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vital pollen
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but i mean

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its 1/5 gamble

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and sometimes enemy blocks it

tender fox
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that 1mm of fog

vital pollen
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saksa can win or lose the game

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depending on his itemization

tender fox
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oh right secret 1 week off now

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jesus i dont like it at all

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will stop some teams momentum

tight sluice
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ok

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last game I ever queue caryr

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this role is unplayable in pubs

tender fox
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crazy how slark almost as farmed as ck

vital pollen
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ck didnt have a good game either

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mars/cm is a nasty lane

tender fox
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maybe the lingering with 1 hp was worse for them bot

vital pollen
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yeah

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everytime he want into lane to cs

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he got 4 spells on him

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and the lich couldnt do shit about it

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cause he just dies if he does the same

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razor and mars can run away with this game, they dont need the slark

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cause the ck isnt in a position to fight either

tender fox
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slark should outfarm ck with map opened up now

vital pollen
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ye he will

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after diffu slark just goes shard

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and he will have good impact in fights

tender fox
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actually so hard for 33 to get a good doom

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no setup

vital pollen
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hasted razor with bkb

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gonna have to doom bkb razor

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to dispel the haste

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sneyking cs

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LUL

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not sure how i feel about the wraithpact rush from saksa

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after that early game

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marci gaming

tender fox
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slark is back

vital pollen
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sidekick is a balanced ability OSFrog

tender fox
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pango just rolled on a bkbd razor for 10s tanking ult doing nothing

vital pollen
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ck having a shit game is terrible for tundra

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cause they needh im to have a blink

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to go in

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but he doesnt even have bkb yet

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nicely baited

tender fox
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need bkb on marci

vital pollen
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by the time he has it ck is 20

tender fox
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nah she was like 1k off

vital pollen
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insane teamfight

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like

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i wouldnt not have the confidence

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to jump into a ck/lich/doom

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with just slark+marci

tender fox
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need to get a doom on slakr but cant see him hitting it

vital pollen
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nah

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even if they do

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this razor is big

tender fox
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ye but he gets his bkb and ult of mostly cus they initiate

vital pollen
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razor with sidekick will run through tundra just as fast as the slark

tender fox
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and dont care

vital pollen
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sneyking needs a blink imo

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they need to stop engaging on the mirana

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didnt work out 3 times now

tender fox
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20s tp cd

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oh aoe doom is a thing

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just blow em up

vital pollen
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weird choice

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"lets wrap around into an area where we dont have vision"

errant tusk
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they're desperate

vital pollen
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ye

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can still easily go either way tho

tender fox
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ck and pango can just blow anyone up

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and then a doom on that

vital pollen
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ye

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ori running into arrow there as well

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slark got bkb too late imo

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i know aghs on slark is super good but i still dont like the naked slark plays

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but just straightup well played

tender fox
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aster dont know whats going on PEPW

errant tusk
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aster looking good this game

versed matrix
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last few brood games ive seen its just been feeding

tender fox
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What is storm doing 0 mana and chases into 4

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When they got free slark

vital pollen
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not much he can do there

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jus gets hard nuked in return

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his team cant connect

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no disable on aster and the storm doenst hve the mana yet for these prolonged fights

distant yoke
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tundra dancing

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around

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this aster team

errant tusk
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tundra plays rly well

vital pollen
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ye

distant yoke
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baiting them

vital pollen
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this storm is just too poor

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and they need him to engage

tender fox
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He is overextending to much

vital pollen
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what else is he gonna do

errant tusk
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someone needs to go in so dawnbreaker can join too

tender fox
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Ye but they keep getting pick lffs already and he just go deeper with no resources

vital pollen
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they need him to go

distant yoke
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is tiny the mag of this TI

vital pollen
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so the dawn/marci can follow

distant yoke
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just throwing ppl out of position

vital pollen
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yea tiny is dumb

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they need to change avalanche

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to not be a broken spell

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idk what happened to ori that his game is this bad

errant tusk
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got outplayed by tiny/slark combo

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got killed like 2-3 times by that

vital pollen
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ah

tender fox
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they look so disconnected

vital pollen
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yeah

tender fox
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were owning up to 20 min then just

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like what was boboka doing

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he just followed a guy to the river basically

vital pollen
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they need someone to connect, because then the rest of the team will follow

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but you play against potm with leap, zeus with jump, slark with leap, brood with cliffwalking

distant yoke
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Skeezer

tight sluice
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this slark is going nuts

errant tusk
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storm didnt bkb

vital pollen
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got arrowed

errant tusk
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lmao

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just call it

vital pollen
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that was one nasty lightning bolt

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idk why they focus the brood so hard

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go on hero with pipe/halberd

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or go on smth like a zeus or mirana

versed matrix
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ez for EU

distant yoke
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wow tundra

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lost every lane

vital pollen
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well played

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just a better draft

tender fox
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hahahaha

vital pollen
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playing against storm/dawn/sf cores and you have 4 super elusive heroes

tender fox
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33 next to saksa

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looked fucking hilarious

errant tusk
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🤏

vital pollen
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khezu gotta be careful

