Noticed about the important qualities of a pro player: “I think if you have 75% work and 25% talent, that’s enough for you”

PARIVISION players Alan 'Satanic' Gallyamov and Evgeniy 'Noticed' Ignatenko, as part of a Q&A session for the club Twitch channel, discussed the importance of work and talent in competitive Dota 2, and also answered a number of other questions.

[ Alan, what does an ideal support mean to you? ] This will be quite simple. He stands the line very well. That is, he has an understanding of what to do in every situation. He buys more regen, maybe he can buy Enchanted Mango for me. The line stands very well. And, I would say, an understanding of what to do in the game. That is, it needs to be reviled somewhere, at some point. Or, conversely, go to the gate. It's difficult to play perfectly.

We won the last tournament. It seems to me that we just stood in line and, if anything happened, Dukalis shouted to me every game. And we won just like that. This was purely our gameplay with Dukalis, and we simply did it very well.

[Does work or talent play a bigger role in Dota and eSports in general? ]

Satanic: It’s both here and there, it seems to me.

Noticed: In my opinion, more work. But without talent, you won’t get far with work alone either. I think if you have 75% work and 25% talent, that’s enough for you. 50/50 is also enough, but if you have 75% talent and 25% work, then this is not enough. Without labor, without discipline, conditionally, there is an example - Parker. You can tell he's talented, but he doesn't put much effort into it. He has no discipline, no dedication, and therefore he does not succeed in the distance.

Where does talent manifest itself? When you just feel the game. You see that a person... He can, even without explaining some things, just do them, and they work out for him. Yes, unconsciously. It's just at the subconscious level.

[Zhenya, who was your idol before the professional stage? Whose replays did you learn to play from? ]

Noticed: Here we also need to separate. Before professional Dota, if the question is specifically about Dota, then, probably, he was my idol... Now I’ll try to remember. I think Dendi was originally there. This is a person who charged with energy, with this Dota vibe. And even though I wasn’t exactly a mid-laner, I liked it. And in the beginning, when I started playing Dota in general, I played mid.

And from whose replays I learned to play... Well, it also depended on the role. According to the Vovins [No[o]ne. — Approx. ed. ] on mid, then, when he switched to carry, RAMZES666 played on Roma, Miracle watched. And then at the “troika” I watched a lot of different replays. That is, zai also watched replays, 33, Magi Collapse, Ammara [ATF. — Approx. ed. ], there were a lot of players, Faith_bian [ Bach . — Approx. ed. ] looked in the moment, Chalice. You collect information from everything and choose what is most optimal from it.

Adaptation is like in all other teams. You read, each of his roles highlights something strong. If you notice for another role, you are simply advising. And then people test it, review it and give feedback. Well, or you see something somewhere in the public, you also show it. In general, you can’t adapt any other way. You collect some other statistics and from this you also draw conclusions.

Earlier, Alan 'Satanic' Gallyamov and Evgeniy 'Noticed' Ignatenko shared their impressions of the Esports World Cup 2026, and also appreciated such a hero as Kez.