The Russians are fighting a Chinese team for the first time after the recent addition of two new players, while on the other hand it's TyLoo that hasn't met any non-Chinese team since their recent roster changes. Will the no-hardcarry strategy of M5 be able to defeat the team fight oriented line-up they have to face?
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The Picks Analysis |
The Line-ups |
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As one can clearly see, M5 decided to follow their "No hardcarry" strategy, picking 5 heros that shine mostly early to mid game with their team-battling abilities. will be the one responsible of keeping the pace up, keeping every single one of his teammates alive during battles and tower pushes, while the ganking powers of , , are given space to shine, with the supporting powers that only a hero like can provide, with his abillity to always keep the team's mana points high and teleport heroes to his location for greater positioning.
Tyloo, on the other hand, decide to place a typical hardcarry focused line-up with obviously being the hero who farms the hardest in order to be ready for late game. Their combo consists of pretty much standard heroes, including two of the best side lane solo heroes - and . On top of it all, they also have the abillity to gank and counter-gank, with the assistance provided by , while they can even push a little with and the heal he's able to provide.
for the Sentinel is the hero that is going to try keep it together, using his Chakra Magic to keep his allies' MP in high levels and in co-operation with , the M5 players are going to feel like there is a portable fountain available to them. Ezalor's help doesn't stop there. His Mana Leak is an excellent counter to while his Blinding Light can screw up and his Cogs. Moreover, his recall ability coupled with offers M5 the ability to create a 3-man-gank out of nowhere almost instantly.
is going to be the critical hero of TyLoo's line up, providing excellent damage and tankability during team fights towards mid game and onwards, while she also has the ability to finish off any heroes that survive the early game combo provided by the squad's stunners. It's really important for Spectre to get her Vanguard-Phase Boots pretty fast in this game, since the pressure coming out of M5 is going to be very high from the very first minutes of the game. It all comes down to her for the Chinese, since their combo is very dependent on her mid to late game damage output.
The two line-ups pretty much prepare us for what's coming in the game. M5 with their extreme mobillity and their mediocre pushing power, are going to try to keep their enemies from farming and get the game finished in less than 30 minutes. On the other hand, Tyloo has a set a lineup of 4 strong disablers and all they are looking forward to is seeing this Spectre farmed up. They know they can win the game once Spectre gets her core items up.
Moscow5 | Tyloo |
Sentinel pleasegogame(C) (Mid) M5.Dread (Mid) Moscow5.RAK (Mid) M5.Guf (Top) ekv (Bot) | Scourge TyLoo.XYG (Top) TyLoo_Wxy (Bot) wangchenxiai (Mid) TyLoo_Qssssssss (Roaming) TyLoo.hottt (Mid) |
10:10 attempts to initiate on Ezalor and succeeds, but fails to kill his foe after an in-time heal and repel by Vigoss' Omniknight. This followed up by a successful Elune's Arrow gets killed. 10:48 teleports to pick up a fleeing, low-hp Windrunner and, along with the dive of Mirana and Purist, gives the chance to Vengeful and Ezalor to take down the Scourge's Mid Tier 1 tower. Windrunner survived Furion's sudden teleport, but the same can't be said for Clockwerk, that got himself Sprouted and then killed by the raw damage of the Sentinel. 12:53 Vengeful and Furion attempt to kill with a tower dive at the Top lane Tier 1 tower but Spectre survives using Spectral Dagger to phase through the woods...only to be found by Mirana who instantly kills her. M5 then proceeds to push the Scourge Tier 1 Top tower, finding no defence by Tyloo. 13:18 tries to initiate on Ezalor who runs into his Bottom Tier 1 Tower woods to save himself, successfully doing so by evading a ton of Powershots, Rockets and even a Hookshot. That's a trade gone bad for Tyloo, since they attempted to trade their Top Tier 1 tower for Ezalor plus Sentinel's Bottom Tier 1 tower, but they failed to kill him; therefore they can't even push the tower, but M5 manages to take down Scourge Top Tier 1 tower, without any sign of defence by Tyloo. 14:29 Elune's Arrow hits , resulting in her 3rd death and M5 pushes the Top Tier 2 tower of the Scourge, while keeps blocking any offensive attempt made by Tyloo on the bottom lane. Tyloo once again fail to trade even a Tier 2 tower for a Tier 1, and the game clearly and steadily starts going more in favour of M5. 15:45 falls for Ezalor's bait and gets killed after a Sprout and Swap combo. 15:58 M5 Gets Scourge Tier 1 Bottom tower, defencelessly. 16:27 teleports and kills Witch Doctor, with the help of Mirana. 17:02 and get initiated by Dread's Magic Missile and pleasegogame's Sprout and end up dead by the raw damage of Illuminate, Starfall and Wrath of Nature combo. Witch Doctor falls right afterwards and so does the Scourge Mid Tier 2 tower. 18:26 Spectre gets ganked by , and . 20:20 M5 kills Roshan, Clockwerk misses a Hookshot thus leaving Spectre alone to Haunt and Replicate into the Roshan pit in an attempt to steal the Aegis. She fails, though, as picks it up. Spectre manages to take down Mirana's Aegis before she dies but it's already too late. M5 start pushing mid where they kill Witch Doctor and the GG call comes from TyLoo, without making any effort to even try and defend their mid lane.Omniknight's being there on time was crucial on keeping Ezalor alive, despite the 3-man, all-out gank on him including a Hookshot, a Fissure, Power Cogs and the cask of
*Failed attempt to kill and then proceed to push the tower is what ultimately cost the game for Tyloo, setting them back not only gold-wise but time-wise too, since they not only sacrificed a tower in a failed attempt, but also gave away one more kill on Spectre to M5. *How Ezalor managed to outplay 3 opponents and survive a sure death, without even requiring a protective teleport from his allies; his survival and his tower defending abilities gave M5 the edge required to win the game. *How is unable to farm for even a short time without getting ganked. M5's mobility and tower-killing speed is way too big for Spectre to be able to turtle this game. *How M5 players have not died, not even one single time. And not only that, but how small an amount of time the M5 heroes spend in their fountain. All thanks to Omniknight and Ezalor, the M5 heroes had a much smaller amount of "out-of-play" time than their enemies. This created a huge gap in terms of levels and items, a gap that couldn't be closed. Crucial Heroes State Ezalor, like said before, gave his team the cutting edge they needed with all that action in the bottom lane. Despite the fact that he never made use of his ultimate and Mana Leak, he was able, using only his Illuminate and Chakra Magic, to create an unbearable difference between the two teams. Things are simpler when it comes to Spectre, on the other hand. She can't have the farm she needs, so she tries to keep it together in a passive way of play that is not enough to avoid M5's ganking power, so she just keeps on dying and losing all of her hard-collected gold. The upper hand: M5. They kept the pace up, continuing to dominate Tyloo. Not only were they ganking and pushing without a single pause, but they were also able to counter every small offensive sign that Tyloo gave out.The moment of fall for the Scourge, their bad strategical decisions drove them straight to their inevitable doom.
The moment of closure for this game has arrived, those two mistakes were the last Tyloo would ever make in this game, since the GG call didn't take much longer to come...