxed up and saved by the Ringmaster.
Lornoff zipped on to Yathrow, the BKB Shatterfeed hammering the GH, but he dives away now.
So many ways to disengage and get a bit of distance from your enemies.
Yathrow, he needs protection. He needs some of the saving. He'll get a pushback away from Divy, but the hammer is there!
Once again, slaying the beast as Sumail chased away by Lall, but able to stand there tanking through the onslaught.
Sumail's Windranger finally found by spirit!
That's Lornoff!
The blink of an eye!
Trying to protect the storm!
He gets the job done!
Collapses pango though!
Just keeps on going!
Scotty's slow from Sumail.
The buyback of the Windranger.
Needing to get a little bit more out of this one.
Collapses rolling up and then beeping away.
The full thunder comes out and he gets the distance.
These fights man.
Crazy stuff going down.
In the end the fiendscript game cancel there was really really clutch.
I didn't see if he did get vortex on him
because he glimmer kpop and I felt that he would be able to get the full channel on his fiend's crew but
either way fight works out the way of nygma galaxy and the buyback on windranger not puts them in a
similar spot to what his spirit had before need to make something happen need to get value
preferably force the buyback on at least someone as if would be great but if the chapter spice
back I think they're at least happy with that I would be 9k damage by windranger 8500
by the Storm Spirit. 28 total by Nygma Galaxy there. Oh yeah, that was in-dualty. In effect,
a dieback from this Laurel Ember Spirit gone for the better part of a minute now.
Team Spirit didn't get that tier three mid lane. Never mind a lane of Barracks. It's
Nygma Galaxy who comes sprinting down that mid lane, run it all the way back, looking at a
lane for themselves, jump in from Dubai, catching not me with that attempted nightmare
halting to the push, but he's just dunked down into oblivion. Collapsed with a rolling
thunder causing a bit of chaos but I think we can't see sticking to their guns and hitting the
buildings. My barracks are falling. A good ward sentry. A lot of damage coming in from Rue here
but he has to care enough to overstep. If he does get jumped by anyone, he'll have to fight.
And Blink calls in. So Mal is going to try with the focus flyer here onto Rue. It's a little
risky but long enough. Think he can go for Yathrow though. With the ball lighting into
Vortex after X, they use the Nightmare Save and the BKBF.
Wheel of One is not going to work and Yattaro, he can start clicking into the egg.
GH, far too far forward.
Killed off as Team Spirit buyback the two supports, returning fire onto Sumail now with Collapse.
Getting on the Wind Ranger, they can move forward with the Remnants and maybe find Sumail.
He's tanky but not able to survive through Yattaro's damage and now they've got Dubai as well.
Team Spirit, they spend two more buybacks this time on supports.
They defend their base but they still lose a lane of Barracks.
I mean, they killed the Windranger though. She's dead with no buyback. This massive two minutes of no wind
They could just push and this is gonna be a very difficult defense
They do have triple buyback who stormed one of the best base defense heroes since you could zip out zip back again and keep
Keep using mana and refilling with the fountain
But 90 seconds of no wind ranger asked her about to crack your high ground. This is a very very
precarious situation for Neymar. What a crazy game so back and forth both teams finding angles
We've not had more than a 4k net worth lead in 50 minutes of gameplay
Super tight between these two squads
Make my galaxy though. You're right on the back foot with no win ranger for 70 seconds
We'll get the balance back in the game with this mid lane of racks taken out on the right side
With the big movie goes full butterfly no buyback. He's not saving buyback for this diagram push
She's just gonna go for the butterfly and say let's get some damage done. So his DPS is actually crazy right now. That's the same
Monumental Shadow Fiend. Six-slotted. No boots. Who needs them?
Not a bad item, as the Windranger also already bought the crystal list. She's committed towards the Daedalus and will not have MKB.
Another tier three tower. After it finishes the job, Storm Spirit trying to shove out that mid wave.
By about a time, don't allow Team Spirit to get anything more after these two lanes of Barracks.
I can imagine Spirit just say okay one lane remains all we have to do now is play through the enemy ancients play through top
Yeah, I think they're gonna back up and start taking the safe areas and safe objectives
There's wisdom to be taken for themselves. They're tormentor that could possibly pay for and of course Roche is the big objective
Next Roche is still not up just yet could spawn in a minute and a half
I'm curious to see if Omar is gonna buy this DKB or if there's something else he'll pick up.
Like, maybe he will go for a hex as well.
Daedalus has been purchased on the Windranger as well.
Doesn't have buyback anyways, so Leis will spend the gold.
You have Double Scan, and on top left corner Raiden and Daa are both looking at the gate.
There we go, it's encountering up with an interesting position to smoke from.
Top left corner, and now I'm gonna be sweeping down through the map as they have to...
Yeah, line's drawn by GH, they have to come back and deal with mid and bottom wave.
Hmm, big item is just in.
The Aghanim Slipper on Bane means that you have to keep your ringmaster box to protect whoever gets fiend script.
Otherwise, you're gonna struggle to cancel it.
They've been spotted, but they didn't see exactly where it was standing.
They've been found.
Shackle shot into Wheel of Wanda.
Collapse.
Dead for two minutes.
And Team Spirit, they're smoked up and looking for a fight even without the Pangolier.
And they try to swarm across to the Raiden Ancient spot where GH has ragged a massive
wave around, but Lorinock is there to zip over the smoke, season them all coming.
Reveals everything. Pretty old man on the storm but still, vision is very keen here.
The Lornoff is a madman! Look at him go!
He zips in, uses all his mana, pops the grieves, keeps on going on Yantro but he's being gripped up now.
Yantro trying to stand there with his satanic going when he's got too many targets to try and hit.
Lornoff breaks free, the Shadowfiend's dead, not me now, dug into the ground by Devine as well!
Nygma Galaxy! On the back of Lornoff, just balling in.
I can't help but feel that that was a suicidal attempt though, they're going out and playing
without their pango going in in this aggressive move so they relied heavily on the surprise
factor no one will expect that we're going for this move but unfortunately for them
Storm just zipped down to check the rune and they found everybody and once the jig
is up they do not win a 5v4.
And now, Bane dead for 80, Pangol dead still.
No buyback on him.
Ashe, Ashe is crazy.
He should be game here, as if he can buyback, but there's plenty to deal with the Shadow
Fiend.
Ashe's home spirit straight in, jump and heck-law, already forcing a defensive PKB.
Or not have plenty of tank to be able to zip away.
Shackle's shot to the M momentarily.
It seems Spirit have had to buy back the Shadowfiend just to hold on to what little remains of their base.
The Vi goes for a thought and call in on the lull and he's going to fight the Dunk down on the Ember Spirit.
Flyback's available for him.
He's going to have to spend it here because Nick McGann has to keep clicking their tier fours.
Fantastic damage being done.
You will definitely have to use it just trying to wait for the Pangol Respawn.
With the Pangol Respawn and the buyback from him, maybe they can put up a fight in their own base.
Oh, they can feel it.
So, Mael wants his last test ball tower.
He'll throw an expose now.
Yeah, they're going to play it safe.
Nicely done by Nigma.
They take a good fight.
They backouts, get the money from these double towers
and expose the throne for a future attempt.
Find themselves an arc in Rune on Storm
and Rosh just available.
This is just absolutely fantastic spot to be in.
That is wild to me.
I mean, I know Axe has had a few victories
through this quarterflier, but I feel like every game that I've cast,
Axe's look pretty sad than lost games, he gets taken out of the game, brought back as a clanker and all of a sudden Debye is like, oh yeah, this is the good stuff.
Debye has played amazing in this game, this entire, like, from start to finish as well, the lane, they were winning a lane against the Chantris SF, that is not easy to do as Max, but uh, yeah, he just noses in and outs really well in this hero.
And he went for an arcane blink. I love to see that. So get a little bit of mana regen from that whenever you blink
And of course being able to blink at a long distance as well
It's a pretty nice thing for axe can surprise people a lot the extra bit of range 200 more range on this
Make my galaxy on the verge we got the largest network leader we've had this game so far 8k to the good
It's still a situation where both teams are down two lanes of racks each
But when you're a radiant team here with Aegis cheese, and you've run the last couple of teamfights
Dominating fashion team spirit. I've got a lot of work to do and they're morale down in the dumps right now
Aegis cheese and also refresh a shard over on the Phoenix is pretty worth mentioning too because that's a very very strong thing for him to have
He can use one ulti a bit more aggressively
And that's a nice combination. If you go both lead, then that sets up for the axe to just punish whoever tries to focus down the edge
He's still a 6.5k gold by the way on GH and
expecting that he really wants to keep his buyback, but he does want the hex, so we're gonna see him hold gold for a little while longer
Yeah, that's a crazy spike right there pointed out play the observer
They're back and forth in this game
Well yeah, it was like 4k lead maximum for the first 50 minutes then all of a sudden
they out there super big jump spirit having a 10k lead then back to 13k over on the
galaxy.
Here we go, Daedalus Shadowfeed, team spirit looking for the high ground hold.
Dark rune is timed out at least so Storm doesn't have that, he does have a regimune
however.
I have to use the two heroes for buybacks pretty well here, but of course the buyback.
Thanks my team spirit.
I love Lord of the land.
This guy is such a gamer.
He's bull lightning into the middle of the enemy base, says, hey how you doing?
Hello there.
And then bull lightnings away.
Yeah.
And finish farming his I of Scotty as well, so that's a full thing.
damn tank you know a lot of HP a lot of stats damn it SF also super line on the
satanic yeah SF with the Daedalus chewing up the rape you're next
DPS is insane but he doesn't get the right technique well I think they cannot win the
fights so all eyes on Yattra really it really is yeah my love collapse they
are chaos creators noise yeah no DPS really they are flag bearers for the
big man shadow fiend make the guy see you for a moment here divide is looking
with shadows trying to find a link all but won't get it this time
way out for that banner and stressy will first get a couple of hits in there
but everything's going to lift up catapults launching projectiles on that
tier three right still trying to find this opening quite a bold move
Here's the one with the Aegis, don't forget.
All pretty clear for him to go, but they've got a grip on the storm.
He's being focused up. Where's the save? Anything to get?
Law and a Power!
There's nothing! Davai's going to go back in, but he's just being hammered by the Shadowfiend.
And we'll remnant forward. There's the first Supernova with the Sun Rates atop the axe back up.
Lala's low and has to get back towards Fountain, so Team Spirit, they scramble to try and get Lala there!
Has he just barely straight past that Power Shot?
You see that split-second decision right there? The moment Ringmaster uses Boxer on the axe to prevent him losing all his HP, they say,
okay, we can go and not me, sees his chance, goes in, fiendscripts this form, just very, very fast on realizing the possibility there.
Soon that possibility will not be available though, because we see Ringmaster buying an Agadamn Scepter next, so he will have two charges on the escape act.
Right over here. We're also about to reach TF5 neutral item time again for the second time as qualifier.
oh yeah any any good stuff will we see a book of the dead Windranger again oh my
god please no come on smell you know it it's a good item on Windranger
actually wrote to me after I came it was like book of the dead you know I could not
believe his eyes the same as me but yeah I mean I get it sometimes you get
better options but I don't feel like that was the case there so we'll see
Yeah, this one plays out.
Couple of minutes to go.
It's all into 60 minutes.
That ball team seemed to kind of fall back on farming
and patrolling.
A D.D. room gets grabbed for a lower low.
And the A just times out, so now we
see them being a bit more respectful of team spirits.
This is where it has to feel bad to be a NIGMA still,
because you're two racks taken against a team spirit.
58 minutes into the game.
But you just know you can never count them out.
Even if the Throne is fully exposed, it's Team Spirit, man.
It's late game scary.
Yeah, I genuinely wonder if maybe the better strategy there
would be to not, you kind of want to go for this last line
of ranks and get mega creeps, right?
But maybe it would have been better
to do one of these surprise plays,
where you smoke into top.
Have the fight in the wide open base,
rather than this funnel channel,
where you're stuck with a Shadowfiend just hitting you?
Yeah, the thing is Team Spirit would probably read it too.
So if you're not poking up the high ground,
they know there's only one thing you're likely to do with Aegis Powerplay and that's going in there.
So their read is so good overall.
They're omnipotent, omniscient. They see, smell, hear, feel, everything.
Would you agree, though, that T-Spirits' biggest enemy in this game have been themselves?
They took a fight when they had, you know, the pangled dead earlier,
they took the fight when they elected to go into the rune spot that was low ground.
I mean, not to take away from Nigma, I think they played amazingly,
but T-Spirits had made some choices that felt like it made the game harder for themselves.
Yeah, I definitely don't think they've been playing at their highest level.
That's for them, I'm sure.
Captain Beans is still about 50, so they've held their own for the most part.
Even though they've had these cock-ups, they're in a position here where it's still a reasonably even game.
This game is getting to a crazy point right now, though.
We're getting to this point where Esiv is close to the full rapier.
The tier 5 items are coming in in 10 seconds.
We'll start farming for that.
and a smoke coming out. This is the dishonorable play, you know?
They don't want to go for the tier five items.
They want to go stab someone who's farming for them.
That's a shield rune.
Great rune for some mail to have.
6,000 health win ranger, huh?
Blinks in, gets grip,
Linkin's already pumping, they got the box.
Saved up and BKT's up.
It's collapsed.
I have to try and roll away for a missed chance.
And he's protecting him, and it's not me.
He's getting burst down by Lorno.
Vayne is gone.
So now I'm holding the line there protecting the Yathrow Shatter theme.
So I'm just getting a bit of distance now as Lorna, good to fly.
I think aggressively if you try and find another jump,
Bull Lightning ain't going to collapse this time as the Storm Sprit
clears through the Pangolair and Yathrow just can't hit anyone.
As Bull Lightning in and out as the sprikin' supernova
Sunbeck trying to deal with an active jump send for the coal and the kill.
G.H. picks up the double.
Team Spirgness, start trying to buy back and return fire,
But why goodness, Nick Mcgalaxy just dumped it on him.
Yeah, fantastic stuff.
And we see the difference when they get a good fiend script
on someone who cannot be saved or when the ringmaster is ready.
Sitting behind Omar, good positioning, ready there,
keeps his windranger safe.
The shield wound definitely helped as well,
but that fight was dominant for them.
And Storm used the cheese plus healing lordos as well
to refresh his entire mana pool twice.
Keep fighting a lot.
All right, flyback time.
This road is getting hit by these super creeps.
Bot lane's being put down by Sumail.
And they want more.
They're not happy with just these flybacks.
They want the S-S, they want the effort.
Damn it, Sumail's already jumped it onto Rude,
trying to elicit a reaction,
but they've got a grip on his axe.
Sumail's gonna get three of it,
but rolling thunder connecting nicely here onto this.
Sumail duo blowing them up on the high ground.
Now a nightmare side by Sniper Yattaro
with a sun ray that damages the wheel of wonder
and Lorna finishes the job.
Chateauphine's gone for a long time now!
Long enough, might be in trouble though, still with Long and Collapsed on his tail, they clear him out!
Nigma Galaxy, we're gonna have 5 buybacks to try and finish the game, it might just be the play!
Yeah, they're just rushing for it. Storm doesn't have TP though, he has to make it over there.
Oh, he used his TP before he died, I think.
This is a cool dumb.
We TP'd on the outpost earlier.
Devine's holding his buyback. I'm pretending, I don't have a buyback.
Of course, I would've used it if I had one.
But he's got Boots of Tramble too.
Yeah, he will buy back onto a hero in the team fight and that's a very very scary prospect here
He can jump right into the fight onto whichever hero he wants the smoke even on this play Omar scouting for steam
He's looking for it five versus four. There's the buyback TPing onto the storm
Collapsing in plastic down he goes as well long after being gripped up by the cyclone in the sky
He's gonna buy some time and save him up has not me get surrounded on all sides the vibe hammers him down as
Team Spirit, back in the fountain, trying to hide as Nigma Galaxy,
overwhelm, swarm, clear out, hero after hero, and start looking for the throne.
Lyle can do what he can, trying to poke from fountain,
flip up the ancient, but it's dying eventually.
Nigma Galaxy, on the brink of victory.
A few more punches under the building,
shatter the foundation the Team Spirit's face.
Get this Game 1 victory in the books and force the GG out of Yataro.
What a way to start a series.
fantastic start here and what a play they should feel good about themselves for
this one honestly impressive stuff coming out from nigma a little bit
unorthodox things is coming out as well with a carry wind ranger and running you
know this this off lane that should have struggled from the axe against the
SF actually running that lane so hard I think ruined Yathor's usual timings
normally we see him being this monsters carry but that wasn't really the case
here. Now he got shut down tremendously. Yeah. Even though it took him a while and that's the
difference between the usual team spirit that we see and this sort of delayed power spike. Yeah,
because our usual team spirit we see is like level five Yattrow guarding six minute rune,
you know, rotating from top to mid, playing aggressively, but yeah, he was forced back
to jungle. So we didn't get any of those classic Yattrow aggressive moves in the first 10
10 minutes. It was just sat back so much.
Yeah, and that goes back, it feels like an eternity of a while now, but those early decisions by Smale,
who suddenly three times make moves towards mid in the early game,
just coming in almost every other minute I feel like, on the mark, just coming in for the power runes and having impact.
So tanky as well.
Windranger, with this build, ending up with like 5,000 health, is kind of crazy.
Stompsburg, sliding a Skadi in onto his build too.
You know it reminds me a lot of the Lena carry, it was very similar, this ranged hero with
like 4k HP and dealing its own damage still.
It's not too dissimilar from that and yeah I think he played a very very clean game over
on Sumail but credit to all of them honestly.
I think Omar was on point with the saves, GH was there with his Wind Waker towards
the end with the save as well and his ulti's were really nice.
even though his Ultis sometimes got bursted, I think they were at crucial moments where
focusing the attention onto his egg was necessary. And yeah, the man of the hour I think for sure,
the Vi 17, 4 and 20 on this act. Impressive stuff. 77% kill participation, with an awful
ton of damage jumping onto people. Yeah, gorgeous stuff. Nibbigasi had to do a lot of work
to get to this point. You know, there's still a lot of scary points where you're thinking,
oh, this game is dead even. Team Spirit, they're going to come back, find this moment.
But Team Spirit didn't really match up against these cool surprise smoke ganks. The Nigmagalcy just
kept on pumping towards them. There was never a moment to reset, rest, relax. It was non-stop
aggression from Nigmagalcy as they take a game one victory over Team Spirit. We'll find out how
it all moves on though. Game two coming away right around the corner.
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Welcome back to this year, 2026, European regional qualifiers.
Again, back into the upper bracket, qualification slot on the line is best of three and Nigma
Galaxy one step closer with a game one victory over team spirit.
What they're doing it.
They're one game away now from immediately qualifying here.
Very impressive stuff against the spirit in game number one.
Team spirit would give them a little bit of flak saying that, you know,
maybe not looking as sharp as they usually do.
So we'll see if they bounce back stronger in game number two.
But I don't want to take anything away from what Nigma did as well.
I think they did play really well together.
We saw the cohesion in the team.
We saw the plays, the saves coming in from the supports and also how much damage they brought from all these different cores, honestly.
The Wind Ranger obviously was the big, single-tory damage, but Axe did a ton, Storm set up a lot of vision and also did quite a bit of damage.
And a second-picked Storm, kind of going untouched through the draft and in the game,
and I think that's why we're
going to have a lot of
players. We're going to have
a lot of players. Lorno felt
very free just a ball lightning
into the middle of people to
give vision, give information
and break the formation of
team spirit. And a spectacular
fashion and very thematic from
the galaxy as well with acts
and ringmaster, both being
picked and winning. I think
they picked enough to deal
with the storm. Ideally if
he doesn't have a save on
to be. They have searing chains to lock down. They have the
pangol to chain stun. So some good tools, but with the ring
master being there, that kind of changes the deal, you know, oh,
you can deal with the nice storm. I think not.
How we get the fist bumps, the handshakes, the clap and
the hands get ourselves into drafting mode as we pivot
towards game two, and see what kind of adaptation Team Spirit
are going to make against this very awake, aggressive,
Ready, Nick McGarney side.
Okay, I have a new rating, by the way.
How many pro players have you seen with a plant on the camera?
I feel like that's a unique stat.
The Vi actually has a plant next to him.
That's unique, man.
I don't think I've seen a player who actually has some oxygen refreshing stuff in the room.
A player with a plant?
Has plants here?
Well, he played so good.
Yep.
He's got the oxygen going.
He's smart the my tapping into that that's in real life
science on a side
Now we have a period where a few players were trying the nasal strips right to try and keep the the nasal passage open to keep more oxygen flowing
Divide like now if the air
Yeah, it's like now I use plant
Exactly well same band so far from team spirit I owe
No, Cottle. Viper was there in the last game as that third ban, but it might have to shift
into something different.
And if you let Lernoff have his storm again, you don't want to ban the Viper, then what
do you want to get rid of?
It's still the Viper.
Nobody wants to play against the Viper.
It's just a shitty hero to lane against, you know, it's frustrating.
It also limits your options a lot, because if you have these heroes that you think
you can normally have a good game with, if you just get off to a good start, you
You may not have a good start at all against someone who enjoys playing Viper and actually
plays it really well.
Some teams will pick out Viper as a counter to a specific thing, but they're happy to
pick Viper just period, you know.
It doesn't matter who.
Shadowfiend first pick.
Team Spirit.
We're going to run it back.
They can have everything they wanted, right?
It's the same bands as the first game.
Yeah, things are identical thus far. Will we see the Phoenix again as well?
I think that's a pretty easy call because Nigma, they love their Phoenix.
So what was next? There was a Sniper and a Clockwork ban, and then Puck ban into
Storm and then Enchantress picks. I wonder if you really want to ban the
Clockwork. I feel like that was a bit of a strange ban to me from Team
spirit. I would like to see them, you know, part-time acts a bit higher. So I would much
rather see an axe band than a clockwork band from them because they can play clockwork
themselves here. Right? There it is. Clock SF is a very, very powerful combo.
Remove the automaton, let the turn man with the battle plan back in. And I would
imagine Sniper is still on that list up there as a hero they've got to ban.
I think so. I think Sniper is fair to ban against Nigma. They're one team who
has already shown here in this qualifier as well that they'd like to play it. Then
course many tournaments and qualifiers before. It is just a hero that suits Lornov really well.
You're not really thinking about this.
Team Spirit are being shaken by Nygma Galaxy. Rattled.
Yeah, I think this is pretty predictable after last game though. The axe was not going to be
available if you don't first face pick him. So if they wanted axe, I think they had to take
over the Phoenix. It's just a Phoenix because it fits into more drafts and less ways of getting
shut down I think, but they're going to have to get something else.
Yeah, I wonder if they also rethink this duo of supports that Team Spirit had. The Bane and the
Enchantress felt good when we thought it was like Bane SF, then Ench is going to apply pressure,
but it never really came to fruition. So they leave the Sniper in, they ban out the
the largo really targeting down on the offlane now instead.
Remove some of device heroes.
Got to keep in the back of your head, though, you know, he
absolutely could bring out one of these summons heroes or another
one of the big team fighters. You know, make sure that if
divide is given a later pick that you cover all your bases
against, you know, enigma like and some of the zoo boys.
I feel like it's unfortunate thing, by the way, that they
enjoy playing phoenix so much because divide otherwise is a very good night stalker player as well but
anti-synergetic to pick those two on the same team. Yeah maybe if they bring out like a lull park
they could still slot it in make it feel good but yeah with the daybreak of the supernova
making a daytime feels kind of sad for night stalker.
The fifth band for the galaxy taking a little bit of time on this one
one. Previously it was the pluck that they had removed. Just wonder if there's, I don't
know, they're afraid of pango or like an earlier weird pick from lol. The pluck is still going
to be the option though.
So far we're sticking with the script for enigma. It's very easy when you go from
game one drafting something and then game two you just literally copy your homework
from the previous one.
I feel like I'm stuck in Groundhog Day right now, I guess.
Literally the same band, same opening picks, except for the axe and lago, I guess.
Not banning out the pucks, sort of signals they might grab up the storm again, but what sniper available, things are a bit different.
Clockwork, of course, available as well.
I guess they can be flexible with these.
Usually we've seen the clockwork feel more comfortable as a pos5 with those turret heroes
Like you would you imagine like Phoenix could shift to four or is it clockwork for?
A clock can do a pretty good job like dragging waves and being annoying against certain supports
Yeah, I like clock a bit more on the same thing not gonna lie
But it comes down to what they want to play as their core heroes. So ultimately they're keeping that flex open
They're also going to get some information here as the pics are coming in 14 spirits
So maybe for now you don't really have a fixed idea where clock and things goes and you just see what here's come out
Now, you know Bane, you know could be a tricky hero to pull creep waves against so maybe off-link lock is gonna struggle a lot
And you put Phoenix there instead I
Still want this Bane to be with the SF though. I'm not sold on Bane plus for when you already have a Bane SF Lane in your draft
looks like that's where it's going to go. Marana picked up and that's probably the five.
Yeah. I mean Marana trades decently against Phoenix is the benefit there. So Marana SF
but Marana SF has very low kill potential as a combination unless your opponent play,
you know, make mistakes in their place.
Like playing to you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think Bane SF would feel nicer because sure Bane doesn't trade
as well against Phoenix's Maronados, but you trade okay.
You have brain tap, you can stay alive.
And then when people start going down into like 60% HP,
one nightmare can set up a kill.
Yeah, I guess they just keep themselves,
what you're saying, flexible and open
with the way they want to put the heroes.
And then we guys are going to come back
with the Storm Spirit for Loronoff.
Showed off tremendous amount of skill in that previous game.
He doesn't have the save behind him this time though,
like without the ringmaster,
It might not be as free for him.
I could totally see, by the way, either Amber or Invoker
coming out for Two-Spirit here.
So you can need to draft with those two in mind, I think,
for Laurel.
There are some good options.
She's back in the enigma.
Offlaner, as they see the SF plus the two supports.
Enigma is going to be the choice.
It's an OK hero against it.
A little bit inconvenient that there's already
the fiend script which is amazing at cancelling the black hole. But it's not a weak lane and
this can allow Clockwork to even be played POS4 if you want it. Because Nigma Clockwork
is a good combo.
Yeah, I mean it's like POS4 for the first two minutes then you leave Nigma alone and
you play mid basically, right? Clockwork just goes, plays through twin gates, plays
to mid, guards runes, there's a lot of freedom. And this is an enigma who, yeah
like you said there's a grip, there's something to deal with it but for the
most part he's a summons hero and plays through idolons, creates that big open space and gets
raided inside top part of the map where he can control the aura than idolons.
Laurel thinking about what I discussed earlier probably the ember and invoker being available
there's more heroes as well they could play if they want something to kill the pango or
the idolons and pango has an option as well to go to he's going to go for the ember,
of the firsts. First choice. A lot of times the first instinct is just the best choice as well.
Yeah, very often. I'm just wondering now, like if Enigma goes for this kind of drums or a build,
we could slot in a Sumer of Terrorblade or something.
I'm having him play quickly. Twin Gate through, get towers early on.
I don't find it at all. I think TP is a great call. It's the right archetype of a hero that
that would fit nicely here. The ban out the wind ranger respect for the previous game.
But the Doom ban also kind of, you know, sure they have they have the storm in their team,
right? But it kind of tells me that the TV could be on their mind. Could also be the Necro.
Something that Simail has really enjoyed playing.
10 seconds remaining. And Doom also very strong in the hands of collapse.
The final ban for Team Spirit, but to lock it in, figure out what's the spookiest hero
on the map in the hands of Sumail right now.
Through these qualifiers, we've played a fair number of different heroes.
Taking away the comforts, removing the potential for this Necro to come out, because as you
said, the aura plus the heal coming in from Necro would be a pretty fierce on push
and could play in an early timer. Plus, the Reaper side, there's a pretty annoying thing
to play against this Ember. You play aggressive and suddenly you just get held in plays and
you die. The first Necroban, Nigma did it. They forced this.
Yeah, got to. You can't let Sumail have his Necrophos. It's too strong. All right, collapse.
What's your hero?
He has a deep hero pool, but again he's been targeted, the doom and the sentar being removed
and of course some of their own bans, the ban on axe, taking away an option for him.
Also picking into a counter pick. Maybe you just go for something flexible. Don't
one dying. Yeah, don't go on dying. This is the tight hunter. Just a solid all around
hero. But other teams would be looking at this thinking, oh, okay, a nightfall or so
would come out here or maybe some kind of skitter razor or something that would irritate
the tide. I'm not sure if Somail has that depth.
Questioning Somail in a carry role. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, he's
very skilled players just you know swap in roles and having that depth of hero pool in terms of
actually being an exceptional player on certain heroes. You know what would go hard here? T.A.
Coming in with this male T.A. safe lane, get the tempo going, get the building damage going.
A T.A. against a tide. Yeah. I think Coro would have some firm words against that.
And maybe T.A. with tide because that gives you everything. You would have everything but if
if you pick TA you have 50% you go half way. It's just a coin flip then isn't it?
It's 50-50, title one team, TA no.
Quite difficult choice, you got last pick here. It doesn't feel easy to find that
hero. I'm still thinking Terriblade but...
Yeah it's not clean TB game though. It's good but it's not super easy.
Skank or with Spectre, more flavor of the month or flavor of the patch I should say.
A hero that has been doing really well, also not too bad against some of the heroes that want to
stay safe like Bane, want to sit in the tree line, look for a nice fiend script, you just get
ulted by the enemy carry and suddenly you're in trouble. Place well with Storm as well,
Storm and Clockwork can easily initiate and Spectre can follow up on top of that.
It's not the best counter in the lane though, it's the one thing.
This top lane could be a little bit shaky.
Tidehunter should be pretty comfortable against the spectre, so a lot of pressure onto GH on his support here.
Next, there's going to be that clockwork enigma top lane into this Shadowfiend and Bane,
so they do put Not-Me on that Marana, so he's laning with the collapsed Tide.
Ember against Storm again in the mid lane.
Both players still pretty happy just to have that match up and head into mid game. Didn't see any glaring problems with that kind of situation
But I kind of like this nigga galaxy play through divide play through this aura buying idling spawning
black hole holding guy
Because specter could sit on one side of the map
Stormspirit is pretty global. This is a global strat, right?
You've got one static hero in the enigma and then everyone else can move towards him one way or another
It's pretty true. Yeah, there's a lot of mobility for sure
I do like the drafts a lot coming out from both teams.
You can see the idea coming out.
NIGMA have very strong late game with the NIGMA and the Spectre,
so they don't have any time pressure necessarily on them.
At the same time, I think the Inspirits have nice ulti combinations coming out with the tide.
SF can easily lay into each other.
And I value Murana a little bit higher as well over time here.
Just the Moonlight Shadow is a very nice spell to look for these rotations,
catch someone else.
Not just the envist, the little bit of extra unpredictability you could say from this support.
Yeah.
And yeah, this Ravage, something that I felt like Team Spirit were definitely lacking in that Game 1 was a hard reset.
Some way to stop the swarming of Nygma Galaxy Heroes, something that just like,
okay guys, we pop Ravage and either we can go aggressive or we can fall back.
Something that allows them to turn the tides of battle one way or another.
because LL was KL taking annoying collapse was KL taking annoying on the ember and the pango
But there wasn't anything that was really like this is our fight, you know stamp your mark on it
Yeah, and when you're dealing with a nigma with a black hole, you'd need something to try and counteract that
There we go, then to best of three
Nigam and galaxy a single win away from qualifying to TI a team spirit gonna put up their strongest defense here to stop
That from happening
We lost the match and both teams are looking for one of them early on.
That's true, we're really close here, we just need to stay focused and clock at a clicky.
The threats are coming out.
Who's he talking to?
Anyone who will listen?
I mean, tipped collapse, so just assume that he's going to get his head early.
I guess so.
Both teams are gonna smoke out
Looks like maybe guys are heading with three down south
I want to say one thing worth mentioning about the tide pick for collapse is that also is pretty good against the storm
Once you get your shard later on you can throw the dead in water on him
It could be a really good way to lock him down because they needed something to help lock down the storm
Obviously ravages very costly to do it, but shard you can do it on a lower cooldown and recently
Can you conspect a reality away from stuff when she's been?
I don't think so, but I haven't tried it. I'm not sure not certain on that
Most mobility abilities are canceled by it, but it's not always true
So because it doesn't say she she doesn't she doesn't blink or teleport or and she she assumes specter
Assumes the target Shatterstep or haunt illusion destroying it, but I know I saw his assumption
mobility
Root stops assumptions
The route of the evil.
You mean no longer assume?
You mean no longer assume.
Well, we'll try to keep our eyes out for that interaction.
If Zed and the Wolf actually pay his off against the Spectre or not.
For now, keep tabs on that mid lane.
And the Spirit against the Storm.
Law against Lornoff.
Honestly, Lornoff has had such a tremendous career as a stand-in.
Every time he's joined an actual team, it hasn't looked particularly good.
He's had that special stand-in effect.
But here on Nygma Galaxy, that story's completely changed.
changed he's coming here and look like an incredible player from start to finish
yeah for sure he's a mercenary has been dumb-bought them wow
mercenaries there's some battle going on ah collapse double G8 traded not me
getting sliced down by some male a double kill for specter already out of this
safe lane how does that even happen what a starch man that is amazing stuff I
mean it comes down to Phoenix really Phoenix is a scary hero to trade
hits against and they took a lot of
retics and burned from the dying light as well.
You come into the king's lane with no
gift, and get killed. Executed in that bot lane by some mail.
Magic of their lives.
Aspective of two kills already in
laning stage. Has the urn ready.
Six stick charges. Oh, that's a great start.
