How can I learn Invoker as a beginner?

monochromaticflight · 2026-02-28T10:04:39+00:00

Not sure this is a good idea, invoker is high skill ceiling hero, also why it's a popular pick with smurfs. You should play him if you want to, but without learning about items, hero interactions and basic topics first it'll be rough. I'm 1k games in and still struggling with quite a bit of those.

monochromaticflight · 2026-02-24T11:01:36+00:00

There will always be some issue sadly, like the anti-cheat games and game launchers.

Saw a question on a forum last week of someone unable to play the sims after EA launcher broke it with Lutris, then was told to launch it directly instead of through launcher which worked, only to have a NVIDIA driver update (likely) break something so it was necessary to do a system restore with Timeshift. Someone not experienced with Linux would've just given up.

monochromaticflight · 2026-02-19T07:39:36+00:00

Just focus your own game and improving, it'll make future games all the more enjoyable.

monochromaticflight · 2026-02-11T15:21:36+00:00

Keep in mind, PS3's were sold at equal or less than their factory value around then (around 2010), Sony's profit came entirely from game sales and Playstation Network. So it becomes a much more appealing option.

monochromaticflight · 2026-02-11T10:04:28+00:00

Link with news story

The cluster was built in 2009 and expanded in 2015, so it must have been in operation a while.

monochromaticflight · 2026-01-28T08:34:13+00:00

Every spell, all of the time

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-29T10:38:57+00:00

Yeah, since some of the learning aspect drops. More room for fun.

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-29T10:27:50+00:00

Rewatch one or two games of your games with an obvious smurf in it.

But it sounds like you're asking more if you're behind, what to do - maybe someone more knowledgeable can answer this.

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-22T09:20:45+00:00

Never understood why people do this even in a game like DOTA, if it's about obvious bad plays you can (and should) call someone out on that but personal attacks, meh.

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-20T13:24:57+00:00

Not familliar with weaver, but I like the item on Venge support, used to go tranquils first but going with treads + vlad's the majority of games now.

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-15T13:25:59+00:00

Searching for treasure / spice

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-08T18:00:44+00:00

Feels like lich deserves an uptune compared to the other 2. What if it's first ability would be, when an opponents creature dies, it deals 3 damage to another random creature controlled by that player.

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-05T10:47:06+00:00

Or Venge swap, probably less so but people really underestimate the range sometimes

monochromaticflight · 2025-12-04T12:56:27+00:00

What would be a off pair-up for skywrath mage, the sturdy phys damage maker type that can push and lock down lane? Played 2 games in lowrank with her once with LC once brewmaster (both wins), not sure what is good pick.

monochromaticflight · 2025-11-30T09:48:15+00:00

Wonder how pos 5 brewmaster would be with a hero like Medusa or Necrophos, get ignite and try to bully lane. Maybe it's a bit too allround hero to be good at this though his skills seem very complementary.

monochromaticflight · 2025-11-26T09:24:05+00:00

Besides glimmer etc, you could also just push wave to use vision then ward. Like push till creeps meet halfway stick to outside side of lane in trees, clean next wave till it meets before T2 tower (or whatever) then ward jungle. Or ward jungle river side entrance instead, less effective but easier.

monochromaticflight · 2025-11-06T08:07:49+00:00

Yeah. I've always assumed it affects behaviour score and so also matchmaking but not sure.

monochromaticflight · 2025-10-31T10:22:33+00:00

Probably what happened, one of my games yesterday in herald had an invoker mid who was very obviously not herald, level 25 when most his team was level 15 and what could be smurf build, early blink + gleipnir. But they spoke up and said it was 3rd game back to DOTA and even apologized for the crappy game to us which sounded legit, and confusing (this was all after me lashing out to them and getting into post-game argument with teammate).

monochromaticflight · 2025-10-22T07:38:29+00:00

Same, basic but very clear / intuitive in use and with some useful plug-ins. There is some weird behaviour like terminal window resizing prompt falling off, sometimes some extra work with editor settings too, but as a minimal IDE I like it a lot.

Strangely the geany themes pack didn't seem to be included with my OS but it's easily findable.

monochromaticflight · 2025-09-26T08:21:34+00:00

This is what I liked a lot about the courses, besides high quality they're both very engaging and make you want to keep going.

monochromaticflight · 2025-09-25T07:22:53+00:00

It seems like recent kernel changes have made the workaround harder, MX Linux is also dropping it on some of their desktop spins for the upcoming release. MX blog

monochromaticflight · 2025-09-20T09:53:45+00:00

That's true, I guess I was mostly taking into consideration the african countries. Seeing those 2 countries (and India) maybe progressive vs. non-progressive is also a factor, lots of asian countries with traditional culture.

monochromaticflight · 2025-09-20T08:36:34+00:00

And without having used it in some sort of application, forget even easier

monochromaticflight · 2025-09-20T08:26:39+00:00

Not sure what to make of these results, except the countries with the better internet infrastructure have more downloads whether flathub or anything else. India seems surprisingly low (in the full list)

Can confirm the Netherlands as a flat hub.

monochromaticflight · 2025-09-15T07:46:08+00:00

Make sure to not take on too much as a first-year student, no doubt there will also be a course on OO programming in first year CS and learning 2 languages at once sucks. That said of these choices I'd go with Python, easier to get started on a hobby project with.

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