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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 19:02:32
May 10 2016 19:01 GMT
#1921
I am pretty sure the BKB just gets baited out and kited. He was nearly immortal that in most fights and was half an attack from getting that egg.

On May 11 2016 04:00 Nyan wrote:
it doesn't matter how good a team was when a patch changes the game.


At this point, adapting to the patch is part of dota.
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Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 19:03:05
May 10 2016 19:02 GMT
#1922
On May 11 2016 04:01 Plansix wrote:
I am pretty sure the BKB just gets baited out and kited. He was nearly immortal that in most fights and was half an attack from getting that egg.



Yeah the only time he died in fights was when he was isolated AND even then both of his late game deaths were from Supernova & Sun Ray combos.
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
May 10 2016 19:06 GMT
#1923
And sure BKB stops that, but he can’t just wait around for fire bird to drop the egg. The O-Core made him so tank and allowed him to have chemical rage up all the time to heal through the spells.
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TanGeng
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sanya12364 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 19:23:26
May 10 2016 19:22 GMT
#1924
Alchemist is really raid boss.
And Shivas is very good compared most item options.

Mostly EG got completely pulled out of formation and killed in a big line because Sumail chased after the naga.
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Andre
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Slovenia3523 Posts
May 10 2016 19:28 GMT
#1925
On May 11 2016 03:53 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
What's more useful for a fights against Lionvoker+Phoenix+Naga Radiance burn

Shivas+Octarine or a fucking BKB+Basher? heck, even mjornir would be better.

did you ever even play alch? you need armor. you need octa. especially vs naga+weaver+invoker.

the only thing that's partially debatable is the aghs choice, and giving it to disruptor doesnt automatically win them the fights/game.
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Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 19:37:59
May 10 2016 19:31 GMT
#1926
On May 11 2016 04:28 Andre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2016 03:53 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
What's more useful for a fights against Lionvoker+Phoenix+Naga Radiance burn

Shivas+Octarine or a fucking BKB+Basher? heck, even mjornir would be better.

did you ever even play alch? you need armor. you need octa. especially vs naga+weaver+invoker.

the only thing that's partially debatable is the aghs choice, and giving it to disruptor doesnt automatically win them the fights/game.


It's also worth pointing out there's only 2 items worth muting with Disruptor Agh's: Weaver's BKB and Lion's Force Staff.

You can't underestimate the extra damage output for sure or the ability to catch weaver, but it's not like they were against a team with 2-3 BKB cores. The item muting property would really only be there to try and catch out Hao and that's it.
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ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 19:58:43
May 10 2016 19:43 GMT
#1927
On May 11 2016 04:28 Andre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2016 03:53 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
What's more useful for a fights against Lionvoker+Phoenix+Naga Radiance burn

Shivas+Octarine or a fucking BKB+Basher? heck, even mjornir would be better.

did you ever even play alch? you need armor. you need octa. especially vs naga+weaver+invoker.

the only thing that's partially debatable is the aghs choice, and giving it to disruptor doesnt automatically win them the fights/game.

Shivas+Oct is 11k. 30+k nw close to zero dps waste.

It's unoptimal as fuck. You have survivablity/sustain with Manta+Armlet toggle. But yeah having armor and getting sunburnt to death while being perma-disabled is a much better choice than jumping on Newbee with a dmg items intead. I have nothing against Oct, if the next item is a dps one, honestly. Or even a aghs for a team.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
Andre
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Slovenia3523 Posts
May 10 2016 19:58 GMT
#1928
Octa is pretty much core. You need the hp&cdr for manta. There is a time and place for going a fighting alch build but it was not this game, nor does it seem worth it in any game in this patch.

Gold costs really don't matter at this point, going bkb+whatever item MIGHT have had a positive short term effect on EG's fighting capabilities but it wouldn't matter one bit. You're still fighting 3 elusive heroes+naga splitpush, good luck. Not to mention alch suffers the most from going mid game/fighting items when they don't pay off as you approach the later stages of the game due to so much gold.

I really don't know what you mean by unoptimal, shiva was the best item he could've gotten at that point. Without shiva he dies instantly in fights. armor+ AS reduction+cd are too good vs the team he played against to pass.
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Faruko
Profile Joined April 2013
Chile34171 Posts
May 10 2016 20:00 GMT
#1929
Alche was hard to kill yes, but just for so long before Invoker and Weaver get 1 more item each he dies quickly.

Only damage item from weaver was desolator (not sure if i can count AC as a damage item, it gives as, i guess)
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hunter_x
Profile Joined June 2014
Germany2762 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 20:04:24
May 10 2016 20:03 GMT
#1930
On May 11 2016 03:36 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
Western teams are really meh at the moment if they are losing with a superior drafts to a standard Newbee ones. I don't think ppd gives too much fuck about it though,

lgd still sucks....na seriously maybe you wait who wins the tournament, before you say they suck. secret and eg are not that strong right now.
ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
May 10 2016 20:04 GMT
#1931
>Without shiva he dies instantly in fights
Without BKB he gets kited and does zero DPS on top on that.

