I think every series have the potential to be a 2-1 series ..secret va navi will be interesting to watch..hoping for another upset from friends ,but chances are highly unlikely.
On July 23 2016 23:51 Verniy wrote: why do people have so much faith in fnatic?
They don't which is why Fnatic has been losing these polls to the top 4 if you actually go back and look at the other threads. DC is very far from the top 4.
On July 24 2016 04:17 spudde123 wrote: This was a rather sad Broodmother. Not a big fan of picking Brood into Bat with 1 pick remaining for Fnatic to respond
Not to mention laning Brood against Ember.
EDIT: Rofl, the one game where orchid ember works because who cares?
On July 24 2016 04:17 spudde123 wrote: This was a rather sad Broodmother. Not a big fan of picking Brood into Bat with 1 pick remaining for Fnatic to respond
Not to mention laning Brood against Ember.
EDIT: Rofl, the one game where orchid ember works because who cares?
On the bigger picture, this is actually something EG did against LGD in game 3 at Manila. You really have 1 core + 2 semi-cores + 2 supports with good utility/damage. But it only works when the other team is going to play safe/slow/late-game.
You're going to peak early & hard, allowing ways to break base fairly early.
Well i think it's because PPD identified that VP could not do anything with 2 defensive supports to EG's early game. So EG gets away with 4 farmed heroes instead of 3 with the usual laning.
On July 24 2016 05:10 babysimba wrote: Well i think it's because PPD identified that VP could not do anything with 2 defensive supports to EG's early game. So EG gets away with 4 farmed heroes instead of 3 with the usual laning.
EG did this against LGD's super defensive draft in game 3 at Manila. But EG messed up the team-fight at the high ground, which cost them the game. (LGD got about the absolute best fight possible.)
It's really a 1/2/2/4/5 setup. The ability to free-farm the jungle makes this work.
I sorta made the assumption oracle was going to be overpowered but he's kinda been hit or miss in competitive games. I've definitely seen sumail practice oracle mid in his streams before
On July 24 2016 05:19 nojok wrote: I hope the game lasts long enough to see oracle's agha. Next game we have to see WW mid with troll warlord and agha rush
Aghs oracle is basically a zeus that can heal and dispel too lol. It might work against any other carries, but ember and slark who can dive in and out seems to rape him.
On July 24 2016 05:37 Salazarz wrote: Pretty sure Universe's boars are more useful in this game than Zai is.
I am pretty sure Zai is about as useful as Sufail.
Nah, Sumail at least like, cancelled out some lassos and saved Fear pretty well a few times, Zai just kinda waddles around the map and gives Slark gold, lol
On July 24 2016 05:37 Salazarz wrote: Pretty sure Universe's boars are more useful in this game than Zai is.
I am pretty sure Zai is about as useful as Sufail.
Nah, Sumail at least like, cancelled out some lassos and saved Fear pretty well a few times, Zai just kinda waddles around the map and gives Slark gold, lol
So, Sumail had impact of a support as position 2, while Zai has impact of Timber without farm.
On July 24 2016 06:08 Papercappu wrote: lol what is so throwy about this draft.they're just going dive towers 10min in.i dont think this luna can even get his farm
idk this feels like a completely useless draft by EG; it's not even the kind of a cheese you might hope to surprise a dangerous opponent with or anything. Looks like 'who cares if we lose, whatever' kinda draft if anything, which is a dumb thing to do in any tournament.
On July 24 2016 06:12 Kuroeeah wrote: AA mid isn't the most unheard of thing, it was somewhat popular before ti2 since having a level advantage AA that can land his ult wins games.
I could kinda see it, Sumail getting a quick 6 with Universe in a short time is kinda scary. It's not the most clowniest thing you could come up with in Dota
On July 24 2016 06:15 Kuroeeah wrote: I could kinda see it, Sumail getting a quick 6 with Universe in a short time is kinda scary. It's not the most clowniest thing you could come up with in Dota
You don't win games with an AA ult, though. At best it lets you get a couple early kills, especially with a draft like this that doesn't push towers or anything of the sort. If you're going to waste a core position on a support, you need to literally win the game with it, and do so fast -- which AA simply doesn't.
On July 24 2016 06:15 Kuroeeah wrote: I could kinda see it, Sumail getting a quick 6 with Universe in a short time is kinda scary. It's not the most clowniest thing you could come up with in Dota
You don't win games with an AA ult, though. At best it lets you get a couple early kills, especially with a draft like this that doesn't push towers or anything of the sort. If you're going to waste a core position on a support, you need to literally win the game with it, and do so fast -- which AA simply doesn't.
