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Top Tier:
These heroes are always the first to go and it is extremely rare for them to not get banned/picked right away. Their ability to more than just fill the roles of the current meta-game makes them extremely useful in any line-up.

Middle Tier:
Useful heroes that are rarely left untouched during the early selection process. Most of these heroes will be picked/banned in a match.
Lower Tier:
These are the heroes that are still good in the competitive scene, but are obviously less of a priority in picking. Unless they are picked early for a specific role or counter, dependant on the team compsition. …
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8 Teams are through the group stage into the best of 3 single elimination series, playing off for a $500 prize. Games will be streamed at Dotacast.com

Games start at 10am GMT+10 (about 40 minutes from this post)

The Teams:

Blackfade.org (US/AU)

Parallel Gaming (AU)

Skill Difference (US)

Absolute Legends (AU/CAN)

BVD (AU)

Sequential Gaming (NZ)

BIG PLAYS (AU)

We'll also be giving a couple of beta keys away again after the last game. Brush up on your trivia if you want to take a shot at one.
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People who comment on builds and clashes, but are total garb.
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News just broke. Dota 2 is definitely going to be f2p.

Source

BUT! The real question is what's Gaben's twist going to be? Well, I had some ideas on that.

What do you guys think this twist might be?
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For those of you who followed me over the last couple of months, probably not so many people, sadly. Might have noticed I just released a new guide on dotafire.

iN7.Ganker's guide to Alchemist

If you care about supporting me or you just like to be up to date with what I am doing, you might consider subscribeing to my youtube channel.

As you guys might know I put dozens of hours and days into a guide as big as this one and I would really appreciate if you guys could leave a comment in the comment section below and/or rate the guide.

I am constantly working on improvements and if you have any ideas for me on how to improve my guides, please let me know in the comments below this blog.

Thanks for takeing the time to read this and the support you might put into my guide via the rating or comments. Thanks!
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Some people have been wondering how I formatted my last guide, so I decided to make this post to share some of the techniques that I used. This post is not intended to be the superbible of formatting, but merely a starting point for creating your own format to use.

If you are interested in learning more, check out jhoijhoi's guide on MOBAFire. The formatting there is very similar despite the fact that it is a different site (well, not entirely).

The Basics

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• b, i, u, s - Creates bold, italic, underlined, or strikethrough text.
  
  
  Code:

  [b]Bold[/b] [i]Italics[/i] [u]Underlined[/u] [s]Strikethrough[/s]
  
  Produces:
  Bold
  Italics
  Underlined
  Strikethrough
  
  Usage:
  • Use formatted text to emphasize particularly valuable information.
  
  
  
  
• sup, sub - Creates superscript or subscript text
  
  
  Code:

  This is [sup]superscript[/sup] text. This is [sub]subscript[/sub] text.
  
  Produces:
  This is ^superscript text.
  This is _subscript text.
  
  Usage:
  • Use superscript and subscript text to format special

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Ok.

So I was working on a guide about hero roles. I had a snazzy name picked out and everything "Dota 2 Class Warfare" I was going to call it, and maybe insert bad jokes and pictures of the Occupy X movement.

Then I had an awesome discussion with Snoopy from Absolute Legends. It was incredibly enlightening and yet also extremely frustrating. The gist of it is there's a metagame shift in the works and with it mostly invalidates the stuff I've done and was working on at the time. Gah. At least we get to explore new topics though. The next video guide will mostly be concerning what's happening right now.

Basically Na'Vi are to blame. Those of you who've seen the Ukranian (mostly) juggernaught in action know exactly how successful they are and how damn scary they look when they play. Naturally they're extremely talented players with incredible coordination but that's not the whole of it. For a long time I've put down their ability to pub stomp even the strongest teams (and I do mean sto…
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Hey I was just wondering where can I find a legit download link for Dota 2?
I've been searching everywhere but there's a lot of different links and I've tried some but no luck. I'm just worried about downloading a virus or something, you may never know nowadays. So if anyone can comment and give me a legit link i'd love to join the Dota community and try it out, Thanks in advance! (:
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Heroes in this role are generally required to have a high level and quite expensive items in their inventory in order to be effective in teamfights. They generally take most of the farm in a team, cleaning lanes and sometimes jungles.

This role can be split in two sub-categories:

Hard Carry

A hard carry is the type of hero that is generally useless in the beginning of the game and is really dependent on getting his items/levels.
These type of carries are generally seen ricing through early-mid game and coming out late-game to wipe the floor with the enemy team.

Examples: Anti-Mage, Spectre, Faceless Void



A semi carry on the other hand, is the type of hero that excels at ganking early game or has skills that allow him to farm a creep wave fast. These heroes reach their peak potential way earlier than hard carries and can sometimes compete with some hard carries themselves, if farmed enough.

Examples: Bounty Hunter, Shadow Fiend, Queen of Pain

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Post a picture of your best and worst heroes.

Best Heroes

Storm Spirit (Well I did make the guide.)

Night Stalker & Bounty Hunter
tl;dr I own with any solo mid.

Worst Heroes:

Anti-Mage (*epic misery and facepalm*)



tl;dr I fail 80% of the games when I hard carry. I am cursed. Usually, I pick hard carry, team fails early game. =(

Special Mention:
Windrunner: (Don't judge me.)

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