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You can gg in team games. Otherwise you just have to agree to feed, which is demoralising lol.
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Just played another with Blues4everr and we almost lost in first 10 mins but then we turtle'd and they couldn't break our base. We had a Medussa too and out-carried their entire team so we came back and won.
Sometimes you get lucky I guess.
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Nice one. Gotta hate smashing your opposition early game and getting out carried. Just went 2 from 2 this morning. It's great playing hero's you know with people who communicate. Earthshaker is easily my favourite.
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I played Lion support but I hate it, I prefer to play as a carry, but on pubs everyone plays a carry just about so you need supports.
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Yeah my success rate on pub games is much higher as support, it's amazing how few people understand the role.
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For anyone newish to the game I'd recommend checking out Purge's youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/PurgeGamers). The guy explains pretty much everything he does.
Also, its nice to see that this thread has kind of exploded. I don't really check anything but the Port board so I don't see this thread update, but I'll try throw some advice in here as I've played a hell of a lot of this game over the years T_T
Man that kind of shit happens to everyone. If you don't play against a certain hero much its easy to forget certain interactions such as that. Mirana's arrows are a good example of something you really won't be ready for unless you play against it a lot, same for nyx's spiked caripace. Its a very good idea to play all the heroes but it does take a while
Most games you would think are over after 5 minutes really aren't. It actually takes a ridiculous lead for a pub to be unwinnable as its basically guarenteed that your opponent will **** up at some point. The unwinnable situations are when your team gives up completely, or when you are relying heavily on a single hero to win you the game and the player doesn't know how to do it, or has given up on the game.
The 100% most important skill in dota is avoiding shitfights with your team, as both sides will usually be quite evenly matched in terms of player skill.
Also, its nice to see that this thread has kind of exploded. I don't really check anything but the Port board so I don't see this thread update, but I'll try throw some advice in here as I've played a hell of a lot of this game over the years T_T
Man that kind of shit happens to everyone. If you don't play against a certain hero much its easy to forget certain interactions such as that. Mirana's arrows are a good example of something you really won't be ready for unless you play against it a lot, same for nyx's spiked caripace. Its a very good idea to play all the heroes but it does take a while
Most games you would think are over after 5 minutes really aren't. It actually takes a ridiculous lead for a pub to be unwinnable as its basically guarenteed that your opponent will **** up at some point. The unwinnable situations are when your team gives up completely, or when you are relying heavily on a single hero to win you the game and the player doesn't know how to do it, or has given up on the game.
The 100% most important skill in dota is avoiding shitfights with your team, as both sides will usually be quite evenly matched in terms of player skill.
I usually favor durable heroes, mostly play as DP or Lina.
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This is so true, although occasionally your team is so unbalanced and the respective players poorly skilled that it's a of a foregone conclusion. Something I'm not sure how to get around, is when you have two melay hero's against two good harass heros in lane. Seems to me that it requires the team to roam gank to quell their influence. Thoughts?
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Depends on the heroes and the lane. If you have two melee in your safe lane (bottom for radiant, top for dire) then one of you can pull the neutral creeps. If you have two melee top and you can't deal with the lane then you should probably just let one player solo while the other goes bottom and trilanes, or tries to gank mid. It really does depend on the heroes though, as some double melee lanes can beat or at least match up against some double ranged. If you are getting smashed in lane though, the general rule would be "if you can't stay in lane, do something else".
It really does depend on the heroes what you do of course. Someone like Clockwerk or Timbersaw should just leech xp, while bounty hunter or anyone with a decent stun/nuke can roam.
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Yeah that sounds about right from my summation of the situation too. Seems like one tri-lane and one solo is the fad in team matches at the moment, although I'd prefer to be more flexible than that.
Going to be playing a few games today if anyone is keen to join me.
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Anyone play Invoker? Just started practicing with him, can't remember half his spells let alone combo etc...Skill ceiling is insane...
Think I should just stick to right clicking Drow thanks
Think I should just stick to right clicking Drow thanks
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Just practice small comboes, like tornado emp and ignore all the other spells. Slowly add a new spell every now and then and it shouldn't overwhelm youAnyone play Invoker? Just started practicing with him, can't remember half his spells let alone combo etc...Skill ceiling is insane...
Think I should just stick to right clicking Drow thanks
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Just practice small comboes, like tornado emp and ignore all the other spells. Slowly add a new spell every now and then and it shouldn't overwhelm you
Yeah I found this site http://www.invokergame.com/ using it to practice!
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Played Invoker recently as part of the A-Z thing. Apart from remembering the combos you've got to queue up the spells at the time. That's a big part of it knowing what you need when. Also if you don't follow a build you will be confused with what to level with so many different combinations of his Quas, exort and wex.
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Sweet thread - Dote Up a Cat is my steam name at the moment, play this a fair bit.
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I'll add you in, I've played with a few BF posters, lots of fun.
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Been playing that Invoker game and I have a few ways to remember things:
Cold Snap/Sun Strike/ EMP are easy as the triple Q/E/W
EEQ as in Eeek! it's the forge spirits
EEW as in eew a big meatball
WWE alacrity world wrestling entertainment
Tornado kind of makes a WWQ sound
QQE kind of sounds like ice (wall) crushing
Ghost walk is the QQWalk
Deafening blast is all 3.
Cold Snap/Sun Strike/ EMP are easy as the triple Q/E/W
EEQ as in Eeek! it's the forge spirits
EEW as in eew a big meatball
WWE alacrity world wrestling entertainment
Tornado kind of makes a WWQ sound
QQE kind of sounds like ice (wall) crushing
Ghost walk is the QQWalk
Deafening blast is all 3.
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A few days of playing the actually game and that website has me almost remembering them all. The ones I don't use that much are the one's I forget, especially in the heat of battle.
Otherwise I'm getting the hang of it, next for me is the combo training on that site. coz right now I only really have about 3 combo's lol.
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They're doing mini fantasy leagues if you pick up the $10 ASUS dream league ticket. You also get a bunch of awards depending on the level of ticket sales.
I've picked this up. Anyone interested in doing the fantasy league thing with me?
I've picked this up. Anyone interested in doing the fantasy league thing with me?
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I honestly could not care less about pro players, wouldn't have a clue
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Would love to except that in the location where I work, I can't even play online. Lucky work is 5 on 5 off, so still get games in
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A-Z challenge first Meepo game:
Two guys rage quit after we started steamrolling about 20-25 mins in. Even with my bad coordination I got a triple kill from a **** blink. Very fun hero but I don't want to play a team that actually knows what it's doing.
Two guys rage quit after we started steamrolling about 20-25 mins in. Even with my bad coordination I got a triple kill from a **** blink. Very fun hero but I don't want to play a team that actually knows what it's doing.
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I dominated my first game with Meepo too. Have had an awesome Meepo user luckily on my team, guy was unstoppable.
Want to get his ulti in Ability draft, should be interesting.
Want to get his ulti in Ability draft, should be interesting.
