The Mars Dota 2 League 2017 grand finals pitted the 2 LGD squads against one another using the older sister, LGD Gaming, claiming it at the conclusion of the hard fought series.
GAME ONE
Inside the opening game from the best-of-five series, LGD Gaming secured a Broodmother, Queen of Pain, Shadow Shaman lineup to pressure LFY and take objectives as fast as you can. They ran an aggro trilane to ensure that LFY’s Bristleback wouldn’t get any laning advantage and once securing the very first two kills of the overall game upon the quill spraying porcupine, they rotated their carry Gyrocopter straight into the safe lane and brought the Broodmother bottom to carry out what she does best, push the towers, invade the enemy jungle and take all of the possible resources from their store.
In the 23 minute mark LGD were already poking the tier three tower top lane, however they had been not strong enough to bring a full high ground battle and resisted the temptation of diving LFY with their base to secure only a tower kill. LGD’s almost too disciplined actions nearly got them in danger, as LFY were able to claim a Roshan kill in the 30 minute mark and using the Aegis published the Bristleback, and also a Shadow Blade finished on Drow Ranger, LFY were seeking to catch their sister team on the incorrect foot. LGD read their adversaries' plan perfectly and just four minutes following the aegis was claimed, LFY was exhausted, Bristle going down twice, losing the Aegis also. With only him having the buyback available, LFY lost the complete mid lane barracks, and also the game a couple of minutes later, when LGD finally felt comfortable to reach to the GG push.
GAME TWO
Both teams went with pushing oriented drafts, LFY counting on Lycan and Queen of Pain and LGD going having a mixture of big ultimates that will provide them with the upper hand in team fights, ganks and ultimately better game control. With Death Prophet, Ancient Apparition, Faceless Void and Enigma on the side, LGD was capable of to produce a nice rotation for the large cooldown ultimates to secure each and each team fight. Well-timed Ice Blasts on surface of two-three man Chronos while continuing the push using the DP ultimate but still having Enigma inside the back lines able to ensure a finishing move having a Black Hole, allowed LGD to secure the win without having to worry an excessive amount about LFY’s Lycan’s efforts to split push the map.
GAME THREE
A loss during this third game from the grand finals would have meant a disastrous 3-0 defeat for LFY. So, with the backs against the wall they attempted to match LGD’s play style and went having a surprise Pugna last pick that was sent mid lane. With LGD running a mid lane Earth Shaker that will turn into a problem to the LFY Chaos Knight, LFY went for the aggressive trilane (Ancient Apparition, Night Stalker, Chaos Knight ) to ensure LGD’s Shadow Shaman would not find his levels too fast, nor the Troll would get his items for any sneaky early Roshan. But even so, Troll still finished the Mask of Madness in the 12 minute mark, and was capable of to claim the Aegis for himself three minutes later. The advantage he managed to obtain regardless of all of the LFY efforts to stay him behind was quickly nullified only a moment after he got the Aegis as he was caught farming ancients and lost both of his lives and LGD got fully wiped with their plan to avenge their carry's death. As a result moment on, LFY built on the momentum and kept on pressuring LGD’s buildings to force a game four from their sister team.
GAME FOUR
After three fast paced games, both LGDs changed the tactics in game four as both secured late game scenarios. LFY chose a final pick Morphling while LGD prepared a Drow Ranger strategy having a Medusa last pick. The laning stage would be a backwards and forwards battle during which both teams attempted to establish the first lead but LFY’s level six Dragon Knight was capable of to position his team ahead in both objectives and kill trades. As the Dragon Knight became bigger and bigger, Morphling wasn‘t needed to bring a neighborhood in the first pushes and he was capable of to free farm his lane, only to hitch the team fights once he‘d the Ethereal Blade completed. A rushed Heaven's Halberd upon the DK made LGD’s Medusa-Drow combo futile and any good Chrono wasn‘t enough for LGD to chop with the tanky front liners of LFY. At the conclusion of 50 minutes of struggle, LGD were finally wiped multiple times with their own base and also the grand finals were pushed to some decisive game five.
GAME FIVE
With the final game from the series LGD Gaming did an excellent job of making LFY think that they would like to play a similar late game strategy. They drafted an extremely greedy lineup with Anti-Mage, Ursa and Tidehunter but rather than going on a farming game, they continuously pressured the LFY with both Ursa and Anti-Mage inside the same lane. Twelve minutes in, the Anti-Mage already farmed a full Treads - Battle Fury build and he was left to push one lane alone while the remainder of his team were pushing elsewhere. Seriously out drafted and outmaneuvered, LFY lost the battle in under half-hour to some lineup that in theory was meant to shine inside the super late game stages.
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