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Dota 2 |OT4| The saga of Vade and ReRixo: the Boat Anchors continues.
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IHeartTSwift
Member
Lina
It'll go up when he gets in CM eventually and pros start picking him.
Earth Spirit in CM by 6.82, CALLING IT NOW!
I wanted this to be viable so badly. :'(
tsunami643
Member
Alright trying this again. Let's see if I fry my computer once more.
http://www.twitch.tv/tsunami643/
http://www.twitch.tv/tsunami643/
SteveWinwood
Member
I know I wanted to see it, so here it is if anyone else did.
JoinDota just re-recorded the c9 and rox xis games that twitch shit the bed in the middle of.
http://www.twitch.tv/joindotablue/b/524667134
JoinDota just re-recorded the c9 and rox xis games that twitch shit the bed in the middle of.
http://www.twitch.tv/joindotablue/b/524667134
Green Biker Dude
Banned
did you give up on making a part 3 of your warding guide?
Looks good on my end.
tsunami643
Member
Sweet, thanks.
It's coming, I assure you. Last week I was out of town and this week I wrote a 6.81 changelog breakdown whenever eHug gets around to posting it. Part 3 will be out next Wednesday, I believe.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I like this post.
Seriously though, play supports that have a high impact early game. I like CM, Bane and SK. SK even has a great late game.
Soul ring.
Buy tangos, soul ring recipe, and 1 clarity.
Go to any of the side lanes and build your soul ring with ring/sages mask from side shop. Eat tango, use soul ring, use fissure. Rinse and repeat.
For mid game, get your brown boots and start saving up money for blink. Now that you have soul ring, you can spam use fissure more often and be involved in pushing back enemies from towers, making plays e.t.c.
Once you get ur 15-20 min mark Blink, get ur phase boots up (unless the team needs arcanes, then sell ur soul ring and get arcanes) and start building ur aghs items. (Point booster first, everything else later).
I noticed my usefulness as ES went way up when I was able to get a quick soul ring than trying to rush arcane boots.
SK has the most swag voice acting ever. Reason enough to play him.
Oh, you made those videos? I just assumed it was a common name and never made the connection with you.
Marauder Shields
Member
Haven't played her in 6.81, how is Overwhelming Odds? On paper it seems like it should be pretty decent now.
It's great except, LC is still a bad hero overall. She's a one skill hero like Beastmaster and her one skill isn't even that good.
Blink, Duel, and then what? People just run away from you. Or blow you up. Her problem is that not only does need to win duels, but she also needs to get kill gold or not get killed. She needs to farm and gank at the same time. This requires a very aggressive lineup that can enable her to build up Duels so she can explode people in the late game.
Blink, Duel, and then what? People just run away from you. Or blow you up. Her problem is that not only does need to win duels, but she also needs to get kill gold or not get killed. She needs to farm and gank at the same time. This requires a very aggressive lineup that can enable her to build up Duels so she can explode people in the late game.
SteveWinwood
Member
you get shadowblade over blink if youre in trench tier because no one buys detection
For reals though, she feels a bit like a slightly more advanced riki. She can get a few kills early with the ult disable, take advantage of when people are super out of position in the midgame and snowball off of that, but versus any team that actually bothers to buy wards, she can be pretty useless sadly.
I still love her and think she's a blast because I play against bad people so I can still play her :3
For reals though, she feels a bit like a slightly more advanced riki. She can get a few kills early with the ult disable, take advantage of when people are super out of position in the midgame and snowball off of that, but versus any team that actually bothers to buy wards, she can be pretty useless sadly.
I still love her and think she's a blast because I play against bad people so I can still play her :3
No, you don't, because you can't Duel unless you have initiation and you can't farm up Shadowblade by 6-7.
Every second that passes that your Duel is off CD is you losing the game a little bit more.
I play her jungle, because her lane is shit.
Every second that passes that your Duel is off CD is you losing the game a little bit more.
I play her jungle, because her lane is shit.
SteveWinwood
Member
person in lane stuns someone walk up to them and duel ez
repeat
buy shadowblade
repeat
buy shadowblade
Why, in the name of god, would you ever depend on your allies in pub games?
