From Pokémon to The International, Dota 2

However, XS reacted very quickly. The moment the control of Yama's Blade disappeared, he activated Manta Style. Doom had just raised his hand but failed to release it and was dodged by Shadow Fiend's clone. Then Shadow Fiend activated Black King Bar and hit Doom's head with Hurricane Spear. He then created distance and began to slam Doom hard.

The Bomber's explosion that took off didn't stun the Shadow Fiend; it was taken down by the Captain and Grandma nearby.

Just as Doom was about to be killed, he finally got close to Shadow Fiend and cast Doom before falling. However, Shadow Fiend still had more than half of his health left and his Black King Bar was active, so he was not worried at all. After killing Doom, he did not choose to fight the Lifestealer head-on. Instead, he turned around and ran away. The old lady also gave Shadow Fiend a cookie to help him escape. Although Rubick could not control a Lifestealer with Berserk activated, he stole the Lifestealer's Berserk and then used Berserk to block the Lifestealer.

As soon as the rage ended, Grandma's Lizard Kiss started giving the puppy a bath. Rubick then lifted the puppy up with a telekinetic lift, rendering the puppy's clone axe useless. In the end, the puppy was killed by a cannonball.

Huaqiang has killed countless people!

This team fight ended with the Dire team achieving a 5-0 exchange.

"That team fight was brilliantly executed. The formation was excellent, the players reacted quickly, their judgments were correct, and the final aggressive positioning was ingenious. In the end, they wiped out the opponent without losing a single player."

The host was amazed by what he saw on the main stage, while the live chat was flooded with comments:

"Awesome! The team fight was absolutely beautiful!"

Meituan!

"I think it's time for Brother Diao to knock; it would be impolite not to."

After wiping out the enemy team, Dire immediately pushed down Radiant's mid-lane high ground, then went back to destroy the outposts in preparation for securing the Aegis.

Radiant knew that if the Aegis was controlled again, it would be gone, so they used Smoke of Deceit to try their luck. Although Doom managed to steal the Aegis, they were wiped out again due to the huge economic gap. Doom also lost two lives and finally had to type GG.

"Quick cut! Quick cut! Quick cut! Quick cut!"

At this moment, at least ten live streams were all focused on Brother Diao's live stream—everyone wanted to hear Brother Diao's recap to improve their understanding of the game.

Gu Ran also complied with the enthusiastic requests of the majority of viewers. After switching to Diao Ge's live stream, he thanked each of the gift recipients who he hadn't had time to thank during the match. Then, he switched from Diao Ge's live stream to Tencent Meeting to prepare for the recap.

[That was amazing, guys! A clean 2-0 victory, and the game was a real treat to watch!]

Captain Su Xiaoman was extremely excited, feeling even happier than if she had won the game herself.

The other team members also exchanged compliments, and then everyone opened the replay of the game to review it.

[In the first game, the early game difference between the two sides wasn't significant, but once Lao Wang got his Shadow Blade, we had a much easier time. That period was our power spike. Normally, the enemy's core heroes wouldn't be able to beat us without Black King Bar (BKB), but they were probably having a blast in the early game and didn't realize that our power spike had arrived. Even without BKB, they fought a few team fights with us, and once the gold difference widened, it became much harder for them to win, even with BKB.]

Meanwhile, Brother Diao's live stream was also reviewing the game.

[In the first game, my Luna would go into fights and kill as soon as she had her ultimate. Look at my economy; I was ahead in the early game. But in the mid-game, I don't know why, I started feeding. When we fought, we were outnumbered and couldn't beat the enemy. You see, in this wave, I told you to hold on a bit, but the enemy came even faster. It was from this wave that the situation started to turn against us.]

[Damn it, I didn't expect Little Shadow Blade to pull off this, he got a lot of kills]

The comments section also started fanning the flames:

"Why didn't you come when Brother Diao asked you to?"

"Brother Diao did his best, but his teammates were inhuman."

"How many more do you want me, Brother Diao, to kill?"

