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>INFORMATION & GUIDES
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>STATISTICS
http://www.dotabuff.com/
http://www.opendota.com/
http://www.datdota.com/
>NEWS & STREAMS
http://www.joindota.com/
http://www.gosugamers.net/
http://www.liquiddota.com/
Streamlink Twitch GUI: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui
>COSMETIC ITEM BETTING
http://dota2lounge.com/
http://dota2.vpgame.com/
THIS is the man you shittalk when you shittalk OG.
His father (pictured right) is the founder of Commando Krav Maga. That means that he's trained his son in the Jewish arts of beating you to a pulp. You should know that if you talk shit, FLY WILL FUCK YOUR SHIT UP. Look at those abs. Those abs fucked your mother, one ab flexing in her slit and one tickling her asshole. Look at those legs. Does fly skip leg day? As surely as you skip boots on weaver, unless you're a shitter. You don't need speed when you hit like a ball of molten fury, and fly will tear you down from an autistic 270 pound 3k virgin to a respawn timer in 0.2 seconds. Look at those pecs. Fly crushes n0tail's head between those pecs every time he throws a lan. He smashes him with the strength of the six million souls he carries in his blood. Look at those trousers. That's right, faggot, you already were, but look closer. First of all, notice how those abs keep layering right on down past his waistline? Yup, he's ripped all the way to the motherfucking taint, you worthless piece of shit. But there's something else. What's that bulge? Why are his trousers so distended? What could be the explanation?
That's right bitch, Fly has a twenty inch dick.
>6 year old cousin over at my house
>she streams shitty kids movies over netflix all fucking day
>couldn't play dota because our internet is shit and can't handle netflix + dota
>she is staying overnight and will do the same thing tmrw
oh there will be payback for this shit
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
dead game dead thread
>>173937814
>6 year old
>she is staying overnight
you know what to do anonteach her to play dota
>>173937821
SO PREDICTABLE
I KNEW YOU WOULD COME
>>173937814
Tire her out by horsing around and tickling her for hours. Play Dota once she takes a nap.
Now that the dust has settled a bit, was the Midas change a nerf or a buff to the blue man? What needs to happen before he becomes viable?
Fuck Monkey King
what the fuck happened to merlini
>>173938478
buff because he can have two once every 60 seconds, whereas everybody else only has one every 90 seconds
>>173939161
what are you talking about
>>173939154
dude wait untilk you have a webm of something to repost a webm multiple times.
this is literally nothing. some 2k players manfought and the obvious winner obviously won. wow.
>>173939154
stop posting these boring ass pub-play webms. they fucking suck
>>173939315
>not 2k sadly
Why is the player base dropping? I'm assuming it's because of 7.00. A lot of the changes felt pointless and just made the game worse.
>>173939782
This is the future of sc2gen posters. Setting websites such as steamcharts as their homepages.
>shrines, talents and map redesign
>MMR Assassin at work by WW picking
>>173940018
wait for TI lul
Its literally a huge advertisement for the game FOR FREE
>>173939871
I couldn't have cared less how many people were playing before 7.00 but I knew I wasn't the only one who lost a lot of interest in the game.
>>173940018
Dumb additions to the game.
>>173940137
why does Icefrog hate best milf so much
>>173940018
>biggest drop was March-May 2016
that really gets my noggin a joggin
>>173940219
because he can't have her
>>173940018
>literally identical numbers drop to this time last year
Juiceshitters are so pathetic
>>173940295
Wut. Last year's February was a MASSIVE recover followed by a 30k loss, sure, it was inflated and half of those newcomers leaving was expected but game managed to stay >1m up to the TI.
Now this year...recently we got the biggest patch in history and not even giving free treasures (darkmoon shit) the recover was significant . March got a DEADLY, heavier than 2016's March but without the February's massive boost to back up.
I was expecting a small recover to stop this bleeding but we still are in a 4k drop. Kiev is coming so things my change a bit but we might face this next TI under 900k without much hope to go back to the 1m glory.
I'm trying to serious here, but my own personal experience was fucked up by this patch and my dotards says the same. My is either dead or playing CS:GO. My Discord shows more and more Overwatch. I barely play dotes now, the only thing I do is watch.
I just want my good and old dotka back.
post mmr grinding tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvTRZJ-4EyI
For some god awful reason I cannot get my solo MMR out of the gutter of 3.7k. My team plays against 4-6k MMR teams and I do absolutely fine. But no when I play Pos5 support in pubs I Mirana's nuking neutral creeps that are pulling our creeps to reset the lane equilibrium which my AM can't keep
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>173941187
>my dotards FRIENDS says the same. My is FRIENDLIST is either dead or playing CS:GO. My Discord shows more and more Overwatch. I barely play dotes now, the only thing I do is watch.
Sorry. The tears fucked up my text
>>173941206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM
>tfw u pick Centaur and steamroll their safelane to rax
>>173941187
Look at the percentages you piece of shit.
>>173941187
overwatch is less than a year old, pretty sure its gonna die a worse death than tf2
dota 2 is ~7 years old and still at the topalso last years feb was only big because of the year beast timing
>>173941206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbiqsTvQ8Gc
Do any dotards want to play dota together?
>>173941602
only if you are a qtpie suppor that will buy me wards and give good head!
>>173938478
Arc wants a Midas for gold, the experience is just icing on the cake. Getting Midas and BoTs on Arc is now like getting Battlefury on AM, if you do it early enough you basically won the game already. I'm a shitter and I easily maintain 800 GPM in won games.
>>173941206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6M7t644HcM&t=2753s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T655Z_ccQNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay8vzCHkgEk on loop
>>173941187
All games eventually die, and the esports meme will keep Dota 2 relevant for a long time.
You have to remember that the game is constantly gaining and losing players, and a lot of people were assblasted over the 7.00 change, especially since the new Panorama HUD was such a disaster at first.
>>173941720
im really in the mood to play some support desu. i just want a carry to call daddy
what mmr are you
>>173941187
The spike in february of last year was because of year beast. Angry juiceshits such as yourself are a VERY small minority.
>>173942268
>he still thinks i have the game installed
just get off this dying rock and move on to better games, you can call me daddy either way
game died because Valve couldn't decide on Puck's gender
>>173942462
i was 3.6k before i stopped playing btw
>>173940018
im actually surprised it isn't a much larger drop, I don't feel the aura (for lack of a better word) that surrounded dota when it was bigger
>>173941297
why the fuck are you playing Pos5 support in pubs and why the fuck are you in a 4-6k mmr team playing position 5 you must be fucking shit at dota. If the best dota player isn't playing support somethings going wrong. In pubs you dont have your 6k friends to carry your ass so pick heroes that don't just rely on your teammates being better than you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1gieCcMU0
I'm confused, is techies reddit or /d2g/?
I am SO sick and tired of people assuming I'm a homosexual.
Sorry if you're frail white male ego is too weak to ever consider performing some arbitrary action in a voluntary exchange. I have a right to my body just as mych as Ihave a right to the products of it, and I can give a man head without being gay. It's not just a matter of legality, although prostitution of all kinds should be legal, and it's not a matter of age of consent, since I was clearly able to give consent. But what pisses me off most is that people assume that you have to be gay to suck a man's dick.
Like, hello? It's not like I derived pleasure from it, just he did. The only thing I got from it was three hundred bucks, thats it. I didn't enjoy it or want to repeat it (althuogh I did a few times in college when things got rough) but thats' my point, that I should be able to preforn sexual favors for money without it impinging on my reputation as a straight guy. So DONE with these guys who are so tied up in their sexuality they're unable to comprehend a straight man sucking another straight man's dick for money.
Nobody would even know if it weren't for the fact that my girlfriend was sleeping with him (and yes she was still my girlfriend at the time and so cheating on me) and she got upset when she found out I gave better head than she did. Not that I'm proud of that, but it's a useful skill to have.
>>173943356
>techies
>/d2g/
holy fuck bloodseeker is unplayable
also where to find cute boys to blow
did i make u proud yet d2g
its only been like 4 years
i finally got 9.6cs/min in normal skill as antimage :]
>>173944149
that was a fucking stomp, come back when you have an even game.
>>173944149
>this is who you share a general with
>>173942950
Cause my MMR about a month ago was around 4.2k. I really like the Pos 5 role and I work really well for the team. Your hard support isn't always your best player.
>>173941720
checking this guys art... I didn't liked it but this fucking CM, holy shit. Guy nailed the perfect body
>>173943356
there is extreme hating against techies in r*ddit
literally OUR trio
>>173940137
Literally every top game with a WW is like this
PA: "But why are you doing this?"
WW: "Because I have a job to do."
*assassinates MMR*
>>173944412
Lies, they protect people who play this shit.
Member when ourboi artour was reporting techies pickers? reddit was in flame. Same shit happened when people made a petition to remove techies.
By the way, I always did this and I still do. Fuck retarded techies pickers
>we will never go back to the days of ww blackhole/rp/vaccum again
>>173944659
Magnus doesn't even need set up or follow up. He literally wins the entire teamfight by himself by hitting R
>>173944846
what's the strongest ability combo with RP?
Chain Frost and Chronosphere
>>173945123
god's strength + great cleave
>>173945123
probably either black hole, od ult with a lot of int. chrono or sven cleave with his ult and empower
>supporting a drow strat
>"guys can we push please"
>"dont worry we will win late game" (against axe and weaver)
>tell him "no we will not and i will say i told you so in 10 mins"
>i get flamed for the rest of the game
>we take 1 tower all game
>"i told you so"
>"if you think there's only 1 way to play a drow strat you will stay in 2k mmr"
>said by a guy who claims to be 5.4k mmr
how come people can't see that it's so obvious that they're lying to themselves. I got flamed for buying an aghs when I didn't have arcanes, even though we NEVER had a coordinated push. You criticize someone and they just lose their mind and throw anything they can think of at you. I think the only way I can keep playing this game is if I go into every game assuming that no one on my team deserves my respect.
Is OD any good right now?
How do I know when to pick him and when not to?
>>173945372
Pick him when you won't get demolished during your shitty early game
>>173945347
were you shadow shaman?
>>173945372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z_FqAaN93c
this should give you a set of match-ups for OD
>>173945475
shadow demon
>>173945347
>tell troll and mirana to buy bkb against kotl and OD
>"but his ult does nothing!!!"
>lose game
cool. done with this game
is there a better feeling than dropping a huge od ult?
how the fuck do i edit my item builds? the workshop page just gets stuck on "Loading" infinitely and it won't let me drag items out of the build in source2
>most heroes have one really good skill and some mediocre skills with synergy
>gyrocopter instead has one mediocre skill and 3 terrible ones with no synergy
???????
>>173945347
hardest part of dota below 4k is getting people to group up and initiate at the right time
>>173946376
>play gyro
>gank an enemy
>launch stun rocket
>launch ulti
>press e
>press q
>all within the span of about 10 seconds
>do about 1000 damage in total at level 25
>>173946468
That's why you need to communicate. A lot of people don't use the mic so when you speak they actually listen.The one thing in common in all pro streams is that they use the mic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otHpc1rTVAI
>>173946557
>launch rocket
>they see you cast from fog
>they other team knows you are coming and can react accordingly
the rocket is only good for bullying people in the first 20 minutes
>>173945372
situationally ok and requires a good early game but can result in a very strong lategame, completely 100% balanced right now, unlike the meme picks now which don't require any of that and just meme whenever they want
>>173946746
I get labelled as a flamer when i try to communicate. thing is I'm pretty low mmr (3k flat). At least half my team every game apparently does not even hear anything you say. The other half usually pays more attention to the fact that what you're saying implies a flaw in their preconceived strategy rather than the actual contents of your words.
I see basically all high mmr streamers communicate a lot, but in a very censored way that won't upset the baby-like egos of most players. I don't know how to persuade people who are like that.
Anyone know of books that have good advice on dealing with/working around dumb people in a way they won't find insulting?
>give up on dota sometime after ti5
>come back to /d2g/ today
>the general is almost as slow as some of the strategy game threads
It really is dying, isn't it?6.7x servers when?
>skeletons are known for coming in threes
>skeleton archer - clinkz
>skeleton wizard - pugna
>skeleton warrior - ??????
Give me a good nonmeme reason why I should post here, on BadReddit, when I can get a scorecard for shitposting on Reddit aka Good4chan?
