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    EG appreciation station (TI8 thread)

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    • vaetteV
      vaette Crazy
      last edited by vaette

      Now the Swedish team this TI. Unless Optic does really great. But then s4 > Zai.

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        beach Crazy
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        And everyone > PPD

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        • TangoT
          Tango Crazy
          last edited by

          I dislike both EG and PPD

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          • vaetteV
            vaette Crazy
            last edited by

            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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              Smesh @beach
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              @beach said in EG appreciation station:

              And everyone ε> PPD

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              • vaetteV
                vaette Crazy
                last edited by vaette

                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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                • vaetteV
                  vaette Crazy
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                  Hrm. Thread hibernating until TI. No further comments.

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                  • vaetteV
                    vaette Crazy
                    last edited by

                    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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                    • vaetteV
                      vaette Crazy
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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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                        beach Crazy
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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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                        • vaetteV
                          vaette Crazy
                          last edited by vaette

                          At least one previously popular face in the list of unplayed heroes as the group stage ends:

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                          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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                            beach Crazy
                            last edited by beach

                            Oracle is just a better Dazzle, feelsbadman

                            Also techies did get banned at least.

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                            • vaetteV
                              vaette Crazy
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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 😉 ), and Dark Willow at #5 most picked.

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                              • vaetteV
                                vaette Crazy
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                                OK, so one thing is certain, it wont be EG v. Liquid in the finals.

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