dfs Profile Joined June 2010 Russian Federation 2340 Posts Last Edited: 2016-12-08 13:51:15 #1 Lil:

"They’ll see their Ancient fall."

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Translators notes: Ilya "Lil" Ilyuk gave an interview post EG vs Wings match on RuHub stream. It's important to point out that the interview was conducted in a very light-hearted fashion, something that is hard to fit into a translation.

Source: www.twitch.tv - (08.12.16) (by RuHub) — Cr1t just now said [after beating Wings, to Lil’s previous “We can beat anyone in 20 mins” statement, t.n.] “We’ll see”.

— They’ll see. They’ll see their Ancient fall.



— Who did you want to meet [in ro8] more, EG or Wings?

— We wanted EG, and we got them. It would probably be easier against Wings, since their playstyle is… unrefined.



— You mean you wanted EG, because Wings would be too easy?

— Yes. We don’t like easy games.



— Game vs iG.Vitality wasn’t easy.

— iG.Vitality played very well today, an order of magnitude better than in their group play.



— Did iG.V surprise you at all, draft wise?

— Not really, every game they pick differently. They don’t have a specific drafting idea or super strong patterns or team moves. They simply played Dota. Both in groups and in playoff.



— What will you ban against EG?

— I don’t know. Our statsman will discuss this with our drafters. I am not involved in the draft, I only note “yeah, Weaver is good here” or “well, Chen is shit here” and that’s it.



— Did you watch their games in preparation? Every time you draft it feels like you don’t care who you draft against at all.

— Of course we did. Mostly yes, the only things that matter are bans. For example, you play vs iG.V, you ban Rubick and Bounty Hunter, and then you pick the stuff you like to play. That’s how it works. You shouldn’t pick heroes against your opponent, you should pick heroes you like, but ban against an opponent.



— Our analysts thought that you lost both drafts to iG.V, but you won thanks to being a higher class team. But you said to me previously, that you thought differently, can you elaborate?

— RAMZES, our drafter, broke the table while cheering about how good he is and hard he outdrafted them. Let’s take two types of drafts - one wins at 20 mins, but loses at 50 mins. Obviously it’s hard to play vs Alchemist at 50 mins, but much easier at 20 mins. And... I can’t really explain this very well, it’s difficult.



— Is it true that Weaver’s Aghanim's Scepter is the best item in the world?

— … Yes.



— Do you have any weaknesses in this tournament?

— … It’s difficult to answer a question like that.



— Because you don’t have any?

— Yes, exactly, that’s what I wanted to say.



— How does your ingame communication work? RAMZES is the drafter, but who is an ingame captain? How do things work in general in your team?

— We have an statsman analyst, he worked with Secret last year. He watches all replays, all warding, all drafts, analyses them, writes them down in a notepad, gives it to Solo and RAMZES, says stuff like “they go here, ward there, they are good with Rubick, like aggro trilanes” and stuff like that, and suggests bans. Ingame - RAMZES drafts, everyone gives info based on roles, but all macro comes from Solo.



— In a pre-match interview, you mentioned that the difference between Solo and previous captains is in authority - everyone listens to Solo, everyone does what he tells them to do. Is there no questioning at all?

— Not at all. Everyone listens to Solo, and I believe that’s the reason for our success. I know things went the same in old Na`Vi, they were winning because everybody were listening to one man. We focus our attention on that, whether things he says are right or wrong - it doesn’t matter. Everyone must do the same thing, be one the same page.



— It’s known that Chinese teams shared all scrim replays with Western teams between each other, etc. Does that affect you at all, or you just don’t care?

— We just don’t care. We draft our own heroes. Nobody helps us out. We don’t need it at all. We feel that we are strong, that we can win EG, Wings, anybody and this whole tournament.



— Is there any additional stress on Solo, since there is so much riding on his decisions?

— A very difficult question. I can only say that Solo is a very serious young man, he takes absolutely everything close to heart - any loss, any random “rofling” in a scrim, any small conflict, even if they all get solved fast. For example - yesterday we played three random scrims, won them all, but there were a couple mistakes, moments where people weren’t listening to him and it all affected him hard. He gets upset after any micro mistake. Like if I can’t re-pull the creeps - Solo goes tilt. It doesn’t affect the game itself, but it does affect him.



— Who will win Complexity or WG.Unity and should anyone pick you in Fantasy League?

— I think WG.U will win. You shouldn’t pick me in fantasy league, because the position I play is 3.5 and it doesn’t transition into fantasy points at all. It says you have to place wards. Buying wards? What? What is a ward? And stack neutrals. What is that? How? I just right click things on Weaver and that’s it. Translator: DFS

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