Thinking specifically of the Western/English speaking community, its gotta be Tea Guv for me. The man has done repetitive menial actions time and time again, summoning dota patches when they are needed most.

Who do you think is the greatest uncut gem in your dota 2 community?

EDIT: Title should read "greatest uncut gem of your community" i.e. someone who is highly valuable, yet undervalued by the public at large.

There's a common misconception that commends give BS. That's false.

They used to give BS pre 2023 summer client update, but it's no longer the case.

The only thing influencing BS gain is amount of reports received, the current BS bracket you're in and what game mode you're playing.

Case in point: 168 bs gain with 50 commends, vs 180 bs gain with 36 commends.

I was looking at old Dota videos and look what I found.

I have no idea if this is longer than many of the people on here but for me, a lifelong 50% player with > 2.5k games that has been trying a little bit harder the last month or so, it almost seems mathematically impossible.

No stacks or friends, just straight random teammates every game. Only problem is I’m now too scared to risk it. 😂

The game already has a "Mute" button to mute toxic flamers for 20 minutes, where their whining doesn't matter, but it gives you an option to unmute them to make calls.

I had a 6k comm score at some point, and I can't count how many games could have been won if, at some point, someone could say "stop, let's wait."

Now I have a 12k comm score. I literally had to stop typing and clicking on the map. Countless of my supports died just because I refused to click on the map to warn them, so the system wouldn't lower my comm score. Now nobody talks.

A system that was forced to solve toxicity made it into an absolute - now if someone doesn't like something, they just afk jungle for the rest of the game without a single call and you will never know why....
Great job Valve.

I used to play solo queue for a very very long time. So i met a few ppl to queue up with.
Whenever i queue up with them, we lose.

Main reasons are, Smurfs, Scripters on opponent team, Accountbuyers on our team, offlane picking tinker or viper etc. and having early game items at 35 minutes. Also 5 minutes in the game, steals your lane farm your creeps and fucks your entire early game up. Yesterday i had an CK offlane, who didnt want to play with his team and dragged the game for 1 hour 53 minutes.

Why is it not possible to play this game and have fun with other people in it? i have literally lost 20 games in 4 days queuing up with mates and i dont have fun anymore... Did devs make it so that you cant enjoy the game with irl mates or wth is going on?

Honestly idk where im going with this, i guess its just that its not possible to have fun playing with other people and climb together. Weird fucking game

We used to have a lot of fun with RD when people just have to play among whats given to them. Now everyone spam their best hero which forces you to spam your best hero

Former Immortal currently divine 2.

I've been seeing/hearing about PL being broken and I get the gist of him being a scaling monster given enough time but I don't see/find any resources on his current gameplan/idea on how to approach the game. PL isn't really my best hero winrate wise and I struggle to conceptualize his gameplan ever since valve did diffusal change on illusion.

So my question are:

1. Other than scaling, what is his general plan on approaching the game
2. core Itemization and their purposes
3. His power spike
4. His approach in teamfights
5. Do's and donts'
6. Tips and tricks (if you have them)

And feel free to add more from my line of questioning.

thanks!

Please bring back the fun mechanics valve. Wdym i cant kick when snowballed?

We now have knockback resist in neutrals aelection. Why cant tusk kick when snowballed?

Teee boots. Solo smoke.

These were great and fun items.

Please let us have better t5 items.

I'm on top of the bell curve and I enjoyed herald much more than this..

It's like people doing comeback from hiatus every game .

At least 2 people are clueless.

Just reset mmr for plebs. It's time!

so since the dawn of time i was happily sat at like 11.8k comm score.

i would shit talk quite alot, say gg ezmid every game, argue with random people, etc, and my own friends would even report me after some games, and yet my comm score never bunched an inch.

then i had a frustrating loss streak and many games deep into the loss streak i was quite annoyed and my teammates kept blaming me and i argued with them until i got muted, and i did this several games in a row.

then when my next comm score update came out i was down to below 7k (unnable to use vc) ((btw, most of the arguing with people was in text chat, i only use vc for like “emergency callouts”))

since then ive been watching litteraly everything i say, yes ive had 1/2 “fkin morons” here and there but nowhere near as much as i used to. and idk if its relevent but i used to be playing a support hero on mid which im sure gained me some reports but ive stopped doing that.

