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Hello everybody, welcome to the last day of the qualifiers here as we're on the road
to the International 2026, getting our last couple of teams out of Europe with two slots
remaining, two best of threes between these teams and those slots.
We've been on a tremendous journey already, great dojo to be had, tons of games already
and some little underdog stories popping up here and there that we love to see heading into TI.
Exactly, and we're here with one of those underdog stories in particular.
So we're here looking at the first game that we're going to have.
It's going to be Hulagani vs VP and obviously Hulagani, not the favorites going into this,
but they weren't the favorites going into the Navi game either.
You know, they have been stepping up and they've been playing really impressive Dota.
of Dota. We can have a look at their lower bracket around all the way from the start,
Gareth. They dropped out immediate lower bracket and then they've made this journey to one
against Cheeky to zero against enjoy and then to one against Navi. Yeah, I mean, honestly,
looking at the series, but both these teams have played only one of them was a two oh
everything else has been to one a pretty close for battle for both both VP and hooligan
and getting through this bracket. Excuse me, because we started off this qualifier
with a bunch of two zeros, you know, everyone's worrying, oh, is this going to be a sweep, a stomp?
Two zero, two zero, two zero, you know, look at that upper bracket, it's kind of crazy.
And then Team Spirit and Nigma Galaxy following through on that script,
then we got to the nitty-gritty, then we got to this standpoint where, you know, teams are
learning, developing the matter, having these drafts being built up, stealing some ideas
from some other teams, and now getting ourselves into this last position with two slots in
that lower bracket. Nigma Galaxy, Yellow Submarine later on today, but VP against Huligani,
the first one up.
Some of the most picked heroes.
I like that you used the word learning,
because I think that's really important here as well
for the teams that we're going to have in our first series.
In particular, Huligani, I think that they've adapted a lot
throughout the tournament.
They have a clear style, and it was addressed by Navi
in that series, but they overcame Navi and their attempts.
And similarly, I actually think that VP,
I'm curious to see how much they took from the series
the series they played against Team Vision and the upper brackets VP played against Team
Vision and I want to get too deep into a draft but you know we'll get to that in our own
draft here.
Is it the puck problem?
Do you see a solution to the puck problem, yeah?
Exactly.
Team Vision you know showed up with some interesting ideas for how to solve the puck.
Yeah, we'll get there like you say when we get into that draft obviously there's
potentially three games ahead of us and even more development for this matter within
the series never mind just across the board in general terms because we saw that those popular
heroes you have Clockwork, Bane, Ember Spirit everyone's picking them it comes to a point now
where you have to kind of you know shift away a little bit from that developed matter and find
a groove of your own to you know push the boundaries right I'm not saying throw it all
on the bin but I'm saying find individual heroes that maybe you can counteract some of
these very popular guys like we had this undying off-lane matter kind of developing
these qualifiers against these drows SFs showing that you can beat them in the lane.
Yeah it's a hero that you know was tried by a lot of teams and everyone kept going back for it
early on in the qualifiers now it's kind of fallen off we see it being picked up you know we saw
respect playing it on the support role um but i don't think that we're gonna have as much focus
on him anymore but the any tournament any qualifier even you will have tournament metas evolving
and changing as we head deeper into the drafts of the later stages.
So very curious to see what lessons Hulgani and VP have had throughout the tournament here
and what they can bring to the table.
Obviously the second series as well is going to be pretty hype.
I think Nigma Galaxy look like the clear favorite against Yeltsu of Marine,
but can Yeltsu of Marine be the one to upset?
That's going to be an exciting one to keep an eye on after we're done with our games.
Yeah, you just never know, right?
On the day any one of these teams can absolutely take a series away from the other,
you might have this expectation or understanding that one team is slightly ahead in those expectations,
but we've already had Hulagani knockout and Joy who were already that directly invited team versus
this qualified team. Yep, I mean Hulagani have really impressed me. I didn't expect, you know,
I didn't know what to expect going into this, but seeing them drop immediately to Power Rangers
in a 2-1, it was a close default 2-1, but I didn't expect too much from them. I think maybe
that was the case for a lot of teams. You ended up over or underestimating Huligani, who now that
we've watched them a lot, you're not going to cast them quite closely and see a lot of their series.
I want to say definitely their star player in my mind is Mirage. That mid laner is doing really,
really good stuff in every single game. However, everybody has a clear understanding of their
game plan. And I think that's the impressive part about this team. This is not just a
the team where they have good
players. This is a team that
actually feels like a team,
which is not always the case
when you have these, you know,
underdog stories. It's usually
some star player potential and
oh, they win because they have
some good talents. But no,
they're actually very, very
cohesive. They have their idea
of how to win the game and they
play towards it very impressively.
Yeah, I don't know if I'm
reaching a little bit, but
watching who the gunny go
through this tournament, it
feels like they do have
to support. One's an off-laner, but also these roles in terms of information gathering,
right? Seeing respect on his trient or Sayosh on the hoodwink, they do a tremendous job
in gathering and relaying information to their team. And the reach for me is just thinking
about how the whole system of communication must work for this squad, because it feels
like they're all one organism, basically. You know, playing off the back of this
information, they very quickly disseminate it across the team and say, okay, this
is where we need to be playing. This is where the enemies are coming from. The
The Reads, I think, is something that we also touched on in their previous series, their
understanding of not only where they need to be, but where their opponents need to be,
and then obviously adapting to that has been spectacular.
Yeah, we'll see how they can deal with the challenging team of Virtus Pro, though.
Virtus Pro, of course, need no introduction.
These players, they're very, very strong and tons of experience.
They have good coaching as well coming into this one.
We'll see if we get any of his classic favorites.
But heading into draft, quick note on what we have, LoanDroidBandout.
There's always Tree and Protector Puck getting banned first.
It's interesting for VP, I think they maybe don't want it anymore after they lost two
games through the first phase pickpock against Team Vision.
Perhaps they still feel like it can be problematic for them, but they don't want to get countered
again.
Yeah, because Team Vision came into that.
No one in the interview at the end as well was saying, yeah, EarthSpirit is
just a great hero against this Puck.
that silence has the tankiness, the gap close, and his ability just to roll over teamfights
with this massive AoE through magnetize, he felt pretty confident in that kind of pick.
So I guess if you're looking at this thinking, okay, we don't want to give Mirage Puck, and
we don't necessarily want to pick Nightstalker or Earthspirit or one of these, you know,
Huskar or something, we don't want to lock our draft into needing to deal with it,
we'll just ban it straight up anyway.
I think it makes sense.
many teams have tried to deal with the Mirage puck and then they just horribly fail and he goes
without dying a single time in the game. So I think it's been his best hero. Just get rid of it
and then you don't have to worry about it because I often talk about when you leave puck in, you
need to pick multiple things to counter it. You can't just pick one thing and be like, oh yeah,
we dealt with puck. And that can be really bothersome for your own draft. If you have a
the game plan you want to go towards or a type of constellation you want, then having to,
you know, addressed multiple picks into one enemy is really annoying.
You're like, I'm required to pick Nightstalker and Tiny or Ember and Lion Lord.
That just gets really down in the weeds, picking all these heroes.
So we'll just get rid of, I also get rid of the Triant of Respect,
another one of those big heroes in the matter, but also in his hands has looked very good,
giving that information to his team, guarding towers, setting up teamfights.
So we're not going to have that in his hands.
instead we get this drought opener into central response so not only do we not get
the drought central combo but we've also got this pretty tanky gap closing off lane hero
who can make life a little challenging for drought and drought is very slow based
heroes so being able to burst your team with that stampede speed can save them
pretty well or just gap close and get on top of the drought ranger so I don't
mind the pick, even though the lane can be a bit problematic for Centaur.
And then Clockwork? Is this the dual lane for VP?
It could be. We have seen teams run similar lanes with the Centaur, either the Tusk Centaur
or the Clockwork Centaur, who we've seen it before. Or it's acceptable. Is it them setting up
for a Clock SF of their own? I think that's more likely, right? You have the Aghanem's
card right now and SF is a fantastic combination with it and Hooligani now in awkward spot
as they definitely don't want to pick SF I think they already have the draw and a lot
of people you know not many people play the mid SF anymore now usually this would be where
you pick your techies or something as Hooligani and they come out with a keeper of the light
though so maybe the Kotl Ember could be the duo they grabbed to give Sayosh's signature
The Kotl have Mirage on the Ember Spirit.
If I don't know, it's already banned.
Maybe it's a Storm?
Something like that to go along with it?
Yeah, Storm has potential.
I also think Invoker could be a high contest hero here,
because it's really good for Virtus Pro.
And both teams can play this hero quite well.
So that's an interesting one.
I don't think Huligani have good setup for an Invoker
yet, but they could easily still pick into that.
They haven't picked their offlaner.
Got one more support pick to come out.
They go for the expert themselves
Interesting
As the hero that's VP lost to in their previous series, of course against team vision
being used twice
Nothing necessarily here that it's dealing with though, right?
No slippery here that you need to silence and gap close on to it's just a good all-round mid lane hero for Mirage
Something that allows him to play tempo out of that mid lane. I
I think so. But this lane is pretty comfortable for Storm, yeah. And VP, they're always gonna
go for Storm if they get a chance to go for a happy Storm pick. It ain't bad. And overall,
I love Storm against Caudal. You get on top of that hero and kill him. He's such a backline
support and very, very squishy. So being able to gap close that. Now you have Stem.
Stem P, you have ball lightning, you have hookshot, three different ways of getting
on top of the draw as well.
have been here on the Rhines as well. I know the other casting duo, well Trio now, they've
added Lacoste into their duo. Fogged has been away for a little bit, but Owen Fogged and
Owen Lacoste have been talking about this ringmaster. Hakoda in particular has been their shining
player, but I think we've been able to cover a few ringmaster games where he's looking
very good. In particular against Bane, here though being able to save people away
from an Earth spirit, get the Storm spirit away from danger, very handy to have multiple
saves when you've got the stampede and that escape act. Never mind is a laning presence.
Exactly. I'm a massive fan of how rounded Ringmaster is. We have seen that sometimes be a
problem though, where you have the big responsibility of saving someone with a box and at the same
time you have to do a lot of other stuff. You got to deal damage, land your good ulti and maybe
whip your chains on something. So it can be very stressful for the Ringmaster player.
If the enemy team has good burst and you got to save someone as well.
but we'll see how he performs. I think the hero is amazing, pairs really well into the draft so far.
I think VP's draft looks quite stellar. Huligani's draft is not bad, but a bit more of a classic
mark to me. How well we're going to see them perform with their spirits. It's not a hero that's
been playing. Yeah, and it doesn't seem like there's a natural combination between the heroes
in a draw range. It's going to go lane into jungle. Kotal wants to be playing aggressively
with with with somebody so I'm assuming that's the earth spirit but underlord is also a kind of
tuck jungle and then look global kind of hero where you're not necessarily smoking and moving
with your teammates so I need I need some other active hero here for hula ghani to
play with the earth spirit be buffed up by the keeper of light and kind of roam around and do stuff
yeah it's curious to see what they will snag us their last one I think largar was a pretty
solid ban. Tusk is out there always. Is that like five melee
kind of guy? Yeah, unfortunately, it's not super easy. I guess
it could always lane the Tusk Farrer in here. It's a strong
lane. It's one way to punish the center. They ban it out. VP
are on the same page with you. That's it. I'm out of
options. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. Glad to hear
it, boys. No undying, triant, clockwork, Tusk,
Lago, they're all they're all gone. You can pick Bane go go for a Bane draw lane, which they did previously
It looked all right, but I'm not sold when you get the ring master. They've already covered how good he is with the box
I just be a rubik or something Marana like yeah
Do you like your Marana this game or a silencer
Marana is fine actually I think size there's two backline like keeper plus silencer here and draw ranger
you end up just get jumped. These three heroes that jump backliners will have a field day.
So I would like something that's a little bit more capable of going in.
Like I was in.
That is, of course, Techies wasn't banned. So yeah, this brings some damage. One thing
that EarthSpirit kind of needed is some damage support that can help them get pick offs.
Now they can maybe burst stuff during the silence and the stun. It's an okay pick,
Their draft looks pretty haphazard to me on Hulagani.
It's going to take a lot of good execution to make this work.
Whereas VP's draft, it just looks clean.
I can't really fault anything here.
There are so many good drafts you can come up with in Dota.
The amount of perfect drafts you can have is probably
in the tens of thousands, so many permutations in Dota.
This is one of them.
I actually think it's clean.
It's got early game, good laning stage, good save.
teamfight is very obvious how they want to play it and they have Windranger who
maybe not the most traditional hard carry if we go historically but
nowadays she certainly is. She's a good hard carry. Yeah absolutely and no real
reliance on long cooldown alties. They've got tower damage, they've got nukes,
they've got catch, they've got kill. Yeah I think looking at this VP draft no
glaring weaknesses whatsoever and I still look at Hulagani obviously the
biases there knowing that VP are favored. We've watched Hulagani come
through this qualifier and seen their gameplay, the style of dragging things out, extending
laning stage, trying to make the most of their tier one towers, defending things for as long
as humanly possible. I don't know if you can find enough time and enough space on the
map to stop VP from swarming you. Because there's Drow Ranger and Underlord. They need
a fair amount of farm. They need that pretty safe time. And the big question is going
To be, can this Earth Spirit, Techies, Cottle, Trio get around when the landing stage breaks
down and make that space for them?
There's a lot resting on the shoulders of Mirage in particular.
Honestly, I feel like this is a pretty free storm game as well.
Something we need to address is that Abed on Storm, it's a hero he plays insanely
well.
And when I look at the enemy team, they're like, yeah, they have two silences, but
the draw is a lot of the time is going to be off farming somewhere.
So realistically there's like Earthspear silence and then you have nothing really like Earthspear
roll I guess that the amount of control and lockdown is very minimal blast off is barely
allowed to be counted as disabled against storm because it's so hard to land.
Sure Pit of Malice is you know a route that can be useful but this is definitely a game
where a storm should be happy.
So is this a Gleipner game for corrupted then?
We're going to see the Rotovators and Lord.
Agonyms Gleipner.
the motivators and the acts and the gliding ability.
That was a little bit too crazy.
I wouldn't mind seeing an ATOS from them.
They do need more lockdown.
Let's see if he goes for it.
Game one.
Here in this bastard three.
I'll just throw against Hulagani.
And Sable Light and Hellscream wander up top
with Tomato and Toe.
They've got Techies setting up in that northern jungle,
waiting above the staircase.
They're going to go around behind him.
Drowranger's trying to get us up in a safer position for the south of that top bounty room.
It looks like Respect is going to get walked out here by Saber-Lite.
Taki stands to get a click in, gets the bounty room, grab.
He's going to lose his life for this surely.
Getting chased down, tears us up for the damage that's coming through this windranger.
And even with the blinding light pushed back, they are unable to protect their Taki.
He's giving first blood to Timmado.
Now what a fantastic start. He's pinging out, but he wants to kill the range creep as well.
Hellscream will come over and help him, so that's the range creep also taken out immediately.
Very, very good start for the side of VP.
Yeah, especially good against this double-ranged Drow lane.
Having your wave now push away from that tower means there's less space for the Drow to chase with the Frost arrows.
Let's say Blight is getting harassed out of lane a little bit by the techies.
I'm leaving Hellscream here to try and control the wave.
That's a bit awkward for him, he's working getting his HP back but the continuous attacks
coming in from Drowranger and even the techies is going to be annoying for him to build.
Well it's no way to connect the pole now he doesn't get all the downtime.
And Tazer is such an annoying ability.
Level 1 doing so much stuff, disallowing exploding, blowing up when you're doing
damage.
All that for a cheap price as well, right? You ping 60 mana. There are not many spells. There are nearly as good as that and only cost 60 mana.
That's incredible.
Effectively, it's like a guaranteed 120 damage from it, right? Because you're always going to use it when a range hero is attacking you, and then you trigger it as well, so at minimum it's 120 damage for 60 mana.
Pretty much. That's crazy good. Nice, great.
So far pretty good across the board for hula ghani in the last hits though.
Early laning stage 9-4, 7-2, 6-1 on the underlord.
Doing all right here, giving me that little upsetting move out of VP.
Getting into this early groove.
Earth Spirit is a melee hero, he's pretty tanky.
Can definitely shove the wave with this constant static
slide from our bed, chipping him down.
We lose fly in that bottom lane, corrupted on this underlord,
getting a kill on the clockwork.
Yeah, they have a cute little combo at level 2, they pit a malice and then they blinding
light you back into the pit of a malice, keeping your route even longer so actually do some
kill potential on that lane.
Oh, but Snowy's against Topper.
The Drow range is dead up top.
Sable, Iron Hellscream, get on top of the Drow.
The Rostak will trade for the Hellscream Ringmaster, but well worth it for VP not
only killing Snowy, but also holding wave in front of their tier 1.
Yeah, just very good manipulation after the pull earlier.
the mid lane rush trying to get this farm on the tower but storm looking to do
whatever damage you can
that's a nonstop harassment
the frog's been kicked around by fly corrupted even with a big body not gonna
get touched by it again one of these situations where you're shooting at a
barn and you're missing a big old underlord but he's got battery salt here fly
I'd like to see that with the help of the PowerShot.
PowerShot paches in to Sayosh and gets the kill.
I'm so happy to see clock players getting early points in battery now.
I'm sick and tired of that 0-4-4 build. I swear to God.
Yeah, 0-4-4 feels like a lot of missed opportunity.
I get that rocket flare can be very useful,
but at least one point on battery is all for cancelling TP outs
or just stunning and being annoying.
But it's also a good ability just to kill
as we saw there pairing up with the PowerShot.
And that's a little bit of help from that Windranger.
Turn these 1v1s, there's something a little bit more dangerous.
Ooh, a little bit early on the kick misses the banner creep,
but I still got very good CS on the Earth Spirit.
I'm pretty impressed with how he's laying this so far.
Save the light up top.
I'm getting a curious night with health screen.
I'm still trying to gather up these waves and pull them around somewhere.
You've got to respect that snowy damage.
draw ranger can definitely build it up and chase you down and can micro your
courier's around but I don't want to lose any of your early items here in this
lady stage after having already died and respect out in the open respect is
pretty far out he's all the way away from Lane it looks like he's just just
about got enough distance away from the centaur but now you've left draw
ranger and it's gonna become a 1v2 oh well runs around a corner finds the
Centaur!
Alright, the damage just comes in so quickly!
Snowy gets blasted out of the lane!
Sableye picks up another kill!
Sneaky sneaky kill there!
Sableye with the good read on what's gonna happen.
Hellscape using the U-Cycle to get close as well.
Love to see that ability put to good use.
It's crazy!
1-0-2 on your Centaur already!
Free out the 4 kills he's been involved in them.
Crack and start for him.
And in the mid lane, Mirage now.
Starting to feel the pain a little bit.
Arbent giving him the clicks.
Arrassing him very low.
And this is all pre-level 6.
So if we get the rotations in early on, how many times have we called for and seen what, 5 minute, 10, 5 minute, 20 rotations before rune spawns? They can definitely call some upsets.
Yeah, he was spotted though, so this should not result in something. They bring over the caudal to try and keep Mirage safe.
He's still gonna get tackled up here.
Fear does the, turn the beast comes in, but he's already rolled up and got behind his tower.
Slightly too late on the fear there from turn the beast.
and bottom lane, cockpush back on his underlord, kicking him out of the lane
and you left your corrupted underlord alone down here so flying, tomato, can
bully him. Keeping tabs on the cockpush as he returns the lane as well. No chorus
getting shut down or bullied out of the gamer. I've balanced every single chorus
within eight last hits of each other. Pretty close gap from the top to the
bottom farmer. A bit of a chance for Kotl to build up some stacks. The fact that
Hellscream is just sat in its mid lane makes life hell for Mirage. Can't go and
contest bottom rune. Relying on the techies to guard the top one. Storm at level
six is gonna wander up there and spawned down south. Flying Hellscream both.
Protecting it. So how about it's gonna get the Kotl refilled while Mirage gets nothing.
Yeah, Pastern also a very nice rune for early ganks. Even if Storm has
mobility in his ulti. This can be amazing either for getting Charlain and ganking or getting back after
Yeah, bit curious he's going for the mana boots. We don't see it all that often on the storm, but
it's still valid builds. Partridge is what I've seen the most lately, but he's still gonna go for
the mana boots into soul ring for tons of mana. Yeah, we've seen a couple of the
the Greaves builds I want to say this this qualifier like maybe three yeah I guess
here it makes sense against double silence you're not really contending
with many direct stuns or disables right it's pit of malice and it's the silence
from drought and Earth spirit that are the big ones yeah this spell is always
valuable clobbering is holding a lot of people away here from the wisdom but
they're still gonna get in in time there's so many heroes here yeah corrupt it
Respect being so long for the ride as well. And they'll burn through fly
Firestorm melting all the way through his armor. Storm spread also came in around looping in from behind
Looking for a fight Mirage has dived in onto tomato to magnetize the wind ranger down this bottom lane
Because the stampede gets her the distance a scrappy battle of the wisdom shrine
But it's gonna end up being one-for-one across the map. It's with fly dying. Yeah, very
Oh, good wraparound.
Hellscream is behind, Lyon's the first hit, whips it, oh and the Draranger again, now
with the Helm Creep and the Clockwork Bathroo Salt they've got more than enough to get
Draranger dead for a third time.
This has been a very very hard lane for her and Drarl not thought the hero that
wants to get kicked out of the lane early, so she has repeatedly come back to this
lane but now it's just feeling like you have to, you have to abandon this.
jungle. You've got paratroops at least. You can farm decently.
I suppose one of the big problems in the draft, right, we saw there wasn't that
classic melee-5 to defend the drow. There's techies that has tried what he can, but it's not the
ideal hero to have a good laning stage. Especially when you're leaving that lane, because you're required elsewhere.
You've got people screaming for your help down bottom, down mid. Come on, techies, help me out here.
move out of that bottlenead. Mirage definitely asking for some assistance to get him off the ground.
Now see that item queued up by the Centaur. We're gonna get that big heart build.
Yeah, I got the stopwatch ready. We're gonna time in for the speedrun. It's the Dominator
into hearts. I think what we typically see is like 1630 or so. It's like average timing,
17 or so. See if we can get a good record. But what was the fact we had one like 14 minutes
Didn't we one one day? Oh, I don't think 40 ma almost there was something ridiculous like I don't wait
It was pretty freakin quake
Yeah, maybe we have a spot for from production later. I can see
Maybe I'm over a exaggerating
I was a 10 minute
Isn't it ten minute hot in here?
See, do you have it in single digit memory?
Yeah, I think it is.
It was already on the courier, that's what counts.
No one is delivered, it was on the courier as well.
That's the Dota plus advantage right there.
Load into the game with a heart.
He's already got 5,000 networks, so he's well on his way.
Oh, that's a lot of neutrals trapped at the same time coming up.
It's a little flurry on that right hand side.
So everybody got their neutrals ready?
well 3k lead for VP but something good
stead right now the fact that these
cores haven't been shoved out lane or
picked off at all
Storm Spirit zero zero zero hasn't been
involved but the fact that he hasn't
died feels pretty comfortable just
continue playing through this mid lane
it's about the same story down at
bottom
I'm playing toward the 10 minute long game
Storm, Storm Spirit zips in and
bottles it as Mirage rolled towards him
magnetizes out at half health as they
shatter up this Earthscrever and get
on to Hellscream. He has to escape, box himself, get to high ground, way up the staircase and
he's got enough distance to get out the grasp of the couple, but another magnetized stone
remnant kick forward comes forward. Mirage gonna get focused though, his fly and up and
get on top of him. A fiendscape with corrupted coming in though, the numbers are matting
Hulagani, turning back on the fly's blockwork, surrounding him, actually getting a kill
over on fly typical carry contribution comes in with a one hit to get lasted
snowy gonna feel good about that he kind of needed after this rough start that he
has had good CS yes but those three deaths means any free kill he can get is
very welcome still a long big commitment for an Earthbeard to chase like that
oh I bet is into a pit but I'm not sure it matters all that much
should come out of the focus fire, the vortex back corrupted, the power shot not on the
mark, I'm the lord actually gonna survive so maybe it did matter that I didn't zip long enough.
Yeah also the taser, taser plus the power shot missing there making the difference otherwise
definitely would have been a kill. Also one thing about taser it's so good it's just
a massive value point at one level. Sure it's good when it's maxed out but a single point
in it just being able to disarm people and repeatedly disarm even is super powerful.
Blast off? Okay it's clear and creep wave. I was wondering what he's going for there.
We got that big fight, I mean heavy commitment right, five from Hulagani to kill a clockwork.
You don't get the ringmaster, you didn't catch the storm, you invaded a little bit into enemy
outpost but it didn't get much farm from it so it's still back to recovering and back to farming.
Yeah, just to taste as well of the difference in speed that these heroes can play with as
the storm doesn't really care if there was a fight up top, he immediately transition to
fight down bottom.
And meanwhile Earth Spirit, he kind of wants his ulti or at least he needs a lot of help
so he supports to be able to kill stuff if he doesn't have it.
Annual waiting period is a sad time for Mirage.
This Sector Banisher is a pretty good creep for a save you like to have right now.
There's a lot of good stuff to dispel.
From Underlord, the Solar Binds.
Silence.
Yeah.
I always forget about Solar Bind.
You're right.
We talked about Greaves and Disbells.
That's also a big one.
Yeah, it's massive.
It's one of our nastiest spells to get hit by in the early game.
For a lot of heroes, you just cannot move.
You get Solar Bound, that's it.
First off, you can't move and you take insane amount of magic damage too.
That's what Hulagani has tons of. Magic damage through his underlord and
Earth spirit.
Somatos still trying to get this tier one tower bottom and has called it within
an inch of its life. A few more against to finish the job. Doesn't look like Hulagani
gonna be really defending this with numbers.
Well smoked up and VP just sat behind his win ranger and waiting.
Nothing's happening.
Not bad.
Sailor walks pretty close.
That's right into the couple.
Will of Wanda and Tame the Beast.
They're pretty hefty heal from this cube of the light.
That's not enough to keep him alive.
Clockwork gets the kill with level 1 rocket flying across.
Oh he did?
Yeah.
I think Storm may have wanted the kill there as he invested a lot of his time and resources,
but uh, you know, he just wanted to help when Clockwork...
...got to fix his KDA a little bit.
little bit flies like sorry dude I didn't mean to I'm just trying to get vision
like oh no you don't do it again post five
update on the timing doesn't look like we're gonna get a 14 minute heart so
that's for sure still a thousand gold away from the river and needs the
recipe as well so this is actually not looking like the fastest ever even
though it's the second most fun I'm gonna catch on the draw render again
though this move from fly finds it a perfect angle for this hook shot
pod pushback and slam down from Saber-Eye. Double Edge picks up another one. Snowy's fourth death of
the game really struggling. Like net worth wise he's been given a lot of time obviously to farm
jungle and catch back up trying to give this snowy draw way back into the game. Top of the net worth
on the dire side sure but you're putting all your net worth into this hero that keeps on dying.
Yeah they they overlap their stuns pretty hard when they try and kill her there but it
doesn't matter she can't move especially with the stampede coming in as well just trampling
her down. I really like that as well. You know, some teams, I remember a long time ago there
were players arguing that you should never stack stuns, you should always change stun if you have
the chance to do it. But I instinctively felt like that was wrong back then and it's been wrong,
it's basically proven wrong, right? The amount of times that you can kill something if you
just quickly burst versus if you slowly kill something, you stand there for a long time
stunning it's yeah the enemy of time to react so it makes sense to dump your spells
yeah and sometimes it's just a damp damage matters most right who cares about stunning
stunning something is just letting them live for a little bit longer you want to kill them
get them off the map it's heroes it's case by case and hero by hero if you're against the puck
obviously chain stunning is insanely valuable if you're against the braw ranger she she's not
going anywhere she doesn't have a hurricane pike yet and actually he's going for a yasha so
Going for a little bit of a stop before going back for the hurricane pipe.
Yeah, just try and incrementally build up
whichever way you can. You know, it's going to allow it to farm a little bit faster,
run across the map and try and run away from VP a little faster.
Oh, Tamada is about to finish off Milner.
Corrupted doing what we saw him do last time as well, go for the first
item, Aghanim Scepter on the unload. Not super common builds.
A lot of times we see one little item first, but I'm a fan.
I think this gives them a chance to kill the Stormstrips, they can get onto him.
He does have griefs already so sure he can dispel, but everything you add, right?
Every little root you have, every little bit of extra, increases the chance of Storm dying.
Because what if he uses the griefs and now globally you can root him whenever you want.
And just add another layer, another little chance.
Holy Garni, protecting the Drown Ranger now with their Earthspirits and the Techies sat around Snowy in this top lane.
Dota Plus says it's 59% to VP.
We'll see how that shifts in the coming minutes as this 5k lead is undoubtedly going to build once these big items are completed and arrive in the hands of VP.
We now have the greens done on Storm, but his heart on Centaur. It's just arriving.
Actually, I think Dota Plus is being pretty generous to the Dire team as well with that number. 5k lead and this draft just looks so good coming out from VP.
I think they're in a superb spot right now.
Well, it says the heart average on center is 22 minutes, but I guess that's the average
well, I guess that's not the first item, right?
Yeah, it's like a third or fourth item, something like that.
Exactly.
I think someone's buying it later in the game and that completely stuffs the average.
But yeah, he got his heart at least, definitely no record time, but he got it in a respectable
time.
Yeah, it's still pretty damn good and makes him very difficult to handle.
So now he can just sit in this top lane, gather up, wave after wave, top portion of the map
becomes kind of unhabitable, un-gankable for Hulagani, unless they want to commit five
heroes with a massive smoke gang.
I'm not saying they won't do it, it's just gonna take a lot.
Oh, oh, the Windranger!
Oh, gosh!
Is she dead?
Into the minefield?
Because once she came through the twin gate, and then he died, burning the steering
signal, ticking down lower and lower.
She's about to fall!
LiveHP remaining to Mado barely stays alive!
Sable-eyed!
find an opening on respect for a power shot kill. But they lost their clockwork, traded
for Techies, all because of that mindset up. And now with a roll in this amplified damage
of spirit, he gets the gaffers on a centaur, but no one there are no stuns, the wise, wise
words of Saberlight. Bingbongs, back to Fountain.
Oh my god dude, if Techies committed there, I mean he already got a kill and he almost
killed the carry, so it's amazing what he did, but he couldn't kill the win ranger
we just of course couldn't have known that he should have kept going. Where are we stampedeing?
Where are we going? I'm not sure. Did they see anyone? It feels like a mystic sound. Stampede
to Roach. We're getting Roach. Stampede there. Go fast. Yeah. Speedy call I guess. A little bit
of Diavision. I've seen them go into the pit. Really got to know that Tomato and Sable
like I've wandered across there aware but unable to do anything they don't have
under the pool tea and they're not moving fast enough to get over there I
can't do anything about it free ages no chance it's gonna die
tomorrow picks up the ages he came a little bit too close to death with the
twin game line plays a guy's I need a second life screw you storm we love
wonder in on this underlords gonna catch him and he tried to escape from
health cream but he has so many ways to stop CPs. A shackle shot. Make sure he can't go
through the door. Twin gate is shut.
Nicely played health cream with the Ethelans as well already. Amazing item on Ringmaster.
Always feels good having it when you have these multiple different abilities that benefit
from it. You have four spells that all get boosted. Even boosts your little souvenir
too if you want to heal someone. Get a bit of extra range on that.
This is where things really ramp up for VP and that 4k lead now up to 6 they got this
Aegis they're pressing forward towards tier 2s and take some big moves out of Hulagani
to try and hold onto this map.
Honestly I think you've really seen anything from Mirage so far like he has been in some
fights but he's 0-0 and 1 and I've been saying that Mirage is the one they lean
on to be able to stay in the game I'm not sure how it's going to work out he's
Just have his farm like going decently I guess, BKB is coming in, he's keeping par with Storm, but he may be missing the biggest power spike for him.
Later on I think Windranger and Centaur will not really care about their spirit at all.
No, they will not.
And Techies coming out to shove waves.
Gonna get caught and punished here.
Save a light and fly ready.
Manmarking respect as he's trying to cut out that top lane.
Honestly, Hulagani have done a pretty okay job at staying in this one and keeping it
like less than a 10k disadvantage because it's felt like VP have just run the game completely
out of all three lanes looking very solid.
Every move has landed and connected in a meaningful way.
Hulagani have kept Drow farming and trying to bridge the gap into that mid and late
game as VP gonna tumble up into the top lane with five tumblers toys all the
thunders toys Bobby horse and bounce under this snowy
drawranger now he's never see it coming do you imagine imagine five people just
bouncing around down the road on this funny little Pogo stick up and into
battle they always need to do a team video at this point if they're gonna
pick five of them like that we're gonna have to have some special content being
produced. This is so funny. I want to see the team videos you know. This is way
better than having like you know five of the freaking occult bracelets or five
philosophers stones five whatever five tumblers toys is actually legit that's
a great item. I mean tumblers toys one of those items you can never really
complain about it is so good for what it does right being able to jump and
either initiate or save your life.
And I've got a pit into Blastar,
planting mines by the feet of Saberlight,
another little pit there,
catching the Centaur on his attempt to escape.
This Underlord with the Agnum Scepter
just comes out globally, traps them,
pulls them in place,
and the Tier 2 push comes to an end.
It's a fantastic kill to get a thousand bolts for it,
so they can get the room control up top as well.
I think Suntar got himself a little bit too far forwards, the ringmaster looked at the band and said you know what I have
Ethelens but I cannot reach you, you're too far away not gonna save you. So I was going to just left him for them.
Difficult choice to make, I run left, right, up, down. You're never sure where they're coming from.
It's not obvious what the angle of attack is when you just get hit by a global fiend's gate hit of malice.
I see what got a little bit lost.
Comes from the ground underneath you, and from the gates of hell.
You know one of those Starcraft borrower pits, whatever the hell they were called.
Suddenly you look in the back of your base and there's frickin' zirgling swarming around
everywhere.
Oh no, they're burrowed banelings.
Burrowed banelings.
They're dead.
What was it called?
The Nexus?
The corrupted Nexus?
What was it called?
A Nidus Network.
Oh yeah, I think it was Nidus Worm.
The Nidus Worm, yeah.
Like being able to borrow underground and tunnel everywhere.
That's the best set ever.
It's a nasty business.
A roll in towards this ring match that Alan's already spent.
A couple of spells in this engage.
It looks like Mirage not going to keep giving chase.
They lose perspective a little further back and now our bet is in.
Onto this Earth Spirit, four-testing the Underlord though.
And we've got a gap close in for the Swin Ranger.
Tomato with a damage trying to latch on to the Underlord and successfully so.
And fly even more.
Going for this hookshot and the block out on the roll.
Mirage has been caught.
The Earth Spirit thought he had a freeway out there,
out there, but Fly shuts it all down in the blink of an eye, and Arbet just keeps going for more.
More jumps in, more blinks forward, more damage, and a double kill for Arbet's Storm,
shuts down Huligani.
It's a nice teamfight from VP, and they definitely did just catch Huligani in a weird spot,
but I also feel bad for Huligani. They're draft, it really doesn't play itself. You know,
you need to make some impressive stuff happen. That's what they did in previous fights,
but unless they outplay severely, I feel like they lose every fight.
bottom it's cutting it fairly close but that'll be fine for a center will easily
heal up but Windranger needs a bit of medical attention stand in that glorious
green snowy 151 drought still trying to salvage what he can in this game you're
looking at a 404 windranger on the other side though that's not found for
tomorrow it's always tough to play
draw ranger on the back foot the more
the you know the closer the game is so
the more you're ahead the more drow
as a hero shines she's amazing in those
situations but when you're behind since
all it takes is the enemy jumping you
and kind of die because problematic now
that we see the items coming in the
jet pack the four staff the blink
dagger obviously the hurricane pack on
wind ranger all these different tools
coming in. It's getting troublesome to have good position.
How are we going to try to position themselves on the enemy side of the map and get something going?
I need to try and find something of your own design. You can't just get gone on rolled on.
They have yet to take a single tower and while we did say earlier that all teams,
you know have some power damage most of the power damage of dire comes from the carry and if the
carry isn't having a good game then it's been difficult to to really push and have a little bit
of cheeky ways to push respect this protest just getting vision with these mines while putting
them on the tormentor or getting some control in the ruins i just love the cheeky little giggle
and smile out of fly he's holding enemy outpost draren became to multi shot him and fly is
He's like, her guys, they scouted me with a drought multi-shot, but she's too scared to walk up the staircase.
Snowy finally reclaiming a bit of land over there, but just a single clockwork was enough to scare them.
Yeah, and he could play pretty aggressively. He didn't go for the blink build, which is quite common on clockwork to go for lately,
but the four staff feels a similar purpose and is a little bit better for saving your friends here in this game.
And I think in particular he wants to be able to bail out if Storm gets rooted or trapped up to get him to safety.
misleaders. Scaropted pretty quickly. 11k now for VP. They know that they're
pretty comfortably ahead so feels like time to gather up their forces and look
for one of these big smoke maneuvers. Rochan is potentially five seconds away
from spawning so all five of them holding hands together and playing
with Fly leading. Nobody nearby here. Drow has tucked all the way back into
the base after clearing camps. Scanton red momentarily. I think VP
Realizing they've missed their shot and we know that Rochane is two minutes away
So plenty of time here for the guy need to set up with a bit of vision somewhere
Can't believe that VP were the ones with five tumblers toys
But now they have recycled all of those and snowy is still on the one who has a tumblers toy still
He knows what's good save a light for the last second of that vision has found a go on techies
Please.
Briefly, it will blow up on respect.
Can't just say Spell Slinger of Storm feels like a broken item.
What do you mean we're covering 20% of your used mana over 10 seconds?
Yeah.
So good.
Obviously with the Kaisanche, the Greaves and the Solverine, it feels like he has near-infinite
mana in this game.
He does.
I mean, it's a mystical Spell Slinger as well.
So he's got mana regen baked into it.
He's got Tundra.
He's got mana regen room.
Oh, God, man.
Illegal amount of maraj.
How much did the man need?
That's crazy.
He's now 12 galvanized.
He turns the spell slinger just bringing that man back in.
They declare the map.
In perpetuity, Mirage.
He hadn't gone on by Sableite and forced the BKG.
That's for it.
Not going to be happy with this.
Needing to retreat as I've been.
Going fishing in the back lines,
using this regen rune to zip around,
looking for someone in the trees. He's scouting, he's going to go cut some waves, keep pushing,
farming. It's getting difficult to hold onto these tier 2 towers, the position is compromised
for Huligani. Call those down, try to just shove the lane with his Illuminate, but they
could just focus fire down this tower and that's what Tumada will do.
It's a pretty mad rush to try and get Drow ranger to the BKB, just unload, trying to finish off a Shiva's Guard, it's still quite distant from it.
But we're only scraping the bottom of the barrel, trying to farm anywhere they possibly can, as they watch multiple Tier 2 towers get marauded by Verus Pro.
The total power damage by Dyer is, well we did say Drow was the power damage, and it is quite literally true in this game.
Everyone else is zero building damage dealt and draw delts 196 Wow
Tremendous amount of hero damage
I mean
It's looking grim. They're also not really in position to contest the launch take these candidates
Maybe we see a cheeky steel attempt from him. No, it's actually
So I really gotta thank all their creeps for doing all that damage to all the tier ones
down the real MVPs laying creeps hitting towers
say what?
they're concerning though as the second ages usually spells high ground push and I think it's going to in this game as well
the banner is there and we'll be able to crack onto the high ground quite a few items coming in as well
it could be a crystal list over on the wind ranger nearing that Daedalus
And it's that the full AC on Centaur already?
Oh, she lost.
Sorry.
Yeah, she lost his coming in.
Ah, he's been delivered.
Ah, he's massive heart, pipe, shivers guard, cloak of flames, very tanky Centaur ready
to break open any of these fights.
And that's why Tamar is right behind him, knowing that if Saberlight climbs an opening,
it's a quick blink stomp in to kill with your focus fire.
Huligani just gonna have to sit in their base and wait for the advance of Virtus.Pro
They've got fresh BKBs on a couple of these heroes now, so offering a little bit of protection against the magical damage that VP offer
They're also in no stress. They have the Aegis for three almost four minutes more
Some work on finishing up the Daelos. Maybe she can get it in time and push with the Aegis still
So, T-Mod can rock out some good GPM here, it's doable.
Only needs a thousand gold, so yeah, looks like that's the plan.
I believe he's telling his team, guys, wait, I just want to burst people really fast.
Man, there's no massive rush to go up high ground here.
You know that the big way back into the game by Huligani is a high ground hold some way
where they trap you in all these pits of malice, they enclose the areas,
Use a train through their advantage if EP would much rather an open fight where you catch people on the map
So you're able to actually maneuver with your windrun in your stampede to get in and out of these little skirmishes
In an actual all-out total war situation. You've got a lot of tools
They do
They have a fair amount of things that they can use but I think the most concerning for me is that they don't have the
proper chains done lock down
To help you in this particular situation
this is also a big part why I don't like their drafts is that if VP were on the
back like this say we you know flip the tables right now 12k advantage for
hula gani then VP would have ways back into the game by chain stunning and
bursting someone but it's much harder for hula gani so we see them go for
this desperate smoke attempt looking but not finding sabre lights a 4,000
health center do you even want to find him yeah that's a good question
I'm not sure he dies like if the four of them born and I think they just died to storm
Zipinian he's gonna just gonna ping bong on you
There's already popped shivers and blinked on your illusion. He's gonna see you going to the twin gate
He's walking straight to the door behind you into these mines though
I'm gonna blow up on him, but they barely tickle safe light at this point. He's so damn tanky. Oh
Fly nearly had it barely off there. He scrapes the backside of the Earth spirit mid TP
That's good to safety, but it's another excursion that didn't really lead to anything, so you're
just getting out farmed even more as Windranger has finished up the Daedalus.
One minute and 40 seconds on the Aegis, this is probably the timing to make a move.
We'll see if they're actually going to try for the high ground, if they're just saying,
you know what, let's keep farming.
Yeah, if Huligani aren't going to offer us a team fight, we'll just absorb the
entire to the map, get this net worth lead up to astronomical levels.
Basically play like Falcons at this point, right?
choke everything out, you make the space very limited for hooligan to come out of their face.
The Drow Ranger already pretty sad for the state of affairs, but I think the Earthspirit
even sadder. He wants to be actively playing these fights, scaling through hero kills and
building up his big items. Mirage 0-1-2 just hasn't been able to play Dota this game.
Yeah, I think Earthspirit as well as he's done for farming, I don't think this is
the hero that can quietly go into the late game, you need to be brawling your way there.
