7/28/20111 - new replay
just had a fun 2v2. thunder(hybrid tb) + pacov (never die sed (well i did die once 
)) vs zen's erb (he didn't just save for godplate to my chagrin) + ppap (hybrid tb). My team lost. I think the good things to watch were zen and ppap being super aggressive and mindful of the map for when to push and be obnoxious. I think I made a pretty solid decision pushing their portal when they were obssessed on trying to grab valor vs thunder. I think I had a VERY solid strat then anyway. I had just been "kinda" forced to run the crystal. I figure they were expecting me to come back to mid and fight, so I immediately ported over to hp and ran to their portal. They didn't even try to tp to me, so I'm pretty sure thunder put up a good show to keep their attention. Its difficult in pro games to get sneaky, but I think I pulled that off without them figuring out what I was doing as it was a pretty quick move.
They obsessed early on tearing down the middle towers. This is a GREAT end game strat as it means you can easily push for portals or valor. I don't have any major complaints about how my team played. I wish we'd have gotten giants as I had 2 waves pushing their cit solid at the end. Giants MIGHT (and it a big might) have made a difference in us killing their cit before they killed ours. I didn't really get to check thunders money situation out at the end, but I'd wager he was in the same boat as me (had 3800 or so when the game ended). I figured I needed to keep my kit, but in hindsight, they left me solo their cit for a bit, so I probably could have sold).
Other thoughts - I love that ppap can be made to obsess about siege archers, etc. He did a pretty solid job of handling them as I tried to walk them by him, but I, as a rule, just let those fuggers tear down my towers if I have to. I usually view leveling up and getting flag control as a higher priority than dicking around with the little guys. That said, I probably should have grabbed natures reck to compensate a bit as it was clear it was going to be archer fun from zen.
I also love and hate this sedna build. I absolutely hate lacking the dps I get from my fu die sedna build. I get that I really need to go with live forever sed in 2v2, but so often I'm thinking... wow.. I just pounced for 400 and they have 3k hp... wooo... check me out. I can silence them now and my teammate only needed to magically do 2600 dmg. fing low dmg build. Still... live forever is nice. But also boring... had a moment where it was me vs zen for like 2-3 minutes i think... him expecting me to run out of mana and run, me knowing I'd never get an adv on him, but there was no reason to run. Pretty boring, but oh well.
Here you go if you like:
http://www.box.net/shared/caaebnvjnlcy70rmrujp
