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[FACE]

Most people as a whole that play dota are a bit shitty though.

Source: I'm shitty at dota.

What I meant is that the SA server is populated by hundreds of thousands of mini-Hitlers, most of them brazilians.

 

[SteveWinwood]

Why don't you guys do the decent thing and queue up with hylian?

I tried the other day and he didn't want to!

What I meant is that the SA server is populated by hundreds of thousands of mini-Hitlers, most of them brazilians.

is this a boys from Brazil joke

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

I wouldn't want to queue with you guys if treated me like you treat him in this thread.

#thinkofhyliansfeelings

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

he's not, but maybe you can guide him in game to show where he can improve on, rather than having a cursory look at dotabuff then flame him like hes a whopper.

I'm way worse than him.

Also I don't flame his play, just when he says Lina mid is OP and Lone Druid isn't the worst hero ever.

even then it's with love <3

 

[twobear]

is there an item that increases the magic damage that you deal

there should be

 

[SteveWinwood]

is there an item that increases the magic damage that you deal

there should be

its called veil

or leeg

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

hylian clearly isn't armed with an irl bkb to protect him against your magical barbs.

 

[Raytow]

Orchid does too, but is all damage type? I think.

 

[FACE]

is there an item that increases the magic damage that you deal

there should be

Veil of Discord.

 

[twobear]

its called veil

or leeg

no but i mean instead of casting it on them, it should just increase your damage output

why doesn't this item exist? they're just worried it would make supports too powerful?

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

no but i mean instead of casting it on them, it should just increase your damage output

why doesn't this item exist? they're just worried it would make supports too powerful?

that's league of legends stuff. I wouldn't want that in dota, I like the "simplicity" of knowing what each person can do.

 

[Razzer]

no but i mean instead of casting it on them, it should just increase your damage output

why doesn't this item exist? they're just worried it would make supports too powerful?

Casters in general yeah. Nukes are balanced around being strong early and not as strong late.

 

[1.09]

Because then casters and int heroes (who are much more dominant early-mid game) would scale too well into late game.

 

[twobear]

could you imagine getting a 4x multicast fireblast off against a PA if there was such an item though

it would be lols for days

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

could you imagine getting a 4x multicast fireblast off against a PA if there was such an item though

it would be lols for days

okay now imagine being the pa

 

[inkls]

could you imagine getting a 4x multicast fireblast off against a PA if there was such an item though

it would be lols for days

Its already lols for days tho because of her poor str gain

 

[twobear]

okay now imagine being the pa

oh right so it's fine for PA players to kill other people in two seconds but it would just be so sad for the poor PA player to have the same treatment

 

[sleverfunk]

Icefrog should port those hon items that increases magic damage. Magic shards or somwthing.

 

[FACE]

could you imagine getting a 4x multicast fireblast off against a PA if there was such an item though

it would be lols for days

Getting a 4x multicast fireblast against pretty much anything already is lol for days.

 

[twobear]

Getting a 4x multicast fireblast against pretty much anything already is lol for days.

true.

getting a good multicast fireblast then good multicast unrefined fireblast against PA is already probably the most fun you can have in dota.

 

[xanavi]

could you imagine getting a 4x multicast fireblast off against a PA if there was such an item though

it would be lols for days

ethereal blade+bloodrage ogre

You want to see some magic damage though?

http://a.pomf.se/euqany.webm

2k nuke e-z

 

[LiQuid!]

Why don't you guys do the decent thing and queue up with hylian?

 

[Acinixys]

true.

getting a good multicast fireblast then good multicast unrefined fireblast against PA is already probably the most fun you can have in dota.

With Veil + Eblade on her as well

 

[Haly]

Ok Since WoW keeps crashing I'll post up a lil thing for Hylian that hopefully he'll read and take in some of this info. Sorry cuz this is gonna be a tl;dr

http://pastebin.com/svcmPwDC

Agreed with the bin of paste. And I'll add that you need to seriously work on your mechanics because in that storm vs sniper game, you were walking up to kill creeps using level 1 remnant and you'd wind up eating autos. Sometimes, you would still miss and get denied.

You seem to be allergic to the minimap. I don't know if you're watching it or not because player perspective doesn't show your eyesight but when people are moving out of fog and into vision range, you should be snapping your camera to them via the minimap to scout items and whatever. My impression from watching you play is that your awareness still extends only 800 units around your hero. There was more then one occasion where you were fighting right at the edge of the camera and you could only see a fraction of what you should be seeing. Learn to pan and fight at the same time!

You're still not leading half your ball lightnings correctly. The other half, sometimes you lead when you don't need to. Treat it like Pudge's hook, you're good at that right? You aim where they're walking to, not where they were.

As for the farming thing. You're locking yourself into the mentality of "I'm playing a ganking hero so I should gank 24/7". This is NO BUENO. You need to be much more flexible than that if you're going to play Storm solo queue. You need to recognize when you're in a game where you should farm, and when you're in a game where you should gank. You should also focus on easy ganks instead taking risks for difficult ones because you're simply not good enough to be a playmaker/space-creator like s4. His playstyle also relies heavily on teamwork. Basically, you're trying to play a 7k level Storm with 3k level mechanics in a 3k level environment.

Misprioritizing ganks, combined with your poor farming skills, results in a very suboptimal Storm that's probably doing more harm to your MMR than good.

