International 2015 player guide

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IntroductionFallen champions, teams trying to get

back to your place of law, showing that older players. They can still compete. And win.

The CIS region brings his aggressive and fast style with Team Empire, Virtus.Pro and the eternal favorite NaVi bringing other teams to their own pace of controlled chaos.

Europe brings the two most inconsis-tent and more consistent team at the in-ternational respectively, Cloud 9 and Se-cret Team to represent them will the expectations be fullfilled? Will Europe recover the lost Aegis?

SEA region represented by veterans through the Fanatic team trying to repeat its 2013 performance and the MVP team

bringing new talent to the game and bring-ing the korean hegemony in yet another eSport.

The Americas bring EG and Complexity for the arena. EG always consistent, they must prove that the DAC was no fluke. And Complexity, zebra that international, nothing to prove, nothing to lose, the only way is up.

And last but not least, China. New-bee, LGD Gaming, EHOME and Vici Gam-ing. What was once considered a liability metagame and without confrontations, to-day brings four teams with different play-ing styles each dictating the pace of the game in his own way, but all equally dan-gerous.

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Cloud 9Cloud9 is a North American eSports organisation currently fielding teams in Hearthstone, League of Legends, Smite, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2. Cloud9 made its debut into the Dota 2 arena by signing the former Speed Gaming team in February 2014.

Jacky “EternalEnvy“ Mao

Adrian “FATA-” Trinks

Pittner “bOne7” Armand

Johan “BigDaddy” Sundstein

Rasmus “MiSeRy” Filipsen

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The strong-willed carry EternaLEnVy may be the most controversial figure in the scene. EternaLEnVy is not afraid of playing heroes on a unconventional way, sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t, but the trust his team puts on him is a showcase of his talent.

FATA- is the tempo dictator for C9 and the stability the team often needs amongst all the chaos they create. FATA-‘s farm efficiency and 1v1 abilities is what makes gives his team so much room to work and draft around.

bOne7 is THE wildcard of Dota 2. When he’s on a good day he will win a match by himself, on a bad day not even icefrog himself would’ve made a difference. Since he started drafting his consistency got better and he feels safer with his picks.

A flower and a river, BigDaddy’s biggest weapon is his posi-tioning. Even in the middle of all the chaos, C9 can always count on BigDaddy to be on spot with his support, saving teammates and disrupting his enemies.

MiSeRy is a veteran from the days of DotA, starting as a carry and transitioning to support now. MiSeRy trademark is his ag-gressiveness, instilling fear on the enemy lanes whenever he is not present on the minimap.

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Team EmpireTeam Empire is one of the premier teams in Russia and the CIS across all eSport titles. The organisation was established in 2004 with headquarters in Moscow.

Airat “Silent” Gaziev

Roman “Resolut1on” Fominok

Maxim “yoky” Kim

Ilya “ALOHADANCE” Korobkin

Andrey “ALWAYSWANNAFLY” Bondarenko

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Silent thrives when he is fighting non-stop along with his team. Favoring fighter type carries like Wraith King and Gyrocopter who can fight early and keep going until the game ends, he is aggressive, but not stupid and his ability to make out of fights alive is what makes it work.

Already a staple at CIS scene, Resolut1on aggressiveness fits his team like a glove. Always searching for plays on the map, Resolut1on just keeps pushing the opponent until one of them falls apart.

Maybe the most consistent offlaner in all of CIS, yoky is the initiator for empire. Yoky usually play heroes who can scale well on the long run but needs only a core item to start roam-ing around the map looking for pickoffs that leads into objec-tives for Empire.

ALOHADANCE non-stop ganking is his trademark. Favors he-roes who can take his opponent out of position and isolate team fights so his team can pick them out one by one. His disruptor often gets a respect ban on the draft phase.

ALWAYSWANNAFLY is an adaptive support, sometimes switching roles with yoky when the oppornity presents itself difficulting the draft against Empire. ALWAYSWANNAFLY has the hard task of protecting his team while they dive like they forgot which ancient they’re playing for.

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Evil GeniusESEvil Geniuses, often abbreviated EG, is one of the oldest North American professional gaming organizations. Ever since the founda-tion in 1999, Evil Geniuses is known to have highly successful players in every competitive game they feature and is by many considered one of the premier gaming organizations.

Clinton “Fear” Loomis

Syed Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan

Saahil “UNiVeRsE” Arora

Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling

Peter “ppd” Dager

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Playing since 2006, oldman Fear is regarded as one of the best players of all America. Fear diverse hero pool while maintaining consistency is what makes him so formidable and allows ppd to draft to his hearts content.

