WGL:W Grand Finals 2018 - Quarterfinal: [N] Moon vs. Fly100% [O]

all righty finally we're back with the second quarter final of the day it's time for the moon to rise currently under 1000 win streak he wants to expand on that his opponent is an orc one of the best of all times it's fly 100 percent Lin is already in the semi final and man would it be a dream to have moon versus Lin yeah for a lot of us out there when you have been waiting for this matchup for awhile especially for the Koreans not so much for the Chinese a fly or vice world champion by the way should lose here that meets only a single Chinese in the top four oh yeah that's true yeah as in fie and colorful will eliminate each other that would be a disaster for China and will continue the reign of Koreans of course as we've seen throughout the year with Lin winning almost every tournament and Team Korea winning the next clan war this is the map choices so far moon of course winning every single one unbelievable dude three times on AZ once on CH one against working one hundo denials as well so the new maps against org moon seems to like them that was of course against cash pretty big surprise and that with a shimmer us there why moon impressed me so much was it wasn't only the typical moon creativity he showed that as well as you say with the chims with a non keeper opening on concealed Hill with playing Tier two against traffic hazard lots of innovative unusual styles that was very good but also his execution was insane you remember that highlight tip of his Dryad micro and was just incredible like perfect micro on top of perfect strats this guy has it all this tournament and he flying he needs to step it up man if he wants to have a chance here he was one map away from not making it out here had he lost again sock with the - with a one - is it over - one then we would have even won Chinese less in our top eight so he is definitely the underdog here coming into this match absolutely and the matchup is not easy for him both of them are fighting for the Frozen Throne wgl okay we can talk about the introduction later fly bans amazonia on the map where moon was the strongest thus far moon bans twisted meadows his living room man he bans moon meadows picks Tara nest and fly picks last refuge echo alpha moon and fly with concealed hills that means we start again on Northern Isles just as we had it in the first quarter final between focus and Lyn Lyn was successful there with a 3-1 he's in the top four already and we are waiting for his opponent for moon it's the sixth wgl attendance four times he made it to the playoffs two times into the top four never to the finals though and these top four performances were in 2015 in spring of 2016 so two and a half years ago last time he made it to the playoffs but he met Laura ayat and he put an end to Moon's run will Moon's run continue here channa no for the fifth race against fly who shall never be underestimated he made it to every single wgl competition six times into the playoffs a record alongside envy and foggy top for two times and every time he wasn't the top four he made it to the finals winning it once last time of course he was eliminated in the finals by th it was a pretty one-sided affair but the way into the finals was pretty sick he was the underdog in basically every match he started off in the quarterfinals against won 2-0 and no one really thought that he would make it there but he did same goes against LA light with his exceptional execution of the orc night off matchup moon he has had two runs in his career where he won a premier tournament without dropping a single map that was NBC prime in 2004 and the legendary legendary tournament of weg 2005 13 years ago but the chance is there the fifth race versus fly map number one Northern Isles all right let's see what these two great players are going to show us here moon really in my opinion these strongest out of all players so far but he needs to convert this into the playoffs well needs to keep up his strength and not crumble under the pressure it's unbelievable to think that moon a such a veteran of this game can still feel the pressure can still get nervous but that apparently is what has happened to him the last couple of times again not putting up the results that he were expect from a player of his strength Northern Isles seems to be in favor of the orcs so far sample size of course rather small here so shouldn't take it away too much from this yeah this is the first time these two players meet on this map so a little premiere here speaking of premiere moon is of course the big legend in this game but he hasn't won a big tournament a premier tournament in seven years it was the IeSF 2011 back then with to a win over Lynn and fly he wasn't in I I think it was a deny fly on the other side he's not playing too many tournaments he's not the big org legend as Lynn or grubby but he's picking up a lot of titles man GC has grand final 2016 GC a spring where he won not only the one-on-one competition but also the two and two competition with Russia and of course unforgettable the WCA 2015 run against yours and the final what the tournament that was so fly is there when it counts notice always there but as he said will he crumble on the pressure I think it's especially gonna be interesting to watch fly here adapt and play style because I feel fly was always the strongest when he could be aggressive and with his games through relentless aggression I'm not sure that that's something you can do against the keeper matter anymore if you want to be like 40 supply in his face and he's got level three and a bunch of huntresses that shouldn't go well for you and speaking of aggression here we see the blade master starting to hack away at the keeper as far as openings go by the way when Linds played here when I played here against Neutron in a very smart opening speed skal instantly to run over to not give the night off at level 2 for free which seemed like a very very good opening indeed but fly took a bit of a backseat there crept his own camps and seemed to have been rewarded with a double circuit and the slippers this Blademaster already pimped moon here not yet ticking seems to be going for an economic opening once again yeah Huntress opening no expansion in sight yet though and fly taking a different approach than Lyn did not going for the keeper not going for the ultra aggression but going to the other side of the map and trying to steal some creeps to prevent level three and they get the lasted and the club pimping the blade mastery bit more but he's kind of stuck there he has the mana for the wind walk but takes a lot of between Wow even more damage to with a forty backstab of wind walk level one so the keeper will have to invest a lot of mana of the moon wells to get back into shape that's a super strong blade master Jesus Christ once he gets to level 2 the damage really gonna come out but this cost him a lot of mana may not be able to spam we'd walk as much as molarity though he does have a clarity custom still a few wind walks however and the only scroll of speed so saving grunts without that one it's gonna be very difficult grunts in fact the single grunt I should say that there is it's just parked back at home this is the danger of the keeper whatever you that he finds that unit is dead and if that's a footman or a ghoul it's not that bad but if it's a grunt that's things fly steals more experience from known keeping the keeper away from level 3 this is so important level 3 