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Welcome to the final day of the international 15.
two weeks ago, we flew in the 16 best
Dota 2 teams in the world here into Shanghai
and in a brutal group stage.
We got rid of eight over the last four days
in the Oriental Sports Center.
We have been cutting and cutting and cutting onions
and teams alike until now.
We only have three teams left remaining.
Before we talk about what is in store
team. They really did have to
play for those three teams that
will take the stage here today
yesterday from six teams to
three teams also was an
incredible journey. And this
was a long day of dough to two
in particular for a team and
that had to play the first
and the last of talking about
team spirit, and they did make
their way through. They have
that is in the Grand Finals.
I'm talking, oh, well, that was a little bit
of sans fan in your ears there.
That's all good.
You're gonna get some other talents in your ear though,
as we are joined by Rayal, Winter, and Tegov,
Tegov yesterday, I already mentioned Team Spirit.
They had a very long day to get to this final day
and maybe even a longer row to get to this final.
Yeah, like, tournament.
I mean, those were like, first of all,
probably the entire year,
having like big key players take breaks
and then come back, and then every little iteration
they got stronger and stronger,
and then yesterday they had the first and last,
and it just felt like they had no issues of sleep,
no issues at all.
They were just rocking up, cruising through the games.
I am afraid for anyone who goes in their spirits.
Somehow I feel like spirit on the ground find this already,
and like visions, I don't know, it feels weird
because I look at spirit and ugh,
they're a scary team right now.
They are a very scary team.
How you feel?
Do you feel the jitters this morning
on finals day here in winter?
No, not at all.
Not at all.
I'm very excited to look at the games, and I'm sure the players, you know, they want
to bring their best today.
There's going to be a lot of exciting thoughts, and it can't wait to be a part of it.
We are a part of it.
Rhea, we mentioned Spirit also quickly.
You want to briefly mention Yanleks, of course.
They also had a brutal road to get here.
I'm so excited to see who overcomes their demons, because obviously Vision have looked
so dominant.
I think even coming into the tournament, everyone thought they were favorites.
So for them to be seeing in the Grand Finals makes complete sense and now spirit who have
lost twice of them have to overcome that and Yandex who I also thought was a strong contender
had such a rocking group stage so they have defied the odds so completely to get to this
point and now going through this lower bracket it's like can they overcome that they've
had so many good storylines.
I love the players so much and I think no matter who wins today out of all three
teams we are going to get a fantastic outcome.
This is genuinely just peak Dota.
has been picked over yesterday was picked over as well and if you miss any of it
let's take a look at yesterday's Rica
It's a lot of damage to Laurel, gets a roll up and gets cleansed as well and goes inside
of the cart which is going to be brought back into Nisha's face apparently gets off the
You'll go now Laurel put in a different area spot. It will die will drop the gem as well
So fill up boxy though in turn as room getting saved last one by the destruction in general
He's just fountain farming at this point
The 20 seconds for ace to come back that's a double buyback on the liquid arrow
Not an arrow though. Do they have no weapon? They do
The lack of damage coming through the stick games gonna get the kill deal like I've done that
They're gonna get the kill now onto the center all likelihood that's a death reckoning though for the shadow feed
Here for down second one will bite the dust as well and liquid gonna have to try to fight this out without their tiny
But yet or just focusing on the bear. It's already a half a fee on the ancient no reason to switch targets
They're gonna try to burst them down the part is coming to them to be baby, but he's inside the car now
They destroy the Marana. They destroy the ancient and spirit will move on the international lower brackets liquid eliminated
It fasted, backing out has another focus fire, but as he comes out and gets stunned, Sumail
striders in!
It's not gonna happen!
They take down Sumail, relocate out in GPK, he's just waiting.
It's the timing right.
They come in with the Vi, find the Stomp, but as the only core left alive they find
The good arrow called a brace not gonna matter.
Kiritich too strong.
They won't be denied.
This is the most electric light skill
that we have seen where it goes.
Roche, half HP.
Kiritich calculating, finding his angle.
That's my damage is there, ready for a jump.
They drop down the stage, now they'll walk in.
Please not gonna do much to jump
for an avatar, and he's catching the agents.
Kiritich trying to put his team on the back.
But I don't know if it's enough to carry.
It's a hard one to make work.
The Requiem comes out and Sumail destroys the arrow.
Kiritich also gonna fall.
They find the stun, the Wheel of Wonder.
How much damage they have?
She became some trouble.
He's hypnotized, pull back and low.
He's not low enough though.
And with Kiritich holding the Aegis,
Big Mug, Galaxy, the hopes, the dreams,
they are faltering.
They got both supports for now, but they're gonna get out of here.
Oh, Divy, Divy, you're in trouble, sir.
The Stomp is there again from Mero, and Dubai will eventually drop.
Sigma Galaxy, there is no salvation in the well, because they are taking your tier 4 towers.
Lorinov tries to find a moment to eat Remdance away, but as the Ancient is exposed, Boom Boys,
they get the Grip, they get the Triple Kill, they go into the fountain.
Gigi is called! Boom Boys, hop for it!
I'm not scared of Yandex, notice might just be ready to make some sort of blind blink
in soon.
When we're again
He's out for 80. Malady dies beyond the tier 3 tower and DM has been caught by Dineblast for dead on Yandex.
And it gets him with the con, but that sacks around. He doesn't have the buyback, but he
gives a hex on the cheerer into the fair. He'll buy back. Tm's gonna have Ravage up in a second.
Tornado should be enough to finish 9 class off. There comes the Ravage.
Notice is untouched on Fade.
That's what the call-staff monitoring, but it doesn't matter. They get him down to
half HP, they won't get him any lower. D-Lens gone. This game, this series is
Here is his other T-Tian card! T-Tian are moving on to the grand final!
It's gonna be an interesting damage test, right?
Don't think there's any way to Taro Pilsen here?
But, just him alone gets him down to half HP.
Now the winner's cursed, actually. Oh, that's gonna set things up.
Really nasty.
The pushback, and a couple of them with a pushback from Nami!
And most of them going down.
Kolas delivers with a crush to follow through.
And now Kiritnits all the way underneath the tier fours.
They don't give a damn about your base team spirit.
Okay, up we stop from Nami.
Stole away from the center. Couldn't get the Talbot to get as far as it would up away.
Nami, playing a little loose with him here.
It does get himself killed inside the base.
Yutaro's already finished off the tier three.
And now he's saying, all right, who's next?
I've got one more building to go.
Ka-Zohmi, the Colt, the Grace one,
they've set up for me.
Tornado couldn't get there in time to save him.
Yutaro now hitting melee barracks.
Here comes the gauge stop and Miro.
One, two, three.
Miro's almost dead already.
He hits the stop.
He's running in and he's running straight into the lawnmower.
That is Yutaro in his side play.
And that's Gigi!
Team Spirit will make their first
to the last day of TI.
Yeah, with that, we do have Team Vision in the grand final set
and waiting for their opponents, and we have Team Spirit and Yannex.
But I also wanted to give a quick second to just still talk a little bit about the three teams we saw eliminated yesterday,
because this is an event where you know of course eliminated from a tournament
these players are not going to be unfamiliar with that but eliminated from
the international this is not just a year in the making this is potentially a
decade in the making for some of these teams. Yeah obviously TI is the most
important tournament of the year for every team it's what we all dream and
aspire towards seeing how the teams changed throughout the year to get to
this point it's just so it's so inspiring how some overcome and then it's so tragic how some fall short
and obviously I think the one that touched the hearts of most yesterday was Nigma's elimination I
have seen the outpouring of love towards the male after he alluded to a potential retirement here
in his exit interview and yeah I think that really was a very emotional moment for us as well
who all grew up watching this guy win TI and continue to keep playing until now a lot of emotions on stage
Yeah, for sure. I mean even like with Keratich mid game like he's like loop in the TA game
Like he's losing. He's feeling the pressure and like he's like hitting the desk still like, you know
Like he wants to win TI like this is what everyone wants to try and to achieve in their daughter career if it takes them
You know one year if they're just a really good player who takes them
You know 15 years because they're trying super hard like they're gonna try every single time to lift that ages
because this tournament it means so much to them.
Yeah, I think Winter sometimes we either forget or take for granted that a lot of the players
is they don't just dedicate, you know the year to it, they dedicate their lives to it.
They have dedicated their lives to it already win or lose.
Yeah, it's more than eight hours a day, you know, you wake up, you play the other,
you stop a bit, you watch replay and then you eat and then you play again.
And if you take a break guess what someone else is not resting.
He's the one moving forward.
He's trying to figure out something else that you already didn't figure out and
he's going to get ahead.
everybody is fighting so hard every day and when you come to TI, everybody wants to win
and it's so difficult when you just don't really get the result that you want to and
you have worked the whole year through it so it's very, very difficult for the players
to accept it.
It is very difficult and it is also truly amazing what we see on stage.
This is not just a result of as we say here, this is the result of a craftsmanship
of a lifetime we see displayed on the stage.
craftsmanship that has come to life yesterday, as we saw has been an embroidery that has been put together for this year's International, and that wouldn't have been put together in the way that it did, if it wasn't for years and years of dedication to the craft.
And to take a little bit more of an in-depth look at that particular embroidery, we send slacks and dongs. Actually, tsunami and dongs.
It's an incredible work of art. Three months to build something like this. I thought it was digital, but it turns out that was just the template, and then an incredibly talented artist took the time to put every single thread in the real thing.
Can you check if it's actually so flat?
I'm telling you, like this almost looks like a painting at first,
like a woodcut painting kind of thing, but it's real. It's all threads and it's a gorgeous tapestry.
This art form has had to be preserved for thousands of years and the fact that there are still
artisans creating it to this day is truly impressive. I was hoping I could ask you about
some of the specific themes that they threw in. So I'm noticing here there are pine branches on
the left side and then on the right side there are plum blossoms. What's the significance of
of that. So these are symbolizes some very good quality personalities about strength, about
resilience, about never give up perseverance. Yes. I see. And then how about we got the tides
at the bottom and then clouds all the way at the top. These are just in Chinese we
call that ji xiang. So it's kind of like a good fortune and it's just blessing. I see.
And then of course the entire design as a whole, I know we pointed it out how flat
But I want you to see that the effort it takes to make all these things look like different colors
The sheen of each of the threads as the light catches them and yet somehow you can still see shading on all of it
It's an incredible work of art, but this is just the cloth version, the thread version. Tomorrow, we're going to find out who wins the real thing on the stage.
We are here for a Su Xiu De Dun, but who will be the real Bu Xiu Dun?
Which team will be the next? Let's look forward to it.
We had to make some cuts here and there and it's a pretty hard road to get to this point, the final stages of the international as we look towards this bracket.
Yeah, very, very tough bracket. Anybody can beat anybody on a good day. It's very sad that we have to, you know, send teams home, but unfortunately, this is a very tough bracket.
international as we look towards this bracket.
Yeah, very, very tough bracket.
Anybody can beat anybody on a good day.
It's very sad that we have to send teams home,
but unfortunately, it's just a reality of competition.
Somebody has to lose, somebody has to win.
It doesn't mean the winner is always better than the loser.
You just had a better day.
And unfortunately, for a lot of the teams here,
sometimes victory and losing is just
a very, very small little detail.
And you do something small, wrong in the draft,
in the game and you just lose the game.
You can see it from the amount of two ones, right?
Like the fact that in the lower bracket round one,
when you move towards, you know,
boom boys in the game of Galaxy,
the upper bracket is almost like every single moment,
like one hero pick, one wrong smoke, one wrong play,
and this whole bracket could have been so different.
It isn't just a simple two-oh bracket,
oh, look, we're in the final day,
like this easy could have been a completely different story
in the last two days.
Every single vision series on the main stage
has gone to three games.
And this is the team that looks unbeatable, but they're really, really not.
They are not.
They're allergic to game 2.
There's some weird thing in the water or something on game 2, but they've got that.
The ghoul calls out to pick Puck.
Puck is going to be so good, I promise.
But the thing is I like the attitude they have.
Do Kallis mention during the interview, they feel like even though sometimes in game 2s,
they might have some problems, but he feels like for the team, it's good to play an extra game.
So they could figure something out.
They could try maybe a hero that they wanted to try.
And it makes the team stronger over the course of the Playmore series.
Yeah, I think also the coach has a big part to play in both series today,
because adaptation will be the name of the game,
especially in the best of five, which will be our grand finals.
Now, yesterday we had quite some action,
and of course we have one team seeded with that into the grand finals.
And there's a couple of things,
or maybe one thing you particularly should be aware of
when you're looking at Team Vision.
And that is the bear the bear tea gobs. Yeah, I'm so excited for the bear
Honestly, I can't wait. I know everyone's talking about laundry it being like it was boring hero
But not many teams actually looking to ban it in the first phase like spirit and yandex when we get to see them look safe
And low bracket they don't value it as much but for vision of course a tannic when he gets access to the bear
He's obviously gonna pick it and it's just hilarious like we're NTI and the main hero is not even on the map
The bears doing all the work it takes over the game
It hits building in three and a half seconds at the least supports in two and a half seconds. It is a bonkers hero
I'm excited at TI some of the best heroes. They have to be tested
They have to be beaten and vision have got to this stage
Utilizing laundry it unlike other teams where they just kind of ignore it most of the time
So in the finals whoever we see match against vision will they ban the bear?
Are they gonna beat satanic spare? Is that a way that you can cripple this team?
I'm just excited to see a grand finals themed around laundry
the evolution of the bear which very fitting often gets represented as a panda bear as well. I mean when in China, you know, that's, uh,
Go to change your last great great exit there. Yeah, that's gonna be a great story to follow. We'll watch the bear
But there is a potential to great stories to follow because we don't know yet which one of the two teams will make it into that grand finals again vision
But that's okay because both have a point to prove
We're going to focus first on the off-lane situation.
This is maybe a little bit more mellow.
We got noticed in DM, noticed as part of Team Vision, and he's already sitting in the Grand
Finals.
And he was a player that was part of Yannex just a couple of months ago.
And this player was already scouted out by Vision, and they're like, you know what?
We want noticed.
And noticed was like, actually, guys, I'm with Yannex, and it's going pretty well.
So I'm going to stay here for now.
And so Vision is like, okay, I guess we are already getting rid of our other offlaner,
which was, by the way, DM was now in Yandex.
But they're like, okay, we'll get a different offlaner for now until you change your mind.
And at some point, notice, they were like, yeah, okay, let's do it.
I'm joining Vision.
And then DM was part of Vision, joined Yandex as a stand-in.
They win a tournament, and everybody's like, okay, DM made the right decision.
DM that chose correctly, but now it's noticed in the grand finals as he has a point to prove
that between him and the MRAI, he is the one that comes out victorious.
Yeah, there's so much story going on with like team Yandex, obviously, DM has something
to prove here. I think the rest of the team is also extremely interesting. Chira Jr.,
For example, he came from a little team called Cybru Goose and they got picked up by Yandex
in 2025 and he was the only player of that roster that has maintained from then until
now.
This was a stack with a solo on it back then.
But they picked up Soxa, they picked up Watson and Malady, who if you don't know, they
are both two Kazakhstan players who were friends way back in like 2022.
They first joined HellRaisers and played together, ended up splitting apart and then
coming back together on GG and then moved from there to Yandex. These guys are awesome to watch
play together and yes we have DM up against Nose is it. We're just gonna have a lot to prove a lot of
things to uh I think all the right right right English right English is hard they need to get
revenge up in the underground finals but they do have to get through spirit first which is
going to be so difficult. Yes. And on the other side, if it's spirit that comes out ahead of this
best of three, there is another story that takes president because we heard them say it already.
And I know it might be controversial because there's also other kings and other princes,
but it's key against prince master against students. Maybe there you go. I mean, I know,
okay, of course, Yandex, they're an incredible team. And if they get to the grand finals,
it is going to be a very, very good grand finals. The caliber of Yandex is insane.
But if we get spirit versus vision, it is true cinema.
It is peak of the year.
Again, Yotaro, he is a player that has pretty much shaped
the world of Dota in modern year.
But then in the last couple, Sotanica steps up.
When you talk about Dota nowadays,
it's always, what has Sotanica done?
What is he doing?
Yotaro's there kind of looking in the shadows
of Sotanica going, wait a second, that used to be me.
And now in the lower bracket run,
Yotaro's stepping up and going, no, I am the carry
of Dota 2, do not take my crown.
So just the idea of these two players going against each other,
it just feels like the perfect story.
But again, if it doesn't happen, the Andex,
you are a very racer and competitor.
But the storylines of those two teams would be a great grand-fathers.
And the stats don't lie because everybody's like,
ooh, Zatani is number one in everything, but Rhea, I saw that.
I know. I mean, so here's the thing.
They lost twice. Hmm.
They are both equally matched carry players.
Absolutely legendary this tournament.
But there is one thing missing from Yotaro at this TI on his two TI wins.
He shaved his head.
Yeah!
He shaved his head.
Has anybody seen Team Spirit in the building yet?
I haven't seen them.
I haven't seen them either.
I'm also looking around but there's obviously another station.
It would be very awful.
But also, separate to that by the way,
I like the fact that if even if Yotaro doesn't go board,
all three carries in the top three are like farmer carries
that want to play for big net worth that want to be like I am the guy of the game
like we're not seeing some weird little matter of like we're going to
little squeak out a quick way and we're not going to do anything like that it's like
the proper traditional carry are in all three teams
superstition winter is that is that real because the two ta wins that it's already
did say was that and he said it's to sacrifice it to the dota gods
i'm a logical person you know so you know i i kind of really i don't really
believe in that i know the vibes are important
But speaking of like hard carries and whatnot, but Yatoro is the one that if something is going to change, maybe he doesn't want to go late game, you know, with his son, he's going to change the battle too.
He's going to play in the early games. He might do that. I think he's a carry player that is involved over the course of years. He can play fast. He can play for his team. And yeah.
And he is together with the collapse part of the two players that can be a three-time hopeful.
And this is of course only taking players into consideration, not looking at coaches.
And only two two-time hopefuls remain with Saxa and Laurel there on the bottom.
And we'll see which one of these four players have a chance of making that happen in that grand finals.
because Team Vision, nobody has won an international ever.
So it would be their first time.
Speaking of first time, it's not very frequent to go,
but on the final day of the international,
we have a lot of players that have their first TI,
that they're being played.
We use the term royal rotors.
A royal rotor is if you get to your first international,
you win it.
There's been a couple of cases.
Yeah, throughout the history of Dota,
you see here. You can just
have a bit of nostalgia as you
look through this graphic, of
course, like T I five Sumo again.
Unfortunately, he has just
retired, but tops in T I a skitter
and 90 11. But right now T I
15 both Malady from Yandex and
not me from spirit. They are
the two players available that
can attend their first ti and
then potentially lift the ages
joining a incredible history of
players as you see on the
screen here. Yeah all of the
They are icons of their year.
Everybody remembers them.
They have miracle runs.
I mean, if you look at the first time Team Spirit
took the ages, that was incredible.
Four players that hadn't set foot on the main stage
before able to deliver.
It takes a lot from a player to be able to deliver
on this main stage and let the crowd power you up
rather than make you nervous and jittery potentially.
And of course, there's also a chance
that neither of the two players that are still in
takes it as a vision.
have tried before. All of those players have tried before and it's not their first rodeo here and
there's one player in particular winter that you wanted to highlight with this in mind as well.
It is potentially his second time lifting the ages. Laurel has had his splendid tournament.
Yeah, he has, you know, over the course of the last couple of years, even when he won his
first TI, people are always associated with, oh, he loses his lane, but he's very good from
playing behind. He plays for the team a lot, but I think specifically during the playoffs here,
he's shown that he can actually win his lane, especially yesterday he was showing GPK who's
boss is absolutely dumpsoring GPK on the lane. And I think that itself, it's a huge reason why
Team Spirit has been doing very, very well because they are used to losing their lanes,
but somehow they are still finding a way to win the game. But right now, the game's easy, allows
winning his lane. So Yathar was like, great, I can farm more creeps, I don't have to help my team.
I mean, he was the solo killed Nisha, right, in the pango to Invoker. Okay, it's a very
Pango favorite matchup, but still getting the kill, making it feel like, you know, I am the mid laner.
I mean, wow, he's so aggressive. He's so tempo driven that when he gets through the lane and
can see the map, he can do a lot of work. And yeah, right now he's in good form.
Well, let's see what road he needs to take. I mean, the schedule is kind of like,
you know what's coming, I think, when you're tuning in, but just for good
order, our first series of the day is going to be Team Yandex versus Team Spirik. And then
And the winner of that will be present in the grand finals.
The team vision is already waiting for their opponent
who will challenge the team that everybody has said
is the strongest team here.
Both teams have already taken games out of them.
So that is interesting to note.
Also interesting to note.
And we've been keeping you up to date with this
over the past few days.
Everybody or a lot of people have been able to put in
their predictions in the clients
And not a lot of people had it correct.
Let's be real.
Yesterday at the start of the day,
we had 0.2% of you guys still having it correct.
You know what?
There are a couple of people still popping up.
Even two talents of the entire talent
for all languages together still had it correct.
Today, updated.
Those two talents actually, they still have it correct.
Oh, I thought it was 0%.
No, no, it's not.
And it's not even 0% overall.
It's close.
0.07% Wow. I can still get a terrain. It's brutal. This is more than last year, though.
I think last year, nobody had to correct this point. So kudos if you're one of the 0.07%
that has had their predictions correct. Do you think a lot of people had team vision
regardless in that grand finals and their opponent. Well, it could have been anyone. We've heard
everybody talk about this, Rea, how this international has been so even in terms of playing field.
It has been so even. I genuinely think the predictions being that percentage is just
because vision of providing the stable baseline of winning through the top of the bracket.
I think most people probably put that and then it's just figuring out the rest. And
then like whoever's remaining is like a enigma fanboy and got them going pretty nice
and far and doing well and then after that it's all luck it's so luck I mean how
can you predict the games have been amazing the games have been truly amazing
and we are hoping that today can live up to the track record that we have got
going here so far at this international this main stage has seen a lot of blood
sweat and tears
When the warning's coming, it's gonna see a whole lot more.
Folks and dreams are gonna maybe come to life here at the stage behind us.
Of course, there's a first step to be made because we do have already team vision in
the grand finals, but we have to get this day started to find out which team will
join them in the grand finals.
The Aegis of Champions. It is the master pattern. The template of triumph.
A sigil stitched from the threads of countless battles waged around the world.
It is the shape that we strive for.
The composition every hand aspires to create.
The point where all paths converge as we bend our own lines of fate ever closer to the perfect design.
Now we gather to witness those bold enough to seize the golden thread.
To cheer every victory that holds their passion tighter.
To live them by every moment that threatens to tear it all apart.
The ages of champions awaits in Shanghai, China.
A living tapestry that chronicles the legends of our past.
Three teams compete for ultimate glory.
Only one that sees is more allergy.
Who will emerge victorious?
The battle begins.
It is electric here in the Oriental Sports Center as we are nearing the start of our
first series of the day.
On one side we'll have a team that people thought was down and out during the group
stages but they have made a valiant road to get to this a very point it is team
Yandex that struggle at the start but is rising up to the challenge their
opponents are team spirit who also had their own struggles to overcome this
time around let's get started with this one
We got Watson, Shira Junior, DM, Saxa, Malady, and Coach Axel, and for Malady is the first
time at the international formality leading the charge here is the first time stepping into that
booth on the final day of the biggest tournament in the year and he gets the honor and pleasure
of going up against TI's final boss, its team spirit.
Team Spirit!
The ultimate crowd favorite with the Atoroh, Laurel, Collabs, Nami, Groove, and Coach Moposhka.
Team Spirit is a beast in Team Spirit TI form.
They have done it twice already with different iterations
and every single time, they're able to feel the electricity
on the stage and to feel that momentum
propel them forward into a grand best of five.
But they have still got Yan next to Go through here
before they can have another shot at Team Vision
in those grand finals.
a best of three here on this stage and I think we got our answer. All hairs still on. Yes,
yes. Why? Why does he have hair? What is he doing? No. Okay. The important thing is though,
not being bull decide. Yeah, the crowd clearly. Oh, that must that must give it give a little
of advantage when they're playing in front of a crowd that has definitely got your name
cheering.
Well, I think it might help some players, you know, the players that are playing their
first tier, that might be something that makes them nervous, you know, so for Yator,
I'm sure he's a veteran, he knows, it doesn't affect him, I'm sure he feeds off the
energy of the crowd, but for the newer players, maybe it's something that might
make them nervous, especially not me.
Oh, actually that guy is so interesting to listen to talk about Dota
Because he originally was playing in like tier two
And below Dota and move to spirit, which is a massive step up to tier one
When asked about how that felt for him and if it was hard if it was nervous
It was stressful. He was just like what's actually nicer because everyone's just playing better at tier one
The wording is like way easier than it was before it says that everyone's moving into the right places on the map
So it just feels great
And in one of their vlogs about this TI they they asked him, you know, how do you feel about the stage?
Are you nervous and he was just like see I just you know, I'm just feeling it out. It's okay
It's nice. This guy is so solid. He is so calm
I mean, they're very cool thing in donors like when you get to join a team
That's like already doing their job like you get to just focus in yourself. You don't have anything
Oh, I need why is that guy not doing this? Why not? We're doing that like what's the drop?
What's this like him like he has joined like the perfect team to just try and become the best player
he can and of course it is clearly working. I mean I also want to highlight about how big of a deal
that is. When you really have a support player, you join a team that's already established.
The reason why it's difficult because the early game is all about the supports and the mid laner.
And if you're a core, you're joining a team. If everything is already there, the foundation is
that it is not as difficult as the support. So what not me has accomplished here. It's
totally amazing. The way he integrated into the team, the way he paired so well with
everything is so amazing. It's such a short period of time.
Apparently right before EWC as well,
Roussai talking more than he was before,
so I think that's also helping.
I think they're making a lot of accommodations to make this a Pudu.
It was so strong.
Yeah, and it's working out great.
We go from seeing two first timers on stage
in Malady and not me to...
I want to talk about the experience, guys,
because we got DM right now
on your screen, and he was here last year,
and he did come top three.
He came third.
third last year with team vision so beating team spirit here would propel
him into a position where he has overcome his previous result and I think
that would definitely prove to him and to his team that he can do it but how
good do you feel until you see your old team that's what you really want that's
true we've seen the tips coming out against DM we've seen his name put in
this guy has so much to prove
all the haters will be writing
their apology forms by the end
of this tournament if he has his
way. Yeah, as well, like
saxophone screen, right? Like
the fact that he spoke about,
you know, no one's won three
TI's. He really wants to
achieve that. He's not talking
about retirement unlike some
of the other older pros, you
know, my guy's locked in. He
wants to win this one. He
wants to win the next one
and maybe another one after
that. And he talks freely
about why he has his own
team and why he's separated
team. We're going to get to
the final day on T. I honestly
no complaints at all. What he
has done to the team, elevating
the individual individual players,
given in the confidence within
the map play the macro
understanding. Of course, we
never truly understand like what
he's truly done individually,
but it just feels like it is just
like the perfect addition and
you know, it's just like the
perfect addition. And you know,
you know, you know, you know,
addition and yet Yandex it is a true like Titan name for this this entire season. I need to add
something to that because he's playing with 33 Satsa and now he's playing with DM I feel like
both of them have a lot of similarities like so he kind of understands how to play with an offlaner
that is kind of semi greedy and I feel like that has helped him a lot when he moved to this team
and he he's shown it kind of time again he knows how to enable his offlaner and one thing
I think I lied about DM here at this tournament, especially during the last couple of days.
I felt like he figured out what heroes he should be playing.
He's one of those players.
I know we don't like the Doom a lot.
I know people are like talking about that.
But he's one of the few players that had success with Dooms.
And I think it's because he is not buying Midas.
We mentioned that we did not like the Midas.
And I like that he's playing Doom without buying Midas.
That's good.
It's working out for them.
We also have to remember the importance of the series of spirit.
This entire year, even if you look back towards 2025, Yandex has had spirits known the entire
time.
Nine series played.
Only spirit has won a single series of the nine.
In those, spirit has only ever won, in the losing ones, two games total.
Of all the best of threes, the best of five, two games.
In this matchup, it really is David versus Goliath, where Yandex is the Goliath.
So now it's for Spirit, using their TI form, using the shape that they're in to finally overcome a team that has just pretty much had Spirit's number since their inception.
I mean I think today it's an entirely different story. This patch, personally I feel like it favors Spirit a lot the way they're playing.
They have a true heart carry. I mean Yandex also has a true heart carry, but I think with how their mid laners are functioning, especially if you compare Xeha, Zhiyuan and Lao,
I think Lao has proven that he is capable of playing any type of mid laners and I think
the advantage that Lao has over Shira Junya here is he is able to play the tempo making
mid laners a little bit better than Shira Junya.
I think Shira Junya is more comfortable with the carry from mid heroes like Invoker for example.
I would like to give a shout out though because he was playing us for it again and winning
with it when I think in the group stage especially he looked very weak on it.
So I do think Tier Junior has leveled up massively coming into this main stage.
Yeah, this main stage is going to be a good one, but a lot of it yesterday we talked about
is how much of it was decided in the booth before the horn sounded for the game itself.
A lot of it is decided in the draft.
Team Young Dex versus Team Spirit, game one.
We are heading into the draft of the first game of the lower record finals.
We got Young Dex on the radiant side, Team Spirit on the dire side.
There's one hero in particular we want to just quickly highlight here, Winter,
because there's a Winter Wyvern and we have seen that so many times yesterday
day and it was so successful and especially these games go so long a BKB piercing disabled
so strong.
Yeah Wyvern is one of the heroes that has been popping off so much the remaining teams all
three of the remaining teams right now they have a very very dedicated Wyvern player it's
not a hero that you can just oh everyone else is playing I guess I'm just gonna play
it if you have not been practicing this hero it is going to be very difficult for
for you to just pick up a hero like Wyvern mid-event.
And this is where you can see the difference between the low-frocket final drafts, towards
the grand final drafts.
We have Winter Wyvern through the pool, there's Lina through the pool, Lone Druid, Ember,
like the drafts are going to be completely different as every game progresses and every
series progresses.
I feel like the Wyvern has seen such a rise recently is because one of her arch-nemesis
got nerfed a lot, Snapfire.
I think Snapfire was picked so much the last two months, and it's very hard
to play Wyvern into that snipe because you can't save with the curse and you can't really
get to her because she just launches her Mortimer's a mile away and you don't see her. So right
now you don't see that old granny so Wyvern's in a good spot.
Spirit have prioritised the Wyvern as well and like if they're last five games, five
matches, they've taken Wyvern on first for themselves and four of them. It's such
a high priority pick and it does obviously let Yandex take the Nature's Prophet which
which I think Spirit have also been playing really well with.
Yeah, I mean the Nature of the Prophet is going to be quite nice into Wyvern.
Naturally in laning phase, Wyvern excels from using the Arctic Burn chasing down the lane.
So once you have stepped a bit too far, Prophet can TP in,
you get a very cheap kill in the Winter Wyvern.
Sure, there will be a cold embrace to kind of keep yourself alive for an extra 4-5 seconds,
but realistically, Nature of the Prophet can punish this Wyvern early on.
Sure, later on the qualities that you both mentioned will come into play,
but I just feel that Yandex are going to just crank up the tempo a little bit
and try and threaten the early game we went to Wyvern,
something that we haven't really seen been done yet,
at least in the last couple of days.
I think another thing I really like about Natures into Wyvern is
usually a lot of these fights break out, someone's holding position,
you get to, you know, break a smoke, you see the look of the fight,
and then Wyvern will ult to, you know, disengage it or set their team up.
Natures doesn't have to be in that initial smoke break,
because they can just teleport in.
So Natures can get whatever position they like in the fight,
which really makes Wyvern have to either wait a little bit longer or use their spells and then not be able to stop nature's winning.
Yeah, that's actually a really really good point.
Like whenever I'm playing Wyvern, I really hate MP, playing against MP in a teamfight because I can never see him.
Because he never shows up initially and usually when you're playing Wyvern, you're very very focused on where is the enemy carry.
I want to use the ultimate so that he kills one of his teammates or at least I use my ultimate to stop him during his BKB.
And whenever I play against MP, I don't see him and I have to hide.
what you need to do in this situation as Wyvern is your items you have to buy more mobility items
the dagger the four stars you can't afford to be too greedy you have to get items that will allow
you to kite to wait until the MP shows up. It also nations has to shock right first world growth
about to see the wyvern as well so sometimes like you just TP in and then the wyverns like
oh watch it ah no you got me you know it's like it can be very annoying even way the yandex
progressive draft. Finally, we're seeing the Slug Band into Ember Pit. If you want to pick Ember,
this is 2026, the year of banning Slug. Not Huskars, not Monkey Day. This is the new guy on the block
that you got to ban when you pick Ember. But of course, there still are some of the classics
that I just mentioned. We'll see how Spirit want to try and approach the Ember. There's the
Pucks, the Huskars, whatever. But I believe it's something that I was kind of thinking
yesterday as well. I felt like teams were not doing a very good job at countering the Wyvern.
and they're just like, oh, it's just a position 5 hero, whatever, you know.
But I think that is not really the ideal situation and draft for them.
You need to pick a hero to deal with the Wyvern,
and I think Ember Spirit is one of the best heroes against Wyvern
because you build vessels,
and it's very hard for the Wyverns to actually target you in the teamfights,
and you can always find him because you're so mobile.
And having one hero to specifically target down a Wyvern
is very important in the teamfights.
And already, Spirit, they don't really care about Yandex's draft too much
because they're trying to go for,
Okay, if you're going to jump us, we want to find ways to jump you because now the Pangalir's job and when Spirit is in true form,
they will always offer up one hero for information, everyone else will kind of hold position.
When they understand the fight, that's when they go in.
So this is where the Pangalir pick makes sense because he's going to roll through, pressure the Prophet, force the Ember to waste a Remnant,
Winter Wive will be hiding on the side and only when they see the fight, that's when they'll collapse.
It's the same thing for Winner as well, but they can just kind of hug, wait and keep kiting back the fight.
And this is an extremely good pick here by Spirit. They have utilised this Wyvern plus Velo Duel before.
This is not the first time, but I especially like the Velo into the Ember Spirit.
Because Velo is, I feel like, the best position for hero right now against Ember Spirit because of how your hero interacts with
and ganks Ember Spirit with your roots and your fear and it's very natural for you to build a Vessel,
sorry, not the Vessel, but the Eul's so that you can actually target the Ember Spirit.
Because one thing about Ember is usually in a game where you do not have the right catch against this hero.
He can be extremely obnoxious. He's cutting your waves. He's farming in front of the tower.
And you're supposed to be like, what do we do? We can't kill him. We can't touch him.
And he's just pressuring you all over the map.
And I really like that having an answer right away from the draft against this Ember.
The only thing I'm slightly wary of is if they were to pick something like Marana now on Yandex,
which pairs really nicely with Ember.
that's a good idea. Well,
something she's so effective at
is like breaking smokes or
being at the front because
she's so difficult to kill.
Obviously if she gets the
yields, it's okay, but embers
route persists even when she
goes into the shadow realm and
you can just kill her with an
ember Marana combo. I think
that will make it really hard
for her to play. I like the
idea of the Marana, especially
when spirits will be playing
for a lot of kiting and
information in the fight,
throwing in invisibility,
other layers to Yandex's
And they are kind of protecting GM in the draft quite nicely. He will be getting
overall last pick.
You know, I wonder like...
It was a couple of long days ago, that's what it's like.
Hey!
I don't even know what's happening with the doors.
And he got support, yeah.
But why is the MP good as a support here?
They want the MP to lean into the Wyvern.
Saksa has played this tournament, which is nice.
Yeah.
Saksa is so annoying on the Nature's Prophet, actually.
No, he is the most annoying.
Like him and my class are the most annoying supports right now.
Don't forget there are the, of course,
you just go for the vessel build,
you slice the shard that we mentioned already.
The vision went to Wyvern, the positioning, it exploits.
And on top of that, when you,
obviously, found your trees on the map,
if you just start TPing and blocking these side counts,
I've been so prevalent throughout the entirety of TI if Saksa wants to be blocking camps and just doing all this vision
Shanagans profit can do it
But the only reason this will work is if the rest of the draft is stable
And then he can play into the lanes if you have losing lanes and a support profit your game is already over
Yeah, this is really really important when you're playing MP support
You do not want your lane matchups to be bad because it can easily go really really bad and you feel like
Guys, I think I cannot do anything, so I'm just gonna cut some waves, I'm gonna jungle, I'm gonna cut some waves, and that's it you know.
That's where of course, you know, they found the slot, picked the Ember, they feel like they got that lane.
Picking Shadow Fiends, he can play pretty much most lanes.
Yeah, but the thing is they can just move the pango to the off lane and make sure they get a lane winner against the Ember to kind of mess up what the MP is gonna do here.
But then the MP can just TP to mid, you pick an off lane on last pick for DM, and then you just create this like dual lane middle, like mid at 2 onwards, with DM having security's first couple waves.
I feel like Yannix has solutions.
Do they have a solution to the Terribly?
Not yet. The Terribly is the solution to the SF. It's very very good against the SF, you copy him, you make a reflection, you get the aura.
SF can never fight TB in the late game, but fortunately SF is one of the fastest call in the early game
TB is not as strong in the early game
So you have to really take advantage of that early strength of the hero
You need to win your lane and you get your objectives faster and you take control of the map
The Spirit's lineup is it's like as long as they just are relaxed to 20 minutes plus like the game will play itself for them
For the Yandex, I am looking at the supports if you have a prophet and Marana in the early game
But if they don't step up and open up the ruins for em, but to give them the levels make the stacks for shadow fiend to get them online
Their game can disappear very quickly. They don't have this big team fight to lean on
They don't have this kind of insurance built into them
So I'm looking at the support of the andex like they have to really want this game
this is why I got a little confused at the shadow fiend pick because
You when you move nature's property support
It makes your next support pick feel kind of weird because Marana makes the most sense of play with
But you also typically want to play a melee support with Shadowfiend for the lane
That kind of removes the ability for them to do that
Are they going to move Saksa to play Paws 5 for lane with Shadowfiend when you use the Triance to kind of protect him?
But even then it's like what is your duo you have no real lockdown for this terrible lane
He's gonna get Sunderoth like every fight. We saw this lane yesterday
Didn't we like twice I think SF plus Mirana and it kind of feels like it's very easy to gank
But especially you're playing in survival an exceptional hero at gate coming through the gates coming from behind
embouching the SF, what is the Murana gonna do? I think the best thing you can
hope for is you place a ward defensively early, you anticipate the move and you
hopefully you see him coming because if you don't see him coming your SF is
going to die very easily. Okay, Bandstand talk. It's like for DM and Offlane,
there's potentially... There's Darkseer right? No, Band and Flushface. I was really
wanting Darkseer and I reminded myself, ah look at the top, there's very early
B-Bands from Spirit, they were preparing themselves.
He's going to say, give me build.
It might just come out, looks like both teams could use enough lane, of course Pango can still swap about.
I mean there's a world where they could still lago for Yandex and Last Pick.
Again, depends on what Spirit go for, but then let you can buff up your Ember.
You have pretty decent laning against the Terrorblade.
If he ever steps up too far, then you can invite, you know, all this pressure.
Moron would come through Twin Gate, you go for the kill.
I could I could see a world you'll have the lick to I mean when do I'm just keep
replying it but I think it looks like a terrible lot of just they're missing
lockdown like solid reliable lockdown and I don't think log of it's a bit
so greedy it's more like if they want to go through tempo but yes a lot of stun
would be a lot simpler for them to play for a hundred percent of a 14th
straight it's just gonna be a lot easier for them to finalize their
draft here they have team fight there's some catch there's some
decent lane that wave clear with the GB so it's easier for them to finish up their draft
they could do pangol off lane pangol mid
guys you're missing underlords still in the pool they can just go for like a simple underlord
the humble underlord
yeah it's very very very good against ember spirit here
oh don't worry sorry spirit you're into the underlord i take it back they cannot
underlord anymore
oh instant timber
I mean this, I mean this team is kind of decent, I can see why they insta-picked it but I can overall this draft
Out of 10 games, I'm gonna say I prefer to play on Spirit's lineup, maybe 8 games at least, 8 to 9 games
I think they have the ease of execution on their side, they have the stability, they have the lane
And the owners is gonna be on Yandex, they last pick this team but they need to win the lanes
If they don't win their lanes, their heroes are gonna struggle to find synergy together
I think we saw spirit play a very similar line up against Liquid who also last picked a timber like this
And it just felt like he couldn't play
Between get it like the wyvernol and the pangol roll. I never really saw timbers way into a fight. Yeah, they have no
proper
Initiation especially they just buy low assault on spirit or a force after
Move you out of the path of the chains arrow. I don't see how Yandex can lock you down
The main thing for Yandex with this type of draft is they need to make sure that they are like the kings of the laning phase
They have to demolish that they need to bring to your journey into the game play through DMs early timings
This cannot be a timber that AFK farms like sans sky BKB and three items like every single item time for Yandex has to be a
Statement across the map and then you keep punishing spirit. Don't allow them to get to the late game
You know that I feel like as much as it's a very difficult draft for Yandex
They have the skill to be able to put it off, but it is difficult
It is a lot easier for spirit to play this game
Yeah, it seems like Team Spirits kind of boxed Yandex a little bit into a corner with the drafts,
especially having the same result as the drafts against Team Liquid as Raid mentioned yesterday,
which did not play out very well for Team Liquid at all.
We know that Yandex has to be active in this first game, especially in the first 20 minutes.
How is Spirit going to do in those first 20 minutes? Do they have tools to answer that aggression?
Yeah, they have a lot of wave push, wave D shove, and waves to help each other.
So I think we're very prepared for this.
Well, let's see how prepared they are as we're heading over to Slatsford coach interview
Absolutely, thank you so much. We are here with us. So good to see you here on the semifinals
No, we're back very very exciting. How do you think we did in the draft?
We have a couple favorite heroes coming up from Team Spirit, but you guys got some of yours as well
I think that's a pretty good CB game and a Seattle CB like with my chip into the S
I think Spirit is happy with the drop, but they also have a lot of hours, and let's see if we're going to come up with another win.
What's the number one thing that this team needs to do to survive? The Andex has faced off against Spirit before. Is it lanes? Is it team fight? What is important in this one?
For Spirit?
No, for you! I don't care about Spirit! I mean, they got to lose! This is your...
I think they need to survive then. I think the longer game goes, the better it is for us.
And the landing stage of course is very important.
We tend to have, I would say, favorite matchups
in at least two other freelance, but not so big
and it's very skill dependent, so we'll see.
Alright, fantastic.
Now we did see some last picked Timbersaws coming out yesterday.
It didn't work out for Liquid.
How is this one different?
Why is Timbersaw good in this one?
They mainly have physical damage like pangu tb
and under is historically a matchup
I think that's all. I think it's, if, if Timber is 24 peak, uh, real, it's, it's game.
All right. Well, thank you so much for the great insight. We'll go ahead and see.
If game one works out, in the end, X is favorite. Let's head to the game.
Thank you so much indeed, Slacks, and we're getting ready to go into this.
When you hear the last pick, Timber saw, yep, feeling like it's going to be good.
All that physical damage. We'll see how they do it though.
Yeah, that is the question here. There's definitely some good parts of it.
Some questions, as he said, you know, they're very, very good.
That's a bit some questions, as he said.
You know, there's some problems with the Underward heading later in the game, but they hit their specific timing.
The matchup is good for them, good for Tien heading into the legendary Yotaro terribly.
Yeah, this is the one that you want to watch out for.
This man has made millions of dollars playing this hero,
and looking to try and do it again here on Grand Finals Day,
trying to make it to that last one. And this is not the way that you wanted to start his DM chase down.
Yatoro finds him the last hit. Yes. Start the day off with a first blood. Sox will get some vengeance, but
but a pittance. Fair to take you down that Timbersaw nice and early here. Exactly what you want to
see. Witness went to Wyvern. I mean coming into today, I feel like this was the number one hero
that everyone is looking at. Just look at the way the fans are working up. We've got so many
problematic heroes, and with or not their fan, this Wyvern does fairly well with most of the top tier heroes and manages to slip through and again to him, right back in the lane, right back in the hole.
He's down, great, he got a few towards him early on and now turning to their sights, Zoxa keeps him pressured underneath the tower.
I mean this is the power of Metamorphosis, getting that first kill on DM without having to use it, that was the real backbreaker at that point.
And Terriblade, as you can see, starts with 11 armor here.
So when you hit this level 1 heal on the Winter Wyber, the value is just absolutely disgusting.
Right? Like, every bit of HP is so much value on this hero, so juicing him right back up to full HP like that, it makes the trade so difficult to re-end that.
Well, and obviously that's going to change over as DM starts to get more of these levels, right?
This Timbersaw traditionally a counter to the Terriblade, but as you can see, if you can get off to an early start,
particularly having like this nature to stop it as a support.
Yep.
Not providing a ton at the early stages from Soxa to try and mess with the TV.
It's ironic. It's brought down bottom.
Yeah, this is not the forte of the hero, and really not where Soxa truly shines as a player.
He's first couple minutes in his own lane, not where he's at peace.
Going anywhere else on the map?
That's where you've seen this guy dominate all of his games on Nature's Prophet or Bounty Hunter.
Anyone who can sleep in behind, but losing them brought him down bottom.
I had to get a little pressure, probably thinking about a little air up again.
Now he's going in! I mean, oh no! He messed up!
Oh, managed to pop the star storm before he came out of the shadow realm, so no damage dealt there.
A rare fluff from Malady here on the big stage.
Bit rain, Laurel. A little low right now, and also low on the CS at the moment, so
Cheer Junior off to a good start here.
Ember, Spirit turns here once again to a very important hero throughout this tournament for many teams.
It feels like we often get into the mid game and there becomes this question of just, you know, who on your team can start a fight?
Who can you scope with, with some confidence that you can create a good play for your team?
And Ember has been no go to hero.
Right. That's going to be what we're watching for, obviously on the other side.
Here you've got a lot of potential heroes before hits on the Watson and caught in the pit of Malice and this Underlord
Which is going to menace in the mid game with an axe build is also getting something on here too. Yatoro
Tases down Soxa
Leaving the creepway since it's all the way pushed out decides. I don't want to go any further
But for this time it's just profit allowed to escape
Yeah, a lot of storylines to unpack
Obviously between these two teams, you know how this tournament has played out
You know you were mentioning that like coming into this you might have thought these would be the teams that you get here
But the path was not how we thought it would happen. Yeah, when you were doing your group stage missions
I know many people when you're looking at the four zero
Four ones, many teams were just you know, I was like the index spirit vision sounds good
That seems pretty likely and then as the tournament's gone on maybe you might have questioned those in group stage didn't work out that way
I know I got those wrong
But here they are on the final day ready to see that last boss of vision
If they're gonna, on the end, force DM back into the 2-3
Blast
They bring it, Soxon, that is the rotation
Soxon is laying bad, other lanes green
They really needed that one here
So they kicked him down, Nami is immediately kicking to the outpost though
She can get the stacks going
So, I mean if you guys watched last night and you saw Team Spirit
In those, the final two games versus the Boom Boys
The momentum was unbelievable and I'd say coming to the slain stage, they even carried that in here a little bit with how aggressive they were in the first couple of levels.
But they essentially got on the main board side of the map and just never left.
They stole so many stacks, they got so much gold and look at this, Nobby trying it again, he gets punished.
So Yandex seeming to be comfortable matching the tempo, maybe having watched those games last night, they take this nature's profit who can kind of be all over the map and help stop this pressure coming in.
I think there was definitely some fear if you watch those games and look what he's doing now.
In here at these camps, dropping a board down wants to know if they're going to be farming these up
and potentially they want to take some of them to the back themselves.
Now Laryl, he's got no way out.
Double six there for Tira Jr. Now they do have to pull the phrase,
but a good amount of magic damage coming in, although Tira Jr. is actually taking a lot of the counter moves.
The arrow move, that Marana answer to the Winter Wyvern is looking solid.
So they get the kill on the pango, we will steal away an arcane root at the very least.
That's very good for Team Spirit.
Taking that away from a level 6 ember spirit.
And that easily could have been a way into those stacks.
He could have been flying in here stealing some of those.
And not me again.
He's in here trying to defend it.
He's looking for any vision that was dropped down by Andix.
He's gonna miss it, so now he wants to play in there as well.
Well, he's starting to get some of these levels up top, two points in the reactive armor, so
a little bit stronger here, Soxa skips them.
And another one, Valady goes forward with the arrow chain's combination and easy kill.
He's trying to get the roll up, does not happen.
And they're focused up top of Soxa as well too, at that same time as we move into the wisdom trines.
They can move over.
Soxa is there.
They're bringing Terrorblade,
and there isn't any alternative move from the rest of the map.
Pop Metamorphosis, turn on the DM,
now turn towards Soxa. They're in trouble.
They're going to lose the Nature's Prophet.
DM not able to take that one away,
so it is going to be double
Prime's list of going in their direction.
The road continues to hit.
DM chasing. They're actually going to fiendscape into this one.
Well, Rue dies to cheer Junior GM, damages to TP out.
Just barely misses the pit.
He nearly gets them, but, I mean still, able to take down that shrine, that's gonna go both way, both shrine of Wisdom's now heading over to Team Spirit, so, maybe down in gold, but it's a big boost to their experience.
It sucks at TP's behind the underworld.
Okay, the Laps.
I mean, I guess this is just gonna be a full commit for the tower.
and Glaps is going to back away, Malady, and in, throw out some firestorms to try and
use the pressure off the tower, we have that TV rotation from MP not doing much there.
It's really high as the force of the tower down gets it on board, it's certainly one
of the strengths of this series, so you really need to kill if that place is going
to work out.
Now, sitting mid-larrow, much healthier on the resources right now, as the rolling
time they're ready to go, so if they want to try and gank them again, they'd
Be very cautious that they hit this connection of the arrow. Otherwise, he's very good at turning round five. Yes
See here as well as six to four two thousand boldly
It's kind of nearing what we were talking about last night where
Here we're trying to bully GPK. It feels like there's been a lot of emphasis trying to shut down the oral
It's the tango is gonna be the main hero trying to set the temple
Yeah, 100% and then if when you pick this timber saw in the off lane as well
Well, you want a lot of control in their opponent.
So, giving your Ember a good game, so that he can rotate in towards his Timbersaw,
that's going to put a lot more fear in their hearts when it comes to DMs.
Likely, we're going to be seeing a retreat back to the jungle for you, Thoreau.
And Spear Castle online.
So, again, the Arrow combo, they really get away from that one.
And so, the TP out may be successful.
The big difference we're seeing compared to last night,
and YT Spirit were able to run over the North East with supports as well.
They got so much space yesterday.
Coors were heading to the jungle.
They got really fast level sixes.
They have gotten both trying to push them,
and yet their supports are five and a half and four and a half right now.
So Team Spirit are not off this ridiculous shot that they were previously,
and the annex right here is getting pressured in.
Fuller through the freeze, Laurel attacks the other direction, finds Soxa,
gets on the cheer of Junior,
Naoki is going to lay the brambles out.
They have enough to take down this Ember.
It feels unlikely. Lax is going to focus Soxa.
Find him there, Chirichunir. Still being chased.
Good hits out.
As he remnants away, looks like Spirit are going to give up on that chase.
Confident the tower, find the support, couldn't get the end.
Kind of just taking time bopping on your Timbersaw, right?
Like wondering when does he need to join in using Gage,
but when do they want to actually link in towards him?
So far, I know him from that top tower.
Nogging that down would feel pretty good right now, if you're a Yandex.
Again, here's more focused on trying to get into these items and farm up on the camps,
as opposed to a little pressuring power, which granted, it would be a little bit tough.
But when you can beat this free and a terribly pain against the Timbersaw,
not really that much energy brought his direction,
it kinda feels a little bit out of that.
That counts, I see.
We haven't really talked that much about this, the Shadow Beam.
Boxing and Mask of Madness done.
He's certainly in farm mode here.
I think we'll probably see him joining on the next push.
It's definitely a good time to do it, right?
You want to get a little use out of your Requiem.
You have all this control,
and if you're trying to milk numbering your clones,
you'll have to have this nature problem.
Rengdian, speaking of which,
he's also closing in on the level 6 Phorsox as well,
so if you're using some damage,
might be just what they need.
Try and bring out some A-Zeros.
Rengdian kind of counts
just pushing this one with a catapult.
Except for let him go at this point.
The plaything is coming out of next.
Just barely off the mark trying to get that vision he awarded.
Not yet still building up stacks for his buddy.
Again, on this big stage, seeing these players, both Naughty and Naughty, first time up on the TI stage,
they've been performing incredibly well.
See if they can keep that up.
to have some real value in these teamfights later on the terrorize is really good.
Yeah, and I think this early damage to the headland can also be a real difference for me.
The damage isn't quite monumental yet. They've actually got a bit of a lockdown thing with the pango,
but not enough damage to finish some of these guys off, particularly because of this high reactive armor on the TV.
The pango can jinx on you, but they struggle to kill you. That's where the dark rule comes in life here.
So now level 6 on NaughtMe. If he has any nerves whatsoever, they were certainly not on display last night.
Well, it's hot here though.
And he drops it down, terrorize, comes back in it, wants to throw it, not gonna happen, sure Junior runs and runs in minutes, right on out of that.
And no terrorize means there's no chance to link up there with the pit of malice when the blast comes in.
So a bit of a wasted rotation again for him as his tower is tanking away right now, he's gonna miss out on Pekka, he's gonna go next, he puts this.
Yeah, it's super annoying, and that mid tower, I mean, it's still not quite dead, but it's pretty damn close.
That's going to be a bad driver.
What can you do?
I mean, there's really not much, so they do eventually get it.
Sure, Junior takes the tower, has this amp damage bottled up with the Spirit Muscle done.
This feels like it could be time to play.
What?
I mean, December saw, and now the Vedlam, like you talk about, just eating through that HP pool, he's fine!
Not me. Knew the mission. Took a lot of get six. Little longer than anyone wanted, but immediately achieved what he needed.
And that arrow connects on a creep. Blue is still gonna die.
But not the kill they were hoping for. Would have loved to be able to combo that better under the turret later.
Free Remnant still left you for two years, Bob. He's in here pretty deep, but he should be able to get out of this situation.
And go. Narl. Trouble. Narl! Gone again! That's the ant damage!
Collapse moves in, they have the bedlumb shared here, actually, low on mana!
Wait a minute, he doesn't have enough to activate Remnant!
Does now as he bottles up and gets out of there, but a little close on that one.
You know, this comes back to that earlier gate, right?
They don't have the gate play to try and...
I was thinking the Ember might be in trouble, but there's no gate available, so
he turns on them with the Amplify damage and the Huntsid becomes the Hunter.
And for Yandex, a team that has traditionally done incredibly well against Team Spirit.
Now we were looking at some of the stats earlier, and it's undefeated so far throughout the season.
We were able to draw series with them.
But Team Spirit on the main stage, a different beast so far.
It's looking like it's the same story, though.
Yeah. I didn't want to put too much stuff into that stat when I looked at it earlier,
because it's like, you know, Team Spirit, they look way better right now.
Now, look at this, Soxa, he does do a Shrine of Wisdom but does get caught by Rukene, at least get the finish, still here.
Doesn't have a chance to get out of there.
Both of them are down, yeah.
They're going to run down, the same thing, so...
Last moves in, move is the one that gets the final touch.
Unfortunately, still worth, Soxa.
Very happy to steal that XP away.
640 for them, a thousand for your team.
I'll take that trade, as they keep their gold leads here.
The Shining Star of Team Spirit, as per usual though, it is Yadaro.
Still 8,500 gold, still top of the board.
They can bring him into the pool for some of these engagements. They definitely have the tools to win.
This sort of fight they want to bring at them. Again, they're going to try and hunt TM.
Yadaro moving in, and he hit another Bramble of the Terrorizer.
Whoa, that guy doesn't walk in like that. That's how it's going to happen.
Peered, caught, going to be chased and killed.
They're finding somebody to bully and eat to these games and taking out this Timbersaw
it's going to be a nice little boon getting the care blade set up for a good mid game.
Knocked down his Turbots power, killing him in behind by the tier two, trying to take
him out of this game, collapse, sensing danger, TP's out of there, oh!
This is the chain and collapse going to give the tip over to the Emperor.
I aced the tip.
Interesting.
Yeah, he's still losing his temper.
Gotta do something to build up that temper out.
But understanding what was coming his direction...
Being all that pressure though, down bottom, they immediately take the tier 1 mid, Team Spirit.
So, struggled a little bit on the earlier part of this game to open it up,
but now this map becoming a bit more free for Team Spirit to move around.
Still have yet to see Watson really make his way into any fights,
Watson is moving into a BKB, but technically there could be some action coming their way soon.
Illusion control control?
What's next here?
I don't know. I don't think they wanted on that one.
I mean, I guess not. Not a man to jam here.
But it's a confidence error.
You know, you don't want to be missing those.
Cool.
Or it's a calibrating error. It's okay.
The next action will be the wrong one.
It is getting there.
That's the other way to look at it.
There are some things up on the top side of the map.
where it looks like vision is gonna show socks out.
Not me throwing out some grandals,
the teleport away, who is skiing?
I'd say their first good timing from the side of Team Sphere
probably comes out with the Agnus Scepter on this underwater.
Gives them another way to get a roof going.
I think we've seen just how impactful it can be
when you get in the early part of the game,
particularly when you're seeing it
versus the Ember Sphere.
So there's a bit of a race here
between the Agnus Scepter on the underwater
and then this DKB on the Ember.
Here, Junior would love to have some defensive tools
to deal with this on the earlier end here,
but I'd like to see Team Spirit make a good move
with the pango and the underwater time-times.
Yeah, perhaps it's just a little bit closer to it, right?
Easy to play around 300 gold away from having it completed.
Here, Junior's still about 1,000 or so away.
We're gonna try and face-flash, big man.
If I'm the brawler, Arrow is there,
but then they have to terrorize out
and that's gonna be a cheesy kill.
See, Junior felt like there was a lot more, right?
brought many numbers. Of course you always have to consider that because the nature's profit is
whole. It's going to vary quickly. Oh! Speaking of,
tomorrow gets to double kill across both sides of the map. Now this is going to be interesting,
right? Because I do think the teamfight potential is very strong compared to you. You have two
heroes that are super heavily countered by the Timbersaw. How much has DM been shut down
when they kill him before he just like unloads on these, you know, under-lowered
Yeah, he's kind of got this like middle of a road item in the Cayenne Strology.
It's a bit defensive, it's a bit aggressive, and trying to get into the more secure item of the BKB.
So I think when you see this instant smoke immediately after from Team Spirit,
it's certainly showing like, hey, we want to keep pressuring this guy.
They love living in this area.
Like, Yonro is farming their ancient weapons.
I think they're good. They find it there.
The root of follow-up, it's in trouble.
No BKB for you.
And if he's patterned, they got the wreckage without him.
Toro gonna hit on the socks of a teepee bin behind them and no chance for a fight at all.
Ghandex, Ghandex easy to get out of there.
Underlord Axe is too strong.
Just find the game. Very strong indeed.
Arrow connected on the back line.
Toro has walked that one off.
And as the DKB comes out from the Shadowfiend, it's just, again, a couple of seconds too late
as Spirit hit their timing perfectly.
As soon as the axe was ready, you go.
Yeah, it could not have been better there, I mean it pairs so nicely with the Pangalir
because it still struggles a little bit before the Blink Dagger in terms of, like,
in terms of being a spirit-esque hero, as we say.
A hero that's very good at starting fights.
Before the Blink, it's just not quite to that same level.
Oftentimes, the roll can feel a bit clumsy, so you have this agonim sector from the unloaded
as a bit of a backup, you have the brambles, you have the terrorized.
Suddenly, it becomes a three-layer cake of perfection.
Roll hungry.
I hear ya. Sounds good. Early in the morning.
But yeah, I think it's interesting to watch this one, right?
Because, again...
Look at Watson.
Are they cooking something here?
There's no gate for 20.
Yeah.
Sorry.
But again, thinking about the way that this game is unfolded,
all the good leaf-free index things looking solid,
things starting to turn back around into scared favor,
and it's off the back of these pick-offs.
Watson moves in, he's gonna turn and actually pop the mask of madness.
He's trying to do some damage there, but needs to get out because Toro is here as well.
Find the pit, there's the PKB, the walkway, the terrorized connects now on to this marijuana.
And as the lowly thunder comes through and this PKB wears out, Shadowfeet has to be gone because otherwise he's going to fall also.
The losing man of losing life chased out with Tristler, and Toro finds them all.
and this game starting to fall out of the hands of the index.
For the classic team spirit this morning compared to last night.
Last night was full on aggression, very much not what we'd seen often in this tournament.
Really any team, this much more what you see with team spirit.
The ability to force their opponents in these team fights that just seem unwinnable,
and hitting all their timings in sync there, like you see that roll-up,
It's so powerful when you're fighting in this area,
and that's just hang-out.
Doesn't have the best natural mount targets to go for it.
So he just pops it, they get the chainsaw
on the Timbersaw, and what does Shadowfiend have to do
with his first DKB?
He just walks away.
It's higher time, no opportunity to stay in fall
off with this item.
The disaster time near the game is nearer.
Moonlight Shadowling, they need this kill.
That's a level 17 terribly.
You gotta take this guy down.
This would be a really big win,
and it's just, they're not willing to go for it.
It's a little bit off.
He's on the ward right now.
They still can't get him.
I mean, yeah.
I see him back there.
It's crazy.
He's going to walk back in.
Or unafraid right now.
Steps up.
Says he's one man, clerical.
He's just one man.
He has no backup.
They're coming in now.
But the root lands.
Follow up root is there.
And now the bedlam.
No terrorized means no chance.
Holy kill.
And we'll get to the essence of Siller.
But yeah, that hesitancy.
Like if you've got two cores up and now instead it's going to be Soxa that goes down.
They say bounty hunter, one in seven.
I mean they're willing to just rip the Underwater Ulti for a kill on the Venetian Crawler.
Like they feel that is worth it because of how much space it's going to give them on the map right now.
Instantly smoke. How many times have they smoked up this staircase this time?
They just keep playing around it.
Infinitely they're just coming in here, farming your ancients,
looking to draw rewards and vision, controlling this part of the map.
There's a tower, the tower's still there.
Ooh, able to get out. Those two ulti's used, can they get the return kill though?
The Steershinger top speed gave him tries to get away, remnants still slowed and able to get out of their collapse.
They were still hunting, Rue wanted it.
It's just ridiculous.
While they were doing that chase in the mid lane, there was a catapult wave hitting the top tower.
Socks out on the respawn.
As you go up top on this map, they just start trying to cut these waves.
Yeah.
They got to slow something down.
Um, the game needs to slow down for them.
And that's the tier two mid taken now, instantly reaching to grab this outpost.
You thought they owned this area before?
Now everyone can TP in here. They don't need the enemy.
This is their new base of operations.
Of course that's what they're now.
Well, to help deal with the little bit of catch that is there.
That's the thing the panel talked about a lot, was the inability to really lock onto a target.
On the other hand, very easy to lock on Saksa here as the Nature's Prophet another death.
I've got to be some of the most that he's had this time.
They are smoking up now. He has buyback TP if they really need it, but they need something here on the NS.
Smoke break on the Naughty. Looking for the air of follow-up, it does connect.
The damage out, they're going to lose Naughty, so a good chunk of their control and magical damage is gone.
Unfortunately, there's not much left after that.
That's the main bit of the control that they get.
They just need to get back, get their Ophos under control, hopefully D-Word.
That is one thing that Boom Boyz really struggled with last night,
where they were unable to get rid of those issues and they're kept being left behind here.
Maybe an earlier gem could be an option here for Yandex.
Obviously comes with a lot of risk, but maybe they could be a part of the map back.
You know, we talk a lot about like momentum throughout the tournament,
and momentum in the game, and this type of play right here,
If you just lose them like that, it completely stopped any of the good momentum that was coming their direction for Yandex.
I mean, again, this is a team that they have beaten so many times this year.
They went 15 and 6. They only lost 6 games to Spirit the entire time, and now they're down 4,000 net worth at 24 minutes in the biggest match of the year for them.
Now, just to add another issue here, Nottany has just gone straight for the jet.
They do not want to release any control at all in this game.
That may be true, but you have to back in, honestly, if you're a N-Taxi.
If you have a pretty good target in this Willow, it's not me end up holding with them.
It's as quick as someone that can try and opt to kill you to get something back.
For now, the Arrow will say, hey, they're doing Rose.
I can't imagine they're going to do any of that.
They're heading over this direction.
The whole leap skill?
Thera goes in but Thor already there with the Aegis.
Now slowing them. They're gonna chase this.
Thor blinked forward, finds his man for any mana.
He thought about the terrorized, decides not to go for it.
They weren't even all there. They still had the Underlord raid to gate in.
I appreciate it.
I just had a small snag on the Aegis to try something at this point.
I feel the game slipping away a long way from the others, pulling into his own zone of network.
He thinks I'm a Scotty.
Very early on that Scotty against these heroes, particularly against the Timbersaw who has been bowling a good chunk.
Yeah, you can see Dota Plus feels it, but Watson right now, directly, this could be it!
Oh, just go for it! You gotta get something! They're not gonna do it.
I mean, I don't think it's gonna matter. I don't think it's enough. It would have to be still frame perfect.
Yeah, and there's the Sunder possibility of turning around.
Oh, no, and now he walks into a ward.
Watson, don't go over there, you're not safe, sir!
Oh, Rue shows up and they find a two,
there's a way to be directly on the,
directly on the TP out, wait a minute.
No, no, not gonna happen.
Not going to happen.
Watson, the saddest of Shadowfeeds.
All this farm for what?
not find an opportunity to use this damage whatsoever in this game. His teammates, they
try and get it on the map right now, trying to find some vision, trying to find a little
bit of way across here. I mean, the bright side, they have a 9 seconds AP on this Timbersaw,
right? They have 8 seconds left there on the Ember. Maybe that will give them some
opportunity. It just feels like they don't have those pieces that they need, that
glit-stun hero, that little bit of control. They've got plenty of damage, but what
What happens if Team Spirit just back away?
What happens if they run out of there?
And it felt like they had it, right?
It felt like they had this Ember.
He could also really get started in this game,
but he has not fallen behind this Pangolier.
They weren't able to link up.
They weren't able to import some things
on the other side of the map.
Maybe.
I wouldn't say they had many opportunities.
Like, D.M., trying to get off to a decent start,
even after the first couple of games,
but they did create eight linkages.
They didn't knock down the tall tower super early.
Team Spirit were just very good at keeping the pressure
on that top half of an hour.
Speaking of keeping the pressure up,
this has been a tournament that has had a lot of super late game
Dota.
Over the past couple of days, it appears
Team Spirit have found avenues to find end games.
Are they going to do the same thing here right now?
I look last time, so he's shepherding the wave.
He was just walking alongside it.
He got up there to just kill some trients.
I'm sure that another wave could come down.
Oh, and now he's going back.
Thankfully the observer word spots that he's here. I'll say different bad news
They farm up that way
Still have another two minutes left on a just metamorphosis
A little bit longer going to be around
but no
Instead going to go over here secure the shrine
Listen for everybody out there he swaps in the dust look at that carries that's what you want to see
Just in case.
Shadowblade, Soxa...
Gonna try and do whatever you can to wrap this out.
They need to buy time.
I think if you're E-NX right now, you know there's split left and right on the map.
Oh, we didn't have to dust back in!
Alright, now you have to.
I think this is your chance, man.
I think if you take this outpost, you recognize that we are getting a little bit of pressure up the mid-wave right now.
I mean, Tier 2 is out here, but he's on his own.
The Aegis is expiring soon.
I feel like if there's any opportunity to be going for an aggressive play, it's hitting right now.
Yeah.
Maybe around this bottom tier, it's tower potentially.
I mean they're playing pretty far forward.
The minute left, they're not feeling confident doing it.
I mean it's again, I feel like the mental of this is so tough to be like,
cannot fall into the trap of we just need one more item.
Like, Team Spirit are running at your base, and it might not matter.
Although that said, there is no seemscape.
Have a little while left on that.
Send the illusion forward, take that arrow.
But the sorrow continues to hit the tier 3 tower.
And skip the damage.
DM forward.
Low 30 seconds left.
Gotta do something here.
Gotta find a way to punish this.
Thank you.
This is not the time.
If not now then when?
Try and figure that out here.
Damn, steady.
Rock solid.
Oh, Soxie.
You came to the wrong neighborhood, sir.
That was...
That was never gonna work.
A tense death
for this nature's profit.
And again, it's...
It's what he kind of has to do.
He has to people want to make it happen.
Not me.
Not me, the Hurricane Pike.
They find Wattson out of the base, trying to bait a BKB out of him.
The fear, the second round.
Now popping Meta, they finally get the BKB out of him.
Now everybody here, I mean, Ember is not actually joining the rest of the team.
Almost the same way they forced his top racks last night against the Boom Boys.
Catching Delina up there with their own Tiny.
This time, they force him back.
Yeah, besides to go in, he's rooted. BKB used.
They don't have the BKB on the Shadow Feet though, so the damage coming out of DM is insane.
You bring Thoros somewhat low, now the Winters curse Shadow Feet, hit this friend!
That's fine, I feel it.
If I had enough time to get out, and now they want me to keep going for more.
They're not even trying to kill the Ember there, you know?
Yeah.
It's just, I'll push them back, we're gonna get these top racks.
This simplifies your game a lot, because now it has constant pressure on the top side of the map.
Uh, I'd say, I guess most teams, or most heroes, they wouldn't even have worked stalking out his game next,
but this nature's profit has been constantly getting deep, catching a random wave,
and it has delayed this situation where they're able to just trap you inside of your base.
And now that you've managed to finish off one of these sets of racks,
that pressure worry is running off. It's going to take a lot of the attention here from that
nature's profit, and they can focus more on just the middle and top waves.
If there is one right spot right now, it's of all the items that Utoro has,
he does not have a BKB.
Hang on, they have a good amount of match for damage.
Lots of you can get in on top of them and do some type of a Requiem,
or right click.
Yeah, some pure damage there from the Timbersaw as well.
This is something.
He does still have 3380, so it's a lot to jump through.
It's a lot, there's a Wyvern as well.
You know, they have some issues for sure.
They're getting most of what they wanted.
And worth noting, you know, vision waiting in the grand finals and asked who it was
that they wanted to play up against, it was Team Spirit.
They felt like they were the team that was picking up steam and as evidenced by the
last two days of 2-0s and now coming in strong in this game number one, it appears to be
the case.
There's a lot of Welfare here on Team Spirit.
I don't know about that, maybe even a little sleep in the first couple minutes of this one, but they're up now.
Kira, Jr. The glorious Aghanim Scepter for the Ember Spirit, much like the Underlord,
that gives you the item of the hero, where it really feels like you operate on another level.
Try and use that, Kira. It's again, Team Spirit.
Coming in, not concerned about the Welfare, you can hit your Welfare, so I can.
I need to get one more item.
And X.
I mean, you can see Laurel. He's smoked up outside, ready to go at a moment's notice, but they're just gonna keep sending him these illusions.
Oh, it's an illusion push? I mean, why not?
Back away from the arrow, let the illusions hit it.
You gotta stop this terror blade at some point, and it's not super easy.
Stop this 500-goal-of-lake-me-agnums. He knows how much stronger he's gonna be soon as your tuner.
The Vantah illusion is not even leading the send of this road.
And now DM comes out of the base in PKB'd.
So they will be able to walk back inside, but now the fight feels really hard.
Laurel taking a good chunk of damage,
he'll push out, he doesn't even know the call of grace.
Comes out right at the last second.
The team spirit will not be taken down there.
Toro, Lotus, stunned.
The damage out, so they have enough of a direct hit, but there it is!
It's the same pass, oh my god!
But barely before he was able to get that thunder off,
Dr. In pretty far, Malady has to back off,
but Nami gets two shot there by the shadow feet.
There he goes, just left,
because he had enough knock flight.
He needed a few more crits to end that one.
But Yandex says we're not out of it yet.
Finally, they just go a little bit too deep.
A massive arrow connects there onto the terribly,
a miracle moment there.
any way to break the season doesn't look like it. A good bit of damage, but not enough.
So they do manage to finally punish. It came at a heavy cost. Another tier 3 tower down,
but they did get a lot of gold on the course. A lot of experience.
I mean Team Spirit was looking to put the final nail in the coffin of this game though.
And they were saying that if we can clean up this Rax and we get out of here just throwing
out a pango roll and backing it up, how are they ever going to come back? So the
Yandex, maybe all this patience has finally paid off.
They found a big win here.
The Aegis, it's a bit of a later spawn,
is back up in another 50 seconds,
so unfortunately for them,
Yadar will be back in the game.
They don't get one to break.
Yeah, but they have a way to play for it,
for very long.
And you also just now completed the MKV.
So while the butterfly was done,
you didn't get a ton of value out of that.
And then you're in the game.
There's ways here
that this could potentially turn around.
It's only a 4k gold lead, the sort of creep advantage of having a lane of racks is going
to be hurtful, but let's see, yeah.
They also did finish the heart on the TN, so it's been one of the items of the tournament
pretty much for every off laner, can you give them a better chance of staying alive
in spite of trying to outlast the healing essentially of the Wyvern, as well as these
parrots and just constant roots and delays of the engagement that come out from the
Starquillo.
You can just find his own way out and then back into the fight to get used to him.
That spell slinger neutral item is well paired up with the heart.
I feel like it gives you a little bit of a chance to just keep going as a timber.
But he is into the next tier, so might find something a little stronger.
Honestly, not much.
No, I mean, Watson did a...
It's a battle stage, actually.
...as an option, because I didn't go for the gobbler instead.
You can't get about the way this game is.
Honestly, it's even better than some of that.
I mean, 100% of attacks being slow.
This is huge for DM if he gets on the right track with that Rattle Cush.
You can always out an arrow, like the lamp on the road, out of the pit.
You'll cover remnants around, get sorrel, pop there for a moment.
It's a roll up.
But they're not comfortable destroying right on into the pit here.
You can damage out some DM hanging onto a DKB, pops it now.
Now, as the terror blade hits into him,
TM needs to back out of this one.
Laurel has already used the panko roll as well,
but the Sun, oh, there is a save,
and he's gone!
Does have eye back.
If they want to try and take this fight with him,
Soxa gets pushed out forward aggressively,
but Kira Jr. did find the backline to kill off Rue.
This would be a nice win for them there,
at the very least, but can he get out afterwards?
No, a triple kill!
The Toro takes him down!
It's bashed up by the pango, locked down for the kill.
The damage is just unbelievable.
Here it is retreating into their base, man.
Yeah, he's gonna try something.
Reckley, I'm thinking about it.
Hopped it there.
It's not quite doing enough to fear the hit on the collapse, but now controlled.
The end is back, but he's already so low and already dead.
And now they step forward back, lost it.
Kill him too.
A glimmer of hope and the door soars up.
Unreal as they take down and win that game number one.
Pausing the one and all.
What happens?
The headset's often hit the pause key here.
The excitement of a game number one of the more bracket final.
Domination to stroll here for teams here.
Never letting up here.
One little moment.
One punish for viral.
He throws the rolls a little bit there on the hang of the air.
They got a kill.
They find a couple.
But even that little moment cannot be capitalized upon here by TeamVision.
Struggles.
They need to come up with some new answers to put you out right now.
So they need to do a game number one going for Spirit.
Feeling like a key a lot more today.
Solid control from Team Spirit and it seems like ever since Team Spirit got knocked to the lower bracket by TeamVision
They have been two owing everybody that they faced in the lower bracket
And I think everybody is hoping that Yandex will not be another one of those
We want a third game. We want a back and forth or deal because I think winter this wasn't very back and forth
I'm afraid
The drop was just very difficult for Yandex to play
I'm sure they had their own ideas on what they wanted to do, but it just made the game so difficult because
because they had very limited options against what Spirit had.
Spirit had almost all the best heroes, like the Underlord was really good there,
the Dark Wheel Lord, especially the Wyvern.
Like, I felt like they didn't really need to adjust their initial picks.
Somehow they saw the Pangolian, maybe they felt like,
oh, I guess I should move my Nages forfeet away from the Call Roll
into the Support Roll because I don't want to play that match up.
But then why did you open the draft with that hero if you feel like it's so easily countered?
Yeah, I felt for Yandex. Some pieces of the puzzle were moving towards success, but it didn't really all come together, right?
Like, you did see Chirijunni's early aggression with the supports.
Timbersaw not really able to enter the game if at any stage he was kind of chasing the opportunity.
I think Chirijunni also as the game progressed, and he felt the intensity of the lack of teamfight and the pressure he was going to apply.
He started like missing some spells, like he wasn't getting the slight change on the underlaw TP, getting tips and all that.
It just felt like, not everyone on Yandex was performing at like 110% is what you needed for this draft to work.
Like you cannot just like half-ass this draft and win.
Like you need to truly play your best.
It's a very difficult draft to win with due to the amount of tempo required, so just pretty much get it online.
Yeah, I think it just didn't go so well for key heroes.
Like, for example, DM dying top on Simisol, and then having to TP out multiple times back to the fountain.
It meant that Yatoro had such a good start, such a good tempo, that he had the levels required to then go and contest the Wisdom Root at minute 7.
At minute 7, Spirit go both, because Yatoro was able to go, and even when they break...
You good there, Klaas? You good, man?
