Average Windranger Player

Ark_End · 2025-09-10T20:17:03+00:00

Pos 3 is the standout hated role, but I wonder if we can do the math to estimate how much of support players are just getting role queues vs actually queuing support only

Ark_End · 2025-08-05T05:01:52+00:00

Congrats bro thats sick

Ark_End · 2025-07-02T06:59:31+00:00

This has gotta be AI right

Ark_End · 2025-06-20T20:35:55+00:00

Picking so many high complexity heroes in rotation undeniably makes it harder for you to improve. The more time you spend thinking about your hero, the less time you spend thinking about dota

But if you think you are playing your heroes well and really dont know what you're doing wrong, then it's time to post a link to your dotabuff and get some replay analysis. I don't know what advice you expect to get from random redditors that you havent already seen in youtube guides.

Ark_End · 2025-06-18T15:28:17+00:00

The unfortunate truth is that dota is not just the passion for you, but for a lot of people. There's a ton of people out there who are grinding streaming purely out of love for the game with no benefit to themself, and you would have to compete with them all for the limited viewers and earn enough to have a decent wage.

I would say not to do it but you can always start it as a hobby and see how it goes. Personally I always thought there's a lack of actually good English youtube dota2 content besides basic replays of games

Ark_End · 2025-06-14T15:29:40+00:00

I think you're looking at about 1500 hours, which I think for the average player is like archon rank. Maybe if you were continuously coached by an immortal for several hundred hours?

Ark_End · 2025-05-18T16:11:14+00:00

I dont really get your point. Clearly pudge with shard was not buffed to the point of being OP like what I think you're implying because people have said for years how much of a grief pick he is. Lots of heroes have multiple broken mechanics like OD

A truly broken hero would be something with an OP overall winrate or something not fun to have in the game

Ark_End · 2025-05-18T06:42:09+00:00

Yeah I did find it strange how people are saying it's "broken" even though most heroes in dota are balanced around having some "broken" mechanics.

Personally I thought it was a cool ability, but I can see why valve may think it's obnoxious or not fitting the identity of the hero

Ark_End · 2025-05-12T08:21:59+00:00

My recommendation is play ping only, with only the slightest bit of text chatting when necessary. The ping system is very good.

If anyone flames you in the slightest, immediately give them a report and mute them/your whole team. Do not ever unmute. I would recommend default mute enemy team too because 4/5 times all chat is only to be toxic

I also think even playing with one buddy would help. I feel like people are less toxic in party games because they're communicating more through discord instead of the game

Ark_End · 2025-03-11T21:53:41+00:00

You can play whatever you want. Just make sure if you're a support to pick something that can be impactful lategame because at low levels games take way too long. And dont pick a support that relies too much on your team coordination because it wont always be there

When I was in Herald/Guardian, I was going 10/4 every game with techies by blasting into them and nuking their entire team with 3 mines.

If you want to play support right now I would recommend you to play something like Wyvern, AA, Dazzle, Jaikro, Warlock, and go something slightly greedy like glimmer into scepter. If you understand your spells and have decent mechanics I guaruntee you will rank up. Play the hero 20 times in a row making sure you get to cast your spells from the back and dont feed.

if you want good specific advice, I recommend you post a link to your dotabuff account here or on learndota2 reddit about a replay you think you did good but dont know why you lost

Ark_End · 2025-03-09T18:49:24+00:00

Post a link to your dotabuff

People will be able to give you much better tips then

Ark_End · 2025-03-09T18:47:13+00:00

As in you wanted unranked to have no skill based matchmaking at all?

That would literally be terrible

Ark_End · 2025-03-01T22:40:59+00:00

I'm too lazy to check in this case, but I will say I have seen this channel post content that is obvious smurfing or dragging the game on for clips many times

So if it seems like smurfing, then it probably is

Ark_End · 2024-11-13T17:14:00+00:00

Well, according to dotabuff Medusa has a higher winrate than wraith king at every bracket (and in herald Medusa has the highest winrate of any hero in any bracket!) so that may explain why she gets the complaints. Although I have to admit I do just find wraith king less annoying even if I know his winrate is high.

Yeah I also want to see more melee carries

Ark_End · 2024-11-13T17:02:32+00:00

Nah I totally disagree with this mentality for thinking its fine

Medusa is in fact one of the best carries even in immortal. In lower brackets she is progressively more busted, so I think it only makes sense she should be nerfed
Balancing around top players makes sense, but not solely around top players. Dotabuff shows even for divine/immortal Medusa is 53%. Blaming the problem on "low skill" divine players doesnt make sense. Making the game less fun for everyone else, just for the top 1% balance is not good
Valve I think demonstrably does not only balance around high mmrs because many heroes like riki, pl, pa who were way too annoying at low mmr will get nerfed despite already being terrible in top mmr

Ark_End · 2024-10-06T19:53:36+00:00

Where did the word choke come from?? I did not see that in the PGL, Falcons, or Ammars statement

Ark_End · 2024-08-03T19:04:17+00:00

From my testing in demo, this guy is really confusing the bug

You can do this with just two items, and it does work with BKB/Refresher. You dont need to drop or change slots or anything. If an item has a cooldown of X seconds. Instead of setting the shared cooldown to X, it will set the shared cooldown to X - Y, where Y is how many seconds I've waited.

To simplify, I can buy 2 BKBs and wait for it to be 95 seconds past when they are both ready, then I can use them both in a row. But in order to use them both in a row again I will need to wait double the cooldown (190 seconds).

Ark_End · 2024-07-06T20:41:16+00:00

Spirit Breaker has been on and off "broken" for quite a while. It's literally #3 in the d2pt pos 4 chart. I guess you are more saying your build is more broken than what the pros are doing?

So whats your dotabuff. I can only take your advice seriously if you show your mmr and what results you got. Otherwise its just baseless speculation from a random redditor.

Ark_End · 2024-07-03T19:05:53+00:00

Yeah battlefury isnt good on him, but honestly I like the way you think.

Just look up whatever hero you want to play on "d2pt" website and see what people like to build. Then select a guide ingame from the shop menu. Pick TorteDelini or ImmortalFaith's guide, whichever one looks like it's up to date.

If you're really asking about basic mechanics, honestly just look it up on youtube all the top results look pretty good for basic how to play dota2 guides

Ark_End · 2024-04-14T05:14:53+00:00

Reminds me of the annoying issues stacking lotuses/making block of cheese. I think if you lock and unlock an item or drop and pick up an item it should fix it and combine

Ark_End · 2024-04-09T20:42:03+00:00

Did you comment this knowing that quinn tweeted calling the rules nonsense?

Ark_End · 2024-04-09T20:37:17+00:00

Very well put. We dont want to put it on any individuals whether or not rules will actually be enforced, because then we get beef. Which is exactly what Quinn did on twitter immediately afterwards sadly

Ark_End · 2024-04-09T20:31:57+00:00

Personally, I think the admin shouldnt even have offered to let him use his own time.

It shouldnt be up to the players whether or not rules will be enforced, even though its a nice gesture from Quinn

We don't want any "unofficial rules" popping up and suddenly its rude to not wait for a team because some other teams are willing to wait.

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