Dota 2 General - /d2g/

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NECRO IS FREE MMR

PICK HIM

JUST PICK HIM

You have precisely 10 seconds to explain why you're not spamming Huskar, the Sacred Warrior for FREE +25's in this memebrawler meta.

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Nice patch, dotards.

>>163860676

Which lane? Items? Should I play agressive or just farm until I get blink, aghs?

Help I need to earn some mmr

>>163860891
Offlane, spam Q, run away with W. You can't lose.

>>163860972

Thanks boss. I hope I can reach 4k MMR before the night ends.

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JUST ANOTHER FUCKING REMINDER THAT AGHS SHADOW FIEND GRANTS 194 DAMAGE AND LIFESTEAL FOR REQUIEM.

How good are you with your favourite hero?

Friendly reminder Icefrog got fired and Valve themselves are maintaining Dota.

That's the only way you can explain the abomination that is 7.00.

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>this will be the only thread for the rest of the day until some time midnight
how long before /csgog/ tier dead?

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>>163861234
shit

>>163860676
>>163860712
>le free MMR meme

No shit your rank is gonna go up if you finally pick heroes that aren't agility carries.

The only way you will ever climb consistently through picking is to be good with multiple heroes, period.

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>>163861453
What the fuck happened to csgo? Didn't they average more twitch viewers than league at one point?

>>163861234
>TA
Pretty fucking bad

>>163861849
Case opening strims got shut down

>>163861230
It's legit pick
>He starts casting
>Can't stay and fight cuz it comes back

>>163861849
Valve killed gambling which got rid of about 75% of the playerbase.

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>le epic dondo pudge on Zais stream
Has there ever been a more washed up eSportsman?

>>163861849
The skin hype is over, gambling is dead, so all golds/silvers left the game

>>163862343
Surely they should be joined together

What's the new meta?

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Post heroes with exactly zero (0) counters.

>>163861234
57% win rate on THIS IS A GAME THAT TWO CAN PLAY

>>163862272

LMAO HE GOT REKT THAT FUCKING TP

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>>163861234
>43%
Used to win only every 3rd game when i was learning him, was like 25-30% but now im improving
>7.00 he got dunked

>>163862343
HOT and cold

>>163861234
Only 60% on Visage, it dropped quite a bit right after 7.00 because le balanced primate and the forced 50 meme. Drove my winrate up with some other heroes though, apparently the game coordinator thinks picking a micro hero means you're willing to babysit idiots and that you need to be babysitted if you pick an easier one.
I'm proud of my high winrate on Tiny though.

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>>163861234
cm and witch doctor

>tfw you will never get good enough to not play support

>>163861849
What the fuck happened to dota? Didn't they average more twitch viewers than league at one point?
hmm what does csgo and dota 2 have in comon

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Is Crystal Meth the most commonly used drug in Dotaland? I mean these heroes cant do the their performance without enhancing their endurance and increasing their performance with this drug. But hell, its a bitch of a drug compared to Lysergicaciddiethylamide

>>163863305
dota is not dropping in views m8 we just have shitton of tournaments and 1/2 of dotards watch games in client not on twitch
.

>>163861965
Shut up hick and protect your precious white race.

i found something interesting about dota strategy.

one of the more challenging aspects of the game is dealing with 5 man deathballs that leave you with no breathing room.
while usually people say "just splitpush,just ward" it barely works in actuality.
its just a baby tier strategy to deal with 5 mans.
the thing is with 5 man dota is that they never break off, they always stick as a one group unless they are back to defend towers.

one of the best way to deal with 5 man is to send a decoy on the map to distract the enemy, don't send your main carry to splitpush like an idiot. i know there is a temptation to do that but if your carry gets killed its game over.

most 5 man deathballs are reactionary retards that are easy to drag around the map, just show a support somewhere and make everyone rotate to gank him. it will buy you at least 2 minutes of farm which is a ton for a carry that can't leave his base

>>163863523
>m-muh client!!

No. Doturd is standing with one foot in the grave right now. 7.00 was the worst decision Valve has *ever* made in regards to this game, the playerbase has tanked and more people are leaving every week. Even these generals last all fucking day now and need to be bumped at specific times, when before we'd go through four or five a day, minimum.

>>163861849
One of the best in the world.

I'm not making that up.

Its because no one plays my favorite hero

>dota is literally deaD
LMAO

>>163863943
You have to realise that dota will never die
It's been around for years and it will be there

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>>163863943

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I guess a lot of d2g and the playerbase were third worlders who can't play the game until performance improves

>Monkey King has 1800 damage nuke
>6 minutes in to the game

What did Icefrog mean by this balance decision?

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>>163864604
>cropping out the 50k it went down in november
>specifically including the 4k it gained in a huge patch month
(you)

>>163863923
thanks for your 2k insights, friend

>>163864774
that meth is the true patrician drug

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>muh total playercount!

