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DOTA2 |OT| No puppey. No king. Only this…
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his choice, prolly really hard to go from super long hair to no hair
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I imagine the MOBA skills transfer over, but I've heard the "new player" Dota experience is exceptionally rough with all the smurfs and boosters. Prepare to lose a lot to people who are way above your skill level.
Thanks for the heads up my guy. I love deep games that end pretty quick. Like mortal Kombat 11 and killer instinct. Things like that. But I'm even having trouble keeping up w just smite alone. Not sure I could do multiple Mobas
Yup. Weekend DOTA is rife with smurfs and boosters.
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I cannot win a game as Jugg at all, I guess that hero just isn't for me (or everyone knows how to counter it now).
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I cannot win a game as Jugg at all, I guess that hero just isn't for me (or everyone knows how to counter it now).
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I have 3k hrs in Smite and am nearing 600hrs in dota. If deep games is your thing then dota is the way to go, so much more variety and a much higher skill ceiling.
Smite's moment to moment gameplay is defintely it's strong suit (the camera and the way you control your character) but something feels missing from it actualy moba (3 lane 5v5) mode. It does have other modes though and they could end up bieng more your thing.
In terms of the length both of them have similar game times (smite's other modes are often shorter though).
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Kyiv Minor 2 (June 12-16)
wikihttps://liquipedia.net/dota2/StarLadder_ImbaTV/Minor/Season_2
format
Two groups of four play GSL, bottom 2 are eliminated, top 2 move on to double elimination bracket, first and second place team advance to Moscow Major
strim
https://www.twitch.tv/dotastarladder_en
VOD highlights
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfsOfLvadg89Bx8Sv_6WERg
Today: One LB Final Bo3, one at a time Grand Final
(Start time a little later than usual)
LB Final Bo3 (Elimination, winner guaranteed spot in Moscow Major)
1. NiP vs Sylar stack
Grand Final Bo5 (meaningless game)
3. Winner 1 vs [A]
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Interesting seeing the rankings going into the final month. I thought Virtus would win it last year, I couldn't have been more wrong hhaaaa
This coach feature would almost be good, if people weren't so toxic. Half the time the coaches DC or they spend the game telling everyone how shit they are lol
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I've been trying Mars out for the first time the last couple days and he's a tricky hero to build for.. like you need to be tanky and you need mana to use your spells but you end up having low right-click damage and attack speed.
I think I prefer building tanky because when you're defending high ground and the enemy leaps on you and they're pummelling the bulwark sound effect triggering while your healthbar hardly moves is extremely satisfying.
I think I prefer building tanky because when you're defending high ground and the enemy leaps on you and they're pummelling the bulwark sound effect triggering while your healthbar hardly moves is extremely satisfying.
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Hmm. They still want a chance to win, so they don't want to out right ban him and punish the rest of the players, I can understand that part of it. The charity match or whatever, I guess is to help repair the relationship between the two teams. Is the month's fine going towards a charity, too, or just whatever Ceb 'might' earn through winnings at the Epic? If so that's pretty poor.
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slax cold calling people/companies nonstop incl elon musk lul
Midas Mode 2 title sponsor
Hidden content
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These roster changes in the lead up to TI always confuse me. You'd think teams would have their rosters nailed down and prepping hard for TI, or are my timescales for this way out.
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If you aren't winning with your roster it's better to make a change.
It's riskier, but teams get too toxic after a while.
Fair point, I hadn't even considered how toxic teams could get when losing. It's bad enough in pub games, I can't imagine how insane it is at competiative levels with money involved.
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Invoker isn't really that hard.
Mess around with him for 10 mins in demo hero mode and you should be okayish. Having impact with the hero beyond going for the most obvious combos is where he gets tricky. You can do plenty of work staying on the outskirts of fights with alacrity + cold snap + forge spirits rather than trying to force the MLG play.
Mess around with him for 10 mins in demo hero mode and you should be okayish. Having impact with the hero beyond going for the most obvious combos is where he gets tricky. You can do plenty of work staying on the outskirts of fights with alacrity + cold snap + forge spirits rather than trying to force the MLG play.
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From Mushi and Dendi to Reso and Fear
I love you forever is here.
12 days till TI9 Open Quals
17 days till TI9 Regional Quals
55 days till TI9 Group Stages
2 months till TI9 Main Stage
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Moscow Major June 22-30
wiki: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/EPICENTER/2019
format: Bo3 GSL group stage into double elimination bracket, LB1 Bo1 and GF Bo5
strim:
Today ten Bo3 GSL groups A and B on up to 4 streams at a time
1. Secret vs Pain
2. fnatic vs RNG
3. EG vs Inf
4. Liquid vs Gambit
5. Winner 1 vs Winner 2 (Winner to UB1)
6. Winner 3 vs Winner 4 (Winner to UB1)
7. Loser 1 vs Loser 2 (Loser to LB1)
8. Loser 3 vs Loser 4 (Loser to LB1)
9. Loser 5 vs Winner 7 (Winner to UB1, Loser to LB1)
10. Loser 6 vs Winner 8 (Winner to UB1, Loser to LB1)
format: Bo3 GSL group stage into double elimination bracket, LB1 Bo1 and GF Bo5
strim:
Today ten Bo3 GSL groups A and B on up to 4 streams at a time
1. Secret vs Pain
2. fnatic vs RNG
3. EG vs Inf
4. Liquid vs Gambit
5. Winner 1 vs Winner 2 (Winner to UB1)
6. Winner 3 vs Winner 4 (Winner to UB1)
7. Loser 1 vs Loser 2 (Loser to LB1)
8. Loser 3 vs Loser 4 (Loser to LB1)
9. Loser 5 vs Winner 7 (Winner to UB1, Loser to LB1)
10. Loser 6 vs Winner 8 (Winner to UB1, Loser to LB1)
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OG with their classic qualify late and low tactic.
What's the opinion on SirActionSlacks. I've only just started to watch a few of his videos, some have been OK, some have been annoying as hell.
What's the opinion on SirActionSlacks. I've only just started to watch a few of his videos, some have been OK, some have been annoying as hell.
Even in divine I still get an immortal smurf or higher divine on roughly each team just about every game. Very rare to run into low mmr on a bought account, think it's only happened to me twice in roughly 700 solo ranked games when I started in 2k.
I play some party games with my friends, there's some "crusader" with only 300 matches played carrying his friends with 80% winrate on Tinker.
I don't think it's an issue when people level a new account from the first match, they'll be placed in an appropriate bracket. I created a new account last year and on my fifth match I was playing against 4.5k plus. I haven't messed with it since but it was an interesting experiment.
The problem is people buying an account that has already stabilized in a lower rank and there's nothing in place to catch that account up to an appropriate mmr. 4k guy buys a 1.5k account and can go 20-1 for 50 matches in a row and the game just gives him +25 each match. League at least lets you start making increased gains on big winstreaks
I play some party games with my friends, there's some "crusader" with only 300 matches played carrying his friends with 80% winrate on Tinker.
I don't think it's an issue when people level a new account from the first match, they'll be placed in an appropriate bracket. I created a new account last year and on my fifth match I was playing against 4.5k plus. I haven't messed with it since but it was an interesting experiment.
The problem is people buying an account that has already stabilized in a lower rank and there's nothing in place to catch that account up to an appropriate mmr. 4k guy buys a 1.5k account and can go 20-1 for 50 matches in a row and the game just gives him +25 each match. League at least lets you start making increased gains on big winstreaks
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If they had top two Minor finishers to Major they could have got way more points
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