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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana

Kade

Member
Hylian keeps getting free advice and half the thread is watching his stream and replays. Give me the Hylian treatment. I want to be good.
 

yarden24

Member
I won't volunteer his services because he watched Hylian's replay for shits and giggles, but I can probably help. Pick a few games where you felt really confused as to why you lost, preferably one without obvious throwers on your team, and I'll try to look it over in a timely manner.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/833479112 -phantom lancer

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/828302161 -morph

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/830172639 -kunkka

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/835148584- warlock (note that i felt i played terrible in this game, kinda went around like a headless chicken, so it might not be the best replay)

though, I wouldn't say im confused with any of the games per say, i know i did lots wrong in all of them, but i dont have that many losses in the last 8 days, and replays expire, if you look at the list of games and see any game that looks more interesting, please feel free to look at them.



I just looked at dotabuff in the first time in a while, and some I see they added some new stats.

first i have a 57% winrate in all random, which actually makes a lot of sense, considering i usually random when playing all pick, so it makes it seems im decent at a better range of heroes then most, which im happy about.

secondly I have an even more impressive winrate of 58% in USE! this is interesting, since my winrate in EUW is 49.75%, and its where i usually play, moreover i get 200-250 ping in USE, at one point after losing lots of mmr I switched server and started playing there and did think I was winning more, helped me gain some mmr back, guess it wasn't my imagination, and i actually do better there even with the ping disadvantage.

if its because the players against me are worse or the play style is different i do not know though.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Also I'm going to guess AB is the same person that commentated in the Shadow Shaman game a long time ago?

No, that one was me.
you guys and your weird 1/1/3 notation, what does that even mean

is that 3 in overload or pull?

I forgot you use legacy keys you fucking nerd.

Q/W/E
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/833479112 -phantom lancer
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/828302161 -morph
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/830172639 -kunkka
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/835148584- warlock (note that i felt i played terrible in this game, kinda went around like a headless chicken, so it might not be the best replay)
Alright, I'll pick one and go over it sometime when I'm bored.
 

Mordeccai

Member
Today I am going to play Ogre Magi. I woke up feeling the need for multicasts.

What are your favorite builds? I tend to go soul ring / tranqs in a lane where I want to punish squishies/bads in lane, and Arcanes/Force/Eul's in a lane where my magic nukes wont do all that much and need to focus on rotations.
 

Aselith

Member
So for storm, when do you go 1/1/3 vs 1/3/1 etc? I typically just go 1/3/1 but I like the damage potential with 1/1/3...

Personally I would go 1/3/1 vs a tanky team since I be relying more on ganks with my teammates and 1/1/3 vs teams with a fair amount of squishies so I'll be doing more solo killing. However i don't play Storm much so I may be way off base.
 

sixghost

Member
So for storm, when do you go 1/1/3 vs 1/3/1 etc? I typically just go 1/3/1 but I like the damage potential with 1/1/3...

I don't play storm but I'd imagine you favor pull over overload when you need more lockdown to gank, and vice versa when you need more damage to dominate a lane or your team has a ton of lockdown already.
 
Just played my first game as a roaming support (venge). Went pretty well, 2/3 of our ganks on mid failed but the third one was a double kill, and it felt fun in general making stuff happen.
 

G.ZZZ

Member
Today i've lost 274 points. On the road to losing 300. Last lost game i got TEN kills on their trilane safelane with huskar in the first TEN MINUTES, and our mid and our safe STILL LOST ME THE GAME. Jesus.

EDIT: SW pick, go mid, dies 3 times first 10 minutes to sf mid. I left. This is just impossible.
 

Hazaro

relies on auto-aim
Today i've lost 274 points. On the road to losing 300. Last lost game i got TEN kills on their trilane safelane with huskar in the first TEN MINUTES, and our mid and our safe STILL LOST ME THE GAME. Jesus.
Have you lost like 700 points or something? Are you at 3k yet?
Is MMR determined entirely by win rates, rather than personal performance?
Before or after calibration?

Before not sure.

After you get an MMR it is WR only, but some matches can be worth more or less based on whether it thinks you will win or not.
 

Ultrabum

Member
Today i've lost 274 points. On the road to losing 300. Last lost game i got TEN kills on their trilane safelane with huskar in the first TEN MINUTES, and our mid and our safe STILL LOST ME THE GAME. Jesus.

Come play with me and Steve and work on your all random mmr.
 

Zeth

Member
Aui stream woo

Featuring Pyrion and ActionSlacks.

Aui 25-1 on Visage
happytears.gif
 

yarden24

Member
Today i've lost 274 points. On the road to losing 300. Last lost game i got TEN kills on their trilane safelane with huskar in the first TEN MINUTES, and our mid and our safe STILL LOST ME THE GAME. Jesus.

So do you want me on your giant bomb team or what
 

xanavi

Member
AB sounds a lot like me when I analyze my friend's replays except there's a lot more laughing at the dumb shit he does with me. He just likes to whine though; I don't think he actually tries to apply anything for more than 2-3 games afterwards.
 

Raytow

Member
To the inhouse guys, gg, got disconnected from the doto network, was kinda of fun would have been better without the lag spikes from hell.
 

yarden24

Member
Sure pratice ur mid and tell me what u rather play. Keep in mind you'll probably whine about my picks but you have to take it for the team and feed.

Give me 4-5 mids you think you will want and I'll practice them, when does the tournament start?
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Rush aghs? I like to get at least some form of mana regen, otherwise unrefined fireblast doesnt see as much use from me. .

I like to go Arcanes on him, mostly because Arcanes helps your team a lot.

Also with Unrefined, you don't need any kind of mana regen. The whole point is to dump your mana as fast as possible and then start spamming free Unrefineds. It's a very high pace all-in Ogre build, which is my preferred way to play him these days.
 

Acinixys

Member
Wait why is there an update at the same time as yesterday stop

Dota TV Tickets

Excellent Moscow Cup Season 2 readded to the store. Comes with the Red Dragon Set for Brewmaster.

Others

Tag fix to the Hookblade of Skadi Slark Weapon which previous still read Eye of Skadi.
Tag fix to the EG Hud where it read "genuis" instead of "genius"

Its..

Nothing
 

inkls

Member
unrefined fireblast is based % of current mana btw so you can still cast regardless of how much mana you have (ex: 10 mana)
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Sooo, wait, why didn't you just reveal yourself back then if you just did it now?

u wot m8

The SS analysis was from me. I never claimed otherwise.

Me and A.B. were talking about your play (and players in general) and he got curious enough to look at the replay you posted in this thread.

Then he liveblogged his reactions to me and I compiled it and put it here.
 
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