WC3R - WGL WINTER - Semifinal: [RDM] Infi vs. Fly100% [ORC]

our first semi-final is about to kick off it's the two chinese and fly and infield we saw them on the stage just moments ago of course this tournament started on monday already and 450 000 prize money we got still equaling to 68 000 the champion gets the lion's share half of it that is 34 000 dollars and infie he's about to catch up to the current second place that is lynn infy grabbing title after title especially in 2019 with the world cyber games and then later that year or later this year with the wgl victory he was pretty dominant and that is our match card of the day fly versus infie to kick things off mikael vs moon the game for third and the grand final yes sir we're gonna have a game for third once again to determine the bronze winner and a bit of a break before the grand final as well gonna be your best of three by the way here we have the two koreans the two chinese at the end of the day we are gonna have a world champion and the hottest news we just got it confirmed from the admins infie is indeed playing random on all maps the balls of enfie sometimes he did that to make a statement but here maybe it's smart maybe he didn't want fly to be able to prepare if you think on this high level there's always new strats but against random what can you really prepare you can't prepare four match-ups on all seven maps yeah it's gonna have to go a lot with instinct and ladder practice he can't go in with so specific of a build tailor-made against infie he's gonna have to go with a bit of a gut feeling as well and a bet because orc is certainly a race where you kind of do have a preferred play style against the given races it starts with the heroes at the very beginning blademaster or farseer man that's gonna be very interesting to see how fly deals with that situation also in fee how he's gonna use that to his advantage well of course he will always have the upper hand he is always the first one to start thinking about that matchup fly can of course scout with the new 11 supply great hall that's an option now but in some matchups you rather want the blademaster then you want the faster it is it can be a lot more powerful does he still have that time when the scout is running peons aren't the greatest so if he can choose a strategy right away fly maybe has to gamble maybe has to react a little later that is definitely infused strength here yeah it's gonna be very hard for flight to do isn't it it's kind of a 50 50 what you want to play against human you always want to play farsier and against crypt lord you always want to play farseer pretty much especially fly showed how good he is with that and since this is infi we're talking about when he's should he be hitting undead is very likely he's going to be playing lord so you're not even with the option of having a more likely better first hero it's not a 75 percent in favor of a blademaster it's a 50 50 split down the middle farseer or blademaster pretty much so it's going to be very hard for fly to make that choice in game for the strategy for the hero selection also uh map vetoes wise what does that mean for the math teachers how can you even veto when the guy is playing random that's yeah i think you go by comfort or where orcs are the least weak in all of it we see the bracket once again here on stream fly was defeating fortitude got a player introduction here as well fly was defeating fortitude with three and one after winning the group stage against mikael shaokai and sag in fee the toughest quarter-final for him that's for sure three to two over lawleyad in the group stage she looked steaming hot winning 2-0 over moon is definitely a testament of strength again in fee he's not full he wasn't fooling around in the group stage he also pretty much destroyed colorful in the matchup versus night elf with human he seems unbeatable but it's not going to be the case he's always been if he's always been a brutal killer against night elf we can think back to gold series long ago when he was playing against foggy he was snuffing out the ukrainian streams many times over and throughout all the patch changes all the years that is still true very much so for his matchup against night elf nobody could best him here yet in the grand final it might be a rematch who knows if we should get here but now against his countrymen fly he's playing random yes he's of course done that before i would love to look inside his head or just ask him the question is this something he prefers for today or is he actually doing this you know when someone plays random you always think oh well he might not be taking this too seriously or uh this is a statement or something like that but this might actually be he might be convinced that this is his best chance of winning because of his how good his uh off races are yeah and because of how hard this is for fly to make the right choices now infie at the moment seems to be the strongest human in the world in fiat the moment seems to be among the top three undeads in the world for a long time he was considered the second best night elf in the world what about his orcs though i don't think he has a good shot with orcs so when it comes to a mirror match that might be fly's or in flight's favor but infie has also defeated linen mirror matches so it can't be that bad yeah and we have a very specific augment style in fact half a year to a year ago we saw him introducing the tier three tauren play we have the map vetoes here and now infield removes concealed hell and fly and removes tarana stand i think that makes a lot of sense by fly infinity loves playing safely on two bases surviving holding on and then out muscling you in the late game with two maybe three bases with multiple races infie can do this so tias is out leaving us with uh five maps in the pool and tons and tons of options for this matchup with infp playing random there must be so many thoughts going through these players minds right now yeah especially for fly infy can't really think about what he wants to do i mean he has to wait first right he will see his race and then pick his style against orc it could be pretty streamlined i'm kind of curious what he plays when he gets human actually i mean with undead we know he loves to play the lore that should be no surprise with night elf there's a there's a path set in stone really it's just a little deviation here and there how many hands how many archers when to switch when to expand it's about timings rather with human there's so many options also depending on the race of course is it going to be the fortitude style very aggressive with rifleman is it going to be a slower style that he introduced with a lot of breakers and barely any sores that's going to be a very very interesting one and fly yeah what does fly do late master fossia that choice alone is so hard to do that's of course the two most prominent first heroes blademast and farsier by far it's not even the only ones that orc like to play at all times we still have a specialty option of playing shadowhunter in the orc mirror for example on a z and turner stand that's something that fly will never be able to do this series he cannot gamble on the fact that he's going to be hitting org mirror and then playing shadowhunter pit lord and that's the case very clearly for those hero choices but that's the case also for other strategies more nuances like creep routes like scout timings and so on that he just cannot be certain of here today in the semi-final the two strongest chinese player in 2020 face each other right here right now in shanghai it is wgl winter it's the first semi-final it is infy versus fly shades of chang-do when these guys faced each other in the wcg grand final in the upper left-hand side it is our current training and defending wgl world champion in fee and the upper right playing the horde is the wcg world cyber games champion in fly and guess what we start with infie getting his main race for start good start for infie i guess you could say his strongest race and fly is not aware of it the first hero so crucial it is a farcier no blade master so fly you know as i said earlier it's pretty much 50 50 of what is better against an undead who's going to be playing lord the farseer is better and same for the matchup against human against night elf and in the mirror you would want a blademaster so fly hopes his farseer is going to be working out well