WC3R - WGL WINTER - Semifinal: [NE] Moon vs. Michael [UD]

exactly let's go champ that's the catchphrase of the former lucifer aka michael an unprecedented rise again his first grand final in the premier tournament in six years and his first grand final four world championship in 14 years of course a lot of experience here he was also a wc-3l mvp back in the day for meteor makers his teammate back then moon and now they face each other they know each other for a long long long time for wcg they practice together so much hundreds and hundreds of games so moon can take out one two zero and now mikhail needs to use all this practice for himself if there's an undead player that knows moon inside out it's probably mikhail yes the best undead in south korea not even close he is definitely very strong and has been looking very strong lately he is going into this according to most of the fans as the big underdog moon has been here plenty of times before moon has had has been in tons of finals recently over the last few years for mikhail it's been a lot fewer i'm gonna have a chance to hear from him in a moment here but you know there's no reason to be sure that this is where the road of surprises ends nobody would have thought he would just defeat one to zero but it did so with the three and oh maybe he can do it against moon as well yeah maybe we have some translators in chat um [Music] so the question was of course due to covert you can't be here what do you prefer being at home and playing or to be in a stadium and mikhail definitely prefers the stadium he will play against this man now against the greatest that is moon what's his response and he says well i wish good luck to both of us i hope we can perform well and put on a show [Music] foreign [Music] hey guys thanks for coming i will do my best thank you awaiting the answer but here we are already moon looks rested as we're waiting for the translation of the second question moon looks very well rested in a good mood both of them actually that's really cool to see after all these years moon says as everybody saw mikhail is in a very very good shape i think the result will be three to two but he doesn't say in whose favor two big korean legends clashing the oldest players in the tournament moon's birthday next week mikhail already 34 years old doesn't say anything about their reaction speed about how quickly they are on their minds both have played amazing warcraft in the past couple of weeks moon wasn't the absolute best yet yeah previous to this tournament it was a really good performance for moon and wcg making it to the grand final they are only falling to fly but all things considered playing very very well here against wfz that looked very convincing moon probably still a level ahead of uh the undead from china but in the group stage against infi there was a 2-0 that we weren't expecting especially in that fashion where moon and we don't get to say this often didn't seem to stand much of a chance yeah that's absolutely true moon's still second best player in the world according to the elo ranking only one of two players who is above 2500 elo the only one that is better than him is happy and this is probably his best matchup 80 win rate three game win streak against chowkai against one two zero and against wfz he barely loses maps in this matchup yesterday in the quarterfinal there was a little bit of a gamble with him playing the beastmaster when he had the 2-0 lead so i'm curious is he playing it more stable is he switching up tactics because yesterday we haven't seen one of his strengths yet that is mass air yeah very surprisingly to me as well we didn't see that at all it was a keeper demon play with expansion and dryad so moon was aware of the fact that the later it goes the more difficult it can be mass air definitely falls off hard whereas with dryads you always have a transition into a strong late game seems like that is the new style of moon and with that probably soon to be the new style of all the night elves in the world i think we get to see the map features i'm not quite gonna see that in a second but yeah moon is going into this as the big favorite certainly he has been ex looking extremely impressive the only one in the world against who moon looks not that stable seems to have a bit of trouble is happy but even against one two zero moon usually comes out on top that was the same case for last wgl when they met in the quarterfinals in the last season with the three and two in moon's favor close yes but a win regardless but on the other side moon this year has lost series to mikhail especially in wsb the warcraft survival battle was very close it was a two and one and since then yeah that it was the last encounter between the two that was in september and that was prior to their preparation for the world cyber game so how good is mikhail versus and we know that he can play a wonderful crypt lord how good is his dk how good is his ghoul openings how good is his kiting we haven't seen that yet yeah it's not too unlikely that this is gonna be very macro focused nowadays in the modern day of the matter this matchup actually sees a lot of two-based two-based play which is really interesting never used to be the case it was undead always rushing tier three off of one base and night elf for a while a lot as well for some time it was considered that night off has to play in the late game with a base advantage to have a chance not necessarily the case anymore this matchup has certainly developed a lot but the crypt lord you know one of the most popular heroes of the last few patches against night of not playable because of demon hunter because of wisps and to lesser extent ads not playable is the load with that fast expansions harder but we still may see it with dk ghouls and if michael is feeling very wild perhaps even lich ghouls although that seems to be more of a european thing and perhaps not as reliable against a player at the column caliber of mikhail is very well connected to the european scene taking inspiration from there we definitely saw that in his mirror matches so he's he's doing well his last grand final by the way in a world championship was eswc he won that against a night off with 2-0 but of course that was uh 14 years ago so we can't really take that as a comparison maybe it's a it's a good luck charm or something yeah it does have the experience of these super high level games when the eyes of the entire scene are upon him moon is of course used to that has been used to that for pretty much his entire career he has over the last few years been the situation many a time so normally pressure stress shouldn't get to moon mikhail is he still used to this does he play this now without any nervousness or might that be a problem for him moving into this series it's of course always hard to judge things if we don't really understand what they say but from what i take away from this pre-match interview is that mikhail is here to enjoy this day there was a big smile on his face he didn't look nervous at all it was just okay let's let's do this i'm back in the top four i'm oozing in the spotlight and i deserve this yeah as far as mentality goes going into this match mikhail has the more comfortable position he's got top four he made many of his fans happy already i'm sure over in korea they are cheering for him and this must be such a wonderful experience this must feel so good for mikhail top four is a great finish everything else is gravy on top so you can play this very unconcerned here moving into the semi-final whereas for moon with the insane results that he's had and his fan base which is pretty much every night of around the world having such high expectations every time moon enters a tournament grand final is the very least that is expected absolutely true so we talked about their meteor makers heritage from the 2000s but not only that they were also teammates in the biggest team competition that walker 3 has ever seen in wgtl they were part of team rise again and they both did very very well couldn't claim the championship in the end but they did better than most expected and especially the two and twos raised a lot of eyebrows in a positive sense that moon was able to take the team championship it was usually it was supposed to be the two brothers carrying the two and two but no moon picked that up as well super quickly and here we go map picks and bands mikhail bans amazonia moon bands turtle rock we start on terena's stand oh baby this is gonna be good and then we have northern ielts at echo out for mikayla concealed hillary last refuge for moon you know best of five series here of course the vetoing process is going to be a little bit limited understand understandable map vetoes easy for undead very hard to expand if that's your plan very hard to creep level uh triple hero if that's your plan and on top of that easy level three very often will be the choice there to be removed by the undead and turtle rock always has been in the past tough for nilf i thought with the keeper maybe a little more reliable you're not so much dependent on that ancient of war to get off to a good start but moon removes it maybe because also uh he's not so used to it yet after all this map total rock has been reintroduced only lately again to wgl and other asian competitive map pools bit of a shame for moon right his favorite map no longer in the pool lots of people were asking for tm to be removed moon was certainly not one of them no no definitely not moon meadows definitely his forte but he has a lot of other maps by the way uh this way he's strong they both met at the dreamhack final 13 years ago that is i think their only grand final they played against each other they played each other in weg in the semi-finals at blizzcon semifinals at ist semi-finals but grand finals between them are very rare there was a different era there was a different moon that was also a very very different mikhail not even carrying the same name back then and now 13 14 15 years later they meet again this is this is one of these cool stories that only the warcraft scene can ride with the old schoolers