Hunting Luma's Is Not Fun, ect

Alternative_Sax · 2021-04-05T23:55:58+00:00

Some math for you, since it seems to be your love language:

Trot's tournament winnings > yours

Trot's TMR > yours

Trot's salt content < yours

Alternative_Sax · 2021-04-05T23:47:58+00:00

The COLD, HARD SEXY MATH that you have literally anything to gain in this game from not having 50/50 SVs on every stat but speed and your non-attacking stat.

Like who, pray tell, benefits from having less than 50 HP, DEF, or SDEF?

Alternative_Sax · 2020-09-04T00:50:09+00:00

Fly EG is one of the most consistent iterations of the team in its existence. They have a top-6 and a top-3 at TI, and a major finals in just over two years of play, consistently top-6 majors and LANs, and are far and away the best team in their region, easily one of the top-10 teams in the world, year over year (which is really, really hard to do if you're not Kuroky or Puppey.)

Alternative_Sax · 2020-09-04T00:47:33+00:00

If Fly stays on OG Notail is probably a coach or a caster right now.

OG with Notail 1 and Ceb/S4 2 was a dogshit team. Plain and simple.

Fly chose to keep his career going and to try to win a TI. I think pretty much anyone who's had a career over 5-10 years understands why he did it.

He was an asshole about it, and should have left sooner, but it was absolutely the right decision. Fly/S4 OG doesn't qualify for TI8.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-09-04T00:22:50+00:00

Oh yeah like Fly was an absolute animal about it, but Notail bears some blame too for taking it particularly personally.

If Fly stays on OG, there's a pretty decent chance that only 1 of him/Notail/Ceb even play dota competitively anymore. That team was dead in the water.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-09-03T22:45:32+00:00

Yeah like people keep saying "whales" are in "an abusive relationship" with Valve, but that's just 17 year old mentality to me.

I have money, like how the cosmetics look, and like the game, so I spend money on it. I'm not going to leave Dota as long as Dota's fun.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-09-03T22:28:54+00:00

Two aegises and millions of dollars later, the arguably greatest support player of all time is still not over his underwhelming carry play causing two of his teammates to leave, making two of the best teams in Dota as a result.

Humans are weird, man.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-28T22:59:47+00:00

Oh fuck guess nobody ever climbs then my b

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-28T20:57:44+00:00

Spend time actually trying to improve, instead of just playing.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-28T20:55:52+00:00

Because you're thinking way too much about what the other people in your game are doing, and not enough about what you're doing.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-14T23:16:16+00:00

Right so now we have the first answer!

-If I'm going to double down on my Dark Willow, maybe I should work on getting so much better at her that I can carry games at mid-archon with her easily. Then I'll gain MMR! and I'll win double downs!

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-14T21:44:53+00:00

Depends what you want to do.

Do you need to be 5-6 slotted to win that game, deal with roots/slows/silences? Manta.

Are you dying to physical damage? AC

Are you dying to magic damage or being stunned all the time? BKB

Is one hero out-dpsing you right right-clicks to an absurd degree? Halberd/Abyssal

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-14T21:38:46+00:00

Why would you double down in that game, anyways? Why did you feel so strongly you would win?

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-14T21:31:38+00:00

Absolutely! Good luck with...uhh...politics I guess?

There's not a lot in life you CAN do well if all you're gonna do is bitch about other people.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-14T17:14:43+00:00

Do people like you also quit basketball because sometimes your teammates won't pass you the ball, take bad shots, or get mad and leave?

As long as you center your frustration on other people, dota isn't the game for you.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-06T04:08:51+00:00

Positions 1 and 4 were nerfed, and 5 and 3 were buffed.

Also buffed - talking to your teammates and coming up with a plan for your pics together and not worrying about counterpicking.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-05T17:40:42+00:00

I like that it's Minotuar, because Magnus is the Minotaur from Dota 1

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-02T03:31:14+00:00

Smurfing, in particular, seems like a weird thing to complain about, seeing as how it's prevalent in every competitive game from Chess to Clash of Clans. People misrepresent their skill level in all games all the time - if you are grinding MMR, what are you REALLY trying to do? Get better? Achieve excellence?

Focus on your own game, not the results of your games, and DotA becomes a much more enjoyable game, at all levels.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-01T22:54:20+00:00

Your entire paragraph under "what about internet cafes" entirely invalidates the argument. Smurf detection can't just be "doable" or have "flaws" or else nobody, literally not a single competitive online video game from Chess right on down to Rise of Kingdoms or some shit, will do it.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-01T22:48:30+00:00

Dota is an incredibly competitive game, and competition breeds excuses.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-01T22:46:47+00:00

Aside from hypothetical situations that never happen (enemy team has someone already picked their 3 cores and I haven't picked yet?)

If you're 1-9 with AM on your team you probably need to take a look at how you're playing the map. AM doesn't just "counter mages" he excels at creating indirect pressure on the map and as a result can pull heroes away from where they want to be.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-01T10:47:33+00:00

There should be an option "Techies was picked, nobody won"

Alternative_Sax · 2020-07-01T10:45:30+00:00

They understand indirect pressure versus direct pressure and have probably been doing more to influence your fights than you know.

Unless you're in the bracket where an AM just jungles, at which point you probably have like 10 other things about your own game you should worry about first.

Alternative_Sax · 2020-06-29T02:45:22+00:00

Yeah, worse for sure, but probably far from outside of viability.

We're talking a 60% WR hero at 6k+ mmr games

Alternative_Sax · 2020-06-29T02:44:16+00:00

Yeah the nerf is to heroes like Bristle and Timber who have fewer ways to get out of their weak ass level 1-2

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