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Weight loss aside, another New Year's Resolution I've made for my self is to get to 2K MMR! After watching MMR boosters, I came to realize that it is, in fact, possible to win games in a 1v9 scenario. It's all simply a manner of having a hero pool I am comfortable with.

As time goes on, I will be updating this blog entry or simply make new ones

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Ranked Games: 0
Solo MMR: 1362
Party MMR: TBD (Dotofire giff 5 stacks pls)

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Among my 10 most played heroes, Shadow Fiend is the one that I feel best is suited for the task as I continue to build my hero pool. Despite the nerfs to his early game and indirect nerfs resulting from the reduction of Bottle's mana restoration, SF can still win a vast majority of mid matchups and has pretty good item flexibility.

I feel like having a hero pool of 5 to let's say 8 heroes for ranked, what do you guys think?
Should I learn the ways of the rat and consider working heroes like Tiny or Nature's Prophet into my "…
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Hey everybody.

Whew it's been several months since I last posted here. I don't know, I guess I just drifted away from the community. I have been lurking a bit, trying to soak up as much knowledge as I can on DotA.

My dotobuff

Whew I have come a looooooooong *** way from a 35% winrate.



Then again maybe not so long since I've only got ~400 games played.

This isn't too much of a NYR thing, but then again maybe it is. The goal is to just climb and climb MMR until I'm as high up as I can possibly be, bearing my constraints in mind.

This has been a year of discovery for me. Lots of **** IRL. A weight gain of 30 pounds.

I've also come to terms with just how ****ing terrible at DotA I am, but I think I've made some progress there as well.

To do list:
1. High Skill Bracket on dotabuff
2. Begin solo ranked to determine exact MMR
3. 5,000 MMR
4. 10,000 MMR

So far I've just been trying to get better at a few heroes I really enjoy, but most often I've ended up picking support after 4 tea…
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I know this forum isn't their for things like this but I needed a place to talk about this and I feel...well socially attached to this forum. I don't feel like I am really wanted or really respected by others but at least I am accepted. I am that guy who is there...

I wanted to write this down because I figured out that I need to do it.
I suffer from depression because I was bullied hard for three years in school and appearently I am still not over it. Many times I was on the brink of killing myself which is no joke - I was completely convinced that I didn't deserve it. I had everything I needed but I wasn't happy and had no friends. I was sure I was just a burden for everyone.

This was one of the must dire stages in my life and it ended at the time in which I met a person while playing Dota who was nice to me and after 20 minutes of thought I sent him a friend invite.
I was sure he would decline but something within me hoped that I could still find a person who would like me, a per…
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Claus the Surgeon of Death

STATS

Faction: The Dire
Primary Attribute: Strength

Claus
Attack Type: Melee
Roles: Carry, Disabler, Nuke

Str: 83.4 at 25 (27 + 2.35/level)
Agi: 59.3 at 25 (19 + 1.68/level)
Int: 74.5 at 25 (14 + 2.52/level)

Health: 1,586 at 25
MP: 784 at 25
Armor: 10.6 (0 base armor + 10.6) at 25
Movement: 310
Range: 120 (melee)

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LORE

Some say he's crazy, others say he's a lunatic, many even says he really doesn't exist or is just a legend told by adults to scare the young. But few really know the true horror of the Surgeon who can even inanimate the dead.

On his fair days, Claus, a very skillful medical surgeon who specialize the anatomy of every living being, was renowned to be the best of the best. Competed equally in terms of mental skills with Boush on their youth, Claus was definitely a legend on his field of work. But, a very unfortunate event occur that made Claus to lose his mind and was driven m…
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It's almost 2016 and I don't really want to dive in RMM right before New Year, so I thought, why not put some sense in my screwing around in unranked and add a challenge of sort and maybe open one of the secrets of Volvo's incredibly thoroughly thought out system.

Namely, their Playstyle Pentagon. I'll play 20 unranked games before New Year in attempt to build a perfect pentagon with different heroes and record the pentagon changes. I'll also use YASP match data to try and see how bought wards, hero healing, tower damage, KDA etc. affect the pentagon, maybe to a point of exploit(i.e buy all the wards and place them in one game on a core hero to see how warding alone boosts your "Supporting" value).

