Speaking of bad behavior, I know you can mute people, but how do you report racist spam during when you're watching a match, or in the chat channel you're in? I can handle bot spam etc. but when people start with this racist crap it gets tiring real quick.
When you're watching a match in-game, you can outright turn off the chat entirely on top right.
On chat channel, you can still report them by clicking his name (or was it right-click). A menu pops up and report. This also works on names in in-game while spectating.
It seems every compendium game I play is full of people with bad manners; the games seem to mix in the skill levels much differently than the other matches I've played (I have 10 wins now, and will get in a team playing against people with 500+ wins). On top of that, almost every compendium game either has a know-it-all annoying bastard who screams into the mic (quickly they go to mute list) or someone who insists on reporting everybody in the team when things go wrong. Last I checked you can't report a player for being bad or fairly new to the game.
Then there was a game where my team stomped (54-25 or something along those lines), and as we win the opposing team's Lina starts talking endless smack on how our team was garbage, etc.. "If your team was so good and our team was so bad, why did we stomp the sh!t out of you?" was my response.
I had a strangely toxic day yesterday, too. Every game had over the top ragers in it, either on my team or the other.
The worst was a game where I was Lion, and I somehow got solo hard lane against a tri-lane, so naturally I was underleveled and zero farm. I died a lot, but against a farmed Huskar and Slark, that is sort of to be expected. I bought countless Obs and Sentries, but our Leshrac raged at me the entire time, because early on, I wouldnt Ult a Huskar who was at 25% hp. He wouldn't accept that it would have ended up doing about 100 damage to him, and we had no one around that did physical damage. I Hexed him and ran away, and Leshrac died trying to stay around too long.
We ended up winning that match, and he was still raging about me.
Similar things happened all night, like the Broodmother who raged at her team as they lost, even though I randomed KotL (-AR). She was fed by the lane early (Veno requested that lane with Skeleton King).
Were any of these Compendium matches or just normal matches?
2 Compendium, 3 -AR.
Have you gotten any Smeevil treats to drop, besides the first match? I've been playing these compendium matches for two weeks now with no luck.
I've received a ton of player cards though, and the battle bonus from having 10 x players with the active bonus has been a huge reason to continue playing. I have a bunch of duplicate cards as well now.
I have only played a couple of the Compendium ones. I got put off pretty quickly when the second match, Lina demanded mid, bought a bottle and headed there. So the lanes ended up Enigma/Lifestealer top and Slark (me) with Lone Druid bottom. At least the match ended quickly.
Were you radiant or dire? top / bottom mean very different things. Lina mid is "okay" in that lineup (bottle + Lina is retarded), but it makes absolute zero sense to me why you had 3 junglers and no one jungled.
I would have chosen Lina / lifestealer safelane, enigma jungle, slark mid, bear long lane. Gives you the best chance at success IMO. Slark can gank early, lifestealer slow + lina stun will allow good lane pressure and enigma levels extremely fast in the jungle and comes out with a blink dagger fairly early. Could easily swap lifestealer and enigma and probably be just as successful.
Were you radiant or dire? top / bottom mean very different things. Lina mid is "okay" in that lineup (bottle + Lina is retarded), but it makes absolute zero sense to me why you had 3 junglers and no one jungled.
I would have chosen Lina / lifestealer safelane, enigma jungle, slark mid, bear long lane. Gives you the best chance at success IMO. Slark can gank early, lifestealer slow + lina stun will allow good lane pressure and enigma levels extremely fast in the jungle and comes out with a blink dagger fairly early. Could easily swap lifestealer and enigma and probably be just as successful.
Lina also has such an awful auto attack, I would never let him go mid. LD top isn't bad, as he can take off, but having him suicide is the best option because he can get lane control with his bear and can recover farm he might lose out being suicide easily.
In a later game I got into a discussion with a Venomancer about his build.
This was against a Broodmother and I told him I hated that he maxed Wards first instead of Gale. He ended up feeding his wards to Brood, which led to her getting Boots of Travel, BKB, and Orchid all pretty quickly (luckily I randomed KotL and we ended up winning despite her split push).
My preferred build as support Veno is to max Q and W (the passive DOT), skip his Ult until level 8 or 9, get one level of Wards to scout, and then get stats and max Ultimate. I sometimes throw in an Orb of Venom for maximum slow.
My reasoning is that his Q has been reworked that it scales a lot more linearly, and his W is very powerful early game. Teamfights early in the game seemingly don't last long enough for Nova to do its work.
I enjoy playing against a Veno with wards because it is free 20 gold for supports.
And even with farm, I can't see Lina being a better choice than almost any other mid hero. And against a Nxy, you shouldn't win mid. Nxy has a better (easier to land) stun, a mana burn, and a superior last hitting ability. You're either spamming the creep wave with your dragon fire losing lane control or you're getting no farm at all.
I'd much rather see Lina in a support role, than a priority farmer. As a support, she can flourish because she has a good stun (if you are not awful and can land it) and decent burst damage for a single target. You basically set up free kills every R cool down after 6. And come late game, you have a good burst to help take out their carry (or biggest problem).
And even with farm, I can't see Lina being a better choice than almost any other mid hero. And against a Nxy, you shouldn't win mid. Nxy has a better (easier to land) stun, a mana burn, and a superior last hitting ability. You're either spamming the creep wave with your dragon fire losing lane control or you're getting no farm at all.
And bottle first item is universally awful from my experience. Sure, you get the regen, but you lose out on stats (which are way more important early game) and if you aren't awful, the bottle would be purchased around the 2 minute mark anyway.
One of Nyx's most underrated stat is his base HP regen is 2.5 HP/min. It's very hard to chase him out of a lane.
2.5/sec, not per min.
But if you have a ring of health, and thus 5 hp/sec of regen, it's very easy to dominate and push you out of lane. At least according to the self-proclaimed Dota experts of this thread.
Just one of the many paradox of Dota 2.
2.5/sec, not per min.
But if you have a ring of health, and thus 5 hp/sec of regen, it's very easy to dominate and push you out of lane. At least according to the self-proclaimed Dota experts of this thread.
Just one of the many paradox of Dota 2.
I had a strangely toxic day yesterday, too. Every game had over the top ragers in it, either on my team or the other.
The worst was a game where I was Lion, and I somehow got solo hard lane against a tri-lane, so naturally I was underleveled and zero farm. I died a lot, but against a farmed Huskar and Slark, that is sort of to be expected. I bought countless Obs and Sentries, but our Leshrac raged at me the entire time, because early on, I wouldnt Ult a Huskar who was at 25% hp. He wouldn't accept that it would have ended up doing about 100 damage to him, and we had no one around that did physical damage. I Hexed him and ran away, and Leshrac died trying to stay around too long.
We ended up winning that match, and he was still raging about me.
Similar things happened all night, like the Broodmother who raged at her team as they lost, even though I randomed KotL (-AR). She was fed by the lane early (Veno requested that lane with Skeleton King).
Self-proclaimed experts? You think BKB is bad value, start game with 5-slots empty 1 Ring of Health, and rush Linken naked.
You are one of those guys that's so bad, you don't even realize it.
You would be utterly crushed by most players in this thread.
Now, because you're quite thick headed, I'll repeat this again- there's nothing wrong with being new. But while you're new, you still think you know better when others have written paragraphs for you otherwise.
Don't listen to this guy.
Your one attempt at explaining why RoH is bad in game mechanics, you ignored the actual hp regen provided by the ring, which to me just indicates that you are repeating dogma you have read on other websites without actually doing any testing whatsoever.