The Man Who Conquered His Demons and Became the God of Dota

[Music] sometimes a player's greatest opponent isn't another player it isn't criticism you're gonna go into the post match third and you're gonna write Wow oh gee is so good but I still don't think honest a very good mid player it isn't some decade-old curse or an army of incredible teams I think it's safe to say or fair to say that eg are the favorites going into this they looked super good in the group stage they looked really convincing in there first off the bracket match sometimes a players greatest opponent is themselves when I first started it was really hard I think it was experience like even in life I didn't know myself for a long time people thought that anathan on a fom was one of the most overrated players in dota a self-conscious 16 year old who didn't have the mental fortitude to cut it in the big leagues even though he played for one of the biggest teams in the world those people were wrong now he's a two-time major winner one of the only players to ever win back-to-back ti and as far as the community is concerned the undisputable god of dota but he didn't just have to beat the best teams in the world to make history he had to beat himself [Music] so how did on ago from a villainized prodigy to basically the most successful player to ever touch of the game well it all started in 2016 back then Anna was a shy Australian pub star who made a name for himself climbing dota 2's ranked lattic but the thing that stood out about him from the get-go was his play style unlike sumail and miracles he wasn't allowed confident and flashy on the contrary he was quiet cerebral and unpredictable I reckon Nathan's always being shy that's what I think that's how he gets away with being sneaky you never show if you he's the entire hand he always has something hidden or up his sleeve it allows him to have an advantage that you don't know still he caught the attention of Invictus gaming who asked him in March to be a substitute for their legendary mid laner Ferrari 430 eventually IgE came forward was like hey do you want to give it a shot with us you know it's any boy's dream so when the opportunity comes out for your brother can't help but say do it all no one is first land just a few months later in July his entrance into the pro scene had been kind of low-key but he'd caught the attention of the international community and everyone was wondering the same thing who the hell was this guy I remember like one of the first comments I saw was just like Ana I thought it was a girl like everyone thought it was a girl I thought that it was just funny noise like nah he's my brother he's a guy but one team was particularly interesting in autumn oh gee TI o j1 in me Vidya was like one of the best in the world I thought it would be like too much of a leap but that's the reason why I learned the most here because everything was like a massive leaf the pickup was a bit of a surprise Oh G had won two majors during their 2016-2017 season and after bombing out of TI lost their star midlaner miracle so picking up a player is unknown as Anna seemed risky it was kind of a risk in a way but from my perspective first conversation with Anna Anna said let's go win some majors and there was an S there you know so one was not enough there is that insane confidence in him let's go win some majors that said og had developed a reputation for winning majors and let's just say that signing on ax didn't exactly buck that trend [Applause] it's an incredible thing [Applause] major winners here energy you would think with that celebration it was the first time they wanna major the problem is that Anna was inconsistent oftentimes it didn't feel like oh gee winning because of him but rather in spite of him and now jaracz is here for the rotation jabs in a very unfortunate situation he is going to die for sure that mild step back unfortunately he'll try to go through the fairy fire it's always a regardless right in the face of Anna he'll say worth see Anna was the kind of player who let his emotions get the better of them peak story like if I said oh it's really frustrating yes like I can't play no hockey because they're heroes that are very passive like we let them dictate the pace of the game and it doesn't figure the sign of Nick there's been a fire but sometimes he'd single-handedly carry o G to victory he is major bran I showed Mike what kind of a player he is he doesn't really think of the things that can go bad he thinks about what he can do and then he goes for it no hesitation I'm just gonna run in and [ __ ] that is the best way to play them I'm not he had it inside him other times he spelled disaster for the team and then a TI seven it all came crashing down after an insane season Oh G plays seventh eighth in a tournament they were supposed to win and onna announced that he was taking a break from competitive dota after TI 7 there was a bit of fatigue especially in tanana people can get really really harsh even tours on a 17 year old boy that is thousands of miles away from home and it happens very often in DotA and that's what it was with Anna I mean he was getting a lot of flack the whole players they just break because of it and then Anna just kind of disappeared occasionally he'd pop up in some random stack at some qualifier but the general consensus was that he'd retired that the stakes had been too high and he was too fragile it's just one to one of it but you screw it up once and I think it's gone it's a lot of pressure and I didn't really enjoy that pressure and then in May 2018 fly and s4 ditched a declining og for Evil Geniuses after acquiring Thompson oh gee had just one month to find a new carry player the issue was that all the top-tier choices were already on top tier teams well all except for what the next logical choice for us was Anna Anna hadn't played for a long time we knew honor don't we knew how powerful he was as a player Anna coming back I mean people at that point were like probably the last person still available sure why not with on a back on the team oh geez Cinderella their way through TI 8 and it quickly became clear that something within him had changed make a mistake anna was still the same nervous self-conscious guy he'd always been but this time it wasn't affecting his performance could start to feel buildin here for oh geez in previous year at ti7 seem like Hana he was the one that was playing inconsistently not doing it in undisputed and now all of a sudden people started looking back and being like maybe onna was the magic to their team in a meadow where Kerry players were struggling to perform Hana didn't just excel he played out of his [ __ ] mind these saves are just so crazy how come they didn't go down they became even when talked to who ticks down to nine seconds now but these save just back and forth via from the cold embrace even the curse to protecting become substitutions that right there the overclocked look at honor it looks like he's is dead in the stuccis over another now as you said the combination living armor saving it for this first few rainbows coming in from chalice and then the cold embrace they just couldn't kill him off their confident knowing Sam can sit there on the high ground ready with the counterplay army getting sprouted chalice looks to make a blade Johnson immediately going for it with the lasso has he got the control to get the damage idk if that's gonna be on a dead banana buys back straightaway army moving in with a BKB rochette