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Alliance vs. Na’Vi – will we see another ‘El Classico of Dota 2’ at TI9?

El Classico

Both teams have a long history in Dota 2 and won the Aegis once. Na’Vi is the first squad to ever lift the coveted trophy and Alliance was the first European squad to win TI. Matchups between the world-class teams Evil Geniuses, Team Secret, Team Liquid or OG could be considered to be the new generation of El Classicos – true super teams that fight incredible battles whenever they meet.

However, one true classic will always be the one between Na’Vi and Alliance, because of one historic match in 2013.

Still the best TI Grand Finals of all time?

It has always been considered to be the best TI Grand Finals of all time. Both teams were battling for the trophy at The International 2013.

Bringing back all that memories and feelings from back then is impossible. So let’s keep it short: Alliance was the favourite of the tournament and they actually made it through the tournament without losing up until the Grand Finals where they faced Na’Vi a second time. They already beat the Ukrainian team in the Upper Bracket Finals in a dominating fashion 2-0. Nobody was expecting Na’Vi to actually stand a chance against the Swedes.

Game one was proof of that: Alliance won in 15 minutes – what a stomp. However, Na’Vi fought back and took the lead. They just had to win one more game for their second TI championship. Alliance, on the other hand, remained calm and found new ways to tie and then even take the series.

Maybe PSG. LGD vs. OG was a better game last year, but for most oldschool fans it will always be the Grand Finals of 2013 that is the pinnacle of TI Dota. Dota 2 alliance vs lgd ti 30x

Na’Vi is slightly ahead

However, the Grand Finals were not the only battle these legends fought – otherwise it wouldn’t be an El Classico of Dota 2, right? In fact, both teams played exactly 100 games against each other in more than six years. Who would have thought, but it’s almost even: Na’Vi won 52 of these matches, Alliance 48.

In 2014 and 2015 they played particularly often against each other. Only one thing changed over time: both teams got weaker and were not considered top-notch teams any more. Everytime, one of them had a mediocre success people would immediately joke: Is Alliance back? Is Na’Vi back? They were lacking the confidence and skill of earlier years. Players changed, rosters changed and by now, none of these legendary players of old is actively playing for their organisation – not even Danil ‘Dendi’ Ishutin.

Only three players of the two 2013 rosters are still on a top level: Kuro S. ‘KuroKy’ Takhasomi and Clement ‘Puppey’ Ivanov. The only players in the Dota 2 scene that attended every TI and Gustav ‘s4’ Magnusson who could win his second Aegis with EG.

A new era to start

But things changed: for the first time since The International 2016 both teams are back at TI. Alliance started a new era with five young and talented players. Jonathan ‘Loda’ Berg, the old legend, is leading them as a coach.

It took the Swedish organisation a while to find their way into the DPC, but this season was a success. In the end, Alliance finished in the top 12 of the Dota 2 Pro Circuit and earned a direct invite to TI9.

Na’Vi also restructured their squad at the beginning of the season. They benched good old Dendi and have built a new roster surrounding Akbar ‘SoNNeikO’ Butaev. They had a lot of shaky performances throughout the season, but in the most important moment Na’Vi struck against their opponents in the CIS qualifier and won.

We don’t know if they’ll end up in one group or if they are going to face in the playoffs. But just the thought of seeing two renewed sides brings back the old flair: Na’Vi vs. Alliance – the El Classico of Dota 2.

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Morphling/Old Abilities

• This ability was replaced by Adaptive Strike (Agility) and Adaptive Strike (Strength) in the 7.07 gameplay patch.

• The projectile travels at a speed of 1150.

• The multiplier and stun values are not fixed. They adapt linearly in smooth intervals depending on the difference between Morphling’s agility and strength.

• The values change with each percent difference between agility and strength, even when it is just a minimal change.

• The multiplier and stun values also count bonus attributes, not only base attributes.

• When the current agility is 50% higher than the strength, the damage multiplier stops increasing and the stun duration stops decreasing.

• When the current strength is 50% higher than the agility, the damage multiplier stops decreasing and the stun duration stops increasing.

• The knock back uses the same rules as the stun, it stops decreasing when agility is 50% higher than strength, and stops increasing when strength is 50% higher.

• Knock back distance ranges from 100 to 300 units, knock back speed is 1000.

• Checks Morphling’s stats upon projectile impact.

• Targeted neutral creeps do not draw aggro from lane creeps and towers and are ignored by auto-attacks and attack-move orders for 6 seconds.

• This ability was replaced by Morph in the 7.07 gameplay patch.

• Replicate cannot be cast on the caster themselves or any illusions under their control.
  • However, any illusion under allied or enemy control can be targeted, including illusions of Morphling under their control.

• When the illusion is created, this ability is temporarily replaced by Morph Replicate (pre 7.07) until the illusion disappears.

