Yatoro admitted that he learned how to play Dota 2 by watching RAMZES666

Ilya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk said that at the beginning of his career he watched not only Ilya “ALOHADANCE” Korobkin's replays, but paid more attention to Roman “RAMZES666” Kushnarev's games, because he constantly defeated him.

The two-time Dota 2 World Champion talked about it in a new video on the club's YouTube channel.

“I watched him play, because he was the only streamer. It was probably the pro games that I watched more RAMZES666. I remember clips when they played against each other on high PTS - RAMZES666 always beat him. That's basically how I started watching Ame. When I was already on the team, I started watching professional players play. I was always watching Paparazi, because Nightfall was watching Paparazi. I was watching replays and I see two replays in a row that Paparazi is so *** no chance in MM. And *** him some second rank. I look on Dotabuff and it's Ame. I was like, “Wow, this guy is onto something,” and I started watching him. I knew about Paparazi, but I hadn't even heard of Ame at the time. Although he was already on Ints and something in the finals, but I didn't really follow the Chinese scene. So I probably only followed Paparazi, and then I followed Ame”

Yatoro noted that he followed ALOHADANCE, because there was no special choice in the streamers. Moreover, he emphasized that they were more fan than training, and many broadcasts he was interested in solely because of the fights with RAMZES666. He also revealed that he followed Zhang “Paparazi” Chenzhong's successes, and learned about Wang “Ame” Chunyu after him, as the latter also beat him constantly.

“I when I was watching ALOHADANCE, I would just watch his streams and hoot more. He was sweating in the moment, I think, specifically in the micro-dot. But it was the RAMZES666 replays that I watched more. ALOHADANCE's streamers were fun, freaky. I watched more for RAMZES666”

The cybersportsman summarized that he watched ALOHADANCE's replays more for the sake of fan content, although he admitted that he was great at micro. Yatoro emphasized that he watched RAMZES666 matches more for the sake of game moments and learning.

Recall that earlier Yatoro made a shocking confession about what it was like after winning The International.