how did i draft?

http://dotabuff.com/matches/547963546

http://dotabuff.com/matches/518732639

http://dotabuff.com/matches/530720873

The first one was really really greedy. Luckily the enemy team had an awfull draft and item choices.
Very little initiation, pretty much only riki.

The second one is better, more initiation, good pickoff potential while having nice teamfight.
Did mirana start out as support or did you run some strange dual lanes?

Third one is an interesting early agression draft. What were your lanes? Mid clock with prophet offlane? Mid viper 1 role prophet? 1 role viper with mid prophet?

I'll commentate them without watching replays, so I hope I figured out what the lanes where. If it's not the case, you have a "better" (and with "better" I mean "most popular in professional games") laning configuration at least.


The first draft is pretty "meh": you have two cores, a mid and two supports (Skywrath and Omni) with absolutely no crowd control. A point in your favor, though, is that Invoker can easily disrupt Black Holes from a distance and the enemy team had a poor item choice. For example, their Phantom Lancer has no Manta Style nor Butterfly, their Centaur Warrunner (who I believe was supporting) didn't buy a Blink Dagger and Enigma doesn't have neither a Blink Dagger nor a Black King Bar. They also have two Radiances on the same team, and they probably picked them 50+ minutes into the game. The only picks I like in your team are Luna and Invoker, but I guess you made the others work too: I feel Omniknight was a decent pick because of the large amount of DPS from the Dire side, but a Treant Protector or a Disruptor (maybe instead of Skywrath Mage) would've helped more. Riki doesn't even have a Diffusal Blade, I can't understand how he did that well.

Second draft, much better: again, there are some Heroes I don't like ( Dark Seer in the first place), but it was a much more solid draft. I guess they had a mid Sand King and solo Slardar or vice versa (or even dual off-lane), which is decent, but I can't believe they don't even have a Mekansm. Their Luna had terrible items, too. From your side, the supports have a lot of gold: I guess you're playing in low level pubs (no offense), unless you had jungle Dark Seer and solo Mirana. Anyway, the N'aix bomb with Storm Spirit and the huge teamfight damage from Witch Doctor (who I'm starting to like more and more) and Mirana, plus Dark Seer, probably made you win the match. Even though I kinda hate DS for this meta, it was worth the pick.

The last draft has the easiest-to-counter Dire team between the three: they are all focused on teamfights, so you just have to pick a Nature's Prophet and split push. I also love playing Pugna in this case, but I guess the most relevant Hero, which is Furion, can do the job by himself. The rest of your team is kinda weird, especially the item choices ( Viper...), but I guess you went solo Nature's Prophet with mid Clockwerk. You had no Mekansm (Viper's fault in my opinion), which would've been a big advantage in early teamfights and the only reason why I would've picked a Viper there, but you won nonetheless thanks to the split push.

in the third one, we were owning soo much that it didnt even matter :D

I about threw up when I saw Luna with a Vanguard.

Game 1: The enemy team really didn't have a very good draft. Don't understand why they had a PA with no real assistance. Especially since his clones would be food for Luna's glaives. They didn't have anyone with a MKB while facing two heroes with Butterfly. Also a huge waste of money on the two Radiances. They lacked any real lock down; while Invoker was a CC powerhouse.

I agree that Skywrath was kind of an odd pick but he did have some good support gear in Orchid and Euls.

Overall, the first game was more the other team losing that your team winning.

Game 2: Their Luna should of went with Heart or Butterfly. Maybe even a BKB due to Mirana / Storm CC. Don't understand the double bloodstones either. 2nd game was a better draft on both sides. Their Luna cost them though with her build.

Game 3: Their draft kinda confuses me. Mostly cause its not showing gear on three of their guys.

Agree with Peppos' post.