r/TrueDoTA2

Hello fellow degens.

Do you ever feel like you want to do something else other than obsessively analyze your replays and do Overwatch tickets between Dota games (or during TI drafts)? Do you watch SirActionSlacks lore videos and think to yourself, "I wish I could do something with this knowledge"?

Well you're in luck! I've been tinkering with a small web-based minigame which is inspired by https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections and called it https://dotafours.com/

The basic idea: 16 heroes, 4 groups of 4 heroes with a connecting trait between them.

https://preview.redd.it/skjrmexvkbkh1.png?width=676&format=png&auto=webp&s=fdb56d6012c409b685ccac51c40b21537c4f8c51

The game features 2 modes, a easy one (You get to connect heroes with the same visuals and mechanics) and a hard one (The easy one but there's also a lore category)

I've also added a community puzzle generator if you're feeling inspired.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback and adding new categories!

Earthspirit appears to be the best hero of this international. I have about 1500 Earthspirit mid games and I promise you mid Pudge is the worst matchup I've played this so many times and always feels rough heres why.

Earthspirit does not like vsing tanky cores, Pudge is ridiculously tank with infinite str scaling and high magic resistance. In lane Pudge has about 15-25 damage advantage last hitting if he goes double bracer phase boots instead of bottle. Pudge will not die by a cheeky roll into kick back into tower if he has 1 point of flesh heap. Pudge can just sit on the wave denying everything if Earthspirit uses kick to secure range creep that's a huge window to kill ES as your defense if you get hooked is kick Pudge away, you won't be able to roll away from a Pudge on you especially if he's already got phase boots, dismember + any other disable is usually enough to stop magnetize, Pudge takes literally 0 damage from magnetize if he has 4 points in flesh heap ( level 3 magnetize does like 5 damage per second ) he does not give a shit about urn + magnetize even vessel tickles him when he has flesh heap going. Earthspirit play style yoloing into the middle of a team fight Pudge will just sit on you taking no damage melting you with aghs + shivas.

So yeah mid Pudge + another tanky core like Lifestealer is aids to vs. Some other heroes are a pain in the ass for Earthspirit but they've been over nerfed or just bad: abbadon, legion commanded, qop, Huskar, omniknight, oracle, monkey King, quas wex invoker

Slark/ jug sounds good in theory because you have dispell but really Earthspirit just kills them by existing next to them they are too squishy.

I been building this item lately on pos 4 or pos 5 and it works wonder. The hard dispel caught a lot of carry off guard, especially some that don't naturally build bkb like PL, AM or LS. In this current TI, I think many game could have benefited from it instead of Hex. LGD last game, I've seen Topson build it but they just got draft issue and outplayed so hard that it doesn't matter much. Do high ranks player build it? I know the stats isn't great, so do you guys think they should change its recipe next patch?

Hello everyone, i've made these posts regularly for a while now so it's nothing new, i have some free time and i'd love to give back to the community by helping some of the people that aren't able to afford coaching usually.

I'm a 9K mmr coach and i've been coaching since 2018, i've helped over 200 students get to enjoy the game more and reach their goals while having a less stressful, more enjoyable relationship with dota. a big part of how i coach is centered around fun and feeling good, my philosophy with coaching is that for most people, the deterrent isn't the ability to learn, nor is it mechanical skill, but it's almost always consistency, and the biggest enemy of consistency is not having a good time when playing dota.

often times people force themselves to play meta heroes, to play specific roles, to do things they don't really enjoy because they believe that is the optimal way to rank up, and what i want to do is help people realize that this isn't necessarily the way to go, that you can rank up and achieve your goals while having fun, the hundreds of people i've coached are proof of that, and i am proof of that myself, as i've always just played what i enjoyed no matter what.

Feel free to dm me to chat and schedule something together, thank you for reading!

Pretty new to earth spirit.

I try to look at dotabuff. And the skills builds and items can be very varied.

