#DOTA 2

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manic nimbus
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hmm

cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> silencer looking for bloodseeker

viscid tapir
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fucked up thing to say

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(in a game right now but i'd be interested in trying this combo at some point)

unborn isle
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id be down to defend some ancients

olive moon
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@cursive wing this new (old?) bloodseeker+silencer thing is pretty cool

cursive wing
glossy stratus
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The scariest part isn't buffing the Silencer, it's that Arcane Curse lasts for 14 seconds at level 1

olive moon
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enemy offlane had combined 12 deaths at 10 mins

glossy stratus
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Oh lmao

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Literally double the net worth of the core, impressive

cursive wing
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wait is that gold or damage dealt

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we bullied out night stalker at night

glossy stratus
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Oh, right, there's a damage dealt graph now

olive moon
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yeah its the new damage tab

cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> evening queue?

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we need to improve the pilotnet chainmeal winrate

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give me a react

cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> who the videogame

final mountain
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If you'll accept fresh meat I can do one maybe two

cursive wing
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how fresh

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i think me + 1 noob will not be a good gameplay experience

final mountain
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Fresh as in I haven't joined you before

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Fresh as in 5k games and ~3200mmr

stark linden
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5k games is not fresh

cursive wing
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oh sure

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i did start to play warframe with a person

olive moon
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<@&877973728997294120> video game?

olive moon
cursive wing
cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> we got 2 any more wanna become a gamer?

glossy stratus
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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

olive moon
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truly impossible guess the hero from a game i was watching

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(2200ish mmr)

glossy stratus
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Troll is the closest thing to sensible, which makes me doubt he's the correct answer

viscid tapir
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legion commander has a unique force staff animation

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therefore

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abbadon?

glossy stratus
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I could also see Sniper or Windrunner

viscid tapir
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battlefury though

glossy stratus
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Either against NP, or they just wanted the regen

viscid tapir
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yeah

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truly impossible means it's like, rubick or something

glossy stratus
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Yep

viscid tapir
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is nyx still universal?

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armlet for damage

glossy stratus
viscid tapir
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I think it's a melee hero who needs the force staff

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probably an underlord

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or someone else with roots that need to be escaped

glossy stratus
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I don't think Underlord, but I agree otherwise

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Oh, you mean against Underlord (or similar)

viscid tapir
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yeah

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against

viscid tapir
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not going to click the spoiler

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but i'll try and guess from colors

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honestly this isn't a terrible DK build

olive moon
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this is the draft if u want context (??)

viscid tapir
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okay

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is it just a BadMannerFury?

olive moon
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i think they were trying but who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯

manic nimbus
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anyone else remember battlefury windrunner?

clear terrace
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sounds like a warcraft character

viscid tapir
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wc3 battlefury would make characters play their alternate attack animations, if they had it

cursive wing
cursive wing
cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> who wants to build some builds?

olive moon
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yea lets play

cursive wing
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@idle pendant please edit the thread ot have a longer expiration date

glossy stratus
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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

cursive wing
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thats evil

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doulbe charge sp[ells with aftershock??

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and then a very long cc on ult so that you can get charges back

manic nimbus
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thats pretty fun

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aftershock is a great buildaround

cursive wing
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also the impalement arts hitbox is way too big compared to the graphic for the projectile

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i will be completely out of the way

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and then the projectile that appears to be about .2 seconds from flying past me actually hits me

glossy stratus
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I kept blinking in, using Impalement Arts on my main target, throwing another to the side to hit another target or scout

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But the second one would hit the main target anyway because I was in the same zip code

cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> anyone wanna defend up some ancients? i got wizard (of the soap) with me for it

stark linden
cursive wing
stark linden
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Not used to removing it on mobile

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But edited!

cursive wing
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thanks

cursive wing
light urchin
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yeah

reef parcel
fathom bolt
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"My bad, it was a good gank"

reef parcel
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Yes well they tried very hard

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Gold star

cursive wing
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wow

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self banish at veyr low life and then the shield allows you to simply blink out without respecting facing

glossy stratus
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Shard also lets you adjust facing in the box

steel forge
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hey y'all, I haven

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goddamn apostrophe

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't really played for the better part of this year; anyone got any insights into what sort of things are meta atm?

reef parcel
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Meta shmeta

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Get a blink dagger and win

clear terrace
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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

reef parcel
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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

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It even looks like a sickle

clear terrace
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lmao

reef parcel
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I'm cooking

clear terrace
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Comrade Axe will lead the people's army to victory

reef parcel
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Shadow shaman before blink dagger: weak, helpless

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Shadow shaman after blink dagger: HERO TO THE PEOPLE

steel forge
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appreciate it though

glossy stratus
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In practice playing someone you enjoy and synergizes with the team is a lot more important than the meta

serene arrow
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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

