Tuesday, April 20, 2010
K I'm really bored, just thinking of random DotA thoughts that I feel like writing somewhere. These thoughts are just flowing out and I've never processed them nor planned them out so they probably have a bad flow..(I'm not organising them either! Just need somewhere to pen out RANDOM thoughts)
When you play with pubs on your team it's normal to
play your own game because occasionally, helping them pulls you down. Good team play is when teammates are dependent on one another. Your money is my money. Your kills are my kills. Your death is my death. I usually say that it's easy to win with pub teammates because of the level of concentration and focus you have when you play alone. However, it's uncomfortable when you play alone, that's why I dislike playing without my friends. Of course, it's not like 2 people playing is that much fun either because when you're not majority you can't really say anything you want lol.
To be honest, for a group of people that have played so much together we haven't improved much as a team. Perhaps individually some of us have improved in skills or widened our hero scopes... but that's really nothing.
One of the heaviest reasons for playing badly is not having map control. The most basic map control is taking down their towers and not letting them out of their base. More advanced map control is when you ward important areas. Usually when we lose, you see that we haven't destroyed a single tower. There are many thoughts to what one should do in lane and sticking to tower to farm is one of them. However, we really need to take every chance we get to destroy towers as well. If you ever reach their tower, don't just move back; FIND A WAY TO HIT IT. Also, if you can't kill someone in lane... at least
send him back home. As long as you send him home, you win your lane still. It's going to be easy to hit the tower with no enemy heroes around. If enemy creeps reaches your tower, pull those enemy creeps behind tower towards incoming creeps. That way, enemy creeps wouldn't be killing our towers so quickly.
To be honest if you were to ask me to choose between "gank style" or "farm style", I'd say "gank style" is the best. It's fun and action-packed... but they're not the reason for being best. Rather, it's because a team of good gankers can dominate the whole map and stop anyone from leveling and farming. Even the tanks are easy to kill when it's early. However, "gank style" has a special requirement and that is to have catchers. Good mobility with disables is the only way to ensure success in ganks. The "farm style" requires a different set of heroes... usually ones that can tank. The ones that can escape are useless... they get sent home every 5 seconds even if they don't die. However, the tanks can stay around and farm forever... by the 40th minute, good farmers playing those tanks can easily be considered unkillable. But all-gank teams will win all-farm teams... reason being all-gank teams have map control, and that has the highest % of winning albeit the hardest to pull off. All-farm teams have a lower % of winning but it is the easiest to pull off. Usually in pub games we have a mix of both... and having a mix makes it even harder because the gankers have an aim to protect instead of kill.
If you have trouble thinking about how to play, what items to buy and stuff, think how you want/need to play the hero... do you want/need to gank or farm? If you're going to gank, get items that allow you to catch... ganks will fail when you don't have the ability to catch heroes. If you want to farm, get items that help you stay in lane so you can keep farming. Farming fails when you get caught, lose map dominance and have no where to farm. It usually isn't okay to buy items just because it is the common build, your own playstyle is important as well. There needs to be a compromise there then; either you change your playstyle, or you buy whatever item that suits your playstyle. Sometimes, you need to counter the enemy hero, so buy items to suit the game too! However, the best counter isn't by items, rather by heroes. You need a hero to counter another, except when the hero you are using is going for a core item that is used as counter.
Well that's it for now, got a lot more to say but never analyzed them before so those aren't going to appear yet >D
GodLike! - |12:57 PM|
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Guys, so sorry about yesterday. Didn't mean it, cause it was between me and cj, yet dragged everybody down. Paisehh.
Yaihui.
GodLike! - |4:59 PM|
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Monday, March 22, 2010
haha.my turn to post.
