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This is kind of a weird thing but a buddy of mine who plays off and on started a match, and I thought I'd spectate live with the dotaplus thing so I could help him out a bit, and I saw he lastpicked an awful hero for his lineup and was like "oh dang he's gonna have a real bad time" and went to go watch youtube for a bit because I wasn't that invested. But only like a minute later the dota2 icon on the taskbar starts flashing like someone paused the game, so I tab back in to see what's going on and his ancient has exploded so I assumed someone got mad and ragequit because of his not-great pick. But then he goes "hey why do I have a leaver penalty" and I check the replay for the game and somehow in the replay, he just never picks a hero until he loses all his gold and randoms a completely different hero from the one I just witnessed him picking, getting an abandon. Does anyone have any idea what could have happened there? Normally I'd assume he was just doing a weird bit but I literally watched him pick one hero while live spectating, and then in the replay he doesn't pick it and gets randomed something completely different. e: nvm I scrubbed through the replay slower (the improved UI kinda sucks honestly) and what happened was both him and the other player picked the same hero in the last phase and he didn't realize that would ban the hero instead so he just didn't look back at the game at all until he'd lost all his gold and got an abandon, owned. Geight fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Dec 3, 2022 |
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Geight posted:This is kind of a weird thing but a buddy of mine who plays off and on started a match, and I thought I'd spectate live with the dotaplus thing so I could help him out a bit, and I saw he lastpicked an awful hero for his lineup and was like "oh dang he's gonna have a real bad time" and went to go watch youtube for a bit because I wasn't that invested. But only like a minute later the dota2 icon on the taskbar starts flashing like someone paused the game, so I tab back in to see what's going on and his ancient has exploded so I assumed someone got mad and ragequit because of his not-great pick. But then he goes "hey why do I have a leaver penalty" and I check the replay for the game and somehow in the replay, he just never picks a hero until he loses all his gold and randoms a completely different hero from the one I just witnessed him picking, getting an abandon. Did he pick and then go AFK? Generally, if two people pick the same hero the hero is banned and you have to pick again. If he wasn't there he'd eventually random and get an abandon. That's the only thing that comes to mind.
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Yeah he picked and then just didn't look back at the game for like a solid minute I guess.
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lol owned dota
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I don’t go for a pee until I know my hero is locked in. Strategy time? That’s for nerds and tryhards.
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Mr.Acula posted:this game makes me want to shoot myself in the face
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I had a pos 5 CM rush Midas. Thankfully we lost in 19 minutes, but they ended the game with tranqs and 1500 in the bank.
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Oodles posted:I had a pos 5 CM rush Midas. Thankfully we lost in 19 minutes, but they ended the game with tranqs and 1500 in the bank. Thats not super uncommon but also not ideal depending on the circumstances. Were they warding at all (I already know the answer to this)
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Dec 5, 2022 14:43
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I was a 5 CM the other day and the 1 Bloodseeker insisted I rush a Midas. Doubt I've ever built one on her before that. And then the enemy Zeus abandoned 
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Dec 5, 2022 14:44
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The cavern crawl is causing me to play a bunch of heroes I have absolutely no business attempting. But at least it's Turbo so sorry to everyone for being garbage poo poo but I need to unlock those nodes bro
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Syrinxx posted:The cavern crawl is causing me to play a bunch of heroes I have absolutely no business attempting. But at least it's Turbo so sorry to everyone for being garbage poo poo but I need to unlock those nodes bro currently 0-6 on KotL in Diretide but he unlocks three nodes for me right now so sorry not sorry to my teammates
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Syrinxx posted:The cavern crawl is causing me to play a bunch of heroes I have absolutely no business attempting. But at least it's Turbo so sorry to everyone for being garbage poo poo but I need to unlock those nodes bro I wish they'd be more like HOTS in this regard and let us shitlers grind out stupid quests vs bots. It's no fun for anyone...
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Dec 6, 2022 12:24
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Making your teammates lose is a good thing and they deserve it
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Learning new heros is good
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Dec 6, 2022 16:57
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At least a lot of the weekly quests can be done vs bots.
