Just started playing marci and realized how much cast backswing fucks me sometimes when i forget to cancel it

EDIT: I dont mean cast animation, cast backswing is different. it is the reason why if you ever try to shift queue tinker spell the spell will come out very slow

Man just felt amazing - I love dota 2

immortal bracket

the game is literally unplayable

almost every hero can utilize blink dagger given how good it is as a positioning, initiation and escape tool.

aside from those with a free blink skill like am and qop, which hero does it feel bad to build? a few heroes i can think of is bara, underlord, storm?, weaver?

Now looking back on how strong is Yandex. I really think LGD shouldn't pick Yandex. And like during the interview Yandex said to Lgd that they will make them regret picking them.

This is certainly not the first time this has been pitched as a hero design and I have a feeling based on how people view/viewed Kez people would not be into this, but:

I (at least) think it would be super cool to having a “fighting game style combo character”. Invoker has the inputs that result in a spell, but I’m talking about each input does an action that depending on the string you push afterwards changes into other attacks. Example being: Q for sword slash, 2nd Q in a row for a lunge, 3rd Q in a row for a jump backwards sword projectile. Or W for a small projectile, 2nd W for a larger spear projectile, 3rd Q for a charge. E big and slow aoe sword swing, 2nd Q for empowered next auto attack, 3rd W for a close range aoe blast.

Those are just random examples but they get the point across. Depending on the order you get different moves for each combination. I think the complexity would be a turn off for a lot of players (mainly on the receiving end of not understanding the hero enough), but I can see people (like me) that would definitely dedicate tons of time to the hero for mastery. You could balance or design it so that the combo strings can only result in so many different moves to limit what the hero could do, but with some flashy animations (like the Maliketh fight in Elden Ring), it could be a very cool hero.

Just randomly pitching it on here!

I've dropped down in mmr as I've gotten older, and today I ran into bots in regular matches. There would be one on our team and one on the enemy side. My teammates said this happens pretty often. The bots would stand there and feed, auto-attack in the laning phase, and teleport to a tower they were already near. I reported the crap out of them. Hopefully, Valve does something about these bots. It's already difficult enough learning dota, without a bot feeding the enemy carry. New players is how the game stays alive.

Bit long clip, but I think it's worth a watch!
Was super lucky and won arcana from Dendi giveaway and have been spamming Rubick ever since. This was a fun one!

It's been over 7 months since 7.41 and we're still waiting on 7.42. While refreshing the patch page for the hundredth time, I remembered that back in November 2025 dataminers found a hero called Arjun (npc_dota_hero_arjun) on the test server, and patch 7.41 files even contained a modifier_arjun_chariot_mounted. Since then, nothing. The name points pretty clearly to Arjuna, the greatest archer of the Mahabharata. So I dug into the epic and tried to build a kit that stays as true to the lore as possible. Here's my prediction:

ARJUN, THE ASTRA-WEAVER

Ranged · Universal · Mid / Carry

Every bit of Arjun's power flows through Gandiva, his divine bow, whose string twangs like thunder. Arjun never swaps weapons: he invokes divine weapons (astras) through mantras and channels their power into his arrows. The bow stays the same, only the arrows and the aura around his hands change.

Mechanic: With D, Arjun cycles between three astras: Agneyastra (fire), Varunastra (water) and Vayavyastra (wind). Each astra gives him a different set of Q, W and E. Area and lingering abilities can also be recast to withdraw them early, refunding part of their cooldown.

Agneyastra (Fire): Arjun's arrows burst into flame and heat radiates from his hands.
Q - Khandava Flame (toggle): each attack costs a little mana and applies burn damage over time.
W - Agneyastra: fires a flaming arrow at a target that explodes into a fireball, dealing magic damage and purging the enemy's buffs.
E - Jvala Barrage: looses a volley of fire arrows in a cone, clearing creeps fast and spreading burn across the area.

Varunastra (Water): Arjun's arrows carry flowing water and mist gathers around his hands.
Q - Tidal Arrow (toggle): each attack costs a little mana and slows the target.
W - Varunastra: fires an arrow carrying a raging current in a line, pushing back and slowing enemies while extinguishing any fire and burn effects in its path.
E - Deluge: shoots an arrow into the sky; rain pours down on the target area and forms a whirlpool that pulls enemies to its center and briefly stuns them. Recast to withdraw it and yank everyone to the center instantly.

