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I think that's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. Really showing my noobness here I guess.
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I think that's the first I've ever heard of such a thing. Really showing my noobness here I guess.
Ugh, Luna. I love playing as her, but that voice is like Irish Spring on a chalkboard.
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Honestly, it never sounds like you have fun playing Dota 2. You're too obsessed with breaking into 4k. It sounds like it's no longer about having fun with the game but what teammates you believe are between you and your goal.
Oh, I do, it would just be more fun if I were to actually be able to make any MMR progress. Unfortunately I constantly get teammates in the way of that.
Edit: That Ember built MANTA, FUCKING MANTA! WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE BUILD THAT ON HIM?!
What should you start with? I have been trying qb/stout/tango that I saw in a guide. Also, which creeps do you kill first?
I can't relate. I've advanced about 200 points since calibration.
And I know I also advanced about the same (I think I was 3500-3600 in both at the start) and got to 4k in a couple of weeks, and now I'm stuck down again.
So how often does Sniper get picked in competitive now? Tong Fu just picked him up as a last pick against LGD (in which they responded with a last pick Storm Spirit.) In any case, pretty excited to see this!
Edit: I don't even recognize anyone on this Tong Fu team anymore, so many Chinese teams shuffling
Aaaand I should have expected that :|
Edit: I don't even recognize anyone on this Tong Fu team anymore, so many Chinese teams shuffling
Aaaand I should have expected that :|
People like Hylian are why I'm afraid to start playing ranked matches now that I've unlocked the ability to do so. I'm worried that one bad game for me is the dozenth in a row for a teammate and I would have just made their day that much worse
I may as well stay in unranked where I still try my hardest but I assume no one there takes the game super serious and will be more forgiving of an mistake or off game. No hard feelings though Hylian, I like watching you stream from time to time.
Bane continues to be my new favorite hero. Although I can't tell if I'm dying less and killing more with him because I'm getting better or because he's just stronger and faster than heroes I normally play.
I may as well stay in unranked where I still try my hardest but I assume no one there takes the game super serious and will be more forgiving of an mistake or off game. No hard feelings though Hylian, I like watching you stream from time to time.
Bane continues to be my new favorite hero. Although I can't tell if I'm dying less and killing more with him because I'm getting better or because he's just stronger and faster than heroes I normally play.
Gully State
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People like Hylian are why I'm afraid to start playing ranked matches now that I've unlocked the ability to do so. I'm worried that one bad game for me is the dozenth in a row for a teammate and I would have just made their day that much worse
I may as well stay in unranked where I still try my hardest but I assume no one there takes the game super serious and will be more forgiving of an mistake or off game. No hard feelings though Hylian, I like watching you stream from time to time.
Bane continues to be my new favorite hero. Although I can't tell if I'm dying less and killing more with him because I'm getting better or because he's just stronger and faster than heroes I normally play.
You'll be fine... Give it a try. Peru forgives.
Prophet Steve
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People like Hylian are why I'm afraid to start playing ranked matches now that I've unlocked the ability to do so. I'm worried that one bad game for me is the dozenth in a row for a teammate and I would have just made their day that much worse
I may as well stay in unranked where I still try my hardest but I assume no one there takes the game super serious and will be more forgiving of an mistake or off game. No hard feelings though Hylian, I like watching you stream from time to time.
Bane continues to be my new favorite hero. Although I can't tell if I'm dying less and killing more with him because I'm getting better or because he's just stronger and faster than heroes I normally play.
Ranked is not out that long really, so you had the same in unranked earlier. Unranked still has an enormous amount of assholes that take the game way too seriously. I assume you would be getting flamed there too.
Besides that, you should not stop people from letting you play a gamemode. Unless that means you want to play Pudge/Invoker mid every game even when you already have a different mid.
Flame Shield -> Farm / Split push lanes with remant to relocate you and give you a disjoint.
Seems legit.
Anuxinamoon
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I hate australian servers D:
I usually just start with qb/stout/tango (though you can do qb/rop/tango if you're greedy) and then start with the medium camp (old easy) if they aren't alpha wolves. Then I'll rotate between the two medium camps and occasionally snipe the easy camp from my lane because I'm a greedy bastard. Sometimes I'll stack and pull it for them to get my ring of regen just before suiciding if I'm close to it and out of hp/mana.
Seems kind of lacking in the department of....everything...
Also it took him 30+ minutes to get it.
This was a safe lane ES too. I feel like if you really want to play split farm/push doto with him, Battle Fury is the better option, as that gives you something in teamfights too with your SoF. The illusions aren't really gaining anything special and Manta isn't doing much for you unless you have damage from somewhere else.
People like Hylian are why I'm afraid to start playing ranked matches now that I've unlocked the ability to do so. I'm worried that one bad game for me is the dozenth in a row for a teammate and I would have just made their day that much worse
I may as well stay in unranked where I still try my hardest but I assume no one there takes the game super serious and will be more forgiving of an mistake or off game. No hard feelings though Hylian, I like watching you stream from time to time.
Bane continues to be my new favorite hero. Although I can't tell if I'm dying less and killing more with him because I'm getting better or because he's just stronger and faster than heroes I normally play.
It won't be much different in unranked honestly. It's the same kind of thing that happens there, this is just for MMR. Believe me, I have seen people do stupid things like courier feeding and things of that nature in high 3k ranked games. Hell even when I was briefly 4K I saw that kind of thing sometimes. Just dive in and try it. Usually, the skill level is a bit better there, and there's a chance people will be willing to help. The MMR system should theoretically do it's job and put you in the right place.
ty milk memorizing those formulas now for ur future exams--great PSA for all u nerds out there that go 1 bfury and then bitch out and try to build a deso or crit.
when u go battlefury build, u go all in and pick up AT LEAST 2; otherwise you're just straight gimping yourself--it's better to go just deso + crit if you're only going to get 1 battlefury.