Sometimes people max roll over grip, some get only one level in roll and then max grip (but in both cases, maxing smash first).

As for items, I am so overwhelmed.

He has such a flexible variety of items.

Blood Stone, Shivas, Heart, Octarine, Kaya and Sange, BKB, vessel, Blade Mail, Wind Waker, Croziers, Radiance

Not accounting for boots.

Any tips from pro ES? I archon noob.

Hi everyone! Astini here, I am former Pari coach (Top 3 TI 2025, Top 6 TI 2024 with C9 and Top 8 TI 2023 with Nouns).

I did a video analysis about macro at the current TI. Let me know if you guys enjoy and I will do more! Thanks

Good afternoon,

Hi all dota2 player in here, i was dota2 player who takes a break for almost 3 years. Im doing it because need to set my real life to become more stabile. And the good news now my real life already restored and i can play dota again.

So the question here is, what should i learn and start first? I usually pos1 and i found map is totally change, and the pattern of farm must be changed too right? And now i just wanna play 1-3 hero with main hero was Arc Warden, and can u guys suggest hero with more relaxing gameplay? I mean no need to micro things. And tell me more what the newest changing things in this game.

Best regard,

Old Guy

Ive been mentally keeping track for several years, and ive yet to win a single game like this.

Has anyone ever just been carried by an actually good 4 stack? Is there any hope at all?

Match ID: 8953624407

Slardar who has first blood and an XP lead decides to TP mid and disrupt our Zeus because I was ganking and stealing DK's runes.

His main reason for throwing was that I "was helping mid more than Offlane"

For reference, the Waves were crashing on our side, which is why he has a level lead over the Safelane, and the Windrunner has no killthreat on him before Level 6, so I was much more focused on giving the Zeus a running start and we already killed the DK once. I was just roaming for the first Power Rune when Slardar has enough Solo Laning and decided to TP mid and steal Zeus' lane.

Naturally we adjusted first and Zeus started laning offlane and he's two level above the safelane so we were ok at first until we see Slardar die to the overleveled DK back to back and then he started ganking and it snowballed from there.

I am just, so flaberghasted and naturally could only do so much to salvage as a support. But the enemies' tempo lineup went online and they got megacreeps before 40 mins.

When asking the Slardar, he could not coherently reply with a justification for his throw, and could only fling racist insults at us in broken English.

It's the first time I'm using the avoid player feature using Dota Plus.

I’m genuinely confused by this.
In the TI draft, teams are repeatedly first/second/third picking Necrophos, but Ancient Apparition doesn’t seem to be getting the priority I’d expect.
AA seems like such a natural answer to Necro because Ice Blast completely shuts down his sustain/healing, especially once Necro starts getting tanky and relying on his regen/heal to stay alive.
Am I missing something about the current matchup/meta?
Is AA actually not that good against Necro in practice, or are teams valuing the rest of the draft more highly? It feels weird seeing Necro get picked so early without AA being immediately considered as a counter.

I have no idea if this is even allowed here. But I got tired of reading through update releases and trying to figure out the nuances of what all the item and character nerfs/buffs meant. So I attempted to build a tool with AI to take the latest DOTA 2 release notes and make them more digestible.

Probably a bit overkill to be honest. Not entirely sure how accurate or worthwhile it is. Might just wait for others more prominent Dota folks to summarise it and drop a YouTube channel.

Curious to hear what you all think..

Not picked at TI.

As a core he's just suboptimal, farms super slowly, doesn't have a strong lane, lacks damage. He has some safety with his ult and can avoid dying with blink basically as his strong points, wraith king is way better. His Q is pretty useless as core.

As a support he's a walking dispel on a 6 second cooldown which is strong, but that's basically all he brings. Not a strong laner, shield uses a ton of mana. His ags is good but not amazing and its hard for him to afford it. mist coil is ok, no hard cc. Can carry auras if he can afford them I guess and offlaner doesn't want them.

