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Jaeger
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1150 Posts
August 21 2016 19:42 GMT
#24061
Don't stand in acid spray, zone him from creep waves, stand on his side of the river if you need to.
last hit and deny creeps, in downtime between hitting creeps hit alch instead.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/8137911
Birdie
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
New Zealand4438 Posts
August 21 2016 22:01 GMT
#24062
Buy an early basi because the armour helps creeps and yourself against acid spray, and you use the mana regen.
Red classic | A butterfly dreamed he was Zhuangzi | 4.5k, heading to 5k as support!
Valukk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States19 Posts
August 29 2016 16:04 GMT
#24063
Why can't I ping how many Stick charges/Wards/any item that has a finite limit into the chat? So many times I've failed dives due to not having the time to type "HEY I HAVE 12 STICK CHARGES LETS F*** THIS LUNA" my lane mate thinks its too risky. Pls icefrog.
no uwu zone $500 fine
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
August 29 2016 17:33 GMT
#24064
same with pinging that ur out of urn charges
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
Lavitage2
Profile Joined June 2012
198 Posts
September 01 2016 06:46 GMT
#24065
If veno gets all his dots on someone which, if any, can a teammate cure with diffusal?
ahswtini
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
September 01 2016 07:27 GMT
#24066
none of them. only poison nova (q) is dispellable but u need a strong dispel for that (like abaddon shield or legion pta)
"As I've said, balance isn't about strategies or counters, it's about probability and statistics." - paralleluniverse
Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3272 Posts
September 03 2016 03:26 GMT
#24067
On September 01 2016 16:27 ahswtini wrote:
none of them. only poison nova (q) is dispellable but u need a strong dispel for that (like abaddon shield or legion pta)

I think you mean Venomous Gale, not Poison Nova
low gravity, yes-yes!
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15846 Posts
September 04 2016 12:26 GMT
#24068
How do you recover from a bad item build early game? Either going fighting item but the games turns into farmfest or the opposite. I find both cases put me behind a lot.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8926 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-09-05 00:28:47
September 05 2016 00:20 GMT
#24069
depends what item it is specifically. any item you pick up will still increase your farming speed so its not the end of the world.
mask of madness is typically seen as a "fighting item", but it still boosts your farming speed tremendously if youre not afraid to use it while farming.
if you get deso first item, then at least you have more damage to kill shit faster. push lanes as fast as possible and start to hit towers because then your deso isnt so useless.
if you picked up bkb first then you know youre more survivable in a period where enemies dont have the strength to instajib you (because they either went farming items or they lack the levels and number of items do kill you fast enough), so abuse that by pushing even further than you normally would and use bkb/tp to run if required.

otherwise depending on your hero and team you could just force fights, which isnt that hard in a pub.
being able to dodge enemy aggression consistently is something only higher level players are able to do well. the enemy has to collectively move in precise manners around the map to fend off aggression without actually engaging, and in pubs its hard to find 5 people that are coordinated enough to pull this off, let alone even know how to do it.
group up with a couple of heroes with good kill potential and just waltz into their jungles/lanes if the game is starting to drag out.
if youre stronger then you can abuse that, otherwise you should be thankful the game turned out to be a farmfest because you need time to catch up anyway.

in the opposite case where you picked up a farming item first, then you need to learn what i just said above. there are ways to slow down the game with just the movement of you and your team. force them to waste time trying to chase you around the map and keep lanes pushed out at all times, thereby forcing at least a couple of their heroes back to their lanes to defend which will free up some spaces on the map for you.
theres only so much you can do on your own unless youre tinker, np, invoker, alchemist, lycan etc (people with extremely fast push speed/movement speed/global presence) and even then, if the deficit is very large you need your team to be on the same page as you.
when you or a teammate gets caught out, dont overextend to save them. let them die and push lanes or try to get something else done in the time it takes for the enemy to kill them. 1 death for 2 lanes pushed in is a decent trade from your point of view. minimise your losses when they try to pick fights and play the map so that they regret even choosing to make the commitment to trade lane control for 1 hero
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-09-05 07:16:54
September 05 2016 07:16 GMT
#24070
I mean, the easy and probably most true answer would be: you dont. If there was a way to turn a wrong into a right there would be no wrongs. I know this wont help but still...
the bear jew
Profile Joined August 2014
United States3674 Posts
September 07 2016 04:03 GMT
#24071
How does Lotus Orb kills work? I was spirit breaker, my underlord put Lotus orb on me. The enemy Necrophos used dagon and reapers scythe on me and died.

Who gets the kill credit? Underlord since he has the item that gives buff or me since the spell was reflected off of me?

