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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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This is a blog of me showing off. I post new blogpost whenever I pleas. Or whenever I get a worth showing game. Today, I have had my best moments of shine in DotA2. Two of the first games. I got +1 commendation for leadership and +1 commendation for something (don't know what it is yet). The third game, was really fun!

First game.This is my best score with my favorite hero Storm Spirit! The game was a blast! I got really happy after this game.

Second game.PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDGEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Third game.
We did Skeleton King + Ursa combo. We tried to solo Roshan at lvl1, but they knew about our secret mission and killed us both. Later in the game. We dominated lane and got really fed and finished the game in 16 minutes.

I don't know if you really got anything from this. But I must say. It was been hell of a day for me! I <3 DotA2.
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Hey guys! Well the topic of a meta game appearing in Dota 2 is sort of an interesting topic to me, so I thought I would start a conversation and see where it goes :p And if you guys have any comments to expand or ask questions, feel free to comment. (I love answering them anyways :))

So the first question is "Do you think a meta game will develop in Dota 2?"

Well in my opinion Dota 2 will have a certain form of meta game. Like we see now there are plenty of different types of Dota teams. We see the pushing teams, ganking teams, and turtling teams. Now what I'm wondering is, Will people only want to play pushing teams because their favourite team does it? Now my friend "Timeslime" mentioned this and I was really intrigued. Because nowadays there are several ways of watching your favourite teams play, through live streams and youtube. So like in LoL, how many people try to copy their favourite players after watching them RAPE as a certain person (Amazing aoe fights, all man counter jun…
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Hey guys! Another post of my experience with Dota 2! So recently I was playing some games of League and Dota. I found out what I really enjoy more about Dota compared to LoL.

The map and the roles. When I was playing both games, I really discovered that the map in Dota allows alot of variations that LoL does not allow. It allows the player to experience more then one gank path (Which really pisses me off in LoL how ONE ward will pretty much stop a gank, since they only have one path to go in order to gank, at least for top and bottom lane). As for Dota on the otherhand, due to the fact that the trees can be cut down, and that one is able to gank from several different places, the laning phase just seems much more interesting. Like for example, how often do you see in LoL a gank that continues after the people run to their tower? You almost never see a gank complete if the kill does not happen before the tower, but in Dota you can see endless possibilities, due to the towers having les…
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Hey guys! I just noticed there were so many new players like me that came from LoL to play Dota 2!
So I thought I would start up a blog of my own to share my experience with this game so far :p.

Well I started playing Dota 2 at the start of December after playing about 1.5 years of League of Legends. Before I even started playing Dota 2, I was REAL excited to play. I saw so many games from Internationals and just reading Dota 2 wiki and hearing my friends talk about it got me real hyped up :p.

So when I got the Dota 2 beta key......I......was SOOOOO HAPPY. Ask anyone of my friends when I got it..... I WAS SCREAMING. :) So I started playing the game. I played many private games with bots with my friends that got it too. It was fun finally playing bots that could gank, roam, whatever, compared to LoL bots. :)

So now i have about 30 Real games played, with about 20 wins, and 10 losses. And i really enjoying people like veno, and shadow shaman.

Well I well probably add more soon, cause…
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AKA I discovered the blog feature!

I've just recently gotten into the whole moba craze lately after a ton of pressure from my friends. I started playing League of Legend's a few month's back, and am finding it rather enjoyable!

However, this is meant to give a new perspective on DotA, not League, so let's not lose focus.

I have to say, when I first started this game, I found it horribly confusing. Not because I wasn't familiar with the concept (League ensured that) but, there was just so much stuff going on at once. All the stuff in the shops, all the different buttons that you had to keep track of, all the different hero's you're expected to have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of... It was a bit overwhelming, to say the least.

I've only played two games so far, one as some fire using lady with boobs (can't remember her name), and Sniper. So far, don't like fire shooting boob lady, really really really like Sniper. He reminded me a lot of Tristana (who is my main in League, btw). I'…
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Na'Vi vs Problem???

A crazy game with a ridiculously aggressive tri heal push strat being shown off, we enjoyed this one alot.
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