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Dota 2 |OT3| #BetterThenEllenPudge
- Thread starter Artanisix
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The ones where I can execute on my plans during clutch moments.
Whether it's something huge (like getting a solo triple kill with Undying against a trilane) or something small (like shallow graving and force staffing your carry to safety as Dazzle), the rush when you successfully do the play you went for is why I keep coming back to the game.
Dreams-Visions
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It only displays like the top 100 or 200 streams.
poppedcollar69
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Why should I, as someone who is not chat banned, EVER be forced to play with someone who is?
Well Played!
poppedcollar69
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call_kotaku
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What do you mean by disrupting him? Juking or stuff like OD self-banish?
Him being able to drop rocks behind me and instantly initiate on me is the biggest bummer, because I can avoid existing rocks fine but it basically means I'll die anytime I'm below high ground on the river. After losing a third of my health and possibly ending up underneath his mid tower I'm not going to try to trade damage with him since I'll absolutely lose.
Earth AIDS is hilarious though, I can't even hate.
Max Stun and Acid, get a medallion. You throw stun and acid plus medallion before it hits. Massive burst damage early game. Get utility items after that. You can farm ancient stacks later to transition into semi carry.
Anuxinamoon
Shaper Divine
DeMoN to replace ERA for Fnatic at D2L lan finals in Vegas! =O
https://twitter.com/DotADeMoN/status/420158978069258240
PLX CARRY MUH TEAM TO VICTORY DEMON
https://twitter.com/DotADeMoN/status/420158978069258240
PLX CARRY MUH TEAM TO VICTORY DEMON
Pureauthor
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Replacing the best Lifestealer player in the world with... DemoN.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
1) Unstable Concoction does like a Million Damage. Charge it up and toss it at them.
2) Acid Spay give minus armor. Put it under the dood you tossed you stun at while it is in the air to make it do two million damage.
3) Try to get a quickish soul ring so you can toss Unstable Concoctions for days.
4) Your ult gives a zillion HP regen. You basically can not die to a single source of damage with it up, use it do be a tanky asshole and use it for fun things like tower diving or simply tanking for your creeps.
After you start getting some levels (Like to 10+), feel free to farm up a bit, since Alch can catch up really fast and grab supportish items, like Vlads, Heaven's Hailbird, a Pipe, Malestorm, really anything to be honest.
Dreams-Visions
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oh wow. That's a big deal. Is DeMoN just close friends with a lot of these teams or do they really like what he's bringing to the table?
Anuxinamoon
Shaper Divine
I dunno man, hasn't he been picked up by a fair few teams for subs in the past few months? He seems like he is still a big deal. Plx dont thoe game
Sigismundo
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You know you can't trust someone like Demon with Fnatic.
He's the most broken support in the Trench. He's got huge burst and minus armor for days, and once you hit 6, he loses two of the weaknesses of most supports (squishiness and mana regen).
If the enemy team gives you enough time, you can transition into a core for your team and climb up to the #4 or #5 highest net worth on the map.
I've won every game I played Alch support in, but lost when I played him as a carry.
Dreams-Visions
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Yea he has been. I just find it interesting. I can't imagine his rep is that good as a player. Not to suggest he's bad, but...idunno. I just feel like we've all seen his bad decision-making over the years. There's a reason he's not with EG anymore. idk.
and yet Fnatic trusts him and selected him to stand in out of all the possible players they could have gone with. I just don't know.
Everything pales in comparison against SEA servers, especially at the weekends or whenever there is a patch update.
+30 mmr for possibly the easiest matches i've ever played thnx
http://dotabuff.com/matches/457510444
http://dotabuff.com/matches/457510444
balladofwindfishes
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I wonder if removing Wraith Night will come with some surprises like visual remakes or new hats 
I wonder if removing Wraith Night will come with some surprises like visual remakes or new hats
If they just fix the kill assist gem, this will be a 10/10 best patch of the year.
Also, there really should be a tower damage done gem.
balladofwindfishes
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I want a fix for Omniknight's lip synching not working when you wear cosmetics. Seems like such a major bug for a game that relies on cosmetics.
Also LC's sword being held poorly. It looks terrible in-game, and I'm surprised they let it go this long since it will impact her future cosmetics (I've already noticed people thinking her cosmetic swords are broken on the workshop).
One change I know coming tonight is the ability to tag submissions for the 2014 Spring Update. (which is actually in winter...)
And remember that if you can stack ancients whilst getting that armor, acid and ult allow you to farm 2 or 3 stacks, so as mentioned you become a core very quickly.
manfestival
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rares given freely?
CarbonatedFalcon
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I'm curious to know what the corrupted quality items will end up doing. Got the corrupted WR eyepatch which is kinda dumb looking compared to all the other awesome dos I have for her. Looking to get the Drow beret off the market though when I can access it again -stupid Visa gift card business
I still think the best way to hedge your bets for the next event is to pop the gem out and stick it in a ward so it catches every demon kill.I'm curious to know what the corrupted quality items will end up doing. Got the corrupted WR eyepatch which is kinda dumb looking compared to all the other awesome dos I have for her. Looking to get the Drow beret off the market though when I can access it again -stupid Visa gift card business
What is it with Anti-Mage and Faceless Void players in pub games? Whenever someone on my team picks either of them, I know there's a 99% we will lose the game.
