SteveWinwood
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Dota 2 |OT5| TECHIES!!!
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Marauder Shields
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Was there anyone else on Luna's team that also had a Linkens? Could have been a misdirect.
nah, not in this case.
Zero-Crescent
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Amazing how quickly the eHug vs. NAR match turned from a fairly close match to a curbstomp. This Revenge vs. BANEarth match is getting pretty close.
EDIT: Not anymore.
EDIT: Not anymore.
Gentle Rodriguez
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In the first day of the TI4 qualifiers Mirana got picked 23 times in 28 matches and has a 74% winrate. She got banned twice.
From Reddit.
From Reddit.
http://dotametrics.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/encyclopedia-pudge-and-the-case-of-the-strangely-surging-win-rate/
This article on Pudge's winrate shift is interesting. Does anyone here have any ideas what caused such a huge jump up?
This article on Pudge's winrate shift is interesting. Does anyone here have any ideas what caused such a huge jump up?
fucking mirana pickers
Didn't his popularity also take a small dive when 6.81 first released? Might explain it, as the less awful people playing a skill-shot based hero, the higher the winrate. See tusk for the complete opposite effect.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Aside from the fact that all of Mirana's spells are really useful, she can literally play every position and can thus be picked early on without giving away any information about the rest of your draft which means that the team picking her has an advantage in the drafting stage.
Apparently the winrate is higher now than in 6.80. And his usage rate has stayed steady according to the article, so probably not that.
Edit: Again, the article mentions the item thing. He says it is the most plausible theory, but the jump is huge. That would only explain part of it.
manfestival
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mirana is such cancer
That would be pretty amazing if true.
We're getting close to the best stretch goal. (Music pack.)
Captain Fish
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I can't even be mad at Mirana, because although her skills are great she's got bad hp, mana, stats and damage, and her stun is a skill shot (and nuke too).
I really want the base customization, I think it could be really cool.
Technosteve
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Everyone wants to be Sing Sing
shira
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There is another
Oh I thought Union was out already.
manfestival
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I was invited to a peruvian restaurant for dinner tonight.... I am not so interested in attending
thank you dota 2
thank you dota 2
Green Biker Dude
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"mirana is balanced. it only works in the trench where people don't know how to control their camera and don't buy detection"
"git gud and ward her jungle"
"git gud and ward her jungle"
Zero-Crescent
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Looks like they may have got back in when Top5 lost to Isurus. The UG/SNA match will be interesting to watch
This would be true if all the evidence didn't point to the contrary (highest win rate among all heroes in competitive dota in april, fills every single role on a team, every spell is useful, great escape, multiple nukes, team fight/gank ultimate). I saw an interesting take on why WR has taken such a dive - why would you ever pick her if you could pick Mirana?
Oh I'm dumb you were being sarcastic. whatevs
Dota is such a great game, I still remember back one or two years ago where people were saying the exact opposite, "Why would you ever pick Mirana when WR does everything better?"
"Wraith king will never be a competitive hero. Doesn't matter what buffs he gets cuz mana burn."
"Dark seer and Lone Druid are conceptually broken heroes, will never be balanced."
"Batrider is the worst hero in the game now, didn't deserve so many harsh nerfs."
So many gems.
It's GBD, he only come here to post balance complains.
Did someone really say this?
Or call people out on stuff.
;_;
cuevas. PhD.
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i dont recognize aysee in street clothes
Remember when everyone used to say Gyrocopter, Timbersaw, Wraith (Skeleton) King, and Weaver were just "shitty pub heroes"?
Many people were saying this back in early beta and around TI2 when WR was popular and Mirana wasn't.
This would be hilarious.
Don't think anyone has ever said that about Weaver.
shes my favorite hero. icefrog needs to throw her a bone
Maybe not calling him a "pub" hero, but I remember the era when he was considered bad and people were throwing around buff ideas for him. I remember someone suggesting that the Germinate hit should attach a Swarm bug to the target.
I remember that week or two when Rubick wasn't seen as competitively viable. Was shortly after he made it into Dota 2, iirc.
Ooh yeah, I remember that suggestion (was it mine?). Would be hilariously broken now that he's fashionable again.
To be fair it was pretty funny. He sits next to Jess and is instantly asked if she smells. And this was the first time he had met her lol. He doesn't have Sing's easy confidence and charisma, but alas, who does.
Aghs modifier. 10x crit damage and 50% crit chance.
Relativistically-young Donald Sutherland.\
Who's this guy on GD lounge stream?
Ha, probably right, I am pretty bad at predicting the relative strength of any heroes. Mirana just strikes me as a very strong hero right now, I don't want to see her nerfed cuz she is fun to play but I want my favorite hero WR to get a more useful ult.
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