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Hey there, one and everyone. Safecyn here.

I thought today I'd share a bit of the stuff I work on that you never see, for one reason or another. This in particular comes from a guide I was writing on Clinkz, just... just in case you hadn't guessed that from reading the title.

And? Are you going to tell the good people of Dotafire why you never FINISHED your guide for Clinkz?

I... I am literally the worst Clinkz who ever Clinkzed. I just couldn't ever do well enough to feel confident giving advice.

Didn't stop you from writing the Brewmaster guide, though.

I'M GOOD WITH BREWMASTER NOW OK GOSH.

Anyways, on to the meat of this thing. Be sure to click the link that shows up for appropriate music!
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Hello one and everyone! Safecyn here, bringing you a guide to...

I knew it. I knew right after that freaking blog post that this was coming.

And... this is a problem? You don't …
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Something I wrote for fun.
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There she stood, smiling coyly at anyone who would look her way. From my seat, I witnessed her spurn all advances directed towards her, leaving a large number of disappointed people in her wake… until she looked at me.

"AYY LMAO," I said, and her eyes widened. She dived onto my lap, undressing down to underclothes in an instant in an ecstasy of memes and lens flares. Michael Rosen smacked his lips and nodded, "Nice." Her lips, more perfect than RTZ's GPM, moved closer to mine…

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I awoke, and remembered the harshness of reality - that I was not yet an MLG n0sk0p3 m45t3r, and that there were no pretty gamer grills I could seduce with a come hither look and a tipped fedora.

I staggered out of bed, trying to avoid stepping on any empty Doritos wrappers or cans of Mountain Dew. Successfully navigating the minefield of snacks that littered the floor, I opened the door and stumbled into the hallway, heading for the bathroom. I turned …
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I am on a bad losing trend right now, its just been the past few days but I've literally only won like 1 game. I have free time so I'm wanting to play, but it just has not been working out. But why?

Well I've done a lot of self-evaluation believe me, and I'm not really on tilt. I'm starting out every game fresh and ready to do things right, and the game just keeps falling apart. Like it's ugly. A few games I have lost because of complete ragers and idiots, but most of them are just kinda..nothing works.

So what is it?

Well at the end of almost every game I win, there's something I say:

Nice job guys, everyone did their part

This sentiment goes nicely with the old adage that DotA is a team game.

Why do I say that? I say it because at the end of a good game everything interlocks. Your supports babysat well so you were able to farm well and then mid could go help offlane and offlane could gank your lane and you got items up you got wards up you picked your fights and went as a team …
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How to :Recognise you Tilting

Tilting from the saying "on tilt" :on tilt : In a reckless manner, especially playing poker recklessly after experiencing bad or good luck.


this saying originated from the medieval sport of jousting, where if some one was on the verge of losing they would be "on tilt" meaning leaning over in the saddle. This then leant itself to the world of poker where if a player played a bad hand and let it effect them their decisions from then on would be bad and thus they were "on tilt" or "tilting".

Now we lead the term towards the world of E-sports and more importantly... DotA2

when one tilts in dota they are letting one bad game affect them for the rest of their time online. When someone allows this to happen a lot of their decisions made afterwards are bad, horrible or downright ****. The problem is... how do we know we are tilting? How does one tell another player that they are tilting? How do you Recognise tilting?

speaking from experience .... ill tell yo…
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Helllooooooo guys, it's me again, Exit, and today I, for once, am going to try my hand at passing my knowledge on down ;) even though most of you are better than me. So lately I've been seeing a lot of games thrown/lost because of one thing: unfair engagements. One person will run in and die, and then the whole rest of their team will de ice to go balls deep and feed, resulting in at least one tower, if not more lost. And it's pretty disturbing, because it's not as if they are getting tanked into the fight. They are consciously making a decision in heir head go go in and try to fight all five members of the enemy team and trade.

So, when to attempt a trade? Do you ONLY fight as five, and just give away objectives while waiting on your teammates re spawn timer? Or do you run and and try to get at least one of their heroes for yours? I have come up with a sort of guide to attempting an uneven trade(it's by no means definitive though, so please, lay on the criticizing).
1) is your teamma…
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Everyone! All five of you who read these! Hold on to your hats and prepare to assume the position because IT. IS. TIME.