He's been on only two kills in 34 minutes, this is not what we usually see from Mirage,
but it's not really just his fault. I think the entire team has struggled to find a good
foothold on this game, and VP just have basically knocked the air out of them.
Where is that line in the sand, though, between being a well-oiled, disciplined machine
and being a scanty cat in terms of going high ground.
Yeah, it's a good question to post because you could argue that not attempting to crack
high ground with the second ages may be a bit of a mistake, but I think they're just saying
right now that they feel stronger as the game progresses, stronger in late game, and
I would agree.
And if you are stronger in late game and you're in full control of the map, going
high ground may feel like the only way to lose the game.
So from VPU's perspective, this is Qualifier match for TI, you're going to play for the
biggest win probability and I kind of agree, high ground seats would probably be the worst
choice.
They're all scaling so hard.
Look at their course, 23K, 23K, 20K goals, they're massive.
So there's no fear involved, this is all mathematics, probability, expected value.
If we go high ground with the second ages, it's like 70% chance we win, but there's
a 30% chance they can come back into it?
I think it's very calculated, yeah.
I don't necessarily think it's any level of, like,
I'm scared of pushing into the Ligani.
I think it's just looking at what the teams have.
There's good high ground defense on the dire as well.
They've caught all blasts.
They have the multi-shot from Drawranger.
The pit of Malice is insane for closing the high ground.
And then you have Techies, one of the best defense
heroes in all of the build up.
So that is something their draft actually is good at.
The game drags out.
stuns become more and more valuable and you have this stun advantage so I think
they're just leaning into that agatom sector next on storm it's going to bring them you know more
team fight control and the radiant support is probably pretty happy with being able to gather
up farm as well we've got this ringmaster queuing up an agatom sector and sail from the couple and
he's going to do the same thing on his dire side right just watching our bed vacuum up the
entire to the map farming then moving towards the storm. If the light is nearby,
there's a lot of shatters there but we're realizing very quickly that Virtus.pro have their numbers in
that top left corner. Keep his Alts gonna be safe. I guess at least they haven't been feeding storm
too much so his overload charges, his galvanized isn't that high yet. That's like the silver
lining here is that the storm could be a lot stronger had he gotten more kills.
Only bit in the six.
The Virtus Pro now in the bunker atop the cliff.
The Mott and Bailey have put their fortification up on their outpost and now they're going to swing out into all these avenues which were being used by Hulagani to bring food into their own seas base.
I'll break the siege and come out here where the tank he's dying is starting to fight off
but Vertus Crow just running rough shot over your core heroes.
Urspray's already been blown up, snowy trying with a multi-shot to dish damage back in towards VP.
BKB's up to the draw ranger but a soft reset from Vertus Crow gets the upper staircase, backs away from all the pits of Malus.
Corrupted with his underlord, well he tried to bodyguard his round on the way out but now he's the primary target.
A focal point for VP to rally around and chase down, the underlaw is going to get zipped
on by the storm relentlessly as Tomato looks for the shackleshot between the two heroes,
only finds the techies but that's now a dieback out of respect and the snowy drown range is
rifted to low ground pushed into the waiting arms of VP.
Dead, with buyback available but this has been a long time coming now as Virtus.pro
break the high ground.
That was a nice four staff by Hellscream actually forcing the enemy into his team.
I was looking around to see, there were so many force staffs, I was wondering who it was to push him there.
It was failed teammates, but there's actually a ringmaster just seeing an opportunity to shove her even deeper out of position.
And now the center is up a mistake, it is very difficult to push him back down it.
Tanky boy stands in front of your tier 3 towers, you've spent your firestorms and your pits.
Defend this mid lane, but it's in vape.
Tomatoes still kills the tier 3.
I'm gonna jump in.
Is that guy corrupted?
The save light starts it, but it looks like Mirage and Corrupt are gonna finish it here with a...
...no box.
Sending same word back. The chase is still on with another roll in deep.
The BKB for Mirage is out, but Centaur takes literally no damage.
Being so damn tanky, Mirage is rolled into his own death and dying again.
This time 70 seconds with no buyback available,
and Corrupt is being pulled on by Arbaid for the bonus kill.
Both tanky cores out of here for over a minute now.
it now. I'm gonna be looking at what multiple lanes have been taken by VP. Yeah they're holding
on for dear life here but 2 dead for 60 seconds on 2 poor heroes. This is gonna be you know
all your base basically falling. There's the Tannical Windranger not getting rid of her
anymore. Easily sustained through any harassment. And a game where we just haven't seen that
Hooligan style of dragging it out and waiting for mid game, hitting their timings. There
There was no pace, there was no stride, there was no big hit from them.
There has been a bit of a sad whimper at the tail end of this game where they're just sitting
there base and watch Virtus Pro amass their forces, build up this 30k network lead and
walk it in.
They just walk it into the net.
The worst case thing happened, right?
The fight wasn't even in their base.
The first fight was outside base and they lost the four of them.
And now Drow Ranger forced back to fountain, leaving respect wide open to get bullied,
Stampede it upon blast off gets a bit of distance for him, but are they chasing him at the fountain doesn't get the kill
Now back to dealing with buildings verse, bro
They got mid and bottom. They won't get top
Is bizarre watching this orbit storm how much resources he has the spell slinger
By the way did get upgraded to a next level mystical
He kept to the tier three item of the tier four obviously makes sense on the hero
And then he has me school with a mana cost reduction as well
I mean, it's just dirty man. It's so much mana one thing though
It doesn't seem like you can amplify the mana coming back. It doesn't count as mana regen
So at least the kaia's arms is not amplifying the spell slinger mana regain
Big man Roshan gonna roar
Oh the god, he's still stuck in their base
No chance of contesting, though.
And with that, the fiends cage.
They're not going to give it a shot, so it's just a freebie Roche.
Angels, Cheese, Refresher Shard, Rochans, Banner.
All the goodies here for Virtus.Pro to look for this final end of barracks
and close out. Game 1 has been very one-sided.
22-6, 33K lead.
At no point has Virtus.Pro really felt bothered by Ruligani
or any of their efforts.
No, not really. I think they've been in control of the game since the laning stage.
I gave some praise for Mirage for doing quite well in the mid lane,
but we haven't seen anything coming out of Lugani, unfortunately.
This game won in the series. 34k lead and basically just finishing the deed right now
for VP. They've done all the dirty work, so I'm just going to finish them.
Here's the Rochane's banner.
Catapult, Cree Wave moving forward even through.
And the hit to Malice and the Firestorm.
Somato using his Kale course to make life irritating.
Early Ron was just pushing here as round inside space to try and find any chance of an opening.
And now with a Focus 5...
Someone can jump into mines.
Not gonna go straight onto Corrupted.
Underlord getting Stomp and Shackle.
Half HP remaining, but he's gonna get his BKB off.
That double BKB from Hulagani just to kill off a Roshan banner though.
Yes, he's defended your base, but I bet he knows he's got so much space to just get on top of the Drowr Ranger.
Hulling her back, and a hookshot from Fly opens things up on Corrupted.
Mirage has been slain by Tomato, Earthford dead, Underlord follows, two in the grave, both with Buyback.
And they're gonna have to use it here if they want any chance of holding on to Game 1.
The tier three is done.
Now Rax now open, and Tomato gonna make the move, with Sable at leading, they've got a two-man vortex after the stop.
That's for it! Low HP healed up a touch by Holy Locket for this bot!
The ring master by his time for Arbent, but he's still dead! Couldn't get away!
Trapped in the pit while Sableite, the big boy, sent to order, slapped down his big old axe,
forces the GG out. Inevitability was there, they killed Storm once. The first death of Arbent,
43 minutes into this game, no signal of a comeback, no nothing, just a little bit of a
the morale boost before hula guard in the tailland as vp hammered them yeah that game started out
fantastic for them and it kept going in the same way as well getting the kill getting two of the
banterians even though you got first blood a long time to get first blood the enemy gets more
banterians but they got two and they kill off the enemy range creep on the first creep wave so
started out fantastic and it kept going that way as well honestly though i feel like this game
jotted down to draft issue you know if you're hula down me yeah you missed draft it
it didn't work out. Go next, hopefully they can bring some new stuff because I had zero confidence seeing the drafts here that they were gonna win this one.
Yeah, I mean, what do we have to re-jake then? Is the Drow Ranger no longer a first pick? Or do we have to think about a different Pods 5? The techies, was he the problem?
I think Drowers find the Urspray okay too, but I don't know if Urspray works with the support duo. It's more like the five heroes together.
Individually a lot of these pieces work but when you're drafting you're assembling this tool
and if you put the wrong pieces they've got like an axe but it's all blade there's no handle
you know like what are you gonna do with this man you can't hold it.
What's the point in a swiss army knife if it doesn't have a hacksaw and a pair of scissors
and a couple of blades and a magnifying glass?
right? This army knife would have stung five of them there. Pull out this this little one. Oh,
that's a stung right there. That's another stung. In all seriousness, I do think Virtus.pro did great
prep work here. Their drafts looks good against what Hooligani do because we talk about how
Hooligani their weaknesses maybe that they're a little bit slow in the early game. Storm,
I think punishes that pretty well. And at the same time, I think that they built a really
nice internal draft. Do we see the MVP of the match? I would agree. Saberleit had a stunning
performance here. It's amazing. Yeah, I mean his kill participation, 88.88% recurring as well.
A lucky number in China, signifying wealth, right? There's definitely showing off there
exactly why. Very rich center, buying lots of big items, lots of heart as well.
And VP got the Saberleit center off the ground in a tremendous way,
killing drought several times in lane and really making Snowy's life a living hell.
And there we go, VP Game 1 victory, a pretty straightforward one for them, but we'll see,
you know, while I like to say if the draft can go shifted, dynamic changed. Game 2 coming up shortly.
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Welcome back to the regional qualifiers here out of Europe for the international 2026.
down to the last couple of teams, the last couple of slots and potentially here now Wager
the last chance for Hooligani as they are game down against VP in a best of three.
Yeah it's looking a bit rough you need to back to back win against the team as strong as VP but
you know we're gonna just say the mantra always had to win two games it's fine. I think Hooligani
they slipped up a bit with the draft in game number one. Fortunately you know they can always
that and that they didn't get
outplayed. It's just we didn't
have stuff to play with. Um,
but I'm I'm a bit nervous,
Gareth. I'm a bit nervous going
into game number two. If
vulgarity slip up on the
draft again, that could be the
end for the run. It could very
easily. Yeah, just down and
out with a bit of a whimper and
honestly, you know, seeing them
here in game one great VP,
obviously not to take anything
away from them, but we've
up some big numbers and showing that they can play up against some of these bigger squads
especially taking down Navi yesterday enjoy the day before cheeky bamboni day before that
they were on a pretty good grim reaper run knocking out a lot of these european teams but
maybe it's a stylistic difference they're good against the eastern european squads you know taking
out some of their brethren and comrades but they're not so good when you've got these
western european or in north american teams and players coming in because this is vp who used
to be shop of fire rebellion. Maybe NADora is back. They just have to move across the Atlantic.
Is it too early for a USA USA?
I don't know man. Maybe after game two we'll see how it goes because Hooligani have got their hands
on the puck from Mirage this time. Yeah we go into game number two with a comfort zone for Hooligani
as Virtus.world don't ban out the puck banning the draw ranger even after doing horrible,
horrible things to that poor
in the jungle as well. Now
the take what team vision
the earth spared against the
problem seems to have been
earlier on and shopper,
stuck in my head now. VP
out there, but stealing
and saying, okay, that is
and also the drawr engine
band, maybe an indication
can get our hand on a Sable at Centaur. We'll leave the draw in. If not, we'll just ban her.
Yeah, could be the case, and Centaur does really enable the whole get on top of
Dryranger in order to kill her. One of the main things that you need to do in any draw draft is
just to address the fact that she's a backliner. But we'll see how they add supplements to
this Earth Spirit pick, because VP, sure, the Earth Spirit was something that Team Vision did,
but I think you also need the correct heroes to go along with it. You need to be able to
enable him and let him play aggressively the way he wants to. But in the Urspirit vs Puck matchup,
lane is pretty easy. You bring some silence, some stun. It's pretty good against Puck.
Yeah, so we're looking at those scouting heroes again, I think, for Hulagani. Obviously,
with Trident being banned, we're left with the hoodwink and the clockwork as primary options
to play forward be that aggressive reconnaissance kind of hero that gives information to the
team and allows the puck to safely jump in and out of dangerous areas. I love to see respect have
is one of those rather than the techies. Oh, I like this. The bane is always a nice pickup
when playing against the puck. So it's one good start for a support that can supplement the
Earth Spirit activity early on and overall very strong laning support as well. I think Bane is
completely fine here. It does make it quite likely we'll get to see the Ringmaster come back.
Hero that has been used a lot by a lot of teams in this qualifier and it's a counter to Bane.
Straight up.
Yeah and Hooligan have played it so it's not as though it's out of their wheelhouse either.
I'm just gonna be the straight snap response for them like that wheelhouse because the wheel wonder that's it very smart
Gareth and he lives in the big house at the big old tent the fun house
That's where he keeps his wheel
That's true when you say he lives in his house
Just maybe look at the first pick or first that I'm dying and that I'm dying short film contest
We had that was that was some good stuff on dying living in his little tombstone. Do you know the one?
Did you see it?
I can't remember seeing it, but yeah, I lived in a Tombstone since once.
It was one of the better ones I've seen.
Nice.
Look it up if you haven't.
Ringmaster and Clockwork, nice duo here, getting in with their tomatoms.
I don't give respect to that tanky melee hero that can actually go out, scout,
see where things are coming from, start things off, make Puck's life a little bit more
simple in terms of finding targets.
and a tide though coming in for Virtus Pro, so Saberleig gonna get this big tanky boy that doesn't really get bothered by the trio already shown for Huligani.
He's gonna have a pretty simple time just waddling through a lot of these lanes and teamfights.
I wonder if Snowy feels like he could TB this.
Like, it is magic damage, but looking at the type of damage they have coming in and what VP have, it's not that scary for a TB to deal with.
It's quite possible and this one is better heroes. He's got good lifesteal instead
Another one that he did use earlier in a tournament then again. You have clock you've pucked fantastic to jump into
Leans very well against the tight hunter as well
Yeah, the only thing you have to worry about is this grip into whatever tomatoes hero is
Balling of the more to now to protect
Doom removed by VP to keep this tight under a little bit happier
it's a very hard grip to channel in this game though with a box there there are so many
different ways to stop the grip already I like talking about you know how likely it is for
those big channel ulties to happen whenever we have a black hole or fiend's grip and here
it's just it's painful battery assault cogs and hookshot can all cancel you ringmaster
can whip you box or ulti to stop you and buck can wining rift or silence you yeah
It's it or or ulti of course. Sorry. It's uh, it's not great. He basically has to find someone completely isolated
And you were talking about tb for snowy
Is there also a chance for tb for tomato now in this situation?
After a life steal pick. Yeah, there's actually a little bit of a reason to try for it, but there's
Maybe some scary part where you can get silenced and controlled up
but definitely a possible hero for them to go towards. I also wouldn't be surprised to see them go for like
spectre coming out. There's a few... there's a number of heroes that can be good here.
And then right here right now, no axe, no doom, no ducks here. Sentos out of here. Pango and Dying Gone as well.
Difficult spot to find corrupted's hero.
to go back for Underlord again? No, it's a Dawnbreaker. Ooh, I kind of like that. Park
End Lifestealer with a Solar Guardian behind them. Lots of ways to turn around fights with
this Ringmaster Clockwork Dawnbreaker trio. You can break free, you said break free the
grip pretty easily, get away from this Earth spirit, turn around on him, mitigate some
of his damage.
Yeah, it's another combo breaker type hero as well. So whenever you want to play around
ravage and do some big setup. You might just over commit and get punished. Um, and yeah,
another hero that brings two ways of stopping the fiend's grip. Of course, it's time for
tomorrow. That's one of his, uh, best heroes.
You can't spell tomato without T8. That's true. He's got it in his name. We'll see
how it works out in this game. I think it's a pretty good TA game. The only concern
if life stealer has a really really strong start he can become problematic for ta to deal with if he
gets the radiance plus like armlet and mantas style or something then you struggle to fights against him
ever but overall the lane should be good for ta she has a tight ta which obviously gives you
more than half it gives you everything gareth
i'm just i'm just thinking about sometimes i'm a big dumb dumb i'm looking at this keeper
with the light thinking that there aren't that many, you know, incredible chakra magic
pair rings. It's like, it's okay with Earth's spirit, okay with Tide's. There's no ember
or storm or anything here. It's caught all now just in a place where he's a good enough
all round hero you don't, you don't necessarily have to look for this combo with chakra.
It's not really true though. He has a lot of stuff here. It's not as obvious as
in some other teams like there's no tiny or ember though, right?
TA is crazy with it, and Abbot's hero is pretty good too.
Earthbeard's getting reset on his spells.
He can change stun with a roll there.
There's a lot of stuff here still,
but TA getting meld strike refreshed
and refraction lower cooldown is also not bad at all.
So I think it's fine enough.
You don't necessarily need it to be
that Chakra is the broken part.
A big part of what makes Caudal strong
is the level six power spike of the solar binding
and blinding lights just being so oppressive in the lane.
It can set up kills, it can stop enemy kills.
Binding Light is a super good tool.
Very similar to Techies in this Reactive Taser.
The Binding Light is stopping auto-attack damage output.
Oh, still pretty good all-round then.
Good all-round hero.
Ah, Stream's one of his favorites.
We'll see how it goes here.
VP one game ahead and it's best of three.
a game away from qualifying to TI 2026
I can see it in their sights just at the horizon
Hula Ghani ready to try and stop them though
Sayu just walks up and kills some of his trees by sending a bunch of
cogs in there sure it scouts but also just deforests the midlaner a little bit
for
dire others like what the hell man
usually you're breaking trees in your safe lane trying to get rid of some of his access points
Let's see if we can get that mid lane.
We're going to see each other across the river there.
Sayer stands up, turns her left to the tide.
It currently looks like we're just going to get the two for two setup though.
VP smoked around that top bounty rune.
Mirage, thinking about contesting but when he smoke breaks you'll realize there's
a bane over there.
I don't really want to step up to it.
Yeah, no, definitely not.
Would just stand up losing a bunch of HP, maybe get nightmareed and it would not
be worth it.
get back at your body block. However, Abbot is starting the body block all the way at the tier 3 tower,
means that he should be winning the block on mid lane, which is one of the key things he wants
to get a good start on mid lane, is getting your own high ground, in particular if you melee against
range hero like this Ursprit versus Puck. So a good idea by Abbot to set himself up for success
here. Look at that positioning, very nice for him. Yeah, lower down the stand case.
We've already been able to chase Mirage a little bit with that extended bit of distance.
Exactly.
It makes life just a little bit trickier for Mirage, but Mirage is very good on this puck,
so we'll see if you can deal with this situation as well.
But first quick wave, fantastic probably.
A great start from there.
Top lane, corrupted.
Trying to track the wave off that left-hand side of the talkwork.
We're just trying to deal with the enemy support.
He went down the bottom, respect down the open,
getting blinding light pushed back into an anchor smash
and some additional harassment damage
which maybe he wasn't expecting.
Strength of that displacement tool
already being shown off by Hellscream early laying stage.
There you have to be very careful, not go too close
and get pushed into the Tidehunter as the damage.
Can be very threatening especially if he gets a point in Gush as well later on.
We'll see what he does though.
Maybe he will max out the damage block being against Lifestealer.
I just, funny to think that this, like this kind of build in Kotl, you know, a while back
would be unheard of, like, you didn't go for, you know, 102 or 201 build, what are you doing?
You can't farm, you can't push creeps, you can't do anything.
That's not my role now.
Kotl used to be a POS4 who would just illuminate blast over and over, right?
You'd just send the illuminate and shove the enemy on the tower and try to out-tark.
Quote, quote, quote, securing the range creep.
Yes.
melee creep and the next melee creep and oops what's that I kill you're about to
get illuminates my kill though so it's mine
very selfish support back now much more much more helpful much more lane
focused rather than greeting it out well than five already maybe even a
first slot nearly had it not quite enough to kill Mirage he did hold the
fairfire as well so he wasn't back toes necessarily but still I've been doing some serious damage
and uh you see one of the main reasons why first phase is so nice against puck is this whole
melee hero versus puck mentality as well you cannot dodge any auto attacks with the phase
shift so you don't get that constant hb and mana refill and usually these heroes like
park storm sprint very reliant on right clicks to keep the harassment going your
tanky melee boy with the block and shield it up
I'm just gonna hit by nothing got so much HP
Saber like pretty low in that bottom lane getting banged out by the impairment arts
It's looking a bit scary
Off lane could also erupt at any given point. We have level three on corrupted. So this damage is pretty big right now
See it has to do some prep work basically
Like dawnbreaker recently this heroes felt pretty good with these global strats we've seen a lot of
Play one side of the map get fat get bombed men join fights when you definitely need it
I think it really fits the style the hooligan have showed to his full fire as well
Be a bit greedy find the horse stabilize dying to life steal of the bloody light
It pushes them back, but Snowy's gonna keep chasing him with another impalement odd. It slows them down, gets first blood for the lifestealer.
Fantastic kill to get, obviously lifestealer getting a bit of extra value from those kills as well, feasting, getting bonus HP, and
that importantly puts him on face boots.
Getting face boots first in this lane is super important. If Tidehunter got face boots before the
lifestealer, he could maybe have played this lane, but now that lifestealer has it and Tide doesn't even have boots,
it's going to become unplayable I think.
I wonder if they've got any penalty systems in Dota 2 teams.
Like in football teams, you know, if you don't bring your boots
or you give away a penalty or you give away too many free kicks
you get fined £10, £20, £50, £1000, you don't show up to training
you get a fine and a slapper on the wrist. What if you give up first blood?
Bulbas there saying, right, that's 10% of your winnings going into my pocket
Going into my pocket W yours because you've died twice now a save light. Oh, no
That's a 50 pound fine right there. That's more than 50. That'd be a 500 fun fine dine with no tipi
Ready, this has to be one of the big offenses, right walk of shame that that has to be expensive
Bulb is open to wallet and it's like money, please
Yeah, give me give me
That's half your month salary gone right there. I mean to that's a save light. Yeah, I mean level two on this tight hunter
nine last hits and more than shut down he's not having a game this lane is not
inhabitable by him I bet in the meantime having a pretty tremendous time mid so
more than making up for it against this part yeah for certain there they're mid
and their top lane are doing very well but this bottom lane is becoming
quickly concerning and I wonder how they can deal with it because at this
point I think they can even leave the lifestealer alone and that's what we're
seeing mobility coming out from the life stealer who just goes mids and at night
they're on top and corrupted I try to get the meld damage in they are
tomato runs around in a circle so they sprint around the creep wave and then
finds his place to stand and meld strike to get the kill fly in the end is
over the final touch though a little bit of damage from the bay and kills
Corrupted no as the power in the spawning Abad's looking to control top
What nobody took it? I was very confused there for a second. Well, it hasn't spawned bottoms. Where is it?
Took a little second, but that's a region rune for the Earth spirits great to have and he's level six
But he does not have a single point in rolling there yet
So this really zero two point skill builds means that he cannot go for like a roll into all the other six
But I think that's fine. Just play for Lane
Gets your levels going
Yeah, this is what no one was talking about with his desperate against the puck
I don't know if it's in particular, but you're saying Thompson showed him
No one basically said every item build every new hero that's shown off
And then the Paravision squad anyway is because of tops and players
It's all Thompson, it's all Thompson, it's like the snapfire made, it's earth-brick with a 4-1-4 build, it's all Thompson.
Yeah, ah, Thompson is a very creative gamer, he has a great way of understanding, like, out of meta things that you can do, it's always exciting to watch.
And it's also refreshing, right, because there's an element where, oh, you're allowed to do that, that's fun as well, right?
Like, you do something that's actually strong, someone didn't think about, and it's new, so...
Yeah, it's what you talked about the other day, that pro players, do you get bored, do you know, keep boxy, happy mentality, pick something new?
Here's something shiny to play with.
Nothing shiny on that right-hand side of the map, like sentry wards blocking up camps, cuttle can't stack anything properly.
They're trying to build up a bit of bank disabilite to fall back on.
Get him to investment.
He's gone through a lot of jungle creeps at least, so he's on the path to recovery.
It's not looking great for him, but he is only 200 gold behind the Dawnbreaker, who's,
I guess, not also having a very good time, but it's not looking as desperate as it was
a few minutes ago.
No, it's still his life still with 4000 net worth racing towards his initial timings,
though.
They've got Saeors catching up to fly in that northern river, Arcane and Grandpa
corrupted as well with a roll in, flying is protected by the Earth spirit and
arbed with a damage forward. We're going to kill off this blockwagon before
fly even dies and all forward from the pox though trying to catch up to the
bane not able to connect. Mirage realizing there's no point in following
through with a template assassin lurking nearby.
Nice attempt by trooper to deny himself the inch or to the rush but a little
bit too late, didn't quite get in there in time.
maybe you could just turn to a bit earlier but it's gonna be a good little skirmish going the way of VP
oh look it's snowy and his bracer recipe again
is he gonna stay there for the entire game again?
no he'll do the exact same thing he's like maybe i need a bracer but maybe i just
rush this rage as fast as i possibly can you'll bring it out in case of emergency
this is the you know break the glass when you need it
break the glass bracer what does the bracer do for you?
He frees up an item slot, wahoo! Makes you strong man. It's big. Also, he got a very nice item in the Chipped Vests, getting some extra farm speed here, the amount of time that he's sitting in just hitting creeps.
There's a lot of ship vests.
There's three of them.
Three Ash Legion shields over there on the way inside.
Very tanky boys.
A die taking a diversionary route.
Five different items for them.
Tomatoes picked up some fancy gloves.
Back to regular laning though.
Pied under now feeling a little bit happier with being able to sit down bottom.
Level six.
Got himself the phase boots.
Level three anchor smash.
Clockwork after a respawn came in and did some blocking as well, came in with a sentry.
Can't get de-worded immediately by Hellscream.
Not really stopping any of the farms that they're building up.
You're flying this mid lane.
Might merit a grip, are we going for it?
Nice, he's a clockwork coming in.
So difficult to set up for it.
I bet he's gonna magnetize regardless of Fly's abilities and now,
You've baited them in, you've got nothing to cancel the Grip on the Clockwork,
he'll blast into Seyosh with the Cople and the Bane,
and he'll do a little bit more as you'll force them to chase up high ground.
A nightmare into the Salve, and he's healing up, but it's cancelled now.
Seyosh's gonna get eliminated within his own cogs, another touch required,
though he's set 30 health.
Surviving!
Well, this Earthquake comes back in and says,
Okay, enough of this nonsense, I chased the fuck out of lane,
you guys didn't follow me, I'm gonna come back and kill the Clock.
And they slow-roasted that clockwork first where it's finally he comes in and just takes the kill
and it's
Tenderism clockwork a fully marinated piece of chain meal
It falls off the bone
There's a blush to there is very very big
He's got the relic now as well, so now tie down the cap, walk up on lane and feel unkillable.
Even with the damage block, it's going to take a bit of damage from every single auto-attack.
And then also he can ignite quite a bit, because we see 26 denies already, already
125 HP as well, from the feasts.
This lifesteal is getting pretty tanky with this free run.
That number go up and leftsley gets scary.
Don't for me.
What's the matchup like in the TA though?
I feel like they've picked this Templar Sansen to be able to dish out that damage in the
life skill no matter what items he's got.
It's fragile is how I would describe it for TA.
I've played this matchup hundreds of times.
I can tell you that as long as you're on the timer and you are playing fast on
TA then you're fine get this all get blank start making moves but once those
three items I mentioned come in radiance armlets mental style then you
you almost can't kill you need so much help to kill night stealer at that
point he's gonna evade he's gonna have a ton of armor he's gonna map up to
disjoint your attacks or even this belly melt it on Mirage oh we didn't see
this one coming they've got a solid guardian a bit of health here Mirage
with solar bind and the earth's great damage bringing him low but the reaction out of hulu ghani
dawn breaker and clog were coming in but they don't save the park mirage still dead trading out on a
1v1 for albert a little bit of a mistake i think but i saw you walking away i think he locked
the lock locked him in the cogs immediately on the earth spirit and then pushed him
so unfortunately puck dies and i think mirage also expected him to keep getting pushed immediately
being changed on so maybe a bit of miscommunication there on how they want
to do it man 13 minute radiance it's here great timing for sure that's really
really fast and that's with face boots so definitely no you know scuffed radiance
either this is where he accelerates very quickly already top the net worth
faster than the previous record which was probably him as well yeah he did
played earlier and had a pretty damn good game I think you got it like actually
last time we saw him it was not super fast it was like 14 15 minutes either way
definitely works out for him in this game was that a couple of games right yet
he had one in that losing game yeah they dropped to which is like whatever but
the wonderful that was was pretty quick you're right may have been may have been
his his timing in that one fly smoked up with tomato here through the
Twin Gate. They're hunting for this life stealer. In a radius timing, he wants to take out all
the jungle camps, but Snowy has to support by his side, ready for this move already.
Oh my god, the Deliverance. What is this faster than?
Pre-empting, though. The gank. Just understanding they want to protect this life stealer, make
sure that Snowy is perfectly happy farming. Both supports. I mean, they barely needed
to do anything.
What's it called we go to as places where they have like sushi rolling on like a,
you know, like a fence?
conveyor belt thing. Yeah, that bane, he got on a sushi conveyor belt right there.
He just got delivered to a live steamer. That was disgusting to watch.
I shuffled into his mouth.
Live steamer could do some damage to a buffet.
He got kicked out. If you like that Homer Simpson in the lobster buffet.
Yeah, it's probably a good tell when someone crawls in on all four into your buffet is probably the first sign. They should probably not let this person saliva dripping from them like a rabid dog. Yeah, you're sure you're sure you're going to be let in.
You walk into one of these, um, one of these, like, hedonistic Las Vegas buffets.
You know, the big ones where it's like, you know, pay a hundred dollars and you've got crab legs and,
and a lamb and whatever, you know, life still walks in there. They're gonna charge them triple easily.
I think it's good, by the way, those buffets, when they have the, they have like a fine, if
you don't finish all you put on your plates, so you don't throw away a bunch of food. I actually
kind of like that. It doesn't have to be a big fine, but like something, you know. Apparently
some places even measure the amount of food remaining on your plates and then you pay for that.
Yeah, some restaurants in China do that as well, making sure that I think it might be even
local law where you're not allowed to go to a restaurant and leave food waste if you take it
home and you pay a fine for it. I will say it also gets you exercising because you gotta go
multiple times. If you put something in your plate and it's disgusting, what do you do? You
gotta throw all that so then you pay the fine. So if you take really small amount first,
Chief is good.
He's taking more trips.
He's taking more steps.
Yeah, yeah, steps.
Yeah, it's healthy.
Healthy in multiple ways here.
More trips to the buffet.
That's why they give you the small plate of the buffet places, by the way.
There are actual strategies where people build up a freaking tower of...
They build the base with lettuce so it's a bowl.
And then they build the tower of meat up above it.
Oh, Jukes!
Fly, he dodges first the part and then the hookshot as well.
Jukes shoes are on for this being.
Ah!
Fly, he still got it.
it still click on his feet even though he's becoming an elder gamer and he's
still got the moves an elder gamer sounds like a boss you find where where do
you find the elven ring is this one of the blood-borne bosses well you found the
you found a shiny elven gamer his last couple of minutes has been strong from
VP though yes they lose the bane bottom to that gank but it's still
putting a lot of pressure on Hulagani to set up and react to these moves, now protecting
the CA to kill off Soptia 1 Tower. They're building blocks, right? They're not oppressive
yet, but they are starting to get the legislation in place to really be annoying.
Yeah, and TA runs into Ringmaster. Should be an easy kill, honestly. Hard for him to
get out of this one. She plays to safety. A little bit scared of the coil coming in
and locking her in place, pretty much the only thing that she had to worry about was showing
up in a little while so maybe the right play to get safety.
I mean maybe if you're playing with player names on, he just sees the word respect over
and over again.
He's like, um, should I be killing a guy called respect?
I feel like it should be a bit more respectful, maybe run away, just let him live.
I'm gonna respect maybe his teammate behind him.
This reminds me of the morals of the players. Very smart.
10,000 net worth lifestealer though. Untouched, but I'm lying.
This is the thing though. If you're behind Leicester and net worth is TA, it does not feel good.
So while we're talking about how she's doing stuff in opening tower, look at bottom.
Leicester gets the tower as well, putting in 700 gold or 600 gold ahead of the TA,
of the TA and he already has radiance, already has armlets and guess what he
queued as the next item. I'm telling you this is the trinity of items he's gonna
be unkillable to the TA and I am not sure if they have the tools to deal with this item.
I'm really worried honestly especially with Escape Act and Solar Guardian.
They've got so many ways of saving him on top of Rave already being baked into the hero.
Mid lane doesn't go onto health screen. He's being poked back by Mirage,
jumped in on by Sayush, Sableite walking into the middle of them, threatening with a ravage.
He's got 17 one-charges to pop it, but he's just gonna walk down and pop work here with a gush.
Tomato getting pushed by the cogs though. Sayush not getting chased down or killed
as he just pops the cogs out and pushes VP all the way back.
Wow, they get away with that cleanly, get a kill, back out, sure they didn't take power,
but forced all the VP to react to this. They burned a ton of the Tides man as well,
putting him in this uncomfortable spot. Sure he has the silver ring but to use all
his bells over and over yeah you need some heal from Hellscream coming in
some Chakra.
Slow and steady this is what Huligoni really strived for. I have been
comfortable in games so far and it qualifies a 2k lead and there's a 1k
right now 5 to 4 but a pretty steady game without any upsetting moves
plus them in a position where they can actually look to play through Mirage, right?
This Mirage pocket being an absolute nuisance through the lower bracket in
particular for a lot of these teams. Has died once, but it's still pretty good time
hitting the items. I think the impressive part, okay, they might get a
kill on to this nice kickback with the fiend script, still pretty technical.
Man, it's going break here. A third of our health remaining and the box
comes in with a wheel of wonder, a hoax shot onto the bane. They go
Corrupted a bit of distance again the infant will heal him up and now snowy
He's in on to hell scream the damage backs up the two supports disappear
And the solar guy is gonna land right on to the temple assassin who's been burnt down
But it's gonna ravage and tomato to turn maybe they can find up and no snowy just burns them alive
All the toggles back up stays alive, but I bet he's in with a triple kill or a spirit with the magnetized
Diving in to get an ultra burning through them all little ringmaster and the two tanky cores of VP roll back
Get corrupted by the Starbreaker!
Our flag gets hammered into the ground!
And our 1v1 modern mono attack between corrupt and disabled
that ends with the doorbreaker coming out victorious!
Dude, corrupted. Isn't it funny that the first guy who gets drawn on is the only one
who survives that fight, brawls to the very end.
Yeah, Earth Spirit was some crazy damage coming out, but look towards TA.
1,300 damage in that fight didn't really get to do much.
Beautiful positioning of some of the counterspells there.
teamfight ulties from radiant were used in perfection ringmaster his ulti just disjoints this entire fight look at it clean
That is a great ulti they play around it even hop towards it hop in and heal the dawnbreaker
Honestly, I'm so impressed by all the ganas team fighting. This is what they do. Well
That's so nicely done a back and fall the return back in from corrupted
So they heal them up with that solar guardian and you're right
the toggling through magnetized to like that's a nice little detail there but not super you know
easy to do in a fight but mash should land that unfortunately still died afterwards
and then they thought they had him but there's harpoon the role from that's great connecting
in a way that favored corrupted and you're actually right you start this fight on him he
ends it on you yeah big smiles big smiles there hula gani feel good i think this was also fights
The VP may not afford to lose. If you lose this fight, which you did, now this gives Luxier the time to get the Manta style, and I'm not selling snake oil here, you know, it is true.
He's going to be super hard to deal with. He nearly lived in the last fight, we didn't have a Manta, not with it. They need to come up with a plan on Bayer.
They need some way to get fly to grip someone honestly. Yeah, they might need to go blink dagger before agonem
Some satellites I see is going for the agonem and has already the ogre club, but
Yeah, I'm I'm trying to see an avenue where this game works out for them and to me this win per probability is
Also very generous. I think it's more leaning the way of radiant
In my experience more than even shows. Yeah, potentially
And it comes looking like he's trying to outstrip the shard as well, like we need shard against his puck
but trying to slot it in, kind of challenging the save light with such a bad game.
Yeah, I mean he's done a good job trying to recover and the agonist will be a nice farming tool as well
but I just don't really like their conditions for going into the late game here.
We are finally going to open the bottom tier 1 which was defended for a long time by the
live stealer.
He goes for similar trade on the other part of the map, he's tier 1.
It feels like VP's avenues into any of these teamfights requires supreme vision or surprise.
Some kind of silence from fog, try and make sure you can't rage or react.
on to the supports, you know, first the ringmaster or the clockwork or both, and maybe that can
be a condition where they can actually play out the fight afterwards. But yeah, unless they get a
good initiation, the fight will be very hard. We're getting planted.
Definitely some advantage will be to look comfortable in me.
Oh, the illusion bait! The illusion bait actually tricks them. Still gonna coil on this
bait and have a turnaround of the puck. Save Fun Fox momentarily for the
The Ravage did his face shift and the odds to jaunt away doesn't land but you still got
tomorrow with the help of the Grip.
And Bale saved a lot of situations where that Ravage has spent for nothing.
That was a fantastic illusion, Bates.
Thanks to that they actually win the fight.
So tips for Albeds.
He was the one sending his Earth Spirit illusion to the forefront.
And now roast time.
Straight into the pit.
Pull the gunny.
On there.
Stay down, Brickle.
Do you?
Stay on there.
They are on it. Well, yeah, I mean, Tommado and Arbent, they're hunting for respect.
They caught a glimpse of the ringmaster, but he has sprinted, blinked, and run into the tree line,
so he's got rolled upon. Thanks to the TA trap, they got the vision, the catch.
They kill on the ring, so 30 seconds without him.
I think he's dead for 30, but Puck is respawning now, and could TP in with Puck and Donulti ready,
infest up in just a few seconds for Life Stealer.
I don't feel like they should give up this rose for free,
But, Hulagani, are they going to group up and go towards it?
They have the rocket to keep scouting.
Oh, Rosh is moving in a few seconds, as well as the bottom area needs to be taken over instead.
Yeah, yeah, they're going to shift homes.
The ringmaster's already pushing our lane all the way out.
Hulagani not stressing with the situation there and, like you said,
just keeping tabs on Rosh, making sure they're in position if needed.
They're getting the arms reached, but not necessarily needing to make a play.
This is the Starbreaker onto TA. She blinks over onto this Stormbreaker.
On that selects you'll Hammond to make a bit of a bridge.
There's no gap close coming in from VP.
TP base, get full mana and HP again.
He'll be able to join force with the ulti if you want.
It plays very similar to an Unlord.
Oh, a roll onto the ringmaster could be a good start.
Yeah, good catch by Arbett.
The second roll is not going to land and the cult pushback is annoying. That allows ringmaster to blink away, actually.
Good jukes by respect. This time gets to safety.
They've been taking a bit of control of this area of the map, though. Pushing two lanes in, guarding the Rocham pit.
Very tight, well-drilled effort here to shove Huligani all the way back to the inside of the river.
So now he still has the bracer recipe in this queue, by the way, but he added also the circlet
because he sold the circlet, so now obviously he needs the circlet to make his bracer, so
actually he's adding more of the bracer.
Does it get added back automatically if you have bracer queued and you buy a circlet
and sell a circlet?
Does it add a circlet back in?
Yes.
He didn't add it right?
He just did it automatically?
Yeah.
He's like, you still have a gauntlet, sir.
You need the rest of this bracer, surely.
Finish your collection today.
Only 4.99 plus postage and packaging.
Yeah, it sells to Conflit as well, he's kind of missing the entire racer.
I feel like these items, the Null Towsman raceband racer, they're like those magazines you get
as a kid, right?
Where you're trying to build the wooden T-Rex.
The first edition is like, you know, 30 cents, the second edition 50 cents, but then
editions, you know, four through 20 are like 10 euros each.
You know, but you don't buy all the rest of the garbage, I just want a little bit.
He's not falling for the recipe scam, you're right, actually the recipe does give
you the least out of all the components there snowy knows that he's a smart man 400
bombs each key already at 27 minutes is a lot by the way sometimes you just have
to finish that dinosaur don't beg you beg your parents for weeks and weeks
speaking from experience did you get to die I never got to finish that to
Rex man that legitimately was such a scam when I was growing up like you
would buy you know seriously you would buy the first couple they'd be super
cheap and there would be 30, you'd have to buy 30 editions. And obviously all the cool
parts were at the start and the end. So you have like a cool start to it, a shitty middle
period where you're buying all the little bones and stuff. And then you'd get the head
at the start and a tail at the end or something.
I never got any toys as a kid. That was the fourth kid. So I got the hand me downs.
I'm the youngest one. So my toys were already well used by the time I got them. And
I had to choose some favorites.
Did you get your toys before or after the family dog fight?
They're on the same timeline.
Should we give this football to the bouncy bull to Lago?
To the father's either?
I've seen recently, I've been to my family gatherings.
My mom, the food she gives her dogs is better than I've been eating my time.
They get salmon on their meal, you know, a little bit of fish oil along with it, maybe some fresh meat along with their dog food.
Yeah, they eat good.
Are your parents looking for a new pet?
I mean, I'm available.
There's a hookshot around the TA.
Good.
Save.
She's still there.
But he's still dead.
Surrounded by hooligans, they just drop everybody on the TA's head and now fly.
They came in with that nine minute save.
save and get slain anyway. Hooligani looking very good here and going to chase it in towards
Hellscream. Murage trying to catch up to the Kotl, not quite getting there with the Empowerment
Archive so he touched the trees and TP's home. Bah, he didn't go for the coil. Should've
just licked it Murage, go for it. But yeah, still has coils, have more to go with as
well with the damage, they can easily turn him into a Roche and now we're starting
see the power spike that is Hooligani, their drafts.
That's just an unkillable lifesteal, aren't you?
That's just dealing radius damage non-stop.
3,800 health.
There we go.
Breaks through in.
Has the Gling just looking for it, looking for the steal?
Yeah, maybe they attempt to jump into the roach pit as they roll in towards them,
but Snowy already grabbed the Aegis,
infested into the dawn breaker and halfins up the high ground.
getting nothing in their attempt.
Mike Silver hits just a free ride to fountain and gonna run out again.
Back, back, back, back, back. That is exactly what they did the moment they got the Roche.
Happy with the advantage they have of course, don't want to take a big fight with BKB cooldown on Dawnbreaker.
As well as ulti cooldown of course.
