Heroes of the Storm Fall Championship Semifinal 2 Ballistix vs Dignitas Recap SPOILERS
by JR Cook - 7 years ago show comments
Group 2 Semifinals have come and gone and we here at Blizzpro have a re-cap for you on how it all played out. Recaps contain Spoilers.
Ballistix(Korea) vs Dignitas(EU)
Game 1.
Map: Dragon Shire
Bans: Valla, Malfurion,Rehgar, Zeratul
Ballistix Draft: E.T.C.(Noblesse), Falstad(NachoJin), Brightwing(Swoy), Dehaka(Jeongha), SGT. Hammer(ScSc)
Dignitas Draft: Auriel(Bakery), Muradin(JayPL), Gul’dan(Mene), Tychus(Snitch), Chen(Athero)
A lot of trading shrines back and forth at the 3:00 minute mark with the teams running completely even. Tychus dies at the 4:46 mark giving Ballistix a slight lead. Chen dies at the 5:24 mark furthering Ballistix lead. Ballistix takes the first Dragon Knight and distract in the mid lane while Sgt. Hammer pushes the bottom lane. Chen dies at 7:43 after getting isolated and Dignitas loses the bottom keep. 8:58 Ballistix takes the Dragon Knight and a fight breaks out in the top lane and Muradin gets killed. Then at 10:00 Ballistix takes out the top fort. Ballistix takes a 2-0 team fight at 10:47. At 12:46 Ballistix takes another Dragon Knight and destroys the bottom Keep. at 13:20 Chen is isolated and killed. Ballistix pushes the core at 13:28 and takes the win.
Game 2.
Map: Battlefield of Eternity
Bans: E.T.C, Muradin, E.T.C., Tychus, Tyrael
Ballistix Draft: Johanna(Noblesse), Lunara(NachoJin), Malfurion(Swoy), Alarak(Jeongha), Valla(ScSc)
Dignitas Draft: Brightwing(Bakery), Stitches(JayPL), Li-Ming(Mene), Sylvanas(Snitch), Thrall(Athero)
First Immortals spawn at 1:45 and both teams look to defend and poke. Malfurion goes down at 3:28 and Thrall also dies at 3:38 resulting in a 1v1 trade. Ballistix takes the first Immortals at 4:18 and starts to push bottom. Dignitas takes a 2-0 team fight on the defense at 4:48. Then at 5:07 Brightwing dies to Alarak. Dignitas loses a 3-0 team fight at 6:42 on a merc camp invade. 7:43 Ballistix gets a full immortal that pushes out top while Dignitas loses bottom and top fort. At 8:50 Dignitas loses it’s top keep. Thrall goes down at 9:51 isolated from his team and shortly after Li-Ming follows. Thrall dies behind his gate at 10:22 as Ballistix pushes bottom and opens up a path to the keep. Ballistix takes a 4-0 team fight at 11:21 with an impressive telekinesis from alark to avoid a death and swing the fight. Thrall goes down at 12:10 as a full immortal pushes towards the keep and then the core. Ballistix takes game 2 in a run away win.
Game 3.
Map:Infernal Shrines
Bans: Tychus, Kerrigan, E.T.C., Rehgar
Ballistix Draft: Muradin(Noblesse), Tassadar(NachoJin),Brightwing(Swoy), Illidan(Jeongha), Kael’thas(ScSc)
Dignitas Draft: Malfurion(Bakery), Johanna(JayPL), Valla(Mene), Li Li(Snitch), Sonya(Athero)
1:00 mark Sonya goes down while Illidan pushes out the top lane hard. Dignitas takes control of the shrine at 3:02 and gets an Arcane punisher. Sonya goes down at 3:44 in a 4v5 fight. Temple spawns at 5:25 and a fight breaks out. Muradin gets deleted at 6:07 and Dignitas gets a Flame punisher in mid. At 6:50 Dignitas takes the mid fort while Illidan takes out the top fort of Dignitas. A team fight breaks out at 9:02 and Muradin goes down. Dignitas loses mid fort and takes the Ice Punisher at 10:44. Ballistix loses their top fort and takes the bottom fort in response. The Punisher jumps on Brightwing at 11:14 and she blows up. Brightwing and Illidan go down at the 14:00 minute mark and Dignitas tries to push out the top unsuccessfully and loses some momentum. Muradin goes down at 15:27 and Dignitas take a Fire Punisher and marches on mid to take out the for and weaken the mid keep. Brightwing dies at 16:39 and Dignitas takes out the mid keep. Shrine comes up at 18:22 while Ballistix makes a move on bottom Keep. Ballistix takes out the keep at 19:15 and then loses a team fight 4-0. Dignitas takes out the core and wins game 3.
Game 4.
Map:Tomb of the Spider Queen
Bans: Malfurion, Tychus Alarak, Falstad
Ballistix Draft: E.T.C.(Noblesse), Greymane(NachoJin), Auriel(Swoy), Tassadar(Jeongha), Valla(ScSc)
Dignitas Draft: Rehgar(Bakery), Muradin(JayPL),Gul’dan(Mene), Lunara(Snitch), Leoric(Athero)
Leoric gets blown up at the :34 second mark. Greymane gets killed at the 2:26 mark. Dignitas gets a Webweaver turn in at 3:51. Dgnitas takes out all the fort wall towers at 5:20. Big team fight breaks out at 5:42 but no one goes down. Ballistix gets their first Webweaver turn in at 6:45. Huge mosh pit gets a 2-0 team fight in favor of Ballistix. 8:40 Ballistix gets their second web weaver turn in and pushes out and destroys the mid keep. Leoric dies at 9:29. Dignitas tries to take the boss at 9:41 and loses a team fight 2-0 but secures the boss off of a clutch Horrify. Big ream fight breaks out at 11:55 and Ballistix wins 3-0. Leoric dies trying to defend a push at 12:44 and Dignitas loses all forts. Ballistix gets their 3rd Webweaver turn in at 13:18. 14:03 Dignitas loses their mid keep to Webweavers. Dignitas loses their top keep at 15:00. Ballistix takes a 4-0 team fight at 16:39 and marches on the core to win the game and the match.