and it is but also if he cannot be too disappointed yeah absolutely not like on this map it's a question do you go for an expansion or not and infie loves that expansion style we constantly say he's very very strong in that and during the recent wgl he was very dominant with his mass breaker style but he has lost to lynn recently he has lost to focus recently in dreamhack zero three and that was yes of course a very strong focus but that also felt like in fee was figured out there was big pushes towards zero three against infinity when does that ever happen yeah that was quite unusual wasn't it speaking of uh the specialties against random here it was of course the peon scout securing the information from checking out the main ideally on this map you would love to go for a shadow priest and then put pressure on this was what fly did so well against fortitude in their match here yesterday forcing the iem to remain level one forever but this couldn't be done peon couldn't go to the mercam couldn't get the shadow priest so now it's only the farsi wolves and grunts but infield looking pretty confident here so far starting the tech not expanding and also not playing the two farm tech which is kind of really for faster rifles if he's playing a kind of a middle of the road style that is definitely a switch up compared to dreamhack when he was really adamant of playing that expansion style and then there was pushes with pandas or whatever it doesn't really work that way fly with the farcia very very strong gets good chip damage in prevents a high level archmage early on wants to prevent a level three as much as you can and so far his biggest weakness always was losing heroes in this tournament i think his game to hero lost ratio is rather low yeah absolutely he's not been playing sloppy at all he's been losing a few blade masters but uh always worth it so far this game looking really good for infy he's not getting harassed with the shadow priest he was able to creep the first two camps and very importantly he got the last hits of the green that means the am is level two how long was fortitude stuck on level one yesterday that is so painful when it happens to you as the human but if he's looking confident not afraid to engage into these creep camps and he's getting all the last hits not bad at all ring of protection encircled probably not the best this farcia it's not too bad if he's behind in levels that's his role he wants to buy time he wants to buy time for a very fast attack and then the tc has to level so soaking up experience with the archmage is pretty good shadow priest nice stutter stepping by in fee fly wanted to go in for a bigger dedicated push with the two mercenaries but kind of backfires here yeah i want us to keep tempo on the map if you can dispel those watch elementals put in more damage with the berserker the footies are going to have a very tough time this could be map control flipping over to the orc pretty quickly interesting choice here infie makes some very clear decisions of how much damage to take when to engage what to attack there's no hesitation he's not going towards creep camp and then the farsi is there he's like oh well i guess now i go back he's never wasting time he goes for the cam he kills it he plays it properly he makes sure he doesn't lose the last hit he gets the experience he commits for the shadow priest he gets the kill it cost him some hp but the shadow priest is gone no dispel from that anymore really strong play so far by enfie he is not afraid of fly and is uh not looking yeah too respectful even of the york i want to say all right what's the item here in the middle big one important one big mana potion okay more chain lightning or of course more stomp the biggest aoe dispel this dispel disable in the game archmage got level three but he's very hurt he has to heal up now moving to the north where there's not really anything to do at the moment except teaming up with the mountain king and then go for the aggressive maybe trying to like turn this game around and prevent the tc from leveling but the tc isn't even here mk faster than a tc but where's that tc now coming we got the b 3 and the lots prior to the tc fly's gonna have to tp out of this here quite a bit of pressure now on the orc wonderful game by infie great timing normally the mk never sees the light of day before the tc but here he does wow also the water elemental the position there to cancel the region right away on the farsi a little bit of min maxing so he has to use another heal self double arcane sanctum and this is the big deviation from what we saw from for example fortitude yeah there we saw rifles most of the time with the expansion he tried to play breakers but for the most part it was rifleman seems like that's the natural thing to do with the state of uh the patch the breakers were almost were most recently nerfed by reducing the armor by one and the rifles were buffed again so many humans quickly started uh picking up the rifles much more again but infie prefers the breakers still even if they're a little weaker nowadays and i'd love to see this confident play by enfie playing with his hero levels very very well this level three faster doing a good job but that last hit goes to fly with the chain lightning that's his level three then indeed and no not much progress for the archmage at the moment he's stuck on level three but of course he wants to power level that mk the big role of the breakers is stop the tc we saw it yesterday you take the tc you run into the rifleman you stomp you get a lightning shield on top and you do tons and tons and tons of damage against mass breakers that's not the case they're magic immune they're not affected by storm they're not affected by lightning shield and they block the way to the backline casters but this map not too many choke points so infinite to find a very very good position to establish a wall of breakers somewhere somewhere militia called is he just straight up expanding tier 2 expansion what that is not the norm we used to sing something that infie actually played uh started introducing a while ago uh when it was all about uh orcs just fast expanding but the meta has shifted the humans don't seem to dare to do this too much anymore but infeed does once again his confidence is showing through he's not afraid of the orc coming in for an attack when the expansion is coming if he feels isn't good of enough good enough of a position to now invest the 600 gold into a building okay what it's interesting that infi is always a little ahead in this matchup when usually it's the other way around usually it's the orc expanding first it's the orc having the tc second out first if we found ways around that his mk was faster than tc his expansion will be finishing faster than the great hall yeah a lot of it also has to do with this am getting level three as quickly as he did forcing the tp stealing a few items away and of course the breakers are the much better answer to the farseer also late game cannot be chain lightning the wolves can be stolen we saw control magic coming in already and the am is going into position to cancel this expansion by the way the wolf scout sees where the orc is the am says hello to the expo this is going to cost him a tp to get back but easily worth it if you can cancel this and then save the rest of the army here we go what's the impact going to be stumbled on the tc immediately the coda with the speed scroll going in wants to get a big target one of these breakers oh didn't get it infused breaker micro on point here comes the first big stomp followed up by a chain lightning no lightning shield yet stumbling on the far side though fly is trying to block against it but it wasn't perfect wasn't enough the berserker there and there's no tp anymore and fly is losing his first hero and that is such a disastrous position dude this am didn't even tp infie felt safe enough to not have to bring in the first hero right away and that is the confidence i was talking about it looks like infi is almost cutting a few corners but because of his execution everything works out perfectly playing this game flawlessly from beginning to end and fly for the first time he is seeing no land against this human this looks like fly versus fortitude yesterday but reverse and it is this style with the breakers that looked so good throughout the entire last year or the entire year 2020. fortitude it was interesting