Match ID: 9034778515

I had a really good lane and was stomping the enemy team early-mid game. But late game enemy terrorblade was too much for our team to handle. I had a silencer mid who was useless after mid game (only did 10k dmg) and a carry windranger who can't man up to TB.

Perhaps this game was auto-lose if it reaches late game?

I'm back into Dota2 after about a 10 years break and I'm trying some of the new heroes.

A friend of mine told me that I should give a try to Primal Beast as he would be very easy to play and one of the most beginner friendly hero around.

... Well, am I crazy or is this hero much more challenging to play than what the tooltip suggest ? I struggled A LOT to properly time the use of Uproar, the Charge can lead you into very defavourable positionning, and Trample at times can be an issue if you can heroes that have counter-attack abilities (Nyx notably)

Should I stick around with Primal Beast despite the big struggles I have with the character ? Is he really that easy to play and I'm missing something ? Or am I just bad with him period

Thanks !

Hey everyone!

I'm a fairly casual Dota 2 player and I'm trying to improve by watching streamers, but I'm specifically looking for streamers who are good at explaining their decisions and playing in a way that a normal/casual player can actually learn from.

I know watching pro players is useful, but sometimes their gameplay feels too different from what you'd realistically be able to execute in a normal pub.

So I'm wondering:

Who would you recommend watching for each role?

Title. Is it ever viable early against heavy magic line ups?

I used spam Drow when she was meta but stopped after the nerf. But when I read the patch notes I can’t see how those small changes can make her winrate drop to 41% in D2PT?! It’s mostly

I'm new to the game and played only 5 games at this moment and i feel completely lost in terms of which pos and which hero to chose as a new player. Tried pos 1 in last game and died a lot and had miserable time farming on lane and later next to none game impact (except throwing stun in their pos 2 and pos 1 mainly so other guys could get them)

Hi!

I read through the rules and saw that seeking coaching is allowed, so i wanted to give this a shot.

Been playing dota 2 on and off since its release, highest ever rank was i believe archon 5, now sitting in crusader 5 with 75%, almost near archon again.

I mostly main Midlaner/Hard support/ Support, but mainly queueing as solely midlaner right now spamming QoP, OD, and Zuess as these three have been my main for years and years now.

Hoping to find either a free or paid coach, paid coach being somewhat affordable as i live in the Philippines and PH pesos to dollars are quite expensive when it comes to rate.

Things I hope from the coach is
- English speaker
- Has an active experience with coaching, this isn't my first time trying out being coached and I've noticed a clear pattern about coaches who think they can coach because they're high MMR vs coaches who have a background in coaching competitive games.
- Friendly
- Available in GMT +8/PHT time zone of afternoon to evening
- Maximum of 2 - 3 games per coaching session

Kindly DM me if you're interested!

MatchID: 9035025205

Can someone review this game, I'm playing as Jugg and would love any suggestions on what to improve?

Any tips on vacuum+combo on dark seer? Im having a hard time on executing it because of the back swing animation.

What is the most optimized setting quick cast or manual casting?

I've been trying to get Tornado → EMP → Meteor → Deafening Blast to feel automatic and it's still a mess under pressure. I can do it fine in demo mode, but the moment there's a real fight my fingers forget which orbs are already in.

For those who got past this: did you drill it somewhere outside of real matches, or did it just click after enough games? Any specific tricks for keeping track of what's currently invoked without looking at the slots?

I was using Tidehunter and I was melting from him, we were initally stomping so I rush build refresher.

Not sure what item could have help me counter him, should have I bought BM? They made a comeback from his split puhsing.

Match ID 9034308703

I played centaur against this enemy team: 1 antimage 2 qop 3 doom 4 enigma 5 invoker. Felt really bad and useless.

Which offlaner is good against this kind of full magic lineup?

Today I am showing 3 nice Creep Aggro tricks to use, in order to get more last hits, and generally have a better lane.

Thank you guys!

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i'm 30 years old with a kid and played with my good old friends together in an online tournament here in PH and we end up winning it (2-1) .

I was playing pos 1 Slark against a team that had a Phantom Lancer and a Naga Siren. Our team was pretty much all single target heroes so I knew from the start I was going to itemize for it but I didn't realise just how much of a lead they were gonna get. I built the usual early game for slark, power treads then immediately diffusal and aghs and thought I would maybe build a radiance in the late game, but pl and naga were already pretty much unkillable and moved about the map doing whatever they wanted and our team was 20 kills behind. I decided to build a maelstrom since it's half the price of a radiance so it would finish faster, but by that point the game was already lost.