Pretty fantastic spot now because even if he
dies, he goes back with the burn charge
charge if he gets killed then it's even better so it's a win-win situation from here.
GH driving back onto not me again. Leap charge used has one remaining, taking a tremendous
amount of damage from the fire spirits. And the dagger. It kept collapsing at least farming
in front of his tier one for the moment. He needs to get a few CS finally after the
first kills going the way of Spectre there. Meanwhile this enigma lane not quite as easy
for them on the side of enigma galaxy. Picking enigma normally you want to pick it against
some carry who doesn't have an easy way to kill the idolons. SF does kill the idolons
but it's not super simple but he just had the raise and pretty strong damage for the
presence as well.
I think they're pretty powerful. You can always send the idolons to go and deal with the Dane.
This might not transparently annoying.
Alright now he's dealing with the creeps.
That's bottom lane. We just keep our eyes on Sumail.
Collapsed at 400 health.
Trying to gush back and anchor smash in, Sumail and pops from the fairy flyer.
He still dies as they block grenade GH down. There is no dive so Team Spirit recuperating that bottom lane as they
Fire arrows in the back of the phoenix are getting not me a double kill
Double kills back and forth, but now with the spectre coming back as well
I'm not sure they can even finish up this creep by mid-night wheeling some action
Thanks for a kill. I'm going head to head and Lauren off still has a little bit left in the tank here
Pops the stick uses the bottle has a mango left as backup. That seems like a return
To normal business regular broadcasting storm is ahead though. 1980 against the 10 and one of love
So it feels like Lawenoff is definitely leveled up here in game two.
Yeah, this has a lot about how he plays, man.
The fact that he's winning the lane against Laurel.
Laurel is such a good mid laner as well nowadays.
I feel like, you know, I can say it all day, Laurel is a fantastic player,
but 21 and 10 on Storm against the 13 and 1, so pretty handedly going Storm's way.
Yeah, I have a lot of nuts feeling it now.
Spirit obviously gonna be happy with this bottom lane recuperating after some...
early losses so collapse pretty tanky with a double bracer you're gonna stand in the way
i'm not going to be worried too much 20 am or are no moves into mid guarding the water room
taking him under the nose of law enough as long goes and bottles up his own one
suddenly swarming in a smidling everyone's here all the supports have arrived
not just stealing the room but also dealing tons of damage to law enough so
normally if you lose the rune it's one thing but he lost tons of hb into this as well
used magic stick and now doesn't feel that great against Laurel anymore.
And then Divya up at top has lost all his idelons.
He's going to have to transform some more as he's getting clicked out of lane by the
athero shadow fiend. And then you move the clockwork maid,
you leave this enigma open to 1v2 situation that is not a friendly spot to be in.
Yeah and then Bane is going to go over and do some pulling as well so so far the top
lane is looking very very good for Team Spirit.
He's been kind of challenging for GH, and down this bottom lane is all low enough.
He's dying mid to LARL.
Been singing his praises here last it wise he's out of cracking time, but LARL just
comes out.
Thanks to the Murana of course to get the kill, but GH will trade back.
Oh, it's just a win and a down.
Well, Amber Spirit gone, but to LARL is left alone completely, you're right.
G.H. was struggling to trade down here, and so Mel's gonna feel the same bird as Collapson, not me, get on top of the Spectre,
while Rue is battling inside the cogs. Omar doesn't have enough to finish the job while Divide goes, grabs the bounty rune, then TP's back to Tower.
Aggression everywhere you look on this map. Made to bot, back up to top. Everybody's dying.
Everybody's dying, and you know what? Never leave lane on five. That's the valuable lesson that a fellow Swede once said,
And so true, so true. Poor Spectre. Not think she can do left alone there.
Obviously, Phoenix got a nice return kill, though, so GH at least getting the farm.
Looking for a rune.
Rue. Also going to get pummeled, but it's Laurel that gets the haste.
I'm going to spend a rune spawns for him again.
That's something the Spirit were very fortunate with in Game 1.
They got pretty much every active rune. Maybe Galaxy didn't get their hands on any until like
16 or 18 or something. They were looking for a rune, but they found a rune. Yeah, they did. Only 75%, sorry.
Smell them bottom. Well, having a great time 1v1ing as well, so Phoenix finally making his way down back here.
But at the 7 minute mark, normally this is when you want to leave the lane as a support to try and maybe
Look to help out on the Wisdom Room.
Clash is just gonna TP out. No, there's no stuns.
Hopefully finds a head back to Fountain.
But yeah, the invasion on that left-hand side is coming in quickly.
Larl and not me.
They've got the chains into Arrow setup.
I'll just place these in here to block the advance,
but they're stuck inside to get razed down.
The After-On-Roo pick up a couple of kills,
clear out the Idelons and then get the Wisdom Shrine.
And GH tries to slide across to the right-hand side.
The titan is going to get close. It's pretty tight.
Ah, collapse has made sure.
And GH has stopped in this track, so we've got a double shrine for Team Spirit.
Big place here from Team Spirit. Nice invasion and again, put in sort of like a zipswang the whole leaving lane early
then coming back to help the spectre, but then you're not in place for the wisdom fight.
Unfortunately, that heavy aggression mids messed with GH early game a little bit.
Now lots of putting out fires.
Somail, and it's Lane against the Tidehunter, giving Angus Smash all the time.
Not a hero that you can really sit and trade with.
Somail has to hide, wait for last hits.
So, Flash running this Lane now.
I think Somail would love to get a Horde going.
Some kind of play in towards mid, maybe.
I'll jump in as Lornaus being initiated on.
He's alive and they'll turn on to Rue again, fighting the Bane and maybe the Marana.
Lornav actually still ticks over, not me found a little bit of additional damage.
On 5-2 on Tower 4 there's Marana with the earn charge on her.
She's dropped low but not dead just yet.
Leave me alone, she can't finish it.
Hands on Ravage as well.
Collapse is going to come in to clip onto Sumail, stunning him.
Raze doesn't land so Sumail breaks free.
Gonna get away, got a lot of nice kills there.
Pretty costly investment running this many heroes to your mid lane, but there was the reaction from SF as well
We're not tepees to take the bottom farm making sure that they don't lose too much value
That's to be a bit careful about the sleep into arrow, but there's not really any core to bring the damage
Chains and nightmares into the arrow to set up on learn up, but it's not quite enough. Yeah, you're right
Can't take him down. Meanwhile, Yattaro has been solo'd by Divy.
Yeah, painful stuff coming in. I think he just gets run around the corner,
Dominator plus Black Hole. I mean, he dropped the Black Hole.
He usually win fights 1v1 early on.
What can you do?
Oh, Yattaro getting undone by Divy.
So Divy came into mid, killed off Lall with a final touch, then gets Yattaro.
And yeah, you're right just round the corner of Maliface in the black hole has the idolons and the wall pine raider
Rocket for that a little bit of help there required as well before the wreck room is coming
It's very scary to play against the dominator enigma when he has black hole ready
It was spent but also means he had time to open up the tier one tower
So first tower advantage going their way. I'm not sure if we're gonna see the defend bottom as well is under siege right now
Well, another close game on our hands.
Eight to eight, 10 minutes in.
Very tight.
That's it, sir.
An opening period of play.
Lala's going to zip away again, guarding all the runes.
That's where the rune is bottomed every time.
Last game, this game, it's the bottom runes, legitimately.
Like, we've seen that actually bottom rune every single time.
Even the illusion rune that was the first one
that even guys had got in that game, like minute 18
or whatever, was bottomed.
Spot one as a level.
It's rigged, rigged the game.
Not a lot of the shield room, getting everything you want.
But yeah, now this top lane's open, Omar can start swinging into the jungle, scouting the Shadow Fiend and making life a little more challenging.
If you cut across some very important farming territory that he needs, and then divide, yeah, vacuuming up multiple jungle camps at the same time.
He's got two Idelons and Hero here, and then further north he's got his Helm Creep plus more, killing another camp.
Full efficiency from him.
Yeah, he's also scouting, you know.
Before they saw the SFU scouting himself, nice.
Supernova.
Too quick with the damage.
And the safety remnant for Ember Spirit gets him the distance.
And similar stories.
Similar stories between Enigma and Tidehunter as well.
Enigma gets to take up that whole portion of the map.
Collapses the same story because he's too tanky to run at.
Yeah at this point you don't really kill him unless you bring I think either
storm or full mana and some other heroes or a black ball again.
And Ember just diving in mid with the shield rune. Pretty hard to deal with a
shield rune to Ember too much HP. We've also got collapsed just high-fiving
the spectre you know anchor smashing denying creeps being annoying. It's
like Clown's gonna go back in the jungle now and give him a bit of face time with the creeps.
Blackhole is off cooldown so we see Dubai making a move swinging behind.
Actually the creep's in a good position.
Could get onto the beam.
I'm the new GH. Not quite able to get there.
Loll has a remnant red arrow to use but the arrow into Ravage gonna clip the Vi.
Tried to go over the Blackhole play but punished big time.
Team spirit rally around this Ember spirit and make sure that no you do not get a freebie
Not me was so ready for that one
Good play coming out from him and the double urn on the side of team spirit means that they can easily heal up as well
Get their HP back after this little engagement
I kind of like this matter where we've got one going for distiller, one going for vessel
But urn...
It's great, yeah
A lot of payoff
It's aggressive as well
I like aggressive itemization not this
I don't like when everything is about buying tankiness and survivability, we have enough of that in turn patch as well, but you know these rest of items are fun to me.
Interesting, I was going to ask you about this Tidehunter, because he had consecrated Rapscued for quite a while.
I was thinking, we had this conversation yesterday or the other day, right? Why not pipe?
And you said, you know, support's going to buy pipe, you know, consecrate it, but he's a Tidehunter.
And it looks like he has decided to go back to the pipe, or Enigma greps off and just right click down as he steps up the lane.
So, Divide goes near, tries to play, Waste Black Hole dies, goes top lane, dies, this Enigma has been shut down now, quite significant, eh?
Yeah, this definitely sits him back quite a bit, he was someone doing the best on his team, but his death is so costly.
Nice one, Zed and Zed then. Yeah, look, sure not quite landing as intended, but they'll still get the ball lightning and the follow-through damage.
Spectre arrives to make sure that the after is punished.
So even though Divide does die in that top lane, Enigma can actually get something out of it.
That's the downside with making aggressive plays on your safe lane, but you already lost the tower.
You basically exposed yourself pretty far out.
Still chasing as well.
Yeah, half AP baying.
Dodging all the fiery spirits.
I don't want to go under tower here with Lyle lurking nearby.
He's going to catch onto Omar.
Fair vessel on the chain. Tons of damage at a time.
The storm spirit, he's got a rune! Who cares about clockwork?
Lawren, off-ball the regen, he's super happy!
Of course he got a rune, he went through a bottom rune spot.
Okay, he's... oh, he's bottom!
Oh, that one collapsed, it's coming.
Big blob, gonna plant himself on this tier one mid lane.
This is difficult to defend as well.
You don't really have Blackhole yet. You used a lot of resources for your previous ganks.
The Spectre ult is on cooldown, so it's tower.
You can delay it a little bit, I think, but defending it fully is pretty hard.
We'll pick a lifter.
A lot of space for Yatra to clear out jungle camps, and then join his squad top of the net worth.
Shadowfiend has arrived.
The attack speed, Feast of Souls and Berserk.
It's a Spectre, I'm a little surprised at going for the standard Spectre build in the
current patch, which is just the power trends earned into Radiance.
Really Radiance timing feels pretty amazing.
Yeah, Dormant Curio, I guess didn't get any good options for the tier one neutral
item.
Dormant is fine.
Yeah, I think I would take, like, weighted buys over it for sure, but it's generally pretty good to have Dormant Curio because you have that leaky and power spike that Spectre likes to have.
It's like weighted dice, occult bracelet, that chip vest is always good.
Spectre farming jungle.
If you don't get one of those drops, it's like, okay, Dormant Curio it is then.
Alright, Nick McGarney, they're making a bit of a home for themselves in that top jungle.
Ward coverage, spots Rue coming in, which is immediately sent, treated and killed.
G.H. sitting here with a casual plate mail on his way to that Sheva's Guard.
It's always funny to see Phoenix item builds because they don't need anything necessarily,
that is like, okay, what's the biggest item that I can roughly afford to go for?
It can look a bit random, but in this game it makes a lot of sense to go for a Plakemail
early as well because you're against this minus armor strap.
There's Gash, there's SF with the aura, so not dying immediately to SF Rectic is pretty
big.
Top tower is dropping by the way, taking some serious damage.
Man, they need a couple of heroes there to clear the idelons.
While GH clears the jungle camps behind them.
Decent from the Niggler Galaxy here.
Push out that top wave entirely, force Team Spirit to come back and react, and
And then you've got all this space perspective to farm down bottom lane and Storm's clearing out ancient camps himself.
Really just looking for this big timing to hit where you're going to have the Greaves on Storm now, specced with Regents soon.
And this Enigma is going to have the Blink and the Shard momentarily.
I think I would have preferred CM just go for the full aura build instead of the Blink BKB build, but it's going to be interesting to see if I can find the massive black holes.
This build has a little bit more pressure on actually landing the Ultis, but it will give him a big power spike late game as well.
Once you have the Blink, BKB, you know, get Agadamns or Freshers, you start becoming this monster as well.
Now you've become a big threat on the map.
Especially when you've got so much chaos creation in front of you, like Enigma doesn't have to show in the fight for a long time.
When Spectre can haul onto you, you've got Clockwork Rocket Flare.
Long enough, we've seen plenty of times with ball landing into fog to give vision.
There's a lot of chances for Divide to kind of sit and be patient to wait for that moment to jump.
I think the big, oh, nice arrow.
Not gonna be able to burst fully here as Spectre stays alive.
I think we'll send that illusion forward. Omar, when he was bodyguarding Spectre here, he was gonna die for it.
I'm gripped up and clicked by Yattaro.
He's bringing the enemies down this bottom lane.
As zipping in and then zipping back as well, it's very costly.
You know the mana is pretty low on Storm so they can be the ones pressuring a tier to tower down bottom
And I think this is important because team spirits they are on the timer in this game against late game specter enigma
Especially enigma going for the blink build you will not have an easy time
So they need to make a lot happen in the next 25 minutes
Basically you need to close the game before a minute 45 plus starts happening
That's a good way to do it, kill tier two, set up the tormentor, place all these deep
wards so you can basically hem enigma galaxy to the left side of the map.
You can receive divide trying to break free of the enclosure that's being built around
them, sense the creeps in towards mid to cut into that tower and try and bring it
down.
It's like, the bottom part of the map is uninhabitable for enigma galaxy right
now.
And then spirit are very quickly springing towards the top lane.
force enigma away from here.
Lornoff's in a decent position with GH to smoke break and stand atop the staircase,
but the wraparound's longer than maybe even they expected.
The smoke gank is maneuvered onto Sumail.
Nightmare to start.
In comes the sun ray supernova though as Yathrow is going to get jumped on by Lornoff.
He gets the buffs put on and the pavist shield him up and protect the asset but he's
been burst down and Sumail jumps in for another one.
Looks at not me, walks Rue as well.
There are easy targets.
is ready for the pickings here as Sumail is going to slice you to the bane.
G.H.
Loranoff also hunting Not-Me on the right-hand side, but now Lyle has arrived, gets a cat
onto Loranoff, Arrow flies forward.
It's difficult for Spirit to catch onto Summon, and Devash is going to spread a black hole
collapse.
Hulkshaw and Not-Me now, Ravage onto a few though now as Sumail, he's been found
in the tree line.
Negmagasi could not protect that spectre.
Oh my, he's going to get caught on the way through the door as well, but the
chained into Arrow.
out looking pretty grim there for the new spirit but in the end when ember comes in and the tide
hunter from below they just had to get out and ultimately too much resources are spent.
Five could also have been completely different if the bane had fiend script already when that
smoke play happened but he had cooldown so could not be the one setting up.
Another bottom rune. Inviscill are enough.
Sentry for rune, too far away. Still trying to catch up and burn him down but
find him here aren't they? Another, another sentry and another attempt with the slight chains.
I really want to learn off there. Yeah it's optimistic but I can't really find him that far away.
Rue wants the banter in but knowing that in this storm was there doesn't want to get thought out.
I thought for a moment Rue was baiting Throon as well. I think, can I go grip the storm if he
comes for this? Yeah, out of detection sadly from my bottle sentries. Oh am I still
to be able to go. This moonlight shadow. The dust is thrown out and Omar once again
has put himself in harm's way. He's going to try and tank the full brunt of this one
but a hook shot into TP within the month golems. He's out of there. That was a nice play
right there. Thank you shard golems. Space created by Omar. You can see a replay of
this. So Bane didn't have the fiend script right now and the cancel on the requiem
by Lorinov was so clutched again like you said Lorinov just having very good
impact as a player on the steam finding all the right moves all the right
moments to strike oh yeah they got bogged down in this extended fight where
maybe Galaxy really ran out gas and a black hole being used just for a tight
hunter doesn't feel particularly good when there's no follow-through damage
Now if this had been a three-man black hole, cool.
At the end it ends up with Spectre dying.
GH did get killed by the fiends group used there after he stole the wisdom.
So I think he's pretty happy for three heroes rotating over there.
Took an ulti, so again, typical space creation here.
Coming out from support.
They have not been able to use the Spectre Ulti for a little while now.
This is one of those Ultis that you really want to rinse and repeat to get out there as
often as possible because the big part of the advantage of having a Spectre is that
she can go for those kills.
Otherwise, she gets outfarmed by the SF pretty hard.
He's a stronger carry, but he's also 3000 gold-bind.
Yeah, it's just insane, even though Yatra gets focused quite heavily, has three deaths,
and he's got three kills to catch up, but he's still top of the net worth, even with
all the Nygma Galaxy heroes running at him for 20 minutes.
And he's done a tremendous job to hold on to his farm rate.
Team Spirit's aiming.
A big maneuver up into this top jungle, though.
Clockwork once again in smoke-rate position.
And when that Shadow is here and they go jump on Lorna,
He started storm has the anchor put on him. He can't get out of this. He's being stunned and disabled down into the ground
To swift kills their for spirit as Roshan is an objective. They can just walk straight into
Yeah, they could start taking it for sure with SF moving over. Are they not?
I think they are. I think they still are they just want to shove the mid lane
I'd love to be killed. Yeah, platforms that free money.
Don't want to let the lanes push too far back. Voice uncomfortable makes it hard to make those ganks and rotations.
But yeah, this Roche is pretty difficult to contest. Nobody in the area.
I think my has to go base and kill up his Ana. So yeah, this is going to be Aegis over on the SF most likely.
It would be much cleaner from Team Spirit. 5k lead, into objectives, Roshan and Aegis for Yatharo.
So the fight doesn't blink BKB though, he's getting to that point as I said, where Enigma gets really hard to deal with.
He can find it to just sit back, wait for his moment and get a 2 or 3 man black hole. That could be absolutely game deciding.
I'm still feeling like he's recovering in this game, even with such a good start.
The two initial kills look great, but the lane matchup against the tight hunter definitely
started to hurt.
You're right, not being able to spam the horn has kept him locked in this bottom portion
of the map, just farming neutral creeps for a good play of the moment.
It's been a long time without using Ulti now. I said he was 3000 gold behind the SF, I was 4000 gold and an Aegis behind the SF, so you just really need to find some setups for him.
It's not necessarily on him so much, it's more on his team to look for a pick-up somewhere.
just bulldoze down every single one of these objectives.
I like they finished up the hurricane pack on SF as well, very good against the talkwork in this game.
They're looking to defend.
Jump SF right now.
Oh, tap SF.
No shot misses.
Lornoff starts with a vortex.
This is already starting on awkward as the after it gets pushed to high ground, not even losing his first life.
There's a wave from them.
What's this? The fog's pushing him up there.
Alright, he's pretty happy with that.
I mean, those Spectre Ultis are very, very good stuff for Team Spirit.
Now, Spectre back to killing pretty weak.
I mean, that was meant to be a big smoke in the galaxy.
Show off this Enigma with a blink BKB, nothing comes of it.
Don't even pop the Aegis and Team Spirit and say, okay, well, back to regular scheduled
movement.
Let's kill off this Tier 2 in the mid lane.
We didn't finish top, but that's fine. We can go back and shove out waves and GH has done a decent job here clearing the lane.
And we're making it a bit more challenging to approach the tier 2.
Look at Rue, he's humping, he knows.
Escape from GH. Doesn't have TP just yet, but now he has it.
There he is. Over the cliffs and far away.
Hello, Collapse. He's been hunted down on the other side though.
So with GH escaping at the top lane and then Collapse dying bottom,
galaxy getting a few little victories waiting at the time of this ages two
minutes left on the shadow theme but without your time
it's very probably not feeling too comfortable just to run down lanes anymore
yeah it's in a very weird spot you have ages but you're not all grouped as well
so going over there feels a bit risky for us if he's
maybe just gonna farm more he could find the triangle i guess without
showing himself on the tower and even just shoving lane and setting
might be enough to finish the tier 2 tower, it's very very low.
There's no one defending Netflix.
There's nobody here.
Dubai pings a couple of times and we've got vision, we can see them.
So if they do stick around, maybe we could react the TP down there.
But I think we can't see them, very much set on this right hand side farm up.
They've done a tremendous job on Team Spirit though, taking every single tier 2 tower by 27 minutes.
minutes this is what they needed to do I said they're on the timer they need to
make stuff happen against the team's team with Spectre and Enigma and for now
I think most importantly Lornav is not really having a game on Storm all this
fight banning makes Storm uncomfortable he can't fight into the big
hole that is Team Spirit. Team Spirit are going high ground as well one minute
left on his Aegis and Yathros says I'm going to use this even though Tide
died and he wasn't available now with Clawfully Spawning they have a
a moment where they naturally bully back, but a jump from Omar starts things off.
Burst down the Shaddafine the first time as Sumail gripped in the backline, tried to
haul on Dean onto Rue, being chain-controlled up, mantled, dodged away, maybe trying to
dagger to safety, but Lall and Collapse are on his tail. Sumail downs, Yathrow
is killed inside the base, carrying for carries, Lornoff. He's going head-to-head with Lall
and Collapse, but with a ravage still ready for Team Spirit to burst him.
It wasn't even trade but no longer support for a quarter right there.
If I pull on cooldowns they're gonna dive this.
We're not gonna get that divided that much to offer anymore.
I can kill a foe ma with a quick little gush and spit out the collapse while I'm diving in behind this tier 3 tower area.
Woof.
They're gonna get out to safety.
Not me dying to Ivalons.
Oh!
He's gone.
A slight and angry smash could have helped kill him off but he was already done.
That is funny.
And now, on Ikky little island, where's your tower damage spirit?
It's nonexistent.
We got two ember.
It's a 2v2, but none of these four heroes do anything to each other, so they just all walk their separate ways.
A massive win for Team Spirit though, even on the back of that.
Sure, they lost Aegis and SF, but they back out, take the wisdom and keep playing forward with collapse on this Tidehunter,
who is very, very happy with the turnabout in that fight.
He's gonna have an entire Aghanim Scepter coming out.
already had the club at the point booster and the rest of the components coming in
yeah crazy that Yatter is isolated on the high ground Samel goes deep and gets
changed and up both carries just getting completely shut off on the rest of their
teams quick root flexes by Rue I think they needed Lornav to go in and cancel
Rue's fiend script there on the spectre and maybe that fight would have
been playable that's very tough to say exactly how you want to approach
into the SF with Aegis and it's still very oppressive from Spirit as well. Already given
the marching orders, head down bottom lane, swing up towards the top. It's all
entering two minutes. Roshan potentially same story, could be the fast spawn. So
it's really the name of the game for Spirit is map control, push out these
waves, try and force Nimigalaxy to be in a situation where Bax is against the wall.
clockwork was spotted for just a moment there walking over vision they're gonna
in this immediately and start hunting him he's gonna walk out of time vision as
well Omar if you don't go through the door now you might not ever places an
observable under a century they're gonna see the storm and the enigma both
arriving this is huge for team spirit they'll jump in with long enough fur
The Honda Loaner first would collapse, he'd get the kickoff onto the Storm Spirit with
the arrow and then the chains to follow up, this Loaner Storm just dunked down and Yattaro
gave the treatment to Omar who didn't stand a chance.
Even with him going for a BKB next item on Storm, it's a little bit late when you
go Greaves into Kaia's Lounge and then BKB, so this Shard from Tidonther is really
doing a number 10.
Um, can't tell what field he probably had to go peek to be earlier in this game, tough
to say though.
And how quickly they move as well, these twin gates.
Seems very adept at using them.
They play at the top, get some kills, back down to the bottom to keep this pressure up.
There's no open field for Nygma guys to play into.
I guess one negative thing for the Spectre in this game as well is that they already
had a very natural Silver Edge buyer on Shadowfiend.
was gonna buy one most likely anyway and he has a silverage now already going
towards the chrysalis for his Daeglis as well
just playing for Roche not getting too eager not gonna go high ground without
ages or make any place right outside the base of Nigma they're saying no no no
you come out on a map play the field but we're just gonna out farm you
outscale you and get this ages advantage again
And that's the team spirit ammo that's how they play
Force you back into your base with raw aggression and then choke you out on the map
50 seconds to go for Roshan
tournament is about to spawn as well
DD rune as well coming out
Laurel is gonna bottle that up and be very happy looking at next fight
He's only 200 gold away from having a full aggro and stuff there as well
Looks like they smoke the 40 can finish up immediate smoke
It also got moonlight shadow here
Even more ways to correct their positioning advanced across that left side
Nigma galaxy they felt this one coming though. They've all backed up tucked away in their base
Safe and sound, but unable to do anything right now
They're not trying to give vision as he balls through that mid-wave
Can't see anything coming though. All that nigga guys
know is that Team Spirit are off the map. Titan just showing on top wave and Roshan is about to
respawn. Yes I'm just watching the Ogre Bruiser right now. This is the only hero on Radiant who's
feeling safe to go out here. He's not even safe, he's betrayed by his master. He's replaceable.
Replaced by a Dark Troll Summoner. Man, he was the one hero.
Yeah, that's Enigma. He's the CEO. Everyone below him is replaceable. All the little
work of these, all the little Helm Creeps.
So Port Ogre Bruiser with his office job just, no not even a redundancy plan, he's
out here.
They're respecting the Clawkirk vision and the Enigma Black Hole, so they're not
going to go straight for Roche, they're waiting, expecting Enigma to come out and
they do.
It's the perfect reed coming out from Two Spirits so far.
That's an illusion.
No falling for any funny traps.
I know they'll see that there's a sentry hold somewhere nearby as well
They saw the observer freshly placed as well. So that gives them the perfect information that okay. Yeah, they are definitely on the high ground over here
Spirit nine as well so
Importantly the spectre has orchid by the way, so she can jump onto the bane silence immediately and maybe bring him down
I think that's gonna be his target in the team fights
If he feels ambitious, he could go for the Ember and silence Ember, but they're being
possibly saving.
It's not always an emphysically.
Regen Bottom, denied by Yataro's illusion.
And another smoke-up from Igma Galaxy mirrored by Team Spirit.
Oh, they're going around this mid lane, opposite directions, spiraling northwards up, toward
the left corner of the map.
meeting just yet though.
Well, Tynanto the only one who feels brave enough to show himself on the lane doesn't
really care if he gets jumped.
And not an awful lot of vision here.
I mean Nygma Galaxy in particular have no observer wars out, the Dire have a couple
of little bits of vision but not in the position that would actually give them any
information.
It does mean though that they're going to get into the pit here, rocket flare that's
going to stamp things out.
Roshan roars down to half HP already and he's quickly dying.
Nigma Galaxy, they're moving with the enigma to get into position, storm zips in, the black hole comes,
the buy has collapsed and Yathrow trapped inside.
Anymore damage, Roshan yeets the storm away!
Aegis for collapse!
Collapse and Yathrow gonna die though!
Blown up inside the cogs!
Supernova Sunray as well as Sumail goes to work on the Ruin the Bat.
Lyleyn collapse, the tide respawns for sure, but GHs have a double kill,
dishing out damage and sustaining Sumail.
Aspector can keep on going whittling away at the Tidehunter.
His laws help. Jumping with not me.
Burst down with the magic damage from the Star Storm and collapse the real carry.
He got the Aegis and is clearing through Nygma Galaxy.
Hero by hero, falling his law on offspends everything in the bank,
all his mana on HP. Can't even get not me.
Marana tubes around. Team Spirit get the team wipe.
Some way, some how, they find a way even without the Shadow Theme.
We see why collapse. He takes the Aegis. He's like,
He's like, no, no, no, after all, he puts the dagger in his back, takes the edges away
from him.
Obviously, you don't want to lose the edges there, but that fight was disastrous until
Rue cancelled the Black Hole.
The grip was there.
The Aetherlands giving him the range, sitting far away and still reaching to cancel this
enigma move.
We get to see a replay of what happened there.
Beautiful Black Hole, honestly.
Look above the Bane.
He actually gets pulled by the Event Horizon as well, you know, the pull of an enigma,
But still he gets the channel out.
Collapsed as well, just eating so many fish. He's got 14 Maliathans catch. 14 yummy fish.
He's gonna land the barracks down now, make my galaxy a lot on their shoulders.
You know, at least get this board in their base. I'm starting to wonder, does anything kill Collapse
at this point? He's got pipe, got sheevahs, and level 24 getting insanely big from this
this previous fight that we just had. Genuinely feels like GH is the damage dealer in this game.
This Phoenix with Shiva's refresher. The Sunray is what is actually able to bring down some of these tanky heroes.
Yeah, that might be true. The Sunray is very necessary.
I don't know, it's basically all pressure on the Vi, right? Like I said, if he gets a good black hole out that doesn't get cancelled, then they can win the fight.
they can win the fight. If that wasn't cancelled by Bane, that's a fight won, but unfortunately,
I think Spectre may have messed up a little bit, not stopping the Bane, because long as
Spectre ulties and goes on Bane, silences him, there's nothing that can stop a Black Hole from a
Nekba, right? So it's sort of just, uh, Smeal's fault, that's what I'm saying.
How dare you. How dare you. What's it called? It's not blasphemy when you go against the
the word of the king is it is it's high treason high treason that's illegal
behavior put in the gallows for words like that why it may be a bit of a
usurper in this case because I don't know man this king he didn't he didn't
serve his his enigma very well in this case the king is not here to serve you
you're here to serve the king
Oh man.
Also, a platform for the Spectre.
By the way, the Nikita's fight three times now to Bane.
The Icarus of Nikitasha is stacking up, Gareth.
You gotta worry about that. 15% status resistance reduction from Bane effects.
He's pretty nasty.
I mean, a heightnaker will last for a long time now.
It will, yeah.
Disgusting Bane.
Nick Tasha
I like they got a better inates. I mean the previous innate was some bullshit. Anyway, his stats will always be equal like, okay
What am I to do with that? I never saw anyone do anything good with that
I saw some people buy items with this in mind, but it was still really bad
Like what are you gonna do buy a reaver instead of an ultimate or you just losing stats?
You know, like it's not worth
What's the point?
I don't know, just buy five hearts I guess?
Five hearts in the hex.
I don't know, it was it was really not nice, but they're going on Tide first.
And where's the Sun Raven? It barely tickles him.
They're going on the Bane though, they've got a catch onto Rue.
Sumel, dude, it disappears!
The Shadowfiend reigns held fire down from the high ground.
Sumel's gone for 80 seconds now.
They didn't get that first point of contact.
Tide is still fine as they're forced to supernova.
Lol, Qtap and Omar as they just wander in with collapse under the burning sun!
Face boy, Suncream on, he doesn't care about that!
UV raised nothing to collapse in his tight hunt, eh?
I see the damage coming out from the SF with the Silver Edge on the high ground there,
just laying it into the poor Spectre, who got reeled by a Searing Chain,
and that was all that was needed.
Five auto attacks and some damage from them, but of course...
It feels inevitable.
25K lead, Team Spirit marching to high ground.
The only thing that can stop this, as you've been saying, is Divy with this enigma.
But for now he's got Shadowflade, Run and Hyde, because Lyle, he scouted him in the trees.
Divy, he BKBs, goes to the Black Hole, but there's a Wind Waker, Cyclone to safety.
Divy, he doesn't get a single one in it.
Whiffs entirely as enigma guards get wiped inside their own base.
Here's Spirit, wander through this bottom lane, pick off after pick off.
Fountain farming now as Yathro's gonna give it to him.
He's there, killing off the Phoenix.
Call GG, call GG, that's what he's screaming.
Picks up the Ultra Kill, they're gonna find him all.
The piggy Omar who's not moving,
he's using the only safety there is in this game
with just a fountain in vulnerability.
He's gonna hook in and give it their average perhaps.
No, not even.
Not having it.
But going to the game three.
A single game, a best of one.
they're separating niggma galaxy and team spirit from ti a qualification spot
in a close series so far but it feels like team spirit and this one really leveled up they were
like okay no more messing around flip the switch the real team spirit has arrived in game two
definitely they they look ready and sharp now and it's a true test to nigma can they
best team spirit in this they have a big chance here to make a serious statement like
there will be reddit threads if nigma are the ones to knock down team spirit into the
to lower bracket in the grand final year.
As if they're all hunt already.
Game one victory, game one victory,
the Hopium and Copium's been passed around big time.
I mean, I got a big half of that as well,
early on when they got game one victory.
All of it, it was during the break,
it was the chance of a 2-0 and then Team Spirit,
the one's gatekeeping the bottom bracket
and it could be happening.
Look at this again.
Oh, that's so tragic.
And again, that was spectacular fault.
A little bit late, she got there now,
but didn't find the pain in time.
