I think NP rapier feeding farm stealing is still elite. Just make sure to be ready to take the rapier back when the enemy carrier feeds it back

Lifestealer aghs has got to be great too, watched some streams and I believe it is not obvious as to how the other person ejects once consumed.

LMAO rapier scammed in EU major qualifiers: http://oddshot.tv/shot/moonducktv-2015101119444827

http://www.twitch.tv/bone7

^ GoodKappa Studios cast of C9 vs HWCP game. (EternalEnvy + other pros, this time it's Bone7, maybe some others will join). More interesting/insightful with pros giving their thoughts on each other.


Two really useful websites for dota:

www.yasp.co <--- replay parser that shows all sorts of amazing statistics. gotta sign up to start getting your replays parsed. even shows in-game all chat logs, which I enjoy looking at after those games where I have everyone muted.

www.dotapicker.com <--- shift-tab in game and open this site during picking stage. i use the counter picker tool only (full picker takes too long to setup all the picks), it analyzes stats from dotabuff or something and tells you what the best pick would be against x composition. very very useful, though of course it's not always gonna show the best picks. but really good as a reference point. not sure if other people consider this cheating... i don't ofc, since it's just one inexact methodology. really like it for learning about what could be good counters... for instance i end up playing a lot more pugna than i usually would, against some line-ups he is absolutely amazing. max nether ward 1st or 2nd definitely, getting it last is very sad (ultimate level spell imo)

Can someone explain the format of these qualifiers?

The open qualifiers just qualified teams for these closed qualifiers w groups? Then what?

How to start an NA DOTA match:

Team 1's offlaner instantly TPs to the offlane and brings no wards or other items to actually do anything

Team 2's alchemist gets access an uncontested 0min bounty rune. Does not skill greevil's greed before grabbing the rune. Skills greevil's greed just after grabbing the rune.

Top 2 from each group play in the double elim bracket

4 team double elim bracket?

yeah

2 spots from the double elim bracket, for every region.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Fra...lifiers/Europe

Yeah, same as http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/The...2015/Wild_Card

That seems like one of the worst formats designed for anything ever. I had seen that page but refused to believe a 4 team double elim tournament was used lol.

HCWP FailFish

apparently Justin took starting bounty rune without skilling greevils... yea they deserved to lose

meh, more doto.

c9 looked super strong in both games. i thought they were going to lose game 2 after the early game went so poorly but as soon as they had blink up on DK (and radiance on bear) they executed everything perfectly. great strategy/itemization tanking up so much on all their heroes. i think that was the fastest bane bkb i've ever seen from a game when the team with the bane wasn't just steamrolling

blink aghs on LC for advanced feeding.

Or you could try staying at lvl 6 to keep respawn timer low.

Aghs Octarine Refresher Nature's Prophet in Alliance vs Liquid - game 3 of EU qualifier playoffs... 3 rax have been destroyed by treants alone so far

Caster: "This must be what it's like to die in a zombie apocalypse"

: )

Both my matches this afternoon had afk jungle NPs who went midas/aghs/refresher and never did anything. TY Bulldog.

Report only if they don't get octarine core, otherwise commend obv

loving this BTS Insanity cast right now. KOTLguy impressions of general dota players are hilarious. Timely on screen pop-ups of text are also pretty funny. Half serious half fun casts > full serious casts (unless TI)

I suggest an immediate nerf of alchemist who is a terrible afk mid hero that is guaranteed to be useless as **** in your pub team. Honestly, 1300 players stun someone else >50% of their Ws? Prob not.

Manta Style is cool for farming on Alch but it doesn't really help his weaknesses in fights... Surprised to see so many Alchs building it and keeping it late game. Kind of a huge item to sell, but it seems gimping for a 6 slot build.

Yikes, Yawar just sold Manta for Octarine........ And they lost. DC disband/shuffle likely. imo they gotta replace TC.

I actually just ran the Radiance->BoT->Manta->Octarine mid Alch build. It feels wayyy better than playing Naga. Having ult go from being down almost half the time (25s up 20s down) to just over a quarter of the time (25s up 8.75s down) is great, and you obviously have great Manta uptime and low BoT CD for map control. The nice thing is you can reconfigure from map control items to fighting items like Heart much easier due to greed passive, and giving Aghs is a nice touch too.

Carry alch still blows though. Mid alch is where it's at, you make it so difficult for mids without mobility to do anything to you without it costing them. You also sustain nicely through Doom ult with your own ult early on which is another plus

yeah the stream is ****ing killing it. even their music is amazing when waiting in between games. yesterday i chose to listen to the waiting screen on the BTS stream over watching actual dota on the dreamleague stream. i can't stand both ODpixel and tobi's casting.

How you gonna hate on your own people?

lowest average MMR yet... am i playing with someone who has an MMR of 1 ?!?!?!