Yesterday, we could see the first matches on competitive settings in AoE2:DE. We could see a lot of issues with the spectator mode (no surprises here) and the big surprise: Cumans actually lost their matches (4-1 if I recall it correctly).
Now, I expected these series to have two boring one-sided matches where the cumans just win or a cumans mirror match where the best player using them wins, but actually it didn't happen.
In my opinion, cumans are still ridiculously overpowered so this stands as a surprise. Where they misplayed by this top players? Where they overconfident that they had cumans and got punished?
I think that Pike played amazing vs the cumans and really bad when using them. FeAge also played bad when he had the cumans.
In my games, even when the cuman players play bad, we win. I've even won a 4v4 oasis game where 2 people in my team disconected but we had cumans and the other team hadn't (although the mayans had to sling a bit the cumans)
Now, I expected these series to have two boring one-sided matches where the cumans just win or a cumans mirror match where the best player using them wins, but actually it didn't happen.
In my opinion, cumans are still ridiculously overpowered so this stands as a surprise. Where they misplayed by this top players? Where they overconfident that they had cumans and got punished?
I think that Pike played amazing vs the cumans and really bad when using them. FeAge also played bad when he had the cumans.
In my games, even when the cuman players play bad, we win. I've even won a 4v4 oasis game where 2 people in my team disconected but we had cumans and the other team hadn't (although the mayans had to sling a bit the cumans)