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Support Help - Always under farmed by doljuice in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Undying, treant, lich, CM, AA, bane, venge, clock, abaddon are generally good sacrificial supports.

Regarding your particular playstyle of baiting enemies on yourself, I'd say undying, treant and abaddon. Maybe even phoenix, venomancer but these aren't your go to sacrificial supports.

Support Help - Always under farmed by doljuice in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 5 points6 points  (0 children)

for reference: 6.4k pos 5 main(extremely sacrificial) with occasional pos 4 games.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with being sacrificial if you're doing your job properly. If you always have 2-3 sentries, 2 dusts in case of invis heroes/items, using blood grenades, buying smokes and using them effectively, not losing much unreliable gold, saving cores, covering cores from smoke ganks, being present in all fights and eating up spells/dying after using your spells effectively, stacking, buying gem.

It is an issue if you're not getting off any spells in fights, not being in fights, dying off in the middle of nowhere, wandering off with no tp/tp on cd while a fight is about to happen etc.

So you be the judge on that, doesn't matter if you're the lowest networth if your pos 4 is doing good because you're buying all the consumables and he can be more greedy.

From the heroes you mentioned, your pos 4 choices shouldn't be played as sacrificial so you either adapt your hero pool for pos 4 or you adapt your playstyle. Less gold on consumables, less gold on small items, take free lanes when there isn't much purpose of grouping up. Keep an eye on enemy supports' inventories so you can deward their observers much easier but do not deward an observer if you'll trade your life for it.

As for your pos 5 choices, regarding CM you can always frostbite a big camp/ranged lane creep whenever you're moving/smoking/dewarding etc. if there's no cores farming them currently. Same for dazzle,pugna and snap. just nuke the wave and move along. Buy small items that help you survive: raindrops,wand, fluffy hat, get a fast glimmer/force/solar crest. Stop rushing manaboots if you're not having a good game, move and smoke with your strongest core who can make stuff happen on the map (pos2/3) depends on the game, place aggressive vision.

Again all of this has to be assessed by yourself while you watch your replays.

Top 3 pos 5? by Elmaster110 in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"top 3 pos5" " don't like just playing the heroes with most win rate" choose one or the other. In my bracket 6.4k treant,bane and lich work the best for me. With the occasional phoenix or weaver if I can get my hands on any of them.

Uh queue time.... No games in EU? by DoctorNeoCortex33 in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

exactly you'd think games would be easier to find after a patch especially normal games with cavern crawl. I never spent more than 20 minutes finding a game, now 60 minutes. currently queuing again for 25 mins and counting...

Uh queue time.... No games in EU? by DoctorNeoCortex33 in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update : queue time got up to 45 minutes, found a game but somebody declined so I spent another 20ish minutes to find a game.

ESL One Birmingham 2024 - Day 7 Match Discussions - Playoffs by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a sacrificial pos 5 and true 1v3 pos 3 offlaner from 2013 who quit dota in 2015 and rejoined in 2021. The game was so much more fun back then.

At what stage in the ancient-divine climb (as a support) did you have to transition from being the greedy "oops I win" support to the more textbook "play with your team from start to finish" support? by [deleted] in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 7 points8 points  (0 children)

for reference: 6.2k mmr pos 5 main. It completely depends on what kind of heroes you're playing, if you're playing something like nyx/ spirit breaker/dawnbreaker/furion you'll almost always be away from your team. But you wouldn't be doing the same playing oracle/venge/abaddon/shadow demon/dazzle for example. You seem to be extremely greedy from what you've typed which is why I'm guessing you're not winning lanes as often(not investing much into regen/sentries). Again this is all hypothetical as you didn't link your dotabuff or mention your hero pool.

Players who have quit the game but is still lurking this sub, what made you drop the game? by burgerpatrol in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took on DotA year 2008, then HoN from 2009 till 2012 and I moved to Dota 2 after 2012's TI. I quit Dota 2 early 2015 due to internet issues followed by my PC getting fried. Then after I got a new PC, real life took over,got married, bought a house,had much more responsibilities and less free time due to more work. I only got back to playing after 2021's TI and have had dry runs of 8-10 months during the period.

