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I would want to know why people doesnt want to play this spectacular hero, one of the best late gamers and a fairly good early gamer. I mean shouldn't this hero be encouraged more. It's skills are also improved now. What possible changes can be made to its skills or attributes so as to make it a better team game hero???
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Hey,


I am nRage and i am looking for some guys to play DotA 2.
I'm bored of these Leavers all the time...
I wanna have fun in this game and win some of these matches...

Just tell me if you wanna play ^-^

I also use a TS 3 - Server...

Steamname: Teddybear_1972
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I'm a Noob

I am totally and completely fine with being new to a game and trying to get better. I played SC2 for 2 years never reaching anything higher than Gold league. I played regularly because it was fun and very competitive, there's really nothing else like it 1v1 IMO.

Anyways, I got my Beta key a few weeks ago. Having never played LOL or DOTA before I was totally new to the scene. Generally lost I picked heroes like Drow, because she was pretty easy to learn. Then when people started saying why aren't you ganking, you should be fully farmed already....WHAT!? I'm just shooting these little dudes that are trying to knock down our tower what's wrong with that?

Getting Better

Just as with SC2, I realized that there were pro games and videos that I should probably watch to learn some very basic mechanics that could make me a better player. So I watched a few games started reading this forum regularly and started playing against BOTs to get a handle on the game. I still strugg…
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Why do we need a site that hosts hero guides when the same is repeated over and over again?

Can we get some diversity instead of like: "VANILA BUILD BEST! DOWNVOTE EVERY GUIDE THAT DOES SOMETHING DIFFERENT!"

Discuss.
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Hi all,

I thought it would be a good idea to get a post running on the best heroes for Diretide. Clearly an aggresive faster game, where farming a lane is essentially pointless and forcing clashes around candies is the aim. As you get exp and money (for the whole team) with these fights.

So who are the best heroes? Please post your thoughts, and why below - particularly for those who haven't played it yet!!

so far high mobility is a must have - Nature's Prophet Io Tinker Batrider are all very good options for a quick smash and grab, and get back to base. blinkers as well, such as am and qop. invisibility is an advantage for the same reason, while getting lost during the fighting (the candy stashes have truesight for those who don't know.)
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As a new member of DotaFire and DotA 2 as well I have decided that I need to actually bring a contribution aside from comments or applying for inhouses. My first idea was of course to make a guide but seeing as I am very new and probably using builds that work only in public games against other new players like me I decided to pass.

Instead however I decided to do a bit of thinking concerning initiator builds. The current standard is to build initiators extremely tanky with a hint of support in order to survive the fight and contribute towards the team, a new thought has hit me recently however.

Specifically whether it is viable to forgo the support items in favour of damage items. More specifically creating a builds that still retains a lot of the common build's tankiness with items such as Heart of Tarrasque, Vanguard or any other item that causes heroes to become hard to kill and to pair those items up with damage items which seem like they can fit in with this build, namely He…
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Hey Guys its a heart breaker Na Vi did not win The International 2012 but I'm still a fan of Na Vi and their player's especially Dendi haha

*I know that his favorite hero is Pudge and i know that he excels at it

Can u guys give me Top 5 heroes Dendi always use in Pub and Competitive Scene too

Thanks Guys haha
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Please go and check out my Tiny guide "Tiny - Steamtrain Carry", Upvote and comment how i can improve!
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Add me on steam if you want to play Dota 2! Steam: PolakLad
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Hi all,

With all the recent changes and buffs Icefrog and Valve have put on some of the 'lesser picked' heroes and debuffs to the usual suspects -

my simple question - have they actually changed the Meta game for Dota 2? I know it has only been a short time since the updates - but really is a push strat any different with these changes?

I can't see the push strat still not being effective - but with the boost in ganking heroes it may be difficult to judge who to ban/pick. in future tourney's..

thoughts?
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