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DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
May 29 2017 06:39 GMT
#261
Fata is a beast. Think he is the best player after G that has not won much trophies.
the bear jew
Profile Joined August 2014
United States3674 Posts
May 29 2017 12:16 GMT
#262
On May 29 2017 15:39 DucK- wrote:
Fata is a beast. Think he is the best player after G that has not won much trophies.


Well I think they have a good shot of winning some titles. The summit should be a good opportunity for them. At this point based on their play, I'd say they are the co-favorite with VP
DeMoN pulled off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
NInoff
Profile Joined August 2011
Bulgaria1105 Posts
May 30 2017 08:19 GMT
#263
Fata is very very stable mid. He will never get crushed. But he will never shine. His playstyle is different. Being very good and stable is not enough these days. You need a mircale or a sumail or a similar type of high skill aggressive player to be able to win a lot. I really like NPs lineup but i can't see them being favorites. Good performance on the last LAN, but that was just a spike and advantage against teams that havn't really figured out the patch yet.
The summit will be different - people will get used to the changes and now the best teams will really shine.
ChickenDieAlive
Profile Joined September 2015
699 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-30 09:12:39
May 30 2017 09:09 GMT
#264
On May 30 2017 17:19 NInoff wrote:
Fata is very very stable mid. He will never get crushed. But he will never shine. His playstyle is different. Being very good and stable is not enough these days. You need a mircale or a sumail or a similar type of high skill aggressive player to be able to win a lot. I really like NPs lineup but i can't see them being favorites. Good performance on the last LAN, but that was just a spike and advantage against teams that havn't really figured out the patch yet.
The summit will be different - people will get used to the changes and now the best teams will really shine.


Well, I mean Liquid and TNC were suddenly best teams after SL... Kappa.

EE is the aggressive player in NP. Fata balances him out.

Also, being very good and stable won Fear a TI.
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-30 09:16:52
May 30 2017 09:10 GMT
#265
I'm not really seeing this "he will never shine". He doesn't have a super flashy Invoker and his hero pool at least in the past was a bit different (for example he didn't previously play much Lina or Storm when it was popular but instead has his own niche picks that others didn't use) but other than that I don't see him as somehow fundamentally inferior to anyone (unless Sumail proceeds to play like he did at Manila I guess). Depends a lot on what the team needs whether Fata or someone else is the best choice. Also imo EE's way of playing (good or bad) allows for the mid player to take a lot of space and shine. He often postures so aggressively that it draws the other team to react and show heroes either through ganks or defending buildings, which allows the mid to farm in peace or go for pickoffs or other team moves. It was the same with w33, Fata in c9 and SingSing. In fact in c9 days it was specifically Fata imo that got to shine and it'll be that way again for NP if they do even remotely well.

On May 30 2017 18:09 ChickenDieAlive wrote:
Also, being very good and stable won Fear a TI.


To be fair to his point Fear had Sumail mid and EE obviously isn't a similar sort of player. But I think categorizing Fata as somehow not aggressive, not flashy is a mistake. It depends on the team and in c9/NP he is the one who can take the role of a mobile hero who utilizes gank opportunities around the map or comes in to fights to clean up and take the glory.
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44221 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-30 09:37:44
May 30 2017 09:33 GMT
#266
On May 30 2017 17:19 NInoff wrote:
Fata is very very stable mid. He will never get crushed. But he will never shine. His playstyle is different. Being very good and stable is not enough these days. You need a mircale or a sumail or a similar type of high skill aggressive player to be able to win a lot. I really like NPs lineup but i can't see them being favorites. Good performance on the last LAN, but that was just a spike and advantage against teams that havn't really figured out the patch yet.
The summit will be different - people will get used to the changes and now the best teams will really shine.

This "hyper aggressive" mid requirement isn't really true all the time. There's plenty of team who did well in TI or majors without them . You just have to ahead of the pack in meta and play with insane synergy.

(sample of this CDEC TI5, Wings , TI4 VG, TL last year , VG post-TI4 era, EG post-TI4 with fear mid)


And having a hyperaggressive high skilled doesn't necessarily mean you're automatically a good team (big example is Secret this year)
this is a quote
FuzzyJAM
Profile Joined July 2010
Scotland9300 Posts
May 30 2017 09:47 GMT
#267
Lol @ Fata not shining.

No idea what games you've been watching.
Did you ever say Yes to a single joy?
goody153
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
44221 Posts
May 30 2017 10:49 GMT
#268
On May 30 2017 18:47 FuzzyJAM wrote:
Lol @ Fata not shining.

No idea what games you've been watching.

I think he means the hyperfarming hyperagressive 1 position mid players like miracle/suma1l/Ana/sccc
this is a quote
spudde123
Profile Joined February 2012
4814 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-30 12:41:05
May 30 2017 11:22 GMT
#269
On May 30 2017 19:49 goody153 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2017 18:47 FuzzyJAM wrote:
Lol @ Fata not shining.

No idea what games you've been watching.

I think he means the hyperfarming hyperagressive 1 position mid players like miracle/suma1l/Ana/sccc


Fata is also regularly pos 1 for NP. I don't think the difference in playstyle is as drastic as some people claim. At some point in the past Fata has played more heroes like DK, DP, Razor or Viper (heroes that more or less stand there and ask to be initiated on rather than heroes that jump around and clean up) or utility heroes like Puck, Brew, Beastmaster where the narrative probably comes from. But that is by no means the only thing he has done and it isn't really what he has played on NP.
FuzzyJAM
Profile Joined July 2010
Scotland9300 Posts
May 30 2017 12:15 GMT
#270
His most stand out recent performances have been on QoP. Pretty sure she and Ember are his most played heroes currently. Don't see how these aren't aggressive flashy heroes.