I liked it when you had the audio for that!
I guess we found out why the game was paused.
Damn, but you just tried to unpause.
Yeah, yeah, that's happening.
They got such a good advantage from that even single maneuver, right, to just bring them
back because Chiric Junior and Malady were playing really nicely with the Envy Spirit
Rana combo, but Team Spirit were able to eat out a lot of the little advantages that
just kept them afloat.
Yeah, it was a tough game for Yamex and Team Spirit in classical Team Spirit TI form with
Yatoro on his terror blade.
I think when that hero came out on the side of Team Spirit it was their fourth pick and
they picked it in a very strategic position where they could also still ban out two
off laners that they didn't want to face on that lane.
It just gave Yatoro all the freedom that he needed.
I think even just the symbolism of him playing that hero take up. It just gives the whole team is like, you know what?
We're chilling. We got your tour on TV. Yeah, it's like you see your tour on TV
You see a TV game where you don't even need to buy a BKB that alone is incredible and like a 22 minutes, right?
He has 16,000 net worth the second place player on his team had like what like 8.8 K 8.7 K or something like the whole game
Was your Toro doesn't have anything of getting thrown at him. He can farm for it
can do what he wants. He's 9-0-1 from lane and early map move. Like, it is just complete freedom.
And that is a fjandex, like, coming into the series after having Spirit's number the entire season,
that they've clearly beat them many times before. And they probably killed Yatoru in all those games.
They probably shut down the map. They chased him in the jungle. But in this game,
they just watched him. They just let him do his thing. There was like, there was no emphasis
on Yatoru in this game.
there was a knock and we talked on the panel already about how we wanted to see an active
good first 20 minutes, especially from team Yandex. And we got a little bit of back and forth,
but there was one fight in particular that might highlight exactly what happened this game as we
head over to Purge. Thank you, Sheever. And there's a lot that led up to it, to be honest,
because the lanes went better for Spirit than we expected. And the name of the game really
for Spirit on a lot of their abilities was rooting their opponents. Watch what collapsed
us here, pulls the creep waves to the right, trying to bait the shadow fiend to get in closer,
and then he uses his pit of malice to do the first route. Then we have a second route from
the dark willow, and they finally get another firestorm to run down Watson. So he actually did
a little bit worse than normal for a shadow fiend. He did catch up the net worth, but the one
person on the index that did really well with Shiro Junio here, he consistently was pressuring
Laurel here. He's abusing a level six before his opponent timing here that resulted in Laurel's
vest. So that part was going good. The Ember had good net worth and the pango was behind,
but the downside is that Pango is going to be stronger later in that big teamfight.
And the other player on the index that had a little bit of trouble was the Timbersaw.
He died in the lane the one time, but look at this really good initiation by Naughton.
First root with the fear which forces Timbersaw this way, which gives him a second root
and tons of damage on top of that, really just provides for a good teamfight outcome.
And they do this a second time here, great blind root into the terrorize, into a second root.
This was just adding up really, really nicely for them.
And on the other side, the index did eventually try to get collapsed and get some counter-kills.
But they just really struggled to get these and ultimately what led what led to was this big fight at the 18 minute mark 14 spirit
Watch how they start the fight instant pit of mouths
That's gonna guarantee that ember can't get out that they're gonna be able to layer their disables now
Did you another?
Root into the terror eyes just easy easy chainsaw and even though Laurel's behind and that worth
He just can kind of zip in and out on the pango
This is the value of the hero his team fight is incredibly good
It's on basically no matter what as long as you hit level six
So great early game by team spirit making the best out of a slightly bad laning situation
And they ultimately plus two team fights that we know they can win
Thank you very much birds and we focus a lot in those first 20 minutes because we already said
After the draft is done once it gets past that once your Toro gets all his items once the game is in a
Little bit of a favor of team spirit later down the line
It's all it's done unless team spirit makes massive mistakes is done
So we focus on the first 20 minutes because that is where the game is played after the draft is done winter
And you had some highlights from that as well for us to look at as you already saw the right you on the wall as well
Yeah, but I wanted to highlight how well Yandex did in the early game
Like how well they were able to utilize this amber plus Mirana to shut down the pangolin
I was
Expecting loud to have a much better game, but I think the reason why the early game was like
a little bit complicated for Pangol was because of this Ember plus Arrow, like the change into
arrows, I think he just kind of really didn't expect the power of it, I think he underestimated
it, that's why he died, like I think three times in the early game, all three deaths,
the Ember plus the Mirana just creating a lot of problems for Spirit in the early game,
but like you guys mentioned, they spied the problems that Spirit had in the early
game because they had the stability of the Terrabate in the mid-lane game, it wasn't
a problem for them, they could be behind, I think they were behind at some point
4K, 5K, but even if they were behind more like 6, 7, I will always feel like with their lineup
They will have a lot of opportunities to come back in the game
But you can see from those clips right the net worth
Terrible it was always on top and like with the 3, 4,000 gold lead with killing of the pangler in the mid lane
But if they could have found a different off laner that stepped into the lane that shoved maybe a
Like we tore down, but I say 2,000 gold the game would have been completely different
I think that the slight fact that the off lane wasn't able to put your Toro into the jungle earlier
was the reason why Yandex couldn't snub all this game more and it's difficult in that position DM terrible
Basement was banned the tide was banned the dark so was banned
You're probably not going to try and pick up a brewmaster at this point
The underlaw got stolen like there wasn't really many options to stop terror blade just farming and being a threat
Yeah, it was it was a very good terror blade again very good terror blade pick and
There's one more fight a week like to show you guys area as you have something to tell us of course
I'll probably show that a little bit, but it doesn't matter. We're going to show it again
I think the really nice thing here is just spirit being able to collapse all of their heroes together and take a fight like this
Because at the end of the day, even if they did have a little less net worth on Yatoro
Sure, it could give them more opportunities, but this just the spells alone are so much better
It's so easy for spirit to take a fight their execution is at a much lower threshold of how to do it
Right you can just put down a pit you can put down the willow rule on top of that
It's so hard for Kira Junior, no matter what lead he accrued from getting this kill on Lall, what can he do?
He is just good. He needs a DKB to be able to fight, so then making this early move is so good.
And if you look after this fight happens, on the map, DM is gonna go off from farm here, and on the mini map,
Yatoro goes through the enemy's triangle and takes their ancient camp,
so that they then actually don't have it for the next minute of farm,
and he's gonna then continue to farm all the way north to the gate,
which allows him to connect to this fight that then breaks out on the bot side of the map,
because the rest of the Spirit players moved together,
then Yatoro was able to connect, and as a result, he is here for the Soxa kill,
he is here for the rest of the kills, and they get a very nice secondary fight
off the back of the first one. Just from really nice map play that took a...
Just, I don't know, it was so much skill. I really love the way they played the map.
I think with that, it's also clear to say, I mean, we focused a lot on the drafts,
of course, about how, yeah, they might not have been able to play too much
when it went later down the line, but it also kind of seems,
And maybe Digo, it was just now play.
Yeah, no, fundamentally yes, this game one was Spirit just being the better team.
Like they knew what they wanted to do, they knew the timings, they were very clean on them.
And I think for Yandex, they want to try and step up that.
Yeah, and speaking of timings, there's one in particular timing,
that you want to focus a little bit on, and it's a minute 20 timing,
and we already talk all about objectives, there's one objective,
spawns a minute 20 and then every 10 minutes after that, if it does die.
Yeah, you have to be there at the right place at the right time because the clip we just showed spirit then kind of moved into
The tormentor and of the top three teams left at the international
I have to wonder is the tormentor worth it because spirit in the 21 games they played this is such a massive difference
Sorry for interrupting. That's fine. These stats are before the uh spirit series yesterday by the way just to be aware
Uh, but anyways, there was 21 games 24 tormentors. They take 1.14 average per game
You look towards vision and yandex they ignore tormentor and or it gets stolen away from them quite heavily
So I feel like at least with vision and yandex
I've seen so many games where they've had four five heroes next to the tormentor and they just walk away from it
They don't care so I just feel like today will be a big day of donor where it's like what happens in the next game
If the index is in a winning position
Do they value breaking out onto the map choking out the map more just to take the tormentor it does take some time
It's quite a difficult resource. It's not just one hero doing it by themselves
So for Spirit, that beauty of the map play that we've just seen in the clip,
they can take it very quickly because they're there.
Other teams though, they don't always have that fluid motion,
so they aren't going for it.
But Spirit, they are the one team that they will go for Tormenter.
I mean, I do want to add something onto that.
I feel like if you just look at the stats,
it might not show that sometimes when you're winning in the game,
because Tormenter is also based on whether you're winning or losing.
I think when you're winning right now,
it just doesn't really feel like you should give up your position on the map.
like what Alex also brought up like you want to farm the enemy jungle you want to be in
their jungle you want to farm their triangle and moving from the enemy triangle to the
tormentor is just like so far away like why why would you want to do that when you are in a
dominant position so I feel like Dota now has changed so much I think maybe a couple of months
ago you never hear people say that you're always saying for mother just way too good it gives
you way too much go it's just easier to take you can take it with three people but right
now things have changed I also find that's like with the yandex game where they ignored it
It's like they're heroes that needed charts or they were kind of bad charts
So like what's the point of taking it would rather like choke out the jungle and continue doing these other things
Maybe
Our taking it is also to take it away from a team that does need it
But in this first game team spirit, they're positioning their gameplay in their draft
Just make them the superior team and they're having quite the onslaught here in the lower bracket in yandex is on the receiving
the game. They have proven that
they can come back from tough
series when they're in a tight
spot. They might pull out the
biggest best strategies they've
ever played here on the main
stage, and they need to do
exactly that if they want to
try and beat this team spirit
because that first game was
not it going into game number
two. Shortly, Freya. What do
you expect to see? Is there
any adjustments that were
that were obvious from you after watching this first game.
Honestly, I think I'm just a little scared about their drafting now
because, as Winter pointed out, if you first pick this Nature's Prophet,
if you see Vision, for example, first pick Nature's Prophet,
you know it's going to go on their carry
and you know that he understands the matchups well enough
to play it into, for example, a pango when that comes out.
I think them shifting that and showing that they're not so confident
feels bad, especially because they're replacing Nature's Prophet
with another similar archetype in the Shadow Fiend.
So it doesn't even mean that they're kind of like,
oh, you picked these heroes that counter our ranged carry.
Right?
Let's switch up and pick an Ursa,
not that they should because that hero's terrible.
But you know what I mean, right?
It's like saying, oh, here's another ranged carry
and then we have a supported Prophet.
It's didn't really have that impact
or like that twist in the draft.
But it's also a scary prospect.
When you are drafting against players like Yatoro,
like Zatanic, even Watson to some degree,
like when you reveal your offline too early, they'll find the correct carry counter pick. They will scale,
they are now a big threat. And then if you pick your offline too late, the carry's already been picked,
you've protected it with enough bands, you have the correct support to counter the inevitable picks,
and this is exactly what happened in this game. So if you're like the DM, they just need to find
the correct pick position for him because he was left too late in the draft. There's too many
bands, too many block picks, and they're terribly when unprotected. So it's like, if you're
scared of terribly, you have to preemptively go for DM and go, you know what, we'll casually go
go on the Lord, we don't care, we'll ban some life stealer or whatever, we'll play a game
of Dota 2 but I think DM's pick position will decide if Yandex are to survive this
lower bracket.
I think you're right, they're worrying too much about what Spirit is going to do or
might do and maybe they should just focus on what they should do, what is the setup
that they have to have in order to play the best as a team.
I mean counter picking is nice and all but if you worry about it too much,
if you try to lean into it too much, you're going to ruin your own draft.
And I think that's something that is very very hard to balance sometimes especially at this stage
There's so much at stake. There's a lot of heroes that you're worried about and sometimes you cannot ban all the heroes
So when that happens you really have to put faith in your own heroes
There was the opening pick that the overall first pick went the way it's used to it in that previous game
They went for the winter Wyvern and we talked a little bit about that
Obviously had a great impact in the game
But we highlighted all their players and heroes maybe a little bit more than rules winter Wyvern winter
Do you feel like the priority should be given to this hero to be banned this time round?
Was he a major factor as to how this game played out?
I think the hero was definitely strong, but I don't think he needed to do much.
The last game, I felt like everything was just like really straightforward.
The pangol, the underlaw, the lanes are all pushed because of the fact he was uncontested.
So I mean sure, I really liked the hero, but I don't think he had to do a lot the last game.
No, he just he was able to chill the game. We kind of maybe almost played out already
We'll see where the teams that go for game number two
There might be a lot of things different a lot of lessons learned from that one game
Of course while the game was played out
We also have the coaches watching the game they could already preemptively strategize how they're gonna adapt
Going in to the next one. Let's see what storm they have cooked up
Team Yandex versus Team Spirit. Game 2.
The draft of game number 2 is upon us.
So we got Team Spirit on the Radiant side this time around,
and Yandex on the Dire side.
So we swapped that around. We also swapped the pick order.
We have Yandex with the overall first pick,
and Team Spirit with the overall last pick.
Now normally overall last pick is a strategic advantage, the last game we saw Yandex being
pushed in a corner forced to pick a Timbersaw at that position that did not work out too well.
Let's see if Yandex can set a similar trap as we do have the Winter Wyvern,
respected by Team Spirit, Bounty Hunter, also still out just like the Earth Spirit of the
Tree and I feel like those four heroes that Team Spirit has banned out, those are
are going to be stuck there for quite a while today.
The main member and the Slardar removed by Yandex.
No, I really like teams for his fans.
I think they are very stable.
It's also a sign that they don't care about the leaners,
the shadow fiends, all these other heroes
that we have been seeing in the tournament.
It's just a matter of like, we care more
about the building blocks that
make these other heroes successful.
Like the Wyvern makes the other one strong.
And obviously the tree, the earthspur and the bounty
make talk for themselves.
but yeah, I like the first one nicely.
I mean, I know we didn't really get to talk a lot
about like the sides, but I just wanted to,
you know, have a little discussion
about when we have time, you know, about the sides.
I think usually we just mentioned about,
oh, your first pick, your second pick after the last pick,
but does the sides actually feel like
one side gives you a little bit of advantage?
Like, I think as a player right now,
like the benefit of being on the dire side
is like the commenter might be easier
for you to get. But for the Radiance side, you might feel like it's easier to get the
Roche because the Roche goes top when the Tom spawns at 20 minutes. And if you have
a Desolator hero, you can always easily, or a Helm hero, you can always get the Roche
easy. I was just wondering what do you guys think about having either Radiant or Diode,
do you feel like it's easier to play the game on you?
Before I answer that question, I will say right now I believe that the people
are fighting over First Pick, before side, and then whatever is available then they
they just take. But first pick is the one that people take in the coin flip. But I lean
towards Radiant myself because of the outpost, the Russian control, the general map movement
that's always sort of cleaner throughout the Radiant side. It's easier to protect areas,
in my opinion at least.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the actual stats are for sides in this tournament. It's relatively
even I believe, I think last time we saw it, it's slightly dire favoured. But that
It could also be because Dyer often gets first pick, so it's hard to judge.
Do you know when you always ask about side, there's going to be some actual analytical
points of why one might be better, but then they do it like a vibes thing, and as a support
player I prefer playing the Radiant safe lane than Dyer safe lane.
It can also come down to this like a minutiae, like if one player is vocal enough, this
makes my game easier, you just take it.
Even if it goes against the trend, it's like, if you've got 33 in your team and
He says, you know, Dyer is better because I like this thing.
You're like, you just do it, you know?
It's like...
If your mid laner tells you I won Radeon, I'm not going to ask him why, I'm just okay.
Right now I've got the exact stats for you.
Oh, wonderful.
51-49.
Oh.
For Radeon?
In favor of Dyer.
Wow.
I do like Dyer, I think.
I'll be in the under the last one.
I don't think it's...
Apparently there's nothing that's swaying it actually hard in any direction.
Why do you like Dyer?
I think the way the camps sit for safe lane, a duo camp behind tower, it feels
nicer to me but maybe I'm crazy okay one one thing I would say that okay I know
there's no Trion but when I play Trion it's easier to get from from dire to
radium sorry from radium to diet because when you're getting from diet to
radium that's you need to take because you cannot cross you cannot
cross the tower without being spotted I will say last words on this it was
actually 51 for Radiant. But I do want to focus on the draft that is unfolding for us as we have got
the first couple of picks on the board and the Clockwork makes it through. We see the Underlord
and the Lone Druid banned out in the second phase here and the Clockwork picked up, sets up for a
nice potential ranged carry. I say that but both Rue and not me have swapped Clockwork and Hoodwink
around freely to see what fits best with the other cores that are coming our way.
And unlike Yandex in the previous game, Spirit's approach to second pick here is take two really
reliable supports that can interchange lane between top and bot and also pair well together
that they can go find kills on the map, they can be pesky and just stable. But then you're
not revealing anything. Compare that to Yandex where they had what, the Nature's Prophet
into the Ember Spirit. There are two potential cores, of course Prophet did eventually go to
support but I think we're like spirit they're kind of holding the cards close
to their chest and now Yandex has to decide what they reveal.
I think they should pick their mid hero or someone. Okay but they're picking the off laner.
This is something that T.U mentioned that they should try to prioritize pick DM's hero or they
because every time we see them delay his pick it just feels like hmm I guess
there's his doom you know there's not many options remaining late that's
why not just pick it early because doom is a hero where he doesn't really
Mind being in a worse matchup, you're still gonna find a way to come back in the game by eating creeps and the shard
You can recover in the game. I think heroes that are like this should be picked early
Can they not... I mean I know they just profit to keep you on but like you can still go back for like the drought
That you told me before you have to float books. Just go super nuclear in the lane
They would really try and just kill this dude. That's why they should pick the right support
I think Lume with the right support can play that. You can play the lane. Yeah
I got a range support like, for example, Lion, anything that can help you stabilize the lane.
Is it Willow still fine?
Yeah, Willow's still fine too.
But I think against Clocked Up, maybe I prefer Lion, but they go for the SD.
Maybe a preemptive measurement against the S.D.
They feel like maybe S.D. is coming.
I think S.D. is really, really good against that.
And it's very nice to have Doom with S.D.
because Doom likes to clear stacks.
And S.D. is the best stacking hero.
And it's very simple.
Destruct Hero, everyone clutches on it during the laning phase, profit TP's in, you get killed, then you reset.
So Yandex trying to remain stable within the first few clicks of this draft.
I don't feel like this hero has gone a little bit under the radar. I don't know if you guys played a lot of SD recently,
but I do think that this hero is a little bit underpicked.
So there it is.
I think Shadow Demon was very popular at the beginning of the tournament,
but then just kind of fell out of favor. It was like Wyvern, Rose in dominance,
And I'll just see now they're getting banned. We're kind of coming back to over liable.
The thing for the Andex is they are falling into the same trap to some degree in the last game.
Like, where is their lockdown? Because they have a doom.
But when you press it right now, your best way to hold them still is a disruption. That's it.
And then Spirit identify that, instantly going for the centaur, even going for the pangaroo as well.
Because let's say Yatoru is the big focus. He gets doomed.
Pangulya can come in, rolling thunder. By some time you can kite back with the double four stuff.
double four stuff, supports to keep the Toro alive mid during team, like Yandex need to
find some ways to lock heroes down. Of course, normally here you'd look towards what's into
playing, you know, some tiny or whatever, but that's going to then put Saksa back on
the edge of proper support.
I mean, I still like some mid heroes that can help them deal with it. Okay, this is
not exactly the hero that I had in mind. It's a lane winner against the pangol,
but it doesn't really help them start the fight. It's a good connecting hero,
but it seems like in both games, in the first game and the second game, Yandex
has a lot of priority in getting lane winning matchup. So they are completely okay with
sacrificing a little bit of like drab integrity. They don't really have a lot
of catch right now apart from disrupt. Disrupt is not exactly a catch. So if they
don't win their lanes again, it's gonna be tough and I don't know if the last
last pick here is gonna solve a lot of problems. I only see maybe disrupts a
being a hero that would give them some some catch but that hero has so far
gone uncapped. But that is the only possible hero I think remaining. Unless
there's something you know spicy then I feel like I can maybe solve some of the
holes in the draft. I agree because obviously if someone is doomed and you
spit the Sapphire ult on top of them they should die but Sampdow just ruins
everything. I think they need to be doing him every single fight in which
case I would like to get something as well that can give vision for Yandex
because right now your natures wants to find the prime target and TP onto
your doom wants to find the right doom tuck it and get onto them but your shadow demon is playing backline
Your snapfire is playing backline your nature probably wants to play backline. So who are you sending it first?
You know be your carry or are you are you looking for a nature's prophet to be a position for here?
Or are you looking for a new carry experience respect in the
Carriott mode with the Tuskman
I think the idea of just winning lanes is scary for them and they know that profit us will win the lane
And of course, Sapphire will win mid lane, so that's already two winning lanes during that day away
I mean if they want to win the last lane, maybe they need to pick a melee hero like some
Tiny steal a velour, Tiny is a velour, maybe if they pick Tiny, it will give them a way to catch heroes and
I think this game I see more of a reason to swap the mages proper to a support
But the last game kinda I didn't really like it so much, but this game it could work
The last game was also done very early
Yeah, and I was mentioning to you guys in the green room if they wanted to flex at the nature's power
Why would they flex it so early? Why would they reveal it's a flex so early?
Why not just wait till the end when you see more here's and then decide whether you want to flex it?
and I think this is a decent example of a
Good time to actually decide whether you want to flex it the overall last big ball again next year
Other than tiny carry I'm not seeing another carry that goes that really kind of
makes the whole draft feel complete because of that need of that additional stun.
Like the fact that they are looking for an initiating hero,
if what's it is to take it, like there aren't many areas that maybe could work.
I mean you can also go out from work, you can also do the Windranger where sure it's a Centaur
but we've seen this matchup be fine, the Windranger you play elsewhere,
you don't focus fire, crazy concept and then you focus fire other heroes but
They even got a spare breaker. They really are going, hmm, what's a melee body that has
cash?
They really need cash, some stun here. Doesn't matter if it's a support hero or a core hero,
they just need a stun.
And Spirit's also going like, we literally don't care about profit support.
That's how that melee support that we forgot about.
It's not a stun, but it's a body. It's really good against the center in the lane.
So you can see the focus here on Yannick's very clearly, they want to win the lanes and
they want to run them over.
And also they just have like, they're going to take over areas and just try to stand there,
right?
Like they put down their tombstone, they have the globs, they've got a doom who's like
threatening the use of it, but also kind of scared to use it at any point in the
entire game due to stampede.
But you know, like they are just going to try and take over jungle areas and go,
Watson, join us when you're ready, we're ready to try and fight.
But I am still a little worried for them.
Still a little worried.
But because they're still a hero needed for the man on your screen, and he has deep pockets,
and he will use only the ones laying on top.
It's a little sharpie, not a hero that is unfamiliar for this international, a very
strong pick.
It's his second game only on Shadow Fiend, so...
Yeah, it fits the same archetype of all the other heroes he plays, so it's not
something that would be unfamiliar.
It fits perfectly into the draft.
completely I think spirits line up is so coordinated you have the melee support
already from earlier you have the sento who can buy the axe, cards to protect
Hitoro in fights it's a range hero that can also deal with the tombstone and if
Yandex has a huge face with the Roshan banner I think he can also do that with the ability for
some time to save him after. I really like it I think Yandex it's so so
scary and I think that the way this is sometimes plays as well is typically
you want it to have the shot and get two some saves off but it feels like you need him to be the one that can walk up
high grounds as well and like
Tank smokes and things like that. It just feels like they're giving up
Possibly utility of some of their heroes because they drop is not super complete. The spirit doesn't need more time this time around right like the
Claps and tour he's gonna have to buy dorm into heart and then of course your toro needs items on a shadow pin and then yandex
of snap by undying profit all the heroes scream. Let me go try and make a move. Let's try and play
together. So I am looking at Yandex to be more decisive on the map to try and threaten spirits
timings. The spirit show when they're online, we favor their draft. It looks cohesive. It looks
like it's meant to win games. But the Yandex, they have a better window this time to punish.
Chiro Junior, he has to step up. He cannot choke after the laning phase where he's dumps
to laugh. Like he needs to be, you know, a consistent threat the entire game. Yeah,
Yeah, this is definitely going to be a much, much more closer game compared to game one.
And I think the focus is once again going to be a lot on the mid lane.
A lot of focus on the mid lane and maybe as the game progresses, a lot of focus on the
carry versus carry matchup.
The Shadowfiend versus the Nature Prophet 2 heroes that we've seen so many times on
the main stage with various degrees of success, but mostly quite successful in a lot of
capable hands like they are here as well.
Before we head into game number two, let's find out how Koška-Poška is doing.
Thank you so much, Ivor.
Yes, I am here with Mapoška, one game away from the Grand Finals.
You've been here before in different ways.
You've come back to get these boys here again.
We talk a little bit about how you're feeling before you're there.
I'm feeling great, and I'm really happy that we improved very fast and won three
tournament because they are masters. It didn't go well, but at that tournament I feel confident
like we lost our map on the team vision. And also in the world of the game, I don't
know, I think they all grew up much better because they kept zero stunts, because the
team kept attacking the mood. I don't know what they could do.
Well, it's up to the boys now, you know, you've done all that you can.
Pretty great draft though, I have to say.
You've got Yathro on that set, you've got Collapse on the Centaur.
You've got so many great heroes.
Are you happy with it?
Will we be finishing this off with this game?
Totally happy! It's over? 2-0?
Yeah, sure.
That's my man!
All right, fantastic.
What an honor, what a pleasure.
We'll see if you can get some revenge on Vision soon,
or if you have a little more battles to do here.
Let's go to our caster's trick and miracle.
Thank you so much, Slacks.
A lot of confidence.
They have no stuns. I don't know what they can do.
Yes, we're gonna finish it off.
He's already talking about Team Vision
in the freaking interview for Game 2.
Sounds exactly like the green room.
I don't know what they could... There's no stuns!
You know, Ted's down there, he's counting stuns.
What are they gonna do?
There's no way to play the game.
And I mean, if Poposka says it...
Well, if the lanes go well, it could start looking pretty okay for them.
The floor down bottom takes a lot of damage before being able to walk a little.
But yeah, I mean, it's pretty clear there's not all that much control,
and when that Centaur came out, it's pretty clear that they're just going to be running away from trouble,
and then people will dish them out themselves.
I mean, he talks constantly, they play constantly.
We'll see who is right and who is wrong this time.
They do return here with the much coveted nature's profit, but they're gonna keep it in the core role this time
So not swapping it over to the support and then they're bringing back the snap
The hero who seemingly cannot be killed no matter how much it is
He knows what to do he knows he knows the game
I mean, that's the thing, right?
This team spirit roster at TI,
they're always doing something to try and high-fuck the crowd.
Yep, some capacity.
And it's not an insignificant part of it.
The momentum that you can build both when you're walking into the stadium
and then when you're walking out of those booths, victorious.
See if they can make it happen here, though.
And the other thing that we're going to need to watch for is, like, of course,
how much of these supports are going to be up to the Vietnam.
Yeah, he was unbelievable on his clockwork last night. He hit a centaur with four cogs.
I didn't know that was possible in the late game when they were dominating so hard this
time. So he is very much ready to play on this clockwork, but they have the magic of
him dying into the centaur. Yeah, this is a good start to it right there. The cogs
trying to keep him alive and actually burns enough so he can't get another decay off.
It's allowed him not able to get that kill on the collapse, but this like little move
where you're playing in between the tier one and the tier two tower, it's really hard
to contend with.
We saw this a little bit in the group stage, where our teams were willing to take the
undying and just dive right past like this.
He's trying to dive entire waves of farm collapse, trying to figure out what to do,
right?
He's got the treants on him.
The treants are just dying here.
Gotta get back at least an XP range.
And they will manage to do just that.
That little start is gonna mean that this collapsed centaur
not having as nice of a time as the Cogs get spammed out a little bit.
We'll be able to off this one off again.
But it's pretty valuable, like the Manneberg,
because that would have been a kill most likely onto the centaur
with all those zombies chasing him in the decay coming out.
I want to talk a little bit more about this snapfire here
that you're talking about,
because obviously very strong teamfight-oriented stuff.
You can do a ton of damage, a lane down here,
but also has received sometimes a late game transition to the right lane.
Yeah, that has been a serious issue hanging into the late game, and I mean just in game number one too,
obviously it didn't go too well for Tier XI and the mid and late game, but early things looked promising.
For his Ember, and already off to another good start here.
Laral though, I mean he knows. If he gets off to a bad start, he's got some teammates to help him out.
Last time it was the untoward with the Agnus after, this time it was Shampoo.
They have ways to enable this minigame every game, even if he gets off to a rough start.
definitely going to be nice to open for them, because Centaur likely to be a little bit underpawed,
although that said, he's 16 and 1, so it's not completely demolishing by any stretch.
But the other thing that we're going to want to watch for is like how much can they pressure
the shadow theme down bottom with Doom Shadow Demon Lane a little bit strange as Laurel's
will get back home. Yeah, she's fighting up against one of the most powerful supports
in the past right now of the hood length as well, so very hard to pressure her,
And, I mean, my question's the Doom.
I mean, what are you getting out of the Doom, this game?
You're not expected to really win your lane, you know?
You tend to get itemization on an easier path
because of your ability to get the shard
or sometimes even the Midas, some players,
let's pray not at this point.
But how valuable is Doom, this game?
What are the chances you get Doom off before the roll?
What happens when you Doom a Shadowfist?
You know, how often are you going to be dooming a Centaur
when he still has spells to use?
I mean, I think getting into like the big part
and scaling Centaur. That's where the Doom seems to have a little bit of value, right?
Like, Domingo actually feels like he's done something.
But I worry that his impact might be very minimal.
The CP rotation is also going down bottom.
Try to find Toro, and do get him.
It's a terrible close collider.
He's got destruction play, and the rotation in from Watson.
This is what I want to see from the Doom, right?
I want to see a little bit of early aggression.
I want to see the rotations in from the Nature's Prophet.
Scorster is a very good spell.
So, being able to amplify that with a little bit of pressure from your core's global TP,
an excellent way to get him involved in the game, as the molding continues on to Laurel.
He has managed to crack into the double digits of last set, it's now 14, but that is 33 for Chirijuna.
And he realized that he was going to die there, he's just going to be brought down.
Yeah!
So, it's definitely been bully Laurel o'clock.
Uh, paintball, he's trapped out of there a bit, and as they leave on Naughty, now some pressure on the collapse, they can back end, but they are dying.
And he is just be bullied by these cogs, and out.
It's interesting to see what the cost was, the reason DM dies down there is because Sokso went and he took the bounty.
So he took that away from Laurel, he couldn't get his bottle, he's now just getting back to the well.
Sapphire's in the bottom lane right now in level 6.
Oh wow.
Like, hey, really want this play?
Yadarov, he has no, oh yeah, he has the playing blade in there,
and you're right, he's good, okay, so no free plays.
But this doesn't feel good either, like dodging this gank
does not mean this is a win between Spirit.
Like, your Shadowfiend is juggling now.
Oh, and look, Chiro believes he's down bottom.
We got a disagreement here, maybe.
Where is he's at?
Yep.
All right, so it's a win and a loss at the same time,
as you said, you don't die, but I mean, think about it, snap.
She's gonna farm tips on these jungle camps. She's also missing out and a bit of recovery here for Laurel
They give the space to Malady on the undying so he gets quite a bit of a bonus here
He's gonna brace her down actually and actually gonna connect that way too
Wait a minute this good work. I think there are the spells though. They don't have enough
The pure junior survived that game.
A very mobile early start between the mid and his bottom lane.
A lot of heroes rotating around trying to get Laurel into a better position.
So far it's been basically the Snapfire and P-Dominator.
And not many moved in.
Lotsen not able to get in there and deny trying to wisdom.
Because of the out removering performed here by Team Spirit though, I gotta say, you know, they get the kill on the Malady, they'll instantly respawn, but gives a nice bounty over to Laryl, Yadro dodged all of that, granted from the Snapfire, wasted an opportunity, I mean you could have been like farming stacks or obviously maybe getting a more secure kill somewhere else, rather than trying to chase him.
This Shadow Fiend here is done, and Y'all are still very hard at the moment.
This proves all two stones down, they're gonna get chased, they bring in Watson,
and the Shadow Fiend in a lot of trouble is just being hounded here by these trants.
So go for the Stampede, this was the escape, they got level 6 on the Centaur,
and that's enough to get him away.
This time they don't have the Snapfire, there's no kisses, you're just shy of the level 6,
he just got an Elnator's Pond.
If that's there, they get that kill.
No, he is still waiting, dicing his way back to the base, so not feeling too spectacular
about his game.
But it's not as bad as it could have been.
And the Andex taking advantage of the opportunity is dead.
Hotney!
Okay, if they kill him, it's gonna feel so good.
They chase down by the clockwork.
because you get the deny not quite the um takes down that s block work is collapsed
heats his way through the trees once in listen there's just when you tipi away when you walk away
this is where stuns would be helpful that'd be very nice stuns are pretty good in dota but
you know they've still stunned yonder he tipis to the mid tier two to start farming the
but viral oh my dm try to walk out of there he's got to roll back the other direction
and then dooms the hoodwink.
Is that enough?
Oh, they do get it!
With a wrath of nature, it's going to be enough damage there
to eventually whittle down that squirrel.
A little bit of retribution from the grave.
Here it shows up again here.
You can't link anything.
It just ends up taking a mid-player attack
to farm in the camps once more.
What? Your mid-snap fire did not have cast kisses.
Oh, wait.
They keep the disruption.
They've got to get close enough to open them up,
but it's not going to happen.
happen you know what that was a very small window to stampede just came back up
so now if you try to make that same play yeah don't think you're gonna have the
damage
is finding camps along the way at the very least but it's not what he's
hoping it's important understanding when you're strong and when and look
like let's go with the M2. Oh no they got them they're right there
sure junior found Toro finds that kill Sokka also in trouble team spirit
They are running circles around the index right now.
They want desperately to take a fight that is good for Snapfire,
and they're not giving it to him.
And do you know what DM was doing that whole time?
He was denying creeps.
So he was holding this wave back.
He wasn't letting the wave crash into the tower or anything here
and trying to force this down.
They're kind of trying to stall it out here
because of the control that they were feeling past that tier one.
But then your stamp just dies,
and it's kind of like,
should I just be pressuring this tower this whole time?
I'm never going to find malady.
Underneath the tree.
Is there any retribution?
They drop the Tombstone, GM, and they can't do anything!
Just more gold for the Shadow Fiend.
I mean, you can sense it right now.
Yandex, they want to make a play, but there is no play to make.
Watson feels like he can't even get in.
And he thought of it teleporting in, but at the same time,
there was also a bit of a battle going on between the Snap,
as well as the Pangolier.
So, he's just a little bit too pregnant right now,
further side of Yandex.
They've got to figure something out too,
Because he's there not taking their foot off the gas. Yadar is coming through that twin gate.
He wants to get in behind Watson right now.
Stampede not available though, so it will be a tougher catch.
They're bringing in Rue.
Oh, is he gonna walk right into the reed, slayer gentleman? Like out book.
Yep, tries to get out, not gonna happen.
Walks through the gate, gets to the kill. Laurel now diving in towards mid.
Making sure that there couldn't be any TP's to help the top.
I mean, spirit, dotting their eyes, crossing their T's, and Yandex, who is going to be the
one that can step off and turn the fortunes a little?
I mean, it's going to be in the game, it's going to be out of the game, someone's going
to be having a talk right now.
We got to calm down, we got to think, we got to realize what do our heroes do.
Right?
What gives us strength in this game?
We got nothing.
We got the kisses.
We got to find a way to use this spell, man.
Yep.
Broken hero. What's her damage right now? I don't think it's gonna be very high
They are struggling to get in there. So he's going straight into this blink tagger only the shard after that you would imagine
They need this to connect desperately right now. It's got to happen
And from team spirit, I think a really good recognition of
What it is that allows the yandex draft to function and then not allowing that to happen
Soxa has not really been able to disrupt someone.
Okay, Rue is level 8 right now, not me just at level 5.
Yeah.
He has been just hogging his way around this game.
He has no cares for the Hoaxon.
He has just been an absolute menace.
And Rue is huge!
Good hero to have off to a good start.
Alright, Blink Dagger, Chira Jr.
Hook up now, Laurel, waiting on the high ground, anticipating this potentially.
The Sanctita again, the hosta talked about it.
No.
Kira Jr.
Stunning who here?
Oh, breaks.
Find them!
Nicely done there.
A good connection.
It's pushed down to the low ground and a good disruption by Sox that keeps him alive.
Now the Requiem of Souls out, still living, and Kira Jr. threw this.
They dropped the June down onto the Sanctita.
All right, let them fly.
Okay, the Sanctita's there.
Finding Laurel.
They have enough to kill him off.
They finally came back with a Kisses, a double for Chara Jr.
It wasn't pretty, but it's what they need.
As they managed to pick up the center on the side there,
they killed the streak on Laryl.
That, finally, is what they have been trying to do for a while.
The blink dagger enabling things.
Imagine if that pushback had a connected rail.
Oh yeah.
I mean, this game could truly be over mentally.
From the side of the index, head back on sideways.
Addling back here, it's going to send Yadaro back into the jungle.
The action is on the side, continuing to grow though, still stays on the top of the board, but those next three heroes, they are all Yandex.
They are successfully finding a lot of gold right now, and you know, continuing to keep this tower alive though, as they catch a quick burst on the socks.
The oxygen is way too far forward there, gets punished through, didn't have a bush whack back up anyway, so it's going to be movement through the gate, as they look like they're going to pressure.
They have a little circle on the map there from Yadro, and yeah, he is correct, there's some serious gold in there.
There's a dire observer ward keeping it safe, so they will have an idea if the movement comes in
Not me with that hookshot though. He's certainly ready to start flying on the other side of the map
Yeah, and Laurel comes in. He sees it. He's like, oh, this is a good idea y'all. Thanks, man
Now they have vision here. So if they try and will go for the full commit
Okay, spirit. It's a scary one, but there's a haste room
game
hunting
Jared jr. Gets the sun right out of the gate with the bush like the furries gone
Didn't stand a chance! That's a big hero! Hookshot's out is not me!
I don't really understand the math on that one there, but I'm not gonna lie to you.
I mean, it was the clogs mess up again, I think.
Yes, but I mean, there's no kisses in that fight, there's no doom in that fight.
I think that the idea of defending it is good, but the idea of chasing into it,
it feels like... I don't blame them, they feel like they have to force something,
but that's exactly the kind of play it seems fair to us, hoping you're gonna make.
They did manage to clean up the ancients at the very least.
So that holds not going into Clean Spirit's coffers.
And up top, Flaps immediately starts dragging waves of his creep forcing Watson to come back
up here and push it off.
At the very least, they have the problem to do this as they catch DM in front of a run.
It's pretty quick on this one, but with Pushwack back up in a couple, they're not going
to chase him.
gets away and into the shard for himself well and you know this is Dota at the
end of the day you can buy disables shot there lands another round another
round another round he's just beat the death no more man of the calls the
fusel blade they do trade for class use the weak lumps back the way there's
Well, it's kind of bait him in, you know, and while wrapping in behind, but it's not
easy to survive. Even with that nice play, they're stoned out,
taking away, but not me. And guess what? No stun speeds, no problem. They're out of there.
Carl, he's down. He's not superior, but he's here at Miner's Socks and Maldives.
They don't have any connections they can make on those rollbacks, but yes.
Bringing the wave with them. Very nice.
So it's still a thousand gold lead for Yandex and there is tremendous teamfight potential.
As Jere Jr. walks in, this is on the stun and now, not me, it's right there, he's got
him caught in the cogs.
Coral finishes that one up, was not counting on the Shadow Beam so close at hand.
They don't have everything ready.
You're coming in and trying to pressure into this area of the map without the tombstone,
you know?
So, you can't lock down this area. It feels like they're trying to emulate what they saw from Team Spirit, and they're not hitting it.
All it took was a mask of madness out, and a very, very dead Shadow Team.
Yadro is unpressured in these engagements. He is just standing there, he is just passing any spell he wishes, and right with the means of death.
Impressive performance so far.
So far, level 13 on the Shadow Theme, basically even with the nature's profit in terms of farm.
But Cheer Trainer, after a good start, has started to fall down that leaderboard now because
of the failed gank attempts.
It's just like last game.
It's the exact same story.
It has a solid start in the lane, but they fail to make their connections together.
They don't hit the necessary timings they need with their items.
And then he's also missing his combos.
You know, he missed some slight chains last game.
Missing the follow-up cookie after the vanish.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that you're not going to see
when you're playing a nice comfortable tournament from your room.
Maybe even from the hotel room, you know?
This is the gap that occurs upon the main stage
on the last day of the International 15.
Let's see if they can turn it around here.
Team Spirit, they've been very strong.
Toro, right in the middle.
They were waiting with Laura, who has his blink dagger done.
It's also a blink dagger done on Doom.
There's a little one dying here.
They're ready to go.
Now Bruce shows himself for a moment stampede.
Haha, the Cogs. Get back!
Stampede a little funky.
Maybe it opens up an opportunity here. I mean they haven't even seen him on Chira.
Maybe he feels like at the end of this they could try and go in with it.
Always a risky one, but they definitely need something a little bit edgy right now.
All the illusions did a good chunk of damage to that tower.
going to send in the Warpine Raider.
Do they realize that this guy's taking the Tower of Maladies?
Go for the Denied.
They're waiting for it.
They're battling.
Oh, he goes in and collapse takes it.
It's too strong.
That's crazy.
I mean, it's unbelievable that you've just had five heroes
sitting here trying to set up a play on this.
Yeah.
You can't get your play, and the Tower just falls for free,
too.
Like, it feels really bad.
This movement now, Laurel, is rolling around down bottom.
Binds DM.
DM thought about the Doom.
It's not going to quite happen,
But he does finally get it off on the pango!
Thanks for being a good trade.
Okay, Tombstone down, and yeah, with the poison stacked up, it's gonna be enough.
A hundred and two?
No, not me. He goes down to Chira Junior.
So Gindex, they find their targets. We're barely getting out of that one.
13 to 10.
And nearly gets a third one.
Oh, just loads for the Requiem, wants it, backs away, tries to back it up, it's a solo kill!
Oh, they call him the new king, it's happening.
The demon is unleashed.
That's unbelievable man.
What can you do, you know?
Sometimes the auto is just gonna piece on you.
is a back raker.
Sierra now being found by not me.
He might have his vengeance here.
Essence is still here to track him.
Who do we come into?
It's a hazardous support duo.
Getting up on the high ground there.
Trying to get away, but with the hookshot follow-up there.
Oh, they get the bushwhack.
And look at this.
This is going to just be an easy kill right into a tormentor.
Doesn't even have to stop farming creeps.
That's so considerate of Sierra Junior, you know?
Team Spirit, this squad, when they are cooking, you better watch out.
I feel like they are the most intimidating team in Dota to be losing to.
Yeah, they just strike this fear in you and they have this confidence
that it just makes everything that you think about Dota seem wrong.
Now, DM, having just expended the Doom to kill Laurel,
Because maybe recognizing the danger coming his way,
go back out and go back to the base.
I like his idea here of going for the desiccate.
You know, reduce that base armor up the shadow theme,
set it down to 10, maybe it gives them a chance.
Like they need every little bit of help because
he's got serious struggle to this game.
The Croker later will be great as well.
It's obviously been a big classic with the Doom.
But they got to find every little advantage
they can get in this one.
4,000 boldly now, and very similar to last game.
Early lanes, go well for the index.
It starts to break down.
Team Spirit find avenues to get back into this fight.
Now, they are going to blink over to the side.
I think they have an idea that he's over here and collapse.
This should be a kill.
They drop the doom, the troll is there, and...
Honestly, this hard build does give him a lot of value now.
Yeah.
They really do.
He completely shuts down the way you're seeing this center.
I mean, every fight in the lake he's now there here
is off the Altea and a Toon Sun.
Unfortunately, we're supposed to feed him away to Marble.
When he comes in, tries to find the bush back.
It's not quite there, but one little hit from the shot
if he does a lot.
Now, Watson, Watson doesn't have any prints here either.
He's gone again.
Monroe, don't lose for it.
Reckliam's on top of the TP that was coming in and says,
yeah, I dare you.
Now, four-step up the higher.
Oh, he's feeling himself.
He's feeling himself now.
Triple kill, Gatoro!
He hungers for the grand finals.
Their smiles on their faces.
An ultra kill.
Get on back over here. Come on, come on, come on.
Get back over here.
They're chasing. They're standing.
No, they're not stopping.
They're never stopping.
Where's that hook shot now, Pete?
What do you got for me?
Can they get through here?
I'm not quite.
The crowd wants it too.
Oh, man.
Watson getting caught back at that can't happen man. He was so close to having a game
His BKB was a hundred gold away or less
Now he's dead. He's all this gold. This is supposed to be an undying dying. Why why is he dying? Yes?
Why?
How does this happen? I I mean well just keeps going. He's like hey this guy's just here guys
And then more show up and then more show up. I mean
It feels pretty rough.
You're doing your fount.
Laurel gets him.
The wheels have come off.
It just wasn't that bad at this point.
They were so close to hitting their timing.
They were going to have the BKB on the nature's profit.
Maybe it gives them a chance to stand in these fights.
There's still a lot of damage from Yadaro.
I understand that, but it gives you something.
Now it feels like their hope is just turning into maybe I can TP out when I kill a wave somewhere.
I mean, that's basically what they're hoping for now.
They get the BKB completed on Nature's Prophet.
Kara Junior, dead for a little bit, does have the Kaia up.
Doom is close to BKB also.
I still don't know if it's going to be enough at this point, because if they doom
the Shadowfiend, then you're set to hide away, and if you go, not me, he's just
ready to chase.
Yeah.
Madison Stasler was there. He puts him inside of the tube zone for a moment, but Laurel running back and forth over these guys.
Gatoro, he hits very hard. He hits very, very hard. Watson BKB. Yeah, nice job, buddy.
They turn now. Hit on the Valady. That's not going to last long either, as he doesn't quite do the timing right. Laurel finishes that one off.
Anyone else?
Got a hide and a blink.
He's just swaggering and walking around.
They thought about it.
Sides not to go.
Woo, man.
It's a privilege to be here on the last day.
It's not a right, you know.
Yadar, he's seizing the opportunity.
He wants to grasp that ages just another time.
Maybe not even just the last time.
Maybe a couple more times.
There's no signs slowing down.
There are signs that there could be a hero up here that's dead.
Finds the right angle.
Going through the tr- I mean he's- okay.
Okay, okay.
When you know the game is in your hand right now.
Yeah.
Zero fear.
Perhaps more impressively, zero TPs in from the index.
At least they didn't panic.
Speaking of panic collapse, right next to two heroes here.
Comes in, finds him.
out but now the turn onto the rest of these heroes, Jair Jr. backing away they are
going to kill off collapse. DM pops the VKV runs away, have team spirit maybe
overextended a little bit here. We'll see if they can chase this and are there
but he's right on top of them. Watson throws it into the sprout but there's
no control, there's no anything. You can only slow him down for a moment as
As he turns and hits and kills Malady, 19,000 net worth at 25 minutes.
Chirichunior trying to put the team on his back.
He does a good amount of damage, but it stops there.
He is forcing. He did not get flared there.
That could have been really bad.
They can't establish a foothold on any terrain of this map.
Every time they plant a tombstone, that is supposed to be your signal to,
we win this area.
Doesn't feel like that at all.
Yadar is just hurricane piking into the tombstone and just that's happening.
He just does too much damage right now. He's got too much backup.
Aw, again...
Early start, the 2-0s that started the day yesterday for Team Spirit
and have continued on, are they going to be able to do it again?
Apojka felt the confidence.
Yandex, who, his entire year, have not lost a series
The team spirit on the verge of being eliminated here in the lower bracket finals made a bet at TI
He quite get the connection
on the cheer junior
Through he's getting the game closers, you know the Vlad's at 26 minutes. Oh, yeah, that's a I'm finished
You know, we got enough. We got all the right items. We are ready to end this game at our leisure a
A minute 40 still left on this ages very well set for a potential Tier 3 push if they want to clean up this top lane
Watson could go ahead and try and catch them these ways, but just has to be careful
Dm melody Watson, they're all on the bottom side of the map here. No intention of fighting this top tier 2
What do we have here? I mean we got quicks. What the hell is this man? They got all the items. They got items outside of the game
We have the congregations of the deeps upon DM the croaker the river born or
unfortunately there's no river in the base yes to maybe change that. Hey well. Oh
DM why he gets him? We're trying to chase him not afford to get caught like I
mean there's still not many shots. Okay, those sectors good.
Fortunately, left is right there to clean them up. But that's what you have to
do for Yandex if they want any hope in this game delay cut waves trying to get
Now they do see for a completely alone down here with 42nd left on the ages
The problem is they're still stampede Watson finds a shrine of wisdom
There you go. That make me only better. Not really
I'm sure junior he brought down again. It has been such a rock series. Yeah, nobody. Yeah, that's that's an issue
That is an issue. That is a major problem here. They can take this outpost.
They can start pressuring the high ground if they wish. It is only 10 seconds left on the ages
So perhaps they could consider it unnecessary, but has that really stopped you spirit in their last four games?
I don't think so. They were going high ground when they still have the tier 2 up. Yeah
It's just going to kill people. I mean they don't have a she-va. So the initial jump is a little sketch
Compared to most games we had the clockwork. So if you want just put all your faith in not me personally
I would. I've seen how he's played the last couple of days.
They could opt for it, but the safer option is certainly to continue to control the map
and just let Yandex create their own issues by leaving the base.
I'm already waiting for somebody to step out.
Is that enough?
I mean, he's not the biggest target in the world.
You know, maybe they're a little bit off on the timing of the season start.
It was still 40 seconds to back up again.
I can extend this out as much as possible for Yandex.
The micro manoeuvres here are from Watts and he's just spamming the trance out amongst
the map, scouting, trying to spot where they're at on the spear.
He brought the stampede to catch Soxa.
You're going to lose heroes like this pretty consistently.
Got the link?
I don't know.
That's there.
Faced it the wrong way from the blink, but whatever the case is, it is a smoke
up now coming out as the ages has been reclaimed.
And the girls showing on the lane they're painting where they think he is gonna be and he is over there
They find him as he comes back this direction completely alone the biggest human this this would be what they need and they got him right there
Jump forward got him caught congregations trying to save the tune they profit
That is the best thing that has happened to Yandex in a very long time. This would be bad
This would be really bad. They don't have shadow keen though. So maybe they feel confident taking this right
Watson standing there next to Laurel DM getting down on the low ground finds not me. It's not terrible
They actually do bring down the undying and as the BKB is out gonna need to run nowhere left to run
Yeah, it's gonna fall and that bastard gonna make sure that you are not safe
You're golden god for him here, but double kill for Laurel kill on Yadaro the annex will take it
It's something yes. I mean he's a lot of gold going back our way. Yeah big bounty there for a DM
I'm glad he just dropped the gym man. Yeah, you know, they look like they're thinking about holding it Watson was coming in
He was just like a second too late to ensure they wouldn't have to so they just secured of course that being said
Maybe you needed that too. Maybe that helps you get a secondary kill here
Speaking of a secondary kill Watson found by collapse
The staff's down the below ground, they're stampeding in.
Did he wait too long?
Yes, he did!
Naughty was out of range at the start, and TP's away.
The BKB lasts long enough.
He does get him out of trouble.
The Seared Junior gets caught by the bash.
Not going to be so lucky.
There is not quite going to be able to get into range to save him there.
there even when you get something good with the shadow came killed comes at a
price he was dead for ages huh 23
he is absolutely massive here and still not considering anything too defensive
wants to think of the data was first that's collapse's job yeah exactly you
saved me team I mean Laurel love me like there's there's so many good heroes
here at providing space and safety for a big range carry.
Now this could be so many different heroes on Yadrow,
and it's just a very similar game.
Just want to expect it, stomp off, stomp on, double edge,
and it accidentally pops his DKB.
Like, I was getting wobbled in the bottom lane.
I mean, you saw him hitting his keyboard at the end
of the last game, accidentally paused it.
You know, it's very hyped up about that one.
No BKB timing, maybe.
All right, DM just sold the Tormenter.
You know, take it down.
He's going to cut another wave.
He's just hoping he doesn't get spotted here as he fling gates out.
Players going the other way, though.
Hotney is going to be on the same side as him, though.
And how annoying it can be getting these heroes caught.
Toro having an inkling, an idea, DM, ooooh boy, rocket flare.
It's out of trouble.
I like some of the ideas they've gone for in terms of itemization though on the side of the index.
Like going for the Shiva's Guard on the snapfire.
I like this over the BKB.
I feel like if you go BKB, it's just not gonna be enough.
I don't think you can stand all of the BKBs anyway.
Right.
You're well up there. Trying to live a little bit longer is going to tombstone himself.
Here, Junior, is up on the high ground. The problem is that like, again, how do you start
the fight? It's like all on DM.
It is. 100% just DM. That truly is the major issue. And he has gone for the Sheva's Guard
as well. So they're definitely up on it. But again, all the next set, all the extra
armor is very good. So DM needs to get in here and spot this all with the Sheva's
Guard to set up the kisses.
This is a really good ward, but they're going to get the Stomp to open it. Disruption.
The player, not me, Finals GM.
Now the damage coming out, oh, it's insane.
Already out and on top of it,
they get the save for the Shadow Fiend.
He's gonna be fine, triple gone.
Your entire, Austin goes in.
Besides he wants to fight, that is not the decision
that's gonna work out the way you hoped it would.
Chira Junior also gone, there are no buyback
and all three of the players, the game is called.
Team Spirit are going to the Grand Finals.
Who would win fiery demon or a single rocket?
Coming out from Naughty on the clock,
this guy has been unbelievable on the zero.
He ends any hope of a fight there for Yandex.
No blink in from the doom.
He's the only hope.
He is the key.
Team Spirit, there is the best team
that identified how the enemy wants to let team fight
and removing that possibility.
Listen, vision, they said they wanted to fight in this spot.
They wanted to fight them.
Vision were looking good.
They were all over the place, but Team Spirit has leveled up over the past couple of days.
They take down Gandex.
One of these squads has been above there for them constantly.
Have they awoken a demon?
Can you stop Gatoro?
This man is a menace on this stage, and he just took out Gandex.
It doesn't feel good when you have defeated this team over and over again all year.
And coming into today, everyone still has Team Spirit as my favorites.
You can feel it, right?
It's in the arena, it's in the air, it's in the crowd cheering.
We all see what's happening with Team Spirit.
We've been here before.
We've watched this evolution and growth of this team, and it truly is horrifying to the
state of which they can reach.
Something to watch out for indeed is we're getting ready for the grand finals.
Team Spirit take the 2-0.
They have not lost a game in many days.
It's feeling like it's going to be the final boss here as they have often been at the international.
Two players that potentially could go for a third Aegis as well.
Opportunities about to make this work. Team Spirit, Grand Finals.
Let's take it away
We've got Rue and not me all of your teammates are TI champions
But they say you too are the best guys on the team
You were so close to cementing yourselves as the next great Dota 2 generation
I want to know how are you feeling getting this close to your first ages?
Really amazing. What can I do?
So can I say I mean like it was the finals first time I hope my team will get him in.
You have three TI champions with you to fight in the gym.
And now you're going to face your first TI.
Do you have anything to say, Ru?
To be honest, I'm not sure what to say.
But I just hope my teammates can carry me in the final.
Thank you to all the viewers, friends.
Do you have anything to say to them?
Thank you all for your support, guys. I love you.
What is this, guys?
Alright, now going into this tournament,
A lot of people have known that Vision is the team to beat, but they seem invincible.
They have beaten you guys before, but after that series, it looks like you are a different team.
Are you ready to take Vision down?
Yes!
Of course!
Let's court! Let's go!
Let's give our Team Spirit another round of applause.
Rue, not me!
Give us the remaining time to analyze the stage.
I love seeing both of them on that stage.
The two remaining players of Team Spirit
without a ring on their hands
and they have the chance to do it later today
against Team Vision, Team Spirit. Ever since they got knocked to the lower bracket by Team
Vision, they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's do that again. And they, they were
brutal in their road. We had Nebraska there at the end, Ray. And he's like, yeah, you
know, I'm totally happy with this, with this draft. Of course, we're going to win totally
sure. There was no doubt whatsoever.
I feel again, like they just have so much ease of execution on their lineup. It's
So simple how these two supports can play with each other around the map and move. I mean, I'm not gonna lie
I mean, we got to talk about your Torah at some point, but holy shit. He overperformed
I mean, not only that let's not forget that not me how many tier 1s event has he played this season in his career
Five this is his fifth correct you count it on a single
Losing and then yes, he's making it to the grand finals. I mean team spirit. They are absolutely exceptional right now
They are in form. They are going to be an absolute amazing competitor against vision who also are in incredible form
This is going to be a amazing grand finals. I mean, we are honestly just blessed right last year
We had Falcons XG at three two grand finals now
We have like your Toro versus Tannick vision versus spirit
It's like back-to-back just amazing grand finals. So whoo
Yeah, this is also very very special because normally the youngest players in a team
And they are usually the mid laners or the carry players, but in this team, for instance,
in RU, not me, they are the most inexperienced players, they are the newcomers, and they
are the ones that the co-periors are parrying, we are winning our games because the support
players are amazing, they are setting up a lot of kills for us and I think this
has changed so much over the course of history of Dota.
Oh look at you, our collapse in space, he knows it.
Team Spirit has a 100% win rate in Grand Finals of the International, so he is feeling it.
Absolutely, you played a great center of this game, of course, as well.
But I think this game round, Rhea, you were on point if you're going to talk about any
MVP that's going to be you, Toro.
I can't believe it.
He was so active.
I think last game, I felt like he had such a good lead that he just pushed that
advantage.
This game, he just makes his own advantage, even more.
It was very good.
was fairly one-sided and on the other side of Team Spirit it was Yandex that fell here
and for the final words we're heading over to Saxa.
Thank you, I am here with Saxa from Team Yandex, Saxa Commiserations, we're sorry to see you
guys go out of the tournament. I know you're disappointed but you guys have had a fantastic
season, three first places, lots of second, third and fourths, you've made it to the
third place finish here in TI.
How happy are you overall with how your team has done this
season?
I think the season has been good for us.
We've had a lot of good results.
It's a very young team.
And for Aladaga, it was the first time winning.
So with the results, we're happy, obviously, a bit sad now.
But top three at TI, it's not a bad result by any means.
And overall, I'm not too unhappy with the season.
Overall, I'm still very satisfied with the results of the whole season.
We are a very young team.
Many people have won the championship for the first time.
We will continue to work hard.
And I'm also very satisfied with the results of the TI3.
So, you're a veteran player.
You've been here and done that, a regular on the TI stage.
The group stage here for Yandex wasn't the best.
What did you say to the players
to give them a boost and get them to this third place.
Something I always say to my teams at TI is like,
you can always expect other teams to play bad,
and this is like a tournament in the season
where many people are going to play much worse,
so that also brings me comfort to know that
That's just another player worse, so I just told him as long as we focus on our game, we just play our Dota, we'll be fine.
I often tell them that if they are not good at playing T.I., it's normal, but as long as they continue to play their Dota, we will play better.
Well, Saxo, we're sorry to see you guys go here and you've got a lot of support in the arena and around the whole Dota community.
Do you have any words for the fans out there who have been supporting you guys all season?
I just want to thank everybody for supporting us. It brings us a lot of energy and we feel motivated to do so.
Also, I want to say thanks to the crowd here. I think it has been amazing. Honestly, it has exceeded my expectations.
And I hope you get another TI here, or many more tournaments, so yeah, thank you.
Thank you very much for your support.
You are our motivation.
Thank you very much to all the viewers on the stage.
Your cheers make us so much happier.
We also hope that if there is a chance,
TI will be able to hold the event here again.
Soxa is getting a lot of crowd cheers there
with his final words as he exits the International Hits,
eighth international here at third place.
place. If he wants to get three rings on his fingers, he's got to play a couple more years here, which is a treat for us.
But some final words on Yan next. They are one of the most successful teams.
Winter of the season, Saksa says it. Top three is not bad at all.
Yeah, and I also thought the opportunity to follow them.
I was doing a lot of coverage for their games back in December last year when they first started out.
I think it was problems. They had problems and Saksa came in after that.
and I could see them growing as a team, how much they've improved.
And even during the initial stages, I saw a lot of potential in the team.
I felt like given a little bit more time, they could really grow into a very, very strong team.
And it didn't really take them long into them.
I think one month or two months to show everyone what they could do as a team.
Yeah, and I know, Rhea, they really wanted to get all tournaments under their belt.
Yeah, back in Blast, Watson told us that he was hoping to get one win
from each organizer. You know, they won a blast. They won a Wallachia. They won a Dream League,
so they really are just doing the circuit. Obviously, they had their chance for the ages,
which is the most coveted of all, but they weren't quite able to get it maybe next year.
I don't think he intended for it to be all this year, but the fact that they nearly
did something pretty damn good. Yeah. It's crazy that their opponent spirit had
to see a lot more of him.
0s Decker Barrison this season
has been crazy. It's all about
peaking at the right time. And
to be honest, the honest they'd
have a very good year, and
maybe this game number two
wasn't as good as they wanted
it to be. But there were
definitely some highlights
for them. For example, share
Junior in that mid lane. I'm
sure we're going to see a lot
more of him. Actually we're
going to see a lot more of him
right now as we head over the
purge. Thank you, Shever.
Yes, you're one his mid lane
Spirit to win even more impressive, but I want you to just watch how dominant he is against Laurel
He played against the pango both games both games
He had their number who's getting consistent amount of assets tons of harass and denies and what he's been doing very well
He's generally spending his manager harass and Laurel is being forced to use his spells simply to get last hits and when you have that kind of a
Inequality the manner that your junior gains and the money that he gains from the last it ends up making a really big difference
In fact, he zoned him so much at this point. He's got 21 last hits 12 denies versus the eight last hits of Laurel
He zones him from the lane
He's forced to go heal and watch how he plays around him coming back into the lane
This kind of dominance is crazy against top players by the way
He grabs the first water room and he actually leaves the bottom one there to temp to Laurel into wanting to take it
And now he's playing this game where is he gonna use his spells and is he gonna be able to catch Laurel?
They do a little bit of a dancing move there at the same time which is very cool
the law knows law knows he can't go this way and back without getting killed so he says still play the left side now
He finally thinks this is my chance
I can get that way but cheer junior with that blast is on top of him prevents him from getting that and as a result of
Protecting this water now cheer junior gets to go get it when his resources are low
So he's basically using it as a bait, but also a way to get himself forward
So that was amazing by him, but the downside was what happens after it
How does spirit react to this great early game by them Yandex? He tepees to the off lane
He's looking for a snapfire ultimate on somebody, but they anticipate this
They're just don't give him the opportunity so this teleport ends up being a complete waste by him and it kind of
Continues in this way as well. Laurel is gonna eventually get enough levels to naturally kill creep waves
He uses his spells on the waves they die and he can leave so he doesn't care anymore that he's behind and watch
While how he uses his ultimate here
He actually turns a kill out of his level six where a shiru junior didn't get his earlier and he teleported this time a
second time. So this amazing early game that your junior got didn't turn into
anything super substantial despite getting Laurel behind. So this is the main
reason that Team Spirit was able to get ahead in this game despite losing their
lanes. They just didn't care about it because they knew they were going to play
well. Thank you very much, Pergs. You had the movements of Team Spirit. We keep
bringing it up time and time again because they are just superb. But we
had a couple of movements, of course, also from Team Jannex. And one of
them was when Shiro Jr. had his blinked agorade.
Yeah, I think what Puzzles brought up was fantastic. The fact that Team Spirit anticipated
the level six timing from the snapfire and avoided it, it's very consistent throughout
this game. So Yandex smoke up when they get the blink from the snapfire and they move
to bot lane. However, even in that moment, Team Spirit are aware of this move and they
have Loll positioned on the one high ground and then they have the supports positioned
on the other entrance to their jungle to try and break this smoke and make it so they cannot
get the opportunity they need for a kill. Weirdly enough, it actually goes much better than it
should have. Chirjuna blinks in, which maybe surprises them. Rue misses his bushwhack and
as a result he dies and they get a couple kills. So this was a nice move in the end for Yandex,
but the fact that Team Spirit was still so prepared for it I think is kind of more of the
point of why they were playing so well this game. You can just say that Spirit is very calm, they know
what they're going to do. The drafts are very simple so then the players can focus on all the
minutiae in the game, whereas they're not having to overthink things. Sure, the fight might not
go their way in the end, but everything that Spirit did in both of these games, it just was
like a complete team diff, unfortunately, in the lower bracket. Yeah, maybe also a little bit
of a carry diff as well as we are going to look at something Winter wanted to see again,
And maybe again, maybe again.
And just one of the few moments of the Yatoro show here, I think he had like a really really good game.
There was this one moment where his game was so good, he was farming, again you know he was farming the enemy triangle,
he was trying to farm the enemy ancients and Wattons like, I'm gonna TP there you know.
But guess what? Yatoro is already there for us you know and thank you very much for that bonus kill.
Yeah it was really cool because there was a fight happening on the bottom side where his team was dying.
So he was like, you know, I'll stay in the triangle a little bit longer because maybe they'll retreat up into the triangle
Then he gets the kills and then of course, you know, law
I think that the main thing as well is like your tour is popping off
But law has been so aggressive in both of these games
Sure, he's leaning into difficult matchups has been you know, maybe not going his way the ember the Marana in game one
This time around playing into the snapfire
But his bounce back his ability to open up the game to match your tour is energy
Lowe's just everywhere in this game on the pangolin and then yeah, they were just diving and not giving a
About this game is a perfect example of why right now
Laning phase is not as important and you see teams like like a boom boys. They really prioritize the lane if it's enough
They did they did really well, but still like when it came down to the best teams
The absolute best things is just not really a way of winning the game
I think and sharing that you have draft integrity and sharing that you have a way to play the mid game
it's okay to lose the lane,
even though they lost the lane
this badly on the pango.
The main question I think a lot of people will be asking themselves is if this type of
laning stage T happens against vision.
I mean, I feel like this is going to be right back and forth, of course, at the grand finals.
Like these two teams have already won, they had two won earlier in the tournament.
Like this is not going to be a shutout where it's a 3-0.
It feels like it's meant to be a lot harder.
I think spirit are going to have to put up a better fight.
to be as easy. I do feel like
you're unstoppable quite heavily
in the drafts today. Unfortunately,
not putting up the fight, so yeah,
it's only going to get harder for
spirit now. Team vision will be
the ultimate boss for teams
spirits or the other way around
because. Did you really win a T. I
without beating team spirit in
the grand finals? I don't know
about that right. I think this
is a very poetic and I think it
Team Spirit haven't lost the Grand Finals that they've played in yet.
This could be the first time.
I do think we will definitely get more than a 3-0 with how these games have been going.
I think the crowd is so in love with Spirit and how Vision have been playing.
I think the environment, the mood, the vibe is going to be way up to the ceiling.
I genuinely don't think we could have asked for a better Grand Final right now.
The student, C-Tenig, meets the master, Yatoro.
That's going to be a hell of a show.
But also two old timers right the two legacy post five players poppy and Moposhka transitioning to coaching and now it's like
Who is the better new coach on the block? I wasn't gonna say for both. It's their first time in the coaching
Exactly. Yeah, that's what I miss. It's kind of crazy to think that I mean when you have such a big career
It's quite easy to just you know to take a little sidestep to coaching
But I just like how happy Moposhka looks on stage
He's like when he leaves a draft like he knows like I've done my job
I don't have to play the game now. Yay
And then of course poppy like he just there just enjoying inventing some stuff like hey go try this
It doesn't work in the game, too. That's fine. We'll win game three in my ponds
Exactly it's such a different style of coaching between the two of them
But the drafting is gonna be just on another level it will be on another level. I mentioned
There's a three-time hopefuls in our grand finals here today as well, which is I think
Crazy, you know what makes it crazier
easier, Yatoro and Collapse. Yatoro for example, Windsor. Now don't worry, you're not old,
but Yatoro is 23 and he's playing for his third ring.
You're making me feel old. I mean it's amazing, he is one of the best offlaners of our time
And he is just he is so good. You know the flexibility he has the carry the carry
Yeah, yeah, I mean your throw is I think the same can be safe for your throw and collapse
They're both very flexible in how they can play for a team that can be greedy. They can be a team player
They can be the sacrificial lamb. I think this is what makes it so easy
You know to be talking about the draft
Why is it easy to drop in a 40 steam because your players are flexible?
But sometimes you can say the draft sucks or the draft is not so good
But you can only work with what you have but if what you have is everything then it's easy to draft
I mean they actually did a great service to Dota
Do that yeah, because if they are to win right and they have three ages imagine being a new player
It's like oh, I gotta win 40 eyes now
You know you can't just stop after one like when you think about the new kids on the block like here
Of course in the in the grand finals right spirit
They are fighting for three time and two time sucks are not anymore
You just been eliminated all of vision are fighting for their first ages
Just think about it a visioner to win this ti finals. They've got to go play another one another one
So it's like we have so many more tears ahead of us. They'll get so many more ages and ring
You gotta have your whole hand covered. Yeah, sure minimum
As many tier one events as not me
No, it is gonna be an epic grand finals best of five is always different and
Especially for coaches especially for new coaches and yes, I know they've drafted
have been in best fires many times before a still a different beast that you don't get
to practice that often, especially not on the main stage of the international. And it will
be a spectacle. Absolutely. And I think I want to also mean we highlight a lot in T-Spirit
because we did just see them win and they do have that momentum, but I want to focus
a little bit on vision here too, because we got in the mid lane no one. If we're talking
about young players that have many rings, we got to talk about the old timers that
don't have any and are still here as a core role fighting in that mid lane. Yeah it feels offensive
to call him old when we are all older than him. He is 28. Oh my god but yes no no one
is uh has been around for a very long time I think uh us old timers know him best from his
spin on those pro and this guy was so damn dominant if you haven't seen him like he went
from being like the best player in the world to just a complete drop off of like
I you know he's taking a break he's no longer competing for a bit and then he
starts this ascent again to becoming once more top of the world it's
unbelievable to go from such a height to to nothing and then back to the height
again I don't think anyone else has achieved that level in Dota ever it's
crazy if he gets this TI I think it is the perfect crowning achievement of
what he has accomplished here I mean what's even more impressive he did
it on the mid lane. Usually the mid laners, they just get younger, they don't get older,
they get younger.
I mean, but also for vision as well, you have no one who is just incredible for the Dota
community in what he's done for mid lane, but then you have like 9 class who, you know,
a year ago or 2 years ago, he was a completely different style of POS4. He had to reinvent
himself, he had to kind of reshape his playstyle, so it's like, a new kid on the
block and then you have Satanic as well. Like, I don't know, the whole idea of
this team succeeding is like, you've got Satanic who's going to potentially be
out your Toro and get his ages where when he was unfortunately kind of crumbling under the pressure
of the previous TI is like it didn't really work his way like vision has so many different story
lines that also are so beautiful if they are to succeed. Yeah there's a lot of stories going
into this best of five grand finals thank you so much for all your thoughts on the lower bracket
finals that we have completed Team Spirit. They are the ones that will go up against Team Vision
now they do get a bit of a break. Don't worry, we're not going to make them play straight away,
even though, you know, from the way they were playing, they probably could have done it. You
know, they only played two games and it was pretty convincing, but they need some time to prepare
against Team Vision. It's been waiting in the wings watching the series unfold and I'm sure
that they have their own plans as well, but they can rest a little bit longer because
before we get to the grand finals, we're going to have a spectacle of our own on the stage.
We are going to have the cosplay competition coming your way.
We're going to have judges involved, of course,
but the main person you're going to see right now,
let's head over to Dov.
Welcome back to the International 2026.
Next, we're going to give the stage to
a group of people who are in the real world.
Up next, we're turning the stage over to the people who bring the world of Dota into life.
Next, we're going to talk about TI-2020 Cosplay Contest.
They are the TI-2026 Cosplay Competition presented by SteelSeries and Perfect World Esports.
Next, we're going to introduce ourselves to the judges of this contest.
Standing next to me are our judges. Let them introduce themselves.
Hi everyone, I'm Reeps.
Reeps, what did you do?
I've been making Dota cosplays for 11 years now.
I'm currently holding the title of Best in Show of International,
which I won last year in Hamburg, but I'm ready to pass it on.
The first one is Rips, he has 11 years of cosplay experience
and he won the Best Award of T.I.14 last year.
Let's welcome the second one.
Hello everyone, I'm Lin Jing.
I'm the director of the art world.
I'm also a actor, a film director, a film actor.
At the same time, I am also a member of the China Joy Super Bowl, the finals, and WCS China finals.
I am very happy to be here. Thank you.
Wow, Lin Jing, he is a voice director, voice actor.
He is also a China Joy Cosplay Grand Final Judge, World Cosplay Summit China Final.
Welcome our next judge.
Hello everyone, I am Rui. I am Rui.
I am a video creator who has been a Dota player for five years.
I am very proud of him for not being a Dota player.
Ray, he is five years Dota 2 content creator.
He made a lot of videos for people who just knew Dota World.
The audience is very enthusiastic.
Are you ready to see your favorite heroes come to life?
Let's go to the number one.
Wow, the first piece is very beautiful.
It's a little mouse.
Let's welcome our judges to introduce this piece to us.
Yashankar's G-Tour Cosplay
has returned the unique shape of the little mouse.
Its texture is smooth.
It is printed on three places.
It is equipped with hand-made and hand-made colors.
It is a weapon in the game.
And behind it, there are three huge square tails.
It uses internal support structure
to keep the shape of the tail
naturally.
The first coser is Jensen Cabrera.
Us, Hoodwing, should leave in surgeon.
Let Lin Jing introduce this work and he just did.
Do you like this one?
Okay, let's move to the next cosplayer.
Who is this? Please, Ray.
This model is completed by 3D printing combined with EDA form board for curving and splicing.
Alright, let's move to the next one.
Can you tell who is this?
Here we have Nika Lockhart as Dawnbreaker.
This outfit took a whole year to make.
She built 28 lights into it,
which requires 20 meters of wires
that are all hidden underneath the armor.
This costume posed a lot of challenges,
and Nika overcame them excellently.
破曉星辰 星辰使者
接下来让我们来看一下我们下一位作品
Let's move to the next one
大家还没有给我们带来的这个作品也是非常精致
它这套作品呢 均为手工制作及上色
The cat's name is made of metal, and it's made of metal.
The cat's eyes are made of a small piece of paper.
The wings are also made of mechanical structure, which can move freely.
Can we see more movement from you?
Can we see some of the other moves in this movie?
Thank you!
Alright, what we see right now is Wilo. Dark Wilo.
This work is head-made, the cat under the hat part is made of 3D printing, the wings are added with a mechanical structure to allow flexible flapping.
Very cute, this is so cute, let's move to the next one.
I hope through his unique white snake theme and clothing design,
he can show the Chinese characteristics of TR-2026 Dongdaoism.
Wow, this is the NPC.
Wow, I can tell immediately. It's so classic.
This work includes over a thousand real snake scales.
The coser, Yumaki, he tried to make it have more theme of Chinese,
so we can see the white snake underneath.
Let's go to the next one.
Here we have Shambalos as Omni Knight.
He completed this whole work in just 45 days. I don't know how.
And the service Jesus of the Armors to seal the faces and figures are all sculpted by his own hands.
Next, we see this set of full-fledged knights.
I've never seen this set before. It's really beautiful.
Especially the bracelet he has in his hand.
This full-fledged knight used it for 45 days.
He completed the whole set of cosplays.
He showed his own creativity and creativity.
Maybe can he swim the hammer?
Can you do more movements for us?
Hey, take a look at our lens!
Well, I like it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Let's move on to the next cosplayer.
Let's move to the next cosplayer.
This is the Labyk we brought to you.
This work is actually very complex.
This is Rubik for sure, look at the steps.
This is the Laby Kotao Drone that we just saw.
This cosplay has 3 printing, EDA form carving, and LED lights.
Smoke effects?
Ooh.
Ooh, I can see it.
Dear viewers, can you see the smoke effect on his weapon?
It's very beautiful.
All right, let's move to the next cosplayer.
This is Legion Commander. The entire set of works took about six months to complete.
Bully showcasing everything and his idea, the production techniques.
I know this hero is not the main door, but he is still very beautiful.
Let's move to the next cut player.
And here we have Naga Siren by Grafumanka.
She places great emphasis on hand coloring, on painting, on texturing her materials, including
imitating forged metal textures and delicate color gradients.
She has a strong preference for traditional handmade methods, so every component of this
outfit is handmade and assembled by her.
I like how she moves. You can tell this is exactly how the hair moves, right?
Amazing work. Let's move to the next one.
She made it herself and it's a 10 year daughter to female player
and this is her 10 self-made daughter to cosplay work.
The total weight is 15 kilogram and is 15.8 meters of LED light strips.
15 kilogram.
All right, that's our last works.
So we all appreciate the 10 of you who are watching the video.
Now it's time to reveal the prize.
I wonder which of you will be the winners?
All right, that's all the 10 cards that we've already seen.
Which one is your favorite? Let's go!
The first one.
So the first one we are going to introduce is the judges' recommendation.
Please welcome Ray.
The work of the judges' recommendation is
Abuduraynagai's Svan Kangren.