EG`s last addition to the team, SumaiL is the youngest player at the international with 15 years old. He likes to play tempo dictating heroes where he can rotate finding pickoffs and showing off all his skill.

UNiVeRsE excels at team fight oriented heroes where he can set up for sumail and fear to clean up right after. As such he usually plays heroes which doesn’t need much farm to shine.Trivia:Disney’s biggest fan NA

EG acquired Aui_2000 after the great western reshuffle winning the DAC right after. Aui_2000 play farm intensive supports which transition into semi cores controlling team fights for his team.

Better known as salt king ppd is EG’s drafter and shot caller. He tends to pick defensive supports for himself to save his teammates while extending the teamfights where each one individual skill can shine.

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EHOMEOne of the oldest teams in the scene. How-ever they did not get the same support from their country as the other teams got and were even seen as a foreign team on the Chinese scene, because EHOME was, unlike the oth-er Chinese teams, not part of Association of China E-Sports.

Yang “Zyf” Pu

Chen “Cty” Tianyu

Bai “rOtk” Fan

Zhang “LaNm” Zhicheng

Liang “DDC” Faming

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After playing on a few second tier teams, Zyf is finally on the main stage of Dota 2. Perhaps a reminiscent of Chinese old time carries, Zyf tends to not take part in teamfights and fa-voring split pushing.

EHOME’s mid is a well know face among chinese scene. Cty is at his best when he is playing heroes that can overwhelm his opponent by himself taking a mile when he was given an inch.

Despite his huge fan base in China, rOtk only became known in west after last year international and all star match for his explosive personality. rOtk as a player has proven to be at the top tier for a while but his over aggressiveness can be a liabil-ity sometimes.

On a quiet night you can still hear echoes from LaNm’s chaos dunk from last year’s International. LaNm is a superb support who can turn games that seemed lost on a single good team-fight.

DDC has a stellar trilane support even though he sometimes picks the role as the jungle roamer but his absolute selling point is his survivability as a support. Sometimes dying less than his carry despite his fragility.

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Na'VIIts DotA section was created in October 2010 with the pickup of Goblak, XBOCT, Mag~, Deff-, and Axypa. The team was later invited to The International 2011, eventually winning it after defeating the Chinese team EHOME 3-1 in the finals.

Alexander “XBOCT” Dashkevich

Danil “Dendi” Ishutin

Gleb “Funn1k” Lipatnikov

Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev

Ivan “Artstyle” Antonov

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The most aggressive carry in the world, XBOCT motto is go big or go home. XBOCT tenacity is a double edged sword that turn losing fights around when no other carry would dare to stay around and die tower diving tier 2 at 2 minutes into the game.

The biggest fan base of Dota 2 belongs to Dendi. Dendi is ver-satile player, he prefers flashy heroes where he can make play by himself but is just as good playing farming heroes as the current meta favors.

Funn1k left the team for 3 months during NaVi’s bad times but rejoined with ArtStyle. Funn1k’s dies more than the av-erage offlaner but often makes the enemy team pay dearly for it. His initiation is all Dendi and XBOCT could ever asked for.

SoNNeikO has a hard task at his hand playing on NaVi, he has to keep alive three aggressive players with one of those being XBOCT. And surprisingly he’s been doing an exceptional job so far keeping up with the rest of his team despite his expe-rience.

NaVi’s long lost son, ArtStyle return to the squad was a moon-shot that actually hit. After searching for a captain that could fix the hole left by Puppey, Artstyle might just be able to do that.

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FnaticIn August 2014, Fnatic split up their long-term European roster. After a few attempts at new rosters, they left the scene late 2014. In June 2015 they picked up Malaysian super squad formerly known as MY.

Lee “kYxY” Kong Yang

Chai “Mushi” Yee Fung

Chong Xin “Ohaiyo” Khoo

Fadil “Kecik Imba” Bin Mohd Raziff

Siong Tait “JoHnNy” Lee

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Even with so many titles under his belt, kYxY was immortal-ized with his denied aegis leading to his Orange’s defeat at in-ternational 2013. But aside from that kYxY may be SEA’s best carry along with Mushi and has been part of every top team from sea on the last 4 years.

SEA’s family jewel, Mushi is aguarbly the most versatile player in the whole world. On his 34 matches on patch 6.84 he played 21 heroes, and only shadow fiend he played more than twice. This type of versatility and combined with his level of play is something every drafter’s wet dream.

