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DOTA 2 |OT6| Plz vote for Keeper of the Light Arcana
- Thread starter Teknopathetic
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No darude stream?
http://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti_afterparty but not until 7pm PDT according to CyborgMatt
cant talk till u drop ur picz haly, even bzm did
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
racist
Wanna fight?
it's true since i can finally confirm that bzm looks exactly like this:
just add a scarf
Young Mr Burns is not a nerd?
Shorty11857
Member
Yeah this is definitely true, another thing about Fnatic is that players like H4nn1 and N0tail don't really suit roles but more general types of heroes. Like H4nn1 I think does best on playmaker type roles either in the mid or as a 4 position support. N0tail's two main heroes are supports but I think he's a better mid. I think they'd get the most out of trading the mid and 4 position between H4nn1 and N0tail depending on the heroes they pick, which they have been doing a little lately
Green Biker Dude
Banned
luminous is one of the few remaining casters worse than ayesee. he couldn't even pronounce sansheng during the finals. he kept saying shansheng. and that's not even considering how bad his english is or how his commentary is more superficial than toby's. he must be gabe's bastard child or something to get to cast the grand finals
Patch? Is it Techies?
Edit: No Techies, but I am streaming. Post TI4 Edition, might get a bit of discussion going on TI4 as I play, maybe open some chests. It'll be fun!
http://www.twitch.tv/hylian7
Edit: No Techies, but I am streaming. Post TI4 Edition, might get a bit of discussion going on TI4 as I play, maybe open some chests. It'll be fun!
http://www.twitch.tv/hylian7
Satch, you should go into casting except you can do it exclusively in stan. You could be twitch.tv/Standoto.
i've been trying to tell him this but he won't listen i hate satchwar
do you take me for some kind of stunt queen haly???
SteveWinwood
Member
til anbokr cant party and is sleepy and doesnt invite people to pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGcukX4QiO8
gotta love iceiceice. happy he's not retiring.
gotta love iceiceice. happy he's not retiring.
You're a monster.
I didn't see a lot of their games but the ones I did Era was certainly not the weakest link. Xcalibur is really underwhelming as a replacement. He doesn't have nearly the synergy with the old style of play Fnatic ran and he just folds under pressure once teams put him as a higher priority. When he played with them it forced n0tail to team up with H4nn1 instead of Era and changed their entire strategy.
Personally, I feel the team is more in the same position as Alliance. They need to get their act together and put in more practice. When they're on point, they can beat the top teams. The problem is they're probably the least consistent team in the scene. Replacing Era won't fix that. Trixi will go from feeding the enemy to carrying the team--all in the same best of three. Perhaps they could shake up roles, though I thought they experimented with that post TI3 with incredibly underwhelming results.
I think they should focus more on their flexibility. Shoot for unpredictability to get the edge. Have players move into different roles. H4nn1's support ES is pretty good considering he hasn't had a lot of time in that position. N0tail can play a decent farming position if needed. Expand the player's positions and I think they can really be a top team with the improved drafting possibilities.
If there's one thing to take away from Vici's performance it's that the team with the greater adaptability will win. Fnatic should really strive for that adaptability.
Or they can drop some of the players which they've been playing with for years for an incredibly unstable and likely even more underperforming team.
Agreed. I have no idea how Lumi landed not only the main stage but the finals as well. Tobi is awful and the combination with Lumi made it really hard not to run them on mute. At the very least put Synd in there as a compromise.
If Fear doesn't return to playing, I do hope to see more of his casting. I actually enjoyed his stuff for the qualifiers and The Summit. It would also expand the pool of ex-pros to join up with "colour commentary" or whatever we're calling Ayesee, LD, Tobi nowadays. It would be sad to lose Fear from EG, though, but with Mason I'm not convinced they're looking for him to come back.
Captain Fish
Member
It's a bummer DK didn't get to scrim where they're located, I dunno how you're supposed compete without that...
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
A hard carry like AM is at least somewhat doable if your 4 other teammates can distract your opponents long enough for you to get at least your first big item.
Wisp is straight up impossible solo, even if you're playing with CK, Tony or what have you. I've won with a Wisp on my team but that hero is a net negative without some solid communication.
Technosteve
Banned
how much weed did everyone smoke?
I'm not saying Bulldog is responsible for Alliance not being able to win but if he was it's because he's the only player on that team that opponents go out of their way to respect ban. It's not a "limited hero pool" issue at all as much as Alliance's major strength being too telegraphed and easy for other teams to exploit. If Bulldog gets kicked off of Alliance for some reason it will be the first time in the history of Dota that a player gets kicked for being TOO good.
Come at me haters.
Come at me haters.
Respect bans don't nuke his hero pool. They nuke Alliance's entire team strategy.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Tombstone might be my most hated spell in the game right now. IMO it has too many HP at Level 2
He is.
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Tether to someone, alt-click relocate (so it says "relocate > ready"), ping where you want to go, wait a second for them to understand/object, and relocate.
If possible, communicate this way of announcing relocates to your team at the start of the match, and tell them to frantically ping/scribble on the map if they don't want to go.
Alternative: don't solo queue.
Basically the Legion I was supporting blinked into the trees, I was being chased, she had like 10 seconds to TP out, I tethered to her to get away from my chasers and TP'd, then she died and blamed me even though she had plenty of time.
Then she disabled help on me.
balladofwindfishes
Member
So the stream is literally a camera fixed on the DJ lol
NotoriousPUG
Member
Wisp is fun as hell in solo queue. Roam, gank, tether yourself to a right clicker and go nuts.
Edit: winning on the other hand . . .
Local Seattle artist, I thinks?
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Any idea when we get the next balance patch? I'd imagine freezyfrog needs some time to analyze TI4, but on the other hand they've got to release Techies sometime soon..ish.. right?
I want my boi Jakiro to get some buffs, his TI winrate is abysmal. An actually threatening ultimate would go a long way.
I want my boi Jakiro to get some buffs, his TI winrate is abysmal. An actually threatening ultimate would go a long way.