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[Imp the Dimp]

so you're saying that an empowered Mag with bfury, AC and Daed that RP's 2 or 3 targets can't kill them all in the same time WR only manages to kill 1?

They hardly clever grouped up because I could kill anyone in the RP. Weaver and Prophet split pushed (which was the right call by them). Most of RPs went on solo targets indeed. Not quite all but most of them. The fact that Lina skipped the Eul's made my game easy and allowed for omitting a BKB. No idea wth she was thinking.

WR was 330ish GPM mid game. Her numbers might be padded because at some point I made enough space for her to get big enough but overall, she wasn't close to having my impact at any point. They basically couldn't fight us at all when I was up.

Realistically, I might've eaten up a tad too many resources and starved my team in the process but I'm not sure. I found that Mag build utterly fun. It cleans the jungle + lane creeps in seconds.

Aroung 70 mins it began getting tedious though. We had a hard time pushing into Techies and they weren't ever gonna high ground against a 700 GPM Magnus.

 

[Shinypogs]

this describes my 5.5k+ games perfectly, 1.09 will share this sentiment as well

The hope for salvation when I finally actually focus on getting better and drag myself to a decent mmr range is fading with comments like that.

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

this describes my 5.5k+ games perfectly, 1.09 will share this sentiment as well

Yeah this is exactly how my 5.5+k games go too.

 

[LiQuid!]

Anybody wanna hazard a guess as to how much I could get for my new in box Street Fighter Snuggie? They were rare when they came out and there aren't even any up on ebay. Someone's gotta really want one of these things, right?

 

[inkls]

???

 

[Quesa]

???

gonna get rekt by that stout shield kid

 

[kionedrik]

???

Stacks are the bane of the matchmaking algorithm, it's nothing new although it seems a little more ridiculous lately. Recently I've been paired with ~50 games players on more than one occasion and every time the team that had them got stomped mercilessly.

 

[inkls]

Stacks are the bane of the matchmaking algorithm, it's nothing new although it seems a little more ridiculous lately. Recently I've been paired with ~50 games players on more than one occasion and every time the team that had them got stomped mercilessly.

the 4.4k guy was duo queuing with his 3.6k friend...

We did end up winning because we had doom and he ended up dooming the 4.4k who picked weaver everyfight.

The 8 game guy picked pl and went pt, sny, diffusal

 

[DrPizza]

Stacks are the bane of the matchmaking algorithm, it's nothing new although it seems a little more ridiculous lately. Recently I've been paired with ~50 games players on more than one occasion and every time the team that had them got stomped mercilessly.

I dunno, matchmaking seems wonky to me. This game: http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1906318114

All solo queuers, with people on the enemy team whose profiles suggested they'd played no more than maybe a dozen games. Easily the most one-sided game of Dota 2 I've ever played, and no fun for either side.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

I haven't played a solo game in 8 months I think. Stacks are the best. Not a huge fan of 5 stacking either though.

 

[Chris R]

Yay, finally home. First and last time ever flying Delta. Ugh.

At least I can play dota tonight assuming I'm not dead tired after work

 

[misses bull]

I haven't played a solo game in 8 months I think. Stacks are the best. Not a huge fan of 5 stacking either though.

Solo queue all day everyday

 

[SecretMoblin]

solo queue SD/RD/AR is the lyfe

randoming in all pick with a stack is 2nd

 

[KingKong]

rip fnatic

 

[Radec]

That gank on Black was flawless and sealed the game.

 

[Qvoth]

holy shit fnatic lost? i would've thought they're the strongest sea team currently

 

[kionedrik]

the 4.4k guy was duo queuing with his 3.6k friend...

We did end up winning because we had doom and he ended up dooming the 4.4k who picked weaver everyfight.

The 8 game guy picked pl and went pt, sny, diffusal

Wasn't the 8 games guy in a stack? Looking at your position in the team (last) I thought he (2nd) was in a stack with at least 2 other people.

I dunno, matchmaking seems wonky to me. This game: http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1906318114

All solo queuers, with people on the enemy team whose profiles suggested they'd played no more than maybe a dozen games. Easily the most one-sided game of Dota 2 I've ever played, and no fun for either side.

Could be the lack of reliability of the MMR system in accounts with a low number of games.
Shortly after the introduction of the ranked matchmaking I did an experiment with a new account to see how long it would take to get to VHS games. According to DB it took 3 games.
Maybe that's what happened. Some new guys got lucky in the first games they had and the MM system decided they were smurfs even though they weren't.

 

[inkls]

Wasn't the 8 games guy in a stack? Looking at your position in the team (last) I thought he (2nd) was in a stack with at least 2 other people.

Nope, he was solo

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Solo queue all day everyday

Would've quit Dota two years ago if I had no friends to play with.

 

[misses bull]

Would've quit Dota two years ago if I had no friends to play with.

I gotta fill my addiction some how

 

[Quesa]

It's the exciting conclusion of my Dota 2 hero rankings!

 

[Imp the Dimp]

I gotta fill my addiction some how

Pretty sure solo queueing would cure mine

edit: As an avid smurfer, I can confirm the 3 games on smurf until VH bracket thing. It's pretty much always exactly three games. Last smurf's been a while though.

