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[Wok]

Back in the days of Riki Euls, I have built Blink Dagger on Riki and got flamed by my toxic teammates (or opponents after I juked them). Nowadays, when I check Riki guides on Dotabuff, most of them include a Blink Dagger. The game changes quite a bit over time.

Of course, the reason for the item is most probably Riki's ultimate. Still, I find the change from pseudo-troll build to almost obligatory build quite funny in retrospect. I imagine other heroes have seen this kind of change.

 

[Red UFO]

RTZ
S4
Zai
Cr1t
Akke


DO IT

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Juan Gabriel is dead.



2016 is really a shit year.

 

[manfestival]

 

[LiQuid!]

Descansa en paz señor Gabriel

 

[Smithy C]

Juan Gabriel is dead.



2016 is really a shit year.

Someone posted this in the thread in the OT and it's incredible. The man had a hell of a voice. When he's not evening singing into the mic, just projecting his voice to the entire room. He was amazing.

 

[Drkirby]

I don't think I have ever gotten more than 1 report on the conduct screen. Stop flaming people.

http://ask.fm/RealAdmiralBulldog/answers/139652930458

He's just streaming until the next Major/TI
Looks like some players are going to be "Xiao8 retiring" and then coming back for the big money.

Makes since. Take 3/4 months to "relax", then you got a half year to really gear up.

 

[LiQuid!]

I don't think I have ever gotten more than 1 report on the conduct screen. Stop flaming people.

Do you just never solo queue? I go out of my way to be positive towards my teammates and I legitimately never rage, flame in voice or text chat or even get angry or annoyed on a personal level when I play solo queue. I can't explain why since I'm such a salty fuck when I play with my friends. When I solo queue I consider everything that happens in the game out of my power so I just try to go with the flow and have a good time even when I'm on a 10-game losing streak. Yet I still got accused of being a toxic player in a games yesterday and flamed by my team in all chat. In almost every game I played solo support too. Pooling tangos, buying chick/upgrade, every ward, etc. Team still flames. It's real great when I'm poverty support in a game where my team has already fed the enemy's 5 carry lineup, so I'm basically a free kill at 15 minutes and my KDR ends up being a disaster then *I* get flamed for feeding by my offlane hero who is 0-6-0 to start but manages to get 3 kills before the end of the game and dying less than me by the time our ancient falls because he managed to buy himself a vanguard when I'm running around with brown boots and an obs.

 

[SecretMoblin]

Back in the days of Riki Euls, I have built Blink Dagger on Riki and got flamed by my toxic teammates (or opponents after I juked them). Nowadays, when I check Riki guides on Dotabuff, most of them include a Blink Dagger. The game changes quite a bit over time.

Of course, the reason for the item is most probably Riki's ultimate. Still, I find the change from pseudo-troll build to almost obligatory build quite funny in retrospect. I imagine other heroes have seen this kind of change.

yeah part of it is the ult change, there was little pressing need for blink when you could store up charges and blink a few times in a row. now positioning is really important

force staff riki is still hilarious and fun tho

 

[shira]

I don't think I have ever gotten more than 1 report on the conduct screen. Stop flaming people.

But I need to tell those other 9 players how EC the 95 minute game was by allchat reminding them, pausing, hero taunting, dropping all my items in the fountain then popping tangoes to save the rainforest.

 

[Archie]

SING STRIM

 

[lv2 pidgey]

SING STRIM

oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Drkirby]

But I need to tell those other 9 players how EC the 95 minute game was by allchat reminding them, pausing, hero taunting, dropping all my items in the fountain then popping tangoes to save the rainforest.

Tangos kill the rainforest, you need to spam iron branches. Scrub.

Edit: Sumail is out of EG it seems. I wonder if they will have PPD try to make a new team, or just steal EE's team (Since it looks like C9 is interested in picking up the Zai/RTZ team)

 

[TUSR]

sumail leaves eg

 

[neurosisxeno]

So almost everything Moon said was going on has turned out to be false.

 

[shadow2810]

road to 3k, and this is just page 1

 

[LiQuid!]

road to 3k, and this is just page 1

Brethren! Let's form a support group.

