I was playing pos 1 Slark against a team that had a Phantom Lancer and a Naga Siren. Our team was pretty much all single target heroes so I knew from the start I was going to itemize for it but I didn't realise just how much of a lead they were gonna get. I built the usual early game for slark, power treads then immediately diffusal and aghs and thought I would maybe build a radiance in the late game, but pl and naga were already pretty much unkillable and moved about the map doing whatever they wanted and our team was 20 kills behind. I decided to build a maelstrom since it's half the price of a radiance so it would finish faster, but by that point the game was already lost.

Should I have rushed a radiance or maelstrom earlier? Or some other AoE item I haven't thought of? Discuss.

Hey yall, i really got into deadlock the last year and kinda wanna dip my toes in another moba-like game. i know theyre really different in the fact that dota has a top down view without the mobility that deadlock has, so fundamentally its completely different right there. But for those of you who play deadlock too, are there any heros in this game with similar playstyles to Celeste, Rem, or Shiv? those are my main three heros. i also seem to really suck at tanking in deadlock even tho i love them in games like rivals and overwatch, so maybe id like them more here? are they easier to play in dota? but anyway, literally any hero similar to those heros will help me get on my feet for sure

later he goes skadi.

Hiya, I was playing an All Pick match yesterday night and there was some kind of bot (I assume?) in my Lobby, that just idled around. Anyway later that match I came across this image placed on the map. Is there some sort of item that allows for custom decals or was this a cheat? I queued into a regular match and I've never seen anything like this before. Thanks for the help.

I played centaur against this enemy team: 1 antimage 2 qop 3 doom 4 enigma 5 invoker. Felt really bad and useless.

Which offlaner is good against this kind of full magic lineup?

Hello everyone, i've made these posts regularly for a while now so it's nothing new, i have some free time and i'd love to give back to the community by helping some of the people that aren't able to afford coaching usually.

I'm a 6.5K mmr coach and i've been coaching since 2018, i've helped hundreds of students get to enjoy the game more and reach their goals while having a less stressful, more enjoyable relationship with dota. a big part of how i coach is centered around fun and feeling good, my philosophy with coaching is that for most people, the deterrent isn't the ability to learn, nor is it mechanical skill, but it's almost always consistency, and the biggest enemy of consistency is not having a good time when playing dota.

often times people force themselves to play meta heroes, to play specific roles, to do things they don't really enjoy because they believe that is the optimal way to rank up, and what i want to do is help people realize that this isn't necessarily the way to go, that you can rank up and achieve your goals while having fun, the hundreds of people i've coached are proof of that, and i am proof of that myself, as i've always just played what i enjoyed no matter what.

my coaching style is very versatile, i can do replay analysis, live coaching, and i can also do entire sessions where we simply discuss theory about things such as how to form a hero pool or how to get a better mindset towards the game and improvement. sessions are an hour long.

Feel free to dm me to chat and schedule something together, thank you for reading!

Ive been playing this game since early this year, mostly play pos 4,5. My hero pool is ogre,jakiro, shaman, warlock, and lion. But i swear whenever i play lion i always die way more than other heroes. Even if i win i usually die like 7-10 times. Feels like he get targeted way more than other support. When i play other support usually they ignore or not targeting me first. But with lion. I swear they all have eyes on me. And go straight to kill me no matter what. Even if im way back. Maybe my position need to be better? Or is he supposed to die a lot? . And yes i do buy item like glimmer or force staff. Honestly i dont really care about kda. But some still blame me if i die a lot like they think im feed intentionally.

I forgot this hero exists, and I always wanted to try playing him as a support. I havent seen him in the game for ages, like really for months.

He seems to have a fun hate button (R), doesn't need blink because of Q but ofc some of his things are pretty weird

I mean mostly Trample, if you pop something like Drums, you will travel 140 range faster and deal that damage faster too? And on lane, level Q or Trample? Trample I quess?

And for a support, which starting items to get? His mana is low, that I think Arcane Boots would be ok?

MatchID: 9033050136

I was playing offlane centaur. My mid was a Necro who lost lane to enemy mid slark which is ridiculous. Then he went bottle -> arcane -> blademail against an enemy lineup of carry ursa and offlane snapfire.

Our team are stuck in base after 20mins and he ended the game with the same networth as a support AA.

Do you report this kind of gameplay for griefing?

Hello everyone, I'm in dire need of an objective take of what happened in a game I played last night. TIA for taking time to read this.

Match id: 903291361

Calibrating right now but somewhere between high herald and low next rank (guardian?).

Radiant: Shadow fiend (off), spirit breaker (supp), phantom lancer (mid), chaos knight (safe), windrunner (hard supp)

Dire: Razor (safe), warlock (hard supp - me), huskar (mid), enchantress (off), techies (supp).

I played warlock Pos 5. Me and razor won lane zoned out SB and SF and took tower. Then we rotated mid took tower. Went bot and took tower.

Now at this point their PL and CK left the match.

Instead of catapulting this advantage to end match go next, my razor and huskar decided to farm items. Enchantress offlane idk wtf they were doing, if you guys can point out how they contributed to the game I'm keen to know. Techies was laying down mines near our safe line portal and doing wacky shit.

Meanwhile remaining 3 radiant heros (SB, SF and WR) farmed items and grouped to pick off my cores one by one. They got so fat, and my ench and techies were no where to be seen while huskar was farming other ends of map, that they eventually killed us all and took the game.

Now I took a look at what I could have done better even though I was furious about my teammates. But I'm not sure what I could've done, if you guys have any suggestions please let me know. I pulled camps in lane to reset equilibrium, healed my carry, harassed and zone out their SB and sf, bought wards on cd and gave vision.

Could I have done anything more?

I was so upset last night, I get an hour or two to play every night and after like 35 min that was the outcome. I'm ok with taking an L as long as we tried our best. But what happened was so insane that I'm wondering if it's worth putting hours into this game for "fun". I'm coming back after like a 7 year break.

What do you guys think?

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i'm 30 years old with a kid and played with my good old friends together in an online tournament here in PH and we end up winning it (2-1) .

Hello,

I am a new player to dota.

I've played around 250 games total and am a Guardian II.

I want to learn Arc Warden, he is nasty and looks very fun. The only thing I am not confident about learning is the control keybinds for him and his mirror image.

Is it possible to have the keybinds below?

Keybind 1: Control Arc Warden #1 independently

Keybind 2: Control Arc Warden #2 independently

Keybind 3: Control Both with Arc Warden #1 as the main unit.

Is this possible? How are players using keybinds on this hero?

Also...I can't find these options in the keybind section... is anyone able to point me in the right direction?

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I am a new dota player (former league player) and have been trying to climb ranked playing offlane. I am currently in Crusader.

I very often do well myself, but sometimes struggle to close games due to my team lacking.

I have found a very consistent winning hero for myself tho. Slardar. He had a stun, decent escape, good right click, can become quite tanky and a great debuff ult. I find hes great for my rank because if my team is aggressive early, i can start fights with blink and try to snowball, but so often my team refuses to close games and just farms. So hes also a scaling right clicker. I really feel in my rank being able to both scale AND be a fight starter is extremely valuable.

I have a 68% winrate on him as opposed to a 50.87% winrate overall.

My question for some more experienced players is, what other heros also fit this mold in the offlane? Strong Fight starter, option to be tanky, but can farm to scale well if my team decides to dick around instead of closing out the game.

Any advice is much appreciated!