My default assumption is that all teammates that I'm not partied with are babies drooling over their keyboard.
This is the flowchart for determining a good hero vs a bad hero:
Can I singlehandedly carry my team of addled children?
Yes -> Good hero
No -> Bad hero
My default assumption is that all teammates that I'm not partied with are babies drooling over their keyboard.
This is the flowchart for determining a good hero vs a bad hero:
Can I singlehandedly carry my team of addled children?
Yes -> Good hero
No -> Bad hero
SteveWinwood
Member
okay well you got me there
I really don't get how Tusk's win rate tanked from the change to his Snowball. Did they nerf the default damage?
Dreams-Visions
Member
probably just a bunch of people playing him that really shouldn't be.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/636534186
GAMES like these. WHY I fucking hate playing supports.
Give me a carry and maybe we have a different game. Fuckers need to uninstall.
GAMES like these. WHY I fucking hate playing supports.
Give me a carry and maybe we have a different game. Fuckers need to uninstall.
tsunami643
Member
If by videos you mean articles, then yep that's me. Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I'm going to stick with 720p@60 rather than 1080@30.
Also, is this a bug or has it always worked like this. I could have sworn clicking the Drum would have just bought the ingredients I had left, not buy the whole thing outright.
If by videos you mean articles, then yep that's me. Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I'm going to stick with 720p@60 rather than 1080@30.
Also, is this a bug or has it always worked like this. I could have sworn clicking the Drum would have just bought the ingredients I had left, not buy the whole thing outright.
Looks like a bug... I've never had it act like that for me.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I could have sworn clicking the Drum would have just bought the ingredients I had left, not buy the whole thing outright.
That's what should be happening. I don't know why it didn't for you here. I've seen random item buying bugs like that, though. On a rare occasion.
If by videos you mean articles, then yep that's me. Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think I'm going to stick with 720p@60 rather than 1080@30.
Also, is this a bug or has it always worked like this. I could have sworn clicking the Drum would have just bought the ingredients I had left, not buy the whole thing outright.
I don't know if its a bug or not, but it has to do with your inventory being full when completing something that has a recipe. If you had one free slot in your inventory there, that would have worked properly.
1/1/13
2/2/20
5/0/9
:^)
Those assist numbers mean your team knew what they were doing. Not that I care too much since I was just playing unranked shit, but it seems to be the same story when I'm playing ranked.
Someone will pick a heavy carry and then just blow ass. I mean my team had me mid (3-0'd their drow on my WD though lol) when we had an OD...
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
The worst games as a support are games where either your team is too bad for your support to matter or your opposing team is too bad for your supporting to be important, then it's just boring.
And people who pick mid heroes but are too scared to actually go mid(because going 1v1 exposes how bad you really are) are the worst. Had a TA almost make me go mid as Disruptor.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/636568072
Sweet. Ice Armour keeping my tower alive while I try to farm. OD didn't put enough pressure on me so I grabbed a 7:30 Midas. Kept forgetting TP scrolls though.
Sweet. Ice Armour keeping my tower alive while I try to farm. OD didn't put enough pressure on me so I grabbed a 7:30 Midas. Kept forgetting TP scrolls though.
Look at the (almost) end of the post.
Oh and Granadier don't worry about the MoM build. One pub with no wards or sentries against a snowballing Mirana isn't enough to judge it.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Gonna go ahead and say that Bloodseeker is still not a good hero.
Or it's not the hero, but the kind of person that would pick Bloodseeker in the first place generally being shit.
Hard to say.
Or it's not the hero, but the kind of person that would pick Bloodseeker in the first place generally being shit.
Hard to say.
Git Gud
http://dotabuff.com/matches/636287538
I fed first blood in like a tard cause i tried to dodge an hook from pudge and ran in circle around him instead of going away instantly, but he actually didn't have an hook cause he missed lol.
Then i got blink.
I find this pretty sad given your 3000 games, because my 250 games smurf is pretty much locked into Very High.
It will take you more than 3000 games to get to where I did in 200. How does that make you feel?
Typical Bloodseeker:
on my team: AFK farms jungle all day. Is 3 levels behind everyone else, has only SnY 20 mins in and all rupture ganks vs. into 3 heroes, and dies under tower.
other team: Has force staff by minute 10, goes around killing my entire team in several rupture ganks, tower dives and has blade mail and radiance by 25 mins.
