Holy shit, this EG/NP series is amazing. sumail ss Aghs. Please watch game 2 VOD or at minimum highlights.
SumaiL best player in the world no doubt. RTZ is so hit or miss, but SumaiL is always playing out of his mind. Actually stayed up til 3:30 to watch all of the NP series. Only missed two games of the finals with that 5 hour nap.
My one year old was up for most of last night sick so I just watched most of EG/np and then first 3 games of EG/newbee
Thought this was interesting. Anyone wanna guess what the most picked hero in the history of pro dota is? Spoiler Rubick. By about 2000 matches and 33% more than 2nd. (Dark seer) Also if anyone still hasn't seen these
I've just been spamming 1v1's the last couple days to get better at mid. Rune vision is so important now that only one rune spawns every 2 minutes. I rarely play mid obviously and since I've been playing, Shadow Fiend hasn't been that popular until now. Playing against good SFs is just soul crushing. Hits so hard you can't trade with him after he builds up a few last hits, and has such great wave clear that he can get every rune without missing creeps. Such a bitch to play against without ganks. Sniper as well. Shrapnel hurts really bad even at level 1 now.
First picked Lich, then was gifted a perfect enemy lineup. These are the games that fool you into thinking DotA is fun.
Buffs to gyro just in time for TI season. (still not enough to get him out of the dumpster). I do appreciate icefrog's commitment to not giving a fuck about pub meta for the most part and tweaking based on pro stats, but at some point Zeus is just gonna need a rework because he has gotten 10 buffs in a row and has over a 60% win rate in low pubs. I follow some YouTube guys who make highlight videos from pro pub games, and Sumail has been spamming Zeus in pubs and dominating with it, so maybe we'll finally see a Zeus meta soon.
*Luke warm Either the other team isn't ass and just walk away from eachother or they are terrible and don't and you didn't need it to stomp them anyway
So hard to LH early. He and drow are the rare cases where a QB or multiple faerie fires are justified in the first 6 minutes
Also blood seeker damage buff (uh oh) and clinkz could turn into a pub cancer if we keep getting buffs.
How is Lifestealer in low level pubs? Got the golden immortal and it looks sweet. Never played him before.
If you know what you are doing, he's a mid to early late game monster because people don't kite well while you are magic immune. He gets out carried end game though. Don't let it get late if you are the only carry.
You can AFK jungle and no one will interrupt you. You're a core in a bracket where teams don't know how/when to end game; never a bad thing. Extra good hero if you have a delivery method: Riki, breaker, storm, blink tide, etc.
I'm not seeing as many games where it's all carries tbh since starting up again. But i'm been drunk 80% of my games played so i don't remember the details much.
Playing brewmaster or crippling alcoholism? Also Siltbreaker is delayed until next week. Dang. Super hyped for dota diablo
Sorry, RonBurgundy, believe that was my fourth career FV game. My gpm was okay, but teamfighting was dogshit.
You weren't the issue, although you took the Axe's advice to build mkb over my advice to build bkb and they had 0% evasion. Our tiny, with Aghs, refused to hit buildings and died solo to invoker 4 times and wouldn't come with the team. Our ogre was fairly bad about bloodlusting you and tiny. We never once went as 5 literally anywhere because someone ALWAYS tp'd back to stop a t2 split push by NP, even at the expense of high ground push AKA FUCK U TINY. But I was a clock and I have fun playing clock 100% of games. Also, just looked it up, tiny had 2K Building damage, you had 3.7k. Awesome. I mean, I would solo kill the invoker and no one would group to taketowers. Maddening.
Watching the clowniest game, when I want to watch a hero played, I usually look for 3-4k games since it'd be more similar to a low level pub than a high tier one. You know, not much zoning and what not. This game is 4k, there's currently a 4/15 Storm that jungled the entire game, opposing Riki just ganked him all game. But he stayed strong and kept grinding his items, and gems to make sure he saw that Riki coming. They somehow won. I didn't learn anything. Match ID for the bored: 3212746459
100% my BKB was too late. Also, I didn't hear a word you said all game... didn't realize you had a mic.
Just checked, I have a 32% win rate with clock (16 games) Better add that hero to my pool of "only play when trying to tilt Skillet" heroes.
As an experimental change for a few days, All Pick will now have 25 heroes randomly removed from the hero pool at the start of the draft before the ban phase. This change only affects Ranked Matchmaking.
Rewards high hero pool, also sucks if a good hero is picked and all counters are removed. Not that I have to worry about that in my area of the tiers.....