I'll provide some understanding to those who don't know why this play is so incredible: IG initiates with a smoke gank (they go invisible and wrap around through river), they then use Naga Siren to initiate with her ultimate, which puts everyone on the other team to sleep for a limited time, then they use Dark Seer to vortex the opposing team into a smaller and more condensed area so they're easier to hit many with different attacking skills. Naga then uses her skill that makes multiple clones of herself that will help deal damage, and uses her one skill that splashes and reduces armor on any enemies hit by it. After Naga Siren's ult ended, IG was planning on using Tide Hunter's (green guy's) area of effect ult Ravage to tear through them and stun them and Lina's and Puck's area of effect skills, but what makes this play so incredibly amazing, is that there's a split second between when the opposing team wakes up from that ult and Tide Hunter's Ravage animation, where the opposing team can react. On Na'Vi, Enigma (the player LightofHeaveN) INSTANTLY turns on his BKB (Black King Bar, an item that makes one immune to magic spells for a limited time), so he doesn't get stunned by Tide's Ravage, and turns on his ultimate Black Hole which damages and disables any opposing team member caught in it, and he happens to catch 4 out of 5 members of the opposing team in it. Puck actually orbs right into Enigma's ult as its beginning, becoming the 4th member stuck in it. Chuan (famous Dota 2 player who is Lina on IG) actually flames Puck (the player Ferrari) for this after the battle is over. Juggernaught on Na'Vi instantly presses his Q (Blade Fury) when Naga's ult ends, making him magic immune and he's dealing damage to IG as they're stuck in Enigma's black hole ult. The other two get hit with Tide's Ravage, but Rubick (played by Dendi) INSTANTLY force staffs (the item force staff pushes/forces a unit a certain distance very fast when used) out of range of Tide's Ravage, then turns around and STEALS HIS ULTIMATE (cause Rubick's ultimate can steal the last skill used by a character), then proceeds to walk into the middle of them and Ravage them just as Black Hole was ending. Between those 2 ults, Jug's damage, and the DPS they laid down on them, the battle was over and Na'Vi took it. What's so amazing about this play is the reaction time of Na'Vi, if LightofHeaveN didn't get his BKB off on Enigma before Tide ulted it was GG and would have gone the other way, but because of that split second in between naga's ult and tide's ravage, he was able to go immune and disable the majority of their team. And Jug's reaction time to get his Q off, and Rubick's reaction time to force staff out of there and come back and steal tide's ult, just so perfectly played by Na'Vi. Hope this provides some clarification. Note: Another interesting thing is how Dendi (Rubick) was PERFECTLY positioned to force staff out of there when Naga began her ultimate. If you watch the video closely, you can see that he was running AWAY from IG's base whilst his teammates were running TOWARDS it, this put some space between him and them where Tide went to Ravage the majority of his team, and enabled him to face away from the battle so that when Naga's ult ended he could IMMEDIATELY force staff in the correct direction. Some luck involved here as well with placement I think ;) Or maybe they knew IG liked to Naga ult gank at that exact spot? Who knows? MAJOR props to Dendi if so. Thumbs up this post so others can see or just to make me feel better about myself. :)
I think I also saw something that add's to Dendi's speed. There was three frames before Anchor Smash became the last skill that Rubick would have taken . Any slower and this play becomes in Tobiwan's words A DISASSTAH
*I came here because of the video "Juggernaut arcana reaponses"* *Juggernaut said "enchantress.. Together with enigma rubick and shaman... We made history..*
I remember watching this when it happened live and I had no idea what was going on because I was still new to the game at the time. But damn this play is so beautiful and now that I have the knowledge of knowing what is going on. I can appreciate this so much more.
The Naga counter was more than just a bkb on enigma, juggernaut was a straight up counter pick. Blade fury after the song always meant hed be immune to their wombo combos
If you understand some of Dota 2, here's what happened: -iG used sleep from Naga and then Ravage from Tide. -To counter that, Na'Vi used Engima+Bkb before Ravage (so Engima was the only Na'Vi that didnt take the stun) -After Ravage (from iG), Engima (from Na'Vi) used Black Hole trapping the whole iG team. -While iG is being trapped, Rubick (Dendi fom Na'Vi) steals the Ravage from iG and uses it against them. -And with all that time stunned, Na'Vi used their full set of skills to kill the team that surprised them
TheAgileFatman The beauty is in it's complexity, how they controlled that mess and wiped a full team with 0 deaths. No one understands what happened, they did.
alej0n I would also like to add that xboct was on juggernaut and he spun through ravage so he didn't get hit either. Also, ferrari blinked right into black hole.
shengshaoyi Not even close. Range on Song is ~1500. It puts all enemy units to sleep (including towers, creeps, etc) and makes them invulnerable for its duration.
