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[B][U]Useful Guides and Resources, for the experienced and newbies alike![/U][/B]
[URL="http://www.purgegamers.com/welcome-to-dota-you-suck"]Welcome to Dota 2. You suck[/URL]!: A must read for new players to Dota like games.
[URL="http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=123364976"]A Comprehensive Guide to Dota 2[/URL]: Another beginner guide.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUNmFAzS98"]How to Play Dota 2 in 4 Minutes[/URL]: A short 4 minute video about what Dota is about.
[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi01ChpR4sw"]Understanding Dota 2 Hero Roles in 5 Minutes[/URL]: Simple video about hero roles.
[URL="http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Dota_2_Wiki"]Dota 2 Wiki[/URL]: Really useful wiki on all of Dota 2's information.
[URL="http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Main_Page"]Dota 2 on Liquidpedia[/URL]: Another great wiki, especially for competitive content.
[URL="https://dotabuff.com/"]DotaBuff[/URL]: Great site for match history and statistics.[I] Need to activate match history in-game (Options > Game > General > Share Match History)[/I].
Top Media
RIP Dota 2 Media Thread, here be your alumni...
[URL="http://99hunters.tumblr.com/"]99hunters[/URL] - Staple of the Dota 2 Media Thread.
[URL="http://robbobin.tumblr.com/"]Robbobin[/URL] - Facepunch member and awesome Dota 2 content maker.
[URL="http://wudgiefudgie2.tumblr.com/"]Fudgie Wudgie[/URL] - Wacky Dota 2 artist, also from Facepunch.
[URL="http://hawfstuff.com/"]Hawf[/URL] - Another Facepuncher!
[URL="http://fwosh.tumblr.com/"]Fwosh[/URL] - Draws, sings, and cosplays.
[URL="http://g1138.tumblr.com/"]g1138[/URL] - Draws Dota 2 stuff sometimes. Mostly naked stuff.
[URL="http://biggreenpepper.deviantart.com/"]BigGreenPepper[/URL] - Awesome Dota 2 character drawings.
[URL="http://diredude.tumblr.com/"]Dire Dude[/URL] - Maker of the awesome Casual Dota series.
[URL="http://keterok.tumblr.com/"]Keterok[/URL] - Constantly adorable Dota 2 stuff.
[URL="http://bot.tumblr.com/"]bot[/URL] - Very neat, stylized stuff.
[URL="http://kimchiossan.tumblr.com/"]kimchiossan[/URL] - Lots of Dota 2 stuff in the past.
[URL="http://lalage.tumblr.com/"]hhhwei[/URL] - Not really a ton of Dota stuff but it all looks very nice.
[URL="http://artgerm.deviantart.com/"]Artgerm[/URL] - Literally God.
Cba to link all previous threads
quick on the draw friend
topic of discussion: reminding everyone oracle is really good
Man, ya'll need to get good at titles.
[QUOTE=Banned?;49425118]Man, ya'll need to get good at titles.[/QUOTE]
are you implying the previous one was better
[QUOTE=TheDrunkenOne;49425121]are you implying the previous one was better[/QUOTE]
Not at all.
[QUOTE=KillRay;49425109]quick on the draw friend
topic of discussion: reminding everyone oracle is really good[/QUOTE]
I need to practice him more, the difference in cast ranges between Q and E drive me insane.
I wonder if Oracle with make an appearance in any pro games since he is in CM now.
[editline]31st December 2015[/editline]
[url=http://www.datdota.com/hero.php?q=Oracle]Turns out he's been in a good few already.[/url]
"in a good few" More like literally any of them he wasn't banned in
[QUOTE=devon_wargod;49425217]"in a good few" More like literally any of them he wasn't banned in[/QUOTE]
He is getting picked a bit but he isn't being banned every game, not even close.
[QUOTE=Banned?;49425139]I wonder if Oracle with make an appearance in any pro games since he is in CM now.
[editline]31st December 2015[/editline]
[url=http://www.datdota.com/hero.php?q=Oracle]Turns out he's been in a good few already.[/url][/QUOTE]
he's been picked or banned in most games that I have seen
Fuck Oracle.
