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Game 1
Virtus.Pro decide to go with a tri lane Wraith King, Ancient Apparition and Vengeful Spriit to counteract the defensive tri-lane of Phantom Assassin, Ogre Magi and Silencer from 
Team Immunity. Immunity were behind in the CS kills from the get go, with VP's Tidehunter, Wraith King and Puck leading the way. However, Immunity wasn't letting that stop them, as they managed to get significant kills early on, leading the team kills 10:3 by the 8 minute mark.During the mid game, VP and Team Immunity were trading tier 1 towers - if Immunity got the Tier 1 mid, VP would get the Tier 1 bottom. Virtus Pro were playing an aggressive game, with G on the Puck being a big initiator, but seemed to be playing "too cocky", according to the casters, using his orbs aggressively but to no effect, and he suffered, being 6th on the networth chart at the 20 minute mark.
Virtus Pro go for the first Roshan at the 22 munite mark, and took two towers with the Aegis on Wraith King, taking the Tier 2 bottom and tier 1 top, but not getting into any major fights. Immunity were fine to be farming up the Dire jungle and getting the occasional pickoff by Virtus Pro heroes being on their own.
Virtus Pro went fo a push in the middle at the 28 minute mark, but a lucky silence and QoP ult turned the fight into Immunity's favour, with a 4:0 engagement. With the heroes out of the fight, Immunity went straight up the mid to pressure the base, and were able to pick off three extra heroes in the process. Immunity got the Tier 3 mid tower and backed off as Virtus Pro began to respawn.
A second Roshan attempt for Virtus Pro goes horribly wrong at the 34 minute mark. An initiation from Batrider to stop the Vengeful Spirit swap forces a team fight in the river outside the pit, with Immunity proving the better team fight, completely wiping Virtus Pro just for the loss of the Queen of Pain. Team Immunity were 12,000 gold and 15,000 experience ahead, creating an uphill struggle for VP.
Team Immunity pushed into the base via the top lane, and even a Refresher Orb on the Tidehunter wasn't able to save Virtus Pro, calling out the GG at the 39 minute mark, leaving the Australians 1:0 up in the best of five.
Game 2
Immunity show their confidence in QoP as they pick her up again following MusiCa’s game 1 success.
Early action as Virtus.Pro pick up a >2m first blood on the offlane batrider as Shatan fell in range of vengeful spirits magic missile followed by slarks burst, giving slark a crucial boost in starting gold resulting in an early midas.
Immunity rotated their safelane supports into the mid lane to successfully gank the viper who had a massive CS lead over Queen of Pain.
Viper's early mek came into effect as he was able to survive a AA + Qop ultimate combination, even managing to turn the gank around onto the high priority QoP. This pushed momentum further in Virtus.Pros favor coming into the mid game.
Following some successful counterpushes against Immunity, slark picked up the gold needed to aquire a skadi + blink combo before the 20 minute mark. Coming into immediate effect as he roamed the map absolutely tearing through the squishy Int lineup of Team Immunity. Bzz showing impressive form with his aggressive and controled skirmishes following his basher pickup.
Virtus.Pro pushed into high ground and bottom barracks at the 28 minute mark after a teamwipe on Immunity with a strong sand king ultimate falling on 3 heroes in a forced skirmish. The now insanely strong slark eating the enemy supports in 3 hits during the team fight.
Amazingly with a 20k gold lead Virtus.Pro give 3 kills to Immunity after a surprise gank on the freefarming slark in the top lane. This gave Slicks morph a massive gold boost into his ethereal blade.
With Immunity's confidence rising after taking down the monster slark then again took another successful engagement abofe the rosh bit as the Virtus.Pro underestimated the damage that was being pumped out from the now large morphling.
Needing to take advantage of their diminishing lead, Virtus Pro group for another push into the middle lanes barracks. A valiant defence from immunity was not enough to stop the powerful push and double ravage from the Russians.
Immunity called GG at the 44 minutes as they lost majority of their lineup with another push from VP with the mega creeps.
Early action as Virtus.Pro pick up a >2m first blood on the offlane batrider as Shatan fell in range of vengeful spirits magic missile followed by slarks burst, giving slark a crucial boost in starting gold resulting in an early midas.
