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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
- Thread starter Teknopathetic
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Nah, but Doom should. Heaven's Halberd is great against her as well, just can't let her cause too much damage during BKB.
At 2k she'll likely go for shit like Babbyfury anyway, with awful last hitting, so you got plenty of time to shut her down before she becomes a problem.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Atos seems like it would work on Techies well.
Statis mines have a 2 second arm time and a 2 second detonation time, and Atos lasts 4 seconds. Just enough time to slow and immediately drop a statis mine. It also bulks up Techies' absurdly low mana pool.
But there's probably some reason this isn't recommended on Techies I'm not considering.
Statis mines have a 2 second arm time and a 2 second detonation time, and Atos lasts 4 seconds. Just enough time to slow and immediately drop a statis mine. It also bulks up Techies' absurdly low mana pool.
But there's probably some reason this isn't recommended on Techies I'm not considering.
euls is a better setup imo
I could see Techies being a decent offlaner. He needs exp, and well placed mines would be good for blocking supports from coming to kill you (they could buy sentries but if you're creative you could avoid them.) If you do find yourself in trouble suicide on the nearest hero and they don't get any gold or exp from the kill, and hey, you may take a support with you! Would have to check this tho.
dont offlaners usually rely on good ms so they can escape?
Get ready for pre-order bonus heroes.
Pinko Marx
Banned
I haven't really been following the Doters since after TI but I just learned Puppey and Kuroky left Na'Vi. 
Has it been explained why? Does Team Secret have some secret sponsor they aren't announcing yet, or is it just a funny name?
Puppey was my favorite player on Na'Vi...So conflicted.
Has it been explained why? Does Team Secret have some secret sponsor they aren't announcing yet, or is it just a funny name?
Puppey was my favorite player on Na'Vi...So conflicted.
Shorty11857
Member
I haven't really been following the Doters since after TI but I just learned Puppey and Kuroky left Na'Vi.
Has it been explained why? Does Team Secret have some secret sponsor they aren't announcing yet, or is it just a funny name?
Puppey was my favorite player on Na'Vi...So conflicted.
Na'vi wanted an all Russian speaking roster apparently so Kuroky gets kicked, Puppey is friends with Kuroky and wants to stay with him so he leaves Na'vi too
Secret most likely do have a sponsor but it's unannounced
http://www.twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en
Speaking of Team Secret
Yes, but they also usually try to get closer to farm gold, whereas Techies can't last hit anyway with his damage, so he'll just hang at exp range. Also, that's what the bombs are for, hurt supports before the gank even comes.
Shorty11857
Member
Well that's a bad start for Secret, not great from S4
Super greedy from S4
sleverfunk
Member
picnic!
I was deliberating this as well, the major problem I see with this setup is that you'll want to mine the map as early as possible, so you'll be away from lane for longer than most other offlaners, letting tons of XP go to waste unless your team can afford and is coordinated enough to have a support occupy the lane in the meantime.
But we'll see, it's a dumb hero anyway so none of this efficiency talk really matters
Amazing. 10/10.
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Shorty11857
Member
S4 is dominating that mid lane CS wise
StrongArmSteady
Member
Jay Shadow
Member
I'M PANICING
StrongArmSteady
Member
Wow that furion tp :lol
Can't wait for the Despair emote pack. They're so good.
Shorty11857
Member
Team Secret looked okay in that game, S4 was making a lot of mistakes though
Notail and Puppey seem decent as a duo
Notail and Puppey seem decent as a duo
SteveWinwood
Member
was the guy who casted the yolo vs gaf game drunk
anybody with early burst magic damage and escapes for when she blinks on you.
I've had success with qop and ember. But you gotta get on her before she gets bkb, and you probably need a mkb on ember at some point too in that game which is kind of shitty.
Lion, shaman for the hex and burst.
Pudge probably eats her lunch.
AA maybe if you dont get jumped on
dagon
force staff
ghost scepter/eblade
lol
Did np in-game potrait change or abt to change?
SteveWinwood
Member
i would love to live in a country that plays die antwoord on the radio all day
Wok
Member
Exactly! Now, we will be able to mix arcana parts and non-arcana items, which also means we won't be able to mix the full arcana set with other cosmetics! Valve could as well make that legendary Pudge set with custom rot and icons an Arcana set.
SneakyStephan
Banned
There is no way the enemy support is going to let you hang in exp range.
The moment you come in exp range he will walk up to you around the trees and right click you, at which point you have to run away (what are you going to do, right click him back with 30 dmg? you're a ranged creep)
While you are walking all the way back to your tower (because any non idiot carry will keep the creep equilibrium near his tower, and any non idiot support will double pull the second it moves closer to your tower) he is going to be clicking you and your awful movement speed down for half your hp if he doesn't just outright kill you after his first or second pull got him 2 levels over you.
You're not going to get ANYTHING in an offlane as a squishy, low ms hero with no escape to whom even a crystal maiden might as well be roshan at lvl 1
You'll just be forever level one, and you'll be dead every time you walk too far from your tower
what stops their carry from collecting his free first blood the moment he sees you 've walked away from your tower.You're never going to get to stack bombs to stop the enemy support from doing this (and even if you did a single sentry at the river/trees edge will negate it) , and even if you land a double lvl 1 mine on a support, why would he care, what is your follow up? nothing there is no follow up.
forever lvl 1
If you think that all the lanes you meet are gonna be masters of creep equilibrium, you overestimate them (or you are at a very high MMR). It's incredibly common for people to lose control of that, not to mention warding pull camps. As for trading hits, smart mine placements can help a lot in that regard. Besides, this is all experimental theory. If it ends up not working, whatever look for new strats. With a hero this unique I think it's better to try everything and see what works.
mass push strat?
High Impact supports to pick when your team needs support - thoughts/suggestions please?
Dispruptor
Earthshaker
Tidehunter
Venomancer
Witch Doctor
Skywrath Mage
2nd tier, which I enjoy playing, would be Abbadon, Lich, Omni, Tree, Venge
fake edit: Wait, I think I named most of them
This is me brainstorming since I've been toying with the idea of playing all pick before techies, since I've pretty much never done it.
Dispruptor
Earthshaker
Tidehunter
Venomancer
Witch Doctor
Skywrath Mage
2nd tier, which I enjoy playing, would be Abbadon, Lich, Omni, Tree, Venge
fake edit: Wait, I think I named most of them
This is me brainstorming since I've been toying with the idea of playing all pick before techies, since I've pretty much never done it.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Ok so your argument for the viability of solo offlane techies is if your opponent is bad enough it might work (as in you might get some exp). cmon
If your opponent is bad enough you can pick 5 melee carries and still win.
Sure it's worth trying everything, but I wouldn't count on 270ms no escape ability 30 base dmg offlaner working out.
Just saying that theorycrafting around your opponents being worse players than you are is not a good starting point
Btw if people feed a solo offlane undying/tide/clock/timber a buch of early levels under his tower (all heroes who can hold their own or at least have a much better chance at leeching exp if the enemies don't fuck up ) the midgame is going to go really badly for them.
If you feed an offlane techies lvl 6 under his tower what's he gona do, gank mid?
Usually if you sacrifice a hero in offlane it's because you expect some serious return if he gets something out of that lane and that he can still catch up or contribute even if he doesn't.
SteveWinwood
Member
wheres ur dazzle