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Hi everyone. Today I'm bringing you a video of Shadowfiend (SF).
I downloaded the video from own3d.tv, so the resolution isn't as good as if I'd recorded it on my own computer.
There's also a bit of background music, so sorry about that.
Why did I pick this video?
Recently my North American friends have told me that Dota 2 forums have been discussing
whether Valve should implement a vote-based concede feature
so I picked a game like this one.
Many players in North America may have come from LoL or HoN
so they might be used to conceding after 15min or 20min if they don't think they can win.
I think such a system has pros and cons.
You can't say it definitively.
My opinion is a system where 5 votes are needed seems viable.
However if only 4 votes or only a majority vote is necessary, then the system isn't very good.
Why do I say that?
Because we know the most exciting games are those where you lose a couple barracks then you make a comeback.
Or you lose all barracks, so all you have left is the throne and you make a comeback.
This kind of game is most exciting and feels exhilarating to play.
If four players vote to concede, but the last player feels there's still something to play for and wants to continue.
And in the end the game ends up as a concede, because your team gave up.
I think this is quite bad, because you ruined another player's gaming experience.
Because of the relevance to the topic we're all discussing, I made this video.
I hope everyone will like it. I'll introduce all the heroes.
The opposing team has Pugna, Veno, WR (Windrunner), Rhasta and Spectre.
We have Wisp, Lina, SF, SD (Shadow Demon) and Riki.
I queued for this match with my best friend amongst Westerners here in North Maerica.
Having mentioned him, I guess I should introduce him. His name is Steven.
He's quite an interesting player from the West.
Earlier this year before coL and N9 even existed in the world of Dota 2
and N9 was called aL, coL was called Fire, he played with me on Fire.
Later on, he stopped playing and I felt a bit regretful. I always wondered why he stopped playing for Fire.
I didn't ask him, because my English is very bad.
I was afraid he would answer me and I still wouldn't understand what he said.
I stopped playing, because I'm by myself in the US and I needed to work in order to support myself
so I didn't have time to train with them all day. That's why I stopped playing.
But I don't know why he stopped playing.
We see Veno came to gank me.
I didn't have any way of getting out, so I just tried to do as much damage as I could.
Before I died, I bought my Bottle.
If I didn't buy it in time, it would have been quite damaging.
Speaking of the vote-based concede feature, it reminds me of when I first started playing Dota.
Back then in happier times, everyone was so happy to play they'd yell slogans.
Once they entered a game they'd yell, "If our city doesn't fall, we won't leave."
It means before our base got destroyed, we wouldn't leave the game.
It really has the spirit of an athlete—not giving up until the end.
If there's a concede system, will there be such a spirit anymore?
It leads one to wonder.
Speaking of happier times where we yelled slogans
my friends made up a slogan called "no Steven no Dota".
It means if my friend Steven doesn't play Dota or isn't there, we won't play Dota either
because without him, playing Dota is too boring.
That's why we all say "no Steven no Dota."
He's a Western player who really likes Korean girls.
I don't know why that is. He really likes one Korean girl in particular
but I've forgotten her name. I'm very sorry.
His Steam profile picture is forever of the same Korean girl. Really...
Apparently all Western players like Korean girls.
No wonder on my friend list, so many Western players have Korean girls as their profile pictures.
I'll talking about irrelevant things now. Let's start watching the game again.
I bottled an illusion rune at 4min.
I'm using razes to collect souls.
Because I got killed earlier, my souls are really few in number.
I did a raze that hit both creep and hero.
From the minimap, we can see Veno came to gank me middle again.
My teammates are very good and pinged me.
I use the illusion rune.
Using the illusion rune is also to check the gank route to see whether he's about to gank me now or if he's going to wait a while
so I send an illusion there as an early warning system to avoid getting ganked again.
Speaking of runes, I'll mention how I'll play SF with different runes.
Because this is a public game, if I get a double damage or illusion rune I will generally try to push the tower.
If I get a haste or invisibility rune, I will generally try to gank. That is, I'll go gank a lane.
