2013-05-14, 01:28 PM
That's kinda what I meant. Western teams are more willing and likely to try out something risky in a game purely for the element of surprise. Eastern teams treat other teams like they're thinking on the same level as they are-- why would they be going for X+Y+Z combo when we could so easily counter it with W hero and our supports doing V action? No, they must be going for something else. But once they know it could be coming, they beat it or ban it. That's what I meant by innovation-- surprising picks. Consistently surprising picks and strats that a team can't see coming until it's far too late. The Play from TI2 exhibits perfectly what I'm talking about, but iG's response in the rest of the tournament exhibits that too-- they never let Na'Vi get Enigma and Rubick again. Western teams have to beat iG especially in the draft.