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what's with the coloured people noise on cr1ts stream?

>Watching clown9 at the ESL rerun stream.
Is there anything comfier?

Any other unironic Underlord mains here?

>both support and offlaner means always useful in pubs
>aura provides all damage needed, makes pushing stupidly easy
>spells and aura win basically any teamfight
>Q annoys the fuck out of carries and kills runners
>can build utility and support items without sacrificing any combat ability
>the bane of right click memers everywhere
>ult lets you pull retard teammates back to fountain and defend from anywhere

Fatass needs some cosmetics already.

TROLL WARLORD NEEDS SOME COSMETICS

JESUS CHRIST WHY DOESN'T HE HAVE A SINGLE ONE? HE IS JUST WEARING ARMOUR WITH TWO AXES, WHAT IS VALVE'S PROBLEM

1st for trax is best waifu 4 laifu

Yeah he's actually a ton of fun. Farms easily, BKB piercing disable, FREE damage, and when you have English speakers that understand your ulti it's great.

Because most TW players are Peruvians that will never spend a dime on the game.

Yeah, using ult well is my main problem since I mostly play solo. But in pubs, using it defensively is more than enough.

So if you build only stats, you're gonna be lacking damage. So how much +% damage would you need to not end up lacking if you build only stats?

>white supremacist frog in the OP

delete this

What is the silliest thing here?

>SJWs outside of reddit or twitter

>tfw dotards are too stupid to play you effectively

what's your most cosmetically expensive hero

You could've spent 30c on the wizard hat and it would look 10x better senpai

I'm 1.7k in ranked, but I get around 2.5k-3k matches in normals
needless to say, I get much better quality matches in normals than I do in ranked, but I still want to get my mmr higher to see if it gets any better

right now it's full of smurfs and people that don't know how to play support so they feed

anyone else with this problem, what should I do?

Every fucking time i play Chen my whole team struggles to go mid and finish the game early even if i win them every fucking lane and get an early mek, because, you know, they need kool karry itemz to onehit the enemy and draw out the game to one fucking hour. Fucking shitstains.

recalibrate next compendium

man this shit takes forever but it's worth it

where's raw salmon bro at

what if the team could spend like 10k and build a super catapult in their fountain which then had to slowly drive to the enemy base

but once it's there it fires big ass flaming aoe rocks and shit and does heavy siege damage. has about t4 tower hp

>watching Draskyl
>mfw Dazzle is ass
Why play the hero if you can't cast good graves?

they increase the cast point on grave twice. now, nobody can cast good graves

heavy-handed and bad nerf, he just needed 5 ms nerf...

What the fucking fun? c9 vs IG was getting interesting, why was it cut-off?
>MVP next.
I'm ok with that but still I wanted to see how the game ended.

It doesn't help that Axe is a popular pick

what if cold froggo made linkens shareable, so you could grave, linkens and force staff your retarded ass pos 1 Ooga out of harm's way?

>slacks is 5k
What's YOUR excuse?

You can use linkens and force staff on someone else already you dumbass

>you dumbass

I don't play omniknight

Ah the ole
>this hero has 60% winrate and thus, every person who plays him will have 60% winrate no matter the bracket they are in
meme

I mean that's how it works though

>every person who plays him will have 60% winrate no matter the bracket they are in

This is LITERALLY true with Omniknight though.

i don't wanna spend money in this game

How many fingers on each hand does void have?
How many toes?
78% of dotards get this wrong!

2 + thumb
true void has hooves, no toes.
new void has 2 ninja turtle toes.

>pick omni
>get 5k

um dotards?

i've actively played ranked for less than 2 weeks, and even then i only play party games
climbed from 2.2k to 3,1k already tho

Are meka and manaboots almost obligatory if you play support?

nobody is ever talking about party mmr when they say mmr. it's 100% irrelevant

>buy manta on axe
>literally become goodnaga

Depends highly on the support and there are some cores that actually like building mek, but most of the time greaves is a safe and usefull build on any support.

Lion and CM don't like building greaves but if you do it's not wrong.

are the replay broken? wtf i cant see my wardmap anymore

No

yeah forgot to add if there is already, for example, a necrophos or a viper in your team.

also I dislike greaves, I'd like to keep meka and manaboots separated, most of the times you and your teammates only need mana or health, building greaves looks highly situational to me

>building greaves looks highly situational to me
Are you dumb? Its on 40 sec cd, purges most debuffs from you only and its one of the best items used for pushing, and it costs no mana

Greaves is amazing and there is no reason not to build it if you already have arcanes and mek.

Anyway, if nobody else in your team is building greaves and you're support then building it is fine.

omni nerfs when?

