Marauder Shields
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Have to say I've been enjoying Dota considerably more ever since I stopped playing AP. Really like SD atm.
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Dota 2 |OT3| #BetterThenEllenPudge
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jaundicejuice
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Just played support in a game where we had an offlane Chaos Knight buy Brown Boots and nothing else for like 30 mins. When queried about the fact that he was sitting on two thousand gold and didn't have things like Treads or Drum or Armlet components all we got was "just wait" and "mind your own items". He bought a hyperstone. Brown boots and a hyperstone.
Game went about as well as you can imagine.
Took a stroll through their Dota profile and saw many hilariously bad item builds like Traquils, double Crytalis Invoker. A lvl 25 Lifestealer in an hour long game with Tranquils, a Basher, AC, 3 Crystalis and 79 LH. And they were mad that our Terrorblade went Safelane.
Game went about as well as you can imagine.
Took a stroll through their Dota profile and saw many hilariously bad item builds like Traquils, double Crytalis Invoker. A lvl 25 Lifestealer in an hour long game with Tranquils, a Basher, AC, 3 Crystalis and 79 LH. And they were mad that our Terrorblade went Safelane.
Marauder Shields
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Lemon Crest
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http://dotabuff.com/matches/497605512
Guy goes offlane Luna after I pick terrorblade.
Dies a bunch and blames the team.
I'm bummed because I was last hitting well and mid was doing fine.
Proof that one person can throw a game.
Guy goes offlane Luna after I pick terrorblade.
Dies a bunch and blames the team.
I'm bummed because I was last hitting well and mid was doing fine.
Proof that one person can throw a game.
Dreams-Visions
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i wish he had a great cast animation on purification like jeraziah in HoN, leads to a guaranteed nuke and allows him to be played as a carry >
Schweinehund
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i wish he had a great cast animation on purification like jeraziah in HoN, leads to a guaranteed nuke and allows him to be played as a carry >
a cast point decrease wouldn't hurt. I also wouldn't mind if his aura had an activation that gave the AS and MS to your nearby teammates.
Anuxinamoon
Shaper Divine
Man playing support in RAD is super fulfilling. I love this mode so much <3
#dead
Dreams-Visions
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Dota 2 |OT3| Mind your own items
Spirit of Jazz
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I was just going to add that this would be amazing with the NBA Jam sound pack but they read my thoughts.
Dark seer is so perfect for this role. When I have gotten him I just load up on stuns and nukes. You are so tanky and have basically unlimited mana.
Dreams-Visions
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Satch.
She accepts donations in $10 denominations, minimum.
few things beat the feels of a well-placed Sky ult.
yep, stack nukes/stuns and buy a dagon.
Omniknight/Randy Savage is fucking amazing. Love running that dude against a Death Prophet team.
looks like kyoto naga will have company in my directory.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Roaming is so rewarding and easy in low mm. Roamed as Bane and it worked out well every time and we gg'd in 20 minutes. Nobody wards and everyone expects the lanes to be 2-1-2 and nobody ever moves away.
Dreams-Visions
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We were going nuts, couldn't fucking believe how lucky we both got. I was almost certain the RP would hit me and we'd die, lmao.
RP is a circular radius in front of Magnus, not with him in the center. Looks like you just got away there.
I'm starting to like this Undying fellow.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/497464041
still iffy about item build, granted the armor helped a lot against pesky DP ghosts, but overall it felt all over the place...
http://dotabuff.com/matches/497464041
still iffy about item build, granted the armor helped a lot against pesky DP ghosts, but overall it felt all over the place...
Imp the Dimp
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Worst scaling hero in the game. A beast in lane and virtually useless after 12 minutes into the game.
Really? I though he was handy in a team fight, really handy.
Yeah but:
No stun
No slows
Soso nukes
Needs setup time
People can just run away
If you fight early while Tomb is strong or setup with some steals first everything is gravytown. But then people get blink initiation and their HP/DMG scales up to counter Tombstone and your STR steal.
Like, you are helping but other supports are going to actually be doing stuff. They had no blink initiation and only 1 (super low hp) right clicker.
cmon you nerd lets play
Zombies have slow, and his ulti aura does too, and both of them stack with other slows IIRC, his nuke is also a pretty good healing skill as well.