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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)

steel forge
serene arrow
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yeah, hm, one thing is that you don't often see it happen very cleanly in pubs

glossy stratus
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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

serene arrow
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there's often parts of the enemy team that play by the meta, and parts that don't

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I don't think it's even entirely a rank thing

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(at least not until you get to the single-digit percentiles)

glossy stratus
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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

clear terrace
glossy stratus
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(Admittedly calling probably 98% of ranks "lower ranks" is a bit poor phrasing on my part, lol)

steel forge
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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

glossy stratus
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Fair enough

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I think rn the meta isn't particularly defined by outlier heroes, unlike last patch (good riddance to big treant)

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Lina is probably the closest but the gap is relatively small IMO

cursive wing
glossy stratus
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Huh, going to have to see how the PL aghs feels now

manic nimbus
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slightly surprised to see sand king buffed

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but welcome

glossy stratus
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AIUI his aghs was massively nerfed by a bug fix a patch or two back

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And he pretty much fell out of the meta

glossy stratus
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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

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It was previously 30%

manic nimbus
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ahh

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I see

steel forge
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won my first two games back. dota's a lot of fun, and runs shockingly well on my laptop

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I am so very rusty though

glossy stratus
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Normal backpack things

clear terrace
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i was very confused when I saw this

steel forge
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discovered an entirely new way to get griefed: getting tethered to a ghost who stops me from running away

steel forge
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also 80 minute tidehunter game 😌 I was very big

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we lost but I got to cast gush so many times

glossy stratus
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Aghs Gush is just satisfying to cast

olive moon
buoyant summit
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13 player dota 2 game

clear terrace
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it actually just installs and boots Deadlock

cursive wing
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yooo

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multiple coach

glossy stratus
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Apparently I have a lower winrate with Rapier and Aegis than I do with Butterfly and Daedalus

manic nimbus
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I buy the rapier one

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its a thing people buy as a desperation move

glossy stratus
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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

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But I would have definitely guessed higher winrate on both of them

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(Also, apparently 15% of my Daedalus purchases are on support. Hoodwink and Snapfire say hi.)

serene arrow
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guess the hero

serene arrow
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even better

clear terrace
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wew

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well, someone who wants Dezun Bloodrite

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i also vaguely remember the heroes in the game you were spectating...

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Faceless???

manic nimbus
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if only

olive moon
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this is an elite ogre magi build

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so its surely like sniper or something

serene arrow
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the answer is ||centaur. 🐴 ||

glossy stratus
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I was thinking ||Dawnbreaker|| but ||the lack of boots|| should have given it away

serene arrow
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it was fucking wild to see

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An obvious smurf account, too, with matches in the low double digits, but with actually really extremely solid play

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Which makes the choice of hero and build even stranger

glossy stratus
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Clearly they just wanted to stomp

serene arrow
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They did manage to almost lose a few times

reef parcel
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@serene arrow

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made u a thing

serene arrow
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haha

reef parcel
serene arrow
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lmao

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that's excellent

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ashley u r the aegis of my heart

clear terrace
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lol

reef parcel
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alex ur more like my very big mango

serene arrow
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damn

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mangoes are pretty good

serene arrow
reef parcel
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Yes

steel forge
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that poor lion 😔

cursive wing
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damn if the lion had shard he could have used the mana drain to gain immunity to reflected damage

cursive wing
manic nimbus
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thats some good pooglin'

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love the little green guy

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truely bizarre winters curse tho

cursive wing
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not a single nether ward in sight

cursive wing
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WHO CARES!!! he still gets to have spells

swift sand
vapid ledge
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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?

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i also accept suggestions to shift mindset

cursive wing
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CM with aghs, bkb, blink who only enters fights paitently can easily solo carry the whole game

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also a witch doctor with aghs who knows how to cast death ward effectively from fog can do the same

vapid ledge
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lmao those two are pretty commonly used among the coworkers too

cursive wing
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shadow shaman can't solo carry the game but lategame having travels+refresher snakes can just kill the thrrone

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or a random undefended barracks

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also just be nature's prophet

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as a support he kinda likes to buy very carry adjacent items such as orchid

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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

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failing that you can potentially self cast sprout and tp

vapid ledge
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nodnod

glossy stratus
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Venge can also scale into a very solid core with four lives later on

vapid ledge
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oh yeah venge is someone i have some familiarity with as well, good piont

glossy stratus
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Dark Willow, Dazzle, and Muerta are options as well

vapid ledge
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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?

