{"id":6102,"date":"2018-11-19T04:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:26:39","slug":"virtus-pro-triumphs-over-team-secret-seals-2018-kuala-lumpur-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/virtus-pro-triumphs-over-team-secret-seals-2018-kuala-lumpur-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus Pro triumphs over Team Secret, seals 2018 Kuala Lumpur Major"},"content":{"rendered":"

While they did it tough against one of the best teams in the world, Virtus Pro (VP) demonstrated their superiority in the Grands Final of the Dota 2 Kuala Lumpur Major<\/a>, bringing home $350,000 and 4,950 Dota Pro Circuit Points after vanquishing Team Secret.<\/p>\n

Virtus Pro had been one of our favourites throughout the tournament. In our tips section<\/a>, we consistently showed what makes them one of the best Dota 2 squads in the world.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at how the Kuala Lumpur Major was won.<\/p>\n

Analysis of KL Major Grand Final – Game 1<\/h2>\n

In game one, Team Secret challenged against the meta of the patch, picking Shadow Shaman as one of core heroes, while Terrorblade was played by Nisha, the carry position player from Team Secret.<\/p>\n

Their ideal strategy was to let Shadow Shaman pressure enemies by getting all the tier one and tier two towers before the 25-minute mark. The idea was to have more control over the map, giving Terrorblade all of his core items as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Team Secret did well up until 19-minute mark. Shadow Shaman took down the tier 1 tower of middle lane before the six minute-mark and Terrorblade also secured the tier 1 tower from the top lane at the seven minute-mark.<\/p>\n

Shadow Shaman purchased Eul’s Scepter of Divinity to protect himself from Storm Spirit in the team fight and they won a team fight at 17-minute mark, started by Storm Spirit rushing to kill Shadow Shaman. However, Dazzle from Team Secret protected him with Shallow Grave (Dazzle\u2019s second skill), and Shadow Shaman used Eul’s Scepter of Divinity to buy more time for himself to survive in the team fight. That battle ended with annihilation of fourheroes from Virtus Pro, except Enigma, who had been pressuring the middle lane during the whole team fight, while Team Secret only lost Dazzle.<\/p>\n

Virtus Pro suppressed Team Secret in every team fight afterwards. Team Secret stuck to their plan and Shadow Shaman always tried to make a surprise gank on Storm Spirit. Centaur Warchief played by Solo, the position 5 support player from VP, used his ultimate skill \u2014 Stampede \u2014 to help Storm Spirit escape from the gank and even turned the fight in their favour.<\/p>\n

After Team Secret suffered two losses in large-scale team fights as a result of Rodjer\u2019s (Position four player from Virtus Pro) Enigma caught at least three heroes from Team Secret with Blackhole.<\/p>\n

Team Secret was forced to call GG when Virtus Pro went high ground to fight them, ignoring all tower\u2019s damage or high ground advantage that Team Secret had. That battle resulted in no casualties suffered by Virtus Pro but Team Secret used all their buyback and lost melee and range barracks of bottom lane.<\/p>\n

Analysis of KL Major Grand Final – Game 2<\/h2>\n

In game two, Team Secret drafted Arc Warden, the most imbalanced carry in this patch for Nisha. On top of that, they made a crucial last pick \u2014 Broodmother \u2014 to counter the Invoker from Virtus Pro, control the map and create space for Arc Warden.<\/p>\n

Virtus Pro respected the Broodmother pick from Team Secret and sent Invoker to bottom lane, while Tiny will faced off against Broodmother in the middle lane.<\/p>\n

However, that movement of Virtus Pro had turned the Weaver, played by Yapzor, position 4 support player from Team Secret, into a beast. Weaver accomplished six kills (three kills was contributed on Invoker\u2019s death) at 10-minute mark and had 3330 net worth, even higher than three other core heroes in the game, positioning himself as one of the top four net worth in the game.<\/p>\n

As the game went on, Team Secret had a 7000 net worth advantage lead at the 20-minute mark, while Invoker only had 6000 net worth and Weaver had 7300.<\/p>\n

At the 23-minute mark Rodjer finally had Blink Dagger on his Enigma, and started a team fight in Roshan Pit by catching both Arc Warden and Broodmother with Blackhole, eventually winning the team fight and allowed VP kicked back into the game by securing Aegis of Immortal for the Slark, played by Ramzee from Virtus Pro.<\/p>\n

Team Secret took back the position of in charging of the game at 35-minute mark when they won a huge team fight after both teams spent three buybacks. Team Secret had 10,000 net worth lead after securing themselves both melee and range barracks of top lane and middle lane.<\/p>\n

Not only that, Team Secret also completed their objective of getting Aegis of Immortal and Cheese immediately after Virtus Pro\u2019s heroes re-spawn.<\/p>\n

Virtus Pro struggled for another five minutes, and they called GG at 40-minute mark when Team Secret got wiped out Virtus Pro in another team fight.<\/p>\n

Analysis of KL Major Grand Final – Game 3<\/h2>\n

In game three, Team Secret drafted Zeus, which was unexpected because VP drafted Phoenix. Zeus does not have the power to take down Phoenix\u2019s supernova. However, Midone played Zeus incredibly in laning phase against Leshrac. Both teams played the game very slow, and Team Secret only in charge of the game at 30-minute mark after they wiped out five heroes of VP, by catching them 1 by 1.<\/p>\n

From there, Team Secret continuously took the map control and expanded their farm ahead of VP.<\/p>\n

Zai, the position three player from Team Secret, roamed around the map with Monkey King. His Tree dance constantly allowed Team Secret to catch and kill any hero from VP hiding in the tree. Yapzor\u2019s Rubbick in game 3 also did a lot of fascinating play, like stealing abilities-Sunder or Sun-Ray from VP and turned the team fight into their favour.<\/p>\n

VP surrendered at the 43-minute mark after they had no way to prevent Team Secret tearing down their throne.<\/p>\n\n\n