took me a while to realize lich+razor offlane wasnt just a really bad way to position them on the chessboard

Just had the thought that auto chess with actual chess pieces could be really fun. Not exactly sure how it'd work.

How does positioning with in auto chess? Is the center of the board as important as it is in regular? Guessing not

7.21b just dropped

First impression: wow CM's ult armor got doubled, she already seemed very strong...

TA's Meld stacking seems super good... especially for taking Rosh

KOTL refresher orb is total **** now? Really needed to be changed tho, had a game today where once KOTL got refresher we basically won completely from that, pretty nuts impact for a support hero. Was like 10 seconds of virtual permastun on 3 heros+ multiple times lol

Lich Ursa Sven Visage all got pretty big nerfs

they uncapped the max mmr in autohess

hyyype leaderboard matters

Damn near flawless game to hit Rook 1. Hit level 10 at Round 25 with 50+ gold and didn't take any damage until later.

damn thats a weird lineup lol, frontline of AM 3+tide2+techies 2 is insane :O

*also i just hti #2 worldwide leaderboard! just leaving that out here cause im maybe never getting this close again

That’s sick. Congrats.

Kinda had to have a weird lineup. Got an early QOP2 and kept getting assasins, so went for 6 syn.

thats awesome kirby, wp

Dota Chess TI1 incoming? I feel like there's 0 chance we don't see a Dota Chess tournament at TI this year.

Pretty hilarious to see Dota 2 on Twitch topped by all the famous Hearthstone streamers lolol. Is that game dead? Seems dead. I feel like actual Dota will eventually be less popular than Auto Chess if this Twitch trend keeps up. It quite possibly could already be the case in NA actually, NA player counts are so low FeelsLowQualityPubMan.

Also wonder if Blizzard is fast working on a Hearthstone Chess with the HOTS engine...

oof, back on the grind, three bottom 3 games in a row. When you literally have to get lucky not to finish deadlast its not a great feeling

Quoting bc as I'm catching up and reading this post, I check leaderboard in game and Kirby #ONEEEEEEEEEE111!!!11!!!!

I knew him when

For posterity



(finished 3rd that game and gained some mmr on top)

There should be a version of Dota Chess where 5 players can play one chess board cooperatively together

Being n1 world at anything is pretty sick, for kirby it feels normal

Haven't played auto chess, watched a good 20min total of streams and read this thread and yet have no idea how this game works (nor do I want to learn).

Stay away. It’s heroin.

Gotta say it's pretty cool to see Team Secret win, despite the PuppEEy drama. MidOne is such a baller, and Puppey is a really good captain at working with his teammate's strengths.

1. Nisha - Polish
2. MidOne - Malaysian
3. Zai - Swedish
4. YapzOr - Jordan
5. Puppey - Estonia

True International Squad

I dont really follow Dota competetive scene, but I went to ESL Katowice with some friends (Im from Poland), it was quite interesting. One thing that was pretty surprising was how little people were actually there, granted the venue was huge, but it was mb 1/3 or even 1/4 full on Saturday evening. Also, it kinda sucked that you couldnt buy alcohol anywhere, I cant imagine that the Dota main audience is a lot of kids.

Other than that, pretty fun experience, though me and my friends were drinking hard, so I dont really remember much abot the actual games

Dead game. Nah it is probably just nowhere near as popular as CSGO in Poland.

i went to a small dota event last year and they had 3 separate drink stations - 'merican beer, craft beer, and a redbull sponsored w hard alcohol.

Dota balance seems at a weird place right now. I do like this patch a lot, however XP gain seems to far outpace gold gain now. I know gold got nerfed a ton lately but I feel like XP needs to be tuned down as well to stay balanced.

Actually surprised that Alchemist isn't 1st pick with how hard it is to get a ton of gold now. Thinking the new best LD build is double quelling blade and use melee form on the hero, +48 creep dmg for 400 gold, allows to farm very fast. Midas idk if it's good or not right now, it just feels like a huge investment when gold is so hard to come by, and yea obv it will give gold but it takes a while.

Alch is basically the counter to late game carries that need a lot of farm. Most people pick heroes that need just 1 or 2 items to be strong. Alch also struggles a lot in lane, and with the current meta you can't really spare a support to help him at all. And there's also a lot of fighting and snowballing in this meta, not really alchs cup of tea, that dude wanna farm unhindered for like 10-15 mins and then win.

Iyam Alch prefers slower meta because he is incredibly fast, when the meta is fast the disparity between Alch and the other heroes is smaller. Even if he has way more items fighting against heroes like OD and Ursa early is really rough on Alch, as opposed to like invoker/spectre.

Kirb did you play in the DAC invitational yesterday? Looked like most of your crew played.

no was a streamer invitational


... also just won a game in queens lobby that didnt count

**** this game sometimes

7.21c released

I wonder if Hand of Midas is now best used on the small creeps now that it only gives 160 gold. Hmmm