my kills (2)
first blood (given by me)
Roshan (theirs)
fort falls (theirs)
The headline stat
Lion had thirty-eight kills. Five of them were me.
Dark Seer again, one game after One of My Six Kills Was a Wall, and worse: 2/11/6 at level 14, the lowest in the match, with the lowest hero damage on either team and the game’s first blood given away at 10:04 — nobody had died before that. upeezx’s Lion finished 38/5/9 at level 28 in a lobby where no one else reached 21.
Radiant lost sixteen of eighteen buildings and took three, all of them to creep waves — no Radiant hero destroyed a single structure. The fort went to Warlock’s golem at 37:40, which makes it the third Warlock golem to end a game on this blog, after The Golem Took the Fort and the one before it.
10:04–36:57
Lion five times, Troll Warlord four, and both my kills answered within five seconds
Shadow Shaman took first blood on me at 10:04; nef’s Troll Warlord then killed me at 15:43, 16:26, 24:07 and 30:03, and Lion at 22:19, 26:27, 31:18, 34:10 and 36:57, the last two with nobody else on the assist list. My two kills were both team efforts and both immediately paid for: Troll Warlord at 19:36 and dead to Warlock half a second later, Shadow Shaman at 26:22 and dead to Lion five seconds after that.
the real story of the loss
Lion did 55,185 hero damage at 81% teamfight participation and closed on a six-kill streak. Troll Warlord (12/6/18) took Roshan at 28:38 and seven of our buildings himself, both tier-fours included. NO-PORN’s Warlock finished 3/1/25 — one death all game — with 13,001 tower damage once his golem’s work is counted: the golem took a mid rax and the fort, and one of his imps took a top rax. KOmbat’s Lina had the most kills on our side at 9/13/5, and L0rd G4ug3’s Witch Doctor 79.2% teamfight participation on a team that was out-killed 57 to 22.
16:38–37:40
Three creep kills for us, sixteen buildings for them
Dire’s three lost tier-ones went to a Radiant flagbearer creep at 16:38, a creep wave at 25:05, and a siege creep at 32:09. Radiant’s went faster and to heroes: two of our tier-ones to Troll Warlord by 25:05 (Dire’s mid tower and our bottom one fell in the same second), all three tier-twos by 33:51, all three tier-threes by 34:59, the mid racks at 34:31–34:37, the top racks by 37:07, both tier-fours six seconds apart at 37:19, and the fort. Only our bottom racks were still standing.
Ten minutes without a death in the whole game is a quiet start. Being the one who ends it, and then dying ten more times, is the loud finish.
Full scoreboard
| Player | Hero | Result | K | D | A | Lvl | LH/DN | Hero Dmg | Dmg Taken | Tower Dmg | Healing | Fight% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shr00m | Sniper | Loss | 2 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 107/0 | 15,294 | 11,029 | 0 | 0 | 45.8% |
| L0rd G4ug3 | Witch Doctor | Loss | 6 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 30/4 | 15,143 | 18,931 | 86 | 2,278 | 79.2% |
| tuhsehtllehpu (me) | Dark Seer | Loss | 2 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 21/8 | 3,793 | 19,420 | 41 | 3,024 | 33.3% |
| SlowLoris | Slark | Loss | 3 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 72/14 | 11,195 | 31,356 | 490 | 2,208 | 58.3% |
| KOmbat | Lina | Loss | 9 | 13 | 5 | 20 | 75/5 | 20,427 | 21,506 | 426 | 2,613 | 58.3% |
| shneine | Tiny | Win | 3 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 38/0 | 19,768 | 33,522 | 1,169 | 799 | 24.1% |
| nef | Troll Warlord | Win | 12 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 71/11 | 27,413 | 32,108 | 6,986 | 13,600 | 51.7% |
| Jumanji | Shadow Shaman | Win | 1 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 41/2 | 3,983 | 8,597 | 680 | 2,638 | 27.6% |
| NO-PORN | Warlock | Win | 3 | 1 | 25 | 18 | 122/0 | 19,399 | 4,266 | 13,001 | 7,356 | 48.3% |
| upeezx | Lion | Win | 38 | 5 | 9 | 28 | 98/17 | 55,185 | 10,865 | 269 | 1,253 | 81.0% |
Reconstructed from the match replay with dotabuff/manta · combat log + entity snapshot analysis. GPM/XPM and net worth weren’t reliably recoverable from this replay’s combat log and are omitted for everyone. Warlock’s golem and imps log under their own unit names and are counted toward his hero damage, tower damage, last hits and his targets’ damage taken, per this blog’s rule that a hero’s stats include everything their kit does — verified in this match’s log before being added, as with Lone Druid’s bear and Clinkz’s archers before it. Match 8683590934 · 10 players · 37:40 · Dire victory.