Naga Siren froze them(Also made them invulnerable) with her Ultimate. The rest of iG got into position. She turned off her ultimate and before Tidehunter could use Ravage(The tentacle thing which stuns everybody - his ultimate) - Enigma used a magic-immunity ability from an item called Black King Bar, Juggernaut used his Bladefury which makes him magic immune, and Rubick force staffed out of range. So only 2 heroes got stunned out of 5, Rubick used his Ultimate to steal the Ravage ability from Tide, and this was only possible because Enigma used his Black Hole ultimate to stop Tidehunter using another ability(Thus making it impossible for Rubick to steal his ultimate). At that point Na'Vi recovered from Ravage and started putting out DPS, while Enigma had tied up 4/5 of the iG players in Black Hole, and then Rubick used Ravage to stun iG once Black Hole wore off. At that point iG was done for and lost the teamfight. An overall amazing turn around from Na'Vi and it's even more impressive they didn't lose anybody even with how squishy many of their heroes are.
BlacKOuT21255 Rock-a-bye Na'Vi~On the bot-lane When the Naga Sings~You will surely be slain But when they do fight~Bla-ack Hole shall stall and down goes Chinese doto~Once and for all!
for league players basically Naga Siren (support champ) ulted (lets say amumu ulted) 5 members of the NA'VI team basically gg, then NA'VI get a perfect 5 man counter black hole (lets say galio ult) and NA'VI turns the fight around and aces IG and goes and takes barracks (inhib)
in currect meta something with cc and ability to do something without much items is considered support in DotA 2, kinda like in LoL, but in DotA It's more of reliability in teamfights/pickoffs. Usually supports are ranged for trilanes to zone out enemy trilane or offlaner (not always, but it depends on setup) and heroes with aoe nukes or aoe overall are good, because you can stack jungle camps and catch up in farm/xp
IG's gank plan is flawless and freaking brilliant, what's even more incredible is the fact that one incredibly tiny detail slipped through the crack of their plan, one simple BKB on a black-hole-ready Enigma and the entire plan backfires in their face. Not to mention Dendi is just way too fast of a thinker, it probably didn't even cross their minds that Rubick might steal Ravage. This battle is going to go down in history, I don't think it'll ever be forgotten.
and to think if ferari wasnt distracted by the courier passing by this video might have never existed (most likely never), since silence would have been the nail in the coffin, strange how things work out.
Kent Matoba The IG team initiated with the Naga Siren's song to sleep everyone. They then used the "Vacuum" skill to bring them all together and hit them all at once with the stun. This is a very strong combo so the Na'Vi team was in big trouble. But then, just as the sleep ends, the big blue guy (Enigma) activates an item which grants him magic immunity (Bkb) and catches most of IG with his Black Hole skill. Dendi steals the Ravage skill (the spikes coming out of the ground) and returns it to IG hitting and stunning everyone. IG got destroyed.
The Naga Vacuum was considered an unbeatable combo back then. It forces the enemy into a tight spot without able to react, and cleaned easily by AoE. Na'Vi with the counter: The Rubick was stealing and firing back their own spells at them, while the Enigma with his magic resistant BKB broke their combo. Effectively turning it around.
The deciding factor in the fight are two specific things. 1) Enigma used Black King Bar (BKB) right before Tidehunter used Ravage (those tentacles) that would've stunned Enigma and prevented him from casting Black Hole and disabled IG's teamfight. However, he managed to use BKB right before it happened and disabled their whole team. 2) Rubick stole Tidehunter's Ravage RIGHT before Tidehunter can stop it (Rubick's spell steal steals the last used spell from the target, so Tidehunter was frantically trying to Anchor Smash, another spell, to have him steal that instead. However, Rubick stole it and used Ravage for it's high damage in the early game along with Fade bolt (he was farmed as he went mid) to team wipe them along with the Black Hole So basically it was Dendi and LightofHeaven who made it happened and that's the play's game changing moment.
