#DOTA 2
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<@&877973728997294120> silencer looking for bloodseeker
fucked up thing to say
(in a game right now but i'd be interested in trying this combo at some point)
id be down to defend some ancients
@cursive wing this new (old?) bloodseeker+silencer thing is pretty cool
It's actually seeing play in pro matches, though not with core Silencer
The scariest part isn't buffing the Silencer, it's that Arcane Curse lasts for 14 seconds at level 1
that was a pos 5 silencer lol
enemy offlane had combined 12 deaths at 10 mins
Oh, right, there's a damage dealt graph now
yeah its the new damage tab
<@&877973728997294120> evening queue?
we need to improve the pilotnet chainmeal winrate
give me a react
<@&877973728997294120> who the videogame
If you'll accept fresh meat I can do one maybe two
5k games is not fresh
<@&877973728997294120> video game?
fresh meat welcome lol
Just woke up from nap
<@&877973728997294120> we got 2 any more wanna become a gamer?
Shodo Sai
Once again grants bonus stun and critical strike from marks generated by parrying an enemy Hero
Parry Bonus Critical Strike rescaled from 25/50/75/100% to 4% * Enemy Level
Countering Kez by being level 5 20 minutes into the game
Troll is the closest thing to sensible, which makes me doubt he's the correct answer
I could also see Sniper or Windrunner
battlefury though
Either against NP, or they just wanted the regen
Yep
Rubick playing against Morph + TB who steals agi shift and Meta, I can see it
I think it's a melee hero who needs the force staff
probably an underlord
or someone else with roots that need to be escaped
I don't think Underlord, but I agree otherwise
Oh, you mean against Underlord (or similar)
the answer is
not going to click the spoiler
but i'll try and guess from colors
honestly this isn't a terrible DK build
this is the draft if u want context (??)
i think they were trying but who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯
anyone else remember battlefury windrunner?
sounds like a warcraft character
wc3 battlefury would make characters play their alternate attack animations, if they had it
vengeful spirit
🤮
Drow
<@&877973728997294120> who wants to build some builds?
yea lets play
Decided to play a game of AD for the first time in a while, you can still build some pretty silly stuff it turns out
thats evil
doulbe charge sp[ells with aftershock??
and then a very long cc on ult so that you can get charges back
also the impalement arts hitbox is way too big compared to the graphic for the projectile
i will be completely out of the way
and then the projectile that appears to be about .2 seconds from flying past me actually hits me
It was honestly kind of a pain for this build
I kept blinking in, using Impalement Arts on my main target, throwing another to the side to hit another target or scout
But the second one would hit the main target anyway because I was in the same zip code
<@&877973728997294120> anyone wanna defend up some ancients? i got wizard (of the soap) with me for it
https://youtu.be/H0F35CpZXhY @viscid tapir @cursive wing
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yeah
"My bad, it was a good gank"
wow
self banish at veyr low life and then the shield allows you to simply blink out without respecting facing
Shard also lets you adjust facing in the box
hey y'all, I haven
goddamn apostrophe
't really played for the better part of this year; anyone got any insights into what sort of things are meta atm?
I play od every game and win
Meta shmeta
Get a blink dagger and win
pos1 Lina is in this patch I think?
I should watch some PGL to see what's going on rn, but it's a bit of a "turret meta", and Drow, Lina, Nature's Prophet are good rn
I want to commission a Soviet propaganda poster except it's telling the proletariat to buy blink dagger as the ultimate equalizer of the classes
It even looks like a sickle
lmao
I'm cooking
Comrade Axe will lead the people's army to victory
Shadow shaman before blink dagger: weak, helpless
Shadow shaman after blink dagger: HERO TO THE PEOPLE
sobbing and wailing
appreciate it though
In practice playing someone you enjoy and synergizes with the team is a lot more important than the meta
The trick is having an array of heroes with different functions who synergize with different team comps and interact with enemy team comps in a certain way who you're all comfortable playing
I've got like 500 hours in the game (Steam says 700, but I'll round it down a fair chunk to account for various forms of downtime)
I mean it's less playing the meta and more knowing the meta
yeah, hm, one thing is that you don't often see it happen very cleanly in pubs
Personally I don't worry too much about it, because people aren't that competent at lower ranks, if they try to follow the meta my win% is going to go up from them playing heroes they're worse at anyway
there's often parts of the enemy team that play by the meta, and parts that don't
I don't think it's even entirely a rank thing
(at least not until you get to the single-digit percentiles)
Those last few percentiles are what I mean, I think the meta is only relevant for games where the players are both skilled and coordinated enough that following it actually improves their winrate
see: Pudge being played in pubs :v
(Admittedly calling probably 98% of ranks "lower ranks" is a bit poor phrasing on my part, lol)
just pick stun
I mean whether or not people are playing the meta in my games I still find it valuable to know what heroes/items have the good numbers right now
Fair enough
I think rn the meta isn't particularly defined by outlier heroes, unlike last patch (good riddance to big treant)
Lina is probably the closest but the gap is relatively small IMO
https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.39c
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Huh, going to have to see how the PL aghs feels now
AIUI his aghs was massively nerfed by a bug fix a patch or two back
And he pretty much fell out of the meta
Ah, apparently it was 7.39, they fixed the radius on the aghs Stinger procs to actually be 15% of Sandstorm, as the skill listed
It was previously 30%
won my first two games back. dota's a lot of fun, and runs shockingly well on my laptop
I am so very rusty though
Normal backpack things
i was very confused when I saw this
discovered an entirely new way to get griefed: getting tethered to a ghost who stops me from running away
also 80 minute tidehunter game 😌 I was very big
we lost but I got to cast gush so many times
Aghs Gush is just satisfying to cast
it actually just installs and boots Deadlock
Apparently I have a lower winrate with Rapier and Aegis than I do with Butterfly and Daedalus
Yeah, and for Aegis I usually try to use it to make a push or fight happen, so that probably depresses the winrate of having it still in my inventory
But I would have definitely guessed higher winrate on both of them
(Also, apparently 15% of my Daedalus purchases are on support. Hoodwink and Snapfire say hi.)
