EPTThe GOOD Moments in Dota - Page 9
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Kontys
Finland659 Posts
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Sassback
United States718 Posts
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lazyitachi
1043 Posts
OP to add TLDR: THIS NOT BRAG THREAD http://dotabuff.com/matches/231536989 This fuckin mag... hit such clutch RPs and skewers into march and calldown. Enemy team stood no chance. I watched the replay a few times to jack off to his insane initiation | ||
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
On July 05 2013 16:33 lazyitachi wrote: Possible for Mod to change the title or add note? OP to add TLDR: THIS NOT BRAG THREAD http://dotabuff.com/matches/231536989 This fuckin mag... hit such clutch RPs and skewers into march and calldown. Enemy team stood no chance. I watched the replay a few times to jack off to his insane initiation If the good moments result in bragging so be it, there's no problem with that. | ||
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lazyitachi
1043 Posts
Its not to brag about your ultra killz or imba 2k critz This thread proofs TLers are good at reading titles but cant read an OP for their life. Here for you since you have reading problems too This is a thread dedicated to the moments in dota that make the game worth playing, but not those that you brought about, but those that were created by your teammates to help you, the carry that actually carries you, or the support that wins you the game from the second row. | ||
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Logo
United States7542 Posts
Playing Io with a team that's flowing well and making use of you is really really fun. So thank you random Faceless Void for not being like almost every other FV and actually playing off my skills; he even positioned his ult right so it never actually caught me in it (which is also really nice as Io because you can stay still and wreck someone with the nuke easily). | ||
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wuhan_clan
United States5609 Posts
On July 05 2013 23:39 Logo wrote: I random a lot and got Io. I've played Io a few times before so I have a good understanding of his skills, but have never really had much success with him given that he's really dependent on your allies also understanding Io. Well this game it finally happened and my Faceless Void just understood how to take advantage of me. He was really willing to be extra aggressive and rely on me passing him regen and we even made some good use of teleport. Our luckiest moment being me teleporting him out before he died to an SB only to bring him back after fountain regen and having him pop his ult for a double. Up early from the success it felt great to have a nuke that was relevant (rather than a slow levelling Io's nuke just being a nuisance). Playing Io with a team that's flowing well and making use of you is really really fun. So thank you random Faceless Void for not being like almost every other FV and actually playing off my skills; he even positioned his ult right so it never actually caught me in it (which is also really nice as Io because you can stay still and wreck someone with the nuke easily). I've solo queued as IO/wisp quite often, even when I was muted (yeah silly i know). Like you, playing Io with complete strangers who know how to work with a wisp has got to be one of the more satisfying moments in Dota. We see pro teams run wisp to great success all the time and then when we try it out in our pubs, it usually results in lots of broken tethers and various fails. But when you hook up with someone who knows wisp as well, man that feels awesome. In a game earlier today, I was SF mid vs a Pudge. Nothing is really happening but as soon as the first night time hit, a wild Bane appears to drop me off a clarity and then he places a high ground ward for me to scout hooks. I was like damn, this guy is on point. It's when you have teammates like this that make you want to keep playing Dota. | ||
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Aeropunk
Australia255 Posts
Also just learning how to move with Puck has been one of the best gaming experience I've had. So much fun just bouncing around and really feels good when it starts to click. | ||
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Cevari
Finland74 Posts
So the game comes up, and I'm the captain of my team. This isn't something I'm scared of as such; I watch pro games and I've played with a full party of friends in team matchmaking before so I know the basics of drafting, but I was kind of hoping to just let someone else take the responsibility and just play whatever is asked of me. I ask if my team has a premade group in it, thinking that if there was I'd just let them tell me what to pick, but apparently we're just a group of five randoms, so I just man up and tell them that if they want to be involved in the draft they'd better pipe up and if not they'll have to do with what I go for. The draft can be found here: http://dotabuff.com/matches/236594203/picks , us being on the Radiant. It was a relatively uneventful draft right up to the last pick. I ask for opinions for a mid hero and the team is divided. Many suggestions are thrown around, but we can't seem to agree on any one hero. Indeed the only thing we did agree on was that we wanted some more carry potential besides our Alch. I go with TA in the end, only to find out that nobody on the team feels too confident in actually playing her. This combined with our opponents' last pick of Axe makes me feel pretty uncomfortable, fearing that I've messed it all up for us with the last pick. Thankfully