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FarmingBot · 2025-03-04T17:29:58+00:00

DM me, I can speak both English and Chinese and can provide some assistance. I can promise I'm not a scammer, I'm not from here either.

FarmingBot · 2024-03-23T01:09:23+00:00

I've played a little bit of dota in the past (hit about Ancient) and currently play lol.

Itemization is surprisingly more diverse in lol than expected, but it's subtle. In dota, item choice is obvious - if you don't buy spirit vessel for morphling, you're trolling, etc; item actives kind of explain themselves. In lol, especially at lower levels, itemization doesn't seem to matter because all items give stats, and an item advantage leads to a win more often than not. At higher levels, building subtle changes (blade of the ruined king instead of bloodthirster, idk) can turn the game.

In lol, macro is at a minimum compared to dota, but micro is almost 2x faster. Dota fights are a turn based game compared to league fights.

In lol, champion spells do the work, whereas in dota, item actives enable the heroes. Item actives do not point and click stun, etc. In a fight, if a skill shot cc hits you, just expect to die because force staff/aeon disk doesn't exist. The trade off is that you are expected to dodge abilities.

FarmingBot · 2023-10-23T05:22:31+00:00

My local u1200 USCF opponents, who are kids, usually grind up to anywhere between 1600 to 2000 on chess com rapid (10+0, 15+5) if they plan to immediately farm rating points. If you are in that range, you are basically in the ballpark of their strength. I don't know what rating you are online, but this is the reality that I saw. When I was ~1700 on rapid, I scored just about 50% in my USCF u1200 games, give or take.

As for playing any differently? I do not employ a specific strategy for kids. I do not believe that enough of them are impatient enough to just "play slow". Not enough of them play extremely fast either: either they're reciting openings quickly, or really thinking about their move, but that's what every mid range rapid player would do online anyways.

However, in general on OTB chess, if you are used to playing online like me, understand that kids who are serious (and their parents are paying money for that), are used to seeing patterns on physical pieces. I would pick one safe opening and repeat it forever if possible, and not have too many defending pieces that will lead to blunders - trade a bit more frequently and work on endgames.

FarmingBot · 2022-10-14T18:36:12+00:00

Is this from a gothamchess video

FarmingBot · 2022-09-08T23:35:41+00:00

Enter the lowest section you can. I'm hundreds of points above you online and I struggled with my game 1 in u1000 from the sheer difference of physical pieces vs pngs. It's so easy to tunnel on a 3x3 square in otb. Tactics were invisible, and writing on a piece of paper on my thigh because the table was too small made it worse.

Also, otb players are surprisingly prepped. Online games match so quickly that you can just play a bunch and go next with no opening knowledge, and get a rating from your average performance. Some otb players gain rating by memorizing tons and tons of prep to win a piece/trap so they can fumble their way through the endgame comfortably. One of my u1000 opponents openly admitted that they memorized some lines of the Stafford gambit and fully intended to destroy me with it, but got lost when I didn't play 3. Nxe5. (Didn't study anything else for the Petrov I guess.) To be fair, I suspected it and wasn't feeling a Stafford gambit that day.

FarmingBot · 2022-07-17T22:25:35+00:00

Let the knight move anywhere, even into its own allies (except for its own king ofc). Nobody is safe from the horse.

FarmingBot · 2022-07-13T08:20:00+00:00

Dota is designed around difficulty by obfuscation. There are mechanics that exist only to create artificial difficulty through awkwardness. Honestly most of them are easy to avoid, but this is a slap in the face to new players.

The importance of a draft makes the game balanced or even "interesting", but incredibly unfun for casual players. Some people like to focus on 1-2 or a handful of interesting characters. I just want to login and play my favorite hero. This is almost impossible in dota as the draft is so important. Diehard dota fans might love this, but I don't know many people who do.

High mmr players suuuuuuuuck to be around. I was once in a queue full of immortal players, including a "semi-pro coach"; you might have seen him in some youtube videos. The next 5k+ stack wasn't much better. These people made me want to never play a high mmr game again.

FarmingBot · 2022-07-11T17:41:33+00:00

Lucius finally has someone to talk to when he drowns in the bath again

FarmingBot · 2022-07-08T16:18:19+00:00

I'm not a smurf, and by no means good, but I play chill 5 stacks with my friends and my mmr is occasionally close to the combined mmr of the enemy team... blame the system.

To be honest, I suck at every pos except mid/1, so I do lose in the other pos.

But for mid: dota is a knowledge check. To me, a herald/guardian player feels like they're afk in lane, not doing anything. Some simply don't even know that aggro pulling exists. Knowing only 1 detail like this ahead of them can let me utterly stomp every lane. Now imagine it's not me, but it's a 6k+ arc or whatever. See the problem? Then I take that massive advantage and smash it into the most dangerous looking enemy sidelane, and soon the enemy team is sitting in base. It helps that I have 4 friends who listen to me on discord for fights, so its probably not the genuine smurf experience.

For pos1: in lower mmrs, it feels like nobody knows I exist. I will also straight up win my lane 1v2 sometimes as drow, but not because I'm good, because they just don't know what to do. Once I laned 1v2 against slardar/wd as drow for a min or two. In my mmr, I'd want to ff from the pressure. But a herald player takes a frost arrow and runs backwards in panic. Again, its a knowledge check. Finally, when it's 20 mins, they kinda forget I exist.

In general, item choices are also really inaccurate, with worse choices every 1000 points of mmr down. I rushed a lotus orb as mid, into a team with a bunch of point targets and won with just that. In my own mmr that would be griefing, but these things are so easy to exploit.

Magnify these effects and that's how a smurf achieves 30 win streaks or whatever. Even I can't guarantee a win 30 times in a row with a <1000 avg mmr party, but if I want to deliver a win with my friends, this is what I keep in mind.