Right now my "pentagon" looks like this:



I will record my stats in the table and maybe add some notes as the "research" goes on, and hopefully, come to some conclusions.

Some observations so far:

- Fighting is not just about hero damage and hero kills + assists - in fact, it seems tha…
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Hi all, I finally have a bit of down time so can return with a short article for DOTAfire :).

In what may be a series (if people find it useful) I'm going to be talking about some of the "basic" DOTA skills that are often overlooked, or only understood on an unconscious level.

These are "mechanical" and "instinctive" skills that you rely on to execute plays. For example, accurately clicking the right parts of the screen, hitting your combos, dodging incoming projectiles, body blocking, and many others.

These skills need to be learnt, and internalised to become fast and reliable enough to survive in a fast paced game of DOTA. Simply put, you need to be able to just think about what you want to do, and your hands to do the rest - not about what keys you're pressing.

The first part is going to be around positional skills. They're very hard to describe in text, and the game is so situational that it's not something you can understand through a few easy points. There are so many dif…
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Thank you dotoforeans. Thanks for the wonderous insight. Thanks for your imagination. You require so less yet you do surprisingly good. A small pat a small thanks a smiley makes you happy. Its so rare to come by these days. When i say thanks, i say for all of us who work so hard to keep this game interesting. You make our work a little less hard and a lot more interesting.
Perfection is an obsolete concept for us, for our perfection is in constant evolution. There cant be a perfect patch but all these think tanks make for a perfect game. And you have a great hand in fuelling these think tanks. We are proud of you. Believe it.

We are on the verge of releasing all heroes to the Dota verse and believe me we need all the help we can get to reimagine old heroes and introduce new ones. We are looking at you. Know that you handful activemembers are always at the back of our minds. That even if you stop posting, we'll remember you.

We have imagined a new concept and are eager to show it to t…
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ZEUS

Hey guys, it's been a while, I've been here, just lurking instead of posting. The only guide I've needed to update is the Carrying one but no one reads that diamond in the ruff so what's the point(/plug).

So Dotabuff just put out an article about him recently, and I was thinking about why his pickrate is so low in the pros anddddddddddd

I think they're underestimating him.

Zeus is a nuker, and that's why he's not getting picked. Because there's glimmer cape and BKB's so what good does a nuker do lategame. So instead the pros get Lina and Windranger and Shadow Fiend and Queen of Pain because they want a mid hero that can do damage lategame through skills that ignore BKB and right clicks.

But they're forgetting something

Zeus isn't just a nuker, he's a really good nuker.

It's all because of one thing: Static Field

11% of your current health is a BIG deal, especially at the start of fights. And if you get a Zeus that has Veil of Discord or Octarine or refresher or all 3…
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Hey guys

Long time no SEA.... hahahah he he ... *AHEM*

anyway quick rundown. The team is getting more involved lately so i will not be around much with our potential sponsor and semi-pro division games coming up im pretty busy and also cause i dislike "things" otf atm.

But none the less i will try to poke my nose in now and then and im always here to help new players and or give advice if needed. never be afraid to ask :D

ill also try to keep up the blog series but they might be more spaced out than before due to work and commitments.

THUS i bring you the latest blog....

HOW TO: POWER DOWN AUTO PILOT.

Auto pilot i hear you ask? well yes, auto pilot is what 99% of us who play dota do for 99% of the games we play and 99% of the duration of those games this is what mode we are in.

dont get me wrong im not saying we all cruise it through and dont pay attention ( IM LOOKING AT YOU SAFE LANE CARRY WITH WARDS UP THAT DOESNT SEE OR HEAR OUR MASS PINGS!!!!!) im saying that once we learn…
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I am relatively new to dota but have 4 other friends who also play dota with me and have a bit more experience than me. We normally play in Pubs TBH, but we want to start playing al lot more ranked matches. we have a few team composition ideas:
MOSAT: Maiden, omni, sven, axe, troll
SOCSS: Slardar, Ogre Magi, Clinkx, Shadow fiend, Shadow shamen

But we would love it if any more experienced players,(especially ones who have played ranked lots or even competitive) would give us some more ideas. Even if it is just 2/3 good combos we could put together.

Thanks for helping a new team, it really does help :)
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