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On May 31 2014 13:53 DucK- wrote: Was all the commontions of Hao bedding Mu's girl back then in ti2 or ti3 (can't remember which) which led to internal conflicts in tongfu just a rumour? it was during ti2 and as far as i know it was just a rumour. i mena they continued playing together until ti3 was over
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On May 31 2014 13:53 DucK- wrote: Was all the commontions of Hao bedding Mu's girl back then in ti2 or ti3 (can't remember which) which led to internal conflicts in tongfu just a rumour? they are the biggest bromance in china for over a year now sharing each others girls, that's the dream, right?
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Lin slammin' s4.
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First picked Hao in my fantasy draft, expecting some big points from this guy :D
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opterown
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should have gotten some pretty sweet points with CDEC Cup lol
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Match today vs HGT, gogo Newbee! :-)
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Is it just me or is Xiao8 playing better individually in NB as opposed to his time in LGD? I mean, respectively comparing when they win and when they lose. Like in the semis vs iG @ WPC, his NP play was sublime (and something I expected more out of, say, iceiceice or YYF).
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yeah i think xiao8 is playing a brilliant offlane, i'm surprised cos he wasn't all that impressive as a mid (at least mechanically)
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On June 05 2014 13:06 opterown wrote: yeah i think xiao8 is playing a brilliant offlane, i'm surprised cos he wasn't all that impressive as a mid (at least mechanically)
He played the godliest Beastmaster though. His mid hero pool was always rather different from the standard (hence why Yao often went mid on certain FOTM heroes like Magnus).
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opterown
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newbee back in the finals of V Games Tournament after iG forfeited the rest of their BO3 series from them! NewBee kinda smacked them around in game 1 (cuojoe, their manager, stood in for luo) and i'm not entirely sure what happened but yeah iG forfeited the rest hrmm.
still got CDEC cup, WVW and ECL to go for now!
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On June 05 2014 13:06 opterown wrote: yeah i think xiao8 is playing a brilliant offlane, i'm surprised cos he wasn't all that impressive as a mid (at least mechanically) I don't think it has to do with him playing better, but largely to do with how playstyles have changed and how offlane in the current game better suits his strengths as a player.
Xiao8's a mediocre 1v1 solo player, but his sense for the tempo of the game, and where pressure needs to be applied to develop the game for his team are his strengths. In a version where the mid hero is expected to be the tempo-carrying hero and the offlaner a farmer (6.76-6.78 being examples of this) Xiao8 had a hard time really finding his stride because in mid he didn't really have the fundamentals to match other top tier mid players, but in the offlane playing a farm-oriented hero didn't suit his strengths (this is why in their various role changes, LGD experimented several times with putting Xiao8 on a 4th position ganking support role in that period).
6.80 and 6.81 conversely have developed into versions where mid is centered around more farm-oriented core mid heroes (Tinker, Invoker, Naga, DK, etc.) and where the main driving force for the midgame tempo is a gank/fight oriented offlaner (Bat, Centaur, the emergence of offlane Nyx and Puck, etc.). This type of play simply suits Xiao8 better, because his 1v1 solo ability is largely not brought into play, but the game still allows Newbee to take advantage of his sense of gameflow.
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Newbee is now ranking~ World no.1 both in GG.net & JD
Congrats NB!
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opterown
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i missed the match against tongfu, did they look ok there?
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vs Tongfu match, banana's doom was quite poor died 7 times,
Both Hao-bb & xiao8-puck very well played, 0 death.. signature heroes
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newbee about to face VG in ECL!
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