WC3 - Infi vs. FoCuS - DreamHack Warcraft 3 Open: Summer 2020 - Quarterfinal - AS

boy we got an orc mirror to start things off in the bottom left in the red we got for the lao power esports club focus and his opponent usually playing human but it's random today it's in fee [Music] man starting off on twisted meadows like how much more rng can you get you're playing on twisted a four player map where the spawns are not forced cross which by the way should be um and you're of course having to guess what your opponent is going to be playing and we see the hero choice here farseer mirror in augmera okay this is already weird and it's especially surprised me that if he's picking farseer here he knows he's going to be going up against orrick where normally your choice should be blademaster but from focus aside thinking he's playing against random i like the far seer choice actually yeah when i saw that focus was making his burrow on the north side of his main base i thought that maybe he was going to go for that golden pole trick with the blademaster but opening false here here i guess across the multiple matchups is probably going to go safer is going to be safer like like we said if you if he plays against sun dead and it's a lord falsier is much better if he plays against human lane master will also be very difficult to pull off here so i understand i feel like faster is the safer route here to go for infini is so evil by the way he didn't even scout with the pian he's like i'm not gonna give away what race i have what position i have so he just scouts with walls and they're gonna clash in the middle of the map i saw some crazy arc mirrors from infield europe against some of the best european orcs where it was playing i believe with falsier and going into tier three with a lot of torrents and spirit workers so i wonder if there was a little bit of clowning around or if it was the result of many games that they played or if it's actually something that's like viable and he can use at high level as well here against focus i would definitely expect him to be going tier three and touring stuff again because just the tier 2 fifi supply army heel scroll map control kind of plays out it doesn't seem like infield to me but we'll see how it goes and by the way the i know that from the gone and harbor reddit the chinese community keeps on saying that orc is infie's weakest race when he plays random and you actually earlier said that he however seems to be getting orc a hell of a lot when he's practicing on w3 champions and yeah god damn if you aren't right he gets orc here again yeah i think he's been actually he's i feel like he's not been randoming night elf too much i was questioning if he had to get knight elf against focus i mean i don't know if he plays outside of his streams when he's playing on w3 champions but i don't think he's been playing a ton of elf in comparison but i could be wrong maybe it's just the games that i caught it's not like i watched like every one of his games but he did feel like he was getting orc a lot and focus now finds infield on the map he's going to put a lot of damage on to that past here can you force the town portal looks like knots and the farsi will be running away but i think this is okay for focus because uh we saw that infp went for the two-borough attack so with that um higher amount of ground grunts out on the map usually so you're supposed to have a bit more map control and get a bit more creeping done but perhaps a little careless there with the far seers hp now is being chased by the wolves and perhaps the enemy farsi might be coming in for the intercept but actually focuses far away and what we see in the main is an early war mill that's a really early one yeah maybe already thinking about hiding that 45 defenses to be a little bit safer you could go for some upgrades quicker because he's already gone for three grunts it's unlikely that he would go into uh any sort of headhunters here like you don't really go for late headhunters in this situation but yeah he's gonna be ready to start his second hero here very very soon can you get the xp from the walls oh we got the first one not the second one though what is this altar attacking like maybe he's been playing as some of the very aggressive european orcs i think we all know who i mean more than i thought and he took some notes from that it seems like infie uses very well some of the inspiration that he gets from playing on w3 champions like we saw him use necro wagon builds in one of his previous games and he created one of the european undead i think probably baltics for kind of giving him the idea or reminding me reminding him of how good he was i think the idea behind attacking the ultra was that was just something to attack that wasn't in borrow range which was getting covered but uh didn't do that much envy couldn't fall back as there was not no shop in the main the shop is getting cancelled again that's like the third castle or something but now focuses far steers out of mana out of health there's a spur lodge coming by the way spirit lodge headhunters is this kiwikari kiwi cocky or what's going on here that's gonna be cancelled though maybe he changes his mind after this and ahead on tour after three runs what is going on here second hand yeah so he just wants to transition i was like oh he made three runs he's never going to transition into henders wrong i'm also going to head hunters plus shamans i'm guessing behind this and now we got the shadow enter second from both sides and look at where the totem is for focus a player's voices are under attack he's proxy building it hiding it kind of so he's just going standard radar walker focus not with blademaster but with uh farseer and shadow chat on both sides seems like they both value the heel wave too highly especially in fee with not having had heal cells for such a long time but if he's not gonna be going tier three perhaps he had plans for that earlier but with that consistent wolf ras and all the lumber that he lost he can't afford to at least for quite some time yeah he took a lot of damage like he had to put pioneers inside of the boroughs all the time the lords got cancelled focus spots the creeping down there can you get the golem no in figures the experience there's no speed scroll for infy actually so it's going to start pulling back one of those head hunters gets taxed and crunch are gonna take that out very fast here yes he found greater healing that's pretty nice there's still a space crawl for focus and he's gonna have ensnare to work with momentarily here i'm very surprised he didn't pull the speed troll there chase