that he didn't play that style but he got punished for it by fly like crazy and now we got a 15 supply lead we got great hero levels for the human and what's next that was such a crazy fight it's so amazing to see how infie's actually making use of his random so well he knows he's gonna have to be scouted there's gonna be no shadow priest against him early we saw it later of course but by that time the am was level two on this highest level creep timings level up timings can make or break a game and honestly when the am killed this shadow priest in the early the game was almost lost because fly was at a disadvantage enough for enfie to win this game from there seeing this i wonder if it's good for fly that infie is playing random because this looks so strong it really might not be it really really might not be um i think infie here sort of lucky with getting his main race but not just the main race also the fact that usually human gets pressured way more if he had gotten undead i think if he would have had a much better time and also farsier in the mirror matchup can actually work out pretty well so infie here with the main race looking so damn convincing he's gonna play it safe this time tp's out even if the farseer is still okay he's back now fly trying to set up his expansion now finally but of course orc expos always take forever infie's been on two bases now for a while it's more breakers coming more upgrades and infie is definitely looking to take this first game by storm but fly is not giving this up of course he has strong aoe once he gets to five maybe there's something for him possible heal scrolls on both sides two for infield big mana potion still he's holding on to that one that's gonna be the x factor in one of the upcoming fights with so much mana what can you do in fee not banking at 50 he's getting upgrades he's getting more units he's pretty much only footman and breakers crazy barely i need a spell barely any healing that's what he showed before and he shows here now again we thought it wouldn't be viable anymore but infie shows us otherwise hail mary play now he's trying to go for the am with a purge and focus fire am does have a teepee though can always get out if he needs to kill being used first and there was only the first one the farce here is stone bolted and dead and this very much looks like the first game for elfie yeah the archmage was absolutely ready for this getting the involved poster now level four for him easy punish for this one again the farcier pretty glass cannon no info potion on him no staff no tp couldn't afford it really and of course yeah well if he sees this and if he punishes this so hard and now he's storming forward with a 16th supply lead there might be towers okay the expo was just established we do have the first wyvern and where there's barely anything against if you take out the water elementals but there's almost no spell as well so archmage might be able to get one or two more wattamentals out then it's a bad bad time for these wyvern as well tc has to carry this alone but in peace control seems to be superior gonna choke him out here slowly we saw uh workshop for a second so more teams will be joining soon if they should be required which probably aren't really fly knows he's very likely losing this game but he's trying everything maybe you get lucky with the hero kill maybe there's something still possible this after all is the grandest stage but he's about to lose everything here kodo's dropping soon this mountain king is close to level five he's had a wonderful time on this map here echo isles i feel like he wasn't attacked and pressured once he just could do whatever he wanted seriously we we haven't even seen the biggest claps really yet stonewalls were good to disable the tc for the most part flies absolutely without chances in this matchup even gyros now as the answer quick reaction if he got that in time you will never really accumulate the necessary amount of wyvern to break through the spellbreakers wow i didn't think that this would be so one-sided that was a big clap right there one last try fasting tc and again you know a lot of things are possible with tc level five but not against spell breakers they are magic immune do not care about one of the strongest spells in the game with war stomp oh and this poor tc had to carry for the majority of the game couldn't really do anything about it and it's in fee at the shop once again making even going boots 15 minutes into the game when do we ever see that wants to get into a better position more quickly yeah the decision to skip boots early very interesting lots of resources saved by infini in the early game he was able to kill some enemy mercenaries he didn't go for boots he just went pure footies priests breakers and that's i guess how he was able to fit in that expansion so well as well if he hardly had very expensive costs he had to cover via items and this bars here might be going down for the third time yeah and that might just be the tap out afterwards he's taking care of the priest in the back with his aoe but now it's almost twice the supply he could never even deal with the flying machines and fly knows that wasn't the opening he was hoping for infy with random getting his main base and destroys really really well done wasn't the flashiest early game by any means it wasn't a crazy surrounds or kills that was a perfect game by infie always knew how many units he needed to engage what camp made a perfect assessment of what fly was bringing to the table how dangerous he was he played around the last hits perfectly and even you know that moved to the south to creep the gold mine right there hardly any human would do that most of the humans would be seeing fly around and realizing the farsi can of course harass would be too afraid to engage the camp but infie goes for it even if it costs him a footprint or two it's tons of experience that then gets him so close to level three and if you with all of his experience as well he even knows he can take out that shadow priest suddenly taking away dispel capabilities from fly getting him all that closer all that much closer to level three infeed played this game not only extremely well but also playing so well with the information that fly has to play a certain style as he's going up against random indeed so where do you go from here as fly you can't really think too much about it of course you don't really know what you're up against next you can choose the map and that must feel a little better must feel more comfortable if he yesterday took the lead against law light as well and then lost matches back to back so it's not that he's unbeatable especially i'm so curious man i would love to see infield with all right like this there's two things for me i would love to see a straight up human versus or series for whatever reason that the rn jesus wants to punish him before that for that human for that random pick or all races fly was so strong against night elf in the wcg grand final historically one of the best orc versus undead i also love to see a mirror match between them because the styles are so different yeah just logically looking at what could be possible i think the best chance for infi is playing human obviously his main race um playing random here and also night elf because if he's playing night elf if he hits the night of with his dice then fly is fairly likely going to be playing farsier i guess depending on the map of course and farsi can have a very tough time against night off if fly should be going up against infays orc or undead i think fly is going to be greatly favored he is extremely strong there and infie as strong as he is not as experienced in the other ones but his human and night i believe the most dangerous so that's perhaps how fly can also view this his night elf and human are the most dangerous i have to be ready for but the thing is he cannot even cover that with one hero choice yeah against human he wants to have farsi against night if he wants to have blademaster so the difficulty of making the right choices here for fly remains and will remain for this entire series it is a really smart pick by infie now next turtle rock it is a very very good orcmap you can creep a lot and it's not the greatest expansion map for the other races thing is it's really big it's the biggest map in the pool and there's two possible starting positions for entry so how fast will