Well, they do have Void and Weaver too. Consider this AA an s4 style mid.
On July 24 2016 06:15 Kuroeeah wrote: I could kinda see it, Sumail getting a quick 6 with Universe in a short time is kinda scary. It's not the most clowniest thing you could come up with in Dota
You don't win games with an AA ult, though. At best it lets you get a couple early kills, especially with a draft like this that doesn't push towers or anything of the sort. If you're going to waste a core position on a support, you need to literally win the game with it, and do so fast -- which AA simply doesn't.
I'm not defending the draft but i'm just saying it's not the most garbage thing you could come up with. They actually drafted reasonably well around AA believe it or not and AA aghs is still be one of the best aghs in the game, so maybe the thought process was Chrono into Blast, midas and get Aghs.
Which is what i like due to Unigod been farming so well this tournament but been on heroes he cant contribute much out of his stun. Now he can right click
On July 24 2016 06:27 Pandemona wrote: Which is what i like due to Unigod been farming so well this tournament but been on heroes he cant contribute much out of his stun. Now he can right click
On July 24 2016 06:27 Pandemona wrote: Which is what i like due to Unigod been farming so well this tournament but been on heroes he cant contribute much out of his stun. Now he can right click
Void isn't the right clicker he used to be.
Void was never a good right clicker after early stages.
On July 24 2016 06:27 Pandemona wrote: Which is what i like due to Unigod been farming so well this tournament but been on heroes he cant contribute much out of his stun. Now he can right click
Void isn't the right clicker he used to be.
Yeah true but i mean you can scale it into something more useful than a beastmaster outside roar and necro for example. At least with void after his ult u can get stuns and do decent damage. I would like to see them put him on Natures again though.
On July 24 2016 06:27 Pandemona wrote: Which is what i like due to Unigod been farming so well this tournament but been on heroes he cant contribute much out of his stun. Now he can right click
Universe now seems only able to play offlaners that are heavy in farm and PPD is making Sumail play mid support heroes to compensate lol. 1 year ago he was still able to play plenty of tempo offlane heroes, now he is just regressing as a player.
On July 24 2016 06:30 babysimba wrote: Universe now seems only able to play offlaners that are heavy in farm and PPD is making Sumail play mid support heroes to compensate lol. 1 year ago he was still able to play plenty of tempo offlane heroes, now he is just regressing as a player.
On July 24 2016 06:27 Pandemona wrote: Which is what i like due to Unigod been farming so well this tournament but been on heroes he cant contribute much out of his stun. Now he can right click
Void isn't the right clicker he used to be.
void is exactly the rightclicker he used to be he can't take hits as well (due to no backtrack) but his actual DPS outside of chrono is actually better (assuming same items) than it used to be the only reason void isn't seen as much of a rightclicker lately is because people don't build him for that anymore
On July 24 2016 06:54 nojok wrote: The ogre did nothing this game, if he realised he could do nothing mid and just right clicked void at lvl1 the game would have been so different imo.
One more try for WW mid, plz PPD, make it happen
Maybe I'm missing something, but unless Bloodlust is really amazing, Ogre seems mediocre every game. I'm really not convinced of the ogre first phase pick thing.
On July 24 2016 06:54 nojok wrote: The ogre did nothing this game, if he realised he could do nothing mid and just right clicked void at lvl1 the game would have been so different imo.
One more try for WW mid, plz PPD, make it happen
Maybe I'm missing something, but unless Bloodlust is really amazing, Ogre seems mediocre every game. I'm really not convinced of the ogre first phase pick thing.
Then again I wasn't convinced of mid aa either.
Nah, he's the same shit as he was previous patch, the same way SD was a great hero previous patch, the buffs just reminded pros those heroes exist.
Suma1l turning up! I thought support rikki is u just buy boots and get levels for smoke cloud then if u ever get to stage where u get a Diffusal u cannot lose? xD
On July 24 2016 07:33 Pandemona wrote: Suma1l turning up! I thought support rikki is u just buy boots and get levels for smoke cloud then if u ever get to stage where u get a Diffusal u cannot lose? xD
On July 24 2016 07:37 Faruko wrote: Im somwhat worried about how fucking poor is fear tho, LC with farm is super meh overall (after getting blink and blade mail)
On July 24 2016 07:37 Faruko wrote: Im somwhat worried about how fucking poor is fear tho, LC with farm is super meh overall (after getting blink and blade mail)
I can accept the linkens and even shivas but at some point you have to be able to do damage as mirana. Even a dagon would've been better than octarine.
