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Dota 2 |OT5| TECHIES!!!
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Half damage to heroes, full damage to creeps on March or vice-versa. Same with Batrider. Makes him less of a pushing and defending menace early to mid game.
Using my usual 2/1/2 build, this is what he has at level 5:
Boulder Smash Level 2:
Mana Cost: 100
Range: 2000
Radius: 200
Damage: 125
Stun: 1.25 seconds
Rolling Boulder Level 1:
Mana Cost; 50
Range: 1600
Radius: 150
Damage: 135
Slow: 80% MS/AS for 2 seconds
Geomagnetic Grip Level 2:
Mana Cost: 75
Range: 1100
Radius: 180
Silence Duration: 3
Damage: 150
For 175 mana, you have 1.25 seconds of AoE long distance hard CC, 3 seconds of AoE long distance soft CC, 2 seconds of AoE slow, and 307 magic damage after hero resistance.
This is Brain Sap Level 3:
Mana: 175
Range: 600
Damage: 230 (172 damage after resistance)
Heal: 230
Now, you say, "but Haly, this assumes you hit all your skills!" and, yes, yes it does, and if I can hit all 3 of those skills consistently I can't imagine s4 or Dendi having much difficulty with him. It's true, pro players are better at dodging than pubbies are, but his skills are significantly easier to land than Arrow, or Hook, because they go through units, they're fast, and they're spammable.
But the real magic happens at 6...
http://a.pomf.se/zattxi.webm
Because then he has both Dive and Fire Spirits. At 1, he only has one or the other, so he needs to choose between survivability or farming. At 2, he gets both.
He can farm creeps from 1400 units away, simultaneously fucking with the carries last hits, and the lane equilibrium (because sometimes you push creeps to pull them to you), sniping jungle pulls or killing the jungle on his own. It costs only 80 mana and some HP, and if he's playing defensively it doesn't really matter that he uses up his own HP, because he can just eat a tango.
Meanwhile, he has one of the most amazing movement abilities in game, with a DoT, huge range and built in slow, that double as a feint (pretend to dive far but come back to where they were originally). He can also shoot off Fire Spirits while diving, for that extra bit of security. Unless he fucks up, or gets ganked by mid, he is nigh unkillable while being able to farm from wherever you're zoning him to.
Sigismundo
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I should have seen this coming.
Dreams-Visions
Member
mistakes were made.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
You will all be paid back in kind.
Oh so Hylian is a fraud?
Well he's on the #roadto4k again so he's legit now.
But for a few glorious weeks he was fraudulent as all hell.
CornBurrito
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So like, do people like Haly and Hylian practice this game in their spare time? Or do you guys just get good from playing the game regularly for so long?
I can't wait for zet, looks like an awesome carry. Interested to see double midas' with his ult amongst other things.
Best hero in doto for that time
Dreams-Visions
Member
I am ashamed.
I just spent 80 minutes in my second game as Tinker, he's kinda fun but playing him feels like playing a turn based rpg. You learn the required moves and you rinse and repeat to victory or in my case defeat. I didn't even get to have cool cutscenes or date anyone !
Even if I think he makes pro games pretty boring I'll probably play him myself from time to time just because he's rather unique.
Even if I think he makes pro games pretty boring I'll probably play him myself from time to time just because he's rather unique.
When you throw Sheepstick into the mix it gets fun though. It's all about making those decisions during that. "Can I get a laser off before this sheep ends and before I have to rearm and sheep again?"
I bought one and used it like 3 times
I suppose that's better than the forcestaff I used never. The more items I have to fiddle with the more I make mistakes or forget one. I suppose in a way playing Tinker forces me to learn to use items I normally can't afford or just skip on heroes I play regularly.
I bought one and used it like 3 times
I suppose that's better than the forcestaff I used never. The more items I have to fiddle with the more I make mistakes or forget one. I suppose in a way playing Tinker forces me to learn to use items I normally can't afford or just skip on heroes I play regularly.
It's something that you need to practice. Try to make sure that his key items are on the same hotkey each game and you'll get the hang of it. After a while it's 2nd nature.
evilpigking
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So tempted to sell mine =/ but I feel as the game gets more and more players the value will just keep rising. and what would I do with 100 steam bucks
shira
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Blink, Force Staff, Veil, Shivas, Hex
Dagon
PillowKnight
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I'm on the same boat, it's pretty tempting at 100$.
