my kills (4)
first blood (not me)
Roshan (Radiant’s)
fort falls (ours)
52:30
Roshan wasn’t enough
Radiant took Roshan in the middle of their best stretch of the game. They still lost.
Templar Assassin secured it uncontested at 52:30, right as Radiant was mounting the closest thing to a comeback this match had — six of our towers fell between 43:45 and 53:11, including a mid rax trade. It looked, briefly, like the aegis might matter. From 57:01 onward we answered with everything: eleven structures in barely five minutes, ending at the fort at 62:20. Whatever the aegis bought them, it wasn’t enough time.
My final line
Thirty assists continues a pattern this account has run all night — a support-shaped scoreline on a hero (Elder Titan) that’s usually a fight-starter rather than a finisher. The 25 denies stand out more: Natural Order makes Elder Titan an unusually good denier of both creeps and towers, and 25 is a lot of denies for a support to rack up in one game.
33:03–59:05
The Templar Assassin problem
Four of my nine deaths belong to Templar Assassin — 33:03, 46:32, 52:46, and 59:05, the last one just after Radiant’s push had already run out of steam. I got some of it back on Earthshaker instead: two kills two minutes apart at 22:59 and 24:38, then Jakiro at 25:09 — revenge for the two deaths he’d landed on me earlier at 16:52 and 23:44.
the actual engine of the win
lekija’s Slark finished 23/7/21 with 69.8% teamfight participation and 18,889 tower damage — comfortably the best individual game on either team. Between Slark’s kill count and my own assist total, this was a fairly typical Dire win: one hero closing fights, several others (myself included) making sure he had the numbers to close them with.
Taking the biggest neutral objective on the map in the middle of your best push is exactly correct play. It just isn’t a guarantee.
Full scoreboard
| Player | Hero | Result | K | D | A | Lvl | LH/DN | GPM | XPM | Hero Dmg | Dmg Taken | Fight% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SkopetsSystem | Jakiro | Loss | 5 | 12 | 18 | 26 | 62/0 | 239 | 597 | 31,988 | 31,683 | 61% |
| Mr.Fresh | Earthshaker | Loss | 12 | 9 | 15 | 28 | 260/1 | 521 | 874 | 54,868 | 40,119 | 71% |
| ERik | Templar Assassin | Loss | 14 | 9 | 7 | 30 | 264/15 | 523 | 1001 | 54,690 | 22,755 | 55% |
| zxclonestarrr. | Windrunner | Loss | 3 | 17 | 11 | 23 | 103/4 | 224 | 486 | 14,620 | 28,731 | 37% |
| MR_0972 | Bristleback | Loss | 4 | 17 | 22 | 27 | 170/3 | 316 | 745 | 39,846 | 58,810 | 68% |
| oKtAy | Gyrocopter | Win | 13 | 5 | 25 | 30 | 315/2 | 617 | 1001 | 57,205 | 41,105 | 60% |
| lekija | Slark | Win | 23 | 7 | 21 | 30 | 177/5 | 481 | 1001 | 58,847 | 55,970 | 70% |
| Black*Rose | Witch Doctor | Win | 13 | 10 | 32 | 27 | 49/8 | 311 | 722 | 19,714 | 32,626 | 71% |
| Todestimo | Puck | Win | 10 | 7 | 16 | 27 | 140/1 | 347 | 694 | 27,250 | 26,064 | 41% |
| tuhsehtllehpu (me) | Elder Titan | Win | 4 | 9 | 30 | 27 | 95/25 | 260 | 700 | 24,710 | 45,875 | 54% |
Reconstructed from the match replay with dotabuff/manta · combat log + entity snapshot analysis. Match 8676819874 · 10 players · 64:21 · Dire victory.