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Zhul
Czech Republic430 Posts
On November 04 2011 09:28 TrivialRiot wrote: I haven't played dota 2 yet but judging from the context it's definitely Lothar's Edge Ahh yeah I consider this item as total piece of crap and rarely use it, so I even forgot about it lol. :D | ||
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opsayo
591 Posts
 I don't go an interesting skill build, I usually grab Phase Boots, Vanguard, Radiance, and from there I may branch off into Heart, Butterfly, Manta, Skadi, Diffusal - depends on how the game is going and what heroes I'm up against. But I have some better stories regarding heroes that aren't Spectre... Back when the DotA Allstars competitive forum was just in its infant stages, I was the leader of a team called FTM and one of our matches got submitted to the forum and posted, and it received a lot of acclaim as it was an epic and long game where I was QoP, and got really fat against a just as fat Silencer. For most of the late game, all I did was keep blinking into the silencer and nuking and fighting him one on one, and bailing before I died - and I did this constantly. The first few posters were like "Wow, that QoP's play was awesome! So exciting! He was so ballsy!" and I was feeling pretty damn good... then later posters were like "If that QoP got better or more useful items his team probably would have won," or "That QoP got so farmed and still didn't get any good items"  so I stopped posting in the thread . (I got like Linkens, Aghanim's, Skadi, or something to that nature)- I used to always play pranks on my team, telling them we had a scrim against JMC, or coL (when those teams were the big two) and harassing them to get online, get on East, to hurry up, etc. then they'd join the channel and I would laugh at go back to west :-]. Around this time, Shaang made Pudge a popular hero by dominating competitive games with him and I started using him in my team's competitive games. As we had starting getting demos posted in the forums, some of my demos where I was playing Pudge got posted and warr1ck from coL apparently saw them and so when I joined their East channel and asked for a scrim, they actually agreed and said sure. I went and tried to get my team to come on and I think my excitement and genuine eagerness tipped them off that I *must* have been lying again... and I can't tell you how long it took me to convince them to just believe me. It didn't work out well anyway, when we scrimmed coL started the match saying "go ahead, pick Pudge" (which at first made my dick real big), but I'm from Hawaii and if you've ever played DotA back in the day before LC or Garena and 300 ping, it genuinely doesn't go too well :-) | ||
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alphafuzard
United States1610 Posts
My favorite hero has to be Sandking. With his blinkstun, sandstorm jukage, farming explosions, and EPIC ULTIMATE, he's a ton of fun, and useful at all levels of play. For skill build I normally max burrowstrike and epicenter whenever possible, sandstorm is now decent to level, and one level of caustic early if I am laning against melees (too much caustic will push your lane). Item build: Starting items vary based on what your team composition is. SK is a viable person to buy early wards or chicken, but if you have a support bitch, let them take care of that. Generally you want some cheap stats and regen, like most heroes. Bottle is great on SK, because you will be GANKING like a boss, especially after level 6. Magic stick is always good as well. After boots and finishing bracers if you are having health problems, immediately begin saving for blink dagger. You can even steal some farm from semi-carries and the like because it is critical that you have this for team fights. Next you want to build Ult scepter for the crazyness and health/mana. You can also upgrade boots to travels if you have lots of extra money lying around. Late game items are game dependent. Things like heart, pipe, BKB, linkens, sheepstick, blademail, and even Vladamir's can all be useful items. Gameplay: Early game you hopefully laned with another stunner and you are looking to chain stun to get some early kills. You can be a bit more aggressive than most heroes because you have sandstorm to get out of sticky situations. Once you hit 6, its gank fest every time that ultimate is up. Get your blink ASAP and the ganks get ridiculous. You can buy/place wards for your team because you will be moving around the map quite a bit. In team fights, your job is to get a big initiate off on their most clustered/dangerous heroes and stun every time its on CD. Again you can play more aggressively than most because SK is very adept at escaping bad situations, and you are much less valuable than your carry (this is what makes SK fun!). Ult combo: Normally you want to channel your ult out of sight and shift queue either blink or burrowstrike into the battle. This makes it neigh impossible to cancel your ult. Sometimes it can be hard to do it with burrowstrike as the range is somewhat limited, so you can channel after burrowstrike if facing enemies without stuns. With blink, you always want to channel beforehand. Funny game: I once saved a game after Testie fucked up mid lane (yes it happens) by triple killing two team fights! Awwwwww yeaaaa | ||
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Cyper
Germany14 Posts
im gonna pick up dota 2 as my first moba and im watching alot of games lately (mostly the joindota vods). so im focussing on anti-mage while keeping this guide in mind, just to get a better grip on whats going on. in this game http://www.joindota.com/vods/eswc-group-stage-monkey-vs-virus-245244 (monkey vs virus) @ around 34min (20min ingame) i saw the anti mage having poor mans shield and vanguard. do there effects stack? if im not completly wrong poor mans shield isnt used in anything, why would you buy both when youre not up against alot of melee harass? theres most likely an obvious answer to this, but as i said, i mostly have no clue about whats going on i also saw some games where the carries are running around with 6-7k gold at the end without picking up an item, if im not mistaken, there is a cooldown on buyback, why would a carry keep more money if he still could buy a good item (especially when there isnt much going on in the game)? | ||
flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
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Cool Cat
United States1644 Posts
On November 05 2011 09:50 flamewheel wrote: Sorry Bumblebee has been MIA on me for a few days now... Need to try to rope him down again. He's on teamspeak quite regularly, and is on right now. | ||
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nyxnyxnyx
Indonesia2978 Posts
hero armour magic resistance : 25% spell shield : 50% magic stick/wand : -15 flat damage taken from a typical 300 damage nuke = 300*0.75*0.5 minus 15 healed from 1 charge of magic stick = 97.5 essentially this is what makes -damage reduction so strong in dota (think spectre, bristleback, old visage, antimage etcetc). its the cumulative reduction with additional flat 'mitigation' to boot | ||
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
:D | ||
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saltywet
Hong Kong1316 Posts
pms wand phase agi treads BF vlads 3 divine | ||
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flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
I WON! I WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!! VICTORY! You couldn't imagine how much bigger my e-penis is now. EDIT: So where exactly do I have to send it to start downloading O_o? EDIT2: Problem solved :D | ||
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Keype
Sweden455 Posts
You made Anti-Mage be my favorite hero through this guide! Thanks and keep it coming it is highly appreciated! | ||
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Cwall
United States64 Posts
maybe i should write a guide on venomancer | ||
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Bumblebee
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mordk
Chile8385 Posts
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RHUmbra
United States34 Posts
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EchelonTee
United States5256 Posts
70 minute game, I went 22/5/X while rest of my team was negative... felt great. So stressful though. Early game went 5-0 thanks to vengeful spirit, got a 15min Bfury, everything else went together. I would say that BKB is an ESSENTIAL item for late game; otherwise AM can get bursted by concentrated hexes/stuns. | ||
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snuppe
Denmark285 Posts
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zeehar
Korea (South)3804 Posts
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