For you DOTA lovers out there...

[Miharu]

consistency one of the most important qualities a player can have tbh

i'd rather have someone who's consistent (who i can therefore rely on to do what he/she always does more or less 100% of the time) than someone who's possibly more skilled but whose performance fluctuates greatly

oh well

we should play sometime

 

[practice_mAn]

ya i'll get back to dota in a few weeks

i'm not gonna be playing for a while

working/getting ahead in schoolwork

I promised not to play video games for a while until i can get other parts of my life up to par.

ALSO: did you like that little story about frozen twist? lol its 100% hilarious, dont you think?

 

[Miharu]

ya playing with non-native english speakers is ****ing hilarious

i scrim regularly with onelitreoferika and leah, and communicating in vent is an experience in itself

reminds me of tinwong, who pretty much had the best accent ever

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

eh

can't tell much but

your last hitting is terrible, needs work

boots + 2 clarities as starting items is pretty much useless

as for landing arrows, no point in landing them if you have no followup and you lose more hp during the ensuing exchange

Well I've been experimenting with things and I liked having boots + Clarities. :/
What's a good starting build?
Normally I'd go 2 Circlets and trees or something.
And yes my last hitting needs alooooooot of improvement.
I'd love to get better with your help. =D

 

[Miharu]

ever since magic wand got implemented people have gone multiple variants

i personally like tango/flask/2slipper/2branch or 2tango/flask/slipper/3branch (substitute clarities for branches as needed)

or you can opt for getting a magic wand instead of a slipper if you're going to be laned against heroes like zeus/bb etc

this is just for potm btw

but yeah boots are worthless earlygame unless you're a roamer like vs/veno or similar heroes w/ easily landable stuns/slows than can also net early kills with the use of the +50 ms

potm, not so much, since arrow much easier to land if chained with a lead stunner such as sandking/tiny/es etc; so you just get normal laning items/regen and get boots later when they're actually useful

 

[JTB]

i usually just go chicken 1 circlet 2 tangoes

 

[Miharu]

this is assuming that u don't have to buy chicken

in the event that u do

its now most cost/space efficient to get 3 branches + choice of regen

 

[JTB]

oh alright

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

I tried out what you said and I think I'm ******** for doing the boots and Calrity.
Thanks. =D

 

[Miharu]

ya stat items ****

 

[JTB]

ill probably be playing sometime around 9 tonight

what channel do you idle in?

 

[Miharu]

usually clan AN nowadays

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

I'll play tonight if it's cool that I bring a friend?
Don't worry he's better then me. >_>

 

[Miharu]

ya bring whoever lol

as long as they're not ******** its okay

 

[practice_mAn]

so is this zboredomz guy improving? lol

 

[Miharu]

no idea i've only played with him once

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

loooool sorry I haven't played.
I'm good to play right now.
Busy busy.

 

[JTB]

im having so much fun playing na

i singled out this tinker a whole game, even ran straight from my base to second mid tower to gank him and did it

 

[practice_mAn]

lol i freakin hate 1v1 mid against NA

miharu how do you vs an NA mid?

with lets say tinker or DP

 

[JTB]

tinker should be able to nuke the hell out of na

coordinate ganks with dp

 

[Miharu]

dp is a pretty weak solo tbh, try to have wards up so you can keep the lane constantly pushed via nuking so you can at least establish rune control

tinker can outlasthit and nuke na out of the lane easy

just remember to keep hill control or else things might get slightly ugly

obv don't stay around at mid/low hp when he hits 6 etc

 

[practice_mAn]

how do you nuke the hell out of na

he just mana burn

oh but... his mana burn is different now

but that mana burn ***** so hard, whats the best way around it with tink?

 

[JTB]

get bottle on tinker, spam laser, force him to be defensive, grab runes, nuke, win

mana burn is 35 sec cd lvl 1

 

[Miharu]

that burn's pretty worthless early

just laser him out of lane and establish rune control

 

[JTB]

so like

did patch 1.24c blow up battlenet or something

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

Ty for telling me about the update! =D
And when is it ideal to get a bottle?
I've always found it a bad idea to waste your money on it.
Especially if you don't establish Rune Control.

 

[JTB]

dont update

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

Ah ****. I just remembered what happened last update.
I just finished an arem game and didn't realize until now we were on the stable version.
Please don't die again for a little. D:

 

[Miharu]

Ty for telling me about the update! =D
And when is it ideal to get a bottle?
I've always found it a bad idea to waste your money on it.
Especially if you don't establish Rune Control.

if you're a bottle reliant hero that can use the hp/mana regen and will be moving from lane to lane for ganks

pretty much any stunner is a prime candidate for this

if you're an afk farm hero like leoric magic stick/wand should be enough for your needs

but ya for heroes like sandking/potm/sf/zeus etc bottle is core 9/10 times

bottle is pretty much never a waste of gold unless its on a hero with long cd spells that shouldn't be spammed (spec/naix etc)

 

[practice_mAn]

**** foolz

it's been a while since I've played but I'm down to play dota again

get at me

practice_man @ uswest

I play thr

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

I'm playing on useast playing with my two friends atm.
But I'll be down for some Dota alllll night. =D

 

[Miharu]

man

we lost to mL in the ****ing SNC; who knew they'd go on to beat pandemic and blight. too bad swiss had to ****ing log on 1 hour late wjowpjwopj

good thing is that this thing should prove to be really good for the NA dota community as a whole, since teams will get a chance to scrim blight/pandemic/ml/fyc etc on a regular basis. this in turn should provide a good starting point for many up and coming teams that haven't had a chance to develop a regular scrim schedule, and having an event such as this for teams to bounce ideas off of each other should prove to strengthen our scene as a whole (so we don't get scraped by asians at the next international LAN)

jajajaja time to go bootcamp for dota

practice man didn't you obs a game that i was in a couple of days back? i was sniper or so iirc

on another note reverse stomping pubs at 5 the morning as TAYLOR_SWIFT is rather amusing when you have 4 other people with similar names

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

So like HoN's beta is open.
And I just wanted to give you guys the link just in case you wanted a beta.

http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/open_create_account.php

 

[Miharu]

lmao they actually opened the beta up?

should have left it closed; there are enough idiots playing that game as it is

 

[practice_mAn]

man
practice man didn't you obs a game that i was in a couple of days back? i was sniper or so iirc

that was U?!?!?

what the hell man

i was like "oh crap sniper you're so goooood how did u get so gooooooood"

why are u so goooooooooood

you're just like "ty"

LOL u didn't say anything??

small world! I can almost play at that level. I would have to play support though.

 

[practice_mAn]

wow every time i think of how much i talked and u didn't say anything blows my mind

did u forget my username??? lol

I watched u **** for an HOUR STRAIGHT. it was beautiful tho i have to admit

 

[Miharu]

oh

idk i wasn't feeling talkative

LOL

 

[The Greater Leon]

slurp slurp

i didnt actually read

 

[zBOREDOMKINGz]

So I decided to play LoL when I got home at like 1.
That game is just... I don't know how to explain it.
How do you like it so much TGL?
It's so... Bleh.

Then I played some HoN and I met the biggest douchebags.
Dota where you at? D:

 

[practice_mAn]

hon is actually ok

its gonna take me a while to get used to it

dota is pissing me off cuz im not at scrim level

but i'm not at garbage level either. but I'm forced to play at garbage level THR1 because thats the only league available to me as of now. I play with the biggest nubs and we never win because they're uncarriable. I usually have the only positive score on my team lol