• Both, the illusion and Morphling have a timer above them, showing how many seconds are left for the illusion to expire. This timer is only visible to Morphling.

• When replicating an ally, the illusion carries the ally’s name, instead of Morphling’s, so enemies cannot tell if it is just a replicate, or the real hero.

• The illusion spawns 108 range away from the target if the hero has a collision size of 24, and 72 if the collision size is 8. It appears either north, east, south or west from the target.

• Faceless Void replicates are able to walk ins >Chronosphere . A replicate created from an allied Faceless Vo >Rubick and his stolen Chronosphere.

• Once purchased, Morphling cannot drop or sell his Aghanim’s Scepter .

• This ability belonged to Replicate and was removed together with it in the 7.07 gameplay patch.

• Replaces Replicate until the illusion expires or this ability is cast.

• Despite being a sub-spell, Morph Replicate does proc all on-cast effects like a regular spell.

• Disjoints projectiles upon cast.

• The illusion disappears when Morphling uses this ability.

• Can be cast successfully even while the replicate is invulnerable or hidden.

• When the illusion’s ownership changes, Morph Replicate still fully works.

• This ability was added in the 6.84 gameplay patch and removed in 7.07.

• Requires Aghanim’s Scepter to be unlocked.

• Can only be cast on allied heroes, including their illusions. Cannot be cast on any illusion of Morphling.

• The Hybr >Spell Steal . The rules can be viewed here.

• It cannot level up any abilities. Their levels are equal to what the original hero had them on as the Hybrid was created.

• The Hybrid can fully use any passive ability of the hero, if they can affect illusions. This includes passive ultimates.

• If a buff gets carried over to illusions upon creation (like most transformation spells), the Hybrid illusion gets it as well. This includes buffs from ultimates.

• If the targeted ally has Aghanim’s Scepter, the Hybrid gets its spells upgraded as well.

• The illusion’s attributes mirror Morphling’s base attributes. They are set upon cast and do not adapt dynamically. Attributes gained from Morphling’s items do not affect the illusion.

• The illusion spawns 108 range away from the target if the hero has a collision size of 24, and 72 if the collision size is 8. It appears either north, east, south or west from the target.

• The illusion has a timer above it, showing how many seconds are left for the illusion to expire. This timer is only visible to Morphling.

• Unlike most other illusions, illusions created by Hybrid have no bounty.

• This ability got reworked into the following Adaptive Strike (6.60-7.06f) in the 6.60 gameplay patch.

• Either damages, or stuns and knocks back.

• Damages if agility is higher than strength, stuns and knocks back if strength is higher than agility, even if it is just 1 point higher.

• If agility and strength are even, it applies all effects, damage, stun and knockback.

Dota 2 logo blue

Dota 2 logo blue

This guide will explain how to create a stylized banner for your team in Dota 2.

Before we get started you are going to need a few tools so you can follow along with the guide.

You will need some form of image editor. In this guide I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS5 but other versions of the program should work just fine. You can use GIMP or PAINT. NET as a free alternative to Photoshop as well.

Additionally you are going to need the Dota 2 Banner Templates. You can create everything yourself from scratch but the Dota 2 team have created some pretty great starting points which we will be using in this tutorial.

You can find links to all of the necessary stuff below.

You have four separate spots for branding when you create a team. To edit your team logos navigate to the Community tab on the main menu within Dota 2. Once you are there you will be able to click on the My Teams tab and then choose Edit Logo located at the bottom of the pane.

Below is an explanation of each logo and where they will be placed within the game, along with their corresponding size requirements.

Team Interface Logo: This image will be used on the HUD, lobbies and so on. This image will be re-sized to 250 x 150 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

Team Sponsors: This image will be used to display team sponsorship on a Team Profile panel. It will be re-sized to 250 x 150 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

Team Base Logo: This logo will be used to decorate your in-game base. It will be re-sized to 256 x 256 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

Team Banner Logo: This logo will be placed on your in-game banners. It will be re-sized to 256 x 256 pixels. Below is where you will see this image in the game.

The primary focus of this gu >

Before we begin you will need to figure out what it is you want to use for your banners. In this tutorial I will be creating a fake team called “Tiny Cat”. I will be using images of my cat called Matilda, she’s cute.

If you’d like to follow along with this tutorial using the same images I use you can find them below.

Unlike other Source games, Dota 2 handles transparent images in a more native way. Instead of relying on Alpha Channels, Dota 2 is able to import a transparent PNG and have it read it in a way you would expect.

The Interface, Sponsor and Base Logo areas handle transparency normally. The only exception is the Banner Logo. Try to imagine that the banners have no background to them at all. If you imported a transparent image in to the game, the only areas that will render will be the visible parts of the image. In other words the image you are importing is not being layered on to something else, it just floats there.

