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[Interceptor]

No idea what tourney is going on right now.. are there any good replays to watch on twitch/youtube?

 

[SteveWinwood]

No idea what tourney is going on right now.. are there any good replays to watch on twitch/youtube?

The DAC, basically a mini asian international. The vods are free in the client if you want to watch them there, or reddit usually keeps this updated: http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2u1b1q/dota_2_asia_championships_2015_day_2_match/

To all the insomniacs/non-americans, what were some good games I should check out?

 

[SecretMoblin]

^ secret vs. na'vi is worth watching for the first 10 minutes alone

edit: vid

 

[Dreams-Visions]

RIP Na'Vi

also, EG. Kreygasm

lol @ LGD resorting to guerrilla tactics.

 

[dehm]

Today LD said Puck hasn't been performing so great on the offlane and is not so viable anymore. Zai's plays against HR says otherwise. Just amazing and very worth watching it,

 

[Divvy]

That adaptive strike is pretty disgusting

 

[G.ZZZ]

EG vs Newbee is game of the day of those i've seen.

 

[Chris R]

Secret vs Big Dog was Resident Sleeper so I think you are better of downloading it later. No clue how to make them download faster, I think the replays are also stored on the Perfect World Servers so they have to go though China's shitty firewall. I think you can likely queue them all up to download at once and then just come back after 30 minutes.

I'll try downloading them again tonight but if it still takes forever to download a single game I'll just watch some youtube vods.

 

[Label]

Woohoo I got my first ever drop from watching matches:

shame it was not a Team Secret/VG/C9 match

 

[Radec]

That Rave team is now 3-1.

wow.

I wonder if they can keep this up.

 

[Divvy]

EG throwing so hard

 

[TUSR]

strangest gold and exp graphs ive ever seen

 

[manfestival]

EG throwing so hard

suFail

 

[Chris R]

Woohoo I got my first ever drop from watching matches:

shame it was not a Team Secret/VG/C9 match

You mean shame it wasn't Newbee vs BG. I sold my TI4 drop for a ton of money instantly because of Newbee fanbois.

 

[G.ZZZ]

PPD with the double blink lion blink PogChamp

 

[bbd23]

EG lookin so good

 

[Label]

You mean shame it wasn't Newbee vs BG. I sold my TI4 drop for a ton of money instantly because of Newbee fanbois.

Damn, that did not even cross my mind!

 

[Dreams-Visions]

EG throwing so hard

EG lookin so good

 

[KingKong]

EG vs Newbee is game of the day of those i've seen.

yeah that was the best I've seen

Secret vs C9 this evening woo

 

[abunai]

omg what am I missing

He did a great hookshot which turned around a fight into a triple kill basically
best player

e: and then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhoMEeC0Jo

 

[manfestival]

EG Throe

 

[rakkadakka]

BTS has been posting all the games to their youtube channel.

Getting them up pretty fast too.

 

[ViviOggi]

He did a great hookshot which turned around a fight into a triple kill basically
best player

e: and then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhoMEeC0Jo

Kreygasm

Such a god

 

[SteveWinwood]

He did a great hookshot which turned around a fight into a triple kill basically
best player

e: and then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhoMEeC0Jo

this is probably my favorite dota video ever made

 

[TUSR]

He did a great hookshot which turned around a fight into a triple kill basically
best player

e: and then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhoMEeC0Jo

ive watched this >5 times already. its really just that good.

 

[Monochromaticx]

After watching MMY! support morph I wanna try it now. Not sure about morphing full str with -1 armor left though..

 

[twobear]

He did a great hookshot which turned around a fight into a triple kill basically
best player

e: and then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhoMEeC0Jo

rofl a bit

 

[Quesa]

That force staff is incredible. Not just in the "damn that was clutch" sense; the way he FSes him as he flies with the hook screams "Don't worry about me -- RUN!"

 

[Night_Hand]

After watching MMY! support morph I wanna try it now. Not sure about morphing full str with -1 armor left though..

armor is always cheaper to buy than hp so if you don't like having no armor you can buy it

 

[KingKong]

I would have never expected EG to be 4-0 when they had to play (what I thought) were the three strongest Chinese teams, thats crazy. Maybe its true what IceIceIce said and its hard to do your best on a Chinese team when you know your roster is going to change after this

 

[shira]

Let's do dis!

