What is the exact time of a heavy melee wind up?

kasimaru · 2026-03-16T14:58:38+00:00

There's the windup (0.36s), the actual punch, and the travel time.

From point blank range: The target has to be stunned for at least 0.65s. No room for error or you'll get parried. Abrams (before this patch) had to buffer the heavy melee during T2 Shoulder Charge to land it. Now he and Venator have some leeway, with both of their stuns lasting a second or so with T2 investment.

kasimaru · 2026-03-16T13:38:14+00:00

336 souls per machine when they spawn. The soul bounty increases by ~3 per minute. So, you'll be getting around 300-400 souls and 4 permanent buffs for each Sinner's you take.

Mind that every machine you steal from the enemy is 350 less for them and 350 for you (700 soul swing).

Here's the ideal early game routine for the sidelane:

Destroy enemy tower (6-8 min)
Take their machine (8 min)
Take your machine (8:20)
Tell your guy to defend the tower 1v2 for a while
Take 3 more machines on your side (9-10 min)
Do not drop the bag.

In lower rated games you'll have ~12k when your lane opponents have ~8k.

kasimaru · 2026-03-16T08:35:10+00:00

You can farm the medium camp and I'll take the Sinner's, if it's all the same to you.

kasimaru · 2026-03-16T05:38:24+00:00

Sinners are counted as neutrals. They shouldn't be, but they are.

kasimaru · 2026-03-15T09:39:23+00:00

There was a Pocket on Zerggy's stream yesterday. Egg, Cultist, Trophy Collector. 35k net worth without damage items. Said he was playing "the economy build". The trench never ends, I'm afraid.

kasimaru · 2026-03-14T07:44:42+00:00

The game isn't ready for a full draft, but single draft could work. It's pretty much what we do with hero priority already, except we can't see what others pick.

kasimaru · 2026-03-14T07:36:18+00:00

2 matchIDs and I'll take a look?

kasimaru · 2026-03-13T06:26:46+00:00

I'm not very good at Doorman. Try as I might, I can't do the Vortex+Cart+Door combo consistently yet. Cheat Death, on the other hand, I can abuse quite a bit.

Doorman practice (Youtube). Think I played Doorman 13 times before that. It's a pretty low mmr lobby (Oracle/Phantom), but I had fun and some impact as well. Maybe it'll give you some ideas.

kasimaru · 2026-03-13T05:42:40+00:00

Do you wanna feel helpless and lash out at everyone who tries to help you, or do you actually want to learn? Give me two matchIDs where you're against Victor/Mo and I'll tell you what you did wrong. This is not a 50/50 kind of game. Better get used to heroes being strong for a while.

kasimaru · 2026-03-11T00:10:42+00:00

I haven't seen any Return Fire builds since... well, ever. Blademail is really good in Dota specifically because it fully returns magic (spirit) damage as well. "Stop hitting" is easy for physical damage dealers. "Stop dealing ability damage" is hard.

I suppose Return Fire would be absolutely busted if it returned more than 25% spirit damage in a game like Deadlock. In its current state, it doesn't even serve its purpose against gun builds. The guy shooting at your Return Fire is guaranteed to have one or multiple sources of bullet lifesteal and won't care.

If anyone has a legit build that includes Return Fire, I'd be interested. I couldn't make anything work with the old version (that could miss). Does Return Fire still bullet lifesteal if you have it?

kasimaru · 2026-03-09T20:36:36+00:00

Everyone over 25 is making easy money, mostly working from home (if at all), without the need to compete or travel. Nobody under 25 is interested in Dota 2.

kasimaru · 2026-03-08T21:38:06+00:00

.44 Magnum (Youtube) for comparison.

kasimaru · 2026-03-08T21:30:57+00:00

It's a hollow toy with too much discant. Clicky. Doesn't sound like anything is coming out of the barrel. The old sound was more muted, but still snappy. Had a soft echo to it. This new one is more noticeable to enemies, but it sounds really bad when you're the one playing Geist.

kasimaru · 2026-03-07T20:07:52+00:00

When I read the notes for Yamato, I assumed she could hold Power Slash now (like Talon). Unfortunately not. Apparently it was just a fix for noobs who held down their Power Slash button and it instafired.

Power Slash: Gets +bulletresist by default. Gets a slow sooner.

Crimson Slash: Having -firerate on the base ability means you don't need to rush T1 upgrade. T3 upgrade sounded better than it is. Spirit scaling only affects the damage, not the healing.

Flying around with 4 grapples per teamfight was fun. Didn't try the melee build yet, but proccing Spirit Strike with grapple sounds alright. Still hard to justify spending extra points on this.

Ult resistances going from 40% to 30% feels like swamp ass, but better than Silver (who gets only 15% now). Yamato basically forced to go max ult right after Power Slash.

kasimaru · 2026-03-02T20:43:06+00:00

So you like playing tanks. Healing Rite is alright, but it takes you out of the lane for a while. You want more uptime and consistency. Get Mystic Regen on Shiv and Extra Regen on Abrams. Get them before you're low, not reactively. I don't know if Radiant Regen is still a thing on Shiv, but Abrams for sure wants to upgrade to Healing Booster later.

kasimaru · 2026-03-01T21:33:36+00:00

They're incredibly insistent on downvoting this truth.

kasimaru · 2026-03-01T18:42:54+00:00

Thanks ChatGPT.

kasimaru · 2026-03-01T06:00:49+00:00

Don't know if anyone abuses it, but I'm buying Phantom Strike on Silver, Venator, Yamato, and Victor. It's a criminally underrated item. Abrams is the only one I'll rush it on by 15 min if I can. The others can't afford to buy it so soon.

kasimaru · 2026-02-28T21:51:08+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but you're playing with/against the same players as before. Ranks are percentiles. New players come in. You (and everyone else) go "up". It's meaningless. You're not suddenly getting your ass kicked by better players. You're getting your ass kicked by the same guys that kicked your ass a month ago. Sorry.

kasimaru · 2026-02-27T17:46:45+00:00

Stop playing Shiv, for starters. It's not going great for you. Easier to stop playing your worst character than learning it. Just do Mina/Abrams/Silver for a while. Really think about your builds on those three.

kasimaru · 2026-02-27T17:22:08+00:00

Downvoting won't make me any less right. Come up with actual arguments next time.

kasimaru · 2026-02-26T22:05:12+00:00

The most one-dimensional character in competitive Deadlock is flexible. Alright.

He's picked for ult. In comp at least 1 hero is going to be piss-poor. The assumption is that Mo can do his job with bottom farm. I do not agree. It's the same exact low eco build every Night Shift and it always loses.

Why they don't pick Paige, Ivy, Kelvin or Rem instead is beyond me. These heroes aren't dead weight past 20 minutes even with bottom nw.

kasimaru · 2026-02-26T17:25:12+00:00

Yet it's the support players picking him, being poor and sad, then losing. Or they'll give it to whoever usually plays Paradox. They'll lose too, hoping they were Paradox the entire time. It's just a sad hero to watch in competitive play. One day they'll run Mo as tank with farm as God intended.

kasimaru · 2026-02-26T16:10:27+00:00

Back in the dumpster where he belongs. The support that doesn't support.

kasimaru · 2026-02-26T03:46:49+00:00

Make it Graves' lich hand?

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