why don't they just require everyone to play 250 unranked games in ap, cm, cd, or rd (first 10 unranked similar to calibration, next 240 games shift rating by +/- ~25 MMR as standard) and then upon completing 250 unranked games, show them their rank while unlocking ranked? I don't even understand the point of calibration. If you're a legit player you're going to have the same rating, if you're trying to abuse your way higher, then calibration just makes it easier. (and lack of calibration won't inhibit people from doing shit like planting feeders/bottle stealers/etc.)
anyways i must be lucky since there are almost no 5k players on US West and I've never run into TBD zeus pickers on East
well the viable part is your tier 2 towers won't get pushed down like 14 minutes in which allows you to safely farm those items
if i'm not mistaken getting kills on individual ancients faster is better than distributing "more damage" overall (while taking longer to kill an ancient creep) to level up early on.
@ wave
this was the first account i ever played on for dota 2 (so it has all my other Steam games and old friends) with 5k+ cuz I managed to rank it up there before 6.82, the "second main" i added you on (http://www.dotabuff.com/players/136938584) with most of my dotabuff friends + more recent adds has 4600 mmr cuz I tanked it 100 points since I'm still adjusting to this new playstyle
i also agree 5k doesn't mean as much as it did back when ranked came out but i still have some friends who calibrated at low 5k and are still in that rating range, so it's not as if everyone from 4.5k shifted upwards. It's more like a significant chunk of 4.5k's are now 5k due to spamming certain, favorable heroes so the pool of players who were formerly considered "good" by ranked MM standards are now diluted, but 5k of October 2014 hasn't completely turned to 4.5k of January 2014 (not yet, at least...it will pretty soon though cuz i've seen some pretty big fucking retards at 5k+ recently)
for wk do u use the hailrake build or just go something like shadow blade/drums/deso cuz most people are retarded and they just let you walk up to them invis and stab them to death
PA should be included in your list as well, it's 10x easier to win when people need to actually rely on player skill as opposed to picking Void/Doom/Legion to kill you
She can also farm against difficult lanes thanks to dagger
I'm going to test out Sven once I satisfy my PA picking obsession since that's like kzz's 2nd favorite hero and he owns with him
On the other hand, it doesn't mean that it works if he is doing it. This particular TBD Zeus probalby didn't read the changes...
wow that was some nice damage control from valve, it made the dotabuff devs look like angels
maybe if they could just straight up disable zeus from being picked by tbd players it'd change everything? wh0 knows
wouldnt fixing the algorithm make more sense
"he doesnt mean it'll be elo hell for them, it'll be elo hell for those who struggle at 4k-4.5k such as bogidota lol"
rofl, this just made my day
why don't they just require everyone to play 250 unranked games in ap, cm, cd, or rd (first 10 unranked similar to calibration, next 240 games shift rating by +/- ~25 MMR as standard) and then upon completing 250 unranked games, show them their rank while unlocking ranked? I don't even understand the point of calibration. If you're a legit player you're going to have the same rating, if you're trying to abuse your way higher, then calibration just makes it easier. (and lack of calibration won't inhibit people from doing shit like planting feeders/bottle stealers/etc.)
anyways i must be lucky since there are almost no 5k players on US West and I've never run into TBD zeus pickers on East
i woke up my from my nap
did concede the backpedaling autistic fa ggot create a playdota/nadota thread already
im still chuckling at the "video games are drugs and illicit in nature" part
what goes on in people's heads when they have 3k mmr and flame the team
i'm sure it's something much worse than autism but i'll leave it to wave to interpret
anyways i'm about to do ancients dusa every game since it's actually viable now and i'm sure people are going to lose their lanes regardless lol
how is dusa ancients more viable now isnt the old one better 50% to 5 targets at level 1vs current 80% to 2 targets level 1 im genuinely curious
medusa is uselss at lvl 1 tho lol
put dat shit on the safe lane
bumperino
Why are you bumping this?
there is a good ongoing discussion? want me to spoonfeed you what day it is today as well?
i just met another tbd zeus oh dear :( exploit not fixed.
LMAO jesus christ
Yeah ancients at level 1 is still pretty damn slow farm (I did it wrong but it still worked against 4k's somehow in my most recent game)
wtf Lollll which acc are you playing on
@ fanofenvy
well the viable part is your tier 2 towers won't get pushed down like 14 minutes in which allows you to safely farm those items
if i'm not mistaken getting kills on individual ancients faster is better than distributing "more damage" overall (while taking longer to kill an ancient creep) to level up early on.
@ wave
this was the first account i ever played on for dota 2 (so it has all my other Steam games and old friends) with 5k+ cuz I managed to rank it up there before 6.82, the "second main" i added you on (http://www.dotabuff.com/players/136938584) with most of my dotabuff friends + more recent adds has 4600 mmr cuz I tanked it 100 points since I'm still adjusting to this new playstyle
i also agree 5k doesn't mean as much as it did back when ranked came out but i still have some friends who calibrated at low 5k and are still in that rating range, so it's not as if everyone from 4.5k shifted upwards. It's more like a significant chunk of 4.5k's are now 5k due to spamming certain, favorable heroes so the pool of players who were formerly considered "good" by ranked MM standards are now diluted, but 5k of October 2014 hasn't completely turned to 4.5k of January 2014 (not yet, at least...it will pretty soon though cuz i've seen some pretty big fucking retards at 5k+ recently)
pick wk/dp/slark
the only items you need on dp to faceroll the other team is euls and bkb srsly
ok thx
for wk do u use the hailrake build or just go something like shadow blade/drums/deso cuz most people are retarded and they just let you walk up to them invis and stab them to death
is dp still a good pick in solo rank?
for some reason i thought it died with new patch
no the ulti cd just lasts longer and its impossible to kill DP with euls+bkb
yeah hailrake build, he started playing again after the patch was released, hes currently 5.7k
PA should be included in your list as well, it's 10x easier to win when people need to actually rely on player skill as opposed to picking Void/Doom/Legion to kill you
She can also farm against difficult lanes thanks to dagger
I'm going to test out Sven once I satisfy my PA picking obsession since that's like kzz's 2nd favorite hero and he owns with him
huh
http://www.dotabuff.com/players/106497354
oh u meant rk whops.