>>173948089
valve succeeded in squeezing every penny they could out of it and now it's a lifeless corpse
>>173948135
There are twos of most bones in the body, not threes
>>173948135
>skeleton warrior - skeleton king
It's hilarious how you can that the majority of people playing this game are third world subhumans just by the amount of broken English in/r/dota2 on reddit, which is a vastly NA centric website, compared to other gaming subreddits
>>173947927
Basically don't critique too much or at all on the mic. Use the same censored technique you mentioned.
And speak sparingly ie. only when you want to plan your team's next move or get your team to do something.
>>173944221
h-hai...wakarimashita.
>>173948427
>It's hilarious how you can that the majority
Thirdie scum detected
>>173948427
fucking larpers
>>173948427
Two Best Friends play Dota 2 when?
>>173948427
>It's hilarious how you can that the majority of people playing this game
BASED
FUCKING
PORTUGUESE
PORTUGAL IS WHITE
>>173948313
whomst that?
>>173940018
>from a normie game into NEET's paradise
impressive ideas, valve!
>Onyx got picked up by DC
https://digitalchaos.gg/articles/21-new-roster
Our guys Jimmy and Mason f*cking made it
>>173937672
Say it with me B O Y Z
GET FUCKED YUROKEKS
>>173949637
>>173949601
LOL WHAT THE FUCK
No WONDER Sunfan left DC. I wouldn't want to be a part of that shitfest either.
>>173949776
>having to stay at the same teamhouse as Mason
Poor guys
YUROKEKS LOOSE THERE INVITATION AND OUR GUYS GET IT INTEAD
>the jews are jumping ship
can there be greater proof that this game is daying?
Wait weren't DC directly invited to Kiev?
So now that Onyx are DC now, are Onyx going to Kiev or is the new DC roster going to Kiev? I'm confused.
>>173949987
they're both going
the team the players belong to is irrelevant
>>173949987
Onyx are going to Kiev as DC.
Old DC are going to Kiev as Thunderbirds.
Not that hard.
>>173949873
>daying
time to go to bed
>Team gets signed under an org
>Team gets successful
>Team ditches org and becomes independent
Every fucking time.
It must be hell trying to be an org in esports.
Man, I really preferred Onyx name and logo. What a shame.
>Bulba slowly wiggling his way back into the scene
how many teams will he kill this year?
>>173950090
>making money off of others success
oh yeah, terrible. Sure they help in a way, but they would not be an organization if they did not make $$$
>>173950058
wait...isn't that against the rules? DC got invited. DC the team, not DC "the group of kids in DC" but the team DC.
>>173950632
No, the players got invited, whoever is sponsoring them is irrelevant.
>>173950632
Both teams were already going I think so it's not that big of a problem, just a small name change.
>>173950632
>>173950058
No. It'll be like with Ad Finem.
>1st pick Abaddon and go pee and get something from the fridge
>come back and my team has 3 offlaners
>they want me to go mid
>I convince the Timbersaw to go instead
>he loses mid
>I tell the SK to go trilane with Spec and Lina
>he jungles instead
>Lina Spec loses offlane
>I win my lane but lose safelane tower against Sniper and Axe cutting the wave, so I guess I lost it in the end
>take 4 towers that game
>Spec Timber Lina Chinese stack are just throwing, taking unsafe farm and dying back for no reason
>"Fuck you abaddon you lost us this game by not being there in the fights"
>I took 4 towers that game alone while they were 5v5 hero brawling or farming the jungle while their friends were getting ganked with no rotations
>typical Invoker game and not getting bkb because "gotta get those DEEPS items, man!"
Misery simulator.
>>173948684
they are watching /ourguys/ play and they even have/sips/
>>173950737
>>173950665
why stop there? What if "the players" move to a different team, and only the captain remains. The team DC got invited, and whoever is on that team is who goes, not the traitors/other players
>>173950737
>play invoker
>go wild, godlike, fingers on fire I'M THE MAGUS INCARNATE
>enemy team demolishes my base with 4 bkbs
>play against invoker as a supp (I usually mid or sup)
>basic game, stomp all lanes
>cores refuse to buy bkb
>30 minutes into the game, LD "sniper" dies to tornado combo
>buys next dps item
>35 minutes, same shit
>40 minutes, they are knocking our barracks now
>50 minutes, he finishes his bkb but has no buyback
>lose tf
>invoker and his HC dies
>they buy back and BOT to finish the job
>xD
>>173951116
If they change players the invite is null.
>>173948456
I just played a game where a Storm got out of control, tons of pickoffs because we had zero wards on the map for most of the game. I ask Lion to buy wards so he does and puts them down by our towers, even though the enemy team isn't pushing when we are alive. I tell him to go deep and put down wards so we can see Storm before he jumps. I ping certain places in our jungle and by the river mid. He tells me he can't go there, so I tell him to buy smoke. He does, then proceeds to go and put wards by enemy t3s for some fucking reason. No one at my level actually understands how to play the fucking game. I think it would be better to actually not talk to my team at all.
>>173951119
I've been looking into tower-killing supps lately. Ratting heroes like NP and BM are nice to close off a game on your own while the other 9 are jerking each other off for dat KDA and it gives me a lot of satisfaction.
There's a very large lack of understanding about the game in the general playerbase. They think scaling on a hero is just stacking DPS items over and over, moonshard BOTS2 daedalus butterfly bloodthorne divine rapier
But stuns in the late game are the real winners. At level 7 you can max your stun but it's alright because heroes can't kill you in 2 seconds, come late game when everyone's hitting for a thousand or something or have 2 disables each, you just might the PA critting for 2k each hit but you have to enjoy watching your team get wiped while you're flung up into the air by a Tornado, then getting the 5v1 treatment when they turn on you in the end.
>>173950391
RTZ could possibly help a team become good if he wasn't so addicted to team killing.
Bulba kills teams because he is so shit with no potential.
How does he keep getting invited to teams?
>>173951229
Don't give up and keep communicating, the benefits far outweigh the negatives in the long run.
Look at it this way, you can't blame the lion for being bad but your communicating made him put wards he wouldn't have if you kept silent.
37 posters?
daed geam
>>173951372
>>173951229
Don't know what it is about this game where the people in it can give easily give criticism but they can't take it. It's a team game and the moment you point out their mistakes, they instantly tilt and call you "toxic". Lately I realized that if I want to keep my behavior score, I just can't say anything at all. Bad players with a shit understanding about this game have too much power in their reports, and even if you don't get sent to LP (thanks reddit), you'll be stuck in the shitpool of other easily tilting players or exceptionally poor players with like ~350gpm over 20 games who hero brawl.
>>173951229
>retard keeps trying to give advice and direct team during game
>check dotabuff after game
>48% winrate
every time
>>173951543
>Don't know what it is about this game where the people in it can give easily give criticism but they can't take it. It's a team game and the moment you point out their mistakes, they instantly tilt and call you "toxic"
see
>>173951572
>>173951543
>implying this game is not "talent brawler:2"
dropped.shrines were a mistake. gpm and xp talents were as well.
what
went
wrong
?
>>173951653
XP talents are absolutely awful
Now that the Misery stack doesn't have a NA org anymore, can we finally agree it's eutopean?
>>173951680
axe tilted, flamed his team, then expected his team to perform their best.
typical.
>>173951680
You bought supp items instead of scaling. If you wanted to buy supp items you shouldn't have picked an offlaner
>>173951680
nothing, it looks like an even game and they were just better than you
>>173951680
puck and jugg raped you. tinker and axe probably had little impact.
>>173951356
Yeah I agree, BKB is too good to avoid. I like to my friends: "bkb gives more dps than daedalus because you do 0 dps while stunned". A good hard carry needs good reading to know when's the time to go bkb or not, I'm a mediocre hc at best so I tend to trust in their decision since a too early bkb will only cripple his farm but omg, buy the bkb to maintain is ahead, this is defense of the rubberbanding, can't risk lose two TF in a row to a chain stun
I've been having more success playing stuff like Lina than CM, even if I play both on pos 5, when you're ahead with Lina and you see that kind of shit happening at least you can flash farm some stuff and be more relevant and even split push to some extent
And if you're losing, well, it's okay to lose when you're already losing.
>>173951543
>poor players with like ~350gpm over 20 games
Are you implying everyone must only play core?
>>173951838
>implying supports should have less than 400 gpm per game
fucking abysmal. stay 2k.
>>173951543
i have 370 avg gpm in my last 20 games
i played roaming support in 16 of those
i won 13 out of those 20 games
am i bad now?
>>173951830
>this post
What english is this?
>>173951838
No, 350gpm over 20 games implies you lose most of your games. Even pos5 in games they stomp can get 400-500gpm before they close the game out.
>>173951680
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3117083864
>41 min aghs on tinker
>22 min bf
>>173951543
well you can fuck off and buy your own wards then.
>>173951983
Let's be real here, all you do is buy cour, then upgrade it when the mid or carry asks you to at 8 mins. Then you go mana boots, blink, aghs then refresher
and then blame your cores for "feeding" when they have to fight you for farm while your map is dark and the enemy is farming your side of the map
>>173952084
is this what your games are like?
bro I am sorry, you need togit gud fast
>>173952176
when does it end?
>>173952084
I buy cour, upgrade it as soon as possible, smoke myslef up to ward river and block their camps, stack camps and pull lanes, gnk mid to disable, sacrifice myself for a pos5/pos1 trade, tp all over the fucking place, dust invisible heros, deward and in general make sure you have a laning stage easier than your mum on a friday night so we can stomp in the mid game
>play support
>wards constantly bought out
>always upgrade courier before minute 4 even if it means forgoing boots
>actively feed if I think I can save my core/carry or get a kill on an enemy core/carry
>try to coordinate teammates and get rosh/objectives when possible or to get people to pull back if I notice they're overextended
>applogize when I fuck up and try not to berate teammates for their mistakes
>56% winrate
I think Shadow Shaman needs a nerf he brought my winrate up 1%. Ive got an 80% winrate on the dude since he got overbuffed, and he just got buffed again with moving +3s shackle duration from 25 to 20 means you can actually use the talent.
His Aghs is really trash now but Referesher still melts towers
>>173952337
literally everything below 4k mmr is people figuring out the game. People do not know the purple anal beads in the shop are for ganking, and they make you invisi until you are near a hero, so you can pass buy potential wards unseen. The skill ceiling is artificial until 4k (granted 3k is where the 4k knowledge players, with bad mechanical skills end up) and 4k mmr matches have bought accounts at times, but you can usually tell and people will report them. 4-5k is the optimal setting to play this game.the trench never ends tbqh
>>173952491
aghs lets you take both barracks at once
>>173952576
Which means you still take towers at half the speed you used to.
Theoretically it seems fine, same total DPS just over 2 targets not 1. But in practice that's 4200 gold for an asterisk.
Could be useful. Could also be completely useless if you end up only dropping it on a single enemy and that could have been 4200 gold on any other item.
The thing about old Aghs was you walk up to a tower, ult refresh ult and kill it through backdoor protection.
It was honestly stupid, so I get the change, but bleh.
You want Arcanes into Blink into Aether into Refresher, and if the game is still going on and you haven't won yet you've got problems Aghs won't solve.
>>173952990
why blink? Why not force staff, and what about glimmercape
>>173953051
not that guy, but blink does not let you save a teammate, but you are able to have that instant initiation which helps this meta a lot. if you have shackles and hex you can initiate and incapacitate two heroes by hexing one, than shackling the other. Also, shaman can be one of the greedier supports if you want to transition into late game and you either pick force or blink you can not afford to do both. completely situational which you choose. like all of dota.
>>173953282
normally I just grab an urn, glimmer cape and aether lens and that gets me by pretty good
>>173953532
well no builds are ever static, if you are building your heroes the same every game without taking into account the enemy draft (solar crest is an item) you will not get any better.
>>173953723
I know, but I got into a bad habit of samebuildI blame playing league with my plebian friends that can't handle dotaand I'm trying to break it. It is kinda hard in the lower brackets where none of us know what the fuck we're doing
>>173953802
Supports have a lot of options for utility. Granted there are certain items that can be bought almost every game like forcestaff, urn, and glimmer but there are times where you might really need a euls, blink, or ghost scepter
Only 9 inches?
