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I'm a guy who uses the website Tvtropes a lot. My guide to countering heroes is based on it's model. Today I was bored and I went to go read Arc Warden's tropes. Basically the gist is that someone lifts things we say and puts it into the tropes page.
Magikarp Power: Zet is a weak laner - mids like Shadow Fiend or Queen of Pain can easily shut him down, and he needs babysitting and space to farm his Hand of Midas and Necronomicon. Despite needing a ton of money to come online, he has no ability to farm whatsoever - no waveclear, no AoE, nothing. Even with Hand of Midas he's far behind the top farmers in the game in terms of farm speed. However, if he gets any advantage, playing against him is the most nightmarish thing ever as he gets his Necronomicon, damage items, Manta Style, and makes all fights hard with his 100% evasion and attack speed from Magnetic Field. There's no manfighting against Arc Warden, he just prints his money and finds an opening to destroy your base, and he's better at it than any other hero once the game goes late enough.
This is from the 17th on the Arc Warden Discussion
Now he needs actual babysitting or a lot of skill win those lanes. However, if he gets any advantage, playing against him is the most nightmarish thing ever (Think 6.84 Storm mixed with 6.81 Tinker) as he gets his Necrobooks, his damage items, his mantas, and makes all fights hard with his 100% evasion and attack speed skill (this skill needs a nerf). The dude plays like Lycan, there's no manfighting for this hero, he just prints his money and finds an opening to destroy your base, and he's better at it than any other hero once the game goes late enough.
The troper who edited it was called HTD, which doesn't seem to fit any of our usernames here. Can anyone help in finding this person? I'm not seeking credit, I just want to know who the illusive person is.
I personally do not mind them using the stuff we write. It's something for fun reads, and personally, a bunch of forum members including me, Sando, Hamstertamer, and Terathiel write in a way that fits the mood of the site a lot. Some people might not be okay with not being credited, that site doesn't have a citation page, but at most, you can ask for the people editing it to leave a edit comment on the history page "from this post on dotafire (link)".
What got me to make this post was that this was taken from a post I wrote on the forums (I noticed the night stalker thing a long time ago). A lot less people read these forums than the guides, which are the main attraction of the site. Because of this, I suspected that this troper might be a Dotafire member. I mean, I'm a troper too.
TVTropes...what a site. Best reads ever, and literally infinite universe of fiction strings to explore.
I really don't mind if they get inspired by the stuff that we say here. There's no copyright on forum posts :)
Just tell us when you do or something, to make sure we're ok with it.
I say the mysterious troper is Kyfroid. Keepo.
>He plays Terrorblade Spectre and Abaddon
>Quotations/phrases from the guides I wrote for all three of those heroes made it onto that site
>Kyphrog confirimed elegiggle
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