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[KingKong]

Jesus, EG picked Lycan, Natures Prophet AND Naga in game 2 vs Newbee? gross

 

[kvk1]

Is it crazy to ask for an AM buff at this juncture?

Or is he still a slave to the "afk farm = we lost" meta?

 

[SteveWinwood]

Maelstrom is bad on Ember because you can only proc 1 lighting per SoF

they fixed that bug in spring cleaning

 

[Demoli]

Is it crazy to ask for an AM buff at this juncture?

Or is he still a slave to the "afk farm = we lost" meta?

Am does need buffs.

Meta won't shift unless ou either nerf heroes that thrive ni this meta or buff the ones that don't.

 

[Acinixys]

they fixed that bug in spring cleaning

Really? Maybe I need to look closer next time

This Starladder game is pretty broken

Theyve had 3 DCs and remakes already

 

[Zeth]

Maelstrom is bad on Ember because you can only proc 1 lighting per SoF

Why would you not want a BF though? Its the whole point of Ember to cleave everyone to death

Just curious if anything else was as good

 

[Cassius]

Is it crazy to ask for an AM buff at this juncture?

Or is he still a slave to the "afk farm = we lost" meta?

I wonder if making Mana Break a non-unique attack modifier would be enough to make him feel a little more useful.

 

[Ketch]

Catching up on the EG games from last night. I'm so glad they've started diversifying their drafts. Fear Sven! Yes!

 

[Chris R]

Shiiiiiiit

Eg made it to the finals? Guess I'm waking up early tomorrow to watch

 

[Mohasus]

I wonder if making Mana Break a non-unique attack modifier would be enough to make him feel a little more useful.

Aww yes diffusal AM taking 100 mana per hit.

 

[Ketch]

I wonder if making Mana Break a non-unique attack modifier would be enough to make him feel a little more useful.

.... oh man. Diffusal AM would be too strong. Maybe if they make mana break a non-UAM they can disable diffusal blade for AM like basher is disabled for troll.

 

[Drkirby]

I think they should start by putting his bat back to 1.35. while I think he was to strong when the roster was caster heavy, he feels a bit weak as more heroes have been ported over and buffed.

 

[shira]

EE talking about responsibility fucking lol.

EE was kicked for communication issues, now he kicks people for communication issues.

Comewithme

Arteezy

Singsing

 

[Pratfall]

yeah, am diffusal would be hell for supports. 100 mana, +80 damage per hit.

I like how reddit still thinks 6.82 is coming out this month.

 

[Gav47]

Bounch's Earth Spirit set is on sale for 30c today

His Ember spirit set was on sale last week so hopefully the Storm set will also go on sale.

 

[Drkirby]

yeah, am diffusal would be hell for supports. 100 mana, +80 damage per hit.

I like how reddit still thinks 6.82 is coming out this month.

I think we will get it during the last week with Oracle and base customization.

Also I'm pretty sure ee wanted to keep rtz, but at the time rtz didn't think he could do both it and school.

 

[Conceptor]

Another qt piece by Diredude

 

[inkls]

So I haven't played in like a week

How awful are Techies?

surprisingly not that bad. People instapick him so I see lots of nature's prophet/chen picks. And I've never seen so many sentries and gems bought in my entire dota career.

 

[Pratfall]

I think we will get it during the last week with Oracle and base customization.

Also I'm pretty sure ee wanted to keep rtz, but at the time rtz didn't think he could do both it and school.

You really think so? I don't think we will see anything until diretide.

 

[Booty Patrol]

if techies is on your team

you lose

 

[Wok]

if techies is on your team

you lose

So true.

 

[shira]

So I haven't played in like a week

How awful are Techies?

It's not techies its stupid people
- Russian trying to communicate to Peruvian to deward, Peruvian buys observer wards
- ally Rubick steals mine, 3 people are mass pinging for Rubick to kill Rubick's mine
- Get back! No I can kill him.

Oh they were leading me to mines

 

[Schweinehund]

So far the only thing viable I've seen a techie do past 15 mins is place down the stun ward. Before 15 minutes most of the time its a bait and then suicide kill, rarely do I see people chase techies obsessively into his mines.

 

[LiQuid!]

I got real drunk last night and apparently thought it was a good idea to play Dota...

How did we win this? http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/878030449

My teammates deserve a fucking medal for this.

 

[Purple Cheeto]

wot



the key is rushing nulls and blademail so you get damage and stats. Fight with your team early instead of ratting

its a european thing afaik

Guide linked on Reddit, duh. Don't remember who it was from. But yeah, all null talisman and blademail.

I heard it counters Tinker.

Ahh, many thanks.

 

[Hylian7]

if techies is on your team

you lose

I won with him last night.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/877486902

Tactical feeds are the best.

