General Discussion - Page 1256

On October 15 2012 23:40 Unleashing wrote:
Lich? Boring?
You've clearly never gone solo mid lich with dagon e-blade.

LICH GON' HAV YO MANA.

On October 15 2012 23:50 akatama wrote:
Honestly Sand King and Pudge are nice heroes for beginners.

SK can influence the game even with minimal farm, and in the low skill bracket maxing sandstorm second is a good way of staying alive. Plus, with people picking mainly carries there, a stun is a godsend and a good ultimate can win you the game outright or at least put you very far ahead.

Pudge is an easy hero once you learn the way the hook works. Just a couple of bot games with him will teach you 75% of what you need to know (note that I'm talking only about the hero, not general gameplay things like last hitting or juking etc.). Hooking is easy as long as you can predict where the enemy is going to be in the next 2 seconds, and low level pubbies are predictable: most of the time if they want to run away they click straight back to base; when they chase they often over extend a whole lot and you can easily turn around kill them once dismember cools down. Add a nice natural tankyness and the desire to get kills/kill the one that killed them a lot so they focus a 3/4 hp pudge instead of the squishy carry next to you that has half your max health. Heck, playing Pudge teaches you exactly why you need good map awareness, a thing which most of the players lack, even in the higher brackets.

On October 16 2012 00:00 how2TL wrote:


Crystal Maiden is more fun. That's how boring Lich is.

On October 16 2012 00:11 RuskiPanda wrote:
Full srs, they can deny/outplay the shit out of pudge as a squishy int/agi but one lucky rune/hook/ult and you're golden.

On October 15 2012 19:31 Praetorial wrote:
Okay, I'm finally going to be making good on my promise to some people a while back to start playing DOTA 2.

I have a beta key. What are some champions that I should be taking a look at for starting?

I played a single game as support Shadow Demon a month ago, but that didn't really appeal to me.

On October 16 2012 01:48 hooahah wrote:
I like Ancient Apparation the most prob. Long range artillary, oi!

On October 16 2012 02:12 MrCon wrote:
Veno is my support of choice recently, you can support well and help getting a lot of kills and you can also jungle farm easily with wards when you have nothing better to do.

On October 16 2012 02:42 Mataza wrote:
Maiden obviously best support. Can´t best 3 sec stun and aoe slow.

On October 16 2012 02:12 MrCon wrote:
Veno is my support of choice recently, you can support well and help getting a lot of kills and you can also jungle farm easily with wards when you have nothing better to do.

On October 16 2012 02:43 ChrisXIV wrote:

Problem with Veno imo is that playing him isn't very fun. Why? Because the whole enemy team hates your guts. HATES. And your team thinks "meh, it's Veno, we don't need him" and lets you die every fight.