Imp the Dimp
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Unreliable though
Is it just TB tho? In my MMR, in 90% of the cases people that play or ask for the carry role in CD/CM are usually the worst players on the team and have no idea what they're doing.
I've noticed this with Faceless Void players in particular, they always like to fight when they can't or shouldn't and feed a ton. This is even worse with Anti-Mage players.
TB is an absolute glass cannon so he's prone to either dying constantly or not contributing anything in fights due to the player being too cautious. Void just doesn't fit into the current meta, although I haven't seen or played him in 6.80 yet, unsure about the significance of the Chrono buffs.
In my trench tier, I've seen a couple of FVs thus far and he remains almost exactly the same as he was before; absolutely useless without a lot of farm.
Gentle Rodriguez
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I'd like to see them give him an AS/AP bonus when in the sphere to make him more useful early on. Now he gets 4 hits in and it's a bad ult early on when you want to make shit happen.
GordonHalfman
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What's the skill build for Jakiro now? I think ice path is still his best team fight spell, but liquid fire is pretty hard to lane against, and it's nice for early push as well. Max dual breath is also some nice damage. So I'm not sure.
Does anyone sometimes skip his ulti at 6? I think I'll get flamed if I try this but if you don't have a cogs/chrono/kinetic field type spell to combo it with I think it's easily his worst spell.
Does anyone sometimes skip his ulti at 6? I think I'll get flamed if I try this but if you don't have a cogs/chrono/kinetic field type spell to combo it with I think it's easily his worst spell.
Yeah, that's the big issue. Even with a MoM, he is rarely able to take down one single full-health hero solo at level 6 when using chrono and has to rely on support or pickoffs.
The Technomancer
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Generally I grab Liquid Fire at 1, 3, and 5 and just take one point in Ice Path until 10, maxing Liquid Fire and Dual Breath. However if my team composition or the enemy comp is going to push us towards a lot of early teamfights then Ice Path and Liquid Fire trade priorities.
TB has the highest base armor in the game. That's some sturdy glass.
Freakinchair
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First time I played him I looked at my armor at like... level 2 or something. 9 Armor whaaa
His HP/Str gain is pretty bad though... Sunder is hilarious. I love the hero.
balladofwindfishes
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Such a long painful game
2 sets of our racks were down for half an hour! We were locked in a total stalemate for half an hour! They couldn't take our Tier 4s and we couldn't leave our base for a half hour! It was nuts.
They ended up letting our Luna and Druid get huge and one bad last ditch "we need to end this now, I'm so bored" team fight for them and we instantly won afterwards because they had ridiculous respawn times.
Phoenix is mad fun though
The lockless chest gives strange items, the key chest just gives a battle booster, but no strange items. The lockless also has better items imo, and also a Dragon Knight kinetic gem.
2 sets of our racks were down for half an hour! We were locked in a total stalemate for half an hour! They couldn't take our Tier 4s and we couldn't leave our base for a half hour! It was nuts.
They ended up letting our Luna and Druid get huge and one bad last ditch "we need to end this now, I'm so bored" team fight for them and we instantly won afterwards because they had ridiculous respawn times.
Phoenix is mad fun though
The lockless chest gives strange items, the key chest just gives a battle booster, but no strange items. The lockless also has better items imo, and also a Dragon Knight kinetic gem.
Lottery ticket.
Well yeah, that's what makes his laning work with that terrible HP pool. I was talking teamfights where spells are flying all over the place.
SneakyStephan
Banned
spirit breaker with static link, split shot, dragon tail and rupture + threads, MOM, bkb and manta (movespeed and some mana to cast the combo more than once)
I say fuck your bkbs
absolutely insane build there is no escape and you can rampage the entire enemy team with it in seconds and it didn't need a lot of items and they're all easy to build
Also made a bristleback with bristleback + anchor smash + ion shell + can't remember what ult I had and he was pretty much unkilleable with vanguard and pipe
so many possibilities in ability pick
I say fuck your bkbs
absolutely insane build there is no escape and you can rampage the entire enemy team with it in seconds and it didn't need a lot of items and they're all easy to build
Also made a bristleback with bristleback + anchor smash + ion shell + can't remember what ult I had and he was pretty much unkilleable with vanguard and pipe
so many possibilities in ability pick
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