Ray Rebao, the judges' choice award.
Congratulations to Abuduraynagai, Sven.
Everything detailed, combining a glowing wig, oversize the weapon, and full blending system to create a highly striking visual impact.
Congratulations!
Yutian Riggs will explain the biggest transformation award of TI-2026.
It goes to Grapple Mankai's Naga Siren.
Every single scale is cut and painted with precision, the scale for construction of Naga's signature tail.
Well, I wish we could see it. Maybe we can get some turn in there.
Well, oh, you have to wait for pictures.
The headpiece is impressive as well. The beautifully executed makeup.
All that convinced the judges that Gratamanka deserves the award for the biggest transformation.
It's not easy to move with a tail like this.
And I think she had to leave her device that she has for it upstairs in the room.
So we'll have to wait for the photos later.
I'm going to tell you it's amazing.
Next award is the Best Technique Award.
Goldy Moon the Legion Commander.
this balance strict acuity with profound insight into the character.
Congratulations!
We have already received three awards.
I believe everyone is looking forward to this moment.
That is our TI-226 annual Best Performance Award.
Only one will be awarded to the highest winner.
We've seen the impressive winners in three categories,
But there can only be one best in show.
This award goes to the cosplayer with the highest overall score.
Please Reeves.
The best in show of the TI-2026
Cosplay Competition presented by SteelSeries in Perfect World.
Goes to...
Schimbalus with Omni Knight.
Congratulations Schimbalus!
This cosplay unit handcrafted details, impressive construction, and fun electronics.
Shin is shown high skill in the application of a wide range of techniques, and he is indeed the best in show of TI-15.
15.
This cosplay will be the final product of the first year of the competition.
The color combination with the perfect combination of the two teams
Shimbolous has used many kinds of high-quality skills
and has become the best work of the year for TI-2026.
Yes, we feel you.
Okay, once again, congratulations to all the winners
and thank you to every cosplay room for their wonderful work.
Congratulations once again to all of our winners and huge thank you to every cosplayer.
We've just seen Dota brought into life through incredible customers and craftsmanship.
Now it's time to see Dota brought to life in a different way through cameras, stories,
and imagination of filmmakers.
接下来舞台交给你 Take it over, slaps!
Thank you.
For 15 years, the Dota 2 International has acted as a showcase
to find its teams and players from around the world.
That isn't it.
Now TI is a place for the community to come together.
for making signs in the arena to draft in some dank memes to post honey air in it
and spending thousands of hours on incredible cosplays like the ones we saw here today.
These are all ways that the Dota community shows us their passion, drive and love for this game.
Now for the last 10 years the Dota 2 short film contest has been another way for fans to
celebrate the community and show their love for Dota right here on the main
stage. So many talented people have come together to participate in this contest
over the last decade and we thought it might be a little fun to talk to some
of the finalists and get a backstage look at what it takes to make it here
to the international.
Hi, I'm Genevieve Sly.
My name is Nicholas Cundish-Zell.
My name is Amorio.
And my name is Pamela and I'm more known as Meira.
Hello, my name is Kevin Seary.
Hi, I'm Dilpatu.
My name is Shaylin Ham.
My name is Mikhail Pajomo.
And I'm Sam Seary.
Hi, my name is Lawrence.
I'm known online as Linger.
And in 2015, I won the very first short film contest
with an entry called the Kolan.
I submitted the award in 2017.
I won the short term contest with at any cost in 2024.
I participated in 2022 with the new Skolan Hill and I wait for me.
I submitted in the 2022 short film competition.
My video was called Low Purity Story, and it was about my dog playing Dorax.
I won the first place last year with the work of cinema.
I love playing the music.
I love making something that people have fun with.
Like, I love making something that makes people happy.
As a form of storytelling, I think it has to be something that's very powerful.
And when you express it artistically, whether that's animation or drawing or music,
someone else is going to be touched and someone else is going to relate.
And when they tell you they feel the same way,
it's going to be this magical moment for you.
When I got to know about the short film Contest, I just had to jump in.
The first time that I saw the short film contest was in 2016, and seeing like the amazing quality videos that they were putting out there made me really inspired and I felt like, okay, I gotta try next year.
When I found out about the Dota 2 short film contest, I was like, this is it, this is, this is much better.
This was honestly my first kind of animation for a project.
I submitted many times. I remember my first submission sucked.
I don't care if it sucks. Ever since I heard Tim Versailles' voice, it just had this intense need to animate him.
I just want to show the world what I see and I hear his voice.
It's great to be back! Well, that's what I tell people anyway.
I had no experience whatsoever in animation, especially in Source Run Maker,
but I tried my best to learn it as much as I could so every single year I was trying to improve.
The process was hard. It was pretty hard.
Because it's all in your head and you know what you want to put out,
but not everyone will understand what you're trying to tell.
And the hardest thing to get better at was definitely directing
and finding a way to tell a story in one minute and a half.
Just like anything else, you need a plan, a draft, a sketch.
So you have to really think about what's going to be my story.
Am I going to make it comedy or drama or action?
From makeup to wardrobe to the director, the producers,
or if you need a PA or if you need production designer, set dressers.
And for me, even though you're so exhausted,
I have that feeling of just knowing that this is exactly what I would want to do.
I wouldn't rather do anything else.
I'm the voice of the song.
A rock and a pole, best friends forever.
Super simple and elementary, but it was cool to be like,
oh, I wrote that.
Tiny and I, I would say, brought us closer together.
We got married two years later after the video.
And I love you.
I created several short films for the short film contest,
which for me was one of the biggest moments, I think,
in my entire creative career, where for the first time,
something that I made was put on a big screen and millions of people watched it at one point in time.
Seeing your video inside the game client layer and all your friends are watching and people
are adding you to their friend lists, people I don't know, it was just fun.
When they chose me as the finalist, I was like, oh my god, I just could not believe it.
Hearing my name, hearing the title of the video was really something that
I'll never forget really.
I was just like jumping and screaming.
I was super, super happy, super, super excited.
I remember watching a lot of reaction videos
from people who were watching the award for the first time
and just really laughing at it.
And that just brought me a lot of joy, you know.
That was a beautiful moment for me.
It kind of made my family proud of me.
I live in a small village in a rural area.
I sit just a couple of guys and the whole thing spread.
community. And people now know that I have a youth channel. I got kind of famous in my community.
I was on my bed still, like I was watching my bed. And then I heard you saying that.
And then I was like so fucking happy. I started like banging my bed with my hand.
That was an incredibly validating moment for me as a creator.
And to that I do credit a lot of my background with the Short Film Contest.
The Short Film Contest, all the years that I've submitted, they've changed my life in so many different ways.
These competitions have changed my life, and it became clear that my career would continue to move in any direction.
Right after my first participation in this competition, I was able to find a job in the studio.
After short film, I was blessed to work with as many tournament organizers as there is in the Dota scene,
so I had a chance to work with PGL, ESL, BLAST.
For PGL, for instance, I worked on those animations that you guys see,
like the draft animations where the heroes pop up during the draft phase.
And definitely, like, the craziest thing that I've ever worked on was this year's TI,
so the embroidery theme, the opening ceremony that you guys see.
Now I've been working with animations for like 10 years,
which is something that I never imagined I would do.
After the film contest, I've gone on to continue my career
in character design and previously I've worked on
The Wild Robot as a star artist and a character designer
and currently DreamWorks feature animation.
A new movie I have been working on
is coming out called The Forgotten Island
and I was a character designer and star artist on that as well.
My advice for someone starting out in the creative space
for something like Dota 2, I just do it.
Please, please, please get over your anxiety
of making something that sucks,
because you can rest assured
that the next thing that you're gonna make
is gonna be even better.
So my best advice is just make something.
Make something, make it as best as you can,
put it out in the world and then make your next thing
because the next thing is gonna be better.
And trust me, three years after that very first video,
you're gonna be happy you hit that button.
Working in the animation is just being surrounded
by a community of nerds like me.
Dota is this wonderful heritage for us
because it's come from a very bottom up place.
It's very grassroots.
It's been built by the effort of the community
and the love of the community.
And that includes not just the game,
but the community around it that's making the art.
So, all I have to say is thank you.
Thank you so much to the community for inspiring me and so many others over the last 10 years.
Thank you for your support.
I know that it wouldn't be the same without the players, but it wouldn't be the same without
the creators.
You guys mean the world to everybody else involved.
Thank you very much for supporting the game and for supporting our work.
Congratulations.
Congrats.
Congratulations on 10 years of the Short Film Contest.
Thank you so much.
Now, besides just introducing you to some of the real people behind the winning films,
we wanted to celebrate the first 10 years of the Dota 2 Short Film Contest.
We had a little something different for its 10-year anniversary.
We asked all of the finalists to come together and craft something special for you
We wanted to make something for the game that we all love and touch upon some of the most memorable moments from the
International over its last 15 years that we all share. Hope you guys enjoy
Often I am asked, what does a hero truly need?
Much depends upon the hero.
Would you be swift?
For you I have speed beyond measure
I'm the best did you see that now it was the play from
I'm TI2 nozzle. Black hole!
Okay.
It's like the most famous play ever.
Okay.
Speaking of famous plays, TI3 had a pretty good one.
Okay.
Would you be strong?
Then I can grant you the might to overpower any foe.
Oh, all this lifetime!
Tiny and like an attendant-anchor
Oh my god!
A rock and a wolf, best friends forever
That means we get blown up!
I can't take this anymore!
All right, all right, focus my son, focus!
Everyone called me crazy.
When I said hamsters could learn Dota.
But who's laughing now?
You have learned all you can about being a rat!
Just pick nature's profit and...
No! Not again! Please!
Would you be wise?
Then come closer and I will unlock your inner coming!
Engaging!
Open fire!
Oh my God!
Mega creeps inbound, EG with their last chance, can they hold?
Here we go, heist, heist, heist going in, shadowing with the daggin, it's not doing much, but the
other daggin's a triple daggin's, Tipper saw he's dead, they might be able to do this,
To my great beyond point, he's going in, EJ with the impossible combat!
What does a hero truly mean?
That is for you to decide.
10 years of the Short Film Contest, 15 different internationals, one yet still to claim who
will be the champion for it. And it is this one in Shanghai right now. We're looking at our grandfiles.
Only two teens stand at the test of time and have the chance to be able to get up there and lift
the ages. And how far we've all come since the first international? You yourself,
Insania, having your cameo in the short film celebration there. And how far you've come
as a player too? Yeah, I mean, it brings back memories the last time I was in Shanghai for
for TI9 and, you know, the unfortunate moment
with the gyrocopter.
But, I mean, it's honestly an amazing tournament
and even that moment was life-changing in many ways.
You, I got to see my teammates and how they truly feel
in a moment where you need them more than anything.
So like for me, that moment reminds me
of very good things, very good memories.
And someone that we need more than ever.
Effie, you've been to so many TI finals as a panelist.
How does it feel to be seeing one in Shanghai now?
It's just so special. There are no words. Just from the Dota today to the cosplay contests to watching that short film everything is so beautiful. It's the perfect celebration of this game in this community.
And Quinn, you self you've played in many of TI finals too to be exact.
Yeah, it's just an incredibly special occasion. It means so much to me and to so many people. It's a celebration of the game and that's why I love things like that piece so much that we get to see the history of not just the players but the people that make the game so special.
when I see the Dota 2 reporter, my like eyes light up.
I'm watching with my brother.
Remember, even when he didn't play Dota,
watching and enjoying it.
So it's something I gotta find so special.
And I just love to be a part of this community
and the celebration.
I mean, today is by far one of the most emotional days
that exists in the season of Dota.
It's our final day of TI.
And we're on to our last best of five.
Yeah, our last series that we're gonna get.
Looking at the grand final now.
And it's so hard to pick
who is gonna come out on top.
Vision have looked by far one of the best teams.
They haven't dropped a single series in their TI 15 run,
while they've been pushed to the limits.
On the other hand, you have a spirit
who thrived with their backs against the walls,
who have loved to do this lower bracket run in a way.
I mean, coming into this vision where the team to beat,
they were the team everyone was watching,
everyone was studying, everyone was afraid of.
And as the tournament progressed,
that very much was the case.
They completely bulldozed through it.
But on the other hand, you have the TI team
in Team Spirit.
It doesn't matter how they do throughout the year.
If they show up at TI, they're absolutely
going to show up as the anime protagonists who are here to cook.
And Spirit, I feel like, is a different beast when you play them.
We saw them match up earlier in the tournament,
and that was an upper bracket round two.
I think at this point, they've had so many series
to figure out their draft.
They've had so many series to iron out the kinks
in their gameplay and just get everything on the same page.
And you can tell by the fact that almost all their last series
in the tournament are two Oaks.
it's actually crazy to look at
spirit's matchups here one.
They've played significantly
more best of threes, but the
only two teams in which they've
lost these best of threes to is
vision enigma Galaxy and they
lost twice division in that group
stage to be the first four and
only four and team and of course
that upper bracket best of three
that they had just a couple of
days ago to. Yeah, the first
one to zero the second one to
one and third will have to wait
and see but I think that
top and they've stayed at the
top. No one has been able to
touch them. Evidence by the
record, but spirit. They
started down here and they're
arcing up towards spirit,
hurtling at them like a
speeding bullet that we know
this terrifying your player
is. And now it's the
collision, right? It's the
team that's been on top versus
the team that's charging
towards them and what happens
when they meet. I'm more
curious than ever. Of course,
the doter is what we want
to celebrate and have fun
with as well. But also what
form of your tour are we
going to see? And I don't
mean what hero is he going
is the man gonna come out with a shaved head?
Are we gonna see the run back of a bull toro
in another TI Grand Finals?
I hope so.
I mean, I can tell you, as someone who on stage
and witnessed the horror first hand,
seeing my dreams crumble in front of me,
it's just so iconic, such an epic moment in Dota history.
And he is, I don't know, for the last six years or so
has been like the iconic player.
And so the fact that we're even questioning
what his hairstyle is going to be for the Grand Finals
I don't know a testament to how legendary he is and just for context for those who may be tuning into this ti as their first ever ti
It's horror every time that he has won the international
He has shown up on the finals day with a shaved head and has just completely unleashed himself upon his enemies as the best carry in
Ti I believe the quote goes something like a ti 10 he
Sacrifices hair to the Dora gods. Okay in order to win that final against LgD. So then he did it again in Seattle
So I mean if he's not bald I will be very sad. I think we could all agree with that one
Then I wonder on the flip side
You know it does that play into visions mentality at all because for every single member of that five stack
They have not listed and ages for many of them actually they've never made it to a TI grand final
I think about last year for vision how close they were they were having this
extremely dominant game three in the lower bracket final and
and those the lead slips away from them slowly, but surely they sink in the reality that we don't have control of this game.
And unfortunately, that's where their previous TI run ended. Top three. Now it's secured at least top two, but they won't be happy with that one.
Yeah, it's a totally different beast. And I think it's something you dream about for so long so that when it finally becomes tangible,
it becomes in your grasp, even the idea of being in a grand finals is so distant. There's so many series.
There's so many steps along the way that you can't really focus on that.
And so then when you're suddenly there because you're focusing on the moment
you've been focusing on the journey while now it's suddenly it's very real and it's
quite an overwhelming feeling to go through. And so I hope for them they're able to
to steal themselves and actually focus on the gameplay and not let the
sort of the grandeur of the moment overwhelm them.
Looking at all the TI appearances of the roster as well, we've included the coach because
Poppy has a little bit of a fantasy or fairytale for himself. Everyone talked about how
He got that fourth place. He got that third place at the next TI.
He got second place all the way back at Singapore in TI 11.
And we go, okay, this is it. The next TI is puppies.
But there was the caveat.
Maybe it was the next TI puppy attended was going to be his first place.
I mean, yeah, that's the script.
And that's what it's saying for them, right?
Puppy is supposed to win this TI.
That's like, if the script does exist
and many tournaments has made it seem like there is a script,
then it should be puppies.
Yeah, puppy. It's not an exaggeration to say he's one of the greatest players to ever touch Dota. He's been so consistent throughout his career. He's had so many definitive ideas as a captain. And at this stage in Dota it feels like such a natural transition for him to come into the international as a coach.
And we've already seen the results of him as a coach on team vision. He came in he whipped them into shape
He took five of the best players in the world and turned them into the best team in the world
And it just feels like no matter what puppy can do
He will always have a place in Dota and look at this
Well the longevity of his career is ridiculous on the other hand he had Miposhka Quinn who is no slouch himself
Yeah, it's it's it's two Titans really. I think the parallel of puppy coming in whipping in the shape
I think Moposhka is the same thing. He was not on this team for a solid chunk of time
and they did not look like themselves. They were in shambles for a big period of that.
And then Moposhka joins and you slowly see them ramp up to the form that they're in now.
I think he is such an integral and core part of this team's identity and history.
And honestly, I think they would not be even close to the same without him.
He's definitely like made them look more like they used to. And I think
we had Laurel say it and it's so true that they are now able to play fast and slow.
And this has been one of the things that's the scariest to go off against because it's quite easy when you're only chasing up
His one playstyle to try to match and it's the same thing that vision brought up right when they talk to a yandex
Is that yandex are the king of split pushing but we can split push and team fight and when you have multiple avenues that you can go down
It just makes the team so much scarier, and that's why I feel like both these coaches have added to the teams
Yeah to me who push cut and a lot of ways is team spirit
It felt like his team when they won both of those ages
And yes, he had a star-studded roster, especially in Yatoro and Collapsus being some of the greatest players ever,
but he was the player who brought that energy of resilience, that heart, that ability to overcome difficult situations.
And if you ever watched the way that he interacted with his team and the way that he guided them,
he was the one lifting their spirits.
He was the one enabling them to play the late game comeback, Dota.
And we saw that in all the moments Spirit had roster changes. They brought in new players.
They had to train them.
They all had that team spirit energy because of Mifoshka.
So when he did leave this roster, it did feel like a massive loss and now he's back as a coach
They're in the TI Grand Finals
So we were seeing his voice show up in game even though
He's not there for them and that has been such a pivotal point for spirit here
And I just love the fact that we're seeing them be spirit of all because we missed out on them on the main stage
Two ti's in a row. They make it to a main stage
They drop to a low bracket and they are completely unfazed Quinn. They go. Okay, and yeah
I think having someone like that for both teams in your corner that we've seen them come back from games
They drop very unconvincing losses. They lose a game in pretty I don't know drastic fashion
And a lot of teams would crumble from there your mindset drops your gameplay drops
So you lose the series but they walk off stage and they've got someone who says hey
It's okay. These are ideas and you trust them. You really believe they're not just saying it to say it
They're saying it because it's true
And you believe that they have the presence and the stature to make you buy into that
And I think that's what's so special about these players
and why this would be such an amazing series is that it's not a team on either side that will crumble
They will hold strong and push until there's nothing left to give
I think what adds context to how surprising it is that spirited here because if you tune in for ti every year you go
This is an old roster lineups players that we're expecting to make deep runs
But this is the one year in which we have not seen spirit win a single tier one event
Every other TI since that TI 10 run for themselves and even including in that year, right?
They were able to get an event win for themselves this time around
Two second places was the best that they were able to do in senior and so they really did I think slip to the wayside in people's minds
About the potential threat of what they can all be together as a roster. Yeah, I mean, absolutely
I mean then on the other side you have vision that's been pretty like honestly ever since they got the roster together
Ever since notice joined arguably the most dominant team of the season and I think everybody coming into TI
I do what these guys are capable of. So in many ways it is like David versus Goliath, but it's Spirit
So like it's Goliath vs Goliath and TI Tam. Yeah, exactly. Yeah
No, I think another really cool thing and it ties back to what you said like TI Tam
I think is an iconic tournament. It's when Spirit first like came to be the greatest team in the world
And I know like Team Secret at that tournament coming in they were like the favorites of that year
they had this super dominant online era and
And they come to TI, they lose to Spirit in the end.
In this kind of crazy game with like, I think it's a like and tiny situation going on.
Anyhow, I'm just rambling. But the reason I bring it up is because we talked to Sumail at some point,
and I remember he mentioned that he thinks Vision is the most similar team to that secret ever since Puppy's joined.
So I think for Puppy, this is also like revenge for TI 10.
And if that TI 10 mattered more than any TI, I think, to most players that were there.
So for him, I think this moment means everything I'm intrigued to see it play out this way because vision again
You're talking about it the most dominant team for this year
We have never seen the most dominant team or the favorite team throughout the year
Go on to win ti to lift the ages
They've always fallen slightly short whether it's a second or third not even making it through groups
So in your eyes if vision were to win ti today
Would it be the first time in TI history that the favorites have won it?
That's a good point. I would say that they're an
exception to this because they were not the most dominant team for the first half of the season.
They were going through the growing pains of their roster changes. They had a stand-in situation.
They had all flanar switches for a while.
Puppy came in as a coach halfway through the season.
It took a while to wrinkle out a lot of that growing pains and towards the last few months they've been the beast.
So maybe they can break that curse by peaking at just the right time. It's very reflective because both spirit and vision had to go through
qualifiers. We always have our direct invites every year and whilst most of those teams place really well for themselves, we have two teams that
had to fight through the qualifiers to be here Quinn, fight through qualifiers, group stage, upper bracket, lower bracket. You name it, they've done it between the ten of them.
of them. Yeah I had completely forgotten about that and it is such a crazy and I think it's it's
very accurate. Marissa is about peaking at the right time and I think this plays a lot into you've
had a bunch of games you weren't the greatest whenever you know that season was going on that's
why you weren't invited directly you had to prove your merit in other ways and so that you've
had to grind you go through these group stage matches and you ramping and ramping and ramping
that's what you want you don't want to peak too early because that's why we see so many teams
that are dominant early in the year fall flat later because you can only be so good for so
It's a nature of competition. It's so difficult to stay on top people are gunning for you constantly
That's the fact that both teams have time to perfectly whether through luck or through. I don't know some insane
Pressions that was the Maposh guy
He's like if I do this and at that time and in this month that we just bring it up and stop playing Lake it
We've got a voice and they've stolen the stars aligning from another team and now they're here and they're they're informed
I mean peeking at the right time. Honestly, it's a skill you learn as a team
It's something that we put a lot of effort into on the foot and I think especially blitz was very
We need to kind of think about how we put effort into tournaments because there's only so many events that you can actually like put in your 100% in and for TI you definitely want that and you don't want to come into TI feeling like a little bit burnt out, you don't have like that fire and that passion for the game that you would have otherwise.
I want to take a step back and look at the TI in which both of you two actually came up against each other in the grand finals because
Aiden you came in through the upper bracket. You guys didn't lose a single game when you came in through the lower bracket
And so starting with you how does potentially because you're mentioning burner
How does fatigue of such a long day even though it was a tour a long day play into this
Where a spirit hoping to be able to pour energy from and ramp up and peak a second time for a finals
Yeah, it's the hardest part of a lower bracket run and it's not just this day alone
it's the prior days coming into it. They played two series yesterday. They played a stressful lower
bracket run and it's not also just the physical fatigue. It's the mental fatigue of all of these
are elimination series and that weighs on you. There's a stress and a pressure there. Everything
is on the line and everything can only be on the line so many times before you break. And so
doing that lower bracket run and getting to the grand finals, they've done it before but it is
an incredible feat both physically and emotionally completely unrelated to the Dota.
Yeah, absolutely. And something that is really tough and maybe hard to like relate to
you've been there is the fact that the day before the grand finals you're also playing a double series day
and they have the first series of the day into the last series of the day into today again the first
series of the day and then you get to play another series and this strain over the course of two days
is crazy tough. Well it's great for them then that they had so many quick two-ohs it feels like
it feels like the last three rounds for them have just been um all right we're tired let's make
quick work of this and go home and sleep we've even had a collapse say I've played five hours
sleep. We're gonna do this fast and they did it really fast yesterday. Well, please
gotten a little bit more sleep. But, Aiden, is there anything that plays in your mind
when you're coming in from the upper bracket? Because some people do talk about or allude
to Spirit have now had two games to warm up for themselves. They're in the group of
it a little bit more and maybe they're ready that off the rip, they're gonna be playing
at a tempo that you haven't yet done because you haven't walked out on that stage on
the side of vision. I think usually when you're in the upper bracket, you have
this confidence of like we haven't dropped a single game. You're coming into that series thinking like
we're going to absolutely smash the other team. And I think I wouldn't say it really is a factor in
that way. I don't think you really care that they're warmed up. You're thinking if anything like
we've beaten them twice this tournament already, we're going to beat them a third time. It's no
problem for us. Yeah, it's it's I think that's very true. And I think from the the lower
bracket, there's a feeling of like proving yourself like you can feel I think them
you, right? Because they're
standing on the podium and
you're walking up the steps as
they layer down at you. And so
I think there's very much a
feeling of like we're going to
prove you wrong. We'll show you.
You think you're better than
us? You think you deserve to
be there and we don't? Then
let's let's let's prove it in
game. Oh that that talking is
going to happen when we see our
grand finals there, but it's
just so insane to think about
that no one's mentality over
this last year that we're
aware of. We're not sure
how long that this has been a
shift to him has been so
much more about the journey
and ever since then it
feels like we've seen a
We've seen a resurgence of him.
We've seen him back to the no one of all before we saw him do a lot of region
swapping and all changing.
And now it is a no one that is consistent, is willing to play whatever role it is.
And I am so intrigued as to how much progress and how much effort has gone into this.
And almost the satisfaction that he must have that because of it,
he is now in a grand final for TI.
Absolutely. And the thing with the whole it's all about the journey
is really interesting until you reach the end destination.
Right now you cannot it can't be all about the journey
It has to be about this moment and I'm very curious to see how that affects them because if this has been the thing
That he's been relying on like just enjoy the road enjoy all the steps to get there now that you're here
Can you stay in that mindset? Can you stay in that idea of like?
You know there's always next year that we this team is gonna continue on and even though this moment means so much to you
To not get stuck up on it and not think like this is where we were meant to like end up and this is what it's all about
of it. Yeah, it's so true and it's so difficult. I remember the same feelings when you finally
get there. It's very easy. It happened to me to get caught up into what I've always
dreamed of and then suddenly you start thinking about that and you're not thinking about the
gameplay and that slips very quickly. And gameplay goes from 99% to 97% and suddenly
you're making mistakes and things crumble. So it's a slippery slope and I hope that
he's able to stay in the mindset that's gotten him all the way up to this point.
that's what we're going to
talk about. There's a lot
playing into this, and we've
mentioned the coaches. The
impact that they've had on the
rosters that they have been
helping come to this grand
finals. Now we've talked about
no one's journey for himself,
but more importantly, something
that vision really wanted for
themselves was to see this
rematch with spirit. They
wanted to have spirit in the
grand finals when they secured
this, but that's something
DeKalus said and looking at
satanic your tour. There's a
lot of different accolades
when it comes to being out on a TI stage and Satanic has been there once and it wasn't the result he wanted
It was a top three finish, which is still fantastic last year
But that's still that element. Is it's gonna be different for him mentally stepping into a grand final?
Yeah, I mean we have to keep in mind that a lot of these younger players from the EU region grew up watching team spirit
They watched the miraculous friend that they had at TI 10
They saw them look the ages and that beautiful story and it's or became the carry player to watch
Satanic has absolutely molded and shaped himself as a Dota player off of your tour of we called him baby
It's or over so long and of course
He's come into his own and stepped into his own as a player developed his own particular play style
But this was his idol for so long
So going up against him must mean the world to him and isn't a ti win if you don't beat your idol
I'm getting a little giddy in my seat because I have just gotten word that if anyone out there is you know
Jewel screening right now watching the broadcast as well as maybe scrolling on social media team spirit a little bit of a spoiler
Have posted
Now we don't know who's here this is
That has been sacrificed to the Dota gods
It's all I'm gonna say but there is an inkling as to which player would love to have given that up
I mean, you talk about King vs Prince, what better situation to try to take the throne
than vs Baldorro?
Can you imagine if Satanic comes out?
And it's...
They're like in a different set!
Yeah.
Do you think?
No.
You never know.
Really?
You never know.
I mean, this is...
I fully agree with Mira's point, and I think it's so cool that it is, but he
He is his idol and you see that throughout his gameplay, his style, the heroes he plays
and they've gotten all the way to the grand finals and it really is a thrown, dethroning
moment.
Like that is what it is.
Yutoro is what everyone thinks of the pinnacles carries and so Tanik has risen and risen
and risen to be in contention for that and now the proof is in the pudding.
Are you really better?
Show me.
Well, looking at the hero pool comparison, there's a lot of common overlapping heroes
but when it comes to unique heroes, we're not seeing as many come out from
But there's a caveat to that one insane.
Remember they haven't played as many series.
They haven't played as many games,
but I also think that that is a lot of props to Poppy.
He's not putting Satanic in a situation
that you have to reach really deep into your hero pool
and hopefully get the final pick,
the last gotcha pick that comes out from our carry.
It's a stable all round the draft
and you can just excel in those heroes
in which we're picking for you.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it comes down to the different draft styles
of the two teams.
We saw multiple times throughout this tournament
where Spirit just end up in a position where they're last checking their carry against a team that's also last checking their carry.
So the maximum amount of bans that can be on carries are being had.
And I think Yatoro thrives in that position. That's what he wants to be in.
He wants to abuse the fact that he has a big hero pool and make sure that neither carry is necessarily on their most comfort.
But I think this is where Satanic can match him. He just hasn't needed to do it yet.
Looking towards our off-lane is as well because that has been the narrative around vision.
it felt like they were unsatisfied with their top three last year and things just needed to change.
They ended up bringing in puppy as their new coach, but obviously noticed now joining them as
they're off-laner as well. And it was a departure of DM with a stand-in of SSS and once noticed
between that free agent from Yandex they brought him over into vision here and we're looking
at him. He is not necessarily a same player in the way that collapses despite us seeing
a similar hero pool up the top there. It is just so different in how they can engage for
their team and what they can offer in terms of stability.
Yeah, from noticed, I consider him very much the best all-rounder and all-of-dota off-laners
in the sense that no matter what you give him, he will make it work. Do you need
blink initiation? He can do that. Do you need scaling through your off-lane? He will
be able to do that. Do you need him to take a step back and sacrifice himself?
He will do that and he will make it work.
Whereas for a collapse, he has, of course,
naturally shifted his hero pool as the meta has shifted.
But what he's the best at in the entire world
and has been is clutching teamfights.
He's the best blink initiator in all of Dota.
He's the best Aegis dealer in all of Dota.
And he is the player that you rely on
when things are going bad.
He finds a way to turn impossible situations.
Yeah, he has this magic quality to him almost
that it just feels like if you have any player
in the world at a clutch moment, you're picking him.
I don't care what role it is, if he's playing mid, you're still picking collapse.
He's just that, I don't know, he just has that special sauce.
And I think Mir's point about notice is also very true that somehow in a comparison of off-laners,
I don't think collapse is the clear favorite.
This versatility that notice has, I think is something that's fallen by the wayside for a lot of Dota players.
People are hyper-specialized in modern Dota.
They play one way and they do it so well that they force you to beat it.
And notice says, screw that, I'll play all the styles at a good enough level that I can win TI.
That is that is amazing. It reminds me of xxs last year. I feel like he had a similar thing going
We're like whatever the team needs whatever way I can enable our draft to work
I'm gonna do that and it's a player that you can't really like ban against like what do you you can't take him out of the game
You know, he's always gonna have some sort of impact
There's a lot of fun being had between these all of us here a lot of people in the arena as well
We can hear them cheering having a enjoyment of what's happening over on the Chinese broadcast too
But the arena has been filled out by everyone here in Shanghai. It has been such a phenomenal time and slacks
So thankfully decided that he would give us all a preview of what you guys might be missing out if you're watching at home
Everybody I thought I'd give you a tour around the arena
So I just slacks here with a little walkthrough of all the different sites to see around the old bowl as they say
We're going to start things off with this embroidered ages.
This is a real embroidery done by a master of embroidery in his own specific style, specifically
to the ages that you'll be seeing on people's backs.
Here we have our haul of different jerseys and rings throughout all the TI's.
This is where it all started, baby.
TI won over for the free-to-play pin is there.
The original shirt.
the original ring and there's so many beautiful designs.
We've seen some of these before,
but just seeing the growth of Dota 2,
all the different rings, you get to pick your favorites.
I don't mind, what a mind used to be this guy right here,
just a standard team liquid,
got a bunch of gems and stuff,
but I have to say, oh, this is a cool one,
if you wanna say this one is Tundra
and they made the ring itself look like the logo,
very cool, but I gotta take you to the new edition.
This is last year team Falcons.
Absolutely beautiful purple ring in there.
I can't wait to see what next year's ring will be.
But we'll have to do that on next year's tour
as we keep going onto the attractions.
Do you want to take a little seat?
Well, come on over to the secret lab booth.
You can see a beautiful replica of the Aegis,
partaking some stuff and go look at some chairs.
Now secret lab has been one of the only sponsors.
With the international here,
one of our official partners here,
We have had custom chairs every single year
and they are beautiful.
Dating back all the way to nine.
Look at this purple bad boy.
So yeah, I personally love this year's chair.
I think it's fantastic.
We've got that nice logo on the back
celebrating our embroidery theme this year.
A lot of Chinese stuff.
But me at home, I'm a classic boy.
Got a logo for life.
Hi, hello everybody.
Hi!
What's your name?
My name is Khaled.
Oh, fantastic.
Welcome.
This is our secret shop area.
We saw you hanging out here, admiring it.
Before we came, we have all the stuff
in the secret shop in this glass case.
What did you like?
Was there anything interesting for you?
Ah, I buy this one.
Oh, the chest set?
Yeah.
This one is massive.
Yeah, and this one.
Oh, and the mouse pad?
You went shopping today.
Not the ogre magi cape?
No.
No, not the big Chungus froggy?
No, I have a small one.
Oh, you got little chungo.
Okay, no problem.
Whoa, that's a very good selection.
I can't believe you got that whole thing.
So that's pretty cool.
My favorite thing,
gotta be this gigantic crystal maiden.
Yeah, I love this too.
You, you got this?
No.
No, but you want it.
Yeah, I want it.
Well, congratulations.
I hope one day you get to have it.
Yeah, the super shop has many cool things.
Can you give us a go buy stuff?
Yeah!
Here we have some never I believe released art from the game and it is very, very interesting.
You got some creeps here, fire and lasers and stuff, got some beautiful rivers out there
before it actually got out.
I know this one was a preview to the back of TI 10 on Roshan, which was cool.
We've got some massive lane pictures.
Now you might have seen stuff like this Anti-Mage background picture before, but this
is the full-size one.
I never knew there were radiant towers behind Anti-Mage.
This is an early concept art of Dota 2 heroes and other things and it is fascinating to
see stuff like early Underlord, early TA, Arc Warden, Monkey King, these Slark before
and afters are absolutely unreal.
Did you know Apodon was supposed to ride on the haunted Gryffindor?
I never knew that.
But yes, absolutely fantastic and this one I know I've never seen the early concepts
of Agnem.
So, if you're a Lordlord, come and check out the early concepts.
It is super cool.
Welcome to the secret shop by friends.
There he is, the shopkeeper and his beautiful pet.
Do you have anything to say shopkeeper?
No, it's a picture.
Don't get crazy, but you can absolutely come here
with your friends and have a beautiful picture.
Bring your friends if you have them.
It's a lovely setup.
And there you have it, our little tour around the bowl.
So if you guys are here, I hope you have fun.
I hope you explore a little bit.
There's lots to see and lots to do.
And if you're not, you can be here next year.
I'll see you guys again.
Thanks for watching.
There's always so much to do at TI just outside of watching
the amazing data that these players are putting on for us.
And this year's theme has just taken it to another level.
Everything about it feels so symbolic, so meaningful,
and so emotional.
And to see it spread around, to get
to go through those journeys, having
to look at the jerseys and the rings of all of our TI
winners of past, I think it's just so amazing
to get to witness with your own eyes.
it's not every day that someone wins a ring, let alone that you get to see it as well.
Yeah, I think the theming of this TI and sort of the celebration, the decoration of the arena and the
surrounding area has been really, really good. There's commemorative photos everywhere and just
these pictures of people lifting the agus like that. That moment, so many moments captured
and I think it's really special to just be walking around and just see all those pieces
of history. It's very nostalgic and very cool. It's incredibly impactful. I mean,
and you're saying back in Shanghai as well.
This one's going to have so many different memories for you too, surely.
I mean, last Shanghai was my first Ti ever.
So obviously it has a special feeling in my heart.
And this city is one of those places that I've always told my girlfriend,
like, you have to come to Shanghai at some point.
This is one of my favorite places in the entire world.
It's where I essentially feel like my Dota journey started.
So it holds a very special place in my heart.
Yes, it's my first time in China.
And it's such a cool thing to be here,
because in Dota's history,
China has always been an integral part of it,
from teams to Dota culture to the back and forth,
and the East versus West storylines we had for so long.
And growing up being part of Dota and watching that,
it's something that I've always wanted to do.
It's always been a bucket list,
but being here is so special.
It has been amazing, two weeks of it as well,
that everyone's just been so privileged
in a way to get to experience.
But if you guys have been here at the arena every day,
grinding out what has been some phenomenal Dota,
then maybe you've missed out on just how beautiful Shanghai is.
We are here in Shanghai for TI 15 on the hunt for statues of heroes
and of course the Aegis of the Immortals, no match.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
Has it ever made you consider going pro, Ted?
Nothing has ever made me consider going pro,
especially my total lack of ability.
But I tell you what, this is the actual size of the Aegis.
If you've ever seen the players lifting it on stage, they're giants.
Yes, your size grows relative to your dota skill.
It does indeed. It does indeed.
These are dotted around.
There's like different stats.
You're going to find a quap statue, which I'm looking forward to.
What are the other ones?
Axe.
There's a gigantic jug balloon on the sea, on the roof of one of the buildings here.
You're going to see how many.
But there is a wind ranger around as well.
There is a wind ranger.
Don't let him hunt her down.
We're going to see how many we can find in 30 seconds.
No, I'm going to kid it.
It's not a race.
It was like home as in the ball and we'll get you some shots and there's fans here taking pictures. This is fun
It's very muggy here today. It is humid. It's very tropical. I feel like I'm on holiday with my dad
Okay, can I call you dad? No, you can not call me dad. No, what about father? No, not father. No, daddy
No, definitely not Papa. No Padre. No
Oh
No mad Wow take a look at these bad boys
This giant inflatable plug. I mean this is the Pudge actually want on my team. Yeah carry Pudge
This is proper late game Pudge
10,000 health Pudge. I'll take my quap arcana. Thank you very very much. This is my queen right here
I've got the blue arcana because I unlocked it because I love quap so much hail quap
I love you my queen. This thing is absolutely massive. This is taller than Saksa
I think it might actually be taller than Zagre.
Anyway, Nomad, we've got plenty more to find. Let's go.
Let's have a look.
Golly, period. I think that's an axe.
I think you might be right, Nomad. Look at this.
He's glorious.
Absolutely phenomenal axe here.
He looks very disappointed.
Slightly disappointed axe.
This is my off-laner. When I'm paused for a supporting axe,
I failed to pull the camp.
The carry and the five have jumped in.
They got level two before us.
I know where to be seen. That's the face.
That's the face you make.
trauma coming out here, period. But yeah, I will say usually there is a barrier around
here. So don't need to worry about someone coming around the corner too fast and getting
beheaded by the axe. It is normally very safe. And if you do come here, you're not allowed
to do this. You can't boot backs like I can. You're not allowed to do that. Look at those
muscles. I think I think he's got bigger biceps than fly. I think they might be
slightly bigger than flies. It might. I still think Saxa is taller than this.
Yes, he is, he is, yes.
The fly is swallower than this, I believe.
Anyway, we've got other, we've got other statues to find.
Nomad, are you ready?
I'm ready, let's go.
What are we looking for next Nomad?
Let's hear a big jug, Perian.
Big jug, big jug.
Stop.
Look at the size of that jug over there, baby.
Oh my, that's the biggest jug I've ever seen.
Coming out of the skyline.
It's massive, it's up on a cliff.
Is it that easy?
Our tour come down.
It's not safe up there.
I didn't think he made it to this TI.
I don't think he has a TPE scroll.
Well, he's stuck now.
Someone get him a ladder.
Pirion Flaks, look at this.
This is absolutely breathtaking.
Holy moly, Windranger in all her glory.
The Arkhanis.
Oh my god.
Please, please don't touch it.
Oh my god, it's so delicate.
It's so intricate.
It is.
It's so well made.
It's really good.
I mean the leaves the detail on these is incredible each one of these was hand-carved by an old Chinese lady
Is that right? Yes, that is true
Well, we found a lot of things so far on our trek around Shanghai
I think we've got two or three more things to find so yeah, let's split up and search for clues
Okay, Daphne. All right sounds like a good plan Fred
Period oh, there you are. Hello, mate. Hello look at these beauties. Oh my god
I mean this I don't even have jokes as Mars is just fantastic. That is pretty blooming cool
And they got a shadow fiend as well who's well
Turns out I'm taller than shadow fiends. That feels pretty good. I mean, it's pretty good
It looks epic for sure. I mean look at the colors. Look at the rendering. It's sick
I mean, this is how every shadow fiend player thinks they look when they're playing that hero
After they've just missed their third yule's combo, of course
And there in the middle is the true sized ages not like the gigantic one we saw at the start of this bit
This is more like what it actually looks like realistic. You ever held the actual ages? I haven't have you several times
I'm sure you have several times and every single time there's a valve person who says don't drop
Well, we've done
The full tour of these now. Yes, indeed indeed
It's been a full tour of all of the Dota heroes around here and yeah
You can go out into the streets of Shanghai and see it yourself
They are fantastic and some will be around the arena as well
Those of you who don't get a chance to come to Shanghai, we've done the tour for you
We've had a great time seeing all the sides been driven all around Shanghai
And and it all ends here as it will at the end of the Grand Finals
Well next week when someone lifts the actual version of this above their head and everyone goes ballistic
That's what's gonna happen from the streets of Shanghai from us. Bye. Bye a
lot of effort and care and
going into what we've been able
to witness as door defense
throughout the city of Shanghai
throughout our arena here as well.
It feels like every time you think
this is going to be the coolest thing
you get to see this T. I there is
someone or something that proves
you wrong and you get to
experience something new again.
But let's see the replica ages.
We've got the real ages out
there on stage now, and it's
either going to be spirit with
a couple of newbies, a couple
of old faces lifting that ages
again, not as many as as Ted
clearly is lifted, but getting
that. Yeah, it's a it's a chance
for the third right? No one's
ever won three TIs as a player.
Only a Y is a coach and player,
so it's the potential for a
very special occasion. I remember
before anyone had won two TIs,
it was like who's going to be
the first and that's that's a
big deal cementing yourself in
history is not just the T. I
winner, but a special kind of
T. I winner. It is you know,
it's a goal even higher than
normal T. I winning and then
on the side of vision and
saying it would be so many new
Closed it to the triple digits and you know, but we could potentially get that today
Yeah, I mean if spirit wins it's entirely possible right to get to get the three feet
But for vision, I think it's really special because puppy won the first TI and he hasn't won ever since then right?
He's been so close so many times and it can finally happen today for him. I think for safe panic
It's about you know closing in on the atoro try to make that gap smaller
make sure that he can surpass his idol really and for no one I think probably
the most special person here today so many times coming to TI as a favorite so
many times falling short and now finally being in the grand final and
having a shot at it. That's so amazing to think about the puppy won the first
ever international and now we've come full circle and he's still competing
all of these years later at TI 15 as a coach like to me this is one of the
most incredible storylines of this entire TI. It's not the most incredible one. I just
can't believe that someone has been that consistent throughout Dota. Like this is longevity like
we've never seen before. I don't even know if he has comparison in any other esport.
Yeah. The legacy is crazy, especially considering how much Dota changes. Like there's patches
all the time and the game shifts and morphs. It's not a static thing. It's an ever-changing
thing. And so to have the commitment to something to stay with it, even while
it changes is doubly impressive, I think.
I know that we've been talking about stepping things up,
however time you think you've seen the coolest thing,
there's one more thing to add.
Well, our grand finals will no doubt be the top of it,
but I've got something else to slud in just before,
and I know Devon Tsunami would love to walk us through it.
We are now in the gallery
on the side of the Sushou's Shingo.
Wow, it's really beautiful.
It's an incredible work of art.
three months to build something like this.
I thought it was digital, but it turns out
that was just the template.
And then an incredibly talented artist
took the time to put every single thread
in the real thing.
大家都知道苏秀是我国的一项传统记忆
它经过了几千年的传承
它的记忆在不断的精湛改善
现在我们看到了这一个苏秀的作品
它其实有一个非常非常非常细的地方
不知道大家能不能看到
就是它这个平面完全是平的
这也是苏秀的一个技巧
就是你在缝制的时候
你的每一针的拉力都必须是均匀的
这样下去的时候
每一针才能恰到好处
它是一个完整的平面
Can you check if it's actually so flat?
I'm telling you, like this almost looks like a painting at first,
or like a woodcut painting kind of thing, but it's real.
It's all threads, and it's a gorgeous tapestry.
This art form has had to be preserved for thousands of years,
and the fact that there are still artisans creating it to this day
is truly impressive.
But I was hoping I could ask you about some of the specific themes that they threw in.
So I'm noticing here there are pine branches on the left side,
And then on the right side there are plum blossoms.
What's the significance of that?
So these are symbolizes some very good quality personalities
about strength, about resilience, about never give up.
Perseverance.
Yes.
I see.
And then how about we got the tides at the bottom
and then clouds all the way at the top.
These are just in Chinese we call that jixiang.
So it's kind of like a good fortune
and it's just blessing.
I see.
And then of course the entire design as a whole,
I know we pointed it out how flat it is,
but I want you to see that the effort it takes
to make all these things look like different colors.
The sheen of each of the threads,
as the light catches them,
and yet somehow you can still see shading on all of it.
In real life, we can see that every single line has a color change.
This is a 2D screen.
But you can see the 3D color change is very, very beautiful.
It's an incredible work of art, but this is just the cloth version, the thread version.
Tomorrow we're going to find out who wins the real thing on the stage.
That is an absolute piece of art. It is so beautiful to get to see it, but knowing even more that the amount of time put into this one piece itself, you can't even fathom what it requires.
it's also 20 years of
experience being put into what
we got to witness what we get
to see and what we get to use
as a means to celebrate it.
And I love the motifs.
We're talking about it.
Resilience with good luck.
And it reminds me really
strongly of a quote that I love
where it's luck is when thought
what is it luck is when
preparation meets opportunity.
And I feel like that is what
is going to happen.
The preparation happens
before grand finals and the
opportunity is now presented
for you and it's going to
feel incredibly lucky to stand
out there in front of
everyone here at Shanghai
that ages in three games, four or five, whatever it takes.
Yeah, it's an amazing feat, and it's something that you always strive for,
but you don't have complete control, right?
Dota is a team game. There are a lot of moving parts there, patches.
There are all these things that can change your odds of actually winning,
and so you do your job. You do as much as you can, your individual work,
either helping your teammates or just your game play.
But at the end of the day, everyone has to show up and play their part
in winning a tournament. I think that's why, part of why it's so difficult
called on a mental and sort of, I don't know, just preparation level is that you are just a small part of that.
You don't have complete control, and humans love control.
And I mean, I think every single TI winner would account their win to some degree of luck,
whether it's luck with a patch or luck with, like, everything clicked at the right time.
We're luck with us peeking and the other team maybe not peeking.
Like, there is always an element of luck involved in winning TI, and it's, it's cool to, you know, you just have to have it.
If you don't, you're not going to win.
We were alluding to no one's perseverance, his resilience as well. I mean, how poetic would it feel
for this to be the one that he finally lifts the ages with? For him, we mentioned it so many times,
he's come in on the favorite team, so many times favorite teams in general have come in and fallen
just that little bit shy. Last year was one of those ones for them and look how close they were.
It was a top three finish. They were literally one game away from making it to a grand final
And it ended there. This time around, going through the upper bracket, you don't have that pressure,
but you still have to face the reality of a grand final of a best of five.
Yeah, I mean, especially the TI 2017's and 2018's, these are the ones that no one
must really feel more than anything because if we look at his history as a player,
he was known as the most scary mid laner in the world in that duration of time.
When he was VP no one, when he was playing on that dominant roster,
he was crushing everybody. Even our most famous and popular midlaners did not want to face him.
If you listen to Miracle or something, I'll talk about him in the past. They always say,
I don't want to blame you if you know one. There were jokes about Miracle forcing Matu to play
mid. That's not a joke. It's true. I've heard Matu say it himself. He still says it. Yeah,
every time, every time they would play VP, he's like, Matu, give me a safe lane, please.
But just the fact that he had this history as a mid laner but didn't have an
age to his name up until potentially today we'll see speaks a lot to his
resilience because a lot of players they'll peek at a certain time and then
we just don't hear from them again they fall off but he's brought himself back
up and he kept competing and he still has sights on his dream and that's a
beautiful thing to behold. Yeah it's it's really amazing and if you didn't
play against the back then it's hard to fully understand how disgustingly
I don't think this guy was. I don't think I won one single lane against them. We played them like 25 times. It's he was he was incredible.
Those teams are incredible and I think it's a testament to how hard it is to win this tournament that they were dominant throughout those years.
They were dominant last year on Team Vision and now coming in again getting another chance. I think it's something you really just try to be grateful for that.
We had the opportunity to get to play in this amazing grand final surrounded by all these people that care so much and they have.
I know they've done incredibly well on a lot of heroes as well.
There are pieces to this puzzle that aren't just the players, but the heroes too.
And if you look at the top of the leaderboard, it's two midlaners, right?
It's Ember and it's Earth Spirit, and he's been absolutely amazing on both of these heroes.
I feel like for Yandex, for example, we saw them kind of fall short
because they were lacking a hero.
And that's where having the experience of having played for such a long time comes in.
Because you know how to play almost all the midlaners,
and no one is an incredible value for his team in that regard.
And two of the stand-up heroes that Vision have been owning on to me
or the offline heroes that popped up, the Centaur and the Doom.
That brings me back to notice on how much she's provided for the team
because the archetype of these heroes is very different.
With Centaur, sure, there is a lot of farming and a lot of creep dragging going on,
but initially, you're playing for teamfights.
You're playing around the stampede, you're looking towards map control,
whereas with Doom, you're playing for late-game scaling.
Vision has done both very well.
We've seen them take over tempo,
we've seen them pop off and just completely crush the enemy
and we've seen them play slower-paced games.
Take it to the very end and win off of their scaling.
and the fact that they can do both makes them so difficult to play against.
I think it's also just that we look towards the supports of both teams as well,
because we talk about no one and his resurgence,
how he's able to bring himself up to being on a team that is as dominant as vision.
It's his skill, but it's also the surrounding cast that's helping him.
And when we're looking at nine-class and Dukala's,
their names we've mentioned so often time and time again
over the last few seasons of Dota.
But people might forget that this is only their second TI appearance.
Their first one was also that top three. Their second one is now a grand final.
That's so crazy to think about when they were these annoying terrors with techies and pubs.
And now you're like, that is actually one of the biggest strengths of how you're playing
is so important, how you're getting under the skin of your opponents.
Yeah, to go from third to second like that in your first two TI's, they are
so incredibly skilled. And I think they're not those players that were just instantly
incredible at the game. I think they are where they are due to hard work and dedication.
They're players that grinded pubs for years and years and now they're finally getting the fruits of their labor
They are super hard workers
Incredibly skilled when you play with them you can feel it every decision they make is crisp their item decisions everything
They are immaculate players and their cores would be nothing without the supports propping them up
I would say these are probably even coming into PI the two support heroes that I would say were the strongest
And it seems to have been a major factor in their runs
I think especially the spirit supports I personally have found like ever since like I'd say like a month or two ago
Even when fear wasn't doing so hot
I just kept feeling like they're out training their course and to do that on spirit says a lot about how well you're playing I
Mean it's the supports about the ages steels on team spirit this time, which normally something we see collapse doing yeah
I was
You know on the on the spirit side
It was not me and rude both of them were able to get it
But we're seeing nine class in Ducalus and I love that their support hero pools don't overlap
But you still have to think about the flexibility because that techies walls to call us is playing it
It could easily just as much be a non-class to college. I'm sorry nine class techies as well that
Yeah, it definitely could they they've got a little bit a little bit of overlap
But also a lot of uniqueness you see a lot of heroes here that nobody else was playing the Pudge
They really prioritized this dark will techies and the ogre magi from Ducalus
They have they just have so many strengths and I think it's it just makes it very very difficult to play against them
Especially as how those map has changed it being bigger and the gates being added to the game
I think is added so much more importance on supports because you have more options
Not only can you get me if you can get the other side like you can stack camps
There's a lot of choices on what to do in terms of moves and efficiency and it's put so much
Importance on these two roles over time. I genuinely think there's some of the hardest roles in Dota right now
and that brings me back to an interview we had with
with Ducalis on Team Vision at Dream League where we asked them what's going on with you
guys, why are you playing so well? And he said, we're just taking a lot of personal responsibility.
I think me and my class are just playing better than we were at the start of the season.
And he said ultimately that what takes you furthest in Dota is if you have the best
players and he thinks that they are the best players and they are the best supports
in terms of technical skill. And I found that confidence very interesting.
Yeah, I mean for sure and I think that confidence is backed up by hours and hours put into the game if you pay attention
I think to call us everything and picks any hero. It's at least platinum
Like he's like the Amar of position 5. He has so many games and all these here
There's so many reps and that's why I think he also when you pay attention to the hero pools
Has slightly bigger hero pool than blue right? He's had years to refine his position 5 gameplay
Whereas it was kind of been thrown into it very recently
So it's cool also to see that kind of matchup of like a lot of experience versus somebody who's coming into a role with like a
Completely different perspective on it. I mean there's someone that's coming into this TI as their first one and that's not me
We haven't even mentioned him yet
Just how impactful it's been that he also joins the team with spirit around the time that
Moposhka is joining his coach as well and it feels like he slotted it
We didn't even necessarily see the roster change
That's how seamless it felt him joining and removing to that five
Yeah, I think it's also very fitting that he's lending with collapse because it's not me guy has the clutch gene like almost
Nobody have ever seen is a rookie. It's ridiculous this guy whether it's the hardest match of his life
If they're down 15 cake old
He is still absolutely owning and so the fact of the two most clutch guys ever that I've seen are on the same land
I think it's just only fitting that and it fits spirits so much that they they're just the clutch guys
I also find it a benefit of it when it's your first time playing a tournament for like a big tournament like TI
You don't really necessarily have the experience of like fully having understood what it means and all this pressure that's going on
You just show up and you're thinking I'm just gonna focus on playing the best
Thota that I possibly can and I think that it also enables you to be a bit more clutch to take those risks because you don't have the experience of
Trying to do that and then being punished for it. So I think that gives them a little bit of freedom in the series too
Well 25 seconds
I'm just excited you more nervous as a panelist than when you were playing walking out for a grand final
No, not even close playing is way more stressful
And that's why I'm excited to see how they look how they feel how they play because it's just such a monumental moment for all
10 of those players
It's just so insane the way that everyone's feeling at me to feel like we're this close moments away from our grand finals in Shanghai
I have such high expectations for these finals. I think it's gonna go to all five games
All five games would be amazing if we get the moment everyone's been waiting for, the
horn here.
This grand final has everything on the line, three-time hopefuls here, two-time hopeful
in law, first-timers as well on the side of vision, but we know at the end of the
day whoever lists that age is going to be a lot of fun and it brings me a much pleasure
to welcome you to the grand finals here at TI15.
They battle around the world for the right to stand amongst legends.
We gather where the legends are made.
They overcome every challenge that stands in their way.
We witness the final ascent to Dota's greatest stage.
They carve their names into the pantheon of legends.
We fear as the immortal pattern finally comes into view.
Now, at last, we can answer the ultimate question.
What shape does greatness take?
I mean, this gives me chills, this is honestly one of the most magical moments in any Dota
players career. I think, you know, on spirit side, they've been here before, they've experienced
it before. For vision, it's the first time. And I hope they really end up this moment
and enjoy their time.
They've talked about enjoying the journey. Take in this moment and enjoy the walkout
for a grand final taking to the stage.
Team Vision!
Not a single series has been dropped by this team.
They have proven they have what it takes to make it to the Grand Finals through the
off the bracket. They have everything that they need when it comes to preparation and for a lot of
them it is the first time walking out here on a grand final but the moment of truth
arrives now. What sort of utor and spirit will you be facing?
Spirit!
A 100% success rate when it comes to TI Grand Finals.
We've got Spirit walking out there, and I think a little bit of a dismay to some of the Spirit fans.
It is just hurled with a full head of hair.
But he doesn't need to make a sacrifice to the Dota Gods to show that he has what it takes
to potentially be our first Esa three-time TI winner along with Kalatsia
And so many new players by their side. They've done a time and again bringing in your players changing up their roster and still proving
They have what it takes when it comes to a brand final when it comes to spirit being in TI form
They are
One of the most epic rosters in Dota history. This is their bread and butter. They love this spot
They love the spot like the crowd the pressure. They are the kings of this domain
I remember a long time ago once the TI prize pool dropped them saying like we absolutely do not care about that
That it doesn't matter one day we want to win as many TI's as possible
TI is the most important tournament and this is the only thing we care about
They also have the opportunity today to silence all the people that claim that OG are the goats and they are not
Team spirit are extremely internally motivated players and that's always stood out to me about this team
Is that they never they don't measure their successes by whatever it means financially?
They don't look at it by I have X amount of wins. Therefore. I am done
I've succeeded when you talk to collapse or yatoro. They don't even think about things like that
They just want to play Dota and they want to be better than everybody
And I think that's the biggest factor that's led them to have such a long career on this team and get so many of those wins
I remember back in ti 12 that Seattle ci the amount of times collapse and yatoro talked about how much they wanted to do
It for lal right they wanted him to be able to lift that ages and I think bringing on people like group and like not me
I mean, it gives them that extra
bit of motivation. Because out
here fans say, I bet you it's
going to get through again
through and birds going to
shave his head. That's what
he's waiting for. Yeah, not me
shaved his beard instead. Little
little switcheroo. But I mean,
to be honest, he's the rookie.
You know, you got to take some
sacrifices for the big dogs now
and I. We've got some spice
in the crowd today. There is
mixed reactions between the
teams to say the least
on camera. You know we've got we've got the narratives that we've got the tones that fight had
the favorite in Team Spirit versus the villain and you know what Team Vision have been happy
to play the villain all year so long as they won. You know these players they don't care about public
perception they play incredible Dota and they've shown it to us throughout the season that they
are the best and can Team Spirit the heroes beat them. Yeah I think I mean you mentioned how
I think vision is the same way people are not here because of the money or because of this there because here because it matters so much to them because they said it is a goal. This is what they've set their heart on. This is their ego their pride. This is a you know a battle of emotions not of just gameplay.
There's so much on the line. The pressure how it builds it's unlike anything else that experienced in their lives and now it's the moment to show that you're truly worthy of it.
it's so phenomenal to get to feel how everyone is looking at these players we've
all loved the journey that they've taken to make it to a grand finals to see each
individual player get their flowers that she is from the crowd to feel the
energy that TI 15 in Shanghai has been able to offer us it only makes me
question just how excited everyone in the crowd is for our grand finals
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time to get the final series of the International 2026 Underway.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final stage of the 2020 International Tournament.
But, hold up. Before we kick off the grand final tonight, I want to ask everyone here some questions.
Okay, let's hear it.
Wait a second. Are you asking how many people are here for their very first TI?
What?
What's in the dog? All right. You're very smart.
So you're asking how many people were here from TI nine seven years ago here in Shanghai and now they're back again
That's a lot of history 15 years of the international and now we are celebrating and a very important anniversary
But in that time, so many players, teams, coaches, they have poured their blood, sweat, and tears to reach this moment.
距离第一届国际邀请赛已经过去了15年,而距离TI9也过去了7年。
当年那些熬夜陪你看比赛的朋友们,可能很久没有联系了,可能还都在你身边,而有一些可能成了云玩家。
This year, 80 players set foot here in Shanghai, and now we are down to the final 10.
And along the way, we may have said our final goodbyes to some of the most storied players
who have written their name in the history of this game.
and we are not stopping to say goodbye to them.
For example, in this year's international competition,
we will say goodbye to Smell and Crit.
And behind us is the last two teams of this finals.
On one side, it's Team Vision. They came so close to reaching this point just one year ago in Hamburg before their run was cut short at third place by extreme gaming.
On the one hand, it's Team Vision.
A year ago, they only had one step away from this stage.
But they were blocked by XG outside the door.
And today, they are standing here.
They want to prove that they can do it again.
What more could I say that you aren't already, they won the hearts and minds of everyone
in 2021 and they have simply built on that legacy ever since.
Some of the players may have changed, but the storied core remains and they are here fighting
for a chance to potentially make a third inscription on this ages.
These two teams have taken very different paths to get to this best of five, however.
made their way through the upper bracket defeating all of the remaining three teams in fourth third and potentially even second place
Spirit however, I've had a
Different journey, but arguably a scarier journey
They got sent to lower bracket by vision and since then they have crushed
Every single one of their opponents to oh in the lower bracket
On the other hand, although Spirit was sent to the敗者組,
their footsteps never stopped.
They are still the big devil's team.
Speaking of which, let's ask the audience here.
Who are you here to support?
I think it's probably half.
There's only one way to find out.
Who here is cheering for Team Spirit?
I don't think it's half and half.
But I know I can get one thing that everyone can agree on, who here wants to see some good
donor!
It has been a long journey to get to this point of, and these two teams have been fighting
all year long and even longer than that for many of the players.
没有错,我们本届邀请在进行到今天
最初有80位选手来到了上海
而最终只有10位选手留在了我们总决赛的舞台上
It never ceases to amaze me the history of this game.
15 years of the international and esport that has survived the test of time
and I'm looking around this crowd right now
and I do not see any empty seats.
You all are amazing for showing your commitment to this game.
In these 15 years, we have witnessed countless teams,
players and coaches,
who have put a lot of sweat and tears on the stage today,
in order to stand on the stage today.
And all of us, the Dota 2 players,
are sitting here with us,
thanking you for accompanying us,
thanking you for being here for the past 15 years.
So then, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the prince to face the king.
It is time to see which legend can prove mastery of the game as a coach.
And it is time for new names to inscribe their place in history.
Shanghai, are you ready?
Hey are you ready?
Such a beautiful arena here.
A Full House!
A lot of fans coming from every way here to celebrate what is our 15th international.
and there's chance for vision. There's a lot of chance for spirit is the way in which I will
coin this and I love just what narrative we've been able to improve for ourselves between these
10 players. But you know, I really hope the crowd bias lights a fire in Team Vision and in Puffy
because they've been the greatest team this TI. They are the strongest players and I would only
hope that this gives them the the need to rise to the occasion to prove themselves even more and I
feel like these grand finals are going to be exceptional. I feel like starting out as a
techies player for 9 class, like being the guy that used to place these minds, always annoy each
other. I think there's nothing he wants more than to just silence all the haters. I think he
loves this. I think you could be no better situation for him to be in than to have the
crowd cheer against them and have him to end their fun. This is the stage you do it.
But the call is to ask for it, he wanted the Prince,
the first king, but if you come to the king,
you best not miss.
Team Vision versus Team Spirit, Grand Finals, game one.
A lot rides on the line of a game number one here.
You always want to be taking a best of five
with your best foot forward here
and it's going to start off with, hopefully,
strong drop. It is going to be
vision that will have our first
pick, which some teams love.
Some teams thrive on it. Other
teams. They want that second
pick because they want to be
able to have the overall got your
pick here and looking at our
first phase bands, Bane,
Clockwork, Wyvern, Coddle,
Earth Ferry, Tree and Bounty
Hunter taken out with vision.
Not too worried about opening
up with an Ember here,
despite we know the threat
of a slot. The big three
and the natures profit and to see team vision place the emphasis on the ember spirit. They did
their homework. They don't want to give it to Laurel. They're saying that our opener in natures
profit is not as important as taking away ember from spirits mid-leaning. This is very interesting.
I think this is a sort of a calling of the bluff vision. I picked this because Laurel historically
is not someone that wants to play it. He's sort of more weird, carry mid heroes. He wants to
play the stuns, the space makers for Yatoro, who's the real star of the show. And so
vision is saying, hey, Slark is obviously super good against Ember, but we think he will play it.
And Laurel says, you sure, buddy? It's kind of cool because he also did say in his interview that I
don't think this matchup is real. I don't think it works. But you know, one humbling,
one humbling later, and you're on the train, you're like, oh, you know what, if they pick Ember,
give me the Slark. I will cook them. And the humbling came from vision themselves. That was
the matchup on which it happened. We saw this just a couple of days ago where it was
reversed. It was Spirit with the Ember and Vision with the Slark.
And I think Vision will have considered the scenario that they would have picked Slark
here and if I know a nine class, I know that he is definitely considering to play this Ember
4. We saw the Ember carry as a potential flex from in one of the Liquid series and I think
flexing it to support may actually even be a better option. Ember 4 has been something
we've seen in the past. It's not the worst thing ever with the Distiller playing
up slight chains and actually not playing up the Flameguard is definitely a viable
play style and if you want to swap lanes I think it definitely could be an option.
While I do think the 9 class of all sort of absolutely love to do that, I think the
puppified version of 9 class will not be allowed to partake in such things. I mean we heard from him
at EWC that puppy was that G towing so many of his hero suggestions that he asked him
all that tournament if he could play position 4 juggernaut and he never got it. I just somehow
don't see them going down that route today. I will say, beatling juggernaut position 4 and
I feel like it's a different situation right because let's say we go down the hypothetical of the Ember spirit is a position for in this game
Laurel is now playing Slark and he doesn't want to be playing Slark
And now suddenly vision has changed the dynamic of this game to be a game that they like
And I feel like when they look the best is when they make the game into their game
They take control of the draft in that way right they force Laurel onto here
He doesn't want to be playing and a matchup
He doesn't really love and when I remember personally playing tinker
Which was like one of my favorite heroes at the point into nine-class TA and I was like I've never played this matchup in my entire life
I don't know what's going on
And I think that's one of the things that makes nine-class such a special player that he can do that here. I
Also love this dark willa pick from spirit because it's been one of vision's most picked and most successful four heroes and to say hey
This is here you rely on you really like it in your drafts. We're gonna ban your cobble
We're gonna take your dark will all I think spirit in finals is incredibly good at taking you out of your comfort zone of
of understanding the heroes that you really want, especially in the final, right?
You want to play the stuff you've been playing, the stuff you're comfortable on,
and they're going to poke at that, they're going to poke holes,
and make you prove that you can play something you haven't been playing the whole tournament.
It's really cool to see.
I feel like right now we're in a position where both sides are like not letting go of the draft.
You know, they're both trying to pull it in their direction,
make you play our game, and neither team is really giving it up yet.
There are still quite a few things left in the pool though.
The Lina, the Lone Druid, the Nature's Prophet. Nature's Prophet has been team visions go to this entire tournament.
It's only lost one time in the hands of Satanic, and the only way to beat it has been to consistently run at it with heroes with tempo non-stop.
And the mid-slark, while it's going to shut down Ember effectively in that mid lane, doesn't provide the same tempo.
I also would just love to point out how interesting and how much the drafts change over the international.
At the beginning of it, we have first pick Treance and Banes and so on, normal heroes we see.
Now at the end, there is a first pick Slark.
I think that evolution of Dota and how the meta changes and the counterpicking,
the creativity from the teams, I think it's such a fascinating part to see that journey that the draft goes through.
We also talked about how impactful the supports have been coming into the series.
For me especially, I think about Rue, not me.
And if you look at the bands that Vision decided to go with,
as Mayor points out, all the cores are in the pool.
Why is that? Well, because you have some of the best support players in the world,
And they're forcing out these
fans. Wow. Yeah, and I have
been let through because this
it goes back to what you were
referencing here, Quinn, where
there is this massive cycle
that is happening where I
wasn't looked at at the start
of our TI. It wasn't looked
at in the group stages. It hit
a peak where everyone was
first face banning it. You
might be able to call the
bluff of some teams, but
ultimately you are afraid
of what it can do either
as a mid or a carry here.
Yeah, and it's a hero.
This fear does not really
touch and we haven't really
seen vision play as a core
either, but they're pulling
out of the hat saying, hey, we've got this extra trump card up our sleeve, but now you
need to have answers for it because it's a hero we've seen when played well on core
before the borderline unbeatable. The question is, can vision actually execute it to the
level that maybe some of these other teams that have not fallen by the wayside can?
It's quite heads up of them to take it though, because Wild Spirit haven't run it. It would
have been an excellent thing to combo with the Slark. And we have to mention, nine
class was playing position four IO for the last two months while the hero did
shift in priority to core and looks better as a core. This is still one of their more comfortable
strategies if they flex it to support. And he's a greedy 4 IO player. He's not like GH playing
the enabling role. He's farming those two camps. He's max leveling Wisps and he's
taking as much gold as he can. I also see a lot of the traditional heroes that you would want
to play against the IO be banned out. You see Underlord very good percentage damage,
good roots, has a way to counter the relocate, he relocates in, you can gate in. Nowadays
The gate also has the route on top of it. So it's a tricky matchup for the IO. Same thing with the doom stops all healing
One of the drawbacks to IO is that you have no stuns. So Bane is quite effective
It's easy to get fiends grip off and the same thing for the winter wyvern with a curse on the relocate
Yeah, I think this is definitely something planned and something they said hey
We're gonna consider this for second phase
We'll look at the first phase see how it goes and then potentially we can alter our bands
Get out the doom in the Underlord and then we get a you know
will be deemed to be a free IO in the second phase.
And this is very much not something I think Spear necessarily
would have expected because they haven't prioritized it
up till this point.
And so they need to respond on the fly, right?
All your prep, some of it's out the window now.
You're flying by the seat of your pants.
Wow.
I think that's a testament to it.
Disruptor is a classic combo to IO.
You press the relocate,
but you get glints right back out
and it removes a lot of this early snowballing potential
that IO has where you can get involved in these kills,
explode his GPM and get online super quickly.
A brand new hero at the Tiagra and finals.
I love this so much.
They've thought about this.
They've gone through every single scenario
and at the end of the day,
it's not necessarily a hero.
People have full faith in,
but on paper and on execution,
it should be able to give spirit that slight advantage.
I am so curious to see how this will unfold
because Disruptor isn't in the strongest state
that he's been, but he does make a lot of sense,
not just with the IO, but with the Slark.
For him, it's Slark to set tempo.
He needs the force that can play on his night vision.
And if you pair up the glimpse with the Slark,
just de-warding, positioning his body aggressively,
the amount of kills that can be developed
between Spirit are gonna be crazy.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it makes sense, right?
I think one of the things that Spirit has managed to do
throughout the last stages of this tournament
is to find heroes that are picked with purpose.
The hero has clearly a reason to be in this game.
It's good against the IO.
It's even good against the Ember in many ways.
You get any sort of stun on the Ember.
You get the static storm on top of it.
and he just dies. And against Verona, she wants to leap away, and we've seen problems in this patch
where Verona's like GH was playing it, it was like 9-1 and 17, because you just can't kill him.
But with Grimms, that suddenly becomes very easy.
Yeah, it's the way Team Spirit drafts. They see what you have, and they respond to it on theoretical level.
They're not trying to pick the same stuff every game.
They're trying to pick what makes sense if everyone was playing perfect.
And I think that's such a cool and interesting way of drafting.
But there definitely is, you know, the risk when picking Disruptor that the hero is just not that good right now.
It's a great game for it, but you're walking into leading its axe heroes going to be pressing battle hunger on you off cool
Down and there is that burden of execution disruptor wants to play from ahead
He hates playing from behind if to chase people through to use glimpse and actually have it be effective
So there's a risk in lands
Yeah, the game can get out of hand really quickly for a disruptor on the losing team when we look at team vision
We see the main combination in their draft and the slight chains into arrow
This is going to be how they're going to play through the mid-game and Dark Willow and Destructor as supports are very susceptible to dying to this combination
They have no means of defending themselves. There really is no counter play outside of being the aggressor yourselves on Team Spirit
Yeah, absolutely another cool factor about vision's draft is like where is any of these heroes going?
We still don't know is this a position for Ember potentially is this IO going to be a 4?
They have a lot of ability to adopt their entire draft with this last pick and I think Spirit like we said
They like to conceptually beat what you're setting up for and by putting themselves in this position where we're just not gonna
Tell you what our draft wants to do at the end of the day
Gives them that advantage and I think it doesn't allow spirit to have that edge that they've had in all the other drafts
Seating up to this grand final on top of that
It also makes your last bands very cloudy because you don't know where these roles are going
It's much easier to miss on those last bands
But you would typically want to be very accurate and take out some key heroes that could be game-winning picks
Counter picks against your draft. Well, you don't really know what those are anymore
You can see them banning the kez. So they're definitely considering just being a support I.O.
I mean, that's the only thing we've seen from vision throughout the year, right?
I don't think we've seen a satanic I.O.
It's been line class. It's been his signature.
Could it still not be a mid I.O. though?
And the M before that you guys were talking about,
which is why they're doubling down that if that's what they want to go,
at least satanic won't get something that he's fucked up on and felt comfortable with.
It's definitely possible.
And I think they're trying to cover their bases because they're not entirely sure.
No one is besides the six people in that vision booth.
Nobody knows what the plan is with this IO is pre-concocted.
For this game, we're going to surprise them, we're going to get off the jump in the right way,
and so we just don't know yet.
I mean, I think even for vision, right, you have the option of like...
Because I think they're kind of a team that will try to do everything they possibly can to get the setup correct from the start.
So depending on what they feel like is, you know, do we want a satanic hero here?
Does the satanic just play the IO?
It looks like he's pretty quiet, so I'm leaning towards him potentially being the IO.
And it being a new midfielder
Yeah, you often can gauge who's picking the hero just like who's talking. Yeah near the end of the draft and I agree with that rationale
I also think I've seen him played in pubs. I've played against his IO in pubs
So it is something that he has practiced. He's not incapable of doing it's not completely blind even though it may be new to officials
And they're gonna they're gonna tank them in matchups. So no one's saying I picked the ember. It's fine
I can deal with the Slark. We've seen many mid players this tournament say that and they cannot deal with the Slark
And so no one has to prove it see if he's different from the rest he's cut from a different cloth
And the Sun Tor is still in the pool. I can I thought you see this
I'll carry you can just play for wave drag his farm on the Sun Tor and just provide this stone for your team
It went ignored this drop
Yeah, it's solid. It's a hero that will really never be bad
It's just solid in lane gives you very that is a scary lane axe, but wink that is a lot of early potential a lot of kill threat
I'm dying a cool
Okay, I mean I love the concept of just running at this carry aisle with decay
Non-stop as the offline on dying and just trying to make it. Oh, it's mid-Ion. They actually swapped
really
It's a satanic ember. Wow
So then how is an ember on dying lane when you don't get to just run out of Nioh now?
I honestly think this on dying is gonna absolutely cause issues for this ember it is a really tricky lane
Ember on safe lane is already not
Quite as powerful as it is in mid. You don't get the bottle refills
You don't have that constant sustain coming out and on dying creates a lot of pressure and on top of that
There's a dark willow there. He doesn't really have nice escape mechanics
This support in Marana doesn't super help him out in that regard either. So I think for spirit
This ends up looking quite scary
It's also a situation vision. I think they're not going to be super comfortable on satanic
I'm sure he's capable of playing amber, but it's certainly not as bread butter and same thing with no one on I.O
So you're walking into the first game of the TI finals. There's pressure. There's nerves
There's the weight of trying to lift the aegis and now you're on something that you're not quite used to that can affect your
Game play in very negative ways
I would say goes both ways though in their defense because I don't think Laurel is like the happiest spark player
And I would imagine this mid lane IO is gonna absolutely free farm
The arc doesn't really have a way to pressure, so there's going to be a free farming IO in the mid lane and
So for both teams and this is something special about grandfathers, right?
They both understand each other so well that they've managed to take both sides out of their comfort zone
But that is where spirit should depend on their sidelines. They've got us up on one side
They've got core on dying on the other side to a very good lanes. How far can they take them?
The vision held their cards close to the chest for that whole draft
And at the end, we go to mid-Io and a carry and this burden if only there were a way in
which we could get into their minds and understand more of that thinking.
Well, we can do that.
It's to know in puppy.
Thank you.
Yes.
I am a joined by coach of a vision puppy.
Welcome back to TI grand finals, my man.
And I mean, no disrespect when I say this, but after the past few years of your Dota
career, were you ever wondering if you would be able to make it back here?
I thought I would be here if I just had a better team, maybe.
That's it.
So you're just like all my pop teammates, then?
Yeah, fucking teammates.
No, I mean, it was a rough time.
Maybe I needed a vacation.
Maybe I needed something.
But overall, I always thought that I know how to play Dota,
or at least I know how to win Dota.
You've proven that time and time again,
and now you're ready to prove it in a best of five.
And in a best of five, I'm wondering,
how do you approach banning and drafting?
Do you get to give yourself more of a leash?
because you're like, well, I'm not gonna get eliminated
after two games of experimentation.
Yeah, but this is not necessarily an experiment.
This is something you've tried.
So if it works, it's great.
If it doesn't, well, we've tried it.
We just...
And the this that I'm assuming you're referring to
is no one on I.O.
He has zero competitive games on this hero
and you're debuting it now at TI Grand Finals.
That's what the TI is for.
