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Malky
Profile Joined February 2011
Denmark44 Posts
January 08 2013 23:19 GMT
#36481
On January 09 2013 08:18 trinxified wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2013 08:16 Malky wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:07 Erasme wrote:
faster, you hit harder, you can dodge spells, remove track, useful against luna ult. At that point of the game, if you're behind your bear tend to fall faster than you, so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero ~~
and what tapicker said


But the items you get for the bear is absolute trash on illusions.


No you manta yourself, not the spirit bear.


" so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero "

Its not perfect english, but im pretty sure he meant get manta and move items from the bear, to the hero.
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
January 08 2013 23:22 GMT
#36482
On January 09 2013 08:18 trinxified wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2013 08:16 Malky wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:07 Erasme wrote:
faster, you hit harder, you can dodge spells, remove track, useful against luna ult. At that point of the game, if you're behind your bear tend to fall faster than you, so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero ~~
and what tapicker said


But the items you get for the bear is absolute trash on illusions.


No you manta yourself, not the spirit bear.


Mantaing yourself without items is just like mantaing with items that don't affect illusions. Useless.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
January 08 2013 23:23 GMT
#36483
On January 09 2013 08:19 Malky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2013 08:18 trinxified wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:16 Malky wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:07 Erasme wrote:
faster, you hit harder, you can dodge spells, remove track, useful against luna ult. At that point of the game, if you're behind your bear tend to fall faster than you, so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero ~~
and what tapicker said


But the items you get for the bear is absolute trash on illusions.


No you manta yourself, not the spirit bear.


" so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero "

Its not perfect english, but im pretty sure he meant get manta and move items from the bear, to the hero.

thats true, but i meant that when you get manta, your hero is now better than your bear, doesnt die as fast so now you can transfere the items to your hero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
Malky
Profile Joined February 2011
Denmark44 Posts
January 08 2013 23:27 GMT
#36484
On January 09 2013 08:23 Erasme wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 09 2013 08:19 Malky wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:18 trinxified wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:16 Malky wrote:
On January 09 2013 08:07 Erasme wrote:
faster, you hit harder, you can dodge spells, remove track, useful against luna ult. At that point of the game, if you're behind your bear tend to fall faster than you, so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero ~~
and what tapicker said


But the items you get for the bear is absolute trash on illusions.


No you manta yourself, not the spirit bear.


" so manta is very nice to move some of the items to your hero "

Its not perfect english, but im pretty sure he meant get manta and move items from the bear, to the hero.

thats true, but i meant that when you get manta, your hero is now better than your bear, doesnt die as fast so now you can transfere the items to your hero.


And my entire point was that the items you give the bear are bad with illusions, which in turn makes manta a horrible item to get.
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
January 08 2013 23:32 GMT
#36485
Yes, why get Manta if you're not going to have good illusions
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
January 08 2013 23:34 GMT
#36486
yes but your bear will die so quick that items on him wouldnt matter, manta gives you survivability and damages. You don't need specific items for manta to be useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
Benjef
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom6921 Posts
January 08 2013 23:36 GMT
#36487
Move speed and to break out of something?
<3 | Dota 2 | DayZ | <3
Malky
Profile Joined February 2011
Denmark44 Posts
January 08 2013 23:38 GMT
#36488
On January 09 2013 08:34 Erasme wrote:
yes but your bear will die so quick that items on him wouldnt matter, manta gives you survivability and damages. You don't need specific items for manta to be useful.


But you do need specific items for manta to be useful. its 5000 gold for 190 hp, 26 damage, 41% attack speed and an active that is USELESS without a high amount of stats or diffusal.

TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
January 08 2013 23:41 GMT
#36489
On January 09 2013 08:34 Erasme wrote:
yes but your bear will die so quick that items on him wouldnt matter, manta gives you survivability and damages. You don't need specific items for manta to be useful.

I think you're over-stating how quickly the Bear dies.

Granted, it's fairly rare to get to the point where you're selecting a post-Radi+AC+MKB+small items on main bear item for Syllabear, so each of those scenarios is going to be fairly specific--depending on how farmed the enemy team is when you get to that point.
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Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-08 23:45:05
January 08 2013 23:43 GMT
#36490
illusions deals 33% of your base damage, soak up the luna's ult, dispell track. If you think that it's useless as an item then w/e floats your boat.
To be fair Yango, i just had a game against a bear with vlads/ac/radi with luna/qop and the bear dies in literraly 5sec. If he's too far ahead, a shadow strike and focus fire will bring him down really fast. We werent even that far ahead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
Malky
Profile Joined February 2011
Denmark44 Posts
January 08 2013 23:45 GMT
#36491
On January 09 2013 08:43 Erasme wrote:
illusions deals 33% of your base damage, soak up the luna's ult, dispell track. If you think that it's useless as an item then w/e floats your boat.


