Match Prediction: RNG - Entity | Dota 2

With surprises and incredible twists and turns, we have reached the last match of the first game day of The International playoffs. For those who don't know, the main DotA festival continues in Singapore, where 16 teams compete for the title of champions and a total prize pool of over $16 million.

Behind 5 games and now it's time for the final bo1. Yes, and what.

Entity and Royal Never Give Up will play in the duel for life. It was very difficult to imagine such a turn of events in fact at any moment of the season, but the reality makes its own adjustments.

We figure out which of the teams will pass the first day of the group stage and continue their performances on the main stage of the year.

Form Entity

Entity will be the favorite in this match. The chance of a European club to win is estimated by the odds around 1.7.

In the bo1 series, the number 1.7 is not the largest indicator, but it gives a vector for reasoning. Entity is in the favorites, but is it deserved?

Looking at the performance during the season, it was not difficult to predict Entity as one of the leaders of The International 2022. The Europeans looked pretty good in the regional league.

Entity 2022 started from the lower division of Western Europe, where they knew no equal. Having easily qualified for the elite league, Entity failed to continue their handicap, taking TOP-6 in the second round.

A significant improvement in performance came in round number 3. The team took 4th place and got the right to show itself in the first Major in the history of the squad.

Entity made it to America, where they got into the TOP-6 at the PGL Arlington Major. Quite a significant result for a team that was playing in the second league six months ago.

The team did not have enough points to get to The International, and therefore the team was forced to play qualifiers for the main tournament of the year.

Entity had a decent qualifier, taking 1st place and going to the group stage of The International 2022.

At The International itself, many surprises awaited them, most of which were unpleasant.

Entity results at The International 2022

The team got into group B, where Team Secret, Aster, Tundra Esports, Thunder Awaken opposed. It would seem that the company is not bad, and after the qualifiers in Western Europe, Entity predicted an easy pass to the TOP-4, but in reality everything turned out to be much worse.

Entity with grief in half got into the lower bracket of the playoffs, having outplayed Talon in tiebreaks.

Entity Composition

• Pure
• Stormstormer
• Toby
• Kataomi
• Fishman

At this event, I don’t see a game in Entity worthy of passing through the lower grid further. The style of play that is comfortable for them does not bear fruit, and other Entities are not used to playing.

Entity Heroes

Entities play a rather specific Dota, as evidenced by their picks. The most frequent guest in the team is Batrider, where Stormstormer played 7 times and won 6 matches. Next comes 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).

Royal Never Give Up Form

Royal Never Give Up will play as an outsider in this match. The team's chance of success is estimated by a coefficient in the region of 2.

Frankly, I don’t want to put Royal Never Give Up below Entity in terms of the level of play and the strength of performers, from the word at all. Well, the names are too formidable here, however, they do not play a key role.

Royal Never Give Up played in the most competitive region of competitive dota and looked quite menacing. The team was consistently in the TOP-4, which was enough to play at the final events in China, which took place instead of the first two majors and later at the first real major - in Arlington.

PGL Arlington Major ended for the team in the TOP-6, which is not bad in principle. However, it is not enough to pass directly to The International 2022.

The Somnus team got into the qualifiers from China, where they easily swept away their counterparts in the region. RNG went to The International from the first place in the qualifiers, straight to the group stage.

Royal Never Give Up results at The International 2022

The team got into group A, where their rivals were giants like PSG.LGD, OG, Liquid. In such a company, RNG looked concise, and their results caused awe at first.

After half of the games, the team had a score of 9-1 on maps, and the upper bracket of the playoffs was practically in the pocket, but Covid happened. Illness turned Royal Never Give Up into the most dramatic team of the tournament.

RNG had to play separately with the problematic symptoms of the virus, which eventually led the "kings" to the statistics of 9-9 and the lower bracket.

Royal Never Give Up squad at The International 2022

• Ghost
• Somnus
• Chalice
• kaka
• xNova

Before Covid-19, Royal Never Give Up players looked almost the best: they were strong in the lane, rarely sagged in macro, which resulted in a 9-1 in the early days of the groups. The roster remains that way, but the Covid factor has had a big impact on them.

Heroes Royal Never Give Up

RNG play for their mid player. The most popular characters for them in patch 7.32 were Puck (3 matches, 100% win rate), Queen of Pain (3 matches, 100% win rate).

Also picked Chen (3 matches, 66% win rate), Tiny (3 matches, 66% win rate).

The International is played “wide”: pick Naga Siren or Anti-Mage to position 1, take Drow Ranger and Lone Druid. In general, they play with all the most popular and effective, which paid off. Gave up to the ill-fated Covid

History of personal confrontations between teams

Previously, the teams did not play with each other in official games. The teams will meet for the first time in a face-to-face confrontation and immediately in a knock-out match within the lower bracket of The International playoffs. Hype.

The outcome of the fight

Abstracting from external factors like Covid and other things, in this game we should have seen the extravaganza of DotA. At least that was the feeling. Now there is no certainty in the DotA holiday.

Royal Never Give Up looked very deplorable after infection. They lost to everyone, and so that tears welled up. On the other hand, Entity.

And what about Entity, they almost flew out of the group, they played deplorably WITHOUT Covid. Very controversial feeling from this series, but you know what? I am for RNG.

I'm for justice, to some extent. I would like to believe that the team recovered at least a little after what happened, and if they show half of what they showed in the first two days, victory is theirs.

Outcome: Royal Never Give Up win.