>>173954464
I do like euls, but I honestly just forget to build the fucker most of the time, and most of my cash still goes to vision.
WHO QBAD BAD BADNDAS HERE? ONLY TEAM SOMEHOW MORE DISAPPOINTING THAN OLD MOUZ AND FNATIC ON LANS
https://twitter.com/MiSeRyDOTA/status/852806671063699457
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
>>173956743
what the fuck?
Why is Furion never picked anymore? He's one of the few heroes who can do well in the offlane against a trilane
>>173956980
He'll be picked now that he has 6 gorillion more damage.
>>173956980
Lowest winrate in the game 5k+ brackets
A game deader than Starcraft, who would have thought that it's possible.
>>173957512
>d2g used to make fun of how dead SC2 was
We've come full-circle
disgusting daed game
sad
>>173957607
Karma exists
>>173957607
major will bring back the life. for now I'm watching starladder showing T2 chyna and having a blast
/vg/ was a mistake and the fate of every "general" is to either be a wasteland of waifufaggots or esport streamcucks
>>173958272
if the users were actually welcoming of discussion instead of just saying muh 2k, muh normal, muh ooga maybe we could have a good time
>>173956743
NP disbanded?
>>173958420
It's only for Kiev
discussing 2k games lmao kys
>>173956743
>EE drafting for Misery
>not the other way around
denmark was a mistake
>>173956980
With the new jungle spawn times there isn't enough farm on the map to sustain an offlane core. This is also why nobody plays offlane lone druid anymore
>>173958602
it's that or DAED GENERAL LMAO XDDD
the secret shop jungle needs to be reduced severely. it isn't right that you can just leave mid and farm neutrals without consequences
Based Mason the prophet
>>173958748
i choose dead general then
what if you can only use shrines after the 8min mark
>>173959181
what if shrines outside the base were just tp spots and not actually shrines?
>>173959285
what if shrines damaged instead of healed and could only be activated by enemys
>>173959335
what if shrines healed everyone in the radius but could only be activated by their team?
Based autistic mid player of good anime tastes.
what if you can capture enemy shrines and use it as tp spots
>>173959371
what if rubick could use spellsteal on shrines to steal shrine (active ability)?
what if shrines restored the same hp/mana totals as they currently do per 5 mins as a slow-acting aura?
what if you can bottle shrines
daily reminder that dota is a dying game
>the caster on Manila Masters who sounds like Envy
That's fate being cruel and ensuring that you're always going to be the brunt of EE jokes, and the fact that you won't be invited to anything because you're hard to understand
>>173959452
7/10 would try out
What if you could use shrines to revive Dota 2.
>>173959814
>>173959059
*blocks your path*
Behold Team Assassin Assassins
RTZ
Pajkatt
Singsing
Bulba
Mushi
This team would never have a hope of winning any damn thing ever but think of the team drama
>>173959995
you forget Black
>>173956980
sprout is badcogs
>>173960180
Whenever I play Furion and I sprout someone, I alawys do it with the pre-notion that they will immediately quelling or eat a tree to escape. When I cog someone though, I know that they're stuck in there most of the time unless they have a f-staff
>megacreep enemies
>thneir lycan goes to backdoor us
>only has necro3 and vlads and bots
>somehow takes 2 towers down faster against backdoor than we do theirs
epic game icefrog
>>173960359
>t. angry door
>decide to play a game of Dota after 2 years
>8 minute queue
Surely Dota hasn't died that much since I last pla-
>check this general
>200 posts
>its been up for 7 hours
Oh. OK. I guess I really shouldn't bother now, huh?
>>173959684
except we are currently in phase 3
>>173960359
>hero who's completely specialised to take towers as fast as possible with few items should not be able to do just that
I hear champions aren't allowed to have special strengths in the league of legends, perhaps you'd enjoy it there.
>cdec vs ehome
This is nadota tier clown party game
>>173960525
No, dota is in decline. There more than enough proof for that.
>>173959995
While his team are all failing Sing doesn't seems to be involved in much drama
perhaps you know more than me I dunno so inform me
>wake up
>DC is NA
what a timeline this is
is there even a point to watch online matches beside checking who is the new cancer
>>173961382
you are referring to the average reported player number?
or just the death of /d2g/ as a signal?
>blizzdrones (sc2 players that don't play sc2 anymore and moved to casual crap like hots and overwatch because they tried dota2 but was too much to handle) bombarding d2g for years
>people getting fed up move to reddit where shitposters get banned or buried by downvotes and you don't need to read them
>claim dota is dead after your autistical shitposting has left d2g deserted
>hots and overwatch still have a joke amount of viewers and dota has the same amount of players with the little ups and downs it has always had
>>173940219
she was the top p/b at ti5 because her old ult was imba
>>173961780
Both. Also the daily peak players and the general dissatisfaction with the game here and on reddit. Not to mention that fact I've seen more thread/posts outside of /v/ and /vg/ which mention specifically they have lost interest in dota.
Just face it, this game will soon die.
>>173962374
>a grandtotal of 0 posts on the front page of reddit complaining
>actually one being grateful for a change
I sure believe you anon.
>>173962558
Generally the people who can give up Dota cold turkey won't be wasting any more time complaining about it.
The people who complain about it are begrudgingly still playing it because they can't kick their addiction like the abused wives they are.
>>173962558
>implying that reddit upvote anything negative with their cuck mentality
for a place that apparently hates reddit you sure browse reddit a lot
>>173962717
old /d2g/ is no more
>>173962717
I don't hate it, it's just obvious that they have this retarded mentality. Besides r/dota > /d2g/ when you want to be up to date
>>173962681
So now there's no complaining? From making no sense to looking stupid, great improvement.
>>173962697
Reddit is known for complaining.
>guy last picks lc jungle
>starts with talon
>hauls a quelling blade with courier (this was after they patched the combo)
>uses the courier like 3 fucking times in first 4 minutes
>goes phase boots 1st
>gets like maybe 2 duel wins in 40 minutes
>game goes past 60 min
>he's 25 and took the 58 talent
>feeds fucking LINA and WR tasty 58 damage
I want to genocide LC pickers so much
fuck this hero
fuck all garbage ass retards who pick this hero
I hope you all die
I gotta be honest with you:
I love dota 2
>>173962916
They are also known for dick sucking with their appreciation threads. You never see that here.
>>173962916
I'm not the guy you replied to, but the reason why you rarely see complaints about the game
9the game in general, not features) is because of the upvote and downvote algorithm which quells any negativity or criticism directed at the game.
People don't like to see negative things about the things they like because they see it as an attack on their interests which translates as an attack on their own character.
Therefore reddit serves as a perfect echo chamber of the same content being posted because quite simply, it's what they like seeing.
>>173962681
>>173962916
if it wasnt for reddit complaining we'd be stuck with the god awful shop and statless hud
credit where it's due
>>173962964
My days gets better if someone takes LC to lane because they can win 1v1 lanes and sometimes dual lanes if they're good. But that's probably 1 in 200 games.
I've seen people queue up midas or god forbid, battlefuries hoping that we win the lanes 4v5 so that they can clean up the game with godlike streaks.
I picked Riki and fucked with their jungle LC and all their other lanes all game, and people wanted to report the guys who laned instead of the LC who ruined all their lanes and their roles. Hilarious.
>>173959426
>kill two observer wards with one plague ward while enemy support cuck is trying to stop it
sometimes it's the little things
>>173939154
why did he thought e could solo offlane centaur?
why didn't he just jump on some tree?
>>173963178
>tfw well warded
>>173959426
envy's taste in anime is so terrible it's actually insulting
>>173962717
Play on my normal account at 5k mmr. All games are good and my teammates are wonderful and it feels like I'm in sync with everyone, like we have some kind of unspoken understanding of eachother.
Play on my 5,5k mmr alt account. Intentional feeders and courier feeders every other game
Is the smurf pool real or just a myth?
>>173963424
Check behavior scores
>>173959426
Good taste. EE is really ourguy
>>173963469
What's that?
>>173963543
You get a score which determines who you get matched with in soloQ. Max is 9999 min is 0, google how you check it because it involves console commands.
>>173963631
>[Developer] player_behavior_seq_num_last_report: 25
>[Developer] player_behavior_score_last_report: 8451
>[Developer] player_behavior_report_old_data: true
Is 8451 my behavior score?
>>173963740
Yeah, and congrats on the score
>>173963740
Yes and thats an ok score i suppose
>>173963543
>>173963740
ignore that faggot, that behavior score is a meme
the average toxic players gets 7k below and it is easy to dodge that shit just by not chatting at all
>>173962964
>be lc player
>only play her offlane, like most people above subhuman mmr
>stable winrate
Get better yourself and you escape the other retards that are just as retarded as you.
>>173964208
>Get better yourself
but then how can i bitch about lc pickers and niggers on d2g
I can't remember, I haven't played in a year.
Does Diffusal work with Focus Fire?
>>173937672
has dota 2's metagame become stagnant? i see less and less creativity with the picks
>>173965006
it do but it's not really glamorous
>>173965046
>have a patch with the most diversity in hero picks in over a decade of the game's lifetime
>only 1 dominant strategy that can be easily tweaked
>drop 7.00
>game sucks again
arigato gozaimasu icefrog-sensei
>still playing this shit
LMAO
>>173965680
Im rewatching the first season rn
Do co-op bot games count towards conduct summary?
You get experience for them...
>>173964175
>"guys I have never played this hero"
>hey morph you should use morph strength when you are being attacked
>"omg just play your own hero please"
>"why didn't you ult there you could have saved me I was at 10% hp"
I'm never getting back to 8k.
Given HotD has been nerfed multiple times from 7.00, is it still insta-buy on farming carries that want to teamfight earlier, or just a few specific heroes?
>still no frog hero like tsu
>>173937672
you wanted to post this right?
>>173966052
synd the liar
>>173966064
which site does that
>>173966020
I feel that offlaners should only buy it from now on. Item feels too slow if you get it on a carry.
>>173966020
Garbage item, only has the regen going for it, which other items do better. Attack speed wise it's worse than a midas and also doesn't increase farm speed as much, while simultaniously feeding gold as well.
Are there any synonyms to carry?
>be down in the lowly 2.3k trench
>have seen "jungle juggernaut" twice in the past few days
>they emerge from the jungle at 20 minutes with phase, pms, and a band of elvinskin or something
kill me
>>173966020
it gives an ass-tonne of regen
Can Slark purge his allied Omniknight's repel if he casts dark pact?
>>173966862
>can this universally undispellable spell be dispelled?
hmm, I wonder...
>>173966278
its FaceApp on phones
What did PPD mean by this?
>>173968160
>EE
>possibly worst decision making of any higher tier pros
>coaching
hilarious
can you imagine trying to play with EE in your ear
HIT THE CREEP NO HIT THE OTHER CREEP THE ONE BEHIND THAT HIT THAT ONE TIME NOW GET THE LAST HIT OKAY NOW HIT YOUR OWN CREEP TWICE BUT DONT DENY IT
YOU FUCKED UP YOU DENIED IT NOW THE LANE EQUILIBRIUM IS RUINED OKAY HIT THE LEFT CREEP 2 TIMES HIT THE MIDDLE CREEP ONCE
>retard 3 stack including max passive jungle lc on team
>lose because of them
>get called useless shit
>next game they are in the opposing team
>one of them jungle lc again
>dumpster them
>call them useless shit this time
nothin personell... faggots..
I still can't believe that Alliance picked Puck against a TA and still managed to win at game 5 at TI3
>>173968160
How is Onyx joining DC a bad decision? Not like anyone else was going to pick them up. Picking up an autistic weeb defilement seems like a bigger mistake.
>>173968787
*definitely
>>173968709
They also picked a Furion and ran a rat strategy.
>>173962065
You need to check on your statements, dear anon. The dota subreddit is a low effort playground and you are fooling yourself if you believe there is any decent discussion about anything going on there. Here is your (You) I guess.
boosters are spamming BS rn
why are you not doing the same?
>>173969796
too busy playing techies
>>173969796
too busy playing dmc4
>>173969352
was bulldog the first rat?
>>173965059
I guess only useful if the enemy team drafts Spooky King?
