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first for reddit

I'm glad that more people are finally interested in the qualifiers because of EG/Secret

you guys missed the last two years and majors which were also pretty hyped

WHAT WENT BREED?

Attention:
The following are all the canonical Dota 2 pairings (dom on left, sub on right):
>Phoenix/Winter Wyvern
>Faceless Void/Spectre
>Bloodseeker/Riki
>Lion/Himself
>Phantom Lancer/Bounty Hunter
>Night Stalker/Doom
>Wraith King/Queen of Pain
>Beastmaster+Ursa/Brewmaster
>Dragon Knight/Visage
>Jakiro/Venomancer
>Nature's Prophet/Creeps
>Sagan/Mirana
>Lycan/Luna
>Huskar/Dazzle
>Skywrath Mage/Vengeful Spirit
>Centaur Warrunner/Enchantress
>Tusk+Bristleback
>Tidehunter/Slark/Naga Siren
>Templar Assassin/Outworld Devourer
>Sand King/Earthshaker
>Juggernaut/Sven/Crystal Maiden
>Shadow Shaman/Spirit Breaker
>Windranger/Drow Ranger
>Legion Commander/Axe
>Bane/Puck
>Zeus/Medusa

New to the game and I really enjoy spirit breaker
Is he any good in the meta or in pro play?
How do I build him?

yeah i regret it honestly

Is carry WW actually doable with the new Agh's or is it just a memebuild?

>no /d2g/ carry to support

build a ring of rewind time to when he was a good hero

Are you the user from yesterday i talked to a bit in the thread?

nice la......

yea hes good

just keep playing him and experiment with different items that YOU feel are good depending on the situation

getting last hits is something you should work on but if you

just dont go mid or safelane carry with him, he works better as a "well there's a fucking spirit breaker on the other team" type of hero

can be either frustrating to play against or can become a feeder if he gets too cocky

ill play with u little awoo man

carry WW is doable
meme aghanims is too niche and most games wouldn't go long enough to reach it
you need WAY too much mana regen for it to not cripple you so its relegated to extreme lategame

wyvern is the worst possible hero in the game to be gifted an aghanims by an alchemist early on, its the biggest fuck you there is
>330 mana for 6 seconds of flight
lmao

>QoP not being the dom.
>Venge not being the dom.
Shit meme.

Probably

...

SB shits on baddies but is pretty bad in competitive.

Clinton ' Fear ' Loomis also known as a TI winner and Pussy slayer

To be fixed in next shitpost

I'm not good enough to feel out what items are good
I barely understand what strength agility and intelligence do

HOW DO WE FIX THE REAL WORST HERO IN THE GAME?

NOT ONLY IS HE AWFUL BUT HES SELFISH AS FUCK

Well, VEC won all their games, so I'm done for today.

See you in a bit, lads. Night~

>there are people in this thread who still build vlads on ursa
>there are people in this thread who still go lifesteal in general on ursa
>there are people in this thread who didnt replace lifesteal with vanguard for a fast abyssal blade on ursa
>there are people in this thread who dont leave orb slot for desolator on ursa
Its time to go with the times, grandpas

mom is far more useful than deso on ursa

>mom
The item that destroys your own ult and makes you take damage again when you wouldnt.
The item that also doesnt add much damage since you have max as most of the time.
Mom ursa is an abomination.

WHAT HAPPENED TO TEAM CHEESE EG?

ARE THEY OUT?

who care?

>20% lifesteal is bad on a hero
>%ms on a already fast hero who gets kited is bad
people build it to farm faster mein negroe

yes

>deso
what the fuck are you playing, building killer ursa?
because -armor is incredibly inefficient for killing heroes, you'd be better off with a solar crest slot for slot

deso is a building killing item
unless you're going travels/aghanims/bkb on ursa so you can safely split push and threaten towers and escape when jumped on, theres no reason to build deso

who did they lose to?

EG status? Secret status? Veggie status?

All these teams are still alive.

No idea on EG, Secret is still in.

I had no idea veggie was participating.

