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5 carry team, outside of organised teamplay, can win. It has a lot of weak points, but if you manage to get core on everyone, it's pretty much race agains time, since enemy team has to stop you before you reach insane amounts of gold.
Early ganks, focusing on 1 target, CC, those can disable 5 carry team well, but only if done early. As I said, if every carry gets his core and they all manage to farm at least decently, enemy team has time until 40 or so minutes.
Then again, that's why we see so many gankers/nukers/ability based champions played in Tournaments. They reach their "core" potential much quicker, allowing them to decimate opponents aiming for late game if done well.
Still, Pub enviroment = anything goes.
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Got my dota key a couple of weeks ago, someone else here that didn't get 2 extra keys?
btw would be nice to play with you guys, http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197988373893/ if you want to add me
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Tit had just played a game with us. I didn't need to carry because I felt that our team had already outplayed the other team by miles and I could just focus on having fun.
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I felt the same about Lich and Death Prophet until I started losing all the time.
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The annoying thing is when they never listen to you
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How do you get better if you don't play?(besides reading guides, you can't apply it without playing)
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It's really hard to teach new players because DOTA is so complex.
That's one of the reasons why you just don't want to q with people who are new. It's easier to teach an experienced player if they're doing something wrong, while with newer players your advice might just go straight over their head because they don't know what you mean.
It's not that they aren't listening, they just literally don't know what to do. If you tell an awful sniper that he should buy lothars, for instance, he's not going to know what that is and he might not know how to even buy it piecemeal. And then he might not know how to use it properly, and he might have built/farmed Sniper rather poorly so lothras wouldn't help much.
Meanwhile if you tell a more experienced newbie to buy lothars, he's probably farmed & built Sniper up pretty well and he understands what to do. It's like there's a threshold for being new, and there's a cut off point wher eyou just can't help some players.
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Why would you tell people to build lothars.
In the end of the day they will think that it's a good item.
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It's a good item.
But only with retarded pubs.
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Also I just tried out Enchantress and, holy fuck she's an unkillable beast.
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So eh what's the chance of getting a key? I signed up ages ago but still didn't get anything...
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Eh, if new player isn't stuck up asshole and is willing to listen, teaching him anything isn't hard at all.
What ares of Dota you find so complex that example and words can't explain?
And on the Lothar, it is an item. Even Dagon has it's uses, thats why it is still in the game.
Lothar gives damage, invisibility and backstab. Now, it's rather expensive, but unless enemy invests in wards/dust they won't be able to get you. If you are smart at using it, you can use it to initiate.
Yes, a Blink Dagger is better to initiate, but it : can be disabled by damage, doesn't provide stats.
Just because something isn't used all the time in a competetive scene, or some high end players describe it as bad, it doesn't mean it has to be so. Dota is very situational game.
A comptetive scene has it's rules and metas, Lothar could fit there if we somehow got Invis-meta. Dust costs, has area of effct, can be purged and duration is lesser than cooldown. Gem is investment that can even empower the enemy. Don't be one sided here, I dare to say Icefrog is smart enough not to balance game around pubstomping,thus Lothar either has it's good uses or is to be remade.
Stars of the Dota scene tend to be one-sided as well. Just by listening to podcasts or watching their gameplays, they usually go "this sucks' "this is op", etc. If they were to argument their statements, answers would be easy to guess.
What you think about Lothar ? - It sucks. - Why ? - Dust/wards.
Now, this is true.
But. There is always but. Lothar could be used to sneak around enemy wards without Smoke, i.e. constantly without having to buy item a group would use better than single unit.
Theory : Your team has a jungler that besides his usual stuff picks up Lothar, to cross river undetected and farm enemy jungle as well (if they don't have a jungler). If enemy team didn't cover their jungle with wards as well, he is on freefarm. He might find enemies, but hopefully he has an escape mechanism.
This is just from the top of my head, probably lacking and not perfect example, but what I am trying to say is that just because "people say so" doesn't mean it is so.
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Play against semi-decent Bounty Hunter.
She is paper-mache in terms of health.
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Teaching new players should be done in bot games, put it on easy or whatever and be patient. If they jump into matchmaking they'll just get scarred forever.
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Sniper w/ lothars is a worthy foe as long as he's reasonably fed.
As Tokagero said, it's contextual. If you play pub, not every team buys wards/dust/gem or uses such very efficiently. And certainly, you can trick an enemy team who has warded or even gank around the wards.
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I disagree.
I think the only way to learn dota is to play matchmaking with other teammates then mindless bots.
It will help you in the long run.