checking the base ok there's nothing yep the tech has started oh no did that Nate so that is level 2 now critical strike with +7 agility of course nice and with his bonus damage that he has can he still cancelled I mean there's gonna be an tango with an angle this ship certainly not be possible he's doing shot some nice starter stepping here to minimize the damage this is seriously gotta get this where's the tears the entangle maybe you see without mana that can't be possible so eating it right he's baiting yeah yeah alright flies are gonna fall for it though saving the mana interesting losing a bit of HP on the tree of life but should be fine I guessed here too it was important this wind walk that was his last he'll serve otherwise the healing would have been canceled very close good multitasking by moon chasing the Blademaster creeping at the same time not doing anything in the base though the beast 3 is up he stays on to you too at least for a moment second arrow should certainly be the shadow hunter with whatever skill build oh whoa running into the creeps Boulder toss but I think he didn't pay attention to his wind walk duration right there it just ran out and that means now he's out of mana but the SH is coming in anything and I would love to have a timer here but it's one of the latest level 3 keepers that we've seen thus far that creep jack is gonna hurt man this blade master so strong and of course backed up by the shadows still plenty of hexes to use that should must be level to entangle good shadow melt as well but here comes the reveal and tangle immediately on the shadow hunter there's no backup what the outcome is at the moment though does he have something to get out he has a speed scroll but if everything is blocked oh and tangle again shadow hunter dead this aggression backfires Hart and there was so impatient diving all the way to the back of that camp for a single Archer really I feel like that was a big opportunity missed here now the blade had a bit of trouble as well and he doesn't appear selves anymore we have one more and tangles can result in a lot of damage on the blade master once again oh he's going for a grunt instead Staffing home I like that play a lot gonna be full mana here or close to it very soon and the entangle duration should secure this kill it will deny a little late as well so even more spirits Oh fly with the wyvern backup only one though just a little bit funnier ass and to put in the damage against the hunters I like that as well the rock column is still up at the shadow hunter head the heal selves the flake master has to go all the way back to his Mane just to heal up okay tada oh I think got it did fly get it I'm pretty sure he did otherwise the shadow hunter wouldn't have had like level 1.3 1.6 he probably got it wow what a lasted he where fly I think it saved Oh wind okay no mountain giants usually you really don't want to go like small areas against org because they have bad writers yep do you want to go tell us we have seen that bushes cache haven't we talents are still you know good once you trance are stuck behind a little barricade so good once you get to high numbers but they need tier three and I wonder isn't moons Tier three gonna be some really late by the way these hunts moon will deuce it doesn't go into the keeper one carry what now again the critic oh no vampiric over for fly this is insane this could be a disaster for moon right here when if men are stealing being used as well first hundred is already down he's having for the keeper immediately stepping onto the Archer should be sick see no you got hex so he couldn't stop anymore didn't see that so he's stuck in the surrounded shadow hunter is safe and that is the town portal keeping the shadow hunter alive yes and the level up for the plate master and the town pole is gone and this Archer is dead fly is by far the closest to picking a map of of Moon yam and moon he may have the expansion here but he's been taking losses i flossed now he's going hippos hippos yes he tricked by this one why burn it looks like it you can of course turn him into hippo riders but that damage is so under well and there's only one two archers he went I don't art into entres I don't like this unit choice at all he's going for the hippo riders in an insane position and that is kind of history repeating because fly has already eliminated moon from gold tournaments twice it was in spring 2016 in the lower bracket final fly won that tournament afterwards it was also in the summer of 2017 when fly eliminated him from the group stages it's really a poor eiders I think no he has to go for harassment kind of game be annoying be obnoxious because hippos are not really good at fighting especially not against spirit link there were three here for the shadow are never too bad son sometimes suddenly your hero but how I mean the illustrates how endanger all these heroes are fly because there's no asset bomb because there is no alchemist backup the hero focus is of course nice with entangle but how nice is it really if you lack the asset bomb but therefore there's no - damage and now fly pulling the peons I'm not sure if he has the Warlow for towers I like that I think that's a really smart play he should realize that his Army's much stronger right now so if he sets up at a position and just hunkers down it's gonna be really hard for moon to crack that until he has that massive massive army which he's far from having powers here in the back would be a great addition at least a shop is already great and then having the peons in the fight but I think he's going for the towers here the engine of war is down and the hippos and snared so two big losses for moon right away hunters are also low and flies just killing one target after the next and nothing's really dying for him as we said there's just no damage in this night of army flies taking looking to take this game right now the longer the game goes of course the better it is for moon because the expansions up but look at these hunches this is twelve supply with max of I don't know 300 HP yeah this is a lot of experience they're going his way mood taps out GG and delete for fly the streak is over again moon didn't break a single sweat in the group stages not losing a single map but fly is here when it counts and man this was almost a flawless execution by fly good times I mean the first attack on two moons expansion wasn't the greatest but did he did back that up like crazy yeah of course that Blademaster early game was an absolute powerhouse we have to say it seemed like the keeper didn't really do what he usually does we just dominate the early game and no Alchemist makes your tier 2 abilities so limited and also ancients of wind dad was really he was really baited by this one wiper and wanted to counter that but we see the profile movie apply to search outside of our country change the faculty leadership intervention sites and all the issues of the dish you do not need sensor to turn the lights out the heart reaches it has a PR man well in saturation decision so in the chocolate understand that sahaja yoga pants Yoshi higher rewards so today's and they she has a young child challenging bachelor not spoken in Sichuan go to such a touchy and sama push the flap Ivan back which you wanna go J to to the wood hi to me oh hi sis to the city center your shoulder sorry [Music] the first series started off with the win of the underdog as well focus taking the lead over fly but then the favorite strikes back will this be the same