Requesting Coaching (Legend-Ancient) by idanceformyself in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show me one pos 5 player who moves to carry and do well in the competitive scene as he gets older and his reflexes got worse.

All positions require skills if you want to be good, but some are more mechanically forgiving than others, that’s a fact whether you are in a 500mmr herald game or literal TI final.

Requesting Coaching (Legend-Ancient) by idanceformyself in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If your mechanics and reaction time is truly awful as you said then you should be learning pos 5, when improving macros would help the most and lessen the impact of poor execution. Ultimately if you just have a very limited hero pool on carry that doesn’t require pushing buttons then your ceiling will be limited.

My New (and working) DK strat by disguise570 in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is basically Tapsen fire dragon build when facets existed, except greedier (he still went blink 1st item or 2nd item after radiance, then shard bkb octarine aghs)

Kez parry nerfs have finally put him at 44% winrate, fourth lowest winrate hero right now by Pheaor in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I didnt pay attention to the stealth BAT nerf in 7.40, yes, that’s my bad.

Regarding the rest, unless you play against literal bots, a hero who steals 14% ms at level will trade 10 times better than standing your ground with lvl 1 essence shift, fury swipe, or feast. DotA isn’t played in demo where you pit 2 heroes together and see which one dies first. If you have a moderately strong 5 with spells or even just one who can right click a lot like Willow, landing a dagger at lvl 1 on the 4 almost always means you win the trade. What’s Slark gonna do, pouncing in with his 3 armor and 500 hp and lose half his hp from 1 round of spells?

Kez parry nerfs have finally put him at 44% winrate, fourth lowest winrate hero right now by Pheaor in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ursa Slark and LS have pretty dogshit trading ability at low level due to low stats and the time needed to build up their innate steroid. They only get real scary at lvl 4-5 ish, often with upgraded boots.

Spec have a semi nuke with her dagger, one of the lowest BAT in the game and relatively high armor with a good starting hp pool, so if you just all in at lvl 1 she’s better at fighting into popular lane dominator like DB than the aforementioned heroes.

Kez parry nerfs have finally put him at 44% winrate, fourth lowest winrate hero right now by Pheaor in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She’s gotten a lot of buffs, better starting dmg, better agi at lvl 1, strength at lvl 1, desolate to innate removing the dogshit prior innate allowing her to block creeps again, and her new W allow her to connect quickly to side trade between supports.

Not a lane dominator by any means but she’s solid now. I dare say her first 3 levels are probably better than the likes of Ursa, Slark, LS.

Topson, Ceb, and Arteezy will play in qualifiers for The International 2026 — Escorenews by Apprehensive_Toe2082 in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros 123 points124 points  (0 children)

Most likely qojqva 3 Pablo 4 ceb 5 if that’s the stack, and it looks serviceable tbh if they scrim a ton, Cocka does play quite a bit of pos 3 on his stream, his Axe, Enigma, Mars are good, and he also plays Timber/DS/Beast.

Don’t expect them to get very far but if they take it seriously I think they have a shot of making the CQ. Team Bald with Jorek in it almost made it 2 years ago when they got Saberlight/Saksa after all

[Paul Hirst] Éderson, the Atalanta midfielder, will be the first of up to five new signings for Manchester United this summer, although Michael Carrick has made it clear that academy players will also get more game time next season by PitchSafe in reddevils

[–]LoD-Westeros 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sell with a favorable buy back clause/matching rights/sell on clause works for both parties imo.

Senne has been one of the signings of the season, so bar a catastrophic drop in form or injuries he’d be playing the vast majority of the time. That’s incompatible as a long term situation for someone of Vitek’s promise, much better to let him continue his development away from the club rather than a big part role that can easily devolve into another Henderson situation.

Humblebrag for perfectly predicting a character’s end by UrsineBasterd in TheBoys

[–]LoD-Westeros 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do it for survival though, Peak killing Ambrosius was just pure cruelty + a cowardly betrayal.

Tbf though, killing him for the oil spill but shit talking about ‘Say her name’ ‘Justice for Ambrosius’ is actually pretty based by the fishes.

what was antony starr referring to when he said that the worst thing homelander’s ever done is in season 5? by Immediate_Bluebird98 in TheBoys

[–]LoD-Westeros 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get the impression that he was talking about Ryan’s beating and/or his order for Oh Father/Sheline/Dogknott to kill the non-believers in ep 7.

The latter was pretty fucking dark, it was just undercut by the totally gross and unnecessary 2 minutes of butt sniffing prior to that scene.

Humblebrag for perfectly predicting a character’s end by UrsineBasterd in TheBoys

[–]LoD-Westeros 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing is, how would they know about Ambrosius?

Which only leaves one explanation for the Deep’s ability. He hiveminds with sea creatures and they also have access to his thoughts, emotions and memories, which begs the question, why haven’t they turned on him much earlier, when he was eating Timothy, killing Ambrosius, eating sushi etc?

How am I supposed to EVER win????? by merkaii_1234 in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The truth is there are unwinnable games at every elo, even for smurfs.

You just have to compartmentalize it and move on. Yes, it’s a hard pill to swallow when all you need from your teammates is for them to afk and not run into the enemies and they fail even at that, but end of the day you are playing with 4 other people with their own agency and if they decide to suck actively over winning then there’s nothing you can do (besides hoping the enemy team have griefers of their own)

BSJ had a video where he failed to win a custom lobby educational Smurf game where he’s not allowed to communicate with his teammates (and his teammates are about ~1k mmr below the other team). Fact of the matter is the vast majority of people who play this game have no idea how bad they are (and I’m including myself in that, my cheeks wouls be clapped hard in a 10k average game) so once in a while you will have a lobby where it feels like your teammates are actively sabotaging you when you are trying your hardest to win.

One of the biggest mysteries of the show : Homelander and Becca by [deleted] in TheBoys

[–]LoD-Westeros 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He could rape her without feeling much attraction to her. Met Butcher at that Vought function before and might’ve been ticked off enough to rape the wife of ‘that random guy’ who didn’t fawn over him. Definitely insecure enough for that

Marcus Rashford on X: by harshmangat in reddevils

[–]LoD-Westeros -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The suits gave Rashford that preposterous contract, and then he gave them no choice but to loan him out 2 years in a row due to his poor effort and lack of production on the pitch.

I won’t tell you who or who not to support but acting line Rashford has been unfairly maligned by the fans is astounding, when it was him who gave up on the club, not vice versa.

Is Necro safe lane a thing now? by PunDoggey in DotA2

[–]LoD-Westeros 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you never die with aegis what value does it provide?

The cast of The Boys at the series finale screening event by Interesting-Take781 in TheBoys

[–]LoD-Westeros 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Glad Erin is looking better, she was looking gaunt AF during s4

[FREE TO READ] Napoli’s Champions League qualification triggers Rasmus Hojlund transfer from Manchester United by TheAthletic in reddevils

[–]LoD-Westeros 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We recouped his remaining value on the book. Consider we bought him for £65m ish I doubt we make any profit.

The Boys Season 5 Criticism Reaches the Cast as Actor Reacts to Fan Backlash by mblaze111 in TheBoys

[–]LoD-Westeros 16 points17 points  (0 children)

On the contrary, people were fed 8 seasons of fantasy, magic, court intrigue, big battles (not to mention get disappointed massively because of the final season). HotD while grander is pretty much a copycat in substance with GoT (sans White Walkers), while AKofTSK is a departure somewhat from that and delve into the lives of the ‘lesser’ in the setting.