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Kimbah
Profile Joined January 2012
Australia7 Posts
September 12 2014 15:46 GMT
#201
On September 12 2014 21:19 braincandy wrote:
PPD insights




Is that 'state of the game' for dota2? What's the best podcast/show for dota2?
Lane changin chain swangin
Halepeanyo
Profile Joined September 2012
United States53 Posts
October 10 2014 03:05 GMT
#202
EG v Alliance ESL quarterfinals was one of the best series of Dota I've ever watched.
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
October 10 2014 06:12 GMT
#203
I really really like the way eg drafts. They are probably the only team I respect in terms of drafting. Their approach is very different from every other team. We all know how rtz is the true #1. Then they often have tempo controllers for fear. But their drafts are so flexible that they can switch things up if necessary. The rtz pugna games are evidence of this. More importantly, they sort of ignore the meta and just draft to their strengths. You see Chinese teams or weaker western teams copy the trends with FP void etc that really isn't even worth the FP.

Arguably though alliance 2013 was the strongest in terms of drafting because there was simply little way of outdrafting. Then you ban wisp or prophet and they get bat. Or they will secure a naix bomb combo. They almost will always get what they want.
saddaromma
Profile Joined April 2013
1129 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-10 09:31:57
October 10 2014 09:27 GMT
#204
ppd drafts
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22212 Posts
October 10 2014 09:58 GMT
#205
Their series vs Alliance was sick, should've been ti4 finals
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
TheSmokeyy90
Profile Joined February 2012
United States108 Posts
October 10 2014 12:18 GMT
#206
That game 1 last night had me literally on the edge of my seat. Great series, shame these teams had to play each other so early on!
"Just sitting, waiting, wishing..."
the bear jew
Profile Joined August 2014
United States3674 Posts
October 11 2014 03:45 GMT
#207
Good try by EG, was a great series. Maybe they should of went for more carry to help SF. It seemed they wanted to do aggressive pushing but that wasn't possible vs timber and then they didn't have enough damage to kill them late. That and PPD couldn't afford to die as the omni.
DeMoN pulled off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
Furikawari
Profile Joined February 2014
France2522 Posts
October 11 2014 07:43 GMT
#208
On October 11 2014 12:45 the bear jew wrote:
Good try by EG, was a great series. Maybe they should of went for more carry to help SF. It seemed they wanted to do aggressive pushing but that wasn't possible vs timber and then they didn't have enough damage to kill them late. That and PPD couldn't afford to die as the omni.

YEah, PPD Cost them the game, really, getting caught 2 times offguard, pretty bad. This and the ravage. I dont even blame Fear here, it looks like VG were so aware and always spread to avoid getting caught. Pretty sick games overall.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17700 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-11 08:24:43
October 11 2014 08:24 GMT
#209
On October 11 2014 16:43 Furikawari wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2014 12:45 the bear jew wrote:
Good try by EG, was a great series. Maybe they should of went for more carry to help SF. It seemed they wanted to do aggressive pushing but that wasn't possible vs timber and then they didn't have enough damage to kill them late. That and PPD couldn't afford to die as the omni.

YEah, PPD Cost them the game, really, getting caught 2 times offguard, pretty bad. This and the ravage. I dont even blame Fear here, it looks like VG were so aware and always spread to avoid getting caught. Pretty sick games overall.


I think that Omni pick was fine. Nature's Prophet didn't really bring much to the team though. If they've gotten Enigma or something else for Zai I think it would be better. Or if Zai built more right-click on the NP instead of euls + sheep. Control is nice but in the end they simply lacked damage and it was nigh impossible to control VG with their insane mobility.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Furikawari
Profile Joined February 2014
France2522 Posts
October 11 2014 08:56 GMT
#210
On October 11 2014 17:24 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2014 16:43 Furikawari wrote:
On October 11 2014 12:45 the bear jew wrote:
Good try by EG, was a great series. Maybe they should of went for more carry to help SF. It seemed they wanted to do aggressive pushing but that wasn't possible vs timber and then they didn't have enough damage to kill them late. That and PPD couldn't afford to die as the omni.

YEah, PPD Cost them the game, really, getting caught 2 times offguard, pretty bad. This and the ravage. I dont even blame Fear here, it looks like VG were so aware and always spread to avoid getting caught. Pretty sick games overall.


I think that Omni pick was fine. Nature's Prophet didn't really bring much to the team though. If they've gotten Enigma or something else for Zai I think it would be better. Or if Zai built more right-click on the NP instead of euls + sheep. Control is nice but in the end they simply lacked damage and it was nigh impossible to control VG with their insane mobility.

The problem is not the pick ,the problem is getting caught offguard 2 times in the last 5 mins. You have a teamfight hero that is dead before the teamfight even starts.
the bear jew
Profile Joined August 2014
United States3674 Posts
October 12 2014 00:46 GMT
#211
I think they should try some different strats, I like the win team fight, take objective line ups, but Vici was ready for that game 3.

