GLH_Aragorn: The Items and Skills with "chances"(like Bash, Critical Strike) make the games more interesting and dramatic, however, these also make the players play with a really bad situation sometimes, even though they didn't make any mistake, how should we do with these? This is a really good question.
When Fly was using Night Elf, he won a Night Elf player (Top 100 on Ladder), a Orc player (Top 30 on Ladder) and PCG, and he won and got a 4 winning streak easily.
Dec 5th is the first day of WGL's round 8 to 4 (Quarter Final), and we will have Fly vs Moon, and Lyn vs FoCuS.
Before the game, most of the audiences predict Lyn and Moon will win in this round, of course this is reasonable. In the last three days, Fly asked TH000 to practice with him, and the result is very terrible. Fly was defeated by TH with 5-29.
Unbeatable strategy
Fly was going crazy
Is there any secret of TH played against Orc...?
Nope, TH was using the same strategy, summon KOG first and expand in Tier 1, and go for double BR for mass Huntresses, Archers or Mountain Giants and Dryads.
However, this strategy let Fly went crazy, he couldn't find a solution for this. At the beginning, TH lost two rounds on CH, after that, TH started playing seriously with the unbeatable strategy. Sometimes there were MGs, sometimes there were mass Huntresses, and even the KOG killed Fly's hero in the early game. Fly only got some wins when TH used Talons.
When TH was laughing so hard, Fly was going crazy, and said, this may be the "most balanced" patch ever.
Orc needs a completely new strategy
As our experiences, all the players would kept the strategy in secret, sometimes there were some "smoke bombs".
In the games that Fly vs TH000's NE, Fly tried Blade Master, Shadow Hunter, Far Seer first, and tried different strategies, like Raiders, Walkers, Headhunters, or TC second with Shamans. We could see that Fly was trying so hard to find a new strategy for ORC vs NE.
Seems Shamans are not the solution
Currently, NE has four advantages: they have powerful control, large vision, and they can expand very easily, recover in short time.
Powerful Control: Entangle by KOG is a nightmare of Orc, we always see that KOG win the fight on a whole army.
Large Vision: The Owl (Sentinel) and Ultravision let NE has a very great vision in the game, Lawliet used this advantage to kill Focus' hero in the recent games.
If BM went to scout, he might be killed probably; if BM didn't go to scout, Orc would lose all the information on the map.
Expand Easily: In the previous patch, NE is hard to expand when they played against Orc, because BM's scout is just too good. But now, KOG is too strong, BM has to hide from KOG.
Recover Soon: The Moon Wells effect the situation so much. After a fight, the Orcs need to recover for long time, and NE can recover very soon, and they even can finish a big camp during Orcs are recovering.
Never give up
HUM'S TR may be harder than this
Although Fly lost so much time, he is still finding the solution. On War3 history, the Orc had gone though a lot of hard games, whether Tower Rush by HUM, or NE's Talons.
When Fly was streaming, he said this is harder than HUM's TR(tower rush) during that time. By the time, he practiced with Sky so much times, and he didn't get a win. Beast Master with Tier2 TR, Firelord TR, AM and MK with Tier 2 TR, and Fly has gone though these situation.
VS Moon
Fly may need miracle to win
It's sure that Moon's NE is stronger than TH's NE, it look impossible for Fly to win tonight.
After WCG 2006, Sky said he went crazy when he was practicing with TeD, resulting 1-8 or 2-10, he had no solution to play against the Crypt Fiends. However, when he played against Gostop, Sky went for Double Barrack and mass Footmen, and miracle happened.
Fly may need a counter strategy and hope that Moon made some mistakes.
Last night, we had continued the games of W league Super League, Fly showed that he has improved himself however he still didn't get a win.
Currently, Fly finished all the games and he is resulting 3-6, and he is 9th on the board, the last two players will be dropped into First Division, so the fans are worrying that Fly will be dropped, so we did an analysis about this, and we found out that Fly may not be dropped.
Current Scoreboard(Super League)
Case 1: Foggy won Focus and TH000
Ranking | Player | W/L | Score
If Foggy won TH000 and Focus, Foggy would get 5 wins, so he would be in first six and qualified into the playoffs, and Focus would get one point or 0 point, and his score would fewer than Fly.
Result: Foggy and Fly kept in Super League, Focus would be dropped.
Case 2: Foggy won TH000, but he lost against Focus.
Ranking | Player | W/L | Score
Result: Foggy and Focus kept in Super League, Fly would be dropped.
Case 3: Foggy won Focus, but he lost against TH000
Ranking | Player | W/L | Score
Result: Foggy and Fly kept in Super League, Focus would be dropped.
Case 4: Foggy lost against Focus and TH000
Ranking | Player | W/L | Score
Result: Focus and Fly kept in Super League, and Foggy would be dropped.
Summary: Fly would be dropped in case 2.
According to those cases, we know that Fly would be dropped when case 2 happened, otherwise Fly would keep in Super League.
Therefore, the game between TH000 and Foggy may determine whether Fly can keep in Super League probably, if TH000 won Foggy, Fly would be in Super League for sure.
Chinajoy is a game exhibition in China every year, after many years, Warcraft III come back to the stage of Blizzard again, as a old War3er, this moment let me feel touched. The RPG game "Dragon and shadow III" have a high picture quality, seems like this game wasn't from the Warcraft III; And the big change version 1.30 is subverting the tactics before, both of them are the representative of the Blizzard in this event.
Look, this game is still updating, and it is still a popular game! The guest in this match, are Fly100% who live in Shanghai and Colorful who live in Nanjing where near Shanghai. In this 1.30 PTR BO3, both of them play with the tactics with interesting and amazing, with the game commentary Xun, all of them did a good job and gave a good ending for this event.
Alone二龙 Fly100% Colorful JiaoJiao
As a professional gamer, I am focusing to the change of this version, and the balance in this game. In this exhibition match, we can see players is researching and trying to develop interesting and creative tactics, let this event become more attractive, however there are a few bugs in the new patch. The Bears HP MP become 810 and 200, we can't adjust the mouse sensitivity in the game, the Watch Tower is without Reinforced Defense after the upgrade.
Back on those tactics, in version 1.30, the Orc and NE was having the largest change in this game, especially tech tree of the Orc and balance of NE. According to Fly100%, the butterfly effect by the reduced of the agility on BM, is no less than the change of Reinforced Defense, you may image, Blade Master the highest DPS unit in Warcraft III, can't creep the level 5 Ogre Magi at the shop in Turtle Rock, and Fly100% showed us that in the game. However, Fly100% was using the buffed of Headhunter in this version to get two games winning streak and win in this event.
After the lost of the game, Colorful wasn't sad, his experiences let him has a strong mentality. "The version nerf the late game, so let focus on the early game," said Colorful. What colorful has seen is the part become more powerful, not only the nerfed part, there are more tactics in the early was creating in the mind of Colorful. Warden, Beast Master, POM(Princess of the Moon) were being tried as first hero by Colorful, I feel so happy when I was listening to those new tactics from him.
Furthermore, Colorful said NE aren't that bad in version 1.30, but we have to using the advantage in tech of one, maybe we can see the tactic like Sase in the future and version 1.30, the Huntresses was running through whole map. In the past few years, we always said Warcraft need the new version for the balance, but we found that we were wrong, what we need are the young players like Colorful.
Finally, I got the mouse that had been used by Fly100% from the Q&A in Chinajoy. Why I won the game when both team got the same point ? Because we are ixxxxxxxe( means muted ). This mouse may give as present in the first day of W league, keep paying attention on our page(war3station). Thank for your reading, war3station will keep giving you the information of Warcraft III.