>>173969796
i uninstalled shortly after TI6
>>173969796
i uninstalled shortly after ti5
>>173969796
i uninstalled shortly after ti4
>>173970056
First and only rat to win a TI
>>173966353
>>173966538
So, what's the early-game carry item(s) that provide what HotD did in terms of stats? Aquilla+wand?
Are there any weird sized hitboxes or aoes that you know of? I found out about Remnant damage aoe being bigger than fucking chronosphere and had to test it myself. It feels like MK stun has a really wide hitbox as well.
>>173968691
match id?
>>173969796
I uninstalled after trashing mid puck with TA, getting two levels ahead and dominating all game, and then my team didn't fall back to defend against a split push.
Seriously, fuck natures prophet he's such a stupid hero. Also fuck these worthless shitters I keep getting matched with. I told them multiple times to fall back, that np was going to rat us, but they didn't listen and just kept pushing mid. Such a dumb game. I'm never playing dota again.
>>173969796
But they always used bs??
>>173966052
she doesn't deserve this dying game
so is sunsfan involved with thunderbirds at all?
I hope you all use your prime subscription to help out Our Guy grandgrant.
>>173970881
sorry but i do not have a r*ddit account
>>173970407
i wish that was true
yet el presidente still plagues this game
>tfw you get memebacked
>>173971061
Wtf is this, someone??
>>173971185
Gz
>>173968709
Not only that but coil itself was a major winning factor. This should really speak to you on a fundamental level about drafting.
>>173971315
The last second coil that cancelled TA's tp is what won them the game.
why meteor doesnt break threes??? WTF
>>173971185
i used to have a screenshot of slark in 6.83 getting a triple kill at our rax and getting 1100+ gold for each of the 3 people
>>173971315
It was really about fitting with np
puck forces the enemy to focus him. He doesn't do much damage compared to a carry but between coil, silence and eul's it's basically required for you to deal with him, and he's incredibly difficult to pin down. Every second that puck runs interference was another second that trees were hitting tower or rax. And of course the game winning tp cancel dream coil was a huge part of his appeal as well. Ministuns are fantastic utility skills on a coordinated team.
stalag 17 more like gulag 17
Because DotA is a prison camp and we're on our 17th iteration of dying
>>173968160
WTF
EE is coaching?
>2017 still no kirby hero
>animeNEETs cucked out of their only player
What are some goodmodsto play, /d2g/?
>>173973683
call of misery
Opinions on build bounty as a carry?
the pseudo cuckport build is getting very stale
>>173975119
>hey guys this hero doesn't scale whatsoever and has shit stats also no carry skills
>build him as garry????????????????
>>173975181
>doesnt scale
>FREE 120 damage
>FREE attackspeed
>1 second cd on jinada
i bet you think vipers lategame is shit too faggot
>play phantom lancer
>go safelane with ogre
>up against abaddon and kotl
>ogre leaves as soon as his passive gold enabled him to get an iron talon to farm jungle
>i cant cs for shit, inform my team as much and that i require help
>roaming mirana tries once in 15 minutes, clinkz is farming offlane, lina is farming mid, no ganks
>get flamed because no farm
why are these people allowed to exist
>>173975181
>inbuilt crit
>amazing dps talents, absolutely retarded numbers
The only things holding him back are early game impact and mobility
>>173975473
>phantom lancer
why are you allowed to exist
Although speaking of, has anyone tried the phantom lancer radiance build? Click Q on jungle camp for free money. Or to push waves. It's pretty shit, but then, so is the hero, and at least this way he's fun.
>>173975718
>inbuilt crit on timer
i want 2k theorycrafters to leave
this place is so much different from how it was a couple yeras ago when stupid fucking ideas would be laughed down by 10 people who knew what they were talking about
>>173975862
i dont think it would be that good, after the nerfed radiance burn on illusions
>>173975473
>pick hero that can't do anything even with free farm
>complain about team
hint: stop picking heroes that demoralize any adequate players on your team. everyone knows PL is a loss, the hero does not work anymore and has to be reworked away from illusions.
>>173975908
>d2g
>ever knowing what they're talking about
way to out yourself newfagwe need cell_afghanistan
>>173969796
are you ready for the next meme?
>>173976025
>PL
>worked away from illusions
delet yourself
pl is one of the funnest heroes in dota, and the massive nerfs to alch/naga thanks to pro scene ricers have absolutely dumpstered the innocent spearfisher. He needs to not feed gold every time he right clicks, and he needs slightly more teamfight potential. If he got back the old damage bonuses from diffusal he could stomp again, even in this era of minute 10 memeballs. It's just these annoying hour-long snorefests of pro-level farming that make valve shit on him.
t. extremely butthurt cat fan
>>173975908
>timer goes down to 1 second
>essentially every second or third attack, depending on how fast you hit
What did he mean by this?
https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3117861996
r8 my game. i was necro.
>>173976432
>pl is one of the funnest heroes in dota
wow its so fun to lose and be one of the worst imaginable laners and to just not exist until you get diffusal becuase your design is so bad
i especially like the part where youre worse at joining early fights than an antimage.
>>173976559
If I wanted a carry that was worthless until 25 I'd afk farm the jungle with pic related.
Bounty is just a shit hero, and will be until he gets buffed again. At which point he'll become a roamer, not a carry.
>>173976432
I was a cat fan too. But I liked him before his rework. Doppelganger is one of the most retarded spells Icefrog added to the game and it completely destroyed the hero for me.
It also speaks loud when heroes like Juggernaut and FVoid are making better use of the items who PL builds. I hate modern dota.
>>173976670
>losing to a butterfly octarine ember
>>173976882
It is clear as day he had Rapiers and lost them, dude.
>>173976882
it was a low prio game and we had a clockwerk who was constantly feeding himself and the courier
>>173976850
More like worthless until 20 where he gets +120 damage, he has an exp talent to make it faster but like I said myself, he's held back as a carry by early game impact
WTF
as I hit 10k behavior score, complete trash teammates
it's like my team came from 1k low priority (I "was" 2.6k)
a lot flaming, failing even at afk farming, they forget how play with their own heroes or against others.
Riki/ursa/clinkz in enemy team = instant gg, because instant they have to fight those heroes, they act like chickens without head.
I'm just really MAD, that it happened 7 times in row with consistent full retard level.
>>173977056
>build 1 rapier
>build dogshite items
>lose rapier
>still lose the game to him
>>173977102
>he's held back as a carry by early game impact
explain how lack of early game impact holds back a true carry hero.
>>173977302
If you get your shit pushed in long before you are online you lose the game before you make use of your potential.
Kinda makes your gameplan one dimensional as fuck and easy to play around.
I wish we were as dead as smite and HotS
>>173977424
so.......any carry?
>>173977839
we'll get there, don't rush it
>>173978725
Look at current meta carries and what they have in common
>>173978906
i'm not talking about current meta i'm talking about the concept of what a carry is
and the concept of what a carry is is not a hero limited by early effectiveness. it's the opposite.
I don't get it, why did Envy become ThunderBirds coach when Kiev is just around the corner? Why help the competition?
>>173978725
there are a few carries that come back pretty hard.. Mercurial comes to mind
>>173979118
>competition
He doesn't know
>>173979118
Because he isn't going to Kiev and probably can make use of the money he will get for his own team?
>>173979091
Man you are trying hard to make this sound complicated. Of course a carry is meant to be stronger lategame and weaker earlygame. That doesn't mean even the best lategame hero can't be hindered by his early game
Examples:
>spectre
>morphling
>arc warden
All 3 are tremendous forces lategame but not picked because their early game is ass.
>75 min shitfest
>+24
fuck i deserve at least 50 mmr for wasting my time on this shit
>>173979401
oh so they're carries
and just aren't the popular ones right now
i dunno what you're going on about, the point was to get you to understand the definition of a carry but you're just arguing with yourself or something now
>>173979346
>>173979381
>kicks two players
>leaves the team a week later to go coach for FREE money leaving everyone else behind
reminder Puppey was right
How do I get out of hell like this, /d2g/? Please explain.
>>173979826
He will probably use the money for his own team, dude. I don't like the guy as much as you but don't go full retard over it
What does DC mean?
>>173978906
all of them are overbuffed/loaded with bullshit?
woahh
>>173979961
Demon's Chads
>>173979582
Boy, sure is lucky all carries function exactly the same in the metagame, otherwise that might complicate the discussion and reveal you for the shitposting little gulagian that you are! Fortunately dota has two types of heroes, and most heroes within those two categories only differ superficially or cosmetically. Nightstalker and Sniper and Spectre all have the exact same playstyle. Yep, nothing to see here.
Quick /d2g/, I randomed Tinker
How do I lane against Invoker?
>>173979889
were you the one who upset her?
I intentional feed about 75% of my dota games
every time, everyone blames me, but they never blame the person who upset me. and almost every time, i am playing fine and trying to win, and the person who upset me isn't
so i feed and go next, and hope to get a team that doesn't upset me
so was it your fault or not? because its not the guys fault who feeds, not always. he just wants to play a good game.
>>173979961
dicklet cuckolds
>>173980159
bait
>>173980102
night stalker isn't a carry
you don't seem to understand that there's an objective definition to what a carry is that has 0, nothing, zilch, to do with the meta or the differences between heroes
furthermore, the fact that you just tried to be condescending while misidentifying night stalker as a carry is fucking hilarious.
>>173980148
pop your pure damage laser in his face whenever he tries to lasthit
>>173980148
rush bottle
>>173980280
I'm excited to hear you try to identify night stalker's current role in the game.
In fact, why don't you tell us your definition of carry, too, just for a laugh.
>>173980480
night stalker is a mid or an offlaner, but mostly just shouldn't be picked because most heroes are conceptually bad in dota now since they broke the game.
a carry is a hero who has skills that scale in unlimited fashion with farm and levels. a hero that is based on cooldowns cannot be a carry because cooldowns do not scale.
>>173980480
nightstalker is a hero that functions well as a greedy roamer that farms during the day and looks for ganks during the night. he works as an offlaner or roaming support. lategame he's a powerful silence with a massive vision advantage
A carry is a hero that scales far better than most other heroes with items into being a damage dealer and also sometimes as a tanky frontliner. The ability for them to seige buildings and punish the offlaner for leaving lane by taking the tower is preferable.
>>173980480
Dude, not even him but you showed your retardation. So please stop it and let the thread die .
would you, d2g?
Why does it take me 30+ minutes to find a game? I'm only 1.5k
>>173980721
>cooldowns do not scale.
Tempest Double lmao
>>173980881
>>173980815
>>173980721
>>173980480
/d2g/ home of the retards, you're all wrong by the way
>>173979582
>carry can't be held back by his early game
>sticks to his dumb point about definitions when people talk about viability
>reddit spacing
I believe this is what autism looks like
>>173980943
he looks like this girl who used to be mean to me and then suck my dick. i dunno what to think
>>173981037
you must be really buthurt over this
>>173981037
Alright, you are free to go back to r/dota2 or nadota now.
>ur rong
>without any form of justification
Nightstalker is either a mid or a roaming 4 please stop posting
>play single draft sometimes
>50% of games I get either night stalker or techies
what the FUCK
>>173981242
>not a roaming 3
pssh pleb
>>173980721
>>173980815
>scale
ns right clicks like a fucking truck. Silence is even more relevant lategame than early because there are more things to silence, and vision gets more powerful as all players in the game get more mobility.
Ability based heroes can absolutely carry, but ns isn't even ability based. He's a hybrid, maybe but for 60%-70% of the game he's also a ridiculous pursuer+physical damage dealer.
Just because he' not a copy-paste of drow or slark doesn't mean he can't scale or carry a game. He's not as good at taking towers, sure, but he can counter splitpushes extremely well, so he makes up for it.
>d2g unironically thinks NS can still be played mid in the year two thousand and seventeen
>get mega'd
>3 enemies are dead for like 80 seconds
>rush down mid and win
ez
>>173981725
>3 enemies are dead for like 80 seconds
What game are you playing where this is possible?
>>173981474
right click isn't a skill.
silencer is a meta-carry because he gains a statistic based of kills. any hero that gains a statistic off kills is conceptually a meta-carry.
>Just because he' not a copy-paste of drow or slark doesn't mean he can't scale or carry a game
"carrying a game" is not what "being a carry" means
a carry is a hero who has skills that scale with both levels and farm. this means skills like antimage's mana break or drow's aura.
this isn't hard to understand, and you're trying to redefine things instead of just being wrong. bad tactic in life
>>173981725
>the self knows this power
Greatest hero in the game desu
>>173981725
>dp
>drow + lc
>support venge
>support lina when no viable mid hero
what mmr?
