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Valentines soon!
>INFORMATION & GUIDES
Wiki: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Game
News: https://dota2.com/news
Patches: https://dota2.com/patches
Updates: https://dota2.com/news/updates
Lore: https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Lore
For League players: https://dotabuff.com/learn/lol
Bug tracker: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota2-Gameplay/issues
X: https://x.com/dota2
>STATISTICS
https://dota2protracker.com/
https://dotabuff.com
https://opendota.com
https://stratz.com
https://stats.spectral.gg
Personal game data: https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/
>ESPORTS
https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Esports
https://datdota.com
https://dota2.com/esports
https://gosugamers.net/dota2
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Buff Hoodwink
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>>555935326
That's an expression of pain not love
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>>555935949
Shortsighted that you are you fail to see, for all the fanservice we may have lost, we gained Marci lewds in plenty
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>Valentines soon!
if i dont have a deer gf by then im going to explode
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>>555936151
Tifa Lockhart costume for Marci WHEN? GABEN YOU SAID YOU PLAYED FINAL FANTASY 14 EVERY DAY, GIVE US A COLLAB
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So fucking tired of these freaks on my team
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>>555939078
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1664733222
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>>555940150
anon could just be unlucky , or could be good in theory if he were in a different braket , but doesn't understand that at his pool level , mitigating risk is way more important than just being good with 1 hero.
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>>555943018
like what are the type of leverage any hero can have on a match , for example some can have the leverage of being a win condition , so you need them or someome like them , to even be allowed to win. but their are other types of leverage , I assume.
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>>555947470
The only punishment you'll get is a temporary in game mute that lasts until your next game, and you have to be really belligerent with everyone as it depends on how many people have reported you in that match. I call people subhuman nigger trash almost every day and my behavior score is at maximum.
The only thing you get punished for is in game griefing or abandoning matches.
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>>555948397
Nice. Funny how all games used to be like that back then, but now there's virtually none that allow you to say what you want. I really need to get back into dota.
League doesn't even have voice chat because of toxicity. It's a fucking joke.
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>>555949794
Both, you used to be able to mod in completely custom announcers or just the ones the game already has, but it doesnt seem to work anymore.
Im trying to google but cant find any help or post saying its not possible so ive been wondering.
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>winning Dotka
>stressing
>have to play well
>land your ults
>save your cores
>recover from throws
>losing Dotka
>raging feeder on your team
>a fucking smurf on the enemy team
>supports are faggots farming role tokens
>cores are role token using shitters with delusions
Remember - every scrap of MMR you have, you earned.
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>enemy team fighting me
>perfectly coordinated, maximized potential in every encounter, ti level efficiency
>enemy team fighting any of the other 4 retards
>wildly out of position, glaring mistakes, baffling technical missteps and faults
what the fuck causes this? i swear this is some mkultra shit to make me go insane
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does anyone miss old dota? like 2015-2018? or even earlier?
do you think the game is as interesting?
I cant get invested in the current pro players. and I really dont like the direction the game has gone in. when i ask on reddit they say its just because im older
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>>555955663
i miss there being less information and there being less resources in game yea and i miss the map being larger, people say the map is bigger now but heroes can get around faster and outposts practically let the enemy team camp your base when you start to lose
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>>555955663
The Alchemist trilane meta? The Lifestealer meta? The Lycan meta? Fuck no.
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theres a guy in my current lobby pool who each time I play against him picks gyrocopter pos4 and rushes phylactery and just spams the stun rocket and it's actually a pretty good nuke. But then he has no impact, aside from that one thing of course
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>>555958218
t. retard who can't win lane with FREE minus armour
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>>555958725
>win lane
Damn. If only IceFrog didn't change the entire game, repeatedly, to make sure laning isn't the sole determinant of how the game will go. And you being an annoying faggot with your shitty Spirit Vessel won't come back to bite your naked, item-less Weaver later.
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>>555959686
>exact same item build every game
>plays literally every day
honestly sometimes i envy npcs
sometimes i dont play dota for a week
i called in sick the entire last week and didn't do shit and now im dreading boring monday work
someone get me out of this 9-5 hell hole please
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someone was getting really toxic at me for not pressing euls scepter of divinity on him and then he asked me if i knew that euls can be used on teammates and i calmly explained that it cannot even though wind waker can and he apologized
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>>555961786
this is some shit of mandela effect because i remember euls being usable on teammates and it was giga meta but i cant seem to find patch notes about it
when i talked to people they told me that they also remember it
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>>555960634
I noticed the build on a razor on my team who had the most hero damage and damage tanked (we won), also yeah there was a lot of kiting on the enemy lineup.
I've always had issues with recovering from a lost lane on razor since I lacked stats for jungle/was extremely slow at farming while the enemy got enough stats burst me too quickly for link or storm to kill them.
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The Romans believed that during the passage of a comet from Mars, the world would behold a great figure with an unwavering spirit. One who looks to the future with a piercing gaze, one who moves the destinies of entire generations. NIGHTFALL, the greatest carry of our time, the best in his position, the best in his lane. This man survived everything, and the betrayal of the man who followed him, the offended druggie scammer, has always been his shadow and still does, the loss of several teams, but being named the TIME's Person of the Year, his will never wavered. I understand, I understand you perfectly, locust. For years, you've been feeding on NIGHTFALL's fans, trying to argue, trying to break down that wall, to make us doubt, to allow us a moment of weakness against the greatest carry of all, NIGHTFALL, CHADFALL, KDAFALL, Innovator, Galacticus, Itachi of the Uchiha clan, the Professor, the Brilliant Tactician, but they've failed. For our will is strong, like NIGHTFALL's Absolute Will, unbreakable by the locusts crawling out from under the bunk. But now the bunk is gone, it's vanished, the locusts driven underground, where they belong. The sun has risen, spring has arrived, an ocean breeze has begun to blow. NIGHTFALL is the champion, NIGHTFALL is the best, NIGHTFALL is the greatest, NIGHTFALL is absolute, NIGHTFALL is incredible, and finally, NIGHTFALL, is Egor Grigorenko.
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>no wins
>no LAN wins <===== LOCUST ARE HERE
>no riyadh wins
>no international wins
>doesn't count
>fluke
>two flukes
>carried
>carried twice
>he will never be in the goat conversation
>he will never be the goat
>muh old dota
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Just tried it and it works very well. Razor already has all the damage he needs and just aghs is enough to win teamfights. You can also end with aghs after taking a t3 . Didn't even get to a refresher after GG, Pipe, BKB, and Aghs.
That lvl10 spell lifesteal is essential.
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>>555955663
The game is more fun for the most part but the pro scene is vastly less interesting. It's just not as enjoyable to watch and all the new players are completely soulless, plus every scene outside of CIS (and I guess SA) is dead and/or dying.
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>>555975943
>Not the same anon , but why not get out of the past by abondoning mobas.
i dont have a problem connecting with the new generation of player since im not held back by the idea i need to know them intimately to enjoy their play
>That is even more change booomber
change for what?
>just give up the game you like play for the sake of doing it anon!
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Survivability within your budget, basically. Bonus movespeed is good, too. Explode Razor, btw, if you happen to be against him.
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>>555935326
I've only played a couple DOTA2 games in my life. I need to unlock the Kirin Anti-Mage Monster Hunter skin before the event ends for posterity (I'm a serial procrastinator).
