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I thought the 'Team Spirit Breaker' thing was a meme but then I actually saw it in-game when it was banned.
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  Why doesn't it show when the Razor picked?Pretty sure he Randomed it first... And then my team decided to pick a whole bunch of zero right clickability  Amazed we managed to drag this one out for an hour. Anywhere I'd go to farm, just get jumped on by a Monkey and then Spectre ult and usually an Omni hammer not far away.
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TI 12 made me install again after not having played much since 2017. Queued a normal all pick game, my carry got killed after I initiated on the offlane as a support and abandoned 5 minutes into the game. Thought about uninstalling this poo poo game, but decided to queue a ranked all pick game against my better judgement...we stomped them and I went 9/3/18 as Crystal Maiden. I love Dota 
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If you play DotA, you're gonna lose at DotA. Mute any dickhead immediately. Enter a chill state of flow. Success!
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Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:If you play DotA, you're gonna lose at DotA. Mute any dickhead immediately. Enter a chill state of flow. Success! Wisdom.
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Nov 4, 2023 23:37
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Yeah I have been playing significantly less in the back half of this year but the games I've had have been pretty solid and even when I'm losing I'm just having fun trying to make big plays which is all you can ask for
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Losing Dota is just the game's way of making winning dota better.
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when ur losing a game of dota it just means it’s time to win at talking poo poo
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Honestly I start seeing myself have a rough/bad game I just mute everyone preemptively. It really helps keep your head down and focused on fixing things instead of hitting the demoralizing cycle. The best part is unmuting everyone right before throne is down so you can catch the end of the toxic poo poo that was being thrown around for probably the past 20 minutes.
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Would you mute me? I'd mute me. I'd mute me hard. edit: typo Nfcknblvbl fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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ShimmyGuy posted:Honestly I start seeing myself have a rough/bad game I just mute everyone preemptively. It really helps keep your head down and focused on fixing things instead of hitting the demoralizing cycle. The best part is unmuting everyone right before throne is down so you can catch the end of the toxic poo poo that was being thrown around for probably the past 20 minutes. same here. I especially like when the enemy complains about their carry to us like I'm supposed to be upset I'm getting a win
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Any time a teammate dies and complains about another player or starts backseat gaming whatever I simply ping their respawn timer.
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Heyo, decided I hate my self and I want to start playing dota2. I started watching BSJ's fundamental videos. Any other advice?
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Not sure if this even qualifies as "Fundamentals", but I guess is there a good video out there for learning more about like lane equilibrium and what I should be doing as a support? I find more and more when I play 4/5 I've been getting flamed for "ruining the lane" or whatever and I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposedly doing wrong. A significant chunk of my DOTA time was logged like pre-2017 (really pre-2015 even) and I feel like the game has just evolved beyond how I know to play DOTA.
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Sab669 posted:Not sure if this even qualifies as "Fundamentals", but I guess is there a good video out there for learning more about like lane equilibrium and what I should be doing as a support? I find more and more when I play 4/5 I've been getting flamed for "ruining the lane" or whatever and I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposedly doing wrong. A significant chunk of my DOTA time was logged like pre-2017 (really pre-2015 even) and I feel like the game has just evolved beyond how I know to play DOTA. idk, just draw aggro to your ranged creep and pull if the lane doesn't feel right. there are absolutely times that you should in theory nuke the wave and shove it in instead but no carry i've ever seen will understand that and will just follow the wave under the enemy tower and die and flame you even more e: for shoving, like vs some lineups you're toast if you try and pull but you still need to, so I think you'd try and send the next wave close to their tower to buy you room to deward/pull your own and get back to good, but seriously good luck at performing any action Plank Walker fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Nov 6, 2023 |
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Does anyone have a link to this old DOTA guide on placing wards that's nothing but zooming in on wards while a song tells you to smoke weed Thanks and bless
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Super-NintendoUser posted:Heyo, decided I hate my self and I want to start playing dota2. I started watching BSJ's fundamental videos. Any other advice? Dont play dota
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Sab669 posted:Not sure if this even qualifies as "Fundamentals", but I guess is there a good video out there for learning more about like lane equilibrium and what I should be doing as a support? I find more and more when I play 4/5 I've been getting flamed for "ruining the lane" or whatever and I genuinely have no idea what I'm supposedly doing wrong. A significant chunk of my DOTA time was logged like pre-2017 (really pre-2015 even) and I feel like the game has just evolved beyond how I know to play DOTA. BSJ has a bunch of good videos where he breaks down and explains fundamentals. He's mainly a carry player but he has a lot of good insight into how the support should play as well. The coached games videos are very good too since he goes over a lot of different skill levels and more mid/late game stuff too.
