I've got the mail that I can spare, so let's get on.
Come on, my honey, let's take this money, let's not fall.
Who knows how this will last?
For now, let's tackle blasts
It's fun, yeah, you know it
So let's go blow it all
It's fun, yeah, you know it
So let's go blow it all
No one around, no one around Just as magic of you and me
Light shining bright for me tonight It's how it's meant to be
When we're together, feels are correct Lights know that we'll melt away
The light of the fire, let this feeling stay
Let's all feel the love this Christmas
Let's sing out loud, make a little magic today
Let's all feel the love this Christmas
Yeah, Christmas is here to stay
Something's fake, the many say
Old songs play in a one-off piece
The five-man burn, the years return
But something is never to leave
When we're together it feels like forever
Like snow that won't melt away
So light up the fire and let this feeling stay
Just let it stay
Let's all feel the love this Christmas
Let's sing out loud
Make a little magic today
Let's all feel the love this Christmas
Yeah, Christmas is here to stay
Oh, yeah, don't feel the love this Christmas
I don't think you know how much I love this festive cheer
I wish it could be forever
But it only comes around once a year
The lights go up now in November
I think that it's only fair
Can we not leave them up for good?
I doubt that anyone would care
Let it be Christmas
Let it be Christmas for you and me
Let it be Christmas
We'll be together by the Christmas tree
Don't ask for much, give all my gifts
There's only one thing left on my list
Let it be Christmas, it's nearly here
Let it be Christmas
Every day of the year
I'm lighting up the windows
Let me be Christmas
Yeah
Let me be Christmas
Let me be Christmas for you and me
Let me be Christmas
We'll be together by the Christmas tree
Don't ask for much
You bought my gifts
There's only one thing left on my list
Let it be Christmas
It's nearly here
Let it be Christmas
Every day of the year
Every day of the year
Don't ask so much, ask about my gifts There's only one thing left on my list
Let it be Christmas, it's nothing Let it be Christmas, every day of the year
A beautiful sight
Gonna be a perfect Halloween night
Oh, joys for camping in the air
Spread some love
Let's show we care
You're the magic
Hear the sound
It's my Christmas
All around
Oh, yeah
It's gonna be a perfect Halloween night
My friend and people made it for many miles away
Let's make it come and celebrate
It really don't get better
So everyone say
Gonna be a better friend on the day
Oh joyful cheering in the air
Spread some love
Let's show we care
Feel the magic with the sound
It's Merry Christmas all around
Oh, it's gonna be a perfect holiday
It's been a long year for you and me
But with you all here, I feel complete
I'm married and I'm all the kids
Seasons and the relatives
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Oh, joyful cheering in the air,
Spray to love, let's show we care,
Feel the magic in the sun,
It's Merry Christmas all around
Oh, it's gonna be a perfect holiday
A glance across the stream
Fleeting moments, two strangers meeting
That swept me off my feet
Golden leaves under an autumn sun
You talked about the movies and how you like the gun
Our lives we together through all kind of weather
And our hearts grew strong
Our love was a chance encounter
A glance across the street
Fleeting moments to strangers meeting
and that swept me off my feet.
The buzz of traffic, the bright city lights,
you talked about marriage, who you'd invite.
We talked for hours and I brought you flowers,
and our hearts grew strong.
How can something so special be mere happenstance?
Was it destiny calling or just life's little dance?
Our love was a chance encounter against the cross-de-stream
Fleeting moments, too strange as me
That swept me off my feet
That swept me off my feet
Here's the gun
Yeah, and full of Christmas songs
Steep on the railroad track
Get up and make some noise
Cause there's no turning back
It's the beginning of a whole new year
Next stop is Christmas again
Oh, Jesus, here
Hey, on a Christmas tree, it's pretty
There's room inside for everybody, everybody
Underneath the mistletoe, sound is stuck in my ear
Get on the party train, you've been so good this year
And when the whistle blows, I know your need
Next stop is Christmas, but I'm here
Holidays are here
Next stop is Christmas, but I'm here
Holidays are here
Next stop is Christmas, but I'm here
Holidays are here
We're living a high life, no need for trouble or strife.
Cocktailed bodies, Broadway lights, on the Namas we see the sights.
Monday morning, we catch a plane down the coast to Santa Pay.
Wherever we are, it's never the same
Where there's fun and dance, we will play
We live in a high life
No need for trouble or strife
Cocktail party is probably lights
On an arm as we see the slice
We get the town, eat caviar, and drink champagne.
A life of luxury fit for the crowd.
A life that we can't contain.
But whatever the party, wherever we land Being with you makes me feel grand
Rags or riches, I just don't care The love that we share is beyond compare
We're hoping our fear, live in a high life No need for trouble or strife
God tell party is Broadway lights Armed and armed as we see the sights
Armed and armed as we see the sights
I'm young and old, too rich and poor There was one thing that I know for sure, guaranteed
Someday you'll fall in love
In a scupin' time, there's ways and needs Angels are the knack that's no between
Take it from me, someday you'll fall in love And when you do, you'll find the romances
Light's most precious treat
Who knows if I'd be the next girl that you meet
For kings and queens, for you and me
It's the same and never to be let in
I promise you this, someday you'll fall for me
Like small scratches free
Who knows it might be the next girl that you meet
And if you think love's passed you by
There's no need to find I'll tell you why
Wait and see
Someday you'll fall in love
I said take it from me
Someday you'll see your waterfall in love
The nights are long but it's alright
When you hold me tight by the fire side
I meet those neighbors who hang me from my famous sleigh
But you know what they say, good things come, they go through it
We're up late for Christmas
We're in the center of God
We've been waiting for so long
We're all ready for Christmas
Right on the keyboard
Don't let me miss us
We're all ready for Christmas
We better not give us way in this long run
Come on, give us my time
I'll get some respite of any life
I need those labels to make me safe as we all die
I'm shaking last every day, but soon they'll be seeing not another
We're going to Christmas
Waiting for Santa to come
We've been waiting for so long
We're all ready for Christmas
Rock done eat the warm
Don't let it mess up
We're all ready for Christmas
We're all ready
We're all ready for Christmas
We're all ready
We are ready for Christmas
We are ready
We are ready for Christmas
We are Santa Claus
We've been waiting for Christmas
We are ready for Christmas
Rap does not do the work
Darling, this is how I first went
Christmas
Got a resty, merry gentleman
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas day
The soul who sings loud when he ain't gonna stay
That is a tough one, Lord
Oh, God, he's a tough one, Lord
And God, our heavenly Father, blessed angel King
And unto certain shepherds brought the tithings of the same
And how that endeth, the heavens bore the son of God, my name
Oh, darling, come and go!
Where is she, Mary, gentlemen?
But nothing you'd say.
I
I
All the roads we follow, we find our way back here
The laughter and the stories grow more this time of year
You know you're fine and belonging No matter where you've been
I don't know the light to shine on me
It's the most wonderful time
To be here to get this body
And the reason I do
Is I'm at home when I'm with you
I'm at home when I'm with you
I'm at home with you
I'm at home with you
I'm at home with you
I met her when I was a little girl
Wrong, we're the Colosseum
Wrong, and the Gramm-usage
Wrong, love is everywhere
So meet me up there at St. Peter's Square in Rome
On the seven hills that's Rome
The Italian thrills
Cause life is alive when you're roaming
In Rome
Rome
Where the type of flows share the Rome
Michelangelo's in Rome
The eternal tongue of a man saddened and all things Latin grow
Like a symphony, it's home to the bourgeoisie
We'll go home in romantic dance hall
Dream League Season 27 is brought to you by DHL.
It's the final day of Dream League my friends.
It has been a beautiful season 27, getting a chance to spend it with all of you.
And now only three teams remain and they're hoping to feel their fate and get their first trophy of the new EPT season.
But because it is December and it is the end of our year and one important thing that I want to share with all of you is...
I wanna wish you a merry dream week, I wanna wish you a merry dream week,
I wanna wish you a merry dream week from the bottom of our hearts.
I wanna wish you a merry dream week, I wanna wish you a merry dream week,
I wanna wish you a merry dream week from the bottom of our hearts.
I couldn't figure out a better way to spend my December with all of you so glad that we
were able to share this moment in the in the spirit of the holidays.
You have a great singing voice actually that was a surprise.
I was the acapella at the backing it was all lip synch the backing track is great.
That's the one that's the one
Jenkins I thought that was lovely. That was a very very lovely opening
Been great genuinely when you watch them online. It's like the band band looks cool from online, but impersonating even
That's the thing I can't wait until we finally have an event where there's the band and the live crowd
It's gonna happen one day somewhere
We're gonna have an event. We're gonna have the band here and you guys and girls at home
I've got to be able to come along and get to enjoy them in person
I'll tell you that one tradition that we always have regardless of the season in the Dream League is between
Lower bracket finals and grand finals. We do get a little concert from the Pandas
And I can tell you the same thing will be happening this time
Lovely
But as always they figure out a way to up the ante so be sure to stick around through all of
the in between times between the games
But it is the last day of games Jenkins been a hell of a journey to get to this point
It's been good Dota and we got a patch as usual. I love that. This has become a tradition. I really do like
Valve
They they might be what that wants him right now. They are communicating. Yeah something through these patches
They know that we give the least of a shit
It's like come on hit us up with that patch. We want to see the chaotic Dota
We want to see the insane Dota and I feel like it always leads to the most
Ridiculous and unique storylines that we see all year. Yeah
I mean, I remember playing in the first Dream League where they did that where they like dropped the patch in the middle of it
I was like what tag is happening?
Why is there a giant patch in the middle of the tournament and then somehow that became the norm now everyone expects it
That was the it was the map expansion patch and you guys were already good before that patch
And we were like, okay, let's see if they can still be good after the entire map changes, and then you were still good
And we were like, okay. Well clearly nothing is stopping these guys from dominating the year
But you kept up with it and it's been a dreamly tradition ever since let's suppose. I like it. It's cool
It's uh
It's nice especially at the end of the year to have something that mixes things up, you know
The same same tournament you've seen throughout the year, but it's a little a little spice to finish things out
Although I see Jenkins you're still hoping for maybe a beat patch to
to tweak some of the numbers on healing, perhaps,
and maybe one of the more egregious changes of the...
Yeah, I could definitely see that.
From what I've seen, there's a lot of
holy lockets being built, guarding greaves,
and there's some things that you can tweak.
In every game, not just in Dota,
there's always a major patch,
and then you have a letter patch that comes through after.
I mean, obviously, we have a day of Dota to watch,
so we're gonna see a lot of holy locket healing,
especially from the boys of Paravision.
They seem to have discovered that this is very overpowered,
but I imagine that everyone that we're gonna see playing today
has been playing a lot of pubs.
They're seeing the latest meta.
And Phil, it's so early on that it's undeveloped.
Like maybe people are already theory crafting counters
and they have it.
And we're gonna see it today.
Or seeing that these teams that many people
would not have expected, Owen,
we're gonna have the Dandex waiting
in a best of five grand finals,
which Granted is not out of their norm because the very last tournament, they made it to Grand
Sanctus, but this is a different yandex that we're staying at this one.
No, I think so.
I think they're going to be, you know, whoever they end up matching up against in the Grand
Finals, they're going to be giving us a much better show here at Dream League this
time around in that best of five.
This team, I think, you know, the sky's the limit with them.
They've shown it, as you said.
They hit the Finals once.
This time, they very well could just take the whole tournament, which is a Super
I'm excited to see with these players who can make some kind of players that maybe you would expect to sort of see reach these levels
And then kind of these other players that are now stepping up to perform in that ability
So it's just always great to have kind of another team come in and suddenly be what this kind of tournament
Grand finalist or not winner to just sort of add to the teams that we're already very used to seeing time and time again
Get to every grand finals and get to every single
EPT event as well because Dream League Season 27 is a part of, like I said, our brand new
season of competition.
And this is the very first stop on that tour, 21,1100 points being doled out and just one
of four opportunities this year.
So yesterday I had a fair amount of action as well.
We talked about Yandex, but still the fact that they were able to 2-0 Team Spirit Quinn,
that was unexpected to say the least and wildly outrageous to say the most.
Yeah, I mean Spirit is obviously the favorites there, right?
They're the ghosts, the 210 TI winners.
Yandex, in big matches they've looked a little bit shaky.
You can see it in the Blast finals, they comled a little bit.
Especially, I think, Notice and Cheer Junior, the two newest players.
And so I think going into today, I'm kind of like how are they going to look because in finals they've they've looked worse Watson and Malady also never wanted to
Want to bet before yeah, we got into a bunch of finals on the you know, rot the roster last year and now this is the second one
They've been in can they break that curse and actually get the win under their belt because I think they feel a little bit of a monkey on their back about
For sure, we haven't actually won we've got a bunch of seconds, but can we get the W that's what I've always felt that about one of the
I guess like eight months ago that room team and before 2024 that bedroom team was always so close to
Managing to make it to their grand finals
Constantly a podium finisher, but never a trophy carrier and then they finally broke the curse is that I
Have questions about that like the monkey on your back
Well, what is that feeling actually like is it is it like every day up until the grand finals?
You're just kind of like in the zone
when you're focused on Dota, but then Grand Finals Day happens, you wake up in the morning
and you're like, this is it. This is the last day. Like, is it some anxiety that creeps in
on that last day? Are you thinking about it the entire time? Like, you describe the feeling?
I mean, I can only talk about, from my experience, I don't know, there's, but there's definitely,
there can be a feeling that it is more important. And then that can, that can
change things. Like, like Dota, so much about the little things, so much about
the small things and like the atmosphere and the vibe of a team, how people are speaking
to each other, like even stuff like tonally how people are responding, like that affects
your gameplay because feeling as people are stressed is going to make you play worse
in insignificant ways, but when compounded they add up to totally change.
The early game which then makes you play from a position you're not used to, it snowballs
like crazy and I think it's sort of like you said it's creeping, just feeling
somewhere deep in the heck in here that affects you.
Did you say like it only needs to happen to a few players on the team and that's enough
to throw off the whole balance?
Yeah, it can snowball.
Don't do such a finely tuned machine that if one cog is slightly eek and suddenly whoa!
Interesting.
Yeah, it's a well-optimized state that we're in and you don't want to rock the boat too
much and even more so than just like before the match begins, like you get into game
two of the grand finals and you're like, oh god, now I'm one game away from losing
and then you start spiraling from that point.
Or winning.
Or winning.
That's also true.
It's the same thing.
It's like, I guess part of the problem
is thinking about having any expectations, thinking
about the results, rather than just you're in a game of Dota,
how do you play the best possible?
I mean, I feel like a lot of us feel it in our pubs.
If you think about winning this pub,
that's often when you play the shittiest.
No, that's so true.
And in the context of like, if you're having a good day,
it really is.
If you've won four games in a row, and then it's the point in the beginning of that fifth game where you're like,
Oh, I've won four games today.
And then as soon as you have that thought, you know that that game's gonna be a loss.
It happens so many times, it matters your four games in a win streak, from a six, seven games in a win streak.
Like, it will happen. As soon as you start to be aware of what's going on, it's over.
I think we're tapping into something of this human nature here, rather than like Dota-related.
And it just, it's really amplified in Dota because it's such a high-pressure game.
Like you said, it's such a well-oiled machine, we've all played for like a decade, like everyone knows what to do,
but it all falls apart when you start having these thoughts.
Yeah, as soon as you start thinking about it, you just, you gotta think less, which sounds kinda counter-intuitive when you're playing a game that has so much going on,
but when you've played it for thousands of hours, it does feel like these things in pubs, I don't know if it's the same in pro,
because maybe this is a terrible advice, but maybe you do have to just think a little less about everything to just be a bit better at everything.
No, I think it's very true. I think the players who are the best are the ones...
Like the best in those clutch situations are ones who just sort of understand everything.
Yeah, and they just wake up and they just show up and they play the game and they just do the right thing.
And they're not worried about all the intangibles. They're just like,
I'm gonna show up, I'm gonna do my job, I'm gonna play the game really well, and whatever happens happens.
And like, not just saying that in a coping way, but people who actually believe that,
like deep in heck in here, that... those are the players who clutch up.
Those are your, you know, your your toros and collapses and soxies and stuff.
and unfortunately not the Ames because we saw yet again Extreme get so close but yesterday they
fell short and were now eliminated. We can take a look at what happened in their series against
party vision because this was a comparatively anti-climactic lower bracket semi-final.
I love that nine classes dead the moment that the cliff starts because that was pretty much
half of this game that I was running around and dying but they were wasting a lot of time on
him for the side of extreme and I think it took like one good pickoff from nine
class that led into like a whole series of events that spiraled this game out of
control and then the third game or the second game was a complete thought not
even close they picked nine class caudal and that that seems to be his his new
hero that he liked spamming that he's determined is really overpowered but in
this one I don't know man I feel like some things looked off for Paravision
like they were missing some some execution in in the early game for no for
Paravision oh they're in the other game right it looked like she was doing it yeah yeah it's
like the Paravision seems to be a little volatile right now or it's like when
when they're doing well they look unbelievable they look peak but when
When they're not, it's almost like they have problems with each other.
It looks like there's some emotional or mental damage that's going on.
So I really hope we get the ladder today and that they show up and we have the Paravision
with Momenta because then we're going to have an incredible lower bracket finals.
Yeah, I mean, this is a really interesting matchup because I think Spirit has got an
individual team to team good matchup against Paravision.
the way Paravision drafts, they pick a lot of this sort of weird skirmish stuff.
Oftentimes they skip out on draft integrity for comfort.
And Spirit is one of the best teams at punishing you when you have big holes in your draft.
And so I think Paravision being able to overcome that gives them very good hopes for the finals
if they make it there because Spirit, I think, is kind of big dogging them recently.
They tooled them on the way here and it was not close.
They let them have the next place in a row, right?
They left an XG1, Paravision picked it, and then they just ignored it game 2.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's always concerning, because it does feel like a nine-classes hero pool.
I think you said earlier, like it's like four heroes, three four heroes.
And he's got his bros.
And if they have the fourth one, then Paravision is good.
If it's just three, then they look bad, because you can ban them out.
And I think historically that's pretty accurate.
Although I will say, like, I do think he has more than four right now.
if he's willing to whip the map, like...
What are you whipping out?
People are...
What are the modem fool?
People were questioning, is Slark it?
Like, okay, he has Slark, he has Monkey King, he has Caudal, he has Nixx, and I think
Spearbreaker is very good as well.
I genuinely believe that some of these heroes are like underrated S tier, if you can
play that sort of like, chaotic play style.
I really do think the chaotic play style is good right now.
I mean, Soxa does it in half of his games as well, so.
being able to do both is important too, because of course you have the caudal as well, right?
Pretty stock standard 4 position I would say.
And regardless of how far they get to progress, they have at least secured themselves a fair
number of EPG points and prize winnings as well, because now only three teams remain
loser of the next series, and it gets to go home with $75,000.
And if you win, then you are guaranteed at least 125k, and if you take the entire
tournament 200k in your pocket and a 30k for the club reward and at this point I
have to think that your E.P.T. points will easily get you well guaranteed get
you Dream League 28 and Birmingham and I think it would be pretty hard to be
thrown first place from not making their way to Dream League 29 as well way
off in the future based off of direct invites so a lot on the line
for basically just one best of five absolutely yeah great way to start
season one of these things so I'm very exciting and a lot to play for today
and even though you know that there's only three teams left I'll let you know
when they're going to happen and how they're going to happen one best of three
and a one best of five remain lower bracket finals between Team Spirit and
par vision will be taking place in just a matter of minutes and then at 16
CET at the earliest we'll have Yandex taking on as a winner but
depends on if it's a 2-0 or a 3-game series, I would hope for a 3-game series.
Spirit vs. Paravision, all these teams are Grand Final teams.
It's a rematch of the rematch of the Rally Grand Finals.
Let's get some good games in.
Let's get some competitive action.
I think Spirit's angry. I think they do have a good matchup.
I think Paravision's got that momentum and they've looked good with it recently.
They definitely have the momentum. They did look better yesterday than they did against Spirit, absolutely.
I think they're on the up, I think they're figuring out more of their strategies.
And Spirit, they're coming down with a, they kind of got smacked down.
Yeah, man. They looked lost.
Like, they should have got outclassed.
They came into that series being undefeated in the playoffs.
They got 2-2-0s back to back.
And then they got mooshed by Yandex.
So, I don't really know where to put Spirit.
Granted, I've never considered Spirit to be an emotional team.
I've considered them to be pretty rock solid consistently.
But then I just don't really know what to make of them getting too old me neither it was it's very strange and
So there's a lot of dynamics at play there. I think it's a series that can go either way
It can definitely go through games. It's honestly a really exciting one
I think both storylines and also gameplay
I'm hot for it. You guys want to cast it?
Yeah
As long as I will say
I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but I'm hoping that we don't get satanic about it
But if I want anything else, I love this guy as a carry, but watching him play about him, I'd rather watch paintjoy.
I don't want to see him farm a Midas Radiance for 20 minutes. Don't do it, Paravision. I will be very disappointed.
Taking a beautiful artist and making him just paint with crayons. What's happening here?
Get him that, Kez. Get him the crazy stuff. No more about him.
Ice Gill. This is the donk of Dota. Get him an AWP.
Don't waste his G.
I don't know if he's a rifle or not, but he's not a rifle.
Get him a rifle! Get him an MP50.
Not a rifle. I don't even have a gun.
We'll stick to our expertise, which is Dota, and it will stick to our expertise, of getting that lower bracket final on your screen.
Let's get ready for spirit. This is part of it.
I want to let you know better than me
Oh, I want to let you know better than me
Oh, I want to let you know better than me
From the bottom of my heart
Alright, we need to talk about the afternoon
I got a couple of clips for you guys
I know I've got some 9 class enthusiasts
I don't care if you're gonna see on the bell
They just jump right in
There was not your time to introduce yourself for me
That was not your time yet
We got a Tota right now.
Look at these guys, they're jumping into my segment.
And it's because, look at this, Jenkins.
I know you love this guy.
Look at Mr. 9-Class himself.
You know, to a normal brain, this might look like he's feeding.
But this is a concept.
If you allow no one to get touched here first at the tier one,
he will die straight up.
They might lose the tier one tower.
But 9-Class, he's so low level, he takes the first pressure, dies.
Because he's level two, Jenkins style,
he respawns nearly immediately so he can count for round two.
And this looks like a feed, but actually this allows him to defend the tier 1 tower,
it allows him to kill the Lushrack,
and it allows no one to have a little bit of a comeback in this game.
Now this is the panic, and it's very important in your pubs, my friend, those out there,
that you actually pay attention to what your team is doing.
Like he is. He keeps looking, even here he's like,
hmm, this bottom tier 2, I could TP there,
but he decides against it, he farms towards his team.
He joins them in the team fight, he has his big bro, no one who drops him via Lackery,
and even after the initial fight is over,
Pay attention to their positioning, because they know that Mr. Birdman, Ame, he might come around, they hide, they flock behind the trees, boom!
They wait for their initiation, they catch Ame on the bird, and with all of this, they then also later, you know, they're like, okay, the Radiant side, they have Tide, they have Lesh, maybe they can Roche, so look at their smoke angle.
They go top to Ame again, they were scanning Roche beforehand, so they find him back-to-back in a game where they're actually down quite a bit of gold, you know, 4K, 5K gold,
And after this, they kill Army, they get a good static, and then in a few seconds you
have Dooky Dook who drops an Observer Ward here that gives him the vision on Mr. X-Nile,
so they find three kills.
They have a good aggressive ward that then also gives them the Lashwreck later after
the kill, and then on top of all of this, they turn it into Roche.
So this is a team that if you give them an opening and you allow nine class to
nine dog it up, you're gonna be in a lot of trouble because you're gonna be
ready, Jenkins.
Welcome to the panel.
Thank you.
Look off to see you Kezu right to see you decide about the Dota which I appreciate that
I respect has it off on such shorts. If you want to see more content like that you are oh
Yeah, that's great. No, I love this guy's I love this guy's gameplay, but I feel like I've been hammered on it too so much
So what do you think look off? Look what I think he's the goat
He's the only guy who can have this herald item build work in professional eSports environment
Because he had a mana boots yesterday like no other items five empty slots mana boots
If I see this in my pub, I know the game.
He's reporting.
Yeah, he's been reporting.
Yeah, he's been reporting for sure.
Branches are expensive now.
I can't fill up those empty slots anymore.
Are you still?
That's true, but you also need to do something with that inventory.
Where's the stick?
The windlace?
You can't send them, you know anything.
Moke, blood grenade.
On Nix?
You don't need a windlace.
You're hasted.
With the felon.
You've watched the 99 class recently.
No, no, no.
The windlace, I wasted my item.
It's a waste of your slot.
With your gold.
He did have blood grenades.
he was chucking them out before he died so he could die even faster. He's trying to feed quicker.
He did feed. He did die 10 times.
No, no, he said, because he said to the Herald mind, it's a feed.
That's true. Welcome to Herald.
But at the elevated level, it's enabling a mid lane invoker to have the maximum potential
and not lose his tier one, right? That was a takeaway.
We were joking, but like, he died 10 times in that game,
And the other cores they only died once so it is a job
Yeah, he spaced it up for them and for this series
I've got a I did some investigating to the heroes because you know
It's sometimes maybe not so easy to know which heroes will this team pig which year will that team pick
so you know I looked at what parry vision might pick so if production if he could roll up the images because
production dot beer egg production dot com slash JPEG slash shorts
So I worked on the left side you have nine class and DM these are heroes that they're very likely to
I mean they don't have like the biggest hero pool, you know, they stick to their stuff the monkey Kings the slark the next is the
Cotto he is very annoying this guy you want to like abuse him in the lane and try to catch him
So on the right side you have the task the bad clock SP disruptor
These are all likely heroes I could see spirit pick because they're good against this type of style Jenkins any
Interjection on this nine-class hero matchup
Well, he's not the five or the four that we said these are the four. Yeah, yeah
Yeah, I think I think spearbreakers the the other way sir is this DM
DM versus yatoro. No, so left side is what parry are likely to pick and the right side our heroes that are good against what you see on the left
I see I see okay, would you tend to agree with the tough bad clock?
Yeah, I mean honestly, I think spearbreaker in general is good against nine class type play style because
No matter where he is. Yeah, you can always get on top anything with a jump anything with the catch pretty much anything that can
Blink initiate and catch his annoying heroes Carl is a bit of a different style than the other three
I would say because he's not as annoying. He's not playing on that different side of the map
It's more about the combo. He greaves DM slaying period
The way the way this hero plays in general is you're taking a lot of CS from your off laner
Messing it up, but also the combos that they did have yesterday. It was pretty insane
You have solar bind with tiny so you're getting that extra bit of a damage amp you have ET
So magic damage amp on top of that and also tiny one of the best if not the best hero in the game to play coddle with
Reducing the cooldowns along him to get multiple spells in a team fight
And in the game number one yesterday that they did play against extreme gaming
It was more about physical damage. Yeah, because they had Dragonite
They had the slaughter plus they had solar crest
They had a lacquer from Invoker a lot of ways to amplify damage and this is like this is gonna be the idea coming into this series
Yeah, it's like a lot of buzz and I do think that this lane is very important
like DM's heroes as well.
You can see like, I would expect Yatoro to play
like an aggressive carry with hyper damage.
You want to try and have the carry matchup into Satanic
and like the ultimate carry for the game as well.
Like whether it's the Ursa or the Kaz.
I think Drow Ranger could be a hero
that he can see in this matchup.
And then I looked at the other guys as well, of course,
you know, we can't just look at the three and the four.
So you have Satanic.
I would also say his hero pool,
not currently the biggest, you know,
he sticks to his DKs, his Kaz.
I've seen quite a bit of troll.
And I do think when you look at what Spirit
may be looking at, it's a lot of like anti-carries.
Like the Primal Beast, Mars, I think AA as well is something we've seen them play before.
Could be good against him. Same as like the Doom and the Viper.
And then for no one, I'm not really too sure. I feel like this guy, he's really priming.
He's playing so well.
But for him it's more about, I think it's more about like how you match up with like the three-man ball
as opposed to like what is your one-to-one matchup.
Maybe you can steal some of his heroes. Maybe you can have your supports come to the mid lane.
But just to give like a little idea of what we should expect from both teams coming into the series.
Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, I like that you guys mentioned the physical damage. Did you see the
Estini's video about Rosh? The radiant macro one? The radiant macro one, you kill Rosh at 17 minutes.
You're guaranteeing that basically it's likely to respawn on your side over and over again.
That's why radiant has a high advantage. But he said in that video, because it was pre-patch,
that if, as long as Crimson Guard is dispellable, physical damage is really overpowered.
because there's not a good way to prevent it, and you can use it to take Roshan on the
radiant side, forces it to be radiant every time, etc., etc.
I find it really interesting because now it is undispellable.
So and obviously, you know, as the Paravision coach, he had a massive impact on the way
that they play the game and still play the game.
So now I question, like, how does the meta shift?
I don't think the meta has properly shifted, given that this item is now undispellable.
I still think that maybe it takes a bit more time because I'm expecting every game to have
like a Crimson Buyer or if you have like a Centaur that can buy it or a Mars but we have
not seen it in every game which at least it surprises a little bit.
Yeah maybe when we like I think picking some of these early offlaners like Centaur who
definitely wants to go for it.
I think there was one game where we actually saw Tide going for Crimson Guard because
like that's how good of an item this is.
Yeah that's how good of an item this is.
But overall, we might be able to see some of the later picks as well for the offlaners
because it does allow you to see the matchup and then go for the crimson if it's enemy
carry showing early into the draft, seeing that it's going to be about all that physical
damage.
Well obviously what lessons are learned from ParryVision also because in the carry to
carry matchups from their over bracket series, there was Satanic on a bat and for game
one.
Yeah.
I'm sure even Satanic himself would look back on that and be like, I was not a fan of that pick.
But game two, it was Yutoro Ursa versus Satanic Kez.
And still, Spirit had the advantage. So despite it being a high-speed carry versus high-speed carry,
Spirit still had Paravision's number. Now, there have been a lot of development in Paravision's
camp since that series, but fundamentally, it does seem that Spirit do know how to deal with
I feel like, okay, so in that game, Spear also had Viper, Viper Estee, which I think are really good like
anti carries. And when we saw Paravision beat Ursa with Kaz, they also picked Slardar. So they had
another hero to like switch the balance in that matchup and make it so that he can actually win
that one. So I do feel like since then I agree that Paravision has developed their ideas
where it's like, if they're going to force Kez as a hero, that they now understand how to deal with the counters.
But I agree with what you guys were saying, like, early on in your original segment, like, Spirit is...
Spirit is one of those teams that, like, if you give them any opening, like, I assume they've seen this.
They've seen that the starter amplifies the Kez and that they can no longer just pick Ursa to beat Kez.
Like, they're going to have something else prepared.
Like, this is one of the best drafting teams of all time,
which I feel like gets overlooked because they're one of the best clutch teams of all time.
It's like, you know, you want to talk about Spirit, two-time TI winner,
two-time eSports World Cup winner.
It's like, we want to hype them up.
But in reality, like, a lot of their, a lot of what makes them win is like,
they're just really, really good at figuring out a draft,
like, within a series and outside of a series.
Especially, like, yesterday, they didn't look as hot as I will think,
like, against Yandex.
I thought Spirit would win that series.
and they did not and I think when you lose like that there's a lot to talk about like after the series
Oh, what do we need to do different and you also look at what are the other teams doing that are currently like succeeding a few days in on like a new patch
So yeah, they're absolutely like looking at what a party doing
You know what are actually doing even if you know
They're losing to like take a few bits and pieces here and there and I think last time that party also played spirit
They gave spirit viper like back-to-back in both games
Yeah, and I don't expect that to happen again today probably not I think this is also going to be the battle of late game carries
we've seen in the previous matchup, Kass against Ursa, but I think we're going to be probably leaning in this matchup
slightly towards some like super late game carries as we've seen that they banged out Matusa even though they ended the game 20 minutes
Then he kind of channeled his inner miracle 20 minutes high ground push with the Manta style and butterfly
So I think we're going to be seeing these type of carries potentially terrible blade that could come out
Instead of being something super active
But yeah, very excited to see like how they're going to be approaching the drafts because yesterday
Part of vision they cook pretty hard.
If you're excited to see it, then I'm excited to show it to you.
Let's get ready for our lower bracket final, game number one.
Skating to lower bracket final, I think it's good,
because previous tournaments we was not playing well.
Tournament before, on Valachia, we met like Spirit, Bad Bull.
Here we just met LG, that we just played once on Valachia
and we kind of underestimated them there, and they beat us.
But this time we don't underestimate them, we win them.
They're all here down here from right side, they're controlling the Jara, they need to bail us, they've got this one, he's surrounded the rest of us, come to next, they've been trying to run, he's falling from low, they've got him, they've killed him off, Rapier hits the floor, Satanic picks it up, it is going to be a very GG.
I feel okay about being in a low bracket, of course we set, because we lose.
We're in army, that's two, that's three, all four pluses have one,
in charge of the dance brilliant, try to finish your form,
funnery strikes go slow, and Lumberall team bunker,
playing with them at this point, can't be touched, can't be stopped,
can't be moved, can't be rocked.
But I think we will become stronger,
versus Paravision, I think it will be interesting
because we played too serious with them before on this tournament.
I think they will learn a lot from last two series,
but we will learn today also.
Trying for the jump on Rue, it's a bit awkward.
Oh my!
Collapse destroyed it with the Houston!
Completely destroys the Boston onto Saitanik!
They tried their power vision, they tried!
Well, to play against your spirit, I'm feeling good
because it's time for us to beat them
because we lost two last hours series
so it's time for us to come in.
Now my question is how many things have you learned from the Yandex series that you can
exploit as ParryVision?
Because we've already seen that...
What were you just doing?
I'm playing with his... whatever this is.
Take it, Neil!
Okay, sorry.
Back to you, Neil.
Now we've learned a lot of vulnerabilities from Team Spirit in that Yandex series.
I've already shown that they already are weak to Spirit.
It's two series that they've played, Group Stage and Upper Bracket Playoffs.
In that Yandex series, what did you see that you were like,
yo, Spirit's not handling this particularly well, or was it just an off day?
And everyone can have an off day.
I mean, maybe it was a bit of an off day, but what I saw was a lot of the, like,
Freeman ball that Yandex did.
I also think they had a good answer to, like, the Viper that Spirit beat
Pary with initially.
Like, this mid and Volker, they were playing through it pretty nicely.
So because I do feel like Dota is a lot about how does your mid match up with the two supports?
And I think also for this series between Larl and no one invoker for me is like very high in the priority
Yeah, I agree. And I think
Yandex is also willing to pick some heroes that like turn the meta on its head a little bit
Soxa playing Shadow Shaman for example is
it's just not something we see at all and the
the chain disable, the ability to do damage with wards.
Like you could mention this hero against Viper.
You can't slow the wards, right?
It's physical damage.
You just straight up don't care about Viper as a concept.
Dazzle, same thing.
Like this changes the game.
Like you have to kill the Dazzle, right?
So I think Yandex just has a grip on the meta
that other teams don't.
And these teams need to look at what they're doing.
It's interesting because they played these heroes
in traditional ways.
Like Shaman was played as the way
that a usual four position would be played.
Dazzle was played as a usual five position,
whereas Nine Class will play the semi-typical heroes,
like a monkey king, and I guess some atypical heroes,
like a Slark, but he will play them in completely wonky ways.
And so we'll see if maybe our vision
wanna go back to a little bit more traditional
because it proved to be very successful,
at least with Soxa against Team Spirit.
But we'll see which heroes they wanna do that with,
as we begin the draft for game number one, Spirit.
They ban out the Slark, the Ursa,
and the Timbersaw party vision ban a primal jikiro, dragon knight, and first phase of Viper Ban.
Spirit get themselves a Slaughter.
Yeah, this is the hero that displays the matchup, carry to carry matchup to, like whoever has Slaughter pretty much.
It's the way for him.
Well, you have BKB vision tool.
It amplifies the damage so much, it allows you to pick up Roshan.
You basically need like one, maybe two hero pickoffs between 17, 20 to be able to kill Roshan,
then turn that into Tormentor.
This hero just gives you everything and seems like Paravision, they want to have this co-op.
I think this is going to be used as a flex to potentially just follow where River Slaughter is going to go.
So potentially we could see carry co-op if this is going to be Slaughter on the off lane.
But going Team Spirit, I kind of feel more that this Slaughter is better when played from a mid lane.
I do think it is, but that's why I like the co-op from Pari.
It's not really the matchup you want to go for, but like you said, they could flex it into the safe lane.
Then again, if I'm Spirit and I'm picking the slaughter, it goes off lane and I force Satanic to play this hero.
I'm probably okay with it.
So like you try to go for like a new mid-tier later.
So if you're Spirit, you're gonna ban out the troll and like something else.
Hopefully, to like make it easier for your starter to go into the off lane if that's where you want him to go.
I'm surprised that a queen of pain first space is justified based off of just a slaughter
click.
Do you not need to see more to protect a queen of pain?
I like it.
I mean, I think you guys nailed it.
Queen of pain.
Enjoy this here on the panel.
Yeah.
I'm a queen of joy.
I think it's still good.
I agree with the cost.
Like I think that Paravision, okay, it has to be worried about the flex.
Because it really does dumpster Slaughter and lane.
Yeah, it's a really good pick.
This is good preparation here.
So even in side lane, if it is, let's say, off lane Slaughter, carry clean of pain,
there is no four position that can sway the matchup in Slaughter's favor.
I don't think so, honestly.
Like, Wampus is such a strong lane or a side lane in general.
There's very, very little that can beat it.
Let me look at the four positions because maybe you're right.
Like maybe what you do is you counter it so hard in the game that it just doesn't feel good to put it as a carry
But the same is true for mid. So I guess you're not really looking at the lane. You're just looking at okay
We've forced a queen of fame less hard counter like pugnum is really good against queen of pain
I would say from a support position where it's not like a huge
It's not like a huge risk to pick a pugnum, right?
I
Do think it's very playable like even if you have the safe link walk I still I mean
Ideally, Parry gets it mid to mid into the Slaughter, but OEC Spirit, they have a brain, they'll try to make it not happen.
If they do want to make the quaps game harder, there's Dark Willows, Skyrat, I think.
If you're like Parry vision, you can just help the quap by having some sort of stayfields.
I think SD is quite good against Slaughter, it's good with quap.
You could look for a chin, we saw that in other games, like in the previous days, it's good against Slaughter, of course.
You have the summons, you have your Hand of God, you also have Divine Favor, Undispellable, you can counteract the Haze.
It's one of the best abilities against Florida.
You don't see the impact because the sound is like kind of fart, so you don't even like know, it's just like
But it is definitely one of the better ones, it gives them a lot of momentum, gives you pretty much
any aura that you want to be buying from your position 5.
And we've seen paravision go like even in the previous patch before the nerfs the
Seder creep on Chen going for the hellbear facet because there's so many other strategies that you can do with it
There was a game where they played with enigma and then you sacrifice this guy forcing enter a glyph or with
I want to be losing the tower. Yeah
And there's also like the holy moly whoa
These guys are cooking today. This is some puppy influence. This is crazy
My brother puppy loves his ogre because it's a little crazy to like I'm sitting here thinking like spirits insane for leaving him the dookie
Duke Chen and that's you know, even though you're in. Yeah, ogre
OG was running ogre quite a bit. Although they were picking it way late like stem would get a 24
Yeah, maybe there's something there. I mean the Midas changes are
Something quite interesting that if you don't need XB, it does give you a lot more gold
You hear the functions on items and it seems like the ogre players have identified that this is good
Though I mean I will trust them. I'm also seeing both teams are very much studying up for it
Hey, who's gonna pick Kess first? You have the Slardar you can corrosive haze. I have the ogre
I can bloodlust and voker is still available because we saw a Lackardy plus Kess was also a force
Oh, that was insane. The amount of damage that here does the towers is not okay
Let's see, because the Ogre, I can't really put my head around it yet, I guess the Shard
is quite good later as well, you know, it's decent shields against Lardar, maybe they're
looking for a good dry core with Bloodlust, or they're sitting up a carry that I'm not
really thinking about, at least at the moment, I think for Spirit, Warlock of course seems
great.
I've liked Rue on Dark Willow quite a lot, I think it's an okay matchup against Ogre,
it's okay against Rune in the game.
We're missing one hero that is usually banned, and that's Windranger.
That is true.
Very good against Lord our matchup in general and good with ogre in lane too
Like I was sitting here trying to think of a range here
I like if they could ogre that's how I'm like a shadow fiend
It's got to be one of these mid type heroes and a win ranger is just still there
Yeah, last time I believe your Toro got it once on like an 18 pick
Okay, so they they do go for the shaman. I was thinking this as a
pseudo counter to clean it fain taking the page out of
Yeah, I mean she just does not like to be
He has broken, gripped and war-trapped, she's not very good against that, needs some early
armor.
And she can't guaranteed kill Shaman, he will foul play his way out of a lot of shenanigans.
Something that Faravision did, because we're thinking about this Ogre being position 5 right,
the DM love to play that Ogre, a couple of tournaments ago, just buying pretty much
every single aura.
Minus, 3, Trimson, Pipe, whatever it's needed.
I think this is the face of a guy that enjoys playing Ogre and might be the guy
playing it in this game. I think you're actually right. That's a really good throwback. I mean,
Ogre is one of the highest-strength game heroes in the entire game. Like,
unbelievably good Crimson Buyer. And if you're talking a hero that enjoys getting a Maias and
getting a bunch of gold, I mean, off-lane Ogre, you can get all these aura items, right?
Do you not need levels this bad? Because that was the other...
I don't think so. As an off-lane, you're like, you're just more about building the aura as
being tanky, and that's not really involving the levels. Like, your fire blast and your damage
whatever. Your other heroes are doing that for you. You're just a tank.
Yeah, I do wonder what they'll show us here because maybe they want to keep the quap flex open.
And so they'll show us where the ogre is in 3 out of 5, but I could definitely see it as an offline.
Like you guys both mentioned, the Crimson is insane. You lane into Warlock.
I mean, ogre is not really hero level 1, but it's...
Warlock doesn't really pressure. Like he throws a heal of some fatal bonds.
Okay, they go for the TB.
Does remove a fair amount of flex potential revealing that pick here,
but they think it's confident, St. Tannock can carry the game with it.
Very good against Slardar. It's the highest base armor hero in the game.
The highest armor game hero in the game in Slardar, you know, peels off your armor.
So then now the decision is, do you send Slardar mid, deal with the Queen of Pain,
and then get like a Brumaster or one of the other anti-terror blade offlaners
that seem to be so common, and it has to be a Collapse Hero.
Do you want to sack the lane up for Slaughter that badly though?
Like that's the issue is that you're then giving paravision exactly what they want at the whole time
Which is what is so elegant about this track. Yeah, you're forcing this position. It doesn't feel very good
It's a good puck game
Like there's no like real stun something that he is afraid of they have good amount of control good amount of team fight inside
of spirit the question is
Like this Florida is not going to be doing much from the off lane Indian. It's going to be invoker for them
So you have that damage and you have corrosive haze. Yeah, like really
What whatever carry it is the spirit picks they win the carry to carry matchup. I don't care what you pick
You have invoker slaughter. You're going to win that match jug jug with all these steroids feels really nice
That would be quite insane. I mean, yeah, you now have to think like, okay, what what is what can lane against like an ogre?
Monkey King potentially but then there's also the possibility that DM just gets
a different hero. I'm down with Jug, I'm also down with Kez
potentially. Then good come out. I feel like this hero is still insane, still
available with corrosive Haze with all these buffs. Part of vision might need to
remove it. Yeah, you talked about it before too. I do think that Yotara has
multiple options here like the Windranger. I would say it is still
pretty good. I like the matchup into the TV. Maybe the Crimson Guard is annoying
because later you like hit super quickly and it gets absorbed but you still
build like Nelstrom, Nyulnir, you're kind of chilling. Yeah.
Taking it out. It's out. I would have also liked that because it gives more
stuns against the Queen of Pain as well which has not really been, I
mean maybe the Shaman is enough of an answer but I feel like Queen of Pain
is still gonna have a pretty fun time. So let me see, you need a Yotoro
Hero and Pahri, I mean, yeah, Pahri have an option, like they could of course still flex it and have it be an off-lane last pick
It's like some potential tight hunter that you still kind of have to respect. It is quite good against a spirit draft
It kind of uh, it owns your team fight quite hard
Like if you're spirit and you're doing like some warlock slaughter that go in he just breaks free
He's gonna sit in the middle
What else is there?
Doom and Phoenix get banned out. They are expecting this to be a support order
Like, Morphling? You want to just go for the classic Morphling, Terriblete?
I mean, one that's like a little crazy, but I have seen in Pro level pubs,
and I think we saw it once yesterday.
Bloodseeker actually looks quite good.
Like, against Queen of Pain, Rupture destroys her,
you do good in the matchup against Terriblete because of the new shard,
build all magic damage.
I mean, it has decent tempo.
I don't know if it has a great matchup into TV.
Maybe you do with Mjolnir and everything?
Yeah, I think the Scottie holds his ground. He's one of the few heroes who will stand the ground and fight you
What else is there? What were we mentioning earlier? Jugg? Jugg is still available. Yeah, Jugg is for sure
Gyrocopter is still available. I would be okay with Jugg. There was something else too
What else the kids from?
They do go for the classic.
The thing is though, the Paravision has absolute last pick against this,
so do they really want to run the Ogre into Morph?
Is there some off laner that could be picked that would just destroy Morph and lane?
I think there's a couple you could look at.
I think, generally speaking, Tide is always very good against Morph.
If you want to be very annoying for laning, it can be Enigma,
or if you have some GG from the lane.
Micro, maybe.
You're playing against Ennaker though, but BM let's see.
Soga is gonna shift to five now. Yeah, and they will pick a better matchup
The only five I could see is a but you don't really have like set-up stuns
So I would prefer if you just pick an offlaner with some I still feel like tight
It's good. You don't like pressure the morph in the lane, but your mid game is very very strong
But let's let's see what he will go. I was gonna say I've seen them run monkey king a before and it's
It's not a great set-up stun in terms of like duration
but Monkey King is always looking for these opportunities so it's like you have more chance to find these opportunities for Ice Blast.
So how do you itemize on your heroes? Because I do think you want some type of setups.
You will like ATOS on Monkey or like Yule. Because this was the 1v5, I could see them pick, but I still feel like it makes your draft a little wonky.
You have good map play in the mid game, like you have TB that shoves Waze, you have 9 class, who's annoying so Ice Blast can be hit later,
but I do feel like you rely on a couple items to get this going.
Last pick for position 5. We've seen it yesterday two times from Yandex picking Dazzle which looked insanely good undying good
Which was okay. Nothing too crazy. This AA as you said he needs some kind of a setup
Maybe DM is gonna be that one the offline ogre this hero with the crimson guard is
Very very good like we talked about how like this screen is pretty insane
One of the best I would say the three best with the crimson are undying offline undying
Centaur of course and this ogre that we're gonna be seeing it for the first time since the patch rock
He does go you also by the way, so okay, like this is his current what he's figured out is like this is the monkey king build
That works though. Yeah, I think I think they have good set up for the AA. I think that's a really good pick
Yeah, I kind of like it. I think it's a little back and forth, but I want to see DM on the ogre in press
Let's see what he's able to do and let's see it in our lower bracket final. Let's see it with OD pixel and Quinn
Here we go! Let's give it five for the lower bracket final between ParaVision and Team Spirit.
I'm only a pixel here with Quinn. We're about to find out who's going to be able to steal their ticket to move forward to the Grand Finals here.
Our dream is season 27 and already, first draft, I'm liking it Quinn.
get some exciting stuff. Paravision, they're coming in with sort of this tech of the off
lane ogre here for DM. Is it going to work out sort of making this move and getting that
AAN as that last pick?
It's a great AAN game and this is a very Paravision draft. No teamfight, no initiation,
just lane push and skirmish and early game potential scouting. They want to play off
their skill. They want to show that we've got to rank one player and he's ranked
one for a reason. They're going to show that off here. Spirit, a very classic draft. The
Toro Morphling, collapse on the Blink stun, some teamfight support. This is about a spirit
of a draft as it gets. It looks like he's going to be going the new Phylactery Morphling
with the Max Adaptive Strike. That's the hot new commodity and Morphling and pubs.
The spam can be very strong. So we'll see if DM can actually deal with that in lane.
And Tor, talk to me about this as well for those who haven't read all the lines
of the patch and such. Why is this the hot new thing?
Basically, Morphling needs region in lane, so buying it, having now having Ring of Health and Boystone in it, whatever it's called, Perseverance, having Perseverance in it is really good for Morph.
And the W is buff, so it has more cast range, and it actually has a stun now. So before people skipped it, but now that it stuns again, you can max it, potentially spam the guy out of lane.
I've seen him go in pubs, so looks like they'll be doing it here.
And when you go this build as well, does the playstyle change, then are you looking to be more active than you would have been otherwise with the previous kind of builds that we're seeing on Morphlings?
I think a little more active, and I think you're a bit stronger in lane. You're like, you're gonna sit there, you can spam the gap and you pressure the tower more and less of the sort of the passive jungle farming.
I'm excited to see what Yatora is going to be able to bring.
And I guess the question is, you know, in that draft as well,
when you are team-spreading, you go for the last bit more,
and then that AA does come out in response.
What sort of reaction do you think
the Spirit has as a team to that and Yatora has?
It is sort of like, oh, no, I really wish they didn't do this switch up
and get that AA. It's going to make my game very hard.
Or do you think they don't care?
I think he definitely cares.
Yeah. But I think if anyone could play this match up, it's him.
But he will need to lock in because he's gonna have nine class sitting on trees and looking at him and
If he's ever low and gets banged by a blast across the map and then stuff last and he's dead
So Yatoro will need to be on his a game to not get
frozen like a obstacle
Yeah, let's let's see what we get from DM
Roo should be should be fine on the shaman of course will be watching me
See if you can bring some some of the level of kind of shaman play that we've come to be used to from
Like Sax the other day obviously showing us what he could do without in this new patch
And we'll see what route is gonna be able to perform
With with this hero here in this first game
But yes the offline ogre you just sort of just rushed me auras
Do you find a way to get the Midas in your build?
Does that come early does that come later after the first couple of items because of a certain time you want to hit with an aura?
I think it comes a bit later. Yeah, and buying that early is probably pretty
Pretty greedy. I think he'll go for the Aura's and then maybe later on once this farm is
stagnated some to pick up some towers he can go for the Midas.
Let's see them try and chase down Panso here and looks like they'll happen. This is gonna
be first blood going to DM. Good read there. Ready to make that push, make that play.
Soon as DM at the level.
They gave him the Monkey King. We know 9 class loves this hero. A lot of teams
opt to ban it but them saying, you know what, it's not a problem. We can play
against it. But I tell you what is a problem is this mid lane CS right now. This lane is
not supposed to go like this. This is if anything an Invoker favorite lane and at worst it's
it's dry. Now Queen can win off skill and no one is winning off skill. This is sheer
outplay. This is crazy. It's sort of crazy as well not to only see that sort of domination
in a matchup as you say when it's you consider here as you don't expect it but also when
when it's the co-op in a match-up where it's not like it's some sort of dagger abuse strike.
This is just on the right clicks, the CS-ing, no one is 21-9 against the 9-2, that is, yeah.
It's in the chain gap.
Yeah, that's crazy.
It's not like it's over-doubling at 3 minutes, that's not a gap you see normally, so no
one is mega locked into it, that's nuts.
Yeah, no, no, Spirit, definitely gonna have to sort of pick up the slack on the side
Red lane is considering that Lola is having such a tough start here, it's going to be
a slow game, slow entry into the game from the impoker, no doubt about it.
That's a hero that was already a slow entry to the game, you've got a morphing on your
team and we all know that hero is slow.
Top, nice roll out by a little bit, only the last hit but we'll be able to at least
make the connection, set up a collapse to get the kill.
little bit helped as you're gonna need collapse to have a good game this game
and Rue those two the most likely to be making moves and kills happen so them
having a good start off is imperative for spirits ability to play the game
aggressively is the aim is having a full free time bottom and he is gonna be
going for the Midas first so feeling like the hero just can't play without
that gold early on I am not though of course you know for obvious reasons
fills around the over that I really can't get away maybe with that that's
sort of greedy a purchase of getting the Midas first potentially because maybe
there's some comms going on and you know no one's sort of letting DM know that hey
this Invoker is not gonna be a problem for a long time it's gonna be you know
quite a bit of the game where you're gonna have this Invoker trying to get
his Midas and was there's a morph as well needs a bit of time to get that
first major pick up the Bellatrix but there's gonna be time for DM right to
get away with this. No I think so and spirits heroes are also just low
heroes in general. Morphling and Boker, Warlock even. These are not heroes that pressure you a ton.
And Warlock is not getting any extra book charges either. Warlock, Morph, we didn't mention their
synergy together, but these heroes are pretty bad together. Morph does not use the heal very well
at all. Morph does not get aggressive and get kills, which gives Warlock those book stacks.
So Spirit Pick Morphling for the game matchups, certainly not for the early game. It's very
good against the first four heroes, but the A in its synergy with Warlock is definitely a bit
awkward and their heroes are slightly on the two-farm-y side I would say.
The one thing that Spirit W have going for them on that bottom lane is the fact that that spam from DM
will be very easily dealt with. Just down to the nature of having that Warlock support down there,
constant sustain to keep your Toro safe, keep him happy in the safe lane.
He made it.
He made it.
For the jump here onto Laugh.
He's returning up.
Stonic Wave comes in.
Is it enough to kill him?
It is.
Now bring him down.
See Rook.
He's turning here with Panto.
No one has got the blink back up.
He's kicking down low.
Trying to deny to Neutrals.
That's all in London.
But that last hit from Panto will come in first.
So they do get the kill against no one in return.
It's a good attempt to deny on Neutrals.
To be honest, that's not even that bad for Spirit.
Lawrel does go down, but getting that Queen of Pain back is gonna force it to keep you somewhere, so you can be a little bit safer on these side lanes.
There's a good aggression here from Collapse whilst he realizes that Titanic is alone.
What the such a guy coming in? It's gonna be very close to nearly getting the kill. It's not quite close enough for him to get it though.
Now back up, okay, Rue, with the Ender Shock, Elise will clean up the job, make sure they do kill off Titanic, but it will cost Collapse his life.
his life, Rue also likely in trouble. No one's able to come in underneath the
tower with the help of T'Kala's taken down. Of course this is around the seven minute wisdom.