Immunity rotated their safelane supports into the mid lane to successfully gank the viper who had a massive CS lead over Queen of Pain.
Viper's early mek came into effect as he was able to survive a AA + Qop ultimate combination, even managing to turn the gank around onto the high priority QoP. This pushed momentum further in Virtus.Pros favor coming into the mid game.
Following some successful counterpushes against Immunity, slark picked up the gold needed to aquire a skadi + blink combo before the 20 minute mark. Coming into immediate effect as he roamed the map absolutely tearing through the squishy Int lineup of Team Immunity. Bzz showing impressive form with his aggressive and controled skirmishes following his basher pickup.
Virtus.Pro pushed into high ground and bottom barracks at the 28 minute mark after a teamwipe on Immunity with a strong sand king ultimate falling on 3 heroes in a forced skirmish. The now insanely strong slark eating the enemy supports in 3 hits during the team fight.
Amazingly with a 20k gold lead Virtus.Pro give 3 kills to Immunity after a surprise gank on the freefarming slark in the top lane. This gave Slicks morph a massive gold boost into his ethereal blade.
After the kill on the monster Slark
With Immunity's confidence rising after taking down the monster slark then again took another successful engagement abofe the rosh bit as the Virtus.Pro underestimated the damage that was being pumped out from the now large morphling.
Needing to take advantage of their diminishing lead, Virtus Pro group for another push into the middle lanes barracks. A valiant defence from immunity was not enough to stop the powerful push and double ravage from the Russians.
Immunity called GG at the 44 minutes as they lost majority of their lineup with another push from VP with the mega creeps.
Game 3
Game three started off with multiple attempts on first blood around the map, with no blood loss until the 4th minute, when the Ancient Apparition and the Vengeful Spirit dive the top Tier 1 Radiant tower to get the Batrider.
Virtus Pro pushes the towers in the early game, taking both the top and bottom Tier 1 before the 11 minute mark. Windrunner tries to get the mid Tier 1 tower and an Ancient Apparition, but loses her life to a Legion Commander Dual carrying an early blink dagger.
An overcommitment from Virtus Pro in the mid lane allows Immunity to defend the tier 1 tower in the 13th minute. A Batrider Lasso was broken by a Vengeful Spirit swap, but it was ultimately to no avail, as the Legion Commander and Necrophos died in the ensuring fight. Legion Commander immediately bought back, but lost her life a second time, forcing her out of the fight for at least 40 seconds.
A four-man VP smoke into the bottom Radiant jungle at the 17 minute mark is able to find a lone Faceless Void, and with the Necrophos ulti, has him sitting on the sidelines for 70 seconds. Without a Chronosphere to stop them, VP head towards Roshan and collect the Aegis onto the Necro. With the extra life on hand, VP are able to claim the mid Tier 1 and the bottom Tier 2 with no resistance from Immunity, who were pressuring the top Tier 2 tower.
The Ice Blast-Dual-Reaper's Scythe is proving an unnerving force for VP, with the Ogre Magi being victim to the trifecta of spells for the third time in the 26th minute. A smoke from Immunity into the Roshan pit to scout out VP proves unsuccessful, as it gave VP time to move away. VP do the same thing as their opponents, smoking into the Roshan pit, with the Necrophos being picked off walking towards the bottom lane.
Necrophos is able to pick up the Aegis in the 37th minute, as Immunity were distracted by killing of the Ancient Apparition wandering throug the Radiant jungle. The Aegis brings a perid of pacivity, with heroes on both sides focusing on farming and trying to find the opposition with smokes into the opposing jungles. VP decide to push towards the bottom tier 3 tower, and manage to pick up the Void with a Dual, but they suffered with their lives, as a lucky Shackle Shot trapped the Tidehunter and the Vengeful Spirit, forcing them to leave the tower behind on the tiniest of health.
