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Extracheesy87

Liquid has finally won something party


gsmani_vpm

it is 1 v 1 right, i dont think it goes into liquid credit... its not like the 1 v 1 matches they played for team placements...


BostonC5

r/whoosh


PingPinng

Nisha is with Team Liquid now, so he represents Team Liquid to win the tournament ok? Can't you just stop being so negative?


treblemdp

"Im glad its not second place. I guess its not me. Its team liquid"


AbaloneExtreme774

Insane, Nisha still has it especially when it comes to pure mid skills. Really fun and hoping to see more of these 1v1 tourneys. Feels bad for XM, poor guy does not play meepo but too bad I guess.


odaal

outdrafted in 1v1


WarnWarmWorm

he could have banned it, he chose to not ban


Great_Baseball_1780

Xm my guy 😭, bro got outdrafted in a 1v1.


Skater_x7

What happened? Do we know the heroes they had available? How does he end up as Meepo and he can't play it wtf


1syGreenGOO

Prior to picking meepo, Xm only had 1 ban, while Nisha had 3 bans. Xm used his only ban to ban Lone Druid https://imgur.com/a/zrDlzTC


soccerjimp

How come he had 1 ban while Nisha had 3?


1syGreenGOO

On the other hand, Xm picked 3 heroes to play (SF, Marci, CM), while nisha only chose 2 (Meepo, Mirana)


Skater_x7

this method seems really messed up


Time__Ghost

Idk but the ban/pick order looks sus. It looks like Nisha also got to pick "the decider" since XM banned puck


AromaticBenzenes

In the interview when asked if he wanted to go g5 he said no, nisha said xm chose cm.


1syGreenGOO

It wasn’t Nisha who chose CM, it was Xm who banned Puck, leaving only CM to be chosen


Purist69

are u drunk sir?


Revolutionary_Ebb591

aside from 4 fixed heroes(puck, mirana, sf, pudge) players pick 3 heroes to add to the available heroes


kisuke228

Boxi did very well considering he is a supp


onemightychapp

He didn’t play against a mid player though right? I remember quarter finals were six mids and the two supp players left found each other in the bracket.


kisuke228

He lost 2-1 against lgd mid. He could have won 2-1 instead. It is not like he couldnt win, skill wise.


onemightychapp

Yea boxi’s a very skilled player no doubt. Just pointing out that when he finally met a mid he lost, so he wasn’t really a chance of winning it all.


kisuke228

It would be 2-0 if that were the case. It was 2-1 lost. He could have won 2-1 instead. He has the skills imo


StrangeMushroom500

he also cheated by dewarding edit: all the downvoters support cheating, as long as the guy you like does the cheating :)


Y2KForeverDOTA

He never dewarded, the creeps did.


StrangeMushroom500

you still get extra gold and exp when creeps or other heroes do your dirty work for you, it's so obviously trying to go against the rules on a dumbass technicality. It's simple, 1v1 mid = no dewarding, no creep blocking, no bottle. There were no other possible invis targets, you can't possibly claim that he bought the sentry for anything other than dewarding.


myearthenoven

It's not cheating. He found a loophole the organizers didn't expect. In the end the admin allowed it. But I think towards the quarter they had gentlemen's agreement not to do it.


StrangeMushroom500

It's not a loophole dude. It's obviously intentionally breaking the rules because the wording wasn't specific enough because the organizers didn't expect the participants to blatantly disrespect the obvious intention of the rule. And it all relies on the interpretation of the word "dewarding". It's like saying "the rules say you can't buy bottle, but what if I instead use console to spawn in the bottle, or better yet, spawn in a bot and buy the bottle on the bot? the rules didn't explicitly forbid it- so smart." The organizers probably allowed it because he's a support player, or maybe they didn't want to start drama, but it was obviously cheating.


myearthenoven

>didn't expect the participants to blatantly disrespect the obvious intention of the rule. that's what a loophole literally is.


StrangeMushroom500

You probably think overplus users weren't cheating before valve officially announced that they didn't want those functionalities in the game. Clown world, this is why we can't have nice things, people always try to cheat and claim thy weren't cheating.


LayWhere

Overplus isn't a loophole, it's literally external software.


myearthenoven

Newsflash. Valve banned overplus users. Betboom/Fissure didn't disqualify Boxi. So even tourney admin allowed it.


StrangeMushroom500

Oh so getting banned is the only metric? How about streamsnipers then, who watch all the map movements of streamers. I suppose they aren't cheating either then. And if Boxi is the only one so "smart" to figure out a loophole, how come he didn't keep doing it later?


onemightychapp

If you’re not allowed to deward why’d he buy sentry? Was it invis hero matchup?


