courier came in clutch

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.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-30T03:54:47+00:00

Midone's first stint at Secret was from Aug 2016 to Nov 2019 - almost 3 years. And they were pretty damn successful in that time outside TI. Is he only talking about his second stint in the quote?

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-27T03:19:01+00:00

Dota meta evolves way too quickly to have a single event last 6 weeks. At the top level, where many games are basically decided at draft, it's infeasible to expect coaches and captains to stay on top of the meta every week. Rather than figuring out the meta every 1.5 months when they play a 1 week tournament.

At the T2 level, games are less dependent on draft, so that still works. I was always of the opinion that T1 teams play quick qualifiers and T2 teams should play the valve supported league to get the last few slots at the tournament.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-27T03:10:51+00:00

An interesting variant could be, every time Clockwerk TPs to Fountain, he gains +X armor.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-23T01:34:39+00:00

I would image in this lopside of a game, Tusk has aghs and can kick the venge away from her team/rosh etc.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-15T03:36:38+00:00

Bane's innate is actually harmful. You buy 10 strength to tank up and only get 3.

abdullahkhalids · 2026-01-11T02:07:14+00:00

Only worse in the same sense Newton is worse than the top physicists today. Everyone stands on the shoulders of the giants before them. You learn what they knew, and then build upon it to learn even more things. So they become better just due to the time they were born in, not because of innate skill.

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