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to not choke on tundra cock while hes slurping it

tender fox
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sneyking and 33 together = saksa

distant yoke
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blame ori

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it's so weird seeing Yames be professional

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and talk about the game

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and not meme

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constantly

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i guess 7 years did a lot

vital pollen
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i mean hes still throwing shade and makes some jokes

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im more surprised by his gameknowledge

distant yoke
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ye but its not like every single sentence

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do you think there's any connection with BTS stopping dota stuff

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and yames being back

vital pollen
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nah

tender fox
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none whatsoever

distant yoke
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i know James and BTS had like

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giga beef

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back in the day

vital pollen
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its just gaben

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gaben didnt like james

distant yoke
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what changed

vital pollen
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always thought he was unprofessional (and for the most part, he was)

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im guessing gaben doesnt care that much about dota anymore

distant yoke
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true

vital pollen
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so hes not gonna "hold back" whatever the dota people wanna do out of personal bias

tender fox
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skiter interview lol

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literally no emotion

vital pollen
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its how it often is with CEO types

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if its a pet project of theirs, like TI was, then they wanna micromanage a lot

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but people move on from those things, which is totally fine

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dota community is making it easy, too

distant yoke
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james was kinda unhinged

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in the end

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the china major was too much

tight sluice
tender fox
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wonder if teams stay in singapore to scrim final 4 teams or if they have to play vs random sea/china

torn girder
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Every upper bracket series 2-0 weird

tight sluice
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I honestly hope they never host another TI in singapore. NA only from now on pls. These timezones are killing me. UB final is at 1:30am

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next saturday

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which is still midnight eastern time

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TI finals are going to be at like 3 in the morning

tacit epoch
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Ti in EU pls 🙏

versed matrix
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EU only

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NA dogshit players anyway

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and audience

buoyant sage
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next TI is in EU

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for sure

worldly hamlet
distant yoke
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it should be

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covid international doesnt count to have been in europe

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nobody could attend

buoyant sage
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I can surely say it'll be in EU aPES_Spy

tender fox
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What is lgd doing

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Rekt by bc

severe sail
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beastcoast is actually good

tender fox
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Well they are a worse team than lgd and got 3 ppl sick in covid

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Well 4 even it seem

tender fox
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Overextending so much

rocky moon
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There were 2 TIs in eu already, enough

tender fox
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Axe doing so much work

tender fox
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Et and wisp hmmNod

tender fox
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Lgd just keep trying to force bad fights

stiff pebble
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O m f g

tender fox
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I dunno keep chasing a SF for 30s into a et

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Whst did they think

stiff pebble
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It was such a protracted fight that I don't know if elder Titan ever came into their minds.

tender fox
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And still no bkbs

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And now lgd does a perfekt fight like that when down and against aegis

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If lesh stop getting Caught its over

stiff pebble
wide geode
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Its time for the heartbreak set of games.

tender fox
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Whats the deal with og and pauses

tender fox
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Ignoring primal aPES_Shake

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Og huskar first phase why

burnt basin
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kinda foresee a big boom of dota in NA

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league is dying there and lcs will get moved to weekdays

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so it might be the perfect time for NA TI

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to grab some people

stiff pebble
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That would require valve to PROMOTE THEIR FUCKING GAME FOR ONCE IN THEIR FUCKING LIVES

versed matrix
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pos 1 furion, huskar pos 3

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I have no faith in that

versed matrix
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gg

stiff pebble
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ZAI PLS

torn girder
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Dont know who said “pick huskar” but kick them

stiff pebble
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Brood snare is kind of toxic

buoyant sage
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draft was über garbage

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didnt deserve to win

stiff pebble
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Yar

buoyant sage
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gg liquid

torn girder
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Ye

stiff pebble
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I don't understand position three huskar

torn girder
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That bs had most chill game

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Nitrous online full game

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Nice

buoyant sage
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you certainly dont pick huskar and furion pos1

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esp when you let open some shit like

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Leshrac

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xd

torn girder
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That huskar had like

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Negative impact

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Whole game

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Taking farm

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Doing nothing with it

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Probably had less hero damage than the supps tbh

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Bzm had some grave mistakes too

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Unfortunate

buoyant sage
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ye overall sloppy

torn girder
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Deserved loss

buoyant sage
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and thinking that the draft is just

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pick what you want

torn girder
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Ye boxi said it right lol

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They didnt win

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Og just like

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Force lost lmao

stiff pebble
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Sometimes you just play your game, and your opponent kind of just fucking loses without you doing much.

torn girder
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Ye

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Huskar pick was just turbo dog shit

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Maybe if it was a hero that could have linked up with ember at some point when ember was strong would have been a different game

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Even if it had a bad game would have had way more impact than that shit

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Some generic sk or mars

rocky moon
# buoyant sage pick what you want

In ru interview misha said that yesterday - they lost trying to counter pick and being “not og” so instead they decided to flip the table and pick what they want, force opponent to adjust

