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Cloud 9 recently spoke to 2P, breaking down the reasons behind his new found love of Drow Ranger and his curious build for the femme fatale. The popular star also gave his thoughts on player roles and the team's loss to EG in the finals of the Monster Energy Invitational.
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Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao also known as EE-Sama who was introduced to the world as a top tier HoN solo mid player in a team called 
DWi (Deal with it). On September 29th EE's team 
No Tidehunter has made its first public appearance by playing in The Revenge I. NTH ended up winning their debut tournament, going undefeated. More success came quickly, as the team managed to qualify for ESWC 2012 with a win over Evil Geniuses, as well as qualifying for the Thor Open in mid October. However, later on it was announced that EE was kicked from the No Tidehunter squad. Soon it was announced that EE would be joining a revamped Kaipi roster, playing the role of carry instead of his past supporting role on No Tidehunter. On September 19th the Kaipi roster was picked up by the
Rattlesnake organization under the name Rattlesnake.int. The team was later rebranded as [color=gold]Speed Gaming[/color] and went on to win MLG Championship Columbus. Following issues with the Rattlesnake organization and manager Marco 'Thyton' Fernandez, the Speed Gaming roster joined the [color=gold]Cloud 9[/color] organization on February 9th, 2014.The following are extracts from 2P's interview:
Hi EternaLEnVy! Thank you for agreeing to do this interview. Recently your team has had some mixed results. Although overall I'd say you're on pretty good form, it does seem like a new rivalry has begun to build itself up between C9 and EG. Thus, it was no doubt disappointing to lose against them in the grand finals of the Monster Energy Invitational. While I obviously wouldn't expect you to speak negatively of anyone, do you think the tournament might have gone differently if you hadn't needed to use a sub? In what ways did having DeMoN around instead of bOne7 change the dynamic on your team, if any?
Demon performed great during the event, I could tell he really really wanted to win. However, unlike RTZ, Demon hasn't played with us for an extended period of time and isn't practiced on Bone's role. Our picks/lanes were severely limited due to this.
One hero that you've been piloting a lot lately is Drow Ranger. The build that you've designed for this hero is pretty unique and, personally, I find it quite difficult to understand - Midas, Mask of Madness and Blink Dagger seem to generally be your first 3 items, usually followed by Mjollnir. Historically, when Drow has been popular, her build has always revolved around keeping her alive, focusing on items like Shadowblade, Manta and BKB. Your build seems to do almost the exact opposite – you make yourself insanely powerful in terms of DPS'ing, but look really fragile, even when you are very farmed. Could you please explain the theory behind this?
My understanding of Drow Ranger was based on some ideas from RTZ and AUI. The midas is really nice early because it gives you levels which greatly benefits your team. You don't really need life leech to farm as frost arrows is enough to kite creeps. I go MOM/BLINK afterwards to solo kill heroes/roshan or push towers to the limit before I need to blink away.
Mjollnir/Buriza* are both super strong on Drow, I prefer Mjollnir because I can use it on a teammate or soemtimes I cancel a blink dagger and I can stay around for a bit longer. I think that in most situations if a hero initiaties on the drow, your f*cked away. You can sometimes even say that MOM helps u survive cuz of MS instead of causing you to die.
Mjollnir/Buriza* are both super strong on Drow, I prefer Mjollnir because I can use it on a teammate or soemtimes I cancel a blink dagger and I can stay around for a bit longer. I think that in most situations if a hero initiaties on the drow, your f*cked away. You can sometimes even say that MOM helps u survive cuz of MS instead of causing you to die.
I'm not sure if you've ever been asked this before but I couldn't find the answer in any other interviews – what's the story behind your nickname? What does it mean? I remember reading that you disliked the name 'Kaipi' at first because it meant absolutely nothing so my assumption is that your own nickname has some meaning to you?
My name comes from FMA original. Where one of the characters called Envy lived for like 500 years. So EternaLEnVy. And some stuffz in real life and ya, and I thought it was a cool name. Now I kinda regret it :D
Click here to read the rest of the EternalEnvy interview on 2p.com
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