>>173981667
I miss the time he could be played mid. I would still do it before 7.00 but now the version completely destroyed this option.
Name a better Mask of Madness hero than Medusa.
You can't.
Why don't we see strong dual lanes anymore?
>>173981908
3.8k
the Arc warden was like 25 and 4, fucking melted the enemy base
>>173981908
s-she's good! don't bully!
>>173981981
Spectre
>>173981981
Sniper
>>173981908
>implying arc warden is not a viable mid hero and worse than lina
have you ever considered other players actually got gud?
>>173981981
wraith king
>>173981981
Tiny
>>173981823
>right click isn't a skill.
tell that to sniper
>silencer is a meta-carry because he gains a statistic based of kills. any hero that gains a statistic off kills is conceptually a meta-carry.
so pudge is a meta-carry? how do you plan to make that work?
>"carrying a game" is not what "being a carry" means
poor wording, that was my bad
>a carry is a hero who has skills that scale with both levels and farm. this means skills like antimage's mana break or drow's aura.
I already explained how ns has skills that scale in value. If you want a straight up right click modifier, his passive will do that.
NS fulfills your criteria. Not as well as other heroes, but then, you're not really describing a carry here.
>>173981981
faceless void
/thread
>>173981981
>>173982286
>>right click isn't a skill.
>tell that to sniper
the hero who has two scaling carry skills, which fit the definition i gave you, which apply to his right click?
>NS fulfills your criteria
No, he doesn't. Why do you try to argue when you apparently can't logically parse language or have some kind of other learning disability? Just curious, I mean really.
Since you need it made very, very easy:
Hunter in the darkness gives a FLAT attack speed bonus. This means it is NOT a carry skill because it does NOT scale indefinitely.
If hunter in the darkness took your own attack speed, and then gave you a percentage of it back on top of itself as a bonus, THEN IT WOULD BE A CARRY SKILL BECAUSE IT WOULD SCALE INDEFINITELY.
IT REALLY ISN'T HARD.
>>173982286
He has some carry qualities, just not enough of them to justify him being played as a carry instead of a less farm dependant role.
The same is true of heroes like Beastmaster, Monkey King, Bounty Hunter and Brewmaster
So if all you need is scaling skills to be a carry, does this mean SWM is a carry?
>>173982686
holy shit, you're an autistic sperglord
>6k average
>+31
based
>>173982795
MK was designed to be a carry and Valve will make everything they can to force him be one.
>>173982823
no it means underlord is a carry because his q scales with max health of his enemies
>>173982854
I'll take that as "I lost the argument". Thanks.
>>173982686
By definition of scaling indefinitely only percentage based spells or silencer/pudge inbuilt passives would qualify a carry. That would also disqualify am and sniper. But whatever this fucking definition discussion was retardrd from the start.
>>173982997
im not even the guy you're arguing with, but god damn you're an autistic sperglord
>>173982979
? not at all every change since release has reduced his carry potential
hes basically meant to be a hero like bounty hunter. roam around and fuck shit up and have relatively good fighitng later
can we just agree that carries have to make better use of freefarm than most heroes and usually are expected to be damage dealers
that's literally it
>>173983117
>>>/r/dota2/
I cannot believe you babbies are still browsing these dead generals.
>>173983036
you're now trying to turn it into a semantic argument even though you know what's being said, i won't engage you in it
this is an argument that wuoldn't have happened on real d2g, it's sad that everyone good at the game is gone now. we now have dregs of people who can't afford overwatch.
>>173983253
or maybe, its just that carries don't exists since Sven carried Rapier after buying Aegis of the Immortal
>>173983380
YOU turned it into a semantic argument, you autistic sperglord
>>173983406
all heroes that spawn units that give gold are innately garbage and should be reworked.
How to fix brood
>spidervolution - new innate ability - turns a spiderling into an egg ready to evolve, 150 mana, spiderling needs to be in a web)
>max number of evolved spiders based on spawn spiderlings level 1/2/3/4
>cocoon can be evolved (evolved level depends on spawn spiderlings level)
>1 - spider brute - 1200/1400/1600/1800 hp - 45/50/55/60 damage - +3 regen aura +3 armor aura
>2 - spider stalker - 400/450/500/550 - 10/15/20/25 damage - envenomed attacks slow ms, as, ts by 40%
>3 - spider enforcer - 1000/1100/1200/1300 - 40/60/80/100 damage - leap jumps at target enemy when attacking 600 range
>4 - spider grappler - 400 hp - 0 damage - explode - after 3 seconds deals it's health in 300 aoe damage, 33% damage to buildings - latch - can attach itself to an enemy hero
>>173983496
>all illusion heroes are garbage
-d2g
>>173983496
t. league of legends babby accustomed to a shit game which can't handle multiple units
>>173983473
Well no. I turned it into an argument of knowing what I'm talking about, "Carry" has an exact definition
Trying to then attack that is dick riding. Of course we're only talking about "indefinitely" scaling up to level 25 and best possible item configuration for the scenario
let me give you some advice: it won't get you anywhere in life refusing to lose arguments and just trying to chip away infinitely until you get some purchase. You didn't know what you were talking about and now you do, isn't that enough for you? A small victory all your own. You learned something. Be happy with that.
But the argument is over, and I won it, and you lost it. It's over kid. Stop.
>>173983587
which natural illusion generating hero isn't garbage right now
i'll wait
>>173983671
missed the point
>>173983739
he's right definitions have exact meanings, trying to change that is literally communism
>EE will never play again
Who will take over as bafflemeister
>>173983739
>i turned it into an argument about what the DEFINITION of a carry is
that's called semantics, brother
once again, i'm not even the guy you're arguing with. just pointing out how retarded you are. but now you'll just act like a retard on purpose to try to save face, when nobody really gives a fuck about you.
>>173983918
I think he still plans to play with NP after Kiev, just couldn't resist those free coaching shekels
>>173983865
>which natural illusion generating hero isn't garbage right now
Spectre (winrate above 53% at all mmrs)
Terrorblade
Morphling at high mmrs
CK at low mmrs
He said units that give gold, not illusions anyway, so we can add:
Lycan (highest 5k+ winrate)
Arc Warden
Visage
stop this discussion of defining what is a carry. for god's sake, even warlock was a carry some metas ago
>>173983982
>that's called semantics, brother
No. He was arguing over what the definition of a carry was and he was wrong. I gave him the correct definition.
To then disingenuously attack my use of word choice is turning into a *semantic argument* -- derisively referring to an argument without substance that tries to find validity only in attacking word use, as if a hastily written d2g argument needs to be written to the level of a binding legal contract
>>173982686
Hunter in the Darkness gives a flat attack speed bonus which grows more valuable as you get damage items, aka farm
:^)
>>173984148
haunts are haunts, not illusions, they follow special rules and she does not generate them, it is just a skill use.
morphling replicates also are not illusions
I think you're wrong about TB but CK seems okay right now i guess.
the point of the post is that PL is a garbage hero but that flew over your head anyway.
Why no one told me Normal Skill was so much fun?
>>173984195
Warlock was never a carry he was a counter-initiator
>>173984382
>he never played wc3 dota
>>173984196
oh ok
thank you for clarifying
>>173984382
>he never played rightclick warlock
you've missed out my friend
icefrog here, ama
>>173984307
>not illusions
>all illusion heroes actually just means pl
>a hero with a winrate above 50% at all mmrs is garbage
really
makes
you
consider
>>173984507
when are you adding a loli hero?
>>173984507
can u give me some more jungle xp and gold
i jungle 99% of my games at 4,5k mmr and win steadily, a little boost wouldnt hurt
>>173984556
unsure
>>173984576
no
How do I decide whether to rush Radiance or go Vanguard Diffusal on Spectre games?
Assuming my farm goes well and I don't absolutely need the Vanguard to be able to stay in lane
>>173969796
because I pick nyx to kill you
>>173984382
What the fuck are you looking at, bitch? Do I have to remind you just how powerful I am?
Well buckle up you little shit, because I'm about to take you on a god damn ride.
While your pussy ass is sitting in the safe lane farming, I'm roaming around with the brain of a master tactician - looking for opportunities to fuck everyone's day up. I can drop by mid and pop two fucking spells to do 80% of anyone's health, or I can fucking stop by and be your god damn free full heal. I have over 180 IQ and I perceive every move you could make at any moment before your little pea size brain even comprehends what the fuck is about to happen to your tight little pinker. While I'm busy being nigger killer deluxe, I'm also building my aghanim's scepter so I can slap your bitch cunt with two fiery cocks of destruction. By the time 20 minutes comes around, you can god damn bet I'll have my refresher and the fucking game will be over.
So sit down, shut the fuck up, and enjoy your free MMR you adopted retard.
>tfw no sperm collector hero
Also, sperm collector hero when?
>>173984556
>puck
what do you think puck's pucker smells like???
Great, forgot to spoil that shit...
>>173984979
Like faery dust
>>173984979
shotas != lolis
>>173985013
what's the point on spoiling shit here
>lose 6 sven matches in a row
>play with a friend whose mmr is a few hundreds above mine
>have an actual support
>have an actual roamer
>play on a tier where supports warding or pudge landing hooks isn't a commendable achievement but the expected thing to do for the first time in a good while after dropping into the depths of hell
>become sixslotted by minute 30 and come out victorious
fuck i wish i could play on this tier more often, but between fucking up on my own after coming back after like two years, and playing with some lower-leveled friends has brought down my mmr immensely, it's ridiculous
>Sunsfan stops being CEO of DC
>new CEO makes instant awful decision and new DC never wins anything ever again
Are jews born to lead from the shadows? How can other races even compete?
>>173984812
Pms+talon, casual reg ring maybe and threads.. poor mans vanguard
>>173984913
every hero is a sperm collector
>>173985240
why spoil semen demon
>>173984913
who is her
>>173986550
Since this is not a red board but i just realized that pron are the images that makes you get banned
>>173987125
catie amio_mio
>>173987259
oh, I remember now. She is/was G's gf right? I offered a bucket of cum for this succubus already.
Guy was living the fucking dream, playing dotes, dominating a semen demon that cosplays for you with legit tits (no push up) and very beautiful face. fucking russian goddess
>>173984507
REMOVE THOSE FUCKING SHRINES RIGHT NOW ABDUL, I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME.
THOSE GABEN BUCKS AINT GONNA LAST FOREVER SENPAI AS LONG AS YOU KEEP DOTA ON LIFE SUPPORT I SWEAR TO GOD.
DELET THEM FROM THIS FUCKING GAME RIGHT NOW I'LL HOLD YOUR BABYMAMAS HOSTAGE
>>173984507
can you make razor just a little better? like merge his passive or buff ult or add talent or whatever seems legit to you.. just make razor a better mid, that's all
>>173987708
name 1 thing objectively wrong with shrines
>>173988434
they act as a crutch for when people get punished for playing badly in lane
they diminish the reward for punishing people when they get greedy in lane (getting a kill or harassing them back to fountain)
>>173988434
makes pushing highground harder and extends game length. Also another way for enemy team to memeback
>>173970440
yes, all the things you heard here about bs getting spammed by boosters is true
>>173988434
>play safelane
>bully the offlaner out of lane
>instead of having to walk back, heal up and tp back in, costing him a lot of time, he can just shrine up and be back in the lane in 10 seconds
>additionally, he's now at full hp and full mana, while you're probably not, since he defended himself while you were bullying him
>>173989319
he was saying that he already knew and it was common knowledge.
>>173989460
i see, i misunderstood LAMO
>>173989408
>>additionally, he's now at full hp and full mana, while you're probably not, since he defended himself while you were bullying him
why don't you go and shrine then?
>>173989592
because that is the "mid shrine"
Honestly I'm okay with one shrine for the offlaner, but the others are pure bullshit
>>173989592
because
1. you'd have to go and use the midlane shrine which is twice as far away and could fuck over the mid
2. you'd be losing out on lasthits/experience while you did so
>>173989592
its balanced on paper but come to think of it.
you're supposed to get punished after a single little mistake early game because it supposed the part where everything matters...
remember the last patch?
