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Hello guys,

I've been thinking a lot lately about our beloved Purple Ghost :



and on how to optimize her item build, especially towards the late game 6-slot build, to take the maximum advantage off her hard-carryness and scaling.

Spectre is one of these carries that people tend to build wrong. One of the worst ways to build her is to focus on direct right-click damage, because Spectre doesn't have a single steroid that synergizes with right-click. If you play right-click Spectre with items such as Butterfly, Daedalus, Mjollnir, Abyssal Blade etc, you actually get a pretty poor carry who gets outcarried easily since any carry with a steroid can manfight her and win. This leads to some pretty absurd stuff like Spectres snowballing hard off the mid-game by chasing isolated heroes around with Desolate, and still losing the late game because of bad builds and misplays.

So, what makes Spectre such a hard carry is these two things :

- She doesn't need any damage items to have high …
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6.84 is here. Caught me with my pants down, it did.

And you're using it as your excuse to not do your third MMR match yet?

It's COMING, it's COMING, gosh. I'm a busy guy, y'know, cut me some slack.

You could be playing it LITERALLY right now. While you're typing this.

Eh... fair. I'll admit I'm procrastinating a bit, but I do wanna put something up in the meantime, and what better way than addressing the item that's almost surely going to be nerfed in 6.84b: Silver Edge.

Silver Edge is downright diabolical, and is INSANELY cost effective for what it brings to the table. Strength, damage, attack speed, invisibility, a slow, BONUS DAMAGE, DAMAGE REDUCTION, and a GODDAM BREAK. A BREAK! Why the hell would a Doom ever farm an Aghanim's Scepter when he can use this to disable passives? It even doubles as initiation FOR the ultimate!

It's... I mean, the break only lasts 5 seconds, whereas Doom would last 16 seconds or longer depending how long Doom stays nearby, yeah?

I rea…
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It's just quick guys. I watch a play a Twitch.com and at the chat room type so many "alien language" that I personally dont undertand such as Kappa, Put tank in a mall, Cyka, Kontol, Pignoise, etc. What does it mean ?
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Huuzza ! My Vladmir's Offering finally buffed to fit my playstyle. More reasons to build Vladmir's Offering to supports.

1. Sentry Ward and Observer Ward shares same item slots which make you not-fully slotted for the support thingy.
2. 10% lifesteal for ranged (yes it is) which is mostly supports.
3. Does stack with Assault Cuirass
4. Scales at Late Game.
5. Cheap parts.

I think this item would be seen more back to pro scenes.
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I've played a lot of DotA in the past few days, because everything is about to change.

6.84 is Coming

Yes, I'm busy embracing playing Troll and [hoho]Sniper[haha] and getting rekt by rubberband mechanics because soon it is all gonna be gone. This patch is about to be something we all look back on and say either "remember that garbage patch where nothing mattered for the first 30 minutes" or "remember that amazing patch where we had an amazing lategame!"

So when our new patch gets here and suddenly Drow Ranger is OP(I wish, means more hits for mah guide :P ) Let's try to embrace it for once instead of the usual cycle of

This patch is awesome!

This patch is garbage

This patch is great!

This patch is garbage

I'm bored with this patch, so now it's really garbage

I'm excited to learn the new hero combos, gold mechanics, and maybe new heroes (???pls!???) that are coming, so let's get ready.

My prediction?

SPLIT PUSH IS COMING BACK BABY

PS: Short post I know, but how is my small…
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This day sucks, My team (with 2 stand-in) just played against a team in Best of 3 Captain's Mode: Enemy's first ban was Silencer and Invoker then a theory pops on my mind that they would pick heroes that rely on initiation, channeling spells and spell dependants and my expectations just happened. We are rekt every teamfight with their Tidehunter, Axe, Lion, Zeus and Omniknight. How can I counter this pick-off since they banned heroes that can counter-initiate. Need help and I want a revenge match with them.
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Given up the MMR climb already, eh? I don't blame you, you're not cut out for competitive Dota.

I'll have you know I'm one hundred percent committed to finishing my calibration, THANK YOU. But I've been back for a bit and it's been a while since I've done something... mathy, you know? It feels wrong. So I'll be taking a brief interlude from dying to Sniper and Troll Warlord and spend some quality time in my old math corner, with one of my favorite heroes to boot: Treant Protector.

When Treant's Aghanim's Scepter upgrade was first announced, I didn't really understand how good it was. To my credit, I knew that it basically gave him free wards on a 20 second cooldown that could see into roshpit and that the enemy would need a Quelling Blade or Tango to get rid of (or Timbersaw. Friggin' Timbersaw), but I was a little confused by how Overgrowth interacted with it.

What, something about whether the damage goes through magic immunity or not? Because it doesn't, scrub.

No…
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The title says it all, Why you excel that role , Why that hero fills your favorite role and some advices and tips :3
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And the most underrated Late Game Support item catched my attention. Why mostly of guides for support heroes written don't add Vladmir's Offering as a situational item? It's cheap and scales late game. Let's face the fact that mostly of supports are Ranged but lets rephrase the word "support". Any suggestions of Supports/Carries that good carriers of Vladmir's Offering it would be greatly appreciated :)
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Before I start in on the match itself, I think I should make one thing clear, namely my system for deciding when I want to play a Ranked game. Many of you probably played ten games in a row to get your rating, maybe even on the same day. But my mind doesn't work that way; I'm the type of person who peels the bandage off slowly instead of yanking it off all at once, firmly believing it actually IS less painful that way. That being said, this is the system I used to decide to play my second Ranked game.

1) Are friends on? --Yes--> Play unranked. --No--> Proceed to step 2

2) Is there a hero you're itching to practice? --Yes--> Play against bots. --No--> Proceed to step 3

3) Have you had lunch? --Yes--> Proceed to step 4. --No--> Go make lunch.

4) Was lunch a yummy pizza veggie burger? --Yes--> Play Ranked. --No--> Loop back to step 1.

As you can see it's a very complex, meaningful system that always leads to a good outcome. I like it. But since I had a pizza burger the other da…
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