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causticBeet posted:Wait they’re not doubling up the extra prize pool money from last years book with this years TI? Yes, this means Valve is making the same amount of money per battle pass purchase and just not sharing any with the players.
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bawfuls posted:As an example, lvl 1 Tree vs PA: You have to be careful about lane creeps aggroing onto you with your low armor as you'll get shredded by them. Dota is never as simple as comparing two heroes' numbers in a vacuum like above.
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Sure, there are always complications. I’m just saying in my experience spamming Tree4 the last ~18 months, (181 games the past 12 months according to Dotabuff) I have not had this issue. I’ve found it extremely easy to manfight most carries (with notable exceptions) at level 1, the combination of high damage and multiple slows is quite formidable. Maybe it’s because I’m in a low mmr bracket, but so is the poster who was asking about supports. The fears of low armor are overblown at this tier and far outweighed by Tree’s high base damage.
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Jul 13, 2021 20:52
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Also been playing a lot of Treant lately. The issue with Tree's low armor is that you're almost never manfighting one on one with the pos1 at level 1. In a level 1 lane situation, the pos5 is also going to be hitting you and/or casting spells at you, which means you're almost certainly losing the trade. That said, Treant can definitely bully a lot of lanes by being smart about popping out to smack one or twice before going back into the trees. Those 90 damage punches add up quickly.
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Trading as treant is totally fine because that's the goal of a pos5. You want the enemy to not be able to focus on laning, to use up their regen and be either forced out of lane or to have to buy/ferry more. You can also mitigate the low armor issues by just having enough sustain that you'll come out of trades favorably, which is really easy to do with the health regen from your W. You can also just grab early tranquils and reset after every time you go in for a big harass. Lastly, Treant's main strength is that you can maneuver through trees to make it so that you're never in a fair 1v1 vs anyone you're trading against, and if anyone tries to retaliate after you get in a single big punch you just slip back into the treeline, and if they chase you at the cost of CS that's a win
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Yeah the 5 is also hitting you, but your 3 should also be hitting the 1. And in practice you often get into a situation where you’re chasing one of them which is ideal cause they’re slowed and just eating your big tree punches Edit: and the treeline in-out as mentioned, huge for early harass. If someone tries to chase Tree into the treeline you let them come deep then Q/block/manfight and they get wrecked cause you have treewalking and bonus regen bawfuls fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jul 13, 2021 |
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Jul 13, 2021 22:08
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hoodwink is such a fun hero. pretty much all the new heroes have been cool
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Jul 24, 2021 00:21
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reminds me i need to start playing support snapfire again. had to give her up because my buddy i usually pair always does weird stutter steps when i'm trying to give him the cookie and ends up getting launched 90 degrees to the side instead of at the enemy or away from them
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Jul 24, 2021 14:48
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back in the day we'd get a bfury mordiggian and mask of madness on tree and call him battle tree... and lose like a Baws
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Jul 25, 2021 05:25
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ice frog, port deadwood immediately. or else
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Smythe posted:back in the day we'd get a bfury mordiggian and mask of madness on tree and call him battle tree... and lose like a Baws i used to love armlet and MoM tree. i'd get blademail too thinking "if mask of madness makes me take more damage, then blademail means i do more damage back" 
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goku i won't do what u tell me
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Smythe posted:back in the day we'd get a bfury mordiggian and mask of madness on tree and call him battle tree... and lose like a Baws I’m sure there are fun replays on YouTube somewhere
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Jul 25, 2021 07:28
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I'm very sick of Medusa. Her shard and scepter combo is almost unstoppable if she makes it to lvl 25 and the opposing team doesn't have a hard hero counter.
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KRILLIN IN THE NAME posted:i used to love armlet and MoM tree. i'd get blademail too thinking "if mask of madness makes me take more damage, then blademail means i do more damage back" bawfuls posted:There was a point in the past year or so when Tree’s level 10 talent options were invis on the passive OR +80 damage and people did occasionally take the latter to build him as a right clicker bad rear end
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Uncle Spriggly posted:I'm very sick of Medusa. Her shard and scepter combo is almost unstoppable if she makes it to lvl 25 and the opposing team doesn't have a hard hero counter. She's my go-to ban when someone beats me to Techies. Pubs absolutely suck at shutting her down in my experience. As does my 5 stack 
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bawfuls posted:There was a point in the past year or so when Tree’s level 10 talent options were invis on the passive OR +80 damage and people did occasionally take the latter to build him as a right clicker I watched a "professional" Dota 1 game 10000 years ago. One team had a pos 1 tree who went radiance first item and they eventually won. Thanks for listening.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:27
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Is there any truth to what I've seen posted elsewhere, that MMR skill now is higher at lower values? Anecdotally, I was able to get to like 5500 before I stopped playing in 2017, and now I'm floating around 4300.