And now we're in a game state where the life skiller is what, 3k?
two and a half K ahead of the
temporal assassin. He talked
about that holy trinity of
items that he got building up
the scuddy and then back to
the silver edge. He's tanking
up even more and funny ways
to deal with a tight hunter.
Yeah, he's got the scuddy,
which is obviously amazing
against the, against the
tight hunter, but this is
just going to add even more
durability. We're looking at
an already about 4000 HP
hero who has 42 armor and
ways to dispel and going
to BKB state like I'm sorry but TA is just not gonna match up against this I
know my ins and outs on this hero and late game is heavily in the favor of
Hooliganic for sure. Yeah especially when you add in a soul cure ass on a stone
breaker which is pretty close to finishing is tremendous amount of stuff
there. To their credit though Abed still doing quite well on the earth spirit
he's getting good farmies still 2,000 ahead of the puck hasn't she thus far
I'm building towards a pot stone to add more damage to the team.
Not necessarily seeing a life steal solution in it, but if they can kill everything else quickly,
they could definitely deal with Life Stealer if they outnumber him heavily.
Just keep fly alive in these long team fights, hold the grip here until the very end.
That's the way to go. VP very much going to be relying on buybacks from their support,
because we saw how quickly they get dispatched by this lifestealer, like three or four hits.
We can gobble them up. Now we need to taunt for Huligani.
And that's to get out of the tormentor that dealt quite a bit of damage to him.
And that's a shard for lifestealer as well.
This shard was actually used quite heavily for a while as an early rush item,
dealing extra damage but I don't see it as much anymore it was just like a tech
that people went for a little bit this is much more standard high-stator approach
he's going for it also it is disgusting the amount of armies picking up snowy
snowy is on a tear. Mantis-style farming illusions and like feels like not that
long ago he got the I of Scotty he has 4.5k golds building towards what
It looks like a Silver Edge, which definitely will come as a dagger straight to Cyberlight's
heart.
Look at that.
The last five minutes of farming time, right?
7k for the lifestealer.
Doubling up.
Nice.
Great stats.
Man, I love that.
That's some good stuff to look at, actually.
That sudden shift, getting these big items, well over a thousand GPM currently in the
last five minutes.
He's like really twisting the knife into VP here as the 7k lead builds up as
We got him. Tamardo's template assassin trying to get some damage from corrupted bear another little setup on a staircase
Okay, it changes my follow through
We went faster instead so so edge would have been a good choice
I think but he wants to address the TA a bit more and also have maybe a stun just to randomly kill the earth spirit or
You know some of the supports going for their be so of course next
We'll also make his infest bombs that much more dangerous.
He hops into the puck as they whistleblade to follow up on the first jump.
Very very scary stuff.
Oh, VP still have a fair amount of tools to use here if they do find themselves in
an actual teamfight.
Waiting at his ages currently though, not wanting to head into a 6 vs 5 where
her lifestealer is this massive monster with two lives so I'm kind of mirroring the map here
playing top lane just trying to find any avenues towards objectives any damage they possibly can
yeah the massive x was drawn by Sayu saying that you know they should be inhabiting this area
somewhere indeed they were but they're dipping out looks like VP are getting to safety in time
will they see them under the observe ward? Cato has been spotted
T.A. is not this part yet but will show herself on the creep wave and they're going through the gates on to the bane and straight on to fly.
Careful of hit there to get the scent of the bane.
Hell screaming a teepee away while tomato does the exact same thing but nearly got gone on by Mirage's puck.
A pretty good point.
Having a bit of a quiet game this game 0-3 and 7 doesn't look too flashy on the stats but Mirage as we go late game on puck we know what this man can do as well.
We hype up Lifestealer as this big threat as well, but Nerochonpuk, Octorine, and this, he's getting the components to be this super annoying late game hero.
Oh yeah, we're getting to a point where they have three unkillable guys, right?
Well, I was making comparisons between Hulagani and this kind of collaboration between Team Spirit and Team Falcons.
They love these tanky calls that are very difficult to either catch or kill, and then they love dragging games out to wait for this mid-game period,
where they're able to stamp their mark on a game and say okay this is ours through now one big sweeping move
And so far it's been pretty systematic for them just to come out of lane stage and take full control of the game with these big boys
Yeah, meanwhile look at VP they have to go together if they split up too much to pick off potential is insane coming out from radiance
So they're playing behind the TA trying to enable her
And observer pointing out one of the reasons we love this one break
They're playing one side of the map, getting a ton of experience.
Has the ability to solo-guiding in to help out if need be,
but it looks like Lifestealer not calling for it,
says, I'm fine to just run straight back in towards Virt Pro here.
Saberlight's gonna ravage onto the Ringmaster.
Blow up for a speck, solo-guiding spent without great use of it.
Corrupt is still getting onto our beds,
we're getting pushed around and hext up now.
Infest comes in, a lot of damage flying his way,
but they'll hop into the high ground.
a little bit longer.
Good fight so far for VP.
The Maeshu bait-outs Maltese get a kill on the ringmaster and once that saving hero is
gone it's a lot easier for them to lock onto a target and try to actually burst them.
They kept the pain alive.
The threat of the fiend's grip is there.
You don't want to lose your support and suddenly be like, oh shit, they're getting
good.
Exactly.
the end over on hula ghani
master masters respawning we can immediately jump back to it 55 to 45
don't I was still feeling very optimistic about the buyer teams chances
don't of us must be a TA and tide fan you know it gives you everything it gives
you every it's everything minus armor team fight spell
approach taking capability, tower damage. It does give you a lot. It hasn't given you
a way to deal with lifesteal yet though. Well, they're working on it, man. They're working
on it. I think the Hex on Tidehunter is a start. They're fresher to follow up. It's
going to be the continuation and then you try and change them.
He's on the clockwork, but Snowy showed up forcing the Templar's axe in all the
away from this twin gate.
If you keep bringing numbers down here,
trying to get back onto this life stealer,
they'll start with a hex into Nellifier,
but he's going to rage, turn, and bash into this Earth Spirit now.
So the garden's going to come in,
have a catch from Mirage with a coil.
Getting onto this Earth Spirit's an easy task for them.
His fly is getting blasted down
by the Starbreaker of Corruptif.
Ah, man, when he's being still going,
getting bashed up in the meantime,
Will of Wanda's going to control him up as well
as this Earth Spirit saw us and killed.
They're bringing everyone down here, but the sudden turnaround from Hulagani, where they're jumping from the park this solar god in now the chase continuing with Mirage
Haren's seeing the Templar assassin all the way back to base, Hulagani just running this game
And you see what happens right? TA runs into Leicester, and Tiffani unable to do anything at all to him
Has to get out and they use two four-staffs to reposition the TA and that put the support in a really awkward spot
Suddenly you can't do too much
And now you're just looking at your tier 3 dying.
Glyph gets used up, life to ascend delusions forward to finish the job, nothing to stop
it.
They're in a very cozy spot to just drag the game out even more as well, they don't
necessarily need to close it up just yet.
They keep working on this late item addition coming in.
Still crazy to me though, don't break a level 25.
Yeah he's strong and he's got the hammer cast range and speed talent.
With the first talent it's really really nice.
You get the extra speed to allies as well so that long range on it means you're basically
creating a highway now.
It's the dog breaker highway.
Just run along it.
Quite a time to wait for Roshan.
still a better part of a minute to go we're going to try and group up and get
ready for this and it'll be daytime brush we know
we have a full agonist to see if the consumer's well yeah just agonist
blessing coming in nice dealer ready to use ulti a little bit more and also
of course be able to hop into the TA, perhaps not get disjointed so easily.
Well this is the game-winning smoke, if I've ever seen one.
Hulagani wanting to slam the door on VP just before this next Roshan spawn,
looking for a teamfight, and his mother has shown himself made as a target.
Earth Spirit and Tite Hunter, further south.
I see what I can lead out.
And they're still smoked up as four.
And it looks like they're splitting though, with Dawnbreaker going all the way top, pushing a wave as a solar guard into connect, of course.
And that's going to be snowy, just walking straight into them with a spotlight, a hookshot missing.
Jetpack forward clock, we're trying to catch for the side device and push back out of Sableite to the Guardian Bay.
VP play the best they can under a bit of vision.
And Titan, your tank is sure, but you gotta be wary of getting caught on that stack base.
We almost need to see Slyly add a blink dagger of his own. Sure, investing and popping in is a nice thing, but...
He's so strong, if you could just get onto a target with his invisible aid, he could force the fight.
VP no, Roshan Roaring means they've got to make a move.
Alismar and Smoke.
Trigger the Roar and then don't stand in there.
Oh fuck. Oh, they've got to catch.
Is that Aion Desk? Is that enough to break free? No.
Even with a solar guard in, they cannot defend Mirage.
90 seconds without him.
Has Bioback available as they hook shot.
His life stealer is straight onto our bed.
A ton of damage needed to save to get him out of danger.
He's BKB'd up, and Roller's on cooldown,
so he's just getting munched on by the life stealer.
Around him for 80 seconds as the post did Bioback.
There's a coil catching the tide,
who launches the Ravage out,
but there's no follow-through whatsoever.
There's just nothing for VP. The TA will try and get some damage down from his high ground position.
Tomato doing what he can, but now he's left stranded.
Alone in a situation where they killed the part with dieback of Mirage happens, but Snow interrupted their onto the Templar Assassin to find Tomato now.
The TA, taken out for a hundred, Roshan belongs to Hulagani and VP just running quickly out of options.
Yeah, and that was a fight that started really well. They get burst onto the puck with a very nice
Chained silence even into the A-lon discs that is a rest. So very impressive stuff, but
Then they just find themselves in this compromised situation
You showed all your cards you revealed your hand and at the point the punishment came in who we got a jump in and
First grade getting trapped and killed there
Yeah, 9,000 damage out of this life stealer just staying alive burning everyone with a radiance
Looking at multiple lanes of barracks now.
Just going for everything, TA's dead for a minute, 40 seconds on the tide, and I think he can mega us this.
So if game one was draft problems, same problem attributed to game two?
To a degree. I mean, Dio's draft isn't bad necessarily, it just has this forced condition in this matchup.
They needed to win early, they needed to shut down lifestealer and TA needed to be a few thousand
more ahead or at least a lot of momentum ahead of the lifestealer for it to function.
TA being behind lifestealer and farm can never out carry lifestealer.
It's just how the method goes, it's not an easy method.
It's difficult now, it's snowy grabbing another Aegis, another Roshan for Hulagani
not only one lane to look at, like you play through top, trying to close this one out.
Virtus.pro 21k, net worth behind, and TA has just respawned.
We need some kind of last-ditch effort here to try and hold onto game 2.
I like the full scent on TA though. He didn't buy out the full Swift Blink,
null 5M to be like, yes, all these items, right?
Uh, he does not buy back, but I think he needed to commit and that's his understanding as well that, okay, this game is desperate.
I need to do whatever I can to get as strong as possible.
It means he's playing a risky game though.
I can't think very much.
Bunkering down in their base.
I still have a little bit of vision out there into that top jungle, but...
I don't know, there's gonna be enough to get him in a position to find.
You can see Mirage is calling for a little bit of time, but they don't get that time as the smoke comes out.
Ah, it's a fast one. This creep is not too easy to prep. Also, it's a big creep, so it's
2,000 HP after it infests.
I'm around. We'll get that a little bit of time.
Four minutes of the buyback.
Trunks finish off his BKB before this next team fight.
Pretty close to it.
Got level 25, gets the BKB before the fight, and this is going to make him much, much harder
to burst if the a on this trigger is he's gonna press BKB immediately and
other than that he's probably never gonna press this BKB basically you just
wait for with a panic moment
Axe in like nah I'm ready let's go got BKB wait for clock for 15 seconds we've
got three minutes left on his Aegis all right does have a second now at least
it's a limited time for dire to get the last pieces of the puzzle the
The axe is a good one, but again, it's very hard to guarantee anything when Ringmaster
is ready to save people.
Ringmaster?
He's got 6k golds he's saving for a hex in this game.
I did not realise the respect of that much cash right now.
Oh, it's all the carnival tickets, you know?
People are paying?
That's where the money's from.
You're all stuck on the train, yeah.
Oh, there's a heckwrap around here.
They're under corrupted.
I've run a dish damage on this bomb breaker and I just returned fire on by this coil wheel of wonder held back
When I sleep up and grip the life stealer as our bed zones for the rest of the way
Damage raining in on towards snowy thanks to tomato, but oh, that's still a brace free at half HP
Still able to get the busslet blade jump forward onto our bed as he invests into the clockwork and runs away
Nothing lost by hula garney there and as for us pro try with that initiation
Yeah, there are usually not many heroes in Dota, you can say that TA was auto-attacking
them while six-slotted for about 20 seconds, and then the hero walked away with 50% HP,
right?
That's not a very common statement, but that's what happened there.
Full sleep on him, and then a full chained fiend script, and TA auto-attacking, but
he does not care.
Don't care in the world, straight back up the high ground, and I've got a ravage
in the back, save lights made a jump here with Abeth to blow up the support, respect has gone.
Now I'm still there in the dawn break on this Earthspirit though, forcing the Ghost Scepter
in the runaways, he's been coiled and held in place, tomato back in, on the firing line
is to try and deal with corrupted but these tanky core heroes are just too much to handle.
They're literally walking into this dire base, chasing in Mirage, but he's not one of the
tanky cores, the putt goes a step too far, gets gripped and killed off as Hulagani bite off
a little bit more than they could chew, driving tier 3 tower there. Diving and using buybacks,
very costly stuff coming out from them and all of them back on, not even getting value out of the
ages, so fantastic fighting coming out by VP. They pick off the supports, I think this is the key
to success for them. They need to kill everybody else and then outnumber and outgun the lifestealer,
that's the only way they can address this hooligan-y draft.
Kind of wild, the Mirage felt that it was a free run up to high ground,
He's got BKB, he's pretty annoying, but the grip was still there from flying, I think it undone everything.
Yeah, it was back again, right? He used it earlier, but with a low cooldown coming in from the Agadam sector, I think he didn't really track that it was already back off cooldown.
Only 55 second cooldown is pretty low. Actually, I think it was level 2, so 65 seconds.
Oh, it's well done by flight. Finds that grip, finds the hold.
I thought that maybe Snowy and Corrupted could follow the park and get up there, but it was very deep from Mirage
I think they felt they'd won the game already and that's handed over a pretty tremendous swing in that worth over to VP
We still defend their top-line barracks and now fight
We'll have to fight another day
Tormenter
Respect boxing himself up with the invest to stay alive. He's trapped between a tree and a staircase
They deal with it quite well, they'll come up and heal him, don't just randomly kill
your support because he brought back, so if he died there, that would be horrible.
It would be that for a long time and it would give a massive, massive time for me to control
him out.
Yeah, I mean, BT were pretty close to contesting as well.
Yeah, they were.
Okay, Dive Plus, what you saying now?
85% over for Hula Gani.
Yeah.
I mean, I would agree that the situation is looking really, really grim, but if
VP can pull out what they did in the previous fights, you know, a repeat of that, we're getting closer.
I think they're like two or three good fights away from actually closing out the game over on the side of VP,
whereas, of course, Ulegani, they're like one good fight away, right?
Yeah.
One acceptable fight away from closing out the game either.
One fight where Lifestealer doesn't die.
Yeah, he just stays alive and hits everyone.
He didn't die last fights, but everyone else did.
The problem is he kind of needs to frontline super hard so that his team doesn't be caught out.
You're hurting 25s and some of these other heroes.
Dornbreak has had hers for a while.
Maldivash on the TA, that waning rift talent.
And we're on the puck.
Earthquake magnetizing himself.
Snowy just gonna man to jump away from that Mald attempt of Tamada.
He's hauled down to pushing waves right now to set up for this next roche.
They killed the Manta illusions, but they can come to the illusion illusions, he's going to send them to split push a little bit, put some annoying pressure up on the top lane.
They could put pressure on top with the illusions and then go as 5 into the enemy triangle.
Right now Hulgani and...
Spotlight could make it move, but maybe they feel a bit paralyzed from being on dieback timer on both their supports.
Some of their decisiveness that we have praised them for before is
Yes lacking now after that previous shake up
Yeah, I mean we have a similar situation to game one right where I posed that question of that the fine line between
Discipline and being a little bit afraid. Yeah, is it the same same situation here as well where hula ghani are just being disciplined
They're not afraid. There's no need to hit a certain timing
bit of both right now I think. You're definitely never completely secure in your situation when
you die back at 50 minutes into the game. It's a scary spot to be in. But at the same
time, late game does still work out really well for them, but BPR is trying to get some
solutions. They're getting Wind Waker over on Keeper of Light, so now he can actually
save and try and keep people alive. You know, they're in this good part of the
game where you can actually solve drafts to a big degree by itemizations. I think you're
doing the best they can to do that.
There's no way for TA to get rapier in this game. Just fill out all the other slots as
you possibly can with Agamon's Blessing and Moonshade.
I mean, oh, I bet it's a big port.
Oil Scythe, they've gripped up the bomb breaker trying to get Abbot out of there,
Saberlet in on the supports, maybe getting lots of respect with enough follow through that can kill off this ring master.
And Tamada makes sure it happens. With the rammages, they've killed him off, but now they've got to run back.
Tamada resetting around the Scotland Tidehunter trying to harass the lifestealer away.
It's up and he bought back, wanting to continue the fight around a potential Roshan spawn.
Mirage is now BKB to joint away to his orb.
Huligani on the back foot with a hero down for 90 seconds,
Virtus.Pro, they control the pit.
They do.
They win the fights on the back of a buyback from our bed,
so a little bit costly, but the ring has to go on for 80 seconds.
It's not easy to go and test this anymore.
Does that count as one of your three? Is that a fight?
Yeah, I mean, that's, yeah, it's somewhat of a fight.
It wasn't necessarily a massive result, but it's a half.
It's half.
I think in Secure the Roshan probably counts
So far unable to finish off the big man in the pit trying to chip away at him with the TA and the tide
Now looking at creeps arrive in their base though bottom lane getting shoved pretty hard just by the super creeps
Big creep wave actually don't work as all team now again
So now you have to be mindful about a clockwork in the don't break the whole deal over top
This is not an easy push to just go in and take this constantly and now you feel it, the pressure coming in on your base.
You're also missing two ravages, so a hook shot off the back of the vision given by the puck that got the disable on the life stealer.
The point to deal with Snowy is a lot coming his way. He's super low, but he's gonna life steal back up again.
He's not being killed off. They couldn't finish the job. Snowy's too strong.
The lifestealer stays alive, TA?
Orson goes back in for another round, a flurry of hits there, kills him off, Snowy's down.
The ball through and corrupted as VP are doing it, right in the Roche pit.
Hey, buyback Hellscream, out of a buyback out of Arbett earlier on to claim the Roche, get them ages on Arbett!
Fly is so happy right now, finally a fight where Dreammaster is dead so he can grip someone and as long as the grip starts, it's hard to stop it now.
With those extra illusions channeling the grip, they stopped him, they stopped one of the illusions,
but they didn't stop the final illusion, so Life Sealer dropped super low there,
and meanwhile all that was happening, TA was delaying in some serious damage.
Finally a fight where he sees some big impact coming out.
Well, TA and Tide give you everything, and everything they don't give you, bang it, the rest!
Straight up the high ground now.
Yeah, it could be really nice for a man some cheese. We know that nightmare
Their value with cheese is increasing, Derek
Alright, tell us Jeff. Yeah, it makes you really
Wriggle and writhe when you're sleepy time. I
Don't think I've ever personally had that problem. I'm a I'm a big fan of midnight snacky cheese from the fridge
Yeah, I don't get nightmares
VP are happy to go onto the high ground here as well. The damage is serious coming out from TA.
Got a level of playing field here. Top lane gone, mid lane's intermolish.
Mid is settling out of all. I think they have to put a fight to keep going bottom though.
This is where VP should probably back to be happy with their results.
They've completely equalized the situation in terms of barracks.
So, there's only a single lane, sure there's a tier 3 tower difference but basically everything
else is dead even, gold is about dead even too now, monkey and me, at this point of the
game it's anybody's.
Nothing in it, 21 to 21, all the graphs spiraling back down to that middle meeting
point.
Dead even between these two sides
VP of course the ones slightly ahead in the series one game to the good they are
Basically feeling the breadth of ti on the back of their necks
So close so close they can taste its
Ta with the agonim scepter now by the way has the ability to jump around over the map and also get the added silence onto the
Traps used to be the shard nowadays. It's on the agonim scepter
amplify damage room
That's a big one for fly to scout
Tim auto is queued up a rapier by the way in the next purchase
We'll get that they will have to focus TA really hard and she can blow up
Heroes like dawn break. We can die very fast. Actually. What do you swap out though?
And you're dropping a blink or your pike or I think
Yeah, it's kind of rough. I think you swap your vessel on this point
Okay, I like but just don't have number go up. Oh, I spent so much time
Yeah, it's tough. What rapier is a bigger damaged item than the Deso?
So it's a strict upgrade, whereas if you swap up anything else, you're losing some utility.
You don't want to lose to Nullfire, you don't want to lose to your Hurricane Pike where you blink,
MKB is necessary for the true strike, and BKB is a hard one to justify putting backpacks until you use it.
No. What? This is the big reason I never got to become a pro player.
I was very skilled, I had no ego, no arrogance, I was a great team player and I was a lovely, friendly person.
You can swap the BP.
No, I just have very strong attachments to items, so the bracer I start with, the magic
wand I'm holding, it's going to be there with me till the end of the game.
I'm not swapping items out.
If I buy something, I've bought it for life.
I was going to say that Snowy had strong attachments too, but the bracer is no longer
in his quick buy.
No!
Yeah, he's gone rid of it.
Snowy!
He lost his way.
He changed.
Oh that was his support, his support animal item.
The racer in the kekwai.
Not a lucky racer.
Not gone now.
There we are. One minute left on Aegis.
Virtus.pro have opened up the map for themselves.
Obviously taking down the two lanes of barracks and put themselves in a situation where we are approaching tier 5 neutral items.
We were waiting a long time for this qualifier to get to 60 minutes.
Now we've had a few games in Kirk's Excession, where we're getting there.
A few games that become so nerve-wracking, pro players know that this part of the game is terrifying,
because one single bad move can basically close out the game immediately.
A late game is a very scary place, and Huligani, they're looking to be the scary ones in the late game by going around.
Back, back, back, back!
A big smoke.
the tight hunter but a hook shot catches the center
don't find the go on this ties the dandelion
dandelion blocked the rocket damage so he could blink that's amazing
I thought they would get in there but yeah he's got a little barrier
protective himself unfortunately stays alive so the smoke wraparound comes to
nothing the map getting pretty small here
There's Templar Assassin bounces back into that top jungle.
They're trying to set up for something down the bottom lane.
Maybe hoping for TA to appear on one of these traps to push out a wave.
And TA building a large stack of gold right now has the moon short, has 9000 gold in her bank account,
getting ready for the rapier purchase, but doesn't have to pull the trigger on it yet.
We also want buyback money, so she needs to get to 5 digit territory.
moving track of the wisdom shrine timings as well looking at the
multiplication table yes hold up wait a second 42 and then 49 56 yeah exactly
that's why I was doing 30 seconds ago I was like hang on are they coming to
wisdom shrine no they're three minutes late that's fine
full four minutes early you never know oh babe get a flink away Mirage getting
hexed up go on to the park trying to get this chain disabled down is
I feel like Snowy, honestly, on Lifestealer, needs to change items a little bit.
He still has the faceboots, getting the blink is going to be massive for him, but I also
missed the silver edge that he was, you know, earlier queuing up.
I think it would have been better than the BKB that he did end up going for.
I know that it's easy to say now after the fact, but I think he kind of missed the potential
for a strong early capout on his items.
And yep, the Dessal has been permanently retired for the rape year.
Sad.
That's just working on neutral items, and TA could get super scary if she gets the
Stygian Desolator.
Still hope for Dessal to come back.
We won't have the numbers on it though, it won't be the same
It's like it's like when your kid's goldfish dies and you get them a new one. They know
Audacious regalia, maybe? Oh, yes. Does he go for it? Yes, give it to us. Come on. Give us. Here's Audacious Regalia
It could also go movement speed. It's fine, but you got to ship it here for damage
Which being on the life stealer there it is. Audacious Regalia
tomatoes going for it tremendous amount of damage we just have by the T8
80% magic damage per hit and then also the 20% overall damage amp while he's
hitting for 800 damage per hit right now as well before that amplification
you can think about one of their own I think I've solved the torment to kill
and hell scream grab the shard we'd be making the most of this open map they
found themselves in and hula ghani on the back foot
puck kept the catalyst huh some uh high praise for kondra's catalyst
i don't know if that was the right choice
over the divinely and over like harmonizing and stuff like that
yeah but yeah i'm not i'm not sure i'm not sold about it but
it is pretty good it does give you obviously some nice awee damage increase
spot. VP going triple bobble. Oh they're going for late game. Triple bobble. And 3, 3 witch
pains in this game as well.
There are other things to dispel off.
Dispel value against the nightmare and stuff.
Here comes your Johnny. Oh the two smoked up. One two's roast hit five. The hookshot
misses. Wheel of Wander is pretty decent there. On to Arben and Tomato. CA trying
to unload the damage onto Snowy and then we're gonna go to Grip and it's been cancelled.
Get stopped down and then just gonna bash into our beds to try and deal with the first grab.
She got healed up a touch allowing the roll away and they've lost the dorm break here as the infest comes out.
A Grip is there catching Snowy. Box will save him.
TA got hexed up momentarily. They can try and deal with Tamato here with the clockwork.
Push around with the cogs. The damage. The win rager. Save out of health screen.
Keep the Tamato alive. Get the bash in. Control up the lifestealer but still gonna die.
Rapier on the floor. Who's gonna pick it up? Nobody just yet because the lifestealer's on the run.
The buyback move, Tommado comes back in, another swing back down onto Corrupted as well with a bash connected.
Following through towards the door breaker, not a possibility though.
They're going to deal with respect on the right hand side, kill off the ringmaster who's died again.
A hookshot towards the Bane though, opens things up for Hulagani.
Looking to deal with Fly as Snowy walks back into the fight.
Deja Vu with the lifestealer now seems unstoppable, wandering into the midst of battle.
Corrupted, standing his ground, but can't deliver against Tommado.
The puck and lifestealer though, they can do the job and the tieback of Tomatoes there.
Huligani have killed the carry, Rapier on the floor, pick-back up, Sabilized dropping
and triple the snowy.
Arbed is in some serious danger now, the lifestealer really finding his stride, getting
off of this Earth spirit.
Mirage is about to die, the magnetize keeps on going and they can't contend with Arbed.
Hang on a second, is the real carry emerging for VP in the form of an Earth spirit?
64 minutes in
Magnetite never ends man, she's coming
I'm out save play
Right there he is still
There it is right below you story, go take it
Pulse the anchor down on him, infested up
Seyos makes a jump onto Arbed with a buyback of Mirage
They're trying to chase this earth spread down
But another windbreaker save by his time through the coil
To maybe roll away
Abed, always on death's bed here
So close to dying, Seyos and Snowy
They kick around, roll back up
Arbed, half HP again
Life stealing up but he's being found
their pistol blades stun through, bashed into the ground,
dead for two minutes now as Hula Gani
bring this life stealer puck back into the midst of battle.
VP down to two heroes tied and caught against the world
as life stealer finally claims the big prize
of the divine rapier.
In the craziest fight we've had in the entire qualifiers,
I didn't watch all the games on the other streams,
but holy crap, Gareth, what a team fight
we were just given.
So many things happening there,
amazing performance by both teams but I think Huligani they show a little bit more tenacity
throughout the fight their TA with a quick buyback cost her a lot as obviously losing her so quickly
meant Huligani did just have the advantage going into it.
Ike Steeler eventually comes back again.
We're 16th in that fight! I can't look!
Ah, yeah, but that's cheating. It's absolutely cheating.
Ah, still crazy.
They're gonna go on the tier fours.
They're gonna go on their consents, victory.
They know all they have to do is kill the ancient.
Well, they've got the Grip on them.
Saved by the box. Saved the light and fly.
Trying to hold onto their base.
Respect being blown up by the Tidehunter.
Drone at half HP.
Ravage spent the first time, now the second.
Bind Tidehunter to come back in.
No damage is launched on the Dawnbreaker,
much to handle. Game 2 is taken by Hulagani tying things up.
Holy crap, what a game. Amazing Gota being played by both teams here and I mean big credit to VP.
I counted it out pretty early saying that, okay, they're not going to be able to win this one.
You know, they're in a bad carry-to-carry matchup. Their draft doesn't really function that well against Lifesteal,
but this was the start of the turnaround. They get a beautiful team script from the other side.
but where Ringmaster was dead from the start of the fight and that made it
complicated for Ligani and ultimately look at TA picking off the clockwork
over on the side and goes from the next kill gets the lifestealer and goes from
one to the next managing to have this easy fight. All of it comes down to the
save if Ringmaster was there it would look completely different. I'm so glad
who Ligani showed up here in game two. A lot of worries it would just be a
2-0 sweep by VP especially after that game one showing but snowy with this
life stealer just waltzing into the fights without a care in the world protected by a mirage and
corrupted every step of the way even with all the fancy footwork of our bed and dancing in and
out of these fights buybacks the grips everything just chucked in here beautiful save there as well
onto the fiendscript nice play by respect of getting in there even after his buyback saving his
carry and uh yeah ta does drop the one-time quick buyback and she's back immediately thanks
the diagonal sector jumps in this fight was wild man getting to watch it back I'm
just staring at all
oh sure everyone dripping with sweat respect was the first one to die back
in this fight and not have a buyback to come back in so they were 45 from this
point on they have to get some quick kills on big targets and this was ever
so close that the model would be able to carry it but unfortunately it gets jumped and
does not stand well when the distance is closed.
Now Snowy doing a great job there just getting the pistol blade and the bashes to finish it off.
I took a while to finish this Earthspread off as he got himself in towards the roast pit,
magnetized, lasted what felt like forever. I think Mirage not fully understanding how it
just kept on going and dishing damage to him. They got a number of buybacks towards the tail
the game. It's not like it's
the end of that, but finishing
things off 29 to 29. Hooligan
he take game two with a 13, 3
and 15 life steal around snowy.
I feel like VP have got to keep
that in the forefront of their
minds, not just in the back of
their heads, but this life steal
a pick from Hooligan he could
come out and upset them. Yeah
for sure. Snowy look at that
kill participation as well. I
mean, most of this game was
teamfights. It wasn't very
the game. I mean, it's a
game. It's a game that's
been picked. Always a team
fight heavy hero. But yeah,
from start to finish, it's
not we played a fantastic
game. I think the only thing
I would like faults and it's
not really a fault. It's just
a different ideas that maybe
the B could be purchased.
Could have been a silver edge
to break the game earlier,
but, um, you know. That's
just a different line you
could have taken. I don't
think he played incorrectly
at any given point in this
game. Yeah, and he found
the line to victory. They
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Yeah, if you're an eagle-eyed viewer, you'll notice that I have changed shirts.
I was dripping and sweat after that game.
So, I mean, some real sick teamfights really got me going.
The adrenaline pumping, the sweat flowing.
I mean, what is it? It's 32 degrees in my room with 66% humidity.
I'm getting a little bit warm as Dota 2 is just a sweaty game in general, these teams.
I'm playing at the highest level. I'm sure they are absolutely dripping themselves.
I'm pretty sure the last teamfight in that game lasted longer than your shower did.
So definitely some tense moments coming out if you missed the previous game if you just tuned in now
Make sure do yourself a favor go back and watch game number two after this game concludes
But we are here with a final game to decide which team will qualify to TI big big stuff coming up here
When this draft is ever so important and some big respect being put on to snowy's name as well
So even though we had the center available available to be picked
They still banned the Drowranger as VP, and then Lifestealer and Juggernaut being banned out as options there, with Mirage's Puck up at the top of the ban list as well, so some heavy respect being put on to these hooligarney names.
Yeah, this is a lot of attention to the POS1 and POS2. I mean, Juggernaut not a hero that is meta right now, not a hero we have seen either.
I think they're just banning it because it's similar to the Lifestealer and how it functions and how it plays out, and they don't want Snowy to do the same thing again.
I mean, obviously Snowy could bust it out, but this is not necessarily something I expected.
Yeah, I mean, Hooligan have shown how tremendously good they are in these long duration team fights,
whether they're able to bait out BKBs or get a spell to be cast on a certain hero,
so they can then buy back and continue fighting.
That's been one of their greatest strengths is showing this mid to late game resiliency
and understanding of how to approach team fights.
first pick Ember in a qualifying final game and they're not banning the Huskar yet.
I've got to.
I mean, I hope they do.
I would feel so bad if I get all the way here only to first phase pick Ember into getting
cheese picked Huskar and then lose.
It's not even cheese at that point.
That's just, that's the standard, you know, when you countered.
I'm just not sure if Abed plays all that much Huskar.
It doesn't feel like an Albed kind of hero and yeah, looking at it, he has played five
Huskar games, all of them within the last six months actually, it looks like.
I mean, that's enough, at least he's staying updated and sharp, he's played that many
in his pro games, then definitely has practised it in his pubs as well.
I was just looking at VP to be fair, it's not his entire career.
Yeah.
And there we go with a pango and a Dark Willow now.
has looked pretty good in certain hands. Hellscream definitely one of those you can pilot the hero
tremendously well and a pangolier to go along with it against the ringmaster who has been grabbed up
yet again. Yeah, we actually have been praising Hellscream particularly on his Dark Willow how
good he is at setting up kills and how his moves have been nice. He's been going for the same
build in two games that we cast him. Right, yeah. For the travels, Yule Scepter, Blink and
goal scepter, not necessarily in that order, but those were the four key items that he built
back to back twice on this hero and it looked really annoying. He was so hard to deal with.
And then he kind of plays as a bounty hunter kind of guy, scouting in behind enemy lines,
finding people, catching them and buying a lot of time for his team to catch up while being
invincible with that item build, right? Yeah, basically being on your Shadow Realm,
your Yule, your Blink, you've got yourself some distance, you're very hard to catch.
Yeah, exactly. Very, very true. And they have some nice start of a big teamfight draft as well.
They have the center, pango and Dark Willow bring some nice teamfight spells. Hulugani at the same time.
They get the ringmaster here. We've seen have good success overall in the qualifier.
Having the save and the setup.
How does pango versus ember mid go nowadays?
still ember favoured i would say but yeah so it's a little bit surprising seeing the pangol pick
because it feels like we used to pick ember into pango saying haha gotcha but now the other way around
going in from vp it used to be a full hard counter that ember actually won quite hard against pango
i haven't played the matchup recently but not enough has changed to make me feel like it should
be pango favored at least if anything it might be an even lane now at best. The ember is still very strong.
So this feels more like picking pango for the game rather than for the lane.
And then Darkseer, clockwork. We've got the lawnmower back in effect with this iron shell on the ember
spirit. It's always very handy to have. Vacuum into some small combos nothing tremendous here
just yet but it's one of Corrupted's better heroes although we've seen a lot of Darkseer picked
into ranged and or adge carries. The carry hadn't been shown yet and then you snap out a tiny.
Yeah, tiny should be doing quite well against it. Also one of the nicer heroes to have when you play
against those spirit heroes gives you a little bit of catch. And if you get shadowblade, another
thing for ringmaster to deal with is that tiny might be shadowblading around looking for the
to pick off on him. So I don't mind a tiny pick at all.
I have like a lot of these carry tinnies, shadow blade timing, just
pop out, get some of these kills. As we ban out some of the snowy heroes again
and terror blade. I'm gonna get taken out of the game.
Bane abandoned by hula ghani, removing one of fly's options.
We've seen some do so, but I don't think she's looked particularly good in these slots, replacing
some of these turret heroes.
Yeah, they just profit in clink.
So the ones that I kind of lean towards also just instruct me as what they're going to
take.
I mean, you could see him go from more fling as well.
It's definitely a possibility.
It's one of his better heroes.
I think I'm leaning either he goes down more fling routes or
Yeah, the alternative there.
It's a little bit tricky.
So many carries are removed already.
They're like the natural go to choices.
Yeah, even banned out the murder themselves, which could have been an option.
Myra clockwork, super strong combo, but obviously not available anymore.
Luna is out there.
Yeah.
You've got last picks or you can use the full draft first.
Yeah, Luna and Morphing are both good placeholders to consider at first.
Then we have some heroes like Sven, right? Darksue Sven.
Another combo that can be played and Sven, a hero that is not necessarily meta, but definitely still playable.
We've seen it before in this tournament.
Yattaro showed up and was like, here we go, spend time, boys.
And dominated, right?
One of the strongest, like, one-man carry games
that we saw in the entire qualifiers was Yattaro on this van.
He literally carried his team on his back.
Crazy stuff.
Wins lane, outfarms enemy,
and then just dives into these teamfights.
Fly gets his Phoenix as the last pick there for Virtus Pro,
so much needed added teamfight
to now be able to play with the Centaur Stomp
and the brambles of Dark Willow. You've got an additional better teamfight behind you.
Yeah, pretty fantastic. Also disincentivizes some heroes like this, then, since they're not that
good at dealing with the egg, melee heroes in general are not that nice against it.
Fire Spirit is just very annoying in general.
Troll, Morphling, Luna, those are like three heroes to pop into my mind. Troll being at
the bottom actually of that list, but Morph, Luna both look pretty great.
Yes, it's snowy, right? He's got a pretty cool hero pool, so I'm looking at my Gyro Luna,
those kind of guys. Some of these funny ranged heroes.
Yes, or Alchemist. Ooh, we're good that way. The Alch pick up. Not a carry that we have
seen that much of lately ever since the sort of nerfs coming into the Alchemist agonist
gifting build that build was very very broken until it got nerfed and now it doesn't feel
as powerful but still an acceptable pick up hard here to burst with the tiny pick offs
as you have decent HP and if you can start regen-ing you might also just stay in the
damage from dire.
Yeah a bunch of dispells to get away from like fiery spirits and brambles and things
like that so you've got built in tools before you even have to think about buying
Mantle or VKB to already get away from some of the catch the VP has.
Does Alc still have two built in with his shard and his ult?
Uh, what do you mean? Dispels? Oh, uh, yes. Yeah, shards, the ulti dispels on the shard also gives you Dispels.
Good, good, good. Yeah, it does. However, the shard for support or for carry Alchemist is hardly ever purchased.
Yeah, it's gonna be pretty late that you get that one
Once you're six loaded you can kind of look for if you buy that or if you buy something else
This is the game. He proved you wrong first off first item shard immediate 15 minutes
Radiance in the shard it's gonna have a relic and not by the evasion instead by the shard
It's
Again, deciding game. Game 3 in a best of 3. This has been the lower bracket of the European
regional closed qualifiers on the road to TI 2026. We've already had tons of games, days,
action packed filled with a bloodbath of a qualifier already, knocking out several teams
on our way to it. We're left with four, fighting over two slots. These two teams,
VP and Hulagani already taking the distance into this game three and setting themselves up.
That's what I was going to say, soon we'll have three, but not even that.
Soon we'll have two after this series.
One of them will be qualified and one will be out.
So it all comes down to the one game to decide it.
And overall, just draft advantage.
Look, I actually don't necessarily think that there's a big difference here.
I think maybe a favor VP strapped a little bit just in terms of which one
would prefer being on but both teams have strengths it's not necessarily clear cut that one team has
the upper hand yeah both teams have pretty good laning some good stuns some saves great team fight
and lots of scaling that's so good dude i would hate to go into the final game of a qualifier
here and just have it come down to draft which i really think this won't this is going to be
about Excursion, Reed, which team is sharper at the end of the day.
Hulagani and VP, like we were saying before, all but one of their series have gone to one,
so it was already kind of in the cards that we'd have a full series here today as well.
Only the individual series that Hulagani 2 owed enjoy in was the one without the three games.
Everything else has gone the full distance.
There's some pretty long duration games as well.
Well, I think Huligani would be the ones that have handed us all these tier 5 neutral items, 60-minute plus games.
They certainly do enjoy playing that late game.
Yeah, they're a bit of a slower team, not necessarily by being completely passive, but they definitely want to build towards getting to a later stage of the game.
And we've seen why their teamfight execution is giving a good reason to drag it late.
And across all three lanes here, we're already getting some good early damage on Corrupted.
And Darkseer, we've seen plenty of times, talked about it until the cows come home.
Waiting for level 3, then waiting for level 5, you need these Iron Shoal levels.
They're build-ups, you actually can do anything.
So early day is good here for Fly to keep the pressure on.
Yeah, did some good damage, but meanwhile Clockwork trying to go and do a pull, they
just got to get stopped as they meet the creeps in the river.
And you need the force being created.
We've got three parallel images with a fourth one now as the new lane has been created.
Even an avalanche and some damage are corrupted there, forcing him back from what remains of the Dire Creepwave.
Not comfortable times early on here for Huligani, that's for sure.
And Tiny 8 and 1, having a stellar start to Mado.
That's a tricky, tricky lane to begin with.
As they get a few level ups, it will become easier for them on the side of Dark Searing Clockwork.
I eventually maybe even able to cut the creep waves.
The other lane's mid lane is looking quite even for now, 6-3 against the 8-3.
Should be favoring Ember I feel, but we'll have to check in with how they're doing.
Yeah, they might find a little way to wrinkle free of some stuff.
Marash has shown how on the run he's been with the Loddy Spirit plays.
Hell's coming through a blood grenade down the bottom but the respect juiced it and ran to safety.
He's actually looking to control the bottom rune but not in time.
Fanger will get his.
Yeah, now that...
Bring Master kind of out of the lane, still being held back as well.
Pop lane, another avalanche comes in from Tomato.
Fly with a dive forward, trying to finish the job here and corrupt it and with the fiery spirit, Fly gets first blood.
Yeah, and he's again cutting off the clockwork as well as he pulls the creeps over say who has to take the long way around
Nice start coming out from the the dire top lane
I'm quite often you know the older players in these teams become the target the whipping boy, right?
Oh, you know that they can't they can't play with the big dogs anymore
I've not got the skill or the reaction times. I fly in these past few games
We've passed a couple of series in this qualifier show and he's still got it
And his main performance even in that last losing game was still very good in terms of patience and finding his moment now in this
Laning stage getting first blood really finding the connections of these lanes as you try and shenanigans drag them around
Of course, it's gonna fly man. You know he stays sharp because he he takes care of his body
Gareth he works out a lot, you know his dad runs a Krav Maga school for God's sake this man is
obviously going to make sure to stay sharp and
Be at the peak of his career always
It's fitness, fit in all this stuff in my life.
There have been a lot of interesting scientific studies on how your reaction time is connected
to your mental or your physical fitness and you can get every advantage you can dream
of by just taking care of your body.
Yeah, it's like all of these studies saying you've got health controls, everything.