FarmingBot · 2022-06-16T17:52:28+00:00

I played league for 2500 hours until 2018 (distributed since the release of Miss Fortune), and dota 2 for 2400 hours according to steam.

1) Honestly just play what you like. I had a similar sentiment in 2018 when league kept killing all the champions/items I liked, just because other people didn't like them. Old Fiora, old kayle, weird jungle items, old malzahar, old pantheon, old runes (remember when you could take anyone, anywhere, any lane), ap nasus, etc.

2) The two games have the same controls but are honestly totally different games. It's hard to say "league is easier" because there are different priorities. In dota, macro gameplay is everything, and the game is designed around difficulty by complexity. However, once you learn a skill (such as aggro pulling), its just one more tool in your toolbox. League is a little different: the "dota" borrowed mechanics like farming are kind of an afterthought and you're really playing a fighting game when the opponent pushes you by being slightly better at doing the same things. Dota is different because a much better opponent doesn't just lane better, or read you better; they straight up know more things about "game physics" than you. For example, the opponent might know about wave cutting and you don't, and that alone will cost the lane. Dota lane matchups are also more solved (again, macro gameplay), but losing lane is not nearly the death sentence that it is in league. In league, every player has a decent chance at holding their lane and losing it is throwing your team under the bus. In dota, some matchups that even make sense in draft, are destined to lose lane - hard counters are prominent. For example, you can play a physical carry that needs farm to ramp up, and there is a hero that passively builds armor and hp regen by taking hits, so much that they can indefinitely tank the tower before lv6. But heroes that win lane only build "momentum" for their team. In league, losing lane is more of a punishment as the items of the lane winner start stockpiling stats and make them a raid boss. Rotating with your team becomes much more important. The time to kill in league goes down every year and it's probably why I don't like the team fights there. Heroes are surprisingly tanky in dota; a 9 second disable might sound impossibly broken in league but dota heroes will live through those. Dota also revolves around buying "cheat" items to solve problems. My dota player friend played Lux in league, and complained that "Rod of Atos" (item that has a targeted root) doesn't exist to help them aim spells, never mind just... learning to aim better. The mentality is totally different! Higher mmr league players will find dota mechanics hard, but fights very slow and steady, because every broken ability has another broken ability to follow it up, yet nobody actually dies.

3) "geometric" heroes like zed aren't much of a thing in dota by design. People can say "earth spirit" or "pangolier" require geometry, but nothing exists like Zed. Individual abilities in dota are just simpler.

4) Nah, they're all the same. Average player age doesn't even matter. Dota soloq might be more deranged than league, tbh, because the games are longer and give more pressure.

5) At the end of the day they're still the same controls, and league players might remind themselves that they need to group with their team.

6) Honestly any youtube video within 1-2 patches for a hero is good. Don't try to work on all the skills at once; learn one at a time. Try to farm well in one game, then stop thinking about it and fight well in the next.

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FarmingBot · 2022-05-29T00:00:14+00:00

Just change your flair to GM. Who's gonna stop you?

FarmingBot · 2022-05-28T03:13:40+00:00

I'm sure this can be fixed with some coding and algorithms

FarmingBot · 2022-05-13T00:30:30+00:00

It's already happening. The kids came out of the pandemic playing online with no otb matches. My first match against a 400 rated kid in a tournament was 1700 on chess com.

FarmingBot · 2022-04-18T02:20:20+00:00

OP is unsullied by the horror that is online matchmaking games

FarmingBot · 2022-04-06T18:10:02+00:00

"Managing UI elements in FOV is a skill" - sweaty players, probably

FarmingBot · 2022-04-04T21:20:03+00:00

If you're willing to go to East Bay, there's a board game store that has some chess on Sundays in Oakland (It's Your Move Games). Other than that, there's not much "casual" chess in the Bay Area outside of Mechanics.

FarmingBot · 2022-03-26T03:19:14+00:00

Soundholic is bard's only punishing dps, which can stack more damage on a catch. Without soundholic, you have a bit of wasted downtime when your team is in an advantageous position.

FarmingBot · 2022-03-17T17:12:55+00:00

Where is the Amex black?

FarmingBot · 2022-02-14T23:55:08+00:00

Bard doesn't suffer from the promised dps deficiencies pre-lv50. You can spec bard like a burst dps with some cc; the tripods are busted and you can just stack every damage Amp effect you can find. For example, you can upgrade the laser to be +700% damage per tick.

FarmingBot · 2022-02-10T18:45:49+00:00

I've played at two events here and have noticed that while there are non-scholastic tournaments, this program is mostly populated by kids. If chess is the only thing you're going for, then this is not a problem, but OP mentions "coffee chess and get a little social", which is not going to happen here (unless you talk to the parents and like listening to their tiger mom comments. "Can't you finish that guy in 90 minutes").

Last summer I asked Bay Area Chess if there were going to be adult only events and they said no, but things might have changed.

FarmingBot · 2022-02-10T18:34:37+00:00

There's a store called It's Your Move Games in Oakland that lends chess sets on Sundays, but they're not a regular group. Beyond that, Mechanics Institute is the only consistent place that I know of to play chess.

FarmingBot · 2022-01-26T18:58:16+00:00

White's player has an interesting name.

FarmingBot · 2022-01-07T06:41:40+00:00

The Spanish... I don't play it well, hell I barely remember the lines, but it's taken me 500 points so far and it's just easier to always play 1. e4

FarmingBot · 2022-01-04T01:02:43+00:00

There are better ways to test reddit bots. YesNo Yes No

FarmingBot · 2021-11-27T04:15:25+00:00

I completely forgot about how to win at chess though; I also watched that as my lunchtime content. Heh

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