No one's going to be able to head over and nobody is going to be able to stop him from
picking that one up. Man, that's a pretty big mistake from K'Lapst. You can't be pushing
up like this when the wisdom rune is coming up. When you see Queen of Pain is spawning,
the comms have to be there around. K'Lapst just died. She can keep
these the longer she's up. She's strong. She wants to fight. But K'Lapst overplays
handle a little bit trying to get this PB kill and because of it he's dead
Shaman's dead and they don't get this wisdom of fight which should have been
theirs for sure that is a big deal yeah it could hurt team morale as well
because that's like one of those moves as well that you know you collapse you
for straight he could be pinging his mid and be like bro you didn't call
missing and then the mid's like I didn't need a call missing the quap
was dead they were gonna respawn so they start this fight yeah let's hope
spirit could keep their call you know these sort of little early moves
coming in from ParaVision can shake you up as a team even some of the
best in the world.
See Pancho caught in the mid here, another kills but no one to get himself involved in, and
of course 9 class being a, I think it's been on all of them right, what was it at the moment
on the monkey king up, 1-0-4, 9 class, he's doing 9 class things here Quinn.
He is, and you can see DM's not even suffering for it, pretty much the same net worth as
more flamethrower, his monkey king is not even laning, his monkey king is everywhere,
ganking people and at the same time DM is doing totally fine, does a cute little
rotation in mid. Now staying in this lane at this point is going to start to get higher
some I think as he gets spammed by this phylactery adaptive strike. It is going to hurt so buys
the raindrop but it's slowly going to get ticked down. Dima's going to want to find
places to gank and make moves.
That's going to be very difficult for Spirit. I feel to find ways to get to Satanic
Right, you know, when we look at sort of the things, the other way around, how much Paravigion have to be hunting down people
across the map with that sort of information that Nine-Cost can give on the Monkey King.
You know, on the side of Spirit, how do you ever start sort of making a move onto Paravigion's half of the map,
deep into the jungle to try and bully Satanic on the Terrorblade?
It's going to be a while before something like that happens.
I think your first moves are some board fixes.
You combine them with the slaughter, maybe in a Sun Strike, but in Volk or Morphling,
They're gonna be farming for quite some time. This morphing build is very slow. He isn't a boot yet
So there's no way he's coming even close to another lane. He is purely his lane. He's farm and he has make this ogre's life
Very annoying which it is actually at this point
You see DM kind of just walking around. He's gonna farm this cancel the ignite
But being in a lane, it's not really an option for him anymore
And see the support switch up, Rui's gonna hover around bottom with Shitoru, Panto's headed
up top.
And DM 1200 into the rest of the gold from Midas over on the mid house, Lal doing on
his, Lal's very close to having his Midas just under 200 gold away.
So we'll be able to start the catching up there once that's online.
Bottom, looking for the setup.
It's a decent burst, but not quite enough.
It's not going to kill DM, and Bruce going to pay the price there for trying for that setup.
No one turns up, kills him off.
Might be able to look to put more pressure on here.
One DRK, nine class eyes on Yatoro.
They'll jump him with the burst, five with the Sonic Wave.
That won't quite do it, but it will at least force him to TP out.
They can't get him in in time with another stun.
So Yatoro will get the chance to get out here.
Of course there was Satanic turning up for Power Vision. They will have that push and power required to take this tier one tower down
It's a nice little move to get TP from no one and a good game from Satanic opening up this tower
Getting some space to farm down here and not have Morpholink sit here and spam
It's gone for a different build and he's not farmed super quickly right now with the W max. You want those lane creeps?
On the top side of things, do Paraphras try for a defensive?
A little bit of a greedy attempt there to try and clear the wave, he will not get away
with that.
That's a rare death for him.
You don't normally see him give up these, it's almost a silly death, he just jumps
down in the middle of four heroes and gets hexed and dies.
I feel like that was one of those moments where maybe because we don't see too much
Shaman he sort of forgets that there's others an instant hex in the game. Yeah, because
Outside of that he's obviously being able to jump down and jump back up
It's gonna be a little bit of nine-f collapse getting clipped by the ice blast
I'm the ignite
I don't think the ice blast will last long enough right it should be fine
That's crazy that they just threw some poke at him and I was gonna go to base
Shows the power of perversions early skirmish
I'm really very strong, but I'll be happy with that Sunstrike kill, it's got his minus
on line, he's off to the races.
And I guess that's the thing as well right for their line-up that's, will they feel
the lacking of this, that they don't have a hero that can really buy a pipe against
Paravision, against this sort of spam?
They will feel it a bit, yeah, I think so.
Holy crap.
They formed an ancient stack really fast.
It's very good about this, but in these even games, making sure they get the ancient stacks,
protecting them, and bolstering that economy to speed up that point where they actually
can make them lose, right?
It's some slow heroes, but Collapsus is going to have a very fast blink.
With the rock online, the snakes from Shadow Shaman, they can get involved and they can
start to make some things happen.
I'm curious to see how this ogre does.
They got one base damage and Midas is buffed and steam paravision tried this here in the past and
They stopped picking it for a reason it fell off. It wasn't working people found counters to it now. They're trying to resurrect it
Will it be enough? Oh?
Pause at least they gave reason they did this little bit of the old lag
Hopefully fix pretty soon
But yeah, that will and is what sort of panel say as well they matter what dm
first or you're looking for is the is what the crimson this game
It's okay. It's an okay crimson game. Yeah, I think he might
It's actually a bit interesting because they have a pretty good mix of damage on spear
Yeah, a lot of physical and it's big chunks of physical, right? It's amp crimson is generally like not that good against slaughter
Are you prefer the lotus because if you're amped and you're crimson, you're still gonna die to the amp
So he could go for it. It is great on ogre because you have so much strength
I'm not 100% sure though, which idea doesn't know either, he's going to buy his one now
and has nothing else queued after, but when he says he's still thinking about it, right
because he would generally, you see a lot of players queued that stuff up pretty far
in advance, he tore a queues of his whole item build at the start of the game.
The continuation of Lars build on the Invoker, no surprises, now he'll stop
the exhaust and he'll yaggons himself just midas, and here is that smoke plate
that we were looking towards here. Round collapses, blink, dagger, pick up.
See what they can get here, top.
Paravision though, art also smoked up and ready.
Paravision have the numbers here.
Oh, there's the jump on another one.
They get him with the insta-dash, look at the shackle as well.
They're not able to look him down long enough though, no one's out of there.
Rue will fall.
Jump for from nine-class with the Wukongs and the...
...set you at the ballast, no doubt, he needed his.
Panage is hit first by the sonic wave.
That was the move there where Spirit tried to make a play with the Blink reveal, dropping the Golem as well, they don't get anything, and Paravision end up cleaning up both of the supports.
It's not the worst thing ever for Spirit though as they get mid tower in the meantime, but Laurel taking that because no one was up here.
It gets left a little bit open and Laurel also TP top and secure this tower as well, so they get both tier ones out of it.
ones out of it. There's a couple supports and they do use their ults, so they're gonna
have to be a little bit passive for a while here, but not the worst trade in the world.
Definitely could have been better for Spirit though.
Palm, just continue to go favorably for Yatora. I'm third at the top right now, level
with that of no one's caught. Satanic just a little bit behind, not by much. They're
very very close we'll have the luxury of finding yourself a 14-minute shrine of wisdom as well so
levels are good on save tannic i will say i think this slower early game pace where spirit gets out
okay is is better for them they have the more normal structured lamp they have a better team
fight they have a great morphling game outside of the a a but they have tools to kill this day
slaughter will legit insta kill him once you're in the mid game you've got a sun strike follow
up on that as well so this A is not it's not a free ice cream cone there are
summer heat waves coming his way further methods of getting the catch on him
Rue's gonna have the blink off the next pre-wave so excellent jump and instant
catch available from spirit across the board
Parvish not gonna have to be ready for these plays when they pick this kind
line up against OG yesterday they were running them over they had this massive
lead early with the monkey king and while my class did get some kills this game
it's a fair bit in the early few minutes but it it's like down it has
monkey king is a hero that wants to abuse that temple abuse that vision and
when you're not you can see his bottom network the hero does just sort of sit
in the trees and not get much gold not get many items I mean who's that
That's sort of on Paravision's side.
Should someone be looking to team up with 9-class to try and get action going,
or is there a reason why they have slow things down on their side, Paravision?
I think the chance of them to do more stuff were earlier,
and I think at this point it's honestly quite difficult.
If you look at their heroes, how do they really start fights?
It's only on a hero from Spirit that's out of position.
Spirit's playing underneath their towers,
after playing on Vision, which they have in their own jungle,
and they have the mid-towers still alive.
Bro!
He's ready to go for it there.
Let's just sort of tease out a reaction, of course, para vision to fall back with the
two of them.
Freeze up the space for Yatoro to continue to get the farm here.
And so far, this A is not really interacting with Morphling at all.
Top collapse.
It's going to get the catch on a nine-class, so he strikes off the mark, though.
And we'll get nine-class to charge to pop the Wukong's command down.
No one turns up, but starting wave, collapse, trying to hide there is nine-class and
They're still going to find it, Boundless Strike comes in, Collapsed will fall.
They needed that Sun Strike to hit.
They needed to, they needed that to end, because that is sort of a clean play that shouldn't be missing, right?
No. Now that should be a nine class dead, Collapsed full HP and continuing to farm here.
Him dying matters a lot.
They reacted with some heroes, both supports showing up, and they're going to get nothing for it.
So not only do they get to kill, but they get a little bit of economy on the flip side where...
Titanic? I didn't even think about coming to this. He's farming up in the meantime.
Yep.
Working towards that butterfly.
It is exciting that we do get to see the return of the shotgun Morphling.
Yes, it's kind of just better than ever right with this, you know, for Lactree Eblade.
It's got an ultimate orb in it. That's one of Morphling's favorite items.
Yep.
And it's also the classic answer to Terrablade. You always would go this back in the day.
Instead of his butterfly, this right-clicking, you play off of the burst.
And he's got great stuns to set up for it this game.
The Sunstrike follow-up with Lalkin.
Get it off in time.
I'm excited to see if they can actually, you know, what this looks like.
It's been so long since I've seen shotgun morphing in an official.
For sure. I think there's definitely the high potential that we are going to see these...
Even these bigger heroes on Paravision get 100 to 0.
When Spirit makes that jump to Paravision, they've got to be prepared for that.
Gonna start coming in with a push here around the mid.
Spirit, do they want to try and do anything about this?
Yeah, Pato sort of just walks up and offers up his life.
That's not going to be the start of any sort of defense.
This tier one's going to be going down where the Spirit likes it or not.
That's a bad feed.
They may be trying to take in a fight here, but with that...
Maybe Rosh is on the table, are they considering it?
No.
Just having to be walking past the area.
But opening up the mid tower is huge.
Gives you more access to get some of these cheeky pickoffs of the Mookie King,
who has the ULZ online.
He's got a little more tools to go in and out for that annoying kiting play style.
It's nine classes signature.
Things are coming on nicely for DM.
Grieves into the pipe.
Next, and here's that smoke from Spirit.
They are very interested to make a move.
Still, not necessarily with Yotaro.
And then they'll have to sort of give him the space. We'll see up top if they get the chance.
He's actually known it. Yutori does want to get involved now. He's joining the smoke.
Collapsed. What a freebie here!
As Ducalis is in trouble, well, we're gonna see Nightclash try and jump over and out about this time the Sun Strike lands.
Takes out Ducalis.
And they'll catch Nightclash as well as both supports getting caught out here.
It's great spellcasting, great kiting.
Little things there, you can see the Axolins, Slaughter, very very good against AA, that amplify damage Slaughter ever finds you, you melt in a millisecond and off those kills it's a free Tormentor.
I have reason to have to be careful, even though it's very close on the numbers, very even on the gold
does feel that Spirit is sort of one fight away from being able to also just step into the Roshan
and being able to take that pretty quickly around the offensive pressure
with the more Slardar Invoker and if they want to even drop the Wards down as well, they can take that Roshan super quick.
Option is definitely there.
DM did go for the Greaves first and he's going for the Pytonax, so...
He can get the cleanse on himself, for the Amplify,
and some regen and heals for his team, not a bad choice.
Nankos on the hunt, ooooh the Collapses step ahead!
Now, Link there! The smoke, put to waste!
Put a Thief.
And he's going for the Yules.
It's a pretty bad NikiD game, but it's a great kiting game for Square,
4 staffs, glimmers, yules, need to go in and out of this game, as per vision they only
have one stun really, I don't even count Ogre stun, he's just a big blob, he won't get
enranged in caps, so it's pretty much just a monkey stun and then slows and follow-up
damage which they have plenty of.
This guy is well known for sort of holding off on what he wanted to invest into, had
about 3k gold, he's going to go for the BKB straight up, do you think that is
and do you believe what he commits for and is necessary here or could he still be thinking of other things?
It's interesting. It's both an almost a needed BKB game.
But if you don't really want to buy it, it's kind of an uncomfortable position for Queen.
It's a game where you're going to want three, four, five items to start feeling really, really strong.
But without the BKB in this game, he can never play again.
He will just get insta-killed, so it might be a necessity.
But you look at a queen with Blade Metal Kaia BKB against Slardar against the Morphling, it doesn't look that strong.
You look at his inventory, it just doesn't feel powerful.
So even though no one is roughly on par with other cores, I mean, this thing is horrible.
This was after such dominating start in lane, you know, you've got to remember what this sort of started off with in the mid-match up.
But now you look at the network right now, he's in a better spot.
He is. And a Boker, also generally a pretty good hero against the Queen of Pain.
The board's dropped down, but Paravision are in place to very easily farm those.
Yeah, not a worry in their mind, that's a tree, whatever it is, 253 in her hold.
Spirit though, are still sticking around.
Yeah, um...
So we can get that jump, Roop.
Bit far as CTP's coming in, there's the Cataclysm, the Burst for Yotara, collapsed him with the jump!
It's not enough to quite kill him immediately, though, TM will live, and now the blast is coming in onto Yotara!
We had a waveform away and 9 class is going to do his best to stay on top of him, the blood grenade.
And once the wave comps command laid down and indeed your toro will fall.
That's going to move there. A couple of slip-ups it feels like from Rurite that the Serpent Wars didn't achieve much.
Then he tries to make that jump into the Hex Flay. It ends up kind of costing his carrier's life.
Just slightly too far and I think Spirit fell through too, they were slightly...
They were slightly, the collapse could have instant blink stun, and your Torque had a wave
form, maybe you get the kill, but they know it's so close to the tower.
Just get the side head, you know, they were trying to check out what's going on in the
Rose Shampoo, but 9-class, he had eyes on them, collapse, they're going to attempt
to jump in and try and fight back, they'll drop the Golem, bring DM down incredibly
low, but the heals are there, DM's going to be fine, they can deal with the Golem.
Spirit cannot find the way into the fight there that they hoped for, as Paravision
Continue to chase them down nine class on top of route the shaman will fall
And they have to just continue to keep that distance here from
This TV during the metamorphosis long
Throughout the tornado but entering into this high grass seems so difficult for team spirit right now
That's para vision have this position
Top Networks to Tana TV butterfly on line
They're gonna come up with the smoke, but it's gonna be a four versus five
Can they get that jump and will at least be whilst the minimum officers is worn off so they know that
Satanic will be slightly weaker to cars. Oh, it's gonna be off the mark. The crush shouldn't matter. The HOS will come down
But it does get ice blasted
There will always be that threat in this game that if you get ice blasted
You got a run this morphling cannot do anything along to the effects of that spell
I'm sort of a turn of events though
They actually managed to find themselves in a position where they pushed Paravision out of the pit.
Surely Paravision are going to try and say something about this, but it looks like they're not really in any sort of position to do so.
And Spirit, with the speed that they take the Roche down, they're actually going to be the ones to end up getting the Aegis.
It's a big deal.
Warfling can play a little more aggressive, worry a little bit less about that blast.
Eventually, they'll have to take over some more areas of their own.
Tsunak will continue to farm.
It is a pretty good TV game, he's playing with the Invoker, but with IEMs you can fix a lot of the problems that matchup causes.
Pike, Scotty getting that HP and mana, suddenly the EMP.
And Invoker spells in general are pretty bad against mobility so once you have movement speed in the pike up
It's very difficult to actually connect on your spells without the follow-up stuns of Rue and Collapse
Imagine that's the sort of game you're playing as well as the TV like are you able to get away with not getting the
BKB this game is the tariff like I think so yeah for a while at least maybe he buys it fifth six item
But before then yeah, I don't think he's looking too much at it
Wow that was close. That was very close, you had to be nearly finding the setup.
They would have had you tour around so it could have actually gone pretty rough there
for Power of Vision. The TP out in time from Static. Power of Vision ever to move elsewhere on the map.
The hour has arrived. Shotgun is completed. I saw a look there. You said
this burst can look pretty crazy. It definitely can. I think. I haven't
I haven't actually seen it yet, but it should!
It should! After the changes!
What's the benefit here for...
It's a turret! Terrible!
Madam also says get his oppression on the tower.
Fortification will come out.
Power vision.
Looks like they're not afraid to fight into this
despite the fact that your turret has the Aegis.
Definitely not, and I think Spirit can feel it's around.
Look how he killed that illusion.
That was good!
a lot of damage and of course relatively low cooldown on the e-blade
who is their ward? they wasted fatal bombs on the illusion to do
now getting pushed off the tower, our vision being able to push spirit back a little bit
and so much spirit wants to stick around with this pressure they do have the golem ready to drop
Serpent Ward's at the ready as well
they're on a ward
What? You collapsed?
Gonna get the jumping on to Warz 9 class.
Don't try with the burst, but the Eulse is gonna be there.
Keeps 9 class safe, they turn with the Sonic Wave
onto collapse, Tronado throws the Titanic up in the air for now,
but another battle of the strike comes down onto collapse.
Tronado's slither away, but they've got him.
The damage comes in from the Titanic.
Cataclysm is not really gonna be set up for,
so no real damage being done by that.
Paravision survived the Cataclysm attempt.
They've killed off Twoa Spirit,
and they've forced the rest of them to run away.
That ward absolutely owns them and he may have the shotgun but Ogre's got a pipe.
Ogre's got Aura as you mentioned it earlier. This is an Aura's vs no Aura's game and that
very much helps the carry of the team with the Aura's probably the hero that
benefits the most from these spells as the game goes later.
They do have arms. You go for the Monkey King, he's gonna be using himself.
Maybe the TB comes in with the clutch, man. Of course, the Crop's got a BKB, so not going to be easy to find those kills.
We'll see if it's trying to set up here, into the trees.
Oh, it's Horowitz.
Gotta be careful. Got clipped by the Ice Blast, and the Ignite has to just go immediately for the TP out.
This game is starting to feel like Spirit are definitely the ones on the back foot. They're not finding these kills.
Colaps is working on the DKB, so we'll be able to commit a little bit better to these fights
and not just get disabled and die because they need his stun.
No, Stoneman, there's so many ways for him to get insta-killed in this game.
And you can't have that feel as well that what's sort of required from both of the carries,
it feels like it has to just do so much more right. He's sure he's got this burst potential,
But it seems a lot easier for
Satanic to turn up press metamorphosis and just right click down the whole team
He does just stand there and hit you in the head it horse doing all these fancy tricks with the stats up and down
We form in shock on this guy and satanics be hit. Yeah
It definitely seems like you know with the draft and with the position that they're in
As even as it is in terms of net worth the game for the terror blade here in satanic's hands
seems a little bit easier than what's required of Yatoro to pull off on the
morphling.
Anyone's capable of pulling it off though it is Yatoro, grandmaster
morphling, two rings on his fingers, and a whole lot of other tournaments
under his belt. It's certainly capable.
Let's see what he can do.
Sometimes the build, what going for the hurricane pike into the silver edge by
looks of it, on the morph, and a continuation for St. Tannick, no
surprises there, Scottie, and then into disbursa. That's what he wants to try for.
Paph is in there out with the smoke, saying to be steady for spirit.
He just has come to an end though. Oh, jumping into the river!
Let's try and burst through DM! Oh, sorry. Oh, that's a bit... Oh, couldn't have
the ice blasted him onto Lala. Lala's got to step out of the fight for now.
Collapsed BKB. He's having a BKB and run. No one's going to jump forward.
Yatoros trying to stand his ground and fight back, but he has to use the
blink to get out of that. And he might have died there but Laurel messed up his spell casting
and tornadoed as the cataclysm was hitting. At least Yatoro will be able to get back in
and get some revenge now on that pesky ancient apparition that's been ice blast again. Blow
up DeKalis. Okay this Queen of Pain steel looks really strong. The fact that he can
blink in and then shock on a guy to waveform out. I'm with extra burst right now. Yeah
Yeah, the lack of dispel or so, the lack of catch rather that Paravision has, that's going to be a real problem dealing with this.
You've only got Monkey Son. Ogre Son is just not going to hit him.
No, it is very true. We are seeing that in these fights, it's alright. He might get ice blasted, but he can run away.
Yeah, he's everywhere with the blink. And stopping Morphling from transforming into you is just not a real option.
Even if you buy the Lincoln's, he could just break it with adaptive strike and then steal you right after.
So if he wants to cosplay quap for this entire game, he's more than capable of doing so.
Timing's there for spirit.
To be able to move up and get the Torments up.
And jump through.
Very, very good shard.
Doesn't have any items to abuse yet, so no yules, glimmer, any of the tricky stuff.
But he didn't know.
It doesn't matter if they know.
Because they're not getting him.
Yeah, it feels like you just cannot spend any time trying to hunt down Monkey King.
It's not going to be time well spent.
An expert in annoyance.
Very, very close game though.
It really is. It really is.
To have it sort of get to this 32 minute mark and again barely see the net worth.
Jump, you know, drastically in either team's direction for this first 30 minutes.
pretty crazy the big guys continue to fly out
now got himself the she was guard
single aisle trying to get towards the
octree next
spirit most definitely have the ability to scale this game with photo
paravision
it's a good TV game it's a panic is an amazing TV player
I mean it's really gonna come down to you know who's gonna do it in the satanic TV or the yatora morpher
Which is the more powerful both have had a pretty even playing ground so far here in this 30 minutes
So a fantastic kind of classic carry matchup on two players getting to play arguably one of if not their best carry hero
carry here, an absolute treat.
The ball's in the danger zone.
They've got the setup.
Fallen strikes there, no one's in with the jump.
Backup's coming in for Lalo.
Turn to the tornado, if it doesn't matter, Sonic Wave comes through.
They burst the invoker.
It should be able to get stepping in for 10.
No one wants to continue to push forward on the fight.
They'll dodge the ice blast, Team Sprayer, but Panto getting destroyed here by the
right clicks of Satanic.
This Paravision will get the two of them.
They won't quite lose anything themselves.
And the E-boy actually kind of saves in there with the pipe, the glimmer, so much resistance.
I think if they just right-clicked him, he probably would have died with the Amp.
It's not looking as good as that what it holds.
Astralis, one of the downsides of...
In particular, having that E-blade set up when you do have one of these heroes as a slot up,
he wants to get the right clicks in.
He's gonna get punished for that.
I don't know what on earth he was doing there, but that's not a good feat.
I mean, he had a Midas to use.
He actually did get baited by the Midas.
Yeah, when you got a Midas, you got a Midas.
Okay, fair enough. You know what? I take it back.
I take it back.
All good brother
Radiance middle tower is under attack shem as we can see
Just under a minute until it stops. So we'll at least be time for power vision to empty and back in the game here if they want to contest it
I
Would imagine you know, I don't think power vision need to be afraid of approaching that fight right?
You know last time around we saw spirit being able to just sort of take it off to power vision
Initially was able to push spirit away, but for it just came back into the pit and did so quickly
Surely, ParaVision don't want to let Spirit get another free rush.
No, definitely not.
They've got the Scouting Online, but the meta is still cooled down for 35.
And they will probably be waiting for that.
That should be fine, because your rush is going to spawn on the other side anyway.
And let Spirit just immediately go and catch the timing and destroy the rush.
I don't think so.
It's a bit risky.
Yeah.
Too many scouting tools in ParaVision.
If you're standing in the pit, you get A blasted.
Oh boy, you're in a world of hurt.
But it's going to be top rush and that does favor Spirit having the outpost right here.
You can maybe have buyback to some of the supporting cast, but right now...
...only buyback on...
...Ru and Collapse.
No one is starting to build up into more items though.
Looks like he is going to get the chance to scale up into that...
...East Mode quap.
and into late game that we see sometimes
Russian up and both teams
soon to find out
as they close in on the area
Titanic ready to start it off
gonna just walk straight into the pit
it's gonna get spotted out here by the sun strike
The Spirits will head over and power vision, they'll try and get themselves in a good position
to start up for this defence.
Let's have a look here, Spirits, do they also want to go for some sort of smoke move, maybe
some wrap around, they can have a pretty good idea of where power vision is going
to be waiting for them, nullifier is now in line for collapse and even easier time
to just jump in and fully commit onto someone.
Jules and Glimmer definitely greatly diminished.
You get that nullifier onto nine class.
He's a sitting duck.
Scout does temporarily hit,
so they know that Spirit is so close to the pit,
so teasing around with the Roshan.
And while scouting things out,
it's both sides hesitant to head into the pit
before they can take a team fight.
And here's the wraparound from Spirit.
See if Paravision is ready for this sort of move to come in from this angle.
They're breaking on a lot of good spots.
Spirit going the long way.
Ooh, her one's ready!
And they know.
And I like this as well from Satanic.
Realizes the importance of this next upcoming fight so does just buy the BKB.
ready for this one to go all in on the terror blade better safe than sorry
sensible choice both teams yeah nobody wants to go yeah trying to force this one
down yeah very very risky these fights are so much about who gets the
initiation
Paravision again, I'm gonna stop.
At least have a state tannic slowly taking down the Roche.
I have to stun strike this guy out, they're gonna crush the upheaval and you gotta get out of the soup.
I say that though, so tannic he wants to be in the soup.
I guess with the BKB he does sort of feel that there's not too much he has to fear.
Yeah.
So he can be a little more aggressive now with his positioning.
Roche out, coming down to about half HP.
Both teams just knowing how important this roaches the state of the game with with how close it currently is
So hard to run up into these hill areas both teams so good at breaking smoke
Doesn't buy that we'll see if he uses it. No one's gonna jump forward their court your stories kind of stuck in the base just dead
Well nine class don't take that any day of the week. Oh a little bit of a pause
And uh, what's going on here?
Any translations?
Not for me.
No, I- I-
Back on with the game.
Don't try.
Not- I think it was all friendly stuff.
I think they were just saying lag.
And what happened to your Toro in that fight?
Yeah.
That's fucking the pits somehow with Wave Form and Pike on cooldown.
I don't know if he messed up his spell casting or what?
Yeah, that's why he didn't have either of them to play with.
I mean, there's no way you can take this fight without a warplane.
No, I played the- and to Nykos, you're gonna find in the trees collapse!
Collapsus would have stuck there after he blinked up, he's trying to TP out, he's going to put the BKB and sprint away.
So he'll live, but off to the sky, Panto will die, 9-class is going to be protected by Satanic coming in, and offering up his buddy Asunda.
As he knows there's no fear of any fight kicking off with how they're able to deal with spirit like that, and just take this Roshan, get this A-District himself.
Yeah, we can have to watch that replay again, because it absolutely must have just been a rare mistake there from Yatora to die in the fashion that he did.
Let's watch him. So wave from him very aggressively.
Oh no! He piked up into the upper corner of the pit instead of over the wall. He turned the wrong way.
Yeah, that's an awkward mistake. Yeah, that's what you're gonna have to...
I mean, he probably just maybe didn't just use it. I don't know what's called, but that key-bind, he plays it.
the directional move thing
you don't have that sort of trying to walk one way
and then by the time you pop the
double press the hurricane pike your character
started to turn
it hurts big time they're going to try to catch
on a no one
what the heck
what should happen
we do callus was trying to keep the outer bottom
and he died in his thumb strikes while he was
keeping out
he couldn't dodge the cataclysm
so lal gets a bit of a bonus
Divs at two, let's change the three kills!
I'm after a pretty sort of carefully calculated first 35 minutes I'd say of gameplay.
Things are starting to get a little bit crazy from both sides.
You know, first of all we have kind of a spirit when you're Toro making a bit of a mistake around the pit.
And then just like that, you know, Paravigin, they might have got the Aegis secured, I'll say, canik,
but he's probably sitting there watching his teammates being like,
guys, the team?
What are we doing? Why are we dying like this?
You guys, just play around me, I've got the Aegis, that's always the calm stuff, guys I'm strong.
And the Nycloth?
What's happening?
Oh!
Hey, hey, hey, there's a bunch of sort of cursed ages here, they get it as a team and they try to pick up the sages, so my teammates just start dying everywhere, what's going on?
They just get globally team-wiped, it's like those pubs or zoos has a fresher on them, he goes pow pow.
Now now the list of towers hit, the mid push has come in from Spirit.
Now, Paravision, I think they're going to be a bit sort of saying to themselves,
well, what did we just do?
They might lose two tier twos, yes.
Deity on Yatoro, that is a Monak-S.
Yeah, that's both towers taken.
Paravision, they've got to pull themselves together.
They just got rushed, they managed to make an excellent play, and then it just,
subsequently has gone very much downhill. You see the Aegis power play is a 9k loss.
You don't see that at all. That very often. It's not much of a power play at all. Different
power vision. Power play for Spirit maybe. Yeah. This is now the biggest gold we've seen so far
this game. Yep. Right after they lost the fight and Aegis. Yep. Oh well. They're watching it
in half minutes. Maybe they're able to pick something back up during the rest of the
ages time it but the things continue to roll in infaspir across the map they get
the torment atop and giggle
Toro is he going for the condo? Is this condo? Is this how you build it now? I don't even know.
I know the X-ray player. It is how you build it now. Alright it doesn't
necessarily break anything important in this game but he just has slot issues
and didn't want to sell his boots yet I believe that's that's the kind of
deal it was. I'm surprised he didn't sell for the
act or something else though but feels like he does want to keep up the shotgun
build thinks it's valuable I guess whenever you sell the condo you're
sort of kind of griefs your e-blade a little bit
I think I'm a little bit stronger
yeah I think after that last series of events
Satanic he's gonna lock in to try and carry the boys on this one if they're
going to be making those sort of rough sort of moves and getting caught out like
that. Of course he's still in great position to do so, the most farmed hero in the game here,
Satanic. But can he out carry Spirit?
Let's see. The issue still remains that they don't have the easiest ways to
start or catch these fights, but they have gotten a Hex on DM. That will
change these dynamics. No B could be in Yatoro because they have so few
stuns has gone for the slippery build but when you turn it to a pig it's hard to be
slippery I just think Danny want to hit the base 50 seconds left on the ages
it looks like it so the call is gonna be how much do they want to try and
force this here paravision up what the matter see what sort of a defense comes
out from Spirit.
It's tier 3.
Going down, obviously you've got to bear in mind the ages timing.
20 seconds.
Spirit are going to try and strike at this key timing coming in with the wrap round.
Off to the side though!
Neutorius is going to put the lantern get away from the ice blast.
Neal escape.
Tornado and Cataclysm again, kind of coming into awkward timing from once another.
It does end up that the Cataclysm doesn't really do anything at all, and onto the side,
I'm going to get the Uls onto Pantos. Look at the chance to drop the Golem, but Pantos will die for this.
Say Tani's going to turn quickly, destroy the Golem.
And obviously on that bottom lane, damage was done.
They're not finished yet, no one.
Jumping in.
I'm going to try and stick around, maybe to get the full set of barracks here.
They get the Katje on towards the Toro there, the Hex to the follow-up.
Not enough to lock him down, still gets out with the waveform.
Hex and Shackle in return down on towards Satanic, well it lasts on enough though. Satanic's have a break out of it.
Class watching with the trees, they can start to retreat here.
The last thing we're going to try and do is this is best to make sure that the retreat's not successful though.
Gets him with the jump, crush on to Satanic.
Left to turn to Satanic towards DM instead, but the Hex is there, out on towards him, gets pushed back by the Sonic Wave.
DM might be left behind here unless Paravision wants to try and turn this fight.
this fight and said that DM is very tanky, not the random heck left to drop the Serpent
Water as well just to make sure they get a kill out of this. They will get him at the
end of it all, but the time and space is there for the rest of Paravision to back off.
They're going to be very content with that push they got away with at the end of that
age, just getting the melee racks and forcing Spirit to expend two of their buybacks.
They definitely will. It feels really hard when Paravision is plumped up like that
for the Spirit to actually commit into them.
This Warlock and Shadow Shaman are just fish food.
They just disappear to anything that comes their way.
As soon as they commit to that fight,
Rue gets caught in the middle, dies immediately.
Panto falls soon after.
And these teamfights definitely not easy for Spirit.
They do have the undispellable Hayes now on Slotter,
so that's gonna help.
Yeah, it just seems so much more smooth,
Stay tannic to get the job done in these drawn out fights as the terror blade
Again, just as opposed to how much is expected from your Torah on the morphing here of this game
It's not easy for him in this sort of heritah here a matchup at this point
Especially when the terror blade at this point is coming close to being sort of two major items ahead of the more things coming
To what nearly 40k network pretty soon on stay tannic here 46 minutes in
Having quite the game throughout all the chaos
He's got the metamorphosis duration talent so 80 second metamorphosis no kiting the spell anymore
Yeah, that's pretty insane. He's met it in every fight guaranteed
Toro has got the link and so a little bit of extra protection to allow him to commit into the fights
But it really is gonna take some some masterful play from him to be able to pick apart para vision in these team fights
Super difficult game
And those are team they have this lead
Losing their melee racks here spirit
Trying regain control of the lanes if they can set up for the next roast and see if they can find some sort of way
To just catch this terror blade in the team twice
Satanic has been pretty much untouched in the last few team plays
They can't really stop this the morphlet is for the terror play for doing the damage getting the work done
And they're trying to hold this hill, not to give this area back to Paravision, they
were holding for the last rush fight.
Rosh spawns super early.
Oh that's good news for Spirit.
And it's not going to roar because Paravision killed it last time.
Yeah, Spirit could take this down immediately before Paravision even have the chance to
think about the rush.
It's very fortunate for them that it's such a quick spawn.
That means Refresher, Cheese, the whole nine yards.
Now, Wind Waker and Collapse, so if they try for these burst plays,
Bobs can come in with the clutch, save it, he's got a refresher as well, so we can do
MULT of them even.
Probably going to have Collapse be the one, or someone has to be the one to get the
jump onto the Terraplate.
Like, I feel like if you're jumping anyone else in these teamfights, the Terraplate
is just going to kill you.
Either that, or you need to find an open area where you can kite him and move around him.
Let's sort of hold him in place with invoker spells, tornado, EMP, we get their fresher
on loss so we can't do a lot of stalling with this TP, potentially kill the illusions
or at least disable them.
While Spirit finds others.
They're very clever now, Scalops is running down the bottom lane.
It's very much just a casual push, not any real pressures, they're kind of just farming
everywhere else on the map.
Spiritist seems to have decided that there's no way to push in high ground, it's too hard.
So instead we're going to economy, we're going to get to six slots.
This game's going to go long.
I think so, right?
We need to be really strong.
Yeah, because I think they need to.
They need to sort of get that extra line so they have the means to take down the
Terrible later.
I mean, we're seeing already, even the illusions alone, they're not easy for Spiritist
heroes to kill off.
The illusions are very strong.
That's a problem.
Tops gets the washer.
I think they see the ward with that gem, right?
Yeah.
The Toro is keeping them in base though.
By riding this top lane, they're going to have to keep responding.
He's doing it with the T.B. illusions.
Stealing from Morph lane.
It's kind of keeping Paravision pinned in.
They want to de-ward that ward. The nine class is stalking it.
We know this hill is warded too. You can see players know the perimeter of the vision
that ward gives. Now your tour goes in to de-ward it.
I have forward, found this down on a roof.
I'm trying to look towards the tank, but the tank is ready to turn.
Just around him, Jadaklism comes in, but again for the most part they're able
the dodge here plus the pushback safe panic see no one jumping in pushing back
the rest of the frame ready for the chase down low we'll be able to back off
the ghost will collapse ready to get back in on towards no one you saw he's
gonna back off now that the ages has been taken from him outside of the ages
going away taken out of his hands no one else to fall in this fight that
ward is a really bad place to them to fight so clumped it's run in and
to Tannick.
It's maximum.
DM though.
Oh, it's a risky position.
Bruce gonna catch it.
Get him in the hex, drop down the serve from Wards.
I bring the Cataclysm.
There's no way to save him.
The Senjana collapses.
He has to get the jump out of all of Satanic.
And cut the tornado control.
Satanic could be in trouble.
He slides out of the side.
Will be able to use the Thunder to get back to the full HP
as he takes the health of nine class.
Spirit.
Let's give a bit of respect again here to Satanic.
Go back away, no one trying for the chase here, and he's probably considering maybe jumping again onto what they're trying to do, and there they are, they're in for the crush.
Tornado comes in, EMP as well, but he's able to slide back, he's low on mana here, and his supports are getting torn apart here by LAL.
Double kill for LAL, DM's still wanting to fight here, but they've got the buybacks in play, both supports here for Paravision coming with the buybacks.
Collapsed, closes in, crushing onto both DM, and Static, Static, he'll turn.
Towards the lap, the lap finds 9th class in 2nd turn, there's a dieback on 9th class.
Realme Town will fall, St. Tannick still...
Oh my god, he's gonna turn towards Yutaro, they're gonna corner him at the side,
but the colors is gone, there's a dieback on both of the supports.
It's just left out to St. Tannick and no one.
Spirit's too good, man.
St. Tannick will put the BKB, he can't get the Stunderof, the Likkus is there, that's St. Tannick dead.
No one can him and St. Tannick actually hold this. St. Tannick's coming with the buyback,
But they're now two against four as spirit just picked them apart and killed them off multiple times
Three the buybacks the paraffin should throw at them. Oh my gosh to collapse player perspective this fight has to be unbelievable
That was one of those masterful team fights. I've seen in years good grief. This guy is good. I
Make no one's can they stop them here. They've got a fortification
It's not as home with the push it's transectonic as well
They need to buy time here, Paravision for the rest of the team to respawn, the mid-rax gone,
Spirit ready to swing across towards the top set as well.
The damage being done here by Spirit will see how much more they feel they can get away with
so they want to try for a third set of barracks. They've still got a little bit of time.
You know there's no buybacks on any of these three heroes.
Now those diebacks just brutal for Power of Vision.
Spirit they're taking so much collapse, he's getting the jumping on towards Satanic, no one's.
They'll be there to keep him safe. Tornado will clip onto Satanic.
Anaclysm coming in, it'll slide to the side, no one pushes them back to the starting wave.
They've got the fortification back up, 9 plus in on the game now with the Wukong's command,
but collapse he's going to look to try and find him in the tree.
We'll get in on top of him, collapse.
And we'll win the waker back to safety, further respawns coming in now.
Now no one plus the refresher and he's ready to force back Spirit in an attempt to keep that final racks alive
Spirit do they want to try and get back in to finish this off?
Everybody's back up now on ParaVision.
He's in with the jump twice per satanic. satanic's gonna respond straight away with the BKB
Spirit
They don't quite get the megas but they get everything but the top lane the mid racks half of the bottom racks
The damage done Spirit now with a 33k lead and ParaVision
definitely gonna be wondering where all went wrong in that bottom fight and I
think they maybe could have gotten the Megas there but they were kind of they
were messing around with the kills Paravision baited the man very well
sort of standing on that line of maybe oh maybe you can kill me but they can't
they waste some time they waste some right clicks and the mega survives but
30k man so much spent there and these supports especially are gonna feel the
pain of that. It's panting out blink force, glimmer, he's got all the tools to get his
rock off and similarly Peru. This is gonna be an incredibly difficult hole
for paravision. Spirit and the prime position to close this up they'll drop
down the Serpent Wads. Yatora ready to move in, looking to quickly finish off. Get caught
by the fear of the ice boss though! Yatora, he dies for his efforts to try and take the
Rax. They will still get the Rax, but the remainder of the Serpent Wads finished it off.
So the Mega Creeps are out. There is 90 seconds though for Paravision to try and put
everything in to striking back at Spirit. Chasing collapse out of the base. Class
will get back up into the trees. So indeed they've been Mega Creeps. What's the
Quick call from Paravision. Are you running it down a lane?
Are you going to get the chance to force out this buyback or is it unlikely?
It's so hard against Invoker. Shadow Shaman has got so many stuns, so many spells to repel you.
And you've got to get the lanes in in the first place, which they're not even close to doing right now.
At this point, I think your total will be spawned by the time they even reach the base.
I thought his chicken was going to get tonight.
Oh, pause!
Little bit of the old lag.
Unreal! Unreal lag!
They all disconnect.
Oh, that's uh...
Apparently it was Unreal.
Apparently it was a lot of lag.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm curious what they think about here whenever they're not even in the game.
What are they considering?
Sabolo, so this is that fight again?
Just so many crushes.
I actually, I don't know how many it was, but it was like 10.
It felt like...
So imagine this, but you can see right why Paravigini using the buyback try.
They still very much trust that around Satanic, they are strong enough to take this team fight.
I think a huge part of this fight though is that Satanic got EMG.
He has no mana in these fights to press any of his spells.
He's just getting kited as they're going in and out over and over again.
He's crushes playing on the absolute edge is actually crazy. I mean it was very close
as well that for the game to be in an even rougher spot really if no one was punished
but no one should be able to be the solid rock in that fight being the one to survive
throughout it all. Didn't mean that they had this chance to fight on in this game
obviously now up against the mega creeps. Looking pretty close to impossible here
now for Paravision Spirit they know how close they are to putting an end to this game and they have
indeed been able to sort of wait out this death timer of Yatora doesn't look like they will need
to use that buyback so it can remain in this comfortable position where their whole team does
have their buybacks available and Roche still a minute 20 seconds away so they won't even get
get the Roche for it. Could have gotten lucky with an early spawn timer, but
Gaven does not smile upon them today.
And what's the cool now for Power Vision? Are they closing in on anything or
because the Daedalus pickup can be there for Satanic? He's gonna have that
online. 4,500 gold on no one so probably considering what his, what sort of
big pickup he could go for. Is there anything in mind? Do you think that
He'll be thinking of first
Could look for another hex yeah, could look for
Ags can do something like a Lincoln's
He's got some options. I will say I think he messed up with his talent choice a little bit
He went for the refresher build, but he took the screen damage in the blink cool down
So kind of normally if you're going to screen damage blink cool down here by the ad by the bagger
Yeah, but it's a bad dagger game
So he's playing for ult, but he didn't build the ult talent.
So you'll feel that impact a little bit.
Could be ulting down the wave spot.
Not sure what the XTs are about.
Not just an XTs.
There.
Fair enough.
No.
No W.
Pause.
Clap sound a good time.
We don't see.
Yeah.
We don't see.
Tell us, Trace.
Well, that's not good.
No, that's just the new level 25.
I guess some strikes are invisible.
Die, feed, draw, kill my feelings.
Oh, that's not right.
These things happen. Collapse is having a good time at least.
We are too. It was a great game.
Yeah, we're getting up to the 60-minute mark.
I don't know if it will get to the 60-minute mark.
Or he's heckin' dyin' out there.
I don't know. Somebody said something.
I don't have ever seen him laugh that hard before.
Yeah, all right. Well, plenty of time to laugh is perversion is stuck inside their base. So
it's a joyous time for spirit indeed.
Dropping a G in the chat. Who knows if they can see some strikes now or not.
I guess we'll find out in the next cataclysm.
It's refresher, Sunstrike.
Cataclysm is pretty important to see them.
They're kind of a problem otherwise.
The Roshi is up.
So whenever they scout it, they can kill it.
Super close to the panther.
Having his refresher.
Getting that butterfly now online for Yatoro, I say.
Making sure he has a bit more of a balance between that first and also just being able to be that super strong right-click like game carry
Now it seems to kind of commit for that data list means a buying that butterfly pretty safe bet
That is true
This item mini games between carry players. Yeah
That's first time we'll be there
Spare a vision no interest coming out of the map right now. They've got to put everything into just defending that base
He's going to take that, he'll hold it for now, let's see how much they go for the push.
Isn't that sort of your thing about as a pro team, are you looking at the timer saying
hey it's 58 and a half minutes, let's wait for the 60 more items or you don't have
to carry them at all.
For sure, for sure.
I mean it's not that easy for them to actually throw in this game.
Sure.
So you would say, let's get the lanes in good spot and then get those naturals.
I think so. You gotta keep parry vision out of the base and there's also a mini game around.
Like, okay, the enemy team is gonna try to sneak out and get them.
So instead of trying to push, we're gonna assume they're gonna try to get them
or we're gonna catch them on the way out.
Also, definitely a real possibility here for Spirit.
They also almost have the refresher on Warlock.
I think in a lot of ways they're gonna have to take this throne with summons.
So you've taught us enough to DKB, so if he goes in and gets Ice Blast, if he is just gonna die,
so it's not actually that easy for him to just sit and hit the buildings if all of Paravision is alive.
And I mean, these sort of summons, the Serpent Ward and Golems are very strong, right?
Because you only really have Static that can right-click and kill them very reliably.
So there's a bit more awkward for the other cores than supports.
Yeah, if you steal the lines, no one is smoking down.
Honestly, it's more room from Perry as I say that he's back
Any time you step out at the base spirit might be there waiting for you was seen no one go over the BKB
Once you try and burst for your room, it's not gonna be enough to kill the shaman Bruce fine
Not even close do not be innate or fast or whatever it is soul remaining
And they've got access to all the camps and that means get those neutral items.
Oh, 9 classes been spotted.
The refresh is going to be popped here as well, able to drop that full combo in onto the Monkey King.
And 9 classes gone.
Got greedy.
Just a little bit of gold short to buy back.
100 gold short so he is out for 70 seconds.
They still have the snakes and they have one rock, not two yet, but...
But the Monkey King dead, looks like they're just going to finish up neutral items on Yatora
right now so not looking to push right away.
They still have some time with Monkey King being dead.
Let's see what he can take.
Imagine, he got Deso 2, he did not get Audacious though.
And here comes that shot from one push.
And he's going to take the Illusion right.
Because this is probably the best hero to have the Rift Shadow Prism on right.
Yeah, the Giga Illusion is paved.
Yeah, I mean, that's gonna be something else that you can throw at the buildings here to try and end the game
No, that's huge. Maybe you take a better from the Tesla, too.
There's a tier four.
Falls, still 30 seconds without 9 plus, St. Tannick. He's gonna put the BKB off to the side. The Meeple's been dropped down onto no one.
It's pulled by the stun, has to step back.
I mean, these 4-spirits as well coming in with the push. The tier four's falling, St. Tannick's getting caught by the faster.
He can't get anything off. He's dead. Has to buy back.
It's all left to jump away for now, but the ancients exposed.
Spirit, look at it close, they self-paraphrasing because they push them or somehow Sonic Wave comes in.
The Satanic came with a second round of his life off the back of the Bi-Bag, desperately trying to hold Spirit back.
They killed Jatorov once, but the age has gone.
Round two for him, the BKB from no one.
After the BKB comes in, they're just gonna call for the Shackle, he throws him in the burst, blows up Ducales.
Ducales still has his Bi-Bag available.
Hex down on the DM, Hex now on to Satanic.
Satanic stepping back, bound the strike comes out from 9 glass, onto Wardscourth, the cataclysm comes in though!
Lyle cleans up the big kills with that one, and that's gonna be the turn of death for good.
Gigi is called. Spirit will close up the first game.
Man, what a game it was. Spirit, so many clutch plays, 62 minutes going a distance.
These two teams, well so high skill going into the late game. What a treat.
Absolutely, absolutely. And the way they sort of did it as well,
well this game spirit there is an avid disposition you're kind of what halfway
through where it did look like things we're going to be falling into some of
the hands of satanic terribly but things started to crumble around them we did
see a borscht for parafusion making some of those mistakes that they have
done in some of the prior series it did feel like that post roche period was a
big downfall for them went from like a 10 case win yeah it was I don't know
they just bet four kills back to back across the map got a little lazy a
little complacent and they cannot be complacent in this upcoming game too
because they're on the brink. Absolutely, they've got a kind of tidy up their
acts because up against Spirit anything less than perfection is going to be
that you're gonna have a hard time. Spirit looking fantastic there as they
close that one up very safely and securely at this sort of post 60 minute
mark. Excellent stuff there from the team and the editorial getting to have
the last laugh here on his grandmaster tier, Carrie Morfling, he closes the game down.
Can't wait for game two! Game one goes to Wearspirit!
That's the kind of lower bracket final I'd want to see. Two teams going head to head,
neck and neck, bringing it to 62 minutes. But I do think that Partivision maybe is
slightly kicking themselves a little bit because the game was pretty securely in
their favor and then in a strange turn of events after they get Roche after they
get Aegis is when things start going badly for them. Yeah this was the
change in 7.40 the cursed Aegis that was not actually there it's one of the
hidden ones where you actually start losing. Don't take that one.
You have to know which one it is it's like the poison mushroom or the
Yeah.
Although I will say Spirit is a theme that is notorious historically for taking these
sort of pickoffs where you're playing against an Aegis, you would think that they want to
dodge fights, you would think that they don't want to take pickoffs, but they have such
a good understanding of the map that they know, Paravision, because they have this Aegis,
they're kind of overplaying.
A team takes TA just once they take Roshan they split up and that's the thing like you're
playing against team spirit. I
We've talked a lot about
They're drafting we've talked a lot about the early game all of these other things
They are still one of the greatest clutch teams in in in-game history all time
They can make the hard calls
I mean and they did it this game there. They're so good because I agree like also if you're part
You're quite happy. I think that's how the early game went the mid game
You have all these auras, but then like the mid game like the stuff that Spirit are able to do with like coming back
Building the right items. I love the atoros build. It's like, you know, the candor he goes for the phylactery
He has like the eblade the silver edges and all the stuff to like play on kiting you playing against ice blast
You don't want to commit into the fight. What's up, Jenkins? Talk to me more about this item though
He wanted to talk to me about the phylactery ever since the change it's a you know
You don't need Vlad's and morphing anymore. It's extra bit of damage
also he did go for like 0 3 2 build in the lane because right now you you're
actually dealing the damage you're the one because with the change you actually
have a stun on both of your facets now so it feels good to be getting those and
also with phylactery it's also extra bit of a damage coming out like the
harassment you saw that over at one point he wasn't the sustaining
troll of that damage he gets close get hit by it and then going for the e
blade so now you have extra bit of a staff as well because the buildup is
much better, and then we are seeing the old shotgun build from Morphling where he deals
like 900, almost 1000 damage with the two spell combo.
More thoughts on the item build?
No, but I have thoughts on the Aegis Powerplay.
Because this one was not that nice, and parry overall they were in a good position, but
let's look at this one.
So there are 2000 gold, you know, Aegis Powerplay usually it gives you map, it gives
you gold, but they're dying bottom on no one.
In the meantime, the Cataclysm killed the AA in the top lane, DM as well, he was set
up for a better game.
He had a couple of really bad deaths that should not have happened.
Like if I'm parry, obviously you can't like, you know, shit on your teammate after you're
losing a game, but if you're DM, you know that you had a very costly mistakes in
this game that you need to like not have happened in the next game.
But yeah, we've got the Aegis power play, which for the first, I've never seen
a double digit deficit while you've got the Aegis while also bleeding on your
entire map.
That's crazy.
We call that the triple D, double-digit deficit.
We heard about the DD back in the days now called AD, which was amplified damage,
but triple D, you never get that.
We took the double D and the DD when it swapped it, I like that.
It piqued a negative 11k net worth shift, which that is troubling.
That's massive.
ParaVision definitely took the D this game because Spirit is so good at team fighting.
It's like, you can tell when you watch them fight what they've decided.
their fight condition is.
Like you know that they've clearly talked about
how they need to take fight.
A lot of the time, if they run like a bat rider TA,
you'll see that they will literally only take fights.
Otherwise they will dodge, they will get out
unless they have the lasso plus the TA jump.
In this game, you could see that they needed
to kite the fights.
They were waiting until AA showed,
Yatoro would go in and kill him on the back line
and he's like, okay, now I can play
because I'm not gonna get ice blasted, you know?
It's like, it's just so cool to me.
Like, if you want to learn how to properly teamfight, just watch Spirit, and you can literally tell they will do the exact same thing every fight.
These other teams, stupid, they can just watch Team Spirit.
Just study your Spirit.
They do.
They do.
They do.
And yeah, for me, it's extreme, and it's Spirit that do this the best when they're peeing.
But they're just that good.
You need a lot of skill also to replicate it.
I will say the one thing about the draft.
While AA is good against Morph, there's a lot of gameplay up in the air, which you did see that Spirit obviously can do.
Obviously you can do with the kiting, you build the four staffs, you do all the stuff that we talked about.
You don't get ice blasts, you take the long fights and then...
I don't know if you want to have the draft where you give a lot of room for the expert to outplay you.
That's why I don't like the AA as much.
Yeah, Baravision, they try to itemize.
Double hex on one support, hex as well on DM.
Like it looked good when he got all these three auras online.
Yeah, like he looked pretty unkillable, they were playing around TB.
But at one point, Team Cert was like,
ah, we need another 15, 20, 25 minutes to be able to get to our item timings.
And they did.
And what Yathrow did was also buying this late game butterfly.
This is something that these super late game carries to.
They're waiting until they see an item.
He sees a data list.
He's like, he's maxed out.
He can't replace that for MKB.
So now I can get my butterfly of my own.
And also I want to point out the itemization from Collapse.
I think this is the most fun item build you can have
when you're playing Slardar with Dr. Encore and you'd have Oral-Walming Blink and the upgraded
Eulceptor so Wind Waker so you'd go in.
And Talibill too.
Yes.
25 Talib for the crush cooldown instead of Undispellable, which is really, really important.
You're just hitting like 10 crushes in a single fight.
It's kind of cool because you're not playing so much on like the haves being Undispellable,
like you're not really committing, right?
All the items with the forces and your Toros will be, he can go in and out.
You're just playing on spells over and over, going in and out, hitting your third
run of spells, your fourth run of spells, so that's really cool across.
It really is.
Great work, Lacoste.
I mean, sometimes I'm very discouraged by the Offlaners because I think that it would be easy to point a finger at...
Oh, Offlan Ogre did not really succeed, but...
That is easy to point a finger at.
But I don't think it was his fault.
That's accurate.
He had a couple of Babdos, so he's got some fault.
Not a part of the hero.
Wait, wait, wait. But if he has another hero, he's not going to be Juicy Midas in those camps.
Oh, but come on.
Yeah, there's less likelihood, but they still like the deaths that you can't have those deaths Mr. Jenkins
Yeah, not against teams all teams in the world. Maybe they didn't watch them
That's here. They don't watch anything. Thankfully they just got a chance to watch
Watch that they were losing against them, but now that they have that lesson and instilled in them
Well, now they'll maybe use their own ideas against them
Let's find out how our party vision decides to strike back for game number two after the break
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Now I'm good with it.
