How was your day today? - DotA 2 Edition

I love getting those early game Fissure blocks. I think the last time I supported Words as ES we also got an easy first blood under our tower.

In that game I played Clinkz? I don't think we got first blood because I did nothing all game, most of the times I'd get stuck in the wrong side of the fissure or wouldn't have enough damage. Unless you mean the other game I played Magina, because I remember you doing great to make room and get kills but I don't remember if we got first blood.
But yeah, they ignored me most of the game after they killed me 1 time and the next time someone went to the lane I solo killed haha. I feel bad for not being with you guys in team fights, I was incredibly idiotic when I purchased Eaglesong when I knew that Manta was the choice, I had to stay back and farm more to build it.
Regardless, I like playing Anti Mage when I know you and Adam are going to be supporting... next time I'll be more careful with items and hopefully join you in teamfights

T'was a fun night. It was only unfortunate that on that last game they went for a late-game flash farming team vs our push strat. There was just too much farm to stop. Now that I think about it that did seem to be their team strat. Magnus, KoTL, Alch, Gyro. They can all farm a lot really quickly, and Magnus + Alch = scary scary farming speed. Warlock was just there to keep us in place and distract us while the main stars delivered the pain.

We don't play CM very often, so we're not very good at drafting. In retrospect we made some pretty poor decisions, couldn't push into that lineup at all.

Yeah, other than Chen and DK it wasn't really pushing strat. We needed some split push or stronger team fight to deal with them.
I'll read some guides or something to be prepared for next time

I have NO pineappleING IDEA HOW I PULLED THIS ONE OUT
>Hard level bots (with their crazy denies and last hits)
>Randomned Broodmother
>My team sux major bawls
>I manage to destroy every single tower and rax by doing some massive stacks with my spiderlings with no help from the team
>Everyone starts to complain about everyone
>I say "shut up you pineappleing idiots, you didn't do anything but feed the freaking Viper all the way long"
>"What did you do?"
>"Oh I don't know, WIN THE pineappleING MATCH ALL BY MYSELF?
>They all disconnect
>I'm so done for today
>

 MFW

I have NO pineappleING IDEA HOW I PULLED THIS ONE OUT
>Hard level bots (with their crazy denies and last hits)
>Randomned Broodmother
>My team sux major bawls
>I manage to destroy every single tower and rax by doing some massive stacks with my spiderlings with no help from the team
>Everyone starts to complain about everyone
>I say "shut up you pineappleing idiots, you didn't do anything but feed the freaking Viper all the way long"
>"What did you do?"
>"Oh I don't know, WIN THE pineappleING MATCH ALL BY MYSELF?
>They all disconnect
>I'm so done for today
>

 MFW

./comforts

There's bound to be THAT kind of team. Good news though, that's another win under your belt rather than a loss. Losing feels a lot worse with a bad team like that, because it's like knowing you WILL lose, but in a painful way.

That was a fun game. I didn't like his draft, it was too greedy and I felt starved most of the game. I'm glad it actually worked out, but I think it was mostly because of other team not playing as good as you guys did.

@Chew; this video might be useful for you. Stacking and pulling sounds hard but once you try it and once you pull it off a couple times you'll understand it's extremely easy to accomplish.
Note that you shouldn't do it every game because most of the time it should be done by the support player and it needs the carry in lane to have a clue of how to last hit under his tower without either him or the tower taking too much damage. You should never do it on middle lane unless you're asked to, and you won't because it's extremely situational and only once in pro games have I see something like that being done. Also, I don't think Dire can pull as much as they show in the video but it's something you should do when your carry asks you to.
Learning how to stack every neutral camp in the game is really really important. It's something that you need when jungling with some heroes or something that will make your carry player extremely happy.
[video=youtube;KFFu-Q4X9mM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFFu-Q4X9mM[/video]

If you have any questions let me know and I'll show you in a lobby, and maybe we can practice for a while too.

Brood is like the worst hero to play in dota if you're not on skype with people.
"BROOD WHY DON'T YOU FIGHT WITH US"
"BROOD WHY DO YOU PUSH AND NOT FIGHT"
"BROOD OMG COME DEFEND TOWER"
*Your team suicides 4v5 for no reason*"OMG BROOD WE NEED YOU IN FIGHTS"

The picks were alright, he was one of *those* Nature's Prophet players, though. Ignore team, spam ult, acquire currency. And yeah, it ended up going well for us thanks to the other team being poorly coordinated and easy to pick off.

His self-congratulatory "good lineup" comment was funny.

(Game being discussed)

About that game, well I tried to keep pulling and even though I failed 2 times trying it that NP kept getting all the kills from the bottom camp...
As Jakiro I didn't feel comfortable with it mostly because I don't like the delay the Ice Breath has to froze the enemies. Enden up failing a couple of freezing.
Good thing it all turned out well.