after hex and snare again that uh seemed like it would have been the easy play to go for but i guess uh focus didn't want to be so aggressive now infused creeping in the corner very well realize that if he gets jacked here he has to tp out willing to take that risk gets more experience here and gets the ring of protection for these two heroes it's absolutely terrible no tanks in this but perhaps at some point we're gonna get a tc third because finally infie has started his weighted tier 3. yeah i think focus seeing that it's some sort of shaman head inter composition you see he's creeping aggressively i think if you're playing like a full tier 2 style like focuses you have to play aggressive so i wouldn't be surprised if he started putting on a good amount of progression momentarily like went to infant's base try to you know pop his head and see what exactly what's happening and then if you see tier 3 you'll probably start sieging the altar maybe one of the burros and doing damage look at this infinity's looking to buy some time here that's one of the things about infinity you know you like he's very good at building he's good very good at every aspect of the game build order micro but he's understanding of when he needs to buy time or like sometimes he has a very little win condition he'll always find it and this is a big win here for him to having to have a force this town puddle because now it looks like surely he's going to be making it to tier 3 and then if bloodlust starts kicking in it could be very tricky for focus to do well against this yeah it was so smart also because he was out of mana out of here itself he needed to get back to the main and heal up but just walking across the map wasting so much time is super inefficient the way smarter is attack your opponent into his main force him to tp back also making you safe on your side of the map and counter tp out very very smart play by enfield is continuing to create but focus certainly getting the upper hand here with creeping is the next big camp double robe for the shadowhunter that's a ton of intelligence now on the healer that guy's a walking mana fountain that's gonna be a lot of mana to work with for focus here no town followed by the way foreign it just moved out and started creeping again so this time if he gets caught he can't really escape he gets a good scout in the center sees that focus is coming and yeah tier three is about to finish so this is really the moment you want to attack if you're facing somebody that takes two three here it's because uh before that bloodlust and berserker upgrades kick in and i think that's what focus is aiming for he's gonna go straight for one of those gets to surround so it's gonna be very hard to repair a little bit prism too is to go for a witch doctor here but infie is gonna have to get a solid hold if he wants to have a chance here in this game yeah this is the big push by focus with spur link and the levels that he has he's quite strong now also a heel scroll still lightning shield on the tanking farsee not something we see every day on the ground in front as well but one of those grunts gets eaten right away and this army for infa is starting to crumble before tier three has kicked in folk is having a marvelous fight firing level three for the shadowhunter here for np is going serpent towards level two no healing again the faster tank with the tank i don't know the spirit link i mean the lightning shield but infuse just getting over run he doesn't have enough his army's not strong and this is looking like a lot like the 1-0 for the korean over here yeah he's just killing everything that's faster when he found invasion i was like okay well this is useless but he somehow made it work somewhat like to the most of his capability with the landing shield on it he's got a greater healing steel on that shattering throughout his arm mana he's gonna pop the greater healing faster is doing so much damage is he holding thanks to that here there is so many hits that are missing as well because of talisman of invasion can he make it out oh my god infinity hold this he doesn't have the mana for any purge so faster is going to go down hero goes down that might be the name of the coffin but that was definitely the most damage i've ever seen on a lightning shield faster in my life almost looked like a bit of an uh over extension there by focus but you still got a big supply lead wait it's not that okay it is quite big around ten finally tier three is finished we do not have master training yet for the shaman it's not cued he's got more shaman in the progress instead and the serpent awards they just got taken out by these ranged heroes quite easily it seems if he feels he could just hold even just barely and he manages to remake false here he might be able to do okay but he's still taking a lot of damage the barracks is going to die just before the head and tur comes out here kodo it's one of the grunts and it seems like focus at 50 supplies in full control now he can just go and expand look he's level four on his shadowhunter so he killed way more forces and he remakes the barracks but he's got bloodlust on the way can bloodless salvage this against spirit walkers depends a lot on the mana i guess but uh you know just having bloodlust is not enough you also need strong units and heroes to be buffed up and there's no blademaster here there's no torrance or whatever there's grunts and shadowhunter and farseer it doesn't seem that strong a player's force the weird game we're seeing here i mean the whole series might be like this because infinity is playing random so he's forcing a lot of these situations focus he seems to know exactly what he needs to do though to do well in this game so far you know very well timed push before ts3 was gonna be there now he's getting his own tier three so i think the point is to just stay on 50 supply for a while build up an economy and then he's going to break up keep and get spirit walkers master so that he can resurrect a lot of those units but on the other side that bloodlust shadow enter look at him bro he's a big boy doesn't have any damage items which is always a shame like even on these uh not so impressive ranged heroes here as far as damage goes having a few claws on them one or two and then having that loss it doesn't add up over time but we have only armor here armor and evasion it's looking like one of your games yeah if i'm surprised he kept invasion the shaker is the other shot maybe again like the faster with lightning shield on it it's gonna become the meme of this tournament okay he's i think if he spotted focus in the center yeah