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ShiaoPi
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
TAIWAN NUMBAH WAN5956 Posts
April 26 2015 09:27 GMT
#921
hmm curious as to why they would let zai draft instead of puppey
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bumwithagun
Profile Joined January 2011
United States153 Posts
April 26 2015 09:31 GMT
#922
Yeah Zai randomly drafting is a huge red flag for me. Teams that constantly pass around drafting duty are not teams with a plan and confidence. Esp when you have puppy on your team...
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
April 26 2015 11:13 GMT
#923
Every time you marry a player, you fail to see what may be happening around him. RTZ may be good but after he joined Secret's draft range seems to have shrunk. It may be because of him or not, we won't know unless some inside info comes out.

Puppey and Kuro are beasts but I feel like when they are performing bad it could be due to internal issues, it happened before.

s4 is one of the most versatile players I have seen but I don't think his low level is tied only to himself, something else is going on. I think.

IMHO, kicking n0tail was the worst decision ever made by Secret, I would have looked somewhere else for an offlaner. Kuro was not the best safelane carry but he fitted the team pretty damn well, leaving mid for s4 and a support duo that was incredible strong.

Many people say #fngneverforget, I would also say #n0tailneverforget
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34172 Posts
April 26 2015 11:34 GMT
#924
I dont know, n0tail its great and everything, but like i said before its not like Kuro and Puppey and leagues behind n0tail

People are jumping way too fast in conclusions, this same te rolled over DAC 1st round and end up 3rd

1 tournaments that its duration its less than 1% of the year, exception to the rule

C9 got eliminated by Secret and not even finished Top4
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
Furikawari
Profile Joined February 2014
France2522 Posts
April 26 2015 11:36 GMT
#925
On April 26 2015 20:34 Faruko wrote:
I dont know, n0tail its great and everything, but like i said before its not like Kuro and Puppey and leagues behind n0tail

People are jumping way too fast in conclusions, this same te rolled over DAC 1st round and end up 3rd

1 tournaments that its duration its less than 1% of the year, exception to the rule

C9 got eliminated by Secret and not even finished Top4


The problem is the teams they lost to. And to me they really have drafts/hero pool problems right now. I mean, I've never been a fan of Kuro as a carry but at least he could play 3 different heroes in a bo3.
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34172 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 12:34:22
April 26 2015 12:22 GMT
#926
Yes, i did say a few pages that the biggest issues is how they lost and not the fact they lost (which can happen) they looked like a completely different team and all of their biggest skills werent there in this tournament

But again, i say it may be the rule or the exception ? We will have to wait
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 12:29:14
April 26 2015 12:26 GMT
#927
On April 26 2015 21:22 Faruko wrote:
Yes, i did say a few pages that the biggest issues is how they lost and not the fact they lost (which can happen) they looked like a completely different team añl of their biggest skills werent there in this tournament

But again, i say it may be the rule or the exception ? We will have to wait

I am not saying this team can't accomplish things. I am sure they can make it work.

Also, even if Kuro + Puppey are really good, I liked them a lot in NaVi, I just find Puppy+n0tail better, I like them more.

In short, independently of how good this team can play, I preferred the former team + a new offlaner than this team.

Edit: Sry, my comment before this one seemed a bit condemning, all good, Secret can stay as they are, not like it matters to me. Just wanted to unfocus a bit the RTZ hype + flame the other 4 because I feel it is a bit unfair.
govie
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
9334 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 12:42:44
April 26 2015 12:41 GMT
#928
I think if secret with notail&misery<3 stayed together, they would have won every tournament and lan they entered until ti. They were on a roll and had less ego's on the roster. The breakup just shows that at prolevel "teammindset" doesnt exsist at all. Like, when it came apparent that rtz+zai were free to pick up, secret probably acted on that without any hesitation. And ofcourse you are tempted when you can get the best mid pos 1 in the world in 6.82 and an overhyped best pos3 player in the world. And now, they have so many players not playing in their natural position, that they arent even considered overrated anymore. that i think its questionable they will be strong enough team-wise before the next big lan, or they might search within themselves and set their ego's aside for the benefit of the team, but that so hard.
The two NBA teams in states with legal weed are called the Nuggets and the Blazers...
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34172 Posts
April 26 2015 12:42 GMT
#929
I do believe that yes, Kuro might not be better than rtz, but from the looks of it he is able to play a lot of heroes, which is certanly pretty good for a carry player
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34172 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 12:48:49
April 26 2015 12:46 GMT
#930
IF this IF that for all we know misery+n0tail could have A) end in the same way or B) win the tournament

pure theory crafting that A) doesnt help B) doesnt matter

Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
govie
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
9334 Posts
April 26 2015 12:50 GMT
#931
On April 26 2015 21:46 Faruko wrote:
IF this IF that for all we know misery+n0tail could have A) end in the same way or B) win the tournament

pure theory crafting that A) doesnt help B) doesnt matter



they won 2 tournaments with notail and misery.
The two NBA teams in states with legal weed are called the Nuggets and the Blazers...
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
April 26 2015 12:55 GMT
#932
I agree with so many of you that I don't know what to post.
Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34172 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 12:56:17
April 26 2015 12:55 GMT
#933
On April 26 2015 21:50 govie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2015 21:46 Faruko wrote:
IF this IF that for all we know misery+n0tail could have A) end in the same way or B) win the tournament

pure theory crafting that A) doesnt help B) doesnt matter



they won 2 tournaments with notail and misery.