 

[Wok]

So far the only thing viable I've seen a techie do past 15 mins is place down the stun ward. Before 15 minutes most of the time its a bait and then suicide kill, rarely do I see people chase techies obsessively into his mines.

Speaking of viable things to do, I have had a great game as Zeus and I am impressed how fast the Aghs+Refresher build falls off.

I got literally no kill after the 40 minute mark.

This is what the opposite team had:

So either they anticipated the ultimate and used the pipe of insight, or Zeus has to be played differently end game.

Strangely the damage dealt is still important, so it must be my timing which was too easy to predict. I have to watch Merlini play.

 

[Hazaro]

Speaking of viable things to do, I have had a great game as Zeus and I am impressed how fast the Aghs+Refresher build falls off.

I got literally no kill after the 40 minute mark.

This is what the opposite team had:

So either they anticipated the ultimate and used the pipe of insight, or Zeus has to be played differently end game.

Strangely the damage dealt is still important, so it must be my timing which was too easy to predict. I have to watch Merlini play.

Gotta use Refresher to get a second bolt and chain off to get 2 more procs on your passive yo

 

[Smithy C]

Tales from the trench: Warlock gets mad at me for farming too much and not coming to save the T1 when it has under 100hp. 5 minutes later, he uses his ulti on creeps. When asked why, he says "farming". 5 minutes later, he does it again. And again. First item - Dagon.

All in all, a pretty funny game.

 

[Hylian7]

Casting 90s NyxTape vs our own YOLO (aka Stevewinwood stack)!

http://www.hitbox.tv/HylianSeven

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Tales from the trench: Warlock gets mad at me for farming too much and not coming to save the T1 when it has under 100hp. 5 minutes later, he uses his ulti on creeps. When asked why, he says "farming". 5 minutes later, he does it again. And again. First item - Dagon.

All in all, a pretty funny game.

I accidentally wasted a Huskar Ult on a creep this morning when I was trying to aim at a Phantom Assassin

 

[Mohasus]

Just won an ARDM that was 22x6 at one point.

Then 9x0 4v5.

I had a guy complaining on the mic the whole game because I went mid and died, then I didn't gank and just afk farmed. :^)

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/879518037

(wk op in this mode)

 

[Smithy C]

I accidentally wasted a Huskar Ult on a creep this morning when I was trying to aim at a Phantom Assassin

If you said "farming" afterwards, you might have pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

 

[bbd23]

that SF in this YOLO game really likes using bkb.

 

[Technosteve]

stevewinwood's team is getting crushed by blackmore

 

[Kard8p3]

stevewinwood's team is getting crushed by blackmore

not n e more

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

link to the stream please.

 

[Madouu]

we did it boys

 

[sixghost]

Life below the bloodstone poverty line sucks

 

[SteveWinwood]

stevewinwood's team is getting crushed by blackmore

we were?

when was that

 

[JustinBB7]

So the all hero challenge is still not working? Just won my first one and it didn't count. There was an abandon but the game counted for everything else. (total games, dotabuff, streak prediction etc)

 

[Wok]

Against Techies, Heart of Tarrasque becomes a core item on many squishy heroes. If I don't know what to build, the wise bets are Treads, S&Y, Blink, HoT (if Techies) and BKB (if many stuns). Manta can be a good item too.

 

[NemesisQ]

that SF in this YOLO game really likes using bkb.

...

 

[Technosteve]

we were?

when was that

When they equalized towers and you guys were down 5 kills

 

[1.09]

stevewinwood's team is getting crushed by blackmore

 

[Ketch]

Life below the bloodstone poverty line sucks

I think you should have gone force staff linkens.

that was a hard timber game...

.. and hard enigma game.

I think you lost the draft and the side lanes, but they couldn't defend. Razor too* strong.

GG. Would watch again. Hylian you need a co-caster.

 

[Kard8p3]

Nice, I needed a gif like that, ty.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

If you said "farming" afterwards, you might have pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.

I'm not that bad at the game

Someone must have wasted a Ravage on a creep wave at some point on purpose

 

[SteveWinwood]

When they equalized towers and you guys were down 5 kills

we were ahead in moneys and they had zero push (it took 4 heroes like 40 seconds of right clicking to get the tier 1 bot at like 25 mins)

they got shit in their all team fight line up and we beat them late

the fact that they hadnt lost yet means we were winning past like 20 something mins

 

[rakkadakka]

Well first pick All Hero Challenge AM is going about as well as one can expect..

Best was last game Undying claiming we didn't have any damage at 10 minutes in..

Outside of Tusk on the enemy team they had all super squishy heroes that would have been torn apart by decay spam/tombstone.