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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
- Thread starter Teknopathetic
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If that were an actual team (i.e. full time, not just for I-league) it would be seriously scary.
manfestival
Member
bulba? weakest link easily
My abilities are mapped to C, Y, K, A, and items on R, E, P, O, R, T.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Need to repost this every thread:
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Overwhelming Odds is her strongest spell. Amazing that people still jungle LC. Shes one of the strongest laners at lvl 1
Imp the Dimp
Member
Didn't put a single point in her E until I had the other 2 maxed. Jungle LC is so slow and useless, by the time you come out of the jungle (roughly 10-11 mins) with brown boots and Blink Dagger, your T1s are gone. So bad.
LC is a hero I immediately dread when a teammate picks her. Bads love to jungle and blame everyone else when the game doesn't just wait for them.
Imp the Dimp
Member
I play mid quite a bit and I was shocked at how good LC was in a solo 1v1 scenario. In fact, I was shocked to the point where I can totally see why she's not in CM actually.
She's only good against other melee mids and players who doens't know how his Q works. IMO.
How have you built her? Bottle, brown boots, blink ---> gank the sidelanes?
Imp the Dimp
Member
Exactly.
LC has little trouble winning/surviving the lane, it's being relevant afterwards that's a challenge for her, since she needs time to build up Blink, and then more time to build up stacks of Duels. Until she gets enough farm/stacks to explode people on her own, she's a glorified Doom/Bane. While not the worst thing in the world, being a gimmick mid isn't enough these days.
Oh, and she'd probably lose to Razor straight up, so that'll hurt her chances in CM barring any Razor nerfs.
Oh, and she'd probably lose to Razor straight up, so that'll hurt her chances in CM barring any Razor nerfs.
manfestival
Member
I would take him over Era.
At the same time, in the trench, the game often does wait for them and the enemy team tends to completely forget about LC, so she gets a fast level 6 and then can easily farm a Blink.
I'd say it's just a unique way of farming. She's still a carry, with devastating late game at that, so the fact that she has to be careful and has less impact early isn't too much of a problem for me. Pick a safe lane hero that makes space and has good mid game control and she works well. Banning Razor would be necessary though most likely yeah. Or make it so she can purge static link.
Rush Bottle at mid and LC can take anyone 1v1. Probably except for OD or someone with a roaming ganker.
Overwhelming Odds is ridiculously good especially with early pushers.
It sucks that when picking LC in pubs:
a. Pick LC early and you'll get countered with a Dazzle
b. Pick LC late and you'll end up without a lane and your dumb teammates will throw you to the jungle.
Solo offlane is doable, but really hard with a ranged support zoning you out.
She can destroy a farmed carry farming with a blink and blademail tho. PA and Void's passive won't work as well.
I honestly don't think she's a good late game carry though, she can blow up anyone easily, but duel is a double edge sword making you also very vulnerable. I'm more comfortable with a carry on my side.
Anyway, a few more kills and duel wins and my Voth Blades will be at 600 duel wins and 3000 kills over 85 LC games.
Overwhelming Odds is ridiculously good especially with early pushers.
It sucks that when picking LC in pubs:
a. Pick LC early and you'll get countered with a Dazzle
b. Pick LC late and you'll end up without a lane and your dumb teammates will throw you to the jungle.
Solo offlane is doable, but really hard with a ranged support zoning you out.
She can destroy a farmed carry farming with a blink and blademail tho. PA and Void's passive won't work as well.
I honestly don't think she's a good late game carry though, she can blow up anyone easily, but duel is a double edge sword making you also very vulnerable. I'm more comfortable with a carry on my side.
Anyway, a few more kills and duel wins and my Voth Blades will be at 600 duel wins and 3000 kills over 85 LC games.
Haunted
Member
Only if your illusions are strong enough to kill the creeps, yes. And if you can't find farm elsewhere.
