3q 5w to start?

yes

I tend to get phase boots finished very early (4-5 minutes mark?) and I pick up my second level of invoke at around level 8 or 9.

Once you get those phase boots, your lane enemy can't even pop out from behind his tower. The harass coming from me is just RELENTLESS, and if they dare step too far from the tower, they're getting coldsnapped down to 20% life or dead.

In that last game, I had phase boots, jango, sheepstick, and scepter all by 30 minutes. The EMP/Tornado into Cold Snap combo is just so sick for ganking.

The problem I have with this is Howl's cooldown. If you use it for knocking down a tower, you may end up not having it for a teamfight. Also, the passive is much more useful for jungling than a manacosting damage boost. One level of your passive will help with pushing much more than a level of howl.

Also, bigtime pushers like Krob/Rhasta/Furion aren't so reliant on their own physical damage so Howl doesn't help them as much. This style seems like a way to give good pushing power to a big time physical lineup and is very niche IMO. He's certainly got the lack of item dependence to build the mek, but can he afford to use it? Will he be in a good position to use it? He's often in the lead of the chase.

The most unbelievably frustrating games tonight.

They need to put everyone who has less than 50 games played in their own matchmaking queue. I'm sorry but they just have to do it.

Yeah.

agreed.

had time for 2 games tonight before my gf came over. first game, 40-12 we won at 30 mins, second game 5-30 we lost in 30 minutes. just unreal how stacked the teams are sometimes .

anyways, my sn is Mr. Pig, anybody who wants to play should add me, Ive got a bunch of ppl that I play with regularly and sometimes we get 5v5 CM scrims going which are a ton of fun.

Doesn't matter, since some experienced players will have just recieved and some noobs would have played a lot games too.

No new update in 2 weeks, this game seriously won't be out until Summer 2013 at the earliest I'm assuming.

Though I think they will enter public beta soon.

That video is about as retarded as anything. DOTA a ripoff of LoL? DOTA was first designed in 2003 while LoL was released in 2009.

The video is a bad done troll. It wasn't serious.

aL getting ripped into in the first game of the defence . Currently 0-13. joindota.com

It's a total troll video. It's just ridiculous the stuff they say... LoL has better graphics, here look at this DotA 1 screenshot! Haha!

Im pretty much addicted to this. If anyone wants to play that would be cool. Im kind of a steam noob but my dota 2 name is j4k3b. lets play!

i play a lot, usually down for MM/in house if i'm on.

steam handle: castledefense