***** Long time later but yep it was fast hands and all but it was also more so the draft and the fact that bkb is instant cast and ravage is not. Also puck kinda messed it up(the ministun from puck ult wouldev given enough time for ravage to cast?) but i think it would be impossible to time that perfectly vs an enigma who is just mashing the bkb button. Also rubrik forcestaff out to dodge the initial tide hunter ravage and blink to steal ravage from tidehunter who was black holed. and yea they were almost fucked but enigma saved them :P
At first I thought the attacking/initiating team just teamwiped NAVI... then I watched it again and realized that NAVI turned the teamfight completely. Only possible in DOTA2!
If you notice, this was a huge fail on IG's part as well, not just Na'vi being smart. Puck blinks into the black hole instead staying on the outside of the fight at first. Dark seer should've also used his wall after he vacuum'd but never did. not to say that would've saved them, but had a way bigger potential to keep that fight on their side if they hadn't done a few simple mistakes.
This was a championship match for dota2. The two teams were playing for 1 million dollars. The Chinese team iG were invisible and going for the group of the other team Na'Vi. They use an ability that stops the entire enemy team and run in. However the other team pulls an incredible turnaround that allowed them to take the lead in that match and win.
this was just perfect reaction from navi, someone saw dendi? forcestaff out of ravage and steals it.. just perfect. Not to mention the imba fast bkb from enigma , and bladefury from jugger. GO NAVI
if I'm not mistaken one of the heroes can "steal" any ability and he stole a super powerful ult and turned it around. I think that's what this play was.
What happened was LightofHeaven activated his BKB (immunity to magic damage and most CC), and used his big teamfight ult, Black Hole. This prevented IG from taking advantage of their amazing initiation of Song->Vacuum->Ravage. Dendi on Rubick stealing Ravage was just the icing on the cake.
dudethejack1 black hole basically traps every enemy in range of it and theyre rendered unable to attack or do anything, and somehow light got 4 of ig, and the rest of navi fucked em up. and lina was just disabled by rubick for the most of it
The meaning of this play goes much beyond the fact that Navi won this game, it was THE naga counter, the stopping of this massive juggernaut that was 2012 Naga siren.
do you know what chain disabling is? if u can chain disable with sleepcancel+ravage like I said above (which I haven't tested) then it's mechanically impossible for bkb or anything to activate in between. For example storm bolt during a blackhole - u can't bkb in between no matter how much you spam.
I believe this match is available for anyone to watch via the Watch tab. Everyone has access to the TI2 and TI3 tournament matches, regardless of whether you purchased a Compendium or not.
This was IG's mistake, not Navi's counter. If you look closely, ravage and naga sleepcancel was mistimed allowing enigma bkb and dendi forcestaff to be pulled off before tide's ravage. IG have said that if done properly you can't actually pull off bkb inbetween sleep/ravage.
And also Rubick force staffed himself out of Tide's ravage as soon as siren song broke and was able to steal Tide's ravage ability with his own ulti, and turned it around on the Dire side as black hole was ending. If this was any other team than Na'Vi, 99 times out of 100 they would have been destroyed. Naga + Dark Seer initiation on a full team like that is devastating.
Never will crowd will chant (THE CROWD, not fans or country people) team's name, give standing ovation, never will the gameplay will be called THE PLAY ... the era is over ! Good luck NAVI roster ... Farewell
Actually, Tide was half way through perform Anchor Smash before the black hole caught him. Its safe to say that without the black hole, dendi wouldn't have been able to get the ravage in time
As someone who doesn't play Dota 2, can I ask why is this called "The Play"? A player from team 1 catches everyone from team 2, then, as his CC expires, someone from team 2 catches the entire team 1 in CC and while they are CCed, they get killed. Can someone please elaborate and explain? Thank you.
A pro player explains here: www.redbull.com/us/en/esports/stories/1331640322249/breaking-down-the-greatest-play-in-dota-2-history Apparently, the most important part of the play was where three of the cc'd players dodged out of the followup cc just as the first one ended, especially the one who slingshoted downwards at 0:16. That one guy came right back and repeated the ult (ability stealing move) to catch the enemy team instead.
There's a juggernaut without a single point in crit and maxed spin. So weird to see nowdays, in the 6.83 patch... And yeah... back then win such teamfight take 2 towers and rax, now... fuck, now you probably could take T2 for that...
