Team Liquid go Plus Ultra against HEROIC at PGL Wallachia S7

Team Liquid versus HEROIC in the lower bracket just sent PGL Wallachia Season 7 tumbling off the rails, with the second game being one of the craziest Dota 2 comebacks I’ve seen in a while.

The ending of this game worthy of the phrase “absolute cinema”, thanks to Liquid’s incredible mental fortitude and sheer refusal to give up, despite being in a deep hole for most of the 80 minute contest. I’ve already forgotten what even happened in the first game, in fact; such was the craziness that was present in the final 20 minutes of the second.

On the other hand, this was a generational fumble by HEROIC. They enjoyed such a gargantuan lead in this game, but did nothing with it until Liquid were able to mount a comeback.

30 minutes of hell

When I say that Liquid were on the back foot for majority of this game, I meant that they were on the back foot for about half an hour once the mid game began. In fact, they did not get a single kill going their way that entire time, while they had to watch as HEROIC got further and further ahead.

HEROIC had a great teamfighting lineup, too, composed of Santiago “TaiLung” Agüero Gustavo as Beastmaster, Adrián “Wisper” Dobles as Batrider, Thiago “Thiolicor” de Oliveira Cordeiro as Jakiro, and Matheus “KJ” Santos Jungles Diniz as Bane. Rounding out their draft was Yuma “Yuma” Langlet on Ursa, so they were definitely set up for success in this game.

61 minutes in, HEROIC led the way by around 37,000 gold. They were just one melee barracks away from mega creeps at this point, and it’s clear that they recognized this — because they played very cautiously and deliberately knowing that they had just one more objective to take before megas. While this is normally all well and good, HEROIC were a little too cautious to a fault, and Liquid realized this past the 60 minute mark.

Hesitation is defeat

With their opponents’ confidence seemingly wavering due to the fact that they couldn’t break the one remaining melee barracks, Liquid knew that they just had to hold their Glyph of Fortification for their Ancient and not waste it on saving themselves from mega creeps. Michał “Nisha” Jankowski then went to work cutting the bottom creep wave as Storm Spirit for what felt like ages — and for some reason HEROIC just didn’t put forth any sort of effort to try and stop him.

This came back to bite them hard as you might imagine. It was already hard enough for them to lay siege to the last melee barracks I mentioned before, but it became nigh on impossible to do so without their creep wave. Add to that the fact that Liquid had Erik “tOfu” Engel constantly repairing the barracks as Treant Protector with Living Armor (E), and it was always going to be a herculean task.

What are we WITNESSING 🤯

HOW ARE WE STILL IN THIS??? pic.twitter.com/M9mbb3lCc2

— Team Liquid Dota (@teamliquiddota) March 14, 2026

Then, it happened. HEROIC overstepped their bounds just a tiny bit in the bottom lane, and Liquid were ready to pounce on them for it. TaiLung got caught putting his hand in the cookie jar for a bit too long, and he got isolated from his team thanks to the Blink into Overgrowth (R) combination from tOfu. While TaiLung did have a Refresher Orb on hand to purge off the initial Overgrowth bind, so too did tOfu — and he was quick on the trigger finger to reapply the root.

This allowed Liquid to lay the damage on thick completely unimpeded. With TaiLung gone the first time, Liquid did not waste the golden opportunity to fight back in this game. Their melee barracks still standing the whole time, they collapsed onto the rest of HEROIC while TaiLung was still trying to get back to his team after buying back.

With HEROIC scrambling to get away from all this, Nisha jumped in with Ball Lightning (R) and Scythe of Vyse to ensure that Yuma could not escape. Michael “miCKe” Vu’s Weaver was going ham at this point, and he had more than 15,000 gold in the bank after the whole engagement ended.

The window closes

It’s obvious that HEROIC’s spirits were completely and utterly broken after losing that fight. While Wisper was able to use his Boots of Travel to eventually snipe Liquid’s last barracks, HEROIC’s own base had suffered the same fate in a hurry. It was now mega creeps versus mega creeps at the exact same time, but it was simply too late for the South Americans.

too much patience at this point fam

— HEROIC Dota 2 (@heroicdota2) March 14, 2026

Mega creeps would not save them from blundering this game away. Even Thiolicor was feeling the immense pressure, as I could swear I didn’t see a single Ice Path (W) land in the last 30 minutes of the game. On the other hand, Liquid had rightfully stolen this game away, fully capitalizing on HEROIC’s hesitancy and nervousness.

Liquid deserved to win, and HEROIC absolutely deserved to lose. I feel for the South American squad because it had to be depressing seeing the tides turn so quickly and suddenly after building such a massive lead, but they threw this one away big time. HEROIC will have to lick their wounds as they exit in sixth place, while Team Liquid will advance in the lower bracket to face Team Spirit later today.