Match details

Report: cdk won, confirmed, source: Warzyw647, confirmed by: Warzyw647

Report time: 4 months, 1 week ago

Template: Duel

Color, town, hero of Kenye: Red, Castle, Ingham

Color, town, hero of cdk: Blue, Stronghold, Jabarkas

Ended on: 2 2 4

Start time: Dec. 20, 2023, 8 p.m.

Description: cdk won the coin flip for the 1st template pick and initially chose mt_Troll_Sand. After a series of crashes (this template currently has some problems in HotA), he was forced to change his terrain and settled upon Duel R.

Initially, Kenye did a good job building an Archangel powerstack while cdk focused on his Thunderbirds.
Similar break times.

Then cdk, who took Conflux mid a little earlier, captured some Psychic Elemental dwellings and kept a visible hero stat advantage.

Meanwhile, Kenye didn't try to recapture mid and instead went to a Fortress side zone to Diplomize Hydras and get some Wyverns and Cows and got an Azure Dragon and an All Spell box from that zone's Bunker.
After cdk bought the vast majority of his week 6 growth and confidently stayed in the Desert relatively close to the opponent's lands, Kenye attacked, feeling stronger from the Diplo.

Final armies:
37 Archangels, 45 Mighty Gorgons, 52 Chaos Hydras, 1 Azure Dragon, 25 Psychic Elementals, 27 Wyvern Monarchs, 85 Fire Elementals for Kenye with 24/20/43(38)/32 stats, 250 mana. He thought he could get an Elixir for the fight after seeing a missing Ring right before the fight, but he forgot that he didn't have the Vial. cdk earlier took 2 Vials on the way to the middle shortly after entering the Desert.
7 Phoenixes, 91 Thunderbirds, 10 Ogre Magi, 112 Magma Elementals, 135 Energy Elementals, 93 Magic Elementals, 12 Psychic Elementals for cdk with 40/32/40/29 stats, 730 mana.

No anti-berserk on either side, but Expert Fire only on the Barbarian.
Early in the battle, they struggled for initiative, trying to kill the others' Azure Dragon and Phoenixes respectively with Prayer helping Ingham and Air Protections from both sides.
Then the Cleric defended his larger army with Expert Dispell from too much harm after the first Expert Berserk and greatly reduced Jabarkas' troops, but a mistake in positioning with a Clone cast and attack, which removed most of cdk's Magic Elementals, left his Archangels and Hydras locked in a perpetual Berserk, his Gorgons trapped and killed by them, and his last stack of Fire Elementals witin the reach of the opposing Magmas. When his entire remaining army of Archangels and Chaos Hydras got locked in a perpetual Berserk with no Good Morale to save them, Kenye surrendered.

Recording from cdk's perspective: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2009356891

Report: cdk won, confirmed, source: Warzyw647, confirmed by: Warzyw647

Report time: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Technical result (walkover)