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Cut it on the tabs, watching movies
All the lights, babies, eating curbies
And stuff like that happen in our side
Jingle jingles, all these years
I might get the stable ride
And the dinner smells amazing
And the eggnog gets the list
And the carolers all tired
Every Sunday singing glistens
It's magic in America
This holiday is so beautiful
Make your superstars
I can't go with the cousins
That's family love
Playing games, don't complain it
Let's live it up
We don't get this time together all the time
So we're special, gather round
Take some photos, be a fillin'
Stand a man, oh yeah
It's magic, it's a miracle
This holiday's so beautiful
Lonely night, lonely night
Spread tears, spread love like oh oh oh
Even though we're friends
Look at all the friends
Oh ho ho
Even if we come together
More love, so we can measure it
Oh ho ho
Even though we're friends
Look at all the friends
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More love, so we can measure it
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Santa's gone country, just like you and me
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Sticks up boots and a cowboy hat, swears up and down, he ain't goin' back
Bring the elves on down there to see cause Santa's gone country
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Lower bracket finals continues between party vision and team spirit, where spirit get themselves
an advantage, which has been a recurring trend whenever these two teams have been facing
off in their dream league season 27.
one was probably closer than most of the other matches, at least for the first 42 minutes.
And then it starts snowballing in a direction that I'm sure ParryVision were not enthused about.
Yeah, I mean, also with the lead they had and the auras, you can't make those mistakes in the
making. Because if they play better, I think they will take that game. Like ultimately,
you're in the lower bracket finals, both teams are super skilled, so it definitely comes down
to the gameplay. So keep it tight this time. I think you have to. Against Spirit in particular,
You you can't have any openings like that. Yeah, that that's just it's too big of a mistake
And if you're going to you know have one hero die off in the lane somewhere
Like everyone else needs to understand that spear it would like when they smell blood in the water
They they hunt like everybody on the other side of the map will immediately start moving to go for another kill
And they'll go for like the high-risk pick offs too
these guys are just
Killers there are the kind of maneuvers that when you TI's and EWC's absolutely
This is why they're always in a game even though the gold deficit can sometimes not look like it
Yeah, that's why we say that they are the most resilient team
They always have some kind of a plate no matter what happens in the game
Especially if you're pushing the high ground like this is
Kind of their best territory, but they're also very good at surprising enemies like this ages play that they did have
You don't expect other teams because they're not they have ages at six versus five
Not against Team Spirit. They're like, this is kind of our advantage.
Them not expecting us to go for this kind of thing.
And that's the thing. Paravision knows this.
Like, this team of all teams, they've played against Spirit so much.
They're from the same region, so they've played intern regionally as well.
Like, you know Spirit is going to do this, right?
And I don't think that it takes more than one slap in the face,
one reminder to remember this.
So I really don't expect that to happen in game two.
Like this is a blunder you make one time now the question is like
Maybe spear just prompts them this game and that's enough for spirit to win the series
They do this a lot, but I hope Paravision can bounce back
I think they will need to remove after seeing tiny after seeing what happened with tiny yesterday
Team spirit might need to remove coddle as there been yeah as it looked pretty insane
Like we told the heels that you're providing we talked about holy lock it being like a very strong item right now
And then lowering the cooldown on Tiny it looked pretty insane
I don't think Paravision is a type of a team that will play this Tiny as a carry
It is still doable, but I feel like it's
It's just gonna be in the middle. Yeah, I think you're right
Especially also with if you look at the first phase already
They banned out night classes like monkey and Slark
So Kado could be one of the ones that are next on the line, especially because you have Tiny
But then the thing is I have seen Kes really shred through heroes like Centaur's before and Ursa's in the pool too
So you definitely have to also think about like the trade-off of the other heroes in the next phase
But Kautle definitely if you were fine with the carry to carry stuff like that he will bang it out
That's weird because
if you're
If you're spirit in this situation you want to ban the nine-class heroes, right?
You also want to pick something that is
countering tiny mid like what are what are the the Laurel heroes?
I mean, Huskar is a consideration for spirits, setting up for that.
Something PrairVision might look to ban out.
Well, I have seen people do like Ember against Tiny, but I saw no one, yes,
he obliterated nothing to say mid.
I mean, that was a big skill gap, but that's a hero you can look for.
I would also say when you're Tiny, you would love to have more team fight
backing you up so I could see Parry looking for warlocks.
Or even if you're Spirit, you can look for the counter team fight.
Maybe you don't like dumps on the Tiny in lane, but make it mid game hard.
Like, when this guy jumps in, make sure that he doesn't get out to come in for the second round.
Yeah.
Maybe like an Earth Spirit for Laurel?
Something like that.
You back that up with Team Fighter and you're kind of chillin'.
Our vision, they take out the potential of a utoro windranger,
and we'll see if Spirit, no, they actually let the coddle go through,
instead opting to ban out of the Earthspot.
Yeah, I think it had to take priority considering how well we've seen Ursa's do.
In this matchup, you did mention Kev, which is still potentially a pick for Paravision.
I think Paravision has some good options on their position 5.
Warlock still in the pool.
Centaur, he doesn't like to play in the glimpse.
I also think Chen could be coming in very handy just to have those auras.
This is how Paravision has been playing in the recent couple of months.
Just Yuki Chen, very, very strong in general.
I like it because I really feel like any time Spirit is dangling a hero like this,
it's not without reason. If they're leaving a coddle in the pool like that, it's because,
or a kez in the pool, you know ParaVision's gonna look to take it, right? They have a counter to it.
I like this shaman as a response to kez. I think this is something that teams try to theorycraft.
It's also very, very good against these annoying heroes that 9 class does play like Nyx's
assassin. We have the instant hex immediately. He doesn't get to care if they're soft.
You can actually kill him. And this is something that kez is like very, very bad against,
like lockdown when he goes in and with these two heroes you have more than enough and we might see
the combo the best combo in the game agadence scepter shadow shaman centaur right yeah yeah
card probably not but yeah there it is okay so shadow shaman preemptive counter i don't feel like
that's exactly enough i imagine the spirit has some picks that will come out that will answer the
kez and so nice i'm curious what they think it is what's what's the counter
That's what you maybe need to think about what steroids, uh, party vision have on the
menu for their Kez, cause it's seen just far to be very popular, gets banned out early on
by spirit.
Vorlock.
I think Vorlock is just too good of a laner, especially now in the meta where sharing tangos
got nerfed, so also tangos are pricier, which means that Vorlock's priority is going
to go up.
I wonder, yeah, so they go for the Dukie-Chen, not to choose the pricing, I mean if you're
Spirit, I don't know what like the best support matchups are against Kez, maybe you just like
buff up your team that they can fight, like for Spirit, I could see a Warlock, I know
that they like AA, I personally think that could be good against Pez too, just like
anything that allows you to burst this one guy, especially in like the highest level
of games, usually when you kill the first guy in the fight, the teamfight breaks
of the other team, because then there's no forcing around, there's no healing the guy,
so that's something I could see when it comes to core-to-core matchups, Kez is a hero I
don't know enough about.
They did pick AA when they were playing against Chen and Abaddon last time that they met.
Countering the healing, and there's a lot of heals to counter in this one, you're
playing against Kez, you're playing against Chen as well, and you have the setup.
Like I don't think you can ask for any better setup.
Plus also with Shaman Centaur, I could also see Invoker again coming into the
play through because you have the Sun Strike like this is the lane that could
potentially redden the kills.
Vru of bounty hunter.
Interesting.
Shaman 5 most likely.
Yeah.
So they have done the bounty before in the also and also against Chen, I believe.
I mean I guess.
Yeah.
We talked about it like Rasta matches up pretty well against like some 9 classy class
heroes.
Why not?
Yeah, it makes sense.
And then bounty hunter to follow the Chen in the jungle.
you can really easily match his rotations.
He all of his golds.
Jen doesn't really do much to stop a VH from ganking a lane either.
I think it's really good.
Just forces the shaman into maybe less of a traditional position.
And so this should be Lars' hero, probably, right?
I mean, because the tiniest mid gives the last pick to your Toro,
give him the carry matchup.
There's the invoker.
This is the best setup.
I mean, maybe you can argue Nix's assassin with invoker,
But having Shadow Shaman with Shackles plus a Centaur, this is a kill in the side lane pretty much.
Like you catch anyone that's Shaman, if he pops off he can be going for the solo pick-offs with the Warch.
You have the Sun Strike as well, so pretty good pick from Spirit.
The thing is there won't be that kill combo in the same lane though, because I'm anticipating Shaman will be laning with Yatoro's hero.
Yeah, yeah, it's just the fight lanes you have, Sunsetup, Bounty Hunters stun also has been buffed, might give you that extra bit of oomph to set up the Sun Strike as well.
I feel like if you're Paravision, you just go for the caudal, like at this point take the bait, you know?
Like, you have tiny caudal, even Kes caudal seems pretty good, like reducing the cooldown on his abilities.
It's a little weird because then you're lacking disable against Centaur, like caudal plus Chen seems like a pretty shit support duo in terms of disables, but in terms of heals it's incredible.
So if you can get one other hero in the off lane just making up for the fact that you're lacking disable, I think it's fine.
I think it's fine. I would be also fine. Maybe with enigma
Maybe there this is a discussion that they're having because you have tiny that can be going to the four and
This is something that they've done before Chen plus enigma buying multiple auras at the same time
So everybody gets like two auras then you have four auras 20 minutes into the game
It looks strong even from the off lane ban ban the gyro
Oh, yeah, the counters for it in here. I think that's a fantastic idea
I like it deals with the centaur stampede as well. You can't run out of block hole
There's nothing right now that's going to interrupt it. The only reason that
They might not as it's nine class on tiny it's not on one of his chaotic heroes, you know
Okay, so they go for they're gonna go for like a
Minus armor strats
All right, so where do we think the roles are you're right with the tiny being a fork?
I think right like the DK goes mid against invoker. I assume you want to like try to play on
on some tempo you play the case carry me so spherically decay often once but I
don't see like why you would want to do that like I see here you have 18 pic you
see info you want to speed up the game you put the decay in the mid lane and
then maybe the enigma still open that I'll talk about like laying something
with the tiny where you have a good lane and you try to like anticipate your
tourist pic oh I love the Phoenix that's a really good man they could
have just lost letting that through yeah and I think enigma needs to be the
next band like a lot of momentum like this type of lineup pretty much says oh
yeah we want to be fighting early I also want to see which type of a build
Kaz is gonna be going for this one cuz Falcon Blade into Deso comes online
slightly earlier I'm a talk in an interview that he just likes to go for
battle theory because it's a bit of a better scaling and he always feels like
he needs that extra bit of mana to spend his spells and troll I mean there
is a world I mean at least when you see trolls sometimes it makes you
think of like maybe a Lycan in the off lane can be good against the supports
and the invoker but also with how Crimson Guard works I feel like some of
your timings are a bit strange of Lycan. They have run Lycan with cats before I
mean the idea is wolf bite cats. Yeah I don't want to see that. That sounds crazy.
It's just to get there it's difficult. They're running a tiny Lycan lane with
them not banning out the chirocopter means you don't really worry about
about banning Enigma instead of banning Clarksdier.
So, Clarksdier, they're probably looking for a TV.
They're going for TV, yeah, they're going for TV.
They're saying, okay, you wanna pick Lycan?
Like, I feel like a lot of the heroes
that we've talked about don't do well against the TV.
I mean, this is where I feel like you
would enigma anticipating the TV.
You could brewmaster if you really wanna anticipate the TV.
Oh, that's a good suggestion.
I think that's, I like the brew as well.
I feel like it's committing a little too hard to,
then what if I just don't TV?
What if I shit on the brew and lane?
This guy was still on full.
Wow, we...
The Forgotten Hero.
The Forgotten Hero remains.
Four Spirits.
Yeah, now it's a bit awkward to pick TB.
Oh, I got it!
Bloodseeker.
Bloodseeker again, boys. We're gonna see it this time.
I don't know how it works against Kess.
I definitely like it more than I would have liked it in the last game.
I mean, you have steroids,
and you have a buff from your center as well.
I would kinda like...
Maybe I like a Range Hero more.
Range Hero?
We can space those heroes a bit better.
Uh, Drows?
Any Luna endures?
Drows can get jumped on.
There's Luna, and there's Weaver.
Weaver's a pretty good suggestion, because then he can be left alone by Shaman and Lane.
They can run like the gang squad with the BH.
Maybe that's Weaver, Gyro.
Maybe Gyro's too stationary against this draft.
Never mind, they'll go for it.
Still deals with the Chen, no matter how stationary he is.
That's going to be Yutaro zero.
And let's see.
Yup, Panto will be the five.
the 5, Shaman, Rue will play the 4 bounty.
I mean, I like it for Spirit. I mean, I like it for both teams. There's a lot of gameplays.
But like, if I'm Spirit, if I'm Laurel, I'm pretty happy about my sidelines. Sure, I don't
do well mid, like not as well mid, but I have a Rasta Gyro safe lane against Timber
Tiny, like good luck if you're parry vision. And if you give some couple of Sunstrike
kills to Laurel, you know, he can kind of chill. But I like that no one is on
more of a more of a playmaker this game. Sure, he was on co-op, but you can't
lead as much as with a DK.
drafts by both of the teams, I think they are both happy with what they managed to get
in this one. Looking at the invoker, how much he's going to be able to set things up in
the side lanes with the Sunsets.
With RU as the front of the round.
Yeah, yeah, that's who I'm looking at. I feel like BH can wreak some a lot. Like a lot
of havoc in this game. And yeah, that's who I would look at for the volatility in
this game.
If he's allowed to though, because I have to imagine with a 10-DK draft, party
vision won't group up relatively early, and then bounty hunter is staring at five
heroes being like if if they get to that like 15 minute mark and Chen DK is having
a good time that yeah BH can feel kind of useless but he wants to break the game
before that point to have some sort of item advantage. How you feeling Kazoo? I think
I think Spirit's got this one. I'm looking a lot of like the zero to five
minute mark like we talked about how much can they get done in the safe lane
and then the first time for Spirit that's very dangerous is the mid
matchup. The DK form with the Chen coming they need to survive that. It's
elimination time for a parry vision they're hoping that they can survive
At least one more game. Let's see how it plays out.
It's Odie Tixman.
Quick.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to get through here.
We're going to win Team Sprint and Parabas, how about you get to be gone by Quinn?
Quinn, we're going to put a change-up.
I'm trying to see how it can tap, but not before the smoke.
We're already crossing by Parabas and ready to see if we can make this play.
But what are the change ups that you're sort of seeing jump out the most about this game too?
I mean, the Monkey King is banned I think it's a huge difference.
And I'm also playing Tiny. This is not a hero that I think of at all when I think of Night Class.
That's true. Yeah, has he done a lot in pro games?
I want to get some stats of what you keep talking.
I don't think there's many because this is not a signature of his for sure.
Now they do have, do call us on this chen, great on that hero.
No one decays some classics but Spirit.
We've done some cool responses, it might even get our first blood.
That's quite a lot of times, they get some body blocks there.
Yeah, they're gonna have him and it's gonna go the way of no one on the Dragon Knight.
That was just a whoopsie from collapse, didn't get the hoof stomp lob.
A little too far away, just straight up misses it.
Now first blood for DK and Lane, that was already hard for Laurel, gonna be even harder.
We saw how last Lane went, except for when we went live, but man, if last Lane went like that...
Yeah.
Queen, how is this one going to go with Dragonite?
It's no one stuck it to him last game.
No, absolutely.
It's going to...
One thing it's definitely going to show
is whether or not, you know, no one's just sort of got Lyle's number completely
or whether just game one was a game one sort of thing where Lyle maybe just woke up, you know,
it sort of game warmed up for the series.
So obviously as the game went on, you know, Lyle certainly was warmed up,
coming in with some big plays towards the end of that first game
to help close things up for Spirit.
But yeah, the start was rough.
Definitely. And also Yatoro Gyrocopter is always a treat because he doesn't buy the normal items, right?
We see Natsumi, he goes for the Daedalus, the Ags, some standard items.
Whereas Yatoro, he often goes for this Pike, Manta, turning Gyrocopter into a different kind of hero
than we see from other players, and it's always fun to see different looks on classic heroes.
I'm on the tiny 9 class, he hasn't picked it up for the last 9 months.
But back in 2024, there was a period of the first half of the year where he was doing it
quite frequently back when he was on Tundra.
It's been about nearly a year or so when he was in that mode, but he did have a period
where he was doing it a little bit back at the start of 24.
I forgot he was on Tundra, what a weird roster that was.
DM?
That hit?
That was Roy on the edge.
Very nice.
Right on the edge, but they get him a same time down bottom state addict. He's gonna be able to get collapsed
Now we keep seeing this
Tez in response to centaur and every time it looks so bad for the centaur just kill him you do and
Chen Kezla what a ridiculously monster lane
Rue's gonna try to pull some waves and that's all they can do is leaning straight up into this is
Worse than a nightmare. I don't know what's worse than nightmare, but this is
Even bringing the showmen over to just claim the water room.
We're just trying to set up anything between the two of them there.
That's going to be no one.
I'm going to really care too much anyway if these water rooms get taken away from it.
Does not really need them here as the Dragon Knight.
He does not end.
Look at this.
Yes, 1411 to five and three.
It is not going well.
No, it is not.
But that at least this time is kind of expected
like because of how good the match up is yeah comes to the right clicks comes to
the CS we'll see the sideline hit and we'll get the kid chance to take down
panso here corporate between the towers that's a bit cocky and testing waves in
between it's a tiny we all know what that hero does he throws you back and
Panto it's thrown back yeah this mid matchup it's a rough mid matchup and
DK with the first blood there's only one way that was gonna go and it's bad
See the set up there, some strike, not going to be enough for Static, he's actually able
to turn and maybe just threaten the bounce, you have to move, just gets caught up here
between the two of them.
You got to be careful when you try and make plays into this Kes, you know, I feel it's
very easy, at least so it seems for all these teams, you just underestimate how much the
Kes can do just already on these early levels at level 3 when he's got a point
in all three abilities.
Yeah, it's a new hero, despite the fact that he's been picking Captain Sword pretty
frequently these days.
I don't know how does team feel for it, as they do with some more legacy heroes that have
been around for years and years, and you have hundreds of games of muscle memory, maybe even
thousands.
Yeah, I think it's very easy to sort of turn up and be like, oh my goodness, this hero
just killed me!
And then when it comes to the Kez, that's a spirit, they can't afford to feed those
sort of kills away to the Saitanit.
We've seen what the Saitanit can do on this Kez, and it is very, very impressive.
You snipe there for 9 class, you did just take out the full Falcon Blade that was coming
out to your tower and now it's on plane.
That is huge.
And Paravision has a much more well rounded draft than last game.
Last game was all about the skirmish, all about this classic Paravision weirdness.
This game, they've got plenty of stun, plenty of tanky heroes that can go in.
It's a much easier game for them to play and they are stomping the lanes right
now.
DM doing totally fine in the other lanes are a disaster.
If we could do anything about 9 class, he's gonna get the avalanche off and he's got the back of a no one coming in, so
9 class is gonna continue to be able to dance around and be annoying. They can't turn to finish him off.
9 class is gonna be fine for now. This is just sort of time where the Invoker's getting bloated away from the mid.
They'll bring Yatora over. They need to somehow punish no one.
Yatora, is he gonna have enough of this? Good move from no one there to turn with the Dragon Tail to make sure that
Yatora can't chase down for second rocket barrage, it allows him to get away, and it's just gonna be...
It's sort of this TP that Yatora kind of has to make to keep his Invoker safe, but he certainly doesn't feel good having to make that move.
No, it's not ideal when he gets nothing out of it, but...
That is fear. It's sort of trademark way of getting back to the game.
They surely get nine class this time.
Oh, those neutral creeps.
Yeah, they needed that. I mean, ideally, Larwood would have needed blasted, doesn't get it, Panto gets the kill.
Same time, pressure's gonna start coming in onto the mid tower here from Paravision. They bring the chat over,
with the dragon form on no one, starting to get some of that early damage done.
I mean, Spirit, can they do much to sort of take this...
Ooh!
Just off it. Was he really trying to grab the creep wave to slow down the push?
That's big. The catapult's gonna die off that. That was a huge play from Rue.
Sort of a weird one, but...
Works very effectively as no one would have gotten a DD and that tower surely would have fallen.
But...
I mean, they're seeing if they can catch like something behind the tower.
Laurel's game is rough though.
If you think the last game was bad, this game is...
It's actually rough for you to say.
It's so much worse.
Okay.
Because they have actual killthroat on this game.
And they might find him here.
It's gonna get rough, Quinn.
Yeah.
He is over a thousand gold from the Midas and his mid tower is dead.
That's rough.
But as we did see in the last game, he did make the comeback.
He did.
You know, so maybe this is just sort of part of the process for Lars and Voker.
You know, he just gets completely stomped on in the mid lane and then just focus
on the recovery.
He did it first game.
See if he can do it this game.
As you say though, this time round, it's certainly going to be a bit of a trickier
journey towards that recovery considering how much more the side lanes are going in Paravision's
favor as well this time. 3k lead here already just seven minutes in. Yeah this feels good
like it's going to need to be more of a team recovery than just the Laurel recovery. He's
having a rough game, Centaur's having a rough game, supports are low level and 4,
got some problems for Spirit and the Chen is coming up to top, open up that last,
Last, say last, one of the top tier one.
Oh, so Panto can get away from no one.
He's gonna try and hide in the trees,
but they saw him, they know he's in there.
So it's just gonna be another kill,
an easy time and space for them
to push onto the top lane as well here.
And this late timber pick is very powerful.
Spear supports quite bad against it.
Centaur terrible against it.
And it feels as though not only
supports the spirit weak against the timber in particular it feels like on
these supports can you do much to sort of stop the pressure and the push when
it's coming for you down these lanes not really bottom try for safe attic
then we'll have to stop the strike we got him first one just collapsed it's
actually really big that he has to be from that so that's only just getting
away with that even so still having a death afterwards but as you say getting
the XP but it's sort of these moves these trades that to only just get away
with them a spirit it's just not good enough they need more out of these moves
to slow down paravision because even with that situation where they're killing
the carry the Goldleys just continue to grow for paravision yeah 4k at 8 minutes
is not that is not something you see very often not look at no one's net worth
man this guy's not knowing he's someone yeah he really is today both of
You know the choice things started to fall apart down the lines later in the game
Maybe some decisions that didn't quite work out for him, but early game game one and now coming into this game, too
He's just a step ahead
He definitely is
This poker get a ton of impact last game in that may game, but can he get there?
Yeah, you know, it's that gonna have to be the plan from spirit. They sort of saying well boys
Let's try make this one last 60 minutes again
It's definitely going to last a while, I don't know if anybody's ever shooting for 60 minutes to that for eternal envy, but yeah, it's going to need to be a little bit.
Centaur farming it up, Voker farming it up, Jarcopter can join some of these early fights, but where is he ganking? He can only respond to things, because here they've got no real potential to make any aggressive plays.
They're just too far down on networks, so it's all farm and make turnaround plays for the foreseeable future.
And they're just like tanky right on PowerVision's lineup.
You have sort of, it's already the three of them in the middle there, the DK, the Timber.
Even if they're support tiny, pretty beefy, and then you have a...
A Kess, you can turn up, put the parry, turn plays around,
and this Chen is likely going to get a lot of farm on line as we see these Chen's do.
Get these early Auras.
I mean, even if you do turn up as a Gyro, drop your combo, come with the Flak Cannon,
it's probably not going to scare PowerVision too much.
It's a lot of beef and
Spirit heroes they do not do very much damage from behind bounty hunter
Especially a hero that thrives when ahead when he's getting that vessel when he's getting to hunt you down
But this game he's so poor he's from never gonna buy the vessel. It's too far away
So DK having that armlet. It's kind of a free time. That's a hard game for spirit
But so to a point was the first game as certain periods of the match and they dealt with them
You remember this? Oh, it's gonna be a whole lot harder as the kills continue to roll in. Prepare a vision, no one now dominating 10 minutes, then?
Big stuff. They have blocked the ancients though, the carriers are reducing their economy a little bit.
And it's been holding steady at 4k for the past couple minutes. We're not getting any worse through Spirit as is.
Collapsed here.
So Tana's going to keep going for him.
Backup's coming in though for Collapsed.
This isn't going to be a job that Stathana can clean up on his own.
Maybe with nine class coming in from the side though,
and especially with no one turning up,
they're going to be able to get the catch on Panto.
Collapsed will be able to run,
but Panto's dead,
and now Paravision in position to take that third,
final tier one tower here,
and still nice and early, 11 minutes in.
And indeed that's that fast timing there from no one.
on the mid DK, 11 minutes.
He is large and in charge, and 9 classes Tiny, this is the hero that has the biggest weaknesses
in early games, laning, very weak, and if you have a hard time getting through the lane
then you can have issues actually contributing to the game, but getting given all these
kills early and all this XP Tiny is an incredibly powerful hero in the mid game, if you
getting dead to that point and he is off to a great start, gets to go for the phase boots.
These nukes and these gurmishes just feel like any hero that no one in 9 class are near,
they're not long through this world.
No, and definitely one of the reasons why it feels that the Spirit, I mean at least
what for the next 10 minutes, they have to just completely avoid any sort of fight.
It's just going to be so hard for them to turn around any sort of play that Paraphysium
run at them with. Yeah they're gonna need to bait some serious overextension. One thing
about aggressive moves is it's somewhat difficult to get five numbers on like deep in an enemy
part of the map until much later in the game because the waves give too much gold and you're
not rich enough to be able to stack the economy and just abuse your strength purely. And so
Spirit R Planks, Blood and Paravision Planks fit as well. It's not that easy for them to
to actually punish them.
And, Paribasian also has a tendency
to play a little bit slower,
even whenever they have these good early starts.
And they're doing it here,
and it doesn't seem like it's paid off so far.
The Spirit, they're actually lessening
the gold cap a little bit.
You can see Laurel, he's starting to catch up.
He's got the Midas online that reduced cooldown.
Dias Middle Tower is under attack.
It could be worse for Spirit.
I mean, as we say, you know,
Last game, Lull did have a really tough time in mid, but as the minutes passed, he was able to kind of overtake, I can't remember which sort of portion of the game it was where he did catch up with no one, but maybe like about 30 or so minutes in, he was back on level with the quad.
And might be able to just do the same and do this game against the DK if this game continues to slow down.
I see the Parisians are de-wording their ancients now, so...
Getting that camp up and running again, but damage has already been done somewhat as...
Spirit getting... just getting a little bit more out of the map.
Parisians just... not opting to keep the aggression up.
Feeling like... it's too risky, or... not worth it.
That's the death fed done.
14 minutes in.
Super solid timing here for...Satanic.
With that, and with the blink dagger on no one,
you can definitely expect to see the smoke starting to come out from Power of Vision.
No one, just a couple of creeps away from having that blink dagger.
Yeah, well that's only the huge timing.
We've seen what this bird can do with a few items.
Bob's actually pushing pretty far here.
He's coming back up behind him, maybe see if they can bait something, but as I said,
the Paravision will pass up on a chance to fight if Spirit do push for this.
Yeah, actually, I don't know if you mis-click that dust or what.
Ah, sometimes you know smoke dust, all of this, man.
Practically the same item.
Yep.
It's like throwing a glitter bomb.
They're coming for Yatoro.
May find him.
This is a pretty smart read, especially after they were aware that Spirit would be looking to set something up down the bottom.
It means that Yatoro is easily on his own.
Step ahead there with that play, Power and Vision.
Spirit, they're smoking up, but without their gyro, it feels like they have no chance of making them,
unless they do catch someone completely separated and no one is a little bit far away.
It's gonna blink sort of past the angle, but they might have been able to get the entrance.
They're gonna try here with the ATOS setup. They'll drop down the Serpent Ward.
It's not enough damage to kill him though.
Not even close really. Hathel just couldn't get in range.
He's dead now.
He is. So again, these moves from Spira are just getting outplayed.
Here by power of vision. Each and every time. And Ruz also gonna die. No one.
Dust pick up.
Have to get on the cores, a lot of people skip it.
Yeah, that's a pretty high skill play.
Does not happen around my anima, I can tell you that.
That's a support item, but no, not here.
At the top, cores with the dust, easy kill.
Easy kill indeed, 300 gold in his pocket.
Never going to be too sad about that.
Just onwards and upwards towards the BKB.
And do follows.
In the meantime, while his cores are making those moves,
he takes up his base bottom, he farms up that mech.
Working on the Greaves, level nine on this can.
two levels above his Panto counterpart. Having a great game in 9 class also level 9. It supports
one of the big differences between the strengths of these teams right now.
Spirit, still as you say, making enough out of the map to ensure that the gold difference
doesn't grow. Obviously having your Toro still managing to stay up there at the
level of the farm of the other three big cores on Paravision's side, but the
gang squad they're right again and they do need to be in a Paravision with this
lead they want to make sure they can get back to growing it they do not want
to give chance for you Torridor sit back and farm no one in the trees we'll see
if he finds Ru's gonna be caught of course no one at the same time he was
trying to see if they could get a little deeper find the core as it is
this time spare able to get everyone else out only losing the bouncy to that sweep
Not the worst and the meantime they do finish the crimson am I still actually find your Torah
Yeah, comes in over the was no when he's got the dragon tail the back of coming in
It was able to tell the court and they've got the lockdown as well up towards the timber
That's gonna be DM dead at the start of the fight and he's pretty with the numbers
They might get a try and find more so he tank tries to fight back with the stampy comes in
Pat's how they're gonna get taken out by a tree from nine class.
Will still end up dying.
They'll certainly take that. They keep Yatora alive.
They're able to hold the defense around this tier two,
and they get a big kill themselves, taking down DM.
That is a big turnaround.
Yatora with that almost at the top net worth,
and Laurel, he was down almost 3k gold earlier.
Now, shorting it to two, he's closing in.
He's doing it again.
It really just goes to show that, you know,
When he's playing this Invoker with the Midas, it doesn't really matter what goes down in the mid-match up.
He will recover!
That's how it looks like.
You're gonna try to take the Rouge, but it looks like they might be interested in contesting this.
I think they will be.
Especially if you get Yatora over to join them. He's making his way across the map, Yatora.
He needs his damage.
See who's gonna make the call for where to start things. No stampede at the moment.
Paravis is starting to get a little bit scared.
I get a nice B Ward.
Gatoro, some really good decision making with him.
Runs over, scares Paravision off and immediately back off the farming.
Not wasting any time, but also sort of halting Paravision's movements.
These micro decisions.
See the gold lead continuing to get brought down as spirit.
Holding on and even taking some ground back.
No, they are absolutely stabilizing the game.
A paravision for all the start that they got to this one. They've definitely...
got to find some sort of way to get the action going their way again. This slowdown...
is not going to be feeling too great from their side of things.
They're thinking about the roaches themselves, but deciding not to. They do have the big snake.
Oh, spirit kind of clumping up a little bit.
This Rosh has been very weird. I suppose they're playing for the Tormenter, so just posturing, holding that area, and it looks like...
...the Spirit is not really quick. The Spirit's just gonna get it for free.
I mean, if you know the Spirit's backing off of the Tormenter, can you just go into the Roshan and take that for the trade?
It's gonna swap right now, is the problem.
Yeah, that's true. You're not gonna have that.
Same window to start it.
It does indeed likely mean that Spirit could take this, and it will have time to set up down bottom if they do want to then move over to continue to...
threaten the brochure and not allow parafusion to enter into the pit
Get the great shard and shadow shaman is a huge one
Almost the eggs on Laurel so the team fight it's ramping up almost has the max X or yeah
It's really just getting almost back to even on the gold that early game bit of a burst the parafusion had
So let's have a look to what they did get at the beginning of the first game
Spirit of managed to ensure that not too much
Could be done with that outside is kind of taking these three to one towers. They're losing the support here and there
But the cause are not too bad of a spot. They're kind of catching up their counterparts
See Sinketar was gonna get the wisdom rune
They get close of them. So nice little boost for Panto is having a rough time in the XP department
They need him all the way up to level 10
The blast is closing in on that blink so the spear will actually have the potential to
make an aggressive move of their own.
They'll have that catch, have that easy jump, that's all the collapse can do last game
with the blink dagger.
That was super impressive on his plays in those last few fights.
Paravision, now I'm going to head up into the Triangulario Spirit.
9 class going very deep. I'm surprised they didn't get caught there.
I mean they're sort of pushing them back here as they try and start the rush out at the same time, Paravision.
It's not going to be a super quick rush though.
Oh, it's pretty slow, and Spirit knows about it.
I'd say Tonic obviously will speed it up a fair bit with the Death Star.
It's definitely not a free fight though.
Executionary is very important.
Is 9 class going to get a toss back?
Both teams are coming out with the smoke.
Oh boy, Yatoro.
He wanted to get this haste for him, but 9th class,
he's able to stop him from getting the pick up on it,
and Yatoro will get stampeded out of this.
Is he going to be enough to save him?
It looks like it will.
As Yatoro able to get out there next to the stampede,
the rest of the spirits ready to swing across.
They'll get caught there by a four man avalanche
coming out from 9th class.
No one, he's in with a BKB, looking to take down Lala,
bring down the Invoker, turns towards collapse,
but collapse with the Crimson Guard up.
Will be too tanky for him to take down.
Ends up being the one for one trade though, with all things considered with the way that started with Paravigin getting the jump on Yatoro.
Not too bad for Spirit. Sure, they lose their Invoker, but they're killed off Satanic on the cast.
They'll take that all day every day.
Yep.
Yatoro getting started on, but clutched amped, and a clutched jump onto Satanic in the meantime, realizing Yatoro's gonna get away, finding that little window and see the opportunity to clip the bird's wings.
They really did that.
They're so close to killing Yotaro, but the power of the Stampede proved to be a little
too much that time round.
It couldn't keep him controlled despite the amount of stones they had.
It was not enough to threaten the gyra.
Ches wasn't quite there.
They had a DK and a Tiny, but despite their early prowess, these heroes in this sort
of nibbling phase of the game. The DPS is not quite what it used to be, but the Crimson
Guard online and items coming up from your Toro, not the easiest to bring down. This
is closing into DTV now too. So we'll have those added tools to just full commit to these
fights and dish out his DPS.
You know, if your power vision in this sort of situation, you've got to be feeling this
pressure.
Like, what sort of calls are being made?
You surely can't help but feel if you're in this position, that you kind of know how
the story went last time round.
In this sort of elimination spot, you're going to be terrified about it happening
again here in game two.
It does feel like their gameplay is just a little bit passive when maybe it didn't
need to be, they had so many windows early, they chose to farm instead and see if they
actually get this Roshan off, they tried multiple times and Spirit stopped it again.
I think Spirit was finally going to give it a pretty good try here, the smoke's coming
out from Spirit, he need purge, it's getting a bit awkward now for Paravision, how do
they want to continue with this play?
Spirit, ready to enter from the side collapse, he's in with the jump, gets to set up
here with a Huston, now put the stampede, look again in position with the BKBs are
They're gonna try and finish the roast, they won't manage to do so, no one.
Finish it's a roast, gets the pick up on the ages, Paravigene can they get out of this?
See Tanya, he actually wants to get back in, make a puff towards Yatoro,
comes in with a raptor dance, cuts apart the gyro, Yatoro at that time round,
trying to sort of frontline the fight, it does not work out for him,
Paravigene say, sure, we'll happily turn and kill you,
and there's nothing that anyone else can do to save him.
That was super uncharacteristic from Yatoro, just charging up into the middle of 5 heroes
as his BKB gets worn off and no one says yo, kill this guy, they've got him in the head
and he just dies.
We'll see again, I mean this was a good call from Paravision and a necessary call, despite
the fact they know this sort of setup's coming in, GLaPx makes this jump, they pop the BKBs,
you see very quickly from no one, he's like we have to finish this Rose Shot, get the
objective and get out and as you said at this point, your Turds BKB coming to
an end, Static and no one are like hang on, what are we doing running, we've got
the high ground we can turn and kill the carry back in action
Aegis won't last long, no one will end up losing it here's the meatball
on the top lane. It's supposed to be a trend for paravision they get
aegis and then no one dies right after. Well at the least because the Aegis has been lost
this time we don't have that like lovely kind of timer recording the
power play so if the next five minutes go really bad for paravision we
won't at least see it on the UI. That's true. With the Aegis being
immediately lost. Love to see that they fought for it for 15 minutes and now
gone to the blink of an eye. Unlucky. Laurel he's not quite on the exact same
level as no one but he is quite farmed, very happy with his status, had the
glight near soon, and getting back up to that scary invoker level his mid
game late game fight can be an absolute menace in the hands of a
Clare it like Laurel.
A power vision.
Even though the Aegis no longer in their hands, they still...
are going to be feeling like they've got to get the job done.
Time to sit back for the tier two, looking for Laurel, but Stampede working wonders this game
to bail out Cora after Cora.
Gradient's middle tower, center tower.
Now, all the way back to even from 4K up at 8 minutes to up 0 at 27,
Spirit have clawed their way back and we've got ourselves an even ball game again.
Dio's top tower, center tower.
Which, as records have gone to show with the previous series and matches the path you now have,
it doesn't tend to sort of fare too favorably for them.
Well, did you find your tower? But your tower's got a lot of backup there.
I'm so ready to help out. No one's going to be forced to put the BKB,
it's going to be Seth Beatura who'll put the BKB in run,
and if I just go for the TP out with the remainder of it,
Stone will catch up towards the Shaman, so Pantheon will not be as lucky.
But again, I know for these situations we're probably going to do it to bring it quite a bit,
and the only kind of getting a support here all that, they're struggling to get these cores.
Yeah, in the meantime, collapse, Laurel they're farming those side lanes,
we're committing to this just sort of a small play attempt from Yatoro. Yep and the stops but
it doesn't go to plan but that's okay. Lanes are in a fine state.
Revision is trying to get some ground back but
his AC pick up from no one is huge. Jarocopter will definitely have some damage problems
for a while now as he has not gotten to sort of that big oomph packing a punch. Jarocopter
through his games sometimes, with the AC, the Chen Auras, and a lot of tanky heroes on
ParaVision, will Yutaro actually have the damage to tear through these heroes?
And so therefore, how much pressure is on ParaVision to really try and push up at this
AC timing?
Like do you want to see them try to sort of approach the base before this kind of
wait for the next round?
You know, how do you sort of move forward from this spot in a game where you've
Just not being able to push that advantage against Spirit.
I think it's a bit tough to go for the high ground.
Just forcing it straight up without an Aegis, but...
Looking for these pickups.
Rurik has got his eyes on them.
5-9 class, fighting in the trees!
He's gonna die, it'll be crap catapults, it's a crazy spell sometimes.
It's interesting to me that Laurel is buying the shard.
I don't feel like the shard is that good.
Spawn's forward Spirit's under his Sunstress to hit.
Does that really do that much?
Tell me he thinks so.
Well, back to the push last game.
Oh, wow. Good.
Oh, holy crap!
That was close!
And that's the AC work.
Almost solo kills a 2.4k HP hero
in one stun.
He would have died if he went for the stampede.
Would he have died if he was on strike treads?
No.
I think edge of treads is higher DPS.
point was only earlier really how the mass works out I think when you've got
this high tax people they see do the mass point I do them yeah yeah yeah I don't
know what does it get does that you always remain high on DBS because the
attack well no not always probably but I don't know what the cutoff point is
that's gonna require some some quite a bit of testing I don't have my
laboratory on hand right now
that's better
they'll be able to get themselves to a level
sharp for collapse
and that's why is there the full Daedalus coming out for your Tori isn't it?
oh okay just 1000 gold, 1000 gold away from the demon edge and they'll have the Daedalus on the gyro
smoke time for paravision
they really want to try and fly stuff they're not the bouncy
and they won't even get that this time maybe Rui was quick with a blink
okay they'll still catch him if they have a launch
9 plus is pretty far from the rest of the teams, so they might still not get them, so yeah, I think this time
They don't even get the bounce, oh, off these smoke plays
It's got to feel a bit frustrating if you're Power of Vision, right?
I think so.
They just are gonna be feeling like they they're not getting away with anything.
No, I think they can feel it slipping a little bit.
Satanic, we're for that deso build, not the battle theory we've seen from some of the other players.
And it's now worth it starting to suffer a little bit below all three courses bearing.
Here's the job. They're ready to go aggressive with the stampede
They're gonna be out of catch up the two supports that's nine class and to call is dead the force spirits
He's happy little family. Oh
Just wanted some friends. It's pretty. I mean how long they last they last the same as the regular force
But it's roses. Oh, that's 45 looks like
Where the hack is duration swing far on numbers
48 looks like yes, yeah, I just want to remember it's different when you know
Shard bomb is exactly the same as a full forge spirit. That's nice. Yeah easy farm easy lane push
easy clap
Laura we're gonna buy a cheeky little plate mail. He needs that armor seeing almost how close he was to dying just to know on
claps has this axe
Coming up with the two page
I won't lie, it feels like this game is flying more and more into Spirit's control.
I mean it really, I feel like it's felt that way for like like at least the last 10 minutes
or maybe more.
It's apparently got the, just lead in the kills, they did have this like gold lead,
but things are slowing down.
Top 3 cores on the net worth now all over the side of Spirit's and it's, it's
It's still hard to not look at this gyro and think anything other than your turret is going to have this one in the bag.
Like, you know, on this gyro in this sort of position, and these later and later teamfights of the game goes on,
this gyro is going to be an absolute menace for ParaVision.
Daedalus, and now the pipe completed, you'll have a Vakrity 2 on top of that, just bringing that damage out to everyone.
This is going to destroy ParaVision in these teamfights.
I mean, what do you sort of have to do in terms of a play?
Are you trying to jump this Jara?
I don't think you can burst him anymore.
Centaur's got aggs and almost a BKB, so BKB and put the Jara on the cart.
That's true, yeah.
Jara in the cart is...
He's going to spray and pray.
Yeah, that is a combo and a half.
It's not easy for Paraficion.
No.
Spirit are really, really making them work here in this series.
They couldn't do it in Game 1 and Game 2.
They're gonna sort of have to find some level of play that they couldn't in the first one if they want to try and push this to a game
three
because of everything that we've seen is to go by
Every reason I believe the spirit are going to be able to continue to
Just force paravision into these positions where paravision can't really make much happen
Panic
He's honestly been pretty quiet this game after some kills early a good laning phase
I feel like I haven't even seen all my screen for the last
15 minutes maybe, that's here we go. They're gonna try now with the 5 man smokes.
It really feels like this has to go well for ParaVision otherwise they're gonna
really start to crumble. They're gonna try and make the jump on a ward.
There's the car collapse, they're gonna pick him up. Satanic's trying to get over
the backbinds but he can't help but Satanic's getting out destroyed by the
damage output of this gyro. They're having to try TP out. No one will get out just in times.
so to be said if a TM to Carlos those gonna get caught by the track the laps and with the news stop
three dead on para vision
They just can't make anything work out for them here Quinn every single time
They're going for these moves going for that these plays last time around at least they sort of got a support kill this time
They're getting nothing they lose in the team fight. They lose in their carry and spirit. I'm just making it look kind of easy again
They had the amazing early game and I think they just played too slow.
They pumped the brakes, they said we have to leave, we're going to take that lead and
we're going to farm with it and spirit.
I played them outfarm them and now up 11k gold.
That's not a thin air it feels.
This roach fight goes in the way of spirit.
Could strike disaster in the Paravision camp.
Paravision, even with these sort of teamfight losses, it almost feels like they have to just
keep throwing themselves at spirit in the hope that it somehow ends up a little bit
differently.
And the sitting back and trying to hit the creeps at this point is just not going
to do them any wonders they just got to continue to take these risks but once we've seen so far
the risks have never been paying off
okay there's no the roses alive
fiddling around that area
they're gonna need to really talk about this quite carefully
we're gonna try for the jump
Look at the toss back onto Yatora, but you're thrown out of what the BKB, Static's in on top of him, but again, collapse, comes in with a car, he's having a bail jar around in this one, and as you just take him straight back over towards Static, as Static will fall, no one caught and surrounded in the river, as BKB's going to be soon coming to an end.
You'll get off one final Dragon Tail on to watch Yatora, but Yatora doesn't mind.
He can turn, help clean up the fight once again, Spirit losing nobody and getting everything.
Nine class, a die back from him.
This just builds the power vision.
They're getting so desperate right now for anything and they're just getting nothing,
Quinn.
They tried this jumping Jaraplay before, it didn't work.
They tried it again.
It doesn't work again.
This cart from collapse, always there just the right time.
Just a counter play. This looks so unfair. He just isn't invincible as he just runs down this
there.
I mean, yes, he takes like, hey, where's my ride? You know, there's nothing to help him.
Meanwhile, this gyro getting picked up, dribbled around, and so a five-star style there from collapse.
A Bugatti versus Corolla.
Yeah.
Satanic. He's got a flat tire and his rear-view mirror's broken.
as a rough one here for power vision and just to sort of have the game go down in a similar manner to that of game one
Where they had all these fantastic moments early on but they quickly get forgotten as the game goes on and spirit
Just take full control once again
He got the heck in both of two on jargon up over to him. He's got both of two
He's got that extra damage with Butterfly completed now, so Tannock he's not even close to MKPE.
This Aegis timing, I think Spear want to end the game with this.
Yeah they're ready to move on to the Grand Finals here, Spear.
And they're one fight away from getting that ticket to it.
Paravision, can they somehow pull off something here a little bit different?
They try again to take him down even though once, but Coloss in with the car ready
to take him and even deeper into the teamfight as GLaD picks up the double, they will lose
the Aegis on the gyro, but Cap Paravis, instead of any way to punish him a second time, they
can't. Yotara's got the BKB, turns towards Static, that's Static out of the fight for
good, no buyback available on him. Yotara turns towards no one, no one also to fall,
double kill for LaL. As Paravis is going to get held up towards the fountain, DM
caught by the Coltsnap, the Hex from Panso, he'll scramble his way back to the
to the safety of the fountain but it's just down again just to the two of them
spirit they've got everybody alive they're onto the tier fours there's no
buyback on satanic no buyback on no one spirit close in this game two up if they
want to see if they respect the fact that nine glasses back in play they
don't need to though they can stick around onto the ancient it's hard
ready. Paravision can they make any sort of final play here? They're gonna try to get him with a jump
over the walls, rip up the back up, comes up a collapse, he's in with a houstop, on towards the
end. DM's out, he'll buy back immediately. But Spirit, delicate to end the game, fortification
comes out, doesn't matter, GK is called. Spirit will take the series 2-0 and are moving on to
the grand finals. Spirit had Paravision's number in this series, they lost the early games
so hard, it was kind of ridiculous and they just held on, pulling a line, knowing exactly the
items they need to farm for and slowly bit by bit pulling the game back, what a team,
what a deserved win. Absolutely and as I said to you earlier, I feel that's one of those games
where Flo wanted, he could have dropped an easy mid, you know both times, he has a rough time
against no one in the mid matchup, but then he comes back to dominate the late game
as this Invoker ends the game 9-2 and 15.
Two very impressive performances and just goes to show
I think this is going to have to be something that's maybe thought about in the Grand Finals
of Yandex when they go against Spirit.
When this laning Invoker comes into play, it doesn't matter if she picks something to kind of beat it in the lane.
Lull, he's always going to come back and get the last laugh, it seems.
Yeah, you're going to need to beat him in the game as well, find some mid-game answers
or just ban it out if you think it's too strong.
Yandex, they've got their work cut out for them, it's a rematch.
Yeah, this this and for Paravision to sort of go out on a loss like this
It's definitely going to feel a bit sore right because they have had some great moments in this tournament and
And in this series in particular right game one game to the start of it
It looked like Paravision should have been able to hold up a bit of a better fight against spirit today
But they just go to know they had great chances
good ideas in the draft especially in this game too, but
but it's not enough against the Titans.
No, absolutely not.
Team Spirit, ladies and gentlemen, moving on to the Grand Finals
as they knock Paravision out, 2-0.
A tale as old as time.
Spirit in Grand Finals, who would have thunk it?
Well, Paravision were thinking otherwise,
at least they were hoping otherwise.
Game number one, they had a heavy advantage
and then it slipped out of their grasp post-ages.
And yet again, I feel like this age has been a kiss of death
for party vision or it's just spirit always knows that i am not afraid if you're dragon knight has
an aegis i'm going to go headfirst into this java cutter does it die in the end but still it's been
you get again you never securely have an advantage yeah but they kill him like almost
immediately after they take that aegis it's also in transformation heroes i'm not the biggest
value they've been insane like these card saves from collabs have been amazing like every single
Watch it. He puts him in the cataclysm. It's a lot of damage on the ground.
They have good amount of control and then you have this cart and he's riding it to the battle every single time on top of kids
Who's trying to run away, but he just keeps dying to gyrocopter attacking it.
Yeah, I'm really impressed with third like when it comes to the gameplay absolutely like what they did the card that LaCoste mentioned like
Just overall how they play around the map and the team fighting whenever you go for something they will delay it
They never give you anything for three
There's always like a couple heroes say they let you for 10 seconds 15 seconds
But I will say that party they had a lot of openings they had a super big lead in the early game
Then they just both games. Yeah, I feel like they didn't just kind of slowed down
It's like as if they stopped playing and there is a quite big offline diff in this game
I did not like the inside and build in this game. You have no auras nothing against a gyros Zonjin Kaia PKB, right?
Yeah, it's like it yourself. It's not the one in this game
Yeah, even this meta honestly
I do not see offlaner's favoring that kind of item build regardless of what the opponent has or as I've proven to be
Consistently valuable really regardless of lineups. Yeah, and it's like it's bird
Like you can't give them these openings whether it's gameplay itemization team fighting like you make this happen
They will take the opening and then doesn't matter. They'll just come back and beat
I think openings is like a very good word to describe the series
I don't mean to twist the knife more, but you can see the
disadvantage of trying to fight Roshan when it is on the radiant side. Really the dire
side. The bottom Roshan. The bottom Roshan. It's the radiant Roshan, but it's on the dire
side. They have that advantage. Like sure, Yatoro does go down, but it's like you guys
are saying everything comes at a cost when you're playing against Spirit. So they are
able to get no one low. They are able to make Paravision expend resources in that
fight and then they're able to take the Aegis directly after because of the
consequences of this. And then the next Roshan, I was worried, I'm thinking back
to the Estini video and I'm like, it's Roshan's gonna spawn there again because
they killed it there at seven minutes. It didn't, the Spirit ended up pretty much
winning the game by that point, but it's like that's another
advantage that they would then have in a future fight where now every, and
maybe that's the thing, maybe they actually did have that advantage there
because good teams will prepare to fight around where Roche is likely to respawn,
which was going to be that area, which is Spirit's area.
And it's like, this is not a team that you want to give any opening like that to,
because they're so good at taking it, even from behind.
I've been very impressed with the comeback from Team Spirit in both of these games, actually.
First game, it looked very paravision-favored in the first, like, 15-ish, 20 minutes.
And this one as well, as you said, they kind of stopped playing.
I was maybe expecting one aura item, group up with Shen, because early game rotations, par
vision, they did one hell of a job, bringing Shen, bringing this Tiny to the mid lane,
completely dumps her in Voker, taking his tower early on.
You have Dragonite with Arlette, and then Voker has Hand of Midas, and if they can't
group up and continue this pressure, but they couldn't.
You could see that every single time they make a move on the map, team spirit, they're
getting something out of it.
Maybe getting a pick-off, maybe getting extra bit of a gold, extra bit of a stacks
for Yattaro who was like also very active like he was joining in some of these fights
knowing that your Shadow Shaman who's underleveled your Bat Hunter was level
three almost ten minutes into the game like somebody needs to be able to do
something having extra bit of a global presence from that stance right
definitely did help to set things up yeah cuz like when you play these games
you cannot give you can never give the opponent something that they don't
deserve and Spirit in the mid game they didn't deserve that space they
didn't deserve to kill the ages within like what one minute or two
Yeah, that happening. Yeah, these are things that cannot happen and I have once like once more clip
They kill like two supports at some point in the mid game with just like a very easy
Blink cataclysm if we could roll the clip because I want to show like what is awesome
So the game is still quite even you're only up 1000 gold
But it's tough like this that if you look at the map right now
You just need to imagine like what happens if you're like the next couple minutes now when these guys die
You lose a lot of chain crates. You lose your two supports your entire map is just gonna bleed
Suddenly go from a 1k lead. It's gonna by the time that they respawn. It's like a 5k lead spirit have full map control
They're gonna push in all the way
So gonna de-word all the jungles they're getting ready for the next rose and it's like some of these small things
That's like these are just two support kills, but people underestimate how much this actually does if you like to do whatever
It's a lot of them up. It's crazy. By the way, I love for Ruru's item build this game
You want drums blink dagger because that is actually in in his eyes. It's like they're looking for good opportunities
It's not so much about like when they get into the fights. Can he do more? It's like, okay
No, no, we're gonna need like a really good fight
So I need something that's gonna give me the positioning so that I can you know get in bait something blink out
Like he has to basically play like a maniac in in these in this game in order to set things up in the blink tag
Or like let's him do that. Yeah, you're right
They actually use it like when you stampede your opponent and you blink on someone you deal damage that they can't blink out anymore
Yeah, I just realized
Cool bill very cool bill what have been consistently encouraged by regardless of the roster's team spirit is that there's something so embedded in
This team's DNA that whenever they lost Toronto Tokyo for Laurel
I was like, okay, maybe now they won't be as clutch still was whenever they lost
Rue of Mira for Rue. I was like, okay, maybe now the variables have changed too much still clutch
It's even the potion for Panto
So, still watch.
It's a still same idea.
Like, I think it's not going to stay easy to play for Team Spirit,
but they create this environment which makes it very easy for you to fit in.
Because all the ideas, how to play the game, are like,
this is a team that is a mix of the old school,
with some like new blood, new ideas as well.
They're very good at bringing some old school ideas back into the mix as well.
But then, that was why I thought Maposhka being the last of the old school,
because now who's the oldest school player on this roster?
It's Yatoro and collapse baby.
That's so weird to think.
I know.
They all started in, you give me 20 boys, now the old school.
You can maybe like, Silent I guess has a lot to do.
He's like super OG as like the coach.
I guess he helps, but it helps like collapse.
Yatoro are like what, two of some of the most clutch players you have and like all of Dota.
I'm sure they make a lot of good calls for the team.
I think Silent is 100% a lot of the ideas.
Like the reason that you see these, these like, you know, dangles where it's like,
okay, go ahead, pick the cuddle.
Yeah, go ahead, pick the cuddle.
See what happens.
That's that's silent like I know that's the type of type of guy that he is and I think that
Opens a lot of things up in the gameplay for the players that they can just like focus on
Playing the game because they know they're always gonna basically get a good draft
I think it's pretty similar to how teams function under Joe eight spanner where he is the one who's dictating
kind of everything but
No matter who's playing for the team because the roster did change a lot
He did the change many teams
But the idea is still the same even though we're seeing some like slight changes recently how fast they're trying to play how fast
They're trying to play so far at the dream league but yep spirit a team that is super good at adapting to any kind of situation
And they're gonna be facing against the index next then this is a they want revenge because they got stomped yesterday
Yeah, I have to imagine that's not just engineering something quite
Revised compared to their upper bracket final although that does mean that we have to close the book on a party vision
And I am curious to see if this was a encouraging enough coaching stint for Puppy, if he got
the bug and he's like, yo, this is actually pretty fun.
