From Pokémon to The International, Dota 2

After the Alchemist Axe got Blink Dagger, it was the Dire's turn to dominate. The old lady revived and had just teleported down the second tower to prepare to take it down when she was caught and killed again by the Axe with smoke and the support. The Ember Spirit, who was originally very fed, died twice in a row, and his economy instantly dropped to fourth place.

Twenty minutes into the game, the Dire team used Smoke of Deceit to catch Drow Ranger farming Ancients in the Triangle area. The Undying who came to rescue him also got a free bonus. The Dire team's economy was 4,000 ahead, and Alchemist's economy reached a terrifying 15000+.

At 22 minutes, the Radiant initiated a smoke gank and killed Zeus and Bane of the Dire. However, Alchemist killed Undying with Blink Dagger and Unstable Concoction. Afterwards, Alchemist used Black King Bar and killed Ember Spirit. At 25 minutes, Alchemist led the team to take down the Crystal. At this point, his net worth had reached 18500. After completing Black King Bar, Assault Cuirass was also in place. The Dire team had a 6,000 net worth lead.

The Alchemist with the Assault Cuirass started leading the team to clear the map. This was his absolute power spike. At 27 minutes and 30 seconds, he led the team to kill two Radiant supports and then decisively activated Roshan. By the time the enemy team revived and arrived with Smoke of Deceit, Roshan had already been killed. XS took the Aegis and left with Blink Dagger. The Eleventh Elder's Brewmaster used his ultimate and only killed one Bane who was camping in the triangle area. The Dire essentially traded the life of a support for an Aegis.

"Let's camp here. Lao Wang, you're showing your lane in the top lane, let's see if we can catch you."

Lu Chen's Axe had just gotten a Black King Bar and was eager to make a move. Although his own Bane was dead, the enemy Brewmaster didn't have his ultimate, so there was still a chance to fight. He had XS expose the creep wave near the top left portal to lure the Radiant team, while he and Squirrel crouched in the woods near the bottom right portal. The Radiant team had just passed through the Roshan pit, so someone would definitely come to farm the creep wave.

As expected, the Radiant team, seeing Alchemist appear on the minimap and with all four members except for the Grandma who had returned to mid to farm, lowered their guard. Axe suddenly emerged from the trees, his Leap Roar catching Rubick and Undying, their backline supports, off guard. Gu Ran's Zeus immediately followed up with Thundercloud, Axe activated Black King Bar and Blade Mail, and Brewmaster was without his ultimate. With their supports caught out, Radiant couldn't engage in the team fight, and Drow Ranger and Brewmaster had to sacrifice their supports and escape.

Rubick, with his high aggro value, was the first to be focused down. Axe then slammed down one of his minions before chasing after Drow Ranger. Jiang An's Undying hid in his own tombstone, trembling with fear.

Jiangxia's little squirrel was sniping outside the tombstone, but the Corpse King was very patient and just wouldn't come out of the toilet. When the five-second maximum timer expired and the squirrel released his ultimate skill, the Corpse King sneakily left the toilet to make a run for it.

As soon as he came out, he was met by an unstable compound and an alchemist who had activated his ultimate skill!

XS kills Tianming and receives 309 gold coins + 240 gold coins, which are split equally among the three heroes.

[XS has become a monster of killing!]

"Hey Lao Wang, come quick! There's a training room here!"

Just as Wang Chunyu was about to leave, he saw Jiang Xia mark the tombstone left by the Corpse King and a wave of minions that was about to arrive. He immediately understood and went over to start eating the small zombies that spawned from the tombstone one by one, each for 16 gold coins. Then, in the last second before the toilet disappeared, he finished off the tombstone, for another 200 gold coins.

After this wave, the Alchemist's economy reached 22000, and the Blink Dagger was about to be completed.

A minute later, the Dire team killed the Undying and prepared to push the mid lane. Lu Chen's Axe, holding a Black King Bar, felt he wouldn't die and stood on the creep wave in front of the Radiant's second tower. However, he didn't expect that the enemy would still target him even though they were down a player. Brewmaster immediately jumped and stomped, and Rubick followed up with Drow Ranger's damage with Telekinesis.

Lu Chen remained calm and immediately activated Black King Bar (BKB) and Teleport, but Rubick stole his Berserker's Shout with a skill and then used Leap Shout to interrupt his Teleport.

"Check mid lane, my BKB/TP has been interrupted, help!"

Jiangxia's little squirrel immediately came to support, but just as it stepped onto the Dire mid-lane high ground, it was blown away by the Brewmaster's Wind Panda, and Axe was left behind and was quickly killed by Drow Ranger.

