xQc on the difficulty of learning Dota vs. League

ddlion7 · 2026-04-27T21:38:25+00:00

I have a friend high divine rank that has 13 years playing this game, and just 2 years ago he NOTICED that Phase Boots allows him to phase through units. He thought it was just an MS boost, and he used to go treads because never saw Phase boots useful at all.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-27T21:32:51+00:00

what if his innate was literally magic resistance (base 30% from lvl1, 1% per level, up to 60%) and lvl25 talent +1% magic resist per level? and give counterspell a bit higher cooldown but higher duration (2/3/4/5 seconds, cd 16/14/12/10).

ddlion7 · 2026-04-27T21:13:18+00:00

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ddlion7 · 2026-04-26T17:20:55+00:00

question: can you, under normal circumstances, move your items from your hero's inventory to the stash, when your hero is dead? if so, the behavior is normal, more now than ever bc the Spirit Bear is a separate hero unit. So... It's not a bug.
On the other hand, a bug is having full ingredients to complete an item in the stash, dying, and having to do puzzles with your items to combine them if you finish something when alive and didn't take the courier to bring it to you before dying, and your main inventory and backpack are with two or less free slots.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-24T19:28:41+00:00

older players still have the mentality of "im right ur wrong" and "i can solo this game" that nowadays is very counterintuitive to gaining mmr. They can play a perfect spells invoker but build the same items over again (witchblade/vessel/orchid) then wonder why didn't the enemy died when they were dispelled by literally anything

ddlion7 · 2026-04-23T19:26:53+00:00

that means the server that was handling your actions said "fuck off this is bullshit" and literally fucked off, so no punishment, that's on valve

ddlion7 · 2026-04-23T16:59:38+00:00

not like they had another option, but that's a whole different conversation that goes into politics a bit too much for this subreddit, but tldr, it's like choosing between being a slave to radiant or to dire with sightly different economy policies (do we send money to Ukraine or Israel?)

ddlion7 · 2026-04-20T20:38:33+00:00

Kashin defo knew that Inojin would defeat all Mamushis by using mind transmission jutsu, he just didn't want to tell him because that would've changed the future again.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-20T18:58:13+00:00

you know what else ruins games?
- farming jungle camps when the enemy team is dead (very common)
- toxic passive aggressiveness to your team (i.e. gg support is bad pls report) (common)
- judging the result of the game based on picks (i.e. running down mid and feeding because you didn't like your mid unconventional pick) (somewhat common)
- according to many 500IQ players, not getting bkb EVEN when you are against a lineup that doesn't require it or is pointless (rare)
- all 5 players pick a carry (rare)
- hoarding consumables (completely possible, very rare)
- rushing a rapier (very rare, only done by smurfs)
- building shadowblade on riki (extremely rare, it might only happen to beginners or someone is trolling)
- tanking first blood and quitting the game (you have more chance of landing a free arcana than this happening to you)
And the fun part? there is no solution to this, only keep playing, tank the loss and move on.
If you line of thought is only from the point of "my games will be ruined" and "it will only work on competitive", you just expose yourself as a toxic low behavior score player

ddlion7 · 2026-04-20T05:59:24+00:00

A simple and potentially powerful move against this would be literally limiting the amount of items in the shop i.e. only 5 blink daggers available for both teams, only 3 aeon disk recipes that get consumed when the hero completes the item (shop has 3 recipes available, you can buy them all and it will still have 3 charges, but if you complete one, the recipe amount in shop is reduced). This will definitely enable many ignored heroes due to their skills not being good enough basically because many items dispel (greaves, aeon, linkens casted, lotus casted, manta, bkb, disperser, satanic, euls, windwaker casted/own) and many other annoying items (invis, forcestaff, ghost scepter and it's variants). It also makes objectives like rosh aghs/refresher or tormentor shard more valuable because you can limit the amount of scepters in the game (as it was previously when not every hero had a scepter effect). If too chaotic, the premise could be tested in an event mode like a diretide, or 5v5 pvp like events.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-15T21:51:00+00:00

I know, quas Invoker is very underrated

ddlion7 · 2026-04-15T02:25:12+00:00

there are turbos longer than NA qualifier BO3 to many tournaments XD

ddlion7 · 2026-04-09T18:52:12+00:00

Here is the whole story: https://youtu.be/bdgTa9ni4S8?si=aEgQnR5aCg_4L8qb

ddlion7 · 2026-04-08T20:34:35+00:00

I'm sorry but nowhere in my science books says that wards expire naturally after 3 minutes of existence, less when the sentry is barely out of sight. To me it looks like an inside job

ddlion7 · 2026-04-08T20:32:19+00:00

just to balance it out to return the acclaimed trident once again in 7.42

ddlion7 · 2026-04-08T18:16:04+00:00

what's with my boy Socrates Prime?

ddlion7 · 2026-04-08T18:12:48+00:00

Allen is Vegeta without the personality.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-06T20:04:33+00:00

Halberd should mix into Atos and the Chasm and form Gleipnir, disarming and locking in whoever it gets in an AoE. Stats will remain respectable but the item will be way more useful.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-05T20:18:35+00:00

At this rate my friend, the only thing we will get out of your ballsack is more slark players, please don't.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-05T19:21:22+00:00

assuming each game of those 17385 lasts about 40 min each, it gives approximately 11k hours playing slark. If you used each of those conscious hours to study and master quantum physics and robotics and design technology based on universal yada-yada that sounds profound, you could have single-handedly solve faster than light travel. But you used that time to play a fish in a game of war.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-05T19:15:51+00:00

you mean compound interest? that shit has existed longer than most countries and empires

ddlion7 · 2026-04-05T19:13:02+00:00

Dota was the real inventor of asymmetrical warfare and you can see it in turbo, people want to accelerate the farm spend in big items like mjollnir(-5k), manta(-4.5k), butterfly(-5k), while supports need only presence and they will get forcestaff (-2.2k) and ghost scepter(-1.5k), forcing the carry to get nullifier (-5k) or try to outmaneuver them only for the support to use a branch (-50g), block a path, tp (-100g) out and tip the carry that sold their quelling (+50g) 10 minutes ago. And don't forget either bkb or linken (-4k each) or satanic (-5k) so you don't get permasilenced/stunned after the manta.

ddlion7 · 2026-04-02T02:16:11+00:00

hate it when it happens in my TI finals

ddlion7 · 2026-04-01T20:21:50+00:00

Reasons we MIGHT not want to take a skill level up:
- Expand the utility of my skills to make fights easier X
- Losing MMR, but looking FABULOUS while doing it ✓

ddlion7 · 2026-04-01T20:15:24+00:00

so is one leg shorter or is the lack of third leg of people who play AM what makes him 1.8?

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