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Cost: 1900 gold Active: Berserk* Passive: Lifesteal Stats: -

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Common usage: in low level pubs, people tend to get it on carries with high damage ouput like Drow Ranger or Spirit Breaker to "double" the damage they can dish out and get more kills; the lifesteal is also useful. Talking about experienced people, they usually buy one on carries with evasion ( Faceless Void) or on carries with high health and/or armor that lack attack speed, usually STR-based (like Sven).

Hidden potential: while the 30% damage amplification is too high to be considered a good choice for increasing attack speed, the extra movement speed makes it a pretty good roaming tool especially on split pushers or carries that need to farm in the jungle. Talking about farming, the extra attack speed should also increase your gold income …
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For the second blog post regarding lineups that always stomp you, I'll show a loss of our team. While I thought we had the upper hand in the picking phase (and I'm pretty sure most of you will agree on that), we underestimated that cyrillic-writing team with a childish name and didn't pay much attention to our laning phase.

But anyway, we'll talk about what we did wrong later, after showing the draft:

Bear Grylls's Team of Survivors
Bans:
Picks:


PWNZ*
Bans:
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Let's start from the mistakes we (and them) made in the picking and banning phases:

• First stage: common bans from both sides. I was actually very surprised about the Furion ban though, that meant they

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This video tells you how to kill roshan before the game starts and get extra 2 level !!!!
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Average game played by phantom assasin playing safe and successful , good for beginners Play Video
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This blog post won't really be that well written as I'm going to be typing it live while watching the draft. I just thought mid-draft that this was an incredibly well done drafting phase from Na'Vi and wanted to write about it.

First bans:

Na'Vi: Bane and Invoker

Both of these heroes are unorthodox picks/bans (at least right now)and are weird to be included in the first banning phase - considering that this is Na'Vi. The Invoker ban from sigma would have made sense as Dendi was able to use Invoker very well in game 1 of the series, but for Na'Vi to ban it was probably more of a statement rather than a strategical move. Banning Bane however was most likely to create space for XBOCT's Lifestealer.

Sigma.Int: Enchantress and Io

Enchantress ban is fairly standard against a team with a #4 position player that is exceptionally good at micro. The Io ban here suggests something about their strategy - they most likely would have a team composition that would be very weak against …
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First off, this blog post is not meant to show my flawless victories; in fact I'll post both games in which I stomp with my team and have a good laugh at the enemy team composition, and games in which I get easily stomped and think about what I did wrong. I'm actually planning to add one of my most one-sided losses in team matchmaking.

The goal of this series is to teach players how to deal with teams that tend to win with a huge advantage the majority of games: this time we'll talk about how to counter teamfight lineups.

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The first game I want to show you is a match I played yesterday with my team: first off, keep in mind that even though 3 of my teammates are good players and I can trust them, Black Rose - the Lycanthrope in this game - is pretty unexperienced and I let him play with us because he's a friend of mine in real lif…
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When I see teams draft I see their draft being 2 things, an entire strategy (mostly push: lone, veno, lycan, brood and np or teamfight: enigma, warlock, void, puck and tide) or heroes they see picked by pro players (used to be a lot of nyx+naga, currently not so much).
When I usually draft I like to keep in mind the heroes who are LONG forgotten, but still way to good to pass up when none of the dendei heroes fit your team.
Ancient Apparition: He offers your team a lot of versatility, while being able to mid or support he can be picked up as a fifth pick (also good counter to slark and alchemist). He combines well with a carry+a support with a disable. He offers great teamfight as well.
Disruptor: This hero offers a lot of teamfight and gank, while lackingBURST. His ult and field can just wipe teams, while glimpse can be a really hard to deal with spell. He is a good combo with aa and Jakiro who are on this list as well.
Jakiro: This hero used to be the go to support, but I still t…
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My team:
Ursa, Zeus, Tusk, Windranger, Beastmaster

Enemy team:
Juggernaut, Viper, Slark, Drow Ranger, Queen of Pain

Hello,

Today i decided to try out Ursa because my friend told me i should. I was originally going to play Lycanthrope since i was more comfortable with him. My friend still managed to persuade me into picking Ursa. He said he was going to walk me through everything during my match. I got to admit, Ursa is a freaking beast and so much fun. I didn't know he was this easy to play with. The enemy was getting wrecked despite my team didn't speak english except for one guy. It was some European language that looked like russian but i know it was not russian. The characters did not match. Anyway, we dominated the other team with ease. I know they were gonna lose as long we kept the pressure because they had all squishy heroes. Although, they did managed to put up a good fight toward mid game, but i wasn't worried. I'm just walking around like a mad man picking one…
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So, let's start. After watching different competitive games and seeing how the meta has changed in the past month or two (especially after the 6.79 patch), I'm wondering why some Heroes didn't get considered at all: we saw Hand of Midas on supports, a huge amount of Elder Titan picks for a (relatively) small amount of time, the fall of Batrider and Io and, also, the rebirth of Luna. Many Heroes including Bristleback, Mirana and Slark became the trend of this period, but some others with (in my opinion) big potential just passed through the patch - some of them even untouched - without seeing any increase in their pick ratio.

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The first Hero I want to talk about is Centaur Warrunner . …
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