Defense of the Ancients 2

Lost 300 points in the last week playing ranked, this game is too hard =/

Literally ES Slark in almost every game.

Slark is an easy cpunter though. Early ganking hom before he gets 6 is a surefire way to make sure he is completely useless in mid to late game. Without items, he's done for.

And ES? The only efficient counter I've found is Silencer. Once he rolls in (or if you quickly spot him and have this ominous feeling he's gonna land a combo on you/your team), use your 3rd/4th skill immediately to make sure he can't combo.

It's not easy ganking slark when he has 2 skills before lvl 6 that helps him live through it. And even without items, he's going to do plenty of damage after he reaches 6.

As for Silencer vs ES, yes, it does work to some extent, but where are you going to slot silencer? If you put him mid, he's essentially going to be food once ES hits level 3. He has 0 rune control, no escape mechanics, and no lane control. If you put him in a tri lane, he's going to have no impact if your opponents decides to do an agro tri against yours.

The point is, both heroes are very flexible with laning and has great impact in team fights. Slark wins the 1v1 lanes against most melees, and his ulti forces you to pick AoEs to deal with it. As for ES, he has 1000~ range reliable stun, a 4s CD escape mechanic, 5s silence, not to mention his ulti. A few heroes might win you the lane against Earth spirit, such as Ember Spirit, but Earth Spirit doesn't even need items to have high impact early game.

I pick Sylla and Slark players get hella sad. Like, really really sad.

Fellow fakkuers add me dasco2xxx in steam. Lets party together and show the might of the fakku legion. (if there is any...)

>playing LD
>opponent picks Pudge
>going mid to get up dat 0 armor ass
>at 10 minutes his entire team reports him

such surprise, much unexpect

6.80 patch came out. I won't be playing this game for around two weeks, then. I'll wait for the dumb players slam-picking Terrorblade to die out.



Dota is ruined.

NOOOO MAI WAIFU

I JUST BOUGHT HER NEWEST SET FFFFFF

Spirit Bear Entangle is no longer orb effect.

inb4 [A]Bulldog mains LD again.

I hope I won't see any TerrorBlade with Lothar/ShadowBlade + Dagon 5. The horror of Dota1 times.

edit : Terrorblade and Phoenix confirmed.

Haha. Thanks Valve for only Buffing or not touching my characters and Items.

Love you.

6.80 in a nutshell :)

Oh sweet there's a dota 2 thread. Can I bitch in here?

I fucking hate playing against Terrorblade, oh my god.

Meh, he's pretty much just Drow Ranger. No reliable escape mechanism, incredibly squishy early game.

TIP: his mirror images don't benefit from additional Attack Speed, so the original is 100% of the time the one that's attacking fastest.

>highest base armor in the game
>highest agi gain after phantomcancer
>low base strength, ok we found one
>average strength gain anyway
>above average base ms, tied with antifun
>ranged hero when required, melee regardless so he can stout it up
>strongest slow at lvl1 in the game, even beating veno gale except it's targeted

why cant I hold all this earlygame squishiness hnnnngh

While it's easy to tell which is the real him in the late game, it doesn't make it any easier dealing with him early game. The reflection/metamorphosis combo is incredibly strong.

That said, if he's shut down early it's very hard for him to recover, so some coordinated ganks do wonders.

Today I outlaned a Void, an Abbadon, and a jungle Enchantress as a solo offlane Axe. It felt both sad and satisfying.

People underestimate Axe's early game too much. Game ended at around 26 min.

People don't. Axe is widely recognized as being an early game beast.

Doesn't seem to be the case with my previous games though. It's even more surprising considering that they were ranked.

Why are all my Medusa games against some asshole pusher lineups that will suicide themselves just go get towers? I can't even blame them because it's the correct thing to do but jesus fucking christ every game with my own team never having any means of counterpush? It's so frustrating to be a farmed Medusa and lose to mega creeps, this hero is cursed in more than one way.

Medusa needs a team that can turtle, at last till 30-40 min mark. Better make a 3 man stack if you want to play as Medusa. Maxing Mystic Snake instead of Split Arrow is also a good option for minimize the push.

>tfw haven't won a SINGLE GAME with Medusa

Despite the Stone Gaze rework, 100% magic resist can be a double edged sword.

I think Morphling and Medusa have bad luck charm at Pub games.