1. Can I do this with bot games?
How long will it take? How long will it take if I queue "real" (beginner) games and lose every single one?
2. Which hero should I play?
In League I like top lane bruisers/duelists like Camille, Irelia, Gwen, Jax and a few mages like Cass, Orianna. I liked Rumble and Maokai too.
In Dota Death Prophet appeals to me on pure aesthetic and Marci appeal to me cause of the melee monk aesthetic but I also feel like it would be easier to start with a ranged attack value character ("AD"). Like Meurta but not useless (which she seemingly is, then again maybe I could just stomp new player/bot lobbies with Muerta).
p.s. is queen of pain or templar ass good? any good bread and butter mages? apparently razor is broken but I don't even know what he does
p.p.s. OH HEY THIS IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT
ANY AUTOEXECS OR LAUNCH OPTIONS TO MAKE IT RUN SUPER OPTIMALLY?
CAN I OR SHOULD I FORCE DLSS 4.0 THRU NVIDIA APP?
thanks for any assistance I'm very unsure and lost and kind of intimidated
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>>555983739
If I can't even force myself to play the minimum games required to get a free Wei, why would I ever spend money on the same game I couldn't force myself to play?
It's now or never.I'm broke but the only characters I would ever paypig for are Krobelus cause she's such a fucking cheap date and Marci because uguu
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>>555985716
whats canon for her is showing in the same zip code as a magical nuke and instantly dying for not having a bkb and being an agi hero with 0.5 str gain
but because of this retarded skill she presses her button and I have to pretend i dont see her and hold my fingers and laguna blades for 3-5 business days which is how long until it wears off
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>>555988786
I don't like playing carry, because I have to actually take responsibility for the game's outcome, and farming jungle just so I can right-click the entire enemy team is boring.
No, I can't get 30k on Luna in 30 minutes. I need 40.
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>highest building dmg
>highest hero dmg
>highest networth
>highest kdr
>shotcalling
>trying to coach every other player on team at same time
And mothafuckas are still trying to buy rapier on my team and feed it because all I say is 'aggressive wards please, we're winning', 'let's do rs,' 'play for picks, split push'
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I don't understand what I'm supposed to do when the game reaches the inevitable "Enemy team walks around for 20 minutes killing everyone" phase
this isn't even a "wah my team fed post" like i genuinely don't understand what i'm supposed to be doing
if you show up in a lane you die but you can spend 50 minutes clearing jungle camps and end with less gold than a support
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>you die if they see you in lane
>"have you tried split pushing?"
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>>555996009
To add to this:
>pos 4 picks Nature's Prophet
>immediately leaves lane level 1 to ???
>i get first blooded because i'm vsing nyx and jugg
>proceeds to do NOTHING in lane and leave, not even deward the pulls (ours is blocked, and they are free pulling)
>jugg eventually gets battlefury at an amazing timing because he is going unharassed
>meanwhile this natures is literally teleporting in and feeding and or sprouting himself
>i get told at the end 'you had zero impact'
Now I understand why core players turni nto support players
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>>555978140
Stickers are mostly useless. You can permanently use a sticker to assign it to a hero. Then at the start screen, if you and the hero get profiled, the sticker shows up. For example, I have a Micke 2024 sticker on my NP. I don't think you can ever remove it, just replace it with a different sticker. Assigning stickers permanently destroys them. This system is just copied over from CSGO and TF2 where the sticker would show up on the enemy screen every time you kill somebody, I think, like how TF2 features items you're wearing when you kill someone. Dota used to do that too but took it away for the fight stats and shit you can see when you die instead.
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>>YOU CAN 1V9 AND WIN EVERY GAME IF YOU WERE GOOD
Nobody says that. Even the best players will not have a 100% winrate if they're climbing from 0 mmr to their actual rank. It's a team game, so you need your team to win. When you are better than your team, you need them less, but you still need them. Focusing on yourself (the only constant), is the only way to climb, because the better you are compared to your teammates, the less you'll need them.
This will make you climb, ON AVERAGE (ie by playing a lot), by getting a winrate above 50%. The better you are compared to your team, the higher that winrate will be, but even a 50.01% winrate is enough for you to climb, albeit very slowly. The smurf will have 90% winrate. You being better than your team will get you, say, 50.5%. You'll both climb.
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>1. Can I do this with bot games?
No.
>How long will it take? How long will it take if I queue "real" (beginner) games and lose every single one?
If you want just the base skin, you can pay for the battlepass and it'll give you the base skin. You can't unlock the other tiers without paying anyway.
If you're a f2p wanting just the base skin, it's 12 Commons, 21 Uncommons, and 4 Rares, so I'm guessing it'll take you about 10-20 games. Drops are dependent on enemy picks, you get 50% of a contract's listed drops for losing, and you can eventually just side-craft shit at the same and higher rarities.
Valve also lets you just buy "universal" crafting mats for latecomers and paypigs to just get their hats. So that's an option if you're desperate.
>League top lane bruisers
I swear we only get offlane players coming from League in these posts.
Anyway, there is no true "tank" role in Dota, but there are plenty of fatties. Whether or not they're good picks depends on comp, and usually they're better as farmed cores instead of farmless supports. You can check out for suggestions and ideas to get started: https://dota2protracker.com/meta?mmr=7000&position=pos%2B3&period=8
DP is okay in the offlane, I guess. Razor is currently popular and he's a 1v1 anti-carry you might like if you learn how to play him. LC is the epitome of 1v1 me faget.
>apparently razor is broken but I don't even know what he does
Generally his goal in life is to make sure other people don't get to have fun. I wouldn't say he's beginner friendly because his current meta build requires knowing how game mechanics work but at the newbie levels, I guess it wouldn't matter as long as you're not feeding.
>p.s. is queen of pain or templar ass good?
They are good. QoP is a mid hero, and TA is a mid or pos 1 carry hero.
>any good bread and butter mages?
Plenty. Check out the other roles in the link that aren't pos 1 carry. Plenty of mages in each category.
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>>556000604
Your prophet is a griefing retard but there are still things you could've done better.
>i get first blooded because i'm vsing nyx and jugg
This should just absolutely never happen, Nyx is a completely worthless hero in lane and Jugg spin is not very threatening at level 1. Yes you shouldn't have to solo this lane but there's no way a Nyx and Jugg should be able to kill any offlane hero level 1 unless you fuckup and massively overextend.
>proceeds to do NOTHING in lane and leave, not even deward the pulls (ours is blocked, and they are free pulling)
The solution here is to drag or cut waves, again you have the advantage here of Nyx being a worthless hero who shouldn't be able to stop your drag at all, you should get at least half the waves uncontested this way.
Now sometimes you get these games and instead of Nyx it's a support that you actually can't safely drag lanes against. What I recommend doing is that as soon as you see your 4 pick some grief hero like NP you lock in Axe/Cent/Tide or some other offlaner who can just fuck off to jungle at level 3. Yes it sucks to have to do that but at least this way you're not going to be playing as a melee creep the whole game.
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>>556002851
I'm not gonna spend money that defeats the entire purpose and if I was in the position to paypig I'd be paying for different skins entirely.
>I swear we only get offlane players coming from League in these posts.
I figure most people asking are going to be asking that because a League mid player or a League "ad carry" (ranged character with auto attacks and high scaling meant to carry) can find more easy 1:1 translations.