he has a bunch of century words all over the place thanks to that one witch doctor and he's gonna pull back home he knows that he needs to hold against this to have a chance 47 supply against 56 to be honest can that turn chip didn't help a lot here i mean he's level one but stomp still can help a ton if you can get that right in the center and now he has healing level two as well as uh serpent ward's level two there's flying again oh that's the six storm lightning shield combo big damage he misses the first injection and the second one he didn't clip the lightning shield in tc third he misses it again are you kidding is that a bug he missed three lightning shield dispels now he's out of mana he has to kill off this tc and oh my god the damage return on the chase he was insane he gets the kill in the end but there was only a level one hero and now there is only one descension left he uses that on the wolves so these grunts they're gonna have bloodlust left over some of the shaman as well if he pulls back he knows that if he can remake torrent chieftain that's gonna help him especially if that's why he kept the talisman of evasion he's going to give that to the torrent chieftain eventually and there is no expansion from focus here he's very committed to doing more damage he tries to go for the altar where's the repair from into he's not repairing just yet here serpent wards helping a ton but the altar is going down can the turn shift and come out before i don't think so it's gonna go down big decent chance on top of all of the units here and focus is on the wall pass he's still got a lot of mana to work with on the channel right there he's still got the single troll appealing barracks at the front is gonna go down barricaded spikes is helping but infuse running out of units very quickly so much healing from the shadow and i think this is the mvp for focus with the heal wave over and over now with his level five and still that he'll scroll and let's throw the beast for that matter he's going to fall back knows he had another very good fight here sitting below 50 saving a lot of gold could steal the heel scroll here from the enemy shop that seems like it would be smart choice he sells something though let's throw the beast really okay yeah i guess he's relying on sustainability more so than damage i guess for his army which makes sense as well but yet this double rope of magi is just so insane it's really hard to like quantify exactly like how good it is or like explain it properly but i think if you click on the shadowhunter of uh infie for a little bit and you look at his mana regen after the clarity and then you compare it with the one out of focus focus is mana it just seems like so insane it regenerates so quick he's even gonna pop a clarity on top of that to get close to like he's full maniple so the full manner of focus on level five would be 585 in fee at level 4 is at 360. so that's an insane difference can we go towards the next push double healed scroll shadowhunter again with decent mana what didn't you find cad gas gem he's got a lot of tank items for this tc but okay tc is coming back if he puts it all over onto the tc he's gonna be super tanky i just used the clarity all right fast here needs to be careful shadow interior affinity level four and half level five would be a giant power spike here there's a lot of decent chance to work with toronto is going to find his way to the center a big leg knee shield again but this time he does not miss the dispel he's giving over the tank items the tc now but without lightning shield how scary is he really it seems like mana is missing now for the lightning shield and we don't have much of any damage output for anything anymore he's trying his best with the serpent awards but doesn't seem to have enough to deal with focuses army shaman being chased down big supply elite silver focus there is an expansion finished already by the way for focus so he's getting further and further ahead and if he doesn't have much left over here those shamans have nowhere to go here they're just gonna get sniped at the expansion pretty much a dead end up there focus played this game super smart that timing just before tier three finished on infant's sides was perfect infi is only now researching berserker upgrades so if you struggle against j3 orc i think in any matchup understand that right now the one timing that you want to look for is just when tier 3 is finishing and before this year 3 upgrades complete in this case bloodlust and berserker would have been the scary ones focus hits that timing gets ahead then after that never really let go of his advantage to be honest still as a town followed in case things go really south he has a healing scroll and he still has a ton of mana to work with on his shadow and too and the upside here for infa is if he holds this if he pushes back his opponent he can still scale crazy if this tc starts getting levels stomp their lightning shield no there's not even drops the cad gas gem on the ground to get more healing from the heelway for just a split second that was pretty good now focus is diving deep into this base with serpent boards here and burrows that is quite dangerous and focus is starting to lose a lot of units over here we have berserkers now damage is starting to ramp up on the chase however there's not much catch no purge anymore no hex no stomp and focus is on double totem behind this by the way so i think he just realized how far ahead is he's kind of trying to tell to infie get out of my game right now but if he's like no i'm not out of here just yet so focus will take his time pulls back regroups he's making uh uh torrents two by two right now mixes in some more walkers as well and he already has master upgrades so he's literally gonna start reviving those torrents left and right yeah he's got master and he's got lots of mana dude one goes down but with the corpse here he can raise the dead doing an undead cosplay and the walker is back of course there's a lot less mana no stomp on the torrent chieftain purge on the wolves you don't have the mana for the second one actually and then feeds are struggling here he's trying to stay in this he's hoping that focus will overextend but i don't know if that's even possible with the army that he has and that shadow winter i think if he really runs out of mana he might count hold out eventually that one kodo could still want to eat one of the units one of the torrents is that again the barracks for some reason infie trying his best if he knew that there is an expansion he probably might be out of this but he's trying to hold on drop the item falls back