guess the hero
even better
wew
well, someone who wants Dezun Bloodrite
i also vaguely remember the heroes in the game you were spectating...
Faceless???
if only
the answer is ||centaur. 🐴 ||
I was thinking ||Dawnbreaker|| but ||the lack of boots|| should have given it away
it was fucking wild to see
An obvious smurf account, too, with matches in the low double digits, but with actually really extremely solid play
Which makes the choice of hero and build even stranger
Clearly they just wanted to stomp
They did manage to almost lose a few times
haha
lol
alex ur more like my very big mango
would you say that the difficulty of finding pure mango juice in a store is analogous to how infrequently I can visit
Yes
damn if the lion had shard he could have used the mana drain to gain immunity to reflected damage
felt like i deserved to lift an aegis after pulling this off
thats some good pooglin'
love the little green guy
truely bizarre winters curse tho
not a single nether ward in sight
https://www.dota2.com/patches/7.39d
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WHO CARES!!! he still gets to have spells
Literally killable
kind of a question out of lack of knowledge, context being i'm yet again signed up to my company's dota 2 tournament. seeing as i've learned that i'm not gonna be good enough to just carry an entire team on my back, (usually each team as no more than 2 "veteran" players who know the basics of how to dota rather than just knowing how each spell their one hero works) i'm deciding to just try playing a support and try making sure we get at least one carry who is having regular amount of income.
so the question: are there any common support hero who can pivot to carrying in a pinch?
i also accept suggestions to shift mindset
crystal maiden and witch doctor can solo carry in low skill lobbies if they get certain timings
CM with aghs, bkb, blink who only enters fights paitently can easily solo carry the whole game
also a witch doctor with aghs who knows how to cast death ward effectively from fog can do the same
lmao those two are pretty commonly used among the coworkers too
shadow shaman can't solo carry the game but lategame having travels+refresher snakes can just kill the thrrone
or a random undefended barracks
also just be nature's prophet
as a support he kinda likes to buy very carry adjacent items such as orchid
its possible you might be able to get away with the 2013 build of shadow blade and just use it to rat against people who don't know about dust
failing that you can potentially self cast sprout and tp
nodnod
I'm a big fan of Hoodwink, who can absolutely win the game by snowballing off of early ganks
Venge can also scale into a very solid core with four lives later on
oh yeah venge is someone i have some familiarity with as well, good piont
Dark Willow, Dazzle, and Muerta are options as well
actually somehow this reminds me of winged used to OD support... and then train of thought went to weaver support... OD support i can get, the banishment and the harass. what was the idea behind weaver support?
ok i might also try dazzle
Good harass, The Swarm is extremely powerful, gets a ton of exp from the facet, gives a ton of vision and can kill enemy supports in teamfights while being a major nuisance to catch, aghs gives your carry another life
ahhh
Oh, Windrunner is another option
And Snapfire
...really I'm just looking at my preferred 4s, lol
Earthshaker, though he's a very weak support in lane, so probably not what you're looking for
yeah ES would be fine if the idea isn't to make sure lane partner doesn't die
i was wondering if ES, on the other hand, could work... but yeah lane partner's pool is pretty bad at dealing with enemies being pushed into their face...
(Grandar plays Ember support, but I don't know if Earth Spirit is viable there nowadays)
magnets, amirite
Magnetize, how does it work
jakiro is a strong laner and can carry
go the right click facet
get atos -> maelstrom-> pike -> mjolnir
and liquid frost/fire relatively early
ok jakiro, windrunner, dazzle and weaver should probably be sufficient for me to focus on as hero pool
I might not recommend Weaver with new players, he doesn't have a way to force enemies off his core and he really wants an aggressive lane partner to capitalize on The Swarm IMO
ah
You are lacking a hero with a targeted stun
venge in place of weaver then
ok i definitely haven't touched dazzle in too long, i did not remember his autoattacks hit this hard
granted, last time i looked at him his ult was still a passive
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/570/view/536608520511946802?l=english ... Huh <@&877973728997294120>
In addition to gameplay patch 7.39d, today we're shipping a new dashboard feature in Dota. For years now, outside of events, the dashboard's mostly just shown the results of your last match. We crunched the math on this, and it turns out that means for half of all players, every time you boot up the game all you're rewarded with is a sad reminde...
