MYM PDL: Final Heroes Statistics

Previously we've seen how the heroes are ranked based on picks and bans in online Tournament MYM Prime Defending League, up to playday 7. Now that the PDL season 1 is officially over, after the Grand Final matches between MYM and SK, it's time to revise the ranking again and see how much things have changed since then, especially since the discovery of some first picks/bans material post-ESWC. This time, there are two aspects of the ranking to be looked into; 1) the total picks/bans and win/lose ratio, as well as 2) the score for each heroes based on their bans/picking order.

1. Statistic 1: http://www.mymym.com/en/coverage/498/3.html
2. Statistic 2: http://dota.pizdec9000.ru/

First, the ranking list created by Ruven in MyMYM. This ranking is solely based off the bans and picks regardless of picking order, and coupled with the result of the game, the win/lose ratio is calculated.


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Some facts I found to be interesting:

-The top 4 heroes: Warlock, Puck, Zeus and Beastmaster remain unchanged, albeit the order is slightly different. Their role remain significant in every games. One is massive babysitter/ pusher, one is awesome initiator/ganker, one is brutal spell spammer and one is a ridiculous map controller/initiator/ganker.

-Omniknight and Lich who ranked 5th and 6th respectively, have similar win/lose ratio, at 50% but the total opposite amount of ban/pick. Lich remains to be one of the best ward bitch in 6.52e and all he need to do in teamfight is cast Frost Nova/Chain Frost/Meka if applicable and then it doesn't matter if he died. Omni who was picked largely because of his Repel.

-Chen, Vengeful Spirit and Broodmother have a very high win/losr ratio, at more than 80%. In fact, VS has been one of the most successful heroes in recent days, rarely seen her losing any games. With stun, command aura and Swap, she fits with many kind sof lineup - push, ganking, and even one of the best hero to counter the frightening Turtling strat (hello Pit Lord).
Chen and Broodmother don't change much in their ranking since the previous one, but their win/lose ratio certainly is not something to be mislooked. The current Broodmother is a beast once she got her BKB and a little bit of high tier item, her Web forced enemy to buy sentry to counter her, and her Spiderling is useful in pushing. Chen is feared because of his jungling capabilities, and of course, ganking with his Creep army. And in crucial teamfights, his global heal can make the difference between winning and losing.

-Visage. This is probably the most noticable changes in the ranking. His position only rise a little in the list (rank 32 to 22), but his ban ratio increased significantly (1 to 19 bans). Yes, this is LARGELY because of ESWC, where many teams discover the potential of this heroes as pusher/map controller and dps/tanks. In ESWC, we've seen how SK made a huge comeback against KS in the group stage with the picks of Visage/TB, and in the other group, the champion Zenith beat MYM with the same strat. It is from that point that people start to realize how fearsome visage is, especially because he is one of the best counter to top-picked heroes like Lich and Luna.


The second statistics, automatically generated from parsed games (click to view).


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This ranking was based on point system, where banned heroes receive 7 points, and the picked heroes were given points based on their picking order (7 / 6 - 6 / 5 - 5 / 4 - 4 / 3 - 3 / 3) . In term of overall rank, there really is not much change for most heroes, especially the top 4 which is again dominated by the same heroes - Beastmaster, Warlock, Puck and Zeus. It was clear from the table that these heroes really are the best first pick material, judging how the amount of picks skewed toward the first few picks, and barely used as last pick (people will start bitching if they see Zeus last picked lol)

PDL Grand Final: MYM vs SK

Online Tournament MYM Prime Defending League has finally reach its final stage. Previously we have seen MeetYourMakers (MYM) and SK.Gaming (SK) met during the final day of the league as the top two team in the table, where the match was shoutcasted live via ESNationTV, superbly commentated by MYM captain Maelk and MYM|Aurora.
Then to the playoff, where MYM and SK meet once again in the winner bracker final, where MYM triumph 2-0 in a best-of-three format. SK who were knocked to the loser bracket, still ale to recover themselves and beat french team, SRS to go to the Grand Final, meeting their nemesis MYM. The Grand Final was in best-of-five format, with MYM had 1-0 advantage due to coming from winner bracket and hence need to win just two more games to win and the grand final.

The Grand Final matches were held just this morning. Yet again, the match was streamed live via ESNationTV, but unfortunately I was not able to watch the match due to certain reasons. Nevertheless I was still able to watch both replay, though I have to admit that there's not much talking points for both matches.

match details:
general match news/ESNationTV@MyMYM

matchticker@myMYM


game 1: MeetYourMakers vs Sk. Gaming

Bans (MYM First): | | | | | | |
Picks (MYM First): | | | | |

MYM, Sentinel

[puck] MYM|MaNia- (Top)
[vs] MYM|Maelk (Top)
[medusa] MYM|H4nn1- (Middle)
[spectre] MYM|Fear (Bottom)
[warlock] MYM|PusHer (Bottom)

SK, Scourge

[sven] SK.Loda (Top))
[zeus] SK.Hailo (Creep Puller)
[nevermore] SK.Akke (Middle)
[bane] SK.KwoM (Bottom)
[omni] SK.Tompa (Bottom)

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first, lets look at the pick order. MYM let go of Zeus and pick Spectre as their first pick. Nothing uncommon, plus zeus was immediately picked by SK next, together with omni. The tricky part comes in SK's 3rd and 4th pick (shadow fiend and sven). It was apparent that these two heroes are bkb-dependant. Coupled with the fact that SK had omni on their side, MYM knew they could not rely entirely on Spectre for diffusal carrier, especially early game where spectre possibly has yet to farm her Diffusal Blade. Puck isn't an effective Diffusal user, as Guinsoo is much better. Hence, they last pick Medusa for her purge, as well as semi-carry. SK's intention for picking Bane might be to reduce MYM's manpower in teamfight as much as possible (Nightmare), plus MYM only has VS as non-ultimate stunner.

