EG appreciation station (TI8 thread)
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Now the Swedish team this TI. Unless Optic does really great. But then s4 > Zai.
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And everyone > PPD
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I dislike both EG and PPD
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Agreed more or less, but now that my preferred team has seized EG (this is my view of the way this played out) I have had to, not at all opportunistically, update my views.
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@beach said in EG appreciation station:
And everyone ε> PPD
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So they're 0-4 so far, clearly savings strats for TI.
edit: 2-5 now, so at least they have been seen winning a game or two.
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Hrm. Thread hibernating until TI. No further comments.
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The Summit was good though. The current meta is actually still pretty interesting, despite the fact that the basic outline (i.e. dual-lanes that must be won) has been around for a bit, and the secondary fact that we have been pretty bad at it.
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Need to warm this thread up again, EG doing great so far in the group stages.
The offlaner role is sort of interesting in those games, almost always a hero that is hard to deal with (given a good start by competent support, which is of course the part we tend to fall down on) that sticks on the lane for a very long time, basically just threatening towers until the enemy rotates over enough heroes to kill him. He then does feed away a few deaths, but no one can solo-farm on that lane, and each rotation takes a few heroes moving over there taking pressure off the map.
To some extent a bit EG-specfic, since it is no doubt a bit hard to make the case for rotating onto the offlaner when that leaves both rtz and Sumail farming in comfort, but the overall idea is reasonably adaptable.
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EG = 3 of the strongest laning cores in game so when they have their shit together it's pretty good it seems, making LGD look shit.
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At least one previously popular face in the list of unplayed heroes as the group stage ends:
Also my thinking that Dazzle was currently super-strong with the Poison Touch change (i.e. no longer being trash level 1) appears to not have been correct.
e: The crop looks suspicious, but that is all of them, was just uncentered on the page.
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Oracle is just a better Dazzle, feelsbadman
Also techies did get banned at least.
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Oh well, Dazzle buffs coming then. I think Shadow Wave could be buffed a bit, lot of supports that get more damage, and with Urn/Vessel being such a standard now it doesn't feel like the heal being a bit higher would be weird at all.
I do look forward to Dark Seer and Slardar buffs also. The latter I just like playing in general (the nerf to Crush were really substantial though), and the former is just a pretty fun hero that we have several people who can play. In fact I don't think it has even looked that bad in Tangos hands of late, so some buffs on top and we're golden.
Spirit Breaker is meanwhile predictably sitting at a 100% winrate (after one comedy game
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OK, so one thing is certain, it wont be EG v. Liquid in the finals.
