Bay Life Crib: That's pretty troll

[Nuno]

Lol, your semester pretty much ends when mine begins. I've not been that busy really, just been doing other stuff. Plus I was in Portugal for two weeks. I still got vacation until September however, though I normally resume studies in August. There's just no subjects that interest me in August so I skip out.

Any holiday plans?

 

[ibra87]

Re: Bay Life Crib: Beaching On Vacation

The International What?

:O


"The International" is the annual Dota 2 championship hosted by Valve themselves. This year the prizepool is $2,6 million, giving the 1st place around $2 million dollars. It's pretty much the only tourney where you see many teams from different regions duel it out and show all their secret strats. Set to be 7th-11th August.

So far we've had preliminaries and 1on1 tournament.

 

[Nii]

Stop it with your hip DOTA ibra, that's so troll.

 

[Nuno]

Lol. When will you get I don't care about dOtA.

And hah, LoL WC is over 3 weeks with countless matches, as well as the final being played at Staples center. Beats any DotA stuff.

 

[ibra87]

Except for the Prizepool. And gameplay :3

You're such a noobie, nuno-kun

 

[xi0]

Lol. When will you get I don't care about dOtA.

And hah, LoL WC is over 3 weeks with countless matches, as well as the final being played at Staples center. Beats any DotA stuff.

I might have to get Turbo, just so I can watch that marvelous shit without the stutter!

Report ibra for being unskilled!

 

[Nuno]

Except for the Prizepool. And gameplay :3

You're such a noobie, nuno-kun

Yeah it's probably so much better gameplay!

That a Swedish team is favorite to win says it all. There's no Asian power, ergo it sucks. Asians rule this world ye fool.

 

[ibra87]

First year the world got shocked when Ukranian team got the International 1 instead of the huge favorite, the Chinese iG (Invictus Gaming). You see, up until that point there was no debate that Asian Dota is best doto. Second year, TI2, it was again Ukranian team vs Chinese iG but the asian iG did take it, showing once again that Asian Dota is not to be trifled with.

This year, the Asian champions iG, are defending this title. Since dreamhack winter 2012, a Swedish team consisting of members that have been playing for around 8 years, have been dominating and are favorites.

You noob, Chinese Dota scene is one of the hugest, as a matter of fact the money in it is immense. If you're gonna troll by saying the inferior LoL is better than Dota, then at least do it properly, fool!

TL;DR: see bolded parts. Chinese/Asian dota is huge, "dood"

(and stop gang banging me guys, it hurts!)

 

[xi0]

NO KOREANS, NO WIN

 

[ibra87]

Dota isn't released in China or South Korea yet Getting a beta invite is extremely difficult (any other region in the world it's out of beta now) but Valve have announced that pretty soon it'll be released.

Then both SOuth and North korea can join in!

 

[xi0]

Dota isn't released in China or South Korea yet Getting a beta invite is extremely difficult (any other region in the world it's out of beta now) but Valve have announced that pretty soon it'll be released.

Then both SOuth and North korea can join in!

If it isn't in China, why is Invictus involved?

North? That's so troll

 

[ibra87]

It's in beta, meaning a limited amount of people got the game. They usually are seen matchmaking in the (among others) EU region (since it's an option...), where they together with the Russians come and don't talk/communicate xD (well, not all Russians, but many of them).

Obviously, all competitive teams, all commentators, many people who attend lan events get the game as well. Valve can't afford to not give these teams beta keys if they want to promote Dota 2, since China/Singapore etc have some of the biggest LAN / Online events.

 

[xi0]

Who cares, it'll always be inferior anyways

Plus, I heard something stupid. People don't even play ranged carries in the game or some nonsense.

 

[ibra87]

Wtf xD That's like what I've heard about LoL, everyone just pushes his lane, no one groups together to push. Of the preliminaries I've watched 3 games today, in all 3 ranged carries were picked (Moon Queen, and in 2 games Gyrocopter).

 

[xi0]

Wtf xD That's like what I've heard about LoL, everyone just pushes his lane, no one groups together to push. Of the preliminaries I've watched 3 games today, in all 3 ranged carries were picked (Moon Queen, and in 2 games Gyrocopter).

Moon Queen? Isn't that a HoN champ? I looked up the Dota equivalent and it's Luna the Moon Rider or something. I was expecting to see something similar to Diana, only to find something closer to Sejuani

That's another thing, Dota characters all have horrendous names...lol

And what people do in games sort of depends on their proficiency at it. The higher elo the game is, the more strategy will actually be display...usually.

 

[ibra87]

Moon Queen = Luna, (nobody actually bothers with "the moon rider" ). Who cares about the names, I dislike both Dota and LoL names...
Pretty much HoN back in the day before Dota was announced was just porting heroes from Dota and renaming them / changing a few skills. Then as soon as Dota 2 got announced, Riot + Valve + S2 (HoN) went to court to settle that no one may steal from no one, and the golden age of Imbalance in HoN began ¨


Another very prominent ranged carry is Shadow Fiend. Unlike Luna he's actually fun to watch, especially when played by the best (Dendi etc.).


Thing is, many tmm'ers nowadays in Dota 2 (and especially in HoN) in the EU are tryhards, so they group up and push from the beginning, often turning the tide of the game. We call it the pub train.

 

[xi0]

Dull...so dull

 

[ibra87]

Your mind just can't perceive its awesomeness

go watch your Tryndamere. I'll go enjoy clash of the Dota Titans!

 

[xi0]

Your mind just can't perceive its awesomeness

go watch your Tryndamere. I'll go enjoy clash of the Dota Titans!

Tryndamere is so badass...and I have him, but I don't really play him.

 

[Doraku]

As a guy who played DotA 1 for three years, the new DotA's overall design just looks too artificial for my eyes. I don't know why, but it seems DotA 2's character designs are something that I need to get used to for a while. Hell, even when I started LoL, I had pretty similar complaint, but at least now LoL is more familiar to my eyes.

---------- Post added at 09:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:46 AM ----------

Tryndamere is so badass...and I have him, but I don't really play him.

Never play melee carry.