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kembangan
Profile Joined November 2013
India2 Posts
November 23 2013 17:08 GMT
#61
Here's a question for personal team-development: What are key elements to keep in mind while drafting against an opponents team you have not played before? How do you manage to draft and play one of the most active roles in the game and of course still stay very cutting edge, Gustav?

Thank-you if you soever answer my question.
i like playing only few heroes from the hero pool.
hzflank
Profile Joined August 2011
United Kingdom2991 Posts
November 23 2013 17:40 GMT
#62
If EGM did not feed as much, would he be a good player?
Niteblade_
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada292 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-24 02:48:21
November 24 2013 02:47 GMT
#63
I have a question about your drafting and approach to mid:

You seem to take a different approach to drafting that allows you to always end up with what you want or at least even. It also allows you to take advantage of heros that others haven't quite caught on to (naga at TI3 specifically). Also, according to stats you tend to avoid heros such as DS and OD. DS is a hero that gets something out of the lanes no matter what, but doesn't offer as much strategically other than vaccum combos. But as a core, he drops off (imo). OD is a hero that is just lane dominant, and a semi carry but doesn't offer much apart from that (such as your bat, puck, mag, or bm).

What is it that you look for in heros when you draft a line-up? It seems like you always have a much grander strategic view on heros, as opposed to them being dominant in a lane aspect as an example (OD DS). This allows you to gain an advantage over other teams in alot of situations (your TI3 dominance is hard to despute). Do you have a set plan for your draft going in? It seems that often you get what you want out of a draft, and its up to the enemy to counter your line-up (teams having to find a way to deal with AB furion and LD is the most common).

Also what mindset do you approach mid with? You play mag alot as an example, how do you approach a favorable match-up, an even match up, and a dis-advantaged match up?

That may seem a bit confusing, but just trying to formulate a question about how you look at heros when your drafting from a strategic point of view, because it seems like you have an amazing grasp of this, and it shows in how you play your mid heros as well (IMO its your movements and timings on heros that distinguish you as a top mid, not your mechanics as in the case of Mushi).

Any input is awesome thanks!
"As Dendi and xboct were walking off stage, I hope Dendi was saying 'Man I can't believe we won that game that way, we are such a bunch of assholes"- James "2GD" Harding on Na'vi vs Tongfu
kappadevin
Profile Joined February 2011
United States284 Posts
November 24 2013 05:26 GMT
#64
What Hero do you think is the most under appreciated in the current Meta, and what will it take to get that hero used more in competitive play?
Little Tortilla Boy
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
November 24 2013 08:12 GMT
#65
What happened at MLG?

How often do you practice 1v1s or practice general mechanics either vs bots or in empty games as opposed to normal matches?

Do you only focus on mid heroes/lane, or do you try to make sure you can play anything and everything?

Anything you'd like your teammates to do differently, either in-game or in real life?

How are your relationships/interactions with people on other teams? Do you mostly interact with just your team?

Do you watch vods of your own dota matches? How about of matches not involving your team? What do you think of the casters?

Do you study replays? If so, of who, and what do you focus on to get the most out of them?
aka Lyra; My favourites: July, Stork, Draco, MistrZZZ, TheStc, LastShadow - www.broodwarmaps.net - for all your mapping needs; check my stream: high masters mech terran: twitch.tv/lyrathegreat
Bisu-Fan
Profile Joined January 2010
Russian Federation3339 Posts
November 24 2013 09:36 GMT
#66
Excluding The International, which tournaments have had the best production value? Where would you like to go again?
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leffe
Profile Joined March 2011
Sweden75 Posts
November 24 2013 20:17 GMT
#67
Hi s4!

In tournaments following the International I have gotten the feeling that Alliances Wisp combos, PA + Magnus, PL + Kotl and Akke's Chen have been put in a "pre-6.79-Do-not-use-box" without really testing them out. Have these past glory compositions performed badly in scrims or have they just been forgotten?

Thanks for answering and GL at Dreamhack! Hometurf!
lilopuppy
Profile Joined August 2012
Philippines542 Posts
November 25 2013 10:52 GMT
#68
So, what's the plan to get back?
All the way to TI322!
DaiWales
Profile Joined August 2011
United Kingdom94 Posts
November 25 2013 12:15 GMT
#69
What's the best hero that doesn't fit well in to the current meta?
YesNoMaybeDunno
Profile Joined April 2013
27 Posts
November 25 2013 23:32 GMT
#70
Greetings and congratulations on your performance at MLG!

