2013-05-14, 01:54 PM
Raul Wrote: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.The play had everything to do with iG pineappleing up by walking into enigma with naga It had little to do with the picks(Well obviously picks dictate what can happen in a game, but yea.)
Also at 1:1 parity with dota1 they would've won that fight easily, tide ult can be cast before naga sleep ends -> enigma would never get off BKB.
Not trying to take anything away form Na'vi though, that was iG pineappleing up(More specifically zhou) and Na'vi played it perfectly. But that victory wasn't due to daring picks, both enigma and rubick were incredibly stable picks and multiple teams had them combined previously.
And, this tournament so far hasn't really been daring picks but more just, low-tier teams vs low-tier teams. And as i said, the western teams being more daring can easily be atributed to the fact that there
a: Is far more tournament and as thus we see far more games
and b: The tournaments we do see from teams like iG is tournaments with far more worth and prestige than random 5k tournament #53442
and western teams are REALLY REALLY fast at labeling a hero as the best of the best and banning and first picking it for a month before they realize where the problem lies(Sven and phantom lancer for example)
PL was never the problem, kotl and tranquils were, for example.
Chinese are also good at picking new stuff up and proving it to be good, or just picking something new and winning with it due to enemy being surprised.
DK vs panda in the ACE league last year comes to mind, burning sniper in mid was funny and won quite hard vs a CK.