>monkey king's ultimate no longer procs echo sabre >monkey king's ultimate now uses item cooldowns like basher or maelstrom fixed to be honest
Owen Murphy
kang's ulti needs to last not more than 7 seconds too
Angel Hill
>Valve should cater to my shit playstyle because I'm so awful I can't learn how to counter a hero
There's a site for people like you to get their awful opinion heard
Joseph Rogers
>spend a year trying to come up with a name >can't think of anything >steal the name of some obscure esports player from another game that's been teamless for years >he gets picked up again for a team out of nowhere
Juan Hughes
because all of those waifus are generic sluts!
Tyler Scott
I tried but got downvoted instead.
Brayden Collins
>be carry >team expects me to have like 3 big items when we're getting pushed in at 20 minutes
Should I stop playing carry when my team is a 4 stack
Asher Ortiz
>Play AM >Team pinging and giving up because I'm not teamfighting and dying at 11 minutes
Wyatt Sullivan
Will nightman ever be good again?
Aaron Hall
>Tfw techies are fun and strong again
Robert Torres
How do you counter this as tinker?
Jeremiah Brooks
HOW
TO
PLAY
TECHIES!?!?!?!
Lucas Jackson
Don't let Spectre get farm
Asher Ward
euls
Isaac Foster
since last thread didnt decide 0-4 decides hero 5-9 decides build for my next game
Daniel Morris
>diffusal
Jordan Kelly
just gank their jungle
Aaron Flores
you can't diffusal yourself retard
William Lee
4stack complaining about how to farm? how about ask them to tactical feed and only stick when the enemy wants to push 3rd towers
Thomas Howard
>7.5 minutes into the game >can no longer use this spell to kill a ranged creep without also auto-attacking it um... dotards???
Chase Richardson
Agh's WW
Lucas Kelly
that's why she's screaming
Justin Mitchell
Bloodstone
Brayden Butler
there was a really good clip from Slahsers stream a few months back when he was playing his meme urn spectre build
enemy tinker got completely out of hand, so he decided fuck it, bought a refresher and double ulted tinker in his own fountain
playing like that eventually won him the game iirc cause tinker cant handle actual manfights
Gabriel Gray
Who cares it's Steam, you can make your username literally anything.
Mason Bailey
Mjollnir
Lucas Price
Mjollnir Winter Wyvern
DO IT
Daniel Sanders
>7.5 minutes into the game >not having enough int to give spell amp >not having enough farm to be well on your way to aghs for farming waves
shiggus diggus
Luke Howard
Pugna now with shadowblade Dagon Radiance no ags
Mason Hill
What if illusions could proc basher/abyssal?
Jack Russell
What if Mana Leak could Sunder towers?
Bentley Hernandez
What if Aghanim's gave TA permanent refraction charge?
Colton Lopez
what if you could use midas on zeus
Kayden Johnson
what if you could be good at this game
Christian Powell
Open with tangoes, 3 clarities, soul ring recipe, courier. Level your Q first.
Play him aggressively. Put your first mines in the trees around the lane like pic related. I prefer playing him in aggressive safelane, but double offlane works too. In general, don't go solo lane, cause the enemy can and will zone you if they're not retarded, leaving you levelstarved. Remember that though you can't stack proximity mines in eachother's AoE, their AoEs can overlap. Pic obviously has more mines than you can get down in the short time before/during laning, but it's about the jist of the spots.
Get your soul ring asap. If you're laning with someone who has a stun or other kind of setup/control, play very aggressive with your proximity mines during laning. Doesn't matter if you push the lane this way, you'll end up punching the tower with proximity mines then.
Level order is variable. I often end up going Q>E>E>Q>E, but I will go Q>E>Q>W if I'm playing a very aggressive lane for example. If you feel like you'll need the blast off a lot, level it first. Level 2 mines is enough to oneshot ranged creeps, lvl 3 to clear the creep wave (minus siege creep)
To continue your build, after soul ring: >Mana boots >Eul's This is your core. After this you'll have to adapt to the game. People keep rightclicking you before you can get shit off? Get a ghost scepter. Your team lacks mobility and the opponents are sticking together too tight? Get a force staff. Get aghs if you need to depush lanes without being there (one remote mine to clear the wave), or if opponents are tankier than average.
Don't play him passive. Don't mine the map/jungle that much. Your downtime is the short time before teamfights, you kind of have to develop a sense for when that is. Then you remote mine the lanes to set up traps. Alternatively, if you have farmvacuums on your team (tinker, prophet), you get some more time to set up traps too.