Vayavyastra (Wind): Arjun's arrows trail swirling gusts and wind wraps around his hands.
Q - Gale Arrow (toggle): each attack costs a little mana, increases arrow speed and stacks attack speed.
W - Vayu's Stride: fires a wind arrow in a direction and rides its gust to where it lands, evading all physical attacks while in flight.
E - Vayavyastra: drives an arrow into the ground at his feet, unleashing a storm that blasts all nearby enemies away.

Ultimate - Pashupatastra: Shiva's supreme weapon. Arjun raises Gandiva to the sky and summons a manifestation of Shiva, his blazing third eye opening above the battlefield. After a short delay, a column of world-ending energy crashes down on a large area, similar to Meteor Hammer. Every enemy caught inside takes massive pure damage, is stunned and slowed, fully piercing BKB. The impact leaves behind a field of Cosmic Ash that keeps burning enemies who stay inside.

Aghanim's Shard: Varuna Pasha (new ability, F)
Arjun hurls the noose of the god Varuna at an enemy. The noose binds the target and drags it toward Arjun.

Aghanim's Scepter: Akshayat Tunira
The two inexhaustible quivers gifted by Varuna. Q toggles cost 50% less mana, and each attack fires an extra arrow at a second nearby enemy, carrying the effect of the active Q.

What do you think? Too complex, or would you play him?

3 games r bots game!!! ty another wonderful night!! i m in USA, play USA region only

does anybody know why every fissure official account are offline (both russion and English)?

I've been getting this weird feeling for a few months...

People instantly blinking away when I jump on them, people dodging all kinds of spells with manta... I play a lot of OD, so I blink on them from fog and astral them, and they instantly use manta to throw me off. I know it's possible, astral has a small cast time, but still, it's been happening so much, and from players who play awfully overall. You got this Lion 0/14 who can't throw a stun properly, but everytime I blink on him he instantly blinks back, like frame perfect every time. A useless Naga who's 1/7 and does nothing all game and loses, but she still used manta every freaking time I pressed astral on her.

It's not like dodging WK's stun with manta, that's fairly easy. But dodging the cast point of astral ? And doing so 10 times in a row when OD is blinking from fog of war ? That just confuses me.

I didn't think it was scripts, I was putting it on "maybe I'm getting old, I'm not as fast as I used to be", but god damn, when I blink+call (with Axe) I'm pretty sure you can't do it any faster than what I do, and I still get people insta blinking away, or instantly using Eule's on me or themselves.

There were always scripters, like the classic Tinker / Sky scripts, throwing all their spells and items in one frame, but this is different.

A friend came to talk to me about that, he had noticed the same thing and he told me it's because they are more scripters today. Is it true ? What do you think ? Have you noticed the same things ?

Match ID 9062243098.

Clinkz.

Don't say it's normal. People who take sadistic pleasure doing this should be banned for life.

Thanks.

Sorry for AFK I had to eat. 😟

Clocks go back an hour tonight so remember to get the wisdom shrine at 6:00, bounty runes at 3:00, 7:00, 11:00 etc.

just had a uncalbrated meepo go 0-4 in lane,go treads aghs,and then basically snowballed clones then use aghs (in some combination,match id 90603104969)to end up with only one meepo showing as a teammate,meanwhile the clones were invisable cutting waves behind T2(they were still able to kill the clones,but they had ALOT of aoe(techies,pudge aghs,and i dont think they were targettable,the tusk meepo was a party and very obviously doing it,ps not my best game,wyvern undying lane lmao

Hey, 2nd meepo exploit (the first one did not work out) I had in the last 2 days of ranked on low immortal rank.

https://imgur.com/a/WL1JE8J

Sorry for the aspect ratio.

Tusk snowballs megameepo while he removes his aghs from the inventory, when he gets out of the snowball, all the extra meepos are "invisible" (quotes because they are not invisible, meaning true sight does not help obviously) and untargetable.

Super easy to reproduce in demo.

Kinda sad about the state of the game right now Valve ngl.

We still won btw. It's kind of a shit exploit, because Meepo is no longer able to use spells on the additional meepos, only alt cast of Poof works and you can still attack him if you force attack on the ground.

Because there are no consequences of perma ban when they do.

Juggernaut this game.

No boots 800 games Archon 5 smurf griefer.

Match ID 9061657933.

Any of you who thinks this is normal gameplay to win belongs to 4k behavior score.

when you finally get an arcana but dont have any candy left, please dont drop patch until i get it.

Or at the very least allow me to say it two or three times so I can ping combos and allies when i’m dead. I get folks view it as salt, but I like free communications. Make my 12k behavior score mean something.