General Discussion - Page 2200

On February 20 2013 17:46 solidbebe wrote:
Yesterday I played a game against bounty hunter, riki and nightstalker. At night they just became a 3 man rape train, running over the map ganking everyone. Im pretty sure they were playing together.

I cried myself to sleep afterwards

On February 20 2013 16:40 Kishin2 wrote:
I've played around with the idea of using naga ult to isolate heroes a bit myself, but haven't found a situation where it worked as intended. It's definitely one of the more entertaining tactics to see when pulled off perfectly. Combining it with a Pudge hook would be pretty awesome.

Bane, Tide, Razor, and Rubick are the only heroes with an ability that reduces damage directly. I'm curious how much survivability a line-up composed of these 4 heroes + 1 would be in a team fight... You have enfeeble that reduces damage of one hero by 30/60/90/120 and cannot be removed by anything, 40% damage reduction in an aoe from anchor smash, flat 32 damage reduction on multiple targets from fade bolt, and Razor can steal hundreds of damage from a single hero. They all go through magic immunity except fade bolt.

The obvious counter would be high magical damage but Rubick has passive aoe magic reduction. Just a casual cloak on every hero and you have 50% magic resistance on everyone and no one on the enemy team does notable damage at all. Nightmare also makes static link reduction guaranteed. Laning doesn't look impractical, especially since there's an extra slot leftover, although it doesn't seem particularly strong. The biggest weakest is probably the lack of damage output, so a glass-cannon carry might have the best synergy. Maybe zues, sf, sniper, luna, lycan can work.

Recalling the moments where I've mindgamed people with the 40% anchor smash on Tide, a strategy like this might be useful. Regardless, seeing it in action, with all that damage reduction, would be highly entertaining.

On February 20 2013 21:59 Kipsate wrote:
Good interview with Pajjkat and I agree with his views too, really cool stuff.

CK+wisp has gotten boring
I dislike Naix
Fuck PL because fuck PL.

Rest of the picks are fine/fun esp Clockwerk and Puck.

On February 20 2013 22:08 cecek wrote:
This is like the most variety in picks we had in DotA ever. Except maybe the first 2 weeks after each new patch. But I don't remember when last we saw so many heroes played.

On February 20 2013 22:10 konadora wrote:

of course i'm discounting the early SL/EMS games when I'm saying I'm getting tired of the same naix/gyro picks. Alchemist, Warlock, Spectre, Silencer... hell yeah. Probably I'm just bored of seeing the same picks due to lack of chinese/SEA doto.

On February 20 2013 21:45 konadora wrote:
Anyone else getting sick of these western picks, especially naix and gyro? -_-

every single goddamn game.

On February 20 2013 22:12 rabidch wrote:

china/sea dota has very much less variety of picks though

On February 20 2013 22:27 BlitzerSC wrote:


I actually prefer seeing the western picks over the chinese ones.

I don't like playing against nyx though.

On February 20 2013 22:28 konadora wrote:

i'd rather watch nyx or even antifun over naix