I’m not sure I agree with that. When you go random, there’s always a chance that your team’s best support hero turns out to be Gondar, and the only thing you’ll learn from such a game is that Dota sucks.
Yeah, but that’s worst case scenario. Even when you dont random and play someone you know you’ll get games like that.
Dota is a harsh mistress
True enough. I just personally hate random… in the hands of others, atleast. If I ever have to play a CM/Riki/Morphling trilane again…
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Hey guys, I want some people to get some games in, I’m pretty bad dota, but I have about 2 years of experience with the genre (league) so I don’t super feed and shit.
If anyone wants add me my IGN is Lice!
I’m also in the NEOGAF chat.
Why the hell isn’t there an srk chat room.
There’s a SRK chat in dota 2 but no one is ever in there 
I checked the chat list and din’t see an srk or shoru channel or anything.
I made a shoryuken chat, but left it after a day cause no one joined, I’ll make another one.
2 new heroes have been released in dota. I haven’t tried the new agi, but the new Frost worm hero is ok to use. Haven’t managed to get his style but he’s fun anyway and i don’t know if DK’s ss has changed in look.
- Phoenix was nurfed as hell. Makes me happy yet pisses me off at the same time. That hero was so auto-ban.
Phantom Lancer is now the king of last hitting.
I mean, Treant can do it better but he has the lowest starting BAT in the game now.
BAT?
Base attack time. How fast they attack without any + attack speed modifiers.
I always thought it was initial attack speed (IAS).
Thanks. Yeah I’ve heard of IAS. On a separate note, I think I’m on a 5 game L streak, hooray
last hitting skill doesn’t depend on any BAT or IAS or any of that sh*t, it depends on the player’s skills how to time his attacks to land.
Well, Skill is the determining factor of course, but I would say that outside of that even before ias/bat is taken into account is the hero’s startup animation on the attack.
A shorter startup animation means that you don’t have to react until the very last second to get the last hit (like sniper or razor).
They have decent ias, but they both have amazing startup animations on their attack which let’s them get those last hits so easy (assuming player skill is high enough to not miss)
Sniper and Razor don’t have short attack startups but extremely fast projectiles.
BAT is 99% irrelevant for lasthitting.
Don’t use terms like IAS if you have no idea what they mean.
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/939258588231615682/7F202E27BB9238E925E076DF8D752DC6CF9FCC51/
Ridiculous.
Truly ridiculous.
Whats the deal? I pay $29.99 but valve won’t invite me? 
Started playing again after 2 years. Last time I played, Tauren Chief was still being tested. Sooo many changes.
So after a couple weeks, I have to ask…
Does anybody else feel like the old school heroes are OP as hell? They are so simple and their abilities seem so effective for how easy they are to use.
(Side note, had a techies go 16-3 on my team yesterday. oh, dota…)