 

[twobear]

ethereal blade+bloodrage ogre

You want to see some magic damage though?

http://a.pomf.se/euqany.webm

2k nuke e-z

lawd, eek, let me never get ogre aghs if they have a pugna

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

he's not, but maybe you can guide him in game to show where he can improve on, rather than having a cursory look at dotabuff then flame him like hes a whopper.

imagine a world where someone reads before trying to post a sick burn.

 

[manfestival]

ethereal blade+bloodrage ogre

You want to see some magic damage though?

http://a.pomf.se/euqany.webm

2k nuke e-z

I would probably be that guy and never even think about how scepter would be bad against a pugna.

im bringing it back

#FREETHACKER

 

[LiQuid!]

imagine a world where someone reads before trying to post a sick burn.

I wasn't posting a sick burn. I was re-posting a funnay joke that someone else made a couple days ago. Isn't that what the internet is for now?

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

I wasn't posting a sick burn. I was re-posting a funnay joke that someone else made a couple days ago. Isn't that what the internet is for now?

bullying veiled as funny jokes rather than attempting to help?

 

[SteveWinwood]

why dont you help him heavy

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

why dont you help him heavy

I had to control my toxic ways by retiring from Dota.

Also I'm in London and he's in Texas or wherever so I'd be asleep when he gets onto play.

I help by sticking up for him and people in a similar position, like I do in real life by helping murderers and rapists.

 

[LiQuid!]

bullying veiled as funny jokes rather than attempting to help?

Hylian has made it abundantly clear by now that he is beyond the help of GAF. Besides, what can I do, as bad as he is he's still like 1k MMR higher than me.

 

[Acinixys]

I help by sticking up for him and people in a similar position, like I do in real life by helping murderers and rapists.

Jesus dude

 

[Monochromaticx]

I had to control my toxic ways by retiring from Dota.

Also I'm in London and he's in Texas or wherever so I'd be asleep when he gets onto play.

I help by sticking up for him and people in a similar position,

awww thats commendab...

like I do in real life by helping murderers and rapists.

nvm

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

Criminal justice - can't choose your clients.

 

[Razzer]

bullying veiled as funny jokes rather than attempting to help?

One joke under the mountain of helpful posts is acceptable as light ribbing I would say. It's not like there's a continuous stream of insults. (Except that ember spirit guy, he's just being an arse.)

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

One joke under the mountain of helpful posts is acceptable as light ribbing I would say. It's not like there's a continuous stream of insults. (Except that ember spirit guy, he's just being an arse.)

all jokes aside, people pile on him. hence my return.

 

[Monochromaticx]

Jan 2015 marks three years worth of Dota 2 content analysis posts and for the moment I will be putting them on indefinite hold. 2/4 Matthew Bailey (@Cyborgmatt)

 

[kvk1]

He's gonna be the Jerry Maguire to Team Secret.

No time to post new hat pictures for us.

 

[Ember Spirit]

One joke under the mountain of helpful posts is acceptable as light ribbing I would say. It's not like there's a continuous stream of insults. (Except that ember spirit guy, he's just being an arse.)

i posted a gif lol

all jokes aside, people pile on him. hence my return.

it's not like it started that way, hylian doesn't respond well to advice, so eventually people stop trying to help and just treat his posts as a joke

 

[shira]

2015: rise of void guy

 

[Sen²]

If you actually want to improve ,learning how to support could be a very good way to do so, I'm roughly the same mmr as you, 3.8k ,I random almost every game, and even though the position I have the least experience with Is support, I have the highest win rate supporting ,most supports at my mmr are terrible, and just being semi decent at it will get you wins

After seeing shit like this in a 35 minute game, I have no faith in supporting any carry.

I kind of agree with both of you. Support is by far my favorite role, however, I will usually not support if I solo queue because it's just too painful. Whenever I queue with my buddy, whom I know can be trusted to actually hit creeps and not suicide, I'll happily play support. (~3,5k)

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

i posted a gif lol



it's not like it started that way, hylian doesn't respond well to advice, so eventually people stop trying to help and just treat his posts as a joke

You know what the best advice I had from this thread - put people on mute.

So ignore it rather than bullying.

 

[manfestival]

You know what the best advice I had from this thread - put people on mute.

So ignore it rather than bullying.

Wow you really have changed.

 

[LiQuid!]

Heavy's latest Dota ban come with a Valve-ordered, mandatory anger management stint?

 

[Chris R]

Pick Support -> Carry can't carry

Pick Carry -> Zero support from a single support

#trenchdoto


edit: Also, good luck with future ventures Matt!

Spoiler

Keep Artour away from the coco plz

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

Heavy's latest Dota ban come with a Valve-ordered, mandatory anger management stint?

I have reformed. If you guys had attended the AMA you would have found out.

 

[Zeknurn]

Pick Support -> Carry can't carry

Pick Carry -> Zero support from a single support

#trenchdoto

Truer words have never been spoken.

 

[Gentle Rodriguez]

Pick Support -> Carry can't carry

Pick Carry -> Zero support from a single support

#trenchdoto


edit: Also, good luck with future ventures Matt!

Spoiler

Keep Artour away from the coco plz

Play a hero that doesn't depend on supports

like most mids

 

[Cyborgmatt]

Pick Support -> Carry can't carry

Pick Carry -> Zero support from a single support

#trenchdoto


edit: Also, good luck with future ventures Matt!

Spoiler

Keep Artour away from the coco plz

I'm never going to get that song out of my head.