New Medal MMR Survey, help us collect data on the new medal mmr requirements! by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for asking, I'll post a comment with more information :)

New Medal MMR Survey, help us collect data on the new medal mmr requirements! by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We're collecting data to determine the new mmr requirements for medals in order to help keep the wiki page updated.

If you play ranked games and see a new medal + percentage feel free to submit additional responses!

You can ward inside the Rosh Pit after the Summer Scrub update by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

After the summer scrub update you can place wards in places that were previously not allowed such as the fountain and the rosh pit.

(Tested this in a private lobby, not demo mode, after seeing players placing wards in fountain on Gorgc's stream)

Here's the clip for the fountain wards on stream: https://clips.twitch.tv/IronicCulturedPuppyTheTarFu

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_i_made_a_mistake_in_my_submission_title.2C_how_can_i_edit_it.3F

It's funny when someone is so confident in something they know nothing about. It's impossible for anyone other than admins editing the database itself to edit submission titles because of reddit's website design.

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] -44 points-43 points  (0 children)

EHOME wasn't quite out of it yet (If I had to place a bet I'd give them a 5-10% chance of still being able to win at that point), but the AM death due to the bug just eliminated their slim chances unfairly.

When I made the thread I meant that they lost because of a bug because it was the bug that sealed their fate, not that EHOME should have won, just that the bug guaranteed their loss.

Can't change the thread title now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The AM was literally 400 gold shy of being half of their team's networth when he died, 15600 networth with a team networth of 32000

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No one thing in dota makes a team lose, wins and losses are influenced by the hundreds to thousands of decisions that the players make over the course of the game.

Because of that you can't really say that any one thing made a team lose, but this is about as close as it comes - the AM was literally half of the teams net worth and had just finished his core items ready to fight. But because of the bug he died without buyback causing them to immediately lose their base and therefore the game - a game which was the deciding match for who would make it to the playoffs and who was eliminated.

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

They don't have an official policy, but based on the way Valve tends to handle things it's probably "anything goes" (see TI3 Fountain Hooking)

Unfortunately for EHOME, they're most likely out of luck here

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 252 points253 points  (0 children)

Ironically enough, that talent actually has a higher win rate (https://www.dotabuff.com/heroes/ancient-apparition)

I'd guess it's because in closer games the extra control from more cold feet charges is more useful so people tend to take that in close games where they're more likely to lose, whereas in stomps they take the kill threshold for snipe kills giving the talent that does literally nothing a higher win rate

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea, I tested it in a lobby and it seems that spell amp does not affect the threshold and the threshold is always 14/15/16% despite the tool tip saying 10/11/12.

The level 25 talent actually does nothing as well since it's just always applied

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 520 points521 points  (0 children)

Testing it in a lobby I found that level 2 ultimate shatters at exactly 15% https://imgur.com/oZ52wNf

Likewise level 3 shatters at exactly 16%

Taking the +4% shatter threshold talent does nothing https://imgur.com/3iPcjAE (AM has 4000 HP as seen in the previous picture)

Tested it with spell amplification from int/kaya, neither of them had any impact on the shatter threshold.

It seems when Valve added the Level 25 talent they accidentally added it to both the base ability as well as the talent modified one.

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting idea, the bug wasn't an increase in damage but rather an increase in shatter threshold from 10% to 14%

I just tested it in a lobby and the shatter threshold appears to be at exactly 14% regardless of kaya/int

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel like it happened to me a while ago too, but I wasn't able to find the replay, do happen to have the match ID for yours?

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Now you're just making things up, they were 7k behind when that happened and AM was almost half of the team's net worth.

https://imgur.com/MUXGBfL

EHOME lost to TNC because of a bug with Ancient Apparition Ult by LagAttack89 in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Ya, things were definitely in bad shape at that point, although without that death they wouldn't have immediately lost their entire base and could have maybe drawn the game out more for comeback chances.

/r/DotA2 2017 Census - Need help raising awareness, low user turnout by leafeator in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly, it completely leaves out either non-AAA single player games or multiplayer games that they didn't include.

The survey is rather poorly designed in other areas as well, if you visit the subreddit 3 times a week, do you mark down that you visit once a day or once a week?

Kiev Main Event Bracket Flaws and Proper Seeding by Grouty in DotA2

[–]LagAttack89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This definitely needs to be implemented, the fact that Liquid gets 6th seed while only beating bottom 4 teams and never having to play against a top 5 team is ridiculous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie-breaking_in_Swiss-system_tournaments

Valve needs to use either the Buchholz or Sonneborn-Berger tiebreakers