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That feeling when 5 pubbies stomp harder than a 4-stack is hilarious. But even before then, love it when my Dark Seer game goes well. Saving people with Surge always feels good.

Near the end I had the Slardar and another chase me from their base to my T3 mid tower.

Typical Bounty Deso/BKB/Rapier build. Enemy Warlock built Refresher for double Golem, still didn't work out for their teamfights. . I safe lane soloed and gave him a sad time, Ended up making the Tiimbersaw mad near the end. Twas a silly yet great game.

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I carried early-mid game with some assistance of the Alchemist who got some pretty good stuns. Our lanes were really weird with Anti-Mage mid, Alchemist going carry but with a weird build and I was solo top which went great! I love solo laning when there are too many carries. I died only once in the first 20-25 minutes but they started focusing me first and I died 3 more times the whole game
Enemy team threw though. They didn't push when they could've the second time I died, I had no buyback (they didn't know but they didn't even try to force the issue). I was the only one in the team with magic immunity because everyone refused to go for BKBs so they could've taken racks easily.

 My god some games

Awful team on both sides. Everyone just wanted to fight despite our team not being suited for it in the late game. I just kept pushing while my team somehow baited fights, they just ran away after it started while only loosing 1-2 heroes but no towers. I think we got their mid racks before they took our T2s lol. Everyone was so focused on fighting that I got a second set of racks while they chased the hell out of my team. I kept trying to push and get last set of racks but my team was just too pineappleing focused on fighting that we would push up to racks just to get wiped without taking a single building. I think I've never typed or pinged so much in a game lol but we finally got mega creeps by throwing our bodies to that pineappleing set of racks. Razor followed my plan since the beginning and I'm glad everyone else understood that they just had to kill buildings to win.

What frustrates me the most is that two times I caught myself joining the fight despite knowing what to do and despite knowing there was no winning a team fight. It's hilarious how I have more tower damage than Pugna though. Anyway, I need to learn how to stay focused and do what I know is right instead of blindly following team.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/432945830

11 or 12 min gg. It took 2 more minutes for the rest to leave!
Bristleback won top because no one had magic sticks bottom was won because we had great teamwork.
Used 2 black holes the whole game and they were quite nice too. I should've bought more sentries though, I always forget about Mirana's ulti and we missed one kill because of it :/

Also, that was my first Enigma game

Enigma is really fun to play but can be so frustrating in pubs because sometimes your team doesn't go with you.
But winning as enigma is fun!

http://dotabuff.com/matches/438870971
I love Weaver's laning phase but I hate 10-20 min when you're still saving for Linken's + Damage item and you're not that effective at fights, pushing or anything in particular other than escaping.

Enigma is really fun to play but can be so frustrating in pubs because sometimes your team doesn't go with you.
But winning as enigma is fun!

I love Enigma so much when played well. Black Holes can pretty much turn bad matches around.

I love Enigma so much when played well. Black Holes can pretty much turn bad matches around.

After this match: http://dotabuff.com/matches/45073345
I just haven't played enigma again.

[COLOR="#0000FF"]I think for now, bots are even worse than normal games. I've heard that matchmaking sometimes puts you against people way over your league, but I'ma dive into that sht anyway

At least in this game bots didn't step on me

One death from my stealth being blown, guessing it was an item or something
Second from having to afk because my mom was at the door with groceries. I assumed I could just chill in midlane while stealthed, but I guessed wrong.
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I think for now, bots are even worse than normal games. I've heard that matchmaking sometimes puts you against people way over your league, but I'ma dive into that sht anyway

At least in this game bots didn't step on me

One death from my stealth being blown, guessing it was an item or something
Second from having to afk because my mom was at the door with groceries. I assumed I could just chill in midlane while stealthed, but I guessed wrong.

3 items and some spells can blow invisibility for a duration or permanently.
Dust of appearance gives true sight for 12 seconds. It also slows your movement speed if you're invisible, so if you're playing with Bounty Hunter or Nyx it can be better to not go invis while you have dust debuff.
Sentry wards give the team who placed them true sight in an area for 4 minutes.
Gem of true sight takes an item slot and as long as a hero is holding it their team will have true vision. If the hero who is carrying it dies the gem is dropped in the ground for anyone to pick. It cannot be destroyed so it's a must to pick it up.
Spells that I know work for sure to give true vision: bounty hunter's track, bloodseeker's thirst, Beastmaster's summoned hawk and Slardar's Amplify damage.
Spectre's spectral dagger will not break invisibility but will follow you despite being invisible and will also leave a trail behind you.
Sniper's assassinate can't be dodged by going invis. I'm not 100% sure if it gives true vision though.
Silences and Doom's doom also disable Riki's permanent invisibility.

I might be missing other "counters" to invisible heroes. But the ones I mentioned are the most likely to happen in a match. It certainly explains your death since Dazzle has dusts

EDIT: I forgot! One of the necro book summons also has true sight and Dazzle had one of those too.


The icon or whatever on top of Clinkz there means he has been dusted. Sentry wards also have that "icon" on top of them. Necrobook summon that gives true sight also has it, I think Beastmaster's hawk also has it. You have no way of knowing who is carrying gem unless you check your enemies inventory.
Spells are different. Track is a debuff that can be dispelled, Bloodseeker one is only when you're below certain hp threshold and Slardar's is also a debuff.