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Guess that worked for one series

torn girder
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Dunno

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The huskar pick woulda probably been less ass against not bloodseeker NellGiggle

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Bs with perma turbo

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Must have been nice to be matumba

buoyant sage
torn girder
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You can beat lesh

buoyant sage
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not with that draft

torn girder
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Think they should have banned bs along with aa but obviously hindsight is 20/20

rocky moon
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They just went too deep on other side of the spectrum of trying to be number one

torn girder
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Idk what else they banned after the huskar pick

rocky moon
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And paid the price

torn girder
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Bs is like one of the only carries that doesnt mind playing vs huskar right

buoyant sage
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ye, happy for liquid anyway I love that team too

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but og gave em the win

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free $

torn girder
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Ye

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Ammar 322

buoyant sage
torn girder
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Next series gonna be interesting hopefully

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Either way big team dropping

buoyant sage
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oh yeh Ima watch this from my comfy spot peepoComfy

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see? PSG are aware

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they dont want to deal with that garbage of leshrac

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therefore they ban leshrac

torn girder
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Or they’re setting up some illusionist lol

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Or summoner

stiff pebble
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Aster picking a literal Dota 1 comp

torn girder
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Think i want psg to finally win a ti

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Ame needs a W

buoyant sage
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yes man

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for the boys hypeE

torn girder
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Ye they are setting up an illusionist surely

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Oh wow

buoyant sage
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letsgooo

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el riki

torn girder
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Interesting

stiff pebble
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Drrroooowwwww

torn girder
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Nice

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Love watching drow

stiff pebble
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Yeah but Riki kind of sits in her pockets man.

torn girder
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Need to buy pike fast probably

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But 2 charges of blink NellGiggle

buoyant sage
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these are smart draft, planned shit

stiff pebble
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They do have three heroes to peel for Drow

buoyant sage
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see OG?

torn girder
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I wonder if they think drow is like a game counter to beast

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With gust

buoyant sage
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until bkb ye I assume

torn girder
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Well having to use bkb-> charge sounds

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Pretty cringe

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Waste duration, you may miss, etc

buoyant sage
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lmao yeh I mean

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when you're fighting and shit

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but laning phase wise it's a pain

torn girder
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Also ranged hero into it with the sd

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Probably will have a perfectly fine lane

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If he charges onto her early you just disruption him

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Or you can just go early gust point and he’ll never get on top of you

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Otherwise I don’t really see the point of drow into riki

stiff pebble
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SD is quite strong here.

buoyant sage
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yeh that would make sense

torn girder
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Need translator for all chat wtf

versed matrix
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so battle pass was dogshit this year huh

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I see the price pool is not even half of what it was last year

tender fox
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think it was released very late

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and ppl mad at valve+pgl etc

stiff pebble
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Conveniently forgetting about COVID-19 and inflation. dracthyr_sip

The battle pass isn't too greedy this year either, not a lot of strong early incentives.

versed matrix
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up until this point its always been more every year, right

stiff pebble
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Yeah you can see the spending timeline gets a huge boost after the first sale basically

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The first bundle that goes on sale that is

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The bump was a lot smaller this year for whatever reason

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I'm all valve not trying to siphon literally every penny now those people, but even this year it feels a little sparse.

versed matrix
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them keeping 75% is a bit high too perhaps

torn girder
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Aster nice gameplay

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Psg probably lose this

versed matrix
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ember soloed without bb

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probably over

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ye

errant tusk
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xinq showed that primal beast is very balanced

stiff pebble
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Pango blinks KomodoHype

torn girder
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The riki diffusal timing wasn’t abused at all

stiff pebble
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I wonder around what time he got diffusal versus Drow getting movement

tender fox
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Their draft just fell off

torn girder
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Felt like they didnt pressure nearly enough in mid game

errant tusk
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they just chose horrendous fights

torn girder
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Also didnt target the pango for shit

errant tusk
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fought under their vision on their triangle too

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for no reason

torn girder
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How does pango successfully get roll off vs riki lol

stiff pebble
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Ember a lso walking around like he didn't have spirits.

tender fox
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Dont like visage on bian give him some do shit hero and he carries

stiff pebble
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Also they fought uphill into aster a shit ton

torn girder
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Also halberd on beast

errant tusk
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halberd was good

stiff pebble
torn girder
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Get a bkb and turn off 1 hero

errant tusk
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coz they had only right click

stiff pebble
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He was never going to get halberd off on Drow though

errant tusk
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but they never got good intiation

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if only he had a spel

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that has 2k intiiation range XD

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which he never ever used

stiff pebble
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Lol

torn girder
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How can you play primal beast without bkb into gust

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Thats like

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Nonsense

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Pulverize -> gust

stiff pebble
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Dunno

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Charging get piked get gusted fucked off

torn girder
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The riki has to jump the sd cause if he doesnt sd just disruptions

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But beast needs to get a bkb or he just gets controlled and loses lol

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Noob builld

stiff pebble
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Yeah that's a lot of the point, if he has to focus SD then he can't make sure that pangolier never gets a good initiation.