with the veterans putting in so much effort imagine whatever what an end of the year this would be to mikhail if he makes the miracle complete if somehow here he gets past moon and then perhaps defeats infy in the grand final that is the most amazing thing that can happen today that nobody thinks is possible but nothing is impossible in the world of warcraft 3. mikhail with his thunderous performance against 1-0 showed this already and he has his fate in his own hands however as good friends as they are him and moon he's of course not going to make it easy for moon is gonna play his very very best and mikhail is gonna have his work cut out for him at least there's some good gape tape to review he will have seen the games against wfz he will have something prepared yeah but catching moon off guard very very hard to do infe may have been able to do it in the group stage but in this matchup perhaps a little bit harder it definitely is going to be very very hard for sure historically it's pretty one-sided in favor of moon it's a 25 to eight and especially in best of fives mikhail was never able to take a best of five it's four oh right there usually the shorter the series is the better the odds for mikhail but in all the the dominance of moon was mostly in all the patches even patches that begins with 1.1 something on patch 1.32 it's four and two so pretty balanced yes uh i think less so relevant for the actual balance of the game but more for mikhail's shape who has been improving so much lately in this year not so balanced is the fan boat that we have here on uh twitch it's 65 in favor of moon 35 for mikhail and on our instagram it's even more one-sided eighty percent for moon there will the fans here in europe or the west be right or will mikhail cause the upset todd is cheering hard for him their constant exchange as far as i know yesterday we saw mikhail even during the games has a visitor i would love to know who that is there was quite a big celebration after the quarterfinal and he was the ultimate underdog yesterday already and the ultimate underdog dominated with 3-0 so nothing's really impossible as we said we're cutting to the stage we're getting closer ladies and gentlemen our second semi-final gonna be starting soon we see the players here our first map to start things off will be tearing us stand let's go let's go indeed there was a big breath going through mikhail moon looks pretty relaxed he of course is known to be the favorite he always is the favorite in the bottom right we have our cinderella it is mikhail vs moon game number one first two three joins in fee in the grand final dk seems like has to be the choice here for mikhail we talked about earlier that glitch is popular for some players out there but i have hardly ever seen that from asian undeads against night of at least death knight it is and for moon it is the warden tarana stan in the warden that just goes hand in hand so well together okay we've seen this more and more shadow strike warden big pressure moon though not known to have the best warden how will mikhail deal with this he was oftentimes surprised when his haunted gold mine was attacked even with human and blood mage flame strike but this will of course not be the case here a warden can be annoying can harass if the ghoul build here and will it be an expansion is the question expansion i would think pretty likely and the warden especially in that kind of game two base two base really strong when both players are expanding you know you're gonna have time there's not gonna be too early of a push you're gonna get level four quickly without any problem and level five can be fairly reliable as well and level five blink fan warden going against acolytes can be doing tremendous economic damage if mikael had played a one-based push style this warden might have had a tough time but moon had the perfect read he was expecting the fast expansion that is the case the warden is heading south is she gonna be in time we'll see no staff but there's more wisps here we gotta ziggle right up is that enough still one creep camp here or one one creep from the camp here moon not detonating taking care of that ziggurat first and that's double two for the dk got a talisman of evasion might help him but the ziggurat is gone is moon gonna detonate against this not willing to sacrifice the wisp good delay here by moon and i think we see the tree of life coming up on the other side already so he's not committing too hard for this pressure but he's doing a little bit of damage delaying slightly and the cool thing is with this position also he's keeping his own expansion safe we see it here now tree of life coming up and the longer the warden can stay here the more likely it is this tree will be coming through at 1900 hours also the berserker and the telestaff becomes available which would be getting a lot of mileage out of this game i'm sure we don't see a berserker yet i feel mikael with a second attempt of the ziggurat what can she cancel this again the staff of course a valuable weapon we see this from foggy a lot and from night elves in general on this map a lot one though moves away expo coming up good number of ghouls nothing of importance died really for the war it is the laboratory second very early on always great to get with a fast level three a big item and ideally you wanna scout for this for a second i thought he was denied the last but no he got it one got the experience i really want to scout for this humans especially have realized how important it is to look for engine of war creeps and make the ones life as difficult as possible mikhail didn't scout it didn't see it and now it's too late to do anything about the level three warden that is a bit of a scouting era by mikhail but uh one he i suppose can afford to make because he has the expansion coming he's gonna have plenty of gold here very soon and does come in in time to at least perhaps kill a few units get a wisp here rune braces for the warden of course excellent one of the biggest strength of the undead coil nova nuke with that item spell damage is reduced mikhail again on the backboard sees okay fan num uh on level two is coming gotta be a little careful gotta protect my acolytes gotta protect my haunted gold mine but that's supposed to be finished sooner with a surround that's a blink committed that is more mana that you are not really willing to spend but mikhail will face more moon pressure as she was willing to use the staff to get home [Music] ancient of war so far did a great job creeping two big orange camps already could go for another one perhaps but actually no for now moon is going to fall back oh even with the depth experience denied and speaking of experience for the dk it's not looking that rosy yet with the instant expansion creep you get the expansion up fast but the progress to level three isn't the quickest the warden there definitely has a lead if she creeps two more maybe three more caps she's going to be level four and with that then very mobile would love to get to level five fast the warden here and then after that towards level six because of course she has one of the strongest ultimates in the game scroll of the bees can be put to good use if no wisps are around but that wasn't the case for moon at all so far really good with positioning on the map always ready speaking of ready engine of war moved from the lab to the mage for another big consumable moon with good building movement as well as we're getting ready for the two base two base play and then what is mikhail's follow-up is he one of the players who goes gawks old school a little bit of a western style also of course a big korean style chinese never really the case is he going into something else fiends a-bombs what's the play by moon double engine of lore again no mess air something we've been seeing a little bit especially from vortex lately is surprisingly aggressive tier two play three crypts four crypts heel scrolls and then attack super heavy on tier two many night elves love playing this extremely greedy they think we're in a two-based two-way scenario they got the shredder oh time for upgrades second heroes making units are not required my warden is going to buy space and if then the unit flies in with gargoyles head scrolls 60 supply that's often times how you can get a cheeky win out of nowhere and moon is not really scouting that much he has a wisp in the south but he's not looking for those mass crits to be coming up those scripts are very unlikely but they are always a possibility just like the warden finding kills she's gonna get quite a few ghouls over here one two three quickly taken out could go after the fourth one but that one i guess gets away one more experience for her almost little four now and i think mikhail is not going that aggressive this style seems to be reserved for europe and vortex yeah for sure we he got a claw though and made sure that the big creep goes or goes to him with the last coil he got and that seems rather standard so far still options to go heavier into a bomb's heavier into fiends down the road moon was investing a lot into mercenaries which will be a big experience boost in the early mid game once they get sniped but for now he got his favorite weapon he got dryads out beautiful scout there by moon by the way he revealed the main base and the wisp checked the natural so he actually was aware of how many crips might be coming down so even with how rare this strategy is in asia the mass gauge ghouls moon was checking for it and had he seen mass crypt he would have not gone tier three he would have got a lot of mercenaries and drives and archers and whatever it takes to hold on so so far a very impressive looking game by moon he's got his tech coming in lumber is low at the moment but he's got a shredder already moon firing from all cylinders and even if it's not been the most bloody game so far moon seems to have quite quite a bit of a lead already okay mika is getting fiends though the heart counter two dryads moon has a lot of resources in gold but very very oh that's mikhail very uh high gold but very low lumber for moon everything