still alive throughout this or never lost Thompson the slightly changed the railroad across don't get the kill to Japanese in the middle using himself what the flame guard ticking up for now on the son of theirs as og they fight three they look to us of the surrounding and in the pits of this he'll go down as welcome as securing that by air for OG o the army just on the tip ultimate but it's not enough to buy tactical own wares are they there with the general Bastas under on Tehran is able to rent him out to the side chalice hiding in the trees thompson starting throughout the Lightning is armed a chalice backing away skewer forward 470 clears out the trees chalice still with a firefly getting himself away will jump himself away from the Nimbus backs himself up makes no it's got to be careful he's incredibly low they're looking a set of Avatar and army his miss grounded the stolen Fisher for jerks power to our Weber they're pointing with the slab is it or not no and stop LGD that belongs to yet again but they have managed to fight to in return and is still alive the flame guard keep it in fight again the side cuts down a second double kill ferrata Charley's surrounded by seven on a hare in the trees [Applause] the genes life two months after rejoining og Hana was seen is a huge part of the craziest he I win the dota world had ever seen oh gee congratulations to to og they deserved it [Applause] and follow anyone else strategy maybe that was they just played the wrong game anyways a miraculous but the journey has been long tiresome and stressful and just as quickly as he'd arrived he was gone when I first talked on I was to early 2017 I believe and I hit the first sentence or lacked lessons before he joined the team was let's let's win some majors and the TI and it was kinda what was missing so hired was accepted he did it and I was out of stone so you asked for this over the next few months Oh G tried out carry player after carry player but some of them stuck and they went back to being that same uninspired roster they were before they're faded win the TI and then in March Oh G announced and Anna was back on the active roster the community immediately started meaning that with on a back in the lineup the stars had finally aligned for og to be the first ever repeat TI champion so why is it that winning to TI's has been so difficult thus far well it hasn't been that difficult for us so far we're not day [Laughter] but even with the return of onna og still seems pretty medium they finished 10th on the dota pro circuit which meant that they had enough points to qualify for TI 9 but nobody really expected much of them what's the group-stage world around what happened next though shocked the dota world to its core even infamous isn't waiting that they like carried whoa what the what is HAP is this a carry acts have we been dude I'm ready I want carry act so oh they're doing what is the card for to okay so I'm already wrong sad I know tell all right oh he gets routed so we can't even get on top of anyone Steph just gets his BKB up oh jeez just cutting around everywhere ace has to run away to the it's too much the ANA they're just going into there they can't use our all to spread what can you do give someone a rampage I don't think they can they're going into the bauen they're waiting for an IV to call GG but they won't and Luth as they go in I don't know what the triple kill honor with an ultra kill there's a sand king where is he they know the IO doesn't have ulti to come get him though it looks like they'll just gonna end the game here and there's the GG's call on the back of honest carry with OD finished thirteen and one in groups then steamrolled their way to the International grand finals for the second year in a row the difference was that this year they didn't seem to take any part of it seriously nothing is really going here and talk to this guy to the mountain funds again bathe in the glory of the radiant Thompson he does does not give a crap Anna will give all the life this is just better than bombing breaking JJ it is booking spice approach here right now that is true their landing stage I was skeptical on the start especially about this bottom lane but things are looking great right now mainly because our teeth Daisy Khan cross at top lane except in real trouble in the middle of a call down the attendance will not help him the harming missile from Samoa will wipe that smile of his face while flight under the tier 2 Tower gr accent talks at once again come Boeing together than the smash brothers right now s4 as well as rted the TP the Jericho and somehow hana seems completely unaffected by the pressure sometimes a little too unaffected he'll be Anna go claim the life is a double kill again spy light-eyed and Saif he knows on looking birds aren't fine everyone's happy there aren't engagements see C&C trying to bring down said it won't be enough third that yo scepter off my bad indeed excuse to it right-side up it's easy and see that she gonna claim that life at t i8 unapproved that he had what it took to be a champion come to i9 though he just lost all reservations about playing [Music] they're just giving the look at this they're diving pound and TI final they want her up the in the baptismal they're gonna get it they're chasing bears nose bump oh my god I can't believe this I got me what was saying in this game [Applause] despite all the memeing chat wheeling and fountain farming on emerge from ti9 is arguably the greatest dota player ever and now between the announcement of OGIS post TI break and a cryptic tweet from no-tail it remains to be seen what anna will do next it's not a break for sick like there should be an offseason and Zola there should be fine for us to appreciate those two this achieved you know rebuild wreak repair the fire when I went yeah if we start grinding right away you know we're gonna be burnout we would lose yet an Artemis 20 I tell you know our aim is to like keep to keep point keep building despite the fact that anna has been a professional dota player for just over three years he's only actually played for about a year and a half in that time he's won two majors to TI's retired twice if not three times and accrued just over six million dollars in prize winnings he is in no uncertain terms one of the most successful competitors in any eSport ever they they did it and now I'm still scared of them yeah I don't think they're going anywhere why would you write well ama is getting on vacation oh yeah dude could take 11 and a half months off come back a couple of weeks before TI cruise into the group stages and they'd be fine like he's a machine the Chinese community have literally dubbed him the god of dota not the a god or the onna God they placed him above every other place she's incredibly penances and like I had merit of twenty thousand for the game and I truly am it merited with all of my teammates really everything they do with this game and even if he doesn't return to og he will go down and dota history as a legend a player who conquered the greatest obstacle of all himself becomes a best of course if Anna does emerge from the myths of fates and rejoin og they'll probably win ti for a third time at which point the community will probably start a religion in his name or something God knows I join thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring 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Length: 16min 46sec (1006 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 10 2019