MVP Heen AMA - Page 10

On June 01 2015 16:22 ilovecats wrote:
Dear Heeeeeneeeeeeeeeeeen,

I'm waking up from a long nap just to send you this warm greeting from a rainy town in Texas. Even though I suspect most "boys" on this forum these days don't really have a clue who I am (or was), those who do and were part of our story should unanimously agree that I'm your #1 fan in the world, regardless if proven by degrees of sincerity, measured in number of repeating e's when screaming your name, or considered from the perspective of verifiable TL DotA history.

The other day out of pure boredom and stress from work, I treated myself with some twitch.tv entertainment after a long absence from anything related to gaming. When I saw the familiar name Heen show up on screen, my eyes lit up and my mouth watered. I was fully expecting to see some steaming hot mid SF action, but instead you played some ward ***** Rhasta in a badly losing game that was almost too cruel to watch. A subsequent Google search led me to this thread. I have to admit that I don't know much about your competitive DotA 2 career, though I do know there must be a good reason you're playing support on your competitive team. But boy don't we all miss the good old days of bnet pubs where you taught us noobs how the game worked. Then came the TL IH era where you, under the unforgiving handicap of latency generated by distance and yesterday's technology, had to miraculously and often single-handily carry your side of the team against a fiercely determined Testie. How can we forget your hax Drow Ranger who always had more gold than most of us could understand, or the the deadly Viper, the lightening fast Razor, the team wiping OD... By the way, you probably don't even remember this, once you invited me to play on a Korean server to witness your "host pudge" where you landed hooks after hooks in a much faster paced game than what I was used to, and it was so overwhelming that I had to GG quit after just a couple of games citing "lag" reasons. Hehe, all these must have been something close to a decade ago. How time really flies!

You said you're pretty "washed up" after playing DotA for so long. Well, eight years ago we were all enthusiastically watching the replays of Merlini and SK.Loda. Imagine if you were to tell me that one of them would come play with us, I probably would (pretend to) have died of the then undiscovered disease of "Kreygasm". Now when I take a look at the guys today, one has become a caster and the other, while fairly accomplished with a TI title and all, still seems to get beaten up on a regular basis by the youngsters. People have to eventually grow up,grow stale and grow old. What you probably don't realize is how lucky you're to be in the 0.01% of this game, even if it's "just a game", for life has always taught me that it's really difficult to be the elite of anything in this competitive world.

You said you consider yourself to be very knowledgeable of the game, and that I do not doubt the slightest. What you didn't say, of course, is that you're such a nice and humble person with excellent manners and a truly genuine attitude that is absolutely a gem in this infamous community filled with ego, rudeness, immaturity and arrogance. I'm pretty sure everyone around you shares my view, and just to set the records straight here, for all the childish and exaggerated fanboy chants I had ever thrown at you in my younger years, my deep respect for your skills and your personally as well as my appreciation for all your helpful tips and advice were 100% sincere and honest.

I read that you were the pioneer of professional Korean DotA, and certainly that doesn't surprise me the least, though it surely sounds like a title that would put some weight on your shoulder, which in turn may inevitably lead to setbacks and frustrations at times. But I believe you can handle them and in the end come up with the right decisions at the right times. I don't know how life has been for you, or whether you have some other plans for yourself in the future. But I do want you to know that no matter what happens, an old friend here wholeheartedly wishes you the best in each and everything you do.

May this post bring back some of the fond memories and give you a smile on your face plus some warm feelings in your heart. With that I shall go back to my nap.


Sincerey yours,
"cats"

On June 01 2015 16:27 TheEmulator wrote:
Nice to see you going to TI5 Heen. How excited are you and what do you think your chances are?

On June 01 2015 17:15 chiflutz wrote:
Oh cats, you forgot his 42-0 THD.

Heen's currently being punished with his Pugna at 0-6-3 in 22 mins, but JerAx's max poison SD build surprised Phoenix and MP came back from very low Bloodstone charges to reach 17 now. Blink Leshrac ftw !

ZOMG GO HOT6 !

On June 01 2015 21:12 plasmidghost wrote:
How do you communicate with JerAx as a team? I know you're fluent in English, does he speak English and you translate for him, does he do his own thing, does he speak in Finnish and hope you get the general idea of what he means?

On June 03 2015 02:27 goody153 wrote:
grats for the win heen .. are you guys attending any tournament pre-TI5 ?

also i'm curious how is jerax as a teammate ?

On June 03 2015 02:38 Heen wrote:

Probably no tournaments pre-TI5. Since we're one of the biggest underdogs in the tournament, it's probably wiser to keep our development from now until the main event concealed.

Jerax doesn't buy wards. Trashtalks opponents when he feeds. Goes bloodstone first on witch doctor.
Just kidding.
He's easy to work with. He has (maybe had?) a very different view about the game from me so we initially struggled a lot. He's farm heavy and aggressive whereas I'm more selfless and counterplay focused. We've managed to align our interests over time and made great improvements in synergy as a support duo.

On June 03 2015 02:52 goody153 wrote:

Interesting . Last follow up question.

Do you guys also hang out outside the game like outside like go karaoke or eat outside or generally just chill out ?

On June 03 2015 03:21 ahswtini wrote:
save ur wc3 rpgs for until after u win ti5

On June 03 2015 02:13 Heen wrote:
Slightly unrelated but I've noticed that people find our drafts super clowny and non-standard at times. A hero is only as good as you believe it is to be. 99% of the people in DotA think heroes are good or bad depending on what the top top tier teams are drafting anyways. I don't want to believe anything other than my(our) first hand experience. Why not pick gyrocopter? Because I think it's a trash hero. We've never lost to a gyrocopter in a scrim and have no reason to believe it's good. Maybe SEA is just bad at the hero. I used to think Tidehunter was a trash hero but then we played iceiceice's Tidehunter and changed our mind completely. There was a reason he was 19-2 at the hero in officials. But my point is your ideas about the game have to be first-hand or it's not genuine. It's just a copycat mentality.