An interview from Cpt Puppey at epicenter : https://cybersport.com/post/puppey-interview-epicenter-xl-teamsecret

Quite interesting. He talks about :
- What is a good dota player,
- First iteration of Team Secret
- Na'Vi at epicenter.

Kelefei2016

Papua New Guinea504 Posts

May 22 2018 09:24 GMT

#4325

I think Secret now has 2 team. Secret A is Puppey Midone and Secret B is Fata Ace. Yapzor is juz in between them with nowhere.

I hardly see they work together, they played much like individual. Team combo is out, Midone usually die first, then Ace, then Puppey. Or Fata die sololy in somewhere. Fata never teleport to salvage Midone, thats what i see, but i may miss cos i didnt watch all of their recent games.

701

Hungary13 Posts

June 09 2018 14:23 GMT

#4326

Are games vs Vici gaming worth watching? I might watch them if there is vod available.

maze.

Germany1392 Posts

June 09 2018 19:38 GMT

#4327

On June 09 2018 23:23 701 wrote:
Are games vs Vici gaming worth watching? I might watch them if there is vod available.

Skip game1. Game 2 is worth watching due to Secrets itemization.

mustaju

Estonia4504 Posts

August 24 2018 12:31 GMT

#4328

Since the team just got their best place at TI so far, I feel the obligation to bump the thread. Maybe I can get some fellow fans to cheer for the team?

Caladbolg

2855 Posts

August 24 2018 12:41 GMT

#4329

Cheering hard for them, but Liquid is a very dangerous team to be up against. Still, they're my second favorite to win among the remaining teams. Midone represent!

spacecoke

Sweden112 Posts

August 24 2018 20:17 GMT

#4330

Chen is such a weak mid/late game pick if you loose tempo. I'd hoped Puppey would pick something like Warlock or Ogre instead >_<

mustaju

Estonia4504 Posts

August 25 2018 12:39 GMT

#4331

I'd also like a general feel from the crowd here. Post-TI is roster shuffle time. Should they stick together as 5? Who, if anyone, should be replaced?

Sr18

Netherlands1141 Posts

August 25 2018 13:55 GMT

#4332

I'd like them to stick around. I don't see an obvious weak spot in their lineup and they showed this season that they can be the very best. If they still have the drive to improve and perform, I don't see a reason for change.

DropBear

Australia4320 Posts

August 26 2018 08:33 GMT

#4333

On August 25 2018 21:39 mustaju wrote:
I'd also like a general feel from the crowd here. Post-TI is roster shuffle time. Should they stick together as 5? Who, if anyone, should be replaced?

Hey it's mustaju! Good to see you still around dude

Unless midone can be tempted home to form a SEA super stack for a new fnatic team or something, they probably won't change much right? Fata took a break last year, everyone else still has the hunger

MintberryCrunchs

Germany462 Posts

August 26 2018 09:57 GMT

#4334

As much as i am a huge fan of each of their 3 cores, i dont think they should stick together like this.
In my opinion, its not possible to enable each of them during a game and one of them usually has to take a step back and take on either a more utility role or gets somewhat sacked.
But none of this 3 players is particulary good at this style of game (maybe with the exception of midone?!?). They are 3 very farmdependend cores and they have yapzor as a more greedy support aswell.
I think secret suffers a lot because of this and i think in the end, none of the 3 cores was able to perform on his peak continuously.
For me, this holds especially true in midones case. I rate this player among the very top of the midplayers in the world and i think he had to do the most sacrifices in terms of his style of game and in my opinion, it didnt pay off both for the team and for himself.

maximrobi

Hungary347 Posts

August 26 2018 20:25 GMT

#4335

I would say they stick together until a few patches hit, see how they do and maybe shuffle next year? With the 2 week patches the meta is changing so quickly you never know if it will enable or drawback your hero pool or playstyle. I really like Yapzor and Ace for the 10th cheese picks, but Fata ruled the solo offlane many times (was able to be among the most farmed heroes in many lost matches). MidOne was decent, but underperformed in their last series against Liquid (he should watch the replay of Topson's MK game IMO - which was a really hard/terrible MK game, but he still managed to win it and make huge plays)

uthgard

2098 Posts

September 12 2018 14:03 GMT

#4336

sunbhie interview
https://www.esportsheaven.com/features/sunbhie/

he brought some interesting point like the drastic reduction in total prize money compared to last season DPC etc

mustaju

Estonia4504 Posts

September 21 2018 18:54 GMT

#4337

Fellow fans. First impressions of the new roster? I still feel conflicted, but it does show promise at the very least.

Kelefei2016

Papua New Guinea504 Posts

September 23 2018 10:33 GMT

#4338

I think they are seeing how Nisha works for the team, especially when Midone is under pressure. Duo cores play really need another carry who can carry the team when the mid carry was under huge pressure. Typical example is LGD, when Somnus is under pressure, Ame can carry the team, the lost of LGD in TI grand final partly due to their killing 8 games in a day

Kelefei2016

Papua New Guinea504 Posts

October 08 2018 05:35 GMT

#4339

Congraz Secret, Nisha is showing promising performance. Hope they can improve more.

joe_ringmaster

Austria44 Posts

October 08 2018 09:07 GMT

#4340

Congratulation to Team Secret.

It was a bit stange final - in every game the winning team had a gold lead after 10 min and the other one was not able to regain at any moment. No comeback for any side this time.

But Secret did a great job, Nisha as Kelefei said, with good performance, Puppy on Axe quite funny, zai weaver was new to me