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What does a hero truly need?

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>STATISTICS
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>NEWS & STREAMS
gosugamers.net
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dota2protracker.com
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What are good streamers to learn from?

Khezu

BRING BACK 2GD

this is your daily reminder

You're better off watching matches in-game or downloading tournament replays, since streams for the purpose of learning are rare. The yellow star means they are considered "pro".

oh and if you still want to use twitch you can try the dotaTV channel.

Are the WK skeletons exclusively used for farming and pushing? Also skeleton cosmetic when?

Day9

they're too low poly
it hurts my eyes

yes, they're shit for fighting because they melt so quickly

They actually do a lot of damage, but usually the enemy just uses one spell and they all die

Pretty much. They're too squishy to fight, but if you really want a meme get your self a dazzle on your team.

So all you have to do is to stop them from casting magic, casual crystalus into bloodthorn into nullifier WK with skelly talents. Ebin

no

Post THAT webm. You know which one.

Indeed. I wish they looked like this.

Oh well, time to build the aura king then

...

how recent was this?

kiev major

w-who cares, it was honeypot lan

didnt that brazil team win against secret?

They lost vs EG.

>rubick failing to immediately counter-Bhole

gotta love these low level "professional" support players who just pick a hero without knowing the specific function they need to serve in a given game.

failing as rubick on the most basic things, at the highest levels of gameplay.

I don't get it

It's taunting before taunts were a thing.

>teammate picks a babysit carry

and im roaming

>eu server
>language preference chinese & english
>15 minute queues into games with 9 russians
>To help improve the lines of communication between teammates, your selected language is now a much greater factor when determining matchmaking.
ty

>be russian
>language preference russian & english
>15 minute queues into games with 9 russians + 1 chink
>To help improve the lines of communication between teammates, your selected language is now a much greater factor when determining matchmaking.

Is offlane the most misunderstood lane in the game? There is literally nothing you can do to stop enemy carry from farming when there are two supports around him 24/7 and they deny all creeps while also doing pulls but when enemy jugg appears with 12min bf while your carry only finished treads its somehow your fault

>usw server
>language preference english
>6 minute queue into english speaking team and spanish speaking enemies
>WK and venge still feed safe
ty volvo

>be literally anyone
>any server
>any language preferences
>15 minute queues into games with 9 brazilians
thanks vulva

Offlane is the gigachad lane. you should be able to pull waves from the lower medium camp

>Pick enchatress
>Lose if enemy has any illusion based hero or anyone who builds manta (95% of carries)
>Lose if game goes past 20 minutes
Why is this hero considered good

I'm clueless about picking. Teach me your ways /d2g/

our boy is streaming guys

dotapicker.com/herocounter

>troll mid
Alright, I'll watch it.

Because with the right lineup the game will end at 13 mins

because you have to be genuinely retarded to pick her into terrorblade or phantom Lancer or pick her early

>new streamer
what did he mean by this

Kodo rider hero
range, str

>Q. Devour
the kodo beast can store in his body a hero (allied or enemy). If it is an ally, it last for X seconds and recieves kodo rider commanding presence amplified health regen (for example, if commanding presence gives 50% more health regen to non devoured heroes, and 100% health regen to kodo rider, the devoured allied hero will recieve 100% health regen). If it is an enemy, it last for X seconds (less than ally) and does X damage per second. Can't devour more than one hero.

>w. Commanding presence
Aura. Amplifies the health regen of the affected units in a X radius around the kodo rider. Also, it amplifies even more health regen to the kodo rider depending on the amount of allied heroes affected.

>e. Spit
Spits in a direction and slows enemies affected in a cone in front of Kodo rider. If kodo rider has devoured a hero, it spits the hero in the direction. If the hero hits an enemy hero, both the spitted the hero (ally or enemy) and the enemy hero are mini stunned and slowed by X amount. Lasts for X seconds. The mini stun and the slow only happens if the spitted hero hits an enemy hero.

>R. War song
Costs mana to keep playing and has initial mana cost. Can be cancelled anytime you want. Gives movement speed, armor and status resistance to every allied hero affected in a X radius. Kodo rider is disarmed during war song. War song stops during disables but it resumes after. X seconds cooldown.