If I get a double damage or illusion rune I will try to push the tower.
Wisp and Lina have come to middle lane to gank.
The opposing Shadow Shaman (SS) does a nice ulti to trap Lina.
Our gank was quite a failure.
Both gankers, Wisp and Lina were killed.
The opponent's support was very swift.
By the time two of our gankers arrived, four heroes had showed up in support for them.
Pugna teleported (TP'd) to middle.
Veno and SS were already here and Spectre used her ulti.
From the speed of support arriving I'm guessing they're a stack
because usually in public games you won't see support like that.
Why is that? Firstly because I think in public games if you try to support
and you don't have any disables
it's not certain you'll be able to save your teammate
so let's not even talk about getting a counter-kill.
If it's random public players, it's unlikely they'll be so quick to TP support.
Going back to the rune discussion
if the opposing team comes to push towers and my team are there defending, I'll join them too.
If a teamfight breaks out, then with a double damage and illusion rune I'll go push towers.
With a haste or invisibility rune, I'll go looking for kills.
I'll say something about my SF skill build.
At level 1, I'll get necromastery.
Then I'll max my shadowraze before my necromastery.
At level 9, I'll get my ulti.
At level 10, it's flexible.
That is, everyone's skill build might vary.
Some players like putting a point into stats.
Anyways, I always level aura before stats.
I might consider leveling stats if all three lanes are doing poorly.
That's the only case where I'll consider leveling stats to boost HP a bit.
In normal circumstances, I'll level aura.
Bottom lane got ganked again. SS got an invisibility rune.
He hexed our Wisp and shackled him to finish him off.
I'll talk about my SF item build this game.
This game, I plan to get Bottle+Boots of Travel (BoTs)+Midas+ Black King Bar (BKB)+Manta+Bfly+Satanic.
Why did I go this route? Because the opponent's lineup is much better than ours.
Our lineup is quite far from ideal. A tank? We don't have a tank.
A reliable disable? We don't have a reliable disable.
By reliable disable, I mean a hero like Vengeful Spirit (VS) with a single-target stun.
Our area of effect (AoE) spells are not plentiful either— AoE for defending towers.
Only Lina and I have AoE for that.
Our disables are quite unreliable.
That's why I picked BKB.
Because with BKB, I can fulfill the role of a tank
walking up with BKB activated, which is quite intimidating.
I didn't choose Power Treads (PTs)+BKB+Manta+Bfly+Satanic
because Riki is a public player and I don't know how well he plays.
I'm afraid if his late-game ability isn't very good
and we play through early-game defending towers to make room for him to farm
yet he's unable to farm up his items, it will be very hard for us to play late-game.
That's why I chose BoTs instead of PTs.
Normally I still prefer Bottle+PTs+Blink Dagger on SF.
If I choose the BoTs+Midas route
I will follow it up with Manta+Skadi+Mjollnir+Bfly—
a pure attack speed damage per second (DPS) build.
At 9min, the score is 5-2.
We're behind by three kills.
The opponent should be pushing our towers soon
because they have very strong pushing capabilities.
They have Pugna, Veno and SS.
These three heroes have very strong pushing abilities.
Also there's Windrunner's (WR's) powershot.
The four of them can fight with us and Spectre can ulti in.
At 10min, I'm waiting for the rune.
Pugna sees me waiting, so he retreats right away.
Quite decisive. I pick up a double damage rune.
I was planning to farm neutrals.
My friend Steven pings me. I'm guessing he wants to ulti in and kill heroes.
Oh, he wants to go top to kill.
They should both die here.
My two razes and a normal attack takes out Veno.
WR immediately escapes Riki's cloud and windruns away.
We didn't manage to kill WR.
I even mentioned both of them were going to die, but we only end up getting one.
We stopped chasing, because I felt
even though we could've killed the WR
judging from the Lina+Wisp gank earlier in the game
I felt the opponent's support arrives very quickly
and chasing past their tower isn't the smartest decision.
Their support will definitely arrive swiftly and we would all die there.
Indeed the opposing SS wants to come kill me.