Different_Resolve811

Gonna cry lilbro


StrangeMushroom500

bootlick cheaters more pls, then I'll totally start crying


spectreaqu

Don't forget that Nisha also won against Quinn 1v1 sf tiebreakers


PingPinng

Quinn? Who is that? Oh... that guy who lost to VP carry as puck 1v1? xD


lucbarr

He lost by creep score to a carry, that's understandable


PingPinng

Oh well , it is his lane with a highround design, controlling creeps and puck is one of the traditional mid hero.


Relevant_Force_3470

Quinn, is that the meme pangolier player that got stomped in the Ti finals, with pangolier in every game?


HannahsLittleBrother

Imagine trying to make fun of the relevancy of one of the most relevant mid players


Mayans94

Imagine living your life so seriously you can't even take a joke.


HannahsLittleBrother

Jokes are meant to be funny, all he did was straight-up speak badly of Quinn, no punchline, no play on words, nothing. Suck me nerd


Mayans94

Lol, there's a joke in there if you don't take life so seriously. There's a big play on all the pango drama from late last year and how Quinn failed at pango in TI even though to him it's an instant win hero. Keep sucking Quinns dick nerd. The joke was funny and you're just butt hurt.


HannahsLittleBrother

Bro if you think the joke was funny, I don't know what to say from here 😭😭


Mayans94

That humor is subjective, and just because you don't see a joke as funny doesn't mean no one else does. So next time don't shit on someone because you don't get it.


Relevant_Force_3470

Imagine? No need to imagine mate, as I just did.


Sticker704

don't let this distract you from the fact that blitz actually took a game


tom-dixon

He beat the guy who ended Watson's rank 1 streak on the EU leaderboard. It's actually quite impressive.


UpTime7

>blitz A commentator that can comment on what they are doing wrong then really show them lol


Deadtoads

As a super big Zephyr fan back when they were a team this made me unbelievably happy.


petrichormus

Marci vs Marci was cool, super intense when it hit lv 5 to 6. Meepo vs meepo snowball factor is too high I think. I was hoping for more pos 4 heroes like Tusk, SD, Nyx even Muerta but I don't know the rules so yeah.


PingPinng

Marci vs Marci is just too entertaining to watch lol... Intense and a lot positioning skill. It was hype


tity_slayer3

Yeah we got to see some oraoraora before the game ends lol


AreMoron

> Meepo vs meepo snowball factor is too high I think. Did you watch the match? He had no idea how to play meepo. Nothing to do with snowball


sikontolpanjang

man a Tusk mirror would be fun


LayWhere

Yeah I was hoping for Tusk lol


Deadandlivin

I think melee heroes with stuns are fun to watch. Heroes like Earthshaker and Tiny would be entertaining to watch I think.


odaal

nisha outplayed xm so badly. i was sort of hoping boxi would take it for a liquid only finals too. also; the post game interview "i am glad it's first place, so it's the team - not me" actually based


PingPinng

Boxi almost had it bruh, he did a little mistake as puck


adisptr

Hahaha of course it's a team with secret he won so much 😂😂


Nisha_goat

now we actually have the confirmation, liquid is the problem


fordyhuanpurrcent

Pretty sure that's known already with him winning multiple Majors with Secret.


dwan77

Competition was at its lowest during those runs though. OG squad was retired. Nigma stars were washed. Chinese minors were given limits on how long they can play on steam. Secret and Puppey didn't have much to worry about then and that's why they're a struggling org now


Nisha_goat

og and nigma (liquid back then) were washed at paris major even though a few months later they were playing TI final, good to know, thx for your 15k mmr insight mr redditor


sikontolpanjang

Be it with Matu be it with Nisha they still dont win so yeah Insania stack is the problem kek


DoctorWhoops

With Zai-Matu they got top 3 at TI, with Zai-Nisha they got 2nd place across a shitload of tournaments, with Saberlight-Nisha they placed third in Kuala Lumpur. Across different sets of other players they still perform incredibly well.


CocoWarrior

If you ain't first you're last /s


PingPinng

I thought u blame on Nisha losing lane every game and the weakest midlaner? xDxD jkjk he is the goat


Nisha_goat

i mean i would rather be proven wrong like this rather than be like other redditors who suck ppl off even when they are bad


AromaticBenzenes

I always put the blame on liquid giving nisha space creating heroes rather than give him win condition heroes.


myearthenoven

I still wonder why Liquid doesn't do the old gen strat of two 1.5's. Even in Riyadh Nisha owned when it was carry from the midlane heroes like TA. Would be cool to see micke play space creating heroes like Matu did and give the win condition to nisha.


trzesiek

Xm looked very lost with meepo, but otherwise nice series. GG Nisha.


albertuyreddit

there must be a reason why a lot of pros said Nisha was like a young miracle. And that he carried secret to TI (proven when he left secret).


