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[xi0]

Why? I never played against humans

 

[Doraku]

Ori is really good, personally I found it to be better than.. Child of Light? though I am aware that both of them are not necessarily belong to the same genre.

 

[xi0]

So I was a bit behind with the Telltale GoT game. Episode 3 recently came out, but I hadn't played the second episode yet. Grinded through the second episode last night, and I have to say that I'm into it now. The first episode was good, but didn't really "grab" me. I guess I'm a bit more invested now.

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Caught up now. Kinda of sick and tired of the story at Ironrath...it's just too ridiculously overdone.

Also, the game is based a bit too much in the universe the show created for my liking.

 

[FrostyMouse]

Is anyone interested in a 90% coupon for this game? http://store.steampowered.com/app/218510/

I got the coupon for completing a badge, but I have no interest in the game, so I figured that I'd give it away to anyone who's interested.

 

[Doraku]

not sure if anyone watch TI5 but goddamn Team Empire just got steamrolled so hard in game 3

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C9 tilted

 

[Faust]

Sumail!

Hoping for LGD vs. EG finals.

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E-Home! The one and only.

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Virtus pro snowball and no hard carry threat in complexity. GG.

 

[Doraku]

LGD isn't as dominating as I expected lol, btw GG to Team Secret, glad that they could beat a top tier team

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wow team Secret too OP

 

[Faust]

Five teams remaining, 3 of them Chinese teams.

An LGD vs. EG finals is still possible. Sylar + Maybe vs. Fear + Sumail.

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EG vs. LGD not finals though :/ Winner faces CDEC in the finals.

CDEC beat both of them, 2-0 [Bo3] in the Upper Bracket.

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Sumail ultra!

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Requiem + Call Down Combo! Sylar ultra!

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That EG Wombo Combo!!!

http://cdn2.streamable.com/video/kyse.webm

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Congratulations Evil Geniuses!

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[xi0]

Wait, isn't Fear a carry? Wtf is he going to do with Sumail and Arteezy on the team now? lol

Funny thing is ppd was joking on Twitter about needing a good NA 1 player, and everyone assumed Fear was retiring...LOL...nice org, really classy.

 

[Doraku]

Wait, isn't Fear a carry? Wtf is he going to do with Sumail and Arteezy on the team now? lol

Funny thing is ppd was joking on Twitter about needing a good NA 1 player, and everyone assumed Fear was retiring...LOL...nice org, really classy.

Arteezy is a better #1 than Fear, IMHO... now Fear is going to be a support lol

 

[xi0]

Arteezy is a better #1 than Fear, IMHO... now Fear is going to be a support lol

I know positions are way more flexible and called 1-5 based on how much gold they get...but that's about as much as I know as far as Dota2 meta goes. I guess a 1 is always Mid? 2 lanes with a 5 (Support)? a 3 is the solo offlaner? And the 4 is a Jungler/Support? Because Sumail looked like a hard carry in the limited time I watched TI5.

Yeah I remember watching Free To Play and I've been aware of the guy for a while. I wonder if that'll work at all...

 

[Doraku]

I know positions are way more flexible and called 1-5 based on how much gold they get...but that's about as much as I know as far as Dota2 meta goes. I guess a 1 is always Mid? 2 lanes with a 5 (Support)? a 3 is the solo offlaner? And the 4 is a Jungler/Support? Because Sumail looked like a hard carry in the limited time I watched TI5.

Yeah I remember watching Free To Play and I've been aware of the guy for a while. I wonder if that'll work at all...

Generally 2 is mid, usually they're alone, but in competitive pro setting they usually get help from #4 (which is considered as a "roaming support".. (I guess it's pretty similar to Jungle in LoL lingo). 1 is a hard carry (ADC) who lanes with hard support (5). At TI sometimes Arteezy played a #2 champion (Shadow Fiend) but in general he plays hard carry heroes like Anti Mage etc.

3 is difficult to define.. I think. Primarily it is a role for engager heroes (Spirit Breaker/Clockwerk) or heroes who can still be useful even though they are starving for gold, but it is possible for 3 to play as quasi 4 too, so to speak.

 

[Faust]

What Doraku said, Fear is moving to Position 4, Farming Support.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3h1uco/aui_2000_claims_he_was_kicked_from_eg/cu3hvfo

CDEC was forced to ban Techies and Naga Siren in the finals because of Aui then use the remaining 3 bans to Sumail's heroes, that's a big reason why EG win almost all the draft in the finals, except the one where Sumail picked Windrunner.

1 - Hard Carry (Easy Lane)
2 - Mid
3 - Offlaner (Hard Lane)
4 - Farming Support
5 - Hard Support

Here's the position/role guides in the Dota Channel:

 

[xi0]

So it's pretty much exactly what I thought...thanks


Also, what happened to Faust hating Dota2? First he's like Dota1 only, then he's playing LoL and now since the TI was on he's into Dota2 again...???

 

[Faust]

TI5 is a great tournament. The teams are so stacked (6 Chinese Teams out of 16) compared to the forced "every region have a representative in the LoL World Championship format." I also liked the 2 groups of 8 Best of Two elimination round robin. Followed by the Main Event Winner/Loser playoff bracket seeding format. All 16 teams competing in the playoffs. The Wild Card Winners and the Teams that qualified through the regional are also contenders not just the teams that were invited. CDEC Gaming (Wild Card Team) made it all the way to the finals and through the winner's bracket on top of that.