Hex+ulti+fork lightning+shackle. Ah, I'm dead.
Lina and Wisp arrive too
but the opponent simply has too many heroes there.
It's fortunate our Lina managed to pick off WR.
A 3-for-1 trade, very unprofitable.
My friend very funnily typed out "ffs".
The opponent is indeed planning to push top.
All their heroes are gathered there.
Then our Tier 1 tower will surely fall.
Even though SS doesn't have ulti, our tower will certainly not fall slowly
because they still have Veno and Pugna.
My friend says there's 10s on his ulti.
Then he says "***".
I don't know why he said that.
Oh, apparently he was planning to gank a solo hero top
but discovered five heroes there.
Our Riki is farming bottom too.
He doesn't think top lane can be defended.
If Riki isn't going, then there's no point in me going
so I didn't defend top tower either.
Oh, they're pushing our Tier 2 tower too.
They're really not giving us an easy way out.
Our SD says, "They haven't stopped pushing."
I got a regeneration rune.
I buy the BoTs recipe.
I'm planning to sell the TP scroll on me at the moment.
If this was a 5-man stack—
me and four other players—I would leave the TP scroll at base
so whoever wants it can use it.
Because this is a public game, I'd rather sell it.
It's worth 75 gold.
I'd rather use it myself than give it to someone else.
Riki and I push the lane bottom.
It's also because the opposing team has dropped SS wards.
We have no way to defend, so we can only trade.
Just now Lina used LSA, but didn't hit anyone with it. Quiet regretful.
Just now someone was using the courier, so my BoTs have only just arrived.
It took a long time.
Because we need to quickly push down the tower, I use razes to clear the creepwave.
They activate the glyph.
Wisp and Lina TP down here using Wisp's ulti to help us take the tower.
Someone actually dares to TP! Can you believe it?
This Spectre is too courageous.
He's actually treating as bots or something TP'ing like that.
I have no HP, so I use my regeneration rune.
The opposing SS already has Dagger!
He blinks+hexes+fork lightnings.
Then he shackles me.
It's fortunate our Riki was around and they weren't aware.
I' fog him.
I wanted to raze him and kill him, but with his position I couldn't hit him with the raze, so I canceled it.
I fogged him, ulti'd and killed SS with a C-raze.
Pugna tries to help, but it's no use—
your big brother is already dead, so you're surely going to die too.
Indeed.
My luck is quite good—I steal the kill with one normal attack.
The opposing WR has escaped. We couldn't do anything about that.
My teammate actually used smoke. Could you believe that?
The SD actually used smoke.
I wasn't planning to TP either.
I was planning to keep pushing and take off some HP from the Tier 2 tower.
However our Riki left
so I could only TP top to continue farming.
However my SD's use of smoke I didn't understand.
He didn't even say he was going to smoke.
He used it after we TP'd.
A waste of 100 gold. What a waste.
And the cooldown for smoke is 10min!
A very long time, brother.
I'm on top lane at their Tier 1 tower.
Spectre uses ulti. What kind of situation is this?
Apparently a teamfight broke out in middle lane.
Spectre kills our Lina.
I complete my Midas.
I use it on a creep and reach level 11.
At 15min, the score is 9-7.
We're still down two kills.
Furthermore the opposing Spectre should be very rich.
I'm guessing if nothing drastic happens, she'll complete it at 20min.
At 15min, she has a score of 2-1-2 and gold from two towers.
Bottom lane should also have been freefarm for her being babysat by Pugna vs. Lina+Wisp.
She should have had freefarm and be quite rich at the moment.
Our Riki said something, but I don't understand it.
That's the thing about having bad English—
You don't understand what your teammates tell you.
I think he said, "rune is top", but I didn't understand the rest of it.
The opponent has paused the game.
It's a good chance for me to take a sip of water.
Wow, that was fast. I didn't even finish my sip.
Oh, this Western player is really well-mannered.
He asked us "go?" and waited for us to respond before resuming the game.
He even said "thank you".
Really well-mannered of him. He shows really good character.