The microbial bacteria in your stomach is what gives you dreams and thoughts.
That's what controls you. Your brain doesn't do anything boys. It's the bacteria in your
tummy. That's actually you. That's why your soul isn't in your heart or your brain. It's
in your tummy.
You know what it is?
The bacteria controls you. The room is controlled by the supports. Both of them move over
grabbing these.
It's like the worms in Futurama. The fry became smart because the little worms
from that egg sandwich. Learn how to be a musician, learn how to be a scientist. It wasn't
really him. Overall, the cores are quite close in the
network right now or in the last, that I should say. Darkseer, only one who lags behind
Loba after getting first blooded up top and old treasure from Phoenix coming in.
It's not really so far, I'm sitting pretty towards the top of the last hit shot.
Fair bit of attention should be given to the Alchemist as well as we've talked a lot about the other lanes of Alchemists.
Currently getting gone on. In danger. You know he brambles into Stomp.
He seems pretty tanky though. Still holding onto Stick Charges and Salvan to top him back up.
And first bro, just trying to stamp their mark on this lane and make sure it's not comfortable for him.
Maybe get a reaction out of Hooligani.
It's a tough lane when they just keep going on you every time you come up like this.
And whenever we look top, it's just Darkseer and 1v2 and Clockwork trying to do whatever
he can outside of this natural laning stage.
It does leave the Darkseer completely alone and isolated.
Level 4, 21 last hits, getting what he can out of that top spot.
Not a simple place to be.
This could be picked for VP as well.
First game of this series where VP won was when I said that, oh, they've done
a good job shutting down Mirage.
didn't have the impact that he wanted on that mid lane and this time shutting down the off-laner of
Corrupted. Those are two players that I said before we even started the series, but they have
looked to me like the star players of Huligwani, so I can tell that VP are trying to do the best
to stop them. Exactly. Mirage is going to bottle up a haste rune though. Diagard's bot,
radiant guard's top. Unfortunately there for Mirage, able to remit over and pick up the haste
And Seir skips a D-Ward.
Back into those two on two sets up. No attempt to try and kill these midlaners.
Quite challenging to deal with a pango with roll and an ember with remnants.
You can't really gank into this mid lane.
So focus returns to the side lanes.
Alchemist has been scouted. Trying to farm some boglets.
Safe flight. Wants it for himself.
That's annoying. Really annoying for Alchemist. He needs to get to level 6. Not having the ulti feels pretty bad.
He can force them to jungle and then shove the wave from your stack as well.
Of course he will still farm decently fast, but Alchemist wants to be a fair bit ahead of the enemy carry.
And right now it's only 200 gold between them, so that's not really enough.
The way in which Saberlight does that makes the move seem simple, right?
Oh, he walked to the camp, found the Alchemist.
But you have to push your wave, set up for it,
like miss out on a couple of lane creeps,
give up what you've fought for in terms of lane standpoint.
Leaving lane to go and hunt the Alchemist
is such a wise move to make.
Well, in particular in the early game, you are so slow,
you don't have items, you don't have links,
you don't have tools, right?
So every move you want to make needs to be premeditated.
Oh, you want to go and contest this jungle,
then you need to start pushing the lane
probably 20 seconds before that.
that so you listen to keep your mind going for okay what's my next play not
just the current thing right now I'm last inning a creep but what I want to do you
know 30 seconds from now yeah save a lot ahead of the curve in that regard
I got our wisdom shrines as well no big contest or anything here kind of a
classic game three best of three situation where we're not having any
of these rushed moves no big smoke sweeping ganks to come in just yet
Everyone's settling into an extended laning stage here, not breaking things down.
Good favourite alchemist who loves to sit in this lane and just farm, push out wave, dip back to jungle.
He's accelerating pretty quickly now, Snowy.
Yes, if he can get to his radiance without getting killed off, that would be massive for him.
But I think we're going to see activation coming in with the Dominator.
Tiny's already moving through the gates.
This rotation has been spotted though.
Yeah, Raging Observer will see it all coming.
So I'm likely to lose any heroes down here, but I also don't see a way in which they can
defend the tower.
Yeah, I'm not there.
And throw some daggers at them?
I'm not gonna try.
I'm trying to try to reach whatever experience he could, but this just gives them some
go ahead to farm the other lanes.
just says okay finally I can breathe you know get some foreign for myself
corrupted for the 50th time this game is going to run away sprint backwards
usually you see the surge being used to go forward put yourself in fifth gear
he just keeps putting himself in reverse the save light gives a good
Stomp from his little cousin there.
Centaur, gonna hold back.
Huligani, you were defending there
on Commissar with a couple of heroes.
You know, he puts it in reverse.
He just wants to farm up.
And if you want to farm up,
you actually need multiple gears in reverse, Gareth.
That's what a good tractor should have.
So that's what we see.
He can walk backwards.
He can also surge backwards.
Two gears in reverse.
So that was the big joke
about World War II Italian tanks, wasn't it?
We had five reverse gears
They didn't want to go forward because they were already retreating.
Max out.
Just max out your reverse gears in your tank because you know you're going to be running away.
Listen, if I'm in a tank, I also want to have a quick way of repositioning backwards because those things get caught up efficient.
Yep.
Italian mobility was...
Mobile warfare wasn't very good.
I mean some tanks were essentially just repurposed tractors, so no wonder they would have the multiple years of reverse same thing
Let's put a crossbow on top of it. I'm actually a tank, right?
Mobile machinery with weaponry on it
It's a big stacks being made out here by Hula Gani to try and farm through with the iron shell
So at least relying on some investment there to bring the darks here back up
Man, you can tell the final qualifying V01 because both teams are pretty tight man. They're tense. You can feel it
like the players obviously are trying to play at their best ability, but this is not looking careless.
Every move is premeditated, everything has to be very constructive, and that's why we have one kill only so far.
It doesn't mean we lose some of that creativity from the leading stage, right?
We don't get any of these interesting, artistic or creative moves.
Everything's by the book. You know, it's stack at this time, smoke at this time, guard the runes at this time.
Everything is literally by the book by both these teams. Oh this move top though, but both teams
This could be big for VP. They're coming behind it all
Yeah, they're pushing town with tomato and fly I going to get on the Phoenix first with a wheel of under spent
Tomato gets the wall dropped on it as well
I've got our bad and health stream wrapping in from behind like you said
They're on respect with a rolling thunder and the dog willow's attempt
Mother comes back in with an avalanche to slay respect
trading our support for support but with the dark willow being humbled by the
cogs and mirages move they got a tremendous amount of damage in the
tie need to keep him out at bay and now Arbeth in trouble as well. Stampede is
required to get in some distance but they're going to hook shot from seyosh
catching up to Arbeth. Swashbuckling a second but he's dead before he gets a
chance to use it. VP was setting up for that ramp round
game but hooligan he just a step ahead play faster. Yeah they got that
kill so quickly the first pickoff led to a number advantage and
Unfortunately ringmaster kill took a long time to facilitate there for even the diffusal pango
I thought they would be able to burst the ringmaster quite quickly
But using the escape act full duration sitting in it, you know trying to hide away as long as he could
Very nicely done. Let's have a hooliganie
And now say you just kind of going to no man's land gonna look for a spot to TP out
Timado is in pursuit though and could reach him. Yeah, he's gonna have an action
Yeah, just about has the range on it. I catch up to this clockwork all the way back into the mines
I wonder if that's where tiny was born
Someone digging in the mines finds a sentient rock who starts speaking to the don't don't pickaxe me
Poor poor guy whoever pickaxe tiny probably didn't get a very nice retaliation there
But, um, yeah, maybe that's where it's from, that the north of the map.
Well, maybe it was like, I don't know why I keep referencing Futurama.
In my head, little poplars, poplars from Futurama just stumble into the situation,
there's a bunch of little baby things.
Hello? I don't care.
Honestly, they should do something with the mine area.
The whole, like, it looks like there should be a purpose up there in the north.
There's the whole entrance into the mine.
Like, they should add some random thing.
random thing yeah over there exactly this one it looks too purposeful a
triplet gate a third a third gate that pops up into the well yeah exactly goes
to one of the other two gates randomly you're never sure where it leads you and
pops you up somewhere on the map go tumbling down here's that's how I'm
in radiance hit by the alchemist 14th minute of the game super fast for an
alchemist but at least this is gonna accelerate his farm. Wisdom looks like
Santar is gonna grab up his own wisdom rune and there's no move to invade and
steal wisdom. And Darkseer's got himself past the hardest part of the game now
and he's barely behind the pangolier at this point. Corrupted more than
recovered from a pretty tough landing stage. Yeah everyone in fighting shape
nobody's really lagging behind including the supports are actually
pretty much neck and neck as well for their relative positions.
Saberlight just killed mid tier one with the creeps.
Yeah, it was pretty low. He's a troll, a troll with some skellies, so a lot more attention to words taking towers early coming out from BP.
Which makes sense when you're playing as an Alchemist, you don't really want to be asleep at the wheel, you want to get some damage done against him early.
Yeah, and you've got this Helm build on the center, obviously the classic stuff.
While Darkseer has opted to go a different direction, we've seen some Helm Darkseer, not this time around though.
So they've got inability to push objectives, which means Fly can stand in front of this tower,
guard the way for Tiny to arrive again.
I think if you can just keep bringing numbers up top to make sure that tier one never dies.
I think Timmado is going to be the player to look for soon, by the way.
He's going for the Shadow Blade, build the Echo Shadow Blade.
It's very classic in the current patch.
Even though his net worth is behind that of Alchemist, I think he
is more set up to get active.
Yes, the Alchemist is getting a blink dagger eventually,
but he's gone B to B before then so that's us we snowy is going to keep farming and
Tiny could make stuff happen before that moment hits
That's his moment to move
smoking up with the Phoenix
Playing it towards that bottom jungle
And give up a bit of control of the northern area on the map
Temp and Saber are the start things out. He stamped these early
But that means he gets hit by concoction and the wheel of wonder and the move from Virtus Pro wasn't to come to bottom
jungle. It was trying to hunt the dark sea on that left hand side by the ancients. Corrupted
has already slipped through the fingers though. Yeah, nicely dodged gank by the darkseer and
of course they gank down bottom successful with the ringmaster. I mean, when you bring
a whip and you're ganking a half force then you know he's half countered immediately.
And they've got the clockwork with the carrot pogs. No, they don't have the carrot pogs.
That's sad isn't it? If they had the carrot and the whip then they've got both counters
to say it's with the wrong set but still bouncing some good cognant up in
the tomato forcing a rolling thunder out his pangolier defensively not what
he's gonna run away but good stuff this is buying time desperate time for them
to keep farming away I was looking back at snow which see if he maybe goes for
the agonist after gift before buying the BKB but no it is gonna be BKB so
he's looking to join the team and be part of the fights and playing in them
Only 400 gold and you will have the beat to be ready. Of course, Blink Dagger is also pretty nice to have those. You can actually blink stun.
Very calm stuff here from Willigami. 3k lead and looking to build it with another go on Saberlight.
Concoction going to self-stun. Rocketfly comes in and sees the Centaur get back into the tree line.
model and now tiny you're right arriving in this bottom lane chemical rage halfway
through the duration struggling to keep tabs on them though radiant vision is all
over this bottom area of the map they've seen the entry points they know that
they can just walk back protect the retreat so back and forth comes down
bottom things about ganking runs in little bits turns around as it doesn't
find anything both teams are tiptoeing looking for a good
initiation for the next fight.
I'm starting to get a little bit worried for VP.
The way this is going, not shutting down the Archimests.
Dark Seers racing up that net worth board now.
Pangolier hasn't been able to connect in these teamfights.
And we've had what? Three smokeganks not pay off of VP
into that top jungle, bottom jungle.
Now going for another one.
A four man move.
Sable at yet again being dangled in front of Hulagani,
but this time in the mid lane.
Mike gives them a move here with Tomato walking right into a rage in the center.
Mirage protected by the clockwork who shot in with God's pushback will have won the hypnotized tiny dies to Mirage
Hula Gane again with his setup not just dodging the gank but meeting it head on and winning it
Fantastic data sentry ready. They were in position and they target down and kill the tiny immediately so good
I mean, this is this is actually very impressive from Hula Gane
These early fights are usually their weakness. They are we've been saying they're a little bit slow on the team
They don't necessarily look for too many fights early, but here they meet the fight head-on
That's not often we see perfection, but it has been a very crisp
First 20 minutes of play here from hula ghani
Now finally getting their hands on some of these early objectives
You know, there's money waiting in the bank. T1 tower gonna be claimed as Dr. Plus says it is exactly 5050
Oh, then a little shift 5347
anyone's game
Corrupted gonna gather up the farm down south wanting to kill off the helm creep
But save light brings the actual hero in to protect that dark troll summoner
Smoking and connecting from the gates. Hell's going miss time to smoke break
He's in position, but he doesn't have any of those defensive items and fly here getting chain disabled needs to supernova in the middle
Of cars when he gets feared before he can press any buttons
Now with a stampede to safety VP getting a bit of distance trying to get across the gap away from mirage
Ember Spirit, very speedy though with this.
A surgeon on shell, trying to fake pump out a central stump.
Wall gets dropped with a wheel of wonder.
Sableye's gonna keep walking back behind his tier 1 tower,
but they've got a vacuum drag into the whip crack.
Sableye healed up a touch, but...
and just keep on following through.
Box up the Ember Spirit,
I've been forced to defensive roll and run away yet again.
VP fully on the back foot.
7k down.
Huligani really looking good here in game 3.
Yeah, we could be like one fight away from VP being in a spot where you can hardly even recover. It's looking pretty rough early on
7k lead. I mean, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but this is a tough start to the final in qualifying game
Tormentor might be lost as well because of these fights
And I'm thinking about next round of items like a VP even building the tools they need to deal with this alchemist
Yeah, that's the problem. They don't have a hero going to spirit vessel
Normally, I like seeing someone just say, you know what? I'll do it. I'll buy a spear vest.
Crap, that was close respects.
But he got close to the ringmaster, he gets out 20 HP.
Calculated. Yeah, he did the math. And boy, is he good at math.
Yeah, you're right. The solar crest being done is nice. More DPS coming in, solar buffing up your tiny could be some fast damage.
with this little wrench that they have as well.
But I see some big power spikes coming up on the radiant horizon as well.
They have the pipe already and Shivas is not super far away for the Darkseer,
who had a horrible start, but now has fully recovered.
Oh, big time. Yeah, I mean he's gonna leapfrog over the center,
catch up to the Ember Spirit and Darkseer,
very good at absorbing a lot of farm on the map from a safe position.
I'm just looking again at these Dire Heroes.
They're quite linear in their itemization.
So I like the fact that
Tamada's Tiny has shifted away from the expectations of getting an early blink
Which we've seen from a lot of these carry tiniest going straight echo silvredge
So it can actually offer some this early game damage output, which is desperately required
Oh, you need it
You saw what happened to him when the smoke tanked in and he got caught up
He was just stunned and stunned and stunned he needs some foreign protection and that protection is a DKB
And then we have Pango is always going to go, Blink the fuselblade Aghanim Scepter.
The Centaur is pretty much always going to go this helm into heart.
So you kind of know the timing, says Hulagani, of when VP is strong.
It's very obvious in Telegraph when they want to fight.
And then I jump out at mid lane, get this and the Spirit away from the Rolling Thunder
attempt.
That's what?
Four in a row from Abed which have done literally nothing.
Yeah, these rolling thunders have not been it and to the credit of Hulgani, good position and good reactions.
He saves coming out from respect. He already has his blink on Ringmaster, so he can be a menace at just keeping Google safe as well.
And a wolf. A wolf killed in that top jungle.
Dyer, very limited vision right now. Only one observed in that southern jungle, which kind of protects Saber-Lite.
But they're just watching their mid tower die, snowy sets up to kill off the next creep wave.
Inverters pro gathered up on that right hand side of the map, trying to get what farm they can.
But you just relinquish control of everything else to an alchemist's darkseer side.
They're just sponges?
Yeah. It's looking a little bit tough for VP. They're not able to activate their timing.
they're tiny even though he has tried he's made moves he's joined for the smoke he joined for the
gate play earlier but they haven't really been able to punish the early game of alchemist where the
hero is pretty inactive and just wants to farm and now we're getting to this sort of mid game where
Radiant have a big gold advantage doesn't necessarily mean the game is by any means over though
Dire have good scaling into late game very nice teamfight heroes so Huligani still have to
to be cautious about how they take the fights.
Flying, getting a moment to farm, and a moment of calm, and get some time to sit on that
top lane.
Now Scream with a bit of ward coverage in that jungle as well.
Under some radiant sentries though, a snowy scan by his side to make sure he can continue
farming this advanced position.
Of course Seir is going to come forward with an immediate de-ward.
Both teams kind of moving in on the top area, Saberlight farming what could have been a dangerous part of the map.
But I think Kuligani got their eyes on Roche instead of taking over the top.
Oh, it's nice to take Roche when it's about 40 seconds until it will move,
because if your opponents are not ready for it, you might be in the wrong spot of the map, and that's the case here.
I think they have to basically punch it soon and take some fights but with the ages on the alchemists, it's hard to decide to just go for it.
and fight outside your base right now so
I think I defend the towers at least
Especially with that Blankon ringmaster right because he is the guy you got to go on you've got to find his ring somehow
Him being able to reposition in tree lines and in fog makes VP's life a living hell
Because if you start on anyone else it's box into hook shot into vacuum combo
Yeah, we've seen those
Respect qualities have been on point to the wheel of wonders have been beautifully placed repeatedly. So
And though he's not a ringmaster spammer judging by his silver tier on the hero, he definitely plays it really well.
I set up for tier 2.
Samara's Tiny is waddling over, trying to get up here.
Join the rest of the team.
If you have this bit of high ground vision to play under as well, but I don't imagine Hulagani are going to advance that far forward.
forward. They've set up their bunker here with Alchemist on the front line, four heroes
sat behind them and his killer tier two and then shift in towards mid.
Yeah, Power Un, controlling at least one of the runes to VP. We'll spawn down bottom,
unfortunately just an Invisory, which usually feels like a lackluster find when you're looking
for some help for winning a teamfight. It's kind of a whatever rune.
So I have an interesting spin on the story of this game, like what's happening
here and what feels extra tough for EPS. Not necessarily about the net worth on the course
or the ganks working or not, I'm actually looking towards Hellscream. We praised how Hellscream,
you know, once he gets his items, he's great at setting up, he makes these plays on Willow,
but he's currently down in the bottom by a pretty big margin in terms of gold. And
he's about to get Bling Dagger, sure? But this is very, very different from what
we normally have seen from him on his Willow, and that could hurt his mid game.
Yeah, he did, I mean, he's picked this hero to play it a certain way.
If you don't get the items that allow you to do that, it's a bit of a dead weight.
I've found Sableite.
He's got the Stampede, but I'm not sure even that's enough to slip away from here.
He's got a Lotus Wall up.
Trynna dispel off what he can for the concoctions of the land.
Sayosh is here with some cogs to push back in towards Alchemist.
And Sableite has no friends.
He is left surrounded alone down in this bottom right-hand corner.
Not a single friend.
Well he had one friend, it was a tomato. He was very dear to him and he tanked a hookshot for him, but unfortunately
After that his dukes were gone. He tried best he could to survive, but all he can do is create space for his team
Look in for him a little bit. He was screaming for tomato to help him and all he got was a tomato
He's got his fake tomato puppet
There is Tomato.
The Aghanem's on Pangolir is completely flying out into the courier right now.
It's another one of those power spikes because really when you die you start making moves
with the power that they have, the timings they get, they just timing out in two minutes
so maybe that is the exact moment to strike.
What did Tomato spend BKB on?
I didn't see it.
It's getting warm in here.
going crazy there down to eight seconds yeah I didn't see when he clicked it
actually oh maybe just testing that it works either way it's on cooldown for a
little bit longer as you lose it but does it still work just again I'm trying
to ask again yesterday to figure out figure out if you can keep on going
amplified damage from Mirage one tier two remaining in that middle lane it has
really just been a systematic from hula ghani going from one lane to another
finding Pickoff into Pickoff, Snowy, he's on top of Arbed, swashbuckles to high ground though and
that's the distance he needed and still gonna give him the spotlight. Right on top of this,
Pangalir with a wheel of wonder and the damage from range, Ember Spirit gives it to him. Snowy's
Alchemist very far forward and Tomatoes blown up respect, an advanced aggressive move here from
Hulagani getting cut in half by a Virtus Pro and maybe a chance for them to bite back. Arbed,
Still on the run. Another concoction and a vacuum back in is going to come out here.
Eventually finding the target they started on.
They got a counter kill at least and that counter kill was worth almost as much gold
as the kill on the Pangolier. So a decent payday coming in for Tiny who needs every bit of the
gold he can get.
And now in a position to do so split pushing while the pressure is on mid.
Man finally hitting the 32 tower. Bring it down to lay half health
But then you're forced away just by a mirage showing his face in that top lane
Meanwhile, tier two mid gone demolished by snowy
Oh gawd he feels like they
Need to commit very little to do these moves compared to vp who need to bring all five
A big news scarith the alchemist bought shard before uh six slots. Oh, he sold it again
He's got another piece of it again. So it's not coming out. It's a bait
It wasn't his stash for a second and then he was like hold up. I'm sorry
What is this bullshit? Why are you getting all excited? I've got big news the thing you said is happening. I'm just kidding loser
Isn't it the thought that counts Karen? No, I hate that I hate that saying so much
It's just I the intention behind it's no no, it's not it's not action is really secondary to the general
spirit of the person behind it? No. Clockwork, gonna get jumped on some fried tomato, throws
the tree at him to finish off the job. No wagga. No. I would, I would, genuinely, I would
rather receive a, hey happy birthday, how you doing? Then get another stupid sweater or
I don't know, another mug. I have enough mugs. I have enough clothes and socks. I
don't need physical objects. It's not the thought that counts as what you got
Oh, mister, don't brag about all the fancy gifts you're getting there with most of these
winners.
Yeah, all your socks.
Okay, I get it.
Stop feeding into consumerism.
No more birthday cards and anniversary cards.
Time to put the Silver Edge just leave it on.
Straight onto the air, but he's got a real wonder behind him.
The damage comes in so quickly, but the box is there to save him.
Five at a time for him to PKB and chemical range.
Run away and Amaraj can come in.
They have taken down respect, helps him straight it out, Alchemist still being chased by Abed.
He can be expiring, but it's a stroke of the follow through.
Tomato getting stuck in the mud further in the back of the fight, and Snowy blinks aggressively in.
Vacuum wall under three, corrupted as a rive, shows up his combo, Abed and Fly, they both died.
Concoction landing on the safe light now, and Hulagani sweep through the fight.
Tiny nowhere to be seen.
seen and Huligani bring everybody here and swarm around the Alchemist but it all starts
with the save of respect.
They're so damn good dude, Huligani are actually so good at playing together.
I'm beyond impressed with what I've seen this qualifier overall from them.
They really do look like a top level team with how they play into each other.
They're never really out of position with someone respect.
Was there in time to save?
And even just the chain save right?
the box then the surge and of course the counter play of just going on to whoever pursues him
and VP they sure they have too much too many heroes committed to burst somebody who ultimately just
keeps kiting them
I think the story is just you need to get on respect you have to find them
I'm always surprised that teams aren't trying to pick like some form of vision giver
to find the backline and jump them
more of the spectre, you know, the spectre carry to punish the supports, yeah, I guess
that's kind of health cream and armor job right, it's like getting to backlands and
find them, but I feel like Abed has had such a difficult game, it hasn't been the
best performance, he's been forced to defensively use his rolling thunder like five times
this game. I think Pulegani have just been like two steps ahead in terms of
reading the map as well. Like so many of the ganks they've made have been
counterplayed before they even happened. The smoke group's just red, save the lights.
Should be fine here.
Stamby's away this time.
That's the Lotus.
He's been concocted and wheeled, turns around with his BKB but the box saves.
The ringmaster, the whole shop sales is here!
from long range to cancel the TP. Hooligani right place, right time. Get off the tomato,
find the carrier VP. Snowy gathers up another name. 17K lead, 15-6. Hooligani here are shrieking
as they shine gold and dropping coins out of that top bar. Mirage tanking his top lane.
Ah, I don't know. Can you kill him here? He's going to burn him with a sunray. He's
going to slide and dodge remnant off the safety. Supernova's been spent for that.
This BKB Ember spirit just jumps over Hellscream to kill him off and now with the egg landing
Mirage comes back in for another round of skirmishing, fighting in the fly, concoction landing from
Snowy, Phoenix second away from dying, all they need is another jump onto the Phoenix
to finish him off, the daggers they get dodged, they've missed but the whip will not.
Oh my god, 20,000 lead every single step of the way to get out of Outplayed.
You know it's one thing to not be able to kill an Ember but they turn it around
He goes aggressive, kills off the enemy using the Agadamts they get gifted by Alchemist to maximum potential.
So much damage with the ulti flying back and forth over them.
And a beauty of a vacuum again coming up from Corrupted.
Straight to high ground.
Rochant Banner, tier 3 tower.
Snowy doing the damage to the buildings.
As Virtus Pro, without their tiny for 10 seconds still.
Look at it, it's like everything.
And say, cutting the trees slow, making the most out of his time, opening up to make sure
he doesn't get surprised by anyone in the bubble war.
And with that full eye of Scotty on this Ember, I mean that's nasty, he's so tanky at this stage.
just his first life that's only the ages and you spent pretty much everything to deal with it
i do think they have to back out because the push they have is melee and without bkb and alchemist
they don't want to walk up on the racks again and put themselves in danger but fantastic damage
done bkb and dire straits 24k gold behind it's not a hundred percent as bad as it sounds because
there's an alchemist and he has this sort of fake net worth inflation value to him where
It's like being maybe 17,000 gold behind in a normal game, but it's pretty bad that 95 to 5
Flyers gonna get away from a hookshot attempt out of Sayosh, but this game
Very quickly got out of the hands of verse pro
He needs to start seeing timato and albed stepping up and just dealing the damage
We have say we like to use this massive tank on the front line. He he has to pipe
He has to heart. He has to lotus orb, but he will not be killing anything
I think he's saying right now as well like you guys need to find a coordination to burst something, you know catch the ringmaster out
And now already the ringmaster he's breaking at the combo breakers here
He's not gonna be so easy to kill. Yeah, good luck finding him
Again, we've been singing their praises so much respect positioning
You know he's tree into the forward positioning the clockwork the scouting the ringmaster the hiding the trees and the patience
with a positioning to save his teammates.
I think Hulagani have found these rules to set in place a system which allows them to protect their cores
through information gathering or from safety nets.
Yeah, 100%. And even Mirage, honestly, the Ember plays extremely similarly to the Puk.
You know, zoom around in the teamfights, kind of dive in, dive out, provide vision and be generally annoying.
It's very, very similar playstyle between those two heroes as well.
Now you're under the boot of this Alchemist. Vp in their base, hiding and cowering.
Full up-diss of Blade on the Alchemist as well, so getting some way to lock down and hold in place, the Pangorid Tiny, if he gets onto them.
Now, I feel like this may be a little risky.
The Sun-Centaur moveouts, they're hunting for him.
They're hunting for him, but we're doing this before there's any, you know, Roshan or big objective to go and take.
We're doing this to kill Sableite and maybe go up high ground and defeat the base.
And say oh, she's gonna get a bit of vision there over on the Sableite.
He's got the Hoechop to cancel the TP, so Centaur surrounded on all sides.
Sableite's gonna get found here. No chance of survival.
Tamato immediately out of the base to push away.
TP know they're in a scramble here, a mad move to try and hold on because Mirage
look at him, dives all the way across the map. He was top,
in top left corner a second ago and that was on fly killing the phoenix
oh they did that hooliganies wilding that they're feeling themselves
yeah that i don't think fly saw that one coming not in a hundred years would you expect to be killed
back quickly after a topgank
very nice moves by hooliganian they're gonna try and use this timing as well 40 and 30 seconds
ah go on buy back a dang it give us a win condition that's what we want
One buy back out of fly but a few man chains with a move in to Marder and Frostback from Mirage as a BKB.
Double buy.
Nice perfectly fine.
Double buy used up.
They've got it.
Barracks killed.
Virtus Pro spend a lot.
Don't get a lot.
And now Ruligani just a softly set.
Walk back down the staircase.
Hold this formation.
See if VP come out.
Dang ding dong get from the VP base.
Really really impressive stuff.
I mean VP, they're smoking up.
walking up. This is the desperation tool. They need to do something.
I think they can jump.
Oh, he doesn't find the catch.
Sivillite whiffs.
And now Sivillite's out in the open.
Snow is gonna blink forward with the concoction.
The Sentor who bought back moments ago is about to die back now.
Virtus. Trog and they save him. Will they save him?
The vacuum in. Sivillite's gonna break free.
The Supernote was well placed, but the right-clicks coming in quickly.
Down it goes to respect.
Mirage has fallen low to health scream in the meantime.
Fies back immediately. A snap decision to get into this dive base.
Snow is gone towards a tiny tomato, no BKB, no blink, no silver edge, tomato, no life, no buyback either!
Virtus.Pro have no carry!
Hellscream's getting burst and by Mirage as well, the dagrin the back of this...
...poor little Dark Willow, slain by the Ember Spirit as Huligani looked to close this one out.
No life, no buyback, and I don't think there will be any TI either as Huligani looking absolutely unstoppable at this point.
26,000 leads, and they're catching save light.
Another girl on him, the Centaur.
He's got a loaded sword, he's got a heart, he's tanky and annoying,
reflecting some spells and bouncing them back, but he's been pummeled.
Taken out of the game, 100 seconds without him,
and Virtus Pro on the verge of being knocked out.
Who in the garden, he on the verge of qualifying for TI?
Looking at this final line of barracks,
getting themselves mega creeps.
The underdog story through the open qualifier.
Lookin' incredible here in Game 3!
What a run they've had as long, but...
I mean, they're... they're about to close it up.
30 seconds for the Tiny Center.
80 seconds, they're not calling it yet,
but I don't think they can stop it.
They might not have time!
10 scumming outs!
That's it, the Bing Bong Man.
Water waste, dead for 70 seconds.
They've got a glyph.
20 for Tiny.
Dark Willow, Phoenix, Pangolier.
What can they do here?
Corrupted says absolutely nothing backing you in your own fountain drop the wall on your heads
Oh, they rolls in but snow in Mirage are focusing the throne tiny in five
I'm just dropping Centaur and 50 they dive in with flies Phoenix trying to do what they can tomorrow
Will avalanche toss tiny combo down, but there it is GG grads
G holy god, I get a shot
For storm queue says respects
I'm not sure exactly what their
differences, but yeah, they
sure did him proud. It's 880
and 10 on the alchemist in his
final game. It was a hero that
was going to work out for them,
but, wow, impressive stuff corrupted
dropping the is Vinicius on
them, saying he's sorry. Taking
that slot away from verse pro the
expectations crumble and hula
Gani the victory for them. Look
That's Cyberleaf, a little hurrah!
Well-deserving of that qualification slot, and a victory here against VP.
That's so deserved. They have definitely shown themselves throughout this qualifier, looks like a team.
This first move already here, reading the smoke tank, standing in good position,
coming with everybody, bringing down Tiny, stopped VP dead in their tracks,
and they kept doing that every step of the way.
They were one step ahead reading these moves,
and when you just secure Free Farm and protect your carry,
and have these fantastic reads on the map,
you set yourself up for a fantastic mid-game,
and VP on the other hand, you pointed out,
he didn't get any good pango roll in the early game.
Abed, you know, stellar player as he may be,
was not able to pop off in this game.
No, he wasn't.
Yeah, that early pango pick dealt with a little bit
by the Ember Spirit, dealt with by the positioning
and the map control that Huligani had.
Like, the big moment for me was that,
move into the Raiden Outpost,
where they had set up the ringmaster with a sentry,
Tiny walks in, gets zoned out by the Cogs.
That was what really set the dynamic of the game.
VPs moves all got shut down, and Hulagana just kept bringing in wave after wave
a reaction of numbers to defend their teammates.
And this ringmaster hero, we've really got a key-bys on him heading into TI.
Yeah, 100%. The value he brings, not only in the save, but also in the turnaround place,
the Wheel of Wonder. I mean, it is the dark carnival event right now,
it is the dark carnival in this qualifier ring master has been absolutely owning uh can have a look at
the overall stats there as mentioned earlier the eight zero and ten on alchemy's played a perfect
game mirage got to pop off six one and seventeen on as ember and even corrupted had a bad early game
came back and had some absolutely massive vacuums over and over we didn't even have time to call
them all out but so many three or four man vacuums as well. I put out some some great team
fight. Moves there as that darks here. Mirage, 37,000 hero damage, 96% kill participation.
Some spectacular stuff from these first pick heroes, right? It's so bold picking first pick
Ember, Puck, not getting countered, not getting dealt with. And yeah, again, we come back to
this pango pick. What if that had been a Huskar? What if Abed was comfortable on Huskar,
and they were able to bring it out here in a game three? It could have been a completely
different game. Could have been,
would have been, should have been,
but ultimately this is what did happen.
We had the Huligani absolutely owning and VP.
Unfortunately, we're not going to be seeing them at TI,
but I'm excited to see Huligani.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we'll try and get them on the line
as quickly as possible, get an interview with them,
but maybe we can take a look at the journey we've had so far.
Of course, there's another series coming up later on
to find that final slot,
but we've already had a couple of teams qualify,
the team spirit and team vision at the top of that bracket,
getting their 2-1 victories, Virtus Pro of course got dropped down here as we got into the Elimination Zone.
I mean, some some upsets already dropping out, you know, Team Bald losing to Power Rangers,
we lost them, Mao's getting toured by Na'Vi, then Na'Vi getting knocked down by Hula Gane,
just this chain effect of Hula Gane's run down his lower bracket being the Grim Reaper's.
Yeah, the Grim Reaper is right actually, taking down both Na'Vi and VP, that's just
They've shown themselves to be a powerhouse here and nobody really expected it.
I didn't expect it. They dropped in the first round in the upper bracket,
but they went on that lower bracket tear and took down one after another,
just leveling up and getting stronger, like Highlander.
Yeah, I mean, they lost to Power Rangers early on in that 2-1,
but from there on out, they were an open qualifier team,
knocking out closed qualifier invited teams, looking very, very good.
very good. Spectacular stuff.
You know, every single player on this team as well.
You know, I don't think there's a single guy on the Hulagani side
where we say that they underperformed or anything like that.
Everyone was having stellar performances
and it just felt like this well-created system.
You know, everyone's following the algorithm.
They've all got themselves on the same page
where they've got this mind-meld understanding
of where they need to be at the same time.
Sick stuff, honestly.
It's sad to see VP go, you know, a star-studded roster,
But having some new blood out there and getting this hooligan inside the TI, great signs.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, that's also what makes me happy watching them because this
hasn't been about like one team that just looked a little bit sharper in
terms of individual skill or they've been practicing a lot in pubs.
No, they really do look cohesive.
Every single time we see a fight starting out, there's a plan.
There's, you know, a line that they follow and they play it together.
So really beautiful.
I do think that what you mentioned earlier, the ringmaster was a sort
the glue that tied together a lot of their teamfights there. But I can't wait to see what more strats we're
going to see at them. A TI is going to be awesome and will be hyped. But at the same time, credit
to VP, they got this far. They did take a game off against Team Vision up in the upper bracket as
well. They were so close, but just fell on the finish line. Yeah. And this was a roster formed
like three months ago. I mean, not even that. They've had Corrupted come in here quite recently
So it's not a team that's been
around playing together for a
super long time. Uh, as as one
roster, they brought player from
here player from there made this
stack over on hula ghani. It's
looked very, very good. They've
had a core of couple players that
have stuck together but bringing
in new guys and then making a
long lower bracket run. It still
shows how strong that core is
how strong that system is if
they're able to bring people
in. Really, I keep making
comparisons to Falcons in
spirit and when I first did
when I first did it, I felt a little bit weird, you know, I'm reaching a little bit here, but I
really do feel that there are elements to these STA teams being brought into the fold by Hulagani.
Yeah, I mean, it's always obviously a big thing to be compared to such Titans, but now that you have
made it to TI yourself, you know, these players, they've earned the right to be compared at least,
and we'll see if they're going to be able to, you know, earn the right of taking down some
teams at TI. They already have blood on their hands, Garrett, taking out these teams that
we usually see at TI. These are staple names that should be at TI, but all right. But no, not this
time. Yeah, that's the thing, right? With the way these qualifiers work, you look at some of the
other regions, you think, okay, there's one slot, there's maybe one or two teams that can make it
through. Maybe it's a little simpler to figure out who that big team is that's going to make it
towards TI. With Europe, it was kind of up in the air. Four slots,
two of the slots got taken by spirit and vision as expected but those two lower slots
were definitely open to being sniped by one of these new upstart squads and here we have
the exact story unfolding and maybe maybe signed to things to come if yellow and submarine versus
new McGarney goes that way because of some got some more upset swagger we could I wonder
I'm sitting here thinking having to have to look through the regions but I wonder if uh
hooligani might have one of the most impressive takedown you know tracker
consider of the teams that qualified so far, like taking down both VP and Navi that is pretty
serious because Navi is no push over team as well even though they dropped out in the previous
series. Yeah, so I'll have to look at the other region. So it's very possible that Hulagani have
the most impressive qualification so far in terms of just who they took out. Yeah, there's also
the big thing as well right where you know everyone says you know Europe is the most
competitive region and that's where a lot of the idea is being bred and disseminated
teams. You think about some
of these other tournaments
where, you know, as an
example, Reconyx, you know,
qualifies through Southeast
Asian qualifiers, gets to a
big event, and then they go
16th. They've not been able
to play against some of these
big squads and kind of learn
and develop themselves. A
qualifier like this is the
learning is the development
that is already hooligani
getting through the meat
grinder, going through the
gauntlet and showing, okay,
we are Hercules at the end.
We've defeated all of the
nasty stuff that's being
thrown our way. Now we
can go and save the world.
Yeah, and they've also played
also played as much Dota as you almost couldn't in the small fire because keep in mind they've
gone almost full series every single time. They've missed out only on one single game
I believe in that regard and they also went into lower bracket immediately which means
they have more games to play than had they won in the upper bracket the way Team Vision.
Team Vision, you know, they came in here 2-0, 2-0, 2-1, alright we're done. That's
it for us. Meanwhile Hulikani, they went 1-2 so they dropped down. Then 2-1, then
two and zero, two and one, two and one. That's a lot of door that's lame.
They went the full distance, kind of wild stuff, honestly, and doing it in their own style, right?
So often we see some of these teams copying other teams, just, oh, that's what Team Spirit are doing.
That's what Team Vision are doing. We're going to copy their drafts and do their own thing.
Huligani showing that they can pick their first pick part, their first pick draft,
their first pick ember and then develop their draft from there and having their own style
and their own system as being beautiful stuff. As I believe we've got the coach
of Hylikani on the line ready for an interview. First off, congratulations getting your qualification
slot to TI. Incredible stuff. You guys must be ecstatic. What's the vibe like in the teamhouse?
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it's really excited for a lot of us. For me, it's first TI as a coach,
and for some players like first TI. No, my captain's low. It's like one year player
on competitive series team, and now he's going for TI. It's like amazing.
So how long have you been coaching these boys?
I'm coaching from start of the season, but like we had another roster, we did like completely
changed almost all players, only respect left from start of season.
So basically we just took four new guys and in these two months like we work hard like
two months.
once and we did a pretty good job, like the start of the squad was really hard, if you
saw our games, but we always believed that we can beat, we can pass them, like I can
say we played a lot of games, pro, mouse, navi, so it's possible to do it, so I feel
like we just wanted more than anyone, you know, like young blood, more than anyone
You look hungry.
You look like a great team that just plays very cohesively as well.
Like you obviously have all your players on the same page.
So really impressive to see how you guys have bonded as players.
That's super impressive.
I wanted to ask you, Choswan,
which moment of this tournament felt like the most stressful part?
Was it this final series or was it the Navi series that we had before?
Because the Navi series,
it felt like they figured you out a little bit there in one of the games.
but then you came back. Talk us through what was the toughest moment for you guys?
I think the toughest moment was the game against Chiggy Bombone, to be honest, because we lost
the first game. We came to the serious with the thoughts that we must win. We must win,
like no way we should lose. We lost game one, it was super stressful, second was our draft
and the third game was super hard, like in each stand up, our pity died, and we come back 4 vs 5 on our throne.
And then we got thrown as a beer, yeah, it was that game, it was most stressful.
And like I feel after that game, we talk about the excess, we talk about, like, it's nothing we can lose here,
it's like all other games, now we're gonna be more pressure, we're stronger, we're gonna be more pressure,
because we already showed that we are a kind team.
And the next game, after we played against the Joy Boys,
we won super easily.
It's like two games full control, and after that, it was zero stress.
To be honest, yesterday we lost against Na'Vi MAP 2,
and we just say, yeah, it's all tough, nothing bad happened, let's go.
It's kind of the same today.
We came first game, they prepared an ideal strategy,
we underestimated Centaur, the master,
And like we game finished and we just said, yeah, it's a draft, like what we can do sometimes
is happen for new teams, that you can just lose draft, then it's normal, you know, it's
all about how we go.
That's actually funny that you mentioned because, yeah, that's something we said in
the draft here, right?
Yeah, like even brought teams.
That's, if you lose on drafts, it's not so stressful, right?
If you lose on play, it feels way worse.
Yeah, yeah, like first game, we just was absolutely confident we lost on drafts,
Like we picked this Earth Spirit because the hero become meta but it's not our comfort for sure for now.
Like my player played 2-3 games, you know, and we like, yeah, heroing, but let's play in the end, you know,
so like, I'm not even playing here, you know, it's like draw, stomp, stomp, underlord, hard lane, play,
and like Earth Spirit, 3 games, like, what to do? It's nice and to play.
I have a personal question to you, since, you know, obviously we've been watching and following the players a lot,
but it's not so often we get to talk to the coach as well and ask you.
So I want to ask you how does it feel to coach this team?
Does it feel more stressful for you to be a coach than a player?
Or what's one thing that stood out to you in this journey?
To be honest, it's not stressful.
It's like fun because for me, it's like first my professional team as main coach.
I was before like for two years, I was an analyst and then
assistant coach for any single night.
And for me, it's my first season and I came to see him, we talked about our goal, being
10 years.
I said, okay, yes, let's work for one year and see how it goes.
So for this year, I would say I feel stressed.
I mean, only when we start to win in third game, I feel stressed, you know, because
I start to understand that we're in the same clothes and I was like, no way we
will win.
I didn't say that, you know, no way we will lose it.
So here I feel no stress, because I'm most experienced here,
overall, and people trust me, people trust my ideas.
We have a super good atmosphere.
