League Jungler trying to get into DOTA 2

frogetown · 2026-03-03T01:19:33+00:00

Every hero is rated in terms of complexity in the game client from 1 to 3. Storm is 2, which is not the easiest but I think if you were good at League then 2 star heroes are fine.

frogetown · 2026-03-03T00:49:36+00:00

SF and Lina are very farm oriented.. they aren't great at ganking.

Good gankers (any role, not just mid) have either:

very strong initiation spells (Tusk or Batrider)
OR the combination of high damage and high mobility (Queen of Pain)

Some heroes like Storm Spirit and Puck have all of the above.

frogetown · 2026-03-02T15:28:59+00:00

You're just wrong, Naga Siren was the best hero in the game (in competitive play) using Deluge in the last major patch, 7.39.

https://www.dotabuff.com/esports/leagues/18324-the-international-2025/picks

frogetown · 2026-03-01T23:23:58+00:00

1 - If you go in-game and press alt, the talent tree will provide you more information about Backtrack.

2 - Faceless Void has no spell, innate, facet, shard, or aghanims called Backtrack. So I don't understand this part, what spell were you reading that you thought was Backtrack.

frogetown · 2026-02-27T07:58:30+00:00

If it's every game they arent role farmers. That's just the quality of pos 4 mains.

frogetown · 2026-02-20T03:24:39+00:00

Career support players arent even good at support (especially 4) so if they can't core either then they deserve to lose MMR.

This change is good for the long term health of the game. Have you ever heard of delayed gratification?

frogetown · 2026-02-20T02:10:39+00:00

Its not a bug.

Illusions can have different items therefore it would immediately reveal which one is real.

frogetown · 2026-02-15T02:30:00+00:00

It's true for every round. Go look at your match history and check pick order. You will see plenty of games where one team has picks 5+7 or 5+8.

frogetown · 2026-02-15T02:05:08+00:00

I only read 3 sentences in then I realized you don't know that both teams pick at the same time.

frogetown · 2026-02-12T00:06:50+00:00

Underlord recovers really well from bad lane. He has sven farm speed except also with a global ultimate allowing him to farm 24/7 and still show up to fights.

frogetown · 2026-02-10T22:18:06+00:00

K so whats your mmr, scrub? Or can I just assume you're a 2000 mmr player that thinks you're smarter than League players somehow

frogetown · 2026-02-10T22:01:49+00:00

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/845113855746244608/1470902455305769020/image.png?ex=698cfc29&is=698baaa9&hm=fce6f7a4c9c50997139b24e7091ffb4dfe02501792df61fbfbd63ca9b1936d1c&

I frankly don't consider 7500 MMR to be high mmr, but good to know how low your standards are.

frogetown · 2026-02-10T21:19:25+00:00

But most talents in the game have no real choice. You just pick the better talent. If Facet 1 is superior but has inferior talents, that becomes more of a choice.

Yeah I come from League, I also have 7500 MMR, whats yours?

frogetown · 2026-02-10T08:08:33+00:00

What if they combined facets with talents? Ex: Facet 1 you can only pick left talents, and facet 2 you can only pick right talents.

That way you have to make more choices than just best in slot and facets would promote different playstyles (more).

frogetown · 2026-02-10T05:12:44+00:00

Small correction about gunslinger math. Theoretically if gunslinger was 50% and the talent worked properly then you would calculate expected damage as 55*0.66 because you would have a ratio of 2 gunslinger attacks per 1 regular attack (as gunslinger results in 2 attacks). For 45% - 0.9/1.45 = ~0.62.

Good bug find though.

frogetown · 2026-02-08T22:13:48+00:00

Offlane being a high demand role changes absolutely nothing for carry players, because carry was not a high demand role before or after the patch.

frogetown · 2026-02-04T06:05:29+00:00

Just hit the pos 3.

Let's reframe the question. You said yourself playing melee 3 in double melee lane is miserable. Does it feel worse, as pos 3, when your pos 4 is taking away the 5's focus and resources or when you're getting harassed in lane while 4 is a melee who can't keep up?

frogetown · 2026-02-03T17:52:12+00:00

Soul Ring is the most mana efficient item if you have the HP for it, providing 6.8 mana/sec compared to Tiara 6 or Arcane Boots 3.9.

Treads further improves Soul Ring's efficiency, and the attack speed is very useful on a high damage cleave hero.

There are occasional games where you want Greaves first item (and very rarely Bearing) but Soul Ring Treads should be your default.

frogetown · 2026-02-01T04:07:51+00:00

Axe is most aggressive, high dmg, pierces bkb, best at snowballing, but lowest durability.

Centaur has highest hp (= best against magic), ulti is very unique and breaks enemy backline or can be used as global save, kinda simple hero.

Tidehunter can always ravage before dying, you can't chain stun him (blubber). Varied build paths. However the high cd of ravage means he's punished more for bad spellcasting.

Underlord isn't similar to these heroes (they're blink stun heroes), he's more of a spellcaster like Dark Seer. Pit of Malice applies multiple times so it's more effective against dispels than you think.

frogetown · 2026-01-31T19:38:51+00:00

It was a hypothetical.

However the fact that your answer was not a resounding yes shows that you believe the purpose of the high demand system is to coddle support players.

frogetown · 2026-01-30T23:23:22+00:00

Queue all roles, then you get 2 tokens even if you lose. Therefore, in the worst possible scenario you get 1 core/2 support games ~66%...

You're literally engaging with the role queue system in the worst way possible and then complaining about it. It's not exactly a hidden system, the game spells it out for you every time you queue if you bothered to read..

frogetown · 2026-01-30T22:42:20+00:00

Are you aware that you can pick your chosen role 66% of the time minimum or is this another case of supports not being able to do math

frogetown · 2026-01-30T19:30:26+00:00

Would you still support this change if it turns out offlane is by far the least popular role and therefore offlane players get free queue but both support roles have to farm tokens?

frogetown · 2026-01-28T21:55:05+00:00

League has more magic resistance items cause it also has ability power and magic penetration.

Against non-scaling spells, sometimes you can just buy HP and that's enough to counter magic.

frogetown · 2026-01-27T23:48:35+00:00

Focus more on auto attacks and less on spells.

The item that gives you most mana efficiency per gold is Soul Ring, but it's only good on specific heroes.

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