If every player's character was as good as his
I think the game environment would be very good.
I continue to farm top lane wanting to push the tower.
I already see someone TP'ing to defend the tower. It's SS!
He blinks+ultis+fork lightnings me.
It's fortunate he just clicked shackle instead of micro'ing his hero
so he took the path around instead of shackling me next to his snake wards which would have meant my certain death.
Because of his micro mistake, I was able to fog him, ulti and Z-raze him for the counter-kill.
I didn't dare to farm his wards, because I was afraid of support arriving and killing me.
That's why I TP'd away.
Spectre uses her ulti again. I'm guessing another small teamfight broke out.
Indeed, it's been a 2-for-2 trade so far.
Lina and Wisp on our side for WR and Veno.
Our Riki also died, so this teamfight was unprofitable for us.
The opposing Spectre didn't die, but our Riki died.
The opposing Spectre even got a double kill out of it.
It can be said this teamfight cost us.
Our main carry Riki died.
Even though I'm also a carry hero, I can only stand and watch
before I get my BKB and not dare to defend any towers.
I can only stand around and do nothing before I get my BKB.
Pugna and Spectre kill our SD.
Wisp ulti'd in with Lina to try to counter-gank them
but discovered Lina went afk (away from keyboard).
My friend says, "A good time to afk."
Wisp says, "Lina afks, gg."
Lina's back. She says, "***, why'd I die again?"
Whose fault is it for afk'ing?
They're pushing our middle tower.
Our Riki dropped smoke and chase them away.
The opposing heroes were scared of him.
We save the tower for now.
Because we know in the game of Dota, towers are very important.
If the opposing team pushes our tower, every player on their team will get 200 gold
and the player who gets the last-hit will get some bonus gold.
If we deny the tower they'll only get 100 gold each
so towers in Dota are very important.
I'm farming for my BKB right now.
Riki says, "Is there someone who can TP to where he is?"
I'm guessing he wants to gank.
The opposing Spectre uses her ulti. I think I'm going to die.
Indeed, the opposing Spectre and SS is nearby to do a combo with her.
WR too, even though her arrival was a bit unnecessary
but in any case she supported the gank too.
It means they really wanted me dead.
It turned out as they desired and I did end up dying.
Our Riki has PTs+Poor Man's Shield
and is missing the recipe for Diffusal.
His item speed is decent.
The opposing team is pushing our high ground tower.
They dropped a sentry on our high ground afraid of Riki smoking them.
Riki asks, "What should we do about top lane?"
No one responds.
It's not that I don't want to answer you—it's that I don't know how to say it in English.
I respawn.
This disruption was really nice from SD saving our Wisp.
All our damage was done on the Spectre. She's quite hard to bring down.
Oh, she finally goes down.
This teamfight we defended fairly well.
The loss of tower was unavoidable, because we don't have a tank or AoE damage because I died.
So the loss of tower was inevitable and at least we got their carry Spectre.
That's why I think our defence was tolerable.
I continue to farm. I have BKB in 300 gold.
I saw Wisp ulti'ing bottom. Did he ulti by himself?
That's why I TP'd bottom too.
Wisp didn't link me.
My friend Steven mentioned early in the game he wasn't very good at this hero.
That's why he didn't link, move his hero and interrupt the TP
thus allowing Veno to TP home safely.
Having gotten to the topic of him not knowing how to play Wisp very well
I might make a video of Wisp for him and you guys soon.
If you guys want to see that, let me know and I can make one.
Making a video for him, it's also in hopes to play more Dota with him.
After all, our slogan is "no Steven no Dota".
If he wants to see it, I can make a video for him.
Our Lina got killed again by Spectre and another hero.
I was busy talking about off-topic things, so I wasn't paying attention. Sorry about that.
I complete BKB. Now we can defend towers.
We can also push towers too.
This smoke placement was a bit off.
He had just smoked when SS walks out of it.
My Midas cooldown was up, so I click another creep with it.
From this we can see—
At 22min, the opponent is up five kills.