Talents

level 10
>+90 gold/min
>+% commading presence amplified regen

level 15
>300 health
>40 movement speed

level 20
>+X armor during War song
>+% status resistance during war song

level 20
>Spit now stuns (not applied to devoured allies)
>Devour lasts X seconds on both allies and enemies

>ranged whilrling axes dmg doesn't scale
>put 2 points in fervor, whirling axes and ignore berserker's rage
explain dotards

>It's a "your mid is retarded and wont let the lane push to set up a gank" episode

>load in
>teammate intantly calls mid
>last picks medusa mid
>doesnt even level up ulti at 6 to start ganking
god fucking damn i hate these guardian retards

He's obviously going insane, there is no other explanation

i thought artour was suppose to be a good player

>he wants to play melee hero against qop of pain

>dusa mid
>ganking
you should follow that pepes suggestion

is it possible to use the same key for both ranged and melee troll axes? it still fucks me up that they changed how it works

m8, I'm pretty sure +6 armor and MS is better than +0.5 slow duration which is what one point in ranged whirling axes gives you.

no

>tune into artours stream
>he's bitching at his team constantly
wow what a suprise

Sharteezy will be the first pro to get a 6-month ban

Nah, everyone in NA sucks his dick. Ritsu will probably be the first, but I don't know if you can call him 'pro'

valve will just flag all accounts marked pro as ineligible for the 6month vacation

I hope not, there was some no-name "pro" trying for a 6-month ban by playing techies non-stop friday

Waga? He was probably doing it on one of his many smurfs

low pro is still on the table and the addition punishment of a short duration matchmaking ban if place into low pro multiple times

Guys what the fuck do i doooo
My partner doesn't want to play Dota 2 anymore cuz it's shit.
But I can't defend it cuz it DID turn to shit.
Send help

>last hit trainer is done at 0 ping

lmao great trainer volvo

t. peru

how can a single hero be allowed to be so lewd?

I'm back after 1 year break.
Can someone tell me what happened? Did they increase gold and exp gain? Why do ppl have deso blink acquila in minute 15?
Did the game fail progressively or was it all of a sudden?

Watching w33 failing in penta is gonna be so beautiful

The devs are furries, QED

check patchnotes

dragons dont have fur though, they have scales like pic related

you are playing turbo mode -- aka APEM

thoughts?

That doesn't mean Valve isn't obsessed with sexualizing anthropomorphic animal creatures.

But the only explicitly sexy hero in the game is Queen of Painal

>Lebron
lastplaceti/10

Dendi might be the only person on Earth who actually looks good with that stupid hairstyle

I pity Dendi

not even lil could carry that team of retards

Slark's newest immortal was originally a body-area cosmetic, evidenced by how it had the wrong equip region on release. It's also a literal chastisy cage.

echo international will be the next big thing

uhhh

>CIS rejects
OH NO NONONONONONONONO!

>not seeing him blink in to bh and getting silenced by puck
hello 2k

How do i tell my team that slark cant outcarry AM late game and get them to push or pick an actual decent hero instead and in a way that won't make them completely ignore everything.

push mid or yo voy a fedear

>How do i tell my team that slark cant outcarry AM late game
get nullifier and bloodthorn lol

>LeagueBullTyler1 hits 380k and breaks twitch
>PubgBull Drdirespect hits 400k and breaks twitch

>the biggest Dotard personalities like Sharteezy can barely break 14k

OH NONONONONONO

wonder which of these streamers chooses not to utilize viewbots

>implying the slark is actually farming
>Implying hes not 5 miles behind becasue he keeps trying to dive and fight people

>the absolute state of boysh mutts

DELETE THIS RIGHT NOW
M-MUH 11M UNIQUE PLAYERS

Ok guys how you doin?

I'm new to D2G, is there an easy, fun, participative and helping hero I can play?

what would happen if league had transparent player base numbers

Shadow shaman

...

Axe

wraith king

i doubt they have a smurfing problem on a same scale than we do

Thanks guys for the help.
Is the team going to hate/love with these picks?
Im a sensitive guy ;_;

They will hate you regardless of picks.

in the offchance that this isn't a shitpost uninstall this game and dont look back, your not missing anything

tye don't care about your picks, they care about your skill level. If you play well, they'll like you, if you play piss poorly, they'll hate you.

So get yourself ready for ten reports and russian/spanish flaming

I'll have to be toxic myself then

Shit