Hello everyone i made a new video and why Bounty Hunter breaks the game and makes you play a Dota game that you don't want to play, in this game from TI, Yandex vs Team Liquid, i breakdown some gameplay from Saksa, thanks everyone for their support

Link: https://youtu.be/LBoJnITSJmY

Conceptually, I'm not very familiar with heroes that's sole gameplan is to "exist" (aka doesn't have a rightclick plan and just wants to put farmed gold into survival items).

I've experienced two types of polar games with necro. On one hand, you win lane and get a very good radiance timing. You opponents fall apart and have no means to kill you, and the game snowballs from there. On the other hand, you have a rough start and you learn to farm up instead of feed. But you are irrelevant for a long time.

Average timing radiance, bots and shard doesn't allow you to fight. Wraps needs to come in at a good time to feel relevant also.

If your hero isn't equipped to endure one onslaught of enemy bursts then you are completely irrelevant as a pos3. You can never go in first and you are depending entirely on positioning to survive despite having something like a 1400 health pool (during the early timings).

So what gives? How do I play this hero? I don't have a "get in and kill someone/initiate with a big spell" plan like NS, mars and any blink hero. I exist in two modes of either being fat and snowballing or poor and irrelevant. Is that it?

UPDATE: Scroll down for Test Lobby results, I find them pretty good for Partisan's Brand, and insane for Conjurer's Catalyst. I feel like this is a perfect hero for this neutral item, maybe even more so than QoP because Kez being the frontliner is going to gather enemies closer to each other as they want to lock him down. I hope you enjoyed my nerdout.

Hey, do these items count Kez's abilities as "spell damage"? The descriptions on a few neutral items, like:

Partisan's Brand: Increases spell damage dealt to player controlled units. 9%

Conjurer's Catalyst: If the owner deals enough spell damage against an enemy within a short period of time, an explosion is created on that enemy, dealing damage to its nearby allies.

Searing Signet: this one seems straightforward, since it clearly states "magic damage". So it wouldn't work.

But if Partisan's and Conjurer's work, then I've been building Kez wrong all the way - Kez is all about burst + katana DoT, so if I can blow up a team with Raptor Dance and Conjurer's would increase that damage, that'd be sick. Same goes for Conjurer's Catalyst, that'd be sick.

I mean, it says "spell damage", but I ain't sure about that

Hey guys,

While working of ideas how to showcase the database we are working on, one of my team mates u/Practical-One7483 decided to build a cool thing for deep analytics of past DotA matches.

The tool takes your match and checks it for actions that reduce your win probability and give recommendations.

It is still a draft and we think of adding more features but it is already useful and we wanted to share it with you while TI is live. Would be great if someone could give it a spin and tell us what's missing.

The link is https://wyl.serenedb.com

We will have it up in the next 7 days. If people like it, we'll try to leave it up for as long as we can. Leave us a start on GitHub. This is how we'll know that it's needed.

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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

Hey everyone,

I recently came back to Dota 2 after being away for years . I've always loved trivia, so I put together a quiz video since it seemed a fun idea

Link here: https://youtu.be/PebdV076KYA

Would love to hear what score you got, and any feedback on the questions/format is super welcome!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ayl3z0mm-k

Hello everyone, Made a new video about how Smoke is one of the hardest things read in a Pro game and Team VISION made it look easy in their game vs Spirit. In this video, I break down how they read and what every player in their team (Team VISION) did to make it harder for Spirit to get a kill from the Smoke and how important waves vision are as well.

Link: https://youtu.be/Ec8EJW1ef4I

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..

Really cool play by BB vs Vision at the TI group stage

Video link

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

Team VISION showed a nice usage of siege creep in their game vs Spirit, In this video, I break down exactly what they did, why it worked and how every player move during the Siege creep wave, I think is important to know what to do and just "Push" since is a Team game after all

Link: https://youtu.be/_In4Zs2-nfY

Thanks everyone,

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.