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TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
August 23 2013 18:42 GMT
#11581
Even if they want to do that, they should be playing pub stacks because there's no sense in playing TMM until you have a decent handle on the game. ESPECIALLY since it's -CM, which is a totally pointless mode until you have some idea of how to draft.
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Sn0_Man
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Tebellong44238 Posts
August 23 2013 18:48 GMT
#11582
Yes, but if their desire is to "make a team"... Trust me there are plenty of atrocious "team"s out there. I don't think it should cause issues.
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Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9111 Posts
August 23 2013 19:10 GMT
#11583
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?
Shootemup.
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1044 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-23 19:28:29
August 23 2013 19:26 GMT
#11584
On August 24 2013 04:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?

In game if you go the "Watch" tab and search under "Recent" games you can use a filter to look for games you played and check which bracket the game was played under (Normal, High, and Very High). You can also see this bracket on Dotabuff (you can see the bracket at the top of the page). There is no other way to see a personal rating as the only ranked MM right now is TMM (Team Match Making).
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Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8281 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-23 19:27:08
August 23 2013 19:26 GMT
#11585
On August 24 2013 04:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?


Only way is to search for your own name in "recent games", and filter "very high", "high" or "Normal", and see where the majority of your games land.

edit: sniped!
jrkirby
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1511 Posts
August 24 2013 00:02 GMT
#11586
Often the default item guide on int heroes recommends buying a bracer for the extra HP. Is this just foolish/waste of money or is that actually a good idea?
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
August 24 2013 00:04 GMT
#11587
How would you go about stealing ravage on Rubick in a team fight, assuming you have blink and/or force staff? I can't see how you would blink in within the time it takes for tide to anchor smash and then steal, and use ravage without getting melted by the enemy team :/
Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8281 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-24 00:10:23
August 24 2013 00:07 GMT
#11588
On August 24 2013 09:04 kollin wrote:
How would you go about stealing ravage on Rubick in a team fight, assuming you have blink and/or force staff? I can't see how you would blink in within the time it takes for tide to anchor smash and then steal, and use ravage without getting melted by the enemy team :/


Tide's ulti travels outwards. So you can actually blink in and jump "over" the ulti, while he still has to stand there until the ulti is completely done. It still required perfect positioning though, and its really hard to do vs tidehunters who que up anchor smash afterwards. But it is possible.
jrkirby
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1511 Posts
August 24 2013 00:49 GMT
#11589
If you shift click actions, does it cancel animation backswing?
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
August 24 2013 00:50 GMT
#11590
On August 24 2013 09:49 jrkirby wrote:
If you shift click actions, does it cancel animation backswing?

No.
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asaed
Profile Joined September 2011
United States1412 Posts
August 24 2013 07:30 GMT
#11591
Question: I really suck as Queen of Pain and I want to get better because I see people own with her so often... not just in pubs but in competitive play to. I realize that she's a strong hero.

Are there any good guides or really important tips that would be useful to help me improve my QoP play??
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StaraCroft
Profile Joined April 2012
Austria292 Posts
August 24 2013 07:53 GMT
#11592
How do you set up a mid-only mirror game like they did at TI3?
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28104 Posts
August 24 2013 07:55 GMT
#11593
On August 24 2013 16:53 StaraCroft wrote:
How do you set up a mid-only mirror game like they did at TI3?

Go to create lobby, then in settings put the game mode to mid only.
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evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8947 Posts
August 24 2013 08:09 GMT
#11594
On August 24 2013 16:30 asaed wrote:
Question: I really suck as Queen of Pain and I want to get better because I see people own with her so often... not just in pubs but in competitive play to. I realize that she's a strong hero.

Are there any good guides or really important tips that would be useful to help me improve my QoP play??

not many tips that are specific to qop. learn how to play mid and youll have an easy time early game with qop, since shes one of the strongest mid heroes. as for the rest, pretty much the same as any other mid. get runes, gank when possible but dont neglect farm. the only thing that is different about how you play her as opposed to other mids is you shouldnt be right clicking in teamfights early game. if you blink in and throw all your spells and then stay in one spot, you will probably die. so until you have survival items/better right click damage, learn to abuse her blink by weaving in and out of teamfights as much as you can
Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
August 24 2013 13:27 GMT
#11595
On August 24 2013 04:26 Excludos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2013 04:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?


Only way is to search for your own name in "recent games", and filter "very high", "high" or "Normal", and see where the majority of your games land.

edit: sniped!