If he had a dps and utility against Naga (basher/mjornir) it doesn't matter if he dies - he takes at least one core with him. And Aui finishes the deal. I mean, you can get Shivas on top of that - but then sell your Armlet.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
hunter_x
Profile Joined June 2014
Germany2762 Posts
May 10 2016 20:06 GMT
#1932
On May 11 2016 03:45 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2016 03:35 Azarkon wrote:
On May 11 2016 03:28 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
Alchemist isn't a Sumail hero. I bet my ass Aui would've won it for EG much easily with the start Sumail had. I mean, he bought a fucking Shivas and gifted bulba with a buff he doesn't need over Disruptor+Bain aghs which Newbee had no means to deal with.


You think SUMAIL made the decision as to who to give it to? Do you understand how this team works?

Go on and act like ppd told Sumail to build Shivas and Octarine before Aghs.

I mean ppd thought it was going to be KPII's Phoenix offlane (with kaka on a team, lel), he was really high this series. And yet they almost did it because of team's synergy.

forthedarkseid smarter then ppd confirmed
ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 20:14:53
May 10 2016 20:11 GMT
#1933
@hunter_x, S A L T.

I fucking love ppd. And I know he doesn't care about group stages that much every single non-major tournament. Look at last ban WD. Please try to explain it. You can't say a drafter is in serious mood when he considers Lion/WD core.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
hunter_x
Profile Joined June 2014
Germany2762 Posts
May 10 2016 20:13 GMT
#1934
On May 11 2016 05:11 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
@hunter_x, S A L T.

I fucking love ppd. And I know he doesn't care about group stage whatsoever. Look at last ban WD. Please try to explain it. You can't say a drafter is serious mode one when he considers Lion/WD core.

why do you think im salty? people always think that lol. i just saw a dumb comment and answered that;)
ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 20:20:26
May 10 2016 20:16 GMT
#1935
On May 11 2016 05:13 hunter_x wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2016 05:11 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
@hunter_x, S A L T.

I fucking love ppd. And I know he doesn't care about group stage whatsoever. Look at last ban WD. Please try to explain it. You can't say a drafter is serious mode one when he considers Lion/WD core.

why do you think im salty? people always think that lol. i just saw a dumb comment and answered that;)

Obviously a remark about LGD, lol.

As long as they beat iG tmrw, they are playing nice bracket with all top Chinese team for Summit 5 invite, we'd see how they fare. It's really irrelevant to the point how uninspired TS's plays were today. RTZ is simply abysmal on his supposedly comfort heroes, what else to say. Suma1l outplays him in a mid 9 times out of 10 unless miracle happenned.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
blobrus
Profile Joined August 2011
4297 Posts
May 10 2016 20:19 GMT
#1936
I am bandwagoning newbee, so fun to watch.
hunter_x
Profile Joined June 2014
Germany2762 Posts
May 10 2016 20:20 GMT
#1937
well im not a secret or eg fan whatsoever, so im ok with them doing bad. we will see what the rest of china really can do. it takes more then winning one tournament, like wings and vg did.
ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 20:29:06
May 10 2016 20:26 GMT
#1938
@hunter_x, well, Wings wasn't a even a clear tier 2 team in a Chinese scene to begin with. Swept ESL finals with a 3-0. VG won easily with a coach in mid. Newbee is yet to lose a game. Compared to Secret's heavily underperforming, Liquid tilting, and every other Western team bar EG being random in general, it doesn't bode well for a future major.

I mean, the idea that iceice's Wings can body 75% of Western teams isn't something to puru-puru about.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
hunter_x
Profile Joined June 2014
Germany2762 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 20:48:37
May 10 2016 20:44 GMT
#1939
On May 11 2016 05:26 ForTehDarkseid wrote:
@hunter_x, well, Wings wasn't a even a clear tier 2 team in a Chinese scene to begin with. Swept ESL finals with a 3-0. VG won easily with a coach in mid. Newbee is yet to lose a game. Compared to Secret's heavily underperforming, Liquid tilting, and every other Western team bar EG being random in general, it doesn't bode well for a future major.

I mean, the idea that iceice's Wings can body 75% of Western teams isn't something to puru-puru about.

vg won that tournament against pretty weak opponents. esl one manila was one of these tournaments, like vega winning esl new york. i doubt wings will do much more in the future. and what liquid tilting? just wait until they played, then we can talk again. obviously im biased as a liquid fan, but i think they can beat newbee. we will see...
also there is still time until the major, eg and secret are still quite new. remember last time, when everyone thought secret are done for, while ehome dominated the west? we all know what happened after that;)
ForTehDarkseid
Profile Joined April 2013
8139 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-10 20:57:42
May 10 2016 20:54 GMT
#1940
>pretty weak opponents
>every good Western team aside from freshly reformed EG/TS + LGD which eventually took 3rd.

Last time I checked, Vega didn't win 3-0. And didn't you notice the vast array of strats Wings used to achieve that? Liquid are losing the games after getting a lead early on every single tournament, don't know the reasons really. Will be interesting to see how they play against Newbee, true.
I think their strategy is to dumpster bad Western teams (c) uriel
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