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[Gentle Rodriguez]

...money? Somehow the very very faint wind of someone wanting some adult swim cartoon announcer pack reached his ears and now he wants in, though I love the whole "I'll have reddit do everything for me. I'll just record it and then this enthusiast part of a website will get into the video game I want". How fucking hard was it to go to www.valvesoftware.com or even to google the damn thing.

He said he wanted people to be able to mod it in, he seemed clueless that announcers go in the store and get a percentage of sale profit. His motivations are unclear, but your immediate conclusion that the guy is a Saturday morning cartoon villain is a bit presumptuous.

Maybe he just had a lot of requests for it.

 

[Haly]

r ewe talking shit about rick and morty m8

i'll fooking sock you in the gabba ah'll sware on me mam

 

[Quesa]

bounty games did not go well

http://dotabuff.com/matches/718357457
http://dotabuff.com/matches/718010764

He's pretty good at offlaning, which I like since that's kind of my favorite role right now, but he's basically like riki in that five-man and detection make him pretty hard to play well. Oh well.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

The character voting stuff ends in about 46 hours, I guess we should get some sort of patch Monday, maybe even Sunday.

Why would they make a countdown end on a weekend?

 

[Shinypogs]

Phoenix is weird and also needs more varied voice lines. Still, I think I want to play them as part of my 3-5 hero rotation I use for getting better at the game. Maybe swap cm out for them.

 

[Booty Patrol]

http://dotabuff.com/matches/718409777

what a SHIT match

we won, but it was such a fucking struggle until we got our shit together.

 

[Quesa]

http://dotabuff.com/matches/718409777

what a SHIT match

we won, but it was such a fucking struggle until we got our shit together.

oh shit satch is back

 

[Satch]

oh shit satch is back

my game was busted (again) with the same thing as before but it fixed itself somehow so whatever

 

[yarden24]

ok all of dota gaf, im gonna try and start an inhouse game here!

chances are pretty slim here, but i thought i'd try anyway.
everyone's invited to join up, and hopefully we will have 10 folks at some point =)
we can invite people from the giantbomb channel later if we dont have enough!

password: gaf


go go go!

 

[Sigismundo]

How come Dotabuff still fucks up with match parsing (like counting games that aren't supposed to be counted) when Dotamax works fine? They've had plenty of time to fix that.

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

Could I get some advice on dealing with an enemy Wraith King? He's by far the hero I've had the most trouble playing against so far, especially if he gets a good start. I don't know how to deal with him in teamfights at all; either you communicate to focus him down first which gives his teammates a huge window to attack freely, or you communicate to not bother attacking him at all, which means he gets to go ham with armlet and crit boosted autoattack damage.

He simply lives through so much abuse between his strength, lifesteal, armlet toggling and on top of that reincarnation that it feels like a waste of time to engage him, but he also does so much damage you can't ignore him. Do we need to counterpick heroes with long disables (Bane, Shadow Shaman, Lion) so we can focus on his teammates first? Do we need to avoid teamfights altogether and splitpush?

 

[Falk]

Kite as much as possible and force staff his stun targets.

Ever since the ranged lifesteal aura change he's become that much of a 'screwed if you do, screwed if you don't' hero to deal with and can function in teamfights even without that many items, but as far as his own personal dps output goes shut him down early and he doesn't balloon up nearly as fast as an antimage or naga for example.

 

[Ketch]

Could I get some advice on dealing with an enemy Wraith King? He's by far the hero I've had the most trouble playing against so far, especially if he gets a good start. I don't know how to deal with him in teamfights at all; either you communicate to focus him down first which gives his teammates a huge window to attack freely, or you communicate to not bother attacking him at all, which means he gets to go ham with armlet and crit boosted autoattack damage.

He simply lives through so much abuse between his strength, lifesteal, armlet toggling and on top of that reincarnation that it feels like a waste of time to engage him, but he also does so much damage you can't ignore him. Do we need to counterpick heroes with long disables (Bane, Shadow Shaman, Lion) so we can focus on his teammates first? Do we need to avoid teamfights altogether and splitpush?

