General DiscussionDK vs IG first eastern pro game for 6.79

Someone was watching the Navi vs Speed Gaming matches. DK first bans Lich.

IG picks Nyx, Luna, CM, Tide, QoP

DK picks Timbersaw, OD, SD, LS, Veno

Lich/Veno have been all stars today in several games. Lich is apparently the toppest of tiers.
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Ferrari430 fails creep block on safelane...first time I says anything like that.

Yes! Chinese dota is now like Russian dota! patch 6.79 succeeds.

Why is lich so high tier

DK vs IG 30 kills at 17 min and counting.

Lich new sacrifice gives xp to lich...also frost armor now slows range heroes. But mainly the new sacrifice is excellent.

Game 2

IG first picks Lich

I keep on hoping to see night stalker in action!

I'm a sad panda, NS gets banned. x_x

He was banned a few times earlier as well. Picked some as well. So glad ckyaseeker hasn't seen much love.

Mushi looks very Mortal his first game of 6.79 Nyx, missed so many impales.

LGD.cn vs Rstars up next.

He got caught a LOT. Like dam @.@

those impales

Oh my DK's first loss in ages!
DK vs Tongfu is on now. going to see if DK can recover against Tongfu.
Game 2, 50 kills in 30minutes. Action packed!

So now my most played hero becomes a tier1 ban/pick. Bugger. That means it's even more fail when I fail miserably. How much fail can a man take?!

lich didn't really spam sacrifice, what may be the reason?

The cooldown has increased?

^I would have noticed if it was on cooldown or not, and it was not.
I always see lich spamming it at every opportunity as saving it doesn't really make any sense to me.

Especially now with it giving Lich XP, even more so.

Maybe the lich was waiting for the opponent to be out of xp range?