case here will moon find his shape again three days off man a lot of stuff can happen in those three days and fly spend a lot of time practicing with th you might say hello th is the human yeah but he's good with all races so th play tonight off and they played the entire day it was in the end like 22 two five four th fly was so desperate they tried everything shaman wyvern bet right he tried it all all the arsenal of forks and it didn't work but now he might have found the solution just as he found the solution against won 2-0 in GCSE summer but it's a long series it's the best of five so first two three advances into the semi-final yeah it's also gonna be interesting like how does moon adapt now he's like huh I guess I guess keeper hunts isn't just simply the answer I've seen your opening I know what you play they dress a level to be a costume have aggressive stuff like that grunt at home fast tech SH follow-up I also like the timing of fly that he pressured moon and his expansion super early and then tier 2 was reached but when didn't have the chance really to go for the tavern and if you don't have the alchemist if you don't have the acid bomb orcs are so tanky yeah and how do you cancel them or kill them with only huntress in quotes and hippo riders especially the hippo riders low DPS but okay moon shaking his head a little bit of disbelief fly with his killer instincts map number two moon versus fly at wtl winter 2018 this is moons map now he should feel way more comfortable here we go for the first time of the playoffs to Terran a stat alright but this is also mapped a lot of players regardless of which race they are like to play against keeper because this is the most easily accessible Merc camp four of that early game Shadow Priests to have the dispel oh and this is one of those unusual strats we're seeing materialize right now it's a barracks first no altar from fly usually your shadow hunter opening I think it's is it uh it's the night shadow hunter right yes I was thinking for a moment whether it might be the head hunters TC but no that would be oh no but that's no no wall mil so that should not be the case of course once again a big following moon even though he's up against the Chinese everyone here has so much respect for the legend that is moon absolutely brings the fans everywhere he goes we only have some very fast grunts thanks to this instant barracks and yeah with the delayed shadow hunter something we see very very rarely only but if you have more grunts out early you can creep more easily especially with the help of the lightning shield big favorite favor for the night helps you on this mare but it seems but it was four to one on this map in this year they played it once fly one that map back then so he should feel comfortable in general there is a little advantage in terms of statistics for moon he won this year three times only lost once and that was in GCS may so very old patch in awl he won three to zero in the WGL july race he won three to zero as well and in the w-league super league the round-robin League that we have moon won also to zero so on paper everything points towards moon but he also the 300 win streak here but yeah fly not going for the first creep camp right away being scouted by a grunt decides to route the ancient of war again and go for the ground kill instead this is gonna cost him two entangles I think shouldn't be more with a keeper being fast enough and that's um that's a very nice kill early on and with that is creeping even as possible for fly I thought so too he must go serpent Ward's first then nice whisper scout from moon yes checking out what's going on this is what the orcs with the shed on I'd like to do nowadays the Lightning shield creepy but when the keepers right around the corner this shouldn't be really be impossible he's still going for it despite realizing then he's been scouted oh no this is not gonna work out for you my friend I got the China priest oh ok has to dispel fast there's the hex on the wisps so he can't dispel the Lightning shield but now it is understandable that immediately that's not a good opening for flight at all kind of low though mana can't be burned so there's gonna be a lot more hexes if he wants to yeah only one entangle left he certainly can't kill a grunt with this if the shadow her takes a little more damage then perhaps for him sees this opening was great he expands right away as it is the Night Elf Metsa at the moment with all the control that the keeper offers that they entangle and treants offer that the Huntress offer fly still on to you are not fast tacking this gives moon time of course to creep up with lightning shield as well not perfectly done because he can't hit all the creeps at the same time with the archers at the end of war of course support that one I think this early game though is really good for moon yes yes because because the SH she came into the met up being like huh you're gonna play keeper you're gonna rush level 3 as much as you can let me go for lightning she creep and super fast creep up and get level 3 level 4 as quickly as I can for those super strong serpent wards and then perhaps even go for it tinker second and X attack your expansion you want to do that with a big army and with a strong hero but now still stuck on only level 1 this apes sh has been slowed down by so much but there's an expansion coming up and he is gonna get his level 3 for certain maybe not level 5 ll for excuse me by the time he attacks so he may not be too slow I guess but they're not the opening certainly that fly was hoping for and we saw that fly is basically blind no vision on the map at all no scouting going on moon on the other side has a whisper at the middle for most likely The Alchemist he has a wisp in the upper right and one on the bottom left so he we'll know if fly makes a move towards his side of the map this is level 2 and a half for the super tank he shed her Auntie was a little unlucky with his rings plus five now basically the worst outcome that he could've had oh there we go level three already it's the grunt that gives him this level early even going for the level two treants for more creeping getting to level four here damn quickly it's gonna be creeping up as natural very soon and yeah you can see the difference in experience half a level ahead now we have the first serpent of wards coming out and there's another Shadow Priests but ideally you want to get that Shadow Priests early don't lose it and then have two to three later on in that big attack absolutely against the entangles against the treants interesting year by the way against orc this is moons weakest matchup only 50% win rate that is below Pro average in the seen fly on the other side 58% win rate versus night off this is average but yeah moon so strong against night off so strong against human the best matchup versus on that one 2-0 suffers quite hard for that yeah fly might have a chance here but on this map he's still fighting uphill once again great wisp scout here sees what fly was doing coming in with a detonate trying to burn a bit of mana from that Shadow Priests but he still has to dispels to use here so I don't know how much the keeper can really do once he comes in don't forget he's got level two treants not entangle oh it could be an entangle though on this one grunt - super heard he used the mana to us Beltran's and with the keeper what a lasted instant level 4 that means level 2 angle he also kills the Shadow Priests he also stole the item Wow wasn't