Unfortunately, all he needs to do is start the fume script
to stop the Black Hole, and that wins the fight right there.
So close to glory, but a full shot.
And some really tremendous hurdles here.
One of them being the collapsed high hunter.
The fight collapsed, he's just standing there.
Like everybody else drops pretty low,
but collapses, he's going from one to the next,
munching on these heroes.
He's like, Lala, where are you?
Come on, Lala, come and join us.
It's fun.
the game. It's a lot of fun.
Lollies. Okay, fine. Let's get
involved. 18 to 36 overall
after 10, 5, 5, 12, 2, and 17.
And also that interesting shift
as well where game one it was
very tight between Lornoff and
Loll last hits net worth
killed participation. Everything
was super close. Game two.
Lollies behind it felt like
Lornoff was just running the
was owning Laurel in last hits in lane.
Early game, yes, it looks fantastic,
but I do think we saw a bit of activation difference here
from the supports with the mid laner or with their course.
Granted, I think Team Spirit Straft
is easier for the sports to play into.
You can set up kills with Bane on SF.
You can gank around the Ember always,
and even collapse on his Tidehunter
is pretty easy to play towards,
whereas Spectre, she's waiting for you to make a move.
And Nigma, yeah, he'll do something
when he has Black Hole,
But other than that, he's just farming.
So basically the only handle we're enough to play with,
which is more predictable.
And in the end, you know, it was Team Spirit
to add an easier time just finding kills after kills.
Pretty spectacular one.
Good stuff from Spirit.
Shownu got a series on our hands.
No flopping over and falling flat against Nygma Gansi.
We're gonna take it to a game three
to find out who heads the TI.
So make sure you stay tuned.
Grab a drink though.
The weather is hot.
Get ready for this next one.
It's gonna be spicy.
I'll see you in a few minutes.
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don't to no exception as we had
to game three and it's best of
three Nigma Galaxy against Team
Spirit one single game separating
one of these teams from a T.I.
qualification slot to go straight
to Shanghai. Yeah, and we're so
close now but Team Spirit they
bite back game number one Nigma
Galaxy win a pretty long
dragged out I said Team Spirit
were the biggest enemies in the game number one, but Nigma win it still in a very impressive
manner. Game number two though, T-Spirit, they looked very sharp, they looked decisive, they
had multiple threats. It wasn't just about one player, it wasn't just Yathura who was
the big damage dealer. This time you had Collapse making some serious plays. I really
like the Tidehunter pick. I really like how he played and itemized. His shard had
massive impact in shutting down the impact of Lorinov. I think they had all the
answers in that previous game.
draft-wise they also made it kind of difficult for that last pick 24 pick for Sumail. They'd
already got themselves a storm for Loranov, Enigma for Divai, everything slotted into place nicely
but that didn't seem to be that last pick individual hero where you're fully confident
with Sumail playing. Spectre seemed okay but it didn't seem good enough. It wasn't a
TI qualification last pick. Yeah and now, Enigma Galaxy, they're gonna get tired of what's
What's been happening there like, okay guys, you're not getting to first pick the SF three
times in a row.
So we're going to take it ourselves, see what Team Spirit do as a reaction to their own
method.
Yeah.
So Sumail going from last pick to first pick, because they don't have the overall last
pick this time.
They've got the 23rd pick.
So getting him the Shadow Fiend, I assume just going to be Carrie SF, he played it
from the mid lane.
I'm assuming he's going to be comfortable playing that as well in the safe lane.
You've got Sumail already locked into his hero.
and then you build the draft around him.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a nice hero to have as the center of a draft,
I feel, SF can play in many different ways.
You can go full minus armor, but you can also
play into the Womba combo aspect, right?
His ulti is a very good follow-up ulti.
Not always the best starter, but if you
have some other initial teamfight spells to drop,
SF plays nicely into him.
So I think the hero is a lot of utility
outside of just his laning stage and his right click
damage. Judging by the stats though, Shadowfiend hasn't had a tremendous time in these calls.
Nine games, three wins, six losses, 33 in a third percent win rate. Not the hottest of
times. And we've seen this kind of response to these turret heroes a couple of times now,
particularly against the Drow, Darkseer has looked very good in that mid game. Same
story against Shadowfiend?
Yeah, that's true actually. We did have about one game where Darkseer just absolutely
dominated the field. The problem is you are not really that strong in laning stage necessarily
against the SF, but later on that ulti can be really useful and it really comes down to
me for, or for me it comes down to how much will they draft into the vacuum for Team Spirit.
If you have a lot of different things they can throw into the vacuum combo, then I like
the Darkseer a lot. If you don't have a whole lot going with the vacuum combo, then
And I think this hero, you know, could be replaced by something else.
Actually, it's been a while, four months since Collapse
play this dog here, back at Dream League season 28.
And it's been a hot minute since we've seen him do it.
But I guess when Mars isn't in meta, you want to find other heroes to
to fill the slot, have a bit of fun.
Back into the rounds of bands.
So we've lost our treant, drow, snapfire, Tusk, our spirit.
I.O. Cuttle, Lone Druid and Axe with another ban to go.
I wonder what they're going to follow it up with here on Team Spirit.
Of course, this potential that they snag away something from Nigma as well.
They could pick up the Phoenix, for instance, on the next pick.
A hero that goes really well with the Darkseer.
And here the Nigma Galaxy passed up on.
You've got the ban on Doom here. You can't let them have the demonic draft.
We've seen the demon draft, the evil drafts, they've popped off, man.
Also, do we get Darkseer? It kind of sucks with Darkseer. If you go for these aura builds, you get doomed and you're out of the game completely.
It's pretty true. It's a nice hero. I think I like doing a bit more when you have the flexibility of maybe running him carry, maybe running him off lane, keep the enemy guessing, and then you get most value.
So they're going to ban out the Hosskar, which kind of signals a little bit about the mid lane, I feel.
It's similar to their Viper band that they did before. They don't want to get chased on mid lane, but speaking about that Viper is still available.
Yeah, you're right. Still out there. My spirit opting to ban out this Lundruid instead.
The R&G 3 don't allow some of these cheesy heroes through and get themselves the clockwork.
I love that.
Flexible could be four or five, but initially looking at this as a Darkseer partner.
Exactly, that's the good part about the clock here is it keeps very strong flex open.
Pairing with the Darkseer is really phenomenal in itself, but you could of course lean on clockwork plus something on the safe lane as well if you want to.
One of the easier POS 5 for a lot of these range heroes to combo with.
What is the hero you're going to put with the SF? I guess Bane is that. Some of a backup plan we've seen from these teams, but it has worked out pretty nicely.
I think Bane is getting finally the attention he deserves. The hero has been power creeping bit by bit and finally is to the point where he's actually a pretty dominant force in the laning stage.
the point where he's actually a pretty dominant force in the laning stage. I would still like to see
more lich in the lanes to be honest. I think that hero is also up there for me. One of the heroes that
are not necessarily S tier support right now, but good enough that it should start seeing more play
with the bands on Trian Protector and some of the other oppressive lanyards. It's kind of funny
it feels like these picks are inverted. SF Bane, Ringmaster, feels like kind of a spirit draft.
draft. It's in the hands of
NygmaGalaxy. So they've got
multiple ways of saving, setting up
the teamfights. Very strong
laning. NygmaGalaxy already
building this draft to be very potent
in the early portion of the game.
I'm going to say something. I actually
think I would have preferred seeing
like the Marana picked up next here instead.
Really? Yeah,
Remaster makes a lot of sense. Of course, it's a
strong hero. However,
the Marana would have brought some value
that you can easily get out of the cogs so you can play pretty aggressive on to the clockwork in the midgame and
Now clockwork sees you know two pretty decent targets to go on other than when ringmaster asked a little whoopee cushion perhaps to hop and dodge
These guys don't have much
mobility
Yeah, and then puck out of jail being released
Maybe on day release here in the hands of of lal seeing this double support and core
3 of heroes not really have a great way of locking the puck down.
I might have some random tame the beast into fiend's grip or something like that, but so far a pretty open one for the puck just to dance around and fight.
I'll see what they pair with it as well, what the next support is going to be.
Could of course also grab yourself something else, but yeah.
I I wanted to say it again that they should pick lich here, but I already said it once during the draft
Yeah, it makes makes a lot of sense here. I think it's really great
Counter SF with the frost shield you have pairing very natural pairing with lich into the dark siren clockwork holding people in place
Same with the dream coil. Yeah chain frost is gonna be a menace here, bro
The combos are pretty insane
Cogs vacuum dream coil chain frost with the ice bar
Some pretty nasty stuff and you pull everyone there you go. That's the vacuum combo. Oh hell, yeah
Honestly if they get there though if he gets a blink agonies if we say the game goes kind of late
Then vacuum will be a massive threat
All we need now is to carry Magnus
But we've we've not had the chance to cast any yet
You know it's been played like five times on in every other game on the other shift who's had tons of magnets
We've not seen it. Yeah, I've seen that a little bit, but I don't know I'm not
Not so I think that we're gonna get it. It would be fun if you had to robust it out here though
not sold on it.
Honestly, we worked really well with our draft, but the odds are probably not the highest.
Probably not.
And then what do we need?
Devi here on that 23rd slot, isn't it?
You got yourself the Ember Spirit mid against the puck.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're looking for Devi.
Laning with a ring master.
I mean, personally, I'm feeling the NICE stalker coming out.
I hyped it earlier, the Devi NICE stalker.
places really well it's gonna get banned and yeah there's some chance but they
might just ban stuff like I know Centaur still because Centaur and SF combo is
pretty strong no it's possible we might see the NS was there another hero it was
ember right it was ember and Nightstalk we always talked about with the
puck first picks so I've already got the ember if they can add in the night
still going to be great.
A major profit band looking at some of these Yattaro heroes that can scale but also maybe
dogpile into these early skirmishes.
Clinks is out there as another one.
True actually, yeah.
You do like clinks into this.
You have a lot of like area denial with the wall, the cogs and then maybe a clinks
and just drop drop the agonist ability drops on all those skeletons clockwork build some
catacombs full of undead skeletons and start roaming around well it's gonna feel like you
entered a Skyrim dungeon picking up the clink since Draugr is everywhere those are the
good ones and turn a corner and here a grown I thinking about this one hey really
are digging in a little bit here. Yeah, I'm sure what I want to go with such a wide hero pool or
so many things you've got to consider is like, is there a tiny or a weaver or TA or a clinked
faces voids, freaking faces boy, Luna chaos night he's played recently.
Yeah, honestly, I feel like he has a plethora of heroes that would work here and Yathrow again is
one of the carries who's the most flexible. That's why we don't see a lot of teams target
the other too much with bands like sure the band of draw ranger and you know that's uh a little bit
of a respect since he is very very good at draw ranger but it's also just a good hero in the patch
they're the most afraid of the terror blade
and now one more band in spirit
he's still expecting a night stalker but it's doom who gets banned so maybe
maybe your shot goal is right
Maybe.
Perhaps you see something else who knows maybe divide has a different read on what he wants to be here obviously some like and kind of guy.
Yeah, there's there's no way he hasn't crossed the mind of Nightstalker because he's very good at but he doesn't seem super convinced you know there's not him just smiling and saying yeah it's easy and simple.
Deliberating a bit. You may as well use whatever time you have.
He looks warm.
I'm also warm.
I mean, can you blame him?
Guys, if you don't know, look at the sun that's shining through.
My girlfriend went around the apartment.
We saw some reels were in Paris.
They're putting aluminum aluminum.
And he was sitting at the American way.
Aluminium foil on all the windows.
She spent the entire day doing that,
reflecting and blocking all of the sunlight.
Yeah, because then you didn't take the heat in.
Out of our apartment.
Well, Centaur, thank you, Sam.
Still there, Centaur cart with a shadow fiend.
last pick coming up for Team Spirit. Makes a lot of sense. It's a very very strong pairing and you
get a front liner. You basically needed something that can stand on the front line. So the downside
of picking a nine stalker is that perhaps you wouldn't be quite as capable of protecting your
your backline support to your SF?
Centaur ringmaster against a lich plus one.
It's a Sven. Cool.
A hero that we were kind of looking for earlier on in the
tournament when we saw some AA saw some set up, saw some
stuns that needed set up.
Yathrow is going to pull it out here.
So a fast farming acceleration hero who can actually get on
top of the shadow fiend and tank through a lot of the
physical damage that comes his way thanks to walk right and another classic
combo with the dogs here. Exactly. Yeah, the big threat here. They have a very
clear game plan on team spirit. They want to play on punishing stacked up
positioning. Uh, make my galaxy, you know, they're going to have to be very
careful not stand too close to each other in these fights to their
benefits. Ember is pretty good at just zipping around and being wherever. So
he doesn't naturally stack up with anyone. Uh, the two supports, however,
They have to watch their positioning so closely Omar and GH you cannot get too close to your course in this game
Well, yeah throw gone. He just stood up and walked off
He's done. He's like Milan. Why have you picked me Sven? I didn't want this buddy
You're running his helmets
Gonna go read the deep lore on how Sven works like oh wait hang on a second as I see her going
I sat down at his real PC. I guess he was sat on one of the
One of the PCs behind him pretending to be a coach
team's huddling up, you know during the drafts and
Unfortunately, no spend helmet here from yatra disappointed
I don't think he was helping me. He was sat back in that chair behind him good
I'm king in the castle king in the castle the rest of the team sat in their normal seats
By the way rating, you know, this is the final game last chance to really do it
I want to say some males camera probably strikes me as one of the nicest he gets the profile angle, you know
We have the side view. It's kind of nice and pleasant a
lot of these other
of course, really nice as well.
But this is a good setup 10 out
of 10 for some ill. He's the king,
right? Very, very regal side
profile. That's that's the way you
want to put his face on a coin.
Also, he's playing from a mental
asylum. It looks like as well.
It's literally nothing on the
back blank walls.
Looks like it's in the same room
as I guess it should be more
white. It should be, you know,
the depression whites and then
Yathrow with the classic
the classic four head cam and he's one of the OG's the pioneer in the webcam game. He was told to move
his camera down a lot so this is the improved version guys. Let's have a look at that. The amount
of brain power behind that forehead is just astronomical. Well here we go game three,
qualification on the line for the victor of this game and of course this series as we've got
Nygma Galaxy taking on Team Spirit on the road to TI 2026.
Nygma Galaxy already smoked up and looking for this positional advantage,
but try and maybe get a first blood, maybe gather up some runes.
We're getting up on the staircase.
Now Team Spirit are all sat in that mid lane.
It's a swift move.
They're just rushing across here and getting behind.
See Spirit?
Maybe suspicious of it, but we're going to see them smoke up themselves and
See if they can hold the good positioning collapse having that smoke can be careful about how he steps on to the high run
You can see him just stutter stepping his way one step at a time
You don't just run up these stairs you go slowly and then not me. There we go smoke break. Hello. How are you doing up there boys?
I know something's up
Yeah, that's very very obvious in that this points
The bias swung around and it's thinking about contesting the top room
that would be a dangerous thing to do as a lot of heroes are staring at it.
That's your spirit ready for them.
And so if he goes for it,
he'll be under dire vision in a second there.
He steps under the observable that was preplaced by spirit already.
It looks like no contest.
The early D-Word from the Fairfights and the D-Word.
Everybody goes their separate ways.
And so slight advantage for Team Spirit with a D-Word.
That's a nice bit of experience for Clockwork, you can get level 2 a little bit ahead of time.
I think I've got all the solo experience for that, usually there's always a core player
sitting around saying hey I want the experience.
And doesn't do anything to change this mid lane.
Laurel against Laurel and off, pot against Ember Spirit.
How does this one usually end up going?
It's pretty comfortable for Ember, almost getting a laning stage against pot is
great, but later on the coil is pretty annoying.
So yeah, this is definitely Ember favoured, I'll tell you yes, big chances to come out
on top.
The Atro taking a decent chunk of damage there from the dagger of Omar and a few hits out
of Devai.
He went for the Storm Hammer to secure the creep.
I'm sure he takes a bit of chip damage on the way back.
I think that's...
A lot of damage being dished up bottom as well, collapsed down to 100 HP.
And gotta be careful with his Bane Shatter Fiend, even at level 1 they offer a tremendous
amount of damage.
Level 2, I could just kill you off.
And early life is a dark tier, isn't that fun?
It's just this, well, he's been like this for a long time now, but it's basically a waiting game to try and get to...
Not just level 2, Ion Shell, but level 3 Ion Shell is kind of what the breaking point is to feel comfortable.
Yeah, and we see GH trying to get the pool stopped, but he didn't get it actually. The range creep auto-attack didn't turn to Ivarul.
I rule because the iron shell I think keeping keeping the creeps taking damage from the
Dark sir if you run away, and you don't deal any damage the creeps will lose interest in you very quickly
But the iron shell allowed him to keep doing damage, which means they're still very interested in dark sir
Little detail for you right there
That's good to know that's just like in real life
It's one of the things you get taught in like football and rugby and stuff like that when you're playing on the field
to I-fuel people?
but basically, if the...
oh, first blood for Sumail just
kills off Knot May who stepped up a little too far forward
that's a good start for your Shadowfiend
very nice for Sumail gonna feel happy about this
this is a strong combo
we do expect this lane to be doing quite well
SF and Bane against the double melee lineup
should be pretty easy
once you get a few points in I-fuel
maybe you can turn this lane around a bit but
It's definitely niggma favorite nine in football training you get taught that if if you give a little shove to someone
Their instinct is to follow you
So if you're taking a corner a free kick or something and you're a guy that's the balls not intended for you
Right, you can just shove one of the defenders and then run the wrong direction and their natural instinct is to follow you
Just like the creeps do
Distraction. Yeah
You push someone away and they're meant to be marking you you hit them you punch them
They're like hang on a second. What's going on here?
I'm so unconscious me, I'm chasing them as well.
Yeah, we used to aggro people in real life.
Oh, nice one there.
So, male.
Kills off the last, divide that up at top lane,
and Roof finds the take down on him.
Sidelane's turning into a bit of a bloodbath right now.
Karrie's, Anasapol is picking up kill,
the offlane's starting to struggle.
Now, Sidelane's looking very strong from both.
I mean, the lich, then,
we don't really talk much about that combo,
because it's not super common in the current patch,
but it is a pretty potent lane in his own rights.
not necessarily been SF level but they have good kill potential I think that's
true for most Lich lanes though if you have Lich on your team you you're most
likely can kill stuff in lane
Frostmaster run on Omar yeah it's pretty annoying you know turn the beast
keep Rue back there's no mangoes or anything here for Lich either so can't
really keep giving chase he's about to have a snack or vice so you'll get
his mana back very nice and Omar is just outland completely so that leaves the
center of stranded you're gonna die to neutrals you're going for a long a long
journey it's pretty slow though dying to neutrals after a long time and then of
course the longer respawn time 25 seconds can take a while so hot money
while I'm not amazing break free searched up and sent back thank you
him for a few of the calls. Yeah, cheers mate. Free goal for me. Mid lane. Law and off getting
on top of Laurel a little bit there. 23 and 5 against the 17 and 1. Law and off getting
the upper hand. And I've been keeping an eye on these playcams as well. Law and off
have been quite vocal in his first four minutes. Every time I look at him, he's been chatting,
chatting that chatting away. What's he saying? He's saying, good job, Sumail. Keep
killing off this dark side of bottom lane. Good job boys.
He's just hyping himself up for every CS he gets, he's like yep, good me, good puck.
There's another one, there's another one, yeah I got him, I got him.
Honestly though, Midlane has not been that easy for him but that's also why I said
Ember is not really a great matchup for puck.
Normally it was hard because of the Sliderfist spam but even with this modern build, the
Flamegorff, it's not that easy to collapse.
Collapsed dead to neutral creeps, trying to iron shell farm out some little boglets
and croakers but GH tracks back.
So I just got to kill the block grenade, but dead to the frogs in the pond.
At least he got a few of those creeps even after dying.
Postmortem, the iron shell kept going, so it was pretty fine.
I do expect the Darkseer to have a pretty clear path to recovery, generally farms
fast with the iron shell.
I'm gonna make a low enough saying, hey, if we get one hero in here we can kill
this puck.
I've got his number
Uh, maybe guys, he's stuck in his side lanes
Yathrow giving it to Devi
Just walks him down and now Omar
in trouble as well
and seems like Rue has baited them in
Yathrow with a fair shield on him
The Sven is coming for you
Give me your blood, Yathrow
The Merant, the half man
half sea creature
Sven slices you to get a double kill
then drops the wow on top of him
Very nice start for him
these kills on Sven is really good feeling as well because sometimes Sven struggles and that's
when he usually gets forced out of lane like pre-level 5, you don't get any points in the grave,
cleave really and your jungle becomes so slow. If you can play the lane until level 6,
hop into jungle and insta ulti, that's when Sven looks the best.
I build up stacks. Your team spirit have a great line up to clear stacks.
And Darkseer obviously requires them to try and catch up from Lady Sages, has not gone his way again surrounded this time with Omar's help
GH also looking for a wisdom shrine
Let's give him a guy who supports the position
Because he had TP from the puck though. He has Deeter and ready
I he should be given this way for free. I don't know clockwork is shifting to the left-hand side to try and swap the
Shrines
They scan it though, so Raven knows what's coming, but they aren't in position quite fast enough, so it goes one for one across the map.
A little bit surprised with thought that he would want to TP and join his team there,
but granted that Puck doesn't have boots yet, so if you TP to the side lane without boots, you can get stuck there for a little while.
Especially if the fight doesn't go your way, it feels awful. You respawn without boots and have to run to mid lane again.
It's been just about to hit level 6 now, pulls the creeps into the jungle and we're
going to start seeing him accelerate farm with that ulti.
It's the supports of Nygma Galaxy are stacking together now, going for the room control.
The roaming duo, very early on looking for action.
and upset the team spirit and this landing stage is going to fully break down now. The
last amplified damage about to expire. Nightmare gets dodged though. Lifting the arms, Bane
signaling his intent but Puck says absolutely not. We get another bot lane rune. Another
bot spot rune. I'm going to go back and watch this series man so I feel like 90% of the
runes have been bottomed. That is the place to be obviously and if you go there
it's gonna start spawning top you know that's just how it is it's cursed well
maybe it's wherever ember puts his remnant the rune spawns
well yeah he has remnanted to the rune a lot in the previous ember games as
well and by the way mask man is complete over on this fan SF working on his
mask man is still he went for falcon blade first so a little bit delayed
already pressuring tier one tower though dark seer a little down in the dumps
trying to gather up whatever he can protected somewhat by the liches presence
in that bottom lane but for the most part it's playing keep away here tucking
spending the jungle keeping larl safe in that mid lane she's spirit trying to
weather this early storm of movement from the bane and ringmaster that's a
lot of movement but they haven't gone that much done with it yet. I think the
biggest thing is if they can start cracking into his tower. It's not having
mass command as though it's slowing down this siege a little bit. Maybe it buys time
if they want to come and defend.
I'm trying to catch up.
I think level six before he defends that's the thing so tier one is too
ambitious without the lech ulti.
A bit too challenging.
And Devine's picked up his helmet
so he can not only farm a little bit faster
but also drag waves away from the speck.
So, Senthil no longer has to contend
with the yatter of carry in his lane.
Just bypass everything entirely.
Ten minute rune about to spawn.
Everyone's gathering bottom because that's where it's going to be.
Nightmare save has a bit of time for the ringmaster
but pushed to high ground.
There's long enough bottles to regen rune,
which of course spawn bottom.
A strategy chase. Catching up to not mean they're vile to get involved here.
Slight change on the clockwork if the one-for-one trade. Those two supports lose their lives.
And Shadaphine gonna come to hit the tower, so advantage to the galaxy, honestly, with the way they're positioned and set up here already.
Spam not really interesting in coming and defending this, and again, lich, not having ulti just yet, he could get it, though.
If he goes in sacrifices or just niches.
Stand a few spells on Lawenoff, make sure that the attempt on Lawel isn't as easy as he started.
But it's Tower taking some tremendous damage with the counterpult, the Shandor Fiend.
It won't die entirely, but it's a good setup for the next move in a few minutes' time.
That's good damage done at least.
They take a little bit of SF's time going there towards Mid, and I do think in SF vs Sven matchup,
you don't want to lag behind the Sven in that worth as SF.
Sven farms fast, SF does as well, but if you start falling behind,
Sven can get to that point where he just bursts you with one blink and you don't want that.
It's kind of a mad rush to butterfly as the Shad of Fiend. Obviously he needs items before that.
And Sven, not a hero that likes to buy MKB, so if we do get to that point where SF is like,
okay, I've got my, you know, Pike butterfly and then maybe Skadi later on, he can be a force
to be reckoned with as Sven and Lidge are on to Divy with a quick little move there thanks to
the clockwork starting him gets the kill on Centaur. Oh, gets his Courier too. Divy not realizing he
had a Courier on Secret Shop after he died. At least they don't feel courage and courageous enough
to go for this tower, chasing the Wildwing free money for a route and stop the lane dragging
from happening yeah quite important because otherwise the center isn't losing
anything if it's just pulling the creeps around he'll be fine even with his
death room control it's a bottom room ring I can't believe it right now this
is this is ringmaster pulling tricks on us this is some clowny circus shit
putting runes bottom spot every time now so there's no no something's not right
here. GH getting chased down by some more illusions. Collapse, Iron Shells up his Wild
Wing transfer, the Nightmare back onto an illusion as well. Vacuum's under GH, struggling to get
the kill, though. As the stampy comes into play, Collapse is now isolated. A crack at
the web, the tame of the beast, and lawn off with a burn down with a shield. Ion's
the Darkseer, kill.
In the end, pretty aggressive move from him, trying to chase for a solo kill there.
Not the easiest as a Darkseer, even if you're just fighting as supports, getting
the killer is actually not that he's not straightforward and tasted nion mid lane by
larl helped a little puck auto attack sails in and gets it good job and they had started
to feel like spirit were building and building they got that two or three k net worth lead
even though the nigga guy's the action that's the raid and are able to take down
his objectives and actually find a little bit of wiggle room for themselves to farm
the jungle they've evened things out five to five very little in it 13 minutes in
and then we got you still in a good position here if they can especially if they can keep
defending his bottom tier one how important is this area of the map being a specialty of the team
spirit to contest the tormentor full hp tier one tower feels so good yeah they've done a great
job holding on to this and we have not seen yataro activating yet he's queuing up the
the blink daggers is next item though and I think once it gets it we might see a
rotation and an attempt to crack that bottom lane clockwork just sitting in
the corner so you can get away from me they're practicing his penalty shootout
putting it in top bins ruin is pawning and people are moving towards the
bottom rune gareth the players they're realizing yeah I think the
active rune spawning bottom lol oh no it's top no no it didn't what rune what
rune oh yeah there's nothing there there's nothing there see anything no it
just didn't they just didn't spawn if we didn't if you didn't spawn bottom it
just didn't spawn yeah it's removed for a ceremonial reasons like X yeah ring
that's what I'm saying ring masses picked it up they just got the claw to
can grab it. Lich is saving up for a shard and he's got people to get it pretty quickly
after minute 15 as well as he went tranquil boots magic stick into nothing. What the sports
feeling pretty rich on the side of the buyer. Bane lagging a little bit behind the rest
in that worth. Now long smoke flying drawn by Aatroch. So Rue brings the smoke to
him dagger and delivered Sven is now ready to go and kill off this bottom chill on tower and again
just set up like two spirit have every single time pull back on mid but not a man of a theme
script so it doesn't even try to go for it missing 15 man on being make my galaxy of
eating this attempt because this was meant to be either a kill in mid and then a move to bottom
or just a move to bottom to kill and then get Tama. Spirit don't get any kills and Puck is gonna get
launched around by Roshan taking a bit of damage on his way through the river. Very good read from
NygmaGaraxy to not give anything away there. They'll lose the bottom tower, sure they realize
they can't really defend it with such a strong show of force from Spirit but they're gonna get
advantages elsewhere on the map. Yeah meanwhile they're doing a decent amount of damage to the
top tower as well. Vi is pulling the creeps with his dominated creep. Licks comes up to
to grab the experience and try and defend.
And G.H. some very deep ward coverage coming into that top jungle.
Prepping for the situation where they can kill top tower and then start cutting across the map.
Into that very dark area where the spirit sees nothing in.
Hmm.
It's an interesting choice in this game.
The Vi is going for the heart second item, not going for a pipe where, you know, Crimson Guard's something that route,
So he's not looking to buff his team so much.
Is this telling us that they want to play a little bit more slowly and greedily?
Building their lead?
I think this is Laurel.
Quick silence.
Laurel actually done.
He's still going to run out of vacuum though.
Collapse, hold him, and have a Sven.
He's in that to leave them some male requiem.
We'll push back with the fear.
He's going to try and get out of here.
But the damn head from this Sven!
He just picks up the triple kill.
Ember spear was caught.
Sure. And that Chase is off looking for more that jump from Yataro diving behind Tier 2 Tower,
leaving into them!
GH gone and there's Sven pick from Team Spirit!
Aw!
So much damage!
The vacuum is insane, the Sven killing everything is crazy, but what's crazy to me? How is Lorela line?
What the hell do you mean the fuck didn't die?
So dead there at the start, but somehow he wiggled his way out of it, so he got tipped by his teammate afterwards like, great mate mate, you did great.
But look at this, I thought he was dead by rights, the old different ringmaster forces him to jump into everybody, but he just bottles away with the vacuum coming in.
Oh my god, that's crazy. Super close.
And no wonder why I got caught napping a little bit, I was looking at a tap with some stats and all of a sudden this kicks off.
kicks off. Team Spirit in the blink of an eye, you don't have time to shift tab into anything,
it's them just shifting into fifth gear. I'll just kill them afterwards. I kill on GH through
the chain frog, bouncing off the spire. Team Spirit now 5k lead, 5 kill lead. I'm looking
like these five heroes, any great step now to head into mid game.
Now they're firing on all cylinders and getting payoff as well for your shard there
on lich feels really good so getting uh getting some value out of this purchase
but yeah with with the heart on divide it might be that he's like i see you collapse because
collapsed at his exact same build and series against enjoy where he just went helmet to heart
and he was unkillable so i don't know if it's like a late game focus thing or more of a right
here right now you literally cannot touch the center yeah he will be hard to kill but
I'm a little bit worried for the rest of his team and how how things are gonna play out
It's been a challenge to try and get a shadow fiend and ambus spirit properly involved in the fight
I guess an argument you could make is that if you went for oh actually trying for the lich
They put close to tower, but no tps no reaction. Nobody knows him
Yeah, the killing spree. 400 gold to Lornaw, that's not bad.
Sumail though.
Oh, the hook shot in, star spings off perfectly, Yathrow follows through, Sumail, killed by
Lall in the end and that opens them up for the tier 1 tower.
Of course, a bit greedy to go for the defense of the tier 1 tower at the same time as
the pick off on mid because nobody came to help the lich, which should tip you
off a little bit that they're up to something else.
They're up to no good.
GH and DeVy.
They're lurking in the shadows there.
Still trying to play this top jungle where they've got that.
Little observable to the right-hand side where they can't still collapse,
but it's canceled here.
Get the backpack as Laurel jumps on GH.
Nightmare delays his death, but that's for sure the Bane dying.
And DeVy's still going to get jumped on here with a lich and a spend
following through on the center.
You've got a heart, a helmet, a big healing lotus.
He's not going to pop it to heal because he knows that he's dead, completely caught.
Heart Elm and a hoof stump, but it's not enough against the chain frost and the spire coming down there
with all the auto attacks from the Sven as well. Too much damage, even his Dominator creep
is going to die on the other side of the map. Yeah, rip, rip ogre frost mage.
Live the good life.
Centra's damage to Darkseid. Am I trying to stay in high spirits here?
where to the where to those creeps go where to the helm creeps go when they
fall through the floor like that they just sink to the center of the earth I'm
imagining their speedrunners you know they're they're clipping off the map
they're finding some way to travel through the darkness maybe they've got
some some magic way where you know you fall on to a trigger that teleports you
to a new room that you weren't allowed in before they're actually all
hiding there in the dev room all than all those creeps that fell through the
floor they're in the dev room infinite goal infinite health
the server dust spot the amber base a bit far away not sure if they can get all
the way over there they're smoking and trying to look the bias gonna break it
though Florida style it on by long can they protect the emper spirit with a
cental by his side it looks like spirit are respecting divide I don't
I clicked ulti, and full buy, then committed ulti, didn't jump.
Yeah, looking for another target instead.
And Shadowfiend is top.
Am I gonna jump on Ember Spirit still?
A blink stun into kill?
Make a solo's him in the direction of one stun?
Okay, I did not think you could solo kill Ember like that, his damage is pretty high.
Ah, that's nutty stuff.
I mean, Shadowfiend is nowhere near so spirit.
I'm fully understanding they've got freedom.
1700 HP is not enough, Ember. You may have a mage slayer to protect yourself from the magic damage, but then, pretty physical.
This map gets very hard to play as Nate McAllister now. He devises a try and bodyguard the tower, just put himself in harm's way.
Hooked shot into the back though, not me and Loll, straight towards GH, getting boxed up through the barrier and gets to his base for the rocket flare.
Rocket Flare is there!
As Rue dies to some male, not me kills G.H.
I crack the whip on him, and Devine's about to turn it back and take out the spirit supports.
Oh, do you know what killed him?
The mana boots killed him.
Omar used mana boots, which gave Vayne more mana right before the end there.
The final cog came in.
Yeah, I'm sorry to say.
Watch our replay of that, and you'll see it.
He died because of the mana boots.
It's so tragic.
Oh, that's sad.