At first they were up one kill, then two kills and now five kills.
Here we're trying to work together and bring down the Spectre.
Wisp has linked me.
He should break the link now.
Ah, my friend indeed doesn't know how to play Wisp.
He actually didn't break the link and brought me back to base as well.
I TP in once again, but the chance is already gone and Spectre has fled.
This gank was quite a big failure.
We wasted three ultis—mine, Wisp's and Lina's—
yet we were still unable to bring down the Spectre.
Very, very regretful.
The opposing team should soon be pushing our top lane again
but this time I have my BKB, so we're not afraid of you.
Why do I say that?
Because I think they're a stack and our Tier 3 tower is already gone.
They definitely want to take our barracks top lane too and turn their creeps into megacreeps
so they'll get the advantage in that lane.
Indeed SS has blinked in.
WR is also there. You can tell from her powershot.
They indeed want to push top.
Because if it was me in their position having already taken the tower
I'd also want to take barracks in that lane too.
Indeed they have four heroes at top lane.
Spectre can ulti in.
They want to push top.
Their intent is quite clear.
I notice an invisibility rune bottom, so I bottle it up.
The opposing team is quite cautious placing a sentry before they even reach our base.
Or maybe they have a Gem.
SD says, "They have gem or sentries."
I tell them sentries, because I saw it.
The opposing team is quite cautious counterwarding our observer wards first.
We definitely have to defend barracks, because I have my BKB.
I'm preparing with my teammates now. I go in with invisibility.
I saw the snake wards target me, so I immediately activate BKB and continue on.
Because otherwise with the opposing team having this many disables
if I got disabled before I got the BKB off, I'd be returning to fountain again.
This teamfight we got their SS, but we lost SD
and our barracks. It was quite a bad trade.
We lose another as Lina chases out of the base.
She didn't pick anyone off and even got herself killed.
Wisp took me along.
I see WR who Force Staffs herself away ditching her teammate Veno.
Veno gets killed by our Riki.
Our Riki already has Diffusal.
Even though we lost a lane, I think our carries' items are okay.
The opposing Spectre still doesn't have Radiance!
In such an advantageous situation and still no Radiance!
Or did she buy Radiance and hide it at base?
And she's planning to TP home, pick up Radiance, ulti in with Radiance and give us a big surprise?
Western players aren't that evil, right?
Only I would do something like that, right?
I hope he's not an evil person.
This situation is quite unfavorable.
Even though we're not behind in terms of items
we've already lost one lane.
The opponent will obviously try to take another lane.
I don't know which lane they'll choose.
Our Riki has caught sight of the opposing Spectre.
I think a teamfight will erupt here.
WR's shackleshot gets me and Lina, but she got killed by Riki.
Riki got hexed. SD saves him.
I BKB+ulti.
Lina does a very nice stun that keeps the opposing heroes next to me
so they got hit by a close-range ulti.
We did a gorgeous teamfight—2-for-5
where Riki and SD died, but everyone on the other team died.
Quite a gorgeous teamfight.
It's also because Riki gave us vision and perfect knowledge of where every opposing hero was.
Because they got teamwiped, we're going to collect the bottom tower.
Not collect, but push.
Because the hero to collect it hasn't been determined yet.
Ah, the tower gets collected by me.
I TP to middle to continue farming, because the opposing heroes are all alive again
so we don't have any chance of harassing their high ground tower.
At 28min, the rune spawns at bottom—a regeneration rune. My luck is very good.
My condition was very bad and the game just so happens to spawn a regeneration rune for me.
After the last teamfight, we've made some headway in making back the kill deficit.
The opponent only leads us by one kill now.
My friend Steven pings me again, but I don't know what the ping means.
Does he think I'm in danger here or what?
I don't understand what his ping means.
Oh, apparently he wants to gank.
But wait if he wants to gank, why did he ping me?
I don't get it.
Us three together manage to kill Pugna.
Them two actually go back! They ditch me leaving me there by myself.
I wanted to Manta dodge the shackleshot, but I didn't manage to do it.