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ok i might also try dazzle

glossy stratus
vapid ledge
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ahhh

glossy stratus
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Oh, Windrunner is another option

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And Snapfire

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...really I'm just looking at my preferred 4s, lol

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Earthshaker, though he's a very weak support in lane, so probably not what you're looking for

vapid ledge
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yeah ES would be fine if the idea isn't to make sure lane partner doesn't die

glossy stratus
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Yeah definitely not ES then

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And probably not ES or ES, for that matter

vapid ledge
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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...

glossy stratus
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(Grandar plays Ember support, but I don't know if Earth Spirit is viable there nowadays)

vapid ledge
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magnets, amirite

glossy stratus
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Magnetize, how does it work

manic nimbus
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jakiro is a strong laner and can carry

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go the right click facet

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get atos -> maelstrom-> pike -> mjolnir

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and liquid frost/fire relatively early

vapid ledge
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ok jakiro, windrunner, dazzle and weaver should probably be sufficient for me to focus on as hero pool

glossy stratus
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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

vapid ledge
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ah

cursive wing
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You are lacking a hero with a targeted stun

vapid ledge
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venge in place of weaver then

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ok i definitely haven't touched dazzle in too long, i did not remember his autoattacks hit this hard

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granted, last time i looked at him his ult was still a passive

reef parcel
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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...

glossy stratus
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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

viscid tapir
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the sets

glossy stratus
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This might be the strangest buff to a hero I've ever seen in Dota

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Icefrog works in truly mysterious ways

viscid tapir
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lmao

manic nimbus
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yeah

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my bois all got minor nerfs basically

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lmao

viscid tapir
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that means you're playing the right heroes

manic nimbus
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yeahh

karmic grove
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Is troll wardlord still the best hero in the game?

clear terrace
serene arrow
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if you're making a pun and mean Shadow Shaman, the ward lord, then yeah he's still pretty good

cursive wing
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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

manic nimbus
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I got those done a month or two ago

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was not fun

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may your sockets never dry

cursive wing
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thankfully i will get drugged fully unconsious

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and then when i get home im gonna ping the dota2 role and pick clockwerk

manic nimbus
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clockwerk is great

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love to expand my armature

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still unreasonably happy with this

olive moon
reef parcel
serene arrow
cursive wing
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<@&877973728997294120> who wants to get some goat points

viscid tapir
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I like points

reef parcel
cursive wing
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dota2

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apparently i dont get wisdom teeth removed today, only examined

manic nimbus
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rip

reef parcel
pearl chasm
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Let’s go!

cursive wing
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oh nice

cursive wing
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legion commander on my team

serene arrow
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sorry theyflower a 72 minute game was enough for most of us here

cursive wing
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i was spectating it

reef parcel
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<@&877973728997294120> thinking about some dota. have 3 already

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anyone around for saturday night dotes

cursive wing
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i can for nextgame probably

serene arrow
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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

cursive wing
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im back

raw meadow
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f-finally?

steel forge
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I

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I dunno why I'm suprised it's 10 hours lon

raw meadow
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well I'm surprised in that I thought it was gonna be a total joke video

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and then

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uh

viscid tapir
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Oh boy I wonder how they ranked Ogre Smash

cursive wing
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accidentally clicked out of the popup but

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the win was on silencer ofc

cursive wing
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better screenshot now that profile has updated

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we need a silencer arcana

cursive wing
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extremely rare legion commander cryptid

manic nimbus
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Hmm

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That is not the duel damage distribution you want

cursive wing
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i think he was actually trying to lose every duel

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i watched a low hp witch doctor womble around in his blink range for upwards of 3 seconds

olive moon
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TI has been crazy so far

viscid tapir
raw meadow
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I still know basically nothing about this game but there have been some Games thus far

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I was talking with gran last night and we were both in silent awe and horror at the 50 Minute Cart Debacle

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meepo beyond godlike I could fuckin cry man

viscid tapir
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I think that's 2 meepo victories

raw meadow
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2 back to back meepo wins in the series

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absolutely rolled and smoked by #meepopack

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meep em if you got em

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the heroic submarine worked, we love to see it

manic nimbus
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arth

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argh

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this will have bad effects on my pubs

serene arrow
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guess the hero

raw meadow
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the live reaction from the doter elsewhere: "well she has four claritys so... maybe not.... skywrath......."

serene arrow
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damn, that was aneta's guess too

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but no

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it is, in fact. ||bloodseeker||

raw meadow
manic nimbus
viscid tapir
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won't stop me from taking the wrong lessons

serene arrow
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tommy if you take dagon on ||bloodseeker|| i will throttle you

true plank
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what pos was the bloodseeker

steel forge
cursive wing
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by the way i get wisdoms removed tomorrow should i ping for heavy machienry games?

raw meadow
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spirit bomb of falcons hatership GO !!!!!!!!

