Dog mini Season 2 — Attack on Panda Review
Tags: Dota 2, Dog House, Esport

Overall

Despite our loss in the final, I very much enjoyed this season, everyone on the team was nice and I had good time. Annoyingly, this is the second final I’m losing in a row, hopefully third time is the charm.

Draft

I was quite fortunate to get Hope as a first pick of the draft for cheap considering his skill. Then I got a sold mid in Lucky and a good offlaner in Lgy. At that point I had 9 coins left and I thought that most higher supports would go for more I decided that there wont be much difference in the skill and I can tank my average mmr and get a good coach, and more specifically Jammy. Sadly Panda, the fucking animal, drafted two 1.6k players and was 36 mmr lower than me. I got Zakke who was my second choice, but was a bit sad, since Jammy also wanted to be coach of my team.

Players

Hard Support — Kat

My experience with with people bellow 1k consists of Bernard. I can’t speak for the lane, since I was normally on the other end of the map, but past the laning stage she held her own pretty well. Warding, using spells and everything else was solid. I have had 2k players play worse than she did. Only thing she can work on is being more vocal. Overall, at 900 mmr is a steal future drafts.

P.S She also doesn't complain too much when she keeps getting Jakiro picked for her, so that a huge plus for me.

Soft Support — Mitko

I evolved this season, as in I got a second hero worth banning(can’t wait for a random patch to take that away from me). Weaver and Visage were banned vs us for all but one game each. I ended up playing a lot of clock and made some pog plays, mainly sealing Agis twice vs KayTD. I need to get a few more heroes and then I will be unstoppable. On the captaining side of things, I have been trying to do more drafting and shot calling in the last few months, but there is a lot more to work on there.

Offlane — Lgy

If you give this man a good lane he can crush any carry in this division. Does need a bit of leashing sometimes but other than that you can rely on him to hit his spells on the heroes he needs to. He also has a huge hero pool and he can perform very well on many different types of offlaners. My only critique of him would be that sometimes he goes a bit greedy with his items, but he was good enough to get away with it most of the time in this division.

Mid — Lucky

A very solid mid for his mmr, held his own vs all the mids in this division not a huge hero pool, but will force enemies to ban heroes that may not be in the meta. Most of the games I wouldn’t even look at his lane, just see the enemy dying in the kill feed. Biggest thing he can improve is to add to his hero pool, although its not as small as it seems. Heard that he is becoming an Arc Warden player so beware!!!

Carry — Hope

Got exactly what I payed for(and even more considering the price). Solid player, says his weakest part of the game is laning, but if you make enough space for him to farm he will carry. Has a wide hero pool so that is not a problem. Overall an absolute bargain for 32 coins. If he he figures out how to play the lane this man would be unstoppable.

Coach — Zakke

Highest mmr coach in the pool, I was happy I got him even though I wanted Jammy. Game knowledge is insane, has passion for the game. Helped a lot with drafting and after game feedback whenever he wasn’t too tired to stay awake. I wish I got more use of him to go over replays, but I was quite busy with work in the last few weeks. Would for sure draft him again as a coach.

In conclusion

I had a lot of fun and even though we didn’t win, we got to the finals which is a good achievement nonetheless. Will be happy to get any of these lovely people in future teams.