again into the last corner of his base these taurens are very strong out in the open when they can all connect with the headhunters and perhaps the shaman but fighting into enclosed spaces like this base is not the best with the big burly boys that are the torrance but he doesn't necessarily have to attack in here folks could just fall back would love to see a shredder expand i don't know two more times or something and just prevent infy from expanding himself and then this game must be his yeah focus is a little bit confused i think because he's just it just seems like he's so far ahead he's like wait a second like maybe he has an expansion so he started at the north both of the bases that are out there sees that enfie has neither of those and then he knows that behind this as long as there is no major throw he should be fine in that game so he's just gonna go home use some clarities use a little bit of healing i think third hero would be nice for him to add as well and he's still in very much in control of this game i think for infinity to come back it's gonna take some insane hit and run he finally got endurance sora but he doesn't have any raiders so his sieging potential he's not actually that amazing but he's one of the best players at that style as well like he loves to run around and like to do his thing with a hit and run it seems like wait he's getting in a defensive position upon seeing this army headed his way he's going to have to pull off the best defense of his life this is going to be the battle for helms deep if this falls all is over and it's gonna be against uh massively favored odds for focus this shutdown is very far forward could have perhaps forced the tp there with some purge stomp action but man that's a lot of torrents that's five torrents kind of hurts me to see no upgrades on them but still this is so hard to do for enfie he even goes ethereal form with the walkers is he gonna go for the ethereal lightning shield thing no way he doesn't have a challenge i think it's because uh he was worried that they would get attacked and sniped by stomp and all the piercing damage so it's like you don't understand that you need to get out of my game i'm going to help you on the stance puts these on ethereal form and he's going to resurrect any torrent that falls he's gonna kill everything that hints he has that need to be on the retreat he's trying to kite against this army good freaking luck is that one raider foreign chieftain at the front good landing shield doing what it can pass here coming towards the back line focus is not really losing anything and even if he does he can resurrect the torrents daisy might be going down here not quite but it's gg and one oh for focus damn guys who would have thought focus taking map number one he's like saying you're not playing in my yard boy if it's or mirror i am super competitive this was probably one of his best matchups this was his map this is his lead yeah absolutely and perhaps a little lucky there for focus to roll the orc you know uh if it was infield human but then again twisted with human also rough um i like the farseer choice i think that made a lot of sense play farsier be aggressive and make sure that infie doesn't get to unfold his game the way he wants infie very often likes to go tier three likes to go triple hero late game with an expansion at some point but todd as you pointed out the best timing there to hit is right when tier three is finished before the upgrades are done before all that investment has paid off and with that big lead that focus got he was able to ride it out to the end yeah i was worried when he turned forward back home because clearly infield was trying to buy time but i think focus read really well when the tier three was gonna finish and obviously he plays orcs so he knows that timing very well himself and then once once he went for that timing it was very hard for infi to hold on right like his base wasn't exactly designed to hold off against the seat super well and then he lost the barracks and a lot of units if he had been able to complete bloodlust or even be closer to bloodlust and berserker before these hits he would have had a much better chance to just get a solid hold and then be ahead yeah focus identified really well where are infie's weak spots he has a certain style of playing or mirror if he has so it was a obvious idea i guess to go uh for tier three from infie side and so you have to punish this at the late stage of tier two and focus absolutely did was backed off by some good items as almost always but he played it really calm and collected did the right transitions at the right time and yet at the end the tauren walkers they just maul through head hunters if there's no crowd control so we have some time to look into the picks and bands maybe we got twisted already focus vetoes tearing us infields amazonia so we're left with concealed and focused aside equals wait something is interesting we're going to last refuge maybe my vetoes are mixed up then but last refuge a pretty well-rounded well-balanced map for all races yeah i wonder if the plan for focus i guess maybe like if he plays one of the really good blademaster maps you might go blademaster but on last refuge like the safest by far is going to be to go faster again that's probably the game plan for the rest of the series yeah he banter and us actually yeah so should be a fast here on almost any map and then i think the only scout that he went for was nice i mean obviously twisted middle is the only four-player smack in the map just scout early see exactly what the opponent is opening with okay little spoiler alert in fee gets human and we load into map number two here we are envy with his main race in the upper right if that's not the time to equalize to tie up this series on his map with his main race and focus has a 2-0 lead and three match points guys so take it away is he gonna play farseer again i certainly assume so we have theorized about this quite a bit um varsity are probably a safer choice to go for a in awk mirror it's not exactly ideal but with uh you know with infuse that being his main race perhaps is still doable against night elf also not necessarily ideal but similar thing and the other two matchups definitely preferred it is the blademaster though this is a much better blademaster map and we will see it here the first time in a long time against cuban yeah interesting i wonder what the the exact thought process is i guess like against orc it would be fine against night elf as well against sunday creep lord would have been tricky i guess but it's only one of the four and against human