Ohaiyo like heroes who can roam around the map once he got level 6 creating opportunities for his team to capitalize on. He may not be very good at farm but when your offlane can create snow ball as much as ohaiyo, who needs farm?

Previously a carry, Kecik Imba was the 6th member of Orange in 2013 but wasn’t chosen to be on the International 2013 ros-ter. Now more experienced he returns to his original squad. Kecik Imba favors supports who can roam causing a big im-pact on the early game with ganks.

After 2 disappointing Internationals, JoHnNy finally has a chance with a team up to his potential. Having played from hard carry to support, the strangest thing about JoHnNy is that he can change roles with Mushi when they feel like the hero is a better fit.

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Virtus.proIn September 2014, Virtus Pro started a secondary team (called VP.Polar and later known as ASUS.Polar). In March VP dropped their main squad. In April VP aquired the ASUS.Polar team.

Ilya “Illidan” Pivcaev

Sergey “G” Alexandrovich Bragin

Alexander “DkPhobos” Kucheria

Ilya “Lil” Ilyuk

Artsiom “fng” Barshack

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Despite playing since 2012 professionally, Illidan never made attracted much attention, until this last year. Since then Illidan has grown into a very reliable carry, very aggressive, but when he makes it work so well what’s to blame?

Despite being one of the best mids in the west and play since DotA days, G only played on the first international. G’s favors heroes that scale well onto the late game but has power peaks in mid game, when he tries to snowball his way to victory.

DkPhobos played DotA professionally and despite his 4 year status, going from zero to internatinal invitee in a one year span show just how good he is. DkPhobos likes to play as a playmaker, going around the map finding kills.

Lil only debuted last year after being called by Goblak and DkPhobos to play on NVMI. Since then he attended plenty of lans with his team, and lack of experience isn’t an issue. Lil, usually go for the defensive support and is a trilane monster.

International’s Cinderella story. After being kicked from NaVi, fng was teamless for about 2 months before being picked by VP.Polar and building his team up to the current state, which is arguably better than the NaVi he was kicked from.

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Invictus gamingInvictus Gaming is the result of Wanda En-terprise director Wang Sicong acquiring Catastrophic Cruel Memory. The team was founded in 2011 and has DotA, Starcraft 2, and LoL teams.

Xu “BurNIng” Zhi Lei

Luo “Ferrari_430” Fei Chi

Luo “Luo” Yinqi

Wong “ChuaN” Hock Chuan

Zeng “Faith” Hongda

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The legendary carry, B-God. BurNIng is a living legend because of his incredible farm rates under any circumstance. His diverse hero pool and extensive knowledge let his team draft with confidence any hero knowing that BurNIng will be able to execute flawlessly.

Ferrari_430 got the “Pianist” nickname for a reason. Ferrari_430 plays mid, flashy, tempo dictating mid heroes.during the laning stage he likes to play aggressive poking holes at his enemy’s defense.

Luo plays offlane with heroes that transition into cores later on the midgame and beyond in tune with his team playstyle that consist in getting a few core items and bulldozing his way into the enemy ancient.

ChuaN specialize in roaming fishing for kills on mid and safe lane as a support. ChuaN is often remembered for his “skillshots”, turning the gamble of a roaming support into a fixed bet.

IG’s captain, Faith often sacrifices every scarce resource he get as a support to help his carry get bigger and was a little late to transition into the current multi-core meta.

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Vici GamingIn December 2013, Vici Gaming traveled to Poland to compete in the Raidcall EMS Fall LAN finals, joining the ranks of teams like Alliance, Navi and DK who were pioneers in east-west tournament participation. Following this, the team also traveled to the Kingston HyperX Dota 2 League offline finals in Las Vegas in 2014.

Chen ‘Hao’ Zhihao

Xie “Super” Junhao

Daryl “iceiceice” Koh Pei Xiang

Lu “Fenrir” Chao

Xu “fy” Linsen

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Hao is one of the most aggressive players on the scene, his dives can often make or break the early game and as such needs a team focused on early aggression to get the most out of it.

Playing with VG since 2013, Hao doesn’t play the usual flashy, tempo dictating mid China mids often brings to the table preferring farming heroes. Super may not be the flashiest of the team, but his stability is often the fallback VG needs after all the chaos they create.

Widely regarded as the best offlaner in the world for a couple of years now, iceiceice’s incredible versatility and unpredictability are his best weapons. His main role on VG is as a space creator for the rest of his team to farm and make plays.