he get information about his opponent's race yeah it feels like fly absolutely has to peon scout there's no option around this and that of course also messes with your timings messes with your build a little bit you will be scouting against night off because you have to against the keeper always but against the other races ideally you want to omit that scout you want to save those resources you want to have a faster attack and you want to get into the mid game a little more smoothly but here fly will now have to do it has to scout and has to decide earlier than that even but here is going to be going up okay time to load into map number two big big big stage here in shanghai multi gaming event over there today time for a new warcraft champion fly can he strike back or will infinity take the lead with two and oh and claim three match points we're going to see the decision here on tr bottom left against top left they're spawning on the same lane not cross position this might be good for fly the scout should be way faster than crossbosses this is human or orc for enfie what is it is it human again observer keeping us in suspense orc mirror foster headhunters oh yeah or is it fast here i didn't see the hero yes it is okay i was about to say he's he's not that brave that he plays tc headhunters here is he all right interesting farseer headhunters of course super popular in the west especially thanks to players like kiwi and grubby we see this all over the place there on the top level not that much the strategy has weaknesses can be exploited if you know it's coming especially but fly how's he supposed to know this is coming sending the peon scout across the map diagonally yeah not gonna see right away what's happening at the very beginning and this is supposed to be fly's map it's like he has to take it it's an org mirror match-up he's the org expert he's supposed to win this it's his map pick this is the map where he should feel the most comfortable and then he starts with the wrong scout yeah it's still going to be okay though he's going to be arriving in time to see what he needs to see couldn't do anything about this green camp anyways and seeing the farseer is pretty likely that infy is going to be playing headhunter it's very popular for the for everyone but the top orcs sort of so how much experience does fly have with this because i imagine if he's playing against an orc and he's suspecting farsi or headhunters ideally he wants to play blademaster aggressive against that how much has he played blade falcio grunts against farsi or headhunters before yeah probably not too much this is a weird matchup this is not something you see every day we've seen more developments in org mirror but this is this is something highly unusual absolutely fascinating now in theory uh second hero could make a big difference of course he will regardless of how this game plays out tc is going to be the second hero for both players unless something very weird happens and tc against headhunters extremely strong in theory if he gets the levels pretty sure if he's going to be going tier three at some point he's going to harass a little bit in the main cancel the shop cancel to borrow that's certainly annoying here for fly but he's walking across the map going for the green camps fly gets level two first infini now following up himself with that there's so many consumables on this map as well so you gotta take care that your opponent is not sniping the turtles on the back of this map otherwise you might be up against the score of the beast without uh aoe dispel or big mana potions or big involved potions for the tc you can't allow your opponent to get too much of that also these red spots are really good infi is checking it he didn't scout right he didn't really know where his opponent is wait he's creeping that one faster and one grunt what what he's waiting for the second grunt he doesn't even have heel selves interesting i think fly realizes with that hunters out already for infie can creep camps like the shop super easy piercing damage always better for creeping heavy armor camps normal damage like runs always better for creeping medium armor camps these items for fly are horrible by the way double cloak and quel'thalas whereas we have a circlet and a pendant of energy for infie he has the item hack many many people say it which is of course but you know he's creeping a lot this farsi are dropping down hard but he got level three and one of the biggest camps on the map goes to him on the other side infy got the watch award between the two lanes and you will always have vision about that position double tc coming in fury added grunts soon to join lots of gold being saved so far by these two thanks to the wolves you are less reliant a lot less in fact on heel salves how much did fly sell there with inventory double cloak he keeps the quel'thalas boots what could be a hero that benefits from this i mean of course dark ranger is also good against head hunters for a while but i can't see him go tier three dark ranger again that could be decent on tier three but you don't have healing then he's not shadowhunter on tier three can be really good it's oftentimes hard to level that third hero shadow but here we are on the big map might be possible and we do see the tier three by entry that was no surprise we knew infy was going to be doing it yeah this fly going to do it as well is the question the cat goes pipe what are these items in feet absolutely ridiculous with the caster heavy army he's going to get a lot of shaman for purge lightning shield bloodlust this is the best item this is the absolute best by far best item is getting a lot out of this map these boros do not have reinforced defenses and the push is coming in headhunters can snipe some of them very quickly one is definitely gone the other one behind that might be getting cancelled fire has to come in with the tp and actually saves the burrows i think there was a chance to go for this farsi a little bit but now once the tc he has a big mana potion on himself but the tc just moves out too much damage done a grunt falls for fly how many head hunters can he get that's the second one but infie if he's not going for the tep that might still be a good trade for him the raider's still missing flies waiting for his tier two units i think a raider and ensnare was cued if i'm not mistaken no i guess i am mistaken we have shaman now coming out for both and also the first witch doctor early on for enfie he's gonna have plenty of visions with lots of sentry wards here soon that's nice that's really cool on a big map like this and what's fly's planned he's a tier two he has to get something done but at the moment he's just following envy is the one dictating the game infy is the one with the strong items he picks this one up greater mana posted for the level 2 tc there as well which was really important almost didn't get that last hit but he did that aura makes a world of difference what can fly do even is that tc level three oh my god it's so close really super close indeed there we go thanks to the wolf that's stomp level two very very good position half of infinity's army is disabled but infuse the one getting the kill speed scroll but it's not the speed scroll to get away from things he just wants to reposition dive for the shaman and distract buy time for the tier three he has a tc level below but still making good worth of this fight going for the back line off casters here are both of them tc getting purged getting stomped there's a little bit more mana for fleischer remaining he can pop the big mana potion as well if he wants to he has two of them in fact but he's not doing that yet that fight goes to i don't know in feed by a little bit but it was pretty close yeah but infy is still transitioning that's not the fights he wants to take that's the fights he kind of has to take because he's forced into something fry isn't transitioning but flies on the hunt this cat guess piper's also crazy good right now for the recovery after the fights so strong ensnare on the farsier trying to force a tp here maybe well the tp was used earlier so this could be dangerous i suppose but that ensnare did not need to kill the uh raider died here comes the stomp now trying to go for the surround does he have it doesn't oh not quite doesn't work again a little bit of healing canceled here he really wants to get closer that was the potion committed