i think you could stop that by just tp'ing 1 hero while your team saves for tp in case the other team is actually doing the tp-rosh.

just seems crazy to have to tp to check for that.

you should prob put that last post in spoilers for people who haven't seen it yet.

also someone on TL forums suggested that if you smoke gank the extra bonus speed might get you there fast enough and even if they aren't roshing you have a chance at picking someone off for first blood. also even if you have to spend that 100-135 gold to stop it, dk's lineup is much stronger than alliance's so picking these heroes to begin with is a disadvantage. and you can't be sure that the lvl 1 rosh is enough of an advantage to offset it in your favor (not to mention they have to spend 675 gold on tp's). i mean this game pretty close right now and alliance also got first blood.

Forcing the Sentinel team to use a Smoke at the start is pretty unfair. The restock timer is way too long which makes it extremely valuable. Even making someone check with a single TP is stupid. They can easily just die if they go in alone. Really nice strat from Alliance but I think this fuels the debate of Scourge > Sent regarding Rosh even more. Overall that game was ridiculously good. I was kind of looking forward to see how Alliance would actually play in a more standard game vs DK, but I can't obviously can't be mad with how good that game turned out.

I think people are underestimating how much the level 1 Rosh gave alliance if they think having to spend gold on TP's mitigates a lot of that lead. You have to realize that the lead they gained basically kept growing to a point where they were getting rosh at a very high percent. I think they got 4 Rosh's in total that game pretty convincingly besides maybe one where there were a lot of buybacks. During the one fight where there were buybacks it also showed the Scourge > Sent advantage with the proximity to the pit.