Matchförutsägelse: Team Knights - Invictus Gaming | Dota 2
DPC 2022/2023 Winter Tour 1: CN Division I (Upper)The first week of DPC 2023 China Upper Division is slowly but surely coming to an end. We are at the mark of the third gaming day of the regional league.
In the race for $205,000 and 690 points, as before, 8 teams are playing. The same teams are trying to break into the TOP-4 to get to the first Major of the season in Peru.
For some, the goal is much more prosaic: to stay in business for next season. Invictus Gaming can still be ranked among the latter, but with regards to Knights, everything is not so obvious.
The “Knights”, who occupied the RNG slot, showed quite a strong DotA in the debut match. You can’t say the same about IG, but it’s too early to judge by one series.
Let's figure out which of the teams will be stronger in the second series for themselves within the DPC 2023 China Upper Division and earn important points at the start.
Team Knight uniform
Let's start the review of the match with an analysis of the form of Team Knights. They are the favorites in this fight.
The bookmaker estimates the chance of Team Knights to win with odds around 1.75. “Knights” is a low-key favorite, and this can be understood.
As mentioned above, the sample size to confidently assign favorite status is too small. The team played only 1 series, but against Team Aster, where they looked good.
Knights has a lot of challenges ahead, and the match against IG is perhaps one of them. However, it is already clear that the team has potential.
Team Knights roster
The Team Knights roster provides the lion's share of this potential. The team managed to put together a five that is incomparable with the former RNG in terms of names, but a combat-ready brotherhood, that's for sure.
- eGo
- AlaCrity-
- flyby
- Felixciaoba
- XCJ
The Knights included strong “middle peasants”. Carrie eGo has been showing confident dota for a long time. While still in Team Serenity and ShenZhen, Luo Bin stood out among his colleagues and now he has the opportunity to gain a foothold in the first division.
AlaCrity is another up-and-coming performer who just can't find her place among the tops. The last club is Nigma Galaxy SEA, where he didn't manage to mark himself with an impeccable DotA, but he certainly wasn't a ballast.
Flyby and Felixciaoba are former members of Royal Never Give Up. No matter how sad it may sound, they are all that remains of the top club in Dota 2.
Knights performance
Having gathered for the start of DPC 2023, the team managed to “prove” itself at a third-party event. They became the Star Series, held at the local level.
Knights played there against teams like Neon Esports, Team Flow, IG. Vitality and others. As a result of the championship, the team took 3rd place, which, frankly, is a rather strange result. I don't presume to say, but it seems that someone played there not only for the training game.
However, as expected, a completely different game began at the DPC. The team won the map against Team Aster after a rather sad start, and they, in turn, are almost the main contender for the TOP-1 this season.
Heroes Knights
In this patch, the team played as Tiny (16 matches, 68% win rate), Treant Protector (8 matches, 87% win rate), Drow RANger (8 matches, 62% win rate), Snapfire (7 matches, 71% win rate), Lich (7 matches, 71% wins), Shadow Fiend (7 matches, 71% wins).
Invictus Gaming kit
We continue the review with an analysis of the shape of Invictus Gaming. In this match, they will perform in the status of catching up.
The bookmaker evaluates the chance of Invictus Gaming to win with odds around 2. The odds are quite working, which hints at the possibility of an equal game.
Naturally, this option should not be discarded, but remembering the first series of IG, it seems that they will be far from imposing a fight on their counterparts. The updated IG got too much marriage in a match against an opponent, nominally weaker.
Lineup IG
Like most teams in the top division, IG “stormed” in the new season. Virtually the entire roster was shoveled, and only 1 player remained non-replaceable.
- emo
- dust
- Irving
- poloson
- qyqx
Emo remained non-replaceable in the team, but not in position. The IG veteran will test himself in the first position in the new season, giving mid to the young and promising Dust, who previously played for Team MagMa. Again, so far without results.
In general, MagMa became the main donors to IG in the new season. Together with Dust, Irving moved from there with qyqx, and they completed the roster with poloson from SMG.
So far, the option of building a team around the main star looks like a failure. The performance of IG in the first series is, to put it mildly, sad, and if the trend continues, the team runs the risk of being again beyond the 6th place, and then relegated to the second division, from where it has just risen.
Performance of Invictus Gaming
Refreshing the memory of the past merits of Invictus Gaming, we can remember how the team felt last season. It was very interesting there.
Starting from 4th place at Intel World Open Beijing, Invictus Gaming continued with 7th place at DPC CN 2021/2022 Tour 1: Division 1, which resulted in relegation to the second division.
In the lower leagues, IG, as it seemed, had to smash their rivals, but they managed to do this only on the second attempt, and even then not completely. In the second round, the team took the TOP-3, and already in the third round they got a victory to enter the top division.
The last event for IG, but still in the previous line-up, was the qualifiers for The International 2022, where the title Chinese club took 4th place.
At DPC 2023, IG made their debut with a match against EHOME, where they were supposed to crush their opponents, given that they lost their stars, but they were not lucky: the first map was without a chance, the second one was thrown unthrown.
Heroes IG
In patch 7.32, Invictus Gaming didn't get to play much. The team used Marci (5 matches, 40% wins), Doom (4 matches, 75% wins), Lich (3 matches, 66% wins), Dawnbreaker (3 games, 66% wins).
History of personal confrontations
Previously, the teams did not meet each other in the official series. This match will be the debut face-to-face confrontation between the teams.
The outcome of the fight
In this game, there are chances to see approximately equal DotA, which is hinted at by the odds for the winner. The game of teams, it seems, also indicates this.
Although Knights looked good with Aster and IG lost to EHOME rather stupidly, this does not mean an easy ride for the former. While stability is not worth waiting for, all the same, these are just starting DPC series.
Whatever it was, in this match I'm for the Knights. They look fresh and may be the opening of the season.
Bottom line: Knights win.
Bookmakers & Statistics
För tillfället ser majoriteten av bookmakers enhälligt laget Team Knights som spelets favorit med genomsnittliga odds på en seger i summan av 1.42. Invictus Gaming chanser att vinna utvärderas med genomsnittliga odds 3.489 av bookmakers.
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