{"id":6797,"date":"2019-02-25T05:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:26:49","slug":"team-liquid-crowned-as-mdl-macau-champions-after-grand-final-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-liquid-crowned-as-mdl-macau-champions-after-grand-final-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Liquid crowned as MDL Macau champions after Grand Final triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFTER five gruelling days battling the best Tier 1 Dota 2 teams in the world, Team Liquid has claimed the MDL Macau 2019 title<\/a> after beating the Evil Geniuses in Sunday’s Grand Final.<\/p>\n

Team Liquid, featuring star players Miracle, Matumbaman, Mind Control, GH and Kuroky, only lost three games in the entire tournament on route to their ultimate victory. They played a total of seven games in the group stage and eight games in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Miracle, the position two player, played 10 different heroes in this tournament including Invoker, Phantom Assassin, Ember Spirit, Morphing, Ursa, Troll Warlock, Sven, Anti-Mage, Juggernaut, Drow Ranger out of 15 games Team Liquid played in this tournament. His incredible heroes knowledge and wide variety of skill was a huge factor in his team’s victory.<\/p>\n

In the Grand Final series against the Evil Geniuses, Team Liquid played a total of four games in the best-of-five series and every single game ended before the 30-minute mark.<\/p>\n

In game one, Team Liquid drafted Phantom Assassin for Miracle, Viper for Matumbaman and Nature Prophet for Mind Control. Team Liquid out-drafted Evil Geniuses when they put Viper in the mid-lane to fight against Monkey King in the laning phase.<\/p>\n

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Viper is a hero that could out-play any single in the mid lane as long as the player is capable of utilising the hero. Matumbaman, one of the best carry players in Dota 2, did a great job of harassing Monkey King in the laning phase and used the advantage to build support items.<\/p>\n

This was a unique team tactic from Team Liquid, which has shown that they are capable of adapting their draft and building item accordingly. They understood that Miracle\u2019s Phantom Assassin was the main carry of the game and supported him to make him tankier in team fight so Phantom Assassin could deal with all five enemies by himself.<\/p>\n

Viper bought Mekansm and Arcane Boots, combining them into with Guardian Greaves at the 19-minute mark.<\/p>\n

Guardian Greaves passively provides 4.5 health regeneration and 2 bonus armour to a teammate nearby the item carrier. When inactive, it restores 300 health and 200 mana to nearby allies and removes most negative effects from them.<\/p>\n

Miracle was unstoppable in that game. He wiped out four enemies in their fountain. Fountain is a \u201csafe zone\u201d for the heroes to regenerate 4% of your health and mana per second and it also deals a high damage towards enemies within its attack range. However, Phantom Assassin has a 50% chance to evade any incoming damage from the fountain and he also purchased Satanic to lifesteal from enemies.<\/p>\n

Evil Geniuses surrendered after their \u201csafe zone\u201d turned into a kill zone.<\/p>\n

In game two, Team Liquid drafted Magnus to support Juggernaut and Matumbaman once again picked Viper.<\/p>\n

Similar to game one, Matumbaman has an easy laning phase in the mid lane and he purchased Rod of Atos, as well as Guardian Greaves. Miracle played Juggernaut and had a great farm thanks to Magnus\u2019s Empower allowing him to farm a lot of faster with the extra cleave damage.<\/p>\n

Team Liquid started to the push high ground of Evil Geniuses at the 17-minute mark after securing Aegis of Immortal for Juggernaut. The only thing Evil Geniuses could do was stand by and watch as Team Liquid tore down their bottom barracks.<\/p>\n

The moment they tried to go for a team fight, GH, the position four player from Team Liquid, used Reverse Polarity on Nature Prophet and Lina from Evil Geniuses. Miracle just killed both of them when they were stunned for 2.75 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n