Manni | paragon.fi!
I had the best game earlier today with a friend. We que only SD. They pick Ursa, Skeleton King and Juggernaut. Obvious level 1 roshan, so we went there. Got all three of them. Our Chen warded up and waited in the forest, sure enough they come right back and get owned once again. Then all three of them leave Easiest win of my life
Nothing like waiting for enemy beastmaster to throw his axes at mid and clear the creep wave, just to tag him with level 3 battle hunger for a free kill. Send Invoker mid for the epic cold snap/hunger combo.
Hey, Curse is getting a Dota 2 team, maybe we will get some support here too
speculation time
two old CLG players+whatever
singsing could form team with wagamama and others from ex-pulse
4fc
or they might be NA, which would make things a bit more interesting.. merlini does not have a team. CWM is looking, but knowing that guy he would have leaked what team he was on before it even happened-
Last edited by Longview; 2013-01-08 at 03:33 AM.
Well, from what I recall:
-No Tidehunter have supposedly had a sponsor for a while but they haven't been ready to announce who it is.
-Singsing did tweet a while ago that he might be able to announce his new team soon.
-Old Pulse/CLG players
-If it's a NA team, there's at least Merlini, PaintItGold and HANNAHMONTANA without teams (+maybe come other old Quantic players I can't remember right now), not sure if the latter plays any more though.
-I rather doubt an up and coming team, if it is such, would have someone like CWM who is a known for frequent team-switching. God forbid if the infernal Bamboe+Sing+CWM combo is merged and and let loose to throw games left and right.
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Yes, between Vanguard/Arcanes you barely ever need to return to base and can join prolonged pushes and fights. I'd say Armlet is more situational and it kind of begs for Power Treads, which means no Arcanes.
Manni | paragon.fi!
I've already written how good Axe is in a good dual offlane, but even jungle Axe is phenomenal at putting pressure in enemy offlane and mid as early as level 3. I usually leave jungle to poke lanes no later than level 3, but sometimes just at 2 or 1 if safe lane looks like an easy kill. Especially from Radiant side, a short poke in mid with rank 2 Battle Hunger can completely fuck over heroes like TA even if they are too careful to be killed.
Last edited by Hermanni; 2013-01-08 at 10:53 AM.
Manni | paragon.fi!
Mmm. If I go with Arcanes, I always like to pair it with Mekansm. Gives the team more pushing power, though I guess you can't really use BH much with that unless you want to have to choose between abilities and items. But I've honestly never been a fan of BH if I'm not laning.
The only thing Vanguard provides that Armlet doesn't is essentially immunity to creep damage. The armor, HP bonus, regen, etc are all better than what Vanguard provides for pretty much the same cost.
Plus Armlet toggling makes you pretty much immune to death if they don't have a lot of burst (you can escape 2-man ganks pretty easily.)
i dunno
for me its seems like waste of gold, you are not a right click dps
tho i agree vanguard is meh to (for ranged it sucks)
i would buy pipe for regen because you get tons of armor from call anyway
and block is only usefull vs physical heavy lineups
tranquil>forcestaff/arcanes>pipe and maybe sange/vitality booster if you need raw HP seems like better build overall (and you can later upgrade into halberd)
armlet i just VERY situational
Yeah, I understand. I just really like Armlet and try to find excuses to buy it on basically everyone. Armlet toggling has saved my ass so many times...
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I'll have to queue with you sometime. It'd be nice to get cornholed by people that actually know what they're doing instead of due to flaky teammates.