Yesterday VoJ had a very good practice War against Clan WfD .
Download replayThe game lasted a full 115 minutes, and we all had a great time. The game hung in the balance for the whole time, even though we had a Beyond Godlike Enchantress midgame.
Lineups:
VoJ - sentinel:
Cm/Lina (Hiruko/Olannon)
Enchantress (Alexmf)
2hd/Beastmaster (Yoshi/Sunset)
WfD - scourge:
Lich/Necrolyte
Viper
Abaddon/Tormented Soul
The game was fairly interesting. Lina got loads of kills early on, while Maiden died. As the game went on Lich and Necrolyte dominated the lane, and even ganks with Encha were only half-successful (lina/cm often died). Midlane was dominated by Alexmf, and the bottom lane was hard for VoJ but it was the closest fought lane.
As the ganking time came, we ended up participating in more and more stupid battles. Lich ulti and Tormented ripped us apart, and they often had the advantage in team battles although we had better stats. The game went on, and from VoJ having the early-game advantage, WfD was coming back and seemed to be getting the upper hand. VoJ tried a few pushes but were countered and WfD successfully pushed down 2 middle towers in time.
Hiruko went afk for 10-15 minutes and we played on 4v5. At this time, jakiro had tanking abilities, Lina was finally farmed up (after having 6-1 early I went 6-6 -> lost loads of gold) and started being a major threat again, and Alexmf was being a thorn in WfD's side. Sunset did well with beastmaster, spamming ulti and axes and microing the creeps well.
Hiruko came back, and we started warding like mad. At this point we had no particular strategy. We all farmed as well as we could, and took things as they came. Our huge amount of disables eventually gave us the upper hand in ganks; when we encountered a hero he was sometimes disabled up to 8 times!
We had a few good ganks and some team battles; enabling us to push through one lane and get a rax. The game wore on and on, and we all had insane items: Jakiro had Radiance, 2x HoT, BoT. Lina had BoT, Skadi, Guinsoo, aegis and nearly Buriza. The only exception was Cm, which barely had her dagger/bkb. Make no mistake though, she was very very useful with her Freezing Field, nova slow and disable. She was also the "warding" hero. Throughout the game, she must've placed at least 30 wards. As she is not a good farmer, this was the right hero for the job, the other 4 running around like mad and getting creep kills.
Eventually the game ended, and still the scores were pretty equal. The replay should be up soon, I hope you enjoy it all
We had a great game vs WfD, and Yoshi got an instant Clan invite (it was his tryout game after all) which he accepted
~Olannon