>Anyway, there is no true "tank" role in Dota, but there are plenty of fatties
Most of my top lane picks are not "tanks" anyway. Or even "fatties". A lot of top laners in League aren't traditional tanks, they're "bruisers", in other words they have some means of survivability whether it's lifesteal or high mobility or whatever, their key attribute is that they excel at 1v1 scenarios, they're duelists that are a problem if they jump on your carry or aren't peeled properly, or splitpush (because if they go off split pushing you can't just send one rando against them, because they excel at 1v1 dueling).
Characters like Gwen, Irelia, Jax, Fiora. They're tanky in unconventional ways like damage mitigation or life steal or their itemization involving items that say "here's stats to better murder a solo opponent and also you get stacking +20 armor every time you attack"
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I am not, that defeats the entire purpose
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I just tested in demo, you can absolutely just TP out of it at level 1 even on Razor. And you should be positoning better so that Jugg can't get a good spin off on you even with the stun set-up.
If you're talking about when going for wave dragging, Jugg shouldn't be anywhere near you to spin anyways if he's busy dealing with wave. And you should be rushing boots and wind lace to make dragging as safe and easy as possible (if you see this kind of lane coming those should just be your starting items even), don't worry about getting wraith bands or wand or anything like that in this kind of lane.
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It's better, because you need follow up from teammates to get a kill, anyway. Your solo kill potential is kind of trash. And I have balled with Mars hard enough to complete a Battlefury before my safe lane did.
>but Eul's!
Is for pros. If you're solo queuing, your choice of mana regen on Mars is Battlefury.
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>faggot "Hard Support" Pudge
>hooks enemy into a kill once
>doesn't roam
>bitches at carry when they lose
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>>556005063
please dont buy battle fury on mars god's rebuke already one shots the wave if you're going to build damage
i used to be a desolator mars andy and it was super fun until games got hard, these days im experimenting with magic mars whos late game is creating the venn diagram of dead enemy gamers
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>mute a faggot because he's feeding the hardest and thinks that's a license to type shit takes while dead
>chat looks schizo because teammates and enemy team keep talking to him
>don't want to punish others with a mute but fucking hell, it's annoying
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>Characters like Gwen, Irelia, Jax, Fiora. They're tanky in unconventional ways like damage mitigation or life steal or their itemization involving items that say "here's stats to better murder a solo opponent and also you get stacking +20 armor every time you attack"
Sounds like you'd have more fun playing mid or carry. There are some offlane heroes like what you describe (namely LC, maybe Axe or Slardar) but most offlane heroes in Dota don't really just manfight people like that, they're either initiators with big teamfight ults or aura carriers (or both).
Razor and DP I would say aren't really offlaners, they're more classically mid heroes who are just sometimes flexed to offlane in a good meta, like right now Razor is broken just because he has a very good aura carrier build and is being played in any core role but he will probably not be a viable offlaner once that's nerfed.
Some other heroes that fit the playstyle you describe:
>Huskar
Mid. Gets stronger the more health he's missing, baits enemies into thinking they can kill him before turning the fight around.
>TA
Carry or mid. Has a charged shield and damage boost and a stationary invis that can be used to spot-dodge projectiles with good timing.
>Slark
Carry. Steals enemy stats as he attacks and has a spell that purges debuffs and another that gives him unbreakable invisibility that he can attack during and tons of HP regen.
>Morph
Carry. Can swap his stats on the fly between agility and strength for high damage/high tankiness. Can turn into enemy heroes and use their non-ult abilities.
>Monkey
Carry or Mid. Has the typical League 3 hit passive (except with 4 hits) which gives him lifesteal and a huge damage boost.
>Ursa
Carry. Angry bear who attacks really fast and is too angry to die.
>Kez
Carry or mid. New and I still don't know what half his spells do but he's the most league hero design ever. Combo-based character with bashes, silences, invis, lifesteal, and lots of mix ups.
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Too late. Mars's right click is the biggest piece of dogshit I've had the misfortune of using. Guess it's why Bulwark is a thing - you just wait on Rebuke to finish cooling down. Simultaneously, he needs mana regen, and Rebuke scales of base damage.
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>>556006476
I don't really care about specific positions, just hero gameplay.
Also which of those characters are cute waifus?
For now, I'm gonna work on improving my game's performance and raw dog some DP, maybe TA, and Marci games.
p.s.has anyone heard of this "dota 2 powerpoints" guy he has a full video series breaking down each position and their game plan, got them recced in my youtube feed
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>I don't really care about specific positions, just hero gameplay.
That's what the list is for.
>Also which of those characters are cute waifus?
TA. Morph can turn into one.
You might also like PA, not as much skill expression with her as the other heroes but she can manfight and she does have one spell that you can use for cheeky disjoints sometimes.
>"dota 2 powerpoints"
He's fine. Videos are more focused on "comedy" than being informative. If you want to learn go look up BSJ (core-focused) or Zquixotix (support-focused) videos.
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>>556009104
what slot do you but nullifier at, 5, 6? its quite expensive
also, is there ever a situation where a single enemy carry warrants buying nullifier?
lets say there is only necro really that is annoying, or ursa or something i dont know
what heroes do you want to buy nullifier vs?
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>>556010039
Usually #2 or #3. Farming item #1 (or just Morbid Mask), maybe mobility item #2, then big ticket items like Nullifier. Depends on the game. If there's a Necro like in your example, I'm 100% buying it as #2. Negating an entire hero's kit midgame is a huge powerspike and now they're fucked in the ass until they get BKB or Linkens or whatever which is going to take them another 10 mins while I do whatever the fuck I want. I don't think it's a priority buy for Ursa but it would suck for Ursa because of the pulses of slows. And on the topic of slows, if the enemy hero doesn't have an escape, Nullifier guarantees their death in a chase because there is nothing they can do once they are hit with it + their blink is on cooldown.
>what heroes do you want to buy nullifier vs?
Anybody with annoying buffs or escapes you want gone that can be dispelled by Basic Dispels. Or people who would buy save items (aka. most games). So WR Windrun, ghost form (hero or item), Omniknight, Euls tornado, Force Staff (specifically cancels the movement on every pulse), Glimmer Cape (this is why some supports buy Shadow Blade), Aeon Disk, most barriers like Shield Rune or Pipe or Tinker, etc. So just as general purpose usage, you can cast it on a support or carry just to ensure they can't get get away with Glimmer. I present buying Nullifier every game as a joke but it's unironically good just because of the commonly bought items it can counter.
It's a Basic Dispel, so if you look at the tooltip and it says DISPELLABLE: YES, Nullifier will work on them.
>its quite expensive
Your early game gpm is probably 400-500 gpm if you're not feeding so it's not impossible to buy it before 15:00. Being expensive is merely a challenge to do better if you really need it to win. As a core, people might bitch you're not joining enough fights, the only thing that matters is that when you show up to a fight, you win it. And for that, you need farm and items.
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>>556011219
Even if im playing as pos 3? Im usually a Night Stalker.
I find it kinda annoying with how hard itemization is in Dota.
Against Glimmer i just try to buy Dust or Gem but sometimes its annoying to have a dead slow for Dust alone (Gem can be justified).
I pretty much buy BKB every match, i really dont know when not to buy that shit when a single slow can mean i jump in and get kited to death, it also gives STR and Damage so both stats are good for me.
For Nullifier, i often think that i want to get it but never end up actually getting it when its at like 5.2k. I buy boots, Echo Sabre (i dont fuck with Phylactery), Blink and then either BKB or finish Harpoon into then BKB. After that i find Basher nice but i dont feel like it really is that strong on him? I dont know.