I never said it was a useless item, just that 5000 gold can be spent better on a syllabear, like BKB its 1100 gold less, does the same and so much more. Luck can also screw you over so you get hit by 4 beams, regardless of illusions.
crms
Profile Joined February 2010
United States11933 Posts
January 08 2013 23:56 GMT
#36492
oh man, this syllabear manta discussion is worse than the brag screenshot phase and a lot of shikyo theory dota.

I miss abbadon, he's fun.


http://i.imgur.com/fAUOr2c.png | Fighting games are great
trinxified
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada7774 Posts
January 09 2013 00:04 GMT
#36493
Although, SnY over Manta on LD IMO.
Gheizen64
Profile Joined June 2010
Italy2077 Posts
January 09 2013 00:07 GMT
#36494
Nah, manta make for tanky melee illusion after all (hp bonuses and armor of true form are kept). I'd go manta before SnY.

Never played bear in my life tho'.
Seen as G.ZZZ [COPPER SCUM] on Steam
hooahah
Profile Joined October 2011
3752 Posts
January 09 2013 00:14 GMT
#36495
just played a game of shadow demon, god I love this fucking hero, so much utility

you know you're playing a great support when the entire enemy team is trying to focus you down :D and even though my team was a 4stack that spoke only russian, somehow we had great teamwork - healing, co-ordinated attacking, 5manning when needed, and they even saved me a few times from nyx/faceless trying to suicide me ♥

it's games like these that make me love Dota :DDDD
Mithhaike
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Singapore2759 Posts
January 09 2013 00:47 GMT
#36496
i had a game yesterday that was just amusing hahaha

Match 95261223

WR/Pudge/Death Prophet/Tidehunter/Undying(me)
vs
SF/Sven/Magnus/ES/Naix

Deathprophet & pudge are my friends, DP was useless as he has no idea how to play or how to position himself, i was just playing with him because we're friends. Looking at the lineup its obvious that we need to push early or die to them late game.

I purposely took bottom lane with WR as we are notoriously hard heroes to dive. Worked out fine, with multiple kills/triple kills coming our way with us dying a few times, fair enough trade.

Then somehow, WR snowballed. He became untouchable and started doing things like 1v4/5 and it was amusing to watch haha. They had 3/4 heroes chasing the WR trying to kill him, probably on tilt while the rest of us were pushing the other lane.It was obvious that the WR outplayed them, but it was to such an extent it was funny. The game finished with WR solo-ing the throne with Windrun.

Watch that game for lots of laughter. It was so insane that i was just grinning throughout that game.
Mew Mew Pew Pew
Nevuk
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States16280 Posts
January 09 2013 01:10 GMT
#36497
Doesn't rabid get dispelled by manta?
Cool Cat
Profile Joined June 2009
United States1644 Posts
January 09 2013 01:21 GMT
#36498
On January 09 2013 09:47 Mithhaike wrote:
i had a game yesterday that was just amusing hahaha

Match 95261223

WR/Pudge/Death Prophet/Tidehunter/Undying(me)
vs
SF/Sven/Magnus/ES/Naix

Deathprophet & pudge are my friends, DP was useless as he has no idea how to play or how to position himself, i was just playing with him because we're friends. Looking at the lineup its obvious that we need to push early or die to them late game.

I purposely took bottom lane with WR as we are notoriously hard heroes to dive. Worked out fine, with multiple kills/triple kills coming our way with us dying a few times, fair enough trade.

Then somehow, WR snowballed. He became untouchable and started doing things like 1v4/5 and it was amusing to watch haha. They had 3/4 heroes chasing the WR trying to kill him, probably on tilt while the rest of us were pushing the other lane.It was obvious that the WR outplayed them, but it was to such an extent it was funny. The game finished with WR solo-ing the throne with Windrun.

Watch that game for lots of laughter. It was so insane that i was just grinning throughout that game.

nice. epic game.
ControlMonkey
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Australia3109 Posts
January 09 2013 01:56 GMT
#36499
I've been playing a bit of Luna lately, and I've been going tranqs, aquila, drums -> BKB -> Manta. I like the midgame power it gives.

I've seen some people go fast HotD for split pushing/farming.

Thoughts on what to build and when to build it?
Jinxed
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States6450 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-09 02:07:08
January 09 2013 01:56 GMT
#36500
I think I need to keep trying solo CM now. Last two times I got queued for it I ended up as captain.

Managed to even have decent teammates who went with my ideas and picks. Don't you know it, won both games too. Neither one was even close.

Then again it might have to do with the fact that I am no longer queuing on EU west....

Funny coincidence though, both games the enemy captain took axe.

As for the question above. The HotD is the old build that makes her a late game hard carry. If I remember right it's like Power Treads into HotD into butterfly. It's a lot more late game power than the "new" build, but doesn't allow you to 5 man and push till you're done.
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