Ubeogesh This game was all about pushing early and going highground before 20 min. thats why xboct had vanguard and maxed healing ward because they wanted to take towers fast. They werent going for the lategame builds, they just throw everything for the mid game items and they did it.
that's what I thought but I think that during siren sleep ravage can toss ppl in the air still, just like how dark seer can still vacuum them: u just have to turn off sleep while they're in the air for the damage and the stun from the ravage to hit - > haven't tested this but this may be wat IG means
when the sleep caught the whole team, everyone knew that na'vi were dead. during the sleep, dark seer vacuums them into one place, then naga with the rip tide, then ravage, lina's stun, dark seer's ion shell, puck's orb, silence and dream coil. but enigma activated his bkb and caught ig in the black hole. juggernaut was also magic immune because of blade fury. dendi used force staff to avoid the ravage and immediately steals it and uses it and finally dendi nukes them with fade bolt.
If dark seer time his vacuum better after Naga ulty, tide also have to time his ulty with the vaccum that enigma BKB wouldn't be able to go off. Hard to do this in high stress situation
I'll provide some understanding to those who don't know why this play is so incredible:
IG initiates with a smoke gank (they go invisible and wrap around through river), they then use Naga Siren to initiate with her ultimate, which puts everyone on the other team to sleep for a limited time, then they use Dark Seer to vortex the opposing team into a smaller and more condensed area so they're easier to hit many with different attacking skills. Naga then uses her skill that makes multiple clones of herself that will help deal damage, and uses her one skill that splashes and reduces armor on any enemies hit by it. After Naga Siren's ult ended, IG was planning on using Tide Hunter's (green guy's) area of effect ult Ravage to tear through them and stun them and Lina's and Puck's area of effect skills, but what makes this play so incredibly amazing, is that there's a split second between when the opposing team wakes up from that ult and Tide Hunter's Ravage animation, where the opposing team can react. On Na'Vi, Enigma (the player LightofHeaveN) INSTANTLY turns on his BKB (Black King Bar, an item that makes one immune to magic spells for a limited time), so he doesn't get stunned by Tide's Ravage, and turns on his ultimate Black Hole which damages and disables any opposing team member caught in it, and he happens to catch 4 out of 5 members of the opposing team in it. Puck actually orbs right into Enigma's ult as its beginning, becoming the 4th member stuck in it. Chuan (famous Dota 2 player who is Lina on IG) actually flames Puck (the player Ferrari) for this after the battle is over. Juggernaught on Na'Vi instantly presses his Q (Blade Fury) when Naga's ult ends, making him magic immune and he's dealing damage to IG as they're stuck in Enigma's black hole ult. The other two get hit with Tide's Ravage, but Rubick (played by Dendi) INSTANTLY force staffs (the item force staff pushes/forces a unit a certain distance very fast when used) out of range of Tide's Ravage, then turns around and STEALS HIS ULTIMATE (cause Rubick's ultimate can steal the last skill used by a character), then proceeds to walk into the middle of them and Ravage them just as Black Hole was ending. Between those 2 ults, Jug's damage, and the DPS they laid down on them, the battle was over and Na'Vi took it.
What's so amazing about this play is the reaction time of Na'Vi, if LightofHeaveN didn't get his BKB off on Enigma before Tide ulted it was GG and would have gone the other way, but because of that split second in between naga's ult and tide's ravage, he was able to go immune and disable the majority of their team. And Jug's reaction time to get his Q off, and Rubick's reaction time to force staff out of there and come back and steal tide's ult, just so perfectly played by Na'Vi. Hope this provides some clarification.
Note: Another interesting thing is how Dendi (Rubick) was PERFECTLY positioned to force staff out of there when Naga began her ultimate. If you watch the video closely, you can see that he was running AWAY from IG's base whilst his teammates were running TOWARDS it, this put some space between him and them where Tide went to Ravage the majority of his team, and enabled him to face away from the battle so that when Naga's ult ended he could IMMEDIATELY force staff in the correct direction. Some luck involved here as well with placement I think ;) Or maybe they knew IG liked to Naga ult gank at that exact spot? Who knows? MAJOR props to Dendi if so.
Thumbs up this post so others can see or just to make me feel better about myself. :)
A wonderful explanation, but it looks like Puppey was playing Enchantress, not Enigma, who was played by LightofHeaveN.
Evilgenius sorry you're right, i'll edit that.
Pedro Nunes tidebringer is kunkka's passive
I think I also saw something that add's to Dendi's speed. There was three frames before Anchor Smash became the last skill that Rubick would have taken . Any slower and this play becomes in Tobiwan's words A DISASSTAH
I still don't know what's going on haha
*I came here because of the video "Juggernaut arcana reaponses"*
*Juggernaut said "enchantress.. Together with enigma rubick and shaman... We made history..*
oh damn, same!
