Evil Geniuses sends Dignitas home despite a slow start

 

 

Despite the slow start in both Games 1 and 2, Evil Geniuses was able to send Dignitas packing after just 2 games. They will now face Team Liquid, the team they defeated during Round 2 of the Winners' Bracket which they won 2:1.

 

 

In Game 1, EG went for an aggressive tri-lane to basically shut down or at least slow down the farm of Luna.

 

In the very first minute of the game, EG was able to take advantage of Chen camping in the jungle as they got first blood on Luna.

 

In the middle lane, Storm Spirit was having the time of his life as he had perfect creep kill but that was not the case for Clinkz in the bottom lane as Warlock was able to harass him and even forced him to go back to base.

 

At the 8 minute mark, EG tried to gank Magnus in the middle lane but unfortunately for them, great timing from Warlock turned the gank around. However, this gave Clinkz room to farm and he duly obliged and took advantage, as he was able to farm up his Orchid of Malevolence after about 15 minutes.

 

With the lineup that Dignitas had, they decided to group up early and looked for pickoffs and try to take down towers.

 

As the game progressed, Dignitas was slowly taking control of the game and basically negated the strengths of EG's lineup.

 

At the 22 minute mark, EG pushed the middle lane and focused on the tier-2 tower where Rubick was able to steal Reverse Polarity from Magnus that turned the team-fight around.

 

A few minutes later, Dignitas was able to take down all of EG 's outer towers after destroying the bottom tier-2 tower.

 

At the 28 minute mark, Dignitas looked to secure the Aegis of the Immortal but had to back off which gave EG the opening to take the Aegis of the Immortal for themselves. After that, Dignitas immediately engaged and was able to kill off four heroes.

 

After a few minutes, Dignitas decided to push the middle lane and was able to take the middle tier-3 tower but at the cost of four heroes after a great Chaotic Offering(Golem) steal from Rubick. EG then decided to push the middle lane but unfortunately, they lost both Storm Spirit and Lifestealer which gave Dignitas the opening to take the middle barracks and top tier-3 tower.

 

After that, EG grouped up and was able to pickoff Magnus and Jakiro and things got worse for Dignitas as EG took down the middle and bottom melee barracks, then secured the Aegis of the Immortal as well.

 

Dignitas decided to go for a final desperate push via the top lane but unfortunately for them, EG team wiped them which forced out the "GG" call from Dignitas.

 

 

In Game 2, Dignitas went for a greedy lineup after picking up a support Beastmaster, while EG went for a typical lineup.

 

At around the 2 minute mark, Templar Assassin, with a haste rune, and Rubick over-extended in the middle lane and dived Chaos Knight and Io between the tier-1 and tier-2 tower and were duly punished as Chaos Knight got first blood on Rubick.

 

Dignitas is controlling the game in the early stages but at the 10 minute mark, EG was able to get a much needed break after punishing the over-extension from Dignitas, killing off three heroes.

 

At the 17 minute mark, Dignitas over-committed when killing Batrider and EG duly responded and got four kills in exchange.

 

After a few forced team-fights from Dignitas, the momentum gradually shifted in favour of EG as they were just getting kills all over the map whereas Dignitas was forced to sit back and farm, despite the Chaos Knight and Io combo on their side.

 

At the 38 minute mark, EG was able to secure the Aegis of the Immortal as Dignitas decided not to contest but instead continue farming. However, Dignitas decided to engage just a minute later despite Chaos Knight's Black King Bar still on cooldown after a miss-click while he was farming which basically led to three kills in favour of EG. While that was happening, Weaver was trying to take down the top tier-3 tower and forced EG to teleport back instead of pushing and try to take down a barracks. EG quickly regrouped and pushed the middle lane where they were able to destroy the tier-3 tower and later won a huge team-fight that forced out the "GG" call from Dignitas.