From Pokémon to The International, Dota 2

The Clockwerk player walked to the high ground of her own food street in the bottom lane and placed a ward, discovering that Gu Ran's Karl was jungling with two small fire minions. At the same time, Gu Ran's Karl also saw the Clockwerk player through his own ward.

"Wow, Orianna, that was perfect awareness!"

"Hurry up and catch Kael, he's already second in net worth!"

Inside the main stage live broadcast room, fans of Chao Ge's team became excited.

The moment Gu Ran saw Orianna through his own ward, he knew this was dangerous. Teleporting directly was impossible, as Orianna had two crowd control abilities to interrupt him, and there were definitely enemy players moving towards them. To survive, he had to kill Orianna first!

"Overclocking" activated.

His feet felt cool to the touch, and a faint fragrance of plants filled the air, but Gu Ran had no mood to enjoy these things at the moment, because a metal robot was approaching him step by step not far away.

Don't rush, first try to position yourself to see if you can bait the Orianna into hooking the jungle monster.

So Gu Ran began to weave through the woods like a snake, keeping a close eye on the clockwork as he went, ready to dodge the hook at any moment.

Clockwork couldn't predict Carl's movements, but he wasn't in a hurry. He just slowly approached, preparing to hook the target when the distance was short enough to be sure of success.

Gu Ran smiled slightly; the strategy of not using the hook was exactly what he wanted.

"Tonarus' Claw!"

"Tarak's Fallen Fire!"

"Bruvent's Powerless Sound Wave!"

Gu Ran's chanting speed was extremely fast. Before the clockwork could react, he was blown up by the hurricane. After falling, he was hit by a huge meteorite, followed by a purple shockwave that kept knocking him back. The two little firemen next to him continued to attack.

However, the shockwave was not a hard CC, and Clockwerk finally managed to hook before being killed by the meteor.

Gu Ran felt a wave of dizziness, then saw the clockwork mechanism attached to his face via the grappling hook, and suddenly a bunch of gears appeared from all directions.

Gu Ran glanced at Clockwork's dwindling health and ordered the two firemen to attack Clockwork Technician. He himself remained stationary, standing still and fighting the metal robot in front of him alongside the firemen.

This Clockwork Technician only had a pair of sandals and a Wind Staff accessory. His armor wasn't high, and the more he attacked, the more damage he took from the Fire Spirit's armor reduction effect. He died in just a few hits.

[firefly kills qyqx and gains 427 gold coins]

Firefly has dominated the game!

"Miret's Obstacle!"

After killing Clockwork, Gu Ran immediately chanted Ghost Walk, then unfurled a recall scroll on the spot. A blue teleportation circle gradually rose, and a few seconds later he successfully returned to the fountain.

The logging machine, arriving too late, had no way to stop Gu Ran. It could only unleash a combo of Serrated Wheel, Logging Chain, and Death Cyclone at the spot where Gu Ran had disappeared, ultimately managing to knock him away with 200 HP remaining.

"I fucking kicked him out!"

"Why didn't you wind it up earlier? Are you stupid for just sitting there dangling like that?"

"We saw people, so why is only one uncontrolled lumberjack coming? Where is everyone else? The team's rhythm is a mess!"

Upon seeing this, the comments section erupted with criticism.

On Gu Ran's side, the live chat was flooded with comments like "Holy crap, that's awesome!", "He can even walk like that?", and "The streamer's showing off is amazing!"

[The enemy team doesn't have Orianna this time. If I teleport back, we can initiate a team fight with Smoke of Deceit. They'll likely scatter!]

Gu Ran endured the discomfort of quitting overclocking and directed his teammates. He sensed that this wave had a great opportunity. He had seen the enemy's Shadow Shaman once in the vision ward in his own mid lane. Although the enemy Shadow Fiend had lost a Clockwerk with Aegis, he certainly didn't want to retreat to his own jungle to farm in such a sorry state.

"What's going on? Why is Nightmare shrouded in fog again?"

"Hey, things are a bit bad for Radiant. They don't seem to have noticed this smoke gank; Shadow Fiend is still farming in the enemy's triangle area!"

The commentators, from God's perspective, were all sweating bullets for Tianhui.

After the Dire team cleared the fog of war, Gu Ran's Invoker took the lead with Ghost Walk. When he reached the vicinity of his own mid-lane tower, the fog suddenly broke, but he could not see any enemy heroes around him—which meant that the enemy was either hiding in the nearby woods or invisible nearby.

Because his teammate was coming from the left, Gu Ran used a Skyfire spell without any vision to predict and smash the trees on the right—there really was a little Y crouching inside!

"Damn that Karl!"

Amidst the commentators' astonishment, Xiao Y was swarmed by the Night Elf team and forced into a passive, brutal fight, before being finally taken down by Gu Ran with a single whirlwind attack.

