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mfw King Sombra on your team as a ballin' Rubick.

That rubick was indeed amazing, he stole so many boats and exorcisms that I lost count.
Also I started to play with Mirana again, forgot how much fun she is, got some good 5 seconds arrows.

That rubick was indeed amazing, he stole so many boats and exorcisms that I lost count.
Also I started to play with Mirana again, forgot how much fun she is, got some good 5 seconds arrows.

I wonder if it rustles peoples' jimmies anymore to get their butt kicked by a person with a Pony themed name. I know in TF2 it was glorious buttflustering everywhere.


Also, how to break a bad KDA streak. Random Sniper and go 6/5/21.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/607202234

I feel so dirty to use such a simple hero, and win hard.

GG!
Pulled an unbreakable here.
We had megacreeps on us for like 30 minutes and we hold unto our last tier4 and won the goddam game.
I had to go for an alrternate build for a laning zeus, but worked after all.

Have you ever had a game where you're just sort of there as a support like "I'M HELPING." but feel sort of useless?

I had one of those yesterday when I played as Treant. http://dotabuff.com/matches/608633392 My team just utterly stomped. All I really did was ulti, use my slow, and heal when we pushed.

I've also been playing Earth Spirit lately, but I don't really get how to use his ult effectively. I understand the concept of his other skills fine, where you can drop a rock then pull it back and either whack it to stun or to roll into the enemy for a slow. You can also whack your allies towards the other team or pull them away. I get it. But the ult I just have no real idea what to do with.

Have you ever had a game where you're just sort of there as a support like "I'M HELPING." but feel sort of useless?

I had one of those yesterday when I played as Treant. http://dotabuff.com/matches/608633392 My team just utterly stomped. All I really did was ulti, use my slow, and heal when we pushed.

I've also been playing Earth Spirit lately, but I don't really get how to use his ult effectively. I understand the concept of his other skills fine, where you can drop a rock then pull it back and either whack it to stun or to roll into the enemy for a slow. You can also whack your allies towards the other team or pull them away. I get it. But the ult I just have no real idea what to do with.

Treant isn't a support with a lot of direct impact, it's very indirect through heals and shields although he can be devastating at level 1-3 with leech seed ganks early on.

Also earth spirit is pretty hard to get down properly, but generally you'll want to use your ulti whenever it can hit more than 2 targets and then fire some remnants after them or drag remnants through them since it refrehses the ulti.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/610705616

Single Draft game. I thought jungle Chen wouldn't be a good idea with the line-up and left with Chaos Knight and Gyro. Go "support" Gyro by buying and setting all the wards, and also using bomb/ult to stun enemies and secure kills. Then go transition into 6-slotted carry mode after noticing the team wouldn't have enough damage to take out the enemy team. That feeling when I went from "supporting" to carrying the team with most farm, it's such a good feeling.

Oh my god this game. Felt so good to be back supporting this hard.



Euls and an incoming Sheepstick. I was sooo fat it was amazing. Also did my first true dewarding ever. Felt great to notice how the enemies seemed to keep running away when I got close, so I figure they must've warded. Bam! Ward. Bam! 50 gold! Bam! They lost the lane to a safe lane Sniper and jungle Legion Commander! Bam! Proceed to help save people with clutch Urn heals. The enemy had such a terrible Huskar. He caught me and tried to 1 vs 1 me down, failed miserably and team arrived to kill him.

I played my first Invoker game (outside of like 2 bot games) today, and I think I did pretty okay for my first ever attempt.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/611992928

Did you play Quas wex or Quas exort?

Did you play Quas wex or Quas exort?

Quas Exort, didn't do Wex until last.

How did we pulled this off?
No idea, their constant ganking and the neglection of the supports to buy wards make it so difficult.
Turtle strat best strat

http://dotabuff.com/matches/626443061
Another Silencer core match.
Game was too stressful at one point we were losing 29 - 10.
But after 3 succesful defenses at tiers 3 with no casualties makes us turn this around.
What help us the most is that magina didn't build a bkb.
And I have NO idea why I got into EU west.

[MENTION=9742]Chew[/MENTION] [MENTION=7446]Words[/MENTION] [MENTION=6211]Malthe[/MENTION]

Went to a housewarming party today. Found out one of the guys there was THE one who wrote the CAPS LOCK LEORIC guide. Man I was freaking out, and a bit later we and another friend chatted up about what 6.81 is going to do to the metagame. That alone was totally worth it. It's such a small world, man. He lives in Chicago just like me.

Lately all my matches are like this:
http://dotabuff.com/matches/631537609
Stressful and looooooooooooooooooooong
I mean I'm happy I left the tier of one-sided 20 minute matches. But this way I can barely play one or two.

http://esportsexpress.com/2014/04/univer...ty-roster/
Oh god this is brilliant, especially
-Theology
-Farming
-Ethics
-Onanismology
-Creative writing
-Music theory

http://dotabuff.com/matches/636378662
First game in almost a month... thought I'd be rusty but I landed almost every stun, even without set up, and the only mistake that was obvious was a bad ward I placed.
I'm kinda confused as to my teammates' picks and item builds but I guess I shouldn't complain as I'm probably not playing at my best.

http://dotabuff.com/matches/638284517

CK sucks bad, I don't know why I didn't repick. There are things that I don't play because it's too hard for me but this pomegranate's just bad... can't farm, can't kill pomegranate unless I somehow manage to get ahead. CK added to my hate list that I'll never play again.
Also, pineapple that Bloodseeker. Gets mid, afks for like 2 minutes, builds BF ._.

Two games in a row of just losing terribly. Ugh.

Played with some friends a few days ago, we were 4 people so we couldn't play ranked. I really wish we had been 5 so we could've gone ranked because that was awful.
Luna is left solo vs a lich for 2 minutes and then he gets so buttmad he goes to base sells everything and just starts feeding, literally walking into enemies anytime he's up.
We held out 4v6 for a while and almost got ahead but suddenly their silencer kind of stole a ton of int and just murdered us all.

Sigh, would've been such an easy game, so many targets to kill as ember spirit, and i won my lane hard

Played with some friends a few days ago, we were 4 people so we couldn't play ranked. I really wish we had been 5 so we could've gone ranked because that was awful.
Luna is left solo vs a lich for 2 minutes and then he gets so buttmad he goes to base sells everything and just starts feeding, literally walking into enemies anytime he's up.
We held out 4v6 for a while and almost got ahead but suddenly their silencer kind of stole a ton of int and just murdered us all.

Sigh, would've been such an easy game, so many targets to kill as ember spirit, and i won my lane hard

It's a shame that my ping to EU servers sucks so bad or else I'd love to join you every now and then.
Also, bad team mates when you're in a stack suck more than solo queue. It can ruin the mood that playing with friends should have and instead you end up as stressed as solo queue with flamers. In one of the last CM matches Chew, a friend and I played, we had this captain who kept flaming us while saying that we were too negative kinda ruined CM and we decided not to queue for it again unless it's a 5 stack.

Also, I'm soooo rusty but at least I'm noticing some of my mistakes. I gotta remember what's it like to play against a Pudge and stop being a feeder.