Did you have any troubles simple getting a lua script to execute? I'm trying to do something like this here (https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dota_2_Workshop_Tools/Scripting/Abilities_Scripted) except with a simple message printed to console to indicate success, but I can't even manage that atm.
No problems there. I call the script function, apply the flying modifier while the hero is near trees and remove the modifier once the duration is over or the hero leaves the vicinity of the trees.
The script doesn't execute at all for you? What baseclass are you using? If you use an existing ability as base you can't apply any other modifiers or run scripts. You have to use the default ability_datadriven class as base to get it to run your scripts.
Viper much worse tbh. You can outrun razor easily most times mid but viper so annoying since he outcs you AND counter your nuke to an extent. The nuke-> run at him strat don't work against him since he slow you zzz.
Oof, did not know that. Switching to item_datadriven breaks the charge functionality, so I guess I'll have to recreate that without a handy flag. Verymuchthanksyou.
e: Script runs now, thanks Nymerio. Embarrassed in myself
Purge it :3
And Viper is very weak to nuking harass in the early game, whatever Corrosive Skin might lead you to believe.
Can't purge link
Oof, did not know that. Switching to item_datadriven breaks the charge functionality, so I guess I'll have to recreate that without a handy flag. Verymuchthanksyou.
e: Script runs now, thanks Nymerio. Embarrassed in myself
eh, took me while to figure this out as well. Scripting documentation is a bit lacking at the moment.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Anyone has had a 0 bytes update for days?
Yes, and I really don't want to move to the steam beta client just to make it go away.
Then you a fool: Steam beta client is both prettier and faster!
Go to Library, click Pause then Resume on the dota 2 updater.
Sounds like someone's been feeding you lies. I'm using it right now, I'd have seen it running slower and buggier.
Seconded. Beta client works wonderfully.
Also streaming Dota and maybe some Street fighter later?
http://www.twitch.tv/quesawhatthough
SteveWinwood
Member
You heard wrong.
You should purge this liar from your life.
Possibly hurt them, physically and emotionally, along with their family and friends.
It's never been slower for me, but I finally opted out for good a few months back when I could not start any game without Steam crashing.
Windows 7. Runs like butter.
manfestival
Member
steam beta client isnt exactly fast but it manages to hide all of the extra loading pretty well. It shows all of the necessary things right away and the other features load a little slow but you wouldnt be able to tell unless you immediately go to them upon the first cold boot up of the program
I'm practicing backswing cancelling, though I know there's disagreement over how important it is. I find it makes a huge difference especially chasing early game. Any heroes that it's more important for than others?
I'm talking about what some people call orb walking but has nothing to do with orb effects and applies to every hero's animation after the cast/attack point that is cancelled by issuing a move command.
This is exactly the experience I had. It took a force quit and then 5 minutes just to get through the menus to opt out. Windows 7 64 here.
I'm talking about what some people call orb walking but has nothing to do with orb effects and applies to every hero's animation after the cast/attack point that is cancelled by issuing a move command.
This is exactly the experience I had. It took a force quit and then 5 minutes just to get through the menus to opt out. Windows 7 64 here.
That's bizarre as hell. Opening something image-dense like the activity feed seems noticeably quicker on my end.
SneakyStephan
Banned
LC picks in pubs is an auto loss unless you are just going to win 4v5
Seeing one building a shadowblade is extra painful
The only successful LC picks I've seen were the ones that show up for teamfights, use their W as a dispel/heal abadon style from a distance then at the end of the teamfight collect their free damage stack with their ult on a low hp enemy
the ones that blink/shadowblade in and try to kill people just always fail
Seeing one building a shadowblade is extra painful
The only successful LC picks I've seen were the ones that show up for teamfights, use their W as a dispel/heal abadon style from a distance then at the end of the teamfight collect their free damage stack with their ult on a low hp enemy
the ones that blink/shadowblade in and try to kill people just always fail
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
but does metro skin work on the beta? I absolutely despise the standard steam ui.
Yes, not sure if there is a newer version but my version of the skin is fine apart from a few visual bugs.