What to Expect from the MPL PH Regular Season
The regular season is pretty promising
This article was written by Chise Alcantara.
The regular season is about to start this Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 3:30 SGT and things couldn’t get any more hype. We’ve been closely watching the pool of talented players and well-formed teams this year and we have to say, it’s anyone’s tournament. Here’s the top ten teams in the country that have successfully qualified for the Mobile Legends Professional League Philippines and what you can expect from each of them in the upcoming regular season.
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OBS Raven
OBS Raven takes really good care of their carries as seen in their games with Unity Godz in the week 3 qualifiers. They feed their carries all the resources early game in order to get them to a point that they can impact the game. Burning’s Helcurt was well protected by the displacement team OBS setup, which had equal defensive and offensive capabilities.
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OBS Gaming
It seems like OBS Gaming’s strategy revolves around Z4pnu, their top global player. Z4pnu will farm to a point that he becomes a real threat to their opponents. Their opponents will then focus Z4pnu because of his aggressive playstyle, leaving the other carries like Pakbet to deal free damage to the opposing team from a safe range while being proctected by tanks.
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Digital Devils No Limit
The players from Digital Devils No Limit really excel in keeping their cool during even the most hectic team fights as seen in their well-executed micro plays in their games against Solid Gaming Omega. Jana’s kiting on Kagura and Peace’s isolation plays on Hilda were the highlights of those matches. Without proper protection, their opponent’s carries are in danger of getting focused down early.
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Digital Devils Demon Kings
One of the most important things in tournaments like these is a team’s ability to adapt and evolve, especially if you’re playing for the long run. Digital Devils Demon Kings showed off their flexibility in their picks to counter OBS Pegasus’ comfort picks in the week 3 qualifiers. Some games can be decided before the players even take one step on the map.
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Digital Devils Professional
Another team that focuses on feeding their star player is DD Pro. DDP.Heww’s Lancelot had some impressive showings in their game against Invictus Godz. With proper protection from teammates who like to play off-tanks like Dee, they can really dominate the game by just using their superior mechanics.
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Invictus Godz
Invictus Godz make use of global map pressure by using mobile assassins like Fanny to be able to pressure lanes and towers while their carries farm. Vhen’s Fanny allows for his team to continuously provide back up for his lanes making almost every fight tip in favor of Invictus Godz. If I were part of the enemy team facing Invictus Godz, I’d auto-ban Fanny.
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Vicious & Delicious
Viscous & Delicious utilized big and game-changing plays to sway games in their favor as seen in their game against Pentakill Gaming. Ass’ Lolita AOE stuns on the enemy team completely wrecked Pentakill Gaming in late game team fights. While these make great cuts for highlight reels, I hope they can pull off these high-risk, high-reward plays in the regular season. It would make for a really interesting viewer experience.
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Aether Valkyrie
Aether Valkyrie really likes to play things slow, with most of their games reaching past the 20-minute mark. Their game plan usually involves having more resources farmed than the enemy team then surprising them during late game team fights. The other teams better watch out when they pick late-game scaling champions.
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Aether Main
Yellyhaze showed off how much of a nuisance mobile tanks can be in their match against their sister team, Aether Valkyrie. One of Aether Main’s best traits are their well-timed initiations and quick follow-up, which makes them deadly in skirmishes and team fights.
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White Rascals
In a surprising turn of events, White Rascals qualified for our regular season because of a technicality involving some of the players from Nimbus Gaming. They had a no-broadcast match against Godz Awesome, which they swept. Will they be able to keep up with the rest of the contenders? Find out this Saturday.
