Match Prediction: Team Liquid - Entity | Dota 2

Confrontations within the top division in Western Europe are gaining momentum. We open the second gaming day and talk about the match between Team Liquid and Entity.

The confrontation promises to be interesting, as it will be important for both teams. Some are fighting for the championship in the table, the second are trying to break into the top four teams in the region.

Team Liquid will approach the confrontation with a perfect score. The team won 2 out of 2 series without losing a single card to the opponents and now share the first place with Gaimin Gladiators.

Entity will start the match with 1-1 stats. The team is currently on the 4th line of the table, but shares it with Into The Breach and OG.

We are trying to figure out what to expect from the confrontation and who, as a result, will be stronger.

Form Team Liquid

Let's start with the Team Liquid form. They will be the favorites in this match.

Bookmaker in this fight unanimously believe in the victory of “liquid”. On such an outcome give a coefficient in the region of 1.2.

Obviously, Liquid will have a huge advantage in the match. This is facilitated by the level of play that Liquid is showing in the new season, as well as the replacements made by Liquid.

Team Liquid roster

In every review on Team Liquid, I mention their spot replacement. The arrival of a new mid player has become an incredible boost.

• miCKe
• Nisha
• zai
• Boxi
• iNSaNiA

MATU Nisha, who came to replace him, fit perfectly into the team. The highest level of individual performance gave the young Pole the opportunity to reveal himself to the fullest, and the well-played backbone of the Swedes contributed to this. While such Liquid look unperturbed.

Team Liquid performance

Team Liquid was stormy last competitive season, which is not surprising. At the start of the year, the team made a large-scale reshuffle, not only updating the roster, but also changing the positions of players in some roles.

If in Western Europe the glory of the “kings of online” was fixed for Liquid, then on LANs their game drove them into sadness. The team entered the TOP-12 of the major twice, which did not allow them to get directly to The International.

Fortunately for Liquid, the qualifiers for the main event of the year were held online, where the current Liquid felt at ease.

The Last Chance Qualifier was held directly in Singapore, which, however, did not prevent the team from taking the TOP-2 there and getting to The International.

At The International 2022, the team held almost a “miracle run”. “Liquid” reached the TOP-3, although there were no prerequisites for this.

After a targeted replacement of a player in the autumn off-season, Liquid started the DPC 2023 with a confident victory over their principal rival. In the first match, the liquid ones beat Team Secret with a score of 2-0.

Liquid's next opponent was Tundra. What was supposed to be the toughest test for the Liquids turned out to be a game of medium tension: Liquid outplayed Tundra 2-0, thus outplaying perhaps the main competitor in a face-to-face confrontation.

Heroes Team Liquid

In their picks, Liquid focuses on Death Prophet (4 matches, 75% wins), Mars (4 matches, 50% wins), Slark (3 matches, 66% wins), Vengeful Spirit (3 matches, 66% wins), Marci and Pudge (3 matches, 66% of wins).

Form Entity

We continue the review of the match by parsing the Entity form. This team will perform in the match as an outsider.

The bookmakers do not believe in the victory of Entity, but they are in no hurry to bury them. The victory of Entity is estimated by the coefficient around 3.5.

A fairly adequate figure that displays the state of the Entity. I would describe it as neither good nor bad.

Entity Composition

Obviously, this is tied to the recent reshuffle and the change of the player of the first position. The team's new carry is still “tuning in” to playing in a team, and remembering Pure, who previously performed on carry, the adaptation period in Entity is quite long.

• watson
• Stormstormer
• Toby
• Kataomi`
• Fishman

However, naming a roster is not working, and the aforementioned “adaptation” is a very amorphous thing. The team is not bad, no doubt, but against the background of the current Liquid they look much worse.

Entity Performance

In the first round of the DPC WEU – Division II Entity, they easily took first place, which opened the way for them to the big leagues. The club played two rounds there and retained its place: at DPC WEU 2021/2022 Tour 2: Division 1 Entity took 6th place, and at DPC WEU 2021/2022 Tour 3: Division 1 - 4th.

The performance in the third round opened the way for Entity to PGL Arlington Major 2022. The first major in the club's history ended quite well: Entity finished in the TOP-6, but this was not enough for a direct trip to Stockholm.

After PGL Arlington Major 2022, there was ESL One Malaysia 2022, where the team also took TOP-6. The closed qualifiers for TI22 in Western Europe followed, where Entity looked head and shoulders above the rest.

The victory in the qualifiers led Entity to The International 2022. At the main championship of the year, the team took TOP-9-12, which is still a very good result.

In the new season, Entity tried their hand at the BB Xmas Show, where they played against big teams like the same Gladiators and Team Spirit. The team failed there, losing to VP in the second round of the playoff lower bracket and finishing in the TOP-6 at the end of the tournament.

The debut match at DPC 2023 turned out to be hot. The team, in their style, took the first map, using Lina from watson for this, but then they themselves lost the second map and ran into the same ill-fated Lin at the matchpoint.

The second series went much smoother. Entity closed the series without much difficulty against Into The Breach.

Entity Heroes

The most frequent guest in the team is Batrider: he appeared 7 times and won 6 matches. Followed by Visage (7 games, 71% win rate), Nyx Assassin (6 matches, 100% win rate), Undying (5 matches, 100% win rate), Earthshaker (4 matches, 100% win rate).

As part of DPC 2023, they do not disdain meta characters like Lina for the first position and or Treant Protector. The latter actually appeared in the pick in every game against Gaimin Gladiators.

History of personal confrontations

Previously, the teams in these lineups did not play with each other. Although there were a minimum number of substitutions on both sides, they had a strong impact on the level of performance of the clubs.

Match outcome

In this fight, I expect 2-0 from Team Liquid. According to the first two episodes, the team looks great and I don’t think that something will break for them in a few days of break.

Entities can surprise by playing their own style, but Liquid will overplay on the class.

Bottom line: Liquid won 2-0.