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Natus Vincere and Alliance both went to china and destroyed the asian teams.
But idk it's dota 2 and well anything can happen
Soldato
Totally in my opinion, the top 4 for me
Alliance (Recently whooped all of Asia at the G1, Loda shacking up with Kelly Milkies e-drama)
LGD.CN (best at what they do - ricer style dota)
Na'Vi (Still batpoo crazy lineups with fearless ganking)
Mous (Consistent good play, I highly rate synderens picking)
Just outside of these I'd pick Orange and TongFu.
You guys might be interested in the tier list for July to get some idea of what to expect:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVhGGEUqE90Ogqdjw_6NzzQ2FsQa4WMywz5alUlrylo/pub
To explain some of the tier for the new guys / returners
Batrider is just a complete sod as he makes every fight 4v5, both east and west like him.
Alchemist is 100% ban in east because they do defensive rice dota - they lose the lanes, hold out in the midgame, rule the late. Countered by push strats / gank lineups and forcing alc to go acid/stun early game.
wisp is 100% ban west because his early/mid is crazy, western teams like to have games done by 35 mins of preference. Commonly countered by quick pushing / defensive trilaning but even you can expect hassle.
Other risers:
Razor is hero of the month as he counters lone druid with tether, a popular pick.
Weaver is a PITA to deal with, does well in lane, requires a partial stunlock team to counter.
Naga is back as a support, net goes through BKB, song is extremely useful to isolate BKBers or setup/run away from a fight.
OD counters common mid picks, crazy damage ult.
Nyx: nyx nyx nyx nyx nyx nyx nyyyyyyyx.
Alliance (Recently whooped all of Asia at the G1, Loda shacking up with Kelly Milkies e-drama)
LGD.CN (best at what they do - ricer style dota)
Na'Vi (Still batpoo crazy lineups with fearless ganking)
Mous (Consistent good play, I highly rate synderens picking)
Just outside of these I'd pick Orange and TongFu.
You guys might be interested in the tier list for July to get some idea of what to expect:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVhGGEUqE90Ogqdjw_6NzzQ2FsQa4WMywz5alUlrylo/pub
To explain some of the tier for the new guys / returners
Batrider is just a complete sod as he makes every fight 4v5, both east and west like him.
Alchemist is 100% ban in east because they do defensive rice dota - they lose the lanes, hold out in the midgame, rule the late. Countered by push strats / gank lineups and forcing alc to go acid/stun early game.
wisp is 100% ban west because his early/mid is crazy, western teams like to have games done by 35 mins of preference. Commonly countered by quick pushing / defensive trilaning but even you can expect hassle.
Other risers:
Razor is hero of the month as he counters lone druid with tether, a popular pick.
Weaver is a PITA to deal with, does well in lane, requires a partial stunlock team to counter.
Naga is back as a support, net goes through BKB, song is extremely useful to isolate BKBers or setup/run away from a fight.
OD counters common mid picks, crazy damage ult.
Nyx: nyx nyx nyx nyx nyx nyx nyyyyyyyx.
Soldato
TI3 Wildcard match starting now!
Soldato
Ah, that's probably why the dota servers are overloaded and I can't play 
Behold my terrible stats!
Behold my terrible stats!
wild card game was abit boring,singsing was streaming it on twitch and still is right now http://www.twitch.tv/sing_sing
Soldato
Vtec's right, 100 games is the minimum to start really looking into it. dotabuff is a bit more in-depth if you're looking for analysis.
^^ agreed. You bet on it? I bet on quantic but all my usual crew bet on RS so we are having heated discussions on vent
^^ agreed. You bet on it? I bet on quantic but all my usual crew bet on RS so we are having heated discussions on vent
Really? I'm enjoying this wildcard match! Sven stunning neutrals twice had Tobi in high pitch mode, always makes me chuckle.
Despite that I think the gameplay has been a fairly high standard. Solid play from RS so far. Still could go either way.
Despite that I think the gameplay has been a fairly high standard. Solid play from RS so far. Still could go either way.
The players from both side made soo many mistakes that at time it was like watching a pub match.....it's wild card so not going to bash it to much.
wow, maybe you should sign up for TI4.
To be fair there were a number of awesome miss-clicks, but I thought the strats and picks were pretty solid.
Underboss
I do like this game, (played it a few times) played with clan mates once or twice
and I still cant play it properly, its good, but no idea what im doing
and I still cant play it properly, its good, but no idea what im doing