Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 836

On April 21 2014 00:36 TheYango wrote:
The one thing many people fail at is properly choking the other team's farm. A gem is crucial for this--you need full denial of the other team's vision, as well as aggressively placed wards of your own.

On April 18 2014 05:25 TheYango wrote:

Well, it's better to be on Int treads to regen if you have flat +Mana from items/abilities, but the only way you get that is from Energy Booster or the Essence Aura passive. The former generally means you got Arcane Boots rather than Treads, and the latter is on a hero that has basically zero mana issues regardless.


In DotA 1, leveling up adds to your base Int/Str, which means you gain the corresponding amount of HP to your current AND maximum HP/mana, so leveling up on Agi then switching to Str/Int would give you slightly more HP/mana.

In DotA 2, there's no base/bonus stat distinction, so it preserves percentage regardless.

On April 21 2014 07:26 ahswtini wrote:

So when you're running around, it's better to be on agility?

On April 21 2014 08:42 TheYango wrote:
You do not necessarily need to gank the carry himself to disrupt his farm. Pushing towers, then warding/dewarding the enemy side of the map aggressively is also effective here. For a farming item to be effective, the carry has to have enough area on the map to farm for the farm difference to be relevant. If he can't farm his own jungle and can only farm lanes, the Battle Fury isn't necessarily accelerating his farm.

You can't just sit and let him farm, but it also doesn't mean that you have to focus on the Void. When a carry chooses to go all-out farming items the heroes that actually matter are the other 4 heroes that are trying to hold down the map while the Void farms. If you kill the Void, but let those heroes develop to the point where they can fight you, the Void is going to get farmed regardless.

On April 21 2014 09:58 zlefin wrote:
is there something which prevents pipe stacking on a team?
I know there's a thing that prevents mek stacking, but I don't know about pipe.

On April 21 2014 10:09 Excludos wrote:


They don't stack in a sense, but you can turn on one as the other runs out, yes. There is nothing stopping you from having multiple mechs either, except you'll be wasting part of the item that gives you bonus armor, as well as mech being lesd useful as the game goes on due to its fixed healing. As such you'll usually be better off getting other items that let you control the enemy team. The same goes for a pipe. Its super useful for tanking some of their magic dmg..but what about the rightclick?

If the enemy team consisted of lion, lina, pugna, skywrath and tinker, I could easily see myself getting more than one pipe.

Edit: ignore me. Theres a 50 sec aura cd on pipe, and 25 sec on mech..even less reason to buy more than one

On April 21 2014 10:25 SilverSkyLark wrote:
I encountered this in a game I was playing. I was Veno and I had a Tiny teammate. Tiny gets nightmared by Atropos, I place down a Plague Ward, and attack Tiny with the Ward. Tiny goes out of nightmare but the nightmare didn't pass on to the ward. Now I'm not sure the nightmare was cancelled or it didn't pass around like it's supposed to. Do Plague Wards cancel nightmare when they attack the hero that's under its effect? Does the same go for other summoned units like Lycan's Wolves, Necro Minions, Enchantress Creeps, Eidolons, etc?