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🫸🔥🫷

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...Notlikeshade

cursive wing
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clockwerk anesthesia update

manic nimbus
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lmao nice

raw meadow
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tiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

raw meadow
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it's giving robotnik and agent stone

raw meadow
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XM PANGOED OUT OF THE MAP

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WHAT THE HELL

raw meadow
serene arrow
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🪝

raw meadow
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Hookroic

raw meadow
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thaaaaaaat might be

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the single worst play I've ever seen

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jesus christ

glossy stratus
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Dota is fun because you can absolutely see pro-level teams flail in panic fairly frequently

viscid tapir
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the opening ceremony orchestra is such a wonderful part of TI

viscid tapir
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I'm assuming at around 10 hours into this stream something funny happens

glossy stratus
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I didn't see this specific instance, you'd have to ask Threshette

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But it's not a terribly rare occurrence

raw meadow
# reef parcel Lmao what did I miss

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||

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just full catastrophe

glossy stratus
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Ah, the EE gambit

raw meadow
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I can't stress enough how bad the play was

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0 vision whatsoever

viscid tapir
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Not gonna lie I really like the Helm of the Dominator meta

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I think it's really cool that creeps are good

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and dom bringing even the weak creeps up to decent health/damage means sometimes you can find weird little meaningful abilities

serene arrow
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rts players smh smh

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but yeah if I'm gonna try Lycan I should probably do it before the nerf

glossy stratus
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I'm very much not a fan, microing multiple characters isn't what I come to Dota for

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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

raw meadow
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on principle any item that's this centralizing is..... alarming

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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

glossy stratus
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There's a lot of counterplay to it

raw meadow
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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

glossy stratus
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It's not like when Blademail gets too strong and the counterplay is BKB or nothing

raw meadow
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yeah the fact that it does involve some amount of 🤔 makes it a lot more tolerable to me

glossy stratus
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Though actually I had forgotten that dom creeps are creep heroes now

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Which does reduce the options

raw meadow
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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.

reef parcel
raw meadow
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if people are sick of this item I would absolutely understand

glossy stratus
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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

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Makes me more likely to go boot up Deadlock instead

raw meadow
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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

reef parcel
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you're so fucking right

raw meadow
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secret fifth spell

reef parcel
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that should be how it works

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"fifth"

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lmao.

raw meadow
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you're right, secret zeroth spell

reef parcel
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yes good

glossy stratus
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Honestly all the other spells are optional

serene arrow
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There's like three good ways to balance the Helm that I can think of

raw meadow
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on head, on stand, on butt

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valve hire me

glossy stratus
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I suspect they'll just buff it and revert the creep-hero change

serene arrow
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(Two of them are just rolling back three creep hero or midas buff)

reef parcel
raw meadow
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the creep-hero thing is so goofy lol

glossy stratus
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The funniest change would be to let Dom target creep heroes

raw meadow
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let clinkz eat enemy creeps as god intended.

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jesus christ no

reef parcel
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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

raw meadow
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Helm of the Mental Misstep nooooo

reef parcel
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And then at the end of the round after all the mechs then do some preprogrammed automatic action

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So your squad is half cool heroes and half a-moving missile dogs

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It's honestly very cute

glossy stratus
reef parcel
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Here's @void grove with 3 missile dogs

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I brought a bug and a bird

glossy stratus
reef parcel
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I cannot be stopped

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Join me lark

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I'll teach you

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I'll teach youuu

glossy stratus
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I will resist the siren call and not look up this rulebook tonight

reef parcel
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c: I can show you tomorrowwww

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Didn't know you'd be so interested

glossy stratus
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I'll need to see how it actually plays to really judge how interested I am

reef parcel
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Absolutely

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I have been doing demos

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I'll ping you

glossy stratus
raw meadow
# true plank R.I.P necronomicon 2021

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

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I can't remember if that's the one he was talking about

glossy stratus
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I do feel like necro never really got a proper replacement as a lategame detection source

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And it makes for some interesting interactions but I'm not sure better ones

glossy stratus
raw meadow
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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

true plank
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not the Wraith Pact

raw meadow
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just getting thagomized

true plank
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blueberry wards ahahaha

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what flavour are observers

raw meadow
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WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO CALL THEM GATORADE WARDS

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😩

true plank
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NO WHAT FLAVOUR ARE OBSERVERS

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INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!!!

raw meadow
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i mean oj obviously

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but like

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the radioactive concentrate stuff

glossy stratus
#

Sometimes they just have your number in the ward game, it happens

raw meadow
#

sunny d

glossy stratus
#

Not lemon?

raw meadow
#

nah the irises are a little too orange for me to feel comfortable assigning them as such

glossy stratus
#

Or banana

#

Mmm, faiiiir

true plank
#

observer wards must be a delicacy

#

it's why you get so much money for destroying them

glossy stratus
#

That's the reverse of mangos though

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Which give no gold on destruction

