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[1.09]

Fair enough, I was wrong about him not being a pro level mid hero.

We can safely assume though that Technomancer is not playing against DK.Burning solomid, and that the advice I'm giving is still pretty legit.

I still think if you're good at holding the creep equilibrium in your favour then the highground advantage should allow you to ignore his harass somewhat and your higher base damage + runes should mean you win the lasthitting battle. He's also very susceptible to ganks in higher level games if he has to walk into the river.

Time to ask for advice myself: How to beat heroes such as sniper/gyrocopter with their ridiculous attack animations as SF? They have base attack damage on par with mine, but a way better animation. I find it really hard to get any lasthits in the first few waves and it snowballs against me from there.

force situations where you have to trade cs for cs. IE, get 2 creeps at low hp, and take whichever one they don't go for. Remember, they have good attack animations, but they don't have the attack speed yet to steal both cs from under your nose (Unless its flak cannon, but lel)

SF honestly just has to sit tight til 2-3, and raze for cs against those heroes, or any hero that has superior laning right off the bat (qop, ta, od, lots of heroes). Your best bet to take on a superior lane opponent is to call for a lvl 3 gank, as SF's nuke potential is stupid high at those early levels, and they probably won't suspect it if you're losing or playing defensive in lane.

 

[Sanjay]

Holy shit Pyrion Flaxs new video is so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp7Y0mm874E.

Get on Mumble, my man. GGEeee.

are you kidding me? I actually know someone who works for twitch im going to get to the bottom of this injustice
Why was he banned?
if i could figure out why i lag when i stream on a computer that can run multiple high end games at once then I would do my best to replace him with pure awesomeness

He was being racist, so go ahead Dorkimoe go get that racist unbanned, make Archie proud.

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

My first video from last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5_1UT9i6E

Watch it to the end.

Edit: Hexing Centaur Warrunner doesn't stop his ulti

 

[Tenck]

Holy shit Pyrion Flaxs new video is so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp7Y0mm874E


Also JiggleBilly > Gullin all day errday.

Hahaha that Pflax video. So damn good.

 

[bananabread]

Go mid, stack the easy camp (or ask a support to do it for you), raze them to death. Your damage now far exceeds theirs.

I hadn't even considered that. Thanks man.

 

[TheIronChancellor]

Man that Liquid vs Fanatic game with the OD and Visage was beautiful.

 

[Schweinehund]

Patch prediction (talking out of my ass);

Test patch today for 6.77, Dusa and possibly Warlord

Frostivus goes live tomorrow

Diretide wasn't on test realms before it went live and valve will be shifting into vacation mode soon. Best to get it out earlier than normal in order to fix any imbalances/critical bugs before the staff takes a break.

Here is a useful list that doubles as vanilla character references for new players who've never played wc3

http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=13574

 

[snack]

I just wanna see snowy map.

 

[ksan]

After reading some articles on rakaka.se I realized that the dota community isn't that bad.
We still need to have Na'Vi yelling to EG on lan that they fucked their moms to reach up to console CoD levels of manners.

 

[Archie]

Dota community seems to have the least drama out of all the #ESPORTS games, in my opinion.

Hell, the last controversial thing I can think of was Tobi being a whiny manchild because he couldn't cast a few games at The International.

 

[Kurita]

I want Christmas hats.

 

[HomShaBom]

Dota community seems to have the least drama out of all the #ESPORTS games, in my opinion.

Hell, the last controversial thing I can think of was Tobi being a whiny manchild because he couldn't cast a few games at The International.

I hate Tobi. Should never be invited to anything official after his performance during that "female gamers" tournament a month or so back.

 

[JustinBB7]

Tobi finally seeing what Reddit really is:

Toby Dawson ‏@TobiWanDOTA

Reading Reddit and it's the same shit, just a different anal canal, might give up reading it for good. Thankyou @TheMaelk for speaking sense

 

[Detox]

I hate Tobi. Should never be invited to anything official after his performance during that "female gamers" tournament a month or so back.