he like wow was he like 10 feet away he got the robe which is by the way sick on the keeper yes everything is going in favor of moon and what approxi barracks Eric's with that hat mass head hunters mat as well hopefully this is already desperation we've not seen this before this is a tinker follow up that we have seen in the qualifiers and in the recent matza from time to I love the shop right there and the S he is coming up he knows exactly what's on its way and if he defends this the gameís is must be yeah and fly only at 39 right now these couple of losses they've heard him the shadow not yet level four also supply stuck by the way hopefully he's gonna borrow coming up somewhere all the creep Jack again this I think is hoping for it to experience but moons not gonna allow this the hunters take care of the pocket factory said it's not gonna be more clockworks the shadow hunter comes and of course the fusing damage of the head Thomas and the sub box is nice against the hunters but he wants to chew through the treants first mass mercs coming from moon as well and how different of a game it is compared to game number one right both fast expansion games but this time there isn't this super powerful origami there's no spirit link there's no mass damage there is no mass healing there's masses however on moon side treants and although all of the piece yeah you have to run dude get the hell away from that one 25% damage boost on everything and this is so much fifty supplies six tree ins unbelievable with all that normal damage I think it could just erase the barracks yeah does he want to do that does he want to push further he doesn't really have to push further he's got the expo in the back I imagine his tech has started by now should get ready to go into upkeep soon with of course that robot the mage i hears so much mana and so much treants to use tier two is ready okay tier one upgrades nature's blessing an upgrade that we haven't talked about it yet makes the tree and stronger gives them more are more and faster couldn't believe that when I heard it for the first time what nature's blessing also works for treants but yes there's absolutely true the last skeleton here level five this must be the fastest level five in the tournament for keeper right I'm pretty sure it yeah pretty sure despite no toes of experience by the way just excellent early gameplay and I how can you come back he's adding damaged and damaged only there's basically no front line three grunts alright but the number of headhunters and therefore the number of deeps is growing second engine of war for more hunters and maybe even glaive throws in the expansion is running for quite some time moon is breaking upkeep already and has the upgrades and full milestone of the Shadowhunter that's nice though and that's exactly what moon needs like he needs Scrolls an army and hold on hold on hold on he's got the tech advantage catapults okay first a monster coming and pretty sure Munez cluster rockets I haven't seen the damage on the tinkerer like gather passive extra damage maybe he just didn't skill it yet but so a treants dunno three treants red for four looks like it maybe they expire maybe fly can buy some more time the more time he gives moon the bigger the army gets he's gonna run out of trees here soon next to his base all right when's he gonna engage right now seems to be the answer oh my god so many treants there is no cluster rockets by the way all the Shadowhunter is blocked for a long time girl protection being used on moon site and he is just running through this army he found another tool of the beast from the dark wizard and i don't know if you can fight this man moon doesn't want to be funneled into this bridge here that could be problematic for him seeker dropping low it's a very good position for the catapult in the back so that helps fly a lot but how long can he hold this position not too much longer the shadow hunter has a heal potion though but it's fly that doesn't mean much now the kept the AoE of the catapult really isn't too amazing it hits pretty good dad when you're right on top of it but it's just too much big scroll of feeling coming in right there from one that was massive and the demolisher seems to be nearing the end of its lifespan as well it's just too much stuff right here 75 supply suddenly yeah he's gonna start losing some units but he can afford to as well for once the demolisher is not an org for the night of and his name is moon now this seems to be all but over I don't know what the transition here can be even archers here throw into the mix I like that as well you have so many blockers anyways we Austrians archers in the back to provide the DPS from range makes sense so much of everything he's killing the barracks no more double production he's also super close to level six and tranquility the ultimate with all those forces will have an amazing value for a moon but you know he's not pushing into this he's not going into the bridge position again he's not over committing at all but now such a comfortable position that he find himself and I wonder is he thinking about a bit of cloudiness perhaps what kind of tech would I like to go for he Maris he saw they showed that again we saw already I mean that might pray up he's gonna get it oh that poor headhunter man he walked across the entirety of the map just to get slain by the Austrians one more kill to drink Willie yeah I wonder how does moon view this game of course we have perfect observer UI it's easy for us to see does he feel he's so much ahead that he could just you know finish it off I mean he he saw the second barracks there's no way he assumes that fly as an expansion I mean it's coming up now as it seems he's gonna get marksmanship soon you how do you feel about that tier 3 is on the way best upgrade of the game for these guy gotta be some sick archers do 2 0 with marksmanship soon 3-0 shortly thereafter I imagine damage per gold that's basically the best you can get Tinka level 3 now though big in will push but this gigantic moon force 30 supply ahead it's just marching for one screen doesn't even cover his whole army it's so big and there's level 6 now as well yes Franco d with full mana by the way 600 mana pool he can summon so many more treants back it up by so much with so much healing and there's no disabled there's no instant a okay he can't use hex against the tranquility but do you want to really want that do you really want to use your mana on that now the upgrade is done now I guess there's the expansion attempt yeah I believe it's gonna be not much more than an attempt here guys I'd love to have a count of how many trees have been destroyed by the way this game it must be a lot for the SH here is getting close he's got that heal potion not yet forced to use it good microphone these hunters we're not using any units to unnecessarily for once the treants are gone and now the hunters err the archers in the back are suffering a little bit at least both heroes super low though use the skull of healing to get them up that's also one big healing potion but there is tranquility and look at this Shadow Priests how fast he recovers everything full HP again oh my goodness and this expansion there is no way in hell now he's going into lowers so even better units soon for moon as the expansion for fly got cancelled yeah Mountain Giants will be the nail in the coffin it may actually be ending sooner here I just want to seed marksmanship where's the marksman haven't seen it yet it's a numbers