When I import this image in to Dota 2 without any transparency all I get is a basic rectangle shape for my banner.

If I erase some areas of the image I start to form a different shape, notice that nothing is rendered in the transparent areas.

You’ll also probably notice that only half of the image is being shown. This is because when the image is imported in the game it is draped over a pole. The left side will be displayed from the front and the right side will be displayed from the back. With the default game camera you will primarily see the front side of the pole only. In other words you have 256 x 128 of usable space for the front, and 256 x 128 usable space for the back.

The Dota 2 team has provided some excellent starting points for creating team banners. They have included some basic shapes along with some nice textures which you can use to improve your banner and to make it look good within the game. If you don’t already have the team banner templates you can grab them here.

For this tutorial I will be using the template titled border_invertedarrow_00. Open up the image in Photoshop by going to File > Open and selecting the template.

With the template open the first thing we are going to do is create a new layer. You can do this by going to the Layers panel and selecting the Create New Layer option. I’ve highlighted this selection below.

Once you have created a new layer the next thing we are going to do is move it so it’s underneath the template. You can do this by selecting the layer on the panel and dragging it underneath the existing layer.

Any image imported on this layer will now show up underneath the template.

Open up the image you want to use for your banner and copy it so it’s on your clipboard. Go back to Photoshop and paste it in, you can do this by tapping Control + V or by going to Edit > Paste. You should now have something which looks similar to what I have below.

If you’re using the same images as I am the scale will be way off when you first import it. Click on the Move Tool and make sure you have Show Transform Controls checked at the top. Once this is turned on you will see some areas around the image that you can use to resize it. Grab one of the corners and hold down Shift on your keyboard. This will keep the image constrained perfectly so it’s impossible to make it look squished or deformed.

When you’re done you should have something which looks like this.

You can repeat this process until you have completed making your banner. In my example I didn’t cover the back area of the banner so I created another new layer underneath the template one and imported a second image to fill up all of the white space.

The next part in the process is to remove the excess areas which are outside of the banner template. Because the templates have a thick border this is very easy to do. Make sure you are happy with your banner design before proceeding as it will not be as easy to edit it past this point.

Hold down Shift and select every layer besides the one which has the banner template on it. With everything selected, right click and choose Merge Layers.

Your Layers panel should now look something like this. Both the front and back are all on one layer and the template is on another.

Select the Polygon Lasso tool by right clicking the Lasso tool on the Tools Menu. This will bring up a sub-menu where the Polygon Lasso tool will be an option.

Select the layer which has your design on it and trace around the areas which fall outside of the template. Because the border of the template is thick it doesn’t have to be precise, so long as it doesn’t go inside of the banner. You should have something which looks like this.

Hit Delete on your keyboard and you’re done! If you followed along with this guide exactly you should now have something which looks like this.

All you need to do now is save your work. Go to File > Save As and choose PNG on the drop down menu.

All you need to do now is test it out in Dota 2 to see how it looks. Navigate to your team profile by going to Community > My Teams > Edit Team Info. Import the banner we just created under the Team Banner Logo section.

To test it out on the map create a Private Lobby by going to Play > Create Lobby. When you join a team a drop-down menu will appear at the top which will allow you to select your team. This will activate your team logos on the map.

And there we have it! You have successfully created a stylized team banner to show off your team in-game. Have fun and be creative. See if you can come up with some unique shapes and ideas, think outside the box!

Ethereal blast dota 2

General DiscussionEthereal Blade

Hi I’m just starting a topic on the Ethereal Blade.

I have been looking into this item and understand why it is not a common pick up but I would like to hear of players experience with this item outside of the standard Morphling build

I had a Bane game where I built a blink dagger and ghost scepter after soul ring, arcane boots and a point booster so I decided to build an ethereal blade instead of a Aghanim’s Scepter (we where stomping).

I did not expect to see good results (I annoyed our Life Stealer a little bit) but the team utility was decent none the less making it easy to set kills for the teams nukers.

I summerise the Ethereal blade as a decent pick up for a support hero over the Aghanim’s for a team with many nukes to help burst down targets and because it comes out of a ghost scepter it shouldnt be to hard to get

So please post about the ethereal blade here good results or bad I would like to hear more about this rarely used item

special mentions to

I used to do etheral blade on snipe first time and at level 11 just 1 hit any of their team with blade -> ulty LOL was funny gets boring though

i always make etheral blade first item on skeleton king

w8, on SK, why?
he is a physical dmg dependant hero..
enlighten us pls, and about the ethereal blade, its gd for heroes with burst dmg, like lina, luna, lion, and only for those with who can burst someone to death, for bane, he cant burst someone down, he would kill many heroes but it is done slowly, as his ulti is channeling..
but it would increase ur ulti dmg for a max of 3 seconds though ..

you are right bane does not do the burst damage so much brain sap is 300 pure though. It helped for the other heroes who did not build one with burst damage, they can have there standard build and you can support them. It can also be used defensively as protection from those pesky dps heroes. But basically i only did this because we were already winning and i had 4k and thought it was funny to up my ghost scepter.

lol sniper with an ethereal might try that for something new.