I'm not aware of this, what happened?

 

[JustinBB7]

I'm not aware of this, what happened?

Nothing, it was mostly v1lat, but people like to give tobi shit easily these days because of other things he did. Tobi and v1lat casted a girls only Dota 2 final together at Starladder, but they weren't that great, and a lot of things went wrong in general. The girls showed no interest in the game at all. They randomly just left, went to get drinks, and even texted during the game lol.

 

[Ikuu]

It's probably from this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1503at/the_defense_3_are_all_tournaments_run_this_way/

Plenty of the complaints are valid, Tobi just interested in people telling him how great he is.

 

[JustinBB7]

Will be funny in a few hours/days when he suddenly has to write an apology tweet to reddit. Like he usually does after he says something bad.

 

[F!ReW!Re]

It's probably from this thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/1503at/the_defense_3_are_all_tournaments_run_this_way/

Plenty of the complaints are valid, Tobi just interested in people telling him how great he is.

Yeah I also got a defense ticket, what bugs me the most is that there isn't a clear schedule, who is playing who, at what time and when.
How hard is it to just make an overview on the website or something?
Now it's just: Upcoming matches and a timer that sometimes works...

 

[Ikuu]

Their website is horrible, the production on their stream is pathetic, and they're still having audio issues inside DotaTV.

 

[Balehead]

I hate Tobi. Should never be invited to anything official after his performance during that "female gamers" tournament a month or so back.

He's too good for every tournament anyways. Valve not going out of their way to let him cast the games he found most interesting really tainted the whole International 2 for me.

 

[IceMarker]

The things I hate about Tobiwan is how often he yells at seemingly random times, his giant egotism, and arrogance.

Otherwise he fills the caster role fine, and that's all he should be, definitely not a drama queen.

 

[The Technomancer]

I figured out what I hate about Sniper. He isn't easy to play well necessarily. But he is incredibly braindead easy to play fucking annoying. I never feel like the player who's making my laning miserable is using any modicum of skill to do so.

 

[GorillaJu]

I figured out what I hate about Sniper. He isn't easy to play well necessarily. But he is incredibly braindead easy to play fucking annoying. I never feel like the player who's making my laning miserable is using any modicum of skill to do so.

Axe
Batrider
Silencer
KOTL

 

[Des0lar]

Laning against axe is the most horrible shit ever

 

[Interfectum]

Laning against axe is the most horrible shit ever

I've found a fantastic combo is axe and warlock in the same lane. dot dot dot

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Laning against axe is the most horrible shit ever

It's pretty fun when you're the Axe.

 

[Gully State]

Buy a magic stick as soon as you possibly can if laning against bat rider...that pays off in spades...
Let him spam sticky napalm, you'll just have 15 charges everytime they want to engage..

 

[DietRob]

Laning against anyone that goes invisible with a team that refuses to buy dust is the most horrible thing ever.

I need to branch out and add more Dota friends. I'm Level 3 with 17 wins if that matters. You can find me on Steam, Rob Law.

 

[ksan]

I've found a fantastic combo is axe and warlock in the same lane. dot dot dot

The most fantastic combo is a quas maxing invoker and axe though, cold snap+battle hunger gg no re!

Spoiler

don't...

 

[dorkimoe]

Tobi finally seeing what Reddit really is:

But they are right?

(and I am a big tobi fan)

 

[I H8 Memes]

Not a fan of Tobi. He acts like a juvenile and his style of commentary is similar to a homeless man on a bus shouting about everything he sees.

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

I wish IFC Yipes would commentate on Dota.

 

[Haly]

Scoops, pringles, and stream monsters spamming ow. Exactly what DOTA needs.

"Where yo curly mustache at?"

 

[rac]

The most fantastic combo is a quas maxing invoker and axe though, cold snap+battle hunger gg no re!

Spoiler

don't...

If this was done every game I would uninstall dota.