Also, Fear Brewmaster is pretty damn sick. That cyclone on alchemist and then dropping him for the self stun was ridiculously amazing play.
DeMoN pulled off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
TanGeng
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sanya12364 Posts
October 12 2014 04:22 GMT
#212
Meh, if you have a game drag out that long, you're going to get caught out of position.

EG had no DPS with SF getting tank and only one damage item. Everyone else went full utility.

The game was already over by the time PPD was caught out twice, and the reason PPD was such an easy target is because he's slow Omni and had to follow the cores around to provide protection. EG had to win earlier.
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SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-12 06:14:23
October 12 2014 06:13 GMT
#213
On October 11 2014 17:56 Furikawari wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 11 2014 17:24 Manit0u wrote:
On October 11 2014 16:43 Furikawari wrote:
On October 11 2014 12:45 the bear jew wrote:
Good try by EG, was a great series. Maybe they should of went for more carry to help SF. It seemed they wanted to do aggressive pushing but that wasn't possible vs timber and then they didn't have enough damage to kill them late. That and PPD couldn't afford to die as the omni.

YEah, PPD Cost them the game, really, getting caught 2 times offguard, pretty bad. This and the ravage. I dont even blame Fear here, it looks like VG were so aware and always spread to avoid getting caught. Pretty sick games overall.


I think that Omni pick was fine. Nature's Prophet didn't really bring much to the team though. If they've gotten Enigma or something else for Zai I think it would be better. Or if Zai built more right-click on the NP instead of euls + sheep. Control is nice but in the end they simply lacked damage and it was nigh impossible to control VG with their insane mobility.

The problem is not the pick ,the problem is getting caught offguard 2 times in the last 5 mins. You have a teamfight hero that is dead before the teamfight even starts.

their team didn't have sufficient lockdown/catch/push to force teamfights, vg were going to just completely dodge any semblance of a 5v5 via splitting until a catch happened. if they said "fuck it lets all push a lane and force them to defend," black invoker probably would've outraced them because he gets to start at the t3 and they have to push a lane all the way down, since vg was better at splitting and keeping the lanes on eg's side. it was like playing against a naga in a way, very hard to actually force a fight unless vg committed to something, and they weren't going to do anything risky since they were going for the slow smothering kill.
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DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
October 12 2014 08:50 GMT
#214
I just saw game 3. I think game was out of reach for eg even if PPD didn't get caught. They needed way more farm/damage on Zai, but it was unlikely to arrive anytime soon. Eg missed their window to exert influence. I think zai or thd should have been the mek carrier, and rtz just focused on being the hard hitting right click hero. You cannot exactly blame PPD for his deaths except maybe the second one, but he was staying close to thd, who was positioned questionably far.

Basically at the late stage of the game, eg just didn't have any burst damage at all, while vici had 2 gigantic tanks.
the bear jew
Profile Joined August 2014
United States3674 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-12 19:40:31
October 12 2014 19:39 GMT
#215
True at that point it was pretty grim but that was the final nail of the coffin.

I think the turning point was the rosh fight. PPD repeled zai instead of arteezy. If arteezy was repelled fight would of probably went EG's way and the whole game would of been different. Instead arteezy dies, and game starts heading south.

I can't blame him too much, he had a split second to react before the deafening blast/meteor combo happened, might of been a misclick, or a heat of the moment misplay but it started their inability to carry through with their game plan.
DeMoN pulled off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
Chewbacca.
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3634 Posts
October 12 2014 19:54 GMT
#216
The problem was they only had 1 hero for DPS - SF, and everyone else built around being able to support the SF as he kills everything.

Then Arteezy builds straight into a meka and it was a waste of 2300g because the way the game played out he was never involved in early game fights. If that 2300g had gone to building damage items or something then he probably would of been able to scale into the late game better and actually been able to kill things. Or if once that meka was complete they put it to use by 5 manning a little to get down towers, but instead they just let it do nothing.
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
October 12 2014 21:46 GMT
#217
On October 13 2014 04:54 Chewbacca. wrote:
The problem was they only had 1 hero for DPS - SF, and everyone else built around being able to support the SF as he kills everything.

Then Arteezy builds straight into a meka and it was a waste of 2300g because the way the game played out he was never involved in early game fights. If that 2300g had gone to building damage items or something then he probably would of been able to scale into the late game better and actually been able to kill things. Or if once that meka was complete they put it to use by 5 manning a little to get down towers, but instead they just let it do nothing.


Yep. Plus with the push potential that they had, it wasn't difficult to get Mek on the other heroes.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17700 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-13 05:00:58
October 13 2014 04:57 GMT
#218
Please, people... Can you stop writing "would of" and "should of"? It literally hurts my eyes to see that...
Don't they teach English in the US any more?

And on topic of EG vs VG final game:

RTZ's build was fine. Omni pick was fine. NP pick was a bit out of place and didn't synergize well with the team, didn't have enough impact. Zai built into control instead of damage. That's all there is to it really.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Kirsed
Profile Joined May 2013
9380 Posts
October 14 2014 23:35 GMT
#219
PPD posted a post ESL blog.

rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-10-15 01:55:01
October 15 2014 01:54 GMT
#220
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