I have herd that natures prophet can use one if he goes for dagon rush (supose any hero that dagon rushes could use e blade)

Heroes I’ve used and thought E-Blade was a good choice,
Sniper, Morph, Nyx, Bloodseeker, Shadow fiend
There are more but those are the ones I tend to build E blade on if I want to have fun excluding morph because it’s too common on him/her.

so basically, you cut assassinate’s range by 80% (which is the fucking reason it’s called fucking assassinate) just so you can deal an extra burst damage, +40% extra damage on a hero. GG

think about it, You’re solo mid
hit hit E-BLADE ultimate dead, I’ve played it enough times to know how it works.
Only cons is ganks but meh it’s for fun purpose i never said it was viable in higher tier games

Sorry, as the usual captain and strategist of my team, I tend to think in high tier games. It could be fun, depends on support and enemy though. if enemy isn’t organized and tends to solo a lot, even in mid game, then that would definitely be a blast. If not, then it’s gonna suck.

@cM^Trick : So you got EB when laning phase still ongoing ? Wow..

When you’re sniper and getting every single creep it’s either fun item or rapier which I tend to do rapier nowadays.
Edit: If you can’t farm fast I wouldn’t suggest it after 3+ items, so it’s either after treads/wand or first item.

To summarize the Ethereal blade it amplifies damage so big nukes work on it like Life break, huskar and assassinate, sniper or any other burst damage spells.

So really the ethereal blade is over all rated a low priority pick up as there are many better items to pick up or its too expensive at 4,900k

But lets look at the other pick ups in this price bracket like Shivas gaurd, Aghanim’s Scepter, Ac and hex etc

So as a carry unless your Morphling would you get one or would the supports find a way to pick up such items

vodkagaming | LOSPROGAMEROS states that Huskar can “instagib” a target under the effect of an orchid and an ethereal blade, So surely there is a way to use this both competitively and in pubs though I fear the later may just be wishful thinking.

So far over the discussion on this forum and from other sources the best heroes for Ethereal blade can net there own kills but I’m looking for more like gank combos.

Natures prophet with an ethereal blade teleports to target and ethereal blades them, to net this kill which hero would you pick to help Natures prophet and outside the lane stages would you find this a worth while way to net a kill

on a side note how would Slark react to the ethereal blade with his darck pact I ask this only because I see a hex as common pickup on this hero and would like to know not so much if ethereal is an alternative to hex but whether or not it can be used well

Dota 2 update 6 840

Dota 2 update 6 840

A comprehensive matchmaking system is an important factor in being able to enjoy playing Dota, regardless of which hero or role you prefer. Today’s update includes some engineering changes to the core matchmaking system to allow for bigger changes and better analytical capabilities. Over the next year, we’ll be spending more time focusing on various aspects of matchmaking such as intra-team balance, player conduct, new player experience, abusive behaviors, account buying, friend and teamplay aspects, high mmr matchmaking dynamics, and other issues in an effort to make the overall experience of playing Dota more fun for players of all levels. In this blog post we decided to drill deeper into the changes in today’s update and explain our thoughts.

Matchmaking involves various tradeoffs and our goal is to find the best balance between all the different factors. In order to help make progress on finding the right set of tradeoffs, today’s update includes a couple different experimental changes that will last until the end of the season. Close to the end of the season we’ll do a direct call for feedback on how the changes have worked out and use that feedback, along with data we are gathering in the meantime, to help inform the direction for the next season. We’ll also be working towards other features, such as better detection of smurfing and other abusive behaviors as the year progresses.

The first of these experiments is removing the concept of separate Solo and Party MMRs. We expect this to be the most controversial component in today’s update, as we’ve heard fair criticisms of it in the past. We can’t say that we are fully confident that this will end up being a good change either, so we’ll want to wait until the end of the season when we gather feedback and data on how it has played out after players have had a chance to absorb it. There are two major aspects with this change: 1) the teamplay and social aspect and 2) the value and correctness of the MMR value.

For the teamplay aspect: We think it is really crucial for you to not have a disincentive to play with your friends. The game currently overly emphasizes playing solo and establishes a strong social reward mechanism for this, which causes many players to prefer playing alone than with friends. We believe that bias has over time caused more negativity and unhappiness when playing Dota. Dota 2 update 6 840 Furthermore, Dota is a very teamplay heavy game and we want to consider that aspect a bit more strongly in the hierarchy of matchmaking values. We’ve considered other approaches to the friend and teamplay incentives, but they tended to do a poor job at making it feel actually rewarding to play with friends and only papered over the issue.