seems to be fine very confusing overlay to be honest acolyte goes down but that was just for the scout supply-wise mikhail has the lead lich is out as well spamming the first nova and moon is not in a position to do anything yet needs to power up we got a big mana potion that is great especially for the harass later on or to pop it to get an ultimate out later moon suspiciously close to the tavern yeah panda second is very strong in this kind of a game there's going to be tons of units at all times and here is the pen i was wondering if perhaps he wants to delay the hero a little bit to stay in no upkeep longer 51 supply seems like it might be worth it to detonate a wisp right now like that one in the bottom left but even if you're losing a bit of gold that's fine it's more important that you get the experience on the map and in fact now moon is back down to 50 supply so is mikhail so we're still saving quite a few gold coins but with how much money the undead has here if mikhail wants he can go up to 70 80 very very soon i agree i like his position now the ghouls are back they will be harvesting lumber again it's very close to the graveyard here so the return is going to be fast moon needs to buy time for the panda with the warden that's the space creator role now she's not the craziest fighter like a blade master or a lich but she's super annoying great mobility can always cause damage as long as she has mana but she joins the panda and now hippos now this is the moon late game to base style mass bears mass hippos few dryads and also plenty of upgrades last hit there going to mikhail the panda still far away from level three this is a bit of a scary timing for moon he definitely doesn't want to fight yet ideally he wants to get 80 supply his potent army good upgrades and warden 5 panda 3 and then he's really strong until then is gonna buy this time and not gonna overextend well would you look at that mikhail here with an acolyte bottom left ready to perhaps expand again but lumber a little bit low right now dude he goes for a crypt lord against night elf when do we ever see that also what i really love compared to wfz is frost armor second we've seen dark ritual second yesterday and it's nice to have mana but especially if the warden has ruined braces just having more sustain more armor being able to slow down melee units is the better choice period once again mikhail closer to the mata than wfc moon at the moment just a ward to give information out mikhail with 70 supply moon as well pushing but not there yet it will take some time and mikhail can get ready no mana potion yet we do have an oh my god moonstone and mana potion and heel scroll and scroll of the beast and an ankh a crazy inventory moon is trying to get a third base up as well the width down there in the bottom left i think it didn't see the necro i'm not sure if it's seeing the haunted gold mine right now it feels like if moon saw it he should have been staffing over there quickly the warden could be able to get the cancel their solo but perhaps that scout is just barely missing or maybe now the army is intended to get the cancellation moon moving out in force 74 supply 2-1 upgrades already and these upgrades will just be getting stronger and stronger this is a crucial moment of this game this should be a cancer from moon and with the warden harassing as well at the expansion moon might be able to get the third cancel of the opponent and expand himself for a third base at the same time great play by so often good distraction wasn't too expensive for mikhail and now he needs to figure out what's happening in the upper right or smash this fight or ideally both we got three heel scrolls on the undead side the bears won't be a problem they will be dealt with easy with impale and with coil and with noah what about the heroes what about the giants what about the air so far the kiting game looks good breath of fire does a lot of damage of course the aoe one of the biggest strength of moon here with fan of knives and with breath of fire lord in trouble he's a good tank there was a little bit of healing this panda is in trouble as well crippled will he survive it looks last second that was not too many units killed moon used to staff mikhail lost a couple of consumables but that's about it it's sort of similar to the early late game stages before against wfz on terena stand where moon doesn't have his perfect army yet he's still kind of blocking some of his supply with sub-power units lots of drives out of berserkers the hippo numbers aren't there yet when it's only four to five hippos they just get webbed they don't do anything once you get to eight 10 12 14 hippos that's when they take over but at the moment we're not there yet and mikhail was able to realize that fact pretty well and then have a good fight right there also having the heel scrolls so important having the heels goes against the panda and the warden and there's still two in the inventory here for mikhail he's pushing across the map now himself with an interception though everything is split that's not a position you want to be an abomination coming in the borough is nice but you want the damage you need the damage desperately maybe he has the tp out here but then the expansion should be safe trying to reunite his army but that's so tricky that he's being taken uh off and the oh my just melts this crypt lord not easy to keep him alive against all this focus fire abomination is falling as well moon with a perfect engagement as it seems mikhail's is falling in supplies dk is very low as well and the fiends don't do anything they're just chilling in the ground getting revealed now getting burned now what a disaster but the expo is about to be finished moon lost a lot there as well dropping down to around 60. this was close to turning in mikhail's favor if he can stay there a little bit more maybe with one more heel scroll then suddenly the night of heroes run out of mana and that's when moon would be in serious trouble he's making it back to the moon wells now mana gonna be restored on the ward but panda has nothing at the moment however the big mana potion still to use this next fight might determine the game if moon can hold at the expansion okay both are pushing mikhail khan yeah i can't tp if he wants to but he doesn't have one so this push has to work we're playing a little bit of a game of chicken if moon pulls back then the expansion is ready warden willing to defend alone trying to buy a little more time oh my god all these fiends corpses hurts and there's not much firepower here of course he's getting fiends back fast but they're also expensive and then mikhail kills the expo it's a one-for-one trade but moon can just push forward okay can he kill that expansion position there's plenty of towers right there the undead army is fast why didn't he tp maybe he thought he gets two for one they're killing big money he's going to get it though that's trying for it but the undead army is coming in bears are going to take a lot of damage over here of course standing on blight already oh suddenly the bear damage connects to the haunted is the acolyte repair enough is the question we don't have too many acolytes left and he does get that snipe great job here sniping the acolytes the way he did with uh with the spells breath of fire and the fan of knives and suddenly mikhail down to only one mining base big army pretty easy execution there if you ask me two bases for zilch okay get one base down but there is new trees of life spreading in the upper right maybe in the bottom left as well this could also be another ap just to make sure that mikael is not expanding because he needs that double income he's broke at 70. it's the ap all right moon still with double soon to be triple income 74 supply upgrades apparently should be good as well i think still a lot of mana to be used for mikael clinches on to the heroes getting close to five four maybe even two he'll scroll for moon no t okay there's a tp on the panda this time on the other side mikhail refusing to buy a tp trying to re-establish the second base i'd love to see this sword a little more adventurous she's level five she can hunt after these acolytes really well she always has the staff to get out maybe a little concerned with the impale this staff will not always get you out of trouble when you're facing off against a lord in fact now she's kind of stuck there on the island but blink is ready again and she gets out yeah with blink and staff there should be no way really to kill her and until then she can do damage super annoying but very very effective play style by moon he knows the progress on the haunted gold mine now and mikhail is back to two bases as well but the problem lays in the upper right can he push that base again can he destroy that base again can he commit to that base if moon is on two main some mining out in three minutes oh a few free kills here at the ghouls lumber is still looking good for mikael's not gonna miss them too much maybe but this is valuable experience moving towards level six and the warden's gonna get all of them mikhail has good lumber so that's not the biggest issue but of course three kills the one is not part of this fight though so can the panda do it alone the destroyer is getting caught with a coil big impale against the bears who are basically no part of this fight either but he can't get control of these hippos too much needs the web to save that destroyer once again still big mana but he doesn't care too much about this maybe he wants to use it aggressively but he'll scroll is ready for moon level four the lich big damage increase but where's the army for mikhail is down to 60 the rest of the fiends are burning that's the panda level five he's gonna be down twos very very soon and that's that should be game here everything is so hard mikhail dropping down 250 supply and it's just a demonstration of force by moon the best night elf vs undead in the world this was a very close game though through large parts it was the interception in the top right which put mikhail behind and in the game was problematic but if he has a bit of a