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Hey all, I'm really new to Dota 2, and I'd like to get in the habit of playing public MM games with any GAFers who wouldn't mind queueing with someone so new. I've been in the NeoGAF channel, but are there any particularly good times of the day to do this?
 
Yeah this is something the worry about. Valve has to make sure that heroes remain recognizable enough.

Something similar applies to couriers. Why would you ever pick a courier that really stands out from its environment? It will only make it more likely it'll get picked off. Better to choose one that blends in.

That looks like SK. You can tell cause of the bones chest and bones legs. And people underestimate how much animation plays into recognizing a hero. DK, SK and Sven all run and hold their sword in completely different ways.
 
Both teams had excellent drafts here. I think the only mistake was not respect banning waifurunner in the second set of bans. This should be an excellent (and likely very long) game.

Fear has a sick Clinkz but not Funn1k grade and doesn't have the bounty hunter feeding him track gold like Empire had.
 
Wow sven has been gaining a ton of traction. Love this meta.

A few months ago people dismissed his changes as minor, that turned quick :P.

Because a few months ago he wasnt buffed? And a few months ago ganking wasnt buffed. Just like how BH is stupid now cause they didnt readjust his track gold when they buffed kill gold.
 
Dignitas out? Bummer. Yesterday one of them thought they were going to make top 3.

How's the fnatic team? Tobi seemed to be saying they were pretty strong lately. They didn't do very good before though. IIRC, they're all HoN players right? Have they fully transitioned over recently?

I recognize Dignitas from HON as well. Three of their members were competitive hon players.
 
Navi are in trouble now, going to be hard for Void to farm with Clinkz running around.
 
Good job EG!

Na'Vi sometimes picks odd line-ups, and it's not always clear whether it's because they're cocky and want to try something new, or whether they expect it to work. If they'd gone with a more conventional line-up in game 1, the outcome of the series may have been different.
 
Obama'a America, go EG.

Kidding aside, I figured Na'Vi had a better plan to at least contain the Clinkz w/ Windrunner. They dug themselves into a hole when they swapped lanes for XBOCT and never really recovered from it. Puppey's Lycan was, as it has been in the past, pretty non-effective, by the time you get going if you are at all behind you can't take his build and get a qiuck Roshan w/ TA like he was hoping.

Also a big big play-Dendi getting greedy for the last hit on the mid T1 and getting ganked, which opened up things for XBOCT getting ganked, which delayed his battlefury so much that he couldn't come close to catching up. It wasn't until that last fight with the Chronosphere kill on Sven that Faceless Void did anything that game except feed Clinkz.

edit; There is apparently one of the No Tidehunter games where they didn't respect ban AdmiralBulldog's Lone Druid. This should be fun to watch.
 
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