I remember watching this when it happened live and I had no idea what was going on because I was still new to the game at the time. But damn this play is so beautiful and now that I have the knowledge of knowing what is going on. I can appreciate this so much more.
Dont be sad a Golden Era has ended guys. Be glad it took place :) Forever a Navi supporter.
Can someone explain this to me? I'm just getting into this game. :)
This one explains in detail: www.redbull.com/us-en/breaking-down-the-greatest-play-in-dota-2-history
Viet Vu thanks, but I was referring to the OP about "a Golden Era" that has ended.
Navi was one of the best teams ever at this time. Saddly they split up, some retired, and are shit now.
They we're one of the best teams
but now they're absolute shit
That "patience from Zhou" still gives me goosebumps as to what it leads later on. "The play" will always be one of the iconic plays in dota 2 history
0:45 crowd cheering for Na'Vii so beautiful
I still love this
The Naga counter was more than just a bkb on enigma, juggernaut was a straight up counter pick. Blade fury after the song always meant hed be immune to their wombo combos
***** That was a very clutch force staff. Ravage missed him by around 10 range.
Puppey's Enchantress able to cast her heal in time before ravage make him and shaman survived there. RIP E key
#WURF
6 year later still the best play ever " The Play"
i cry every time i watch this
Are you serious? Because I just literally nearly cried too.
+Gabriel Perez na i was joking
LOL :D
Who came here after the game with LGD? Na'Vi is Back !
no idea what just happened but it was awesome
If you understand some of Dota 2, here's what happened:
-iG used sleep from Naga and then Ravage from Tide.
-To counter that, Na'Vi used Engima+Bkb before Ravage (so Engima was the only Na'Vi that didnt take the stun)
-After Ravage (from iG), Engima (from Na'Vi) used Black Hole trapping the whole iG team.
-While iG is being trapped, Rubick (Dendi fom Na'Vi) steals the Ravage from iG and uses it against them.
-And with all that time stunned, Na'Vi used their full set of skills to kill the team that surprised them
alej0n thanks for elaboration :)
TheAgileFatman
The beauty is in it's complexity, how they controlled that mess and wiped a full team with 0 deaths. No one understands what happened, they did.
alej0n I would also like to add that xboct was on juggernaut and he spun through ravage so he didn't get hit either. Also, ferrari blinked right into black hole.
thanks for trying to elaborate guys but i don't have a single clue what you are talking about
My favourite dota play of all time, even though I started playing the game much later(around TI5). Gives me goosebumps everytime.
Shoutcaster: "This could be a DISASTER!!"
Na'Vi: "Yes, but not for us."
As a League player, I have no idea what the fuck just happend.
BlacKOuT21255 Apparently it's global, but makes them invulnerable. So Pseudo-zhonya for everyone?
shengshaoyi Not even close. Range on Song is ~1500. It puts all enemy units to sleep (including towers, creeps, etc) and makes them invulnerable for its duration.
shengshaoyi
Not global.
Naga Siren froze them(Also made them invulnerable) with her Ultimate. The rest of iG got into position. She turned off her ultimate and before Tidehunter could use Ravage(The tentacle thing which stuns everybody - his ultimate) - Enigma used a magic-immunity ability from an item called Black King Bar, Juggernaut used his Bladefury which makes him magic immune, and Rubick force staffed out of range.
So only 2 heroes got stunned out of 5, Rubick used his Ultimate to steal the Ravage ability from Tide, and this was only possible because Enigma used his Black Hole ultimate to stop Tidehunter using another ability(Thus making it impossible for Rubick to steal his ultimate).
At that point Na'Vi recovered from Ravage and started putting out DPS, while Enigma had tied up 4/5 of the iG players in Black Hole, and then Rubick used Ravage to stun iG once Black Hole wore off. At that point iG was done for and lost the teamfight.
An overall amazing turn around from Na'Vi and it's even more impressive they didn't lose anybody even with how squishy many of their heroes are.
BlacKOuT21255
Rock-a-bye Na'Vi~On the bot-lane
When the Naga Sings~You will surely be slain
But when they do fight~Bla-ack Hole shall stall
and down goes Chinese doto~Once and for all!
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I can remember watching this during the TI2 and literally jumping out of my seat. It was insane.