And also what TI is for is watching the games puppy. Thank you very much for the interview as we send it to game number one
Thank you very much. There's an army and puppy. It's time ladies and gentlemen to get into the grand finals here of the international
2026 team spirit up against team vision for everybody around the world
They're just so excited to see these two teams play now
We're getting them going head-to-head in this best of five for the ages of champions
You couldn't ask for anything more the question is what do we start to talk about right? There's story lines
There's incredible different type of style hero picks.
There's new heroes being picked in the grand final.
We're going to disrupt them.
I mean, I don't even know where to begin, right?
So yeah, Vision, changing things up quite a bit here.
Spirit with more.
You can just look at it, right?
A bit more of a normal approach, heavy team fight,
strong carry pick.
We have to talk about the young prodigy of Satanic
playing something different on a set.
Very different.
While Yatoro, the legend carry himself,
playing something much more standard.
I don't know where to even start.
Yeah, I mean, how is that matchup gonna go down?
We're gonna look forward to the clashes
when it inevitably gets to the point
where these two carries are gonna have to meet head to head.
But a confident move here from Team Vision
and a risky one, you know, Puppet said,
game one, trying something different.
It's TI, it's when, it's the time, apparently,
to try something a little new in game one
of the Grand Finals.
I'm all for it and I'm not surprised.
I'm sure if this Grand Finals goes on,
we're gonna see both teams bring out some strategies
that we're yet to see in the entire tournament.
We're already getting here in this first game from them.
So, Satanic playing the Sidelane Ember.
I think we've seen one of these Sidelane Embers have success.
I think it was Sumail in one of the games.
He did win a game, but out?
Good. But that was it.
Yeah. Up to the side!
All the other Sidelane Embers, they've had a pretty horrible start into the game,
especially when they're into these Slarks,
and it took quite a bit of counterpick to do, right?
For sure.
Not just the Slark, this Disruptor picked as well.
The Willow picked too.
Willow is a problematic hero for a lot of these spirits in the mid-game,
so we'll see how they do indoor.
and did land out, let's see, because I haven't seen these Slarks lose the lane and get pressured super hard,
so I'm wondering how he's going to do if he does get set behind too much versus the Io as well.
So approaches, spirit, as you said, much more of a normal type of strategy, lots of team fight coming together.
While for the side of vision, this is an incredibly strong skirmish draft with high mobility
that can punish a bit of more of a kind of greedy type of draft, I guess you could say.
Oh, Satanic!
It's not gonna be easy lane for him.
It's early days, Fogbob. Got concerns.
Ember safe lane has looked so shaky
in the majority of games that we've seen it tried.
And it's just one of those things that conceptually has never been good, Fogb.
We've never seen a meta where Ember safe lane's been the thing.
You see bottom lane, Rook?
It's gonna end up taking our head to the damage from nine-class notes.
So vision will be able to get themselves a kill down on the other side of the map
But it's a huge risk and obviously vision they've got this star player the prodigy on this
It's so much pressure for Satanic
You know to be put on his shoulders there in game one of the grand finals 100% and this game, right?
You look at the flame guard. Yes, you'll be able to farm with it
But they have lots of ways to be able to break through with the SF with the raises either with the solar
It they have so many different answers. It does feel it. Oh, look at the mid lane
It's actually pretty damn good 11-7. I mean one at the moment. I gotta say I think this is
a little bit better than he should be getting away with. This is, you know, in this matchup they make the switch up obviously to take the Ember away from the Slark, but you'd imagine it would ideally do that in a situation where the Slark would suffer mid, and yeah, as you can see on the numbers, he's not suffering at all here, lol.
At the least it isn't an Ember that has two l- well, he's very low last hits, but we've seen a lot of these mid-bats with the Ember, with the Ember as like two last hits to 15 of the Slark, so at least there's that, but yeah, I'm just watching this Slark walk up, steal the region of the IO with the shiv, so he's getting quite a lot out of it, versus that bottle, versus the Tango region that's coming in from the high region.
Not me.
Like, you know, look easy on this top play, never just chase down Jukale solo and finish up the kill completely on his own.
This does look like one of those games where it's one of the best willow games. I think I see you're playing versus ember
You're playing versus Marana as well. It is a fantastic game
Just have these brambles and in terms of the spirit duo is a whole right the fact of ruin is disrupt
So we don't see it really at all, but this game you're seeing a lot of potential for a disrupt
Absolutely great ways to catch versus the ember your great counter pick. It's atomic again. It's a lot of damage
It's gonna get chased down will
Got a realm hit. There's gonna be another decay in a second here with the stick charges. Doesn't matter
He's still gonna live satanic, but kept incredibly low and
Barely finding farm from this top lane bottom of the cause right now
It's gonna be such a tough early game here for satanic and a lot of the game's revision to we mentioned the power of
Ducalis plus satanic what they're able to get out of the lane what they're able to punish the opposing lane with
This is just a lane that cannot win. We're trying to get as much as they can out of it
Yes, Tannock being brought super low over and over again.
The decay on the Ember also, it's pretty devastating when you have this much damage from a hero like Willow.
All is careful.
It's gonna be alright, but again, relatively.
So, super large, V here on DeKalus, completely out of regen.
Oh, and they're free-farming all three lanes right now.
Yatoro now at this point, he's given the lane for free.
They have to actually move, notice the way.
They don't want to be playing versus that shadow fiend,
so movements are coming in from both sides.
Night class, in mid, looking for Laurel.
They really need this kill.
Well, they've got to try and punish this Slark somehow because so far LL to be top 2 CS here in a matchup
where Vision had the chance to switch things up and try and force this Slark into a less favorable position.
It just hasn't happened. LL, he's loving the laning state.
And Spirit overall, right? If they win the laning phase, very strong teamfight prowess and good vision heroes as well too.
We don't see picked as much, you know, because the disruptor isn't picked as much, but Slark with the night vision,
Undying Tombstone gets great vision. They're going to get these glimpses off if you're ahead.
to no one.
We have the tethered across the night glass, nice pushback does catch on to the buy for
them, DeKalis here is why to help out, no one, he's got a TP back to base though to
refuel.
It's a pretty fantastic start for Spirit here, Ditoro has run away with these games
when he's been given this space on the Shadow Kid, he's going to have a lot of that space
in this game.
And look at just from the way these lanes are.
Extra pressure being brought into the top lane, we're ready to join.
We're looking for collapse.
If you get the sole rip heel off with the back of the acorn shot, they'll bring him down.
If they can get the chance to finish up another Thunder Strike onto DeKalus,
we'll allow Rue to take the Marana out.
Not me.
Seeing not me getting chased down by nine class, a few more right clicks should do it.
Try and hide around the trees, but nine class will find him.
But it will be a trade.
Yeah, Rue's going to have to glimpse into another Thunder Strike soon.
If necessary, he shouldn't beat the creeps in a right click or do the job.
So Spirit, bring attention top.
Say to be said though for vision, still overall spirit coming out on top of these traits.
But I'd like the movement to be honest with you from vision, I think this was super clever, just breaking the lanes, moving the supports to healthy Ember.
The IO is ahead of the Slark now at this point, and they're not that far behind on the Ember spirit, all things considered.
These 500 behind the Shadowfeed, so as a side lane Ember, you know what?
Not too shabby with these types of moves that we've seen them make.
Look at the surrounding move from Yotara. Not normally a place you expect to see the carry is.
Oh, 9th class.
2-9 class is going to be massively surprised by the fact that there's a safe-flane S-Hack there.
5th behind the tier 1 mid. It's 6 minutes in.
And here the catch, the glimpse. Is it enough? No one has a read-in on it.
I mean, Yatora stepping up. He's going to be able to line up a couple of raises.
Won't be enough, but still a massive aggression here from Yatoro.
Making moves. This deep. Pre-7 minutes.
Wisdom Rune. I think they're not depending the sack though.
We do see the positioning here from vision. There's a tombstone on high ground.
high ground. This might be hard for the Carlos to see Tanik's about. He sees it, he can hit it on the high ground.
Carlos might get taken out first, collapse turns towards him,
the Carlos is dead, no one will come over to help out,
so they'll at least make sure they get the kill in return and will manage to take away that
wisdom. So that's the, you know, when you do make these type of moves, your Toro wants to go for the mid lane,
they don't have the Slark going toward the left side, they get outnumbered. They will be able to, they will have
to give up that double shrine there, which is very important, as you said for vision, being able to get this
And it's Satanic who gets it too. So he is a side lane ember who gets that big bonus of levels that is pretty necessary
That's your key needs everything you can get here out of this thing save Satanic
Trading we are caught by the glimpse and here's still pre-level six
It's a bit tough who hit the chains off one to collapse
Not he's to hide in the trees who get away for now Satanic didn't have the manner for the kinetic field there on
Rue just a bit lacking on it. So won't be able to get that follow-up catch
You're torn, though, getting this crazy amount of free farm on a much more normal carry hero.
We just have to keep referencing that, right?
Satanic, sure.
He has played quite a bit of Ember in the past, but to see how it's going to end up matching
up in this game.
I see he's queuing up the Mateslayer.
I like the build.
We saw some alternative ways tried right with the save play, and I think what we
have, Mikkei going for like an earn into Radiance build, didn't work out.
We're actually seeing Satanic still considering options to queuing up the Khair and such.
would help in terms of just kind of speeding up the farm, allowing him to stay out on the
map a little longer with the mana. So it's probably one of those situations he hasn't
been in a lot considering what to buy as the carry ember. So it's going to be very interesting
to see what one of, if not the best carry in the world, does with this sort of position.
I'm just wondering, you know, even though the lane, as we were saying, if it ended
up absolutely atrocious, this still wasn't great. How he's going to keep up in
pace with something like a Shadow Fiend who just can double raise onto some neutral
camp, push out lanes super easy for this ember, it's so much slower how he can farm.
I mean, it's rare to say this, where Santan, if he's been a number one, number two net worth,
you know, in 95% of those games, this is one of those games, he's going to have to play
a bottom core as the game, so they need to hard matchups.
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing, just the carry matchup in general.
The fact that he's doing it against Yatoro, you know, the other one that's very easy
could be labeled the best carry in the world on an SM.
Like Yatoro could not be more comfortable in this position, game one of a grand final.
in some ways, you know, done pretty well historically when he gets to them, and he's on his shadow fiend, one of the hottest carries right now in the meta.
And he warmed up on it already tonight, finding a solo kill on Watson earlier, which was super impressive, so we're gonna see a lot of oppression come out from this period.
We talk about disruptor in the past a lot, when we used to see him is, when you're ahead, you really can press your advantage, so they're looking for kills right now at night class, they'll find him.
Quick grab, set it up for Yatura, he's going to be able to take down the tier one, I mean it just feels like Fog Yatura is going to be able to do so much while Satanic, he's just going to hope that there's going to be the time to get to a stage of the game where he can make play.
Top, they'll try and look to put his collapse. He's turning on him. He's pretty scary, collapse drops down the two, he has to just run.
Candy run two, Group Nott, he's trying to close the gap.
He's going to go down!
Oh boy, oh and it's early days, this is devastating for Vincent.
And even another glimpse, Roo's there.
Second again, another very likely to come.
He's trying to leave the way, just accepts his fate.
He's noticed there's no further way to escape the reach of collapse.
Nice, very double.
With a much more normal approach to the game
and it's just looking so much easier to play with this type of advantage,
so many catches.
The damage isn't there for collapse at this point.
at this point. He just walks up, he doesn't even have really bad HP items, just gets the
ulti off. They are lacking in damage early on this side of vision.
Yatoro is nearly double the net worth of Satanic!
Oh boy Owen. I'll tell you what, this is not doing wonders for the games where I like
to pick some safe play lembra at home. I'm going to get the ports as soon as the game
starts now.
They will find him.
As we're seeing, this is not the position for this hero right now.
They've got to do some heavy lifting with the IO and the two supports to get some space.
It's been quiet so far here, so maybe if you can get to that timing of the blink dagger and look to get involved
But the really what I'm looking at the damage. I'm looking at some lackluster approaches
I can't find it
The burst could come out if the sharpshooters there
But is that gonna be enough when that's sort of get this as much of an advantage and now notice
We're gonna have to glimpse into the requiem. Okay, the call does put a stop to the requiem
It doesn't matter though. Or maybe it will it's close
Okay
A main drop actually protecting him.
Gets to live and I'll be honest, I think notice, he's probably the one that you're looking at to try and save team vision from the state of the game that they're in.
And the mobility that can come in from the aisle to see how much no one can connect with with these relocates, he's halfway towards the agonist.
They're skirmishing as strong on vision, but if they fall too far behind, their team fight is very lackluster in comparison.
And they're falling pretty fast.
They are.
Well that's our head taken by Yatora.
They're gonna try to use the moonlight shadow to maybe sneak something in here, but it's still very difficult without notice having to blade mail or the blink
And stacks Owen they're starting to be formed so spirit on top of playing super oppressively here
They've got this backup condition to just make Yatoro continue to be this beast and ember
He can't farm stacks. He can form small neutral camps with a stack, but not an ancient stack
And you can tell right from the the item build up. Oh, see in the mid
They do get the catch!
All right!
That kill!
Hall's gone!
It's something for sure.
I really do feel, as I said, this is a game where you're looking to notice if you're
vision.
He's got to do some big moves to get them out of this spot, going for the Blink Mail,
of course, into the Blink.
I think, yeah, I like the Blink Mail first.
Yeah, Blink Mail first is also very dangerous to do because you can just blink it and
die and you don't have follow-up.
The Blink Mail, it's going to provide that damage if they're kind of missing it.
You might kill the SF.
It might be able to.
True.
Positioned here for notice.
He did get himself out of this last time, notice.
Is it ulti this time, GoPro?
Yeah, nobody know. Hesitation dropping down the static.
Stormyator is able to step up, lay down the raises.
This time, no chance of notice running.
No one's going to come in.
Can we get the catch?
It's a tricky one, especially with Lyle around as well.
Vision, they've got to be careful now.
They chase for this. Lyle ready to pound suppressor.
He straight towards them.
Acorn's gotten the bushwhack completely off the mark.
It's a panic.
He steps up, he'll drop a red and out.
But he'll get another one away, so we'll still be able to jump out,
Now, despite being glimpsed back,
they bring the numbers forward on the side of vision
and can't go for any type of trade play here,
because our spirit, they just react with the numbers themselves.
They bring everybody over.
They know how ahead they are right now.
Playing with this disruptor, Max Glimps is online.
They keep bringing this number advantage.
Even if the IO relocate comes in,
they get to send him away.
Nice pass.
A good connection here on the Collapse.
They have follow-up and look like it's coming.
Backup's coming up for Collapse.
It's all right.
the game. I'm going to get the
glimpse. I mean, this is the
dream sort of position right to
be playing with this disrupts
that we don't get to see it a
lot. But in these sort of
games where you're starting to
get this sort of momentum. This
is where root absolutely
controls every single play.
You cannot run. He will bring
you back and what better
carry to bring the enemy back
over the wards than an SF.
You're trying to clean them up
every time the root catches
them. He's still continued
this in this bad of a position yes so I'm how is he going to really recover I
don't know trying to bring numbers but spirits reacting every single time yeah
this is true I don't you said the disruptor pick is looking incredible they
have all the vision tools with the slark with the undying to be able to give
him these glimpses over and over again it's early but it's a 5k lead and it's
about to jump to a 6k after these stacks it finished up here for the
Toro very tough road ahead for Satanic if he's able to make this
work this is it's gonna be unbelievable. Okay notice this feeling like okay I can't actually go
for the Greek blame but I need a blink we need a way to slow the pace. I don't mind it I mean it
definitely shows you know vision they realize the spot they're in ain't too great they gotta do some
drastic blink dagger timing with the smoke they need something big the dream catch of course would
be a Torah let's see if they can find vision. Will they have the damage is the question
because I'm looking at the build from collapse in this game also he's maxed the soul rip
So there's quite a bit of sustain that can come in even if they do get the catch, and Yatoro has Mask of Madness.
It's not me, but not me. It's not the one I want to go for. They won Yatoro. Yatoro is going to step up.
Notice, he's thinking about it. He's going to make the jump. Hit with the call into the archer.
Can't it, Thor?
Can't it, Thor? Get laid out, Yatoro!
Okay, hit that shot. He's going to get off the ledge.
Too much heels.
But notice is gone. No one's to fall.
DeKal is has to retreat. The Loll chases him out. Yatoro throws out another raise.
They cannot go on this SF right now, they hit the call, they hit the arrow, but it just doesn't matter
every single time backup's going to be there, and they don't even get close to killing him,
even with multiple ult's connection, the sharpshooter comes in.
Yatoro doesn't even get anywhere close to dying.
Spirit, they're one, two, three, maybe four steps ahead of the play.
They've got double vision in the area, thank you for asking those, of course.
Double vision in the area to cover, they know exactly that that move's going to happen,
and Yatoro, he loves to play super aggressive on this Shadowfiend.
This team, it's insane how we've watched Spirit level up in just a couple months here,
not looking to play slow, late game type of potential.
No, they're all about the aggression, especially with this lineup.
They're not slowing down, Owen.
No, which is a great concern for vision.
Yeah, and another catch.
All right, I'm struggling to see the recovery.
I mean, I think you can see the struggle and sort of working out how to recover and just to build the satanic
It's called queued up. You just there's no other carry that you're going to be playing at all in this metterite
Where you go Claya BKB radiance. It's just
You know that satanic himself
He feels how awkward of a spot that he's in that he's been put in having to play December in the save flame
That there seems to be very little way to kind of farm and build your way out of this hole
I don't think we're gonna see this again this you know slot type of thing with the amber teams
It's it's been tried too many times in this tournament. It's just looking so hard to recover. No one. He's got the eggs
Let's see how much you can do with this one. He's gonna farm very fast, but he's still so vulnerable
Going into these fights versus the SF in this large
With the remnant there, so Tannick, make sure he doesn't get tripped up by the willow combo
The thing too is like a lot of times when you're playing with the IO
It's not of course it is about the IO fear of the spirits how much damage they do
But it's also you're able to provide this extra sustain at times when your play versus smart to he just deals it
He walks up throws that shit onto somebody and you're just preventing all that extra. Yeah fine, bro
Gonna be enough to kill him and they get out. I don't think notice this. He's gone
Not me though and would apply him but then the two supports taken down time before that for your tour to turn up to
Carlos will manage to leap away a
Favorable trading dozen numbers. Yep, not bad. They get both the supports
Sure, they lose a core but in the position there in they'll take that
Flaps, dodging the bushwhack. He's got Octurine already, so these decays, they're building up,
reducing their health, taking up himself. And also, so, I keep mentioning about playing ahead
on the side of Spirit when we're talking about the Disruptor. The other thing about playing
ahead too is they have a Slark, so look at the vision on the map. All the wards, they're
just being taken away. So just completely controlling that versus vision, so limiting
any of these aggressive moves and trying to outnumber it anyway as well. It's so
hard for them to make a move like this. Look where Yatoro's forming. He's just like,
okay, I'll just take your ancients multiple times here, and at no risk really at this point,
he continues to have absolutely insane network. He is the net worth of two poor heroes right now.
Catch on the undying. They've got him. All right. Cease the surge. He's right back into the mix.
Spirit might still bring the pressure in around this tier two. Yatoro ready to turn up.
Looking for the wraparound here.
I mean, am I going for round two and collapse?
Oh, okay.
This is already going to be out through the twin gate.
I'm not looking to set up.
Oh, no, it's also caught in the back.
Laurel does see him.
He's going to look for Rilike out of this.
They got the glimpse.
They do. They found it.
Perfect timing.
One of the age old counters there to the iron.
That's one of the reasons the glimpse can be a bit too much sometimes for him.
for him I bear to sprouting at them at this point all in nine classes trying to get away
but they've got the vision hiding in the trees and not gonna
Was him in time so he will live still losing their mid vision
No space on the map on the only place they can play right now is where they had that vision on team vision
And they're just still getting run out in that area. They'll kill them dying
But as he said Cecil Sturge, he's back immediately and with the odd three and it's a much faster cooldown as well
360 seconds rather than that 480 so we'll be able to utilize that in the next
group as well potentially see if vision can bring the numbers again not me
does still have this ward on the high ground
and it bring the brambles into the field all ready to pounce in closing on to
Decalis who get the leap off so we're from collapse will allow spirit to
continue to rack up the kills here against vision and spirit two they
They have a building hitter.
Well, on vision, they do not have a building hitter.
They don't have a single building hitter.
They do not have a single one at this point, too.
So overall, just have to play to farm and try to catch back up with these items that
they can get.
Looking for the BKB timing.
So double BKB, potentially triple BKB timing, the vision is going to look for versus that
heavy team fight, but it's not just that team fight, that physical damage.
It is there, too, for Nitoro that we'll be able to bypass it.
Roche soon on the menu, probably, for Spirit.
Another damage.
I think it's time right now.
Step strains there with the unplugged damage.
Yep.
so you can pop the ulti, you can keep pushing it forward even faster with the 2nd slow too.
They'll even save the ulti potentially here for the fights, it's just gonna be brought down so fast.
Little to no mistakes from Spirit right now, Envision.
Still trying to get these items online, trying to make the recovery for Satanic.
Yeah, very much making a statement for...
And maybe that slot does actually have to be first phase if you wanna open with December.
Yeah, potentially so.
Might just force you to kind of have to come in with these sort of strats that just don't seem to be anywhere close to working.
Night class trying to be cheeky here. Finding a place to farm Rune knows where he is.
They're gonna see him. They've got to catch.
Static storm. Make sure there's no way for him to play his way out there. The same time spirit. They've also got the green wave moving in top.
Notice we'll get the call on to Yatoro.
Not Aegis.
And no one's come across. Static?
The numbers are being brought in, they're fight backing on 9 class.
Let's have a look. They want to try and put everything into this play.
Vision see if they can find some sort of kill, but Collapse is ready to just run straight at them.
Comes in with the ultimate, tanking up, heals up above the Soul Rift.
Vision, they can't even touch it. He's fine. They've got it back off.
A cool build too. Collapse don't for just a casual glimmer kit.
He knows that the big burst damage that's coming up for Vision, it's that magical damage
from the Marana, from that hood link as well with the Shard too.
So that glimmer is going to be very, very strong.
He's kind of like this pseudo support to be able to protect your Toro as well with the heels
I mean that because at the moment right that's all the maps really all over if they can save Yatoro
He will do everything he will kill them all he'll kill their base
Get the call
Oh, it's gone. No, it's just I don't think he's getting out though. It's all right turns up a collapse there
But it's a Kim down now over the was the car list. He's out of leaps
They've got a glimpse if they needed it anyway through once another target though
He's got a blink. He's got a tumbler's toy if you can look for one
And it tried to be cheeky here cut wave to get this extra farm. He's got the BKB
Playing with fire here
Should be okay bruise like you know what I don't want to chase him at this point. He's got the BKB
In position and now we have to be careful standing he's gonna have to be KB possibly okay did get the remnant off
They got vision!
He can maybe time it and he can't.
Double jump back despite the glimpse.
That's the last rem that he's really trying to hang onto that VKB.
But really is just hanging onto it as a Toro, trying to give some more of that information.
8000 lead for Spirit, continuing to play super oppressive here.
And Root, he is starting to build toward that agonims as well too already at this point.
Blink and a point booster picks up.
Vision.
Starting to bring the numbers. Eyes unnoticed to see how big of a cause you can get.
Gonna be a mark of the call. Doesn't matter. The relocate comes in, they'll still get through.
I'll get the two of them.
Getting the supports over and over again. Pretty decent when you are this far behind.
Pulls from Spira. I'm watching at the side just in case anybody steps up in.
They can still fight despite the death of their supports with how large they are.
First BKB revealed from Noah as well.
They're trying to get to this timing of those triple BKVs for vision.
It's Oro, on the hunt.
This is the pre-killed to J's fault.
He's quite fine in here.
Try to slow down with the raises, but...
The mark.
Potentially looking for, you know, that Tormentor Cup of play.
It's gonna shift soon.
Both these teams, not really the biggest Tormentor teams either.
Vision's just desperately trying to find these places to farm.
I mean, look where Satanic is, look where no one is.
They just really want to get to this item timing
and then look for that fight when the Aegis does go down.
Probably their best option
because they still are super behind at this point.
They need to get the BKBs to counter that heavy team fight.
Spirit's just chasing them all over.
Well, it's just pulling Satanic, making sure that Satanic
can get the full freedom that he hoped for.
Satanic has to be pretty careful here to Toro
as he has the damage.
BKB, ooh!
What the hell away from being close enough to kill him?
I'll tell you that.
Top, DeKalus.
They also get noticed.
Look at the glimpse back, straight into the fear.
Very nicely done.
He gets the play mail-off, but it doesn't matter.
Notice is gone.
DeKalus trapped by the kinetic field.
Perfect timing with the glimpse into the fear there
from the supports of Spirit.
Two of the better heroes to punish.
They're trying to split with Collapse.
They're trying to make some sort of a play against Collapse,
but it's really good for Noa, but it's not going to happen.
Noa?
He's putting a trouble. Okay, how's that the BKB?
It's gonna try and chase down room with the spirits, but the solar wheel comes in.
Nobody in spirit going down in this mid lane.
Osvillian continue to hemorrhage this kills.
Three deaths there and it was a nine-class buyback earlier too that they were desperately trying to look for these extra kills up top.
Ends up being Broad Town Yatoro, very close to having the Silver Edge.
He is continuing to be double net worth of the ever. I mean, he's just having a completely free game there.
I can't imagine a better way to start off a TI Grand Finals if you're a carry than the one that Yatora is having right now
And he is making absolutely everything out of the situation he's been given not only is it 24 to 12
But look at the tower situation right as you said vision
They cannot touch the towers especially because of how far behind they were at the start of this game
Almost the late key all the ones of spirits have barely been touched at this point
Well two tier two is already in drop from the side of vision
And noticed his BKB is the timing that he wanted to get a bit of acceleration onto it.
He's now died I think three times trying to make the space for the team so his BKB is going to be so delayed at this point.
Rue is going to have an agonist maybe as that BKB comes out from the axe so he's going to have extra answers.
He just prevent them from using it. He does get the initial catch.
There's a Silver-Edged Yatoro stalking him.
Find up and ready to go for this final tier 2 from the bottom lane.
So hard for vision to put together a teamfight.
There it will take every single one of these battles at this point.
And the 20 as well now here for Yatoro, Satanic.
And look, every time we see Satanic, collapse is on top of it.
He's just following him.
Being super annoying.
And the mid?
Now to catch on Laurel.
If you managed to bring Laurel down, Yatoro is considering if he wants to fight back here,
the DKB was used by no one.
That is four times they've been able to fight Laurel.
Noticed.
Do we get to get Yatoro?
Can he get the glimpse?
He will.
Straight back into the field in the static storm, into the wreck.
We are low, though we are really capable of getting that nice one.
All right, no one able to bail
his axe out for now
They're gonna look for the fight after this they're gonna kill the tombstone off doesn't look like they can go for the fight themselves
BKB still cool down for no one to play caution there. It also will back up the respect that saved
Space needed no one
Is pulling ahead a good amount here over the slug is they have been able to find some nice kills on tomorrow with the chain stuns
If no one can end up being that prox that they really need for the team.
Gonna go that Sheva's build that we do see from previous all the mid laners on the IO.
But it's slower paced damage in comparison to something like Yatoro who is accelerating
toward more lifesteal.
He's gonna go that satanic build, stalling out any type of BKB, knows he doesn't
need it for now.
Maybe eventually at some points, but we know Yatoro.
He plays for the Mantidodgers in 9th class.
He's dead in two or three hits.
Also, we'll be able to see he's not child of the satanic bears,
satanic quick with the remnant awake.
And even though they're not keeping up, right,
but not making the boldly go so much faster in terms of perspiration,
the gains just aren't that big for vision.
I just don't know how much this radiance for satanic is really going to do,
because we didn't seem to make a try for it the other day.
But as soon as he showed up to the fight with the radiance
and the peekabay, he did absolutely nothing.
build up the fact that that radiance is going to come so much later as well it's
as I said I think you know Satanic's trying to do his best to adapt to this
situation that he's been put on off the back of this draft it's just not easy to
make this safe plan ever work. Laurel now has the gem so should be a lot safer we
have seen them picking off a couple times here but now with the gem should
be much more protected in terms of not getting caught by the blink-axe from
that distance also going for the BKB early I like it it's alright you do
something cute about it. You can line up the wreck wheel.
Ryan, I put things up here with the beard! That will do it!
We saw him solo kill Watson earlier. That was almost a solo kill as well too.
He could get a little help, but super oppressive play. A flawless game from the
legend himself. 8-0-3. I pretty much maintain this network
Position where double so close that essentially being double the net worth of satanic
He's double the net worth of Laurel even to his own teammate. Absolutely crazy performance from your tour on this game
They're not able to slow things down noticed
His BKB is about to be finished
So let's see if they can connect with this triple BKB timing how much they can do but again the
Radiance was slowed down and it's besides the goal lead look at the experience to level 16 ever your toros cracking level 23
right yet or he is not going to care one bit about a radiance on this end of
spirit. Night class, Laurel stalking him.
What did it work? Bit of a tricky kill to Jace for.
Of course he's away. Meanwhile over towards the med-base and grouped up and
ready to try and make a move here. Vision, smoke out. Trying to catch spirit
if they're split up in any way but spirit had been so careful in this
The Satanic is gonna be coming out very soon for Yatoro. They haven't had the damage to bring him down yet
And now they're gonna have to somehow bypass the Satanic, which is one of the best answers versus the Blink Blade Vale axe
Roche soon on the horizon to something that vision can't let spirit get roast if they do
Game is gonna be pretty much impossible for them than looking for Laurel again. I've got him a fair few times
Not gonna be able to find that catch. All right, Radiance done
Yatoro gets a full Satanic
The damage isn't going to come out that fast for Vision, and there's heals, there's ways to protect.
Collapse, as we said, he's playing this pseudo extra support in a way, right, with the build that he's gone for.
He has Blink, he has Shard, so if they do get the catch, he even can get the saves as well.
Again, it's difficult to see how Vision approaches these fights, huh?
Try and check out the situation, I'll find 9 class, you throw his depth in a couple of right clicks, that's 9 class gone.
Not likely.
Vision needs every number to it, so even if they lose one hero to test in that bush, already was super hard, now impossible.
So they're gonna have to just accept the fact that the play first at this age is...
Mission might come onto their high ground pretty soon here with the banner as well.
Toro super tanky, can probably just frontline.
And how's Rue doing for his agonist too?
He's got three components already finished up, so yes, pretty close.
Vision's got some BKBs, but they might be putting the position where they think he can get them off to.
They're trying desperately to get any type of building damage.
Got a decent amount bottom here, but it's just that tier one.
And you get this bottom wave pushed out.
Don't forget the Torment of Thurs.
They take Torrent.
We're a little bit blessed with that as well.
A nice one too.
The kinetic fence is quite good.
This game versus the Marana versus the Isle, even versus the Ember in some situations
can be quite annoying.
That's a little bit of lockdown.
It's got so much to say and so much save at this point on Spirit Vision.
What's the next big game they're getting?
Okay, no one is going for something a bit different to kill them the hex.
looking like they just want to get this chain control to not allow this you know
it's more on just go absolutely crazy but if you said there's seeds there's heels
there's this tombstone
so I'm ready to make quick work of this tier 2
plenty of minutes left they want to try and push up high ground with the
sages got a creep wave coming in
He has it finished into 10 gold now. They're gonna smoke up, potentially look for the catch as a hero shows on the side of vision.
Anyone steps out of the base, they'll get quite a nasty surprise. They have the Slarkshard as well too, so Tombstone, Slarkshard, SoulRip, Limbers, so many things to protect you Toro.
Toro.
Can he get the call?
No ribs there.
They're keeping him healed up pretty nice.
He'll get the match up.
The pushback comes out after, but there's
going to be the save from the tombstone.
Fear connects on to no one.
It's a panic to heal up, Toro.
We'll back away in respect to damage.
They force everybody from vision back.
The play is safe.
Work on sorting out the other lanes.
It's better.
They also now they do have that ag's disruptor.
So vision has to be so prepared to click those BKBs,
but it's gonna be difficult because the Blink's there too, for Rue.
It's okay, just Blink and drop that static storm.
Just gonna be ridiculous amounts of damage coming out for you, Tori.
It's just over a thousand gold away from having that day, Liss.
And the wards just continue to get taken out.
The gem that they picked up on the sloth with disadvantage, constricting the map.
Collapsed.
They saw someone outside for a quick second here.
they want to get a glimpse, can't quite find the angle here. Not letting vision get outside.
It's just trying to find some sort of corner of the map. 9 plus, gonna go for a very aggressive
jump out of the base to try and set up onto Rue. Well, he'll be able to punish that.
It's perfectly fine.
They've got depth shroud as well too, just so many ways to cover and protect each other.
It's a kind of desperately trying to find that agonist.
The quietest game I think we've seen from him at this international.
Yeah, I think it is.
Karo, Karo will connect.
It's a lot of damage.
He's got so much to stay in it, so many ways to protect him.
Isn't that cool, able to continue to hit the tier 3s, force out the fortification here in the mid.
Tora can back up, pick up that demon edge.
90 seconds still on this Aegis this is an aggressive relocate positioning from
no one here is this instructor could catch him
jump BKB off okay make sure he gets that before the static still they're gonna
try the glimpse timing but he still has to be KB active so he will be safe what's
good thing he clicks that BKB when he does so he's dead I think it's sort of
as soon as he saw people turn up he knew that there was a high chance that
That play will be looked towards by Root.
It's Horo standing strong by himself here.
He still has a little side-class.
He can stand.
They're gonna get out a couple of hits.
They're gonna try and battle you.
He's too strong.
Look at that.
Look what these hits are gonna hurt.
Oh, my God.
So close to Satanic even getting brought down.
It's Horo showing he can fight
versus everybody with this advantage.
Oh, dear.
Yeah, this is, especially in situations like that,
I can only imagine, Bob, that Satanic is like,
Please let me play something else. I do not want to play this carry ember
I really don't it cannot be fun fogged not if your Torah especially now your Torah get to play
The difference in this guy
This doesn't feel fair
Really doesn't at this point now no glyph provisions to stop this push and they get your Torah off of the racks
No BKB for no one either for this push
They made the call again.
They do get the arrow, Galaxies already jumps in.
Satanic's going to try going on the back line here with BKB.
He's going to try and chase out Rue, bring the disruptor down.
He'll succeed, take throughout the fight.
BKB's about to come through an end though, so they'll have to jump back defensively.
Didn't manage to get that kill there with that play, Satanic.
That was pretty cool, just jumps past everybody.
Everybody did have to use a lot of the remnants. They did have to use their BKB
That's both the BKBs right just to find a support kill. So it's something but it's a very expensive
Commitment just to find a disruptor here at this point, but they have to do that
Right, but I think this is exactly how the Emperor has to play
You cannot let Rue get his spells off because you will just get destroyed in the team fight if he gets a static stone on top of you
Even the bigger static storm a chasm stone casually picked up from the disruptor too
So even more massive to be able to get the connection onto them here.
So decent execution we're seeing, the attempts from Vision, right?
Getting the call, pulling him back, getting that connection of the arrow too.
But yet, just still a bit too far behind to bring down your Toro at all.
How's no one's hex looking?
He does have the gold for it, but saving for the buyback for the moment.
Zora.
No, it just sticks around. He might regret it, but the blink inside.
Look at the build he's got to go for on notice.
He's like, yeah, armor isn't the solution, guys.
I need to blink, blade out, and go-sep this one.
I don't just get ahead of this.
Against this SF, certainly so.
No one?
Where's the pop, the BKB defensively again?
I was like, I'm going to try to go for you, Lali.
He's already got to be giving me something.
No follow-up damage to threaten the slot.
The go-sep divides him a little bit at a time.
But if he comes to an end, Spirit will bring Moses down.
Gatoro is just running the show beyond God-like.
And that was what BKB used from no one, notice still has his for the potential for the defense,
Statenik also, but not having the IO BKB, he can't just get popped.
Gatoro.
He grabs the 4 staff.
Alright.
Look at the first whack, looks stunned, but the tombstone is dead.
Statenik gonna have to use a lot of his BKB to try and check that out.
He's done it!
It kills Gatoro!
It's the first time this game!
That's massive!
Vision doing what seems to be the impossible now collapse on the other hand
He's got a lot of HP to get through a feeling like I'm dying
I was gonna try and chase through out of the action collapse building the HP up and collapse
He's kind of cleaning them up Satanic's gone double kills for collapse of the blink and he's ready for more
He jumps over the nose, he's trying to get the tree cut in!
Collaps, you don't need to throw it at this point, he's the new Karrion now!
They have to use everything to kill you, they executed it pretty beautifully to bring down this SSF, but Collaps goes...
Oh, maybe even more!
I have 52 strength, he wants more.
That's for the lul, won't quite be able to get slow and send either of them on the leash.
Collaps, he still wants to get in.
They finally defeat you, Toro. They kill him the once at least.
Good, they synergized that pretty beautifully there too.
I didn't see if they broke the tombstone. I think they did, right? They got snogged right afterwards from it, so it's pretty perfect that that ends up happening.
And they get the call right afterwards so he doesn't get the September call.
It can be done!
It can be done, but they end up losing a lot out of it as well too.
Nightfast, you're a cheap catch here on Talor. They've got that going.
Well, listen, no one trying to come it out of the BKB's up for Laugh.
Is that a storm?
They didn't get the grab onto no one, Laugh.
Falling lava collapsed, coming in with a save.
Heals him up to the solar.
He's Laugh strong, no one.
We'll re-relocate back out of there in time to survive,
but the Carlyse has been left out in the map.
Well, too tanky.
Too much regen gets to steal a lot here with the ship
versus the IO over and over again,
plus the healing from the Undying.
Absolutely seeing that coming to play there.
They said they're trying their hardest.
They're doing some really cool execution plays, but at this deficit you can just see how hard it really is just too much
It's our old back onto the push
Not a different 25 seconds vision needs absolutely every little thing they can put together here
Collapsed out level 25. He's gonna have like 10,000 HP when he pops that flesh column
So the Brackstakes are in the mid-spirit, they can head over to the Roshan.
Safe as play possible, Refresher shard.
Some really good ones they can put that onto.
Either the Disruptor, they can put it onto the Undying as well too.
Some really good options that they can do.
Even onto the Shard, everybody's a good option to get that Refresher shard.
Don't wait for a moment here though.
We'll see it again.
The Toro had just died over there from that great chase that they were able to do, but yeah, Collapse.
A different beast after they've expended so much. I mean, they sort of think about trying to do something about him, but...
Not a lot that you can do about this undying right now with that amount of HP built up on him.
Just walking at them.
He's getting so much far too. He's got the Cloak of Flames, he's got the Greedy.
The Toro, look at him with cheeky smiles. You know, you got me.
And the necklace.
Time to be said, they're from collapse.
He is absolutely loving at hand on his undying.
Roche on time, 18K lead.
Vision.
I don't think they can contest that area.
High ground defenses, they can execute
if they do utmost perfection.
But around the rose, kind of suicide.
Hold this person for you, Thoron.
And he just...
Freshly shot, available here, full collapse.
Oh god, collapse has a full hex now too.
Oh my goodness, just keeps flurrying out the items.
He's keeping up in farm with an IOPOR.
Very impressive that he's been able to fill.
We see Satanic, his farm is pretty impressive too,
but still, at that back foot...
Even bigger rate, I mean, the stat...
The static storm's gonna be massive.
We don't see Disruptive, I actually forgot that was even a talent for him at 20.
With that chasm stone too, this static storm is going to be huge.
So many things that they're going to have to pre-BKB.
Yeah, they either have to pre-BKB or they have to jump the disruptor and kill him at the start of the fight.
So they're just going to get decimated from that axe.
Push coming in toward the north side.
Zora.
The Aegis.
He goes to the question room, he has the answer.
Flaps now, finally switches his neutral item.
Immediately said, Kenny, how's to put this BKB so terrified about what the threat in a quick tombstone dodge of the arrow.
I mean, he needs to use their house key.
So scary otherwise he's going to get heads or nine class outside of the base collapse
He's waiting from inside of the base nine class. Did he get glitz back?
I mean they just can't do anything about the fact that collapse is just standing there between them
He has seven thousand five hundred HP good luck bringing me down and he puts the vessels onto the vessels gonna do like 300 damage per tick
No vessel charges for many though I do call this so
unfortunate for him. Somebody's got to do something.
The tube stone jumps out. There's no BKB for satanic. How does it commit itself?
They're going to try something. Arrow, just to try to push him off of
Yatoro. The wrecks are falling. Standing strong.
And they even get in the wants now. Back up, set up perfectly around Yatoro.
Notice as the crawlers now picked up they spend their gold on the side of vision can't protect the racks
Hope spirit they're gonna continue in this area continue to push
If anyone steps out if roost sees them he will just play static stop grab them
Vision desperate move here
On the low ground notice gonna try to come to the other side and I was getting the call of the static
He used his ult too to buy the front, he does not have buyback.
Spare it. Should have what it takes here to finish off the final set of rex.
Here connects.
Let's say Tannick is going to try and jump the backline, maybe he'll still be able to kill off the support.
So put the BKB in, look to chase down the willow.
Can he at least get that? That's going to be all to give a sec.
No one's just getting shredded by the right-nix of Yatoro. No one's gone.
He's out for a hundred. They're getting close to killing off Collaps. He'll heal up with the Saurib and the Decay.
It is too slow.
He's still alive.
Satanic is trying to run. No one comes.
He doesn't fail him out of this.
He'll be able to live, Satanic.
They're just way too far ahead. Oh, and they're all too tanky.
Your Toro's damage, he shrugs like it was no one actually gets away.
And Collaps, he's back in with another jump. They get the Hex onto the Carlos.
He's out.
You'll buy Maxi, cut him to the jump, it's like change over to Lord Yatora, but it's a triple kill for Yatora!
This game is over!
G-gears call!
A big spirit will take game one, Yatora finishes with a round!
Paying care in Shanghai!
The legendary carry himself having a pretty free game this time around.
Vision trying something here that we've said multiple teams have tried with this Ember to dodge this Slard.
They put the IO mid, but the Slard was doing pretty fine.
They did get some kills on Laurel which is pretty impressive, but the biggest problem really was Gatoro is absolutely massive
Yeah, points are getting a lot and collapsed to love the build we go for
Going to make it play the pseudo kind of supportive style get these extra heels. They run this one over. They really do
I guess at the least for team vision we did it from puppy to start right. They're trying
They already knew they were trying something so they should be able to easily move past this into game two
But as for this game one strap it did not work out
I think that's what we're
going to do. We're going to
have to do that. It was a
strata. We weren't necessarily
sure how it was going to play
up. We saw so many new things
disruptor. It's its first pick
here for T. I 15. We're also
seeing no one playing that I
hope for the first time and
satanic playing in Ember spirit
carry for the first time
himself. I know we've seen
Ember carry so far this
tournament, but satanic
himself having their first
competitive games on those
that confidence. But at the end of the day, what spirit cooked
Quinn was just another level. Yeah, I think the answer to
your question. Is this the place to do it is no, I think you
want to go back to your comfort. You want to go back to the
solid strategies you've played for the entirety of your
career. We look at satanic. You think of him as the hard
carry that scales into the late game that's going to put
the team on the back. And how can you really do that
with an Ember carry? It just wasn't the same level
impact you're used to seeing from him. And I don't
blame him. It's a very uncomfortable position to be
in. Yeah, I mean, we heard some puppy in the coach
coach interview that they have tried it before and it wasn't unexpected for them.
And he thinks that TI is for trying things, and that's why they did it.
But in practice, it didn't look that good.
That IO mid didn't even manage to have a game against the Sark.
The Ember lost about Undying Pit, which was brilliant because Team Spirit
set up a situation where both sidelines would win and the mid flex
didn't matter in Sanion.
Yeah.
I mean, to me, it just comes back to what you brought up about how maybe
puppy is saying no to nine classes ideas.
And for me personally, I feel like Titanic's been the player of the tournament, or the player of Team Vision at least.
And put him in an Ember against some buying lane, you're not really setting him up for success.
I feel like if you have a guy online class that could take that upon him, he could play that Ember.
If something is done in the past, their lane didn't go well anyway.
It's not like he's a particularly strong hoodling player.
So, for me, it's just a little bit questionable how they approach this game one.
But to be honest, in the best of five, you have a lot of room to do these kinds of things.
and it doesn't matter for the next team. It's 0-0.
Rune for growth, whichever way you want to look at it here,
but it definitely felt like a game of Fluffs in some way as well,
because whilst the execution was incredibly high from Spirit,
it felt like that they were coming in almost as a continuation
of the best of three that they had in their upper bracket two days ago,
where it's, we actually know what you like, we know what you don't like,
and so they try and put Loll on an uncomfortable slot
that he hasn't necessarily shown or proved himself on the same way he has other heroes,
I think it's a good idea. And
vice versa again, where vision
of thinking we've got this
ember that we can move to other
roles. We've got this IO that
we know is comfortable mid, but
at the end of the day, Quinn,
I'm not really sure how that
mid matchup played out. You
said that it should be
something more favorable to
IO, but we didn't see that in
eventuality. Yeah, I think it
probably should. It ended up
being where Slark takes a
relatively decent early CS
advantage, and I think you
can talk a lot of it up to
no one's inexperience on the
and to how you move the spirits back and forth.
It's a very finicky, I don't know,
very isle-specific mechanic that not any other heroes have.
And so I think I chalked it up to inexperience,
and I think it's not just sort of a fault of vision,
but it's a skill that the spirit is really good at.
And I think specifically in finals,
I felt this myself,
that they are really good at taking you
out of your comfort zone.
It's not just vision doing it to themselves.
They're picking things and banning it away
that forces you to do that,
or you feel compelled to it,
almost like they're mind controlling you.
On that topic of potential inexperience on the mid IO, that may very well be true, but
watching it play out, I don't think IO has any inherent advantages against Sark.
The way the hero functions in the mid lanes, it just swans.
You trade farm, and for mid heroes to punish melee heroes, they have to make it so that
if the melee heroes walk up to hit a creep, that they take absurd amounts of damage
and that this doesn't happen with IO until later levels.
And I think fundamentally the concept there was also wrong.
to see. We're going to look
at the earlier mark between
these two right looking at
about 10 minutes. I feel like
that's that moment where you're
wanting to see a little bit more
movement coming out from your
mid. You're hoping that they're
going to be up there at the
playmaker or this the solid rock
for your team and hopefully
that they've had a good enough
lane for themselves. But when
it comes to this mark, it's
not necessarily a glaring
obvious who is doing that for
their team right when. Yeah,
it's very even and you've
got the pressure on the
to play. They want to have
just chilling, playing some
matchup. It's whatever that's
normal that he's fine in and
they put pressure and they put
the precedents on their
sidelines to do well and have
good matchups. And I think
that came to fruition
completely this game. It's
exactly how they want to play.
It's a bread and butter
spirit draft. I feel like the
main thing that I take away
from the network is the
net worth. The the it was
passed to be a lot more
far coming out of the matchup.
All I see it needs to be
almost 1000 gold. Wow. Okay,
that is a big difference.
And you mentioned something
briefly Quinn, what you're
talking about. It's a lot
down to the sidelines.
what's happening on the action
there as well. How much more
can their mid offer depending
on how well their side leads
ago, and we were to talk about
it. This is the first official
we've seen say Tannick on on
that Embers spirit, and luckily
we have purge is going to give
us more information about how
it played out for him. Yeah
they tried out the Embers spirit
with the shift to the safe
lane. They thought they could
make it work. Last I saw was
a team liquid playing it, and
it's definitely a little bit
harder here. Say Tannick
did his best in the lane.
He did some nice little
tricky things like dodging
After a quick level 2 on Willow, she got a Deward here.
This really nice Root is going to guarantee the kill on Seitanic, that got him a first
blood.
And the lane didn't really get that much better for a bit here because that level 3 now for
Undying is very, very fearsome.
He did use Flameguard to protect himself when he got gone on a bit here, which is
going to give him a little bit of protection, but the downside is they have a lot of
nuke damage here.
So they actually were just bursting through his Flameguard and almost killing him.
Here's his final death here that you would normally get successfully with that Seitanic.
Of course he's gonna slight dodge that one as well even using another fairy fry to survive.
He had a tough lane.
They did gank the Undying but they did do this nice move on the Wisdom Shrine which allowed
them to at the very least get the Wisdom Shrine but of course a ton of rotations here in
Claff still got one support kill, so.
But this was a nice moment for Satanic to catch up and in the end of this he's actually
kind of close in-net worth if you take a look at it.
All things considered, yeah he's really not that far away.
So that was great.
Then Yutora did some really interesting things in this game.
He probably spotted him in the stream at some point showing up somewhere he's not supposed
to be.
So watch his path here.
He was thinking about killing the axe, but axe basically got zoned because he's SF wins
his matchups.
And then he's just fishing to do mid pressure.
There's a catapult at this moment.
So it's a really good time for him to be here because if he's just successful at
helping to get a kill, then they get a whole bunch more damage.
And this is probably the moment you saw him on stream when he came here and
double raised the enemy mid.
This is kind of crazy to look at, but if you look at what happened on the map
here, he's basically forcing Io to go farm these camps over here, which means
He's super far away from the mid lane, so it basically makes it easier for them to pressure
the mid lane and for his Slark to get as much farm as he wants.
And a short time later, he basically does the same thing.
He's going to clear the wave, he's going to walk towards mid, he's going to take this
nice little ancient stack, which is beautiful for him, and he's going to do the same thing.
Hide him behind the tower, looking for a hero.
He ends up spotting out 9 class, which guarantees the vision, which guarantees the kill,
and again guarantees the tower.
This early pressure that Yatoro did to rotate, it didn't take a huge amount of him.
He lost a little bit gold, but he got some nice ganks and that pressure really opened
things up on the map.
The mid was opened up, collapsed at this really sick play, getting the kill on Satanic, and
as a whole the lane just went great for Team Spirit.
Thank you so much, Perj.
We're seeing it play out in real time.
The Yatoro of TI 10, that's what he was praised for time and time again was how
early he was willing to rotate to mid, how he was willing to help out other cores
you're supposed to always be
farming if you're not out there
in your lane. And at the end of
the day, he goes, Well, there's
other means to get kills. There's
other means to be able to shut
down our opponents, and that is
pushing the middle later out as
far as possible. Yeah, I love
those clips. I think that it
really shows some of the skills
that he at all doesn't always
show. But somehow when it comes
to TI, when it comes to the
finals, he just builds this
extra awareness of places he
can be places he can pressure.
These are split second
decisions that you need to
make in very specific
moments. And I think that
that you need to make in very specific moments or you're just going to miss the opportunity and he's
so in the moment he's so clutching these finals almost no one else would make these moves but
Yatoro in zone is just a different beast. To add on to that it is Team Spirit's understanding of
which lanes to focus on has always been some of the most impressive out of all the teams in Dota
but they had this knowledge that if IO doesn't have any kind of farm they won't be able to
make moves because both side lanes were shut down so if they moved their emphasis to the
mid lane and pushed no one into the jungle, then there really was no tempo or counter play for a
very long time. And I do have to give them props for how they set up the disruptor. Playing disruptor
with Sark's Night Vision and an SF coming mid, you're just happy in that situation, IE and Savion.
Yeah, I mean, I think when I played disruptor 2, my favorite heroes to lane with were TB and SF
and it's just because they provide so much overwhelming damage. Whenever you glimpse
someone back, they just immediately die. And that's like what they do on the lane, but then
Yatoro takes up one step further and he just makes sure that he's connected to all the moves that the instructor wants to make.
When the instructor wants to move mid, well, he's there to provide the damage.
And now suddenly, anybody that's within 1600 range of a instructor is just dead.
Yeah, you can see it in from just the positioning.
The SF is not playing like a typical turd and that he's standing behind everyone.
For the majority of this game, Yatoro is standing in front of everyone because he supports wants to stand behind.
He's charging at them so then the instructor can glimpse them back.
That's such an unusual sort of switch of priority and how you're even just standing.
these are the little things that go into the greatness that is these tier one carry players or tier one players in general on the
biggest stage that he sees in the moment. This is a time for me to walk up and chat up for my support. So we're going to sit
behind compared to the inverse. That is amazing awareness in the moment.
The domino effects that can happen in Dota are so beautiful because when you think about it, you're like, okay,
Slark, Knight vision. And yes, the Serpter, he needs vision. But if your sidelines are so overwhelming, you can play on the
first night after minute five that's when the laning stage occurs and that's when a lot of the kills
were happening after those first five minutes so from the first night to be able to make that many
kills happen off of your vision strategy we don't see that very often usually it's the second or
third night that this really becomes significant i don't think i've ever seen a first night be that
impactful it's rare it's honestly super rare that you have like a disruptor in a winning
lane a slark mid of all things and then they carry willing to connect as well so i think
all three of these things have to align for us to have this beautiful early game.
I just love it. The way that the draft played out, well, like this is one of the biggest cooking
sessions that we've seen before should be able to do a disruptor that hasn't been picked at all
in this TI. Like the fact that it goes two whole weeks completely overlooked, even though SF,
even though SMOC have been gaining traction, SF was definitely one of those things in this
patch coming in. People were first phase banning, and so we talk about this cycle. Now it's
back in the hero pool. Now there is adjustments that need to be made and more importantly that
pressure is on vision. We've seen them lose games but they're in best of threes and it's normally a
game two that they're losing when they're already up. So now they're going to be starting the best
of five on the back foot. Yeah there's room for experimentation because you need to be able to
have three games to win but you've done your experimenting in a game number one and so
when it comes to game two even though that experimenting didn't work do you still
still have faith that you need to go down that route?
I feel like you've mixed it up.
I don't think they went for this Ember.
The idea was Lord doesn't play Slark, and coming into the series I would have said the
same thing.
Okay.
So, you know, Spirit kind of cashed them a card, they got the Slark, they played the
Ember, and now you're just going to shift priorities, there's so many other heroes in
the Ember Spirit, you're not relying on this hero.
You know, there's a difference between a team like Vision and maybe Nigma that
needed to play the Ember.
These guys have a lot more of the difference.
Yeah, you're here for a reason.
You've proven you're out the entire tournament.
You are one of the best teams if not the best team in the tournament
That was not a fair showing of their true potential
They're playing extremely on comfort on multiple roles go back to where you're good at and show the world and show spirit
Why you're in this final you deserve to be here
This is not the moment where you push over and say they're just better than us
This is where you steal yourself and you go back to this and say we're here for a reason and now we're gonna show you
Yeah, that felt like a statement by puppy that if they take ember away from team spirit
then Laurel doesn't have heroes that they're uncomfortable dealing with in terms of tempo,
because if not the Ember, what have we seen Laurel play that pushed the team's spirit
supports forward on the map? I mean, another hero would be Pango, but it hasn't been that
successful this tournament for him. And Puppy basically just said that our plan is to take
it away. And if they do plan on taking it away again, it would just be with Sark being
factored into the vans. I don't think it's a bad idea to go for Ember.
Yeah, absolutely. But then you open up doors or potentially a vein,
potentially of winter wyvern and we just I don't see I feel like we just got to see what how they react to this
It's it's hard to make any sort of predictions about what what their take from the game is because for me at least watching
I think you don't want satanic on ember
We want him on some sort of win condition and if this is the plan B then I don't like the plan
Yeah, I think it's also interesting how the sort of the order of these drafts pans out whenever hard counters like this
the next phase compared to. If
you try to pre ban it, then
they will just respond with the
ember bands. You can actually
never get ember if your first
pick and these things can arise
and change how teams prioritized
draft order and how shift how
the lineups are created because
maybe ember was crucial and now
you can't get anymore from that
pick side. It's always a
big challenge. You know,
you can't get the first pick
and you can't get the first
pick and you can't get the
first pick and you can't get
the first pick and you can't
get the first pick and you
can't get the first pick
and you can't get the first
it's always the back and forth
when it does come to drafting.
Are you a team that loves to and
thrives on that first pick? Are
you team that wants to wait until
the end to be able to be more
reactionary and know that you have
that depth within you there and
we're seeing all of our players
that worked out on stage sitting
back down the booth and we've
brought this up time and time
again is how necessarily
division feel after a loss,
and we just looked towards a whole brand new game here and I honestly think it's the second of those two options because even though
We've seen them be the team with an early GG in a game at TI
There were still a lot of laughs
There are still a lot of smiles and I think the camaraderie between vision is much stronger than maybe public perception sees. I think so too
And I mean no one was smiling at Satanic at the end of the game
It's not a starting and they seem to be okay
I think they have this understanding that when it's the draft issue then you go next like Insania loves to say every game is
Zero zero you give up on the loss loss. Yeah, I think you just forget about the last game
I think you could draw some drafting lessons
But that's mostly for puppy to do and I think for the players is just we're gonna go into the game
We're gonna run it back
We had a series against spirit before where we lost the game and it's nothing new to us
We've done this before and I feel like they've proven throughout this tournament that they are not fazed by losses
This has happened so many times and this whole idea of like they used to be a team that tilted out a series or stuff like that
It's just doesn't apply to them anymore. Yeah, and again, they have so many approaches
They can take an adraft queen like they're loan druid or natures profit. Yeah, I totally agree
I think they've got plenty of tricks in the bag still and I think they've also gotten
I hope some of the jitters out of the way if you look at some of the clips of purge
Showing the ember spirit walks back into a bramble or no one maybe is CSing
It's a little bit off and laying I think some of that is it's a grand final. It just feels a little different
It's a little bigger, grander, scarier.
Ha ha ha.
You'll love to see it.
Brunos!
Brunos, it's him.
You'll love to see the smiles and finals.
I think it's very easy to get sucked into,
especially when you're down to game distress and pressure of,
we're down, we need to come back, we need to fix things.
There's problems, and these can mount up
and feel like this overwhelming dread
sort of enveloping you.
But I think the ability to not only try to win,
which is the most important thing,
but also appreciate this is a very special moment
you may never get again.
you never know whenever these
things will happen, but it is
a very competitive game. People
fall by the wayside all the time.
And so I think being able to laugh
and appreciate the moment, the
privilege you've been given, I
think it's something they should
all very much like to do. We
also saw just briefly there. We
had not me come up on the screen,
and I think it's a face not a
lot of people are familiar with
for two reasons. One. This
is his first T. I appearance.
You're making it to a grand
final with a veteran and a
decorated all get such as
And I know coming into the grand finals, we were all discussing is it going to be both
tourable over in the Chinese stream?
Delz was talking to Mokoshka and asked Mokoshka about, oh, did you guys consider shaving Yutaro's
head?
And he goes, it worked twice.
We don't really think it's going to work at third time.
And as the rookie, not me had to take it, and he was more than willing to shave
his beard instead.
I love that this is kind of an initiation ritual for a team spirit.
I mean there is a very specific culture in this team and you can really watch it unfold in moments like these in the TI Grand Finals
We've alluded to draft
Alterations that need to be had the preparation and the pressure of those said drafts really falls on Poppy and Moposhka
And so we'll see how it pans out for a game number two
Team Vision versus Team Spirit Grand Finals
game. It's going to be
spirit with their first pick.
And so it does bring back all
of those theories that you guys
were crafting. Where does this
ember take priority now? Where
does this lock fall in the
drop if you're willing or
wanting to take ember in the
first phase? There's this
really cool thing about
There's this really cool thing you can do here, if you're a team spirit.
Like let's see, we're going to see Visions 2 first bans, and if they notice that there's
like two heroes that they want to ban out, that we know they want to ban, and we don't
want to give them the opportunity to do it, you can ban out the Slark, forcing them to
ban the Ember, and then giving you one of those heroes that you want to play in the
upcoming situation.
Yeah, it's definitely something you consider, and with the way the bans have been changed
over the years, the order of them is very important, and trading bans in that
forced way is is definitely a very smart and cool tactic. They choose to pass on it in this
instance, but it's something that may come into effect in later games as well.
With the Nature's Prophet taken out by Team Spirit, I think if you're Team Vision,
you can comfortably lean back on your Lone Druid. And there's always the concern of the first
pick Winter Wyvern coming out from Team Spirit, but you have two vans here.
Instead, they ban the Vayne, Vayne covers for Ember, it covers for Io.
I wonder if these will these will be the bands that they continue with throughout the series.
I know in the finals we played that sometimes you're wrong about the first phase bands.
It can be a bit tricky to actually get those right and it's so much easier from a third
you know third eye perspective or from after the series if you're like obviously we should
have banned this instead.
Nature's Prophet was too broken but sometimes you get mixed up and you ban the wrong heroes
in the moment and I think considering those and really making sure is this really integral
to their draft. Is this what binds them together is such an important thing.
Vision are looking at their final ban here and what's being left in the pool from game
number one is that Wyvern. It's also the Earth Spirit and the Coddle. And now it feels
like you're in a tricky situation because at least two of those are getting through
along again with maybe that Ember.
I mean I think that you have a lot of things to consider here right. If you ban
the Slark then Spirit picks Ember. Are you happy to play Earth Spirit into Ember?
We've seen Coddle out of success in that matchup specifically. Winter Wyvern has been
Spirits go to first pick, I feel like in every single game that we've seen them play, when it's there, they always go for it.
So it's it's a tricky situation. You have to kind of look at the matchup
So you get and what kind of trade you want to make here?
They definitely could go for a spirit trade. They've left Earth Spirit a hero that's been very very dominant Laurel's very capable of
Ember is a classic response
It's not really a lane counter anymore
But in the game you buy Vessel and you buy Mage Slayer and you can negate some of his fighting with your own fighting
So they could be saying hey, you take one spirit
We take the other the spirit declines the trade and says you told cook so hard last game
We're just running it back because we don't think you have answers. I
Wonder it may think that
notice hero pool suffers very hard against the shadow fiend because
There is always a potential the dark seer coming out to counter at the SF
But maybe they think that that's very easy to deal with with any kind of the spell any enchantress any lardo
I think the Dark Syrians SF matchup is very much of a laning or not so much of a laning matchup
And I feel like the way that team spirit are playing right now
I feel like if they can guarantee that they have side lane pressure from the torres SF
They're just gonna go for the SF looking at the matchup scene like nothing really pressures us
They might be counters us down the line like we saw them earlier today on the TV themselves
So there are ways to deal with it, but they just want to get that pressure early on
We don't want to delay snowball and team vision go forward the earth spirit
It's a very solid response. There's nothing wrong with this at all and to be honest
I already like this opener more for vision than I did last game
This Earth Spirit hero it's just so good against all the turrets because you have a way to gap close
And so you get on top of the shadow fiend
You may can start running and the whole advantage turrets have is they can hit you while you run into them
So if you close that gap immediately and you just roll on top of them
Well, now suddenly he's running away and that's those are valuable seconds that he's not hitting you and dealing DPS
Yeah, on the flip side of that is Urspirit, we've seen him kind of struggle when he rolls
in and there's a turret hitting him.
If he misses his initial stun and he doesn't have backup, you're getting 5 shotted by the
Shadow Fiend.
So a lot of it is execution based at later stages of the game too.
And Darkseer does get taken out.
I think once the Urspirit shows you can't let Darkseer through, it just creates too
strong of a combination.
Yeah, absolutely agree.
I think, you know, if you have the opportunity to ban heroes, of course you should ban
the heroes, a counter you're down the line, right?
you don't need to give away the possible best matchups
for your opponents.
So, good ban from Spirit here.
I'm trying to think, because we've talked about
how important the support has been in this matchup,
and I think there you go.
The Coddles out.
This was a hero that pairs very well with the Ember
and the Earth Spirit, any sort of spirit really.
Coddles happy to play with.
And 9-Class has proven to find opportunities
to make moves to this hero
that no other player has done at this tournament.
Yeah, it's very impressive.
I think also, the man on camera,
he has been so impressive.
the fact that there's a clockwork first-phase ban.
I hear that no one else really cares about that much,
but he is so terrifying with the accuracy of these cogs
that they have to first-phase ban it every game.
That's so much value.
That's why you're getting the Shadow Femes
because he's so proficient at that clockwork.
These things add up like crazy.
We're always good too.
I do think you have to account
for a potential Ember still on vision,
like maybe an Enchantress for Decalus or something
because it's still in the pool.
We know Laurel's going to play it.
Yep, there you go.
What's it called, Mero?
spells for the Flame Guard and the Mid Pressure. I do wonder though, if you're getting run-up non-stop
by Enchantress as an Ember Spirit, what do you need from your support squim?
I think you want pressure elsewhere. Enchantress, the biggest thing about the Zero is if she's free
to attack. She doesn't actually have any spells, and so it takes her a little bit of time to get
the creep, to walk there, to get the right angle, to wait for Enchant to come off cooldown,
so you can slow with the creep. There's a lot of prerequisites that sort of have to be met,
and if there's a ton of fighting and there's gate ganking and all these things,
the pressure in the side lanes, well she doesn't have the time and the freedom to go mid and make moves there.
So I think you're kind of like your team, can y'all put some pressure elsewhere? Let me like do my thing here.
And I think that is spirit somehow, right? Like they want to have that side lane pressure to prevent you from going mid,
to prevent you from pushing this, uh, Laurel potential ember spirit. We haven't even seen it yet,
but of course we have to consider it here.
I love this, them moving the priority up on the Slotter because we sort of get banned out in the final phases of bans.
And I know that they will go in for more of a different trajectory when it came to Spirit,
but to be able to have it so freely right now, I'm like, I'm excited to see what it's
going to bring to Grand Final.
That's really cool.
I mean, I love the combo of Amplify Damage with SF, but outside of that, Slardar was
kind of a lane counter to Earth Spirit for a while last month, and people gave up
on it.
I think another nice dynamic with Slardar is Lina, who's very popular in this patch,
has been shown to be countered by Slardar the last couple of days.
Yeah.
You're producing options, right? You pick Sardar, you know they're not going to pick any Linus from this point onward.
Also, I think what Spirit does is really cool here, because they have the flex on the Sardar, right, between the mid and the offlane.
But because they already see the mid laner, they know that they guarantee you have one good lane for the Sardar.
Even if there comes the hardest counter pick of all time on the safe lane,
you guarantee you can put the Sardar in a nice position, but they could still put it on the offlane if you don't address it.
So now Vision has to address the Sardar and the offlane, so that, or you're going to just end up playing in the mid.
It's a really cool job here from Spirit. I love what they're doing.
Do you think Enchantress is enough versus an offline Slaughter because you can just spell Sprint and maybe go for the Kill Combo?
I think it's a decent hero, but the thing with Enchantress is she doesn't really do anything except auto-attack.
Slaughter has really high armor, so he tanks that pretty decent.
It's also kind of a cool situation in that vision.
Whenever you see Slaughter SF, you want to pick the high armor carries.
You want Phantom Lance or Terror Blade.
You want Illusion Bros that can outscale the Shadowfiend,
But it's tricky to actually pick it on 16-17 on the Underlord Rubik's Pots because you're going to get counterpicked by the Offland because of that slaughter flex.
And so because he can go on either lane, if you pick that carry there, well, suddenly a bunch of magic damage is getting slapped down right after, and you don't have as good of a matchup anymore.
And so as it goes to the last pick, they have the option to ban the Terror Blades and the Phantom Lancers.
These heroes that counter the Shadow Fiend, which sort of goes more into just a very nice order of things from Spirit.
We're going to be waiting not too much longer for what Spirit are deciding for themselves
and is that Undying?
And again it still keeps a lot of things open for themselves because we know how strong
of a lane an SF and Undying can be together, but we also just saw in game number one collapse
won't shy away from picking up that Undying too.
Yeah, there's absolutely the potential for co-ops to play it.
I mean we touched upon it earlier in the tournament, but this Undying has some purpose from
playing as Earth Spirit where if Earth Spirit rolls in and nowadays Earth Spirit
tend to have a very low level roll, max out the other two spells.
A Nine can slow you, drop a Tombstone, and you just can't get out of that fight.
And all the Spirit Heroes, they love to kite.
You don't like getting slow.
They don't like being rooted down into one place.
Yeah.
And these are two of some of the highest strength gain Heroes in Dota, in Earth Spirit
and Underlord.
And an Offline in Dying is a very strong counter pick, as he scales.
Yeah.
Keeping the Flanks, Flags potential open, it's very, very nice.
And Mira mentioned it earlier, but Earth Spirit rolling in,
Spirit loves to conceptually counter pick you.
Well, now you want to roll on the shadow of him,
well, you're going to get amplified,
Derg's dying is going to hit you,
and now you're going to get completely exploded
by the physical damage, and so they've turned
what you thought was a counter, back to countering yourself.
And they're flipping that script
and changing the way the matchup dynamics work
and proving that matchups are not one-dimensional.
They're based on all the other heroes at play.
It's such a cool concept.
Yeah, I mean, this is what Spirit does, right?
They always look at how to conceptually be what you're doing. They also take out the TV. It's a great matchup against yes
We saw them run this exact same matchup earlier today. So I'd like to position that they're in
I feel like when I think of Earth Spirit and how he deals damage. It's by being tanky
It's by staying alive letting that magnetize run it takes time
But when you don't have time to do that something this hero isn't that super high magic damage hero that we've seen throughout the rest of the tournament
What's another carry that spirit might be looking at taking out then that also fits a similar sort of play style or
Item timing that TV does I mean you're looking for something with a lot of armor
You want heroes that naturally by agility or by ACs by like something that has a lot of natural armor
Yeah, we saw the Luna from Yennex earlier here yesterday, and I think that could definitely be something they look towards
It's it's some here like that. It's a traditional agile carry that I mean I love that for them provision now that they get
Titanic to play what he wants to play he gets to play the heroes
He's practiced for his entire career the anime protagonist hero
That's what's a Tanaq is best at and if they've set him up for that compared to last game where he's playing the complete opposite
A lot of his go-to's are kind of uncomfortable in this position though
I mean, I think the only one that looks decent is the tumblr is awesome
But we did say we did see her lose to slaughter yesterday
yeah I mean the tiny bound I think makes a lot of sense right it's just his
ultimate gives him straight armor it it's a tricky position to be a carrier I
think I'm trying to think of good options to be honest the TA I personally only
really liked it when we saw it against the centaur the other day it was like it
had clear purpose it's gonna destroy its lane it's gonna abuse the minus
armor here against Florida potentially I feel like that is a draw-ish lane it's
It's not like a super dominant one.
See the full lane now, have a little bit more information.
It's a strong lane, it's not a lane that's easy
to pick super hard carries into,
and I think that may be a little bit of sort of a pre-countering.
We're picking the axe heroes,
gonna blink blade and they'll call you.
So if you pick these traditional agile heroes
that are low HP, high armor wall,
the axe is gonna be super good against that.
So it's a nice sort of preemptive.
We know what you want,
and we're gonna make that a little bit more uncomfortable
for you.
And things like life stealer get solved by the slaughter that came early in Spiritstaff, and Mapochka is kind of cooking today.
Yep, and like any sort of TA routes against Axe are super scary, because you won't shut yourself from that blade mail, so they deny that potential too.
I think you can choose to just play Temple on vision instead if you feel that you may fall trapped till lane counters or matchup counters,
because you still do have the Temple of Earth Spirit. You have this Enchantress that's going to be running around taking towers.
You have the Underlord who can connect on any kind of plays you make. Maybe go for a Luna.
I mean to be honest I like Luna. I was thinking about Lone Druid for a bit and then I looked at Spirits heroes and I'm like
Okay, absolutely do not pick Lone Druid into this because there's so many ways to be able to spare.
The bear won't be tanky and to be honest I like the Luna. While some pulled it off
They look pretty good and it buys the right items. It has a lot of armor
It even has damage reduction that it provides for itself. So it's a pretty cool pick here
Yeah, you want some you want to build the damage to you've got a lot of guys who sit behind you your tanky
this is
risky
Historically lifestealer is pretty bad against slaughter because when you press rage then he amplify damages you and try to bean shreds you
You need to run into the fight and while it does have a good lane
I think and to get ahead of early you need to be quite farmed so you can actually get to the manta
Get to the AC eventually and then the matchups can turn a little yeah
And we've mentioned how this Earth Spirit needs to stay alive in order to be able to deal with damage.
Life Stealer is one of the few carries that can actually amplify his mid hero in that way.
So I think Vision are trying to then once again answer concepts, not focusing so much on individual hero matchups,
but try to look at what does our drafts actually need to be able to win this game.
We need to keep our Earth Spirit alive, we need to get value out of Magnetize,
and we need to make sure that Satanic is on a good lane and he's playing the game from ahead.
In situations like this, this is where I look towards Enchantress as the X-Factor hero,
You need to win your early game. This is where the callus needs to put it upon himself to take the towers to rotate to go
To that mid lane do a couple of smokes try to win as many lanes as possible go through the gate
It's a collapse
Undying by the way, which does mean our axis position five
Okay, so they flip the script that is it's so it's so on the fly
And I think it's really awesome from Rue
But I wonder if he'll be able to pull off not because I don't think he's capable because acts five is just not particularly
particularly good generally, and you're saying, Ru, you're going to have a much worse game,
and Colossus is going to have a better game. They're trading. One of them has worse, and
now the other one has better.
Yeah, so forget what I said about Satanic having a good lane, right? They're deciding
like, we're not going to let that happen. And Spirit are prioritizing the things that
they think are more important, right? They think Satanic being shut down is
more important than Ru having the best lane possible or like the most comfortable
hero possible. So they just believe in a skill.
What about it makes it so that a life stealer is having a more difficult lane?
I mean to be honest you're just getting decayed your strength hero and so every time he presses his first file
You're losing for damage you're losing for damage and that just keeps happening and you're getting out traded
And it's it's an eight damage differential swing right on dying is getting four and you're losing four
And so you keep getting out CS and that keeps mounting over time and it becomes a big problem
Theory the losing the damage you're getting pushed out of lane is essentially how we are going to see satanic play this yeah
Pick your poison
You're just gonna get outlasted
I do want to comment that the 5 Axe I think will have a good lane too because really Underlord aren't going to bother him so much
He's just going to press Thought-O-Hunger as he's going to press Races. It's not that difficult of a swing either
Yeah, I mean the lane is really strong and I think that's where he's going to be comfortable
The question more comes in like in the mid game
He's been crucial in making moves, right?
Does he know how to find those options with Axe?
There's sometimes seeing those things can be tricky if you're not really comfortable on a hero
But to be honest, I think from Spears' perspective
This kind of switch it shows that they're like really thinking about the game and it's really impressive to see them do it
Well, we've loved getting to see that little switcher right at the end there seeing the axe going to position five
Let's get a couple more details about it because you know me as the poshka standing by
That's exactly what was on my mind. Miposhka seems like quite the last second pivot support axe. What was the idea?
The idea was that we picked Undyne and Axe, so we can track them between both roles.
For example, they picked Axe, and we just decided that Undyne would be much better at flying off against the Steeler and the Ench.
But Axe is still just under, so the thing is, anyway, he will be useful.
Anyway, he will buy, he will get his Brink, anyway, he will stun the Heroes, I mean, Agar, and he will do his impact anyway.
But the neck will just heal them later.
So you definitely planned this out quite a bit, and I'm wondering,
you are now on a seven-game win streak right now at TI.
Obviously from players, I hear what a hot streak feels like.
You know, your clicks feel better.
You always know where the enemy is.
But as a drafter, do you also feel like, oh man, I feel hot right now?
Maybe in that grand final, I would say yes,
Because I feel like also support from my players, like they believe in my ideas sometimes, like they trust me.
For example, we let her spirit in us, but we choose to pick other things that was my idea
and just wants to play very tempo and just kill them until he gets his act, for example.
Because we can see how he'll go, but they believe in me, I believe in my teammates.
Did you just, uh, cast the very good synergy?
No.
And the harmony is working out great, Maposhka.
Good luck in game number two as we send it to our casters.
Game two, some ladies and gentlemen
here between Team Vision and Team Spirit.
Before we get into breaking down
what's going on and what we're going to see,
I believe we actually have some quick words from no one
in the booth.
Let's see what he had to say.
Beep.