I guess here you can fid Nullifier instead of Basher, or maybe even just skip BKB if possible, or skip Harpoon and just go for boots, Echo Sabre, Blink, Nullifier into BKB/Harpoon or whatever.
I am also confused if i should be buying defensive items on him, like sometimes i might want a Pipe but i find that whenever i buy a defensive item before 4th item i cant jump someone and kill them quickly enough.
I also am confused as to why so many offlaners do not buy Shroud anymore, i always thought that this item is extremely strong.
The same goes for Mage Slayer, its basically a 60% damage reduction from spell casters if you hit them with an auto, ive been wondering if i should try it first item instead of Echo Sabre on Night Stalker into some very caster heavy line ups. Just feels like a broken item that people suddenly stopped buying.
Thank you for the explanation.
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>Even if im playing as pos 3? Im usually a Night Stalker.
You never specified, so I was talking as a pos 1 or 2 since that's what I was playing.
Nullifier on NS isn't bad but NS' problem is that he can't flashfarm, and he can't jungle early. And as pos 3, you will be scraping the bottom of the barrel for extra farm. I would maybe think Nullifier is a priority buy on NS if there are a lot of Euls or counterable heroes on the enemy team. Like if there's a Pugna or Omniknight, 100% buy earlier than later. Otherwise, ehh. But again, it depends on the game. I don't play NS much so I can't offer advice or thoughts. I think he's too easy to counterpick and I rarely lose to him so I wouldn't know how to make him work.
d2pt says people usually get Blink BKB Nullifier in that order (instead of Echo Sabre after BKB) so that's the best uninformed suggestion I can make.
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>>556022110
Yeah medusa is supposed to be extremely beautiful and probably turn into a monster during ult or something like that.
Valve is really bad with visuals ans character designs this is why dota looks like shit
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>want to euthanize
>pick sniper support
>build khanda and parasma
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to be honest the map looks great but the characters are hit or miss, some look amazing or great, others just confusing or bad
the best for me is default dragon knight or warlock, both of them look like their models arent finished, dragon knight looks like hes missing textures and warlock looks like he is missing polish in some places, especially his lantern or like half of his model is made from playdough
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thats because people learn to play against it.
Its the same with jugg.
He was bad, but suddenly he became OP, and then suddenly he's bad now.
And everytime the arguments for/against the hero change
When he's good
>he has extremely good laning between bladefury and healing ward!
>his ult instantly kills supports
>can flashfarm with bf and the crits!
When he's bad
>Bladefury and healing ward cost way too much mana, he uses them once and he's out of the lane!
>needs bf, and farm a ton to just kill supports, and thats only IF they dont buy ghost or euls!
>his ult is easily countereable!
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>After long thought, the goddess granted her daughter's request, allowing Medusa to trade her legendary beauty for a face and form of terrifying strength. Never for a moment has Medusa regretted her choice.
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>have to recalibrate rank
>first several games ruined by shitters
>now have to deal with this
I've about fuckin had it man, they need to make people take IQ tests before they queue up
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I m getting fucking team diffed every single game it's not even fucking funny. the only constant is that I'm the only one not fucking feeding and griefing
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You're not as smart as you think you are. No one above Crusader is forgetting that e.g. Euls counters Jugg, but sometimes items like Euls just suck and are difficult to fit into a build so Jugg gets better as a result. Other times Euls is so meta that half the lobby buys it even without there being a Jugg and he sucks. Currently Euls/Ghost/Glimmer etc are in a pretty balanced spot and as a result Jugg has a pretty much dead even winrate in both pro games and high rank pubs.
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>>556037814
let them get mad just dont sacrifice buildings for farm or feed, you need to fight with them if they engage
place vision near enemy t2 and cut waves especially if t1 tower is still up
maybe you still end up losing but you only need to turn 1 loss like this a day to see results
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First-picking meme supports (sniper, BH, weaver, etc) is a nigger move. Sure, it can work, but you're setting a fucking hole in the skill roster of your team by not bringing any lane utility, heal, disable, etc, either forcing your core to make up for it, or giving a very easy time to the opponent to fuck with them.
It's fine if you're playing with a pre-made team, or even somehow don't blind pick your support, but 90% of the time, it's niggerish.
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What the fuck to do against a farmed Jugg or AM? Was in a game where I watched a replay of us fighting this AM and he just took absolutely 0 damage somehow with everyone locking him down. There was an enchantress on the team but she wasn’t there during the fight (she was unkillable too but for deer reasons). Had static link on him for a 10-15 second fight and he was still dealing damage. The jugg game was more understandable just kind of team diff even though I was max build and fed on weaver. Just trying to play better but even winning lane being fed or pushed out doesn’t stop when someone is on one of those hyper carries like them or void
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If you see your supports picked sniper and weaver and you don't pick a core with a stun, you're a retard and deserve to lose. It's your responsibility picking second and last to adjust to draft, if you're not going to do that then just first pick your AM, no reason to hold it if you're too braindead to change your picks.
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The only reason dota is less popular than league is because dota doesn't market to gooners. That's it. Most of the dota character designs are hideous monsters. Why can't they make more attractive humans?
And even the attractive characters are shit because dota doesn't have splash art. It's not that CM or lina are less hot than Random Whore #92 of league, but it's because the way you first see a league character is through their splash art, not their in-game model, meanwhile with dota you only get the model, which is shit. Having the image of a character be its model, in a top down isometric game is retarded, because the models are garbage.
Same shit with the skins. No gooner skins, no splash art.
Dota players don't care about all this bullshit, but it's non-dota players that do, and it's those players we should care about. It's the same reason why most players that play any kind of games where you can choose your character's gender choose women. You don't want to look at a guy, when you could be looking at hot girl.
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This completely false.
It's very simple. You are given 2 choice, you either look at something hot, or you don't, without affecting the gameplay. Tell me what do you choose?
Everyone that plays dota didn't get into it because of the hot characters. They play it because they like the actual gameplay. For gooner games, many people get into the game because of the hot whores. Then they end up liking the gameplay and stay playing. It's that simple. Why are gacha games money making mchine? They have shit or no gameplay. They make money from splash art and character design. Nothing more.
The only thing league is good at is marketing. Nothing else. It's why it has always beaten dota.
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https://youtu.be/8WQ8fWEuq1M
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>>556044583
that burden is on the one claiming coomer games are thriving
which he completely avoids here
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>>556045208
https://revenue.ennead.cc/revenue
I can't believe I have to argue whether games with hotter designs do better or not compared to other games. Here's a list of gacha revenues, literally the games MADE for coomers. You can go month by month, to see. I don't know how to prove it more than that. I don't have more stats than that.
The question is very easy though, would you rather play a game with hot girls, or play the exact same game with hideous monster designs? Why didn't you answer that?
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>The question is very easy though, would you rather play a game with hot girls, or play the exact same game with hideous monster designs? Why didn't you answer that?
im a dotard, the answer should be obvious
genshit's revenue is trending down according to that data
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>>556046489
>im a dotard, the answer should be obvious
So you would purposefully prefer looking at monsters, robots, furries many who are ugly, instead of looking at hot girls? You're not a dotard, you're a gaytard.