You need to drain his mana. So lion , invoker emp, anti Mage, or your carry goes diffusal blade.

You can also try to chain disable but then kill his team instead. Maybe pick up a eul's and then a hex on the supports. Reincarnate isn't very good when he's solo. Also, it has an extremely long cool down at lower levels so you can try to only fight when it's down. WK is also easily kited in the early game aswell.

 

[Carlius]

Could I get some advice on dealing with an enemy Wraith King? He's by far the hero I've had the most trouble playing against so far, especially if he gets a good start. I don't know how to deal with him in teamfights at all; either you communicate to focus him down first which gives his teammates a huge window to attack freely, or you communicate to not bother attacking him at all, which means he gets to go ham with armlet and crit boosted autoattack damage.

He simply lives through so much abuse between his strength, lifesteal, armlet toggling and on top of that reincarnation that it feels like a waste of time to engage him, but he also does so much damage you can't ignore him. Do we need to counterpick heroes with long disables (Bane, Shadow Shaman, Lion) so we can focus on his teammates first? Do we need to avoid teamfights altogether and splitpush?

hes so mana dependant its not even funny. u take that out and he cant revive. nyx with mana burn, anti mage, lion....get stuns and silence and he wont do shit

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

Alright, mana drain, kiting and chain disables seem to be the key here. I'll try to get some of that together on my next game against him. Thanks folks!

 

[Nymerio]

Anything above 50ms is unnaceptable.

80 is the lowest I ever get

 

[Falk]

Having a lineup with a bunch of disables will almost always make heroes like WK go for BKB core. You'll still always want a force staff or two.

 

[Drkirby]

130 ms checking in.

 

[shira]

The Korean meepo set is up

http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/570/Dosa

 

[Drkirby]

Already $10. I'm going to pass, I'll never use it.

 

[yarden24]

80 is the lowest I ever get

haha 120ms is the lowest i ever get! beat that!

 

[Kard8p3]

haha 120ms is the lowest i ever get! beat that!

TBH i dont know how u play.

I feel like a retard when i play with anything over 100

 

[rhophiehalul78]

I regularly play on 180ms and it seems fine. 300ms above is unplayable though.

Just completed all the player cards. I lucked out on one user willing to trade IllidanSTR with my YYF 1:1.

 

[Sigismundo]

I went from 260ms (USW) > 160 (SEA) > 30 (AUS). I can sympathise with people that play on high ping.

 

[Wok]

I changed bracket for one match! Unfortunately, Centaur was missing all the teamfights since he preferred pushing the lanes alone and never getting a single barrack. So I could just suicide-kill the ennemy carry with my buffed LC, then the 4-stack was wiped resulting in a bad trade.

Then I have returned to the normal bracket.

 

[yarden24]

TBH i dont know how u play.

I feel like a retard when i play with anything over 100

eh, its not so bad, you get used to it,200 ping is fine a well, once you cross the 300 mark though, it gets rough

 

[poppedcollar69]

How much do I have to pay to get carried to 4k?

 

[LiQuid!]

I don't think this gif will ever be more appropriate than it is for beating my Wisp daily challenge on the first try and then rolling Meepo.

Guys, this is going bad. It's not even my fault. Aside from that terribad 0-16 game I haven't been doing THAT bad. I'm getting some of the worst pubs in these games.

 

[Falk]

Like an idiot I rerolled my 10 Hero Challenge on the first day I got my compendium.

And the reroll had Meepo.

 

[Zeknurn]

Fuck it, if I am as bad as the two 12 deaths by 25 minutes players on my team while I have 3 deaths and as many assists as them, I'm going to pick up glue sniffing and just go full retard.

Oh and we had a two Magic Wands and a Desolator first WK too. He got killed twice in the jungle because he didn't react when they walked past the observer ward. He told me to go play Tetris when I tried to communicate with the thing.


Ah great now I'm stuck in a game where the WR wanted mid but didn't get it and proceeded to try to farm ancient creeps from level 1. He's level 4 10 minutes into the game and has fed 2 kills. Meanwhile I'm stuck solo safelane against a Storm, Lina and a roaming Ember Spirit that's 6-0 mid.

