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GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Bulldog is one of the best offlaners in terms of getting farm while having incredible map awareness. I think he just has to get better at other heroes instead of changing him into a roaming support guy or something, which I'm not sure if he can even do at a competitive level.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2014 15:30

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:20

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

The Malaysian tourney has actually been pretty good the past few days I've been watching it. They have been playing games during the morning hours EST but I don't know what their full schedule is

http://www.twitch.tv/dotatalktv2

# ¿ Jan 10, 2014 17:06

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

It is cool how much better Korean Dota seems to have gotten just in the past year

# ¿ Jan 11, 2014 06:22

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

That was a loving beating yeesh

# ¿ Jan 13, 2014 01:16

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Envy is so loving retarded

# ¿ Jan 15, 2014 21:45

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

I'd guess that fnatic is probably one of the top money earning teams given how they seem to finish in the top two or three of every event. Although TI3 probably skews everything a lot.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2014 15:44

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Crell posted:

code:

Team	 	Winnings
DK		209477
StarTale	95000
Speed.int	90942
NaVi		87392
Alliance	84083
iG		81360
MVP Phoenix	75600
Fnatic.EU	70733
VG		44702
LGD.cn		44632

YOu can filter by winnings after a certain date on DatDota

It's cool that there seems to be enough money in Dota these days to probably support a bunch of teams doing it as a full time job just off of tournaments. Obviously sponsors take a cut of winnings and pay out salaries so I'm not sure how it all works to the individual team member.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2014 19:39

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

LS and Io is interesting because you could bring 3 dudes on TP ganks. Although one obviously would have to stay behind.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 15:25

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Fnatic is getting baited into fights where they get relocated on

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 15:42

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

mfcrocker posted:

It'll be interesting to see what Fnatic do in draft Game 2 as their problem this game really wasn't in the draft.

The Slark pick wasn't great. Era didn't seem comfortable with it at all

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 16:00

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Slark or Timber didn't contribute to the rolling early oddly enough, it was all Alch/VS/Invoker

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 16:17

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Slark needs to actually farm instead of just sort of milling around like he did last game

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 16:20

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

I would love to see n0tail do a farming Radiance Naga sometime he would probably be really great at it

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 16:21

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Why doesn't Naga have a TP there

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 16:38

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Fnatic played way way better in Vegas without Era. He just isn't adding anything at all whatsoever.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 16:48

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

I have no idea how to feel about the draft in the second game. The synergy was clearly there, but the question is if it has too high demands on execution to become a staple. Outplayed is pretty clearly the case here though, Fnatic had all the pieces they needed to win both games.

There is something to learn from game one in that Fnatics support religiously rotated and set up kills, Alliances supports ended up far better farmed, and the only one who really took a noticeable hit from the ganks was s4. Kills simply aren't worth that much in themselves, and they didn't end up disrupting Alliance enough.

Ganks aren't worth that much on their own if they don't lead to towers dying or a hard carry getting a lot of free farm. Like it works if Era was playing a Luna or something that could sit there with a midas and outfarm the other pressured carry. Even Slark can do that and get super nasty but he never really did for some reason.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 17:12

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Sort of reminds me of the first game of the day, where fnatic got kills but no towers

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 19:25

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Ok jesus, what a beating

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 19:34

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

I think Nyx is a great pick against this team.

efb by LD I guess

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 20:15

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Yeah I don't get why teams are so adverse to punishing a DK pick mid and instead tend to pick some other farming kind of hero instead.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 20:52

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Firebatgyro posted:

How do you punish DK mid? He's incredibly hard to kill and dragon breath means hes going to get CS no matter what.

You can usually get in his face with ranged heroes and push him back to his tower. OD, SF after a few levels, or even like Viper would be pretty good. He is tanky and hard to outright kill but conversely he isn't scary at all without help or items.

GOOD TIMES ON METH fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jan 17, 2014

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 21:02

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

I was thinking about the DK mid thing and why don't we see QoP much anymore? I think she ate a very small nerf to shadow strike but nothing that like wrecks her as a hero. Was it just other heroes getting buffed past her? Or am I overestimating how much she used to get picked up?

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 21:42

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

n0tail looks so sad in the draft camera

# ¿ Jan 18, 2014 16:12

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Good lord Funnik

# ¿ Jan 18, 2014 16:32

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

TheRat posted:

Trixi is screwing up a lot here

Yeah

# ¿ Jan 18, 2014 16:36

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Oh my god that meatball

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 19:33

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Every series at this event has been 2-0. Pretty weird

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 19:49

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

250k people watching across the various languages on Twitch. People love them some Navi v Alliance I guess.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 19:53

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Naga pick gets an immediate KOTL ban

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 19:58

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Bulldog has been really great on Viper of all things but I think they usually pick him when they go offensive tri

# ¿ Jan 19, 2014 20:05

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

They had a couple really good teamfights when Puck got blink which caught them up.

Their NP really needs to stop dying though

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 13:48

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

I find Nyx solo offlane a bit weird. Exactly what is he supposed to do when he gets lifted? Funn1k did a great job as Nyx the other day, but overall he got nothing of any real use done in the offlane.

He is sort of like BH where he goes offlane just to soak up XP until he gets 6 and then leaves.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 14:26

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Yeah Corey basically won them the last game as a well by getting a ton of farm under pressure all game

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 14:40

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

I have the sound cutting out a bit too. Plus Fogged is way louder than Ayeese which is annoying.

The ticket for this thing is $7 yeesh

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 18:10

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Omni and Storm certainly have some synergy when ganking

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 18:31

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Power Rangers are so fun to watch

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 21:26

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Yeah he typed GG and disconnected and his team didn't pause for him.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2014 22:27

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Yeah they were certainly still in the game so who knows, maybe he was pissed at yet another turd of a draft from PGG

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 04:19

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Reoxygenation posted:

Blitz didn't try to make a team, he wanted to join one, and got invited by Febby to Korea. When he got there, their carry player (Febby, the guy who left his ult on Weaver at level 1 until like level 20 and never leveled it up past that, that guy) left because he didn't want to stay and felt it was a lost cause. He went on to join Startale that disbanded like 3 days after

Then the A-Team (Bamboe, Eosin, corey (who used to play HoN, legitimate good player) and Purge) went to Korea and they're on their way to kick everyone's rear end in Korea. Not that it matters because the korean scene is weak as gently caress at the moment. Maybe this'll be benificial for them?

What I'm saying is, this is all loving hilarious and the korean scene needs to step its game up if it wants to have a chance at dota 2.

Corey seems by far to be the best player on their team, or at least has been every time I have seen them play. Dude is legit really good.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 17:07

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:20

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

I love Power Rangers

# ¿ Jan 22, 2014 18:25

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