Alright, what do you guys think about this feature? I for one look forward to it, as I can totally live with longer queue times, as long as I actually get the role I want instead of fighting for it every game. I feel like this may relieve a lot of stress and make game more enjoyable, plus maybe even more successfull, since everybody gets his best role (true for the enemy team as well though).

On the other side it may, depending on the limitations, hamper Dotas much famed flexibility and, depending on limitations, could be abused (e.g. queue as supp but claim mid -if thats possible-).

Let me hear your thoughts.

I've recently been spending a lot of games playing this hero support to pretty good success (65% win rate in 3.5k) and have been having a great time playing it too.

The buffs to bounty runes make this hero get items easily just from those and without taking farm from camps and lanes away from cores (if you're building an aghs for them it's worth it but I finish most games on ~3 last hits per min).

My skill build is stun first, greed second for the bounty rune multiplier, then prioritize ult > stun > acid > greed. For items I usually go phase, medallion then blink, though sometimes skip the medallion if your team doesn't do much phys or you need the extra catch potential. You can follow up with meteor, which is easy to land on the 4s stun of concoction, or start building aghs for the team, if you skip meteor and medallion you can get he first aghs at ~18m, if not skipping more like 24-26m.

I will lock in asap, partially so my team think to pick around it with stuff like zues, wr, gyro etc who all have great upgrades if gotten early, also if you lock early you can bait an AA pick, who is pretty weak into support alch, especially if you go alch-wr dual offlane, as he ends up being food for the lane and can't contest runes.

The biggest weakness to this hero is if you lose map control over the runes by 15-20 mins, so make sure your lanes are strong, he's a good hero in the laning phase himself with the stun but if your team picks too greedy and you can't secure bounty runes in midgame you feel very underwhelming.

Overall he's a really fun hero that can throw people out of their comfort zone, offers a 4s hard disable, and can empower allies better than any other hero, but I'd love to know your thoughts and suggestions.

For the longest time, it was considered the correct play for most games to level up his slow first. Now after the latest patch, his slow is now not enough to get autoattacks in while keeping up with the enemy (unless possibly investing in a wind lace early). In addition to this, any others following getting attacks off while pudge slows is now not able to get as many auto attacks in as well early in. Could it be at a point where it is more worth while to get the raw damage and positioning advantage at level 1 (assuming you hit the hook obviously) then having the mild move speed slow, then possibly getting level 2 and 3 in rot? Just unable to determine this here recently myself, wanting some other opinions on this.

Hello!

4k scrub here looking for help with building Jakiro. I've recently started to like the pos 5 role more and more and a hero I would like to spam now is Jakiro. I wonder when to build what and which skill to max in what situation. Basically:

When do I max my Q?

When do I max my W?

When do I max my E?

Should I ALWAYS skills ult level 6?

What's an okay standard item build?

When do I build specific items? (Vs which heroes and what are the items I should be building)

Thanks for helping me out!

It seems like every time I have a day off during the week and have good time for Dota, unfortunately I have to say about 80% of my games on US East are just trash, super toxic, people seem to fight against working together or the depressing one person going out of their way to make the game awful. And it seems to be between say 1PM-4PM. For example today besides having bad games, it also seemed like most of the players on my teams in multiple games didn't even speak english, speaking some kind of Asian language.

But when I play game at night, after work or sometimes early afternoon (10-11am) the games seem to go really well a majority of the time.

Is there any rhyme or reason for this? Is it just the luck of the draw? Does anyone avoid a server at certain times? Do you have alternative servers you jump to at certain times?

Is PA mid game or late game stronger? And what is your item build and talent tree when you play PA?

I'm currently Archon 5, around 3k mmr and looking to play more support.

Recently won a game of Warlock, and found a renewed interest in the hero. I maxed W and Q and healed my carry while bonding the enemy. I went arcane boots

For Item, I went Mana boots into Aghs rush and kept pushing towers when I teamfights were won with me golem before the late game where my golems would fall off. I've been seeing ideas of Auras - Drums, Necro, Helm instead of Aghs to strengthen golems. Is this better for Warlock?

