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Need suggestions on how Veno’s rework works against the Meta. I’ve tried several it combos for P4/5 and nothing works. He’s no longer the plague God but more of a mosquito. Plz help.

Little friends is the current aghanim of Enchantress. It makes all nearby creeps attack a unit with bonus attack speed and move speed, but also, most importantly it roots a hero for MINIMUM of 2 seconds from decent range (very likely it's at least twice as long if a creep wave or a camp or two are nearby), which is also undispellable. Creeps attacking the target aren't negligeble either, in early game they're pretty strong and can melt hero. In some situations this spell is a winters curse on 20 seconds cooldown.

So, is it rushable? I check pro tracker and people often just go boots into aghs and win from offlane/mid, but this hero isn't really great at securing areas without aghanims, and even with untouchable needs some vision and front lane to work. Have you seen anyone successfully master aghs enchantress, and really, how strong is it?

Hey guys, GymCarryDota here

I made a quick 1-minute breakdown on two mechanical tricks that can easily win you the mid lane or side lanes:

Casting spells from the Fog of War so the enemy gets 0 stick charges (great against Bristle, Batrider, or general spam).

Watching the enemy's stick charges when you cast from fog to instantly know if they have a high-ground or lane ward.

It's a small detail, but abusing this makes a massive difference in high-MMR laning control. Hope it helps your pub games!

P.S. I'm actively trying to build a positive, educational Dota community. If you found this helpful and want to learn more, hang out on streams, or just connect with other players trying to improve, you can find all my socials here:

https://linktr.ee/gymcarry.

Would love to see you there!

I have been loving ES (cool taunt) recently and I play him mid.

How do I play him actively without getting behind?

I noticed there are two kinds of game I experience. Either I'm owning ( because successful rotation) or i fed ( bad rotation, fail ganks, behind in items).

Usual item progression is:

1. Boots
2. Wand
3. Vessel
4. BKB or Blademail
5. Heart or octarine or shivas
6. Aghs

Feel free to suggest more items for certain situations

More questions:

1. When do you buy bloodstone?
2. Stone management ( we usually lose fights if I low on rocks)
3. Other techs?
4. How to play from behind
5. When to buy blink

Thank you ES enjoyers. YOU ROCK

who yall think would win today in the dreamleague

tundra vs virtus
bb team vs vici gaming

I've started playing again after like 6 years away. I used to be 6k (which was good then), but now I get to experience what it was like to be new and bad again as I've fallen to Archon. I have been a big Invoker spammer, so I'm always interested in how he's doing.

Seems like Invoker is doing quite well this patch, but everyone is playing him as Exort. I always thought that a faster meta would encourage QW Invoker, since he can more easily rotate and have an early impact, but the game has changed so much since I've last played. Midas seems to have been replaced by Meteor Hammer, which I'm a fan of, and I even liked it years ago to give Invoker wave clear and tower pressure that he severely lacked (though now with his Tornado aghs and the Ice Wall talent he actually seems pretty good at wave clear).

TLDR: How do I play morphling in a losing game with no split push potential?

Imagine this. Enemy lineup is mid Huskar, an outscaling hard carry (antimage or faceless) and supports joining every skirmish. My mid hero got ganked by enemy support at 6 minutes while my hard support soaked xp and attempted to kill and unkillable enemy offlaner. I get a late manta (say 22 minutes worst case).

At this point I seem to have to push the enemy waves and get the attention of the enemy team so that my team can farm. The probelm is that the illusions can be killed by even a single support and I am then hunted down through my retreating farming pattern. would it not be better to afk farm their safelane jungle and not push waves (save manta for a skirmish if it happens?).

It seems that morphling just cannot team fight when his other cores get burst by non ultimate spells? Need some unique ideas on how to win games like these.

If you're interested: Here are some strats I HAVE tried:

1. Buying manta into pike. This allows deep split pushing with good escape (pike->waveform->TP). Problems are damage and lack of lockdown or slow, which I could get from skadi.
2. Joining team fights with the sole purpose of being a tank (shifitng to high strength). The reason this is sometimes viable is because the enemy will use their spells on me and my team can then have a chance at an even trade (not sacrificing myself here though.). The danger here is that I have no damage and will be kited for eternity once my team has any kind of advantage in the team fight.
3. Buying bkb after manta and going backline to kill supports and tank spells. Problems are vast and varied, from lack of damage to no lockdown to no burst, and then enemy supports having kiting items or invis from glimmer. I can carry dust but it is still unlikely I can kill a support, mostly just tank.
4. Skipping vlads for just a morbid mask straight into manta. After recent changes to morphling vlads doesnt benefit him as much since his base stats were heavily nerfed in the first 20 minutes of the game, especially between min 12-20, which is when the enemy snowball really starts going.

Just found out that mophing into slardar procs bash of the deep AND basher, which slardar himself does not do. True infinite stun

When playing CK how do you balance farming and fighting with Phantasm? Until you have Manta using Phantasm to farm is kind of a necessity. But I'm also curious how you use it mid to late game in terms of farming vs fighting it feels like I use Phantasm on waves at the wrong times and fights break out because of it without me there.