game guys look at this it's 69 versus 48 supply almost no heroes can manage this certainly not the SH and the tinker this first game was so perfect for fly and then moon gets the map that he loves apparently you know and destroys him really good counter play to this Sh which is from certain players to be expected nowadays just be aggressive against it don't let him get off to this easy start Expo behind it nice save there but oh nice save there as well I have to say ultimate ready again it has a pretty low cooldown hex this time but this level 7 keeper man he's not gonna be stopped not in this game level 3 and tango now and with those heroes solo I can only imagine seeing the roots getting another kill once again without an alchemist by the way interesting to note is that two Maps no Alchemist he's just killing him with mass I'll just it's like you're fighting tooth and nail pretty admirable how he survives for so long it's the 50 damaged stupid words that he has right I think it is level 3 serpent Awards with level 5 SH but good numbers are dropping he's getting a couple of kills now that's not the mood is back day is over fly here the anti in feet but doesn't stand a chance on tearing us down once again the loser of map number one strikes back and ties up the series 1-1 and Remo we are down to a best of three we certainly are and now we should have a chance to look at another one of those character pieces once again a little profile videos if they're following the same recipe isn't the first three thousand two hundred euros to your life on the stream in the middle of the wait that's pretty nice to see of course when the moon plays the mass has come so fly of course going into this as the underdog his map now he could still get the lead again moon's favorite map is out flies favorite map is yet to come and he does stand a chance as we have seen him everyone here is moons profit [Music] yo me a chicken young years a with a rousing a kiss it a currency swap see another player is how a series of porto by no stronger audio system has had 20 loads into resulting energy per meter increasing soil super tangy thousands of tourists Rio too much of Miami's of Keith Allison and they wouldn't inflate it with a touch of hongdae software Paragon but he was having a seminary - no get out o Queen the places were para long as my negative the Pleasantville usually I will attempt to punish women and a parkour Oh couldn't you be Teresa there's some character no no she said my girls have a module or clinica she said I'll put them into the book there's some gotta turn them warning me that we go shortly before map three is that game number one the one that he needed to wake up kind of like Lin perhaps earlier today wasn't Northern Isles there as well and then Lin just went bulldozing through the rest of this match the fight that we saw in the first map I must say I was pleasantly surprised surprised perhaps too strong of a word I was impressed certainly with how he demolished moon in that game just from beginning to finish almost it felt like everything was going his way Matt number two everything changed perhaps fly should look to take momentum again be the aggressor be on his side of the map force the movement your way the way you want to have it in general that seems to be his strength when he's the guy yeah that is in charge in the early mid game stages last refuge determines who takes the lead and gets the match points is that moon or is it fly they played last refuge once this year it was a win for moon we'll see if he can carry the moon man right before the wgl finals getting in tremendous shape winning the shank we capped the last tournament before wgl winter and maybe the way more important thing the next clan war China versus Korea it was super duper close Korea winning day one China winning day two and then it came down to an ace match moon was the pick for Korea and all the pressure was on him lot of prize money and of course the honor that China wanted to restore after the ridiculous defeat in 2016 at the WCA event but moon for the first time in a while not getting nervous not crumbling delivering and killing 1 to 0 bringing the victory home to Korea and he could do that here as well and with that China as he pointed out before would only have one player in the top four and if moon wins the semi-final we're gonna have for the second time a Korean in the grand final for sure as he then then plays Lin in the semi final and moon vs. Lim that would be one match to behold as well the winner they're certainly deserving of a final fly it will still be quite a surprise I think despite the performance of mat number one if he makes it all the way through here through grueling best-of-five against moon from moon in the group stages we saw quite a few unusual strats so far in this best-of-five it's completely standard right there which is already kind of surprising me well the absence of the alchemist is something unusual 0% alchemist here he relies on the strength of early treants of the early numbers instead of the acid palm hero focus with entangle together last refuge is a map where you can have almost a soidier where you can here super-fast focus was the first to introduce this into the matza against moon in w-league he went over justice flight us now running straight over doing as much damage as possible and if you can delay or kill the Huntress halt that is so big because then you have to write on options blade master does well against arches and you have to defend in your base all the time fly picks up on that but how successful is it gonna be alright once again going for the aggro approach I like that especially for fly is he really gonna get this Huntress well as you said it would be a massive deal but with keeper and tangler coming in it should not be possible he's just forcing the keeper to stay honest stay on his side of the map we haven't seen a skill point yet used by the way from this keeper may still be considering what the better choice is gonna be with a blade in your face like this it can alway oftentimes feel very oppressive if you don't have an tang to deal with them and considering there's no heal selves on this blade master you can't stay for that long I mean he can go for the Shadow Priests at the green spots do hope for a region potion but that's about it and Moon already with a little success that he gets his hunt at all through and can go into the normal damaged units now there are a little more tanky than the archers what speaking of this Archer dead that same might go for the grunt if he uses a second and telling all he does late master is there to protect his brother though yeah may cost him a third entangle here this grunt is 100% dead it's the question about mana now I guess it's gonna be after entangle all right there was pretty expensive to be honest if he gets the deny here well nice and he used moon juice on the archer to save that so again a good early but whoa okay moon is expanding they're in a very unusual position I thought for a second he's gonna expended the red spot actually recede over there or kind of where the ancient of war standing right now hasn't been scouted yet and tangle to keep the blade master at bay may make the archer survive or may not shadow meld ooh does he realize he still got the dust sending out the owl here but that's to Archer kills that's not bad at all it's interesting how this series goes back and forth on map one fly so good on map to moon so good in this early game Oh Trudy good and he sees