>genshit's revenue is trending down according to that data
Retard, why are you looking at 1 game? Look at them all, and tell me it's trending downward? Gacha games doesn't mean just genshin. And if anything you can't really extrapolate a trend because you can only see a couple months not more. I just shared the data just to show you the revenue that those games are getting MONTHLY, which is insane. Hot characters sell. It's that simple.
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>So you would purposefully prefer looking at monsters, robots, furries many who are ugly, instead of looking at hot girls? You're not a dotard, you're a gaytard.
2d aint getting me laid
>Retard, why are you looking at 1 game?
because the burden of proof is on you
linking a website and telling me to prove myself wrong isnt fulfilling your burden
the biggest coomer game by revenue is dying
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Anons, you know the muerte treasure chest? some kino sets in there
Got all of the common ones, but opened some. If I trade up some sets, will I get the common sets again when rolling? Or will I get the ones of higher rarity?
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>>556047392
>2d aint getting me laid
You're just arguing in bad faith that's it.
>because the burden of proof is on you
The proof is simple. Assuming you're not a gaylord retard like you are, which is more preferable, hot girls or alien monsters?
You started the whataboutism that "coomers games are dying" and then you asked me to provide proof for your claim? The burden is on you for that claim, and the claim is irrelevant, because whether they're dying or not, it doesn't change the fact that hot characters sell more than hideous one. It's that simple.
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>You're just arguing in bad faith that's it.
how do you get laid by 2d lines on a page?
>The proof is simple. Assuming you're not a gaylord retard like you are, which is more preferable, hot girls or alien monsters?
they arent hot girls, you are misrepresenting your position
>You started the whataboutism that "coomers games are dying" and then you asked me to provide proof for your claim?
you are claiming that coomer games are thriving more so than mobas
its not my burden to prove they are not
if you dont feel that coomer games are bigger than mobas than the argument is over since you concede your position
nice attempt at the nou
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>The gameplay isn't affected.
Yes it is. League was not that bad in the olden days of like 2009-2010 when they had a better art style as well, and then the gameplay and art both declined massively in tandem. Why? Because when you design your visuals around attracting retards like you who are only interested in a game if it has two thousand dollars worth of titty skins you're also going to massively dumb down the gameplay to appeal to the same type of subhuman animal.
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>>556048537
You're just arguing in bad faith. How am I "misrepresenting my own position" lmao. It's MY position, I can't misrepresent it. I didn't change positions. Go back and read my first post. I never claimed gooners games do better than mobas. You just can't read and you're just bad faith.
All I said is take the exact same game, but make it with hot characters. It'll sell better. Take league and make all the designs garbage, it'll sell less.
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>>556049204
>you're also going to massively dumb down the gameplay to appeal to the same type of subhuman animal
How about, you don't? Just keep it the same, but with better designs. That's all. The new players that'll come along, and want the game to be made dumber will just leave when it isn't made dumber. In the end you're left with a net positive of new players that were attracted by the designs, and actually like the game.
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>You're just arguing in bad faith.
how so?
>How am I "misrepresenting my own position" lmao.
2d lines on a page arent a girl
>I never claimed gooners games do better than mobas.
sure you do
>The only reason dota is less popular than league is because dota doesn't market to gooners.
>All I said is take the exact same game, but make it with hot characters. It'll sell better. Take league and make all the designs garbage, it'll sell less.
coomer games are dying
now if you reply to me in bad faith again, ill ignore it
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>>556049496
>just keep it the same
Not possible.
>but with better designs
They aren't better.
> The new players that'll come along, and want the game to be made dumber will just leave when it isn't made dumber. In the end you're left with a net positive of new players that were attracted by the designs, and actually like the game.
No. Again the problem is that the art style you want attracts mouth-breathing retards like you and the art style Dota currently has attracts people who actually want to play the fucking game. There's a reason League's playerbase is gooks and burgers, why would any sane person want that?
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>2d lines on a page arent a girl
what
>sure you do
I didn't because I said league does better than dota because it's marketed for gooners, not that gooner games do better than mobas. Are you really that retarded? Both league and dota are mobas. How can you quote my exact phrasing and still not understand it?
I'm starting to think that you're just a retard, not arguing in bad faith.
>coomer games are dying
prove it then?
>>556049907
I just want dota to be more popular that's all. It's a great game, but it has zero presence online outside of TI. It could be so much more.
>Not possible.
Why? Keep the same game philosophy, no need to cater to retards. Just attract them to play it, and some will stick.
>>556050308
What if he had a skin like that. Idk just make anything that can attract more people.
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>>556050512
Yeah man, Dota should do a crossover with Marvel and we could get awesome skins where like Omniknight is Thor and Clockwerk is Iron Man, holy fuck that would be epic! It'd attract more players so it can't be bad.
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>>556050512
>what
its anime, not something 3d you can hug and hold
>Both league and dota are mobas
one is a coomer game and the other is not
which is your exact position
>I'm starting to think that you're just a retard, not arguing in bad faith.
you couldnt explain why you think im arguing in bad faith when asked directly
because you are arguing in bad faith, the ad hominem proves it
go away coomer fag
go jerk off into a pillow while your mom cries outside the door knowing she will never have a grandchild
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I worded that like a retard
what I meant is
after I trade up 5 common sets for an uncommon one, will the game treat the chest status as if I don't have the common sets upon subsequent openings of the chest, or will the fact that I got them once count? What if I don't trade up, but unwrap equip them? Do they count as a set, or will unwrapping a set make me ineligible for the no-dupe rule?
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>>556039002
You don't know how long the Overwatch queue is, or how long it takes for a conviction to go through and punish you. You say "lately" so clearly you did something worth convicting a while ago so that hurt you.
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Shes beautiful but she has cankles
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In general, the chests track what you got, not what you have in your inventory so it doesn't matter if you trade shit away. You won't get dupes until the chest gives you a full cycle of commons.
I don't know about this Muerta chest but if the Anon is right and there's no dupe protection, then the chest would have zero mention of dupe protection and no shadowed sets.
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i feel like i peaked at 19-20 because i was just chain queueing hon at that time instead of going to lectures
i cant still play at a very high level but i dont have the stamina to do it all day
like playing lina in a 50 min game is legit tiring because you have max attack speed, max ms, and gotta hit slow as stuns, farming never fucking stops
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The year is 2026.
My offlane locked in Axe + SS.
They got farmed and forced out of lane by AM + NP safelane.
The axe proceeded to afk farm jungle while spampinging the fed antimages items and being absolutely useless until the match ended.
This is in legend BTW.
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>80 min game
>10-slotted (7 items + boots + aghs + shard)
>have like 3 disables + BKB Satanic
>tfw still can't 1v99 PL
>teammates never bring detection so he always pops invis and runs off in the end
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>give up and just kill his teammates by myself while making my teammates deal with him
>they have glimmer euls aeon disk
>all melt before the ALMIGHTY NULLIFIER
>strat works because PL eventually gives up and bails every fight even when has a good chance of 1v5'ing and ending
>crash twice because of PL
>teammate also crashes once
>eventually win because PL can't defend ancient AND kill me AND kill my teammates alone
>PL ends 40-4, everybody else has 15-20 deaths
>enemy team blames PL for the loss lmao
I bought the Nullifier for PL but I ended up never using it on him. I love Nullifier so much. It did so much work this game. I might be addicted to Nullifier at this point. This is bad, bros...