I used Manta too early, so I still got stunned for 0.75s.
SS arrived too, so I activated BKB to make my getaway.
If not for BKB, I would have died there.
That would have been a terrible deal trading me for the opposing Pugna.
Indeed the opponent picks another lane to push.
They're quite smart and have picked bottom lane.
Why do I say they're smart?
It's because they broke our top lane
in which case pushing bottom will maximize the distance we have to walk in order to defend both lanes.
If they picked middle lane to push, we could easily defend both top and middle lane at the same time.
But if they push our bottom lane, if we want to defend bottom
there isn't a good way to defend top lane too.
It's because bottom lane is the lane farthest from top lane.
I took a look at my BKB to see how long I'll get on my next activation
because we know the current BKB will give you one fewer second each time you activate it.
Riki and I push down their Tier 1 tower.
The opponent is again at our high ground.
They really don't want to give us a chance.
Our high ground tower falls again and they drop a sentry on our high ground once more.
They're quite ruthless and don't leave us an easy way out.
It seems our Lina was killed too.
I don't know how it happened, because I wasn't paying attention.
At 30min, my items are Bottle+BKB+Manta+BoTs+Midas.
I'm not sure if the opposing Spectre has Radiance yet or not.
It's 30min, so she must have it by now. Here—
I kill SS with a single normal attack.
Riki dropped his smoke and purged him.
He attacked twice, I attacked once and SS was dead.
Looks like SS didn't get any items to boost his HP.
Three hits and he's already dead.
I'm not saying it took three hits to kill him from full HP;
it's also because he was at half HP to begin with that we could kill him with three hits.
If we could kill him with three hits from full HP, then our items would already be too imba.
Then having lost top lane wouldn't even be considered a disadvantage.
I ping my teammates to kill Roshan with me.
I activate Manta and use the illusions to tank.
Our SD Force Staffs himself in.
Our Riki told me to take the Aegis.
The moment he typed those words, I typed, "Let me take the Aegis."
Looks like we were thinking the same thing.
Riki says he already has BKB.
In that case, we can start a push of our own.
Even though we lost top lane, I don't think we're behind in any other way
because our items are quite good.
I have BKB and he has BKB so we can both charge in.
Our Lina has Bottle+Arcane+2100 gold orb.
I forgot the Chinese name to the orb.
I'm continuing to farm in order to complete my Bfly.
I can complete it now, because my Midas cooldown is up.
I actually didn't use Midas. I'm really dumb.
I have just enough money to get Bfly.
Ah, we see Spectre's items.
She has Vanguard+Phase+Cloak+Gem+Radiance.
I personally consider these items to be fairly late, because they've already taken so many of our towers
and their early teamfight kills were all by Spectre.
I don't know why her items are so late.
The opponent has gathered as five to push our bottom lane
because we've already lost the high ground tower there.
Here I've paused the game.
It was fast, because the pause got edited out.
I paused the game to tell my teammates
not to defend at our high ground, but to fight outside.
Why did I tell them that?
Because if we went out to seek a fight, SS's snake wards would be used outside.
If we let them push in and he drops his wards on our high ground
then even if we won the teamfight he can still use his wards to attack our barracks
and it would be easy for our barracks to fall
because they have both SS and Pugna, so our barracks were in great danger.
That's why I told them not to defend at high ground and to fight outside.
However my English is really bad
so I spent a while, couldn't get through to them, so I gave up my idea.
Both sides are waiting for an opportunity.
I'm waiting to amass 900 gold.
That way I can sell my Midas and buy HotD (Helm of the Dominator).
That way even if my teammates don't follow up on my initiation
I can fight the other team off by myself.
I really don't want the fight to break out on our high ground, because our buildings would really be in danger.
Why am I afraid of going out now, but not afraid of going in a few moments?
Because at the moment I don't have lifesteal.
If my teammates don't follow up and I simply BKB and normal attack, I feel a bit unconfident.
But if I have lifesteal and even if my teammates don't follow up
I can stand there auto-attacking and still last quite a while.
That's why I'm waiting for the money.
