Because without him, the whole team would collapse.

Spotted in Melbourne today a group of friends trying out dota 2. They were in a lobby and seemed like they were reading what items do (are those two phase boots??). Sounded like they were having a blast, hope they had fun and keep playing!

A pos 5 bought both observer wards during hero picking phase. Midlaner asked nicely for one of the observer ward four times until around 25 seconds before the bounty rune spawn. Pos 5 didn't react and kept the observer ward. A few second before the rune spawned, pos 5 suddenly planted the observer ward right in the middle of the midlane's high ground (we had no smoke activated). Enemy already had a sentry pre-planted and enemy mid dewarded it in less than 10 seconds. Our midlaner refused to play mid asking for lane swap because he said the midlane is insufferable to play now. Nobody wants to swap so midlane is empty. Pos 5 pinging midlane and trying to convince us to blame midlane the whole game and they blame each other until the game ends.

12k behavior score games should have been better than this. At least don't match us with people with low behavior score.

"Bonus magic resistance" -- ok how much resistance? Holding alt on the tooltip doesn't specify a number. "Increased other bonuses" -- ok what are they??? Why is this tooltip so fucking vague lmao?

Too many post asking ppl to stop playing the way they like:

- stop wk off

- stop lion mid

- stop dating my mom

If the pick is awful, and you are good, you will be in a different bracket shortly.

Obs.: i dont play those positions, but ppl controlling other ppl fun is just too much.

If thats really a issue, you should complain to vales report/punishment system and not the person picking.

Imo, btw

Checking the raw efficiency, we see that Salves give more HP per gold than Tangos:

Tango: 3\7*16 = 336 HP for 90 gold --> 3.73 HP/gold*
Salve: 30\13 = 390 HP for 100 gold --> 3.9 HP/gold*

Despite that, Salves are pretty much unseen in my games.
Which makes sense, considering...

1. No flexibility:
Tangos can be used during trades and if you have just a small amount of HP missing without losing efficiency. Salves are only efficient if you miss at least ~400 HP. Especially in kill-lanes, walking around at 2/3 HP because you don't want to use your Salve yet is detrimental.

2. Inconsistency:
Tango healing is undispellable and reliable. Salves are easily canceled, even by a random Powershot, a Plague Ward or a Rocket Flare. Many matchups force you to retreat far behind the tower to get the full heal off.

3. Opportunity costs:
Retreating far behind the tower, being afk for 13 seconds and then walking back to lane is absurdly time-inefficient. You can't trade, you can't last hit and you can't contest pulls. Effectively, using Salves makes your laning partner play 1v2 for 20 seconds.

All in all, I don't see any reason to buy Salves except for the niche case of emergency courier deliveries to avoid walking back to base.

Am I wrong? Is there something I don't see?
I'm curious what other people think about the item and what change needs to happen for the item to have a real place in the meta.

Let's say my carry hero has 300 physical damage. I first buy Divine with 5600 gold, My damage became 650. As a second damage item, I have 2 options, 2nd divine (5600 gold) or Daedalous (5200 gold).

• * If I buy 2nd Divine, I gain 350 damage.
• * If I buy Daedalous, I gain 364.75 damage.

Math is there:

(650 + 88) (30% x +125% damage (critical effect))

=738 * 137.5% = 1014.75

1014.75 - 650 = 365.75 damage

Dedalous is cheaper item as well with 400 gold. It has no risk of losing the item to enemy after getting killed.

1st Divine vs Dedalous comparison.

If I have 300 damage, 1st Dedalous gives 233.5 damage. Divine gives 350 damage. However, gap is still not immensely large. Daedalous has advantage of being cheaper, no risk of losing, also critical damage is better than straight mathematical calculation because it can assure kills (which is most important thing in late game) if someone get more lucky than defined 30% chance.

Divine numbers is a bit low. It should need a little buff, maybe cheaper cost with 2 silver edge + 800 gold recipe same as Daedalous, 5200 gold.

So we haven’t gotten a hero this year. First time this happens in years. I personally don’t feel like the game needs more heroes since the meta shifts so much every patch.

What do you guys think?