 

[shira]

sumail leaves eg

aw yeah right in muh veins

 

[Sigismundo]

I am actually giggling at Alliance disbanding.

 

[StrongArmSteady]

So almost everything Moon said was going on has turned out to be false.

I believe things are changing at breakneck speed, he might have been right when he posted the rosters.

Sumail is is listening some fucking boyband music...poor kid.

 

[neurosisxeno]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2604116425

Paging all resident Drow players (or anyone really). What else did I need here? Did I need Aghs sooner or something else entirely? I figured after we lost two rax, the only way out of this would be Aghs after all the other stuff I had.

Chen kind of started tilting hard, and I never did, but I was kind of irritated that we lost this at the end. As much as the XP graph makes it looked like we were getting stomped, we really weren't at all and were fairly even most of the game, but a series of unfortunate deaths ended up in us losing. Chen was quick to blame Windrunner and Clock, but I don't really agree with that.

Regardless, what should I have done here instead?

A late response, but I would say you needed damage and different survivability items. Satanic was flatout a waste of money--more HP wan't going to help you that much, and they had enough lock down that you would probably rarely get the activation off effectively. Butterfly would have helped, and holding off on completely Hurricane Pike would have helped as well. Very low TD means you probably weren't pushing as hard as you should have been. With Chen/WR/Drow you guys should have cleared all their Towers by the 20 minute mark. Drow these days is less about getting kills and more about taking objectives.

Looking at all your Drow games you need to stop rushing Hurricane Pike. Dragon Lance by itself is more than enough. You also keep building Agh's but never getting anything that increases its effectiveness, and favor going BKB/Satanic--which isn't that great. Try going Aquila->Treads->Dragon Lance->Aghs->Maelstrom. You should have those 5 items done by about 25 minutes, and it makes you an absolute menace when it comes to pushing/counter pushing, and it has decent effectiveness in team fights. I say just ignore Satanic as an item,unless the game goes super late. Against a lineup with ET/Kunkka/Ursa, you need to force them back more than you need to kill them. You weren't going to outcarry them by yourself, and your WR seemed pretty mediocre. I'm at work so I can't see a detailed view of the game until I get home with Plus, but it should have been you get 6, and push with WR and Chen asap to take 1-2 towers and cripple the space Ursa/Kunkka had to farm. At the end of a game Drow should have 4-5k or more Tower Damage, and Hero Damage and kills are irrelevant.

 

[mooncakes]

https://www.twitch.tv/attackerdota

attacker and singsing are in the same team.

 

[Qvoth]

rip alliance :<
very surprised it's akke that leaves though
he didn't even give any parting words unlike s4 and bulldong

 

[shira]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/502j2g/sylars_story_time_translated_updating_as_it_goes

There might be a VG.J forming, since Jeremy Lin has share of the team.

 

[Qvoth]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/502j2g/sylars_story_time_translated_updating_as_it_goes

wings staying together

yaaaaaaaaay

mikasa gave sylar 1.3k usd

damn that's extremely generous

burning and rotk parting

i thought burning is making a new team with rotk as coach?

 

[shira]

Hmmm says on steamspy that there were about ~500k owners of Total Warhammer on launch day. Prolly gonna be a lot of those visually different Warhammer chests in the wild

For comparison FF Type-0 HD Bundle pack with ~100k day 1 owners . . .

 

[DrPizza]

I don't know what's more fucked up: the Zeus's build here http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2606742331 or the fact that we won the game and I finally 3*ed the fucking Axe quest.

 

[shira]

I don't know what's more fucked up: the Zeus's build here http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2606742331 or the fact that we won the game and I finally 3*ed the fucking Axe quest.

Whines incessantly on gaf & reddit for weeks
- Valve nerfs the quest

Did you need the refresher orb?

 

[TUSR]

no force staff on axe?

edit: lmao zeus

 

[NBtoaster]

Currently 10-2 with Pit Lord, seems like it's best to play him as a tanky aura monster, similar to the Doom role. While you can play him mid, and you are almost guaranteed to destroy the opponent in cs, you don't really transition into anything. Had good experiences offlane.

 

[Qvoth]

singsing mirana still as good as ever huh?