VP decide to go back to grab the Tier 3 bottom tower and get three kills in the process, with the Mirana and Windranger buying back, but VP overstayed their welcome. Another fantastic Shackle Shot from the Windranger slowed down the retreat, leaving four VP heroes dead and the bottom barracks still in tact.
sLICKz's Windranger is proving to be a scary force for VP. With the Ogre Magi Bloodlust on top of her Daedelis and Aghanim's Sceptre, she is able to slice apart a normally tanky Tidehunter in a few hits. Both teams are playing passively heading in to the 50 minute mark, as both teams wait for Roshan.
In the 56th minute, Virtus Pro push down mid lane to take on the middle tower, and got of the double Ravage initator, but the counter-initation from the Chronosphere stopped the rest of VP from getting past the barracks. The LC lost her Aegis in the fight and with one life down, Immunity were able to turn the fight into their favour. With all of the ultis used up on Virtus Pro, Immunity took the advantaged and punished VP with a full team wipe. Immunity may lead 37 to 23, but VP have the racks advantage, which may prove too tough to overcome.
While bpth teams waited for the next Roshan spawn, both teams met in the river in the mid lane, but the Reaper's Scythe and the double Ravage focusing on the Windranger proved too tough to beat, as even the death timer couldn't comprehend how long she was out of the fight. With their heroes being decimated, Immunity are forced to call out GG after a lengthy 64 minute game.
Virtus Pro pushes the towers in the early game, taking both the top and bottom Tier 1 before the 11 minute mark. Windrunner tries to get the mid Tier 1 tower and an Ancient Apparition, but loses her life to a Legion Commander Dual carrying an early blink dagger.
An overcommitment from Virtus Pro in the mid lane allows Immunity to defend the tier 1 tower in the 13th minute. A Batrider Lasso was broken by a Vengeful Spirit swap, but it was ultimately to no avail, as the Legion Commander and Necrophos died in the ensuring fight. Legion Commander immediately bought back, but lost her life a second time, forcing her out of the fight for at least 40 seconds.
A four-man VP smoke into the bottom Radiant jungle at the 17 minute mark is able to find a lone Faceless Void, and with the Necrophos ulti, has him sitting on the sidelines for 70 seconds. Without a Chronosphere to stop them, VP head towards Roshan and collect the Aegis onto the Necro. With the extra life on hand, VP are able to claim the mid Tier 1 and the bottom Tier 2 with no resistance from Immunity, who were pressuring the top Tier 2 tower.
The Ice Blast-Dual-Reaper's Scythe is proving an unnerving force for VP, with the Ogre Magi being victim to the trifecta of spells for the third time in the 26th minute. A smoke from Immunity into the Roshan pit to scout out VP proves unsuccessful, as it gave VP time to move away. VP do the same thing as their opponents, smoking into the Roshan pit, with the Necrophos being picked off walking towards the bottom lane.
Necrophos is able to pick up the Aegis in the 37th minute, as Immunity were distracted by killing of the Ancient Apparition wandering throug the Radiant jungle. The Aegis brings a perid of pacivity, with heroes on both sides focusing on farming and trying to find the opposition with smokes into the opposing jungles. VP decide to push towards the bottom tier 3 tower, and manage to pick up the Void with a Dual, but they suffered with their lives, as a lucky Shackle Shot trapped the Tidehunter and the Vengeful Spirit, forcing them to leave the tower behind on the tiniest of health.
VP decide to go back to grab the Tier 3 bottom tower and get three kills in the process, with the Mirana and Windranger buying back, but VP overstayed their welcome. Another fantastic Shackle Shot from the Windranger slowed down the retreat, leaving four VP heroes dead and the bottom barracks still in tact.
sLICKz's Windranger is proving to be a scary force for VP. With the Ogre Magi Bloodlust on top of her Daedelis and Aghanim's Sceptre, she is able to slice apart a normally tanky Tidehunter in a few hits. Both teams are playing passively heading in to the 50 minute mark, as both teams wait for Roshan.
In the 56th minute, Virtus Pro push down mid lane to take on the middle tower, and got of the double Ravage initator, but the counter-initation from the Chronosphere stopped the rest of VP from getting past the barracks. The LC lost her Aegis in the fight and with one life down, Immunity were able to turn the fight into their favour. With all of the ultis used up on Virtus Pro, Immunity took the advantaged and punished VP with a full team wipe. Immunity may lead 37 to 23, but VP have the racks advantage, which may prove too tough to overcome.