Hmm, looks like it's a thing where you get exp for each game, then get items at certain levels. I assume the levels take more exp the higher you go. It ends on November 5th (in theory), so a bit of FOMO, but seems like just a nice free event otherwise
the sets
This might be the strangest buff to a hero I've ever seen in Dota
Icefrog works in truly mysterious ways
lmao
that means you're playing the right heroes
yeahh
Is troll wardlord still the best hero in the game?
haven't seen him too much in tournaments or pubs, so I'm guessing not
if you're making a pun and mean Shadow Shaman, the ward lord, then yeah he's still pretty good
The other day I ruptured him as blood seeker and just ran away while he was ulting
Btw gamers I'm getting the last of my wisdom teeth removed in about two weeks. Hopefully we can break the pilot net chain meal revord
thankfully i will get drugged fully unconsious
and then when i get home im gonna ping the dota2 role and pick clockwerk
clockwerk is great
love to expand my armature
still unreasonably happy with this
anathestia looks like one of those really bad baby names
<@&877973728997294120> who wants to get some goat points
I like points
"Puck" sounds like algospeak from zoomers if you think about it
rip
Let’s go!
oh nice
legion commander on my team
sorry theyflower a 72 minute game was enough for most of us here
i was spectating it
<@&877973728997294120> thinking about some dota. have 3 already
anyone around for saturday night dotes
i can for nextgame probably
we're a bit short on time so not guaranteed there'll be any games if we don't get five in the next few minutes
im back
heroes are in alphabetical order based on filename, so good luck finding your favs
link to the list if youd like to make your own (do not do this)
https://tiermaker.com/create/all-dota-2-abilities-18613566
#dota2
#powerpoint
f-finally?
well I'm surprised in that I thought it was gonna be a total joke video
and then
uh
Oh boy I wonder how they ranked Ogre Smash
extremely rare legion commander cryptid
i think he was actually trying to lose every duel
i watched a low hp witch doctor womble around in his blink range for upwards of 3 seconds
TI has been crazy so far
any particular games/streams to look out for? I'll probably just throw Stream A on in my background
I still know basically nothing about this game but there have been some Games thus far
I was talking with gran last night and we were both in silent awe and horror at the 50 Minute Cart Debacle
meepo beyond godlike I could fuckin cry man
I think that's 2 meepo victories
2 back to back meepo wins in the series
absolutely rolled and smoked by #meepopack
meep em if you got em
the heroic submarine worked, we love to see it
guess the hero
skywrath mage
the live reaction from the doter elsewhere: "well she has four claritys so... maybe not.... skywrath......."
and it did not go well for them
won't stop me from taking the wrong lessons
tommy if you take dagon on ||bloodseeker|| i will throttle you
what pos was the bloodseeker
I think I've actually seen him do this before
the RIGHT lessons
by the way i get wisdoms removed tomorrow should i ping for heavy machienry games?
clockwerk anesthesia update
lmao nice
tiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
it's giving robotnik and agent stone
🪝
Hookroic
Dota is fun because you can absolutely see pro-level teams flail in panic fairly frequently
the opening ceremony orchestra is such a wonderful part of TI
Lmao what did I miss
I'm assuming at around 10 hours into this stream something funny happens
I didn't see this specific instance, you'd have to ask Threshette
But it's not a terribly rare occurrence
betboom vs nigma ||sumail blinked in 1v5 as the most fed hero in the game and basically single-handedly lost his team the decider as a result||
just full catastrophe
Ah, the EE gambit
Not gonna lie I really like the Helm of the Dominator meta
I think it's really cool that creeps are good
and dom bringing even the weak creeps up to decent health/damage means sometimes you can find weird little meaningful abilities
rts players smh smh
but yeah if I'm gonna try Lycan I should probably do it before the nerf
I'm very much not a fan, microing multiple characters isn't what I come to Dota for
I'm happy that it's good on heroes who fit that playstyle but right now it's so powerful that it's the best choice on most cores
on principle any item that's this centralizing is..... alarming
I find this a little cool, but I'm also a total newcomer to DOTA and I just respect the fuck out of people who can partition their brain enough to micro multiple things like that
That too, though IMO this is one of the less dangerous items in that regard
There's a lot of counterplay to it
doing this with e.g. jugg ward or couriers is one thing but the fact that dom creeps are much closer in importance to meepo clones makes the stakes a lot higher
It's not like when Blademail gets too strong and the counterplay is BKB or nothing
yeah the fact that it does involve some amount of 🤔 makes it a lot more tolerable to me
Though actually I had forgotten that dom creeps are creep heroes now
Which does reduce the options
again, though, I exclusively watch this game as a sport with crotchety old men and the occasionally crotchety old woman. this is gamer lawn boules to me.