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Playing new heroes is good and it’s what turbo should be for anyway
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The "social glue" from my 3/4/5 stack started playing again, so we've been group queueing a bunch the last few nights and GOD WE ARE SO BAD. I like hanging out with them, but we have zero coordination, we never go into a queue with any kind of plan, everyone just spit balls ideas about what we should do mid-game and then we don't accomplish anything because we're debating what the right call is. Getting stomped one game, defending high ground and we finally wipe them and even got a dieback I think, and I'm begging them all to push while 2 run off to farm and 1 is like "Should we Rosh?" Also maybe this is just me/ADHD thing but I always forget who is playing what so if someone says "I'm coming" I have no idea what hero that is and where they're going. Maybe if we all generally played the same roles from game to game it'd be less of a problem but I feel like we just communicate in... not a negative manner, no one's lovely to each other, but certainly not in any way that I'd describe as useful lol. I'm not really sure what the "solution" is. I don't know if everyone is content to just gently caress around or if people want to actually try to play good DOTA. I suppose I need to just ask that next time we all hop in a party? Do you need a full 5 to do Ranked Captain's mode? 4K hours and I virtually only ever play Unranked All Pick 
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Sab669 posted:The "social glue" from my 3/4/5 stack started playing again, so we've been group queueing a bunch the last few nights and GOD WE ARE SO BAD. I like hanging out with them, but we have zero coordination, we never go into a queue with any kind of plan, everyone just spit balls ideas about what we should do mid-game and then we don't accomplish anything because we're debating what the right call is. Getting stomped one game, defending high ground and we finally wipe them and even got a dieback I think, and I'm begging them all to push while 2 run off to farm and 1 is like "Should we Rosh?" play ranked all pick with roles instead? also in my experience 2-3 stack is ideal. every time i've been part of a 5 stack, my team defaults to comfort picks or someone is cavern crawling so we end up with no synergy while the other team has combos galore and can actually play together so we get stomped also i wish my friend who is like 1.5k mmr higher than me would realize that when we're teamed up, sure the opposing team is lower overall skill than his solo games, but also the enemy's highest mmr player is probably playing a hero they're good at so stop picking heroes you've never played then getting mad that our team can't win while our random teammates flame you for account buying
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Ranked Role Pick might help, or at least help me remember who is playing what  I kinda like the idea of Captain's Mode though as then I can suggest, "The Captain makes the calls".I'm not actually sure who amongst us is "the best player" / highest MMR. 1 of the 5 of us is obviously the best IMO, although he plays with the rest of us the least often, so among the ~4 of us I'm not sure who is best. And yea I guess when it's like just 2-3 of us I don't necessarily "mind" our general dumb chicanery as much because we're dealing with 2 or 3 pubbies who we can't communicate with as effectively, but when it's 4 I wish we were a little more serious. We played and lost three games as a 4 stack last night: https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/6903869080 - Apparently we won both side lanes but looking at charts at the bottom the other team was ahead by all metrics the whole game. https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/6903828654 - Again apparently we won both side lanes and we were ahead for a while, we just took their Mid T2 and I pointed out their Mirana was behind us which Troll took to mean "Lets go find that Mirana" and we failed to take Mid T3 / maybe even Rax while Spectre was dead. I don't think we won a single fight after that. https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/6903800777 - And this one we just didn't punish the Arc at all. Started out okay enough but then Razor & Arc got huge and that's that. Also their Pudge was actually really really good, just hanging out in the back lines to Hook & Dismember whichever Ally of his we'd go onn.
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That decision paralysis sounds very familiar, I’ve gotten the same thing with my friends when we 5stack. There is one of my group who is like 1500-2000 mmr above the rest and I wish he’d just make calls with confidence that the rest of us could follow but he doesn’t want to do that so yeah Often (especially at our low mmr) I feel like it’s more important that we make a decision quickly and all commit to it than that we make a perfectly correct decision. Doing 3 different things after winning a team fight usually means that none of those things get done successfully.
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Especially when those three things are to revert back over our side of the river to hit creep camps.
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when did this razor bloodstone build get discovered? seems pretty strong the few times i've seen it
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basically right after 7.32d because of the small buff to razor's shard 33 pioneered it, to no one's surprise
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Seems like the best ways to deal with it are burst, break, and vessel, right? Or do those not do enough?
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the razor version is extremely broken, not sure there is a great post-draft counter but he's still really bad against illusion and zoo (and drow apparently) players are starting to use the <tank item>->bloodstone on other heroes though, like bat and viper
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 I play pos 5, and even I think I could do better than this dropkick. We went against a night stalker. So jugg would wander in, be silenced, and die.
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emdash posted:the razor version is extremely broken, not sure there is a great post-draft counter but he's still really bad against illusion and zoo (and drow apparently) Yea, seems like Drow's Shard is a pretty good counter with the Heal reduction on Frost Arrows.
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Mr.Acula posted:this game makes me want to shoot myself in the face
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then stop playing
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IcePhoenix posted:Seems like the best ways to deal with it are burst, break, and vessel, right? Or do those not do enough? Buy mage slayer; it is an insanely good counter. Turn it into blood thorn later because this razor build does not want to buy BKB until as late as possible.
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Oodles posted:
lmao woops all farming items!!!
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His mistake was no Midas before boots
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He wandered into a fight vs a night stalker who just popped silence and he couldn’t do anything.
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Oodles posted:He wandered into a fight vs a night stalker who just popped silence and he couldn’t do anything. B...b...b...muh blade fury
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Don’t be silly, we popped bladefury to speed up getting to them.
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The amount of times ive asked Juggernauts to buy BKB because they keep getting stun locked or silence and they just ping blade fury....it makes me want to play carry tbh but then i get stuck with supports who dont want to support
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jugg with bkb is fun, no one expects you to be spell immune for that long and unlike blade fury immunity, you can ult during bkb
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I got a rampage in 2 games back to back last night, that's a first. I still lost in one of those games though.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I got a rampage in 2 games back to back last night, that's a first. I still lost in one of those games though. Rrrrrrrampage!!!
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