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Dota 2 |OT2| Ellen Pudge starring in Beyond Two Throws
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Technically Valve is constantly changing how matchmaking works, we just don't know how and to what extent.
SteveWinwood
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It's not bad.
SteveWinwood
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It's probably the worst thing ever.
Pureauthor
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If everyone knew everyone's MMR the complaint would just change to people claiming that Valve's MMR can't possibly be accurate because no way am I on the same level as these morons
I don't think I've ever encountered a smurf. I can only remember one time we had a puck in our team who did some serious work on the other team, crushed mid and kept solo killing their heroes in their own jungle. But even there I wasn't sure, he could've just been really good with puck.
I guess for most people the answer to "is matchmaking bad" depends on if they are currently on a winning or losing streak.
I guess for most people the answer to "is matchmaking bad" depends on if they are currently on a winning or losing streak.
CarbonatedFalcon
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FlutterPuffs
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Support/Tank Alch is fun.
Doesn't make sense, stupid, but fun.
Doesn't make sense, stupid, but fun.
Pureauthor
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Makes perfect sense. He has an incredibly powerful AoE, an incredibly powerful stun/nuke, and a skill that gives him natural tankiness.
When pros play Alch they mostly do it as a Support now.
cuevas. PhD.
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I think the 50% winrate is a poor statistic. You can get 1 stacked team every time and get a 50% winrate for everyone, just switch if they are on the good team every time.
I think that over 75% of WC3 dota games ended with a 20+ kill Riki or bounty hunter.
MM is good, especially considering it doesn't know what hero your going to pick.
If you pick an op hero, or one that your super good at and vice versa, the skill level and impact for your team changes drastically.
I'm shocked the MM is as good as it is.
MM is good, especially considering it doesn't know what hero your going to pick.
If you pick an op hero, or one that your super good at and vice versa, the skill level and impact for your team changes drastically.
I'm shocked the MM is as good as it is.
What's a good statistic?
balladofwindfishes
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so who's ready for ranked matchmaking and frostivus this week (probably)?
Wooo...oo... eh it's not really that big of a deal, I hope the update has other interesting things *coughoraclecough*
Wooo...oo... eh it's not really that big of a deal, I hope the update has other interesting things *coughoraclecough*
cuevas. PhD.
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We need a dota 2 nate silver
SteveWinwood
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Holdout brah!
I am amazed at how quickly Alch was switched from carry to support in the meta and I don't even have any idea why it happened. What changed?
I think the biggest reason might have been the shadow blade nerf. Alch used to be able to shadow blade in with a loaded concoction, drop it, fuck shit up, and then shadow blade would be off cool down in time for him to use it to escape.
manfestival
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sooo last night I decided to play one final game and like half way through it, I guess valve muted me
it said that I was muted for -385k hours... LOL WUT
it said that I was muted for -385k hours... LOL WUT
You're much more vulnerable to burst now early on which means you have to get a quick BKB against most teams, so you can't just rush big damage items like before.
dripdripsplash
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Hahahah, this made me laugh very loud haha, thanks for posting.
dota would be heaps better if you could travel to different planets and mine ores.
SteveWinwood
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Doom in lane is best doom. He is one of my favorite heroes (90+ games). I've even found decent success with him offlane with the new creep equilibrium.
A good jungle doom is such a hilariously terrifying thing. Motherfucker just strides out of the jungle at 10 minutes, dooms their carry and wrecks. So huge and fast and no one knows where he's been.
manfestival
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You can get fucked hard if you don't get some good spawns though right away
I find this to be a problem with jungling the majority of the time regardless of who im jungling with except maybe chen or enchant
You can get fucked hard if you don't get some good spawns though right away
as long as i can eat a tormentor or troll summoner i'm happy.
fuck mud golems though. fuck mud golems always and forever.
manfestival
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that feeling when there are only camps of mud golems
cuevas. PhD.
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Virtus pro throwing hard
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
cuevas. PhD.
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Bristleback, fucking sweet
Technosteve
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Dota would be better if you can hire mercenaries to face each other in tirn based combat
What that?
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Birth is a promise; death its fulfillment.
The artist's blog (Chinese person named 小名儿艺术家 here:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/3273963262
The artist's blog (Chinese person named 小名儿艺术家
here:http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/3273963262
SteveWinwood
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in other scuttlebutt some people on reddit think they figured out who icefrog is because of these picturesBirth is a promise; death its fulfillment.
The artist's blog (Chinese person named 小名儿艺术家
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/3273963262
and that reddit thread was deleted...
The Technomancer
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Man VP really wants to make Mirana ES work.
You can get fucked hard if you don't get some good spawns though right away
To be honest, only spawn you need is the wolf. That and soul ring. Until then, eat centaur, troll till you find wolf.
manfestival
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ES storm spirit is nasty for picking people off
Playing Nature's Prophet sucks sometimes.
I had shit tons of farm, even bought back twice and still ended up with a lot of gold, but my team was always on the losing side and never created the space to split push. Oh, and our Pudge had no items at 56 minutes into the game.
The game before we had an Invoker that also had no idea what he was doing.
All Pick fucking sucks.
I had shit tons of farm, even bought back twice and still ended up with a lot of gold, but my team was always on the losing side and never created the space to split push. Oh, and our Pudge had no items at 56 minutes into the game.
The game before we had an Invoker that also had no idea what he was doing.
All Pick fucking sucks.
Technosteve
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Ice Frog is chinese?
So, a few things I wonder about ranked mode.
1) Will Random gold still be there in all pick? Will you even be able to random at all, or be forced to pick?
2) Will all pick have any drafting mechanic, or still be a free for all race to hero X. Will people still be forced to pick when the timer runs out?
3) Will captains mode/draft still let the first person to push the button draft, or will it go to the highest ranked guy?
4) Will heroes not in CM be allowed in Ranked All Pick?
1) Will Random gold still be there in all pick? Will you even be able to random at all, or be forced to pick?
2) Will all pick have any drafting mechanic, or still be a free for all race to hero X. Will people still be forced to pick when the timer runs out?
3) Will captains mode/draft still let the first person to push the button draft, or will it go to the highest ranked guy?
4) Will heroes not in CM be allowed in Ranked All Pick?
its happening! http://www.dota2.com/frostivus2013/
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