How was your day today? - DotA 2 Edition

[IllegallySane]

Had a Tidehunter game. Lycan on the enemy team was getting pretty scary, him Roshing his 2nd time. That 2nd time, he killed Drow who tried to kill him. I ran down, walked right up as he killed Rosh. Smacked the Aegis when he misclicked. Probably saved us from losing the game.



Aegis denies feel so good.




**So game 2 of the night. Played Storm Spirit mid since we needed a mid hero. Had a Dazzle and Abaddon as support, and Luna/Lone Druid as our carries. A ward showed Alchemist was trying to farm his ancients with Acid Spray, a la Medusa style. We shut him down hard and stole his 3-4 stacks of Ancients. He had 5 deaths, 0 kills and assists the whole game. He seemed really mad because he then declared me muted as we wailed on their towers so to open up the throne. The rest of the team was pretty mad too, one saying I had an ego. They were happy to finally shut me up by killing me in the end before their Ancient fell. I guess I was playing up the banter a bit, since twice I jabbed at the fact Alchemist was unable to get farm, and therefore no fun allowed for his team.

[Chew]

So I sold all my Steam Trading Card and made $4 from 'em.
Bought a key for a mythical chest and got this:

Well pineapple me...

[IllegallySane]

People seem to want 3 rares for that.

Trade it nao!

[Chew]

People seem to want 3 rares for that.

Trade it nao!

Really now?

[IllegallySane]

Really now?

Probably more. A quick scan through Dota2lounge showed that as one of the offers the person wanted for his Chained Snatcher. Best to check several more offers before finalizing a price.

[Dusk]

Probably more. A quick scan through Dota2lounge showed that as one of the offers the person wanted for his Chained Snatcher. Best to check several more offers before finalizing a price.

Probably less? That's not necessarily a fair trade.

[IllegallySane]

I randomed Meepo. I think that's all that needs to be said here about how well that went.

[IllegallySane]

I'm very mad.

Decided to pick Batrider for a Random Draft since we need a mid. I keep buying the observer wards to cover myself, but NO ONE ELSE ON MY TEAM WOULD BUY SENTRIES/DUST FOR THE GROWING NUMBER OF INVIS HEROES ON THE ENEMY TEAM. I keep telling them to buy Sentries/Dust, but they wouldn't get it even when I was cussing them out until the enemy team was too fed to be stopped.

FOUR HEROES THAT CAN GO INVIS. LET'S NOT GET DETECTION. I can't do sh'it because my slots are all filled up with Blink Dagger/Force Staff/Wand/Boots/TP/Wards. This is really table flip inducing. Our lineup was even decent, KoTL/Shadow Shaman as the supports, Ursa/Tiny as the carries, and me as mid. I HELPED EASE THE TENSION OFF SS and KoTL BY GETTING THE WARDS AND YET THEY STILL WON'T GET FU'CKING DETECTION UNTIL TOO LATE. They apparently bought a Mek each, and KoTL bought a Pipe. Well that does nothing if we can't SEE the enemy! The most painful part was I keep getting picked off by Nyx, TA, and SF, because guess what THEY'RE INVISIBLE ALL THE TIME.

[Vanderlust]

Got put into low priority for 1 game(?) somehow. I hadn't said a word the entire day of play in all chat, so I'm not sure how I got put into it.

Tried to make the best of it by playing a fun hero (timbersaw), didn't turn out well :(.

[Malthe]

Got put into low priority for 1 game(?) somehow. I hadn't said a word the entire day of play in all chat, so I'm not sure how I got put into it.

Tried to make the best of it by playing a fun hero (timbersaw), didn't turn out well :(.

Very relevant:

[IllegallySane]

Had 6 game losing streak. Broke it with a Sand King game where everyone actually helped in warding the map. It all happened today. I'm going to take a small break from the game so I can recharge myself.

[Salguod]

Really need to practice pulling and zoning people out. Had a 2 vs 1 lane with my venom and a gyro against a tiny that went really badly. We killed him early when he overextended while I was pulling, but then I kept messing up my timing and let the lane push out. After that, he just started killing me at full hp..

It seems like a skill you have to learn with experience, but any additional tips are appreciated!

[Words]

Really need to practice pulling and zoning people out. Had a 2 vs 1 lane with my venom and a gyro against a tiny that went really badly. We killed him early when he overextended while I was pulling, but then I kept messing up my timing and let the lane push out. After that, he just started killing me at full hp..

It seems like a skill you have to learn with experience, but any additional tips are appreciated!

Learn the time it takes you to walk from certain spots in lane to neutral camp. That way you know when to leave depending on where you are. With boots and without them.
It's rather hard and I usually end up wasting t least 10 seconds or more, when I walk from lane to neutral camp thinking "oh, I should go back now". I've always wanted to learn that but I don't have the time right now.

[Jazeon]

I always stack/pull around the 0:53-0:54 mark, seems to work best. You want to be in position around the 0:50 second mark, that helps you not waste time out of lane and gives you enough time to scope out the situation in case you need to abort your pulling/stacking.

Edit: I actually haven't played dota 2 much since the cygnus revamp, but i'm going on now to see if i can get some fun games in. Anyone else notice how hard random games are sometimes lol, it's the only mode i play because i've been playing so long i just can't pick a hero after playing all of them for 7+ years, and the fact that you tend not to get picking constantly trying to counter pick your team making the game stacked and a waste of time.

[Chew]

So yesterday I went back for a hard - bot match, just to see how bad/good I could perform.

Yup, nothing else I can learn from those.

[Jazeon]

If you really wanna test your skills do 1v5 hard or insane bots. I guarantee if you skills aren't peaked they will doing that.

[Raul]

Really need to practice pulling and zoning people out. Had a 2 vs 1 lane with my venom and a gyro against a tiny that went really badly. We killed him early when he overextended while I was pulling, but then I kept messing up my timing and let the lane push out. After that, he just started killing me at full hp..

It seems like a skill you have to learn with experience, but any additional tips are appreciated!

stack at 0:53-0:54, pull at :16 or :46. only pull with a double stack (or do a double pull) unless you're trying to push the lane.
probably best time to push a lane is if you single pull the first or second cannon wave (3:00 and 6:30) so you get a larger wave therefore more creeps to tank for the cannon. you also get a stat bonus for the creeps at 7:30 so you can finish it off with that wave.

[Chew]

Just bought GLADos pack.
Because, why the pineapple not?

[IllegallySane]

I tried to get the Manta Style from the chests, but 4 keys and no avail. I look to see the bundle for them is going for 6-7 keys. I want them so bad. VAAAAAAAAAAALVE!

[Words]

Na'vi vs Poseidon game 2 is a must watch.
Also, been watching DK games and they're insane. I'm happy they're doing so great and it's just a pleasure to watch them.