It's like, we all can be on the same page,
and this is how I like my power.
We're just a good team, I would say.
Yeah, a big massive congrats from us
to both you and your team.
Well done, man.
And I hope that you guys get some time off now
to celebrate. Have a good one and stay hydrated in the heat.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Yeah, thank you, guys.
Thanks for joining us.
Bye-bye.
Congrats again.
Great stuff.
Air popping out first tour.
Go straight to TI games and analysts
before coaching this with the Garnyside,
though, straight into the International 2026,
directly through that lower bracket,
and only feeling stressed towards the tail end of it.
But there we go.
And we've got ourselves one slot remaining.
Willigani take one of the four along with Spirit and Team Vision, but there's one series remaining to round out these TI qualifiers.
The European region and TI qualifiers are going to come to a close with Yellow Submarine vs. Nigga Galaxy as Owen and Lacoste will be taking you through it after this break.
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I think for anyone that has been watching them so far through the qualifiers, they would have
known that there was always going to be those doubts because they did kind of consistently
have these games where it just felt that it wasn't all there, something wasn't working.
So unfortunately for VP, but indeed very exciting to see this lineup of Hulagani
at TI.
Now, we've got to find out who's going to be joining them.
He's going to be that fourth and final teams move through from the European regional qualifiers to TI the game has started
We'll be able to jump into the draft
Nick McGalaxy, of course the team that I believe you all at home will be pretty
Pretty fairly familiar with some big names of course the male Lauren off divide and Omar and GH
They're up against jealous of marine and I wouldn't blame you if you said well
I'd be pixel who are these players cemetery Shigetsu rain Hakota bat yuck
It did. They are a lot newer names or names that been at least around in the tier two tier three scene never really kind of made a breakthrough
But I'll tell you what this is not going to be a walk-in. I don't think it's going to be a walk in the park for Nigma galaxy
Yellow submarine the cost they're pretty good. They look good. They look very very good
I got to say especially in a serious yesterday the rain he completely popped off on ember spirit
He had some really good performances on his ember spirit on pango the other day
but yesterday Invoker and Ember spirit that completely out of control single-handedly pretty much winning the game and
I don't know this quad they they look very strong. They look cohesive
They in terms of draft said their drafts look good. They know how to make a comeback. Maybe you're gonna be see
Mistake here and there more than compared to Nigma Galaxy which Nigma Galaxy definitely gonna try to punish
But yeah, this this squad is really good and unfortunately, we're gonna have to say goodbye to one of these teams
We're not gonna be seeing them at the eye and then my galaxy opening it up with the loan druid and immediate response
She gets you he's gonna get the hands on his window on his draw ranger
All right, I'm now apologies again production if they already bought it up
But can we okay? Can we bring up the loan druid stats? So yeah, try as we say
been picked and banned a lot when rates been kind of in the mid but still felt good and
indeed there we go. 59 bans on the loan druid. One pick did lose that game. In fact, you know
I remember it now. It was Nigma Galaxy right that actually led it through and showed that
they could defeat it. I'm pretty sure unless I'm mixing the teams up. I think it was
Nigma Galaxy left in. Either way this time it's Nigma Galaxy picking the loan druid.
they're getting the chance to pick it up. Now obviously with as many bands as this
hero is getting, Lacoste, what does this say to you? Do you think it is, is it crazy to
leave Lone Druid in the pool or you think it doesn't necessarily have to be
banned all the time and it can be beat? It, this hero can be beat. It's not as
strong as it was a couple of months ago with the recent changes. The hero is
bitable. It's just a super strong laner. A lot of the times you see this
hero, but get out of control. His agonist scepter is still the same. This is the thing
that I thought we were going to see getting fixed by fixed. I already think it's a bit
of broken, a bit of a broken concept where you don't need to play the game. Like you
don't need to be there with the hero. You're never going to die. So we try to balance
it out to run the bear. Still feels a little bit OP, in my opinion, where you could
just go for this type of a play where you're never committing and buying a little
bit more time it got there but I still feel the hero does quite a lot of things
and as an off laner myself I just hate the play against this hero that there
isn't a hero in the lane that can eat Lone Druid like especially if he's
paired up with some super strong let's say Lich Lone Druid good luck I like you
could try to pull Lich is also gonna try to ruin you a little bit the
blood grenade that he gets the frost no on you pulls you in very difficult matchup overall
so i want to see how they're going to be able to approach this massive problem that has been thrown
at them one thing i'll have to say though which is if you're one of the reasons why it's going to
be interesting to see this linger it is i imagine i'll see linger it's going to be some mail right
because you don't really play this in any other position other than carry right yeah maybe there
there's a chance that Lorinov plays it.
I don't think that's his specialty,
but him being the ultimate mercenary in the Dota scene,
this guy hasn't been on a team for a really long time,
but he played for like six different organizations
and different tournaments in the last half a year or something.
So I'm pretty sure that he needed to learn
how to play that hero,
because a lot of the teams wanted to have
the flex available.
I'm having a look.
And again, obviously we don't have up to date
pub records on these pros, neither of them really play it. Or at least if they do, it's
all very recent in scrims, in pubs, because historically, some male, he's not a lone Druid
player. And if he started playing it recently on his main, he would have had the last recorded
game I see is back in 2024. So like nearly two years ago, he had 46 games on the hero,
39% win rate which rate you know it's a long time ago it's in the past so I
obviously assume indeed they've done a lot of prep and playing in scrims and on
you know some of recent pub games but yeah historically this is not a hero
they really go with in terms of competitive he played it like once in
2017 then once in 2020 and then once in 2024 so I'm very excited to see what
happens. Yeah, technically he's been playing the hero for 10 years. He just hasn't been playing it
many times at all. There's only six recorded official games from Sumail on Lone Druid.
So I can't wait to see this. This is, you know, if Sumail is indeed playing the Lone Druid carry
in this game and comes out with a banger performance, he has been cooking. And he's
been cooking somewhere that nobody else has been able to get a whiff of a scent of. This is
going to be a pretty impressive thing. Yeah, he trained this in Area 51. It's like nobody knows
the season occurrence here and there, but nothing has been confirmed. So that's how I
feel. His laundry. Big fan of these two supports though. Tusk plus Ringmaster. I think there was
a Dream League season 27-ish when these two supports were kind of the strongest supports
in the meta, especially together having a double saving support, which does allow you
to play super aggressive. They can take care of each other. Bane, one of the best, if not
the best position five at the moment, doesn't get completely countered by this ringmaster.
So I was thinking about Batrider potentially coming out for the Q. This is something that he does
play because I already said that the lane is going to be strong. You're playing against
Laundruid no matter what he's paired up with. It's going to feel very awkward for you
to try to lane, to try to match his farm. So the only way to play the lane is pretty much to go
and try to creep skip, stack the jungle, and that's how you're going to be getting the farm.
So Batrider is a perfect example for it. Even though they have a little bit of flexibility,
if they want to run this Batrider position 4, Pango is also flexible between 2 and 3,
but most likely this is going to be an off-lane Batrider.
The
Never galaxy gonna go with a viper
Put something very nice and strong and likely into that mid matchup
Against the panga I would imagine right that's why that's being picked up here
Yeah, what we're on a team I
Piper's good against pretty much all of these heroes not so much against the draw ranger
I would say it could be devised actually hero
They could be all still have a flex. Yeah, because they have the potentially task to be played with viper
It's a super strong lane. You can actually get the block on the draw ranger and get the kill
But it also
Allows mid-match up to be one just by having a viper
So I want to see how yellow submarine is gonna approach. I feel like there's a lot of these
Toxic problems that Nigma Galaxy did throw at them with the low and druid with viper. These are not the
that heroes that we are seeing quite often.
Final Bands from Nigma Galaxy,
just trying to make sure they don't get caught out
by some surprise here in the mid-match up,
I have seen, I've only got one tinker game,
but definitely something that can surprise you.
Final Bands from Nigma Galaxy,
is he gonna be the nature's prophet?
That's a little bit surprising, right?
unless you do some sort of strat with some offlane or mid or support
I think it could be mid nature's prophet
he does well against Viper because Viper doesn't feel well with these treants
and then you can also gank the side lanes try to outnumber Lone Druid
get the kill
pretty good ban
I gotta say I don't know if they have any information from the scrims
but looking at what they've been playing so far
Rain hasn't really played it
And if they want to have a support as their last pick,
I see Batrider.
So they're thinking probably that this Spangles Offlane
Batrider's position four.
Now, I'm trying to figure it out.
If there is a better position four
that they could run and then run this Batrider as an Offlane.
Could you run a Grim 4?
Or do you not like Grim Bane as a duo?
supports
I would be maybe okay with
There aren't really that many melee position force in the meta they already have tusk, so that's a bit of an issue. Oh
Okay, that's good. I mean this is this is nasty coming out from nigma galaxy. Okay, the vi and nigma
So he was wants to pull the lane back is gonna work nicely against the draw ranger
you have tusk. This is the old school lane, one of the best laning partners except for maybe back
in the days when Tiny was played as a position 4. Very strong duo. It's also something that Bane
doesn't like to play into because he doesn't deal well with summons. He doesn't deal well with tusk,
something like Galaxy. I do kind of like their draft so far. It is a very good scaling,
very strong in the laning. Like just by having these heroes, I feel like they're winning three
lanes. Yeah, I just, the big question mark is the lone druid not because of the
hero just because again I can't seem to find any data again I'm not a stat guy
so I'm probably missing something huge but at least from what I could see this
is a surprising hero for them indeed if it is some males considering he has he
just kept it hidden and unless I know some of you lads and ladies at home
watch a lot of the high-level pubs maybe you've seen him play in the
pubs but it's just a rare one so it's going to be very exciting to see what they do with it.
Yellow Submarine final pick for them. We'll show us indeed where about the bat is going.
It's going to be an Earth spirit and we do like that one for Rain. We have seen his Earth
spirit look fantastic. If it's going to be the mid maybe it's going to be a support we will
hold on to that thought but if it is mid it's Rain speaking with confidence there saying
and put me against the Viper, I don't care.
I'm still gonna have a great game.
And he has had many great games, right?
Rain on his air spray, it's one of his best.
Absolutely, he did dominate some of the games
that he did play on AirSpirit,
and we can see the smile he is setting down
instead of his coach, ready to go.
And I feel like this type of a hero
who doesn't necessarily need the lane,
you can actually make action in the other lanes
to make sure that you're punishing the lanes.
Because a lot of the times you see Viper,
maybe some teams are going to be picking this. I'm like Windrangers made.
They're going to be picking Sniper, something that can keep the distance.
Nature's Prophet Band was really good from Nigma Galaxy.
But this time around, it's a melee hero.
It's a melee hero that can run away,
so you're not going to be stacking as many poisons as you would like to.
And can get out of these tricky situations for free.
Plus, also he can gank the side lanes. He can be the one active.
It's pretty similar to what the Primal Beast does from a mid lane,
where he can't lane, he's better hero when it comes down to creepscaping, but he's also
very good at ganking the side lanes.
So I like the Earth Spirit pick, but I also think that they have a lot of issues that
they need to fix because I'm looking at Nigma Galaxy's draft and three of their lanes are
just to me, one by default, you have this super strong Task and Nigma, a bit of a
forgotten combo.
Not many people are willing to play Nigma at the moment that you have Lone Druid
with the ring master you're not winning that land longer is going to have a
complete free farm
and learn off on a white bird as well against the male a hero matchup
he's gonna be able to free farm as much as he wants
yet is there anything the air spirit has that kind of allows him to get through
the lane is a male a hero
okay against the white or is nothing about it okay and you're you're gonna
have a bad time
i wanna see if he may be decides to go for some kind of a pool to find a
tower, drag it, uh, yeah, drag the creep wave into the camp and then try to farm both of them
because Viper is a bit of a sluggish hero. He doesn't move as quickly, can't really punish this type of a play.
Well, let's see. A little bit of a pause here, but we are getting ready to get into the action
Office game one nigma galaxy versus yellow submarine and
Yeah, just the I imagine in terms of the draft probably be the idea that
Yellow submarine will I well, we're gonna leave the loans rooting because they don't play it and then some males like well actually
Yes
Yeah, yeah, they're like, oh they picked out a hero
Again, understandable why they would think that they weren't going to play our Nigma
Galaxy.
So Mael's only played it six times competitively in the many, many years that he's played
competitive Dota.
And it hasn't looked great, but again, that's all in the past.
The long, long past.
This is a new Samael, and we'll see what he can bring us on the loan through it
at a time where this hero is one of the strongest, at least considered in these
pro games, one of the strongest carries in the game.
As you say definitely for the lane show so we should we should get to see early signs of what some hours go cooking
Yeah, yeah, first couple of waves. We'll see how no no
You know who needs to be locked in
Thank you. Yeah, we saw her performance on the off lane pangol one of the most farm probably the most
He had an insane amount of farm some treads wand
Agarim set their defuser blade 60 minutes in and I think he had almost enough gold to buy Blink Dagger at the time
So pretty crazy cemetery
Scouting him out does have boots of speed so he's gonna be fine Agarim not gonna hit
That's alright. Just you know one of us getting more buttons, you know exactly
It's it's it's beginning beginning of the series does it by spells next time
I'll see even if they did it then probably would have not been a kill
kind of hard to get the bat in that situation. Jeff from Yellowson Brains, the bat is definitely
the one to watch and am rain on this Earth Spirit. If he comes out of the lane with like
a decent start, he's going to do some magical stuff. Again, for anyone that's not been catching
Yellowson Brains, rain on his Earth Spirit has absolutely destroyed teams. So he will
will be quite the concern for Nigma Galaxy. They'll have to keep tabs of the progress of
this Earth Spirit this game. And obviously, Lornoff will be doing his best to try and make
the Earth Spirit's life as nasty as possible in this mid-lane matchup.
He also does have Blood Grenade on Earth Spirit already, and he has another Blood Grenade
in his Quick Buy, meaning that he wants to play aggressive, maybe try to go for
a play where he gets a kill and then he dies because it is going to be a lot
of stacking going on. Reign, that's the lane to look out for six boys and stacks already.
Doesn't look fun at all. It is the thing, right? I don't know when it's going to become okay to play,
but obviously Yellow Submarine, they chose the pain. Reign chose the pain. He picked the
usperer into this fight, but he was signing up for it. He was not afraid, so D, whilst the early
levels might look tough yeah it was always going to ask him like right now
how do you feel right now if you could pause the game and ask him like was
this a mistake considering that he is not having that good of a time right now
bringing healing salvo go back to full HP diaper isn't good amount of may I
hear but does have two mangoes to work with
So then they say they need to tower
And in terms of the lanes as you say you expect all of them to be strong
So what this top lane for for divide on the enigma and what this is just something that a draw and a bane really struggled to deal with early
Yeah, this is something that Bane doesn't really deal well with you can see that he is sending out idolans on top of Bane
Hukoda can't really do much one of the few position fives that don't really deal
well with any kind of summons you see these silencers these veins it's very
easy to punish them that's why we're seeing good amount of lichen in this
patch. Omar needs to be slightly careful here. Let's have a healing south. You're
seeing that quite a lot. A lot of position fours, fives immediately bring
that healing south making sure that they are not out of the fight for a
long time because if you keep eating the tangos it's not going to be
enough it takes way too long rain how's he doing in the mid lane seven and oh
Viper does have seven denies
I was not terrible
you know he's getting some last hits I definitely see the melee hero fair a
lot worse than this so rain finding something but will indeed be a slow
start that's on the levels
But, of course, the upside of being the silo sprayer, as opposed to the Viper, it's going
to be much easier for Rain to be very mobile up and down the path.
That's a rough one.
He did kick the boulder and both of the creeps, both of the range creeps, were in
the 9 range.
Just collecting the XP for now, but not getting that much XP, considering that Viper
has 13 denies. That was a level difference looking like it's, probably with these creeps
it's going to be at least half the level. And Bant and she already for low enough in
these three minutes. And definitely looking to be what you said. You know all three lanes,
the CS in looking pretty nice here for Nygma Galaxy top. Divide could be in trouble.
Gonna try and get aggressive onto the Enigma, they'll take him out. First bluff that
she gets to they're gonna find Omar on top of it so getting the two kills on that top lane
What went wrong there for me guys because I imagine this is something that shouldn't really happen right with with this
Yeah, I think I think I need it to be level three for this kind of a plate because the damage increases
Significantly, I don't want damage goes from 16 to 28. That's a tall increase and if you have six idol on
That's a lot like I think they get double kill if he is level three
You don't care too much about the magic resistances that they have, but they're going on immediately
getting initiated on.
Or if he dies here without TP, this is very rough.
He's dead again.
This lane, he was having great farming, has gone kind of 100 to 0 in a few seconds, it
feels like.
This is not good news for Nick McGalaxy's off lane.
Oh, a mistake that turns into another mistake, not respecting the amount of damage that
draw ranger can do and also having mine this is a bit of a different build from
ground rangers what we're usually seeing this is double rate that's trading to
trends it's not falcon blade that she is she does have extra bit of a moose
is it another one? another kill for this my goodness this top lane that cost this
honestly probably couldn't be going worse for nigma galaxy this is not
great I mean we were talking about mid not being not great not terrible but
The this looks pretty terrible. Yeah divide completely jungling right now
Doesn't want to show in the lane up until the pointer the lane is gonna be pushed
Bottom cemetery
You will go down so some out
He's gonna find himself and there we go. Yeah, all right
This is the confirmation that we needed we were focusing on the other lanes because there was so much going on
time. Seen mid. Emma has to come across to keep going off fine here. Her code is to come
up with the rotation. Oh yeah, because everything that's going on elsewhere is now having a complete
free farm on the safe land as the loan drew it. And on top of that now getting that
kill. The free farm and the goldlead is going to be massive for Shugetsu in terms of the
difference between him and the cause. Plus 500 already five minutes in because of those
two kills that he's ever getting involved in. There is top laner. Very scary place for
anyone to turn up to over in the river. Looking for G8 cemetery. Nothing else to throw out
on towards. And then Lawrenoff, he's got a Viper Strike in the ready. Cemetery is
He's gonna go for the TP out, Snowball's not gonna connect in time, so, Cemetery will be able to tank the Viper Strike and get out.
Nicely done, immediately keeping out, knowing that they have no vision.
NGH also using quite a lot of mana there.
One 75 mana for both spells, not getting the connection, slightly off the mark.
But as you said, she gets it. He's in the top lane, level 6 right now in Brawl Ranger with two raid bans,
making sure that he is keeping the distance. I really like this build.
It gave them a kill, it gave them another kill and completely pushed out Koniguma out of the lane
and going for the hurricane pike. Because he wants to keep the distance away, it's great against Tusk, you can't be blocked off
We saw Invoker yesterday, it was Rain who did pick it up, how much value he got from the item. And this one is probably the best item you can buy early on.
It's going to look to mess around with them around the Western.
That's a mile with him, and Batyuk doesn't quite have the six.
Oh, Paul from Reign, the Reign comes in with a rotation, straight on towards Samal.
Samal's in trouble.
They will bring down the bat, but it costs him out his life.
Snowball will have it towards Batyuk.
He'll swashbuckle.
Get the rolling thunder off now that he's hit the six, so Batyuk, he's going
to be fine.
Omar won't be able to whip the rolling thunder.
comes in, finishes him off, gets the double kill, and Reign, he was able to finish off the job and get G8, so
trying for a bit of a risky move there coming over to the wisdom, and Yellow Submarine they deal with, Nygma Galaxy, and push him back.
I also think this fight is different, if Smeil has a point in true form, you see, I mean he was level 6 prior to this,
you get 10 armor against Pango, it's super effective, and you get extra 500 HP.
I think they win that fight if he has point in true form and then but you can get the group back to these
Smaller items he did have belt or giant strength. He did have an extra branch which does make a difference when it comes down to tankiness
in the galaxy
With the lane setup that they did have they were supposed to win
All of their lanes, but never really happened some really nice moves and also maybe not respecting rotation that could come out from the earth spirits
Yeah, I mean, this is the thing...
What?
I thought it was going to get a bit of a nasty surprise there, lowering off an IMO, waiting
on the high ground for him.
Yeah, I had to double check.
Mingo Galaxy, they didn't play against Earthspirit yet in the Clollifiers.
Oh, really?
Because we have seen a bit here and there, but none of their serials?
Yeah.
No, they haven't played against it.
Maybe, underestimating what the hero can do, I'm pretty sure that they wash
replays but also it's a bit of a newer trend that people did start to pick up in the qualifiers.
Top lane. She gets to continue to go uninterrupted. It's a male, they're looking for him.
And we get the silence in the slow, it's a little bit too much of a dive or maybe it is
It is, and Batyok still wants to go.
Zim up the rolling thunder.
TP back up coming in to help Sumail out,
but they've got back up as well on Yellow Summary.
Shigezu turns up.
Sumail has to run.
The bear, it's going to die, and that will kill Sumail.
Lorinoff also in trouble as he's surrounded under the tower.
He'll bring a couple of heroes down with him, Lorinoff,
but it's gonna be four dead on Nigma Galaxy.
And it actually moves there through the twin gate
from Shigezu, and just realizing
they could just dive the laundry at this point,
bringing the numbers and punishing my galaxy hot there in the safe lane.
Even with the true form this time, it looked like he was going to survive,
but it wasn't enough thinking that she gets it. He makes the move.
He's more than eight out of 11 kills.
The Vi not ready to join with the rest of the team and didn't have enough men
at the TP and use the black hole.
I mean, with him TPing in with no boots of speed or anything.
He's just a free food, but needs to have quite a lot of men up because
you are relatively mana dependent early on.
You are spamming up your spells.
Black Hole also pretty expensive.
300 mana for it.
Immediately to the light, he understands
like I need something.
Need some kind of mana regen, bring the clarity.
I see one Null Telisman in his quick buy.
Yellow Submarine, that's why we said it might not
be the easiest matchup for Nigma Galaxy.
Absolutely not, yeah.
These guys have given us some very impressive showings
on the run so far and the qualifiers.
So Nigma Galaxy, as you can see,
with the challenge today on this final step towards the international.
To top, not really a place where Divine G.H. can get aggressive.
I've got the three of the Maneuveraim ready, they are bringing in more Nygma Galaxy,
both Lorinov and Omar, looking to join top.
So if they can get their hands on anyone from Yolo-submarine, it seems like they know something
is up.
She gets to immediately goes back.
The smoke, not really doing much, but it's a portion of the galaxy, level 5, you would
definitely love to have that Wheel of Wonder available.
They just can't get their hands on anyone.
No submarine up.
Holding back.
GH is trying to see if he can get some sort of catch on to Cemetery, but Yellow's got
a T to be smart about that.
This is a lot of time from Nigma Galaxy up in it.
It is.
They haven't managed to find anything and now Rain, lowest network core, except
for Nigma, GH, he's going to drop.
Got a respect TP rotate from rain level nine on him having spirits vessel having arcane room in the bottle
In the next few minutes it might not look very
Happy place for Nigma Galaxy rain
Wait what unless they can land some wheel of wonder unless they can land a black hole into two three people
Otherwise it does look pretty grim for them
We're talking about some of these lineups slowly brewing in terms of when they're going to be able to explode
And this earth spirit they're gonna smoke up they want to use this opportunity
With your camera and find a big kill. Oh, yeah
Because that's the thing at the moment sure
Lower off is still ahead on the gold
But in terms of what the Viper offers in that position compared to the South spirit
You probably got a favor what the South spirit can do right?
He's going to be able to get the setup there with the help of Hakoda's fiend script onto GH, another kill here for the mid-air spirit, 3-0-4 after laning against the Lorinalf Viper.
Now Rain very much showing why he had the confidence to pick that up into a matchup that maybe other us spirit players wouldn't dare to do.
Yeah, it did a lot, managed to get some nice ganks going, managed to secure the Reign Rune for his teammates on the side, didn't even pick it up.
Why? Continues to farm up, does have a blink bagger, he was toying with the idea of maybe getting something else, but does have a blink, does have a shard and a BKB in his quick buy.
There are multiple ways of stopping his BKB black hole from going off, however.
fiends grip being one of the biggest one, lasso, if he doesn't use it on himself, rain, still looking for something, but yook with the first about to fuse the blade, rolling thunder is available
That's tier one. Going down.
Nice and early to the push, which you get, so Lauren will be able to get the deny at least.
Limits some of the gains there for Yellowson Marine.
And then, so, for Nygma Galaxy, I feel like it's
because it's literally banned like every game, we just do not get to see Lone Druid
again recently.
What are sort of the timings that Samel's going to be looking for? Like, when does,
obviously not the main era, because that's just kind of what it does, the bear is the one that's turning up, but when does the bear
to start to turn up with the team.
I think he needs to play with the team, otherwise they don't have the damage,
because of course they're pretty lackluster in terms of how much damage they can deal.
So is Enigma.
Viper needs some kind of a setup, it's not a playmaking hero by any means.
So probably going to wait until they make a move and then he's going to join.
Mjolnir is finished, it's a lot of procs, it's coming on the courier.
Also this might be a really stupid question, but again I'm going to blame it on the fact we don't see a lot of lane druid.
Is this how you do it? You don't put the items on the bear you keep them on the hero
This is what I've seen from recently on the law okay
So far so good Samara is getting a very good pace of farm
Because is there a point where he's gonna put the items on the bear?
I owe you you do that when he has the agonist. I guess when he picks up the axe
Yeah, that's the only other stuff that I'm a bear split. Yeah
But for now, I imagine we could you have slightly higher tax be run in here, right?
So you're getting faster, faster, faster, faster.
Yeah, double sandwich pretty much.
You know, there's the wheel down.
They're isolated on the other side.
Oh, Rainey's gonna roll over straight away towards Omar.
Uh, get the lasso off.
We'll kill Cemetery, but the Fiendscript's there to lock down GH.
So GH and Omar likely to both fall.
So, two for one.
Favouring the other submarine.
Now, look towards the cutters, try to turn up to the fight, but the rolling thunder comes
in, Lauren off, should be able to help a little bit, but he's caught by this very nice angle
off bat, yuck, with the rolling thunder, device turned up, and they'll use that to
just get out. They respect the fact that the niggas there, they don't want to get
caught in the black hole, so yellow submarine, they'll fall back when they see all three
of the niggas the galaxy's cause show.
A bit of a weird angle because they got, as I said, like sandwiched in between them and
then they made a move, the smoke broke, so they had to take the fight and the rest of
the Magalaxy, they were unable to connect.
You'll get to see the Vi getting involved with his black hole.
Blinks in, it's Magpulse, that's about it, sure, he's bling daggers as well.
I'm off.
Our brain's going to go on this. Rolls in.
Another Viper Strike thrown down his way.
They'll drop the Black Hole as well. Make sure the brain can't escape.
A high value kill and no worries dropping a Black Hole for that.
It's a difficult game for Divide to get off a good Black Hole in a teamfight
with the amount of interrupts they have before he has to BKB.
So just using that, make sure that they get the kill on the Earth Spirit.
He thought he was tanky enough with regeneration room,
but against wiper against enigma with the black hole who I think it's a correct choice to use it there
get it out of the system for now show that you're gonna also you want to be able to use it to grab the kill
and now I think there is a chance that they go for Roshan because they have the damage unless they want to get a pick off first
he's high level, level 14 on this pango
He's higher level than anyone on Nygma Galaxy.
That's pretty crazy.
I mean, last time he was doing it in the gold, this time he was doing it in the XP.
I just feel like the top of the charts.
Okay, he's always doing something there on his pangote.
This looks very, very good.
And into the pit they go, this will very likely not be interrupted by Nygma Galaxy.
and the Sabrina and the Freedom to take us.
And it's on pulldown for making use of this opportunity.
That's a 15 fighting Elkie.
Shugetsu, we'll pick it up.
So far, pretty perfect game for Shugetsu.
He was all over the place, dominating that lane,
joining in some of these engagements,
playing with the team, going through the twin gates,
backstabbing, going to the mid lane,
securing that tower.
It did get denied, but showing how well he understands
where he needs to be.
And also itemization-wise, I already
praise it now getting the mental style great against the Viper great against
Malafis these daggers route for cemetery looking very dead there to the
push on the island's I should get so we'll be able to turn up and get a quick
plus a hundred down the turn not going away empty handed there the other
submarine agonies done for back you up in terms of the agonies for some
male just a thousand gold off the point booster and he'll have that
This is where the fun starts. You don't have to play Dota. You can just be anywhere on the map, farming with the hero with the closest camp to your safe spot on the map, and the bear is gonna do the rest.
I think that's a close start here between the teams. Only one cake or difference, but as
you were saying earlier, it definitely feels much more like Yellow Submariner in a position
to find a team fight that could really blow that lead open.
They're on the hunt.
Let's just see what they find down here.
And now I'm prepared.
Nygma Galaxy R for this sort of play.
Avoiding it pretty nicely, Nygma Galaxy, completely out of this area.
So it looks like this time it's going to be Yellow Submarine, ending up having their time wasted with the smoke.
They can at least turn into a Tormentor.
Sweeping the area, making sure no one was around, didn't find a kill, but they will find a Tormentor soon.
And the day does not get put to waste, they get themselves to shard.
It's going to go the way of Cemetery.
two supports with like relatively bad shards. It's not being crazy. Bane has Reinsap. It's
cool but it's not a plop. You're not going to be pushing out the waves or anything to
like. You're really not getting the value other than compared to some like higher tier
shards that you could be getting into a position for.
Right.
I'm going to drop the ulti.
It has to do so to try and stop the Zerspire from chasing him down with these rocks
and will at least live for it. Stop him from being able to chase on and continue
to keep the magnetized guy. And now some health. All the items are on the bear. He is
ready to go. So this is where we start to see the lunge
through the lunge through the stuff. Let's see if Yellowstone can deal with this.
Yeah, the question is can you punish it? Baparar being one of the better heroes to
hunt them down on the side I would say. Emission Earthriff, it needs time. It's
that damage over time, not something that you want to be getting. I also think once
she gets who picks up his shadow blade that's going to be the time when he can
also try to hunt down the bear play with one extra support and be able to kill
it because damage from the draw ranger it gets pretty nuts level 16 holding the
ages from another minute and a half they will definitely love to grab a fight
especially with pet yukes fresh to pot agonim scepters still haven't seen it
in action and this guy just farms so fast he almost has another blink
there he almost has another item just finish off that agonims getting a
online on yellow submarine some health gets the tower here we go all wisdoms
available you can get the wisdom oh you didn't want it I guess you just didn't
think it was still be there yeah probably 50 seconds has been a minute and
Leah looks like a teammate the color they need him to come out part of the
midland they're gonna get the jump once you get soup should be able to take the
out of his hands. We'll catch him with the fairs and the once divide. Doesn't need to
drop the black hole yet. It's just going to be the iceberg going down.
And that's ready for Matthew. And she gets through. He's going to get a nice
gust on towards them. Keeping the bear held back. The bear chased him forward.
The fiend's grip comes in from Okota. We'll lock down some male's bear so that
she gets to continue to run. Cemetery will get denied by a neutral creep.
The rest of Yellow Submarine continue to try and get out of there. Some male
finds the route onto Hakoda's as Hakoda will fall, GH is still hunting to see if he could
find Shigezu, but Shigezu are able to make it back to the safety of the base and Nigma
Galaxy striking hard into that Aegis not afraid to take the fight and they take it well. Sure
they don't get the, draw the next time round off the Aegis, but they get the three heroes
they're able to take there, Nigma Galaxy. And also baiting some of the spells, Bane
forced to use Teamstrip on the bear, not something that you want to be seeing in a fight, even
though he is the most farm hero in the game, all of that network in the center around
the summit bear, not the hero. But still, it shows how well they managed to take that
fight, especially Enigma, not even using the Black Hole. I think that's the big one.
For the next fight, the Vi is going to have BKB available. Even though there
are abilities that go through debuff immunity, I think the fight is going to be pretty
chaotic it needs to be Hakoda who stops the black hole because I don't think
cemetery on Batrider is going to be able to do it
brief pause there headset I'm up
we're definitely getting quite the treat of a game already I always love to
see a game at 23 or 20 minute mark was still less than one kickoff between them
That's what we like to see. It's all going to kick off here soon between these two. Everyone
is getting to make the start. I mean in all seriousness, would you say as well with these
two drafts in this position, both teams are indeed kind of okay. There's not like a line
up that needed to be further ahead or a line up that hasn't been punished for the
greed. Like, would you say it's 50-50 or do you think someone is kind of getting
away with something that they might have been punished for in these five minutes?
I think with the draft, I did favor heavily what Nigma Galaxy does have.
I think they misplayed in the lanes, Nile submarine overperforming as well.
The stop lane kind of dumpstered them.
It got out of control pretty quickly.
One of the reasons why they were able to do so much in the first 15-20 minutes.
But Nigma Galaxy managed to stabilize.
And any lineup with the lone druid, Nigma, it's going to be able to scale.
Supports not going to be scaling as much because both of these are defensive supports
They are gonna be keeping the distance compared to maybe Batrider who's gonna start to scale slightly more
With the items that he's getting becoming like a semi-core another core
40-50 minutes into the game if he manages to get the good farm without dying
Getting the BKB for himself getting agonim set term maybe for the double pool and the Earth spirit
But it's a strong hero, but it's not a hero that wants to be just sitting there and farming.
So I feel like it's on Yellow Submarine to try to make a move while Nigma Galaxy, they're
totally fine with just sitting, farming, waiting until maybe Yellow Submarine makes a move and
then counter-reacting to that because they also have two defensive supports, which are
not very good at setting things up.
Nader is enigma, Nader is Viper.
So right now they're pretty chilling, they're just waiting until Yellow Submarine makes
a move.
What should we build this game at the moment queued up by Rain on his Earth Spirit?
It's going to be this BKB straight into Bloodstone.
Where do you sort of see Bloodstone at the moment?
Do you think Xyme is pretty strong?
Do you think it's underbore, overbore?
Where would you sort of put Bloodstone right now?
It feels really good on certain heroes, on Ember Spirit.
When we changed the item, I think we were seeing Batrider at the time from the
off-lane look very very strong so people were buying it on the off-lane
bath driver I feel like it's very situational not many heroes do want
to buy this it's like three four heroes maybe can't buy it and it feels good
other than that it's gonna be the ochre
see how much it buzz for for rain keeping him alive in these fights if he
Commits for that next after the BKB
It's past the males farm continues to
Did just skyrocket the earlier parts was trying to keep up with the job and now the drought trying to keep up with him
Smell on track to have a very good timing on the silver edge that he's looking for the Bayonet's after the Neon air algorithms
And as we said yellow submarine, they are looking for something
They want to fight. Yeah. Keeping the tight formation, making sure that not many things
are going to go badly. You see GH, he's playing behind the bear. Omar, he's playing behind the
Vi. The 1-2 combo, they have two supports, just playing behind them. And you see Viper
using Nether toxin immediately going back, understanding that they don't need to take
the fight. I really love this formation that they're playing right now.
Semitari.
Towards Lauren off, Lauren off turning with the Viper Strike, they're still going to come out towards the tier 2 tower here, Yellow Submarine,
rolling forward underneath, they'll find Omar, that's going to be the ringmaster dead, the Viper comes up on the side,
drops the Black Hole out, actually catching the two of them as Batya gets caught in it as well at the side.
Big kills here for Nigma Galaxy, dealing very nicely with these attempts to Yellow Submarine.
are coming at them where they just casually turn up and they deal with the pressure.
Now, Yeltsin been trying to poke a little too long around that tier 2,
devise everything, just turn up, lay down a black hole and set up to ensure that they don't just get
the two supports. They get two big core kills, taking down both Shigetsu and Batyuk.
Yeah, it sucks in Batyuk as well. I think he walked in, kind of, but yeah, the power of their lineup,
because you have two supports who do have saving capabilities, you have Viper who's naturally
tanky, same goes for the bear. It allows Enigma to pick and choose the target. It's not like you
need to be the initiator of the team because the fights are going to be pretty chaotic. You're
going to need to show where the heroes are standing, which does allow the Vi to get the
jump. And again, it needs to be Hakoda stopping that black hole with the fiend's grip otherwise
it's not going to work out. He also wanted to pull himself inside the base, which
Sounds like a cute play, but he's dead anyway, and now 3k gold lead for Nygma Galaxy.
Definitely feels more, in my opinion. I would say this is 7-8 thousand lead for Nygma Galaxy considering everything at the moment.
Some health, some health. Slides him with some air.
They got the punches, well they have the control. Looking for Rain.
Rain will get the BKB off, they got the Lesser down onto GH.
They cut the tusk, he should be able to take down the bear here with the damage he should get. See?
So at this time Yellow Submarine able to deal with what Nicola Galaxies send their way
And considering the rush do they have and if she gets who wants to go for it they could try
Yeah, they're gonna try and get this they have more than enough damage extra minus armor from walking shot
Let's see, in the galaxy. I don't think they're gonna let this one go. Even with the black hole and cooldown, they can try to poke, delay until black holes back on line.
Some mails, some mails. Sending out the barrier.
Oh, it's straightening onto the bar. Cemetery gets absolutely destroyed. There'll be a buyback immediately from Enrosha getting low. They'll set the barrier down. They have to get the pick up.
Aegis is gonna get denied by some mails. Nobody could pick it up. Has the Aegis gone?
And now, the other submarine, what do they want to do?
Look at the Lorinopee, has the BKB, if I get caught in the high ground,
he's going to go up to the high ground, and he says thanks for the rolling thunder there.
If I kind of get saved, as he gets up to the high ground,
I'm going to get the BKB and the blink off.
But, yeah, they get the kill on the Roche, but couldn't manage to pick that Aegis up.
Sumail sends the Baron, and he's able to deny it.
And he also picked up Rocheon's banner.
Oh, he got the banner?
He got the banner as well.
pretty massive 5k gold lead for nigma galaxy buyback from cemetery as well
definitely feel maybe some of the nerves kicking in for yellow submarine lasso
mark with the box seems like it's gonna be enough sound still gonna connect even
through the box
they really wanted that ages for the tempo that they wanted to start running
these tier two Yellow Submarine. Just taken away from the smell. He'll have the bear back
up now. Can continue to hold this top spot on the farm as the lone druid, Yellow Submarine.
Not being able to slow him down right now.
I also like what Lorinov has in his quick buy. Going for blink dagger wants to be able to close the gap, jump on top of this draw ranger, use Viper strike.
with 10 talent it lasts for seven seconds being able to break her precision aura
break her marchmanship it's just very very effective and she can't really
stand her ground and fight anymore will probably have to use hurricane pike
mantis is a very good item against Viper a lot of times people even opt to
go for Manta instead of Lincoln's because Lincoln's can still be propped
but with mantis out you can dodge the light per strike so we'll see if she
get to is going to be able to do it because that's exactly what Viper wants to do. 700
all the way. Thanking from a different side scan. That's connected. They see Hakoda.
Oh, that's so good. They want to take him out quickly. Run south. We'll get away a
little deeper into the trees. Nygma Galax, you know, they're hunting.
The lasso off. The wheel's going to get dropped down. Lauren off. He's got the
The shield brings an incredibly tanky arrow to put the BKB in just stay on top of the
draw.
His runnage gets right out of the fight.
B-strip will get put to a stop as the Bane dies.
Defy?
He's still alive, should to catch the magnetize, but he's able to draw away enough attention
that it took so much time to take him down that by the time Defy was dead, Yellow Submarine
had nothing else left to fight with.
They get cleaned up.
Summ out, getting the double kill.
Another fight here in Nigma Galaxy's favor, Yellow Submarine.
I kind of getting caught in that they wanted to get aggressive getting on to nigga galaxy side of the map
But that wraparound certainly meant that they kind of fell into full panic mode in that fight
That's a massive problem. Who do you even focus? You are taking out the support immediately
But they have many ways of saving people
GH also is going to be buying back straight away and draw ranger as we said one of the reasons why Lauren off is
going for that bling-bagger is that he can blink in on top of draw ranger and get it out of the
cyst like get her out of the fight and this time around she dealt i think 300 or 400 damage only
she's unable to fight this gh and the bear they are hunting on the other side at the moment
yeah they've been looking for a few moves like this together and soon it'll be easy if uh
some out to do so with the bear the bkb is going to be on the way out
it's a silver edge done before she gets it
nick my galaxy starting to make this lead that much more secure around three very strong cores
This is not going to get easier for Rain to kind of play as part of the team fight.
That's the cause of Nygma Galaxy build towards just being able to deal with this damage output
that the Earth Spirit needs to find.
some out on the hunt it some more information you can find for the team
what I hear I still sends it into the enemy territory oh not able to stop it
back out they say we're potentially used last so it's not that long over
cooldown 75 seconds we have nerfed it now you are or like buff the experience
that you are getting from the Spirit Bear once you kill it.
I'm doing so far so good here for some air. Surprising, man, with this low draw pick from
himself, as I say. It's been years since we saw him play at last in professional, and
even back then this was not something that he would do often. Sure, back then it
on the mid so also just in a different capacity. So far so good looks like he's
able to kind of use the hero to its maximum potential top net worth and
definitely gonna be a huge problem for Yellow Submarine to deal with down the
line at this point. They haven't managed to slow down this lone druid
whatsoever.
Another Tormentor.
Vayne could potentially get it.
And he will.
Again, it's more about the gold rather than him having that shard.
Same goes for Batrider.
Vayne needs to go back.
Both teams using scan.
One scan connected.
I think Semi-Thorin needs to play like this.
He needs to go for the extra wave, try to cut it to play a bit of a riskier than usual
on a position 4.
You are playing against Lone Druid with Shadowblade, so you can get caught relatively easy, but
I feel like he needs to do it.
Try to buy a little bit more time, draw ranger, getting relatively close to her butterfly.
That's going to be the big timing.
One of the biggest damage increase items in the game for grow
The bomb why you're pushing in Nick my galaxy
Looking to set up take this wisdom
It's now in position by his own so should be both wisdoms here going to Nick my galaxy
you know submarine
Quite able to contest them see rain and cemetery moving over towards the top
Somehow his eyes on a song on a glimpse rich
He's got the set up the wheels down the whip turning into wards it not a chance for rain
Very nice setup from the two supports
I assume London it's still broken like no matter
It's probably going to get banned next game for the 60th time this qualifiers is pretty much banned every game apart from the one game that Nigma Galaxy led it through and beats it.
And apart from this one game where someone led it through for Nigma Galaxy they pick it and at the looks of it are set pretty well to getting the win.
Yeah, during Wallachia, when he was the most broken hero, teams were still letting him go through and trying to beat it, but the hero was...