1 thirdie != 1 Euro/American

>>163864830
people leave and come back all the time
just wait for the next TI and see playerbase
All in all you can't say it's standing one foot in the grave with 880k online players

Dota 2 lost about 300k players since 7.00

>>163864990
its lost 20% of its playerbase since TI
what the fuck are you on

>>163864990
>half of which are SEAmonkies or chinks

>go to zai strim
>listening to lil ugly mane
nice

>>163864982
>le dota was always le white game meme.
>>163865095
That has always happened since TI2

>>163865249
>can't even read a graph
it literally was for a long time
reminder that slavs are white

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ew0lvuhMxQ

>>163865040
Remember the three hundred thousand you inconsiderate fuck.

Clinton Loomis @FearDotA 31s31 seconds ago
CM is a bad hero. think again before picking.

>>163864841
i see players at 6k games bottled in their base for 10-20 minutes every time and it kills my desire to watch the game
you know why 5 man dota always works? because teams are taking shitty trades like t1 for t2 when they are behind and they have to teleport as 5 to defend so the division of resources is terrible and they are left behind either way

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>>163865431
Can confirm I'm 5k scum

A CELESTIAL BODY!


Unf

Where the fuck is barnyyy

>>163866617
he's been streaming under his alias CLQ a lot

>>163866617
shut up no one remembers you

Just got 24 hour ban for abandoning too many games? What do now?

>>163866617
How long has it even been since barny streamed?

Any of you guys play vainglory?

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?

>>163866798
Yes

I hate the recent update they did, it ruined the minion buff system it had before that was fine

>>163866673
Use white privilege to get it removed.

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What did he mean by this?
Do I really have to verify the game cache everytime I boot it?

>>163866982
>55% winrate
Yeah he don't know shit. He was autoattacking creeps as a pro player back in 2007. The chinks had to invent last hitting. He ought to be ashamed of himself for being such a low IQ faggot.

The new Atos is probably the biggest buff an item has ever received in this game.

It was already a super solid tanking up item for int cores and the best Linken's popper in the game but the rooting is just fucking broken now.

>>163867357
>2 seconds root
>projectile can be disjointed

zzz

This patch really killed the game didn't it.

>>163867602
Morphling shotgun can be disjointed but you're complaining that he's OP

>>163867794
Remember the 300k that left.

ITT: Baby ducks and Starcrumps

>>163861234

Rubick.

I'd say im actually really good, it's always fun to play him and rush aghs

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>play offlane
>get bullied, ganked, denied farm
>go around tp ganking a couple times
>somehow my safelane carry has the same gpm as me
every
fucking
time

>>163867821
>you're complaining he's OP

?

>>163862585
silences and bkb piercing disables are his weakness and high physical damage fucks him pretty hard
he is also antimage level squishy if he doesn't go for sny skadi build
but yeah, i agree, he is pretty versatile and actually good at everything carry should do

>>163868096
/d2g/ has always said that morphling is OP

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>>163868069
>tfw doing that with the last pack of noodles.

>>163867965
What's a baby duck?

>>163866982
well, there is a point in his words, she is worst babysitter in the game and there are plenty of roamers that can make more impact when played by high-level players and her ult is iffy at best
still my favorite support and second most played hero

>>163868025
DIE

I thought zai's music was the sound of jakiro's wings flapping

>>163867146
Nah

>>163868209
I don't speak for /d2g/.

>>163861234
I don't have a favourite hero

I pick whatever my team needs and just keep on being sad with it

why do some fucking autists feel the need to narrate everything that's happening in-game over voice chat.

shut the fuck up, holy shit.

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I love Soe

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no ICEpath is this the build?

>>163861234
Meepo 70% wr. But he's too gimmicky. Alch is my second most played but I don't like him so much anymore because the pros played him too much and it feels like he's low skill. I need a high skill farming based hero to feel good about to mark as my favourite

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>>163863249
>that fucking feel
I just wanna know what it feels like to rice for once in my life.

>>163868748

the worst are the people that will call you by your color rather than hero. especially when they're all-chatting. it's the most LMAO wHO cARES? thing you can do and I know they only do it to protect their egos and pretend like this game doesn't matter to them when it's probably the only thing they have going for them in their lives.

i debate throwing the game any time my teammates do it. it's fun to watch these people have a meltdown.

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r8

>>163869068
shut up brown

>>163869070
How do you pick mk in ranked?

Im 3.5k shitter and he gets banned in all my games

>>163869070

Why do you censor your name? Literally nothing bad will happen to you.

are the peruvians region locked out of usa servers yet?

If you are a strong, you are going up

>>163869068
Hey teal are you okay?

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Is there a single better feeling than this?

>>163869216
why would i display my name on a a somalian banana review forum

They're making all the supports scale by giving them more utility and shit. Why don't they make carries less weak in the early game like 325 damage nukes for AM and spectre?

>>163861234
brewmaster
playing him mid gives me Adrenalin rush
im a selfless player and i don't play greedy

>>163869516

So I can backtrace you, find out your real identity, and send pizzas to your house.