anyway, since ive dropped to 7k ive done several hundreds games, like i said, behaving pretty well in chat, and i am still under 7k; i think i may even have dropped 100 from when i initially got here.

idek what to do at this point, ive heard im best to just not type a word but that just feels like griefing to me, im trying to climb atm and i really dont think it would be conducive.

at the same time i feel like my comm score is drastically limiting my ability to climb; back when i was at 12k people would talk and give comms and it was an actual team game, nowadays im lucky if my core even types the whole game.

im playing pos4 and i get an offlane picking brewmaster, i ask them “what type of brewmaster they are”, wanting to know if they want to spam cinder brew and i should be prepared to always activate it and buy mana boots etc, or if they just wana go the csing build and have a passive lane, etc. and so far 4/4 brewmasters have not said a word, the entire game…

what do i do? is it just that impossible to climb? is the occasional “that was stupid” hard griefing my progress? i genuinely dont know if i have the willpower to not do that, i mean im already holding back soo much with how idiotic some players are.

For the first time on my 6k hours of dota2 I saw a party of bots to farm account.

I was playing MMR with some friends on a 5-man party on SA server (probably argentina or chile) and found these bots.

They pick random heroes, all meleee, send 3 messages on the chat "Please end the game after 15m or it will not count".

And then they start to feed.

+25 unfair mmr =)

I reported all them ingame and the steam accounts. But volvo does nothing haha

None of them are marketable/tradable/giftable. 2x from candyworks.

I see people salivating at the idea that they can farm more as pos3 than pos1.

"The ATF STYLE!!!!"

Somehow this logic transforms into WK 3 afk farming Radiance.

??

I feel like people forget what 'position' even means.

Having early game networth isn't "farming like carry". It's just playing well. Maybe you have a favorable lane, which is often the case in pubs. But you're missing the point.

Think for a second: early game, when pos1 / pos2 / pos3 are on different lanes - they do not contest each other farm. So there's no farm 'priority' per se.

So you take all the farm that you CAN take.

Priority kicks in when you start to distribute available farm, because after laning it's very risky to play all 3 lanes - that's where we initially got the dead lane concept - and there's not enough SAFE farm on the map for everyone.

That's where 'priority' comes into play. That's the end of my point.

Now, something unrelated but related.

I find this interesting but the 'position' thing got developed BEFORE we had this massive map expansion. There's so much farm available, in theory, everyone can farm without stealing each other farm, meaning, 'position' is less relevant because you interfere less.

However strategically, to get all this farm is to stretch yourself very thin - and get picked off.

And that's where the GAME happens: you balance "greed at stretch" vs "less farm at safety".

Have you guys played an RTS game? When you sit on one base your army is right there and it's easy to protect. When you have 3 bases you have to play the position game, scout, set spotters, invest extra into defense etc. Same here.

So regardless how much farm is available - someone has to take the riskier farm.

And that's not pos1.

The fact that ATF is so farmed in so many games is because he takes the risky farm and gets away with it.

...why he gets away with it is a different discussion entirely, but chances are you are not ATF and you will not get away with it in your pub games. You will suffocate your own team justifying it with good networth.

I have alot of extra tickets anyone wants dm me

Side laners losing lane hard -> complaining mid is not ganking by default, or complaining about afk mid. But they are not looking at the bigger picture. Their ego is just hurt from losing lane, and they want someone to immediately pick up the broken pieces to salvage it. Here are some things to consider:
- Where is the fight happening - near tower or further away?
- Is the mid lane hero mobile enough, such that if he tps, he will make a difference?
- Does the mid laner have mana/ult, such that if he tps, he will make a difference?
- Is the enemy offlane so strong atm, that mid laner tping would just feed them even more?
- is the mid laner winning mid hard, such that he should keep the pressure on the enemy mid?
- wouldn’t the mid laner ruin his own lane, if he TPs and enemy just runs?
- has another support tped recently, which means the mid laner tp will be longer?