On July 24 2016 08:13 lolfail9001 wrote: So, how am i supposed to continue learning OpenGL, when i can't stop laughing because of how bad EG finished the game?
funny I'm not the only one doing that. Against friends of all teams <.<
Also not really Unis mistake, at least not alone. Sumails itemizing, the low farm on fear, lots of miscommunication.
On July 24 2016 08:23 Kuroeeah wrote: i'm not blaming it on universe but i thought EG would look stronger than this.
I'd give them one tournament to slip up and adjust their style. First tournament Sumail and Aui played in EG they bombed out pretty bad, so I think we can give them a bit of grace.
Bulba (and most of the time Fear) was all keeping the previous EG roster together. Can't say I'm surprised to see them crumbling now. They'll (probably) be good eventually, but I doubt it'll be until well after TI6 has come and gone.
People should not freak out, VP was able to take games against anyone and long tournaments are very momentum based like shown by CDEC last year or OG at Frankfurt. Teams have a lot of time to find their footing during the long seeding stage at TI.
On July 24 2016 08:31 nojok wrote: People should not freak out, VP was able to take games against anyone and long tournaments are very momentum based like shown by CDEC last year or OG at Frankfurt. Teams have a lot of time to find their footing during the long seeding stage.
Last year VP was actually a team and it's just the way EG lost
What if PPD wanted to lose. Maybe he wants everyone at TI to underestimate them and capitalize on this lack of preparation. I feel like mind games are quite important in these circumstances. I'm probably wrong though lol.
SK has done quite a bit in some of the matches but not from Secret? Might be scrim information between the two. [edit] aah yea Secret banned it :D Navi did pretty good with it.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
Well, if they did not have Puppey on their team they would have alright chances.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
Winning TI is difficult in the face of teams like OG, Liquid, LGD and Newbee, but top 6 is reasonable if they play well.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
Bulba winning TI? No.
i dont think secret will win TI but top 6 is something I think is possible. Even if they fail out of this LAN, Secret looks "okay" here.
OG, Liquid are my top 2. Wings, Newbee and LGD are probably up there but Wings has kinda choked out of Manila. MVP could make a miraculous Korean run, maybe Fnatic could show up in form. A lot of things could happen this TI.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
Bulba winning TI? No.
i dont think secret will win TI but top 6 is something I think is possible. Even if they fail out of this LAN, Secret looks "okay" here.
OG, Liquid are my top 2. Wings and Newbee are probably up there but Wings has kinda choked out of Manila. MVP could make a miraculous Korean run, maybe Fnatic could show up in form. A lot of things could happen this TI
It's Easts turn, bro, i predict OG/Liquid placing in top 3/top 4, but some Chinese team without TI winners on it winning the whole thing. Or Koreans.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
Bulba winning TI? No.
i dont think secret will win TI but top 6 is something I think is possible. Even if they fail out of this LAN, Secret looks "okay" here.
OG, Liquid are my top 2. Wings and Newbee are probably up there but Wings has kinda choked out of Manila. MVP could make a miraculous Korean run, maybe Fnatic could show up in form. A lot of things could happen this TI
It's Easts turn, bro, i predict OG/Liquid placing in top 3/top 4, but some Chinese team without TI winners on it winning the whole thing. Or Koreans.
Bulba has been good on both EG and Secret. I don't think there was game when he was on EG where I thought he was bad but you have to be on something if you thought Aui wasn't a problem.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
Bulba winning TI? No.
i dont think secret will win TI but top 6 is something I think is possible. Even if they fail out of this LAN, Secret looks "okay" here.
OG, Liquid are my top 2. Wings and Newbee are probably up there but Wings has kinda choked out of Manila. MVP could make a miraculous Korean run, maybe Fnatic could show up in form. A lot of things could happen this TI
It's Easts turn, bro, i predict OG/Liquid placing in top 3/top 4, but some Chinese team without TI winners on it winning the whole thing. Or Koreans.
Our overlords have been bad lately.
MVP is a hard team to read. They had a terrible record leading up to Manila and sounded very unconfident during player inteviews but they placed top 6 which is good.
On July 24 2016 09:09 plasmidghost wrote: I really hope this is Arteezy and EE's year to win TI6, given the way they've been playing I put them at a solid top 6 finish
i could see this happening, i think they have some bad match ups though.
Bulba winning TI? No.
i dont think secret will win TI but top 6 is something I think is possible. Even if they fail out of this LAN, Secret looks "okay" here.
