JakOfTheShadows
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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
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JakkuFurosu
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Cyborgmatt
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Fucking long arse game.
JakOfTheShadows
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70min game where 50 mins was Naga farming.
If only the stream camera was on you guys killing heroes.
Dat Morph who doesn't save a replicate at the end tho. lol
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/826445570
I don't usually play Doom, but this went well. Suggestions on the build?
I don't usually play Doom, but this went well. Suggestions on the build?
Reading all this talk for helping new players makes me want to make a new image of hero difficulties. The info in the OP is missing a lot of heroes, and most new players won't necessarily get the joke about Meepo.
I know I've seen images floating around like this, but most of them are old and out of date. This would be more of a "how hard is this hero mechanically" rather than "who is ez win".
I know I've seen images floating around like this, but most of them are old and out of date. This would be more of a "how hard is this hero mechanically" rather than "who is ez win".
so meepo is basically two visages fused together, right?
I'm uuuuusually a position 3 or 4, but I've been trying out more farm intensive carry positions as well. I'm liking Doom/Sven/Wraith King type carries because they can offer some utility and build utility items well if I'm having a particularly bad game.
Lately our big problem is getting too passive with our early game leads and giving their late game carries tons of space to farm up all their items. Most of my recent losses we've still had great laning phases, but just didn't end the game or gank people off afk farming enough.
I actually watched that game, it was tense! Though if sing was a good naga player that would have ended way way earlier
NotoriousPUG
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I just can't seem to win constantly with Earth Spirit in any role. Whether I go mid, offlane, or safe lane support I'll have an awesome early to mid game and then completely fall off a cliff and probably be the reason we lose the game. I just can't play this hero late.
Ok here's something that's been bugging for a while: in what order are your friends listed in the Friends segment of the client in your library where it says "You have X Friends playing Dota 2 right now!" and in the other list? It's not alphabetical and I don't think it's by who came online first.
blink > shadowblade
you can go full doom doom by going shiva > aghs/refresher > refresher/aghs if the enemy team has tanky heroes or multiple doom targets.
Aura doom is also good.
edit: nice xpm
manfestival
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just played nosgoth and its more p2w than this game
I like offlane the best now, as you can conserve rocks and mana, go soul ring, and be able to be somewhat aggressive. Sometimes you just gotta initiate with kick rock > pull it back > roll in > ulti while your team helps you do work. I usually buy the mek 90% of the time as I can get it sooner than the supports. Blademail and BKB are great. It sounds like you are on/against are just "on the clock" and don't end soon enough. With good ultis, you can wreck the hell out of team fights. Remember, it's okay to only get one person with the initial ulti cast, use carefully placed rocks for the rest.
JakOfTheShadows
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Haha! Tobi's banners/base icon in Sing's stream. I bet Dreams is jealous.
Take lots of regen
Play a hero with spam-able spells
Tell supports to rotate to gank
Dont die
If ur viper buy 16 tangos
I didn't notice the xpm, hah!
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/826554030
Team is heavy.
Void had a trilane top with Lion and ES against solo WK
I was offlane Tide against Shaman, Bane and Lycan.
I juked first blood and all that shit but they just went shit.
Team is heavy.
Void had a trilane top with Lion and ES against solo WK
I was offlane Tide against Shaman, Bane and Lycan.
I juked first blood and all that shit but they just went shit.
NotoriousPUG
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What else do you build on him normally? I know it's situational, but just as a general idea.
Pretty much everything on him is situational. Here are items I have built though.
Soul Ring
Bottle
Arcane Boots
Mek
Pipe
Sheep
Shiva's
Blademail
Force Staff
Veil
Blink (very rare but can be awesome)
Those are just off the top of my head, but there are probably more.
If ur viper max corrosive skin.
Strange bug going on the recording of ES and Lion's skills there.
Gotta love that he went Midas Recipe, Mask and then Midas...
Just had a game where Mirana went stun first instead of leap when she was solo offlane. She died to a DD Weaver and blamed the team.... Okaaaaaay. Then she just sat AFK in fountain for 3 min while we started wrecking early game, then all of a sudden she decided to not be AFK and started just being terrible. We won 4vs5 though because of me and Razor.
I think the trick is to get out of range of his Curse once he drops Last Word on you. You end up taking a ton of damage if you use a spell right away, because you're silenced for 3 or 4 seconds and the curse eats away at you.
neurosisxeno
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I had a Luna on my team that didn't get Lucent Beam until level 9. Went for both passives through level 8.
At least she didn't get he ult at 6.
Sounds like a HoN player trying to adapt a HoN build into a Dota one.
manfestival
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its always heartbreaking when your team throws for no reason
Was it the Lycan?
oh wow a party member chose LC
legit jungle build
It was the Slark, who mistakenly thought Slark was a farming carry.
Around 15 minutes in, I notice he's doing nothing. I bring it up, he tells me he needs Shadowblade to be "relevant".
30 minutes of farming later, he still irrelevant.
He had me muted, so I needed to resort to creative measures to tell him to get BKB. First, I drew on the map to get his attention, and then I spammed "I will purchase BKB" to hopefully convey the point. It seems like I succeeded, not that it mattered, because Disraptor got Aghs and rendered all our items useless.
In this game Nyx and Mirana went bot and Huskar and SWM went mid.
After WR kept pooping on me in lane Nyx rotated top hit 6 super late and then I didn't Chrono a kill and missed the next one and he gave up on me. Nyx was on tilt since he lost 200 MMR today
We won anyway since we ganked so well and the other team was dumb.
2-0 #roadto4k
After WR kept pooping on me in lane Nyx rotated top hit 6 super late and then I didn't Chrono a kill and missed the next one and he gave up on me. Nyx was on tilt since he lost 200 MMR today
We won anyway since we ganked so well and the other team was dumb.
2-0 #roadto4k
Welp, the tool to download Twitch VODs to bypass the muting no longer works, nor does viewing archives thru Livestreamer, so I guess I will never get to watch another Bulldog stream for the rest of my life. That makes me sad. Now pardon me while I go commit sudoku.
Taco_Human
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Pudge wars now available? I'm subbing now.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=296831818
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=296831818
Pudge wars was available for a while now. Just had to use that modding site to join servers from. Was janky as fuck though. Hope this one doesn't suck.