When you lost but still had fun

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1085535829

1st time playing enigma in pubs.

My dc'ed in the end as the tides turned and also coz the Legion Commander flames and abandon earlier.

I am quite proud of my Enigma. All my blackholes are almost perfect (except one coz my teammate is like "GO GO GO GO" while i dont have clear vision of the other targets.

Does anybody have experiences where you lost but still had fun? I love blackhole. When i land a great one i just wanna scream "BLACKHOLEEEE!!!!!" literally.



p.s can someone analyze my game? Smuggles maybe since you always analyze games.

next time rush a blink and BKB

they really dint have any stun aside from WD paralysing cask

That scythe of vyse is a great pickup. i am amazed you got it in your first game, damn you must be something.

Why did you have a headderess??? were you making mek? Pipe is nt the best item in this game.
When did you start making it?

I dont think mek is core on him you got your blink and BKB to farm up, try getting them up earlier and a late mek is not desirable. Also meepo had one.

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As a reference point, here are my enigma games.they are my first ones
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1068612927
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/475716525
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/489368805

I prefer refresher over anything.
WARDS ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND

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I think you have potential and you should play more enigma.

No.

Seriously now, I get mad after losing a game only if I'm expecting something from my teammates (especially friends on Steam) and they play a below-average game. The lost games I enjoy the most are the ones where a teammate of mine is winning with a mediocre skill/item build and by insulting all game long, and then - all of a sudden - the comback mechanics start working and we get wrecked. If we deserve a loss, I actually feel bad as a winner.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1033739691
The Shadow Shaman, our only support, rushed a Midas and refused to buy Wards all game long, so I had to buy them as OD every single time; the funny thing is that he didn't even buy a Blink Dagger with all that gold. At one point of the game we had a huge lead, but then things started going wrong and we lost. I felt really satisfied after that game because that SS might have learned that if you don't help your team you aren't supporting


Enigma is probably the fastest jungle farmer in the game: do you really need a 12 minute Blink Dagger on him? I prefer rushing a Mekansm and then going for a Black King Bar, after which I can pick up the Dagger; sometimes I go Blink before BKB, but the Mek is definitely the main priority. A Blink is kind of useless until all the tier 1 towers fall down, as you won't be able to initiate offensively in such positions.

Sometimes, yes. When it's one of those really close games, really tense and the next teamfight will almost certainly decide the game's outcome. I enjoy all of those games, regardless of the outcome.

Most of the time, no. I can't stop thinking about either A) What I could have done better, or B) What my teammates could have done better. The worst thing is when you're about to win... and then they teamwipe because your Faceless Void Chrono'd your team. The most annoying thing is when I'm playing with people I know outside of the internet, and I can't really call them out on it because I know they're sensitive.

It happens, yeah. When I lose a close game where I consider that I played well, and my team played well too, but we lost because we played against actually good players, I have fun. I'm fine with losing when the enemy plays well. I only get mad when I lose because the enemy team played like garbage and my team played like even more garbage.

Fun Crystal Maiden Game

Even though we lost we managed to pull off quite a few amazing teamfights in the early game. Everyone on our team was just playing for fun and we had quite a few laughs. Like when I miss-clicked Freezing Field in the jungle. It was dead silent in voice chat for a few seconds then someone said "Did I just hear what I think I heard." In the end though they had the better late game.

Some great laughs with some great guys. 10/10 would play again.

-BK

@peppo

Scrub tier players like me cant jungle that well.
We get lvl 6 at minute 7 and blink at minute 12.
If i were to farm a mek along with bkb and blink, then i think We will lose our tier 1s.
I concur with that guys suggestion, that mek is not that much of core on him.
You get 6 and blink under 10 mins wreck their safelane gg no re.

Enigma IS the fastest jungle farmer as u said and i say back at ya brosef, he can get dagger quick land some sweet sweet blackholes, give some surprise buttsex like axe does start pushing lanes and mek will come to you as spoils of war. Although his gameplay is different than that of axe, eidolons can be used to push up an uncontested lane.

I just cant agree with the insinuation that blink is not worthy until tier1s are down. I just simply cant. There is too much mobility sacrificed. I would rather die under tier 1 aggro and get my team double kills.
The closest i can reconcile with your thoughts is that if you can farm up mek without sacrificing bkb timing or blink timing for that matter, go do it.


The only time i will rage is only because of a rude player. Feeders dont matter to me neither do trolls. Aside from KoTL pushing our safelane by spamming illuminate i never rage

i'm 2k mmr and I've never seen a blink after 10 mins if it's rushed. I personally never get it under min ~7, unless I get ganked thrice and get **** camps

Simply, a 12 minute Mekansm is always better than a 12 minute Blink Dagger: you're already forcing your team into having one support, if you don't get utility items you're just a walking ulti with no other purpose but "stealing" jungle farm. To me, an early Mek turns fights much more efficiently than an early Blink.

Getting Blink after Mek is fine, but it really depends on the enemy team composition and their skill level/positioning (i.e. if they're pro players you'll have to go BKB after Mek most of the time).

i agree that mek is core on him and should be bought first. its just that if you are playing in scrub tier you CAN go blink first to rek fools, although this kinda falls under the arguement of ITS PUB DO WHATEVER TEH FEK.