THN DOTA2 Roll Call
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Got four of us for a versus humans match this evening: me, Trax, Ange and DB. Amazingly we won, even with a random on our team, though both DB and Ange did excellent work as Weaver and Lina respectively. Trax seemed okay on an unfamiliar Tinker and I just about held my own as Brewmaster. Random Earthshaker filled out our team, versus Viper, Jaikiro, Dragon Knight, Spirit Breaker and Enigma, the latter of which I've not seen played before. Good game all round. More to come.
Angelic
Active Member
Heh Ronin you sound like a sports recap in the newspaper 
'twas fun I suspect the opposing team didn't really know what they were doing, though - much like us, as we had rather hard time wrapping things up in the end. That's mechanics that I could call out in LoL, but not in DOTA, I'm afraid. Need more matches under my belt for that
'twas fun
I suspect the opposing team didn't really know what they were doing, though - much like us, as we had rather hard time wrapping things up in the end. That's mechanics that I could call out in LoL, but not in DOTA, I'm afraid. Need more matches under my belt for that
Dragon Knight. Flexible, powerful, semi-carry (though he'll get spanked by a real hard carry). Only real disadvantage is that he's melee, except when he's a dragon.
That said, I had fun with Nature's Prophet the other day and if I can stop blocking DB from doing useful stuff when I throw down that ring of trees then he might also be a contender.
Also, Meepo. I think Invoker is harder to get into, but Meepo may be harder to play.
Traxata
Junior Administrator
Mine so far is Huskar
PsiSoldier
Well-Known Member
pudge fo lyfe.
i rarely actually play him, though he is the one i enjoy most.
Ki!ler-Mk1
Active Member
Which game modes are most popular or rather which do people play in party play?
Well, when we're practising against bots, we tend to go for All Pick, but then spin to a random hero that we've not played already (as opposed to randoming a hero, which might be one you already know).
Versus humans, though, Single Draft. Only way to keep mid skill players from pwning low skills just by being able to choose their favourite combinations.
Ki!ler-Mk1
Active Member
I've been playing least played, single draft and free play (or w/e its called). Found that with complete freedom one team always pwned the other as you suggest.
Zhar
New Member
The game mode best suited for learning the game would have to be random draft. All the better players play it and you're likely to play a role/hero you haven't played before.
Picking US East as your server is also a better option than any of the EU servers. Although the US East server still has a lot of russians, it isn't quite as bad as the EU servers, which are in my opinion near unplayable.
Also, getting close to my 500th win.
Picking US East as your server is also a better option than any of the EU servers. Although the US East server still has a lot of russians, it isn't quite as bad as the EU servers, which are in my opinion near unplayable.
Also, getting close to my 500th win.
Ki!ler-Mk1
Active Member
What makes them unplayable? Working fine here.
Zhar
New Member
Dota is a game that is heavilly based on teamwork. Teamwork requires communication, well, if you want to play this game correctly that is. The problem with the EU servers is that most players there do not speak English, that can become quite frustrating. And it happen to be that most, if not all, of these people happen to be from Russia, hence the hatred towards Russians playing on any other than the Russian servers.
And they're generally just god awful at the game.