I complete HotD, so we can go seek a fight now.
I type to tell my teammates we can fight now.
They're quite confident in my words.
I tell them we can fight and they follow me out.
They use all their spells on me.
SD saves me.
Riki blinks in and BKBs using me as the bait.
I BKB+ulti.
Even though my ulti wasn't as effective or perfect as that last ulti
I feel it was still quite good
because the opponent's path of retreat was wrong.
The opposing Spectre and Pugna retreated downwards
while the rest retreated towards our ancients.
They retreated in two separate directions
because my ulti placement
was in the junction they had to cross to retreat together.
Even though my ulti didn't hit anyone
it destroyed any hope of them fighting as a cohesive unit.
Because my ulti is quite threatening.
If they wanted to fall back together
they would have had to pass through next to me and have taken the brunt of my ulti.
The teamfight was a 2-for-4 trade.
My Aegis didn't get used either, so it was profitable for us.
We only lost Lina and Riki.
The opponent lost four.
Pugna just respawned.
Everyone on their team aside from WR died.
I'm continuing to push bottom.
I left top lane for my teammates to handle.
The megacreeps are indeed powerful.
A teamfight broke out at bottom and the megacreeps pushed one of our Tier 4 towers.
We have two Tier 4 towers to begin with
and just by the force of their megacreeps alone, they managed to take one of them.
Megacreeps are quite powerful.
I pushed the lane for a while, felt there might be some danger
so I Manta and use my illusions to keep pushing.
I TP my hero to another lane to keep farming.
My teammates are chatting, but I missed what they said.
At 38min, we've finally overtaken them in kills—
it was quite an arduous task.
We've finally overtaken them.
This tempo is right. We can make a comeback from one lane down.
I don't know if later on we'll lose another lane.
I personally think they won't manage to take our bottom lane
and that we've already managed to secure a comeback.
We saw SS's items.
He has Bottle+Blink+Arcane+Aghanim's+Oblivion Staff.
Looks like he's planning to make Refresher.
Refresher ulti and drop two sets of snake wards on our high ground guaranteeing the loss of our barracks.
The opponent has wards. They know I'm up there.
I step up, because otherwise we'll lose our middle tower.
I hit Veno into red HP, so he Ghost Scepters and I finish him off with a raze.
The opposing SS tries to TP in front of us
but SD Force Staffs in and disrupts him.
I was planning to ulti him, but his hand speed is quite fast managing to blink out in that instant.
I'm continuing to chase, partly because I see our Riki is around.
What's our Riki doing?
In the instant after SS blinked
Riki could've changed targets to Pugna, but he didn't.
I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe he just reacted slowly.
Since I have an Aegis I step up
and try to kill Pugna, but he escaped.
SS hexed me
and SD disrupts me again saving my life.
I come back and BKB right away
then ulti managing to kill Spectre, but our Riki died too.
I think I'll lose my Aegis here.
SD saves me yet again. His play has been really good.
I indeed lose my Aegis.
Lina has hurried over.
A nice Lina stun gets two heroes, following it up with a dragon slave on two.
Her ulti picks off the Spectre and my raze cleans up the WR.
However WR is quite rich. She buys back right away after I kill her.
My friend Steven says, "come on, I have Mekansm."
He indeed Meks us up.
But SD doesn't get all his HP back up.
If he linked SD before Mek'ing, SD would get all his HP back.
Indeed he doesn't know this hero Wisp very well.
The opposing SS drops his ulti on his own high ground
to strengthen their defences, but it's to no avail.
Your main carry Spectre isn't here. I'm not afraid of you.
I'm telling my teammates to fall back
because their main carry Spectre has respawned.
WR has Phase+Force+2100 orb.
I have Satanic now.
I type in chat, "Let's wait for next Aegis and let Riki take it."
With Aegis we can push.
I have the five items on SF now.
The last item, I generally will get an item like Shadowblade
because we know in super late-game you can have a lot of fun with it.
In late-game everyone's items will be good
so there won't be many free slots for things like smoke, sentries, gem and so on.