Ways to get information on your rating:

1. Recent games skill filter (as already mentioned)
2. Live games in the Watch tab are listed in order of rating, for example if you're consitently playing on Page 1, you're probably in the upper end of "Very High".
3. TMM. When you create a TMM team, your initial TMM rating is determined by the individual ratings of the players that make up the team. Therefore I think http://dotabuff.com/teams vaguely shows who the top rated MM players are (keep in mind some teams aren't shown because of inactivity, and a lot of players aren't in TMM teams).
4. To determine who has the better rating between 2 specific players, you can use the "Balance" button in private lobbies.
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kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
August 24 2013 13:28 GMT
#11596
On August 24 2013 22:27 Alur wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2013 04:26 Excludos wrote:
On August 24 2013 04:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?


Only way is to search for your own name in "recent games", and filter "very high", "high" or "Normal", and see where the majority of your games land.

edit: sniped!

Ways to get information on your rating:

1. Recent games skill filter (as already mentioned)
2. Live games in the Watch tab are listed in order of rating, for example if you're consitently playing on Page 1, you're probably in the upper end of "Very High".
3. TMM. When you create a TMM team, your initial TMM rating is determined by the individual ratings of the players that make up the team. Therefore I think http://dotabuff.com/teams vaguely shows who the top rated MM players are (keep in mind some teams aren't shown because of inactivity, and a lot of players aren't in TMM teams).
4. To determine who has the better rating between 2 specific players, you can use the "Balance" button in private lobbies.

Pubstats is another good method, just put in your steam id and you see various stats to do with your MM.
Mithhaike
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Singapore2759 Posts
August 24 2013 15:33 GMT
#11597
On August 24 2013 22:28 kollin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2013 22:27 Alur wrote:
On August 24 2013 04:26 Excludos wrote:
On August 24 2013 04:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?


Only way is to search for your own name in "recent games", and filter "very high", "high" or "Normal", and see where the majority of your games land.

edit: sniped!

Ways to get information on your rating:

1. Recent games skill filter (as already mentioned)
2. Live games in the Watch tab are listed in order of rating, for example if you're consitently playing on Page 1, you're probably in the upper end of "Very High".
3. TMM. When you create a TMM team, your initial TMM rating is determined by the individual ratings of the players that make up the team. Therefore I think http://dotabuff.com/teams vaguely shows who the top rated MM players are (keep in mind some teams aren't shown because of inactivity, and a lot of players aren't in TMM teams).
4. To determine who has the better rating between 2 specific players, you can use the "Balance" button in private lobbies.

Pubstats is another good method, just put in your steam id and you see various stats to do with your MM.

Just tried it, it didnt work for me. Says no stats for this ID
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Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
August 24 2013 15:37 GMT
#11598
On August 25 2013 00:33 Mithhaike wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2013 22:28 kollin wrote:
On August 24 2013 22:27 Alur wrote:
On August 24 2013 04:26 Excludos wrote:
On August 24 2013 04:10 Jonoman92 wrote:
How do you know your relative skill rating? Aka normal, high, or very high in matchmaking. Is there any additional way to see what your "rating" is?


Only way is to search for your own name in "recent games", and filter "very high", "high" or "Normal", and see where the majority of your games land.

edit: sniped!

Ways to get information on your rating:

1. Recent games skill filter (as already mentioned)
2. Live games in the Watch tab are listed in order of rating, for example if you're consitently playing on Page 1, you're probably in the upper end of "Very High".
3. TMM. When you create a TMM team, your initial TMM rating is determined by the individual ratings of the players that make up the team. Therefore I think http://dotabuff.com/teams vaguely shows who the top rated MM players are (keep in mind some teams aren't shown because of inactivity, and a lot of players aren't in TMM teams).
4. To determine who has the better rating between 2 specific players, you can use the "Balance" button in private lobbies.

Pubstats is another good method, just put in your steam id and you see various stats to do with your MM.

Just tried it, it didnt work for me. Says no stats for this ID


It will always say that the first time you do it. It doesn't pull the stats for your name until after you request it.
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Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-24 16:33:36
August 24 2013 16:32 GMT
#11599
http://pubstats.me/6449535/

Example of how the site looks when stats have been pulled.
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Darkren
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada1841 Posts
August 24 2013 18:52 GMT
#11600
On August 24 2013 16:30 asaed wrote:
Question: I really suck as Queen of Pain and I want to get better because I see people own with her so often... not just in pubs but in competitive play to. I realize that she's a strong hero.

Are there any good guides or really important tips that would be useful to help me improve my QoP play??


what you have to realize is that puck and qop are the only 2 heros that have a instant gap closing and mass aoe nuking power.

This makes them extremely powerfull to sniper heros, give chase, or to fuck up the entire ennemy team composure
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