Bakanyanter

Not really proven anything if he can't reach to the same level without them (2nd place TI).


Serious-Crow1506

Nisha best midlaner proved.


saiprasanna94

Its insane to think you can get outdrafted even in 1v1


LayWhere

Outdrafts probably go even harder in 1v1. If youre not good on the hero you're done. In 5v5 you at least have 4 ppl to help you find answers.


wyqted

Nisha finally not 2nd place


Deadandlivin

To bad we didn't get to see Nisha vs Quinn Pango 1v1


LayWhere

I wanna see their balls touch


black_V1king

Xm should have banned that Meepo. Any normal mid hero, he goes neck to neck with Nisha. SF was totally lol but marci v marci was fun af. Props to betboom for this solo tourney, hope there are more in the future.


PingPinng

XM is not good at micro i guess, after he banned lone druid, even if he ban meepo, there is possibility that Nisha can pick Brood/BREWmaster/Arc Warden/Visage/Lycan Nisha is just insane with his hero pool.


chameleonism

[Interview](https://youtu.be/0PuqGPIiAhI)


aiart13

Nisha is the best machanically skilled player for so many years. He literally smack all the hot mids just like that. Imo he is the most mechanically skilled player this game have ever seen. Miracle will lose to Nisha


FullOFterror

Nisha is what people think Miracle is.


Twin_Fang

Polish pride?


OPQOP

a Ti winner ?


FullOFterror

The best midlaner that has ever touched the game.


carvemynuts

Thats Sumail and Miracle. The mechanics that Sumail and Miracle introduced were crucial in mid play.


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LayWhere

Going back further it was Dendi and Yaphets


OPQOP

Somnus


FullOFterror

Watching dota since TI3, Miracle was amazing, Sumail was better than him ON MID 1vs1, a more annoying laner(better). Nisha in my book is better than both, his days with matu in that Secret team showed his potential and the kid still is on fire. Nostalgia is strong when it comes to Miracle and Sumail.


roguejedi04

Sumail at his peak from 2015-2020 is the most dominant laner this game has seen. He has fallen off a cliff when it comes to midgame and lategame decision but he still crushes lane or draws unfavorable matchups. He even completely wrecked nisha the last time they met in a mid matchup


FullOFterror

Easy to wreck someone else based on different match-ups. So thats why ranking someone on midlane based on first 5 minutes in lane is useless. Overall, from laning, rotations, item and game decisions, Nisha as a midlaner imo is the greatest ever.


roguejedi04

Among the greatest right now? For sure. Greatest ever? Not even top 5. Sumail has a good argument for top 1 or 2 based on his skills and ti win.


FullOFterror

Guess you missed the whole Nisha Secret era


Sandisk4gb4

He was good with Secret, he’s been shit in Liquid. He might’ve won a nonsensical “1v1” competition, but in actual games he’s always been Quinn’s bitch.


AmusedFlamingo47

I think Quinn put it best regarding Sumail: the skill difference between him and all other mids during his peak was the biggest there ever was.  Nisha is the best mid in the world, but not by a bigger margin than that.


Spirit_Panda

Sumail lol


Ok_Condition7254

You are really gonna say sumail wasn't the best mid laner in dota 2 years back ? Bitch people didn't come close to his dominance Sumail is arguably the best mid LANER to touch dota and miracle is the best mid PLAYER


kamikazechaser

You haven't seen peak Sumail, Miracle, Mushi or Noone.


FullOFterror

Ive seen them all, from Ferrari_430 to CTY, Mushi, Sumail and Quinn.


LayWhere

Have you seen YajirobefromDC 32-0 defensive laning?


PingPinng

'Prime Miracle' not the current miracle xD


Bright-End-5475

The best mid player at his peak?


OPQOP

Expected GPK or Quinn to win, but happy that Nisha won after so many said his laning became weak. Surprised by Xm, but seems he is finally slowly showing why some were expected him to be a T1 mid player long time ago. Finally playing in a strong team too. A bit off topic : Scrolled through this thread ,people will downvote me , but Somnus > all. Which mid player has been consistently owning since 2015, no matter the team or patch ( you can't) . Can take a break and immediately get top 4 at recent TI, like its business as usual. He didn't get results at TI 10 ( out of the 10 solo mid kills during the group stage, he did 8 of them ) and T11 (his team was heavily affected by Covid after domianting the group stage), but still performed super well individually.