one of the other players on the team picks the TA and I'm not forced to go on her myself, and I end up with the offlane Dark Seer who is definitely one of my more comfortable non-support heroes. The game does not begin the way we wanted at all. Our opponents are running an aggressive trilane of Kunkka, Treant and Shadow Demon, who score a couple of very early kills presumably on the back of the ridiculously strong Disruption into Torrent combo. In the meantime, TA also dies twice 1v1 against Axe in mid, and I'm starting to get that creeping feeling of a game slipping out of control. The good news is that our Alch has not died yet, only his supports, and even when their safe lane solo Furion TPs to bot to get a double kill I at least manage to take his tower while he's gone. My team is also surprisingly calm, with everyone just focusing on playing as best we can instead of blaming others for the bad situation we find ourselves in. Then the first big turnaround happens. The next fight on the bot lane occurs right under our T1 tower, with Furion helping the dive with his treants, but this time we're ready. I TP in and the TA also shows up, and though we don't exactly stomp the resulting fight we at least break even. We still lose fights after this, but we never get completely crushed and our far more lategame oriented lineup starts to show its strength. In the midgame we get a couple of fights where the strength of the Jakiro/DS combo really comes into play, and eventually we stomp our way to victory in a convincing fashion. The reason this game belongs in this thread is that even after a dreadful early game where the offlane matchup was the only one where we broke relatively even, the team really worked together to claw our way back into the game. We saved each others asses, executed some cool Surge / Shadow Blade initiations and got rewarded for it. Hell, there was one moment in the late early game where Alch walked into three enemy heroes and blew himself up with Concoction right in the middle of them, and nobody raged at all. I found it really amazing, and the fact that we pulled a win out of it made it very sweet. I thanked all of them for a great game at the end of it, and I've had a smile on my face the rest of the night. P.S. I think three people on my team were Russian. They all spoke english, none of them flamed or griefed anyone, and they all played very well. So yay stereotypes. | ||
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Gotuso
Netherlands733 Posts
 Our whole team sighs and asks him why he picked another carry. Juggernaut goes crazy and says he will go afk if Skeleton King takes a creep. 10 minutes later our Jugger/SK top-lane got around 7 kills. Skeleton King has Arcane Boots! He actually realized his pick was bad and then made it work by playing support, taking no farm and letting Jugg own face. Even though I kept dying to the Void/Invoker (killed in chrono before I could Ghost Scepter or pure damage that went through my magic immunity) our Jugger was so fat it didn't really matter and we handily won the game. Thanks Skeleton King for being and awesome support! <3 | ||
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Luminox
France223 Posts
The entire rest of the game , each time someone made a mistake, or fed, or missed a skill, there was no rage from anyone, only love. Sometimes I ultied uselessly, and noone seemed to hate me for it. Each time we got someone, we cheered. I had a real blast in that one playing a hero I don't even know, and got added by one of the guys afterwards because of this game. Although my real best moment would have been playing meepo on sd with a team that didn't flame me. That was pretty swell too. I even managed to get the most kills of the game, even though we lost to a really fed ursa. Sometimes, in dota, people play and don't bitch. This makes for the best games =D | ||
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hooahah
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Airact
Finland366 Posts
Me as the DK. I don't really know how to build or skill a DK but that's how I tend to roll with my heroes. I had a keyboard problem (for some reason some buttons on my keyboard decided to start opening random things like the Control Panel and such) and had to reboot so I missed a wave. Apparently dotabuff didn't like that, you'll see if you check my skill build. When I reconnected I apparently picked Dragon Blood level 1 (I didn't pick a skill when I disconnected) so that's a thing but level one shenaningas didn't happen so it wasn't too bad. I noted that Venge was mid and that DK + Pugna vs Windrunner + Void was a decently bad matchup for us (doesn't help when my DK is pretty terrible). Fortunately for us the Windrunner decided to donate a kill or two for us. Meanwhile their Dazzle fed Bristleback decently well. Now you might think it was just a random stomp... Until we decide to feed 3 heroes to them in a fight in dire jungle so it actually was kinda close. This Venge was probably the best one I've seen in a while. Swaps guys to safety, buys Mek, uses Mek, rotates mostly effectively, saves my sorry DK butt multiple times etc. Our team had TPs which also saved me from the big bad Void who dove on me once, and Wards (at least from time to time) to see rotations, stuff like that. Oh, and Bristleback was farming. Eventually after some mishaps, feedings and what-not, our team got better with our teamfights on the back of Venge doing some clutch Meks, stuns and swaps, Disruptor doing terrible, terrible damage with his ultimate and Glimpse, me trying to get close enough to WR and Dazzle to stun them and overall going 1a on people and Pugna having a Ward and Decrepifying Void (and/or whoever was getting attacked). Not the most common team in the world but damn it worked. Also Void went MoM into Crystalys so now I know that MoM amplify + Decrepify amplify = a lot of amplified Magic Damage when the Void has ~1k health. It's embarassing to get carried so hard by a team that goes carry Bristleback and mid Venge but hopefully I learn from this so I don't have to get carried as hard in the future. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
