From Pokémon to The International, Dota 2

When Gu Ran arrived at the battlefield, he only saw a prophet fly into his own group of people. So he skillfully used his Frostbite, Meteor Strike, and Meteor Hammer. His teammates followed up with damage and easily took down the out-of-group prophet. White Bull was also chased to death by the werewolf's Dominate.

After killing the two enemies in front, the brothers hurriedly headed towards the portal to support their carry. When they arrived, they saw Tiny bravely fighting three enemies at once. It turned out that Tiny had resurrected using the Aegis of the Immortal. The three Radiant heroes originally wanted to rush to support their Spirit Breaker and Prophet, but after a quick glance, they found that both of them had already died. They had no choice but to retreat. However, just as they were about to leave, Tiny, who had gotten up, stopped them.

Rabbit's Crimson Armor had just been used, and the Dire swept away the remaining three Radiant members.

[XS has become a ruthless killer!]

The XS is unstoppable!

[XS achieved a double kill!]

The audience stood up excitedly and cheered, "Soul-Suppressing Stone! Soul-Suppressing Stone! Soul-Suppressing Stone!"

"It's not over yet! After killing someone, Tiny immediately activated Shadow Blade and used a portal to go to the top lane. He judged that there was a team fight that had just ended in the bottom lane, and there was likely someone farming the top lane. Sure enough, Kaka's Spirit Breaker rushed the top lane creep wave! The level 8 Spirit Breaker was targeted by the level 17 Tiny, and with Invoker's Sky Strike, Spirit Breaker had just died and had to go back to respawn."

[XS has become a monster of killing!]

Feng Zhuiyi was almost out of breath while commentating, saying that the Dire's rhythm was too tight and their awareness in catching the White Bull was very good.

"The Dire are now 14k gold ahead. If the Radiant don't win this fight, they'll basically never be able to win a team fight again. They can only spread out and farm, but they can't push the creep waves as well. It's pretty hopeless."

YUNO summarized the situation facing Radiant: their lineup couldn't win team fights, and they were even less capable of split pushing.

At 24 minutes and 30 seconds, Xiao Hei sneaked into the jungle area on the right edge of the map, intending to secretly fire a volley of arrows from the stairs on the right side of the Nightmare second tower to cut off the creeps and then immediately teleport away. However, before he could fire the arrows, he made a positioning mistake and was spotted by Gu Ran!

[Little Black is here!]

After pinging Drow Ranger's location, the Dire team immediately activated three Teleports. Before Drow Ranger could teleport back to base, Batrider used Blink Dagger to keep her in place.

Shikamaru kills Sylar, gaining 331 gold + 282 gold which are split among the three heroes.

In Xie Bin DD's live stream:

"Hey, stop killing my Eye Bro! These CSDX guys are trying to kill my Eye Bro even if it's just a wave cutter. This is really going too far."

Having just ganked Dark Seer in the bottom lane, Tiny spotted Radiant players in the top lane. Tiny immediately teleported to Radiant's outpost in the triangle area, used Blink Dagger to control the enemy Spirit Breaker, and Lycan followed in as well, taking down Kaka in two hits.

"Two bites each, thin crust and generous filling!"

The situation has become largely clear, the commentary has become more witty and humorous, and the chat is quite perceptive, with people spamming messages like:

"General Card, I'll bite you twice!"

"Wen Kaka, Wu Maybe, let's both knock out GG!"

At 31 minutes, Dire pushed high ground with Aegis, leading by 29k gold. After Lycan completed Dominator and Assault Cuirass, he got Aghanim's Scepter, then used Toothbite on Tiny. Tiny transformed into a wolf, jumped high, and directly attacked Drow Ranger. Avalanche followed up with two critical hits, and Drow Ranger was instantly melted.

"White Wolf King, I'll bite you twice!"

The comments section erupted in celebration.

On the battlefield, Batrider used an Aghanim's Scepter to burn Shackles and pull Witch Doctor and Dark Seer out. After pulling them out, Invoker followed up with Meteor, and Lycan killed the two wolves in a few bites.