#

And are presumably tasty

raw meadow
#

it still obliterates me that cheese is one of the most powerful consumables in the game

true plank
#

yumby

raw meadow
#

you may fascinate a moba player by giving them a piece of cheese.

glossy stratus
#

Tangos are such a weird item, conceptually

true plank
#

it's so good

#

I wouldn't have it any other way

raw meadow
#

tangos are a popular brand of snack wafer in indonesia

#

so I just imagine transmuting a tree into a big pack of chocolate wafers

true plank
#

and then wharfing down the whole lot in 16 seconds

raw meadow
#

yeah it would increase my health regen by 7

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and then very quickly decrease it by 100

true plank
#

one must wonder how does pugna eat so many wafers

raw meadow
#

pugna can do anything.

cursive wing
#

tooo

#

anyone gonna watch

manic nimbus
#

the poogler cannot be stopped

raw meadow
#

probably my favourite part of the meta rn is that Marci is S-tier

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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

true plank
#

who would win:

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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—

raw meadow
#

p

#

pudge carry vs underlord carry????

#

what in the

true plank
#

anything can work

true plank
manic nimbus
#

everything can work

#

lineup is ||pudge brood phoenix tusk sd vs sandking, silencer, underlord, voker, monkey||

true plank
#

thank you kindly

manic nimbus
#

pretty unusual

final mountain
raw meadow
#

god

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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

true plank
#

how's the tusk doing?

#

I like playing tusk but my win rate on him is abysmal

#

I do have ONE cool clip though

raw meadow
true plank
#

truly the punch Meta is well underway

#

punch as Marci

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punch as tusk

#

it matters not

raw meadow
#

this match was

#

demented

#

so much bullshit happening all the time

glossy stratus
#

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)

steel forge
#

I remember faintly trying it a few times with tom and you just needed to never lose momentum

viscid tapir
#

I think it worked alright

steel forge
#

I recall it working alright one time and then failing to get off the ground again

#

But it’s been a minute

viscid tapir
#

True it has
I should play more dota with Pnet

manic nimbus
#

I think it really struggles we tried it a few times but yeah

reef parcel
#

I'd love to play more with pnet too

glossy stratus
#

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

serene arrow
#

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

glossy stratus
#

Mm, that makes sense

#

It seems like brown boots into Dom is the most common build

cursive wing
#

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

manic nimbus
#

global comp works if everyone comes

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to the fights

cursive wing
#

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

manic nimbus
#

that would be exciting

#

the meta has still been holding relative freshness for me at least

#

helm meta is kinda wild

vapid ledge
#

what, heavy melee?

raw meadow
#

NOBODY'S STOPPIN ME

raw meadow
#

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

cursive wing
#

its true the game 3 was amazing

#

👑

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👨

#

thats gonna be ame

vapid ledge
#

GGs

pearl chasm
#

||No announcement or anything afterwards feels strange given the big arg they did with the obelisks, no? ||

raw meadow
#

I hate this fucking game

reef parcel
#

shoutout to @void grove for showing me this

#

oh my god is it not loading now

#

😩

#

okay just took some time to upload

raw meadow
#

timestamp important

steel forge
#

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

raw meadow
#

CUUUUUBES

cursive wing
#

Rubick will sit in my bans for a long time. It's not my fault I pick heroes with good spells

manic nimbus
#

be nice and share

raw meadow
#

yesssss

cursive wing
#

<@&877973728997294120>

pearl chasm
#

It’s not nothing, but god is it close

stark linden
reef parcel
#

LMAO

stark linden
#

awww booo they finally fixed it

cursive wing
#

juggernaut has been added back to the game

#

WOAHHH

stark linden
#

tree is now immortal

reef parcel
#

also eyy they meaningfully buffed od's early game

#

i cannot be stopped

cursive wing
#

pnet stack time? 👀

reef parcel
#

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

cursive wing
#

this is so obscenely necessary

reef parcel
#

omg yes good

#

please stop moving you crazed rhino

viscid tapir
#

Along with the Necro and Pugna changes.

cursive wing
#

can't believe lesh also had it

steel forge
#

I think I may actually be getting into the swing of dota again

#

being on eu servers is a trip

viscid tapir
#

oh, are you in Europe?