About that game, well I tried to keep pulling and even though I failed 2 times trying it that NP kept getting all the kills from the bottom camp...
As Jakiro I didn't feel comfortable with it mostly because I don't like the delay the Ice Breath has to froze the enemies. Enden up failing a couple of freezing.
Good thing it all turned out well.

What I usually do is just stand next to the camp from 0:30 or so and that way I don't forget to stack at 0:5x and if there's a jungler I can tell him to back off.
It's important that you don't pull without stacking first because it pushes the lane and sometimes it's hard to farm when the lane is pushed because it's easier for the other team to harass you.

As you all may know how I love to be support:
I feel really comfortable with Crystal Maiden. Even tho I tend to sacrifice myself just to someone get a triple kill.

What an annoying night to play. 500+ ms the first game, the second wasn't so bad but there were some annoying lag spikes. The third one was the one that seriously pissed me off, not just the mouse dying but them blinking and avoiding the pineappleing shackles was frustrating.
Also, I don't know how to lane against Silencer. It's easy early but once his mana draining spells get stronger it's just impossible for me. Eh, reading more I don't think I was meant to win that lane against him, I'm actually surprised I survived for so long considering how badly I do against him with other heroes ._.

Silencer's kind of like Drow/Death Prophet, really annoying to lane against but squishy and easy to gank. If you're 1v1 with Silencer, try to stay back and avoid his harass.

Late night Doto game. Wanted to play Clinkz for two days now. Went off-lane with a Lion vs Zeus and PA. Things went way better than expected.

Zeus did some nice harass at first, but a wand kept me alive and got to be more aggressive with Lion. Zeus fed so hard PA's farm went to hell. My team safe lane KoTL (with a Naix) actually knew what he was doing and went on a killing spree and balled towards a fast sheepstick. We had a mid BH. Very weird, but he actually seemed to have done pretty well for himself. All in all, the game was such a train wreck for the enemy team I was lol-ing hard. Even managed to see them send their courier to the Secret Shop, where I sniped it for some easy gold.

mid lane bh is occasionally a thing if you want a quick level 6. iirc mid bh has something weird where you take 3 levels in shuriken before 6 as opposed to leveling stealth as on offlane bh
also clinkz is usually much better safelane (especially on Radiant) unless you're just roflstealing enemy jungle creeps for death pact.

I haven't played dota in ages now. been watching so much TI3, playing Civ V, and busy with soccer tryouts.

I unboxed this today:

First unusual i ever unboxed, feels great.

I'm starting to hate playing with randoms. Some moron spends the whole game bitching about everything, he gets killed at least 3 times while he types and keeps bitching because somehow loosing the game it's everyone but his fault. I suck, everyone made mistakes, I'm sure everyone tried their best but all we get is whining from one guy who thinks played perfectly. It's just hard to enjoy the game that way, but I think that if I only play with SPers I won't ever improve if Dusk and Adam carry me every match. -_-
/frustrated.

Ugghhhhh......... went for a Compendium match hoping for at least a decent time, except everyone insta-picked and left me with QoP and Sven. I already know I'm terrible with QoP, so I had to go Sven. Later on the Visage abandoned bot and went top, claiming to farm. I can't do crap with KoTL spamming Illluminate, because I either try to farm but eat surprise horses or stay far away and let them push the tower. Let's just say the match went to hell since no one bought Sentries for the Weaver or more wards until it was too late, and I fed hard because I kept trying to farm in my lane and I can't do jack with Sven's low mana pool. I blame the loss on the Visage, myself, and the jungling Lone Druid.

Near the end of the game I saw Visage had a Hyperstone.

Ugghhhhh......... went for a Compendium match hoping for at least a decent time, except everyone insta-picked and left me with QoP and Sven. I already know I'm terrible with QoP, so I had to go Sven. Later on the Visage abandoned bot and went top, claiming to farm. I can't do crap with KoTL spamming Illluminate, because I either try to farm but eat surprise horses or stay far away and let them push the tower. Let's just say the match went to hell since no one bought Sentries for the Weaver or more wards until it was too late, and I fed hard because I kept trying to farm in my lane and I can't do jack with Sven's low mana pool. I blame the loss on the Visage, myself, and the jungling Lone Druid.

Near the end of the game I saw Visage had a Hyperstone.

Sven needs hardcore babysitting and that's why I don't like him. I played him recently with Dusk, Adam and Chew in some CM match, I didn't do much that game other than... not feed the other team. Laning against KotL can be easy if you get a couple wards to see when and where he is charging, but usually it's annoying because no one ever buy wards to avoid his blasts and the few times I've purchased them myself the carry doesn't even check.