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- Understanding power spikes
- Any new competition for SEA (e.g qualifier) that i can register my team
- Help with Leshrac.
- Mask Of Madness on Spectre
- Learning Lone Druid would really like some tips and advice
- How do you maintain map control after winning lane?
- juggernaut question
- Just finished Act 1 with random strangers.
- Farming with Ursa
- Skill Build for Sniper Mid
- Broodmother build
- recently downloaded the game and...
- I honestly have no clue what to do in these situations...
- What are the most crucial things to remember when you're a support?
- Change HP bar threshold by keybind?
- Is it ok on some specific heroes to have a lot of deaths?
- Recently I've had some ranked games where it's really hard to take seriously, and everyone dies a lot. Anyone else in the same boat?
- is there any good material on improving from the 5k bracket to get to 6k that exists?
- I am really sucking as QOP
- Roaming Support Gyrocopter? Can this work in 7.xx?
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 10:01 AM PDT Understanding how to properly play around a hero's power spikes is a fundamental skill in Dota. In a nutshell, a power spike is when you obtain an important milestone for a hero (e.g. levels or items) that gives you a sharp increase in power. This is a component of a hero's overall power curve, which is their general strength throughout the game. I think that most people have a broad understanding of this concept - we all know that spectre is weak early and strong late game, for example - but people often fail to capitalize on the narrow timing windows in which they can make an outsized impact. One thing that I want to stress throughout this guide is that your power is 100% relative to the power of the other heroes in the game. A lvl 10 Slark with Shadow Blade at 14 minutes is exactly as strong as a lvl 10 Slark with SB at 20 minutes; the difference is how strong everyone else is at those times. The Slark who hit their timings early will be able to tear through squishies like tissue paper, whereas the Slark who hit their timings late will be significantly less scary. Everyone is constantly growing stronger over time; if you just bought an important item, the opposing carry might be 30 seconds away from buying theirs. That is why power spikes are so dependent on timing: if you fail to capitalize on the window in which you are strongest, you are giving your opponents the opportunity to catch up. Ideally, you want to be in position to immediately take advantage of hitting a power spike in order to maximize the discrepancy between your strength and your opponents. Here are a few practical examples to show this in action:
This has turned into a Purge-length wall of text, so I'll try to wrap things up. Knowing when you are strong, what you are strong at, and how to utilize that power properly is a necessary part of playing a hero optimally. Pros aren't just good at the mechanics of their heroes - they know the exact timing of these power spikes, can hit these timings consistently, and know how to push these advantages to the fullest. TL;DR 1) Understand your power spikes. 2) Take advantage of windows of relative strength. Don't waste them. 3) Respect the power spikes of your opponents. 4) Be aggressive when you are relatively strong, and be defensive when you are relatively weak. [link] [comments]  |
| Any new competition for SEA (e.g qualifier) that i can register my team Posted: 12 Jun 2017 08:20 PM PDT Hi, do you guys know where i can register my team to any valve or non-valve competition. My team is currently in echo league, but im actually looking for more competitions to join. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 03:14 PM PDT Guys. 1k scrub here, again. You guys were so awesome with your suggestions in my Medusa post, that I couldn't stop myself from coming here to ask for help. Any tips on how to use Leshrac properly? I mean, lane, should I support our carry, itemisation, etc. Thank you!!! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 06:56 AM PDT I tried MoM on Spectre and had a pretty good experience with it. I went Phase MoM/ MoM Phase into Radience and the MoM helps me sustaining while farming jungle and speeding up my farming in general. It also felt like i was online and ready to kill people with just Phase and MoM, able to outrun people who tried to gank me. Was i just lucky the two Games i tried it? What do you guys think? I think it is a viable alternative to the Vanguard into Radience build which i think feels pretty weak pre Radience. [link] [comments]  |
| Learning Lone Druid would really like some tips and advice Posted: 12 Jun 2017 09:44 AM PDT I really love lone druid and want to get good with him ive been playing him for about 2 days now and i think im not doing awful but im having trouble with the mid lane matchups especially lina and sniper any advice and tips would be appreciated Dotabuff : https://www.dotabuff.com/players/415419523 [link] [comments]  |
| How do you maintain map control after winning lane? Posted: 12 Jun 2017 09:13 AM PDT So, I've been climbing up in MMR (I'm about 2.6k atm), and lately games have just felt... claustrophobic. I've hit 3k before through hero spamming, but I'm trying to be more versatile, but it just seems lately that by the time the 20 minute mark hits, the other team is either 5 manning or split pushing us to death. Any fight our team takes, we win, but the enemy team plays in a way that is just constantly pushing every lane, to the point that even when a teamwipe happens it's hard to even take a tower. Can I get some general tips on how to fix this, both as a support and as a carry? I'm looking for vague tips because I'm still trying to figure out what role I want to play (better than my team is at carry, but no one ever wants to support, and I always feed when playing mid). General tips are welcome as well from higher MMR players. All my favorite heroes are bad in pubs, and all the heroes I win on are mind numbingly boring, so I've still been searching for that perfect hero and just can't find one =( [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 03:02 PM PDT Hey, what're the best items to get with an agh's sceptor for juggernaut?I love getting aghs on jug, but I don't know what else to get to maximize the damage on those omnislashes? does it even matter? anyone have any ideas for play styles that are good? 500 mmr here [link] [comments]  |