>heal bomb that took skill to land 2 years ago
>free freezing field as/ms slows
>free bkb
>free invincibility
>4200g double fortify

Slacks just proves that you can be an utter retard and still get your 60% winrate if you only grind enough games to understand how to abuse this faggy hero

Drow has fucking 55% winrate in 4k-5k and I can see why. Fucking obnoxious hero she is. She's so durable with a couple supports behind her and a few items, like hurricane pike, it's hard to actually get her. She can stand and hit towers freely and she does it well. She basically just pushes your shit in and kills heroes to the point where you're locked in your base, and then it's over. She does what everyone in 4k needs to to, push hard and be agressive.

God damn that hero. Hope she gets gutted next patch.

RIP d2g

wew

I love pit, my favorite lane bully. about 35 games now and 70% win rate

dominates offlane solo so ez, shut down enemy carry with mass denies and ez farm for yourself

what builds you like? my favorite so far is vlads + echo + phase for a slow to follow up root, leech for manfight, mana sustain, burst right click with aura stacks... then just go w/e is needed.. heart, blademail, pipe, etc

dat root going through literally everything is godly. bkb, naix rage, etc

i dont rly have a 'main' but UL is UR (underrated)

You have no one to blame but yourself.

I miss when d2g was alive.

>only need mana or health
So you're only in stomps or your teammates get ganked and dont bother using spells?

i had a wet dream about this short goth chick sucking the life out of me.

The reason why I lose is because I have no clue wat hero to pick. I have the safelane, I have a support, but I just don't know what to pick. Why am I so stupid?

MONKEY KING WHEN
JUGGERNAUT ARCANA WHEN

First expecting deadline I've set for myself is october 31st. It MIGHT come out before that, the closer you are to it, the higher the chance...

After that date passes, say FUCK IT DUDE and assume the shit is coming out before december 24th.

If you expect nothing, you'll never be let down.

>building greaves looks highly situational to me

u wot m8

>cooldown is short enough that you can pop them anyway if your team only needs one boost
>passive aura is stronk as fuck both during and after fights
>active effect is free so you get more mana for yourself for your abilities
>frees up a much needed slot for wards and utility items

and then you have your initiator get a cuirass

U N K I L L A B L E

PA arcana was like late november 2014 right?
Also zeus was like mid December
So around late november to mid december

i have 52 games necrophos as support and 78% win rate

get early kills, rush greaves, start pushing with team and never leave til ancient is down

greaves sustain is insane 40s cd

youre not playing support

>winning game
>sniper does all the team's damage and can easily win us a fight
>walks deep into enemy territory alone
>dies
>with no bb
>we lose
holy fucking shit how can people be this fucking retarded

>be in shit bracket
>get shit players
woah

but user, you're the only constant! :^)

Usually I get arcanes, vlads, mek for GG boots and cuirass. Piling compatible auras on atrophy is ridiculously strong and makes the most of the damage boost.

Will probably build pipe if magic damage ever becomes a problem, but it usually doesn't since the carries can deal with them.

buy cour, all wards, take no lane farm, zone out enemies and secure carry farm, rotate to help other lanes... this is not support?

please enlighten me

Would you read pro player's blogs d2g?

try echo sometime the burst + slow is tasty af on that fatty

...

Are you okay?

How many times did you pick techies

How's life treating you?

Do you need someone to talk to?

Are you depressed?

Are you straight?

no tendies today son

Do you have some issues to sort out?

>Wake up
>check news
>literally WW3
>Still no esports
What went wrong?

Are you using dota to escape your real life problems?

Are you sure you should be playing dota right now?

do you need another report?

Why are you doing this to yourself?

did you purposely did this to get free (You)s?

Don't you think that's enough dota for a while?

I feel sorry for you.

Are you insecure about yourself?

Just stomped a pub game as radiance-octarine riki AMA anything.

Its actually so fucking funny to see the other team flail about wondering why they are losing 50HP a seconds and all their salves are getting popped, then after waiting round getting some HP back after your first skirmish, you ult and go in for the kill

How's 2.8k treating you?

Let's say in future one of TI winners goes insane, murders his wife and son, and then hangs himself. Will Valve scrub his name off Aegis?

Do you need some tips, user?

no, i pretty much gave up on playing anymore, i won like 20 lp games and the counter just restarts when it gets to 0

Pretty fucking good famalam, how about you?

Why didn't anybody ever tell me that you can cast bloodlust on the fountain?

Because theres no point

only once ribbit complains about it

Fountain dives have lead to thrown games before and this just makes it even easier. Level 4 bloodlust increases the fountain gun's DPS by 60%.

>play support
>get commended
>play techies
>reported

dotards?

official thread stream

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