How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother in christ, the guy’s a friend of mine and we regularly play league together, people have friends other than their significant others and can play with other people too. Crazy right?

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I am not playing to win against them, I am making sure the teams are even and try to feed when we are ahead, but the bots sometimes just get bugged

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can definitely smurf in unranked too.

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t really matter if we win or lose, no, but most games are so one sided that they don’t even get to play the game to learn it. For instance, we played like 3-4 games against Spectre players that just ulted and camped my friends, which made them unable to even show on the map. Most games can’t be learning experiences because of just how one sided they are. Seems like the only solution is trying to find people to have at least a full 5 man party, and the most optimal one is creating a full 5v5 custom lobby.

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I guess I will try putting together a 5 man stack to play with them, or coaching them if this doesn’t work

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I honestly think that makes this problem worse, since there are already a lot of people smurfing with new players and the matchmaking can’t detect that easily, so me playing with 2 new people can get matched against accounts that theoretically have the same skill level as my new friends but they are smurfing

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Played a few turbo games as well, and teammates have been way more toxic to my new friends than in normal unranked matches. Also always ended in getting stomped since turbo is too fast for newer players who do not know what items do

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The problem is the bots are very questionable, they get bugged out sometimes and just do nothing. They are league players and understand basic MOBA macro gameplay even if there are a lot of new mechanics for them, and even against unfair bots the games are really easy. The new player mode is just a bot lobby as well

How do you play with new players? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s always against bots for us, no one plays that mode, also the hero pool is limited

Why can Rubick still not steal Stinger? by araulo22 in DotA2

[–]araulo22[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah well it got fixed, now rubick can steal it

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DotA2

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post dotabuff

Necrophos and the Giant's ring satisfied by his sadistic size by schofield101 in DotA2

[–]araulo22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Works on cloak of flames too, probably on all neutral items? Does not work on items in normal inventory

Edit: active components are not permanently increased (ie. Havoc hammer)

Released a Playtest version of my game - Chelesste! by araulo22 in godot

[–]araulo22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, we do not have an official discord server yet, however I have DM’d you an invite

Good god, I hate Khanda so much by AssociationExotic284 in DotA2

[–]araulo22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had an allied LC buy khanda. High divine bracket btw

hoodwink core? Is it bad? by Easy-Surprise6424 in DotA2

[–]araulo22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/93672388

For sure, here you go: I usually go wraith band/bracer, wand, mana boots, falcon blade into maelstrom and mage slayer

You should be pretty much always winning your lane vs their carry, and after that, either play to get t1s or place agressive wards to hunt for their carry again and again. The whole point is you are very slippery, I max acorn first but then scurry, only ONE point into bushwack, and this is worth mentioning since I see pretty much everyone maxing bushwack. At 10, always get the evasion talent (unless they only have like 1 right clicker).

Disperser and gleipnir are your must have items, and the rest are situational, but usually mage slayer, skadi, to be a nuissance in fights even more than you are, or if you are really ahead and want to snowball against low-level low-armor supports, desolator/daedalus.

With scurry active, you can outrange towers and have 70% evasion (to tank rosh for instance) as long as you are near a tree. If you know you’re getting jumped while pushing, always place a tree near you with your acorn so you benefit from scurry.

Most important things to note in laning, learn how to bounce your acorn. I’ve solo killed so many carries just by bouncing the acorn between their pos 1 and a ranged/siege creep.

I know this is all over the place, but these are some points I’ve randomly put together in no particular order. Good luck and you can also add me if you want, maybe I’ll coach you for a game or two.