For the correctness of the MMR aspect: We recognize that there is a tradeoff here on the mmr data quality if the match has solo mmr numbers with party mmr numbers, however we feel that the impact of that data noise is much smaller than even we initially considered it to be early on and generally with how it is discussed online. Most of the issues related to this we think we can solve with better algorithms. Another common case is playing with a friend who has a higher mmr than you, expecting that it will cause your mmr to go higher. While that has been at least partly true in previous matchmaking system iterations, our most recent version does a fairly good job of addressing this. We have enough data to form matches that cause you to have an even chance to win by carefully choosing the opponents that have a similar makeup. At a base level, we think mathematically we are able to have high confidence that playing with a friend will not have a material effect on your average mmr value with a properly balanced matchmaker. We’ve done some testing to make sure this is true in advance of this update, however we know it’s likely there is more work to be done here and we’ll continue working on this aspect in the background during this experimental period.

Through our investigation into the topic of matchmaking volatility and how parties affect the game, we’ve noticed something that fans likely already know: players have very different comfort levels when playing core roles versus support roles. Some players perform really poorly when they play a role they are not used to, and in turn introduce a lot of volatility in the system for everyone by causing your MMR number to drift away from your actual skill level as well as causing imbalanced games.

So because of that, and because of our abiding love of having multiple MMR numbers, we are adding a new concept of Core and Support MMR numbers. In order to achieve this, we need to know what role you want to play in advance of the match being formed. So for this experimental update, we are moving the Ranked Roles feature to the base Ranked matchmaking and expanding on its capabilities. Now when you matchmake, you will have the option of selecting roles from position 1 through 5 (Safe Lane Core through Hard Support), including multiple selections. So if you like playing Mid or Offlane, you can select those two, or if you like playing Hard Support and Mid, you’ll be able to do that as well. You will be matched based on either your Core or Support MMR.

Each MMR type will also have its own leaderboard, and for the purposes of this short experimental period the existing rank will be applied as the initial rank for both Core and Support. If we end up keeping this feature in the future, there will be a separate calibration phase for each one.

These experimental changes will remain active for the rest of this season for you to try out. Sometime after The International concludes, we’ll issue a call for community feedback to help guide the next steps in our efforts to increase matchmaking quality for everyone. We hope to have your support and patience through this experiment as well as subsequent changes towards the path of making a better overall matchmaking system.

While we were initially going to release this change as part of the Summer Scrub update, the amount of significant underlying code changes required for this update introduces a lot of potential instability. So we are splitting the Summer Scrub update into two parts, this first part for a matchmaking rework, and the second part soon after for bug fixes and a few quality of life additions. We are expecting that we’ll have a lot of matchmaking related bugs to work through today, so please let us know if you run into any issues and make sure to include the matchid in your reports.

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Dota 2 update adds better bots, new special chests and new hero: Templar Assassin

This week’s Dota 2 update is a chunky one in spite of the addition of just the one hero. Templar Assassin’s long range traps and invisibility powers will give gankers an intriguing new skillset to work with, but this week’s winners are fans of Dota 2’s round blue king of camp, Storm Spirit. His new announcer pack brings a bit of bonus melodrama to Dota’s lane battles. Those with a bit more money to burn can make use of a new breed of special chests full of exclusive items. They can be opened with keys bought in the Dota 2 store.

That’s not all, though. Bug fixes, better bot behaviour and new items all get a mention in the latest Dota 2 update. Let’s get stuck in.

Lanaya the Templar Assassin

Stealthy Agility Carry/Ganker

It wasn’t until she was fired from her day job for non-attendance that the ever-punctual Lanaya realised that she had a tendency to turn invisible when sitting still. She retreated to a nearby park bench to contemplate her future, but could find no answers until she stood up to leave and surprised a pigeon to death. That was the moment she realised her true ganking potential. Inspired, she perfected the art of turning aside damage, throwing cones of psi energy and laying traps, and headed to the lanes of Dota to turn her skills to more murderous matters.

Lanaya’s most interesting quirk is the way her effective range changes over the course of a fight. Her Psi-blades attack can be passively upgraded to deal damage at longer distances with increased damage and her ultimate lets her throw down numerous traps all over the battlefield, setting up assists and, at a pinch, hindering escaping enemies. Her refraction ability immunises her to precisely six hits, which can be used to great advantage in the middle of a melee, but the micro needed to time these abilities effectively make her a challenging hero to learn.

Here’s another one of Dota Cinema’s ever-useful hero overviews, showing off Templar Assassin’s abilities.

New treasure chest

The patch notes mentions the arrival of a new type of treasure chest. The poster below from the Dota 2 blog provides more details. The chest has a turtle-like appearance, and the key used to unlock seems to have a tiny turtle impaled on the end of it. I sure hope the items within are worth the death of that poor tiny turtle.

