On August 29 2018 21:16 nanaoei wrote:Show nested quote +On August 27 2018 00:28 Invictus wrote:
poor fy boy lost his chance at ti8 because lgd just played cockily/with no direction
that turnaround rosh fight in g5 was so bad, it felt like lgd was expecting og to give them a free rosh and ended up being half commital and not wanting to back. the lack of a proper shotcaller screwed them up badly
i agree the fight was bad, but it didn't need to happen in the first place. watching it live, there were some key moves that led into an obvious roshan call. i started counting from there how long it would take LGD to commit to it and the answer is, at least 5 seconds which would be more than enough time for them to secure that rosh kill for free.
ever since the upper bracket game 3,
to the grand finals morphling game (OG down 2 rax and pressured into base) where ame's team is ready to back out except he waveforms in,
they should have won.
i counted at least 10 times where the game just ends in their favor with the vision that they had, with all the tools they had, and with how they had been playing up until that moment. if they had that many chances to close out a game comfortably, you can imagine that the game is never supposed to get to the state that OG can even contest, break even, and then comfortably overtake fights with their lategame wisp+hero combinations
throughout the tournament and before this TI, i hated this ame player with a passion.
you gave him any heroes with responsibility, like a drow or a void, and he makes bad decisions.
missing gust when his teammate is getting gripped, chrono on your team, or whiffing on a key target when it is made easy for him. you name it. that is why i liked it when they gave him lifestealer, or now TB.
even that wasn't enough. i remember in one occasion maybe game 4 or game 3 in the previous upper bracket meeting where they are about to end game in front of top t3 and mid t3. his team finds key heroes, they are fully stocked with refresher in tow.
him and his teammates struggled against a spectre but they had yet another chance to close out.
ame puts himself into a position where he is forced to use refresher right as his teammates cave on the other team.
what does he decide to do? "oh man i'm down an item, i'm going to kite back while i move one in from backpack."
so he runs away from the rest of his team with no awareness of what's going on and instead of helping on a hexed target on a key hero, he spends 6 seconds running away, or 12 seconds total just getting back to where he was, and they barely miss the kill and the game as his teammates all get wiped from what was the proper play.
it was soul crushing to watch because 4 players are playing their hearts out, and one does not look like his head is in the right place.
in another crucial game where they are highly ahead, a fight breaks out that lasts 20seconds. where is ame? off alone does not even try to show up to cast a gust that would clearly change everything. it is a low commital TP with very low chance of him losing his life and even if his TP was spent bottom, it was done at the same time a fight breaks out. this is all not said in hindsight, it's happening before your very eyes and it makes you fucking wonder what is going through this guy's head.
and it goes to show you if nothing else, that pressure is a real thing.
if ame could claim he was playing at 100%, i'd have nothing to say, but this is me giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was and very well could have been (had the result been different) a main player on the best team at the tournament.
all these key mistakes from LGD made the games exciting. they always played from ahead and OG always clawed back in with great play.
LGD however should be extremely disappointed deep down. those were nearly unloseable conditions in a regular game.
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