DOTA 2

Jesus fucking christ, I can't decide which Navi can throw harder

Navi needs to stop giving Dendi tinker. I swear Excalibur plays tinker and everybody thinks they can do that.

Hope Na'vi can get it together for TI4

I'm starting to think Na'vi would be better off letting Kuroky draft instead of Puppey. His drafting mind is stuck 3 patches ago much like how the Chinese teams were playing during the last International. I also think their lack of practice like other teams has finally caught up with them.

I'm really looking forward to this TI4 field which I think is going to be wide open, even DK shits the bed here and there.

This game kind of showing the discrepancy between Mason and Fear. He's playing such a shitty Slark.

Penance_sl said:

Navi needs to stop giving Dendi tinker. I swear Excalibur plays tinker and everybody thinks they can do that.

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The trend started with ddz in the SEA TI4 qualifiers, not Excalibur.

And as we're talking about Tinker. RTZ uses him to destroy VG.

Navi is just mimicking other teams right now and it seems to be very much hit or miss. Sometimes their skill and experience lets them pull through, sometimes it just falls apart when they pick a style they aren't comfortable with. They have their work cut out for them if they want to be contenders for TI4, right now they have no consistency. Then again, even Navi playing like shit can win games out of nowhere, Puppey might be drafting weird stuff, but sooner or later he will strike gold and if that happens doing an important match, many rares will be lost.

Saying Dendi isn't playing well is insane, his perfect game vs Narvi yesterday on Invoker is proof of that. Tinker is like Storm Spirit on steroids, Storm sucks until 6, Tinker sucks until he gets BoTs, which gives you about 10-15 minutes to abuse the hero.

I think the thing with Tinker in these pro games is that the teams who do very well with it catch teams off guard with it. This final game where RTZ smashed VG with it, they last picked the Tinker where other teams pick him early and Tinker ends up getting counter picked by Doom etc.

Genjiro_sl said:

I think the thing with Tinker in these pro games is that the teams who do very well with it catch teams off guard with it. This final game where RTZ smashed VG with it, they last picked the Tinker where other teams pick him early and Tinker ends up getting counter picked by Doom etc.

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His pa in game one, admittedly with help from wisp and tree, was ridiculous. He kept killing heroes as they died sand re entered the fight

Well their last ban was TA, so I guess they thought they could shut him down early

1v1 tourney right now. Merlini just went up on Funn1k 1-0.

Nope, Funnik won

Now Excalibur vs FY, who apparently won chinese 1v1 tourney vs Mushi and others ...

The Invoker stand-off was pretty funny actually. Boring as hell but hey, the money strike really shows how silly it is anyhow.

Who won? Didn't catch any of the 1v1 stuff

edit: nm, reddit says fy... not surprised at all

wow this game is already crazy, Abaddon doing serious work.

I thought they were brilliant for a while there. Then, well, not so much.

I'm really impressed with burning's brewmaster... he's so good on the micro

It looked so good and then they fell apart in a single fight. Still, nice to see some variety in heroes, shame you rarely have a worthy carry to stand behind in pubs as Aba, he is really fun to play.