torn girder
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Get halberd after bkb if you want

stiff pebble
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Ye

torn girder
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But you need bkb there

stiff pebble
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His order was off certainly, probably got overly confident from how well the early game was going

torn girder
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Ye p much

stiff pebble
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after Riki died in mid Lane with aegis They never got to drow ever again

errant tusk
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pango did so well

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idk if they had ways to stop him

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no clue if riki is magically good vs pango

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didnt look like it LULE

torn girder
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Well

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You are supposed to just smoke him

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While he winds up ult

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And he wants to die irl

stiff pebble
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He just had to silence him before he got his ult off and started blinking into their backline

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Over and over and over and over and over again

torn girder
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But ame had to babysit sd

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Xinq built like a noob lol

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Thought game was in the bag

stiff pebble
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If you got shard earlier he could have darted pangolier before going on SD but that's a lot I think.

torn girder
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That game goes different if beast just first items bkb

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After a certain point his fight impact became 0 lol

stiff pebble
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Mirana was also wandering around a lot, felt like they were looking for her to get jumped a bunch.

torn girder
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Did potm even do anything that game KEKW

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Not even sure

stiff pebble
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Not really no

torn girder
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Pango kinda just solo’d the game

stiff pebble
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She got some moonlight shadows off and those are always good though

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That lets you a pretty decent fight near the radiant secret shop that one time

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It actually might have killed Riki Right before a Rosh now that I think about it

torn girder
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Sd is a nice answer to beast tho

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Disruption too stronk

stiff pebble
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Yeah I'm really shocked he's not picked more often in general

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Maybe there's too much diving and too many BKbs I don't know.

torn girder
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I wonder if od is viable in this meta to counter beast

stiff pebble
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Ban io or lose

buoyant sage
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wait, I left the stream to shower + groceries

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come back to 0-1 Aster

torn girder
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Ye pango solod the game

stiff pebble
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Yeah they rolled over them

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Literally

buoyant sage
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fuck

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aster too strong

torn girder
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It was a comeback lol

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Nah

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Psg was ahead

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Like 8k at 20

buoyant sage
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good hg defense?

torn girder
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Nah

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Took bad fights

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No bkb on primal beast

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Pango played well

stiff pebble
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There were a lot of forced shit fights

buoyant sage
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shiet

stiff pebble
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Gyrooo

torn girder
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Thats uh

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Thats a lot of stuns

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All 4 of those heroes have stuns lol

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2 are point and click

stiff pebble
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Yessir

buoyant sage
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just stumbled on this on twitter tho

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tiny POGGERS

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Ame TB

torn girder
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5 stuns gaming

stiff pebble
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Enigma? Get 12 stuns.

buoyant sage
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bkb first no boots for enigma PEPELA

buoyant sage
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heeeh

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not enough burst to kill that lina

tender fox
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nts has not been good today

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rip lgd

buoyant sage
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not over til its over

torn girder
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Lina man

buoyant sage
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aster used buybacks on this

torn girder
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Disgusting hero

tight sluice
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Is it 1-0 aster rn?

buoyant sage
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y

torn girder
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Hello i move at max movement speed and also i deal all my damage in autos and i shoot out like 7 in 1 second so when i bkb i man fight you and you get fucked

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Oh i also never have a bad lane

buoyant sage
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2 spells, push lane

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take runes

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repeat

torn girder
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Damn

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Rip lgd

tight sluice
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Despairge

stiff pebble
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Pewpewpew

buoyant sage
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fuck man, gg to aster

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but sadge

torn girder
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Ame remains uncrowned

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Unlucky

buoyant sage
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Idk about TB tho, every game I saw with that hero, shit needs too much set up

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cant really chase

alpine wren
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lgd OMEGAKEKW

buoyant sage
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otherwise he loses damage

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feels meh

torn girder
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Disagree think tb is fine

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Think nerves just got to lgd at the end of the day

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They just seemed discombobulated

buoyant sage
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they did, I just think TB is underwhelming in that tournament

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overall

vital pollen
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Tb doesn't work as a solo carry

errant tusk
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i feel like xxs won the game alone

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entire series even

torn girder
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Ye

buoyant sage
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he played very well indeed

vital pollen
torn girder
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Despise lina tho disgusting hero

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Bkb into mkb or daedalus nice cool you now kill anyone in a stun

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Pog hero

vital pollen
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been an xxs fan for a long time. his initiations arent always perfect, but the way he controls the flow of a teamfight and controls the area for his team so his carries can play the way they want is just huge

torn girder
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Please remove attack speed off dragon soul for love of god

stiff pebble
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Lol

vital pollen
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so if liquid wins, all remaining teams are group B, correct?

