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I think the only time PIP would only be useful is in split team fights / multiple lane fights. Runes I can see on the minimap, who gives a shit about someone jungling or stacking...

wtf is this secret draft

Yea, I scratched my head when he picked up perseverance. I think that had Arteezys or Slardar's lanes done well (they weren't disasters, but limited farm) it might not have been an issue but their lanes were weak because of the jungler.

Secret still looking like they had no clue what to do.... I wonder if Juggernaut should have gone a stats build, the BF left him too weak for too long.

Monitor? Watch it on the big screen man To me Na`Vi vs Secret is the interesting one since we don't really know what to expect from either team. DC v Wings is maybe interesting as we haven't seen DC against teams outside of NA. ugh... this rolling rock + picture in picture on the main...

They had about 15 games together, not predicting that will be the case at Manila Major rather the way it appeared at that time /shrug

I think the issue w/ Secret is they don't know what to do with Universe, with Arteezy & EE's playstyle he needs to be a space maker but they keep giving him heroes like Void & Dark Seer both of which aren't strong in the meta and can't do shit by themselves. Dark Seer seems totally worthless...

I don't expect them to be taking to Secret or EG, but they definitely could get to be point where they compete with the current also rans (Na`Vi, VP, etc.)

Zai joined Kaipi in the support slot that mad opened. On paper it seems like a pretty good lineup.

I don't play ranked /shrug The point is to provide additional insight of things that may not have been obvious, not a delayed play-by-play. I just watched the game, I don't need someone to tell me what happened. Godz is fine, Blitz is good, they shouldn't have hired 18 play-by-play casters for...

I sorta wonder why they have 'analyst desk' when the 'experts' are cap & durka.

Single scaling core.... That said, icefrog really needs to do something more for melee cores. The minor range buff hasn't done enough.

I wonder if both teams are in the 'dont scrim' camp. I buy the logic for teams who have played together for a long time, but otherwise I think they don't really learn to play with each other.

He was on Team Tinker including the period where they looked competitive (though also the period where they weren't). Finally got around to watching Secret vs Newbee G2, interesting game but really both cores needed the grave, didn't really feel the impact of dark seer at all; they really...

Na`Vi at least was on a tear throughout April destroying everyone in Europe. Alliance didn't do well at the major and in the period after won 1 series, then lost 2 so to me its pretty hard to see how its justified.

Nothing against Empire but I'd like to see Ad Finem go through. Also... Alliance should not have been invited...

What made me chuckle a little was Mirana being 100% first phase banned vs Kaipi, SingSing Mirana still too good I guess. That Aghs buff, at least in pro-dota, seems absurdly strong. I'm not sure the number of times in the qualifiers a Slardar or other hero would try to initiate on her and...

Aggression & pushing is often popular early in the patch since people haven't really honed in on whats ideal. MVP Phoenix got shat on 2-weeks ago by OG & VGR and fnatic at ESL One Qualifiers. The thing about Secret is that they (and old Cloud 9) were often better at moving around and getting...

Ayesee back to the constant punching references.

Watching blitz/merlini/purge/cap/maelk stream their run in the qualifiers is interesting. Didn't catch the Kaipi games but it seems the combo of Sing, Bone7, CWM, Bamboe + random romanian is mostly crushing, wonder if mad is out.

I don't get this secret draft. They're all so poor too, its hard to see how they can fight this Slark.

Its thought to originate from middle english military termin point.

No, this the meaning in both even if there are dumb kids are miss-using it. The phrasestaking pointandon pointrefer to thepoint man

hur hur ur stup1d!1!

The arena is emptier and quieter than I would have expected given how the Philippines supposedly loves dota. Doesn't bode well for the major to me.

No, the phraseon pointhas always meant out in front. On a smoke gank the hero leading is on point.

No they weren't, on point means out front, nyxx was 'on point'...

Usually in these scenarios Puppey Enigma would use the threat of the BH more than the spell but this game they were never in a position where they could hold it back. He's also super poor for an hour game as enigma but being completely forced to stay together because of nyxx+spectre.

14 minutes in Mineski just running over CoL all over the map

Quite a while back I saw fluff trying support CK in a pro game, since I like the hero I play it off and on and I don't think I've actually lost as a support. Orb of Venom, tangos, clarity, and wards/courier as applicable, pick whatever lane is strong or has a squishy hero. Its similar to...

It seems kind of bullshit for 5k items to be countered with a level-1 spell.

This game it doesn't really feel like top tier teams playing. Edit: Something that has come up a few times @ SL, I thought years ago they changed it so that necrobooks couldn't be charmed. To me, illusions also should not be charmable.

If someone can come up with a way for Void to get the farm rolling as an offlaner he'll be first pick. Ench though... she's gonna get the nerf hammer.

When that DP died back I thought Na`Vi was done for certain. Holy crapola

I think Na`Vi should ban or take QoP, make Mikassa play less comfortable heroes, and something that can't escape in lane easily..

You know.... this Na`Vi play style with safelane NP and DP is very reminiscent of TI4 Edit: 10-3, seems like DP isn't a hero that can be active enough and Na`Vi isn't able to keep rolling.

The Void? I only saw the second half and he had maybe one good chrono. The gyro's itemization was also trash.

Oh was anyone else confused by ESL twitch earlier in the week? I watched about 10-minutes before I realized they were re-showing last year's Frankfurt hah

It was 1k / minute gold lead at 12 minutes haha

Na`Vi drow draft is so fitting of their play style.