Saturday, July 7, 2007

Pandemic vs MoB (AND FREDDY WONG IS A GUITAR HERO)

WSVG has been hot so far. Come hang out on irc if you're bored and trashtalk with us. =p

Pandemic has swept the series 3-0 in a mirror match with the only difference being the priest specs. The ability of Pandemic to play this team as effectively as a team that runs it as their only matrix has been the topic of discussion a lot.

The first game really was over before it started with Zizek getting sapped and then dropped less than 30 seconds into the game.

The second game didn't go much better, trinketing the CS and then burning stoneform immediately was probably not the best. MoB tried to control and damage Nitrana in the second round, which as anyone who has played this matrix knows, doesn't work very well between dispels/vanish/CloS. Nitrana was still able to unload into Zizek enough to bring him down and nobody on MoB was low with Kintt free to run heal/dispel.

The third game was fantastic; it was a few minutes long where each team's primary target was changed many times and there were lots of close saves. Again, the long games definitely favor the holy priest and eventually Kintt broke free to drink and heal spam for the win. MoB was mostly on malice during the third round while Pandemic moved focus around; Zizek was able to kite/avoid focus extremely well, but was really unable to put out much damage, at least not in synch with his teammates.

I think you can definitely win with shadowpriest vs. the disc priest team variant, but the odds are slightly stacked against you. You really rely on your shadowpriest being free to damage early game to get an early momentum advantage; this pretty much requires you not getting sapped at all, and not being too devastated by early game CC, and being able to control their rogue and mage enough to reduce their damage to your shadowpriest so he's free to nuke. In keep away games, the power of the extra burst is really wasted and the better heals and survivability just have a larger impact on the end result. (I think so at least!)

** UPDATE **

1) Freddy Wong is a sex icon and a true guitar hero.
2) This announcer girl is REALLY cute. (But not as much so as Freddy Wong, sorry)
3) Seriously, Freddy Wong is a god. GO BIG OR GO HOME.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah man I'm watching that right now. Good stuff! I want to try that 3v3 comp with my shadow priest. The rogue and mage I know refused to play with me once I went shadow, but they're noobs and don't know any better. hehe...

Anonymous said...

what a third match! haha.

Ive said...

Third match was good.

Zizek is worthless as shadow, he's to vulnerable and he spends 80% of the game healing himself anyways :x

Anonymous said...

wtb raddy at wsvg!

kale said...

sup rad, see your back, poker was fun as shit bro -- kit and let me know when your next in town to play

kentaro said...

Third match was awesome, I was pulling for the Zechs comeback. Somewhere Ming is crying.

Anonymous said...

wtf happened to world of ming? anyone else get some weird 'word press' stuff?

Dan said...

I too would've liked to see the MOB team win. Not because I like any player more than another but I always enjoy a real competition. Pandemic is beginning to look a lot like Federer in Wimbledon. Too easy.

Anonymous said...

Guitar hero is gay

Anonymous said...

Freddy Wong is awesome -- Pandemic needs to pick him up

And yeah that girl is hot as hell

Anonymous said...

I LOVE FREDDY WONG!

Oppo said...

"I require my guitar!"

Anonymous said...

where do i watch the vid

Atashi said...

Freddie Wonged

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ua3hZXfNZOE

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