[QUOTE=leonthefox;49425129]I need to practice him more, the difference in cast ranges between Q and E drive me insane.[/QUOTE]
aether lens is the cure all
all healing heroes benefit from it so much (omni, abaddon being the best 2)
[editline]31st December 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Banned?;49425139]I wonder if Oracle with make an appearance in any pro games since he is in CM now.
[editline]31st December 2015[/editline]
[url=http://www.datdota.com/hero.php?q=Oracle]Turns out he's been in a good few already.[/url][/QUOTE]
he was one of the top Dire Cup heroes (the top?) among all the chinese teams. They love him
Never could get into Dota honestly.
[QUOTE=KillRay;49425294]he was one of the top Dire Cup heroes (the top?) among all the chinese teams. They love him[/QUOTE]
I only saw the last four series' from the Radiant & Dire Cup.
[QUOTE=Recession;49425307]Never could get into Dota honestly.[/QUOTE]
Thanks we really cared
[editline]31st December 2015[/editline]
Played offlane Abaddon and when they finally killed me because I was too stunned to suicide the CM says "finally"
what a hero
[del]Have I done enough Dota art to be notable artist?[/del]
Looks like this is yet another year that I meet in Dota. :v:
Shanghai teams were announced.
[url]http://www.dota2.com.cn/theshanghaimajor/teams/english/[/url]
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Alliance will win TI6.
Maybe I haven't paid attention hard enough but I'm not sure why EHOME is part of the direct invites. There is definitely a team or two in the EU and CN regional qualifiers I'd have invited over them.
EHOME is arguably the best Chinese team right now (they're certainly in the top 2, along with VG). they won Radiant & Dire Cup which had the 4 main Chinese teams, and they placed better at the frankfurt major than any other Chinese team. there's no way they wouldn't get invited
I just finished a game where me (Clockwerk) and a Winter Wyvern ganked a Tinker top, it would have been a normal gank where I hooked him and then followed up with Battery Assualt/Cogs, and he would have died, except the fact that I accidentally ended up teleporting back to base.
(Hookshot and TP; new Clockwerk strat)
We did win though, because they had a solo safelane Earthshaker who fed me like 4 times and more than a few times I caught him using Echo Slam on creeps. I don't play Earthshaker but I assume that you're supposed to initiate with Echo Slam and not use it on creeps.
[QUOTE=Clovis;49425543]who the fuck is bob and why should i care about his iron branch[/QUOTE]
bob ross with his happy little trees
[QUOTE=Banned?;49425629]Maybe I haven't paid attention hard enough but I'm not sure why EHOME is part of the direct invites. There is definitely a team or two in the EU and CN regional qualifiers I'd have invited over them.[/QUOTE]
EHOME's recent results have been overall pretty solid
[img]http://puu.sh/meK1M/da625b7ada.png[/img]
How prevalent do you think cheating is? I know for sure I have encountered some of these: [URL]https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2n92qs/raising_awareness_about_dota_2_hacks/[/URL]
Had some fucker using the autohex on Lion recently (you blink on him and you are hexed inhumanly fast, every time).
Bonus PA bullshit: [video]https://youtu.be/cJZTbip3jCw[/video]
[QUOTE=ferrus;49425958]How prevalent do you think cheating is? I know for sure I have encountered some of these: [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2n92qs/raising_awareness_about_dota_2_hacks/[/url]
Had some fucker using the autohex on Lion recently.
Bonus PA bullshit: [/QUOTE]
Never encountered any of the obvious ones. No way to be entirely certain if I've ever seen any other cheats but it really isn't prevalent.
Definitely encountered many script-using Invokers, but that's as far as I can go for confirmed stuff.
It's funny that this last hit/deny cheat is still worse than an actual player unless abusing crits.
[QUOTE=Recession;49425307]Never could get into Dota honestly.[/QUOTE]
lucky
I'm working on this Dota 2 calculator thing as a means to learn Javascript. I'm pretty happy how it turned out so far.
[url]http://rimbas4.github.io/dotkalculator/[/url] (only Webkit browsers work correctly)
For some pointers, buttons in header open windows. You can drag item images into the item containers to add them. You can hover on items, abilities, or buffs to see what stats they give. You can change the columns of what the table shows. If an ability is supposed to have an active (only positive effects now), there's a yellow plus you can click while hovering.