While bpth teams waited for the next Roshan spawn, both teams met in the river in the mid lane, but the Reaper's Scythe and the double Ravage focusing on the Windranger proved too tough to beat, as even the death timer couldn't comprehend how long she was out of the fight. With their heroes being decimated, Immunity are forced to call out GG after a lengthy 64 minute game.
Game 4
Slickz' razor gains first blood as Enimga is caught by the initial 5 man roam in radiant jungle. At 3 Minutes we have simultaneous deaths from the teams offlaners with Lycan picking off the batrider and embers searing chains doing work on tidehunter, taking the score to 2:2.
Big play from the Shatans batrider managing to drop the safelane Lycan with his Lasso + Firefly. Meanwhile a sneaky smoke gank from Immunitys'supports in the top lane onto Bzz's mid Venomancer helped Razor kick even further ahead.
Keeping the Immunity ball rolling, MusiCa went for a successful solo/yolo dive on the offlane tide managing to bring him down with no TP support from the rest of the Virtus.Pro squad coming in bringing the score to 4:7.
Entering the mid game a teamfight was initiated starting with Veno being picked off by Shatans newly purchased Blink dagger. Black hole was used only to lock down the batrider which opened the opportunity for Immunity to push back into the fight dropping another 3 heroes and coming out on top of the skirmish.
A HUGE play coming out of ember spirit coming from VP's attempt at securing roshan. Ember using his spirit to pop into a very low HP VP linuep and dropping the 4 heroes in the pit with a sleight of fist, adding more action to an already action packed game and securing himself a tasty aegis of immortality.
At 22 minutes VP grouped mid for a Tier 2 tower push with batrider starting the defence with a lasso on tide. Tide was not dropped during the lasso and immediately threw a ravage into Immunity. Lycan charged into the retreating heroes all the way into the tier 3 and highground managing to drop skywrath mage in exchange for his own life.
VP used their teamfight oriented lineup to bring down the rest of the standing tier 2 towers. Putting the score at 28 minutes to 14:20 Immunities way.
A second attempt at roshan was attempted by Virtus.Pro but was quickly denied as batrider blinked in and pulled the core lycan to the highground where he quickly dropped to the might of the team awaiting above the pit. VP extended even after the loss. Immunity took advantage of this initiating on the straggling enigma and WD. This completely opened up Roshan for them to take again.
Immunity at 32 minutes then grouped for their first 5 man push. Batrider pulled of a great lasso onto the enemy enigma and dropped him in the blink of an eye. VP attempted to continue defending the tier 1 mid tower with the eventual loss of tide and Veno from the massive damage being dealt by MusiCa's farmed Ember spirit.
This puts the score at 17:29 with immunity looking extremely scary for the upcoming fights.
No kills for the next 5 minutes as Immunity roamed the map farming the enemy jungle and pushing into the tier 2 bottom tower.
Tidehunter picked up his refresher at 40 mins followed by an immediate smoke by the Russian squad. They met the also smoked Team Immunity mid and pulled off a huge double ravage + black hole combo dropping 4 heroes with no losses. This successful teamfight brought the game back to very even standing from both sides.
After respawning immunity grouped for another push mid with unfortunate results. First icking off the enigma with lasso they didnt have the cooldowns available to counter the return damage and control coming from the heroes of VP, ending with another 4 man loss for Immunity.
With the momentum tipping into VP's favor they grouped up bottom lane for an attempt at their first set of barracks. the physical damage proving far too much for team immunity to handle as the barracks dropped quickly during the howl duration.
GG was called by Immunity after a brilliant fake retreat from Virtus.Pro. Running back only to pop a smoke and pushing straight back into an unsuspecting Team Immunity. Lycan immediatly popped his ultimate as the smoke wore uff and used abyssal on the surprised Ember Spirit tearing through his HP pool. Unable to recover from the loss of their core and only hope, the rest of the team shortly fell to the might of the Russian lineup.