Do you have romantic relations with one called AdmiralBulldog? ( Source:



https://twitter.com/AdmiralBulldog/status/368866418315374592/photo/1 )

Do you really sleep naked? (If yes, then define naked? With or without underwear?) ... and follow up question : Do you sleepwalk?
Does everyone on Alliance feel ambivalent about their sexuality? Has Alliance adopted the Spartan philosophy that having sexual relations with your comrades improves cohesion and teamwork on the battlefield ? (http://i.imgur.com/RZIXay3.jpg I am not judging. If I were on one team with Akke I would totally turn gay too.)
I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours and many more memorable performances like that at MLG.
P.S. Doing this



was a big mistake. I know from a confidential source that the President of the RNFA (Rabid Na'Vi Fanboys Association) conspires to castrate you in your sleep. Now that he knows that you sleep naked. ( O.K. I admit it ... I am the confidential source. And yes ... I am the President of the RNFA.)
Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34503 Posts
November 25 2013 23:42 GMT
#71
wat
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sumsaR
Profile Joined January 2013
Sweden1812 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-26 01:07:40
November 26 2013 01:07 GMT
#72
On November 26 2013 08:32 YesNoMaybeDunno wrote:
Do you really sleep naked? (If yes, then define naked? With or without underwear?)

Wouldn't be naked if he slept with underwear. Duh.

I don't even know why I took the time replying to such a silly post. Should have written what Firebolt did.
CountChocula
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2068 Posts
November 26 2013 01:27 GMT
#73
Question submissions are going to close in ~24h.
Writer我会让他们连馒头都吃不到 Those championships owed me over the years, I will take them back one by one.
Stancel
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore15360 Posts
November 26 2013 05:38 GMT
#74
On November 26 2013 08:42 Firebolt145 wrote:
wat


my thoughts exactly
ffxiv enjoyer
Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
November 26 2013 06:16 GMT
#75
After losing to DK, your drafts seemed to veer away more and more from what we've come to know as a standard Alliance draft. Did you feel unconfident continuing with your usual style of play? Do you think Alliance has become too predictable? If yes, what do you think the team and you personally have to work on to become more flexible? Do you think you need to become more comfortable with farming mids like OD?

Instead of the usual Navi vs Alliance, the finals at MLG was DK vs Speed. What do you think of both teams and what did you think of the finals? How do you rate Arteezy's play in mid throughout the tournament?
On a purely personal note, I'd like to show Yellow the beauty of infinitely repeating Starcraft 2 bunkers. -Boxer
Qbyx
Profile Joined November 2007
Romania210 Posts
November 26 2013 10:11 GMT
#76
Where you aware of the importance of the 1$ dollar dream-coil when you did it, or you realized later that you done something very important?
bluzi
Profile Joined May 2011
4703 Posts
November 26 2013 12:39 GMT
#77
* what DOTA hero (if any) are you missing from DOTA 1 ?
* if you had to pick an all star team what will it be (no Alliance players should be picked).
* what is the process of learning a new hero when its first introduced to CM , are you all practicing it ?
or you decide - > its a mid hero , only S4 will practice it ? asking because ET was a good example to how you guys ran it mid but the META ran it as support/offlane (which i believe are the better roles for him).

garlicface
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada4196 Posts
November 26 2013 13:09 GMT
#78
On November 23 2013 03:04 Aelfric wrote:
Sven Magnus Carlsen just become the world chess champion, what are your thoughts as son of Magnus and a friend of Sven?

Also Carl the Invoker, so he's pretty OP.
#TeamBuLba
Butterscotch
Profile Joined November 2013
United States2 Posts
November 26 2013 13:18 GMT
#79
Who would you want to meet under the mistletoe this holiday season? Have you met any cute girls when you go to tournaments? What do you think of your fan girls that try to contact you?
Jamann
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany9 Posts
November 26 2013 16:04 GMT
#80
Dota to me is the most complex game and fun game that I have ever played. In my oppinion people always try to categorize complex systems to try to understand them, when categories might never capture all possible ways of looking at the system.
In Dota for example we started to introduce roles and positions (1, 2 ,3 ,4 and 5), we have commom agreements on hero builds and use terms like gank, push and teamfight.
Question:
When you draft how much do you think in categories? (Like: "we should pick a push/teamfight/support/offlane hero next").
And how much do you think about synergies (the whole is more than just the sum of its parts), e.g. naix+furion or other combos that give rise to special situations in game?
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