>>163868976
It feels like shit because:
>jungle spawns nerfed in 7.00
>jungle bounties nerfed in 6.84
>kill aoe gold buffed in 6.82
>kill exp buffed recently
>shrines that allow constant ganks
>towers falling too fast
>games snowballing to 20 min ends
>a single kill allows the enemy team to get tons of gold despite not farming any creeps all game
>carries can't carry against teams that run at them
>ganking playstyles trump all the others especially carrying and only memepushing comes second
>support pudges hooking heroes 3 times his networth and solo killing them
>brain dead heroes like slark, PA, huskar, sniper, drow and pudge are stronger than heroes that require skill to play such as visage and chen
>buying an early midas means you lose because the enemy team will snowball and roll you over and end the game by 20 minutes because you didn't buy instant memefighting items like drums or HOTD or sny or SHIT
>all carry players including rtz(lmao even this nigger) have been in pain since 6.81
>meme teamfights and run-at-face-as-five dota is constantly pushed as an agenda by that enslaved icefrog faggot so games are "entertaining"
>If you ganked a lane as 5 in the previous patches before 6.82, the other two lanes got more free farm and experience than you did, so people used to do it less. Those days the best you could do was 3 man gank another lane, which meant that individual skill mattered more than simply outnumbering the enemy
>Memefight deathball fangays will argue that outnumbering the enemy takes skill because 5 people are working together as a team. Somehow 5v1 actually takes skill because you're 5 people working together to rape someone

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>>163861234
:(

>>163869871
Make them halal and it's gucci.

I've won 8 out of my last 10 games by picking SB or Void, going offlane, and just right clicking whatever is in the lane opposite of me any time it shows up on my screen.

Thank God I'm not a carrycuck in this meta.

>>163868832
It almost always was, nerd

>>163867602
>2 seconds of a status effect that was also heavily buffed
>low cooldown and negligible mana cost
>comes with great stats at a decent price

If disjointing is a deal breaker for you, you're just shit at the game.

>>163870118
not maxing sure but no icepath? Thats not right

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>>163869512

>>163869070
Hi border patrol :>
Nothing can hide from me

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/130939712
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198091205440

People hate dota now because the carry role is cucked.

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>mfw can't find the best build for jumping techies

>Team complains and tells me to AFK
>Come back 10 minutes later somehow not abandoned to them going ape shit at me for going afk
???

Hey dotards are fly and swindle responsible for your failures with women?

>>163869895
>>brain dead heroes like slark, PA, huskar, sniper, drow and pudge are stronger than heroes that require skill to play such as visage and chen

This is retarded, Chen is the exception, not the rule. Most heroes aren't rendered obsolete by a cheap item.

A hero being hard to play is a side effect of being more adaptable or versatile by design, because otherwise they wouldn't have any weaknesses. Slark, PA, Drow, etc are relatively straightforward to deal with.

>>163870919
It's hilarious you used "straightforward" instead of "ludicrously expensive".

>pajkatt joins navi

The teamkiller is about to reach his ultimate goal.

How are you supposed to deal with Meepo in 7.00, A New Journey????

>>163870919
Drow has to be counterpicked. You can't "just" deal with her.
PA is dealt with by 5k gold items that you can't rush or you die to her Q in seconds
Slark just presses Q and R and can't be countered unless you buy tons of sentries because dust doesn't work on him.

>>163871174
just ward his runes lol

>>163871174
Same way you always did

Burst

>>163871164
What's this meme about pajkatt teamkiller

can anyone explain

>>163869895
>support pudges hooking heroes 3 times his networth and solo killing them

I don't understand why more people don't complain about this, when supporting I average upwards of 70 wards per game just so "roaming" underlevelled and underfarmed Pudge doesn't demolish my mid.

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>>163871267
>bad player joines bad teams
>zomg team is le bad
>must be the cat of pies fault

>>163871164
but how can you teamkill a dead team?

>>163871174
Pick sven, lich, axe, earthshaker, ember, huskar, lion, lina or leshrac, eldertitan, disrupter, bristleback.

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>>163871235
(you)

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>na`vi with a swede

truly, dota has finally and utterly died.

a shade of its former self
a shadow of its former glory
a mirage of its former demographics

we had a good run
few games last as long as we have.

best skin for ~$12?

any character but Brood

>tfw haven't been able to play Dota in two years three months
Fuck guys what have I missed? Is the game even fun

>>163871486
Keep spamming slark and pudge. They aren't killing this game for sure!

>>163871535
a whole set or a really nice item?

balance of the bladekeeper

Why is the shop still not reverted

Its basically unusable now.
I took 5 hits off a tide trying to buy a fucking Stick in my last game because I have no fucking clue where anything is.

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>>163871551
>>163871551
absolutely nothing
the game is even worse than ever

When will Dota 2 have some actual comeback mechanics??

Fortify and buybacks are just "Stall inevitable defeat" mechanics.

>>163871618

either or, i already have that as my go to jugg set 2:^)

meepo can just stomp my head to death in this patch he doesn't even need to poof

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Going all out tonight, eh?

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>>163871535
What do you have against her fertile womb?