There we go. Good luck indeed. I mean as we saw you know they know themselves right team vision and according to puppy
This is where you got to try the different stuff team vision tried the different stopping game one didn't want to hope for them
So indeed no one's like well spirit. You could try something a bit different put him real on this position five
Let's see if it works for you
I mean spirit tried something different last game to the disruptor and it was
I was shocked that it's the first disruptor when we did see it start playing out versus amber versus IO
It did seem like yeah, that's maybe that's what it was like. I just replace them a different every game could be the case
I understand that you know this pivot very very appropriate in the game
They saw how good of a game collapse also had on that last one as soon as they see that life stealer pick
It can be annoying for satanic. You're already starting to see that damage differential life stealers damage early isn't really so high in particular
Just because you have very good attack speed that builds in that you can't get these extra last hits
But yeah, you're just gonna constantly get the case fam
You're gonna get hit also from the hood week can be a bit annoying in the laning phase
So from what I see from Spirit is they're really looking to dominate these lanes, but I think overall
Vision's approach is much better this game. Oh, then game one. Infinite. No doubt about it. This game
We should get to see some back and forth. Oh, yeah
Should get to see Satanic be much more in his element
Sure, as you say and as we open the panel there are many ways that the life stealer can be pressured and can suffer in this game
But he's not a carrier satanic on the life stealer
It's gonna be super comfortable and even if they do bring in this challenge
He's gonna be able to rise up and meet it when he's on something like the life stealer exact and the axe pivot right to talk about it
I'm Mira mentioned it there this axe lane playing versus rubik you can trade pretty decently rubik doesn't really have that highest damage in
particular in the laning phase you get hungered axe has crazy high HP regen decent armoured and trade with you so you
Can be that protective force for a shadow feed and you provide the catch later on that the team is gonna watch a BKB piercing disabled
They have multiple of them to deal with the life stealer ready. We see nine class starting to pull some waves
We play versus shadow beam with underlord. It's a very difficult lane to be able to pressure your Torah mid lane
Pretty even so far in fact dead even
Well, let's see how satanic deals with when the levels start coming out down here
Because this does not feel like an easy lane for him to just really last it can potential just get first
Especially not when collapse is gonna absolutely be in the zone after his game one undying performance
And I love that he did this. It's a it's a usual thing we see on the hoodwinks
But some players that straight away from it lately. It's just buying a blight stone
I mean orbit lights are in front of a chance, but it's very strong. This is something like life-sealer. You're very low armor
It's very annoying to deal with this constant harassment and collapse the damage is high
If you get a couple right click to the blight stone, it's gonna be crazy how much he actually deals to business
No, I actually got easy to say counting to step up to the creep way meets and every time he's having to use this raise
To just not get caught by these bush wax from not me
So it could be that case. Well sure it's not a side lane ember when he's just struggling to get that full recovery
But it's gonna be a Toro with absolute free farm to a bit of a slow down satanic again
Trying to prevent a dive here with the tombstone satanic will turn to try and take it out
But a little bit of solar peel comes out at the tombstone and satanic
It's a big creep wave though punishing collapse with it. It's not easy on too many creeps
You can easily walk this one off. I mean already showing that with this aggression spirit
They're ready to punish satanic early
They don't want him to have a free game at all and talking about the life stealer as well too
They went for this last pick but by no means is this a free life stealer game by any means right?
They're playing into the corrosive haze from the slaughter the minus armor that comes up from the shadow theme the axe
That has the call versus it and a difficult lane as we're seeing so already see the approach from spirit to shut things down
No one though he's gonna be that one to watch his earth spirit has been phenomenal in these games
Absolutely can punish these side lanes if he's off to a good start and he is off to the start until counter pick matchup
He's got to be careful. He tried to start right from the side here, but collapsing on me just turned towards him. He's dead blood grenades on him
Actually, okay, not me should have kept the connection. They should get him with a decay
They do so another kill here for the fuel off lane
on team spirit these two are owning they're not being so many of these games
which is incredible for this team for the newer pickups now
they've been on the edge there here against no one will have to step back
here once you've got the South Bruce coming in with a rotation oh this is
clever I mean the battle hunger slow things down they've been able to prime
the bash into the crush that'll do it they bring down no one in the rotation
I'm also gonna try and turn up and get for a return the calls gonna fire
They have a bit of extra safety going on up to survive the tower, but that's to maybe just set up the lull to get a second kill here in the middle of the same time down the corner.
They've just killed St. Tannick again!
They're breaking the game all and the movement that they're doing is forcing these reactions from vision that they're not used to having to do.
They probably want to have their usual gameplay where they're like, okay Enchantress is able to get a creep.
I'm able to swing toward the mid lane, play around this timing. This is so fast you're scurrying.
So early and of course top lane, yetoro.
Re-farm.
It's happening again for him.
It is.
And in a situation where this came out very early in the draft fold, the question is, did vision, can you see at least what vision did try and do to adapt and say, hey, we cannot let the SF, Yatoro, get as free as a game as he did in game one?
Like, do you see an idea here?
I see them having damage mitigation at the least, right?
The Underlord plus the Rubik, just the Fade Fall, plus the Atrophy aura that comes into play in mid-game teamfights, can be very strong, and they have a gap closer that comes in from the Earth Spirit, but if he falls too far behind this Earth Spirit panel was talking about it too.
If he rolls in, you're going to have level 1 roll very early into undying SF Slaughter and stunts.
It's not an easy game for him to just roll in and get out if he does get committed in.
Max call.
All people to bring down noticed.
Falling in the way from the wave.
Making sure that Yatoro continues to get all the space in the world in his safe lane.
Amazing stunts that they're having here.
He collapse at this point.
It's done to that 7 minute mark too.
So even if he does die down here, he will be able to respawn instantly and continue that pressure onto Zotanic as well.
And they'll have to bring a lot of resources to kill him too, even if they want to.
Trying to poke onto Collapsus, they have the creep from the Enchantress, but he's still healthy.
Zotanic's damage just continues to get limited.
Every single time these decays come out, minus 8 this time.
Yatoro, with the similar rotation that he did in the last game, they are reading it.
They do get the scan, Spirit bringing even more reinforcements to potentially look for a tower push here,
and 4 satanic jungle.
I'm not gonna wanna step anywhere near the lane whilst he's aware that this
lane was looked towards. Spirit know that they know though and will
return you to our back up to the top lane. The nice thing I will say first satanic in this game though
Even before he has radiance. He kind of can't turn up sure not in like a very aggressive way
But play leads to this and fast to protect his earth spirit
Could be the small move that they could look for if they start to fall behind. Then Laurel
Lost his vision on the rotation.
TP's coming in as well from Spirit.
No one trying to stand his ground out with the Magna type damage.
But backup's coming in. No one's...
He's there!
Loads and kills off! Loads should die!
And that's it there!
One of the two of them coming in collapsed.
Tarzan takes out nine cards.
He's in that corner back off.
The Tombstone's down. They can't handle it.
Something I didn't really look at either about the game is,
they don't really have the best ways to hit this Tombstone.
Life Stealer doesn't want to rage and commit for it.
There's double supports that are ranged,
but not the greatest ones to be able to go for it here.
to pause, he'll be able to finish it up here at the least if that plus 125.
But collapsed, in spirit you can see the way they're playing, very active on the map, looking to respond to the moves.
Top, they're going to be a tour.
Connected, he's got back up from not made, just went there, onto no one, not made.
They need to set up onto him, heavy damage, heavily acorn shot, he's dead!
The amplify, what the-
That is a very, very painful death for no one.
Turning up to the top, immediately getting destroyed on top of notice, getting dove taken out.
These are so, so painful. These early deaths here on these cause fogged.
Not me is owning. Look at the damage from the acorn shot with the orb of light with the amplify.
Earth Spirit just comes in and dies immediately put at negative armor.
These are incredible moves to Earth Spirit and teams have talked about the best way to deal with Earth Spirit currently in this meta is shut down as early game.
The hero has a lot about that momentum.
Yes, he has absurd scaling, but if you slow down the vessel timing, this hero can fall off pretty quickly.
With how much damage he can put out versus these tanky heroes too, which they do have.
They have a Slardar, they have the Undying, Laurel.
Having a hell of a game this time.
Last game, he did struggle a little bit in the mid-game on the Slark, although his team was owning.
This one, Laurel, is performing incredible here versus that Earth Fairy.
3K lead at first 10 minutes.
They've got their work cut out for them yet again here, Vision.
And Laurel.
All uneasy spots to play from here.
And overall, Laurel, the captain keep mentioning the type of game for this Slaughter.
The fact that he's having such a good opener, he's very good versus all three of these cores.
Underlord, it goes a bit of both ways.
It's not good to pit and the firestorm is, but perhaps...
Remember the bloody bloke, Sons of DeKalis?
He's getting slowed down here.
I'm buying time for Laurel to close in, DeKalis, he's gone.
No one come up the cap to play will be a roll for get the Sun and sit on to collapse
So he left here with sorry doesn't matter. They'll still kill him. They ditch him completely
They don't lose anybody else any back to life. She's the surge immediately is gonna be able to rejoin the phrase
So they cut their losses instantly and now potentially gonna go for another reroof here
Not me and rude. I'm gonna prepare for no one returns in the mid as an innovation not me
No one's not careful here. He could get caught
I'm gonna see the callers come in just so that there is some sort of back-up to know what these levels on the supports of spirit
They're both level six already
High burst potential here so much damage amplification the Slardar the undying as we're seeing come into play
They have to be very careful how they set up for these moves
Night class, let's see what he's able to steal. That's a really good one. It's gonna be able to find the crush
I just don't want to fully come out on Zalal. No, not just yet.
Not me still getting some pretty valuable information.
This is reminiscent of the last game, Yatoro, in the enemy triangle.
Farming ancients already at this point, life-sealer,
not in a position to be able to do anything like that.
But the important thing for Satanic is though,
he hasn't been pushed out of his lane at least.
He's in force to just jungle right now.
He's top three net worth.
Last game, he was already by far the bottom of the course,
so a much better start for him, all things considered.
I don't know his name has much greater chance to carry this time, no one.
Not me.
I tried to make a bit of a go for this.
Oop, D&E.
He's going down surely from down to the college.
We'll take him out.
So, tried to go for a bit of a cheeky move there against no one.
Does not have enough burst on his own to take out the Esper.
Tried for a solo kill there onto him, so not me.
Good himself.
Super deep aggressive words as we do see.
Not me, I think both of them.
Both of them, Aru was placing one of them around the triangle, secondary one as we do see there, placed from Naught Me.
So they're gonna get a lot of read of movement to where the Earth Spirit is going.
So we'll see if no one can get the next connections.
Carl, Blink already finished up.
Very early timing. Treads soldering, Blink from the mid lane already.
Science half-down towards the bottom lane. Naught Me's from the cat for the bush back on the 9th class.
Crociapains is there. The right clicks come through into the crush.
There's no balling right now.
With this blink dagger also vision has to be very prepared how they bring the numbers
They have good ways to bring numbers though with the earth spirit with that underlord
They can look to match it but have to be careful how many kills they hemorrhage versus this Laurel blink at this point
It's so fast that he's been able to find it
Brew now at this point also he's playing the 5x he got away with it completely
Now able to just sit back get some jungle creeps to got a build toward that blink dagger and your Toro now
They're looking to push satanic off of that lane
Zatani won't have any interest in showing his face at least not until the
Gradients is done. He's making decent timing on it considering everything that's going down around him
They're gonna try for another move here
They're attempting to get no one into something here, but he has to be careful
He can't just die if he rolls in again versus all of this amplification
I've already taken the tower and but it looks a bit spirit. They're already backing away
With the roll forward, but they did through the gate. Well, couldn't get the courier either
They're trying to get the finish off onto it just again.
One step ahead, Spirit.
Reading the movement.
Now the career will die.
No one really trying to get involved in a move,
trying to get himself into a better position.
This is one of the rough first starts
I think we've seen for Earth, Spirit.
He's falling behind them.
The record's been pretty flawless so far
from no one on his Earth, Spirit.
It really has.
This game, he's having a tough opening.
There's so much ways to kill him.
There's so much damage that they're building up.
And again, the aggressive wards, they've put the same ward they had around the triangle before,
just really limiting the moves that Vision can make.
Maybe feeling the pressure, losing track of the timing, it's 14 minutes in.
We're gonna see Spirit get both of those wisdoms.
Oh wow, that's a big deal, Drew.
He'll just walk in and sneak it.
Moves aren't connecting, Spirit meeting them perfectly.
Level 8 now on the supports, not me.
Almost the same level as some of the cores on the side of Vision with this type of start.
Collapse deviating the build this time around is going to go for the Lotus first rather than going for the Octorane
Very good Lotus game when you're playing versus the magnetized versus the silence
He will be able to get these saves off potentially in the same build at least in terms of skill build maxing this whole rip
It's gonna have that extra sustain
Probably gonna play as that semi pseudo support, but also, you know, we saw much he was able to do even with that
Anyway as a carry
And Yatoro's timings he is having that clear separation 2800 over satanic his Manta coming out soon
but Stannick, close to the radius.
He is. It's...
Yeah, infinitely better game than the game on the Diambus Spirit.
Still low.
At least for him, but for no one if he's having a much rougher one this time around.
He actually is, honestly. It even compares the IO from the game.
This one's actually feeling tough over the fact that he's already died four times here on the Earth Spirit.
They're seemingly having all the answers for it.
Just the undying, plus the starter.
I feel like such great responses versus Zero, because he goes in and just dies.
So much damage, they have so much control.
Tower now, can vision protect this one here?
Don't think so.
He'll have the Radiance.
Okay, see what he can do when he turns up to fight with it.
It's he being over.
Maybe see if they can do something with the Radiance timing, but Spirit, they're already away.
No one...
Even though he died, one thing that he does gain from it, that he does get a Spirit Vessel Charge.
Charged sure it's not that big of a positive, but it's something slight so they're gonna look for a move here to connect
I don't think they can just let spirit do whatever they want in this game
I actually see the notice even running in the smoke. He buys the shark huge if they can get your Torah
Something that it took them a long time to do in game one
They're just gonna be off the mark
They didn't like read this position that he was in in your Torah. Look at the line found
I look at the line drawn. That's your Torah reading the move
He knows exactly where they are not going to get the connection. No one will at least get an arcane rune
But can just continue to get slowed down not finding connections
Oh and bruise about to have a black dagger on the axe and they're getting crazy farm on the support some crazy levels
That makes it pretty hard for you to play this lifestealer freely can still just get caught inside of these multiple BKB peers and disables
So notice we do see a lot of these underlords do this buying that sharp
But I was surprised he's running in with them with the smoke in there.
Well, he's got the blink up.
He gets it before the blood grenade.
Nicely done, Laurel.
I'll catch them.
Still gonna try, no one.
Rolls forward, they'll look to collapse.
Forget it with the side, the smoke just comes through with the fiend's gate.
They'll take the undying out.
Takes the full five of the note.
A needed move at this point to react in this type of manner.
They won't be able to get Laurel though, unfortunately,
because he does get that blink up before the blood grenade hits.
Vru now, that blink, it is done.
So much easier for Spirit to make these moves around the map.
The vision, you said, Satanic, it's eyes on him.
With this Radiant, it's gonna go for the armlet.
Plenty versus all this minus armor,
and he's like, dude, just a great fight,
build part of the force.
See how much he could do.
I mean, that's the difference.
Last game, it was like, well,
probably not gonna be able to carry the game
as numbers, but this game, there is a chance.
There's absolutely a chance that Satanic can carry this.
It's still incredibly hard.
They're going to get the jump with the crush.
They're going to put the damage.
Now, it's going to fall.
Now, the Kinesis, but Ruz waiting with the blink call.
Get the lock down on the Satanic.
Satanic trying to run over to the safety.
Nine class will be able to jump in it with the infest,
but the chase is going to continue.
They're surrounded.
They're going to blink up in a second.
They'll get the cruiser face on towards nine class.
Nine class is gone.
Laurel, Blaken, two, one.
It's the second there's Ruz with the jump.
Get the blink call.
Dragging Satanic back.
Lyle jump said, bushwhites there to lock him up.
No one's here.
Unintentionally to help out Big Connector.
He'll get the double with the help of Notice, but no one still dies.
And Lael and Gatorra, they can continue the chase over to Notice.
Notice tries to turn.
The bash comes in, the Neutrals do hold Gatorra back momentarily,
but the bushback but Luffy still reaches forward, sets up for the raise.
Notice falls.
They're able to at least bring a fair few of Spirit down with them, Vision,
but still losing all three cores themselves
and not being able to do anything about Yatoro.
Couldn't protect Zatenik, but the best trade they've gotten this game so far, this series in fact,
getting these extra kills, no one getting the connection,
the Radiance damage did start to build up, but oh, just a...
Zoro! Just a class time! An amp damage spawns right outside the pit.
Gonna be able to commit for this Roche to scan, we'll connect.
They're a little scared.
Well, not scared necessarily, maybe just looking to see if they can find a kill before they go for the Roche.
Zatenik?
Careful, he acts as in position for the call.
He gets it!
10 seconds of blowing through, he's got the setup into the boost flag, six Panic, he's got again!
This amp damage!
The Atoroh with the arm damage, a couple of right clicks, the uphill miss!
The Zemada still gets the job done, double kill for Atoroh!
Even Gabin on Spirit's side here, Spotted, amp damage spawning down here.
They're going to be able to commit for the Roche.
Laurel has a medallion too, but he got with his Tier 2 neutral, level 2 for Rochevay's,
Good for us. Back to back. That's the panic. The last big like stealer. He's having a much better entry for this game.
Still having those four deaths. They have a lot of answers for him.
A difficult one yet again here for vision in this ground finals game.
But better than last time.
It is, but...
It's a few ways to enter these fights, but yeah, Yatoro, he is 4k ahead.
I mean, if they don't manage to turn this game and we go to game three, surely there's something that they can do to ensure that Yatoro is just not getting these sort of starts two times back-to-back here on his SF.
He's making this grand finals look easy so far.
He is, and collapsed now, but he's starting to try to get into no one's head as long as no one rolls top.
The rune spawns bottom.
He's not going to be fortunate for him to collapse a little bit of shield rune.
And with this minus armor, he can actually just go for an immediate tormenter, super efficient when it's a little too.
He gets it on not me one of the better shards that you can get
And for the slightest of vision they don't really have these BKB piercing disables
They have much harder ways to start fights and force fights
It's really has to be around no one and as we've seen multiple times
He has to be careful because once he's committed in those fights
He dies and just so fast to all this physical damage
Hard for them to make these moves aggressively
I mean, they want to try and eat.
Helping the push. They get the set up here with the felons. The two of them.
This is a good connection.
Okay, can they bring him down quickly the once they catch?
The age is gone.
Oh, this is a huge catch. Nightclash gets the sharpshooter still too.
They're trying to bring back up over to help him out.
They look for the red grim, but they're stunned from the center.
Or is there to put a stop to it?
The turtle's going down.
Take it out! Oh, against the kill!
Rue, he'll TP out of there.
A vision.
Finally, being able to take out Yatora in a situation where he had that aegis, a rare
sort of misstep from Yatora where he may have just felt that he was a bit further ahead
than he is.
You know, he's incredibly far ahead, but not that far ahead enough, that he could just
step up with the aegis without a team behind him.
Vision, they'll punish that any day of the week.
The last game when they did this type of move, they had collapse with them.
This time, not having collapse, absolutely crucial.
They see that on the side of vision.
They bring all five heroes with the team's game.
Nice move from notice.
year for him to get involved this game so not having the initiation from the
Earth spirit this time but having the ads on the Underlord actually making the
difference so good timing for them.
So a little bit of a slowdown there from Vision, well needed as well.
If Spirit were allowed to continue to pick up objectives with that Aegis this
game would have fallen into an incredibly dire position but hope's here now for Vision.
Oh, Regen has been fouled. Shark Shitter will connect.
One.
He's around to make it a little less appealing for Spirit to commit for to Khaalys.
Trying to get him out of here won't happen.
There's all this goes down.
Oh, the way.
He'll also get the cool ones and eyeglasses.
Well, at the battle hunger, they should be able to pick up both supports.
He'll try and lift himself away.
Blows him with a blank double kill.
The Yatora.
Speed from Spirit.
No magnetize available.
No underlord gate.
They immediately burn at them.
We'll be able to catch those two supports, but not quirkings.
Instant smoke though, they do want to find another one.
Tannic, showing himself up top.
Armlet is done, gonna go for that, Manta.
I like the build, big pre-stand at this game.
Going for the Armlet, Manta, AC,
playing versus this physical damage,
wants a way to dispell that Corosaphase too.
All makes sense from Tannic.
Can they connect with this squad rotation?
Even if these two do, won't be the easiest of kills.
No, they probably want him to borrow to be in there
if they want to go for a triangle play,
so it looks like it's not gonna be the case.
The 9th class, I like that he buys the shard this game, knows that he needs to be the save for Satanic, or for no one to bail them out of a potential bad scenario.
I like it quite a lot.
No one starting to recover. Has a way to protect himself now too, does have a plate mail, so will be able to potentially survive versus that high burst. They're getting aggressive again.
Ulti's at the ready, they've got Queensgate.
See who no one can find.
Really big slowdown that they were able to do until Yutoro once. Can they find another poor kill?
Yutoro this time does need a BKB this game. Not going to do it before the Shadowblade, but the next item after that will be that BKB versus the Magnetize and the Underlord.
So they do have windows if they get on top of him at the moment, they will kill him.
How's Collapse doing with his build?
Okay, still the Slotis going for that Octurain, then the eventual Blink Shard for the save, but this time also Collapse being slowed down himself.
Not having that same insane performance as he did on the Undying last time.
It's happened slow down.
Won't get any kills with that move.
They do manage to secure tier 1 tower.
They get a rune as well too for no one.
So he's going to have the amp damage because this is the next fight.
And almost a Sheeva's too.
So things starting to come more and more together for the side of vision to take these fights versus Spirit.
Spirit.
I just want to call this.
One in the river. Has got no one by his side if no one wants to fight, but same for three of them.
They're gonna try, but VKB's up, but no one's running for this.
They've got the call-up towards it, while coming up with the right clicks into the cross.
The same's there, though, nine-plus, every track, no one back at the diagram.
Lowell's still on top of it, though. No one will fall. There's no need.
Get the double. They're looking to collapse, but notice he doesn't have enough damage on his own.
He's going to kill this and die, and Yatoro can turn over to a notice.
Rujan's back in will die for that play and may have just set up for Yatora to finish the kill
No, another Tatek needs to say does it matter?
No, he's there
And with the wrap round gets the triple with the finisher and now he looks over on Night Class
Falls fall from Yatora, they take out another
Tatek is going to drive out, but he's surrounded by-
3-D1
He's got to run
Picard has come in with the heals
Under the tier 2 they'll hit with the sharpshooter
He's tempting to dive this, get a few more right clicks in onto these charters
Tracey's up to the high ground.
Should be fine.
Trades coming in, a couple of decent failouts,
attempting to save no one, but still gets chased forward.
They have the lift, they have the infest,
but the chase forward's there.
Not me.
What a catch from this hoodwink.
It's level 16.
He's higher level than all the cores.
Like almost all the cores.
What is going on?
This hoodwink.
He was just in perfect position each and every time
there, to react to 1-9 plus 1-2-2.
Looking to line it up for him again here, they have the retwee, I'm a tricky.
That's the ragehold.
Gonna try and turn to the wall, not me, not me, and the tree's discurring.
He's about to finish, so he has to stop backing away.
I mean, it's level 16, he has 25 armor.
Good luck hitting it with the lifestealer, it's getting redirected to the trees.
Super tanky as well.
Not that he can play aggressively there, Gatoro with the shadow blade, looking for more.
You're the cool, but again, nine plus two and a bitch trying to bail,
it's caused out each and every time.
And the Ghost Sector.
Keep him safe for now, but it's going to come to a finish, Lars in with a crush.
That's going to be notice gone.
Lars considering diving for more hairs.
He pops the BKB, turns the attention over towards 9th class.
The bash is there.
Into the crush.
That's 9th class.
Going to fight back.
He's coming in here from notice.
Look at this back attack.
Look at this attack.
Fight back with a chance.
The Magnetite damage, he's put between all of them.
He's bringing Spirit down.
They've lost 3 of them.
Yutaro gets the Red Ribbon to push them back.
Turns to Walter Giles.
Hopefully enough to kill the Entrantress.
No one knows he has to push forward.
They have to try and put it to Toro now!
It does! It's wearing off towards him!
The roll fought, they're trapping in the pit!
Toro, they've got any more detection out of these don't!
Toro should be fine!
They used all of them, I believe the double dust already popped,
and they noticed, and the support they already used,
that it started to wear off.
What a connection!
It is a buyback from Notice, so it's expensive,
but look at that magnetized damage!
He clipped onto absolutely the whole team!
Some good connections, some good kills.
It was a buyback having to be used to be able to fight back there, but at this point probably pretty worth it
I think yeah, you'll take anything the sororist stops spirit from building up that never seems even more
It's gonna mean the vision are closer and closer to buying time
Let's see Tannick to get to the point where you can carry this game as the live stealer
This game they do have some great scaling in that last game
You can see they don't have that scaling spirit
Of course also has some pretty scaling themselves too with all this
excessive damage that they can amplify.
But a good strike back there, vision.
Getting satanic in a position now where he's got Manta, he's got the hyperstone, getting closer and closer toward these extra armor items for the team.
And definitely seeing the damage amplification on the side of Spirit, but there's all this indication on the side of vision from the underlord in Rubik.
Very, very dead here in the river.
They're looking to snowball with these kills.
It's alright.
Ready to hit hard here with the Silver Edge.
Blinded anyone around the tower, Static.
Oh.
They've got a rage-off, but still heavy damage through it.
Like Vector Dodge off the call,
allows it to get the effect off.
He'll still get put by the bush like another big Vector,
so it's a time to be giving up for a while.
They're going to step just by,
some protection is for no one to notice,
but not enough to keep no one alive.
No one will fall!
They try so hard to protect Zatanic, but Spirit, they know exactly where he is.
And no one, even though he's got Sheebas and Go-Septar, still vulnerable.
There's so much mixed damage.
I mean, it was a very cute attempt to try and survive there with the man to dodge at the call,
but still not enough to get away from Spirit.
It's insane how aggressive they're playing, Owen.
It's 29 minutes, 29 kills.
They are not playing a farming series by any means.
They want to put this pressure on as much as possible on the vision, force them to play reactive.
That's exactly what it is, right? A reactive game from vision, which usually it's them on the aggression.
Nope, it just continues to get caught. Seven deaths now for this Earth Spirit.
Bringing in the mid wave and the bottom wave.
And it's for me, it's for Yatoro. Still only the one death. It's very impressive in this game.
Having a lot of magical damage to go through him.
Looks like he is going to go back for that DKB potentially here too, which is going to protect a lot versus the control.
And he's going to be pretty much invincible with DKB.
He is.
Pinching forward.
Double Shiva's being picked up here, so they have committed onto these.
I mean, they want an Iming. They want to go over this.
Yeah, they want to win these next fights before that DKB comes out from the S.O.
Vision?
Time to try with a smart move.
I'll catch it.
Clean catch to start this one. Not a lot of room to do.
Catch all Solich.
We'll prefer another one on to not make some tanics on top of him.
Alright, they'll get the chase down.
Put him in the pit.
They'll get the two supports.
I think it's the first aggressive move that we see vision actually able to connect with.
It is just the two supports again.
But surrounded good timing.
20 seconds until Roche is going to be smawning.
And they didn't commit the magnetize.
They did use fiends gate, but they have magnetize for the upcoming fight.
They're gonna buy gem as well looking to constrict some of that vision
He's gonna have the hit here with the celebrate the carless not stumbling any sort of charts there
Not me with a buyback coming. I mean, they know what's coming up
Oh, yeah, they do not want to let vision get that opportunity. Oh and not the also
He has a greater healing looks something to always watch in these fights
We did see a crazy one the other day from Lauren offered with that enigma play these lotuses can be
Pretty massive in this game. Look how much he can heal
right 1400 kill that he's going to be able to apply onto somebody plus the Sauras they have
doesn't end up getting them anything here but they were afraid of the potential Rochefly here
getting big pickups i mean lal he's pretty much got the snarl applied done
he can get that relic sent over and they did commit for the double ghost scepters
plus the Shiva so those ghost scepters aren't going to be as good in these next upcoming
builds either. No BKBs for vision just yet. Quite vulnerable versus the disables.
Probably yeah, Kralos gonna come up for underlord BKB for no one eventually at some point.
Keeping this game, it's stuck at 6k. Spirit looking to blow it open here. His vision gonna
be prepared for the move. It looks like they are right now, no one. In prime position to
break the smoke, he is feeding it. Okay, put the scan, no other visions up there.
Maybe for a different angle
Maybe seeing if they can catch St. Sannick a little split from the rest of the team
I mean they know they're up on this high ground
Okay
He's gonna roll in first with the Sheavers
Not three
Another fighter take that ghost to the field
The fiend's gate comes in now
The turns would not be able to jump up the sharp shoot with a fuller pitch there
Two of us don't save by something a little bit of time
But they'll take the dreamstone out
Kill the hookwing cock
That's 90 seconds now, hoodling
That's a pretty massive kill that they find here
They're going to chase for more, Gatoro.
Try for a few car lists.
I'm not getting nearly enough hits off.
Gatoro going more greed.
I like it.
He's going MKB.
It's a very Gatoro style, trying to stall out that BKB as long as possible.
See if this can punish that.
No one.
He's ready to try and look for luck.
The silence is on through the lot.
They're still up the BKB, ready to press if he gets pressured so it's not an easy
hero to chase for.
They have this 5v4 advantage at the moment.
They're looking forward to getting more catches. Take some of these words out as well too at the jam.
Fighting back nicely here, vision. Gonna start that Roche.
They have the stolen Corrosive Haze. Oh, and this could catch Spirit off guard with the pace that this is gonna be able to kill it.
The Spirit's gonna make a move quick if they wanna try and stop this, and they are gonna be fast with it. The smoke's there.
It's only four of them. They do have the MKB though, so heavy hits from the enemy.
Yeah, they're still pretty strong within the 4v5, but they leave their half.
They're going to give up Fredwell, but no one either the court with the telekinesis and their nightclubs trying to save them.
They're going to have to decide if they would not be able to keep up with the life no one could.
It's World.
It's the fight by Sid's, that's the children watching.
He's back.
They're barred down into somewhere, he's out for the 90s.
Sid's only back down with the fight for now.
Back to the rhythm, no one's put up the fight, they're compacted, helps to bring down Laugh, helps to make that collapse.
They're going off.
Go on through.
Knife class will end the zombies for the Jews, they're killing, but it doesn't matter.
Vision, they take the fight, we'll move into the roast.
This ages is that they're doing it Owen
Showing that they can have a fighting chance in this series bringing it to your Toro
You're talking for the greedy play as soon as he gets gone on top of I mean is at risk. Yeah
I mean, I love you know for going the BKB to get the big part hitting items, but that is one of those moments where
Yeah, yeah, the teammates probably picking the lack of BKB
as Dean Gatoro gets completely surrounded and it was so quick with that play right no
one immediately buying back saying hey guys they're gonna throw everything on me you'll
see it here the buyback there is no delay as soon as he goes down back in he knows this
fight is there for vision to take.
And Gatoro's just stuck inside that fiends gate he really can't move has to just try
to stand his ground.
They'll give no one the ages since he did use that buyback before I think Stokanik
is starting to feel like he's in a state where he doesn't need that second life either. He has the AC,
each people is starting to build up also from all these fee snacks.
Vision now. Here we go with a clear advantage in this game. Finally getting some real good control
in this matchup after a very tough game one and a rough kind of first 30 minutes but now
with that play setting the score even on the net worth and getting that kill right not me
using the buyback earlier dying it causes this type of chain effect that comes in
here for vision and maybe trying to get another kill Yatoro they're gonna find him
we'll be able to play if they do find real one
big rules from vision how much do they want to go for agonims nearly done on
satanic 500 going he's got the point booster one of the three mansters versus
these turret heroes just jumping inside of them it gives you both of the
different lives essentially on this life stealer to play with getting aggressive
again Titanic start to beat on these towers for spirit they'll get it up
momentum they will now it does feel like though you're gonna might need that
VKB for that next fight I think so I don't know if he's gonna want to turn
up to feed has to before that VKB's done now maybe he just goes for the
satanic because he's packing some items like that's some slots where you
got to put it in it's just gonna replace the mask of madness with the
BKB, we'll have to see what the choice is from Yatoro.
Right strike back here from Vision.
Now having a jamper themselves through Kallus also.
Getting close to a BKB himself.
Can't write off the enchantress' scaling.
Does have this hurricane pike.
His damage is going to start to build up.
Such an important moment for Vision to be able to find this connection.
A hex soon to be picked up also for notice.
So they're going to have these chain disables.
Versus the Shadowfiend
Go for your Torah every single time. They seem in the fight. He is probably came in number one
Laurel has been able to sneak himself out because he does have that BKP, but as we said your Torah
He is stuck in the fights
Anemies items they aren't quickly flaring in like you said that axe is done the basher started to get queued up next
Only the victory around the mid
He's trying to jump away but they're ready to drop the fiends gate. Lock him down here.
No one's missing a spell at all. Everything's landing. Not me. He cannot. This gate notes
is surely there. The A-core shot coming in. Satanic, ready to help finish the job.
After 70 again. A long time here to not have the full five man up on spirit.
Just on even footing, you're seeing how much stronger vision is. Sure, there's no
gold leafy you can feel much stronger their line up is now at this point and
having this ages to gonna start beating on high ground with the banner
Itoro has the Ogre or the Nitro Hammer picked up here so you can see he does
need this DKB for that next upcoming fight. A Hexo is picked up so he could
get chain stun before he gets it off as well. I'm sorry Tanya, he was just taking the barrage.
Closing the question to them, how do you push them off?
Now he's still dead for 35 seconds, they need their entire squad.
I just have to sit back and watch this MiBRAX fall.
Vision, get away with the objective, no interruption.
Very good connections, Yitoro, BKB's done, he sells the Mask of Madness,
doesn't have that life steal to stand his ground,
but he has the magic resistance versus this heavy disable that's coming in.
I love that window in 30 seconds where the Aegis expires if they want to try and strike
then.
I think that's probably the biggest move they could do, right?
You smoke, you look for the Urspher, and if you kill him, you're going to have a massive
number advantage since he's not going to have that buyback to reach on into the fight.
Initiations still going to be crucial for both sides.
Flaps also now.
Switching the build again, right?
Now he's got an agonist in this game, so looking to build up in the longer teamfights, in particular with these decays.
Mission, catch again, I'm ready with the setup.
He looks towards the wall, forced to BKB out in the middle, he will get the call for it.
Only on tonight's loss, they'll try to take back very quickly, but down to Miotorra.
Hext is onto Miotorra, Static turns towards the SF, Miotorra put the man to back away.
Now Triton turns down to the ground, the infest comes in to try and save through Carlos, allows to Carlos to get the BKB up,
He just didn't die from Satanics. He didn't try to continue the chase, but I'll come to you with the Christ.
Now we're going to have to be so careful. They bought back for this. Yatoro?
Yatoro? Yatoro? Yatoro?
They're still alive! They take down the four of them! All of them just left the line!
Holy crap!
What is this outplay?
A save play is for the spirit coming up with the five-nights in Yatoro,
driving back up to the fight on barely even 10% HP.
I think he gets saved from a soul rip in the midst of things.
I don't know how he survived.
It's just dancing on the fray of the fight.
What a play from Yatoro, and the buyback from his team.
Oh, he pushed it to the limit.
Yes, there, Yatoro.
And it pays off.
And confidence from the team to be joined collapsed.
His collapse is just building up
that strength of the decays.
And this is insane outplay.
Yatoro literally played with, what, 10% of the fight?
And even less.
For what?
For 50% of the fight is what?
You're watching this fight.
This is insane.
All eyes on Yatoro of how he's playing on the outskirts and allowing his tanky force to give him that information
I mean after that he trusts so much and his teammates here even at the start with Lyle and Rue going down
Lyle and Rue with these buybacks say hey the fight is not over we're getting back in there and Yatoro he says
Okay, he's ready to turn continue the fight he does not run
We'll see you here
Absolutely insane
Look at him just standing his ground
I think this is SoulRip, right? It saves him here? It is. So the last second SoulRip at the last.
At the same time the damage was coming in. Absolutely. And Yutaro says, right, if you save me like that, I've got to save the state of the game.
Ready to find the angle to get back in. Very much knowing that Lala and Rui are going to be able to live long enough to provide Yutaro the chance to get the damage out and allow Spirit to find the team wipe.
There's a reason these two teams are in the grand finals.
You're seeing the display from them.
And you have to feel it.
I mean, Satanic's like, you've got to be kidding me.
How is he alive?
It's not what can you do.
What can you do?
That's a what can you do kind of situation.
Yutaro's doing this.
Unbelievable stuff.
Satanic now finished up for Yutaro.
So he does have that secondary life elapsed.
Surviving that whole fight, too, has the BKB.
That was, I could rewatch that replay 15 times,
because what an absurd team fight.
from both sides in particular, but my god, the Toro.
Yeah, and those are the kind of moves
you've got to be making as a carry to win an international.
Truly knows they shit's all right.
Absolutely Owen.
Number 26 now for a backup to this 4K lead.
That's a bit interesting too.
Don't see that one get picked up too often.
Doesn't take the shadow raise applies a tax.
I don't mind it.
And I'll tell you why, because that little bit of a change
can sort of catch you off guard.
When you're trying to kind of hold back on the rate
and the infest, it might surprise you.
That little bit of a difference on the requiem timing,
it could trip up even the best of carries.
I don't think I've seen anybody take this talent
if it's kind of the other one as a carry.
And these then sort of moments again
in the international grand finals
to do stuff that's gonna be just that
little bit of a difference in feel and vibe
that catches the enemy cause off guard.
This is such an amazing game.
Best game of the tournament so far here for me.
40 minutes in, super even.
Both teams absolutely with a chance as much as that fight was phenomenal for your Toro did obviously mean that they had to use
It was a lot of buybacks
It was this can be punished by vision a buyback feel like it's gonna be the name of the game this one right
Earth spirit did use the last buyback ends of winning the fight this time
It's bear it with the buyback so could see it go the other way again
That's the right afterwards as impressive as it is to win the team fight in that fashion
It's not the way you always want to do it right
The plan is never to sort of let you carry get so it's sort of as close to death the edge of death as the situation with that viitoria
That's not always plan a
And now also next time round if they're able to push him over the edge that little bit more the outcome could be vastly different
Level 25 starting to get hit life stealer level 25 under lord shadow team and the slaughter and the undying
So three level 25 cores on the side of spirit so much money on Stankins. He's got pretty much 5k gold
Because he has to eat the aggonyms and he's still considering what he wants to do if he wants to.
Or a damage or a fast one. They're gonna see a Toro and he's panicking.
They're trying to get him straight over the wall.
He's down, but keep it going. He's on the call. Hasn't been in control here.
On towards Satanic. A head-tabbing Toro.
He's trying to push. Panic?
He's trying to set the Toro.
But Satanic's bringing the Toro down.
Oh my God! It's down!
It's down! It's Toro's down.
This time, Satanic reigns to breathe.
Ready to go over the wall.
Galactus tries to defeat Demi TPL.
The damage is turned.
It's turned.
They try to get the double.
Oh, and just like that, might be able to push toward the base.
The Undying Response does have the Ceaseless Thirds available,
but no Yatoro for 80 seconds.
I mean, it's always going to be the difference, make a right.
If they could kill Yatoro at the start of the fight,
that's a huge difference.
A much different outcome to these team fights.
And ninth class now, I think this is the third time
I've seen him be able to steal Corosapaze.
So that extra physical damage, it makes the difference.
Not me, my try for a steal.
You don't get the chance, they were ready for it.
They had to outplay pretty hard in that last fight on Spirit with the buybacks, but now truly seeing Satanic able to stand his ground
He's able to just stick on top of that shadow feed has the damage
That's a big ages to refresh your shard as well in nine class honestly do not steal another spell keep that corrosive
Pays it's probably the best one you can get this game
Yeah, cuz if they get that sort of situation where they can just surround the SF
That skips just gonna make that situation so much more easier. They will kill him so quickly
With how much say Danik has ready to take him down
Especially when he's going for obviously with this Daedalus next he wants to make sure that he pops rage
He's this SF and your Torah is just dead
You know, there's no gonna be situation where your Torah can stand and trade back against the life stealer with a Daedalus
That also was a fight with spirit
As you said the triple four level 25s not busy with the triple four 25s now
No one does have that magnetized available for himself
Static.
Two seconds till tutorial respawns. They will respect it. They'll start packing away.
True.
We find some sort of grab.
I see them. Great work, Racy.
Shari's creeping the blink out, but Lali's caught out on the low ground. Has to put the beat.
He turns, everyone's in a low. But no one gets the beat.
He'll be able to substitute for a pump. He gets the napkin and no one's gone.
He gets the core control on the watch.
Static. Static. Plus the banter.
Who's considering diving for more? We'll hold back.
They don't want to chase on high ground. There's this tombstone.
Still a bit dangerous.
And for one.
Flaps.
It's a 4 at 9,200 HP.
That's a lot of health.
They have so much percent damage now.
I mean, collapse is what he wants to still kind of go for now.
Chasing them down.
Nick.
Also the BKB on the Carlos.
Not me.
He tries to get the grab on the satanic,
but the satanic's ready to turn.
Straight away, he went back on the fall.
He'll invest over the wall.
It's not me, it's not me.
He's gone.
The satanic he closed the gap on the yatora yatora.
He has to separate himself from the silver.
He tries to turn.
The path may go.
He went on towards the life stealer.
He killed off Night Class.
Notice though, he's ready to have the goal, Ro!
God damn, get the goal out of the open, but they take the Aegis out of the hands of Satanic, they breeze down, notice!
Can they deal with Satanic a second time though?
Nine-class, ready to reach back in to help out, so Satanic can bring Collapse down.
They may have got the Aegis, but again, Satanic comes out on top.
Buybacks after buybacks after buybacks, they've got the numbers to go for it here.
Collapse is actually going to go for it himself.
I mean, isn't going to buy back and force them into it.
They could do big damage. There's three heroes dead on Spirit without the buyback.
Hitting forward with the catapults.
They won't be able to retrieve that gem. It does get picked up from the courier.
So they want to try and push for the third set.
They don't know that the buyback... Okay, the buyback's actually back up.
Here, four. Rue on the axe.
Okay.
But no buyback.
On low.
Go back up. Get the data list finished. Take the outpost. Take the second cure to consider their options.
They can look for the aggressive play.
No one is respawning. Might just look for the jump onto Yotaro. He's got BKB at the ready.
I'm gonna do after control.
Love this Daveness Pickup. Not something you always see as an item of choice for the Life Stealer.
But in this matchup, in this game, it's the perfect pick up.
He was debating which one he wants, but he wants to just be able to rip through Yotaro.
Because Yotaro doesn't have butterflies, so he can't just go for this hard right click damage item.
Yotaro is starting to think about going for that butterfly.
I mean, that's the thing. He sees that.
There's going to be this window where ideally Vision wants to bring the fight to Yatora before the butterflies online.
When that gets picked up, things get a little more complicated again.
I feel like Vision has a window right now when this underlord respawns to potentially just go for the mega creeps.
I mean for sure, they know that Spirit's buyback situation is going to be in shambles.
Nobody really having the buyback available on Spirit. Yeah, Yatora, he's going to spend up.
Gastu needs every little bit as we can see they need to outplay in these teamfights on the side of Spirit
And maybe that signing will be the difference, mate. Sure. There's the Daenus there, but Yatoru has got the butterfly to respond
He's got that evasion. Let's see if he sees it. He's now also good to see the lights here
I mean that maybe himself too. He has the luxury to switch up his build, Satanic and he's sitting with 5.6k gold in the bank still
Okay, so can make alterations smoking up spirit
They're probably trying to catch vision off guard before this is five-man unit revision
They're running as five even with no one noticed
I love that he's joining him with this because he has the hex he has that it's disabled to potentially just blow up the door
And we just have to be aware spirit
zero buybacks at their availability at the moment
No one a bloodstone a cheese multiple lives a refresher now for the underlord the fight is going to be so
So far tonight, they're gonna be long and messy.
There's gonna be so many of these pits.
No one.
Gonna try and check out the situation.
Now we'll turn straight with the cross because if that missed the call comes in.
Yatoro bringing no one down, let it take it out.
He'll jump forward, looking more slow, but he has to start backing away as the range
comes to an end.
Yatoro slides forward, wants to chase vision out of the base.
The goal is set to keep notice, protected.
He'll jump forward, over with nine blasts, bushwhack to lock down the rubik.
He'll try and lift himself away.
continue to chase, nine glass out, arrest the vision, they're out of it.
Spirit is so good at recognizing how they can fight and no one not giving respect to the damage.
I think he thought, because, oh I have been fast, I have cheese, I have bloodstone,
I have enough to be able to take through all this.
No you do not my friend, the damage from Yatoro is there.
I mean you maybe underestimate the fact that Yatoro has this butterfly
and the damage has to stepped up that much more with that pickup.
The fact that he spent up, you know, for going the buyback gold
so that he could have this next big pickup for the defense.
Look how much damage she did, right? 5600 from the saddle feed in just a four second window.
A lot of DPS on.
Continue to deliver, 50 minutes in, just a 7k lead for the side of vision.
Spirit showing they can fight even without the buybacks in that fight.
They want to go for more.
Full minute without 9 class.
Talk to you Toro.
I mean if a hero does show they can't talk to him.
Satanic, a little bit harder to grab, but the other heroes for sure.
And you do see Satanic.
He queues up the MkB, immediately.
It's going to be needed.
And what's going to be?
What? Arm out for the MkB?
Absolutely.
That's the answer at least.
Ah well, let's try to play with our faves boots or is that?
No, you need to do it in no way.
Yeah.
And this game.
So close here. Both teams playing so beautiful.
Execution, absolutely everything here at this point. As you saw, Gukala did turn to pick up some of these Aeon discs.
But there's always the answer. We've seen this nullifier from Laurel a couple of times now. Really tripping them up.
That's why you didn't see no one selling that Ghostsefter. It's been some time recently, of course, but, yeah, they have the answer for these Ghostsefters in quite a few moments.
I think they'll just go for a quick little tormentor here on the side of Spirit.
This slide needs to go on its...
Alright. Pretty decent one.
And on a bad one.
Hanging on to the greedy Stilford Roo.
Looking to still get that increased greater healing lotuses.
How many of these do we have across the board here?
It's just... okay it's two.
So Spirit, have these extra heals to pump into your Toro vision,
not having those lotuses at the moment.
And damage bottom. Oh and ooooh that's a big one.
And they still have the bottle right so they can ensure that they hold it for the prime
moment in the fight. No one's going to keep it.
No one's, okay. He won't sift right. I wonder if maybe they would have given it to Satanic
but I'll give you the case. No one of course has this Ursprit. Still does a crazy amount
of damage. As long as he doesn't die at start of fight. So he needs to be a little
bit more careful how he just rolls in. Either that or Knight class has to be there for
for the lift bailout if he does roll for that one.
Because that is the thing, right?
No one, he does have to be the one that initiates.
Nobody else is really gonna be going in first out of the line.
They can use this just to fiends get to give vision,
to give the information, that's the key thing.
So for me, no one in that last one,
you kind of just yoloed without vision.
I think next one, you throw the fiends
get at least to get some information,
and then you can maybe pick and choose
if you do want to roll in.
As you see, they have the damage one.
They will blow him up in one shot.
We will just play call him.
Laura will just parosa basic.
I don't know what Sphere is now. It is the gate.
He's trying to start things off. Collapse.
Lot of damage building up. Look at the corner of the side.
Me too.
Katora is seeing if there's going to be an angle to get in on this to try and help collapse out.
They're trying to wrap around, but collapse. He's already gone.
Satanic takes him out very quickly.
He's got Cecil's Third though. He did use Buyback before,
but he can't rejoin it to the fray with these boots travel.
Box two in fact. It's okay. TP right into the middle of the gate.
TST. He probably tells his team,
guys don't help me. I know I don't have Buyback,
but I've got the Cecil's Thirds built in.
Roshan is back on both teams. Take this down very quickly.
Oh, a big steal actually. Didn't notice this one.
9th class has the Tombstone with the Shard.
So even he can bail out and move in different ways.
Now he can lift, pull them out. Tombstone protect.
No one is well tuned for these scenarios.
Vision, they're gonna try and see if they can get a grab outside on the map.
map kind of blocking that they're doing the road should potentially get a catch
on top of the word the palace stepping forward trying to protect his ward
we'll get it up and they're gonna top the tombstone here very aggressive just
sort of hold this area and make it that much more difficult for spirits
to try and get anywhere near to the road yes we'll start the roast
we're gonna look for a wraparound plate to get over here it's dangerous
The try, bottom to strong rune and arcane rune, not me, in a very impressive position
to give some information.
He's super deep but he's kinda getting away with it.
I like that play from notice, tanks the sharpshooter just so they don't see how low that roaches
even.
And now satanic.
Let's get this Aegis, has the nullifier himself as well, he'll just stick onto some
of these pesky targets.
These go-sectors won't be as strong now at this point.
Hang on to a lot of gold here. He has not really increased too much in the last few moments
I mean, what is the item he's can see he's thinking about I saw him cute like two different things, so
What thorn can catch them off guard here, maybe he does just do some type of armor item
See what the option is gonna be for Laurel
Because he's gonna he's been just been an axe he can be billifier for 30 minutes
He came in
I mean, just look great.
Now, Blink, same.
Ages for four minutes, vision looking to hunt.
Spirit, looking to just avoid and just play for the high ground team.
They have to protect this last set of racks.
They don't want to get caught outside by any means in the fight.
Very close to having all their buybacks back online.
How long?
Not pretty much happy.
Yeah, now 300 gold left for the last, if you can't find that.
Just need one kill on the fighter, a couple of these creeps that are coming into the base.
Go watch out for those, because we've been seeing so far this game. Both teams very ready to come in with buybacks to throw extra lives into the action.
Refresher shard, it is on no one now, so it does have insane amounts of magnetize if you can keep it spreading, it will last forever.
See what they can do with the push-up vision.
Racks, slowly but surely starting to fall.
All this pops the BKB himself, and we'll get, we'll have to deal with that nullifier so far.
Just trying to see what he can force out of Spirit.
Holdings are dropping me. He's doing a decent amount here.
It's going to get caught by the call, but the two stone saves will be there.
Magical ties are starting to spread.
And they have to start backing off. I mean, the Carlos has pretty much just taken these racks down on his own.
They're going to get the backers.
They can't get him off the racks that the Barracks have taken.
A mega creep out here. 14 vision.
Super clever way to go for the push. Not so ecstatic at all.
Just, okay, you want to go for the Carlos and go for it.
Because it's a hard call to make right now.
You don't want to over commit onto the enchantress,
the same giant that's the enchantress taking your birds I like this much better
right instead of knowing to see all over all again play it slow you don't need
the force too hard there spirit let's see if they come back from megas we saw
one it's part of it that I think that's the only time it was done right and I
wanted I was in a long time I was talking backstage they were actually
saying in multiple ti's we have not seen many mega creep come back so spirit
can do this in this type of way especially especially nowadays when it
seems harder than ever oh yeah hydro breath now started get picked up to
Toro looking for that extra bit of damage to go through these taking course
25s across the board even the support started to get it. We're getting towards these later stages all in three minutes until tier five neutrals
This is still has ages for two minutes. They want to take advantage of it
Night class
Hang on to this tombstone. That's an evil with the mega creeps
It's going to be hard to sort of push this game over the edge.
It was able to buy back to the spirit, have available.
Lol, he can't be in a run.
They've put their hands on the Colossus.
Colossus, he died.
Brick could do.
He'll be able to get to the tombstone.
Satan is going to have to use the rage though to take the tombstone out.
We'll succeed.
Brick Colossus out of the fight.
They've got Colossus.
They did lose to Colossus in return.
And it lifted out.
One pass to able to take him away to safety.
Magnetize is building up.
He's keeping it going.
Yatora is getting very, very low here off to the side.
They'll heal him up and provide him with the Lotus. He'll heal back up with the Satanic.
Pieback did have to come out here though from collapse to try and continue this hole.
So back up and reset. They're happy with that.
Kind of magnetized plus the mega creeps were literally killing Yatorov.
Each and every Pieback that they can get out is a step closer to being able to close this game to up vision.
Oh, he lost a little bit away his career there, a bit of bolt.
One minute left on Aegis.
He said, yeah, Bi-Backs have been the name of the game, so the lab's not having it.
He will, fortunately, though, 30 seconds.
He does have Cecil's third, so he has that kind of built-in Bi-Back for himself.
That's a rough one there for Lall, though.
Spending up all the heart and losing the courier
so won't even get the benefit of taking this risk to put the Bi-Back to the side.
He lost his heart.
It's gone. The courier sniped.
That's three minutes without it.
That was in the toilet, really sad.
I'm looking the saddest 59 inventory, but you're looking it without that career, of course.
Lines being drawn, satanic tank, let the lades force in.
We've got 50 seconds until tier 5 neutrals.
They could set up for a potential gank to fight one of the Spirit Heroes
when they are looking for those neutrals as well.
Since they do have the fiends game,
a lot of global potential.
and the buybacks. It's something to keep looking at here. They're going to have so many numbers on the side and vision.
Still not in too much of a rush vision. They can take this
bit of the game pretty safely.
They don't have to jump high ground anytime soon. Just finish this next round of items. This will now force the Tannick.
He is six-slotted.
Getting harder and harder for Yatora to play as part in his teamfights.
He's done a great job up until this point, but against the mega creeps and against the items now
They're online for satanic the matchup's not easy to play because he's all the damage well for visit
There's a lot of fixed damage coming a collapse. They get the setup roll forward straight away. They're in on a collapse
He's out five back still on cooldown. He's the third. Okay, so he's got this final life really
Toro
Looking for an angle to catch nine class but the concept is there
They're trying to take fights on their own terms on Spirit Vision, they're trying to take fights on their own terms as well too with the patience as they're taking, stepping back 60 minutes, let's see what they find.
One minute until the heart is available again for Lyle, and we've got to keep ours on your tour, it's got a lot of money.
So just sort of a question of how he's going to shift up the build.
See them?
What?
They're chasing them outside in base.
They get the call of war.
They have the damage though.
They're going to try and focus on first B.
This keeps him safe for years to be getting it.
All the way to the left.
They're on top of him.
The heals though.
Yatora backs up to bring in full HB.
This time, Yatora wins the battle against Saitani.
It gets done.
The base, the creeps.
The creeps are doing it.
They go back to the front.
They might just do it.
The TP back to the hold.
They'll get the creeps off the base in time, they'll kill up to Kales, but my goodness, that was a little bit too close for comfort, that's all.
The Ancient pulling incredibly long.
Oh, and they used the flip as well too, there can just be a position where they just buy back and all in for it.
We'll see if they do something in line with that.
Anybody got a Crimson Guard on the side of Spirit, they need one desperately right now.
They're gonna have to make that purchase.
On me?
On bottom.
Over the call, they've got enough to burst through in 9-class though, he's been noticed by his side here, we'll get the lift up, through.
Can he finish 9-class off the battle? I'm just stacking up, he will!
Grape you're picked up here.
It's absolutely required, there's the Crimson for collapse.
Okay, they've got some of these tools, but look at them waiting, they can just fiendscape in and just haul in.
They really could.
And I think they might just fiend so...
What am I? Damage to Toro.
But is it enough?
This game is absolutely insane.
Tan, Spirit really turned this around.
That's been mega creeped.
Their A should fall down to nearly 10% of his HP.
No fortification left for Spirit.
Who's got the Crimson? It's collapsed too.
So it's a very strong Crimson guard.
If he pops the flesh golem, he pops the Crimson,
it's going to block almost all the damage
that they're going to be able to dish through it.
Crimson also purchased from Notice.
Both teams.
And on the plus side for Spirit,
It's only really Satanic that can tear through the ancient.
Nobody else is taking too crazy or...
Sure, that's true.
So if they keep tracking, keep hold of the lifestealer,
they'll have a chance at keeping their ancient alive.
Oh my God.
It is gonna start healing, so it looks like they can't just fully all in for it here just yet.
Rue is also looking at the positioning.
Rue is like, okay, I'm the BKB Pearson call.
I'm the answer if they do try to go for it here.
Collapses the answer to protect your Toro.
Swift blink, Divide Rapier, Stygian Desolator with the Audacious.
Oh my goodness, my God.
I gotta stand back up.
I mean, these heroes, something we're gonna die and eat, like, two, three hits.
Yeah, I gotta stand back up.
Like, yeah, you gotta watch out for the Toros moves.
Level 30's been hit as well, too.
I mean, if they get their way out of the situation
in the Grand Finals of the International,
this is gonna be insane.
Frontier Spirit, it still looks like they're absolutely against all the odds there.
Because Vision, they must feel so close
to being able to get this game to victory.
Two minutes left on the glyph. The lines are drawn. All the lanes started to get forced in.
There we go.
Vision ready to put an end to this game too.
Ken Small makes not me trying to shove out the waves. Mike got caught.
He is.
They've got him in the hex.
And he does not. Oh he does. He has to go for buyback.
So not me.
We'll be ready to return.
Pins have gone in. Backdoor is gone.
And here it is.
They're getting the gate on towards Slava.
They get the lift up and force out the BKB.
Nitorin ready to present himself.
Turns up.
Active Ties. They're going here by no one. Big damage.
Also, no one to have to roll away.
Active Ties spreading.
The escape. I mean, Vision's approaching.
Hit, Tori's getting very low. He's going to put the BKB.
He has to heal up on the back of the creeps.
He's had to use that pretty early.
So he's heading ready to now close it on towards him.
The pit dropped down onto the wall.
Yotaro, roll ball for no one. Yotaro caught it.
That's done. He's done.
This game, look at the VR.
Reaction from A6 Bones.
Vision's close-up game two.
It's one to one here in the graph file!
My god, what a game two!
Oh, and we've got three more games potentially!
What a step up from Vision, very much showing the game one!
It was just a draft, this game.
What the hell is this strategy?
This game two, they turn up, they come to play.
Shaw at the start, we see Spirit popping up again.
Yatora is SF, looking to get out of control.
And still a very impressive KDA, but it doesn't matter.
team vision with the itemization with the plays this time around and the recovery no one was having
a very slow start on his airspirit but at the end he had to be the one to go in heaven notice very
much making the calls of when to start the fight and they chose the right times they made the
right progression they get the win it's one to one here with team vision taking game two
everything was so perfect for vision it all ended up coming together for themselves and we
the game. I'm so impressed
with how they were able to
keep their composer, especially
when it comes to pushing high
ground. When you get into this
position, you're pushing it. You're
at the advantage and you think
it should be easy, but at the
end of the day it isn't and too
many times at once if you go
all in that game slips out of
your hand. So massive props to
vision how they tackle that.
So I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to go ahead and
I'm going to go ahead and I'm
going to go ahead and I'm
they tackled that. Yeah Spirit just got a little bit cocky and it only takes a
couple of fights before Earth Spirit's inevitability kicks in. He starts getting
the levels up to 25. It's nearer and nearer and once it arrives you've got some
big problems that you do not have answers for. The lifestealer as well,
right? I mean he did get countered online pretty hard and it was a very
difficult start for Satanic but as this game progressed it looked like it
was impossible to fight into this. I mean this fight here was so beautiful
because Team Spirit created a situation out of nowhere
essentially, but this is where it started to look really good for team vision. This is where
it started even though they lost this fight, where I started to think, oh wow, I don't know how Dyer's
gonna win this. I mean, if it takes all of this for you to win a team fight, you know the situation
isn't really great because there's only so many times you can have, you know, the aetoro greatest
player in the world probably do these things. There's only so many times he's going to be
able to do it in a team fight. But honestly, like, I think what's really cool here, and
we talked about earlier in this tournament, but the resilience that they show, right,
They're getting countered in lanes. They're playing up against all this pressure, but they're just biting their time
They're trying to contest whatever moments they can find whatever small opening they can see and eventually team vision managed to find like
Just enough of these like trades in these early game fights where the game drags on and spirit can't close the game out
And that allows them to have a pathway back into the game once a panic finally finishes up all the items that he needs
Noticed on that underlord to me was the absolute standout this tournament. I'm not just this tournament with this game
I mean those circles of death that he was drop dropping in the late game with the refresher
It felt like there was no way to navigate the way that team spirit one that beautiful fight in the triangle
They can't do that when the ground is essentially denied from them
He wouldn't allow them to roam around and look for openings and that percentage-based damage was really cooking as the game progressed
He helped his composure. He found openings
He got that triple kill in the bot lane when spirit overextended and he to me was the rock for team vision
Yeah, I mean they made a very specific choice whenever they swap this axe to five and I'm dying to offline
You're saying hey our scaling is gonna be a little bit worse
We've got a lot of heroes to clump up in one spot
We've got one shadow feet who's gonna deal all the damage and you can see is more and more time passes that there is risk
Involved in that you try to temple them. You've got a little sloppy
I think the key word Mira said earlier is trades you're taking trading three for three two for two four for four
This is not good for you. You need to win quickly
You don't want to be swapping resources back and forth vision the more gold
to get the harder it gets for
you and that is the
environment they want to
play in. At the end of the
day, there was another level
from vision coming out. They're
always able to stand the
bleeding in this game. Those
trades you guys mentioned, but
when it came to being able to
take mega creeps, that's the
part for me. This sort of
stands out above the rest
because pushing high ground has
always been a big conversation.
How do you do it in modern
Dota and how do you do it
comfortably, and it wasn't
really comfortable for vision.
Spirit and it feels like they've all in and now it's a make or break
They end up getting mega creeps because it's to call us they put it the front line
This enchantress which ends up being such a late game monster insane here and you wonder and how do you start dealing with and why?
Are we sort of looking more towards her and how to call us later almost seamlessly?
I mean to be honest they have pretty decent answers like when the entrance amped and set hitter a few times
She just exploded but luckily my class is stolen a tombstone
And when the tombstones next to her she's sitting next to the tombstone every time a stuff comes up to hit her
She has the potential of just hiding the tombstone and that's not to be scared of any sort of counter initiation
Right Rubik link list any sort of roll in with an infested nakes
It's super scared to stand there and try to hit the tomb down
So this steel honestly is what's secured on the mega creep so huge props to mine cost as well for securing the high ground
Yeah
It shows a lot of in the moment presence of mine to be like we're not going to siege them the typical way our carry is not
Going to hit the high ground
That's not an intuitive thing to do.
And so to me, it says they've recovered completely from game one.
The nerves are gone.
I think especially at the start of this game, you see a little bit of that
shaking is still, but as more time passes, they start to win fights.
I think they regain that confidence, that belief in themselves.
They remember what got us here in the first place.
And that is incredible individual skill.
It's excellence from all their players.
And they show that and they bring it back.
I think that is a very hard to especially against a team that is as
terrifying as Team Spirit is.
And yeah, ultimately vision were able to do that for themselves.
We see the run up that you know vision has been throughout the upper bracket here and they really take it to spirit
But the only game wasn't necessarily that easy again
We talk about it spirit getting their hands on this lot
It was incredibly impactful throughout that ti run to and this time around it didn't really feel like it was much different
But I'm just gonna give us some more information on how that happened
Thank you now yeah, Laura had a bat a lot of bad matchups today
Almost every single game that he played he had to play losing matchups
which made his lane tough, but in this game he had an incredible performance here.
I love how he went for this trade here leading up to the gank that was coming.
He pops his salve knowing that the gank is about to happen and he's gonna run into this fight low HP,
but knowing that no one has no mana.
So when Rue ends up rotating here and they go for this pressure,
he's gonna get a full healing salve under the threat of enemy heroes, which is crazy.
And this TP by Nank class, which was fantastic, but unfortunately for him,
he barely killed the axe and he ends up giving Laurel a double kill as a result.
So long a surround with this game a little bit. No pun intended as these teepees at the top lane sprinting all the way towards no
And now he lowers the armor here of no one and what happens next is not me
He's gonna shoot his acorn that's gonna bounce a bunch of times doing a ton of physical damage to no one
So despite after getting killed in the lane for no one his next immediate rotation was shut down by Laurel as well
Due to this great rotation now gets blink dagger. He goes to gank the safe lane very easy ultimate blink crush is tons of
physical damage against these supports.
They've really got to worry about this.
And the next couple of minutes was them basically
just controlling the map,
not letting their puns get much done.
So what Earth Spirit does is he uses his spells
to clear the creep wave, but immediately afterwards,
their Slardar on top of him, stunning him,
and having huge movements here,
which means very, very easy for him to block the roll here.
Laurel just absolutely demolished the mid game.
He gave a lot of control for his team
and that allowed the Shadowfiend who had tons of net worth
to just stay on top for such a long time in this game.
So excellent early game for Team Spirit,
but in the end they didn't win by enough.
Thank you, Purge, breaking it all down.
And I love this so much because it really, again,
emphasizes just what vision we're
able to do for themselves.
Not only get a foot back into this game,
but to close it out, to become victorious
after you see what the slaughter is,
what this new sense of a hero can really push you to
and the limits that you're tested between.
And it also gives that little bit of advantage
when it comes to a draft because often,
teens would be worried about a slaughter.
They've had to focus on banning it.
And despite Slardar getting up to a fantastic start that Pudge showed us there, they were still able to beat it.
And now you feel a little less worried about having it banned and a little bit more confident.
And if you guys want to run it, by all means.
Yeah, I think that's such a massive part of how these series go.
It's not just the actual strength of the heroes, but how they feel.
Are you scared of Slardar? When they pick it, how does that make you feel?
These are genuinely really important aspects of the game.
Because now, like you said, when they pick Slardar, they feel like we have answers for it.
We know the scaling is not very good or this or that the other there are so many factors that play into these drafts and
Each time you get a win like this it instills a lot of confidence in you
I think also in regards to the draft this underlord has to have shifted up in priority
And this is a hero team spirit
We're also running but the way that notice made it look as a means to hold out the game to later
Denied deny team fights just by just throwing those pits out over and over again
This is the hero to look at in my opinion for the next game. Yeah
I mean you mentioned earlier. He was absolutely a rock for them. I think what's really fascinating though is like when we're looking at this draft
It's really hard to see a good carry thing like we don't really we can't identify
What is the hero to slot in here traditionally?
Nakes is not a very good hero against slaughter and SF but due to the items that he buys he goes for Manta
He goes for AC he goes for radiance he buys armlet all these items are giving him armor
It's giving him evasion. He's just tanking up and he's buying all the right items
And I feel like recognizing that in the draft and going for a hero that's traditionally not good matchup
But because he buys the right items he becomes that is really really cool. Yeah, it's a it's a great point
And I think it's a testament to how in Dota sometimes you're almost
Picking items then you are picking a hero like you look at a draft and you know you need certain items a classic
Example is like you see their heroes
You know you need a pipe and so you pick pipe you pick any hero that can buy it naturally in his item bill
And I think I totally agree. I think that's sort of what they did this game
and it's ingenious and creative and it's just speaks to how high level these two teams are that have the awareness of that
They're not just looking at the matchups on terms of a here-to-here basis
But understanding that items can fix those problems. It's it's it's very good. Yeah, it's a statement to say we're gonna
Choose a weaker lane and win later on in the game because life so absolutely had the scaling that game
But that early game was really rough and while teams fear did end up losing it
I think they have to account for the way that the supports rotated and connected to Laurel the way that the pressure was ongoing on
No, and this is two games in a row. He's had four people in his lane like minute eight
Yeah, I think for both sides of this game has like a lot of conversation efforts
I don't think you walk away as vision thinking like oh, this is great. Let's just keep doing this
I hope he ran out for 20 minutes and just getting absolutely slammed them will hopefully say that it will carry us eventually
So from their side, there's that conversation to be had how do we like secure up our early game?
I think for spirit because they're able to play so many different styles of Dota
It also is a question of do we want to continue with this like absolute ramp up
Do we want to keep trying to like overload them with so many plays that happening at once that they cannot?
Play or do we try to fall back on a bit more scaling ourselves? Yeah, sorry
I think that's I tend to believe it should be somewhere in the middle like I think for spirit
You don't want to go full into pressure mode because I think that's what this game is
They're full into pressure
They're all committed on you play early game temple and the late game is very bad for them once the items come out
I think something in between still good lanes
But better scaling so that you have at least a chance if there are some trades and things aren't totally clean because a maculate
Gameplay in a TI finals is just somewhat unreasonable
Absolutely. I do think the pressure
Thing is very important though because the only times that team vision have dropped games
This entire TI is too heavy pressure and heavy temple lineup
So I think that identification is correct and you can just iron out like you said pick some more scaling pick some
Maybe take away something like an underlord that can allow them to hold the game out for longer with tower defenses and with team fights
If I was looking for nominal provision there by the way
We saw a brief glimpse of them before they're about to walk back out on stage and a lot of smiles a lot of jovial energy
And I feel like often what we got to witness in game number two
It's very similar for us and everyone else at home and to put it into a
Time frame that people can understand is that this is the second longest brand finals game
We've had at a TI. It's also the second highest in kills
The only one that's beat it was a game for between LBD and OG
Like that is the privilege in which we're getting to witness between the high caliber teams and how closely matched with vision
And spirit are today. That's so cool
We were screaming in the green room when the team fights were happening. Yeah, that game four is also probably the single most iconic
Ti game and so for this to be just just below it
I think is is a testament to the caliber like you said and I'm just so excited to see the continued
Adaptation you also mentioned how they looked backstage
And I think it's a really important aspect of these long series that you don't get too excited
You don't get too amped up or two sort of in your own boat
But like yeah, we did so good this game
We own them this easy because it's not you did win this game
But like Aiden said, you do not run them over. This is not some dynamic complete beat down
You came back and you want to you played a good game
But you need to you know reel it in and understand that this is we still got a long way to go
Yeah, and I think honestly this is where the upper bracket advantage also might start kicking in now
Spirit is on their third game of the day or fourth game of the day. Sorry
whereas for
Vision you're just on your second and eventually the longer this final goes the more that drain is gonna come in and it is a factor to
keep in mind.
I do think that Spirit feel good after that game though.
Like it feels bad to lose after a start like that,
but at some point in this game,
the Dota Plus probability came up
and Team Vision were only 5k ahead.
There were no racks taken and it was 95 to 5.
And if you can make a game competitive,
when Dota Plus is saying in 95% of the time,
those heroes on Radiant will outscale those heroes on Dier
and it was taken that far,
I think they can take away exceptional play from it as well.
It's not like they're like, oh, we messed up guys.
Maybe there are one or two moments
but that really wasn't the end all in the end.
I think we were also seeing the spirit buyback usage, right?
That was another thing that we've always praised this team for.
The late games that they're able to play, the buyback usage.
And we saw it.
They know the moments in which you have to buy back
to be able to keep this game competitive, to push it further
and to try and drag it out a little bit more.
Give yourself any amount of breathing room
in space that you possibly can get in this game.
Yeah, I think this is actually kind of cool
because Spirit, in both these two games,
they remind me a little bit of TI 9 OG.
They're bringing that pressure play style.
They're bringing the tempo,
and something that they used to do very econently
was buyback really early on into the game.
You buyback to secure that you don't lose your pressure.
You don't let off that early fight,
and then try to save your buyback to be clutched later.
You rather use it quite aggressively
to make sure that the pressure stays on your side.
You can keep the tempo rolling,
and you don't ever let up and let the game
flip back in your opponent's direction.
I think winning lanes in a TI setting is also like it can be a very sort of damning feeling for the other team
But oh we're falling behind and it can weigh on you and be kind of spooky in a sense
It maybe takes you out a little bit more than it would in a normal series where I know that these feelings are loose
You die a couple times when it's fine
If you lose lanes in a TI grand final suddenly it feels like things are crumbling and it's harder to push back
I think the teams are way more susceptible to crumbling which is why we see a lot of three zeros in TI finals
You lose a couple of lanes. You lose one game suddenly. You're just mush and the other team walks over you
I mean I can speak to that
I feel like the feeling when you're falling behind the timer just starts taking slower and slower and slower and you have so
Much more time to just get into your own head and think about like oh
I should have done that differently in the lane and obviously you should not be thinking about these things at all
Because you can't go back in time and change it the one thing you can do is like try to think forward
But it's so easy that that happens when you're falling behind
Obviously, it's up to each individual to have that in mind and to push themselves to not
fall into that. But does it help if you have a strong presence, if you have a strong person
that's willing to almost be that hope in the team that goes, it's okay, we're getting
trades. It's okay. They're not invading this part of the map. Do you almost need
someone to be that silver lining at more pivotal times?
It can definitely be useful. I think some players, you know, they just don't get
into their own heads. You've gotten this far so many times that you've learned
skill you've developed it. Other times it's really helpful to hear it from someone else.
I would imagine in the Spirit Booth, like having Collapsed to be like, I'm going to carry this game.
I remember actually quite iconically at TI 9, the practice rooms are all on the same floor.
And as you finish your game, there's other games going on inside of the practice rooms,
walking by the old team Liquid Room. And I'm just hearing Miracle yell at the top of his lungs,
like, don't worry about this, I'll carry this game guys, just buy me five more minutes,
I'll carry this game and having something like that it inspires confidence
That is so cool because I can I can't imagine a better player for team vision than no one to take that role upon himself, too
I hope they're in there in their boots building up that energy because they have a whole nother game to get into
Team vision versus team spirit grand finals game three
Game number three for our grand final where we've seen a one a piece right now
Both time spirit have gotten off to a strong number strong the start for themselves
And so having first pick again for the side of vision here
Just like we had in game number one
Are they gonna fall into that trap of trying to call spirits bluff again?
They did that with the ember spirit this time around
I feel like there could be a little bit of back and forth or toying not necessarily with that here
I think they didn't want to steal SF actually. I think that's the hero that they're focused on with the dark seer band
And that's a cool concept because the first two games where we're talking about Ember spirit
But now they're like with shadow theme does the actual problem guys
Yeah, it's a it's a cool adjustment
And it's another testament to how these finals shift and change over time priorities move and I do like the spirit
Bandera spirit. I think this hero is just too stupid and they gave it a try
They need to experiment it in sense saying can we beat even this hero and they'd lose and like okay?
That's fine. We can ban it. We had you sort of space here
We decided that this band is sort of free
So let's see if we can get an extra free one in there and beat this hero
Yep, absolutely. We have however seen team spirit beat Shadowfiend today, right? They did it earlier today
They're at that in that game did it with a terrible blade. I think here. They're realizing that I
Didn't have to pick a TV now
Which we absolutely don't want to do because then it's going to be playing as a ton of counters
So or it's going to get banned out
So we might as well pick a carry that we actually want or here that we actually want that we know can match up well against
Yes, that isn't the TV but it can be picked early
I do think that they place a lot of importance in the nature's profit against the shadow fiend matchup because when they opened the game number
Two with that SF one of the bands was the nature's profit and whilst at the time I looked at it
I thought it was just maybe taking it away from satanic
I actually think it's deeper than that they really do believe in that carry to carry matchup being favorable the nature's profit now
Yeah, it's another ranged hero that sort of gives you the similar turret thing of you have heroes that can go in and now you stand and hit
But it's got the extra a lot of added wrinkle that it should profit is a very fast hero
And he's very good against these ranged heroes that need a little bit of time to get online
So not only does he have the ability to stand and fight you but he can tip you on your early take your tower and add the
Momentum on top of the scaling and so I agree
I think it is a sort of game read counter that they believe in and I think it makes sense
It's also here. I would say if you just look at these two heroes objectively you put them in a demo lobby
You let them hate each other to death SF will always win right so you're looking for spirit
How do we amplify this?
How do we amplify it either through gold by buying like getting him ahead with these quick moves?
I've been talks about or what heroes we've paired up with in order for him to be able to outscale the SF because something is going to be needed
This apart bands would have fit the bill that you're talking about like clock hook and undying heroes that can get on top of us
I've died him with things like tombstone that enables nature's profit another hero that comes to mind is tusk
But he did fall off a little bit during this tea
So I was also really confused the
Like arena screens were showing
NTS and I think it was maybe X number I missed it very briefly
But a lot of Chinese superstars in the crowd getting amongst the grand finals hype as well
I mean if it's if it's happening you've got to watch it. It's the biggest though the event of the year
It's it's so incredibly special and I think especially like those players have when you've been in the finals
It has that extra layer of meaning because you put yourself in their shoes
You know what it's like and I think anyone who's had something so important to them big and something that you're really your emotions are
Tied to knows what it's like to watch something that holds so much gravity
Yeah, absolutely, but back to the draft. They banned you on the Lord. They take Mira's advice here
I mean that this hero just seems like it provides too many things it provides late game damage
It provides so much crowd control and it's like there's no other offlaner quite like it at the moment that it is so stable
Really, it seems like it as long as you pick it together with rubik and you don't get rubik yourself
You're almost always gonna have a game regardless of how poor your lane is
It's gonna have a way back into the game and it always has high impact just to its bells
Yeah, it's it's it's a great realization
I think it was definitely a problem for the last game and they sort of go back to the strategy
They took in game one which is you know nine class doesn't have too many heroes
He's been flying he's been leaning on the will a lot
We had good success with it. We're gonna take the willow again
And so long as ember is still in the pool this to call us and chantress will keep coming out. There are moments last came
I thought he clutched really hard
There was this one fight where he got a last second stomp with his centaur creep that killed Gatoro that started the cascading effect
I mean, this is one of his most comfortable heroes
I think back to when the colors first popped up on the proceed it was playing a lot of enchantress
Yeah, this was his go-to guy. Why is it that we don't see many enchantress's?
these days.
I'm actually not sure. I mean, usually what ends up happening is that other heroes that get out,
but if you look at the bands here, most of the really popular position 5 heroes are banned out.
So that leaves, like, you take away the S tier, and now you enter the A tier, where Enchantress
obviously sits somewhere in that range. It gets outscaled, like, outshined by the other heroes,
but when you take them away, something enters a very good hero. And you also talk about the Ember Thread,
and when there is, like, this dynamics going on in the final, it kind of shifts your priorities,
priorities and it takes end from an A tier hero to an S tier hero because it blocks off the other S tier hero and the Embers
There's also a sort of interesting dynamic going on that because the Slark has proven to be just unbeatable for Emberspirit
Now it shifted to where our first pick having the last pick in that second phase
You have the advantage because Team Spirit can't pick Emberspirit here
Even if they wanted to because you will get responded with Slark
And so now Team Vision gets the choice if we want Emberspirit on the last pick of the second phase
We can just take it and it's already a great-looking Embers game Ember game provision
I think it's absolutely genius like they picked this enchantress they try to cut off any possible angles and spirit pick it early on
They still have the threat of start open so spirit can't pick it now and then on 18
Our recipe referred to which is this last pick of the second phase
You can secure that ember spirit for yourself if you want to following it up with the start fan
Maybe even a huskar band if you're scared of that probably not but you can cover your hero
The Clusk to me is very good because I think you need some way to prevent this nature profit
from getting bursted by Slaughter Shadowfiend. They're presenting this problem similarly to
last game where it's all ex-physical damage. Azure profit can buy a Manta, but you've
got multiple other tools to turn it around. Because Vision's game plan is Slaughter,
jump-sane, you burst. Okay, now you've got call turnaround. You've got snowball
turnaround. To me, this is a very calculated and geared to what Vision has response
that we want a way to turn this around. Our Nature Prophet is the core of our draft and like you
said we need some sort of steroid, something to change the man fighting dynamic of these two heroes
and we feel like this is what it is. For sure I also think the Tusk was being talked about when
the Nature Prophet came out because if the clock didn't, it was then given to Team Spirit by
Vision there really aren't any art types that substitute for it except the Tusk. You need
something that can dive the shadow fiend. You need to be able to just bring pressure to
him whenever it's possible and Nature's Prophet is a hero that can connect to any Tusk setup.
