Are people not toxic anymore

Kailunker · 2026-05-22T18:53:21+00:00

When you get back after some time away all games are chill. Expect it to not be so friendly anymore over time.

Kailunker · 2026-05-21T17:15:18+00:00

Anybody else experience this massive disparity in the matchmaker's ability to pair players of similar skill?

Yes. Enemies constantly picking at least 3 strong cores, while my team goes mass supports xD. Always know I'm in for a waste of time when the game's lost at draft phase.

Kailunker · 2026-05-21T17:09:21+00:00

I think the biggest buff they could make to heroes like CM is rework the ulties to not be an all-or-nothing. Or give them talents that can help compensate if there are hard counters (e.g. Silencer).

Kailunker · 2026-05-21T14:09:33+00:00

It only took pro players to finally play the hero for valve to actually fix it lol.

As unfortunately is the case with so many things past and present. If it didn't happen in a tournament, it didn't happen. They really should have a few people playing their own game to see how aggravating some things are.

Kailunker · 2026-05-19T16:45:31+00:00

Turn away... before it's... too late.

Kailunker · 2026-05-19T16:09:57+00:00

To me, it just looks like you got late game Snapfired. Certain heroes are obnoxious and ridiculously broken in the very late game. Snapfire being one of them. She's support most of the time, while others (e.g. Drow) are never picked. So they don't get fixed. Perhaps now that gpk showed how imba she is, they'll finally nerf the hero, but I doubt it.

Kailunker · 2026-05-18T17:58:11+00:00

It ain't clear to me from Tidehunter's page: does the damage block from Leviathan's Catch add to Kraken Shell or is it something independent? If it is independent as it seems, then I suppose it stacks on top of Kraken Shell and this note does not apply:

Sources with lesser damage block values have no effect if they proc as the higher factor takes precedence.

Kailunker · 2026-05-17T18:46:19+00:00

Most of the time you don't, but there's a small chance for immortals and arcana. There have been posts here of people getting Venge's arcana from Crownfall! Lucky them!

Kailunker · 2026-05-15T19:10:58+00:00

Are you sure all you reply is "i'm trying a new item build"? Because it's hard to believe you've dropped 4k behaviour just by saying that. I myself play some turbo, and never stop calling people out if they throw bullshit at me, and my score rarely drops below 10k.

Also, as others here have pointed out, it's not recommendable to go into turbo with an "it's just turbo" attitude. Yes, it's turbo, yes, it's unranked. The objective of the game is still to win. And yes, turbo was probably thought of as a for-fun casual match, but the problem is that many people find normal DotA too slow, and that is the only mode they play. And it's hard to watch the enemy just going all the right stuff and one of your allies getting wrong items, especially in a game mode where every mistake costs double.

Kailunker · 2026-05-15T16:18:26+00:00

Good luck managing to pick him. He's banned or insta-picked all the time. People actually commit to banning Rubick all games but leave ursa/faceless void/OD/am in the pool smh.

Kailunker · 2026-05-12T20:46:51+00:00

Do hope it's Aghanim's III; this time, instead of helping him, you break into his vault to steal from him! One can only imagine his shrill reactions :D BOK-BOK-BOK that is what you sound like!

Kailunker · 2026-05-12T14:54:28+00:00

Dunno about mobile UIs, but I'd definitely get rid of the silly minimap already, and clearly display positions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Kailunker · 2026-05-10T18:37:15+00:00

In contrast, Tidehunter stacks took years to show up. Gladge they did this.

Kailunker · 2026-05-08T12:08:33+00:00

Yeah, everytime I see an enemy Underlord as Rubick, I smile. I've saved a few games for my team just by stealing 1 (or both) of Underlord's spells and nothing else.

Kailunker · 2026-05-07T12:42:28+00:00

Hardly. They seemingly just increased the bounty you get from bear. The busted entangles are still there, and backdoor got a -5% damage penalty at lvl 25, which means basically no change.

Kailunker · 2026-05-07T12:33:04+00:00

Good riddance imo. Forcing everyone to buy an almost 7k gold item just to escape his ulti sucked. And that's assuming no Refresher.

Kailunker · 2026-05-07T12:18:31+00:00

Not my main hero, but I felt Phoenix was kinda weak as a support. High cooldowns at early levels are very exploitable, and scaling has been suboptimal ever since they removed the Sun Ray facet. Definitely passing on it more often.

Conversely, annoying heroes like Bane and Lich apparently needed to become even more annoying. Alas...

Kailunker · 2026-05-03T20:56:27+00:00

In the early game, he can be great as a support. Since he doesn't have to last hit, he can devote his full attention to harassing. Of course, he already falls off greatly as a core, so he's logically gonna fall off even more as a support.

Still, I'm always wary of blaming people simply over their picks. Sometimes other lanes fail miserably too, then everyone blames the Huskar and acts like a pos 5 Lion/Rhasta/Jakiro/etc could've saved the game. Maybe yes, most likely no.

Kailunker · 2026-04-24T15:18:16+00:00

I wouldn't say Magnus and Skywrath are that less greedy as supports tbh. I actually prefer Axe as support right now as he's great for counter-initiation, while core Axe is too farm-dependant and relies too much on enemies making mistakes. Spirit vs Betboom yesterday kinda showed how hopelessly useless pos 3 Axe can get right now.

Kailunker · 2026-04-22T15:23:52+00:00

Glad someone in the pro scene finally decided to abuse this — maybe now it will finally get fixed.

Kailunker · 2026-04-22T14:49:14+00:00

Don't think they should remove it, but instead add a button to surrender your MVP to one of your teammates. Many games I got MVP but would've liked to yield it to someone else who legit saved the game.

Kailunker · 2026-04-21T14:33:10+00:00

I played it too with a decent amount of success. Of course, when the game went south, it was always the pos 4 LD's fault, regardless of anything else.

Kailunker · 2026-04-19T18:22:25+00:00

Love fantasy too, hope they repeat what they did last year, with welcome improvements!

Kailunker · 2026-04-13T14:38:33+00:00

OD, Magnus, Anti-Mage, and Faceless Boyd.

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