Really like our Pudge-Jakiro opener, they countered it very hard but the heroes are really strong and cover a ton of bases together. I don’t think it is particularly good into Kunkka, who makes you really want one of banish, fast stun to break up X combo, Euls hero, or vision skills to prevent X initiation in the first place. Pudge-Jaki don’t really fill any of these.

In the future might try something like Lesh / Silencer + Lion / Tusk.

We planned a Voidface at 15 and forced it, but I think this actually would have been quite a nice Puck game.

Liked the Sniper pick at 17, nice team pick, can be sketchy into Mirana but great team synergy and doesn’t care about Silencer at all. Other options here are Veno and also Arc Warden, who I’ve been working on.

Setting up for Brood was the plan from the beginning. I think it ended up being a very favorable spider game, but we should have swapped the lanes up to keep him away from Puck.

If I have this draft back maybe we end up with something like Lion Lesh Puck Veno Brood.

I think our opener is all off this game and it kind of went downhill from there. Don’t see Io much, so we got the counters mixed up. Thunder / Track vision isn’t a huge deal against Io, who just sort of floats around next to people (also greaves hero late game), and the Tether movespeed makes it really hard for Disruptor to land E / R outside of solo glimpse pickoffs.

I think Riki would have done very nicely in place of BH and we can throw Lion on top of that again to finger the ball. Winter Wyvern is another great Wisp counter and tends to counter lot of Wisp partners as well. Maybe WW+Weaver? Not that we’ll draft vs Io again in another hundred matches.

PA pick I think was pretty good although maybe we go Mags if we are thinking about PA.

I think maybe Lina was the pick for mid, possibly Arc Warden again. Pretty sure late game you can use your Double to Linkens yourself a 2nd time.

Loved the synergy that our lineup has this game. Overall I think both our drafts were nice compositions with mixes of hard initiation, soft initiation and skill combos, but we can refresh our thoughts on counter picks.

I’m still working on figuring out the patch, so don’t next level yourself by drafting like me. Yet.

-gg worst captain ever