Any other tips for this hero? Thanks!

https://www.dotabuff.com/heroes/winning?date=patch_7.14

Even at higher level he's still one of the worst hero in win rate. Wasn't there a patch awhile back where he was one of the more dominant heroes? but I look at the change logs and it's more or less been nothing but buffs for awhile now.

So what happened? I get that heroes like Puck isn't in the meta right now as similar heroes like QOP also isn't doing super well. but what's the problem really?

I guess my feeling is that they're sort of burst hero without enough burst damage? also it may be just me but traditional magic damage INT heroes seems to be a weak in general right now (unless you have some sort of % skill like Zeus.) is it because INT right now is just too weak?

Thoughts?

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Stormrazor (edit: 3400 gold or 3200. Not sure for current PBE version)

(B.F. Sword + Pickaxe + Dagger)

+Attack Damage = 65 AD

+Attack Speed = 25%

UNIQUE Passive: If you haven't attacked recently, your next basic attack will critically strike (edit: You only have to wait 2.5 seconds).

UNIQUE Passive: When you critically strike, gain a short burst of attack speed and movement speed (edit: 25% AS | 8% MS for 1.5 seconds).

Not sure if this item is intended for ADC's to have a slight edge in late teamfights, but Rengar / Kha'Zix is going to absolutely ravage ADC's and mid with this item as soon as they make it early. Isn't this pretty much a stronger Duskblade?

Rengar can just ult, get the guaranteed crit, then probably just finish the job with a Q. Now if he has Stormrazor AND Duskblade, it's just going to make the game not fun for whoever Rengar feels like bullying. As the game goes on and Rengar gets the new Infinity Edge, he's literally going to 1 shot people again. It's bad enough that all ADC's are essentially getting nerfed for the first ~half of the game in patch 8.11.

Now this item is certainly going to be fun, but it's not really healthy for the game. It will only be good on a handful of champions, but it's so exceptional on those select few that it seems to already be doomed to be in a pointless cycle of nerfs and buffs and then ultimately a rework.

It also doesn't seem to really be intended for ADCs, as they are constantly attacking minions and never really saving up that 1st attack for a juicy crit. It would be fun seeing an ADC gank for the crit shot, but again that's unhealthy for the game because it highly encourages losing CS for a potential kill as the ADC.

Of course this is speculation, but usually niche items like this end up not being used at all, or being extremely overpowered on a couple of champions (consequently just having the item reworked).

Edit: As many have pointed out, GP will be one of, if not THE biggest beneficiaries of this item. His Q will critically strike every time, meaning barrels are even scarier now.

*Edit 2: As I'm learning more stats there are many things I want to adjust or edit in my original post (such as the IE being more optimal for one shot than another high damage item), but I'm just going to leave it all in there for clarity for others as they read the comments. I still stand by that an item like this has high potential to cause terrible balancing issues and will likely be changed.

It was your average Sunday night, I was struggling between going to bed as I should or queue up for another game and end on a victory. I was a conquerer/ignite Fiora player and against a Yasuo top. For the first time I didn't regret queing for "one more game". Like you would expect, I had first blood in 4 minutes parrying his tornado and I was expecting "runs ignite noob" or "broken champ" but instead Yasuo in all chat, "wow that was cool, I didn't know you could do that!" I stopped dancing on his body and backed. By 15 min I had killed him 4 more times solo and double killed him and his Nidalee Jg the 5th. He wasn't inting, he played as best as could be expected from a gold 5 Yasuo. I knew what was happening tho, I typed in all chat "You're probably being flamed like hell" and before he could even respond his teammates starting saying in all chat "boosted yasuo" , "shoulda dodged" , "0/5/0" they went on and on..he didn't say anything at all, he didn't AFK either. He just came to lane and farmed. His teammates still kept flaming at him in all chat which kinda pissed me off. If they were flaming him for his KDA and stats..we were gonna make sure he ends up with the best ones. We made a deal where only the Braum on our team could attack Yasuo, no one else could touch him. We told him this and I let him solo farm top for some time. Instead of ending we repeatedly killed all his teammates while inflating his KDA..tbh it was hilarious watching Braum catch him and kill him. In the end he had 80% of his teams kills and we lost baron. They came back and after our last team fight Yasuo could have ended the game but he came to our base and started playing his Flute. His team spamming ? In all chat. He then stayed right next to me and helped my team secure elder drag and played the flute near us as we ended. He typed in chat, neither me nor my team deserves to win. Thank you for making me enjoy this game. He gifted me pool party Fiora. For me, this is the Yasuo that is no longer Unforgiven.