Also, bots are kinda pointless after 10-15 minutes, assuming you pick hard or unfair difficulties. The only great thing about them is that no one can cs like them, which makes laning phase challenging and something you can learn from. I play bots a lot, even more than regular matches, just to practice last hitting with every hero. It can also give a decent idea of the damage you can do (or receive from) to other heroes early game; which helps a lot knowing when to play passive and when to play aggresive.

I'm pretty sure you're playing on passive, easy or medium difficulty because those bots have no denies at all.


Co-op vs bots also has that little menu in case you want to keep practicing with bots but want something a bit more challenging.

[spoiler=I'm such a feeder][/spoiler]

Finally won a match despite dying a lot. At least they didn't complain that I died when initiating. Their mid game was too strong and I rushed Aghs instead of BKB, died a lot because of it


http://dotabuff.com/matches/462264117
Lately most of my games are like the one above. 7/0/3 was my score when Sven starts to complain about me when he feeds 4 times going 1 vs 4. Then Lion and Doom start blaming me too for the most random reasons and complaining in all chat while the other team defends me saying that if it wasn't for them feeding they wouldn't be winning. For the most part my arrows were ok but whenever I missed one I'd get a thousand pings from the three of them. Similar to this week when a support would try to last hit and ping the hell out of me for missing it.
I know I shouldn't make generalizations but every time that someone is annoying me with excesive pings it's an EU or a latin american player. It annoys me the most with the latter because I'm latino and I know that kind of things just gives us a bad name. I wish they could be like their US counterparts, those morons that just flame and troll with voice chat... at least you can completely mute them. I don't understand why muting doesn't take away the pings too -_-

Felt so good.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/462557830

Ranked game as Enigma. For lols, our Puck decided to get a Divine Rapier. He accidentally died and gave it to the PL. The funny thing though? Despite the PL being 6 slotted, we still won really hard. PL and Tinker desperately tried to push our towers, but never got past our T3 nor two of our T2s. The game was just amusing as hell. Won't lie though we had some issues we could have corrected. We had trouble detecting the PL due to him running away all the time, plus we kind of stopped caring about warding the map since we pretty much had map control. Will have to keep in mind the idea of a Necrobook on Enigma for constant detection.

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Had a decent game as Tinker, Chew and Bermyx also did great and got us a lot of kills early but that f'ucking AM was so useless that I just couldn't do anything. Had he split push I could've put pressure somewhere else or go for pickoffs; instead I had the most stressful game trying to go to every lane to push it out a bit (could only drop one march before having to move out) because there was constant fighting and no pushing whatsoever. Mirana was the same as Antimage iirc... when they could've split push safely -_-

Last game I had was the same. Played as NP and despite split pushing as hard as possible, my team's carry was useless. Buying a BKB against a team that has only physical damage and a Warlock, useless BKB instead of going for items that made PA more survivable. I don't understand why it's hard to split push or adapt to the style for some people ._. especially when the team has split push heroes. If there's one thing that bothers me greatly is when they go for kills mindlessly without noticing that they'll get owned hard.

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Had a decent game as Tinker, Chew and Bermyx also did great and got us a lot of kills early but that f'ucking AM was so useless that I just couldn't do anything. Had he split push I could've put pressure somewhere else or go for pickoffs; instead I had the most stressful game trying to go to every lane to push it out a bit (could only drop one march before having to move out) because there was constant fighting and no pushing whatsoever. Mirana was the same as Antimage iirc... when they could've split push safely -_-

Last game I had was the same. Played as NP and despite split pushing as hard as possible, my team's carry was useless. Buying a BKB against a team that has only physical damage and a Warlock, useless BKB instead of going for items that made PA more survivable. I don't understand why it's hard to split push or adapt to the style for some people ._. especially when the team has split push heroes. If there's one thing that bothers me greatly is when they go for kills mindlessly without noticing that they'll get owned hard.

Is is just me or all your images are really that small that it's pretty much impossible to read anything from em?

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Anyway, here's my game today after a few weeks since my last game due to exams, solo queue, I lose my lane really hard, giving up first blood and slark who dual lane with me giving up 2nd, 3rd and 4th, we had an awful start of 0-7 or something, then I proceed to roam around, setting up kills here and there, never die since. Teams comment about me at the end made this the most satisfying game as a support, great start after a few weeks of hiatus.

They look fine to me and I'm pretty sure it doesn't re-size the stuff I upload so I wouldn't know. Anyone else has trouble with my images?
I finally started winning again but it's getting frustrating... too much to feel "satisfied" despite wining. I got carried last game but it was just 1 guy carrying the rest of us.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/482933625
I'm a good farmer, I don't understand why people won't let me play carry

Last game was dumb. I think we hit rock bottom during that. Slardar was on drugs diving t3 with t1s still up. And then the other team feeding me kills when I have ulti up... that was depressing. I feel bad for that Tiny though, he was playing a lot better than the rest of his team
http://dotabuff.com/matches/483087908