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We have our Mobile Legends: Bang Bang M5 Championship Top 6 teams!! The lower bracket quarter finals and upper bracket finals are a few days away, so let me catch you up to speed with what has been going on in the M5 Knockout Stage. I would say that it has been a pretty competitive knockout stage and there are a lot of moving pieces to keep note of to ensure that you can properly tune in to the games to come. Without further ado, lets talk M5 Series! Starting it off with our upper bracket finalists, Onic ID and AP.Bren, representatives of Indonesia and Philippines respectively. Onic ID showed great dominance in their match perfomances, only having issues with Blacklist International. Being the favorites to win it all, the pressure is on for Onic ID to bring the title back to Indonesia. Adding to this, being called Kairi eSports, Onic ID is trying to break away from the identity that they are more than just their PH import. AP.Bren on the other hand, they are the unexpected underdog fro...

Taken from the Dota 2 website. Property of Valve The International 2023 or TI12 group stage has ended and boy it has been a wild ride! The group stage has been a mix of stomps and upsets. Teams playing their hearts out, and some letting their nerves get the better of them. TI12 is rollercoaster of emotions with a side of great action. If you haven't already known, the group stage format for this year's The International is a bit different. It comes in 2 phases. 1st phase, there are 4 group of 5 teams who play a round robin series of Bo2 (Best of 2) matches and the bottom team gets eliminated. Then, the 16 remaining teams will move on to Phase 2 of the group stage. The 2nd phase decides which teams will be starting in the upper or lower bracket during playoffs, and this will be done through a series of Bo3 (Best of 3) matches. With everything that happened in the Group Stage, I was and am prepared to eat my own words. I have a few prediction updates and of course, I have to give...

With the regular season concluded and the playoffs are just around the corner, let’s take a look back at how things turned.  It is worth noting that this is the first MPL season with the Emblem system revamp, so there was a lot of limit testing taking place during these games. Given that the regular season is the bulk of MPL PH tournament format, the meta heading into the playoffs will be very similar. But before we take a deep dive into the meta analysis, here are the standings: Congratulations to Echo and AP.Bren for securing the 1st and 2nd seeds. It has been a grueling season, especially since the top 2 teams will be heading to m5. GG Well Played to Minana Evos and TNC for putting up a good fight. Bounce back next season! Now… Let’s talk meta highlights! Utility Jungling is not Dead! An early prediction, with the removal of the Jungle emblem, was that tank junglers will not have a place in the meta. They assumed the lower damage output will affect the utility junglers’ clear ti...

Taken from the Dota 2 website. Property of Valve The most awaited Dota 2 tournament starts in a few days!! How will things unfold in the city of Seattle? What stories and moments will this TI be remembered for?  Let's not get ahead of ourselves, and let us look at what the tournament can potentially be! Time for a Pre TI23 Tournament Analysis! An Overview This year has been quite a ride. The world began opening up and teams are now more diverse, with players coming from different regions playing under one banner. There were a lot of firsts and lasts. The DPC system is being retired, Dota 2 received one of the biggest updates its had in years, and let's not forget, no Battle Pass for this TI12. It is sad to see the norm go, but progress must happen. Even the format of The International 2023 is new! TI12 is reborn in Seattle, HQ of Valve, and the event will be a month long! The Teams With the tournament happening in the USA, a country strict with VISA applications, it is no surpr...

The new assassin hero is out!! Nolan a quick poke and burst hero. Armed with short cooldown spells, you go in, deal damage, go out and scout out the next kill.  Currently, there are no set builds for him, because everybody is still limit testing him. Moonton has been pushing him to be a jungler, but I believe his kit is better suited for laning.  Why Laning Nolan? In my opinion, Nolan has a pretty slow clear time, relative to the meta junglers this patch. Even with the jungler talent, Nolan’s clear is pretty below average. As an assassin jungler, he has high burst damage, but lacks the mobility other assassins like Ling, Gusion, Lancelot and Harley have. Some also believe he has a dependence on the purple buff, which he needs to chain his spells properly. This is more or less a skill issue, as I believe you can learn to be more efficient in his spell casting, thus maximizing your energy pool. My overall opinion on Nolan’s jungling capabilities is that he is subpar or half-bake...

