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[call_kotaku]

alright, second question:

why is Mirana's auto attack the most pissy, awful feeling thing? I hate it. It feels so weak and slow. there's like no impact to it.

I think if the arrow fired didn't arc it would feel a lot more powerful, but I guess they didn't want the autoattack to look at all like the actual juicy arrow to avoid confusion

 

[Gully State]

bro you havent had shitty auto attacks until youve tried lina

I'm always accidentally canceling her auto attack because of her extra twirly animation. But Zeus by far has the worst

 

[Drkirby]

alright, second question:

why is Mirana's auto attack the most pissy, awful feeling thing? I hate it. It feels so weak and slow. there's like no impact to it.

She has to have some draw backs

 

[FACE]

VG vs DK
fight!
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It's weird seeing DK getting wrecked after their performance at SL9.

Edit: Just as I say that they pick up a tower and two kills.

 

[Gully State]

It's weird seeing DK getting wrecked after their performance at SL9.

I get the impression that DK takes extra long to adjust to patches

 

[PhillipCostigan]

bro you havent had shitty auto attacks until youve tried lina

where are you

 

[Zeth]

Not to mention Mirana's Sacred Arrow which is clearly described as an "arrow" being "fired" is actually a spear that she throws with her arm.

 

[iamblades]

bro you havent had shitty auto attacks until youve tried lina

Lina has the worst animation mathematically speaking, but with her super long range and fiery soul, it is not nearly as bad in practice.

Zeus has nearly as bad of an animation but barely half the range.

Drow and clinkz have roughly equivalent animations aside from the shorter backswing but as agi heroes it gets much easier more rapidly.

 

[Kade]

Play with me tonight. I'm getting sick of Mario Golf.

 

[Conceptor]

Thanks for inviting us to your grad Haly

 

[Haly]

Yw.

 

[Kade]

Congrats to all grads. I have one more class.

 

[IHeartTSwift]

bro you havent had shitty auto attacks until youve tried lina

HEY. You take that back

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

[Merlini Plays] Dota 2 - Ogre Magi

Merlini gives commentary on a 65 minute game he played a few weeks ago. The game is very entertaining and his commentary is very educative, somehow he managed to keep it interesting for 70 minutes. Would definitely recommend anyone to watch.

 

[Acinixys]

I'm always accidentally canceling her auto attack because of her extra twirly animation. But Crystal Maiden by far has the worst

ftfy

 

[DarkKyo]

WTF??

 

[Kade]

Coach

 

[SteveWinwood]

HEY. You take that back

its kay i still love her

 

[Internets]

Doto server down seconds away before a Compendium challenge win

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

So who has the sickest autoattack animation/sound effect? I like timbersaw's a lot.

 

[Captain Fish]

I like the feel and appearance of Shadow Shaman and Dazzle's animation. Phantom Lancer's kick is pretty awesome though.

 

[W1SSY]

Beastmaster also occasionally kicks during auto attacking which looks pretty great.

 

[Hylian7]

Doing some streaming and trying to get my last two compendium heroes done!

http://www.twitch.tv/hylian7

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

AA's animation is fast and sounds nice, CK's sound is great, AM's is easy and mana break is satisfying, gunning people down with OD's Orb is always great, Brew has a very fast and satisfying animation, especially when it crits.

 

[Acinixys]

So who has the sickest autoattack animation/sound effect? I like timbersaw's a lot.

For me it has to be Void when he procs a timelock

Nothing is more satisfying than hearing that heavy THUNK sound

 

[Internets]

I like Brewmaster's stick smack, quick and oddly satisfying

 

[Kade]

Alchemist beast mode + Hyperstone

 

[FACE]

AA's animation is fast and sounds nice, CK's sound is great, AM's is easy and mana break is satisfying, gunning people down with OD's Orb is always great, Brew has a very fast and satisfying animation, especially when it crits.

PA when she crits, the blood splatter is so good.