OG, Liquid are my top 2. Wings and Newbee are probably up there but Wings has kinda choked out of Manila. MVP could make a miraculous Korean run, maybe Fnatic could show up in form. A lot of things could happen this TI
It's Easts turn, bro, i predict OG/Liquid placing in top 3/top 4, but some Chinese team without TI winners on it winning the whole thing. Or Koreans.
Our overlords have been bad lately.
Right now they're in some Chinese LAN with most of the competition being Chinese T2/3 teams. They don't seem to be having so much trouble so they're not at that level yet. I think because the team tend to perform much better at LANs they should be fine for top 8 at TI6.
On July 24 2016 09:34 Zea! wrote: RTZ just manhandling all of them alone with Razor, he's playing out of his mind lately, he wants to win this TI so bad
I want drow kicked out of the meta but certainly not at the cost of having some core naga games. They should just remove radiance from illusions, I hate this mechanic.
On July 24 2016 09:38 nojok wrote: I want drow kicked out of the meta but certainly not at the cost of having some core naga games. They should just remove radiance from illusions, I hate this mechanic.
Naga becomes a useless hero without that mechanic, while Spectre turns into a ganker.
On July 24 2016 09:38 nojok wrote: I want drow kicked out of the meta but certainly not at the cost of having some core naga games. They should just remove radiance from illusions, I hate this mechanic.
Naga becomes a useless hero without that mechanic, while Spectre turns into a ganker.
On July 24 2016 09:41 ch33psh33p wrote: My face when navi apologists try to explain why secret is still tier 2 and navi is tier 1 despite losing to every other tier 1 team nonstop
Don't think any real navi fans think their team is tier 1. We strongly believe we're the best of the rest though.
On July 24 2016 09:38 nojok wrote: I want drow kicked out of the meta but certainly not at the cost of having some core naga games. They should just remove radiance from illusions, I hate this mechanic.
Naga becomes a useless hero without that mechanic, while Spectre turns into a ganker.
Drow oracle opening destroys bat in lane or lasso initiations. Ban SK so General can't play his aggressive offlaners. Axe is going to destroy Navi's safe when they have supports with no damage. Now another abbadon to counter lasso and Navi's zero damage lineup.
On July 24 2016 09:38 nojok wrote: I want drow kicked out of the meta but certainly not at the cost of having some core naga games. They should just remove radiance from illusions, I hate this mechanic.
Naga becomes a useless hero without that mechanic, while Spectre turns into a ganker.
Requires too large scale of a changes to happen.
Naga, specrre, alche, not so big imo.
Naga will require a rework after that.
Spectre will require some buffs.
EDIT: Nvm, what the fuck Puppan.
Naga would just need slight buffs, tanky illusions with diffusal + manta + net + song, even a buff to net animation would be enough in fact.
On July 24 2016 09:38 nojok wrote: I want drow kicked out of the meta but certainly not at the cost of having some core naga games. They should just remove radiance from illusions, I hate this mechanic.
Naga becomes a useless hero without that mechanic, while Spectre turns into a ganker.
Requires too large scale of a changes to happen.
Naga, specrre, alche, not so big imo.
Naga will require a rework after that.
Spectre will require some buffs.
EDIT: Nvm, what the fuck Puppan.
Naga would just need slight buffs, tanky illusions with diffusal + manta + net + song, even a buff to net animation would be enough in fact.
Naga would need severe buffs, since even TB sucks without ranged form in actual fights. And his illusions are way better in farming.
On July 24 2016 10:24 wims80 wrote: I can't believe that Navi is letting Secret play this arrogantly, Secret is going full yolo and getting away with it
This is the one line-up that can go full yolo and get away with it.
On July 24 2016 10:24 wims80 wrote: I can't believe that Navi is letting Secret play this arrogantly, Secret is going full yolo and getting away with it
This is the one line-up that can go full yolo and get away with it.
On July 24 2016 10:24 wims80 wrote: I can't believe that Navi is letting Secret play this arrogantly, Secret is going full yolo and getting away with it
This is the one line-up that can go full yolo and get away with it.
Rtz engaged perfectly, but navi heal too strong that fight. If secret can burst down heroes before Chen heals and silence ends on ww, fight would be easy.
On July 24 2016 10:38 wims80 wrote: I don't think you can play Storm like this with the huge distance ball rollins, you'll spend all the mana before the fight have even started
I usually play Storm like that in my pubs when i think i've lost the game.
Secret cores were so much more farmed then navi's. Team net worth graph doesn't tell the full story. Oracle doesn't need farm to do anything. Wyvern and Chen needed farm to not just die to storm solo. Naix had 7k gold in an item that secret had 5 counters to.