Had to repost this gem so no one ever forgets old pick/ban and how far weve come

https://imgur.com/a/GWQBT

So, a few days ago I was hopping on to play a solo-q match while waiting for some friends to finish their games up and as I joined in the lobby I saw the well known name of 'Tryndamere.' At first, I was impressed that someone had that name but I was quickly told by my friends that that is Marc Merill's name which led me to be pretty excited. I ended up saying hey and he said hi back (pretty cool right?) Well we ended up losing the game as my team flamed the co-founder of Riot games, but I stuck by his side and gave him a few words of encouragement and a few smiley faces. After the game I sent him a friend request as just a 'fuck it, what could go wrong' kind of moment. Well I get on today and I was looking for a friend and sure enough 'Tryndamere' is on my friends list. So to sum up, I don't know why Marc Merill added me and I'm not sure if I should talk to him to maybe make a friendship or just bask in the glory of having some random prodigy millionaire programmer add you.

TLDR: Joined a game with Marc 'Tryndamere' Merill and he added me back after. What do I do?

Edit: For all of you that want proof it's on my profile.

https://clips.twitch.tv/AthleticEnergeticHawkWow

And if it has to be so, why just one? I think 3 key fragments have really big price now that u dont get any honor unless u carry the f out of your team which happends rarely in the current state of game where any individual with little lead can 1v9.

let the war begin.

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CHA PAN YA!

It's a well known fact that the proper build for Garen was 5 IEs and an essence reaver, but now that that isn't possible, I need to know a new good build for Garen. Would it be 3 PDs and 2 IEs and an essence reaver? Or just 1 PD and pray for RNG to make you one shot them?

Oh daddy

Hey guys,

I've been working on an article about the average LoL player, the characteristics of a high elo player and what could the average joe achieve with the right mindset and how to reach that mindset by yourself with LoL oriented psychological reasoning.

Spoilers, anyone with normal motor functions and iq can be Diamond!

I'm looking for people interested in reading the article and giving me some feedback. If you're interested hit me up.

https://clips.twitch.tv/UgliestGrossButterflyKappaPride

Note (Spoiler): Predicts both Flash and Arcane Shift.

While playing against a Skarner and enjoying his fun and interactive ultimate, I thought back to my younger days where I would be similarly stuck in a game of monopoly. So, why not combine these two amazing experiences?

Monopoly (Man?) Skarner!

Passive: Skarner claims properties across Summoner's Rift, upgrading his houses into hotels so if anyone lands on his boardwalk he gets those sweet damage bonuses and loses a friendship or two

Q: Stock-broker Skarner slashes his money-grubbing claws back and forth, grabbing up more gold from his taxed laners and letting loose bills fly everywhere

W: Laissez-faire Skarner usually wears a nice suit to show his sophistication but will turn into a literal metal car board piece to go faster

E: Enterprising Skarner throws out the GO arrow from monopoly and much like in the board game slows down the whole game

R: Capitalist Skarner suppresses an enemy's will to keep playing by turning them into a monopoly board piece

What does she mean by this?

What does purple taste like?

What the fuck is Lulu on???