It happened in chaotic teamfight and I have to head to bed so I can't check replay atm.
DeMoN pulled off a Miracle and Flies to the Moon
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
September 07 2016 06:24 GMT
#24072
I saw it in stream once, RTZ i think, where he pressed a button and it showed the range indicator of the tower. how do you do that? I usually just click the tower to see the range
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Birdie
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
New Zealand4438 Posts
September 07 2016 06:37 GMT
#24073
On September 07 2016 15:24 icystorage wrote:
I saw it in stream once, RTZ i think, where he pressed a button and it showed the range indicator of the tower. how do you do that? I usually just click the tower to see the range

Alt, there's an option in the settings to turn it on for spawn boxes and tower range.
Red classic | A butterfly dreamed he was Zhuangzi | 4.5k, heading to 5k as support!
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
September 07 2016 06:39 GMT
#24074
sweet thanks will check it out later
LiquidDota StaffAre you ready for a Miracle-? We are! The International 2017 Champions!
ihatevideogames
Profile Joined August 2015
570 Posts
September 07 2016 07:38 GMT
#24075
How to spot bad habits in dota?

I've been stuck in 3,5-3,8 for years and it doesn't seem like I can improve.
Mafe
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany5966 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-09-07 08:05:20
September 07 2016 08:04 GMT
#24076
On September 07 2016 16:38 ihatevideogames wrote:
How to spot bad habits in dota?

I've been stuck in 3,5-3,8 for years and it doesn't seem like I can improve.

Link a game or two where you cant really tell what has been going wrong, so other people can have a look at it. Or maybe do in the liquiddota blog section. Are you occasionally having a look at your replays yourself?

I think the new stats UI after the game can be quite helpful without having to invest the time to go though a replay. Compare yourself to the play with your role on the other team, and you should relatively soon get a basic idea how people can approach a game differently. Well of course the performance also depends on the entire team, but anyway you can quickly get a hint for typical questions as "did our supports really buy no wards?" or "were we really that much ahead?"
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8926 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-09-07 10:09:38
September 07 2016 10:07 GMT
#24077
On September 07 2016 16:38 ihatevideogames wrote:
How to spot bad habits in dota?

I've been stuck in 3,5-3,8 for years and it doesn't seem like I can improve.

watch pros. see what they do that you are currently doing differently or not doing at all.
assume pros make correct decisions 100% of the time (they dont, but for the sake of improvement its better to assume) and make justifications for why they are doing what they are doing.
you will pick things up and improve your ability to think about gameplay beyond what is obvious at your level.
if youre still stuck then you probably need someone to explicity teach you things (coaching).
going through replays of yourself and shit is useless tbh. you wont pick anything up because any observation you make is limited to your current understanding of the game, and any mistake you do find through replay analysis you should already know the moment you make the mistake in the game.
if you make a bad call during a game and you die because of it, you dont need a replay to tell you that you made a bad decision. if you commit to killing a camp at x:55 seconds instead of stacking it once, you should have noted your mistake at that moment. if you didnt notice it you probably wont notice it during a replay either

edit: actually i wouldnt call self-replay analysis useless. some people probably benefit from it depending on how much time they allocate to it. i think massively overrated is a better description
Gamerhcp
Profile Joined May 2015
734 Posts
September 07 2016 10:12 GMT
#24078
whats a good lvl 1 combo?

i found out coop bots always 5 man the first rune, dire bots go bottom rune, radiant go top.. and it makes me wish that the people im playing with picked some good combos so we can teamwipe the bots.

and usually people just go to the other rune so; what heroes do we need to pick for an easy teamwipe at lvl1, assuming all 5 of us humans go and synergize together
Hello
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8926 Posts
September 07 2016 10:18 GMT
#24079
5 humans could pick 5 supports and teamwipe the bots quite easily tbh...
there are too many good lvl 1 heroes to specifically name anything as well, especially since you are talking about a group of 5.
pick 5 heroes with any aoe damage spell at lvl 1 (stun spells even better) and just chain stun them all since bots group up anyway.
tehh4ck3r
Profile Joined August 2013
Magrathea7086 Posts
September 07 2016 15:43 GMT
#24080
On September 07 2016 13:03 the bear jew wrote:
How does Lotus Orb kills work? I was spirit breaker, my underlord put Lotus orb on me. The enemy Necrophos used dagon and reapers scythe on me and died.

Who gets the kill credit? Underlord since he has the item that gives buff or me since the spell was reflected off of me?

It happened in chaotic teamfight and I have to head to bed so I can't check replay atm.


you should have gotten the kill, in cases like these the person with the lotus orb buff on them should receive credit for kills
AdministratorIn those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
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