An versatile player, Together with fy, fenrir’s early game roaming incite fear on mid and safe lane excelling at setting up kills where there is none to be found. Fenrir likes to play with supports who rely heavily on position to control from a safe distance.

Being on VG since 2012, fy is VG’s captain and cornerstone. Much of their playstyle comes from his chemistry with fenrir as a support duo and is often regarded as the best duo in the world in the world. If Hao dives, it’s fy who makes it work.

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NewbeeNewbee is a team that emerged in early 2014 during the Chinese reshuffle that happened prior to the fourth International tournament. Originally dubbed “Dream Team 2”.

Wang “Rabbit” Zhang

Zhang “Mu” Pan

Lin “June” Shiyang

Wang “SanSheng” Zhaohui

Wang “Banana” Jiao

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Rabbit is a bit of an oddball among chinese carries. He likes to play mid game power houses and dominate the mid game building an large advantage leaving no room for the opponent team to comes online.

Another oddball. Mu plays like a western carry, aggressively and more often than not doing the initiator role for his team. As such his death ratio is higher than average, but nobody can argue that it’s ineffective.

Newbee’s newest player, June has some pretty big shoes to fill as the team’s captain after xiao8 departure. And he does so in a bit of a unusual position as a offlaner. In order to do so, he favors heroes who doesn’t need too much farm to help the team.

Now on his fourth International, SanSheng does the support along with Banana. Sansheng likes to play heroes with heavy team fight control and low cd, so he can roam around finding kills whenever is possible on early game

A veteran at DotA, Banana plays the support for Newbee. Know for his jungle supports, Banana goes for a farm oriented support wherer he can come out with a core item by 10 or 15 minutes into the game and start taking objectives with his team.

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Team SecretTeam Secret was originally made up of play-ers from Natus Vincere, Fnatic, and Alliance, who formed a team in the post-TI4 shuffle. The team was announced to be participating in various tournaments, but without an offi-cial roster.

Artour “Arteezy” Babaevz

Gustav “s4” Magnusson

Ludwig “zai” Wåhlberg

Kuro “KuroKy” Salehi Takhasomi

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Arteezy playstyle may look selfish at times neglecting teamfights in the early game, but his ability to create space and objective driven results talk for themselves. Arteezy may talk the talk but he walks a marathon.

If you could describe s4 in one word it would be clutch. s4 plays tempo dictating heroes where he can abuse his game sense and mechanics to create plays where it seems time and time again to have none.

Secret’s offlaner, zai consistency at the hard lane makes it looks easy. He often plays heroes who can farm his core items quickly and roam around finding pickoffs and farm along the way.

After playing for a while as carry, KuroKy came back to the support role with his defensive supports turning killing anyone on his team a nightmare. Kuroky tends to prefer babysitting and teamfight oriented supports leaving roaming to puppey.

Widely regarded as the best jungler support in the scene, Puppey is the shot caller for Secret. He usually likes to play with roaming supports, where he can shine with his clutch plays.

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kda:6/5/10

kda:5/3/7

kda:4/1/13

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MVP.Hot6ixOn September 1st, 2013, MVP announced their first Dota 2 team, with the signing of Team Ashu. The team would play under the MVP HOT6ix tag. JeeF also joined the organization as Team Manager. Two months later, MVP announced the creation of a second Dota 2 team, to play under the tag MVP Phoenix.

Lee “FoREv” Sang-don

Pyo “MP” No-a

Lee “SunBhie” Jeong-jae

Jesse “JerAx” Vainikka

Lee “Heen” Seung Gonz

Carry

Mid

Offlaner

Support

Support

FoREv is a aggressive carry, but a little hard to predict. He’s not afraid of picking unconventional heroes like huskar but it’s hard to predict if those oddball picks is because of him or result of morean meta.

MP favors heroes who can start taking fights with few items and levels and snowball from there going from lane to lane taking map control but is vulnerable when pressured .

SunBhie sometimes change roles with FoREv and with good results. He’s also fond of his own pocket picks like his offlane Omniknight.

MVP HOT6ix’s sole foreigner, JerAx was a HoN pro player but is better known for his earth spirit in pubs and his first blood spree at Dreamhack last year.

Heen plays the babysitter type of support that lets him pay attention to the rest of the game calling the shots for his team and tp’ing whenever he is necessary to change the course of a gank.