It's kind of the same concept. Some things have been changed, but I don't think it's enough. I feel this agatomceptor, we need to be able to do something about whether...
like him dealing the last damage the further away he moves away from the or
put a cap on range where he can attack because having this globally just
doesn't seem right you're never in danger as a as a hero he has two deaths
he did die that one time near the XP shrine and then didn't die one more time but
that's about it and look where he's teeping from he's teeping from the
bottom part near he skates to the top part of his tier two tower and that's where he's farming because
he doesn't have to contribute anything other than send out his bear still getting decent amount of
gold on the other side of the map. Yeah it does it is one of those areas that at a certain point
is like well what do you do like what what is the correct play right now for yellow submarine
against the lone druid
But what do you do? I
Don't know if you wanted to answer the question just tell the bear
I guess that's that's the only way like try to try to shit
It's something but then he re-sellens it and then he's gonna go farm somewhere else
And then you kill the bear again
But obviously not getting anything the same as a hero would be with that sort of farm
And I also think yeah, I
I think the way to balance it is every single time it dies it should be given
the way more gold or there's has to be some kind of a downside to him
chain feeding the bear and still getting a lot done. He did resummon the bear
it's back up again in a minute and 30 seconds.
Abyssal Blade now completed. Now it's gonna be even more difficult for them
to be a little bit shadow blade aka silver edge into a pistol blade, Mjolnir procs another
bash because of his insane attack speed.
Supports they need to hug their cores otherwise they're going to die.
Clean set up here once again between the two of them a nightmare will come out won't
save batch out.
Oh mind GH been setting up some very nice plays here with the punch into the wheel
of Wanda, tame the beast's combo.
That's looking increasingly difficult for Yellow Submarine.
Nygba Galaxy in a very nice spot here around Sumail's lone druid. They're trying for the last
over, Sumail turns with the bear and pretty much immediately kills off this bat. They look
towards the Earth Spirits going to get caught by the roost through the big cave. He tries
First to roll away, cannot escape this ban.
Simeille!
Roshan is on.
They're just gonna grab it.
Simeille on the other side, see ya later.
Still farming in the same area while Bear is doing the thing.
Quick reactions as well as one more on off.
He gets the BKB off immediately, even though maybe he was not even necessary but shows
how good of a player he is to the sitting underneath that observer ward.
He gets the jump, immediate save coming out from the support, GH ready with the
snowball.
If he's not fast enough, you have another support to have Omar with the blink dagger, with the escape back if necessary.
I feel like Shigetsu, he hasn't been able to deal damage in the last 15 minutes of this game.
I think his damage would be less than 1.5k.
He did own the early stages of the game, played it correctly, but at one point it just isn't enough.
100, going for the fight round.
What do you do?
Now, you can you stop this push and then leave this to turning this game around.
And here, Nigma Galaxy with a firm hold right now on this game one.
I'm going to say, you got to respect it.
You know, it's just something you'd always say about these teams to pick lunch
through it.
But again, because they left this in because they thought the Somal weren't going to play
it.
And he said, yes, I will.
And he's been playing very well.
Four years ago, ready to play it again.
Ha ha ha.
Ah, Samal's that type of a player where he needs like maybe other players need 15-20 games to get into the groove of things.
He plays like three games. He's ready to go.
He's ready to go. Honestly, I would say I'm genuinely interested in how much he's been playing in Scrims and Pubs.
Because I'd agree with you on that. I think that Samal indeed is the player that does not need many games on any of these series to just understand it and be ready to run it in a pro game.
Samal, talking about him, he'll get there on top of Shigetsu,
they'll try and get the last drought away from the bear,
but Samal has the bear on top of the drought,
that's sort of he should get, he's dead.
He's gonna buy back straight away,
the black hole comes into the divide,
will be put to a stop, should be able to kill Divai,
can they get something for from this?
They'll get the catch on to Wozni Viper,
that's low enough down once.
And if he's taking a time, he'll bite you up.
He jumps in, but the bear's still here.
The bear turns, takes out Batja,
There's another buyback coming in. They want to try to stop the bear getting out. They will so we'll be able to put an end to the bear
So cost them a couple of buybacks here, but they do punch back pretty hard taking out GH putting a stop to the push
As I say after use the carry buyback is an expensive buyback, but it does push back nigma galaxy
That they got some good kills good XP out of it draw ranger hit level 25
two multi-shot extra waves, 10,000 damage coming out from her. She needs some kind of
help. She does have Hurricane Pike of her own, maybe Nightmare Save, maybe another
four staff from the Batrider, but also got to be aware now Batrider does have
Agadam Scepter, so it will be much easier for him to get that fight. Even
through the BKB, this Viper Strike completely ruins him with the Abyssal
Blade and then Block Hole. Not sure what it did connect. It did connect onto
two of them actually does use refresher uses it again on pango but pango is on top of him
and his bkb duration did run out into fresh items anymore unfortunately would probably be a slightly
different fight if he manages to kill off the pango but as you said very expensive buyback
on bra ranger she is the damage dealer if they can manage to kill her one more time this could be
potentially the end of the game it probably yeah probably will be because of this bear no
Somalia will easily destroy the majority of this base if there is no draw ready to defend against it
So yeah, let's a marine have to be very cautious in these next moments
Maybe to the point of just trying not to get involved in any action and till that buybacks back online for the draw
might be a bit too spooky
Depends how much of a risk they want to take
She gets to even picks up that Lengen Sphere.
We were talking about what are the counters to Viper, who does have Blink Dagger.
He has one job. I think Lenta's style is enough, but maybe you're forced to be situation where you need to use Manta for something else.
So, gotta keep that Manta just in case he's gonna be using Viper Strike now with the Lengen Sphere.
It's gonna be much easier.
level 26 on draw ranger pango about track level 25 art spirit not there yet
would definitely love to have art spirit magnetizes himself
we are not seeing it often but very very strong talent
roshan is dead it's not going to be up for a while in the galaxy they're looking for something
they're looking for the draw ranger potentially
If anyone shows you make your galaxy will not be afraid to jump in the base multiple ways
to try and set up the dive play with those four blinks that they have between them.
I also like the green house Charden is scripted by.
have that upgraded pool on allies maybe thinking maybe it's even Shigetsu who's
saying it I need some something extra I need to be pulled out of things
otherwise I die because right now I don't have buyback for four and a half
minutes so Yellow Submarine they're gonna be a okay taking it slowly not
trying to risk anything
about death here for Yellow Submarine could be the beginning at the end of
this game.
Nygma Galaxy trying to set up for anybody leaving the base, but at the moment, nobody
falling for the traps.
I'm on the high ground here, right?
I think one of the reasons why we are seeing Earthspirit back is the BKB change.
Like the BKB refresher where in the late game you can't refresher BKBs.
Some carries they do build into Mantis styles and they all just gets him I guess.
The patients paid off they were just waiting and waiting and finally they got some.
Yeah, because his level 20 talent is also super strong, plus 30% magnetized damage and the duration.
If you keep that going, keep going in, keep replacing, and just feels very, very strong,
especially with level 25 talent and still yet to be there.
But the next fight that they managed to win it, he's gonna be 25.
Gonna be easy to win those fights though.
This bat.
Out of control. Very close to kind of maximum power here.
The back.
Not even close.
There's still 5 slots available out of the hero.
I can't shop between the two units.
The back.
Indeed, you know, some hours later, give me a sec, I'll get 12 slides.
and the bear is coming off the TP up there, they'll kill it, so they will manage to kill
the bear. Just thought they have found Lauren off, good magnetized connection from Rain,
he's ready to go forward to try and finish this off and they'll get the kill. Be a buyback
coming in, they want to try and punish Rain, GH's got the punch up, the bear turns
back up, Rain is gone and she gets it, he's got a run. Oh the dagger's going to
slow him. Another one as well. He will manage to force back up the high ground to get away
from them. Something that we also bring out, you have to chase out the base, get a decent
kill, killing off the Viper, but it does cost them Reign's life. Ensure they took down
the bear, but the resimmon was ready, so somehow it can keep the pressure on.
The garranger still deals a lot of damage from the high ground like it's one of the best
heroes to defend the high ground with especially if you can't close the gap they have some
gap closers.
The Vi needs to be patient so far he has been very patient not using these black holes
for nothing and there's another item on longer AC completed.
Now it's on top of the eating the agonims
That still two moon shards five six lots needs another 40,000 gold to complete a Zodia build
She gets it he really wants to try and find somewhere to farm outside of the map, but it's so
terrifying for yellow submarine to send anybody outside of the high ground what
this bears about oh GH is gonna get the connection on to back up it's got the
setup they'll come up with a nightmare they have to lessen one of the two of them
but back up still dies they couldn't save him so now in with the bear it
will take the bear out not enough damage at the moment for shigetsu to bring
the bear down so so now getting in getting the kill keeping the bear alive
keeping it safe. Meanwhile in the bottom lane, we're doing some decent damage on the melee barracks.
Levi, we saw one game yesterday or the day before where we actually saw Split push three different
lanes, not something that happens in Dota in the last five years, even more. Like back in the
days it was very popular, if you couldn't push, but now it is punished way more, especially with
these jumpers that they have. Banner has been planted, he's going in forcing even the
the glyph, shard and viper, lone druid going to the top lane, some male with another bear,
he could be on pull down if he's going for the buildings.
Now look at the dummy.
There you go.
Look at the bad guy.
And another split push situation.
Levi, Chippin, with his idolons in the bottom lane, and lane banner has been killed finally.
finally. And they can look for the Roche now. They've shoved all the waves in pretty nicely
in the galaxy, so space is here to go into the pit. So the Roche out is about to move
in five seconds, so they will not be doing it in this pit. And I said let's take control
of the shards. I should know that they probably can keep a lockdown. They've got good stuns.
He's going to start to get the move now, but they'll clean them up before he can
leave the pit and that much damage and interrupt with the control to take that
and you just
they will need to take the fight they they will need to go and draw ranger yeah
does have 8000 gold I want to see if that's gonna be agonist scepter or divine
rapier time it might be divine rapier time they think it might be the slot
situation and great so what are you taking out for it I mean probably the
lincoln's right if you're gonna be playing from the high ground anyway like
well I guess it's like the link is also necessary because I'm just gonna get
jumped and just set up upon it it's difficult to find the slots like
like what what do you replace a very very tricky spot for she gets you to be
in it could be mental style that he is gonna be sure like yeah he needs it
to keep the distance. Probably thinking what is necessary. He could potentially buy out
Agatom Scepter. But needs a little bit extra gold. So maybe saving for that one instead.
I mean, what would you reckon? Would you go would you go the Agatom Scepter or would you
be getting in a rapier and one of the sorts in this position?
I think might be Agatom Scepter. Just stick with the axe. Yeah. Yeah. I think stick with
the axe because of the slot situation if it was something like if you need to
replace his threads if you need to replace falcon blade that is definitely fine
now it's a bit trickier and smell look where he's sending out the bear these
camps on the other side trying to get a pick off knowing that I mean he did
punish Batyuk twice already I also don't want to see a game where drawranger
has ten thousand gold and it's losing the game because yeah you need to spend
right yes that that does always kind of hard I mean obviously it's difficult for
she gets to kind of get the career out to the secret shop but yeah that's what
there is in the window he's got to go for it gotta spend the money to earn
money you know 10k gold in the bar but she gets it so I mean obviously it is
right here time he's going for it yeah keep on where is it there's other
where's the other player from the enemy shop?
Okay, so they're gonna look to try and take down the bar.
Sumel's already killed off Bat Yook though, and he's now looking around.
They'll take the bar out once, brain.
He should be able to keep himself safe with the BKB.
Where's the rape? Oh yes, come up the top side.
Oh, dude, I don't know what happened to it, but the courier did get hit once.
It's on half health.
Three out of six.
There we go.
He's managed to make the delivery.
And indeed you're absolutely right Mantis gonna be the the lowest kind of tier item that he has because he is so stacked
So that will come out right if he goes in
It's gonna try and take down Lord off Lord outside my goodness this drought in quality damage something something's off. Yeah
They look to the bear the bear it's gone and that did just every summit right so down for 80 seconds the bear
They got the melee barracks as well. They got the right there as well
Yeah, that's true. The base does continue to kind of get taken away from them
But maybe she gets it with this rapier
Can keep the game alive whether or not I can turn it and get the win
Who knows it's gonna be very difficult, but they could definitely pull together quite the defense
Because you already have seven thousand dollars. You lose me here. He's going in go scepter
Nice for a young man.
He kept goose-shotting.
Woo!
They all learned a shot of heal up.
He will die.
Reign didn't stand a chance to let the BKB on cooldown for 20 seconds when he got caught like that.
Round two, she gets it.
We've got to be so careful they're not going to get it with the back-hopper.
There's the mid-drop.
They're going to stop it.
At last, she gets you to step back.
Turn with the damage.
The bear's going to close in onto his official blade on top of him.
He'll slide backwards.
He's shooting down the bear.
The bear will fall, but he's solo.
She gets it.
It's fine though.
He's able to get back to the fountain.
That's gonna live acts it was a dieback on rain
So whilst they will temporarily push nigma galaxy back nigma galaxy now. They've got a huge window now two minutes
Well yellow submarine do not have them at earth spur
Dr. Ranger eight thousand. Oh, I think you just go all in you buy that agatum scepter as well
If you die with Divine Ripe here, you lose it, the game's kinda over anyway.
Absolutely, absolutely.
10,000 damage in the previous fight.
Can she gets to do this? Yeah, they're down 40,000 gold at the moment here, 54 minutes in.
If they turn this against Newcomer Galaxy, it'll be one of the bigger turnarounds we've seen in this European qualifier.
Probably the biggest actually at 40,000.
So quite the challenge ahead of them. They still have the full set of racks alive at the top
But very precariously, you know, if they kind of step away or get drawn out at the base for moments
The mail will destroy those barracks here with the bear
Of course would notice why he does have that refresher
So ready to get the easier resummons on the bear if necessary in these fights
Lauren off is going to pick up the MKB
So now very kitted out to make the aggressive blink and just throw everything onto the drought try and
Just pressure the draw as much as possible, Shigetsu still, yeah, not thinking about the
exit tool.
He's actually queuing up the Swift Link instead.
So it seems like he doesn't seem to value it in the situation whatsoever then.
So a little surprising.
Yeah, because if they manage to burst these heroes, especially with the magnet thighs,
the rest, if they're clumped up, they are going to explode.
Here comes the bear!
Cemetery is gonna get the lesson back on the both of them. She gets it's gonna try back away
The black hole's gonna get Jimmy's in trouble the bears on top of it. She gets who's gone the rapier hits the day
We're here on the bear Samel able to grab it here as the loan drew it as this bears got a rapier
She gets it with the buyback. He wants to break your back
So if they can bring it down the bet it's getting healed up
It's gonna try for the TP out but bat yet similar the rolling thunder the bear goes down before
Or G8 is going to go for the undisputed protection now, but she gets you back soft with the multi-shot. Slides out of the fight.
Shoot down the banner.
He's managed to reclaim his rapier.
Rain, he's rolling in. He's super low.
Snowball's coming his way. G8 turns with a punch. That's going to be Rain dead for good again. Out for 100 seconds.
As the bears approaching, she gets you trying to run away from the back.
turn it to bring it down right back now comes in from back gh looks for the punch
she's closed the gap on a shigetsu fear on towards the drought she gets
he's down, he's there, Lauren on some top of him it's over
Gigi is called, Nigma Galaxy will take game one they try and put up a very
strong fight to the end there Yellow Submarine but they could not deal
with the lead that Nigma Galaxy built against them and they could not deal
with the lone druid as I say maybe catching them by surprise they did a
banner against nigma galaxy and I can imagine that's not because they don't
respect the power of the hero it's because they just didn't think the
nigma galaxy played it. Somail he turns up and shows that yeah he may only have
six recorded games in competitive go to with the lone druid but he has
absolutely been putting in the homework as as the carry you know moving into
this carry slot for Enigma Galaxy and he knew he's like he has to be able to
play this hero because of how good it is now in case a team leaves it in the
draft and here we have him showing us he knows what he's doing 17 2 and 12 on
the loan druid I'll tell you what game 2 that loan drew will not be good for
again absolutely it's gone even if it goes to game 3 they're not playing
against the zero they they kind of messed it up maybe underestimating
Sumail in general that he can still play the hero. He is
You know has couple of aces up his sleeve for sure. This is the guy. This is Sumail
We're talking about after all and he delivered he definitely delivered in this one
I gotta say goodbye. He was keeping the distance
He was not getting close to any fight and also the split push situation
Understanding that they could push through three different lanes being very annoying if they get the jump
They are going to punish them and in the end he got caught up multiple times unable to
Just sit there in the back lines be very disruptive for the supports never really happened in these mid and late game fights
No, I'm very nicely done there by nigma galaxy just all became a bit too much for yellow submarine
And a rain did try and take this risky move of still picking this male hero into the Viper and was able to have
a pretty good game considering the lane outcome. It still ends up 10-9 and 12, but it was too
much to deal with down the line. You know, Lorinoff. Very nice scaling right-click build
that he went for this game as the Viper, the Swift Blink, Skadi, MKB. We saw right up
until the end. It just made sure that she gets it as much as he tried to carry this
as the Drow. Go for these big items at the end with the Divine Rapier. Didn't
matter. This Viper just blinks on top of him. Viper strike with the MKB is
just destroying the draw ranger but all in all something I would say we would not normally
be quick to give to a lone druid but in this case because it comes out as a little bit of
a surprise at least something that catches yellow submarine by surprise to now showing
that he has he's got it ready you know got it warmed up and ready to play this lone
druid and absolutely smashes again with it 17 2 and 12 as we said this will not be showing
its face again in this series and you know if Nigma Galaxy do win the series and go to TI and if
we don't get some sort of pass. Nothing's changing, we don't get the pass. Yeah. Yeah, then Loan Druid is,
nobody's going to let Sumail get the Loan Druid because he clearly, he's ready to go with it.
Yeah, he's definitely ready and I want to see how Yellow Suburban is going to be approaching
the second game because it felt like a bit of a discrepancy between the two supports as well,
what they were able to do, especially coming out from Bane.
I think everybody wanted to counter Bane as well,
and the teams are finding some flaws as well in the laning stage,
picking up these summoners we're seeing like and getting banned as well.
So I want to see what's going to happen in that second game.
Yeah, very much looking forward to it.
We'll certainly see them give quite a fight,
because you could feel it this game,
even though there was this overwhelming,
lone druid threat looming over them.
If it wasn't for that, Yellow Submarines still had a lot of potential with their plays,
and we were definitely seeing what we've been seeing from them before.
So Game 2, things could change. Can't wait to see exactly what does change,
and we won't have to wait for long. We're going to cut to a short break,
and then we'll be back with Game 2 of Yellow Submarine versus Nigma Galaxy.
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very, very shortly. Lacoste, game one. The loan drew gets let
through. Somel shows why you probably should not let it through
even against a team that hasn't played it in years because they
might have been cooking something and he at that. He turns
up after a few years with this loan drew it looks better than
ever. It's not going to get through here. Yellow submarine
first phase banner. We're going to see a different game this
time.
Yeah, different game because this is it's just a broken
concept in terms of the hero does once he picks up that
you are not playing the typical Dota game anymore.
You are playing a bit of a mini game as well.
And then you get another upgrade.
You are playing with the Shadow Blade hunting down on the map.
Again, I really like the formation from Nygma Galaxy
where they were keeping one saving support,
one behind the bear, one behind the hero that was pushing in
and maybe going for that extra wave
and then making sure that they are going to get out of trouble safely.
I think the Galaxy, picking up Drow Ranger for themselves, two games in a row, straight-up
picking Simeo zero first, giving him priority.
I like it.
Now, this one, you know, whilst there, of course, it's just not going to be a lot of
record of Simeo playing it, you know, there's less kind of like, always going to be able
to, because it's a draw.
You know, everybody can play the draw at the top level.
It doesn't matter if you're typically a carry player, because looking at the stats,
like Simeo for example, in particular, like he played draw back in 2023, 2024,
And then he did do one game five months ago on the Drow.
But yeah, it's one that, it's not quite as like,
oh, we've loaned Drow, it's like, hey,
we're gonna put this price in.
He's gonna be able to play Drow.
So I say first pick here, Vanigma Galaxy,
I still will be essentially a debut from him
in terms of recent ending the Galaxy times,
at least in the carry position.
Yeah, last time he played it was, of course,
but when he actually ran a mid Drow five months ago
when he was playing mid, of course,
and a funigra galaxy. So first time here in the safe lane draw for some mail.
Yelsa bring over the first pick techies a support here that you've been liking right?
Yeah, the hero feels very, very strong, especially with some offlaners that like to run in the
stager allows them to be super annoying.
I want to see what they're going to be banning out.
Tusc cause them a lot of issues.
One of the best pairings with draw ranger clockwork is still available.
It's probably the best pairing with the clockwork.
Tusk is my second favorite one because it gives you the save as well.
Clockwork is also a semi-save where he pops the cogs and then just bounces
back everybody so they left both of them in the pool. You know what, if
Lornoff can pull off potentially Earth Spirit off his own, this long duration
silence, the 414 build on Earth Spirit 3.5 second duration silence, can
cause quite a lot of issues against Storm Spirit or he can go maybe for a
different route. I've seen some mids also using Snapfire as a response to Storm
Spirit because the hero just wins matchups and then you can build into
Road of Aetos. We'll see what Lorinoff is gonna cook with this one. I would love
to see one support maybe even both supports for Nigma Galaxy on this pick.
DIA TEAM PICK.
That's the mind of the stone.
Yeah.
Lion good against Storm and also very good with most of the offlaners in the meta.
Most of the offlaners love to have Lion, especially ones that don't have stuns.
There aren't many offlaners that don't have stuns but also layering multiple stuns.
It's just a good hero to play with in the offlane.
Five seconds remaining.
Did they want to just grab both of those supports? Or is there a core that they want that they're
worried is going to get taken away? They do indeed just stick with the two supports. They'll
get the task. I happen to see that, especially after that last game looked very good. The
amount of setup that was coming out from GH was pretty phenomenal. You know, as all
is, you know, for all the farm that Samel did have in his loan, drew it. A lot of
those moments early on, it was kind of GH enabling the plays alongside the bear.
A lot was done by him on his task and always has been you know one of his one of his finest heroes
And the question is what does Hakota want to play I don't think he wants to be playing Bane again
I would be okay with no master. Yes, I'll be okay. Maybe with the silencer
It's very good at counter initiating. It stops the task from getting his save as well
Before he gets a defensive item which is gonna take a very long time
They did have a good start. Last game, I'm sure they didn't end up winning, but definitely
moments where you were seeing why we were kind of talking up back, Jokes, Pango at the start.
He had terrible laning stage. He was sitting at 6 CS while Longdruid had 20, which it's
not his fault. It's the mashup's fault. And then suddenly he explodes. He finds
the farm. He was farming some of the stacks as well. Late game wasn't really that
crisp it was he got caught two or three times and wasn't able to roll in the
back lines find these supports use nullifier as well and HAKOTA is gonna
be playing the ring master we did mention two of the heroes giving this one
priority because it's a bit of a save it's a better scaling gives you team
fight compared to silencer galaxy they are gonna take Viper again yeah
Lauren off was very comfortable on it last game had a pretty chill time in
the lane and as I was saying did like let the build that he went for was very
nice given a lot of scaling potential and there was a quite the nuisance for
the draw right up until the bitter end
Let's see, the final bans here is, yeah listen marine they still need their carry, so we'll
see what the top ones are, again we do like the nature's profit carry against the drought
so we won't be surprised if nigma galaxy throw a ban out that way.
I'll get rid of the Kez. I see a very in-your-face hero that the Drow also does not want to play against.
Viper deals well with Kez. I was thinking about maybe then picking it up, but they have answers.
You also Lyon being one of the best support against Kez as well. He jumps in, pre-BKB,
you hex him, burst him down from 100 to 0. Very easy. You have Tusk with the BKB.
You have like PKB personality. You have Viper with the Viper Strike and they're gonna ban out Spectre
This is a oh, okay. Good band. This is something that Nigma Galaxy also played
Yeah, the games when they were playing against Spirit they did lose that game
But also showing the respect for the hero taking that the hero is strong in certain situations
And this could have been a situation where it does feel strong. I
Could also see maybe yellow submarine removing
Hero like an Underlord, Underlord Axe, these type of heroes, just the beefy boy, somebody
that can start the fight.
Underlord is not really the hero that starts the fight, but it's very good against Pango,
very good against Storm Spirit, lanes nicely with Lion.
If they feel like they need to have a hero that can have some kind of a jump, Centaur
or Axe would be my choice, and they ban Centaur.
Alright, so that could still be an option then for Nigma Galaxy.
Because you are picking blindly, you don't know what Yellow Submarine is going to pick,
and Axe is good against every single carry pretty much.
With the Blade Mail of course, removing Nigma from the pool, even though he didn't have
the greatest start in the previous game, he did cause a lot of issues with some
two men three men black holes later on
uh... will be will be back so
will be a hero more
focused on getting the auras maybe the underlord that's still in the pool
i give away to you know you know something i'm gonna have quite some
options open for the carry selection
do have good catch on the galaxy but temptation might still be there for
yellow submarine to go with the carrying ages profit
a lot of global potential between him and the storm
going with the night stalker
how do you like this one? I like this a lot it counters storm spirit counters
both of the supports especially ringmaster he
Legit doesn't get to play the game against Night Stalker
You maybe get a whip, but if he gets on top of you the vision game is gonna be very good
They get to choose and pick the targets they want to go for
She gets it he needs to win his lane like it needs to be something that's gonna be potentially pushing out
Night Stalker out of the lane and I think that's that's an easy pick playing and like you need to check so many boxes
playing against Rouranger, BKB piercing ability from Tusk, Viper, instant Hex from Lyon,
silence early on against the Nightstalker providing full vision. I don't think this is an easy pick.
I think they might need to dig in deep, try to find something that's going to be like super cool
because I'm really liking the name of Galaxy Straft.
I
Think the that because the nature's profit seems probably off the table now because there's a night stalker some over here
I thought I was going to do and yeah, it's just like you can't really do that here
I is that could you get away with the life stealer? You know you have
To deliver the life stealer you've got a save. I kind of like life stealer in this situation
It's not an easy pick. Yeah, you know hero
There's always gonna be something that yeah
to be countering because there's so many different things that Nigma Galaxy is throwing
at this last big carry, but I think Lifestealer can work. You have the infest bomb with the
pango with the storm spirit, then you can easily get on top of the drawranger. Silence
is very annoying for you, so it's break, so it's punch, but I see what it's going
to be. It's going to be alchemist.
All right.
OK, and what do you make of this?
The outcome in only for the second,
sorry, for the third time this qualifiers in the EU region.
It's been picked twice.
We did win one game, lost the other.
I think it was today, actually.
Did it win the game today?
It was picked earlier, so it did.
Yes, it was the last game, right?
So it did win, won a game today, got a team to TI.
Is it going to push us to game three and give Yellow Submariner a chance to try and turn the series around and get to TI? Do you like it?
I'm not feeling it. Being a Night Stalker player, I'm really okay playing Night Stalker into Ringmaster and Alchemist lane.
You are not getting as pressured. I would love to see a hero that...
Again, it was a tough choice, but you are also giving a night stalker
They're gonna say free lane, but you are giving him a lane where he is gonna be getting maybe more than you would expect
Nightstalker to get from the lane
Their aggro interceptors are good. I want to see who gets priority in this one. I would assume it's gonna be pango store spirit
It's fine. Maybe he gets it
Because of the setup for ringmaster setup for pango
I would assume pango would get priority, but also earlier today
He was also playing for himself
He did not give out the agatom scepter up until later up until he got his blink dagger and a bkb
Which might be the correct choice in this one seeing that he is playing against so many silences playing against this hexa and
Agatom scepters are good pango also
This is gonna be back yook one more time playing this offline pango
So I want to see how much he's gonna be getting if he's giving the axe he needs to deliver
But again, there's so many counters on the other side with one night's soccer
silence. You get some top of one of the guys. It's going to look very, very
difficult. But yeah, I would say Nygma Galaxy, they drafted themselves in the
first game. Super strong draft. This is pretty much on pair with what they've
drafted before.
Well, they have some pretty solid strats this run. Nygma Galaxy, we'll see.
Hakoda. Find the winner. Hakoda is going to get caught by the opening
stun as this should be first flood here for Nick the Galaxy and Lorinoff is going to be the one
to be able to take it first but here for the mid Viper see if they can maybe even set it up into
even more I'm not going to have to stun back up they should be able to get themselves a second
kill cemetery in trouble Sumail he'll take that one so a kill for the carry a kill for the mid
first blood for the mid to start this game two off Nick my galaxy
Very nice start, Divai also skilling crippling fear, long duration silence 4.5 seconds during
the night time, trying to be running back and then keeping back to the lane.
You don't care too much about your build on Nightstalker early on, maybe you want to
have void for securing the range creep, Lion can do that instead of you speaking
of Lion, Omar.
in trouble if he can live he's gonna have the fairy fire he will pop it he's gonna try and waste as much of time as they can but the
doubt the darts they hit I could I able to land those nice he said we'll be able to at least set she gets up with a
kill to enter this bottom lane with
just this this mid lane we saw rain try and scramble through the laning stage as the spirit last time round
This time is a storm against the Viper. It should be a little easier, right?
Yeah, it's much better. I think he's gonna be able to get the CS because he can push out the lane,
he can secure the range creep, doesn't necessarily need to be like backs right away.
And it's a hero that can actually punch back against Viper with his overload, getting that extra bit of a damage.
The Vi in the bottom lane. It's in daytime silence, not as effective. 25 damage per second.
That's 75 damage total, 3 seconds silence during daytime.
You see Rain, I'm gonna square up against him, Lornoff.
Dropping low on Rain, he's gonna die.
That hurts. I mean it's so tempting sometimes when you get this Viper to try and push for the kill on the early level when you get him that low
because you know you're never gonna get that chance to try for it again in the lane, but that risk does come with a cost.
doesn't pay off, he's dead and now he's unlikely to get a chance to try and push
for a solo kill again in this lane unless Lornoff makes a massive error.
Rain also got sent your ward down, seems like there is an up-zero ward.
We'll need to kill it somehow, not an easy task however, Lornoff is bringing
extra bit of regen to the lane, he is using the courier, healing salve, another
fairy fire in case Rain wants to square up one more time against him.
Top lane, Bayeux is getting caught by the shards.
And one more hit, they've got him.
NygmaGalaxy starting to get some early kills in the lanes here in game two.
Yeah, look at the amount of denies that the Vi has, five denies on Nightstalker.
That's why I wanted to see something different from the safe lane, something that's going
to threaten a kill onto this Nightstalker because he managed off to a good start.
Again, instead again, Lorinoff runs him down and takes him out.
This is getting rough for him here in the mid.
He was able to get a few CS, but dying a couple of times.
And Lorinoff put that on top of the first blood that he found earlier.
3-0-1 already, 2 minutes since this mid Viper.
This mid lane is turning out to be a bit of a nightmare for Storm.
It's not gonna get easier. He's gonna need somebody to fix his lane.
War enough does have he might be dead again
He's going in it's level four. It's all about the TP over
They have to try and save rain. He can't he's gonna
Buy it. He's gone and
Honestly cemetery might just be dead to this one charges. He can't win this fight against the Viper. It's disarming him
One dial is cemetery healing self. Oh
Oof! Plus there is a water room available, double bracer, he brought another mango, Lorinoff
really popping off in this matchup.
So that also leaves Batjuk solo in the top lane, Rain needs to walk back to the lane,
his TP is still on cooldown for 35 seconds and now GH is going to zone him out out of
XP range completely.
This is going to hurt for Rain.
he managed to get through the laning phase pretty cleanly last game on the
airspread but this game on the storm he is struggling hard see bottom lane
looking for Omar they're not gonna have him and Dakota might be in trouble
divide chasing him down he's got anything else to catch him with he has
Dakota should be fine
So it won't be easy for Rain to recover.
I mean, this is a completely different scenario.
If he gets a kill, I think he needed one extra hit on the Viper, because he tried to square up.
If he gets the kill, if he gets the XP, comes back to a lane with Bottle,
does have maybe pull, and then he can try to play aggressive again,
or has another point and overload, extra bit of the damage could make the difference.
but missed it, missed the point and now it looks completely over.
Lornoff is also going to find extra bit of XP, extra bit of gold from that.
Observe the reward. Level six and a half, four, four or five minutes.
That's pretty crazy.
Yeah, I don't think any hero is going to be showing up mid anytime soon now.
I guess Lornoff.
Cemetery, G.H.
He's got the setup.
He's going to try for the TP out.
We'll make it back to the fountain, still gonna take pretty low, in fact the damage is too much, he's still gonna die in the fountain to Lorinoff, so another one for Lorinoff here, 5-0-1, 5 minutes in, and Omar, he's ready to start messing around with Reign, comes across, makes sure that Reign does not get an easy time hitting the creeps, he's got the backup,
Snowball comes and helps him dodge the darts.
I mean, let's see if they can maybe punish these supports with a play.
They can at least get G8.
So it ends up with Rain finding something with that move,
the Nigma Galaxy attempt against him.
It's not that much, XB.
It's something he is level five and a half.
The most important thing is to get yourself to level six.
And now it's nighttime, the Vi in the bottom lane,
getting some of that xp for himself, can't pick up the Lotus,
or burn some of the mana if necessary,
and can also start playing with Midnight Feast.
Now you can eat those creeps,
get extra bit of a gold, extra bit of xp straight away.
Mark still playing around the mid lane.
Anything they can get, another kill.
I'm trying for this 2-1.
Top playing GH.
Looking for the rotation onto Batja.
Here we go.
And housewash brick already if necessary.
force of fortification from Yellow Submarine.
They want their XP, Lorinoff and Omar are coming through the triangle.
Might be slightly late.
This is going to be half of Yellow Submarine to hold on to.
Nigma Galaxy.
I mean, anywhere that Lorinoff goes, Yellow Submarine cannot be.
Cemetery dead.
Wisdom at the ready.
It's both seven minute wisdoms going the way of Nigma Galaxy.
I don't know who's going to be fixing these lanes.
She gets you, he's playing Alchemist, he can't really join.
Your supports are under leveled, level 3 at the moment, these are top of the supports
that want to be getting their level 6's.
That Duke also not getting too much out of the lane because his support was forced
to leave.
The lane try to TP mid to help him out.
Didn't get too much out of it.
And then lane, seems like the tower is gonna die.
This is before Devae even starts to join.
He is free farming in the bottom lane.
That's Nightstalker level 6.
Marka sentient available.
We'll have some stacks going at least here for the team.
Yellow submarine.
the mid coming in with a wraparound I mean they keep sending heroes here to try and find
some levels but it's just not going to happen when Lauren off's about rain once you try and
get GH for the stun from him I'm just going to be up in a second rain oh he could be in
trouble he's going to use that last bit of mana to get away we'll be out of range
of the stun my goodness taking some risks there trying to push for a kill that was
probably at least very unlikely to ever be his it just cannot bring anyone
within range of this fight. And G.H.
Cemetery. Level 3. Some stacks are being made at least. They're playing so
aggressive behind enemy lines they can feel that yellow submarine they are
very weak at the moment. Omar this could be a big killer they can get him.
I'm just a hex up onto rain.
I'm going to put the stun off rain, going for GH.
I just got to be careful with Lauren off about.
I'm going to have to forward them, but honestly, even with the four versus one, they don't want to be approaching this Viper.
I'll push them back a little bit.
Of course, they're having to deal with all this from around the mid.
Smell's getting complete free farm top, the down-bottom things aren't going too
rough for Divai either. We're gonna go for the phase straight into the BKB.
Maxing out the crippling fear. I like it a lot.
Lower the cooldown on it, along with the duration. Betjuk gonna drop. They don't
have the playmaker right now. It needs to be Stormthread. Rain did recover
slightly but it's nothing too crazy. During the first night time Divai
didn't really achieve much in terms of putting the pressure because other lands are going so well
he doesn't need to move and now he is making the move does have dark ascension 30 seconds of the
night time if he wants to pop it she gets it it's gonna throw up the stun we'll be able to dodge
the vipers right here with the chemical rage at the night time as they're getting on top of her
coda bringing in the numbers Jellison bring but not able to save the ringmaster and not able
to fight back.
This Nigma Galaxy, they'll have Lauren O'Flick finish the tower.
It's the last as well, Cemetery, not quite able to find the deny in Dubai.
He's straight over to Wall of Cemetery.
It's going to be big time. He needs two more hits.
Oh! He'll get them!
And the final moments of night time.
This is looking rough.
13-3 here in favour of Nigma Galaxy.
fact that you just gotta look at the male in the safe lane. He's 303. Lawren off in the mid lane.
He's 603. They're just coming up to 11 minutes in. The mid and the carry already getting numerous
kills and assists in these landing phases. Bajuk. He senses something because he is ready to roll.
He's not gonna be able to roll in time though. He's actually gonna get it up.
The movement is to get over the tree line.
The physical damage is coming in.
They have to lock down Ontalorin off.
They might just be able to kill the Viper.
They do.
Massive kill, and it goes the way Shigezu.
This time, Nigma Galaxy, they'll get punished.
Rain closing in on towards the mail.
Shigezu's going to run him down, concoction at the ready,
jump forward here with the shield crash.
Batja takes out Somail.
And that is a massive turn of events there.
there for yellow submarine to find nigma galaxy they they went a little bit too
deep and they did not expect Shigezu to turn up to the action and because he does
he gets a nice involvement on the kills and they'll put him back on track for a
pretty good relic timing after that play now getting 500 gold from that kill
getting some extra gold from nighttime finger ready still should be no
Ringo is going to save him!
He's there!
I mean that's back to the high level!
Level 9 on Shugetsu.
Most importantly, he didn't die a single time.
He is 2-0 and 2.
On top of the network by a huge margin.
I mean they won him.
CH.
Continuing the aggressive moves.
The Cemetery is having to get the jump onto the two of them.
Nigma Galaxy.
I'm on a tank of concoction.
Yeah, you can see how aggressive Nigma Galaxy want to be.
galaxy you want to be and for pretty much the first 11 minutes they were
getting away with it but that last play up top they get punished now straight
back into action they run down bottom they will be able to get the tier one
tower but they won't get their hands on any of Yellow Submarine Yellow Submarine
able to avoid that play and as I am with that turnaround fight up top new
life sort of being brought into the lineup of Yellow Submarine here
against NIGMA Galaxy despite some of these insane starts that NIGMA
galaxy beginning in the lanes
this is something that does happen i think everybody experience it where you
are too far and as the map is still pretty big
and then you make one bad move suddenly the enemy they are
back and forth you definitely want to be
put in that pressure you want to be using the goal that you got to try to
put more pressure onto the enemy team
and now alchemist
is gonna finish that radiance in the next minute or so
now look at this
Managing to recover as long as rain gets involved. This could be a another massive kill. Yeah, I believe he saw him rain
Right now with the jump making some really really strong counter plays there
You know with the four of nigma galaxy showing bottom
They know it's very unlikely that they could do anything to react to the fact that some males getting dope beyond the tier one tower and aggressive move
Succeeded here for the Yellow Sun marine but yeah
We'll get left behind caught by the silence of the lose the pango
But with the way that the game was going these are trades they'll take every day of the week taking down some L as the carry
Only losing their offlaner in return
They're shaking up the game big-time yellow submarine as starting to wipe away any sort of remnant from this pretty horrific
Laning stage that they encountered specifically in the mid and the off-lane. There's only a 1k gold difference now
Yeah, a lot of that is sent around Alchemist who is the most farm hero in the game 8.3k
14 minutes in, just finished off the radiance, so he's in a pretty sweet spot at the moment.
And as we suggested, when we saw the Alchemist don't give away any of the Agatum Scepters, play for yourself, I see Blink, BKB, AC, I think it's necessary, you're playing against Rauranger, you want to be having that AC as fast as possible to tank up yourself, tank up the team.
And this is the thing as well, you know, even if as the alchemist you were going to be given away acts first after what went down in the mid and the off lane, you're like, oh, you're not, you're not.
Look what you guys did. You are not getting an agonist from me anytime soon until you clean up your act and stop feeding. You know, she gets to it.
He'll get them later when they've been good boys, but the lady phase is like, no, no, no. I'm going to buy myself some items first. I'm going to carry this game.
game. So yeah, I guess you can't look at it for the team. Yeah. Yeah, that that you feel
the way to finally finish still again, he's getting good amount of levels considering how
everything was going. He's the same level as wiper who was six zero and three at one
point. He was getting the solo XP that you he's back again. Check his PC. I don't
know how this guy is getting so much XP and every year. This guy's good. He's
good at fixing it when he's not good. You know, you can count the not good with
more good than the not good so he's good make some math out yeah that was my cheese reference
the other day you just pulled up and would but what about the about the cheese the holes
of more cheese on us yeah yeah you know maths physics science we've got it covered here in
this cast we're talking about the cheese with the holes the the good grades than the not
good on a pango in the lane and Bacchuk same build as I think people have gone every
So is the diffusal Aghanim's from the offlane for him on the panga?
Even treads these are late reds
I think treads are very good once you are playing from ahead playing from behind it doesn't feel that good
It's not gonna say thousand gold down the drain because they're still getting the value out of the item
But it is delaying some of their more important items that being blink dagger that being aghanim scepter she gets it
Scouting here by gh
We'll be able to defensively roll over the Crete Wave, or Divy, on the hunt.
Ima, he's got a finger and he's ready to use it on himself a stack.
Scan's been hit, another whereabouts the Yellow Submarine Cemetery looking pretty dead.
find him. I'll take him out. Oh my. Being a sensible line player. Doesn't just throw
out the ult to get a stat. Notice that it's not needed and we'll save it for later. Doesn't
want to put it on cooldown yet. This is very long cooldown level one. Something to point
out is S is the stiller. One of the best items you can buy against Nightstalker because
he has that on such vision during his dark ascension and then it shares the vision what he does have
so you are seeing more if you can get it on top of him
I want that strength against me. Yeah
Divine.
Just be a little careful around here.
Doesn't really get caught out by Shigetsu.
Just going to try and enter back in onto the high ground.
Rain would have been ready for him if he does come into the jungle.
Divine.
Why?
Still trying to do as much as you can during the night time.
It's not easy now.
You know, there's some renault pretty set up and ready for these sort of moves.
Again, continue to calm down a little bit, much to the pleasure of Shigetsu on his
out. Unless you find a chance to go for Dubai here and hit the jump. Triple bombs.
They'll give themselves another one. Very nice setup with the damage output from Cemetery.
Oh man, these Tekkis players, these spammers, you can see that as soon as you see these
three bombs dropped immediately after the blast off, you know you're cooked.
You're like, okay, we are playing against a guy that knows what's doing on Tekkis.
That was always a tricky part immediately going through the Twin Gates.
They want more. The rest of Nigma Galaxy, they are lurking around.
They also have this watcher that I believe scouted Hakoda.
They want this front Nigma Galaxy. They put the numbers.
