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DOTA 2 |OT8| DOTA Asian Championship (1/27-2/9)
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Imp the Dimp
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I find Shane + Pyrion genuinely funny
They are pretty great.
Jay Shadow
Member
There are lines for Arc Warden and Abyssal Underlord too.
Isn't Timber the best counter for Oracle?
NormalFish
Banned
Shane is tragically underutilized.
posting again for a new page =D
hi all, just had an annoying game as shadow demon, anyone wana help a fellow gaffer out and critique my replay?
I would be real happy with any help and tips!
Match 1035747118
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1035747118
hi all, just had an annoying game as shadow demon, anyone wana help a fellow gaffer out and critique my replay?
I would be real happy with any help and tips!
Match 1035747118
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1035747118
Friday
ashecitism
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And for Pit Lord and Arc Warden too.
SD is very hard hero to play... Especially looking at your comp, you don't have many good combos with him. Will watch replay later ~
Wes logs on to DotA2.
Sees a patch. "Neat" he thinks to himself.
Slowly peruses through the patch notes.
And then it hits him.
Like the piercing beams from a lighthouse appearing on the horizon to a sailor who has been lost at sea for 18 months.
" - Enabled Phoenix in Captain's Mode"
MILLLLLLLLLLLLKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Sees a patch. "Neat" he thinks to himself.
Slowly peruses through the patch notes.
And then it hits him.
Like the piercing beams from a lighthouse appearing on the horizon to a sailor who has been lost at sea for 18 months.
" - Enabled Phoenix in Captain's Mode"
MILLLLLLLLLLLLKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
My tip is to not play Shadow Demon at all. Worst hero in the game.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Hero ain't bad at all but he sure sucks in pubs. 100% unwinnable with.
Besides Nolan North, I would say Dee Bradley Baker has got to be the coolest voice actor in the game (techies voice actor). He was the voice of Daffy Duck and the Tasmanian devil in Space Jam. Doesn't get much cooler than that. And he has voiced someone is mostly all american cartoons since the late 90s.
NormalFish
Banned
You should play SD is compositions where disruption either wins you teamfights, or wins you lanes. If you want to win lane, you should play him in conjunction with a carry and/or support that can blow someone up out of disrupt. Skywrath/Mirana/Lina are all brilliant options.
If you want to win teamfights, he's kind of difficult in this meta. He's pretty good against Void (since you can disrupt either void or your chronod ally). He's also good against comps that have a lot of single target lock down. You can run him in 4 protect 1 comps or dual core comps for really good damage mitigation.
Also keep in mind that shadow poison at low MMR is OP as shit. it does obscene damage when you get up the stacks, and most players aren't good enough to figure that out.
**Based finstack with Eblade Shaker.
NormalFish
Banned
That line should be on 2-3 lines in the little text box whatever the fuck they're called.
It used to cost $23, valve updated the exchange rates in a bunch of countries a few hours after. Rubles lost like 30% of their value.
The russian version only costs like $23, but it will fluxuate because you can't bet exalted items on Dota2Lounge.
So essentially all the arcana pre-orders are for playing only.
After 7/12 they will not be exalted but at the same time will not be 20% off. Expect another correction if and when the PA arcanas are allowed on D2L for betting.
thanks! would appreciate any feedback! I feel a lot of the time i fall behind as supports...
my motto in dota ranked play is, you live by the random, you die by the random
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I think Bristleback and Abaddon's are longer.
Train of Midnight
Banned
Bruno is my favorite guy of all guys
NormalFish
Banned
In that case, continue to buy wards but farm like a semicarry. You clear waves/farm jungle very effectively with poison (especially after you get some mana), so you should be decently farmed if you play greedy. go blink+force and then whatever situational item you need (hex, when in doubt). Play as an initiator and try to get your team to follow up. blink in -> disrupt -> force melee carry in/yourself out -> throw poison for days
Doesn't really improve their survivability if they're the one on the team using the active?
NormalFish
Banned
Medallion is good on heroes that don't take much damage. Heroes like Visage, or Lycan who deal decent physical damage and can take early rosh also want it.
Peep his cool downs, at level 7 he goes invis, flames you, purges you with fortunes end, flames you again: ~570 damage after reduction, while invis and autoattacking you.
NormalFish
Banned
PPD - "salt" LOL
Head of Vengarl
Banned
The hype for this update might even convince me to start playing again. I can't believe it's been 11 months since I last played regularly, goddamn time flies. It's kinda daunting to come back at this point since so much has changed.
Medallion gives you 6 armor which means you have a net difference of zero when you activate it so it doesn't really matter if you intend to take damage or not. The problem with buying it on Axe is that you want to spend that 1075g on something else like a blink and urn.
You've got to spend your gold on high impact items early with Axe so you end up running into a situation where it's never really the right time for him to buy a medallion. You'd much rather a teammate pick it up if you're going to need one on the team.
SteveWinwood
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its like a poverty item
there are better items to get early on those heroes (blink/blademail or euls/atos) and if youre getting it late, which its poor at anyhow, there are better choices as well (aghs or bloodstone)
like if youre 0/10 at 10 mins and still wanna play go for medallion man
misses bull
Banned
Elder titans its in the bag thing is way worse
We need orge everything
including nerfs
User 85168
Banned
Burning time since the servers are broke
Oh okay I was afraid it was a standard thing. Didn't they have problems also yesterday?
close to the edge
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Zai is cool. Most consistent player on EG next to Universe. I guess Fear has been really good recently too.
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