The difference is when I played ranked everyone counter picks and I run into a Brood/Lycan stack every other game.
fuck ranked until I learn like 7 hard hero counters that can solo win a game
just pick terrorblade if you want free wins, he "counters" everything by winning and being good at pretty much everything the game has to offer--pushing, team-fighting, surviving, high damage, ranged, most broken slow in the game, etc... I can go on but I'm tired.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, TB is a bottomless pit of strengths with two minor drawbacks--moderately long cast time and low cast range.
I'd say TB is a much better pubstomper than Slark, nothing about Slark "counters" TB per say.
But every game has a Slark?
YOU CANT WIN
I'm going to learn solo offlane Enchant to counter TB
Also Phoenix
Also Phoenix
I've been seriously yelled at less than a dozen times to my recollection. People get grouchy from time to time but I've never seen vitriol spewed at me for my actions like I see people post in screenshots on reddit. I saw more abusive language in starcraft 2 if I made it up to broodlords or went mass roach or surprise mutalisk.
It's just I still make mistakes you know, I still panic sometimes or a game goes too long and I just start buying random stuff because I had money and why the hell not. Then of course I look back if we lose and go well fuck if I'd bought x instead of y we might have won. I do better game by game but I'm still a flawed player, especially by the standards of the people here.
Ty for the support though guys.
People have this myth that you have to afk farm (YOU FARM HEROES) 3 battlefuries and that you won't do any noticeable damage until you get 2-3. That's just plain wrong, you will still do a shit ton of damage with 1 battlefury, probably the same amount if not more as 1 deso (and you get extra farming power and hp/mana regen), it's just that when you pick up that second bfury you can just feel your power jump exponentially as you start to 1 shot supports and creep waves.
I can see the deso build being fine in certain situations, especially with how cloud9 plays as a team and how sing plays ember specifically. He basically plays a 3 position ember, he just sets up kills as an intiator with chains + sleight and gives up all the farm to EE and his off-laner. In that case the deso build is fine, he just wants to get a quick -7 armor for his carries and has no intention of carrying into the late-game (he's got 2 other players for that).
However, if you're playing a 1 position ember or even a 2 at times, I think the battlefury build is way way way superior. One battlefury gives you comparable damage to one deso (when I say comparable, I really mean MORE), more sustainability (all the regen), and more farming potential (1 shotting creep waves). What's not to like? I'll tell you what, the fact that you are still squishy as hell and will die in the duration of a stun, but that's just ember the hero and the deso build ends up with this same achilles heel.
Anyhow I promised myself I wouldn't get roped back into this debate, and I did, FUCK YOU BO!
Purple Cheeto
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Shortly after it goes F2P, so 6 months from now.
the trick is to only play lycan if you have random gold
I wasn't suggesting it necessarily lead to an AFK farming role, just that I've yet to really be impressed by a pure BF build, compared to stuff like BF with crits and other damage items. Maybe I'm a glutton for big red numbers, iunno. The chip-chip-chip of cumulative sleights is nonetheless effective, don't get me wrong.
Anyhow, thanks for sharing your reasoning. 'Tis food for thought.
NO, FUCK YOU BOKR
You suicide
Oh don't get me wrong, the red numbers are amazing and I've always gone Daedalus after 2 bfuries, but this image makes me rethink that with the actual math implying 3 bfuries in a row is the way to go instead of 2.
I wonder though if the dude accounted for going bfury --> bfury --> crystalis --> bfury, maybe that gives you more bang for your buck idk.
Damage numbers are cool, but burst is valued inherently higher.
I haven't played enough Ember games (5W 2L when he was new) but I went:
Guess the 2 Losses!
Need more Skadi on position 2/3 Ember.
I haven't played enough Ember games (5W 2L when he was new) but I went:
Guess the 2 Losses!
First and last. I had a Rapier my first Ember game, but my team was so bad.
Need more Skadi on position 2/3 Ember.
Oh hallelujah, they fixed the item stats bug: http://www.devilesk.com/dota2/apps/hero-calculator/
Though saving a teammate with a longshot arrow is a great feeling, I admit the hitbox for it is overly generous. I've connected with clear misses. Her ult is also a great setup for terrible things.
Or losing your lane because you have no idea where Mirana is and you just happen to get hit with an arrow and die immediately. It's incredibly frustrating.
Booty Patrol
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Um, bye, they've already reduced the size of the arrow by 30%, the way it is right now it completely fine.
They reduced the visual size. The actual size is bigger.
that's the WIP yeah, I didn't realize they would be showing it publicly already before it was finished.
allgamespc
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lol get the same dude twice in a row, he plays the same hero twice in a row (TA), feeds the same way twice in a row (2-12 the second game)
i just love 7 am Dota dont even know why i do this to myself
i just love 7 am Dota dont even know why i do this to myself
Squandered opportunity for a 3 Wolf Moon / SpiritWolf cameo
Imp the Dimp
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She isn't OP. He won't nerf her and neither should he. Try to not suck.
I played a game where the sole person on voice chat only spoke Russian. He was polite and a good player, probably trying to give us advice, but we couldn't understand a word.
You know mirana is actually the #1 or #2 most commonly picked competitive hero right now with a 58% in 6.80. That's pretty impressive considering she's also a common first and second round ban. I wouldn't be surprised if she got the nerf bat, 90% of the time Icefrog just slaps the most popular competitive heroes and buffs the unpopular ones--the basic cycle of dota. The magnitude of these nerfs usually depends on more than just the raw stats, but even heroes that aren't necessarily break-your-keyboard overpowered will get minor nerfs to discourage them from being picked up so frequently.
Sigismundo
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What happened? I hate them too.
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