Hi all,

Played a hilarious game of dota2 last night, that is worth watching. This is pub stomping at it's finest.
We pushed the first racks and all 2nd towers in 14 minutes - then went on to win by 19:30. ROFL

It's a fun prob 25 min watch (as there was a couple of pauses) - worth watching if you would like to see a solid push combo.

We were 4 friends playing, the 5th is the QOP who we didn't know, if you are 5, an alternate to Qop would be Leshrac, who can still play mid, to get some levels the push with edict.

I play dark seer in this lineup, prob my best hero, and generally dictated what we were doing using skype (so not too much in game..)

https://dotabuff.com/matches/40498813
well worth a watch, I did feel sorry for the enemy team :S
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Hi All,

I've had a few thoughts about the International - and some of the common issues was the 'repetitive use of heroes' at least 3, maybe 4 - sometimes 5 heroes, were re-used in the same lineup against the same team, throughout the tournement.
I'm not complaining AT ALL - I love a good competitive game, that's the beauty of Dota - same team, same heroes, different game every time..

However, some heroes saw 1 use, or 0 uses throughout the whole tournement. surprisingly Ogre Magi being one of them. Here are a list of heroes, that saw less than 3 games in the whole of the international - apart from the obvious, any thoughts as to why!?!?!

Ogre Magi - 0 games! wow.. becuase he's melee support perhaps?
Sven - 0 games, same issue, and he has a terrible win rate in the competitive scene.
Alchemist - 1 game, and lost - obv, he's ****
Axe - 1 game, 1 ban - surprisingly little use for Axe - I was expecting more - not sure why?
Bane - Shadow Demon Disruptor are better supports to do…
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Hi all,

Just a quick thought on stacking neutrals + smoke of deceit farming style.
Na'vi pulled it off recently with Pugna using he 1st skill (whatever it's called) and a Bottle, while stacking the hard camp 3/4 times. He hit 6 before anyone else on the map - and as a result killed Anti-Mage very early, and unexpectedly!

So who else could pull this off? I'm talking about heroes you wouldn't normally see jungle, but it turns out can, if you know what you're doing. This is NOT a noob post, so you kinda need to know dota already.. :)

I know the smoke deceit has changed, but with skill cooldowns for these heroes, waiting for the neuts to go back to the camp won't be difficult.

my thoughts -
Undying - think about it.. :D any camp will do, I guess early you could stack the small camp, and take it out to level 2 - while on cd, stack the large camp, and get back to lane at the same time (or pull the lane creeps)
in theory - you could stack both mid camps on the radiant side, using a qu…
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A quick blog on hero skills, and Item skill idea's?
You can post a particular hero, and change an existing skill - or just generally new skills/items.

Some existing idea's I have -

A passive hero skill similar to bash - but instead of bashing it will silence an enemy hero.
Hero would need to be melee (probably a carry)
level 1/2/3/4
10%/15%/20%/25% chance

Silence last 3 seconds, skill cd 5 seconds.

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Quater Staff upgrade. Afterall it is called a Quarter (1/4) staff?
4x quarter staffs, creates one staff. (total cost: 3600)
+40 dmg
+40 AS
Active - cast on self or allies to increase MS by 25% and AS by 50% for 5 seconds. CD 20 seconds. It CAN be purged. - I can see lots of uses for this item, especially ranged heroes.

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I've noted a LACK of agi based, mid price ranged items - Yasha, well and truey seems to be the only thing around the 2k mark. Everything else is low or high (diffusal, eaglesong etc)
This needs an update, a new agi-carry based item would be good.

Idea's welcome!
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Quick thought - Idea's for Aghanims, for heroes that don't have one.
Clearly some heroes will be useless with it - ie cent and traxex But who do you think would benefit from having an aganims upgrade?

Here's a quick example of what I mean -

Anti-Mage - my idea here would be to burn mana equal to damage dealt also in AOE. ie// if you did 600 dmg you would burn 600 mana from target, and anyone caught in the AOE - and reduce mana cost of cast.

Bat Rider - decrease CD? to 20 seconds or 15, with extra half second or second on lasso?

Bloodseeker - increase cast range, increase duration to 10 seconds, auto 'ON' for blood lust during the 10 seconds, MAYBE decrease cd slightly, but anything less than 45 seconds would be OP

Bristleback - pointless, can't really justify it, without being op - 1 extra stack longer duration?, but then it's not worth buying an aganims

Chaos Knight - +1 illusion (now 4) decrease cd to 100 seconds

ETC? Anyone have good idea's for the remaining heroes without ag…
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