On March 23, South Korea's AWL tournament ended the competition for Group B of the quarterfinals, and although there were twists and turns in the final process, Lyn and 120 still joined hands as expected before the game, and the Terrans chaemiko and Sok were unfortunately out.
Most people's eyes are focused on the entanglement of 120 and the two HUM players, forcing the king to contribute famous scenes such as cutting the screen out of the game to change the key for seven or eight seconds, and the banshee killing and not occupying, etc., the program is full of effect.
However, a small part of the audience noticed the one-sidedness of the other group of confrontations. Unlike HvU, who is still able to fight back, HvO has completely become the performance stage of Lyn alone, and Lyn plays as he pleases, and can clean up as he wants his opponents. All indications are that HvO is becoming the new unbalanced confrontation of Warcraft.
How miserable is HvO?
Let's first look at the results of south Korea's two major HUM Chaemiko and Sok against beast king Lyn and FoCuS in the past six months.
First look at FoCuS playing Chaemiko, the last 9 encounters with FoCuS has achieved an overwhelming record of 8 wins and 1 draw, and it seems that it is not too much to describe it with a sentence that does not know how to lose.
Chaemiko's Lyn was equally miserable, with all three defeats in the last three encounters, and the small score was beaten 8-0.
Sok is not much better, facing Lyn's last 4 games all lost, against FoCuS is also a continuous fold of 3 games, overall, the two HUM players have not tasted the taste of victory in the face of ORC for 19 consecutive games.
In terms of misery, HvO is fully comparable to the accepted unbalanced adversaries such as OvN, UvO, and NvU. It's just that although OvN is miserable, there are also highlight moments when FoCuS rises up in anger and slashes the Korean Elf King; although UvO is difficult to fight, Happy and 120 still do not fall behind against ORC. The only one who can match HvO is probably NvU (in fact, there are examples of Moon AWL's 4-3 win in the final).
Think of hum is also one of the small nemesis of ORC, Sky, Infi, TH000 three major human races of various postures of the TR to fight the beast kings are bitter, ORC players obviously know from the beginning of the game before the opponent will use what tactics, but can not prevent. The later Three Griffin Streams, as well as the 1.29 version of MK's terrifying Thunder Strike Damage, all cast a deep shadow on ORC.
Unfortunately, all this has become a thing of the past.
Why is HvO so miserable?
HvO has become difficult to fight from 2019 when ORC re-uses the prophet, before this, HvO still has a certain advantage, sword saint Xiaoy facing MK's thunder strike and musket salvo is often not an opponent. In the 2019 Golden League Summer Tournament, Lyn and Fly lost to Sok and Chaemiko respectively, and the group stage was back home, and hum was so spirited at that time.
However, with the advent of the Prophet, HvO gradually became the world of ORCs. The prophet's strong harassment ability in the early stage allows HUM to start with obediently defending at home, and ORC can train the two hero bulls to level 3 faster by relying on the advantages of fast-rising technology, thus forming an advantage in hero level.
Next, ORC can even suppress opponents while mining, the late population and hero level lead, not to mention, wolf riding + shaman + bull head three controls, strong killing heroes up to highlight a stable and accurate. Once you feel that you are invincible, you can also come to a runner Dafa, lightning shield big G / wolf with lightning chain to make HUM farmers miserable, HUM troops lack of mobility can often only passive response.
A single prophet has already plunged HUM into deep trouble, and if a "version of the answer" headhunter is added, it will make the already poor family even worse. With the addition of headhunting, ORC's suppression of HUM in the early stage has been upgraded to another level, originally HUM can still go out to stand up to the prophet after stabilizing the home, and now it is not bad to face the hordes of headhunters not being tied into a sieve. With the addition of headhunting on the ORC side, the efficiency of the training has also been significantly improved, and it is also excellent to be a stable remote output in the later stage.
Hum players did not sit still, they thought of a lot of ways to deal with, such as infantry rising shield two-shot panda suppression, such as climbing three out of the griffin, and then such as the second-shot big ass, but these tactics without exception ended in failure. Since MK stepped on the floor, the lack of front output of hum has become the biggest problem, which has become an unsolvable problem for HvO.
Recently, Chaemiko and Sok tried to open up a piece of the sky through a book of mines, but the results of the game have been seen, and HUM has still failed miserably. Not to mention the strong harassment ability of the prophet headhunter in the early stage can make the sub-mine become the orc's practice room, even if HUM can rely on excellent details to safely drag to the sub-mine to open, ORC also has a double BE violent forced demolition to defeat the enemy, HUM is still only subservient.
Of course, the strength of Sok and Chaemiko also has a certain gap compared to the S-class players themselves, and the decline of HvO cannot be attributed only to the imbalance of racial confrontation, and the personal strength of the players is also very important. If you change to TH000 and Infi in previous years, the result may be much better.
It's just that Egg Tower is unlikely to come back to the competition recently, Blizzard refuses to update the version, and for some time to come, HUM may have to continue to lose against ORC, chaemiko and Sok may be the time to start practicing NE.
Next, the AWL semi-finals will open at 17:00 on March 28, and the two national players of 120 and color will face FoCuS and Lyn respectively, looking forward to the DOTA brothers being able to defeat the strong opponents and advance to the final.