SteveWinwood
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ardm is the future
shira
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Jex
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I'm grateful that Phoenix is never picked in 99% of my cooper-tier games because whenever that creature appears he's a real terror that literally destroys every team fight you try to have. You think the random pub players you've been matched with are poorly organised now, just wait till you see them to try to deal with a Phoenix.
Daytona? Geez, why couldn't it be like Miami.
Got that Legendary Kotl staff for $1.75. Simply great.
Traders are crying though, and this may be why immortal items are going up in price (Since traders are looking for safe "investments")
Green Biker Dude
Banned
invoker picker: me mid
pudge picker: me offlane
*hover the cursor over doom
invoker picker: doom jungle would be great awesome i gib commend
-- 7 min into the game --
invoker: the enemy carry is freefarming. we fukken lost
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pudge picker: me offlane
*hover the cursor over doom
invoker picker: doom jungle would be great awesome i gib commend
-- 7 min into the game --
invoker: the enemy carry is freefarming. we fukken lost
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shira
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Free steam bucks for yankees only
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SteveWinwood
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can confirm have already gotten 12 bucks
Krauser Kat
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fuck ursa and his stupid fury swipes. VS a PA he will keep using max attack speed until he lands 4 hits.
I had no idea it worked this way. I assumed it just counted hitting them, whether it missed or not.
http://a.pomf.se/iioogj.webm
However you aren't stacking Fury Swipes on them if you are missing either. Still ridiculous that you can't whiff the attacks from Overpower if you're missing.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/734740183
On my smurf and I took captain, pink(the clinkz) talked shit about how I was a TBD in ranked taking captain, ended up they were around 3.6k according to him.
He ends up being worst player on team and many laffs were had.
get rekt.
edit: SUCH IS MY LIFE I ENDED UP ON HIS TEAM AGAIN.
On my smurf and I took captain, pink(the clinkz) talked shit about how I was a TBD in ranked taking captain, ended up they were around 3.6k according to him.
He ends up being worst player on team and many laffs were had.
get rekt.
edit: SUCH IS MY LIFE I ENDED UP ON HIS TEAM AGAIN.
Fuuuuu can't I try as an euro, even if end paying 1 euro or 2 for the mms?
At level 2, he wins the lane. At level 3, he becomes impossible to kill. Atl level 6, its a trippe kill on trilanes. He just shits out damage early on and has a reliable escape.
Edit: Had the most frustraring game last night. Wrecked shit with brewmaster, ganked everyone, created 30 mins of fpsace, and yet none of our cores farmed anything substantial.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Using Bounty Hunter for the first time
Doing okay with a teammate on top lane, 2 kills 1 death
Team chat message comes up
'report bounty hunter'
No advice, no clue as to what I'm doing wrong, not feeding
'report bounty hunter'
Fuck off.
I have no problem with being told what I'm doing wrong or even abused if I keep doing it and end up feeding. That pissed me off though. How can I tell if I was actually reported?
Doing okay with a teammate on top lane, 2 kills 1 death
Team chat message comes up
'report bounty hunter'
No advice, no clue as to what I'm doing wrong, not feeding
'report bounty hunter'
Fuck off.
I have no problem with being told what I'm doing wrong or even abused if I keep doing it and end up feeding. That pissed me off though. How can I tell if I was actually reported?
Wok
Member
Who cares if you are reported? It takes a lot more reports to go to low-priority.
Just mute people like that immediately, the chances that they will offer useful advice later on are incredibly slim.
A few reports mean nothing.
I dare to say that those requesting reports are usually out of reports anyway because they report everyone for something that isn't even report-worthy. "Killsteal" during a teamfight -> report; dare to get a single creep kill that he wouldn't have gotten anyway -> report, ... .
Some are just bitter, you need to get used to this when playing Dota.
So just mute them and have fun playing the game, if you start taking this stuff seriously you won't enjoy this game for long.
You can't. It doesn't matter though if you aren't doing anything reportable. And even if you were, you had to do it lots of time.
I trash talk every once in a while and get reported but I never went to LPQ (3000+ matches).
I'll tell you what guys, I'm more hype for TI4 than I've been for pretty much anything in the last decade but if it gets to a point where it's just Chinese teams left I am checking right the fuck out of the entire event.
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