Big play from the Shatans batrider managing to drop the safelane Lycan with his Lasso + Firefly. Meanwhile a sneaky smoke gank from Immunitys'supports in the top lane onto Bzz's mid Venomancer helped Razor kick even further ahead.
Keeping the Immunity ball rolling, MusiCa went for a successful solo/yolo dive on the offlane tide managing to bring him down with no TP support from the rest of the Virtus.Pro squad coming in bringing the score to 4:7.
Entering the mid game a teamfight was initiated starting with Veno being picked off by Shatans newly purchased Blink dagger. Black hole was used only to lock down the batrider which opened the opportunity for Immunity to push back into the fight dropping another 3 heroes and coming out on top of the skirmish.
A HUGE play coming out of ember spirit coming from VP's attempt at securing roshan. Ember using his spirit to pop into a very low HP VP linuep and dropping the 4 heroes in the pit with a sleight of fist, adding more action to an already action packed game and securing himself a tasty aegis of immortality.
At 22 minutes VP grouped mid for a Tier 2 tower push with batrider starting the defence with a lasso on tide. Tide was not dropped during the lasso and immediately threw a ravage into Immunity. Lycan charged into the retreating heroes all the way into the tier 3 and highground managing to drop skywrath mage in exchange for his own life.
VP used their teamfight oriented lineup to bring down the rest of the standing tier 2 towers. Putting the score at 28 minutes to 14:20 Immunities way.
A second attempt at roshan was attempted by Virtus.Pro but was quickly denied as batrider blinked in and pulled the core lycan to the highground where he quickly dropped to the might of the team awaiting above the pit. VP extended even after the loss. Immunity took advantage of this initiating on the straggling enigma and WD. This completely opened up Roshan for them to take again.
Immunity at 32 minutes then grouped for their first 5 man push. Batrider pulled of a great lasso onto the enemy enigma and dropped him in the blink of an eye. VP attempted to continue defending the tier 1 mid tower with the eventual loss of tide and Veno from the massive damage being dealt by MusiCa's farmed Ember spirit.
This puts the score at 17:29 with immunity looking extremely scary for the upcoming fights.
No kills for the next 5 minutes as Immunity roamed the map farming the enemy jungle and pushing into the tier 2 bottom tower.
Tidehunter picked up his refresher at 40 mins followed by an immediate smoke by the Russian squad. They met the also smoked Team Immunity mid and pulled off a huge double ravage + black hole combo dropping 4 heroes with no losses. This successful teamfight brought the game back to very even standing from both sides.
After respawning immunity grouped for another push mid with unfortunate results. First icking off the enigma with lasso they didnt have the cooldowns available to counter the return damage and control coming from the heroes of VP, ending with another 4 man loss for Immunity.
With the momentum tipping into VP's favor they grouped up bottom lane for an attempt at their first set of barracks. the physical damage proving far too much for team immunity to handle as the barracks dropped quickly during the howl duration.
GG was called by Immunity after a brilliant fake retreat from Virtus.Pro. Running back only to pop a smoke and pushing straight back into an unsuspecting Team Immunity. Lycan immediatly popped his ultimate as the smoke wore uff and used abyssal on the surprised Ember Spirit tearing through his HP pool. Unable to recover from the loss of their core and only hope, the rest of the team shortly fell to the might of the Russian lineup.
The Champions of MSI Beat IT: Virtus.PRO
This article was written by
Jack Fleet, joinDOTA's writer.Jack fell in love with the MOBA scene following a beta invite into Heroes of Newerth, then moving into DotA 2 as soon as keys were available. Improving his skills over the years led into competative play in Australia. Now living in London, Jack is pursuing his dream to work in the DotA/video game industry.Location: London, United KindomFor live DotA news as it happens, follow Jack at @fleetbix.This article was written by
Mary Egan, joinDOTA's writer.Growing up in the land Down Under, BlackWidow.FnL was first introduced to WC3 Dota as part of a weekly Friday Night LAN held by her friends, hense the FnL tag. When not playing Dota 2, you can find her leaping from tall buildings into haystacks.Location: Sydney, AustraliaFollow her on @Mary_McFly_1107.
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