Heroes at DreamHack Valencia Discussion Thread

ptbl

United States6074 Posts

July 16 2015 07:20 GMT

The tournament is a couple hours away and I didn't see a discussion thread, so I made this post for us to talk about the tournament.

Team Liquid, Gamers2, Navi, and Roccat will be participating. TL will be defending back to back DreamHack titles.

The bracket can be found here http://wiki.teamliquid.net/heroes/DreamHack_2015/Valencia

First match between Navi and Gamers2 should start in about 2 hrs from this post.

Stream will be here http://www.twitch.tv/dreamhackheroes

ptbl

United States6074 Posts

July 16 2015 08:01 GMT

Liquid lost to Navi 3-1 in the Stormgrounds tournament about three days ago. So, I think Liquid is vulnerable of getting dethroned. However, Liquid could have been saving their strats for Valencia. Only time will tell.

DifuntO

Greece2376 Posts

July 16 2015 09:32 GMT

Yeah, this is gonna be interesting. Navi could win it but I still think Liquid is better right now and they are playing in Spain so we'll see what happens.

RiZu

Singapore5715 Posts

July 16 2015 09:47 GMT

Downtime in Hero is getting pretty ridiculous this day

I swear there is 10 minutes break in between each games. Well hopefully they solve whatever problems they had on hand!

ACrow

Germany6583 Posts

July 16 2015 10:10 GMT

In G2 vs Navi: G2 is using a Nova comp (!) with success (!!)
How in the world is this happening?

ptbl

United States6074 Posts

July 16 2015 10:16 GMT

G2 with a Nova comp takes game one over Navi. G2 seems to have Navi's number at dreamhacks.

TheNewEra

Germany3128 Posts

July 16 2015 10:16 GMT

I'm not really interested in Hots ... I just want to the some old starcraft boys battle it out in TL vs Roccat :D

RiZu

Singapore5715 Posts

July 16 2015 10:46 GMT

EU meta is a little too anti-aggro compared to the other region for sure.

ptbl

United States6074 Posts

July 16 2015 11:14 GMT

Great group of commentators and analysts. I like their chemistry.

FueledUpAndReadyToGo

Netherlands30545 Posts

July 16 2015 11:19 GMT

#10

Hasu the enforcer

fruity.

England1711 Posts

July 16 2015 11:34 GMT

#11

CAN I GET SOME TEAMLIQUID HYPE!!

TL vs Roccat is about to kick off.

TheNewEra

Germany3128 Posts

July 16 2015 11:37 GMT

#12

Hard game for TL they are playing against a combined force of 9 times EPS Champions

Garsecg

United States129 Posts

July 16 2015 11:40 GMT

#13

I hope they change it in the future to make the draft a part of the production, it's such an integral part to strategy that you really lose out by not seeing it in real time.

EDIT: There they go!

fruity.

England1711 Posts

July 16 2015 11:40 GMT

#14

On July 16 2015 20:37 TheNewEra wrote:
Hard game for TL they are playing against a combined 9 times EPS Champion

Haha, yeah.

I think TL is going to stomp roccat sorry socke / hasu <3 you still

Larkin

United Kingdom7161 Posts

July 16 2015 11:49 GMT

#15

No Sylvanas/Valla :o

Garsecg

United States129 Posts

July 16 2015 11:49 GMT

#16

GAME 1 on Garden of Terror

Team Liquid: Triple Specialist w/ Nazeebo, Zagara, Tyrael, Malfurion, and TLV
Team Roccat: Johanna, Jaina, Falstad, Tyrande, and Uther

I really want to see how the Vikings are played here, especially since they've been gutted.

EDIT:

Lessons so far:

-- Specialist advantage in the early game, if your team knows how to make the right decisions to take advantage of it, is quite powerful. Malfurion even got the moonier talent to do extra damage against minions, even with three specialists.

-- It looked like TLV were bunched together for the early game, then split out around level 7/10 to get a further xp advantage.

-- While the TF of Roccat appears strong, for the majority of the game, TL has been able to take TF at an advantage and the damage of specialists, along with their ability to self-peel heroes away (Nazeebo's spiders or Zagara's hydrants)

FueledUpAndReadyToGo

Netherlands30545 Posts

July 16 2015 11:51 GMT

#17

Man I got flamed so hard for picking a second specialist a few days ago, now TL does it as well.