On July 24 2016 10:47 wims80 wrote: It's easy to outplay when you got a 20k gold lead tho
not sure you actually saw the networth graph
Not sure you actually saw networth chart.
fun fact: before that fight at 41 min on T2 secret's lead was never more than 5k, in fact navi have bigger lead before that.
Fun fact: Secret had 4 farmed cores and 1 poverty PLD.
Navi had 2 farmed supports, mediocre farm on mid and decent farm on sidelaners.
the 1st sentence is true, though the 2nd is only half-true as when the deciding fight happened (the fight around T2 tower) both LS and bat have equal farm and item to drow and storm + 2 farmed support vs 1 poverty support as you said.
To be fair the game would have been over way earlier if he hadn't gone Orchid, Na'vi had their first good fight with the surprise Orchid. Dunno if upgrading to Bloodthorn was worth it though
Sonneiko is a good player, but its hard to get good curses off when you have a hero like storm zeroing in on you during team fights and ur allies have no way to control him.
Also Navi couldn't capitalise on their NW lead. None of their cores were good at taking towers. They lost 2 bot and 1 mid tower before they take 1 top tower (which is the least important tower in the game imo.)
Btw i really hate Bat on Dondo. Bat feels one trick to me. Grab someone and pull. If you do it... Great now you are fighting 4 vs 4.5. Bat without lasso doesn't fit Dondo's playstyle.
Still... Navi has Sonneiko. Other teams don't. Means you cannot clear favourite against Navi ever.
On July 24 2016 11:08 TomatoBisque wrote: To be fair the game would have been over way earlier if he hadn't gone Orchid, Na'vi had their first good fight with the surprise Orchid. Dunno if upgrading to Bloodthorn was worth it though
Definitely wasn't. That item is useless if the active gets removed so easily.
On July 24 2016 11:11 Aceace wrote: Also Navi couldn't capitalise on their NW lead. None of their cores were good at taking towers. They lost 2 bot and 1 mid tower before they take 1 top tower (which is the least important tower in the game imo.)
Btw i really hate Bat on Dondo. Bat feels one trick to me. Grab someone and pull. If you do it... Great now you are fighting 4 vs 4.5. Bat without lasso doesn't fit Dondo's playstyle.
Still... Navi has Sonneiko. Other teams don't. Means you cannot clear favourite against Navi ever.
You are a clear favorite against Navi ALWAYS if you are a team that can contest OG/Liquid/Newbee.
On July 24 2016 11:08 TomatoBisque wrote: To be fair the game would have been over way earlier if he hadn't gone Orchid, Na'vi had their first good fight with the surprise Orchid. Dunno if upgrading to Bloodthorn was worth it though
Definitely wasn't. That item is useless if the active gets removed so easily.
Do you think Na'vi would've won that first fight with Orchid if it was, say, an SnY?
On July 24 2016 12:13 plasmidghost wrote: Can Fnatic be considered a top 8 team? I think they can if they win this series
Going into TI I think the favourites for top 8 will be something like OG, Liquid, Newbee, LGD, Wings, MVP, Na'Vi, Fnatic and right now maybe Secret because of this tournament.
On July 24 2016 12:59 Shaella wrote: so whats the grand final gonna be
secret vs na'vi or secret vs fnatic
i thought they were gonna save Winners bracket finals for last
damn schedule
anyways give us fnatic vs secret !
you didnt catch the best games Secret played since bulba joined?
no i thought that it was rtz going man-mode according to comments
i set myself to wake up in 12 hours since the schedule here in LD says that the navi vs secret match happens last .. then i wake up to see the match wasn't last
On July 24 2016 12:59 Shaella wrote: so whats the grand final gonna be
secret vs na'vi or secret vs fnatic
i thought they were gonna save Winners bracket finals for last
damn schedule
anyways give us fnatic vs secret !
you didnt catch the best games Secret played since bulba joined?
no i thought that it was rtz going man-mode according to comments
i set myself to wake up in 12 hours since the schedule here in LD says that the navi vs secret match happens last .. then i wake up to see the match wasn't last
Arteezy went man-mode indeed but Secret drafted better, had good teamwork and a really calm and collected playstyle. Besides Arteezy going ham both games, EE showed world class Drow gameplay. Another interesting thing was how Bulba was actually a core in their second game with his Abbadon. Usually Bulba plays a pos 4 offlaner while Puppey plays the actual core from the support position but in this game Puppey was a nicely farmed 4 and Bulba an actual core(and pld playing the 6th position)