Imp the Dimp
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Dota 2 |OT7| What the fuck have they done
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It's been a thing for much longer than that.
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Posting non-original video without facecam and team/allchat is a travesty.
SteveWinwood
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are you telling me that slasher didnt invent the critshaker build
We need more Merlini, Fear and Notail casts
Marauder Shields
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Xyclopz best caster ever.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Yeah...it was a hell of a game.
Erm he leveled his ult at 10? How often is this thing inaccurate?
got 2 lvls and leveled his ulti before the other one
Gentle Rodriguez
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ahh that makes sense
You know what always makes me smile, having an enemy naga spend the entire game farming, going that radiance into bots diffusal heart, never showing up to fights, and the one time they do they get instantly killed.
Also, I baited a team to blow all their disables on a super tanky doom when taking Rosh. Waited till just before they would blink in, dashed out of the pit, and our doom tanked axe, ravage, and what ever Invoker dished out. Then walk back around, get a 3 man Chrono, and bash invoker and Silencer to death. That game the enemy silencer somehow got global silence stolen at least twice.
Also, I baited a team to blow all their disables on a super tanky doom when taking Rosh. Waited till just before they would blink in, dashed out of the pit, and our doom tanked axe, ravage, and what ever Invoker dished out. Then walk back around, get a 3 man Chrono, and bash invoker and Silencer to death. That game the enemy silencer somehow got global silence stolen at least twice.
I only did 4.6k hero damage l looking at dotabuff, so I also basically did nothing but farm for 40 minutes. I got super shut down though, got Midas at 9, but it took until 20 minutes to get treads and a morbid mask, and had to go casual vit into bkb
Marauder Shields
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God I hope Xyclopzz gets more chances to cast SEA games. Only caster who genuinely makes me lol.
Thoughts from my first 10 games:
- I don't play as well on Dire. Maybe it's just more natural to go up and right than down and left? I assume that'll go away in time.
- I really hate Bloodseeker and see him in every single game
- Dual lanes seem to be the norm, which is cool. Sometimes it's actually hard to get someone to go mid. I had assumed everyone would be fighting over it
- It took me forever to realize you have to A-click to deny stuff
- Abaddon can dive the fuck out of some towers
- Naga is probably going to be my favorite hero
In these "normal" games does it still try to matchmake somehow? Or are these just assumed to all be people getting in their first 100 games or whatever before ranked opens up?
- I don't play as well on Dire. Maybe it's just more natural to go up and right than down and left? I assume that'll go away in time.
- I really hate Bloodseeker and see him in every single game
- Dual lanes seem to be the norm, which is cool. Sometimes it's actually hard to get someone to go mid. I had assumed everyone would be fighting over it
- It took me forever to realize you have to A-click to deny stuff
- Abaddon can dive the fuck out of some towers
- Naga is probably going to be my favorite hero
In these "normal" games does it still try to matchmake somehow? Or are these just assumed to all be people getting in their first 100 games or whatever before ranked opens up?
Imp the Dimp
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ppd is an awful streamer. Just what the fuck was that.
he just seems so sad
As a United fan, it just isn't, can't believe how much that penalty changed the game.
Well
There is 108 heroes, always gonna be heroes you haven't played in 100 games.
Gentle Rodriguez
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I feel like this will go away pretty fast once you realize how Naga is traditionally played, I don't think anyone likes playing her that way.
I used to love me some support Naga though.
The Technomancer
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Yeah for as much farm as she needs she doesn't offer that same satisfaction. I actually enjoy ricing with Spectre, but thats because the rush at the end of pressing R and getting a teamwipe is so worth it.
Marauder Shields
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Fnatic vs VP ending
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I've actually been playing just support early on, then farming up when lanes break down a bit and mostly split pushing later in the game, usually because at least one person abandons somewhere along the way. After early wards I've been going boots > Aquila > treads > Yasha. One game I ended a good streak late and was able to pick up a Radiance and BoTs and had a ton of fun with that.