Looking for Hakoda, but not feeling confident enough to push for the kill.
That's it, that code is able to get out, rain, and she gets you very much enjoying the space
that they're getting.
She gets him not too far off from having the BKB, and already we've seen him do a good
job of finding the right moves to be involved in and the right ones to stay away from.
203, with the BKB is going to have even more opportunities where he could look to
join with the team.
for the first time, they were in the league.
Cause it started pretty dark for them during nighttime.
They got two, three kills and then mid lane
was just completely dominated by Lorinoff.
It started to fall off.
Alchemist still insane amount of farm
that he does have 13.5k, 20 minutes in.
He could be about to be completed.
He needs to farm this camp and he will have it.
Let's get very aggressive now.
bringing some mail in as well for the smoke.
All the way across the map here, 20 minutes in.
And they'll find a freebie here under the tier two.
Shouldn't find anything more.
The cause again from Yellow Submarine,
instantly when they know this area is not safe,
they are not taking any risks.
Cemetery might be able to time the wisdom steal.
It's up.
If he takes a little walk up there,
he'll be able to take it.
Looks like he's not going to check it out.
He seems more focused on something else, yeah, and he thinks he can maybe, I don't know,
he's in perfect position to go get that wisdom.
He really wants this kill, I guess he's going to go for a play here?
He doesn't know who it is.
He saw Lotus's being, he's AFK.
I guess so.
I guess he just assumed that the wisdom was not going to be available to be taken, but
it would have been.
Yeah, Omar's able to just point past him and still pick it up for themselves.
More like similar, terrified about what's going to happen if he goes in.
I think he should have went in, it doesn't matter, he could have got that wisdom.
But yeah, it doesn't go for it.
I
Not quite see him straight away smoke comes in again from Nigma Galaxy
Brain or Shigetsu would be the big catches cemetery. He's even deep on the map now
I don't know what the plan is from him. I obviously well now. It's for a tormentor steal I'd imagine if
He catches Nigma Galaxy if he commits. Yes. Yeah, he could also just be here and not do anything like he did with the wisdom
He just really likes this side of the map.
He's waiting for the big play.
We'll see if the big play eventually comes.
Probably a winning player as well.
They love to be out of the map.
And a loser coda.
Samael gets the quick kill and is able to jump away.
Shards come down.
We'll block.
She gets off.
We're getting to Omar.
But Sematary, he turns up to the mid
ready to get in with the player
and help Raine take out Omar.
So get the support trade
That's why I like this shard pickup on the vibe considering that you need to be able to get the jump find the backline find this ring master
It's it's an okay upgrade, but it's not the shard that you want to be buying
It's like you're still getting some kind of a farm during daytime. It's a good farming tool
But delaying your blink dagger just doesn't feel as good
It seems like to be completely skipping the blink dagger, or now he's going back for it.
I was a little worried because you'd need to have that item on it, otherwise it just doesn't work.
Nullifier is going to be great. You see Tango with the shield.
Big one being, of course, Escape Act goes after Available on Ringmaster.
Yellow submarine, they're going to smoke, trying to look for something.
She gets it, he feels pretty strong.
With the BKB that he purchased, didn't even use it.
We saw BKB use it from rain.
They also bought the gem, laying around the runes.
Shield rune could be pretty massive if they can find an opening.
Don't have abilities to go through debuff immunity,
but they can lock it down from 100 to 0 if they don't overlap.
Divide!
Instantly kept it.
TPs are coming in, he's going to try and look to tide.
The rest of Nigma Galaxy trying to join.
But the BKB will now come to an end for Devai and straight away rain.
He's in on the high ground. He sees the chance to get on to some mail.
He's got pretty deep for this effort. Won't get the vortex onto some mail.
Now she's arrested with BKB to get away, but the BKB comes out, you know, finishes.
And when out with the snowball, then he is dead.
Devai now able to make the jump into the river over to the wall of Cemetery,
chasing down the techies. GHL after charge back him in a few seconds.
Cemetery will fall. GH and Homo should be able to grab more.
They get the start opening impact onto the bigger target.
they find that job. GX will trap in the ringmaster. They do lose the lion, Batyak's going to try
and roll back an aggressive onto them. Maybe with Shigetsu they can clean up some core kills.
Samael, he outs on top of him. He's in trouble. Shigetsu takes Samael down, jumps over towards
GX. Double kill for him. Concoctions thrown over towards Lorenov. Shigetsu getting a triple kill.
A huge clean up for Yellow Submarine. It looked to be such a rough start. Again,
You know she gets to he said that's it storm. You you're not even getting the eggs first. I'm giving him the cash because you know
No, he's not doing great for it's kind of bid on getting the eggs from this out because she gets is that he's like
All right guys
I guess I'll come across and I will carry you guys because he's turning up at the right time every single time you're on the outcome
It's been 505. Yes, we see there rain goes in a bit deep
But obviously, as Rain would tell him, he's like,
no, I died so that you could clean up the fight
when they got overexcited and got baited
to run onto your side of the map.
It didn't break.
You're an expert here, right?
You seem to be experts with these excuses.
I'm like, why are you feeding so much?
Every single time somebody dies in a weird spot,
you always have something to say
like somebody else to blame.
But this fight, but I'm very good to all of them.
coming up from back here he waited it for a long time this is also pre-pulling on him
they're sorry continue yeah this fight the blue guy yes that for the next fight he is going to
have a blink dagger available going to be much easier level 18 now seems like they're not doing
enough in terms of how much they i want to see the damage overall i feel like oh we can bring
We can bring that up.
We got the technology for that.
9000 coming out from him.
A lot on the same kind of level of dealing the damage.
I've been expecting maybe slightly more.
It was Lauren on for the first 10 minutes and now he's back to Lauren off.
He's going to need to step it up.
Step it up, considering the start that he did have problem is you're playing Viper, you can't really make that many moves.
This is also Trans Viper, it's not too much of a travel, so very difficult to connect with the rest of the team.
You also want to be getting the farm, you can just walk around the map doing absolutely nothing, so waiting for his BKB timing.
Also very important that they recovered the gem.
He was Lornoff who picked it up and then he died so they retrieved the gem
and again holding the gem will need to be much more careful with the next one.
Yes, that's indeed.
And Nigma Galaxy, they really have to be very aware of where the Alchism when he's turning up to these fights
because so far she gets to...
Again, his involvement has been the perfect balance.
balance. This isn't an out that's overplaying his hand trying to turn up too much and it's also
not an out that's sitting completely AFK. When his team needs him to turn around these plays
and come in, he absolutely has so far. Having a pretty crazy game. He's nearly level 20 on the
Alchemist, 21K net worth. He's making this last pick Alchemist look very, very good here with
the play so far. Yeah, and you also want your Alchemist to join. This is not your
I'm investing into later stages of the game giving out agonist scepters instead
He is playing for himself
Which means that all that network that he has on him 21,000 28 minutes in
The team needs him the team need them to deal the damage AC completed basher on top of that
We'll have something to deal with the PKB's as well. There is
Double BKB timing one available on Viper one available on
On Nightstalker, we only use it once, but I would assume that they want to have Nullifier for the next fight.
Why? Getting very close to it.
Use another 600 gold to finish it off.
Shigetsu.
They're going to leave the charge.
If we jump onto Lorna from the mid, TP's coming in.
But the burst, it's going to be there. They have the Vortex to lock down Lorna.
If we get the BKB off, but the physical damage comes in from Shigetsu.
They take Lorna off out. He turns to Boilmar.
Double kill for Shigetsu.
Let's see if you can set up for more beyond the tower with the rolling thunder, but the rolling thunder now comes to a finish.
And they'll have to be happy to settle it like that.
Quick little move, gets them two kills, and they don't lose any.
Don't show time for them.
More than enough minus armor, more than enough damage.
AC minus armor from Lucky Shot, acid spray.
I see somebody's gonna be able to maybe think about getting in at the buy.
It was going with the idea, but it doesn't look nice.
Yeah, this would be a risky stale play.
And one that it looks like they're not gonna come in in time to make this
Groshan's gone, Aegis on rain and rain is straight away looking for kills outside of
the pit. Closes on to GH7. Now he's gonna show himself at the multi-shot. Should be
able to slide back to safety. Defy, he's gonna get in. He's gonna make the jump
over towards the out. Now get the hex into the burst. They save him with the
box. Can he get out alive? She gets you out. He can be in the chemical range.
Hakota, Balich she gets you out for now. They are gonna try and push up
forward, Nigma Galaxy. They desperately want to find this outcome. It's the Vial jump over.
Put a stop. He attempted escape from Batjot. But see, Rain jump back in. He's kind of just
giving his life for I think at this point. Zips in to make sure that this out could get
out. But no! Shigezu says, I'm not getting out! I'm going back in! Jumps in on the
Lorinoff. He's ready to run down Samael and Omar. Samael in trouble. The bomb thrown
his way from the techies as he'll get taken down. Vortex on awards Omar. Shigezu
getting another cleanup, double kill, godlike on this Alchemist. I mean, I, as I said, this is
really immaculate stuff around this out. You know, I feel very rarely, you see a team fight this well
around the out carry. It's pretty refreshing to see after some of these acts in the past,
they're doing these acts build up. Now, she gets you absolutely showing us the potential
of this hero when you play it in the style and the fashion that he is here with Yellow
Submarine this is the old school alchemist and I can't believe that he survived
He was so low and he goes back in to go back in yeah
Yeah, he was the one who was who was pinging like jump them
They want to be able to kill this alchemist and love to play from rain
Understanding that he has this ages and needs to be able to get in to try to salvage this fight
So he gets focused they use spells on him and then he regenerated enough back to full HP gets to jump and afterwards
it's it's just yellow submarine show they were ready to take that fight clutch
save though if Alchemist dies there they needed one spell maybe one extra hit on
him it would be enough and now you are controlling power runes for your storm
spirit does have DD in bottle not very I'm looking at Shigetsu and he's like
Nobody's getting an axe
Now that would be the real test because he's gonna keep a moon shot for himself or will he then stop buying some agonized
I feel it. It's eggs
It's initial for a storm spirit. Yeah. Yeah, you got it. I don't know about that
I think he might give it to the pango first
Pango already has this I don't know if the yes and money's got a refund
Yeah, you got a refund, but I think stores for it could be a big setup for Pango
We wonder as well
In my galaxy in a lot of trouble they are they are now this game too is
Completely slipped away from them again. Just you know kind of rewind the clock and remember the laning face
As I said, there's a point what some L was three zero three out of his landing face and the viper was six zero three
But these few fights
That yellow submarine have been able to turn around and say whoever's making the cool
whether it's Shagetsu himself, or someone else on the team calling for Shagetsu to turn up and return to farming.
They've just played perfectly with this out, and it's looking impossible for Nigma Galaxy to deal with now.
Rain.
He will get caught.
Is there him at the jump? He's actually able to get the BKB off, and he's got plenty of mana to zip away,
or go for the zip TP, he's actually out and alive.
Rain.
Now, at this point, they can't even jump and kill the storm. Rain's able to live.
Tiki's has a BKB cemetery in Madison, like look how far he is, the most farm support in
the game by a huge margin compared to GH who's sitting at only 6,000.
It does allow him to get the jump in the backlines, it's a lot of damage and also
being able to lose his spells, get the taser, not caring too much about the nullifier
either on this night stalker a fully recovered Owen and they're ready to
potentially be the aggressors be the ones who are controlling the rest of the
game controlling the map right now vision for nigma galaxy is almost non
unexistent. I've come up to 79% win probability here from the
old Toyota Plus.
She was gone done for that job.
Definitely getting to see this game why we said at the beginning
of the series that this would not be a walk in the park for
NIGMA Galaxy, Yellow Submarine, been showing a lot of potential and maybe they can sort
of, you know, maybe the concern now for NIGMA Galaxy is well maybe that game was as simple
as it was because they got the loan druid and maybe without that things kind of get
a little more complicated against Yellow Submarine with how well Yellow Submarine's been playing
on this qualifier run. This is going to be a tough game too for NIGMA Galaxy to
get back in their hands and could be a pretty difficult game three.
Yeah, it could be. I agree with everything that you said, but I also wanted to see what she gets is good
Nobody's getting out maybe after that. I think he's gonna cure moonshot first
At least you can use that
Well, you can use that on your ally. So at least that's something that's true
Maybe you find it's me he gets moonshot and gives that to the storm and is like well, you see if you played your land a little
nice so this could have been an agonims the best I could do for you is a useless
moonshark
let's have a look it's all very exciting let's see what he's gonna get
because he's gonna have the agonist shard money to buy it
see in the mid and they're trying to govern this tech
the cemetery of the BKB is living a little longer than they wanted him to
as he's gonna survive and that's gonna be both of them dead there for that
Yeah, he's throwing out a tip for that one, cemetery.
Again, no real follow.
It was only two of them jumping.
Yeah, it was 90 mid-death break.
Here comes the push by Hutt.
And with a great job, he's actually cool.
Lorinoff.
They close the gap in with the vortex.
Lorinoff's in trouble.
She gets her moves up with the abyssal blade.
They're about to come out with two buybacks, Nick Miguel.
Let's see how I'm on Dubai.
Dubai at the side.
He's trying to go in for this play,
And he's peeking at me still on cooldown, it's a dieback on him!
Cemetery is still alive!
They cannot kill this techies!
With that night stalk, you can't take the fight.
Like, he's the one that people are really afraid of.
So now...
You wanna pump him to damage, but not enough fucks.
Ready behind Alchemist.
She gets a...
Not taking much damage at all right now from this draw.
He is just massive...
On the Alchemist.
Rain. And for the jumps.
I'm gonna get them, but gets the space to allow them to clean up that tier three and racks in the mid lane.
She gets to
ready to do the damage top and here it is. The agonimus is queued up finally. He's ready to reward the team.
He's like, well, now that I've carried you guys, I guess I could be a generous guy and buy you some agonims.
Nothing they can do about this.
That's two sets, two full sets, bottom set is available, Roshan may respond in 30 seconds,
no need to rush anything, they can set it up, play in that area, you see the amount of bombs
that they already have in the enemy triangle, seeing if they're going to be making the
approach from this one.
Kota, drawing on a mid-map, push out the bottom lane, Roshan is going to be available
potentially soon. In a very good spot right now. Got a very hard to throw the game as well.
I'm looking at the items, how much gold they have in the magallim. This is not a divine
rapier territory. This is not anything close. It's not like big damage upgrade, no data lists,
no butterfly. I'm also a little surprised that we are not seeing agonim scepter on
draw ranger especially against the healing by 10% per stack this is a real
preference thing like some droughts were there are still some jobs that will
buy quite early in the build but indeed some other players yeah I'm able to
rush to see I'm able to legit go for it as their as its first item
When Nygma Galaxy is stepping out of the base...
Dude, Lacoste, do you see?
Look where the axe went. Poor old Brain.
He didn't get it, huh? He gave it to the pango first.
I see.
Brain, he's going to get the zip in here with the BKB. He wants in.
As the pull-in on the wall is divided into setups there,
a rolling thunder comes in, GH and Lauren off dead.
Lauren will buy back immediately.
As Yellow Submarine are ready to run straight over towards Samael.
Samael caught out and killed off.
He's out for 18, no buyback on him.
As Yellow Submarine, they are very ready to close this game to out.
Push it to a game three here, very likely.
As the buybacks are running out for Nigma Galaxy,
a very, very impressive game two.
two from Yellow Submarine again considering the landing phase they turn it around and there
it is and they're gonna call it. GG's called. Well as you know it's hard to see a game three
is gonna be coming up between these two to fight for that final spot from the Europe qualifiers
for TI and my goodness after this game two, Nigma Galaxy might be a little bit shaken
up because. And it might be it's gonna leave a bad taste in their mouths if they don't
qualify for TI. They lose that third game, especially with the lead that they did have.
This was the turnaround point where they had 5K gold lead and decided to go for the play.
Vacuque, again, his positioning really good. Nygma Galax, they already know where he is.
Omar using the stun, but it's not about, they brought five members of the team
and they already used KnifeStalker ulti prior to this, so he didn't have it available.
He didn't join that fight because they were chasing, they were trying to make something happen.
mid lane. It's Alchemist's pick. Looks pretty genius and also pretty genius to play for yourself
instead of playing for your teammates. Absolutely. This was a lot of fun to watch as well from Shigetsu.
Just pretty perfect movements across the map. Didn't die at all. Ends the game. 11-0-13.
They could not deal with him whatsoever after he got this momentum going in his favor.
choosing the perfect moments to turn up to these kind of mid-game teamfights
and then just completely catapult out of control.
They couldn't do anything. It felt like they stopped playing completely.
I think they also needed an earlier blink dagger on Night Soccer to try to keep this pressure,
find the back lines, take out this ring master that has been kind of the support hero of the
tournament if we exclude vain these heroes looked pretty damn insane and
cemetery techies man how many times he jumped in he was always in the right
spot the itemization wise picking up this upgraded urn to share the vision with
the night stalker and also immediately going in planting the triple bomb and
there was this fight in the bottom where she gets you he almost dies and
then gets saved by Hakota's box after that rain runs in sacrifices and
self with the ages and then after that everything is just easy peasy for yellow submarine. Yeah,
you know you do have to give it to rain you know after having a rough time in the lane
he really did play his part very very nicely but we've got to give the standout to Shigetsu
as I say there's this normally there'll be like a death here or there on the alchemist
but not this not this time they could never deal with him it was I think as close as to a
perfect Alchemist game as you could probably get, especially at this stage of a qualifier,
stage of a tournament, you know, qualification in the last series, to try and determine the win.
Very impressive stuff from him. And you know, after game one, we were very much like, well,
you're probably not going to see Lone Druid get through again. Honestly, after this game two,
Alchemist, it has been in the past, right? One of those heroes, especially when it's played
like this, that you see it played this well, and you're like, we just have to ban that.
like dealing with this out doesn't seem to be that possible. I mean, if you're
Nygma Galaxy, do you think that is going to be the case after this game? You're like,
okay, this guy is what he's doing on the out. Do you just ban it or you think they can account for
it with their draft a bit better? Not going to ban it in the first place, I would say, but also
we might see potentially Nygma Galaxy stealing it. They stole from Ranger in the second game
straight out of the phase, but that was also love to see Nygma Galaxy sticking with their
own idea of something like that game number one. Yeah, that's how far. So Game 3 time, it's always
a fun to see, especially with as much that is on the line here between these two teams.
Who is going to be able to get that final spot here from the Europe qualifiers? We're going
to find out after this break. Don't go anywhere, ladies and gentlemen. Game 3, it's going to be
be crazy I'm sure. Game 3 coming up between Nigma Galaxy and Yellow Submarine.
Back in your every move.
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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen it is time for game three now between Nigma Galaxy and
Yellow Submarine to find out which of these two teams is going to be going on to the
international in Shanghai the series have so far I mean how do you summarize the
series so far the cost what would you what would you sort of say from game
one and game two from both of these teams pretty chaotic in a way where
Nigga Galaxy did I think more experienced team would be able to close it out with
the lead that they did have but also don't underestimate yellow submarine
young squad and you could definitely tell these have these players have
been in top 100 for a really long time haven't managed to get like more experience on some
like higher tier teams but sometimes these type of teams do shine the most where you know they may
need a little bit of extra help from their coach which is Metron which is the old coach of team
entity who is helping them out with the draft and the drafts they they kind of look good we
set prior to the series that the drafts have been looking good, maybe some mistakes here
and there in terms of the gameplay, but other than that, the team looked very solid.
They have looked very good indeed and on one of those heroes that we're seeing, come
with us for the first pick this time and understandably so, I think it's one of the best ones
here for Hakoda, a first pick ringmaster, not something that you see teams do an
awful lot let me get picked around that second kind of phase but they're gonna
bump it up in priority and just throw it out here as the first pick this guy
owns on ring master like his positioning is very very good I think this is one of
the hardest heroes to master in Dota it might sound stupid but the cast range
especially before you get lands before you get a bling bagger it gets very
difficult to hit his spells. It's a skill shot on every single skill that he does have,
and if you miss them, you're going to look terrible. Pakota, he looked very solid, he looked very
stable. And again, they are banning out. Oh, yeah, Longrude's gone, but Alchemist, as you said,
it's still in the pool. Maybe later down the line, there's going to be more thinking about
that potential Alchemist coming out. I also would like to see maybe Lorinoff on a different
hero I think they're gonna be looking into a hero that's he's gonna be playing
something more active some ember spirit that could come out some background
jumper because I feel like him playing Viper twice he owned he owned that
second game completely the laning stage but I also feel like he wants to have
a slightly more impact when it comes down to these mid game fights instead of
just being the right clicker it's not very interactive it's not much you can
do other than have a good positioning
There we go. Nigma Galaxy. Going to bring in the axe for DeVy.
Something this has not been something that they've been doing recently or just
check. Oh no they did do it once. I actually got them the win or as part of the win that they
managed to achieve against Team Spirit a few days ago and I had an incredible game there,
17-4 and 20 on his axe in that game device so
One of the strong ones that is maybe a bit of a surprise
They didn't show a little more often here on this run, but it's a it's a very good one nonetheless
No, get it first pick here
Axis table off laner that always gets to farm can farm the stacks can get the most out of the lane
even in difficult matchups can always creep skip and is anti-carry with the
blade mail and nobody likes to play against this so I think she gets to this
game is gonna be much more difficult compared to the previous one even though
he was playing against a lot of annoying things Viper Strike, Tusk, BKB piercing
ability, multiple ways of dealing with him, multiple ways of getting the jump
vision advantage that they did have from the Night Soccer. A lot of these
things on paper it looked good but it never really connected together in the game.
Well Nick Mcgalaxy they have gone pretty deep into their reserve time on these early bands.
This is uh quite the time spent on this one.
Yeah, they're really running down the clock on this.
It will end up just being the Earth Spirit Band.
One of Rain's strongest.
But yeah, spending a lot of time on that one,
Nygma Galaxy.
What about some good old silencer?
I'd be down.
I know the hero doesn't have the greatest win rate.
lost almost every single game in the Chinese qualifiers but you might need to have something
to stop the string master from getting this stuff done. Okay, bang out. Earth spirit. Okay.
And this seems, I mean, are you okay with this? You know, kind of straight up showing these two
heroes that are very likely to almost 100% be the off lane in the mid as your first two picks
Is this not are you not kind of giving away too much here? We're showing too much what you're gonna do as this
Well, this is okay
This could have been a support hero something generic and now you're gonna get heroes that are gonna get on top
No, I mean that's very good that
They know yeah, that's same lineup pretty much that they had in the previous game three
heroes alchemist is still available if they want to go that route but I also
want to see maybe something from the mid lane something that's gonna get them
that extra bit of a jump unless rain wants to play pango and then you can
get another jump from the off lane what are we talking about primal beast could
be very good but you played offline tiny could be centaur that could come
out. I'm excited about this. Oh, it's a lot of fun. But this is they've
literally they first three picked all three of their course right unless this
is some ax or sniper support, which it could be there might be a little bit of
a curveball, but it also might not be and this is their three course. Yeah,
Magnus looked insanely strong. We've seen some male played once from the
carol. We saw naive played two or three games and it it farms so quickly.
It's also a hero that can stop pango from rolling in then the galaxy
making up Phoenix
They had a lot of success with Phoenix and they've been opening it up with Phoenix in most of their games. Yeah 80% win rate a
Lot of team fight come out from their side a lot of anti-carry seems like they had
They had enough what she gets you was able to do in the previous game
RP called multiple BKB person abilities distance sniper also
Being a guy that loves to have a good front line in front of him and that's gonna be axe
That's gonna be Magnus so far. Thank you. This kind of semi jump. It's not really the jump that you need against sniper
Bango is okay. I would be okay if he picks up something like a
Ember spread is good in the game, but it also really gets dismantled by sniper in the lane
What does Rain want here? Can't get his two spirits. Would you... I mean, can't get his
actually invoker either because I said would you like the invoker, but that's gone. So,
honestly, pretty much the strongest stuff from Rain is taken away from him. So, we'll
have to look for something a bit different this game, as opposed to what he's been
getting a lot of success with on his run, and the qualifiers.
The question is who wants to play this bangle. If they can maybe squeeze in something like
a Centaur, it could be pretty strong for the whole game. That's one of the worst, if not
the worst matchup against Sniper on Dota buff, I believe. We just double check that
real quick so I'm not talking out of my ass.
This is strong. This is strong. It's also a hero that's going to be against, you know,
Axe and Magnus, two blink dagger heroes, or heroes that are pretty reliant on making the
blink plays. So the horn is going to be pretty annoying if they don't get the jump on the
spectre before he expects that the fight is coming his way. The spectre pick looking
pretty strong here for Yellow Submarine.
Yeah, Storm Spirit and Spectre are the worst matchups for this hero.
for a good reason easy to get the jump, easy to get on top of them.
That's why I feel like, does this sniper maybe shift to some support sniper and you get someone
else for the mid lane? Or do you just not really do that nowadays?
I mean anything is doable. Game 3, DI qualifiers, do you want to do it? That's the question.
If you can find a better core, you might need to suck it up and maybe find something
better from the mid lane. Let's see who's talking on the galaxy at the moment.
Yeah, what are they going to do here? Because again, Axe is also in D1 that we did this flexibility
with right. They did have a game where they played the Axe support. So the Sniper or
the Axe might be support if they do see a chance to get something in that's going
to be like this kind of gotcha mid pick or off lane pick to finish that draft.
Okay, they banned Ember themselves because we also discussed that it could be very
good for yellow submarine just to pick overall they are lacking some of the stunts what do you have
mid-snap how'd you like it it's not that doesn't sound too bad it gives you oh okay so they're
going to do what you said actually not run back you're coming to pango this time put the pango
mid and then get back on the tide do you like that switch up yeah if this is i think they also
have in mind that this sniper can still go to the mid lane and yeah with his fortune favors
the bold it's 50% now so you get head shot it it doesn't work you just get a
question mark which is a lot of the damage that you're soaking up in these
early trades by trades you're not hitting sniper but you're just tanking the
damage I'm just so scared for the sniper if this is a mid sniper against a pango
a spectre and a tight hunter that's not terrifying and there is going to be
some sort of switch up so the timbers coming in let's see where they put
everything. I think it's going to be probably Omar Axe and it still is going to be this mid
sniper. I mean, my goodness, he's a brave fellow here, Lauren. They don't feel that they can
move the sniper away from mid. I mean, this is going to happen when you pick sniper
second in a draft, right? You are going to get these counter picks. And I don't
know, maybe correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like a plan of sniper game on
nightmare difficulty
uh...
it's
it's pretty much only specta pago can also be very disruptive it's also mid pago
so i assume he's going to be getting the earlier blink dagger compared to bat yuk
who was also getting agonist after into blink
but i'm also looking at the matchups against timber saw like they don't
have much i i like if we compare
snipe how much he was countered and compare how much timber saw is
countered
I like Timbersome more in this one. I feel like this hero is not addressed properly because they didn't know what they're gonna be picking
So it does feel good. It's not a stun. It's not a catch. So Omar is gonna be playing axe position 4
It's doable. They played it before this hero can be run from different roles because it trades so well in the lane and also
Sniper he builds into Silver edge. I think this game show it might be some dragon lands
It might be like earlier shard to have extra bit of a protection so you can remove yourself from wrong thunder
Create against specter with this arm and also later on you pick up the silver edge again specter against tight hunter
It does work really well, and then you can go back to one of the best items of the best item
You can buy on sniper hives DPS. We may be exclude butterfly and that's gonna be
The new item the hider's breath
This is going to be a lot of fun to see some switch ups indeed and as you say maybe this
final pick Timbersaw is going to be what kind of destroys Yellow Submarines lineup. We saw
the stats coming up there from Dubai. This is one of, it's going to be one of his most
picked errors with a stat like that. He had a pretty insane win rate on this Timbersaw.
Yeah, it is. So it's his most played in pro games, 137 matches, 65% win rate in officials,
and then on his pubs also, and we don't have the most up-to-date stats, but until they were
being recorded, 831 games, 61% win rate. So this is, he has found the space to bring
out his best hero, and from what you're telling me, he's managed to find a way to
bring it out as the last pick in a game where the hero looks pretty phenomenal in
his matchups.
Yeah he does. I mean, this timbersaw, I think timbersaw is gonna own this game. There's literally nothing that he's afraid of. Maybe mana burn from Pangolier, but other than that he seems more than fine. Unless he's somehow isolated, suspect he hits him with his dispersion, desolate damage.
I think this hero is more than fine. They have really no abilities to stop him from getting in getting out of the fight as well
The vibe he's going to need to step up in this game because he's been set up for a success
He really has and there's a say from the stats
He's certainly got the backup to prove that he can do it here with this timber his best hero
Coming in at this defining moment at the qualifiers game three against yellow submarine a yellow submarine with a line up
that you know I can't help but feel that if this game doesn't get kind of taken
and under the control of nigma galaxy early this should get suspected in the
late game might be something that they will not be able to deal with under the
tier 2 towers some mail gonna get taken down yellow submarine having just
enough to kill him off and find that first blood to start game three
Hakona just time around getting pain of the beat pain the beast getting in
mid skewer and then cashing him off guard I assume. It's not gonna be as strong for
trading in the lane. GH did deny that Bound to rune.
So good start for him. Saw what cemetery can do with the farm that he was
getting in the previous game. Getting the BKB being very tanky. Good start for
this off lane. But Yook also should have a good time in the bottom lane. He
He is tight-handed, tight-handed for after-all. Magnus, that's a carry Magnus. He puts more points into MPower, so it's not going to be feeling that much damage.
Of course there's the carry Magnus against the tide. There will be the timings of the game where even if you get him in that RP, he's probably going to be ready to have the BKB ready to press.
Because a high chance to Batchick will still get those ravages out to disrupt your play.
top lane, DeVy, talks about the expectations for him, he ends up dying in the lane. Omar,
also to get chased down here, the darts hitting, he will survive, but a very nice kill for them
to find early on in the laning stage here, Hakoda and Shugetsu. He thought to put more
pressure with rolling depth, and that is what you're supposed to do, but also sometimes
In some matchups you want to go for reactive armor and be slightly more tanky.
They cut down all the trees in this area making sure that he's not going to be able to get that harassment, get that extra bit of damage maybe.
How's Midlane doing? 6 and 2. Sniper sitting at 9 and 1.
More or less Sniper. There are a couple of Sniper experts in the scene. Quinn being the one but he's not playing anymore.
Of course XM we got to mention him and Lornoff also being very big on Sniper.
Bottom line GH, they're gonna have it.
Now there's a Marine starting to get some early kills here in the lanes.
Bottom lane.
At the least for Nygma Galaxy there, making sure the back yip doesn't have any easy time
finding the CS.
So the slowest start right now at the cause in terms of the last hits.
male getting pretty much free farm as the Magnus despite his support dying.
Not super easy for GH to trade with them especially once the levels of their
cemetery is gonna have a decent amount of burst to threaten the Phoenix.
Top lane, things starting to calm down a little bit for Dubai.
On these level 3, he's got an extra point to spend if necessary for Timber Chain.
You know, pop it in there now, get away from the two of them.
Much less likely that he dies again now against those two top.
Well, that's the strongest support in the lane, as Timber Chain.
It's a melee position for him.
He doesn't trade death wall.
especially because they also got to make sure a bit of a gold early on from that
assist that they got extra bit of a cold gold from the kill you know Omar needs to
find a way how to play this lane because right now it's not really working out
Hakota is giving him the treatment it's called stick charges and verify
here on Hakota Lornoff he's actually gonna get the chance to kill off rain
in the mid and cemetery will not be able to punish Lornoff so Lornoff
Getting a very nice kill with the aggression, Hakota will finish Omar off the vine. He'll swing across make sure to get that trade though
Takes down Hakota in return
And Midlane Lornoff getting a kill like that
It's gonna set him on a good track to hitting that six pretty fast already about a full level of experience ahead of that
Of the Pangolier in this matchup
Not respecting strong men taunt it there, as I was watching a different fight, he did
have it because of the kill that he got early on.
It's quite a lot of strength that you are getting.
He was level 3, so I'm nice.
It's a strength, almost 200 HP.
It's a male.
Getting the chance to take down Batyok with the help of GH.
punished the tide whilst he's on his own. As DJO might just kind of chasing Cemetery across the map.
Eyes on the med, Hakoda. We'll get the connection but Torrain's got the six in the rolling thunder.
They can't go for a tower dive for the Sniper. Very difficult kill to try and get.
Watch the board though, five minutes in. Pretty even, they're going to try for another setup
on the divide. We'll chain away, they'll have another dagger in a few seconds to go for
divide. Has got a Lotus, so we'll be fine. Relatively so though, we'll have to still
stay underneath the tower not able to put pressure really until she gets it so
having a fine time here farming in the safe land is the specter I think they
want to get him level six and then try to make him more and off because right
now he is getting the solo xp. Omer is gonna take it
stepper doesn't care too much about the runes she gets it to another couple
of creeps to be able to get this if this level six also something to point
out some male he is skipping mask of madness under hero last time he played it he did go for it we saw
other teams also pick up mask of madness naive it's your farming tool that you're sustaining the jungle
right now he is skipping it i like this you know i i don't really know i'm talking about but when at
least when i'm doing the madness i i prefer to go this way you know just getting the echo into
the blink if that's indeed what he does go for us the second i'm off the echo i it's something
about this opening feels a bit more explosive when you do hit that kind of
echo blink dagger timing and go for the the first RP play so fun to see and
he's a male going for something a bit different to what we've seen on the
other of a carry Magnus play and where it's always that mask of man is first
but not here today for some mail going for the slightly different build up
we'll see if he goes back for it I'm a big fan of both massive madness and
Echo Saber and then going for a blink you can go massive madness into blink into Echo Saber
Depends how the game is going who's being the initiator for the team better you need to blink initiate or you can just get away
With getting the farm problem is sometimes you don't have to sustain the
Clear the jungle because of your enchantments having to be a universal hero
You don't get to get those cool enchantments as an off later
Maybe so you don't have as much region and you don't have as much as much sustain
So a lot of the times you would see carrying Magnus without mask of madness sitting at 60 70% HP coming into a fight
Not where you want to be
See on the numbers the way that the lettings going nigma galaxy are getting that a little bit more out of these lanes
With Lauren off and some ale having quite the start here top two net worth
So we're going to go for the rolling thunder, thinking about trying for the dive, and here's
that timing you talk about, we should get you coming in with the ultimate, jumps over
to Wards, Lorinoff, but they don't have enough damage to get him.
Rain, he'll try and slide in to finish up the job, but has not got the damage.
Lorinoff is perfectly fine, he could just turn, look to take Rain out, Rain, he's
up to the high ground, he's bottling up, Samal, he's going to dive on forward
for him though, Omar comes in from the side, he'll be able to run down, he
with the power hunger shockwave not gonna quite clip rain but some out is he
able to find a chance to get in he won so TP out will come in time to keep rain
safe but unsuccessful that with that first thank you with the horn he's very
thank you double rape and because he got that solo kill managed to farm belt of
giant strike understanding the matchup not going for blade of the lacquer he
have more damage, we'll have more farm. It's more about the survivability.
So far it's working out. Divy, farming on the other side.
Completely uncontested as well. 45 CS on him.
In the middle of the pack at the moment.
Most super easy stun so far for Rain.
And the Rain, no longer really that safe with the spacefirm, especially with Omar hanging
around just spamming out the battle hungers any time he steps up.
Not easy to sit in the lane anymore against this sniper plus one.
top gh ready to get aggressive he's got the six supernova at the ready
in the go for a coda it's gonna try and cycle away but it's straight to Omar
it's got the call they'll burst through him easily another kill for
me galaxy 3k lead now ten minutes in
or not I think he also wants to make a move with this case seems like they
you want to catch rain or more is there he's he could try to beat me and he has
to keep you out
it's just not he's just not getting much space at all anytime this pango tries to
find somewhere to farm Lauren off just turns up and forces him out of it top
lane looking for a code up so there's so much running you could do to buy
easily able to chase him down pick up a good kill here with that should be
able to finish off the tower. Once this goes on in the mid, Omar continues to be in it.
Quite the nuisest. They'll deal with him though, right? We'll come across. I mean, I said they'll
deal with him. Omar's going to be able to run. Should have him in a second with a swash
puck or a shield crash. Will indeed finally take the axe out, but it's drawn a lot
of attention towards the mid. Where Sniper's going to be. He doesn't care about action,
getting or coming to his lane so he can maybe get a kill he can maybe get some
extra farm device stealing some of the stacks as well Magnus continues to farm
up 4k gold lead now for them Axis very under level level 4 at the moment but
everybody else on the team is doing more than fine
Summoning is gonna be insanely far with these timings and he's gonna be
be able to be involved quite early on with this build. Halfway on the gold towards the
blink dagger. The timing is four. Ellison is going to be a bit slower. They are going
to need to somehow find a way to slow this game down. Allow Fugetsu to get this blade
mail into Radiance. It's going to take a fair bit of time. I wanted to mention it.
It's going to be a very delayed Radiance. Blade mail is super expensive item, 2.4k
gold. And you're not getting involved. I can understand why he's getting blade mail.
You're playing against a lot of uncontrollable damage, you're against pretty much all three
cores on the Nigma Galaxy, but this could have also been blade mail slightly later. It's
a bit of a cheaper option to farm. But that's radiance. That's a 20 plus mint radiance.
If he dies once or twice, things are going to get pretty difficult for him to farm
it.
Yeah, they're definitely hoping for a long game at Yellow Submarine.
And maybe that's not a bad shout for them to go for, especially when you consider Game 2 was one where Nigma Galaxy got a lead early on,
wanted to make aggressive plays, those weren't wrong and certainly the game turns around.
So perhaps Yellow Submarine playing for that same sort of mistake to come out from Nigma Galaxy
And just sort of you know, they're gonna kind of sit back hit creeps and force nigma galaxy to have to try and make those moves
Knowing that after that last game there's a chance the nigma galaxy might make the wrong ones
So far that
Nothing
Really going wrong at all for Nygma Galaxy. That's the timing for some out. So 13 minutes will have the echo
Yes, we changed it up. Okay, so he actually goes for the full half here. So this is something different
To what we've seen so I was expecting the echo into blink. He did have that queued up
But he actually says no, I'm just gonna finish the half in first
Top they come up with the catch on to divide. It's quite a big catch as well taking him out. So that's the timber gone
Yeah, he's going to continue to hit those creeps then until he has this blink dagger on top of the harpoon.
Sure, if someone turns up to the lane, he can try and go for some setup play with the harpoon.
But this does show that he's not interested in kind of getting involved yet.
He is just going to continue to hit the creeps until the blink dagger is now done on top of that harpoon.
Yeah, that's why I thought maybe Mask of Badness is a better choice.
Harpoon is good for setting things up with skewer.
Yes, well, yeah, you're slightly more thinking you would get that item no matter what you
most likely get it at the later stages once you finish off your master's madness, Blink
Bagger, maybe even BKB if necessary depending on what you're playing against, but right
now it is just straight up harpoon for some mail.
As you get soon, all the space that has been taken away from him, he's still managed to
avoid death himself in 002 and he's starting to climb up the net worth, it's got a long
way to go. But this, you know, the 5K lead or such that Nygma Galaxy did build up, it
has started to kind of stabilize, which the Yellow Submarine will not be too upset about.
If they can get to their item timings, if they can farm this Nygma Centra tight hunter,
maybe get a pick off in between without losing too much, they're definitely okay with that.
that Spectre can enter her Radiance Diamond.
One of his, they don't really have many playmakers.
It needs to be Pango with the Blink Dagger, who is still relatively far away from it,
or if he can find an opening with the Swashbuckle into the Fuse of Blade slow,
and then Spectre comes in, but they also need to be aware of how they're going to be getting out of the fight as well once they commit.
That's why we're seeing them not really committing to these fights.
these fights instead, like you saw that fight top, where they managed to kill the bi.
Quick kill, they saw the egg, they don't want to overcommit.
They're happy with whatever they can get, any kind of a small advantage.
The gold lead still keeps increasing for Nigma Galaxy.
So if they want to go for that smoke move, Roy Simau is going to be content still farming.
Blink daggers on the career front.
It's in a very, very strong spot.
They want to try and make some play. Maybe if he wants to go for the twin gate head over.
He's going to TP mid to try and rest the team.
So here's that move. So really strong timing here.
16 minutes in. Blink harpoon, ready to go on Simau.
They catch any of these heroes in an RP. They're getting the kill.
It might be a little more complicated because he's got the Kraken shell, but anyone else, very easy catch on to the mid, find Cemetery.
Without committing too much, it's just Harpoon, just Blink, and Skewer. No RP, still has that available for the next fight if needed.
A little surprise that Lorinoff is going for Mjolnir. I know this is a like probably more
popular build in pubs, but this item is really not that great. Maybe he's thinking I need
to have like cheap option to deal with the radiance, the miss chance against Victor,
but I feel like the other option feels much much better with you getting the dragon
lands getting the shard and then picking up silver edge force inspector to buy
extra bit of detection and then you have silver edge as well for specter and
tight hunter and then going back to hydra because I don't consider mjolnir to
be a very good item at the moment it's very expensive and not really doing that
much. That's right. Maybe one of the reasons as well where we're starting to see the rise of some of these
carries that don't rely on building up the Mjolnir. Yeah exactly. It has been
nerfed way too many times. Smelt, bottom, he's gonna be able to finish off that
tower, GH, and close the cemery making sure that he has something just in case
they decide to go on him.
Definitely looking so far so good but it is one of those games where if you
You kind of throw a bad team fight into a spectre that cleans up.
That lead that you have against him will start to dissipate very quickly.
So Nigma Galaxies are going to continue to play.
He's opening very carefully to maintain this lead.
I think Sassanate coming onto Rain, but no one near enough damage to snipe him down
quite yet.
Supports on the old submarine are not farming much, so they can't really get stuff
done.
heroes rather than farming heroes. We're still gonna smoke up seeing that there is no egg available.
Magnus still fight ready. Ideally you would want to have to get to the have radiance at this point
but only relic on the courier.
I can gh bottom to know that he's used the super nervous so gh pretty vulnerable here.
Catch him in the chain stop.
managed to take the phoenix out cause of nigma galaxy they're very safe else
run them out Lauren off still yet to die 202 and clean up the mid very very
easily there still is that very very fast timing on the owners arms be will
be very strong like to stay up there parallel with the net worth gain of
of some mail
and this is before he even gets empowered it's a range hero so you're not
getting all the benefits but it's still
relatively good damage increase
inspector desperately needs that radiance this is gonna be
their time to strike
Duke finished off his agonim scepter
maybe they can sync up both
bling dagger and tight hunter radiance inspector
and then try to take the fight
The adventure is available.
They're not going to find anything.
They still want to take the fight.
Omar, also with the blink dagger.
