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[SteveWinwood]

whyd you ban am

 

[The Technomancer]

whyd you ban am

They were taking out split push and teamfight heroes, we thought they might be going for a hardcarry AM

 

[SneakyStephan]

http://forum.gamesports.net/dota/sh...e-Prophet-with-Blade-Maill-its-actually-legit

Anyone happen to have a vod of some streamer (bone7 maybe) using this build? I wana see it in action

 

[shira]

Midtier bracket up
Meet up in Neogaf channel @

(1) Razzer vs (2) Messiah
(3) Vamlock vs (4) Liquid!
(5) TUSR vs (6) Jim_west
(7) rhfb vs (8) ZeroX03

 

[TUSR]

im playing some dude who like doesnt post anywhere

 

[Ketch]

im playing some dude who like doesnt post anywhere

that's cus he's too busy playing 1v1 mid dota.

ur fucked.

 

[Sibylus]

There's something about beating a team of racists that's so satisfying

Bo is officially the Queen of Slams.

Anti-Mage tried to drain my mana, but by reverse-armlet toggling right when a ranged attack was about to hit me and popping soul ring I'd still revive.

Spoiler

wraith king is no substitute for doom though

Thank you guys, had a blast! Best ES game I've had in a long while. Reported 'em and muted, and just went to work.

Oh wow, did not know about this. You're the best!

No problemo, comrade

 

[LiQuid!]

http://forum.gamesports.net/dota/sh...e-Prophet-with-Blade-Maill-its-actually-legit

Anyone happen to have a vod of some streamer (bone7 maybe) using this build? I wana see it in action

Here's CWM's Furion VODs

http://dotaflame.com/comewithme/53-Nature

They appear to be heavily muted by Twitch, unfortunately.

Bone7 had no NP VODs with Blade Mail.

 

[inkls]

Here's CWM's Furion VODs

http://dotaflame.com/comewithme/53-Nature

They appear to be heavily muted by Twitch, unfortunately.

Bone7 had no NP VODs with Blade Mail.

maybe on a smurf?

 

[Chris R]

Midtier bracket up
Meet up in Neogaf channel @

(1) Razzer vs (2) Messiah
(3) Vamlock vs (4) Liquid!
(5) TUSR vs (6) Jim_west
(7) rhfb vs (8) ZeroX03

I can't wait to lose horribly!!!

 

[Sibylus]

Strolling down memory lane, reminiscing on slams gone by: http://webmup.com/KV0fk/

... god, that UI was offensive to the eyes.

 

[Mordeccai]

I'm over at my friends house and played a game on his account. His mmr is 1.5k below mine, I picked Viper and went mid.

Holy shit. It was, quite literally, the eziest game of my life.

 

[SteveWinwood]

I'm over at my friends house and played a game on his account. His mmr is 1.5k below mine, I picked Viper and went mid.

Holy shit. It was, quite literally, the eziest game of my life.

did you recognize techno

 

[shira]

For Windows 7 I was able to do this quite easily, within 2 minutes.
Download OnTopReplica
Switch desktop to Aero with black background
Open OTR
select Dota as the window
(Select region), enlarge the map

#gamechanger

 

[TUSR]

is that legal

 

[Aselith]

I'm over at my friends house and played a game on his account. His mmr is 1.5k below mine, I picked Viper and went mid.

Holy shit. It was, quite literally, the eziest game of my life.

Yeah get a bunch of dudes that are far below you in rank and it will skew toward their lower rank and prepare yourself for the pillage!

 

[Haly]

I guess that's one way of raising your map awareness.

 

[Hylian7]

Tonight in "> That just happened." types of games.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/850978529

Somehow our horrible team comp won, featuring an offlane AM and Clockwerk. I had Battle Fury and Treads by 16 minutes somehow! I also splitpushed while my team fought and always forced 1 or 2 to back to give my team space.

This was one of those games where someone in my group called "random party!" and we went with it. Lesh said "WP AM" at the end.

 

[shira]

TECHIES

 

[Hazaro]

Huskar + Tree vs a Tri. So fun.