This is especially true for carries, so they won't have room to carry extra things like dust.
That's why I like Shadowblade.
However this game I'm not planning to make Shadowblade
because the opponent simply has too many disables.
That's why I'm planning to get Linken's.
The opposing SS is pushing bottom.
The courier just flew over Roshan and saw he had respawned.
I'm telling my teammates Roshan is up, so let's go fight him.
The opposing Spectre uses her ulti
but she used it in a situation she was afraid to jump into, so it was kind of wasted.
Just the ulti alone takes our Wisp down to half HP. It's still quite fierce.
Our SD records our Roshan timing.
This is a technique where you can
type into chat the time when you killed Roshan.
Then you'll know when the next Roshan spawns, because he respawns every 10min.
You don't have to rely on your feeling that Roshan should be up
and go physically check if he's there.
If you rely on your feeling, you might show up early and waste your farming time.
Noting the time down is more convenient.
Are we actually going to win this game?
It feels like the game is more and more in our favor.
Not like the start of the game when the game looked unfavorable to us, the game is turning more and more in our favor.
I'm telling my teammates to go push top while I push bottom.
Then I can join them with my BoTs.
I have to be very careful when pushing the lane
because if I get caught here our top lane push will be pretty pointless.
They can gank me and TP top to defend.
That's why I sent an illusion to one of their possible gank paths.
The opponent actually didn't come gank me.
The opposing WR charged into us at top.
She got hexed by our Lina. Our Lina already has Sheepstick.
WR is first to fall.
Our Riki activated BKB and charged in.
Two of my normal attacks take out the SS.
Pugna has BKB too. He activates it and lifedrains me.
I activate Manta and take him out.
This teamfight was very well fought by us.
We didn't lose anyone. They lost three.
WR buys back again. She's really rich.
While pushing I buy the Linken's recipe back at base
because I have enough money now.
When it gets here I can use it get a Perseverance at the Secret Shop and I'll have my Linken's.
I've purchased Perseverance, so I just need the courier to deliver it now.
Based on my item advantage, I tank the tower damage.
The opponent glyphs.
They must be waiting for their SS to respawn before engaging us in a fight.
Veno came up to ulti, but got hexed by Lina.
We didn't actually kill him! He manages to ulti.
You can see I was down to 1000 HP.
Now I have 2800 HP.
One tickmark is 1000 HP.
If you don't have 1000 HP, each tickmark will be 250 HP.
I only had 1000 HP and I activated BKB+Satanic.
Only two hits and I was back to full HP.
Our Riki died.
It's good that he has Aegis and will respawn shortly.
SS had just been killed by me and he bought back.
They still have a lot of money left.
I'm invincible to all their tower attacks, because I have Satanic.
I charge in and scare them off.
Now I'm continuing to push their high ground tower.
I push the tower and decide to make my escape, because I'm the only one there.
Even if I get support, it can only be Wisp and one other hero.
Our SD tells me there's a double damage rune bottom.
This ward placement is awkward, because it can't even see the rune.
I pick up the double damage rune and my attack is already 198+354
which is quite high. Almost 500 damage.
We see the opposing Spectre, because we have vision there.
Surely the Spectre is dead.
Indeed she gets auto-attacked by me to death.
Veno took our SD's curse and all it took was two hits from me to take him to red.
It was because he activated Ghost Scepter and there were neutrals around
that my attack switched to the neutrals
changing the direction my hero was facing and messing up my raze.
WR with a timely Force Staff also pushed him away or Veno would have died again.
I use my ulti, but it didn't have much effect
because Pugna who was next to me was BKB'd.
Instead it took a few normal attacks from me to kill him.
Veno wants to try it again.
However our Lina's LSA+dragon slave took him out.
But before he died he still managed to get off his ulti, so his objective was accomplished.
The opponent has typed out "gg" and we've taken this game.
My friend disconnected.
I don't know what happened, but I think he'll reconnect soon.
Thank you for watching my video.
I want to yell out one more time: "no Steven no Dota"!
Goodbye everyone!