Replay 55: IHE: Ducky vs Azen

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1.24e / 6.67c

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Replay Length: 59 mins.

Commenting on the picks, Sentinel's team battles look very strong with Puck, Sand and Silencer conforming that all spells will go off unresisted. I expect Scourge heroes to avoid crowding and go for early blink daggers. Also, taking out Silencer earliest in team battles or a gank before that seems to be best choice for Scourge... I mean you can afford to lose some ulties to gank just Silencer.

The game started off with a normal tone with expected lanes and stuff but gained on entertainment value exponentially especially with some serious action in top lane. Slardar gained a lot of assist gold there and was able to farm an early Dagger as desired. Watching Ducky's game was funny, not that he played bad but taking into account the hilarious situations he got into. :D

Looking at the items at 22 mins, both Slardar and Storm have farmed pretty well... Slardar with Blink+Vanguard and Storm with a Bloodstone already! Both teams would like end this game early as opponents have reliable late game heroes.

The Silence at 28 mins by Nortrom was really a nice battle turner, he used it at a time when Tide just blinked but couldn' set off Ravage.

Don't remember the exact time of the game but I was really thinking of an Orchid on Azen(Mirana) when he bought an Ultimate Orb. Scourge always had enough damage to kill Storm but they just couldn't hold him in one place. Azen got to his proper senses a little bit too late and completed that Orchid when Misery(Storm) already had ZOMG! inventory. (Am I being too harsh to Azen? :P He's not reading this anyway ;))

Anyways, nice game by both the teams. I think an early Orchid on Mirana could've changed the fate. And by the way, assist bonus gold was really worth noticing... something around 20000+!

Recommended Game for Storm, Slardar

Winner :: Sentinel

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