on the bright side, razor was only played like 3 times today. VARIETY!

6

3 lycan wins in a row, the third was a damn close game, we had 4 carries and 2 of them were feeding 1-9 bottom in 14 minutes

spectre, terrorblade, pa, vengeful spirit and lycan, lol
vs lion, mirana, ta, timbersaw (rapes melee), necrolyte

didnt realize if you die from necrolytes ultimate, it disables your buyback

game after this is unwinnable

another difference ive noticed, almost no one mic talks in all pick, and almost every captains game theres a couple people at least talking

might do some jungle naix to learn that, lycan is working well though, 4-1 tonight

naix really depends on a second person to infest and carry you into fights though, maybe thats a bad idea to try without a m8

finding all pick games fun actually, pubstomp heros on both sides, games dont always go 50 minutes because theres always fed ass heros on one side or the other, its not 40 minutes of torture after a game is ruined in the first 10 minutes by serious mode captains mode people

played some legion commander games, shes cool if you have a solid team, miserable if you are behind since its a pure snowball hero

played a game at 6am and 7am, both were amazing in teamwork, cooperation, warding, etc
both landslide victories, but it was everything that most games arent

9-4 today, back around 3k

c9 v vici game 2 amazing finish

oh my god did they blow game 3, what was that shit

yea
not sure i want to go the rosh strat when failing it basically means you are done

also, i abandoned a game last n8. didnt want to waste time being farmed for 20 more minutes. my second abandon. now i have 2 games in low priority. the first game was the single worst experience in dota. i had the least deaths with 10. i had to mute 4 players. the enemy had riki, bloodseeker, and sand king.

try a jung start or something

lycan start stout shield tango quelling blade, spawn wolves in fountain and regen mana there, make sure creeps dont kill off wolves by making your hero the closest to attack range unless the wolves are about to time out anyway
then ring of basilius fountain heal, go out again, build vlads and medallion of courage then solo roshan

skill order 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, be level 8 for rosh, make sure to use medallion and swap aggro between wolves and hero while leeching hp back on inactive target

aim for 10-12 min, and save ult while fighting roshan in case you need to escape fast or to escape on low hp after kill

This post has been edited by randomtask on Sun - Jul 20 2014 - 13:43:07

im digging luna

west coast server
paired with a 4 man algerian team
how? what?

i think west coast server is "not east coast, but everything else"

i read something about brazilians having their own servers, but the ping to US servers was actually way better,

been playing some doom, hes good for being a reliable factor in any game no matter how shitty the matchups or team is

reliable farm ability, can doom and wander around tanking shit in teamfight for guaranteed impact and can convert to carry for games that go late

case in point, i just picked doom, then rest of the team picked drow ranger, lifestealer, sand king, faceless void

i was pretty much support all the way, let void have his own lane and just slow leveled catching some jung pulls and brief visits to lane to harass enemies a little

no midas, boots then vlads with wards and courier, then blink

just realized the little quillbeast creep thing gives doom 30% damage aura to 900 radius, and a 20% personal crit chance for 2x damage

this is what i was missing from early laning, some wrecking ball autoattacks at level 1

got a pretty good record in all picks so far, theres still some unwinnable games like enemy ursa in another lane 5-0 in 4 minutes
the games that arent obvious landslides, we seem to be winning

won pretty much a 4v5, we had a windranger who farmed top for the entire game, all he bought were boots and dagon
like not in a single teamfight, even when we were pushing their throne through mid lane, he was attacking creeps that were encroaching on our tier 2 tower in top lane

boots -> vlads -> blink -> aghanim -> refresher doom
gl casting anything enemy earthshaker and invoker

This post has been edited by randomtask on Mon - Jul 21 2014 - 18:22:25

doom + ally faceless void top laned vs enemy slark and ogre magi
we stomped their shit so bad, first blood, then a double kill on next fight then 5 kills in 5 minutes or so
then killed enemy mid, then enemy bot, etc

7-1 with doom since yesterday

update, 3092

also 100th win, 100-84

2 losses, both with the same huge asshole terrible player on my team

left, downloaded dota update, restarted and queued up
hes on my team again

treant protector is the most underplayed support ever

forgot he even existed after they took away the skill to turn trees into wards
living armor makes such a big difference in close fights

just played against razor, bristleback, sven, rubick, treant
we could not kill a single champion past midgame

watched newbee v vici last n8
no close games, all snowball games

was somewhat of a disappointment

new all pick strategy
if team has no support -> treant protector
if team has 2 good solo laners -> lycan
if team has no initiate -> doom

damn just played with the worst faceless void ever

the enemy team had windranger, witchdoctor, shadowfiend and bloodseeker
every fight the bloodseeker came straight into the frontline to score easy kills, while the rest of the team stayed in back
every fight the faceless void drops chronosphere directly onto the bloodseeker (and our entire team) so he could kill the bloodseeker
meanwhile the shadowfiend, windranger and witchdoctor are all outside the chrono firing all their shit into our whole team stuck in chrono
but at least we killed the bloodseeker (he actually had aegis, nevermind)

bonus points, it also featured an afk jungling natures prophet who never teleported into fights and wasnt present until the very last one

it also featured our team randomly deciding to roshan after killing 3 enemies putting them on 20 second death timers (without sentry ward for roshan, without any damage output to kill roshan, with me spamming game chat to get away from roshan for said reasons) and then got wiped and gave a free 25% hp roshan to the enemy

hint; if there is time for someone to type out 3 full sentences about why you shouldnt be doing roshan during the time it is taking you to kill roshan, you shouldnt be doing roshan

something wrong with matchmaking

slark and keeper of the light
god damn nightmare to lane against together

pissed off some guy on my team so bad he just straight ragequit abandoned, not even 5 minute timeout

another god awful faceless void, and a terrible "im jungler" legion commander who has 2 duel wins in this 52 minute game

void also speaks spanish, and while its clear that no one else in the game speaks his language, he continues trying to type in chat the entire game

This post has been edited by randomtask on Wed - Jul 23 2014 - 00:39:13

starting to hate people who say they are junglers, its clear the only reason they do it is because they cant farm in a lane properly so want the easy way out of autoattacking jung

whats the point when it takes you 10 minutes to hit level 5, at which point duo laners are level 7
the 1v2 lane that you should be in ends up either dieing or getting 0 farm on usually a carry so that you can be underleveled and have poor farm in the jungle

having a shitty jungler gimps 2 players compared to just doing a normal 2/1/2 lane

next game is really close and fun game im playing bounty hunter on
30 minutes in, for no reason, after not saying anything or having anything said to him all game, pudge decides to afk and then start intentionally feeding himself and our courier to the enemy

cool elo losses

4 loss in a row today, but played some different heros than usual

i like playing bounty hunter more every time i play him, 0 deaths in 44 minute game, many gold for team from track kills
hes a support who kills other supports/carries and provides money and vision to team