That means the normal reaction right your team is out of mana you want to use mana boots to give the mana to work with but
That just keeps awkward more fuel more ammunition
That's why you don't buy mana boots
When slacks is slacks has been getting some coaching from from Quinn and then saying yeah, and they're like why you buying mana boots every game, bro
You're gonna stop wasting your money. You're killing your teammates buying these mana boots
Valuable lesson be out of mana every pro player loves this. Oh
Oh, we have a replay. Did we get it?
I think we're gonna see it. It's a little bit from now. Watch for it.
Oh, it's never mind.
No, it's way before this.
Oh, right.
Oh, I was quite glad to be the end.
Right.
You got punished for a sense.
A bit of a bite back there, making sure they defend their tier two.
Get a couple of kills, but still no meaningful move that allows them to get on the map.
It's very much on the back foot try and react while team spirit they just charge across into the darkness
They don't care. They don't have vision
They know they're so strong right now a CGH, but don't want to jump a bane with this spend
They might just have to to take him out in one swing
Well, I'm not gonna run it away with a chains on the spend to hold him in place at least for now
But I'll catch up or to walk the centaur catching up to Dubai. I don't trap him though
So a stampede is enough to keep him alive
I don't know if...
I don't think I can see that.
Maybe Yathura really wants to fight, but not quite getting connected.
As the Ulti is timing out, they could start Rosh, but now Radiant know Sven Ulti is on cooldown.
I think they should go and fight this, even though they've been struggling a lot of fights.
This could be an opportunity for them.
Could they just without Stampede waiting for Bane to respawn?
Roshan half held and not me scouts them coming in.
Ember them looking in towards the pit.
Wheel of Wonder comes in, but Yathura BKBs up,
Focusing Roshan, gets bashed by him in the meantime, heads ahead to head, and Lorinov snatches it,
beats Yachter on the clicks of the vacuum, into the wall, three men caught up in it,
collapsed trying to fall back down with his chains dumped by Lorinov, chasing up the high ground
of some ale, picks up the kill, blew the ledge, here he gets pummeled down by an English galaxy
as they come in, snatch the Aegis, get a couple of kills and find somehow a bit of wind in their sails.
Bam right, you give it up to Lorinov right there, Tiff coming in from Omar respecting,
He jumps into complete darkness as well, doesn't see anything, jumps in, slides a fist, creates some space, and then out clicks for the Aegis as well against the after-roof.
Just beautiful stuff.
The forehead is unhappy, you can tell from the wrinkles.
Yeah, wrinkles increasing. Yeah, look at this. I mean, amazing stuff. He zones everyone else, and then he puts himself close enough to guarantee that he can just spam click and guess it.
Really well done by Lornoff.
I stand out stuff from him.
What's the costly part about that Sven jump earlier?
He probably found one kill, but that's why he wanted more.
Fun for Roche.
Oh, he's going on the center.
Hold up. Oh my god, the crits!
What the crits?
What the fuck was that?
Okay, that was like three out of six hits the crit though.
That was pretty excessive.
That's a Centaur with hearts and pipe!
I guess the pipe doesn't do anything against the Sven,
But that's still a Centaur with 4,000 health!
Six auto attacks and he got three crits, man. It is rigged.
Teething again.
Oh, now he's jumping on GH. There's a coil.
Two hits to get to the center of Bane.
One point six crits.
So two hits and he gets one crits.
Six hits to get three crits.
He has 50% crit rate on this endless.
That's crazy.
It's buffed.
Oh, he's been doing the eternal energy strats.
Prepping his crits.
He's hit all the creeps 50 times so he knows that the next 5 hits are all going to be crits.
But he went from 6 and 3 on the center to immediately go for the 1 and 2.
No, that's what I mean. He was hitting creeps for 30 seconds first.
He was like, okay, no crit, no crit, no crit. He did like 10 hits on the creeps.
Okay, now's my time. I'm going to get massive crits when I go in.
Some prep work. By the way, the lich is closing in on his blink dagger.
only 100 gold to go.
Well, he's nice against the Ember,
one of those fast ways to catch him.
It's actually even better than Blink stunning him
with Sven is just Blink and immediately sinister gaze.
You can't get away from that.
And our chance.
10K lead still being developed here by Team Spiritus.
Things did plateau for about five minutes or so.
Nygma Galaxy showing that they've still got some fire
in them to contest that Roshan,
find some team fights.
It's just not possible for them to cross the river and feel comfortable and Shadafiend is still languishing 5k behind the spend
They need this ember spirit to catch up as he's bottom of the net worth in terms of core heroes
I think we actually still need to hit this next round of items in particular the BKD on Shadafiend
Yeah, I think so looking pretty rough on the side of radiant
But they have you know that decent stuff to work with late game as well and in the mid game
We still kind of need to see some armor coming in on the device so he doesn't just die in six hits to a Sven
Finish up the pipe next up is gonna be armor items after this blink dagger
At least he's queued up it looks like he wants one splint male and then agonim scepter to be able to pick up
This is a SF combo that we talked about in the drafting phase
Double wisdom shrine, GH and Divine making sure they get their hands on a bit of bonus
experience.
Every little helps, and your 10k behind the team spirit side have looked very good and
have all the wombo combos.
I mean, thank god for Nigma that they actually got the Aegis.
Imagine if they didn't get the Aegis over on Ember, if the Sven got his hands on
the ages this game would have looked very different right now but this bought them a little bit of time where the aggression hasn't been non-stop
The network disadvantage is still you know been pretty stable
But that gave time for a nigma to work towards in key items. They almost have etherlands coming in on ringmaster
Center getting his blink dagger safely and ember is only going to go the way from his agonies up here. I
I think the question everyone's mind though is, like Sumail, next fight will he be able
to auto attack, will he be able to stand his ground and deliver, because he is ultimately
the main damage source in this draft.
Yeah, I feel like they need to send O'Cart real bad.
Yeah.
As fast as humanly possible.
Give him a little bit of leeway in his fights with a save and the ability to stand there.
Because if Sven has all of his abilities ready the full arsenal is ready to unload and Yathrow is huge right now
Yeah, already satanic is about to be completed just a few hundred more gold
You see if Yathrow wants to go with this team immediately or if he wants to just finish farming it
I suspect getting a satanic as priority for him
He's gonna go out of the smoke and just keep working on his item
It's still a long time till next Roshan or Taun.
They're just going to come down to a big head to head.
That team spirit ready themselves.
And a smoke maneuver from mid lane through to top jungle.
I think a few of them were spotted by that radiant Observer Ward.
So Niva Galaxy really tightening up here.
And Sumail will fall back.
No one's holding high ground by the ancients.
They're sat back by their tier three towers.
Full understanding, the spirit is coming.
Some stressful stuff for Omar as well, because he's the one who's supposed to save with this
escape box and I guess then you have to be so fast, your teammate could just disappear
in like two hits.
But you have to have your mouse hovering over the shadow fiend, ready with quick cast.
So it'd be preemptively pressing the button almost.
Oh, then the puck with A on this could do some scouting aggressively, not too
scared about getting jumps. Also having the gem. Oh, hooks up. Onto the puck. I heard it.
Ah, he missed. Will smile from not me. Oh, whoopsie daisy.
Now smoke from the McAllister Galaxy. They're repositioning themselves. They want to try
and take control back of their ancients. The device is going to lead out up the staircase.
Smoke's going to break in a second there. They see collapse, blinks back.
Send his little froggie to go and deal with the creep wave
Gives the sent all the tendrils so annoying
Center finally gets it
They see it I'll save with the box yathribi kb's up room is already blown up by some mail and how the grippers there to spend
It's gonna cancel out the shadow fiend half HP being forced back
Guess a bit of distance away from yatra was collapses clapped down upon
They bought back the Bane to continue the fight while he jumped into WGH, joke shot forward.
Dieback of the Bane imminent, cleared out quickly while Sven, he's still there being 2v1 by the Emperor in the Sentor, but that's not a 2v1 they're winning.
He turns back and shows them who's boss, the Rogue Knight, he's here.
Sentor, pretty tanky as Sumail thinks about the Requiem windup.
Team Spirit from his high ground, reconsidering their options, Yattro's gonna jump onto the Sumail SF,
the blow-up damage from the park looking for Divide, but he's so tanky he doesn't die.
die. Lornoff comes in with some chains to catch them. The doxy died earlier on. Lornoff
is dropping low, half HP, the Svens on the run. And Lornoff and Sumail hold the line.
Oh, Phil? Lornoff's gonna get stunned still. The disable's not quite enough to finish
him and he won't touch him. Damage! And that's from Lornoff to finish the job.
In the back they've got a box save and a blink away as Lornoff goes chasing for
more on Sumail. These envies. Still gem on this puck. You have to be careful
not running into him. Running up doesn't have a teepee though. They don't know that.
I don't think they checked him. Let's just come in to take a lotus. Oh, a womb.
Some males staying safe. He's coming up, isn't he?
Just barely did. They saw him.
They know he's there. Yathra is coming. Anymore.
The jet was pretty far away though.
Oh, they're just coming. They're coming. They found him.
Oh, he's dragged back into the chain for us to kill him.
Team Spirit, the vision given, the kill found, Shadithin dead.
Hits the ground for 70 seconds as Roshan responds.
Team Spirit find the perfect moment at the perfect time.
Lyle even diving in behind tier 3 towers.
Yattaro is going to pop the ulti for this one.
A couple of love taps at the back of the bane's head,
takes him out of the game again.
Level 25 is in for the spin.
Jon Sector is in.
Two-man storm clears that room.
Yattaro though with a satanic going back to full health.
Wheel of wonder buys a bit of time for Dubai, but the jetpack forward after the control.
Colts pushed back into large jump, but the box is there.
Saves up the Centaur.
I don't know for how long though, this Yatra can still open up with the damage, but he's been stunned up.
They keep us fed at bay until he's allowed to slay the Centaur.
The Beast has fallen.
As team spirit, they lose the puck and the ledge, but they've applied a lot of pressure to niggma galaxy here.
All it takes is one punch, and he brings them down in the end there.
Man some crazy crazy stuff happening there small details center almost lived because of the wildest thing I've seen
Made a hook shot the clockwork got feared by the whip coming out from the ringmaster
So clockwork didn't get all the way on top of him and because of that he couldn't call him like so random
Center actually lived for a little while longer there, but ultimately fell in the end anyway
5.2k damage from this man. That's crazy, isn't it?
Yeah, but isn't this where you feel bad about the fact that you went for this pipe as well, like heart and pipe, you're still not a very high armor target.
Sure, you have Parks and Brand with Tough and you have a Splint Veil, but this is no She-Vust, this is no Crimson Guard.
I think you were right earlier on though, it's all about protecting Sumail, keep the king happy.
Make sure he doesn't get blown up by some, you know, Randy Chainfrost or a puck with a damage over time.
They desperately need the SF to get Daedalus and the Centaur to get Agonym Scepter.
Something like that is what needs to happen.
They're currently queuing up a Halberd over on the Centaur, thinking that maybe he'll spam some disarms on the Sven.
There are some pretty dragged out fights where he's fighting without BPD.
Somebody drafted him, has to change for sure.
And GA just keeps getting hookshot over and over again, but the Sven coming in,
Cleaves onto the Ember Spirit, a decent amount of damage as the Storm Hammer follows.
Senthor's stampeding in, but getting caught by that sinister gaze, he is all alone with the chain-froth founcing on him.
The Senthor is getting blasted, and he's dead for the better part of a minute and a half now.
75 seconds without him, and Team Spirit is ready to continue going.
Collapse, Kingsley. He did a whole 216 damage for that bastard.
He got the kill.
The bad manna. The jokes.
Pushing it back into the Vice-Face.
Pinging out the 5200 damage and collapse also wants to highlight that he's contributing in the damage department too.
Spending 4,500 damage.
Nathura is really giving a masterclass on how to play Spend Bill. This is really impressive stuff.
15, 0, and 8 repeatedly finding these kills.
Early game, he was a bit slow, right?
a little bit cautious about going to the enemy safe lane, didn't open the tower early, but
we see the reason why. He wanted his lane, he wanted his items, and once he got them,
man is strong.
Malorna still trying to poke in here and maybe get another snatch.
Can he do it again?
He's BKB'd up and he walks into pit but he can't finish it up on himself.
Catty?
Yathrow's gonna BKB up now and is again a cat attack inside the pit.
Lull will pick up Aegis though.
He gets it, shatter fiend on the high ground, glimmered in rectbryon, pushing them back
with a fear, come to the TP home but he's been coiled up here.
Lull finds the opening with Yathrow's damage to beyond Godwike's Sven, claims yet another
name.
They all get up except for him at least, but S is dead for 80.
That was not a fight they could ever really win with the centaur dead before it was just
a 4v5 into a team with 20,000 net worth lead.
It's not going to happen.
Right, now we're going to nullify him.
But when you stand with a nullifier, he's going to really be hard to get rid of now.
Also went for the stun duration talent, yeah.
It's a really good one actually.
I think the damage is nice, but again, walking our own hood shots.
Yeah, not me.
Not me, he's had some struggles with these hookshots until you make standing in front of him.
A little bit of stepping on each other's toes, for sure.
Maybe, I mean...
Nigma trying to defend this bottom, but the banner is here.
It's such a challenge now, because you're walking into a spen with a puck with ages behind him,
and the vacuum from the darks here is a massive threat.
And if you look at the positioning of Team Spirit right now, not me in the treeline,
the tree line hiding and looking for a moment to maybe cancel the grip or just go on the
Bane. I mean who needs to cancel the grip if you can kill him before he gets to use it?
I don't actually take him out though. Good box is saved keeps the Bane alive and now a
wheel of wonder and a chase from Loronov gets on top of not-means clockwork.
And a dive unsuccessful in terms of getting kills but it did create chaos and allow them to
take out the barracks. That's a no-thing I'm called on and maybe I want to make
something more happen but do you think they have the speed? Maybe they can catch? At least
Lich? The chain frost takes low enough to half. Careful with the bounces.
Losing two supports there is spirit.
Not too bad.
Lima Galaxy really just stampede it out of the base trying to get any of these stragglers.
I think it's something at least.
And to make us credit, I think they've done a really good job of not stacking up
and getting multi-hero cleaved, right?
We had that one moment of mid lane, sure. They stacked a little bit too much.
But most of these fights, it hasn't been that multiple heroes get stunned up and killed.
It's really just Sven going Pac-Man mode from one to the next and unfortunately if you can't if you can't kill them fast enough
Then Sven will have a lot of time to just walk around and kill
We're trying to group up here
Four players in the lane Shana fiend a little further behind farming jungle
The team spirit without the two supports could get picked apart if nigma galaxy find the right opening
It's just Loll with his Aeon disc Aegis, very difficult to break past.
But his Aeon disc, they just get popped.
Yep, at least putting down cooldown, but he has Aegis, so feels safe enough to still be scouting and still be leading the way.
Also allows him to farm his experience, because he wants level 25 quite badly.
So you get 23, almost 24 on Puck right now.
Meanwhile, Sven level 27 is his step surge.
He's already started leveling the bonus talents.
He has the shard and the warcry talent already so pretty good stuff for him.
Undispellable warcry, a little bit of extra barrier, various kind of whatever, but undispellable
is pretty nice for just chasing people down the duration and make them all super tanky
against the shadow fiend.
Divine, yeah.
Smashing off this halberd means the agatomceptor is still delayed.
Let's see how it pays off.
He's scouted out here and being looked at.
The centaur still...
It's hard to get to jump even though it's tanky.
But it'd be bursted.
Straight up the high ground onto this ringmaster, though, while looking for the freebie.
Another minute of ages left so, not what you bothered going deep here on to play the vacuum of the shadowpeen inside
They just take him out of the game quickly
But I thought that's just gonna be a straight-up kill on ringlast the niggma galaxy warp in
gave team spirit a vacuum back into
Into base kill
Back should be sent those dead to 70
It's my bad. I simply have good positioning, you know, I jinx the next team fight automatically double buybacks coming out
But Centra dead for 60
Desperate, desperate situation for Nigma Galaxy now.
Double buy back coming into Defender base.
Requiem onto this part with the E on Disky's there.
Back up off cooldown.
Hook shot in towards the bane in the back as well.
Emberspirit BKB'd and dealing with the Clockwork as CLABS comes in with another two man vacuum.
Straight onto the Shadow Fiend.
Clap him out of the game.
The king has been defrooned.
Yattaro, the god.
He rains down.
Supreme.
Team spirit, I kill the Shadow Fiend.
Emberspirit doing what he can.
notified of getting swung on by the spin. The barracks are falling though as not
being goes diving behind tier fours to create even more chaos to jump in. With his
darks here on the spin find yet another man. Two heroes remain for Nick Magasi to
try and hold on to this game but it is such a such an uphill battle.
Yeah it's too much. 4k HP on the spin, he has a tannic, you gotta go through his
BKB, he has everything at his disposal. He'll be up in 20 seconds too.
And collapse. He's running circles around them now.
Bring it around the rosy with this surge.
Oh, not forced to do something drastic here.
It's not me to get the hookshot.
Ain't nothing to the ember.
In the back, they've got the Sven dealing with the centaur.
And the throne is still alive, being kept up.
I'm divine.
He's come off.
But it's not an easy task when you have to start
hitting the buildings with God's strength.
Now back up again.
Jump dead, kills up Omar in one swing of the sword.
And that's it, GG call.
Team spirit will be your first qualified team here.
Coming out of Europe.
some crazy crazy stuff in the last game here from Team Spirit. They powered up
throughout the series. Game one with the bit shaky, game two looked like regular
Team Spirit and game three by gods they played some strong gold I hear. 24-0
and 9 on the aftero. You ever see the first big vacuum into turn around play?
Baited of course by the puck. It's such a difficult job for Sermel to try and
find avenues into this fight where he's being kited around or vacuumed back in, dragged one
way, pushed the other, pulled over here, and then slapped where I spent this Yatro last
pick.
Beautiful stuff.
Yeah, it really was.
And I can't help but feel like the SF didn't really get to come to fruition the way he
wanted to.
There was just a massive, massive difference in how much to carry he did in this game.
And unfortunately for some people, because the lane went really well, right?
The start was good.
getting kills, he was getting a nice farm and looked like he was going to take over the game,
but then Sven gets the blink dagger and just runs to show the entire time.
So few options for Mega Galaxy in that game. Very challenging for them to find any fights.
And Sven just offers so much damage. Every battle starts with a death into buyback, you know? If
you're not on, if you're not in the best position, you can't really make these moves.
And then just walking back into an inevitable vacuum out of collapse.
Surmounted by a completely caught off guard trying to protect Omar.
Yeah, I think maybe it was, you know, like obviously I'm not pretending to know better than the teams here,
but looking at this ringmaster plus the bane, I think the both want to sit on the back line,
sit there and kind of chill and vibe.
And there was too much responsibility for Dubai to be fronting for these guys
and preventing them getting jumped.
but look at the jumps.
There's blink on darks here,
blink on the puck who already has
Nate ways to get in there.
Clockwork hook shots in,
blink rush on the lich,
and a blink on Sven.
They're all built to jump the backliners,
and we saw them just unable to keep
any safe positioning at all.
So, yeah, obviously look at this crazy
1225 experience per minute,
59,000 hero damage almost,
and 20,000 building damage nearly as well.
You know he won't be happy though.
960 GPM didn't crack a thousand after it's gonna be like it wasn't a 2409. Yeah, that doesn't matter 20k
Building damage doesn't matter my GPM didn't crack the one K mark
Join the four digits club, but he's a lowly three digits GPM or not not high enough
Performance from him though genuinely gorgeous gorgeous stuff and team spirit there bringing out this last pick spend something
that we just haven't seen, right? First pick of the qualifier and it looks incredibly good in the hands of Yathoroh.
I mean, I'm just happy that they also brought out the Lich. I was sitting there saying, you know what, Lich would be a good hero to see and we get to see it in the very game.
So, fantastic draft from them. I think overall they had very few weaknesses. Their late game was good. Their team fighting is amazing.
Lanes perhaps is like the weakest part, but they managed to own top lane with the Sven and the Lich. So, yeah, I think everything kind of clicked for Team Spirit here.
here. Yeah, Nigma Galaxy, you
know it's not all doom and
gloom for them. This was
upper bracket. This was one
shot at one of the four
slots, two slots in the
upper bracket, two slots in
that lower bracket. So Nigma
Galaxy will have that safety
net down below them to drop
into the lower bracket and
have another shot at one of
those two slots, but we've
got Team Spirit qualifying
directly to TI as expected.
Right? This is something
that we kind of saw coming,
but Nigma Galaxy putting
on such a good performance,
two owing through that
early upper bracket and
then taking a game, game
one away from Team Spirit, a superb start.
Yeah, very impressive stuff from them.
I believe we have Collaps.
Ready to join us here after this performance
and congratulations to you.
Thank you for joining us, Collaps.
Yeah, congrats.
Hello guys, thank you.
Thank you.
How are you?
Are you excited for another TI?
How are you feeling?
I feel hungry, to be honest.
I want to eat.
No.
What's for lunch then?
What was your lunch after a 2-1 series?
I don't know. My breakfast was like some bread with salmon, cheese, eggs, like I need a new one.
So I don't know, it was for lunch, I didn't test, didn't check.
Do you generally consider that you eat pretty clean or do you still eat like average gamer?
Because you obviously put a lot of work on yourself on working out and being more healthy.
Do you also eat healthily?
I mean, not really.
Usually when I'm at home, I just don't care what I eat.
I just eat what I want.
Some random food, I would say.
But on bootcamp it's like discipline.
You just eat what your manager orders for you
and and for sure this food is much better than ate at home so it's Corbin
in charge then is he the one giving you the food it's Roswana so you don't
like Milan or in Poshka they don't get to choose any of your food you don't
choose anything now how's that how's that been with Milan and then the
Poshka could be coming back as well, right, as coaching. What's that journey been like for you guys?
I mean, I would say like, Milan right now feels like teammate for us, to be honest, because usually we're just playing pubs with him.
But sometimes he gives us like good ideas for drafts, for heroes, for like something to test.
We're not playing with Miposhka because he's not playing Pax, but Mopups, but Mion playing a lot.
So just sniping with him, playing, feels good.
And Miposhka is like, he took the full responsibility for drafts right now.
Okay. So if Milan, your little, your old friend, is like Balavnik, the clown, making you all happy, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We saw him dabbing you up, you know, coming with the excitement here before the game hyping you.
Yeah, he's just coming, like, before the game.
Come on, guys. You can do it. It's cool.
I sometimes don't need that.
You gotta get the vibes up before you play some Dota.
You guys, you know, game one looked like it was a little bit shakeier, but then game two,
you guys played a lot stronger in game three.
it felt like you guys just had a very good read on what you wanted to do.
Can you take us back to what happened in game one? Do you feel like
you got surprised by how Nigma took it or what went wrong in game one?
To be honest, I didn't like any of these games. It's one of the worst games in my life,
like all three games because like our waning was super bad I have like win
radar on my way to be honest and in first game I don't even remember what
happened
what heroes I played? First game with Tango? Yeah I mean we we did like few
I would say when I died without buyback, when I died on the rune, when they committed to
an inch, I mean the most crucial when I died without buyback, on minute 1550 I would say,
and from this point they took two sides and like there, it's nothing you can stop, like
from there to kill the ancient, destroy the ancient I would say.
And from this month's game was a bit hard, I would say.
If I didn't die, we didn't close the deck to Scythe's, we could probably win them.
So, yeah, sorry, I didn't discuss it.
Thank you, thank you for explaining and taking us through that.
So you know, big congrats to you guys for this qualification.
What's next for you right now?
Are you still going to immediately scrim more and focus hard, or are you going
to take a day off or get any break here?
We would totally like take a day off just to some small celebration because of the victory.
We go on, I don't know, we didn't like talk about it, either decide what we're going
to do for celebration.
Get some ice cream.
That's good stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, some ice cream, maybe beer, maybe something else, I don't know, just.
But how's the weather? It must be hot there still right? Yeah, it's super hot
I mean we're like pointing point in this also and this
It's you're always wet always
Like so hot good sir be right now
Super want to super hot in these games as well sweating away in a bastard three against me with galaxy
Well, let you go go get some ice cream chill out make have a cold shower or something make congrats on that
See I call vacation super excited to see you guys another TI
Thank you guys. Thank you so much. Bye. Thank you so much for joining us.
He's collapsed. He's always so happy. He wasn't so happy about the lanes though.
I think he pointed out something that I didn't really think about that. I think
all those games, you know, started out kind of rough for him. In the type game
he did get to take over and become a monster. So that was probably a bit
more fun for him. But yeah from his point of view these games were not
great. Like he said, some of the worst games of my life. I think he is saddered a little bit, but
it's funny how the players can have different different point of views on the games.
Well there we go. We wrap up that series. Team Spirit 2 won against Nygma Galaxy qualifying
for TI 2026 as Nygma Galaxy dropped down to the lower bracket. But we've got another series
here today. Another qualification spot. VP against Team Vision. Stay tuned for that coming
coming up with Owen and Fogged.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Europe Regional Qualifier!
regional qualifiers for the
international 2026. I'm only
pixel here joined by the cost
ready to take you through the
second and final series of the
day. It's a big one. First
of all, the cost. How are you
doing? I'm doing great. I just
saw things very in pretty much.
Yeah, just give them the ages.
I've seen enough. Just give
you a third ages here we go
so we can finish this. No,
just kidding. They look good.
The team looks good and
excited. I watched a lot of
as well. And now we're back to Europe who only has four slots available three now. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely everything to play for on this one. The draft has begun. So I believe we're probably just going to jump straight into that. It's team vision versus
Virtus Pro here for that second of the four slots, the winner of this best of three going to the international in Shanghai. So let's see who can come out on top of these two. So far the journeys have been kind of different for these two teams.
You know that last best of three we have was pretty close right spirit niggma
They were battling out to the bitter end great series this one
I hope it's a great series
But there's some concerns the cost because the roof yeah for sure teams are a bit different right team vision they're kind of just
I think they've probably already got the flight story. They're like we're going
So far have been pretty convincing VP. They've had a few struggles on the way to this point
So they got they got a they got to clean it up if they want to take there the win against team vision for sure
Alright. Oh, absolutely. I mean, Virtus.pro, they played against Yellow Submarine. They dropped the game. They also played against the Inner Circle. They also dropped the game there.
Took them long enough to even win the games. 50 plus minutes to be able to close out the games that they won. So I'm a little worried for them in terms of how they're going to be mashed against a super aggressive team like Paravision.
Yeah, because team vision, you see them, like there is very explosive, like something in them that gives them that one good fight suddenly the fight is over.
If you remember, like previous TI, it was a bit of a different squad, but also same playstyle where they're just playing.
And then one move that they make, one team fight, the fight, the whole game kind of feels over.
Yeah, I'll see how they match up against each other here in this game one draw.
SNF is going to come through as the first pick.
Looking at the bands, you know, noticeable thing that VP have done, which I do like, is they
ban out the Kez.
You know, we saw, I think, three of the four team vision wins that they've had, so far
on this road.
Kez just gets left in, and Satanic, he'll go first pick Kez every time, and he will
destroy you.
So, I think VP, smart move here with the Kez band, they're almost certainly going
to have to stick with that frilless series, because you just do not want to let Satanic
get the first pick, Kez.
of that. What would you do against Team Vision? Are there any other heroes that kind of jump
to mind that you're like, if you want to have a chance against this team, you have to take
away from them?
I think you need to have strong lanes. Playing against a team like this, you can't really
have like three 4K deficit, 10 minutes into the game. It's just going to feel very awkward
and going to be very difficult to play because this team takes over a huge area of the
map depending who is like which hero nine classes playing whether he's playing
some healing support like coddle if he's finding a new groove with some new heroes
that he's been playing his Earth Spirit suddenly we're seeing this hero but
yeah we haven't seen much from Team Vision in terms of how they're playing
because they pretty much won every single game but we also saw very
interesting approach against SF in the previous series in some games before
Sven has been rising in popularity which kind of what you think about it is a
natural counter. It's a hero that has more damage than Shadowfiend. It's a hero
that buffs up the whole team. You can kind of soft reset as well and also spills
into a BKB. He doesn't really care what Shadowfiend is building. He's always
gonna have an upper hand. Yeah yeah I mean it would be interesting to see if
that kind of trend with the Sven continues here for team Vision taking
that I'm sorry I'm looking at nine class but not night not the one or not no one's camera
the way the other one where he's just sitting like a gremlin in the background he took my
seat like there's nothing I could do it is it's a comfortable position to be in I'm
gonna get in it right now I'm gonna I'm gonna do the nine class here I'll be looking
for the job there's a good you know you can't lock 10 you know your your body's always
You might be putting a break on the posture, but yeah, I might be a bit too locked in for the spine, but if it's something about it, it's comfy.
But Andy and Poppy sort of take the reins here with the picks for this draft and grab the bane.
Pretty much this support seems to be the support that, you know, people don't really ban it, but it gets through, well, they do, I was 17 bans, but letting it through 15 times,
It's the support that kind of out the hot supports tends to get through the draft on the first phase the most
Clock I mean he probably talked about this as well
This is one that he is always a little bit dumbfounded
But it does get let through as much as it does because he he says, you know the clock kind of busted right now
Would you agree? I
Would say after the nerves like even before the hero was super good
He's busted, but also I would say slightly
Overrated in terms of what the hero sometimes it can fall off
but also when you play it with Shadowfiend, it's just impossible to play.
Like, the reason why this hero is popular is you don't have many heroes that have Mana Burn available,
you have BKB piercing ability, and you have Scouting Tools,
it's very difficult to invade certain areas of the map square on the other side,
because you get caught by Battery Assault even just inside the cogs.
It's just so difficult to play.
And Bane, one of his arch nemesis, always was Clockwork in terms of the support-to-support matchup where he doesn't get to use his abilities much.
And now he's going to be playing into two of them, Ringmaster. We've seen him, like, even in the previous series.
It looked good. I think this hero is heavily underrated in terms of what the hero does, what he brings to the table.
But it's a skilled shot hero, so you can look pretty bad if you don't plan your spells.
absolutely yeah yeah we I think we saw some of the the teams that were kind of
considered the underdog and some of the matchups also picking the ring but when
they had a really good ring player even when they were losing like they would
still make the ringmaster look good so I absolutely agree great hero just
probably one that not every team has a support player that feels confident
pulling out so yeah ringmaster definitely want to watch here in the
hands of VP see what they can do with it team vision they're gonna go with
the nation's profit, almost certainly satanic for having that on the carry.
And something a little different, they do like to do this right team vision.
They're like, you know what, we're going to get something that no one else is really doing,
and not picked up and at all so far in the whole of this EU qualifiers.
Skyriff Mage is coming in the cost.
Very strong here. This is insane.
Like a lot of these matchups, when you pair up Axe plus one,
it's very difficult for support to trade against them
because of the battle hunger. We did nerf the cast range, which is a pretty big deal, like
you can actually feel it when you play axe. You need to get slightly closer, gives enemy
position 4 or 5 to be able to maybe run away so that he doesn't get hungered. But yeah,
with Scarlet the Mage, this is the old school lane. It's a lane where you have infinite
damage pretty much. You always have the kill combo. It's not going to be as potent
because there is a little bit of a save at the box on the underside, but it's
still super strong and also bringing nature's profit on top of that fiend's grip. Two supports
even being paired up on any side of the map just bringing in nature's profit could create a kill.
Yeah there's some good aggression here from team vision. A lot of poke and there's just a lot
of ways to capitalize on when they do start to get someone low in the laning phase. VP
still looking for their other two cores.
still not got an idea of what the mid matchup is going to be but they know what they're going
to be throwing in the offlane towards. They're going to go with the mid pick first, showing
the ember and likely saving Saberlight's hero for the last pick here. Don Breaker was such
a good ban. Yeah, they loved him because it would ruin, it's a very good hero. It's also,
Yeah, I would say it fits in type of a play style that they want to do it fits in saber light perfectly where he can be on the
Other side of the map a lot of the times you see him not having the most farm with dawn breaker
It is quite different where he is getting the farm
No matter what one of the fastest farmers in the game from the offline and then you can break a lot of these combos as well
It's right against nature's profit throughout the whole game pain doesn't get to use his ulti great against axe call
Just that extra bit of oomph extra bit of a healing could make the difference
That's a good ban as well from VP, the no one invoker, we saw it pop off yesterday.
They do not let him get the chance to get that through as the last pick would have been very,
very nice.
Team vision, last ban, still looking to save the heroes as they ban out the tide.
What else do they want to get rid of there?
Another one of these aura buyers and you have a hot two are the Centaur and the
underlord they're still in.
So a couple of options. I was thinking like if they had
maybe a bit of a different support if their position five didn't have that
much control I would say Primal Beast one of the better
matchups overall against Nature's Prophet. It's still pickable
because it ruins sky, it ruins Nature's Prophet.
It's good against Axlons. He should like blink call somebody. You can
counter initiate with the blink pulverize on top of him.
It's something that Saberlight loves to play, not the easiest hero to execute, like this hero has certain timings, you also sometimes, most of the time don't really have great laning stage because you don't get to cast your abilities, but I was thinking of a hero that can get out of Sprout throughout the whole game, you always have something good with the ringmaster as well, not maybe like the techies pairing where you get the taser, but we'll see what they decide to go for.
