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DOTA2 |OT15| anime only please

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Baha

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LiQuid! said:
I'm actually starting to get sick of Bulldog streams. I miss when he played with Xyclops and his girls every day. Those were legitimately entertaining streams. Now it's just memes, screaming and the propagation of casual racism and misogyny pretty much nonstop.
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Yeah this has been pretty blatant for some time now, I'm surprised no one has called him out on it lately, especially since he's on twitch.

EDIT: For example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKKajDxFv4&t=5m28s
 
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inkls

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So what's up with Omni's winrate? He has a 60% wr and 20% pick rate in the 5k bracket.


That's after the nerfs in a meta where Shadow demon with a purge, Oracle with an aoe purge, cores like high and void go manta diffusal commonly and he still has that high of a winrate?

It's not even "no one picks him so only the good omni players pick him". He's in 1 game out of 5 at 5k+.
 
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Imp the Dimp

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LiQuid! said:
I'm actually starting to get sick of Bulldog streams. I miss when he played with Xyclops and his girls every day. Those were legitimately entertaining streams. Now it's just memes, screaming and the propagation of casual racism and misogyny pretty much nonstop.
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Yeah, he dropped N-bombs rather regularly last time I watched. He's off my list.
 
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Twookie

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LiQuid! said:
I'm actually starting to get sick of Bulldog streams. I miss when he played with Xyclops and his girls every day. Those were legitimately entertaining streams. Now it's just memes, screaming and the propagation of casual racism and misogyny pretty much nonstop.
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agreed, don't really watch dota streams unless zai or arteezy streams now
 
shira

shira

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Imp the Dimp said:
Draskyl, Purge, Merlini.
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Chris R

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elyetis said:
To be fair we play as a 3 stack so there is inherently less complaining about missed arrow than solo queue.
But anyway is think the current mirana is far less about her arrow than pudge is about his hook, I mean pudge don't bring much to the table without his hook except if he walk/blink on a ennemy to ult him.
Well I guess a roaming mirana is also the same, but when I say support ( sometime solo support ) mirana, I really mean support. So more often than not it's mostly about baby sitting your carry, pulls, and using your ult to save people on the other side of the map, and your jump/Starstorm to get some kill.... All the while still being able to secure some farm with the arrow in the jungle.
I guess it's a pretty greedy pick, when I try to think about it I don't even really know why it work so well ( random luck is still a possibility ), but whether I have a pretty low impact on the game like this one or a far bigger one, it do work pretty well atm.
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I only play solo, but I guess I can give the hero a try a few times tonight after a bot match or two. Worst case scenario? I'm back in LPQ playing Single Draft, my favorite mode :D
 
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Chris R

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Drkirby said:
Lol, Valve casually posted on Reddit that there is no Diretide this year.
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I thought this was already known? Their last update said explicitly that

"Our next update will come at the tail end of fall, on December 12, 2016."
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Monkey King + something else + balance patch on that date
plus or minus a few days of volvo time
 
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Hylian7

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They should update the skill descriptions on Ion Shell and Repel to mention that they go through Linkens. I know I ended up losing a game once because our plan was to pop a Linkens with Ion Shell only to realize that that didn't work, so our plan failed and we lost.
 
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Red UFO

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inkls said:
So what's up with Omni's winrate? He has a 60% wr and 20% pick rate in the 5k bracket.


That's after the nerfs in a meta where Shadow demon with a purge, Oracle with an aoe purge, cores like high and void go manta diffusal commonly and he still has that high of a winrate?

It's not even "no one picks him so only the good omni players pick him". He's in 1 game out of 5 at 5k+.
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Because nobody ever buys diffusal blade!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Yazzees

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I never see teams do well with Bulba on their roster but pros defend the shit out of him

Yeah he had that Bo1 clockwerk game against LGD.cn during TI3 but they went on to get unceremoniously eliminated right after
 
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NormalFish

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Yazzees said:
I never see teams do well with Bulba on their roster but pros defend the shit out of him

Yeah he had that Bo1 clockwerk game against LGD.cn during TI3 but they went on to get unceremoniously eliminated right after
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Pros don't praise bulba because he's an amazing mechanical player. It's because he knows the game super fucking well and offers a lot in terms of tactical and strategic aspects.

Saying "look, I know pros praise him but look how bad he plays!" is kinda missing the point.
 
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KingKong

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NormalFish said:
Pros don't praise bulba because he's an amazing mechanical player. It's because he knows the game super fucking well and offers a lot in terms of tactical and strategic aspects.

Saying "look, I know pros praise him but look how bad he plays!" is kinda missing the point.
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Right, he's a great coach and the only reason he wound up on EG, Secret and now Liquid is that no one else was available

which just shows the lack of players within regions, as long as western players stick with western players they'll keep moving around the same teams
 
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NormalFish

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KingKong said:
Right, he's a great coach and the only reason he wound up on EG, Secret and now Liquid is that no one else was available

which just shows the lack of players within regions, as long as western players stick with western players they'll keep moving around the same teams
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All I'm saying, is that if bulba was as shit as some of y'all make out, he wouldn't be relevant. Esports clearly has its biases, but if folks felt a player really didn't offer enough to a team to be worth taking, they wouldn't be so consistently picked up by teams, let alone held in such positive regard.
 
shira

shira

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NormalFish said:
All I'm saying, is that if bulba was as shit as some of y'all make out, he wouldn't be relevant. Esports clearly has its biases, but if folks felt a player really didn't offer enough to a team to be worth taking, they wouldn't be so consistently picked up by teams, let alone held in such positive regard.
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I mean he knows the owner and they have a long standing relationship.
He's 8k and a nice guy, but he seems to have some performance and confidence issues which is why I think everyone is always trying to hype him up.

waxinlyrical said:
http://blog.dota2.com/2016/10/true-sight-a-new-documentary-series/

Interesting. I hadn't planned on getting this newest battle pass, but if NP shows up on this I might bite.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-M1TpGDmU

"Access to the stream will be limited to owners of the Fall 2016 Battle Pass, and those watching are invited to join a live chat during the broadcast with their friends and other members of the Dota community."

Yeah that sounds productive
 
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etta

my hard graphic balls
Is Doto getting a Halloween-themed update this year?
The Overwatch one is so cool ;_;
Between Doto, R6S, Gears 4, MW and IW, I'm sad I can't add Overwatch to the mix, just too much shit to deal with already.
 
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Qvoth

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etta said:
Is Doto getting a Halloween-themed update this year?
The Overwatch one is so cool ;_;
Between Doto, R6S, Gears 4, MW and IW, I'm sad I can't add Overwatch to the mix, just too much shit to deal with already.
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someone working on valve mentioned on reddit there's no diretide this year
 
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Wok

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I think Puppey is involved in this TV series.

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More seriously, we don't know the lenght of each episode or the total number of episodes. And only Battle Pass owners get to watch it...

After the broadcast schedule has concluded, the full version will be available for Battle Pass owners to watch at any time in your Steam Library starting on Friday, October 14 at 4:00 PM PDT.
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Label

The Amiga Brotherhood
Sometimes I hate how valve panders to Reddit. What the hell was wrong with showing the duration. The new look is cool though.
 
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