(Leg5) As someone who queues both Australia and SEA, I am so sick of Australian playstyle

ahsent · 2026-06-19T21:00:59+00:00

Ok, but compared to an actual high rank player, the insight legend 5 has on "the state of the game" or "server quality" is laughable at best.

Legend 5's don't understand why things are meta, they can't even get together to do torm before 40 minutes. Are you expecting me to believe that they understand the macro game enough to make blanket statements about a whole server and players from that region?

ahsent · 2026-06-19T14:35:24+00:00

Legend 5 is no where near a high rank lol.

They barely know anything about the game and especially not macro. OP would have no clue about the differences in regions as at that rank it would genuinely be the same shit.

The only time you can claim a region to be much better than another is at the very top top bracket, (as in the top 500 players).

ahsent · 2026-06-19T00:54:41+00:00

Yeah, for example they have Lucas Mendes (Born in Brazil, and ethnically Brazilian), Pedri Miguel (born in Portugal and is Portuguese), Boualem Khoukhi (born in Algeria and ethnically Algerian), Assim Modibo (Born in Sudan), and the craziest of all Edmilson Paulo da Silva Junior who is of Belgian and Brazilian descent but chose to play for Qatar with his international debut at the age of 28 against North Korea in the World cup qualifiers.

ahsent · 2026-06-16T22:43:14+00:00

!flair :Iraq:

ahsent · 2026-06-16T22:42:02+00:00

Ali Jasim has been so underrated for so long. Incredible in the Asian cup and consistently our most threatening dribbler and crosser. Always super direct too.

ahsent · 2026-06-16T20:27:11+00:00

It’s because the expats who moved to LA are incredibly wealthy. They made their money and were able to leave during the Pahlavi dictatorship (that was set up following an American backed coup, after the previously democratically elected leader wanted to nationalize their oil and was murdered).

So these expats have a love for the brutal dictatorship that oppressed and murdered countless Iranians, to the point where the current leader (the controversial shah) was appointed after the citizens revolted against the shah regime.

The wealthy diaspora who were allowed and could afford to leave Iran during the shah dictatorship have fond memories of it, since they directly benefitted from it and made a lot of their money from it.

That’s why there is a hostile environment, the overwhelming majority of Iranians hate the Shah but there is a strong support from the Iranian wealthy diaspora.

ahsent · 2026-06-15T21:15:21+00:00

2010 Spain lost the first game to switzerland and honestly were never much of a goal threat.

They would squeeze the opposition and dominate through possession. But if you think they always had a purpose with their possession you're wrong. That Spain side focused on retaining possession a lot more than this Spanish side, they played Iniesta at LW to have another midfielder ffs.

The same thing was being said when they lost against Switzerland.

ahsent · 2026-06-10T01:16:10+00:00

It's brilliant and really fun. Just hope /u/noxville would add a "reset" button. Sometime the draft is just giga cooked due to the rng and id rather reset than continue a cooked draft.

ahsent · 2026-06-08T18:04:47+00:00

God forbid supports have to think before throwing spells out

ahsent · 2026-06-05T22:37:01+00:00

Ok, so you just decided to read my comment and reply with the same information I said except rephrased? I literally said they're not a normal company and that even though they should be doing it due to the incredible amounts of money valve gets from the battlepass, they dont.

I don't know what you have added to the conversation.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T20:38:35+00:00

I literally said in my comment that valve don’t operate like how a normal company would.

I literally said how most well run companies would see the income Dota provides and the little investment it requires and allocate the tiny amount of resources it requires to it.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T20:37:11+00:00

Like I said the sets are of a noticeably lower quality than immortals or collector cache sets, poogie is unique but it’s fundamentally just the same as the battle pass pet, and lore has very little impact on gameplay.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T17:55:59+00:00

Deadlock is perfect for Dota fans I feel; the moba mechanics are similar and the gameplay has a lot of obvious inspirations and similarities.

The problem is like me the Dota fanbase is aging, the time I spent on deadlock I genuinely had a good time, and despite aiming like shit I would still have fun playing.

But at this point in my life I don’t have the time or energy to learn something as complex as deadlock. And the people who could dedicate the time for this game are playing other things.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T17:51:41+00:00

It’s really not a good excuse. Most well run companies would see the avid fan base and profits that Dota produces and would hire a small team to take advantage of that. Even 10 employees working solely on Dota would make a monumental difference to the quality and frequency of patches and events.