>>163871491
If pie of cats was a cuck, he wouldn't be killing teams.

>>163871661

>Smoke of Deceit

What more do you need?

>>163871739
Pick lich/earthshaker and ult him for free 450 gold and 3 levels.

>>163871661
Dota does have comeback mechanics, kill bounties are awarded more gold for how large the enemy kill streak was.

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>>163871618
no such thing
mix and match

>>163871864
Smoke of honor

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is semi-carry lich viable

>>163871661
The current patch feels like it has the best comeback mechanics.

If you outplay the enemy you can make a comeback, but you are still able to close out games when you are ahead.

>>163871661
We had generous comeback mechanics, they almost killed the game.

>die only once to an alch as storm spirit
>s uddenly whole game spirals out of control
:(

>>163872062
>semi carry lich
>not building EHP to tank enemy hits

>Na'vi wants to play in Eu qual when VP is the only threat in Kiev Major CIS qualifier assuming VP don't get an invite

>>163872015
>item pings on the enemy minimap where all your heros are when used

hmmm

>>163871661
Comeback mechanics killed the creeping carry role by awarding tons of gold for kills instead of farm.

>>163871757
wtf i love brood now

>>163872186
That'd be such a troll item.

>pings to enemy WE'RE HERE COME AND FIGHT US FAGET

>>163872086
If they reduced them, why does it feel like memefighting is still dominant?

>Try out MemeHelm on TB
>In a game with a last random furion and no supports
>And we're getting stomped 10-1 at 6 mins
>Win

This item is dumb and I attribute my entire win to buying it.

>ping 2 half dead allies to join me at the shrine
>some other teammate starts shitting on me

Why are people like this

>>163871757
>brood can have tons of kids without problems
>humans can't because it's too expensive
I hate this. Fuck humans.

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is caster ember a thing now? veil maelstrom into travels and octarine perhaps?

hmmmmmmm.........................

QUICK! Post the 7.00 movie poster
I NEED some Reddit karma!

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>tfw selling all my dota items and cashing out thanks to losers like you buying this shit

>>163872414
Did that hOtd creep support for you? Tell me more.

>>163872314
Because magical AOE is way to pervasive now,

The most broken ability in the game is The Swarm.

Prove me wrong.
>gives vision
>disables blink
>requires four attacks to remove - hectic in a teamfight
>ruins armor

>>163872482
EE did Radiance with Veil and Travels.

>why

Pretty much double Flame Guard and more magic damage while keeping your right clicks solid enough to be relevant.

>>163872589
I got Net creep and got 2 kills because of it, then we took 2 towers.

That alone I think got us back in the game I think.

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>>163861234
breddy gud, 58,4% winrate
She's shit right now tho

>>163872656
Honestly I don't know why that build is better than manta + tanky item or double crit + fury build.

>>163870427
Sure as hell isn't bloodstone on a hero that has a mechanic to kill themself.

>>163861230
Aghs only gives 20 damage from souls and 40 with the talent that upgrades soul damage.

It's good, but stop being a retard.

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All these fools pretending they're leaving forever. After a few hours of the shallow af current year games you'll come crawling back as always.

Guys what about HotD on Abbadon.
You grab that mana creep and just set it to follow you.

You're like a fucking god.

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Pick us, I dare ya

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Okay, so how do you play this guy in Seven Point Zero Zero

>>163872904
Easier to build and you're more relevant mid-game instead of farming for BFury + 1.

>>163873364
You dont

test

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>Ember is added to Dota 2
>optimal playstyle is maxing SoF/bola and rushing several BF's/deaduluses like a memer
>nerfed
>now optimal playstyle for a couple years is playing like a caster and building survivability earlygame until your right clicks become real damage at ~20mins
>nerfed and completely gutted
>new optimal playstyle is playing him entirely like a caster
What is valve trying to tell us?
I miss SoF first ember

>>163873364
Build carry, every top AW player is building carry instead of double Necro/Dagon.

So things like Orchid, Shadowblade, Bloodthorn, Daedalus, Mjollnir.

>>163873364
Same as always, Aquilla into Midas into everything else, take the atck range talent if you're sieging, or the CD reduction if you're fighting

>>163873537
What is the meaning of this picture?

You can't sell Artificer's Hammer's with less than 5 charges on the market anymore?

>>163873557
>instead of double Necro/Dagon.
That was a thing?

Just lost my last $ on ixmike's team
>Wat do now?

>>163861849
the game did not lost popularity really considering it gets no updates and people finally bored out of skins it seems
the entire community is cancer though from the average player to the esport

>>163873758
he hates sand

>>163873537
Nothing has been nerfed. You can build him all 3 ways if you like and win effectively.

>>163873825
Necro, Manta were a thing for super pushing power.

Double Dagon was a thing because you could zap someone to death and put out Flux and Wraiths for huge damage.

>>163873364
He's kinda dogshit at the minute but you just go for Mjol/Lance then extend. Bloodthorn is a great pickup still.