you'll have to pry my blink dagger from my cold dead hands
if people are sick of this item I would absolutely understand
Mostly I'm just irked that if I want to play optimally I have to buy an item that makes the game less fun for me
Makes me more likely to go boot up Deadlock instead
I'm not convinced blink dagger is even an item anymore, some heroes just lose gold randomly and wake up with the ability to teleport
you're so fucking right
secret fifth spell
you're right, secret zeroth spell
yes good
Honestly all the other spells are optional
There's like three good ways to balance the Helm that I can think of
I suspect they'll just buff it and revert the creep-hero change
(Two of them are just rolling back three creep hero or midas buff)
Funny story I'm teaching and learning how to play this cool armored core wargame called ember and it too has a helm of the dominator meta. It's really funny
the creep-hero thing is so goofy lol
The funniest change would be to let Dom target creep heroes
You bring mechs and drones to fights. Drones are extremely good for their value but cannot do anything on their own. At the start of every round your piloted mechs generate RTS points you can spend to command your drones around
Helm of the Mental Misstep nooooo
And then at the end of the round after all the mechs then do some preprogrammed automatic action
So your squad is half cool heroes and half a-moving missile dogs
It's honestly very cute
(This kills the Lone Druid)
Ashley I still need to finish the LotR trick-taking game and catch up with Netrunner don't do this to me
I will resist the siren call and not look up this rulebook tonight
R.I.P necronomicon 2021
I'll need to see how it actually plays to really judge how interested I am
The one thing I miss about necro book is the mobile detection
the aforementioned 40 year old talks about that one... banner item? the one that upgraded from vlad?? they removed with such fucking fear in his voice
I can't remember if that's the one he was talking about
I do feel like necro never really got a proper replacement as a lategame detection source
And it makes for some interesting interactions but I'm not sure better ones
Different one, that's Wraith Pact
I think my favourite stat I've seen thus far from this TI was one guy buying 24 blueberry wards in 10 minutes and still getting shit-stomped in the vision game
not the Wraith Pact
just getting thagomized
Sometimes they just have your number in the ward game, it happens
sunny d
Not lemon?
nah the irises are a little too orange for me to feel comfortable assigning them as such
That's the reverse of mangos though
Which give no gold on destruction
And are presumably tasty
it still obliterates me that cheese is one of the most powerful consumables in the game
yumby
you may fascinate a moba player by giving them a piece of cheese.
Tangos are such a weird item, conceptually
tangos are a popular brand of snack wafer in indonesia
so I just imagine transmuting a tree into a big pack of chocolate wafers
and then wharfing down the whole lot in 16 seconds
one must wonder how does pugna eat so many wafers
pugna can do anything.
the poogler cannot be stopped
probably my favourite part of the meta rn is that Marci is S-tier
just some woman
who punches people
just all these flaming skeletons and gods and weird rock people and then A Human ends up being one of the most terrifying forces to deal with
who would win:
the personification of the heat death of the universe
or
punches you punches you punches you punches you punches you punches you punches you punches you punches you punches you—
anything can work
(i can't see the rest of the team comp because i am at work, would you mind sending it through? 😔)
everything can work
lineup is ||pudge brood phoenix tusk sd vs sandking, silencer, underlord, voker, monkey||
thank you kindly
pretty unusual
Cultist sacrifice says hello
god
that was one of the most beautiful sequences I've ever seen
that pudge and phoenix trading off so that phoenix takes aggro for a bit off the pudge and then pudge yoinks phoenix back out of Da Pit
I could fuckin cry man
how's the tusk doing?
I like playing tusk but my win rate on him is abysmal
I do have ONE cool clip though
ignore the multitude of replay bugs
P U N C H
truly the punch Meta is well underway
punch as Marci
punch as tusk
it matters not
They've both been seeing intermittent play as 1, +80% bonus attack damage is wild on Pudge's new facet
For comparison, level 1 God's Strength is 110%
And the active on Flesh Heap just makes him entirely immune or massively reduces the damage from a lot of heroes (e.g. SK)
Underlord carry sounds very much like one of those things that only works in a pro game
I remember faintly trying it a few times with tom and you just needed to never lose momentum
I think it worked alright
I recall it working alright one time and then failing to get off the ground again
But it’s been a minute
True it has
I should play more dota with Pnet
I think it really struggles we tried it a few times but yeah
I'd love to play more with pnet too
Watching a support Monkey King go wand into Dominator with literally no other items (except wards/regen), yeah, maybe this item is a bit overtuned
The analysis I've seen suggests that particular route is mostly viable for heroes who can delay boots for one reason or another
E.g. MK's tree dance
ive had underlord carries in my high ancient/low divine pubs and it does seem solid
but sometimes you will autolose because you are shaman with furion, spectre, underlord, bounty
and so it's you and bounty vs the world because all the global people are farming in their corners
really hard to accomplish that in soloq
this post TI patch is gonna be so big right? its gonna be a big patch?
i feel like we haven't had a big patch that changed heroes and items a lot since before the map change
that would be exciting
the meta has still been holding relative freshness for me at least
helm meta is kinda wild
what, heavy melee?