but here's the shadowhunter that's gonna be hex and he'll wave soon brings new items as well can he somehow get rid of this farsia there's no tp anymore fly saw that fly wanted to punish it but unable to infuse movement too good this game seems to be slipping away from fly but he is getting quite a few kills right now took out some berserkers shamans some more berserkers in the scrappy kind of fight the wolves level two are certainly really good and still has another big mana to use if he needs to oh my god a million ensnares killing off a few joints there as well he wave coming through now we have the triple hero online tc level 2 getting focused that stop isn't too big all of a sudden here's zinfy he'll wave saves him for a bit also fly taking a lot of damage his army is so low he needs to get a hero kill otherwise like 15 supplies about to drop for him tc level three oh oh going for the hero now this has to be the kill it has to be the kill it is the kill oh he was in the animation for the stomp dude almost coming through but he just barely gets that kill farsi level five getting focused as well if he falls then he's going to be looking disastrous whoa that's the chain lightning and that's level four a little bit more hp for the tc can he also get the faster he has a little bit of heat wave speed scroll to put more damage on to the do you see there's a purge can he walk it off is the aura strong enough is someone there to save the tc the wolves are hungry they're aiming for the shadow hunter another heel wave and it looks like the tc gets away super important moment of this game fly was about to lose this and then he gets a double kill you know what save this tc the crow fellas boots those are more points i'm not even kidding that is what saved him oh farsi you're back from the tavern very expensive cannot afford to lose this one but who's going to lose the party as a question oh in feet that was expensive gg the orc mirror goes to fly there was a lot of pressure on fly to get stuff done he was stuck on tier two no transition into the late game no triple hero he had to smash that fight right there otherwise he was gonna lose that tc when it died for infie it had like point two seconds left to use that stomp if he stomps he's gonna kill the enemy tc those 200 milliseconds won the game aka those crowd fellas boots sort of won the game but really well done by flyman knowing what he must do the tier 2 game sense for flying knowing how aggressive he has to be and how far he can push his advantage we see it throughout multiple different matchups we saw it before against undead i think most impressively we saw it against fortitude very clearly and here in the org mirror as well a bit of a shock for flight to lose the first map the way he did very clearly but he comes back to make this a one one yeah pretty similar to the low light series yesterday is this gonna be the start of the turnaround in few of course mentally incredibly stable a game in the series can go so so bad but he only always finds ways around it fly now this must feel good finally an accomplishment even though he was a little bit behind kills they must motivate him to go for more faster tc always a weapon in every matchup for the hero kill in this tournament we keep mentioning it over and over is a lot about hero kills that game was so close if that shadowhunter joins the fight 15 seconds faster i think infie wins the fight and wins the game crucial moments all the way through the tc stomp here first being revealed on level two and then just just running for the shaman ignoring everything else speed scroll popped going for the shaman backline that one is of course squishy and then the chase follows there was a lot of pressure on fly he had to pretty much win the game right here the time for him was running out but unlike many other players who are unable to close out games when they really have to fly manchester do it and it's really impressive when you don't just survive and hold on to the late game but you use your timing and finish the game when you intend to do it the scene of the game stomp animation not working fly's army is so hard in this moment imagine one more chain lightning that's a quad kill right there but then no no no no doesn't work f has false as well alongside the tc and the tc of fly just walks it off and then of course if you invest into a die back that's it the tier three investment never paid off infie was a little too aggressive maybe not waiting for the orb for the berserk for the bloodlust yeah that tp was that too much he was right outside his base reef just popped the speed scroll boosted out of there willingly accept like two unit losses and then wait for the shadowhunter with that tp still intact he could have continued to go out on the map creeping possibly but that game is behind us now and i guess the chances aren't too high we're gonna see him hitting orc again but uh well it's not out of the question either 25 every time every map to hit one of the four races here last refuge our next map yeah infini's first pick really curious once again the question what race and what opening uh for fly then there's no real matchup where fly is weak right he doesn't have a weak spot anymore yes in a straight up standard game especially i think his clear weakness here is if he's facing if he's human and he has to go for a scout that he doesn't want to and that messes up his early game and then the momentum isn't on his side the way it usually would be but other than that against night elf it could be tough especially if he's playing a farsier making that work properly against elf really hard to do against the top night elves especially and of course infuse night off is impeccable against undead i think fly will be doing the best regardless of maps and the map is last refuge okay we don't have concealed on there i could see a farcia versus night elf fly has made the farcio work before against night of when he was sniping so many wisps with chain lightning before they got nerfed that was so map number three who's gonna claim match points for himself two in a row and what race is it going to be it is night elf so is fly going to gamble and pick your blade this time i think if it's blade it has to be here kind of yeah because this is the one map last refuge where blade is kind of good against human not really good but playable all other maps he will fail most likely what do we see it is the blade mask oh okay that gamble will pay off hard of course in fee with the keeper of the grove and let's think back just let's just rewind a couple of weeks when we had the wcg grand final it was fly versus moon and fly with the right strategy and the right timing make it look like moon had no chance in the majority of the series he is a beast in this matchup and last refuge was the opening map and it was a demolition fly destroyed moon over there would he do the same to enfie yeah starting off pretty well here so far this is kind of a standard orc build you go for the blade master you're gonna go for the circlet and play aggressively right away and nowadays you kind of go for a peon scout anyways this will delay the tier 2 by a little bit for fly but not by that much and the great thing about the peon scout is you have really good information of what the keeper is up to and you can smartly move with the blade master then on your side early game this map is really tough for night elf mid game late game it can be pretty good narrow chokes expansions fairly easy to defend with mercamps and so on but early game tough you do not get level 2 for free which you do get on most other maps but fly is giving in fee a possible level 2. he's focusing on himself he got the dust so what's in fees list of prioritization expo hunts tier 2 attack tier 2 attack first before anything else illusions for the blade can't prevent level 2 anymore oh did he pick it up no he didn't the reason he comes too late for this creep jack over here is the grunt in the north got ensnared approaching the creep camp if that ground doesn't get ensnared he can creep that camp faster and then maybe he's here in time to cover the next camp as well but as it is the keeper gets level two not the end of the world for fly by any means but ideally he would have loved to prevent that as well but here it is keeper now with entangle and treants ideally you want to be able to get level three fast with the keeper and then control the