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Am0n3r
Profile Joined April 2010
United States254 Posts
August 17 2011 21:32 GMT
#30161
But I would still recommend a game where duplicate heroes are allowed, not gonna like 5 devours vs 5 moon-queens is still probably one of the best games I have played...
Get comfortable being uncomfortable
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17432 Posts
August 17 2011 22:06 GMT
#30162
On August 18 2011 06:32 Am0n3r wrote:
But I would still recommend a game where duplicate heroes are allowed, not gonna like 5 devours vs 5 moon-queens is still probably one of the best games I have played...


10 armadons in one game is sick. But so is everyone going pyromancer or panda. With pyromancers, when people hit level 6 you have no idea what's going on. Flames all over the screen.

Of course, such games are best played if all players go mid

On August 18 2011 05:52 fly wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2011 05:51 SKC wrote:
On August 18 2011 05:50 fly wrote:
I'm sorry for being such a noob, but is dota and dota2 like hon, in which some heroes are only playable for each side? or like LOL where it doesn't matter what side?


Only playable for each side.


Okay. Thank you!


You should clarify that. In standard mode you're restricted to your side's heroes. In banning pick (the competetive choice) you're not restricted in this way.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
August 18 2011 00:09 GMT
#30163
it's all about 5 alunas or 5 plague riders for all mid dupe hero games.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
August 18 2011 00:43 GMT
#30164
pretty sure 5 plague riders win, deny whole creep wave you lvl 6 they lvl 1 maybe lvl 2
SKC
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil18828 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 00:59:31
August 18 2011 00:55 GMT
#30165
On August 18 2011 07:06 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2011 06:32 Am0n3r wrote:
But I would still recommend a game where duplicate heroes are allowed, not gonna like 5 devours vs 5 moon-queens is still probably one of the best games I have played...


10 armadons in one game is sick. But so is everyone going pyromancer or panda. With pyromancers, when people hit level 6 you have no idea what's going on. Flames all over the screen.

Of course, such games are best played if all players go mid

Show nested quote +
On August 18 2011 05:52 fly wrote:
On August 18 2011 05:51 SKC wrote:
On August 18 2011 05:50 fly wrote:
I'm sorry for being such a noob, but is dota and dota2 like hon, in which some heroes are only playable for each side? or like LOL where it doesn't matter what side?


Only playable for each side.


Okay. Thank you!


You should clarify that. In standard mode you're restricted to your side's heroes. In banning pick (the competetive choice) you're not restricted in this way.


I think I misunderstood the question. I though he meant if it were like in LoL where one hero could be picked by both teams, not being able to pick any hero no matter which team you are on. I probally didn't pay enough attention, since it is a major diference from LoL that jumped immediatly to my mind.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17432 Posts
August 18 2011 03:49 GMT
#30166
On August 18 2011 09:43 semantics wrote:
pretty sure 5 plague riders win, deny whole creep wave you lvl 6 they lvl 1 maybe lvl 2


And what if enemy team picks plague riders too? No creepwaves all game except for catas
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
rabidch
Profile Joined January 2010
United States20289 Posts
August 18 2011 04:01 GMT
#30167
On August 18 2011 12:49 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2011 09:43 semantics wrote:
pretty sure 5 plague riders win, deny whole creep wave you lvl 6 they lvl 1 maybe lvl 2


And what if enemy team picks plague riders too? No creepwaves all game except for catas

use long range nukes to try to pick them off one by one?
LiquidDota StaffOnly a true king can play the King.
GhostKorean
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2330 Posts
August 18 2011 04:28 GMT
#30168
The best game mode is no lane mode. 5 people farm the jungle and the team that kills kongor first wins.
Too bad legion wins every game
Looky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1608 Posts
August 18 2011 04:33 GMT
#30169
guantlet wars would be more fun
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 05:40:21
August 18 2011 05:39 GMT
#30170
Just started HoN tonight ( free mode ), it is my first moba and i don't really know what hero is good for a beginner.

I have tried Dampeer he seems quite cool but a bit too much glasscannon for my taste.
Nomad seems too technical for me atm, i always get killed lol but i hate to play against him.

So far i had my best success with Hellbringer. He is quite fragile and i always get shitty K/D stats but at least i don't feel the need to be agressive. I usually try to go with another hero and i can be annoying early on with the ranged attack. However once we get to mid / late game i feel really useless ( only assists ) and i get killed so fast if i'm not very careful. The only good thing is the invocation ( works well against towers ).

Some tips ? Since it is free mode i have a limited number of heroes available :o
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 06:35:25
August 18 2011 06:34 GMT
#30171
On August 18 2011 14:39 Boblion wrote:
Just started HoN tonight ( free mode ), it is my first moba and i don't really know what hero is good for a beginner.

I have tried Dampeer he seems quite cool but a bit too much glasscannon for my taste.
Nomad seems too technical for me atm, i always get killed lol but i hate to play against him.