BoTs/Midas are core.
Honestly at the minute I'd suggest not playing him, I'm sure he'll be buffed soon or a stronger build will be found. As it currently stands you have to win your lane, win another lane so you don't lose map control, hope the game doesn't end before 20 minutes with some luna push or some shit and then you are a good hero.
You have very limited control over 2 of these.

>>163872656
>The most broken ability in the game is The Swarm.

its up there. but not the most broken.
i think stone gaze is broken. the cooldown is just ridicules for what you get
reactive armor is probably second most broken

Is cm balanced around being a support or just being an intelligence spell casting hero? Because I think she's being forced into a supporting role by icefrog. He didn't used to do This

How to play WindRanger in 7.01?
Serious question, no memes pls.

>>163874217
Drow for damage, Max nuke, maelstrom blink aghs

>>163874193
What about spell steal hmm

>>163874217
She genuinely is not a good hero, you're better off gitting gud at other mids.

>Decide to play Morph for the first time in years
>Hover on him while picking and mark the map where I'm laning
>Riki picks last second, follows me lane and steals all farm, missing most of it but effectively denying them to me in the process
>Said Riki is also dying -constantly- trying to steal the farm
>Pudge quits at 10 minutes after going about 3-15
Can we just give this game a fucking pricetag already. I'd easily pay $60 if it kept all of the children who refuse to work with the team and south americans out

Is there any hero that does the same thing as rubick?

>>163874449
Be useless? Try Earth Spirit F

>>163874031
Keep in mind that the bracket in which I play, people don't go for 20 minutes pushes and you can literally rat to prolong the game for 40 minutes and get too big to deal with

>>163874572
Any intelligence hero? That does the same?
For example dazzle is the low skill version of Oracle because they do the same thing but Oracle can do it diffrenrly.

>>163874309
spell steal is a good spell, in a bad hero.

he has the most useless arsenal outside of spell steal. add to the fact that his cooldowns and manacosts are ridicules.

Is it just me or is Lycan actually not a dogshit hero?

I feel like I'm fucking Wolverine or something, like it's physically impossible to die.

>>163874881
He's the most played support hero in pro for a reason.

>>163874992
People are saying he's OP as fuck now but I felt that way before 7.0

>>163874992
He went from 46% win rate in 6.88f to 54% in 7.00 (and down to 52% in 7.01 because nerfs).

>>163871164

Adding a teamkiller to a dead time is like two negatives multiplying with each other.

Pajkatt is the perfect fit for Navi and will revive the roster.

>>163875152
I mean I felt like he was a god before 7.0, not that he was OP

>>163874992
Ive been going HotD into Armlet, and I'm at about 70% winrate so far.

You deal so much damage, are tanky as fuck, and have about 30 hp regen so you lose almost no hp from Armlet active.

bringe 2013 lycan back

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>Come back to dota after give friend my account 1 year ago
>he fcking ripped everything in my inventory and let it die in 3k mmr
The only thing left is this.
Is this thing worth anything now?

guy what if

okay you gotta be with me here

HotD into Mael, on Anti Mage.

>>163875452
Don't you mean early 2012 Lycan, which was 6.74?

>>163875570
it's worth 0.2$ on vpgame

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Are lad Arteezy is streaming some dotes

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um dotards?

>>163875702
Are you going to stack ancients and farm with maelstrom?

anon no
n
o
no

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>>163875773
it's been this long?
gosh was lycan vs batrider every game

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>>163875883
Steamcharts' graphs aren't accurate for recent data

>>163875943
No I'm going to jump on idiots and fucking meme them to death with a purge creep and my big dick AM auto attacks.

>>163875119
pros don't know shit about dota.

every combo/dual/tri lane that the pros make came a year late after being tested in pubs.
the entire comp scene is outdated as fuck with outdated picks. we have valve that try their hardest to make the game appealing and balance all the heroes one by one. and what the pros do? they limit their hero pool to 30 bans and picks. then try to adjust their strategy based on those 30 picks instead of having a surprise pick and win the game.
all pros do is rip off combos they found in pubs to be effective, they are too uptight and too up their ass to try new things

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>>163876019
Better graph, a lot of games have that dip towards the end with this timeframe

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liking my patch dotards?

>>163876350
Please bring back the old shop

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>>163876350
I miss bruno so much, him and the old gd studio...

>>163876350
I miss you bruno :(

>>163871060
>>163871235
You guys sound like 2ks. These heroes have some severe inherent weaknesses that are easily exploited.

>PA
The least versatile hero in the game: she's completely dependent on her right click damage while only being resistant to enemy right clicks. Plan for this and she is fucked. Her meme daggers pop Linkens, are easy to disjoint and don't even pierce spell immunity. You can annihilate her early game with burst damage, and if she buys BKB later on, you've managed to delay her while wasting four thousand of her gold and a slot that could have gone to another carry item.
>Slark
He's entirely dependent on his active abilities to get kills and avoid deaths, and his stat gains are horrible, so a little silence goes a long way with him. Shadow Dance also doesn't protect him from untargeted/AoE spells. Sticking with your team and avoiding vulnerable positions makes it hard for him to solo gank.
>Drow
Get close to her and... that's it. She's mostly dependent on her team to initiate for her and keep enemies away. Even if she manages to gust you, you have to be completely retarded to lack any way to avoid her attacks by the time she is leveled enough to do any real damage. Even a support item is enough to get out of her range, or better yet, close the gap to disable her ult and kill her instead.