Hello, I recently woke up from a coma and came back to Dota after around 4 years away. I’ve been playing again for about a month now and these are some things I’ve noticed:

I expected there to be way more arcanas and skins by now, but apparently there’s no Battle Pass anymore. Honestly that feels a bit sad, but I understand the game is slowly declining over time.

I actually like the new map. There’s a lot more jungle to farm and it allows for more ganks and movement around the map, although I’m not a huge fan of some of the new neutral items.

The new heroes feel a bit soulless compared to the older ones, but I still appreciate the effort from Valve.

The lack of new players is very noticeable. I used to be Crusader V / Archon I on my main account years ago, and now I’m Herald/Guardian. It’s honestly fascinating you see people with thousands of hours still stuck in Herald and Guardian. I guess it’s because the overall playerbase is much better now, and most “new players” you see are just smurfs.

On my secondary account I used to be Ancient III, and now I calibrated at Legend IV. The amount of bought accounts is insane. While low ranks are full of smurfs, higher ranks feel full of account buyers. Still, games are easier to carry there because people don’t give up as quickly. I’m already getting close to Ancient again.

In Europe barely anyone speaks English anymore. Every match is just Russians everywhere.

I’m also surprised by the amount of meme builds and completely stupid drafts people go for nowadays. Sometimes you already know the game is lost during the draft phase. On my main account matches feel like flipping a coin, there’s barely any excitement left.

No matter how much time passes, Dota is still Dota.

Trying to learn this hero but I just feel like my damage late game kind of falls off. So if I don’t get ahead and stay ahead I have trouble winning late with him. Whereas if I’m Storm Spirit I feel like I can carry late like my last 2 games where I carried despite my sidelines getting stomped.

How are you doing damage late? With remnants and Aghs? Any other tips?

pavise-mekansm-locket-glimmer-aghanims-octarine core-lotus orb-hurricane pike-halberd(progression after selling some of the early items)...aim is deal consistent magical damage while playing team mindgames/low hp saves and saving either yourself and/or allies... Is communism as usual in irony land - trying to save everyone => less overall saving/winrate while capitalism => hero gaming => saves everyone better...huskar is chosen because he is not the typical burst heroes fast pos 1 carry and has below 50% winrate.

Pango gains 80% magic resist during ult so he doesn't benefit fully from all damage barrier, atleast while ulting.

Void Spirit is sorta marketed as THE universal hero. So it also makes sense he gets a universal damage barrier.

I think there's a lot of factors that can contribute to you playing at 100% your potential wondering what other players do.

Like for me I cannot play with cold hands, i need warm clothes on, desk clean of clutter, spend a few minutes in demo csing before i queue my first game of the day, close all my internet tabs so I'm not tempted to alt tab when dead, if I get cheesed middle I say in my head "this guy is so bad he needs to pick Huskar to try cheese me" and then i high five him constantly to show im not tilted, I mute my team the second i recognise they're projecting rather than saying anything useful, I dont tell my team if i'm owning my lane cause then they're more likely to play sloppy, sometimes the in game music makes me feel stressed so i turn it off, I praise my supports if they're active and not bots, if i completely flop on a hero i first pick it the next game to redeem myself, if i feel an enemy is tilted I will focus them harder like gank them the second the TP into a lane sometimes they're a thread away from giving up or throwing, if an enemy is tilted an all chatting their team is bad i will egg them on a little so they continue wasting their time.

Without adding too much personal opinion/whine about what I think DK's problems are regarding getting him balanced and fun, I think he is often times unbalanced if either his early game sustain or late game damage is buffed.

So maybe instead of adjusting his damage, icefrog can simultaneously improve the big scary dragon fantasy (dragons attack/defend castles) and take care of some mobility issues while improving situational utility so he can be played even when his damage is not busted.

The core idea: Have dragon form leveling change TP interaction. Make a cool flaming dragon TP animation. I have an outline of some ideas that could be picked and chosen from:

1. TPs finish faster
2. TPs are cheaper/free from shop
3. TPs cool down faster
4. TPs cause towers to inherit dragon's blood innate armor for tp duration
5. TPs no longer cost mana
6. TPs do not cause sequential TP penalty
7. Anything else you could suggest

This can help DK farm without improving team fight capability and late game output, encourage team play and communication, and gives accessible counter play options for heavy split-push, potentially enabling the buffing of split push heroes.

Thoughts?

Been at 13.5k for a while and coaching players on the side for 3-4 years now.

I pull up your replay or coach you live while you play — laning, macro, decision making, mental game, whatever the actual issue is. No generic advice.

First session is free. Drop a comment or DM if you're interested.

I’m learning ES and I feel like I get messed up with my positioning after using a spell when he moves to auto attack. How do you guys deal with it?

Or do you look for other things such as hero picks, mmr bracket, solo or party queue, music choice, active chatters?

I feel like there aren’t too many English based streamers for Dota right now apart from Gorgc and a few others so I’m wondering if people are generally happy with the options on Twitch right now and if it’s just me that feels this way.