 

[LiQuid!]

It's the exciting conclusion of my Dota 2 hero rankings!

We waited all this time for you to put Techies at number 2? C'mon man.

 

[misses bull]

It's the exciting conclusion of my Dota 2 hero rankings!

2 is techies SMH

Pretty sure solo queueing would cure mine

edit: As an avid smurfer, I can confirm the 3 games on smurf until VH bracket thing. It's pretty much always exactly three games. Last smurf's been a while though.

While I don't get to play support in solo queue pubs because supporting someone who you aren't talking to sucks. I get to go mid and eat shit in that lane instead

 

[twobear]

Techies is awesome fun to play as

 

[yarden24]

It's the exciting conclusion of my Dota 2 hero rankings!

I don't understand what you are ranking this by honestly

 

[inkls]

why is there a porn picture in one of the channels streaming dota 2 in the channel list?

name of channel is ASDWQEASD123. Not gonna post the pic. 2k viewers

 

[Quesa]

I don't understand what you are ranking this by honestly

a scientific calculation of bestestness

 

[Ultrabum]

Girls to Rule channel really interesting right now Kappa.

 

[Kade]

holy shit

 

[Sticky Fingers]

WTF

 

[Red UFO]

Porn stream on Dota Twitch, cool.

 

[Ultrabum]

Annnnnnd its gone.

 

[misses bull]

This is better then dota

 

[gai_shain]

Pretty sure solo queueing would cure mine

edit: As an avid smurfer, I can confirm the 3 games on smurf until VH bracket thing. It's pretty much always exactly three games. Last smurf's been a while though.

not sure what you mean by that, ive been playing vh since the first game I played on my smurf. Those games were solo

 

[LiQuid!]

We have a Dota team sponsored by smut, yet we vilify its presence on Twitch. Who sets these arbitrary boundaries? Enough with the double standards already. Either porn is bad or it's not but make up your mind. There's obvious overlap in the fanbase there I say we open the floodgates and see which of the wannabe camgirls streaming to all the kiddies wants to make the real money.

 

[misses bull]

We have a Dota team sponsored by smut, yet we vilify its presence on Twitch. Who sets these arbitrary boundaries? Enough with the double standards already. Either porn is bad or it's not but make up your mind. There's obvious overlap in the fanbase there I say we open the floodgates and see which of the wannabe camgirls streaming to all the kiddies wants to make the real money.

Because advertisers don't want the product to have an ad right before porno. So you can't stream porno

 

[xanavi]

We have a Dota team sponsored by smut, yet we vilify its presence on Twitch. Who sets these arbitrary boundaries? Enough with the double standards already. Either porn is bad or it's not but make up your mind. There's obvious overlap in the fanbase there I say we open the floodgates and see which of the wannabe camgirls streaming to all the kiddies wants to make the real money.

Surely you recognize the difference between some cleavage and 420 gangbang facial 100% anal XXX. Which heading would you even put it under? Creative is probably the closest one but maybe if the pornstars reviewed video games at the same time it could go under Gaming Talk Shows.

 

[TUSR]

Surely you recognize the difference between some cleavage and 420 gangbang facial 100% anal XXX. Which heading would you even put it under? Creative is probably the closest one but maybe if the pornstars reviewed video games at the same time it could go under Gaming Talk Shows.

Bob Ross did this.

 

[Deleted member 77995]

Work just took a turn for the worse. Better go blow off some steam and play Dota!

 

[shira]

Viva peruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[1.09]

It's the exciting conclusion of my Dota 2 hero rankings!

this coy archer guy seems a fan

 

[bbd23]

god damn notails team continuing to own

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

Techies is awesome fun to play as

I hope you get sold into slavery.

 

[misses bull]

I hope you get sold into slavery.

I'll do hard labor if it means that techies is good again

 

[Glass Shark]

It's been like a month since I played Dota, I dumped all my items and made like $500 to buy other games

I feel free

 

[Hylian7]

We have a Dota team sponsored by smut, yet we vilify its presence on Twitch. Who sets these arbitrary boundaries? Enough with the double standards already. Either porn is bad or it's not but make up your mind. There's obvious overlap in the fanbase there I say we open the floodgates and see which of the wannabe camgirls streaming to all the kiddies wants to make the real money.

The floodgates were already open before Twitch implemented it's stupid dress code policy. The results weren't that bad.

Also had the YouPorn team actually won anything worth noting? I remember seeing them mentioned being in a match a few weeks ago and that's all I remember.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

not sure what you mean by that, ive been playing vh since the first game I played on my smurf. Those games were solo

I had that happen to me once as well. Very bizarre. Do you smurf with various accounts? It sounds like you got merely one smurf which makes me wonder why you would question my legitimacy regaring smurf statements.

 

[TUSR]

Because you said pretty much always and my experience was different. Only 1 acc for shenanigans.

it happened to him too though!

I had that happen to me once as well.

yeah but his legitimacy of smurfing

 

[gai_shain]

I had that happen to me once as well. Very bizarre. Do you smurf with various accounts? It sounds like you got merely one smurf which makes me wonder why you would question my legitimacy regaring smurf statements.

Because you said pretty much always and my experience was different. Only 1 acc for shenanigans.