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>>556072240
d2pt takes immortal draft games for samples so you can assume it's people who have a certain degree of mastery with their hero and communicate properly. dotabuff is wr% from herald to immortal assembled so it's the opposite
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Yup so I'd say the most 'honest' way to check if a hero is good is the in game stats that sorts through bracket. There's also some weird fluctuations on some heroes like the hero being great in herald up to crusader, then a drop in archon - legend, then good again in ancient - divine. Obviously there's generally good heroes but each bracket has their own little meta as well
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Dotabuff lets you filter by rank, so you could check Immortal winrates.
The difference with Dotabuff and d2pt though is that d2pt only shows the past 14 days. So d2pt is where you go for FOTM trends, and Dotabuff is just overall stats.
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>enemy team blames PL for the loss lmao
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>>556057382
Probably SS fault. It's infuriating to get beat by a greedy "all damage no CC" enemy lane that shouldn't work because your dedicated support hero who will never accomplish anything late game decides he's not going to harass, deny, pull, use spells or anything else in the early game so you're losing from minute 1.
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Probably Axe fault. It's infuriating to get beat by a greedy "all damage no CC" enemy lane that shouldn't work because your dedicated offlane hero who will never accomplish anything late game decides he's not going to harass, deny, kill, use spells or anything else in the early game so you're losing from minute 1.
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>I just want dota to be more popular that's all.
>"Let's appeal to the lowest common denominator!"
Aww, how sweet.
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my mid is blink dagon alchemist (no free aghses)
my pos 5 is staying up on a school night and has to disconnect for 4 minutes and then 2 minutes and then another 2 minutes
the enemy team has riki sniper and 3 other functional heroes
the 50 was enforced
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>i am kotl picker
>i sit in trees and ruin laning for my carry
>i rush dagon and steal every single kill
>i ping my carry and his items when he falls behind
>i have a 46% winrate and cannot figure out why
>i do not play anyone else
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what i need is a third awful game at 4am to try and win some mmr i dont care about and actually actively dont want because it makes games harder, instead of like, doing normal 4am things like beating my dick, that sounds good
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>Hey what is up guys it's your boy Speeed here!
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if i play carry mid feeds
if i play mid carry feeds
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>>556128150
Honestly im wondering the same thing.
Over the past few days i had games where i got my team ahead as a support 4/5 (mostly 4), bought my items which were mostly to support them game is doing great.
Then we hit the 30-40 minutes timer, instead of just pushing or punishing enemies we have vision of we fuck around, and at 40+ minutes all i can do is use items and protect my carries and then hope they do their job.
I think if i just bought offensive items in all of those games we would have won.
I had games where that pos 4/5 Zeus or Sniper or whoever sucks balls all game and we win but due to the game going for 50+ minutes they suddenly get items and the enemies now have 4 carries and im still there playing the support role. Its annoying.
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Spirit breaker, windrunner, pudge
Lich can work if you go for blink shard aghs
Maiden is too weak in the mid game but if you manage to farm full items she's good
Bounty is honestly dogshit as a greedy support unless you play against people 5k mmr below you
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Nice, thank you for the answer.
Can you explain Spirit Breaker as a greedy support?
Pudge is banned too often to play him i think, and Windrunner requires too many brains cells.
What makes Bounty so bad tho?
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Charge at retards for free fights, us the gates to gank the opposite sidelane, charge mid for free kills. Rush phase boots shadowblade and gank even harder, then go for kaya yasha ocarine.
Bounty scales too poorly with items. Physical damage build doesn't work as he has no mobility or lockdown and he gets cucked by detection, only works if you're sub 1k mmr and the enemies don't know what detection is. Caster build got cucked by talent reworks and range nerfs, all you can do poke people or steal kills like a nigger. Hybrid builds kind of work but it requires a very good understanding of situational itemization.
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>>556139706
what i love about dota is that you can grief infinite games and nothing bad will happen to you
have a single bad internet moment and you have to win 4 games in low priority.
this is literally me right now: i got disconnected during hero selection. my behaviors score is in the 8k.
i have to win 4 games in LP.
seriously.
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Turns out pros also play Razor pos1 going Mjollnir BKB and aren't doing the retarded offlane greaves pipe crimson build
You need attack speed and DPS on Razor else he's useless. He's not a 'caster' by any means like you outdated retards think
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Today i have officially stopped picking offlane, my favorite role, since it has become unbereably boring. I want to try something else, another build, NO DUDE BUILD LE AURAS LE GREAVES LE LOTUS LE PIPE, DOESNT MATTER IF THERES ONLY ONE CHARACTER DOING REAL MAGIC DAMAGE, JUST BUILD LE PIPE LE PIPE LE PIPE!
Nah fuck off im tired, always the same fucking garbage otherwise they blame me
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>pull the camps so only one creep is hitting you at a time
>spam-toggle your Power Treads in-between camps
>use your ult if you don't think you're gonna take a team fight any time soon and you're still weak
idk what else to say... abuse the creep aggro radius more so you're not getting hit by all of them? avoid Ancient camps until you got a Battlefury? idk
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The problem with int blink is that int is a bad stat past the midgame since most heroes will have their mana problems solved by then, and the stat blinks are ultra lategame items. So either it needs to have a broken active and everyone buys it like the old one or it has a mediocre one like current and no-one buys it.
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but first, have you
>beaten torm?
>captured the enemy outpost?
>defeated roshan?
>gotten all of your neutral items?
if not, camp outside the enemy base for 10 minutes!
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>Rush phase boots shadowblade
Shadow Blade first is grief 90% of the time, it's not that good to begin with and the mana cost is also huge for low level SB and really limits your ability to get multiple charges off in a fight which is the best way to play him. Go for Vessel or Drums first, then Shadow Blade or Lotus after.
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Youneed to kill the meme tempo micro niggers a lot of times unless you are at immortal and the game is over before they can recuperate.
Don't believe the micro picker lies about how "if we ever die once it's ooooveer".
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It was also the single best destilation of why Richard Garfield should to be allowed to make anything but single player rogue lite card games.
He still cannot grasp the concept of "humans communicate" and things mtg monetization and secondary market is good.
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>>556165235
>their players dont care
The weird thing about Artifact was that Valve ditched it BEFORE launch. People bitched about the microtransactions and how jewish they were and Valve just unceremoniously dumped it within days. People were still going to line up to give Gaben money for collectible PNGs but Valve just collectively decided to give up because they got their feelings hurt or something.
This is hearsay but I think supposedly there was some outsider working with Valve for the card game design, and they left too so that's part of the reason Valve dumped it since nobody else was capable of working on it.
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single draft low priority: an insanely time wasting coin toss. people don't really play. right away you can see if guys know how to play the heroes they've been randomly given, and they give up instantly. they don't really grief. they just give up. i've played 4 games in a row that were just insanely one sided. my guys are either afk or doing nonsensical things like they've never played a video game before. we are level 7 and the enemy is level 20. 15 - 67 score type shit. and then 2 games in the same fashion insanely one sided games in my favour. all this because i got disconnected during hero selection. 4 games wasted for no reason.
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>sounds like a you issue.
lol no. it's a insane coin toss: 15 minutes wait time for each game and ~20 minutes actual game. it's not even like a forced 50 thing. the games are a single push. in the first 4 games my team were like 2 15 each. they straight up didnt know how to play their heroes at all. and in the final 2 we just curb stumped the enemy team like they were creeps.
there is nothing to say really. they are not real games. the team that has a remote idea how to play their heroes win. the other team stumbles around the map like they've never played a video game before.
