This match-up starts on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 – 20:00 UTC+8.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After dominating Vega Squadron and The Real Deal in the group stage, Kaban will face Alliance in the StarLadder ImbaTV Minor playoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alliance been struggling a lot lately, but patch 7.21 could help them get back into tier 1.<\/p>\n

Lone Druid is buffed again in this patch, focusing on playing Spirit Bear instead of the owner thanks to the level 25 talent – minus 0.5 Spirit Bear Attack Time. The Spirit Bear can enjoy a attack speed of around 3 hits per second once Hyperstone is purchased.<\/p>\n

With this fast attack speed from the Spirit Bear, we only need to pump his attack and farm until Lone Druid get his level 25.<\/p>\n

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Qojqva, the position two player from Alliance, is very good in playing micro-management characters. Lone Druid is one of his signature heroes and Alliance drafted this hero for Qojqva in their game against Real Deal yesterday.<\/p>\n

They also picked Rubick to play mid lane and Ursa as their third position in that game.<\/p>\n

Rubick and Ursa are heroes able to create space for carry. They executed the plan very well by snowballing enemies with four of them, excluding Lone Druid, so Lone Druid was able to farm very well in early stage of the game.<\/p>\n

Lone Druid grabbed Radiance for Spirit Bear by the 19-minute mark, which is considered a fast radiance.<\/p>\n

With radiance in Spirit Bear, his farm potential increases a lot and he also able to cut off the enemies\u2019 creep wave by sending the Spirit Bear behind the enemy tower.<\/p>\n

After having core items including Radiance, Assault Cuirass and Monkey King Bar, Lone Druid bought himself a refresher orb \u2014 the item which can refresh all the ability and skills including items cooldown time to 0 second.<\/p>\n

Spirit Bear has a long cool down time of 120 seconds. When Spirit Bear dies while the ability is on cooldown, Lone Druid is literally useless because all of his items and output potential are on the Spirit Bear.<\/p>\n

Having a Refresher Orb in inventory always allow the Spirit Bear to come back alive when enemies try to push high ground after killing the Spirit Bear.<\/p>\n\n\n