[HoN/DotA] Let's Play~!! - Page 506

On August 28 2009 07:40 paper wrote:
heen... next summer i come to you :D

On August 28 2009 10:31 Alventenie wrote:



We don't really rely on gimmick line ups though. The last couple days we have run cm just once or twice (both times to counter clockwerk with just harsh nuking lanes). I would say our line ups are really diverse for most games, although it feels that in a decent portion we run potm due to her just being so versatile =P.

When we do picks we also throw ideas out just how the game might go. I really like most of our picks as some of them are not main stream and under used =P.


edit: we played with mikey the other day and rolled some team who tried to tri lane btm into all in push. we stopped a krob kotl dazzle tri lane with lich kunkka lol

On August 28 2009 11:36 Judicator wrote:


That is a really bad tri lane lulz, you don't play for push with a tri-lane like that.

When I say gimmicky I meant for matches that matter like in tourneys, from Fear's Clinkz from way back to DOGKaiser's Syllabear to Merlini's Silencer/Zeus to Chu's Meepo to DoP's Dark Seer/Visage/Treant, there's always been some affiliation with a NA player and their respective defining hero or picking style. I don't see that in Euros or Asians that much. And no I am not talking about picking good heroes, I am talking about the quality of the team dropping just because their hero was banned (or could have been banned), namely aimed at DoP and DOGKaiser. I just feel the NA teams use their picks/bans too much as a crutch instead of changing play styles with their heroes.

On August 28 2009 08:06 Judicator wrote:
Just curious Testie, who are those HS teams? I am ringing a decent amount now, and a lot of players/teams claim HS but they definitely aren't HS (compared to some of those teams playing in IDEC Earth right now).

On August 28 2009 13:42 DevAzTaYtA wrote:


in my humble opinion, when we have our 5 best (which, unfortunately, is rarely the case) we are probably a 2nd tier na dota team. not quite as good (or should i say experienced) as EG., Pokerstars, SUP!, GDT, EDGE, PZ etc. but we could easily take games off them in casual scrimms (excluding EG.). pretty sure if the 5 we had scrimming today had a little more experience playing together in high-level games we'd be a definite contender for top tier.

but ya we don't rely on particular heroes at all. we tend to lean towards potm, zeus and cm a lot if all the standard bans are in place but we've been trying to vary our strats more recently. a bunch of teams still insist on banning meepo vs us but we don't even run him anymore... i think testie must have scarred them for life.

i really liked the roaming ogre with cm/panda strat we did today. that shit just oozed awesomeness. probably need to give testie a hero with a better escape mechanism next time though versus that clockwerk fp =p

On August 29 2009 01:57 MYM.Testie wrote:
Rad did fine, I could have done better, that's all. I'm not going to argue with 24 wards when I saw them coming. I just kept sacrificing myself for the team. They'd throw all their nukes at me hoping I wouldn't get doom off, then you guys would clean up. Rinse repeat.

On August 29 2009 02:25 Alventenie wrote:
i know he did fine, but i just prefer where i place my wards over him, thats all =P.

On August 29 2009 03:22 Judicator wrote:
You should start then.

On August 29 2009 05:06 ahswtini wrote:
The video quality on that is so bad, wtf happened?