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A lot of it depends on the flow of the game. If you crush all your lanes, you can usually proceed to push down all the towers one by one and then break high ground with nothing but pings. Not a whole lot of communication is necessary in those kinds of games. But if its close game with high amount of activity, then communication is pretty essential.

I need to know if you're going to be there to back be up when they dive. Same thing if I'm planning to dive. If there's multiple high value targets, your team needs to work out which one will be focused in a team fight. Gathering for smoke ganks, rotations, lane switches, the list goes on. Sure youcanwin without doing any of it. Just like youcanwin with bad builds, bad last hitting, or making stupid decisions all game. In any game of DotA there is a big pile of stuff you did right and stuff you did wrong. Good communication is a big ass stone in the right pile. It won't win you every game, but it will certainly tip the scales in close ones.
 
Penance

Penance

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Started playing captains mode with two other people in ranked and it's way more fun then any other game mode. Think we went 4 in 1. Hopefully I come out with a decent rating.

In captains mode it seems people know what they are doing way more then any other mode. That or maybe it's because of ranked.
 
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Obtenor_sl

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What I like about captains mode is that 9 out of 10 times the captain at least picks a support.

AP is all "I'm gonna play whatever I want" and you get stuck with 5 carries.
 
Nite1

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When do you all play captains pick? I did the same thing where i got ranked at 2700 got up to just under 3000 then fell to 2500 and now i just bounce between 2500 and 2700. I know some of its my fault but every time i've played captains draft recently people just piss and moan about the heroes selected then just fight the whole match and we lose.
 
Jackie Treehorn

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Not that I even care anymore, it doesn't really matter, I'm still playing the game. But I've went from almost 3200 back down to 2700 something. I play supports 99 percent of the time, and I'm good at it. I do what supports are supposed to do. The problem is never me as a support. There was a point where I won like 8 games in a row as Undying support. But goddamn if I don't keep getting the shittiest, non English speaking teams. God but damn am I tired of playing with Brazillians. It's to the point where if I'm playing with one and they're doing shitty, I just start berating their country and calling it a 3rd world shithole and other stuff, to which they start spamming in Portegeuse, pinging me, and so on. I'm making a mini-game out of it.
 
Zaphid

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Jackie Treehorn_sl said:
Not that I even care anymore, it doesn't really matter, I'm still playing the game. But I've went from almost 3200 back down to 2700 something. I play supports 99 percent of the time, and I'm good at it. I do what supports are supposed to do. The problem is never me as a support. There was a point where I won like 8 games in a row as Undying support. But goddamn if I don't keep getting the shittiest, non English speaking teams. God but damn am I tired of playing with Brazillians. It's to the point where if I'm playing with one and they're doing shitty, I just start berating their country and calling it a 3rd world shithole and other stuff, to which they start spamming in Portegeuse, pinging me, and so on. I'm making a mini-game out of it.
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If your team can't make use of the space you create as a support, it's time to switch roles, go play offlaner or jungler, that's how I learned how to play enchantress.
 
Julian The Apostate

Julian The Apostate

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Just finished my last ranked calibration game in all pick. Went 8-2 in those games and got placed at 2240 MMR. Overall my record is something like 95-82 or something close to that. Mainly played NP, earth shaker, bristle, and veno in the 10 games. ES was probably my favorite. He starts a little slow but when you get blink you can really turn games around. One game we were way behind and i pulled off a 4 man + creep echo slam that wiped them and completely turned the game around and we dominated the rest of the game. Felt good man. Overall I'm enjoying ranked much more that unranked play. Seems to a lot better games all around.
 
Zaphid

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Enjoy while it lasts, as your MMR grows, AP will turn into just counterpicking the opponent after the creeps spawn
 
Julian The Apostate

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They should make it so you start losing starting gold from the time the game starts if you haven't picked yet or something. Seems like their could be an easy solution to that.
 
Dandain

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AP is just a countdown timer, everyone has a minute to pick, creeps don't spawn for another minute. There is no pick order, you can random your hero, you can lock in instantly. There is no such aspect to the Draft modes - Captain or Captains Draft. Always been that way, The map is loaded before picks in contrast to league, there is no loading screen after picks begin.
 
Zaphid

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Dota 2 - New Bloom Festival
6.80 patchnotes + Terrorblade in the next patch

Icefrog is an idiot, so I guess the patch is good

You now lose one gold per second if you haven't picked a hero after the selection timer runs out in All Pick
Iron Branch
Gold cost reduced from 53 to 50
Blink Dagger
Blink no longer has a manacost
Ogre Magi
Unrefined Fireblast manacost changed from 400 to 60% of your current mana
Broodmother
Can no longer leave the map boundaries
Spin Web no longer provides 200 vision
Free pathing is now removed when enemies have vision over you
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YES

Crystal Maiden
Base intelligence reduced by 3
Sniper
Take Aim range bonus increased from 80/160/240/320 to 100/200/300/400
Venomancer
Base damage reduced by 5
Base HP regen reduced from 0.75 to the default 0.25
Enchantress
Base armor reduced by 1
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NO
 
Delly

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The boundaries thing had to happen. One of the other two probably needed to happen as well. Regardless Brood could get away every single time unless you had specific heroes, vision, and were lucky enough to catch her before she got outside the map.
 
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The changes to lion, slardar, and faceless void are pretty interesting, too. Tinker with an early scepter is gonna be a real sonofabitch.
 
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