better fight there if he has one more heal scroll if he can weather the storm of dispels a little bit better if he can hold on a little bit more if all heroes run out of mana the unknit is gonna be heavily heavily favored and it may have looked clear in the end there but moon if he has a little too weak of an army if he cannot do the damage quickly enough if mikhail holds on he could have turned that around mikai was playing triple hero if he started stabilizing three bases and he gets five five three hero levels that is crazy strong arguably quite a bit stronger than the warden ultimate so this was a really close one and mikhail shows that he is definitely performing here main but may have not gotten the 1-0 lead but still with a good game yeah he can hold his ground for sure the first fights look good but in the end moon just with a little bit smaller execution with the great timing in the upper right and i think this will probably be the meta for the rest of the series not too much air on moonside standard builds by mikhail as well and this is pretty much head to head i like it [Music] so seems like with both being so willing to go fast expansion as well if the map allows it we might be seeing a lot of two base two base play and that is possible on lots of our maps nowadays especially echo isles comes to mind amazonia has been vetoed that one's hard to expand turtle rock has been vetoed that one's hard to expand so both are absolutely willing to take this into a two base direction lr echo and northern isles all of those are possible concealed hill that one is gonna be a little bit rough also a specialty of gargoyles might be displayed mikhail used to play that a lot in the years past but moon seems to be ready for pretty much everything yeah i agree so far at least when we judge from the playoffs to be honest wfz's garg style wasn't really impressive so i would love to see how this works with two crypt with a good old lame style but moon's multitasking historically amazing super hard to beat and maybe that is why mikael is not willing to go into that direction [Music] demon hunter keeper warden anything's possible here moon has so many strong styles the beast master the one that doesn't work out this is probably the move that wins the game right there was mikhail a little over aggressive over ambitious if he just keeps the dk with the rest of the army in the back gives them the aura and make sure he doesn't get blindsided like this this could have been much better for him he's got the expansion coming up right now at this point in the game he has the expo coming up does mikhail have to push across the map i think he wanted to do the same move that moon did later just distract there he had the tp still but he was caught in that fight i think even if he's tping out then he got moon stuck on the upper right hand side and can still get that expo up and can defend on his side but staying in there trying to get kills was a little too ambitious and that's the one move that lost him the game [Music] even that fight here with how strong moon is it wasn't looking completely disastrous he once he runs out of heel scrolls that's when it all turns around but if he has one more heel scroll or two which of course don't come for free could have been decent but because once again the hippo problem reveals itself at some point the hippos are gonna all be wept and died moon never got to the crazy crazy numbers but the heroes were able to do it for him there in the end where the lich dies but look at that suddenly the warden and panda are out of mana and just as they're out of mana fortunately the fight was won if mikael holds on a little bit more the man eyes out and the fight isn't won that is always when the undead turns it around yeah especially if you have a statue ready as well then you can stay in there for a long time so a couple of things to fix for mikhail and then he has decent chances depends of course on the maps a little and mikhail goes to echo isles that is the map where fast expanding was brought to the highest competition first where it was one pioneered by one two zero he tried with that style for a long time he was failing quite a few times against law light and moon with a fast expansion but he perfected it over time and soon after that many unknots around the world started adopting it having found confidence in fast expo used to be considered completely unplayable and a bad idea for undead who always wanted to rush tier three but nowadays meta and strategy isn't so simple so black and white anymore there's lots of strategic variety between all the races nowadays and that makes for a very interesting matter indeed interesting that mikhail picks echo isles 40 win rate only maybe uh that is due to the recent meta changes that he's adopting to that style to that map moon 72 win rate slightly below average that's kind of crazy so will moon get the 2-0 just as he did against wfz and go into his third wgl grand final he's aiming for that second title that only in infeed th and one two zero have at the moment and of course all the night elves are hoping for moon to win this so they can get their night off cathedral as well we go for a demon hunter this time and a really cool ancient of war creep route it's not the very conservative at the green it's not the greedy at the mercant but it's the very rare and the gold mine instantly which by the way is only doable on one side of echo isles which is a little bit weird you can do it on the left position not on the right so a little bit lucky here for moon i suppose but this is really cool there's going to be lots of experience for the demon hunter right away he's going to get almost to level 2 needing only one more skeleton to unlock evasion and also it opens up most importantly the natural gold mine right away for moon to be able to expand and moon it seems like that's where he's feeling most most comfortable playing with the two base and has absolutely no problem allowing the undead to two base himself other night elves from europe like foggy for example he really doesn't like playing two ways two ways if foggy sees a fast expanding undead he almost always goes in against it oh look at that whisper mate by the way goes all in against that and tries to pressure that way but moon is fine taking a two base two base he trusts in his late game bears and hits first skeletons detonated didn't catch the dk so we can use coils and of course there is skulls again and against that skull there's no detonate this time as it was on terena's stand so easy creep hearing of protection for mikhail ring of protection for moon demon hunter certainly a little bit happier about that than the dk is so looks like pretty much the same strategy for mikhail very fast expansion for move again that should be before the tech right there's no way this early otherwise well it's moon so it's not necessarily must be but it is yeah okay otherwise there would be some chemical lumber hacks going on but uh for a second i thought is not expanding but yes he is you should cancel that soon i guess yeah mika has to cancel and has to run across the map and cancel himself this is very important he cannot fall into the trap right now of chasing after the demon hunter that would be a game losing play he needs to get the cancel himself and then we're going to go for a plan b game plan of uh going for a tier 2 tech after all okay that's level two moon not detonating that wisp here wasn't in time and we do have the tier two tech started for moon mike will he follow this up he think he saved the acolyte to the bottom turtle spot but moon is scouting for that both are playing on a very high level early game he's going for the boots right now to get back fast and for the staff as well on the demon very importantly to be able to stab onto the wisp oh this this is so great they're both making all the right moves and testing each other and doing the right counter play at all times yeah if you if you practice a hundred games with each other that's a lot of games and you know probably what the other is up to and how strong he is with what strategy so demon hunter cancels this again i really like that place so far mikhail is causing some trouble on the left hand side is now going for creep we'll script these berserkers really fast and that takes unique experience from the map speaking of we have the first one for moon with that is gonna have plenty of damage against the ghouls demon is gonna show up doesn't like that the dk here gets an experienced lead even if it's not by that much with the boots perhaps the demon can run down for some kills but against the aura also not that easy that's timing he threatens us around for half a second instantly the wisp shows up and he's like are you sure bro you're sure you want to do this yeah he also has a staff like surrounding maybe not the greatest option if it's not against this ogre demon hunter threatening last hit who's going to get it mikhail did and the replenishment potion which is amazing very good control there to ensure the experience going towards him level three a big game changer especially for the demon hunter for the dk it's nice but realistically you're gonna have like two coils to use over the next three minutes so it's not that much but the fast level three demon hunter to start burning super heavily the second hero of the undead that can make a massive difference and the second hero is the lich by the way lich fiends slaughterhouse we're moving into a pretty standard composition here okay no expansion on the undead side just the typical stuff moon going for a hunch saw indicating lores is it naga second and what is normally really good at rushing level three demon hunter early harassing that when then with that one and the naga creeping up in the meantime but here with that early game the steam hunter was taxed to be so aggressive he wasn't able to creep level three see the first goggle by the way i thought that was a fiend i was mistaken it's a single gargoyle to scout to check things out to harass a little bit but one garg isn't that painful yeah i'm still not the biggest fan as well maybe i just