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I always like these challenge type things. I did some compendium match making last year, I wrapped up my 10 heroes quickly when that came out, and I was happy to have another one to keep me busy through till TI this year.

Naturally then I looked forwards to rolling my first hero, only to immediately be hit with a wave of dismay as I end up with a Meepo. The hero always seems fun to play but I hadn't exactly had the best experiences on him previously.

Day 1: Meepo the Geomancer.

I contemplated solo queue for a bit but decided to inflict myself upon friends instead. We had a couple of randoms and a couple of picks and ended up running a Meepo/Leshrac safelane, Invoker mid, and a Centaur + Abaddon offlane. It started out pretty smoothly up against a Clock + NS, though things got a little more awkward come first night. Still, there was no early trouble and we even managed to get a kill on the clock when invoker popped up in top

The game was progressing reasonably well, especially in the other lanes and I was taking pains to avoid feeding like an idiot which almost worked out until I got greedy in mid and was swapped back under a tower. Fortunately things were going rather better in bot as Drazerk's Centaur + our friend Henry's Abaddon went about their business of ruining PA's day, and Shaun's Invoker was around for clean up duty.

At this point the game pretty much continued in the same pattern, we pressured their PA in bot lane with CW/Aba combo (+ lesh backup from mcdayc), I tried to farm and not die while being close enough to join fights, and Invoker contributed wherever was necessary.

Clock got greedy taking our top tower and I picked him off together with Invoker. Meanwhile bot lane went on another rampage under their T1. I think not actually taking the tower for so long in that lane worked in our favour as they kept trying to defend an area they couldn't hold.

At that point we had some significant gold/xp leads over them and with me getting up aghs, invoker with book 3 and spirits, and a leshrac we were able to pretty quickly mop up their remaining towers.

They didn't offer much defence when we went to break high ground and PA just dc'd out so it ended up being a fairly uneventful end to the game.

Still, that was Meepo down in one shot and while I didn't contribute much at least I wasn't playing so badly as to help them instead! Thanks to team for carry.

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I'll neaten up the formatting as I add other entries. On the subject of other entries if I go on a massive loss streak with a hero I'll probably editorialise things into one clump of misery rather than mentioning all of it in all its depressing details...

icystorage

Jollibee19346 Posts

June 05 2014 12:17 GMT

i want you to give me more

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

June 05 2014 12:50 GMT

He probably will, he usually follows up on things he starts, like tumblr blogs.

Wintex

Norway16838 Posts

June 05 2014 12:53 GMT

cool

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

June 05 2014 15:49 GMT

Oh man I can't wait to see me in your next diary.

Asha

United Kingdom38205 Posts

June 05 2014 22:01 GMT

Day2: Batrider

Day 2 dawned and the shadow of the bat loomed large across the dota map. I really enjoy playing bat despite a pretty mediocre 36% winrate on the hero, so I figured I'd venture off into solo queue to see what I could do.

Oh the pub life. I set off down my lane to find myself being accompanied by a Tusk who seemed interestingly prepared for the game. Ah well, how bad could laning really go?

ok ok, let's move on.

Thanks to our Pugna pushing down a few towers early and me avoiding trouble I got a pretty quick blink up regardless, and was able to immediately start finding some hero kills.

Their mostly untroubled Sven (when we had tried to trouble him Tusk tended to die...) got picked off a couple of times, but at 5-9 on kills our Earthshaker decided he'd simply had enough and quit.

Once he was gone we got on a real roll, I was able to grab out targets pretty reliably and PA had enough farm to follow up and kill them. We even had a brief bout of optimism having brought the kill score to 15-16 in our favour and having halted their progression.

Then we initiated stupidly, lost a fight, and lost the game! GG.

Time for round 2 and this time with friends. I laned against a bizarro Venge Mirana Viper (support) trilane which was a weird kind of nuisance. Naturally I got overconfident and fed a kill underneath my own t1 trying to get a few more creeps (fortunately it wasn't first blood).

whoops

I got a slightly slower blink this game but was able to start to look for kills around the map. First time out I caught myself a juicy nyx lurking on our jungle highground.

The game was pretty close through 20 minutes or so but we took a pretty good fight and started to get our first decisive advantage.

We continued moving around the map looking for pick offs before Mag hit a big 3 man rp at the radiant t2 top that sent a number of valuable kills their way. I didn't get caught out, but mainly because I was afk farming neutrals...

They tried to push back onto our side of the map a few times but thanks to flying vision we often had the initiation advantage. I grabbed us a viper but the pesky Nyx showed up and popped Drazerk like a balloon. We killed him in trade but couldn't take any more of them.

A short while later Luna scouted ahead with an invis rune and was able to set up and easy double eclipse and we followed up into a couple more kills. They couldn't contest as we went for mid rax (note the expert target firing), and almost the same situation happened a short while later when we went to take bot rax too. They looked for one final initiation with moonlight shadow but we were able to neutralise Mag and mop things up.

Not as good an individual game as I had in my solo venture, but a win is a win!

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

June 06 2014 05:44 GMT

I should change my sleep schedule so we can do our hero challenges together :D

also lel @ drazerk 0/7 that's cloin level son

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

June 06 2014 08:57 GMT

On June 06 2014 14:44 Shellshock wrote:
I should change my sleep schedule so we can do our hero challenges together :D

also lel @ drazerk 0/7 that's cloin level son

It's rare seeing Drazerk play somethiing other than his main heroes.

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

June 06 2014 21:15 GMT

On June 06 2014 17:57 KristofferAG wrote:

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It's rare seeing Drazerk play somethiing other than his main heroes.

Wow, you're being generous.

Drazerk

United Kingdom31255 Posts

June 07 2014 00:04 GMT

#10

On June 07 2014 06:15 StarVe wrote:

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Wow, you're being generous.

I DON'T PLAY LYCAN THAT MUCH

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

June 07 2014 03:34 GMT

#11

uh, yeah you do.

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

June 07 2014 04:35 GMT

#12

He also plays phoenix sometimes

Mithhaike

Singapore2759 Posts

June 07 2014 07:13 GMT

#13

On June 07 2014 13:35 Shellshock wrote:
He also plays phoenix sometimes

sounds like a fun sort of guy

KristofferAG

Norway25712 Posts

June 07 2014 11:48 GMT

#14

i swear there's a third hero he plays fairly frequently. Can't remember which.

StarVe

Germany13591 Posts

June 07 2014 13:50 GMT

#15

On June 07 2014 20:48 KristofferAG wrote:
i swear there's a third hero he plays fairly frequently. Can't remember which.

wisp in ursa/wisp combos

Mr. Wiggles

Canada5894 Posts

June 07 2014 15:24 GMT

#16

You're thinking of the occasional vengeful spirit.

Wintex

Norway16838 Posts

June 08 2014 10:18 GMT

#17

He also plays the tiniest amounts of Sven!

Edit: forgot to mention he plays it like a split pusher anyway. ;; no fighting

Drazerk

United Kingdom31255 Posts

June 08 2014 12:51 GMT

#18

On June 08 2014 19:18 Wintex wrote:
He also plays the tiniest amounts of Sven!

Edit: forgot to mention he plays it like a split pusher anyway. ;; no fighting

http://dotabuff.com/matches/706613291 I may have taken rax while people were defending our tier 2...

Targe

United Kingdom14103 Posts

June 08 2014 19:21 GMT

#19

oh so youre give me more ^_^