hmm then i suggest tell him to go iron talon and double jungle. it's what secret does every game lately.

who would be a good person on youtube to watch to learn offlane heroes?

I hovered between 3900 and 4100 mmr for the longest time. I have almost 3000 games played. I feel like I've been a pretty consistent player going back to the earliest days of Dota on WC3. In Dota2, I was always about 20-40 games above 500.

Today, I dipped below 3k mmr. The slide is real. In the past 6 months I have a sub 40% winrate, and I have no idea what has changed. My GPM/XPM is the same. My playstyle is the same. I'm competent with every single hero except Lone Druid, whom I despise. I just cannot win games.

The game isn't though. Maybe you're better at farming (especially early) than fighting (or farming without dying in the crucial lategame)?

I can adapt just fine to most game situations. You won't see me buying a Midas against a team clearly build around pushing towers, even if I had the money at 5 mins. I won't rush BKB like a ****** when I know those 10 second charges are going to matter more in later fights based on their hero lineup. I cannot adapt well to a Naix just sitting in the jungle for 39 minutes while we lose the game, and SF deciding to ragequit after he dies twice around 15 min mark.

Back under 3k! I only lost 23 points that last game for some reason.

Coinflips all day long. Oh well.


Edit: Last night I had an AM game where the enemy team lineup was PA, PL, Slark, Legion, and Tusk. We had an actual team. I had treads vlads yasha bf and butterfly done by 20 mins. I won that coinflip.

holy **** the NEL games rosters tonight

you're welcome

Clinkz appears to be the magic 3k bullet.

Will confirm once I've reached 10 wins in a row with him. Halfway there. Turns it doesn't matter if the rest of your lanes lose when you can kill all the buildings on your own, and sneak in from behind for Rampages during teamfights while the rest of your team twitches back and forth while melting to the Timbersaw.

Blade Mail is no longer blocked by BKB, in case anyone was wondering. I think I remember reading that patch note a while ago, but it never really applied to me. Clinkz is a glass cannon though, and that **** hurts.

The duration of these wins have been directly proportional to the amount of mana regen items I have. Trips back to the fountain are boring, but entirely necessary. Gonna ride the Bone Clinkz as far as he'll take me. Anyone who claims dust/sentries aren't a thing until 4k is full of ****, but as long as you aren't truly suicidal, it doesn't really matter. Clinkz is a speedy dude.

Insoo0, don't give up, you too can reach 1 mmr if you put your mind to it.

IAmRobik, are you ixmike?

lol. i just told kirby about it on hearthstone chat last night. i am bummed out I can't figure out how to spec the game through friends in client. says i need to have the league pass or something to watch

I'll do a naked rapier in an upcoming Clinkz game in tribute to Joesh's 1mmr journey.

It's only viable against the right kind of lineup. They gotta be squishy types without insta-cast disables, or you're just asking for reports.

I've done it a few times in the past, but this was before ranked was put in.

(i actually knew about the NEL but I wanted to make robik feel good)

If Universe has opened up his vods to non-subscribers you should consider watching that

'Arteezy Tinker Bloodstone Disaster Game NEL Dota 2'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRqMMcD8qE

I hated playing clinkz in the bloodthorne challenge. His lh animation is turrible until like lvl 5+ at least.

Yeah Ive had some good Clinkz games too lately without being really good on the hero (I ~always random in party at ~3600mmr) but you can still get ****ed by your teammates. I had both my mid sf and jungle legion build a shadowblade the other day and then a while later the enemy team just had way too much detection all over the place and the squishies stayed grouped up permanently and I couldn't really do much anymore.
And agreed that he is absolutely awful to last hit with and even worse for denying.

First Clinkz loss.

16-2-5 start, but then all 5 of them bought Blade Mail and just stayed as 5 and bought gem on tanky as **** DK. They steamrolled my utterly useless team during Blade Mail duration while I was forced to sit and watch. It was actually pretty funny. But also sad because of the streak. =/

blademail is OP

Get a satanic.

hit da buildings

DC vs Empire 7-11 starting up at 24 minutes. Dc's morph looking like he will outlast Empire's terrorblade.

LGD vs DC, Maybe just had one of the best plays I've ever seen on Invoker.

https://clips.twitch.tv/beyondthesum...agoSoonerLater

clip ends too early, he actually ends up killing everyone

Wtf Nahaz not invited to ti6? In sure that idiot slacks got an invite though. God damnit

^ full play. dark purple invoker spells Kreygasm

6.88b released, small balance patch. timber/tb and some others slightly nerfed, a lot of other non-meta heroes got slight buffs. bloodseeker keeps getting buffed, hero may be OP now...

Timbersaw strength gain reduced from 2.1 to 1.8
Death Prophet base strength reduced by 1
Spirit Siphon (Death Prophet) base health drain reduced from 16 to 14
Metamorphosis (Terrorblade) manacost increased from 50 to 100
Metamorphosis no longer lingers after reincarnation/death
Time Dilation (Faceless Void) manacost increased from 50 to 75
Astral Spirit (Elder Titan) vision reduced from 450 to 400
Beastmaster Boar XP bounty increased from 59 to 60/70/80/90
Riki's Blink Strike damage reduced from 60/80/100/120 to 55/70/85/100
Lane Creeps now give 20% of XP when denied by neutrals rather than 0% (normal player denies give 50% XP)
Astral Imprisonment (Outworld Devourer) damage increased from 75/150/225/300 to 100/175/250/325
Arcane Orb (OD) intelligence duration increased from 60 to 80
Bloodlust (Ogre Magi) manacost reduced from 75 to 50
Meepo agility growth increased from 1.9 to 2.2
Stone Form (Visage) cooldown reduced from 26 to 20
Arcane Curse (Silencer) damage increased from 14/21/28/35 to 14/22/30/38
Brewmaster Boulder damage increased from 50 to 50/100/150
Brewmaster Dispel Magic damage to illusions and summoned units increased from 500 to 850
Press the Attack's (LC) attack speed bonus increased from 60/80/100/120 to 65/90/115/140
Sniper turn rate improved from 0.6 to 0.7
Sniper night vision increased from 1000 to 1100
Warlock Golems HP increased from 900/1350/1800 to 1000/1500/2000
Thirst (Bloodseeker) bonus rescaled from 10/20/30/40% to 16/24/32/40%
Lightning Bolt (Zeus) ministun increased from 0.1 to 0.2
Stampede (Centaur) slow duration increased from 1.5 to 1.8
Shadow Fiend movement speed increased from 310 to 315
Living Armor (Treant) cooldown reduced from 32/26/20/14 to 30/24/18/12
Dismember (Pudge) strength based damage increased from 30/40/50 to 30/45/60%
Sand Storm (Darude) cooldown reduced from 40/30/20/10 to 34/26/18/10
Epicenter (SK) manacost reduced from 175/250/325 to 150/225/300
Empower (Magnus) cleave AoE increased from 225 to 240

most shocking thing missing is no iron talon nerf at all... wtf?

double iron talon lone druid jungle is legit, got a 15 minute radiance once