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>rank up, because the Russians on enemy team are dumber than the Russians on my team
>and one of my Russians was determined to carry 1v9 with Invoker
>and the other was on Spectre
Jesus Christ, if those morons actually punished his solo kill bullshit, I'd be in deep shit.
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>>556173331
it was on cast but it got changed so now it's on hit
it was actually really strong because it gave you a global slow
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>>556173585
ill never forget the 5 or 6 games i played in a row like, the day before this change where i just went boots > phylactery > 4x rapier and nuked people from across the map the second they came into vision. absolutely hilarious
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fairly balanced game with our alch going strictly scepter farming for the entire team.
the problem is that by the time he was done, the scepters didn't make a difference and were destroyed because it was essentially 4 vs 5 and they perfectly leveraged the number difference.
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>>556173585
>it was actually really strong because it gave you a global slow
No, you bought rapier and got a global instagib.
Same for all the other targeted global spells likeWrath of Nature, and just generally long-range shit like Assassinate. It was stupidly broken but I miss it...
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what do i do when its like 20 minutes in, everyone is farming all camps and lanes are either pushed too far so nobody goes there or farms them too, as a support?
i usually try to go for a wave that is far but outside of that do i just walk around my carries in case something happens and stack camps if ever possible?
this is low mmr so even pos 5 will steal farm from a carry
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>>556178515
in my games both mid players are constantly 100% hp and i waste 30 seconds trying to save them a rune when they dont even have a bottle fuck them, im not wasting my time mid unless the enemy is at ~60% and we actually have some kill potential
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>>556175934
You could just kill the enemy support?
You might be new so you might not know this but you're allowed to right-click attack the enemy heroes in lane. Your best weapon is in fact, your right-click for most heroes. You don't have to wait for spells to do damage for harass.
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>>556180828
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it's fucking unreal how much i hate this game
it just keeps getting fucking shittier and shittier
even a few years ago on tuesdays you could at least finish games
now the servers will just fuck out and decide to boot everyone at the same time and now the game doesn't count
fuck every cunt that works at valve this fucking faggot fucking game
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>>556185794
I'm taking a prolonged break game quality has been utter dogshit for me since 2026 started I'm not the paranoid type but I'm even starting to believe my account got flagged I mean I dropped so much MMR I've never lost this much in such a little span of time
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>pick Hoodwink offlane
>mid starts swearing at me in Spanish and calls to report me
>hard support seethes
>supports starts fighting me for last hits (he's not very good at it)
>I shit on their carry so hard they're a non-factor
>we win
Still don't know what I did wrong. Did mid want it? I did instalock it, because I wanted to go pee.
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forgot pic. What do you think? That I had a roid rage or what. I just played like usual
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>30 matches
>reported in 7
>by 16 people
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>>556189684
Brother I have not played 30 games in 24 hours, they overlap, I received second overwatch ban after 2 ranked and 1 turbo game getting out of singledraft. You can see that the latest "excess" has less reports than the one before
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>>556189863
Oh yeah, it's not Periodic, and you got excessive reports.
>actually, I got reported in three out of three matches by 9 people!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NktEC49K5aE
How does that make it better?
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>>556189871
I started talking more as carry so I tank alot of it.
>>556190225
those can be any 3 games out of last 15. in 8 games I had shit performance how would I know in which 3 they decided to report me.
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>>556190684
>enemy team only has one support that I can determine
>someone is griefing
>can't tell who, because Valve doesn't show who was supposed to be what role after the ended
Hate that bug.
>>556190961
The last 3. The last two Summaries are not periodic. Which means you got a Summary that you got reported too much in 4 games (last one was most recent one), played 3 games, got reported in all 3, and got another Summary.
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>tfw need to watch the two agi carries s at max attack speed with satanic hit each other every fight
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yuh uh
>>556191191
That explanation doesn’t make sense and is mathematically impossible given how Conduct Summaries work.
If I supposedly had 4 reported games, then played 3 more games, and then received another Conduct Summary, that Summary cannot suddenly show only 3 reported matches.
Conduct Summaries are cumulative snapshots over a fixed match window (e.g. last ~15 games).
They do not discard previously reported matches unless they fall outside the window.
So if there really were 4 reported games before, the next Summary must show at least those same 4, plus any new ones — not fewer.
In my case:
I played 3 matches
The Summary shows exactly 3 reported matches
There is no room for an earlier set of 4 reported games to exist
That means:
Either those 4 games never existed, or
They were already accounted for in a previous Summary, or
The Summary is reflecting a delayed Overwatch verdict, not a new wave of reports
Therefore, the claim that I was “reported too much in 4 games, then reported in all 3 more” is logically inconsistent with the data shown in the Conduct Summary.
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>>556192005
>They were already accounted for in a previous Summary
This.
>Therefore, the claim that I was “reported too much in 4 games, then reported in all 3 more” is logically inconsistent with the data shown in the Conduct Summary.
It is perfectly consistent. The most recent one is at the top, and it goes backwards from there.
>Conduct Summaries are cumulative snapshots over a fixed match window (e.g. last ~15 games).
Unless it specifies "No" under "Periodic". Go look at your screenshot again.
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>>556192332
Alright we are getting somewhere. I played 10 games and then received reports in 3 games from 7 solo and 1 party. Can you receive reports in single draft and turbo? For the overwatch ban that is. I wonder what overwatch ban I could get, griefing?
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well if singledraft counts it could have been that stupid low priority game with CM mjolnir, friend is like 2k mmw lower and since itw as single draft I tried it with the attackspeed talent. I mean it was shit but we played the game accordingly... man what a retarded system. Prisoners reporting in prison
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>having a nice win streak
>check last match on Dotabuff
>Jesus fucking Christ, my lane was the only one that won
>I was the only one without deaths at 12 min.
>more than half our kills came from my lane
>and that was with my support fighting me for last hits
>and mid tilting at me
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>>556189460
If you're losing score in chunks of -1,000 you are getting Overwatch convictions. Meaning somebody looked at the report and deemed it valid and that you are Guilty.
You don't know which report from which game from how long ago got you that conviction. Could be the latest one, could be one from a month ago (if the queue is that long). What matters is that it got processed and applied -1,000 or whatever.
>>556193102
I've seen Overwatch reports for Turbo and Unranked modes (including Ability Draft).
I can't tell if a game is LP without looking it up manually so I can't comment on that.
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just finished a game as jakiro where we basically 3v5 the whole enemy team with huskar+oracle+jakiro
the ally PA is an actual bot, and the ally muerta is probably a newfag
I had to pivot to a carry build and help supplement the huskar as he spearchucked the enemy team
highlight of my career, might as well stop playing, can't get better than this
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>>556205159
Linas last name isnt moon. Rylai was adopted by Lina's family when she was young, the crestfall family. Rylai's name then became Rylai Crestfall. Lina having been born into the crestfall family and never married is called Lina Crestfall. Rylai might have been born with moon as her last name or whatever but Lina definitely was not. They are not blood related
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>Rylai was adopted by Lina's family when she was young
You have no proof of that.
CM could've easily changed her name after the split because she resents and hates her family. Or at least, Lina. Or she took somebody's name by right of caste because she killed them or something.