Yeah, so think about if you look at Vision's draft, and you think about how do these heroes come together.
There's a lot of amplification going on, right?
There's Satanic on his FF, SF, who self-amplifies by having his lasting presence, which provides minus armor on everyone.
You get Sardar adding to that, you have Pango adding to that, and then on top of that, Enchanters could take a wolf creep,
and suddenly you're providing additional attack damage to everybody in the area.
So this is kind of like the idea that they're going with, is that nothing is going to be unkillable.
unkillable no matter how much armor you stack up you're never stacking up enough armor to get past this
Yeah, I also think this pangler pick is actually better than the ember would have been because it gives you an opportunity to break
Spirit's response to your jump so slaughter jumps initially now
You've got a pangler who could jump the back line roll around and make this tusk and acts as like hell
So it's not easy for them to just blink in compared to ember who until you get an axe
Which is much later down the line
It's not as easy to disrupt the back line and so vision realizing that and saying okay
We see what you're doing here, and this is our response to that
I think this is a very calculated and thought-out back and forth here
Not just a we see we have an insta pick the number one don't above counter thing in a way that dynamic
Confunction the same way for a team spirit right where there are double jump heroes and team vision like you mentioned
But also two jump heroes and axe and tusk the issue with getting the two jump heroes on spirit right now to that
Moment is up there lanes do seem a little bit harder like you've got this axe
who's going to be going up against the SF, the Tusk who is probably just going to be pulling waves
because there's really not that much you can do after that and the Blink Daggers are going to be
delayed because of that whereas Pango, he doesn't really need a Blink Dagger, he's just got the
rolling thunder and Slardar, he's got the sprint as well, like they have more gap closed
naturally early on than Team Spirit. Yeah, it's definitely true. They may consider swapping lane
supports, putting Tusk in the safe lane to help with that a little bit or altering things,
and Team Spirit is a team that's very good at recognizing potential problems in the early
game and swapping things around, getting creative, moving their heroes on a way to
combine and get kills so that they're enabled to reach their mid game and laning timings.
Yeah, I would like that a lot. And then you can just send Tusk through the gate to dive the SF
after Willow sets up with a brown bull or something. Yeah, exactly. I mean, for Spirit's side,
what they got going for themselves here, right? It's a lot of early game pressure again. If
you think about it, Axe has a slow, Willow has a root. There's a lot of ways to slow
down the SF to allow for the Nature's Prophet to TP in. Or like Mira said,
half-toss connect from the gate which also sets up for the nature's profit. So for spirit it's all
about pressure, it's all about tempo, it's all about how do we connect our heroes, how do we outnumber
them. And I think what's cool here for vision is they're saying we like our draft, our heroes are
good, we just need to come online right? So how do you prevent them from coming online? Well you
destroy the pangomid, you send them into the abyss as Quinn would say, and they ban the
two heroes I can do that. They ban the snapfire, they ban the monkey king, and they're trying
to secure themselves a good laning phase because even if this ember comes out which traditionally
This lane goes pretty good against Pango, it's not that punishing.
Yep.
It's very true and also because they have the slaughter asset, they have this minus armor.
Some of the heroes that we've also traditionally seen against a Pango or something like a Huskar
or Alina, you don't really want these heroes because yes, you may win the lane, but five
minutes later you really wish you were another hero and it's also not particularly
Laurel's favorite type of that's a Marci.
We're seven of you Quinn, I'm very proud to have you on this battle.
I mean this is actually one of Nine Class's favorite heroes.
We see very often recently is you know Mira said he's been qualified
But I think it it is a pretty cool pairing with slower because you can just jump on top of nature's profit
And you just slam him together you question and Marcy punches him in the head and you take it through this guy
I mean you're seeing it the only person who does like it is on the side of vision and it's zero picks their event
So again, this is one of these things that folds back similar to when we saw this rough to come out for the side of spirit
I love this
This is the creativity that you need to be bringing into a grand finals
This changes the dynamic of the spirit safe lane in a very big way because before whether you were laning against the slaughter or the pango flex
Your natures profit was gonna have a good time
You know he was just gonna be right-clicking them free farming you bring in Marcy and all of a sudden starter becomes a killer threat
He's not just a hero that you can beat up
He will be on top of you the second you have level 2 rebound
There's not that much you can do on natures profit when you get connected on yeah
I mean luckily for that I think now the test has to be in that same thing right the idea then is like
You're gonna have to use that snowball to dodge that stun and that way try to like battle out the lane, but it absolutely is
Oh my wow TV didn't get bad
Yeah, so they just fully did not expect law to be playing the nature's profit and now they've got an incredible TV game
You talk about minus armor. Well TV is the king of armor
He has like 10 armor level one and it only goes up from there with the items
buys, so a lot of your strategy, the way focusing down one hero with right clicks, has been nerfed
pretty hard. I just assumed TB was banned. Like, I just didn't even think about the existence of this
hero. It's honestly an amazing thing because if you take a look at Team Vision's draft, they have
essentially no magic damage. And the way you usually beat TB is by happy magic damage. So this
is a very good Terrowed game. Laurel and Naceous Prophet, however, for me is a little bit of
of an unknown. I haven't really seen him play that much. I wouldn't say it's like a
he's a typical nature's profit guy. But the things that we talked about earlier on, they
still exist. The draft can still do the same things and maybe even faster with nature's profit
from the mid lane because he gets like level six a bit faster. You can connect a little bit more.
He's not as concerned about his own game. So see really cool things happening for both sides.
I think Laurel is the type of player that will do what you need him to do. And team vision
have learned that today with the Slark pick after the Ember that they didn't really think
that he would do with this matrix profit flex that I caught of guard of this terrible
It this is really cool to me
And I think team spirit have absolutely secured the scaling in this game. Yeah, the shoes on the other foot last game vision
Could able to just chill and fall on and I think this game spirit if secured that with also the also the potential to play the lanes
Well, and so I think it's been a great punch back from a post good in this game. This is this is a master class
Yeah, I probably would have said before this last big TV
I really like the vision draft and I would have put it maybe like
65 to 35 but after that I think it's a lot closer to 50. I love hearing a good 50-50 split on a draw more importantly
I love hearing from our coaches that terrible late had us in a little bit of a head scratch
Is to how it got let through but I wonder exactly how puppy felt when he saw her come out
Thank you so much. Yes, I am here the king himself mr. Puppy such a pleasure to see you here on the main stage again
Let's talk a little bit about this. You have let nine class out of his cage
He is playing the meme heroes again. Where did this Marcy come from?
How do you have the balls to pick a hero like this on the main stage of TI?
9th class is a lot of balls. That's all I can say.
Fantastic. What's his idea of yours? It was his idea.
Completely approve of it. Okay. Okay. I was about to say maybe you were distancing yourself from that
But no you fully support. Whose idea was it to let the terribly through?
They already had Furion and
And we basically guessed that they're going to swap this fury on somewhere, they're going
to just lose their team fights everywhere.
So we're not afraid.
Okay, not afraid.
It was actually pretty interesting to see a team be able to strike some blood, can
she guys, right?
Were you surprised with how those games went so far?
Not necessarily.
I think they won the drafts two games in a row.
This time I think we have the edge.
Okay, that's what I like to see.
Now, last question here, you know, are they ever going to get another one,
friend or is this the end of their ride? Is it going to be the full reversal sweep?
I hope so. All right, thank you so much puppy. An absolute pleasure to see you again on the stage.
Throw it to our casters to get ready for this game. Game three time ladies and gentlemen in the
Grand Finals with the International 2026 team vision against Team Spirit, the Pigs Hog. We continue
to get some exciting stuff. Marcy being thrown into the mix. Another new hero for this
international and I tell you what, one that I kind of like, I think the series got a lot of potential
and of course especially when it's in the hands of nine class. And when you've got something like a
super hard carry to play around right, sure you don't use that sidekick, you don't notice the
bodyguard as much as it once was, but it still can be a very strong tool for something like
a shadow theme. These turret heroes, even though we don't see Marcy, definitely can see some type
of potential from it. And what you make of the switch up, obviously as puppy talked about
They weren't too fast about banning the Terrablade because they considered, well, if they do go for this spirit
We have overwhelming teamfight
It's going to be this nature's profit mid and that might leave some openings that Vision can punish
Do you think they can or do you think it
The fact that there is a Terrablade and it is a very good Terrablade game might fight them back
It could, it definitely could, but Vision also very strong at being able to play versus these type of drafts
And just knowing when to just always take the teamfight advantage
I've seen them so many times in this tournament having teamfight advantage
So let's see if that position for them is going to be working for them while for spirit much more scaling drafts
Right looking for the MP to get that scaling
I'm curious to see how active Laurel is going to be if he's going to TP to safe lane because I could see him make those moves
Right you want to punish satanic. You don't want this nature's profit to have a free time and the lane overall
It should be good
So I want to see I want to see a play pretty aggressive on this nature's profit TPing in shut down satanic
even potentially going for the TP plays on the safe lane if they do overextend onto Yatoro.
That's what it would have to be.
If they do try to go for these kills onto Yatoro, it's going to have to be out of these overextensions.
And we're seeing the lane switch-ups, right?
Instead of having the Marci with the Slardar, since it's a terribly down there now, they've
put the Marci up top with the Shadow Fiend into strong pairing as well to be able to
pick up the kill.
And they've done this a couple of times, right, vision on their run here at the
International between the supports.
They have that flexibility and I think last time they made that switch-up, it
It went pretty well for them.
It did, and it's a lot because they end up leaving notice alone.
DuKaulis gets that level 3, and he starts sandwiching on the mid-wave.
And Maro, right, makes his profit playing versus Pango.
You're definitely... you definitely can be dope.
Not made.
Praise comes in.
He's healing.
He should be alright.
I mean, can Nynclas get in range from the dispose?
He's past there.
The tree plant.
He can't quite grab him.
Can't see him.
Nice play there from not me.
Now able to beat back onto him, even though there's that movement speed advantage from the Marci, not me with the little branch play.
Actually is able to distance himself a knife there. Nice.
Now look forward to seeing, of course, what Satanic is ready to do on the SF. Last two games.
He's been watching Yatora play the hero.
Sure, Yatora didn't win last game, but still individually, he had a pretty good game on the SF.
Satanic is ready to try and see if he can replicate that on his own Shadowfiend performance.
Spirit having some pretty explosive starts to the game, particularly in that last game.
They have that lead.
They didn't end up dying a couple times, so that bottom plate from Yotaro hurt quite a lot when he died with the Aegis the first time, and then the second one around the Roche.
Again, it delays though, Spirit.
Looking to dominate though.
Won him.
Trying to make him move once and notice, but...
It's difficult to do at least until they sort of see a chance where Yotaro is going to be
happy to pop the meta and try and force to kill.
Yotaro just buys the boots very early.
He knows he's not really at threat down here.
So it is going to be a free farm again for Yotaro, but this time it does feel like Satanics
in a better position to get the free farm as well.
So we're going to free farm carries versus each other, depending on what Laura wants
to do.
I'm still just going to look at the nature's profit.
Are they actually going to use the TP to pressure?
Are they just going to wait for the level six with the wrath of nature to go for
these kills early on?
Let's see what the choice is going to be from Laurel.
Bit denies he's been able to get so far here.
Seven in comparison to the one just with the pango.
That's a terrible pick, right?
This insane amount of armour he's going to have in the game.
Absolutely going to be an element because as the panel touched on, looking at the
magical damage, it's Shadowfiend raises in Requiem.
That is literally it pretty much.
So it's going to be really interesting to see if they can actually bring him
down versus all that plus armour he has noticed.
No more connection.
Alright, he's gonna put the met up.
Third to try and bully him, but he needs the sprints up.
I don't know how many further control.
Wait, did that just happen?
Borrowed the night of Water Room with his trees, and no one bottled it.
The thing happened.
Oh, it did happen.
It does happen on the same fix sometimes.
Night class.
Doesn't have breaks for the rebound.
Get on the call.
Now do it.
First blood coming in for not me.
It's actually a big deal that no one was able to get the refill, even though it was killed.
You can literally see it if you pop up with the chat wheel there or the chat thing there the night water ruin it
But bottled at the same time there were a frame perfect rain perfect rain perfect
And it matters because you get something a lot is going to be able to continue being healthy in the matchup versus the nature's profit
It keeps securing these last days
So top lane for spirit you definitely see them have easier ways to get aggressive versus vision well bottom
It's going to be to call us making movements around with that level three that we've seen so already seen him shift towards the mid lane
Rue is anticipating it, reading the movements, looking for the ward, won't quite find it though,
so if you place one, come again for the callus.
So now you just, I guess it's Rue, you just follow the intangress, right?
Leave the tariff, I'll give this 1v1 matchup, try and get a bit of a setup there, but not quite
ever get the dispose to pull up on the rebound, collapse quick for the call to interrupt the
combo, 9 class was trying to use to set up for the raises.
9 class does have the level 2 rebound now, you actually usable,
The first level of rebound is very hard to use.
Callus will bind him.
Go on the river! This is not where you expect Yatoro to be!
That is a heads-up move!
Rue just stalking to Callus as anticipated.
He knows they've seen this play before from them,
so they're reading it pretty beautifully.
C.S. though, the fact that they are leaving the bottom lane.
Notice is now just starting to get that free farm,
even though he is versus that terrible lane.
Remains for vision.
Get messy, yes
All in all very close star very close too much of a difference there
You know it don't nobody getting pressured out of the lane
Rule will get the airfield in my boss. Did he get the grab on a collapse that's up for the razors
Drives tonight the tower to get the kill but I've got something to do the other finish the job
Dying and now the rotation that of the roll for over one satanic starts off the mark though a satanic will live
the willow already has ash lead and shield that actually saves collect I was
clicking on it who the hell has this neutral item already it's the willow
the barrier actually seems collapsed there I'm pretty sure that was pretty
crazy you can't calculate for that on the side of vision
that's a good dive but responded accordingly they're from spirit again
nine class might try for roux it's hard though with the snowball will always
be able to disrupt the combo that Nincast will try and catch him with. They want to dive Laurel here.
No one doesn't have the roll up but does have the 3-3, does have the skill points for the damage.
I need to apply some pressure here under the tower. Laurel can drag the wave though with this train safely.
Hefty stacks being made, Owen. Vision definitely has potential to walk in and go for some type
of steal plays as well too. And a rare time that I've seen this too, so it's a mechanic
that I haven't seen many other teams abusing some time the stacks with the wrath of nature we talked about it a lot
I think those I mean it builds up the damage of the old us very effectively like last ti or I think there's the ti before that we
Saw teams abusing this this wrath of nature offer these neutrals
It means it effectively does max damage on all the rest of the bounces all over the map
So they have to calculate that in on the side of vision if they do scout those stacks
I don't know if they did see them just yet
But it's a lot of extra burst damage that could catch some of these heroes off guard so cool to point that out
Seeing the item build Q from Laurel right now too, it's just the drums so he's
looking to be aggressive early on is what that tells me. Not your usual pick up
from these latest profits. I mean that should allow him to well turn up and
ensure that Yatora can kind of take these early objectives. Yeah and he can kill
buildings pretty quickly too, right? Just being able to beat on them with the
trance with the drum.
Cool itemization if he does those.
The Coloss is gonna now go into that triangle, gonna start scouting these
stacks out stealing some of the creeps as well. So we'll limit some of that farm. Will he get out for it?
He's coming in from low. He's ready to block him off with the sprout.
Going to get in front of him with the trees. Trying to get some body block sets up for that big hit
from the nature's wrath. We'll succeed. I'm happy to see the team doing this. I think I talked to
like five of the players during this tournament. I was like, how come nobody's doing this
stacking thing with wrath of nature anymore? So happy to see that Spirit is in preparation
with that. Collapse, 9th class trying to prevent him to get the cheeky out. He's got the rebound.
No one's coming in to help. Look at the cool off Collapse. The rolling thunder's there. Collapse
is going to try and juke it. He's beating, but there's only so much he can dance around.
As the colors comes in with the slow Collapse, he's going to run down the river. He's actually
running back to that. He gets the dog. Why are you kidding?
He's a great space, my friend. I will show up and push this tower here. Vision. Still farming very well, but five quick toasters very tutorial. Turning up to these very early fights. I am these jukes. The river movement speed absolutely coming into play there. Also having the stone fenders satchel with the movement speed as well does come into play, of course.
As we saw last game from Yatoro, you know, Team Spirit's cause, they know when to run back in.
Doesn't matter how low they are, they see an opportunity to get something, they'll get back in on the action.
Bison though, I mean, yes, they brought four heroes up there, but not moving with notice, which is the important one.
Notice as I guys, I'm having a very free lane, and we do have to talk about how important notice was in that last game.
Besides just the Pitch being absolutely insane, the damage mitigation he provided in that last game was huge.
This game is not damage mitigation, but it's damage amplification and it's the blink dagger, right?
It's that initiation tool for the team that he's gonna have very early, which is really good versus four of the heroes.
Sure versus the TV, not as great because he's got that high armor, but first the rest of them, they can be very strong to close that gap in first though.
Staying very even on the gold despite the early kills that Spirit of Finding.
The Tannick in this game though, absolute free-fuck.
At least the DMC was feeling a bit more of that pressure.
He made an amazing recovery on the Life-Skiller.
Now we've been sort of seeing the timings of the DSF versus the Terriblade kind of match
up in these games.
In these games, in overall games, I'm not sure, but with these games, Spirit and
versus Deficient, they're going to show up to be one of these fights.
They just love to play very aggressive.
So I imagine when I see both of them turn up, more than anticipated than other
ones do.
He's just gonna go normal build. I thought maybe we'll see some type of pivot from him
But not gonna be the case some of the players that see them go for this
Yasha Kayapult when he's playing versus something like TP, but he wants to Manta
Once that that disc welters the reflection eventually wants to be able to Manta dodge versus the axe early on too
No mate
If the shadow realm off got the fear we'll be able to stop further raises is gonna try for the TP out
But that's not the way to put a stop to it
I've not made we'll get taken down there by a further raise from satanic
I
Wonder what night class is gonna do overall with this build. Is there anything different nowadays? I don't even
I think you got greedy
Cholo if you go like phase something maybe go blink back or phase boosts a BKB
Crystal of table us faster. That's what I want to see. No one
Gold connection, Wilhelm Gatoro, nice shards to protect, with a jump over.
Still gonna be able to jump in, as notice coming from the crush.
They have to be careful, potential sungler will get it off,
but he's surrounded by the whole team. The snowball save comes into play.
Rolled up to the high ground for the stun, into the right wing of the stack.
They tied against the double kill.
Oh, vision, they've got a really good position right now to play this aggression with this blink.
Oh, yeah.
Early on, notice.
You said it both carries looking to turn up.
Vision there as a whole. They have the stuns.
They have to set up the requiem.
He's going to win that trade every single time
around these early moments.
This big game, it does feel like it's
going to be quite hard for Spirit, in particular,
since they're playing versus this heavy teamfight.
And this Slaughter with this early blink.
Laurel, he's not going to really want to turn up too much.
He's going to go more greedy around, go for the maelstrom,
go for the scaling potential eventually.
But that does mean the window is
going to be open for vision to shut down Yotaro.
Look for the axe.
Look for these kills to set the pace in this game.
And that's the thing where they've got so much gap
Closed. The Slardar, the Panga, the Marcy. They're gonna look to get straight on top of Spirit each and every time in these teamfights.
I think he's just gonna... Okay, good. He does. I was figuring he does this on the Marcy. You just go blink because you're the save. You're like the tusk.
Yes, they go on the Shadow Fiend. You end up rebounding them and pulling them out. So I think this is the best option for a 9-class to go for in this game.
Panic. The trap is coming for him.
He's looking pretty dead-ass!
Quite far out on the top lane!
I'm happy to see Longinus.
I don't really want to see him play too passive on this Nature's Prophet.
Even if he's going this Maelstrom build, I want to see him turned up to these early fights.
Sure, not the last one, because it was a pretty horrible position before I fight.
I want to see him play pretty aggressive on this Nature's Prophet.
He's done for no one.
They want to strike back on this top side.
this top side. I mean they know that Spirit just made this play up here on the top lane.
They're gonna see if anyone's left around. Will be not me!
We did it.
So, and we'll go for more. We'll find the connection onto anybody else here but we'll be able to sleep
towards the main. To potentially for the rune as well too. 10 seconds till it will
spawn. See if no one gets lucky for it.
If there's these 5v5 engagements, right? Vision. Have the clear advantage in the
If they can somehow split it up though in spirit, that's the key to their success right?
All about the split push, force and vision to react and taking the fight to the numbers.
I think at the least spirit then I'm gonna want to fight until the collapse has this blink that right right now.
That's the next timing that spirit are gonna try and find.
Well, and your tour I'm very happy to hit the creature, I think that they're gonna let these tier ones go.
Kala's getting a fair bit again, just like that last time that he played the Enchantress,
just being annoying with the creeps, pushing them down the lanes, forcing someone to respond
to it.
He scaled pretty well that last game on the edge.
He was very annoying with how much damage he was doing, even onto some of these cores.
That was Collapses' Blink looking, so FaZe, Blade Mail, he's even gone for the Soul
Ring, gone greedy.
Gonna take a bit of time to have that Blink, so the window for Vision to make
these aggressive moves is definitely there with notice tapping the Blink first.
I'm not afraid to fly around there. Collapses. Got to be careful.
Wallace.
He could poke him.
And Night Blast is closing in.
He might reach.
Collapses far enough away to survive.
Because he grew off to the side, though. He's in trouble.
He'll get the shots out and try and block him off.
He'll have a snowball to buy a bit more time,
but with the four of them chasing him out,
no way out of this for root.
It's going to be so much overwhelming physical damage in this game.
Even though there is this Tera Blade,
it's good for him to have this armor.
but the rest of his heroes are definitely going to be struggling at that front couple disconnects
happen here
Mid-game team fights eyes on the slaughter eyes on the pango see what spirit wants to do
Oh, okay, so they don't see
Uh-oh, well, they're invisible a quick turn off and on again should fix that
It's a pretty important game to see those shards too when you're playing with pango
Does that shard can trip up the rolling thunder pretty hard in the mid game
I don't know if the offspouts you definitely want to see but...
Well, not only the Aubrey Connect does fix that.
Hopefully things should be set.
Find out in the next team fight.
Both carries
very close in the network. This game, the Satanics SF
Yatoro's Terrablade, very close on both the levels
gold. And it does feel like a bit of a different style that we're seeing from the last two games,
right? Last games we had so many kills coming at the play. I feel like this one might have a bit
more farming, especially from Spirit, like you're mentioning. They want to go for that hard scale,
but Vision, I do believe they're going to play pretty oppressive. Look to just close the map,
restrict the tier ones, limit the tower blade from finding places to farm. Much easier ways
to execute these immediate jumps at this point with the start on the pangolin this start as he said
dies on collapse to get that blink dagger to be able to turn the fights at this point start
vision see how much action they can continue to bring before
collapse is allowed to get that pick up because it is a very good blade mail game playing
versus the shadow feed there is the save from the marsy but it's not the same exact as the
You just have that invulnerability during it. You're still gonna be on the map being able to get hit when you do get rebounded and pushed away
I'm happy to see these new heroes though so many different ones we're now seeing in this grand finals
See if the idea this time ends up working around for my class
And as always there's a lot to ask when we do see these new heroes. What why is no one else playing mossy?
Well, what is the risk with this here?
It's not in the best stable and it really isn't it doesn't really have too much team fight
There's other heroes that are just better in replication of these saves and all that. This is just a ninth-class special
And why is that what what about this hero suits nine classes playstyle as a sport?
It's just odd it can scale and and also I mean in particular for this game, right?
It's a gap closer when they were seeing the natures profit
They wanted that gap close to be able to bring the slaughter in even though the lanes have ended up being switched up
It still has that same potential to gap close get on top of something that doesn't like to get on top
But as you see, some of these heroes can be even underrated.
We saw that disruptor absolutely owned in the game.
Could be some similar things.
If he just gets a rebound save in some of these moves, it could be absolutely everything.
And I don't know what last game as well, the pivot for the support axe from Ruth, that
nearly worked out.
So innovation, definitely the name of the game here in this Grand Finals.
Vision, in all this downtime they are farming a bit harder here even though we're talking about Spirit they're happy to
They're content to hit some of these creeps. It's Vision getting more out of the map at the moment
So then with this blink dagger and blade mail done on collapse. Do you want to see Spirit try for a play?
Yeah, absolutely
They almost have blink on Rue as well too. So they do get a kill
They'll have double blink daggers to go through these fights
So right now let's see if Vision is prepared for the move. Night class has to hug Satanic
See what he can get.
See Tanya's gonna show.
He's got the backup set up behind him.
They're beating this move.
Bit of a bait.
Two spirit fall for this.
Not me.
Doesn't look like they will.
He's been spotted out to the side.
Waiting around the room to get a haste.
They won't jump in on this.
They know the vision is setting up for some sort of counter-plan.
Not me.
Wait for the tumblass toy.
What the?
See?
Bit see him coming so they did have a moment to build the presser there.
But still dodging it away.
Notice now also has the shard, so very big damage potential for the side of Vision in these next upcoming fights.
Still easier for them to take the fights.
Spirit won't hemorrhage anything though, they don't fall for the bait play that Vision was setting up.
But they'll maybe finish off this tower with the Illusion, Illusions vs. Illusions.
Potenix wins.
Tower.
Nanklos, can you get the deny?
Eh, eh, not quite, not.
Preach will finish the job.
I'm not quite able to connect.
The blink dagger done for the tossed blink is still far away for 9th class.
So now Spirit, much easier access to look for fights themselves as well, two versus vision.
But the team fight, still difficult when they have the numbers on the side of vision.
Spirit wants to pop a target first.
Through these quiet moments.
You see Satanic farming just a little bit quicker than Yatsura in this down time.
I like watching, look at Nifus.
He's just hugging him.
Not moving from the side of Satanic,
because if there's a move that comes out,
he can bail him out of it with this rebound.
He's starting to get points in the bodyguard as well too,
so the extra bonus that Satanic's going to have.
And it is the most likely move, right?
Spirit, disappear off the map, go for some sort of smoke play.
You know that that top target, it's going to be Satanic.
100%.
This bodyguard, I'm going to watch to see how much it can do in this game too,
because Satanic, unlike Itoro, doesn't know the master madness,
So he will have that life steal coming from the Marcy in the fights. See how much that actually matters.
Here we go, Spirit, ready to attempt another smite. Both teams keep the fight though.
Vision, so far been very prepared for these sort of plays. And no one has a full agonist for this next fight too.
He might be big priority number one.
Number one.
It's the questions. Do they kill him in a call?
You can notice.
Line with the call and the blade mail up.
If the punch, the snowball, the controls, it doesn't cut him a little early,
but it doesn't matter. The damage enough to help bring him down.
Now what?
Dr. Brawl, he's done stuff.
Bound his way over to watch the turret.
The turret does not have mana for a potential sundar.
Doesn't matter though. Vision, they still hold back away from the terribly.
So they'll offer it for no one to go for the full commitment,
but it's an arcade rune, so we'll just be able to Brawl,
self out. Nice kill there from Spirit finding the angle onto the Slardar there.
Closing the gap on the gold. This is how they want to take the fight. They don't
want to take head-on team fights. They want to kill one target first and then
potentially look for the catch afterwards. Notice being slowed down.
collapse now, hide network with that slardar
panic
upon the top side, my class can hear your buddy, and he's there
I use a ways that
and both sides in this game, having some clear BKB piercing disables of course
something we always do like to see
Lockdown some of these target's hard. We won't probably see PKBs coming out from the cores in this game though
Satanic and your Toro likely to just skip from the two way later stages again
There's a lot that goes through it. Look at this room
Right next to the but nine class is ready to say non-class sword. He's going to get the dispose brain into the crush jump from notice
Just catching a glimpse of him as he tries to get out of get the blink off, but with no TP
He proved very, very dead.
He peaked to the mid lane through the fight as well.
Carlos has got the chase down on a not me.
Down around 40 being used.
Chris Brown will stop Carlos. Carlos is going to come up with a call.
Has to jump on towards the pango. The fear comes out as well, but Nyclas takes it back to the side.
No, he's going in the river. Not the place that you want to be as a nature of profit.
Down there on the low ground. They just turn, kill off the mid instead.
instead there's an ambitious move from spirit to go up for the play oh my god
collapse almost gets caught there from the distiller spaces is going to go
straight for the roast they have so much minus armor likely to be able to bring it
down in time 30 seconds still till MP met us still on a medicine coming back up
it's very they're not in the area for this they can't fight right now and let's
have to let these objectives fall to vision what puppy was talking about you
know that heavy team fight and bang is that this is as if Harrison and Laurel's playing mistakes is
And especially when he's cool like that.
He's being way too aggressive in the river as well too.
Trying to get that catch onto this kill.
Now Satanic has an Aegis to play with and out.
Even more so where they have that teamfight advantage.
Where they have the second life on him.
Good one to get very, very involved.
I think this Marci is actually going to come in really cool.
I like the Marci.
I like it quite a bit.
We've seen, you know, not obviously at this international,
but many times before in the past nine class show us some fantastic stuff with his mossy
It's it might not be the most crazy flashy stuff where he's you know
His coddle where he's popping off taking over the game
But he's going to make satanic look that much better in the game with the body guards with the three bounce saves
And he's about to have that blink dagger. So matching the blink all through his timing not by not by too bad touch
Butterfly for satanic also in this game going to be a big pickup
And the the reason I mentioned in the Marseille more so as well besides just that rebound the bodyguard when it's something like an SF
Is playing versus axe was this blade mail that bodyguard that life steal absolutely will come into play
He went down during cool. Maybe if lull and Yatoro are around, but if they don't oppose to
Punching into him Satanic will very likely survive through the jump
We saw a similar push that Spirit was doing in the last game, but they didn't have their
full squad with the Shadow Fiend, so Vision looking to apply this pressure with all the
assistance as well.
Spirit, looks like they're not even going to try to go for the reaction, anticipating
that everybody on Vision is set up at the moment here.
I can only know right now that the decision to fight is going to be pretty much down
to the calls that Yatora makes.
Yatora is not ready to go.
They do not want to turn up.
Yeah, very specific conditions to look for those fights.
Rue has the snowball at the blink.
But he is here, so he's all exactly where he is.
And notice is going to be able to continue the chase down in the river.
Shards will block him off, but he gets around.
Rue will have blink again in a few seconds.
The jump's already there.
Back on line from notice.
They do manage to beat 9 class in a group.
How's your life?
I'm Rue Lips.
What?
They couldn't kill him.
I'm Rue actually having the backup coming over
ready to join him.
Those are some beautiful individual plays coming in
from Rue just stalling out notice.
I thought he was going to die for sure there.
Nine class ends up being the catch.
Toro turns up and gets a kill.
Quick little man of play for him.
Butterfly now finished up for Satanic.
This is a very strong timing.
I mean, having that in this matchup, you know,
your Toro is not really going to be
to fit any sort of true strike into his build any time of the time. He's gonna have to hope
for that serrated ship in particular around that tier 3 neutral if he can't get the RNG
for it. Ah, Sakenic is super deep right now. He's got the jump on Nightclash, so the backup
is gone for Saitanik, who does of course still have Saitanik, so he'll have two
lights to play with. Notice him with a blink crush onto Laos, slide forward for
Saitanik, Laos dying again immediately at the front of these fights. He is just
So, so squishy! It seems like it's impossible for him to play these teamfights.
He turns up, he dies immediately, fuck!
Laurel could end up being a pretty big liability for the team if he just doesn't continue to get this scale.
It shows up multiple times and just dies in an instant.
Yatoro's meta was ending, so maybe a bit of a mis-free there that they should go in or not.
Yatoro was like, I'm getting out immediately after getting a kill, because the meta's wearing down.
I mean, what do you sort of do as the Nates of Prophet in these sort of situations?
You just not turn up to the fight?
I see he's queuing up like five different items to try to think how he can fix this.
He's a BGB? Nope, that's not going to help me.
Now still we get physical, but he does need it because there's so much control.
So it's tough to itemize for this NP.
So far as we've seen some of these leaders, when they're playing versus all this lightest armor,
big push coming in from vision.
They're seeing a window to be able to get around.
I mean, they're so strong around this butterfly timing of the Static.
It's phenomenal.
And there's no matter the call. We'll come out.
But notice, he's up in the crush on the two of them.
Catch the tutorial, tutorial, puts the mantra and backs on for no one.
He's ready to roll in deep with the rolling thunder.
Collapse, BKB him back away.
And it's 50 seconds still.
Toro stepping back up onto the car list.
They get the enchantress, Rue, trying to see if he can catch more from this.
Toro, the surround, Satanic, that's going to be Satanic, get the one.
Not he's gone, no, no, she's getting to the BKB, house just litter away.
Can they keep Satanic safe?
Satanic will go for the right wheel into the TP.
They want to get out of this vision.
and they don't want to stick around anymore.
The catch notice, he's not going to get the chance for the TP.
The dun comes through from Collapse Spirit.
Now push back.
The meta comes right back up during the fight there.
He's got the Scotty also, so your Toro,
he is incredibly tanky.
You can see the S steps like, OK, I'd butterfly,
but hits him once or twice.
He's like, wait a minute, this TP is insanely strong.
Vision tried to find a winner to go for this push here,
but they get counteractive from the buyback
from not being very quickly there.
And Spirit's draft, sure, for Laurel, could be some difficulty, but they do scale extremely hard to scale.
The greed can absolutely pay off.
Vision really wanted to get some type of Rax advantage there with this Aegis usage, not quite able to just yet there.
And I quite like this as well, if Laurel goes for it.
Relative to the early Ags pick up, we don't really see this.
I want to say now, of all the Nature Prophet games, obviously a lot of the times it's carrying, searching, much less likely to see something like an Ags pick up.
But even when it's in the mid, we don't get the agonimus being picked up.
There was a time when... Who was it? It was Liquid, I think, when they had Xyre?
I remember he was buying this a lot and you're just playing that...
You're the anti-carry, right? Because you apply this AoE disarm onto multiple different heroes, and...
As we mentioned for Vision, it's all physical damage. If they're all disarmed, there ain't no damage.
So, a pretty cool approach is if he does pivot toward that way. Cool.
And I think Spirit knows, right? If they can just keep this game going, they're gonna have that crazy scaling.
Yeah, they believe in you, you're toward to carry this one and allow it to be the backup carry.
Vision, looking to continue this pressure here.
Level 19 on Satanic, still standing strong with his butterfly, very close to having the full Satanic himself.
In 2k lead at the moment for Vision, I anticipate that they wanted to get a bit more out of this mid game with their teamfight advantage.
Well, of course, lots of potential for them to also continue with this scale, as no one
can continue as well.
Simply for notice, Olympic Agonyms.
I think we're truly in for a treat this game as well, too.
These teams just on such even footing, matching each other's movements.
Sure, this one, not 29 kills at the 29-minute mark that we did see last time from one
but still very impressive little macro plays that both teams are doing.
And in terms of timings, in a minute.
No one.
Don't get bru hair.
In terms of timings, you were saying?
If you're vision, what are you waiting for next?
Is it sort of the case of just waiting for next?
Roshan, are you able to still try and force a fight before the roast?
I think you take any fight you can take, but you want to fight around that roast,
on that Roche especially too. You just have to be very aware of the positioning.
Collapsed now does have the BKB as well too. It's eyes on Yatoro right? If you can catch
Yatoro and kill him at the start of the fights, Spirit's entire fight just completely disappears.
So that's the main thing for Vision I would say. It's just dealing with Yatoro.
Yatoro now, cool, actually goes for the BKB this game. I thought he would do it
last game a little earlier too. He went for the MKB, he went for the Greed. I'm
glad he didn't go that greedy this game.
These two iron timings are going to give them a pretty good chance to fight. So
We see the AGS now done on LAL.
Oh, they're very strong right now in Zatani.
He's in the danger territory right now, Jorah.
Gonna be ready to start going for him with the Mets.
They do have the rebound to take him out to the side.
There's the AGS wrapped in H coming in with the entangle catch.
Two of them all. Takes out Nightglass.
Collapse! He can really come in with a VKB and the play-bound is caught.
Zatani! Zatani got him down!
And the Taurant breaks in the damage.
They're ready to try for more.
Punch up on the Notes controlling through the VKB.
They'll still be able to slither away.
But at defensive BKB, you're seeing Spirit ready to fight Yatoro standing strong.
And then just a little bit of a trip up. The axe breath of nature just holding for him only momentarily,
but enough to sort of allow collapse to continue to close in and have that chance to get the jump call
to lock down Satanic and allow Yatoro to bring him down.
Satanic now, even though it doesn't feel great in this step of game because there's things to go through
and he does have to go for BKB as well.
the control is going to start to be problematic. Spirit starting to gain quite a bit of control in this game.
Nitoro did get the serrated chip, of course, too, so he is be able to bypass that butterfly occasionally.
Absolutely see it coming into play there. And Night Classic really get bailable away the first time with the rebound.
He ends up dying and they still can chase forward for it.
Atcrasher feels like it's building up quickly here on position.
In these last few moments, Spirit gaining hefty momentum.
Yeah, I mean, I think it really is from those two time and getting the the BKP at this point in the bill theater
Having this acronyms on loves nature profit. It sort of allows them to play to a timing the vision
I don't know if they're necessarily prepared. No, I don't think you anticipate this build on the nature's profit by any means
I it's something quite rare to see
Let's go carry strong in this game versus the literal all physical damage draft of vision
There's a very good answer versus now and just super disruptive in these team fights
They made it through that hard moment of the lack of teamfight now the wrath of base. That's true
That is a team that is the team fight. They were missing they've managed to find it here with this bill from law
Now Quinn was meant to have multiple times now on the panel sometimes its items that are the important things for a lot of these
Heroes to change the dynamic of how they play. That's exactly what this agonist does for MP
He has a really strong talent at 22 that most don't take to most of them since they're playing carry
They take the sprout damage, but in this game can absolutely just go for the wrath
It's a 60 second pool and if you want to be really cool you go for the refresher octane bill
We'll see if he's cool enough law
Eventually, he'll be able to get it all. We'll get a free refresher. That's that that is true. Okay, so vision
I think they have to fight. I don't think you can sit back at this point
Let's bear play their game. They have a full AC on the slaughter notice to change the build but it's into this age
It is it's not easy a
Vision they're not afraid of a challenge the smoke comes in vision
Looking for the wrap and the good eyes on collapse. It would be a huge jump to take the axe out
You can get some pretty good calls and there's the initiation. We'll get the BKB off
If you can get away from the rest of the chase of vision, Yatora ready to hold the high ground, put the better
They turn towards him and fear will push back Satanic for now
Yatora tried to bring down the Enchanters first through Carlos
He will slowly but surely go down off to the side, not be dealt with
Another wrap and it comes in, looking down the team
Yatora steps up over to one, saying Tatek, but no, he's just sitting in the back.
The Christ, he's stuck there, doesn't matter, Yatora still goes down for once.
The collapse jumps in with a dunk, and he's ready to look for more.
Pushing up to the high ground, Snowball saved by Tatek.
Yatora is surrounded, saying Tatek is caught in the trees.
But after back away, the scratch, the win's there.
So Yatora is stepped away from the fight.
He knows the fight now, it's over.
They've got to run, they'll go for the TP, they'll get away.
Vision, they survive through it and they're able to push him to spirit
and take the team fight.
They keep Satanic alive.
It's all these little things.
The bodyguard lifestyle with the Satanic as well, too.
Everything coming into play there.
They're able to distance him away from Yatoro.
Spirit, they had the positional advantage there
for a second there.
They had the high ground.
The rolling thunder was already expended.
He was able to keep whaling on them,
but they get the distancing there.
That was beautiful execution from Vision.
Watch this. Watch how they bail out.
It's all about Satanic, right?
So throw all the buffs on him.
Watch nine class sitting on the sidelines,
waiting for the moves to get that save when it looks scary for satanic for a
second and I'll ask you doing the work and honestly the fact that vision where
split as they were here it kind of works their favor because spirit you
could sort of tell they didn't really know where to go for your torque he
actually used a fair bit of time at the start to bring down the enchantress
about the time he turns up to try and take down the rest of them they've
got enough firepower and survivability to turn take the fight in their
favor and your Tory can feel it here he's like guys we can't do this I've
Gotta get out of this one. Oh, this is such absurdly high-skilled though that's a panic full MKB now to have to answer for the eventual butterfly
I guess I eventually a total has the butterfly. He's got an MPB as it comes out
That's huge that's it for satanic and they got the gen there right as well
He did and I think it was actually so I missed all their apologies now
I saw the replay he didn't actually end up getting the save from nine class
I think it was due Collis's four snap that ended getting that positioning for satanic or it was his four
One of the two I didn't see which one it was smoke up
Ready to go again. I'm a vision. They're like if we can do that into an aegis
Imagine what we can do into without an aegis
Into an aegis and into a high ground positioning that Spirit had to they're gonna feel very strong after that last play vision
Ready to go again. We're getting treated with such beautiful
Less than just a 3k lead here at this point both teams battling it duking it out
And as you said, Gatoro, he is the key to watch.
He is everything for the side of spirit in this game.
Meta is back up there, looking for the angle.
That's it, showing in the mid.
Crush.
All right.
We're going to see the cars.
But to quickly take down the edge, the vision want to do anything without their
enchantress.
It doesn't look like it.
They respect the fact that that pick-off's made.
They weren't trying to fight all of you five.
They didn't have to spend anything either on the side of Spirit to get that kill.
They've got everything at the ready.
Didn't even use the matter.
Just used the Demon's Seal to close the gap.
What's this, who?
This is the concern as well for both sides.
If you lose a team fight, the enemy, as long as they're carries up, I'm going to be
able to push so fast.
Yes.
They killed these buildings in sync.
Some of the fastest pushing items I think we're going to see.
Listen, as you said too, having this double jab, they're able to take that one
away.
It's going to be big for the next upcoming movements in terms of map control.
neck and neck again this game. And to pivot to, we did see right from our
notice, going for this AC in this last teamfight, you absolutely could feel that
overwhelming physical, even though it was at the airblade, with 50 armor, you
started to see those right flicks coming from the SM. And I'm sort of going the
other way as well, it was taking a long time for you to try to bring anyone down
despite how far he is. So once that now Hydra's breath is complete, it's, you
know, that's gonna help out a lot. It's on the way out on the chorea. The
a good step up to the damage output, obviously, all right?
And I mean, I could have said this now for 35 minutes,
but what I was talking about, this isn't pretty much being
all the time.
Oh, no, it's just, so is Spirit.
How you found Lyle?
Well, we'll try and push it back and catch him in the Sprout.
What is this?
He's going to be careful, feels that Lyle might have
backups.
He doesn't want to try and push to finish the kill.
Send inside Spirit.
They'll look to see if they can catch the rest of Vision,
split up, and no, he's already in with the jump
on towards them.
Commits him with the rolling thunder.
They're going to find the Dark Willow.
They've got the Yul's control on to Collapse.
He has to put the VKB and step back.
Toro, the wrap around Yutaro, here with the better monsters.
Static, Static, Static tries to force away.
He'll get the rep promotion for the VKBs after Yutaro.
Static, he's thrown back by Nyclash, Nyclash, getting him out of there.
He's back!
Finally, let's fly through.
Static will fall.
How did Yutaro get that positioning?
That was insane.
Has the Hydro breath for the flight too, so it just grips the shadow.
And they were so quick to make that move.
They saw sort of that play that Nocchus went for down bottom onto LL,
and they were like, well, we could go on them in the mid,
try and force the chaos, and they succeed in doing so.
At this point, there's no SF for a full minute.
Are they going to close the game?
They're going to go to your force.
They're going to feel it.
The clip was popped.
They're going to pick up for the MKB, spend the money.
He does not have the money for buyback.
Yatoro knows that this is the opportunity to do serious damage
and maybe even threaten the game.
Oh, and they might be able to close it out.
It's 50 seconds.
And they say they've done it so fast.
Nocchus, he's in for the cross.
It's a big collapse, don't get in the cool connection to Nocice, Nocice turns towards Yatora, but he's gotta be careful, they hit son, the raft goes through, the route's there, Nocice is gone!
Oh my god, I mean, Yatoro, how does he find that angle to get on top of them there?
Nocice is gonna have to buy back, okay. Zero fours aren't dropping, oh one.
A good angle here, but the Romington, they catch you by the middle of the carry, jump into the crush, that's Lall gone.
Okay, they chase for more.
Lall does have a buy back if he wants to make a crazy move.
Yatora?
That's still good.
He's going to take him out of the 9th class and no one is going to try and jump forward to chase him towards him.
They are coming down, because they collapsed!
That's not going to happen! That's 9th class out!
He keeps low and Yatoro say...
Yatoro, he wants to go back in on this.
He's looking towards no one, but the bash comes in for notice.
Yatoro trying to stab his ground against the slardar.
He's fighting!
He's going to trade the bash in there!
Yatoro and Lens!
The uppercut!
And the suffer!
And he jumped back no matter!
He's back up for the HP.
B, the guy's still trying to pick him away.
Blue, he's gonna be the sacrifice.
Leave the toss behind.
Get your taro blade out of there.
Oh my god, he literally just got the manor.
He was sitting at 25, just picks it up to that 15,
gets the sundown as a losing, it saves him.
Oh my goodness, they get double cheer for us.
They'll get the rain tracks, not the melee,
but forcing heavy buybacks.
He didn't know it as well, expending his Laurel.
Two big core buybacks.
Laurel did buyback in it to make sure
that he could protect his buddy.
So that was used there,
but a big hit spirit blowing open the game.
And you can watch Sotanic in the fight,
but we'll wait for this one again afterwards actually,
chase forward.
Just able to bail Yatoro out.
Maybe if they got that Yatoro kill,
things would have looked to be in a bit of a
smoother spot off the defense,
but not getting the terror blades as desperately
as they tried, collapse, keeping him safe
from that initial jump from nine-class.
And at this point, even though notice
get some top of him. Yatoro is so far. He's got so much armor. It's so hard to notice the finish of the job.
And as you say, getting just enough air to get that Sunday playoff.
It was literally, look at this. He just, he was the toggle to spend.
He needed it.
Yep. The Tread switch did it.
I think he had no bet anyway without it.
But it was still cool to see that he goes for the play.
But he's anticipating these type of moves.
I amassed it from Spirit. Yatoro now level 25.
It's hard for Satanic. It's hard for SF in general to fight versus a TV.
Without BKB, he's just getting, he can't lifesteal.
They're gonna be ready to jump again, Satanic might not be ready for this.
Collapse.
It's quick.
Oh, he's having a slide away from the range of the call.
I mean, Satanic needs more help with these fights though, because he can't lifesteal.
You're getting hit from the Scotty, you cannot turn and lifesteal with your Satanic.
It's also getting robbed, of course, from the Kralas, but...
My goodness, Spirit, looking to potentially close this down.
I'm gonna go in again.
Looking for another fight.
They know that the buyback situation, it's not in a great spot for vision.
They can find a big catch. They can put an end to this game spirit. No one.
Careful.
Such tense moments. These next moments of vision are everything.
Collapsed.
I give this a praise. That's a no one.
But those quick reactions.
What an absolutely insane game so far here.
I mean, so in these teamfights, what do you do if you're vision?
Is it sort of just a case then for Satanic to sort of, if he sees the metamorphosis come
out, you have to just get out completely?
Can you actually fight into your Torah when he has the metamorphosis up?
It's hard to say exactly.
This TB is something, it's a force to be reckoned with.
They don't really have the best answers.
Even the kiting factor isn't there.
Satanic, the matchup in general, right?
TB versus SF, it's heavily favored for TB once it starts getting to these points
because he just has that range advantage.
So I guess it's all-inning, right?
They have to close the gap and fully all-in for Yatoro, and just somehow try to bring
him down to that, but it's easier said than done.
Especially now that his levels are starting to come in for him.
He's got extra saving tools with the Satanic himself.
And the Yatoro might just be able to get himself another Aegis here, ready for the
push.
The third Roshan is going to be that Refresher's Shard.
On top of that, and always too, right?
Yatoro, he can light steal in the fights.
He can't be able to stand his ground.
isn't that mitigation in the same type of factor. He also has a hard save with the toss
potentially. He also has a blast too. Multiple different ways for it after bailing out now at
this point. Together, chance of course, with the way the draft played out, you know,
SF's taken early. They get to think through the whole draft, what carry to carry matchup
they want to play with. And you know, if anyone's going to be the master of the SF and know
exactly what the SF's going to be playing into, it's going to be Yatoro. And as we're seeing
that matchup. Get to that point now this game. The sort of weakness that might have been there,
because they had to make this pivot, put the nature's profit mid, and go for this greedy
route, they've gotten completely through that.
Yeah. I mean, the itemization for Laurel is genius, right? Just the agonies who don't
see it as much anymore. It is absolutely making that difference to protect whole targets in place.
If you had gone just straight right click build, right? They could have lost these mid-game
teamfights super hard. The game could have just completely collapsed for them there. So
So, it's gonna be everything for them.
Talking about Aghanem's, what's the item Aghanem's picked up for Yatora?
That's a blessing.
It is the full blessing, so he started at use immediately, he's ready to go all in.
Has that Aegis, of course, so Second Life is there and knows that there's gonna be
the time, they're going to want to do something within the next two minutes or so, whilst
these three buybacks are still unavailable for vision.
It's just hard to see how they kill Yatora at this point, even through the one
life as we saw in that top fight.
have so many ways to protect even have that cheese of course too for the next
fight that he can just really pass it over to him as well just another very
very low death game for your tour only dying the once he has played this game
absolutely flawless pretty much the series as well right even in the loss
had a very impressive scoreline on his shadow being vision you can tell
they're feeling that pressure now satanic has yet to really grown the
next item. One failed defense away from losing the game. Spirit, your pivot and adaptation
in this game has been beautiful to watch. Vision has taken some good fights but now
this is our time to take this fight. Who's gonna be the one to go first? Get rid of the
banner. Titanic's gotta be careful when your throw starts to get his hands on him
like this. I heard him. A lot of damage, bringing down some half-baked people. So you know what,
trying to get the backbite, but the BKB's out for collapse, get the call as well, on
towards notice. Notice he's out to BKB, but the punch-up's down. Yatoro bringing in the
damage, notice, trapped by the charge, notice, he's gone. Five acts still on call down
for a minute and a half. It's just so hard for them to execute the fight. They roll
in, they try anything there, but they just can't collapse. It's just too fast.
I mean, who is gonna touch Yatoro? Who's gonna go for the jump? Nobody can get
any way close to him right now as he's taken away the rest of the base.
So that's where we get the call, there'll be the rebound to try and fail no one out of this.
But he still tries back in, they're catching him off to the side.
No one's there also without the flyback. It's so much need is called.
Team Spirit take game three.
That fight is big, where Yatoro gets this angle.
They know that notice is going through this play on bottom
and he just sandwiches on top of Sophanic.
So Tandy couldn't attack. I think these last two fights he just has to spend the entire time trying to run away from this
Terriblade, and he just can't. That's this matchup. It gets to this point. You can't get close to him. You can't get away from him.
You're getting ripped to shreds, Yatoro.
Absolutely beast performance from him. I mean wait wait wait, I have to hear right concerns about the fact that the Terriblade was left in the draft
Vision, they felt that if it was gonna come in and the switch up had to happen with the nature pocket going mid
that they'd have to, the counts, that they'd have to advantage in the teamfights,
they just couldn't find enough of them.
The game stagnates, it slowed down and Spirit are able to close it up.
2-1 right now in this Grand Finals here at the International for Spirit.
It is exactly what Loll was talking about in one of his winners interviews yesterday,
where he said, we can play a late game, we can play it fast,
we can play essentially whatever we want to be able to draw to themselves.
and this time around, it really
shows because we favored them
each and every game into the
laning phase and out of it.
But this time around, it felt
like, well, they're gonna have
more of a competition at the
end of the day when they very
clearly live up to that and
surpass it. Yeah, I think this
is more what traditional spirit
compared to I think the past
couple of games like you said
have been very much about
early temple about winning
lanes, a very different look
that's more suited to the new
supports. But this game was
classic spirit. They've got
the late game. They know
they've got the lake and
They're fighting. They're taking incredibly clutch fights and outplaying people and just buying their time because the clock is ticking vision
Can hear it in their ear, but they can't do anything about it
They're just amazing to watch at TI
I mean their ability to recognize what they need to do to win games has been so consistent throughout the years that this time around
It feels like they have the play to back up the vision in their mind in this game
It was just about which carry could hit other people for longer
Which team could enable the other carry to hit people for longer and team spirit?
were able to isolate satanic in so many of these fights get the correct jump and make it so that
he couldn't stand his ground as us often trunk into team spirit and eventually the game gets to
the point where we see when it was making the final push on the high ground he is just standing there
and sf is hitting him and each rebar isn't moving because all the damage on team vision
side is physical and he just doesn't take physical damage it's one of tv's best traits
has incredible armor and they abuse it to its full extent in the series i mean this is
that moment that you're talking about where it feels like it may be spirit
have overstepped a little bit by going straight for that throne which is a call
I love to see I feel like it's incredibly bold especially in the grand finals
and TV's just standing there he does not care at all whatever this slot is
this year in 15 times it took 10 damage like it's generous yeah in fact like the
the heroes like game is just it's completely psychotic in games like this
and I think vision it's a weakness that it seems spirit are exposing that
vision they don't like it when the enemy team has the late game they
They are not doing well enough in lanes against Spirit compared to how they are against other
teams.
Spirit is surviving that early game, they're getting off to a decent upstart, the vision
can't run them over, and then if Spirit's chilling with the late game then we've got
some big problems.
I also feel like Puppy talks about like the team fight superiority that they're going
to have as the game progresses.
But they borrow itemized around it, right?
He bought the Agonyms on the Nature's Profit, it gives you this huge AoE of root
on everything that the ulti hits.
And it's just smart decisions like this that, you know, when Spirit are doing well,
you can see why.
They can overcome what they're lacking with their drafts through items.
They're finding ways to make things come together even when they don't have those natural
tools in the hero.
I'm still just so impressed with what was happening in the carry to carry matchup because
we love to see what your Toro can bring in a TI finals.
Psyk Tannik, it's his first time and he has been the shining light time and time
again in every game full of vision.
This time around they wanted to put the same faith in there and for the earlier part
of it, it really was that narrative.
it really was that story.
And so just getting essentially this free,
terrible late game and getting to have your tour
on something so comfortable,
blows my mind as to how he performs.
I mean, I forgot the heroes in the pool,
but I think even more importantly now,
Spirit has a huge edge mentally over Team Vision.
Because Team Vision, they even ran over in game one,
they'd almost got ran over in game two,
and now they got carry match up in the last pick.
So when you go into that last pick,
the amount of options that you have to consider,
because I think up until the TV,
Spirit were the ones that have to play tempo spirit were the ones that have to play fast
But with the TV they completely fit the draft and they put themselves in a late game position
And there's a lot of heroes they need to consider now for your bands
Hey, it's always been exceptional
But we can see not me be pulled up on the graphic right now
And he played a really great game too that high ground defense that team spirit had versus team vision when they got that
Ages and they were trying to pressure really early on there's a three-man curse crown that they lost to if they were
to disengage with the Marcy
rebound, but a lot of this game
also just added up to the
spirits on support. The
supports on spirit being able
to control team vision. Whereas
if you look at team vision
supports between an
enchantress and Marcy, there
really isn't that much
controls. There was less
maneuverability to work around
in the team fights. There
was less consistency in the
high ground fishes. I fully
agree with that. Her puppy
mentioned in the coach
interview after game two that
he thinks they're out
drafted in game one and two
I think the Poshka is dancing
circles around them and I think
that is a big reason why the
series has felt like spirit is
dominating and vision did win the
game too. But overall it felt
spirit side and I think a lot of
that is due to the prep is due to
the situations they're setting
themselves up in. They've got
comfort. They've got late game
and it just feels like it's
games that spirit is very happy
with. There were moments of
to come out in the grand finals, see what you think is going to be on paper a fantastic
matchup and pick an uncontested hero here. Almost works out for them. There are a lot
of clutch plays from the Marci style. I mean, it is a line-class hero, but I think Puppy
didn't want to say it, but almost all of his heroes are banned out. When I looked at the
bands, there was a hoodwink, and hoodwink is not traditionally a hero that he plays.
So I feel like he didn't want to go for that. He rather wanted the comfort. It's a TI
final pressure. He felt like, I want to play something I know how to play. And it also,
and added to their concept right of adding damage to the SF it gives him
More tools we were seeing the the uncontested here is here
And you know we had two more on it when we started the day
But both the disruptor and the mazzi now being picked up it always feels like they're all free game right now when you could pick anything for yourself
Yeah, when you get into that zone that ti zone of creativity, you're just you're looking for what makes sense right now
You don't care about the meta ti grand finals is its own meta you throw everything else out the window
It's trash we have what we have now and that's all that matters
And on the topic of the Marcy, she was dodged.
Like there was this idea that they wanted to Marcy Slardar and bully the enemy carry,
but they ended up dodging that matchup because of the task protection.
So they just read into it on Team Spirit.
I love it. The reading is there.
The balance is there and dropped as well.
But TI just keeps giving whether it's new heroes
or whether it's special content pieces coming out for a home crowd here in Shanghai.
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enjoyable moment every year, where we get to see the creative boost that comes out in
skydive, getting the absolute list, long list of legends, and multiple training there just for
herald four like the rest of us. Yeah, I'm not sure I understood all the references, but I still
enjoyed it mightily. My goodness. It's also cool to get to see all the Chinese pros and
people in the scene from like, I don't know, it's been such a long time we've been in Dota,
so to get to see burning and all these legends is very, very cool.
And hearing the crowd respond to all the cameos was incredible. They were so loud, especially for slacks.
You know, I mean, the master of all masters.
No, that was a great content piece. I had a blast watching it. It was really, really nice.
It's always really fun. It feels like it really does do a service to everyone that's given so much of their lives,
so much of their times, giving us like such notable plays as well, specifically from our Chinese noticing.
So I love it. Thank you guys so much again for putting in all of that effort for making what it was,
is such a fun content PC.
But at the end of the day, the one reason a lot of us
are still tuning in is the grand finals.
We still have not decided who is going
to be lifting that Aegis right now.
Spirit of two games in this one,
it is vision with one game for themselves.
And when you look towards it, it
is only one more game spirit need
until we have two, three times TI champions, a two-time TI
champion in LAL as well.
And a first time TI attendee lifting the Aegis and not me.
like it's crazy to think you will one game away from getting to achieve all of that together in the five minute
Yeah, I think you need to be careful that that pressure doesn't affect you
I think this team is as good at not doing that as anyone is staying strong and focusing on the gameplay at hand
But the closer you get I think the more of a temptation it becomes as a classic
Coral line of don't think about winning and I think there is truth in that that you want to stay focused on
Actually playing the game not on the result that happens if you do because while that's cool and all that is not relevant right now
Because it's not a reality. Yeah, it's zero zero, right? You start over the game just fresh nothing
The water doesn't care there to the end stop, right? It's not gonna be more forgiving to you
Or it's not gonna make you deal more damage. None of your heroes change
It's all starting over from scratch and an equal opportunity for both teams here really
We're looking at the number of TI appearances
And it's so fun to get to look at the numbers and then kind of put it into a percentage into a different sort of
perspective. If spirit were to win on here, it would be a 50% win rate at TI for Yatoro,
Maposhka, and collapse. That's crazy. They've attended six. This one being their six, and
to win three of them would be wild.
That's insane. That's like, because the TI is a team spirit, didn't win. They got knocked
out early. It really feels like the story with this team has been, if you don't knock
them out early, they're going to evolve and develop into this Pokemon that no
No one can defeat, you know, just like Dove went on her journey and not talk to me.
To become the master of all masters is what's happening here.
But it's not like Vision are going to go down without a fight though in CD.
We saw them really bounce back in game number two.
That's the hope.
I'm hoping they're holding on to that, knowing that they can stick it to spirit if it
gets that late game.
Absolutely.
And I think they've proved it time and time again throughout the event.
All their matches have been two-once.
That means you've been put in these positions before where you're only one game away
from losing the series and you have to clutch it out.
So they know that it's not a position they're not familiar with, they're very familiar with
it.
And I think they are just like Spirit.
They're a team that learns a lot from the draft, they can improve with every game that
they play.
And to be honest, the story of this series so far seems to be like you want to make
sure you have the end game win condition.
Yeah.
And they also haven't had that for those three games.
And so while they may be down and they seem like Spirit has been doing better throughout
the series, it's not that distant.
Like that's the thing about these games is you can be losing and can't even feel
it's a little thominant. When
you go back and you watch the
replay you look at the draft.
It's such small things change
that give you such a big
advantage and you've had a bigger
gap now right between games
three or between games to three
and four three and four. Sorry
there is a longer break. And so
that means you have more time
to think about things more time
to reset a little bit to process
how you want to change your
draft and come in stronger. And
so I think that break helps the
team that's down a little
bit because you get to process
things and figure a little bit
more out. I know this is
such a weird question to ask,
you get that elongated break.
What is the process of it?
Because I'm also aware that these guys have been going at it
for hours, and I know that recovering is one aspect of it.
But are you out there caffeinating more?
Are you eating?
Like, what are the other ways in which you're
trying to utilize the fact that you have a longer break
instead of just talking about the dodo?
I think a lot of it depends on person to person, I think.
Because some people would need to work on the draft.
But that's not everyone.
It's not something you want too many cooks in the kitchen.
You want just enough.
And so I think some people are leaning back in their chair.
You have a little bit of food.
just chilling and sort of, and you eat a little bit and you wait for the next game.
And I think some people are going the other route, they're drinking coffee,
they're drinking whatever caffeine they need, and they're focusing on the draft
and doing the hard work.
And so I think the leadership roles, maybe the no one and the puppy,
they're taking the hard road.
If we need to fix problems and work on things and you should tanics
and you notice your newer players there, I'm going to steal myself.
I'm going to play as well as I can for the upcoming game.
I do think that a pep talk needs to happen though for vision,
especially for their supports, because something that I wanted to talk about was,
I do think the supports, the duos are getting dipped this game, even in that game too.
I feel like in all three games, Team Spirit supports have been moving to the mid lane and outpacing vision supports.
They've been clutching the late game, they've been able to do more with what they have than team vision.
And when I look at this, I don't really see the issues with the cores and how they've been playing.
It's more so how the supports are enabling them and team vision are a little bit lackluster today compared to Rulin not me.
I mean, it applies to the hero pools and the drafts, right?
We saw in this game three, Spirit, Spans are all over 9 class.
None of the heroes that he really, like, wants to play are given to him.
He's forced to play the smart C.
I know Poppy said they wanted to do it.
It's a cool idea. I could definitely see it work.
There's potential for it.
And I think, honestly, any other hero than the TB,
they probably put it with the Star-Ardard, like you said, Mira.
And then they try to run over that lane,
but once TB comes out, it's just, this isn't possible anymore.
And that's just I think draft-wise fear has been solving that they've making it hard for the sports to have that info
I think another big like factor that comes into it is these games for us
You just have to stay mentally strong that to me was the biggest thing out playing at I final is it's such a mental test
It's just different than every other series and all your hopes and dreams are so close
Especially now that you've gotten deeper into the series being able to just focus on the dough
it and push all those things aside is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do and so I feel for
these players and I look and see how they come into the booths and how the game starts and trying to
feel how they feel because it is I think honestly it's harder than the Dota itself is the mentality
that goes into it and being strong and fortifying yourself to actually be able to play the game to
the fullest of your ability. Yeah I do think that's where team spirit shines with that mental
fortification but just to address the graphic that came on the screen they had the same kill
participation in nine class of not me. And what Ada mentioned about the draft is very true because
if your willow has like three man curse crowns and one terrorize in a team fight in your Marcy,
all she can do is rebound. There's not that much you can do. The support duos and their heroes
have looked like they don't have enough. I mean, at some point you can break
the order down simply to the more control we have, the easier the late game will be.
You could just look towards fixing the angles of control. Maybe enchantress should be benched
for the next game. Perhaps. I mean, I think the idea with the Marcy here was just like,
like we're gonna bail out our carry right but bailing someone out when he's in a losing matchup and he doesn't win by surviving is the issue
That really is like where it's just like you know spirit are their geniuses and there's a reason they're here
And it's also impressive that they can do that with this phone thing
Yeah, I feel like when you're doing the Marcy and you that is the pivotal part for her
That's the world that she wants to play you're almost saying we don't actually really want to team fight
We might poke and we might try and all in but at the end of the day
That isn't really out and mo with what we're going for you. Yeah, it's it's tough and you just have to
You kind of you either have to pick a path and do your own thing and just pick your own heroes and say spirits gonna counter us
And that's okay. We believe in our heroes a whole lot
That's one path and the other route if you try to play spirits game
You see you're gonna counter our strategy on a you know higher level
We're gonna try to do the same thing
And I think you have to kind of pick a path because in some ways I think they're dilly-dallying between the two
Sometimes they're picking their own stuff and sometimes they're trying to overwatch encounter
And if you're getting a bit outplayed at spirits game, and they're not quite fully committing to the other way
Yeah
I mean what you mentioned there in regards to the previous game like they opened up with a shadow fiend
They wanted to build up the shadow fiend to be this critical point in the game where
Satanic just stands there and chunks that everybody so they enable him with an app damage and a mercy sidekick
But at some point it really wasn't working out to actually get him to play the game ended with the tourist
terrible at having 55,000 hero damage and Satanic's Asaf having 20,000 hero damage. He just was
not able to stand there and hit. So maybe it's because they didn't fully commit to the
idea of building up a turret and Asaf, maybe the Pango plus Sardar together made it redundant
and we needed one more enabler.
I do think there's even more credit that goes the way of Spirit and Maposhka is because
they first picked the Nature's Prophet and they go in thinking that this is going
to be a Yatora, Nature's Prophet, right? They're not really calling this a lull is
go to be comfortable playing and even if they do then they're willing to call that bluff and it is almost an exact replica of
What happened in game one where they're trying to call the bluff again on loss here a pool
He doesn't play that slot and even if we do we'll try and dodge the matchup
He doesn't play nature's profit. Well, he does there are seven competitive games for him
And whilst the win rate before this game wasn't necessarily positive
He's still comfortable enough to do it and I feel like you can't keep resting on the laurels that you're going to call
the blot of Law's hero pool anymore. I think if you go back to the draft even like they end up last
banning Monkey King. Like Monkey King isn't really a hero that we've seen much and I feel like when
I was looking at the draft I feel like they felt so good about the first four heroes, matchups,
into the other four that they didn't really think about is there anything that could in
any possible way stomp our draft in the end because if you remove Terribley from Spirit there
I don't know what they pick. I feel like no matter what they pick they're going to be
playing like a temple style, they're going to have to try to like ramp up this game.
And I think Satanic is a person that is much more comfortable when he's the person being
templeed on rather than when they have to be the ones setting the temple.
Yeah. I mean, they're built in pubs. These players are playing so many of these games where
everyone's running at them. They see Satanic or your tours and lobbying and they charge at them.
You built this incredible skill set of dodging ganks of surviving, of getting farmed anyway.
And the flip side is just not something that really gets built to the same degree,
especially when you're a young player who's only been playing competitively
for two to three years you want to put him in the strong suit where he's been molded and formed and let him do the things that he's so
Ridiculously insanely good at that's gotten him all the way to this finals
I'm just looking at the fact that spirit once again
They sacrifice some part of the hair to the Dota gods and it feels like right now the tides aren't turning against them when it comes to
Favorability because they have had that advantage now
You guys have coined it in all three drops vision off looking necessarily like the team that they have in the upper bracket
where they haven't dropped a single series,
where they took that part into the grand finals here
because they're one team down,
and whilst they take to the stage again,
there is that seat of doubt.
This could be your final game of TI 15.
This could be it that makes or breaks you.
Yeah, there's a feeling as you walk onto the stage,
if you're looking at the crowd and trying to savor it,
but also focusing that mix of relishing the moment,
but also you need to win.
Your life is on the line here.
Provision and spirit is one giveaway
from being the undisputed goats.
Yeah, it's so close, you know?
I think for them, they've been compared to OG
for all these years, you know, two TI ones each.
It was truly better.
And today, they have the chance to finally end
all discussion.
There's no discussion after this.
If they get the three-peat, it's over.
And Quinn, you've been in a position
where you're like one game from elimination
out of TI Grand Finals against Team Spirit.
Like, how do you steal yourselves
against the force that they are.
I think so much has to do with, like, honesty with each other.
I think a lot of times, at least for us, pressure can get to you
and people can start to feel bad, and you can feel that
in their communication, their atmosphere, and it bleeds into everyone else.
It becomes sort of this fog in the air that you can't quite see through.
And so I think, having an honest conversation,
people who are anxious talking about that,
and you get to the human side of it and you realize that,
hey, this is a privilege, it's a very hard thing, we're all together,
And we're just going to be pushed through it and do the best that we can.
We're seeing here both collapse and you tore the potential three time is the fact that
they're one game away.
And when you look at them, I mean more now than ever before, but I feel like I can't
read them.
I cannot read them at all.
They already have two of these TI rings to themselves to add a third would be insane
and all three as a player.
No one's done that.
Three rings as a player.
I mean, it's a crazy achievement.
I'm sad to see that they both have a full head of hair
walking around and I was hoping
somebody would have shaved their head before coming out.
But they're locked in.
Yeah, they're locked in.
They're locked into the point where they don't need to sacrifice
their own hair.
It's just time to get rid of Nomi's beard, you know?
He's the newbie.
They're gonna get him the TI wins
so long as he's able to give up.
It's crazy to think we have 14
of those beautiful pieces of jewelry
that commemorate every year
that we've gotten to see a team take to that stage
to win a grand finals
to eventually the dreams of
lifting an ages. That spot is
just waiting for them ready to
be ready to be etched in. Their
name is already in game twice
when you hover over the Vegas
they're close to having their
name a third time. You're
barely going to be able to play
the game without seeing their
names everywhere at this point.
So synonymous with Dota in the
past six years, and I think.
It's it is just such an iconic
series and the history of those
players. The fact that puppy
one is first and now at the
the potential to win it again. Part of why Dota is so great is such a rich history and
so many players that have been around for so long and makes all these series mean just
that much more.
Yeah, I just find it so poetic if Team Spirit are able to do this. It's because Mapushka
came back to the team as a coach. It really did feel like when they didn't have him
earlier in this year, they were lacking something very deep. His ideas in Dota really
are why Team Spirit became what they are. He's the one who influenced Claps and
Toro and turn them into the players that they are he's the one who influenced satanic satanic when he played on the
Stint stint on Tuesday
It was the poshka who took the guiding role and talked him about their ideas and now he's come as a coach
He lost the best of three or two days ago to puppy a lot of it was due to getting out drafted by puppy
But he prepared really hard. He's been showing up today, and he's been absolutely frying him to be honest
Yeah, I mean there this is all about the strategies
I think both teams honestly when you look at the gameplay
They are playing well. All the players deserve to be here. They're playing at a level that, you know, it is
Well, you have to be able to play out in order to be in a TI Grand Finals
But ultimately when the teams are so closely matched
It's going to come down to who has those slight advantages through the graph who has the slightly easier
Graph to execute and who has more opportunities to do things in the games and who have more opportunities to win the games
And I think right now Impostor is giving that to his team
There's still full belief though that puppy is able to take this extended break between a game three
of four work out that maybe they're playing too much into what spirit wants for themselves playing
their game lost themselves a little bit because it's not over. You have this game and you still
have satanic on your team satanic stood in for team spirit when yotara wanted to take a break. He
ends up joining vision. They hit top three last year. They at least bested this year with a
guaranteed top two, but they want to take it that one step further and you want to be able
to push into a game number five to show that this Prince and King battle isn't as
straightforward as everyone wants to chalk it up today.
Yeah this is not over yet. Vision have something to say
and they get a chance to prove it here. They bounce back once before, they bounce
back in every series they've played to get here.
If anyone can do it, it's them. Their players are incredible and they have
all the tools. Man I wish we would just stop talking.
So casters, please give us game and we can just
go watch some good Dota. Please not. I promise you the grand finals
is continuing as a lot rides on game number four.
Team Vision versus Team Spirit Grand Finals, game four.
The lobby start button at least has been pressed.
The game start is still to be decided as we want to see what five heroes these guys
are going to pick for themselves.
10. We will have an out matchup because game for we said it before and we'll say it again. It is a make or break
If you call us asked for the rematch of the prince and the king and you've got to wonder what exactly are they gonna plan for themselves here?
Is it going to be another carry to carry matchup where you want to be able to put all of your eggs into the satanic basket?
We'll be seeing more emphasis placed on the support right now a tree and protect that doc will have found you on a nature's
profit and shadow 3 taken out
That's interesting the shadow team was super heavily prioritized at both teams getting first pick the last two games
And now spirit is first pick and they ban it out. So clearly they have another path
They don't want to mess around with these SF lines anymore
They want to find something new a new avenue to go down. Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be a different game, right?
They've changed basically the hero that's been so defining for this entire series in the SF
It was what made the game one happen
It's what made game two happen and it's also a big game three happen
So we have a completely new draft in front of us.
We see Lone Druid is finally banned out by Vision this time around.
It's been a hero that I feel like both teams have kind of drafted around this entire time.
We haven't seen him pop up, but the threat of him has been influencing every single pick that's we've seen in the previous games.
Yeah, and I think that was a really strong read by Puppy to ban the Lone Druid,
because what other hero could justify banning a Stephanie in first pick?
It is the Lone Druid, and you don't want to play against these SF plus Slardar matchups again versus him.
versus him. Poppy is like, nah, we see you, we're not doing it. And they end up banning
Urspirit at the end.
Another big difference in this draft is that all the supports are in. We've been seeing
all the supports getting banned out in all the previous games. Spirit in this position
have been prioritizing Winter Wyvern a lot in previous games. And for Vision, we have
the potential of an Ember coming out into a Slark ban. So there's a lot of these
things that are going on right now and the conversations are surrounding these
heroes and how we can counter them down the line if they do come out.
There's also Bane that's been getting consistently banned that's been lept through
Same thing with the Coddle provision. So I honestly like this adaptation provision saying we're bang support support
It wasn't working. Okay, give them their sucks. Whatever will ban the cores instead
I think there's a cool change up and force is a different angle that maybe spirit has less preparation for
Again also an IO angle that this hero has emerged as one of the heroes of TI and
And when you have the Winter Wyvern on your team, you could be preparing for it as well
as a soft counter to the iron.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
I mean, I think, even in the first game, when Vision played I.O., I feel like they never
really got to play the hero.
So it's something that they might still look for down the line.
I think it's absolutely a threat.
Wyvern is good against it, but it's such a strong hero that you're going to need
more than that.
We talked about a couple of times that Nine Class has been really heavily focused
in the bands.
This is also a good adaptation, saying he's been playing Hoodwing and Morrissey, and some
heroes are a little bit less ideal for him.
And so we're saying we're just going to give him a hero that's not only great against
Winter Wyvern, but is just a super comfort hero for him and Vision have had a lot of
success with.
It opens up for a lot of combinations that Vision are really comfortable with, with
the Cottle, like the Ember Spirit and the Pango.
The Ember gets taken out, and I wonder if they care enough or are threatened enough
by the Pango to address it or to just let it through.
I mean it remains to be seen Wyvern I think is a pretty decent hero against pango in some ways because you can kind of
Juke him out over hills you can play over cliffs you also have the curse if you manage to curse a strong turret hero to the pango it
Sometimes almost immediately kills him
So there is some counter play there with the Wyvern
But I don't think it's again. It's not enough to dissuade you from picking pango if it's good against the rest of the heroes
Yeah, definitely definitely still an option all the things you said are very true. I
I think it's with Kotal, generally you want spell casting nids, right?
You want to enable some hero that abuses the mana so you can farm faster
and you can fight more, have more uptime on the map.
That's one of Kotal's biggest strengths, is it allows your cores,
especially your mid-hero, because subs just tend to play with the mid-hero.
That means they can stay on the map, which gives you more attacks,
allows you to defend more places because resources are such a huge part of the early game.
I think that's absolutely one part of it, and the other part of Kotal's gameplay is the healing.
