Analysis of the 4 biggest blood changes

The final transfer process before The International 8 has ended. Below, we’ll take a look at the major changes and how they could affect the big names in the pro scene.

Evil Geniuses: flexible but risky

Evil Geniuses kicked off the transfer season with a big surprise, dropping Saahil “UNiVeRsE” Arora and coach Avery “SVG” Silverman. Currently ranked seventh in the DPC standings, these two have been replaced by Rasmus “MiSeRy” Filipsen and new coach Kanishka “Sam” “BuLba” Sosale – to refresh the team. MiSeRy will take the captain role from Clinton “Fear” Loomis, while Syed Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan will switch to the offlane position.

In the three LAN tournaments since EG changed their roster, Fear and Arteezy often swapped mid and carry positions, sometimes Fear even replaced SumaiL in offlane. However, EG’s experimental drafts still haven’t improved much from the old roster: Fear wants to be a versatile player, but isn’t good at any position. He and SumaiL often struggle in the offlane, as evidenced by their poor performance with Underlord and Omniknight. When SumaiL played Puck in mid or when Fear played Lycan, they played better individually, but overall the team still suffered from this offlaner test.

An example of EG’s post-transmission struggles is when we compare the 0-2 loss to Liquid at ESL One Genting to the 0-2 loss to Liquid again at the DreamLeague Season 8 Major. At Genting, EG put Arteezy mid/Fear carry/SumaiL offlane with a KDA of 1.08/0.31/0.71. At DreamLeague, EG still uses the familiar combo SumaiL mid/Arteezy carry/ UNiVeRsE offlane with a KDA of 1.45/1.08/0.92. Although both games were dominated by Liquid, EG vs UNiVeRsE still performed slightly better, in part that could be due to their shared experience and long-defined roles that helped them play a bit better. .

Bulba helps create creative drafts, but those tactics cannot replace the flexibility from the offlane position that UNiVeRsE created for EG before. Given the versatile role that comes from MiSeRy and Bulba’s drafting ability, it’s a valuable asset but will also prevent EG from picking up on a certain playstyle. Ultimately, Fear or SumaiL needs to focus on the offlane to create the stability EG needs to be able to find success against stronger teams.

Fnatic: memorable pizza party

While Evil Geniuses handled the roster change professionally and clearly, Fnatic couldn’t do it smoothly. Shortly after their win over TNC to qualify for ESL One Katowice, Chong Xin “Ohaiyo” Khoo learned that he would be kicked from the team to clear the way for UNiVeRsE, who was already in Malaysia at the time.

More amazingly, Ohaiyo now has more DPC points than his former teammates thanks to a stand-in for Team Secret at ESL One Genting. He later joined LGD.FY.

Fnatic fans hope that UNiVeRsE will bring stability to the unpredictable roster of this SEA region, and UNiVerSe has a way of playing not too different from Ohaiyo. As of 7.00, UNiVeRsE and Ohaiyo have pretty much the same hero diversity and both seem comfortable with popular offlaners like Underlord, Beastmaster, and Dark Seer. However, UNiVeRsE has a lot of experience with dynamic offlaners like Puck and Nature’s Prophet, which gives Fnatic more global strategies.

In terms of gameplay, UNiVeRsE farm less than Ohaiyo, but he also dies less (3.18 vs 5.37 for Ohaiyo) and gets more kills (4.21 vs 3.90 for Ohaiyo). If UNiVeRsE continues this trend, he can grab important kills without dying, giving Fnatic an early game advantage to take on turrets – something they have often struggled with in the past.

Unfortunately, Fnatic still can’t take advantage of the early game. Even though they won the lanes against Team Secret and Vici Gaming at ESL One Genting, Fnatic was still unable to continue the game tempo they had in those games. UNiVeRsE also performed quite erratically. He can sometimes be as influential in some games as Tiny, but can’t find success with Ax and Omniknight.

The team is still struggling to find stability and mid-game deployment, but they show promise as Abed Aze” Abed” Yusop and UNiVeRsE can play impactful heroes to create space. give Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao boom. With only one Minor passed, Fnatic will have a chance to find stability in the iDreamHack qualifiers and at ESL One Katowice.