Maybe I won't miss playing as much as I thought, or if he just saw them playing, was like,
god damn it, I could be so much better than this.
I think he's happy.
He's had a couple of like, it's always been like going downhill for him.
And I heard it like in their videos as well.
Obviously they speak very highly of him, the guy is a legend.
And I'm pretty sure a lot of the things he said they did end up doing.
So, it's a pretty good performance though, for sure.
I think Puppy is still not done, like he still has insane amount of things to offer, whether
he's going to be playing or coaching, but chasing that high from Dota, I think this
might be his next big thing because it definitely feels like he's fitting in nicely, even though
they lost, I think the result that they got is still pretty pretty good.
I agree, I feel like the respect that he gets from the players probably helps a lot.
But that probably feels pretty good to join a roster, especially a roster like ParaVision
that has won so many tournaments, that is such a strong group of players, and they're
all looking up to you, they're all listening to your ideas.
It feels like something that he can mold to become a truly, I was going to say S tier,
but they are S tier, triple plus S tier team.
By the time TI-
Double S tier plus.
EWC rolls around.
Who knows what can happen?
Sure.
Also, you can tell on the camera, when you just do something new and you can see when they're sitting together,
he starts talking to everyone, it's like, okay boss, I'm listening to you like this, what should I play?
You can just tell they're all really into it, they're all really motivated, it just feels good.
No one even spoke on his interview that he also found, I think every single player said this,
but Puppy is a very amusing, very humorous.
Yeah, this guy is a huge clown. He's a troll.
troll. He is a troll.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of their picks are like, I'm strolling, I'm stroking, I'm
like, what? You picked the coddle. It's good, dude.
I'm not in close to doing what you to play, Tiny. What are you doing?
But overall, a third place result, nothing to be ashamed of, especially losing a spirit,
no shame in that, but it is a team that is always freaking championships. So hopefully
a party vision will come back stronger in the next tournament, but the book ends
there for this tournament.
Now, we have a grand final to prepare for, a rematch of our upper bracket final.
It was Yandex versus Spirit, but Spirit need a little bit of time to recharge as we prepare for that grand final.
So we've got a few things to entertain you with.
Stick around everyone and we'll have some Ponchampanda action coming up after the break.
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Oh, Santa's gone country
Stood up at Santa's cowboy hop
Swears up and down, he ain't going back
Bring the elves on down back
Turn to see clear the sand's gone country
Sand is gone country
When it's meant when you got sleep too
Sand is gone country
Hangin' back stands with the grand old out
Sand is gone country
Just like you and me
Now you may be wondering about Rudolph and all his reindeer games, well folks down here
in Nashville know that you can find them on Broadway.
Honky tonk and the night will wake up Santa's gone tellin' a dream
Santa's gone tellin' a dream
I got a snake teeth Santa's gone tellin' a dream
I'm back to stay just a little up Santa's gone tellin' a dream
Santa's got a crash on top Santa's gone tellin' a dream
It's like you and me
I'll be gone, say it's gone country
He's got the boots, he's got the hat, that was country
It's not so long but it's alright
When you hold me tight
By the fireside
Meet those slaters who ain't got a bomb on my famous name
Cause you know what they say
Do things come to those who win
We're all ready for Christmas
We're in the center of God
We've been waiting for so long
We're all ready for Christmas
Right down deep in the water
Don't let me sigh
We're all ready for Christmas
You better not get this way
I'm waiting for someone
Gonna get me started
I guess I'm in five and a half
Thank you so much to the Paw Champanas
Yes, we are back here at Dream League
Getting ready for our grand finals
I'm ready to give a little bit of time for these pro teams
Rest up get ready for that Grand Final slow. I thought I'd do another rendition of the PogChamp Pandas challenge here
Where we're gonna play a little game you guys at home can play as well of course
Everybody at home. We're gonna play some video game theme songs that the PogChamp Pandas have so expertly prepared
You guys at home got a guess and our panel will be guessing along as well. How you doing down there panel?
Let's ask how the cost of doing specific or cost you ready for ready for another quiz res
Yeah, I did excellent on the previous one. It is a bit of a help
Well, did you do excellent I?
Missed out on it. I'm here this time. Okay, let's do a quick quiz. Kassie. What's your what's your gaming background?
Mmm, I definitely dabbled with some consoles when I was younger. Okay, Nintendo 64 gamecube some PlayStation
Oh, I knew one or two from I knew a few last time like the assassin's Creed is one I knew nice
Okay, then slacks. I think we're ready when you are okay gamers now as you guys might not know the
Strongest person on the panel is Tsunami. The guy is what we like to call a gaming hipster
He does like to play every title and then talk about how bad it is
All right gentlemen now last time we played the easy version and you guys got very very right
I went back and we looked at twitch check
We're getting clicked. Twitch only got wrong Pac-Man, which is pretty boomer, so I don't blame you
But this is a advanced version. So hopefully you guys been practicing. Top check to hand us. You all ready?
All right, all right, let's go ahead and get our first video game theme
They all sound like Donkey Kong at the beginning. Yeah, don't get missed left
That is not you go wait is it actually might actually be that is not you come
That is Donkey Kong Country 1, the first level theme, which I can't remember what it's called.
But if I know this one, that also means that it's probably incorrect.
So let's try to think of something different.
Is it Jungle? Jungle something?
I don't know the specific game, but it's...
Yeah, I think it's Donkey Kong.
Jungle Shapes?
Jungle something? Jungle Jam? Jungle Japs?
It was Jungle Japs!
We're starting things off a little easier.
Of course, come on.
Double J.
It's no big deal.
Hopefully, you guys got that right.
But now, things get a little harder.
This is for true gamers only, and a bit of boomers potentially as well.
You guys ready?
Yeah, we're ready.
Let's go.
All right.
Let's hit it.
I'm hooked.
Mordred 3, Rain of Chaos.
Oh, no.
Fortnite.
No, I don't know this.
I don't.
I'm leaning Castlevania.
Okay.
That's a good guess.
It's familiar, but I have no idea.
I've definitely heard it.
I like your theory.
It sounds so familiar.
It does.
The melody was...
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
It's a good one.
The melody was very, very familiar.
Can we hear just the melody part?
Just the guitar part?
Hey.
["The Melody Part"]
Rayman.
Rayman Legends.
Whoo!
["The Melody Part"]
Hey, it's sad.
It's sad.
It's gotta be something sad.
It's so sad.
And he said boomers.
All right.
I'll give you a hint here. This is an old school game. It was for mostly PC, but sad things could happen.
However, it was up to you and what you decided to do to those people.
Org's Oregon Trail.
It's GTA again.
No, it's not GTA.
Was it black and white?
No, but what a reference.
That's a good one.
I have no idea.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was Roller Coaster Tyche.
God, I never heard of that.
Wow.
I'm serious.
It's such a golden game.
That was good.
Which one was it?
The first one?
I believe so, yes, yes.
Wow.
Unfortunately, you guys are stuck on Mr. Skeleton's
Wild Rides, Mr. Bowen's, if you will.
I want to get it off.
All right, let's do another one.
You guys ready?
Let's do it.
OK.
Woo!
It's a banger, I don't know what it is, but it's a banger.
Oh, very good.
Okay, so, I'm guessing, is that, was it something 8-bit, can you?
Yes, yeah, it is an old school one.
Maybe not 8-bit, but it was definitely an old school.
old school because it's only one instrument, right? Otherwise, it would be hard to replicate.
I like the spearing. Any ideas? I can't even give you a hint on this one. This one is the
hardest one. Oh, that's a good hint. Yeah. Can I hear it one more time? No, we got a
goal. We don't have a... I can't. I can't. Give it a hand. Kesha, you're doing worse
than I did. I'm not sure about that. Let's hear a hint. It's the hint. Flux.
i don't i mean this is ancient uh... this is the before a lot of even console
c dot is it like an old schools of old school i will say
the title has the word children in it
children
and it's not
but that doesn't help me
should they ever make a children of the corn video again
you guys are not gonna get this one i'm sorry all right i'm gonna cut your
time this is children of morda
i don't even know that you know
never heard of it
never i have not heard of this in ever came on you
Okay, there's a man. It was the prequel to children of manna. Oh
That's a good name. All right, let's move on the next one you guys should hopefully get this
Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero.
I've been completely out of my element on these. It sounds like it would be like a 90s sitcom
fame or something. My guttural instincts are leaning Mega Man. That's what I'm leaning.
You're definitely in the right time period. Okay. It sounds like Super Nintendo. Yeah.
Oof. Is it? Is it? What's the game that Ness is from?
Alright, you guys are not going to get this one. Chad, I hope you guys got it. We
We gotta move along, we're running out of time.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was the Sims!
Dario!
I'm so angry!
That was The Sims, my friend.
Oh, she's pissed, I like that.
All right, let's move along.
All right, you guys are definitely getting this one.
Hit it, boys.
You keep saying that.
Oh, she's got a move along.
We're running out of time.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was The Sims!
Dario!
I'm so angry!
I'm so angry!
That was The Sims, my friend.
Oh, she's pissed.
I like that.
All right.
Oh, shit.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, I do know this one actually.
No, we clutch it, let's go.
What is it?
Diddy Kong Racing?
Ah, yeah, that's good.
Very close.
It is actually Mario Kart Double Dash on that one.
Oh, you're right.
All right, boom, boom, boom along.
All right, half a bun.
Half a bun.
Everyone should know this song.
Hopefully, if you survived the last few years,
find out when the boys are ready they're gonna go and get this bad boy up. I thought Diddy Kong
as well, to be fair. Diddy Kong Racing goad and racing game. Especially because you, I know you
love Diddy Kong. I would have thought that. Underrated racing game actually. Yeah, I knew you liked Diddy.
I knew you liked Diddy. Great. Go. You can't say that. Move on, please. Move on. Go, Project
I got the second hander.
You can't say that.
I know it.
Got a part from it.
Kazoo knows it?
I got this as you know such it let them play
Animal Crossing
That's daytime, though, I don't know how many different times they are it is in his beautiful daytime song from animal crossing
Of course a lot of fun packed in for you guys for this break fell
That's all the time that we have for our game today. You guys had absolutely horrific job. Thank you
But yeah, thank you guys so much for playing we have a lot more action coming your way
But for now let's head down to Sonoma
Dan let's go to see Dan test we did so we were bad
Those are hard. I didn't work on I didn't play those games
It was three of us, right? And we did really good the first one and now we swap one of the members
Well, we're not missing maybe quick on the other ones pandas
Were there were there any other tracks that you guys got to practice that we did not get to show off?
Because I know it's the last day of dream league
Let's hear it, let's hear it.
Woo!
Welcome, Pumbas!
You would have liked to share with us, I'm all ears.
You can think about it.
Okay.
Which one do we have?
Woo!
Yeah, let's go one more.
One more!
Let's go!
Let's take another one in.
I can hear it. I can hear it on his guitar or something.
I've only heard that one on Smash Bros.
Does that give you a hand Lacoste?
Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros. 3.
No, no, no.
It's a character, or it's characters from Smash Bros.
I don't even know how many hands I can give you.
Yeah, I knew it was from Smash Bros. the character, let me see.
If I, if you heard it by hearing...
Wait, wait, wait, I don't think you...
I know who it is.
Okay.
So that was a great hit.
Yeah!
Yeah, that's the one.
It's close, it's close, yeah.
Actually...
It's here and the friends, then.
Here and the friends, that's right, perfect.
I was speaking in the middle class.
Here and the friends.
That's the one.
Good old link.
Oh, yes.
That's the link.
Yeah, that was the one.
You did a good imitation of that.
Yeah!
Oh, no.
Wait, it was not? What?
Final Fantasy?
It was here in the front?
Yes, okay.
Oh, it was actually Smash Brothers.
But it is...
No, no, no, they're right. It's the main menu from Melee.
Yes.
Okay, it was actually Smash Brothers.
I thought it was...
The problem with Smash Bros. is that there's all of these characters from other games.
I feel sick and all of their themes. So that's your game meal. I know dude. I feel such a deep shame
Who do you mean? Then I trusted him instantly to your name was in 64. It's Falcon and Melee
It's chic and Ganon. What those are my names in brawl. It was wolf and zero suit
I didn't play smash for because it was garbage. We're both men and then all right. It's a mute you and oh, that's cheap
Why is it mute? Yeah, you too. I forgot who my secondary was, but yeah, guess my main
Based on what you know about me from Dota. You seem like a Bowser Jr. type player.
Oh, I did play Bowser Jr. actually. Get my man in Streets Fighter.
Your man in Streets Fighter?
Real?
No. Ken.
No.
E-Honda?
E-Honda. E-Honda. Classic.
A hundred hand slap?
Yeah.
I still, we actually have not done our...
We need to do a tournament.
We do Trumlee, Bison and E-Honda.
While Dream League has been going on, we've been doing a behind the stage Streets Fighter 2 Turbo Edition tournament.
It's been thrilling between us three.
I mean you're playing like some idiotic character.
He's playing only special moves.
Like what is that?
It's like even if you block you like die, like you have to like literally dodge it every
time.
Jake good?
Okay.
So yeah, we're herald in Street Fighter.
We are literally herald.
He's like divine, maybe immortal.
On the other characters, you're smurfing.
You're smurfing.
I had ranked confidence 100% when I went in there.
They knew what they were getting themselves into.
We really didn't.
He I was told yeah because I got you did I got clapped and then I messaged kids that they need to play against each other
And then he got clapped
And now we have a delivery of sorts
My friends you're about here wonderful audience members and panel for our super job for DHL
These are the secret jobs that we've been doing throughout the tournament if you guys are at home
You can play right now if the answer comes trivia questions correctly
If you get them right a bot will choose our winner today for this super drop in the big big prize gentlemen
We're gonna be asking you some more trivial questions today, and you guys at home are playing so I will count down from 5 after every single question
Make sure you get you those answers in because we really for our big knowledge winners. You guys have been absolutely
Goaded at this. Hold those away from you. Let's toss the course. Oh my god. Don't cheat
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Okay, here we go. DHL Super Drop, my friends. Everything on the line.
Question number one for you, Kezu.
Which of the following steps can increase the cast range of Acorn Shot?
Is it A, your attack range?
B, your cast range?
C, both?
Or somehow, D, neither?
I used my Joker I put in LaCoste, because I'm locking in D from neither.
Okay.
You're do you want to help you're kidding. Can we help?
One
With the rider now you have to answer the cost gets the next one not play hookers
I do not play with me chat is needing your help on this one as they put in their answers right now
Kezu almost see we're gonna go for see both. Yeah, you sure about that. Yeah, you went from neither to both
Yeah, you got I mean obviously the devils account
And the correct answer is in fact both give her a license
What I would know if you sounded very unsure next question the cost this is a hard one what hero used to carry the ability
Trojan sigil
Is a crystal made in a winter wyvern B no open
Let's see if you believe the cost who do you still have Vichy gaming sigils
He's very confident.
Jazzy, do you agree you have five more seconds?
You still have that VG in it?
Lock that shit in.
If you were wrong, it'd be very funny, but unfortunately it is correct.
It is D-TUS! Congratulations if you follow the cost.
You are correct.
Alright, easy one for you, Mr. Jenkins.
Based on patch 4, 7.40, if Queen of Pain or were to sing Mariah Carey's original version of the song,
where to sing Mariah Carey's original version of All I Want for Christmas is You with a duration of
401 minutes, releasing a level 3 sonic wave at the beginning of the song and subsequently
whenever it's off cooldown for the duration of the whole song, how many times could she cast
sonic wave assuming that she had no items equipped and has taken no talents? Is it A?
I see this is the bit. That is the bit.
What is the question again? You can ask that. Is it B, 15 times? Is it C, four times with one
second to spare or is it D six times with 20 seconds to spare all I want for
Christmas is you that's 401 seconds long that is what slacks claims that is a
101 one minute and every including cast point in this of course and backswing
and back saying and she you can cancel our pain rune yeah okay no modify
401 seconds Queen of Pain ulti is what level of level is she does you have
Talon's offering we're gonna go at just level six. Just level six average level
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say four
Seconds four four times four second. Yeah, four times one second of spare. Yeah, it's four. You guys all concur
I think C4. Yep C4. I think one of these like 80 second cooldowners like that. None of these are correct a I think it's C
I think these are all wrong. I think I'm gonna lock and see okay chat. You have five more seconds for do you trust?
Jenkins or kezu's chaos? We will find out as a correct answer. What's that?
Not here not now
All right ladies and gentlemen miss you know me it's your turn. Oh boy
There's a lore question, buddy.
According to the lore, who do we care most about?
A, enacting revenge for the destruction of her forest and people.
B, earning money to support her tribe.
C, testing out her new contraptions on unknowing passerbys.
Or D, gathering acorns to survive a harsh winter.
I wish there was a video that existed that could have taught me which one of these actually was the case.
But perhaps if I had previewed one of those in advance,
than I do have a have a compelling fear eh. Yes. That it might be enacting revenge for
the destruction of her forest. Yeah, you got five seconds. What do you know about the Lord
of the Coast? I know it's D. It's always D. You gotta collect these nuts for the winter.
You gotta survive somehow. Incorrect. No, my friends, it is A. You are right against
Anami. Absolutely go to. Wow. This guy is good. And now we're back to Kezu. Kezu,
Among the following heroes received their annual Arcana at the same time as a Frostavus update released.
Who among them was a Windranger, was a Rubik, Spectre, or Shadowfeeth?
Who got an Arcana at the same time as a Frostavus?
I think it sounds like... not D, not C. I think it's B, Rubik.
I think it's Rubik, why not Windranger?
I feel like SF is way too old, Spectre is too new.
Five seconds chat.
It's B. It's B.
B.
B Rulik.
That is correct yet again!
You guys are actually there!
Thank you all for coming out.
Of course coming out in that Battle Pass.
I had Wei, Windranger called the Thirsty.
I'd also like to be called that.
Deletson King.
That's right. The Thirsty Battle Pass, as we called it.
Here we go.
Wulmung, the following heroes has a taunt.
They make a snow angel.
Why do you always get to be?
Who makes a snow angel at their taunt?
Lacoste is it a tusk be crystal maiden see troll warlord or teeth no hero does that I will only give you five
I'm gonna call my friend tsunami real quick
Joker tsunami which one is it?
Questions it is be he said it is be crystal man. It's so easy. Well done
Easiest ones with the Joker incredible. All right
Who among the following heroes has a taunt where they go and pretend to ice-gate Jenkins is an a Marana the persona
Be anime secret so many or D blood seeker
There's two crystal maidens on there. There are two crystal maids, but she has a lot of sets
And our canals well, it's the one answer. That's not
Actually meant to be blood seeker right now it's blood these blood seeker D is blood seeker
And we can fix that because the answer is Bloodseeker.
That is right. They are changing the answer incorrectly several times.
But Justin, I'll give you ten more seconds on this one.
If you happen to put D, which was supposed to be Bloodseeker,
if you happen to do it, you were correct!
I gotta go for the hard read sometimes.
It's always the D.
Alright, tsunami, who among the ifs?
Following Ice Heroes has the highest damage magical spell at level 1.
Is it A, Tusk without allies in the snowball?
B, Quinter Fivern?
C, Ancient Haparition?
Or D, Crystal Medine?
Yet again, Crystal Medine keeps coming back up.
So, are we talking about most damage on a hero?
Because I mean, oh actually Frostbite doesn't do as much bonus duration on creeps anymore, right?
Highest damage of magical spell at level one.
Just highest damage number, I guess.
Highest damage. Can we help him?
At level one.
I mean, I'm assuming it's either Maiden Q, Ancient Apparition...
Might be one of the four.
...whole feet, I guess, there's more damage.
It will be one of the four.
You got 25% chance to get this one right.
Yeah, 25% chance.
Night, buddy.
It's not.
I can help give it to you.
I phone a friend, I phone Kezu.
Kezu?
I can give you the D.
Yeah, I think it's...
I think it's the...
Crystal Maiden, lock it in.
Five more seconds, Chad.
Crystal maiden.
Could have been Winter Wyverns W, but in fact was Crystal maiden D!
There you go!
Alright guys, we have two more questions and two more minutes.
Back to you, Kaz.
What was the last Frostavist to include a custom game mode?
Why is it always this dumbest Frostavist?
Frostavist...
B, Frostavist 2024, or C, Frostavist 2018, or D.
Okay, so I never played any of the custom games.
You haven't since we started this quiz.
That is correct.
That's right.
But what was the first one to include a custom game mode?
The last one to include a custom game mode.
The last one to include a custom game mode.
I would guess 2018, but I have no idea.
2018.
Thanks, C.
Five seconds left.
Anyone know better?
Didn't they release one in 2024?
It was C!
Right!
Right!
Right!
Right!
Because it's gonna be that long.
Literal RNG.
Literal RNG.
All right, and the cost of final question.
If it's not an easy one.
This one you shouldn't know about.
What was the item?
Gifted during 2023 to Dota accounts that
A. A highly toxic lump of coal B. A sternly written letter by Gaven
I see a highlight package of their worst place. That sounds hype
C and D are like
But we're gonna go with A on this one slacks chat five seconds
I know many of you are watching right now because you got one of these things no longer played
ladies and gentlemen
The amazing clip of that is still one of my favorite clips of all time. Absolutely based on that one.
Congratulations guys, you did absolutely great. If you guys at home are listening and you've followed their advice, I think you got almost every single one right.
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That's right, my friends.
You guys voted for your favorite hero to be featured in Tales from the Wings.
Oh my god, finally.
And finally, god, there's a big surprise.
We have not been advertising it on the show every day.
This is Hood Wings' introduction as you guys voted for.
And you can still vote right now.
Let's take a look at this incredible lore video, lore nerds.
The tale of Hoodwink is a lot like that little squirrel herself, seems simple enough but when
you dig a little deeper what at first looks cute and cuddly expands into a world of violence
and chaos.
It's still pretty cute though.
Now before we jump into the origin of Hoodwink we need to talk about the strange region
that she hails from. The Outlands. On the edge of the known world lies the Dreadmarsh,
a massive poison to swamp few would dare enter, let alone Frost. It would take some serious
motivation, like being in Outlaw and the run from a gang where nowhere in the known
world is safe. The exact situation that forced the ingenious King Armsmaker, Snapire,
across the marsh. On the far side of that no man's land, Snapire discovered an entirely
new world, the deserts of Nannerak where she would later settle, vast forests where creatures
like Hoodwink lived, and the newly discovered kingdoms like Praxia, home of the mage slayer,
and Crimwall, where our story begins.
Now Crimwall was once peaceful, a modest settlement, living in balance with the forest around
it.
That balance shattered the day the lone battered king entered the kingdom.
Poisoned by the Martian, barely alive, Snapfire traded her exotic wares for shelter, food
and treatment.
Her wares fascinated the people of the Outlands, but one small bag held a power Crimwall had
never seen before.
Black powder.
That combustible black powder would bring industry.
Industry would bring machines.
Machines would bring power.
Rare metals led to factories, automation, and with that, armies.
rose, districts were owned, and the city devoured everything around it, but none of that could
exist without fuel.
So Cremois went looking for it, and for labor in the surrounding forests.
For generations the forest creatures of the Timberlands lived in harmony with the kingdom,
but high up in the treetops they noticed the fires burning brighter and closer.
Before long civilization was on their doorstep.
On an evening they would call the night of fire.
Pudavink was only a child when her family fled, old enough to remember her home burning
to ash, but not much else, except her siblings being dragged away in chains, the barking of
the dogs, and the scream of the sawblades.
Her people were given a choice, surrender to Cremwall and work in the factories, or
flee to the one place no one would dare follow.
the cursed wood of the Tomacon.
Now the Dreadmarsh was bad, that the Tomacon was worse.
Once a normal forest, it became the site
of a secret wizarding school's final exam.
Ritualistic tools meant to push students
to their absolute limits and pass them.
It's never stated outright that this was
the same green old institution
that was tied to silencers more,
or the deadly path to becoming a grand magus,
but the similarities are pretty similar.
Whatever the case, the result was the same.
Catastrophic magic soaked into the land.
Last resort spells from a desperate dying wizard
duelist left arcane residue that twisted trees
and a spiked nightmares.
The soil itself became unstable.
The forest grew hostile, alive.
Now in Tinker's lore, it's stated that as people
travel to investigate a certain chaotic location
in which they could study strange effects
on nature's laws.
From there, it's basically the plot of Half-Life, opening portals, creating ecological nightmares leading to a region that they refer to as the Violet Plateau, which may explain this whole unnatural hue.
Now, is the Violet Plateau and the Tobacon the same place? Not officially, but officially, portals one day opened at the Tobacon to other dimensions and interdimensional monsters emerge from them wreaking havoc, just like in Half-Life, the worst of which being the Dorana.
a one-eyed, cross-dimensional horror, a plant, tentacle, and teeth.
They hunted impacts, releasing spores that paralyze prey,
or drove them into murderous frenzies.
These were Hoodwin's neighbors.
Unlike her family, she grew up learning that you either become the hunted,
or be the hunter.
And eventually, all that remained was her,
and an uncle who taught her everything she knew,
only to go to Cremwall one day, seeking treatment for a magical illness,
and he never returned.
Over the years, she became the last of her Tomahicans, but she survived.
And she decided that if she could become the epic's predator of this hellscape,
she would one day return home and face the monsters that drove her and her family here in the first place.
Suddenly, from a new portal, the perfect test arrived.
The Primal Beast.
Cast through a portal after its defeat by our hands in Agnum's labrenth,
The Primal Beast erupted into the Toma Khan, hunting Dorana-like prey and claiming dominance
through raw hunger and power alone.
Primal Beast was now the planet's apex creditor, with Pairlose the finnerer of the Wolf of
Ragnarok in Norse mythology.
To beat him, she would need to cage the Beast, and so she journeyed far beyond the dark
wood in search of a way to bind the Unbindable.
And one day she crossed paths and befriended it dog-breaker, and apologetically stole of
her most powerful relics.
The Glypnir, celestial chains forged by living stars to capture gods, primal forces of the
universe like Io.
Yeah, that worked.
Puttering for a turn to the Tolocon, Chained the Primal Beast and proved herself master
of the deadliest place imaginable.
Eh, it's no sad we don't get to see that fight.
Thrymiel Beast would later escape, but the victory wasn't enough for now.
She returned to Cremwall, ready for vengeance, but what she found instead were soldiers, people.
Now she didn't see an entire patrol of soldiers wiped out by Duranapax compared to the dark
wood.
These bald skin sacks were nothing more than target practice.
Overhearing patrol routes and timings, it was easy for her to free her people
with some well-placed bolts, but she wasn't done after that.
She decided to stay.
Anyone foolish enough to enter the woods would soon find themselves snared, bolted, or pelted
with nuts.
Haravans vanished, logging machines were dismantled, the hooded vigilante never took gold, favors,
or praises, simply punishing those that went into the woods.
She wasn't a hero, she was nature's warning.
And just like that, words spread across the world.
tried to recruit her, but she refused. Nature's Prophet sought her allegiance. She didn't care,
lush rack, but it heads with her a little bit. No big deal. The only one she really liked was
Aysha, the Enchantress, affectionately calling her Auntie A. She was the protector of small,
cute forest creatures after all, and technically, Hoodwink still qualified as one of those.
But these days, Hoodwink is mostly in it for the kicks. However, if there's a chance to
sabotage our smoke bellowing machine, unleash Adorana, swarm near Crimwall, or make the
keen pay for what they started.
We'll sign her up, because if there's one thing this squirrel's good at, it's packing
away those keen nut jobs.
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to look a lot like Christmas.
Every, every where you go, take a look at the five and ten,
glistening once again with candy canes and silver lanes
with glue all alone.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Told you there's a story at every store,
But the prettiest sight to see is the holiday that will date
On your own, the holiday on your own
From door to door, from door to door
Slave hell's ring, dream ofing, while it's sing
In the lane, in the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
Walking in the wind to wonderland
Well, gone away is the new bird.
Did say, did say, is the new bird.
He sing of a song as we go along.
Walk it in a ring to wonderland.
Wonderland.
Silent night, holy night.
All is calm, all is bright,
around your pleasant mother and child.
Holy infant, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've got place to go, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow,
And it doesn't show signs of stopping
And the gull of the corn from popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
When we finally kiss goodnight
How I hate going out in the storm
And if you really hold me tight
All the way, all the way, all the way, all the way
And the fire is slowly dying
And my dear, we're still good-bye-ing
As long as you love me so
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
A bad bloody time!
The first day of Christmas might you look at to me, a portrait in a pear tree.
The second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Two turtle ducks and a potridge in a pear tree
The third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Three pranks and two turtle ducks and a potridge in a pear tree
The fourth day of Christmas might you look at me
For calling birth three questions to turn the camera off
Reach in a pair of trees
The fifth day of Christmas might you look at me
Fa la la la la fa golden rays
Four calling birds, three French hens
Two turtle ducks and a potridge in a pear tree
I can't
I can't
I can't
On the sixth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Six geese away
Fa-la-la-la-la
Five four minutes
Four calling birds
Sweet precious
Two girls up
And a package
Your pair of keys
The seventh day of Christmas, might you look at me?
Seven swans, a spirit, six, he's a layman.
La, la, la, five, gonna be it.
Four calling friends, sweet friends.
Chance, two turtle ducks, and a pocket in a pear tree.
I'm in a bad dream
The 8th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Eight mazes of milking, seven swarms of swimming
Six easel lanes
Voila! Voila!
Back on the rinse
Oh, calling birds, sheep, French hens
Team, we tell ducks, and apart
Reach in a bad dream
A duck with a hat, too
Night day with Christmas, what you looking for me?
Nine ladies dancing, eight maids of milk and seven swans are swimming
Six, he's the lady for love
A lot of fun for the brains
Four calling birds, three for lunch
Two turtle dunks and a parkish empress me
The tenth day of Christmas, my true love came to me
Have the Lord's sleeping night, playing his dancing air
Made some milk in seven swans as well as six
He's the living parlayer, the latter of the wings
Oh, calling birds, sweet French hams,
Two new turtles, ducks, and a parrot, in a petri
Oh, in a petri
You're everything, you're priceless, but you're not good to me
The 12th day of Christmas, like you look into me
12th from the storming lemon pipe
Was piping ten lords of evil
Now he laid his hands on eight
Mades of making seven swans
Was pulling six
He's the lady of all the circle games
Four calling birds to sleep
Grand chance to turn it up
And a park in a pet tree
Got another pet tree
Ha!
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree Straight to our house we'll bring it
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
Your branch is there swinging
It's the time of years and it's bringing toys
To all the good little girls and boys
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
Everybody singin'
I feel like we haven't had this many vocals for the Poctin families in forever and I would
year for it. It's wonderful. Also wonderful is our grab finals that is coming our way very
soon. For that we have assembled the army. Absolutely. We got the brigest brains and
donor I hear my friends. We got. It's Sadia. It's Sadia to Effie and a secret special guest
hiding out. But we have got some big, big brains in the building to teach us all about
these two incredible teams that have made it into the Grand Finals. Pop quiz, Effie! Who
is in the Grand Finals? Don't look at your notes.
Insania and Cheever.
I'm the fearless team Yandex, of course.
She's good.
That's a pop fun.
I do want to talk about that though because Yandex is coming from Division 2. We have
Division 2 and Yandex just you know it's like playing in the vision to one division to got their
Invite to dream league and now they're here in the grand finals and say name. Were you expecting to see them in the grand finals?
I do know that they were in the grand finals of course before
Oh, I really did not no a big daughter. Oh
But pleasantly surprised I feel like it's really cool to have these new players prove you wrong over and over
And because I think every series of theirs that have done I've been like, I don't know this might be it
but they keep coming back and they keep showing that they can play the same way
regardless of the opposition which is really cool because they they don't
have like a I feel like they have a template the same way some teams do
yet they seem quite fresh in how they play and it's cool to see that they
can keep recreating the same kind of game plan if from game to game and we've
credited him already but I'm gonna keep doing it today I think Soxa is
is he looks like a beast, like I think arguably a best player of this tournament.
If you only look at individual impact on the game for a single team,
I think he probably is the most valuable player any team has right now.
That is a very high praise for him indeed.
Of course, the opposition for Yandex is a team
that they already knocked down to the low bracket earlier.
It's Team Spirit coming from that lower bracket.
I feel for a while, it looked like maybe they weren't going to do it,
but coming from the low bracket, I feel like maybe from Team Spirit,
You were expecting this all along. I mean teams spirit are just they're a lower bracket team like they power up
Well, the TI they won they came from the lower bracket
It feels like they're a very momentum based team and if they can get the ball rolling they really look unstoppable
So I feel like facing a lower bracket team spirit is a bit different than facing them at earlier stages of the tournament
It's really gonna be a test to Yandex how strongly they've improved and what they've prepared for today because it's gonna look like a different beast
This is a five already is a different beast.
You get what he wants.
This is a high.
This is a high.
I'm going to ruin your plow.
This is really good.
I'm not really fucking going to stay so long.
I don't like best of fives.
I can say something.
I can say something.
Can I be a hater here?
Can I be a hater?
No, no, no, no.
Yandex is one of my favorite teams to watch.
Why?
You don't have to zoom in for the hate, but I got enough of that already.
But, Jadex is a very fun team for me to watch, but I don't understand this team.
This team wins games, they win games they shouldn't win, against good teams, Falcons,
Tundra, Popin on them over and over again, yet they get into the finals, and that last
finals they were in was one of the most depressing moments I can recall.
But do you know who that reminds me of?
Who's that?
One of the greatest Dota teams ever to play Dota, Team Liquid.
They have the same thing with Game and Gladiators, you know?
They kept looking like the best team in the world, getting to finals and then getting absolutely
clapped.
Yeah.
But as a resident expert of getting absolutely clapped in Grand Finals.
Why?
Why?
Usually it's like coachdiff, draftiff.
Yeah, yeah, very rarely if you lose in finals it's not anything to do with the players.
Is it a little bit of a rock-paper-scissors situation where the team that you're
up against is just, you know, the scissors to your paper?
The scissors to your paper.
Maybe, I would say...
What?
Yeah, I was backing you up!
Scissors to the paper or not?
Maybe, maybe. Who knows? I think like...
Sometimes it's just, grandfathers is a different beast.
Yeah.
You know, at that point, especially I think when you come from the upper bracket,
you have time to get into your own head.
Yeah, so much time to get into your head.
Too much?
Maybe. Maybe.
You have time to think about the series,
you have time to think about how this one's going to be different from the last one.
Sure.
And then you think that six times in a row,
And it's no different from the last one, but the 7th one, that's when you clap back.
No, but I think for us, it was a learning experience, and I think we went to Peru,
and we played maybe a slightly weaker roster of teams,
and we finally got the win in the finals, and I think that helped us realize,
from a psychological standpoint, that we can do it.
We're not just cursed, we can win. The mental block was gone.
I would say it's probably still too soon to say that Andix has a mental block,
I think there absolutely is a different degree of pressure to the grand finals because every other game when you win
You're rewarded with playing more Dota
Whereas in grand finals there is that word doesn't come. Yeah, that's it. That's it now is the time
I think we pay them the own stuff
You pay them after they win the finals to play on the series. Hey, Linz. Oh, you meant like before. Okay
Yeah, if you win grand finals, we do give you a lot of money though and points and millions
And attention and we're going to give the teams even a little bit more attention right now
or rather purge is as he will say a lot of smart stuff about this
That's right. She were lots of smart things incoming
But it wasn't by me it was by these players on the yandex side
And this is something that team spirit is gonna have to play up against really soon here
I have some clips here from the previous time that they played here in the winter bracket and let's jump on into those
So check this out here. This is the
a 5 minute 40 second game time here in game 2 of Spirit vs. the Index. The Index basically
taking their opportunities and running with them consistently in this early game. A nice
counter dive basically against the Spirit Faker, but look what they did with this.
There was a charge coming mid that maybe would have gotten a kill on Ember Spirit if
executed perfectly or something, but instead what they end up doing is they rotate heroes
over and they are ready to dive themselves. Really nicely done by the Ember Spirit
to get in front of the Earthspear so that he doesn't get the rolling thunder off.
You might think this clip is over, but it's not.
The second that they get this kill, he throws the remnant, he teepes back to the fountain
and he gets back here with full HP and three new bottle charges.
And this is going to allow him to clear the creep wave and take the tower, which
is very impressive.
So they get this tower at six minutes into the game, which is fantastic.
And then as they continue laning here, Shear Jr. is going to be pressuring Laurel
taking the creep wave.
We're only a minute past the previous engagement, but he basically gets into a bad trade
on Laurel's side. He rolls the only way that he can get away from him and he's
gonna get ran down here by Shiro Jr. Now there is gonna be a spearbreaker
charge. He did retreat to the direction that the SB was but being able to grab
yet another kill really impacts their game in a positive way. Immediately after
this what they do is they start moving into the enemy jungle which is very
cool because what this does is in the same moment here over to the south
you have the spearbreaker pulling creeps into an aggressive fashion which
means there's gonna be rotations from other heroes. A nice shackle is gonna
to lock down the Kez, he gets a little bit lucky with his roots catching Kez as well,
but they end up taking another really aggressive fight in the middle of the enemy jungle.
And clearing up the Spiritbreaker again, and also the Earth Spirit, means that they've
just been getting kills after kills after kills and Component-ness in a really big
way. And you might think that that moment is over, but like this is what's so sick
about this team right now, is that immediately after that fight happens, look what he
does. Sox is looking for another place on the map to get a kill, and he ends
up doing it in a way which looks like grief from his nature's prophet here, but he ends
up surviving this and getting another kill on the side of it.
And you might think that this clip is done, no it's not, because the spirit perk is like
okay well we're gonna get like the one cleanup kill here as he charges in onto the Shadow
Shaman who almost dies, but he gets a shackle off to heal up as Shere Junior shows up,
gets another hex and that's another kill.
So this is like three minutes of just absolute destruction from Yandex.
They were out playing Team Spirit, they cannot let this happen in this upcoming series
and I'm sure you'll be thinking about this game for a long time.
Thank you very much, Kurt. It feels like that was...
it was not obviously it was a victory on paper,
but it was also very much a moral victory over spirit,
because I feel like that's going to make you...
My spot.
So this is your spot.
Is it?
Slax is greasing your spot.
Wait, who goes first?
I'm all over here, yes.
I always go here.
Wait, why?
Sabaton!
I always go right here.
Okay, you can have your spot, big boy.
Toly or we save it for you.
We save it for you, sweetie.
I mean, that's all you're saying.
It's okay.
I completely lost my train of thought.
I feel like there is definitely some mental damage on the side of Spirit,
because it's going to make you doubt every rotation you're going to make,
because it feels like Yannix was just ready for every rotation from Spirit yesterday.
I think that was yesterday. I think today's Spirit is different.
I think when it comes to finals, Spirit is probably one of the most clutch teams.
I think when we talked about us in Liquid, I think we were maybe on the other side of that spectrum.
I would say Spirit is very clutch usually for finals, I think they are quite good.
I think Spirit has a thing where if they know what they are going up against, they are almost
always the best team in the world.
If they can predict the draft, lay out the game plan, and the plan that they lay out
is correct, they will win.
Almost always.
I think they played Yandex twice, once on this event at least, and I think they played
them in the last event too.
No, they played, well it was the future playground that they played, in which
case it was 2-0 for Yandex.
That was a long time ago, but Spirit was not at last.
You were not.
Well, either way, they played them now.
I think they have a bit more information on them.
And I think the edge that Yandex did have over Spirit is that, like I said, when Spirit's
not prepared, they don't know you.
They don't know how you play.
I think they struggle a bit more.
Yeah.
If you do feel like we have enough information about Yandex to predict our whole draft,
do you think Spirit does?
I'm not sure because they're still an unknown variable, especially in this new patch.
We don't know what kind of heroes they're going to bust out.
I mean, Watson is a very wide, perry hero pool and he's not really a player that you
know what he's thinking about when it comes to a draft quite yet, Sokso seems to be playing
new heroes.
And if I recall, Malady in the interview said they're constantly beating Team Spirit and
Scrims, so they at least have an idea of how they want to play against them.
However, I do want to repeat this point, Spirit, when they go through lower bracket,
they level up so hard.
Like, this is not going to feel the same as the last time they played against
each other.
Yeah.
It will be different.
different beast, best of five already, different beast, but as we said, Janus hasn't had a lot
of time to prepare for this best of five. They were able to study what Spirit did this
morning as well, and I do want to touch upon the growth that we've seen. Both of these
teams have heard in this patch. It has, we don't really know.
He just can't stop moving. He's not even on the camera, and he's like...
So, active listening.
Go ahead.
Letting people know that. Well, I want to see some active listening while I say
Can you do that? Okay, great. Yeah, he's doing a great job.
Yes, they've leveled up quite a bit before the patch. They were doing fantastic after the patch
It's tough to to adapt to the new meta stuff
You have to like throw away the useless things that aren't there anymore and grab the new stuff and embrace it and not
Can eliminate from the tournament?
Is it aren't you supposed to do your eyes open usually when you're listening to something?
No, how am I supposed to be not sleeping?
Not actively.
How does it seem like you're sleeping?
Keep talking.
Ah, sorry, thanks for throwing me off practice.
Wow, I'm not throwing, I'm just gonna pick it up.
Can I pick Infania's brain a little bit?
I'm very curious, you've been in a lot of Grand Finals, and how different is it for the lower bracket team
versus the team that's sitting back and watching them?
Because it feels like the team that didn't play that they should have the advantage,
but that's never really the case. What's that been like for you?
I actually think it quite often is a big advantage because you have to
This is gonna sound insane
But it's like time your caffeine intake like when you play your first series of the day
You can't just go all out, you know like monster energy up and just like beat your opponents with all you got
You have to think about like I'm playing five more games after this
So there is I think it's definitely a thing like fatigue and how that how you handle that as you play like all these games
Luckily spirit had quite a short series this morning
I know for example at TI Gladiators had this crazy series of Tundra right before we play them
And I think for sure that plays a part so having a shorter series in the lower bracket finals is always quite a good thing
But I think spirit. Yeah for sure fatigue is gonna be I think they have to combat
But I think it's that I think this team if anything better than most unhandling that and while this is happening
Is it better to warm up and play or actually watch the lower bracket finals?
I think we usually would just watch but it's also a bit different because you're at home now
So you if you want to queue a pub you can do it both in between games queue a pub like while you're watching the grand finals
Yeah, you watch the little bracket finals as the legion dex and you're Watson and you're like shit my ranks number two
I got to get that one do a no way. Yeah, I
Don't even play pubs before I have to work in case I get really pissed off
And I'm in a bad mood for the rest that a pros actually play pubs before their final game
Some people do I don't know how to think that he wanted us all to warm up
It was like, you have to play one game, because the first game of the day is usually quite suspicious for most people.
Well, the pressure is definitely on, and I can't wait to see what's coming our way in terms of DOTA,
and I can't wait to hear how the players are feeling in this very moment.
I think we look strong because we just play better.
Even in the past, we had many close games, like this one, and the one against Xander,
so we could have gone either way and put a loss, but we are, for some reason, clutched him to let the big moments.
pressure for 33 is on its way that might surprise yandex in their entirety as they're trying to hold on to just about here
33
It's in the back line a little bit no they need to get the hang of it so on to pure, pure
need some help force path and he's out way then go to white water and white mud kids casually three shots
and he's on the bigger track bitch you get the shackle
on to pzm, pzm the shackle last just one enough
they get him he falls a five act to be used
now it's pure and 33 he pulls getting low and the one dies
He's 33, he falls, have HP, for the troll, no way out, it's the Tinker, man, it's the Tinker, it's the Tinker, he's a secondary, they got a bit of shizzles, can't they lock him down, lock him, they don't have the creeps, and they take the Viper, they will hold on just a little longer.
They're in the end, X-Trimmage, Genfinals will be more better for us, I think, because I hope you'll accept the reward, I think you'll become stronger.
When you're so close to Grand Final, I think it's always important because we lost our last to Grand Final, but we want to do it now.
I'm not even matching teams from the finals. It will be a nice game. I think they're one of the best teams in the world.
And I think all of us have a lot of respect for them. And in current finals they are a scary team to play against.
So I think it will be a good game.
And this Grand Finals, it is special for a number of reasons for both of these teams
with these rosters. They have been in Grand Finals once and both of them fell short. So
this is the time for one of them to step up and take that first place that they wanted
to get at Grand Finals before this one. But this is a moment where one of these teams
will do it. How will they do it? That's what we're going to find out as we're
heading into the draft for game number one of this best of five. And what are
noticing on the bounce anything unusual so far. It doesn't look that weird to me
but I think we've seen a small meta shift in the last couple days where
Slardar has moved into first phase ban because there's just like too many cool
combos you can do with it and just taking it out makes the drafting feel a
little bit more normal. Well it is full collapse heroes first three like nope
we're not giving him a blink span we're not giving him a play right here.
Center out primal out Slardar out find a different hero collapse. Dusk in.
Dusk in. This is a very powerful hero that we've seen a lot in fact
absolutely goaded in case you forgot from Team E-index as well, Saska had a fantastic
punch. Okay, hold, hold, hold. He was in the grand finals. You know, I think he deserves
to have his name pronounced properly sometimes. That's right, Birch. Saksa onscreen great
player. He had a great punch up and kick combo from Tusta. It was incredible to see.
So very highly contested here. We're going to see this hero a lot in this series.
I tell you what, I hope you're ready for some wall versus Insadia.
Yeah, for sure. And when Jekiro, who's traditionally quite good against Tusk, a lot of attack speed
slow, is banned out, Tusk moves up on the value list. And, yeah, next played Nation's Prophet
carry on Watson the other day, and it looked quite good. A lot of the here, like, I know
we didn't like playing Prophet against Primal, was one of the heroes that we definitely
didn't like playing against. Timbers also quite good against Prophet, also out.
It seemed to me that Ursula in this meta, or in this tournament rather, whenever he has
like a free game, this hero is just the strongest carry, and probably the only carry that would
be Kaz in the head to head.
For me what I've noticed as well is like a lot of the drafts seem to be like, you now,
people seem to have answers to Kaz, and if you want to pick this hero it's quite tricky.
And Shadow Shaman has been one of, thank you so much for that BAM, Shadow Shaman
has been one of the main heroes that people have played against Kez, and I feel like has
been really effective. It seems like this hero just dies in a stun. He's very much like a
glass cannon type carry. So, him, Al, kind of opens up the Kez door. Ursa, Rosta, both
gone.
I feel like that hero as well, Rosta has just been crazy strong the last couple days.
It's like everybody, you remember, like, oh, a six-second stuns is really a really
easy way to kill a hero in some late game. Like, really breaks teamfights open, usually.
You don't have to farm a 5,000 gold item. You just need a blink dagger in good
position and good coordination and somebody dies. Yeah, sometimes all it takes is just
a couple of buffs here and there to push a hero back into the meta, and that's what happened with
Shaman in the last patch. But on the subject of Tusk, I think a lot of the support picks that
typically were picked against Tusk got buffed as well. Like where it has been trending up,
Dark Willows been trending up, these are the kinds of heroes that you pick against support
Tusk just because you want to make it harder for him to blink in and snow also. So when
you're throwing these brambles and you're throwing these callings on the ground, it makes this
Why does Viper ban kind of interesting? Because I think Spirit were a few days ago in a position
where they kept moving Viper up their priority. They went from like a later pick to an earlier
pick to an even earlier pick, and then they lost with it yesterday, and now they're like,
nah, we're just going to ban it and not deal with it.
It's a bad hero for Tusk to kill, is all I was going to say. If Viper gets gone
on by Tusk, you throw the poison down and you're like, okay, that's attack speed
Hello, it's another solution against the jikiro with the solitude, what were you going to say?
I thought you were saying Viper was a bad hero, I thought that was a dot dot dot, but no, he's a very very good hero
You know who's an interesting hero? Shadow Demon, this a hero that was first ban first pick
Did he survive the patch? A lot of guys said no, he would not, he can't even purge yules anymore, I was the next to Kezu
And he's still picked, he's still good
You can't purge yules, you just have to put it on him before he uses yules
You can't use it to like, remove an existing yules anymore
So it's arguably like they're trying to make yules like less hard countered by like null fire and dispels like
Because otherwise you get it against those items
It's like it's literally useless other than like for a quick this spell and you think you're some kind of expert on purge
Not really
My boy warlock the keeper of the archives, baby the man right in the tones
This hero is goaded from beginning to end warlock spammers out there
Get that drool off your keyboard because this boy get nerfed after this tournament
Yikes, you get the book fast it's like hell. No, I need the champion a gore off weird. Everybody else does that one
Why is it different for you? Everybody's a new?
That's it champion a gore off. That's your dota plus level in warlock. What's my dota plus 30?
Holy okay, he knows her absolutely. Well, hopefully we won't see any champion of gore off in this game
Fasten is absolute trash because with the tone you have okay if you have a nice aggressive lane back when like warlock PA was
You know the shit everybody was playing all the time
You just got a bunch of kills and then usually by the time you get to the exp rune you would be level 6
Because minute 7 is when you can pop the tome so that fight becomes impossible for the enemy team
So for me personally I like Warlock the most when I can combine it with something that wants to play aggressive in lanes
For this meta it's mainly been kes that I've really really enjoyed it with
It seems like you kind of cover for a lot of his weaknesses and you guarantee his any phase to be good
And I would like that hero for spirit on 18
I don't really see a massive reason not to pick it
I guess Shadow Demon's like okay, but I don't think it's enough on its own
There's also the archetype of like Laurel mid hero that goes in
I think what this Viper ban gives them is two really nice situations
I can be in one was like the type that they bring without having the break counter
So you can just pick this Laurel Earth Spirit type mid hero that goes in with the Warlock
We've seen this combo before it's looked really good
And you don't have to worry about this Viper counter make sure there's things like Huskar in the pool
But those things you can address later
It's Chara Jr. Big Oscar.
I actually don't know.
I think he can play everything.
He plays everything?
I think so.
He will play Invoker, but we're not supposed to talk about it yet.
I see, I see.
I think you're expecting S-16, S-17 Invoker here, Slacks.
Maybe!
Let's not go a little bit about...
With all the great Sunstrike set up, but yeah, Nix has.
You think you're so smart, don't you?
Let's talk about Tidehunter!
Can we talk about Tidehunter?
You can talk about Tidehunter.
Yeah, I don't know anything about Tidehunter.
Effie, why is Tidehunter so go-to?
And he just got buffed in the patch, his level 20 talent seems really strong and it's just a hero that can play really early.
Like we've seen him go auras, we've seen him go the agg's rush build, which allows him to clear waves and solid games.
Just feels like he's hard to kill, he does a lot and is super high value.
Especially when you pair him with heroes like Warlock and Tusk, they really account for each other's weaknesses.
And the way that Pant has been playing Warlock has been very impressive.
He's been like top of the net worth of the supports consistently.
He's had so much high impact in these two fights.
And I don't consider Warlock a greedy hero, but when he plays it, he's got farm.
I guess that makes gold on this hero.
The only thing about Tide that I'm a little apprehensive about is the 20 talent is great
because it does anchor smashes near you, and if he's playing against two super ranged carries,
he's not getting value from that talent potentially.
So that could actually affect him as the game continues.
Yep, and also more for Tide.
We saw two Brakes getting banned out from Spirit.
They banned Rasta, Hex, Brakes from 15, and Viper, obviously.
So in this game it's going to be pretty much the Shadow Demon ultimate with Agathem, so it would have been the only break they're going to have.
Witch Doctor, however, is kind of nice against Tide, because the Maladik is not purgeable, it will stay on you, so it will keep taking damage.
Same thing with the Witch Doctor ult. You can actually input damage into Tide, which is quite rare for a support.
But I will say, I feel like Volatility with this hero is very high, because once you start feeding, he tends to just feed his grains out.
So, I'm interested to see how this plays out.
Who, is the witch doctor before or the five?
I would think five.
I feel like Sox is definitely the shadow demon
between the two of them.
Sox, what level is your witch doctor?
I have a level 30 witch doctor as well, my friend.
I am a witch doctor, Spammer.
I can tell you, witch doctor is goaded burst tide hunter.
It's that Maladek, baby.
Give him that Maladek.
What?
This guy actually really, really good against nobody else.
I really just put a new typewriter on this one.
Pretty cooked, a tusk can get on top of a man.
Warlock obviously can cancel that open it
or anything else, and yeah, it's the,
I don't know, Effie, what do you think about it?
This is a hero we hardly ever see.
I mean, he tried it once before.
It didn't look the best,
but there was a really good idea there.
He got kills on the leading stage,
but I also think that level 10 talent
that Witch Doctor gets is also very anti-tied.
He gets bonus duration on the Maladict.
That extra burst of Maladict
will usually be enough to kill him.
The issue with Witch Doctor is that I feel that he does get early game kills, and he does
in his lane, but if you start losing, you really lose with this hero.
He does not provide that much.
I mean, his heal is quite negligible, I think, and I would see her crafting maybe a Holy
Lock at max heal.
Witch Doctor's and Holy Lock at a SOP, but nobody seems to be going this direction.
I don't know.
Malady isn't having fun.
No, you definitely know.
He isn't playing unusual heroes.
He's having a good time.
Like, he's playing Undying's and Witch Doctor's and Basil's.
They will need something to help DK in the laning stage.
If it's like Profit mid and they want to do this gank sideline playstyle, it gives them
flexibility I guess.
So if you didn't have a strong five that could help pressure the tide, it could really make
their lanes feel more static and give Team Spirit the better matches that they want.
I mean dragging that into Envo, really really tough matchup for Envo.
I think we saw it in the previous series as well.
I think no one kind of handed it to Laurel.
He was completely slapping him and I feel like if I was no one in that series
that would be really really mad that they lost that game. So I probably expected DK to go mid
and for the Prophet to stay on safe lane just because of how much of a one-sided matchup it is,
but I think Prophet into Invo is also fine and DK can pretty much lane into anything,
so it shouldn't matter too much. But what I find interesting is when you see a double melee lane
with Tusk and Tide, usually that's like redragging territory, definitely has to be on your mind
And Witch Doctor for me is not afraid of dealing with it, but maybe some like Mal'dick into Blood Grenade and you just like hit him a lot level 1
Could be enough pressure to prevent the plus crumb doing it effectively
I mean they're gonna have Gus switch lower's armor and then they're gonna have Tag Team which increases both of their physical damage
And he can use Anchor Smash afterwards which is gonna do extra physical
So like if they can snowball on top of DK even like they could blow him up, I feel like in a lot of circumstances
So if Witch Doctor is behind that, isn't the guy that gets gone on, then like Cask is gonna be amazing
So maybe there's some counterplay, but at some point he's gonna get gone on and probably die again.