That part of Dota is pretty good. | ||
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
Thank you so much to the Lifestealer who was able to consistantly farm all game until he bloomed into a magnificent red ball of death and teeth. | ||
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CrazyBirdman
Germany3509 Posts
I love these back and forth games. So fun to play. | ||
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
And wow it's so much fun to play with somebody who is roaming early with you. They're just having fun even while losing and won't blame me as the one guy who doesn't belong to them. Thanks frenchies! | ||
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Jinxed
United States6450 Posts
My last one today was especially so. As Dazzle I wanted to get aggressive so I at level 3 I took 2 points of poison touch. This led to a kill on lycan. However at 4 I didn't skill grave, and then for some reason thought I should max my heal (mb that was right, still not sure). After missing like 5 grave chances (and getting like 2 or 3 bad ones) I was going for the build: not doing to well, into losing us the game. The lycan on the other team got first rosh, and from that they pretty much took all our outer towers. After them failing to break base on us they went for the second rosh. This time though we were ready and Rocketbear on storm managed to steal it. This led to a full wipe and us taking their mid melee rax. From there we got a few good teamfights, though game was hard because prophet, invoker, and lycan had all gone midas. Our Sniper went midas as well, and honestly thanks to him we were still in it. Our Abaddon player was awesome, combining with me to save people left and right. We ended up fully raxing them after another teamfight where we went 3 for no one. After this we took bottom rax as well before waiting for roshan. Roshan spawns, we get aegis and cheese and then from there it's gg. I can't believe I was so bad early, but it turns out fine in the end. TY chopper, and to the sniper/abaddon players as well. | ||
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DavoS
United States4605 Posts
On July 06 2013 23:11 wuhan_clan wrote: I've solo queued as IO/wisp quite often, even when I was muted (yeah silly i know). Like you, playing Io with complete strangers who know how to work with a wisp has got to be one of the more satisfying moments in Dota. We see pro teams run wisp to great success all the time and then when we try it out in our pubs, it usually results in lots of broken tethers and various fails. But when you hook up with someone who knows wisp as well, man that feels awesome. In a game earlier today, I was SF mid vs a Pudge. Nothing is really happening but as soon as the first night time hit, a wild Bane appears to drop me off a clarity and then he places a high ground ward for me to scout hooks. I was like damn, this guy is on point. It's when you have teammates like this that make you want to keep playing Dota. Io is a great hero, and even if your allies don't communicate you can just tether and overcharge and wreck people. And spirits is an excellent spell for initiating, zoning, and kills. Last time I played him I was at the well and my team was chasing down 3 enemy heroes. Relocate in front of enemies, tether and stun both, pop spirits and BOOM! teamwipe. Last game I played was as enchantress, and it was great. Laned safe lane with Tidehunter vs Pugna/Riki, and things went so well. Killed Riki once before his ult was up just by him being careless+enchant, got him right at level six with a well timed dust, so I instantly bought a gem and he was just food for our team all game. I never died and kept the gem, and once we started 5 manning I found out that our Huskar had been wrecking faces and was basically unkillalel. The best part was their team was split pushing well and they had a REALLY good Axe, so it was still a fun game | ||
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Emnjay808
United States10656 Posts
I go against SF mid, and I have superior cs. I could tell he was struggling to cs against me and I had the better block. I was just about to get my bottle in 2min time after starting null tango. BAM NP COMES MID AND GANKS ME. Im like FUCKKK. I forgot I had tangos and all. This repeats twice more before I could even get my bottle and boots. Its like 8min into the game and my teammates are somewhat losing their lanes also. Everyone starts blaming me, and Im like NP is ganking mid so much, I cant do shit. Anyways, SF roams and kills my team more, while I camp mid and get my bottle and boots going. I finally get it, but by that time were down 10 something kills with no towers taken. We lost 2 t1 towers by now iirc. Anyways, we make a decision to push mid. But before that I found a REGEN rune. PRAISE THE GODS. I DID WORK WITH THIS REGEN RUNE. FIRST PICKING OFF NP, THEN KOTL, THEN SF. The momentum goes our way and were able to snipe out all their towers. And from there we slowly climbed into victory with our carry Aba vs their carry AM. It was a good game. All the shit talking and cyka dota... Good god... | ||
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