Pinoy pride is at an all-time high at PGL Wallachia Season 6, as all-Filipino squad OG just put the rest of the field on notice by beating BLAST Slam 4 champions Tundra Esports two games to one.
Although heavily disadvantaged on paper against one of the best teams in the Dota 2 scene right now, they showed a level of confidence and sheer audacity that Southeast Asian rosters are known for.
Tundra started this series strong in the drafting phase, as they were able to get their hands on Kez for Ivan “Pure” Moskalenko. Pure got himself a 14 minute Desolator, which should have set him and the rest of his team up for the mid game. This was actually true for the first 20 or so minutes of the game, as both him and Bozhidar “bzm” Bogdanov (the latter playing his signature Invoker) basically hit their item timings at will.
bro what is going on
— OG (@OGesports) November 16, 2025
Thing is, Pure pulled a Pure. He got caught by OG’s impeccable timing just before the 25 minute mark, and as casters Mkrdich “MLPDotA” Zobouian and Jonathan “johnxfire” Fernandez mentioned, Kez in particular doesn’t recover well from unnecessary deaths. The situation spiraled straight out of Tundra’s control from there, with John “Natsumi-” Vargas taking advantage of the chaos by imposing his will on the map as Ursa. Read: 18 kills and only two deaths.
It didn’t help Tundra’s case that they were playing a strictly old school style in this game, with Neta “33” Shapira playing Doom and Matthew “Ari” Walker playing Bounty Hunter. This duo is just far, far too passive for it to work in this day and age, and they got summarily punished for it. And thanks to that, OG got on the board first as a result.
Okay, this is more like it when it comes to Pure playing Kez. He still got his Desolator at the same timing that he did in the first game, and he also gave away a needless death in the mid game like he did in game 1 — but he was able to recover from the setback very nicely thanks to Ari’s Bounty Hunter and Matthew “Whitemon” Filemon’s Pugna.
The bonus gold from Track (R) and the healing from Life Drain (R) just incentivized him to get aggressive in order to get back on his feet. True enough, he clocked in an absurd 901 gold per minute in this game, which you can bet allowed him to just go ballistic on OG’s lineup. Although Natsumi- was having a great time as Templar Assassin, Pure was there to put a stop to it after he got his Black King Bar and Daedalus at around 30 minutes in.
The damage he was doing was crazy to say the least. The way he was parrying incoming attacks with Shodo Sai (E) made me think he was playing Sekiro instead of Dota, and the pain he was dishing out meant that OG’s heroes weren’t long for this world in the late game. Pure carried the hell out of Tundra in this game, supported by Ari and Whitemon as mentioned above.
Tundra’s loss in game 3 was all on their decision to go back to 33 Doom. This pick has just not been it since the nerfs to his passive health regeneration and strength gain, making Doom very exploitable by anything that has even a modicum of laning presence. True enough, 33 and Ari lost their lane once again, and when you’re behind the opposing team in net worth with a Doom in your lineup, you’re in huge trouble.
NO RUNNING FROM NIKKO pic.twitter.com/9dvUnFk7IU
— OG (@OGesports) November 16, 2025
Erin Jasper “Yopaj” Ferrer was quick to recognize this, sharking around the map as Queen of Pain to make sure that Tundra couldn’t recover from the bad start this time around. With Kez banned by OG, Pure had to go for Ursa in this game, which just didn’t cut it after Yopaj kept Tundra down with his map movements.
Natsumi- had himself yet another amazing performance in this game as well. His Gyrocopter did a ton of heavy lifting to get OG across the finish line in this series, and for once he didn’t just choke away a ton of farm like he tends to do. He showed a level of composure that I’m not used to seeing out of SEA players, which could be a sign that things may be different with OG this time around.
There’s some clear potential in this squad, who are now running 2-0 in terms of series score at PGL Wallachia Season 6. If they keep this up, we might just have a new underdog team to root for alongside MOUZ.
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