DOTA 2

Cybsled

Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
17,420
13,928
You can always tell that most muted people are assholes, because when you die they use the "Well Played!" canned communication.
 

Jozu

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
6,986
6,295
So don't die
lol n1.

Yeah, I mean lets be honest, a lot of muted players deserve it. I have ran into some pretty fucking shady people. The worse kind are the ones who immediately call "team noob" because they died in lane. They are the ones that usually feed, and sometimes when its really bad, they will rage and purpose feed as well as sentrying in the spawn.

But on the other hand, mutes are given out for fucking garbage reasons. Whether its playing well, or playing bad, or using a new hero unsuccessfully, there are just too many variables. They need to just increase the amount of times you have to get reported before getting a ban. Maybe increase it by 75% or something. A player would really have to be a fucking dick to get a mute. Either that or a soft 4 hour ban and warning. Something.
 

xzi

Mouthbreather
7,526
6,763
Jesus, Spirit Breaker is insanely strong since I last played him. Hero is broke as fuck (in pubs at least)
 

Elerion

N00b
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46
He still has mediocre laning and needs tons of farm to stay relevant in the late game. His ganking is stronger than ever, though.
 

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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294
He still has mediocre laning and needs tons of farm to stay relevant in the late game. His ganking is stronger than ever, though.
He is crazy in late game, because he is basically bounty hunter on crack, if a support shows their face anywhere your team has vision and doesn't run around with the rest of the team (and getting 0 farm then) then you just go CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKER on him.
 

Penance

Silver Baronet of the Realm
7,821
11,626
I'm loving this Spectre comeback. Did they buff her last patch or did they buff her normal team comps? She has a crazy win rate after a certain amount of time.

It must be due the the slight nerf to pushing making games draw out longer. Either that or she is just trending.
 

bayr_sl

shitlord
715
0
The only buff afaik is illusions staying when you haunt in but she has always been one of the best scaling carries in the game, if not the best
 

Jozu

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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What is the key build on her?

I find myself wanting to go Radiance as soon as I can, but I wonder if just getting treads and a diffusal blade into yasha would be more effective instead of rushing an early radiance.
 

Pyros

<Silver Donator>
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Early radiance is fine if it's quick, especially if it's a naked radiance you want it at 20 at most imo, but 25 should be fine in lower tiers. If you don't get the best laning possible I'd just go for a more midgame spectre build. Phase, drums, diffusal, yasha, maybe orb of venom. You can kill people really hard with that sort of build very early especially if you catch them solo. You then convert into lategame with heart/manta/butterfly.

If you want midgame power too, max Desolate first, or second after dagger but I'm not a big fan of dagger max it scales fairly shitty, one point is good enough for the terrain walking anyway.
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
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107
25 minute naked Radiance is not fine, in any bracket. You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve. 16 minute is good, 20 minute is medicore, 25 minutes you should have went a different build.
 

Nutron_sl

shitlord
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0
25 minute naked Radiance is not fine, in any bracket. You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve. 16 minute is good, 20 minute is medicore, 25 minutes you should have went a different build.
This..I'd even say if you cant get your radiance by 16 min, go for diffusal instead into a yasha/manta.
 

Pyros

<Silver Donator>
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25 minute naked Radiance is not fine, in any bracket. You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve. 16 minute is good, 20 minute is medicore, 25 minutes you should have went a different build.
Low brackets support like shit, don't have the right lanes, don't have people stacking, most of the time don't have couriers or wards and quite often will have retardation like 4people sitting in the same lane forever. You will sometimes not be able to get the farm even if your last hitting is perfect, doesn't matter how much of a super hero you are you can sometimes not farm a radiance quickly just because. However since everyone also farms like shit, as long as you get it before they get a major item, you're still on the right track. I think 25mins is a bad time for a radiance, but it'll work out at low brackets most of the time. Obviously you want it faster, much faster especially if naked(well brown boots and maybe a stick/wand) and you should aim at getting a fuckton faster, but if you try to farm a 16mins radiance when you have 5 carries, no courier and some guy autoattacking in your lane, you're generally going to be quite disapointed, and I'm not even talking about actually belonging to that bracket instead of playing a smurf account in that bracket.
 

Dandain

Trakanon Raider
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917
Just something else - I'd recommend watching the bo5 semi final with lgd.cn v DK. I really enjoyed it.
 

Elerion

N00b
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46
25 minute naked Radiance is not fine, in any bracket. You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve. 16 minute is good, 20 minute is medicore, 25 minutes you should have went a different build.
No genuine low tier player has ever farmed a 16 minute radiance. You'll see freefarm carries with treads and a RoH in 20 minutes in those games.

25 minutes is just fine in the low tiers.
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
7,489
107
Sutekh_sl said:
You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve.
Sutekh_sl said:
You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve.
Sutekh_sl said:
You need to give realistic goals for people if you want them to improve.
Are you people blind? If you want to sit in low tier and be a fucking scrub forever go ahead and farm your 25 minute radiance and lose and be blamed for failing to carry.

If you actually want to improve at how you play the game push yourself when it comes to timing on your items.