Do you know why people spam these heroes so much? Because no one will punish them for it. PA and Drow pickers are literally too stupid to play anything else, and like with Blood, Slark pickers are gambling heavily on YOU being stupid. Is it aggravating when a snowball hero instakills you with buffs that they farmed from your teammates? Sure, but if this happens your teammates were probably feeder retards anyway.

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is Crystal "Maiden" the most horrible title given to someone in dota land?
this "Maiden" doesnt look like a maiden to me , hell Lina the Slayer is more of a maiden compared to this slut.

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>this account is cursed
>i swear im in some shadow pool my behavioral score is too low its impossible to go past 3k with low good boy points

this was my friend that now levels up a smurf, he gave me his cursed account to test and see how cursed it is and how impssible it is to rank up

this is the result
im only 4.8 too

if any of you unironcally believe that matchmaking is losing you games because you flame or whatever then you should change games becuase you dont have the required minimum IQ to succeed in this one

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that feel

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>>163876350
>adding another male hero

>>163876910
>A 4.8K player is able to win games at 3k spamming pubstar heroes
Neck yourself.

>>163877121
Supposedly the next hero is gonna be another elemental Spirit and according to Monkey King's lines it's another male

best site for trade/bet right now?

>>163876910
My friend was 2.2k when he ask to used my 4k account. I told him to never rage to avoid reports/tilted teammates, He goes back to his main and is 3.6k now.

UI Issues
-KDA/LH/D Placement
-Attributes hidden, mousing over causes camera to pan.
-Buyback activating when clicking allied hero portraits
-Buyback being clickable during reincarnations (Wraith King and Aegis)
-Buyback being useable during Wraith forms (Wraith Aghs)
-Can no longer ping enemy levels.
-Can see enemy inventorys change if you clicked them as they went into the fog.
-Clicking an item in an inventory while in the fog will show which hero has the item. For Ex: Enemy lion passes the gem to enemy morphling in the fog, but you still have Lion selected you alt-click the gem it will say Mophing has Gem of True Sight in all chat.
-Rubick spell stealing any attack modified by a talent will cause a UI error with his talent tree, displaying enemy talents instead of his own. This is a visual bug.
-Items will dissapear forever if the courier is 9 slotted and tries to create/pick up an item.
-Zet/Arc Warden's Tempest clone can permanently give the main Arc Warden the moon shard buff. Making it possible to buy moonshard, use tempest, eat the shard, and resell keeping both the attack speed buff and 4,000g.
-The UI is atrocious for 4:3 resolution monitors, causing talent trees to be obscured by the minimap

>>163877620

Quack Quack Quack

I know how to Oracle, but I don't know WHEN to oracle, or what to buy on Oracle

help a nigga out

Man I wish this game would be more anime.
Some design are absolutely atrocious

>>163877663
>obvious bugs and exploits
>b-b-baby d-duck!
Come on now

Posting about Oracle just reminded me that he looks like dogshit and his palette is dogshit, where do I complain about that

Alternatively, when are we getting cosmetics for him to cover him up with something decent

>>163877946
Oracle looks good though

Also he's voiced by G-Man so that's a plus

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my what a shit

thread

>>163877129
here's your (You)

>>163878040
I like his voice and everything, but I still think his palette and design look like ass

>>163877620
give them a break redd/t, no need to post that here
they will fix the buyback bug in first week of 2017 and ignore all the shits you listed unless zet becomes a thing in pro games

>4:3 resolution in 2016

>>163878081
my life

>>163878181
You can just dismiss everything wrong with
>x in 2016

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>no big update tonight to fix this shit game

guess anon was wrong

>>163877946
>Alternatively, when are we getting cosmetics for him to cover him up with something decent

Never, because he's hard to play but lacks the reputation of a high skill pick like Meepo or Chen has.

He can also be horrible in pubs because a lot of players don't understand how his spells work. I have actually been yelled at for NOT killing my own teammate with Flames.

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Different heros but its the same shit every game! Teamfight from 5 minute until one team gets an advantage and then 15 minutes of besieging. Suicide the final racks and thats it megas are impossible to come back from now.

>>163878505
Valve is on break because of holidays like every year, are you new?

>>163878663
>going on break for weeks while dota is in shambles
no i dont believe they are even that stupid.

>>163878736
Sounds like you never had a job

I don't understand what to do when pudge and slark or PA are on the enemy team.

Every fucking game PA or slark gets out of hand. PA dagger critting supports for half their life is actually fucking annoying.

I mostly have a hard time with slark. I spam sentries and end up broke. I buy dust and he purges it off. What am I supposed to do? Same with PA. Am i playing support wrong?