Good bands, as you said, the poker for no one, they're going to say, but like for you there, the cost, you know,
He must be wired in with the coach cons there, but out there because that that is that's not a common ban either
It's not like we've been seeing a lot of primal beast at all
I think we've only had like one or two games of it kind of pop up with the qualifiers
But team vision very much seeing the exact same scenario that you were you're sort of seeing the potential for there
As a primal beast enjoyer like I got the np skyred mage like these are very
Easy heroes to kill there aren't like sure if they still have one more hero from the mid lane that they could go for and
Maybe something I don't know if no one wants to play
Like more lane dominating here. They also have 24 pick for themselves. So they could maybe sneak in out
They can't never mind. It's bad. I was just thinking about
the wiper maybe they're gonna squeeze it in but it would look very good just I
think there aren't many mage layer buyers in the game but there's a lot of
spell damage on their side Shadow Fin is a bit of a physical this is the hero
that you mentioned yes it's an easy one yeah yeah not not the best in terms of
getting the saves with the stampede against the grip against the call it
doesn't really do anything, but it's a good way of closing the gap against nature's profit.
It's also very good, Kero, throughout the whole game against Skyred to Nature.
Maybe later you're going to have another save.
It's not like you're lacking the save, but getting the card, getting that agonimceptor
could be pretty massive.
Controversial one.
What about the no-one, Kunkka?
Or is Kunkka just that trash?
Because isn't this a good Kunkka game, if Kunkka wasn't trash?
I mean, it's good.
It's good, but
Pango still at a pull. Yeah, just a hero that gives you everything pango after all these nerve changes like it's just a good hero
Like you see some of the heroes like clockwork. He has mana burn
I think you need to squeeze in your own type of mana burn once you see
And I have one on each side
Still very good
I don't think he has many things to be worried about a lot of the times these ranged turrets are
Way to kill pango where we're talking about Windranger using the focus fire
Carolinas mabusas back when that was a thing Shadow fiends now meta so he can right-click down
Pango, I don't think he can kill him because they have no other
BKB piercing abilities other than hookshot, which is the dog. He's trying to maybe trap him
But it's not not the easiest one. I think first row they drafted themselves a like very strong draft in terms of
But just the heroes it's a very simple very easy to execute type of the draft that I think because they are playing against
Higher caliber team. They need to be able to get the easy execution in this one
Yeah, it's
It looks good from VP. I'm a little concerned
I think one of the things that we see I think being banned out a lot of times when the ringmaster is picked
is this pango because obviously the pango kind of makes the saving element of ring master's toolkit
pretty redundant right you know everything's gonna hit whoever's getting boxed up through it you've
got the airway control with the rolling thunder so it can make it a lot harder in the fights for
health screen to bail people out of danger yeah for sure he is also the one that is getting a
double link dagger, finding the ring master before maybe even he gets the saves off. You
have Axo having double jump against some of these saving supports is always going to be
a problem. There is a stampede maybe to try to save you up supports. They kind of cover
each other nicely. Maybe with the cogs with the hookshot. But again, team vision, nine
class on sky red mage. This is a bit of a forgotten hero. He has these niche hero
that he likes to play but it's also a hero that just deals insane amount of damage especially
if he's off to a good start and knowing him he's very greedy as a player but if we're
talking about him squeezing in Kaia and then playing from there it's a hero that suits
his play style. Like I already see what he has in Quick Buy it's double Null Talisman
making sure that he's going to have that mana.
Yeah, we saw his Wimrate came up on the screen there. It was like 260 wins 140 losses in his pub game
That's like a 65% Wimrate
That's pretty high here from nine class on the sky right so looking forward to what he's gonna be able to do with it in
This official match. I mean yeah, because now the drafts come to an end
How annoying does the sky look like it's going to be able to be or do they have
measures of dealing with the sky in the lane and with some of the spam, the later poke damage from the magic output.
Like how much is the sky going to be a nightmare for VP?
I think it's a very good pick. I think he has a bit of a protection. He has
relatively good front line so he can free cast his spells from the distance
and also he has two very good parings that we're talking about. Pango and Axe,
MP, Teeping in, even the support duo can easily make a rotation and with
two alties, they can score a kill on any side of the map.
So you always have some kind of a play.
And looking at the axe, Owen, how do you feel
about this new set that was released?
It's a pretty nice set.
But where's the patch?
I keep waking up every morning, expecting it to be.
And it's not there.
Where is it?
I mean, it's a nice set, though.
I do like the tease.
It's a good tease.
It really is.
I am intrigued where it's going to go from this.
Does this mean, are we getting the patch tonight?
You know, I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and there's gonna be like more heroes missing.
Are we gonna get more heroes turning into these kind of ultimatons that are done with the axe?
Um, but no, it's good fun, but uh, I, I, I got, I got worried.
I gotta say, for a second, I thought we might, but I thought we might remove the hero and like never make it back.
He's just gone.
Like you got to unlock it for 399 or something.
Axe hour being one of my favorite heroes is why I got worried there for a second, but really love to see this one.
Very good looking set on axe.
Let's check some of the lanes. Abbot in the mid lane. Abbot needs to be locked in this game. It's not going to be easy for him in multiple ways of dealing with what he's playing against, like so many counters who are playing against him.
Even just one nightmare could set things up for Scabot Mage to come in, use Ancient Seal. It's the best silence in the game if you maybe exclude Global Challenge being Global.
global, 6 second duration silence, very annoying for him to deal with.
So I want to see how Abed is going to itemize, whether he's going to be having a really good
start where he can be the one applying the mage there, so he's not receiving that much
damage, getting that extra bit of a hit with the sleight of fist.
And you still need something.
I mean, Yulceptor is not an item that you want to be buying in a lot of these situations,
but against Axe, against Scarlet the Mage, it does feel nice.
It does, yeah, but we did have one Ember game where, I can't remember who it was, but they did end up buying it yours early, and it did look kind of rough, like, I'm pretty sure they lost the game, and, yeah, it's like, outside that, yeah, you can see for what's going to be that, a BKB or a Manta, really, your options, so, yeah, we'll see which way Albert goes, or if he decides to live on the edge and not bother buying any of these dispels, and then just kind of trust in his team to bail him out, maybe pick up the items to save him.
They have a safe, yeah. Hellscream, good to box, good potentially negate all of that damage once they jump in.
So, his positioning is gonna need to be very, very good.
So far, I'm looking at the top lane, tomato, and a good amount of CS.
It is Clockwork plus Shadowfiend after all, very difficult lane to deal with,
and they're gonna kill his courier.
9-class doing a very good job keeping the distance away from Clockwork,
and also applying quite a lot of pressure.
This time around, they're going for Shadowfiend instead, which I really like, instead of going for the support.
Yes always annoying when these sort of spam lanes do that, you know when you're playing the core
It's it's like you kind of tell you this boy
It's like can you not just stand close and make them use the spells on you?
But as you say with these pro players, you know, they're always gonna be holding big stuff for the core
So it's spike flies best efforts to draw their attention off the SF nine-class notice will still find ways to
Low you know lower the HP of tomato
Make sure the lens not too easy but so far CS is good both carries having a pretty nice time here
Static doing very well we've seen sometimes with an anxious profit
They have a bit of a slow CS in the first few waves not the case here. Static pretty much perfect last hits down here
It's a bit like also finding something
Yeah, not just glasses look at this the night that he's getting initiated on bottom. Good nice nurse say from dookie
Yeah, I should be fine because on the bang can do a lot to keep them safe half of them to get kills down here
vision against the two of VP, but should be able to keep this lane set up so that
safe time has a pretty safe time farming. Yeah, it's all about the farm and they
are definitely not trying to get a kill in this lane, maybe a return kill if they
play very aggressive, but other than that this is not a killer lane by any means
and summoning these trients, level two trients right now, so three trients is
going to be quite annoying to deal with, especially against these supports.
You can just send one on the side maybe cancel the clarity provide vision of him
So everyone's getting good quite a lot of damage in the bottom
So if you get the nightmare
Not quite simple it will be fine
Complete our region we'll get past it with one more time go from hell scream
Just sit back a little bit
He's in a bad spot. Let's see what he's bringing here.
He's bringing himself on the carrier, so that's going to be something.
And the Wingsap ready in couple.
Could be in trouble here, Saberliah. Yeah, he's going down. I mean, played a bit risky there.
Wanted to stick around as low HP as he was. Hellscream. He will live.
I'm going to turn and get a dart out, but yeah, it's going to be first, but there.
On the other side of map, they do lose 9 class, so VP finds something in the turn.
4th satanic can find the kill first.
He was getting way too greedy there, hanging around on as low as HP as he was.
It was kind of inevitable.
I also think you need to bring, you said that he gave him Tango.
You also need to bring some extra regeneration.
His CS is not that good, so he didn't get the good gold.
He didn't buy that early helm of Armville.
It gives you pretty good armor gives you pretty good regeneration armor is the big one because you're playing against constant harassment from nature's profit and also history is
So don't get that on time. Maybe you need it to sometimes you get like really greedy. You're like, yeah
I'm very close to it, but yeah, you hang around the salve your career gets back and then it's gonna be delayed
But yeah, maybe he could have prepped an earlier style just to make sure that the this harassment is not gonna be as annoying
Yeah. No, no, something that's giving that first button to Satanic was already having perfect palm down here
Just back this needs proper pain gets to kill yes, it's an awesome minute
Necessarily expect to be happening talking about the pain makes the move up top does die and tonight. Okay
I guess denied by the neutral creeps
So after they made that move to try and kill the SF surely get him out of the game
But they're not actually able to get the last time and don't get the kill he gets denied by the small cap
He gets the XP, but Satanic now in trouble.
Trying to punish him, but it couldn't quite, I mean it's super hard to hit these empowerment
arts with the daggers whilst all the trains are out blocking them.
So couldn't get the connection.
And to Satanic, because he's got the sleep, Satanic.
Looking for the sprout burst, but not enough to burst through Hellscream.
Still keeping the lane low.
using a lot of resources on just to make sure that they're keeping themselves alive
They're using a couple of daggers. They're using tame the beast saber like using the stun as well and also losing this
Kind of resource war where they're getting alpha-rasp. Yeah Freddy's a panic
We're trying to do the body blocks here with the trience sprouts out and the trience out blocking saber lights escape is
saber like going down again
This nature's profit Bane lane, it feels like she's getting way more kills than it should be down here.
A very hot start for the safe lane of Team Fizz.
And we see Abed, who came over for the 7 minute, has to jump away.
Just kidding, to not stick around for that one.
Aw, this is a really bad start for Burdus, bro.
It looked good, they got to deny, they got some kills.
Abed trying to make a move, knowing that they're not going to be able to contest their own rune on their own side.
because they just died in flight
and he's gonna die
he's looking very rough for them
it's gonna need to be Arbet who needs to fix these lanes
yeah he's got a lot of lifting to do here
he's got his earn done
trying to get the phase boots finished
but yeah we gotta see some big moves from Arbet on the Ember Spirit to try and calm the game back down
give a chance if he could get back in
already 2k gold down here, 7 minutes in
We have seen many a time before in this qualifiers how quickly
Team vision can just blow that lead up
These guys get ahead of the start. They start zooming out
And the fact that Satanic's already top net worth as the nature's profit
It's gonna be an absolute nightmare and join any sort of play to try and make our best going for to Carlos
He's super low though. I bet he will get the kill or try and get out
No one's gonna look to chase him with the wrong
They found it. The angle's there, they TP over, 9 plus, takes Arbett down, no one's going to head over to Wards Hellscream, finding the ringmaster, and get the whip off onto 9 plus, but will not manage to run away from these two.
As both of them end up dying here in the mid.
They don't have, at this point of time, your center is kind of supposed to be level 6, so
you have stampede, maybe extra bit of the protection so you can run away.
That's also not available, so these trades are getting way too much.
At least Shadowfinn is still farming okay.
This is one of the fastest farmers in the game when he's off to a good start.
He did die once, Obed.
Obed?
Here we go.
Well, here we go.
Good night, Meph and DeKalus.
Their hip stops the plate.
Ducalis will almost certainly die, but he allows Satanic to walk away
So Arbett tries to make the jump there
But unfortunately for him Ducalis is the bane ready to disrupt the play and keep the carrier live
Satanic's still super low, but they don't have any real other ways of closing the gap without Arbett around
So Satanic should be fine. We'll head back to base fuel
Yeah, one of the few heroes we can do that to eat like I mean rip ember can do it
nation's profit is one. Kunkka can use Xmark TP back. This is the hero that you talked about.
That was kind of on board to be fair. It would have been fun. Yeah, it's just that hero kind of bad.
Margot would have picked it. He would. Margot would have picked it. He would have picked it.
I think someone tried it in the off-lane recently. I want to say they did too well.
Not really, but maybe we get... Well, are we going to get patched? Probably not right.
We're expecting some content, but maybe not a gameplay patch. Maybe we get both.
hoping for both that would be amazing yeah give me something big yeah give me
something that's gonna last thing check things up don't you know that let's go
skip three just bottom right they got the sleep set up on a safer light and to
the ancient seal science of the mystic flare not able to get a stampede off
dead under the tower no one is looking for the chase but hell screen will be
to get out of that one is bike.
They're fast.
They like at least verse bro, they can get pretty fast.
The bike jetback cart from Centaur Stampede.
They're speedy.
Yeah, that is true.
Yeah, they're speedy.
They're very speedy.
Like a monowine.
That's the special move that they've got here.
To get out of it.
It's way too greedy.
Kind of underneath the tower.
Oh, fly.
And they should get 9 class there, there's no way this guy uplifts.
9 class, we'll get the Carrier.
But he does die, so still able to push, give these plays a round up, maybe get some pressure onto the tier 1 mid.
Because meanwhile on the bottom lane they are losing the tower, here's the push of Noon and Ducalis, they'll take out the tier 1.
VP trying to find this trade.
It's not the quickest of tower pushes and we'll give opportunity for TP's to come in, so vision.
I'll see what they can do about this one.
See if they can at least slow this push down and it looks like they will succeed with that
so they'll keep the tower alive a little bit longer as VP aren't able to find and finish that tier 1 mid.
They're at level 6 at least on Clock Rooks and he does have Hookshot available.
Hellscream still level 5, please try him.
Mid gets stolen, he didn't get too much out of the lane.
trying to collect some of the XP in the mid lane, push himself to that level 6.
It's a big team fighting LP. That's why I love this hero because it has pretty much everything.
It reminds me of Tusk as the kind of worse version of Tusk, where Tusk gives you everything.
So does Ringmaster, but he's also a skill shot compared to Tusk where you only need to land the shards,
which makes it much easier to play and he's also melee hero.
So quite a difficult, I would say comparison, but also I think this is the closest that
at least I can think of. Yeah I mean do you rate tusk pretty highly at the moment?
Because we saw some games. But some things ignore tusk. But you think that was a bit underrated tusk
right now? He's not a ranged position for him. Sure I guess that's the only
issue. But still I would say I think I've said it multiple times. The tusk for
me is the best position for in the last like five maybe even ten years
combined. This hero just gives you everything. Hasn't been changed much. And also, for carrying
a BKB piercing ability, Rosh, pretty much taking any objective on the map, other than
maybe towers, feels really good. And how many times have we seen through Dota history
where you actually win the game off of Tusk's kick?
I mean, that's true. I can make some pretty big plays. I can't believe Team of Wizards
were there. There were some teams in this region that were considering Tusk. I
No, not today. Big Stack just been cleaned up there by notice, finishes off the ancients.
And he's good to go. 13 minutes in, blink blade mail. We see this pretty consistently
from notice honestly. He is very good at fighting the farm. Like he's just, he kind
of has a quiet 10 minutes and then he's like top net worth and he's like right boys I'm
ready to go. He turns up and yeah he's the most farmed hero in the game and then
he just completely dominates. And that might be what we see happen in him. He's turned
He has the same net worth as that of his carry nature's profit. They will lose talking about the carry nature's profit satanic
But you know, that's fine because notice is like that doesn't matter. I'm the real carry here
We'll get the jump blade now call on to hell screen by some time in the box to note still find the dunk
Oh, we can't this is house green with the wand will stop if we're getting the successful done does still die
Vision I don't want the requiem off the pushes them back notice. He's in with the blink
battle hunger down on towards tomato notice closing it on him he's gonna have
the cool available if you want to stamp he's there to continue to allow
tomato to run but notice he still managed to stay on top of him still gets
the cool connection mystic flair tickles tomato at the side but it's enough to
get him low enough for notice to head over finish him off won't be able to
knock their side to the creeps and there's big moves and just yeah what
do you do this acts you know the fact that you get this kind of crazy
time in the blink blade mail this is just gonna be an absolute terror for
VP to deal with now having noticed just runner them across the map
Yeah, if he's paired up with scarlet mage they can pretty much kill any hero on the map
So the Hellscream's positioning is gonna need to be good
He's gonna need to understand where they're gonna be making the move and they made a really good move to be honest
Where they attacked first they got a kill on nature's profit, but then couldn't really take the fight
It was a nice like little place where tomato was hiding
But it wasn't enough. There was no real follow-up and now lurking around the mid lane Abbott.
Abbott with the double damage, ready to go.
So it's...
Look, Chainsaw's in no one.
The Whip and the Whip, very nicely placed there by Hellscream.
Good clean combo to follow up with the Searing Chains to take down no one.
Now with the Flane Guide, Abbott ready to zoom over to Wars of the Carless.
Very, very nice jump there around the mid.
And a combo that at this moment in the game is going to be very potent.
Any time they can kind of set up with the Chains and have Hellscream,
ready to follow up with the whip and the wheel they'll get themselves killed. Problem is whilst
they're making these plays they're losing their carry elsewhere and it's again to notice who is
you know he's absolutely got it in mind that he is just going to go straight for this SF
any time the tomato shows. Oh man this reminds me of one of the games I think it was one of the
dreamleads where tomato was playing terror blade and he died like six or seven times.
Yeah, it ain't that one. I remember that one.
That one was something else, bless him.
This one's like, you know, that was literally,
I think he died like five times at the tier one TP,
and that was wrong.
That one was, you know, we don't talk about that one.
But I think it's definitely one that,
if the viewers watch that one,
they will know the one we're talking about.
It was a wrong one.
Yeah, so it's not as bad, that's what we're saying.
But exactly.
You know, this one is not as bad.
This is still recoverable, maybe.
Anyway, notice, mid.
another kill for him. This axe getting out of control and in the river put the set of
the books will come out to try and help Arbet. He's able to remnant away. Tomorrow is thinking
about the old buddy. He's a little out of range and almost going to continue to chase
forward and sets up with the wronging gun to into the call that they got the burst.
Not quite. Arbet able to jump off once more with the remnant will escape them.
So this time round ever cut most losses. Get the cores out of there on VP. Arbet
able to reset back in the fountain. Something that I said, like Hellscream, he needs to have
a really good positioning and he is having it immediately canceling that grip, giving
him strong Mantaonic in the previous fight. Emberspirit survives because of it and all
of these small items, I think he just purchased another set of raindrops, maybe even prior
to this fight on Emberspirit, understanding that he just needs to live through initial
burst and then he's going to be AOK.
doing their best to hold on here VP as the moments pass that gold lead does
continue to creep up the team vision so the light is looking at the carless he's
gonna have the clock come over and try and help this fly I want to go for this
with the hook shot doesn't want to do it doesn't want to do it doesn't know
quite what lies behind to Carlos
I was thinking, maybe, tomato, name themselves, you know, tomato, tomato, because he always
needs to catch up.
He's always playing.
Take the catch.
There we go.
That's a good one.
I don't want to catch anything here.
Not ready for that one, Vision.
You can see the willingness of VP, they were like, they really wanted to try and
punish satanic but he was close enough to the back up and obviously just one of
the downsides that they weren't able to they weren't able to even touch that
tier one that tier one on the top lane is still full HP so a very safe part of
the map still for satanic to farm in because they do have that easy access for
backup to come in usually you wouldn't expect it so
Sheldon's Crawford, they put quite a lot of pressure on him, he's going to try and get away here with the Stampede
He's going to go for the TP out, and he'll make it
Now let's get this one Saber-Lite
Nice play, hit the hurricane, making sure to keep pushing self out of the combo, 9-class
Getting hit by a dagger, they hear the rolling thunder so they're going to stop
I mean, the last couple of minutes they managed to stabilize
Stay on!
Like, maybe losing 1k gold lead, but other than that, they've been catching up pretty nicely.
Abed said that he needs to be the driving force of the team.
He's been involved in 6 out of 8 kills, and he's all over the place.
Does have that spirit vessel about to complete mage there, that's going to be a huge increase
against my tango, reducing his spell damage against axe, against counter-heal, so that
works pretty insane as well.
Panic, he does continue to farm up now on top of the network.
Yeah.
He's gone for the full farm bit as well, I think.
Something that we're not seeing from the other Nages profits.
Getting the specialist's array as the second picker.
I love about the safe.
Yeah.
It's greedy.
Call's going to be there.
No Requiem for Tomato.
Notice gets him again.
They'll even drop the grip there to make sure Fly doesn't TP out.
I mean, this game has proven to be so hard for Tomato to play.
Any time he's out and trying to make a move,
There's just an axe ready to go
No one they'll get the chance to kill off hell scream. They're looking for save the light
The setup go for the TPR any cancel yes, there is no this these just always there this axe absolutely destroying them
He's giving him the hammer it doesn't have
Any stacks of calling blade in my she's actually not a single dog, but
But he's owning, yeah, he's absolutely owning.
I think I last saw you have the dunk, but he's owning.
You know, it's just, it's the damage, it's the damage.
He's not a greedy one, like it's also not good, but it actually gets all the kills.
Like sure, getting extra armor, that feels really good, especially once you get to that,
to the, you know, higher level, so you're getting more armor per level,
and the two at level three, ulti, but then again, sometimes you take all the farm,
We take all the kills and then they kill you once or twice and it doesn't feel as good
They got the Tormentor in the meantime for this road. They're trying to make something happen now
Yeah, seeing things like that. I'm gonna be slightly off the mark
Maybe they find Ducales, but that's gonna be about it. Yeah, and that's not not anything crazy. No, they'll take the kill
Indeed just the bane everybody else from vision
You can see completely split up across the map maximizing the farm and just continuing to grow this golden
Leaven care plantage 21 minutes in for team vision
Top
Will kill us mine class and I notice what he P away so another little support pick up here for
P peaks of five
600 gold in and out with no real
He didn't even risk anything. He just went in, got the kill, and now he's already out.
Going into BKB next. If he gets that BKB, it's still not gonna be protection against call, against creep,
but it's gonna give you extra bit of a protection against Karat Mage where you can just dive him completely.
Like we talked about his itemization, what he needs to buy, and I think this is the correct choice.
choice just getting the special early like cheap items spirit vessel gives you
extra bit of a damage gives you sustain and then canceling some of the bling
daggers they do have one right now Peno doesn't have his available yet but
overall correct choice from him only dying once and now keeping making sure
that he's all over the place pushing out the bottom lane leaders are
keeping to the top lane.
I noticed on the hunt
See if they manage to find the angle to get around to our bed
I'm gonna start searching around this top area of the map
Looks like our bed playing safe won't show on the way won't start heading out
And if he does, does have backup behind him, Hellscream's going to be in the area, and does have a blink dagger coming out, so it'll be a little easier for Hellscream to find the position for the saves.
We'll touch that sword.
Oh, and play.
And as a weird build.
Oh, yeah, he's got a weird guy yourself.
I mean, it's an okay build.
It's nothing too crazy.
This is something that Centaur's have started to do from the off lane.
Offlane I didn't believe it was Miero who did build into heart as his like first slash. Oh, yeah. Yeah
How you feel about it? I mean I like it. Yeah, it's something. Yeah, they just start rushing
I want to say that yeah, they've been games. I think it was the mirror one right where he actually built it without building
Not the helm. He just went for the heart straight up kind of
But it's kind of become more
Favored where you do indeed get the helm and then the heart but it feels pretty good
You know unless you're against some sort of insane amount of burst damage
I think like in the last game, right? We sort of like a Sven destroying a heart
Sentor feels kind of nice, you know
Getting that sort of extra HP in combination with the retaliate against kind of these
Faster-hitting less big hits heroes like the nature's prophet for example. I'll make it just a little bit more
They're less appealing for them to right-click save a light and try and take him down
So now they are the heart definitely having a lot of merits. I was in that as well
So now I like it. I think it's definitely the way to go right now. It's good. It's really good
I think the other option is to go for a second maybe even third bracer as
If you don't want to go home and then heart into blink dagger. Oh, yeah, this entire is the least farmed right now
But once you get to that fuck, now there's another blink dagger available.
Notice he's gonna get the call, they'll come in with a box to try and bail Arbet out, but he'll still die.
It's just so hard to save him.
As we said, you know, that this last pick pango does ruin a lot of what the ringmaster wants to do.
It gets pretty difficult. This is even pretty blink dagger.
He does have a blink dagger off his own so he can try to keep the distance,
but it's also like we might be reaching the point where it's too much it's too much catch it's
like too fast that they're playing right now and ace profit also feels very comfortable
keeping in with the nine second bkb easy to finish off titers breath extra bit of a damage
that this item is just insane like uh i when it was first introduced i remember yatra talking
about it and i think he said like it's only good on certain heroes as a fifth sixth item
He talked about the lever, but we're seeing it more often like we're seeing this item really pop off in some of the beans
especially on sniper
And that's true, I feel like I'm a little surprised you did some more stuff
We've seen some games of sniper and it has a pretty nice. I think it was
Nygma in fact that had some good change with it
We're not bringing the sniper into play
They're in there run in the qualifiers
And the Chinese qualifiers of course, he was the one who played it, he was the one who actually qualified to the TI with his sniper.
60k gold deficit, he was the one holding base with infinite shrapnels.
That's good fun. Smoke on smoke here, between vision and VP.
I mean, if they get the jump on Arbett, he's not really going to expect this sort of deep
play coming in with the smoke.
Let's see if he steps up, shows him the wave, they're going to see him.
You can kind of sense it though, he's trying to pull the creeps back a bit.
Does feel like that he does know something might be coming his way and smart moves
there from Arbett.
Does avoid this.
It also means that there is the space for VP to start trying to do the Roshan.
Except the fastest Roshan.
They have Alpha Vols, so extra bit of a damage is coming through, it's only two heroes hitting it however.
This is nice though, I don't envision expecting this, at least when they will now, it might just be too late to stop it.
They're definitely going to send somethings up here at this point, but VP have set up pretty nicely with the defense, with the cogs down,
making sure that there's the space for them to finish the roast, get the Aegis on Tomato. Nice moves there from VP.
very good read what's happening on the map making sure that they're getting
something done you said like the zoning that they did with the clockwork good
positioning again from Hellscream making sure that even if they get a good
angle he's going to be able to try to stop that fight Tumblr story plus the
blinkbagger he does have ways to close out the distance save or like score not
the greatest in this game 0 4 and 1 had the pretty rough start in the
recovery mode but also having slightly more farm than Abed even though Abed has
been plopping off a lot of the times you need to be like we've seen him being
forced in a position where he just needs to make moves if he doesn't make
these moves vertus bro could be ran run over in like 15 20 minutes total so he
had to fix all the issues but then get to play kind of his own game that
he wanted didn't have that one two pairing that usually you do see with
the embers earth and this one clockwork is an okay hero but it's nothing like
too crazy and your support together support ringmaster isn't really the
damage or anything he's gonna be keeping like the defensive stance
I see how much VP try and do with sages how much can they get with it
can they try and push for some of these tier two towers
still just seeing vision get that much more out of the map able to be much
more relaxed with their positioning very split up finding gold from all corners
of the map right now whereas VP are very grouped up here pretty much the entire
team around the Sentries to the jungle so they can at least get a tier 2 from
this ages push TP's are gonna be coming in so vision and not afraid of
fighting this. VP Nugget, we're gonna back off. We'll smoke up now. Let's see if they
can find that catch. Yeah, he's ready to rejoin them. I mean, if they can get the jump
onto Satanic, it would be rather nice. If he's able to get the BKB off though, he
will hit incredibly hard with his Bionihydra's breath and Crystalus. That should now
something is up. They just saw Diard using the scan and Satanic. It's got full Daedalus
squad here in fact. Like this guy's gonna be kicking out insane damage super farmed on
the nature's profit. These are some of the highest DPS items that you can buy on the hero.
Neolnir having Hydra's breath as well, Daedalus. Also something interesting, both of the
Carries were holding onto the tier one neutral item. They've been holding onto the dice
For so long time a few
Is it just that a tier three there are a lot of really bad neutrals because yeah another carry did this the other day
We're like what they must have just had some really bad options
Because there's there's nothing is there anything about the way to dice that makes it that busted because it doesn't it was plus six and
And then maybe a slightly higher roll on your right click. It's not
What would you mean like that now that I'm taking on nature's part because you're getting so much gold
Why not get extra bit of gold kind of like look at the amount of CS that he does have compared to other here
Sure
Chipping in on every single creep because of his ulti. He's getting the bounces. Yeah last hits
I mean, yeah, how much how much difference it does man because it's it's not a lot, right?
I mean you're right maybe when it adds up it maybe it does indeed end up to be like a hundred or couple hundred more if you
fact-tunnel this last is that you're getting with it. But it'd be interesting to kind of see exactly how
value it is to hold on to it. But yeah you're absolutely right it must be for that that part in
particular be slightly extra gold. Definitely for these flash farmers it does make a lot of sense.
Shadda think he did remove his that he kept it as a tier two neutral item and now off to go for Gunpowder Gauntlet.
A lot of them, I feel like the current neutral items are in a state where maybe the worst
in terms of like the choices that you do have, it's almost like the bias because I'm in a
half lane.
That's a big kill on Satanic, notice he's going to be over the counter play, they get
the call in, onto the two of them, rolling thunder, keeping them both locked down, fiends
grip on towards Saber-Lite, they kill Satanic but they will lose two heroes for the
effort.
He got the dunk this time around notice seven zero and five
But he got the two dunks from the previous fight getting there extra bit of armor
It doesn't actually matter a lot when you play against her like a shadow fiend who is reduced your armor
He's all about that physical pretty much
He is a mixed damage sure about a lot of the times like you see here. It's just pumping into damage
I'll put the DKB and run hat not interested in make the jump again quite yet
That's the age of scorn on tomato
I mean
I'm looking at the numbers anyway back to the dice. So yeah
So a melee creep is giving it there's about a five goal variance actually for range creep it's it's actually a nine goal variance
it's it's even between forty three and fifty two
so i guess you get two rolls of forty three to fifty two that's
that's what nine different so it's like
okay so if you imagine with the two rolls you're probably
on average getting at least
three gold extra let's be generous
okay so maybe four gold extra per creep and then you look at like how many css's got obviously a lot of them are jungle creeps
But it's a few hundreds so it maybe it does actually add up to be quite a lot of gold
It might be quite a lot anyway notice. Look at the call
They've got the setup here for the mystic clown the rolling thunder on the save a light
He's tanky though gets the pipe off and the stampede
No one's gonna try and chase on for this but the red quim comes out so he's trying to keep it into this
Oh, no, that's not good news there for vision. It's fantastic. He's really be there just killed the carry
They'll get noticed on top of it a massive fight there for VP and won the team vision
They walked into that was a kind of a rare mistake from team vision
And I want to say probably the biggest one they've made in this entire run so far there
That was a painful move losing. Yeah, they're two big heroes
This is their comeback into the game. Absolutely. That's a massive fight like two massive heroes
They also took their gem so now they're holding on to two gems. Wow
It seems like they're not done. They could be potentially wrapping around. There is, I believe, observer and sentryward scouting them out, so they want to make a move and we're going to see that again.
And they keep going to center immediately, using two big ulti's, pango, and they found more.
Yeah, back in action they're going to get the two supports. They're keeping it fast. VP, they realize. They just killed these two massive cores.
This is the window where they have to go and get stuff done, start to take away this lead from Team Vision, and they're absolutely doing that.
They're knocking down our gold advantage, they take out the tier 2, huge moves from VP, bringing, you know, huge signs of life from them into this game.
with this bell, if you go back a year or something, even further away, like when they were winning
TI's with their heroes, like with their nature's profit, like there was always a hurricane pike
pretty much just to make sure that you have that extra bit of oomph, like you need some
kind of an item to protect yourself, like even with the BKB, because right now he
only has BKB, he can't really stand his ground and fight against you.
shadow thing and he didn't get it off of the start I don't know if we'll have a
chance to pull up that replay once more because he just teeped in and it was a
very unfortunate TP right? TP didn't get got stunned immediately and by the time
we got the BKB off it was far too late so Tannick was dead.
You know definitely be more careful with how he answers into the fights. Yeah
maybe let's say Tannick those deaths that he did have the one in the top
lane this one is gonna slow him down needs another minute or two to finish
of his big item. He's going to be able to, with the satanic item that is, he's going to
be able to maybe stand his ground, but also got to be aware of some of those like more
annoying things. Now we have, we still have a BKB personality from Clockwork during Master,
he can trip you up, you can get instant stunned by a Centaur. There is no save other than
Nightmare, which is like not the best advice, a little bit of time, but they can still
walk you down, save your life. Now the Kashiba's guard doesn't have to worry
about a thing. No, I mean. That's like some armor. They're gonna think twice about jumping
the sensor now at this point off the way that last play went. Vision. No one's gonna
see fly. Now they're gonna start things under the clock. Jump up the fly. It's gonna be
We fly gone.
We go for more 9th class, quick link plate.
He's going to find himself Hellscream.
The stampy will be there allowing Hellscream to run.
So they're not making sure they don't lose even the support here.
VP.
Hellscream's out.
And they're still down.
I think that even the different version of Team Vision,
like something that they talked about as well was they always met,
the one under Astini that I'm talking about is,
they've talked about it in the interviews where they're like,
yeah, we have this one mistake that we do that also sets us back pretty heavily.
And this is the one that they also replicated in the previous fight.