Yet they won much more money with rtz + zai (about 2 times the money)

But whatever i was talking about this tournament, not their overall performance
Ross was right // "Jesus Christ nahaz is doing shots before my eyes" (Sn0_Man, 2018)
lolnoty
Profile Joined December 2005
United States7166 Posts
April 26 2015 14:09 GMT
#934
Called it as soon as the trades happened that kuro/puppey support was a downgrade from bdn/puppey. You need someone that's sick at being poor as hell and still doing their job. It also helped puppey because where he's a good support is when he can be the wealthy support or jungler.

I still feel like the loss isn't that bad. If their worst prospect is that they can "only" take top 6 at TI well geez what a nice problem to have. They'll have a new, actually important meta to work with right after SL anyway.
"PPD is a very angry guy. He controls us." - Arteezy
zdarr
Profile Joined September 2010
France375 Posts
April 26 2015 14:48 GMT
#935
I do miss the misery/notail iteration, but it's amazing how quick people are calling for a disband. They had a bad tournament, it happends but i dont think it's that bad for them. You learn more from losses then in victories and i think these loss can help secret work on their draft flexibility (having zai drafting is one way to work on it too but i dont think it really matters as those who want to participate in the draft are free to do so). Having 6.84 coming around the way is also going to help on that draft flexibility.

I think TI secret will be fairly different from this SL secret, this 2 bo3 must have hurted their little girly feelings
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44236 Posts
April 26 2015 14:52 GMT
#936
On April 26 2015 23:09 lolnoty wrote:
Called it as soon as the trades happened that kuro/puppey support was a downgrade from bdn/puppey. You need someone that's sick at being poor as hell and still doing their job. It also helped puppey because where he's a good support is when he can be the wealthy support or jungler.

I still feel like the loss isn't that bad. If their worst prospect is that they can "only" take top 6 at TI well geez what a nice problem to have. They'll have a new, actually important meta to work with right after SL anyway.

people are overreacting just because they lost 2 b03

even EG loses to voidboys in a b03 and VG loses to some random chinese team .. hell even the ultraallstar DK loses to random teams last year


i mean if this happened to empire or asus i doubt people would be "disband or they did the worst decision ever they should have never reshuffled " or "kky is the best carry he should have not switched" people are cherry picking like for example they don't seem to remember alot of games that kky throwed so so hard and just remember the good times like those PA diving on the well
this is a quote
TomatoBisque
Profile Joined March 2013
United States6290 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 15:03:17
April 26 2015 15:01 GMT
#937
They won more money with rtz+zai because they were in bigger tournaments, that's not a fair metric to use because the potential prizepools weren't equal.

edit: I don't think they should disband but the play reminded me of Tinker when they had pajkatt and sing and it was just 5 people doing whatever with no trust for each other, or before that Na'vi from the first half of 2014. If they can't sort their shit out then something needs to change.
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Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
April 26 2015 15:07 GMT
#938
On April 26 2015 23:52 goody153 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2015 23:09 lolnoty wrote:
Called it as soon as the trades happened that kuro/puppey support was a downgrade from bdn/puppey. You need someone that's sick at being poor as hell and still doing their job. It also helped puppey because where he's a good support is when he can be the wealthy support or jungler.

I still feel like the loss isn't that bad. If their worst prospect is that they can "only" take top 6 at TI well geez what a nice problem to have. They'll have a new, actually important meta to work with right after SL anyway.

people are overreacting just because they lost 2 b03

even EG loses to voidboys in a b03 and VG loses to some random chinese team .. hell even the ultraallstar DK loses to random teams last year


i mean if this happened to empire or asus i doubt people would be "disband or they did the worst decision ever they should have never reshuffled " or "kky is the best carry he should have not switched" people are cherry picking like for example they don't seem to remember alot of games that kky throwed so so hard and just remember the good times like those PA diving on the well

Exactly, like they only remember the best days of RTZ and so on. Also, it is harder to look bad as a super farmed carry, unless you are Xboct.

People shouldjust chill and wait for the next patch.
kishill
Profile Joined April 2015
Switzerland67 Posts
April 26 2015 15:26 GMT
#939
i dont get why u argue here... i think this is the best thing what could happen... a wakeup call for Future tournaments and ti...
Racket
Profile Joined July 2013
3023 Posts
April 26 2015 15:39 GMT
#940
On April 27 2015 00:26 kishill wrote:
i dont get why u argue here... i think this is the best thing what could happen... a wakeup call for Future tournaments and ti...

It seems more like a polite conversation to me.
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