Na'Vi are the Star Series Champions again

Having only dropped a single game during the whole course of the second season of Star Ladder Stars Series finals, Natus Vincere once again emerged victorious, sweeping their opponents in the best-of-five Grand Final, mousesports, three games to nil.

The first game was of course awarded to Na'Vi automatically without actually having been played, as their reward for progressing to the Grand Final as the winners of the Upper Bracket. mouz - who were knocked down into the Lower Bracket by Na'Vi in the first round and fought their way back for this rematch - put in a valiant effort, but ultimately it was not enough to stop the Ukranian team from being crowned the champions. Recaps of the two played games follow.



Game 2

1, First initiation by Puppey's Enchantress up top. Na`Vi lose ARS-ART's Leshrac, whereas mouz lose SexyBamboe's Chaos Knight and ComeWithMe's Chen, who took the first blood on Leshrac.
2, SingSing's Windrunner is getting all the runes except one which gets destroyed by Puppey's creep.
7, Na`Vi's Leshrac and Enchantress rotate to the bottom lane to help Nature's Prophet push against Lone Druid.
8, Na`Vi's Tidehunter and Nature's Prophet teleport to the top lane for a gank and their Mortred takes out Chaos Knight. Ganks are now starting to pick up on the bottom and top lane.
10, Score is 4-3.
13, Tidehunter and Leshrac run in to initiate with Ravage, but SingSing's Windrunner lands a great Shackleshot on both of them, and Chen's Ursa creep claps them both to death. Na`Vi lose 3 and mouz lose 1.
15, Dendi picks up a Blink Dagger for his Tidehunter. Na`Vi group up for top and now mouz have one outer tower remaining.
17, Fight in mouz's jungle. Tidehunter is invisible rune and starts with Ravage and mouz lose 3. XBOCT's Mortred gets a Double Kill.
20, Score is 9-8.
21, Dendi is invisible and finds Chaos Knight in Na`Vi's jungle. He Ravages when SexyBamboe starts to teleport and XBOCT's Mortred gets the kill. XBOCT now has his Black King Bar ready.
22, mouz go for Roshan. Na`Vi know about it and XBOCT walks in with his BKB. Na`Vi lose Leshrac and Nature's Prophet who buys back. mouz then lose Lone Druid and Chaos Knight. SingSing tries to escape, but Na`Vi catch him. XBOCT gets the kill and also the Aegis of the Immortal afterwards.
26, Fight on the bottom lane. Mortred chases Lone Druid who gets teleported back by Chen. Na`Vi lose Nature's Prophet and Leshrac, while SingSing kills XBOCT once to destroy the Aegis. mouz kill off Mortred when she respawns. Na`Vi have control of the map and mouz are mostly sticking in their base.
30, Score is 13-13. After a gank by mouz on bot lane, Na`Vi lose Puppey's Enchantress but kill 1437's Ancient Apparation, SingSing's Windrunner and SexyBamboe's Chaos Knight. XBOCT's Mortred gets two of those kills.
33, Fight on the middle lane. Dendi blinks onto the high ground with Ravage and uses Shiva's Guard. Na`Vi lose LighTofHeaveN's Nature's Prophet, but he buys back into the game and mouz lose 3 heroes. mouz have rebuys while Na`Vi push the middle lane afterwards and take the tier 3 tower. mouz push them out and another fight starts. mouz lose Lone Druid who rebuys as well as Ancient Apparation. Na`Vi lose Leshrac, but they take the mid barracks and retreat.
36, Na`Vi are going for Roshan and mouz engage. When mouz follow Na`Vi there, Nature's Prophet takes the top tier 3 tower. Down at the Roshan pit, mouz engage and lose 4. The "GG" is called and Na`Vi win at the 37-minute mark.

Gamebreaker: mouz's tri-lane up top couldn't stop Mortred from farming and she got her Black King Bar fast. While this was happening, Na`Vi were running ganks on Chaos Knight and Lone Druid (who got free farm on bot lane at first), slowing down their farm and making sure Chaos Knight didn't snowball out of control. With Na`Vi's heavily farmed Tidehuner engaging in fights and mouz's Lone Druid trying to farm fast enough to be a factor, team fights almost always went Na`Vi's way, especially with Mortred landing critical hits on everyone freely with her BKB. If mouz were able to shut down Na`Vi's Mortred early on and get SexyBamboe's Chaos Knight a great start with kills, the game might have gone differently.



Game 3

2, SexyBamboe's Sand King gets First Blood on LighTofHeaveN's Tidehunter and then kills off ARS-ART's Shadow Demon for a Double Kill. In the process, mouz lose their courier. Na`Vi's tri-lane bottom of Puppey's Chen, XBOCT's Juggernaut, and ARS-ART's Shadow Demon are playing very aggressively against SingSing's Broodmother. SexyBamboe's Sand King gets a great start up on top lane.
10, Na`Vi push for the top Tier 1 tower and mouz's Sand King kills off Chen instantly. Right after, mouz lose 3 when Tidehunter and Rubick answer back.
14, Na`Vi have not lost a single tower yet.
16, Na`Vi smoke up and go for Roshan, but SingSing's Spiderlings scout it out. However, mouz are not in position to challenge and XBOCT's Juggernaut takes the Aegis.
19, Na`Vi initiate a fight on middle lane and kill three. They push for the middle Tier 3 tower after and another fight starts. mouz are able to pop Juggernaut's Aegis and catch Shadow Demon and Chen without losing anyone.
22, Both teams are even in experience and gold gained.
23, After catching Broodmother and Crystal Maiden, Na`Vi push the bottom lane and take the tier 3 tower. mouz try to defend with Sand King's Epicenter and Enigma's Black Hole, but the Black Hole gets cancelled immediately and mouz lose four. Na`Vi rotate to the middle lane, take the tier 3 tower and then the melee barracks.
27, Na`Vi take Roshan and XBOCT's Juggernaut takes the Aegis. Throughout this stage, Na`Vi have been steadily picking off heroes all over the map.
29, While Na`Vi are pushing the top Tier 3 tower, SexyBamboe's Sand King is waiting on the edge of the map. ARS-ART's Shadow Demon scouts him with his Shadow Poison and Sand King gets killed right away. ComeWithMe's Enigma blinks in later, catches three in his Black Hole, and SingSing's Broodmother kills Chen. However, Na`Vi turn it around and wipe mouz's entire team. The gg is called and Na`Vi wins at 30:56. As a result, Na`Vi win the Grand Final against mouz.

Gamebreaker: Na`Vi started the game with heavy aggression and most of the game occurred on mouz's side of the map. This, along with Na`Vi winning a lot of ganks and small fights, ensured that mouz's Broodmother and Antimage didn't spiral out of control. Na`Vi had a better team fight lineup and Dendi's Rubick stole valuable spells such as Antimage's Blink. If mouz were able to deal with Na`Vi's early aggression and ganks, and also get their Broodmother and Antimage more kills, the game might have gone differently.

Final Standings

1st - Natus Vincere – $6000
2nd - mousesports – $3000
3rd - Moscow Five – $2500
4th - Darer – $2000
5th - Empire – $500

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