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Sab669 posted:I find more and more when I play 4/5 I've been getting flamed for "ruining the lane" or whatever
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So I don't have the most high powered laptop, I'm playing on a Surface Go 3 that my kid broke, and I have it hooked up to my ultrawide, but I'd like to play it with blackbars os it's not so high rez and stretched, but I can't get windows to play along.
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Super-NintendoUser posted:Heyo, decided I hate my self and I want to start playing dota2. I started watching BSJ's fundamental videos. Any other advice? As a support player I highly recommend this whole list of videos (the pulling one I think was posted above) https://youtu.be/28WEdi_S3-o?si=LfL9IoEX-ONGVFxK It is a great deep dive into understanding how to be a good support (and general player).
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when I returned after a break, my lane partners would complain that I spent too much time pulling/stacking instead of playing the lane and harassing. they were right, I watched too many pro games where the support leaves lane early. I win much more games now.
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I remember higher MMR people talking about how as pos 4/5 you are almost always better going for lotus over the 3 min rune, just because being that far away can be a death sentence for your partner.
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ShimmyGuy posted:As a support player I highly recommend this whole list of videos (the pulling one I think was posted above) ZQuixotix makes real informative and useful guides while also being a funny guy, I also recommend his videos. My own supporting advice is just try to match what your carry is doing, and if you can't get a read on their intent, it can't hurt to just ask what they would prefer you do. Even if they are also mistaken, two heroes making the same mistake together has a higher likelihood of working out in this game than two heroes in separate areas both sure that they're making the correct move.
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ShimmyGuy posted:I remember higher MMR people talking about how as pos 4/5 you are almost always better going for lotus over the 3 min rune, just because being that far away can be a death sentence for your partner. Yea the lotus is effectively like 200~ gold worth of regen, much more valuable than a 55 gold bounty rune. Its hard knowing when to pull these days because it's super easy for your carry to just die in a 2v1 of you leave him alone for 5 seconds. I pretty much never pull the small camp anymore because it leaves the carry so exposed. I just contest the hard camp pull or even pull it myself, while using my spells to secure the range creep when my core cant get it.
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They just have different purposes. Roughly speaking pulling hard is good when you know you’re stronger and want to fight the other heroes, pulling small is good when you already spent your mana and just want the lane to move back while you run a clarity or something
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What camp do I pull to stop my carry from feeding in ineffective high-ground pushes at around 20-30 minutes. I swear that always happens when I help them win the lane a bit too well.
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Beef posted:What camp do I pull to stop my carry from feeding in ineffective high-ground pushes at around 20-30 minutes. I swear that always happens when I help them win the lane a bit too well. Pull roshan out of the pit
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Rosh should happen for the winning team around 20ish min every game this patch. Throughout the game, don’t go high ground without an aegis unless it’s to force buybacks/kill rax against a dead team
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Beef posted:What camp do I pull to stop my carry from feeding in ineffective high-ground pushes at around 20-30 minutes. I swear that always happens when I help them win the lane a bit too well. Have you considered the tactical feed
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emdash posted:Rosh should happen for the winning team around 20ish min every game this patch. Throughout the game, don’t go high ground without an aegis unless it’s to force buybacks/kill rax against a dead team with Rosh in the corner you have to make a converted effort to go there and people are shy. big change from the old map where you would think they were starting rosh, you go check rosh, find nobody, then start rosh for no reason and get wiped.
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Super-NintendoUser posted:Heyo, decided I hate my self and I want to start playing dota2. I started watching BSJ's fundamental videos. Any other advice? Pick witch doctor
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Mortimer Knag posted:Pick witch doctor
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Played two unranked games last night: 1) Picked Witch Doctor, but we had triple mid and we got dumpstered 2) Picked Dazzle, but no one went mid, so i went mid, and held the tower until like 20 minutes and did a decent job laning against a dual midlane of Abadon and Windranger. After twenty minutes I was ~lvl 13, but I misclicked on the shop and bought a Kaya, and then my "Carry" bristleback was lvl 9 and ran down mid and kept dying until the game ended.
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Dazzle is a decent mid. And there's a trick with couriers where you can solo tormentors really easily, but that would require coordination. Don't forget that you can sell store items within like 10s for a full refund with the right click menu.
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Kaya still boosts your shadow wave and poison touch damage. With an aghs build it's not the worst buy. Probably finish it out with the sange for the beef, but you could have also gone kaya and yasha to run people down. You could absolutely make that work
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