NOBODY'S STOPPIN ME
OH MY GOD
GAME 3 XG VS ICUPVISION
CINEMA
ABSOLUTE FUCKING CINEMA
XM MY GOAT
anyway I'm going to mute the thread now so I don't get spoiled for when I watch grands tomorrow morning
zzz
GGs
||No announcement or anything afterwards feels strange given the big arg they did with the obelisks, no? ||
I hate this fucking game
shoutout to @void grove for showing me this
https://www.twitch.tv/northernlion/clip/SavageIronicAirGuitarWTRuck-e7IcYGytlse_fDF4 @serene arrow @stark linden @clear terrace @manic nimbus @glossy stratus
oh my god is it not loading now
😩
okay just took some time to upload
this is what you get for complimenting my singing
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10/10
I love rubick to death. I wish I was still in the swing of playing dota so I could play more rubick because no other game has ever committed as hard to that archetype of character
CUUUUUBES
Rubick will sit in my bans for a long time. It's not my fault I pick heroes with good spells
be nice and share
Lyrics:
There’s Tidehuner’s Ravage, a Roar that is Savage, there’s Finger and Laguna Blade
A Wraithfire Blaster, a Knife from Ringmaster, from Dazzle you get Shallow Grave
There’s Conc Shot and Shackleshot, Powershot Deadshot and Acorn to just name a few
Get Sun Strike and Earth Spike and Blink Strike and Boundless, shame that you can...
yesssss
It’s not nothing, but god is it close
@reef parcel
LMAO
awww booo they finally fixed it
tree is now immortal
pnet stack time? 👀
i've already been doing tons and tons of dota recently it's just been with a friend group stack. itll be nice to do more pnet dota yeah
been doing deadlock too
this is so obscenely necessary
I am so happy for this.
Along with the Necro and Pugna changes.
can't believe lesh also had it
I think I may actually be getting into the swing of dota again
being on eu servers is a trip
doing a year in cardiff, yeah
holy shit me and tron an hour away from each other
bristol?
so true
I played League for a while, then stopped because of some news about the company. I've been thinking about getting into Dota 2, but I'm having trouble understanding how the game works, even with the in-game tutorials. Does anyone have suggestions for how to learn the game? Or do I just need to suffer through until I figure it out?
Ingame tutorials are probably out of date, best bet would be to gather up a group you enjoy playing with to suffer through the very first "matchmaker doesn't know where to put you" games and subsequent "matchmaker puts you against people who still have 200+ games on you but are maybe more appropriate opponents" phases.
But barring that, if you have any questions the dota players here are very helpful. Feel free to ping the role too, if you're looking for a stack.
Any specific questions? Coming from League the broader concepts should still be familiar, but there's a lot of difference in the small stuff that adds up.
I think what I'm having the most trouble understanding right now is strategy for building items, followed by what objectives you should be doing and when
Do you know of any youtube videos you can point me towards? If not that's fine
I don't know if I have a group of friends who would play the game right now. Does Pilot Net put together games, or do you just talk about the game and then play on your own?
I don't know videos, sorry.
My understanding is that Dota's items are a little backwards from League - less expensive items are more cost efficient, but provide less stats than the higher tier stuff. So in the laning phase you'll pick up a stat-appropriate item (Bracer, Wraith Band, Null Talisman) and a magic stick and some consumable regen, then grab boots, then whatever you hero's core items are.
PNet used to play a lot, it's been quiet recently though.
Ok, thanks
One difference to League (I think, I haven't played League in at least a decade) is that the courier existing means consumable regen plays a bigger role in Dota
You can basically constantly be ferrying out regen and early game items during laning
Also, Tom mentioned it but you always want boots of some variety (except for two specific facets that give movement speed but prevent you from getting movement from boots). They don't stack however, so only get one pair
There are community item guides for each hero you can select in the shop to provide recommendations
Oh that's great actually
I'll have to figure out how to use that
For objectives, the big ones are
- Wisdom Shrines - these spawn on the far East and West sides of the map every 7 minutes, and give exp to the hero who picks them up and the hero with the lowest exp (other than them) on their team. The first couple shrines (at 7 minutes and 14 minutes) are the most important, generally the offlane support should be on the shrine at 7 minutes
- Tormentor - spawns at 20 minutes in the far Northwest, respawns 10 minutes after being killed, gives Aghanims Shard (permanent buff that usually changes one of your abilities, depends on the hero) to one of the two lowest net worth heroes on your team, plus gold to everyone. It reflects damage and constantly regens hp (or shield, technically), so you need to coordinate with your team to have the damage and hp to kill it, but it's quite worthwhile if you can get people coordinated. At night it moves to the Southeast corner instead.
- Roshan - lives in a pair of pits in the river, Northwest at night and Southeast during the day, gives gold and drops the Aegis of the Immortal item when killed. Any hero can pick the Aegis up, while holding it they respawn five seconds later in the same spot when killed. Aegis vanishes five minutes after being picked up if unused. Rosh respawns a random time between 8 and 11 (I think?) minutes after being killed. Further kills cause him to drop more stuff, but the Aegis is the big one. He's very tanky, so you usually want to go kill him after a teamfight so your carry can get Aegis, which helps immensely for pushing high ground
Towers are Towers and Barracks are Inhibitors (except they don't respawn), you push them when you have the space, have won a teamfight, or are just generally strong enough
Note that since everyone is usually carrying Teleport Scrolls (you should always have at least one on you, they have their own inventory slot) towers are fast-travel spots as well, which makes pushing them dangerous (enemies can port in) but also more valuable (killing them severely hampers the enemy's map mobility)
Thanks
what's the second one? (not centaur)
Medusa, though it's pretty off-meta outside specific matchups
huh
swansea
failed the 50/50 😔
mid player kind of thing to say right there
<@&877973728997294120> anyone wanna get a friday night pnet 5 stack together?
