MegaFon Winter Clash: victory over Virtus.pro
A confident 2:0 victory!
NAVI.GG.BET fought with 
Virtus.pro in the concluding match in Group A at MegaFon Winter Clash. The intense series went the way of NAVI with a score of 2:0!
Game 1 - Natus Vincere [1:0] Virtus.pro
NAVI.GG.BET
Crystallize
MagicaL
Blizzy
Chuvash
SoNNeikO
Virtus.pro
RAMZES666
No[o]ne-
9pasha
RodjER
Solo
The first game saw 
Blizzy go for his usual shenanigans, cutting the creep waves - Witch Doctor was quite a nuisance for him, but SoNNeikO dropped by and helped kill him. With the levels coming in on all heroes, both teams went for a much more active Dota. By 10 minutes, neither team had a decisive advantage. However, a couple of back-to-back deaths on enemy Monkey King stalled his progress in the game. The Blink Dagger on Axe was doing quite a bit of work in that regard.
NAVI had a rather unfortunate fight, losing 4 heroes in the top lane, as Centaur proved to be a tough hero to take down fast. Both NAVI and Virtus.pro were going for fights, unwilling to slow the game down just yet. A big fight unraveled in the Radiant jungle next to the Shrine - both teams killed 3 heroes. After that, the teams settled down for quite a while. Next 2 fights were quite big - NAVI lost the first one, but rehabilitated straight after, as Virtus.pro lost 4 heroes and NAVI took down the first Roshan of the game. With that advantage, NAVI approached high ground of Virtus.pro, and the bottom T3 was stripped of half its health.
By 30 minutes NAVI were sitting at 4k gold, 6k after Bounties. Virtus.pro were trying to split push all over the map, but NAVI were all over the map as well, catching the cores. After a kill on Morphling, NAVI went straight for the high ground, forcing Ramzes to buy back; the T3 went down regardless. T3 top soon followed the suit; Virtus.pro were trying to delay the push, but ultimately, the final fight saw Virtus.pro lose 3 heroes, and no buybacks on the cores. NAVI takes the first game.
Game 2 - Natus Vincere [2:0] Virtus.pro
NAVI.GG.BET
Crystallize
MagicaL-
Blizzy
-
Chuvash
-
SoNNeikO
Virtus.pro
-
RAMZES666
No[o]ne-
9pasha
RodjER
Solo
For the second game, NAVI went for the Iocopter combo. The top lane was going decently well, except for Phoenix having to 1v1 enemy Undying, yet in return, enemy Morphling had to face Centaur. Midlane saw Medusa vs Lina matchup - MagicaL had little means to kill Lina, so he had to just resort to farming. Gyrocopter wasn't getting many creeps, unfortunately, but kills were going his way. NAVI were more successful in finding quite a few kills around the map.
11 minutes in, a fight broke out in the middle lane - Iocopter was right there, and Crystallize dished out a ton of damage, scoring a double kill for himself. Our cores were the top of the net worth chart, which bode very well for us. A prolonged fight 15 minutes in had both NAVI and Virtus.pro lose a few heroes, and the advantage swung back to Virtus.pro. The Soulbind+Laguna Blade combo melted both Gyrocopter and Io, and the fight was lost from that point onwards, as NAVI lost 80% of the team. Fights were erupting all over the place, and enemy Morphling kept getting locked down and focused.
MagicaL had a decent game, getting the necessary items. 22 minutes in, Virtus.pro went for the first Roshan of the game, but NAVI were ready to intercept - BKB reveal did nothing for No[o]ne, as he got stunned by Supernova nonetheless - a full teamwipe and Aegis for NAVI. Following that, we tried to siege the high ground, but didn't want to engage too deep and retreated, losing Io in the process. A prolonged siege of the top lane saw NAVI finally take down the T3. We shifted down to mid and demolished it as well, but paid for it with 4 heroes of ours. Still, we had more than enough resources to keep going - enemy Lina died with no buyback, and Virtus.pro GG-ed out, as we take the series 2:0.