>>163878862
I miss when PA dagger would crit supports for their entire life.

>>163878862
>what i do?

pick weaver if carry. if support pick distruptor

>>163878938

It still can if she out levels your supports. Honestly dagger is one of those abilities that is cancer as fuck but no one really talks about. Kind of like how pudge hook is cancer as fuck but no one says anything.

Its honestly not hard to hit hooks and they deal pure damage.

>carry/support my way up 400 mmr
>Start a losing streak even when i take hour 2 hour breaks between
>get constant cs and decent scores during team fights
>team crumbles late game and doesn't ward or gets caught out and picked left and right
>loss loss loss loss loss loss loss loss
This come back mechanic is stupid, no matter how far ahead you are, 1 or 2 picks or a bad team fight lliterally gives the enemy the upper hand.

>>163878819
sounds like youve never left your basement if you think that vacations are guaranteed in every single company on earth and that they would never work 2 days after a holiday if it was important to their business

>>163868383

>can jungle from level 1-3 in two minutes
>guaranteed root with great animation, low cd
>teamfight-winning ultimate when used properly

Next he'll try and tell me Wukong is balanced.

>>163878862
>what i do?
wait 30min, lose, and don't tilt

>>163878862
>PA on the enemy team
>suports on my team

what kind of game is this

>>163879284
There are 331,424 people playing at the moment and a peak of 854,494 players today, please make a case for how Dota 2 is broken and unplayable and why Valve should get back from their scheduled vacation to fix it.

Who are the best supports of 7.01?

>>163879176
>be ahead
>have a gold lead and talents to let you snowball even harder
>somehow fuck it up
>WAHHH I SHOULDN'T LOSE

You deserve to get punished for fucking up a lead, you're probably also over-estimating how well you're actually doing in games.

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>Every game is now stomp or be stomped

Dotards?

>>163879623

LET THE BODIES HIT THE RAAAAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

>>163879623
purge should have pursued a career in modeling

7.01 might be the only balanced version of Dota 2 I've seen.
I can literally hit random and go offlane with ANY hero thanks to the new changes to the suicide lane making it the safest lane in the game

>>163879583
>>163879583

Pudge, Ogre magi, and Riki. All other "supports" are inferior versions of those three.

>>163879968
The "safe" lane really needs some buffs.

>>163880162
Hard lane is the new safelane.

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>tfw you really want to play girthlord but his ult has lots of room for embarrassment

>>163880257
Not really.

>>163880397
His other abilities make-up for it.

He is the best position 3 in the game right now.

>>163880397
Same reason why I never play faceless void
I like the hero but I'm too scared of fucking my team over

>>163880632
just git gud and ult enemies not allies

pitlord requires communication


void doesnt

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>Home for christmas
>Can't play dotes on laptop

It is truly suffering.

Pit Lord's ult is ez as fuck, most common usage is GTFO from a teamfight.

Second is win teamfight and TP to a tower for instant objective

>>163880820
you can play this instead *unzips dick*

>>163879586
>>>163879569
implying i'm fucking up a lead.
Literally my last two games were nothing but my teamates running in 1v5 while the entire enemy team was pushing bot.
i told them defend i'll push to take some heat away.
But what does slardar do? "Oh i can blink and aoe stun! might as well do it while my teamates are on the way to help me instead of with me"
our cm? "Oh our slardar is dying let me blink and ult then instantly get fucking nuked because i'm alone"
etc etc

>>163880942
skype?

>>163880963
>me ooga, team booga post

Yeah I'm not reading that anon.

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>game broken
>two non-holiday days
>still no patch

>>163880735
I've been on fails of the week before
I know I'll fuck it up at some point

>>163881149
>I've been on fails of the week before
Think about it this way anon, they won't remember your name by the time they finish the video

>>163881065
Alright here let me fix it
>team trickle feeds into bot lane not waiting for a full team fight
>they respawn one by one due to it
>instantly go back into the fray with a trickle feed
>lead lost

>>163881070
valve has had a very busy year anon, surely they deserve a few days of vacation

Daily reminder that my favorite hero > your favorite hero and my mmr > your mmr

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>play safelane support
>spent 100% mana to harass Sand King
>realized I wasted all of my time because of bounty rune and shrine

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is there a vg discord? i'm sick of playing with spics

/a/ reporting in, I've never played Dota 2, will one of you play with me?

>>163881606
puta

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if EG has the most dollarydoos won in a defence of the ancients two (2) tournament then who has the least?

>>163881669
This isn't your first post in the thread according to 4chan X. Why do you lie?

>>163881149
I once sabotaged a memetubers video so hard I'm surprised I didn't have a video dedicated to me.

I also learnt that those videos are more edited and faked than the 100 COD kilstreak ones.

>>163878862
See >>163876845

These heroes are snowballers, so you need to be more careful against them. Never be alone for more than a short time or stray too far from safety. If your team wants you to risk your neck to place a ward and is unwilling to come with you, tough shit. Stick with them and get pickoffs, drop a ward while you are moving across the map if it's convenient. If you can see them on the minimap and they aren't a threat, use this time to get some vision in your jungles.