it it's not easy to play it can be okay obviously it was like the main meta for many many years focus was one of the best edits he's known for getting very favorable item drops but then again so is but infeed just looked so incredibly good during wgl against orc but that was mostly against e main fossil and turtle chieftain and shaman style it's been a while since i've seen a high level human against orc that was involving a blade master look at this he's gonna pull the camp he's gonna buy a troll priest thinking that it's a hundred no actually he's gonna creep it oh he's actually gonna creep it a player and this it's just gonna work out perfectly for this blademaster isn't it he's gonna buy the circuit he's gonna go aggressive he sees that the foot he pulled yeah oh my god actually well he's supposed to be good for the blend master but he could also backfire like if he misses the hit on that trip which he shouldn't and then he's doing that because he was counting on focus to go far faster so these mind games oh my god he's taking so much damage on the arc match this is reminiscent of the wcg finals in chengdu against fly on echo where he got rushed by a blade master couple units got snipes and he just left immediately all right this is so weird so the reason why as you said why infie did this is because he definitely was expecting a farsi another blade master to be coming here and saying hello now this all didn't work out for infy exactly how bad is this opening now for the human how do you say disaster in chinese because that's kind of what i want to say right now like it's so bad for infy he's got an archmage with no hit points as soon as we hit 19 o'clock so in just a little bit of time into the night here blademaster is gonna get boot of speed and chase that horse to death oh my god if he's gonna try to finish the camp okay he was gonna send militia and he reconsidered there is a grunt on the way anyway and that archmage is gonna have a really really rough time he needs to buy boots himself but if he stopped even for one second to buy that he's gonna get hit again and look at focus how diligent he was here at 12 o'clock he left the grunts the whole time he's like i know you could send militia to try and do some more camps and man that shadow priest pick off hurts so bad so smart by focus to come in take out the shadow priests and now man i feel like i haven't seen this in forever blademaster chasing the am am being on 100 hp and now we just have to run and pray until you finally have tier 2 and priests i wish i could say the same but every time i meet cooper this happened so i've seen this recently quite a few times actually the grunt is deep in okay infinity make sure that he gets the experience but the blade is going to steal the item potentially can he deny it no the wind walks him to make sure that he gets that he's gonna go for the archmage he would be trapped actually oh my god the blade has no matter can you trap him can you surround him oh my god dude they're both surrounded with each other around the am guys level two gg we've finally entered the clown fiesta area of the tournaments dude like i can see those yeah i think it's one of those high-risk high-reward situations right like you rimo mentioned it pretty well he's like you said he's forcing focus into a coin flip on like a lot of the maps it's gonna be like that focus is gonna have to choose to go for certain routes even without having the information and that's what he did here he made a bold statement he said oh you want to play random i'm ready to gamble a little bit with you opens blademaster and it's the perfect counter to the creeper out of infie here duo focus man [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] now all right ladies and gentlemen we're back with dreamhack summer asia i am unmuted remo's audio should be fixed as well sorry about the little inconvenience but we should worry more about infy because that is not looking good up until now yeah what the hell happened he was coming into this the big favorite of course uh threw a curveball with the random we thought that was supposed to be going in his favor map one orc mirror his strat doesn't work out map two he gets human bite takes a gamble focus goes into the gamble with the blade master and punishes that early game like crazy now he's up 2-0 and a lot of people out there including todd are quite worried because those were three and four coins man they're close to once again being vanished i told you i hate rock bottom so many times it's become routine for me so i don't even i don't care anymore [Laughter] man that would be quite an achievement for focus and he can maybe become the asian mr dreamhack after the big success in anaheim the same as thorazine a little bit in europe even though he's facing random it would be one of the best results of the year for him he was kind of flying under the radar but first things first you have to close out a series against infy that is not too easy because once again spoiler alert he randoms his main race here we are ladies and gentlemen it is match points for focus concealed hill undead versus human i think no blade basher this time right this map should be pretty bad for blade yeah i think faster almost no matter what and i'm starting to question if infinity maybe got a little bit too comfortable with the random pick here you know he would have been a very heavy favorite if he had just picked human from the get go but he chose to play random lost the mirror and then he lost a murk camp against blademaster you know it wasn't even like a proper game where he got outplayed or anything it's just he had a really bad opener from the get-go so now he's in all the trouble in the world and you can't go back and change and say like oh i'm going to play human from now no he still has to play random the rest of the series so of course it's a good start that he randoms his main base his main race here on uh conceal hill but he needs to be on point not just in that game but in the next two as well yeah and uh considering this specific map and this match up it's not like even this is hurting focus so bad because against human you want to play farsier and go right across the map and scout with the wolves right away anyways i guess the one downside is that i think nowadays on conceal the preferred opening is uh skipped bare rags into tech right from the orcs uh i mean it's it's one of the openers that some orcs favor but you don't have to like necessarily go for that i think going for one borough is still like look at how fast it takes he reaches 20 hero just came out and immediately there is detect from