Woo. Hooray. So exciting. I'm literally dying of excitement, see? See how excited I am. So excited. Woo.

Why don't you add a 'kappa' to the end there, make the sarcasm even MORE obvious?

Don't have the energy. Cause I'm so excited.

Shush. Anyways, I finally got around to making myself a veggie pizza burger, so I also finally got around to playing my next ranked game. This signals the halfway point of this little series, and we've had some good times, yeah?

Oh yeah. So many...

NOT. TALKING. TO YOU.

Hmph.

When I loaded into my game this time, something... peculiar happened. Something that I've always wanted to happen, yet never actually thought would. Someone recognized me.

Like, someone you knew?

No, I mean like... from this site. They fingered me as 'that guy who writes funny guides on Dotafire'. And I gotta say, when someone recognizes you for yo…
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Hello everyone! I know, I know, this isn't MMR match 5, but I promise you it's coming in a bit, don't worry.

You think anyone cares?

I'm sure at least like... five people care? Maybe? At least three...

Uh huh.

Shush. Anyways, it's been a while since I did a 'suggested balancing' thread... I think the last one was on Night Stalker all the way back when. In the time since then, the game has shifted towards early game aggression and people have begun to build NS more late-game centered, and he's sort of found a niche place in the meta again. This meta in general I'm finding almost every hero in the game has some role to play at some point... sure we're seeing a lot Queen of Pain, Gyrocopter and Earthshaker, but I'm pretty satisfied with how diverse the qualifiers have been. I even saw Tinker again at one point!

That didn't go well.

No. No it did not. There's one hero, however, who doesn't a place anywhere anymore, which is a shame because he was one of my favorite carr…
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Just a few quick announcements I suppose:

So as you may have noticed from my last blog post, I love Dragon Knight so I am going to make a guide for him(woohoo), which I hope you guys will like. I don't know exactly when I will have it ready but I will have a lot of free time this summer hopefully.

I can't get you a picture yet, but I'm graduating tomorrow and my cap is decorated with.... The DotA logo :D

Finally, I feel kinda bad doing this but I'd love it if you could check out my general carrying guide. I think its gotten a little buried but I'm proud of it so I really want to share it with you guys.

Here it is, I'll update it shortly for 6.84

I enjoy writing on this blog and thanks for those of you who read it, more real posts are coming up!
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These is the final result of the /r/Dota2 Stupid Balacing Thread I created a day ago. You can find that thread here.

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* Pudge

-Movement Speed reduced to 0.
-Meat Hook range increased to global.
-Missing a Meat Hook causes the X-Ping sound to play permanently.
-Meat Hook targetting changed to Unit-target.
-Meat Hook has phase effect until it reaches the selected target.
-Roshan can now be affected by Meat Hook.
-Meat Hooks available from 1/1/1/1 to 3/4/5/6.
-Rot range increased to global.
-Hooks now bounce off the map's edges.


* Anti-Mage

-Aghanim's Upgrade: Mana Void can now be casted on an allied hero, fully damaging him and nearby enemies.
-Aghanim's Upgrade: Increases damage to 0.9/1.1/1.3 per point of mana missing and gives all allies within AoE mana equivalent to target's missing mana.
-All abilities now cost no mana, including items.
-Using items puts Blink on cooldown.



* Added Votekick

-420 Mana Cost. 322 second cooldown. Can be refreshed but not rearmed. Affected by…
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I remember a game where I was a support and my carry was just being... well, a douche. I would even give him tangoes when he demanded them at full health, and he just made being lane support miserable. The rest of my team, of course, was on his side. To spare myself the torment of remembering that game I'll sum it up. Everyone was yelling and flaming me and just made me want to quit Dota altogether. Thankfully I hadn't abandoned a game recently and when I did I received no LP games. I rarely abandon unless it's a case like that and I usually mute and stick it out. Anyone else been in this situation? Was it wrong for me to abandon my team for my own selfish feelings? I always value your input!
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