failed to see the big purpose scouting is of course nice delay is the creeping though oh we catch the naga off guard with the coil nova that's pretty scary demonic doesn't have a staff there's the coil there's the kill oh and the nova follow-up goes down losing that berserker would have been extremely painful but at least that one survives moon getting caught with his pants down a little bit the demon hunter was scouting around wasn't expecting there the under to suddenly show up but he did and some impactful kills for mikhail this could be the momentum shift for him to now finally expand okay yeah he needs to do something about that economy can't allow moon to just have two base one base all the time that just doesn't work and he wants to counter expand but moon shuts it down by killing this acolyte again archer probably saved against the aura hard to get away but really good snipe of the acolyte moon is playing a very strong disruptive game but it comes at a price no creeping on the naga of any kind demon hunter kind of under leveled as well moon is going to rely a lot on his economic advantage and army numbers very foggy-esque sort of the game plan here where mikhail is still not able to set up that second base of his but he's going to tier three and with that a lot of upgrades will be unlocked soon yeah michaela supply suck at the moment needs another cigarette before tier three arrives then frenzy destroyer and the orb moon should be on here too right for a long time yeah he has to mass on tier two can't afford tier three he's gonna get overrun if he goes tier three only if he has a big advantage later on can he afford that at the moment he certainly doesn't have it tier three is done frenzy is coming orb for the lich and off we go to the push mike with a supply lead moon is it just me or is this dude talking a lot more than usual yeah i think they have the sound of multiple observers so i think that's why he's uh speaking that much but mika gets the scroll of the beast here could be impactful but always the question is are there wisps around then perhaps suddenly not so impactful anymore because we'll keep the item not selling it in favor of something more reliable heading south and now after all expanding he's going to use this push as distraction for the expansion to come up and for once moon doesn't have a scout whisperer okay it's a little bit of a mikkel special not too many players play that tinker push anymore felt a little out of favor recently is he ready for this the pocket factory can be very strong against expansion and against riots tinker factory always pretty good sometimes he gets burned a few times and then he doesn't have spells anymore not that impressive there but if he gets burned the deacon lich don't you could use the coin over there right away oh the beast popped oh that tree in trouble huge commitment detonates all over the place man has burned demon hunters super low though and out of that fight attention swapped a little to the giants but guess what he recommits to the tree of life is there more clockworks coming not really but the ghouls eat the tree and that was well done demon hunter is back in the fight though we can't tp out after that kill right away micro with fools against rise very hard the demon is surrounded is the staff ready if not at the tp staff wasn't ready but the tp was good trade here for moon towards the end getting far ahead in supply but he lost the expansion and the units is finished the wisp is there but there's no towers here yet moonstone has a good window to be aggressive against the expansion however once there's two towers there he's gonna be in trouble yeah can he hatch this expansion and make use of it moon 10 supply lead heroes may be one potion now and mikhail by the way had no tp so that was really risky if that doesn't work the game is over it's a really good series so far here they're both playing around each other really well realizing each other's weaknesses and strengths and trying to punish the opponent looking for holes this is a lot more even than i thought it was gonna be to be honest with you i'm very surprised with mikael but does he have enough in the tank to hold off against the snyder force right now definitely a bigger army for moon however also only a tier two army only dryads but of course here it comes with the caveat these are moon drives they are better than they usually are but mika's gonna get let it go didn't un-summon losing a bit of gold here but that may be intentional to force moon to stay down there so mikhail creeps up a little bit more these hero levels are starting to look quite good for the end i love the scouts by mikhail he has one in the bottom left one in the moon's base one checking the middle as well there is a creep jack now and there's still no tp mikhail has to fight this is he ready 50 sluggish 54 but as you say the hero levels are superior at the moment what was the item of vitality okay gargoyle again scouting that expansion putting some pressure on it and moon retreats no disease cloud yet for mika that's the big problem if he had it these a-bombs would be a lot stronger oh it just finished just a second ago or not sure will be sacrificed to ensure that the mercenaries make it back home double berserker for moon that's a lot of potential experience still tier two still stuck with dryads forced to break up keep even this 54 supply just to get that one two three units out he needs to mass he never acquired the mass ap of course very smart was building that in the south pretty much all the time ap gonna get killed off here now if these towers finish the dryads cannot go into this position anymore the hits level three the naga from moon far forward and mikhail realizes it finds the weak point of the army she does make it back here to decent position once again dryads kited very well as always of course but konova wants more naga's still in trouble and now it's time for the mercenaries mikhail may be willing to go for more experience naga level three there's no mana anymore the demon hunter did a good job with the level two mana burn naga always forced to the back the heroes are brawling in the middle the ticker falls rather low is there a potion somewhat there's another potion on the dk he can coil if he wants to will immediately be burned gotta be careful with that mikhail dwindling in supply as it seems demon hunter is cleaning house but how long can he stay fog lightning that tinker don't step on the demon hunter without mana burn what can you do now though potion popped immediately there's the coil fiend alive demon hunter instantly bat the statues are doing a great job but oh my that triad just barely surviving with that the staff gets through and moon cleans house that was so close once again almost the hero kill mikhail is always just one tiny step behind moon but just barely time and time again moon comes out on top he's making use of all of his resources the heel throws the potions the staffs the moon wells and just barely moon comes out on top every time but it's so close one after the next mikhail may be a little over ambitious to try to set up this expansion he could have just as well camped very safely in his main gotten zigglers there and then go to 70 and then he could have been easily able to counter expand safely however if he does that it takes a lot longer and by then moon would have started attack towards tier three so it was a hard decision for mikhail to go for he went for the more dangerous line and moon as always moon's bank is not too big naga may be a liability in the late game there's nothing to creep really moon is stealing the turtle big gets the demon hunter level four it's more tanky and now he's kind of forced into expanding i don't think without the ghouls another surgical strike on the expansion works that well what's it now naga with the heel scrolling involved pendant of energy more fork lightning moon willing to stay at 50. yeah moon got far enough ahead with all those kills he doesn't have to force the issue necessarily anymore he's got the tier three coming and zoom is going to be able to transition to a better army but if he can find a decent opening he's still going to go for it however seems like he doesn't want to risk it anymore would be dangerous here for moon to go in this could backfire really quickly so finally mikhail will be getting to a second base is it a time getting ready willing to fortify this as well this is a lot of resources now moon going for upgrades moon going for bears he's going to tier 3 finally both are finding time for their ultimate state tier 3 night elf to base on that to get the necessary acolytes he has to go into upkeep right away so no saving gold for him whereas moon 900 gold already and with the aggressive positioning for him on the map he can uh assess pretty well when a dangerous attack from the island might be coming in and the answer to that is not for a while right now mikhail is concerned with setting up his economy all right moon is doing this so well trying to snipe a few acolytes 1 200 gold full moon he can explode into supply once he's willing to demon under catching hits of course not really an issue he wants to hang around he wants to burn and then he can be staffed out going to the moon again how much value he's getting just out of a few heroes and riots being able to prevent mining kill of acolytes really impressive the thing is though moon isn't at the moment the position with the very strongest late game outlook dimahano naga is decently strong for the late game it's not the same as a panda warden it's not the same as a tri-hero combo for triple hero it's too late also he's stuck on a lot of dryads those are gonna suffer against piercing damage against wagons against disease cloud whereas mikhail if he gets up to 70 supply with a heal scroll or two he's gonna be very very powerful once again upgrades will have to be the way for moon to get an advantage hippo's coming again moon going for his very late game composition figured out that that's the pinnacle of night of at the moment in this matchup inward potion on the dk this time one in wool on the