Supports are not just ward dispensers, their early game is the strongest, which means you need to focus on backing up your cores. Feel free to run around the map during laning and abuse bounty runes so you can keep pressure off of whoever is getting harassed the most, and don't be afraid to abuse Glimmer later on.

If everyone in your bracket is too stupid to not feed then counter these faggots.

PA: Centaur, Necro, Axe, Dragon Knight, Sand King
Slark: Necro, Riki, Bloodseeker, Sand King
Pudge: Lifestealer, Slardar, Juggernaut, and even PA and Slark as an extra fuck you

If you need a hero that can deal with all three, Wraith King. Just don't pick him into PL, he's the one hero that current shitty-ass PL is actually useful against and Peruvians/Russians seem insistent on picking him anyway. I don't know why. If you don't mind a high skill floor, Tiny can obliterate pubs.

Most importantly, however, is to be focused. They are hoping to exploit any mistakes you make. Do your best to avoid them and they'll be really fucking annoyed.

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>trc is losing his mind on stream
>13k viewers
what are you fuckers doing??

>>163881783
For (You)s, but I've never played 7.01 and I still want to play with someone.

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Nice UI, dotards.

>>163881149
link?

>>163881446
Eupho is fucking garbage kill yourself

>>163881606
kill yourself

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>tfw just sold another bunch of items on the market again

Cashing out sure feels good.

Be sure to keep purchasing my shit the moment I place it up for sale, losers.

It's literally FREE money for me all the way. I'm so glad the game is so fucking terrible now that I don't have to wait any longer in order to make a profit out of all the crap I horded.

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Is rubick ever a bad pick?
I love playing him but it doesnt seem like im always useful.

>>163882614
grats nerd you got some steambux to buy your shitty nerd games with i am so jelous lmao

>>163882756

Rubick is one of the most "do nothing" supports in the entire game. Played by sperglords that didnt actually want to play support.

>>163882756
>is rubick ever a bad pick
yes every game

>>163882756
His non-ult abilities are a bit mediocre now. I wouldn't pick him if the enemy has nothing nice to steal.

>>163882756
There's plenty of heroes where Rubick can't really steal anything worthwhile.

Rubrick is the only hero that can literally be fucking afk all game, does nothing, dies first in every fight

And noone sees a problem

>>163882756
You play him as badInvoker

>>163882756
ye he is a bad pick in 99% of the games the other 1% is against enigma

autistic iranian mainer played him every game in comp and was winning everything so icefrog decided to give his one shitty pseudo disable the cooldown of an ultimate and now the hero is fucking trash played just for le epic big plays and losing mmr

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Blessings upon a loyal warrior

what did she mean by this

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>caster xin

KILL
THIS
MEME

>>163882970

Because there is little difference between that and when someone plays Rubick "seriously"

>>163883000
Bullshit #1 right here
You don't punish a greedy jungler by picking worthless trash like rubick

>>163883019
>had something like a 44% winrate in 5k+ doing his regular build last patch
>it's now up in 50% being caster focused.

Why would you want people to play him inefficiently?

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Buff this ability to make it not trash and actually unique

>null field is now global
F I X E D
I
X
E
D

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>>163883005
You know exactly want she means anon...

>>163883019

Caster Xin is literally GoodQoP but that isn't saying much

>>163883303
Just make it a free pipe.

What is the hero you see on the enemy team and immediately go "Ho shit".

>>163883303
There's nothing wrong with the ability that requires it needing a buff.

22% magic resist aura is no joke.

>>163882756
>Is rubick ever a bad pick?
yes he is always a bad pick

>>163883303
null field now has an active, works like veil

literally

fixed

>>163883453
A counterpick to our carry

>>163883453
Axe or Tresdin because I know it's gonna be a lost game with my luck

>>163883453

Pudge

Doesn't ever need to CS. Can literally 1v1 3 slotted carries with just boots. GoodClock and GoodBat late game. 1.2k pure damage "combos" with aghs. Good on offense. Great on defense. Literally impossible to shut down. Scales all game.

Literally the dumbest fucking hero in the game right now.

>>163883453
usually spirit breaker but no one ever really picks him so its a non issue 99% of the time

>>163882756
I wouldn't bother with him at all unless the enemy team has multiple (not just one) strong abilities to steal, i.e. Ravage, Black Hole.

And even then he's a pretty crappy support overall. Most people only pick him for MLG PRO BEEG PLAYZ that will never happen because they blindly follow everything they see in pro games. Once had a Rubick first pick on my team and most of my teammates accosted me when I said he shouldn't mid.

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Guess that hero, dotards!

>>163884142
a meme that shouldnt exist

>>163884142
pit lord

>>163883303
Passive removed, active added, gives 40/50/60/70% magic resistance in a 850/900/950/1000 radius, requires 110 mana and has a 24/22/20/18 second cooldown