And this is probably what has made Kotal into one of the strongest modern
supports is that it heals and healing works really well with any sorts of damage reduction or if you're really tanky if you're
You die too quickly the heels won't come in call it takes quite a while to wind up the heels
So you want to make sure you have a tanky enough draft to where you can survive the initial round of spells from your opponents for the
Heal to thank you. Yeah, very true and healing lineups are so problematic because
Fires in Earth spirit and Ember spirits from the mid lane are already taken out
The other ones that buy a vessel like what spirit aren't that good in the meta and anti-heal heroes like ancient operation are super
So when you're playing against it is very pesty and you kind of solve it through insane damage from your carry
And heroes like that like terribly banned out and Kez countered by dooms can't be picked here
Yeah, it's a nice setup
But that vision of her light on this doom previously in the tournament too also
Doom against all of these like throughout history
Super star players like we got miracles, you know, yatoro obviously when they get doomed
They're not the same player
They don't get to click buttons and it doesn't matter how good you are if you're stunned
or if you're doomed and you're not allowed to press buttons, nobody, nobody, nobody how
skilled you are to play the game.
You'll sense ourselves it, right?
Sampitaway from the doom.
Also, not me, his clock has been left in the pool.
He hasn't gotten his hands on this here yet.
I'm curious to see if they go for a double melee off lane.
It's not something that either team has really been favoring so far in this finals.
People want strong lanes.
They want to come in and fight you and contest the early game and not give
you what you want and play a slower game.
you want to start off on the right foot. So it is, it won't, you know,
sacrifice a little bit of the early game if they go for the claw force here,
but we've seen how much not he can do on the hero. Yeah. Okay.
They just think he's just too good. Just give it to him.
He's a bad guy.
There was still that chance though that sentil plays mid.
I'm not saying it's something that spirit necessarily love and center is
such an archetype of a collapse here,
but there is still that we don't want to fall into the trap of calling spirits
bluff either about Loll's hero pool at this point in TI.
I'm going to call your trap. And I think you've been talking too much to
Falcons. Oh my god. I really hope you don't get a sun permit. I didn't say it was good. I'm just saying. Yeah. I mean
It's a possibility. Absolutely. And you know that has been the ammo for this series, right? They keep tricking us and
Vision into thinking this is what they're doing with their draft and in the last big they flop it all up
So it is obviously a possibility
In cities beneath at 1%
Yeah, I think I'm like the Dota plus meter right now. Yeah, very far to life
Yeah, it's a very fair suggestion because that's been the story of the series.
But the reason why it works so well on Falcons is because Malarion likes to do it.
I don't think Laurel is willing to do anything, but would he be willing to do this for his team?
It is so boring.
I mean, I feel like at this point we can't count him out,
but I would think it's a collapse center.
It's one of his signature heroes. He loves to play it.
Vision also seemed to think that way because he decided to pick the lifestealer.
There's quite a high commitment here once you pick it it needs to have a good lane if it doesn't the hero just seems useless
So they think it is to they commit to this lane matchup and it is obviously pretty strong matchup for life
Okay, and with this it seems like they are somewhat committed to it being
Central offline I think
I also think since our mid just doesn't scale the super wall against lifestealer
So they're okay playing the lane and this is the lane where satanic will have complete free farm
We've seen a couple of games now where spirit's got a lot of pressure on vision safe lane
It's a tennis does not have the freest game that he would you know hope for and so in this game
He will have that great start and ta also has a pretty good lane
I think he gets doom it's a classic counter because even if you do him
He just blink away because it goes on a refraction and then you haven't cancelled his blink yet
So I think both carries are set up for good games, which you know, maybe we get the epic anime fight
That's what I'm hoping for
I do think that TA is a higher execution carry than lifestealer though, because she's been nerfed a lot on the lane, so she can't oppress the enemy offlaner the way that she used to, so the enemy offlaner will have more net worth than there are.
And eventually, even if you can blink out, you get doomed, so it gets really hard to play in that late game, especially when doomed gets a lot of congregations of the deep with the Shiva's Guard.
At that point, that hero is so absurd.
Yeah, I always feel like once Doom gets to Sheva's eyes, the game is over.
I've been saying it time and time again on the panel, but we never get to see it.
But it is an incredibly strong end game timing.
I will say TA against Caudal has quite a lot of things going for her.
She's one of the heroes that can't get blasted in the lane.
You just press refraction the moment you see the horses run towards you.
It's quite a strong matchup in that regard.
They have this pressure set up with a Winter Wyvern that can provide sustain
to outlast any sort of damage that Doom can do to her.
So, I quite like the Leaning Master for Spirit, and we've talked about it in the previous games,
but this Leaning Pressure for them has been really important in order for them to win these games.
So, for that regard, I really like the team.
Yeah, she serves a purpose within the draft that we talked about earlier too, with healing lineups and how they're hard to break through.
She is one of the high burst damage carries that can kill somebody before the Caudal Blast keeps coming out and keep piling up.
I do worry about if she isn't playing Temple. If Spirit are on the back foot this game, I don't have that much faith in my hero.
But if they can win the lanes like they have been the last few games, it should be fine.
I do see one weakness of vision heroes that they lack.
Like playmakers really, Doom is quite farming, Life Stealer is quite farming, and both their supports are heroes that want to sit behind another core who's making moves and cast spells.
And so, as of now, Spirit kind of knows the archetype of mid hero they want, and that can make me mean that you can pick a hero that makes that pick very uncomfortable, or hard to lane, or bad for any number of reasons.
And it also means that once again, T will have a super free game because there's no way she can really die in this game
Barring some, you know, last-piction add-ins
And I still am hanged over team vision
The only counter would be the winter wyvern, but they need that puddle combination
They need something that can play with more on his aggression
I think leaving it is fair though from spirit because that actually begins clockwork is actually quite bad
When he presses roll you just press cogs and it's very hard to see or even if you've got you know some
Serious driver's license
And on top of that TA when you're rolling in she can meld you and just keep
Blasting you as she's sort of a traditional turret
So it's not the easiest pangler game, but the coddle helps with some of those problems
I mean the other deterrent is live and right you have the triple melee core lineup
So the height is highly likely if you're playing pangler you're gonna have heroes post you that potentially you get cursed with you
Is the White Spirit pickable for Vizon, Clint?
It depends on the mid-hero. Up to supports, yes, absolutely. Netherrealm has very much lockdown, really.
So, if you kind of dart in and out, you get on top of the Winter Wyvern, and you're very hard to pin down.
It is just not a very good hero right now. We've seen it picked before.
Lornav played it once during the main stage, and it did not look super great.
And so, it's got to be a pretty perfect game for the hero, I think, to pull it out.
It's a brave hero into doom.
This hero can absolutely ruin your day.
You generally a storm, like of course you can keep zipping around all the time and you'll
never get doomed, but that drains your mana really quickly.
And this hero actually relies on auto-attacking a lot more than people realize.
You kind of want to sit in the place, hit a bit, use the zip to chase someone down.
You don't really want to use it to just stay invulnerable the entire time.
And you can explain this a lot better than I can.
No, it's absolutely true and I think it's a very underrated part of Stormstorm, for all
intents and purposes it's just a right click hero and the zip is a way of getting close
and getting far away from people.
So if you can't stand there and hit, that means you don't actually do any damage because
just flying around doesn't, you don't just do it and you cast one static rammin, okay
it's a 300 damage move.
That's not enough for a core contribution in a fight.
It is still in a way denying vision, being able to have a good coddle combo from
the mid in that Storm Spirit.
You don't have an infinite amount of ban, so leaving it in, picking it up for yourself,
even if it does feel scary playing it into Doom, it at least makes Vision have to think
a bit more and then talk with the Sand King lost pick.
Yeah, the Sand King is just solving the issue of now you have a Storm Spirit, we don't
have enough stuns, how do we deal with the Storm Spirit?
And nothing really was left in the pool aside from the Sand King.
Yeah, and I mean it's not the Falcon's influence that we talked about earlier,
but we definitely see the reference on this final, right?
The Sand King mid comes out, Meldrinn special.
I do remember no one, you know,
they obviously played top three at last TI.
Last TI was a lot about these Sand Kings
and Earthshakers and this archetype of hero mid.
So he's definitely played this before.
He knows how the hero works.
He's like, oh God, mid, Sand King again?
That's why I have to witness this.
There will be a lot of trying to draw the mid lane
and playing off stacks.
That's so much about what this hero is about.
If he doesn't pressure you,
that's very hard to pressure him.
And so attacking vision's triangle,
I think it's a good job of pulling it back. And it's a game that I think they should be very happy with. Honestly, I think the draft is is the best so far and that's super easy to share.
is the best so far and it's not super easy for Spirit.
When you talk about, sorry, very quickly,
you're talking about invading that tribe trying to take stacks,
which hero on the side of Spirit is going to utilize that the best
and you're hoping it's going to be able to take advantage of it.
Probably anybody but Centaur.
If you're doing wall and lanes, just charge and get in there.
Yeah, I mean this top lane I think is going to determine a lot.
Whether how does TA match up into Doomgoes,
I think will determine whether they can actually invade a triangle or not.
And if they're able to do that, they're set up in a great position
position and if they're not able to do it out, I think it's quite tricky to
listen to the end.
I think it's very important for vision supports to be able to enable no one
sanking and play with them because team spirit sports have been running mid and
playing with Laurel for the last few games and if they can get some combos
going with the impale into Marana Aero this game will be a lot more even than
the last one.
So there's more faith then in the earlier part of what vision have for
themselves but then the question is because Spirit have already coined that
They can play every type of game, every playstyle needed.
Is that late game also still incredibly favorable
if vision just want to sit back and farm?
I think vision has a much stronger scaling in this game
than they had in any other game.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, I totally agree.
All right, that is a lot of props to vision
and being able to take advantage of that longer break there.
But we are instead going to be talking to Spirits Coach
if Maposhka is standing by with slacks.
Thank you so much.
Yes, here with Maposhka, one more game,
One more game to be one of the most legendary Dota players of all time.
I just want to talk to you about how you're feeling right now, man.
We're going into it.
A bit nervous.
A bit nervous? You, the goat?
Well, of course, of course, it's like I'm excited for one more game, as you said.
And I can't believe in our draft, I see an idea.
And I'm sure that we can win this game.
So that's why I'm nervous, because they also might win, they also have some good idea in their life, so you'll see.
You made the best team win, man. I did want to ask you about being a leader in your region.
You've trained up so many incredible talents, especially when Satanic was starting off.
I know that you had a big relationship with him. You raised him up from the ground.
Do you regret that? Is that a...
Yeah, yeah, it's true, it's true.
Do you regret that at all?
What?
Regret? Making Satanic good?
I don't know what these regrets are.
Well, I'm sure there are no regrets going in this series.
Thank you so much and incredible to have you here and we will get into that game.
Here we go. Game four time, ladies and gentlemen.
Here the grand finals of the International 2026.
Spirit versus vision and the draft.
They continue to excite fogs right up until the end.
We're getting maybe a couple of minutes that we have seen,
but something that I didn't necessarily expect to see in this sort of situation here from these two teams.
Loro, bring in the storm, and then this pick-and-response, no one.
He's coming in with his mid-sign cake.
Very interesting approaches coming out from both sides.
Lots of iconic heroes the teams do like to play with.
Loro, his storm is one of his best.
The TA, we don't see that many people playing it,
but Gatoro, it's another iconic one for him.
And talking about some of these supports,
we have to mention them.
Nine-class, this time playing his Caudal,
we did mention what he could try to do
on the Marseille man last game,
but started to feel the weaknesses of it.
His Coddle is absolutely amazing, and in it not me, playing his absolutely legendary Coddler,
he has been a game breaker for so many of different teams.
He's just been able to do so much with this hero that so many other players haven't
after some of these nerfs. So my big eyes are in those two players.
Yes, the cores end up doing so much of these games, but my eyes are on the four positions.
So now, I mean, all in all, what did these two drafts sort of say to you in terms of how
the teams wanted to play? Are we seeing for Amvision do something that they've already
done so far this grand finals or is one of these teams switching it up a bit
more than the other relative to what they've played so far. It's different drafts
but you can see some different styles as both teams being like we're gonna have the
late game, no we're gonna have the late game but then you look this time with
this San King last pick it does seem like a fantastic answer to be able to get to this late game scaling
because they will have this chainstone that can come out, they have a coddle that's
synergized with it and if he can get these big connections with his Effies
it's gonna be able to bypass the wider and saves bypass the potential
that Cent are protecting some of these heroes too,
because it is that much overwhelming damage.
So I quite like this pick.
I'm not sure if it's gonna fully end up working out,
but I do like the idea that I see behind the safety.
You can pull it to see what no one's gonna be able
to be doing it.
He is a fantastic playmaker from the mid.
Something a little different from him personally
in response to what we've had from him
elsewise on the mid hero.
Bottom, Arrow will connect onto collapse,
tend to try to trade.
Back and forth play, this is this double melee
the strength hero. Double strength as well too. We'll see what St. Tannen can do. Had a
very solid life stealer showing up here in this ground finals. He set up for success in
this lane, right? He should be able to farm pretty consistent down here unless not he does
some type of crazy cog play, which we can't write that off of course, the amount of nuts
he really is on this hero. Spirits look very good in their lanes though. Across
the board every single one of their games. They're able to secure the free farm especially
for your Toro and every single one of those. This looks at one of those where he is
He's gonna get away with that free-farm. Play versus Doom and a Coddle. Refraction, incredible versus the Coddle Blast.
And then just the Malph versus that Doom. Every time he walks in he needs a Malphit.
I mean, how old are the heroes that we have?
Which one would you say you sort of have the...
Not necessarily the doubts, but the sort of question mark about that might have a tough game?
From what we've learned so far, this international.
I would say it would be the storm from what we see, but the lack of stunning control could take a lot of the time.
It should be a good stone. Yeah, but I feel like we have felt that in some of the other times. We've seen still
It hasn't always gone great for the hero
We'll see how much help he gets because like the panel was talking about something that spirits them pretty much every single one of their games
Even if Laurel does struggle they help him online
They'll send the double supports that people to ensure that he gets off to a good start
And yeah, I'm looking forward to see what Laurel can do with piercing back lines finding the coddle
I think we have similar type of strategy from both of the midlaners where one yes
He's a right-clicking core that's going to be scaling that's the score skirt
While the same king, he does the same type of thing when he jumps the backline.
Climbs the Wyvern, the storm jumps the Coddle.
So, this interesting dynamic between the two that has similarities.
And we're seeing this already at this point, 9th class.
They're not playing to win that top lane, of course, since it is this Coddle plus Doom versus TA Wyvern.
The TA Wyvern has a clear advantage.
He's gonna play the stacking game.
So, already getting those built up, it's gonna be fantastic for no one.
He's gonna do well in the lane, and then he's gonna go to the back up and get those stacks as well.
So, very important for them to have that, for this nice mid-game timing.
Vision, they did secure themselves with quite a lot of teamfight this time around too.
Last time round, obviously the importance of how the carry matchup played out between these Terriblades and SF.
This time round, with the lifestealer and the TA, how the sort of the timings come into play there.
Quite different styles. I haven't seen this matchup as much nowadays with the agonimus and the lifestealer where you can jump inside the TA.
jump inside of the TA, but in the past for some time, TA just accelerates that one faster
because you get the death zone, you're the one that's setting the pace of the game, you're
getting roll shot and you're playing with a big advantage over something like Life Stealer,
so curious to see how it's going to end up going down.
The mana bird is starting to kick in, not me, soon as he gets the level 2 cards,
he ends up just winning lanes that aren't supposed to win a lot of time, so Collapse,
he's getting a lot out of the lane versus the lights, but sometimes we have seen
these lights there to be able to pull lead.
at least as the live still you know it's at least a carry that doesn't care too much
it's annoying getting his mana burned but still able to lane still able to
sustain despite the fact that he's having all his mana being taken away by
this pesky clockwork oh absolutely and looking forward to see what
do callus is gonna do how's that mid rotation gonna look he's gonna be able
to get the connection with the chain stun for the sanking to get the kill
on the storm that's how they have to kill the storm that's really their
only stun combo so they have to get it perfectly connected
I looked towards in the flip of six online.
Not a lot that can be done with these two.
Chakra will be there, so no one will have the mana.
They'll have another stun potentially clearing out the wave.
So this wave is going to shove into Laurel, which might secure no one to run as well too.
Double rotation from the supports. This time it's vision with the earlier run.
These two supports in no one. Action!
Is that you're ready to go aggressive one and not me?
Had the first drag into the arrow, not me?
We'll drop down the cogs. Try and get out of this.
Actually, perspective.
Unable to find that extra connection can't go for the leap place through the Cogs double D-Wards for Ducales
Reading where these odds are placed from not me. That's two of them. He's been able to grab
It's a lot of experience you get this early in the game
In the minute of a 10-ton to Lala's a lot of first
Still always gonna be quite a tough kill to find in the early stages
That's a big deal that Ducales gets this double office work
He's gonna be very high level on Marana. This is a decent damage dealing support too
If you do get off to a good start and he is crucial for this game to have that change son first of the storm
I mean and that's gonna keep this area of the map so safe for satanic right in a game as well where
It's not gonna be the easiest to gank this live stealer right through trying to get aggressive here to steal the wisdom
for the seven-minute play
Should be able to hold the car itself this Dean notice
Finishing off through, we'll see them all drive for the play.
Satanic coming in with the bridge.
Arrow off to collapse, look at the Houston.
But the 4-6 is there, onto Satanic.
But no one, he's here to help out.
Lowell has to zip away.
Corkz pushing back onto Wozda Kales.
We'll take him down.
No one, claim the Shrine of Wisdom.
Fiverr movement there from no one.
They'll be able to gain the double,
and they also get the first blood for Doom.
Which, I mean, you wouldn't really expect in this game
in the lane that he's been put up against,
but because he finds the Wyvern on the side alone,
This Doom is now level 6.
Very big deal for Bizarre to have this type of start into the game.
The Lifestealer is free farming,
Sanke's off to a good start with stacks to go back to,
and Doom now at this point overperforming to what maybe he could have had.
Having able to make those plays on both sides of the map at the same time,
has 7 minutes in.
I really like that move from no one.
And Sanke took the similar thing of the Monkey King of the old days
where you just go to that shrine.
How are you going to contest him?
That sandstone gets popped down, it's way too much damage.
Me?
Medic?
I'll fight everybody at the cork.
Come on, Trim, at least the first one.
What if they've even been close to threatening him there?
If they've got the two connections, he's super low.
He might still be a jeopardy here.
Nottby is trying to close the gap, but Zatanic, he beats the movement,
will be able to distance himself away.
Oh, will he?
I mean, Nottby is stalking.
He's trying to just be a big greedy here, Zatanic.
Hogs, can you line him up?
Wire one.
Whoop.
But get the second for the battery, so...
Oh, it's coming! Oh, my God! I don't know why I can't get it!
Static lives a good effort there from not me.
Static ready with the Dodges.
Static's had practice versus this minigame. Quite a life here.
Rude. Rotation's coming in from notice.
He's ready to swing across from the top lane.
Rude looking pretty dead here, caught in the sandstorm.
This is going to be a very fun scene.
I mean, they're building up the kills here early vision.
And they're going to be able to keep this coming in right.
We're going to expect a lot of fast plays from no one.
obviously going for this blink dagger rush it's gonna be such a fast pace that
he gets it because of those stacks he was able to just go back and clear he
finishes them super quick because he has this good entry into the game 4 4 0 he
can wait to go for the epicenter afterwards to look for the place once
he's got the blink dagger just a question of whether or not Lyle's
gonna be able to keep up with the tempo on the storm spirit a hero that in
some of these mid-match ups it just failed to be able to do as much as the
enemy hero and hard for Laurel right to set up games on these side lanes
He's playing into the life stealer. It's just not an easy way to go for these type of plays
You can't just go through that lane gank him very easy
He's got the built-in rage. He's also level six. So he's got the invest out too
So yes, I saw Laurel how he's going to react to this type of start here from the same king
Make and damage for him. Mal. He's gonna jump in. He does not have a lot of mana the Arakans in LoL's deck
He cannot make moves like that a very
aggressive play zipping into the river even if they didn't catch him in the
stunts I don't know if he would have had enough mana to break away from them
that was a move gone horribly wrong there for Loll these storms have had
trouble in this tournament we've seen it time and time again no one now you've
been able to invade they see a triple stack they actually I don't know if they
saw it he pulled the cap away as they did right they do see that that's
gonna be quite juicy here the vision no one at this point he's gonna have
the blink dagger at one of the record timings that we do see he's
crushing it here. A very very nice pick it looks to be so far. Dicast will get brought down here.
But yeah the early blink dagger could lead to a very early kill onto Yatoro as well too because
we are seeing Yatoro that pacing is there like we're talking about. Think about the TA
comparison to the left killer you do farm that much faster so you just have that built-in
cleave essentially from your side blades to just jungle with them. But the fact that the
Sankin's gonna have a blink dagger so early he could just go to that lane throw the
the epicenter with the sandstorm. Super effective tool versus that refraction early. He's got
it done already Owen. Pressure, praise you Tommy. Definitely going to be on for Yatoro
in this game. That's the thing Rafa. Spirit, I feel like they've got to put everything
in to just protecting Yatoro, making sure that he can stay on top of the net worth
because the offensive sort of moves against the live stealer, that option just doesn't
seem to be there with the heroes they have. So they have to prioritize just making
sure that Yatoro can stay ahead. That's how much not me can do. He does have
the level three cards now. A lot of times when I've seen him get level three
cards and level four times, he dictates and he breaks a lot of moves that a team
wants to do as well too. Let's see if that's gonna be the case, but no one
driving up the epi.
Very calm, the map has the team spirit. Tons of pressure applied on tomorrow.
They do have to stampede in order to bail out versus some of these moves that
the panel was talking about. Some limited stuns and control that can be
there for vision, but stampede right now on cooldown. No one with this type
We start to the damage might be enough with just one time
And shock as we have to say to right there is an always be the refresh to so they can't get that secondary stuff pretty soon afterwards
This tower dropping no one
threatening and with the FSM circuit sees a chance to jump
So dangerous for Laurel to show
The revenue up every single time he steps up just a bit far. They will just move it for
Nami will be there to deter them, try to protect at least a bit here, it's only level 5 though, you can also send it, no one can, he's ready to go.
Now after Gorda breaks to try and protect Nami but still a lot of magical damage coming out and it sets up for the arrow to connect.
No, no one the manner tries to turn it was open enough, but it's not.
Nami's there to use the cards to give space for lobster back away from no one and allow Yutora to move in and take no one down.
He's got the vessel finished up, yet she could not get a vessel stacked from the hit, that was weird, that's the one I'm happy with.
We're in full move there from Yatora.
He's gonna, I don't afford to let Loll go down that.
He's gonna be the key to watch as he does have that big advantage.
If we set the pacing from TA compared to Life Stealer, he can turn up a lot easier.
Life Stealer, when he's got the Radiance, Tana can do a lot more.
But looking at the level of disparity too, they're giving Yatora all the XP as well.
He's about to be leveled.
Wow, it's only 13 minutes in.
Notice, he's gonna go for that drum shard build that we do like to save, eating those
ancients continue to get that farm, hoping for a black dragon so we can get that extra
farm.
Looking to punish him with his speedy, very odd to set up under the storm.
And I think the next time for no one, probably gonna try to save this epicenter for a court
kill, because sure, he got the clockwork but ends up paying with his life.
Smoke move from Vision, might catch Spirit off guard.
Hey, white Yatora.
I'm lost.
Hey, white Nectar too.
Get him there with the bar strike on to the boat with an hour connection energy.
Sorry, did not the refraction up already, so bit of protection in the stat piece there.
Get him away.
Four checks over the board, no one's left, moves in, but he's completely out of mana.
No one trying to step away.
Notice, gets in, drops the dude down onto Yatora,
it's a car that's jumping over the extra bar.
Shitora will take out, he's gonna try and bring those kills with him.
Won't manage to get to Kallus to die alongside him.
But that is Shitora gone. Vision.
Bringing in the aggression around that top tier one, they get away with it.
Really nice double stun. It looked close for a second though
because he did get the refraction off before the initial stun
and actually blocked a fair bit of that damage there.
But good persistence from Vision.
Slow down the TA, allow the life students to catch back up.
Saitanic. Very, very close to having that Radiance timing and that will allow him to
start closing the gap in farm between him and Yatora.
And he can show up to fights. He's got methods of delivery, right? He's got this Sand King.
He can jump inside. He can invest. He can be that gap closes well, Gris of the GA.
Laurel, standard build. He's going to be going down for this switchblade, but he
is bottom of the course already. He's in a rough spot, and I'll be sad. Multiple
We've seen this before a very difficult hero to make work right now
Well, it's got a tough time ahead
Nice
It's gonna be able to grab in with the hookshot
Cogs connect nine fast go down. No one's gonna jump in and try and take through out in return
No one eating cogs as well to what often that bird tried back up in a second over the cell again
Who used it to get away from them?
3K lead at the moment here for vision, great moves around the map and a lot to
call us watching his movements and the levels that he has this early on this
Marana level 8 already so he's got the good follow-up level 2 arrow that
extra stun extra burst and just max star storm you're seeing the damage
coming in from him. Spirit trying to react the cold embrace is not gonna be a
save this game so many so much magic damage they have that goes through
and in fact it's gonna set up for some of these arrows potentially too.
Notice, you didn't get the RNG.
Well, I say RNG.
You're going to find the dragon most of the situations anyway.
He's got the drums.
He's got the shard.
He's got this built-in cleave-down to increase the farm, and it's really nice to have this
fireball as well, too, versus the refraction, and to just farm from the side.
You don't have to show yourself in these lanes.
So vision is the advantage at the moment here.
I mean, your Toro, how involved does he want to be now?
He has to be.
He has to be online.
We're going to see him fight.
Yep.
Has to be involved.
I don't think they want to keep falling behind here at this point.
He is the strongest hero for his team on the map.
And he does have ways to bail himself out, with the blink dagger now, with the refraction.
Even if he gets caught by the doom initially, he can refract and blink down beforehand.
And they've got Stan Pete to bail for now, too.
Right now, Vision looking to be in a very comfortable spot in this game.
And there's the panel top two.
They have a great scaling draft this time around as well.
Yeah, I mean, you can just look at the network, right?
All three of their cores absolutely on track to get that scaling going.
They're very happy with this opening.
Looking for the play, no one.
Looking for Wunderdust, still able to break the distance over the wards, not me with the borough strike plink.
Shot away.
All alone to actually lift.
They don't want to chase any further here for the Clockwork, happy just pushing them off the tower.
With the rotation actually from Jokalis and Seatanic also joining here for this push.
They should be able to bring this tier one down.
Now Radiation's down to none.
Oh, I'm trying to burn mana.
They're going to see if they can try and find one of these supports, but Root able to fly over to the low ground.
TP attempt here from not me will not succeed, Satanic!
As the damage to finish him off, and I seep this tier one tower push going.
I'm sure Satanic's sitting there like, you know what?
You can burn my mana, but I've got a caudal.
So whatever, immediately comes right back afterwards.
They can get this pressure going.
Map feels like it's going to be a bit dangerous here for Spirit in these next few moments.
A lot easier ways that I'm seeing Fishin able to set up these aggressive plays.
While for the side of Spirit, I'm hot around Laurel, and as you've seen it,
I don't know how much competitive he really wants to get, because you can't just die and he stuns super easy.
Early days, but yeah, that 4k gold lead does bloom over the heads of Team Spirit.
And Tora, talking at Worstill on the TA, he is going to have to do quite a lot this game.
But she just noticed, well, of course, if you said her having this great game notice especially,
especially I think this is the key one for me to look at because he was
counterpicked in the lane and the fact that he's the top net worth for the team
is a pretty big deal. This boom is going to be very relevant in the game and how
tanky he can be in the front line too. He's able to get to the Sheeva's, I don't
know if they're gonna have some limited damage for him.
I think so much of Toro is going to be able to do and will of course have to
get this BKB first before he gets the big damage items online. Absolutely
needed this game versus the same thing. If he doesn't go pretty much, yeah, this
Because BKB is the next item, he won't just continue to die every second time.
Vision, having a very nice mix damage, multiple keep different cores that are having this
good game.
Panic Armlet, it's done.
Starting to invade the Triangles while now preventing that extra farm from collapsing.
Collapsed, being a bit quiet this game, he has a sent arm so it is much more of
that farmy hero we know.
Gonna go down that heart build.
It does mean that the lightsaber is going to have a very nice target to feast off on.
Valar is still going to be a bit of time until we see him be able to really make the moves
in these teamfights.
He's got a lot of catching up to do, out of their protective, right?
That's the biggest thing.
Can't just die to the burst damage that comes out with just one of these stuns
from the side of vision.
That's the agonims.
It's the agonims already finished for no one.
Dangerous moments for Spirit.
Yeah, the team fight's pretty terrifying around this tanking.
Not me.
They're just gonna end up walking into an epicenter.
Hook shot away, but, Satanic, looks to be there to finish him off.
Maybe this is how people save them.
Notice he's gonna try and jump forward with the fire laid down on the ground.
Not me, we'll burn.
You can see the posturing from Spirit, though.
As soon as they see the tanking, we can't really fight.
Epi was used now, they're seeing. Notice triple a bit deep.
Look at me trying to punish him.
Huh?
I'm able to.
I'm trying to see if he can get some sort of catch-up.
And thinking about going for Notes, tower rune.
So people will take it away.
They won't want to do that now with the amplified damage rune on the doom.
Anything Notes might be ready to just jump back in on them.
He's got the blink up, dooms up the ready.
Play it safe first, stick to the triangle.
They don't want to force anything too much, AirVision.
They know that they're starting to build
his comfortable lead across the board on all three calls.
And getting all three towers very early too.
Which is all important.
You're playing versus a Tia, you're able to limit the map,
constrict where she can farm.
and take away her ancients as well too. So Tannick, he just keeps walking into the triangle,
stealing that farm, not letting the TI get to that area as well.
Who could do anything about it? Not much.
Only Yatora really can threaten this life stealer. The rest of Spirit, they just have to sort of watch
whilst he gets this free farm, Tannick. So for Spirit, I guess the timing is going to be that
BKB from Yatora and potentially just looking for that force fight, or maybe forcing an objective
because they do take these objectives very fast, either that Tormentor or the Roche.
Roche of course more important for these teams.
Flaps now, does have heart, very tanky, but as I said, there is percent damage in this
game.
The infertile blade is going to be very effective versus that heart, same thing for the lifestealer
with the beast.
And again, they'll get tried, so well, not me, tries to hook shot away, but does not
make a successful connection.
He'll go for the TP out, they're ready to put a stop to that, not me, dead again.
Same time, no one, I'm pretty deep for this, the draw is going to lift the
fight back, we'll kill the ward off.
massive kill, Laurel. Finally able to find him.
Out of sight, Toro. Joining in, they're looking to pressure Satanic a bit here. Sorry, I just
want to start again. He's going to be in fast if he builds pressure. Got the moonlight
as well to be able to reset. He'll be fine. No, it won't. He has to get caught. It's
a massive killer able to fight Nantun there to slow down some of that momentum that
vision is building. Still in a very comfortable spot though, we're seeing that storm
trouble. It's just how do you catch back up as a storm because it seems like that's
something that so many teams have struggled with when they end up in this
position with their storm and bomb at the core network. Good question Owen. Not the shield rune,
this could protect it for that next up coming fight, that little extra barrier vision though.
Blink on notice, BKB as well.
We might be ready to make an aggressive jump here.
Notice is having an insane game, Owen.
Top two net worth still at this point.
They're gonna go for it. Straight in.
Forestrike into the arrow is all that's needed.
Slau continues to suffer.
Not means gonna get Dove here up to the tier three by Static.
He'll tick out to the burn damage.
Seeing the struggles here for Spirit, they're starting to get blink daggers.
Okay, Collapse does have it picked up here, but limited ways for them to make these moves,
limited ways for them to respond, BKB is done for Yotaro, when they've got the five
end up, you could look to see them go for this type of fight again.
The team fight advantage from Vision is very apparent.
There's so many ways to focus Yotaro right.
When all of this network for Team Spirit is kind of being focused on their TA,
you know, notice is going to be going for every single time in these fights.
If they can just take Yatora out of the fights, it's going to be quite some time until Team Spirit have some sort of team fight to match that of Team Vision in these teams.
And Yatora, talking about him, they make this go on in here.
They get the jump, and with that, the stampede is there! He's got the PKB, so we'll be able to get away from the notice.
He's going to try to change, but after the tier 2s, a bit too much.
The notice will have to back off, he's peeking, he comes to an end, he'll get punished.
Spirit, no! They have to be there to allow Yatora to get out and to have a chance of finding a big kill in return, and they get it.
And that's the biggest move so far here for Spirit. That's two massive ultimates used. Yatora lives. They give force something here.
Do they have the opportunity to go through this rush? We'll see. The positioning isn't great for them because it is on the top side right now.
So it does feel like Vision will have some time to be able to react to this, giving it ultis back up.
Because this is of course one of the classic counters to the boom right. If you have that stampede at the red end, one of the best.
one of the best. Yatsura is going to be able to run because it talks in the draft right about the lack of control.
It's pretty much the Sanky. If you're not hitting the Boris Strike into the arrow, you're going to be able to run with the Stampede.
I'll go for Toro Mentor. I'll go for the easier one since it's in a more favorable position for the Mentor moments.
Yatsura level 19.
Keeping it a decent pace, but Satanic is hot behind his trail. And the end of his asian is the same as last time from the Life Stealer.
He can just go for Manton, go for AC, so Slaver's to that by Disarbor.
It's a natural build up for Sotanik.
He is very far forward right now.
He might have looked to set up for him.
I mean obviously he feels that he has ways out of this with rage, infest, immediate rage there as Collap tries to get the jump in on him.
And Saka hit his Watt too, so have a rage and go out.
He needs to be fine.
Yes, Rage at the mug going with the infest.
He'll zoom out of there.
Collap chases.
He's thinking about chasing, but it's such a hard kill to go for.
Especially when he's on the retreat, there's going to be time for backup to be around.
You just cannot commit for this kill.
I'm gonna be coming back up in 20 seconds.
Epi is back and at the ready here for no one.
Gonna look for a fight again, no one.
Not me.
How's this?
I'm gonna try and make quick one, cut the clock.
Nice block.
Back to business.
Don't find the kill-in for the TA earlier,
but still looking to get very aggressive here with these timings.
It's back on.
No, it's just out of the doom.
Sheer 2 default, they're ready for no one.
And it gave them to squawk up and clean that one out.
Gonna have the plate belt or the hyperstone for the next fight.
Oh, they set up on top, Faro.
They can't go for some panic here.
Such a tricky kill to execute.
For the majority of this game, it's gonna be that case.
Until they do have a hard, either a silence or a hard stun onto him.
The hex, it's gonna be difficult for them to bring down this lifestealer in most situations.
Almost just requires Saitanic to over-commit and dive a bit too deep, but those sort of mistakes he doesn't really make
Notice, plate mount not picked up for him, so a lot safer
We'll just lead at that 5 to 6k
Clear it
We're in the area around this roche
Oh, well, gonna start committing for that MKB, maybe, so that radiance
That is one of the things that might be achievable even when they're behind right around your
Tauros TA they could try and find an option to sneak into the Rose Shrine and take it
down.
Absolutely.
They have good ways to bail heroes out you know if these connections that aren't
perfect inside of this is that stand to be able to do it.
Could be just key.
How's the Sheva's looking from the boom getting pretty close to having that one
finished as well.
he doubles shippers again since both this mid and this off later are so good at having it for the side of vision
I mean they know as well as long as they can keep their armor up and
Eliminate the threat of Yatoro kind of two shot three shotting them
They're gonna fare pretty well in the fights for the majority of this game
Laurel is making a decent recovery though, Owen. I've seen a lot of these other storms is completely faltered at this point
He's getting close to having the BKB himself only a couple thousand behind that sinking so his scaling is continuing
And in these teamfights, what's Lyle's job going to sort of be here?
Who's he looking for to commit with under the cover of the BKB
and just try and disrupt the teamfight playoff?
I want to say it's the Coddle that he wants to jump, but it's not easy actually.
I'm looking at the itemization here from 9th class.
He's been quietly farming on the side here.
He is not an easy grab.
Ghostseptor, Force, Holy Locket.
It's going to be difficult for Laurel to focus fire that one.
So we'll have to see.
I mean, Laurel might play more of a defensive route
where he just plays where, wait for vision to over commit
and then you're just defending your Toro.
I want to see what he does there.
Yatora, the farm continues to fly in very close to having a full MKB on top of the BKB, so he's going to hit hard!
Yatora.
He is, but it is a lot of pressure on him and it's versus that too.
So in some of these fights, he can't just get erased.
He's not super careful, and if they don't just use everything to bail them out.
pretty clear advantage and as we were mentioning earlier they're scaling it is very strong this game
Alamps trying to do his best to keep up with the cause he's farming well he's not too far behind and
he is going to be very very tanky and can obviously go for this agonist pick up just to try and put
everything into keeping yatora alive throughout these team fights and ideally allowing yatora to
Go for the more aggressive items after MKB and indeed trying to get this dragon lance upgraded next into the Hydra's breath
They need Jatorra to do all of the damage
It's interesting to pick up because I think what it is is he's trying to save the slot as well to right because he doesn't want pipe
Because he just wants all that hard damage versus this triple taking part
He needs to deal the majority of it for his team. Yeah, I mean I can get it
It's just gonna be much more value right in terms of just having damage on the TA
You could pretty much rely on Rue and not me to pick up the four staffs. They're both queuing them up
So you're gonna have that positioning coming in from your support
She can trust in them and as the carry you can afford to go all in on the offensive build
Night class they set up for the kill here not me
Let's get right on top of him
Go step is there, but the nice hits on the side. I mean he's making work for it
Backups coming in and notice he's ready to jump over to not me
I think that class is gonna be a massive issue this game
He's super far and jumping him and getting him in the back lines. It just seems very difficult for this team
He's able to get to the point where he has a hex to that's where Laurel and Gatoro are in jeopardy
Because we said the catch provision a little lacking. I mean that's a hex. Yeah, that's and he's well on the way
He's very he's got plenty of undergoal ready to start building towards that hex
That pickups gonna be a nightmare for spirit to deal with yeah
I'm feeling some scare for spirit in these next five ten minutes or so
Let's see what they can't get around a Toro with this empty timing. BKB also finished for Laurel
Sometimes they found a pick off
The one he's thinking about making a jump
I mean him and no just could take someone out of the fight pretty easily
Hard to do though if they don't make the jump on to collapse when the Stampede's up as we've seen before
They also don't want to mess up the move here because if they do mess up a big team fight ultimate
It could just be Roshan's spirit, so they do have to be very connected when they do get that connection from no one to have the arrow follow-up and without the maraud, I don't think I'll go for it.
Very tense moments here in this game.
I feel like the maximum deaths you can really have in this game is a 2 max 3 because otherwise
this life tier is just going to be able to catch up, outpace, and just have that nice
matchup or similar.
They have all this gap closed.
Vision, AC is done.
Extra little small armor items also for no one.
How's my class' attacks getting closer and closer?
Gatoro, how's he getting toward that axe?
He's getting close.
All of our protecting Gatoro.
Yeah, collapse once he has that.
As long as he's not getting jumped, and honestly for the most part he probably won't
be unless they sort of...
Because they don't really have easy ways to find and sort of control the sense or
right at the start of a teamfight.
Collapse, he's always going to be able to press Stampede in these teamfights.
He could die to the overall AoE damage that comes in and sometimes have a very big hit,
but he is very tanky currently at this point, so it might be difficult for them to spring
right through it, but they do have percent damage on it, so that infertably, it'll build
up very quickly.
I mean maybe that's the thing, is that actually who notices is going to be looking for the
most in these fights since this Doom, are you trying to jump the center to stop those
sort of saves coming in with the Edge Stampede?
I think it'll save the Doom probably for the one you're recording, but just hitting
the other one is going to be very successful.
Rosh? It's dropping.
I mean, they used the stampede aggressively.
Hook shot him from not me.
So indeed, they'll be able to finish that Rosh.
Team Spirit not able to make any sort of jump in to the pit.
Not me gets caught outside if it's a vision.
They'll get a kill.
They'll get the Rosh.
They'll put the Aegis ready to play for the next five
minutes on Satanic.
And you deny the Rosh away from a TA,
a hero that wants to play with that Aegis advantage
in this type of matchup.
Very heads up move from vision.
They're running straight towards the tour.
way. This feels like a hard one for your Toro to carry. It's not the similar one
where he's just terribly this super late game carry that has the edge over the
opposing carry. The life stealer matchup when he's uneven footed. It's not. It's
very good. You want to be quite ahead on the TA when you're playing in this
matchup. Very, very difficult times here for your Toro. Yeah. Satanic has
fully caught up. Not dying at all in this game. Having that lame freedom as
Well, jump forward, notice.
Roof. It's not going to be getting away from this.
Very good.
Vision. Super easy for them to make these pick offs.
Both supports gone.
Nobody can really come anywhere close to vision right now.
This might be the roughest game we've seen from the clockwork, from that beat.
He's got 10 deaths, but it's my connection with the Syrah.
He's going to try and jump in. No one was thinking about going back in
on this with the epicent, so he won't for now.
to last backs off of the axe.
Oh, that's forcing the lane is as well.
They've got so much time to apply this pressure here,
vision with the three minutes of ages.
Onto the tier three top, look at the fortification out of spirit.
9th class, the hex, it's 80 pulled away.
I don't know if they're gonna...
I mean, they do, they see the items that he has, so they can't...
Sure, but it's gonna be brutal.
What do you do against this hex on the call?
9th class, he's always gonna find a way to catch it.
My people just pop some of these heroes before they get the vkb off potentially no one will be able to find an amp damage as well
She visits a power up in this form
They're gonna try and do something to it's into the ages. It's a risk, but they feel desperate right now
It's got the axe from collapse
So eyes on him to get that workhorse onto yatoro if he does get focused on two at the same time team visions
They've got the moonlight up
Sneaking around the map themselves
Coming up to the high ground here, Static.
Well sure, so Spirit have a decent amount of information, but can they actually fight this despite the gold deficit that they're out?
Can they access the backlight? They did see Nightmast.
They get light on on him.
Can they try to get the jump and throw it away? They look to wall.
Nightmast, see if they can take that. The cars comes out, looking the three of them down.
Now they get the BKB off.
Nightmast, he's healed up by the infest.
Static keeps the call alive.
Vision, they won't lose anyone to that attempt there from Spirit.
Now Static, he's on your Toro.
Toro under there. He sort of helped to get him out of the stamp. He's already been used.
Prime rum, but the BKB is about to come to an end. They've got a force here for Vru to try and save Yotaro.
Static's going to still chase on Noa. He catches up here in the river with T'Kales.
The workhorse is there. Collapsed under the team too, but Static is going to dive on Slaude.
Collapsed will go for the TPL. Gets out just in time before Noa just comes in with the tendrils.
They try for a desperate move. They find the back line, but there's so much healing.
gets the infest off onto him, they get the extra bailout as well too when he gets the holy locket.
Look at that heel. I mean it's one of those situations right where you want to kill the cockle
but at the same time it's just so, so hard to take nine claws out at the start of the fight
even if you get in the jump on him.
DKB was used there from Laurel and Gatoro.
They don't have it for the defense now, still an A to S on Zatanic onto this high ground.
And they push him back.
The tier three is gone.
She can no purr.
Lapt.
Gonna try and see what he can find on the side.
Because the ball takes on the one satanic.
The damage coming in for your Toro.
It's gonna be fine.
Gets in with the infest.
They do catch up with the Sun on the way out though.
That's it.
Got the once.
Spirit.
Can they set up to take him down a second time?
Hook shots there.
Into the damage.
They bring him down low.
He's gonna put the bat to running away with the ball out.
But they've got him.
They take out satanic.
And they chase for more.
They need to try and find more from the spirit.
An opportunity presents itself.
They cannot let it slip away.
Zip for for a mile.
Look at the nine class.
If it goes, Scepter doesn't matter! Hustov! Forteck! They've got the control! They'll take the cartels down!
Oh, they punished some of this greed from Satanic. He felt like he was unkillable, but his team started to split away. He didn't have all that backup.
Great opportunity seized there from Spirit.
Big defense there. They lose to tier three, but the Barracks...
They'll be protected.
Spirit having a chance now to play out onto the map.
Good window is more 50 seconds almost there without nine class or satanic in play
Hit the high ground a bit
Taurus that's it. I mean it's it's hard hard
See how much very can do
Mr. Tier 3
They're able to take the same maybe even more
That was an insane moment for spirit 2 because now you're seeing your Toro potentially is gonna have that item advantage versus the life
Seer to build the big beat on him to
Power dropping. Connection on the side.
They're gonna be able to catch the Carlos outside of the base.
Another one here for Spirit.
Carl is getting the connections here with the Vortex as 6-2 and 4 now.
Despite the deficit that he's at, I mean, he's still at a point where he's got more farm than no one on the stanking now.
And he's making more play. They'll get the guy onto your tour.
Collapse! He's getting with the saves.
They'll bounce for the Torreirao and we'll be able to take him away from the dude.
They bought back up to Cowlitz as well to Spirits into the disengaged.
It's a full retreat. Everybody's getting out alive on Spirit.
Oh, the spellcasting from Spirit. Absolutely beautiful.
Winter's cursed at disengaged. They know what primary target number one is.
It's a Toro. Just make sure that he's protected.
And he could potentially still do it in this game.
Swift Link getting pretty close. He's got that money.
Yep, he's got that 3500 advantage. He's got that Slyther now with his mechanic.
Do you spend up the Swiftlink or do you hope for bye-bye?
I think he's buying. I don't think you-
Alright.
I don't think this is a game where you can hold that you're gold.
I think you want to be playing with that advantage
before it's immediately.
I mean, I like getting just full trust in collapse
to be there with these saves.
Keep Yatora protected at all costs.
They slowed down quite a lot of that momentum from Vision.
Even though they were able to deny that Aegis away from the side of the TA,
they end up denying the Aegis away from Sekandak
from him getting too much out of it afterwards.
Spirit.
Level 25 now has been hit. This 25 talent is pretty busted over too.
Any game is winnable when you do have this talent this early.
That melted bash. Quick trips at Tannick on Asim.
They absolutely can. Suddenly, the rage is not enough to keep you safe.
And you do not always have to get that quick jump in with the infest.
If that bit of an interrupt comes in through the bash.
Marvel conjures Catalyst now for him to his skill, it is easy to be safe.
Find no one here out in the map.
Oh, that'll be...
Here's my back to the mid, but they're gonna see him!
Not me! Everybody get over the hook, close your down and put the big, big, big try and get away from this with the barrage strike!
Because, in there, the hold him in position, your tourist!
Close again, a point, and he'll be able to step in!
He's got no one!
Victory, no one down!
He's gonna get dropped on to the ball skill, I'll take him there, on the tour, he's been surrounded by some kind of evasion, so try and get over the big, big, big!
Oh, he will follow the vision to take your tourist out this time!
And the doom?
He's gonna continue to run, he's gonna take pretty low.
I think he's dead!
Oh, the last team gets him!
notice you had said before do you actually do this I think you actually do
do the centaur seeing that position there tutorial is very aggressively
fostered they do the center he can't bail him out but he overextended I mean
absolutely right you take him away from the fight and suddenly your Torah is
left vulnerable and again spent up for the swift play it's 70 seconds no
yet or here for the hold vision they might not have no one but they have
the damage here with satanic at the front to try and take a lot away
from spirit they chase so far for that kill they do get punished this time the
racks that exposed in the mid racks don't for sure tier twos are already
completely gone to the other lanes are open as well for vision they're gonna
stick around at least until the TA does start to come back if they have 40
seconds without these two cores and we get just without Gatoro they have no
when near enough damage to threaten satanic at all as this life stealer up
to the top lane
30 seconds still. Now Yatora, the one back in play is ready to TP over to join the rest of the team.
Now it's just, he's able to jump, they get the catch on enough, he's in trouble, another fire thrown down on towards him.
He'll try to get away, Korn and Brace had a force, separated from Satanic, but Satanic, he wants to keep pushing for the kill.
Samantha tanks on the battery assault, he might like to die it, the damage of the illusions, they'll get him back to the fountain.
But Vision just pushing Spirit away from the backs, they'll respect the fact that Yatora is coming back into action though.
they won't overstay their welcome vision now fall back
Titanic pressing forward here with that life stealer now back in that even net worth has this item as well to coming out for him
We'll see it again that last take literally the last one and it over kills him by
Four damage if I'm not mistaken there. So stick for 66 per take
Vision potentially looking to close it out if they get a big catch here
I mean, they know very likely right from that last play that buyback is not an option for Yatoro
And he's still five hundred dollars short of it
So they they know there's a high likelihood that because he spent up and didn't have the buyback for that defense
That he's still in this situation where they kill Yatoro the game is gonna be over and we're gonna be going to a game five
Goro has a link it's to build the block
Notice them, make a jump, they find Nobby first, same time to Carlos trying to look towards the back like this
Surrounding it's alright, but there's the save.
Galax comes in, he's going to get him out of here.
The Curses will hold back no one to notice.
They'll take it to a backup to the safe, give the high ground.
Nice side-blades there, I don't think no one did use the BKD during the War Curse.
War Curse, and can't that she attacked during it this time?
It has to just run away, so...
It's a defensive bailout from Spirit.
They can't get any type of aggressive potential out of it there.
And there's still a Duma bill.
Lotus does have it at the ready.
Are they trying to strike again?
I like this for no one to goes for the basher after the sheba's that extra bit of control that could potentially clip the ta
Or even the centaur right like when he's trying to bail him out if I hit him with a bash he gets lucky
All eyes on your Toro and Collapse
Retour of?
Collapse is gonna go into Grecibel and Otsi. Otsi sets forth to catch him with the Hoosome who'll get the big heavy of Otsi
She's gonna run. They tried to try to get up to the linkers and then Gordemprez keeps Lalsay
He'll be fine for now. Static is going to push on the wall, Kitoro, and Kitoro getting forced back to safety.
He'll be able to get up with a blink, but collapse. He'll suffer for this, ticking down to the doom.
He's gone for 80, and Static, he knows without the sentor to be around to save anyone, he can get back on the aggression.
Laurel has no BKV. Sorry, Kitoro has no BKV for 22nd. Oh, forced aggression.
Head to the ball. Static, he's stepping up.
No one gives him the first shot to the bottom, but they take it off.
Got the smoke control on the Yatoro!
He's got the Flyback Gold available here, we'll use it straight away, Yatoro!
But Vizion's there taking the sound, one bug on his side of the face.
No look to say daddy, but he's able to back up, continue the push onto the barracks.
Spirit the first try and hold here with just the two of them.
Vizion.
2v5 with an AP center available.
They're ready to go for the mega creeps.
No one, he's ready to go for the kill.
He's challenging me up the AP center, he's in with the jump, they get the opening on the wall slot.
They've got the lock down low, the fall!
He's out of the buyback, they're on to the team
for us here, Vision.
Oh, I think we're blessing that game five.
I think we might be.
And the team falls are going down,
DeTorre's gonna try one final stand here on his own,
but the entirety of his team has gone.
The four strikes there, catching him off the beat,
they'll be into the hour, Gigi is called!
We're going to a game five here
in this international grand finals,
There's a team vision coming with some beautiful moves here in this game 4.
And my goodness, it was just too much for Spirit.
Spirit, we saw them coming with a pretty good strike back around these saves from Collapse,
but you saw the adaptation from Vision.
Suddenly, Collapse is priority in these fights.
It jumped up 10-fold.
Get rid of the sento, stop them getting these saves,
and with that, they're able to take them down and force the game 5-fold.
They're forcing reactions from Spirit over and over again.
for spirit. It's just it's too much for them to deal with bailing your Toro out. Even though
Laurel, we mentioned he was making some of this recovery, but you can see the world of
difference in comparison of him in the Sanking. No one, he's just a deterrent. He's forcing
a lot of reactions while the other two cores, their hard carry, noticed what a hell of a
game from him on this Doom, starting it out with the first blood somehow and then
ending 9-1-11.
He played ridiculously.
Amazing.
Ridiculous stuff across the board there from Team Vision. We are seeing an absolutely
beautiful display of Dota here in the Grand Finals and we're getting a game five two to two now between vision and spirit
You cannot ask for anything more than that a game number five between spirit and vision
We talked about how evenly matched these two teams were but it felt like so often spirit had the advantage and drop
Finally that break that elongated break there vision were able to take advantage of it
They came back and this drop we love we could see it every player was playing something
They felt comfortable with something that they were able to get ahead with and honestly
They never really stopped. Yeah, this is this is perfection vision played incredibly the draft
they fixed the problems like you said and
This was honestly swung the other way where it never really looked that close spirit had some clutch fights here and there
But to the entirety of the game pretty much borrowing those one moment where satanic dies
I think vision were in the driver seat
And the big difference maker for me in this game was no one playing a lane where he wasn't getting run up consistently by multiple heroes from Team Spirit early on.
We had nine class honest, Caudal and Decalis and Marana, they were playing around that mid lane, they pressured that power early on,
kicked Floral out and they always had that kill threat, that kill combo available to them that made that early game so difficult for Team Spirit.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. And on top of that they had nine class on Caudal.
I feel like this was the first game that we really got to see nine class show like how good of a player
He is you have to set up the other game for them
He set up the stacks and triangle that then enabled the sand king. He got to get to enable the doom
I mean, I think notice had an amazing showing on this doom
I feel like in both the games where he had a game
He has a hero that he can shine on he shows that there is no offline this in the series
And I don't often get to say that one collapses in the game
Yeah, it's it's crazy how much he has stepped up and how much all of these young players
They're just so much playing so much confidence and pizzazz in the hardest and most stressful
series of their lives.
It is truly incredible and vision of I don't know if they took that break and they made
gold of it.
I think it's very easy to squander that.
I should talk about things that doesn't matter.
But clearly they went back and they talked with purpose.
They spent that time well and they look like a whole new refurbished team.
They look phenomenal.
You're bringing up the notice doom here and it shouldn't be any surprise of what
he's able to do on it.
He has won now five games at this international with Doom.
If he gets his hands on it, he is going to be able to take it to the safe lane.
They're going to be able to take it to the carry here, and that's exactly what Yatora
felt coming up against the Nerdist Doom.
Now, when you think about it, a lot of the issues that Team Vision were having earlier
in the series kind of chalked down to scaling and going to the late game.
And Doom as a hero naturally solves that.
Not only is he naturally solving the scaling, but an anti-carry hero vs. Yatoro at TI, it
makes a lot of sense.
There was always the failsafe of this doom-dooming, the TA the longer the game went.
The fights were not easy to take for Team Spirit, and notice to such a standout in the
Sunspot, we forgot about his doom, because he had so many other heroes who was playing
the series.
Yeah, and I feel like when you look at the draft from Vision, they are now on
the sides of the map.
They have all the synergies.
You can see how the heroes come together.
And I feel like for Spirit, they've been relying on this concept of like, amping up our guy.
If we have a TA, it's not just TA, it's TA with a bunch of steroids that are making him even stronger.
And in this game, there just really wasn't much. Like, TA doesn't like to get saved.
It's not a hero that wants to get frozen by Wyvern.
It's not a hero that really, like, he wants to get his damage out.
He wants people to be held in place in front of him to just one-shot them when he clicks them one time.
And they don't have it this game.
I could see it pairing well when the Centaur cock came out, right?
You're able to get a lot of that damage still out whilst not having to take any damage.
But the downside to that is even the doom is a great carry counter. He's also a really good
centaur counter. It's okay. Centaur runs in wanting to try and get into a close range for your carry
to do that damage. Well, you just doom him instead and then what's going to end up happening? That
carry is going to kind of be left in the middle of where centaur's taking him.
Yeah. It's a testament how so many matchups and doda are two-sided. Centaur is typically
considered a counter to do because you press stampede and you run away from the doom. But
then suddenly, what if you do the centaur or what if you abuse infernal blade more
and you play the fights a little bit longer
or you have enough disables in the San King and the Marana era
so that even if they press Stampede,
well, they're stunned, who cares if they're fast?
I think these things, they all add up,
they had great answers.
And I think if you look at the past games before this,
Spirit Supports were a huge reason
why they were winning so easily.
And this game, they were completely shut down.
There was minimal impact from Nami.
He was chain feeding on Clockwork
because there's no way he can kill,
there's no way he can really do anything.
And a lot of that would tie into Laurel
and the hero he's playing
and what kind of pressure can come off of the hero.
And I do think that team vision and puppy cooked about last King that last pick sound King because it's a hero
We haven't seen no one play this entire tournament
He used to play it a lot last year
But again the crickets from this hero and then we see the storm spirit
This was honestly the perfect pick in this scenario
They lacked funds they picked the hero that provided that a hero that can shut down storm and make it so that Laurel
Could not do anything I find it kind of funny because I remember seeing Laurel in the booth
He's like going through the papers looking at like what does no one play?
What is it? What can you play here that can mess with my storm game?
And I'm sure there wasn't any sanking on those papers, you know this this hero hasn't really seen the light of day this tournament
So really clutch we seem a lot of like first-time appearances for heroes
I don't know if that was it but
Sanking hasn't been picked much and it's cool to see these coaches and these teams
They go deep into their bag and they find the right hero for the right moment rather than just taking to the meta
There is the inverse of that right? Well, we're seeing the wyvern coming out from spirit
it is first base banned against him time and time and time again. And if it's not, they were very
gladly pick it up. But seeing the impact that it had this time around mirror in the earlier game
and what we could have, you know, we see what they see, but also that it wasn't necessarily
enough for them to turn the tides. Absolutely. I mean, for me, I look at when he was a hero
that emerged in the meta specifically to solve loan druid. That's really how it happened. And
while he did have a lot of good moments in this game without specifically countering anything,
I think in the clip that we're watching here, he's going to save Laurel from dying a very gruesome death
and enabling him to, you know, get a little bit of a getaway from no one who's been bullying him
for the most of this early game. With that being said, I do think Winter Wyvern, the purpose
did not need to happen in this game because Lone Druid was banned out by Team Vision anyway.
So if you're trading the Keeper of the Light and giving it to 9-class,
taking the Wyvern for yourself without the threat of Lone Druid existing anyway,
What else does it do for you? It just was not enough.
Yeah. I think it's a great point.
And I think that's why you want all your heroes to have purpose
because it affects the heroes later in the draft.
If you first pick this hero and now they've got a great response with it,
well, you've had a bad trade.
And what Aiden said before about how Tia isn't really like Winner Wyvern,
well, now when it comes later on and you want to pick Tia because it's a good Tia game,
well, that means it hurts your Winner Wyverns game.
And so these things tend to build up that if you've had a bad pick,
it will affect your later picks and either make them worse
or it will hurt the first heroes game because you're picking something that's good against their heroes,
not good with yours. You're split between that choice of good versus them or good with us,
and you want something in between that does both. I think that's what Vision's draft does.
It's good with their heroes and good against the enemy heroes.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. I also feel like every time you pick a hero like you guys both
mentioned, you have to keep in mind that you're also opening a door for your opponent.
And in this case, Caudal is probably the most comfortable for. It's probably the best hero
against Winter Wyvern, just as a 4-5 matchup. And you have to consider that. You have to
get value out of your first pick despite those two things. If you're giving those two things away,
what are you getting in return? And in this game, Rue plays an amazing Wyvern. Curses are
on point, but it doesn't lead too much. I could see, you know, vision coming back into this,
really prioritizing the supports no matter what. I know that our bands ended up leading
that way, but that was one of our biggest takeaways in what had been developing over the
the first three games initially
was nine classes pool in a way is
shrinking and shrinking and he's
kind of pushing to things that
he knows how to play, but they're
not really in the meta. They're
not necessarily things that are
comfortable. Even if it is
something he knows how to play,
so I just love switching it up and
immediately taking it as soon as
it was available and not even
trying to call the bluff of
Keeper of the Light, Hoodwick, they've only been banned or picked up by your opposition.
He's a different beast on his pool of heroes and we saw the difference here, Quinn.
Yeah, we definitely did. I think that is him as a player, right? He's had a small hero
pool for his entire career. He plays two or three heroes per tournament and he's expanded
that to his credit. He is not the same player that he was, but I think whenever you're
in the most stressful situations, you tend to go back to who you are as a core of
of a player. You're not going to play these extremities that are the new branches you've
grafted onto your heckin' root here. You're going to go back to what you know best. You
have the most games on. You're going to play your techies. You're going to play your
coddles, the heroes that you have the most games on because you want to be comfortable.
You want to feel calm and chill in these games because there's so much stress. There's
so many external pressures. You don't need internal pressure on top of that.
On top of that, I think the one-two punch, being able to exist for Team Vision
makes a huge difference because I talked about the supports getting dived, but largely it was due to draft and when you have a hero like Morona playing with a hero like Sand King, it's different because we've had no one in a hero where he's getting run out consistently and he's losing the match up to Laurel, and then his supports are enchantress and mercy or something from line class.
There are no means for the three of them to pose a threat on the map
But in this game
No one and the supports were a huge threat and they were moving around and we saw them for a large portion of the game
Running into the triangle running into the camps making it so that TA can't sit and pick up net worth in that top lane
Yeah, absolutely. I mean this is this was visions game. I think every other game
it's been defined by SF and
Spirit were better when it comes to an SF game. I think like that's objectively stated in the series and
SF should probably not see the light of day
anymore. I would be surprised if vision like gold the hero because I think if it's out, it
seems like they have a much better grasp of how to set up the draft in a way that benefits
them.
I feel like we can't overstate just how exhausted Spirit are probably feeling at this point.
You hit this massive adrenaline high coming out onto the stage. There was one before
that one as well where they go on from the lower bracket and you win it and you're
feeling so good. You too owe that. But now you're looking at a game number five.
They've been playing since 10 AM.
It's 10 hours now that they've been playing for themselves.
And I really wonder how are you going to go the distance?
How are you going to look towards a game number five
and ensure that you're still putting everything you possibly
can get into it because of how much is on the line right now?
It is one game only.
And it decides everything that you've built up
over the last two weeks of TI 15.
Not to mention that, but you just were one game away.
And if you get a little ahead of yourself
and you feel you hear my push guys, right?
It is one game away.
I think you'd even feel the nerves in his communication.
And so you can only imagine what it feels like for the players.
And you lose that you had a safety blanket and now your safety blanket is gone.
You're both one game from losing one game from winning.
And I think that is, I know it's a very cold place to be.
It's stressful. It's you're out of the open.
There's nothing protecting you.
And I think for both teams, it's just it's so much pressure.
They're so close to their dream and so close to failure.
It's I don't know. It's a nice edge.
It's also the coolest game that you could possibly have a TI right.
Yeah, this is truly the maximum amount of pressure for both teams every single moment every single play that you make
Could be that winning moment and it goes both ways
Everybody has that in the back of their minds. There's nobody that's thinking to themselves like oh, that's just another problem
I'm saying at home playing, you know now everything is on the line. I feel like this is truly what TI is all about
It's about that high stakes high pressure the prestige all that coming together
And now we get to see that pressure for both teams equally. Yeah
It's people who have put a decade of their lives or longer into something and now this may not just be the most important part of
Your Dota career, but to them it may feel like the most important part of the last decade of their lives
It's not even 20 years old. It's half of his life. Maybe his entire life. This is the most pivotal moment
That is there's so much gravity. There's so much importance for all of these players
It's such a huge portion of their life
They've dedicated to this and it's all culminating in one crucial moment
There's no other avenue you get to take you don't get to rest on the laurels that it's a best of five
There'll be more chances
There's a lower bracket that we can come up through it is all or nothing when it comes to a game number five
This is the last time they will walk out onto the stage in Shanghai the last opportunity
They will get to be able to reach for that ages to lift it in celebration instead of staring at it from a distance
And I could not imagine for the life of me how you
you reset to yourself and you have to almost put yourself in the mind frame
that there's more there's more out there and it isn't everything even though at
the end of the day there is a lot towards it I think the best team will be the
team to do it now it's just as easy as that in this game five this is where the
champion is crowned whoever is better here will win and both of these teams
have played their hearts out. We're just gonna have to wait and see.
I mean, it's like, you know,
it's like, you know, feeling in
the arena. It's electric.
Everybody knows this is an
iconic series. This is one of
these memorable moments that
will go on and go to history.
We get to be here alive,
appreciating that soaking in
what is an incredible game
played by the best players in
the world in the most tense
moment of their careers. Spirit
have seen a game number five
on a bread final, though
they've been out the other
side and walking towards the
They're saying we could be the people that stuff them stuff that 100% win streak that spirit have in ti grand finals
I mean last time they did it they set up a trapping game five for the draft
They managed to get their hands on that Magnus and you know the rest is history, right?
So it's probably gonna look something similar again
I think they've been trying to trap vision into playing their draft game all day today
And if they managed to do it successfully, I think all you put easy game on their hands
Yeah, it can't be understated how much of this series
How much of this grand finals is a coach the coach matchup as well? All of these players have played elite incredible Dota
Every single one of them has had moments in the series that were just the reason that the game changer the reason why their team could do it
It's gonna be a matter of these traps that you're talking about
But also what the coaches talked about in terms of pop in terms of motivation
Can they even trap we talked about how in the post good this puppy in the draft in the first three puppy came back
swinging in this last one and it's just going to be a battle of the brains now.
And you can see puppy on the on the camera before they walk out on stage
to him giving a speech to his players and all of them looking at him intently
they're fully focused and believing everywhere he says and I think that's
the kind of leadership you want you people who are buying in and they said
whatever this guy's saying I'm fully on board what he picks for me we're
gonna play the fullest of our ability and you're a team you're a
succinct what your unit your one fist you're not five fingers. Yep
Absolutely. Also, I can see on my screen that the coin flip has happened and Team Spirit has won it.
Yeah, Team Spirit called heads and they get heads there.
Now they have to decide what they want to do for themselves because for a game number four,
they ended up picking, wanting that first pick. It didn't end up playing out in their favor.
And so, again, I know all this preparation has already happened for them. They already know
what they want but they're sitting there thinking about it and it is going to be first pick that they choose
It seems to be the preferred choice throughout this tournament, right?
Yeah
It seems like a lot of teams prefer the first pick the cool thing with first pick is that you get to build your draft you kind of
On first pick you are the one that's setting the pace you're the one that's saying okay
These are the matchups that we're getting a lot of the times these teams are so good that they know that if I pick
Library and you're gonna pick color they know this is coming
So when you run first pick you kind of it's like playing white in chess
You're making the first move they have to respond to you and that's the choice you want to be in right?
You want to be in a driver's seat going into the sas game you want to feel like you're in control
You want to feel like you're the one that determines how this final draft goes that was one of our criticisms though all of game number four
Is that they open with the wyvern on the side of spirit?
But don't actually build around it because what they end up pivoting that draft towards doesn't utilize it that ta you guys talked
About time time again where ultimately didn't necessarily feel like they're on the same page
It's not going to be a repeat for game five, but it does have that little bit of how will they open again?
If the bands were to go the same way, how will they want to alter or adjust things to ensure that they could still have that advantage with first pick?
Absolutely. I mean the Wyvern to me is still a very valuable hero,
but the biggest purpose it serves this TI is that it pre-addresses laundry it and it pre-addresses nature's profit.
And in that game four both of those heroes were banned in the first phase.
They didn't even exist within the draft. So you took a hero that becomes very generic in that sense
If it isn't aiding your draft and if you're just gonna open with a hero a clock opener for support
Would have been easier to build her on the thumb that way Vernon
I don't think we'll be seeing it in this game unless that loan druid is not banned
Yeah, I would be inclined to agree and I think the bands will probably also be different
I think Spear has learned from this they learned. I mean obviously they know this trade wasn't good
They could definitely feel that in game and I'm sure Moposhka sees it and so they'll be looking for a different trade
I have no idea what here will be. I think it's part of what makes this final so interesting is that it's not been super predictable
What's been picked? It's not a meta where everyone agrees on the order that you pick things and it's the same trades every game
It's very different trades. It's a lot of thought
It's a very creative final with a lot of expression of sort of deeper here pools and historical
Understandings of Dota mashups and so I think it's honestly hard to tell and we're just gonna have to wait and see what these great
Dota minds cook up
They've been able to utilize the breaks between games time and time again
They've always been able to put on a show for us
But right now it's down to the final last game and our final draft
Team vision versus team spirit grand finals game five
to see exactly what these two
teams are going to build for
themselves. In either a draft
and an execution that will
result in lifting the ages or
one that walks away with
disappointment and looking at
this one spirit. We've already
talked about has the first
pick in the bands for
themselves. It's a run back
away from the last two
the bands for themselves. It's a run back of bounty hunters and nature's profit at the
moment with this time around it is vision going through the tree and the Shadow Fiend
band. Yeah, it's a little different this time because Team Spirit had first pick in game
four and they banned their own Shadow Fiend. This time around vision are the ones that
banned the SF. So it makes it that they can choose their pick of the litter here
between the Earth Spirit, between the Lone Druid and the Dark Blue, I believe.
Yeah, this is and they're using reserve time on it. They're gonna band it. I really like this
I think now the key thing for spirit is you want to pick something that doesn't open you up to keep for the light either
I don't think they'll take it themselves. It's not super good for spear
But you want something that is solid is fortified
It doesn't have an immediate easy response because I think that is most like who a vision is looking at on the second pick
Yeah, I mean I think it all I would even extend as further to say it like you probably want to pick something that
the suede's keeper of the light.
So I don't think they play it themselves.
I don't think I've seen them play it.
I don't think so.
So I think vision right now, they're probably thinking,
okay, we got our cuddle if we get the chance.
Yeah, but also Earth Spirit, right?
I mean, no one is undefeated with Earth Spirit, this TI.
Like teams have let it through a couple of times
and it just, it doesn't work out.
Like our, our spirit really trying to call
on Earth Spirit plus here at a game five.
I don't think it's calling it plus so much as
They found success when 9 class hasn't had his hero, right?
And I think that is why even potentially they might take their caudal over it.
Oh, they ban it themselves. Okay, interesting.
So then I wonder what it's going to be that prevents caudal in some way.
Or that maybe that just doesn't care about caudal.
Maybe doesn't prevent it, but it's fine playing against it.
Because to me that is crucial.
Nothing is coming to me as super apparent.
It's been a big hero in this series that prevents caudal
or is really good against caudal, so...
This is honestly one of the best heroes you can play against Kotal.
It is an old-school counter to Kotal because you beat him in lane, you hit so much harder than he does.
You're fast, you can match him when you're on stack camps, you can sleep him, you can kind of stop Kotal from being Kotal in the early versions of the game.
Another drawback to Kotal is that he doesn't have a stun.
9-class has been buying Hex, but it takes about 30 minutes or so before that comes out.
So you get a free fiend's grip for the majority of the game.
It also decides from Ember's spirit and a lot of no one's other hero pulls Pango as well.
Bane solves for this. This is why this hero has just been so up there and a grand priority for a lot of teams.
You literally read my mind because I was gonna ask how does this answer or potential just bringing out an Ember's spirit and planning a slug?
And we don't even look towards that. It's straight up an invoker.
I think this this plays indirectly we all are saying about the Pango and the spirits, right? Those heroes that just run into Bane
They're typically not that good. You want something as further range that can cancel the grip right off the bat
Right grip has been answered now for the majority of the early game. It's
So I think I think it's a very cool pick it's a very it's a clutch pick that just says hey
This is good against Bane you pick the hero we're picking here with it's good against that
I think that really works vision in the last game and while it's a different hero
I think not jamming the coddle into a situation. It would be bad and is very smart
But now this invoker is out mid this can be punished like Laurel does play pango and pango versus
Invoker Mid is one of the rougher notch-ups for Invoker. It just tempos very hard and by having
Bane on Team Spirit, they can secure it for themselves with no fear. I absolutely agree that
the Invo's grading is Bane, but I fear for how the rest of the draft builds, and that's where
your point about the pango comes in. I feel like building around this Bane has a lot less
vulnerabilities. The Invoker is a lot more exposed and there's a lot more potential angles
for Spirit to try to exploit here. And heroes like Pangolier, other heroes that might cause
positions for Invoker because he's quite a defining hero from the mid lane.
He's not one of those heroes that moves around and makes a lot of moves.
You know what kind of heroes he needs. He needs some sort of stuns. He needs Sunstrike setups.
The Quasarix angle for the hero doesn't exist right now, so it's very one-dimension.
He gets run out very easily as well. So for example, if something like a Bane plus Marana come out from Team Spirit,
Invoker can't defend himself very well against them.
You can see Spirit also, they don't care about the Cottle. It may have owned last game,
But this is this is different circumstances. They bend the dark willow instead saying you want to call it again brother take it
We've got answers this game
Yeah, it's just high-level drafting going on right now, right?
So vision they need to try to secure up this in boker's game
They need to try to build around him make sure that he can actually be that they encounter as the game progresses and actually scale
Into the game and not just be countered into oblivion by the time the fifth pick comes out from team spirit
Yeah, a big way you do that is getting strong lanes and getting some melee hero or some tanky hero
that can sort of play in front and give invoker space because there's aggression coming towards mid as soon as you pick invoker
There's a big spotlight on them mid lane
They want to pressure you they want to run you over because you're vulnerable early
And so revision having something that protects the area that can fend off the bane whether they be vision or clutch plays or something
To pick up the nightmare anything really there's a lot of potential answers
But you want to fortify this guy completely agree go shout out happy birthday to everyone born today
Guy in the arena celebrating his birthday celebrating a game five between spirit and vision
I don't know if you could be any more blessed really
It's a great birthday
And this is a great year versus Bane it does all those things and it's a very classic response
Yeah, the zero is really good against Bane. It's also a nine-class hero. I will say he doesn't really play it that often
But I think he plays it extremely well
He's one of those people that when you give him something like this that has like some sort of clutch plays some sort of like
Can do some weird stuff usually find the impact and it was a big fan of buying a shard
And also lifting is the allies out of danger. And here's the pango mirror
Yeah, I mean, that's a great landing against invoker. It has a free bkb
Like I feel like free bkb and dota is so conceptually broken. That's what I've seen life stealer this series as well
I do want to comment that with them not that this derivative is out
I hear that kind of got forgotten about last game was the underlord that popped off in game 2
Like our spirit in a position where they have to pick it here
Or they just give it to vision because underlord would fit so many bills to set up for this invoker cataclysm later on
It's so scary to pick into Rubik because this firestorm gets amped up. It feels so much damage
It cuts through you so quickly you go from being this tanky blob
To just being butter. Yeah, you just have to deal with it then you have to give them the underlord
That is I'm not gonna lie. It's a very scary prospect. I think it gives you incredible scaling
It gives you real ease of execution where you can sit back and farm and the spirit doesn't run at you that eventually
This Bane, this Pangalore, these are heroes that need to commit to fights in some way and I think Spirit with the Murana
It's exactly what you mentioned, Merah, but it's very focused on aggression
And if there's an Underlord coming, these are heroes that don't like being held down
They don't deal well with roots, they play well off mobility and there is a potential serious scaling problem
Mm-hmm
This is how heroes can become problems, but then another problem is posed with the Doom in that last game
Then Doom shifts up in priority and the Underlord that was banned was forgotten about and it's just so much
which isn't happening in this TI Grand Finals.
It's wild to keep up with.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, this Undalord, I agree.
It poses a lot of issues.
It's creating us a pangolier.
You get that global root that can set up for spells.
They can set up for any sort of lift play for Mubak.
Pango does have a shard that kind of protects them
against it.
And Undalord is yet another hero
that does not have a stun to cancel the fiend spirit.
So if they go for that, that's
something that you have to keep in mind.
Yeah.
Yatora will also have the pick to counter that, so we'll be able to merely respond, and they're not going to go for it.
Axe into Bane is a little surprising to me. It's something you would typically consider as a pretty good response to Axe,
because when he calls a guy you just sleep him and have a save, so I don't know what you think, but I was a bit surprised.
I am as well. I feel like the Underlord looked a lot more difficult to address within the draft,
but it seems like Vision wanted to build around there in Voker.
While Underlord would have solved a lot of issues in the game, they looked at it as we have an invoker in our first phase.
Do we have enough setup for it?
Let's just go for Axe, the greatest setup for invoker in all of Dota.
Yeah, it's also a little bit more of a pressure laner.
Next to void.
Yeah, I mean, pressure is a bit more on lane, right? Underlord kind of likes to draw out lanes.
He doesn't really play so aggressively. He tends to firestorm out the lanes,
and that would open up a lot of doors for your Toro to just kind of pick anything you want.
With Axe, you have to be quite mindful of picking ranged carries.
They tend to kill themselves quite easily on blade nails. So a lot of those heroes are now scary if you're toward the pink
Axe is not the eat me. There's there's the lifestealer, which is I think it's a pretty good decent game for it
But it's not something you tore particularly likes. It's not in his realize
I think satanic is much more comfortable and appreciates the hero a lot more
Classic you tour heroes when I see invoker. I think something like the faceless void, but I don't know
I mean, I would love to see but I don't know if it's good enough
Just because it's free BKB. We talked about it with Tango. You've got another free BKB, you counter Invoker.
Again, Vision are saying with this axe pick that Invoker is the centerpiece of their draft and they want to build around it
and Spirit choose to conceptually counter that with a hero that is not truly so good against Invoker.
Yeah, I think right now looking at Vision's tools, they can stun the lifestealer with the axe, but what next?