Brody Nelson
Whats the point of playing when you are faced with the fact that dipshits like Slacks get 5k while playing like a 2k retard?
Angel Wilson
Bloodcyka
9 iron branches
Parker Hall
thats dota
Aiden Martinez
thats literally why veil is a thing on puck and qop I mean its not the only reason, but its like, atleast 20-30% of the reason maybe even 35%
Julian Price
(Continued) Be there for teamfights. You'll probably die, but that's ok. Your stasis trap is #1 priority during teamfights. Massive AoE root. If you have to initiate, use blastoff->stasis. If you survive this, dump a proximity and remote mine, and gtfo if you survive that. Spam mines around the perimeter generally. Another blastoff if the fight lasts that logn.
>Talents >+2 mana regen vs +20 movement speed Mana regen, every time. >+200 cast range vs +25% XP gain Cast range pretty much always, unless you really have to play on the defensive. In that case you're having a bad time generally anyway. >-60 Respawn Time vs +120 GPM Respawn timer if you're behind, GPM if you're ahead to get more ahead. >+400 Blast Off damage vs 25% CDR Take your pick. If you still need to push a lot, CDR. If you need to teamfight more you think, take blast off.
Final note. You might think Aether Lens is a good item. Don't ever get it unless you want to meme. The source of damage is the mines, not techies. Aether lens will give you extra cast range, but that's hardly worth it, and the hp regen isn't the stat you need. If you want more mana, get aghs, octarine, scythe, whatever. Heck, if you want tankier and mana, get Atos since roots are strong. Get veil if you really need more spell damage.
Brandon Hall
****************TRANCE AROUND THE WORLD****************
Noah Perry
With Above and Beyond?
Jackson Brown
>no longer can sell items if someone dcs >no longer gives you their gold okay. no problem i don't like winning 4v5s anymore.
Sebastian Bell
Good tip, thanks.
Michael Davis
Thanks user that's some detailed shit right there.
Some gulagite made pic related and it works kinda well but people end up knowing where all your mines are since warding ramps and high-ground is necessary.
Austin Price
Looks like the ride's already over, boys.
Time to pay your respects.
Andrew Diaz
Its a "hero gets its talent tree bonuses and octarine core and has a permanent uptime disable" episode >b-b-but just bkb out of it >they disable you again when bkb ends >and then lock you down for 50 seconds
Isaiah Stewart
i quit i play single player games now
Justin Clark
how are you going to know which spectre is real to euls her when she pops manta she can still haunt to an euls'd illusion
Julian Miller
The greatest thing I appreciate about this game is the way it kills time. I'm a busy man although my schedule is quite spaced, with like 2-3 hours between each thing I need to do. Dota makes it so much easier arriving at that time as I can play a couple games and I'll be right there.
Andrew Robinson
>level 7 techies can set up a trap that deals 1800 magic damage in just 12 seconds of mining see thats whats fucking disgusting about this iteration of him
land mines went through tons of changes and usually took a HUGE amount of setup to kill a reasonably leveled hero. A physical damage hit might deal about the same as magic damage that early into the game, but setting up 1800 damage in mines previously took 25-30 seconds and nearly 1000 mana cost
now its just: >lay 1 prox mine (170 mana) >lay stasis (80 mana) >lay an optional remote (200 mana) >lay 2nd prox mine when its off cd (170 mana)
thats either 420 mana for 1500 damage or 620 for 1800
Jack Cruz
come up with a new build for necrophiliac
Camden Cruz
ghost scepter rush and just play him vs right clickers lmao
Jason Lee
Hood Radiance Shiva
Oliver Adams
How to fix shrine >unusable/effect cancels when enemy heroes are 200 - 300 range from it/you
James Cook
>13-3 in ranked solo over the past week at 4.7k-4.9k >2 of my 3 loses are due to some autistic 6k mid player giving up and deleting his items and intentionally feeding
Kayden Foster
How to fix shrine >remove from the game
Aaron Cox
>tfw meepo is strong and fun again
Thanks based valve, made me install this amazing game again
Nathaniel Smith
whats wrong with shrine?
Nicholas Hernandez
Arcanes > Mek > Lens (break down your arcanes) > Tranqs > Discord > Sparkle Faggot Cape
you are now the strongest support
Connor Morales
This is wrong with shrine
Zachary Watson
>inspect element your page to say VHSk
Xavier Martinez
I don't understand why there's shrines in the base why is it so fucking tanky
Jeremiah Russell
>i am bad so everyone else must be bad too
Adam Murphy
?