You should be willing to mid anything. Most mid players are terrible unless theyre tryharding on Invoker
Yesterday I went mid with Sven vs Puck. Just gotta do the best you can and not lose the lane and then you win
The real ES build is Midas - Phase - Battlefury - Crit - Blink - MKB - BKB - AC
Enchant Totem - Hit hero - Crit for 2.5K - Win game
Bloodcyka pickers suffer from Pudgeism in that as soon as they hit 6 they stop farming and wait in the jungle for 10 minutes to Ult someone and get a kill. Then they end 0/20/1 and call their team shit cause theyre lvl 15 at 40 mins
If you farm hard on BS and get some core items up hes a beast. Plus his Silence gives him over 600 DPS in the lategame
Ugh, I'm starting to solo queue more and more since my usual buddies are either busy or don't have the ravenous need to play often.
It's making me fall into the whole "foreigners suck" mindset which is terrible and I need to get rid of it. I just hate it that I can't communicate with my team 98.9% of the time.
Even then, I agree with what you said just earlier Haly. I used to play a variety of heros, mostly supports, and have slowly been getting more accustomed with Earth Spirit (love him greatly). But most of the heroes I love to play aren't the wons that carry the team to victory or can overcome teammates that are just morons or unable to speak with me because language barriers. I lose games playing the heroes I enjoy (usually, not all the time, but usually) and have to settle with just playing hard carries, strong mid-game heroes, etc. Mostly Sven. Sven is fun, but he's just such a boring hero. Most of the hard *hard* carries are, I feel. Except maybe Spectre. But even I feel I "have" to play those to try and at least ensure a better chance at winning games (or at least losing but feeling like it wasn't as much of a stomp if I had picked a lower position hero).
So basically #soloqueuelife
Oh well. I'd rather have a close game and lose while playing someone like Earth Spirit instead of wrecking house with a Sven or CK or w/e.
Also my favorite heroes are Bara and LC and they are pretty garbage without a team to back them up and get shut down easily so I never play them unless I'm with my group.
Oh well. Gonna be stuck in 2.8K for a while.
/rant
It's making me fall into the whole "foreigners suck" mindset which is terrible and I need to get rid of it. I just hate it that I can't communicate with my team 98.9% of the time.
Even then, I agree with what you said just earlier Haly. I used to play a variety of heros, mostly supports, and have slowly been getting more accustomed with Earth Spirit (love him greatly). But most of the heroes I love to play aren't the wons that carry the team to victory or can overcome teammates that are just morons or unable to speak with me because language barriers. I lose games playing the heroes I enjoy (usually, not all the time, but usually) and have to settle with just playing hard carries, strong mid-game heroes, etc. Mostly Sven. Sven is fun, but he's just such a boring hero. Most of the hard *hard* carries are, I feel. Except maybe Spectre. But even I feel I "have" to play those to try and at least ensure a better chance at winning games (or at least losing but feeling like it wasn't as much of a stomp if I had picked a lower position hero).
So basically #soloqueuelife
Oh well. I'd rather have a close game and lose while playing someone like Earth Spirit instead of wrecking house with a Sven or CK or w/e.
Also my favorite heroes are Bara and LC and they are pretty garbage without a team to back them up and get shut down easily so I never play them unless I'm with my group.
Oh well. Gonna be stuck in 2.8K for a while.
/rant
5-man party bro. Should i link for the 1-millionth time the game where i slay merlini? #merlinislayer
EDIT: also my smurf was queueing 1st game pages and got to VH in 6 games. Git gud
9th game ever on my smurf, VH :
http://dotabuff.com/matches/98090999
I actually created this smurf to see how many games you needed to get to VH, and i got in 6. Dotabuff don't work anymore for old games, but my 6th game was already in VH. Then i started to use the account only for stupid shit (82% wr zeus with 6.75 KDA lol) and abandoned it shortly.
This is the secret boys
4 games :3
I have 70% with 33 games with Huskar carrying the heaviest teams on the planet. And this is including 6.80 too, since the orb change didn't change much for the hero.