demon hunter close to five no real level ups for the undead here but mikhail holding his ground in supply how many hippos does moon need it feels like seven are the minimum three but if you go seven hippos and you already have that many giants you don't have can't go too many bears oh one bear getting sniped right away no staff for that one creep jack suddenly out of nowhere but moon is finished with the camp few fake bears here the illusions we don't see a single destroy it oh there it is okay i need to spell some destroys okay he knows there's at least two and he gets two bears rare mistake by moon to not reset the rally point or park the bear somewhere also moves them in in a depth easy to kill it's more experienced for the tinker by the way if he gets level three he suddenly becomes strong and the decon five as well of course the naga oh and again she's far forward sometimes mispositioned here it seems moon could just tp out he's not doing it he's looking a little stubborn right now willing to buy a little more time i wonder for what the illusion easy to deal with with the destroyer gives the destroyer mata and hp even their staffs on two heroes curious the berserker is dying as well and that's finally the tp that was interesting to say the least by moon and now mikhail can even put a little pressure on the expansion if he wants to but rather falls back rather gets to the ultimate 80 supply yeah i think moon's intention there was stick around and throw out a lot of burns reducing the mana if after that after the tp it comes to a real fight but he was only able to really burn the tinker was hard for the demon to get into position for the rest because he doesn't have the boots anymore boots are on the naga i don't really like that doesn't have a tp anymore now but it does have the double staff 80 supply now for moon but it's a lot of dryads this is not the best late game army two invo potions for mikhail he's willing to take that fight you at least poke a little also has a heel scroll also has a mana potion inventory looking good now no tp for moon if he's getting caught in a bad spot once again he's stuck there but that shouldn't be the case as the map is empty now fiend re-rallied to not walk into mikhail great thing for mikael is his lumber is always looking good always looking exceptional still i must have like five or six ghouls or so in the main base and should be converting that into upgrades because certainly is he's got two one at the moment he's got three two queued and that goes for his entire army mika should be upgrading the damage of his fiends maybe the armor of his a-bombs would love the damage would now love to see a meat wagon he doesn't have the free supply anymore but it would be great to put pressure on that tree and force moon into a push maybe in an unfavorable position yeah this is always a really tough spot for any race to attack an undead or to deflect an attacking undead this little choke point down there demon hunter gonna get focused but mikhail going far out of his safe position for this one finally moon finds the opening to go in with the bears the damage connects fairly well mana burns have landed on the tinker mostly still lots of novas and coils are available but mikhail doesn't want to stay in this anymore he's going to tp out losing one more a-bomb but he didn't lose that much he lost like 10 supply max that was an okay fight for the undead can rebuild really quickly can he rush to the shop that is moon's job here 70 gold in the main moon already mined out we had this crazy game by mikhail versus remind in the wgtl where we mined out amazonia will this happen here as well on echo it very well could but until then it's going to be a little while longer oh a new building coming up there from the in the main i wonder what that is for mikhail is that temple that doesn't seem to make sense a sacrificial pit probably i guess for shades we'd love to see him deny the acolytes here and go for one wagon just one wagon to spread the disease could make such a big difference as i said i'd love to see that as well worm absolutely not viable too expensive was praising him before but ah let's look at this guys nothing in disguise supply for a for a wagon now let's go he had that before and didn't go for it there's something in the slaughter this next fight is gonna be so decisive demon hunter five naga four once again not the crazy level ups around for me mana burns hurt but so does the focus fire demand doesn't have an op ring of protection anymore of course with dual hero you run out of inventory space really fast that's perhaps something that mika could look towards the marketplace he could buy pendants he could buy claws so out of position i think shop control is more important to the other than that cool backpack a little risky don't you think where there's a will there's a way is there a wagon now i'm curious something came in from the main shade skeleton this might be the mistake especially if you are the one being pushed can keep it so safe behind the towers because keeping one acolyte in the main at all times i like that a lot always want to have that available in case you need to go for some emergency on summons mikhail's upgrades we just saw them only one oh not going for it at all catching up with the three three of moon is gonna take some time how is the only one oh what this game has been going forever three shades all right you like his vision he's got four shades actually hell yeah now going for upgrades for the fiends more damage what's the time to push moon is the one mining out earlier right yes quite a bit earlier i think it should be a few thousand gold earlier yeah on these small maps like echo and az oftentimes you're kind of stuck in this weird situation that i came there's nothing to creep anymore there's nowhere to expand anymore so uh yeah what is the next thing to do it's not very clear i was trying to figure this out a little time to breathe a little time to think nobody wants to make the move nobody seems satisfied with his position yet mikhail's bank a lot bigger this shade still on a mission oh look at those boro plays trying to catch some hippos it's kind of cool not trying to jinx it or something but we have seen draws on this map at the very first wgl for example moon vs yumiko five and a half years ago second attack upgrade finished yep mikhail should definitely be going for the third one right after is there a necessity for mikael to push at all not really he can just stand at his expo right so it's a lot about who's getting impatient who feels he has to do something yeah the thought that's probably crossing his mind is he might be worried that moon just set up his perfect 100 supply army with 3-3 upgrades and scrolls maybe mika wants to be disruptive before that but he's got shades looking absolutely everywhere so he's going to see when 100 supply production starts we got a couple of breaking news during this game here i think we have the time to talk about it as the chinese fans have reached the second stretch goal of this tournament and that is now 500 000 rmb that equals to 76 500 us dollars super cool that is indeed great is that official because on the page it is it doesn't display that it's reach it yet well i got this info from wong wong usually has good sources maybe it's not in real time still lots of gold another shade taken out one more shade going down and then he can afford a wagon they will go into a hundred won't they this will take a while until we're mined out or someone losing patience poking a little the thing is moon has the shop control here but mikhail can be happy with his inventory like two heel scrolls two in volts moon is supply star uh slot starved anyway yeah in case you guys don't know on tier three in the under shop there's heel scrolls there as well so yeah mika can get them from there all right high up keep off we go 92 supply more upgrades for mikhail also coming in and the shade in the main is mikhail gonna be looking there does he put his camera over there is he going to realize oh my god that's a million hits oh it's a million nipples indeed but if the destroyers are gone what are these for like what do they provide nothing yeah i think mikkels just give up on air and just go all a-bombs fiends yeah and statues yes i mean destroyers can be neat in the first moment to the spell a little that's kind of cool there we go four a-bombs cued 100 supply mikhail saw the round of production starting that as well will not be caught with his pants down he will have the tower support he will be on blight those shades those are some of the best shades i've seen in a while we have seen a lot of shades and they're getting better and better recently so much information throughout the entire game with all the knowledge all the experience you can evaluate the situation pretty much perfectly now this is gonna be a fun fight to cast in these first two maps there were a lot of engagements and almost every time moon came out on top just by the tiniest hair yep the last spell yeah the last staff yeah the last heel scroll yeah was there for him and missing for mika was so close every time now a hundred against a hundred and there's still no wagons by the way which is kind of weird but yeah this is gonna be a lot of dead supply soon this is 12 hippos or so they're gonna kill that destroyer real fast but then there's gonna be nothing to attack anymore mikhail needs the a-bombs in front dangerous of course wisps can burn a lot of mana if they are not sniped fiends in front so is this one okay is he ignoring the hippos and is he just going for the front light 200 supply fight right here yeah this is where you can't focus fire anymore you have to a-click and just move back to keep units alive a-bomb's having a tough time connecting mana burns looking really good he'll scroll comes through right away oh the naga in trouble there for a second so is the litch frost armor helps you now of course abominations are about to drop new roar can't be dispelled anymore lit's under pressure has the involve has to go for it heel scrolls everywhere there was the last one for moon mikhail still