No one looking for something with this nullifier, with this basher,
can walk onto a target try to kill it off and also now they don't have to worry
about the escape that they will have something to dispel it
one three thousand HP on him with profits pendulum an extra bit of the
night vision as well from that alert extra 225 could give them a bit of an
edge in how they want to start a fight so the confine with the smoke or
Or if they find Satanic
They seem to have a good idea of where he's heading
Yeah, they caught him on that wall close to the mid lane. They know he's gonna be going down in a bar
This is a massive catch here. They're straight on to him. They burst through him
Satanic dead for 19 up and he's ready to go for more jumps up with the slight steering chains over the walls to Carlos
I mean VP they are stepping it up here
massive turnaround in this game, taking away this lead that Team Vision had
and in the midsaber like nearly getting the catch on an Otis to be able to blink
away just moments before that who stomp connects but my goodness VP they're
giving us the best fight that we've seen from them so far in this qualifiers
they had to step it up today and here 38 minutes in against Team Vision against
the Team Vision had a solid start against them VP they're bringing the
best plays they can notice to get the call off onto the two of them but
this night class dead it's only the two of them trying to fight this is a vision
they've got a run no one's gonna go for the TP out at the remainder throwing
thunder he'll back out of this but yeah this is Russia I'm forever again
unless I don't think it will be some godly call I think he's gonna try to go
and always does have blank that's okay he also put the back back he's ready to
go scan I mean the blinks gonna be a bit short though yeah he's not gonna
to be able to do it and Ops turn to not try it would have been very risky the
game is already in a position where maybe they do need to take those risks but
if he dies there this game starts to get difficult for team vision no doubt about
it this game is kind of the first time that team vision is going to be tested
on that qualified run they had some pretty smooth two zeros has to be
expected by the sport but here today against VP they've got a challenge on
there's VP fighting back hard, that's gonna be the TP put to a stop, go get the call off,
fly out to the side though, no it just won't be able to, or maybe the battle hunger will
kill fly, it will so it brings flight down but it's Tamarro getting the last hit onto
notice, massive stuff there from VP, oh they're doing it though and I think that's
fine that did happen where they killed off Satanic and also prior to this where
they realized and had a better read overall what's happening on the map.
Getting that early Roshan, Roshan number one.
So, Shaddafit could play with the Aegis, and now he's holding on to the second Aegis as well.
And then the game has just completely shifted for some of the players individually as well.
We saw noticed have this incredible star, but he's falling behind massively.
And now, bottom of the course on the net worth, his game has almost grinded to a halt
hold on the acts of having such a beautiful beginning. He's struggling and on the other
side no save a light. He's absolutely made the comeback and he is now this unkillable
beast on the center. A very different bit of the game now when you look at how the
offlaners were matched up earlier.
Yeah, this center is now menace because you can't really kill him from 100 to 0.
He's going to get saved by a ring master. Sure, there is nullifier but he also
might not be able to kill him anyway, considering that he's sitting at 30 plus armor and 5000
hp plus.
He does have Profit's Pendulum, 30% of that damage is delayed over 5 seconds, so burst
damage is not going to be as potent.
And we're talking about the burst damage that does kill heroes, with Act with the Blade
Mail, Scarlet Mage, Alti over a 3, 4 second duration.
So it's not going to be there.
And then he also does have Agatham Scepter, so he can save whoever gets jumped on.
Now they have double save, one that can be dispelled and the other one that cannot.
It's still a relatively short cooldown.
This is 35 seconds after everybody was picking it up a couple of months ago,
maybe a year ago, this time does fly.
We nerfed it, but it's still very, very good.
I just took a go for the cornstain tomato, but there it is.
I said love with the axe, immediately ready to keep him safe.
They're caught in the sprout, Ronin coming in for Noah, but the box is there.
Should not fall, good way.
Still got the Aegis of course, Tomatoes. It doesn't really care if he dies the once.
Looks like they won't even be able to get him the once. He's fine, can heal back up.
Not even using Satanic item that is.
No nullifier. Maybe they could have killed him if they...
They were trying to commit. They were trying to get him once.
Try to get him once, but they didn't precast that nullifier immediately.
immediately notice he's in a good spot to maybe get the jump shatter thing is
pretty much their only damage who can siege the high ground center to try to
be maybe a little bit more annoying another jump another save save less ready
every time to keep him protected I'll bet makes the jump in change on to the
two supports I bet you think about jumping in jump straight back out
there with the remnants just teasing around with them man he should remain
himself to save her life because he's been doing a pretty good job in the
The last couple of fights ever since he picked up that agate in scepter somebody needs to fix the top lane luckily for them
They have ember spirit who can TP in use remnant come back to the site
I'm they've got they've got so many saves now as well. No, they've got what the load saw picked up on fly
He's probably gonna die here does get spotted out under the vision
So fly will go down but in these team fight situations
You know how in the full save trio of item the force the lotus and the solar crest to keep his cause buffed up and
And then obviously on top of that Hellscream, having the aggs pick up before that last attempt on the push, extra charges on the box.
A lot of ways to bail one another out of this. These fights are not anywhere close to as clean and easy for vision to identify and get these easy kills.
VP, they've got all the answers.
Absolutely. I mean, this game, they...
Game 14, maybe even 15,000 network deficits that they did have early on.
And this is the game where it's supposed to look pretty grim for them from the start
They managed to stabilize it four or five K gold lead and then the math everything just exploded for team vision and wasn't enough
They were unable to capitalize on it. They panic getting caught a couple of times and now we're back to even
This is
I was gonna say now absolutely it's still very much a chance for team vision to get the win here
But it's just the fact that indeed the position that they're in is even and that is not a position that they've been in with
any of the other teams here in the qualifiers, I think 44 minutes, I don't even know if any
of the other games lost to 44 minutes against them, I don't think they did, or if they did
they were basically over, so, as I say, the first real test here for Team Vision in this
qualifier run, it comes at this pivotal moment in this best of three for the TI spot up
against VP, we're going to do their best to show that the improvement that they've
made along this TI qualifier run. It's certainly been pretty huge, especially if they're able to
take the game and potentially a series against Team Vision.
They're in a pretty good spot right now, Shadowfiend. We've seen what this hero can do. In the
last couple of months, everybody who plays Offlane, everybody who watches a lot of Dota,
or plays it. The reason why I mentioned Offlane is you get the treatment. As an Offlaner against
Shadowfiend most of the time, Apex keeps getting ridiculous. People see the combo. They see the
combo. They're like, we're going to pick Tusk. We're going to pick Clockwerk, position 5. We're
going to try to ruin it as much as possible in the lane. Makes it almost, okay, sentry plus
ops down. Sentry available. I believe they do see it. Oh, they're going to jump with the
The call is a pretty good one, allows it to burst through the ringmaster.
Sableyte able to pick up the SF though, keeping him safe.
Satanic's trying to stab this ground against Tamada, but Tamada does too much damage.
Takes out Satanic, but roll over to Wards Arbent.
He's being fiendscriffed, but they don't have the damage without the Nexus Prophet to kill Arbent.
Arbent's ready to go, jumps over to Wards No One,
will try and down with the Swashbuckle, but no one's slowly taking down into the damage of the vessel.
He's got a run.
Sableyte hot on the chase, doesn't quite find the angle of the blinks,
and no one's gonna be able to shoot them, get up with the TP.
But we're seeing in these fights, say Tadic, he's not really able to stand toe-to-toe with this SF.
The fact that there's this back up every single time from Sableite, ready to go with the cart, picking up the Shadow Fiend,
the Nature's Prophet doesn't really stand a chance of winning that kind of straight up damage, you know, competition between the two of them.
Because there's going to be a huge portion where he just can't hit the SF.
No, he can't. It seems like he needs to deal the damage during his BQB.
Even with Satanic the item he's it's not enough for him to sustain himself because there's so much control
There's so much lockdown he pops it. Maybe he gets a spirit vessel afterwards
It's just very very difficult for him to play these fights
And also like the three of my pangos survived in the previous one is he has profits pendulum
So 30% of that incoming damage is delayed over five seconds plus his innate ability something that we don't talk too much about is
is fortune favors the bull the numbers have been buffed up now it's 50% I think
he's got the crypt two or three times by shadowfiend and just didn't get the crypt
absolutely made the difference it's toxic remember like with with the
denies when you had a question mark with the denies it's the same effect on
pangolier when when he's in eight blocks yeah it's a step but definitely
annoying when he slips away like that but everyone there's no gonna kind of
ruffle the feathers too much because of the fact that they're still coming out
on top of this fight right there like you know what whatever so we don't care
if this pango gets away because he has been most of the time yeah no one only
has died the once this game but the problem is that satanic is vulnerable
it is this nature's profit that has all this farm and he is top-down worth but
so many times in these fights we're seeing you just can't really find a
position of fight nine class thought outside on the map couple of hits from
tomato takes him out satanic is looking at trying to maybe do something
No one will get in with the wrong thunder, but the BKB is available for Tomato.
I mean, St. Chan is trying to fight this, can he get the BKB off? It's too late, he's just dead!
Tomato destroys them! Double kill for Tomato!
Turns towards no one! Triple kill for Tomato!
R-Beds jumping in the base, kills off to Kha'Lis,
9th class, he bought back to just die.
Ultra kill for Tomato.
That's it, I did that broke in.
VP, then it's still coming back from this, and they were like, he was cooking.
He was marinating that ping-bong for 48 minutes knowing that this game started pretty bad and now he's finally not afraid to use it.
Yeah, this is crazy stuff during this game one. It looked like it was going to be another story to all the other games from Team Vision with the way it started.
But honestly that one fight, the VP punished and then not only just winning that sort of situation where Team Vision made a huge blunder with the way that they tried to enter the 5th and 8th Prophet,
and making a blunder here not just is dead, I mean I think they're at this point just completely crumbled in vision.
They're gonna come up with the buybacks, and they get the catch up with the Mato, no save the likes there, he's able to pick up tomorrow,
Stratix trying to come up with a buyback play, but Stratix a die back on him, VP almost
certainly ready to close this up. It's over. Gigi is called the first time the team vision
of how to do that first here at the end of the game at the CU qualifiers. VP take game
one.
Oh man, what a game. What a turnaround play coming up from Ernest Prost. It's like
they also can't believe it. Tomato, he's gone. I don't know if he needs to go
go to the bathroom real quick or celebrate on his own.
They're like, guys, we got to speed things up.
My tummy hurts.
My back hurts from carrying the early game as well.
The toilet strap, yeah.
He locks in for that, Tomata.
He's like, guys, we've got to finish.
We've got to finish.
I've got to go.
He really did.
15, 4, and 4.
Great KDA at the end, Tomata.
He got the last laugh as well.
I think those four deaths that he had on the SF,
they were just all at the start, right,
when he was getting bullied.
But after that, he never died.
And the team just built perfectly around him
as the supply had all the support and I was to say then this is the house was ready and indeed this one was
Just the big mess up there from vision. They had this 13 K lead
they have this incredibly far nature's profit the Satanic goes in dies and
It's really make a mistake there, but you know credit absolutely to VP
They just punish them every moment after that
They did everything they could to stop vision from ever getting back that hold on the game and as I said vision
they crumble here for the first time and disqualifies the cost.
That was rough, that fight with 15k gold lead
and also that observer ward that they did have in the outer ring
gave them the opportunity to pick them off multiple times
and you see Pango, the one that I was talking about
with Fortune favors the bold, maybe they were bold in this one
but not bold enough against Verdes Pro who really stepped it up
this was another one where they managed to get up tanks to that
Observer Ward and
Nature's Profits just didn't seem as tanky something that we've said like something that's painless always afraid of is these long-range turrets
And we got to give credit to SaberLite who is saving his turret who's still dealing the damage getting these massive crits, massive right clicks in
While he's getting driven in the cart. Yeah, they sent all pick-and-play ended up being fantastic for SaberLite
You say sure had a slow start but was in a situation where you're against a pretty nasty
Well, as if the lane was that nasty. It's just the fact that they made those mistakes right and gave up those early kills
It just meant that the lane was really really tough for him
But absolutely put it together and was that huge saving grace for tomato
And one of the reasons why tomato just did never die in those later fights
You know, he had the pipe and obviously the the eggs after was just just keep tomato safe
Tomato I say definitely gonna give him credit here for the standout player
They killed him four times early on but he made sure that he did everything as possible to keep us close as he could with
the farm of Satanic and just itemized perfectly. We saw multiple times where Satanic just could
not stand and trade hits with Tomato. Tomato on the SF had way too much damage and was able
to dish it out fast enough and have the survivability to kill this nature's prophet.
Yeah. He was unable to like, I think Satanic needed the item. He needed his own item in
these two fights.
Maybe maybe he could have swapped it up in terms of like what needed to be bought first hydra's rep
It's like super high DPS item, but it doesn't give you that extra bit of a tankiness that second life
That maybe you need in some of these engagements
Well, no, well there we go ladies and gentlemen a very impressive turn around from VP in this game one of the
Qualification series for TI see if they could keep it up into game two obviously all the series
they've had so far VP they've won them all two to one they've always dropped the game can they get a clean 2-0 against team vision
It's not gonna be easy
But from what we saw in this game one they might just have it don't go anywhere game 2 of VP versus team vision coming up after the break
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, and you're watching the European Regional Qualifiers
here for the International 2026 with myself, Odiepixel and Lacoste. We just had Game 1, Lacoste, VP
looking better than they have in this run so far. They've had some struggling series, but here today,
in this Game 1, against Team Vision nonetheless, a team that was yet to drop a single game in
their qualifier run up until now, they get this win. I mean, what do you think they're
going to take away from this? Because whatever they found here, they got to lock in on it
and take it into game 2.
Every series they've had so far, they've won 2-1,
they've always ended up dropping a game.
What do the VP stepping away from that one
and saying to themselves that they did especially well in
and they want to try and replicate in the second game?
Decision making is what won them the game in this one.
We said they had a very good draft
coming into this first game, very simple,
very easy to execute.
I think their laning stage is...
Yeah, their laning stage is... It's not good.
It's not good compared to some other teams that we're seeing.
it's where this is something that they need to step up because I feel like if this team had a very good
laning stage imagine if they weren't playing a lot of times with so much deficit so many times that
they need to make a comeback so maybe just a little bit of a misplay you saw like early on where
they don't bring the healing cells maybe some misplays in the top lane as well so i would have
to do a lot of heavy lifting he was the one who needed to fix all of these lanes he was all
over the place left and right making the right moves they lost the xp rune seven minutes in as well
so this is something that they definitely need to work on but also when it comes down to what
needs to be done when things go pretty badly for them this is a top tier execution of the strategy
and how to read the map some observe words that they did have that allowed them to get the
pick offs because you're saying if you see this current VP as they are actually getting advantage
early on. You could actually see a world where they could actually stomp a game against Team
Vision if they get a hot start in the lanes.
Oh, absolutely. Like the problem is that they are a teddy bear in the laning stage, and
then later they can become this menacing polar bear which is in their logo. So I would just
want to see slightly less mistakes and maybe slightly more like focus. I feel like this
team can be really good. They have very good strong players. It's just that sometimes
It does snowball out of control, you give them one kill, you saw how aggressive team vision can play
if they're off to a good start, where they can TP in with nature's profit.
It just snowballed out of control, where they like some of these smaller mistakes,
they didn't get maybe as many last hits as they wanted to.
His helm didn't get, he had 12 minute helm on Centaur, which is really not a time.
A lot of times you have to see this six, seven minutes into the game,
where you're actually just dominating, also not too difficult of a matchup for him,
but he also, I gotta say, he stepped it up,
he stepped it up heavily when it comes down to execution,
when it comes down to save, when it really matters,
he's positioning, and also speaking of positioning,
Hellscream, that this guy completely owned the midfights
and the late game flights.
Hey, there, Jeff.
Well, I know a big fan of the ringmaster plays
and maybe something that we'll have to consider
in this next draft.
Already some adaptation, Team Vision,
they are gonna buy out that SF we saw
You know, tomato really step this game up after having a very rough start was punished multiple times in that mid game
But then from that point onwards absolutely carried on this SF lots of some of different this time
Pox gonna be the first pick for VP now
This is a hero that I think that if there's a percentage for the bands
It's been banned out like 90 plus percent of the games that this hero always gets banned
Get slept through it
Wim Rage has been a bit hit or miss, but still, I think that doesn't really represent how good this hero is.
Every team is terrified of this hero, hence why it has been bound up 32 times in this qualifiers.
Team Vision, they leave it in.
I want to see what the plan is going to be.
Team Vision, they have, I would say, two big options.
Something that they used in some of the previous tournaments during the Blast Lamp is they used Shaker as a response, I believe, against Spock.
also use void spirit these are some like shaker is a bit of a crazy one this is
not a hero that we usually see we saw maybe one or two position force shakers
from Jin Q in the Chinese qualifiers but other than that the hero is really not
that popular but it gives you that instant lockdown you need something
because a lot of the times the hero will just get away keep getting away he
lives once he lives twice then for because he didn't die those two times
He has an extra item and then he survives because of that item
But that being like extra bit of a damage that he deals maybe he's more tanky because he has I don't know what he's playing against
Octarene BKB a on this any defensive tool that you can buy on puck
So very slippery hero very annoying
Infinite damage infinite scaling even after removing the level 25 talent to where coil goes through debuff immunity
It's still a very menacing hero to fight against the in the late game
What's next up there on the bands?
Interesting. They decided to ban out Caudill after seeing Earth Spirit being picked up.
Because these are true. It's normally nine classes, yeah.
Maybe they are considering that maybe no one was going to bring out the mid-air spirit and reaction to the puck, but that would be, would be surprising.
Could be maybe something that they cooked.
So we'll have Team Vision.
The interesting thing to see what they go for for Satanic this game, of course, had a little bit of a rough one that last game on the Nation's profit despite the amount of farm that he had.
So I feel he's probably going to want to play something different this time.
It's going to be some faceless void, something along those lines.
That's like some giga carry that he's going to be pulling out some terror blade.
Tiny's also fine.
I think like right now, Tiny can still be played from the mid lane.
We saw two games.
It didn't look that good.
I still feel the carry is the role for Tiny to be played at because
you're still a mixed carry damage.
It makes damage carry, you're dealing insane amount of magical damage, you're a super strong
laner.
Not sure what has been happening in EU, I haven't seen, I would say too much of a Phoenix, this
is one of the better heroes against Tiny, maybe not so good once you get close to him
where he gets this double hit with the Echo Saber, so he can be the one with the plus
one to kill off the egg, but the percentage based damage is very annoying for Tiny to
deal with. Eight games, 62% win rate. Highest that we're seeing so far, yeah.
We want to fill up the game with VP. We're likely going to show the other support.
China really liked Lion as a position for there. Yeah, it's been like heavily contested in the Grand Finals
I think Lion was part of all three games Dark Willow is also a good one. It's it can't fall off
I think you need to have the right offlaner to be able to get stuff done. It's the damage
but sometimes willow bane these are strong supports strong laning supports but
they also need have to have a hero that they can play with this time around it's
gonna be puck I thought they might open up actually with silencer on 13 instead
of tiny because now you have to worry about getting your grip cancelled you
have ways of setting things up for puck so you have three heroes that puck
is gonna be afraid of better that's avalanche toss combo global silence
That gives setup for Earth Spirit to roll in get that extra bit of a stun duration silence afterwards. So
Very aggressive support duo from team vision. I want to see that is make moves around the map
So I want to see what kind of a hero?
No one's gonna be playing from the mid lane
Maybe there is a chance that he still wants to play tiny if he feels like it's it's still a good matchup for him in
The mid lane
You have the instant lockdown against the puck. You're getting the blink bag or two supports
So tiny with the plus one can pretty much kill any of the supports as well or
They're saying
It's still very good to play tiny from the carol. We saw the stats. He didn't die a single time
So it is gonna be after all this earth spirit played from the core role
It's going to come through for Team Vision this time, so they'll have the saves, and
indeed we'll be this core air spirit, so something that VP did show that they were aware could
be happening obviously with that cold ban, despite the fact that it had been nine class
spirit earlier in this tournament.
Fourth pick here 4vp. Do they want to get the tomato hero in?
Save this for later. I'll be okay with Saber-Lice hero something beefy maybe
even a casual tide hunter in the lane just to be able to reset or something that can build into
Lotus Orb, give extra bit of a survival ability to himself so he can try to re-engage. Yeah,
something that maybe he doesn't build into Lotus, but offlaners do. So it could be pretty big
because you can like reset, remove the Lotus Orb, like with the remove the Global Silence
and then jumping in potentially with some big teamfighting ulti.
Yeah, they've got some good options here at the moment,
because obviously with Team Vision showing the tiny in the air spirit is the cause.
You also know that the off-lan heroes are at the moment most are going to be melee,
so you're going to be very likely playing against three melee cores, right?
So if you get something like a tide, as they do, the potential for ravages is pretty huge.
You're very likely gonna hit all three cores in these fights
Yeah, they can still play around a tiny if this is gonna be carry tiny and seems like it's gonna be carry tiny
Unless they do something like crazy from the off lane, which I don't think they're gonna be doing is
You know, we did see that with the silver edge
Yes, sure. We get the break online side
We did have a there was one of the team here in the EU qualifiers that did do two games of off lane tiny
I I don't think team vision will do that, but it has been done a couple of times
For now, of course people anything is doable if if you're brave enough yeah, I could see some may have
I don't know if they need slightly more control. I would say no because it's a mid-earth spirit
I'd be okay with doom just something to get rid of puck get rid of tight hard team
Even though you have a global silence, this is something that notice plays extremely well.
He's type of a player that understands when to go greedy, whether he needs radiance type of a build,
or if he just needs a BKB bling dagger and then fight with the team.
I don't think they're going to be having trouble initiating into a team fight
while having Earththreat and Tiny as your core, so you will have bling daggers, shadow blades.
Easy way to start a fight.
The ban on the lycan, so the opportunity for the doom is still there for noticed.
Team vision, still need to look towards the tomato heroes.
What does tomato want to do?
It could be a good lifestealer game for tonight.
I was thinking as well, a lifestealer looks kind of nice.
I would not mind that.
Very good.
Yeah.
You don't have the burst damage to kill him.
He builds into mental style, gets rid of the silence.
Very good against Tiny, the carry-to-carry matchup as well.
It does feel nice.
It's good.
He could also pick up some TerraBlade.
I think TerraBlade is going to be on the table.
You can see both of the teams protecting their supports, removing Spectre.
So the supports are not going to get jumped, and then you have Lycan, something that both the supports...
Dark Lord not as much, but it's very, very good against Vayne. He doesn't deal well with the summons.
Okay, Moet, what's the... Yeah, I was going to say, we've not seen a lot of this.
Just one pick, one ban at the moment in this qualifiers, the EU qualifiers.
I like this hero, though. I think this is a little bit underrated.
What are your thoughts on the Moets of Stands at the moment?
One of the highest, if not the highest DPS hero in the game.
They have good mix damage. Earthwraith is all about magic damage.
Tiny is a mixed type of damage hero.
No real saves for this Marta other than Ravage, but she doesn't have an ability.
There's not going to be Ringmaster this time around.
There's not going to be Kart that can't pick her up.
up but might not be bad like this hero when she uses a bkb they have no bkb
piercing abilities they're gonna need to cook something from the off lane i'm
still okay with the doom i think if you if you got the first jump to do not yeah
let's check what notice has been playing if there's gonna be potentially a
better overall pick maybe something like a timber saw also works if he's not
banned out now he's banned never mind I was crawling through his heroes I mean
axe is available he's also not available there are some of these better like blade
I was thinking about maybe blade belt buyers something that can lock her down
yeah blade mail is annoying yeah just force you to have to get the BKB earlier
and use the BKB every time you want to commit with the damage now go with the
So, yeah, what do we make of this?
I mean, I kind of love what VP's got going.
I do, too.
I think the draft from Team Vision,
it supports can easily fall off.
I think we're going to be in the same scenario
where you have a spirit from the mid lane, something
that Virtus.pro did have in the previous game.
You have a carry who doesn't really get involved early on,
and then you also have an off-laner, Centaur, who farms.
So it's gonna need to be no one
to make all these moves across the map.
Tidehunter on the other side, he's okayish,
just sitting in the lane, showing up later.
Tomato, he also wants to farm.
So again, it's gonna be two supports
plus the mid-laner making all the moves
and wanna see if they're gonna be able
to match this aggressiveness.
I think this time around, Verdespro,
They have a better lane setup compared to the previous game.
Even though their lanes on paper look good,
I think there were a couple of misplays early on,
still managed to make a great comeback in the previous game.
This one's gonna be interesting.
I think these are a bit of unorthodox draft,
especially this Murta coming through.
Last time that they played it was during the Dream League.
They played two games sitting at 50% win rate,
but other than that,
it's a very tricky hero to make work.
This is one of the hardest carries.
Maybe I would throw in something like a Morphling,
where as a professional e-sport athlete
you can look very, very good on it.
But if you make some small mistakes,
if you don't shift straight away,
same goes for Murata, you don't pop your Alti,
you misuse your BKB, it can look pretty bad.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the Murata plays out
for Tomata.
And there's this, yeah, I just,
I like that he's got a lot of ways
for the fight to be set up around the right.
The puck, the tide,
The whole team got so much control in these teamfights, that's kind of the dream for the
monitor.
It allows tomatos to kill everyone.
Any kind of control, anything cheaper, even dead in the water is going to do the trick
because this hero just deals insane amount of damage.
What great for two seconds it's going to get people killed.
Even terrorize.
It's almost three seconds. We keep buffing this spell AOE has also been buffed on top of that
So he can be the one resetting the fight that the matchup that I'm going to be looking into the most is gonna be
Earthspirit from the mid lane no one it's been a while since I saw Earthspirit being played from the mid
Now looking forward to see this we've seen a couple of other
mid Earthspirit performances, and
It's not good. It has looked good
um in the hands of their the confident airspread players and no one of course
definitely one of those I'll scream he's gonna get spotted out
does it tomorrow and fly here to help looks pretty dead there on hell scream can
they keep them alive they can't first blood for nine class should be able to
get noticed in return our bed indeed will to cause some flight both falling
very low fly back up to the high ground in time he'll survive to call us a nine
plus tenors instead look at the curse on to both of them to matter very fires
of the one charges will not live double kill for nine class fly now but they
want to finish him off but they also want to get to their lanes I mean I
bet in particular yeah he's like well I gotta go to the mid lane I can't
mess around with nine class anymore ends up being the two for two got a
Atonic as well. He is getting the souvenirs
Booth of Speed already available in him plus sitting at 200 gold of it
This is the matchup that I want to see what's gonna be like how he's gonna be able to
match against puck because this seems to be like people definitely try to carry crap new stuff
so when it comes down to certain matchups bringing in some old classics as well like some blast from the past and
And they work out most of the time, so I want to see if this Ergford is going to be able to replicate some of those old school counters.
And overall, how do you think the games ended up looking for the silencer support?
Is this hero, we saw some teams pick it up as kind of like an answer to strong heroes like the Bane.
But obviously, you are still a silencer right, and this hero still has some weaknesses.
Some, he has so many weaknesses, it's insane.
I think in China, in Chinese qualifiers, we had, I think he was sitting at 0-5 or 0-6 or something.
And there was one game where like, it's that bit of a soundtrack and they have to pick it.
They pick it, they lose. You just fall off. It's basically you become one button.
Even if you're off to a good start, I think it was Paulosun who was sitting at
false stolen intelligence six maybe seven eight minutes in still it doesn't really matter as much
it's more about getting the gpm enchantments and then trying to get to your fresher timing that's
the big timing maybe later on you can get agonized i sort of talk about some like super late game
and scaling but other than that it does get pretty difficult for him to do much in these
Especially if you misuse the ball from your character.
So far in the mid-match up, no one's getting that CS at plantage, 12-6 against the 8-1.
We've all been on the puck.
Let's see. Top, it's a good angle onto 9 class, but deadshot's already been used.
So no further control, 9 class is fine.
be close across the lane so far both offlaners finding good farms they're
actually top of the CS right now much better start this time yeah they picked
you throw up 18 when they already saw potential match up known that he's
gonna be landing against dining known that he's gonna be learning against
answer it can be a bit tricky at like level one maybe level two where he
constantly keeps getting with the glaives. But once you get to level 3, 2 points in
Kraken Shell, you're gonna be good to go. And you can see Saber like this time around,
picking up Chainmail as his first item and also bringing the extra healing style,
something that maybe I was a bit more critical about, especially in that matchup where he
knew that he was gonna get harassed a lot by Atreans. So now he will have, let's call it
the second life because if he drops down low using the healing south goes back to
almost full HP backpacking the items. So one thing down I think this matters more
for Virtus.Pro because their lineup is really not that explosive by any means
they need time to build it up or that needs her items it's gonna be more
about again Bobette making the moves playing with the supports while your
states later and off-laner they join in some more random fights when they
find the opportunity. I'll scream. Pretty good job zoning out both of them.
I'm not making sure that no one doesn't get the chance to get either of the
water greens or refuel.
No one.
Just dump the one charges in the verify it now for back of that.
Still haven't seen us advance, he's learning the lane.
We got these side lanes, pre-farm, poor tomato, and the latter.
Seems to be safe to save a light down bottom.
I'm going to try make a bit of an effort onto him, but very, very tough for these two heroes to kill a tide in this lane stage.
They're going to need a plus one if they ever want to try and make a true attempt to bring him down.
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see if they can make a play with Hellscream
This setup
has a crown to follow up with allowing to get the angle
of a calling into the dead shot
they'll get him. Nice little rotation there from Hellscream to set up for them to take
down Notesist.
Nicely done. Savorlite, he's farming underneath the tower knowing that they can't really
kill him. As you said, they need to bring a third hero to potentially bring him down.
They can try to maybe harass him a little bit more and then with the sect around the
spells, they could try to kill him. Say, Danik, doesn't have that much mana to
work with anyway. There's gonna be a Lotus coming up in 15 seconds. They will push
up the lanes and make sure that they are going to be picking it up.
But Saber-Life is more than fine, which does allow Hellscream to make this type of rotation,
and now they are making the rotation as well on a secured Arun.
And Fonus, Sintanik, he's on his own, and he's going to die first, so, oh, maybe with
the Avalanche?
Shadow Rum, it's going to be there though, Sintanik, no stick charges, no way to
save himself, so he gets left on his own, and Hellscream, great moves, like
It goes up to the top lane, three of them get to kill, comes back down to the bottom and team vision they've left to carry on their own.
Yeah, this is also a type of a carry that doesn't get easily killed in theory, but he was trying to square up against Tidehunter.
He gives you a couple of right clicks to use his anchor smash.
You don't have that much sustain and 9th class making some really juicy stacks in the triangle on the big camp.
No one, about to crack level 7, two points in the grip.
Gonna be a third one probably coming out, no points in the magnetized yet.
It's a long duration silence, we talked about Scarlet Mage in the previous game, 6 second duration silence.
Once this silence is maxed out, it's 3.5.
Fly, just thinking about contesting the Wisdom, but no, there's a lot of heroes coming in.
Four heroes, let's envision they're gonna look to try and get a kill from this no one.
We'll get the kickback on to fly
Fly will be dealt with does take a fair few of the four heroes having to come in just to kill the bank
No one wants the last hit
Damage take in so I think he
Goes for one more hit. He's not gonna be able to get it. I'll bet one zero and one
amplify damage pretty good job and
Pushing this tower down to half HP already. That's a lot
It's just a slightly different start for both of the carries as well, Satanic having
a bit of a slower entrance to game than Tomato.
It's having pretty much the dream start in this new way, I'd say.
Yeah, I'm in a power rune.
It's just going to end up being bottomed.
Look at the curse on to Flybid.
They try to go for this kill, but they're going to get bow caught in the dream coil.
Fly still alive here.
head over the tree line he's fine nine class gets killed off by our bed they
couldn't kill fly
rolls in
our bed should be fine yeah has the orbit ready so then won't get to kill him
they'll just push him back momentarily waited long enough making sure that he
doesn't get silenced and then there isn't a secondary silence going out
from the grip. No points in magnetized so he is playing on I would say lower
cooldown, lower cooldown spells making sure that he is making the rotations.
It's also not the greatest against puck so it's one of the reasons why he is skipping it.
I was watching Timmato the way that he's been playing, the way that he's been
trying to stack for himself in the outer ring where you have these two
cams behind you so you can always use that shot pretty massive cast range.
It's a thousand cast range on that shot. Now they are making the move,
notice simply that already should be able to get this well out how screen is taken
out but again is heavy rotations four heroes coming in they'll only get the
support thanks one for the team tomato continues to farm up continues to be on
the top of the network level seven more I also like that he has a point in
calling making sure that it's an ability that gives you the kill threat
It's an ability that could potentially bail you out of trouble if placed correctly
Still leaps around rest of the squad did go back to the mid lane
The call is level five on that silencer. That's what's the needs XP. Maybe it's a level six
They can try again try to kill Abed before he gets too big right now to zero and one on Abed
Roll over trying to go for the power and we'll end up being
the shield bring their attempt to protect. No one, he's dead. Tried to roll in hoping for
the power in spawning down bottom, but they were ready for him. They just killed him off.
I also like that Saberlight makes this move. He comes to mid lane, has a point from Ravage,
raindrop, infused raindrop, clearly glottis, and just a lot of pinkiness coming out from
him, making sure that as long as he can survive this potentially initial burst,
can reset and he doesn't die. That's gonna be the tower thanks to that
amplified damage that they've already dealt but a lot of damage early on. Things
are looking good for Virtus.Pro 2k gold, something we said they need to play
better in the laning stage and they took that personally. They're like oh yeah
this guy know what he's talking about just better laning stage better game
for us. Absolutely the fact that they can make a comeback considering how
rough to start one last game does both well for them in the situation where they actually get ahead
in this early stage and just the fact that the tomato is getting completely uninterrupted free farm
on the Moeta in a game that if you can get this kind of maelstrom miona bkb dragon lance he he's
going to be the strongest here in the game by far it's going to be very difficult for satanic
as the tiny to continue to scale at the same tempo as a moeta that's had this sort of
the beginning to again.
