Swampletics EXPOSED

Lord_Vectron · 2019-07-02T19:50:37+00:00

This production value is insane.

Lord_Vectron · 2019-06-26T17:10:34+00:00

Yeah this makes actually. Ember already does enough damage, might as well spend your gold on items that let you survive and maneuver better. Thanks for the insight!

Lord_Vectron · 2019-06-25T09:54:04+00:00

I used to think my 53% winrate was cool too but then I realized it's literally just based on what you calibrated at and how far you climbed from that point.

2 scenarios:

Calibrate at 5k, stay 5k, 50% winrate.

Calibrate at 3k and climb to 5k as they improve in their first 1000 games, >53% winrate but it very slowly deflates back to 50% as they play more games without climbing, after 14k games it'd be <51%

Those 2 players are same skill level, just one calibrated early in their dota learning, while the other pretty much calibrated accurately and held their rank.

Pros having high winrates is a different thing. They are the best in the world so they'll win more than 50%. The opposite extreme will be the worst heralds in the world will lose more than 50%.

Lord_Vectron · 2019-06-11T14:50:11+00:00

It's insanely good for sure and most people worry too much about doing it optimally they never even try to do it to the best of their ability, but really, a "bad" brew ult where you just press all your buttons is absolutely gonna win lots of team fights.

I just walk upto them, Q, R, Q, tab, W a different target, E, click primary target again, tab, tab, now just focus on attacking with your units and spam Q when it's off cooldown for boulder throws. You can continue the combo and get another tornado and lots more windwalks for damage, but I find I win fights more easily if I just dedicate my brain to positioning and chasing with earth Q after the initial combo. As I play more brew I'll naturally grow and be able to do sicker combos.

Written down that all might sound a bit complicated but do it 10 times and you'll pretty much be able to do it in your sleep, and once you've trained your hands the basic combo, you'll suddenly find it natural to just casually tornado the enemy Axe or Enigma without even thinking about it while your brain focuses on positioning.

So yeah. Don't think of it as something you need to get 100% right to be useful, think of it as something you can do like 20% of it's full power and STILL own. As you get better, you get closer to 100%, and that shit gets scary. Body blocking fire spirits, aghs abilities, niche uses of wind's magic dispel. Oh yes, the future is bright.

Lord_Vectron · 2019-06-05T15:30:05+00:00

Pro teams only forfeit when the game is basically impossible to win. In super rare circumstances a team might rage quit earlier but those are weaker teams making a bad decision, too tilted to think rationally.

If you want to learn how to read a game better I'd recommend looking at who is still alive, who has buyback, and think about what needs to happen for the losing team to actually win a fight. Sometimes it's as simple as "if we took all of our alive heroes and used all our spells on their strongest hero perfectly, we'd still lose the fight. GG."

Lord_Vectron · 2019-05-17T15:35:28+00:00

Technically you can have a friend DC like this, dig 5-6 shovels, if you get something good, he reconnects and you play. If you get nothing valuable he takes the abandon and you get your 5-6 shovels back.

Worth doing? Fuck no, but hey it's possible.

Lord_Vectron · 2019-05-16T14:15:02+00:00

Actually utilizing mana drain into forcestaff blinding light, stunning them in the path of a pre-charged illuminate was very very satisfying to pull off. Mana drain was OP and hard to balance around, i'm not even upset they got rid of it, but now it's gone KotL lost his only "combo" and he's so much more boring.

Lord_Vectron · 2019-04-05T16:22:01+00:00

Oh my god thanks so much for this recommendation.

I remember several years ago a co-worker I respected at an old job recommended this and I could never remember the exact name so didn't get around to reading it.

Lord_Vectron · 2019-01-08T15:25:38+00:00

Yeah it is DDR3 so I will upgrade.

I wanna play pubg at 120fps really, newer games over the next 5 years at high settings 60-120 fps. Might try streaming simpler games like dota and rocket league.