To me it looks like a nature's carry, which makes that a bit harder.
Like, bringing us to the double-arranged lane, but the wave-pulling, the blood-grenade, Malik,
T'Nanigans, we'll see how that plays out.
I just did want to quickly comment that the last time Yandex played versus Spirit,
I'll pass this to you real quick and say, but the last time they played,
Watson was playing nature's profit carry, and was TPing mid on Laurel all the time.
Yandex had this idea that they were bringing plus one core to all the moves they were making early game
to that mid lane, and by shutting down Laurel, it made Spirit's game look really iffy.
So I imagine they want to go in that same direction as the game too.
Yeah, I mean I think usually when you play against Spirit, if you can slow down Laurel's
game, their tempo kind of dies.
Because this team has two side laners that really want to stay on their lanes and hit
a lot of creeps.
They will make moves, but they want to make moves on their own time.
So Laurel usually is the guy that fills out the dead space in the table.
We got a PA!
There we go!
I need that big brain talk I ain't seen this here on a log ass time. What is this now a PA warlock lane is pretty goaded
It sells a lot of those issues does some high damage, you know, oh pretty get some heals. Is that what's gonna happen?
Where's P.A. Golan? It's got a break if you buy the whole agonium scepter, right?
P.A. for facts. Oh dear oh my this is looking real good
Does the P.A. change who you want to run mid and who you want to run mid?
Why are you laughing?
I was just wondering if they would want to switch up anything because of the PA, but they're happy to just run the axe against them.
Yeah, I mean, I think axe with the blademail build is quite good at killing. PA down the line if you get there, but I feel like when you play against Warlock, PA, you kind of need to figure out the lane first, because that part is definitely the trickiest part.
These two heroes are extremely strong together on lane.
The Warlock heal combined with PA jumping in, a lot of daggers, a lot of slows.
You definitely do not want to feed kills away because if you start getting some kills away,
Warlock gets like, I think, two or three charges on his tomb.
He's level six on the XB rune, you're in for like a snowball treat.
That's not going to be fun.
I do.
The new PA got some changes where she has charges on her blink,
which makes it so that she can leave In-N-Out a lot easier.
It'll be harder to kill her when she can blink twice or punish them after they go for a kill
But he's still in a position where her fan of knives got you know relegated to add them stuff
They're too more expensive. It's harder to play against these heroes that you need to break
But I'm curious to see how this goes. Where's the four?
There's the four with axe. Is that witch doctor? I think it's shadow demon
There is reason to swap it you could put the SD on the safe thing to try to prevent be dragging
but I think with Profit Witch Doctor, they're probably gonna only pull a little bit and then
look for kills like you pointed out. They have quite a lot of damage to burst this because
she ranged.
Well, a lot of questions need to be answered in this game one of this best of five. And
to report the action we got the best, we got Captain SPG and first some of the ultra
best in the music department is the PogChamp Cateness.
Two months ago, Gandex played in the D2, and they went 23-1 in order to get a qualified
spot here in DreamLeague Season 27.
And now, they're matched up against the two-time TI champs.
They deserve it.
Every bit of it, this team has been on a roll.
It will make another grand final appearance here in the later half of this year, starting
to make a name for themselves.
to establish they are not a fluke. They have a lot more to work with than people thought.
We're gonna get our hands on some big team fight from Spirit early on and some strong
Laney. From Yandex we got some signature heroes for the tournament coming out for a lot of these
players, particularly looking at that Shadowed Demon for Soxa. Why would you give this guy
Shadowed Demon? That is disgusting. I'm also looking at the Fury on a hero that has
probably still been one of the fastest heroes of the patch. If you could execute that
early laning stage a little different from the carry than for the mid in terms
of that rotation ability but you get some extra maybe kills or damage with the
witch doctor you rotate into this pa lane could be pretty fast your free
index and I'm looking at that noticed axe to me notice has been the standout
player of the squad this event that's a killer games especially on this hero
and he could be set up for a lot of success with the rotation tutorial okay
this was a test of patience from him which he passed he did not go for
the batting rune, he did not try and run down lane, he did not get caught by the Shatterdemon,
but he did teleport out to lane, I almost expected that Yandex were going to see if he could get
a cheeky kill on it, but his team spirit were going to plop out with their own tri-lane,
go for the kill and watch an early Sunstrike kill, and it goes to Laurel.
Perfect execution there, not as patient.
On the Yandex safe lane, as spirit instantly strike, they do give up lane control bottom
to make this play happen.
No contest on that block means Yator will have his lane shoved out super far, but if
you get the Sunshade kill, you get that first blood on the exact hero you want in this Laurel
and Voker, which has been another signature of this event.
He is just destroying people on this hero.
Yeah, even in lower bracket final, a couple slip ups there, but let's talk about Phantom
Assassin because we got a lot of things to talk about for this hero.
This hero received some changes in the patch.
We're also going to see the sweet release facet, which I'm not sure how much you've
seen it.
think that this facet is the correct one to go now. I feel like this one actually got buffed up to
a point from previous batches that it's worth considering. Definitely been seeing some more
people play around with this, you know, the mid-tops and PA that he was playing for a little bit
with this facet was kind of going ham. Yeah. It gives you more damage, which is kind of what
you want on the hero. It gives you more ability to play off the daggers and the team
fight can give you some extra lane chase down potential I kind of dig it I think
the other passive wasn't doing enough for people to justify it ultimately if your
total feels like it's the correct play I would trust him because for me he is the
PA play this is his original hero and what do you think about the charges
change to that's a huge show it is no longer it's a longer cooldown it's a
12-second cooldown as opposed to what was a five-second cooldown but you get
to have two charges of phantom strength. That is very explosive. To me, this is a big buff.
I'm sure there'll be some people who say they rather have to better uptime, but getting
two of this spell that gives you a taxbie, being able to just jump in, get a bunch of
hits off with a taxbie, jump again, have to better uptime in that sense, and be able
to go in and out, that gives you a lot of flexibility in the fight. Makes this
hero a lot more of a true assassin, where you can jump a backline hero kill him and
still jump back to your team. Almost like I think how Ricky is supposed to play, but that
hero is just screwed up. And I think it's a perfect fit for your Toro. Your Toro wants
to be on a hyper late game carry, he wants to be on a traditional adju carry, to be
honest, he had his way a lot of the time, where he can scale that physical. And he's
also the kind of player who wants to be able to pick where and how he goes in the fight
and be able to reset Kichu around. We saw it on his warfling in the series earlier
today. He can take that fight a lot of ways, so this is a perfect hero for
him to shine on. Pretty quiet lane phase other than the first blood. See how aggressive
the index want to get on this axe, and I do think you have potential to run the PA or
at least the Warlock down in this lane, and you can always rotate the Witch Talk through
the gate, you can always keep you the fury onto that lane if you really want to.
And just keep you back top off of a kill. So that lane is super far up bottom,
I think there is some kill threat for yandex there they can also just go the route of stacking with the shatter team
But we haven't seen it as much for the play for a bit more aggression with the disseminate
Mid lane basically gonna be a wash
This top lane, I don't know if I love for yandex
Which doctor like every single time we're seeing him Maladik the tide hunter
But it's not like Furion has this explosive damage to follow that up and really capitalize on now, right?
You want fast damage, it takes advantage to the following ticks to Malatix, get, you know, as much damage as possible.
But here, it's just kind of like a sprout, one or two right-clicks, which collapse mostly ignores because he's got this, this block.
That's why I always want to see the Fury on Rotate, even though it's a safe lane one, because you don't have lane synergy up there.
You have no threat on this tide, which feels really bad for the Wish Doctrine.
I mean, look at how far this lane is.
Look at these denies!
Yutoro has been punishing notice big time!
They sure have!
That was four denies between the two of them.
He misses like that. Disaster of the...
Oh my god! Is he going to get a single creep out of this?
Sorry, got the range creep. Wonderful.
As well as a bunch of regen to work with is accumulating wand charges down here as well.
So I'm going to think about the Lotus one, Sox's way, and they both have an early stick plus wand.
So you're giving a lot of charges off these daggers.
Gives you even more offensive potential down here if you can eventually dive this PA or something.
Right.
And by the slack said, this is a goaded-length PA warlock.
Which I kind of laughed when he said it, but it actually is goaded in this instance
In this instance, where it's like you're being harassed by battle hunger, you've got Dagger to get rid of the battle hunger without getting close, and you've got the warlock for this distinct.
Here comes that witch doctor move, though. Malady already looking for it, does not mind getting solo XP to a fury on top.
We're getting the double connection, instant, of Toss and Teleport.
Yep, Rue's gonna be keeping up with Malady here. Two main Maladins, which is gonna do a lot of damage to both the fury and the axe is already dead.
Here comes a fury on the old Sunstrike. It lands and gets the kill.
Your torus probably going to take out here a lot of damage being spread out from that
maledict. That's the power of that facet right there.
That's the power of numbers on this lane.
This was always going to be the lane that Yandex attacked.
They're always going to be able to bring their entire safe lane here.
Spear, we're ready.
Nice snowball dodge, great Sunstrike land, but ultimately overwhelming damage
with that maledict on the maledict, dealing the extra thieves.
1200 damage from the witch doctor in that team fight
Panto is gonna show up and try and do a little bit extra damage actually your Toro makes an early rotation as well
Going after the witch doctor and it will collect on that kill. Thanks to the dagger a lot of turn around damage floral instant troubles
Once again, the snowball states that's been good from Rue and this time he actually gets his carry to survive
If that beer was on a better angle you might even get the DK out of that considering the bonds went through yeah
Yeah, yeah, really nice rotation from your Toro. I feel like every time we watch this kind of grand finals
He starts making these crazy carry rotations
Just feeling the moment putting a pressure on the enemies these guys are not going to choke
There's absolutely no question about so they're gonna put the pressure on you
And the index there are much more inexperienced team a lot younger
Still trying to prove themselves in these grand finals
You do not want to fall behind early in these games or early in this series, especially against this team
Yeah, they were not able to prove themselves in their last finals against Tundra
Win 3-0 there, but it does feel like Yandex. It's gotten even better since then.
This Dream League has been giving them a lot of opportunity for
number of games against top tier opponents
They've had some pretty grueling series as well. Many of their series has gone the distance the three games
Well, they're proving themselves for sure. Grand finals are just a different beast
So you can get that monkey off your back and win that one.
Sometimes that first one can feel so elusive.
Four socks at TI winner will give you some experience here, but I feel like the rest of
the squad is still searching for that first big win against a big opponent in a finals
with this squad.
Might have already done Flaural.
He's cooking this game.
This is a strong start for a hero that Spirit have gone back to time and time again.
Still have potential to rotate on this and go agree, still susceptible to annoying invasions,
still have a lot of aggressive potential down here.
Will be another flackery build up for the axe.
This did not go well for Axe XS in the game we saw earlier.
If your Yandex hopefully goes a lot better for notice, does give you a lot of aggressive
potential on this PA who's susceptible to the early nuke damage.
Long snowball I'm chasing after notice.
This is not going to be an easy kill. They stretch out pretty far and they're in danger of the Fury on counter rotation here.
The gloom is going to be dropped on the two supports here. Disruption goes out. They'll bind their time.
Takeout's top does the rest of the Andix retreat.
Lose nobody. Panto teeping the base, revives the battle hunger Maladict.
And with Collapse showing up, that is not a fight you can TP the Fury on into.
Even though Wrath bounced through, you tore just one of the trees and dodged it.
And they just sent the Invoker mid. He can contribute with Sunstrike and he can pressure your tower.
Maybe a little too far up here, though.
Yeah, Laurel. He was really aggressive there trying to hit that mid tower.
He did not respect at all, but the Dragonite could come back in the lane.
That almost felt like there was a miscommunication on calls or something.
Yeah.
As the Spirit said, there's nobody going back mid.
He just plays super far up.
Something got flipped up there.
That is not a death you should have given up, especially with the start he's had.
He didn't even feed the golem.
Next round is a gold.
Meanwhile, notice, giving you a total of business to need to jump and Rue helps give it to him.
Now those killer creeps get rid of the battle hunger.
This is the Axe BA matchup. You can always force this guy off the wave.
Slow down his progression towards that battle fury, but it's kind of a slow laning phase for notice.
Overall, the factory's done, but he's the poorest core here.
Even with the rotations coming through, the early CS ward didn't favor him too much. He had to spend a lot on regen as well.
He bought at least two salves, extra tangos. That PA Warlock did its job, man. Just wears through you.
And it limits how aggressive you can be in the early phases of those lanes.
I do think I like the black dream more in this matchup because he's got a lot of other
heroes on his team that can set up fights for him.
Right?
Like the Dragon Knights going to be able to just, you know, walk in with Dragon form
ranged on somebody.
You've got the Furion that's going to be coming in.
The biggest one is the Shatterdeme Disruption, which allows him to walk in and get the call.
And the Flaktery just adds a lot more damage, which is great when you have this Maladin.
I agree, it looks a lot better in terms of synergy with the line-up that is the XG game we watched.
I also think Konda looks great in this game. Any braids you can build.
On the side of the index, you're looking at Konda, you're looking at the Shatterdeme Dags.
You're able to go and break Tide?
I was going to bring up Kandah, but like every single time I brought up Kandah, he doesn't build it, so...
Sure, but it's still something you think about way later down the line.
Well, not that you get it faster.
But I do think some of these late-game breaks could be influential against Tide and PA.
They're both pretty nice break targets.
I also think Flackery is effective against Agi carries if you're going to play against somebody.
Sure.
So, it does make sense here on a lot of levels.
It's just a question of can you get skirmish value out of it?
Spirit, they just keep bringing heroes to the safe lane.
They do not want to let this tower fall.
They do not want to let your throw get forced into the jungle
before he's close enough to that battle fairy to make it efficient.
And nobody is touching this hide early on in this game.
Yeah, you have to maledict, but as you brought up earlier,
OK, you go maledict this hide, who
is doing the damage to activate maledict.
I just don't see it here in the very early game.
And the funny part is, Klaas has only got one level
of Kraken shell.
So, like, theoretically, he's a little susceptible to being gone on.
He's gonna be so strong if he gets his aggs out fast.
If the max points are gushed,
just showing up to all these early teamfights with this build is gonna do so much damage.
Smoke wrap around after the mid tower being taken.
This is the one exposed point for Team Spirit.
They's Laurel.
They can't go for bottom.
They can't go for top, but they can keep killing Laurel.
Good little kill there. Even Wrath coming through.
I'll just get a little extra gold for Wattson this.
Pretty much the exact kill you want off the exact move.
Taking this mid tier one, finding Invoker once or twice, that's the DK MO against this hero.
Thank you, step Laurel back.
Trade off is, you're giving an empty lane to this PA, and pretty much have to choose
between making moves against Vitoro or making moves against Laurel.
We always have that aggressive capability, but you can only do so much here in the
early game.
And up his price to see them make a move bottom with this DK Blink to try and take that to
a 1.
This dragon form is going to be taken out soon, so maybe an extra dragon form.
Big stacks, how many stacks have we got on these sides?
It doesn't feel like with Team Spirit playing out, placing most of their supports in the
bottom lane, they are not going to have nearly as many stacks.
So Yandex are going to get the better of the economy in that regard.
those two cores there as they're trying to amp up the aggression you can't
brought the P8 mid. Kind of interesting maybe Yatoro worried about getting gank
bottom or worried about his invoker getting ganked again. Yeah there's a lot
of heroes off map because they were clearing out that ancient stack so
maybe he thought it was a smoke gank to him. Wouldn't surprise me because I
think that is the next natural move for you index is to make another smoke
play with this dj into that bottom lane. Threaten the tier one with the
Fury on port in, if you're just sitting on that wave, you're gonna get called, you're gonna get cast
off of a DK stun lead, so...
You're totally definitely a little scared about where he is on the map right now and where he's able to farm in.
Like, Cheer Junior, he's not scared at all.
He's starting to take away space on his own.
Again, heroes are off map for Yandex.
Spirit scared to show on waves right now.
They have three cores jungling.
Well, we got to the battle theory for you, Taro.
Pretty decent timing, 13 and a half minutes.
Honestly, I would consider this a great timing for what he was up against and how much the
index could have collapsed on him.
Sure.
Especially without farm, the tide is too.
Like that's the big factor.
This tide can defend this tower, he can run interference on the map, he can slow
the game down which is what the invoker PA want right now. I feel like whenever you get into this
position where you take in the enemy safe lane tower and you're able to fold your own, you also
control the gates which means that for a hero like Phantom Assassin she can just kind of bounce
between the sides of the map here played up both of these ancient camps. The spirit
arc deals with the pressure in the bottom lane she's like okay let's just go to the other side
farm up some ancients over there. That stacking is important for the index because they're
They're basically only controlling one of the four engines right now. Yeah, if you stack it up, it'll negate to that advantage
They're kind of making a late smoke to this four team in a wisdom shrine, but
And they're checking out a triangle, but
Nobody there again the PA goes through the gate takes the instance on the other side
So if they were to move straight up they would find their mark
But they don't make that read this is all a product of how strong this type of is they feel they cannot make this smoke
like into the bottom lane where it's not showing.
It's not the bottom.
Yeah, you get a support, but...
This is not the PA, this is not the evoker you're looking for.
What's it?
What were you hitting? He's got him!
That's a massive find.
He hit a streak too!
Yeah.
Okay, all of a sudden, Yatoro's almost got a full-out Yasho.
That's just not a kill that should happen, especially with the vision.
From the index, they have double Hobbs up there in that upper jungle.
Watson felt very safe farming this area, not expecting to move from the upper ancients down.
Yep. Especially with the smoke, they cleared it out.
What was that, Laurel? A panic reaction?
It's a bad stone on the ground. Not like this.
This is an awkward situation for Yandex. You're just staring at this hide down here.
Ag's already done level 12. Do you want to go on this guy?
I mean, if you go on him, you know the team spirit's gonna TP in.
It does not look like a good fight if you go on him.
At the same time, this is where you want to make the play.
Gonna need a good disruption here because
SpiritGiGiR's in trouble, got the disruption off,
but Sox is now exposed, and they're still
gonna hit the ravage on two and a third in the back line.
Malletage, he's gonna make his TP away.
No crits for Utoro, so.
Successful TP up, but yeah, the index just kind of feels
forced to make a bad move.
That almost felt like a defensive pressure scenario,
where Spirit were just waiting for Yandex to throw on this Potomly.
They put him in a spot where there was no clear move to make.
They lost their Fury on top.
They're feeling like they're falling behind in this game
and the one move that they have is into this unmovable target.
You could see the indecision.
That was not a clear smoke into jumping tide.
Let's see if we can kill him.
That was...
We're gonna linger around here
and then we kind of just get jumped in.
Oh, this play looks pretty bad and it was bad.
That witch doctor ward is not enough to clear through this tide hunter on its own.
Well, now the next question is, like, I understand that was a move that didn't feel great, but shouldn't you kind of go back to it now that Ravage is on cooldown?
Yes, now you should just run at this tower and absolutely kill it in this time period.
You don't necessarily need to break DK in that move anymore, Spirit, or are likely going to abandon it, but it's sort of its purpose for Spirit,
spirit which was to slow the game down get the heroes to some key timings and protect all these
ancient camps which again Pia continues to farm this top ancients the tide to clear out the bottom
ones and the invoker is clearing their triangle this is where this gold lead is coming from right
now and would not be surprised if it's contributing to the experience lead which is also favoring
spirit yeah I'm surprising given how much handex has grouped up run around together looking for kills
A lot of tumblr toys.
People still loving that item.
S&Y almost done for your Toro.
He done even faster as he clears out through the ancients.
And Klaps is looking for a blink dagger in time with his next ravage.
Seems like a threat down here. You have 4 points in the melee now.
Teleport in if they can hold them inside for the ward to go to work.
They got here, Junior, on the other side. It's fine, they got it.
That'll delay the blink dagger and make that ravage coming up, that timing is not going to quite sync up for him.
Just a big kill to open up the map. You had to get this rock out of your way.
Especially with this bottom tier 1 going down now, you can kind of farm out all this area.
Your furion can sit in your triangle until then you can shift that net worth back your way while maintaining threat around the map.
You have to get value out of the witch doctor like that.
This is why you pick the hero so that you can threaten, tide, and kick him out of areas.
of areas. Yeah you always say you don't like Witch Doctor because he just provides damage
from a five position so if you're going to play Witch Doctor you kind of have to get kills.
There's no other way to play it. You could play the heal Witch Doctor because you need it a long
time. Yeah. His stun is very unreliable, it's very low cast range, the hero's very slow.
The one thing he gives you is he can give you that extra damage amp but you need damage
to enable it. It's a very tricky hero to make work in competitive gameplay.
Hopefully there's out here four Tormentor bull teams here very early. Very early. More awkward
for the handex like they're they move the axe up there then they keep the axe out
and now are you gonna run the axe straight back there to contest it? Yeah the earlier
teams fear it plays for it the worse the handex is gonna be because the only
Ward that they have is this one right in front of the tower.
Still very good Ward.
It is a very good Ward, unless Team Spirit's already
kind of set up on Dorm Enter.
The only way you're going to test this
is if you just smoke three or four people.
Do a BKB on Dragonite, so you have the capability
to take this fight.
JirJunior very strong on the frontline
with Essence Ring on top of that BKB
with all the armor.
Five is time for Watson to TP in.
Hey, I really thought Team Spirit was going to be playing to this with the Ravage.
Maybe they still will, but Yandex is going to be there first.
They already have a greater healing load on Kla'av, so we're going to mention there.
That's a lot of extra HP against a Validic blind up.
Jump on a Kla'av, force them to use a Ravage here.
Nobody else is here to take advantage of the Ravage, and with the Validic, they're going to kill this Tidehunter.
Snowball pick up a little delay event in fact that will dodge some of the Validic damage as well.
He planks away after the Snowball, and he looks like he's out.
Oh, what a Cataclysm!
With the Golem! Okay, a lot of it was dodge there!
Yandex do not take a whole lot of damage.
They looked for one little moment there.
Like, the Golem's stun was gonna set up a Cataclysm surprise move.
But, Yandex, they get out of the way.
They take that fight.
And they can go back to taking the Tormenter.
Team Spirit will have to give this up.
Nice Delta Split plus.
Which Dr. Shard dodged it? Disruption dodged it?
Your two supports are safe.
DKB on the Dragonite means he can tank anything. That secures you a Shadow Demon Shard.
The better one to get here.
You already have the Witch Doctor, but this is a really good cleanse game.
Throw that on the DK on the frontline.
You can just chase people down.
I do kind of wonder what the communication was like there for teams to hear it.
I mean, Tormentor is already spawned.
Maybe the rest of the team...
That's almost looked incredible.
I agree. It's a little awkward.
Like, this tide isn't a free front line in this game, and they know that.
You're worried about the taunt off the call.
You're worried about the Maladek damage outing up.
You bail him out, but the fight's not great.
You have to ravage early.
And there was also no rush to get to Tormentor because we saw earlier Panto
was set up in that area, and they had a ward down.
So it's not like the, you know, collapse is like, ah, I got to get to the
Tormentor now because Yandex could be doing it.
I just don't think that's the house. I don't think that fight is that easy for spirit to take at this point the game with the dragon
I be kibby
It's hard for your tide to frontline
The index have
Always slightly better single target damage unless you can land like this thick and Voker combo
But I guess there's a world if you just hold torment for high ground and they walk up the ramp
You just ravage cataclysm obviously they're all gonna die. Yeah, theory. I don't know how often that place should happen
I feel like the fight was very possible because they had this axe for the ennobling, right?
Like that first axe reveal could have been so powerful with a blink dagger reveal on time.
But as it is, instead, Collapse, who's having such a great game, has now died back to back in this top lane.
And it looks like Panto's gonna get run down as well with those two dying.
And the dragon form used probably means that Yandex get this off-lane tower.
They take over the Triangle.
A lot of things just swung Yandex's way over the last two minutes.
And he's gonna amend them on this axe as well.
He keeps his bonded right now, but he's going to chase these heroes out of here.
Oh, he actually caught with Blink Tumblr.
Yeah, it just gets that distance, but the rest of the team is a little too far away.
They don't know what's lurking in that high ground.
So definitely the part of the game where Yandex are going to take over.
just a question of was the early game so good for spirit that they're able to
push through this mid game it get to the late game where I don't think we really
seen them lose a late game with Invoker yeah like it takes a severe amount of
outplay so they're confident in the scale right now I mean a lacquery PA is
pretty disgusting almost as disgusting as a lacquery case use them decent
heroes though you will always have this demonic purge you always have this
Blink Blink now call pretty hard to itemize against this if you're the PA
Blink for Blink notice one step ahead of Rue
You see the spirit to have all this team fight, but no real solid way to
Kind of just comes out of the tusk
Which if you use the tusk offensively you will not have the deans of snowball to bail someone out of an axe call or something
Yeah, so double-edged sword as well and would you lack that initiation?
I feel like it's even worse when the enemy has a safe right like you're one initiation
You drop everything on that well then the disruption goes out that kind of makes things really awkward though
Ravage can be a good backline
He tool I sure used to be a old-school counter to be shattered even high O type heroes because you go in on the target
Start bursting him down you ravage behind him you catch the saves coming through there's a quick pick off on the witch doctor who
Oh, he tanks that smoke. This is the BKB timing for Yatoro, so they feel a lot more confident to go in aggressively. They can get PA in the middle of the fight.
Jira Junior is apparently very confident as well. He just watched Malady die, and look at Collapse. Oh, that's so funny, man.
He's sitting on his anchor to make sure Jira Junior can't kill it easily. Then the Golem dropped to stop the TP out, completely countered.
Jira Junior, zero respect there. How he just got ganked in the mid-blank.
That was a little disrespectful, especially when you didn't have full vision of that play.
You could never be given ETP out in this game, both the Force have to cancel.
That is just a freebie for Spirit.
The Index, they have the gold lead in this game, their fury on Super Strong, if you
only can get the fight for Roshan, that's just an easy Aegis for your tour.
Now he can absolutely go in the middle of the fight.
And he deals some serious damage, he's a problem.
You could purge him, but PA can play around purge with blinks.
So now you really have to land this axe ball in the PA to control him if you're taking
a fight or just completely dodge this period.
I mean, Furion is normally great at playing these kind of dodge periods of the mid-game
and just farming up.
The issue is, are you confident going ultralink here against this invoker?
It's always scary, then.
I mean, PA versus Furion, a late game invoker, and two really big team fight spells in the warlock tide.
I don't think I want to go late game up on the Andix. I want to take over this game in the next 10, 15 minutes and try to at least get a big network lead if not close it out.
Maybe Hedvicks is more confident than I am.
You just might not have a choice at this age, you might just have to farm and then try and
take over the game in the 10 minutes after that.
Some clutch MKB timing on your cores.
Sure.
Get a break somewhere if you can get it up in time.
The break is not looking close, but it will be MKB for the Furion.
Notice wants to go back for a BKB, which is understandable, and then he's even thinking
about shard and Lotus. Radiant of Scanning.
Oh, he'll be MTV. He does have a Q up. That's insane. There's no evasion on the field.
Yeah, I would have thought it was just a satanic build up.
Yeah, it didn't, she's normally like your best counter to this axe call nonsense.
You just have way higher HP, you can light steal through the blade mail, get another
dispell.
MKB doesn't strike me as yet, I'm here though it is the way more offensive item
if you just want to take this game over right now.
Sure.
Interesting, I'm not sure what prompted this because I don't look at this game
and go, this is an MKB Phantom Assassin.
Did he think that Butterfly was gonna go butterfly on the theory on or something?
It is a potential buildup, but not the one that Watson's currently going,
because Watson, he obviously wants an MKB.
Alright, he can't win the...
He can't do anything to his PA without MKB reliably.
And you...
This is like top carry match anyway.
Maybe he just expects, you know, a vision from the Neutrolian club.
Socks have gotta be spotted here.
Disruption, dodges, both the Cataclysm and the Meteor.
We will be burned out all the stank.
That's not the guy you want to run into around this map.
Small lead being built up for Two Spirit here. They got some really good wards out as well during this period.
And a full four minutes on both of these obs that are in Upper Dyer Jungle.
So those are really good words they can go back to even if this Aegis expires.
You're definitely going to see Furion farming on these.
One gets killed.
That's mega valuable.
I doubt this other one gets killed though.
MKB done for Watson, he's level 20.
Kind of one of his better points to try and take the fight to the PA once this Aegis expires.
You can get the axe calling, just keep you the Furion on there, or if he's in the play already.
You can take this PA down, you can just pop all of your BKBs, ignore the Tidehunter.
You can ignore some of the Invoker damage, you're only worried about one core at that point.
And that's the guy you're going on and bursting down, so I think that sort of gameplay looks pretty solid right now.
But of course, still have Aegis for a minute, so it's pretty awkward to make this play right now.
Moving ahead of their Furion, Furion pushing out the bottom lane, they'll cut through this bottom jungle area.
Playing to their ward that's a little bit farther south, nothing on that ward so they go back to the mid-ward area.
Toro's just running into him here, but Yatoro, he's right in the middle of all these heroes.
Two men called the two supports though.
Notice, somehow still fights an opening.
The ravage goes down though. Yatoro very low in the MKB and he dies.
That's going to be the Aegis though, and Watson, he's already used his BKB.
This is going to be very awkward for him. Yatoro's just going to go for him and clean, and up.
A cheer junior has no allies left.
Notice, Yatoro already made his initiation.
Collapse goes in, hits him with the anchor, backs out before he dies.
And an ultra kill for Yotaro.
The only thing that denies this man is another rampage on his resume.
His note is getting the hell out of there.
One and none of that.
Again, that fight, honestly, it's okay for Yandex.
They can win that fight if there is no Aegis on this band in the south.
That is the biggest difference, thinker there.
And that is why that whole smoke is just questionable to begin with.
Because how is your period going to kill this PA twice?
and survive the entire time unless you are axe calling the PA.
Yatoro just ran into the mean nose. If he breaks this initial play, it's great.
You lose your supports, but Yandex lose theirs to the PA Cleave.
Yeah, that situation, like no PA. Watts is just probably able to
keep the fight going against the Tide, kill him.
Essentially go to Pace, come back. I mean, there's a lot of HP on the Dragon Bay too,
just he gets kited down at the end.
That fight looks very different without two lives on Yatoro, but
Spirit know that, I mean that's why they're kind of leading the charge into that smoke lane.
All of a sudden, the Spano sass is 10-1 pushing towards that satanic.
It was also two lives on row as he fought back for that one.
Collapses gonna get through the gate here and join his team for taking second tournament.
And you get to the satanic on PA, he's just a beast.
I think the only thing that will kill you Toro and stop him in the fight at that point is
chain-studying this axe call, DK stun with Fury on top.
Finally spawns and one of the sports will get a shard. It's the warlock
I don't remember there's a lack ready they can go on this guy to an extra hundred damage
Pretty nasty spell
This PA is already hitting so damn hard
I'm trying to think if there's a way Yandex can stop the snowball save going out
You have to consider that like if you go in and get the axe call in this PA
someone needs to check the tusk because if the tusk points snowball saves him you're probably screwed in that exchange as well.
You can potentially play to insta-dk stun the tusk as the call goes in or vice versa.
Sometimes you can build an orchid to deal with him as well but your options are pretty limited right now.
Everybody's just trying to survive in these fights.
Especially when it feels like Spirit are gonna have the vision advantage because
they have a Sheeva's down the Titanium. So he's gonna be going in, pop the Sheeva's,
getting good idea of what the battle looks like. It's all about the jump here
for you next. They need to find a good target.
I slayed the first one out. Yeah, but can you see him? Oh they saw him. They saw him on the
Creepway vision. Socks up, quick to pounce, trying to get any vision they can. Yatoro, he goes to Malady, makes a run for it, uses his second blink to get away.
So elusive. Doesn't have BKB now though, so it isn't opening for Yandex with no-
Yeah, they'll get at least something out of this. They'll kill the Warlock and his Golem. So it's a win for Yandex, but not the massive win it could have been.
Look at Socks that go, man! What a monster! He says they can't fight, they can't fight, go, go, go!
but the Ravage is the FOUR! The Cataclysm they can't fight! Oh god! It all goes wrong for Yandex.
Collapse? God. I mean if one of these guys doesn't get you, the other one will.
You just walked into the perfect teamfight combo.
Trying to force the issue. You knew the PA is weak, but it's not the PA who kills you here.
It is that Cataclysm Ravage that does you absolutely dirty.
That's a fight where the PA did basically the same damage as the Shattered even yeah
He did nothing in that engage. He didn't have to do it all moral. It was all collapse
It was just a ravage cataclysm in your top
That almost felt like a form of pressure in terms of this game has become punting the PA
Trying to find the PA dealing with the PA's timings and then you have this momentary lapse of oh
Wait, they also have a bunch of a week you fight in this line up
Hehehehe
Glad's having a good giggle of that one
He's like, yeah, you forgot about me
You won't make that mistake again
Yeah, who's the real goat?
Roshan
For Team Spirit, off of that fight
Well, you index!
Time for
Miracle
Uh, Plan C?
Plan D?
It's playing F
Time to...
I don't know
Plan G?
GG?
This is gonna be a tough
High ground to hold your fear. I just can't stand his ground
The only reason he survives is because he's so slow. Yeah, the gosh and the daggers throwing him down so much will not get crit there
Your tour was just been an item ahead of this year, which is pretty disgusting since fear is always supposed to be ahead
But he has his full satanic online pushing towards 25
5. Watson was thinking about going satanic, which again I think MKB satanic on the Furion
is your best way to stand your ground against the PA, till he has like an aphiskal or something.
But he never got there so now he has to consider AC or something.
I think you have to go satanic on Furion here. I don't think AC keeps you alive. It
helps your other satanic keep you alive? Maybe a little bit like satanic plus Daedalus?
If you land some crits and you stand there into the PA, it's possible.
Low game of cat and mouse with that damage is just not right here.
It's just not right right there.
I don't know.
This hero is still so stupid sometimes.
And it glides near Meteor.
It does some work.
And Meteor and AW damage is huge.
So pretty much just game plan for Yandex is you just have to be thinking about what ultra
late looks like and if you can get there.
Refresher on axe.
More scale on this dragon knight who's just really far behind this game.
Cheer junior.
Oh like since he got ganked on that triangle, like he tried to BKB with the hanker.
Yeah, yeah, since that death, I don't think he's had anything go for it.
No, he is the lowest farmed core, which is very rare to say for Dragonite, because it's a hero that farms pretty quickly
and obviously can fight very well, take early towers, like there's so many things that makes Dragonite good right now.
Fights just didn't go their way and he was the frontline initiator in a lot of those fights, so when they go bad, he always pays the iron price.
Still two minutes on the clock for this Aegis. The Toro is having item slot issues, but that's a good problem to have.
Could wait and farm his Abyssal, or you can just drop the banner and go and he decides to just go.
Does not have faith that Yandex can stop him right now.
Do they have buybacks? They have a Dragon Knight buyback and a Shadow Demon buyback.
So, Axe is kind of all in, and he put the Dragon Tail kind of around and kill him with the Blade Mail.
That's one.
Okay.
Notice he's stuck here.
He might have to use his BKB just to get out.
Pops the BKB, his collapse jumps in.
I wanted to force it here.
The collapse, he'll chill.
Wait, Ryu goes back in as the BKB expires here.
The disruption, he's going to be in the meter.
The Ravage goes out, he blinks away, but still the other heroes can't jump away.
Three kills with the Ravage Cataclysm.
A fourth goes to Yatoro.
And now the buybacks go in.
Yandex, this is a must win fight.
The game is over.
They can't get something out of this situation.
A rolling from Rue.
Going after Yatoro.
Yatoro blows him up.
Tornado toss up on Tildes.
They reset, and they go straight for the throne.
Yandex fighting for their lives,
and they won't be fighting long.
This is Team Spirit all the way.
A second ultra kill for the man.
As he won this game, 16 and 1,
on one of his absolute signature heroes, Instant DC.
It's been some time since I've seen a carry instantly DC from a game in victory and not in shame.
But it will happen here for Yotaro in Game 1.
That was a beatdown.
I mean, we saw some of the power in like the mid-game, but that early game was not strong enough.
It's another Flaaq reaction game that just doesn't snowball.
They can get enough connection power with the Fury on there's a lot of little execution things that could have gone better for Yandex,
but ultimately, it felt like there were too many problems to solve.
They were thinking this entire game, we're talking this entire game,
The Phantom Assassin, the Phantom Assassin, the Toro, how do I deal with him? How do I kill his PA in the fight? How do I axe call? How do I de-case them? Am I going to build breaks?
And ultimately, two of these late game fights, they got one?
Ravage Cataclysm. Yes, got him in the river and got him in the base.
David, you can't prepare for everything at some point, especially against some of these world class teams in finals. You have to take the assertive approach.
Can't be reactionary. Can't be, how am I going to deal with this, how am I going to deal with this, has to be...
Now, we're gonna jump to you. We're gonna make you deal with our problems.
And I felt like Yandex were just trying to respond to what Spirit were throwing at this entire game.
So, for me, that's the biggest thing they have to switch up going into Game 2, but they can absolutely do that.
Strong team.
Well, in preparation for this finals, we were talking to Insania backstage,
and he said, you know, when it comes to a best-of-five, Game 1, it's just a bit of foreplay.
Insane me at comments. Why did you say that? You can't say that.
I feel like what I've learned during this event is don't talk in the green room, but every day is public.
I think you in particular are getting the short end of the stick here.
Yeah.
It's like he's the new guy, let's let me know.
This is your haze.
Let's let's talk about this game as it did feel like especially this fight right here.
It kind of felt like it was uh it was over pretty fast or the game dragged on for a long
time slacks but the writing was on the wall. Yeah it was on the wall. It was very sad. I mean
there was a lot of weird heroes in this one so it made it rather exciting compared to most.
I have to say I mean that witch doctor got not worked out. In fact I'll give it a oh no.
We can eat it for as long as you can't say that.
You just can't keep doing this. I mean that's some melodic fills for sure but that's a hero
We'll always do that for you, but as we saw in the screen it really felt like as the game progressed
they were getting these ravages on top of
Cataclysms on top of this hyper fat PA and it felt like there was no solution at that point. It did and I was kind of surprised about the PA to be
Effective I was surprised it was effective
But I think it was just one of those cases where you're just picking a hero that he's kind of into and
He had the lane that he needed and then he just didn't die
And they did win some team fights, but it felt to me that that game was more or less
Advantage through ravaged cataclysms like that was actually where they started making gigantic games and they're worth
I think that was like the close the closer the game closer was like the
Cataclysms on the ravaged for I think what was really impressive for me was the way yet
Or was moving around in the early game like first 10 minutes this guy was mid level four
Do you know what his warlock? They were like really
Amping the warlock. He was getting all these book charges. They were trading kills. They even like made some move
on their lane where Watson tp'd in and turned the fight around and like two of them died
But they get one kill and to get a book charge and they go mid do it again
They they really were trying to like prove how bad like the other facet of warlock is and I feel like they did a really good job
of that
Yeah, very good very good friends
There's I mean there was one big fight where everything kind of clicked even more so for spirits
I didn't I didn't show the ravage cataclysm. I do have some clips. I didn't show the ravage cataclysm ones
They're very cool, but the previous two fights which were relatively impactful this one near the tier one tower was fantastic here
It was a sheer junior trying to cut the creep wave a little bit
And they did a little bit of setup really early aggs on the tide
Well allows you to disable your opponents from early on they did their first round of nukes great disruption from socks are coming
From the side but he's gonna pay for that with his life and then being able to save the rabbit until after that
Just made this team fight in skirmish so so straight straightforward
So that fight was pretty big, and here's the other one, still only 2K advantage here for teams here.
Amazing call there by notice catching both heroes on the back line, which made the fight look pretty good.
And the first Aegis gets traded for Watson's BKB, but being able to run him down afterwards with PA respawning
was really what kind of like solidified this second team fight.
Chirodreamers BKB is running out at this point too, so they get to run him down.
So just kind of getting a nice 4 for what, 2? And there was a buyback for Tusk.
for Tusk, so those are the two most crucial fights that I saw, other than until there was
Ravage Cataclysms.
I do think picking PA in this position is just very impressive.
Like obviously Warlock PA, that's a really old school lane combination, but since PA
got nerfed a few patches ago, not many people are willing to touch her, the fact that they
talked about this and cooked this up and executed it in such a way was really impressive
because at some point it did look like Axe was getting a lot out of that off lane.
Itoro is like moving around, he was meeting spells sometimes, he still managed to find his form.
And when you look at that hero versus what Yandex had, it felt like it fit all the builds, right?
Furion, it jumps on it, Furion hates carry to carry matchups, so he gets jumped.
He jumps the backline, and Estee and Witch Doctor, they can't defend themselves.
It looked like a really good pick.
Yeah, I mean, absolutely. I think that's like one of the things that is really cool about
players like Itoro, Ame, I would say, Sathonic 2.
They sometimes like see these heroes that are not in meta, but they see the right angle for it
Like this is the one game where it's gonna be good
I'm not saying it's probably not gonna be PA every game, but it was really good this game
And I think especially with Warlock like obviously I'm thinking about it from Warlock's perspective
It's like the best feeling in the world and was not witch doctor skating. Oh
No, no, but hey his line was not too bad. I mean, yeah, he did his little job there
He kind of put his pressure if you will
can I just say as a level 30 axe we're gonna go for the item that is not
blink blade mail for I'm not everybody goes black tree I don't care about
black tree okay acts is what is it called acts is on a race against time to
get the link blade mail especially against a PA I know it could be good
in games but blink blade mail crimson is that a hero without those fuck you
You can't be getting out of the thing that quick.
Effie?
Black group.
Black group.
That's what he said.
He's not the blame on PA.
I'm just saying, like, I'd like a little bit,
if they're going to pull out something like PA,
adjust your build, too.
You know, get a little crafty.
It's for laning reasons.
But we wanted to get into details.
It's laning.
What do you mean?
It would great.
You had to move around and like, OK, so this was,
it's still genius.
Because you know, you want to get book charges on Warlock,
but you can't because this axe and ST are laning too well
and then you're forced to move out of your lane and do other stuff and find the place elsewhere
which I think is like truly Mark of Genius, Omnitoro.
Uh, sorry.
No, it's fine.
I will talk about this first 10 minutes till the end of time.
That's fine, we can talk about it later again because we've got another game coming up
but as you know, I mean there's a lot of stuff happening during Dream League
that are not always Dota related, better yet,
the competitions that are here, yes, there's multiple,
Not all of the competitions are within the Game of Dota 2.
Previously on Esports Career Shuffle, it's been two goddamn weeks and Skeeter still hasn't figured out how to use the microwave.
Keeps going on about how it makes pretty lights when you put spoons in.
Skeeter, this thing with the microwave?
Not good, you're out.
I was this close to solving the mystery of the magic box.
Now, only two contestants remain.
Who will survive, and who will be un-retired?
Find out on the season finale of Esports Career Shuffle.
After spending three weeks as talent, I gotta say, this is EZ.
Just because I've been on Team Liquid for a bunch of years doesn't mean I don't know how to do basic stuff.
I mean, I've watched my private chefs do it, like at least ten times.
Hello, the sea sucks.
It's been almost a month at this point and I don't understand how these people function.
It feels so simple like you warm up before a series.
It's common sense.
All these maniac talent do is just play among us on their Steam decks for 14 hours a day.
This is about Quidditch.
Oh, yeah, that's pretty sus.
And that's just the panel warm up.
You do not want to warm up with the casters
I want you to say it as if your dog just died
Some of the pros have had trouble adjusting to the life of a talent, sure, but we're mostly
worried about Insania.
For some reason he just keeps messing with the flow on the panels.
They have been winning last two laps!
Pause, pause, audio problems.
One sec.
Does he have sugar?
I asked for no sugar.
Uh, no.
I don't.
I don't.
All right, G.
I don't, I don't...
Alright, G.
Go on, ready?
Okay.
Tundra's been doing really well.
Oh!
I need to reboot.
Ready?
Ready?
Yeah, ready.
Alright, G.
Tundra's been doing really well.
It's easy, man. You can pause whenever you want. They don't care.
You gotta be loud, man. You gotta loosen up, man. Get loud about it, you know?
I just... I just don't think that's my job. I'm... I'm here to be an analyst.
Analyze loud, man! I mean, okay, each life or death, you know?
If you're out there, your dad's about to buy the wrong item, you gotta tell him not what to do, right?
What?
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Except that one guy that looks like a custom character from a cutscene.
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Got all these people with big D energy.
What guy?
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And we're in our Grand Finals.
We are heading into the second game of this Grand Finals and we got teams paired
up one game over Yandex and, well, it's just game one, four play, as they say.
What?
That's what it's saying, yeah, said.
Oh, I say, okay, a warm-up.
That's what other people sometimes say.
A warm-up game.
Okay.
And we did see Yandex be very successful against Team Spirit yesterday.
So I would imagine they have more left in their tank other than the game we just saw.
If you want to see from them this game, to turn it around.
I think I want to see more activity around the mid lane that goes in their favor.
Because when they beat Spirit the other day, that is how they did it.
They were just bringing the numbers.
They were bringing their cores to that mid lane, and they were making sure Laurel didn't have a game.
Because it does feel like when Laurel is playing recovery, Spirit have a lot less moves to make on the map.
Like Watson was active in that last game, but he was active on the enemy safe lane instead of the enemy mid lane.
Uh-oh.
There you have it.
Make a mistake.
Yeah.
Make a mistake.
I forget about this hero.
Go ahead and save it.
I mean this is like a hero you cannot give collapse.
said in many interviews this is my favorite hero to play this is my most skilled hero do not give
me this hero in interviews oh that is bad as a victim like when primal beast was released
he was very very strong and nobody was playing him because he was that strong except collapse
who was like i'm gonna shit on everyone i was a victim of him running like playing this in pubs
I think he played a part like 50 games in a row or something. Yeah, and I was giving it to him a lot at the time and just getting
Absolutely smacked around so he absolutely is one of the best primals
um
I was in the green room
Saying things about laurels and goker and is still casting in the early game. Oh, which was not very much on point
Uh, later on very very good, uh, you know, he went from like bought lot laurel to prime laurel towards the end
um
But I'm still surprised they decided to ban it.
I feel like, while yeah, cool flashy combos and all this stuff,
it didn't really feel like the impact was that high that you would trade a collapsed Firmyl for it.
However, Shadow Demon does have a pretty good matchup into Firmyl Beast.
You can always disrupt the target that he's bashing into the ground.
So even when Firmyl gets BKB, you have a way to counter it.
Also, if you put the Purge on him, he can't charge away.
And you amplify damage on him with your W, so this tanky hero can die.
I think the idea with the Invoker ban is that they don't want to give Laurel heroes that are hard to pressure from the mid lane.
Like if he's on his typical melee mid, if Invoker is taken out and it's not a good game for a puppy or something like that,
then there are more heroes in the pool to address it. Whereas Invoker does feel a bit hard to bully out right now.
He's looked quite stable the last few days.
Yeah, he's a good hero to recover your own.
I feel like he, Laurel, maybe isn't like the most oppressive laner usually in how he plays
and when people try to like pressure him, having like a nice recovery way into the game is quite nice for him
So are they happy with their Shadow Demon for a primal trade?
In match-up-wise it's good, it's just power level problems
Will there be a pugnop?
I hope there's a pugnop, please
What a goaded opportunity for a nice pugnag against Primal Beast, that's a traditional counter.
He's just one pugnabiper, don't you?
Indeed indeed.
Okay, so we are going to let them have Primal Beast, you know?
Is this a big enough answer with the Shadow Demon?
Is there a number one, one-to-one pick this hero versus Primal Beast
to kill the greatest in the world at it?
You would have to phone up Malrin to find out.
Malrin?
Yeah, but I consider Shadow Demon to be quite good.
I'll say on the list of support heroes, this is like Alec, Shadow Demon, Alec, Clock.
I know we used to play Spirit Breaker and Tusk against it as well, but my personal favorites are SD and Clock.
However, last game, Viper was banned from Spirit. They were through this time. They deemed the Jikiro to be more of an issue.
I guess they want to allow Collapse. I mean, this is kind of like it shows you how they prioritize.
If it's between letting Collapse have a rougher time or Laurel, the choice is easy for them.
they would rather enable Collapse and let Laurel have a bit of a tougher time.
And maybe they think if they ban the Jikiro they force the stranger support picks out
of Malady.
He hasn't been playing the most traditional heroes when things like Jikiro get banned
out, but this Viper pick early on to me is along the lines of how they beat Spirit
last time.
Yeah.
It's like just suffocate the mid lane, make it as difficult as possible because yeah
when we do talk about Spirit the Shining Stars are Collapse and Utorial, but if
Laurel doesn't have a good lane, they don't have tempo.
Often Spirit will play the tempo through the Laurel plus Vue combination.
And if you take that away, it makes it a lot easier.
But Team Spirit do end up taking the clock themselves,
potentially to just protect this Prime Mobius,
so he doesn't get counterpicked as well.
But it also helps them initiate fights early game,
free Blink Diagram Prime Mobius.
That part's kind of nice, you can do a hookshot into follow up.
Or as the game continues, you can blink with Prime Maul
and do the ulti grab into a hookshot,
So they've got some nice layering and good ways to stop the Andex heroes from moving back and forth
Prophet's gonna be able to jump in aggressively
You can kind of keep Viper a bit locked down, which is not really his preference
He wants to move a little bit typically during teamfights
So I feel like it's a decent response
It gives them good kill potential and good control over starting fights and playing fights the way they want to do it
Well, they also did this in the last game
But I feel like their duos kind of make a lot of sense like Prophet clock they amplify each other like Prophet likes
teleporting into action and clock likes having damage on top of the spells so
these two heroes like playing each other quite a lot also vision tools against
shadow demon is quite nice you can find these saves before they get their spells
off so like you shoot some rocket primal jumps some target and then you
immediately hookshot on the SD kind of prevents like the save from coming out
so they're finding ways to like enable their primal was also enabling their
profit at the same time I do however think shadow demon in the laning phase
does quite okay against clock you can kind of like disrupt yourself and just
man up with a innate ability plus you can one-shot the cogs of the aloos oh
that's cool and also just doesn't feel good to go on a bike first if you're a
clockler. What a great record this hero has by the way. That's crazy. I kept
telling you guys it was a very small change to shackles in the laning
face you know just a little bump for the extra heels very small the extra damn
70 to 100 it's like half of a normal damage I'm telling us sometimes that's
all you need to make the meniscus on the glass flow and for the victory to
flow down that went up for real for real for real for a throw on God for a long
god for you however well I feel like this tournament has boiled down to a lot
of cats cats is like I think a focal point in every draft and the reason
that people stop picking it for a bit is because they're started becoming more and more answers.
You kind of don't want to just like throw it out there. And now we're seeing like the
next level of that where you pick Kez together with the answer. And I think Ursa's banned
exactly. So you're, they're trying to find ways to re-enable the Kez again. And that's,
they do that here by taking the Rasta and the Kez. So traditionally for Yandex,
Sox will be playing both of these heroes, both Rasta and Shadow Shaman or sorry Shadow
demon are his heroes. It's interesting to see which one Maldi will take. I feel like
Maldi seems to have a bit of a filler position on this game where he would just like kind
of play whatever.
Yeah, I mean he talked about that in his interview that in the game that he got to pick the
last. I don't know what hero he played but he was like, yeah, Dazzle. He was like, I
got to pick last in the last game and he picked second to last on his draft here.
Yeah.
I don't know what looks best though.
You guys think that this nature's profit should just go mid versus the Viper? If
There aren't really good matchups left against the sniper with the Invoker taken on.
Could go mid clock.
Could go mid clock.
Actually, I didn't even think about that.
Could go mid clock.
Mid clock is absolute dog shit.
What the hell?
God, he could, but he could.
Go mid clock.
No, I mean, for sure, mid profit against Viper quite strong.
I think this is a very nice pivot that they've done,
I run a position where like Laurel will do fine on this mid-profit and if it gets too hard you can gank sidelines
and you can just take a very high armor hero for
Yatoru because this is how you play him so guys like this hero is all physical damage
And if you have a hero with tons of armor it already simplifies the process
We also saw Yatoru play this more fling earlier today. You know, he was feeling himself. He did well
Push it along. He played the shotgun
I don't know how I feel about that though, like the shotgun itself, it felt like, I don't
know if it was that the Yatoro wasn't calibrated, you know like he hadn't like calibrated to
the exact damage I put of this combo yet, but it looked a little bit suspicious to me, watching.
I felt like he carried like a game really.
I mean he definitely carried the game eventually, but I feel like when you looked at like
the first 20 minutes of him using his spells, I didn't feel like it was like the Yatoro
degree sharpness that I expect to see from him. So I don't know how practiced this
like shotgun is for him. I wouldn't mind like a butterfly rod I guess is what I'm
gonna say. It may just be weaker than it was before it, but because he was against
an AA he had to shotgun. Like you don't want to play committal morphling in
AA. This time around we can see a standard morphling too that could exist.
Yeah. Well we see them banning out the hoodwink as we just learned from
the lore that it's very good against Primal Beast. Thank you Sheeva, that's not a
Give it up
So you guys are saying that the counter to cans is armor now
Now we have clockwork who can buy the chain meal facet
Continuously eat chain meals by a boy to get those from and don't meet seeing those chain wheels
Let's get back on track, no one wants to hear about this mid clockwork from you anymore
in Sanya.
As now, we see the final picks sticking out.
Now typically we have seen Axes picked up in response, but Kez, but we picked our off
laner in round 1, so negative on that.
He is the guy to beat though, and I still think Blade Mail is the best counter to
in general, not against your armor arguments. And that is going to be
Lactic Warlock, interesting.
Heals are good, can't defend himself against Kha'z very much, but does provide
really good teamfight, which they were kind of lacking a little bit with their
last two picks.
I think they just wanted to make sure Murphling has as comfortable a lane as
possible, which Plock will not secure it the same way that Warlock does.
But now you have this Plock 4 who's freed up to play with this
nature's prophet. Either go to the mid lane himself or you set up on
side lanes. Rui is in a more playmaking position this way.
So they do get a lot of teamfights, which they are somewhat lacking when you run like
Prophet Morph little cores. You don't really have that much teamfight coming from either
of these two heroes. But I'm not really that big of a fan of the Warlock pick. I feel like
it doesn't really synergize that well with Morph. You know, like PA Warlock, you can
go, you can get kills. Morphling is more of like a, he's like a tower. He just
sits there and he just is a permanent fixture of the safe lane. You cannot force
him off the lane. And I feel like with Warlock it's not really the type of hero that I like playing.
