[Game]"Team" Drafting

Radiant 4th ban: Bane.

And I thought Alchemist had completely fallen off after the patch.


It still wasn't that bad though, she's more of a situational pick but synergizes very well with the other Heroes we picked. :D

Dire 4th ban: Outworld Devourer

Edit:nvm, turns out even the OP can get confused over Picking and Banning orders ._.

To get things back on track, I'm going to pick for Dire instead of Radiant this turn, thankfully it's at the point in the Draft where the Picking/Banning order just alternates between Radiant and Dire, so Radiant is next, then Dire again, etc. so hopefully this won't confuse anyone too much.

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Dire 3rd Pick: Invoker

Radiant 3rd pick Mirana

Dire 4th pick: Lifestealer.
Why, why didn't you pick him after the Bane ban? It was so obvious! D:

knew I was forgetting someone! oops :P

Well, let that be a lesson to you. After all that's what this thread is for, isn't it? :D

dire 4th pick: Pugna

Im also new to this so feel free to insult me

Umm, there's already a Dire pick...

You're a ********! 8{D

Seriously though, feel free to take part, it's a game that's just for fun. If you want to get better at Drafting, then do lots of it. Try out the Drafting Website (I enjoy facing off against fellow DOTAFire members, there's smack talk in those Drafts <}3 ) and post some Drafts in the Draft Analysation Thread for some feedback.

One of the great things about Drafting is that even crazy Pick and Lineups can work, all you need to be good at Drafting is to be able to juggle around the various situations you'll face throughout a game in your head. Does it look like they're going to Push in the Early Game? Make sure you have Counter-Push, etc.

Once you get really good at it, you can plan out Picks in such a way that you can misdirect your opponent. Just recently, I had an opponent who 1st Picked an Outworld Devourer, so I 1st Picked Viper to setup an Agressive Tri-Lane. To him, it looked like I'd just made my Mid Pick, so he never even thoguht about banning the Razor I intended to stomp him with. Not only that, but he didn't realise that since he'd gone with a Mid who was obviously going to want to Farm his Lane, that the Viper was actually the start of my Aggresive Tri-lane, so I could walk all over his Safe Lane. Add the Early Kill potential of a Viper with Razor's Pushing potential, and I had a Lineup that could easily Snowball out of control winning the game at around 20:00-30:00.

As for the Pugna pick:-

It's certainly a more interesting Pick than Lifestealer (sorry Peppo 8{3 ).

There are more ways to Counter a Lifestealer than Bane, and more Carries that hate Bane than just a Lifestealer

*hint* there's actually a Hero who can do both ;{)

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Radiant 4th Pick: Shadow Demon