[EPICENTER] Knockout Stage! - Page 342

On May 16 2016 03:20 nanaoei wrote:
draft and game 4 is underway. the series started as a 1-1 after some mildy frustrating games from both.
as the draft ends, swindlez is happy with the nyx pick (NB), win conditions for both teams, but easier points of execution and thus winning for NB in this game.

overall drafts are as follows:
game 4
Newbee (NB) - doom / invoker / clinkz / nyx / tide
TeamLiquid (liquid) - wisp / alch / earthspirit / slardar / gyro

the horn is blown at 0:03 a large nyx impale is hit, but it is not good damage from level 1, liquid is able to claim first blood.

1:30 triliane top consisted of slardar, es, wisp claim a double kill on both clinkz and doom.
not only does this achieve healthy kills, this keeps both of those heroes on low levels and thus making them repeatable in the near future.

at bottom lane, kpii is playing the quintessential tidehunter, 2 levels in kraken shell and 1 in anchor smash, easily rebuffing gyro and es (now bottom with gyro). he is now sitting at the same last hits and denies as gyro and makes the overall lane quite annoying for gyro, at least until he is closer to rotating with ravage. at the end of this sequence of events, wisp walks down to bottom lane as well after their initial success at top.

finally tide dies with good and proper play from the support duo + gyro, oh boy they are diving him again, now with calldown. doom tps in as a reaction, claims earth spirits life but cannot do better. ultimately, tidehunter survives and dings 6.

clinks after his start has caught up, has gone for the soul-ring start and has not upgraded from basilius to aquila as he has not much more spending money at this point.
slardar in comparison is sitting on brown boots and iron talon. him and wisp are a duo at top, as is clinkz and doom on the opposing side. nyx has moved top as well, sitting right behind clinkz as he continues to farm.

quietly, alch has farmed to high levels and gives up mid lane to his ES support, hopefully for a level 6 and a tower defense at one of their perimeter towers.