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First game matchmaking will just break their spirit and they won't want to play any more. :/
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FUCK EVERYTHING
Just got my first lose ever with skeleton king thanks to a fucking 0 11 batrider stealing my fucking aegis
oh my fucking god
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A couple of things :
1. Many people treat AI as inferior to real players. While it is true, Valve has done great job on some of the AI and despite that, some people willing to learn might still care not if they are not playing against flesh and bone enemy. Think of it as Morale, why try if enemy is 1s and 0s ?
2. Bots have niches that are exploitable, player shouldn't learn to rely on those, but learn to spot them. Spotting the same niche over and over isn't effective.
3. A loss is as good as victory, except you get different music and voice lines. Experience is what counts, as well as fun if we are past basic learning. Even game, a pubstomp, getting pubstomp, any game might give you a reason to say "The more you know".
4. How you want people to have fun exploiting one's lack of knowledge if new players won't play mm ? It's not nice, but it is a guilty pleasure sometimes. I am not talking about hardcore pubstomp, just use something basic they don't know 2 or 3 times and then explain it to them. I explained in one match to enemy Clinkz that if he harasses me with Searing Arrows by casting them on me instead of right click and toggle, our creeps won't target him. Hurted, but he learned.
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ALRIGHT! BACON!
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As a new player myself, bot games only help teach you how to play heroes. They're good for practicing skill builds & item builds, but they don't teach you the sort of atmosphere you're going to be under w/ that hero.
Bot games also don't teach you theoretical strategies, such as last hits. If I'm practicing Skeleton King, for instance, a bot practice match can teach me when I should use my nuke, but it can't teach me when I should autoattack an enemy creep. Unless I know what last hits are, I might just autoattack the whole lane and think that's a good idea (which a lot of really, really new players end up thinking).
That's why you need a more experienced player to teach you those strategies, and you also need to walk into matchmaking yourself and see how the game plays out with humans.
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Why do all bat rider players i come across suck.
It's like, the moment my team mate picks bat rider, our loss becomes forthcoming.
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Funny how I just won against a semi carry Bounty Hunter as Enchantress. v
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Match ID, now.Funny how I just won against a semi carry Bounty Hunter as Enchantress. vv
Every time I random that thing and enemy has BH, it's either a loss or at least my deathfest.
Crit, Shuriken,-Armor, Backstab damage. In those games I usually purchase bracers or a lot of Vitality Orbs.
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1002800 (oh wow we're above 1 000 000)
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You know what's fun?
When the enemy team has Drow, Huskar, or any other Auto-attack dependent heroes.
And I build Halberd as Sven.
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That Gondar was pretty nice, but he missed a lot of Ults (as in he didn't cast them for bonus gold before killing guy), wasn't playing with team at all and used a freakin salve in freakin pool.
Still, he killed you a couple of times well. Under tower, etc.
You can't say BH doesn't hurt Enchantress a lot (at least compared to many other heroes).
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He does, but we still won because of that broken Impetus.
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Why would you get aegis.. on skeleton king?
I mean yeah reviving twice is pretty cool but by time you revive the second time your team will most likely be dead and you'll die instantly.
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yeah better give it to a 0/11 bat rider he sure will make good use of it right?
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Lvl 3 Ult + Aegis + Refresher Orb = Ballin outta control
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Maybe that's why people shower me with compliments whenever I play him, I know what to do with the guy. Everyone just lassos the first person they see, fly in a random direction and NEVER use tar. They also flamebreak people near death AWAY from us and they end up escaping or they cast the fire trail and just fly into trees and dick around because they don't know how to use it. The first time I played him I did that stuff but it took like a second to realize how what I was doing was fucking up my team.Why do all bat rider players i come across suck.
It's like, the moment my team mate picks bat rider, our loss becomes forthcoming.
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Like Tokagero said, it's incredibly useful with your Level 3 Ult. By the time you're focusing on Rosh, SK should be pretty tanky which also makes him a pretty devastating hero too when he comes back from the dead.
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Why do bad players never ask for advice ._.
Lost 2 matches in a row with witch doctor, both for the same reason. We are dominating but we have 1 team mate that sucks horribly, he leaves and then everyone starts leaving...
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Becuas eif someone ever says they are new, they are shunned and abused.
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Had a satisfying game for once, with good ol' Enigma. Those holes are satisfying to land, every single time.
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That's not what I was saying, at all.
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Now I understand, thanks for not being an asshole about it.
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So what
Getting aegis on skeleton king is awesome, and all I have to say to prove so is:
divine rapier
(and I'm not trying to sound like an asshole!)
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Looking for another update.. will it goes to maintenance?
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There won't be an update this week.
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