holding on to one he also has a nipple potion also a mana potion the start was great for moon but can mikhail strike back hey bombs perhaps not doing enough damage over here i think the wagons were really really missing moon once again seems to be coming out on top with a hundred supply it is enough the demon got so much experience he's close to level six naga close to level five never could reach the giants really the a-bombs are gone and mikhail taps out the 100 supply fight on each side goes to moon a better engagement a better concave a little better preparation and the victory goes to jaijay ho every single time the outcome is just a little bit better for moon the engagement's just a little bit better for moon but a shame that that was that wasn't the perfect position the a-bombs were stuck in the back somehow they were late to the fight fiends were taken out right away the lich was in a bad position as well he got no he got man up burned really quickly normally the lich is supposed to stay way way way in the back always away from the d minor throw out the novas and if the d minor is coming in to burn the lich that means he's not getting in a lot of dps with better execution there more may have been able for mikhail also if he goes for a little bit more item from the marketplace a few claws dependent maybe that can help there were ways to optimize that late game for mikhail but didn't quite manage to do that i guess but still even without that this was a really good game mikhail had his lead there in the game for a while he held his own once again and he is absolutely not getting outclassed by moon exactly if i now he needs uh 3-0 against moon with one of his maps gone already this is rough this is hard this is not impossible though we've seen so many turnarounds this year alone focus just a couple of weeks ago was down 0-2 and he won that thing against next final 3-2 in the end nothing is impossible but you need to get that little bit ahead long series already right here three a-bombs in the north just stuck not doing anything there's a bomb on one side of the battle a bomb on the other side but not a big front line the way he would have ideally liked to have it yeah that was definitely a mistake to have so much time and having the three uh fiends in the front not the a-bombs not too sure why you would keep the air bombs in the back there's no real solution and no no real reason for that could have been optimized indeed maybe next game that is a little bit of experience that mikhail is still missing and by that i don't mean experience lacking that a1 should be in front he knows that obviously but in those super high pressure moments after a bit of a lull as well remembering everything being ready for every attack not feeling the pressure being able to perform in every single regard and thinking of everything as well thinking of the upgrades thinking of the items you can get from the marketplace because especially the upgrades there were super late although at the end he had 3-0 on the fiends he had i think two armor upgrades on the a-bombs but honestly there was no reason to get them that late another earlier but still good performance by mikael against any other night elves in the world this may be a 2-0 win for 2-0 lead for him right here but moon he's showing up to play match point for the night elf and so far the fans seem to be right with their prediction we haven't seen a keeper yet by the way it was a warden start on ts then a demon hunter on echo time for the keeper then is moon willing to switch something up against wfz on the third map he pulled a beastmaster that was very ambitious there was a reason behind that he thought he would expand very much and mikhail he is expanding all the time so moon could also very well play a keeper [Music] yes certainly keeper mass ear it seems like it's out of the matter but maybe it's just on a little bit of a vacation we had that before 1.30 keeper mass air was all the rage very hard to beat after 1.30 seemed to disappear but then it took moon to rediscover it again this is the tournament where apparently keeper mass air isn't a thing maybe it's going to emerge once again more in the future but perhaps this is the best moment to bust it out now not in the forefront of your mind keeper mass air as it's not really being played at the moment maybe here moon could surprise me kyle we're going towards northern isles certainly a keeper mass air viable map because you can play keeper mass air anywhere this is exactly where the beastmaster was played right and this is where he expected an expansion wanted to rush it with mass didn't work against wc we'll see if it works now there's a little bit of a wrong read for moon yes that is possible we will see mikhail by the way in the dreamhack asia starting this wednesday he's going to be up against two night elves there as well in law light and colorful we will see how good his metal first night off is there fortitude also in the group because the warcraft three festivities they don't stop once we're finished with the wgl we move over to dreamhack winter last chance to grab some ept points for the intel extreme mass katowice in 2021 where it's about 130 000 we have the playoffs for europe and america this week and asia starts into the group stage so follow us everywhere to get the latest news about that tournament but follow us into map three first three match points in a row for the greatest night of all time mikhail can he strike back is r and jesus with him we in the bottom left we got moon aiming for that third grand final in wgl history and then it would be versus infie can he crown his year still waiting for a big title in the second half of 2020 and mikhail needs a little miracle to continue the cinderella story moon just uh was that a little bit ahead that little bit of i don't know skill luck determination ford minor references that was missing are we gonna see a dk here very likely what's moon going to be playing keeper this time okay not too surprising i suppose on this map you can creep level three very very quickly with a keeper you can expand very quickly you can harass pretty well but of course has a lot more downside in the late game compared to a warden or demon hunter maybe that suits mike a little better we got to the late game twice to a pretty late late game actually and that is the weakness of the keeper but then against the keeper you need destroyers otherwise everything dies and then moon's hippo build is strong again it was a lot of dead supply in map too won't be the case here on northern isles and the cool thing already looking into the late game is also with a keeper normally you should be able to grab map control when your expansion is faster and you have the bigger army even if the owner gets the expansion up at some point normally usd knight should get it faster and on northern isles if you have that map control you can afford either a third hero or a third base or wait a minute he denied the creep with the ancient of war moon that is a insanely painful mistake that's how comebacks start feeling too sure for a second it's so bad that's so bad he's gonna be stuck on level two forever because of that he's gonna be reaching level three way way way later normally you would be coming in here right now with entangle and trends to harass but now he doesn't have entangle i love the double acolyte by the way in case one goes down to the back up again good last it here for the dk another wisp for the ditto there's still a bit of light there though who also has a lot of treants remaining i'd love to have entangle now of course one of mana stealing doesn't help him with that close to level two but not there instead he goes for the attack mikhail threatening us around to buy some time for the acolytes this double acolyte is new right i mean we've seen double skulls and all but double acolyte i have not seen that before yeah new variation some undead's like going double acolyte and keeping the one in the night of maine to always scout there look for tier one look for mass hunts get ready for something like that but here's the park trying to make sure that one doesn't die of course when there's no entanglement especially against moon you can never be sure that can out of nowhere be an engine of war on the upper left-hand side that must be a surround with the help of the trees oh no he owns these trees weird situation with the treants in front and in the meantime the art is cancelling the expansion cool looking move for mikhail but this is actually a very bad move for him this tp isn't easily worth it to be used by moon and absolutely not worth it for mikael this this delays the expansion by two minutes it was so smart for moon to bait this to move into exactly that spot where there's almost no surface area because he knew that mikhail would be greedy committed quite a bit to this wanted that tp gone from him but yeah also having the presence of mine to send the archers there for the attack without any protection without the keeper around moon finding solutions even after a sloppy early game now it's time for mikhail to be aggressive he's running across the map and he might very well still have the timing to get that canceled this is thorns aura yeah dude what what is that an ability is that what they call a spell oh my god it doesn't see the tree of life tree of life it was right there night time i guess okay maybe the ghouls can't can get on top of the archers the keeper is quite far away that's one kill tree and summoned he knows where the keeper is that's another surround right here dust is ready so not even shadow mouth is helping is this even intentional this looks like a misclick and tangle focus fire is really good against ghouls oh you might be getting surrounded and now it really hurts that you don't have the tp doesn't it this might just very well be the gg alchemist is coming in still good damage on him but there's no way to prevent this uh panda of course oh can he free his way uh dk block and frostwolf hungers it is drunken haze by the way not breath of fire so a lot of missed chances it takes forever to kill this one but at