The International 2014 notes
Final battle of the year is over and it's time to compare the results. What has changed since TI2013? New combos? New popular heroes?
Popular heroes
Compare TI3 and TI4 heroes by popularity (under TI4 I mean only the Main Event matches without quals):
The International 2013:
The International 2014:
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Teams
8 teams (I mean Team's tag - not players roster) participated in both events - DK, IG, LGD-GAMING, mousesports, Na`Vi, Team Liquid, Fnatic and Alliance. There wasn't any team with 0 wins on TI4(MUFC was on TI3).
Winners
Statistics for TI3/4 winners is on the table bellow.
| Alliance on TI3 | Newbee on TI4 | Alliance on TI4 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 26 | 34 | 15 |
| Wins | 23 (88.5%) | 22 (64.7%) | 6 (40%) |
| Kills | 22.3 | 20.1 | 18.7 |
| Deaths | 14.5 | 15.8 | 22.7 |
| Asists | 49.3 | 44.7 | 39.5 |
| Last Hits | 664 | 617.6 | 758.6 |
| Denies | 43.8 | 35.8 | 40.1 |
| GPM | 1944.3 | 2026.6 | 1843.7 |
| XPM | 2043.7 | 1961.8 | 1801.3 |
| Match duration | 00:35:25 | 00:33:38 | 00:43:31 |
KDA
Top-1 Best Average KDA of the current year (Sylar with 8.17) is about Top-5 of 2013 (11.33 by LodA, 9.65 by BurNIng, 8.74 by Era, 8.64 by Sylar, 8.10 by Hao).
Farming
Best GPM per match are lower on TI4 than on TI3. But Best Last Hits values are greater on TI4. Alchemist is not more used only as a main carry but also becomes a support with carry-potencial in the games that last more than 40 minutes. A few words about Denies - teams stopped using Outworld Devourer. On TI3 this hero was the 3rd by popularity and had Top-1 by Average Denies per game (32.8). Well, winrate 37.5) with Average Denies - 26.3. Sadly.
Some people aren't glad to see Naga's farm 60+ minutes. I agree with them. On TI4 Naga Siren was picked 16 times and has Average Last Hits - 532.8! It's Top-1 by this index. On TI2013 Best Average Last Hits was 333.1 (by Anti-Mage)! And also AM on TI3 was picked 16 times. But AM was more useful - his winrate was 68.75 winrate.
Another new "late" hero is Tinker. Just look at him:
| TI 2013 | TI 2014 | |
|---|---|---|
| Picks | 11 | 20 |
| Position by Average LH | ~Top-20 | Top-4 |
| Last Hits | 199.8 | 343 |
| Winrate | 27.27% | 45% |
What can I say? Just "Stop it!".
Oh, did anyone see Phantom Lancer on TI4? No? He wasn't picked. But on TI3 PL was Top-2 farmer (8 picks, 50% winrate and 303 last hits per game).
Razor. Popular (on TI4) hero with a low winrate (42.35. Also in TI2013 he was almost never used as carry. As midder or offlaner - yes. Interesting fact is that three Na`Vi players tried to use him on TI4 - XBOCT (2/5 - 40) and Dendi (0/1 - 0%).
Rabbit has the biggest heroes roster on TI4 - 18 heroes in 28 matches. Mushi had biggest roster on TI3 - 19 heroes in 28 matches. He used 15 heroes on TI4 and he is the second with LaNm. Both used 15 heroes in 24 matches.
I wondered if some player would get 0 creeps killed in a some match. But this didn't happen. But 1 LH was once. Fenrir killed 1 creep in the match Newbee - Vici Gaming.
And a few words about the best average GPM for players: Top-10 results are in range 490-554. A year ago such range was 457-600.
Picks and bans
The most pickable supports - Shadow Shaman (79) and Skywrath Mage (79). On TI3 the most pickable supports were Visage (85) and Rubick (69).
Towers
There were 12 matches where winner didn't lose any tower. There were 18 such games a year ago.
P.S.
This is enough for now. Will be continued later.