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Some of the best video to study comes from late rounds of tournaments. This clip is from the Winners Bracket Semifinal match of Pro Circuit Ladder #1, in which FearItself and Triggers Down take on The Agency. Close to the end, Fear shows us how to keep in-game composure in their Guardian Team Slayer game. Before we get to that point, let’s note a few key points of this game.
FearItSelf starts out by grenading Blue Door without exposing himself. Usually an overeager opponent would first take a peek and, if Top Green was clear, he or she would commit further to an attack on Sniper Tower. FearItSelf is baiting, hoping to be able to get an easy clean-up kill after his grenade. However, there is no one rushing Blue Door and he has to settle for a clean up kill on Mackeo. Having burned some time with this tactic he looks at Camo, but that position has already been fortified and rushing it would result in a pointless death. Fear goes down from sniper fire after Lunchbox steals the sniper.
00:30 – When he respawns Fear first looks to see if he can support his teammates, however, they go down before he can move to help. Having not made his presence known he chooses to hang back and wait for them to respawn so they can perform an organized attack together.
1:30 – After TD established control of the Sniper Side of the map Fear chooses to stay at Green. From his position he can quickly put shots on Camo, Blue Door and, with a bit of adjustment, Bottom Snipe Lift. Notice when he engages Blue Door he does it from a more protected Mid Green, rather than the more-exposed Top Green.
2:00 – Deciding that they have to push to the other half of the map, Fear puts shots on and draws fire from Blue Window. This distraction gives a safer opening for Lowkin to charge across Green Lift. Immediately after Lowkin is across, Fear positions himself away from Blue Window fire to support Lowkin at Camo. After pushing the Camo opponent away, TD has a firm foothold on the opposite side of the map right as the Active Camoflauge is coming up.
2:43 – When he respawns at Snipe 1, Fear immediately grenades Bottom Glass, hoping to get a lucky kill on the Mauler Opponent. Notice how he manages to bounce his grenade to the Green Side of Bottom Glass. However, The Agency quickly pinches the recently spawned members of TD in Sniper Tower and, with little mobility, they go down quickly.
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FearItself Shows You How to Scare Guardian Team Slayer Opponents
By jokr | Published: April 23, 2008 12:40pm EST
Some of the best video to study comes from late rounds of tournaments. This clip is from the Winners Bracket Semifinal match of Pro Circuit Ladder #1, in which FearItself and Triggers Down take on The Agency. Close to the end, Fear shows us how to keep in-game composure in their Guardian Team Slayer game. Before we get to that point, let’s note a few key points of this game.
00:30 – When he respawns Fear first looks to see if he can support his teammates, however, they go down before he can move to help. Having not made his presence known he chooses to hang back and wait for them to respawn so they can perform an organized attack together.
1:30 – After TD established control of the Sniper Side of the map Fear chooses to stay at Green. From his position he can quickly put shots on Camo, Blue Door and, with a bit of adjustment, Bottom Snipe Lift. Notice when he engages Blue Door he does it from a more protected Mid Green, rather than the more-exposed Top Green.
2:00 – Deciding that they have to push to the other half of the map, Fear puts shots on and draws fire from Blue Window. This distraction gives a safer opening for Lowkin to charge across Green Lift. Immediately after Lowkin is across, Fear positions himself away from Blue Window fire to support Lowkin at Camo. After pushing the Camo opponent away, TD has a firm foothold on the opposite side of the map right as the Active Camoflauge is coming up.
2:43 – When he respawns at Snipe 1, Fear immediately grenades Bottom Glass, hoping to get a lucky kill on the Mauler Opponent. Notice how he manages to bounce his grenade to the Green Side of Bottom Glass. However, The Agency quickly pinches the recently spawned members of TD in Sniper Tower and, with little mobility, they go down quickly.
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