3 Wins

3 Wins

4 Wins

3 Wins

4 Wins

2 Wins

3 Wins

3 Wins

4 Wins

1 Wins

3 Wins

4 Wins

2 Wins

5 Wins

0 Win

0 Loss

2 Losses

1 Loss

0 Loss

0 Loss

0 Loss

1 Loss

0 Loss

1 Loss

2 Losses

0 Loss

0 Loss

1 Loss

3 Losses

1 Loss

kda:5/3/7

kda:7/6/9

kda:3/3/3

kda:3/5/12

kda:1/2/4

kda:7/2/7

kda:7/3/13

kda:1/4/4

kda:3/3/15

kda:2/7/9

kda:14/3/9

kda:13/3/14

kda:5/7/12

kda:4/3/10

kda:2/7/9

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LGD GAMINGLGD began as For The Dream, which won SMM 2009, later that year FTD was sponsored by LGD. The team has been a powerhouse of the Chinese scene ever since.

Liu “Sylar” Jiajun

Lu “Maybe” Yao

Yao “Yao” Zhengzheng

Zhang “xiao8” Ning

Lei “MMY!” Zengrong

Carry

Mid

Offlaner

Support

Support

A familiar face at international, Sylar playstyle resemble BurNInG with his consistency and farm efficiency but plays usually play a hard carry hero leaving utility for his team-mates while he builds up the raid boss carry.

Maybe appeared on the scene only last year, but he has been playing on Chinese in-house leagues since DotA days. Maybe favors heroes that come online quickly and start taking objec-tives to swing the momentum to LGD’s side.

Known for his versatility, Yao play anything his team needs on the offlane. On his last matches prior to the international Yao has been showing a tendency to pick strong initiators and gankers wreaking havoc once he hits level six.

LGD’s captain, xiao8 may just be LGD best chance to reach the aegis this year. Xiao8 is known for his proficiency as a captain. Game sense, drafting, shot calling, xiao8 has it all. As such, he plays non-micro intensive supports and focus on his team overall strategy.

A veteran on the scene, MMY! makes him the target of any teamfight by keeping his carry alive at all costs, and usually succeeds at that. If xiao8 call the shots, it’s MMY! who makes it happen.

3 Wins

3 Wins

7 Wins

2 Wins

6 Wins

4 Wins

5 Wins

3 Wins

5 Wins

3 Wins

3 Wins

2 Wins

6 Wins

4 Wins

4 Wins

1 Loss

2 Losses

3 Losses

1 Loss

3 Losses

0 Loss

0 Loss

0 Loss

1 Loss

1 Loss

2 Losses

1 Loss

1 Loss

1 Loss

0 Loss

kda:10/3/16

kda:10/4/8

kda:4/3/14

kda:6/2/7

kda:1/3/6

kda:12/2/7

kda:13/4/15

kda:4/3/16

kda:2/3/12

kda:3/3/11

kda:5/3/12

kda:5/2/8

kda:5/2/14

kda:4/4/10

kda:4/2/14

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SoNNeiko

Having played only on Power Rangers before, SoNNeikO wasn’t a big

name, and doubted to perform well on NaVi.

SoNNeikO quickly showed what he is capable of and

now is considered a integral part of NaVi’s new

found success.

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bOne 7bOne7 has always been a hit or miss player. He would either play out of his mind and win the whole game by himself before 10 minutes or feed 3 times before the first tower falled. But since he started drafting for Cloud9 his consistency has went way up and isn’t a liability like it was in the past. Let’s just hope EE can up his game too.

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fng’s past year has been a roller coaster of emotions worthy of a Disney fairy tale adaption. Fng got recognition after leading the Power Ranger squad for a year and was recruited by the most popular team in Dota 2, NaVi. His first couple of months with NaVi was pretty mediocre and when things were finally starting to get well he was kicked from NaVi after their first tournament win being replaced by Goblak. This could be the end for fng’s chances for the International but VP.Polar needed a support to fill Goblak’s departure so they ended up trading spots. Fng immediately found success on his new team which ended up being merged with regular VP and got better results than he did with NaVi even receiving a direct invite.

fng

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ARTSTYLE

After his 2 year hiatus during 2012 to 2014 everyone thought ArtStyle was gone for good from the scene but he returned. Playing for Hellraisers his return was mediocre and his next two teams didn’t showed much promise either, but since he got back on NaVi ArtStyle is on fire. After the fng fiasco NaVi needed a captain who

could hold the ego of Dendi and XBOCT. Goblak albeit a good strategist and drafter couldn’t keep up with the team. And out of nowhere came ArtStyle, looking like a desperate move from NaVi to get back to the glory of old times but nobody

expected it to work as well as it did.