So far i had my best success with Hellbringer. He is quite fragile and i always get shitty K/D stats but at least i don't feel the need to be agressive. I usually try to go with another hero and i can be annoying early on with the ranged attack. However once we get to mid / late game i feel really useless ( only assists ) and i get killed so fast if i'm not very careful. The only good thing is the invocation ( works well against towers ).

Some tips ? Since it is free mode i have a limited number of heroes available :o

"/join Clan Teamliquid" You can usually get your questions answered aswell as find people for TMM.

I could give you tips, but the problems you're having are very common for new players, and should dissapear in time.
In terms of improving I feel like watching vods/replays of top tier players gave me an idea of how I was supposed to play. If you're not very familiar with the scene, anyone from the top of http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/players_mm/ should do.

Or you can hop onto TS and find me, we can play some games together if there isn't any DotA 2 going on.
AKA No can Dazzle | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlTpX7z3Pok
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AndyJay
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia833 Posts
August 18 2011 06:46 GMT
#30172
I always recommend new players 1v1 a friend (who's experienced) over and over until they are comfortable in lane. It's quite painful and frustrating but the fastest way I have found to go from newbie to pub stomping superstar.
[TYG]Transcend
Profile Joined March 2008
679 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 09:54:53
August 18 2011 09:09 GMT
#30173
I hope my AMD 3200 series can play DotA2 at lowest settings. Running a 7 year old tower. >: 6600GT graphics was the shit back then!

This EHOME vs Tyloo match is so o_o''...
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17432 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 13:43:43
August 18 2011 13:41 GMT
#30174
On August 18 2011 14:39 Boblion wrote:
Just started HoN tonight ( free mode ), it is my first moba and i don't really know what hero is good for a beginner.

I have tried Dampeer he seems quite cool but a bit too much glasscannon for my taste.
Nomad seems too technical for me atm, i always get killed lol but i hate to play against him.

So far i had my best success with Hellbringer. He is quite fragile and i always get shitty K/D stats but at least i don't feel the need to be agressive. I usually try to go with another hero and i can be annoying early on with the ranged attack. However once we get to mid / late game i feel really useless ( only assists ) and i get killed so fast if i'm not very careful. The only good thing is the invocation ( works well against towers ).

Some tips ? Since it is free mode i have a limited number of heroes available :o


Check a few pages back, there was some beginner advice.

Also:

HoN Beginner's Guide

It's pretty dated (I believe I made it during beta for all the people unfamiliar with DotA/HoN) and the game has gone a very long way since then but the basics should still be true. There's also some good discussion in the thread.

http://heroes-newerth.com/hon-strategy/the-ultimate-guide-to-winning-games

Pretty bad guide too but touches on several topics newcomers might find interesting (pushing, counter-pushing).

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Specific hero guides: http://honcast.com/guides (this page also has competetive vods with commentary)


I think you can follow from there.

Also, remember NotJack's advice:
1. Learn to play heroes who don't need farm (Wtich Slayer, Andromeda, Plague Rider).
2. Learn to farm.
3. Learn to play heroes who don't work without farm.

Edit: For free mode, provide us with the list of hero pool available this week so we can point you towards better starting heroes.
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 14:50:03
August 18 2011 14:36 GMT
#30175
On August 18 2011 14:39 Boblion wrote:
Just started HoN tonight ( free mode ), it is my first moba and i don't really know what hero is good for a beginner.

I have tried Dampeer he seems quite cool but a bit too much glasscannon for my taste.
Nomad seems too technical for me atm, i always get killed lol but i hate to play against him.

So far i had my best success with Hellbringer. He is quite fragile and i always get shitty K/D stats but at least i don't feel the need to be agressive. I usually try to go with another hero and i can be annoying early on with the ranged attack. However once we get to mid / late game i feel really useless ( only assists ) and i get killed so fast if i'm not very careful. The only good thing is the invocation ( works well against towers ).

Some tips ? Since it is free mode i have a limited number of heroes available :o

Tip #1. Don't play predator.

I'm a pretty n00b player myself, and after playing random for a couple months, I am trying to focus on really learning a couple heroes well. And after about 10 games of desperately trying to make pred work.....I give up. He just sucks. He's a 1 v 1 supreme that can't actually kill anyone 1 v 1....He'll probably never lose a 1 v 1 vs anyone remotely close in lvls or items, but he has no stuns and his slow lasts about 2 seconds. So he'll get someone down to about 30% hp, and then they'll just run off and he'll never catch them. He never dies, but if your team sucks, you'll never get kills either. Just had a game last night where I was 0/1/9 in a 40 minute game. I died once while doing some jungling early, and got a few assists from initiating, but never was useful the entire game despite being involved in most teamfights. I was farmed like a beast, but never could really put it to good use. Contrast that to the witchslayer game I had immediately afterwards where i was something like 13/4/19 in the same time period.

