Dota 2 Beta Thread V: Real Talk Strikes Back [Tutorials]

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of course it can be done. I'm sure all of us hit random unassisted torrents in our games. The problem was...well I'm sure you watched that TPL5 match. In the actual fights, Kunkka missed 90% of his skillshots. Not that it's always that ugly, but the fact that it can be that ugly is part of the problem that keeps him out of competitive. Not sure why Mouz had so much trouble getting him setup for torrents and boats, but they didn't, so he couldn't find any rhythm at all. FATA looked absolutely lost out there.

Conversely this morning LGD Kunkka/SD combo hit everything
 
Yeah, I don't think anyone had any intention of trying to promote kunkka as this untapped-potential pick. As far as I'm concerned he's mostly figured out and when he works you know why and when he doesn't it's also easy to see why. Just looking at the skill level of some of the teams in the eastern qualifiers I think a clowny kunkka pick fits right in.

In other news I played against a joindota 5 stack with tobi and holymaster, what are these euros doing on my USE servers?
 
Are there any good counters to a mid Skywrath Mage, except Pugna? I find the idea of placing pugna mid just to counter one of their supports kinda lame.
 
Are there any good counters to a mid Skywrath Mage, except Pugna? I find the idea of placing pugna mid just to counter one of their supports kinda lame.
Anyone with good nukes quickly or good attack range. If Pudge makes a hook on him at level 3 and he doesn't have boots, he's probably dead. Be careful with heroes like TA against him.
 
Anyone with good nukes quickly or good attack range. If Pudge makes a hook on him at level 3 and he doesn't have boots, he's probably dead. Be careful with heroes like TA against him.

D'oh, never really thought of TA, she does seem great against him. Thanks!
 
Just want to pop in and curse Valve/Steam for giving me an invite in the middle of my exam period.
 
Lol, I only managed to get 4 views today. I'm jelly.

Speaking of QOP Succubus, I wonder how this even works. How many views do you need to level up each time? If you don't have enough views by the time the tournament is over, can you never level it all the way up?

30 views = level 2.
60 views = level 3.
You can watch the replays, afaik they stay on the servers forever - or a long time.

What happened to TA, anyway? She was played all the time a while ago, but I hardly ever see her anymore.

She got nerfed. It happens all the time, heroes become popular until they are rebalanced.
 
Are there any good counters to a mid Skywrath Mage, except Pugna? I find the idea of placing pugna mid just to counter one of their supports kinda lame.

Pugna sucks against Skywrath mid actually. His HP is so low that he'll get bolted out of lane in no time. I'd say TA is the only hero that comfortably lanes against Skywrath, and even then it's a death sentence at level 6.
 
How to win against PL:

Random King Fucking Leoric
Build Battlefury
FUCK YO ILLUSION
Crit his weak ass HP pool into oblivion
 
How to win against PL:

Random King Fucking Leoric
Build Battlefury
FUCK YO ILLUSION
Crit his weak ass HP pool into oblivion

Theres several ways to counter PL, but I wouldnt recommend this at all. If he gets the chance to get diffusal blade (you shouldnt let him), SKs ult is pretty much useless
 
Dota is updating for me

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I knew it.
 
What happened to TA, anyway? She was played all the time a while ago, but I hardly ever see her anymore.

TA is still really good. People are building we differently now. Instead of going for blink, people are going phase drums yasha (race car build).

Her nerds weren't that big of a deal. It made her 1v1 slightly worse but she still beats most other mids.
 
D'oh, never really thought of TA, she does seem great against him. Thanks!
That won't end well once Skywrath hits 6...

TA kind of started to have a mana problem when they upped the cost of Refraction to 100 and if I recall correctly, there was a nerf to the spill on Psi Blades.
 
I think the best way to defeat PL is using Medusa.
Why do people say this? A hero that has ten instances of himself knocking the mana out of someone who RELIES on mana for a shield to block damage sounds like a really dumb counter. In fact it sounds like PL will always beat Medusa no problem as long as he has Diffusal. Stone Gaze does end.
 
Why do people say this? A hero that has ten instances of himself knocking the mana out of someone who RELIES on mana for a shield to block damage sounds like a really dumb counter. In fact it sounds like PL will always beat Medusa no problem as long as he has Diffusal. Stone Gaze does end.

Her ult kill the illusions, that's why.
 
lolwut:


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Got this once before. In game, character portraits would be a bunch of red text with the words "render test" repeated.

For a game in beta for so long it's still unpolished and unoptimized. I check the console often and there is always a bunch of errors in red text when I'm playing a game. Something about $alphatest and overbatch.
 
I got a key, played the 'tutorial', read a bunch of stuff, watched some videos, and I still have no idea what I'm doing and thus a little apprehensive of how to get into this game.
 
Got this once before. In game, character portraits would be a bunch of red text with the words "render test" repeated.

For a game in beta for so long it's still unpolished and unoptimized. I check the console often and there is always a bunch of errors in red text when I'm playing a game. Something about $alphatest and overbatch.

I never get any issues and performance is great. Only time I ever went under 60 fps is when I enabled cheats in a private game and spawned like 40 Warlock golems. Running on a 5870 PC I built like 3 years ago.
 
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