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Dota 2 |OT5| TECHIES!!!
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Someone was coaching.
Dreams-Visions
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no.
Emerson
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Why? It's really excellent. I don't think I've ever lost when building it yet.
Manus
Member
A lot of his kills are global and I don't think you can get charges that way.
SteveWinwood
Member
Depends on how many immortals there are, tiers of rarities, lots of stuff.
But yeah hopefully they're cheap.
Green Biker Dude
Banned
it counts
http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Bloodstone said:
but you get 500 hp for 5k. with close to that amount of money you can buy instead:
aghs + quarterstaff / robe of the magi + sage's mask / vit booster
atos + veil / force staff
force staff + drums + point booster
etc
I just played this game in low pri where a doom had no items until 25 minutes where he bought a divine rapier as his first and only item:
These people were legit the worst people i've played with/against in a very long time. I'm not entirely sure why I was even with them tbh
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These people were legit the worst people i've played with/against in a very long time. I'm not entirely sure why I was even with them tbh
End results:
Was doom building a battlefury at the end?
Emerson
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It's just like almost any other Bloodstone build really. If you don't have it by 17 mins or so then don't do it.
Just finished a game tonight where I had Bloodstone, Aghs, half of Refresher before 30 minutes when the game ended. I guess calling it core might imply you should always buy it, which isn't true. But if you're farming well it's really strong IMO.
Bloodstone is core on Bloodseeker. How can he not always buy an item that stores the blood of his fallen enemies?
SteveWinwood
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i only build bloodstone on am
dont wanna run out of mana while blinking
dont wanna run out of mana while blinking
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
I dunno he's still good just don't depend on your invis so much, always expect for the enemy to have detection. Riki for me is a snowball hero he does so much damage early on which means you have to gank a lot, if he doesn't have a good start its very hard to come back from since he doesn't jungle very well except if you get lifesteal. Btw mask of madness is legit on riki he does fucking insane amounts of dmg with it , ultimate glass cannon build tough.
call_kotaku
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I don't play all pick so I don't see any of those dedicated riki pickers (peruvians I'm guessing), but it's surprising how many people play him like he has permanent invisibility before he reaches level 6.
Sigismundo
Member
That's all well and good but why not max out Devour so he gets Rapier earlier
Nirvana
Member
I dunno man, I'm inclined to disagree. I find that you can play super aggressive in lane with blink strike, which does a shitload of damage early on, it makes the laning phase a lot better than with most carries, and then by 6 you can safely farm basically anywhere on the map. Also the new deny change means you can pretty much out CS anyone in lane.
I think as long as you play teamfights smart, that is, blink in for kills, get your smoke cloud on a few, scurry away, blink back in and clean up, he fucking rocks. He shits out damage with agi items, farms ok with backstab and as long as you don't play like a 1k mmr Nyx and run into their whole team with invis you should be fine to clean up kills.
Its free but I still think it works the way you described
edit: if you are in their party
Bloodstone core for Zeus? ew.
then again my core may be worse.
Aghanim first but I build an oblivion staff beforehand to compliment my urn of shadows and arcane boots. after building sceptor, I finish making orchids malevolance. why orchids? Deals with Zeus mana dependancy in both regen + mana pool increase and gives him a nasty silencing skill. plus allows Zeus to right click when needed, 55 damage increase is nothing to scoff at.
then again my core may be worse.
Aghanim first but I build an oblivion staff beforehand to compliment my urn of shadows and arcane boots. after building sceptor, I finish making orchids malevolance. why orchids? Deals with Zeus mana dependancy in both regen + mana pool increase and gives him a nasty silencing skill. plus allows Zeus to right click when needed, 55 damage increase is nothing to scoff at.
I usually go Bottle -> Arcanes -> Euls -> Refrehser. Scepter first may seem like a better idea, but rushing the Refresher gives so much more burst damage, especially if you can also in range for Static Field, you just halve the HP of the entire enemy team.
Riki is one of my highest win rate heroes even at 4.5K. You just have to play intelligently with him.
Nirvana
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You forgot BOTs buddy.
That's not the Merlini Zeus build, that's just the Merlini build.
NewBee is playing amazingly well right now: http://www.twitch.tv/beyondthesummit
Xiao8 has a strong back.
Sigismundo
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Who's the saltiest person you've ever seen in-game, GAF?
Sigismundo
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A Storm Spirit I beat mid as Pudge that paused the game and said "YOU DISRESPECT THE GAME LUCKY ASS HOOK"
Nirvana
Member
Had a Storm that called me and my team mates 'low tier peasants' without a hint of irony. Guy was so incredibly angry that we were losing. There have been others, but that guy was thoroughly fucking ridiculous, as if I were meeting a stereotype of a neckbearded gamer.
Prophet Steve
Member
Two days ago.
So we had a captain that was randomed and he didn't figure out he was captain until he had 30 seconds left in Captains Draft. Then he spends ten seconds per ban, so all our picks are randomed.
And someone ends up with a dk and captain says dk/lina are supports. DK goes mid, says lol or something and fucks up our Tinker mid.
Then he goes to top to my solo Clockwerk and I give him the farm there because I know contesting this is only going to make it worse. We get ganked and I am five mana short of my cogs to save him. We are alone and there is a Witch Doctor that throws his stun so I move out of the way. 0.1 seconds after I have enough mana (and I have watched the replay) he dies.
"Why don't you save me?"
"See my mana, I did not have enough"
"Yes you did, I watched you the entire time"
"No, I didn't and I do not know how to argue about this"
"You don't, you just have to admit your mistake and say you are sorry"
"lol, no"
Then he died and he blamed me for that since he was explaining my mistake for me. Besides the mana issue I could not even get next to him to save him with the cogs anyway because of Witch Doctor.
He then proceeds to shit on our Tinker for going Dagon I think, while he is 9-1 or something. And while DK has a decent score of 10-3. Says the win was only because he played and keeps saying that the rest of the team is shit, especially Tinker.
We still had a Medusa who was farmed and like 5-1, so if we wouldn't have won within 30 minutes or so she would have definitely crushed the team.
I guess he wasn't that salty. But fuck he had a huge ego.
I do remember a very salty guy now though. I was Sniper for the compendium. And I kept harassing a Timbersaw in the lane. He killed me eventually.
Him: "nerd"
uh, wtf, ok.
I kill him, so of course I respond with "nerd".
"omg you fucking noob sniper picker"
"Dude, it is just for the compendium, relax"
He then proceeded to keep diving me even when I was with my team, and then blamed the rest of the team for not following up while he only had eyes for me. When I had shadow blade he went:
"Lol, nice item build, shadow blade pick"
He dived me dusted me and killed me.
"Lol see, shadow blade is useless"
While I kept building items he kept calling them trash and feeding me. Everytime someone makes a small mistake in our team, or wastes a dust or something he points it out and laughs about it. He keeps feeding by trying to initiate on me. lol those items, lol those teams, you fucking noob sniper picker you can't play a decent hero, lol that shadow blade, nice arrow Mirana etc.
Then he goes "add me for 1 v 1 then". I am pretty sure I could have won that but I was wondering why he didn't add me himself anyway and couldn't be bothered to play a match with him. There is always the possibility to lose.
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Nirvana
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Man that must have felt good.
i think he's just rly bad at the game.
Prophet Steve
Member
It was even better when I clicked on his profile and I saw he had a bit of a losing streak.
Anuxinamoon
Shaper Divine
a lot of good Chinese teams?
new patch and focusing on ti4 also?
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