Tip #2. Don't play heroes with skill shots/complicated skill mechanics. That means valk, devourer, magmus, soul-stealer, pharoah, aluna.........you get the idea. If a hero has 3/4 abilities that pretty much need to be synced well to be fully effective, then don't play that hero.
maJes
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom186 Posts
August 18 2011 14:55 GMT
#30176
Don't initiate with pred, that's for your team to do. Just clean up everyone by jumping someone during/after initiation and proceed to activate ult, stone hide and wreck everyone who can't get away.
BE'YENNEH......YAOWRL.....
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
August 18 2011 15:09 GMT
#30177
On August 18 2011 23:55 maJes wrote:
Don't initiate with pred, that's for your team to do. Just clean up everyone by jumping someone during/after initiation and proceed to activate ult, stone hide and wreck everyone who can't get away.

Hence why I said "if your team sucks". If your team composition is sub-par/your teamates can't hit stuns, then you aren't a hard carry, you're just an inconvenience for the opposing team. You can't do anything to them, they can't really do anything to you. I could see him as a counter-pick to a hero like pharoah or zephyr, but otherwise avoid at all costs.
Zum_ltu
Profile Joined June 2010
Lithuania43 Posts
August 18 2011 15:13 GMT
#30178
On August 18 2011 23:55 maJes wrote:
Don't initiate with pred, that's for your team to do. Just clean up everyone by jumping someone during/after initiation and proceed to activate ult, stone hide and wreck everyone who can't get away.



yes dont init with pred ever wich has shrun inside his ass, lifesteal and slow , and silly ulti. Better wait till all your support dies then go rampage mode.

above guy plz stay at 1300 rating. or stop trolling
qq
maJes
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom186 Posts
August 18 2011 15:32 GMT
#30179
On August 19 2011 00:13 Zum_ltu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2011 23:55 maJes wrote:
Don't initiate with pred, that's for your team to do. Just clean up everyone by jumping someone during/after initiation and proceed to activate ult, stone hide and wreck everyone who can't get away.



yes dont init with pred ever wich has shrun inside his ass, lifesteal and slow , and silly ulti. Better wait till all your support dies then go rampage mode.

above guy plz stay at 1300 rating. or stop trolling


I'm guessing you're not really that great if you resort to throwing around made up MMR as a reason for shitting all over what I posted.

If your team initiation is predator you're probably not going to do very well if you're playing the pred imo, because if you are herping and derping and jumping on someone to start a teamfight you are going to get wrecked by the other team, who must have outpicked you horrendously for pred to be your only initiation.

You might also want to get your glasses prescription checked friend, because I didn't say anything about letting your support feed and jumping in 5 minutes later, I distinctly said to go in after or during, which means as soon as say your tempest/behe/bubbles/whoever has ported in and activated their ulti, or as they are blinking in to do it.

All that unpleasentness aside predator is a pretty strong hero Sm3agol. He's fantastic at teamfights when he enters them properly, and great at pickoffs due to leap and stonehide. Even if your team has no initiation potential he farms like a beast and as said, you can pick people off if you're patient before just rolling through the opposing team with superior items and survivability.
BE'YENNEH......YAOWRL.....
Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 15:41:12
August 18 2011 15:34 GMT
#30180
On August 18 2011 23:36 Sm3agol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 18 2011 14:39 Boblion wrote:
Just started HoN tonight ( free mode ), it is my first moba and i don't really know what hero is good for a beginner.

I have tried Dampeer he seems quite cool but a bit too much glasscannon for my taste.
Nomad seems too technical for me atm, i always get killed lol but i hate to play against him.

So far i had my best success with Hellbringer. He is quite fragile and i always get shitty K/D stats but at least i don't feel the need to be agressive. I usually try to go with another hero and i can be annoying early on with the ranged attack. However once we get to mid / late game i feel really useless ( only assists ) and i get killed so fast if i'm not very careful. The only good thing is the invocation ( works well against towers ).

Some tips ? Since it is free mode i have a limited number of heroes available :o

Tip #1. Don't play predator.

I'm a pretty n00b player myself, and after playing random for a couple months, I am trying to focus on really learning a couple heroes well. And after about 10 games of desperately trying to make pred work.....I give up. He just sucks. He's a 1 v 1 supreme that can't actually kill anyone 1 v 1....He'll probably never lose a 1 v 1 vs anyone remotely close in lvls or items, but he has no stuns and his slow lasts about 2 seconds. So he'll get someone down to about 30% hp, and then they'll just run off and he'll never catch them. He never dies, but if your team sucks, you'll never get kills either. Just had a game last night where I was 0/1/9 in a 40 minute game. I died once while doing some jungling early, and got a few assists from initiating, but never was useful the entire game despite being involved in most teamfights. I was farmed like a beast, but never could really put it to good use. Contrast that to the witchslayer game I had immediately afterwards where i was something like 13/4/19 in the same time period.

Tip #2. Don't play heroes with skill shots/complicated skill mechanics. That means valk, devourer, magmus, soul-stealer, pharoah, aluna.........you get the idea. If a hero has 3/4 abilities that pretty much need to be synced well to be fully effective, then don't play that hero.

Your letting your own bad experiences corrupt your objectivity, pred is a solid hero, and with the right amount of farm he can completely plow through a team.
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