In his latest blog entry, 7ckingmad wrote about the comeback of the initiation role as of late and his thoughts on how the gold and experience graph shaped the meta-game for the past couple of months.
Sebastien '7ckingmad' Debs, Quantic Gaming player, fresh off their second place finish in Dreamhack Summer 2013 has set up a blog on Wordpress in an attempt to educate players and also dish his thoughts on the current meta-game.
His latest entry titled "Dota & Initiation" highlights the role played by the gold and experience graph in shaping the meta-game into the push-oriented line-up which many teams have favoured in the past couple of months. 7ckingmad also stated the role of initiation heroes, a forgotten art, is making a comeback as of late with Puck, Vengeful Spirit and Naga Siren being picked up more often.
Excerpts of the blog post:
I would like to seize this opportunity to highlight how HUGE was the impact of the GOLD & XP GRAPHS in dota-people’s minds. Because it really was a complete game changer that almost no one highlighted. Once upon a time (nostalgyyyy!), teams use to take strategical decisions only based on how they analyzed the game at a precise moment, based on opportunities, on skill. Now, no player what so ever can say that he doesn’t have permanently in mind the gold & xp evolution. Which means that only very old & experienced teams ( very few top teams actually ) still take fights they ‘shouldn’t be able to take’, and win games like this. It requires huge experience to be able to go further this very mathematic approach of DotA, which is the gold & experience one.
You can read his full blog entry here.