[Then, during this Roshan fight, I kept yelling to kill the Timbersaw, but he was charging right into my face, so I had no choice but to activate my Black King Bar and fight him. But then you guys went to kill Rubick, and Rubick had a buyback, so when he bought back, we couldn't fight anymore.]

Meanwhile, Gu Ran's team also reviewed the game here:

[The team's kiting during Roshan was perfect. The enemy team is very reliant on their ultimates. Timbersaw with his Black King Bar (BKB) absorbed Luna's ultimate, Rubick absorbed Monkey King's ultimate, and the others didn't linger in the fight. Once the enemy's ultimates and BKBs were gone, we could easily finish them off. If they dared to come back to engage, we would have wiped them out.]

[The main reason is that our team relies heavily on small-scale skills, making us strong in close-quarters combat, while the opposing team relies heavily on their ultimate abilities. As long as we can withstand their ultimates and avoid losing too many players, we can easily outmaneuver them in the late game when they don't even have Black King Bar (BKB).]

[After getting the shield, we had a huge advantage. With such a large economic gap, as long as we played normally, the opponent wouldn't have much of a chance. Your reaction with BKB at the end was really fast. If you had been caught in the net, the opponent might have actually had a chance.]

When Lao Fang talked about the final team fight, he praised Gu Ran's performance, and the other brothers in the team all agreed and echoed his sentiments.

When the musket BKB was activated, there was a wave of amazement in Gu Ran's live stream. Unfortunately, Gu Ran was enjoying a shooting game at the time and didn't see the comments.

The most important thing in the first game was to seize the power spike. In addition, the mid-lane musketeer also played his role. Next, we will analyze the second game.

[I heard that when the second lineup was picked, Da Laoshi (a popular streamer) immediately judged our win rate to be only 20%? I did feel that the opponent's pick of the dog was a bit strong, but it shouldn't be that advantageous, right?]

Lu Chen heard about the 80/20 split from his fellow viewers and expressed some doubt.

On one hand, we successfully swapped lanes and gained an advantage in all three lanes. On the other hand, the data from Teacher Da summarizes all DOTA2 games, showing that ranked matches are generally slow-paced and easily drag into the late game. The enemy's Lifestealer was indeed somewhat invincible in the late game, but we snowballed too quickly.

Lao Fang explained that Da Laoshi might understand DOTA, but he doesn't understand our Immortal Cup.

Meanwhile, in Brother Diao's live stream:

[Actually, I originally wanted to play Windranger in the second game, but my teammates suggested I play Lifestealer. I looked at it and it seemed okay, so I picked it. I didn't die much in this game, but my teammates were just too bad, so there was nothing I could do.]

Brother Diao opened the data panel, and his puppy had a score of 1-1-2, meaning it hadn't died much.

At this point, one of Diao Ge's haters felt that Diao Ge's words made some sense, but also wanted to find an angle to criticize him, so he secretly went to Jiang Xia's live stream and sent a plane as a gift, then asked...

"Host, do you think there's anything wrong with this puppy's item build?"

[It seems like it would be better for the Lifestealer to build Armlet after Radiance, and Manta Style to ensure his survival, and then he can counter Maokai's ultimate. It seems like there's no problem, but actually they've already collapsed in the mid-game, and if Lifestealer doesn't build any combat items, he'll be completely outmatched.]

However, building an Armlet to fight might lead to death, okay? If I were a big streamer, I might also build a Manta Style. Sometimes, when a streamer becomes popular, they might be more concerned with how to avoid being criticized and how to avoid controversy than winning. If you build an Armlet to fight and die a few times, then your viewers will have something to criticize you for. On the other hand, building a Manta Style means you have no responsibility, and most viewers won't have any angle to criticize you for.

It's relatively easy to avoid dying in this game, but to win, sometimes you need to take risks, and someone needs to step up.

Jiang Xia wanted to continue speaking, but the other guys in the team coughed a few times, reminding him to mute the Tencent Meeting content from the live stream, and then steered the conversation elsewhere.