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since its still

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the winners of the first sets of series in the upper

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ah na TA has to win actually

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for that to be the case

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which is entirely possible imo

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they looked good vs secret yday

torn girder
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Hopefully they take liquid down just to keep things spicy

vital pollen
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okay

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gimme this set

tight sluice
torn girder
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Ye remove it finally

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The fact that hero can just buy 1 damage item and rip your carry apart in 1 stun is questionable at best

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No attack speed items

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Unless they go mkb

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All because dragon soul gives infinite attack speed hack

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And it has essentially zero lane counters

vital pollen
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you can play vs lina pretty well on a number of heroes

torn girder
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Yes but you’ll never ruin her game

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Assuming equal player skill or equalish

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Theres no hero you can pick in mid where you’re like “fuck i dont wanna play lina vs that fml”

vital pollen
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This is the fourth TI since TI7 onwards (all but TI9) where PSG.LGD had a position 2 Kunkka in the game in which they were eliminated.

torn girder
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Wonder what ame will do

tender fox
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xiao8 a bit of bulba syndrome

vital pollen
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they said they hadnt figured out the meta yet

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but i dont even think thats the problem

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faithbian just had a bad tournament

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and they need him to come out big

torn girder
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Dont think nts performed very well either

tender fox
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wdym he owned when they gave him do shit heroes

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nts were the weak link

vital pollen
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like at arlington, he was hardcarrying game after game on dawn, razor, mars etc.

torn girder
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Nts last year was a top tier mid

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Doesnt really look like a top tier mid this year

vital pollen
#

this ti he was playing enigma, visage etc. and it had very little impact

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they need him to frontline

tender fox
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like vs beastcoast they gave bian axe and brew last 2 games and he just carried

vital pollen
#

cause hes better at that

#

ye

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those are heroes

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he can do well on

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but they also picked him a lot of heroes

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that were just awful

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and NTS played like he always does

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hes not a flashy mid

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he sets up fights

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for his 2 big cores to do shit

tender fox
#

he jhust kept getting caught out today

torn girder
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Idk not very flashy this ti from what i watched

vital pollen
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almost all games when they were dominant, nts was 3rd in networth and would basically set up a teamfight

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only for ame/faithbian to come in roaring and taking over

torn girder
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But ye dont think faith bian has good grasp on enigma

vital pollen
#

hed soak damage on kunkka, bkb, and get boat out, then his team rolls over enemy

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hed bait some spells on pango, roll in, control 1 hero, team runs over them

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nts getting caught

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is how LGD have always played. he goes out on the map, draws attention, while his team gets every single piece of gold out of the map

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but yeah

tender fox
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i mean if u watched the earlier games he literally solo died 3 times with his team not even close

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when farming

vital pollen
#

i dont like enigma at all this tourney

tender fox
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he didnt set up anything

torn girder
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Ye but feels like before he’d outplay a lot and get more out of those plays

vital pollen
#

thats how lgd play

torn girder
#

Now he just

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Goes even in lane

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Then goes and dies

vital pollen
#

when lgd isnt doing super well

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they shove their cores out into 3 directions on the map

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one of them will get ganked

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the other 2 are farming

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its how they sit at 3-18 after 15minutes and are still only behind 2k gold

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is it a good way to play the game? idk. but theyve been placing top4 for years now with gameplay like that, its the first time in half a decade they dont make a top tier placement and immediately people complain about them and the way they play

torn girder
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Maybe im just watching their bad games but nts feels off for awhile now

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Pretty sure last year he was rated as best or at least top 2 mids internationally by most

tender fox
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i mean it just sounds like u didnt watch the games, this is not what happend

torn girder
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Dont know if that would be the case this year

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In last like

vital pollen
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its what happened the entire tournament

torn girder
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Couple tournaments

tender fox
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he literall solo push out mid to river nobody on map while his team is 4 ppl bottom

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and just dies for nothing

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he dont even make space for anything

vital pollen
#

yeah, im sure the better explanation is that hes a bad player who just muted coms and wasnt playing with his team anymore

worldly hamlet
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do you only remember cores getting picked off in every game to shit on them later and nothing else? I mean these types of kills literally happen every game

tender fox
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its pretty memorable when it keeps happening and sets his team back

vital pollen
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maybe they had information that they thought would give them a fight bot, with nts just TPing in from mid, but they understood the stiuation wrong

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and instead he gets ganked

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im just sick of reading shit like

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"if they had somnus instead theyd win every game" etc.

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when theyre entirely different types of mid players

tender fox
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nobody is saying that, we are saying he is the one underperforming especially in lgd and a big reason why they are out

vital pollen
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depends on what you mean by underperforming

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to me

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hes just not a midplayer that fits into the current meta

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of pos1 farm prio mid heroes

torn girder
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I am just saying hes been trending down it feels like but probably just due to lgd losing more in recent times

worldly hamlet
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I mean they got top6, seems pretty realistic to how they played since group stage

vital pollen
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nts isnt the type to play a hardcarry ember or lesh or sf

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and run away with the game

torn girder
#

I am not saying he is or was

vital pollen
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and since that is the current meta

torn girder
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But he used to shit on lanes and outplay

vital pollen
#

they just didnt do well

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or well

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they did well lmao, they got top6

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but like

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people expect lgd to get top2 every tournament

torn girder
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Idk thats not well for lgd

vital pollen
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(which they did for like 3years)

worldly hamlet
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thats the problem with TI end of the day, its just a tourney like any major