focus so it's not like it's super delayed or anything and he has the one grunts which gives it gives him a little bit more initiative to do some damage on the map so he gets the i guess somewhat bad news that if he's human and in featuring wgl again he looks fantastic against orc he looked so damn good on this map as well with the double sanctum style he's really mastered that triple priest into breakers mountain king leveling clap level two dude infinity is taking no chances anymore after these first two botched maps he's like yup first year's coming i'm just gonna stand in my base i'm gonna defend against the damn wolves he's playing it really safe now yeah sometimes you will see him go across the map now already and then try and creep or stay to the false siri well you have to choose you either harass my peasants or uh you come and harass my hero trying to creep on the other side but in this case he didn't have a tower early on he would have lost a lot of peasants he had an open base and everything so he plays it safe stays at home and defends against this he needs to make sure he doesn't take too much damage on the archmage he's trying to score some wolves experience here but focus will run out very nicely all right a bit of man i use on the farseer for a bit of hp on infiside and now it's gonna be about how well can you get to the fountain to heal the wolves and who the foot is excuse me and can the wolves stop it can they wake up the creeps can be forced to kill maybe another nice resume here at the last second but on this map it's very hard to prevent level 2 with the turtle camp being outside the main usually the militia should get that for free unless the farseer comes in with a crazy last hit but no empty plays around it very well and now gets level two is he going for boots he could i think he's gonna run across the map and try and maybe creep the other turtle which should be spotted by this one grunts focus if he wins here by the way like points wise he's doing fantastic in the rankings finishing second in anaheim now getting a potential top four would have to play against sauk or moon in the semi-finals i mean obviously he hasn't won yet but with being up 2-0 it's really starting to look pretty good for the arkham is taking so much damage oh my god the way to the middle goddamn snare infield what is going on guess the experience gets a claw he's like yeah that's more like it and now he certainly can't push towards this orc base if i intended to i'm surprised he ran this way i thought he would turn around when he saw the falls here but focus no choosing to chase too much more as if he's finishing the camp near focuses base lodge is already on the way altar as well he goes for beastiary so it's going to be a a grunt shaman raider style here from focus with which because he doesn't have one mill i'm expecting he might try and expand pretty early but the main thing is that he's getting torn chieftain pretty damn quick so he can level that's very very nicely and that's when he stole that camp by the way on the right side to make sure i didn't go to the chieftain so what do we see double-sided that's the thing what do you think's up the creeps do they act around the farsi or on the wolves i think that's the tp out oh that's such a big deal yeah very nice you saw what infide did by the way right he went to the very back as to say no i'm not here just move along there's nothing to see here but focus is like i wasn't born yesterday so he moved in with the falsies saw that the archmage was here and then he's like oh well easy sound bottle then and with that tp being missing it's so much more dangerous now for infinity to just move out on the map you can get punished at all times by stomp and purge and speed scroll and that's why i focus going for the big camp of the gold mine right away not so leveling the tc here which i find very surprising there's absolutely something you can do especially if you notice you just force your opponent's tp out and this would have been level two right away for the tc get the claws by the way and a very early expansion at 33 wow yeah and focus was actually looking for maybe low 8-point units with some of his walls and one wolf on the right side caught footman with low hit points and kill that so that's a little bit more experience going to focus infuse gonna do the same that we saw him do on this map in wgl and go for the center camp yeah as soon as he gets small tanking because he has stonewalled and militia to surround that and usually from there it's always triple crisps he gets this spell and then he goes straight into spell breakers he completely skips salt races entirely so that he can target onto the torn chieftain earlier with stone bolt and breakers but it seems like there's no option for infinity to at all cast expansion which is normally what you want to do and again if he had a tp he could move up there cancel it and get out safely but now with all that pressure on the am from the early game that tp being missing not an option anymore this focus gonna 3-0 inf in this game it's way way too early to say something like that but it's not impossible yeah i think in fee usually when from this position he'll counter expand so right now he's trying to creep safely and even though he hasn't scouted it he's probably pretty sure that there is the expansion from focus so i think if you're in fee you just go into the shop now maybe with only mountain king and then you creep your expo with only mountain king again and then you just take the expo this is a pretty bad time for infield to try and take any fights as you can see in these sanctums he just finished this spell but he skewed like two priests and two breakers so the 50 supply expansion is a much better option look he's going for it now here's the kit tower as well which he placed actually in a really funny way in some of his wgl games like all the way at the bottom so it looked backward it looked awkward with the expo but this time he'll put it on the right side and he really needs to pull back the arc mage here to make sure that the mountain king gets most of the experience because he still weighs off from level three and look at focus he's not wasting any time i wish when i see a tower like this or a borough like this i'm immediately concerned that it's too close or rather too far away from the gold mine then you have to put the town hall too far you know and then you need six peasants oh yeah bad he's gonna make the tunnel on the left of the tower i think not above yeah it would be too far if he made it above i hope not forced is level three now and he gets century words oh my god