Tonight in "> That just happened." types of games.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/850978529

Somehow our horrible team comp won, featuring an offlane AM and Clockwerk. I had Battle Fury and Treads by 16 minutes somehow! I also splitpushed while my team fought and always forced 1 or 2 to back to give my team space.

This was one of those games where someone in my group called "random party!" and we went with it. Lesh said "WP AM" at the end.

That's a lot of strong independent space creators who don't need no carry.

Guessing you had room, Troll got Rosh at least once and you trances the shit out of towers.

 

[Hylian7]

Huskar + Tree vs a Tri. So fun.

That's a lot of strong independent space creators who don't need no carry.

Guessing you had room, Troll got Rosh at least once and you trances the shit out of towers.

He didn't until we pretty much wiped the other team and pushed a T2 and didn't have enough time for rax, and we all went. Trancing towers helped so much though.

 

[Goddard]

I just discovered something mildly interesting about myself: I have a 52.19% winrate on radiant, and a 46.98% winrate on Dire out of all the games I have ever played. You can check on Dotabuff.

Anyone else have a similar stat? I just checked my friend who has been playing for a few years: 52.23 radiant, 43.88 dire. another is 50.16 on radiant and 46.38 on dire. A couple of them are roughly equal.

Funny how that is considering the perceived dire advantage with Rosh. Does anyone know why? I heard a theory once about how the trapezoidal camera has the potential to influence win rates but I don't know if that holds up.

 

[Hazaro]

There is no Dire Rosh advantage if people are scared to do it or there aren't wards / smoke coordination.

 

[FtHTiny]

I just discovered something mildly interesting about myself: I have a 52.19% winrate on radiant, and a 46.98% winrate on Dire out of all the games I have ever played. You can check on Dotabuff.

Anyone else have a similar stat? I just checked my friend who has been playing for a few years: 52.23 radiant, 43.88 dire. another is 50.16 on radiant and 46.38 on dire. A couple of them are roughly equal.

Funny how that is considering the perceived dire advantage with Rosh. Does anyone know why? I heard a theory once about how the trapezoidal camera has the potential to influence win rates but I don't know if that holds up.

Dire 1,136 54.14%
Radiant 1,120 52.50%

You need to abuse roshan advantage more.

ofc there is an advantage for dire. One ward over the river and you can never get caught because you can just run out. Also, ursa, lycan and so on have such an easy time doing him early as dire. The supports would have to run over the river into the pit constantly to check while as dire you can combine it with stacking or your mid does it.

 

[Hazaro]

Dire	335
	55.82%

Radiant	252
	53.17%

Huh, well look at that.

 

[1.09]

Dire 1,046
60.04%
Radiant 905
53.48%

its real

 

[Haly]

Dire 120
61.67%
Radiant 163
52.76%

Dire 842
55.46%
Radiant 504
52.18%

So fucking real.

 

[BearPawB]

Dire
421
47.74%


Radiant
288
51.39%

i am doing something wrong!

 

[NBtoaster]

Radiant 53.48%
Dire 47.98%

I blame Dire offlane being harder..

 

[call_kotaku]

I've realized that because the cha-ching sound from last hitting creeps is such a pleasant note, through operant conditioning I've become addicted to farming and prefer it over actually killing enemy heroes.

If killing heroes produced a geyser of gold and trinkets like Diablo bosses I think I'd teamfight more.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Dire, 140, 50.00%
Radiant, 110, 55.45%

Yeah I dunno

 

[Archaix]

56 radiant

45% dire

But I'm terrible at dota, what's your excuse?


Also, people get really pissed if you play dota when you're drunk. It's pretty great.

edit: Even if you carry before and after everybody on your team disconnects because you made the enemy zeus ragequit. Life is unfair.

 

[Wok]

With Dire, you have a better access to Roshan ; your jungle is hard to ward (no magic bush that I know of) ; I would say you can snipe Dire couriers more easily (but people do not try to do this often).
Radiant suffers from the magic bush blocking all the jungle in low-MMR games.

