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First Arc Warden competitive match

Captain’s Draft 3.0 group Hippo bring us the first ever Arc Warden competitive game by Evil Geniuses against Team Liquid. 

Clinton "Fear" Loomis was the one using the hero in the safe lane with Peter "ppd"Dagger as lane support.

Although Team Liquid had the advantage in the early stages with some smokes ganks and pressure in the mid lane, Fear took his time to go for a greedy build, by getting Hand of Midas and rushing Necronomicon. Once the items were ready, the next big teamfight went in Evil Geniuses's with a lead of three kills.

While Artour "Arteezy" Babaev and Syed "Sumail" Hassan kept Liquid busy with their aoe and single target damage. Fear constantly sent the Arc Warden illusion to push the lanes, cause havoc amongst the enemy or help his team to secure kills.

The entire game went in EG ‘s favor due to the strong split push capability of Arc Warden’s illusions and his necro units and Liquid lost all the  map control when the Divine Rapier came into play. Going with a safety measure item choice, namely BkB, EG took down the first set of racks with ease.

Finally, after 30 minutes into the game another team fight start in the bottom lane 4 vs 5 while Fear pushed mid lane. EG win the fight and decide to take another set of racks, with two Divine Rapiers now on Arc Warden . Not reaching the 40 minutes the game ended with EG destroying the last buildings in Liquid base.

In the words of Troels "syndereN" Nielsen caster of the game “it is healthy to see just once Arc Warden in a competitive game...”, and we hope it is the last time.

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