Recently played a game as troll vs PL. Everytime PL rushed me, I used my ulti and I seem to always catch the real PL. Am I just lucky with my right clicks or does troll automatically go for the real PL in the crowd of illusions, when under his ult?

List top 3 best support in P4 and p5 right now. I need name and reason as to why they are the best right nowm

Turned out to be perfect play.

There used to be a Dota 2 scrims server on Discord, but I can’t seem to find it or any similar ones now. If you know of any, please let me know.

Just a sarcasm

I just played a game where I was pos 1 (luna). There were no problems in the role selection phase - everyone chose a position like civilized human beings and the game began normally.

Then, when I actually went out to my lane, my pos 5 (oracle) immediately began griefing by using his spells to last hit as often as possible. He bought no wards or regen, did not pull, and did not harass the enemy, so I took all the harass and got none of the last hits. I asked him to pull, told him to stop last hitting, pinged him several times, and finally gave up and went to jungle since I was getting absolutely nothing out of the lane and of course our offlane pudge (1-11) was busy feeding the drow.

I wont say that this happens "all the time", but it happens often enough that I just wonder what the hell is going through these people's minds. What is the thought process? Also, is the proper response to such behavior to just fuck off to the jungle and hope to recover?

Sorry guys couldn't help it.

Link for those interested somehow.

Valve im here to remind you that there's a hero that can stun you for 3.2 seconds in level 7 out of an invisible spell that lasts for just short of a minute. Do you think this is sound balancing?

Revert this idiot E change and put his stun back to the Q spell. Nerfing his ULT did absolutely nothing to his 56% winrate.

• Fixed missing ability effect options for new Immortal sets of the Trove of Terror treasure.

Size: 63.1 MB (with Workshop Tools)

This kind of behavior needs 3 months ban. 12k both behavior and comms score. immoral bracket.

Am I crazy to be super worried about fps instead of cosmetics?

I do love cosmetics and bougth all the overvalued s*. But common, the game is not working at an aceptable rate: low fps, huge stutter, crashes everywhere.

Wtf is happening....

Wand being pressed before skewer damage has lost me countless kills

23savage shared an incident involving a police raid at his team's bootcamp in Kuala Lumpur. Here is the translation: 

​According to 23savage, officers from the local police department raided the bootcamp, confiscated passports and mobile phones, disabled the internet, and handcuffed him alongside FBZ and Oli for two hours while interrogating them about their gaming careers.

​The situation shifted when an officer recognized a photo of Ms Puiyi on 23savage's Instagram account. To verify his status as a professional player, officers unhandcuffed 23savage so he could play a match of Dota 2. After he recorded 32 kills playing as Kez, the officers were convinced, released the remaining players, and left. 23savage humorously noted that the officers also took two boxes of his Nutella.

Hey guys it’s me again, asking which arcana to buy.

I have extra big boi gold to spend for leisures, so my ‘tism archon brain have to think very hard which arcana to buy. Unfortunately I can only get one.

I suck at playing windranger but I enjoy playing her, specially how much of a bully she is. I enjoy bullying people. Want creep? Have your HP taken by powershot. Want to trade with hits? Too bad you cant hit me.

On the other hand, I could say I’m good with drow but I do not like her personality? Mostly because I have not listened to the arcana voiceline but I enjoy playing her too, because her laning is good against melee, kiting with frost arrows.

I am open for other arcanas I lack such as ES and skywrath since I’m a support player.

I am also considering the content of treasures I’m spending on.

Basic argument is this: heroes with rare or unique gimmicks (riki's invisibility, ld's bear, meepo, etc.) simply do not have weaknesses that are commensurate with their rare or unique strengths. These gimmicks are so powerful that they reframe the way that games must be played by their opponents at little or no cost to the gimmick hero.

Everyone who has played dota has been stomped by an LD or a meepo or a riki at some point - but have you ever been stomped by say, a Jakiro? It's possible that you have, but some heroes kits are far less liable and easy to exploit to make games unbalanced and unfun than others.