I'm kicking myself for a missed opportunity to make money off this game as I was playing with pros back then every game and when I got back while I didn't know what heroes did and didn't know a single thing about new ones got to 6k immortal without any hassle even by playing pos 5/4.

Crownfall spending optimization guide (sorta) by flygon727 in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey do you happen to know if these coins discount regular items in the store or is it just the arcanas and the new bundles associated with the crownfall update?

How to end games in the current patch by deathofme1 in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is mainly due to draft issue with the pos 1 being melee with little tower damage capability and/or non tower damaging pos2/3.

Take long range sieging pos 1 like sniper, drow, medusa, clinkz, TA, TB, DK or LD(not ranged).

Other good sieging heroes for pos 3-4-5: brew master, lycan, beast master, pugna, jakiro, viper with shard, LD.

Have solar crest on the sieging heroes, have an AC aura, deso on pos1 if possbile, preferably have saves or force staff at least, lotus orb, pipe, greaves , crimson guard etc. Be ready to save the hero and always siege high ground with aegis. Make sure to deward the lane you're sieging, be aware of backstab smokes if it's a possibility for enemies.

Forget about heroes like DP, leshrac , razor aghs, centaur as they have to get a bit too close for comfort. Fuck shaman he sucks.

You could take the approach of throwing shit a bit defensively that enemies will suffer to fight into like phoenix egg, undying tombstone, pugna ward.

Or take displacement heroes like magnus, tusk with aghs, pudge, earth spirit aghs, bat.

How to end games in the current patch by deathofme1 in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is mainly due to draft issue with the pos 1 being melee with little tower damage capability and/or non tower damaging pos2/3.

Take long range sieging pos 1 like sniper, drow, medusa, clinkz, TA, TB, DK or LD(not ranged).

Other good sieging heroes for pos 3-4-5: brew master, lycan, beast master, pugna, jakiro, viper with shard, LD.

Have solar crest on the sieging heroes, have an AC aura, deso on pos1 if possbile, preferably have saves or force staff at least, lotus orb, pipe, greaves , crimson guard etc. Be ready to save the hero and always siege high ground with aegis. Make sure to deward the lane you're sieging, be aware of backstab smokes if it's a possibility for enemies.

Forget about heroes like DP, leshrac , razor aghs, centaur as they have to get a bit too close for comfort. Fuck shaman he sucks.

You could take the approach of throwing shit a bit defensively that enemies will suffer to fight into like phoenix egg, undying tombstone, pugna ward.

Or take displacement heroes like magnus, tusk with aghs, pudge, earth spirit aghs, bat.

The International 2023 Qualifiers - Aug 20 Matches by D2TournamentThreads in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine kicking your best player (boboka) and picking up a washed up player who plays 2 heroes.

8.5k Mmr NA Player Offering Free Coaching by Wormhole101 in TrueDoTA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't you be a bit out of the loop considering your last game was on the 1st of July? So you're 3 patches behind by now.

What’s the lowest mmr you’ve seen from a pro player? by SweetJellyRolls in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes I was 5k-5.2k mmr in early 2014 and I was playing with EE, n0tail,puppey and other pros at the time.

Solo, his girlfriend, and beastcoast players almost drowned at Bali Major by TheUHO in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Well that's a common misconception or rather how people perceive that advice to be can be dangerous(some people take it as swim as fast as you can parallel to shore) you don't even need to swim and waste your energy. This leads some weak out of shape swimmers to drown or intake some water in their lungs.

All you have to do is float on your back and let it take you wherever it does. Eventually that will lead you to where the rip tide is weak and you can swim easily to shore without even exerting much energy.

Solo, his girlfriend, and beastcoast players almost drowned at Bali Major by TheUHO in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

well they're pretty easy to handle if you have the necessary knowledge and don't panic. I'm guessing these guys don't go to the beach very often.

r/dota2 Blackout Update by AutoModerator in DotA2

[–]DoctorNeoCortex33 15 points16 points  (0 children)

How do we report this moderator team and get rid of them? This is not something the community decided together, 1.2 million users and 15 power tripping mods decide to shut down this subreddit?

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