They have to set up for this fight.
They can't start the adventure whilst they don't have info on the whereabouts of Nygma Galaxy.
But they can set up for a team fight like this from the high ground.
after this creep wave and look where cemetery is same spot same items it does
have essence there could potentially see them once they go on the tormentor does
have tumbler's toy can go for the jump completely afk in this area again
favorite spot the map but we're often lost and really did and as you say just
playing for the chances of seeing if you can get that sort of big play big
info for the team. Now for Yellow Submarine, they have got the blink on Batchook so they
can look to set up the fights themselves with the jump potential of both him and the pangalir.
Go for the TP out. They might have anything to stop that. They won't look to drop anything
for it. I mean the question from me really is obviously I'm seeing this spectre, she
against you getting to farm, getting to catch back up.
Like how much of an uh-oh is it for Nigma Galaxy
that the Spectre's getting to do this?
That he's got the blame now, that he's got the radiance.
Like, when, is it already getting to a point
where Nigma Galaxy are feeling a bit of pressure
to speed things up or do you not think
they're necessarily feeling that at all?
They have Sniper, they have Magnus,
they have good scaling.
Axe is also gonna be scaling at one point.
This is Blink Dagger call.
Going for the four staff next, might even try to upgrade that later on.
Rain, he's in.
Oh, crack. There he comes.
Drop the Ravage, only catches G8.
So everything on a G8, they will be able to run down Omar.
Don't get the cause, but they do manage to make sure that both kills go the way they carry.
Should get Serb to turn up, clean up.
Back to farming. These are the type of fights they want to get.
get and I think make my galaxy after seeing that they use two really long
polkies on cooldowns they're gonna go inside a rush bit and take it knowing
that they can't really contest without without these abilities so I also opt
for a BKB as his second item they get the correct choice you're playing
against pango you are playing against more annoying spells and also playing
against wave man it can be super annoying if you want to be killing
specter smell let's get a pick off you could be about to be completed needs
another camp smell it's good we're not gonna grab on a go-to as the blink one
of the strongest times to have against these harpoon play styles always have
a blink away.
He's approaching the mid here, Nigma Galaxy, stepping up for the tier two.
It's just, I just wonder if there's, it, it, do you not think there's that kind of feeling
in the back of their minds, Nigma Galaxy, after that game two where this, you know,
she gets to play on the Alchemist.
This guy knows what to do to turn a game around on his carry and indeed this game,
He's not died down the spectre.
He's third on the net worth.
He's rising up the ranks.
I think I'd be a bit concerned
if I'm Nygma Galaxy. Even though you do have
scaling potential, you do have
some of these heroes like the Sniper that are not
going to have fun dealing with the spectre later on.
In the river, they will find Batshuk.
So getting a big killbust,
surely they want to try and look for
more and more. If they slow this down,
you've got to be worried
about Shagetzu. He knows how to
have a carry again. Yeah and he's very careful. This is a type of carry player that knows when
to take the risks. A lot of bombs here. Oh my goodness, they'll get him and they will
survive the mines. And that will set them up to go for the Torbats. Now, kind of low
but GH will heal them up. I should be able to find us. Well, they are dropping
low but we'll be able to get it in the end.
She has Sunray definitely helped.
Up to 10k highest network lead that we've seen them have.
Spectre, she is getting the farm.
She really is.
She is, but she will also need, like this is not one of those games where Spectre can solo carry.
She also needs Pango to be able to scale.
And right now Rain lowest network core.
can't do it on her own because she will like everyone get broken by sniper we will see that we will
maybe see it even from the Magnus and yeah he has one queued up so very good item in this game we
talked about it during the draft once he saw specter anti-times on the same team
yeah i don't know yeah maybe i am overrating the specter a little bit maybe it's just sort of
trauma from all those games in the past that you play oh he's got the specter hitting the
creeps and you're like guys there's a spectre that we haven't seen in quite some time and getting
quite a lot of items online. I don't know I'm, I feel like Nigma Galaxy have to be a little bit
worried about should get some in the mid. Jump's gonna be there. Look at the fight.
Nice. Sinking not overlapping anything. The fight doesn't get the BKB off. They get the kill
immediately back to farming. I think the Galaxies should try to look for a fight
knowing again, two very long cooldowns, two plus minutes. Should try to find
something, smoke up, maybe buy gym. GH doesn't have it yet trying to control
certain areas of the map and play from there but right now there's not much
going on. They are back to farming, maybe also
respecting techies knowing that they can't invade. We saw what they can
do near the twin gates. You drop them relatively low. Imagine if Tidehunter jumps on top of
that. Imagine if your Spectre also gets on top with the ulti. Level 18 now, meant to
finish. BKB next on the menu for sure you get to.
Now that's going to really enable him to turn up to any of these fights very confidently
nigma galaxy. It's a mild. It's difficult, dummy. Any time you make these moves on the
map against the techies, you never really want to be the one who blinks him first, because
it might go horribly wrong. They're using essence distiller plus mines, so they see
exactly where they are. They're blocking off the rain, sending out spectra illusions
They might strike while the ulti far down. 50 seconds for both of them to come back online
Slowly have to unturn to the high ground but not able to get a catch rain
trying for the wisdom steal but he's going to get caught by the call some
out he'll drop an RP for this one ensure that they can catch and kill off the
pango
they seem to find them know that he's not really got the team with him he's
gonna be heavy immediately knows that he's vulnerable whilst he's out of
load does not want to risk the chance of them being able to make a
play for it. That's VKB out of the system. Roshan's still going to be on this side for
another minute and a half. Spectre continues to farm up. It's a scary hero. A bit of a forgotten
hero you've seen it here and there, but it's a hero that can carry the games. I feel
The best scaling out of the heroes on Team Nigma is the Sniper, and that's the one that the Spectre kind of counters the most.
That's my concern here for Nigma Galaxy.
You're not wrong, Owen. I mean, it is like that. She can disassemble that radiance later on, pick up Nullifier and get some Bloodthorn action going on.
on Scotty. There's a lot of items that Sniper is gonna need to be afraid of. I'm seeing
what GH is buying and I am agreeing all these ORAs tanking things up. Let's have Greedy
Enchantment of course, 100 extra GPM. Gold is kicking in. How's Axe doing? He's also
holding on to Greedy Enchantment. Four staff ready. Shatterdly, queued up on him.
I mean, this is gonna be a lot of Shadowblades.
You're gonna have three heroes picking up the Shadowblade on the Nigma Galaxy.
Detection is gonna be pretty huge and they know it.
Yellow Submarine, they'll pick up the Gem for a Hakkoda.
Ooh, amplified damage. He kills it immediately.
Lord of the Rings is like, I could have waited it out.
It's a big one. The fight's brewing. Hakkoda.
Somale he gets blink again
He is his reactions. He's ready any time I see someone trying to come for him
Especially if it's Somale, he's ready to react. It's a couple of times now
Somale's not been able to get the grab on this ring master
Do you even go for him knowing that
He's probably going to get that maybe this way you're like yeah, whatever you see the ring
I'm not even gonna yeah
It's ideally they would want something bigger as well in the galaxy, but yellow submarine
I just did a pretty good job of never really having their cause in a position where they can be jumped
And again whilst nigga galaxy do have this gold lead
it's at this point only climbing up very very slowly and
She gets you is getting all the space in the world. He's second highest on the net worth
You give him a few more minutes. He's gonna be in that top spot as the specter
They haven't been able to hunt him down.
Looks like a nice gun. Once this guy didn't die for the last two hours, pretty much.
He didn't die in the previous game, didn't die in this one.
He could be now completed on him.
Look at the happy to be piercing abilities.
He still wants to have that extra protection, where he can maybe kill off the agg,
remove some more annoying spells, fire spirits, battle hunger,
and also, the adventure RP.
Some out.
I'm going to go for the jump.
I'll be able to get the catch on the cemetery.
And the support kill.
Still, can they try and turn these moves into more Nygma Galaxy?
Farm is good on them, and they're getting support kills,
but they really want to try and find the course.
Try and turn this into a tier 2 push if possible.
He's going to lead in and there's the jump with the follow-up horn, they're over on towards
Lorinoff, he's going to try and hide in the pit, can he escape the spectre?
He cannot, Reign kills off Lorinoff, Nygma Galaxie, they do manage to find Hakoda, Ravage
comes out though, clicks both GH and Divai, it's going to be GH dead, Divai will get
the BKB off, he's going to look towards Reign, Nygma Galaxie is about to wear
off from him, it's getting a bit messy this fight now for Nygma Galaxie, trying
to get away here with the steward ghost from the tb they'll force him away it allows him to get out
but oma left behind three dead on nigma galaxy yellow submarine only losing hikota who didn't
immediately buy back and that's going to allow yellow submarine to move into the pit get this
roche and as i said i think nigma galaxy they might have this lead but i think they
might be starting to sweat a little bit of cost oh absolutely they're sweating because
Sniper he is getting caught. He was pulling up to that hurricane fight for a really long time
But it wasn't enough that he comes in with the daggers. She goes to my chance bit. Oh
RPS the ground he's off. He's the ground and frustration. He's dead
That's not a good sign trouble as well. He's gonna try for the TPL, but again
Ready with the whip
As DeVy healing him up, but rains him with the rolling thunder, they get the anchor down onto DeVy.
The Supernova will at least give the space to keep DeVy safe.
Five miles to get him with the jump call onto Batyuk.
They'll kill the tie.
So they will protect DeVy, take down the tie, but Roshan's gone.
Aegis now into the hands of Shigetsu, and that gold lead that Nigma Galaxy had, starting to drift away.
It's it's not much this 6k now 5k gold lead. Yeah, doesn't even feel like a lead anymore
I think they're still gonna be playing slightly more passive even with this agents
They don't want to be rushing things
Especially once they don't have abilities online
They don't have the ravage if they don't have that the haunt they're probably not gonna try to engage
She gets you that was close. He almost picked up both runes
There was an illusion rune if you pick that up on spectra for free to drain radiance kill you can farm the whole map
yes it yeah it would have been a dream for me I could quite make it there in time
yeah this is uh yeah this is stepping up to be quite the game three you know
15 to 14 a gold lead that doesn't really mean a huge amount of 34 coming up
to 35 minutes in and a question of whether or not nigma galaxy are going
to be able to get away with this draft where you know sure they obviously
They have the view, and it's going to see the honk come out
because they're going to just use it to freely take down Omar.
You know, a draft where, you know, shortly they get the carry smell,
but the true carry is the sniper, right?
That's the one that scales the most, but they picked it second,
and it's a draft where they've allowed the spectators
to come through as the last pick.
And she gets to, after playing an insane game two
on his Alchemist, and now in this game three,
still yet to die, this is going to be an absolute challenge
for Lornoff and the lads to try and out-carry this.
Yeah, especially with the next item coming up.
Yeah, this Scotty is going to reduce healing from Timbersaw.
Aw, he's in trouble. He's up at the EKVP.
What can we do with this guy? I'm sure he gets it.
EKVP's about to wear off the rest of Nigma Galaxy. I'm coming over.
No, we have an RPG being used on it, bro.
We've seen one on the ground, but...
Uh, maybe one.
I was gonna say, but do we have like a solo RP? I think he just did drop an RP down until one target, but indeed it's not been too flashy from Smele in this early game.
It's been a slow start for him.
We haven't seen 2B in this game yet.
Considering that you have actually had him or Saba formation from Yellow Submarine has been pretty immaculate, not grouping up, not allowing him to go for that multi-man RP.
I'm off.
So with the setup, some mail, open the beak at me, hoots, and then long quit, you'll still
get the skewer on a rainbow, and they get the job done.
It's not pretty.
I don't think it connected.
I think it connected.
Yeah.
No, they got it.
It's a job done.
He's dead.
It doesn't matter.
They got the kill.
Well, they got the gem right from that.
So big kill for them to find this.
Gem is the big one.
Yeah.
It's not so much about the kill.
the gem seemed that everybody wants to pick up shadow blade like they have
magnets with the silver edge now completed sniper has shadow blade and
also axe has one huge up and just picked it up so later on you will need to
rebuy that gem
should get so how far is your fiscati just about under 800 gold
He's ready to fight again, has the haunt, they're probably waiting till the pan goes back in.
Next big guy and pick up from them, done, Batyuk's got the Sheavers guard.
And you're seeing here, Somael after the Silver Edge, he's going to be looking for the AC for the team.
And the house, Law and Osh progress looking after the Silver Edge, he will want that Satanic.
It's very close to being able to get the Silver Edge, finished on the Sniper.
And they have been able to hold on to the mid tower for quite a nice long time, they're 37 minutes in.
Galaxy still having the tier one mid alive. Definitely allowing to alleviate
some of the pressure that Yellow Submarine are going to look to apply now.
Yellow Submarine absolutely feeling strong and ready to set up for the
fights themselves now with the moments passing and the game starting to drift
into the later stages.
Come on. The setup onto the tide is not going to happen right?
Same for the Rallying Thunder.
See Shugetsu look to go towards the Squisher here as first.
Watch the take down of our... Now he jumps over, they get the sun on.
What's going on? Sumail put the RP to look down.
Shugetsu, Loros having to turn and start to stand his ground here under the cover of the BKB.
I might get the call on towards Shugetsu, they're bringing it down.
This time round, Yellow Submarine, they dive, a tower too far.
Sumail gets the last laugh. Double kill for him.
But kind of the first time in these last two games, Game 2 and Game 3, as the first time
we were yellow submarine, they pushed it too much.
They went too aggressive.
The jump was a little bit awkward, right?
They had to go very deep beyond the tier 1 up to the tier 2 to make that move.
When he came in with the horn, wanted to get into the axe first.
They couldn't kill Lauren off quick enough.
Sure they get him at the end of it all, but he was actually able to turn and get
a decent amount of damage off before he did die.
Yeah, and this time around he lands a two-man RP, he becomes super tanky with a 15 talent, 14 attributes, so that's 28 attributes, which makes him extremely tanky, and their damage is really not that high, it's a bit of a damage over time on the yellow submarine, unless Pango's coming in with the roll multiple connections.
And as you said, they were diving in too deep, also if Wanderer doesn't connect, they still have this tier 1 tower, so they were diving behind tier 1 tower, down to tier 2 tower, and there's still a fish available.
But Yook, I need to run it down the mid lane, pick up that juicy fish. Where is he sitting at right now? 5 at the moment.
And they're two men, it's probably pretty hung up.
But uh, and these guys, you wanna see the best thing about them is probably that they're
yummy, apparently, not necessarily what they actually give you, because we've seen some
places kind of straight up ignore, pick them up sometimes.
What up?
Somebody out?
He's got the BKB and the Silver Edge and he's ready to step up and go in here with
O'Mar and Dubai.
And you can pull out flying the wheel.
O'Mar, he wants to go down, O'Mar, I have to put the BKB and get out.
to go for the skewer TP but the damage is coming out for Shigetsu. He gets it on top of him,
that's the male dead. And that's the gem on the deck. They move over to GH. And for the mistake
the yellow submarine might have made in the mid, Nigma Galaxy kind of make a bigger one there.
That is wrong. Nigma Galaxy, one thing you can always count with this team, they are
going to make a mistake. They're going to make your heart rate beat up by a lot every
every single time. If your fellow is happening, it's never clean. It's always a rollercoaster
of emotion and their game is...
What the fuck?
He's gone back in. He's got BKB, but he's trying to do this solo. Okay, he's going
to go for the BKB and TP, and they don't have anything to stop it. So he'll get
out, but how many uses the BKB there again? But I did hear. You couldn't kind of get
anything more really from a game three like this. The qualification game for TI and I think
everyone right now whether you're rooting for Nigma Galaxy or Yellow Submarine you're
probably on the edge of your seat at 41 minutes in. 19 to 20 and you have 3k gold difference.
Yellow Submarine swinging the game background but maybe, maybe there's the chance if for
Nigma Galaxy if Yellow Submarine do make these mistakes if they can set up for the
high ground. Now if they don't get the clean jump onto the snipe again on top of
with the horn the high ground hold from nigma galaxy will be very strong around this magnet sniper
it will be but look at what she gets who has in his quick fight he does have a refresher so
it's not as strong as it was before you can be refreshing your bkb your blade melds and
mantis styles but uh you do refresh your ulti which is the most damage that is being dealt
and also shown where everybody is it's going to give you that secondary decision secondary reset
as well if you want to call it where they're going to be seeing everything and they're going to be
getting a better jump potentially for rain. We said that rain, he needs to also play a bit of a
game where he needs to scale if he was thinking what do I need to buy? Do I need to buy this
Octurion core? One of the best late game items you can buy on Pango but instead after seeing the
BKB TP out to Dempsey he purchases a basher and Spectre is also not going for the basher
herself which means that you need to have it. So with this basher Retrieve gem that they
they did pick up. They're kind of in a really good spot.
Titehunter also picked up Hex closer to level 25,
so you can have that extra second on the Ravage.
And I want to see next item also queued up potentially for Batjuk.
If this game goes late, there's going to be a refresher Titehunter
with level 25 talent.
It's almost 3.5 second duration times two.
Yeah, that's so much.
Second duration of AoE. It's a lot.
Like that's enough for the specter to just kill
whoever he gets the chance to jump on during my ravage.
Yeah, for a fresher.
I'll smoke time for the Yellow Submarine. If they find a good fight here, they will take the gold lead.
Make my Galaxies seem pretty prepared. Grouped up, they can sense something's coming.
It's a fight. It's gonna show first. BKB's back off cooldown.
He's gonna open up with the H-Player. Oh my, is it? But the call is actually gonna
stall that one here. I'm still in the back. Let's do it for
It's about at the 4-bar B. To take out Batjok.
A beautiful call there from my mother. Start the fight.
See if the LSM Recon continue to fight this. Shigetsu is considering getting back
in on this. Dagger over the wall is GH, but the dive's up.
lost Lauren off and won't lose anything more though. So ends up being the two for one. Very,
very quick move to start things off there. Omar gets a clean call and Divy actually able to chase
down Cemetery, make sure they get a third kill off the back of that fight. But yeah,
excellent call from Omar and no hesitation from Simel to follow up and just drop that RP
and burst this tide effectively before he could get any chance to ravage.
Yeah, the call is one of the best options against Nighthunter, it cannot be dispelled.
I want to see if he maybe switches things around, I would love to see potentially some
A on this picked up on Nighthunter just so that you don't die, meaning that you get
the Ravage off, you get your sight afterwards, and now Roshan does belong to Nigma Galaxy.
This is also a fight where she gets to use his refresher.
Didn't seem like it was enough.
That was enough to kill Sniper, but everybody else, they survived.
And just for some note, I've lost the Gem over to GH for now.
Nygma Galaxy back with a little bit more control on the game.
Maybe this is the thing here, even though the sniper vulnerable and does die, perhaps
the rest of the team can kind of keep the team fights in their favor, even if they do
lose Lorin off at the start.
Awesome, Marine.
Now that's a further big pick-up pretty soon.
Marine can start going towards that.
Terranie's got a lot of money towards it, Hakota's nearly got enough to afford the Aghanem's.
Some more potential saves there with the escape acts.
Yeah, what are we surprised if somebody picks up Nullifier?
Just not sure who it is.
It could be...
It could be coming up from the support.
There were a couple of games that I remember where Phoenixes did pick it up,
because cores don't want to buy it, they're running out of slots,
and then you can dive in, throw that Nullifier.
Aubus, Sentry, and a couple of bombs in the area.
Sniper's level 25, his level 25 talent, is insane.
This is how they beat you again in Gnatic to make a comeback in the Chinese qualifier
against Yakutobros with 60k gold.
You cannot push the high ground, it's all they've got.
Very easy.
Very good angle to start the fight.
They find Lornoff straight away at the beginning of it.
That's Lornoff gone for 100 seconds.
They move out towards the base, tries to get a TP, but the bash comes out,
to stop towards TP out. Two huge kills to be found and again just I mean I feel
like this is kind of gonna be low enough to slide anytime he steps out on the map
for the time being this sniper will immediately die if they jump in. 7,000
damage from Spectre. She wasn't even like dealing the damage this was just
one ulti had another refresh already seen on 5,000 gold and it's gonna be
Abyssal blade for him could buy it out completely after selling the threads and he can also still go
pretty big
Upgrade that short upgrade his aggro interceptor as well
Aggro interceptor is
Not that great in terms of like what it does
It's it's an okay upgrade. It reduces the cooldown by 20 seconds. That's pretty big
got level 25 now level 26 and one extra second and make a lot of difference
especially with the hex the stammer on they were able to hex him straight away
didn't get the BKB off because he does have that superior vision once spectre
decides to haunt in
Another tier 2 taken away. The net worth now even between these two teams here, 47 minutes in.
GH very close to being able to pick that refresher up.
up, and if he nearly has a Satanic, so now Seeroy starts going now with his items, starting
to fill up the slots as they carry Mag.
It doesn't feel that great, like Mag's super late game doesn't feel as strong compared
to some other carries like Spectre for example, what she does, you want to be going for
for the skewers, you want to be going for big RPs, you don't even have enough, the slot
in refresher, it gets very difficult.
He's the male, she's gonna find a job.
Oh, he's still alive, finally goes down.
The first play there from the male, immediately got in, but there's gonna be the counterplay
back in, he's in with the ravage, it's a great one, and now she gets to be got
to the low enough and low enough so we get the heal off, the syphonov is gonna
be there at the side, they get the stun on her, she gets it, but she gets a survive
Throw out the saw jumps over the wall to lower enough for us to be a chase down jump
He jumped in front cemetery rolling thunder comes in from rain
As they did kill off Shigetsu and Lauren off has managed to live for our all this so far
She is just starting to heal him up another call from Omar. You see another super over here burning rain down
Double kill triple kill for divide
What a disjointed fight. I think Hakoda in this one doesn't get to save off immediately.
He boxes himself once they use RP and then second time he comes in also doesn't get to
use the box unfortunately on Spectre who jumped in away from the fight with reality and this
time around in the galaxy they get on top. It's a long hundred seconds without this
the Spango. The Satanic pick up on Lorinoff making all the difference. He was allowed to
survive throughout this effort that they tried to go on to him and now huge timing. Three
errors dead, no buybacks. Nigma Galaxy they can either look to try and do some damage
here to the first set of racks in the middle or just bring the tier two down the bottom
or see how much they can take away from Yellow Submarine off the back of that fight.
not feeding the push. J3's gone. You should have a solid shot of finishing off the barracks.
Such a long time without the Pangolair. A painful minute about your divide. Diving in, feeling
pretty indestructible now on the Timbersaw. Without Spectre, without Pango, they really
can't kill and does have BKB available almost level 30 on this in Versailles.
That's going to be two sets unless she gets to, can somehow manage to get something done. 30 seconds
without haunt. Massive progress in this game for Nygma Galaxy.
Perfect fight, the timings on the items, the Satanic for the Sniper, the Refresher for GH,
making all the difference there and turning that one around and Divide just able to be this
kind of unkillable monster on the Timbersaw, just in the faces of Yellow submarine. They
could not deal with it all in the position that they tried to take that fight.
Reset. He needs to be that unkillable beast. He needs to carry the game with the last big
Timbersaw. It's a good game for it. And finally he shows it. It took him a long time enough.
And I was a fatanic. Yeah, you mentioned it. It's a big increase of what the hero can do,
Gave him that second life and now pretty much
Do or die for yellow submarine if they lose another fight this could be it
By Jax on the hunt they want to try and catch nigma galaxy by surprise they get the jump pegs on towards oma
Now with the supernova in response though again nigma galaxy looked to kind of set up the sariot to hold that ground and push back yellow submarine
Jump for from rain rolling down that comes in right through the fourth
And they jump back where she gets to they find the magnus some males out of the fight now
Now they move over towards Lorinoff, Grain, coming with a beautiful rolling thunder to shake the team up.
The buyback will come out from Semayl, but Lorinoff's dead.
He's also going to commit the buyback.
Nick McAllister is trying to put so much into this, but they've lost Oma, and Oma does not have the luxury of the buyback.
These are two big buybacks to use.
Semayl and Lorinoff with the buyback, they have to do something huge with this as they are in a risky spot right now.
Oh, and there's still rabbit. Yeah, he bought back. So he does have oh, I mean ravage cuz
This could be tricky these buybacks
Yeah, what do you do with it? You just bought back on your your mid and you carry you didn't immediately find anything
Yeah, I feel like you gotta calm down if you make my galaxy now. Is it okay?
We've used these buybacks. We just got to accept that reality. We sit back. We wait. Oh
What are they gonna do? What's the plan? I?
I think they need to calm down a little bit. As you said, they need to find this Roshan. They need to give this Aegis to one of the cores
Spectre, my back
Available in her sitting at 4,000 gold thinking about what she needs to buy refresher
Still on cooldown for a long time 60 seconds for first ulti as well. Magnus now buying
Oh, this is he's buying a on this. He wants protection. Spectre
She needs the remove this radiance and get a disperser instead by disperser. I mean the nullifier
Okay, because he has just burst the first
He's got that queued up, but yeah, we'll see what he does with his arms lost by this is what six and a half minutes
Buybacks are gonna be caught on cooldown for Lauren off in some mail. I
Surely you just you do not want to fight in this next six and a half minutes
You weren't able to find an immediate play with those buybacks if you go for a team fight now and
And one of the two he dies. This is gonna be game over
So this is a very scary six and a half minutes short
There's also buybacks on cooldown for yellow submarines, but not quite as big as that as the buybacks
The need my galaxy don't say she gets one of the best buyback heroes in the game. He has that buyback
And Reigns buyback is also coming off cooldown if they don't take a fight two and a half minutes
They can't just really end the game the fight's gonna be a bit longer one 45 seconds up to a minute
needs to save up the gold though needs another 500 is gold to have buyback available to buy he's
going to be leading the charge he's the one with the buyback so he needs to be the first point of
contact with those children could be much easier on the this is a new galaxy look for a fight now
this is going to be so risky and i just is it worth the risk is the question do they need
to take this risk. I want to see nullifier on spectra. I know there's a lot of damage
with radians and with the refresher, but I also want to be able to kill a hero from
100 to 0, something that they managed to do multiple times with this Abyss of Blade,
with this Baster on Pango. They're trying for the Brochand.
A fight going wrong here though for Nigma Galaxy May, in the end of their hoax and dreams.
The Galisar marina leading in, they're looking for some health, they're gonna find him, the
ump is just gonna get popped up, put the pkb in charge away, they gotta run.
Nigma Galaxy surely cannot be a part of this.
The refresher is coming off cooldown, he hasn't ready if needed, but the pkb, that's
the big one.
On Magnus, Aon Disk also propped.
Oh, they're gonna try and go again.
Nigma Galaxy, they have no fear, apparently.
smoke here they want to try and catch Yellow Submarine by surprise catch them at a point
where Yellow Submarine are not going to expect this sort of aggressive move from Nigma Galaxy.
Bro Sean he's shifting I see nullifier inspector I see if he commits
just needs a splint melt unless he wants to keep bug somehow
Why back on pango coming off cooldown in 50 seconds
That's the big one yeah
The nigma galaxy still four minutes for that of Lauren offs and semains
All right
still very much feeling comfortable enough to be the one to just kind of throw his body into the
Front of the action and just try and get information from Yellow Submarine
Spectre also getting
Very close to level 30 did purchase the sharp this version. It's gonna hurt. It's a nice one
Yeah, this is a pretty scary level 30 here
They have this window knowing that their buybacks are coming off cooldown
They can time it because they know but you bought back at the same time
We did purchase the PKB, so we'll have extra bit of a protection.
Gem, purchased by Shigetsu.
He's like, I have enough gold.
We want to be able to see them.
I believe Bangal is going to be the one holding it.
The thing's starting to calm down a lot now.
Both teams are waiting.
Until they do have the luxury of the buybacks across the board
Before they go for any sort of move
We're a couple minutes now until pretty much everybody will have the buybacks to play with
And those couple minutes as well as you can see we're gonna be reaching the 60 minute mark
a very very good fight being given in from both of these squads to try and get that final
spot from the european qualifiers to ti anyone's game to take
yeah that really is and both of these teams know whoever makes it is going to be an
an absolute treat to watch at TI.
Got to feel sad considering how well they played
in the qualifiers.
Yellow Submarine, a team that hasn't been to TI,
and then you have these veterans inside of Nigma Galaxy.
Let's see, next fight.
My back's coming off cooldown, and in a half
with three big cores, Sniper Tide, and Magnus.
Cemetery, he is starting to plant some bombs
in the area.
I'm interested to see actually
who Divai is going to give the moonshot to first.
Do you give it to your sniper or your magnetist? Oh you give it to your sniper.
You give it to your magnetist if he's got that much damage, it has to be a sniper.
So trying to work towards that Divai, because at this point he's got everything that he could have hoped for himself.
I think she gets it. He wants to get both of the items. He wants to have both radians.
And he wants to have nullifier because of the miss chance. Playing against sniper who
has no MKB, so only nilder procs are going to go through it. And Magnus also not
hero that buys the iron plus also the damage that he does with double haunt it
feels pretty good like you saw that one haunt in one fight seven thousand
damage pretty much though can you check the damage overall to see I feel like
specter damage is gonna be through the roof this is gonna be some sixty seventy
thousand damage maybe even we'll see if we can bring up the hero damage
as you know I imagine some of the numbers getting pretty crazy at this
point sixty minutes about to come up
there it is nullifier picked up and okay he still sells the radiance so just he
disassembled it see this is still disassembled and ended up yeah okay so
I was thinking maybe he wants it but now he's again sitting at seven thousand
gold can get moonshark for himself can get another item use this refresher use
a BKB throw in refresher. Bloodthorn looks pretty juicy. Agate of
Scepters also okay, she's not the item that you usually see. It's the first
time you use reality on the haunt illusion. It gives you fear in 400 AoE around the
point. It's two second fear, it's 50% slow.
It's not bad, but yeah it's just not something that you'd ever really
prioritized in the build but could be a nice little addition audacious deso we
can call it Odessa because this has been the combo that's winning quite a lot of
games there's no this is yeah this is a pretty good step in damage yeah it's so
much so much sniper you found the same thing
we need to find some males neutral should give it to him we'll see what
options he gets probably the days do you think it's a dozen on him and the
debuff playing for the RP on the mag dehydrated device whoa okay he's not
get him some water. It's been a long game. It's been a long game.
That's true. Yeah, we're bringing the hydration brakes in there. There we go.
Hydrated. Who didn't drink water? We had to check the cameras. If you're not
drinking the water you have one hundred in the contract yet in the contract got to
take a sip even if it means spitting it out like at the world's cup I want to
have belly full of water this game could still be going on for another half an
hour maybe even an hour yeah it's it's a tense one nine out the ten buybacks
and back up on the energy ages and this is just kind of one kill in the
team fight away from being there. So both teams have the luxury of the buybacks. Definitely
the most concerning one though is the strength of the Spectre's buyback. Not easy to go on
this here when you know they can come back in with the buyback refresh your horn. Smoke
up for nigma galaxy in scounder
why i'm down in half oh look at this damn day almost okay i mean they get the
jump the response though she gets you comes up with the oh over the woods
lawren off oma trying to run in with the bkb's they're gonna have to super
over the ax supernova pick it up keep it in the safe they turn look till she
gets her jump away to safety but the safety is not there lawren off
able to get the damage in from a distance take him out as it's all three calls dead and immediate
buyback comes in from batjuck as divide continues to chase them back to the base buyback's available
on the spectre and the pango come in with the jump forward into the ravage device every
good thing get me off though turns over cuts down a coda divide surviving the efforts there
from the tide with the ravage, Nigma Galaxy getting four kills and a buyback out of the tide.
Having this absolute monster level 30 Pimbersaw jumping in with the Zune cutting down almost
instant killing time with the help of a sniper a couple of right clicks it did come through
the Zune bigger AOE bigger AOE from Shiva's as well luckily he doesn't have a talent as well
that increases the AoE of the spells.
Yeah, he got that brush.
I'm sipping the water from the hydration now.
Yeah.
There we have it.
Ready to push now with the Aegis and the cheese.
Can they force out the buybacks from Yellow Submarine?
Nygma Galaxie in a very strong spot to push.
Right?
They really don't want to use these buybacks on yellow somebody. They're so close
To have what she gets soon back online. It's too much damage
I think they're gonna be playing against mega creeps. He's just going for tier fours. He's look at this damage on sniper
I pretty crazy. That's the does he had the deodacious the best so
Lot of damage see them get the catch on a divine. They're gonna try make it go for the Timbersaw
Look at the angle. Omar's in with the call on towards the tech.
He's devised a chance to put the BKB. She gets you, jumps in.
Off the stun onto Divide.
Did have to use Rain's buyback.
They were able to wait where she gets you, but Rain using the buyback there...
I mean, Lorna, he's just going for the end.
He's looking to help there.
They want to get himself to TI.
He's going to get caught by the Hex though.
They've hexed him.
Can they save in the heels and coming out for G8 slow enough just stunning his ground trying to heal up
Oh, he comes in for some barely gives it's gonna cut the two of them
In the ball the ring must have tried to bail them out
But they're gone
Nick my galaxy onto the h you're ready to close this up as one final
Halt will come in and it gets onto the lord of the lord of Cisco to ignore him keep hitting the eight
Drive close this is GD is called
Nick the galaxy have done it
64 minutes in, the series is theirs, they're going to TI!
Ah, well deserved victory. In the end, they prevail.
Wow.
You can see Lorinoff, he's holding on to the Aegis, he's the one peeping from the distance.
Sniper, Moonchart, Odisha's, Deso, it's too much damage, and that fight that they take was, I don't know.
I feel very happy for Nigma Galaxy, but as you said, we're also going to be feeling pretty bad
for a team that it's not going to be qualifying and Divy
kicked immediately celebrating with the family that's what matters
and there we go nigma galaxy i was with Sandra in this game you know that they
like to keep their fans uh you know make sure their hearts are still working
as uh this game not an easy one for nigma galaxy yellow submarine
absolutely putting up a very good fight throughout this one
but nigma galaxy able to find the way to close things up and right up
until the engine over the buyback situation that whole seven minutes the
Nigma Galaxy had to be careful to not get dragged into anything that they
didn't want to be in they make it through that stage and then the
itemizations getting this satanic online for the sniper getting the 60 minute
items the audacious Stygian deso they were the tools that they needed to just
be able to close this game up and get their ticket to TI yeah look at this
fight this is where they were like what is going on like how much damage is
is they are going to be able to jump the sniper, but it is not enough and it felt like there's
too many things that they need to focus at these later stages as well.
Their teamfight is still super strong with Magnus, also Sniper.
If he's not getting jumped, he's peeping from the distance and then Timbersaw, the
Vi, they said that he needs to be able to be this unkillable beast and he definitely
delivered.
Oh, he did.
They trusted and devised Timber and understand that we saw it is his best hero most played in pubs in the pro games as well
Pretty much the highest winner. He's got out his very frequently picked heroes
They get it through as that last pick and it absolutely makes the difference
It ends up doing the most damage for the team and of course tanky an insane amount
You know receiving a hundred thirty two thousand raw damage this Timber saw pick
absolutely the answer they needed to just kind of be that frontline chaos to ensure
that Lauren off despite in this game against the specter in a game where
there's a whole period where the kind of spooky for him on the sniper he was
still able to have the last laugh as the sniper despite being second in the
draft from him yeah really really was he did well also like I gotta point out
that there was a every single fight somebody else inside of me my galaxy
They were shining whether there was a call from Omar that killed that hunter before he could get anything done in a fight
Whether that's a GH keeping them alive with the Sunray well-placed egg
What are that insane amount of damage that you're dealing with the sniper Lauren off whether it's the Vi or
Sumail at the later portions of the game landing these two three man RPs
Yes, absolutely everybody playing that part beautifully at the end of that game for Nigma Galaxy and
And yellow submarine not able to make it this time. They get so close
I'm sure we're gonna see these players again and maybe in the same
The squad looks strong these are names that maybe some of the viewers wouldn't have heard of before today
But seeing them play here. I think you know
They're gonna look forward to seeing more of them in future
Qualifier runs in efforts to get to lands because they're that that close to be able being able to make it next time the cost. Oh
Absolutely, definitely looking forward to see if they're gonna be able to you know
Maybe keep the squad together because this was insane performance, but I do believe we have an interview with the winners
I believe the vibe is ready the vibe. Is he here? We're gonna see if we get on the line. We can divide
I see already hard at work. Congratulations. Yeah, how does it feel? You're going to TI?
Yeah, it's good. I'm sweating and I don't know if it's because of the heat wave well because of the
intense game free but
No, I'm still trembling in it, but that was a great game
Yeah, we can hear it in the voice and we can see the baby as well. You're the baby you were not feeding
Yeah, that's what matters
Exactly. I promise my wife I'd get back to some fatherly duties after the qualifiers because of course on that aspect
I've been selecting during these qualifiers, but
Now that we qualify if I can
Help out a bit more
Yeah, how are you balancing that out? I wanted to ask you like it's a to complete two different things but
focusing on family or
if it's not like if I'm not doing a qualifier tournament I'll try and help
out an idol that's in nighttime feedings if it's during the qualifier and my wife
just carries carries me to be honest and my best friend he also helps out a
lot that's nice shout out to both of them that's great to hear that you
have somebody else stepping up because you also stepped it up in this
series Timbersaw being one of your most played heroes you guys kept the
flex open with this axe? Is this something that you called out for that it's a free timbersaw game?
Yeah, we had a few options at the last pick, but we had a lot of time to think about it,
so we took it easy, but Timber just made the most sense. I think it was the best,
the series was going kind of slow, so Timber is the best scaler, he's like my best hero,
he's just for me to play in a high pressure game, so I think it was pretty obvious.
And in a game like this Dubai where it goes this long, you know
We very much thought there was sort of this mid-game section where the specter was getting a lot of space a lot of chance to farm like
Yeah, how much were you guys sweating was it? Did you guys really have to lock in? You know a point at this?
Are you trying to?
Especially when those buybacks came in when we at that moment where you guys use the tube buybacks on law
Enough and some mail what was kind of the cool then was it kind of like guys?
We've got a calm down wait the seven minutes out before we go for something. You know what was going for your minds then
A lot was going through our minds, a lot was going through comps.
I don't remember a lot, to be honest.
I remember it was a bit scary.
Once the sniper started just dying during the hunt and they started getting every jump,
it did get scary, but we managed to regroup, said, Jill, play around the Phoenix, don't
get out of position.
And that way, we managed to come back.
I also got to ask you, like, how did you guys manage to get
Lorinoff be signed to a team?
Because this guy has been, like, without a team for nine
months, ultimate standing, slept, like, seven different
teams in the last year or so.
How did you guys do it?
Who said what?
And now Lorinoff's signed.
That's the question you have to ask, Kuro, because I am
not part of the contractings.
I don't know anything about anybody else's contract.
Oh, I see.
But glad to have him on a team.
I see the synergy between two of you guys.
Oh, absolutely.
How does it feel compared to maybe some other mid laners that you guys played with,
laning partners as well, you playing with Omar as well?
How does it feel? Did you guys already feel like he was kicking in during the scrims
because you guys are relatively new squad now?
Yeah, I would say as soon as we got Lornaf and Zumae, I could feel a difference.
We kind of needed a bit of fresh air, I would say.
Maybe we all had our issues in the last iteration, but just some fresh air really helped us.
Lorna and Sumil brought a lot of new energy to the team.
I found it very easy to have a lot of confidence in them.
They kind of knew what they wanted, and it's easy to trust them, you know?
So in that way, it was also easy for the other three of us to play.
Well, it's great to see you guys do what you're able to do today.
entertaining Dota and we the viewers definitely won't be able to wait to see
you guys at TI. It's gonna be a lot of fun to see you there, Divai. We'll let you go.
Thank you very much for your time with us today, Divai. Have a wonderful evening.
Congratulations again and we'll see you at TI, Divai. Thank you. See you there.
See you. Not great to see hard at work there, Divai. He might finish the work
here at the qualifiers but his work's not done for the rest of the day, Lacoste.
No, definitely not. I saw that bottle being empty even though in Dota it's not
refillable, needs to refill it in real life and it's very cute, it's very kind of
just awesome to see him being a father and also because Dota is a bit of an
older community as well and we can even see the professional person still
competing being fathered trying to balance these two things and I love
his energy. You can definitely tell that his voice like it's been a
Especially game three like you you could feel it like it's do or die pretty much and it's due for team
Nigma Galaxy they definitely deserve it and it's I'm glad to see the boys back at the eye
Yeah, and especially as you said with some of the different changes that may right we're getting to see Lauren off turn up with a
Very strong squad around with him and some mail
Again questions were asked in the beginning this qualifier is that okay some mail moving to carry. How's he gonna do?
I'd say he's done pretty well, you know showing us a good variety of different styles from the safe lane
And just showing that he's been putting in the hard work again to go back to the first game of the series today
Where he gets this loan druid something that he doesn't really play in professional games. It's not as a male hero at the past
He turns up and absolutely smashes the game with it. So, you know that he's been putting in the prep
Showing us what he's you know got ready to shine
I'm sure he's got a whole lot more of ready to go and we're gonna get to the tree of seeing that at ti
with Nygma Galaxy moving on. Just an overall look at the bracket here ladies and gentlemen,
just to keep you around the line there of what we've had play out over the last few days,
but what matters is who the four teams were to make it through this all.
As you can see on the right of your screen, Team Spirit, Team Vision, Nygma Galaxy,
and Hula Ghani are going to be going to the international here from the European regional qualifiers.
I mean, I didn't think of thoughts about all of this.
Is this kind of what we expected?
Not really, I would say that most of the people did expect spirit and vision to qualify because they are I would say higher caliber teams than everything else.
We had Navi, we had Virtus Pro, they're not going with TI, really glad that Huligani, they stepped it up because they were playing some amazing Dota, yellow submarine as well.
as well, giving in a good run against Nigma Galaxy.
But Nigma Galaxy, with this squad,
I think I mentioned a couple of times,
it looks like one of the best iterations of the team
that we had in some times.
We were experimenting, things are not working out,
and the squad looks good,
and we're gonna be seeing Huligani as well at TI.
Very hyped about it because these underdog stories,
they're always gonna be interesting.
No, for sure.
Absolutely.
I think there's been qualifiers in the past
where it's kind of felt like Nigma Galaxy
sort of scraped through,
But this one, no, the wins very hard for the ideas
that they've got seem to be working out very, very nicely.
And yes, without a doubt, this looks to be a Nigma Galaxy
that could go decently far in the competition this year
at TI.
Can't wait to see them.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is it for the Europe Regional
Qualifiers for International.
It's been an absolute pleasure having you tune in
with us for the action over the last few days.
Take care of yourselves.
And once again, congratulations to the 14s making it through this region.
We will see them and all of you, of course, at TI.
Thanks for watching. See you at TI.
We can't wait.
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