 

[Quesa]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

 

[inkls]

old mcdonald

 

[FACE]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

Morphling?

 

[Demoli]

BH crit is probably one of the most nerve-wrecking sounds to hear as a support. You know you're in deep shit when no one's around/everyone's fighting someone else and you just hear that. Same thing with Riki backstab/blink.

Hex is also a scary as fuck sound.

Edit:

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

Dragon Knight

 

[Schweinehund]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

.

 

[Demoli]

Easiest low priority of my life

 

[Anbokr]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

anti-mage

 

[The Technomancer]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

Dragon Kniiiiight

 

[Hylian7]

http://dotabuff.com/matches/678740877

*wipes sweat*

Good god the splitpush was annoying but we did it. And our team would certainly not normally have this late.

 

[bbd23]

just bet on the newbee/DK match

im scared. my keys. BibleThump

 

[Ketch]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

12 slotted lone druid

 

[Randdalf]

My friend just won a 1v1 SF mid against a random pubber we stomped in a matchmaking game. We were trash talking pretty hard to be fair.

 

[inkls]

My friend just won a 1v1 SF mid against a random pubber we stomped in a matchmaking game. We were trash talking pretty hard to be fair.

Did he use runes?

 

[Randdalf]

Did he use runes?

Both sets of spectators on either side were ghosting hard, ultimately, the wraith bands + blademail strat prevailed.

 

[Atlantis]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

Bane, because it's a fucking nightmare.

 

[bbd23]

When I think of Chinese dota I think of the hero _________

Naga, because it puts twitch chat to sleep

 

[iamblades]

For me it has to be Void when he procs a timelock

Nothing is more satisfying than hearing that heavy THUNK sound

even without a timelock I love void's animation, it is just so crisp and has a well defined hit point. Whereas antimage has a much better animation technically, I find it way easier to time void's

Antimage just kinda vaguely swings his blades back and forth slicing and dicing, but when void's mace lands, you know it.

Spectre's animation bugs me for the same reason, just feels too vague.

I love beastmaster, brewmaster, bloodseeker, pudge, dragon knight, sven, phantom lancer, etc, because they mostly all feel solid and well defined, even though they are substantially worse than AM or Spectre.

As for ranged heroes, I really like Huskar's animation. it is really snappy and the missile moves super fast.

 

[Technosteve]

I thought DK was good, what happened?

 

[Demoli]

even without a timelock I love void's animation, it is just so crisp and has a well defined hit point. Whereas antimage has a much better animation technically, I find it way easier to time void's

Antimage just kinda vaguely swings his blades back and forth slicing and dicing, but when void's mace lands, you know it.

Spectre's animation bugs me for the same reason, just feels too vague.

I love beastmaster, brewmaster, bloodseeker, pudge, dragon knight, sven, phantom lancer, etc, because they mostly all feel solid and well defined, even though they are substantially worse than AM or Spectre.

As for ranged heroes, I really like Huskar's animation. it is really snappy and the missile moves super fast.

This was the reason it took me ages to adapt to the then new Bristleback attack time. It hit like 0.5s before the visual hit, it felt like you would be hitting nothing until you got a few AS buffs.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

This was the reason it took me ages to adapt to the then new Bristleback attack time. It hit like 0.5s before the visual hit, it felt like you would be hitting nothing until you got a few AS buffs.

This appears fixed last time I played him, the actual animation is a lot faster now.

 

[Zeth]

[Merlini Plays] Dota 2 - Ogre Magi

Merlini gives commentary on a 65 minute game he played a few weeks ago. The game is very entertaining and his commentary is very educative, somehow he managed to keep it interesting for 70 minutes. Would definitely recommend anyone to watch.

Thanks for posting this! Just finished watching. Lots of good insight by Merlini, and a very interesting game. That single-racks defense coordination was really impressive. I love Merlini's cold, calculating play style.

 

[bbd23]

I thought DK was good, what happened?

a lot of good Chinese teams?