I picked DS because guy was hovering over TB, guy ended up picking Storm after Lion already called mid and instalocked (was either going WK or something else.
Decide to go DS and jungle since they have an ET (aura to counter PL along with ion shell earlier, basically just looking for excuses to play him since I wanted to not play Wraith King).
Them: 5 heroes that are cores vs a team with no carries and not even good push.
After a bad early start for all of us (and terrible lanes, most creeps in my lane got denied and Omni was near me soaking XP) Clockwork rotated top and we got kills together (Ion Shell + Surge + Battery Assault) to help balance things out.
I felt like I was everywhere doing everything as I pushed out lanes so PL couldn't apply pressure, directing anyone (No carry gg) to freefarm top while I pushed mid and they stalemated at bottom.
Got a Necro 3 to help after mech with map control.
Even up by 5-10 kills we barely had any tower advantage and didn't have a great pushing lineup at all against them. Somehow we managed to find a pickoff every so often and translate that into some tower damage or a kill when we were at like 40 minutes.
We had multiple man wipes as well, but I was always alive to make it harder and buy time. I should have cut more creep waves, but I didn't have a blink to guarantee my safety.
Particularly rough was ET Stomp combined with Tornado EMP and global silence as initiation, when we got caught on their terms we all died and no one had mana if PL had any illusions on us.
I got a 3 man wall -> vac -> Lion Aghs ult to defend our rax after T3 fell, then we had a super scrapy fight a few minutes later after they pushed into our mid rax again where by some miracle we ended up wiping them and pushing mid to get rax, then died, and took another teamfight mid after another pickoff and got throne.
I never even checked my KDA the entire game and had a heart on courier at the end.