the tree as he said with a grunt first at this time he has a little bit more damage than he had against the hunter saw will that be enough with the two circuits he still has to be very careful there is an owl he is detected and Hank and tangos almost ready we saw there it is I don't know if he's gonna get out of this it's so close 47 how can he get back there's an owl he's trying to run out of it it's so close oh my oh man it's the grunt gonna get it if the play master comes in he's certainly dead yeah he can't do all is too strong another windwalk is over he's a little slower now the Huntress is super fast throwing in the glaive she needs like five six hits the grunt is dead and the damages not enough moon level two now with the trillions are the best season of the wind walk survives but he needs a lot of healing and he needs some kind of force to kill this tree of life certainly can't do it now hexxus The Wiz it's nighttime so he didn't see the base what does he want to hide just running over trying to kill this tree moon didn't bring wisps which i think is a big mistake by the way we see a lot of dots moving over on the mini-map that must be the West now the wisps I should say healing canceled a little bit sloppy perhaps and why is he coming down here with two level one heroes you're not killing this tree with two level 1 heroes oh this free for the help of the red creeps is that kind of work looking like it's gonna work though not really once they move back then they don't attack keep a decent man on once again cut the cloves in the gloss also good about three-inch angles ready why weren't coming that will be an easy way to pick up the wisps but then once more grunts and I guess it's gonna be Raiders again afterwards in a surround so strong he pops them out though that is not forbidden Shadowhunter survived through the speed scroll there's no man on the blade master anymore though and there's an tangle how to save the first hero now he's trying it with damage but he opens up the surround all messed it up there mr. moon and the hex on the wrong target he wanted to under keeper he's got an entangle right now again is this enough for the kill the right flicks will they be there he's trying to make a flock happen not quite moon missing an opportunity that should have been a hero kill absolutely little mystic also on the super hurt target now archers are coming in against these why I mean he's continuing to buy wyvern for the damage not the biggest efficiency here as he's killing the out it's only with medium arm more but of course he wants to take out the anti and not let him grow to a critical mass keeper needs to get back to shop or moon wells for some mana his entangles still super strong not against wind riders of course but against everything else should be almost level 3 now as well archers gonna die again fly finds a way to delay the progress of the keeper for such a long time and pressure himself now these wyvern forced early archers who don't really do too much in your army I mean they are a response to this they will deal with the harass but what do they do against Raiders grunts and I think Moon rain is not chemists this time he Assam all right good choice I believe can attack err the only melee unit in the game that can attack care and with it of course gonna be very helpful against the wind riders more hunters yourself falling but he can afford to do that as well of course going for the first hero bait master once again scribbling coming in a little bit late but it's in time this game is so close as a bomb is still ticking but he's sealing against that two-in-one heroes on both sides they are not killing much and especially not creeping man they are right at their throats throughout the entire game and who does this benefit now of course low level keeper is not so dangerous but I always feel like in this matter especially to base versus one or one base versus two from the orc perspective you have to rely on your high level and stacked heroes to win that game for you and for now fly is taking the creep route game he wants to get the he way for the first place but once you get stronger heroes want experience and items to carry him whereas mood on the other side he's gonna run on his big numbers of Huntress nauseous gonna be an interesting question who creeps fast and now because usually you'd say it's the keeper with his treants but with the two wyvern he has a lot of damage himself with a blade master of course to level two up actually nice on the alchemist here to get up to three are more big in will potion from the blade master super nice against the entangle acid bomb yeah this may have specifically expansion for night i was also really cool because they have the merc camp next to it so you can easily reinforce with mercenaries as well because you rely on those masses of units and i think now it would be in moon's best interest around sixty supply go for the scrolls and don't let him creep if these oak heroes are stuck on low-level it should be looking good for the night off right now and the two armies are gonna meet here very soon the big boy or girl major hasn't been claimed yet looking at the shadow by the way is dangerously low but he's gonna get the epic item this is so unusual that the orc is getting both of the consumables in the middle this is night of territory at tier two you always get them with an tangler acid bomb this is one of your main focus in the game and fly denies that seemingly with ease yeah especially i guess i don't know I was late alchemists didn't have the map control so early now that he's going up to highest supply and I mean now I can grab map control the one of the wind is not too much to spell and he needs it against treants and entangle this could be very nice in a moment where you need a heal wave desperately then when of the wind against the shadow answer and whoop no heal wave and the cure could also yeah I don't know could cook always come in handy wonder where he's gonna use it here comes the first peon it's really gonna try for the counter Expo it's way too late there's gonna be a big force there is a big force for moon already 65 supply and upgrade should be there as well we see the first person by flying the bottom right once more what's this item we don't see it but it's not an aura we can tell you that much it is oh it's a commander quite a bit more damage with this now and the hero levels are there as well for fly at 3 3 he doesn't have the most amazing inventory doesn't have greater mana or so we masks or whatever wisp sees the expansion important and moons gonna have such a big army soon keeper though might be getting caught out it's a little close but no Raiders nearby as it seems and the two armies will meet in the middle two Scrolls just purchased this should be the perfect time to fight for moon late master getting cyclone up in the air but decent chance are coming up pretty quickly but disenchant are so valuable they also dispel against the entangle of course and this army does not seem to be big enough at all he pops the in valise trying to go for the second hero kill can he get this alchemist somehow can he take him out or can moon transfer an item perhaps to save a second hero hexed and seems to be getting chopped to pieces finally naho that scroll he was aiming it lucky there wasn't a single critical strike in this attack and now he finds himself with the focus once more but there's a spirit Walker saving him but as I said when of the wind he's gathering mana but there is