Only got in 2.5 last night.
Gonna watch 3 games tonite boys

3 games tonite

#pissblue

 

[Chris R]

After watching MMY! support morph I wanna try it now. Not sure about morphing full str with -1 armor left though..

Well, since you are going to have a ton of HP why not build something like blademail for starters so you have the mana to cast your stun and something to deter people from prioritizing you during team fights.

Spoiler

then you transition from support into radiance / heart / AC / ect and just laugh as everyone dies around you

 

[SteveWinwood]

After watching MMY! support morph I wanna try it now. Not sure about morphing full str with -1 armor left though..

was this the last lgd game?

 

[aeolist]

for some reason i still haven't internalized all the western roster shuffles and keep thinking that rtz is playing for c9

 

[Jex]

After watching MMY! support morph I wanna try it now. Not sure about morphing full str with -1 armor left though..

Nah it's fine. In one game I even ended up building atos on support morph for even more HP, you can pretty much live through any kind of burst and still get your stun and nuke off. It's more the laning phase that's the problem, where he basically feels like a potato.

 

[Monochromaticx]

Well, since you are going to have a ton of HP why not build something like blademail for starters so you have the mana to cast your stun and something to deter people from prioritizing you during team fights.

Spoiler

then you transition from support into radiance / heart / AC / ect and just laugh as everyone dies around you

armor is always cheaper to buy than hp so if you don't like having no armor you can buy it

I could just keep some agi to have like 5 base armor + armor from tranquils. int from blademail is not where close to being enough I think. he needs that soul ring asap followed by blink and/or force staff.

 

[Monochromaticx]

was this the last lgd game?

yes LGD vs EG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blQRGQfpAfs

 

[fallout]

for some reason i still haven't internalized all the western roster shuffles and keep thinking that rtz is playing for c9

They had a Zai interview up last night and I was like: "Oh yeah! He's playing for Team Secret now." Like, I had knowledge of the specifics of the shuffles and all, but there's been enough of it that I can't keep it all together in my head yet.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

He did a great hookshot which turned around a fight into a triple kill basically
best player

e: and then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGhoMEeC0Jo

this may be the greatest single play I've ever seen.

That force staff is incredible. Not just in the "damn that was clutch" sense; the way he FSes him as he flies with the hook screams "Don't worry about me -- RUN!"

;_;7

 

[abunai]

universe always so impressive no matter what

just played a troll game with my 2k friends, this hero needs a nerf

 

[shira]

just played a troll game with my 2k friends, this hero needs a nerf

DAC record G/W/L/%

 

[Chris R]

DAC record

Pros throwing so they can stop their ladders games with him

 

[Drkirby]

Pros throwing so they can stop their ladders games with him

Because we all know the Twitch Streams are where the real moneys at.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

DAC record G/W/L/%

Correlation does not imply...

This record is less about the strength or weakness of the hero and more about the quality of play from the teams picking him.

The teams that are shitting the bed the most at DAC are the teams who keep picking Troll. If EG and Secret were the teams picking troll, the mothafucka would be 6-0 right now.

Fact.

 

[Eleuin]

universe always so impressive no matter what

just played a troll game with my 2k friends, this hero needs a nerf

nah man he's fine

 

[Monochromaticx]

DAC record G/W/L/%

Jug has a 33% WR this tourny too. First stage picking him doesn't seem to pay off.
Meanwhile in pubs he's all over the place.

 

[abunai]

refresher troll 2 strong

 

[Randdalf]

Interesting results from the first day, I wonder if the western domination will continue.

 

[Vade]

10 years since last replay downloaded

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Interesting results from the first day, I wonder if the western domination will continue.

Probably, yes. The best Eastern teams (Vici, Newbee, IG) have very real, very visible flaws in their overall play and understanding of the new meta. EG and Secret are on a different level, with C9 not far behind them.

If EG and Secret aren't in the Grand Finals, I'll be surprised.