I also think Shadow Shaman lanes quite well into these, at least into Warlock,
because he doesn't have a stun. But now more thing he does on adaptive strike, right? So he
can cancel the shackles, I think. Might be wrong about when you guys can correct me.
But yeah, I don't really like these two heroes together that much. I actually
feel like this Warlock thing for me made the draft a lot weaker, and I thought it was
I would have liked some strong hero for Ru to enable classes laning more.
Yeah, and Warlock not particularly great against Tidehunter either.
Typically he does really well against these tanky strength offlaners,
but you just crack and shell off at any chains in the laning phase, you know?
Crack and shove, everything, so I have to agree with him.
I think this Warlock pick now sees it.
That's the hardest thing I've heard he say all day.
I mean, they're still gonna win.
Team spirit.
They got Primal Beast! You guys are still gonna win.
I'm not, uh, that's...
Kalaev's got Primal.
I'm out.
I mean, he won.
I'm not saying I don't like the draft as a whole, but I feel like, you know how like every time you pick a hero, the stonks go up or down?
Yes.
I feel like the Warlock brought the stonks down.
Okay, but still not low enough that they wouldn't be...
No, it's still definitely playable in a table game, yeah.
Final War is for me, F.A.
We didn't mention the titan deck coming out for notice. It looks pretty solid.
It looks like he's gonna grow into a huge threat, and it gives Yandex the teamfight needed to fight into the last spec Warlock as well.
So there is a problem for Spirit created within this aspectide.
I'm curious to see how it will be addressed.
I think we all are, and can Yandex-tide-yandex-tide
score here against Team Spirit
in finding out the confidence we do by supporting Panans.
It wouldn't be a dream league at 20-7 without some heads to action and that is what Gandex
is going to fall back on towards and even out this series.
Favorite we have a collapsed primal beast
Man who's self self-professed best primal beast in the world
Man she's better at it than other people better use in the shard apparently
He likes this here right now. He feels this here right now. This is his hero right now
Who's here will be in a couple years? I don't know, but this is not the man
I would want to give it to at this point in time
Late smoke on both sides, Yandex go for the invasion, running to Rue, but Soxa doesn't
really find an opening there to chase after a singular hero.
Now Team Spirit have brought all four, the one-man bombs, they just beat down on Malady,
okay.
There's a minor input.
Alright, first blood for the mid laner, but it's a Furion who doesn't really need
like a fast bottle rush.
This is three bounty rounds.
I do think the gold goes a long way on it.
You get a faster earn, you can make that early rotation, it's guaranteed that you already
have the earned port.
The experience goes away as well as you kind of want to get out of this Viper lane.
Pyram is one of the better heroes against the Viper.
So it kind of puts Tira, Junior an odd spot, but the more you can interact with the
side lane Tira's Laura, I think the better your overall game plan is going to be.
You have some kill threat top on the shaman with the clock, and you have some decent
kill threat bottom with the primal beast just giving you a lot of damage output.
It's interesting to note the E-index, they felt like getting one of Sox's signature heroes in the Shatterty in that game one was not enough, so they picked both of his signature heroes.
And they let him choose.
What's better than one Sox? Two.
Is it a good Shatter-Shallon game?
In his hands, I think it's always a good one.
I mean, this is a great hero against Morph. One of the premier supports against Morph, and he gives you the instant lockdown on him.
It gives you a little more high grab potential with the lineup that could snowball early, kind of like that aspect of it.
Okay.
It can be annoying for the Primal, like Primal rushes DKB, but until he has that, you dive in deep in these fights, you get shackled.
It can be obnoxious, so...
I have some faith in the Shaman.
I'm not too big on either support duo in terms of how they work together relative to the lineup, so...
I feel like Yandex's support duo is a little too slow for how fast the Kez Vika want to play.
Yeah.
I feel like here, support duo is a little awkward in terms of the laning power plus the damage they offer on their own
for a tricor that outside of the primal would ideally like some heroes to kind of go in and set stuff up, so...
I can see both support duos if they fall behind an XP being big liabilities here
which is why again I look towards the playmakers in this game which to me are
maybe that shaman for Sox later on and the bike pervy snowballs and for spirit, I mean
All eyes on this primal piece if he starts making plays it's gonna bring the whole line up together
Currently is
struggling with the harassment that the shadow beam that puts down combined with the kill threat that kens is able to put in but
Hanto's keeping him alive for now
And it's also hard for yandex to get aggressive because there is that threat of the fury on counter rotation
Which is gonna come out here early because Laurel is getting absolutely
Abomination on
I had to cover the new action to describe this level of destruction because it is bad right now
I just like what is the abomination here?
Is it cheer junior because he's just showing him some family?
Is it Laurel because he's getting beat up or is it Laurel's ps score? Is that the abomination?
It's everything he the lane gonna got pushed to cheer juniors hill with the sprouts early
There's a nice little pickup for you, Toro.
The Shaman's a susceptible hero up here, not the Tide, but you can definitely kill a couple times.
This wave just ended up on the Viper Hill so early. You can't go up in CS.
Or he has gone to Fountain and come back. That's why his teleport's on cooldown.
If he did not have the first Blood Gold here, I would say this is a complete disaster.
Because he has that, it's salvaging a lot of the situation, but Blaine is effectively over for him.
So you were really looking at do I want to sit here and keep sprouting a range creep at every like minute or do I want to
Rotate to one of these side lanes and try and pick up some room charges
That's all you have left to decide here as long though. You're not win the way
The viper effect man he plants a tree but doesn't have tango so that's also yeah
He had to hide behind a tree to limit the attacks that the viper got on him otherwise
Might have just died. There's no water room scroll a lot also. It's not going to be that effective
You didn't buy another TP scroll, which is like normally okay. You're saving the gold
But now put some in position where if he does want to do a side lane can't get back
Yeah
This is not prime law right here, this is
Prime food for Chira junior. He's licking his lips right now
Thinking I'm already won this game. I'm level five this guy's a little three up out to hit four
Alright, we'll just look away from this lane. We'll see what the Fjord decides to do.
Lane's going really well for the Andex earlier.
Nice disruption dodge, Malady. Really quick reaction there.
But that is the opening that Laurel's been waiting for. Praying.
Probably been banking his team. Please guys, get a kill somewhere.
I need to get the hell out of here.
Well, I'm just manning up to take him down.
Will managed to get the clockwork there on the other side of things.
and Yatora will take some damage on the way out.
Watson gets low, can't finish him off.
They do with the trample.
It's a double or clap.
That's mega worth it for long.
I mean, it's not amazing for his game,
but considering what was happening,
if you can enable your primal beast,
you might just carry you through some of this.
That's a huge pick up for Spirit in his bottom lane is,
now he's gonna try and get the kill on the primal
and he's got him here.
Yeah, he is.
I don't know, that dodged a lot of the damage.
Actually, Glacier's got 2?
That disruption was so self-greed, it's insane.
He basically dodged...
He's right-click's a once more, he's dead. He had one stick charge, he was dying to blood grenade, plus a 7-8.
He dodged out most of the blood grenade damage.
Gave him another stick charge.
That was not...
His final score. Put it that way.
That was just a...
An abomination level self-greed.
Not seeing the prime of some of our players here in this game to start, but no, this is
a sloppy one.
This is a down and dirty game.
And sometimes that's how they go sometimes.
You've got to be ready for those two.
Not every game a Dota is going to be clean, you know, make a high skill, high level
with all these flashy playslams.
It's just down and dirty.
Who wants it more and who greets their team less?
Soxa.
He's trying to run this up.
He's thrown.
We'll get him out.
He's okay.
Chira Junior continues his domination in the mid lane and he is chipping away at this mid tower. This mid tower is gonna fall soon
Socks are still lurking. He's like the second time I'll work. Nope. It won't
We were running in appearance, but three heroes are here. They know the pressure point. All right now the disruption will set up a kill
Surely there's no way he gets out of this
Chira Junior will start to put some pills on the board behind an insane
CS early, you're 20-9.
I think that's the very part about this, he's going to rush Mood's Travels, right?
Oh, good.
Malady is going to die here.
Oh!
I'm going to no-kill the hole!
That's big.
Did he miss?
What was that?
Oh, it just didn't hit him in time.
Oh, jeez.
I mean, you still get earn charges here, but you need some extra gold in this game.
You're low.
You're just a creep right now.
Yeah, the fury on half of mid fury on Sting is the fact that he's supposed to give you the numbers advantage through his ult and his teleporting.
But, Chirr Jr. is going to get a boot to travel, and he's going to be able to keep up with the fury on when it comes to fast plays around the map.
This lane is Viper favorite, but you're supposed to extract a little bit more outside of the early game of this fury on, so you can control the tempo.
This is rough disparity for Spirit, especially with a Tidehunter top you can't really go on.
Kez is a tough hero for the Fiora on Nikolaun because he has the grapple and he can sometimes just fight you back
especially if he sticks hardy up for Watson.
So where do you go if you're low on this game in Yatoro?
He did not get the Warp Ravage into a free kill on Yatoro.
Soxa caught him without the strength mark.
Another kind of just awkward stage here for Yatoro.
They get a kill. I think they had no business getting up here.
You can always kind of catch the morphing off guard with the Shaman, but...
It's a bad debt to give up by the way, at least you get something out of it with the
Furion, I guess.
Shalyn's kind of the one hero you can just TP on freely this game.
Nonetheless, the Morphling can just TP back up here, sit up here.
No ravage for a long time means the Andex are probably going to look elsewhere, Viper
strike mid, no Teleport available, he's just dead.
Again, I mean what, you have no boots, no Teleport, you're just sitting here against
Viper.
And Klabs sure could use a little bit of fury on help right now, but he's not going to get a Yandex up 3k
off of this laning phase if it starts breaking down for Team Spirit.
This is not a clean game for either team, but Yandex started to pull away just...
They have more presence on the lanes.
They have the heroes that are able to stand their ground a lot easier,
which frees up their supports to look for some of these ganks around the map.
Sox is going to get some deep wards out as well.
Kind of set up for extra kills later with this Viper, finding Furion in the jungle.
It's going to be a super nice payoff.
Well, that's what you were talking about, right?
Some games down and dirty.
Think Team Spirit in their lofty position, you know, the ivory towers of championships and finals.
Meanwhile, Yandex grinding through a Div 2 to get here.
Used to being down in the muck.
Watson
It always amazes me how good Kez is at taking objectives here, but it is gonna be defending team spirit
They're gonna try and get your disruption right as collapse goes through the charge
The sound goes out for the Ravens veil of Watson won't help cheer junior much though
Just raw numbers will get the thing done for team spirit five heroes bottom plus that goal in this at the clock
Workup gonna look for more. I like this teleboard from Laurel
You gotta find more on that play. You may even get the courier
No. But I think he'll for him Vestal online. His net worth is not the greatest but wouldn't
you have the Vestal kind of as a matter. And a good early golem from Panther to secure
that Boots of Travel Viper shut him down. You're not dealing with the Tidehunter but
you are dealing with the Reston. Did he get a tower here? Kinda evened out the fact
the Andex took one away from you. Not a batswing for Spirit. Notice, meanwhile
does what he can in that safe lane. He's gonna cut the wave, he chips away at the towers best he can.
So we'll see if Yandex can mount a similar amount of pressure on this safe lane. Certainly gonna
try. Jere Jr. is gonna join them. Yutoro wave form back. Has no teleport though. Not far enough away
though. They're definitely gonna catch up to him here. Blood grenade on two. Fipershrike
can be really put onto the clockwork. I'll save you brother run. I'm a bit surprised he was
was willing to use that there because utoro was just playing it yes no scrolls
so I think he just got Doc says gonna be there on the other side of the way
form and yet I also like please kill me faster like go back to farming instead
of trying to survive in a situation where I never will it was really greedy
from team spirit like they won that team fight but they dropped golem they
We had five heroes against three, they went to a lane where Tidehunter is sitting there
with Raph, he didn't even have to use it to win that fight, but it just feels like inherently
when you're already down, trying to defend your safe lane tower and fight into a Tidehunter
with Ravage is a bit of a flawed idea.
Yeah, again the weird plays continue in this game, like why get stuck up there as you
tour with no way out, can't stay on your ground, you end up with a blast completed,
no one's going to go up there and help you against that Ravage.
is the most difficult hero for spirits in your act with in this early game. They just don't really have
anything for him. Way later on when you have some primal damage and some BKB, sure you might be
able to bring his tide down, but he's gonna be a beast in this game, so you have to respect that.
And Laura, he just gets caught a lot of meat dead. And this game is just,
it's just got some bad deaths all around man. People cleaning up garbage on the lane.
Well, Yandex being the garbage man that they are, up 4k, they are thriving in this chaos.
And Chura Jr.
Oh, this might be a good catch top.
He is all over the place, he's bottom lane, and now Sox is getting to catch on top.
Don't even have to use the ravage!
Great catch from Sox, that is not the kill Yatoro expected.
He doesn't get the morph off.
Very little he can do about it in terms of where else is he supposed to go farm right now?
All I know is that I'm happy to see this because Yandex, obviously their last finals
was an amazing showing, right? They had that game 1, came a little close, but
game 2 and 3 rather stumpy and I was a little bit concerned like is Yandex gonna be able to bounce back
after losing this game 1 against Spirit?
And they, I mean, they're striking hard here.
They're playing with confidence.
Yeah, and they're going to keep this momentum going.
Chirru Jr. comes to the mid lane, the rest of the team joins.
Four men smoke up.
Still ready to go with that ravage!
Still have not had to use that for a fight.
It's interesting timing on the smoke.
This wisdom shrine is coming up in 40 seconds.
Wow, man, this is the next best thing.
If you don't find some sort of court yell,
taking away an ancient stack like that
is not too shabby, and they may still find the kill.
The three man is going to go back to mid.
I'm in Laurel
He makes a run for it. I can't believe they didn't yeah, that was smoke after him. That was a test if you're in the jump
They'd my ball was baiting it, but I don't even know if you can really turn that kind of fight
Both teams are kind of soft eyeing each other's wisdom shrine right here
And are you really gonna go for fight for under a tier one like this?
They're gonna try, they throw everything they have, golem, and the hook, and Laurel even teleports in, the Rage goes out, it only really hits Rude there, but now the Ravens fail on the other side, Laurel's not gonna be able to teleport back out of this fight.
It worked, they kill the Viper, are you happy with that exchange of your team spirit though, you give away two for that kill.
But you get wisdom shines here.
That's, collapse gonna collect both.
That is a very bold play. I think if the Viper doesn't run into the Cogs, if he might not even die, that's very close to the damage output, especially with Morphe not joining that fight.
But you do get both wisdom shrines. You get a kill out of it. Your Pyrrhon's already struggling, so you're continuing to sacrifice Laurel.
Try and give this primal beast a better team.
He also, the big part is, he used that like, he used that Nether toxin, so very different
situation if he has that and is able to throw it on himself.
I already have piped them on the tide, his ball is gearing up, Deso done for Watson,
so Deso has not that battle theory, because I prefer this style, but teach their own.
Looks pretty good when you have a tight hunter in the minus armor
He's providing combined with the faster pace right the desu's gonna allow you to take yes
Some of these early objectives faster take advantage of these heroes before they can give the later armor items
Again the hookshot it's a tough target
Doesn't land it would have been so sweet here with yatoro becoming the viper to disruption goes out
Looks like they still have a
Drop another time on him as he comes out of the disruption
notice he's gonna show up just a bit too late. The elder health on his boy the
pipe does not save him. All right good call from spirit bringing the morphine
into that play great answer to the Viper as well.
The spirit has some good counters to Viper as his game goes on later later
than they get more farm. Break him later with the primal just overwhelming
magic damage once he loses the resistance the morphine can turn into
throw a spit back against him. High physical hero. Viper doesn't naturally build a lot of
extra armor early. Furion can just bestle you in lane use. I don't mind spirits or match-ups
against Jira Jr in this game. I think he's going to have to respect those a bit. I don't
think you can play this game like you're just the end all deal Viper, untouchable.
If anything, Tide is spitting that role a bit better.
Waiting on the high ground here, trying to determine if he can make a move here.
throws that a scan behind the primal beast he's very close to blink and you
can just get the blink and make a solid smoke play with this want to start getting
some deso charges here again you don't want to buy deso on kids and then just
farm jungle with it ideally like to start finding some heroes if you can
line up the ax on tide with an extra item on Watson and that eggs on the
Viper could all come out within the same minute or two guys your big time to
strike this game and that was a that was a funny move from Panto he just wanted
to cut the wave and then see if notice like what are you gonna do you're gonna
ravage me but unfortunately for him there was the Kez right behind
Blink tagger can be bought by notice
He's debating eggs or blink. Yeah, I end up going for the blink because of how good of a game. He's having I
Mean, I think the blink is an obvious choice when you have this fight. You're like he just wants a little bit of setup here
Oh, the shaman's gonna go in that's for sure
X? I'm finding a smart gear, Rue. Okay, they're gonna reveal Soxa off the charge, but he's still got off his combination onto Laurel.
Laurel trying to fight his way out of these wards. He will not be able to make it.
Soxa's still left here, and the rocks get thrown at him. Yutaro cleans him up.
And it is waveform. He will back away.
That damage is intense. You get hit under the desk, so all these heroes right-clicking you.
The wards right-clicking you just get melted.
It's early charges for Watson, that's big, six.
It goes a long way on this hero, and pushing him along to the DKB as well, which, I mean,
he gets that.
It's pretty untouchable, like you can grab him as collapsed, but probably not killing him.
Only the morphling can really deal with him for a long time here.
A lot of weight on Yatoro's shoulders is he, to pull it back.
Yeah, what do you think about his build up for this game?
He's going a traditional right click build rather than the shotgun morphing build, which...
I think shotgun morphing is kind of broken in this new patch, but I don't think this
is the game.
Viper is too much magic resistance, too hard to kill the Tidehunter, and even
I think that the Kez has his like magic resistance when he pops his ult.
He's playing a Toro plate earlier.
I think it looked okay.
It didn't overly impress me.
It took a really long time to go into play a game where he was chunking people.
Oh, come on.
That's a nice find.
His game continues to be really rough here.
For me the biggest difference is if you look at that game I think your Toro wanted
to play the more clean more as an assassin in that game.
You didn't want to just go in the fight, commit, take it heads up.
You wanted to kind of find the back line, go in and out.
It was based on what he was playing in.
your job is to deal with this kez at some point.
I don't think you can play this like in and out style.
It's kind of hard against Shaman too.
Like you go in and try and shock on somebody and get out and just get next door done.
And that game he was also taking a mobility spell from Queen which kind of helped his go in and out style.
There's also the save of disruption.
There's a lot of good reason not to go here.
To get this knife. It's kind of close.
But in the end, it's Yandex taking the Torrentor and assuring for Malady!
Good to keep you like that.
Most call.
And it's going to be the Ags for notice.
I like that. I don't think you need the Ags here right now.
And I think you have a lot of chase down.
With this Ags, plus the 10 talents, slowing people.
The Shaman can blink and catch somebody.
You're gonna get a blink on the Shadow even here.
Kaz is a really good chase hero.
You have enough chase down this lab to make fights work
that you don't have to use blink and ravage.
Oh, this is not the finest execution.
That was not the cogs.
Oh my god, Rue, you really...
You really screwed that one.
I'll tell you, this game has had all the lowlights.
In terms of deaths and gigs.
That was crazy, just how bad that was.
That was incredible. There's almost no way he survives there.
He just gave him like a four step to get out basically.
Okay!
I think our collabs pulverize the illusion.
Yeah, it's like a real life primal cosplay.
They're just rage. Yeah, just a tantrum.
Well, I guess clockwork is good against primal even when they're on the same team.
So we're learning to STP away from Panto.
Okay, maybe not that fast. Not fast enough.
He's really been trying to wrap this map.
Which I get because if Spirit of Maid the Call were not going to fight, then what are
you doing as a Lord?
I could go right?
Yeah, it's a pretty rough hero to play a rat game.
So I kind of like that he's going for this.
It's just, Soxus has number.
Dude, find the type solo bottom.
Pipe?
And the damage block, Ragnosk and Shell will make sure he lives for a long time.
Even you since the Ravage here, his team is on the way, why are they going to
be able to say it notice they throw the rocks at him but it can force that we
get away he does not go down and cheer a junior's turn turn the screws on your
Toro your Toro he's gonna be bailed out by root who hits the cogs the graphic
heroes Watson still trying to chase after him but it's always too far gone if
you have butterfly on morph I think you kill them there but this man is so damn
far so damn tanky don't have the single target DPS primal offers you
Very little there when the tide's just sitting there.
Anchor smashing everybody, reducing the damage.
It's a very good spell against the morphing with the mega high base damage.
That's a tough kill for Spirit.
I also like to notice hitting the trees when that wrath of nature came out at the end.
Not even giving it a chance to potentially pop him with some crazy last bounce.
And there's your blink.
He is just that far.
This is...
Pipe adds blink 23 minutes flat.
He's still ahead of Yutaro on farm.
What in God's name? Like this is disgusting.
Almost level 18.
Noticed having himself a game 2 here, that's for sure.
You're trying to bait this morphling a little bit.
That's what the BKB for the primal is, so collapse is kind of on them.
That helps their team fight a lot, assuming it does not get cogs.
And Butterfly for Yatoro is being finished up, so gonna hit a nice little 1-2 punch
here if you're spirit, whereas the index are already online, they would really like
to fight right now before that Butterfly comes out.
You have BKB on the Kez, you have your Tide Blink, if they can find the jump, you just go.
Collapse here, that would be Siktumbler's toy.
Pushed him up to the high ground. Collapse already out, but Sox is still going to be able to catch him with the Hex.
Right next to the tier 2 though, can't quite get the chain stun, he gets off the BKB,
but he's come on and purge, he flows, flows, flows, and he's not making it out.
Rue on the run, having failed to save his core, will not be able to make it out alive either.
Another two kills for Yandex. These two kill combos just keep coming for Yandex and they keep on turning to objectives after that.
Towers are going down, Tormentor is being taken, and now Roshan before it switches over to the other side.
They got gifted an amp damage right on Q, so this guy cleaned up real fast. Spirit not ready for that move.
We're kind of baiting it to bail him out if it was a two or three man hit squad, but Yandex bring the whole team.
No way to bail you out of that.
That's an aegis for your Kez who, as the Despo Chargers, is just going NKB-er, instant denial to that Morphling butterfly.
Watson knows his job this game and it is to slay these big, core, agi carries in the Morphling, and then you have the pseudo carry in the Furion.
No, I don't know if I would call him a carry in this game.
No, he's definitely not a carry for this one.
I have to imagine Kez is quite good against the Morphling when you're at this point in the game where you...
Morphling's mobility isn't really gonna stack up to what Kez can do mobility-wise, right?
I think Kez with this
Item build up in an Aegis is good against anything. He's just gonna go in and shred you
One of the highest damage burst heroes in the mid game
It's kind of ever been put in Dota
I think that's fair to say and you can just go pure damage items because you have backup from aura's or an Aegis
He has backup from both plus a disruption save in this case
That's where this offensive build really plays out well for Watson. Just a massive threat.
Yatoro is not going to feel great about seeing this MKV build up.
Still trying to play on this ward top to find some sort of pick off. Use the Morphling strength
right now. I'm going to go on this fight where he has a full Hurricane Plague 3000 HP.
Just don't know where the rest of the index are right now. If you knew you would take the
jump but there's a lot of heroes off man
Ruuu is gonna get spotted here pops the cogs makes a run for it but is quickly
caught no running for you it's been created I suppose
three minutes left on these stages another smoke spawned by Soxa keep this
momentum up. See if they can start taking down tier 2's. I mean honestly it feels pretty free with
Watson having his Aegis. I wonder if you can even go high ground here. Oh I was gonna say if you drop
wards on high ground it's a pretty big threat. But find another and you know really you really
thought you were gonna be able to sneak the wave there? I mean there's just another wave coming
so it really doesn't stall Yandex too much. Your cores are getting a decent amount of farm
off the map. Especially with the Burial mobility. I kind of wonder what it's building towards
here. If the Kez is just going to go in and demolish everybody. I guess Ag's Primal is
kind of your next timing to get the break online. I mean you have to be able to go
in and break this Viper Tyre lineup. Yeah. That's a huge item for Spirit. And it might
be okay giving up some net worth to get there without losing some big cores. He's
He's kind of close, honestly.
What, halfway to his axe?
Yeah.
As long as the index don't go high ground in this period,
I think claps will end up being happy.
It's not going to mean the team fights easy,
but you have a chance to win it.
Still two minutes on the clock for Watson.
He has that MKB done.
He is on the high.
This Kaz will jump anything.
He will probably kill anything.
Is that anything?
I mean, Yatoru's going to get spotted somewhere, he just went for it right in front of Watson,
Rage and Tail, Hex, and now the Shackle.
He's done.
They just walked right into that.
The best gift they could have gotten.
I'm awfully dead for 60 seconds.
That's a lot of time to do some damage around the map right now.
You can smoke for an extra pick off with this Shaman.
You could push some tier 2s, I mean I'd be able to somewhere.
Hey, take this tier 2 and go high ground, see what happens.
That's what I think, I think early high ground looks great here without taking your tide as
you already have plate.
It's still ages per minute and you have those shaman wards to put the spear in an awkward
position.
Who can go up and right click these without the threat of getting jumped by either blink
ravage or the kez.
Falken rushed that tower.
It's gonna be dead long before Yotaro's back up.
Probably early glyph, too.
It'll clear out the wave.
But you're on the back door here. Another wave's coming.
Yeah, no, uh...
I was expecting maybe some sort of rocket and wrath of danger or something to clear out the next wave, but...
It doesn't have to.
There's the racks.
Three-timey push.
Lane of Barracks for the first agent.
Exactly how you do it here.
Okay, maybe not full. Maybe they don't get the range, but I do cares.
Yes, thanks for getting here.
Go last it!
K.O.
Full lane it is, and Ashiva's done for notice.
Party level 22.
Does that crazy pass.
And now Kez has hopped over Yatoro in net worth.
He's going Butterfly now.
See, I have a pressure on Yatoro to have to build MKB.
He never even got a fight out of his Butterfly.
Still missing the Primalaggs.
Oh, if Collaps goes down here, it is a nightmare for Spirit.
Charge? No! The Demonic Purge!
It stalls him! He can't get up to the high ground, he's gonna have to use the DKB, and he's still gonna be in danger even after that because Watson just rushes at him, goes for it with his physical damage and cuts through the beast.
Only thing that is going for Spirit in that play is there's no wave at the base, otherwise, units are taking another lane.
But you lose your primal, that ag's got set back another two or three hundred gold, he's off the map for a minute, he's not farming it up.
There's just nothing going on for Spirit in this lineup, they don't have playmaking.
Their teamfight is worse against this tide, in theory their scale can be better, all their cores are five or six a lot in the late game.
They're never going to get there at this rate.
They're going to have to pull the trigger at some point and just go for some sort of smoke play into contesting that next roche.
can't keep lit and thoughts determined the pace of this game with the shadow
shaman. Hell no. Let's hear why just be getting banned next game with guardless.
He's owned this game. Chira Junior, well there's another way to hit some high
ground, hit some buildings. He gets the shard off the second tormentor of the
game. Going through the gate, almost ran into the clockwork. All the
lanes pushed in.
Funny part is, you're now at this point in the game where it's like, hey, you got so
much momentum, kinda sucks to have to wait for Roshan, but it's probably the best play
at this point.
Control the game, wait for Rosh to spawn, get that extra life.
Spirit are not gonna wait though, they just hit their timing.
This is as good as it gets for them, BKB on the Morphling, Ag's done for the primal,
So you have your break going in, you have the capability to be in the fight and try and burst target down and ignore the ravage.
Is there anything to be said for like when you hit these key items, waiting to take that fight for the objective fight, which is Roche on?
Yeah, there is a lot of consideration in that.
I think it's playing Sphero thinking about it, but this Roche can potentially spawn in 30 seconds, so this play is not necessarily unaligned with that objective.
If it lands, you're just kind of gambling there.
It's better to just take the fight with your timings.
The issue for them is their jumping catches.
The timel?
Or the clock?
So I'll see you at a break soon, as they are getting into Yandex Territory.
And half of them are already gone through the gate.
You really want to find this, Chris.
Butterfly delivered as the smoke got through.
They see a war- they see a courier, and they can jump in after that courier blocks it!
Quick with the Ravens fail, immediately sounds his up collapse and collapse.
Didn't have detection to be able to get the grab.
Now Noshun stays with the Shivas.
Oh, there goes the warlock.
Watson on top of Yotaro.
A man fight happening.
Ravens rushing at Yotaro, not able to finish him off.
Yotaro's able to get out, but Laurel not so lucky.
Stuck in the Viper, in the guck, in the goo.
Rue teleporting away, they get him as well.
Like it, Watson.
Watson is dead and collapsed though.
What was that damage?
Watson's feeling, he's still got...
You can get popped by some magic damage.
That Primal Ag is doing his job at the end there, but that is a rough fight for Spirit.
You blink it on a kez, it gets the veil off, no detection.
You're all just standing around wondering what the hell we're doing here.
So you need some dust or something on this Primal and Clawk who are going to be your
initiators.
Very awkward situation for Spirit.
Not having detection?
I don't know, it just feels like another small misplay that is an unforced error in terms of what you'd call it.
The hookshot misses, the atoral he asks the poppy to give you cannot get ravaged or hexed here.
And then someone has to tank the Viper damage. Nightmare of a fight for spirit.
The only thing that gives you any sort of mercy there is you kill the kez which means your base is not getting seized by this super high damage carry at the moment.
And frankly, that was an unforced error. Watson didn't have to take that fight into the primal piece with that many stacks from his aggs, but not at all.
Underestimated it, and a small slip-up for Yandex from their carry, but it doesn't matter. 1 for 4, 16,000 net worth lead, and well in control for the Roshan.
Because these are the kind of tricors I like, Tezin, where he is not just some end-all-be-all solo carry 1B9 to game.
the game. This tricor is super strong in the lakiness. Viper can become a secondary carry.
This tide is mega-fat. It can absolutely do some serious damage in the fight. So while
you're trying to fight and focus this kez, the other heroes are the ones killing it.
I mean, this Viper and Tide are the top two net worth here. It's not the kez. It says
a lot about how the andex have distributed the farm.
I do think, and you know, very likely, we won't see this, but I do feel like Viper does start falling off a bit about this item timing.
I haven't been super convinced by the item choices when you get to that fifth, sixth item.
You know?
He goes Bloodstone, I would agree.
Yeah, he's not Bloodstone before.
How much does that change?
Too much.
Especially when he's not even being focused.
Probably not a lot.
This is a hero you can ignore to a certain degree if you're getting stuff done in the fight.
That requires you to thread some heroes here, Bo-shot.
You have to roar, notice, find on the front lines in Pantel.
He walks into him and he manages to get away with a four stab.
It's fine, the smoke from Yandex is still trying to get there.
Claps can break this guy, but there's a disruption behind.
It's not as simple as just going on the first target you see.
You need to find supports here.
Potentially go for a patented collapse Aegis steal. Dare I say it? Dare I curse it?
Laurel toying around, collapse rolling, boulders in the pit, gonna be far too late to be able to stop that one.
Meanwhile the ravage catching Laurel and he's already out.
Panto, he's gonna get cleaned up. Let's see if collapse in your Toro. Combined up can do something here.
Shadow Shaman, he gets up back up the fold, thanks to his Lotus.
During that shard, they still run him down, claps to finish him off.
Well, Yatoro, fighting out with a shield, Rune, surrounded by three cores.
How much work can this guy do?
He goes after Malon, he's break forms through him, takes him out.
Jere Jr. is a little bit low, but Watsid is doing some work right now.
He's putting in the damage.
Yatoro looks at Shadow Shaman.
Why?
Because he can.
That's the only thing he could take.
Buyback from the Enix will absolutely secure that fight.
They've never even gone through the Aegis on Wadson, and the whole time spirits are
just trying to bait their support so they can find the backline on Yandex, but this is
why the Shaman's so annoying.
Soxa always plays with these floatuses to heal.
It forces you to effectively kill him twice.
It takes so much damn time, you're just losing the fight while that's happening.
Impressive damage from Yatoro, but the kez is matching him.
Might just be the king, no buyback on this Warfleet, no buyback on the Furion.
Yeah, I think we're done here.
They just got outscaled and outclassed in these little pick offs around the map.
They did.
So heroes you're gonna have to think about going into this game three as a series gets potentially tied right here.
Do you want to give up this Tidehunter after a perfect game from notice 6-0 and 20?
Yeah, amazing game from them.
Do you want to give up this Shaman?
Do the best Shaman player in the world?
These heroes did so much for Yandex here.
You're gonna try and salvage something here, but...
Double buybacks, but tier 4s are almost gone already.
Andix are actually gonna respect it, though.
Your Toro's back up in 15 seconds, and they say okay, we can't kill the Ancient.
There's no need for us to throw fighting around the Ancient, trying to finish it off.
It's almost too much respect for me.
Yeah, I mean, they have Aegis and everything.
Like, I actually feel like they could have killed the Ancient.
Just try to heal the resources, reset the cooldowns, go back in.
Not gonna lose out anything here.
We will still have Aegis for another thrown push.
And Yatoru didn't up going for the Eblade. Kind of a hybrid build in the end.
If anything, I think it signals fear, feel more pressure from the supports than the cores in some sense.
Like you can't find and burst these two shadow...
Yeah, but Eblade doesn't kill a shadow, Shaman. Not with the innate going.
going. No. Klaas can do it because he has the break, right? Like he can go in if he actually
has some charges. That's the problem though.
That's so much of this gameplay I got determined to put in that mid lane. That's me watching
my mid laner die to Viper. I like how, uh, notice, shout out to him. He's playing
tight hunter he went for a crippling crossbow which great item against the
the morphine
true slow is crazy no he took the ravage stun duration as well so 3.4 second
ravage into a hex into all that slow and armor production pretty nasty team
spirit on their last legs in the index looking for the knockout punch
Soxa. Even that, they're just ruptured, stalls out the death, they go for the hook shot, they're just trying to kill this annoying Shadow Shaman and they can barely touch him.
Two down with no buyback, now your Toro goes after Soxa again, but again that innate goes off, the Lotusins get hit and Shadow Shaman back up the full HP.
And insults injury, he turns around and shocks him.
Really asking for neandems. They played their line-up strengths perfectly.
Jira Jr. owned the laurels so damn hard on those first two or three ways that the game
almost exploded from there.
Tyne never died, never got touched, and you have this Kessdick, sorry, the game was really
impressive. I didn't build from Watson, and I very much approve of it.
That to me is how you should play this hero.
Yes, here's, run them over. Don't play for some 80 minute timing.
Spear back to the drawing board, and some heroes that I asked in Game 1,
Yeah, next how are you gonna put pressure on spirit in the series?
They definitely put some pressure on him in this game. Those backlines upwards were
completely in their head. So spirit are gonna have to either ban the shaman, the shadow demon out, or
have some better tools at finding those heroes at the start of the fights because the clock primal getting shut down
We're not able to do it on their own. The throw is not on as mobile as a carry who can like assassinate the shadow shaman start.
And honestly, I think people are mega underrating
these healing lotuses on Sean and the Fox's Abuse. Oh yeah, it's just so broken. It's so
stupid with the shard you get this extra vulnerability, guarantee lotus pop. You
get two full HP lives. You spend like 15 seconds in the fight chasing this
stupid hero and even if he dies you end up losing the fight. That's your entire
BKB. So you have to put some respect on what
Fox says bringing the table with this hero. And you got to respect the
index as a whole. They're just getting better and better with time.
already gotten a game victory in a grand final how much more can they take from
here that was a solid performance by Yandex and we were so excited to see this
primal beast in action but it was a part of the plan Yandex had a solid plan
to deal with it and to be honest it did not look that close I'm just
saying it in a very diplomatic way your rice fever data 2k advantage here at
11 minutes, which is a bit spooky. Yeah. I just don't think you can give socks to this
hero, honestly. I think the Shadow Shaman is it was the hero of this game. He just consistently
dumpstered. I feel like I just the whole game I saw Laurel were surrounded by certain words,
like the whole game. Every time he goes in stocks and shows up, it's like, okay, I'm
going to work at you.
I find it really interesting that he went with the facet where you get the multi
You know is that good well when you put them around here like nature's property
Yeah, and then that phase boots and yeah, you definitely saw it in this game where it's like war trapping is so powerful
Where a lot of people go for the single war down for the pushing potential, but he used it to its full extent
I mean acts the loot lead master class on shaman this game
Yes, that's what owns on this year. He was doing so much for the team
But generally I was so impressed with the strategy that yandex showed this game
It's very similar to how they beat spirit yesterday
That's what you were saying when we started like just make the mid lane as oppressive enough
Suffocating as possible and I think the idea that they have where they ban the invoker and look through the primal beast
While taking something like Viper makes it so that they're very minimal heroes
He can pick for Laurel in these situations like if you go for one of his melee spirits
A lot of counters will exist within the pool if he's a secure Viper from the get-go
You're not only addressing Laurel, but you're also addressing the primal beast that you let through in the first phase
So I think spirit needs to think about this viper like if their info is getting banned
They have to ban this hero before it lets before it's left through. Yeah, I mean, it's been the answer of this event like people
started picking info against viper and that's like kind of solve the problem and then the last game they
I think they didn't really respect the fact that Yannick's band viper and probably like it kind of or sorry
band in Volker and they didn't really think enough about the Viper. And the band, I think
me, probably you could even accept to play against Jekiro and try to find a hero against
him on the support. I think that's probably easier than running this, like, Laurel against
Viper mid, because I think it just changes the dynamic of their team too much.
I have to agree with that. Now, I'm not trying to be arrogant here, but I also feel
like Team Spirit might have felt the same way that we did. It's like collapse is
open collapse gets to have his primal games done it's over we did it
and whereas they put a lot of focus into that maybe not the rest of the draft
because I was not feeling it more flings oh no it's the kind of sad
let me to be fair actually was it overall last week so the title the answer to
the whole draft yes yeah and the tide did cook I think I did extremely well
noticed had a very good throwing in this game. I feel like when there's a collapsed farmland
in the game and the other offlaner is noticed more and you did something right.
Very good.
Very fun.
Thank you.
Draft to side, I think Yandex really had some good moves. Like every time Spirit made
a big move, early game for example when they would bring the Warlock and bring the
Nature's Prophet to that bot lane, you know, take a team fight, push the tower.
Right after all of Yandex were going opposite side, like getting the find on Warfling
He's farming agents is huge. They made it so that every time golem was on cooldown
It really felt like spirit couldn't do anything
It was kind of felt like one golem versus the shadow shaman hunting you and this viper who even though vipers immobile felt like he was everywhere
They just made that map so narrow and they made it so that spirit were very limited in their options that came in what to do
Yeah, you have told us many times about the weakness of spirit the run at them and don't let them do what they need to do and make
sure that Laurel is
is contained.
I do love our Laurel lore that we have been building out through the event.
We have just talked about normal Laurel, Prime Laurel.
What's the opposite of Prime Laurel?
I'm making a point, Cheever.
Not right now.
I'm kidding.
What?
Wasn't it not that?
No, Laurel's name backwards is Laurel.
Laurel Paris.
Is he worth it?
No, kick him.
I'm just kidding.
No, get it, get it, get it.
But I think that with any good stake, it's all about the marbling, the meat, and how well you tenderize it.
Laurel gets better. He's a prime cut now, but after this beating, he might go to Waghu Laurel, the finest cut of Laurel.
So what's a bad cut?
That'd be the sirloin.
Yeah, that's the Laurel prime, and there's the loin Laurel.
Sirloin, you don't want that.
I'd love to show you guys some clips of
I don't want to talk about meat cuts anymore. I saw some bad meat cuts in these team fights and it was
Unfortunately, if there's some some Laurel dining gets it ended up getting killed here at the 12 minute mark
Here's this nice dive on this year junior the
The Viper here who does have a way to defend himself a little bit Laurel TPs in as well trying to help out here
but Watson, great TP, very low HP, still shows up to this fight,
ends up killing him and punishing him here.
Which was, as a whole, really good teamfighting from their side,
which allowed them to get more advantage.
5k advantage at 14 minutes is a huge deal.
Here's another teamfight.
We're all coming top, Pressure, Mauditsch,
which they did successfully get this kill, at least,
which was nice to rotate through into transition.
There was a teamfight, I believe, right after this as well,
if I'm not mistaken, but it's actually does a great job going for the backline.
I loved how quickly he reacted when he did get grabbed here instant
Heck instant war trap watch the law try to escape this yes
Spent a second or so trying to get out and just that difference sometimes makes enough time for his opponents to catch up
And secure big kill so it was just really hard for law all to survive through a lot of these teamfights
He ends up being a little bit behind in that worth his impacts not nearly sign me so close or close not worth for of this game
And same thing rabbits on the back line. Well, let's look at there's a hex in another war trap on top of Laurel
He's down to half HP before he gets undisabled
Then he gets an Estiolte and he's just consistently just dead and I did not die there. He did not die
Yeah, it's so much. There's a four man
I have less than a hundred HP ravage and homie walks away. Ain't no way she's if you're getting war trapped so many times
Hmm your nature's profit you've done this to many other people with your spru...
Don't you just buy for a staff at some point? Come on.
That's a really gold issue.
I mean, I
Promise you if Laurel could open the shop and he could like pick the items he wanted
He would have done that and he would have definitely first up would have been one of the items
He would have picked on for but I just think it's a tough game and the reason we talk about him so much is because
He is integral to spirit like being able to just play the game
He needs to set up their early game like even in the interview with collapse
He mentioned that Laurel calls for a lot of the early game moves a lot of the early game beats
It's a lot of the things that kind of initiates the script things.
And we want to see him enabled and we want to see him playing Dota.
We don't want to see him War Trap losing to supports.
Unless you are a Yandex fan.
I didn't mind personally.
I was pretty funny.
I felt like you were pretty angry that they lost on the green room.
I mean, I expected more from what I was saying, but I will say, Morphling is just such
a bait hero.
I don't think that there's a single other hero that just tests a carry's hubris and like
Irrigates just that you see more if you just think this guy's full of themselves. Yeah, absolutely
I mean it's a hero that could instantly get shackled by shaman and just die at any point in this game
It's like ain't gonna happen to me
I'd win like that won't happen to me and it's every single time it's like a late game
Morphling pick by a carry that's super full of himself. I love you. Yeah, please. Oh, please don't be upset
But at the same time that's what I'm saying. They get collapsed and then they're just like, I'll play more. It's fine, you know
But hey, spandex team kept it tight. Okay, and so I will say good for them on this one
Good for them good for us too because we guaranteed more Dota games as well
It's one to one right now in this grand finals. We're gonna head into game number three after a break
The battle will love it all!
Welcome back everybody to the 1v1 kick of the Hill series we have our reigning champion it is Maurice Big Dick goes man
versus
and Jenkins
Yeah, can I get a big dick thing as well?
No
Do the intro with the big dick
No
Anyway, have you gentlemen decided on which hero you're gonna play?
Double random baby
Double random
Respect
Do it double, one, three, two, one
No, this one
Double random
Double random baby
This is the cringiest shit I've ever seen in my life.
Let's just play the game.
Two, one, people.
Oh, Dazzle!
Oh, yeah, shit, you're broken!
Oh, my God.
He's done.
Scroomless.
Done.
Just forfeit now.
See if Jenkins can find a way to win 1v1 against Dazzle.
I will eat it.
I will eat the fucking killer.
He's crazy.
I mean, the pressure is on.
Kezin.
If Kezin somehow manages to lose this,
It will be the most embarrassing thing that is happening in this game.
That's true.
That is true.
That is a scouting pressure.
And he was on a skate game.
Whoa, Cinderella!
Cinderella!
Cinderella!
Cinderella!
Cinderella!
Socks! Socks! Socks!
What chip did he get?
I'm sorry, he's a good friend.
He's my friend.
I'm eating my fairy fire and mango.
Yeah, me too, dude. Me too.
What do you think?
It's supposed to do you.
Winkley's enjoyed it.
He has not eaten his fairy fire or mango.
I do like the psychological warfare in this game.
Shhhhhhhhhh!
Oh, that's cool!
I think that's just quite.
Alright, so Jenkins, he's going to ward lower river here.
And he's off to smoke.
Hey, come on! Come on!
He's trying to get a deep ward off the smoke.
Why are you possibly worrying
about what we're saying here?
When he could literally scream to you off the smoke.
He's not screaming.
He's sitting right next to you, looking at your screen.
You'll place your ward.
blocking by the way. I don't let you pull the wave. I don't give a fuck.
That's incompetent. How could you possibly know that I'm pulling the wave?
I see your- you have a smoke. Let me check. Let me check if he's got a ward.
Yeah, he's got a ward. Yo, I am winning in hero damage.
I'd like to remind everybody that Jenkins is a professional content creator
and is opted for in this content piece to do the possibly most boring
action in a 1v1 which is pulling the middle wave.
Okay, you don't know what my smoke is for how could you possibly know that professional comment?
I'm the trying team to play
No blocking
If here's Jenkins is blocking
He's to be blocking a lot more than just the creeps to win this one
Why do you need to smoke this shit?
Shut up!
It says we'll have no idea what's about to hit him.
As Jake pointed the smoke out with the smoke.
I don't understand where to successfully get the pole.
What? Ah, it's one to one!
Oh shit, it's on.
It's like I'm playing as an eternal enemy, and like, I should have seen it or something.
Bit of a surprise, didn't think Guzman was going to not choke in this situation.
He's gonna try and beat the wave here.
And Jenkins is-
NOOO! Oh my god!
Oh my god!
Oh my god, he's so bad.
Now, hasn't Jenkins just stacked up the wave?
Yes.
Against a Dazzle who can keep the wave alive with Shadow Waves.
And he's gonna be level 3.
And he won't be able to do anything about it.
No, he's screwed.
And he'll lose his tower.
Yeah, he's absolutely screwed here.
That's an interesting strategic choice.
You'll rage that off? Wow.
Go ahead, rage that off.
Well, I don't need to rage.
Only raging.
You are raging.
Raging against the machine.
Raging against the machine.
Oh, there it goes!
Why is the wave so big?
How did that happen?
Stacking up a lot of crates against Dazzle.
I think it's...
It did not work.
He brought Exeggert Tower.
I think we learned a lot today.
I personally would like to know,
what did you two learn?
Let's all get something
No, you lost no, we don't want to watch it. We already know this is over
We are throwing in the towel as commentators
You really want to play this out the two deaths yeah, yeah, because I this is part of my strategy
I
Killed your career twice my team is gonna get more network from that you had like no network to death
So I'm like fight billion that problem is I've applied only stark support
So that this is all about killing couriers when I'm playing this guy. Yeah, that's why why is my name Jenkins idiots?
That's what I tagged you. You're you're in my friends. This has my bae show me put the camera on this
You're kidding me with this, this is very, oh I got Monster Hunter materials.
You're 44 level!
Is that high?
I'm ranked 10.
Oh my god.
Yeah, I'm bot 69, you're my bae.
This was a great segment, Jenkins.
Thank you, the long-lived one was great, I learned a lot.
You're so good at making content.
kezu.com slash shorts YouTube.
It's really good.
Kill, do you want to see Amar the fucker make plays?
kezu.com.
All right, thank you for watching our 1v1s with Kezu.
Congratulations to the champion, the two-time 1v1 talent champ.
We'll be back next Dream League season for more.
I secured you another gig.
I secured you another gig.
Give me my 10% 10%.
I'll give you one gig.
10%? Americans usually take way more than that.
Is this the season? Is this the place to be? Candles are glowing and the world fills
with harmony. Open your ears and hear all the rain, dear, breathe.
You are watching three links. It's in 27, final couple of hours of season 27, final couple
last tournament of 2025 as well in the grand finals heading to game three and
it's one to one between Yonex and Team Spirit. We're gonna find out what's
coming our way for game number three. We've seen both teams win once. I think
the previous game we just saw kind of makes me lean a little bit more in
favor of Yonex. They seem to have feared something out, Effie. Yeah I mean
their approach has always been just don't let that mid lane breathe and
spirit, we're like, alright, we're taking out the Viper. They address now that if this invoker is banned out, they must remove the Viper because the hero pool they can then play with through Laurel is very limited.
Already, we're seeing good changes. I also have the Steel on the Shadow Demon, which will open up a lot of their drafting and take away the way Yandex is drafting too.
Look at adjustments here, but I'm sure Yandex was more cooked up, you know?
We didn't comment a lot on it, but I thought like the Watson kids looked very good too,
but that's not something we saw, we see them do.
But typically people will answer that kids with a big counter, right?
I mean, again, as we said last time, you're seeing this Blademill axe coming in.
Wow! They're gonna go straight for that Tidehunter.
I don't blame them, man. That Tidehunter was sick.
I just like how flexible the hero is in terms of itemization, like it feels like Tydus is
finally in a place where you don't just have to go like soaring phase, Blads every game.
Maybe you'd alternate to a pipe, but now you do new pipe builds, you could do axe builds
really fast, you can get a blink dagger, you can skip shard, like hero flexibility
like this is always really fun to see, and the hero's been valuable even before the
hero gets to level 20, which is cool too, but it's perfect for any team that wants
to go Invoker combos they can't in this game unfortunately but I like the hero what can
I say?
You know what?
I think you said enough purge.
I agree with you.
I think he's great just because he's new bristleback you know?
Go in and he hurt you real bad if he's past the level 20 that's crazy stuff.
You think they're gonna delete that after this?
Uh no we got a good couple eight months on that talent for sure.
So, on that note, how do you stop Tidehunter left-handed?
You just don't stand next to him when you're killing him because otherwise he will anchor smash you and he does that against lifesteal if he has lifesteal items.
And then the damage you deal to him comes back to him and he doesn't die.
Well, Insania said range carries. Is that right?
Did I? Yeah.
Okay, I was going to say a lot of the heroes that are good against Tide are just banned off like in the first stage in almost every single game.
You see, like, there's no airsaw, there's no wiper, like, Rasta even is decent, Timber is suspicious, but kind of okay.
Uh, Primals out, like, a lot of the heroes that Tide does when I play against them are just bad.
So it just makes this hero, uh, quite hard to deal with.
He should be addressed from the mining stage at least, because he was picked versus Morphling, which is basically a free lane for Tide.
And you can go back into the pockets of older heroes. We saw a PA earlier, but a solution to Tide online used to be something like Tusk
That's Terriblade. They couldn't pick Terriblade in that last game for themselves on Spirit,
because they're against Shadow Demon, but maybe not that they have an SD themselves.
They can look towards fitting in a Terriblade into their draft.
I know that Hero did get some tweaks that make them a little bit more popular,
because illusions don't have that damage fall off anymore.
I see.
If they're at a distance.
I've heard some pros that will remain to be unnamed say that Terriblade is garbage.
Oh boy.
Or others have said that it's actually super, super good now.
That's true, we did see, I believe, an Arteezy tweet about Fairblade.
I was not going to name him, but if we're just going to drop the name...
I'll say it.
Goddamn!
He said the math was bad, and he's right, the teams are still picking it, so...
But you said Proclares.
Oh, that's true.
Okay, let's take it easy here.
He must have been talking about the math for reals.
Yeah, I couldn't have done Arteezy, I don't know who it was.
Racious me.
I mean, to be fair, I couldn't like see it because he got a lot of the damage removed from Conjure Image,
So, I don't know if the math overall is giving the illusions more damage than before.
I think it does for the further away ones.
I'm not sure.
I didn't.
But, you know, it's still here.
You can consider versus card.
Anytime I see a patch note and I need to bring out the calculator, I just skip.
I mean, I think I've done for that.
B point.
That's my way.
That's my way.
That's my way.
That's my way.
That's my way.
Wait for the card.
Straighten out.
Tusk.
Tusk was a big part of the solution of TV.
Plus, plus, plus.
It doesn't exist, never mind. Scratch it.
That's okay. I mean, we said that Tusk was probably going to be one of the most
hotly contested from both these teams, along with Invoker. Both these teams love Invoker,
have good Invoker players on it.
Cura Junior, top-eyed Cura senior, the original Invoker and Dota 1.
I mean, they're pretty unlocked to do the WinRanger here at the pickstrap.
Why are you laughing?
This was funny.
I think WinRanger's banned the first game, if I'm not mistaken.
WinRanger was banned the first game, maybe.
But they banned out Slardar.
Windranger was banned in both games so far.
Buy Spirit themselves.
That's right.
The easy carry, as many are putting in here,
the free MMR carry, as they say.
Do you agree with the sentiment?
Hero feels strong.
I'm not sure how good it is against Tide.
I feel like you probably have to pair it up with something.
That's decent.
Natural order pick, maybe, guys?
Yeah.
So when I see ET, I want heroes like Tiny.
I want Spirits. I want stuff that goes in and abuses the Spirit aura.
Then I can press my Stomp on top of, or drop my Ulti on top of.
And the Alex would probably recognize the same things and try to create a tricky situation here for Laurel to pick a mid hero.
I mentioned this before. I feel like Laurel is one of the few people that I actually like when he plays Windranger Mid.
I feel like before he came on Spirit, this was Ancient Times.
He was a Snapfire and Windranger Specialist.
These were like his two original signature heroes.
So, I think, specifically, this windrunner is a bit more of a flex than other teams.
Yes.
Oh no, my Tiny.
Is that a denied Tiny, you believe?
Well, it's really good with Jikiro as well.
We've been seeing this combo consistently.
You can basically have the support planes sorting everywhere.
Tiny does an avalanche, waits till that ends, tosses back into Jikiro.
Easiest ice path fall ever with macro power, so it makes teamfights better.
And Tiny in a lot of cases wants to group heroes together.
People spread out naturally, Tiny's going to grab one of them, throw them to the other guy.
That just makes Shakiro better, makes Hyde better. It's just a great draft so far by Andix.
Probably not against SD, but Tiny Shakiro as a faithling combo is also extremely strong.
We played this on Liquid a lot, but yeah, it doesn't look like it's going to be this game.
Templar assassin.
Mira, you seem to like that one. That was a big smile and nod. Why is Templar good?
I just think their draft is cool from the start.
The way that they do this, the way that they don't save the overall last pick for a core as well because they see it in a situation that works.
The supports on the side of Spirit don't really threaten this TA either.
It is annoying to get purged by Shadowdoin, but mostly if your Tiny's going in, you get burst damage from your carry, which is the TA.
You can always follow up on that initiation, whichever target that you're going on shouldn't die here.
My heroes don't really kill TH right now, and I feel like even in teamfights, Tide isn't
fully answered yet.
They don't have easy ways to kill either of these two heroes.
This hero has to solve something, and it's quite a tricky pick, I think, because you
don't really have...
Um...
Great forward answers here.
I'm trying to think.
Fox, over to you.
Absolutely.
If there's one thing that I know about Team Spirit is that they like picking heroes
before I can finish my sentence.
And with only 13 seconds left, you got a really...
There it is.
Fantastic X pick here.