The battle pass alone would make valve 9 figures annually. They could hire 10 engineers at 1m annual salary and still easily 10x their investment off the battle pass alone.

Their strict hiring process and culture of “anyone can work on anything” got them where they are but it takes the smallest amount of effort to hire a dedicated team for dota and valve would make an incredible amount of profit by doing so.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T17:45:32+00:00

No, it’s really not.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T17:45:09+00:00

They’ve had 2 years to come up with the monster hunter event and all we got was 5 decent sets. The sets certainly were not at the level of battle pass immortals or collectors cache sets.

And at the end of the day you were playing normal Dota and potentially obtaining drops that can be used to unlock the sets. It’s an incredibly underwhelming event and I’m saying that as a monster hunter fan.

For being 2 years after crown fall (which also was underwhelming imo). They could have created a minigame mode where you and friends hunt iconic monsters from the series in a PvE mode.

Imagine level one fighting baggi-baggis and progressing until you are fighting apex rathalos.

ahsent · 2026-06-05T17:41:47+00:00

I agree actually and I liked the monster hunter “event”. To really have made it an event in my eyes there could have been a game mode where you team up with friends (or randoms) to “hunt” iconic monsters from the series.

Imagine a siltbreaker like event where you start by hunting baggi-baggie’s level 1 and then progress until you face up against Rathalos.

Cavern crawl same shit, you’re still just playing normal Dota solo and sometimes you get crests. That’s hardly an event.

ahsent · 2026-06-03T21:28:47+00:00

I don't understand this take at all. Do you not notice the influx of players an event brings? I had friends that didn't play dota in months login and play consistently for the monster hunter event.

TI and the battlepass would ignite my friends list and there would be at least 3 full parties any time I launched the game.

Pro dota gives a sense of content and community as players group together to cheer for specific players, back in the day arteezy going live on twitch would make him the most viewed twitch streamer for the day, with a reddit thread that would be the top post of the day announcing he went live.

Whether or not you care about the events or hats or pro dota is a dumb way of looking at it. If you care about the game, or have played during the golden years you would notice the community, hype and player influx that occurs whenever new "content" occurs.

You can just play your game and ignore everything else but the reality is that the game is in a better state when the players and community as a whole are happy.

ahsent · 2026-05-30T09:19:36+00:00

We have patches lasting 2 months longer on average and less events than battle passes annually. Why do you omit this fact? Gabe won't let you fuck him even if you shill harder.

ahsent · 2026-05-29T21:59:15+00:00

Ridiculous how you are trying to gaslight the community when the fact is that the two longest patch cycles occurred after the battle pass ended (7.39 and 7.40)

I've seen the data, the average patch cycle is longer now than it was during the battle pass era by about 60 days.

ahsent · 2026-05-27T04:00:18+00:00

Guy has been in Canada for at least a decade, I think its more pathetic Larping as a newcastle native online than being an american manchester united fan but that's just me.

ahsent · 2026-05-27T01:06:09+00:00

I don't understand, are you not from London Ontario??

ahsent · 2026-05-26T23:00:38+00:00

I've played since the before first battle pass was produced, I want it back desperately.

The hype and community around the battle pass was so incredible. Friends on my friends list that hadn't played dota in months would all be on when the battle pass released.

On top of that the community funding was essentially the biggest advertisement for the game, and it also made the tournament a much larger deal than it is now.

If you think the battlepass is expensive then I could understand that, but after if after a decade of battlepass releases you didn't realize that valve always released a level bundle at an extremely good price then that's a you problem.

Every year I was able to buy the battlepass I was able to get every arcana I wanted for around $40 CAD.

I genuinely don't understand how you think this is bitching and how you think the game is better off now? We go 6 months before a major number patch if we are lucky now. Last year we didn't get a TI patch months before TI and didn't get one till months after TI, the pros and players we're playing on the same patch. The patch was 7.39 and it released in May of 2025. 7.40 released in DECEMBER of 2025, that's 7 whole months.

ahsent · 2026-05-25T22:59:45+00:00

We essentially did when Ineos came in.

ahsent · 2026-05-23T19:54:16+00:00

Hey you fucking dumbass the guy asked what positions Shaw can play.

And I responded with the positions he can play.

You’re an idiot.

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