The new chests have only just arrived, so it’s hard to know what sort of items they’ll contain, but details are sure to appear soon on the chest summary on the Dota 2 wiki .

Storm Spirit Announcer Pack

£5 in the Dota 2 store. I’ll just leave this here.

Patch notes

And here are the latest patch notes, via Steam :

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

– Added Templar Assassin!

– Enabled Templar Assassin, Disruptor and Undying in Captain’s Mode.

GAMEPLAY

– Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada proccing on Tombstone.

– Broodmother: Fixed Spiderling passive proccing on magic immune units (like zombies) and spawning mass spiderlings.

– Disruptor: Fixed Kinetic Field sometimes causing heroes to fail to attack a hero who is being trapped in the field.

– Earthshaker: Fixed Echo Slam inital damage not hitting units through magic immunity.

– Leshrac: Fixed Pulse Nova procing Essence Aura. Dota 2 spectre guide dota cinema chest

– Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear not aggroing creeps when it attacks a hero

– Luna: Fixed Moon Glaive bouncing on ward type units

– Luna: Fixed Moon Glaive bounce order.

– Lycan: Fixed wolves having max speed for their duration after Shapeshift ends if summoned during Shapeshift.

– Necrolyte: Fixed Death Pulse not healing allied magic immune units

– Puck: Fixed Phase Shift proccing Essence Aura. Dota 2 spectre guide dota cinema chest

– Rubick: Fixed being able to steal spells from their being toggled off.

– Rubick: Fixed getting stuck in Flesh Golem form when respawning with the buff.

– Rubick: Fixed some abilities being broken when re-stealing them, now re-stealing an ability will have no effect on your currently stolen ability.

– Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ether Shock ignoring Linken’s Sphere.

– Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greaterbash affecting Magic Immune units when procced via other abilities

– Undying: Fixed Tombstone interaction with Refresher Orb.

– Undying: Fixed Deathlust sometimes not working properly.

– Undying: Fixed a bug where Deathlust would sometimes not go away.

– Undying: Decay now makes the target lose exactly 76 health when cast and heal exactly 76 when it ends. Before the health scaling was causing the target not to lose then gain the correct amount of health.

– Wisp: Fixed Spirits exploding on illusions.

– Wisp: Fixed Relocate to not teleport Wisp while dead

– Improved AFK detection.

– Fixed Smoke of Deceit dodging incoming projectiles if there are nearby enemy heroes.

– Fixed Ethereal Blade and Black King Bar interaction.

– Fixed completely-avoided damage from triggering blink dagger’s cooldown.

UI

– Rich Presence now shows if you’re casting a game.

– If you buy an Aghanim’s Scepter on a hero with no upgrade, this is now shown in the ability.

– Battle point rate and any equipped bonuses are now shown in the inspect panel.

– Numerical battle points earned (split into base and bonus) are now shown on the game end screen.

– The play panel now shows matchmaking game modes and regions from the party when finding a match.

– Improved unpause countdown, added UI sound.

– Fixed case where we weren’t properly crediting damage from summoned units/wards to their hero in the combatlog.

– Added an interface setting to prevent the camera from moving upon respawn

– Neutrals now have yellow healthbars when spectating.

– Roshan’s healthbar is now slightly bigger.

– We now hide all match details until you reveal the winner.

– Team names and logos are now shown on match details panel.

– Fixed a handful of issues with the message and chat system when watching replays.

– The killcam card now flips over to show the full body portrait.

DOTA 2 BOTS

– Improved how bots manage their movement while doing evasive maneuvers — they will now consider a range of escape directions and select the best one based on other nearby avoidance zones.

– Added avoidance to Disruptor’s Kinetic Field (while it’s forming) and Static Storm.

– Improved how bots request items from the stash via the courier. The courier will now only deliver items the hero has room for, and bots will take into account projected item combines.

VISUALS

– Added overhead messages when items or abilities cause unnatural mana gain or loss (such as Arcane Boots).

ECONOMY

– A new chest with exclusive items has been spotted.

– Announcers, couriers and several rare items on sale.

– Added Storm Spirit announcer.

– Added over 50 new community created items.

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Denying

Denying is the act of preventing enemy heroes from getting the last hit on a friendly unit by last hitting the unit oneself. Enemies earn reduced experience if the denied unit is not controlled by a player, and no experience if it is a player controlled unit. Enemies gain no gold from any denied unit. All allied units can be denied once they fall below a certain percentage of health: creeps, and non-hero units at 50%, heroes at 25%, and towers at 10%. However, heroes can only be denied under special circumstances. Illusions and couriers cannot be denied.

