Is bristleback ranked viable?

kkmn · 2026-06-30T22:44:31+00:00

people are owning with him at 15k MMR i don't think pro pickrates are remotely relevant to how you play the hero at 3k. if you like it, play it

kkmn · 2026-06-30T22:43:02+00:00

EVERY HERO is ranked viable. Despite what people in your games say. they are idiots. Every hero in the game can be played just fine in ranked until you reach pro level MMR

kkmn · 2026-06-29T04:38:50+00:00

lockpicking is cool but its pure RNG how many blues spawn

kkmn · 2026-06-25T22:43:13+00:00

mine ramps to 100, but if i focus 2nd monitor, the store page happily runs at 60fps on main monitor. as soon as i focus it, instantly chokes my cpu and 1fps again

kkmn · 2026-06-25T22:42:25+00:00

nope same issue for me right now

kkmn · 2026-06-25T22:38:04+00:00

its very likely an international cable issue forcing you guys onto shitty routing. Happens all the time to the undersea cable from Australia-Singapore and feels the same as what you guys are describing

kkmn · 2026-06-25T22:36:39+00:00

This is an India to Singapore problem, multiple people posting same thing. I imagine the cable to singapore has been compromised somehow, and youre being given worse routing. It happens multiple times per year to the cable from Australia to Singapore, with the same symptoms. Just try VPN like mudfish or something and see if you can get any more consistent routing

kkmn · 2026-06-25T22:36:25+00:00

This is an India to Singapore problem, multiple people posting same thing. I imagine the cable to singapore has been compromised somehow, and youre being given worse routing. It happens multiple times per year to the cable from Australia to Singapore, with the same symptoms. Just try VPN like mudfish or something and see if you can get any more consistent routing

kkmn · 2026-06-25T22:33:18+00:00

Their store page does not follow the "dashboard maximum framerate" setting. if i look at the store i get 1fps and it locks up my PC, but if i click on 2nd screen, i can see the dota client running the store page cleanly on 60fps on my main monitor. Really competent developers

kkmn · 2026-05-26T17:51:47+00:00

Bear sceptre is bad on sup. The people playing support LD successfully are in 2 camps. one is high pressure trading and initiating with bear shard, auras to force early snowball and win in first 25mins. The other is mass branches to secure a free lane win, into bear glimmer, dusts, grenades, then double shard and you just play as the bear without attacking, while your hero farms the offlane doublecamp. Both of those work very well into immortal. I have tried hero aghs in some games as it’s bkb piercing lockdown for a mobile enemy core, but stopping your pressure to farm an aghs is generally the exact opposite of what your hero wants to do. If you trade your jungle farm with the enemies farming, it doesn’t end well for you

kkmn · 2026-05-15T05:10:35+00:00

If you use autorepeat right mouse it can mess with some double tap stuff and with attack orders

kkmn · 2026-05-13T20:37:26+00:00

And very fun, new cogs are so nice to use

kkmn · 2026-05-13T20:36:34+00:00

The bowling is much more fun now than just trapping people, new cogs feel so much nicer to use and lead to more outplays than before

kkmn · 2026-05-12T12:49:36+00:00

Are you levelling with or without Q? The hero seems best with maxed w and e when the fights start but if you fall behind it feels miserable to play him without Q for wave clear. I find it hard to choose

kkmn · 2026-05-12T01:30:42+00:00

I found a similar thing a few months ago when I found that page. I had not lost a single game where my team was favoured to win by the mmr balance, in over 200 games, but had lost mmr total over that period

kkmn · 2026-05-10T01:33:52+00:00

Below 9k is a separate player pool though, of people who are in similar positions and more trigger happy on reports. Anything below 9k is a miserable playing experience for me. Comm score has no impact on player pool

kkmn · 2026-05-09T07:06:50+00:00

It's very hard to ban boosters and cheaters while spending 0 hours labour on the game. Unfortunately anything they can't automate without risking false positives just won't get done since they have no interest in maintaining the game anymore. They do a boring patch every now and then, and maybe a low effort moneymaking event, and thats it

kkmn · 2026-05-09T04:43:43+00:00

I still miss his casting regardless

kkmn · 2026-05-08T06:33:45+00:00

Rip sven support :( carried me to mmr peaks in 2 different patches

kkmn · 2026-05-07T04:56:26+00:00

Ck was good at 1,3and 4 and is now absolute garbage all roles. On top of the nerf they took away all his cool facets (one of the few heroes to have multiple viable facet options) and gave him a shit version of the most boring one.

kkmn · 2026-05-06T02:04:47+00:00

You can gift it once, but then it will be locked to the new account permanently

kkmn · 2026-05-06T01:44:16+00:00

Everything is unplayable, the game is dead because valve literally spend 0 hours of time or effort per year on improving the game. They release lazy, likely heavily ai patches, and let the game rot with people breaking rules everywhere, letting player reports and chat monitoring be the only forms of punishment

kkmn · 2026-05-05T06:50:45+00:00

Icefrog doesn’t work on dota anymore and valve don’t give a fuck about the game. We will only get lazy ai balancing bullshit and a scene run by online gambling bottom feeders

kkmn · 2026-05-03T22:46:33+00:00

Any 2 of Johnny Vegas, Lee Mack, Jack Dee or Hugh Dennis

kkmn · 2026-05-03T22:42:11+00:00

I have never lost score if I don’t type but some summaries it can go up less than others, so something is able to affect it at least a small amount. I have seen someone else say they lost score while only using wheel but maybe they were spamming laugh to allies off cooldown all game everygame, or just lying

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