one of the best items oh he left the 18 boots oh my 200 gold pick it probably a lot up than 200 gold on watercolor 3 info you know what i'm saying the few degenerates that beat on focus right now they are cheering hard dude i actually feel like i don't focus no it's almost gold not much i wasn't really to risk much i think like four gold or something probably get a crazy return on that if he wins it's definitely not over yet what died at the fountain something died is that a priest i didn't see 49 supply and now we got club level 2 to start fighting with from infini so he's gonna look for the fight he doesn't have a town portal this is very important here gets a creep jack oh futi was already eaten by one of the codes focus gets his thorn shifting super low here at this very start of the fight does he have a salt yes he does he's gonna have to spit scroll out there does infigo on the chase you don't quite have the time to dispel wait here's one more piece what the hell he kind of panicked part of the speech was dispelled nicely done by infy and then focused on better get out of here need to heal up produce more make use of this expansion which is now fully mining but so is infested just finished and he's already got 500 gold falls back to the red camp to the fountain which will be level 4 am and the mk okay still needs a ways to go for level 4. and focus is starting to add wavering here which is very nice against this because it's very hard to go for double sanctum expo and then still be able to add some sort of good entire but usually we would see infie go for aviary but this time it goes for blacksmith so either rifle or a workshop with flying machines focus broke up keep earlier that's because he expanded quicker than infie and he wanted to contest this big camps there if he's able to secure that fountain that would be amazing for him but we saw i think the biggest problem of focus is that sometimes his story shift and placement is not good he's like too far at the front and he gets targeted he needs an involved really bad here maybe even an invis potion would be nice and we just had okay he starts a workshop infe wants to get flying machines here and he's gonna camp pretty heavily before he can get there but there oh the oh my god the info is in 15 seconds he's not gonna wait for it i think that's a mistake it's kind of a scary push here by focus a lot of supply he's got triple heel scroll but as you mentioned no involve pot oh don't want to lose that breaker but he can fall back on the fountains that's the thing you just have to barely win the fight and if you have a lot of units in the right you can just fall back to the fountain don't shift another front no involved and that stomp didn't do that much first hit scroll used already he's got two more of those he hit two foot man with this storm don't be a hater like that and that's what they're getting taken out so are the priests by the way two down already another purge these windriders hitting a beautiful timing but so was that uh clap just as beautiful enfield falling back to the tower i want to say towers but no it's only the one singular yeah he needs to make a shot here he needs clarity he's super bad i'm surprised he hadn't restarted that but he's getting flying machines in the meantime did a lot of damage to this army and then pulled back exactly as he needed to if you just stood there and took the fight he would have lost everything and now focus he smells blood in the water he wants that 3-0 win here he's gonna go for the sanctum at the front forcing infinity to move back in position to try and fight him kodos can grab some of these breakers infibelly dodges at the last second there are still no soldiers big club is going to end off everything but mountain king has zero mana and there is only brilliant civil one because he went water elemental level two you know level four everything a little bit faster there's the grunt going into the back perhaps with some lightning shield harass but the shaman mana is really low only three shaman by the way very low on the casters here is focus yeah i like that he didn't overmake shamans i think that's good and infie having lost the shop in the main base now he's at the expo he's very accurate because he has to stay near the main he might lose patience and go for the engagement here the next flap is gonna be big though there's only one of them koda's running forward with the speed scrolls people are getting dispelled nicely done one more priest dies for that but it seems like the gyros are now taking out the wind riders oh the next clap is massive is there a yield scroll left yes there is now we see focus using it this tc is just walking all over the place not getting any kind of connection though yeah kudos who are working on the flying machines here that one last swivel is going to go down archmage gets civil folks so now there's brilliance level two focus did he overextend here he lost everything he lost so much of his army all the wyvern there is only one breaker in one of these kodo bellies he has so much gold behind this what's just happened injury played super well with his positioning falling back and forth at the perfect time even lost some production but he had the right amount of gyros and then was able to take out the wind riders and now we see uh move towards raiders no tier 3 transition by focus he was so rich for so long perhaps he could have fit in a tier 3 but i suppose he didn't have the lumber looks like he's gonna go back to the fountain maybe creep that and then hit the expo of infini knowing that his ep his ex own expo might be about to be hit but infie he's finally got the big hole here and he was like okay well we've tried that no mana thing i didn't enjoy it so now it's gonna be double clarity and mana pushing on the mountain king and i'm gonna clap you and he gets a greater mana oh my god hello but also big camper focus big item it's gonna take a while to creep this i guess he doesn't have that much dps here i've got a big army 7d supply no more wind riders it's all ground now are you actually gonna counter it i thought he might move back in position when you see the orc on this side of the map because he has the arcane tower defensively and we get true shots actually for uh focus which is not too bad considering how many shamans and kodos he has obviously it's not the best i think vampiric might have been more helpful but we're reaching the critical mass of breakers here which can be very hard to deal with and upon seeing that they were slaying machines he was like all right no more i don't want to get any more wind riders they're just hot countered