Intimate contact with the No. 1 DPS in Dota, MYM|Merlini Source: Super Player - SGamer.com Editor: SGamer.com|SuperGirl Clicks: 9415Posted: 2007-3-19 12:13:24

< p> Merlini is a household name to almost everyone who plays Dota. Her incisive last-hitting skills, original Silencer skills, and the recent elusive Tinker have shocked countless players. Many masters in China have watched his rep slowly grow up. This #1dps in people's hearts recently joined the world's top team MYM, and immediately became a pillar, and showed off his skills in the ongoing MYM tourny #4. How did he become the much-anticipated Dota superstar? What unique last-hitting skills does he have? Now let me take you to get up close and personal with the master Merlini:

SuperGirl: Hello, Ben. Your fans have been waiting for your interview for a long time, so let’s get started. First, would you like to introduce yourself?

Merlini: Okay. My name is Ben Wu. I am 19 years old. I was born in Atlanta, USA. I am currently in my second year at Duke University, studying biochemical engineering.

SuperGirl: That sounds interesting. You were born in the United States. Do you speak Chinese?

Merlini: I can listen very well, but I can't speak very well.

SuperGirl: What do you want to do in the future?

Merlini: I hope I can go to medical school after graduation and become a doctor. (It’s very difficult to be a doctor in North America. It takes 7 or 8 years of study...)

SuperGIrl: What does the ID Merlini stand for? Does it have any special meaning?

Merlini: Haha, I don’t even know. I have used this ID for a long, long time.

SuperGirl: What mouse and keyboard do you use to play Dota?

Merlini: I use a very ordinary black mouse pad, and the mouse and keyboard are both Logitech mx duo. MYM said they would send me a set soon.

SuperGirl: By the way, I heard that fang has just joined MYM. How do you feel about fighting together again?

Merlini: Yes, yes! It feels good, fang, p0c and I are together again.

SuperGirl: Which team left the deepest impression on you?

Merlini: Tpd.

SuperGirl: Wow, it’s not jmc?

Merlini: Haha, I don’t want to admit that it’s my old team, because people always have to look forward. I love hanging out with the tpd guys, they are so much fun.

SuperGirl: Who is your favorite player?

Merlini: It used to be MYM|h4nn1, now I think it is MYM|p0c.

SuperGirl: Hehe, I often peek at p0c through fang’s videos. Just joking. See him often. How do you achieve such perfect last-ditch coverage?

Merlini: Haha. As for last-hitting, you have to practice more. For me, last-hitting is like intuition. I don’t have to think about it now. Of course, there are many techniques for last-hitting, and you must learn to click "s" or "h" frequently. You should also harass the other party frequently. While harassing, don't delay your own correction. This requires more practice. Also, don’t let your opponent easily guess when you will take a last hit, as you can appropriately confuse your opponent. If you are soloing in the middle, you often start denying when the minions are at half health, so that you can pull the minions back to your high ground. Otherwise, it will be very dangerous and easy to be gangbang. (Note: How? You guys just accept it, he Everything I mentioned is explained in detail in my last-hit strategy! If you haven’t read it carefully, please read it.

muhahah is just an advertisement for himself, keep going)

SuperGirl: So what about short-range heroes? Someone on our forum wanted to ask if many process heroes cannot be played in the game. Will this affect the fun of dota? Is there any solution?

Merlini: Close heroes cannot harass as much, but their own attack power is higher. As for the game, most of the heroes who can play have very strong line pressing ability or gank ability. Short-range heroes are always at a disadvantage in the early stage, except for a few heroes such as Sand King, who are just carried. For other heroes, if the opponent is a master, then you have no way to get any money or even experience. Many heroes are very strong in the late stage, such as Phantom Assassin, Puppy, etc., but you cannot use them in the game.

SuperGirl: Do you still use dps in MYM?

Merlini: Yes, they are generally heroes that require a lot of farming.

SuperGirl: Can you share your experience?

Merlini: Sometimes it is really difficult to use dps. Sometimes you need to choose to let your team play 4 vs5 and farm by yourself. Although the money farming gloves are my favorite item, you can't buy the money farming gloves and bot farm for 60 minutes. Many times too much farming will lead to losing the game because your teammates will be killed badly due to too many 4v5s. People who are dps in the team need to know when to farm and when to go out to fight. This depends on the accumulation of experience.

SuperGirl: What kind of girls do you like? This was not asked by me, but by someone on the forum. (I am afraid that he will misunderstand me. He is very familiar with my bf).

Merlini: There are not many Asian girls where I live, but I still like Asian girls more than American ones.

SuperGirl: Are you still single?

Merlini: It still is.

SuperGirl: You quit the Dota circle for a while last year. Why?

Merlini: I am busy with many things in real life, such as looking for my girlfriend, but unfortunately I still haven’t found one. (Sweat...isn’t it ugly? Why can’t I find it?)

SuperGirl: Some people say that you always lose when playing Dota recently?

Merlini: Where is it? -_-, People just like to post videos of me losing.

SuperGirl: What hero are you playing recently? Everyone knows that you are a dps player, but what do you like to use when playing, such as when you play ihcs.

Merlini: I've been using Ax a lot lately, but my favorite has to be Tinker.

SuperGirl: I don’t like using him because I like ks, like jmc.wing (this guy plays black and crazy ks with us every day).

Merlini: Haha, wing that ks little prince. I like to use him because he has a very strong ability to press the line. After getting the BoT, he can fly all over the map. When he runs out of health, it only takes 10 seconds to fly back to the base to refresh and then fly back.

SuperGirl: Many people are interested in hearing about your Dota history. Can you briefly introduce it?

Merlini: I was a ladder player a long time ago. (This is true. Merlini’s single-challenge performance in BN is quite terrifying. He has played more than 2,000 games and has a winning rate of 85%+. He has a friend who has played more than 200 games and has a winning rate of 100%. He even won all the games on BN. When I saw it for the first time, I really suspected that there was something wrong with my eyes). Then my brother introduced me to Dota three years ago, and I started playing about 10 games a month. At that time, I didn’t play much at all. Later, because BN's duel system was changed, I gradually started playing Dota a lot. In fact, I often stopped playing, so I only played Dota for one and a half years.

SuperGirl: So how did you become so good at Dota?

Merlini: I don’t know either.

Maybe it’s because I’ve always played games since I was a child and I’m relatively talented at games. I'm great in other games too. :P

SuperGirl: That’s pretty much it, do you have anything to add?

Merlini: Those who say I always lose: I am currently ranked second in ihcs, with a winning rate of 27-9. I do not always lose.

SuperGirl: Haha, okay, thank you.

Merlini: Well, you're welcome.