also detection from the owl he can't go into windwalk anymore and there is the entangle there's the focus has to go for something there was no consumable on him shadow hunter to the rescue all right but he leads him right to the expansion man this is not gonna last yeah the wisp saw it before so he was gonna go there anyways I guess but yeah fly he got to his desired hero levels but he didn't get it big enough army you can sit at 50 supply against 68 or whatever it was and moon now once again in a dominant position only now getting the glaives upgrade yeah seems like you forgot about that for a little while so now he's huntresses become even stronger once again going former camp can reinforce with mercenaries over there and then this might be a push to end the game this once again is such an overwhelmingly massive army he doesn't have enough right he has only one Raider he can't go into a base race game with pillage and distraction forcing town portal it's bleeding moon a little dry taking the gold coins out of moon's game he doesn't have the forces for it so what can he do fight at his base at the shop with peon support with fast reinforcements that's his only hope I guess and then go for a hero kill that must be it right but it's a dangerous thing when you're going up because it against such an economy moon may just be able to buy those back anyways he's blocking the way with three inves ones by the way gorgeous oh that's pretty cute man grunts do pass through a late master canti can't even attack right now all right here now they come out of the shadows lying in wait where the huntress is even a couple of archers coming in from behind okay a book of the dead that's gonna help him out a little bit but there's so much damage here from moon he's cleaning up bit by bit level four all ready for this Alchemist do it this happens super quickly and everything dropping so low for fly it's unfair man it's a thirty supply lead flies doing his best but this late master and shadow are not strong enough they're not going to be able to do it by themselves he's hanging in here as best he can if it's played massive fault it's certainly over dispel against the entangle here can he find that hero kill can he find his way back into this game somehow fly I said 600 goal only now reproducing again one more damaged go to the background the damage is dwindling as well with only one wire in the blade master and focus once more dashing our two critical strike they're coming at the wrong time thirty critical strike you should have neat this lack or should have gotten this like a little bit before when once for the hero kill going for the keeper now again but he can't really reach in the middle of everything now is it and GG moon takes out flies map takes the lead and has match points now the maps being claimed here exactly the same as it was earlier between Lin and focus with Lin dropping the first picking up the next two again this happens this time for moon is he gonna follow Lin here is high skating a little watery you see basic adding emotional or then I just doesn't blink the game so very very rarely so I guess they burn a little killer gaze I guess is what you call that flying ow under a lot of pressure one more map to drop and that's it he's out and that would mean only one single Chinese in the top for this tournament which usually they always dominate not a single time has any player any non Chinese player taken home this trophy right here not only that but we only had two foreigners in the final that was Lin and there was foggy and that about it won 2-0 in fee th fly they dominate this tournament since 2015 since this inception but no chance thus far for Koreans for Europeans but man the streak of Ti is over the streak of StarCraft is over and it looks very very dangerous for the Chinese here at wgl yeah and the Chinese fans they don't know we're here to cheer on the one side they have fly from China of course but moon being such a massive fan favorite the legendary most legendary player of all time spirit moon the most decorated player of all time as well so much prize money going to him he hasn't had the big prize purse here yet but moon seems to be in prime shape to make it to the semi-finals waiting there for him would be Lin but now fly on the orc map concealed he'll maybe you can start his comeback this is where moon played this super strange strategy it was against cash so far I'm pretty predictable keep it first into early expansion it's been every single time it's worked twice one time fly had the perfect answer match number four match points for moon one map away from moon versus Lyn moon by the way you were talking about prize money only $15,000 a way to be the first player who cracks half a million dollars from Warcraft three tournaments of course undoubtedly the most successful player of all times 32 Premier titles to his chest no one comes even remotely close to that but as I said a drought of seven years for moon major titles yep team tournaments yep single tournaments on a big scale nope yeah it seems like it really is a bad time think back when he came back that was WCA 2015 there was the big announcement there was the big opening match against XI if I recall correctly pretty underwhelming performance there he didn't even make it out of the group stages which surprised so many people and after that he was struggling for a while it took him more than a few months I guess if you used to really hit his stride again compare that to Lin who came back and totally smashed the entire scene single-handedly for moon it was step by step bit by bit it also seemed like he had some more active times than others where he seemed to have not been playing for a long time but now this is the shape that moon has been looking for this is the strongest he's been in a while this is where perhaps he finally gets that title again it is his patch it is his time is it his tournament we'll see flying the upper-right more at the bottom left so we saw a blade master no for shadow hunter shenanigans anymore moon has played the Beastmaster here but I can only assume that this time it's a keeper of the roof yes still sticking with the same opening sticking with the same strategy / to begin with then huntresses then expansion if yeah that does stay the same or is he gonna switch it up is it gonna go one base more colorful style rush tier 3 go for the mountain Giants haven't seen them once yet of course with expansion you can't really creep it they will be too far away in the tech tree - yeah I'll be able to pull that off with and with a second base as well moving across now is the keeper this is the opening we saw as well from foggy if I'm not mistaken where with the remainder of the treants and the archer he's gonna creep level 2 while already moving over another strength of the keeper of the Grove summoning the treants now into the base and this is already a pretty late tech right for fly over here think so - also pretty quick level - for the keeper who can go for the peons now with an tango and with the trees yeah that's such easy kills and a black masters just leaving this base to fend for itself then at least one more entangle here ok two kills during the tech will go of course into the lumber income as he moves the peons from lumber to gold but that means he's oh he's down to 25 now can he get enough lumber for the tier 2 buildings and the second hero this time there is a tech before before the expansion so no early Expo I wonder do you see something in the main