2016 now , still the best play in the history of dota
2018 still the best play imo
i stopped playing DotA for good 3 years ago, but sometimes i'd watch snippets from TI1-3 to relive those memories. Damn these gave me goosebumps lol.
I was in the crowd for this. Getting chills now just watching it again.
After all these years, still gave me goosebumps...
brev, remember seeing this live .. them days
for league players basically Naga Siren (support champ) ulted (lets say amumu ulted) 5 members of the NA'VI team basically gg, then NA'VI get a perfect 5 man counter black hole (lets say galio ult) and NA'VI turns the fight around and aces IG and goes and takes barracks (inhib)
At TI2, when this happened, Naga was played as a 1 position, or the AD carry.
Well Naga used to be a carry hero back then.
in currect meta something with cc and ability to do something without much items is considered support in DotA 2, kinda like in LoL, but in DotA It's more of reliability in teamfights/pickoffs. Usually supports are ranged for trilanes to zone out enemy trilane or offlaner (not always, but it depends on setup) and heroes with aoe nukes or aoe overall are good, because you can stack jungle camps and catch up in farm/xp
***** naga still is a carry
IG's gank plan is flawless and freaking brilliant, what's even more incredible is the fact that one incredibly tiny detail slipped through the crack of their plan, one simple BKB on a black-hole-ready Enigma and the entire plan backfires in their face. Not to mention Dendi is just way too fast of a thinker, it probably didn't even cross their minds that Rubick might steal Ravage. This battle is going to go down in history, I don't think it'll ever be forgotten.
the fact that you could vacuum through song was crazy
It looks like the most viewers of this video are LoL players :D
NaVI, 0:14 they even saved the damn courier. lmao!
I have no idea what happened
its funny to see that no one actually knows wtf happened xD
This can be compared to Daigo's highlight in EVO 2009.
One of the most epic moments in the history of gaming. Thank you Na'Vi.
This shows how, in retrospect, making the Dire players' health bars red was a great UI change.
and to think if ferari wasnt distracted by the courier passing by this video might have never existed (most likely never), since silence would have been the nail in the coffin, strange how things work out.
+Alon3Mentos naah enigma got bkb so silence still useless
how can u silence ,when u jump right into blackhole
"The blackhole as well, LightofHeaven, turns it around...."
Auto-translate : *fk it man
I watched this live. I can't tell you how insane it was.
Doesn't matter how many times I watch this, I always get goosebumps
this still gives me chills...big plays
WOW ENIGMA MASHED HIS BKB BIND HOLY CRAP GUYS
Who is watching it again in 2018?
"Oh there's the sleep!" is apparently written "bob and his labor". That got me.
Watching this over and over again gives me the chills
for me the real mpv was rubick...
9595itachi all he did was force staff and steal ravage. lots of rubicks do that
Joshua Breece Still turned it around though.
Joshua Breece and telekinesis on lina, before he stole ravage, he disabled the whole team.
+9595itachi The Blackhole dude
The MVP is the BKB
The rapid reaction of Na `Vi.LightofHeaveN activating bkb before IG.Faith did ravage is vital in the counter-attack
I don't play DOTA but this looks amazing.. can someone explain to me the deciding factor in this fight and why it is so famous? thanks
Because the fast hand and timing is so amazing by enigma/lightofheaven/Big monster blue in there
Kent Matoba The IG team initiated with the Naga Siren's song to sleep everyone. They then used the "Vacuum" skill to bring them all together and hit them all at once with the stun. This is a very strong combo so the Na'Vi team was in big trouble.
But then, just as the sleep ends, the big blue guy (Enigma) activates an item which grants him magic immunity (Bkb) and catches most of IG with his Black Hole skill. Dendi steals the Ravage skill (the spikes coming out of the ground) and returns it to IG hitting and stunning everyone.
IG got destroyed.
The Naga Vacuum was considered an unbeatable combo back then. It forces the enemy into a tight spot without able to react, and cleaned easily by AoE. Na'Vi with the counter: The Rubick was stealing and firing back their own spells at them, while the Enigma with his magic resistant BKB broke their combo. Effectively turning it around.
The deciding factor in the fight are two specific things.
1) Enigma used Black King Bar (BKB) right before Tidehunter used Ravage (those tentacles) that would've stunned Enigma and prevented him from casting Black Hole and disabled IG's teamfight. However, he managed to use BKB right before it happened and disabled their whole team.
