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Thank you for your participation in the first ever Ask WoW Gold! We will be running this event once every month or so to get more reader feed backs, most likely after major tournaments.
Between Serennia-sama, Azael and the Hokage himself, we had three lengthy previews, not one of them picked SK-US in the grand finals. After the last a few international tournaments, no one believed in the strength of All-American RMPs. And looking at Complexity's performance against Ensidia, one would believe there is still a huge gap between American RMPs and European equivalents.
Realz decided to do something about it. Boy did I forget the golden rule:
Never, ever underestimate the heart of a champion. Cheaper WoW Gold is not enough on net.
Especially someone who won a championship in his very first tournament, with a roster of Scoti the mage everyone laughed at, and Toez who is not exactly on Hydra's level. Sure, everyone dismissed it as a 3.0 tournament, but they also had access to the same teams and comps.wow gold In fact the tournament was filled with arcane RMP's. Realz still won with his innovative CB/prep/shiv spec when everyone still played shadowstep, and superb play calling.
Here at MLG, not only they defeated Ensidia in mirror match, they were also the first RMP of the tournament to beat Emazing Gaming's DK/BM Hunter/Paladin. And no it wasn't as simple as training the paladin, who has divine shield and almost certainly will out last your priest against DK/BM Hunter. Ensidia had two series against Emazing after watching SK-US's group victory, and even the washed-up Gravitas had a chance to copy the strategy.
They couldn't do it, why? As good as Realz's coaching and play calling were, he couldn't have done it without Pookz and Enforcer. According to Neilyo-kun, Pookz was the best mage he ever played with, and he played this match-up very differently than other mages. Realz asked him to shut down Flexx, the highest rated DK in the world back in season 5, and deadly gladiator in nearly all three brackets. Stopping him from getting to the paint and scourge striking Realz in the face is like stopping Dwight Howard from dunking on you, easier said than done!
And that is where Enforcer's aggressive playing style opened things up for them. The most important, and often the most difficult task a rogue can have in an arena match, is landing a clean opener as fast as possible. And DK/Hunter/Paladin is the hardest team to land a clean opener on, especially against Emazing who charges right in on their mounts with three AOE's. Any hesitations they are already on Realz from the get go, resulting in an automatic loss. What made Enforcer special was his ability to charge in on his own mount half way, dismount and get a cheap shot or better (huge saps in grand finals on Flexx followed by cheap shot on Payce to get them a head start). Against three AOEs covering a huge portion of the arena map, he was super hard to predict and consistently landed his openers, while other rogues would stealth the whole way and still get knocked out. Yes, that happen to me a lot in my own arena matches and the one area I can truly improve on. Landing a clean opener is like rebounding in basketball, it is not just sheer reaction time or athleticism, a lot of it also has to do with anticipation and mind games.wow gold Enforcer had the fastest clean openers against Emazing, and it prevented them from getting to his priest right away followed by magic/stun immunity CDs, bought Pookz time to start his casts. For RMPs struggling to beat cleave teams in general, it is really up to the rogue to get a fast and clean opener, keeping their melee at maximum distance of your priest to start the match. And it is up to the mage to lock down from there and dish out enough damage pressure. |
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