that may have decide to go for this route level 2 blade now as well I'm surprised to keep it wasn't hanging around the main a little bit longer because now as you can see he had the mana again could have gone for another peon but I guess he wants to get back sooner start regenerating those mana points he's gonna be level 3 here pretty soon and then this early game moving towards the mid game is gonna be really scary for fly with like to the 3 huntresses plus a level 3 keeper he could just potentially run down every single grunt on this map these drops by the way for the keeper also the dream of +5 intelligence and of course it's all about the man up for him an easy 75 extra mana this is very easy to work with them and how long can i delay level 3 because there's no pressure on the / at all he will mostly summon nutrients if he has the matter and then take out those spots easily this camp right here is almost level 3 already late master though he's getting some decent progress himself he's gonna have level 2 windwalk that's pretty good it's not exactly as good as level 2 entangled though tier 2 will be faster for the orc than it is for the night off by a little bit at least but he doesn't have the lumber for the second building right he has the lumber for second hero and one building yeah exactly so you have to choose do you go for bestiary or for spoilers you're not gonna be able to get both torn totem that is still have to get used to that and the keeper he's lo3 he just got it from the remainder of the green camp late mass is very close though as well oh my god does he really have treants level to know every entangle is for certain a peon kill and if he finds these because these guards have to run oh did he see him he has ultra vision of course hello grunts I've been looking for you but they can run away shop is coming kids who is done here a staff he's ice catching him out it's gonna be at least one kill probably gonna be - there we go and he can chase where they keep before the other ones this is the strength of the keeper right here so well thinking of this step second entangle long-range I may actually be able to save this one always blocking the way pretty cool and hanging last a long time though so this grunt might be dead oh it's getting close it's really close he's moving in front for the block or moon ready for this but gets in regardless so mm no floor is it finally mountain giant time we haven't seen them in this series at all they are at the moment next to the keeper the second biggest strength of the Night Elves after Tier one shadow hunter against that only now the bestiary moon is going for a second hero instead so I don't think it's gonna be mountain giants or really late but usually you don't want to delay them driest elegan could be is already shown this against human where it's really unusual to see them we have seen that moons dried micro is pretty damn impressive and a blade scouting the main this is a big scout he sees that he's still stuck on co2 and oh that's the third grunt and I guess this is where the dryads really makes sense right you killed so many grunts already so much force of the orc then you can follow up with a strong tear to timing clarity's for shadow hunter this is moon with one lakh in the semi-final can he save it the repair from 1p and i don't know if that's enough it doesn't look like it's shop is gone and the sh now and focus himself o acid bomb and then tangle the poison ivy will it guarantee the cure there's no shop anymore how does he want to heal himself it is not possible second hero dad only level one will be back soon blade masters putting in some more physical damage of the alchemist but the fourth grunt falls yep moon is he's without mercy here absolutely he's going for it again poison ivy on the blade master will he share the faith of the shadow hunter you can't get out looks like he has no mana he's fighting out but they're slowed from the dryads and a block from the Huntress is it enough though still no shop he has some clarity's running another one Falls and the blade master Falls as well the dream semifinal is real moon versus Lyn in two days and perfectly mirrored as well falling behind the first man with a zero one but then coming back swinging 3-1 in the end for focus f4 flat Firth linen excuse me again dammit stumbling over my words here and for moon as well the favors do prevail as pretty much almost through the entirety of this WGL only won 2-0 and th I guess you could say moon super strong not looking completely unbeatable as he was in the group stage but still showing up in force and I'm glad to do this as well and to see this as well because I was afraid that maybe moon you know after this super overwhelming groups 8 maybe he couldn't carry this over into the playoffs but he was able to he was performing here as his fans were expecting and finally making it to top four yeah for the third time in his career for the first time since early 2016 his curse is broken and fly he can't repeat his marvelous run from GCS summer where he surprised us all in the playoffs he started off well really well actually on the first map but fell off a cliff afterwards it felt like moon needed a little warmup and then from that moment on especially TS man that was such a slap in the face yeah of everything would fly threw at him unbelievable how he destroyed him there I haven't seen such a one-sided map throughout this entire tournament mostly even against a strategy that is tailor-made against that keeper early game or early expansion strategy just with perfect scouting remember the whist moving off all over the map and finding those little holes to poke in and to do the damage getting that first set of priests seeding the item after getting a grunt I think it was there as well just delaying delaying delaying and a moon and foggy they like their early expansions not for the last game I guess but there was a super showcasing of level three keeper it's pretty strong exactly one game moon couldn't really prevent that and then five runs dead and then of course it's a child's play to get the Shadowhunter and the blade master once the shop is gone and there's no potions anymore but how much height is behind this first semifinal the most successful Walker affair against the second most successful Walker player of all time the only two Walker player with a price money of 400,000 plus D icons for night elf and org it really does not get much bigger than this yeah it's gonna be in two days guys and I love that they have a day to prepare as well they're gonna be able to think all right what's the maps gonna be what's the openings gonna be what's he gonna play what am I gonna play what am I gonna fake how am I gonna play this best-of-five where am I gonna throw in the cheese it's gonna be so much fun dude but before we go into the semifinals we need to determine the other two players can semifinal we gonna continue tomorrow at 11:00 most like 11:30 CET in fee versus Calliphora were Suzuka mur first-time playoffs for colorful and of course the European participant foggy against low light in an amazing night of Mira man these players have met each other so many times forget Lorelai it there's also a lot of mind games between them going on this is it for today tune in tomorrow back to Warcraft sending greetings from Shanghai we give it up to the stage to snow kiss and moon

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Length: 66min 4sec (3964 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 05 2018