shira
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In the Chinese stream Black said in pre-interview they were going to play their own game and not worry about theirs.
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In the Chinese stream Black said in pre-interview they were going to play their own game and not worry about theirs.
Anuxinamoon
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Muh two fave teams in china aside from DK. Who to go for guys ;____;
So the Fantasy Leagues, does it take a day for a transaction to go through? Or can a Commissioner approve them? It would be nice to be able to get a few pending transactions queued up at the very least.
The criteria that the auto draft feature uses isn't very good so people who missed their draft (like me, or Kirby a page ago, or two others in my fantasy pool) have to wait ages.
Since this fantasy season will be looking at all matches played (not counting amateur), I would imagine that one would be encouraged to keep track of upcoming matches and 'hot' players and be able to swap them out - while keeping a solid core.
/grumble
The criteria that the auto draft feature uses isn't very good so people who missed their draft (like me, or Kirby a page ago, or two others in my fantasy pool) have to wait ages.
Since this fantasy season will be looking at all matches played (not counting amateur), I would imagine that one would be encouraged to keep track of upcoming matches and 'hot' players and be able to swap them out - while keeping a solid core.
/grumble
Purple Cheeto
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Pro and I have been testing out a new strategy that revolves around using Lich as a solo pusher in the top lane while I roam around as the Peppermint Butler to keep the enemy away from our towers. It's been working pretty well, although the combined power of Ice King + Jake the Dog is INCREDIBLY difficult to stall, as their combined hitpoints is rather significant. Luckily with the Flame Princess, we have enough DPS to tear through their defenses with her conflagrate passive ability. I've tried searching up the game on adventuretimebuff to link you guys the replay but it hasn't appeared there yet, sorry. We're hoping to take this strategy to the top of the leaderboards though.
Honestly the only real threat to this is the Lemongrab + Magic Man combo. Luckily they didn't draft into that.
There's Adventure Time DotA?
Marauder Shields
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Lets go CIS. Anti Mage got dis.
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chinese teams pick brew alot, i think i will pick brew also
SteveWinwood
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good hero
Purple Cheeto
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The Chinese teams also pick Anti-Mage a lot.
Marauder Shields
Member
This is beautiful, this AM is so fat.
I didn't create the league I'm in so I'm not sure of all the answers. I've only been able to trade a single player so if you want a full roster swap, it's going to take the better part of a week. When we were trying to draft players, we had a bug where everyone except the league creator couldn't see players so we all ended up with random first picks.
Currently, I'm crushing my matchup by grabbing players that go far in the qualifiers. I have three good players I wanted to lock in to essentially remove from the pool before TI (Dendi, Burning, EGM) and the other five I'm just going to change with whoever is playing that week. It's working out well for me so far. Only downside is finding what teams are playing when and in what tournaments is a real pain.
Multiple BKBs.
A blink dagger.
Marauder Shields
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30k networth AM
He used a BKB charge. Time for a new one.
SteveWinwood
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It's china. It's not dota unless it goes 50 mins.China, why no push for early gg
Marauder Shields
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Because lycan counters everything that is Chinese dota. Chinese like to play safe and comfortably farm up before taking strategic fights or slow sieging. Lycan says FUCK YOU to all the hard carries and tries to ram down raxx and end the game in 30 minutes. I don't expect him to be banned nearly as much in euro dota, but we'll see. Hero isn't even the staple of rat dota anymore, he's the mascot for 5 man deathball-push doto on the back of howl.
Servbot #42
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Fuck i had an asshole in my game that dropped my items from the courier into the forest, i almost lost my blink dagger. Happened to other team mates too, one even lost an item to the enemy team. i reported the suspect i had in mind but i may have been wrong hopefully valve looks into. Dropping items from courier like that is the fucking worst thing you could do it, makes rage!
Marauder Shields
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Oh god now DT pick AM. Guess I'm rooting for them this game, unless CIS pick PL.
Edit: PL banned. y u do this
Edit: PL banned. y u do this
They are just lulling everyone to sleep NOW so their new strats blow everyone away in Seattle
And he sucks on radiant and is usually even on dire because of the bullshit off-lane advantage.
I don't know, I feel like the better Chinese teams (Newbee/DK, and you can even see it from LGD) are in a much better position than some of these qualifier teams that are playing standard conservative, farm-oriented Chinese dota. I think we're just seeing qualifier teams pick what they are comfortable with, it probably won't be the same style of play at TI.
Yeah, I've made a couple of transactions in the second League but the first one I've got a totally random team. Unless Valve plan on revamping the fantasy feature and getting an in-depth game tracker/schedule in the client, I don't see any reason not to reward the players taking the time to check out who is playing when. Usually other fantasy leagues that I've played in (for sports) implement a transaction timer (sometimes) and give players an arbitrary number (I can't remember the term for it) that correlates with the number of roster moves they make and that can affect their pecking order for picking up players in a dispute between two or more individuals
Your strategy is sound though, that's what people should be aiming for imo. You can't sit on your TI4 horses and hope for the best as we have lots of time till then.
I like how they changed Kills and Deaths to Knockouts and Defeats, yet still left in "Time Dead"
Marauder Shields
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Damn good stuff.
CIS going to the play in, LGD directly
Unless there are throws of the century later tonight.
Wok
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SteveWinwood
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Yeah DK and Newbee are fun to watch and aren't really into that traditional chinese playstyle.
SteveWinwood
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thats sort of his thing
hes been doing it for years
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the ta player is fucking terrible on cis.
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