I may be around for a game 2 in 30-45 minutes
I would need an hour or so I think, but am interested
alright, I'm around
Here now, I'll re-ping <@&877973728997294120> hoping for a 5th (assuming VerdantAsh is around now to be our 4th).
chat is this good
On Axe, without more context, it can be pretty fifty fifty 
Funny what spending your five seconds of glory at north of 40 armor forcing people to autoattack you does to your received damage score
(Looking at the game above, probably north of 60 armor)
power rune spawned in swansea 😔
i had 90 armor during call at the end of the game lol
yeah nice
but yeah on a lot of heroes, taking 80% magic damage is a sign you should get magic resist
on Axe... well, maybe it still means that, but it's also just kinda expected lol
unfortunately as u can see in the screenshot they all did 100000 magic damage and killed me anyway :/
yeah rip
well, as long as you've got an average of at least 1 and ideally 2 kills per death, you are sorta doing your job as Axe
he's definitely the offlaner I die the most as in good but close games
space created
@lime granite by the way this is a channel and you can even get a ping role somehow
Tiny should have 3 more starting agi but his agi gain should be -0.2
why
It would be extremely funny
(And a slight buff, though he probably doesn't need it)
that should get added if an only if arc warden can use rapiers on the clone but when the clone dies it drops a new rapier that is muted for everyone on arc warden's team but enters free mode if anyone on radiant picks it up
But would that work for gem too?
no
honestly the game would be a lot more ruined if it just made a bunch of gems compared to rapiers
no wards ever vs "GUYS DONT PICK UP THE RAPIER ITS NOT WORTH IT"
especially because someone picks up rapier -> arc warden kills them -> arc warden gets a 2nd rapeir
now 2x as many rapiers are created every time arc warden makes a clone
only if they let me spell steal morph
||I feel like doing guess the hero with an AD game is cheating||
||yeah, but I want to getpeople excited about AD again. new the ruleset where you also have to draft your hero is a huge cool change. this game my draft order was windranger->powershot->brsitleback+quills (i got them together due to snake order)-> flaming lasso.||
game link ||https://windrun.io/matches/8510557717||
||did mk really pass up quills + napalm, damn thats a bit of a punt I think||
||he first picked arctic burn and then got napalm when it came back around so honestly its fine||
||oh thats more ok, I thought he had the corner spot by player order||
I should play more AD
I think I fixed the sound bug
<@&877973728997294120> anyone up for some defending of the ancients?
yes
Depends on if I can convince y'all to do some AD when I get home :P
we are already queueing it
Eyyyy
Just needs Napalm to be The Rudest
I think Rot might work while you're split
Since it's an aura
it does
I think bladefury does too
because I'm kind of just hidden in the earth panda
Yeah makes sense Bladefury would too
<@&877973728997294120> re-ping we got 3 going
what
Apologies, saw this in a reply of deadlock subreddit, context?
did this guy had a moment like Soldier 76, where adding 1 number basically turned them into a must pick/ban?
(Soldier got added 1point to their bullet damage and he went from mid to top tier one time)
that's ancient
1 armor is about 6% damage reduction. Usually kind of a "look at this hero" buff more than anything super significant.
I think a lot of the humor comes down to 1) the old, slightly more casual patchnotes from wc3 and 2) how often this comic gets reposted. Basically any time a hero gets this buff the meme will be reposted with a new hero copied not-quite-exactly over the previous image
ok so technically a nothing burger buff to make it look like a big deal
peak
It's a VERY old meme about heroes in rough states getting minor tweaks that don't really change things
At least 6.83 when I started Doom was pretty rough, that hero comes and goes
But I think that took Doom from like 0 to 1 armor or something which does not really change the hero at all
GOD the old UI
For a more recent one to color in the "hero copied over the previous"
I think the best part is that post the comic, drow mostly ignores peoples base armour now
I think valve goes by 1 starting armour ≈ 1% winrate for heroes near 50%
saw that on a reddit post a while back though so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Why stop at near 50%? Take someone at 35% WR and give them +15 starting armor
Chen is now 100% winrate in pro games
I suppose most people who can't play Chen just don't, which, fair enough
Tech's suggestion would be +7 armor, putting him up to 13
MK does not need 13 armor
As a monkey king hater, we should go the other way
and reduce his starting armor to -37
...now I'm actually quite curious what would happen to the meta if you did that to every hero
(Apart from Drow becoming unplayable)
(And ET)
pa sniper and zoo super op
'Dusa has a fun time
dusa kinda doesnt care about her own armor
Yep, so she just gets a massive buff to her damage against heroes with negligible nerfs to her own survivability
meepo gets really happy i think
I'm pretty sure meepo just explodes to physical damage
All the melee stack takers can't
Anyone with ranged physical spells have fun, Dazzle and Hoodwink spring to mind
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<@&877973728997294120> anybody feel like a game or two of dota?
