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Derity
Germany2952 Posts
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Shaella
United States14828 Posts
On March 03 2013 10:55 Lightspeaker wrote: Random Draft and Single Draft are where its at. Less of the same pubstompers over and over and players somehow just seem a little better too. Maybe All random as well but you have to be VERY confident that you can play whatever it throws at you. They're pretty much the only ones I queue for nowadays. All Pick is awful generally speaking and Least Played was way too similar to All Pick last I played it. Occasionally queue Captain's Mode but its a tricky thing to solo queue. Random draft is a lot of fun, and probably the best way to play imo I play all pick to improve my general carry ability, since really i mostly play carries nowdays | ||
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Bumblebee
3237 Posts
On March 03 2013 07:47 Gheizen64 wrote: Oh i assumed everyone but me was american here, because i never queue into TLers. yeah I'm danish yo! was that my SHADOW OF THE BAT game? who were u, hopefully not the big mouthed furion | ||
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DeltaX
United States287 Posts
On March 03 2013 11:32 Shaella wrote: Random draft is a lot of fun, and probably the best way to play imo I play all pick to improve my general carry ability, since really i mostly play carries nowdays I'll also vouch for random draft. While people will pick the top tier heroes when they come up, they will only come up once every 4-5 games on average. With 24 heroes you can pick, you will easily see most of the heroes get some play. Even better you rarely see the more abusive/no-fun combos since they will rarely come up together, much less be chosen by the same team. It often ends up being psudo-tryhard in that people don't like when you 5th pick a 3rd carry or a hero you can't play at all, but it leads to much better games overall for me. | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
Has there ever been one point in professional DotA/DotA2 history where playing on one side (aka as Radiant or Dire or whatever) was considered to be OP? | ||
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Shaella
United States14828 Posts
On March 03 2013 14:54 WindWolf wrote: A question from a Dota2 newcomer. Has there ever been one point in professional DotA/DotA2 history where playing on one side (aka as Radiant or Dire or whatever) was considered to be OP? Both sides have different advantages. You could argue that one side is better than the other, but thats why there's Bo3s and besides, if you lose a game, its almost certainly not because of the map. | ||
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justinpal
United States3810 Posts
On March 03 2013 15:01 Shaella wrote: Both sides have different advantages. You could argue that one side is better than the other, but thats why there's Bo3s and besides, if you lose a game, its almost certainly not because of the map. Dire is better, you have advantage on Rosh pit. I also find creep blocking mid to be exceptionally easier on the dire team. The jungle is a lot easier to pull from. You can pull easies, hards, and the typical pull camps to lane. I also find the ancients a lot more accessible from the long lane on Dire, on Radiant it's much further away (important for some heroes like Tinker/Beast). On Radiant you can only expect to pull the typical pull spot and possibly the easies to middle lane. To pull those you need a hero that clears trees and who is dedicated to getting almost no XP or leeching from mid. It is slightly faster to farm the Radiant jungle in the late game, and you can stack two camps at once. But, yeah Dire is almost always better. | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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Iplaythings
Denmark9110 Posts
On March 03 2013 15:13 justinpal wrote: Dire is better, you have advantage on Rosh pit. I also find creep blocking mid to be exceptionally easier on the dire team. The jungle is a lot easier to pull from. You can pull easies, hards, and the typical pull camps to lane. I also find the ancients a lot more accessible from the long lane on Dire, on Radiant it's much further away (important for some heroes like Tinker/Beast). On Radiant you can only expect to pull the typical pull spot and possibly the easies to middle lane. To pull those you need a hero that clears trees and who is dedicated to getting almost no XP or leeching from mid. It is slightly faster to farm the Radiant jungle in the late game, and you can stack two camps at once. But, yeah Dire is almost always better. Well the mid hero can stack the ancient camp easily on radiant side and the rosh pit being on the dire side doesn't really do much after the dire has lost the towers sorrounding it | ||
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betamale
633 Posts
i dont think dire has much of an advantage if any at all | ||
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Shaella
United States14828 Posts
On March 03 2013 15:13 justinpal wrote: Dire is better, you have advantage on Rosh pit. I also find creep blocking mid to be exceptionally easier on the dire team. The jungle is a lot easier to pull from. You can pull easies, hards, and the typical pull camps to lane. I also find the ancients a lot more accessible from the long lane on Dire, on Radiant it's much further away (important for some heroes like Tinker/Beast). On Radiant you can only expect to pull the typical pull spot and possibly the easies to middle lane. To pull those you need a hero that clears trees and who is dedicated to getting almost no XP or leeching from mid. It is slightly faster to farm the Radiant jungle in the late game, and you can stack two camps at once. But, yeah Dire is almost always better. radiant has midpulls | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
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Animzor
Sweden2154 Posts
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TheEmulator
28102 Posts
On March 03 2013 15:56 Animzor wrote: Damn, Warlock can win some unwinnable games. Yes he can | ||
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
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RuskiPanda
United States2906 Posts
On March 03 2013 15:38 betamale wrote: radiant has better mid lane, easier off lane (its easier to zone out the dire off laner then it is to zone out the radiant one iirc) and the better jungle set up i dont think dire has much of an advantage if any at all Really? I would have thought it'd be the opposite because the dire offlaner has that huge mass of trees to quelling blade/tango a hiding spot to leech exp in (provided the radiant haven't caught on) whereas the radiant offlaner either has to outtrade the dire support or try to pull the leftmost hard camp. | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
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[17]Purple
United Kingdom3489 Posts
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ch33psh33p
7650 Posts
On March 03 2013 16:55 Itsmedudeman wrote: I haven't tested out warlock yet but why is he so good recently? And don't tell me that "he was always good, people just didn't figure out how to play him" bullshit. There's gotta be a reason why he's statistically shot up recently. They fixed the Golem's Passsive ability... to actually work. Fatal Bonds has yet to properly prioritize heroes over creeps, so when they get to fixing that, expect him to really come into play. | ||
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Shaella
United States14828 Posts
On March 03 2013 16:55 Itsmedudeman wrote: I haven't tested out warlock yet but why is he so good recently? And don't tell me that "he was always good, people just didn't figure out how to play him" bullshit. There's gotta be a reason why he's statistically shot up recently. it was due to flaming fists not working before. Flaming fists is really good. | ||
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