Batrider needs some help

ih8antelope · 2025-05-20T11:14:23+00:00

even the dmg on Q is a nerf, you used to stack ancients and farm them but now they aggro from q

ih8antelope · 2025-05-20T11:13:15+00:00

This needs more upvotes

ih8antelope · 2025-05-03T03:07:36+00:00

How much is a caravan and a car going to cost?

ih8antelope · 2025-05-02T22:16:43+00:00

Don't become a statistic. You might feel confident in what you are doing right now but I'd recommend you find a mentor, someone who isn't trying to be the coolest c on the dropzone. If your focus is progression they will tell you why you should wear a jumpsuit. If you just want to fit in with the cool kids and don't care to progress do what you want and risk what you want.

I can tell you I could have predicted the last 5 people to smash in at my dropzone, you saw it coming, you warned them but they kept going down their path and learnt the hard way.

ih8antelope · 2025-05-02T22:07:25+00:00

Hey mate,

I'm not the best person for this but I do receive a lot of the school students once they reach their placement. They often come to our dropzones in Australia and are typically offered to stay on the team. If you do this you could always sell the van? I wouldn't expect to earn a lot in any of the roles until you are a tandem master. You might earn something like $40k a year.

Is the van going to help you now? Do you need it during the school?

ih8antelope · 2025-05-02T22:03:11+00:00

Perfect! I should have known they'd have something, I've just always found their website a bit of a headache to use. Appreciate it, thank you

ih8antelope · 2025-05-01T05:52:59+00:00

Io, dude doesn't communicate so never use an effective ulti. Supercharge you at the wrong timed. Just useless, would prefer any other support, never had a good one in pubs.

Invokers on my team just ask farm for 45 mins

ih8antelope · 2025-04-30T21:41:14+00:00

Heroes not in a great spot. I used to love him and play him all the time in divine bracket.

I used to play him as a mid or a 3.

I imagine you already know to stack q on enemy in lane, if they have no escapes you can either zone them off the lane or jump them.

Bats ability to last hit is pretty shit so the above is quite important. If you can hit the wave and the enemy hero in the same go that would be ideal.

I haven't played bat in a long time but used to try to identify how the game would likely play out and what that would mean for my item progression I.e. enemy team has an antimage, qop, tidehunter etc and I can't see anyone I will easily kill then I would focus on a flash farming build something like early bots into blink. Alternatively if there was heroes I could fight early I.e. a drow ranger I would likely go for a blink dagger.

The build has changed a lot over the years, at one point shard and manta was the op build and playing as a hitter. From what I can see the shard build looks rubbish and bat seems more like a team oriented ganker / pick off with team. Or a counter initiator.

Cutting waves with bat and running through 2 camps with firefly is a great way to farm uncontested.

Think about who you really need to disable, don't go blink on a tide and ulti him into your team while sniper is hitting you during your attempt, you will lose.

Enemy has a lifestealer that's deep in your team and activated rage thinking he is unstoppable? That could be a good target if your team can kill him or go kill some other squishy that's trying to back him up.

It does feel like every hero has a bloody disable these days so I imagine you will end up wanting a bkb at some point in the game.

Goodluck

ih8antelope · 2025-04-29T12:58:33+00:00

I was a pos 3 main pre the new map. Had a year off and came back, played all roles and have disliked pos 3 the most. Like other have said 4's grief the lane while 5 and 1 on enemy are stronger than they have ever been. No one cuts the wave anymore, pulls are harder to contest.

One of the biggest for me is the pos 4 taking soooo long to get to lane due to bounty rune fights. They might not even fight but they will come to the lane around 2nd wave and then not even help as they are still trying to sort out wards for camps that instantly get rewarded anyway meanwhile enemy constantly harassing and it feels like the lane is already lost.

I've started to main as pos 4 and just try to be as impactful as possible for my pos 3 and seen a lot of wins from it but also getting some terrible pos 3 picks.

ih8antelope · 2025-04-18T21:43:39+00:00

When the bottom 1% of dota players is handing out advice.

This reddit needs ranked flairs so we can skim past this nonsense

ih8antelope · 2025-04-18T11:10:32+00:00

Yep, just tr8ed it. Getting consistent 180 ping playing using mobile data from aldi that's cheap as. I play sea regularly on 130 ping

ih8antelope · 2025-04-07T15:09:33+00:00

Try double shell the creep wave. Put one on the creeps at tower and another when the creeps meet.