His shard sucks and his shield only blocks 210 damage max rank.

His stat gain is also pretty trash with 2.6/1.5/2.0. His passive reduces healing but you have to get them low for it to work.

I seriously don't see the value of these items. The laning stage isn't as long as it used to be. I always pick up a Wand and Wind Lace, these small stat items just delay the big items.

Nulls+Bracer can be combined in a single slot as Falcon Blade which is even better for Mana Regen

Wraith Band feels completely pointless, if you're an AGI carry you die to magic dmg which the armor is useless against. It also doesn't help that much with jungling. The slot you waste on WB could have gone to Gloves of Haste for your Treads

1. innate "Big Game Hunter" reworked: allow Jinada/Track kills to steal reliable gold from heroes/hero units that don't have unreliable gold.
2. "Shuriken Toss": cast animation 0.73 > 0,5 sec, cast range 375/425/475/525 (600 with scepter) > 700 (900 with Scepter), base magic dmg 100/170/240/310 > 75/150/225/300, move speed slow 100%/duration 0.35 (0,95 lvl 10 talent) > 1 sec, cd 5 > 10/8/6/4, mana cost 75/85/95/105 > 55/70/85/100.
3. Scepter buff "Shuriken Toss" cast range by 200, add "Jinada" proc to each "Shuriken Toss" bounce/1200 radius between "Track" units and add 100% attack dmg as bonus "Shuriken Toss" dmg.
4. "Jinada" reworked: passively steal unreliable 10/20/30/40 gold every attack from heroes/hero units (no cd), active add 1% attack dmg based on "Big Game Hunter" (passive gold steal don't go on cd after active used), cd 9/7/5/3 > 10/8/6/4.
5. "Shadow Walk/shard upgrade" same.
6. "Track" reworked: cast range 1000 > 1200 (give shared vision/true sight to allies, allow to see tracked enemy Nw, don't break "Shadow walk"), for 25 sec increase dmg taken by 8%/12%/16% > 10%, cd 6/5/4 > 10/7/4, "Track" steal target gold of heroes who participate in enemy kills, gold steal bounty/hero: 35/60/85 (1st take unreliable gold > reliable), 20% of all Track gold stolen from enemy add to "Big Game Hunter".
7. (as example lvl 3 ult with lvl 15 talent: when 5 heroes kill track target it would steal from enemy 500 gold and give each of your teammates 100 gold).
8. Talents:

lvl 10 +15% "Track" all gold stolen add to "Big Game Hunter" vs "Shuriken Toss" +1.5 sec slow.

lvl 15 -30% Dmg reduction during "Shadow walk" vs +15 "Track" gold steal.

lvl 20 "Jinada" active +2% dmg of "Big Game Hunter" vs "Track" dmg amp +0.05% "Big Game Hunter".

lvl 25 "Big Game Hunter" add 2% gold stolen to "Shuriken Toss" base dmg vs "Jinada" gold steal +60.

Trying to sell this 3x Aug 22-23 TI ticket Shanghai ,China
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Are you tired of having shit teammates that give up min 10 and tilt everyone. Do you feel you are better than those around you and just want other people that like to seriously grind after work and win games and even if lose try their best. I am sick of every game being given up in the first 10 mins and everyone afk farming. I am ancient 4 rank and am looking for people in NA that would like to grind mmr together. Serious people that can use mic and help each other get better and play to win. I would like to make a discord where we can all find the right teammates that can use mic and try hard. HMU if you guys in North America are interested :)

Why so many 322 games nowadays? I don't understand. I got 3 consecutive 322 games now. Mostly Chinese players doing it. Dota is not fun anymore, I'm not enjoying the game even if I lose it.

Heya, wondering if there are any watch-parties in Shanghai for unlucky few who failed to purchase TI tickets, but still found themselves in Shanghai? 😅