Marauder Shields
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Now Ursa pick from Tongfu. What a fun draft.
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Dota 2 |OT4| The saga of Vade and ReRixo: the Boat Anchors continues.
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Pureauthor
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"Fuck your bear, we have Undying deathball."
Gentle Rodriguez
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I can't deal with microing Visage in a hectic teamfight, I just sit there like an idiot microing my familiars while I do nothing or the opposite.
There's an option that allows your teammates to control the familiars. Helps, especially in hectic situations.
Sigismundo
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So I found out I like playing Magnus.
He does seem to have some carry potential in addition to his role as an initiator especially if you're snowballing early and get Bfury.
He does seem to have some carry potential in addition to his role as an initiator especially if you're snowballing early and get Bfury.
I hate having such a small mana pool and basically being forced to go BKB if you want to participate in fights at all. But mostly I went up against an Axe/Omni dual lane and it sucked and I was frustrated. If someone else is building drums, what do you build to help with that mana pool?
Get stats at 2 and 4.
The aura/active is just a bonus, if you feel you need the stats build Drums anyway. Beyond that I like getting an early Soul Ring on Sven for ez harass.
The_Player
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You might be surprised at how good arcanes are for Sven, if you're not playin 1st position carry. Also consider getting Force Staff.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Buy Drums anyway. I only get it because it gives great stats for a good price, not because of the aura.
yup
cleave is not going to help you early on anyway so might as well do that
i don't see why you would have mana problems with Sven anyway if you don't spam out your stun on creeps every time you have mana for it
also remember to tread switch
also most games you will have someone with arcane boots on your team so...
sven manliest hero people just don't realize it yet
Magic Stick helps a lot in fights, so does switching treads when needed.
That should give enough mana pool for early game if you really can't go drums (having 2 of them isn't that bad). If you feel fancy and have decent regen Soul ring can be good too.
Laning against Axe as melee is pretty shitty though. Without support to bully him out of lane there's not much one can do.
Me too.
FlutterPuffs
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yup
cleave is not going to help you early on anyway so might as well do that
i don't see why you would have mana problems with Sven anyway if you don't spam out your stun on creeps every time you have mana for it
also remember to tread switch
also most games you will have someone with arcane boots on your team so...
sven manliest hero people just don't realize it yet
One of my favorite heroes.
So easy to use, and with the bugfixes, I'll bet it will be in the pro meta.
Emerson
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What exactly is the issue? Haven't been following that closely.
yup
cleave is not going to help you early on anyway so might as well do that
i don't see why you would have mana problems with Sven anyway if you don't spam out your stun on creeps every time you have mana for it
also remember to tread switch
also most games you will have someone with arcane boots on your team so...
sven manliest hero people just don't realize it yet
Meracle max cleave first if he have to farm, or warcry first if he has to fight early. One level only in stun #believeinMeracle
If they change their names once they can't change them again for edit: 2 weeks.
I'm pretty sure it was designed to cut down on name swapping, but now everyone just switched to troll names. eg. Arteezy = Allison
Though I'm certainly no TA pro, if you're going blink dagger (easily the most fun way to play this hero, in my opinion) make sure that when you combo it with meld strike you blink by clicking directly on top of your target (as opposed to clicking your blink dagger near or right next to it) so that when you meld there isn't a chance that the ability is out of range. I found this tip really useful.
I prefer the Phase > Drums > Yasha route on her. Blink is good, sure, I usually do better and get more out of stacking MS like that, plus damage as well.
Artgerm (fucking great artist) is livestreaming some Dota 2 portraits now
http://new.livestream.com/stanleyartgermlau/dota2
Edit: I think it has to do with The International 4
http://new.livestream.com/stanleyartgermlau/dota2
Edit: I think it has to do with The International 4
don't stop farming, gank with runes or sometimes tps
remember that refraction charges aren't used when you deny
shira
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I play her with more often with tanky carry builds rather than a glass cannon ganker so my rules are:
magic wand WILL save your life
treads if you are good at switching
Farm farm farm - runes, tunes, runes
Psionic traps at Rosh pit, ancient uphill (radiant), jungle entry (dire), jungling spots, runes, you get the idea
Manta is good to disable silences and pushing
Diffusal for burning mana and purging dusts
deso for quick farm /push (you can kill an entire waves before they touch your own creeps)
I usually get either Linkens (if they have good initiators like Bat/dagger lion/rhasta) or BKB
Servbot #42
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You can't say something like that without linking a vod man! come on man you're killing me i want to watch the "cringe"
Yup, I'm basically just giving DotaCinema all my hits right now and watching day old VODs.
balladofwindfishes
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All of them and they're banned from the next Dreamleague tournament.
Shorty11857
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2 of them left to join Dog
Where wat
Cyborgmatt
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#ProductionValue
so i've not played solo que in forever
solo que, our lineup sucks and a very bad alch ends up solo top against 2 ranged and feeds, the storm mid rages and decides to feed from one point on uses all his mana to get into the enemy team and just stand there and die
he ended up 1-16
the alch knew he was going top solo against 2 ranged heroes yet he got his first point into greevil's greed and then acid spray
he put up 3 points into greevil's greed before i told him since he's not getting any last hits its better if he put those points into his stun or acid spray
solo que, our lineup sucks and a very bad alch ends up solo top against 2 ranged and feeds, the storm mid rages and decides to feed from one point on uses all his mana to get into the enemy team and just stand there and die
he ended up 1-16
the alch knew he was going top solo against 2 ranged heroes yet he got his first point into greevil's greed and then acid spray
he put up 3 points into greevil's greed before i told him since he's not getting any last hits its better if he put those points into his stun or acid spray
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Looks like Matt is anticipating a big patch and updated his stream game accordingly
thanks for the sven tips everyone! I still really struggle with playing position 1 melee carries or playing 1 position at all. I consider myself a solo offlane or support player and have been trying other roles when I feel confident. I like being able to play aggressively without it costing us the game and I am not a great last hitter.