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just has 50x the prizepool

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xdd

torn girder
#

Ye

vital pollen
#

now first time they dont "lmao nts is trending down"

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only one thats trending down in lgd is xiao8 imo

torn girder
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He is tho, but could be cause of lgd in general losing more

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Last year they were immortal

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Probably why nts seemed so good

vital pollen
#

meta just fit his playstyle a lot more

torn girder
#

Ye

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Now you have to play this cringe shit like lesh and lina

vital pollen
#

ye

torn girder
#

Unlosable lane

vital pollen
#

i mean

torn girder
#

And just go farm map

vital pollen
#

lina is kinda

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not played a lot

torn girder
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For 20 minutes

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Buy bkb

vital pollen
#

i dont agree that shes busted

torn girder
#

Woooo

vital pollen
#

she just works well into these backline core lineups

torn girder
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I think she is a stupidly scaling hero

vital pollen
#

and TB Solo core has never worked out imo

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sure, but so are a bunch of other heroes

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all of which are just better this TI

torn girder
#

In mid?

vital pollen
#

ye

torn girder
#

Like what

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Besides lesh

vital pollen
#

sf/lesh?

torn girder
#

Cause lesh fits the same demographic

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Sf has fallen off giga hard no?

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Group stage hero into L

vital pollen
#

its played a bit more on safelane nowadays

torn girder
#

Lina to me is idiotic cause even if you buy bkb she can just auto you to death in like 2 seconds

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Lesh feels more imba late game tho

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Cant randomly just die if dove

vital pollen
#

shit like primal, pango, bat

torn girder
#

Pops bloodstone and afks

vital pollen
#

ember

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all scale super well as well, with more regular powerspikes than lina

worldly hamlet
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I think Lina just has those games where she looks way better than what she actually is on average

vital pollen
#

that draft just made her look good

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cause she plays into enigma/tb cores

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who both wanna maxrange

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which is where lina is the most comfy

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if no one gets up in her face

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its just like the other game yday from aster i think, where they play into 4 heroes with massive mobility on a game where they wanna catch people

torn girder
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Idk shes been played 47 times 57% wr

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Seems good to me

vital pollen
#

idk

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storm has 78% winrate

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lesh 61%

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lina was played 18 times

#

50% winrate

torn girder
#

78%

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When

worldly hamlet
#

its only got 14 games its 11-3

torn girder
#

In groups or main stage or are we just lying

vital pollen
#

combined event

worldly hamlet
#

lesh has 70 games

vital pollen
#

last-pick hero

worldly hamlet
#

lesh 12-3 in main event tho

vital pollen
#

ye lesh is 80% win

torn girder
#

Nvm i was looking at wrong tab kekdog

vital pollen
#

lina is 75% in 4games

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storm 75%

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problem with mainstage stats is

torn girder
#

Regardless i dont think you can pick storm in every game

vital pollen
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that its all small numbers

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ofc not

torn girder
#

Probably why his wr is so high lol

vital pollen
#

storm is a lastpick

torn girder
#

Because he gets picked in good games

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You pick lina in any game

vital pollen
#

you pick it cause it fitrs the game

torn girder
#

Same with lesh

vital pollen
#

nah

torn girder
#

You just pick it and know its gonna have a good game

vital pollen
#

like

torn girder
#

Because they farm fast

vital pollen
#

its asinine to argue lina is broken

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when she got 4picks in mainstage

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2 bans

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the problem with mainstage stats is that its too few games

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i definitely agree, that its easy to run away with the game on lina if youre having a good game

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but its also easy to ruin a linas game

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cause the hero needs ~10k networth to do good

torn girder
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No i am saying the hero will always have a game and has ridiculous scaling the hero is stupid lol

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It farms very fast

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Doesn’t lose lane

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Has built in super as steroid

vital pollen
#

yeah, but again, so do a lot of other heroes

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ember farms fast, cant lose lane. sf does. lesh does. pango does.

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you cant lose lane on basically any mid hero anymore

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the heroes that coudl lose mid, like ta, arent played mid anymore

torn girder
#

Ember doesn’t farm as fast as any of the actual meta mids

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And can def lose lane

vital pollen
#

we might have different understandings of "lose lane"

torn girder
#

But ye water runes are kinda cringe

vital pollen
#

to me a hero loses lane when he cant even contribute to teamfights anymore

#

basically every hero thats played mid, can still do that even when 20cs behind the other mid

#

you dont need to be even on cs mid to be a usable mid hero

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not every mid hero that has 20cs more than the rest of the cores is a good mid hero

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it depends entirely on what the purpose of your mid is

#

meta rn seems to be a dualcore lineup of pos1+2 rightclicker+spellcaster with a teamfighting/frontlining pos3

torn girder
#

Ye except at like idk 30 mins into the game as a pos 1 im not afraid of an ember sleighting me to death over 2 seconds i am very afraid of a lina just clicking me to death before i can even do anything about it

vital pollen
#

dota isnt a 1v1 game tho

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youre not afraid of a lina rightclicking you to death when your lich gives you a frostshield

torn girder
#

Alright lol

buoyant sage
#

hum liquid?