LCS and LoL's global popularity kind of ruined the LoL World Championship I guess. Riot focused too much on getting the World Championship to be a "global" event by having represetatives from every region even though their chance of winning the tournament against the more powerful regions is pretty much zero. The International is much more competitive than the LoL World Championship. DoTA being played competitively in a select few countries/regions (China, CIS, NA, EU, SEA) compared to LoL's global success is great for The International. And the prize pool is insane.

I played Dota 2 this late July with my younger brother before his laptop got charger/power problems again. It was fun. I miss the things that are not present in LoL, the heroes are all free to play no free rotation / buy the champion before you can play bull shit making LoL not really a free-to-play game in a sense. the river runes, tougher to kill/destroy more aggresive creeps/towers compared to LoL minions/turrets, more diverge carries, int mid, range agi mid, str hard carry and melee agi hard carry than the typical AP+AD carry in LoL. Agi/Str carries becomes tankier in the late game making them, carries harder to kill in the late game compared to LoL's high AP/ high damage 80-100% crit ADCs with no defense stats. I still don't like the blink abuse in DoTA though, 12 second cooldown blink dagger. And blade mail, fuck blade mail!

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https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3h2oxx/postti5_reshuffle_megathread/cu3q7u3

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/3h2oxx/postti5_reshuffle_megathread/cu3qxtm

Gabe RR Newell

 

[xi0]

TI5 is a great tournament. The teams are so stacked (6 Chinese Teams out of 16) compared to the forced "every region have a representative in the LoL World Championship format." I also liked the 2 groups of 8 Best of Two elimination round robin. Followed by the Main Event Winner/Loser playoff bracket seeding format. All 16 teams competing in the playoffs. The Wild Card Winners and the Teams that qualified through the regional are also contenders not just the teams that were invited. CDEC Gaming (Wild Card Team) made it all the way to the finals and through the winner's bracket on top of that.

I wasn't comparing the two games, I distinctly remember you saying you hated Dota2 and LoL...OG Dota only. Then you randomly started playing LoL and following the the pro scene. Now you're doing the same with Dota2...where were you last TI? lol

LCS and LoL's global popularity kind of ruined the LoL World Championship I guess. Riot focused too much on getting the World Championship to be a "global" event by having represetatives from every region even though their chance of winning the tournament against the more powerful regions is pretty much zero. The International is much more competitive than the LoL World Championship. DoTA being played competitively in a select few countries/regions (China, CIS, NA, EU, SEA) compared to LoL's global success is great for The International. And the prize pool is insane.

How has it ruined it? Have you even been around to watch one WC? (I really can't remember) Ruined it how? Having competitive leagues in multiple scenes doesn't ruin competition. The issue originally was not having enough International competition, but Riot has changed that and have also been expanding the field of the WC as well.

This is coming from someone who doesn't watch every league every week and doesn't wish to either. I'm usually bored of LCS after the first few weeks and want the playoffs already.

I played Dota 2 this late July with my younger brother before his laptop got charger/power problems again. It was fun. I miss the things that are not present in LoL, the heroes are all free to play no free rotation / buy the champion before you can play bull shit making LoL not really a free-to-play game in a sense. the river runes, tougher to kill/destroy more aggresive creeps/towers compared to LoL minions/turrets, more diverge carries, int mid, range agi mid, str hard carry and melee agi hard carry than the typical AP+AD carry in LoL. Agi/Str carries becomes tankier in the late game making them, carries harder to kill in the late game compared to LoL's high AP/ high damage 80-100% crit ADCs with no defense stats. I still don't like the blink abuse in DoTA though, 12 second cooldown blink dagger. And blade mail, fuck blade mail!

I can't really argue against that as I think the grind is stupid. But I've played enough to where it doesn't matter anymore.

Not sure what you mean about carry diversity either. You can carry from every role in LoL...whether something is a bonafide hypercarry or not depends on the champ's scaling. AP Mids and ADCs aren't the only positions with hypercarries. The only role that doesn't have a hypercarry champ is obviously Support, since that isn't what they're played for.


...well, I wasn't trying to bring up an argument over comparing them, just wondering where this newly found love came from, when you were the opposite not that long ago

 

[Faust]

Whatever.

 

[xi0]

I do like their idea of balancing though. It's clear the balancing philosophy between the two games are quite different. Seems like they micromanage things much less than Riot does.

 

[Doraku]

Not sure what you mean about carry diversity either. You can carry from every role in LoL...whether something is a bonafide hypercarry or not depends on the champ's scaling. AP Mids and ADCs aren't the only positions with hypercarries. The only role that doesn't have a hypercarry champ is obviously Support, since that isn't what they're played for.


...well, I wasn't trying to bring up an argument over comparing them, just wondering where this newly found love came from, when you were the opposite not that long ago

I think that "diversity of carries" is not the best way to describe it - it's just each one of DotA heroes has a more specialized and unique role, designated to fit certain team composition and strategy. Of course in LoL this happens as well, but the way I see it heroes - and by extension, DotA 2's meta - are more flexible when it comes to their position in DotA compared to champs in LoL.

I am not trying to imply that one thing is better or worse than the other, but Riot and Valve's approach when it comes to designing a hero/champ is quite different, thus making the comparison between two games are more intricate than what some people often say when comparing both games.

 

[xi0]

Pls no Pepsirino.....


Faust, you have my permission to start a Dota2 thread dude...