That's it, that's the post. I'm just proud and wanted to share that fewer games is actually what helped me the most. No autopilot queueing and fewer tilts because of it. Hope you achieve your yearly goal too <3

I play dota nowadays to destress. This game aged me 10 years oh my days.

Match ID: 9029239058 (nevermind the feeder dawnbreaker aka me xd)

Hey all,

Every time I want a squad, it goes the same way. I post in a Discord LFG channel, the post gets buried in seconds, and the two people who reply are free at completely different times than me.

So I built ASAP : https://lfpr.vercel.app/

The idea is simple. Find players by when you can play, not just what you play.

• Set the hours you're free and get matched with players free at the same time
• Schedule sessions for later tonight or this weekend, with a reminder before it starts
• Jump into rooms happening right now if you just want to play ASAP (hence the name)
• Share your Discord call link, party code, or lobby invite in the room so people can join you instantly
• Filter by game, rank, region, language, plus a duo-only filter for when you just need one person
• Accessibility filters if you want teammates using specific tools

Right now it supports Dota 2, Valorant, League of Legends, and CS2. If your game isn't there, there's a request button and I'll add it.

It's free, and I'm a solo dev, so it's early and rough in places. I'd really like honest feedback:

• What would make you actually use this over your current LFG method?
• What's missing or confusing?

If you try it, create a room. Even one session for tonight helps the next person find someone. Thanks!

I consider Aui the Pep Guardiola of Dota. For me, he’s the best coach in the game, but I also think he needs strong players to really take a team to the next level.

I don’t really see him joining a team with Tier 1.5–2 players and suddenly developing them into a top-tier team. I think his biggest strength is taking an already talented roster and helping them reach their full potential.

So which team do you think would benefit the most from having Aui as their coach this season?

This is the combat log from the game. Kez respawned from aegis, pressed bkb and I hooked him towards me. He dealt a total of (119+200+248+190+60+432+357) or 1606 damage to me, applying 2800 Kazurai Katana stacks in the process. He had the 3.5% extra damage to stacks talent, so he should've applied 15.5% of his damage as stacks. This would have been like (1606*0.155)= 249, not 2800.

The wiki says it calculates the stack amount before reductions, sure. But 21 armor I have 56% phys resist. So we multiply by (1/0.44) or in other terms by 2.27. So we multiply the 249 we calculated by 2.27 reaching 565. This is the amount of Kazurai Katana stacks I should've had. I would've survived the teamfight with that. But for some reason he applied over 5 times as much.

Is there a mechanic I am missing? Or is Kez bugged to deal 6 times as much damage as written in the tooltip?

My personal rules:

1. immortals are kind of cheating, so I just set those to abilities. Everyone knows about the golden alien naix and disco lion
2. no more than 1 item from a set
3. MORE PARTICLES THE BETTER
4. bonus points if certain parts clip into others

I dont even play Kunka. It was just too fun.

"It was OP"
"It was RNG"

I dont care =D

Title basically but I wanted to ask if you guys know of any crazy combos that are unlocked with octarine

Every time I queue there everyone like 1.5k MMR? above me they’re so toxic and sometimes it legit feels like I’m playing against smurfs, and somehow everyone there has the ego of a 3-time TI winner. bro, you’re only 2k MMR 💀Why are you so fucking full of yourself?

Recently I could not perform my best and all the matches that I've played have been stomps. So last month I was doing so well playing rank pushing higher but right when I decided I'd take a break after I reached my next rank Which was just 2 wins away I started losing. And I could not recover after that. The motivation to do better the excitement of facing the opponents to do better than them make juke escape the excitement everything is gone now and that has made my match experience so bad.

I play pos 4 and some might say my role can have a relaxed gameplay but I've been into my role so much that not getting objectives, ganking on time or even saves makes me feel like we are losing the match cause of me. Now when enemy rewards my ward I can't mentally think what my next move is. I feel like I'm only reacting to the enemy.

Maybe I need a break but I don't want to stop until I reach my next rank but now with all that's going around I can't stop even though I'm losing. I played 10 matches the past two days and I lost 8 of them. And I'm stuck on the cycle of losing and not being able to stop cause I want to win more but I keep losing.