#

or just playing on EU servers

steel forge
#

doing a year in cardiff, yeah

olive moon
#

holy shit me and tron an hour away from each other

steel forge
#

bristol?

cursive wing
#

yooooo

#

tron is gonna get super coached and be low ancient by the end of the year 🙏

steel forge
#

so true

fast yew
#

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?

viscid tapir
#

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.

fast yew
#

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?

viscid tapir
#

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.

fast yew
#

Ok, thanks

glossy stratus
#

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

fast yew
#

I'll have to figure out how to use that

glossy stratus
#

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)

fast yew
#

Thanks

steel forge
serene arrow
#

Medusa, though it's pretty off-meta outside specific matchups

steel forge
#

huh

cursive wing
#

sometimes you also don't need boots on furion

#

@viscid tapir

olive moon
steel forge
#

failed the 50/50 😔

cursive wing
olive moon
#

<@&877973728997294120> anyone wanna get a friday night pnet 5 stack together?

viscid tapir
#

I may be around for a game 2 in 30-45 minutes

lost garden
#

I would need an hour or so I think, but am interested

cursive wing
#

ypo

#

i could

viscid tapir
#

alright, I'm around

cursive wing
viscid tapir
lost garden
#

yeah I need about 10-15, ending this recording session

#

but I will be your 4th

olive moon
raw meadow
#

chat is this good

olive moon
cursive wing
serene arrow
#

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)

steel forge
olive moon
serene arrow
#

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

olive moon
#

unfortunately as u can see in the screenshot they all did 100000 magic damage and killed me anyway :/

serene arrow
#

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

raw meadow
#

space created

cursive wing
#

@lime granite by the way this is a channel and you can even get a ping role somehow

glossy stratus
#

Tiny should have 3 more starting agi but his agi gain should be -0.2

glossy stratus
#

It would be extremely funny

#

(And a slight buff, though he probably doesn't need it)

cursive wing
#

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

glossy stratus
#

But would that work for gem too?

cursive wing
#

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

steel forge
cursive wing
#

guess the hero, i won at 1:11:45

#

the solution

#

the game

steel forge
cursive wing
cursive wing
manic nimbus
#

||did mk really pass up quills + napalm, damn thats a bit of a punt I think||

cursive wing
manic nimbus
#

||oh thats more ok, I thought he had the corner spot by player order||

glossy stratus
#

I should play more AD

cursive wing
#

I think I fixed the sound bug

viscid tapir
#

<@&877973728997294120> anyone up for some defending of the ancients?

cursive wing
#

yes

glossy stratus
#

Depends on if I can convince y'all to do some AD when I get home :P

cursive wing
glossy stratus
#

Eyyyy

viscid tapir
glossy stratus
#

Just needs Napalm to be The Rudest

#

I think Rot might work while you're split

#

Since it's an aura

viscid tapir
#

it does

#

I think bladefury does too

#

because I'm kind of just hidden in the earth panda

glossy stratus
#

Yeah makes sense Bladefury would too

cursive wing
#

<@&877973728997294120> re-ping we got 3 going

cursive wing
#

what

plucky jungle
#

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)

viscid tapir
#

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

plucky jungle
#

ok so technically a nothing burger buff to make it look like a big deal

raw meadow
#

peak

final mountain
#

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"

manic nimbus
#

I think the best part is that post the comic, drow mostly ignores peoples base armour now

olive moon
#

saw that on a reddit post a while back though so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

fathom bolt
#

Why stop at near 50%? Take someone at 35% WR and give them +15 starting armor

glossy stratus
#

Chen is now 100% winrate in pro games

viscid tapir
#

according to dotabuff it's MK with the lowest winrate

#

at 43%

glossy stratus
#

I suppose most people who can't play Chen just don't, which, fair enough

viscid tapir
#

Tech's suggestion would be +7 armor, putting him up to 13

#

MK does not need 13 armor

glossy stratus
#

It would be extremely funny though

#

Every midlaner and offlaner would cry

viscid tapir
#

As a monkey king hater, we should go the other way

#

and reduce his starting armor to -37

glossy stratus
#

...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)

olive moon
#

pa sniper and zoo super op

glossy stratus
#

'Dusa has a fun time

cursive wing
#

dusa kinda doesnt care about her own armor

glossy stratus
#

Yep, so she just gets a massive buff to her damage against heroes with negligible nerfs to her own survivability

cursive wing
#

meepo gets really happy i think

glossy stratus
#

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

raw meadow
steel forge
#

<@&877973728997294120> anybody feel like a game or two of dota?

glossy stratus
#

I wish I could ;_;

cursive wing
#

playing btd6 with a buddy right now

steel forge
#

I am once more asking <@&877973728997294120> would anyone like a game of dota on this nice friday evening

reef parcel
#

Must... Make... 3 more assets

olive moon
steel forge
#

I'll just keep pinging then lmao, surely I'll catch you eventually

steel forge
#

<@&877973728997294120> speaking of, I ask once more. Dota?

reef parcel
#

just came home from an exhausting trip to a chinese grocer and also that ping was an hour ago whoops