>courier drops items on death
>deathballl
>1 rune
>almost half of the map is inaccessible unless you have boots of travel or your t1 is up
compard today when you can 0-2 on mid and still manage to comeback because your hero is a stronger memer.
>tfw won 3 games the last 30
>try my absolute hardest every game
>still lose
i want to kill myself
why God
why do this to me
>>173990076
its funny how you say courier drops items on death like that makes the game better or something
bad amateur design decision from ancient history..who cares? isnt that game anymore
that was a game played by 100k people this is a game played by millions
so i saw a reddit post crying about supports pulling creeps.
i dont have account there so i'll just give d2g some education
for 2k 3k reddit/d2g plebs.
did you know why high mmr carries have a lot of healing items and why the space on that lane is huge?
you're supposed to spin around there as you manage your attack time until the pull is done so your support get levels.
and oh, you also have to aggro the meele creep to a ranged creep to balance the creeps once again because its always have to be 1 ranged creep.
pathetic fucks
>>173990638
>don't have a reddit account so reply to reddit post here
wow congrats you just invented a completely new way to make me hate someone, this is like irrational seething hatred too i'm actually upset fucking top meme dawg
>>173990638
nice I do have an account and I'll repost it over there and link this thread to give you credit
>>173990638
remember scrubs, 1 ranged creep per wave
>I don't have a reddit account but I wish I did
but their free????? idgi
>>173990638
>speaks the truth
>gets downvoted
holy shit reddit
>>173990638
You're too good to post on reddit so you'll post the reply that you meant to post on reddit here to the benefit of us.
The face of autism everybody.
how do I skill lycan mid?
>d2g is a veritable repository of golden nuggets of tips and dota tricks
wow wee
>>173991467
>icefrog starts to listen to reddit
>neverending buffs to support role
>>173966064
looks like taylor swift desu
>>173987516
Since she cosplayed with vega, i think that yeah she still GF with G
>Peter Dager
Won a TI againts chinks by abusing Techies and Lesh and instantly fell into garbage tier with his whole team and retired. Never above average player. Now posts memes on twitter
>EE
Won a major against actually good teams. Has his own team and coaches another. Still a decent pro player.
Really makes me think
>>173991610
ward>jungle>w/e
>can win fights but enemies can still farm
>block almost all the jungle camps
anyone else tighten the noose to assure they can't memeback?
>>173992393
>>173992842
thank you for posting a genuinely useful dota 2 tip on the dota 2 general
good riddance
fucking kike
why is it that the further from the source, the stronger people feel some sort of national pride and ties?
All diaspora far from their fatherland/motherland are fucking insufferable
what if lycan aghs gave him an ulti cooldown reduction which added to the cd reduction talent and the +15 transform talent allowed him to pretty much stay all time in his ulti?
>>173994684
>4k for 100% uptime wolf
or
get much stronger wolf by buying a good item when you actually need the wolf
>>173994684
>THE WULF RUNS
Trade out boots for aghs? never buy another tp? Eternal haste? Ridiculous crits?
Sounds good, icefraud, check, mail.
>>173994870
but I like going fast
what if lycan wolf form can actually bite and leave bite marks until the game ends
>>173995173
sounds good
New hero :
Omen, The Outworld Hubris
Str, Meele
Skill 1 : Mordiggian Fist
Once toggled, Omen takes damage per second while his attacks steal strength from the target.
Damage bonus : 20
Strength Bonus duration : 40/50/60/70
Strength Steal per attack : 1/2/3/4
Self damage per second : 40 + 0.65% HP
Skill 2 : Overburn
Releases devastating burst of fire around Omen while dealing damage. All buffs before this ability casted is temporarily removed and will return after the duration ends.
Can cast while disabled.
Damage : 125/175/250/325
Radius : 300/325/350/375
Buff dilation duration : 3/4/5/6
Cooldown : 25
Skill 3 : Superior Aura
If a group of enemy goes close to Omen, they will get silenced. If the enemy is alone, he will get stunned.
Stun/Silence duration : 2.85
Radius : 240/260/280/300
Cooldown : 14/12/10/8
Skill 4 : Coercive Sunrise
Punches the air, emitting a cone-shaped destructive force in front of Omen while incinerating and crushing the ground. All heroes within the area take damage and slow. Damage dealt is equal to Omen's strength compared to enemy's while the slow is equal to Omen's current HP percentage.
Starting radius : 165
Edge radius : 455
Strength Difference Multiplier as damage (Physical) : 6/7.5/9
Slow : 80%
Maximum slow duration : 7
Cooldown : 125
>>173995628
:3
If I was the gaben;
>Week 1 of each month => Shuffle & practice
>Week 2 of each month => Open qualifiers and Regionals
>Week 3 of each month => Practice & team bonding
>Week 4 of each month => Major
>Last day of each month => Patch
>the absolute state of dota2 on twitch right now
>>173995628
one enemy can't be a group you tard
>>173996052
>not watching the based bosnian micro god
>>173996068
so... group of foe?
>>173995628
Why are all of d2g's hero suggestions edgy dark shit?
let's settle the debate once and for allLina or Rylai
>>173994180
I prefer these holocaust survivors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtlPlZGvgY0
>>173996068
dude what
>page 9
Will she ever come back to doturd?
>>173995628
>outworld
stopped reading there
>>173999332
ugly
We are looking for a friendly player for our currently 4 man stack consisting of myself, my brother, whom are both polish, a finnish fag, and a dutch fag. We communicate in in english and are very found of memes.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/massivefuckingfaggot/
i know this seems like a joke its not
>>173990480
the key is to not tryhard thats when you start winning
literally dont give a shit trust me it works
guys I heard the new calibration cap is 3.5k but my friend said he calibrated 3 weeks ago at 4.2k and I cant find a valuable source to deny his claim
anyone here got proof or is it all a lie?
>>173996360
Rylai, her ult isn't generic garbage.
Guys, I have about a minute and some prick instalocked CK. Which hero do I pick to shut this asshole down?
>>174000562
KNIGHT STANDS READY
>reinstall dota after not playing for 5 months
>its even worse than back then
>uninstall again
Is desolator viable on arc warden?
okay back the FUCK UP
NEW HERO IDEA
>Wenis the Pro-Mage (It's pronounced when-iss)
>Mana Repair (Passive): Wenis strikes a friendly unit, adding mana with each attack.
>Stare: Wenis is locked into position for x seconds but cannot teleport, be moved, be damaged, or be afflicted by status affects.
>Spell Fountain: Wenis takes extra damage from enemy magic attacks.
>Mana Creation: Used on allies, does magic damage equal to ((Mana*10)/Level) in a 600 AoE
>Conrad Aui and 1437 in Kiev Major Talent.
>No PPD.
At least Synderen god is back.
>Redeye is hosting Kiev
>>173977302
>not good early game
>also not good as a carry
dotards!?
>Love DOTA2
>Can't do lane phase at all
>End up dropping the game and coming back
>I know it's my fault, but every time I come back, the fucking game has a new map and new runes and
Oh god. I can't even be a support bitch because it's too much work and warding takes skill. The fuck am I even doing here?
>>174001360
isn't ppd working on EG? I think they don't invite people from teams or something like that
anyway just installed this shit. do I get to fuck them or is all softcore teasing garbage? am I under risk of turning a weeb?
>Lyrical isn't a part of the broadcast TALENT
Maybe it won't be so bad.
>>174001575
based synd and tobi casting
>>174001397
MUAGGGHHHH
>>174001575
>synderen
fucking FINALLY he is back to casting. tobi/synderen grand finals WHEN
>>174001575
>skreppas
man I wish I was one of those faggots... get paid and travel around the whold for pretty much being a neet who watches/observes pro-dota
>>174001598
did you buy it on steam or did you pirate it
if the former: no
if the latter: yes, both her and the white-haired one, although not until like chapter 8 or something
>>174001397
TWO WORLDS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
>enemy has player with (no sound) in name
>pick techies
who /devilish/ here?
>synderen and tobi casting the grand finals
>>174001821
they're pretty good at it, when you watch a tournament observed by ANNEDROID you kinda notice that
>>173982686
Only Pudge and Legion Commander scale truly indefinitely, thus are the only true carry heroes.
>>174001397
I HAVE THEIR SCENT
>>174002061
>>174001397
QUICK SPRINT
>>174001851
>pirates get a better product
>>174002061
you can't go below 1 int
silencer steals int indefinitely
>>174001397
ENDURANCE RUN
>>174000062
he probably calibrated before the patch
or he's bullshitting
go check patchnotes and PPDs twitter
>>174001397
CHARGE AHEAD
>>174001575
>conrad
uhh, why?
>brightening merlini's teeth
kek
>>174001575
>aui_2000
>>174002271
you can blame that on steam's dumbass approach to eroge (and gravure content in general)
it's gotten to the point where visual novel publishers will sell patches that add in sex scenes on top of the price you have to pay for the game itself
>>174001212
Yeah it's great
>>174001575
>cap
>ld
>merlini
>synd
>tobi
>weppas
>skriff
BASED
IT HAPPENED AGAIN
>get mega'd by meepo picking scum
>he dies with no buy back
>Death rush down mid
>Win
>>174001397
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>EE: JOIN ME TOGETHER WE WILL CONQUER DOTA AND BATH IN SUCCESS
>weeks later 1437 and aui ara analysts, ee is a coach and one of the other guys is teamless
>>174001575
Seriously why is retards like Conrad and 1437 there?
Literally how is Conrad relevant, Would rather have Charlie ffs.
>>174002965
what happened to his team, NP?
>>174002613
Wait...people legitimately buy eroge?
Huh...
>>174003118
didn't qualify for kiev, got last place on dac, EE got angry and kicked 2 of the guys and now I guess are on a break until the major is over and they can reform during the shuffle
>>174001575
>No PPD
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>174003183
it's not a big market
games like the sakura and nekopara series were a big hit on steam and have thus accrued a lot of sales, but the average eroge that gets released on steam today gets around 100-300 sales tops
in all other cases they get pirated, mostly because eroge on steam lack H-scenes are expensive as fuck and partly because a lot of the visual novel translating groups are horrible with PR
>>174003041
I'm looking forward to what Aui contributes.
If what ppd says is true, that Aui talks a lot but says so little at the same time....I want to witness it for myself.
>>174003453
Never thought about that. I assumed that people would immediately flock to fanpatches if they're into hentai since localized eroge is expensive, even moreso than the Japanese originals since they have to pay translators and programmers.
>>174001575
>no peter dager
PEEPEEDICK BLOWN THE FUUUUUUUUUUUCK OUT
>>174001575
>GOOD tier
redeye
cap
fogged
godz
merlini
odpixel
sheever
synderen
translatorman
skreppas
>We pretend to hate them but we secretly like them tier
Purge
Slacks
>Meh tier
1437
aui
>We pretend to like him tier
tobi
>Was our jew but the fat kike betrayed us and should fuck off tier
LD
>WHY? tier
conrad
>why not? tier
james
>>174003805
isn't he playing?
>>174001575
Ill rate their photos
Impressive tier :
Redeye, 1437, Purge
Nice tier :
Fogged, ODPixel
Good. Tier :
Godz, Sheever, LD, Synderen, Tobiwan, Slacks, Jack
LAMO tier :
Weppas, Skrff, Conrad, Capitalist, Merlini
>>174001575
>drops the dota from his name
>moves BTS into tons of other esports
>casting a fucking Overwatch tournament tonight but hasn't casted dota since the qualifiers
>swooces into an easy casting slot at the major
>>174003657
>I assumed that people would immediately flock to fanpatches if they're into hentai since localized eroge is expensive
they do, but fan patches are somewhat of a rarity now
most of the visual novels people play are just cracked versions of officially translated works
>even moreso than the Japanese originals since they have to pay translators and programmers.
i doubt the reason they're so expensive is because they have to pay them so much
visual novels with 5000-1000 lines max (like the sakura games) go for 20 bucks a pop even though they don't contain any compelling prose or literary merit, methinks most of the time the large price tags are there because visual novel translating groups like Sekai Project are a bunch of jews
>>174003878
this has to be bait
>>174004107
life is unfair because no one tried
even if i cast a game, i doubt u guys will cheer for me
>>174004107
redeye spends lots of time hosting CS events, does that mean they should not invite redeye anymore?
