my kills (4)
first blood (not me)
Roshan (Dire’s)
fort falls (ours)
The headline stat
Six of eight
Six of my eight deaths this game belong to one hero. That’s 75% — even higher than the concentration in the Lina game that started this blog.
Viper found me at 17:06, 18:01, 35:50, 42:13, 43:59, and 46:43. Omniknight took the other two, at 7:41 and 26:36. The numbers behind it aren’t a mystery: SMURFF’s Viper finished 22/3/13 with 536 GPM, the best individual line in the match by a wide margin.
17:06–37:04
Trading back, twice
Unlike some of the nemesis games on this blog, I wasn’t just absorbing it. Ten seconds after Viper killed me at 17:06, I killed him right back at 17:16. And at 35:50 I traded with the fight itself rather than the same hero — Viper got me, and one second later I killed Omniknight in the same exchange, then Ogre Magi about a minute after that at 37:04. The kills were there. Viper’s just landed more of them, and on higher-value targets.
the shape of it
Slark claimed First Blood at 5:01 on our Marci, and Marci finished with the worst deaths total in the match at seventeen. Between Marci’s seventeen and my six-to-one-hero, this was a game where two specific matchups did almost all the damage to Radiant’s scoreline.
26:48–47:54
The map, after the twenty-minute mark
The early game was genuinely even — Radiant and Dire traded their first tier-one towers within ten minutes of each other, and Radiant even retook one at 24:47. From 26:48 onward, though, it stopped being close: Dire took 24 of the match’s 26 total structures, finishing with the fort at 47:54. Dire also never gave up Roshan once they took it, securing it uncontested at 39:48.
Four kills is a perfectly fine number. It just isn’t enough when one hero on the other team is having a career night at your specific expense.
Full scoreboard
| Player | Hero | Result | K | D | A | Lvl | LH/DN | GPM | XPM | Hero Dmg | Dmg Taken | Fight% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| six-seven | Dark Willow | Loss | 1 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 64/4 | 160 | 383 | 17,664 | 21,036 | 58% |
| FlashH1der | Marci | Loss | 7 | 17 | 11 | 17 | 37/5 | 181 | 342 | 22,804 | 34,174 | 75% |
| Dr. Hugh Wayne Kerr (M.D.) | Sniper | Loss | 4 | 11 | 7 | 19 | 109/5 | 223 | 426 | 34,309 | 20,001 | 46% |
| Trieska | Necrolyte | Loss | 6 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 159/15 | 280 | 516 | 41,315 | 26,977 | 79% |
| tuhsehtllehpu (me) | Batrider | Loss | 4 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 77/11 | 202 | 399 | 35,343 | 40,052 | 75% |
| ibuucuk | Slark | Win | 13 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 162/1 | 411 | 829 | 26,529 | 40,602 | 49% |
| -V-for-SadrazaM | Ogre Magi | Win | 3 | 4 | 20 | 21 | 52/2 | 327 | 479 | 26,250 | 19,276 | 47% |
| SMURFF | Viper | Win | 22 | 3 | 13 | 27 | 249/9 | 537 | 880 | 63,151 | 32,363 | 71% |
| ✦MuffinWithAMustache | Slardar | Win | 4 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 163/0 | 312 | 451 | 8,333 | 25,476 | 27% |
| BLASTA91 | Omniknight | Win | 7 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 17/0 | 193 | 440 | 10,767 | 26,508 | 53% |
Reconstructed from the match replay with dotabuff/manta · combat log + entity snapshot analysis. Match 8676780801 · 10 players · 49:54 · Dire victory.