This is how Mr. Yo predicted Viper's civs

Just simple sliced translations from his streaming analyzing the game recording of KoTD3 vs viper.

Ban&Pick

"I firstly banned Viper's Khmers, because I am not good at using this civ while Viper is pretty good at it. I don't know why Viper banned Chinese, maybe be for the same reason. This is actually a good thing to me because I am not good at it, and have no intention to pick it."

"I smiled when I saw him picking Lithuanians and Mayans. The Mayans is good, but Lith is quite an overrated civ."

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1st Round

"No one is going to use his best civ at the very beginning, so viper is highly likely to be using weaker civs. Those are Malians, Mongols, Ethiopians and Berbers. It cannot be too weak, so Ethiopians and Berbers excluded. Mongols would be a good choice because of its good vision. Therefore, I would not use Celts. To be honest I have no confidence on the 1st round, so I would prefer use Slavs, the weakest among my civs."

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2nd Round

"Normally when one lost the 1st round in a BO5, he would be kind of nervous and tend to use his best civ. However, I know Viper well. Viper is always with great pride and even arrogance. There is no way he uses his best civ just because one failure. He is confident enough to win the 2nd round. So I was almost sure that he would use Malians. That is why I used Celts."

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3rd Round

"No need to predict anymore, he will use Mayans or Lithuanians. I used Aztecs because it is a decent counter to either."

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P.S.

Just a well-known Yo meme among chinese aoe2 fans created by Nicov:

"Stop fapping at your recs"——Smart Nicov, 2020

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