2) Rubick stole Tidehunter's Ravage RIGHT before Tidehunter can stop it (Rubick's spell steal steals the last used spell from the target, so Tidehunter was frantically trying to Anchor Smash, another spell, to have him steal that instead. However, Rubick stole it and used Ravage for it's high damage in the early game along with Fade bolt (he was farmed as he went mid) to team wipe them along with the Black Hole
So basically it was Dendi and LightofHeaven who made it happened and that's the play's game changing moment.
***** Long time later but yep it was fast hands and all but it was also more so the draft and the fact that bkb is instant cast and ravage is not. Also puck kinda messed it up(the ministun from puck ult wouldev given enough time for ravage to cast?) but i think it would be impossible to time that perfectly vs an enigma who is just mashing the bkb button. Also rubrik forcestaff out to dodge the initial tide hunter ravage and blink to steal ravage from tidehunter who was black holed. and yea they were almost fucked but enigma saved them :P
This is the epitome if teamwork.
2018 and still one of the best Dota 2 Moments
At first I thought the attacking/initiating team just teamwiped NAVI... then I watched it again and realized that NAVI turned the teamfight completely. Only possible in DOTA2!
"Together with Enigma, Shadow Shaman, and Rubick, we made history." - Bladeform Yurnero
Random Potato isnt he forgetting someone?
If you notice, this was a huge fail on IG's part as well, not just Na'vi being smart. Puck blinks into the black hole instead staying on the outside of the fight at first. Dark seer should've also used his wall after he vacuum'd but never did. not to say that would've saved them, but had a way bigger potential to keep that fight on their side if they hadn't done a few simple mistakes.
dark seer didnt have wall...
was all tide and naga fault. Tide should ult and naga should stop the song, but they misscomunicated.
Tide was about to cast Anchor Smash to prevent Rubick from stealing Ravage but he got pulled by Black Hole.
that crowd._.
I don't play DOTA 2 but I can said this play is very iconic on eSport
can cndota ever go back again?
Commentator: This going to be total disaster!!!
Navi: Yes, disaster for them(IG)
everybody in the comment section with goosebumps and chills xD
Probably one of the best team fights you are ever gonna see
best game moment in dota history ever
so much feels
After all this time? Always.
This was a championship match for dota2. The two teams were playing for 1 million dollars. The Chinese team iG were invisible and going for the group of the other team Na'Vi. They use an ability that stops the entire enemy team and run in. However the other team pulls an incredible turnaround that allowed them to take the lead in that match and win.
the best commentary of TI 2
Damn the crowd just went wild as soon as the tide turned
2020 still the best play of all time...
patience from zhou
what happened was split second decision making and unvbelievable team coordination.
Welcome to DOTA 2.
I've watched this over 20 times. I still can't believe it.
Yes it is, is the most beautifull "play" i see in my entire dota life, it just make me get better and better ( sorry about my english)
Fuck even today this is still just absolutely sublime
this was just perfect reaction from navi, someone saw dendi? forcestaff out of ravage and steals it.. just perfect. Not to mention the imba fast bkb from enigma , and bladefury from jugger. GO NAVI
It also gives perfect positioning before the teamfight even starts, which is HUGE.
if I'm not mistaken one of the heroes can "steal" any ability and he stole a super powerful ult and turned it around. I think that's what this play was.
What happened was LightofHeaven activated his BKB (immunity to magic damage and most CC), and used his big teamfight ult, Black Hole. This prevented IG from taking advantage of their amazing initiation of Song->Vacuum->Ravage. Dendi on Rubick stealing Ravage was just the icing on the cake.
I have no idea what that most of that means lol I don't play dota 2.
dudethejack1 black hole basically traps every enemy in range of it and theyre rendered unable to attack or do anything, and somehow light got 4 of ig, and the rest of navi fucked em up. and lina was just disabled by rubick for the most of it
That's a big part of the play. You are correct
The meaning of this play goes much beyond the fact that Navi won this game, it was THE naga counter, the stopping of this massive juggernaut that was 2012 Naga siren.
> Patience from zhou.
Did AA , ShadowShaman did something special in this play?
do you know what chain disabling is? if u can chain disable with sleepcancel+ravage like I said above (which I haven't tested) then it's mechanically impossible for bkb or anything to activate in between. For example storm bolt during a blackhole - u can't bkb in between no matter how much you spam.
can we get a match downlad of this game, like what is the match number
I believe this match is available for anyone to watch via the Watch tab. Everyone has access to the TI2 and TI3 tournament matches, regardless of whether you purchased a Compendium or not.
