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Sunday, November 25, 2007

[DotA] KS vs SK.Gaming

Malaysian team Kingsurf made a huge upset in bracket D of qualifying group of MYM Pride Defending #8, beating the famous SK.Gaming with in a fairly comfortable match.

th_se.png SK.Gaming, Sentinel

lool.gif SK.Loda (Top)
sand.gif SK.Tompa (Top)
magn.gif SK.Drayich (Middle)
furi.gif SK.Bogdan (Bottom)
merc.gif SK.Akke (Bottom)

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th_my.png Kingsurf (KS), Scourge

potm.gif Ks-Xiaogui (Top)
tsou.gif Ks-Ice (Top)
sfie.gif Ks-Yamateh (Middle)
skin.gif Ks-X|aoMa (Bottom)
lina.gif Ks-Papaxiong (Bottom)


To everyone surprise, they beat SK.Gaming who use one of their best strategy, the "global strategy" which wins them the MYM Pride #5 as Team Team (T_T). I watch the replay, and for most of portion of the match, SK never really give much trouble for KS. This is inherent when Yamateh' Shadow Fiend was laned in the middle against Drayich' Magnataur, who can really do nothing to harrasss SF, and thus providing a free farm for SF, resulting a 9, 10 minutes Blink Dagger (thus effectively lower the efficiency of Drayich and Tompa' Sand King+Magnataur ultimate combo).

However, the real cause of the loss for the team is the bottom lane, when Bogdan' Furion and Akke' Spectre was raped by Leoric+Lina combo. SK.Gaming has no real end game carry heroes except Furion and Spectre, but both of them screw up their early and mid game. Furion went like 0-13 and unable to farm anything worth for carrying. Even Spectre wasn't able to farm Radiance. With Furion teleporting, Spectre and Zeus ultimate instant help from afar, this kind of strategy even beat MeetYourMakers (MYM) and MagE (now known as Virtus.Pro) back then in MYM Pride#5. Yet SK seems unable to repeat their glorious achievement in this match.
And secondly, Yamateh was allowed to freefarm to get his complete carry item (BoT, Assault Cuirass, Stygian, Blink Dagger, Hood of Defiance). Yes he has no HP build, but he still rape with this items, as well as most KS allies with their superior item than those of SK.Gaming.

Nevertheless, SK.Gaming has won 5 out of 6 of their match, and pretty much has qualify for the playoff. KS has won 2 out of 2 (the 2nd win is against MCC, where we seen Yamateh, yet again played as Shadow Fiend, get a Divine Rapier in the end of the game), and I hope they can continue their good performance to qualify from this group as well. The playoff won't be an easy task for them, especially if they were scheduled to face MYM or Virtus.Pro, because both of this team will definitely stop KS from free farming and attain map control as soon as possible.


the replay can be downloaded here:
[mym12583]_MYM_PriDe_8_SK_vs_Ks.w3g

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