Greetings, I am back again with another match report. We will take a look on the division 4 match between Hired Goats and Massive Anger Disorder. Let's hope the teams are still sharp as we've had a break between round 3 and round 4 in Heroes Lounge.
Match link: https://heroeslounge.gg/match/view/8369
Previous standings
Hired Goats is the new team name of the previously known Goats for Hire who played in division 6 last season. So far they have had a diverse scoring in the first 3 rounds, going respectively 2-0, 1-2 and 2-1 against ChaseCake, Diablo Immortal and Bunter Haufen. Only score they haven't checked off their box yet is 0-2, and maybe Massive Anger Disorder is looking to help them with that. Massive Anger Disorder is an old team of Heroes Lounge going back all the way to season 2 though the roster has changed a lot. After going on a 0-2 loss against Owl Exterminators in the first round, they have come back swinging with winning their next two rounds 2-0 against Portrait Goblins and Jaina The Frost Mage.
Result
Hired Goats had a great start in game 1 on Towers of Doom with Xul double soaking faster than Leoric could follow up putting them ahead xp wise, in addition Garrosh provided some early game kills for his team in the early game. But then Li Ming on Massive Anger Disorders side began to be more than they could handle with the resets she got. Making it so Massive Anger Disorder won the late game fights and game 1. Game 2 took place on Battlefield of Eternity With a favorable early game to Hired Goats again. But then a fight pre level 10 talents even out the game. After some back and forth after that Massive Anger Disorder managed to take away the win in game 2 as well, making the score 2-0 for Massive Anger Disorder over Hired Goats.
MVP
Today's MVP award goes to Docki on Massive Anger Disorder. As Li Ming he got game winning reset chains in the last 2 important teamfights for his team on Towers of Doom. One of them are highlighted in play of the game. He also ended up out damaging the hyper carry Valla impressively even with Nano boost on her. As she had 91 k hero damage compared to Valla's 74 k. In the second game as Chromie he was not the star player of this game, but still did what his Chromie pick was intended to do on the map. Poking the enemy team low enough around the Immortal so that his team could go in for the kill eventually.
Play of the game
I read up on some UI tricks in the replays. So now the videos should be more easy on the eyes.
Massive Anger Disorder was looking for a fight with level 20 talents right before Hired Goats would get theirs. They had a hard time however getting that fight, as Hired Goats played it safe around their safe zone on Towers of Doom. Until Li Ming out of nothing created a kill, before snowballing 2 more kills with her team. These kills also led to 10 free altar shots at the core as well.
Highlights
Here other moments from the match will be shown, those can be great plays, misplays or anything in between.
This time i will showcase a fight that made Hired Goats lose the snowball effect they had built up for themselves on Battlefield of Eternity. This was done by going to the Immortal right before level 10 talents came to them for them.
At this moment Sylvanas on Hired Goats side tried to secure the Immortal for her team, but unfortunately she was shy by 19 HP.
Interview
This time i sat down to have a chat with most of Massive Anger Disorder members after the match.
So, 3 out of 4 victories so far this season that has to be a pass from you guys?
Pieczar: I think it’s fine as far as the start goes. We got together 2 months before the start of the season. So, I think these are the results we expected, but we are glad to get them.
Bruner: We have several matchups in our team, so we are trying different compositions with different roles. We switched Docki with MMnight as tank and DPS for example, and it works well. So, I think we’ll find a finer version as the games go by.
You guys are a Heroes Lounge team going back all the way to season 2 would you care to tell me the history of the team so far.
Pieczar: The team from the start were mostly made up of polish guys when we started in season 2. There is a “new” website (for Heroes Lounge) now, so the records go back to season 4. In season 2 we started in division 1, then later we played in division 2. Then we switched our roster. Cause there were almost 20 people in the main team during this time. During the season we would play with a core roster of 5 and for each season we swapped one or two players. We switch the name 2 times and at one point the polish guys got so mad about the roster changes. That we switched to an international team with the few guys from other countries to create a new team. That is most of our history.
Docki: But Pieczar is the oldest player in here, he is the building stone.
Pieczar: The owner if you will.
About game 2 on BoE tell me how it feels to come back twice in the game after being so heavily behind the opponent.
MMnight: Feels good. We were expecting to get cheesed by the Sylvanas second game. Well, not expecting, but at one point we saw their macro advantage was there, so we had to accept it and try and come back in the teamfights.
Docki: In my opinion they really screwed up on the final Immortal. Because they didn’t utilize the macro advantage (catapult pressure) they had. So, we got lucky in some cases and killed some people and could end the game.
Obviously you are happy winning the match, but gameplay wise are you satisfied with how you played this match?
MMnight: I feed a lot in this match, especially in the second game were I was their main target. So, I got caught a lot.
Docki: I think we are like 70 % happy, we got the drafting better in my opinion. We had some problems with that 2-3 weeks ago, so I think we are in a better place now. As far as the games go, there are things we can do better with the shot calling
Piezcar: From a mechanical standpoint, we are mostly satisfied with it. We know what we are capable of.
Bruner: And we were preparing for a few months playing together with different compositions and different roles. So, we are having an easier time than half a year ago when it was a mess. We know each other better and how each one of us is playing, what he is supposed to do and probably how he will behave. Which makes the game much easier for us.
Docki: Yeah, I think contrary to the previous season we have a pretty god training schedule. We have all agreed on a set time we meet and I think it have worked really well so far. In my book that is a big positive.
Any moment in particular that you want to highlight from the games today?
MMnight: The Li Ming combo in the first game was pretty nice (see video above). Also the last teamfight when we were in the second game and not expecting to win. Then suddenly we just snowballed killed 1, killed 2, killed 3, killed 4 and then we could end.
Docki: I think we could always highlight how Bruner is front laning, like he is the healer but he is never afraid of being in the front. It always gives us the courage you know. It’s like die with a shout of courage.
Piezcar: Each time people get surprised. Wow, here on the front is the healer, and this half a second is our time to go in and kill them. While they are thinking “what is he doing” or "what should we do" . When our healer is going to attack them
How is it to play with a sub, is there a difference compared to playing with the core 5 roster.
Docki: We kind of know him and he played with us previous match as well. I am from Czech Republic and he from Slovakia so we texted each other before we met on Heroes Lounge a month ago. We have played against his team in scrim and i have also subbed for their team as well.
Bruner/MMnight: It was a difference, because our SilverBullet who is playing solo laner. Knows when we need him in the teamfight and from my point of view we were missing this in the first game. However, during the second game I was trying to fix it, by calling “come to us”, “we need you” and so on it worked. There is a difference, but level of the players are similar. Just that Silver follow the call more.
Docki: But I am completely satisfied with our sub and I think it worked well our map score is 4-0 now when he was subbing for us. Think that if you need a sub the solo laner postition is the most suited for it. Because in the 4 man you need a higher level of communication.
Piezcar: Yeah shoutout to him. Helped us a lot while our solo laner is on vacation.
Thank you for your time, anything you would like to add before the interview ends?
Docki: I think just a final shoutout to ishtisz for subbing for us. We are looking forward to our core player rejoining, but ishtisz has been great.
That's all for today, many thanks to all the members of Massive Anger Disorder for the interview.
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Written by Mekaku
Heroes Lounge Content Creator, Member of EU Division 4 team Munchies.
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