The last tournament before the most anticipated Dota 2 tournament... TI 2023! Dreamleague season 21 became a testing ground for possible strategies in TI. Though viewers may argue that not all teams played their best as to not overexert before TI, Dreamleague was still an action packed show of TI competitors (minus OG) butting heads. Highlights In team related news, we saw the first showing of the TI 2023 Tundra lineup with Topson playing mid and Nine playing position 4. For those who are unaware, Saksa took an extended mental health break which resulted with Tundra getting a substitute for TI. In this tournament, the team went 50/50 due to possible adjustments in playstyles and coordination. They did very well in the group stage, thus landing them in the upper bracket of the tournament. Sadly their run ran short when they lost to Topson's previous organization, OG. Speaking of OG, we saw the return of OG.mc, but this time he isn't being told to play like Ceb, but rather with h...

Roaming Arlott is a build I have been working on and been playing in certain matchups and team compositions. Given the nerfs the hero received in several patches now, I personally think that he cannot match the tempo of meta XP laners. I know is sounds like trolling or griefing, but hear me out!! Why does Roaming Arlott Work? Arlott is one of the heroes who can easily transition from early game assassin to late game tank. Having played Arlott is all types of matches, 1 thing I noticed is the damage fall off. No matter how big the early game lead is, Arlott's damage falls off really hard late game, even if you build all damage. By playing him as a roamer, you can utilize his early game damage to play as an assassin sniping kills all over the map, which will give you enough gold to eventually build tanky and having impact during late game. Emblem and Battle Spell I run the Fighter emblem on roam Arlott, because it gives him spell vamp for that increased sustain plus the added damage ...

The role you get when you have to adjust or fill. Playing support or roam is a pretty thankless job. You take the blame when things go wrong and the highlight system in-game doesn’t record your game winning sets. After all the flack they may get in-game, I personally believe that support players are the unsung heroes of every MOBA. They have to be active all throughout the game and they provide the team the needed space and information, which is why they tend to be the main shotcaller in teams. Though, it seems like a lot of work for something you won’t even get commended for, right? Learning the role comes with skills that you can carry over when playing other roles too! Expand your game knowledge, and GIT GUD!! With that being said, here are a few tips to elevate your roaming mechanics!! Understand your hero's role in-game Not all roaming heroes are created equal. You got all kinds of roaming supports, such as tanks, healers and assassins. Each roamer archetype has a certain play...

Image by catalyststuff on Freepik Solo Queue, the most toxic place in the whole world. This is where everyone is an idiot except you. Whatever game you play, solo queue is a cesspool of tryhards, casuals, gamerzz and many more animals.  Here is a guide on how to survive and even more so, keep your sanity! DO NOTE! I am a SEA player and I have experienced how toxic the SEA community is and will be basing this off my MOBA experience… So shout out to the Dota 2, LoL and ML:BB community!! Focus on YOU First thing to understand in Solo Queuing is the Solo part. You have to know that the only thing you have control of in the game is yourself. You can only really focus on your game, because you, as an individual, sees the game differently from others. By focusing on your game, not only can you possibly solo carry. You can strengthen your game sense and fundamentals as you become more aware of your game state due to it all being observed by you.  I get it, some mistakes in-game are r...

Image was taken from the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Facebook Page Though the title of the article can be a mouthful, this new emblem system update has sparked a few conversations. With it being online for awhile now, let’s look at how it has been for players trying to reach Mythic Glory this season.  DO NOTE!  This article’s content will be based on my personal experience and research. It will also be good to do your own research to better understand this new emblem rework. Now let’s get started!! Old Emblem System vs Now VS The most obvious change with the new system, would be the merging of the Common Physical and Magical emblem into one Common Hybrid emblem, and the removal of the Jungler emblem which I will get into further details later. Another big change is the simplification and diversification of Talents. Players test their game knowledge by mixing and matching talents from different emblems. Moonton did a good job reworking the system, with both casual and hardcore pl...