>Pick WW
>Max Arctic Burn
>Costs 20 mana for 6 seconds of uptime
>Get Agh's "upgrade"
>Costs 240 mana for 6 seconds of uptime
Hit me up with the carry Wyvern build as of now.

Deso is by far ursas strongest damage item in the game. Since abyssal doesnt add much damage anymore and all your other items revolve around defense and not getting kited you need 1 damage item. Deso is just the perfect fit because its the most efficient on him.
Vanguard already lets you solo rosh.
A quick blink abyssal gives mobility, disable, and tankiness. Going bkb and aghs you only have one more slot. Fill it with a deso grandpa.

how the shit is EG vs. shazam the first game tomorrow

those are like the best 2 teams in the bracket

is FACEIT run by literal drooling retards

lost to Cucks For Life

RIP ;_;

>team feeding uncontrollably
>can't stem the bleeding
>pick up BoT
>out push the enemy team with TP plays
>keeping the lanes pushed up and cutting lanes to try and slow their advance
>force a rotation every time they try to push our high ground
>gg we lose thanks faggots wtf weaver fucking reported why are you farming we're getting raped here
>just farm some more you shitte l2p
>take all 3 towers and 6 rax myself when the enemy all in our mid rax
>glorious silence

Fuck you cucks, you literally don't understand that 2k pubs can't into rat.

I thought you knew that by now.

phase -> orchid -> mask of madness -> bloodthorn -> dragon lance

where you go from there depends on game. Aghanims will ruin your mana pool even at that point but if you have some allied mana sources its feasible, otherwise be very conservative. After a 2nd bloodthorn you have the mana to use it liberally, but where are you getting that 11k extra gold lmao

mason's team

>Cuck squad beat CHEG and is gonna be in the top 32 for the american qualifiers
>Cuck squad only had like 5 deaths and won in 20 minutes

what a time to be alive

we might literally have a cuck team at TI6

>WW buff

>Secondary targets for Winter's Curse can no longer be disarmed, and are unaffected by attack damage reductions or slows
>Primary target now takes 30% damage from Winter Wyvern and her teammates
>Aghanim's Upgrade increases taken damage by primary target to 70%, secondary targets take 30% damage
>Aghanim's upgrade Arctic Burn manacost per second rescaled to equal the base cost (20 mana/sec at level 4)

WW fixed or broken?

Mom ursa doesn't actually increase that much damage taken. Ursa's ult blocks 80% and mom only adds 25% so you end up with 55% damage reduction which is still quite good.

MoM has several great points
>Speeds up farming
>Movespeed which ursa needs to chase
>additional attack speed for when overpower runs out
>lets him conserve mana
>gives him lifesteal
>very cheap

Ursa is a hero that does not need damage items just needs lockdown and utility (the point of the hero is to not take it to lategame)

>Kaipi vs Team Secret final

The dream.

>proud of having to resort to rating in 2k games

lmao

will reddit make them change their name?

Echo Sabre

how about just this?:

>Arctic Burn now gives flying vision for its duration
>Splinter Blast now slows the primary target by double the % slow but deals no damage
>Winter's Curse no longer blocks damage from splinter blast or arctic burn's debuff, but blocks all other damage
>Winter Wyvern aghanims mana cost lowered from 40/s to 10/s

>being proud of gaining 550mmr in 4 years after calibrating at 3500 in 2012

i like making morbid mask and can turn into satanic as my final item in ultra late

i don't think vanguard gives you enough sustain to walk around doing rosh and shit but maybe i'm wrong, it's worth a shot desu vanguard is really good these days (6k here)

also why are you replying to people who actually think mom on ursa is good?

>no friends
>bored of solo queue
anyone wanna play video games?

Guys rate my idea for how to fix satanic:
You can no longer die while satanic is active (same as shallow grave)


now people actually have a reason to buy this hunk of junk

>satanic is useless
>LITERALLY FREE AEGIS

No, the item to fix would be heart which converts gold leads into losing.