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>hour long hellgame resulting in a loss because my pos 3 is [ANY HERO THAT ISNT A STUNBOT] and we cant go uphill
lol lmao!!! pos 3 is so creative you guys ooo it doesnt matter what you picke!!! undying necrophos pudge!!! legion commander omniknight death prophet!!!!!! who gives a FUCK man
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notice how the first two sentences have nothing to do with each other. rylai was born in one place and raised in a completely different environment. how does this happen to children? through adoption. or... sure her family could have moved. however a move is only mentioned once rylai separates from Lina's family later on in life.
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>"I don't like these two concepts, therefore I will make up my own headcanon."
And you accuse me of being bad at reading.
Meanwhile, in pic related, CM's dad is literally "Geraldus Moon", and all three of (CM, Lina, Geraldus) acknowledge each other as family, and daddy dearest explains the family split-up was mostly caused by the parents for gambling debts and insurance fraud.
>how does this happen to children?
Bad parenting and insurance fraud.
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>Rylai doesn't know about the bad parenting and insurance fraud so warmly calls him "Dad".
>Lina knows about the bad parenting and insurance fraud so coldly calls him "Father".
Astounding lack of critical thinking and reading ability on your part.
And I looked up which asshole you pulled the name "Crestfall" from and it's from fucking WC3 Dota so you're clearly just brain damaged.
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>>556216390
Free shard at 20:00? No? It's great, what are you talking about? Even if all 5 magically have shards, it's still +280 gold per player and several hundred last hit gold to whoever finished it. It's literally free money. That's why higher MMR players aggressively fight for it at 20:00 as soon as it's up.
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>it's still +280 gold per player
how does that matter when you're building items like Battlefury at that point?
>It's literally free money
You need your entire team to drop what they're doing, stop farming and make their way to a useless part of the map. That opportunity cost does not make it free...
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>>556217035
In the gold-only case, it's worth it for the pos 1 who will get the last hit. But you're not going to have 5 shards at 20:00. You will give some support a free shard, which is great for them because they are probably a 200 gpm no-farm support so that is almost 10 minutes of farm shaved, and depending on the support, that shard is probably a big teamfight spell. You want to get it because it will win you teamfights and thus, more kill gold.
>You need your entire team to drop what they're doing, stop farming and make their way to a useless part of the map.
At higher MMR, everybody already planned to show up there before it spawns so they can have a big 5v5 fight for it. They aren't off farming, they are already smoked up and itching for a fight by the gates/Dire T1.
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>getting meme'd on early game
>late game starts
>the meme doesn't work anymore
>we start winning
>shittalker on enemy team actually shittalks harder when losing
>the agents sent to ruin my game and the more numerous agents sent to ruin someone else's shittalk each other post-game chat
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>think I made a comeback
>thought it weird that one of their teammates always survived our HG fights
>turns out he was farming, instead of fighting with his team
>the enemy was being griefed
>and it wasn't because I stole Walrus Kick and made the enemy take a ride from outside the base to our T4's
A win is a win, I guess.
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>>556221720
Antimage(female) costume is cute. Cute! I scrapped all my materials to exchange for her armor. I didn't craft any other gear.
>Should they bring more events like this one?
YES do a Final Fantasy one so I can craft a Tifa costume for Marci
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>Dota 2
>literally Satan
>the heat death of the universe
>gravity
>fallen god of olympus
>grandma with a shotgun
>midget with a rifle
>a literal night mare
>electromagnetism
>Sun Wukong
What does Deadlock have? And when is Sun Wukong coming there.
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i had an opportunity to make a super cheese today and didnt
i had the 2 super lotuses and we killed rosh but then an ally got the cheese and a teamfight started and i didnt enunciate that i wanted to make the meme item and it was over
maybe next time
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upon further inspection it actually costs three (3) super lotuses to make a cheese so i wouldve had to run back and get another
i think if it were 2 people would actually think about this item but 3 is like way too many
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yesterday i did accept my 3/5 quality match
>pos 1 subhuman void played like he was on krokodil, counterpicked himself as the last pick
>mid slav subhuman with broken scripts
it's either 5/5 or queue again
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i just had the most hilarious game ever
played spirit breaker 4
had phoenix mid vs viper
all i had to do was show charge and my phoenix would just go in
after level 6 all we did was charge, wait for me to be decently close then he would jump into a guy with ult and i would charge stun and ult if needed and a guy was dead
in teamfights its silly as well, you just charge the furthest support, he jumps in with egg and you stun everyone in a straight line once the enemies decide to go on egg lmao
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>pick Silencer
>enemy offlaner picks Bristleback
>right-click harass him a lot so he'd skill the passive
>Q + right-click once he's lv 2
>he can't stop spamming quills
>he kills himself from infinite DoT
>repeat over and over again
>buy an early ghost and chase him away from every fight
>enemy team later blames BB for the loss
Funniest game I've played in a while.
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>go offlane
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>play support
>steamroll the first 25 minutes, leaving my carry to have the entire map to play PvE hitting creeps
>the enemy carry is confined to the safest possible camps and is actively being ran out and ganked many times while my carry is left to his own device
>the enemy carry still comes out with a level and item advantage
What a fucking joke. What's the fucking point
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>>556247548
I meant the "if you let it get to that point"
not necessarily dying through bkb to muerta
that being said the game could really use a lategame upgrade to mageslayer with all the gay ass 5 billion damage magic spells and items flying around
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Anyone else noticed how shitty steam inventory works on a large inventory? Specifically in steam client and chromium browser, it works fine on firefox.
I know its always been kind of shitty, but now it actually freezes, or crashes the page and practically unusable. Also makes a single core spinup the fans.
Let me give you an example to test (not my account.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/hia20/inventory/
Open advanced filters and click on any filter.
It can't be on my end... i think? Ive tried multiple browsers. I guess this doesnt affect many people
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""People"" that pick carry heroes when they get offlane (Ursa/Slark/Alchemist/WK/CK etc) are by far the worst type of animal in this game.
I'll take a pos5 pudge sitting in the trees and missing hooks over offlane carry pickers any day of the week. I hate them so much it's actually unreal.
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>>556249813
And the issue is that these melee carries need farm, particularly the likes of Ursa and Sven so they end up taking the safe farm area and thus curbing their carry so you end up with two underfarmed melee creeps against a team with a proper draft. It's such an instalose thing to have in a game
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>pick le alchemist offlane
>farm the safest spots on the map
>carry is forced to take dangerous farm BECAUSE THERE'S NOWHERE ELSE TO FARM - dies
>ping his death timer and say "wtf just go farm"
That's their M.O.
I don't know if they can't understand that there's a limited amount of SAFE farm on the map or if they do that on purpose.
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Yup and meanwhile the enemy offlaner bought crimson pipe and can just show on the map unbothered and their carry was left to his own device because your carry offlaner can't initiate and take control of the map so he's 5 levels above and has 5 items already
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FUCKING GAY DISGUSTING STUPID JAP SHIT FUCKING INSANELY GAY FUCK MONSTERH UNTER "TAKES 3 SECONDS TO SWING A WEAPON" EVIL RETARDED JAP SHIT
MAN I LOVE IN MY DOTA GAME AT THE VERY END A ;LE FUCKING DRAGON POPS OUT AND RUNS AT YOU IN THE SCREEN AND IS SO FUCKING OBNOXIOUS ITS BYOND IONSANE HOW JAP AND STUPID ISLANDER GOOK IT IS
FUCKING VALVE DEI KEK BETA TRASH GAME CANT DOONE FUCKING THING WITH THE BEST GAME THEY HAVE FUCKING KEK GAME