least he gets it he also has a staff so even if he's blocked and surrounded he can't get out this did cause ghouls but this is such a lead for me kyle this was a good move for moon though this was a good sacrifice got a lot of ghouls for that uh weird game thorns aura he's stuck the only way that this makes i think any sense is if he's clearly expecting guards versus hippos but even then like go for a tome of retrain jesus expose running over and he built a hunter sword and is that laws or wins we i'm not allowed to see that so what's the game plan now second chris he goes thorns aura too man with my mind so so the gamble on the air unit works so far mikhail will be going garg slightly not necessarily though with the knowledge of the thorns laura should he be going garx what a standard he looked very good with standard and then go for the tinker again i think it was just a mess like honestly like these thorns are making no sense so far even moon can make mistakes but i don't know maybe it is intentional would love for him to ask the question later because this is certainly puzzling mikael doing a great job here delaying the movement again by mikhail he always knows where he has to be when he has to be aggressive when he's supposed to fall back he overextended into the keeper surrounds a little bit but he's also got something for that he got the tp and he got the hero kill after he lost a lot of ghouls yes but of course he can replace those tier three finishes at hit two fingers excuse me tier three following up right after and we have fiends no goggles okay maybe he feels he has the advantage at the moment wants to prevent the keeper and panda leveling even further there's no entangle he can hang around with the dk there's no threat of being entangled surrounded also with the fiends like this helps the fiends so much really does look quite strange uh naga second at the moment against dryads not the most impactful against archers against heroes it can do a little bit but if this game was very late which seems to be the theme of this series then it's going to make for a very strong undead try hero combo if mikhail ever gets to four five four three hero levels his triple hero is gonna be so much stronger than the dual hero of moon it feels like moon himself desperately needs a third hero there is enough experience on the map for that for sure dk rising up as well always the mana potion mikhail since the change of the mana potion cost and effectiveness oh sapper is constantly buying them how effective is this zapper going to be wfc and moon they always play their bombermans there's this one though right spirit tower and it's only one and the buildings are not too close together moon running in to distract getting the attention of the spirit tower so no focus he just wanted to get that damage dealer gone tp back home ah no it's fake tv it's just a staff movement falls for it mika continuing to creep he got the health stone very nice for the naga so is he jumping on that panda can control him with crossed arrow there's no staff and almost the fiends around dk repositioning always with the help of the terrain not this time though oh boy entangle is really missing right now breath of fire though doing good damage naga dropping low good thing she just found the health stone gonna use it right away keeper time now he never rebought that tp mikhail willing to go for the hero focus never too much damage from the giants and that might bite him now reveal against the burro fiends might be falling naga is still in trouble dk is low naga can't be coiled of course into the safety of the terror mikhail where are your statues you're supposed to have two by now not having them is breaking his neck he's actually losing his heroes what and suddenly out of nowhere we thought this game was going to go long but hell no it might be ending right here in before the naga is over she's dead as well oh my god what a complete disaster gg that was very abrupt mikai was in a good position there that game but moon suddenly comes in with a zapper and his dryad control of course is always outstanding even without entangle how crazy but of course a massive macro mistake mikhail didn't have statues there for whatever reason he was supposed to have them also naga second maybe not the perfect choice moon with the 3-0 the final list we expected okay so infy versus moon the grand final what a grand final that is a million dollars prize money combined that is not very often that we can say this it's a two-time champion and a three-time finalist against a one-time champion a two-time finalist both absolute legends of this game and we couldn't really hope for a better final if you ask me in summer we had moon versus th and that was an incredible human versus night elf we also had uh law light versus infeed twice in summer and now in the playoffs again we also had moon versus entry before in the group stage there moon looked outdated looked out played but maybe he can step it up now this is going to be a battle of absolute magicians with their race yeah i'm looking forward to this one moon i hope he did his homework though the first encounter was very very clear but that is one of the big strengths one of the many big strengths of moon he can adjust masterfully and what i always like to point out you learn a lot more from your losses then you learn from your victories that is of course an unfortunate end to mikhail's run but we have to point out how miraculous this was he wasn't really a favorite in the group stage even with fly and sock coming from a wcg and awl victory xiaokai and him surpassed sock and he then beat shaokai and he was never to get out of that like supposed to get out of that quarterfinal either and then he three owed one two zero mikhail with one of the coolest stories with one of the coolest reactions that we've seen in all of professional warcraft in 2020 and i really hope he gets motivation from this he picks up the momentum brings it into dreamhack and starts shining there as well we saw a reddit threat appreciating mikhail's performance before the tournament was even over that sparked quite some joy in me that was really nice today he was bested by moon but come on it's moon against undead that can happen that's no shame pick up you know it was a 3-0 but if you analyze these games and you want to be honest this these were close games i'm not saying this to buff up uh mikhail un uh deservedly these were close games tarana stand he was close to having a big lead echoes he had a big lead northerners he had a sick decent lead in the mid game being able to convert these leads into actual wins that is where mikhail at the moment is not able to do that against players like moon against many other night elves he would have won both those games he may have been the one to play this 3-0 but moon i've seen him squash many unknots before with really good builds and there was just no land in sight for the undead at all one two zero among them this was not the case for mikhail he kept this very competitive for a very long time but moon also very amazingly was able to play two base two base and always come out victorious yeah while wfz looked outclassed against moon this was not the case here even if the results suggest something else finally a deep tournament die for mikhail we will be seeing him in the next game as well it's gonna be a game for third in a shortened best of three so not the best of five to give moon a little bit of time to recover it was at least a yeah one and a half hour series so get some rest get ready and then it's time for the grand final afterwards maybe talk to a lawlite talk to a sock talk to jamiko what can i do especially law light as a practice partner of infi and former opponent of infi might help out here that's that's your homework now and infie he might be sitting back and thinking oh night elf mata was good i play human against this and of course we get the winner interview with moon and for that we call mr wong again hello but seemingly you didn't use it very often it's because of mikhail so we use that hero foreign foreign so i used a different surgery so i prepared for word and first hero but in the end you you finish the fight with 100 supplies um as long as the game goal is uh the game is will be boring the game is so boring but in wonder surprise if i have one so i will go for 100 supplies how do you think about in playing against envy how is the result will you predict it's pressured me so much but no flavors for anyone [Music] thank you bye-bye thank you wong once again a wonderful job can't wait to have you by our side at dreamhack once again and of course later absolutely stella fantastic man what would be what would we be without you so our game for third is coming up it's going to be fly versus mikhail in the best of three and then it's time for infie versus moon the wgl winter grand final for thirty thousand dollars plus we have a couple of subs here coming in thank you lind fra seven month good job on the professional stream boys thank you also up for cool let's go mikhail unfortunately didn't work mtp hewlett go go lucifer also doesn't work riptide 9137 another day of walker 3 love it great cast as always darkwing duck with a 43 month reset lucy mikhail in semis what the yep that happened and be lusted thank you for the six month resub as well if you want to support what we do then feel free to hit the sub button here get yourself some emotes and a chat badge or throw us a little donation every tiny contribution helps even if it's a dollar or two we love that that is over at streamlabs you can find all the links in the about section and while you're there you can click us on social media facebook twitter instagram join the discord sub on youtube as well to not miss any of the games anymore and not miss any crucial information about the competitive warcraft scene in 8 minutes and 40 seconds we are back with the game for third who's going to claim the bronze medal fly versus mikhail be right back

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Length: 102min 32sec (6152 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 06 2020