>>174004692
Sing and Bulldog should be the hosts
>>173999332
wtf is that alien looking bitch
>>174004692
it's different, redeye is a host while LD is a caster. Hosts do multiple esports because the skillset needed is unrelated to the game while casters should focus on one game because the skillset needed is tied to the game
also redeye is cool while LD is jew and fat
>>174004857
this tbqh
>>173999332
more importantly will that fuckin hairline ever come back lol
>>174003878
James is going to Kiev, hes in management or some shit for secret
>>174005008
why not just get a high mmr guy who can speak proper english.
would be fun if we have ti for fresh casters
>>174005024
>sing still pure
>GD overlay
Stop anon, it still hurts to think those times are gone forever. I don't want to cry.
why is dota 2 so reddit?
>>174005134
Is he actually?
I know he let Secret use his house for bootcamp earlier last month, but from the looks of it, Puppey, Midone and one of the others are in Estonia right now
Did Yames say something about it on twitter or a stream?
>>174005703
there are no SCrumpet and overbore shitposters on reddit so most of us moved there
>>174005703
reddit is good4chan
>>174001575
>action shot purge
>constipated slacks
>nohomo 1437
>JUST conraddotard caster anime when?
>no pyrionflax at kiev
I for one won't be watching this shit
>>174006212
fuck off Flax you haven't been relevant since TI4
>>174002815
BROUHAHA(GONE SEXUAL)
Personally I hate them. I think they dumb down regen, solidify the dumbing down of the offlane -remember when they didn't have free regen, a bounty rune, and their very own mini-jungle?
They also seem to dumb down mid - I'm not a mid player, but it seemed to me that the midlane was more interesting when bottle timing was more urgent.
Shrines had bad implications for splitpushing, but that problem has been alleviated by the reduction of tower armour. They also changed highground a bit, but I don't think I mind the highground shrines so much - it's the ones out in the map that irritate me.
Edit: also their status as very strong TP locations is one of the things I dislike the most.
Anyhow, the game in general seems like a clusterfuck. I miss the simplicity, even 'purity' of the old map. Now it feels like a total mess with bounties, shrines, a fully developed 2nd jungle and tortured terrain all over the place. The sidelane trees between the t1s which people can lurk in are part of that too.
>BRs get a free slot to a major
Might as well give a slot to Australia.
>>174006124
something like this?
>>174006772
funny thing is it was supposed to be for Peru but they got cucked
>>174006837
>Valve gives FREE SLOT to Peru
>They're so bad they lose it to some noname BR team with a former /tf2g/
>>173966020
it's absolute garbage
any of these items are better depending on situation
>midas
>vanguard
>drums (yes even drums is better in more cases than HotD)
>aquila or urn + wand or poor man's
>casual ring of health
>hood of defiance
>vlads
>>174006545
Why copy a post from reddit here? Just to prove that /d2g/ and reddit are the same? We already knew that.
As to offlane jungle, it gives the offlaner a chance to grab some gold if they need it, which opens the offlane role to a lot more people. I think if the terrain heights were reworked (throughout the entire jungle desu) the map would feel a lot nicer. Camps need to not be pushed into little enclaves in the walls so much.
For mid, sure it's easier to stay alive now, but it's not really easier to win the lane. Remember that runes are only spawning at one or the other river spots now, and walking all the way to a bounty rune for two bottle charges is not worth it. You leave mid like that and you lose the game. So bottles are harder to manage now, which comes with its own interesting problems.
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!
>>174007441
do you realize that when you reply to yourself other people can see a (me) after the post number?
>>174007801
>Group Stage will be played in Swiss Format
explain
>>174007801
Woah, really? So this post will have a (me) after it? That's crazy!
Edit 1: What's with all the downvotes?
Edit 2: Sorry, apparently something I said earlier was insensitive, changed my post accordingly
Edit 3: Hi Mom!
what if ld is relegated to casting group stages offsite like zyori was for frankfurt?
>someone post the ld webm
>>174008142
we csgo now
>>174008142
it means players can only drink milk and eat chocolate for those three days, here explains why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament
>>174003041
>upset about conrad and 1437
>meanwhile sheever gets invited to every fucking event and will be on the panel over 50% of the time saying dumb shit with her annoying voice
k
>>174008532
fuck off aneedroid, sheever is our only girl
>>174004692
he doesnt spend a lot of time doing it
he spends less time doing it than dota actually
however, LD is banned from valve events after the whole "ding ding ding motherfucker" situation (that game was on live TV in America so he got a lot of shit from valve for it) and because he took a deal with blizzard to cast OW, so valve refuse to have him back till he cuts contract with blizzard.
I need some advice
Often I pick heroes in response to enemy picks but what happens if your teammates, who dont know better, pick another hero first that takes your spot, not knowing they are setting themselves up for trouble?
Something like seeing an Axe/Juggernaut on the enemy team and then you want to pick safelane ursa to counter them but you were beaten to it
>>174008691
I have never seen such degree of failure in a single bait post before
>>174008724
>i pick cores to counterpick other cores
advice: learn to play more than one role. why don't you pick witch doctor to counter axe, for instance
>>174008691
that's bullshit but I believe it
>>174008724
I do that with nyx, seeing as he is both support or offlaner I pick him to shit on OD and invoker pickers.
>>174008814
wait shit, LD is casting Kiev?
I didnt see the imageor actually raed the guy befores post, just saw his pic of LD
Guess LD isnt doing blizzcon this year, his big OW break is gone
Is it possible to solo offlane as Elder?
You just go soulring tranqs right?
>>174001575
not a fan of 1437, his accent is pretty annoying.
hope ppd gets a casting spot at ti7
.
>>174009228
uh anon, i thought he was always an offlane pick
>>174008817
I do but often I am just plain weaker at some roles like playing mid or playing roaming support
Either that or I misjudge alot when it comes to which picks are actually the best in practice, so usually I stick to cores
>>174008962
Maybe I should pick semi-carries more like Nyx and Abaddon.
>>174009228
ye
but depends on the enemies
you can just stomp and walk away if they frontload stuns or don't have any
Anyone want to play im 3.4k
>>174008724
Just pick Wraith King end enjoy countering all but 3 heroes in the game.
>d2g thinks over the patches the game has turned more into lol or hots
>if we experienced time in reverse "depatching" dota over time people would say the game is being oversimplified and casualized with stuff being removed and making the map less complex
is there a way to make autists happy?
>>174009742
>Either that or I misjudge alot when it comes to which picks are actually the best in practice, so usually I stick to cores
if you misjudge picks then you need to stick to non cores. l2p more roles. playing one role = bad at game, outright. means you dont know how the game actually works
>desperately trying to figure out how to make doom good
he has some of the best talents in the game if not the best
the problem is the hero sucks ass. what the fuck were they thinking with infernal blade? it doesnt even fucking pierce immunity!!
I think the meme I want to do is phase hotd echo radiance heart. Maxing scorched then devour, first point of infernal blade at 9
We need more skins while meanwhile a glitch exists where every thing is fucking in the floor, so I can't see runes or more importantly aegis that causes the game to be lost, good shit volvo
even after all these nerfs monkey king is still somehow good
and all he needs to stay relevant is a skull basher
jesus fucking christ
>>174010939
>amd buyer
other lizards = r/dota2
lizard on the top = d2g
>>174001575
>the same old usual
>minus 2 plus 2 amateurs for experience
>not enough change so still stagnant
yay so much hype...
>>174011101
Is that seriously it, jesus fuck. Feels fucking bad man, -25 for an amd card.
>Lina's winrate dropped over 1% since 7.05
>>174012020
>phoenix
>dirge
>lion
All of these have respawn timer reductions at 10. Abuse them.
>>174012020
anyone like reading the character lores
>>174013415
they are horrible
>>174013415
No but I unironically love Slacks' lore videos.
Does M-God have powers of prophecy?
>Venge Core still op
>No one plays it
>>174013105
>take a guy's bounty rune
>he proceeds to talk mad shit for 45 straight minutes
>then tries to banter in chat at end of game and gets crushed
>add him to friends
>laugh at his fucking dotabuff
>5000 games, 2.3k
what does d2g drive?
>Every hero who used to buy mom now buys memesaber
really le activates the le almonds
I'm having another withdrawal episode.
Convince me not to reinstall.
>>174014569
2012 chrysler 300my dad left it to me when he died a few years ago
>>174014634
>tidehunter used to buy mom
que?
>>174014569
a 2004bike
>>174014791
it's a shit game and even though i hate animeNEETs even i do not want you to suffer having to play with the subhuman gameshitting thirdies that inhabit this exe
>>173939380
Butthurt MK main detected
>>174014791
smurfs are capped at 3.5k
>>173941441
This is a troll warlord track for sure
>>174014030
>flame digital chaos from the moment of its inception
>no matter the roster, just flame the team
>now he's on DC
god when will mason fuck off
Every time I see that faggot, it makes me more and more certain that EG just threw TI4 so that nobody would actually take mason if he decided to leave after becoming a TI winning player
storytime, motherfuckers
>feeling up for some zet safe carry
>ask beforehand if i can go
>everyone says ok
>some nigger picks windrunner and i ask if he's supporting
>he doesn't respond
>i pick zet
>he finally responds no
>mirana generously gives up mid spot
>im up against a shitty weaver
>lane is going well, get two kills but their ursa is getting fed and their tusk is ganking hard core
>midas time niggers
>scrooge mcduck
>never bought manta on zet, decide to try it
>they got super creeps relatively fast, so i had to rat dota our way out of the situation
>60 mins comes around and im 7 slotted
>release the entirety of my power
>r
>w
>manta
>tab
>manta
>everybody is getting hit with barrages of flying red spaceballs
>weaver melts in a second, no time to ult
>everybody falls before me
>io rage quits
THE SELF COMES FOR YOU
>>174010583
Doom is my 3rd most played, I still like him.
If Infernal Blade popped Linken he would be god tier. Fucking stiffling dagger and arcane bolt do and they have like 2 and 6 sec cds.
Don't max Devour. You don't even have mana for it every 40 sec that early. At level 10 u still get 100g every devour with the talent.
Devour, Scorched, Scorched, Infernal, Schorched, Doom, Scoorched, Infernal x3, then Devour.
I just go Tranq, Basilus, Midas, then Blink or Shadow Blade and finish Vlad's. It sucks they removed armor, but you run fucking fast with tranqs and scorched.
>>174014634
>tiny used to buy mom
que?
>>174015765
didn't mason go to play LoL after his TI4 run? why did he come back?
>>174015890
Man, Zet's so much fun it's retarded
>>174014569
'05 clio
tfw the only "american" cars you can get here are extremely overpriced mustangs
>>174016013
he said LoL was too difficult
>>174016076
jesus fucking christ man i know
it's so much fun being able to split and tp your clone off to no man's land to secure a big ass creep wave while your pussy teammates cant leave the base
meanwhile, the retards in my shitty low mmr that have never even seen zet or dont know of his skills chase after the clone thinking im overextending, only to be disappointed when it expires
>ursa comes to gank
>place my w well
>he sits under tower and keeps hitting me while im evading all of it
he must've read my abilities at some point in the game because he learned after that
goat hero confirmed?
if you think im still not the greatest terrorblade player in /d2g/, just one word for what you are
wrong
>>174016408
next time I poop I'll use that face
>>174016319
That feeling when you make an Enigma waste his Black Hole on your clone and thenyou kill him
>>174016615
kek
>mfw carry tusk with shadowblade walrus punches my ult, so i tp in and slap his shit
>>174016615
>stories from 1k
>>174014569
09 cobalt
>>174016408
what's your mmr brother
>>174009043
He is doing whatever he wants. Valve don't really care what you are up to as long as they don't have a bone to pick with you (see James). LD said that he enjoys casting OW and that he doesn't cast that much because his fiancee is in USA now. Stop baiting people.