Firefly kills Kaka, earning 326 gold + 126 gold, which is split equally among the three heroes.

Firefly has become a ruthless killer!

The Dire team naturally pressed their advantage. Lu Chen controlled Doom and used Scorched Earth and Blink Dagger to jump to the Roshan pit on the right side of the map. He watched as Shadow Fiend walked up the stairs next to the Roshan pit to the Radiant main jungle. He didn't rush to chase after him but turned back to wait for his teammates. Sure enough, Shadow Fiend was standing at the top of the stairs, casting his ultimate. He went up and was about to get hit by Shadow Fiend's close-range ultimate, and then he was focused down by the nearby Tidehunter.

Seeing Doom turn around, Shadow Fiend immediately stopped using his ultimate and started walking back. Jiangxia's Rubick arrived and placed a ward before going uphill, only starting to chase after the enemy Shadow Fiend and Tidehunter after seeing that they had already retreated.

Gu Ran had secured two kills and his Black King Bar (BKB) was already in hand. He walked alone from the mid lane to the woods to the right of the Radiant's Tier 1 tower. Clockwerk saw that his Shadow Fiend and Tidehunter were near Invoker and immediately used a long-range hook to grab Invoker. Shadow Fiend, standing on the high ground, followed up with damage from above.

"Bruvent's Powerless Sound Wave!"

After Gu Ran's Invoker's stun ended, he immediately activated Black King Bar (BKB) and used a Sonic Wave to disarm Shadow Fiend, then quickly retreated to the upper right towards the river. XS's Templar Assassin also seized the opportunity, using Blink Dagger and stealth to take down a third of Shadow Fiend's health with a single strike. Seeing the situation was dire, Shadow Fiend could only use his ultimate to retreat towards his own second tower.

At this moment, the Tidehunter raised his Black King Bar and attempted to stomp on Invoker to finish him off, but Lu Chen's Doom Blink Dagger came over and landed a Doom Nod, and then Templar Assassin arrived with a Hurricane Halberd and killed the Tidehunter with two auto attacks.

"The Dire played very methodically this time. The discipline of the entire team using Smoke of Deceit to gank the Radiant right after Invoker's kill on Clockwerk was evident. Invoker accurately located the enemy Shadow Shaman's position after breaking through the smoke, and then killed him while the enemy team was outnumbered. Radiant was constantly at a disadvantage, outnumbered. Unfortunately, they couldn't find opportunities to fight the Dire in the early game, but when the Dire finally engaged them in team fights, they realized they had no advantage whatsoever!"

The commentators were all amazed, saying that the timing of this opportunity was superb.

"The Radiant team is still seeing, and Shadow Fiend thought he didn't want to leave because of his shield, but Rubick used a jump to keep him there, and then Templar Assassin knocked off his shield with one strike. However, Tidehunter and Shadow Shaman are both on their respawn timers. If the Dire team is camping the corpse, no one can stop them!"

The spot where Shadow Fiend dropped his shield was now completely covered by Treant Protector's Natural Curl, Invoker's Ice Wall, and Rubick's stolen Sawtooth Wheel. Doom stood like a wall between the second tower and Shadow Fiend, and as soon as Shadow Fiend stood up, he unleashed a Nod of the Blade of Despair.

Seeing this, Big Fish was forced to use his buyback to save his carry, but it would take him another five seconds to teleport back, and Shadow Fiend was already in dire straits. After being reduced in armor by a single hit from Concealment, he activated Manta Style to break free, but Old Fang's Treant Protector was waiting for him to activate Manta Style. Treant Protector used Wild Growth to entangle Shadow Fiend, Gu Ran followed up with Heavenly Fire, and Templar Assassin also joined the damage. Shadow Fiend could only stand there with low health and cast his ultimate, but he died before he could even cast it.

The lumberjack who had been watching nearby, hesitating whether to get on, was also spotted by Rubick and taken away by a group of people focusing their fire.

"Radiant got completely wiped out!"

"This is bad! The Dire has suddenly gained a 5,000 gold lead, and their power spike has arrived!"

"The Radiant's mid-lane second tower has also been destroyed, allowing the Dire team to easily enter the Radiant's triangle area and main jungle."

"Dire has traps and tree wards, Radiant will definitely get ganked everywhere if they try to play with creeps."

As the commentators said, the situation unfolded as follows: Radiant wanted to avoid fights and push lanes to create pressure, but with their vision controlled by the enemy, they would get caught if they tried to split push. If they grouped up, they wouldn't die, but in that case, Dire could spread out and farm, further expanding their economic advantage.

Sticking together is definitely not going to work. The game map is so big that if no one wants to stick together, it's just a slow death.