map but especially on lr that's hard to do okay fly now trying to put some damage onto the arches but if it prevents that with a good body block ah and an entangle this is of course mana invested that you might not want to invest little downside for fly no speed scroll no heal self no clarity going for telly staff here to be able to get out and the question for fly is also what build is he playing we got wind walk first of course for some map control stealing some items getting some last hits and then it should be crit but especially with fly mirror image is always an option yeah nowadays we very often times will see wind walk crit crit and then mirror image on four sometimes also the one one one build but seems like that's what we've been seeing most of the time if you find a really good opening to play aggressively cancelling a tree we sometimes see wind walk into mirror image but that is rather rare also the build from infi there's many different options for the night of right with expo timing and what kind of exact composition how many hunts how many archers so far zero huntresses just pure archers which can be really good for the late game very good for damage but in the mid game before 50 supply if you get caught in a bad position archers can end up falling very quickly true they do shop on the right hand side oh fly supply blocked he forgot to borrow oh oh fly maybe it was intentional he doesn't have the gold yet he went for the mercenaries oh this is looking scary though would love to oh the wisps are coming as well oh this is so scary and it is a naga fly is at 29 pop i would love to see you look at this base is there an e4 there are three boros now it's finished mass repair immediately did moon that did moon did fly anticipate this mercs are here mercenary camp is opened up roon braces not too bad but the blademaster is very very hurt he doesn't have support yet going for archers baldy uses the potion late master having a tough time mirror image could have been helpful for him there but some archers are going down but so are the org forces desperately needed and more towers coming for infie fly being tower pushed and archer pushed incredible but fly holes on to the burrows they do provide piercing damage see whether it's the first storm in fears pulling back giving fly some time to build a second hero should be the shadowhunter is the shadowhunter almost out seems like serpent boards here wouldn't do much heroif and hex perhaps better but then again against hex there is wisps around maybe hero is the only viable option here coming blademaster has to be the savior not too much damage on him plus five is nice but not overwhelming going for the naga er blocking the blade with the wisp aiming for wisps around there entangle wind walk there's still a potion blademaster can pretty much do whatever he wants at the moment and infuse foster dwindling has to be here right now oh first and then there it is wisps are blocking the blade he can't really get out he could step but for that it's too late it's the year wave ready it has to be ready it's not ready oh the shaman the one shaman just came in from the lodge didn't use the purge he could have used the purge to force the tp there at least and then fee is pushing forward in feast night elf tier two push is working no expo no mass tier one the keeper is severely hurt is out of that push can fly by enough time licking his wounds healing up which doctor status trap upgrade what this click and he wanted to go for lightning shield he needs every unit he can get at the moment and he decides to go for the upgrade for a unit he doesn't even have it's anger focus fire looking very scary now lots of grunts are going down blademaster lots of units hurt on the left hand side burrows still holding up blademaster at 60 only naga is there a kill with perch and focus but what can you focus with even only with the shadowhunter more guns are falling there's still not enough dispel it feels like repair forces a couple of resources out of flight constantly so if he has more resources to work with how long until the blade is back couple of seconds really good archer control here at all times that chop in the back helping tremendously as well when archer finally goes down shadow hunter this was the first bit of experience for him the borrowed so much army going down the borough is down and he can't rebuild anything that's falling that's more peons down that's the shaman down blademaster has to go to town he needs the crit somehow still can't remake units and oh limited mana on the shadowhunters had another kill flying this blademaster love-hate relationship for years this time it's an escape but this buys infy so much time and three engines of war trying to end the game with an archer ancient of war push seems like infinity is gonna claim the lead here in match point get ready on ladder ladies and gentlemen this might be play getting played a lot more very soon not good keeper of course loves this kind of a scenario when there's not enough to spell against them you can find so many kills quite easily almost getting surrounded oh yeah fly see that's probably the only way hero kill couple of crits but he's getting entangled every single time he can't afford a potion anymore another escape for how long though this moon will also genius having region all the time for the keeper having mana all the time for the keeper fly has no lumber anymore and the shadowhunter drops as well that's horrible if you're a fly fan we thought this would be good for him with the blademaster gamble first but after this he's gonna find himself defending match points there's a potion the heroes never seem to be in real trouble gg infini not only having the balls to go random but also having the balls to go for a very unusual strategy on map number three taking that map keeper naga archer push inspiring yeah that one grunt ensnare really messed with fly he thought he was gonna be able to prevent level two with his opening there but it wasn't quite possible the keeper gets that level two but beyond that i'm surprised he played it so passively he go went for his side of the map he went for the mercs which of course is very tempting to do with illusions you can do that pretty well but it also meant complete freedom to the keeper he got a fast level three the keeper did he was able to use entangle with that very well and not only did fly allow level three he also intentionally delayed his second hero by like a full minute not the best place by fly maybe in fee one step away from back to back grand finals i think only one two zero th and happy we're able to do and the next map what's it gonna be we have amazonia and northern ielts left we've seen three different races here from in visa time for undead that would suit fly the best i think pretty clearly yeah so much pressure on fly now what a great tournament he played he was in wcg shape for sure but he met infy his former teammate in the rogue warriors and of course they know each other so well really impressed with infini here i was kind of worried that you know the random infant from the past we have seen some unusual games there sometimes some questionable moves but here this is just he's using this to his advantage this is really smart by him he is capable of playing so many races on the very highest level and he's making flies live difficult not just with his random but also with his strategy choices on the second map when he was playing orc he was forcing fly to be really aggressive be aggressive right away and have a powerful mid game or lose the game was his play right there and now he goes for the complete opposite he forced this fly to be able to defend really well and well i guess it was kind of similar this late game was not allowed where fly had to smash that push very quickly and with the shuttle hunter being so late with the keeper being so strong that didn't quite work out yeah in this tournament fly never really was in a position like this also in wcg he never really was in a position like this whereas match points against him yeah against xiaokai it went full distance against mikaela was a clear 2-0 and against fortitude he got the clear victory as well at wcg he was the dominator so in the for the first time in a while fly is under pressure how does he deal with the pressure how does the pressure deal with him normally he uh oftentimes thrives in such situations offline fly has always