Recruit sanemaniac? [1.24.1]

I welcome your input to these two games. The main person to watch is our possible new recruit sanemaniac. I do not know sanemaniac well, but look forward to getting to know this new player. A small disclaimer of my opinion/comments on replays. No one is perfect, I could easily point out 20 or more things I did wrong in the first replay of the two. I make accurate observation of players(or a team) not to nag, but to show were we(or they, or whomever) can improve on their game play... if they choose to do so. So to the replays!

Recruitment Match [1.24.1]



Look at those stats! Fantastic! Everything you would like to see from a nevermore carry. Lets take a quick look at the lanes that we have compared to the opponents.

Jugg, siren vs slark, Treant. I never believe in dual melee combos, but this match up was boggled due to the fact that both teams had dual melee(did not watch early game). In mid lane there is Viper vs Nevermore. Pretty classic combo and I find it a fair match up. Top lane is Dazzle Rexxar vs Veno D.S., which is a very interesting match up.

The player I watched throughout the replay was sanemaniac. Sanemaniac dukes it our versus rum in the middle lane. In many cases, the the two heroes Nevermore and Viper clashing in middle is epic! This was not one of those cases. The viper never harassed nevermore, and in addition he kept auto attacking his lane resulting in the always being on the scourge side.



In addition, Nevermore last hit fairly well, not perfect, but no one is perfect. He didn't try any aggressive moves on the viper, and fell victim to a gank at 8 minutes into the game.



In attempt to counter future ganks, sanemaniac purchased wards. 9 - 11 minutes into match there was some conflicts in the middle, but he there was nothing significant other than me(dazzle) feeding a kill in the middle.

He was able to place a ward at bottom rune at approximately the 11 min mark. And the second one at the top rune spot 15 mins in. 16 mins in the two solo mids hit it off again. Sadly neither rum nor sane took advantage of the situation. With some orb walking the viper could have easily ran over the nevermore. I feed another kill to nevermore 17 minute mark. 18:46 minutes into the game, sentinel underestimate the killing power of the scourge and end up feeding a good number of kills to the scourge team. 20 minutes in Nevormore dies to Juggernaut.

It was an unavoidable incident due to lack of recon of heroes. 23 minutes in is were sanemaniac makes his first major mistake as far as silly deaths. In attempt to push the lane faster he puts himself in a vulnerable position and ends up dieing for it. 24:30 minutes in is were he makes his second mistake. Although this one he was attempting to gank as a team, it was a tower dive with only 3 players against at least 2 opposing heroes. This caused him to die again.

26 minutes in the scourge team serves the uncordinated sentinel team, nevermore had little to do with this, but it was interesting to watch the combination of D.S., Veno, Treant, and Slark in play. It is a good note that this was a fairly well organized group of players for never playing with one another before.(All 5 players on scourge are pushing top). Sent team feeding another kill to scourge at 27:30 minutes... 25 minutes with sanemaniac's grind is his first major item, which isn't horrible. But is a bit late.

29 minutes in sent gets a good gank on the scourge, but than one by one picked sentinel heroes were picked off by nevermore. This was a major loss for the sentinel, but wasn't the finishing crushing blow to the game.

32 minutes in is were sanemaniac makes his third mistake of going out too far against a pushing team. (This could happen to anyone tho lol :)).


35 minutes in Nevermore keeps picking up kills.



37 minutes in he picks up an impressive kill on dazzle, and gets away from the battle alive. 39 minute mark the scourge team wins another battle decisively, Treant's ult in addition to Nevermore's ult made quick work of Viper and Dazzle. 42 minutes in the scourge finally takes down Nevermore and Slark. But lost Dazzle and Viper to a battle very shortly later. Many Battles later, and one very bad positioned battle 50 minutes into the game, resulted in the victory of the scourge.




The sentinel team still had a good chance to win this match, I found that the hero Rexar was very slow on his grind and generally didn't have a strong enough impact, dazzle played horrible because rarely saved anyone with grave nor abused the other many benifits of dazzle, Siren was about to strut her stuff but just didn't, and juggernaut got kited and beat down by Darkseer and Treant. And scourge overall played very well!
So 3 distinct-able mistakes all game for sanemaniac, not too bad. I believed he grinded fine, and came up for team battles at least to pick up kills. In my opinion sanemaniac deserves more opportunities to play with our clan and I look forward to getting to know his play style more. Above all else, he appeared to work well with his teammates during the matches, and even forfeited some of his money to buy wards.(woot! :D)

What do you guys think of sir sanemaniac from this game?


Recruitment Match 2 [1.24.1]


As for the second replay, I spent too much time on first review, and there is really nothing to be said about this game. It doesn't accurately show any of sanemaniac's skills because leavers and overall bad team play by his teammates. I would call it a "null" game.