xNova: Bane, OG Thanks for reading, see you next time after the next DPC tournament . These heroes are also very good team fight hero, which helped OG to stop or delay the snowball of the enemy since their pick are always weaker at the early stage of game. The same situation happened in previous TI, back with only two 1st-phase bans, it was even easier. God Tier is Io which brings any other allies with Relocate. All these actions are trying to achieve One goal — get the snowballing effect starts earlier and harder. n0tail’s Nature’s Prophet did a lot in this game, before the game-changing Roshan fight, n0tail baited Chalice’s Batrider to use his teleport scroll to defend the split push, he also use the Treants to deny a double damage rune in front of the roshpit. His first LAN event was TI8 which he won with some incredible display of skill on Arc Warden, Invoker & Monkey King. They will face the winner of Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid in the first series of the final day of The International 2018. PSG.LGD will be heartbroken but they still have another chance in the lower bracket final. Ame: Clinkz At just 22 years of age, Topson is considered the speedrunner of Dota 2. First of all, Ceb played a huge variety of heroes, but the ones he won, 5 out of 9 have a CC skills that goes through BKB, and Enchantress does not CC but the damage goes through BKB, which means he was always the one to control the enemy’s carry, and once he got on them, BKB became a wasted slot for enemy carry. But OG hadn’t really played Gyro, which was why LGD didn’t ban it. In what has to be one of the craziest series ever played in the main event of The International championships, OG defeated PSG.LGD 2-1 to make it to the grand finals. OG opened with a Spectre, like they had in game 3 against Evil Geniuses. It also enables some small but impactful in-game moves like: This is exactly why OG’s buyback is so impactful, they have multiple ways to join the battle after buyback within seconds, this makes the enemy team facing like 6 or even 7 heroes in a fight. Mais si Topson, Ana et Ceb ont l'occasion de sortir, respectivement, Invoker, Ember Spirit et Magnus, ils n'auront pas peur de le faire. As promised, here is the in-depth analysis for the victory of OG. This game is also the first appearance of the double damage reduction combo, at late game, Spectre only toke 31.5% damage before armor, and reflecting 30% damage. VGJ.Storm have a good idea of banning n0tail and topson’s heroes, but it does not help. OG also secured ana’s Phantom Lancer in the 1st phase, LGD tries to counter it by Morphling which can morph himself to Phantom Lancer, with those 2 known bugs, it is questionable. In Game 3, LGD had a good idea to counter OG’s late-game play by the Alchemist pick, although topson’s Morhling won the lane, but Alchemist farmed so fast that Phantom Lancer had no chance to go late game, as a result Alchemist was also banned in the next two games. They led 1-0, but LGD made a comeback to level the series 1-1. And as mentioned above, if he picked Chen or Nature’s Prophet, dying did not stop him from farming or split push, and the gold he earned are mainly invested to consumables, especially sentry wards, giving OG better resources to control vision even losing the map control. Ceb: Enchantress Game 4 is much similar to Game 1, but LGD opened up Io due to the dominating performance of Earthshaker on both sides. And Ceb was mostly ignored, he could pick anything that fit the team. This time, Enchantress and Earthshaker made sure that ana did not have a good lane. PSG.LGD Win the lane, win the game. Also, topson went Quas-Exort Invoker instead of his famous Quas-Wex Invoker surprised LGD and provide strong burst damage in the mid game. N0tail Interview at TI8: “The deny mechanic takes some of the fun away from the game”, TI8 Maybe Interview: “We’ve solved our problems through communication”. This is my first trial on analysis with this depth and hope that I can help you understand the strategy behind the games. In TI 7, when facing Liquid, teams did not want to give GH Keeper of the Light or Io, which opened up Earthshaker and Nature’s Prophet. Of course, OG also manages buyback so well that they always prepared to buyback(even selling items before death, wp ana), and they tried hard to not wasting any of them, which their enemy don’t seems on par. Game 2, VGJ.Storm tried to pick Nature’s Prophet themselves to save up a ban slot for Phantom Lancer. Ame: Drow Chalice: Weaver In Game 1, OG was already going with their plan, but played safe with the flexible pick of Winter Wyvern and Lina, and Resolut1on is famous of hard carries too, so OG focused down carries that Phantom Lancer may have problem against. This is a huge problem because OG can first pick ana’s Spectre, and whenever the enemy starts banning Spectre, one of those heroes was leaked, and then ana can first pick Phantom lancer, and if both of them were banned, ana goes back to Ember Spirit which they picked a lot during the open qualifier. Dieback on Ame with Maybe’s Mirana dying with no buyback! On the other hand, since the support buys a lot of low cost consumables, dying does not hurt their reliable gold too much, and they can spam buyback due to low net worth. In the other lane, ana showed that he was as good on Gyro as on any hero he has played and when Jerax is playing the Io, there is the added fear factor to the pair. 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