Match line up: windrunner (me) silencer (rick) Ck (yh) rhasta(cj) pugna( some pub guy) vs omni naga dazzle visage furion.
and obviously we lost thats why im here to rant.rawr.hmm i think we played decently, though we dragged the game too long until we lost lol.originally early game i thought surely win cos my lane was owning and the other lanes werent doing that badly.we were even worried that the naga will leave can.=_=.then mid game came and rick was complaining all about him having no place to farm and stuff.i think yh dont know how to use ck well bah thats why top lane couldnt get much kills.my windrunner stuns were no better =X.but yh got a lot of farm time at early mid lol.farm battlefury so fast that i thought sure win.haha.end up mid late game we started getting owned by the furion's teleporting.originally i could kill him easily until he got manta.like that right my shackleshot like no use to the max.dont even know the real one is which.i was fat but the enemy was fatter.so end up we lost cos even their carry or support heroes were crazy tanks.their dazzle got what shivas eos and meka.how to kill you tell me.so many ppl whack that guy then he die.then the visage still got heart somemore.
bleh.Learning point from game is, dont drag game and farm farm farm, end up late game tio own.and i kind of regretted not buying the tango to deal with furion cos i ended up dying mostly to him.mkb is a great counter to windrunner lol.
GodLike! - |1:36 AM|
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Whoa why this blog is so dead!!! @@
Boo games were rather sian these days with so many leavers. !@#$%^ pek cek. Anyway, I have set up a tagboard at the second icon. Click on the DOOM! DOOM DOOM. And edited some of the stuffs, like the third icon (profile page).
YAIHUI!
GodLike! - |10:06 AM|
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Hi people,
Although this is my first post, but I'm not going to post something regarding the DotA games we played recently. I'm posting the website to download WVS 1.24e for our convenience to update our Warcraft Frozen Throne version to 1.24e. :D
Http://www.mediafire.com/?r2omjdgoy2o this is my first time uploading things onto the website, so go and try to download and see whether it works. :D
ChingJun. muahhahaha
GodLike! - |10:59 PM|
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Yay first time i posting here! Must open champagne celebrate! Ok too ex cannot, nvm replace with vodka bah. LOL.
Ok so yday was inhse 4v4, we played 2 games though the second match was 3v3. Got me rick huishi gj cj yh and 2 jj people, i know 1 is called linshan i tink then the gaara i duno whu. Haha. Hmm the teaming was... Me rick gj and the gaara against huishi yh cj and linshan. Well we lost haha cause i farm too slow. Gj was quite ok being that hes the carry(i'm the failed carry) with rick support and the gaara being a semi carry/support? Can't really distinguish haha. Oppo was cj with qop yh with tidehunter huishi with loa and the linshan with viper. Haha linshan kip kana aim lah like siao. But huishi was damn fat in the end, that fatass.
Then second match was me cj and gj against huishi rick and the... i tink is linshan. I was FV cj was lina and gj was warlock. Rick was sf, huishi was tb and linshan was chaos knight. Huishi was fat again with a eos and owned all of us. Haha. Yeah lorh liddat bah.
Basically i was seeing this blog was almost dead so give it... The breath of DOTA again! Yay!
Weilei signing off!
GodLike! - |12:20 PM|
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Monday, January 11, 2010
If I'm going to have to teach you guys how to support I probably need to teach face to face so before I actually get to see you guys I'm just gonna have you guys read some advice given by professional supporters!
http://www.fragster.de/artikel/8509/dota-strategy-supporting-supporter-special-with-kebap-and-ahcos_dota/
Take note of the "most important spots to ward", that's one of the most important things from the site.
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This other site is a bit more complicated to read but it's a good read for learning warding! (Something happened to the pictures but there used to be pictures ._.)
http://www.playdota.com/guides/heldarions-total-warding
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Also for those who Tower Dive for kills like me :
"Tower Cycling Trick
One way to stop the tower from attacking you is to press "A" key, (attack command) then left click on an ally creep that is full or close to full hp as if denying. This is useful to know if you like to dive towers. The tower will "cycle" pass you and start attacking another unit."
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Learn animation here! It's important to cancel animation for that extra millisecond that you need to kill heroes/farm
http://www.playdota.com/learn/animations
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Go here to learn some useful tricks to use heroes better! It contains little bits which are nice to know.
http://www.fanaticnetworks.com/forums/topic/1398-misc-guide-compilation-of-basic-dota-tricks/
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There were still some other sites which I learnt a lot from but I can't find them anymore so I'll update when I find them :)
GodLike! - |2:45 AM|
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