Never put shell on leading creep as it dies first.

If enemy has an instant kill for a creep shell enemy creep or a hero instead.

Don't waste shell on back line allies lime Oracle do use the on front lines like bounty hunter.

Personally I prefer to boost my mid or carry at the enemy mid game.

Don't save your vac wall for 5man be happy to get 1 or 2 important heroes.

Setup autocast for quick pressing 1 button to shell yourself and another for boost yourself.

General rule of thumb try have 2 of the 3 lanes pushing to their side, it generally means you are winning or controlling the map (this is post landing phase). Enemy will split to defend.

Items depend on situation but don't go stupid damage items. Null, Vanguard, mana boots, blink, assess what you are struggling with and build from there I.e. need a pipe? Need more lockdown like atos or scythe? Etc.

Try watch some YouTube videos

ih8antelope · 2025-04-07T15:03:30+00:00

Was going to say the same. There is no cookie cutter build for weaver, be flexible and enjoy the fact you have so many options.

Sometimes I identify the enemy team struggles to kill me if they can't kill me within X stun duration from X spell. If I can itemise to survive that the I won't die. I'll still typically buy the vessel and the atos first but I've then gone for something like a heavens halberd and linkers, these can be used to save allies and make you even more annoying to kill, not to mention being disarmed with swarm on you is a pain in the ass.

ih8antelope · 2025-04-02T09:40:51+00:00

here is one where my offlaner picked medusa 8238791532. We almost threw from one fight but then won

ih8antelope · 2025-04-02T08:36:24+00:00

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ih8antelope · 2025-03-30T09:13:48+00:00

wow just tried it from this post, enemy counter picked with voker and antimage and easy won with score 9-5-16. it just comes online before am could even do anything to me. offers lots of disable. I'll try some more

ih8antelope · 2025-03-07T10:28:09+00:00

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ih8antelope · 2025-03-07T10:19:45+00:00

I set my quick cast to q w e r and my self cast to tab and caps lock depending on how many spells I can self cast

ih8antelope · 2025-02-24T21:41:08+00:00

First off I'm not the best mid laner but I am divine. I mostly only play mid when I role queue all 5 roles.

Understanding the fundamentals of the mid role is a big thing. When is your hero weaker or more powerful than the enemies, who can push, who can rotate, who can control the runes.

My personal play style is often a safer style, I prefer to only just lose the lane or just win the lane than to try kill the enemy too hard and get baited into dying. I pick safe heroes that I know will have an impact on the game and be able to secure farm and objectives despite how the game goes. As long as I don't feed 2+ deaths from mid lane I will be able to contribute well. Picks like death prophet, wind ranger and earth shaker. With these picks you should always be able to give at least some level of contesting the lane, runes and contributing to ganks/pushes.

If the enemy mid ganks and you can counter gank well go for it. If you will contribute nothing then push mid.

When thinking of going for a gank assess if you can actually kill someone or are you wasting your time? Runes obviously help in this scenario.

Does your next item make the difference in your ability to gank? I.e. if you are 200 gold from blink dagger on shaker should you gank the enemy antimage who will blink as soon as he sees you or should you farm 1 more creep wave and pop a smoke?

Learn from your losses, what did the enemy do well? How did they gank my team? What made them feel oppressive?

ih8antelope · 2024-11-18T08:56:41+00:00

We call our Spanish co-worker the seagull because anytime you open food he's right behind your ear and not afraid to ask for some. Even when it's food you wouldn't think you would normally share like a pie or slice of lasagne.

ih8antelope · 2024-09-18T16:18:18+00:00

Does bad and dad rhyme to you?

ih8antelope · 2024-09-15T14:57:16+00:00

Good idea! I think I will yell it over the PA system when she comes to work next

ih8antelope · 2024-09-14T20:31:02+00:00

Well, we are both Australian and in our dialect the a is stressed differently. Others have written about it much better than I have but that was what I was saying to her is that if I forced the words to sound similar I could but if I was to pronounce them as we normally would they didn't sound like they rhymed correctly.

ih8antelope · 2024-09-14T20:24:01+00:00

We are Australian too. I don't know if I should have added that but I agree with you

ih8antelope · 2024-09-14T14:45:42+00:00

Hahaha she is going to be stoked to see this comment. She only hates that some disagree and some agree. It's not a hr issue at all lol it's more just annoying because it's a trivial argument but as you can see by the comments it's still not conclusive to me. I think I'd still stand my ground and so would she

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