[XS has become a monstrous killing machine!]

[XS achieved a double kill!]

Radiant had no front line left. XS's Tiny rampaged across the enemy's high ground, killing everything in its path. He first bit a Prophet who had activated Black King Bar, then used Avalanche to stun three enemy players who had bought back in front of Radiant's fountain, followed by Throwing the Mountain to hit three more. Gu Ran's Skyfire followed up in time—but it was useless because Tiny's output was too explosive and he had already killed them all by himself. Only a slightly tankier Dark Seer was left, who quickly ran back to the fountain.

[XS is already like a god!]

[XS has surpassed even the killing power of gods!]

【Rampage! ! ! 】

However, escaping back to the fountain couldn't save DS. Xiao Xiao rushed straight to the fountain, and Gu Ran also gave her face by rushing over and casting a Swiftness spell on her, and stopped casting spells to avoid getting killed. In the end, the Dark Sage was killed by Xiao Xiao in her stone golem form in the fountain with a powerful attack.

【Rampage! ! ! 】

The double-barrage finale was a perfect success, with the host and commentators' voices cracking with excitement, and the fans in the audience rising to their feet in celebration. The main screen then displayed a huge Soul Stone icon:

【Victory for the Soul Stone!】

"Once you've joined, you've joined!"

"Kneel down! Kneel down! Kneel down!"

"We, Little Werewolf, have never lost!"

"Let's party, guys, let's party!"

The barrage of comments exploded across the main stage.

The audience was disappointed that this Immortal Cup was not a professional tournament and therefore lacked the post-match handshake that everyone enjoyed.

Although there was no handshake, there was still a post-match interview. After everyone's excitement subsided a bit, the host, Chi Xiaotu, was already standing next to the Immortal Cup, beginning to interview today's guest—Gu Ran.

The organizers originally wanted to interview Wang Chunyu, but Chunyu said she didn't want to be interviewed, so they replaced her with Gu Ran.

"Hello everyone, both in the stadium and watching on screen, welcome back! Let's congratulate Zhenhun Stone on their victory today. Please give them a round of applause!"

[Slap slap slap slap slap slap slap slap!]

"Alright, next to me is Firefly from the Soul Stone team, who just had a fantastic performance. Say hello to everyone."

Gu Ran held the microphone in one hand and waved the other towards the stage:

"Hello everyone, I'm firefly from the Soul Stone team."

[Slap slap slap slap slap slap slap slap!]

"Hello, Firefly, first of all, congratulations on your clean 2-0 victory over your opponent. Was this result within your expectations?"

Gu Ran smiled and replied:

"No, we haven't won any practice matches."

The audience cheered and booed upon hearing this, everyone knew it was a smokescreen, but Chi Xiaotu didn't dwell on it.

"Both of your matches were excellent, and your drafting strategies were also impressive. In the first game, you used Vengeful Spirit in the carry position, and in the second game, you used the Lycan-Spirit combo. How did you come up with these strategies, or how did you train to develop them?"

Gu Ran thought for a moment, then answered seriously this time:

"Actually, we all really enjoy watching the games. Neither of these strategies is our original creation. We learned them from watching some games in the European region. Of course, we also added some of our own understanding. Also, in the second game, we didn't intentionally go for the Lycan Tiny strategy. It's just that Lycan is better at dealing with Drow Ranger, and we only went for Tiny after we picked Tiny earlier. In the end, Lycan going for A was just because we had too much of an advantage and wanted our carry to have some fun."

The audience felt the sincerity of the answer and applauded.

"So if you had to choose the MVP for your team in this best-of-three series, who would you pick?"

This time, Gu Ran didn't hesitate at all:

"XS, we both performed well in the first game, and in the second game, his several incisions were perfect, and he went on a rampage at the end. Everyone should have enjoyed watching that."

The audience responded very cooperatively.

"Cool!"