To the match itself. In the first 20-30 minutes, SK generally dominate the 5v5 teamfights, with Akke's sf get a triple kill, while MYM was better at small teamfights, hence the score for both teams were fairly even at that point. Up to 40 minutes, SK had tower advantage by taking down all but MYM's base and bottom mid tower. But MYM still persist. Pusher's Puck manage to farm Guinsoo, Fear's Spectre got his diffusal in 30 minutes, and the Radiance in 50 minutes. Albeit regarded as trash hero, Medusa did well in the hand of Hanni, carrying MYM early-mid game with BoT/Mjolnir. And even VS had a Sange. In SK side, Bane still stuck at Ultimate Orb/Perseverance, and Loda's sven made some questionable item choice. He went for Linkens first, folowed by Armlet-Mask of Madness late game. At first it looks like a weird first item choice, but if we look carefully into the whole strategy, it is actually a smart choice of item. A Repelled Sven will be invulnerable to every spells except Purge. Hence only Purge works on Repelled heroes, and this is blocked by Linkens. Really smart. So the only way to counter this is by using a second Diffusal user, and in this case, Diffusal Blade on Spectre.
MYM gains total map control 50 minutes in, and proceed to win the game. GG. One more win, and the cash prize is theirs.


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match 2: Sk. Gaming vs MeetYourMakers

Bans (SK First): | | | | | | |
Picks (SK First): | | | | |

SK, Sentinel

[warlock] SK.Hailo (Top)
[weaver] SK.Akke (Top)
[tinker] SK.Loda (Middle)
[naix] SK.KwoM (Bottom)
[mirana] SK.Tompa (Bottom)

MYM, Scourge

[qop] MYM|Maelk (Top)
[beastmaster] MYM|PusHer (Jungle)
[nevermore] MYM|H4nn1- (Middle)
[puck] MYM|Fear (Bottom)
[tidehunter] MYM|MaNia- (Bottom)

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Game 2 is just a pubstomp, SK got rolled by MYM. 20 minutes in, MYM leads the kill score 10-0. The match does not even last 40 minutes. Weaver did fine, managing to farm a quick radiance but their team coordination seems too much off. IMO Loda's tinker played poorly, I mean he does not ultilize Tinker's rearm ability to its fullest when he push lanes. Constantly getting ganked and only get his BoT at 30th minute. But overall it seems like the whole SK lacks the motivation in this match, as their coordination often off. SK might want to try playing Asian-style Tinker (BoT/BKB abuse push strat) but MYM total domination halted their strategy. MYM won.

With this, MeetYourMakers won the very first season of MYM Prime Defending League, taking away $2000 cash prize money. Well played on their side throughout this tournament, I don't know what would be the outcome of this tournament if Mousesports manage to reach the playoff. GGWP.

Tournament outcome:

1. Meet Your Makers - $2,000
2. SK Gaming - $1,000
3. Serious Gaming - $500

[dojin game] CRUCIS FATAL FAKE

The full game is available for torrent on Friday, coincidentally the day I was released from the pain of this hellish week :D

Official Website

main screen

Light Studio still maintain the same cell-shaded battle concept from the previous Fatal Fake. I only tried playing this game a couple of time, so I'm not quite familiar with the game mechanic yet, but the control is pretty much the same as in Fatal Fake. But this time, each Servant is pit with their master (you can choose to partner whoever you want btw) in a fight of Holy Grail, and in fight, they can combo together to make the gameplay even better than Fatal Fake. Master can also de-summon their Servant (and the retreated Servant healed super fast, as long as s/he does not exceed his/her max hp. In this state, the Master have to fight alone though. And in the presence of Servants, they will tank all the damage.

Character selection screen

Actually I'm not quite sure whether this really is the final version or not, as some characters are still missing (eg True Assassin and Black Saber), but heck, the current version is cool enough with a lot of different characters to be chosen. Especially GILGAMESH is now available :D

As I said before, I haven't explored much into the game, so I can't comment much about the whole mechanics of the game. The arcade mode is pretty much straightforward like in Fatal Fake, where we are fighting against random pairing from stage to stage. Noble Phantasms aren't that difficult to execute either (except Saber's super Excalibur which I never succeed as I did several times in Fatal Fake), especially because the game provide a list menu for each characters command Also, I noticed that Berserker is significantly weaker than he is in Fatal Fake, I mean he's not that hard to beat when I first met him in arcade mode :3

The game is available to be downloaded (torrent) from Hongfire, thanks to Satu for the upload. idk if Doujinstyle will upload this game on their site or not, but they probably will, given that the size of this game is barely that large.
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So far I've ventured a bit in using Saber, Rider, Archer, Caster and Gilgamesh. Assassin, Berserker and Lancer aren't really my favorite in Fatal Fake ^^;

Saber's Air Strike, Excalibur and Avalon. I still failed to execute her final Noble Phantasm... v.v

Archer. The Unlimited Blade Works (rightmost) isn't as awesome as in Fatal Fake (or maybe I failed to execute the true UBW :3), but I somehow lol at those line that appeared on the screen :3

Rider's Andromeda, Bellerophon and Gorgon. As well as combo with Sakura. Probably the easiest character to use :3

Caster. Rule Breaker in the last pic. She's fairly okay in this game, although it seems like I can't chain combo her fireball anymore to stunlock and beat Berserker like I usually did in Fatal Fake :3

Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon. In this form, his Enuma Elish power increased multiple fold that it can easily dished out 10k+ damages...insane.