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[Dota 2] Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light, and Visage this week, and straight to CM.
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also mana burn still works on pl images - it works for all melee images
Are Na'vi even human? Their team fight skills leave my jaw on the floor, and that Shadow Demon jungle was redonkulous.
I've been pushing pretty well with Nature's Prophet.
No, pretty sure they'd be the first cyborgs to pass a Turing test.
Lone Druid ban from M5...why? He's been doing horribly in pro games in the past couple weeks.
Although, I feel like that's because teams keep doing weird builds on him where he puts boots and orb of venom on the bear, and then builds a hood/pipe on lone druid...lolwut? Shouldn't you be building straight up damage items on him, like Radiance on the bear and then something like Butterfly on Lone Druid?
And speaking of Shaman, Dendi just picked him in the current match:
http://www.twitch.tv/ggnetpurge
Should be very fun to watch.
My first instinct was "well Navi picked Morphling, I wonder if Clinkz can ult Morph's double" but I'm just as dumbfounded as you are.
He is super duper fast at getting places. Once you get a lil farm, his ganks are great with his max searing arrow and a point or 2 in Q
When he gets Orchid, even better at finding people all alone and wrecking them.
Well, Dota 1 was limited by models available. Not that many female units in WC3. Don't know about Hon, though.
I know when I think of a female, the first thing I think of is a thin, agile, attractive girl (Arianny Celeste <3). The female barbarian from Diablo 3 isn't exactly next on that list either. There probably is some small sexism involved considering the hero designers are mostly male. Comes with the territory I guess.
HoN does have a female Hammerstorm though. I AM THE GINGER AVENGER! I don't even use regular Hammerstorm anymore.
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That's fair, and I certainly think of human females the same way. But since this is a fantasy game, though, there are no limitations on race. When you have a hero who is a giant scorpion, anything is possible.
There is certainly no reason why, say, Alchemist couldn't have been a female gnome riding an ogre, or C-Phant couldn't have been a female elephant. It all just smacks of lack of imagination on part of the developers.
Fair enough. I guess we'll just have to see what direction the new heroes (after porting from regular DotA) take.
Leshrac's Diabolic Edict eats towers
Defiler's ult is great against towers
Furion's creeps.
Chen and Enchant creeps from the jungle
Warlock's ult.
So does he get picked in competitive games, or is he just a pubmurder hero?
As for PL and his radiance, it's pretty much the same reason every hero gets a radiance: it makes him a fearsome pusher and fucks up the other team's initiation. He already has one of the best single target nukes in the game, but with radiance it actually does more damage and can be used to push, or he can throw it uphill and prevent the entire enemy team from using their blink daggers, or throw it at an enemy he's chasing to do the same. It changes him from a pretty good pusher into an amazing pusher. He can still get a diffusal, and since he doesn't need the manta as well he can go straight into a heart. Once he gets a radiance, diffusal, and heart he's basically unstoppable.
Fixed a HoN name >.>
Lycan and Lone Druid are also good pushers, as well as broodmother with her spiders/insatiable hunger and enigma with his conversions. Beastmaster helps mid game pushes with his aura.
However, he does have a lot of really strong dual lane combinations. A PL-KOTL lane is super obnoxious, and it looks like KOTL might get added soon.
Beastmaster has his axes and hawk too: the former decimates creepwaves, and the hawk is very useful for scouting enemies coming to prevent the push. Sand King can also do a competent pushing job with his caustic finale, but in his case you'll probably use him as a counter-pusher because a) said caustic finale wrecks gigantic creepwaves caused by Broodmother and Nature's Profit, and b) his blink-ult initiation is fucking devastating (LoL comparison, think fiddlesticks' ult but less CAWCAW and more murder).
I'm on a Sand King phase if people didn't notice.
the days of zsmj hyper farm pl are long gone, sadly. although rice time medusa got real boring real fast
shut up, undies
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flexin my 16/0 veno game
yeah i bought a heart all at once
and it was good
buyback after dying to faceless void put first point in exort of the game invoke triple exort blind dunk him in fog of war
8-)
straight jordans
but all i want to do is rush radiance on every character, page
all i want to do is play spectre and phantom lancer
I had more health than our Pudge.