February 4, 2026 · by tuhsehtllehpu · Match Recaps

The Teammate Who Never Left Level Seven

0′10′20′30′40′
my deaths (6)
my kills (5)
first blood (mine)
fort falls (theirs)
42 minutes, condensed — the fort fell to a Venomancer ward, not a hero

The headline stat

My teammate finished the game at level 7

Ogre Magi went 5/6/5 with first blood. That’s not really what this game was about.

teddy’s Bristleback finished 0/3/2 at level 7, after a 42-minute match everyone else on the server ended between level 15 and level 24. 11.8% teamfight participation, 2,734 hero damage total, 25 tower damage. Whatever happened to that lane, it happened early and it never recovered.

5 / 6 / 5
kills / deaths / assists
8:43
first blood, claimed (on Sven)
7
teammate’s final level
52.9%
teamfight participation

15:29–35:31

Witch Doctor, three times

Shinigami_da’s Witch Doctor killed me three times (15:29, 27:18, 35:31), the only real pattern in an otherwise scattered set of deaths. I got him back twice in the middle of that stretch (28:56, 30:11) before he closed it out for good. My other two kills were Sven for first blood and Enigma at 16:14; my other three deaths were Sniper once and Sven twice, all in the back half of the match.

the real story of the loss

John Wick’s Sniper finished 7/3/22 with 85.3% teamfight participation and personally took the mid tier-three tower and the mid range rax. MoYu累’s Sven went 12/4/24 and took the tier-two top, tier-four, and the mid melee rax on top of that. Between them Dire had the map covered before the 35-minute mark; the fort itself fell to a Venomancer plague ward, which is as good a summary of how thoroughly this one got away from Radiant as anything.

15:28–42:17

Three towers for us, most of the map for them

Radiant’s structural output was three early tier-ones, all down by 21:48. After that the map went almost entirely the other way — all three tier-twos, the mid tier-three, both mid racks, tier-four twice, the fort at 42:17. Neither side ever contested Roshan.

Five kills and first blood is a perfectly fine individual game. It doesn’t mean much when one lane simply stops existing for forty minutes.

Full scoreboard

Player Hero Result K D A Lvl LH/DN Hero Dmg Dmg Taken Tower Dmg Healing Fight%
COOL Death Prophet Loss 7 10 3 18 61/2 17,617 28,100 369 5,046 52.9%
lawconsult Drow Ranger Loss 4 9 5 19 93/0 17,199 16,825 1,123 2,849 52.9%
cmepthuk_1 Keeper of the Light Loss 0 6 8 15 75/0 28,248 12,335 581 5,292 41.2%
tuhsehtllehpu (me) Ogre Magi Loss 5 6 5 16 60/6 18,798 31,813 150 334 52.9%
teddy Bristleback Loss 0 3 2 7 15/2 2,734 6,958 25 888 11.8%
jarnana Venomancer Win 4 4 17 15 27/0 16,196 13,688 1,044 5,074 61.8%
s1rota Enigma Win 2 4 9 15 35/5 14,259 18,418 1,329 1,347 32.4%
Shinigami_da Witch Doctor Win 9 3 17 20 35/2 16,734 17,482 1,345 28,150 76.5%
John Wick Sniper Win 7 3 22 20 142/20 28,189 15,815 8,700 5,482 85.3%
MoYu累 Sven Win 12 4 7 24 123/7 25,453 23,993 4,487 18,578 55.9%

Reconstructed from the match replay with dotabuff/manta · combat log + entity snapshot analysis. GPM/XPM and net worth weren’t reliably recoverable and are omitted for everyone. Match 8677767905 · 10 players · 42:17 · Dire victory.

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