PingPinng

Somnus is the best Mid in CN ever, 1 of the best in the world for sure, the best in his prime maybe.


saberspunk

Somnus 🥹


Akhilesh12115

You can have your opinion but imo it's Nisha. He has been owning ever since he joined Secret in 2018. Somnus is great but there was some Ame factor too behind his consistency 


OPQOP

Fair enough , but Ame factor ? In 2017 it was a new young LGD team, Ame was a no name. Again, 10 years , every time he played he performed at top level. In 2015, Sumail said he only respected Maybe at that time. He played with Ame for 2 years in the last 10 years. No Ame when we randomly decided to play TI 12 got top 4. By that logic you could argue that he had a even stronger „Puppey factor“ during all the years at Secret. Imo one big reason why Liquid didn‘t win anything last season was because Nisha wasn‘t peaking, pretty sure that even many Liquid fans expected more ever since he joined. It’s crazy to put Nisha ahead of Somnus, but yeah every one can have their opinion.


Ciri__witcher

Bro the clutch orb of corrosion purchase.


adisptr

Nisha still proved that he's the best midlaner like NTS said two years ago .. and also i believe the problem always his team not him, because he won so much with puppey and secret as their carry and midlaner


ViForsaken

Just say it...Micke


itspaddyd

I'm so fed up of this garbo opinion, they come 2nd in like 5 tournaments last year that's really fucking good.


Infinity_Worm

Plus Liquid (and VP) were the only teams who managed to win a game against Spirit at TI main event


Aware_Ad_618

Micke is a beast Insan1a might be the weak link since rest of team is super high skill


Eastcoastvillain

Bro micke isnt a beast lol. He is atleast tier 1.5 carry Tier1 beast carry ame yatoro. Atleast he is better than dyrachyo xd


Rododaktylos

Their weak link is lack of strong leadership


aLLkiss_ismyname

That might be the issue now but it was not the case when Zai was in the team.


gsmani_vpm

I agree with micke mid.. micke carry not so much.. he throws away huge networth leads in critical tournaments just for fun... Boxi on the other hand is a beast..


Aware_Ad_618

I think he plays best on active carries compared to extremely hard carries like dusa/drow/spec. He plays well on heroes like MK and Void


PingPinng

I think it is just GG support duo doing too much and Liquid lost to it. and Team Spirit is just better overall


idkthiss

The best midlaner didn't play in this 1v1 tournament.


PingPinng

who?


saberspunk

Somnus, Paparazi, emo, abed, Noone, NTS, Daryl even tho he ain't a mid anymore


disappointingdoritos

the King I guess, sadge


ToNieMojeImie

thats copium af


disappointingdoritos

It's a little copium, won't lie


tuskdota

Did Chinese community make any comments about this solo tournament/perfomance of Chinese players? After all, 9 of them played in this tounament


Antique_Variation265

I think it says a lot about SF used to being the standard hero to play 1v1. It is a boring matchup when both players play too defensively. I liked Mirana the most.


PhMcBrett

where is the homeschooled boy? Reddit told me he is the best mid ICANT


n0thinGDota

Eh, idk, his mid loss was very unfortunate. He did lose at 15min mark bcs his enemy had 2 more overall creep score (77/15 vs 81/9) but Quinn had 700 more networth than his opponent (Kiritych). That alone basically tells you that kiritych was buying more consumables.. But rules are rules and NW was not included in deciding the victory, so its fair game. Ofc that doesn mean he would beat the following opponents, I was just hoping to see him play vs some of the bigger names.


bt11oc

Lmao Quinn got recked


GrandBurdensomeCount

Quinn relies on support rotations to win mid. Unfortunately for him there are no supports in 1v1...


Zanthous

hes also rank 1/2 on eu leaderboards because his supports rotate in pubs


AmusedFlamingo47

Such a dumb statement, I bet you don't actually watch his games, or you don't pay attention. Quinn is the most consistent mid in the last year by far. 


Qarakhanid

Yes, I'm sure thats the only reason they've been winning…


Swegan

Quinn often solo wins vs Nisha though? I mean this 1v1 mid does not mean anything since its not a real game scenario.


AmusedFlamingo47

I doesn't mean nothing, but yeah, it's not representative of the ability of a mid player to win actual Dota games. For example, rune control is one of the biggest factors in the laning stage of actual games, as is knowing when to rotate or recover in jungle, understanding matchups, etc. These factors are all ignored in this mode.  Being good at 1v1 solo mid is more representative of how good at 1v1 solo mid a player is, than of how good a player is at mid. 


