DOTA 2

Penance

Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Yea he is easily my favorite. Tobi is probably the best caster, clicks on the right heros, keeps up with the action, rarely misses a good fight; but GD is by far the funniest most interesting person.

My least favorite caster is the BTS neckbeard guy whos name is always escaping me. Not lumi, not godz... Fuck it. He just says the dumbest shit of all time. Never backs anything up. Recently he admitted to having a horrible leave record so yea, he's that guy.

EDIT: Of course all of these casters are lame in comparison to Yipes in MVC3
 

Luthair

Lord Nagafen Raider
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Yea he is easily my favorite. Tobi is probably the best caster, clicks on the right heros, keeps up with the action, rarely misses a good fight; but GD is by far the funniest most interesting person.

My least favorite caster is the BTS neckbeard guy whos name is always escaping me. Not lumi, not godz... Fuck it. He just says the dumbest shit of all time. Never backs anything up. Recently he admitted to having a horrible leave record so yea, he's that guy.
LD? He and Godz are great imo. I like Tobi, but I found as I watched more casts its pretty clear he's not an expert. Merlini (caster & former pro)commentedon it in a Team Liquid interview.
 

Penance

Silver Baronet of the Realm
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He's not an expert, but LD says way dumber shit. Its like he just says things to say them whether they are true or not.
 

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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Caught up on dreamhack finals, I got bored of Alliance's "perfect" rat dota, teamfights and strats eventually, but Navi are still the best entertainment Dota2 can offer. It makes me shake my head when it doesn't work, but when it works...
 

Sulrn

Deuces
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Caught up on dreamhack finals, I got bored of Alliance's "perfect" rat dota, teamfights and strats eventually, but Navi are still the best entertainment Dota2 can offer. It makes me shake my head when it doesn't work, but when it works...
I think Navi has definitely earned the limelight, but I wouldn't say they're alone. SPG from MLG showed that creativity is out there. I just don't think the community supports that type of play at large (ie for public play) which might keep it rare and limited.
 

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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I think Navi has definitely earned the limelight, but I wouldn't say they're alone. SPG from MLG showed that creativity is out there. I just don't think the community supports that type of play at large (ie for public play) which might keep it rare and limited.
Well, it depends, Alliance also brought a lot of different strats in the past 6 months, it's just that they fell back on the rat doto to be more consistent. Navi just dies. Although trained eye can probably see their killing sprees coming like a minute before they actually start rolling through the other team with acquisition of key items and so on, it looks much more impressive to the laymen, like me.

There's also a big difference between getting an advantage straight up by killing the other guys, or relying on something rare and difficult to predict, like lvl 1 rosh or the veno wards denying. Yes, you do what you can to win, but it still doesn't look that good. If you show that you can get an unusual item and use it in a way nobody thought of before in a comp game, you also get huge applause, like the blinkz from EE.
 

Nutron_sl

shitlord
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Well, it depends, Alliance also brought a lot of different strats in the past 6 months, it's just that they fell back on the rat doto to be more consistent. Navi just dies. Although trained eye can probably see their killing sprees coming like a minute before they actually start rolling through the other team with acquisition of key items and so on, it looks much more impressive to the laymen, like me.

There's also a big difference between getting an advantage straight up by killing the other guys, or relying on something rare and difficult to predict, like lvl 1 rosh or the veno wards denying. Yes, you do what you can to win, but it still doesn't look that good. If you show that you can get an unusual item and use it in a way nobody thought of before in a comp game, you also get huge applause, like the blinkz from EE.
Clinkz were getting daggers a long time ago... I remember Merlini in MyM doing it in 6.30, probably even farther... It's only new to most people because clinkz was NEVER picked due to searing arrow not going through bkb hence making clinkz an extremely weak carry late game that didnt bring much to the table if he didnt snowball dominate the first 20 minutes. 6.79 clinkz makes it back to pro scene, and along with it the dagger build. It was an impressive show of it in a finals, but not something new by any means.
 

Xeldar

Silver Squire
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I'm a fan of Hyperion Flax (sp?) he reminds me of a Karl Pilkington in terms of casters and the Spanish guy, Bruno.
 

Dandai

<WoW Guild Officer>
<Gold Donor>
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How often do people in foh channel play with each other? There were 6 people seemingly afk in there for an hour tonight.
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
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I'm a fan of Hyperion Flax (sp?) he reminds me of a Karl Pilkington in terms of casters and the Spanish guy, Bruno.
Hyperion Flax

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Sometimes I wonder how these people make any money off of trades on D2L, some dude just sold me Throe for 2keys. Throe is sold on store for 14.99, keys are on the market for 2.38.
 

Sulrn

Deuces
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How often do people in foh channel play with each other? There were 6 people seemingly afk in there for an hour tonight.
FoH or Rerolled? The people in the group channel get groups together pretty frequently, albeit with the same people repeatedly generally.
 

Zaphid

Trakanon Raider
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That's why I bet mostly commons and I got like 10 items from MLG betting in addition to returns.

There's no way Earth spirit makes it into CM in it's current shape, that guy is pudge/veno/ET in one.
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
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He's strong but gets absolutely destroyed by orchids. He does really well against a multiple melee lineup though.
 

nu_11

Avatar of War Slayer
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the recent patch changed the meta too much for me to comfortably bet on anyone on D2L.