No Tidehunter EPIC roshan bait! || With Tobi :)

No Tidehunter (now Alliance) pulling the most amazing early-game strat at level 1 against Evil Geniuses in the finals at Dreamhack Winter 2012 (Vengeance Cup), luring them in to rosh and then ambushing them!
Most importantly, Tobi is going nuts!

[JohnyMorte]

oh god.. 10 years already. We are getting old, boys..

[MikhailKalashnikovMiG]

For those of you who only play LoL and have never played DotA, I'll explain what happened.
No Tidehunter, the name of the team that pulled off the play started a lineup with a team that's usually known for pulling off an early Roshan kill. Roshan is basically the Baron equivalent of DotA.
Unlike Baron which spawns 15 mins into the game, Roshan spawns pretty much at the start of the game, and only certain lineups are capable of taking him down at level 1. Teams that do kill him get a massive exp boost resulting in them all being level 2. Roshan also drops an item that's equivalent to a 1 time Guardian Angel for a single hero to pick up. which is why taking him down at level 1 is a viable strategy. 

So what No Tidehunter did was send in a sacrifice, a hero known as Nature's Prophet to die to Roshan. Whenever a hero/champion dies in DotA, it gets announced to everyone.
EG, the other team, seeing the text that Prophet had died to Roshan, assumed that it was a Roshan kill attempt by NT that went wrong, and decided to check Roshan in an attempt to gank the enemy team.
So this is the part where the action starts. NT, realising that their bait had worked(they warded the area), snuck up behind them and pulled off an amazing play, killing 2 of their opposing heroes in the process.

Other things to note is that you'd notice Nature's Prophet managed to show up for the gank despite having been killed by Roshan. That's because he has a teleport ability that allows him to teleport to anywhere on the map.
Also, players lose gold when they get killed in DotA, which makes this even more of a huge play.

PS: Watching this again still sends shivers down my back.

[jue]

1:26 He was trying to say the famous line until the other guy cut him off

[Fledermausmann]

its been 5 years and this is still one of the greatest opening plays ever to have been made by a team... I'm glad that all of the No Tidehunter team have gone on to great things because this was pure genius...

[mldj]

ok for ppl who don't know:
natures prophet (the hero that suicided) has an ability to teleport anywhere on the map, so by him dying in roshan, the enemy team thought they were doing a level 1 roshan and something went wrong when he died, so they went to check it out, the dire team then came and backstabbed them and natures prophet teleported in

[breaded]

For those NON-DOTA PLAYERS, Roshan (who the first player gets killed by) is a beast that if you kill gives 200 gold to everyone and an Aegis of the Immortal (gives you two lives). By letting roshan kill him, the opposite team immediately think they're trying to kill Roshan straight away to get an early level lead, they then run to Roshan thinking the rest of the teams will be there and they can kill them, however they were actually waiting in the trees and ambushed them and got two kills out of it :) hope it helps :)

[lillyie]

people who watch this:
10% from LoL
30% from Dota who want to watch dota videos
60% to see NO ONE HAS EVER DONE THAT meme

[Cffaniak]

thanks Dota players for explaining, in a very polite way, what really happend here.

-LoL Player.

[horizon]

1:27 He wants to come in with the classic meme too early

[hiroshisama]

I have never played DotA but I must confess I come at least once a week to watch this video several times, the play is so good, the more I watch the video the more I understand, and the caster went so crazy, LoL player here btw.

[helmesjo]

Hey, half a million views! Pewds care, another swede is closing in...

[helios]

You know it's old when they say "no one's heard of Loda, Bulldog, Akke"

[internetduck]

We will remember how beautiful Tobi commentate this game...
And the meme

[carlallen]

NO ONE HAS EVA DUN THAHT! NO ONE HAS EEEVVVAA DUN THAHT IN THEH HISTORY OF DOOTA!

[chuchun-boy]

0:54 I love how Toby changes his tone once he realized what had happened

[CHIQUIZO]

wow that caster, you can feel the emotion and joy in his voice, that's amazing :D

[cardfreak]

I only play LoL, but I understand what happened here, and wow, that move was absolutely genius!

[Zack-clqu]

Ana: presses Q on genji
Genji: presses Q
Overwatch POTG algorithm: 1:32

[mZStarCraft]

I remember watching this on stream, I feel like I've seen all the most memorable moments from games.
Like this, and xpeke.

[stewfeed]

DOTA - NO ONE HAS EVER DONE THAT
CSGO - INHUMAN REACTIONS
LOL - FAKER WHAT WAS THAT