I mean, Tiny, he does get involved once he picks up his Shadowblade, which is going to
be soonish.
But if Earthquake can't find openings, two supports are not doing anything on the map.
Pretty much the only thing that you can do is try to farm it up.
Time class, even with that gotly start that he did have, he's still level 5.
12 minute power in, and see VP trying to maintain control of the spawn and they'll get it up
against the haste.
We'll see the stampede come out.
They're up to Mato.
They're straight on top of him.
The global coming out means there's no chance for an ult.
They'll take him down.
Can they get something more?
They'll look over to flight, stone him down here with the empowerment arts.
They'll be able to take, maybe not nightmare flying him up in a time, doesn't matter.
One comes in has to pull there with the grip to take him out and the stun into the field onto our bed
You've got a haste for his orbit should be able to still run
Team vision finding the dream catch that it kill of the muhata finally able to slow down tomatoes game a little bit
Yeah, they saw him with this observe reward near
Near the camp when near near the boundary room near the watcher, so
So, very good placement coming up from 9th class.
And I also think that their damage without Muerta is relatively limited.
Two supports, they don't really deal as much damage, they need to be playing the longer
fights.
All the green lights except for coil are ready, but Virtus.pro, they're not going to
be having that easy of a time finding the kills with the heroes that they have, especially
once they know that there is global silence available, this time around it was, which
makes their fight much more difficult to approach.
He knows that he needs to play a longer fight a lot of the time. Do you see a hero?
He's the target to go for knowing that he can get the grip later on
I'm that he can maybe get a turn around Mike mayors save speaking of Mike there
Uncent our right now foil
So much control here from VP
Should be able to farm the home creep on top of it plus a hundred brawl bit
I'm looking at Saberlight noise but this tide is, he's gonna be pretty tough to go on.
It's already getting to kind of a similar stage as Saberlight made that recovery and
game on his center.
It just kind of became this hero that they're never really going to want to jump first
or maybe even jump at all.
Yeah, you can't kill.
I think you need Silver Edge and then need you to follow up Global Silence, Earth
Spirit spells.
You can bring him down, unless there's gonna be some kind of a turnaround play where maybe
they get a nightmare save after the Global Suns if he's tanky enough, and he looks very
tanky with the items that he is building, wraps, raindrops that nobody even took the
charge off because they were not playing into his lane by any means, they don't have
enough to kill him straight away.
a little worried for scaling on team vision side when it comes down to supports.
Carlos, 9 class definitely with a tough road ahead.
Again another big challenge here for team vision.
Despite the smooth sailing they had up until this point in the qualifiers.
For these games now, VP giving them a pretty good contest.
Oh, that didn't connect.
No, that was...
He had illusion rune and then didn't get global.
Well, that's big. They should try to make a move right now.
They're going to try to. Ply will die, but the setup there on to no one.
Avalanche comes out as well as the box.
He's been caught by the Dreamclaw into the ravage, there's going to be no one dead.
9-class also in trouble. They do lose both supports on VP 9-class.
Looks like Alex will be able to live there under the tier 2 Saber.
I wasn't quite able to finish him off.
There once, Satanic.
I'll bet.
Always looking for him.
And there it is.
He's going to find and cancel the TP.
He has the Toss combo, big kill for Satanic to catch there, to clean up the action.
So despite sort of your awkward global that started that off,
It does work out because they get that big kill at the end there and because it goes the way of Satanic.
It gets them up to top net worth now as the tiny.
It's a lot of strength that they need to go through.
Tiny 4.2 strength game per level, Centaur 4.3, and Earththread 3.8.
So with each level these heroes are becoming so much more tankier.
When the global silence is down, I'm going to try to make a move and just run over to Garlas.
9 class with the box though able to get the save on to him no one's gonna roll forward aggressively satanic coming from the angle
Looks to hell screen shadow runs up in a second won't get it off. They kill hell screen
Tonics that they're using polywalk charm everything is super tanky
There was a fight prior to this in the mid lane in the river where he gets tonic
He gets extra 10 strength which is 220 HP then he pops
Ashley to shield, which gives you 160 physical, they don't have the damage to all of this.
And so, they're going to get the set of the damage.
Yeah, that was really nicely done as well from Fly, comes in, uses the Nightmare on the Mug Golem,
so that the Mug Golem can't get the stun off to interrupt the fiend's grip.
So a heads-up play there from Fly, sets up to get quite a juicy kill there, bringing down this tanky sense,
You know easily out with the damage the tomato has here with the pistol fail
He is the damage of it is gonna need to be slightly more careful in the next few fights
So I think he's gonna try to go in maybe they try to find the first jump onto this silencer
Problem is it's not the easy task to do like with three strength cores in front of you
Most of the times you're not gonna be seeing silencer at all
That's why I love to see what he has in his quick buy blink dagger straight into BTB making sure that he can get rid of this
And they have no vote is it go through the buffing. That's a very thing to target to go for
So Tannick Tannick silver edge ready. He's gonna get knocked out. Thank you. On to Saber like I mean
So Tannick starting to step it up now with these moves and we'll lose nine class elsewhere
areas are bad in hell scream find him but say Tannick getting some good entries into these plays and
This is crucial right?
It's going to be the same in these teamfights.
If Zaytank can get in, get himself on top of one of these cores,
drop the combo onto Tommado, onto Arbet, onto Saber-Lite,
they'll have a good shot.
But if he's not able to get in and kind of delete one of these heroes,
Tommado's able to turn up, press the ult and fire back.
The drawn-out fights are not going to be easy.
They see him, he's a sentry.
Continues to try and get on the hunt, but they were prepared for him.
He has got backup coming in, no one.
Rolls forward, global side,
Tannamangatai's coming down onto both Arbet and Tommado.
That's Arbet God.
Tomorrow we'll be out of backup under the tier one so he'll stay safe but again
making moves now around to say Tannock Tiny they're getting active here team
vision. A limited amount of catch in Virtus Pro they have coil they have these
maybe cheaper abilities Bramble Maze and Nightmare but they need to get to very
close to the enemies so they can use it and if you're seeing magnetized in
action level to magnetize he goes in tires on jampifying some of that damage
12% amp it's gonna start to hurt
oh and I'm looking at the dirt HP tiny 3.3 centaur 3000 at the moment and then
you have Earth Spirit with 2.4 so that's basically 9,000 damage that you
need the deal to be able to kill these heroes. That's true this is it's a lot
of tomato it really it's if tomato is dead in these fights they do not stand
much of a chance of winning the team fights. Tomato has to be kept alive at
all costs as he is yeah he is there he is there damage see the
go down. You'll be able to finish that off. Get the Aegis for Tomato.
I chose for Sable up, so how many are going to be done?
I also want to see if Tomato is going to be going for more damage or anything. I see
But I also see Miller. I think Miller might be the better choice overall especially now because he is holding on to the ages
If they need to pump in the damage, he's probably
Deciding himself. What is a better choice at the moment, but I mean still pike is gonna be damaged item
If you want to think about it if he can push himself out more if he can survive long enough
a couple of extra right clicks in and it's gonna up to go for
Hurricane pike have extra bit of a maneuverability in a fight
and set up the strong timing around that and also the fact that Saberloat with his
creep wave will have the agonimus done as the tide so definitely a chance to try and
make something happen with this Aegis timing on to Mardak.
It's Team Vision and we're trying to get those BKBs online as soon as they can now.
So we can withstand some of the output of this Moraita.
Silverlight does have Agatom Scepter.
Now he can be also kind of an initiator from the distance.
Be very annoying.
Try to stand it out.
It's also going to be big damage increase in most of these fights extra bit of a
Arbor extra bit of a gush damage because you go for all the gush talents and then it is 20% slow
90 gush damage and then 4-armor on level 20 slightly under leveled
For this point of the game there hasn't been much going on Saber light his game did slow down
I'm going to go the way of Hellscream.
The Envision.
They feel more than fine, farming it up, knowing that their damage is going to be around one
hero, maybe two heroes.
than that two supports it's more about control it's more about surviving and
they have the control on their own side they have global silence so they can
always try to split up the fight go for the target kill it straight away knowing
the tight hunter is gonna need to be afraid of now this proudly early
silver as he is playing again so our farming it up BKB is next on the menu
for no one as well another for 500 gold and he's gonna have it even
Centaur has one in his quick buy knowing that they need to maneuver they need to
try to nullify the ravage nullify the coil and also you said against word that
very good item or satanic he just walks up finds our bed the ravage comes out
but our beds already dead satanic finding a great entrance into the play
can you get out the first crowns on him is caught by the angle of the dead
shot and thus will finally come out on to him but the BKV is there they'll
drop the global satanic will look to TP out they got anything to stop it they can't the global
will allow him to get away so satanic doing it again here finding these ways to just get in
get a kill and off the back of his teammates get out of there that's how he needs to play getting
much more active and playing much tanker hero compared to the previous game where we saw him
TP in in one of those fights and he immediately disappeared ever like saber like no ravage
Stop just letting him to play very aggressive.
Satanic's to be able to walk up, get the hit onto him.
And anything to stop the TP no.
So Hellscream will get out with that TP successfully.
Satanic, he's doing a lot.
He's absolutely stepping out.
Had a bit of a rough game one with how he kind of played
with his nature's profit despite how much farm he had.
This game two, he's making all the right moves here
as tiny.
He caught Abed twice which is the most important thing before he could even get anything off
and he was going with the idea of getting the BKB but BKB is not going to save you, they
can stun lock you from 100 to 0 so Abed will go for A on this instead.
I need some.
Abed realizing, yeah he knows what needs to be purchased specifically in this situation
where once stunned you get clicked you're going to die from 100 to 0.
And talk to me about this as well. We've pretty much had this entire ages about to expire VP
They didn't really look to do anything aggressive with this ages
Just a surprise you what do you think that VP maybe have in their minds that they want to try and out scale
Team vision and they wanted to sleep
But I don't think they outscaled them in late game with this type of a draft especially because we are seeing these three
Super early beacons three nine second beacons 25 minutes in so tight
11th BKB forced it. They did have the detection set up this time so I'm trying to make this move.
Dreamcourt's going to come out from our bed. Only onto the monitor. No one's going to roll forward
in with the counter play. I'm going to try and make this fight work. BKB popped by Noam,
but doesn't really have the damage on his own to do a save the light. Satanic's tough for him
to get into the fight because of the fact that he's already used to BKB. He rolls forward
Noam. We'll get the kickback onto tomato, but the jump forward's there, blocking the roll away,
sets up the tomato to take no one down and now the curse ground on to Satanic
the chase is going to continue it's going to get tripped up by the neutral
creep the box will come out for nine class trying to get him away from Sable
after the ravages still ready locks him down notice will jump in with his own
BKB he's found his way over to what was tomato but the defensive nightmare comes
out from fly he's tomato safe Sable looking for the body box on to notice
notice BKB now coming to an end so they will manage to ensure that
Saitanik gets out of there despite getting clipped by the ravage
Can't quite get a bit of a fight. It really was BKB coming out left right and center ults being used
Not a lot of heroes dying
No, I mean these are very difficult heroes to kill you sent our we are in 4k HP territory at the moment
With the BKB with the essence ring. It's just very difficult to burst down these heroes
So I'm a nice catch from punch of it. He's the one who jumped in
He doesn't have enough sustain against this. It's just not way too much.
Yeah, it was kind of getting away earlier, but pushing the lanes like this.
But now, at this point, even though he's the Tide, we've seen that Satanic will be able to be there and kill him.
So it definitely feels like he has to be a little bit more cautious with how he tries to solo push these lanes out.
Because as it is, just giving more and more gold here to the Tiny, keeping Satanic in that top spot.
I'm worried about the scaling. We talked about who can outscale in the late game.
We're not even in the mid game and I'm still worried about Virtus.Pro's damage output.
Because they just can't burst down a hero.
We're talking about the highest DPS hero in the game.
You need a lot of items, right?
Yeah, you need a lot of verters on your team.
There's also no ways to amplify that damage,
isn't usually with Martha you want to have solar crest maybe you want to have glass on top of that
as well we're not seeing those items because of the combination of the heroes that they're playing
as a support duo this is not your clockwork who's going to be buying into one maybe both of the
items that I did mention if necessary it's more about cast range it's like he needs to keep the
distance and he also needs gem he also needs to be able to see this tiny coming from the
silver edge and then you have dark yellow who also wants to itemize for herself with yule scepter
she needs some kind of a setup she needs to be able to remove global silence so that she can maybe
use terrorize after the tonic. He's got his eyes on the sabre light maybe sense is that sabre
lamp might know that he's about so we won't go for that we'll know that our bed's around
top here with the orb showing silver edge is back up looks like he just wants to show him so
So clear up the wave.
Maybe get that full Simpho that I could stick around.
No, I'm just looking for Sifcha back in the way.
Two shot in the way with two spells,
little 15 talent, 80 blunders, smash damage.
I just have a searing segment on top of that,
so more than fine.
We're dealing the creep waves.
Their areas are actually very good at clearing
the creep waves.
I think that's going to be one issue for Virtus
Roe, where both supports on their side.
They made both supports on each side. They didn't really do much, but three players they pushed it out instantly on the side of the invasion.
Jem finally picked up by Fly. Let's see who's going to be the one holding it.
Oh, Tamarot. That caught him. Straight in with the combo. Tamarot immediately dead.
The satanic will be able to land and take baby cleanup. Hellscreamer.
Also, Tree comes in. He's going to go for the TP out with the bro.
No one puts the stuff to the TV gets the kill satanic runs down fly
I
Mean it just looks like they slowed it down too much
They didn't get anything done with that aegis look at it. They're just pulling further and further behind they
You know last game we saw you know when they got the opportunity VP
They were just go go go this time looking a little bit lost and they're getting punished heavily by vision
And as they say satanic in particular on this tiny
He's just doing everything. Being there on the front, having the damage to burst through any of these calls that he gets his hands on.
He's a problem.
They also didn't even use global funds in the previous fight. He just gets the jump and now he's attacking again.
He's going to get caught by the Dreamclaw pushing back as well, so he gives them a chance to get away.
But yeah, there's tiny and absolute terror for them to deal with.
VP, they've got to find some way of slowing the game down.
Even if they do it, it's not easy now. They're down 8k against that of team vision
So turn it with the Aegis these next four and a half minutes
It's now team vision that could get a lot them could start to threaten these tier 2s, maybe the tier 3 towers
That's the problem. That's like tiny counters all of them like he can one shot them. We talked about
match up where
It's a mixed damage hero. It's a control if you don't pop the BKB with Wurka
This is also a relatively tanky hero. 2.7k HP with the strike path on. It's not enough.
Another one for Satanic. Maybe no, he gets the pull back on towards Tomato.
Tomato's got a run. Satanic, he's got the toss.
Forced to Tomato to BKB. Tomato will try.
There's not enough damage.
Tomato misses the dead shot.
And Satanic, he's got Link back up in a second. He could dive the tower straight and he goes.
Him and no one closing in on Tomato. They kill him again.
They'll look for our bed who'll get the chance to jump away from the all but satanic's there with the harpoon into the toss
What not enough to kill him our bed still a light-faced shift dodges the pullback there from no one on the air spirit
So he'll get out, but only just there our bed and tomato just dead again getting absolutely
destroyed by satanic on the tiny
Doing no damage whatsoever
See for almost five thousand damage from tiny in the previous fight in the whole squad of furthest bro
They're having issues where the supports don't get to play the game. They're playing against Tiny, they're playing against Ergstrit, multiple Blink Dagger jumps rolling in, plus they also have global silence, plus the saving support with the Glimmer Cape, with the box behind them.
This game, it's one of the top ones. I don't think they're going to be able to make a comeback in this one.
Prepared the 14 15k gold lead in the previous game to this one this game feels over like even if they make
One big mistake. It's not gonna cost them as much as they did in the previous one
It just feels like tomorrow at this point needs so many items
Needs kind of honestly Dave listen then maybe even the the rapier or something insane on top of that
just have a chance. If he had Daedalus and Shadowblade right now in his inventory, I think
I still feel the outcome would be the same.
No, it's fair, yeah. It's just him. There really is. The rest of the team, as we said,
they have the control. And that could be great if you're in a position where the
Moeta is able to do it all, but when you're down 15k and the Moeta can't just kind
single-handedly shoot everyone down. You don't really have anyone else to rely on the damage.
Maybe the putt leads down the line if the scaling continues, but he's bottom of the net worth the
putt. They'll get the grip onto no one, but he's got a shield rune. He's so tanky here. Now putt the BKB,
global silence comes in though after the BKB, meaning that he didn't, he did get the chance
to get the pierce the veil off. Putt the BKB before the global, gets global, can't get his
off their tomato so once again they're just gonna get destroyed in this team
fight VP Sabalite getting chased down jump ball for notice say tank into
finish patrol four dead on VP they are getting smashed this time by team vision
nothing literally nothing they can do anymore the game is out of control you
can see him trying to take the fight they're trying to deal the damage but
it's it's not enough I bet it's not in that fight I don't think it makes
the difference because again you are in this territory where everybody every single core has
four thousand plus hp on their side he rolls in and what's that even with the grip like look at the
damage that he's doing I'm sure you'll be removing some of that shield but after he's done tiny almost
two shot of him yeah it was just a risky play he tried to start going for that kill getting
the damage out without using the ult now no doubt about it needed to press the ult much
sooner there but the end obviously doesn't doesn't get the chance to press the
old tool on the word and they need every bit every bit of damage they have
and if he's not getting the alts off they are never gonna be anywhere close to
having the damage to even have a chance of killing these heroes
absolutely not the heroes who are getting out of control really getting
the edge this ridiculous state where they could just sit here ages is gonna
Let's see where it's next.
4k lead here 14 vision full control of the map
VP very scary when it comes to leaving the base here
I'm thinking what needs to go right for Virtus.Pro to win a fight.
And I don't think I'm seeing it.
Even if nobody gets shunned, let's say they overextend somehow, Earth Spirit ends up in
the tier 4 towers where he misses a roll.
he gets gripped, there's still global silence behind, then Bukalis is going to have a refresher
ready after farming this camp and maybe one more, GPM is going to kick in. They were
struggling dealing with one global silence against two global silences, there is just
no way to play the game. Especially this early on, this is 35 minutes we're talking
about. It's got all the arms and
swiftlings done now on Satanic. It's the
bottom to Carlos. Someone knows that
someone was around here. Saberlight's
been scanned. They're gonna have him.
He tries for a TP. Let's say Tanik's there.
Quick the break hit.
No big bongs this time around even though he was off to a much better start
I think I've seen the pattern Owen to be honest where he needs to lose his lane
Yeah lose though whoever loses lanes is gonna win the game
So maybe just pick I don't know right game spirit breaker lane for the next game and win off of that
Now I think the issue wasn't
Not being able to maintain the pressure that they did have picked up ages but gets killed twice
We got a good credit to say panic he did have a pretty bad game in game number one
Yeah, this is the night and day difference
Absolutely solo carry the second game with the moves finding this spot finding tight hunter building the right items straight up into silver
I've been turned off tight hunter twice
After the high ground they go 20 seconds without tight hunter
They see tomato. They just jump in and miss you dead.
No buyback on him. That's it. They have no damage even with him.
He didn't have enough damage. No. We're going down.
and we'll see Team Vision clean this one up.
This game too, they got it all back together
after having that last game slip away from them
with the mistakes that they made.
This time, this game too, bringing much more level
of the performance that we expected from them,
from what we've seen so far, the qualifiers,
this just kind of brutal playstyle
that leaves no chance for a comeback.
No chance for VP to really do much at all this game,
Even though they had an okay start in the lane.
30 seconds left, Marfa. This is gonna be Megas.
Trying for Satanic, but the globe was there to keep him safe. No one's able to roll over the wards,
our bad. He'll save himself for the E on this.
They're gonna back off, even though they have another global silence.
Tiny is a bit low. Doesn't have Satanic available yet. That's gonna be his next purchase.
There's almost no coming back from Megas, like even I assume the game over these eras is not covered, it's just so different, especially if you get them early on.
Even late, it's just, you get them early, they're super strong, your heroes are not good enough at dealing against them so you can slow siege, poke, win a fight, the game's over.
or post 60 minutes where tier 5 neutral items, you get Odacious, you get Necrobux, you get Deso2
it's almost again impossible to make a comeback against Mega creeps
we'll see if VP can find one last attempt here to turn this one around
down nearly 30k here, going to 40 minutes, vision
ready with the smoke. 30,000 is just a number. We've seen in the Chinese qualifiers a couple of days ago.
60,000 they managed to make a comeback. That's true. Different heroes though. They had sniper.
Here we go, vision. Ready to put an end to it. Smokes gonna be there from VP.
a vision on their way over who's gonna get caught first can VP find some sort of
way catch one of them by surprise now is looking for nine classes play he's behind
enemy lines you went on the plate like that is the blink up rabbit it's nothing
oh well nada I kind of summarizes the game here he has another one though okay
that's true but he's being global to put the refresher and they use the
rapid oh that's a four-man rapid well it doesn't stay we got here was hit what
did you buy for that one no I thought that five the combined the first of
them hit anything or a hit one hero wait four plus here isn't five
come on because it's not enough yeah it's a difficult one that was just like a
it really didn't work out I think they had yep overall better options to choose
from again as we said this is a risky option and sometimes you can look
really bad on the hero she needs to dish out the damage you know in theory
she has a pretty good setup heroes that she can play with in this game you
You have Coyle, you have Ravage, maybe the Fiend's Grip, but we've never actually seen
it, because St. Panic, this is the beginning of an end, pretty much getting that pick-off
on Pog, getting him again, and then telling off Puerto.
Every single time, Tiny is involved with his combo, getting one kill, and then the fight
seems almost impossible to win for Verdi-Spro.
A really, really nice move from St. Tane, had one of the shakier games we've seen
from him, and that game won on his nature's profit.
this game. Back to the level of performance you expect from Satanic on the carry, the nominal
showing on the timing. And good for to see some more mid-Earth spirit. No one having a very,
very nice time in a game where they let through the puck, a hero that most of the time has been
banned out. They say we don't care and no one picks up the Earth spirit to go against it and
I'm in that job, that first pick Earth spirit in the draft. 11-3 left. Fantastic rotations
from him and was just constantly in the face of these heroes all the time and in
this game it just sort of goes to show how good they were in setting up these
team fights. To Carlos on the silence, he only died once and that's pretty
rarely cost right? We don't see a lot of silencer games where the silencer guys
wants. No but it's also the fact that he has three strength cores I talked
about how many how much strength game these guys have like 4.3, 4.2
almost four on Earth Spirit as well. They just become super tanky. You don't get the
sea silencer in these games, and you don't have the backline jump. Like that hunter is
not a backline jumper by any means up until a point where he gets the blink dagger. Maybe
it's puck only, but this is also puck that is playing into silencer. And no one being
the standout player for the previous match for a good reason. You talked about like
his rotation, what he was able to do. Great atomization as well. Picking up
that Kaiassan straight away gives him tankiness with the treads. No spirit vessel, no urns whatsoever,
making sure that he is just being tanky and then picking up a BKB,
Poctrine Quartz will lower all of the cooldowns and then Bloodstone for the lulz. This last item
could have been pretty much anything they still would have won the game. And I think I'm also
seeing a pattern. I was joking about losing the lanes. There is a pattern where Centaur
just does way too many things in this one. He had much better start compared to the center in the
game number one. So he was almost unkillable as well. They needed to bring five heroes to be able
to kill him, which does allow enemy team to group up and find the targets they get to pick and
choose who they want to go for after killing center for good 20 seconds. They really didn't
they just couldn't get it going even around that first stages timing. I think VP definitely
with a more volatile attempt for the draft this time, right? It was kind of make or break with the
monitor. If Tomato's not having a good game, it was pretty much game over. A lot rested on his shoulders
and they could not get it going even though they hadn't already started the beginning.
We'll see how they switch it up into game three. Ladies and gentlemen, always happy to see a game
three of course, especially when it's for the qualification series of TI. We'll have a short
break and then we'll be out with game three to find out whether it's going to be Team Vision
or VP securing their second slot here from the EU qualifiers on the road to TI. We'll see you in a few minutes.
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We are getting ourselves ready for game three between team vision and versus pro Lacoste.
What do you make of these two teams so far?
We also one game VP making a solid comeback and one game team vision.
It was a comeback of some sort to say they will lose the laying phase but for the most
part a more dominant kind of one sided showing in that second game.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, even in the first game, they, I would say that team vision, they could have won.
They could have closed it out with some better plays, better positioning.
It could have been literally a 30 minute, maybe 35 minute game.
Never came down to that.
Virtus.pro, good decision making.
They were also good at decision making, getting that first roach in the second game as well,
but unable to capitalize on that.
pretty much satanic show who was the one getting like getting on top of them
every single time picks up shadow blade gets a kill picks up silver edge gets
another kill picks up blink dagger afterwards easier to close the gap with
the blink dagger even though he was like fighting underneath the century and one
of the few times we're seeing silencer actually getting a dub which I'm
really glad nerf the silencer I've seen enough like no matter what happens
This hero is in balance in pubs, so that's why the hero keeps getting nerfed.
It's kind of hard to find the middle ground between competitive and pub dota.
I think he's one of the best examples where no matter what happens,
like the hero hasn't been touched.
There was a period where nothing was going on with the sounds or nobody
wanted to play this shitty hero.
Suddenly patch drops, give him less damage, give him less slow,
give him something always.
And we're seeing some of the most played heroes.
14 vision
Yeah, the
The ones that stand out of the left in Ursprit is definitely one to think about now that we've seen not only nine classes ready to roll with it
So is no one so might be a value ban from
VP side of things if I want to take that away
I think on top of that. I'm just even no one invoker
I think those two are the big ones that they're gonna watch out for draft has begun
So we'll see what goes down again VP obviously sticking to banning out the cares
and that key hero that vision were running first pick quite a few times earlier in their run hit
betting up three heroes in three games
I oh
Has draw ranger they don't want to play it up on heroes for a good reason that they're very good bands
I got to say the way team vision does play
Shad of fiend
band this time around which leaves
clockwork available in the pool we are still in meta with other range stories
that feel super nice to play and I have we've seen Necro like have you seen much
of there was straight away yes we've had nigma galaxy play the Necro a couple of
times and unless they played it today and I missed it but the the other series
that they played it they did win with it both times doing some mail it was
band today okay so about today thanks production yeah so apparently was banned
today in the games yeah because it was one of the ones the smell showed and
looked very good on so I think outside of that this is a hero that I just think
it is a game three hero I think it's a game three hero you can drop it in you
kind of yeah you kind of forget about the hero takes over the game picked
late in the draft or you can do it before it does speak yeah you can't
just pick it straight away or anything alike maybe if you have a flex pick
between mid or maybe offline in a carrier role but it needs to come in slightly later in the draft
like maybe on 18 23 sometimes even like 24 I would definitely be okay with it. Vertus Bro,
they're gonna go again with the puck. They don't feel like nothing was wrong with the hero.
I feel that team vision that, well I think they've got options now. You either go first pick
Urspray again, or you go first pick Tiny?
I think both would seem very very nice for team vision considering what we saw from them in that last game
Unless they want to throw a completely different strat into the pool, but
I think it's going to be broken. Yeah
Yeah, Urspray again feels nice. It's very nice. I think gets
Gets likely more priority in this one
Because they can play it from support and
core role compared to tiny which can't really be played from the support role
I mean you can't you're gonna lose the game probably you're gonna lose the lane
I mean no wrong yeah yeah I kind of I kind of like this I want to say it's good
now you got it you got to remove tiny considering what happened in the
previous game I learned our lesson they're gonna remove Viper but they're
still silencer in the pool again they don't get to pick out of the phase if
team vision if they want to get the cans on it they could grab it and I think
that if they pick it second though I think VP can react to it a bit better you
know I think one of the reasons why it was very strong last game was because
you pick it against this bane and say if you put the science ready like there's
no way VP are gonna pick Bane into science and science that definitely
seems like one of the best supports right now that just completely ruins
a Bane's playstyle because we have these Banes right that they try and get
this agonim as the first item global science completely completely
destroys that. Vision. They don't want to ban out anything else that VP has been showing
us today. VP I would imagine they are going to be looking for something different for
tomato or you know it just seemed a bit too much going for the moe. It's it's not
the same hero. It's not. Muerta is Nogo. I think we might be seeing some support
heroes played from the carrier role before Muerta. I think we play one of those games.
Yeah feel miserable you actually feel pain look at that. I'm the team vision that again
You're kind of seem kind of locked in with their vision of the game
They ban the Necro so probably for the same reason as you said kind of looking at this game three
Don't forget about the Necro. It might surprise you vision won't let it surprise them
Yeah, they have a team pick on
Virtus Pro. It's a hero that I think could look very very strong. There's a lot of the times not
one pick is not enough to be able to remove him from the game and they're
gonna go with X. It's also not the instant cast so you can still dodge the call
because of the cast speed if you're good on plug and these are professional E
athletes so I do believe they can do it. I thought maybe Centaur is gonna get
bumped in priority maybe like Centaur out of the phase for them as well. I
I also want to see how Virtus.pro is going to approach this, like how are they going to be, I mean Ringmaster still looks good, but then again
You are playing against Earth Spirit, you're playing against Axe. It's good against Axe if you're keeping the distance
We saw
Hellscream being very good with positioning on that hero in the previous game
But I also want to see slightly more damage coming out from the supports something that gonna
Like they had damage issues in the previous game because supports
Dark Willow, she can be the damage dealer if she is being in the front line, if she's
like getting on top of people, but okay. Straight up specter, I would not want to expect that.
That is, I gotta say. That's an early specter pick.
Didn't they do the same thing in one of those games earlier? I gotta double check.
check. Yeah, check the drafts. Did it go well for them? Yeah, they
played. Yeah, that's the first one they played. Yeah, I guess in a
circle. I was a little surprised that they picked spectre into
action, giving complete free farm to acts as well. They did
win that game, but I would love to play acts in this
matchup. Yes, it's it's a confident picture on the
this early and giving a chance for team vision to really react to that. I mean I
just don't know specter it doesn't seem like a carry that's necessarily that OP
right now that you can show it second and not care what they pick. It seems quite a
risk that VP take with this. I suggested Life Stealer in the previous game. This
is a very good Life Stealer game for them. Maybe not here. I assume they
want to pick one more support again it's a good silencer game you're playing
against Phoenix you're playing against puck I could also see life stealer on 24
for team vision that could come out great against carry-to-care matchup
one of the old-school classics where life stealer just e-spectrum alive and
then great against puck you don't care too much about the coil you have waves
of killing the egg you have in fast bomb with the axe and also with the
the weather Jaff's gone down then let that keep with the light through and this has looked pretty
disgusting in the hands of nine class like this is one of his best ones right now
and a rare hero here though Marana coming in I thought about it but I don't believe in this
this year. I've seen it. 100% win rate on Chinese qualifiers. Yeah. Look at that.
We haven't seen it as a position for I believe in earlier today. And it's an egg here. It's
not against puck by any means. It's not a setup. You don't have that like easy setup
by any from any of the spells support to is I mean on team vision it's if you had
different cores this support do it just blows it doesn't really do much but
because you have action you have Earth spirits from the mid lane these supports
are gonna feel fine they're going for the same thing again as we've seen in
the previous one where they have two supports that can freecast their
abilities from the distance and you have two slash three tanky cores that are
gonna be providing you with vision and soaking up all that damage.
Largo coming in. It's a good Largo pick. I feel it's very good. I like Largo because
there's so many things to dispel in this game and also a big fan of Largo plus
Spock Largo plus Storm Spirit, the combination of the damage,
Spock can definitely go pretty hand.
I thought it's just going to be more control.
The reason why I don't like Marana as much is it's not good against Spock.
Both of the supports are going to be in a spot where you don't really do much.
No, if you get coiled to the specter presence hall, you're probably going to die.
Yes.
with the with the logo would you say it's exclusively gonna be Saberlight and
they're leaving a support picked to last or could they play as a support I think
you can play this hero as a support it does feel okay ish let's see how they're
gonna say they see it as a core still what could hell scream play I feel like
Yeah, I used to like the heroes are fine. It's just that maybe the combination of the heroes and what the heroes do in the game
This is what I have a problem with the vertice pros draft at the moment Largo. He sits in lane
He groups up with the team. Yeah specter. She wants to play on her own island join in
Maybe get a kill. Maybe get earned get involved early on then get the radians continues to farm up
It's not that much of a synergy. I'm listening Owen. What do you have?
They surprise them they put the logo support they get saberlight a last pick dawnbreaker
Okay, dad that's okay, so you have sunray you have dying light
You turn it into daytime with supernova
So, um, Bombbreaker gets extra damage.
And it's still a bit of a meme.
It's not that good.
They're going to remove the hero that we discussed.
The Harvest Creams.
It would feel nice.
And there's still a hero that I mentioned that it could be very good for them.
And that's, I think he's still available.
Leistner is available.
And also Facisvoid is available.
The Void would be kind of high.
I think Life Stealer is the most likely.
Yeah, Life Stealer seems to kind of tickle the boxes.
You definitely want some sort of carry
that's maybe going to be able to help deal with the egg.
Life Stealer would be able to do that.
Kind of funny that they banned the jug over the Life Stealer
because we do not see any jug grab.
No.
