DOTA2

[Cerzi]

Gonna be a while before chests are worth anything, because there's still only a handful of heroes with chests. Fuckton of furi and jugg chests floating about. Once there are a hundred different chest types then specific ones will start to be worth a bit more.

[Polysynchronicity]

Seen a lot of TAs completely rape, but I get the feeling that's partly down to people not knowing how to play against her.

She is extremely strong. She's also pretty difficult and gets partially countered by certain common picks (Leshrac, Radiance carriers, Venomancer) to boot.

I'd say she's the same kind of hero as Shadow Fiend - if you're good with her, you can pubstomp really really hard. If you're mediocre with her, you're about 50% fail or stomp at best. I'm not even sure I'm in that second category yet.

[Zekk Pacus]

Well every game I have played with her so far I have got early kills but been unable to snowball them properly, which is down to my general DOTA badness rather than anything else. Exact same thing happens when I play Shadow Fiend, actually. It's these heroes that are really BKB dependent, I never quite seem to have the item in time to follow up on my early game. Fun tho.
Sent from a seat on a bus

[tHornton]

TA is one of those special heroes that is easy to play and a pain in the arse to play against

tia

[evil edna]

skeleton kings boney back is too weak

[Zekk Pacus]

Problem was our lack of stuns meaning we could never stop weaver from farming or pushing. Ursa was qq'ing at me for not using traps often enough, which is actually a fair point, except Weaver's invis is on a slower cooldown than traps and also gives him max move speed. I still didn't use traps enough, though. I always forget the cooldown.

[Polysynchronicity]

edna has brought the pub scourge with him from lol

[evil edna]

oh god dude recently the pubs have been soooooo heavy

[Polysynchronicity]

naga siren, excellent hero. can be played as either a roaming ganker or a hard carry! as a hard carry has 2 very good disables and a decent scaling between illusions and riptide's armor reduction. as a ganker has... 2 very good disables and a decent nuke.

most people will be playing her as a carry, which is fine. standard diffusal blade into manta style into heart/butterfly. aggressively laning her with a strong followup stun such as leshrac or lina is probably best. your ultimate is GREAT setup for AoE initiators, especially Tide - you turn it on, walk in (the AoE is ridiculously huge), have your initiator walk in with you, then they pop their initiation as soon as your ult turns off. not super reliable in pubs since you will lack coordination. also it doesn't effect BKB targets - this is actually a good thing, as you can pop it and their entire team will be forced to sleep while you focus down the BKB'd carry (which you can still immobilize, your immobilize goes through BKB!)

[Cool09]

Awesome, naga was one of my favourites in dota 1. She's changed a bit though.

Riptide used to be a crit skill, was low damage but went up to 45% or something crazy. The ult didn't follow you around either, you could cast it then leave and they would still be asleep. Not sure which version I like better.

[tHornton]

Awesome, naga was one of my favourites in dota 1. She's changed a bit though.

Riptide used to be a crit skill, was low damage but went up to 45% or something crazy. The ult didn't follow you around either, you could cast it then leave and they would still be asleep. Not sure which version I like better.

crucially it makes buildings invincible now too so u cant just ulti rax

[Polysynchronicity]

Awesome, naga was one of my favourites in dota 1. She's changed a bit though.

Riptide used to be a crit skill, was low damage but went up to 45% or something crazy. The ult didn't follow you around either, you could cast it then leave and they would still be asleep. Not sure which version I like better.

crucially it makes buildings invincible now too so u cant just ulti rax

but it can be cancelled on command so stuff like song -> ravage is easy

[Phrixus Zephyr]

I am 12:1 as Veno.

[Polysynchronicity]

veno absurdly stronk, especially with friends in comms

[tHornton]

Awesome, naga was one of my favourites in dota 1. She's changed a bit though.

Riptide used to be a crit skill, was low damage but went up to 45% or something crazy. The ult didn't follow you around either, you could cast it then leave and they would still be asleep. Not sure which version I like better.

crucially it makes buildings invincible now too so u cant just ulti rax

but it can be cancelled on command so stuff like song -> ravage is easy

has nothing to do with my point, but correct

[evil edna]

lost 3 games in a row, fuck it, luna, carry hard

OH YEAH

[sand]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx_vkYApVf8

Oh god, I was in tears....

[Polysynchronicity]

so i opened 2 summer chests on the last day, because why not

got 2 deathweilders (the TA weapon)

played TA next game, since game seemed to want me to

won despite selling my boots halfway through the game and not noticing until we were backing up after taking double rax

[Cool09]

Boots are overrated anyway amirite

[evil edna]

a wild orca appears