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Erasme
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Bahamas15899 Posts
January 26 2012 19:51 GMT
#1621
Crazy match between xp and gosu. Very even :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lxwFEB6FI “‘Drain the swamp’? Stupid saying, means nothing, but you guys loved it so I kept saying it.”
Kanaz
Profile Joined May 2010
Denmark658 Posts
January 26 2012 20:15 GMT
#1622
Nice play from Loda.
Very exciting match!
s_side
Profile Joined May 2009
United States700 Posts
January 26 2012 20:24 GMT
#1623
Huge play from Tide. His blink ravages were perfect in the last few team fights.
akalarry
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1978 Posts
January 26 2012 23:35 GMT
#1624
i hope they add hero colors. as of now player colors mean nothing to me anymore which i kind of miss. just these subtle things i wish they will add evnetually.
ArcticVanguard
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States450 Posts
January 27 2012 03:43 GMT
#1625
Just tried Clinkz in a bot game (I'm bad at this game) and I think I'm in love <3 I did way better than I usually do playing carries.
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." ~C.S. Lewis
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
January 27 2012 03:51 GMT
#1626
Just got in beta. It's go time!
PHILtheTANK
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1834 Posts
January 27 2012 04:09 GMT
#1627
On January 27 2012 12:51 KillerSOS wrote:
Just got in beta. It's go time!


Woohoo congratulations! Get in from Valve or win a contest?
Jieun <3
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
January 27 2012 04:10 GMT
#1628
On January 27 2012 13:09 PHILtheTANK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 27 2012 12:51 KillerSOS wrote:
Just got in beta. It's go time!


Woohoo congratulations! Get in from Valve or win a contest?


Valve, but I can't seem to update.
tylervoss4
Profile Joined January 2012
182 Posts
January 27 2012 04:26 GMT
#1629
does anyone have spare key?
I still havn't got mine and I don't think I will ever will.
please let me know if you are feeling in the spirit to help someone !
tired of watching youtube videos =_=
KillerSOS
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4207 Posts
January 27 2012 06:14 GMT
#1630
Can I not bind item slots to shift key modifiers?
English
Profile Joined April 2010
United States475 Posts
January 27 2012 06:22 GMT
#1631
Does anyone know if Valve survey keys still attach 2 friend invites?
LoLAdriankat
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4307 Posts
January 27 2012 06:23 GMT
#1632
On January 27 2012 15:22 English wrote:
Does anyone know if Valve survey keys still attach 2 friend invites?

Nah. Two of my friends got in but don't have any gift passes.
superstartran
Profile Joined March 2010
United States4013 Posts
January 27 2012 08:13 GMT
#1633
On January 24 2012 18:08 TheYango wrote:
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On January 24 2012 14:41 dtz wrote:
On January 24 2012 14:16 rabidch wrote:
On January 24 2012 13:32 dtz wrote:
Giving invoker away in a chinese competitive game especially is considered auto-lose....

Not sure where the notion of "he is not very popular anymore" comes from..

And emp-tornado is basically the only way these chinese plays them. Only Recca from Starsboba goes Quas/Exort if i'm not wrong and he goes a very weird build like blinkdagger first or something like that.

Not saying that invoker can only be played the Emp/tornado style but it is clearly superior when compared to exort builds in a proper game.


???

clearly a lot of teams have decided not to pick invoker and win against it anyway. theres plenty of very strong heroes as it is now and invoker is just one of many.


Auto-lose is a slight exagerration. He obviously does not have 100 percent win rate. But invoker is still extremely strong as opposed to just one of many or "not very popular anymore" as someone said earlier. In the WGT, he is almost always banned, He is probably top 3 most banned heroes together with lycan/bear.

According to one Chinese commentator (I forget if it was 2009 in PCGL or 820 in G-League), current banning strategies are focused around banning against players and teams, rather than against a specific hero, and that there's not really auto-lose/auto-win heroes. Invoker still stays high on the ban lists because many top teams have well-practiced Invoker players like DK's rotk or iG's 430, not necessarily because the hero itself is too strong.




Who the hell is making up this shit about Invoker being overpowered in the Chinese realm? He is only consistently banned against ONE player, and that's Ferrari. And that's because Ferrari is like literally the best Invoker player on the damn planet.


Banning Invoker means you're not banning other more very important heroes like Lycan, Syllabear, Batrider, etc. etc. etc. who will make or break your game.
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
January 27 2012 09:12 GMT
#1634
Well usually all four of those are...
Follow me: www.twitter.com/zlasher
Bswhunter
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia954 Posts
January 27 2012 11:40 GMT
#1635
Can I ask here for someone to link me to some people (Who are decent at dota, IE comp level) discussing how different changes, etc change the comp metagame? Its something I have an intrest in, but due to being a pub, I can only guess and I have no idea where to start for such insights.
(Also I cannot watch youtube, so text or audio would be lovely.)
Stop browsing and do whatever it is you're supposed to do. TL will still be here when you get back
cmen15
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1519 Posts
January 27 2012 16:26 GMT
#1636
FINALLY after many weeks of crying... I have received my key lolol. Let gooo!
Greed leads to just about all losses.
Prime`Rib
Profile Joined September 2010
United States613 Posts
January 27 2012 16:37 GMT
#1637
On January 17 2012 16:16 wurm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2012 15:32 Darkren wrote:
I never got why people like dust so much, imo sentry wards are infinnetly better than dust(baring in mind your team has some cc), can someone explain to me why do people focus on dust so much????


Riki can easily blink-strike a creep out of range of sentry to escape. Same goes for other heroes, given that many of them have movement speed bonuses.


Diffusal Blade can purge dust. I always lol @ people use dust on me when I play Riki. To counter Riki, you just need to buy Gem and rape him right off the bat.
... funerals are insane, the chicks are so horny, its not even fair, its like fishing with dynamite ...
Prime`Rib
Profile Joined September 2010
United States613 Posts
January 27 2012 16:41 GMT
#1638
On January 27 2012 20:40 Bswhunter wrote:
Can I ask here for someone to link me to some people (Who are decent at dota, IE comp level) discussing how different changes, etc change the comp metagame? Its something I have an intrest in, but due to being a pub, I can only guess and I have no idea where to start for such insights.
(Also I cannot watch youtube, so text or audio would be lovely.)


http://www.playdota.com/guides/drafting-in-cm-for-intermediate
... funerals are insane, the chicks are so horny, its not even fair, its like fishing with dynamite ...
chroniX
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
517 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-27 17:13:44
January 27 2012 17:00 GMT
#1639
Seems alot of keys have been sent out yesterday and ofc still nothing for me! Never got into a beta - still i get my hopes up everytime!
IgnE
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7681 Posts
January 27 2012 17:10 GMT
#1640
On January 28 2012 02:00 chroniX wrote:
Seems alot of keys have been sent out yesterday and ofc still nothing for me! Never got into a beta - still i get my hopes up everytime!
Blizzard why you always leave me down ?


What does Blizzard have to do with you not getting a key?
The unrealistic sound of these propositions is indicative, not of their utopian character, but of the strength of the forces which prevent their realization.
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