Why would that change anything? It still multiplies the experience (and it still saves you the extra time it would take to kill the bigger creep). What am i missing?

Less gold on the map means you want to get the most gold out of the midas usage so pop the small creep to get more gold total.

Of course it doesn't apply if you're gonna miss a ton of lane creeps at tower or something by taking the extra time to kill the big creep yourself.

i only caught a little bit but the streamer i was watching responded to chat question "who is the best player not in this tournament" and the immediate response was "kirbynator".

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THE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEN~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!

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WHOS THE MAN
WHOS THE MAN
WHOS THE MAN

(im beat up chrysler)

From bouncing between Knight 8 and Bishop 8 to Queen in a few days... Wut

Grats

the knight-8 bouncing was weeks ago, been steady rook for week+ now

BULLLLLDOOOZERRRRR

OK I think I figured this patch out. When you want gold = lane creeps, when you want XP = jungle, ancients, Roshan. Solo kills give quite a lot of each. Actually this might be the solo kill patch, they are worth so much I feel.

Looking at recent changes because I feel like a lot of this patch is still unexplored...

Bane + Veno offlane's gotta be unbeatable. Bane Enfeeble increases duration of spells, negative status resistance. Enfeeble + Gale & other Veno spells = ouch. Oh wait it won't increase the damage though, nm.

The patch that killed this game for me seems to have been undone at some point. They allow picking directx9 in graphics settings and which has fixed the issues I would have with crashing. 🐱*🚀🐱*🚀🐱*🚀

What if living your waking life is like buying and setting up pieces in Auto Chess then your dreams are the Auto Chess battles?

round 52 win with super strong players

pretty sick to see troll 3 dusa 3 vs ta3 dk3

That’s pretty gross. Is Alch good now, or was that for warlock synergy ?

Battle pass tomorrow...

https://clips.twitch.tv/DignifiedTangibleNuggetsWow

Have you guys played Dota Underlords yet?

Which game do you think the (current) competitive scene will end up playing? @kirby and anyone who has ideas.

I feel like the Epic Games/Drodo version will be left behind with no IP to back it up and an afaik unspecified release later this year while Riot and Valve start open betas next week.

I wonder what the Valve offer was. I can sort of understand the decision if these guys were just offered desks on Valve campus and health insurance, but if there was any serious amount of money involved, they were stupid to turn down a partnership.

Did Valve make any significant gameplay changes? It seems crazy that they can just copy an entire game and release it on their own.

I'm guessing they just offered less (guaranteed) money...

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Anyone with the Battle Pass should have gotten 3 keys for Underlords. If anyone has one to spare and could Pm me the code, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.

I'd take one too if you have keys and don't really know what to do with them.

I was able to snag a key through Reddit. Took me about 7 hours of trying random codes as they popped up. Was finally able to grab one that took actual human effort to replace asterisks with letters through a little trivia.

Played one game so far. There is so much going on on the screen. Hopefully they fix the UI a lot because it's way tpo crowded. I have no idea what I'm doing most of the time and can't see anything behind all the tables and icons.

Definitely suggest giving the new Huskar a try if you have not played him a while. He is a dedicated mid in my opinion and at higher ranks is approx 53% winrate. The main thing that is pulling his average down to 49% is low mmr players trashing his winrate. While he needs some teamwork to end the game in a timely fashion, he can solocarry better than most so this is pretty much a non-issue in my opinion, you were probably going to lose any game where this problem is relevant anyway.

The new Bezerker Blood is many times better than the old one. If the first few waves do not go well I will often go WEEWE skill build or similar. He can zone many heroes out of exp range at lower levels and with a good creep block he is as strong as he gets. After dominating the lane he can immediately rotate take towers asap, then solo roshan into high ground in under 25 minutes.

Biggest weakness is that he needs a 4th-5th pick because many heroes like Timber still counter him pretty heavily. I think his item build is a little tricky as well, because some games armlet is not great, a morbid mask is great but not always needed, he wants to build a dragon lance but will often not have the chance, needs a bkb like 3rd item most games. Mostly I would suggest against ever building an agham on him, while it is excellent, it is so easy to get the 3rd roshan in longer games and you don't want to build this 2nd item even if it is best early.