To deny a unit, an attack command has to be ordered on the unit. Unless the “Right-Click to Force Attack” option is enabled, right-clicking the unit does not work, since right-clicking allies gives a move order, not an attack order.

A creep is not considered denied if a neutral creep (e. g. Roshan) deals the finishing blow and thus will give full experience to the enemy heroes.

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Denying units [ edit ]

Besides couriers, every non-hero unit can be denied, including creep-heroes. They can be denied once their health falls below 50%. Denying an allied, non-player-controlled unit (lane creeps which are not taken over by players) grants 40% of its experience bounty to enemies within the 1500 experience range, instead of 100%. The denying player also gains 20% of the creep’s gold bounty when denying. Denying a player-controlled unit grants 0% experience to the enemy, and also none to the denying team.

Especially in the laning phase, denying allied lane creeps is important to create a gold and experience advantage. It can lead to having a level advantage over the enemy, opening up a chance to get a kill on them. Gold-wise, it cripples the enemy’s farming, slowing them down significantly, if they depend on farming gold. Creeps should be denied whenever possible, although getting last hits should be prioritised. Denying creeps is also important to shift the creep equilibrium towards closer to the own tower and away from the enemy tower.

Player-controlled units can be denied as well, but unlike lane creeps, most summons expire after a while, so that their bounties can be “denied” in other ways than killing them manually with attacking. For many small summons, this does not make much of a difference, but can still be done when possible. Especially when having multiple units, they can be used to deny each other. Bigger summons, like Warlock’s Golem and Spirit Bear , should always be attempted to deny, since they usually have significant gold and experience bounties. Denying these units is an excellent way to prevent giving the enemy free gold and experience when the unit is unlikely to survive.

Denying towers [ edit ]

Towers may only be denied once they drop to 10% health and below, yielding half its gold bounty to the enemy team and half to the denying team. Denying a tower also prevents an enemy player from receiving the 150-250 bonus gold for the last-hit.

Denying heroes [ edit ]

Heroes can also be denied under specific circumstances. A denied hero prevents the enemy from gaining any experience or gold from the kill, but still loses gold upon death.

A hero under 25% health and under the effects of certain spells can be denied by an allied hero. The spells that allow denying allied heroes are:

During Supernova , Phoenix may be denied in a similar fashion if the sun is below 50% health.

It is possible to deny oneself (commit suicide) in a variety of ways:

It is also possible to deny allied heroes with some abilities:

• Centaur Warrunner ‘s Retaliate fully works against allied attacks, resulting in a deny when its damage kills an ally.
• Chen ‘s Holy Persuasion , Enchantress ‘ Enchant , Lifestealer ‘s Control and Helm of the Dominator ‘s Dominate can be used on an enemy ranged unit that has a projectile attack in flight, and results in the denial of an allied hero if the attack deals the finishing blow.
• Oracle ‘s False Promise , if cast on an ally under the effect of an enemy Winter Wyvern ‘s Winter’s Curse that takes enough damage to die from allied heroes will be denied, rather than having the kill granted to Wyvern.

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Evil Geniuses

Evil Geniuses
United States
Created:	1999 – Organization founding 2011-10-24 – Dota 2 division
Team Information
Coach(es):	Sam “BuLba” Sosale
Manager(s):	William “ReaverXai” Burden Phillip “Tallgeese” Aram
Sponsor(s):	Monster Energy Kingston HyperX SteelSeries PlanetSide 2 100TB CYBERPOWERPC AverMedia Design By Humans NEEDforSEAT USA BenQ
Links
Website:	evilgeniuses. gg
datdota:	39
DOTABUFF:	39
OpenDota:	39
Facebook:	EvilGeniuses
Twitter:	EvilGeniuses
VK:	evilgeniuses
YouTube:	myEGnet
Winnings
Prizemoney:	$14,698,353 USD

Evil Geniuses (EG) is a professional gaming organization based out of the United States. Founded in 1999, the organization is known as being the premiere North American electronic sports organization, boasting highly successful players across each competitive genre.

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History [ edit ]

• 2018-05-27: MiSeRy[1] and Fear[2] leave the squad.

