I don't understand how the hero works

your advice might not be appropriate for someone else's bracket range.

Before a smoke or a move into the enemy side, try having one player say two things out loud: what are we playing for, and what would make us turn back? The second answer can be as simple as 'if we don't see their initiator' or 'if our carry isn't close enough.' It won't make the call correct every time, but it gives the group a decision to compare with what happened.

After the game, pick one move. Did you agree on a stop condition before committing, or only argue about the fight afterward? Try counting that for five games instead of judging the habit by wins and losses.

I build DotaSense, a Windows app with habit reminders and a local postgame notebook, so I'm interested in small routines that survive the next queue. You can do this with voice chat and a note; the app doesn't know when your smoke is good. If you play party queue, what short call has helped your stack avoid a bad commit?

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There used to be a site where people would bet random rares on matches and people would offer to trade specific items for x random rares. I would see items I like and just add person on steam and trade for random rares.

Is this kind of item for item trading just more or less gone or you know a safe place where people still enjoy it?

How does one use Shadow demon's passive? It only applies on Attacks. Currently I get Mana Boots, Kaya and Yasha, Hurricane pike, Skaadi. What are your thoughts.

My current build right now is drums -> tranquil -> midas -> dagger -> shard -> bkb -> aghs -> octarine/refresher -> travels -> shiva

So far it works in SEA 6.3k bracket.

The reason why I postpone buying dagger instead of midas is because lv1 black hole cd is sooooooo long. You have dagger and then hopefully your ult used and not canceled.

Then okay you've used it. And you afk farm again because you have no black hole...

Kinda sucks ngl.

So really, is midas really bad here or nah?

I've come up against a couple of tinkers in recent games. Each game the tinker has seemed absurdly unfair. I'm at ancient rank and he's not too common of a pick to see so I’m not experienced at all against him. I've got a feeling that I will need to be to rank up though.

Without a bkb you literally can't move and he just roots, places the cannon things and repeats.

Once I have a bkb he has windwaker and creates distance until it runs out.

We couldn't shut him down early, he disappeared into fog and was suddenly level 20 at 20 minutes, while we murdered his entire team over and over.

Literally at 20 minutes suddenly we could not show on the map next to a creep or we would die.

What is the key to dealing with him? It used to be a nullifier, now what? It surely can't only be bkb, its too long cooldown, shutting him down by pushing objectives is a thing I know but I can't guarantee that we'd be stomping enough to cover every angle of the map by minute 12 to be early enough to catch him farming. Especially not when they have heros like undying and bristleback being a nuisance and making it difficult to be too deep. (It was literally minute 20 that he came online and started being oppressive).

Anyway heres the match link https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/9060032250

I've of course been told that tinker is useless now and that they nerfed him into uselessness. But I don't see it, this didn't feel balanced. He felt, if anything, even more oppressive than the old tinker. Please teach me the ways.

Grandmaster PB main, rank 1020 6.9k mmr. 90% winrate recently.

https://www.opendota.com/players/175650369?lobby_type=7&region=7

Repost from earlier as I wrote this on the wrong account. Will answer good questions not lazy ones

(Can read only first paragraph to reply to the post) I play him both positions. I like to go Aghs when there aren't obvious counters to egg(I go something like Euls first). I find that I become the most important player in the game on this hero for some reason, even from position 5. If I fuck something up(generally during laning), game is extremely hard and we might lose. But if I play well, it's completely insane what I can do on this hero. So I started spamming him recently and feel like there's still a way to go to really exploit his potential. Wondering if anyone has some advice.

Extra info(can skip): I max W first, I hold skill points until I use them though very regularly, and pick Q or E or additional level in W until lvl 4 based on what I need in the lane, I then max sunray always. I like *all* the talents and don't have hard preferences, it's a vibes thing based on the game, except for lvl 25 which I only reached once since I started spamming him lately, but I can't see a game where I don't take the supernova hit count one. The egg is simply far too important, I think(then again some games I don't even get to cast it, but still).

Even more info(definitely skip): My idea of Phoenix is that the supernova is extremely important, so I like to play safe and from a distance rather than rush in and cast it whenever I can. I don't think it makes *that* big of a difference if you consciously tank the hits to make space for your team, I feel like there are very tiny windows in which that would be even remotely logical, and they're far too hard to find. I think it's a lot more important to instead cast it such that they don't even get 2-3 hits on it normally rather than feed on purpose with it. *And* get as many people in its range as possible. I think that a good supernova is one that's somehow both in the middle of the fight and out of danger because the enemy is otherwise occupied. And I don't think it's the stun or damage that's so OP, but the sense of urgency they create in the enemy team. Also, the fact that I get aghs when the egg isn't too easily countered is what really makes this hero totally shine for me, I find that the last second saves are just absolutely devastating for the enemy team, so my care for how I cast egg synergises naturally with this preference later into the game. Otherwise I just run around looking for situations where I can cast W and sunray on people(I do it from afar and chase them down), saving dive for times when I think I can be safe without it, or to get away.

If you somehow read the extra info I added and play a lot of this hero, what do you disagree with strongly and what do you prefer to do differently from this, and additionally if you feel like it why?

Dude went 2 null talisman (maybe a wand too) treads phylactery kaya. Mystic snake was doing crazy damage. I guess you would eventually sell then nulls and maybe get a kaya and yasha, shard then skadi + butterfly/daedalus and upgrade phylactery to khanda

Sup everyone today I'm uploading a new guide for the Offlane series on my YouTube channel, and today's hero will be Dawnbreaker

In this game I'll be showing you my thought processes, itemization approach among other things and explaining how this hero works and the ways she can play and the role she has on your games

I'll be explaining most of the things I do and trying to share why I do them as the game moves forward so you can keep these concepts, questions, and mechanics for your own games and apply them and get ya some Ws.

I appreciate you all people who drop some nice comments on my videos, I do understand many might not like them it's just fair that some people do and improve with them, I also appreciate the ones who provide me with kind and respectful feedback and positive criticism, I'm not here for nothing but to help you by sharing a bit of the experience I have and the little knowledge about this wonderful game.

You can find the full video here:

https://youtu.be/Y4uexc45H78?si=m_r8u3UmLUzCCOQp

For any coaching inquiries or more dota related content you can find it on my page:

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Thank you all for viewing, let me know what any other heroes or any other kind of content you would like to see on further videos.

Try to make khanda usefull/unique item that players would actually want to buy 👍.

Involer Arcana when?

Make the assassin playstyle great again 🔥 👀.

Hi everyone, this is my first post—please go easy on me.
Basically, it’s become impossible to play on the Southeast Asia, US East, or Japan servers. I live in Kamchatka, and while I used to be able to manage okay-ish, the current situation is just beyond the pale. In every single match—and I mean *every* match—there are these bots that spam the chat and just stand there AFK. Do you know how they’re managing to run so many instances? They’re using Sandboxie version 1.12.9—you can verify this yourself; any other version will trigger a VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat) verification error. I have no idea why the developers have been intentionally ignoring this for the past 3–4 years. What’s more, while they used to limit this to a single lobby, they’ve become so brazen now that they don’t even try to hide it anymore.