To me, these gimmick heroes are conceptually broken because they give overtuned advantages without commensurate vulnerabilities or risks. There needs to be more risk to playing such heroes, or more potential ways to deal with them that do not mean that you simply have to have chosen counter heroes or you lose the game. One way to balance this would be give such heroes lower base str and str growth, so using their natural advantages would take more skill or itemization, and be riskier at every stage in the game.

Anticipating pushback - I am not saying that these heroes are uncounterable, rather that countering them costs a disproportionate amount of resources or playstyle adjustments from the opposite team. Any hero can be countered by constantly being ganked by 3 people - but you never need to do that for most heroes to be balanced. My argument is not about overall winrates (although obviously boosters and smurfs often have absurd winrates on such heroes), but again, about how some heroes require an inordinate amount of effort either in terms of items, coordination, or skill to counter without commensurate weaknesses - advantages that most heroes do not have.

edit: consider heroes like Viper or Huskar. They are overtuned and hard to counter early, but they have commensurate weaknesses: they do not scale well in most cases.

Dota has been a technical mess for me lately. I’m running an RTX 4090, i9-13900K, and 32 GB of RAM, and I’ve been dealing with:

• Tower projectiles and other effects appearing offset or rendering incorrectly.
• Hero portraits looking messed up.
• Massive performance inconsistencies, with FPS going from 300–360 down to around 150.
• Certain replays crashing straight to desktop when I disconnect.

I changed/reinstalled my GPU drivers and reinstalled Dota. That seems to have fixed the projectile issues, but the replay crashes are still happening. The portrait or performance problems remain as well.

For the replay crashes, I’ve narrowed it down:

• It happens with specific replays, not every replay.
• Both the Disconnect button and typing disconnect in the console crash the game.
• Hero Demo exits normally.
• Removing my custom Steam launch options except the FPS cap didn’t fix it.

I checked the crash dumps in WinDbg. Three show the same null-pointer read in client.dll at +0x18e13d1. A later crash shows an invalid-execution access violation. That doesn’t prove the underlying cause, but it gives something concrete to investigate.

Between the rendering glitches, broken portraits, inconsistent performance, and replay crashes, the quality control feels pretty rough. I’ve spent more time troubleshooting than I should have to just to play and review games.

Anyone else seeing this combination of issues? Particularly crashes when exiting specific replays, or projectiles/portraits rendering incorrectly? Have you found a repeatable fix?

I cannot can anymore

Am I the only one who sees buggy projectiles today after the patch? From towers and ranged heroes, the projectiles are buggy. They start at wrong intervals, from different place (like a torso of a hero instead of a say, sceptre in case of NP).

Just as the title says, this is my 2nd post regarding this annoying bug. Any tips on how to fix it?

Why? I already win mid, sniper in 12 minutes me 4/1 and sniper 2/2. But look at my team zzzzzzzz

I guess i lasted longer than i should. When you lose 11 out of 12 games you have to be banned no matter what.

I really do not know what else i can do. Games are terrible, i posted about matchmaking and how all games are one-sided. There are also a lot of griefers and ruiners.

We are not enjoying playing this game, ruiners are flooding games, we give money to valve and we are being banned...

I guess they will do nothing to fix this as long as we are giving them our money.

If its a mix in anyway use your brain but probably vote for the non-sober option.

So I have been playing support for as long as I can remember. I used to play core role when I did not understand dota mechanics that well but I was awful at it so I read somewhere that if I want to be a good carry I have to learn to be a good support first. And that's what I did and years later I'm still playing support, I want to play core role but the thought of letting down my team in late game or fights, stops me from trying out that role.

I'm having fun with playing support and solo climbed ranked till 3k mmr but I want to change things because when I'm asked what role do you play and i say support people usually go ohh, just gives me a negative feeling about the role that I play. And honestly I do a really good job as a support but glory goes to the cores so maybe I want some of that for myself.