Yeah, he's played a bit of Bristle and Puck, but there's TA and Lina too.
Did you ever say Yes to a single joy?
NInoff
Profile Joined August 2011
Bulgaria1105 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-30 13:25:06
May 30 2017 13:23 GMT
#271
On May 30 2017 19:49 goody153 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2017 18:47 FuzzyJAM wrote:
Lol @ Fata not shining.

No idea what games you've been watching.

I think he means the hyperfarming hyperagressive 1 position mid players like miracle/suma1l/Ana/sccc

That is correct.

The thing is i like & follow Fata since his Mousesports days in 2012-13. He was always an awesome guy very stable laner, with somewhat different hero pool. For example he was owning with puck on C9 couple of years back, while no one else was picking it, he also showed how fast Razor can farm when used properly etc.

Then the tanky strat (razor, dk, dp, viper etc.)during his Liquid days owned for a couple of months. But when people figured them out - the success dissapeared.

My point is - FATA is a type of guy that will never lose you the game. But he will never win it with individual plays. Miracle/ana/SCCC/Sumail are the other way around - they will win it most of the time, but sometimes they can lose it.

Looking at the Lan results post TI for example shows us that flashy mid is the way to go. Maybe that will change - time will tell.
Piledriver
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1697 Posts
May 30 2017 16:18 GMT
#272
Fata is also a beast on Zeus and Beastmaster. I hope these heroes become relevant again (MSS BM is also quite good).
Envy fan since NTH.
Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
May 30 2017 17:05 GMT
#273
If NP pick BM, it's most likely as a 4 position, then as a 3 position. VERY unlikely that FATA would play it.
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Xafnia
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada874 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-30 18:10:10
May 30 2017 18:08 GMT
#274
Pretty much every single team has a 'flashy' mid. I can be easily argued most of them are doing worse than NP.
That's not even mentioning that if NP had won at Manilla, everyone would be gushing about how fucking incredible and unstoppable Fata is. There's just such a huge confirmation bias going on there, it's silly honestly.

Reminds me of how everyone always said Miracle was the best player ever, carried OG and notail was shit. Of course now it's 'ana can't win mid' and OG wins because notail is the ultimate space-making carry that let's him recover.
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
May 31 2017 03:05 GMT
#275
On May 30 2017 22:23 NInoff wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 30 2017 19:49 goody153 wrote:
On May 30 2017 18:47 FuzzyJAM wrote:
Lol @ Fata not shining.

No idea what games you've been watching.

I think he means the hyperfarming hyperagressive 1 position mid players like miracle/suma1l/Ana/sccc

That is correct.

The thing is i like & follow Fata since his Mousesports days in 2012-13. He was always an awesome guy very stable laner, with somewhat different hero pool. For example he was owning with puck on C9 couple of years back, while no one else was picking it, he also showed how fast Razor can farm when used properly etc.

Then the tanky strat (razor, dk, dp, viper etc.)during his Liquid days owned for a couple of months. But when people figured them out - the success dissapeared.

My point is - FATA is a type of guy that will never lose you the game. But he will never win it with individual plays. Miracle/ana/SCCC/Sumail are the other way around - they will win it most of the time, but sometimes they can lose it.

Looking at the Lan results post TI for example shows us that flashy mid is the way to go. Maybe that will change - time will tell.


Disagree. Having watched fata since mouz, my opinion of him is a very good laner, farmer and playmaker, who has often been shackled by weak drafts/teammates. There's only so much you can do when you have clowns, pajkatt or synd in your team.
AbareKiller
Profile Joined May 2014
456 Posts
May 31 2017 03:27 GMT
#276
Back in C9 EE was the unknown factor that can drag back a game with a second item Divine AM (only to lose it later without BB after they've brought back the game to 0), while FATA was the stable backbone of the team. Now in NP it seems like he's the flashy player while EE plays the Bristleback/etc...
zdarr
Profile Joined September 2010
France375 Posts
May 31 2017 04:17 GMT
#277
putting EE on hero you can't feed on (bristle/medusa/viper) seems a good balance to his questionnable play. In the manilla masters, fata and MSS were delivering on the playmaking part and i think it's a good team balance they found there
babysimba
Profile Joined November 2010
10466 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-31 07:31:14
May 31 2017 07:28 GMT
#278
How is the best tempo mid beside Sumail getting flamed? Do you even dota?

His only weakness is he has history of choking during high pressure tournament, unlike Sumail who is a coldblooded monster. But I'm pretty sure you are flaming his skills not mentality.
zdarr
Profile Joined September 2010
France375 Posts
May 31 2017 17:11 GMT
#279
On May 31 2017 16:28 babysimba wrote:
How is the best tempo mid beside Sumail getting flamed? Do you even dota?

His only weakness is he has history of choking during high pressure tournament, unlike Sumail who is a coldblooded monster. But I'm pretty sure you are flaming his skills not mentality.


No one is flaming fata, do you even read?
Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-31 20:23:03
May 31 2017 17:36 GMT
#280
FATA is playing flashy as fuck these days tbh

On May 30 2017 17:19 NInoff wrote:
Fata is very very stable mid. He will never get crushed. But he will never shine. His playstyle is different. Being very good and stable is not enough these days. You need a mircale or a sumail or a similar type of high skill aggressive player to be able to win a lot. I really like NPs lineup but i can't see them being favorites. Good performance on the last LAN, but that was just a spike and advantage against teams that havn't really figured out the patch yet.
The summit will be different - people will get used to the changes and now the best teams will really shine.


How can you be sure it's just a spike? Have you already figured the patch out? This patch is very open and teams are playing different heroes. If you think DotA scene is that predictable you haven't been paying attention.
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