No Banned Players Team Review
Tags: Dota 2, Esport

Content Purpose

First of all I would like to congratulate Frost Fire Simps for their win in season 8 of League of Lads and thank all the teams that participated this season and made it more competitive than previous seasons. The point of this content is to make a review on my previous season team (No Banned Players) and share my point of view of the team experience and experience against other teams in season 8 of league of lads.

Team Banner

Team Experience Overall

Overall my experience in No Banned Players has been really good I have been lucky enough to play with the respective players for 6 months now and I can’t stress how much I enjoyed playing with them, I had the chance learn a lot and develop new skills that I have never had the chance to work in other teams. My function as the position 4 was to enable my cores the best way possible since having 3 superstar players that required a lot of space was not an easy task for me and Nephilim. The team almost imploded due to internal conflicts we had during groups, also the fact that Filski almost left the team due to personal inconveniences made it really hard morally to keep play. But we still managed to fix our difficulties together and adjust to still make a really good run in playoffs, I don’t regret anything this season but only the fact that I wasn’t good enough to be something more than a core enabling player.

Players

UltraGunner: Probably the best carry I have ever had the chance to play with, he is definitely one of the best carries in the league, if not the best. He is the Ideal carry every team wants, since he is able to use space accordingly and use powerspikes at the perfect times, I certainly believe that his playstyle is one of the most outrageous ones, Ultra’s space usage makes him a lethal player when matches go to mid/late game, leading him to be able to 1v5 if the games demands it.

Pattern: Former teammate from Roleswap, also known as the carry midlaner, Pattern is an odd player when it comes to his playstyle at the role he plays, but he is very skilled mechanically and very intuitive player when it comes to rotations and winning games. I used to believe that he was a lower version of Passion, but I couldn’t be more wrong throughout the season Pattern demonstrated to be an amazing player capable of solo carrying games and being our “Passion” for the respective season.

Filski: I firmly believe that Filski is the best offlaner in league of lads and there is no question about it, I’ve had the luck to lane with FIlski for a while now and I have never doubted his laning ability even where he had to 1v2. Post laning phase he becomes a threat that the enemy team has to address and if not dealt with, he will give you a really hard time and destroy you. Any position 4 that gets to play with Filski should consider themselves really lucky after all he is an amazing laning partner and overall good player.

Nephilim: Shotcaller, Analyst, Drafter, Strategist, Captain whatever you want to call him, he is definitely the dream support partner every position 4 wishes, him being able to do all those feats and more during games is an amazing quality, Nephilim overall is my counterpart but better, he is really proficient at warding, laning, rotating and at spell usage, top tier material on a position 5 player. If I ever get the chance to lane against him I would definitely have a real hard time outplaying him.

Jynx (UltraGunner Review): He has a great attitude, always asking and learning how to get better in every aspect of his game, learned new Meta heroes when it was needed, and was never toxic or negative. I think it’s apparent how much he learned over the season from hard work, and our team’s playoffs run wouldn’t have been possible without his performances and rapid improvement. I think he’ll tear up the league on any new team he joins with his current trajection, and I’m worried about my next series against him.

Playoff Matches

Copium Crusaders: 2–0

This team was very interesting when it came to playstyle their split push and grouping strats were the oddest ones in the league. Hana and Eld were incredibly annoying when it came to map control and engages so we had to prep from our previous series against them in groups to figure them out and beat them.

Five Above Average: 2–1

The Twins team was interesting one they had a very strong offlane and midlane with their roster, but their safelane felt lackluster when it came to laning against me and Filski, their playstyle relied on Fatalness, Cuh and Beast to snowball games and keep map control throughout aggression from their respective players. We managed to adjust against this team by changing our draft and playstyle into a more mid game oriented one rather than a lane focused one.

1st Team all Cursed: 2–0

Probably the most annoying team when it came to split push and pickoffs this team had a lot greedy players that could create a lot of space from the way they approached the map and controlled lanes, our solution for this team was to focus on sidelanes, specifically in Filki’s since their safelane wasn’t really strong, therefore we just let Filski and UltraGunner snowball both games.

No Teddy: 2–1

Season 7 Lads Champions probably the hardest series we had played so far, their 4 protect 1 lineup was as strong as previous season, but we had a good idea on how to approach them, we were able to dodge fights when it came to their teamfight lineups and out tempo them when they picked a Hard Carry like Phantom Assassin for kU . I think it’s Important to mention that both Pattern and Filski were absolutely dominating so their gameplay made it easier to win the series.

Pizzadog: 1–2

Against Pizzadog I didn’t feel that we played bad at all, we probably just got outdrafted and outplayed they were probably the closest team in the season to executing Meta drafts and playing a faster tempo than us, I think that we probably should have just focused on winning lanes and flex picks to avoid giving any information about our draft, Sheepsticked and ET were probably the most annoying players we had to deal with, their playstyle made it really hard for us to make any moves to gain a significant advantage over them.

What’s next?

Well No Banned Players is no longer staying together, Pattern will retire from Dota for a while and the rest of us will look to make new stacks or join other premade ones, my next team for season 9 of league of lads will consist of 3 really high mmr core players and I will be supporting with a former league of lads champion.