No, it does the same thing.
Like, this is better.
Life Stealer boxes that we were talking about, Life Stealer.
Yeah, zero, nothing.
Oh, OK.
So they do indeed just keep the logos.
off lane to get the Rubik's last pick. Now I gotta tell you, you know, fogged, he has
not been a fan of the Rubik heroes, even when his last pick into a game where they might
not be supposed to stay.
I know, I lane with that guy ten times a day. I know which heroes he plays.
Has he justified in his kind of not liking Rubik right now? What do you feel about
Rubik? Because we have seen this hero suffer a lot. Oh my goodness, it's a Meepo!
Oh, okay.
Okay, all right stop the press satanic me put coming in here
Stop the count as well. Oh, man. I I thought yeah, I feel like this hero just destroys the game
Oh, no, there's nothing. I
Think this is like a 25 minute game from
My goodness. It's an insane me po game. Oh
Yeah, yeah, it really is
What is what is the best thing they have against me, Poe?
No
Fable that's it
this
Yeah, unless you kind of get stustered in the labor even then it's a me poe he'll be able to recover
Yeah, this is a big problem for VP
They might have just got me poe there on the qualification game by satanic nonetheless
That's a rough one. I mean, they have some like okay ish damage
fateful producing his physical magical output, frog stomp, fire spirits, coil.
It's just like keep them in the place, but there's also heels. Keeper of the
like plus Mipo combination is pretty nasty. You get holdy lock it and then
you just keep spamming. You keep healing blast like blast them for Mipos.
it's just insane. I don't think I've seen this combination because Keeper of the Light is a very
niche pick. Certain teams are going to play it and that's about it. We haven't seen too much out of it.
Same goes for Mipo. Even more niche. This is going to be fun to see. So do you have a look as well.
So the last time we got to see the tree of Satanic Mipo was a couple of months ago,
back at PGL Valachia. It's been a couple of months since they brought this one out,
and that's what we're doing
out. Um, but of course, his
record on it has been rather
good in the pro games. 70%
7% out of the 17 mattresses
at. So they they know when to
pick this hero. And yeah, if
he can defeat this last pick
satanic me Poe. They will
absolutely event their spot at
so far, baby. I saw tomato typing in good luck. I think this was meant for ally chat,
rather than old chat. They need all the luck they can get.
Yeah, that's how it looks. It's been a couple of months since he's brought it out in an official,
but when he has done in the past, it has been very, very good. And as we say,
looking at these heroes there's not really much at all that is going to be able to shake up a good
Mipo game unless somehow Satanic has a terrible start they consistently can make their way over
aggressively to punish him but they don't really have the best supports for kind of ganking or
getting super aggressive and getting on to Satanic's half of the map early oh it's gonna be hard
This is we talk about
Host car last picks even though we've seen things shift in terms of priority
some brood mothers
Necro picks this is nothing compared to
Meepo when it's a good Meepo game. It's a good Meepo game and there's literally nothing you can do about it
I think he's going zero and 10.
I think he dies once this game maybe I'll I'll give a couple of us a couple of us couple
of them.
I think he dies once this game, maybe.
I'll give a couple of deaths.
I'll give a couple of deaths.
Couple of deaths?
I'll give him a couple of times, but it won't matter.
I think also the reason why I'm saying this is because of the itemization, the changes that did happen to Mipo,
where you're straight up getting treads into S&Y, and then you're almost unkillable.
Like you have all these stats, and I also like how they're playing this bottom lane.
The Coloss immediately using star storm poof pushing out the waves knowing that the second wave is going to be much easier for them to deal with and I'm looking at some different things happening in the top lane and notice he doesn't want to go for the helm build he doesn't want to get like anything expensive at the start
He's playing against Spectre so investing into these cheaper items early on making sure that he is getting the farm
And this is a very good matchup for acts
This is not something that you threaten to kill on acts by any means you're playing with the keeper of the light
You will always have man. It's not that the hero means so much mana, but
Your battle hunger is gonna be always available and now we can see already tomato struggling
I'm probably gonna give you the hunger once he comes back again the cost button look in the mid-six
I'm looking at the mid CS that was my next point
That is and top lane tomato
Be okay, but yeah mid lane
16 and 5 against the 5 and 0 no one
Yeah, that was just warming up earlier on in the series and he crushed it then now. He's he's on fire
Let's see him on camera. Let's see what the lock in looks like because I yeah look at that
That's it. He is in the zone right now.
No emotions, not even breeding.
Like, he can breed it in.
My goodness.
Yeah, that's this mid lane.
Ah, that is, he is struggling.
So, say VP can make it happen here in this game three.
That is gonna be pretty insane.
Titanic already level three does have me for verbal he's going for the game
he's going for the twin gate rotation oh here we go this man knows how to my
crap he's going back bottom then they found the opportunity for it
should be alright and get away so they won't get the kill I'm getting very low
on the lago. Just have to respect the fact that the Nets back up in a second though,
so you don't have to say it alike. I guess Nets probably will die. Does that mean that
Nibo has more net worth? Because the Nets, oh yes! Double, double! The Nets double!
Yeah! I've seen it, I've tripled! So Danik always finding a way, like we saw them holding onto
tier one neutral item on the dice up until tier four just to get extra bit of a gold nice nice try
at least you try to go for the twin gates the lane did push in you can see again specter in this
exact matchup she's not winning this matchup by any means axe has natural insane amount of regeneration
she's gonna get seven and so he's more than flying like you can't push this hero out of the
the lane. Even with the strong support like Phoenix, he still does very well. It comes
down to the spectre not being a strong player, period.
Alright, I'll see how I'll catch up a little bit after the rough first few waves.
Still no one having that advantage though with the denies as well.
3 lanes. He's going in second try. Let's see, Lane again is not a good spot for him to make
this move, so he's going to stop channeling the Twin Gate.
Watch him a little further out. If I make the shows, I think he goes. It's
go time. We're making a move onto Satanic.
Oh, and Dean a good rotation. Don't get him first blood for fly
That's that one bet that I was talking about oh, and this is it one of the two I'm talking about
What if it's a one of those 10 zero and one of the zero 10s
Oh, no, maybe the zero 10 is gonna happen
It does say zero 10 on his KDA if you look at it. That's true. That's true
Maybe a side of things to come if VP can find a way to crush him.
The river no-one.
Good controller on to hell.
Screamhouse is going to try for the TP out.
Satanic's here with the net.
We'll be a dead Rubik.
They'll get the kill to Satanic.
Nine plus.
sure that our bed does not get the power and pick up so time we'd love to go for
Saber Lane knows these pretty low sticking around the area Saber light
and catch him in the net he's gonna be going down another one here for
satanic starting to get the kills himself and they can also potentially try
invade the enemy XP shrine. There is Rubik, they might need to bring Abed who is level 6,
doesn't have that much mana to work with. Akalis, he is scanning, already knows. Meepo,
making a move again. Now they can dive the tower, TP's are coming in,
Satanic's got the control on to Tommado. Tommado trying to run, now get the control
on a notice instead, they'll kill up the axe. Tommado, he'll still die up,
Arpeg, get the Dreamclaw off onto both 9-class, and Seitanic.
Seitanic, can they kill him? He's making it.
He turns with the net.
He's keeping the Miibo, the low one, away.
Arpeg not gonna have anything further to chase,
so Seitanic can TP out of there, get back to safety.
And while all this was happening,
the Coloss picks up the enemy, XB Shrine.
There's still Shrine available on their side of the map.
The motto is getting pushed out of the lane.
Lowest network core at the moment.
Usually it is like that mechanic, making another move, Arrow does miss, but should be enough
to get a kill anyway.
time I'm able to kill 7% of the light. Some pressure onto the tower.
Off and down with the fortification in play.
Gonna be a difficult early game.
They're gonna try and punish notice save a lot three spawn teepees up top
We'll manage to catch notice by surprise
Nice catch. There's not much you can do in the bottom lane immediately starts playing the top lane teepees in
That's something done. No one no one. He's here. There's no one talked about
Combination that they have a chakra magic
Art spirit he benefits a lot any spirit does benefit a lot
But this is the combination that we usually don't see, Lauren cool down and his abilities
is gonna feel nice and they break the coil maybe with the likelihood, couldn't?
Why don't she have enough damage to kill DeKalus without hitting that combo?
Seems the coil gone.
On top lane.
No one is gonna look for the gank on the tomato.
The roll has already been used though so the tomato heads up TP, gets him out safely.
It's a level one roll.
I think the motto started swinging as soon as he saw Chakra Magic on Earthspirit because
Four seconds once it's maxed out. It's not enough to stop the TV from always being between with Chakra Magic
It's not enough and look at them bringing in
Creepwave into this that's why notice was so farmed on his acts in game number one as well
They were stacked for him now level seven
I mean what do you think sort of the call is gonna be from VP this game are you trying
to make aggressive moves on the meatball like you prioritizing trying to kill
I thought you were asked when you said like what's gonna be the cause gonna be
like capital GG or like NN or like what type of GG they're gonna call you know
They need to slow things down. Okay, just kind of a trade. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead
Well, I think like just play fully defensive for the spectre or go aggressive
There's nothing
Aggressive they can do it and it needs to be counter reactive and maybe get a pickoff with a coil
But that's about it. I'm on and he's like try to do he's on his own and nobody nobody's coming into help
So, okay, there's somebody here is there. It's not gonna save them
I mean they're getting away with these dives. They're not able to protect their spectre
It's not just a nine class
I'm not developed in no one they find hell screen. So a couple of dunks there for notice
They're just not able to keep their spectre safe
It's it's getting out of control it's
That's getting to a point where your Bepo is going to have SNY.
He's going to become relatively tanky.
Supports are going to be AOK running at you, nine plus.
This is one of his, if not the best hero in the current meta.
He always has one, whether that's going to be TB position four, Slark position four,
Monkey, whatever he can find.
In this meta, it is Keeper of the Light, and he's utilizing it so well.
cores on top of the network for team vision. Holy locket, almost done. I mean by almost it's like
800 gold away, recipe is very expensive but the healing is going to be through the roof and also
with Mipo you're the one controlling all the objectives on the map. You're easily going to kill
the towers, you can kill Tormentor, you can kill Roshan and then maybe getting like what's the
support type, especially Keeper of the Light, he's very good at getting that shard for free.
Increasing the damage on Illuminate from 70 to 100% is massive.
This lead...
Not gonna slow down any time soon here.
4 team vision, 5 cab vans, it's 12 minutes in.
Man, what a support, 9 classes.
Look at all these juicy stacks that notice and manage the farm right now.
He's on top of the network.
He comes in, gives him extra bit of healing with Polywog Charm,
making sure that they have vision that he's blocking the entrances
with potential smoke ganks while he's doing it.
So it's still going to be a good timing on that Blindagger on axe.
Spectre is the one who's struggling.
Pre-radiance, this doesn't really feel like a hero,
and he's very, very far away from it.
No, it's a long, long way for the radiance.
And then of course even then not really a game where the Radiance Spectre timing is going
to hit a point that's going to cause too many issues for Team Vision.
VP, I'm trying for the tier one tower bottom, should be allowed to get away with this.
and happy to just continue to get that much more out of the map.
It's very, very tough to sort of see what the plan is going to be from VP this game.
That last pick, one of the...
probably the most kind of, uh-oh, last picks that we've seen in this entire qualifiers.
me pipe for Saitanik
14 minute power rune only a lucky but the buttons form VP they will not not even
that's nothing nothing going their way six gig old lead 14 vision at one
point this lap is just gonna explode. I feel like they, in the next two minutes, they could
potentially get Roche. The other heroes are not good at killing Roche. Axe isn't, Earth
Spirit isn't a lot of times your mid laner is relatively okay with it, but you can
still fake it. I also want to see what Marana is gonna be building. I see drums as her
first item. I like that a lot. There's some cheap damage, early oriented items that
gives anything to me but i think in this one it could be
net because you're getting extra value from all of these items that's why i
love people with lights so much that's why i talked about him getting the shard
from first door mentor where you're increasing gas it goes from 70 to 100
percent increase and then you add all of these
nipo's that you're getting that are getting healed but for 30 percent extra
which is massive
I'm telling you with a blank blade now on notice they find the spectre
Tomatoes game is going to continue to be in a very rough spot
I think they might just catch him notice
He's gonna have him
Very dead spectre tomato will continue to struggle here at the bottom of the net worth of the cause
It's a tannic. He's just going to be able to walk over and find fly.
Some TPs are coming in. Unless the jump notice gets the blink off.
They cannot fight back here VP. I just have to head back under the tower.
Very hard to keep one another alive here with how much jump potential team vision have between them.
And I think something that you mentioned Owen was
Fuck he talks about Rubik that doesn't like a hero anymore. I just realized for 15 minutes
I didn't mention really cuz they felt like he didn't even have impact no, it's like he was there
You see people that's about it notice. I mean knowing it's a beautiful setup with the silence allows notice to get an easy call off onto our bed
Yeah, it's it just
Honestly, this might be one of the series where we have one team trying to get one of the best last picks in the game
and the other team trying to get one of them
Is it the last pick? Or the best last picks in the qualifiers? And then the other team I think got one of the worst last picks in the qualifiers
Yeah, it's just not working out
It doesn't feel like something just feels off with the draft order and the heroes that they have on Virtus.pro in this game 3
Well, 10k lead here for Team Vision, already at the early timing, 16 minutes in, gets
for Tomato, getting caught out a few times, this Radiance time is going to be so slow.
Almost there.
You've been pretty generous with the old most, I think.
They might be close, wait a minute, if they catch it one more time.
There we go!
Okay, I'll be against the kill.
That's Mono would've loved that.
Extra bit of gold, that's something.
Now they're going to start talking about potential next objective, say Panic, Scotty
after SNY into Agatham Scepter.
Once he picks up that Scotty, the healing coming out from Margo, healing coming out
Phoenix it's not gonna be there he's just gonna counter all of these heroes and
he's playing against three range heroes slowing them down once you get a jump
onto Rubik or Phoenix these heroes just straight up that even Largo you have he
has one catch like we're not talking about no point in Largo when he gets two
of those but yeah you get netted you're gonna die
One for five damage rune as well for no one on the next fight.
They do not want to get caught anywhere near vision vp, they cannot take a fight whatsoever
at the moment.
He's ready to jump in.
Ready to roll.
They'll find nine claws.
That's a kill that they can't find. Catching the call left behind on his eye.
Hopefully for them, it's not one of those deaths that starts everything going badly for this.
I think they need a couple more for Virtus.Pro to start feeling themselves like they did in game number one.
And this time around, no one's skipping Kaia's signs instead just getting Kaia and then picking up BKB.
making sure that he has extra bit of protection
making sure that he does have something that
there's nothing literally that can stop him from going in, rolling in, rolling out
if he has a BKB available.
They might just be able to slow down that radiance
once again
see him under the ward
tomato
they're gonna get the jump on him
the radiance delayed once more
save a light
he's gonna get taken out
he'll try a lot
it's one of those drafts where you feel it's
you need to bring the heroes behind your court to save him
quote-unquote but you can't really save him there's really nothing you can do even
if you use like a bit of a sun ray I think the only save you could get if
maybe Rubik has shard available we're seeing Dota plus what it's saying 83%
I think that's also very generous and now we're starting to get into the
objectives he wanted to wait for his Scotty timing 2.6k HD on Mito 20 armor
another one here for no one.
not able to do much on the
router console this game, even
though it was that last pic.
It's been hit. So, if you can
get the arrow, the connection
step up and contest this 20-minute thing and notice he gets the call again on the
tomorrow! Tomorrow dead! The Radiance delayed again! I don't even know if he's gonna get the Radiance done this game.
I mean, of course he might not even get Radiance finished. He actually might not.
I think he's gonna have it. I don't know. He's gonna find one camp to farm for like a minute.
He needs one minute to finish off Radiance. They're gonna try for Satanic.
and see can they get him back up's coming in they get him all right that's the
second day they got him two times you were right Owen I was wrong I said one
death on satanic all right two deaths
gives him some breathing room he can definitely farm another camp after this
one without dying unless notice runs down from the mid lane straight into
that camp he caught six times and they're going they're actually going for
them they do see him this observer scouting just for a brief second just
letting his right inch come on now this is another 140 gold oh well he's dead
yeah I'm not telling you this radio it's not enough it's happening oh you know
Oracle you're getting everything right though and just let him buy the radiance come on have some mercy
There's poor old spectacular all the way the only way he buys radiance
Settle his other eyes. He calls Gigi. No, he calls Gigi. He goes to them along by radiance. Oh
Hey, another big kill made a catch on them it. No, never mind. He's got BKB
He's gonna get a roll over towards house cream the heels coming from nine glass house cream
I mean, we'll use the stolen roll to roll away, but the Magma Ties honestly just drawing them.
Crazy damage going on.
He was using Amplify damage. Now he'll pop it.
Yeah, he was holding back there, no one.
There's Saberlight caught by the Meepo.
Here we go.
Round four.
Whatever it is. One more time.
This time he's going to get the Radiance.
It's round eight. He died seven times.
Here we go.
What is he getting? Nine gold plus 10 plus 9?
Here we go.
This camp will give him the money right? Quick maps?
Yeah, it will.
This camp will give him the money.
Tomorrow night?
He needs slightly more.
Like when he walks there, if he can have it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright.
Alright.
Go by it straight away.
Just in case anything else goes horribly wrong.
Just go by that radiance.
Alright, stick around.
Go on the business.
Meanwhile, obviously Rocham taken out by Satanic. There it is! Alright! Radiance online!
Not at kind of the time he'd hoped for. He is pretty much half the net worth of Satanic's meat boat, but it's there!
So I was wrong. We do get to see a Radiance in action. Let's go.
See what I can do.
Noticed.
Remy sees Arbent. He wants the big catch and he'll get it. The cause there on to the puck. Arbent's gone.
Saber light. He's tanky enough to run back to the high ground.
It's time to utilize this meepo. Mega meepo, gonna be available.
He's about 200 gold. He's chasing.
Oh!
Motus, he's got the call.
Give him another dunk. Doing well on the dunks this game.
Eight stacks already with the culling blade. Top tower's gone.
I see flight he's trying to itemize against me but trying to slow them down
Going for she was as his first item as a position five without like a lot of times
You would see this in a game or Phoenix over he gets like four kills in a lane and continues to farm up
Last one surviving tomato again
To not don't at least he's got his radius. I that was it was that replay. I don't know it was no
He's died a lot of times in this area and this area is obviously tempting because it feels safe
But maybe after the how many times you die it doesn't feel the safe anymore
He died on the other in the outer ring on the other side of the map mid lane
He can't really farm in the mid lane. He's gonna get caught and the map is shrinking
There really is sudden death from worms are McGavin. It's it's it's very difficult for Virtus. Bro
It's been difficult ever since they picked the heroes, Ceeberlite, now the one
got to get caught. There's one lick, that's about it.
Well this is, it's a rough game for VP. Obviously there's a lower bracket so you
know the hopes and dreams of TI are not crumbling there, they will have a
second chance. But as for this game, Team Vision, it's tomorrow dead again. The Bat Long
is going to kill him. No. They need to kill him. They have coil. This is big money. They
go in a different direction. They don't even find him. Keeper of the life is close anyway.
With the Glamour Cape, with the Great Healing Lotus, on Holy Locket, there's potentially
Heels coming out. They're ready to close this one out. Yeah. This is so painful
for VP. Tomato is nearly poorer than every single player on VP. I'm sorry, I'm team vision.
He will be. It's about time to overtake him. With these barracks, when they kill the
ref, barracks don't look at the network. The Mepo, they're going to try and kill him,
so it's attic, but he's got an Aegis anyway. Can they get him once they cannot? Mega
Mepo's there. Bottom tree. It's been such a rough game for Tomato. They have completely
broken and are they honestly I don't know if you can kind of get away with us that was
a second pick specter and team vision have shown us exactly what they think of that second
pick specter.
That's why I said it all night.
I saw them pick it in the same matchup even though they won that game it just doesn't
feel right.
It's also very early specter pick that doesn't even say it doesn't say like oh you have
your silencers or whatever we're going to be the one getting to jump we need to
find these heroes in the back lines. It's nothing to like, it was super early pick. And now he
found the goal to buy Band of Elven skin, never been more hyped about this item other than when
he purchased it. And he's still sitting in the lane, sorry. Might get initiated on again.
Cleaning up the kills, they're getting the dunks. I don't know how much more of this VP's gonna want to play.
They might get...
I think you stamped the car out, yeah.
There is the lower bracket, maybe if there wasn't...
So they'll have another chance, but the chance here, it's over.
GG is called. VP will lose this series, and Team Vision!
Team Vision, they're going to TI, two to one here, and this game's three.
really summarizes their whole rise through this qualifiers and the cost this
was they did it that was a complete that was down in this game this one comes
down to draft it's just complete out draft they didn't get the chance to play
the game they made a great comeback in the first one but yep the
vision team are gonna go to TI they are this is yeah and I'm always nice to
to see a Mipo team go to TI and my goodness, I think qualifying on this game might cause
problems for them if they want to try and get the Mipo out of TI because I think all
the teams that are watching this are going to have a big reminder that that satanic
Mipo might just come out as a last pick and just be game over.
Yeah, when you're going to be doing preparation for team vision for TI, you are going to
to have a printed page of all the Dotabuff and then on one page, maybe even more page.
Every second page is just a picture of a Mipo.
Yeah, this was pretty brutal from Team Vision.
Obviously, they struggled in the first game, you know, we did see VP coming with quite
the upset with that game on performance, but then of course, Game 2, Team Vision
locked it in and then this Game 3, Team Vision reminded us of how easy their journey
have been so far in the qualifiers making it to TI and yeah this rough one for VP
but as you said they can look to the positives VP they've got a lower bracket
they've got another chance down there as this was always going to be a very very
tough series for VP and we really felt that here in this last game where they
just got completely broken by... Yeah, you could feel. It's a really bad feeling coming
into the lower bracket front that they need to have. It's not going to be easy. They also
need to fix these issues that they did have in the second game, in the third game as
well. Even in the first game, in the first 20 minutes, but something to work on. They
they didn't have much time because the qualifiers,
they're just gonna keep going and going.
But looking at team vision,
their performance dropping one game only.
This is the game that I would even say
they were supposed to win that game
considering the lead that they did have.
But overall, a team that does deserve to be at TI
didn't expect any less with all the players
that they have in the squad,
their results and also the captainship
coming up from puppy.
Yeah.
And the standout plan,
give it a notice. He was kind of the main one that was completely destroying any chance
of a game that Tomato had getting him each and every time with those calls and has just
been honestly throughout the whole qualifiers a pretty incredible off-lane player for Team
Vision. So many times he is just at the top of the net worth as his off-lane player.
They did enable him in this game sure great so many stacks
It was all about nine class going into the jungle and to making massive stacks dragging even the creep wave
Just to make sure that he's getting extra farm on top of that and I
Gotta say oh, and I I want to bang out some axe right now because I want to play ax
It looks very fun. This set looks insanely good. I it looks nice yesterday
Yeah, it broke the game. It's not fixed but I didn't get the chance to play it
They fixed it and it's one of my favorite heroes
I want to bang it out, but yeah, it looks good. The hero looks very strong and I also think that is
slight chance of pick increase just because of this set as well because people love it so much. I feel like
Players are as well gonna be slightly biased and be like, yeah
I want to play this accent competitor because it looks so much fun
the game. It's a good job.
Obviously it was taken out of, uh,
like all pick and search, but
teams throughout all the regions.
I want to say that we're going
on. We're picking a lot of
acts. So it's a good job. They
were still left in for that
period in captain's mode. Now,
of course, back for everyone.
Nice to see so they can indeed
at home be like, I want to
play like no test and then
cut for the game. So it's
at home, be like, I want to play like noticed and then cure for the pubs and not be able
to play like noticed at all. But at least give it a good show. Yeah. You guys, there's
going to be one guy that's also going to be like, I'm going to be like satanic. I'm going
to bang out to me, Po. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, disaster. Yeah, probably have
the lobbies with the box first. If you want to start getting good on the me Po takes
quite a bit of time to get to the level of satanic here. And yeah, a crucial part
of this being that they did pick the Mipo in such an incredible position.
And especially to this game, I mean, actually, funny to note,
we didn't note on it, but some of the viewers might have noticed during that game,
VP, they had four level 30 heroes that game, Lacoste.
So they were kind of on their, they were on the best stuff
and they got crushed in this fashion.
So it is going to be a painful loss for VP, but as we say,
we'll get to see them again in the lower bracket.
And we should get the chance to get a quick chat with one of the members of Team Visions
to see how they sort of react to this journey that they've been on.
Maybe ask them a little bit as well what kind of went wrong in that loss and how they really
picked things up after that.
It will be interesting to find out.
I also just be interested to know how much prep they put into these qualifiers because
obviously with some of the series that they had before this, they were definitely
playing against teams very much for the underdogs against them.
Wonder how much they did prep or if they kind of turned up and we're like well this qualifiers is going to be easy
We're just we're just gonna play Dota
We do have the interview ready. So I believe we're gonna be able to get no one on the line. Hello. No, what are you there?
Yep
No, congratulations. Yeah, well a loud and clear beautiful stuff from you guys today
I just want to know this this journey for you through this qualifiers other than the one loss in the series today
You guys made it look pretty easy. Did you guys just kind of turn up and play your stuff?
Or did you put a lot of prep in specifically for this qualifiers?
Because you did want to make sure that you would just crush it completely.
I don't think we did something specific for qualifiers. I think we were already in the
good shape after the evening that we won and we played last on line.
Sadly, we didn't get to play the long part, but I think we already have it in the team.
and we just came to bootcamp four days before the balls and just play some players.
That's it.
Of course.
Got anything for no one?
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
I know.
And congrats.
Is there anything that Papi said to you guys, considering that we haven't seen Papi in the
coach or we haven't seen him at TI from 2022?
Is there something specific that he told you guys, guys, you've got to win this.
It needs to be clean.
No, of course not.
you'll not put some pressure on us.
It will be pressure, you know.
If some guy will do this, if you need to do this, you know.
That's fucked up from the start.
Yeah, I also want to ask you about the previous TI run
from the year before,
because you guys got third place
and I could feel maybe some nerves were there
when you guys were playing on the stage,
like New Roster, you were playing the first TI.
Do you think these things are shaped up
coming into this TI, like did you guys work on that with the psychologists or something along those lines or?
I mean, first of all, for sure we're now a different team in first place.
We have a different coach and different player and like,
times like we had psychologists here at the start of the year.
I don't think it ran out us.
It ran out.
It was a good run for us in the end with the psychologists.
So I would say, for sure, we'll be much prepared in terms of nerves and stuff, but in the end, you've got to play good, you know.
Yeah, so what's the plan? What's the plan in the next couple of weeks? You guys are going to EWC and then afterwards just going to be straight bootcamp or you guys need a rest?
No, of course everything will rest because after the EWC it's going to be a month before TI, right?
It seems like this. I don't know the exact dates.
Now we go chill for five days and then we go to just play Clambers before WEC and then just bootcamp PTI after WEC and some chill for weeks.
Going back to the series you just played, no one.
this last game this me-po pick I mean as soon as we saw it we were like this is
brutal it's game over who was the one that was calling for that who sort of
noticed that this game is going to be such a beautiful game
thanks I think of course
hit all the purple lights but it's really good me-po pick
yeah I mean it was it was absolutely right on that and also just to go
back you obviously other than that one loss today had a completely clean run
what do you guys sort of take away from that loss what went wrong do you
you guys feel in that first game of the series?
I think I think it's just like, you know,
people are like sleepy a bit and not much
because I think we're all in the game.
I have 16 KG lead and 22 minutes.
The game was already over,
but we decided to make it spicy, you know,
and play a few more games.
I mean, that's fair.
That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, it was fun to watch,
but also what was fun to watch is your Earth Spirit.
You guys are using this as a flex pick
because Ninecast also is starting to play it as well.
Is this like a specific match-up,
the reason why you picked it in the mid lane against Puck,
or do you think the hero can fit in
against some other match-up as well?
Oh, of course.
I think Rispirit is coming back to meta,
and I think this is my best hero,
if not it may be second best by last season that I played.
And I mean, it's just,
it has really good silence against Puck
and stable mid lane, of course it's good.
Plus on top of it reflects it, so why not?
But why didn't we see this hero, because the hero hasn't been like, changed in the recent patches as much, but we haven't really seen him compared to other midlaners. It takes a little bit of time for others to start picking it up.
I mean, I think it's Topias, you know, he's involved in almost all the things.
It's him, it's always him.
Yeah, because I saw his build, it's like 4-1-4, and I felt like, oh, this has got to be really good.
I saw it like, when just patch came out, when the speed got changed, I thought about playing this,
but I don't remember why I didn't. And in the end, right now, I think the...
Oh, I cannot do this or something. Whatever. I cannot...
Now, I don't remember the question actually, sorry.
The speed is just really good here.
It needs to be Popson approved, basically.
If Popson needs to approve it, then everybody can pick it up.
I mean, he's involved in Kiri's matter from the Pops, and I've been watching him.
I really liked Pop's, to be honest, because Viper that they saw in the Dream League last year or something,
when there was like a Bloodstone Shiva Viper here, invented in Dota,
they snapped fire on me as well, I think he first started to play,
the spirit on me here. Start to play some, yeah. Thank you, Topias.
Yeah, I'm sure a lot of people are going to be keeping their eyes on the top some pubs
then coming into EWC and TI. Well, no one, it's been amazing watching you guys play
here on this qualifier room. We'll let you go and enjoy the rest of your evening.
So congratulations once again, no one. We cannot wait to see you guys at the International
in Shanghai. It's going to be an absolute treat.
Thank you so much, guys.
Good luck. Bye.
Cheers, no one.
Cheers. Bye-bye.
I think from what we've seen
it making this qualifiers look
pretty trivial outside of the
one loss. Um this is a team
that the other teams are going
to have very set very high in
their sites, even though they're
technically a qualified team and
not an invited one. Everybody's
going to be watching team vision
at TI. Oh, absolutely. Like
you're going to try to get some
might do a little bit of
watching team vision at TI.
Oh, absolutely.
You're going to try to get some ideas of what they're doing,
how they're doing, why they're doing so good as well.
And you could start to see some of the patterns as well.
Looking at the upper bracket, we had Team Spirit earlier today
beating MiGmaGalaxy.
MiGmaGalaxy, I think this is the squad
that can definitely do it.
They're good.
It's always the same story, I would say, with MiGmaGalaxy.
They get your hopes up, and then they pull you down.
they get the hopes up even more with the new squad, with the new roster,
then they pull you back down even further.
It's an emotional rollercoaster.
It really is.
I think this iteration of the team looks really good.
I'm really glad that Sumail is back and I definitely want to see King back at
TI and I think with this roster, they could do it.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So indeed, as we see the Spirit and Team Vision,
the first two teams from this European qualifier to secure a spot at TI,
The galaxy of VP they'll have a second chance down in the lower bracket
Now obviously before we get to their games
We've got to find out who they're playing against and to do so
We've got a fair bit of the lower bracket to run through as you can see the next round
The lower bracket is gonna be what we're jumping into tomorrow
And these are all the matchups there power Rangers team bold yellow submarine modus
Navi mouse and enjoy and hula ghani so still many teams playing for those last two spots and
and at the least playing for the chance to try and challenge
Nigma Galaxy and VP who will be a tough challenge
no doubt about it on that last round of the lower bracket once they get there
I believe we'll be able to check in on the schedule for tomorrow
because I believe the matches are actually played from bottom to top
in terms of order so we've got to show you that soon
but in terms of the matchups as we can see them now, LaCos
what are you looking forward to the most? And out at these 18
Who poses the biggest threat to kind of challenging
Nick McGalaxy or VP for those final slots?
I'd say Navi.
Navi is just a team that can definitely cause an upset.
I would say Maus, but one of them
is going to get eliminated tomorrow, unfortunately.
And maybe it's Team Bould.
Maybe they're here.
They're going to be maybe they're going to be able to do it.
Yeah, that honestly watching their open qualifier run
and watching some of the wins that they've had,
they can have some pretty high highs team bold. So I think a lot of people are going to be looking
forward to tuning into that one. The last series of the day there, as you can see, enjoy versus Hula
Ghani first, Navi versus Maaz, the big one. And then as we work our ways towards that team
bold series as the last series. It's going to be crazy. Cannot wait for the games tomorrow.
We're going to be back as you saw as well to four best of threes a day. We just had these
two days of two best of threes. And so I believe the last day, in fact, to the four best of
best of the trees to have those last two rounds, the two best of the trees to
sort out the final two spots for the international. Lacoste, today's results,
we did have both teams, I think, that were considered going to be the ones to secure
the first two spots, but probably closer today than
people thought it was going to be. Three games both ways.
Yeah, after seeing the first game with Team Spirit and Nigma Galaxy, I thought
Maybe they're doing it, you know, I get easily baited but Nigma Galaxy, they've done it to me
bazillion times through my Dota carrier and I don't know, I just want to see the boys at TI
and they look good, they look and I mean you're playing against Spirit, Spirit seems like they're
in a TI form already and they always speak before EWC, before TI and now I want to see if
Nigma Galaxy can do it, they only have one series left, Maus or Navi, as I said these
are the strongest two teams that I see still left in the lower bracket before they meet
Virtus.pro, before they meet Nigma Galaxy. So I kind of expect teams that are in those.
I would say that I would expect maybe Navi and Nigma Galaxy,
Virtus.pro, they looked a bit too shaky today. Yes, yes. It's sort of hard to kind of
find the consistency with them because some of their wins have looked very, very good. And
And again, that game won when they make the turn around.
That kind of holds.
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