been the strongest in the past that might be kind of antiquated thinking because fly this year certainly show that also online he is a force to be reckoned with 2020 was a wonderful year for fly looking really really strong once again his fans were waiting for that for a long long time and as we know he has plenty of fans in the fan voting in the compendium the crowdfunding for this tournament he by far got the most penance it wasn't even close and with that he is largely responsible for the community almost hitting the second stretch goal here for another extension of the prize pool but their favorite player might not be making it to the finals fly he's one map away from dropping down dropping out of the lower to the third place indeed the chinese fans by the way are really close of hitting that hopefully they can do it today to increase the prize pool even more in the fan voting it was fly first with thirty thousand votes then six thousand seven hundred for xiao kai as a second place so that shows you how much the chinese community loves fly then it's moon third and then it's in fee with like one tenth of the votes that fly has a clear clear clear favorite i think he could only be beaten in a fanbot by td at max absolutely very very likable guy amazing stream that he shows his skill in first person he's gonna have to show his skill now northern isles our next map this is all this is yeah again what race this gonna be if he's getting human is in fee fast expanding that might be the necessary time he needs [Music] and then within that lord expansion definitely doable with night elf expansions doable yeah i think blademaster not viable on northern isles it's only good against night elf yeah against everything else you're well against mirror of course going to be good but i think an augmented can also get away with farsi pretty easily so it feels like fly has to play farsi or here that means should infee get night elf again fly's gonna be in serious serious trouble he is already because the iceman is on his way to the second finals in a row to his fourth finals ever if he wins just one more map it is random time again this time on northern isles and what will the rn jesus give him it is added we get all four races remo in fee in the bottom left for the scourge all right that's really cool one of each and i think it's pretty clearly going to be the case that uh fly is going to be doing the best here against undead against anna both blademaster and farsier can work out pretty well although as far as early game goes pressuring with the farseer is easier is that the choice here we expect it to be and no it's not it's a blade pulls the lord we've seen infis undead in dreamhack that's where he showed the world that he is incredibly strong with the lord and the mass strategies with run by his multitasking multiple challenges for his opponent and how do you play against the lord with a blade master quite the gamble by fly right if if infie was human this game would be 99 lost yep but he's not he is under maybe fly feels so bad against infant's human right now that he's willing to set that aside interesting interesting so early game crucially important for an undead player and for a player facing off against lord last hits item steals kills delays all absolutely monumentally important and of course fly is very experienced with that but so is infinity nowadays he was off racing with undead a lot he always plays random on ladder so he'll know what to do and then of course it's a little bit about the items as well what's the start crit first and the ring all right infuse build here not is he going for the green or instant expansion fly knows now fly is taking quite a few gambles very easily the undead can go for the instant expansion if he wants to but it's dangerous you might get harassed you might lose last hits it could be painful fly with this build he has to creep level two before do it being able to do anything so there was a big window for enfie to be super greedy but of course fly plays with the information as well that infie probably doesn't risk all that much in the early game so he's cutting a few smart corners here some some pretty smart calculated risks he is probably not expect expanding right there's no skull what does he expect huh there is ah there is okay sorry then he just bought it okay the acolyte is here can the blademaster snipe the item or the acolyte both would be big infie has the dust ready last it goes to the crypto item to the blademaster ring of regen that is the best one for the early game by far but that level two now for the impale definitely very valuable to have lots of beetles around rules everything else fly is trying to prevent this expansion he does it successfully once the dangerous thing here is always the grunts come in they get impales around use the first one you lose the second one the expansion still comes through it's very hard to make the right call here of how aggressive you should be playing this this ring of regen helps a ton right now and it is a bit of a delay already so i would love to delay this even more okay who's for the acolyte that would cause the rebel of the acolyte and he has to move over lakemaster's focusing on the ziggurat gets there more wind walk grunt will probably be sacrificed for this builder fly always on the verge of dying with his blademaster gets the grunt in the end but delays the expansion tech is of course running cryptocurrent has full mana yeah yeah it's very scary for flying conservative with this also during dreamhack it's the same um skill he uses when he plays human with what elemental summoning like he always knows exactly how many summons he needs and how much mana he can bank never spamming unnecessarily all right is that enough damage to get the cancel he brings in another grunt with that is definitely enough damage but guess what the grunt got surrounded can you pop him out is the question if you're not going for a try impale can he pop him out second run going down that hurts it's also the second haunted gold mine going down now the towers up is of course experience for the cr lord still hanging around i hope fly is going shadow second this tc second i oh he's going to see second there bc double b that's the strategy he wants to save the series with banking on the storm and the raiders if he was able to cancel the haunted one more time maybe he can keep it from being from coming up with wind riders that seems to be the plan fly is that enough i slowed gotta be careful impale could be coming in so far it's looking okay fly was sacrificing his blademaster before to prevent expansions that was incredible oh oh he still slowed he was stunned there's more damage [Music] the grunt the dust oh no that might be it impales around grunt caught as well oh oh what can the tc do nothing too risky if he goes shockwave can he do it don't think the damage is enough yeah it's too late now won three grunts and the hero kill this might be this might very well be too much for once flies aggressive play backfires hardcore so far it oftentimes worked out perfectly we do have the wyvern now but man there's so many things then has to focus tc getting surrounded of course there's no staff no tp no potion it feels like fly is incredibly outplayed with three out of four races against mikhail his orc versus undead looked so good but he never really knew what the race is okay why run up trying to get some acolytes at least this blademaster choice is that what costs him here in the end so surprising in three out of four cases it seemed like a farseer should have been better but he still went for the blade but it was also close to being brilliant if he canceled the expansion right there before he lost the blademaster and then the wyvern come in and then he continuously cancels it without it ever coming up suddenly we're gonna call fly the mastermind suddenly he's winning the game with these sacrificial decisions but if it doesn't work you're gonna be a lot tougher of a spot and there by the way that ring of protection comes in from the first camp if that is any other item for more damage yeah this game might look different probably at least the item on the ground can't be a great one then tc is back as well has decided to go for storm this is the last chance for fly and he's facing a level four crypt lord with an expansion behind him absolutely no tier three just fly stuck on tier two giant oh my god what