Why is it fantastic?
It ain't. I mean...
It ain't.
I don't know.
I mean, that's gonna be pretty good against people like T.A.
If you happen to get her with the blade mail when she's, you know,
doing her whole thing and she's super fed, but at the same time,
I mean they have nice lockdown they got a lot of spells they got engaged a little bit of disengaged
I don't know I have to agree the guys I really like yandex's draft
I feel like yandex they they definitely have figured something I think they got some sort of edge in this draft because it when you look at the two
lineups, I feel like yandex have a much simpler game plan to put together like
When you look at their heroes, it just feels nice like that isn't I don't think completely screwed over in his lane
I think he can do okay against this Windranger E.T. with the help of Tiny. They can pull some waves.
They can use a Tiny Stone defensively. He has anchor smash and gush if the E.T. overextends.
I think his lane will be okay. Probably still a nice lane for Yatoro. It won't be pressured very much, but his game looks fine.
I think the Th. Kiro into Axe, S.D. looks favored for me.
I think there is some scenarios if Watson maybe overplays where he can get disrupted into Axe.
I'm trying to kill them, but overall I like their matchups a lot.
I feel like they have even the tiny 4 possibility feels strong, you know?
It fits together nicely.
Yeah, it does look like easy execute like you said.
I do think Axe is quite the good pick here for Spirit.
It was hard to find an 18 pick that works, but it gives them the ability to play until
like the low cooldown movement of a mid-tiny.
Okay.
With Axe you can do that.
TA did get nerfed in the patch where her meld is just so weak in early levels.
Like that really got dumpstered, so in the past when you throw TA against an axe it felt like she had an edge with her meld being so strong.
But that's not the case anymore. I do think Axe should have an easier time in this game.
And if Collapse has a good time on this hero, they will always have the ability to make a play.
It's not like Ultra countered the way his primal was. He's not getting Viper slowed and he's not getting, you know, shattered.
That's a very good point, actually.
It changes the TA, it actually might have a big influence on the outcome and the slain.
Also Axe is one of the few stuns that Tide can't purge.
It gives you a way to lock down Tide and actually give your safe laner or mid laner time to output damage on top of him.
So in that way they have pretty nice things going.
You can drop ETL on top of Axe as well.
Like these synergies are there.
I feel like if you put the Spirit spells together in a nice position,
things can play out nicely but it's a lot of weight on Pops's shoulders like if
not him then who? It's a fine point kitten but have you remembered
hide hunter's anchor versus win ranger. Win ranger's a melee hero. You're not going to be a
lanker. No, no. The other one. The shark. I see. Quite strong yeah. Did you really
think about that? She's unable to win run away so with that out of the
equation what can impact can she truly have that pro level there's also
something called positioning when you disperse yourself from the enemy hero
so that they can use their styles on you so easily I see yeah very good I think
this is the first time ever that I've seen all four spirits bound out in the
in the last phase whoa entertaining that's cool as we're looking for some
meds that is cool that's very nice looks good some nice front line for them
gives them some damage variation because right now they're kind of just magic and
puree so the dragonate physical damage will be nice he can front line he can
kind of fight this EA without getting shredded some good upsides for it and you
won't get stomped by the tiny mid it's very important for this mid to be as
stable as possible can ask a dull question whatever happened to puck hit
him with his sheaves I don't know but not grating and speaking it's definitely
One of the proper matchups to park and they did nerf is the jaunt heal against towers
Yeah, you don't get this like free regen and lane it might be a little bit
This is like the first
Weirdish pick for you next up to the hero's been unpicked. It's been a little poppy of fuels lately
Could be good against axe type heroes that there could be some damage issues come from team spirit outside of the focus
Bar even though they've got ET to amplify their other teammates damage
But E.T. doesn't really amplify Axe's damage anymore.
Axe is mostly doing pure damage outside of Blade Metal Reflect, so
Shadowdeam and the other support, this heal could make it, so it's hard for Yandex heroes to die.
You're so right on that. I mean, this Coddle heal looks kinda scary,
because now you have this hero that's fun stacking the Triangle for Tide,
just simplifies the gameplay there, but this Holy Locket plus the Weavesville
that we've been seeing Coddles do in the last three 9 class,
it looks very hard to burst through in that early game.
Like, the supports on Team Spirit are quite low damage,
Winrender needs time to round up, and the same goes for DK, like DK early game depends on his supports
Doing the damage to get those kills on top of the dragon tail late game these issues won't exist
But early game I can see Yandex kind of being the strong unit that's hard to pierce through because of this coddle
No for sure and coddle tiny is like
It's really really nice. You kind of get two tosses every time you use yourself
And
It's a combo that no one talked about as well in his interview. It's very very strong
I like it a lot. I even was thinking there's a possibility where you can have it had the call on it on a spirit vessel build
So maybe that's not from socks up could be a possibility, but I do like the griefs lock it
Okay, well there is one of these two teams that is going to be unmatched point after this third game with this best of fire
Let's find out who it is with cap and SPG fires and puncture pandas
I
The new patch has brought Tiny back in a big, big way, which means we're going to see some
tiny combos where he saw the Elder Titan earlier on in the tournament, and now we are going
to see the Coddle again with the Tiny.
I think this draft is cool for the symmetry that kind of played out in it.
Both teams are trying to get some big team fight ampers behind their front line stun
jumpers.
for this Tiny and Tide. In Spirit's case, this big elder Titan buying this axe and DK.
I think Spirit were also trying really hard to deny Yandex. Some of Stox's big heroes,
they took that Shattered Demon, they banned the Shaman. They banned out the Viper that
caused him a lot of lane issues. Can't ban everything though, and so that Tide
slips through. It was a problem in Game 2, also a problem in the Game 1. Spirit
made some big draft adjustments. They also went for a much faster lineup than a lineup
that is a lot stronger on the lanes and I think that's their big concern is they
don't want to fall behind like they did in game one they don't want to have a
lane such as that mid lane in game two sorry speaking of game two where that
Viper just demolished mid and the game was imploded off that alone so they're
really trying to make those big adjustments and go from there that's a
nice little bar. They will put as much damage as they can on Watson so he's
going to be limping in lane. That's a little play that doesn't look like it did a lot but
is really going to help collapse out on the early portions of these lanes where sometimes
you can get a fast build up or some side blades hits it and kind of take the fight
to axe early. He gets through the early portions, just kind of cruise away with
this lane. Is this just the OG effect? I feel like they were the team that was
most prevalent when it came to all the early first blood shenanigans. Now it
feels like every team is making some sort of little tactic around that. I think
It should have happened for a long time, but I think Oji definitely
is inspiring some more people to think about
what happens before the creeps meet.
Because you can still do a lot of damage
in setting these waves up, either with blocks behind the towers,
going for an early first blood,
bringing cores into some of these plays,
big ganks, safe lane ganks, whatever it is.
I like that kind of stuff, it's really cool.
And it can change the outcome of a lot of these lanes,
that on paper you feel are going to go one way,
suddenly they're going another.
To me, a lot of these fights will revolve around which team can keep their backline alive by
initiating burst and putting their frontline on top of the other.
Because both these backlines can do a lot of damage in this game.
They have really powerful spells and really powerful amplification tools between the
solar vine and the ET spirit to save from chat or even plus disseminate, Shakiro follow-up
spells on top of a tiny combo, something like this.
But a lot of that requires the course to go in and set that kind of fight up, so you do not want to let
your opponents initiate on you in this game in general, and you absolutely want to protect your back on.
I do feel like that that advantage is to the favor of the next step. If that's gonna be the name of the game,
I just apparently feel like Tiny is gonna be better at killing
spirit supports than vice versa.
Tiny looks pretty scary in this game. I will give you that, but I do think DK can kind of stay in on the
problem line a little bit here with the armor.
Collapse gonna take a lot of damage
Disruption to try and stall up some of the dual breath damage
And run at him with the illusions at this guy is also the X factor right collapse axe
But if the game comes down to who can initiate better and who can find the better opening kind of hard to bet against this guy
Okay, let's burn up.
Chiro Junior 11 and 4 compared to the 13 and 6 for Laurel, so Laurel getting the better
of Chiro Junior in their third match up against each other.
No more Viper for Chiro Junior to play off of.
Nope, not a lane you can win with the Tiny.
We've seen this go DPS way every single time.
Flaps fed the Lotus.
We'll be kept alive, Watson taking a lot of damage from those RU hits, thanks to that innate menace.
Really stack it up alongside the battle hunger, slow.
We're stopped pretty much.
Oh! Power shot from behind!
Yatoro didn't even run in, he just power shot it in.
Straight.
Gonna still try it again.
He's gonna go again? Okay.
That was not even close.
Well, he has kill shot, so...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a really sneaky move.
He's not missing anything bottom, by the way, because the waves got split down here.
Some really weird equilibrium happened, and it got pushed in to notice in the end.
So that didn't cost him anything other than a man to go through the gate, which did get buffed a little bit.
Well...
It would have been a really cool move.
A-sit.
Yeah, you have to land those skill shots, but the idea was really nice.
I don't think that's something Watson is thinking about at all.
Malady
He will finally be the first blood to bruise the one to take the extra bounty
How do you feel about that that kill shot? You did not appreciate when Mickey was running to carry winranger
You said the the other fast it was underrated. He should go it
And then people did fall suit they started going that other fast. I was vindicated by no suit
That's all I have to say you were vindicated. I don't shade it Mickey
I'm saying I was vindicated by no, yes
You're vindicating your belief in the other fasted, but despite it or seeing the success of that other fasted still going kill shot. Why?
Think he does enjoy playing on the outside of fights as a carry in general
I think spirit also almost always play this with some nice
Frontline jump stunners that can set the kill shot up
If you can reliably set it up
It is a powerful facet it did outside is your laniens a little weaker because entangled super strong on lane and very strong at
giving you solo kills in the early game, but if you're not really going to have that opportunity
because you're against the tide or something anyway, if you take the laning out of the equation
and you're just thinking about what happens in the mid game, this bastard can be equally
as strong if you can reliably set it up. They also have ETR to throw in there, amping
up some extra magic damage, so they have a lot of synergy to make the kill shot work
in this game. It can also be nice against some of these BV boys, right? This is
in theory like a percentage scaling spell. You want to think about it that way with
the threshold. So, yeah, if you take this tie down the low, you take this tie down the
low and you need that little bit of extra damage to finish them off, you can give it
to you. So, I don't mind the idea behind this at all. I am an entangled believer. I always
will be. I think that was one of the low key most broken facets of the game. I still
think. I'll think it until it's not anymore and then I'll still think it. You can't
stop me.
Okay, damn.
So, in trials, you do whatever you want. I'm not here to let your mom. I'm telling
you how to live your life.
What if you could throw spells through the gate?
That'd be kind of cool.
Like portal.
And then they sell a portal or conifer gates.
Well, other Titan can do that.
That's true.
He can grow a spirit through the gate.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
Well, I wonder if you could power shop through the game.
You know, that'd be wild.
I mean, Marana would become a very cool pick.
So I'm saying managing arrowing the safe lane from the other safe
You're just doing tormentor you get meat hooked into the portal
What what happens to that easy does he get dragged across the entire map? Yeah, you get dragged there. That's pretty cool
Zoom here is notice free for me down here
Those thanks the creeps there
It's all happy with that one got the Lotus on this lane pretty defensive lane setup for Yannick's with this caudal pick
You're not gonna have a lot of aggressive potential. It's just mass stacking in the jungle
Soxa's already stacked
Six cubes seven cubes
Yeah, I'm surprising that
Tundra veteran Soxa is playing much of Yandex's strategy around stacking as they out stacked
Team spirit in the early game of bleep all three games
It's creating a weird imbalance right now, oh he's gonna try and blast kill mid.
The blast!
It comes in, it's not quite enough damage, maybe the Blood Grenade will be with the right
clicks that are doing hardly any damage, but hardly any damage, not no damage.
I want to gank level 2 Caudal, he comes out from stacking Jumble, you have no idea
where he is, not a gank you can predict.
Just gives you that little extra damage against the raindrop, just to cure the kill and
it's a big one.
Kira Jr. doing a decent job of getting this DK low in the first place.
Panto really trying to make sure the siege wagon dies.
You can see just how important the tower balance plays here.
Rue, he will deny the arcane rune away, so no power rune for either side.
But important rune to take away from the tiny here.
You're still looking for this DK6.
You do not want to lose Laurel again.
Again, the inbounds as this Windranger has an empty lane bottom
as the tide hunter is cutting right now.
now you have freedom to move your supports around of your spirit you're
gonna put them defensively mid and try and counter play the games that the
index are putting in this tiny or you're gonna send them top and just run at the
TA I don't I don't really like Panto being down there I don't think he's gonna
accomplish a lot like okay you got three creeps off the titers link but
you don't threaten this guy you're not gonna pressure him I think there is
opportunity to run at the TA top. If not, just stacking. Stacking is going to make your
Axe's life a lot easier. There's already some up, but getting more, it'll pay off for you
later. You'll get a little medium stack here. I feel like there was also a play where you
could have gone to an A&E Boostering Shrine. For sure. I just think when you have this
much freedom often, one of the lower value plays is just following the ball playing
around. If you don't have threat on it. It's annoying, but it's not a
option anything if notice is still going to be able to farm the wave and farm the
neutrals yeah this is not doing a thing
you're going down they're not going mid I mean you can't backstab mid here with
the ravage thread the jacquero season is here one with the with the liquid
fire you have the tiny toss back there at kind of a dangerous tier one mid for
spirit to sit around
the tour getting control of his career just in time it's on that bad boy it's
double treads brother okay he's going to deliver his threads and go for the
kill on notice now it's a lot it's gonna take a good long while but notice
I think is dead
Okay shackle finally goes off now the stomp get you to here
Thanks the kill shot
Great good call don't have the javelin, but Falcon blade plus kill shot enough to wear him down
I guess pantal lingering around here does pay off when you bring the carry and he got some stacks up for Laurel in the meantime
Should be a dead tier one need that the index are just gonna start laying into this
You're cutting to clear through these stacks, these stacks are...
What was that?
Oh...
I just feed Malady to the fishes there.
What the hell?
Kira Junior.
Apparently he did not like his Jikiro gameplay.
And he's told him how he felt about it.
Stop soaking experience from my lane.
Okay, well...
A little freebie there for Team Spirit.
Enix know this big ancient stacks here.
That's why they're trying to get this tower down. They're trying to threaten it.
He got him.
I mean, he got him. He's like, get in there, bro. Why don't you kill him?
Big stack trying to get stolen right now.
Definitely a misclick.
Yeah, he very clearly meant to throw the rainstreep, I believe, but...
Enix got most of that stack, Spirit.
Slow to defend it.
They have very good heroes at defending it. Just weren't there on time.
We'll get to clean up one black dragon.
So nice deal.
I'm going to end up bringing everybody there.
That slows down the Axis game a lot, slows down this DK.
He was going to be the one to take it.
Both these carries are free farming, but some of the offlaners losing a bit of economic
value here.
All the supports are looking pretty good levels-wise though.
Try and split.
Socks have found that kill mid.
Everybody's level 5 in this game.
So, you will have some decent spell action behind all these cores that are going to go in.
In this room, probably not much coming of this.
Weighted dice for an elder titan. Are you kidding me?
Brother what?
Yeah, that is a...
A hero that is not hitting creeps, taking, I like, listen, the weighted dice thing.
You know, if Karrie still want to get it because they just really don't like the other items, okay, whatever.
But...a support, really?
What was this disruption?
Cot Watson in the corner here, he's gonna be saved!
Failed out by Cheerio Jr., who this time, tossing an ally, was a good play.
Do catapult up here to bring the DK, you can put the Windranger through the gate
and make this collapse way, get the stand out from the index, they read it.
They're just gonna back off here, but you might have to sacrifice this power to the dragon knight
There's a full HP tower with thraps around it
You always have that rapids you can skill and take the bite. So honestly, this was an objective
The index could have held it if they had all the resources and ability to do so
But yeah, no, no, it doesn't have the resources and he kind of never does because he didn't go solar
Like he didn't build up his solar. He went straight to phase boots
Now he's gone straight to late now. It's a little awkward for sure
So it kind of means he's always low on mana. He needs that shocker magic.
That is true.
Now, don't toss me bro, please. He's playing good far away from tier two here.
So trade-off, safe lane tower. Big tower.
Blade meal on the tide definitely helps you push lanes out and stand against this win-range area.
Toro cannot threaten you anymore.
That's the upside here.
A little extra armor in this game too, not bad.
I guess I kind of like it, but it does feel like this is a much slower game from Nose.
I mean, he's still free-farmed.
It's just not that mega high level ultra free-farmed.
That one death did cost him a little bit here.
There's your tiny blink, though.
That's what's going to bring this lineup together.
They force the Windranger off bottom with the Blade Mail that he can no longer
interact with.
We'll see if Yatoro can keep up his farm rate against his TA with the Windranger.
Very tough hero to match, especially if there are ancient stacks being built.
Quick smoke from the next line of range, we can tie down our top.
This feels like a stretch of a smoke in some ways, again a minute before the Wisdom
shrine spawns. You're just looking for the axe up here, but don't have the tiny, so you're
going to have to bring the TA into this play. Now it'll work.
Howdy, runs headlong into collapse. He will be abandoned by his team.
Easy solar bind action. I thought that smoke was maybe not going in, but they connected
and now you can stick around this part of the map, threaten the wisdom shrine
Yeah, take the offline tower, threaten the wisdom shrine, team spirit, aren't gonna want to fight into that ravage.
Spark TP. Very good.
Notice definitely wants to stay around. See how many heroes Spirit bring to this part of the map?
You have to assume they're gonna defend this, and if they want to defend it, they might have to bring it.
Toro.
They just completely back off
So many heroes off the map spirit did smoke to to take this fight
I think the index had the reen we're not gonna be able to bring the T.A. into that
Chikiro's dealing with a
Axe Dom creep that was dragging top waves off of that to me. Yeah, I think that was actually the biggest
Like once they kill the offlane tower push does kind of make that whole wisdom shrine play a lot worse
Little blink smoke play with the Dragonite that first splitter doesn't land
God it's bouquet. It's the ice bath, but he in turn gets hit by the power shot for a power shot
Here's that double wave that collapse built up by dragging creeps with the Dom
It kind of saved a lot of damage on that tier one earlier. It's horrible gobble
So collapse doing the dirty workout yours is carry this feels all those creeps away sad times
Sad times for the gold.
Yeah, he's a little under farmed as a result.
Butchera Jr. is the least farmed.
And he needs to get kills to dig himself out of that hole and he's looking for him right now with the smoke.
They're in the caudal, good to be paired up for most of this game.
So you can hit some...
combos back to back.
They're definitely looking good.
They don't have any deep wards.
vision game is kind of hurting them in terms of information right now he smokes
yeah you can run across the entire map but then you get to land sometimes it's
kind of a net even exchange yeah this is a tiny who's gotten like no gold for a
minute now he's not so happy they're still looking for something that's
something is up here in the corner of the map. They just don't know it. I've seen this before.
Yandex controlling most of the middle part of the map
and Team Spirit playing the outskirts. This looks just like game one.
Collapsed, throwing notice back into play. Close enough for the disruption. Now, Demonic Purge
into the call. Notice, he's gonna pop the ravage. His team is on the way. He's not going down easy.
Notice it's gonna come back in here, Earth splitter goes out, tries to dodge that, doesn't get hit by it.
Now the avalanche, toss back into the ravage and alley-oop! That puts Yotaro down!
Missed the kill shot, missed the Earth splitter.
Those are your big spells to bring this tide down.
Spirit not executing 100%.
Andix take advantage of it with a huge kill on a Winter Ranger who is probably otherwise unkillable in this game.
No Decibel charges for the TA, but...
Dangerous kills to give up because the index can't just go in the roast pit
Next five or so minutes here they get another big core kill
But this Roche switches sides, whatever it is they can just march in that pit and do it with the minus armor
Very awkward kill attempt
All in all, there you go.
Chill game.
And that one teamfight was hardly a teamfight.
It was just a single, single kills.
Four to four at 17 minutes.
We are still waiting for some of the initiation on the axe.
If that blink is going to come out, he's thinking about the pipe right now.
And you're kind of waiting for peek-a-boo on your Toro.
Those are the big go items for Spirit.
The index on line a little faster, and they're starting to find a little action.
Disruption.
dodging the crash landing, toss, and he kicks up Link away.
What a save from Rue. Now this dump, now the turn around.
Malady, he's gonna die,
claps trying to hop in time to get the cooling plane.
Doesn't get there though.
If Panto can keep his positioning around these fights,
he has a very good chance of guarantee stomping this tiny
every time he goes in with combo, which can buy a lot of time for setup.
It can set up another stun into the kill shot into a dump.
That is something cheered you off to think about.
You have to make these jumps count because once you're in you might be stuck.
Stealing Andix are trying to force their position on the map a little bit more now that they have some fighting items on the TA in the tide.
Really taking an aggressive stance trying to get deeper traps out protect the Rochon position
I was about to say at what points you just do Roach very close to doing
Take this off-lane tower first blessing some of the mad control for team spirit. That's I was discussed which sides here a minute
Yeah, I feel like you want to do it
You know you have the position up here
We very tempted to go do it right now. You got deso. You've got gosh
Team Spirit do have a very nice ward to scout out that area.
The question is, do they feel like they're strong enough to fight into Ravage?
Team Spirit's always annoying, but it can only stall.
This fight looks tough into the Tidehunter right now.
Don't have a blink on axe. How do you really take this fight?
I don't think you can.
This almost feels like a thing.
Alright, so he just walks up.
Make sure there's nobody that's coming down from Team Spirit.
No shenanigans.
Collapse.
He finishes up a pipe.
Laurel!
Laurel go for it here.
Potentially.
He's feeling cold.
Nope.
Roshan goes down.
The H is already grabbed.
Earth Splitter goes off.
Collapse is going to be tossed back in with the Solar Bind on top of the Makropire.
That is a dirty combo.
Throw him into the fire and flames, make sure he can't move and he's taking even extra damage.
Jatow was just finishing PKB, I feel like Spirit...
...know they want to contest it, but they don't know how and end up just bleeding his axe out.
I don't think he wanna go for this dive.
He is a tanky boy.
It's hard to go for, you're not killing him easy.
But she went to use the bomb.
And he still has the rabbits ready to go.
Team Spirit over commit here.
In fact, he's just healing up.
Shackleshot does manage to land nicely under Watson.
Watson doesn't really care, though.
He's got an Aegis.
He just wants to kill.
Rammage find that goes off.
Barrel, he gets burned down eventually.
Double kill for Watson off of that.
He doesn't even lose his Aegis.
That was Uhtoro's BKB and a focus fire.
He got nothing for it.
Can he die here?
It's very close.
Tossed a little bit of burn damage picking out.
Chara Jr. makes the commitment.
Blinks inside the base.
Ford Avalanche and collapse can't even punish him.
You're taking a fight without your pipe axe, without your lock down against the Tide.
It just feels forced. It feels super forced.
Back to back, right? It's like...
And you kinda have to respect the heals coming out from this Kata.
Like, you know, if you don't find the Kata first, he's gonna amp up all the damage you'll throw by.
He's gonna be giving everybody mana.
He already has lock it. He has mech.
The blast are healing.
You're just pumping HP into this Tide Hunter that is never gonna get bursted down
unless you just completely all in it with everybody in an axe call.
Spear are getting dragged into these fights that they do not want to be in.
It's getting out later right now. No way around it.
Oh, yeah.
I feel like you're just back off of your Laurel. I don't think poking him here and seeing what's up is necessarily a bad play.
You get a nice bomb on two, bud. You're sacrificing your positioning and you don't have axe.
Don't have your aura.
A great killer play from wants it though, to blink in, go straight for the shattered even, casually like two shot him.
100% you can't do supports any time you can grab him.
And we also saw the downside of, you know, you took the kill shot, it can deal with the tide, but you don't have that tangle damage.
And if you shackle TA there, if you have the entangled damage, you're probably just killing him.
Sure.
You're missing some single target DPS in exchange for contributing to the big jump, with the jump, and all it never happens.
Toro's definitely a lot sadder about it.
Still as decent level, still as that BKB can always win fights with some nice E.T. stomps.
Definitely on the back, but 11k gold lead.
The endings keep going like this. Second Roshan is going to be a killer timing for them.
They get that Aegis, they'll have a MKB for Watson, so Yatoro really won't be able to play the teamfights very well.
They need the Axe Blink here, I think it's killing him trying to find the supports all in the Dragonite.
Got the initiation on the Keeper of Light, just see what they're looking for.
The claps may be dying, just Ruffian trying to bail him out, notice is now going to join in.
He gets called immediately, but something's going to hit him. The Aegis gets burnt out on Watson.
And on the tail.
Life?
Ravage goes out immediately, right as Laurel tried to jump in to go for the stun onto Watson.
It feels like they thought they were really going to kill the KH twice.
Yeah, what?
There's no shot you're winning that fight.
Yeah, I don't understand.
I cannot believe they stayed up.
Like the idea being, okay, I focus fired him down once.
The focus fire is still going on the second line.
Right, but you're gonna get...
to come in and, you know, stun him, but okay, even if you kill him there, is that worth throwing away
both your cores? No. It's just, ah, he's a very forced place from spirit that we're seeing. I mean,
it wasn't going to work because there's Ravage. It wasn't going to work because he can blink out
immediately on the second life unless you have some sort of cover damage, and you used it,
you used stomp on the Caulofield. That's a big deal. You don't have the ability to stomp
in the middle of this or kind of reset this exchange. Ravage came up in the middle of
this by maybe you were trying to time that move out it was very close that could
have made a big difference here but you get caught a couple seconds too late
just melted spirit also itemized for reducing the magic damage you'll pipe
on this axe mage slayer on the DK it's not reducing the physical person is
Yay. There's a smoke on the smoke again.
It's gonna break. Dragon Tail. On Watson. But they couldn't get through the refraction and he's able to blink out.
Notice, he goes in. He wants to be the center of attention here, goes straight to the back line, trying to deal with the shadow demon.
While Laurel is burning inside the fire and flames, the macro pyre gets popped by the crash landing of the Tiny.
Now the avalanche, the slow down collapse, he's not gonna make it back to base.
It just feels frustrated right now and Yandex they are starting to steamroll this game 18k Goldy
He's done collapse dude collapse is so done with this game
That player can't reaction of him hands up the keyboard like I don't know what we're doing here guys. I'm done with this one. I
Can't blame him for his frustration. It felt like he was trying to farm this pipe the whole time
They never took a
table pipe with this pipe and then he's just a blinkless ax around I can't do anything
That's that Yandex they
They have really put some pressure on Spirit now because Spirit had an opportunity after that game to advance some of their clutch heroes, right?
The Rasta, the Viper, but she gave him this Pied, they got Tiny, and they still found supports to enable these two frontliners,
give Wattson a big physical damage dealer.
Spirit just could not kill these heroes.
You found a couple that kills early, but one death on the Pied, that is the only death on these three cores this entire game.
Where's the threat?
Where's the pressure?
Are you pushing towers?
are you kicking the TA off the lane?
Are you taking away stacks from the tide?
We saw the reverse. Yandex taking stacks away from the axe.
Yandex threatening these cores across the map,
killing Laurel, even with a Coddle gank early,
and the TA's just running away with this game.
These guys are playing damn well right now. They are.
So you have to take them off-founce,
you have to throw a wrench in the mix now of your spirit
and come back swinging.
And that's exactly what we hope to be able to see
in order to get a game five,
But Team Spirit, I don't know, the form right now, it's just a big question,
but we may not see them be able to come back into the game 4.
Yandex up 2-1.
That pressure from Yandex constantly.
If Team Spirit was just a bit lost at some point, calling the GG when it was very clear
that there was no way out of this one other than calling those letters.
And one thing you really wanted to mention, Slacks, is the Type TA?
It does everything. It does absolutely everything do you know that's one this game so hard tiny got born started killing his own teammates
Let me just throw in to Carol and that you did do that
Genuinely bored
Unbelievable, okay, but if you're jacquero, you're never trust your tiny again. No, why did you do that?
Let me have a good game. Yeah, yeah max honestly, you're owning they're bringing the tempo versus team spirit
I feel like they have a very good understanding on how to play against this team and throughout the last couple of games
they're creating issues within the draft.
Like, Spirit are like picking Shadow Demon themselves
because they don't want to play against it.
They're then letting through Jekiro
and they don't have a hero to match the Jekiro.
Then they still don't have an issue for the tide
that got last picked against them
and then it got first picked.
Like, Yandex they're in their heads right now, draft-wise.
For sure. And I feel like this, like for example,
when we see Yandex pick SD in the game before,
they pick Shadow Demon into the primal.
It has purpose.
You're playing your support against the set hero
Now Spirit just open up SD and it's like, but why?
And it's hard to see it and then like they get tied in and then you look at all the
bands and you're like, wait a second, what do we even play against this tide?
There's like no heroes left in the pool that's good against this hero.
And he is one of the biggest winners of the patch.
I think he's up like five, six, seven percent of the grade and plus.
It's ridiculous.
And I feel like they seem to not really have solutions to the problems that they're
being presented with. And when the script flips, they also don't seem to know how to
solve the same issues themselves. So it feels a bit like a tricky position for them. And
usually when you're in the spot, you might want to start just swapping up the bands.
Because you have a set of bands, it's going to create a certain scenario, and these
scenarios just aren't working for them. So I think in this next game, you could
see a little bit of a new idea with the bands. Maybe they let one of the heroes
that they've been betting the entire series through in order to just get like a new game.
Yeah, I feel like that's so scary though because you could just say like we're basically shaking
we're basically taking all the puzzle pieces that are brown that you can't find the freaking spot for
and you're throwing them on the ground and it could just ruin your entire game.
Or you could try a new way to fit everything together.
I mean it might that might happen it might be like the first piece you pick up off the
floor out of rage fits exactly in that spot but I do have some puzzle some puzzle pieces
I want to show you guys. Okay. All right. I've got this dark brown one
I've got this
Light brown one and I've got this slightly lighter brown one. That's very similar color
There's about six different shades whoever took this photo whoever backdrop to this picture just really screwed up
Yeah, 13 years and there's some clips. I want to play. Let's play. Yeah, that's mix that'll be one
Pied Hunter, strong hero. Can this guy die? The answer is no. He went plate mail, he went blade mail, he's got a chip vest.
Winter Ranger can't focus fire this guy. They have to land a DK stun into an axe call just to even begin trying to deal damage.
He's regen'ing through this by the way. Just completely, oh he bought a raindrop. 3-3 went to buy a raindrop.
That's for sure. But they're going to end up killing the Winter Ranger. He gets healed in this combo.
They just can't kill this guy 3k advantage another up 6k at the 20 minute fight here very weird place to fight
But the same thing he pops his cracking shell. He doubles that baby up. He's blocking for 150 damage
He does not care and they're healing him. They're putting bears on top of him
He front lines until they find a good opportunity and then they get to go in and there just isn't enough oomph
To stop him from doing this
They don't have damage outside of these right clickers
And they kind of pick themselves into this
Yeah, for sure. I mean, I think like we even more so on the previous fight
The gold lead is like not that big and use there's four spirit heroes trying to hit notice and he's just like me
I don't care
I'm not scared it to like obviously a very good tight pick
That's fear to kind of find solutions to but also the atomization like a plate meal face boots and
Plate meal all give armor and if you look at the heroes, it's it's physical damage. It's DK
It's Windranger and Windranger doesn't even want the Kittoros there. He's like watching in spectator mode. You can't attack
You can't attack. I mean, I think the Spirit's problem right now is comfort, right? And they get collapsed
They feel comfortable. You're in game three of an elimination series, you know grand finals
So you think to yourself, ah
Windranger that will solve our issues
But no, it never does it never dies another issue yet again absolutely counter in this game
It just goes to show no matter what patch it is same old ginger
You were actually happy with Windranger quite a few times this week. So happy. I'm a lot that one slide happy
How do you feel like the next game will go given what we've seen so far because team spirit did seem a little lost in this one
I mean honestly, it's looking like index have their number like they're they're just their drafting is so good
Versus team spirit and that's really half the battle
They also have this understanding of the kind of tempo that they want to play
And they're really enabling Watson within these drafts to like easily connect his teammates
So he's like farming and joining fights and he's so happy and comfortable with how these drafts have been going
I think what Insane is sort of about switching it up entirely is what Spirit have to do
Just like let some heroes through ban off the tide
You don't have a good answer for it
Maybe don't ban the Ursa try to pick it yourselves try to let the Ursa through and get a counter to Ursa
It's something different than what we've seen what we've been seeing because as it's looking right now
Now Yandex are on fire.
Didn't Maldives say that if you know the first tournament they went to they came third.
Then they came second.
They came to get first day and definitely on the right track for that and it seems like
it's gonna...
This game three felt so easy for them.
And they felt like in game two we saw the let the primal beast through and we all
knew the spirit was gonna pick the primal beast if it got picked and they did
and they were prepared for it.
Windranger same story.
Same story.
However, this is Team Spirit we're talking about. This is a team that has been down before. They love getting beat
They usually will lose game one for fun. Yeah, then they come back and start winning again
So we will see if they can turn around if there's one team that can turn around a grand finals for the reversal sweep
Oh, you're probably these guys. I mean, I agree with you
But I feel like there are some alarming signs like it's like the reason spirit are so good at it
It's usually they have a way to solve things like you can tell I feel like this went from like in game one
We have a great idea into game 2. It's like we're a little lost in game 3. It looks like oh, we're very lost
We don't we don't know how to answer any of what we're being presented with and the index kind of is like the team
That's like oh if they do this we do that if they do this we do that and they're now the teams that are like setting the pressure
They're the ones presenting problems for spirit to fix
But it's not the same problem two games in a row either exactly they they they have they hold the answers right now and spirit
is like playing Yandex game and you usually don't want to be in that position. I feel like even
when Spirit sometimes lose games it can feel like they are learning from the Drafts or it's like a
very clear issue that went wrong and then they react in the appropriate way in the next one
and it's fixed and the script is now flipped. I didn't really see that so big Cardets to Yandex.
Yeah, Cardets to Yandex they are on match point. They only need to win one more to take
this Grand Finals home. Can they do so or will we have a game five for this Grand Finals
If Spirit steps it up, of course we'll find out in the next game which happens after this break.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the match of the century.
There was the thriller in Manila, there was the rumble in the jungle, and now there's
the Eden in Sweden.
Avery, please, remind the audience is what they're watching.
Oh, I'll remind them. This is a single B01. Everything on the line.
One corner, a TI champion, aka Insanity, aka the longest tenured liquid captain.
AAA, one of the greatest Dota eSports players of all time. One of the greatest Tom players of all time.
This man leaves nothing on the table, no mercy, only victims, versus this guy.
We found him at a bus stop 10 minutes ago. He says he plays a little Dota, so we threw him in here.
Let's do Earth Spirit.
No.
It's fun.
It's supposed to be fun, no?
Earth Spirit.
A minute, right?
A minute.
That's a thrilling matchup that we're going to see.
Earth Spirit.
Thank you.
Interesting.
What do you think of the decision that she's Earth Spirit?
What do you think it says?
What does it say about our people?
I think it says they're both scared.
What's my fast in here?
What do you want to see?
What do you want to see though?
There's no potential.
What do you want to see though?
I agree.
Wing Range River Ceremony.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Very nice. Thank you. A very good contestant. Yes, a very highly matched up.
Gooseman's previous game 9-0 on Sardar. Do you think that will help him here?
Absolutely not. Looks like correct. 9-0.
Last match is Windranger for Insania. It says 5-5-0.
10 years ago. That's a rough one.
I have low FPS. I can't play like this. I have 6 tangos.
It's bottom right minimap. What is this?
Neither one of them is moving out of their fountain.
Somehow, despite playing this game,
both of them have played this game for 20 years at this point in time.
Neither one of these games should figure out what their item build is.
That's a great game, he's checking it!
Like, Sheets Enabled?
Gold, 9, 9, 9.
Interesting they both immediately went for the Sheets.
Not for a lot of confidence in this matchup.
I have that one.
Why don't we have a nice little high five in the middle, guys?
I'm leaving the middle, touch plus.
No D-Warning, right?
Yeah.
High five?
Show me your banner.
Now, shoot him in the back.
Yeah, go on.
Show me your banner.
That was auto attack.
That's an old NA trade.
Show me your banner.
I don't know.
There's no rules?
It's no block.
Okay, no block.
I feel like also no Last Sitting Creeps.
Okay.
No Last Sitting Creeps? Alright.
It means this match is going to happen literally anywhere on the map.
It doesn't need to be in the middle lane.
Let's see if Goosenean agrees with this one.
Oh, immediate power shot.
Well that's because Aiden has opted for the early mango choice.
Trying to out spam Kezu.
It's also interesting.
Oh
Can't say that on stream this is severe
This is severe right now. Now he's just resorting to power shotting melee creeps.
Can you get this one? No pressure. Thought he might have been able to miss that somehow.
He would have found a way, but nope.
Ooh, does not dodge it.
It leaves the range creep low. This thing just gives it to him.
This is an Ascure. This is a Sprint Ascure.
In in two.
Hey dawg, he's gotta find something here.
He lands the shackle, gets the hits.
Big hit. Ooh, blood grenade. Slot him down.
Tiger on this he's got the better. He's got the better for the post on the SLID. He chose this. He chose straight.
He's entirely out of resources now. We're gonna have to wait another five minutes for this to end.
Oh no. Dear God. Should have gone with your spirit. Somebody probably would have rolled into a tower and killed them.
Okay so you can go for the kill right now. Oh it's over. He's got him. He's got him. He's got him.
It's over. It's over just like that.
Yeah, that's it.
Well, that was a good match.
Good match.
Moosemon folded out in the game.
Zero CS, but still the winner.
He was absolutely terrible.
He was down in every round and had to go for a hail mare.
Somehow Insania let him have it.
I think that was more kinship by Insania.
I thought you were going to say, did Kezu win or did Insania win?
That's what I'm saying.
I feel that was more of a six.
Kezu winning off of Insania being a nice person.
Classic AV.
He can never call this home congratulations to our winner
King Dolan says on to our loser
Thank you for watching hey, thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next one you want. Thank you for watching
We'll see you on the next one you want
That's so hard to work in an animal
Jingle bells are jingling, carols fill the air
Mistletoe and holly everywhere
Children taking sleigh rides, laughing all the way
Oh what fun we'll have this holiday
All made decorations, lights out every tree Snowball fights with friends and family
Celebrate this merry time of yours.
Bells on pop, tails ringing, making spirits cry.
Bells on pop, tails ringing Making spirits cry
And the shining star upon the highest
And have yourself a merry little Christmas
Now, the merry little Christmas, now.
A merry little Christmas and a merry big grand finals right here for Dream League Season 27
as we are heading into the fourth game between Team Yandex and Team Spirit, where Yandex is at much point.
We did talk a lot about the draft so far in this Grand Finals because I feel like that
has determined a lot of the outcome so far and it has felt like the bigger brain at this
point is Yandex.
They've been cooking, like draft after draft, they're creating problems.
They also gave Spirit the opportunity to counterfeit their Tidehunter and it just didn't happen.
So Spirit are now in a position where they also have to address this tide and they
can do it by trying to take it for themselves or banning it out.
If you're banning at the tide though, you're giving up on a lot of the bands that you pre-prepared for.
Yes.
So, I mean, we could also just go deep into their pockets and just look for some old school strategies to address this tide.
Something entirely different.
I know you have some great out-of-pocket strategies.
Absolutely.
Pray to Santa.
You've been a naughty boy.
You all know on Team Spirit you did naughty things, but it's about time to be delivered a free hero.
Okay?
And the only way to do that is to not ban anything.
This is actually a forbidden strategy that I was told to.
This is a real theory that I have.
Don't ban anything better.
Because if you don't ban one of the good things, they can only pick one of them.
And then you get another one back.
Christian, Sieber?
At the moment, if you don't ban anything, you also will eat through all of your bonus
time, which you might need later.
Would you, in this case, like to have further down the line a button that just
says, pass.
Wow.
I like I'd be hitting that button right now on this panel
We banned the tide hunter no no and viper and invoker. I love a five game grand final the own mini
Little meta develops. We see goodbye to these heroes the slaughter gets in who's kind of been one of the heroes of the tournament
A fifth most banned total was popular in previous tournaments
but mostly used effectively to dumpster the map from the mid lane.
And there is a little flex of potential, but mostly mid heroes.
But then also to be really synergistic with other physical damage lineups.
It's going to make whatever carry you have on your team
do a crazy amount of physical damage.
And it's going to unlock a lot of new options for your draft
that other teams aren't going to have access to because they don't have the Slardar.
Absolutely. As Aiden said in the back room earlier,
if I don't see one have Slardar, is it going to be a win-ranger jug or not?
That's what he sounds exactly like me, Slardar.
Well done. Perfect impression. Thank you.
Did he say that right after he said Ho Ho?
He said Ho Ho, hey hey, I bet they don't pick one of their fish boys.
Sorry, it's okay.
Um, so another benefit to Disorder is normally, you know, Centaur,
one of the top tier heroes at this event, some band a lot,
slept through this draft, also very good against Centaur,
so you don't really want to pick it, unless you have some way of enabling it.
Um, but I feel like, yeah, again, Yonex is kind of like,
they're putting themselves in a good position in these drafts,
Spirit definitely swapped with their bands, J'caro, Tide, Tusk out.
I feel like they're just removing the heroes they don't really have answers to.
And this time around, Yandex ended up banning the Viper, so that's them up for a bit of a different game, hopefully.
Slaughter has been out, and the other ones, and now he's in, so.
It's different now, Slaughter.
Slaughter does beat Centaur, but with Crimson Guard being unpergable now,
that's the hard corner herring him against Slaughter in a lot of ways,
because it damage blocks before the minus armor.
It's a straight counter.
If I throw that, it's too much to explain. It's good. Very good counter to Minus Armor.
I like it.
Crypticard.
Mira, you're gonna say something. What's up, big dog?
I had Primal got banned. I was gonna just say, there's no way, right?
Yes.
We cannot. No amount of human rest will still allow the Primal to get in.
Now, Aiden, you had a large problem with the Shadowed Demon first pick.
You said, what is point on the panel?
Is now point here?
Is now point here?
I mean, there's more point here.
Here's the starter, her sprint, that you can purge.
Amplification, obviously good against heroes that want to rely on building items to take
up to survive.
The disseminate, I think it's called.
A very effective tool at hindering duck.
So for that reason, yes, I like Shadow Demon a lot more.
It doesn't feel as like SD.
But you have to pair it up nicely, because SD amplifies the rest of your team's damage.
like starter does from an offline position, ST does from a support position.
So now you need to find heroes that want to be amped up.
You want heroes that provide that damage,
very like the six second window that you're providing the amp for.
Yeah, just no elder titan, please.
At this point, I just didn't give them enough.
I think you just want your other support if you have the SD to do damage,
as mentioned, but if you have the damage,
you can just layer it on stuns and you have a play to make.
Hmm, sounds like a big...
It's early in the game, like E.T. plus S.D. are not going to be your comeback heroes.
They need a damage support, it's got to be Witch Doctor, right?
OHH! I mean, Mars is a pretty good damage.
I will say that. Get a little renaissance, get a little W action.
Not too bad, I do like seeing this team come out with, uh, you know, a little bit of control.
Seems like that's one thing where they lacked in their last few games, was owning of those team fights.
And we'll see if we can go return to form here with that Mars.
I feel like a lot of these heroes that Yandex have relied on are banned this time around.
Like Rostas out, Tidus out, Jackie's out.
Jackie?
Jukiro.
Oh, sorry.
Jackie's out.
Jackie's out.
Woody is still in.
Witch Doctor.
Yeah.
He's called Witch Doctor Woody.
Woody!
I don't know if I would call that.
That's going to give a wiggity bop for sure.
I'm talking about the Grigory, I think.
The Grigory!
Yeah.
The Immuner used.
Never turn in the Grigory.
It's bad.
It's bad. You got to keep that so you can ping it when you're winning the game.
It's valuable. Alright, I was not impressed by which doctor, by the way. I'm just going to say here,
TINYS, Florida. Talk about initiation there.
Yeah, I wanted to mention that the tiny caudals still looked really good, and it's a possibility for
it to come out, because you don't really have heal reduction coming out of spirit.
Either way, but what you do have is jump, right? You have this Mars who can
set up these fights for you, like line the enemy supports, and hopefully you have the
the damage to Lyra on top of it.
In case this is happening.
Cause that title looked good.
Like that title looked untill it was...
That's what she's on the panel, baby!
Goddamn!
Oh, it's like we're going to read right there.
They just played it.
Hell yeah!
Oh yeah.
Don't undersell yourself.
You were absolutely correct.
That was a massive heal that we saw.
Even in level two, title rotation mid.
And against a hero like Mars,
where you know that all the fighting
is going to be a centralized arena location,
what a great choice for that heal.
This is where I think Spirit should cook and not be afraid.
Like, go for the AA, you know, get yourself the heal reduction.
Don't do cookie cutter, because in that game one, you had the Warlock plus PA.
That is not cookie cutter.
That hasn't been played in a long time, and that's what you owned on.
The other thing I'm worried about with the AAs, I wish they had a little bit more
disabled, is the only thing.
If not for that, then I'm done.
I feel like the AA end of itself, to me, is like okay in the straff they use.
Always have to think about like, how do I solve the lane?
The zero is kind of dead weight unless it's paired properly.
Like, what I like a lot more about this draft for both sides is like, we see duos, we see pairs, heroes that make sense together.
Like, Shadow Demon Mars are nice because when Mars spears something, you put the card on top of it.
There's no glimmers, there's nothing saving.
So how does Yannix respond to that?
Well, they're responding with a different way to keep someone alive, which is through healing.
You have the Conal Blast, you have Greaves, you're going to have Holy Locket.
This is a way to kind of counteract the Shadow Demon ult
in a different way than like you normally could
because you can't use Glimmerist, can't use Force Thoth, can't escape them
so we're just gonna let the guys sit there and just tank them up as much as possible.
Ooh! That is something different, Disruptor.
I mean it looks okay to me because it's gonna give them some control options against Slaughter, pre-BKB
but as the game continues they might be a little squishy but it could allow them to tempo a lot
in the early game. Like here like Caudal is not gonna be as effective necessarily in the early game
compared to rotations from Disruptor.
Yeah, and I think Kotal likes to play games with low pressure like low tempo games where he can stack his triangle
There isn't really much rotations happening
Disruptor is like to pull the opposite. He creates tempo on his own
This hero will like get level 3 and then he's very happy to start moving around even going through the gate and
Here it have like tools in this game to kind of set up moves
TA is quite a good defensive hero to stay at her tower and like knock everyone over
But if you do it early enough before she gets her traps, it's definitely possible to kill her.
I just feel like this rupturing Shadow Demon, as a support duo, feels kind of empty.
They're low damage. It's two heroes with low damage. That's like their drawback.
You're hoping to compensate for it with the QOP? That's like the idea?
Like, Hope Clean is going to have high damage, high burst damage from her scream and her...
What is her ult called?
Is that a wave?
Her wave. Her scream and her wave.
Is that the one that you can use four times during that one famous song?
That's wrong. We did the math on it and it's completely incorrect.
If the ulti cooldown is 110 seconds and scales down to 90, and if the song is four minutes long, how do you get...
Was that two? Three?
You can get like three.
Why don't we stick to...
But he did put option A, which was like none of the below.
It was right.
The answer was A.
It was not A.
No.
He messed up.
No, that's not true.
Show the guilty man our camera.
Okay, so we are looking for our final two picks and on the side of Yandex
It does look like we're seeing a leading support
Still unless there's gonna be some
Pocky shenanigans and then on the other side we're looking for hero for your poor. Oh, I like dinner blade
There are blade for her. Oh, that's a good idea. I don't care. It's good against corridor
What about a chin for Yandex?
More he'll I feel like it's
With Kotal you want the other support to do something because you're not doing anything and Chen is another do-nothing hero
Why not more heal to do more something?
You just get the starter up there you heal him twice instead of once
So we have the strat on like super old liquid where we would play Oracle IO together
Yeah, we were like just more healing
But then you realize the enemy team never dies unless you actually deal damage to them.
Oh, it's not how you win.
No, not my TV.
You're a genuine genius.
They were thinking about it.
Maybe they'll come back and do another witch doctor.
You guys got to stop bringing up this hero.
No, they tried it, they lost once, and now this is the time to try it again.
You know?
I'm just wondering right now, if Spirit have enough damage to play against the Andex's
hero, because maybe if Qop goes to the Vessel build and this Mars gets a really
early blink start, they can run around and cause chaos, but I think you really
You need to throw in a jump here or two because if he isn't and you're going on these targets
You're not bursting them the fight is going to be very easily turned by the chakra magic giving more rounds of spells
He illuminate heal the TA being affected. What do I guess here?
It seems like the obvious thing very high damage carry has some solutions against TA minus armor
Does he have enough HP to survive this kind of burst though?
I mean you these guys hitting the cast two or three of them
Everybody's get one today. It's also a block pick so team spirit doesn't go chan carry
That is a lot of healing it is a lot of or is like your birth right now is is the sonic wave
No pressure you got 20 seconds
It's all DK I guess
Well, they are gonna pick
Yes, DK, one of these, I think.
Lock it in for the troll warlord!
That's better.
That's good.
Okay, that is good.
I like that.
Why is troll good?
So, troll is, there's a lot of physical hits.
Essentially, there's two heroes on Yandex that are going to be playing the game actively,
which is Thardar and TA.
The others are kind of just sitting back and passing spells.
And he's going to be throwing a lot of spells, but it's just that.
Caudal, Chander, whatever, he doesn't care.
So both TA and Sardar rely on their hits and they both are gonna be missing so
Because of his you know, you know
Really counters Sardar too if like Sardar uses BKB you can like chain route him and he just can't get away
This doctor start at Roller holes are very nice because if he tries to run away
You just close them back and you can just keep hitting the same thing forever
I feel like that's the biggest problem that troll has is people
Literally just walking away so you can get them in there with the gates
You know you can make sure they don't pop PKB's or any other items, but it's the glimpse back against Coddle
Homies always run in to go find his next person
Is there enough damage to kill these heroes that are gonna get Tim's back, Effie?
Like against the Coddle and the Chet Heels to come through because that was still the question that is there
Eventually, yes, like let's say the slain goes really well and they're making good moves in spirit and not taking these fighting engagements
They will be in a good position later on, but I do think that early game from Yandex looks very strong
So what Spirit have that they didn't have last game is a winning condition a timing to play for this troll does give them that
So it's more promising than the last draft a promising draft from team spirit potentially
They can force out that fifth game
Otherwise it will be Yandex that will be our champion
Let's see if they can close it out here or if we're going the distance with Kat and SPG and the point jump on that
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But they are just one game away from elimination now at Yendex may just find their first championship all time
What a way to do it too so many games played to get to this point up against a beast of a team and
One game away from closing out achieving that tier one
victory they have been searching for. Yeah a reminder it's as opposed to all the
other teams in this playoffs who got invited into Dream League. This squad
had to play through the div too the first season. Never underestimate division
2 Dota. Let that be the lesson of the day.
Spirits are definitely not underestimating them anymore. You push to the limit here.
You got to think about how much does not having someone like Moposhka hurt you in this situation, right?
He's been the rock of the team the drafting prowess
Maybe the person of rally troops that forces other players on steam to step up right now
If you want to turn this series right you don't have him to rely on to pull you back
So you got to look towards these veteran cores. You maybe even some of the newcomers like Panto
If you're gonna step up now is a great opportunity to do it
The battle will begin.
Fight over the bounty runes, clash on the top lane. Disruptions go down, but too late.
This bounty rune already gets grabbed and Yandex will walk away the better for it. Three bounty runes to them.
Let's talk about Yandex. What have they been doing right?
What has been their greatest strengths and has anything changed with this game 4 draft?
I think they are very good at getting drafts that work for them in terms of heroes they're
comfortable with and heroes that are working well in the meta.
And they are generally very good at playing lanes for what their heroes require.
They don't overemphasize poor areas of the map.
They're not too focused on, honestly, Watson and what he's going to do from 5 to 10.
They're very focused on making sure Nodus is free farming and then playing through
Chiro Junior.
And I think in some aspects, Kira Junya's had a much better series than Laurel.
Some of it has been the picks in the matches, but some of it has also been the supports going behind him.
Amping him up, letting him do what he does a little faster, a little ahead of what Laurel wants to do.
He hasn't had as much help from the support, and I think that's a huge deal in this series.
Disruption into Spear, and that is looking like first blood.
Rude. It's the one to take it.
I also think Yennex had easier entries into the fight.
They have a very clear idea of how the fights are going to start, either with a jump initiator or just putting Tide on the front line and letting...
And just running him into the entire Spirit lineup. It's very clear how the initiation is going to work.
I think Spirit have been hit or missed, and honestly I think that's why Collapsus asked for Mars.
I think we saw last game, he went Pipe Axe, he couldn't jump and start anything, he's running around the fights, he probably felt very useless.
It's not an issue with the build, it's they got out timing that game.
But here he's like, give me my Mars, I ain't going to build no goddamn pipe.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna blink in, I'm gonna stun some nerds and we either win or die by the sword that Spirit has always lived or died by
Okay, so that's an improvement for Spirit going in this game for when it comes to the shift in the draft
But I do feel like Yandex still hold the advantage when it comes to the supports playing through their mid lane
We've got the Caudal tying once again
I do think this synergy looks good. These are two healing supports behind some tanky frontliners both slaughter and Tiny
great chakra magic targets. Even the TA can be okay sometimes. And then you can throw that
solar bind in there, you're amping up the magic damage. That said, I do think that Glimpse can
do some work in setting up chase down kills for both the troll and the queen. If they're strong
enough and confident enough to go in, I just wonder if this queen's gonna get bursted here.
Either from a physical overload of the starter plus the TA or magic overload from this
Connell plus Tiny. Like those are the two combinations that Yandex are really
gonna use to put some pressure on spirits heroes. You have to be able to
survive on the front line with somebody this game if collapse is not just
consistently finding crazy initiations. Do like the Troll pick for that though.
Think this is a hero you can run into these fights these games. These fights and
as long as he doesn't get bursted by Tiny Witch. If he gets the three or four
items should be difficult. He can stand his own even on low HP against the
starter key. Fair enough. It is like, I guess, it's an agility hero, but it's one of the tankier
agility heroes. Just because even if he goes in and gets comboed and he gets put to 100 HP,
if he can pop BKB ult and latch on to one of these targets, he'll heal right back up.
There's nothing to really stop at this game. So yeah, they have a save to help ensure that
happens in the first place. That's huge. They took the SD away from the index. So instead
Instead of banning it out, they opt to just steal it here.
Will the adjustments be enough?
We'll find out in this game.
Chirijunior had to go to base.
So, feeling some pressure on the lane.