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Jul 27, 2021 21:11
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That would make some sense, if you assume the metagame evolves over time and more people watch pro matches/guides etc. Anecdotally I am also lower mmr than I was 3 or 4 years ago despite being confidant with a wider variety of heroes and overall being better at stuff like last hitting.
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Jul 27, 2021 23:06
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I was 4k in 2014 and I can say that even 2.5-3k games are much better than those used to be. Seven years ago you were lucky if you ever saw a ward in your game, now every single game you've got two supports in the midlane trying to get into a deward fight, checking the other team's inventories for wards and pinging them out and noting if they disappear into fog and the ward's gone from their stash when they reappear
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There’s a really stark difference between the bottom tiers - the jump in how chill and generally competent players are between herald/guardian and archon/legend is really extreme. 2.5-3k games are probably rough for someone with better mechanics and awareness, but they’re a far cry from the absolute rage/tilt/mental fuckfest that is sub-1k dota l
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Is BKB or Maledict bugged right now? I know you can't purge it but I was about to die to a maledict tick so I used my BKB, then promptly died to the maledict, like gaben smited me personally from on high. e: I guess BKB doesn't give 100% spell damage immunity, so even though maledict application doesn't go through BKB, the damage can?
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Jul 29, 2021 03:59
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ya the DoT doesnt pierce but the burst tick does
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What's the trick to playing hoodwink as a 4? I usually end the game with high damage and low deaths but I still have a terrible winrate.
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Jul 30, 2021 01:07
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The trick is not to play lame heroes that should've never been added to the game.
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Jul 30, 2021 13:01
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I think you're confusing Hoodwink with Arc Warden?
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Me and the boys got back into dota in the past month or two. I’m mostly going mid with Puck, Lina, or Death Prophet, but I’m looking to try out some new (to me) mids. Puck is my all time favorite because I love being an annoying, slippery poo poo and just barely getting out of a fight alive or being an orb ahead of a fleeing enemy to secure a kill after a team fight or whatever. Who’s fun to play mid right now?
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Groovelord Neato posted:The trick is not to play lame heroes that should've never been added to the game. what do u think is bad about hoodwink (choose ur words carefully....)
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Jul 30, 2021 16:21
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looks like Teemo
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Pamela Springstein posted:looks like Teemo Yeah it';s lame league poo poo. Valve should've had to use unused wc3 units as the basis for any new heroes.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:30
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Have they added Orc with a flamethrower yet?
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dr.acula posted:Have they added Orc with a flamethrower yet? Timbersaw shard.
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Nichael posted:Timbersaw shard. I guess, but model wise I thought he was based off the Goblin Shredder
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TOOT BOOT posted:What's the trick to playing hoodwink as a 4? I usually end the game with high damage and low deaths but I still have a terrible winrate. pick a hero that gives your teammates high damage and low deaths instead of yourself
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Sab669 posted:I think you're confusing Hoodwink with Arc Warden? arc warden is cool dumbass
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Jul 30, 2021 16:49
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Stan Taylor posted:Me and the boys got back into dota in the past month or two. I’m mostly going mid with Puck, Lina, or Death Prophet, but I’m looking to try out some new (to me) mids. Puck is my all time favorite because I love being an annoying, slippery poo poo and just barely getting out of a fight alive or being an orb ahead of a fleeing enemy to secure a kill after a team fight or whatever. Void Spirit is similarly slippy and good fun
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Jul 30, 2021 17:03
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Pamela Springstein posted:looks like Teemo teemo isn't australian im pretty sure
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Jul 30, 2021 17:19
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The squirrel is league poo poo and also op.
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Jul 30, 2021 17:43
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It’s also a toolbox hero which is fail.
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Jul 30, 2021 17:43
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I’m going to try out the squirel.
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hoodwink is a w
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