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DreamLeague Season 11 Closed Qualifiers: victory vs Winstrike

Dota 2 / News / 2 February 2019 — 13:31

2:0 victory in the Bo3!

ua NAVI.GG.BET started their playoffs at DreamLeague Season 11 Closed Qualifiers with a Bo3 against ru Winstrike. The match ended with a 2:0 victory for us, as ua NAVI move forward!

Game 1 - Natus Vincere [1:0] Winstrike

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Teams
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Bans

NAVI.GG.BET
  • Crystallize
  • MagicaL
  • Blizzy
  • Chuvash
  • SoNNeikO

Winstrike Team
  • Silent
  • Iceberg
  • nongrata
  • yamich
  • Misha

The first game started quite well for ua NAVIua Crystallize was getting the farm he wanted, as enemy Dark Seer couldn't do much against Enchantress. The teams were looking to fight rather early on when everyone got their ultimates. Anti-Mage, though, was using all the space ua NAVI provided, and managed to get Battle Fury 13 minutes in, significantly accelerating the farm. Soon, he surpassed the enemy mid by around 2k gold. Before 20 minutes, ua Crystallize bought Manta Style.

Very soon, ua NAVI went for the Roshan after a good fight. In a couple of minutes, the Radiant went for the highground siege — while we destroyed the mid T3, we paid for it with 4 heroes and the Aegis popped. We disengaged and decided to farm some more, finding pickoffs in the meantime. Around 30 minutes, ua NAVI went for the highground of ru Winstrike again, this time destroying the barracks. As the Roshan respawn timer was counting down, both teams smoked up, and clashed in the midlane — ua NAVI teamwiped ru Winstrike, securing an uncontested Roshan. From then onwards, it was just a matter of minutes — ua NAVI went for the bottom lane, ru Winstrike tried to retaliate, but lost the fight, calling GG.

Game 2 - Natus Vincere [2:0] Winstrike

Picks and bans
Teams
Picks
Bans

NAVI.GG.BET
  • Crystallize
  • MagicaL
  • Blizzy
  • Chuvash
  • SoNNeikO

Winstrike Team
  • Silent
  • Iceberg
  • nongrata
  • yamich
  • Misha

The second game was off to an active start in the top lane, as ua NAVI claimed 2 kills in a row. We continued being aggressive wherever we could, scoring a few kills all over the map. ua Crystallize had a good farming time, just like ua MagicaL, but the enemy Terrorblade enjoyed even more creeps. ua NAVI maintained a decent kill score and the net worth was favoring us a lot. A kill on the Terrorblade upset his farming a bit, giving us more time.

ru Winstrike smoked up and went for our jungle near the Secret Shop, getting Doom onto Medusa, but to no avail — we followed up with the counter-initiation, getting the entirety of Radiant. The second fight went the same exact way — ua NAVI scored 5 more kills, disrupting the entire game flow of ru Winstrike. The enemy mid Skywrath Mage had half the networth of ua MagicaL. Still, the Radiant had some fight left in them, and as ua NAVI tried to force another fight up the highground without vision, we lost all 5 heroes, but still killed a couple of enemies.

The Eye of Skadi on the enemy Terrorblade started to give us some real trouble — ru Winstrike got significantly stronger, and we really couldn't win the fights as easy as before. The Radiant went for the Roshan, but kg Blizzy was able to discourage them from finishing it; and by the time they re-engaged, our Reverse Polarity was already up, and we used it right in the fight - 4 heroes dead, and the Aegis for ua NAVI.

We went to the bottom lane, taking down the first T3 of the game and a melee barrack pretty fast. There wasn't a lot of time left on the Aegis, so ua NAVI went for the midlane as well, destroying T3 in the midlane, Soon after, we lost a few heroes, but it didn't change the balance of power on the battlefield much — as ru Winstrike decided to fight in our jungle after picking off Shadow Shaman, they lost all their heroes, and we rushed down the midlane for the base, taking down everything, and taking the series 2:0.