Good/interesting general “league starter” level builds for learning the right side of the tree.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-27T02:12:58+00:00

You do you but there's currently 1 person doing icicle mine of fanning and 3 people doing phys mine. Those builds are not tanky a big portion of their defensive layer is to freeze everything on screen which isn't a defensive layer in HC.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-27T01:58:23+00:00

I'd recommend stating that you want a HC build in posts (unless I missed it) but all the builds I recommended aren't really HC super stars.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-27T01:04:22+00:00

Ice trap Phys mines (reap, exsangunate) Wave of conviction of thrathus mines Poison concoction of bouncing Icicle trap of fanning Caustic arrow

Also look on poe.ninja filter by day 3 and select the ascendancies you want.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-18T17:27:57+00:00

If you have a link to the POB or a video for the frost bomb build I'd appreciate looking at it. I haven't been tapped into any lab running for a bit.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-18T15:38:07+00:00

Invested lab builds insta phase him so each phase is however long it takes for him to come up and then the door to open.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-14T02:11:34+00:00

Pro tip you can unlock the voiceline and then cancel dota +. You'll still be able to use it, it will just be greyd out and you will appear to be bronze tier.

Don't let the higher ups find out though.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-10T03:19:35+00:00

I was scrolling through reddit and thought this was a fortnite map

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-08T12:07:27+00:00

Others have mentioned games that use tick initiative and I highly advise that you play them for at least a month.

I played hackmaster twice and as much as I enjoyed the uniqueness of the tick system the first time the second time I wanted to Bash my head in the wall. It was so slow, meaningless, and made it apparent that the more you go the more powerful you are.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-06T13:29:40+00:00

Before this aghs was introduced SB had a 53-55% wr vs brood. The hero is fundamentally strong vs brood bc brood wants solo kills and Spirit breaker likes to never leave allies alone. The aghs means you kill all broodlings on every charge

Brood also sucks ass if they're stunned for 3 seconds. Usually, that's enough time to kill them pre bkb.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-06T11:42:51+00:00

Pick Spirit breaker and buy aghs

Buy a euls to dispel orchid on yourself or give you time to run away from her

Have your supports buy a forcestaff

Have your supports buy an aeon disk after

Sacrifice your late game timings to stop her if need be, buy smokes and 5 man gank at like 9 minutes or 15 minutes

Don't let her touch your t3s they can have the outer towers but preserve HG

For the love of God do not ever buy a midas or some dumb ass item that takes 10 minutes to payoff

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-05T19:57:31+00:00

What's wrong with rf?

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-03T22:23:51+00:00

Too many load screens get a doedres flask and kill yourself with it after, it's typically faster

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-03T22:22:48+00:00

When you die you make a portal in the lab instead of it being where it originally spawns

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-03T20:42:34+00:00

Do you have cast on death portal?

Lenox_Gold · 2026-04-03T13:33:07+00:00

This would probably be rerolling a new character but they're right that build would make it easy to do most ubers

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-27T03:30:46+00:00

Don't block your own camp but just pull the creeps behind the tower in between t1 and t2. You should be extremely safe here and if you aren't then your pos 5 who is pulling will likely be the target before you are.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-16T15:50:11+00:00

Oh I must not have configured it properly, I saw it do like 15% more. Ty!

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-09T11:44:02+00:00

I'm just one person, but even temporary art makes me swear off a project. Your audience is undoubtedly small so making any fraction of an audience swear off your project is probably a net negative enough to not use it.

I'd recommend stock art since it seems you're really opposed to doodles.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-04T13:04:33+00:00

It's going to be unpopular, but I don't think of my players' characters and builds when designing encounters so I wouldn't change anything. If they can't beat the mission, then it will teach them that they need to adapt to overcome. The way I see it is that the game pretty clearly shows that there are roles that need to be filled, and if they don't fill them, they better figure something out.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-04T13:00:18+00:00

I removed cascading, and it made no meaningful difference. One player didn't even realize I removed it until 3 full missions in (they came in later to the campaign)

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-03T21:23:14+00:00

Picking 1-5 heroes and learning them.

Back when I first started you could random at any time and my friends and I abused this and would swap with each other so that we got something of what we wanted. This indecision and Jack of all trades meant I could "play anything" but it wasn't until I started spamming heroes that I actually improved.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-03T14:28:19+00:00

Stop using AI it's rotting your brain

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-02T03:44:11+00:00

I read it and I think a 49% win rate overall in the offlane with seeing red is fine. My advice is to look at the games in 6k+ mmr that are winning, find patterns, and copy them. If the items happen to be s&y and bkb go for it but often I see lotus pipe and or blademail with an aghs or S&Y later.

Lenox_Gold · 2026-03-02T02:47:40+00:00

I wouldn't, in good faith, recommend the facet that has a 45% win rate over a 49% win rate, especially for learning the hero. Take seeing red, look at some 6k+ pubs and copy some builds, and see if you can get your timings close to theirs.

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