#

;o;

olive moon
steel forge
#

I have pretty solidly crawled into bed at this point, sorry

#

another day

cursive wing
#

<@&877973728997294120> hey we should plan to queue up on Monday

cursive wing
#

So make time :)

cursive wing
#

we queue tomorrow :)

cursive wing
#

under 2 hours :)

viscid tapir
#

I'll still be at work :(

cursive wing
#

its okay maybe they have a lot of trouble deploying the patch

viscid tapir
#

oh I see

#

is the Bard Frog coming out?
(don't spoil me I already can't focus today.)

cursive wing
#

i don't know what's inside

vapid ledge
#

waddayamean morons, ppt man

cursive wing
#

any minute now!!!

willow topaz
viscid tapir
#

Your hotkeys might be different but default Q is Sprint, not Crush :P

willow topaz
#

Sorry I don't actually play slardar ;-;

#

That's interesting though, since most heroes have their most basic nuke on q

cursive wing
#
vapid ledge
#

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?

reef parcel
#

lmao

pearl chasm
#

This must be what getting rug-pulled in a crypto scam feels like, lol

cursive wing
#

i was expecting a real patch :(

pearl chasm
#

At least there’s Deadlock

cursive wing
#

<@&877973728997294120> any uhh... hunters?

viscid tapir
#

sure

cursive wing
#

at least everyone can get a free antimage persona

steel forge
violet talon
#

Squadla!
Kittechies!

elder lodge
#

Oh that's quite good

#

There must just be a fan on the dev team, this is such a strange teammup

viscid tapir
#

the poogie is also great

cursive wing
#

<@&877973728997294120> let's get hunting

viscid tapir
#

unfortunately: at work

glossy stratus
#

Was playtesting, I'll be around in a couple hours

hearty flower
#

POOGIE???

viscid tapir
#

<@&877973728997294120> anyone want to defend of the ancients?

agile finch
#

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

real parcel
#

We have strong, one-sided opinions about what happens to these ancients.

cursive wing
nimble mason
#

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 💀)

viscid tapir
#

lol

glossy stratus
#

Probably no Dotes for me tonight :(

small cradle
#

I can play in a couple of hours.

viscid tapir
#

@steel forge when I say "red" btw this is what I meant

steel forge
#

I still don't see it tbh

plucky jungle
#

this is deadlock stuff, but since it has a pro from dota I guess it fits here

final mountain
#

If you didn't see Deathy's original video of coaching Slacks, you should go watch it

#

If I had a nickel for every time Slacks' keybinds broke a coach, I'd have three nickels--which isn't a lot of nickels, but it's weird that it's happened three times

reef parcel
#

Wanna note that slacks is wildly toxic

#

And maybe shouldn't be treated with quite the celebrity lens we treat others

gritty sparrow
#

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

reef parcel
#

Oof

final mountain
#

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

gritty sparrow
#

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

olive moon
#

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

gritty sparrow
#

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

cursive wing
#

it holds up

cursive wing
#

<@&877973728997294120> anyone for a lazy saturday queue?

small cradle
#

I'd be down.

cursive wing
cursive wing
#

a

viscid tapir
#

b

glossy stratus
#

3

stark linden
#

Half life 3 confirmed

vapid ledge
#

somehow, i fell for it

raw meadow
#

@manic nimbus you there, higher primate
what the fuck is this draft

#

what is HAPPENING

#

nightstalker??? the dota powerpoints guy????????

steel forge
#

these don't look that weird

#

though i haven't been following who is meta rn

raw meadow
#

the last time I watched dota was TI but

#

terrorblade???????????

manic nimbus
#

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)

true plank
#

wait is hoodwink finally decent again

raw meadow
#

hoodwink was like s tier in this years ti lol

true plank
#

i'm so back

raw meadow
#

basically always contested

true plank
#

we are SO back

manic nimbus
#

hood is decent, I'd say like solid tier

#

the S tier supports are naga siren then jakiro

raw meadow
#

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

raw meadow
#

although I havent actually seen her at all in this grands

manic nimbus
#

snap is solid some teams like her

raw meadow
#

no contesting full stop

#

although if thats the price i need to pay to get pugna gaming

#

fine by me

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we love pugna gaming

manic nimbus
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poogles got a bunch of nerfs lately

true plank
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i love pugna

manic nimbus
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he was in like

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every game

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a few patches ago

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now you sometimes see him

raw meadow
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whitemon made the poogler look fucking broken

manic nimbus
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you can poogle people so hard atm but when its awkward its really awkward

raw meadow
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there was one particular save where he successfully gas-stationed pure through six million damage

manic nimbus
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no disable or movement gaming

raw meadow
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and it was just disgusting

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in the end this match was just

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"i have ccs"
vs
"i have ccs AND countermagic"

manic nimbus
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some games are very much like

raw meadow
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and then the guys with ccs and saves won over the guys with ccs

manic nimbus
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as long as poogles lives

raw meadow
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diff

manic nimbus
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nobody else can die

raw meadow
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he had a 9 streak before his first death

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he was pooglin outta control

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it was truly just him flexing his dominance

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server adminnage

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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

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infinite mental boom

manic nimbus
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the cart is so fucking busted

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what do you think the cd and mana cost are?