James Lewis
>avoid confrontation and insult him!!!!
typical
Justin Reed
what
Thomas Morris
I am a new ip, I'm not the guy you replied to.
Cameron Gutierrez
...
Owen Hernandez
>new IP >different person
Camden Ward
>he doesn't know
Adam Kelly
I have no idea what you guys are on about.
Carter Ortiz
Tried playing meepo the other day, got slapped out of lane by a dazzle/PL combo and ruined by a feed OD during a game where 2 team-mates abandoned. He feels like he's made of paper early game is that correct and how the fuck do you deal with OD's hurricane, astral into Sanities bullshit?
Juan Bailey
>aghs first item
Camden Nguyen
>HUD still isn't fixed. Epic.
Dylan Roberts
RECORD OF THE WEEK
Tyler Taylor
Doturds?
Samuel Morris
>tfw no good multiplayer games to play so considering returning to dota Guys help what do I do, I can't win in this situation
Christian Ward
follow my simple build and you too can be a 5.4k qop randomer
Starting: Null+Tangos Early Game: 5 Null+Brown Boots then get either hood > aghs or just Aghs if you think you'll have the burst then a sheepstick and bkb in lategame, maybe a bloodstone before bkb
87% winrate
Daniel Thompson
great dotabuff link mate
Xavier Baker
Dota 2
Blake Green
>not getting an early maelstrom and balling out of control in farm speed >not turning that maelstrom into a mjollnir lategame with glorious 70% spell lifesteal Get with the times grandpa
James Fisher
Why can't you see which players are a party at the start of the game? What's the logic behind it?
Evan Hernandez
>tfw 5-0 as offlane core lich this patch
Noah Clark
Why can't they just make solo queue SOLO QUEUE? Sick of playing against tryhard Russian stacks who treat unranked solo queue pubs like fucking TI finals
Caleb Ward
Don't tell me you fell for the honeypot solommr meme d2g
Joseph Thompson
>reddit already dicksucking Valve about nerfing Visage into being a hero with 3 (three) shit tier skills >no uh no there's only one way to play him now, you can't be a support anymore >but you can't be a core either >but you don't know how to play him, you just can't kill people with familiars and chainstun anymore
ALL IT TAKES IS 1 (ONE) THROW OF BEASTMASTER AXES 1 (ONE) LINA DRAGON SLAVE 1 (ONE) FUCKING MONKEY KING BOUNDLESS STRIKE
AND THE FAMILIARS ARE DEAD
BUT NOOOO VALVE DID A GOOD THING VISAGE FINALLY HAD A POSITIVE WINRATE AND THAT'S BAD BECAUSE PLEASE VALVE RAPE MY FUCKING THROAT
Jaxson Richardson
>Not tryharding Go back to custom games you filthy scrub
Aaron Morris
Wow you actually have to dodge skills now your birds aren't invulnerable what an awful change
Angel Lewis
Because dudebro stacks that think they're good because a team of 5 can stomp 5 randoms is more likely to spend money on the game goy, player enjoyment means NOTHING if there's a few more dollars to be made
Kevin Hill
They found that in CSGO, if 5 randos went up against a 5 stack, they would more than likely just throw the game from the beginning.
in Dota 2 they wanted to avoid this issue especially in solo queue to avoid stack throws as much as possible
Cooper Jackson
I'm ordering dominoes What pizza should I get
Isaiah Young
>dodge now >in a hero who is expected to be in the middle of the fight >now that every core in the world has some form of random wombo combo AoE and even supports will have minimum AoE to clear shit >on a hero who needs those familiars to do damage and stun close by
WELL WHERE ARE MY FAMILIARS MEANT TO BE THEN, OVER AT YOUR MOTHER'S HOUSE SPITROASTING HER?
I KNOW YOu"RE JUST SOME RANDOM ASSHOLE SHITPOSTER BUT SERIOUSLY VISAGE IS CURRENTLY THE WORST FUCKING HERO IN THE GAME. HE'S WORSE THAN LYCAN POST TI2, HE'S ABSOLUTELY DOGSHIT AND THE FAMILIARS ARE ONLY GOOD FOR ENDING THE GAME FASTER BY FEEDING THEM TO THE ENEMY TEAM. HELL NOW YOU GOT A GOLD TALENT SO YOU CAN GET AGHS QUICKER TO GET THE THIRD FAMILIAR SO YOU CAN FEED FASTER