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uh my keyboard is not working

vital pollen
#

or when your mars sets up an arena and shes standing outside

errant tusk
#

that was blink reveal

vital pollen
#

or when your brew just lifts her in the air for 10seconds twice in a teamfight

errant tusk
#

i think

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they werent aware enigma has blink

buoyant sage
#

ah ye

vital pollen
#

honestly rn, i think lina is stronger as a pos1 than as pos2

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cause she needs more farm than other heroes

buoyant sage
#

feels like matu should go abyssal instead of stygian? thoughts @errant tusk

worldly hamlet
#

well this seems over

buoyant sage
#

mmh ye

#

rough

vital pollen
#

nah

#

they need

#

blink

#

that rubick is ruining their game

errant tusk
#

they lost moment they didnt ban bs

vital pollen
#

yeah

worldly hamlet
#

bs 3 lvls higher than matu

vital pollen
#

that pango is useless

#

against rubick/bs

#

rubick gets to steal rolling thunder every fight

#

in that bottom t2 fight he rolled through like 10 different heroes

#

enigma got 3man blackhole, rubick rolling through

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while fadebolting

errant tusk
#

yea that was blink reveal

vital pollen
#

fucker does a lot of damage

errant tusk
#

which was unfortunate

vital pollen
#

then the fight at outpost

errant tusk
#

their bkbs are rly fast

vital pollen
#

he steals split earth

errant tusk
#

good call from mars to buy bronze boots blink/bkb

vital pollen
#

and rubick split earth is 10x better than leshrac

errant tusk
#

coz that lesh has rly bad time

vital pollen
#

ye

#

lesh cant fight

#

in blood rite either

#

its just area control

#

with enigma/mars/bs

#

where do you fight them

errant tusk
#

this looks over but xddcant

vital pollen
#

in arena, stack up for blackhole, or in bloodrite? kekdog

errant tusk
#

its just hard game for pango

#

too hard

buoyant sage
#

aye

worldly hamlet
#

ok

#

lol

errant tusk
#

LOLW i knew

vital pollen
#

oh well

errant tusk
#

its classic liquid

buoyant sage
#

leshrac just doesnt care my dude

errant tusk
#

lose hard

#

well pakaz wasnt there

buoyant sage
#

psychedelic disco poney xd

vital pollen
#

thats what happens when you wanna midnight pulse before bh

#

and he gets bkb off

#

before blackhole

#

unfortunate

rocky moon
#

imagine just casually walking into your mates with lich ulti

errant tusk
#

i thought to myself

vital pollen
#

now they do what i like to call the "seli-stack-pub-strat"

errant tusk
#

game is over

#

so liquid puts on naruto song

vital pollen
#

where your team dies

errant tusk
#

and start ocming back

#

classic

vital pollen
#

and then

#

when theyre about to respawn

#

you get caught

#

10sec before they respawn

#

so you die

#

and then when youre abotu to respawn

rocky moon
#

I think TA will advance to grand finals

vital pollen
#

your friends die again

rocky moon
#

and face secret again

#

and win

vital pollen
#

and then for the next 2 minutes you never have all 5 people alive at the same time

tender fox
#

Tundra will win ub

#

But this week prep will make it weird

torn girder
#

Tundra will actually ban secrets heroes

worldly hamlet
#

does lich ult still mini stun on cast

torn girder
vital pollen
#

nah

#

cant cancel tps anymore with lich ult afaik

errant tusk
#

1 week break sadge

vital pollen
#

i honestly think

#

aster can win this easy

#

if they dont have 2 super garbage games for monet/ori like yday

#

where theyre basically playing

#

4v5 for 20minutes

rocky moon
#

didn't it also stun on cast and not on impact?

vital pollen
#

ye

#

lich is weird as fuck

#

his shard is broken

worldly hamlet
#

why the fuck did they continue chasing there

errant tusk
#

EZ counterthrows

wide geode
#

As much as I want Matu to win TI to retire

vital pollen
#

its the liquid special

rocky moon
vital pollen
#

or rather

#

the matu special

wide geode
#

I can’t lie TA be balling out.

vital pollen
#

its a good enigma game

#

you play into naix/pango/lesh

errant tusk
#

counter counter counter throws

vital pollen
#

all wanna run into you

errant tusk
vital pollen
#

last game was horrible for faithbian cuz

errant tusk
#

i think pango will have a job to stop bh with swashbuckle no?

vital pollen
#

their cores didnt wanna go into you

#

ye

errant tusk
#

once he gets basher

vital pollen
#

now that bkb is up

worldly hamlet
#

networth wise liquid has to be feeling the game is closer

errant tusk
#

but zai has hardmode game

vital pollen
#

hes their only way to stop bkb

#

problem is

#

if hes not rolling in

#

lesh will just die

#

god i hate lesh/sf

#

i hate any hero thats only good cause of an item thats only playable on that one hero

