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As a Buc fan, Martin is overrated. He had one game where he exploded for over 50 points last year, and another for over 30, but most of the time he was around 10. Especially in a big league, I'd want my number one pick to score 15-20 more reliably week-to-week. Add in CJ, the king of...

I don't know. For my money vanguard is the worst item in the game. It's over 2000 gold, gives you pretty much nothing over its components, and falls off horribly beyond 20 minutes. For an antimage that's worried about fighting early, you would almost always be better off getting a poor man's...

Even if techies can't ultimately stop Prophet, all he needs to do is slow him down. With the well on his side for mana regen, he can do that better than pretty much any support since clearing mines even from range is slow and dangerous work, particularly so if techies is rocking a force staff...

I kind of doubt that we will see substantial nerfs to Bat and Wisp. They are exactly the kind of heroes that Icefrog wants in that they set a fast pace to the game and create opportunities for ganks and team fights. If anything, we will see other heroes buffed to the point where we see bat and...

Alliance deserved the win, no doubt. They play disciplined, strategic DotA, and very seldom are careless enough to put themselves in situations where there is no path towards victory. They are seemingly able to handle setbacks with ease and seize onto advantages with the kind of strength that...

One thing to keep in mind is that the whole fountain hooking strat was part of the reason Navi was so far behind to begin with. Dendi and the rest of Navi basically stopped getting bigger at all because they were wasting all their time trying to set up the hooks. When faced with a tricore that...

The west got absolutely demolished at TI2. Aside from Na'vi, pretty much the only wins they secured were against other western teams. Alliance is a big difference, but far from the only one. Top to bottom this year you see western teams giving the Asians everything they can handle and more.

Anyone know if we are able to switch fantasy players on Wednesday and Thursday? Only half of the field plays on each day, so you might be able to get more games played if you are allowed to manipulate your bench for each day.

IIRC last year every team that started in the losers bracket was knocked out by the second round, so I don't know if it's really a huge deal to have best-of-ones. But even still, scheduling pretty much demands it. Potentially having 14 games to play sequentially per day is much harder to...

And it's all in the same day, too. So you could be flying high as 14-0 Alliance going into Thursday, get upset by LGD.cn in the first round of the winners bracket, and then knocked out of the tournament in a best of one a couple hours later.

Very high, almost never unplayable. You're mistaking a person's poor play in a single game with that person being a poor player overall. I'm sure you're good at just ignoring the games you do badly in, though.

I think Valve acknowledged that they have been tinkering with the matchmaking algorithm recently, so things are probably not working as well just right now as they have been in the past. But bitching about matchmaking is not a new thing. It has been going on since the beta began. People have...

Despite the constant complaints by people with delusions of their own skill level, matchmaking tends to do a pretty good job matching you with people close to your own ability. The problem is people tend to look at their own mistakes from an explanatory perspective, where the failing can be...

Sometimes your teammates are just able to win games on their own, and you'll feel like you were just baggage on their carry train. It doesn't really matter if you're in the jungle or not, it happens occasionally. Now, if you jungle its rarer, because the typical setup of 2-1-2 vs 2-1-2 changes...

Look, if you can't hit a corner fade route into double coverage, you really shouldn't be playing back yard touch football. You're never going to be able to compete with Tom Brady if all you do is toss 5 yard dumpoffs. Get it together.

The biggest drawback to Magnus is the fact that he goes solo mid. He can usually hold his own there and get a decent amount of farm by bottle-crowing and spamming shockwave, but he's never going to outright win the lane against most of the other common mids or even do much at all to prevent his...

Looks badass.

You know there are modes other than AP.

A lot of DotA is psychological. If you're on a losing streak, you starting going into games believing you will lose before they even start. That shit infects your play and becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. You run when you shouldn't, you don't press when you should, you dick around just...

Nerf PLs lance a tad and he will be fine. Given how strong his strong late game is, he shouldn't be able to simply get a soul ring and take over his lane. None of the other hard carries can really do that. Illusion sieges also need to be nerfed. They aren't fun to play, and are...

Centaur is awesome in that he does insane burst damage around levels 6-11, he has basically guaranteed initiation for your whole team if you do use it right, and he's tank as fuck so he can tower dive like night stalker. If you play it right, you snowball a lead and be basically unkillable for...