Like I said, full analysis in the video I made linked above. But he made an active choice based on how the game he was playing was going.
I guarantee that if he has been constantly jumped by Ursa that he would have chosen the ghost scepter. This relates to making item decisions based on how the game is playing out. Therefore force staff is an item that could help him if he does get jumped, but then will still have utility for his team in case he doesn’t get jumped.
He gets force staff, i think because in terms of how the game is playing out, he is managing to successfully avoid being jumped by the Ursa (through his good positioning). He actually has both queued up in game, and I discuss which one I think he’s going to buy and why he ends up going the item that he does. Reasonable items as a Dazzle vs an Ursa to me are ghost scepter and force staff (if you’re not sure why that would be, check out my discusssion of support items in this video: ). The other main concept in the video is itemizing to do your job, and adjusting your item build based on how the game is playing out. I cover that moment in the video as well - it was actually predictable in hindsight that he was out of position. I say 99% because he actually does mess up his positioning at one push of a tower his team does, and immediately gets jumped. Maybe that seems obvious, but in terms of the discipline in how often he was positioned correctly it was very impressive. For 99% of the game, he actively was positioned behind his Earth Spirit, TB, and Timbersaw relative to the enemy. The main concept to me that Siamese Cat used was to think of his teammates like a wall that needed to be between him and the Ursa at all times. In this game in particular, his only main threat was getting jumped by the Ursa, as the rest of Fnatics lineup did not particularly threaten a backline save hero like Dazzle. And also C) which hero(es) on the enemy team threaten him. What I learned while making this video is that he was extremely disciplined about his positioning, and it was entirely relative to A) where his teammates are, and B) where he sees (or believes) the enemy heroes are. I made a video analysis of his positioning and item choices that allowed him to have such a huge impact without being in danger himself, check it out for a full breakdown: Game 1 was a really exciting 56 minute game, and what stood out most to me as I was watching it was the Shallow Grave saves by Siamese Cat’s pos 5 Dazzle in fight after fight. In the Arlington Major, Aster played Fnatic in the first round of the upper bracket. If an item is super situational I'll most likely leave it out of the shop guide, but add a description to it so my friends would know it's still an option.And now I think I can reasonably say I have the best mid Pangolier guide in the client and would love it if pango players found it useful
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But I also strongly follow pango pro games and immortal pubs to get only relevant items into the guide. Now pango is my main and I am divine but that does not make me even close to the best pango players. I went through all the pango guides in the client and it seems all the household name ones are offlane guides and all the mid ones are either outdated, memes or annoying to navigate (I also have an offlane guide because i don't like their ones).
If you care about why I'm even posting this: So I make a lot of guides for my friends to use, then my mid Pango guide in particular gained a few thousand subs and I was wondering why. So I'm just askin if people want my 2 cents in those boxes, especially after the recent pango changes. Honestly I already keep the item order/abilities/talents up to date but I don't really put that effort into descriptions under abilities/key items as it wasnt supposed to be for public eyes.