They ALWAYS come into early team fights with no farm at all and die time after time.
I just played solo que ranked CD where the captain picked himself Void, he started coming into team fights with a Midas and Treads. I'm not even kidding.
Then when he got a "good ult" he blamed me for not doing anything to help him kill the entire enemy team that was there, when were so under-farmed with no real items and our Ancient is already exposed
They ALWAYS come into early team fights with no farm at all and die time after time.
I just played solo que ranked CD where the captain picked himself Void, he started coming into team fights with a Midas and Treads. I'm not even kidding.
Then when he got a "good ult" he blamed me for not doing anything to help him kill the entire enemy team that was there, when were so under-farmed with no real items and our Ancient is already exposed
So today I played my fifth solo ranked calibration match. I like to play bounty because I figured I'm not going to be counter picked too hard. I've now played him three times in ranked and all three times I finished with drums, desolator, butterfly and vlads so I can't be doing too bad, but today has been the first time since a long time that nearly made me stop solo queuing again. Shadowfiend mid gets killed by pudge and tusk and blames me for not calling missing even though tusk was gone for about 3 minutes and I called multiple times. After I got track, I started roaming and tried to keep track of pudge only to be called useless by our SF.
As Bounty Hunter, is it my job to solo kill other heroes? Because I did not think I could have. First, because at the beginning I didn't have enough items and second, because they started to 5 man and I couldn't catch any pick offs. SF kept pinging me out when I was roaming and trying to find anyone but wtf are you supposed to do when you can't find anyone and they're just 5 manning?
As Bounty Hunter, is it my job to solo kill other heroes? Because I did not think I could have. First, because at the beginning I didn't have enough items and second, because they started to 5 man and I couldn't catch any pick offs. SF kept pinging me out when I was roaming and trying to find anyone but wtf are you supposed to do when you can't find anyone and they're just 5 manning?
Demon replacing XBOCT?
No, unless you are farmed and are hunting supports, though if they are smart they will be hugging their cores at that point in a game. BH is a teamfight hero, as the more people there are around for Track kills, the more gold you gain from them. You gank other lanes, boosting the GPM of teammates via track. Also you counter invis or splitpush.
Good to hear. The guy had double the amount of games played I have, but I don't understand how you can play so much and still be like that. That game had everything, from annoying pinging to staring at each other over the river. They also had sentries everywhere and always had dust so it wasn't even like I could just walk up and jinada some guy. Tracking was kinda difficult because pudge could just hook me if he was fast enough.
Ehh, just cancel the after-spell animation (I'm pretty sure Track has a bunch of frames there) and do the good ol' zigzag away while the hook is in the air.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh man this Mac client sucks. I tried to turn down my graphical settings so it would run on my lappy and now for some reason my dock and toolbar are stuck in front of the application every time I boot it up, and I can't figure out how to change that
I know playing Dota everyone is bound to get bad teammates, but this is by far the worst teammate I've had and the first time I've almost keyboard raged at someone (I typically never rage at games). Best lich ever.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/457787041
On a positive note, I owned sniper this whole game for the most part. Thanks for the tips gaf. I've yet to do really well vs him with a melee character but at least this is a start.
Also this was my second game as Mirana having played one against the bots prior to this game. Definitely one of my favorite heroes now.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/457787041
On a positive note, I owned sniper this whole game for the most part. Thanks for the tips gaf. I've yet to do really well vs him with a melee character but at least this is a start.
Also this was my second game as Mirana having played one against the bots prior to this game. Definitely one of my favorite heroes now.
Good to hear you are getting into things. The Lich likely had no idea how the game worked, you get that at lower levels sometimes. Also, friendly tip, you usually don't want to get two of the same item, except in rare cases like a daedulus for instance. I don't know what the best build for mirana is as I never play her but someone else here could probably help.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Okay it was just sad when I saw the K/D. But when I got over and saw the Quelling Blade and the Ogre Club it became hilarious
yea I kinda figured that and I've no idea why I made two of the same items. By all means I'm still not very good and I make mistakes building items pretty often and sometimes I even build the wrong items on accident :/ I usually add what I need to the quick buy bar and then sometimes end up with something completely different (I guess there's overlap in things I'm trying to upgrade). Definitely gotta watch that more.
My main issue with items is i find myself opting for the same ones regardless of my hero choice because I don't know them all yet and I fall into a comfort zone. "Well idk what to buy exactly so let me opt for whats worked in the past." I've gotten better as I've learned more of the items but in the heat of the moment this happens.
and yea it's very clear Lich didn't know exactly how to play. I've had my share of awful games so far and I'll definitely have more but damn it was a close game and I wanted to win. I almost turned on caps lock and told lich to just hide the base lol
I have it on good authority that low priority games will not end due to afk/abandon/whathaveyou.
The dazzle appears to be building a battlefury.
Edit: About item builds, in the top left there is a book symbol. Click it and it brings up a menu full of guides on the hero you are playing. They are a good starting point, although eventually you will want to stop relying on them.
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