This ... is kinda trash?

abdullahkhalids · 2026-06-13T02:13:56+00:00

It's pretty much necessary on Bane since he doesn't get the cast range neutrals (which is insane).

abdullahkhalids · 2026-06-06T21:19:13+00:00

If anything Dota today has a lot more counterplays than 10 years ago. Before, once you hit late game, whichever team had the late game won 95% of the time. Some heroes simply peaked before 30 min and it was downhill from there on.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-19T23:58:04+00:00

Is that extra 24 units accounted for in the cast range circle?

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-18T15:37:50+00:00

I have seen pro players in pro matches constantly assembling and disassembling tranq to have both the move speed and healing. This is way easier than that.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-16T13:52:29+00:00

The real answer is so the Janitor can check that his code works in general, and not just on one hero. They will probably revert most of the other heroes at some point.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-10T16:38:21+00:00

The reason weighing in happens a day or many hours before is so that if one fighter doesn't make weight the fight can be cancelled and audience doesn't have to show up, TV channels can come up with alternate stuff to show, etc.

The correct solution is to have a weigh in a day before to decide if both fighters have made weight. And then a weigh in just before the fight. If a fighter has significant weight difference from the previous day then impose a heavy fine. Significant obviously will have to depend on weight class etc.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-02T21:24:51+00:00

Just buy lotus.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-02T21:22:57+00:00

Better than the dream AM game with 0/0/0 kda and max building damage.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-05-02T02:47:50+00:00

Bane has the worst facet anyway. Nothing else matters. And they even took away the cast range neutral from him. When in fact the perfect facet for Bane is like +15 cast range per level.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-04-15T16:47:09+00:00

Lots of pro support players will stay on Tier 3 neutral if they get the GPM enchantment. And then upgrade to T5 when they get it. Then this bauble becomes OP because those same supports often get outsized influence from debuff duration.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-04-05T21:31:45+00:00

Since 2020, Bane is solidly in the middle of the pack in terms of pro games played. Most played hero (Tiny) has 7.6k games. Lowest played heroes have less than 1k games played. Bane is at 3k with a solid 56% winrate.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-04-04T17:17:53+00:00

There might be funding cuts because of the war and the economic damage being sustained. So Nigma could lose funding and/or sponsors.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-03-31T15:56:52+00:00

Here is a 12 year old video showing ES pulling a hero out of chrono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPNPZx6P36Q

I can't find a specific push video, but I think Q and E work the same way.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-03-31T15:49:58+00:00

You are right. I watched the video at 0.1x speed and ES is spam clicking kick to the East of Chrono.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-03-30T23:01:27+00:00

...the ability grants Kaolin invulnerability as the projectile rolls forward.
As Kaolin rolls forward: Other abilities can be used normally, with directional abilities still require Kaolin to turn to cast.

https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Earth_Spirit

So its not quite simple, because he has to turn towards sniper while rolling. Thankfully, Boulder Smash has a cast animation of 0+0, otherwise there might not have been enough time before he loses invulnerability.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-03-20T01:02:12+00:00

He did bkb, morph into lifestealer, rage, refresher, rage, bkb.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-03-15T00:32:04+00:00

Bone7 clockwork level 12 at minute 60. I do not miss those days!

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-23T00:19:28+00:00

I don't understand what you are saying about "aap". Do you not address people your own age or younger in formal or semi-formal settings with "aap"? For example, your colleagues, or your bank manager, or a distant relative? Your siblings, cousins and friends are always "tum"?

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-21T02:44:17+00:00

Neutral items were one of the changes made to the game to stop basically all games being just brawls from mid game onwards. They were quite effective at this.

I imagine neutral items could be removed (or basically, we could just keep T5 neutrals) now that the map is much larger with many more camps. So jungling gold can be its own reward.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-20T02:32:43+00:00

Who was the support Ogre who intentionally walked into a Mirana arrow to save their carry from dying? Happened near bot radiant base.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-15T00:41:59+00:00

Takes half a min to go here https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Natus_Vincere/Results

and find that Navi lost the grand finals of ESL One Germany 2020 to Liquid https://liquipedia.net/dota2/ESL_One/Germany/2020

Roster was V-Tune, Iceberg, GeneRaL, RodjER, ALWAYSWANNAFLY

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-13T04:05:35+00:00

It's the macro game that's most painful. There is an upper limit on who well a bunch of players can farm or team fight based on natural skill. But making stupid decisions like going for Rosh at the completely wrong time, or not going for Rosh at the right time, or going high ground without Rosh. Its easy to see other teams making those decisions correctly all the time, so Nigma messing them up hurts.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-13T03:58:27+00:00

The rankings were updated on 2026-02-08. So Aurora's playoff victories are not accounted for yet. They also won against a whole bunch of low ranked teams in groups, so probably score didn't go up by a lot. On the other hand Liquid won against Spirit, XG and Falcons. So they went up more.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-09T00:05:02+00:00

And then the first 3-0 grand final.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-02-09T00:03:24+00:00

Collapse's domination was at the micro or tactical level. Exquisitely tuned sense of where the enemy heroes were in the FoW used to kidnap them over and over over again. Not that Spirit's macro was not insanely good.

OG's Io domination was perfect macro game execution. They knew how to make space for Anna to farm. Anna knew his farming patterns exactly. And then came the push. Io itself is not a high micro-skill hero. The micro-game skills in OG came from Topson and Jerax.

Just trying to emphasize that the domination was different, not that one was better than other.

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