 

[Sigismundo]

https://twitter.com/BuLbaDotA/status/769830247244173312

I dunno about you guys but Fear/RTZ/Zai/Crit sounds like one hell of a team. Dunno who's available to be their 5 though.

 

[DrPizza]

Whines incessantly on gaf & reddit for weeks
- Valve nerfs the quest

Did you need the refresher orb?

No, I just got that at the very end so that I could BoTs home, replenish, then BoTs back into the fight.

 

[shira]

No, I just got that at the very end so that I could BoTs home, replenish, then BoTs back into the fight.

gratz

 

[fr0st]

https://twitter.com/BuLbaDotA/status/769830247244173312

I dunno about you guys but Fear/RTZ/Zai/Crit sounds like one hell of a team. Dunno who's available to be their 5 though.

Miracle carry fear to position 3

 

[DrPizza]

gratz

So now two quests remaining: 3* the evasion/spell dodge (ugh), and Legion purging debuffs. The Legion one doesn't matter so much (you don't need to 3* everything on the quest line) but the evasion one is a pain in the ass. I've 2*ed it with Brewmaster (I got 5/5 of the spell dodges, but didn't evade 60 attacks), and he feels pretty good at this (it seems that spells hitting the spell immune brewlings counts as dodging spells), but 60 is a lot of evaded attacks.

 

[SecretMoblin]

weaver sister

or puck too, free evade/disjoint on low cd

 

[Red UFO]

Windranger is good too

 

[yagal]

Please [A] be all swedish with gimmicky players like Mynutts, MyPenis, Pablo and niqua so I can stop watching Doto


Akke not like this...

 

[Twookie]

the evasion quest is actually really easy

puck pudge, get a euls, use rot and euls on yourself a few times and tadah, quest is done

 

[Red UFO]

the evasion quest is actually really easy

puck pudge, get a euls, use rot and euls on yourself a few times and tadah, quest is done

Somebody give this man a membership with Mensa

 

[kiguel182]

After not playing since the Winter Pass (and with only a mere 80 hours put into the game) I'm back on Dota. It feels good ( I think...).

Last game I went from loving and hating two of my teammates every time they were nice/mean to me. It was a rollercoaster of emotions.

Also, I bought my first skin when I spent 70 cents on something for Lich. I'm lost to the Dota.

 

[Vade]

Is mowing the lawn the pinnacle of masculinity?
The answer is yes.


Lawn mowing is an art form. You are destroying, killing life, using a gas powered machine that smells of oil and spews smoke, spinning a slightly dull blade at high RPMs to create order and beauty.

It's basically a mirco-sized version of building your own log cabin.

 

[rakkadakka]

In the spectrum of masculinity lawn mowing is the polar opposite of anime.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2603734988

Played my first solo game (Clockwerk) since calibrating in February 2015. I was pretty much twice as good as anyone on that server so perhaps I should ditch my stack and become a pro after all.

Literally, not figuratively, every single kill in the first ~20min happened with my involvement. I don't think my team accomplished anything if I wasn't around.

 

[DrPizza]

the evasion quest is actually really easy

puck pudge, get a euls, use rot and euls on yourself a few times and tadah, quest is done

How do you Euls 60 right clicks before the game ends without running out of mana?

 

[yarden24]

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2603734988

Played my first solo game (Clockwerk) since calibrating in February 2015. I was pretty much twice as good as anyone on that server so perhaps I should ditch my stack and become a pro after all.

Literally, not figuratively, every single kill in the first ~20min happened with my involvement. I don't think my team accomplished anything if I wasn't around.

you are really good.

 

[Twookie]

How do you Euls 60 right clicks before the game ends without running out of mana?

rot counts as attacks(?) and therefore you evade attacks when you euls yourself with rot on

don't ask me why but that's how i did the quest

 

[DrPizza]

rot counts as attacks(?) and therefore you evade attacks when you euls yourself with rot on

don't ask me why but that's how i did the quest

Huh, that seems stupid. I can see it counting for spells but it surely shouldn't count for attacks.

 

[Twookie]

Huh, that seems stupid. I can see it counting for spells but it surely shouldn't count for attacks.

the quest doesn't specifically specify that it has to be 60 physical attacks, just attacks and atleast 5 of those attacks has to be spells, so i guess that's why it counts

although I do agree with you