#

its like old od+meteor hammer. no one bought that item, just that hero (and maybe treants in pubs)

worldly hamlet
#

lesh was my favorite hero back in hon starege

errant tusk
#

torturer yep

vital pollen
#

torturer was very different tho

errant tusk
#

i liked him too

vital pollen
#

fucking chains

worldly hamlet
#

it was better yeah, atleast compared to the lesh version that came first to dota2

#

but then there were buffs etc

vital pollen
#

theres a timeline where theres a 1week break now

#

everybody despairs

#

then they start mainstage

#

gaben says "welcome to the international"

#

we get a cinematic

#

with 15 hon heroes being introduced to dota

#

and everythings alright

#

lich too good

worldly hamlet
#

lesh gonna solo the game for liquid

vital pollen
#

theres no vessel on TA is there?

errant tusk
#

he is supposed to

vital pollen
#

why is no one playing vessel

errant tusk
#

thats their gameplan surely

vital pollen
#

against lesh

errant tusk
#

someone needs to tank bkbs so lesh can win after bkbs

worldly hamlet
#

well matu isnt doing much

errant tusk
#

he is

#

he tanks their bkbs LULE

#

with pango

vital pollen
#

yeah

worldly hamlet
#

but yeah I mean later the game goes weaker bs becomes right

vital pollen
#

this is basically

worldly hamlet
#

but with an enigma game is never over

vital pollen
#

ti meta on a platter

#

mars refresher could be big

#

hes farming well

#

on mars

#

oh he got it already

#

yeah

#

hate to love to see it

#

lich with headband+aether

#

dont you love a disable with a castpoint of 0?

#

man

#

that blink

#

with chainfrost still chasing him

#

hahahahaha

errant tusk
#

ye

#

he didnt realise

#

coz he refreshed blink with refresher

vital pollen
#

ye

#

its funny how small things like that

#

can decide a game

#

jhust like that game yday

#

where doom gets harpy creep

errant tusk
#

these bbs arent that bad

#

that 15s on rosh means it will spawn

#

right?

#

or is it chance for spawn

#

i never know

worldly hamlet
#

always aghs

vital pollen
#

not sure about the seeker buyback

#

lmao

#

aghs gone

#

aghs steal is kinda big tho

errant tusk
#

they might just lopse the game tho

vital pollen
#

honestly tho

#

this enigma performance is

worldly hamlet
#

isnt this like 2rax min

vital pollen
#

best ive seen this tournament

rocky moon
#

I gotta say as a viewer I am having fun

#

I dunno how players feel

vital pollen
#

like

#

its super hard

#

to play enigma in pro dota

#

almost impossible

#

rubick is just gonna

#

keep people in base

errant tusk
#

naa matu has bb

#

they are gonna defend

#

counter throw POG

worldly hamlet
#

lmao really

#

if they go for 2nd rax they probably get it

errant tusk
#

mars no bb

#

lmao

vital pollen
#

i honestly think

#

they didnt need to tp out there

worldly hamlet
#

rooooooooooofl this game

vital pollen
#

rubick EZ

tight sluice
#

LMFAO

#

LESH

buoyant sage
vital pollen
#

expensive but

buoyant sage
#

disco poney strikes again

vital pollen
#

actually not even

#

that expensive

tender fox
#

Boxi

vital pollen
#

was just 1 buyback

worldly hamlet
#

I mean look at his hp

#

after bh

tender fox
#

Why is he lingerkng around Fountain for 20s

tight sluice
buoyant sage
vital pollen
#

so his team can get 2nd rax

#

he just kept enigma+rubick in base

#

but they didnt have creeps i think?

worldly hamlet
#

thats so lucky for liquid, if he dies during bh

#

they probably just lose

vital pollen
#

it wasnt even that great

tender fox
#

Nah only enigma alive and rubick did BB lift to fountain

vital pollen
#

they have mars dead for 120

#

and BS

#

and get 1 rax

errant tusk
#

he did have bb on lesh

vital pollen
#

and almost lose game there

errant tusk
#

big story is lesh/naix has bb

vital pollen
#

ye

errant tusk
#

and lesh will have bots 2

worldly hamlet
#

yeah sure but they dont get the 3 kills after if lesh dies

vital pollen
#

if TA pushes advantage now

errant tusk
#

by the time next rosh is up

vital pollen
#

they lose game

#

but theyll just stall

worldly hamlet
#

no shot he would have bb and traveled back in

errant tusk
#

liquid will just calm the game and wait for rosh?

#

its refresher too

#

and aghs

vital pollen
#

ye

errant tusk
#

idk if any aghs is relevant for them

vital pollen
#

they already got aghs

#

from last rosh

#

since zai stole

errant tusk
#

ye

vital pollen
#

dont think nihilism matters

#

except for damage

#

and its gonna ruin naix game

#

zai windwaker could be gamebreaking

errant tusk
#

someone should buy nulli

#

from TA

vital pollen
#

if he finishes it

errant tusk
#

for euls

#

wind wakers

vital pollen
#

ye

#

no witchbane sad