DOTA Madness

The victory of two consecutive team battles raised the mood of the Sentinel heroes.

    Successive kill rewards, experience, and gold from destroying towers have allowed them to lead in level and equipment. One or two battles happened in this way, the Scourge would have no power to fight back. This match was a Death Match, winning this was more important than to win two Regular Matches!

    However, they seemed too early to be happy.

    The Scourge’s heroes were not idiots either. After failing twice, they figured out the strategy adopted by the Sentinel. They discussed for a while, and quickly came up with their own solutions: since large-scale team battles were a disadvantage to them, they no longer passively wait for the other side to come, but take the initiative to gank, making the other side tired of coping with small-scale battles!

    At the same time, their late carry Anti Mage also gave up the idea of ​​saving money to make a Battle Fury, and instead used Vanguard and Yasha to join the battle in the middle game!

    This move had an immediate effect.

After the team battle, the Sentinel heroes who developed separately received a headache.

The first to suffer was Huskar who made money in the middle lane. When he saw the hero of the Scourge suddenly appeared, before he could escape, he was swapped by Vengeful Spirit’s Nether Swap. This skill was the ultimate of the Vengeful Spirit, which can instantly exchange enemy heroes and her own positions. The poor Huskar was sieged by the Scourge heroes and he was beaten to death!

Next, after leaving Alleria to push the first tower of the middle lane, other heroes quickly shuttled to the top lane through the river.

Because of their underestimation of Scourge, Dazzle and Tidehunter suffer as a result!

In the case of no ultimate, Tidehunter was just a melee meat shield, his role was limited. Although Dazzle was very versatile, with Shadow Wave and Shallow Grave, as well as slowing and interrupting skills such as Poison Touch, this could not conceal the fact that he was a fragile Intelligence hero. Especially in the presence of Axe, as soon as he buffed Shallow Grave to himself, he was eliminated by Axe’s ultimate!

The Scourge’s counterattack came fiercely and quickly, killing the three Sentinel!

Without defending heroes, they easily pushed the first tower of Sentinel’s top lane. The previous disadvantages were suddenly pulled back!

Such a victory was not enough to satisfy the heroes of the Scourge. After pushing down the tower, several heroes collectively went to the bottom lane, ready to gank Zhao Dingguo and Leshrac. But this time, the Scourge side miscalculated. After being killed by three people in a row, the vigilance in Zhao Dingguo’s heart has increased greatly. Feeling the danger, he withdrew from the lane early, leaving the hero of the Scourge missed!

“Scourge’s counterattack is not slow!”

After the resurrection, Dazzle frowned, realizing that the opponent had already tried to interfere with their rhythm. Once they have succeeded, that would be awful.

It seems that I can only buy wards to prevent each other from gank!

However, he would soon make Mekansm. If he spent money at this time, it would undoubtedly delay the time Mekansm appeared. Although a set of Observer Ward was not expensive, it also cost 200 gold coins! Thinking of this, he shouted in the nameplate channel: “Who can help me buy a set of Observer Ward?”

“Observer Ward?”

Zhao Dingguo hesitated and soon came over.

The full name of this thing was called Observer Ward. It could place a magic eye that can monitor nearby conditions for a long time. The usage was also very simple. It could be placed into some heights of the river or the lane to effectively monitor the enemy’s actions. Once the other party moved, the allied heroes could immediately find out the other party’s actions, so that their gank failed and waste their time!

Generally speaking, such an item, like Courier, was mainly bought by support heroes.

Zhao Dingguo himself was making the Force Staff, and he was only a little bit short of money. Naturally, he couldn’t withdraw these two hundred gold coins. But other heroes have also urged that they each have the equipment to be made, and did not want to spend money. This made Dazzle feel somewhat helpless! Obviously these teammates have not realized the importance of warding.

I’m afraid it’s only when they’ve had enough hardships that they can think of this! But at that time, I am afraid that our advantage will be no more!

In desperation, Dazzle had to pay out of his own pocket and bought a set of Observer Ward.

Zhao Dingguo was somewhat skeptical of this auxiliary item. Does this thing really work so well? In some strategies, the importance of ward and vision was mentioned. It’s just that Zhao Dingguo didn’t use it much in the previous battles. Today was the day to test the usefulness of warding in actual combat!

After such a long time, Dazzle has reached the river and placed the ward on a high rock.

The river, which was originally dark, suddenly lit up under the faint golden light from the ward. On the nameplate map, all Sentinel heroes could clearly see the situation here. Zhao Dingguo even noticed that there was a blue Double Damage rune floating on the water!

It looks pretty good!

However, the heroes of the Scourge soon proved to Zhao Dingguo with facts that the wards were far more useful than he imagined!

Seeing Zhao Dingguo reappearing on the middle lane, the Scourge heroes who had originally made money on the bot lane quickly rushed over here, like sharks which were smelling blood.

From the bot lane to the middle lane, they could either choose to TP or go through the river. In the latter case, the ward on the high rock in the middle of the river could not be avoided anyway! In the vision provided by that golden eye, Zhao Dingguo clearly saw several Scourge heroes sneakily moved toward him!

If he had seen the other party ’s actions but still let them succeed, then Zhao Dingguo was an idiot!

He quickly retreated from the front. When the Scourge heroes came over from the bottom lane, they suddenly found that Zhao Dingguo was no longer on the lane!

Ganking did have a price, it’s time-consuming and made the hero unable to develop on the lane. If ganking succeeded and the ganker got the kill reward and experience, it’s naturally profitable. However, if several heroes were dispatched together, but didn’t even the opponent’s hair, it would undoubtedly be a loss! The gank failed several times in a row, but the opponent developed smoothly on the front, then the gap would naturally widen!

This was the case with the Scourge now!

After Dazzle bought the ward, the action of the Scourge was as clear as day. Unless it’s TP to the tower, as long as they passed the river, it would be found by the Sentinel and respond in advance. After two failed operations, the Scourge probably realized something and stopped doing the futile!

This made Zhao Dingguo realize the importance of vision in his heart!

He felt that it was necessary for him to go back and study the Order of Light’s explanations on vision. Maybe it could bring him unexpected growth!

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Leaving aside that, this time Sentinel’s ultimates have all cooled down, and a new round of pushing has begun!

This tactic was almost incomprehensible in the low-end battles. This was the secret of Dazzle’s confidence!

Facing the five heroes who were all around, the Scourge quickly retreated to the second tower in the middle. It’s just weird that this time Anti Mage came to the front. Even though he has just made a Vanguard, after all, he was an Agility hero with limited HP volume.

Is it possible that the Scourge side wants him to take a round of damage first?

    Are they not afraid that Anti Mage will be killed by the Sentinel?

This was the so-called abnormal situation, and Zhao Dingguo felt a little uneasy in his heart. When the Tidehunter was ready to go forward according to the original plan, he understood why the Scourge had such a position!

As the initiator, Tidehunter must go to the front. This time when he just took two steps forward, he was put to sleep by an unexpected skill of Anti Mage – Nightmare!

Zhao Dingguo recognized at a glance that this was a skill that belonged to Atropos. After being affected by Nightmare, the target would fall into a slumbering state, unable to do any action, and its HP would drop at a rate of 20 points per second. If the target received any type of damage except Nightmare, then it would wake up.