at this point okay infuse tipping but focus is expanding in center wait what he's going for the tunnel no you have the damage with two raiders only it doesn't seem like he does we have some grunts in the back no lightning shield yet some peasants being taken out would love to see some lightning shield over here the town hall is dropping dangerously low chain lightning again involved heel strolled everything being used the town hall dropping lower and lower and actually focus gets the snipe teepees out does he though yes he does expo dead folk tp's out he's almost got an expansion well it is at the expo where there is a water metal look at the experience on the tc now he can get level five from just this few small green camps i mean this was pretty risky he did lose a bunch of units but he killed the expo very importantly and now infie probably feels very confident to move across the map and go for the fights we have one healing scroll right now for the first year he needs to grab at least one more there it is so double healing scroll against zero infinitely prioritizes buying the town bottle and he has no involvement this is very important if this mountain king is farther from trying to clap and he gets chain stomped and purged he could be in real danger there is not even any invisibility either in this game and tc level five this game is crazy he just found invis with a cloak that could perhaps become useful if he gets bolts around or something yeah but there is flying machines for now true they do have that detection beautiful position here once again by enfield goes into a choke where getting past these breakers should be utterly impossible okay chieftain needs one of these crawls here and then maybe you can go for the fight focus oh my god is he gonna move out yeah he's gonna do the same he's gonna go for the expo and say you have to tp now and come defend fully knowing that infie is likely to attack his expo i don't like the like of burrow on the expo here because he really could have covered these pians because they might just get clapped and die instantly focus playing the smart if he can trade his first expansion for the humans only expansion he's gonna be totally fine with that the waterman's trying to cancel in the middle but they don't quite get it off the great hall finishes the pion now repairs and focus getting closer and closer to the 3-0 yeah presidents at the expo dying very quickly i think the goal is again going to be to target this base and then maybe tp out infie he's going to give up the expo oh my god he's gonna counter attack 80 supply for focus 64 for infinity he's gonna need the claps and bolts of a lifetime to win this oh my god who would have thought this man the wgl champ playing random which seemed like a smart idea now it's gonna have to take this fight it's gonna have to take the best fight of his life over here fascia was kind of at the front oh my god faster he's got the clock of shadows but then that means he's not on turnshift and even though he has involved could be dangerous only lands that on the archmage mountain at the front doing a ton of damage to open up the fight with his thorn shift and already took a lot of damage himself here he's on the chase stone bolt again on the current shift and he pulled that back early enough to make sure he didn't take too much damage the ceiling scrolls gonna have to be used early there is the shot in the back for focus force the tp out here is infini he lost i think nothing i see only one corpse on the ground one single raider died here but a few items certainly also had to be used one expansion only left it's the one in the middle that's not fully mining yet this is where we must go next and this is how inf had a lot of success during wgl he fought used a lot of his mana town problem out replenishment rinse and repeats non-stop in some of his games he did that like 10 times in a row up until the orc finally was worn down enough that the mountain king could finish everything off in this game though turn shift then now has invisibility potion and those slang machines they need to be in position to spot that because otherwise if you can get a big connection with one of those storms it's going to be light lights out very quickly yeah really nice job here by anything never forgetting about these gyros always keeping in mind that invis could be a possibility again we move into a joke the breakers protect the front line operator protect the back but tc can't really get in but it's so much work now runs one one upgraded are all right but of course the claps are gonna do good damage unless the mountain can get stumped first he's way too far forward this could be a purge trap first he's falling against the storm bolt and he gets the uh clap right there mk still low has to go into the involved potion storm perhaps a little bit too soon tc out of mana low hp close to double six though and the farsi is also level five more and more engineers are flying more more breakers are going down it seems like infini's dropping out of this tournament he has two sorceresses finally he took forever for him to finally get that and start slowing stuff down if he's trying to retreat he's trying to force focus into a really bad position where he can clap everything but right now he's losing a lot that must force rest if focus over extends here if he keeps chasing inside of the base might give infee a chance but focus is too smart for that it chooses to just eject and if you just scanned with magic century here in the center he saw that the expo was again fully mining so he's gonna hit that very quick as focus fully knowing that he's going to hit the main base of infini now which is almost mined out by the way and empty kills expansion fully repaired now it would take forever the raiders we talked about the torn shift and almost being level six by the way but mountain king is four and a half if he kills a bunch of units and gets five here this could be a big level torn chieftain at the front gets targeted takes so much damage here before the engagement even happens trying to get to the back line he still has the involved he's going to try and time that maybe to dodge his stone bolts okay it doesn't have the luxury to be able to do that faster with double heating scroll uses the sp scroll to go for a turn shift and that's not a long involved here no oh my god can't commit to the kill though he's just being chased down is that level six yes it is and now he's like please please stumbled by tc i dare you i double dare you it's double g game over 304

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Published: Sun Aug 23 2020