The Na'Vi that is legendary, the Na'Vi i remember, the Na'Vi that's gone.
> Patience from Zhou.
Because it's a game? This shit gave my goose bumps it was so awesome.
It's amazing how all these happened under 20 seconds of the game.
It is understated how bad Puck's follow through was here. Right into the black hole.
This was IG's mistake, not Navi's counter.
If you look closely, ravage and naga sleepcancel was mistimed allowing enigma bkb and dendi forcestaff to be pulled off before tide's ravage. IG have said that if done properly you can't actually pull off bkb inbetween sleep/ravage.
Forgot about Juggs spinning right after the sleep wears off and spinning in the center of that Black Hole.
And also Rubick force staffed himself out of Tide's ravage as soon as siren song broke and was able to steal Tide's ravage ability with his own ulti, and turned it around on the Dire side as black hole was ending. If this was any other team than Na'Vi, 99 times out of 100 they would have been destroyed. Naga + Dark Seer initiation on a full team like that is devastating.
Watched this live, it was so epic lol with the crowd roaring during the black hole
Never will crowd will chant (THE CROWD, not fans or country people) team's name, give standing ovation, never will the gameplay will be called THE PLAY ... the era is over ! Good luck NAVI roster ... Farewell
+Swapnil Choudhary hello from the future
navi just won
someone lol !
lol !
turn on subtitles, then watch it and laugh
still dont understand how can they bind M as a key for a item lol.
is the M on a different place in Cyrillic?
Actually, Tide was half way through perform Anchor Smash before the black hole caught him. Its safe to say that without the black hole, dendi wouldn't have been able to get the ravage in time
"Patience from Zhou!" Haha
As someone who doesn't play Dota 2, can I ask why is this called "The Play"? A player from team 1 catches everyone from team 2, then, as his CC expires, someone from team 2 catches the entire team 1 in CC and while they are CCed, they get killed. Can someone please elaborate and explain? Thank you.
Keep in mind this is from 2012 so there may be a lot of new plays that can be compared to this one, but this is just a classic
A pro player explains here:
www.redbull.com/us/en/esports/stories/1331640322249/breaking-down-the-greatest-play-in-dota-2-history
Apparently, the most important part of the play was where three of the cc'd players dodged out of the followup cc just as the first one ended, especially the one who slingshoted downwards at 0:16. That one guy came right back and repeated the ult (ability stealing move) to catch the enemy team instead.
...and "that one guy" was Dendi :)
patience from zhou !
Idk if anyone has talked about this but if you watch Puck wasn't in the fight because he was going for the courier, then screwed up his orb.
Puppey must've been tapping that BKB key like crazy :D
There's a juggernaut without a single point in crit and maxed spin. So weird to see nowdays, in the 6.83 patch...
And yeah... back then win such teamfight take 2 towers and rax, now... fuck, now you probably could take T2 for that...
Ubeogesh soul ring and a vanguard too :D
Ubeogesh This game was all about pushing early and going highground before 20 min. thats why xboct had vanguard and maxed healing ward because they wanted to take towers fast. They werent going for the lategame builds, they just throw everything for the mid game items and they did it.
that's what I thought but I think that during siren sleep ravage can toss ppl in the air still, just like how dark seer can still vacuum them: u just have to turn off sleep while they're in the air for the damage and the stun from the ravage to hit - > haven't tested this but this may be wat IG means
One of the biggest counter comeback i have ever seen.
I would say they became legends in DOTA1 or by the fact they won the first international only dropping one game
when the sleep caught the whole team, everyone knew that na'vi were dead. during the sleep, dark seer vacuums them into one place, then naga with the rip tide, then ravage, lina's stun, dark seer's ion shell, puck's orb, silence and dream coil. but enigma activated his bkb and caught ig in the black hole. juggernaut was also magic immune because of blade fury. dendi used force staff to avoid the ravage and immediately steals it and uses it and finally dendi nukes them with fade bolt.
You forgot to include Yurnero did blade dance to avoid ravage and dropped heal ward. That's the reason you can barely see a damage at Navi's side.
what is line of heaven?
If dark seer time his vacuum better after Naga ulty, tide also have to time his ulty with the vaccum that enigma BKB wouldn't be able to go off.
Hard to do this in high stress situation