>how to break the game, 101

reminder that only 2k players make MoM on ursa

btw I'm 8k mmr

>4.5 whole seconds of staying alive
>"free aegis"
lmao if you get chain stunned during it you'll just drop dead at the end. If you get chain stunned before it, you'll never get to activate it. If you were connecting autoattacks during it, the lifesteal would keep you alive anyway

>matumbaman is 2k

>Fixes retarded teammates, very little balance change overall
>Blocking allied damage in the primary target was retarded to begin with, good change
>Makes Agh's useful
>Makes Agh's more useful
Gives her an item to strive for past Medallion at the very least.
>Should have never been removed
>Dumpsters the skill (also there's literally no more reason to level it past 1)
>Literally just cast at the end of the duration (very little overall change)
>Makes Agh's useful

i need to breed this titty monster

>>Dumpsters the skill (also there's literally no more reason to level it past 1)
I think you're misreading it
right now it does nothing at all to the primary target and 25% slow + 100/180/260/340 damage to nearby targets
I say it should deal that same nearby damage and slow, but the primary target gets slowed by 50%

Oh, my bad. Pretty strong change.

what does this mean? am i hidden pooled?

i'm in low priority currently


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also what is the tourney skill level?

Did you change your mind on adding people now maybe or whatever?

waht oconsol comand t see thsi

has anyone started from 2k and made it out to 3k, what did you do? which hero did you spam? and how long did it take you?

I know I'm shit at this game, but I don't care if you're the best player in the world I'm seriously convinced that 2kmmr bracket is like 80% dependant on your team not being comlpete shit.

who's ready for mike's team to blow EG the FUCK OUT of qualifiers?

developer 1

dota_game_account_debug

It's mostly the same shit in 3k trust me

buff that will make her ult actually used the way icefrog wants

>in addition to giving 70 bonus attack speed, now lowers the base attack time of each affected unit by .2 for the duration

how about this?:

>enemies are forced to attack even if they were disarmed/disabled

>pick sven
win
>pick anything else
lose

fuck why can't I play anything else that well

Maybe kind of

Good thing Sven can be anything he wants.

Support? Offlaner? Carry?

You can do it all baby.

no

also make winter's curse apply orb effects, crits etc instead of being treated as a deny

Mid, jungle, roam?

How do we make Tony(BadSven) aka OurGuy: the hero good again?

Wherever you want, man. Sven's not limited by those petty boundaries.

pick him into squishy teams you can instagib.

Isn't AM with manta is just a shittier PL with diffusal?

yeah it probably is shit too, i mean the community as a whole is like 50% toxic, but i mean in terms of just making it out to a supposedly better bracket is like a distant goal for me. I was in LP the other night (Shit connection etc) and I midlaned against some 4k guy who was significantly better than me and killed me twice and simply outlaned me and played well the whole game, but he still lost to us cos his team was shit and our weaver somehow got fat. I'm led to believe that contrary to popular belief if you want to make it out of "the trench" its about how many hours your spend and to a degree how lucky you get with not getting feeders.

no it's pl with a diffusal is a badAM

Where are you from user?

Sven can do that too yknOw

This

I wish icefraud would just buff his fycking ulti

from the us

diffusal blade burns 40 mana for 40 damage on heroes
mana break burns 64 mana for 38 damage

and diffusal gives +35 damage +35 attack speed on top of that
why do people even pick antimage anymore rofl

is this a good thing ?

on a much higher cooldown

Did that Comanche team beat Secret or what?

It's now takes much less time to get into ranked, and after thay you can get in even faster by paying money to get extra trophies.

I was theory crafting an offlane initiator sven

tranquils + talon into armlet + blink then bkb/echo sabre

with tranquils + windlace + warcry you can run at ~440 ms, sort of like a pseudo slardar but with a range targeted stun.

actually sounds kinda legit

>wraithking, aka cucked out of his baller bones into beta boo form, is the dom
>qop of pain, the literal semen demon of doming, isnt the dom
>centaur isnt S&M

Because PL cant do anything once their mana is burnt
>0 mana target
>illusions do 8 damage after all reductions
lmaoing @ ur hero