Thank you Valve for no concede. Great idea. Now I'm going to waste another 30 minutes of my life on this shit game.

 

[G.ZZZ]

eh, its not so bad, you get used to it,200 ping is fine a well, once you cross the 300 mark though, it gets rough

Yeah even around 200 is fine but it start to get messy. 150 is perfectly fine u can lasthit without worries and usually after a while u won't notice it. I often rather play on USE on 150 ping (drunk) cause the games are easier there than on EUW on 60 ping (sober).

 

[Carlius]

80 is the lowest I ever get

i play with 160 ms in us east. i could play in brazilians and get 20ms, but not worth it.

 

[Acinixys]

Thank you Valve for no concede. Great idea. Now I'm going to waste another 30 minutes of my life on this shit game.

There is a concede button

Its called ABANDON

 

[Imp the Dimp]

Played for the 1st time in two months and got a rampage in my third game as Sniper. Welp, I'm still pretty good, eh? Went 24-5-9 and bought a Rapier after only one rax being down.

 

[Qvoth]

i'm finally in d2modd (again!)
let's see if this works now

 

[Zeknurn]

There is a concede button

Its called ABANDON

Yes because I want to intentionally make my game quality even worse.


What's the threshold for LPQ anyway. More than one abandon per 24 hours?

i'm finally in d2modd (again!)
let's see if this works now

Unfortunately there's still a high chance of someone not loading. It's great when it works though.


edit: Managed to win a game because their Silencer disconnected and we started wrecking them in team fights. Feels great.
I decided to mute everyone on my team right away because someone was yelling profanities against another player because he was walking toward the "wrong" lane. It was best decision I've made.

 

[Red UFO]

It's a shame that the majority of the time muting my team mates has a positive effect. So much easier to just concentrate, get your job done and have impact.

 

[Qvoth]

damn i forgot how much fun pudge wars is haha, even with 250-300 ping i'm havin fun

 

[G.ZZZ]

I suck and i'm terrible at this game.

 

[Kard8p3]

I suck and i'm terrible at this game.

its ok im sure 109 can carry u one day

 

[Mohasus]

It takes me 5-8 minutes to find a match, so I decided to search all modes. So not worth it.

All random:

Silencer - max glaives and then curse with 1 level in last word.
Templar Assassin - 2-4-2 - skips ult, goes SOUL RING.
QoP - 3-3-2
Dark seer - goes safe lane, keeps pushing with ion shell. Dies to juggernaut at level 2 because he has vacuum and ion shell - no surge. Builds a vanguard and buys 2 ring of regen. At level 10 his skills were 1-4-4-1.

Thanks icefrog.

 

[ElyrionX]

i watched that TI4 trailer like 6 times already today

What trailer?

 

[Falk]

It takes me 5-8 minutes to find a match, so I decided to search all modes. So not worth it.

All random:

Silencer - max glaives and then curse with 1 level in last word.
Templar Assassin - 2-4-2 - skips ult, goes SOUL RING.
QoP - 3-3-2
Dark seer - goes safe lane, keeps pushing with ion shell. Dies to juggernaut at level 2 because he has vacuum and ion shell - no surge. Builds a vanguard and buys 2 ring of regen. At level 10 his skills were 1-4-4-1.

Thanks icefrog.

I take it you hate comedy!

 

[Shorty11857]

http://www.twitch.tv/dreamleague

Dreamleague just went live, EG vs Alliance in 20 minutes

 

[SamVimes]

It's like everyone on eg learned how to walk two days ago and they're still getting the hang of using their arms.

 

[ViviOggi]

dat suit tho

 

[G.ZZZ]

its ok im sure 109 can carry u one day

There's no hope, just tears and gnashing of teeths.

 

[FACE]

Not Tinker

 

[Acinixys]

HyperX must be slowly shoving $1 bills into everyone in [A]'s ass because their name is everywhere

Even on their team Emblem at the top

 

[SamVimes]

"He's not a rapper"