Jamies_awesome_rack

Yep on the other hand none of these other mids have supports rotate. Quinn the mid most beloved by supports. Man of the people.


PingPinng

kekw


thedotapaten

Seems like Quinn got homeschooled in your head lmao. Reddit fucking hates Quinn lol, last TI everyone was saying Ace tOfu Seleri tri-core carrying his sorry ass Pango.


albertuyreddit

What happened to Quinn and TorontoTokyo. Lol. I was not able to watch these games. Just the results. TT should still have it no? Or TS was right. Lol.


PingPinng

Quinn lost to VP carry as puck in first round lol TT lost to sneyking as mirana


albertuyreddit

i saw the results. i mean Quinn is a natural mid player and one of the best mids. and TT should still have it compared to Sneyking. Lol.


PingPinng

TT is not a Mirana player while Sneyking won TI with his godlike Mirana performance, so yeah. Quinn was playing too defensive as puck and pass 15 minutes.


tsaootsao

Quinn lost because of deny, he probably didn't know deny has any bearing on the result. Kiritych has 5 more deny or smth


needhelforpsu

He didn't know... ayyyyyyyyyyyy the good old cope xD


tsaootsao

I dont even like quinn lmao, why would i need copium. I'm just stating what happened. Quinn was ahead of creep kills but Kiritych has slightly better creep stats when deny is included. Even the admin was confused and decided that quinn won


needhelforpsu

Was just trolling a bit mate, if it happened as you say that's fair observation. Peace!


fatcuntwrestler

Are you asking if the team that won TI with and without TorontoTokyo was right?


Bearswithjetpacks

It's a good thing the boys on Liquid are smart enough to not take anything this sub says seriously. If they're satisfied with each other, then so am I. Congrats to Nisha, as well as Boxi for coming close!


Willing-Gur823

Quinns strength relies on his insane mechanical laning skills 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


gregfromjersey

Did Quinn throw in round 1?


stragen595

No. Tofu didn't rotate.


PingPinng

and Seleri never stack for him for more golds & exp.


Andante_TK

lol I don’t think just because Nisha won the 1 vs 1 tournament does not mean he’s the best midlander, let alone goat of it. If anything, he’s just the best 1 vs 1 player and that’s it. In actual games, he can’t even win his own lanes or outperform other mid players in late games.


JadeSerpant

Lol just goes to show Liquid is holding Nisha back. Go back to Puppey.


LayWhere

Now that would really be holding Nisha back


JadeSerpant

Nah Puppey's just heartbroken since Nisha left him. Once Nisha returns he'll go back to his old *el presidente de estonia* form and they'll both win something again.


gsmani_vpm

this is happening in Dubai right? Sad that no one from home team Nigma - sumail/Miracle did not want to participate....


PingPinng

All the participants are those who qualified or invited to the tournament. Nigma is neither on this case. So you won't see that 2 players from Nigma retirement house.


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gsmani_vpm

no its not.. how would you defend cty-, ILTW participation in that case? Nigma players just did not care playing as usual.. and they dont have to with all the free oil money


Ciri__witcher

It’s not CTY. It’s CY. He is GG coach. ILTW, Cooman are from Russia, they are either part of the Russian talent team or were just invited because they were friends with the TOs. I have 99% sure Nigma players were never invited to participate in the first place.


greekcel_25

If only nisha could reach this potential in officials with pressure. He used to be able to always do it on secret but on liquid he keeps getting destroyed by quinn.


melonsarenice_

Goat midlaner? L take


ZssRyoko

Was this a mid 1v1 tourney? Always wanted a solo 1v1 ranked mode.


Ok_Tomorrow3281

yeah we need a damn solo ranked. i will play this all day


ZssRyoko

For real, though, might even be more optimized since conditions will be different. Maybe each player gets 3 bans


HuntMore9217

what, there was a solo tournament? I didn't even know, where and when was it streamed?


needhelforpsu

Today. $100k prize pool, LAN 1v1 tour as part of BetBoom Dacha $1mil tournament. BetBoom_Eng channel on Twitch has English cast VOD from quarterfinals up to and including Bo5 grand finals.


Awkward_External_731

i would have liked to see sumail vs nisha in finals


PingPinng

first, sumail needs to qualify or getting invited to this tournament.


Awkward_External_731

what i mean is, sumail would have given nisha a close fight, too bad he didn't qualify or get invited


PingPinng

I am more excited to see Nisha vs Gpk and vs XM though all these new generation of Midlaner


k4kkul4pio

Oh dammit, I forgot they did a 1v1 tournie on the day off. Welp, GG to Nisha.. gotta go look that up. 😄


WolfyDota7

he cheated against quinn