And this Queen of Pain pick.
Queen's not waning it outright,
but pretty hard to beat Tiny in lane.
Laurel holding his own, has the,
I was gonna say he has the XP advantage,
but honestly, a couple extra denies for Chirijunior.
It's basically dead even with him going to base here.
strong laning from Yandex continues the water rune is getting taken away from
Laurel so the combination of spells it's gonna add up now that he's gonna die
again it looks like as the Lotus passed over will not save him this is big
for spirit I don't like we've seen them have a really strong lane victory for a
pick that is good in the game in this series outside of that game one so the
fact collapsed asperi Mars early in the draft knowing it's gonna get
counter pick and he's still able to find some kills on lane CS well get the
early wave slip. Mold's really well just for him having a good feel of what's
gonna happen here. Glimps back right to melee range of utoro. Team Sphere finding
another support kill. A whole five already on the troll.
The fly out the phase boots has a lotus. Don't threaten anybody with these
glimpse backs the slaughter is not safe up here he just gets chased down so you're
finding some early kill action what they want with this temple lineup there's
being left alone and socks that shows teleport into the mid lane trying to
help out the tiny some more trying to help a farm up doesn't want to stand in
the lane against the three points in shadow shadow strike now up to ball but
yeah it does hurt the slaughter on that offline this will not be a free
game for notes. He is going to have his work cut out for him in this one. Just really tough
counter match up in the control. Doesn't let you walk up at all.
If you could look for the 6 minute power room here, that would be a big win for this tiny
neograp.
A little ice armor bottom will help Watson stay here, maybe prompt Malik to either
jungle or look for that six minute power in rotation on the bottom room you can
deny it out with some creeps maybe you can help the tiny fight for it they will
split their efforts fighting over top arcane we're an instantly taken by
panto denying that away from pure junior kind around this tiny who holds his
car it's close to the chest still not used to combo throws the avalanche out
does what damage you can Laurel is he gonna blink is he gonna sonic wave the
The toss is going to come in, that's going to take out Rue and Laurel forced back by
the damage there of the toss, had an opportunity to throw out the sonic wave, but did not feel
like it was going to be enough.
I don't think it was enough.
This Tiny is just so damn tanky, 4.2 strength, he's already 1400 HP.
Oh, just a disgusting hero when you look at the numbers.
Low damage support duo is not helping you out there, that's a tough run down.
At least you don't bleed out bigger heroes.
We saw Spirit kind of get some 3vs this tiny, and he's a hero that just runs away with it.
The lanes are going okay for Spirit right now if you don't want to throw anything away.
So I don't mind them holding onto that Sonic wave.
Downside is you TP'd your queen back in the mid, so no teleport available for a while
here.
Means the Andex could look for some moves without the threat.
You're gonna go up, Hanto, no inkdown, 7-minute wisdom shrine, as to where he's
probably taking that right now.
He's gonna be a bit isolated will take some damage not enough to die, but
Keep him on his toes
No nefs to come out loses his career at their shop. You're trying to file back cornucopia. I don't lose that early region
That sucks for him
Top network in this game, but he's missing a lot of it
Probably still find the stand on the lane and just goes by is it okay? Yeah, that's the other way you do it
And now that's going to stop him.
I guess it's almost better he didn't fight out and would have lost on Courier.
So it works out for him. Tactical Courier.
8 minute power-up.
Let's see what the support's move are this time.
Once again, socks at your junior stacking top.
Unlucky.
Bottom lane, but it is grabbed by Rue because otherwise the Harvey would have denied it.
So either way it keeps it out of the hands of the quap, which is I think the biggest motivation for Yandex here.
Spam is just so annoying.
Jira just keeps throwing these cauldrons on the wall, reducing his HP, can't make a move, can't get aggressive.
The cauldron just keeps restoring the tiny's mana and stacking Triangle.
So this is pretty efficient for Soxa.
It doesn't have to help top or at least there's not really a play top for him.
You're getting farm up, you're shutting down the queen, you're enabling your timing.
Just very solid time right here for the caudal.
And this feels pretty rough for Rob.
You can't pressure your enemy mid, you can't invade because your HP is constantly being
shipped down.
If you're not fighting, you're not getting yarn charges.
Almost getting the point where you're just gonna have to start a fight somewhere
with arena or glimpse and keep you the co-op into it to get her involved or just
one or two aside which feels rough to do but you you got to use a sonic wave
someone surely this game though team spirit are evening out the stack because
that was something that the index socks I didn't sure that there was always more
stacks on the indexes side than team spirit but I got a shadow so I have to
imagine it's a lot closer this time around he grew is definitely awesome
There is a triple stack on the triangle on both camps waiting for somebody to come
in cleared. See what ends up going to.
The only tears are that great a clearing that's super early.
Kind of even for the troll or just giving Mars. Push up that blink-tagger timing. I
would not mind that honestly. Mars has had a really good start. Arena is available.
Ten minute power rune is coming to rotating Mars to bottom to contest it.
I like how the supports just keep on taking these power runes and it's making it so that the mids do not have anything to make a move to the side lanes.
Like the quad needs it just purely for resources.
So the Tiny's big chillin' so he's just kinda like, well whatever if I don't get anything, if I don't get some sort of haste rune to gank the side lanes then it's not a big deal.
Well, he doesn't care.
Just resource management, keep the quad below, stop his aggressive plays, worst stacking and
farming jump away now.
As tiny as pulling ahead.
Almost a thousand ahead of the screen of paint.
This is purely off of, socks is key for the light.
Providing the resource management and economic advantage here.
So this stalemate is not really working out for a spirit in terms of mid on mid action.
But they are getting a decent amount on the side lanes which they're always happy
about.
Seems always willing to play Laurel as more of a sacrificial, almost three position.
Let him recover later. Another stack coming out on this fear triangle.
These are getting quite large. I miss both.
Too big for their own good.
Get going back, a big pick off here.
Almost killing Laurel.
As the blink to the side throws out the sonic wave, I felt like that was almost frustration.
Finally being able to use the sonic wave to get a kill.
And technically he didn't even get it.
Went to Panto here somehow.
Okay.
Well it collapsed off of that big move from him.
Killed the enemy mid laner and now he'll clear through that medium camp in the triangle.
He was like collapsed, asked for what he wanted this game and he's in zone right now.
Saw the frustration and that came three acts.
This is not a guy who's gonna have two of those games in a row.
I think he just refuses
Yeah
We'll be a fast blink for this tiny though considering the lane matchup
Much recovering you had to do on the stacks
Which are still being built by this people the light socks. I just does not stop man
He has his game plan with this hero and it's all a con
This is how I'm going
Like the 10 will find the command moral well played get the deny though
He is gonna take a lot of damage to the solar by toss through didn't get the disruption in time
But that's oh, you can't place. Yeah, he's just getting tossed there as is the tower
Goes off again troll ultimate big boxes. They lock on to
Ancients that's what he's saying and somebody has to clear up with the fight
potentially coming
Yeah, I'm thinking of that bait, that's a tough and bait into the Mars with Arena coming up.
Another great glimpse!
Phantom!
Second kill and this Tiny would be amazing!
Yeah, he's not getting out of this.
These are huge glimpses in it.
This Tiny was kind of controlling this whole area, shedding down the Queen of Pains game.
Every time you find these pickoffs, you get Laurel some breathing room, he got vessel charges on that.
Sonic Wave is available. Spirit are really scary around the map right now.
And one of the downsides of kind of winning your lane so much, you play up, you play forward, you play to take that tower, does put you exposed to a glint.
And I was also a big time to hit that, he was 100 off blink on this tiny. So if he doesn't die there, he gets blink, you make a smoke play with that tiny, maybe you're jumping them instead of getting jumped.
Another hero that can be kept in place despite his mobility, notice, still has the sprint, he's waiting out the glint, now he's gonna pop it, crush those down, but it's not enough to stop Laurel.
Hit some of the sonic wave, gets that kill. Now the arena, locking cheera jr in a cage, speared up back to back to back desk for cheera jr
Spear playing some dota now, making great moves, connecting collapse into all these and honestly to make difference maker the support contribution
I feel like panto has had a really quiet game 2 and 3 here, he's already made some huge plays on this, just hope the 105 start for him
for him. Bring his course into the game. This is what good support gameplay looks like and now all
of a sudden, your troll can get aggressive. Free tier 1 mid for your Toro. Weighted dice online.
He's cruising. This is a big troll. And all of a sudden, like this tiny, he was about to hit
him. He was kind of cruising with stacks in the triangle. I think the last time we talked
about him was like that 9 or 10-minute mark he was around 4,000 net worth. He's 4700 now.
Oh, he's progressed in four minutes. No, he's still trying to get to the blink
Absolutely shut down by a couple of those catches
He's not gonna have tempo this game at all doesn't mean he won't still be able to find impact here with the
Coddle behind him and just finds a blink pick offs
But very different game than we are potentially looking at just off some very clutch moves
You'll have to play from behind now, which is a very different story
Even thinking about the Midas, it kind of tells you how Sheriff Junior feels about his position in this game.
Feeling the lack of gold for sure.
Do you believe in this Midas? The Midas change just overall. Do you think Midas is actually a good item now?
I was just about to say, I think this item as a recovery item is so much weaker because of the lack of extra experience.
Why do you think players are going?
This gold is good.
I think it's...
My honest answer is I think if you get caught in this position, they're not sure what else they can buy that's gonna recover them.
Right, cause like Helmut Dom.
That's another option that got nerfed on the golden experience.
You get off of it.
I just like, I'm specifically thinking of like Skeeter.
Right, Skeeter with the animatis.
I was just like, there's gotta be a good reason if he's going in.
Yeah, unless you're like a mask, a madness carry or something, or you're tees building a lot of stacks,
there's not a lot of items you can pile when you spell caster or run around heroes that are going to give you an extra gold injection or a cover.
If you're not confident you're going to fight kills.
I think the other route is you go like flakery here or something, you just look for more pickoffs with the higher orange burst.
But if you feel like you're so far behind you're not going to do anything bad, then I get what item are you buying.
I think the knight is just meant by default.
Avalanche and Rod, Tier Junior will be pulled back by the glint.
That was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be.
Yeah, I honestly didn't think he had a chance of getting that kill.
The tanky rock survives.
Missile charge Sonic Wave down if that's a level 2 Sonic Wave, he dies, but Laurel, still looking for that level 12.
And if you use Sonic Wave, and this again, this is a Slardar TA lineup.
Another situation where Yandex had very good roach taking.
Minus armor physical damage to the roof. They're threatening it. Trying to look for a pick-off into that objective.
Going up the hill, always tough. Plants of ward immediately spawns Panto and the blink initiation crush gets the kill. Now back to it.
The torch is not ready to fight. He was still juggling trying to finish his Manta. Now he
wants to take the engagement. Still a Reno available. This Roche just dies so fast. Fart
our THN. Drama already online. You have Lockett online for the caudal, so early utility
items for the supports. Keywood Fear can look for here. Collapse point to either
You know team spirit. They're capable of fighting this collapse trying to get in there can't find anything
He is just being kited around once you're gonna read I finally throws it in but most of the damage was already done
Many of team spirit heroes are gonna die both your Toro and collapse the two codes down and Laurel
Corrosive haze a batch. He can't get the blink off in time
The other core dice as well and now cheer a junior just on the hunt for more yet
They just completely worked Team Spirit in yet another team fight.
Completely outplayed him. Watch him was hitting Roche the entire time.
I feel like they lost that fight before they even got in the pit.
The jump from Collapse, he blinks in.
The Enix perfectly split.
It doesn't look like there's any good arena target.
The Tiny is harassing him from the side.
They're giving him the Chalker magic.
That was so well played.
Look at the tossing on 3.
Together they've got all these heroes stuck getting hit by AWE damage.
You're getting solar bound on the troll, you can't move, you're thinking should I ult, then you get avalanched.
Off of a lower cooldown just into depth. No sonic wave to push these heroes back or bail you out.
That was so well played by Yandex.
Using their heroes to perfection there in this tiny, he's just back off that fight, that's all he needed.
The might is running as well.
These guys are in their element, they're just crazy good.
They're long on lanes, great team fighters, and they have the right items for that fight.
Yeah, the tiny's behind, but he only needs his blink and the spells from the Coddle.
The Coddle had the lock, and the Chen had the drum.
You have the Deso, you're fighting in the river with the Slardar.
So many little advantages for you there.
That evens out this game considerably.
Rushing the index ahead, now they have an Aegis to play with, they have a lot of farm
on this channel, picked up a mech off that and is going into Crimson Guard.
So it'll come out on the support which a leftist slaughter just scales a tricor third
carry here.
And another aggressive smoke from Spear, they've-
I mean, Yotara already showed it.
He axed the wave and immediately noticed he was hanging out in the trees.
saw the damage being done. He pinged it out. So they know Team Spirit's around here, smoke
somewhere to be... No, they're this deep though! Watson was just trying to connect to his team.
He gets caught, loses his Aegis. And Yatoro's gonna be right on top of him.
Chirijunior's gotta bail him out. Nice posh back with the Avalanche, but Yatoro's still
gonna try and stick on to him, but he managed to get the blink away, couldn't
get the imps there, and now he's being kited around by Chirijunior, who throws
him onto the chin, hits him with the Avalanche. Yatoro now makes a run for it, but
There's that Solarbind, slowing him down, tooming him to his death yet again.
This is not good for Spirit. Laurel blinks away, Watson blinks after him.
Can't quite finish him off, trying to get him off the side blades there.
Not quite. Maybe they can clean up a support though.
As Watson kind of around by the disruption.
Cheer junior gets a toss.
Anybody catch up to this one? Collapse.
Spear back and blink away, he's good.
Somehow, Spear actually don't lose any other heroes.
They were hoping for more, though,
catching the TA solo.
That tiny stun bailed out that entire situation.
She's a junior, putting work into these fights right now.
Yeah, that was such a good read.
It was just like, you know the troll
is going to try just 100 to zero this TA.
You have to bail him out.
But more importantly, you don't want the arena
to go off there.
If the arena gets placed, Spear goes out.
There's a chance collapse pins both of you on the blinkin'.
Like that's one of those things that can go either way on a millisecond.
But your little faster and failure carry out and then you can toss this troll in.
You have solar bind, you have blinding light.
Cottle is super good against troll. It's a support you can almost never jump.
This solar bind is incredibly debilitating. The blinding light is debilitating.
Resetting cooldowns is great against this hero. The heals are good.
Your only choice is really to buy Dispels or PKD if you're your Toro.
So you have a window to ignore him.
I guess you could get a cleanse on Shadow Demon. That could be a big shard in this game.
Yeah. Very good cleanse.
Yeah. There's a lot of debuffs to remove here.
Get rid of Solar Bind, Crows of Haze.
Get rid of the Melt debuff.
I think you just buy it out here if you're Rue.
Especially with Tormenter.
Giving the shard towards a Malady on Mr. Chen.
Get some ancient creeps up by another quick smoke.
On the Andex.
Here comes, yeah, notice, Soxa and Chura Jr. cruising down the river.
So notice, he breaks, a little bit ahead of the rest of his team, points forward,
and gets the cross on the shattered even, who is just trying to bait out his illusions.
Now, a quick little kill in retreat, notice, just take a lot of damage here,
but the glimpse back on Chura Jr. puts him in danger, did not have the BKB.
Fortunately, he's got reinforcement, so they have to use the arena defensively.
They were afraid that Laurel was going to die, as Watson was throwing some major
shot there, that's so chrysalis, a lot of damage. You could feel it in the game.
Yandex are playing this the week. They're playing fearlessly, they're just going for moves,
they're committing in with the right heroes. I hate to say the spirit, it feels a little
tentative for them. The fights are a little indecisive, the jumps aren't as clean,
they made some good early gameplays, but now it's kind of just been reacting to Yandex the
whole time and they are gaining so much extra farm off the map on these two
supports this chin is ahead of the enemy queen of pain making up some extra
ancient golem aura get some of the accuracy aura from the little lizard
honestly pretty good in this game against the troll mischance he wants to keep it
this might as pay off for the time I don't think it's floating down at all
So if you're on trouble here, this is match point, they are down 10k.
And they're kind of just all in on troll BKB to bail them out here?
I mean, I guess it lets your toll run in to kind of be untouchable, but is he doing
that much damage?
I don't think so.
I don't think so either.
And if he is met by this Slardar who also is going to have BKB, like that also
changes things.
You may not be able to do much damage, but also, one of them, Swarnar's just, you know, taking a fight to you and just bashing you up.
Spear, push Chirr Jr. away, they need that push away because your Toro is still slow down here, he's in danger.
They have to arena save him again, for fear that Chirr Jr. was going to come in and one-shot him.
You cannot just keep throwing defensive arenas out in this game.
Constantly on the back, but the pressure just mounting.
There's one BKB.
Cheerjuniors got his. Another BKB is on its way in notice.
That just kind of leaves Watson to get his BKB and actually almost has it.
I mean, it's wild to me that this tiny is the first hero in BKB in this game.
Yes, yes, here.
He was half the network of the 4K and 8K.
We're on that 10-minute mark.
He has just closed the gap, working towards the Black Dory, so much HP for Spirit to cut
through.
They want it to be farther ahead at this point, not 11k behind.
They don't even have Bestial Charges at all, that's, they're missing a lot of damage.
Dead item right now, unless you can find kills at the start of the fight.
To get that cleanse up on the Shatter Demon, that's pretty nice.
throw that on a troll and let's Gatoro hold his PKB for longer.
I think you have to contest the next roach here though.
I think if this next age just goes to TA, the index can go high ground early.
Because of how far this chen is, because of how many ores he's going to provide,
the coddle is going to give you extra heal.
Oh yeah.
Like, it's so easy to go high ground in this game.
So PKB done for Gatoro.
Spirit will have to find a way to win a teamfight
in this game 4.
I'm aiding out this Queen Top.
It's always going to show on this trap.
It's good information for Yandex, not the hero they necessarily want to jump first.
You can toss him back and kind of poke at that.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. If you get a toss back into crush, maybe you can't hunch it.
Oh, even better. Notice gets the initiation on the panto right away and puts the corrosive
base on Laurel. So they get some vision of him retreating back to the base. Team spirit
feels like they're bending and bending. They're getting picked apart bit by bit.
All trying to hope that they could put together that one team fight to claw the game back.
Now this is playing to win right? You're not playing to go for Roshan.
I'm just getting some poke damage, getting a glyph.
Seeing what happens here, you have BKBs on all three of your cores.
You have a crimson guard on the chain, you're so strong right now.
Team Spirit, you have a river ward.
There's an aim damage up there.
They're not going to get it though.
No, it's going to be Yandex.
Getting to that spot first.
Shared junior, she's got a shield rune, it's going to expire though.
Die as much as you can, he's on your side.
Do you know what you're doing?
No, Joe.
I'm perhaps thinking about it.
That's where their one ward is.
They see them all clumped like that.
They still don't pull the trigger.
Karina, static storm, would it be enough?
We're on everybody, but they all have to use-
I mean, they are just so committed for this one-fight team spirit of saying,
this is the way we do it.
We're a team-fight team.
And look at this ward that's on the, the clutch, it does see up the stairwell a little bit.
But how, well like what is the angle they're looking for?
You have to spear stun somebody and just blow them up through the heels through this
counter initiation.
They're just the only way you can win a fight.
So many ores behind these heroes.
Yeah, they all have BKP, so if you're not perfect on that initiation.
They have BKBs, they have heal, they have Ice Armor, Granite aura, 20 minute power rune,
regen.
That's not what I wanted.
Alright, Laro actually goes for it.
He's going to be tossed straight back to the shoals.
Not a big deal here.
Tier Junior with a Demonic Purge.
He's going to take some damage.
That fuels behind him though.
So this is just a poke, but Yandex are not going to jump on it.
Oop, back right before notice gets his initiation.
Claps!
Oh!
He tried to get the spear back on once and he fails to do it.
And that would mean it's not gonna feel good whatsoever.
Already taking so much damage here, Toro.
He popped his ultimate to commit to kill the Templars.
That's it! All in to kill TA, but he rushes out.
He doesn't have the damage. His ultimate doesn't last long enough.
Claps comes back in, half HP.
This spirit, they just look crippled.
Yandex has got their number.
Too much HP in this lineup. They have hit an invincible timing.
Your flat damage has completely run out.
The troll did not get to scale.
You threw that mid game away, Yannis took advantage of it with some very clutch teamfighting and just playing the lineup to perfection.
Fighting around the pit, constantly forcing Spirit into them, into their ball, into their immense HP timing.
The second you throw the rear, you have to commit to this fight. This is not a rose you can afford to give up.
Look how little damage he's doing for no auras. Yeah, you've got Crimson Guard, you've got the Frost Ogre,
Armor, I mean, Chen is just massacreing Spirit in these teamfights.
I have no answer for this amount of aura buildup this early on. He's ahead of two of your cores now.
He is. Oh no.
This is Yandex about to win this series, about to win this tournament. Daedalus on TA.
All they had to do, keep their composure. This game, it should be a lock.
To look for a spear back here
Even that is tough against the tiny you can blink in and stun you when you go for it
The Toros and give him the lane
We're trying to finish the she goes on the Queen that is the only item they're close to here
One eK gold lead
And they are hunting Yatoro.
Going after Yatoro who pushed into mid lane, and now is going to be caught bottom hasty
using BKD defensively.
That's fine with the Andex.
Send you back to base.
They weren't at the walk down this lane anyway.
A full out aggs for notice.
I mean with the 10 Auras behind him, I think he could tank the troll easily.
I don't think his Trolls do anything.
Now, Troll is terrible against early armor and crimson guard.
They have all of it, especially terrible before he gets to his damage items.
You have this traditional battle theory mant of BKB build up.
That's all just to, you know, make your hero function and let you get to the later damage.
You don't have the later damage.
Daedalus could change a lot, but he's a full Daedalus away.
else is gonna have to step up then on team spirit who could that be it's
collapses it's always collapsed you have to land some like crazy two-man
spear back
perfect arena placement under mounting pressure a second lane the banner
dropped in two and a half minutes left on the ages what can they do here
Cancel this TP.
Well, I know you Toro for this fight. I give him a second lane I guess.
You have to walk all the way back.
I don't think I've ever seen Team Spirit flustered before but it feels like they're flustered. It does.
They're making the flank move
With the Mars looking for some sort of clutch jump
Maybe trying to find supports here, but honestly these supports are tanky as hell. I don't know if you're killing a kill
It feels like the index have a read of this
They're not in a rush they still got two minutes on the stages they're flying out more items yeah acts coming in for socks
Yatoro is gonna get a crystalist before the next fight I believe.
Not quite the full datalist you're talking about, but something.
Blik-Dagger initiation on Morrow! Covered him with the avalanche and he's dead!
No buyback and a gem dropped.
So fast, so easy.
How are you gonna take the fight now?
Yeah, Dex. Incredibly clean play in this game 4. Couldn't script out just better. I mean,
taking that first lane, resetting, going the second lane, backing up when Team Spirit were
going for the smoke.
Just so decisive. That is what wins you tournaments. Feels like they learned a lot from that
for you this grand final. They were very tentative in that series, unsure of the moves here, he
strikes again, toss back and collapse is gone. No hesitation. It's your time to take this
game right now. And the way it's pulling back in Gatoro, collapse goes for the buyback
and Yandex will not be caught by this initiation. Maybe we said a little bit, Watson keeps
the pressure on the tier fours with the rest of the team backing out around him.
Aegis will expire in 15 seconds, Yandex.
They can do whatever they want right now.
Savoring the victory at this point.
Just waiting for some cool-downs to come back up.
Wait for the abilities to come out.
Yeah, use the rest of the net worth that you've managed to accumulate so far.
I mean, I feel like we haven't seen a full-out team fight against Team Spirit
since the last round of items Yandex picked up,
and they're about to pick up another round of items.
Because the jump is too fast and too much damage, you can just blow anybody up on a win.
Watson thought about Swift Blank, now he's like, you know what, there's Butterfly.
Make sure this troll really can't handle me.
Not in the short term.
Why not? He's never getting MKB at this rate.
He just flipped a switch in this game. This was probably one of the worst early games for them too in the series.
the kind of question are you gonna be able to make plays get this tiny back in
the game with the mightest build up he's just kind of jungling in the mint
they just call it said let's go Roshan we'll make him come to the pit they
win that fight they're absolutely back and the playmaking just took over 15
minutes since Team Spirit have gotten the kill that is absurd that is just
Oh
Looks like the wait for the next Roche
You kidding me Malady really a heart
That's what you want is your next item why not man
Chen means feasting on this game
Level 20 for the Tiny's to look for that tossback initiation.
No fire on notice man.
He got taller next item.
He's gonna get in there.
Just jump him.
Smoke through the bottom lane.
Caught Laurel last time.
Now smoke through the top lane.
Climb him again.
Save from the disruption but he's still gonna be in a bad spot and he's still gonna
be comboed down.
No buyback.
It's Deishabu all over again.
Yandex though this is a new experience for them winning a grand finals all they
have to do is close out this one fight nullifier placed on a collapse collapse
can hardly even get off an arena he can't get off an arena no buyback from
him either BKB goes out from Yotaro he doesn't even know what he's hitting at
this point in time wants to kiting away blinking back the other two
course will handle him and that is a disruption of the status quo team
Indian Dets will claim a Grand Finals victory, 3-1 over Team Spirit.
How many people in the world would have bet on this team if you go back a couple months ago?
Nobody. There is not a single person who would have had them winning Dream League Season 27 against Team Spirit in a BO5.
I feel like this team has leveled up time and time again.
Socks are giving them the veteranship, leading some of these young guns to a premier victory here.
What has impressed me the most is the difference for them in this BO5 compared to other grandfights they play.
Night and day. Maybe that game won still a little tentative, but here these three games super-despicied.
They played to their game plan, they played to their strategy. They made the moves that were the right moves to make at the right time,
whether they were ahead or behind. They knew that's how their lineup was supposed to function and they just fended.
And that is how you win a final. Like you can't sit here and go, is this the right rose?
Is this the right teamfight? Shouldn't I jump this guy here or re-position?
just go. You have the team faith, you have the synergy, you have the game plan. They have
very good drafts, very good synergy among the little kill squads by itemization. And this
team is, they are scary when they are playing. They figure out stuff very fast in his patch,
put it to use instantly. They made some heroes work that no one else was even touching.
Very cool team to watch progress over the course of this year.
Absolutely. There you have it. Team Yandex are your champions of Dream League season 27.
Fantastic stuff man. They just... there's no doubt. These guys were just absolutely far and away the best team in the tournament.
Thank you very much gentlemen. Congratulations to Yandex!
And as we heard our commentators talking at the one point now, small kill squads.
We talked about it and they were the only team to perfectly implement that class.
absolutely as we told you midway through the patch the first day it's the
deadlock strat two guys branch down the rest of team farming it worked worked
these guys are innovators absolutely it is so good to see them get that big W
especially on that road they took out all the top teams this was not a mistake
these guys boomed on team spirit I mean this must be sorry must be one of the
craziest like if you look at which teams they have to beat to win this
event. It's actually crazy. I feel like it almost rivals like the Spirit Ti one, you know,
like it's been incredibly impressive watching them do it. And I feel like they've shown incredible
depths about these games. Like they're playing so many different heroes, so many different
pairings. Pairings I absolutely do not believe in, but they're making it work.
It's the whole new world out there.
Yeah, exactly. And I find that super impressive. I feel like it's cool that
that they can do this. It's they recognize like what do we need to do in this draft and
how do we accomplish this one specific thing. They're breaking rules, they're pairing hairs
together that are traditionally not put together and they're doing it nicely. They're finding
wins doing some stuff. That's really cool.
It is very cool to see their progress and their formation too. Like from a grand finals
to a good placement to a grand finals, to winning a grand finals. And the players
in this team, like they are a mix of new and old, but we're actually seeing it in action
how these imperfections in their player being slowly ironed out, and I'm just so happy for
Watson. He's been around for a while now and he's been considered so talented, so
up and coming, like ranked one pubs for so long, and he's finally found a team that
I think understands how to play around and enable him. It was just great. In this
game 4 he really stepped it up. I think his TA was the difference maker when he
He joined the fight at Roche when he was keeping up with Troll and Notworth.
They were able to play behind him, they were able to execute their strategy flawlessly
and it was great to see.
One thing that I really liked about them winning here is that we had a patch halfway through
the tournament.
Yeah.
And so it didn't even feel like a fluke in any way because they also did so good
at the previous tournament.
So they almost won, well, they had a rough finals but they did really well at previous
tournaments.
They come into this one, they get through, the patch happens and they are just the
team that's ahead of the curve above everybody.
Yeah.
that different to a place where it feels like oh it's just a shake-up they figured out faster
they just played better consistently and also figured out faster so it's just the perfect
things coming together to give them a deserving win absolutely next generation of Dota pros i mean
these guys are you know they've been around for a while but this is the first really big win under
a lot of these belts and then you know the old weirdo who led them for there so good for him
You mean Saksa?
That's the one.
You can't say anything, not the last nickname dude.
Yeah, so what?
I don't know if he'd like to be killed, only.
I mean, that's a former teammate of mine, so I'm allowed to say whatever.
What's his name? Huh? What's his name?
We won TI6 together.
Yeah, but what's the player's name?
You don't know? No, I don't know.
Same.
It's a good chat analyst.
No, it's all good.
You know when I when I think about yandex and obviously the pedigree grand finals
But I do want to also say that they played a fantastic series earlier this week and I just
The game three between them and tundra was like so
That was epic that like that's for me in that game
They won the grand finals then that that was so cool damn and they can pull all those clutch movements
I think that's very important. They make this was this was a good strategic grand finals
Don't get me wrong. It was very nice. It was very well executed
But it's good to also know that they can pull out the clutch when they need to and they didn't need to this grand final
so credit to them there as well, but I think that
Nothing that the back of your mind makes them extra scared 100% as we said
I mean they beat 33 on his best they did they
Dumpstered on collapsed primal beast. I mean they have gotten iconic teams gave them the most iconic heroes and said
Don't care and that's what you like to see and I have to agree with Effie the most
The thing that's so exciting is that this is not a fluke.
This is third place, the second place, the first place.
And that is so cool to see from the next generation of Dota greats.
Well, especially since they did it in such short fashion.
And I think that that will be the first question I want to ask the players.
I believe I believe we have the technology.
I believe I'll put the curtain.
Congratulations guys.
Congratulations, Saxa, my first question is for you because it's insane,
but you guys have only had three tournaments together, you go third, second, first,
like that's crazy, that's super special, and you did that in the span of just a couple of months with the guys.
How is that possible? What do you think was the reason that that happened?
To put it simply, we just play Gododa, I think all of our guys are like the core players
that rank 20 at least, our high rank Maladies also have high ranks, so we're just kind
of Gododa players and I think we also try hard, maybe more than other teams, like
we put a lot of effort in and it kind of shows and we're all very open minded so
just put in the atmosphere and go to the individual play.
Do you think that's also the reason why you were able to adapt to the patch as fast as you guys did?
It felt like you guys didn't miss a single beat adopting to it.
Yeah, I think we talked a lot about the patch. We had some good ideas about what you want to execute.
I think about some heroes, maybe we were one step ahead with another team, and
definitely we were working.
Awesome. We're gonna ask you to pass the headset around. Is that okay?
sure of course all right we will be getting cheered junior that's my
what I'm doing fine how are you boys yeah we're good we're good congrats on
the win I have a question about coming call oh don't really go well together
What made you want to play Chen on last pick here?
Because we already saw the Shadow Demon and we decided to counter pick it with Chen.
We also were thinking about, you know, it's not a bad combo.
Having two supports was going to heal and they don't really have a vessel buyer, so that's what we counted on.
But we actually forced Queen of Pain to buy the vessel, which is also good for us.
And there was not a lot of options on the last pick because a lot of supports were banned, so Chandler's like, it's decent.
Would you say that anyone that thought that that combo was bad was a dumb, dumb do-head?
Your own words.
No, of course not.
We also thought that this combo is a bit sus.
Okay, well it's good to hear.
Thank you.
I have another question for Melody. You guys looked so well prepared today.
Your ideas were so good. It felt like you were so confident in your plans.
Was it a team discussion on what strategies you wanted to have today, or did one person have a very strong voice?
No, I think we discussed it as a team. But we decided to do the same thing as we did yesterday.
But the suppressors was there in Volker
so
It got like quick change of plans for the second for the third game
We just decided to bound in Volker for every game and yeah
So Maldi I remember a bunch of years ago
I was starting to learn to play tree and and I was watching you play tree in the lot
I consider you one of the best treatments in the world
Any chance we're gonna see this hero anytime soon?
I actually was preparing the tree and for the finals, but I didn't get to pick it
Oh nice, nice, I like this one
I lost three puffs in a row on this hero
Lost three?
No, I lost it
Oh lucky
Oh lucky
Could you pass the headset along to Shiro?
Yeah, sure
Thank you Malady
Thank you for the great interview
What a humble guy
Yeah
I definitely called you a dude with two fingers.
Hey, heroes!
Here a junior!
The man in the myth of legends.
Hello.
Question number one, how's it feel to be the number one person that everyone is going to try to take out in the following months in Dota?
You were unbelievable.
People are going to do what you assholes did to Laurel.
Prepare for that.
How's that feel?
Feels really great.
You're right, I'm the first one to enter the tournament.
Maybe, because my boss parents, I mean, I really love them. They support me every day after every match.
Every series they really love me.
They just...
That's beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Kira senior, the belt goes back in the door tonight.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I have still got a question about the mid lane,
because it felt like you were very well prepared in this mid lane
for this grand finals.
Is there anything in particular you did to make sure Laurel
suffered?
I don't know, we're going to hear us, and I feel great, only.
Great.
It showed, it really did show.
Alright, Sherrod, thank you for taking the time to talk to us.
Could you pass the headset along to noticed, please?
Noticed.
What?
Could you pass the headset to noticed?
You know what that guy is?
Ah, okay.
Yes, yes, of course.
Yeah, you're correct.
Who the hell is noticed?
I'm sure.
Yeah, I think we do it very hard.
You know, we play a lot of screens,
we just make conclusions
from our grand final on Blast
and Fissure Tournament,
and that's work.
Okay, and then would you say
a big secret to your success
was just playing fast in most of your games
because it felt like you guys were pressing
I think this depends from player style enemy teams and from your heroes in meta, you know, you have some ideas and you see how play teams, team spirit wanna play slow, they wanna farm and you just play fast.
That's it.
That's great, thanks.
Is there anything that you feel like, the team that you're on with the 5 man that you have now, that you do very different from a team that you were on, say, a year ago?
Is there anything that you feel like, well, that's something that maybe I should have done with all my other teams that you only do now with this one?
You mean the only one who do it?
No, what makes you guys as a five more special than the team that you were on with other
people in the past?
Like what's the biggest difference maker for you?
Literally I don't know.
I think we just want to play Dota, good Dota and that's it.
It sounds so simple.
Yeah, you could also say love.
Why are you laughing?
Pass off the headset, thank you very much!
Could we get Watson on the headset?
Watson!
Thank you.
Look at this black thing.
Why would he say love?
Watson, say love.
Watson, congrats on your win.
How are you feeling right now? You've been grinding for so long. Like how does this feel?
I'm very happy. Yeah, we played all good. Flux, you remember last time now?
You think I forgot that?
I said we'll come back stronger.
Caw hell yeah dude! You told me! I'm winning the next one!
Yeah. Man, you're worth. That's what I like to hear.
So how's the new patch been for you? Like how many pubs a day have you been playing?
Like what did the prep look like going into this new patch in this tournament?
Play one warm-up top, then like scrims or a visual, and after a visual I go watch Naruto.
First season.
That's good.
Wait, what part of Naruto are you on?
It's like first time with Tachi.
Oh, okay, that's why he's powered up.
So, OG Naruto right now.
Not Shippuden.
Yeah, it's like first season like first first that's that's good
Question yes, how important is it if you're playing a pub before an official how important is it for you to win that pub?
Honestly, I don't know
I lost or win. I just you know, I just click buttons and like
Yeah
It does not matter. It's just a warm up doesn't matter. Yeah, it's like full armor because
Don't grieve on a fish up
I have to ask what's I'm like in this new patch. Are there any like ego?
We sell heroes, you know some like our Gordon some some slugs like are we gonna see any of this machine sir?
I really wanted to play in drama
but I
I call them, I think the runner is strong.
And others I don't know, I just play my heroes.
How do you feel, I mean you played T8 twice, obviously like the hero.
Do you feel like the Meldner's are a big effect to the hero or not really?
Not really, because like Top's low is very...
...Giga right now, it's like good against SD, Mars.
You just have to kill this hero and this hero deals a lot of damage.
So, you've been watching the Ruto after your officials, that's obviously great, I've not taken that away from you, go right ahead.
But, you're all five there, you just won first big LAN, what are you going to do?
I think I have flight, like four hours, flight to home.
I guess that is also nice.
You guys have been on the road, I would imagine for quite a long time, right?
Yeah, we go to China, after China we are here on bootcamp and I miss my home.
I can imagine and I would imagine that goes for your teammates as well.
Congratulations once again Watson to you and to all the guys also behind you of course.
It has been fantastic to watch you guys take this journey and to finish first
and to make it all come true to go third, to second, to first.
I got to warn you what's next because we already heard from notice
when he did his interview after Fischer playground he said I just want to one win one land
and he didn't win one so surely there's got to be one last place last place
no this guy don't lie hell yeah yo enjoy god home a winner big dog yeah
congratulations very much so congratulations have a good one see you for the next one take good rest
Big thanks.
Thank you.
Enjoy last.
Thank you.
Now it's got time to watch Naruto on the plane.
There you go.
A good time to watch anime.
I think your first time Naruto is a buff.
It makes you feel comfortable.
He said it was his first time watching.
He also said Itachi first time.
I think he knew Itachi's first appearance.
I think it's like his 17th time.
He asked me for liquid birch once upon a time.
I feel like it was a young one.
Yes. Yeah, I told them you need to get like top six and I'll give you an Eartho merch.
So now? No, I already give them.
Oh, good, good, good.
They did this a long time ago.
But I think you've already seen it before.
I will say that there was an overarching trend.
So in the way they talked about the game, they're just they're just
like they pop spam constantly.
So they are, I would imagine, on top of every trend.
And this is how they were able to just be on top of this dream league as well.
It sounded like it, right? It did. It did, you know,
That's the next generation of Dota fiends and just watching old-ass enemies and pumping to their hearts content.
What a beautiful dream league it's been. Yeah, it's only a fantastic memory. Some a great place, some a wonderful talent moments.
Yeah, we could take a look at the brackets and to see which road. Sure. Everybody has taken.
Let's do that. Go all the way or potentially not in some case. Well, in most cases actually not.
Most of them did. They're very good at all in fact. Look at that. What a journey.
Let's not forget, these guys came in from Div2.
These guys came in from Div2, only called into existence this year.
The first season.
And what is the success story for Div2?
I can't believe you're calling these players Div2.
Div2?
What?
I've lost to Div2.
I know one of them before this event.
No, I mean, it is great.
And shout out to ESL of course for doing a Div2.
general it's what got such a great team with fresh new ideas that now every
div one will copy like she was mentioned they they had so many good games feel
like that the game versus tundra was cinema like when they won when their
mega creeds their throne was exposed they clutch that like so they are
confident knowing that they can play late game they can clutch wins that look
like losses and they can play in a very dominant style I mean that is the
best way to win a tournament kind of reminds me of the last chance qualifier
actually that led to Tundra winning a tournament against Team Secret.
Yeah, but they weren't in the last chance qualified, Tundra was.
It was only, you know, you know who was in that.
This guy, this guy also knocked out a bunch of teams in the last chance qualifier.
Thank you.
I'm also our winner today.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Very good.
You know what, what Dunnix also did, actually?
They took so many points with this victory.
We can take a look.
We actually have the leaderboard of the top 12.
That's massive perch.
Usually what ends up happening is, at least last year, there was like six teams that collected like all of the points.
They vacuumed it up. So if you can get like one lan on the board, if the patterns are remotely like next last year, it's going to give them a really good shot of qualifying for that.
But who knows? With them winning, there's other teams like OG that are rising as well.
We could have a really stacked point distribution this year that ends up spreading them across like eight or more teams.
I mean it's also a huge advantage to have your invite kind of secured because one of
the problems that you have as teams throughout the season is finding breaks and finding times
when you can take it a bit slower.
So having all these points already allows them to kind of like ramp up properly towards
the end of the season when it's getting closer to the EWC and where you truly want to peak.
So it's one of the best feelings in the world to get all these points so whatever
you want to meet.
I do wonder what this competitive year will look like though because last year it
It felt like the team that owned one tournament got crushed in the next, and then another team would own, and another team would own, and I feel like we're also shaping up for a very competitive season this year, too.
Like with the emergence of teams like OG Showmere Potential, with venue-extreme gaming roster finally clicking, it would just be right at any point able to reach their form, it does feel like it's going to be a bit of a repeat of last year, or at least looking like that.
Absolutely. We're seeing so many new teams rise up, you know, OG was looking so good, even BP was looking good this tournament, you know, Yandex looking good.
That's it! We're gonna get a lot more analysts.
Lot of old children!
That's how you do it!
Man, I'm super pumped!
Oh man, your time is coming.
The year is looking very good.
This is only the top one.
We'll see where all the pieces fall come to the end of the season.
But first we're gonna see how all the pieces fell on this table.
We did our best!
We have got the picture ready for you guys of what it was,
slash what it was supposed to be. We got all the faces of the puzzle. This is, this is
difficult for people.
We're gonna introduce these.
Yeah, I can't, I can't. This is our old team, Black Fae, from, let's see, so we have,
yeah, that's...
Wait, what the hell are we, can we turn this around? Is that a possibility? Cause
nobody can...
Don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.
Don't do it, don't do it.
It's worth it.
Cheever, careful.
There's so many loose pieces.
Cheever, cheever!
It's fine, they're loose.
Cheever, cheever!
Oh, oh, oh, I just don't hold your hand on the disk bit. I don't want our hands to touch
McDonald's
Yeah, he'd never be quit I think pretty early on
Uh, then what happened to him?
A value is regretting that now.
He's walking right next to a beer against the wall.
Look at what this picture did.
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
We all became analysts.
And, or...
Who's next?
Who's next?
Next is me!
No need!
Have some young boys!
Or nine classes, I'm gonna say.
I don't know.
Do you mess on Aiden's face?
Who's next?
Or nine classes, please?
Let's continue, good on the line.
Next!
This is LesQQ. He, uh, did play some Lota for a while.
It's a good name.
Yeah, Danish guy. Really cool. Friends with no tail.
Who is that?
This is Kezu.
Who's that?
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
I love that picture.
I cursed that brown wall.
Cursed that brown wall.
Why could you sound somewhere more, you know, like better?
This is where they placed us, you know,
of how these things go.
We don't have any choice.
I like how there's a photographer
in the bottom of the picture too, though.
Oh, that's whose head is there.
Oh, that's what that is.
Who's that?
You will never know.
Yeah, I do know.
Oh, you do know?
Yeah, of course I know.
So this was actually Young's Eye.
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah.
We heard that he was 12
and his parents had to accompany him for this month.
OK, but he cannot have been 12.
It's 2012.
He's born, I think, 97.
Don't toss the guy.
It's only internet, bro.
What is his address?
So that's like, well, 3 plus 2, 5, 10, 20.
He's like 15-ish.
OK, but did his parents accompany him?
So I think we had a bootcamp at my house before this and his parents like called my parents, you know, like, they did that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know if his parents were at Dreamhack. I don't think they were.
According to Kezu, they were.
Okay, then they were at Dreamhack.
Okay, but young Insania, like, you and 9-class are long-lost twins, like, the young version of you.
That is what Zeiss said.
The young version of you, they actually look so alike.
Do you think, okay, do you think he's the evil version of you?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, yo!
Listen to me, hear me out, because nine class is a fourth player,
and Stania's a fifth player.
Four is not evil compared to fives, you know?
Really?
One plays Oracle, the other plays Spark, like, there's...
What, what position player are you, Effie?
Yeah, Evil.
Okay, yeah.
I remember all the same, okay?
Fair enough.
For sure, there's like an evil support pool, you know,
the kind that camps men...
Slax, which version of support do you play?
Kaki's.
You're serious?
you did. God damn. Not anymore you don't. Alright guys, it's that time of night. I need to have some closing thoughts from you guys, Purge. It's not just the end of this Dream League, it's the end of the year as well.
Hmm normally you love puzzles but not a big fan of puzzles right now is same color stuff is not for me
But the rest of the tournament was wonderful. I loved fidgeting making things arts and crafts are great
They will enrich your life because you make something and you're like, oh wow, I made this thing. That's unique. It was nice
Do that
You first proper dream you have been on dream leagues before but never as full on
Talent for the full duration correct. I would say he arrived to dream leagues before on team lake
Good to have you here this time though.
I feel really welcome.
I feel like people have been very nice to me since it's my first time.
Very opening.
Yeah, people have been like, you know, extra nice.
They don't make fun of you.
They don't point to your failures, jarocopters, holy lockets, whatever.
You know, that part's been great.
I feel like I really enjoyed being here.
And I'm really thankful to Dreamlink for hiring me and you guys for being so welcoming
being so welcoming and accepting and uh yeah not Spock's
I've had lots of fun of course it's the first time I spent the holiday season with you guys so it was very wholesome
you know christmas spirit and all of that and gifts and gingerbread and puzzles and it was all a great time
I mean, I just really enjoyed that.
But I also think you and Quinn did such a good job.
It felt very natural and it was a very fun tournament for them too.
Awesome.
Holidays in the end of the year are a time to spend with family and you know, you can't
choose your family, they choose you.
And us here, I feel like all the talent done more for me than my family ever did,
motherfuckers.
Big fan of you guys, but I'm big fan of Dota in general now none of us choose to play this game
We're all a bunch of sick masochists that shoot the eight shows us and we stuck with it
So got there in your pubs enjoy your time off everybody
Remember the other person on the other side of that keyboard is your drunk hated uncle, but you're still family
We're all Dota freaks. So wonderful time. Happy holidays. Enjoy your free time
Stay up all night ignore your family after they go to sleep and play Dota. See you there
That was the end of the season. It has been a fantastic one. I know it's not always as smooth as we wanted to, but I always love having a big patch in the middle of Dream League because it does spice things up.
up, loved seeing the road that Yandex took to get to the grand finals and then close it
out in proper style as well, very dominant from them, so congratulations to Yandex once
more for taking home the title and of course taking home the title of the last tournament
of 2025 because we're heading into holiday season and then it's time breakers for a
lot of teams again and then the season will continue but it's break time, thank
you so much for tuning in, it has been an absolute pleasure and an honor and that
is on behalf of not just us, but everyone that works very hard every time on this show.
And there's a lot of people involved, so thank you on behalf of them, and we wish you all
happy holidays, a very good night, and hopefully we'll see you back again in 2026 for the
next Dream League, perhaps in person, and Birmingham will be cool as well, but happy
holidays, and see you soon.
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock Jingle bell swing and jingle bells ring
Spilling, blowing, washing, so fun Now the jingle hop can't stop now
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bell rock Jingle bells chime and jingle bell time
Clancy, and prancing, and jingle bells squirreling in the frost, yeah
What a bad time, it's the right time to run the night away
Jingle bell time is a small time to go riding in a bonkers sleigh
Giddy up, jingle hoarse, keep up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a mingle and a jingling beat
That's the jingle of the way-bye
That's really good, Tom.
To your love time, fancy and francy
You do your most well in the frost, yeah
What a bright time, it's the right time
To ride the night away
To your belt time, it's a swell time
To go gliding on a one horse sleigh
In the up to your horse pick up your
Jingle bells around the clock
Nates out of lingo and a jingle in the feet
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle bell
That's the jingle bell
Merry Christmas everyone
Christmas on, is finally here
You know, there's no yellow mode to stress out here
This is my holiday, which is my leave here
Oh, they're retiring on the eve
Let's get our Christmas on
Living here
From jingle bells to holly jolly Christmas
Deck the halls and help out bandits know
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
We hear those classic songs wherever we go
So please don't change the station
memories here when we can
win someone to land in our view
until our destination
leaving our rotation
for a holiday jamming with you
It's my Christmas on Earth
It's finally here
Come on, don't only cast me in the moon
to spread some cheers
This is my holiday wish
It's my leave here
Every time of the year
I'll kiss my soul
Should've been here
If you close your eyes
You can feel the holiday magic
Yeah, you got it
Oh, turn it up and dance along
I'll bring you peace
Let's get our Christmas on
It's finally here
It always gets me in the mood to stress on cheer
This is my holiday wish
Yeah, it's finally here
A fairy time of the year
It's finally here
Let's get our Christmas on
Yeah, it's finally here
Get our Christmas on
It's finally here
with the Colosseum Rome and the Grand Musician Rome, love is everywhere, so meet me up there
St. Peter's Square in Rome
On the seven hills that's Rome
The Italian thrills
Cause love is a lie when you roam in...
in Rome
Rome
Where the tiber flows yellow
Rome
Michelangelo's in Rome
The eternal town
Overnight sat in an old man's latin robe
Like a symphony, it's home
To the bourgeoisie who put the robe in your mandate
That's home
It all burned down
As Neuro just fiddled around
But right here, right now, 2,000 years on, they're still going strong in Rome.
Where the Bastion Kings all walk, where the Pastas all home roam,
and the guys all stare, while the Dampere, what the young girls wear in Rome.
Where the still lit bars and nights
Of a million stars
So get me across the Atlantic
Let's overland some manic
Loop what no Rome and no manic
In Rome
Rome
Where the tiber flows yellow
Michelangelo's in Rome
The eternal town of a man saddened in all things Latin
Go, like a symphony, it's home to the bourgeoisie
With a gold medal man dead at his home
It all burned down as Nero just fiddled around
But right here, right now, two thousand years on, they're still going to be strong and grown
We're the fashion kings all grown, we're the past of gold and gold
And the guys will stare while they compare what the young girls were all grown
Where there's been lit bars and nights of a million stars
So get me across the Atlantic
Let's all the land some manic
Who put the robe in my mask and
Who put the robe in my mask?
That's Rome
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Hey little honey, I've got the money, let's blow it all
Come on my baby, if buts or maybes, let's have a ball
Take the towel and with all my breath, there's just no end
If I won the Lotto, I'd take my motto, spare the spare the spare
What's taking the reed don't take some of my dough, let's blow it up
When it comes to pleasure, no matter the measure, they are strong
Who knows how long this will last?
For now, let's have a blast
It's fun, yeah, you know it
So let's go blow it all
I've got the mail that I can share with you, so let's put it on
Come on, my honey, let's take this money or less, I hope all
Who knows how this will last?
For now, let's have the blast
It's fun, yeah, you know it
So let's go blow it off
It's fun, yeah, you know it
So let's go blow it off
One night in New York, is like a lifetime anywhere.
Dancing in the dark, up in Central Park.
All the bright lights out in Times Square.
This town is champagne
So shake the bottle, pop the cork
Oh, the deadliest sins are like one night in New York
Put on your silk and your satin
We're stepping out in style
We'll be the toast of Manhattan
Cruisin' the golden mile
This town is alive
So wild it'll let your money talk
Any man can be king
The rain one night in New York
All right!
Come on, put on yourself and your satin.
We're steppin' out in style.
We'll be the toast of Manhattan.
Frozen gold and miles.
One night in New York
It's like a lifetime anyway
Dancing in the dark up at Central Park
Or the right light sometimes square
This town is champagne
So shake the bottle, pop that horn
Or the deadliest sings
Like one night in New York
Now shut all the deadliest sins
Like one night in New York
Underneath the mistle Joe said I whispered in my ear
Get on the party train
You've been so good this year
And there's a girl and a boy
And I'm so far, next life is Christmas, oh yeah
Holiday's begun, oh yeah
Feeling full of Christmas song
Swing upon the railroad track
And get up and make some noise
Cause there's no turning back
It's the beginning of a whole new year
Next stop is Christmas, oh yeah
Holidays are here, yeah
All the Christmas trees bring me
This room is side for everybody
Everybody
Underneath the mistletoe, Santa was put in my ear
Get on the private train, you've been so good this year
And when the whistle blows, I know your need
Next stop is Christmas, oh yeah
Holiday's again, next stop is Christmas, oh yeah
Holiday's again, next stop is Christmas, oh yeah
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a DJ in the hearth
Our love was a chance encounter
A glance across the stream
Fleeting moments, two strangers meeting
That swept me off my jeans
Golden leaves under an autumn sun
You talked about the movies and how you like the gun
Our lives weed together through all kind of weather
And our hearts grew strong
Our love was a chance encounter
A glance across the street
Fleeting moments, two strangers meeting
That swept me off my feet
The buzz of traffic, the bright city lights
You talked about marriage and who you'd invite.
We talked for hours, and I brought you flowers.
And our hearts grew strong.
How can something so special, be mere happenstance?
Was it destiny calling, or just life's little dance?
I love what's a chance encounter, but plants recluse the stream.
Fleeting moments, two strangers meeting
That stretch me off my feet
That stretch me off my feet
Well, Christmas ain't gonna be the same this year Santa's gone and fired up an old John Deere
Getting ready for a Christmas tree Well, Santa's gone country
Back dipped in North Pole and took it south Ho, ho, how do you see it now
Traded thy way for the Camel Greenwell Santa's gone country
Santa's gone country, and he's been where he got split to
Santa's gone country, hanging backstage at the Grand Ornateau
Santa's gone country, just like you and me
I was talking with a sudden drop, after like he wants to be a timid rock
Hanging facials on a Christmas tree
Oh, Santa's gone country
Stepped up boots and a cowboy hat
Swears up and down, he ain't going back
Bring the elves on down there
Tennessee clear, Santa's gone country
Santa's gone country
It ain't milk, we're the gods we see
Santa's gone country
Back stage with the red old hat
Sevens come and tell a train
Just like you and me
Now you may be wondering about Rudolph
In all his reindeer games
Well, folks down here in Nashville know that you can find them on Broadway
Hockey, tonk, and the night awake, uh, Santa's gone country
Santa's gone country
It's not where they got sniffed in
Santa's gone country
Santa's a band or a b-
Santa's gone country
Santa's got a crash on top
Said it's gone country, just like you and me
Well I be gone, said it's gone country
It's got those booties, got that half that poor's country
Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree Stuck to our house, we're praying
Then Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree Your branch is there, swinging
It's the time of year, time is bringing toys All the good little birds and boys, oh Christmas tree
Oh Christmas tree, everybody sing
So get your family and grab your friends From memories that will never end
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree Straight to a house we're bringing
Oh baby don't you know, slugging up by that Christmas fire
By that Christmas tree just you and me
Make it a little...
Straight to our house we'll bring in...
The lights go up now in November, I think that it's only fair
Can we not leave them up for good? I doubt that anyone would care
Let it be Christmas