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Icx

Belgium853 Posts

March 31 2012 22:36 GMT

#6241

it's all a matter of perspective.

Gratz, you seem to be doing better then the other new players.
But you know what? if you play with other better players, you know what they think? That you are the one that can't differentiate between a mouse and a keyboard.

So please, there are people better then you, people worse then you, accept it, move on and stop insulting people.
Might even notice that the game becomes a lot more fun.

LAN-f34r

New Zealand2099 Posts

March 31 2012 23:17 GMT

#6242

Welcome to dota.

Netherlands12045 Posts

March 31 2012 23:30 GMT

#6243

how i play dota: change name to Fresh Prince of Bel Air
change picture to will smith
AM pick everygame.

happy weekly casual dota weekend

Stancel

Singapore15360 Posts

April 01 2012 01:53 GMT

#6244

Does anybody know the vod link for a game between Next.kz and, I think, EG? And Mantis's QOP got a double kill on bot lane with a Tiny.

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

April 01 2012 03:41 GMT

#6245

On April 01 2012 10:53 DoNotDisturb wrote:
Does anybody know the vod link for a game between Next.kz and, I think, EG? And Mantis's QOP got a double kill on bot lane with a Tiny.

http://www.joindota.com/en/vods/836-dignitas-d2-invitational-eg-vs-nextkz-grand-final-game-2

19 minute mark on the vod

Whole

United States6046 Posts

April 01 2012 03:57 GMT

#6246

Was Geomancer good in DotA1? He seems interesting.

duckii

Germany1017 Posts

April 01 2012 04:16 GMT

#6247

On April 01 2012 12:57 Whole wrote:
Was Geomancer good in DotA1? He seems interesting.

He can be very powerful and has a high skillcap. He is very fragile though

Stancel

Singapore15360 Posts

April 01 2012 04:35 GMT

#6248

On April 01 2012 12:41 Dubzex wrote:

Show nested quote +

http://www.joindota.com/en/vods/836-dignitas-d2-invitational-eg-vs-nextkz-grand-final-game-2

19 minute mark on the vod

Thank you.

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

April 01 2012 06:40 GMT

#6249

On April 01 2012 12:57 Whole wrote:
Was Geomancer good in DotA1? He seems interesting.

Really difficult to play, but I mean, think about if, he has a 2 second lockdown net, up to 4 (5 with aghs but w/e) geomancers to cast it, cd is 8 seconds

Then he has poof which is the teleport to another geo, which does damage to a decent sized melee level aoe. Extremely high skill cap but yeah he's good (not often seen in professional matches though)

ch33psh33p

7650 Posts

April 01 2012 07:00 GMT

#6250

Every once in a while you'd play a pub match with a Geomancer that could actually control it well, and they would dominate harder than a pudge that got fed mid.

LAN-f34r

New Zealand2099 Posts

April 01 2012 07:14 GMT

#6251

Why isn't he used in pro games?

Also, what would you build on him? I guess aura items like vlads and AC as well as ags, since items don't affect your clones. I heard BoTs on him, but since your clones also benefit from you boots why not power treads?

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

April 01 2012 07:19 GMT

#6252

I remember when Dota2 was down for like valentines day or something, Blitz played Meepo on Dota1 and was like 25+ kills and 1-2 deaths, the poofs are insane.

Mek is super core apparently, I think, but I don't know much beyond that rofl

Spicy_Curry

United States10573 Posts

April 01 2012 07:28 GMT

#6253

Meepos biggest weakness is that you only need to kill one of the four. His strongest trait is probably his mobility and experience gain. In pro games it is difficult to pull off because people are usually coordinated enough to destroy one of his copies since they only gain hp from base stats.

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

April 01 2012 07:31 GMT

#6254

Core is Mek and Vlads (then fill treads on all meepos)
Extremely high burst and can solo roshan, but requires very high micro

It's an insane midgame hero whose natural scaling with core, combined with its ability to farm and gain exp from multiple places make it extremely strong against certain lineups.

However, due to its steep learning curve (the only hero at around the same difficulty is the far more imbalanced invoker), fragility, somewhat weak lategame scaling, and abundance of counters (both single burst and AOE rape it pretty hard, and pro teams certainly have the coordination to focus), its a rare pick in high level play

The only two notable meepo players in the pro scene was the korean player Chu circa 2008-9 (switched to HON and LOL), who used it to very good effect in a few Asian tournaments before the Chinese began to target it with picks and focus, which destroyed it rather quickly. More recently, one of the second tier Chinese teams picked up 牛蛙 (no idea what his english ID is), who is known as the best pub meepo in the world, he's shined with it in a few games but top Chinese teams just tend to just ban it against him (probably not worth the effort to not have to come up with specific play style counters against a second tier team). Meepo's viability in high tier play is still doubtful, especially in the current push and aoe-teamfight oriented dota2 meta

konadora

Singapore66363 Posts

April 01 2012 07:35 GMT

#6255

meepo + travel = most fun thing ever

Netherlands12045 Posts

April 01 2012 07:42 GMT

#6256

On April 01 2012 16:35 konadora wrote:
meepo + travel = most fun thing ever

not sure if you really know how the hero work.... the travel is built in ~_~

another note: just got matched with playmate... the dude looks SADDDDDD. Still have EG picture on though :-/

rabidch

United States20289 Posts

April 01 2012 07:42 GMT

#6257

On April 01 2012 16:31 Kupon3ss wrote:
Core is Mek and Vlads (then fill treads on all meepos)
Extremely high burst and can solo roshan, but requires very high micro

It's an insane midgame hero whose natural scaling with core, combined with its ability to farm and gain exp from multiple places make it extremely strong against certain lineups.

However, due to its steep learning curve (the only hero at around the same difficulty is the far more imbalanced invoker), fragility, somewhat weak lategame scaling, and abundance of counters (both single burst and AOE rape it pretty hard, and pro teams certainly have the coordination to focus), its a rare pick in high level play

The only two notable meepo players in the pro scene was the korean player Chu circa 2008-9 (switched to HON and LOL), who used it to very good effect in a few Asian tournaments before the Chinese began to target it with picks and focus, which destroyed it rather quickly. More recently, one of the second tier Chinese teams picked up 牛蛙 (no idea what his english ID is), who is known as the best pub meepo in the world, he's shined with it in a few games but top Chinese teams just tend to just ban it against him (probably not worth the effort to not have to come up with specific play style counters against a second tier team). Meepo's viability in high tier play is still doubtful, especially in the current push and aoe-teamfight oriented dota2 meta

hes called niuwa by english people because they dont know chinese characters. just as expected????

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

April 01 2012 07:46 GMT

#6258

I wouldn't even put Invoker on the same skill level as Meepo. Meepo requires microing like, ideally two jungles and a lane and shit all at once haha, whereas Invoker is LOLOLTORNADOEMPDEFBLASTCOLDSNAPMETEOR. Memorizing Invokers spells isn't that hard after like 10 games.

But yeah I love watching a good, high APM meepo play, its just fun to watch them micro'ing so much shit in jungles and lanes and then timing all the traps and then spamming poofs.