He's too good for every tournament anyways. Valve not going out of their way to let him cast the games he found most interesting really tainted the whole International 2 for me.

lol

 

[Schweinehund]

Tobi finally seeing what Reddit really is:

Reddit is a trend heavy place where the mass opinion changes every few months. When I first read it tobi was the shit, na'vi was best on urf, and there were singsing/dendi threads like every 5 seconds. Now its about NTH, Merlini and ayesee. A lot of group mentality going on which shouldn't surprise me given the way the site is designed and their rating system, which stops a lot of people from speaking up. Neogaf may have way less posters but atleast I can assign a name to an opinion and hear almost every side of a story.

A lot of these complaints are valid. Tobi shouldn't be the pr figure for the business side, he should just restrict his output to casting and game commentary. His personality is way too explosive to be handling these sort of things. Of course you'll get people who just act like this is the worst thing in the entire world, but that comes with any territory.



"Because of all these "issues", I feel that this has been a poorly run tournament, especially paying more than other tickets"

^That's a bit unfair, given that there is a limited courier attached to the ticket (that adds significant value compared to other tickets). It shouldn't excuse the tournament being run this way though.

 

[BeesEight]

Not a fan of Tobi. He acts like a juvenile and his style of commentary is similar to a homeless man on a bus shouting about everything he sees.

Yup. He's great when you're new and don't really know much about the game since he can drum up some excitement from the confusion the screen but he doesn't bring anything to the table save for an ever increasing ego.

The one nice thing about Dota 2 is that we're swimming in casters.

 

[Aesthet1c]

I actually love Tobi's casting. He brings awesome energy (whether you love it or hate it), and he's very good at keeping up with everything that's going on in team fights. Tobi + Synd casting is my favorite.

That being said, I hate the way he acts outside of matches.

 

[dorkimoe]

When does frostivus go up? Probably christmas eve?

 

[Haly]

It'd be kind of a dick move to release your omgmustplaylimitedtime mode on the fucking EVE OF CHRISTMAS.

My guess is tomorrow or Friday.

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

Scoops, pringles, and stream monsters spamming ow. Exactly what DOTA needs.

"Where yo curly mustache at?"

exactly, that's what i want.

 

[Haly]

exactly, that's what i want.

You are a bad man and you should feel bad.

DOTA needs is own KAYOPOLICE.

 

[Sentenza]

Laning against axe is the most horrible shit ever

It's pretty fun when you're the Axe.

I agree with both statements.

 

[I H8 Memes]

Tony Todd sure does voice a lot of heroes in this game.

 

[dave is ok]

When does frostivus go up? Probably christmas eve?

This weeks update probably. Diretide was very late

 

[RukusProvider]

Holy shit Pyrion Flaxs new video is so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp7Y0mm874E


Also JiggleBilly > Gullin all day errday.

lmao! that killed me.

 

[dorkimoe]

It'd be kind of a dick move to release your omgmustplaylimitedtime mode on the fucking EVE OF CHRISTMAS.

My guess is tomorrow or Friday.

nobody in here has a family that cares about them so who cares, not like they have anywhere to be

jk dont ban me plz Hopefully this thursday then. I got a 6 day weekend starting on xmas, so I need to get that loot and carry Ikuu all day

 

[SamVimes]

Tobi finally seeing what Reddit really is:

Reddit is shit, but Tobi turned on them just because now they're not licking his balls anymore.

 

[HK-47]

Reddit is shit, but Tobi turned on them just because now they're not licking is ball anymore.

And Joindota and the Defense 3 are also shit.

 

[Ikuu]

Pretty funny to see after that complaint thread that the Empire vs KP game isn't being streamed at all (in English), but it does have commentary in-game.

I got a 6 day weekend starting on xmas, so I need to get that loot and carry Ikuu all day

Looking forward to these huge Dorkimoé carries.

 

[Archie]

Reddit is a good news aggregator (which is where I get 90% of the links I make in this thread) but le karma system means that any dissenting opinions are shut down.