I wish I could ;_;
playing btd6 with a buddy right now
I am once more asking <@&877973728997294120> would anyone like a game of dota on this nice friday evening
Must... Make... 3 more assets
you have this magic power where you only ask on days i accidentally fall asleep at 5pm. very powerful but pls stop i would like to play some dota on a day where i am awake
I'll just keep pinging then lmao, surely I'll catch you eventually
<@&877973728997294120> speaking of, I ask once more. Dota?
just came home from an exhausting trip to a chinese grocer and also that ping was an hour ago whoops
;o;
if you're still around i could play 1
<@&877973728997294120> hey we should plan to queue up on Monday
So make time :)
we queue tomorrow :)
under 2 hours :)
I'll still be at work :(
its okay maybe they have a lot of trouble deploying the patch
oh I see
is the Bard Frog coming out?
(don't spoil me I already can't focus today.)
i don't know what's inside
any minute now!!!
People think they can outsmart me, maybe
I haven't met anyone who can outsmart corrosive haze, bash, q, bash again
Your hotkeys might be different but default Q is Sprint, not Crush :P
Sorry I don't actually play slardar ;-;
That's interesting though, since most heroes have their most basic nuke on q
<@&877973728997294120> https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/555756515113304416
It's open season on the world's most dangerous heroes, and you're just the hero we need to track them all down. We're happy to announce a massive Dota/Monster Hunter crossover with new sets, new pets, a new in-game hunt and crafting system, and of course monsters. (For everyone who thinks Dragon Knight turning into a dragon is awesome but would ...
that's not on my bingo
ok so rathalos for red DK, rathian for green DK i can imagine
what are they gonna do for blue DK?
lmao
This must be what getting rug-pulled in a crypto scam feels like, lol
i was expecting a real patch :(
At least there’s Deadlock
<@&877973728997294120> any uhh... hunters?
sure
at least everyone can get a free antimage persona
I see the issue, this is 2 am for me
Squadla!
Kittechies!
Oh that's quite good
There must just be a fan on the dev team, this is such a strange teammup
<@&877973728997294120> let's get hunting
unfortunately: at work
Was playtesting, I'll be around in a couple hours
POOGIE???
<@&877973728997294120> anyone want to defend of the ancients?
its always "who wants to defend the ancients" and never "who wants to attack the ancients",,,
(i got a pc upgrade recently and am pondering installing and playing dota again
We have strong, one-sided opinions about what happens to these ancients.
yes give me a little bit of time playing 18xx with a friendyt
over 5 years of rust.... and this update might be the one that pulls me back in to queue
(but we'll see after 3 games or so 💀)
lol
Probably no Dotes for me tonight :(
I can play in a couple of hours.
@steel forge when I say "red" btw this is what I meant
I still don't see it tbh
this is deadlock stuff, but since it has a pro from dota I guess it fits here
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Wanna note that slacks is wildly toxic
And maybe shouldn't be treated with quite the celebrity lens we treat others
Love that of the two dota people Deathy's gotten on his channel both are just insanely toxic people
Slacks and now Quinn
Weirdly Slacks hasn't been toxic in my Deadlock games I've had him in but I've not seen him in my games since last year
Oof
Yeah slacks is really toxic which is why I tend to avoid his stuff usually but here and there he can be okay
In the second coaching with deathy video, deathy just straight up asks slacks about why his comments were full of people talking about how toxic slacks is and how he's really an awful person to find in pubs and slacks gives a really shitty nonanswer
It's funny that for slacks none of it is a bit or part of his career. You'd have to personally play with him to find out he's toxic
But he just plays
So much dota
And is such middle of the field in rank but queues with a dude who is immortal so he gets near every rank in his games
How toxic must one be to have personally aggrieved most of a community
I've queued into slacks in solo queue dota several times recently, he mostly just spams voicelines
ofc my experience with him isnt universal but if I didn't know it was slacks he would just be some mildly annoying guy
he used to go off at people quite regularly and got a bit of a reputation as an asshole in pubs, maybe he saves the flaming for deadlock now who knows
He was spending half his time in the multiple games I played with him flaming someone chosen near at random on my team every dota game I played with him
A uniquely obnoxious view of a guy who spams his own voice on cooldown for 40 minutes in between arguing with a guy over a mistake that happened at like minute 2
This is why we never build full agility.
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<@&877973728997294120> anyone for a lazy saturday queue?
I'd be down.