| Just finished Act 1 with random strangers. Posted: 12 Jun 2017 05:14 AM PDT I must say that it is not as hard as people claim it to be. It is actually pretty easy once you know the mechanics. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 02:42 PM PDT I've been playing Ursa recently and in building meta items like Vlads, Abyssal, BKB and Aghs, I find that farming with Ursa is incredibly slow. My gpm with him is around 500 while other carries are around 600+. Is this just how the hero functions or can I be more efficient with my farming? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 05:39 AM PDT I've recently found that I really enjoy playing sniper mid. What I'll typically do is go a 3-1-1 and rush desolator (after grabbing aquillas and phase boots). I find that this gives me a little bit of an edge in lane because I still get head shot damage plus the extra range, but I also feel like at lvl 6 having the extra shrapnel damage gives me a lot of kill potential. Additionally I'll try to take stack the large camp and than just use shrapnel charges to kill it, accelerating my farm. From there I'll do pretty standard sniper things and go something like maelstrom, hurricane pike,and mkb or shadow blade. Does anybody else who play sniper have any suggestions or what have people who played against this build mid thing about it? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 05:25 AM PDT I've seen radiances on Dotabuff's guide section for brood and gave it a shot, it went pretty well. Some people pick it up with a midas first and others don't. What do you think about midas -> radiance? When would you take a radiance build over an orchid build and what would items would you go anyway? I ended up building soul ring - midas - radiance - phase - bkb - diffusal - travels - AC - Skadi. Also, where would you fit a dispel item like manta, lotus orb or euls into these builds if the enemy are spamming dust like madmen? [link] [comments]  |
| recently downloaded the game and... Posted: 12 Jun 2017 07:47 AM PDT I'm completely lost on what to do, when to do it, or even how to play my characters correctly. literally any and all knowledge/help appreciated. (I've played smite league, hots, and paragon before, so ik the basics of mobas in general, just not dota 2 specifically). [link] [comments]  |
| I honestly have no clue what to do in these situations... Posted: 12 Jun 2017 09:39 AM PDT https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3244351051 I went OD Midlane per usual. The only difference was that my team was godawful. Everyone overextended or dived towers. The only times I died early game were when a PA ganked me twice, and I had a damage issue vs pudge (he never hooked me the whole game idt. I just dodged them). Besides an awful-skilled team, my teammates were flamers up to the point of me muting them. They had a thick peruvian accent which made it hard to understand them, but our PL especially was rude and obnoxious. He went safelane with our amazing silencer and when he died, all I saw was "Report Silencer. He's trash no last hits. He can't last hit. report him. I can't play this stupid game you **********s I'm jungling." I tried to tell him to not give up and to come mid and get kills with me but he was constantly rude. I died once again mid and he was all over me this time saying how bad I was, even though I didn't really let pudge get a lot of cs early game. I had a horrible mid/late game because of me dying. I had 3 deaths with horrible positioning and the rest were just me expecting my team to do stuff when they didn't (i.e. silencer using ult during a teamfight. Spacecow ulting. Etc). Then the most halarious part was me buying a lot of wards as a mid core. I was pretty pissed at that, as PL and weaver should have supported. In any case what can I do in these games? Should I just give up? I almost got a rampage... But our weaver stole the kills (as an aside). Stuff I need to improve on:
Besides those, what could I have done?! I'm really discouraged at how this match went. Besides the TB, the enemy was lower skill than me and barely knew what they were doing. WD had full vision of the map and no one cared to ward (I just avoided the areas I knew they had vision in). The whole team was foreign with a thick annoying acccent and always flaming, up to the point of me muting most of them. [link] [comments]  |
| What are the most crucial things to remember when you're a support? Posted: 11 Jun 2017 10:56 PM PDT I play on a SEA server. I support toxic players 24/7 and it seems like I'm doing it wrong. Do you guys have any tips for beginner supports like warding, creep stacking, etc.????? [link] [comments]  |
| Change HP bar threshold by keybind? Posted: 12 Jun 2017 09:14 AM PDT Is it still possible? I remember it used to be possible to change the HP bar threshold by pressing some keys. It was really helpful especially when playing Axe. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it ok on some specific heroes to have a lot of deaths? Posted: 11 Jun 2017 09:37 PM PDT Recently when people take mid and insta lock (mid is my best position in terms of hero pool and ability to cs), I've been liking going for pos 4 roam heroes like sb, pudge, riki, mirana. All of these heroes I feel like I actually make space on the map for my team and gank mid lane frequently as well as any other lane that needs help. However, on sb and pudge in particular, I seem to sometimes "feed" a lot, in the sense that the enemy has an easy time picking me off due to the nature of the heroes. Is it really bad to see a sb with 17 deaths in an hour long game, for example, when his main job in that paticular game is to charge sniper and disrupt the enemy, which usually results in me getting focused? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 02:43 AM PDT I will use my most recent game as an example. https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3243353091 I was Luna safelane, I died to first blood due to pathing errors (or im just a fucking noob idk) and that was the start of the end. I died 13 total times, which was an astronomical amount, but here's the thing; the lowest deaths was still a pretty high number of 8. It didn't seem like anyone wanted to really win, everyone was just... playing. The game reminded me of my days in 1k mmr when it was just constant fighting no farming. (match average was 3100.) I'm not sure what this post is, I guess I want help on how to take the game seriously when it seems everyone else has gone full retard, or how to consistently not die as much, while at the same time getting a sufficient amount of farm. [link] [comments]  |
| is there any good material on improving from the 5k bracket to get to 6k that exists? Posted: 11 Jun 2017 11:24 PM PDT |
| Posted: 12 Jun 2017 01:56 AM PDT I just have no clue what to do. Can someone please review this game for me. All my games are going like this. [link] [comments]  |
| Roaming Support Gyrocopter? Can this work in 7.xx? Posted: 11 Jun 2017 09:49 PM PDT He's been getting quite a few buffs lately, and I'm actually wondering if those can't be applied towards a support build. Max out W first, then Q, then E - then buy stuff like force staff, drums, Eul's. Not sure what boots, though I'm thinking possibly Tranqs. Any other ideas on how this could work? [link] [comments]  |
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