up man i see the blade master surrounded again oh it's a disaster does he reveal him not really right there was a watch award i think he could have gotten him but he wants out all right fly playing his tier two map control style we have seen that many times very impressively displayed this time it's uh from a much more difficult position but with the raiders he can still possibly find a few kills over here with pillage the rat style getting a couple of resources thanks to pillage throwing infie back keeping him busy on his side on the map looks like fly is aiming for a counter expansion it's gonna get one fiend here but the damage really isn't that high raiders good for ensnaring not good for actually doing damage oh speed scroll surround by envy again after this impale what to do now there's of course no tp has to fight out but look at this damage by all the beatles all the ghouls tc dead again he wanted to go for the blademaster but fly moved him away earlier the raiders diving deep perhaps a little too deep now there's webb oh goodness two wyvern gonna be lost maybe another raider there as well the tc died already everything's hurt in fee without a shadow of a doubt the better player today always making the right calls whether it be to play the game slow with human and take it with the tier 2 expansion mass breakers or to be aggressive with night elf and push super early tier 2 or to play with the fast expansion here with undead every single aspect of the game he got that look gets the big mana stone gotta be careful here now ends there okay critical strike coil too late all of a sudden the krypton is dead death knight has a tp to get out if he needs to lots of end snares flying all right can you kill this dk as well it's gonna have to tp out of course comes back from the tavern big investment and the tp is gone as well can't fly find a way back how far is it even expansion is it just a tower for him should be the expansions i think it's come been coming up for a long time envy by the way not going to three yet he is only tier two here i imagine fiends will be getting upgraded here as well and statues coming in soon this raider gang not made for fighting this is a base race game race race gang and then we got a couple of units already at the expansion invo potion pop just following the dk probably there is a heal scroll still and impales can oftentimes save he's playing ring around the rosie here comes the stun more right clicks blake masters not in with this attack but oh death pact on level two absolutely the right choice here to keep map position and to pressure again fly still super far behind everything is low everything now needs to heal up first crips are about hit level five but fly is going in with the heel stroll maybe he can dare to still getting good value of the ring of regen level two crit would be so good he's going for that dk can he save himself once again little bit of healing blademaster gets coiled and the lord eats him tc on its own but no stomp no mana no firepower at all and he finds himself into a surround again i think the run or fly is over and if he with two consecutive grand finals in the gold league what a performance by enfie his level of play absolutely impeccable and he makes the random work in his favor orc definitely has a tough time dealing with random unlike undead for example there is not one opening build that is always the best with one opening hero that always works out really well in fees super smart today he was playing random not as some kind of shenanigans this was a winning strategy a brilliant strategy really well done said in the game the all game plans worked out perfectly he identified fly's weaknesses in every match up there with him having the better knowledge about the matchup and he chose the right strategies in almost every regard mirror is a little special he just loves the tier three and it's a little stubborn with that but that was close as well like it's not that he got destroyed in ork mirror it comes down to one fight and maybe one situation but there we go too many hero kills in the beginning of the set maybe was the flight was a little bit too greedy maybe one or two cancellations are enough and man infie what a freaking god he is to just pick random and destroy fly the wcg champion beaten by random yeah the first battle's really one side i think their fly got out played hard but last refuge if that end snare doesn't happen dude that game can look very different and here if he goes either farsier could make for much better game or if he gets another cancel for the wyvern then continuously able to prevent the expansion so many close calls and once again goes to show that here on this highest level every little thing every little difference is gonna have great ripple effects when the players don't uh allow for any kind of mistakes all right up next probably the winner interview again and then the second semi-final it could very well be a rematch of group c it could very well be the wcg quarterfinal rematch in moon vs infy or is it the ultimate underdog story is mikhail doing it the oldest player in the tournament that's the question for the next match 3-1 infi that was a testament of strength again he is so scary when it's gold league time [Music] always on his stream many times in other tournaments very often in qualifier infield plays random but this is the biggest achievement he's ever gotten with playing random isn't it pretty sure well he only did it in one series so far i don't know if that really counts but yeah the balls of infi this is a like you you double your prize money pretty much if you win the semi-final from 6 000 to 12 000 and he did it he absolutely did it yeah just an insane player i think at this point it is official the best random player in the world hard to argue with that now he might do it again in the grand final which would be pretty amazing against mikhail that has a high chance of happening i think against moon it's really really unlikely though yeah this human against night elf is so strong and night off can react to random pretty well with their easy wisp scouts we're gonna wait i don't know if there's a winner interview here or if they save it for the grand final but okay we got the winner interview and we got wong by our side to do the instant translation mr wong welcome to the show have fun with the winner interview hi can you hear me yep everything great i think i have three second or five second delay okay no problem or random and you get four different race it's very small right i always play random but i always get human but today is different so i didn't expect that it was the good way and advanced from playing random the first hero choice on on the first euro choice of of course we know that all can can scout nowadays but the first hero is still on f i'm still on the higher position and choosing hero but when i'm playing enough i don't think i do that i get that prank random is pretty high because all races get very different how to do that i don't know in old mirror you lose it you use headhunters why i lost it actually i have a very big advance in early game but somehow i found out that i was behind ten supplies and my level also behind of him i didn't know that in the game because you are playing random i think yeah i'm not very familiar with orc so in the play now you are going power push how rush you are going to rush him with klg and the engine 4 do you do that before no i don't think there's a because i all random on all men so there are very very many different play style so it depends on his uh his first hero but he uh according to his planning leveling leveling plan so it's for me my kg is easy to be level three so i go to a tow rush version so how do you think no moon is have to win the game win this tournament so one of us is here for the moon only to witness the moon yeah of course moon is the winner today all right man thank you wong for the translation we're gonna hear from you uh later probably for the second third and fourth match have a great time until then and we got a couple of supporters here ladies and gentlemen we go into a little bit of a break but not without thanking you wonderful people the feed is of course kept clean so you don't have any alerts during the games but after the series 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Length: 84min 6sec (5046 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 06 2020