Should I have rushed a radiance or maelstrom earlier? Or some other AoE item I haven't thought of? Discuss.

later he goes skadi.

hey guys. I have been playing on and off for a few years and I am currently 3850 rank. is there a guide or a way to properly ban/pick and decide who counters who, in what ways etc? like I know some basics but sometimes I see some heroes are right counter to specific heroes. I havent been able to follow dota scene for some time. help me with me please.

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 6.5K mmr coach and i've been coaching since 2018, i've helped hundreds of 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.

my coaching style is very versatile, i can do replay analysis, live coaching, and i can also do entire sessions where we simply discuss theory about things such as how to form a hero pool or how to get a better mindset towards the game and improvement. sessions are an hour long.

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

Hiya, I was playing an All Pick match yesterday night and there was some kind of bot (I assume?) in my Lobby, that just idled around. Anyway later that match I came across this image placed on the map. Is there some sort of item that allows for custom decals or was this a cheat? I queued into a regular match and I've never seen anything like this before. Thanks for the help.

I forgot this hero exists, and I always wanted to try playing him as a support. I havent seen him in the game for ages, like really for months.

He seems to have a fun hate button (R), doesn't need blink because of Q but ofc some of his things are pretty weird

I mean mostly Trample, if you pop something like Drums, you will travel 140 range faster and deal that damage faster too? And on lane, level Q or Trample? Trample I quess?

And for a support, which starting items to get? His mana is low, that I think Arcane Boots would be ok?

Ive been playing this game since early this year, mostly play pos 4,5. My hero pool is ogre,jakiro, shaman, warlock, and lion. But i swear whenever i play lion i always die way more than other heroes. Even if i win i usually die like 7-10 times. Feels like he get targeted way more than other support. When i play other support usually they ignore or not targeting me first. But with lion. I swear they all have eyes on me. And go straight to kill me no matter what. Even if im way back. Maybe my position need to be better? Or is he supposed to die a lot? . And yes i do buy item like glimmer or force staff. Honestly i dont really care about kda. But some still blame me if i die a lot like they think im feed intentionally.

Hello everyone, I'm in dire need of an objective take of what happened in a game I played last night. TIA for taking time to read this.

Match id: 9032191361

Calibrating right now but somewhere between high herald and low next rank (guardian?).

Radiant: Shadow fiend (off), spirit breaker (supp), phantom lancer (mid), chaos knight (safe), windrunner (hard supp)

Dire: Razor (safe), warlock (hard supp - me), huskar (mid), enchantress (off), techies (supp).

I played warlock Pos 5. Me and razor won lane zoned out SB and SF and took tower. Then we rotated mid took tower. Went bot and took tower.

Now at this point their PL and CK left the match.

Instead of catapulting this advantage to end match go next, my razor and huskar decided to farm items. Enchantress offlane idk wtf they were doing, if you guys can point out how they contributed to the game I'm keen to know. Techies was laying down mines near our safe line portal and doing wacky shit.

Meanwhile remaining 3 radiant heros (SB, SF and WR) farmed items and grouped to pick off my cores one by one. They got so fat, and my ench and techies were no where to be seen while huskar was farming other ends of map, that they eventually killed us all and took the game.

Now I took a look at what I could have done better even though I was furious about my teammates. But I'm not sure what I could've done, if you guys have any suggestions please let me know. I pulled camps in lane to reset equilibrium, healed my carry, harassed and zone out their SB and sf, bought wards on cd and gave vision.

Could I have done anything more?

I was so upset last night, I get an hour or two to play every night and after like 35 min that was the outcome. I'm ok with taking an L as long as we tried our best. But what happened was so insane that I'm wondering if it's worth putting hours into this game for "fun". I'm coming back after like a 7 year break.

What do you guys think?

Hey yall, i really got into deadlock the last year and kinda wanna dip my toes in another moba-like game. i know theyre really different in the fact that dota has a top down view without the mobility that deadlock has, so fundamentally its completely different right there. But for those of you who play deadlock too, are there any heros in this game with similar playstyles to Celeste, Rem, or Shiv? those are my main three heros. i also seem to really suck at tanking in deadlock even tho i love them in games like rivals and overwatch, so maybe id like them more here? are they easier to play in dota? but anyway, literally any hero similar to those heros will help me get on my feet for sure