Imp the Dimp
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Played with my lower queueing friends, went 30-4-17 (including rampage at Rosh pit) with Sven and lost lmao
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/911114905
Done for today
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/911114905
Done for today
I find splitpush way more fun to play tbh. Seeing my units, illusions or otherwise, gradually outmaneuver the other team is both fun and immensely satisfying. PL is probably the most fun simply because you get to see the other team desperately trying to find you, having to check every single illusion. With Naga it's very obvious which are illusions, with PL you can play all sorts of mind games.
Cellbomber
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Playing DOTA after long periods of Diablo play is very difficult to do.
Movement, camera control and buttons for spells (I know I could change the hotkeys) are so easy to get mixed up. I kept clicking and my character wasn't moving. It's possible I was holding down the mouse button and not even clicking...
I also totally didn't cast a spell in a teamfight since I was hitting 1-4. At least my first match in awhile was ability draft.
Movement, camera control and buttons for spells (I know I could change the hotkeys) are so easy to get mixed up. I kept clicking and my character wasn't moving. It's possible I was holding down the mouse button and not even clicking...
I also totally didn't cast a spell in a teamfight since I was hitting 1-4. At least my first match in awhile was ability draft.
Gentle Rodriguez
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I don't dislike splitpush. I love Furion, I love Anti-Mage, I hate farming Naga. With Furion and AM I feel like I can contribute more in battles than a Naga can, all she's really supposed to do is attack buildings then press R when it gets hairy and tp out. No thanks.
I know it sounds like NP does the same, but you can really play any way you want with NP.
Emerson
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Is there anyone else who doesn't really like the TI4 music pack? When I first heard I thought it sounded cool but using it in game I don't really like. It's just too much sometimes. I generally prefer the simplicity of the original music, especially for stuff like drafting when you really don't need insanely intense music blaring.
Same. I find a lot of the default stuff to be the best really.
There can be far more to it than that if you want there to be. Even then, doing just that is hella fun to me. You thought you got me? Nope, trolololol.
Sentenza
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I'm having a goddamn awful luck with D2 Lounge i nthe last 24 hours.
"I'm going to play safe for this one" and it's the fifth bet where I picked the super-favorite, which ended losing terribly.
The frustration is strong.
MYM just stomped Empire. Jesus, going with the track record of both teams I didn't even imagine they could play on the same level.
"I'm going to play safe for this one" and it's the fifth bet where I picked the super-favorite, which ended losing terribly.
The frustration is strong.
MYM just stomped Empire. Jesus, going with the track record of both teams I didn't even imagine they could play on the same level.
I personally like using the right click deny command just for simplicity's sake. It makes last hitting and denying in lane feel more smooth and rhythmic. You still have to a-click to deny heroes, towers, and items, so no worries on accidentally denying those.
Put dota_force_right_click_attack "1" in your "autoexec.cfg" file to enable it.
EXACTLY. You know what I'm talking about.
Imp the Dimp
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sucks
noooooooooo
Imp the Dimp
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A balance patch is long overdue so he might turn good soon. Don't give up yet.
Stack camps and afk farm your Aghs then laugh during the day with auto win vision
PillowKnight
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Kotl's fine, if you enjoy playing him then keep playing him.
^Yeah, stacking is probably the most important part of playing kotl, he farms insanely well.
SteveWinwood
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everybody is good (they just have their roles and playstyles that may or may not be played at a certain time right now)
except chaos knight that hero is trash and needs some amazing buff or something
Imp the Dimp
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My official list of heroes it's impossible to win pubs with when they're on your team:
- CK
- KotL
- Sven
- Bristelback
- Chen
- Nature's Prophet
- Storm Spirit
- Shadow Demon
- Medusa
- Night Stalker
- Pudge
And a lot of others obviously. But according to Dotabuff+ I have atrocious winrates when any of these heroes is on my team and I noticed it too. Svens and CKs will be underfarmed in 9 out of 10 cases which is particularly puzzling in Sven's case as I find him hilariously ez to farm with. Don't recall the last game I was below 500 gpm with him, win or lose.
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