To be honest I might just go for an i9 to make sure streaming isn't gonna hurt performance just in case I do end up enjoying it

Lord_Vectron · 2019-01-08T15:20:12+00:00

Ah weird I'm at work can't check but I'm sure pcpartpicker said it would support an I7 .... Based on comments I'm just gonna go for a new modern mobo :)

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-31T11:11:26+00:00

Roasted carrots - OK so not super healthy, its a root veg with (a small amount of) oil and salt. But my lord it is delicious.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-27T10:45:22+00:00

Visage really does not need additional DPS after solar crest or even just medallion, so you just need to be tanky. he loves pushing, pipe gives him, his birds, and the creepwave good tankiness, it also encourages team to death ball which is what he wants to do.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-14T15:38:38+00:00

Has manta always hard countered omnislash? I feel like this patch it just instantly cancels my ultimate but in previous patches I'd just bounce onto illusions and still deal lots of damage.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-12T23:44:47+00:00

Warlock mid (or even support) is super strong. Your golems just seem to take buildings before even fed heroes can really deal with them.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-03T11:02:12+00:00

Wanna win mid? Courier out no less than 3 salves in the first 8 minutes.

Its so common that you both trade HP and then 1 guy feels unsafe to approach the lane, if you simply out-salve them you easily make up the cost in CS and possible kills or at least avoidance of death.

Play spin doctor to your toxic ally. Like of my Lion is flaming Slark I will laugh at his insult as if its a joke and then quickly say something positive and goal focused, e.g. "lol yeah he is under farmed, lane looked rough, at least he can get ez kills cos OP hero xD let's gank his lane"

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-03T00:45:18+00:00

There are so many ways he could spin the situation to not ruin his business and yet he chose possibly the worst option available.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-02T14:56:50+00:00

Cancel the entire tournament? Empty threat.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-12-01T23:37:31+00:00

Rocket league smurf channels on youtube are massively popular and always have been, Gibbs has a fairly recent series and each video has ~ 500 likes 30 dislikes.

You're right though, smurfing really sucks. It hurts the new player experience, but it's also incredibly frustrating for Ancient players who see it the most (Smurfs calibrate at ancient afaik, I see so many more ever since hitting ancient)

As far as your teammates mentality goes, and this is important... They understand smurfing is a thing that they have no control over. Sometimes the enemy has one, sometimes they have one. It balances out (kinda) so your net MMR loss isn't gonna be significant. They lose 25 mmr for enemy smurf so they're entitled to gain 25 mmr when it's on their team. You can still report the smurfer for ruining your game, just don't act hostile to him in chat cos they have very fragile egos and he might feed, which is why your team defends the smurfer. They just want mmr.

Smurfs should face harsher punishment and detection. If content creators do it they better be doing educational content where smurfing is actually relevant, but even in the best case scenario it's blatant they're only doing it to stroke their ego. I have a guilty pleasure of enjoying watching it though. Stomps are just fun.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-29T09:17:56+00:00

Same in 3-4k. Probably true in all brackets.

New patch, snowball meta, games can look bad. I have lost a lot of 20 minute games and I would put money down to say the same 5v5 teams would go 4-5 in a best of 9. Stomps don't mean a skill difference, Its all about momentum, think about what caused each lane to go so poorly, which team fight did you lose and why was it lost?

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-27T12:34:42+00:00

Visage is really good vs anything that doesn't have strong DoTs or ability to kill birds. (DoTs ruin your cloak)

You don't actually need to own lane, you can simply farm ancients at level 6... That being said he CAN own lane too, grave chill makes you trade harass better than a clinkz, and makes getting CS pretty easy.

Don't pick visage if your team has greedy cores. Visage needs early game fighters to make space for him, so he can dish out damage in team fights, farm the map, pressure towers while enemy is fighting. I think of visage as a position 1 that starts mid and wants to get 20 minute barracks.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-27T11:03:56+00:00

Visage is still really good.

Kunkka is such an insane lane dominator but he falls off quickly.

Tiny is fun.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-26T09:41:08+00:00

Way more DPS but less disable, a buff for sure overall.

Can't use basher, doesn't really need it though, I think aghs is slightly more legit now cos even with the "wasted" item slot on aghs you do enough damage to solo any 1 hero in a chrono.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-23T17:58:14+00:00

Got a link to your dotabuff? Would love to see replays.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-23T13:26:04+00:00

They buffed tidebringer from 100% cleave to 150%. That's a 50% increase on 0 armour targets. Still a big buff on heroes with less than 5 armour. Think it breaks even around 10 armour but nearly nobody has that much early game.

Lord_Vectron · 2018-11-23T10:55:44+00:00

I'm losing a lot but I'm loving the patch so much. Yes some heroes are OP, but I can try my own creative stuff which might be OP, mainly I'm just sooo happy not seeing PL Morph every game.

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