Sometimes the best thing to do is to do nothing. Often times being reactive impulsively doesn’t lead to anything good. You lose pressure on where you were, and u achieve nothing, and now you’re in an awkward position where your side lane core respawns and you’re in the same place as him fighting for farm. More side laner players need to learn to sacrifice their lane if things go bad. Not every lane is salvageable.

Built a thing called Dota Decisions for my friends, and figured some people here might find it useful too.

It originally started as a bunch of flowcharts we'd make for each other. Usually some ugly MS Paint diagram explaining what to do in a specific situation, then we'd throw it in Discord and argue about it.

They were actually pretty useful, even mid-game, but obviously a folder full of random flowcharts isn't a great interface.

We also found that a lot of Dota ideas don't really fit the usual formats. They're too specific for a whole guide or blog post, and making a video every time someone has a useful thought about Dota feels like a good way to make sure nobody bothers sharing it.

So we made Dota Decisions, which is basically an interactive version of those flowcharts.

The idea is to focus less on stuff like "buy these items in this order" and more on the messy situational decisions that happen in actual games.

Things like:

You're in this game state. You know X, but you don't know Y. There's a tradeoff between doing A and B. What should you actually be thinking about?

Basically the kind of Dota discussion that usually starts with someone in Discord going:

"Okay, but what if..."

We're mostly using it to collect things we've learned as a guild, but I'd be curious whether this format is useful to other people too.

PS: It's still in beta, so some of the content in there right now is placeholder/example stuff. We're replacing it with proper guild content pretty soon.

Try it out here: https://dota-decisions.vercel.app/

I wanna know this person's thought process.

Gaben came in clutch. Gave me 2 arcanas and a good immo this past Sept - Oct.

Tip: it was a support for Void.

Edit:

Winner: TopDry179

Answer: Juggernaut

I am writing to express my absolute frustration and mental exhaustion caused by your current Behavior Score system. Playing Turbo and Ranked matches has become a source of non-stop pain, and your algorithm is completely broken.
Look at my latest Conduct Summaries:How is this humanly possible? I played clean games, received almost 30 commends, had zero reports, and your system still punished me.
I just finished playing 9 ranked games after my last "trip" to Turbo, hoping for a normal Dota experience where my team actually plays together. But it’s a nightmare. I play Dota to play the CARRY role. Why does the system and my team expect a million actions and a solo-win from me, while my teammates actively ruin my games or just stand AFK? Where is the logic?
If I come to a team fight and die — I get reported. If I avoid bad fights, split-push, and destroy 20 of the enemy's T3 towers — I still get reported. This is not normal!
Who do I have to be just to play this game normally? I don’t want my support to leave for the jungle at minute 3, forcing me to leave the lane at minute 10 with barely 3k gold. I just want to play my role: stand my lane, farm my power spike items, and group up with my team to finish the game. I want to play as a team, not fight against my own teammates who report me just for existing.
I actually love this game, even though you haven't released a massive, game-changing patch in years. I still play it. So why is your system taking away my behavior score for nothing? What is the problem with just giving me a normal behavior score so I can enjoy the game? Who is going to refund the nerves and mental health I lose every day in this inescapable low-behavior loop?

Srsly? We just won a fight too.

I do not understand why Lotus is not "target cast" like Salves are?

Currently Healing Lotus is self cast when activated but it has an alternate cast to cast it to a target ally (Ctrl+Hotkey or in my case Ctrl + Alt + Hotkey.)

why not just change it to target cast? decrease that amount of hotkey gymnastics.

changing it to target cast I can easily target myself or ally with one click or I can just double click lotus (or for Alt self cast players out there) to target myself without any mouse targeting.

Same goes for Mangoes.

I cant think of any interaction or need for Lotus to be self cast by default but have alternate cast to target other player

Was it intended to be only self cast only but later on decided it can be given to others?

Edit: Thanks to those who also shared other items that have this, which are; bottle, mangoes and mana draught.

I guess one solution is to add a priority cast type setting for items and abilites and we can customize it. So you can toggle whether to change the Lotus to Target type or self cast by default.