You would think, but all the success Notail/Ceb have had during their run with OG has come with some sort of prodigy carry player (Miracle/Ana). I mean they even had Reso for a portion of last season and that never really worked.

Would love to see them succeed just feels like theyre the 4th/5th best team in the region aorn

I think they're much closer to 3rd than 5th best in the region. The major qualifier was the first time they played with Pajkatt (plus Notail/Ceb had taken a significant break from Dota) and they were at least somewhat close to Alliance. They then won the minor qualifier relatively easily - dropping 1 game to TFT in the groups and winning their other 8 games.

I'd expect them to at least qualify for more majors than they miss and if Pajkatt fits in well they have potential for top 4 in majors imo. It's definitely possible that they end up similar to how they were with Reso last season, but even in that case I would still expect them to at least be around that 3rd best in the region spot.

lol watching Navi vs Liquid and Crystallize went double treads on his carry!

Never considered that but 14 agi and 16 damage for 1380 gold ain't bad. Actually that's crazy good isn't it? Didn't realize the Blades of Attack (+9 dmg) gets a free 7 damage in that combination WhoA.

Yasha is 16 agi +12 attack for 2050 gold... also has the MS bonus but still, dang treads are really good.


4 treads is 5520 gold, gives 56 agi and 64 dmg. Butterfly is 5475 gold, gives 35 agi and 25 dmg and 30 atk speed (also evasion). Honestly 4 treads seems much more powerful than a Butterfly... OK is the new Lone Druid build 6 treads on the hero then!? WAOW

Probably also Huskar would be insane with 6 str treads. Actually Armlet + 5 str treads...

Yeah I thought Crystallize had misclicked but apparently he runs 2x treads in pubs.

Also glad to see Liquid hitting their form again. Even though it makes for 10-20 min matches. GF should be a cake walk for them considering theyre being spotted a game as well.

Something is definitely wrong when an item is still worth buying if you have to throw 500gold down the trash along with the price

I'm just hoping they fix the 3x Wraith bands on AGI core meta. Sure, AGI cores building Aquila/Poor Mans every game was annoying but this is way more stale than that meta was

For me it's mostly annoying as there is only 1 courier. You can't use the strat in sidelanes but because people still try to do so you also can't in mid

Yeah I just ran a triple treads LD in a pub and holy crap it was extremely powerful. The build up for the mass treads is just so easy and you get insane amounts of DPS early.

Furthermore, if you are really good at micro you get basically infinite mana and it's also a really good escape mechanism bailout like Morph's attribute shifting. If I was good at binds/had a grey moral code I would make it so all the treads shifted by pressing one button.

And... treads nerfed! +Dmg bonus in the combination reduced by 4. Still gives a free +3 dmg tho (9 blades -> 12 treads). Feel like it's still pretty strong on heroes that can utilize the slots, like LD. It's hilarious to put 4 treads on Strength and get a free 1000hp.

After hundreds (not hyperbole) of turbo games, I'm back to normal behavior score on my main. First ranked game and I hit Divine. Whee.

Played two games tonight.

Game 1: choose Clinkz, forget who was already picked on the other team but they wind up with a lane of Zeus/Bloodseeker against me. Zeus repeatedly nukes me down for most of my health, Bloodseeker gets truesight + absurd speed against me, it was a bad game. I started off like 4/10 and started doing better later on when I wasn't so completely fragile, but still, didn't go well and we lost.

Game 2: PC shuts down after connecting, frantically reboot and rejoin, I'm last to pick and I don't see any obvious Clinkz counters on their team like the last game, so once again, CLINKZ.

Result:







I'm in on 48 of 63 kills, my first rampage ever (!!!), super fun game. I was 30/2/8 at about 40:00, but it feels like Clinkz really owns the midgame and not so much the endgame so it was so-so from there on out (but I was able to help push the last towers and stuff really well obv). Won our lane really hard (me + Ogre against...wait for it...Drow + Spectre? LOL) and snowballed from there - once I got deso + orchid, against anyone on their team, if I catch them out I just press orchid and Q and they're dead. After however many revisions the new Clinkz ult has gone through, it seems actually good now, it did tons of work for me in team fights - 28k total damage of the 76k (physical damage did 34k, searing arrows did 13k).

TIL Bloodstone has a new active that is like the spellcaster's Satanic... very interesting

I found that out the other day next to a nether ward when I tried to suicide

Oh nether ward is probably the direct counter to that active I think hahaha. Oh actually maybe not, thought it was rate of regen not current mana pool. So if you have like 1000 mana then you get 600hp/s for 2 sec? Wtf this active is so weird

For those out of the loop:

Oh the charges also provide HP regen now too............ WEIRD ITEM ! I guess this is why Storm is dead lately

Never really looked at hero rankings on Dotabuff. Did today because I wanted to watch some high level OD play. Turns out, I’m the 44th ranked Luna and 41st ranked Drow. In the world. Lul.

ixmike POGGERS TEAMTEAM POGGERS

And all it took to get through the first round of the losers bracket was the worst gg in pro Dota history:

https://clips.twitch.tv/ShakingResol...tt_medium=redt

I r dumb but is what happened there that radiant GGed and left a split second before their creeps were about to destroy the dire ancient?

Reminds me of

Your summary is pretty much correct, although this was my first thought:

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, lolIdra

Ecstatic to see faith bian back in business. Will rightfully be considered the GOAT when he wins TI again.


Also bring ana back, cheering for og isn't fun atm

ana quit dota

Isn't he just taking a break? For sure og will take him in for TI9 when it gets close, OG will be back

Stay woke