 

[Hazaro]

Alt account:

Dire	33
	57.58%
Radiant	28
	71.43%

Some streamer has this white outline:
How do I do this?

 

[Zoon]

Radiant 935 56.04%
Dire 832 44.95%

Hmm, I blame dire side of map being too dark and spooky.

 

[JakOfTheShadows]

Strolling down memory lane, reminiscing on slams gone by: http://webmup.com/KV0fk/

... god, that UI was offensive to the eyes.

We're not worthy. /bow

 

[mfaex]

Ember Spirit's Flame of Prosperity set is on sale for $0.39.

http://www.dota2.com/store/itemdetails/20370

 

[Indignate]

Had three hour long games tonight.

So exhausting.

 

[Ketch]

Dire has advantage because half the time when you're running away from people on radiant you accidentally click the minimap and turn around run right into them instead.

 

[GordonHalfman]

I wonder what the game would look like played from the opposite camera angle, i.e so the dire is pushing up the way. Could it be a preference or I guess it would be hard to get used to.

 

[Jex]

I hope it's not considered rude to type "It's all ogre now!" when you quad-cast the enemy carry and blow him up instantly as Ogre Magi.

 

[Anuxinamoon]

I hope it's not considered rude to type "It's all ogre now!" when you quad-cast the enemy carry and blow him up instantly as Ogre Magi.

I wouldn't class it as an oberyn martell BM, but maybe a little BM

 

[Jex]

Dire has advantage because half the time when you're running away from people on radiant you accidentally click the minimap and turn around run right into them instead.

I still do this

 

[Arkanius]

I have been playing Razor lately and after watching TI4, I think he is going to get a nerf on Static Link

 

[Cellbomber]

I have been playing Razor lately and after watching TI4, I think he is going to get a nerf on Static Link

It's not razors fault that enemies don't notice they are linked in team fights. He can be hard to get away from once he gets his movement speed high though.

The mini-map has resulted in many deaths for me. I would have easily escaped most but noticed too late..... Now I'm not saying I've never returned to battle when I shouldn't have!

 

[Arkanius]

It's not razors fault that enemies don't notice they are linked in team fights. He can be hard to get away from once he gets his movement speed high though.

The mini-map has resulted in many deaths for me. I would have easily escaped most but noticed too late..... Now I'm not saying I've never returned to battle when I shouldn't have!

Speaking of Static Link
Who else thinks that the TI4 immortal helm for Razor that brings the new Static Link particle is a huge disadvantage? The thing is noisy and very big, sometimes you dont notice you are static linked, but with that, it feels way higher profile than the default one.

EDIT:

Video comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwa8Nkymbdw

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

Dire 191
59.69%
Radiant 82
56.10%

Also, apparently the worse ping I have, the better I do (I'm EU west).

US East 178
58.43%
Europe West 78
55.13%
Other 17
76.47%

 

[snack]

Radiant 935 56.04%
Dire 832 44.95%

Hmm, I blame dire side of map being too dark and spooky.

Lol

 

[Zeth]

God damn genius

 

[A Sentient Keyboard]

I get agitated every time I get a Disraptor in my game that insists on maxing thunder strike. I try to be polite as I can to these guys and explain to them that maxing Glimpse is the best thing you can do on that hero in most situations but I get rebutted with "I don't tell you how to play."

I've seen people say this before but I'm not sure I get the reasoning behind it. I'd like to learn disruptor, so could I get some help with this?

Leveling glimpse reduces it's cooldown and mana cost, and increases it's cast range. However, the cooldown is still such that it can only be used once per fight (65/50/35/20), and the range increase seems a little redundant beyond 2-3 points (600/1000/1400/1800). Meanwhile, thunderstrike is one of the most powerful non-ult nukes in the game (160/240/320/400) with a chance to catch others in it's AOE. Am I underestimating glimpse and/or overestimating thunderstrike? If so, what is the recommended skill build (assuming 4-5 position support, dual or tri safelane)? W-Q-E-W-W-R? Then max glimpse, then thunder strike and kinetic field last? Thanks!