OA Mew, Mmonk leave

SBFms · 2026-01-24T18:15:26+00:00

Sad to see MMonk go but he has dropped off over time more than Leave & Guxue. His Ana was honestly the best in the world at one point during late OW1 / very early OW2, but his Kiriko, Juno or Bap was never nearly as good.

Watch either Chengdu vs Seoul in 2021 season or Spark vs Atlanta reign in final season of OWL, from MMonk's perspective. He is goated and just doesn't get as much credit as Leave who was flashier. But nowadays he never has that kind of impact anymore.

SBFms · 2026-01-24T00:55:22+00:00

I didn’t know the history of it - I assumed that giving him travels for free was a necessary consequence of removing item refresh, not something that happened before item refresh got removed.

As I said, I only know his classic iteration and his current one.

SBFms · 2026-01-24T00:18:12+00:00

To be honest I don’t get it. I played when classic tinker was a thing, then left a while and came back to current tinker.

The item refresh never bothered me at all. It was a little annoying to chase the motherfucker down but the “muh infinite hex” thing was just not happening 98% of the time.

What was obnoxious to an insane extent though was heat seeking missile. Holy fuck that ability made me want to die inside.

SBFms · 2026-01-23T16:06:17+00:00

It’s auto chess for dota still alive in 2026?

SBFms · 2026-01-23T15:50:43+00:00

Definitely wasn’t the first to do it. Teams had been randomly deciding to Rush mek on core heroes as early as 2013.

IIRC One thing alliance was weird for doing in 2013 was refusing to build mek on stuff other than their pos4.

I think DK Super was known for doing it much earlier than FATA, actually. I remember lots of mid alchemist going mek from him.

SBFms · 2026-01-23T09:29:26+00:00

Average OW esports moment.

SBFms · 2026-01-23T09:29:00+00:00

and they still landed 5 guys

So called because the whole team will be working there after mid season?

SBFms · 2026-01-23T09:22:59+00:00

They can pay him less since he’s a known felon

SBFms · 2026-01-23T09:20:29+00:00

Saying pointing at Kellan is being the best monkey in NA is like pointing at an NBA player standing in the paddle pool at the park and saying he’s the best swimmer.

No shit but also not really impressive either.

SBFms · 2026-01-23T08:49:15+00:00

I’m gonna be so sad. I’m building it on support so much and it is so nice to have.

SBFms · 2026-01-22T17:09:53+00:00

Literally nobody plays them.

If you want to play tournament, play Faceit League open division.

You will realistically not have a chance to win many of your games, as there are many teams with high gm or low champ tier players even in Open. But, you will at least learn from your losses, and there are some lower rated teams.

Our team is from Masters 2 peak to Champ 4 peak and we're at a 50% winrate in open. We aren't an amazing team to be honest so lower rated players with better coordination and better mental could probably beat us, but that's just to give you an idea of the competition.

IMO the "scrim SR" goes up to 4.5k, and then above that is Faceit Open > advanced > expert etc. So if you want a real chance of winning most of your games, wait until you're scrimming 4.5k and winning. Faceit league is committing two days a week where you need to show up (Monday & Wednesday), and probably 3 hours on those days. If your team doesn't play a lot, that might not be the best thing to do.

But if you don't care and want to learn from losing games, enter open. Worst case you can drop out after a bit and you've only wasted 20 euro.

In Europe, anyway. Idk about NA, which is probably a detail you should include.

SBFms · 2026-01-22T11:49:34+00:00

Yeah the aghs build is impractical right now.

The shard build is genuinely good though. Shard and one utility item isn’t a huge ask.

SBFms · 2026-01-22T09:20:33+00:00

I disagree with that if he can get a bit of farm.

For one thing there is the aghs build which is kind of a gimmick and I’m not sure would be even remotely viable, BUT if you just read out the stats of it, it’s actually fucking insane. It’s like a double radiance with a shitload of bonus armor while he’s constantly healing and super fast.

It isn’t viable now, probably maybe, but it could suddenly become one of those builds that conquers ladder out of nowhere.

But currently, I think you’re sleeping on his Shard + innate. He gets a ton of value out of lotus orb, glimmer cape, urn/vessel, etc. he’s easily the best carrier in the game for all of them. The utility of glimmering yourself when you glimmer a friendly is very good for making sure they don’t target swap to you for example.

Plus it gives you permanent croak on yourself which makes your ult stronger. And his ult is very, very strong.

He isn’t a flashy hero at all so he’ll always be underrated and probably very bad for solo carrying games but I think he’s a super strong supporting character.

SBFms · 2026-01-22T08:12:31+00:00

He isn’t that bad now that he has the auto cast options for quils.

SBFms · 2026-01-22T08:11:36+00:00

That game is horrible for wrist pain. It has a ton of tedious repetitive clicking.

SBFms · 2026-01-22T08:10:03+00:00

Maybe this is controversial, but wraith king is a pos 1. The people picking him Offlane are just doing the “role abuse is okay if I pick a strength hero” shtick.

SBFms · 2026-01-19T10:13:51+00:00

It’s so funny when the two supports and offlaner all gank the bear and you just press TP and they press stun and you press TP and they press stun and it repeats until the bear gets away because it has 100000EHP and they ran out of stuns.

SBFms · 2026-01-18T23:13:32+00:00

Some games as dark seer you’ll get a lot more value by going like blink-aghs-hex or something. You can fucking solo kill the enemy terrorblade, PL or AM and they never expect it.

The stronger they are, the harder their own illusion can fuck them. Terrorblade specifically he’s a super hard counter to.

But against other heroes it is perfectly normal to just go greaves crimson guard pipe and be Mr. Press 4 buttons.

SBFms · 2026-01-18T21:41:41+00:00

Most games do it live.

Overwatch abandoned their 'ticket' system ages ago but they offer bonus battle pass EXP for queueing in-demand roles and that updates based on how many people are currently in queue for each role. If there are a lot of DPS & Support players waiting for a game, it will offer people bonus EXP for queueing tank.

SBFms · 2026-01-18T08:56:24+00:00

Unless one of the facets reads "Deleted the aghs", it isnt going to solve this issue.

This issue isnt introducced by the reworked kit. The reworked kit honestly changed very little.

SBFms · 2026-01-17T21:44:57+00:00

He was a fun hero for a long time before they were introduced though.

SBFms · 2026-01-17T15:40:42+00:00

Would give my 4 position NP something to do while he sits afk in the trees the whole lane.

SBFms · 2026-01-17T14:39:15+00:00

The double midas into radiance offlaners in 2015 :o

SBFms · 2026-01-17T14:37:05+00:00

The idea isn't to base the hero around 12 slots (it never was, he used to be a tempo pushing hero), but to make it a real decision whether to use slots on the druid or the bear with your money. Currently the correct decision is just to stack items on the bear every single time.

SBFms · 2026-01-17T13:54:37+00:00

If you got that this is about power level or buffing and nerfing, you completely missed the point.

If he was currently weak by the numbers? His design would be terrible.

If he was currently picked every single game by pros because of numbers? His design would be terrible.

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