There needs to be some big physical damage coming out here from safe honey
It is absolutely what he's capable of but they need to find a way to kill this life stealer
This hero has won
I believe every single game that we've seen him in the span final and I think he's been quite a big problem in all the games
I've been seeing the span final to
Yeah, and these are very important bands spirit needs to think about what gives them the scaling they think boy does
I think that's a great band it would have been
Terrifying to play against as the scale comes out because I think you don't want to be on a big timer
I don't think Spirit is on one right now, but things are subject to change in these last two picks and
With grand finals with everything on the line
You don't want to have that clock ticking in your ear
They saying go go go go go you want to be able to chill and play the game at your pace
I mean we saw a perfect example of just that in game three, right?
Like the last pick of the draft we think Spirit has to play for pressure DB comes out
It completely flips the script and these heroes obviously exist, right?
So I love that the void gets banned out this hero, you know
You could say, oh, you can just run it over it's slow. They have way too many slow heroes
But it's grand finals of TI. It's a completely different beast
You don't want to be in a position where you guarantee blues if the game reaches a certain point of time. Yeah, it's it's just too scary
It's too scary. It's too risky and it forces too heavy a burden of execution
I genuinely think both teams are gunning so hard for we just need to be able to scale
We need things that are just good game matchups
Because it's just too stressful to play a game like this in a game 5 where you have to run them over
And there's a TV. It's the other beast that eventually just starts feeling infinite physical damage both banned out
It's also one of Satanic's absolute favorite heroes
And I think if Satanic could choose to play his favorite hero in his last game of TI that probably would have been TV
Yeah another hero I think of when I think of Satanic classic heroes as the morphing not a great hero traditionally
But it does have a good match with against lifestealer. That's a good point. Yeah
He likes a lot of cards too, and he is playing against Vayne which can be very difficult for him, but he does have a Rubik covering for him, I think it's good.
So the big portion of their draft is just designed around like hey, how do we make Vayne not have high impact, right?
So I feel like if you're Satanic here, you have to trust your team to take care of that Vayne for you.
Because that's what you've covered, you've got Rubik, you've got Invoker, you've got Podwin, you've got a lot of stuns.
Hopefully the Vayne is not a factor in whatever he decides to pick here, because his team will cover it.
cover it. A split on the last phase bands are taking a centaur and a puck out of the pool from
the side of vision. Not really knowing if this pango is still 100% in that mid lane full lull
despite the success he's had so far at TI on it, or if they're willing to shift it to claps,
if a better mid lane would have presented itself. Yeah, it's smart. I think the puck
could have been pretty good here, despite the hero not having a great track record this
tournament. And now Spirit's got to decide where they're putting it.
it.
There are some heroes you can sign to do.
Just some blank pick heroes that are comfortable,
like Underlord or Tide or something.
Darkseer for Teamfight.
Okay.
So this is pretty good,
but this is a hero that is also susceptible to the
encounter pick traditionally. There are some responses
like this Sven that we've seen have a lot of success
against the Darkseer.
It's a good Sven game. It makes a lot of sense for
heroes, Invoker loves playing with Sven, Sven loves getting Alakardied, and it's honestly
a pretty decent matchup against Lifestealer, or it can be, but they have this time the
steroids on their side, right? You have the Invoker that's going to amp up whatever carry
they pick. I kind of like it. It makes a lot of sense to me.
Yeah, and it also dissuades from Sam Pestey, Keel, or Naga Siren coming out at the very
end. You have to always account for this type of hero out of game 5, and Darkseer
gives a solution.
Yeah, Darkseid definitely covers the illusion heroes.
Usually you attempt to want to pick some sort of strength carry core into Darkseid.
All the agility heroes give Darkseid a pretty good illusion for him to use.
Wow!
Bro!
You can't be doing this!
Did you see what happened last year?
Yesterday!
Whoa!
That item doesn't exist anymore.
That neutral item is gone.
That's true.
I cannot believe we are seeing a Juggernaut in a Game 5 here in Shanghai.
This is a crazy pick from Vision and from Satanic!
Like it's a good lane against Darkseer, you outheal with your healing ward, all of the pressure.
Every time you say I can understand what Juggernaut does here, the hero tends to have a bad history in elimination games at TI.
But Mira, you did say one of the most broken concepts in Dota is having a free BKB.
And all the free BKB heroes are in this grand final, game 5 of TI 53.
I don't know. I mean you're playing against Spain. I think there's a lot on Ruvik's shoulders to cover against the Spain and make it so that Saekhannik can play the game.
D'Arganaut as a hero has very good scaling. They're going to have the Alacrity plus Omni Slash combo versus the Lifestealer.
You know, it does fuck to get Omni Slash, but the scaling is there absolutely for Team Spirit too.
I don't know. Yesterday we saw that with Boom Boys. I was like, I kind of am with it. It's a weird hero, but it's an elimination game, Quinn.
It's not just elimination. It's where your hopes and dreams are shattered or made. This is it's literally the culmination
It's the end of the entire tournament. It's game five the most exciting place you can ever be for the tournament
You picked jargonot, but hey, you've got to stick to some kind of guns. I
Don't know if I can put full faith in a juggernaut
But I can put full faith in the entertainment that we will get to see we talked about it
And saying you do you really want to be putting yourself on a time?
whether that's to finish early or stall the game out late and I feel like there is that potential issue for vision for this game 5 I
Mean I honestly think I don't know which team scales better
How am I supposed to decide when with the last time we saw a juggernaut in like full glory?
I don't know. I honestly don't know what the Serious timings are. I've only ever seen it lose lately. I
Don't know. I don't know not
Satanic players before you have attempted this they've tried this they've fallen on their faces
will you be the one to break the
juggernaut cruise at TI will you show
us what this hero is made of?
Oh my goodness dude oh my goodness you can
feel it the energy in the air going into this match
I'm just excited to watch it's literally the
peak of the game. I want you guys before we do
get to something special tell me vision or spirit
who will be the team standing out there lifting
that Aegis with now both drops playing out
Spirit, I think so too, but you know it's faith and jug no I never have faith
and jug but I have faith in satanic and his play style in senior all I see it's
This is closer to 50, as I can see, but I go spirit.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know this man well.
One of the most iconic players in the world.
Going for his third Aegis.
Get it up!
Verma Posca!
Today you face Muffy my friend. Any words to say to the coach?
I'm not going to say something bad to definitely you see him.
That's a big boy!
Of course. So I just wish good luck. I think both teams got the comfort of the arts.
So the team will show who is the really best team in the world now.
Absolutely.
Thank you. I can't say anything to Puppey.
You can see how much he has done.
But I think both teams have got what they wanted.
Let's see who is the winner.
From the international one till now,
there is no one more associated with TI than this man.
Give it up for Puppey!
The time for prep is over. The time for picks is over. Now the game is on the players. Anything to say to Apocha?
Thanks for not beating us right away. Game 5 is pretty good. Thanks to them. We got game 5. He has done a really good job with his team.
All the best of luck to both teams. Hope it's a great order.
And one of the most legendary moments in TI history.
Can I please have both coaches shake some hands? Let's see it!
Yeah, baby!
Final five minutes.
Two seconds to go.
Here we go in the game five time here at the international here in Shanghai.
And there's a juggernaut.
Game five again.
What's going on? I can't wait to see what Satanic's going to have in store for us this game.
An interesting pick.
pick it was always gonna be the question what the calorie selection was gonna be
coming towards the end of the draft a satanic making the call to bring the
juggernaut top lane we've already had the first blood go down here in favor of
team vision 9 class look he's gonna live in your Toro he might be in trouble
getting chased down here with the battle hunger upon him notice is likely
gonna happen he will what a play all right couple of kills already start this
game of the vision, but fuck talk to me bringing the juggernaut out here especially in front of this crowd
They're gonna have some painful memories about this job. They sure will but this is you look at the draft
Yeah, you can kind of see the idea the concept behind it, right?
They're looking for this immunity this year that has that built-in BKB like the panel was talking about and playing versus pango in
general right you rolling thunder in you can just get on me slash
It's a theory that teams have wanted to try versus this pango multiple different times on paper
We'll have to see what satanic can do for it
It's incredible. I mean, I cannot believe we get a job in game five and back to back finals
That's absolutely at sea. I that is absolutely amazing
And as I say, it's just gonna be a pleasure to see what Satanic can do with it
It's just such a different style of carry to anything else for seeing right
Who else are you picking to farm a battle fury in 2026 for nobody?
Then early nobody we're not seeing any battle through is building big thought because the timing of it can be pretty difficult
But the lane he saw his lane matchup
It isn't a double melee type of Darkseer, Ion Show Pressure Lane, and even if it was,
Junk is pretty good versus that with the Healing Ward, you have wasted to gait it with the Spin.
This is super interesting, Owen.
And the matchup, the Junk versus the Life Stealer, see how that one ends up going as well, too,
because times have changed for a while in the old school days, just like,
oh, you army slash the Life Stealer, and you die.
Yeah, that's right.
That isn't really the case anymore.
He has Waste to play around it with his infest, jumping in and out,
even being tanky enough to stand through.
We'll have to see how these lanes do go, because right now, Yatoro is fueling this pressure in this lane.
This top lane, 9th class in notice, they're doing a fantastic job.
Collapse also, he is killed the pressure on the opposing side too, so the lanes at the moment
looking very good for the side of vision.
They might be able to chase him down here, Collapse.
Couple of hits, he's gone!
Already! Team vision up, three kills here, across the lanes.
And Saitanik also a very hot start. Top of the CS right now here is the safe lane jump.
I love when we see these type of crazy high execution, high damage type of lineups.
We have an infoker in game 5 as well too. We have to mention for no one
Some teams have been deterred away from picking this hero because of this counter pick pango matchup in the mid game
But no one at least in the laning phase. He's holding his own very nicely here
19-9 to the 22-9 in the mid game
It starts to be a bit problematic because you just get rolled on and it can be hard to just survive
But they do have ways to protect him
I think that's with nine class when he gets the shard can go for this potential save
So we're absolutely in for a treat on this. You have some pretty insane Rubik plays earlier
to keep the cores alive throughout the chaos that was being brought on to them.
And I specifically wanted to mention Nine Class because we did say at the start of that last game,
there could be a difference between the position fours.
Not me had one of the quietest clockwork games ever and Nine Class went absolutely ham on the coddle.
So see if he can do something similar on the Rubik this game because he has some very good spells to steal.
As the fiends grip, he has the saves that he can do with the shard as well too.
You can steal some of the pango spells. Great options.
lanes starting to get broken a bit here and talking about the last pick for
vision you know over on the side of spirit their last pick going for the
darks here for collapse seems like a good game for it yeah before the jog of
course is gonna be a decent counterfeit but I think what they were looking at
is they're gonna have to pick an edge carry so this wall is gonna be quite
effective in overall game stage so some strikes gonna connect on to and they
got the bushwack as well as the colors no one step up night class
bulls die so they get the trade here between the supports and it's both
mid so I'm entirely drawn away from that mid lane. Nice sun strikes coming in.
Time and time again no one is finding these connections. Laurel has hit the 6th.
She was gonna get this power run but they're gonna be ready for me. Both
supports probably gonna TP to the mid lane to ensure that they do this 3v3
instant TP from the both of them. They know how important this rune time it
can be. Bro, get the sleep. They don't set up, they don't really have the angle
though for me to connect the arrow here so it'll be fine but why can't
and returns from the left of Carlos to step up, take that in, Vizrin, away.
Tries for a random soundtrack there, a nice try.
This sympathy, they're coming between the Rubik and the Hun, we're using their stunts at the same exact timing there.
And they are keeping Lowell low.
All's gonna have to be cautious.
And a little bit.
And the nice thing for this Invoker,
Bottom, after Carlos, he's ever wrapped across back towards the bottom lane,
get the bush back connected.
That's it.
Take on Jor, he kills Collapsus, he's left alone.
Oh, Carlos is having a beautiful turn to this game as well too.
There's multiple different catches. He gets the first blood at the start, and he's continued to shut down the last.
So, the nice thing about the Invoker of this game, even though he's into the pangolk and the laning phase,
he can always block his arrows.
And he's always going to have this force spirit to be able to go through into our arrows.
Night class.
Now, don't find him over the rotation.
Won't be able to dodge that swashbuckle coming in at the end there from LAL.
Not only to get some kills themselves, Spirit, but without a doubt.
You know, this bottom lane, late Tannick, he could not be happier.
having a beautiful start to the lane.
He's going to feel very safe now with the Ring of Health online.
And now that he's got the level six,
that extra sort of chance to threaten a kill,
it becomes a little more complicated
if Collapse wants to come down here and far.
Level six done.
Healing War down, back up the fold.
He's chilling.
This is going to be a good timing for the battle.
And it is. A very good timing.
And he isn't playing into a blade mail counter.
A lot of times when I've seen these dugs,
he ends up playing into a blade
or something that's devastating in most situations.
He has to watch out for the theme script in particular, but that's the biggest threat this game for him.
Yeah, I think that the overall most annoying thing for the Jug is just Spirit's ability to tank up right.
If it's a live stealer, this Darkseid gets to a point where the Omni Slashes isn't just not going to be doing much at all,
it's going to feel kind of awkward because, again, we have to sort of go back to the fact that there is a reason, right,
while we just don't see a lot of Jugs.
Yeah, but the Tannix does like it, so we'll have to see what he can do with it.
Spirit with an aggressive move here knowing the stacks are coming out here from nine class because they have this axe
Laurel is gonna take away
Probably the entirety of here with the next wash almost gets all of it
So notice we'll be able to get that grab the notice a minute power root not me
Nice to step over
Be able to leap up to the high ground have to be careful there the three of them were ready to look towards him
That's like a route sleeps a fourth spirit to prevent it from getting the kill on to the rune there
So Laurel will have a reach in for the next move
Yatoro was feeling some pressure at the start of the latent phase. Now that's
been broken, but he will have a differential between him and the jug.
I'm curious to see which one far faster, the life stealer radiance or a jug with the battle fury.
I feel like he might be the jug. Might be the jug. But how quick he's gonna get this battle fury,
Satanic? I think he might just be able to get ahead of Yatoro and stay ahead of it.
We'll see. Which has been very important in this series. It's been the competition
between the carries of who thinks they can outscale the other. We'll see who's
What's right in this one is that the lifestealer is the jug.
That's truly safe.
So the Darkseer, we've seen a lot in this tournament.
We start not in the finals, of course, but
the power of this hero is pretty strong when you get into the teamfights in particular.
A lot of these games have been revolved around these teamfight successes.
So, see what happens when Collax gets in with these iron shells on the pango
when he gets his dominator in some of these auras.
If he goes away.
I'm talking about the old playing selection.
Were you surprised about going for the axe here for no sister?
Do you see what I'm saying?
No.
They're going to get the set up into the call, into the sunscreen,
got in the dunk, talking about a lot of notice.
He's able to take the Toro down.
But yeah, this axe pick, going for instead of the underlaw,
which the panel felt might have also
been a good pick in this situation.
They want the BKB piercing disable.
OK.
Number one, right?
I think that's where we're starting to see you need to have,
at least one, maybe even two in multiple of these lineups.
Because if you don't, they end up
having this opportunity to just rage TP out, spin TP out,
et cetera, or BKB TP out depending on which hero it is.
So I like this pick quite a lot here.
notice he has been amazing for this team when he gets off to a good start for
vision he puts a lot of pressure on the map so right away two kills already in
that lane that's really solid
telekinesis into the cold snap he's taking heavy damage it definitely fast comes in he's gone
he supports the callus again breaking every single time around this mid it's
such a dangerous area at the map vision they always bring the numbers
they'll get the nightmare set up into the hour and return air spirit trying to
take down jacalus and they will get him but they still have to be careful
Because notice, he's swung round over to the mid as well, and they can't push for anything more here, Spirit.
I love how we see both teams just the speed that they're looking to play at.
Both can play super fast, both can play these slow paces.
I like even notice the swinging over, sure he doesn't do anything, but just getting the potential to get involved with his team.
And these two carries? Who plays better in a fast-paced situation? The Jug or the Life Stealer?
Just on paper, I would say the Life Stealer, but who knows nowadays.
Let's see what Santana can do with this kind of start because this battle fury is gonna come out
Yeah, pretty much now it pretty much done so ten minutes also battle fury here from Satanic on top of the treads
And they've slowed down your Toro now twice so that battle theory
He is absolutely gonna have that faster farm pace in comparison than your Toro and do have to look at the buff ups
Right. Yes, let's see what he's gonna have the lucky shot procs that are gonna give him the same armory
He's gonna have the iron shell
But this job is gonna have a lack ready in a lot of these fights and a lack ready with all these flash
It's pretty terrifying if he does get a connection
Good opener here right now for vision. A 1k lead for them.
The palace also potentially finding this creep too.
Extra money for him, so kills the dominator creep off the Darkseer off plus 100 for the hoodwink.
And yeah, look at that pace of timing. Level 9 as well.
He's gonna farm so quickly.
And they've got stacks already prepped for him, if I'm not mistaken.
At least a couple of them all over the place.
They're going to catch him again in the mid-court though.
He's going to be more careful a couple of times now, but between 9th glass and no one, they just have a 100 to 0 to him.
It's a scary part of the map for the pango right now.
Laro, he's getting hurt pretty bad.
These supports from vision, they're breaking him quite a bit here.
Usually we see Spirit be the ones to make that move around Laro to get him back in, but these first 12 minutes, they're making the moves to enable no one.
Net worth, he's now surpassed that pago and he's got this meteor hammer so he's going to go to little disadvantage nicely.
I mean, again, not many looks to bore us the room but a massive burst comes through there, the Sun Strike and the Sharp Shooter at the same time takes not many out
and ensures that vision is going to be able to secure that amplified damage ring pick up here for no one.
Spirit, they'll bring Lowell and collapse back over to at least take down the Carlos in return but again, here in their spirit they're getting supports,
overall vision coming out consistently in these trades.
Some outplays coming out from supports right now on the side of vision in comparison to Spirit.
See how they want to look to get together now? Rude does have fiend's grip available.
See if they do want to look to punish the jug with Titanic, they're already in a safe position.
They want to get a tower. They want to have easier access into this jungle at this point.
We noticed he's going to have a blink pretty soon though, so they definitely need to accelerate
the fact that they go for this, because notice,
with a blink, this game can go for solo kills without blade milk because he's got Sunstrike.
He can blink, he can blink call, and then the Sunstrike follow-up might just be enough in a lot of situations.
And now no one, Biederhammer finished, he's actually finished off the whole tower with the two, and he's smoking, he's getting involved.
I mean, Rune Law, we're on the hunt, but vision, they're ready to turn and hunt them every time.
Tornado into the Sun Strike down, onto walls, the Bano try with Rift, but Nitecloth have a wraparound, finish him off there with the help of D'Gonis, and indeed get that steal, Lawl.
He's gonna jump back into Gryffindor with a shield crash, bring in Noah Dell over to Swashbrook, and the backcube down onto the two, and get the two kills.
He's going to try and stab his ground with a Fiat script at the start, but he will not succeed!
Collapse! Getting the triple kill!
Sigtanik, he chased Collapse down.
Collapse is sort of teasing him around with Sigtanik.
I am sure he's going to start to build up, Sigtanik.
With the Omnisnash already used, Sigtanik doesn't really have anything left in the tank to threaten Collapse.
But what a turn-up there for Collapse.
Gets him bolted in the action, picks up a triple kill.
Night class, when he stole the Fiat script at the start, he didn't have mana.
He's actually asking a team, and he's like, somebody give me something.
I believe someone passed him a Lotus, but it was too late at that point.
The Darkseer comes in and gets the cleanup of Big Connection for collapse.
Top Network for his team now.
And just pretty quickly.
Awareness there from Spirit to commit for that play
after pretty much the entirety of the combo was dropped down onto the bane.
You know, Rue takes it all at the start.
Yeah.
Vision?
Blink is done.
They're looking to get aggressive here.
As you said, the Sunstrike connection is ready.
Probably be enough if he just catches anybody.
A call, a Sun Strike and a Fade Park should do it.
And there we have it. They get the call, pushback, Sun Strike into a dunk.
Notice ready to start, just kind of leading the plays.
He is going to be everywhere looking for action.
He will not be slowing down any time soon.
And it's that big forward here. They get the sleep out of the two colors.
It's their follow-up. They're going to use the ball.
There's going to be any help. Notice, watching from the low ground here.
Long of night class is going to get the call.
He jumps the backline, fights the bait,
Sunstrike in, roos out.
Notice, they're start backing away,
but indeed there is no threat to the life
of this axe right now.
They struggle to tackle the beef of this map.
Hisians early game, pretty beautiful so far here.
The axe, as we said, noticed when he gets
these type of games, he ends up running the show
pretty effectively.
Four and zero now for him.
He's got the connection to look for all these skills.
They've got eye on so slowly.
I mean, that's such a lovely steal, right?
When you're playing Disaggressive with the axe.
If you keep the shell onto him, I mean, already he was getting kills in these calls.
Now with a stolen iron shell being applied to him, he's pretty much guaranteed to get kills very quickly after the initial job.
Spirit, reading this move, bringing the numbers, collapse in the area level 12.
Yeah, no chance of playing careful. Very much sense is that that sort of presence of the pan goes a little bit of a bait.
They've got a ward on the side there. I believe they saw the Darkseer running in for a second, so we'll be able to back away.
But still putting the press rod, they're going to scout the stacks as well.
They can steal these very quickly here just with iron shell.
On the flip side, you see the aggression coming out from Spirit. They're looking for no one.
He's able to distance himself.
Sneaky arrow!
That's a very nice arrow there for not me.
The one that no one was not prepared for at all was maybe looking elsewhere for Sun Strikes.
Absolutely. And he did the animation cancel too.
There's ways that you can do it as these marauders. If you leap and you throw it instantly in these type of ways,
you can actually get that canceled animation. What a play.
So did I go to the next room?
How's the Radiance? The Radiance is done and Yatoro now has access into these
ancients as well too so catching back up here towards that jugs the 1400 behind
Well me attempting to get some info here under the cover of the Moonlight Shadow
Don't see him
Yatoro getting involved wrapping behind
Ready looks off to War's notice but notice is already away nine glass
He'll be left with that here
Falling roll
What is that?
Spirit?
They're accelerating
They should be able to match
take away this tier one here with your tour I swing it over the net. Oh that is
interesting 16 minutes in a jam has been purchased up for Decolas. That's one of the
other ones you've seen throughout the entire team this TI. I think I see a lot
purchase pre-20 minutes but it's 16 very early so they're really looking to
control this triangle area they're feeling like Spirit does have a lot of
vision on the map and they're not wrong. And they're ready to go for action.
As I said I think we're gonna pretty much see this just back to back for
Oh, yeah, just every single opportunity running its spirit trying to set up these place. They want to play it fast here vision
Notice this that's though
But his eyes on the brew will make the jump Sunstrike said your story thinks about trying to help with the potential and best
But can't quite get close enough in time has to save himself
We're getting given such a good game five year back and forth kill the lead was going for vision
That's an easy omnislash there. Leap won't save you, not me. He's gone a freebie, handed to Satanic as he is continuing to have a beautiful time on this bottom side of the map.
2-0-2, blow this farm. You really could not ask for more. And this is going to be the real test right for the Juggernaut. We don't see it a lot, but he's having this good of a start. Surely this has got to bode well for him.
Surely there is going to be tankiness that has to deal with right the dark seer the wall can be annoying because it can't eat a lot of these
Omni slash hits as well
I mean, I think that's why he's going for the aggression right we're seeing with the build battle fury
Manta and then straight for the MKB wants to ensure that when he does come in with the omni slash
He's killing these units killing these heroes and the blink right afterwards right so you can keep the stacks without the blade form works
Right you blink you keep blade form with the omni slash before using it very powerful very potent
This has to be careful. Can get unlucky with the bounces if there is a Dominator, there's going to be wall illusions.
They're looking to try to punish here, so Spirit trying to get aggressive here, they've got the Blink on Laurel, they've got Fiend's Grip at the ready.
If they find the Coloss, that would be a massive pickup because he has to get that gem.
He's going to show class, let's get a bit of a setup on to Collapse, Laurel. Remember the rolling thunder, 9 class?
9th class gonna try and juke everything that they're throwing at him. Just just leave him
I think you call us to say hi. There's no way I'm joining you man
I've got the gem absolutely not especially when there's four heroes showing up for that play from spirit
It do cause even being extra careful. I mean he last he passed the gem over the courier
Okay, he's gonna continue to chase so indeed the carless why you know whilst he might die
We're able to make sure that that gem does not switch hands into spirits a big break
Look it's on the south side all the way off the map. He's taking that gem all the way back to the base
So very smart from Duke Carlos to not lose it that would have been devastating if he did get all the fed
Spirit still making this move will manage to take the tier one tower away. So at least
Making progress in limiting areas of map that the jugs going to be able to farm notice gets a call
It's going to be another pick up there that satanic is able to get involved in so short
They lose the tower but satanic's game just continues to flourish
And this is an interesting pivot because we don't see this as accelerated in most games.
No one's going for the BKB himself.
Since he's playing into that pango, since he's playing to a lot of this magic damage in
teamfights, he wants to be able to actually have his body in the fights at times.
Can still be dangerous for the invoker at times, but this is a cool approach because
you do need BKBs as we're seeing teamfights is everything in this Grand Finals.
And I like to change up what you're going to see from Yotara as well, right?
He is queuing up the S and Y, so I mean we don't always see the carries pick
up, but in this game for us Axe, you need the beef in it.
against the cold against potential on these sessions as well yet Toro needs to be as tanky as possible to survive through those sort of offensive plays
Old school item build that we used to see a lot versus this accident. You see these matchups
Terms of that farm speed though asked
predicted it is going to be tough for you Toro to keep up with this juggernaut
Especially just due to the fact that satanic is getting involved in action a two zero three
to sort of what's been brought down to this bottom lane and at this point I mean
the spirit how do you look at identifying and dealing with this juggernaut
what's the move you are going to look to make or at this point can you not really
do you have to look elsewhere to try and get that lead back in your favor are
you still can you fiend script right shirts up right now but that's going to
be the big one so it's eyes on nine class to get the saves nine class so
this is cool I was wondering which one he's gonna go for if it's gonna be
the blink or the shard so the blink allows it to close the gap versus
to Bane and stop the fiend. The shard would allow him to flip and move someone out of position
but the grip will continue so he goes through the blink instead for the most aggressive
type of play. And it's not only the fiend's grip, right? If he gets rolling thunder there
is other spells that he can go for as well too. Pretty excellent stales for him. I've
actually grabbed this game. I'd really like the fact that he went for the blink
this game. He gets rolling thunder too, just insane amount of control and it's
really just about that positioning to stop the fiend's grip. So Spirit, looking
to get aggressive again they do want to slow down satanics progression here
he's huge kill if they can find him but satanics in a pretty safe location very
close to the MKB and that's when the move comes becomes quite scary right if
you don't get the grab you don't kill him if he gets an omni slasher off you
know 20 or so minutes in with an MKB on top of the man's a battle theory that
omni slash is gonna hunt it's gonna kill most of targets maybe not your
Toro because he is this tanky at the moment but the rest of them perhaps
So it will be Severs picked up, Nightclas.
Navi's with him in the trees.
Not a bad grabber tool.
Taking Nightclas out of the action
means that there's less likely of sort of these next 30 seconds
where Fission's going to be running at Spirit.
Spirit's ease of execution feels a little easier right now.
With the teamfight that comes in from the Darkseer,
a lot of the teamfight, it's going
to be reliant on notice to no one at this point in the game.
So we'll see if they can get this connection.
Notice? Look at Arrowed.
They're trying to poke the BKB, but he doesn't use it. He has Heal and War to build the reset.
Might look to strike back here. Spirit backing up, resetting, continuing this farm.
This is exactly what you want for a grand final zone. Back and neck.
And, I mean does Satanic want to get involved in this play?
He does have level 18, it's a big omni-
I would imagine so.
If they can get the jump themselves vision and allow Satanic to just step up, get that ult off,
as long as he doesn't get too unlucky with the bounces,
there's a potential for him to do a lot of damage at the moment.
So it looks like, I mean maybe they do this type of play where they put Satanic in a risky position
and be like, oh yeah, go for him here.
And then that's where 9th class can go for the blink, cancel of the fiend,
get the potential steal and turn it around because if he gets fiends grip 2 right versus yatoro
it's one of the best spells of control that he can get. It would be pretty massive if he can't get that one here.
Four spirits pushing out one lane, dominator pushing out another.
Neither team gonna run into each other for these next few moments.
Collapse by the shard, blink for teamfight, going back for the lotus.
More and more answers they are looking for to do with that omni slash of course.
Laurel, just gonna go for the agonims.
Standard kill for him.
Getting closer and closer, not be if he's able to find this Eul's in these next few moments too.
Can be very annoying for notice. He has DKB, but if you don't use it immediately,
it's gonna stop your initiation in a lot of these moves.
I think that's pretty good information with these Moonlight Shadows. It sort of allows
them to breathe a sigh of relief every time he's sort of able to get eyes on Lotus, knowing
that that axe is not currently smoked up himself trying to make moves against Spirit.
Yeah, that's nice. He saw both of them there, so knows that they aren't making aggressive
moves at the moment here. 9-class very close to having this Shard down finished
up as well after the blink dagger, so we'll have multiple ways to potentially save.
No one buys the shard as well too, so starting to play with that cross farm to push these
waves up, they gave him the jammer, so feeling protected, so he doesn't, he knows if there's
any of these sentries placed down for him to play aggressively.
I think for a connection here, they have a kind of triple BKB timing on the side of
vision right now with Nautist, and Voker, and the built-in one on Satanic for a
catch.
in the trees. He's stepping up. He's inching very far forward. Doesn't quite come under vision.
Spirit, they're waiting for their next timing. The Agadims is almost done for Laurel.
And I think Yatoru, I think he might not want to show up honestly until he kind of has these
next couple of items done. I see at least. Yes, I see. Honestly, maybe even the acts. It's just
it's just a question of when his timing is going to hit a point where he's ready to tackle
with a jug.
Notice is spending a lot of time moving around.
He is 6-0 in this game, but he is spending a lot of time just moving.
You're starting to see that differential in gold.
He's got the Dominator farming for him, but look at that Darkseer.
He is starting to pull ahead massively.
He's going to be able to farm that Lotus Orb, so I feel like Spirit, they're getting
away with some nice greed and some extra answers to view with the jug and to view
with the damage that comes out from vision.
They're just sitting back farming.
As he said, waiting for that next timing.
I think, yeah, your Toro wants time.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if he's not on the AC, the AGs, and the NKB before I fight.
That's what I'm going on.
It is! I think it'll show up before that.
We'll see, yeah, those creeps could be tensing.
They can't. Got to get that money.
AC and the AGs in particular, for sure.
Could be a nice one to wait for.
Vru, halfway toward the agonims.
So, is gonna potentially be able to get to that point where he has this AGs
means because it can be very annoying to deal with.
It's a lift, it'll cancel one, but good luck covering for the other two.
You have to get a tornado connection potentially.
It can be hard to deal with at times.
Just a question as well, we're on game five here,
of the Grand Finals of the International.
Both teams have been pretty good so far in the series
at making constant aggressive plays.
Now that we're here in the game five,
do you think we are going to see both teams
lean on that the more sort of safer passive style like are they really going to be able to keep this pressure up
at this point of the tournament? I don't think so both teams have been playing super aggressive
they're keeping it up I think we're going to see them keep it up there we go and I wonder which team
which team is thinking about do we outscale I think spirit might be along that line that
they think that they do outscale I think they might feel that right the jug is just
a bit of a limited hero what he can do at times and on the slash at the end of the day you
are kind of trusting in the rng or they know where satanic is gets the blink away
It was such a huge catch, but indeed a step ahead, they will not manage to close the gap and find the grip.
And X-Farm continues to have that separation of 3k lead over the Life Stealer.
It's gonna potentially be able to get this butterfly before there's any realms of that MKB.
Might have to slot it in before the aggadims on the Life Stealer.
Yeah, I'll be interested to know what he's gonna have to.
Yeah, because as you say, for the match, you want it for the iTunes, but at the same time...
The axe does so much, and just being able to avoid what the dog wants to do to you.
Sure, you're not going to be able to necessarily cop through that butterfly,
but you're going to have a pretty high chance of surviving.
And the fact also, have to point this out, he is going butterfly.
He's got some pretty good items for a Darkseer wall.
That wall illusion is going to be pretty scary if they don't address it early on in the fights.
No one? Looking for Rue.
He's got backup coming in.
Do Spirit want to send anything over here?
Toro is looking to come across to the fight arrow to get the arrow connected on to nine class tutorial
Be able to quickly take out the roofing notice if you get the cool one for route. What's that one?
Yes, you've done it
Sorry, he's done it
You can chase down a bit fight the laps and even wore it out to ask how to quickly punch it
They get the connects it up all the time does it go back to get the obvious that put the about the illusory
This is the struggle with the oddness that sometimes the bouts just don't hit right.
Lyle survives and collapsed with the body force.
He's trying to see if they can do something about no one.
He has to go and swap the legs.
He's got a BKB to survive.
Oh man, the moments.
One of the reasons why Jart can sometimes be a bit of a risk boss.
You press the old and the old just don't hit the way you wanted to hit.
And they have multiple ways to do that as well too.
with the Dominator crew from collapse with the wall they have two different ways to disengage and break that
50 seconds that's gonna allow you to close that gap in memory. It is indeed, yeah straight up in the wall at the Roche pit
Well, this
It's gonna get set up on it by not me
What the mark there? Still no collapse, definitely Jason with the sheath of scab, we'll get him up on the cliff
He's gonna be caught up there, we'll turn and get the push back onto the two of them
But he will not be getting down alive as the Carlos killed off on the cliff
Spirit getting a lot of momentum now at this point, getting the Aegis as well, 2 for good overall.
And have to point out some other things out, right? Besides the top Omni Slash, having this massive deficit,
Life Sealer as a hero, as the game progresses further and further, they're getting killed, they're getting creep kills.
His HP is going up massively. He has 400, I mean that's the biggest HP as well.
As I said, especially with this build, the Omni, the SMY, the AC, Yatora is tanking up perfectly.
So honestly, even if you do get fortunate with the only slash bounces, you might live.
You're not guaranteed to kill him.
This life stealer is going to survive.
And I have more and more armor, more and more answers to with the Lotus, with the Shiba's
reducing some of this damage too.
Feeling concerned here, Vision.
Have to get some extra connections, have to look for something with Lotus.
He's been trying, as he said.
He's seven and zero on this axe, but it feels like it's been a quiet last 10
minutes of him finding some of these big four kills.
Spirit just playing around it, just playing for the farm, playing to get Yatora to this position.
Drew, he said, the agonist is very close for him as well too for that extra follow up.
One.
In the line class, stepping up on this top lane.
Those two, they cannot set up onto Yatora.
Trying to go for Yatora has to have this axe around here for no justin.
Even then, with the tank, with the tank as he is,
They're very unlikely to kill him in a call, and especially twice.
There's three minutes of ages on Yatoro and it's going to be interesting to see what vision do about these moments.
They need the hacks, it feels like. Invoker in particular, no one, he needs to get this finished up.
They need that extra bit of control to just burst these targets down.
He does have it finished.
Okay.
Not the center here, no one.
They're going to try and chase on 4 at the same time, collapsed.
Running down to Carlos, he tries to bounce away with a shot,
but he's caught beneath the cliff.
They always get a catch at the same time, it feels like, on the side of spirit.
Baster now, picked up for Laurel 2.
Mr. Titanic, he wants to try and look for a fight.
He's got this plane, has to butterfly.
Omni Slash is back up.
He's got to get a big connection, and they have to do a tutorial twice still.
It's 3 minutes still on this Aegis, so it's not an easy option to go for.
9 class wants better steals here at this point. Yes, sir
It's not a bad one to be honest with you to be able to close that gap or even distance a life for some of his course
Over the top of the man something strong as he
He's around the stands here. It's our
It does feel like a later and later it goes this life stealer is going to be more and more problematic for the damage
I think so it's really just the job who's going to be dealing that damage for him as the game does continue to progress
No one, almost level 20, so almost has that 20 challenge for the Chaos Meteors, but he's been quiet this game too, just some sun strikes, you don't like two for him.
I mean, they do have a massive sort of combo to throw down on the life stealer, right? If they get this call, end of the Invoker combo, inter-Satanic getting in with a big ultimate, big Omni Slash, obviously they have to watch out for the bang.
They have to watch out for the sleep saver.
He's gonna be there to disrupt that sort of play.
So at the same time once they go for this,
they're gonna look towards the supports, right?
They're gonna try and find the pain,
take them out to start the fight, collapse.
And it's found, he understands the protection
from a lot of the odyssey opponents.
And collapse.
And that's allowed to survive.
He gets the surge, he'll push like it's still there, though.
He's got to get up to the rock for this, collapse.
He does stick up, the battle hunger finishes him off.
See, they get away on the side of this.
Back onto the tier two, they should be fine.
They take three hits, they get the claw.
but they bring him down.
Collapse now gone for a minute.
Well, this item is Asian.
Well, that's really clever, right?
He's going to this end.
He almost survives all of it there.
Smoke up vision.
Looking to take advantage of perhaps that Aegis timing out.
It's still 77.
I mean, they have to go.
Now, the fact that there is no darks here,
they've got the numbers advantage.
Sure, they don't have the ult,
but even so, if they're able to get some sort of lockdown
and St. Tank's able to blink in,
come in with the right clicks,
he still does a lot of damage
without relying on the Omni Sash alone.
And they know there's no rolling thunder as well too,
so they feel like they have that teamfight advantage at the moment, even without that Chandra Nautzgut.
Axe, BKB is on cooldown though, so has to be careful how far forward he goes.
Taurak, he's responding soon, 20 seconds.
Everyone should be other than Taurak. They don't want to try and take the slide, Sheila, down twice.
Seeing the backline, they've got a work down.
I'm constantly looking at him, but they're going to have to get the vacuum here with the stolen vacuum onto the two of them, sets up for the call.
The bird through roof.
Taurak, he's ready to look for the counter play, jumps in aggressively with the infest.
It's a Satanic!
Satanic will lay down the healing wall, but he immediately swipes that away from him!
Nine Class gets the blink off!
They will manage to escape vision.
A quick retreat.
Almost two kills they're able to grab there.
The vacuum catches the tune, but the quick leap from the Marana ends up protecting him.
And in the Festeal now, that he does have so...
A further save that Nine Class can potentially do here.
And that could come in pretty clutch.
It definitely can.
Just sort of have that extra sort of health to allow Satanic to maybe live through some sort of jump that Spirit get onto him
Buy him time to turn get the ults off. I'm gonna have it back up in 10 seconds
It'll put the jug it went from 2k to 3200. That's a massive amount
He does need some HP it does feel like can get first pretty quickly in these fights at panic
All aggression with this build
It's alright
Ready to make the moves here off the back of larl and no rules there
They get the catch underneath the tier 2 shower
They'll be able to take him out before the backup arrives, but backup is on the way larl
Thank you
Ready to lead guitar into the action
This might cancel off guard here infest is already been used
They have put the only such that from from satanic a ready to get Torah to call us fixed
He knows this is coming. He actually throws it the stiller in the back lines. He's expecting a rapper out here. It looks like
Looking forward here perhaps to break the small borrow
Thinking about committing but into the triangle a bit scary without the five men
Mission? How much longer do they want to stick around here as the Banes responding? They're
still going to look for more, notice? Yet to die on this axe, godlike for him by the way.
Pretty been doing everything you can so far. Stagnated for a slight moment in that
earlier stages, but immediately afterwards, find these dreamcatches. So close on the
I don't know if it's here.
Jugg continued to keep slightly ahead, only slight this time though.
I mean that's the thing, the Toros catching up.
And I think when the difference is only slight, it does mean that your Toro is feeling pretty
comfortable in this matchup.
Ready to start working into that MKB.
Life stealer.
It's going to be a very difficult one for the Jugg to cut down.
As you say nowadays, with the agonims, with the way you can play, with the
infest, it's a lot harder for the Jugg to win in this matchup.
He's gonna sell his phase boots. He's gonna have the MK timing. They're gonna smoke and look for a fight now on the side of spirit.
Perhaps looking to catch vision off guard. The damage that's gonna be from this lifestealer.
It could just kill the juggernaut if he's not caught. If he's not just gonna have a save in particular from one of his allies.
I mean, Knight class, he still has the infest. So, eyes on Knight class to protect this jug.
He has to do a lot. Not only just sort of come in with the infest play, but also try and get one of these big steels in the fight.
or even stop this Bane right because the Bane the fiends with the agonins it is there
I believe they did see it as well
Swift blink is picked up
and that's you Swift blink on top of the play form
getting in there making the clean jump getting the ults off
it will hit hard if this jug is huge if he's a lacqueried as well too right if he
sees the target it might just insta kill before the save can come out even versus
a tanky lifestealer
but it's about getting that jump and trying to find it in a fashion that spirit and
not able to disrupt it
So, I mean, you know, we know that the neutral item that broke the jug doesn't exist anymore, but Profit Pendulum is also a pretty good one versus all these flags, so we'll have to see if that comes into play, because Laurel has it, and it's Laurel.
The two ones that they want to burst have a way to mitigate that damage.
I mean, they're both so incredibly tanky.
Looking for a fight themselves.
Vision.
Oh word, in class, unload, just up off the river, still low.
Rowan tries to use in the tree line.
Rolling Thunder at the ready, they'll look to chase down the mid.
If they can get their hands on those, they'll get the call.
Perfected!
Not gonna do what they wanted to do there, but they can stay ten.
It's gonna back up with a play.
Rip the grips there!
They're locking it up!
Get down!
Come on!
Despect the call!
Ben, for 90 seconds!
Ben's ready to dive on!
Come on!
Nice last pull, he's under the tower!
No one tries to hold his awfully!
He's completely surrounded!
He's dead!
Oh my god, oh it collapsed! You thought stir the Lotus as he hopped out!
He's gone straight with that, and he's still cleaning up, collapsed, he's not finished his job yet,
he's looking over to notice, ready to chase down the axe.
How did he notice to get it out of this one?
He's got vacuum as well too, he's got notice.
Collapsed playing with his moves!
Alright, collapsed is playing out of his mind in this game as clutch as possible.
He really is and I just fit the game five grand finals joke for I'm getting some similar vibes as we've seen in the past
I'm sure all the few viewers are to the fans as well in the stands
Seeing the reminiscing thing that we saw from on a last year
We'll see again. It was so quick that he got that lotus on to him just straight in
They want to try and turn and fight. It was a split. I mean he got it like split second
It really was holy crap collapse and then the beanscript the hard counter versus that job no way to stop it so fast
For now he is all of their damage really satanic with him gone at the start of any fight
And it only it's a small goal lead, but it feels like a very commanding move that spirit was able to hit where you can
See the pressure satanic. He started to feel it absolutely
I mean in the carry to carry matchup you can just tell that your Torah right now
He is so comfortable so confident. He knows the matchup. He's not afraid of a juggernaut
He knows exactly where he used to be with his eye in progression
And right now this life stealer at a point where it's so hard for the jug to take him down
Who do you obviously like with all this armor that they have to Lotus on Laurel?
Do they just have so many different ways to protect each other so much armor?
If the armor on some of these heroes it feels like for just the jogging pitch
Yeah, no one so difficult for satanic. He can't get this connection. He can't get the damage either this invoker
We've seen it falter in these later stages of this tournament. No one is having a tough time in this mid game
Roche now the option it's our all will get tossed in the pit from the Roche
They're gonna quickly bring this down the roar will dissolve them for a second and we'll get scouted
We even want to fight over here dangerous
They've got to sit back, let this go the way of spirit, this rush.
You can do an itemize, right? What do you do for vision to counter this?
Looking for the Lankan's and Jug. I mean, this is the thing right as a Jug is why it feels like you need so many items to make this hero work, but you've only got six slots like the rest of them.
And there are counters versus him. There's multiple different ones now with these low disorbs
Even if potentially they have just like ghost scepters, right? Because he doesn't even have a nullifier
I mean they didn't even have a ghost scepter. They could just eat the whole omnislash as well too.
He just eats so much. He wants to leak his fury, wants a nullifier, wants a BKB
And then at that point he probably wants more damage as well. So many things that Satanic has got to try and address
In so little time and under immense pressure here against the lead the spirit currently have here in this game five.
Flaps just keeps dunking new items out too. He has a hex. He has 7,000 gold after these fights too.
Treating themselves to an agonimus on the Murana now, level 18 spirit with this Aegis gold toward the high ground. Four minutes left on it.
Okay, they've got a nullifier at the least here. So the axe now has at least the answer versus the A on disc.
And I think Flaps needs to be a higher priority target for them.
Although these modices are gonna be problematic, I mean, Claps have been running sort of literal
circles around them in these team fights, sir.
There's you.
Setting up so much.
And he still hasn't decided what item he does want to go for yet.
He's been killing up Wind Waker, a couple different ones as well, to Claps, thinking
about it still.
I mean, Wind Waker could be another one that just really throws another issue the
way Joth wants to play.
He's in, ready for the dive, they have to catch no one, they've been put
They've nipped up the nine glass and an infest to keep no one safe.
They had to put the BKB here, no one.
Turn, the hex out onto Yotara.
Zyntany jumping in doesn't want to commit with the Omni Slash, though.
If the Omni Slash is there, he could get put into a dangerous spot and get killed,
so he knows how careful he needs to be.
Nine glass. We'll get nailed by the arrow.
It'll be okay.
Spirip.
Don't need to sort of make the jump too aggressive, leave for the high ground.
There's still many minutes there with the Aegis on Yatora.
I think they're starting to feel that power that they have to as the game progresses to this point.
There's much easier ways for them to jump and take these fights.
It's very difficult to see how vision took this 40-chest kind of angle, how they have to execute the fight.
They have to get a successful Omni Slash, or the fight's just over.
But as we said, there's so many different angles, so many different answers.
And Yatora, on top of just hanging up with the armor, right?
The longer and longer it goes, just watch that HP pull.
623 now, max HP.
That's alright.
Ready to finish up the tier three.
Now, are they gonna push him back?
Come on.
The hex into the meatball.
Not enough.
Somebody wasted the fail of Al.
Take some decent damage running along the meteor, but has to infest the protection is there.
I mean, Lyle could be ready to jump straight back in with him.
They get this creep wave, push forward, conspiracy and opportunity, they might just dive again.
No one's BKB, back on cooldown in 5 seconds with the A on this, down for 30, can get caught and killed, has to put very careful.
Back onto the barrage, now it's this wall.
Get the call, the other dragon in, decently deep, but again, the damage to threaten him, even the walls just doesn't seem to be there for him.
He gets instantly lotus as well too, so you can tell Statenix, I can't army slash him, what am I supposed to do?
Spirit. Ages still for 90 seconds. They're backing up looking to maximize on the map, get some of that extra farm. Not me looking for the level 20.
Getting is getting close to that. It's a lot more burst damage. They'll be able to get from that as well.
See a fission. Do they want to go for some type of sneaky play outside? It feels like it feels almost necessary to catch spirit off guard now at this point.
A head on fight feels so difficult for the side of vision.
Full of Bissell on Yuzora. Oh God.
on. They keep getting these massive items. They've collapsed the side of 21st to go for
yet. Okay, he gets a BKB and then he buys it and he's going for the overwhelming blink
as well afterwards. So, good luck getting that nullifier on him now since he has a BKB.
Kanked it, dispelled that Aeon disk either, so looking for more answers. Yeah, they're
answering pretty much everything we do see that vision is trying to answer their answers
with. And especially when you're ahead and you
go for this sort of overwhelming blink, Sheba's guard build, it's just so good
at jumping in and forcing out these early reactions, right?
Making the enemy team feel that they have to press these BKBs
before they're able to sort of start the fight on their own accord.
And it's going to mitigate the majority of the damage
that can come out from the Jug 2, which is most of the damage
that we've been seeing in this one.
Maybe a bit extreme, but maybe you've got to be thinking
about a rapier on this Jug.
Just to go for that blink-on-the-stash play,
hope that it connects, hope that you get the bounces,
because without something that extreme fog,
I don't think they're doing the damage.
It does feel like it's a life-threatening.
If he goes for it right now, that would be the craziest inventory I've ever seen.
He does go for that type of build, but it might be necessary.
He could be thinking about it as a save for the moment, being he has Lincoln's Nullifier, PKB queued up.
Another PKB pierced in disable, and you're tore out. The Abyssal has been picked up.
He's starting to disassemble items here.
That SNY that he had disassembled, now he has Casual Yasha.
It's going to be selling the Talisman and he will be going for that crit and an M damage on the bottom side.
Rosh. Still some time until it's going to be respawning.
You're going to play careful spirit and they'll be waiting for the next Rosh.
The question is, can Team Vision get out and try for a play here in these moments before Rosh is back up?
They look to try here with the smoke.
They have to. They have Wind Waker now, so Dukalis does have a hard save versus the Fiends Grip as well too.
They don't have to rely on some, you know, clearing the illusions, getting a wild grip as well, too.
They do have a way to stop it at the least, but he has to be alive for that.
That smoke at the moment doesn't look like it's going to connect.
Navi.
Playing on the front lines here.
Level 20's hit. He does have that extra burst damage now.
Vision, they're already heading back.
They could not find a chance to make a jump happen here.
Noticed is not the...
He's very deep. He's very far forward. He has some vision to play around here. He's getting pinged immediately.
So it does seem like they are aware of his positioning at the moment.
Scaling kills get continues to grow for spirit and provision. It has stagnated how much they are getting increased satanic.
He's trying to think of what to buy. He's doing up the BKB. He doesn't need that.
I don't mind the BKB. The BKB at least allows him to jump in and sort of not have to immediately panic with a blade fury on an omnistash right.
should give them a bit of a window to jump in and just get some regular right clicks off and wait out sort of these
Loathe assist before he goes to be on the side still risky
Of course very likely that there's a kind of enough physical damage coming out from your Torah to sort of tackle him in the one-by-one
When they're just right clicking each other and they have disables through a to write the abyssal the fiends grip
I believe the bash are also on laurus and he's about to have abyssal as well too
So multiple different ways if he does gold say any vision. They need this to go
Wow, see what they can connect with no one. He has a lot of items
It just hasn't been we have been able to see that damage that come out from because they just have the answers for in the kills
Like they have to save
If your Toro is able to find any sort of window to get the rage off to get the invest off
Feels like the fight's pretty much gonna be over. They have to fully combo him down and it's so so difficult
Execution much harder for vision
He's still debating which build he wants to go for here.
Refresher is the next one that he is thinking about.
Always a good hero to have it.
So, level 25 for Laurel.
Lapsus hit that 25.
And AoE Surge.
They can zoom in and out of the fights and close up the gaps
versus something like the Invoker, which he hates having.
They're gonna go for it! They're gonna try!
It's going to be the ninth and a five-sum-time.
Beechbill comes out controlling the axe.
They turn it, jumps in, he's looking at his two-foot behind the turret.
They'll fight the chance to bring down the lifestealer.
And now, Vision, they can try and clean up more.
Notby's going to jump away.
Stay turning hot, they're chasing him in the blink.
He'll be held back by the ULVS, but the further grab there for Nightglass.
Telekinesis onto Notby.
To Carlos, they turn it to Nightglass.
Jason falls, the stolen leaps are on the rubick.
Notby's gone.
Vision, they find exactly what they need.
A fight gone wrong there, and this Grand Finals may have truly slipped away from them,
but they get the grab, they get the catch, and they're able to bring down Yatoro!
Perfect execution of Chainstun. Literally perfect. I believe the lift catches him toward the end of things there,
and he gets brought down beautifully done, because we did see the sleep,
but it's a fraction of things that it actually ends up stopping there,
and they can't prevent the rest of the damage coming through.
And talk to Push, that was crazy execution from Vision.
45 seconds now, Itoro is dead. He felt like he couldn't die, but they will be able to prove that wrong on vision and Roche, it is funny.
Might be able to back up and go for it here with the damage they didn't panic at.
They're trying to set the get squad kills out of the bed, Satanic.
Jumping in.
That was, I can't believe they get that kill with the team all around him as well too, 20 seconds.
We can try to feel Nietzsche on the play here, but he gets caught by the vacuum immediately forced.
The eon is out of him.
That was very risky there from no one.
He gets his aeon disk popped, so for the next fight he won't have that ready.
They might be able to kill it in time, but they take it down so quickly.
I think they've got this roast easily.
They are not going to be able to get anywhere close to this.
This roast dies so quickly here with the unpa-fight damage.
On satanic, Aegis is going to be there in his hands for the next fight.
coming back with an absolutely fighting charm says off the back of that tier 2 defense.
That was absolutely insane. Able to find the connection where he wasn't lotus finally
and now the potential two army slashes. They're there.
Maybe he will be able to find these angles as well.
Spirit looking for the fight.
We don't want vision to be able to set up with that again.
Looks longer on the amp damage and we'll be going down.
Timeless bubble, for the invoker, long disables that he can put out here.
Bringing in both the mids and the bottom lane here, vision.
Just with that kill, it went from 1.
I thought it was an 83 down to the 58%, so I'm massive when they're able to swing into here.
Having this Aegis now for a Satanic, it's got this second life.
Such a difficult move to execute.
They do it here. Can they do it again?
Much harder when it comes to making that plague
into the hands, into the base of Spirit themselves.
Borrow immediately gets loaded stuff. They're anticipating that they're still
standing out there.
The banner all the way in the back lines for these creeps.
These creeps are gonna do some luck here.
With your Lactrity too. Surge
to go for the banner. He will just take it away.
I mean, you're not wrong, especially when you've kind of already got like eight items,
eight slots built.
He wants that next one to be able to stand and just right click first of that lifestealer.
Show him down with the bashes.
I mean, makes sense, right? But...
Let's see if that works. He did go for the nullifier in between to deal with these Aeon discs,
to deal with some of these other annoying items.
Moonlight out from Spirit.
Heading out, trying to sneak forward.
Laps.
Get the call, now punch him in. Look at the call.
Pick up the damage! It was the only slash! Come back!
And behind him, gone!
Couldn't have the BKB in his inventory.
They still want to fight, you throw a gets in, takes down 9-class.
Lowe with the roll forward, looks to one, stays tight, he's got the blade theory, they'll turn for no one instead.
He's got the angle to keep him for the draw, allowing the throw to close on full.
He's there, Nose is just back over the grip, stay low till one Nose is down.
The radio doesn't even want to know, pushes the bag, stays tight, he's called by the abyssal.
He'll turn, try it out right, the grip is still going!
But the back keeps going, and for the stop to it, no one finding a toy, he's still full!
And stays tight, he's running for no one, full for the refresh, and I know all these sides,
It's being taken by the illusions.
But played down off to the side after it collapsed.
Will chase out those who will be focused by Lyle.
They've taken the ages out of his hands here on St Tannick.
Byback coming in from both of them.
The three of them collapsed through the door.
They want to go for round two.
St Tannick is trying to play through and run.
They play to get a catch in.
Lyle?
Make it out while chasing.
Oh, regardless.
They get found in the tree line.
But he may have just drawn their attention away long enough
to allow satanic to run. Look at all these buybacks. The stolen grip for a second gets
hampered. The secondary omnicellas I think ended up bouncing only onto the Galoozons on the
roll illusions but still look at the buybacks. What that extra chaos in the fight where they just
weren't able to even with the buybacks find an opportunity to lock down satanic and get that
crucial kill. Satanic survives, continues to sit on an absolute mountain of wealth there.
9k gold on the Dugganore. He has got many options. And they're gonna go from here.
Here, they split catchable.
The barricade's going off.
Lack of equity.
But there's the jump forward, Static.
The day's been fast.
Look at that.
The infest will fire up in a safety.
The rest of the team's trying to get over the help
panel at the initial to hold back Static and run.
The laps should be able to be there with his presence.
The key to Toro's safe.
I mean, they may be even thinking about trying
to turn back over the wall to Jonx.
Static heals up back to full with the healing wall.
My god, that was so scary there.
If he does have omnicytes, they
can go for the kill.
But you're Toro, knowing that they don't just
get that infest, he does survive.
But if Briskie comes in, I mean,
Are they really gonna try and stay on the offensive was they don't have three buybacks
And it's gonna be pretty crazy six minutes here where they have to be so so careful
They're seeing though that tutorial isn't as safe as he anticipated that he was from earlier
These jumps from vision is catching them off guard a couple times here
to be off guard to
Looking for more windbreaker pickups
But as he said there is that nullifier that he did pick up this is seemed like the clutch answer for the side of vision
Titanic having this one now going through this abyssal and stamp his ground. They're spoken. They're looking for this
They have a win condition they really do or oh if they kill your Torah that the game's over
Very very likely so without the light stealer for two minutes
That should be enough time for team vision to close this one up so your Torah has to be protected here at all costs
By spirit they can't be like gonna get caught. Not me. He's found
We have the most great boss builds. I think I've ever seen on these carries
There's both completely six slotted. Yeah, you tore it with what 5k HP over the arm that turns on
Thanks to the fact that he's picked up the satanic on top of it
He's just looking to tank up
Has to survive through these calls if he does get caught by the jumps of notice
Which is very likely with how well notices has been playing he has been finding these jumps has been and no one
Can get these connections this long hex they will die during it
Eyes on the save, the Bane of Sleeps, the Little Sleep, the Lotus Orbs, could be everything to protect Spirit.
They're in such a risky position, but this is what we love to see from Spirit.
Even when they're in these sort of spots where they don't have buybacks, they are not afraid to take these risks.
They know that you have to try for these sort of risky moves if you want to claim the Aegis of Champions.
Pretty much even on the net worth there coming up to 57 minutes here in a game
five we were asking who's gonna think that they have that greater late game I
think we're seeing that both of them have that great late game not really
clear exclusive in advantage for even one at this point they're all about the
playing right now all about the play all about the catch eyes on noticed both
teams have the tools
I do see the BKB getting swapped back in, so Collaps not able to play with the refresh
Rashard in his inventory, absolutely necessary.
He needs to be able to protect the Nova Fireball.
They're gonna catch on the walls here outside of the base wall!
He's got five.
I mean, Spirit!
They're gonna try running into this.
They're looking to say, Tadic!
The tour is gonna jump and aggressive over the walls in here with the Impest.
The wall gets dropped down into the base wall!
Tadic!
He's gonna freeze for now!
Every time the pistol drops down, they hear out the bomb!
Spirit!
Oh, my God!
Spirit!
Oh, he's the aggressive here.
Despite the fact that he's not survived,
they're ready to try and fight.
It looks like he knows he's the peak,
they'll be only going to buy him moments here
before they inevitably bring him down.
Yatoro knows it.
If they don't jump me,
I'm going to kill every single one of them.
So, Laurel, he buys back immediately,
back the other way we go.
Again, just doing this in this situation.
This is absolutely peak team spirit.
Here in the grand finals,
coming up to 60 minutes in,
They never play scared, they never play scared and now they're in a spot where despite the fact that they're buybacks from Cuda
They might just be able to force these crucial buybacks out from vision
No one has a full refresher picked up here for the move
Now what's damage you can do on the full?
And when did the buybacks come out? Do the buybacks come out? What's the move here from vision?
See
Tomorrow playing it safe going for the push here
I mean, do you buy back or do you let these two sets of racks go?
Could you still have a tier two down on the bottom lane?
Do you just stack for two sets of racks?
I think you might.
Unless they overextend on the side of Spirit, you see a position where you can go for this
kill on this lifesteal.
You might win.
So you must see Spirit try and push for them.
Take the mid racks and indeed they'll move over towards the top.
20 seconds.
Now at this point you do not want to buy back.
The hacks will come out.
But he's not saved.
It's a top call to make here.
It feels like the lesser of the evils ready here for Team Vision, they have to hold back on the buyback.
They don't actually end up losing the full set top, so a little bit of a bonus from them there in that sense.
But overall, Spirit strike back, able to do heavy damage here, taking out the full set mid, taking out the rain tracks top.
But at the least for Team Vision, they don't have those big buybacks forced down.
They keep their call.
Two minutes left till Spirit has their buybacks back at the ready.
Spamming the Moonlight Shadow for positioning, seeing the pick up here from Notice, I love this.
This could be a game-winning refresher, if he gets a double call, trying to find Yatora on the angle,
could be everything for the team. They can follow up.
There is going to be saves, we are seeing the Wind Waker now picked up for not being,
but does have that potential to also get the save, even if there is a nullifier,
since it's going to be a Raged Lifestealer, so there's a lot of layers in these T-pikes to look out for.
Satanic, wants to move shard, wants the box to be able to play on the map, and...
Yeah, still? Not the agonies!
Not the agonies, they hate it.
They don't like it!
Nope, they hate it. Don't know why, but they hate it.
It is a short-awakening clash, of course, so maybe he's just feeling like it's not going to make the difference anyway.
60 minutes.
See what we get on the neutrals.
A little bit of a breather here for both teams.
They're gonna have back hit the neutrals pretty safely near the team quick to make an aggressive play
And so just wait out those final minutes where the buybacks are gonna be back online
It's only gonna be lals that's gonna be on that longer cooldown
This these neutrals can make the difference always to right if you just get that audacious
If you do get that crazy damage item, it could just kill these targets in one of these stuns
Bobbles
They're bobbling
Collapsed was hanging on to the greedy tier 3 for a very long time there. He had to bobble at the ready
He picks up the first bobble so he'll be able to bobble
Secondary one which is upgraded immediately at that 60 minutes. Yatoro, he gets the deso
Well, he's gonna be hitting hard and look at his HP. Oh, and he gets the evolved one as well
So he's 6k HP, 40 armor the thingy, 46 armor they need to get through
I'm with the Stygian he might just I mean how does it sort of go if these two get in a situation where they're
What do we go? Oh, he's just gonna probably bubble again on the juggernaut with
Audacious bubble. I think audacious is gonna feel pretty nice, right?
It'd be the case. A lot of attacks be a lot of a match of deck damage that really boosts up your output. Okay spirit
Looking to hit again buybacks are coming back up for them. They have their Toros at the ready. I
I should switch it so he goes to the roof shadow prison there on a satanic
Okay, I'm able to push out a little bit with those illusions maybe able to play
Into the heads of spirit try and catch them out beat them out
That is what a lot of these players do is but I mean your Torah and satanic the most notorious ones for doing these mantas and losing plays to
Bait things smoke-on-smoke action
They will they fall for these plays from satanic bro. She's up
I'll be pushing out the waves with this arrow with this star storm
both teams pretty much getting the buybacks back online look at the debt
scouting a lot here it's an illusion so debate the Rift Shadow Prism falls for
it once
all the buybacks coming back up as we are saying Laurel the one the big one that
doesn't have it for the side of spirit he's probably gonna be playing more
to the back lines in this next step of the fight.
It could be important because around this sort of fight,
around the Roshan, both teams are going to want to use those by-bites.
Yeah.
Wait a second.
Who's got the smoke still left too, Spirit?
They still have one.
Do they have one left on the side of Vision?
I'm not seeing one.
Can they find some sort of angle to approach Vision here that surprises them?
That collapse.
He hasn't really been able to fight a massive vacuum,
but if he does find an angle for it too, the fight could just be decided.
Especially with the refresher.
Spirit on the approach. No one's gonna jump the Hydra. No one's gonna turn through.
They're going to head to Taurus. He's gonna look towards the enemy.
And they're gonna get lifted back up to no ground.
On the Hydra, the stuns there, the bash it on towards the ocean.
They're probably on the side of the Yatora guy.
He's gonna fall to the sleeper.
What's the Yatora? They stay in the back.
They try to block the Yatora.
They fly back to the front of those steps before they go.
Allow Cytanic to escape the punches of Yatoras.
But Cytanic is shot from behind.
Cytanic is now.
But they're back, they're going to have to continue to come out here from vision. No surprise back.
St. Tannick's still holding on to it. No one, no one.
One for the pressure, St. Tannick's got the shot down.
So they roll up there, as they're standing on the line.
He pulled back to the St. Tannick, they have to save the guitar.
Close again, get the back. St. Tannick's falling off, they're here to go and try to give him a life.
Push back there, allows space for St. Tannick to get back to the St. Tannick, the base.
Regardless, they'll try to get out with the win-win, they'll go get the blink off, he'll live.
No one's to guard from the front line. Steps up, crosses, heads to goal, up the last.
They're trying to go to the infestation, the biggest goal!
And the breakout, no one!
So everybody's down, you can take down, before I play it through the list!
Who get back from the fountain?
But don't, the fountain!
He did!
Get inside the fountain!
Oh, and they've done it!
I think they have!
The three cores are gone!
The inspiration onto the tearful...
Gigi!
Gigi's gone!
The inspiration has gone in again!
I can now move over big, the three-times!
They've done it! They have solidified!
These guys are the absolute maniacs of Dota!
The Blacks and Yutaro!
They keep their cool in the toughest moments!
These grand finals, it is where they absolutely revel in the action team spirit!
Oh my god, what an unbelievable series, not me!
His first TI appearance, and he wins it!
Holy, holy, holy.
The last dive for him and rose a second time for Lyle
and a third time for Collapse at Jatoro.
Incredible things there in Shanghai.
Team spirit.
This game five, I mean, vision, they stepped it up.
They had to, they pushed it the distance 64 minutes in.
They took a risk as we've seen both teams do throughout the drafts
of this Grand Finals.
The jump doesn't pay off but my goodness!
Zigtanik gets it is absolutely fast!
Don't let him collapse, pick it up first it looks like.
But that's a very, very, very time!
What a game! What a round-final!
Ladies and gentlemen, the winners of the International Quick-Winning Stage 10 for Spareway!
Ladies and Gentlemen, after being pushed to the absolute limit in a five game series,
series we are ready to crown the champions of TI 15!
For the first time in Dota history, a team flames three agencies!
Team spirit, fight all the way through lower bracket, now you're here, you lift the ages.
Not me, I gotta ask you, you gave your hair to the god of Dota, Dota God, he gave you
the championship.
Do you wanna say anything to your fans, your family, anyone who's been watching
your games. If you want you can speak Russian, you can speak Russian.
Thank you very much for being the first to hear my mom. She supported me very well.
And the fans who supported us, you are great.
Come here, come here, please.
Please come here, this is your moment. This is the moment to lose to you.
Now, this is your first stages.
Just have to be special. What is going through your mind right now?
This is the first time you've been invited to the championship.
This is a special moment. What are you feeling now?
I don't know. It feels like I'm in a dream.
It feels like I'm still in this game.
In this best of best, best of five.
So I don't know. Unbelievable.
I don't know what to say, but I'm still in the game, and this BL stage is crazy.
Everything is so hard to believe.
Three gods.
When you first won the TI, did you ever think that this journey would be so exciting?
Three ages.
Well, when the first time you lifted up these ages,
Did you ever imagine the journey would be so incredible?
Yes, I hope I'm going to win 4 or 5.
And I want to say I have 55% percent in.
I thought, can you give me purple light with drawranger please?
Drawranger?
Please, I lost all my negatives.
I didn't make the right prediction, but can you give me the black Dwarf's equipment?
Really, that's what you're thinking right now in your mind after you lifted the Aegis.
This is what you're thinking right now in your mind. You just got a new idea.
Okay, okay.
Now, please. Now, come here.
Now there's people questioning you, if you win once, if you down it twice, what's going
through your mind right now?
You feel good, amazing games, they perform really well, this last fight was amazing,
like screaming, destroy everything, like when they try to case their own fountain, so it's good to play Dota, and win Dota.
How are the fans? You and Yatoro are the only two players that have won three TI's.
How does it feel to be the best Offlaner in the world?
Wonderful feeling.
Can you say any other words you want to give to the fans to people who support you here in the arena, back home?
I'm just a little bit shocked right now, to be honest.
I feel a little bit... I don't know what to say.
I feel like it's really weird now. Thank you so much. Enjoy your moment.
We seem to have one more.
Of course, we can't forget you.
Coach!
You have lived ages yourself, now about the player, and now you live ages yourself, now about the player,
And now you left the ages as a coach with your old teammates with your team
Do you feel like maybe you just figure out the door to the game?
Do you need to beat?
Do you think?
Do you think you just beat this game?
Ah, I don't know.
It's too obvious!
If you want to do this kind of confidence, that's the confidence we want to hear! Thank you so much, Mikoshka!
Alright, then, tonight we witness Spirit's third game of the season.
The third champion is...
And once again, they've made it to the international tournament.
Once again waving their legend into the history of the international.
And all that comes to a close here in Shanghai.
大家一起 and tonight once again belongs to Team Spirit!
Congratulations to Team Spirit. Every year a team makes history, but TI 15 is special because this is a legacy that has been created today.
today, a legacy that no one ever thought would happen in the history of TI.
We have our two first ever, three TI champions, and Org winning for the third time as well
for Team Spirit.
Mabochka doing it as a player, as a coach, and not me to come in as his first ever
TI appearance and lift that Aegis.
Rue as well coming back for the second time and getting to have success.
It really is a fair tale ending for them here on spirit.
This is the undisputed best team in the history of Dota 2.
You go, Quinn.
No, they are there the goats.
There's no argument.
Two EWC's, three TI's, a million other tournaments, unbelievable, unfathomable individual skill
and team cohesion, and Dota ideas that are out of this world.
They are the best players to ever touch the game by a wide margin.
Yeah, I'm not a loss for words.
I'm really happy for them.
I honestly think as Dota players, we could have no better ambassadors for our game.
I think they are beyond just being great Dota players, they're also great people,
they're people you can look up to and you can aspire to become like.
They're amazing idols for us to have and I'm honestly really happy that it's them,
that we're the first people to ever reach the three P.
No one's done it like this team.
Three TI wins, they are incredible.
They have a history of just busting out legendary player after legendary player
bringing in new players, bringing in players who no one heard of before this,
who was not me before a few months ago.
And all of a sudden he's lifting the ages.
Rue, nobody heard of him up until last year when he joined.
And all of a sudden he's the best position five in the world.
He absolutely demolished this series.
And you see coach Moposhka on the screen.
He is the heart and soul of this team.
He is everything that Team Spirit has represented over the years.
Perseverance, resilience, friendship, love.
It's just such a beautiful story to witness unfold.
I mean the resilience is so key. You can come in through upper bracket. They've done that before for a win
But to come in through lower bracket the way that they did to essentially feel like they were powering up 2-0 off the 2-0
And then again be pushed to the absolute limit
It was seven games of competitive Dota that these five had to play two different opponents in a single day
The Bapushka had to drop to this team and I cannot believe just what they're able to do at each and every turn
It felt like they were one step ahead ready to take team fight off the team fight and that last one
I don't even know what to make of it
I would still be living in that booth if I was one of them
I mean that's sleep the room gets off on that's right. I know we're starts was talking about game
But I have you can that sleep that he gets off on your Toro. He's like one percent HP
He comes in with a clutch sleep and that just turns everything around
I do you know like pain is like so slow and walk your way towards him watching his HP
just dropping. Just finally get into range. You're not fumbling your ease. You're like
double-hicking and sleep yourself. You manage to get the nightmare on him. It wins you TI
and like, yeah, it's honestly amazing. I'm so happy for them.
It was a magical moment. I mean, Team Spirit, they just have a history of delivering magical
moments at TI Grand Finals. They have a 100% win rate in TI Grand Finals. They have
not lost a single one. Three
for three, baby. Three for three.
And there is no other team that
once they reach this point in
the tournament, no one can stop
them. They're like a boulder
that's just getting bigger and
bigger and they demolish
everybody in their way. It's
it's unbelievable. Watching them
is truly it's a work of art and
it's what I think a lifetime of
dedication to this game from
these players has has achieved.
This doesn't happen overnight
and it's not just celebrated
of the rest of their lives because it is an unbelievable achievement in I think one of
the hardest and best games ever made.
It's what what better sector to have such an accomplishment in.
They've won TI in so many different ways too right that TI 10 was a Cinderella run.
Nobody knew who they were coming up against when it came to them.
They just crushed.
They came from the lower bracket.
They fought their way to it and they won their second TI win.
They were the best from the start of the tournament until the very end of this tier
and this third TI win.
it wasn't it wasn't sure everyone had them like top four nobody knew if they
would make it this far there was a big story a big monster a big final boss in
team vision and they beat them in the most convincing fashion and it was the
most even game five of the grand finals that I've seen in a long time I
honestly did not know who would win up until the very end honestly I think
the 10th place in those bits also didn't know because it felt like we
were going to be seeing history repeat itself with this jug not being
to make it work. Not really
having a game, but my goodness,
massive props to say, Tannock.
I know that it's its spirits
moment, but they really put so
much out there. You were
thinking is this is this
vengeance fit job, but spirit
at the end of the day have
answers for everything you
don't even think about. Yeah
vision put up an incredible
fight all five of them, so
massive props them, even
though they're not the
victors, it's it's a side
of Dota that's a little
uglier and it's rough, but
not be doing the
Doing the Maureen in a bar. He just needs some fluff after a game like that
And I we have to talk about this guy not me a team spirit have an eye for talent like no other
Nobody nobody expected him to be this much of a monster when he debuted in that dream league season a few months ago
He was two stepping around people who's dancing around on his Rubik stealing every single spell single-handedly closing up games
and people are asking about where did he come from? Where did they find him? And here he is,
just a few months later, winning TI, listing the ages. Yeah, it's amazing.
See, that's Adi boy. He'll always support you, help you out when you need it there. But Spirit
just have a family like no other in themselves. The way that you're talking about that they
can foster new talent, and it's a true testament to what you're able to do when it comes to
to an environment back each other up know that when you're down on a game five the energy still bad the belief is still there and at any point
You can take this and you can be the ones out there like they did today lifting that ages for a third time
Yeah, it's it's unbelievable. They are they're incredible or get fostering talent. I mean they even discovered
You're collapsing your Torah you go way back
But post got honestly had not I mean he was obviously playing before then but did not have a ton of results
and they create this roster with him.
He's the one who fosters all these players from the very beginning.
And I think when you look at players and people who have been such a massive
impact on the scene, I think the Pochka has to be up there.
Someone who's not only fostered people, but so incredible himself to have
two rings as a player and also a ring as a coach on both sides of the game.
The guy is just an absolute monster.
I mean, I honestly feel like they would don't win this final without 100 percent.
They've become a completely different team ever since he's joined as a coach.
You can see the influence.
It's really cool about this iteration of Spirit, and my mind is that they can play fast.
This is their new playstyle, what they found from the new supports and new kids coming in
and teaching the old players, like, we can play like this, whereas Miposhka then also
brings a stability and the way to play these long dragged out slower games, and it's
a completely different beast than the team that won the first PI.
I think if they can keep this kind of form, they will be a very threatening team
coming up throughout all the next season as well.
No one ever underestimates team spirit when it becomes a TI, but this year was so different
for them.
All of these roster changes we've alluded to, not a single first place at an event that
they participated in as well, which is crazy to think about.
This team has always been able to find success for themselves throughout the season, no matter
what.
And then they have to go through qualifiers, and it's still the same question in your
mind.
Yes, it's spirit when it comes to TI, but how far can they really go?
And they prove everyone who ever planted a seed of doubt about them to rest because you've
lifted this a third time or your first appearance.
It doesn't matter.
Spirit have given us everything when it comes to TI history.
And every single player on that team can be praised tenfold.
And we have talked about Miposhka, not me, but Collapse and Yatoro, three ages.
Yatoro is undisputably the best carry in all of Dota history.
No one's done it like him.
No one's looked as dominant as he has once he reaches that main stage and he gets on there.
We were joking about Baldi Toro.
He didn't need to shave his head.
He didn't need to sacrifice to the Dota gods.
He is that guy and Team Vision unfortunately they had to face this monster in him.
Yeah.
I think the one word he describes those two players is just clutch.
So many people you can see them get shaky when the chips are down, but they just
don't in the same way.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know how they're like that, but it's unlike any player I've ever
seen.
When the moment is the biggest they play the best and it's such an incredible skill
That's so rare that you can't help but just admire it because it's I don't know it's it's astounding
I want to give each of you guys a moment to give me everything that feels right about
TI 15 how you've enjoyed Shanghai in the last two weeks that have amounted to spirit being our
Champions for this TI I mean for me personally. I think Shanghai obviously is where I started my own TI journey
It's amazing to be back. I'm really thankful to be here and would obviously love to come back to China more
I haven't been here since COVID so it's amazing to be here the Dota at this TI has been very entertaining to watch
I feel like we had a grand finals that featured everything we got with the cool strategy victories
We got amazing gameplay victories and towards the end we got an absolute sloth fest of a game five where everybody's just farming
So I feel like we got it all and I'm you know, thank you to valve for believing in us to this grand final panel
and thank you to all the players and all the fans for watching and making it so special.
Dota 2 is such a beautiful game. I mean every TI is a celebration of the community, of the teams,
of the talent, of all of us just come together and we show how much we love Dota and what it means
to us and just watching the incredible games aside, being part of it and witnessing it first
hand is something else entirely and I'm always so happy to be here. Yeah, incredibly grateful
for all you guys are making this a great experience. Incredibly grateful to all the fans who love this
game as much as we do, and that's why it exists in the first place. And thank you to Valve for
creating and maintaining what I think is the best game ever made. And also thank you to production,
all the people behind the scenes who make this stuff possible. There's so many of them who
work unbelievably long hours, much longer than us or any of the players. So shout out to them
for making an event exist that would not exist without them. 15 years of beautiful
I'm going to give the
guys here to 15 more massive
thank you to everyone whether
you're watching here in Shanghai
around the world, whether it
be Australia, North America,
Europe. We've appreciated you
joining our journey here and
it is with a hot full of love
for Dota that I wish you a
good night for the last time
here at TI 15.
I'm not sure if you can hear me, but I'm not sure if you can hear me, but I'm not sure if you can hear me.
I