"This looks like an opportunity for Brother Diao. The squirrel has been caught out, can they kill the squirrel? No! The Alchemist has Blink Dagger and Black King Bar, he stunned Grandma with a Shakedown and then started attacking! Grandma can't withstand it at all!"

Just as Feng was about to say that the Radiant had made a profit, the Dire's counterattack came swiftly.

Gu Ran's Thunder God's Wrath provided the finishing blow, and the Alchemist, despite Xiao Hei's attacks, managed to kill the Ember Spirit. Grandma Biscuit's push was useless; the Alchemist's movement speed was simply too fast.

With his Chemical Rage active and wearing the Assault Cuirass, Alchemist was incredibly tanky, making Drow Ranger's damage output negligible. At that moment, Rubick was spotted by Bane, grabbed with a claw attack, and Gu Ran's Zeus followed up with a barrage of attacks: Thundercloud followed by Lightning Strike and then a series of lightning strikes, finishing off Rubick.

Alchemist's Black King Bar (BKB) ended and he started to retreat. However, after Brewmaster's illusions ended, his main body jumped and stomped Alchemist, then applied Orchid to him. Drow Ranger stood on the high platform to the right of his own triangle outpost, attacking Alchemist from above. Undying also teleported to the outpost after resurrecting. At this moment, Tombstone was placed in front of Drow Ranger, and he activated his ultimate to prepare to attack. However, Jiangxia's low-health Squirrel circled around from the river to the Radiant triangle and used a surprise attack to bind both of them!

Seeing this, Alchemist charged straight at Blackie's face to prepare to attack. After the stun ended, Blackie used a powerful push to knock Alchemist away from his body, and then killed Alchemist with a few arrows.

However, the alchemist possesses the Shield of Immortality, which transforms him into a shimmering golden circle, allowing him to stand up fully restored after five seconds.

"This alchemist has already used his Black King Bar (BKB) ultimate, and has nothing left. We can just camp his corpse!"

Zeng Jiaoyang, who had already been killed, had been closely monitoring the situation. He pinged the corpse of the Alchemist to remind his teammates that they should focus fire on the Alchemist.

Seeing this, Rubick immediately used his buyback teleport to rush to the battlefield, determined to leave Alchemist there.

Xiao Hei also fired several arrows at the corpse simultaneously. However, before the farthest arrow could reach Lianjin, Lianjin had already stood up. Before anyone could react, he used Blink Dagger to jump into the river and then quickly escaped with the speed boost from the Blink Dagger.

Radiant couldn't let this opportunity slip by—Axe was on cooldown, Alchemist didn't have his ultimate, and the four of them chased after him.

However, a disagreement arose during the pursuit. Xiao Hei spotted a low-health squirrel in the Dire jungle and lured it to the Observer's position, but couldn't catch up with the Forest Spirit, who was running through the dense forest. Rubick lifted the Alchemist head-on, but there was no follow-up control or damage. A few seconds later, the fountain commander, Zeng Jiaoyang, sensed the situation was dire and quickly gave instructions:

"Don't chase! Run! Retreat!"

The Dire team had already moved out of the Tombstone's range, and Axe was about to respawn in a dozen seconds. If they fought here any longer and dragged it out until Axe respawned and Alchemist's next ultimate cooldown was ready, it would result in a team wipe.

So the Radiant had no choice but to retreat. During the retreat, Rubick was caught off guard by a sneak attack from a squirrel and was left behind. Undying was also put to sleep by Pain. The Radiant had to sell both support units. The final result of the battle was that Undying died once and Rubick died after buying back his life.

After this initial engagement, the economic gap between the two sides reached 15,000, giving the Dire team a decisive advantage. The Radiant team was unable to engage in direct team fights, allowing the Dire to snowball and widen the economic deficit. The Dire team gradually accumulated their advantage, steadily controlling the Aegis and pushing forward, ultimately ending the game at 40 minutes.

【Don’t kill Brother Snapper (╥﹏╥)Don’t kill Brother Snapper°°・(＞_＜)・°Don’t kill Brother Snapper(≧∀≦)ゞ】

[The alchemy stats are terrifying! 16-0-20! I'll survive one game and end the match!]

【carry diff! carry diff! 】

The live chat was flooded with comments, and the commentators summarized it as follows:

"Actually, Diao's team played well in the early game, but they couldn't control the Alchemist, and Alchemist single-handedly destroyed them."

"It's not that I don't want to intervene, but every time I open the fog of war, Alchemist dodges it by reading the map, and then as soon as Alchemist's power spike arrives, he immediately leads the team to fight, ending the game during his power spike. This Alchemist's rhythm is too comfortable."

"I can only say it's worth his price tag."