I took a part of my daily time to review one of these three games, the one in which you played Invoker. I hope you won't mind, but I did a rough analyzation of this game judging by what I could see from your POV. Most people will call this "side talking like a bitch" but these are simply facts, you don't have to feel the same about what I have to say.
First of all, the Radiant hero choices makes absolute no sense to me, especially if you consider the fact that Jugger is braindamaged and unable to farm or do anything productive in ANY WAY. The guy should have been the main carry in this game and he ended up with 2/7 and total worth of 6,686 gold. I'll get to him later.
The first thing I noticed is that Mirana was extremely weak on mid. He had the higher ground advantage from the Radiant side (cliff) and he didn't even bother to use it. He could've been much more aggressive and annoying but he decided to play it out "safe" like a whoos, even though he CLEARLY had the potential to win the mid lane. And on top that, he was still able to kill you two times, and both of your deaths on mid were absurd and unnecessary. Also, when he attacked you with illusions, he could have just blended in with an illusion rather then charging directly on his own like an idiot and leaving illusions behind.
Looking at your point of view, your game was pretty much based on farming mid, hoarding bounty runes and farming neutral camps. It's strange how the Radiant team had the minimum amount of mid ganks (total of two, both were unsuccessful and one was an ultra fail) even though it was clear by your build that you will go for high damage therefore being an easy prey for CM and her Frostbite. Also, since I couldn't see the exact Mirana's gameplay from your perspective, I'm not sure how much he ganked throughout the game but as for you, the first time you switched the lane to do something different was at 20 mins, and you went top just to get more gold by farming and to destroy a T2 tower. To top it off, even though you didn't actually gank the entire game, your Sunstrike hit ration in this game was below 50%, and you pretty much used two spells the ENTIRE GAME (Aclarity and Sun strike). Your first spell change was at 23 mins of the game, when you invoked Ghost Walk to avoid one of the stupidest "ganks" ever.
Things I liked about your gameplay in this game are the Sun strike you used at the beginning (to scout the opponents matchup, items, etc.) and the Sun Strike you used at 14:58, to check if it's safe to finish the Mid T1 tower. The things I didn't like, that moment you stood on mid with 1/4 HP when it was clear you were going to get yourself killed, the fact that you didn't use 50% of the Aclarity potential on mid, the fact that you took Quas the first time on LEVEL 17 when you absolutely HAD TO and that you litearlly farmed your way through this game while your teammates held your dick for 20 minutes (especially Treant at many occasions, highlighting the moment at 16:25 when he literally saved your ass from certain death). Also, the first time I actually saw you doing something with your teammates was at 24 minutes when you got the Aegis and decided to get the T3 mid tower and raxes.
In overall, I can't remember the last time I've seen such a clueless team. They were literally playing 5v4 for 90% of the game (since you were too busy with farming and missing sun strikes) and they still couldn't do anything. The MVP of the game (from what I could see) was definitely Treant, since the guy was able to gank everywhere, be productive most of the time AND support your ass from distance so you could farm. Conclusion, you played against complete idiots who totally deserved to lose because they weren't able to do anything right in any aspect of this game. You got carried by your teammates this game so bad that, frankly speaking, I believe you would win this game even if you played mid Pudge with Basher and Moon shards without skilling up Hook and Dismember.
One of the saddest games I've ever watched and one of the most static mid performances. I had the chance to play with you on Lagabuse and I know exactly what you can and "can't" do, and I can honestly tell you I've seen games you played a hundred times better then this one. This is not even a shadow of a person I know you are. Rating this game 3/10, just because of Treant.
I didn't have time to watch the games with Shadow Fiend and Akasha at this point, but I'll try watching them throughout the day. I just hope those games weren't stupid and one-sided as this one, since this game felt like a <1000 MMR game.
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