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Half life 3 confirmed
somehow, i fell for it
@manic nimbus you there, higher primate
what the fuck is this draft
what is HAPPENING
nightstalker??? the dota powerpoints guy????????
what of it
TB is slightly out of meta
but pretty good against cent and ursa
@raw meadow whats the issue
nightstalker can totally get ursa with blink and his thing on stopping him ulting, is real nice against pugna, can chase hood in trees
and they didn't know about the lesh (and you can still get him if you get the drop)
wait is hoodwink finally decent again
hoodwink was like s tier in this years ti lol
i'm so back
basically always contested
hood is decent, I'd say like solid tier
the S tier supports are naga siren then jakiro
yeah naga was just 99.9999% banned
and the one match in grands where she wasnt it was like
what the fuck are you doing
crushed underfoot mercilessly
snapfire was super contested in ti
although I havent actually seen her at all in this grands
snap is solid some teams like her
no contesting full stop
although if thats the price i need to pay to get pugna gaming
fine by me
we love pugna gaming
poogles got a bunch of nerfs lately
i love pugna
whitemon made the poogler look fucking broken
you can poogle people so hard atm but when its awkward its really awkward
there was one particular save where he successfully gas-stationed pure through six million damage
no disable or movement gaming
and it was just disgusting
in the end this match was just
"i have ccs"
vs
"i have ccs AND countermagic"
some games are very much like
and then the guys with ccs and saves won over the guys with ccs
as long as poogles lives
diff
nobody else can die
he had a 9 streak before his first death
he was pooglin outta control
it was truly just him flexing his dominance
server adminnage
in the endgame it was like sheep stick , euls, sheep stick 2, decrep for spice, bushwhack and meanwhile every time bz or pure gets below half they're getting carted and poogled and breakfast in bed
infinite mental boom
the cart is so fucking busted
what do you think the cd and mana cost are?
without looking it up
20, 0
not far off really
genuine just chucking
30, 75
33 was just dropping cart for movement
75 fucking mana for that
legit just using it for rotates
and I was like okay thats his ult
his ultimate ability
the ability that is his ultimate
lol
I'm able to play Dota again so i've been doing that a lot this weekend
Dota 2 getting another huge nothing of an update feels so silly
yea
like a week later. yeah this game is still fun
been playing a lot of Undying - big fan of being a big wad of meat that can wade into the teamfight and just never go down
just gotta remember the instant respawn thing
yeah that's a bit funny
mostly because when the enemy team finally all beats the crap out of me in a minute 40 teamfight I just roll up again
yeah lol
tbh
undying is usually my pocket "the other team picked too many melee/str heroes" pick
I'm still kinda figuring out how to play any pos higher than 3 in this game
But support heroes are also just fun
yeah honestly melee supports are just a lot of fun
I really love playing clock
just fucking terrorising people with cogs
hell yeah
it's definitely fine to specialize in a particular position tbh
though it's also really good to be able to flex to other roles, for obvious reasons
I am, like, an Offlaner™
I specialize in it, and playing big, tough, and disruptive- or aura-carrying heroes
And when I flex to other roles, I can often apply those skills in a similar way. When I play 1, I'm often a Wraith King or Dragon Knight, and if I'm a support, I'd generally play something like an Undying
But because I'm pretty specialized, I've gotten pretty good at the game pretty quickly
I too love ogre magi
I don't actually play enough to pick him and not feel like I'm griefing but he's a fun little dude
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Yeah learning how to do at least one proper carry is prolly good practice for me
but otherwise, been messing with Techies, Undying, ect
getting a feel for the game again, still being not great at it
but that's alright
big thing i'm trying to learn right now is camp stacking/lane pulling
because I know that's an important support job, and I know how to do it mechanically speaking
but weaving that timing into keeping up the job of bullying the other guy/what are the actual camps i need to go pull if i'm like, in radiant safelane isn't something i've nailed yet
yeah
one of the hardest things is like managing support time
keeping your carry safe, warding, ganking, securing mid runes, etc
i love playing pinball with the enemy offlane
yes
and especially their support
you are ranged come into the jungle and hit me with your range
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OD is real fun
maybe i'm just riding the high of a stomp game but getting to just blast and imprison people with impunity feels awesome
He's real satisfying
Does a lot of stuff, and is also one of the most oppressive laners in the game
yeah being able to put people in time-out so that they can't last hit feels so mean
The classic play is just box them and deny the ranged creep for every single wave
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Yeah OD is a blast to play and really tough to lane into
Also rare midlaner with a save
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Holy fuck yeah
FROG BARD BARD FROG
Holy patch
It's a HUNTING HORN
"Croak of Genius"
The ult is a monhun hunting horn
the ult is a QTE!
new phone wallpaper get
Songs are only effective if strummed on the beat.
Booo
now that's an interesting idea
I imagine it'll be really good on CK
but I'm curious how much it'll actually affect farming
oooh there's a gate to the safelane now
and there's more rivers
the base river damn
(I think the Bridge Radiant is the wrong way around, with Previous Version being the new one)
Flagbearer Creep: Bonus Gold from killing Flagbearers is now classified as creep gold instead of ability gold
I wonder if this is something we ran into trying to figure out gold breakdowns.
Oh my god I want to spam treant
This looks so fun
FROG
Had the same thought, lol
you can lick yourself
This guy looks so rad
Very much my support jam
Oh, Talents no longer need skill points, you just Get em
That's pretty nice
lmao, no more double-warding
That's an update specifically for me that's so polite
yeah
Gahd he's so charming, Frogstomp animation..