Echo International was created by Team World

SVG didn’t wait too long after leaving EG to create a new team, and Team World was born in Europe. Less than a month later, Team World announced they would be competing under the Echo International name and moving to Southeast Asia, with Wong “ChuaN” Hock Chuan replacing SVG as captain.

Echo International. #WinterShuffle pic.twitter.com/6iCdtBph4z

— Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) January 30, 2018

The multinational team has impressive names, former TI champion (Chuan), TI runner-up (Saksa), multi-Major title holder (Ana), SEA expert (Forev), and a brand new face (Keyser).

Although we don’t have a lot of match information from Echo International to gauge their strength, we can still look at their most used heroes over the past year to predict how the team will play. Keyser will move to carry position, while he usually plays mid before. Keyser plays highly flexible heroes who can control the tempo of the game. Therefore, he will play carries that tend to support teamfight instead of traditional heroes that need to farm a lot. Keyser has experience playing popular heroes like Lycan and Phantom Lancer, but he needs to adjust to play Juggernaut or Troll Warlord.

Forev likes to play heroes with high-impact ultimates: his experience with Enigma and Puck will allow Echo to have teamfight-focused drafts and a penchant for ending the game early instead of relying on carries in the late stages. game. On the other hand, Forev has only played 5 times Underlord in the past year, and 2 with Tiny. Therefore, unless he manually expands his hero pool by adding existing meta picks, he will be limited in drafting.

ChuaN and Saksa previously both played in support positions that didn’t rely on hard disables to control teamfight. They play heroes with low cooldowns to help the team match up with champions with longer cooldowns. However, neither of them have Earth Spirit as their main champion. Lastly, Ana has experience playing traditional mid-heroes and has proven that he can be flexible and dependable, so as not to overwhelm him while drafting.

With that said, Echo will definitely perform well in Southeast Asia. They have the ability to use active drafts to dominate early game, and use this to win. But there would be a disadvantage if they only focused on playing this way. Echo will struggle against good and strong late-game laners like Team Secret and Liquid. If Keyser can find a balance between farming and fighting, and Forev catches up to the current offlaner meta, Echo definitely has the potential to become a major threat.

Natus Vincere Upgrades Her DPC Rank

In just one exchange, NaVi tripled its DPC points. By exchanging RodjER with Virtus.pro, NaVi obtained Lil and his 900 DPC points. After that, NaVi announced that SoNNeikO was also leaving the team – the captain position would be given to Lil. In addition, LeBron will complete this roster – the player who helped NaVi win the right to participate in GESC: Indonesia Dota 2 Minor.

From the above stats, we don’t expect NaVi’s gameplay to change too much. Lil and LeBron both play active, low-cooldown supports that NaVi can rely on. LeBron underperformed in stats only against SoNNeikO, but fans have known him from FPL and his stand-in for NaVi in the GESC qualifiers, with his ability to play active supports. While roaming junglers like Chen and Enchantress aren’t on NaVi’s list of top supports, both Lil and Lebron are capable of playing this role.

Unfortunately, their current form may not be enough to get NaVi into TI8. The team awards the captain position to a member who is completely new to the role. Lil mostly plays for VP and he can have a hard time adapting to NaVi’s way of playing. He and the team’s coach, XBOCT, need to be creative and play hard if they want to keep their DPC rankings. Currently, the best thing that NaVi has received from this transfer is Lil’s score and better synergies. NaVi will have a chance to prove themselves at the upcoming ESL One Katowice Major.

Looking back, it seems that Fnatic and Echo are the team that benefited from this transfer. Fnatic has a more stable offlane – this is essential for controlling the tempo of the mid game. While Echo remains a mystery, their players all have experience playing popular heroes like Lycan and Puck.

With new captain Lil and relatively new player Lebron, it’s hard to say how successful NaVi will be in this transfer window, but with a dizzying increase in DPC points, it will be an advantage to head to TI. As for EG, they can come up with new ideas and be flexible, but until SumaiL and Fear can navigate themselves, EG will still have a hard time finding success ahead of TI8.

Source: Cybersport