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without looking it up

raw meadow
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20, 0

manic nimbus
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not far off really

raw meadow
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genuine just chucking

manic nimbus
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30, 75

raw meadow
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33 was just dropping cart for movement

manic nimbus
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75 fucking mana for that

raw meadow
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legit just using it for rotates

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and I was like okay thats his ult

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his ultimate ability

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the ability that is his ultimate

manic nimbus
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lol

light urchin
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I'm able to play Dota again so i've been doing that a lot this weekend

pearl chasm
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Dota 2 getting another huge nothing of an update feels so silly

manic nimbus
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yea

light urchin
manic nimbus
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just gotta remember the instant respawn thing

light urchin
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yeah that's a bit funny

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mostly because when the enemy team finally all beats the crap out of me in a minute 40 teamfight I just roll up again

manic nimbus
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yeah lol

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tbh

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undying is usually my pocket "the other team picked too many melee/str heroes" pick

light urchin
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I'm still kinda figuring out how to play any pos higher than 3 in this game
But support heroes are also just fun

manic nimbus
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yeah he can be a support or a 3

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really

light urchin
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he's 4 or 5 yeah

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but doesn't really matter later, he just does his job

manic nimbus
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yeah honestly melee supports are just a lot of fun

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I really love playing clock

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just fucking terrorising people with cogs

light urchin
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hell yeah

serene arrow
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it's definitely fine to specialize in a particular position tbh

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though it's also really good to be able to flex to other roles, for obvious reasons

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I am, like, an Offlaner™

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I specialize in it, and playing big, tough, and disruptive- or aura-carrying heroes

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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

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But because I'm pretty specialized, I've gotten pretty good at the game pretty quickly

steel forge
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I don't actually play enough to pick him and not feel like I'm griefing but he's a fun little dude

raw meadow
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LET'S GO GAMBLING

light urchin
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but otherwise, been messing with Techies, Undying, ect

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getting a feel for the game again, still being not great at it

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but that's alright

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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

manic nimbus
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yeah

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one of the hardest things is like managing support time

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keeping your carry safe, warding, ganking, securing mid runes, etc

true plank
manic nimbus
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yes

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and especially their support

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you are ranged come into the jungle and hit me with your range

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🙂 🙂

light urchin
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OD is real fun

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maybe i'm just riding the high of a stomp game but getting to just blast and imprison people with impunity feels awesome

glossy stratus
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He's real satisfying

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Does a lot of stuff, and is also one of the most oppressive laners in the game

light urchin
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yeah being able to put people in time-out so that they can't last hit feels so mean

glossy stratus
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The classic play is just box them and deny the ranged creep for every single wave

cursive wing
manic nimbus
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Yeah OD is a blast to play and really tough to lane into

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Also rare midlaner with a save

pearl chasm
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reef parcel
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Holy fuck yeah

viscid tapir
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<@&877973728997294120>

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BARD FROG

pearl chasm
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FROG BARD BARD FROG

steel forge
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Holy patch

reef parcel
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It's a HUNTING HORN

viscid tapir
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"Croak of Genius"

reef parcel
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The ult is a monhun hunting horn

viscid tapir
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the ult is a QTE!

stark linden
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new phone wallpaper get

viscid tapir
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Songs are only effective if strummed on the beat.

stark linden
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BOOOOO

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BOOOOOO

viscid tapir
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Booo

stark linden
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they included boob broodmother

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cowards

viscid tapir
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now that's an interesting idea

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I imagine it'll be really good on CK

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but I'm curious how much it'll actually affect farming

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oooh there's a gate to the safelane now

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and there's more rivers

stark linden
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the base river damn

viscid tapir
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(I think the Bridge Radiant is the wrong way around, with Previous Version being the new one)

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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.

steel forge
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This looks so fun

light urchin
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FROG

pearl chasm
stark linden
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you can lick yourself

light urchin
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This guy looks so rad

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Very much my support jam

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Oh, Talents no longer need skill points, you just Get em

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That's pretty nice

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lmao, no more double-warding

elder lodge
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That's an update specifically for me that's so polite

light urchin
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yeah

elder lodge
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Gahd he's so charming, Frogstomp animation..

light urchin
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Yeah the frogstomp animation is fucking Delightful

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I wonder if you can proc the tongue off of somebody getting hit by it and then they still keep getting got by it