>>174014569
reminder most people here arent old enough to drive
as you can see from the lack of responses
>>174016738
People tend to panic when a Clone comes out of fucking nowhere and starts throwing shit at youI'm 3,6k tho
>>174016827
or maybe most people don't give a shit about a question that has been already asked multiple times in the past few days and has nothing to do with dota
>mk nerfed 50 times
>still feels outright unfair to fight against
>like his skills were designed in some forward thinking way and half the time hes fighting heroes from another game
getting tired of this piece of shit
>>174016990
t. assmad underage faggot that cant drive
AHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
>>174017184
dont get hit 4 times faggot
>>174017224
epic XD totally not an 8 year old xDD
>lion spends 1700 gold on sentry wards in game
>ends game with an urn
>desperately try to explain to him that he is in 2k and it doesn't matter if he dewards, and also that the deaths he accrued warding have a 10 times greater impact than vision will ever have
>"shut the fuck up youre the first person to ever ask me not to ward"
it's hopeless, you actually cannot get out of 2k without some autistic level of care about the game that is inappropriate in regard to the quality of games you get at 2k. its like slaving for eight hours to cook a four course meal out of dirt and motor oil.
>>174017506
>play low mmr support
>get some farm, grab teamfight and survivability items
>get flamed for not warding
>next game get wards and dominate map vision all game while not taking any farm so as to make your deaths unimportant
>get flamed for feeding
no wonder you people get 5 core vs 5 core games
>>174017506
Boosters exist.
>>174017502
>underaged faggot detected
>>174017506
I was going to say that was me, but I'm 3k
Not that 3k is something to brag about
>>174017779
yeah i think im gonna boost again t. psg
i like playing on my 4k account but its too much of a pain to log in and out. im hoping the boosting service i usually use would buy the 4k account for 10 bucks or whatever to give me a discount lol
prices are going down a lot as it is because ded game
buying an account costs about 1/8 as much as boosting. it just sucks to haev some shitty russian account instead of all my dank items and shit.
theres been this huge complaint about the level of account buyers in 4k and shit recently. the thing is, in 2k, there arepeople who simply cannot and will not ever get better, and if you wanna play better games you cannot hope to actually gain mmr and "Get out"
for every "i gained 2000 mmr" story there are 10,000 "i gained 0 mmr" stories
>>174016827
its not that thye are too old it's they're too NEET
>>174016990
>multiple times
nope only once and got zero (0) responses
you sound like a salty buscuck tbqh
>tfw stopped banning heroes since it just gives away what the enemy should pick
Why does China get 5 (!) servers?
>>174018436
Personally I ban whatever heroes I think will make my teammates the maddest
so Invoker usually
>>174018540
Because China is run by another company
>>174018580
this
i fucking hate invoker and even the shitty ones are able to stomp on my retard teammates
fuck you, fuck your shitty meme pick, and fuck off
>>174014791
honestly dota is objectively dog shit now and has been from 7.00 onward. that patch completely ruined the game for anyone who isnt a complete fresh off the boat newfag
>>174018436
I ban ember every game because fuck that piece of shit and fuck everyone who plays it.
>>174018684
please elaborate
i dont necessarily disagree with you, but i'd like to hear your opinions on how the game is now shittier
oh my god /v/ is fucking insufferable with all the persona weebs / sony niggers i'm gonna stay on /vg/ and other boasrds
>>174018870
DAE le /vg/ is better than /v/?? xDD
>>174018870
persona is gr8
>>174018998
>>174018953
>d2g with the shit taste
as expected
>>174018992
t. assblasted /v/ermin
we are objectively far superior
its so easy to get youvotes out of weebs it should almost count as negative
>>174015890
i too am a fan
[/spoiler]i spammed him a shit ton in overthrow to learn him before i felt okay taking him into actual matches. it's still hard though because he only has single target damage and can super easily get ran over by any type of aggression. also most tards dont know how to draft / play around him. his main issue is he's got a bad case of the 'i'm a shit hero til' i get 3-4 slotted' and a case of the 'i'm a shit farmer til i get midas' so if you get behind at all it's hard as fuck to claw your way out. obviously one you start approaching your maximum potential, game's just over. he's such an insane ticking time-bomb, maybe more so than any other hero[/spoiler]
>>174016180
seriously?
POST EM
RATE EM
WOULD YOU PLAY WITH EMpls dont flame me, storm spirit was the first character i played when i started and i was super bad at the time :(
this merloobi brew is disgusting
>>174019250
ctrl+s
>>174019330
>starting with storm
you've got some balls
>8-3 warlock
and patrician taste in supports. Would play offlane abby and meme the whole game with / 10
>tfw all the games I play are dead or dying
JUST
>>174019250
if you get a manta style and pop all your clones, people in my mmr (low mmr) will freak out and not know who to click. really easy way to win when you're outnumbered.
>>174019494
all of the day bro
lol these personaNEETs have been waiting 7 years for htis game no wonder it's being shilled so hard
>>174019593
yeah i have tried manta and it's definitely good, especially as a defensive tool against silences and shit.
my general end game build is
travels
bloodthorn
silver edge
mjol
octarine
last slot is flexible - blink, manta, pike if i need mobility, or bkb, or linkens, or skadi, or anything really
>>174019751
>underlord
based
would jump into your ulti and follow you to battle any day
>>174019857
ever try to rush deso after midas? i find it gives a really good mid game burst of damage.
i'll have to try silver edge, i usually just build shitter carry items like deso/daedalus/mkb
>>174020020
getting a quick shadow blade helps a ton... lets you escape, forces enemy to buy detection, decent damage
best part is, cast your double, instantly shadow blade it, and send him out to scout / look for solo picks, which becomes really easy once you get orchid / blood thorn. your double will be shadow-bladed-up, constantly scouting and instilling fear into the shitters that oppose you
>>174020180
i need to fucking try that oh my god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDc7dBtMGao
>tfw
>decide to chill with an unranked match
>see this on my team
what do?
>no dota related analogy thing for this image
heh
Why is ranged LD a thing that icefrog allows to keep happening? At higher mmr it's nothing more than a meme. At low mmr it's ez lose. Why let the hero shittily occupy a role that other heroes fill much more competently? People should pick LD for the bear, not so they can play cucked sniper that can chase. Just pick drow for that.
Nerf it into the ground, I say. Or at least add a talent that gives it synergy with the bear.
>reminding your low mmr support to buy wards.jpg
wow nice looks like it's my turn to get useless team mates and give out the free wins love it when the forced 50 kicks it XD only 5 more games until I can "enjoy" the stomps again :^)
post favorite item
>high tier
refresher
midas
mek
>medium tier
radiance
silver edge
vanguard
mask of madness
helm of dominator
>low tier
blademail
bkb
soul ring
daedalus
>shit tier
sny
octarine
medallion
aether lens
>kill yourself tier
necronomicon (especially if you feed the creeps)
dragon lance
eul's
satanic
>>174022232
force staff and hurricane kike
>>174022013
>been winning vast majority of my games recently
>have had teammates that know what they are supposed to do, do those things at the appropriate times, we all work together harmoniously, no one rages / feeds
>scared to queue because i know the forced 50 hammer is going to drop any fucking second now
>>174022232
What about Solar Crest?
>>174022479
meh tier
>>174022279
i bet you're the type of guy to build dragon lance first you fat faggot treat
>>174022317
>tfw getting a Chen that goes aghs first and just feeds ancients
>>174022562
I ALWAYS get force staff first
>>174022634
good, im proud of you son
>>174001575
>sheever is literally invited to every single tournament
why do people accept this
>>174022779
see
>>174008532
>>174022842
>>174022779
people that hate sheever are the type of people to hate slacks
in other words, fucking faggots
>>174022232
aghs and blink
>>174022974
>aghs
on who, motherfucker? think about your answer carefully
>other generals on /vg/ are full of hugboxers from dying containment boards
realy makes ya think.;...
>>174023025
tony, bristle, zeus
>>174023146
>tiny players
FUCK. OFF.
>>174023025
weaver, venge and alch :^)
>>174022232
>midas in high tier
>blademail in low tier when it's insanely strong on certain heroes
>soul ring in low tier when certain heroes are impossible to play without it
What are your criteria even? how fun they are to use? Implying BKB destroying the entire enemy team's plan in teamfights isn't the best feeling in the game.
You're right about aether lens. Basically a shit item, because force staff and blink will give you better range and actually have utility.
>no blink on your list
How am I looking?
>>174023460
This desu, fuck alchemist
>>174022232
favorite items are Rod of Atos, Blink Dagger and Dagon
>>174022920
people on the panel of a multimillion dollar esports event are there to do a job, either it be a host or an analyst. Sheever does neither,she's not intelligent,she'not attractive, she's not well spoken or articulate. the only reason she's there is because beta orbiters like you froth at the mouth because there's a girl on the screen who's vaguely talking about your favorite videogame.
stop ruining tournaments by being such a fucking betacuck faggot, sort yourself out
>>174023025
Oracle when AA is also on the team.
Most fun you can have in dota.
>>174023807
>Swiss system
I'm way too sleep deprived to try to comprehend this.
It's just a weird GSL/RR hybrid monstrosity isn't it?
>>174023331
>What are your criteria even?memes
>>174022232
Eul's is GOAT on supports, second only to force staff
necro is 2muchfun on wolfman, but not super great
blink for my og plays
midas is for shiteating afk farmers, or shiteating no-impact players, or shiteating invoker players, only acceptable on arc and sometimes sylla
radiance is boredom: the item, unless you're playing some meme medusa radiance strat
hotd is strictly for feeders only
raindrop is a terrible item and should be removed
>>174023204
looks like you've got a quarry to settle
>>174023204
>hating tony
settle urself my man
>holding your memes for the next thread because you are too scared the next post to yours will be linking to the new thread and your post ignored
>>174022232
>God Tier, build on every hero
Blink
>High Tier, build on most heroes
Hurricane Pike
>Good Tier, alright for most heroes
Midas
Rapier
>Shit Tier
everything else
>Nigger what are you doing tier
Satanic
>Un-redeemable lost in the hellish depths of the trench tier
Bloodthorn
>>174024625
haha literally me.
Upvoted btw.
>>174024654
>midas, good
>bloodthorn, bad
>blink on qop
go feed a rapier
what are the top 3 worst aghs
>>174022920
I can understand people being annoyed at Sheever for being at events:
>She makes short people upset
>She has a terrible accent
>She doesnt even look good
>She has terrible game knowledge
>She keeps notes of games on a notepad because shes too retarded to remember the events of a 30min game
But people being mad at Slacks?
I just dont get
Sure he's tall, intimidates manlets, but other than that, the only "bad" thing about him is his accent
He's the same MMR bracket as Purge (mid to high 6k) and is DEEPLY knowledged on the heroes he plays (sadly he only plays 2 heroes, but he's far more knowledged on them than most pros are on those heroes)
He literally does all the clowny shit that /d2g/ claims they do in their pubs, he just gets paid for it and publicly posts on reddit sometimes
I really dont get why anyone pretends to dislike him
>>174024763
>7.2k item
>good
>blink on qop and AM are bad
2k shitter detected
you will never defeat the magic lord
>>174025145
that picture makes it look like magina was furion's son or something xDD
>>174025019
Purge is clearly higher knowledge than slacks, that's not a fair comparison at all.
He's really good at techies, but then, he's really good at techies. That's not necessarily a positive.
>>174025145
bloodthorn is an endgame item on orchid builders like nature's prophet, and it's fucking godlike for that purpose
What, do you only ever see people rush naked bt?
what the fuck is this dotards
>>174025571
are you americans fucking illiterate or something? if you live in a cave and never heard of it use google or something
>>174025571
swiss format
does the swiss format mean we're gonna get that legends/challenger thing from cs too?
>>174025857
Swiss is from HS you turd
we're not getting shit from CS
>>174025464
tfw you always meet the quota
win, loss or draw
I
ALWAYS
get
my
mark
>>174025945
csgo uses swiss
who gives a shit about hearthstone
>>174026179
HS has been using Swiss for longer and they've got a near perfect Swiss system
iirc CSGO dont always swiss and afaik their swiss is shit
>>174026253
swiss is swiss you mongol
redpill me on viper
>>174026531
HAHA XD PILL ME DUDE
ANYONE /BOG/ HERE XD !?!??!?1
fuck off with your shit pol memes you fucking faggot
ask your question like a normal person or dont ask your question at all
>>174026619
triggered lmfao
>>174026619
hello tumblr
captcha: pillaton lmao
>754
when did you first realize going from 2k to 5k is literally just tilt avoidance on your team
>>174026969
When I realized I'm literally the only constant.
just tried bounty roaming 4 for the first time, made the enemy team rage quit
ez game ez life