• 2018-05-28: Fly and s4 join the team.
  • 2017-08-30: zai leaves the team. [3]
  • 2017-09-01: Fear returns to the team. [4]
  • 2017-12-20: UNiVeRsE gets replaced by MiSeRy. [5]
    • 2016-03-22: Arteezy and UNiVeRsE leave the team to join Team Secret. [6]SumaiL and Fear similarly intend to leave however later dec >[7]
    • 2016-06-09: BuLba leaves to join Team Secret, UNiVeRsE returns to replace him. [8]
    • 2016-06-12: Aui_2000 leaves the team and is replaced with zai. [9]
    • 2016-08-27: Fear and zai are released from the team. [10]
    • 2016-08-28: SumaiL leaves the team. [10]
    • 2016-09-03: The team is temporarily disbanded. [10]
    • 2016-09-14: Fear retires and becomes the coach. [11]
    • 2016-09-15: The team reformed with Arteezy, SumaiL, UNiVeRsE, zai, and Cr1t-. [12]
      • 2015-01-05: Arteezy and zai leave the team to join Team Secret and are replaced with Aui_2000 and SumaiL. [13]
      • 2015-08-14: After winning The International 2015, Aui_2000 leaves the team as Fear moves to support and Arteezy rejoins the team. [14]
      • 2015-08-30: Zai rejoins the team as an official sub. [15]
        • 2014-02-21: EG announces their new roster (formerly known as S A D B O Y S), which consists of Fear, Arteezy, UNiVeRsE, Zai, and ppd. They also announce the addition of Monolith as a manager. [16]
        • 2014-06-02: Fear is replaced by common stand-in player mason due to a wrist injury. Fear remains with the organization as a coach for the team. [17]
        • 2014-07: After The International 2014, mason is released from the team. [18]
        • 2014-08-22: Fear rejoins the team. [19]
          2013-03: SexyBamboe joins the team, while Maelk steps down from the main squad to become the coach. [20]

          2012-02-22: Pajkatt leaves Evil Geniuses and is replaced with Lacoste and Maelk. [21]

          2011-10-24: EG sees the return of two former DotA players, Clinton “Fear” Loomis and Jimmy “DeMoN” Ho, with the acquisition of their first Dota 2 squad. [22]

          2009-12-03: EG’s North American DotA squad departs, following two months of minimal practice and insufficient exposure. [23]

          • 2008-04-08: Evil Geniuses acquires the eMg DotA team. [24]
          • 2012-09-12: Bulba and UNiVeRsE both depart from the team. Jeyo (formerly of Complexity Gaming) and bdiz are picked up as replacements. [25]
          • 2013-09-19: SexyBamboe, DeMoN and bdiz are released from the team and MSS, Fogged and UNiVeRsE take their places. [26]

            

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Dragon Knight

Dragon Knight
Nível Base 1 15 25 Vida 200 580 1 580 2 300 Regen. de vida 0 1,9 6,94 10,54 Resis. mágica 25% 26,14% 29,16% 31,32% Mana 75 291 567 771 Regen. de mana 0 0,9 2,09 2,94 Amp. mágica 0% 1,26% 2,93% 4,12% Armadura 0 3,04 7,52 10,72 Atq / Seg 0,59 0,7 0,86 0,98 Amp. de mov. 0% 0,95% 2,35% 3,35% Dano 31‒37 50‒56 100‒106 136‒142
Velocidade de movimento 295 Velocidade de ataque 100 Taxa de rotação 0,6 Alcance de visão 1800 / 800 Alcance de ataque 150 Velocidade de projétil Instantânea Animação de ataque 0,5 + 0,5 Tempo base de ataque 1,7 Tamanho de colisão 24 Pernas 2 Tipo de gib Padrão

Davion, o Dragon Knight, é um herói de Força com ataque corpo a corpo.

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• Breathe Fire travels at a speed of 1050.

• Can hit units up to 1000 range away (travel distance + end radius).

• The complete area is shaped like a cone.

• Reduces hit targets’ total attack damage, including raw damage bonuses.

• Has a cast backswing of 0.53 seconds while in Forma de Dragão Ancestral .

• While in Forma de Dragão Ancestral , Dragon Tail has a cast range of 400 and uses a projectile, instead of being instant.
  • The projectile travels at a speed of 1600.

• In human form, the spell does not rely on a projectile, meaning Bombardear cannot disjoint it.

• Dragon Tail first applies the damage, then the debuff.

• Can regenerate up to 240/480/720/960 ( 480/960/1440/1920) health in one minute.

• Level 4 is only available while having Cetro de Aghanim . The spell can still only be leveled 3 times, the Scepter automatically increases the level by 1.

• Increases Dragon Knight’s movement speed to 325, attack range to 500/500/500/600, and magic resistance to 25%/25%/25%.

• Also gives Dragon Knight ranged attack properties. His attack projectiles travel at a speed of 900.

• Level 1 transforms him into a green dragon, level 2 into a red dragon, level 3 into a blue dragon, and level 4 into a black dragon.
  • The black dragon form has 30% larger than the other forms.

• Elder Dragon Form is fully canceled on death. The Dragon Form buff is h >debuff , which deals magical damage in 1 second intervals, starting 1 second after the debuff is applied, resulting in 5 instances.
• When on level 2 or higher, the debuff is applied to all enemies within the max splash radius.
• Can deal up to 100/100/100/150 damage to a unit (before reductions).
• Does not work against wards, works against allied units.
• Corrosive Breath fully affects buildings, meaning it can also be used to deny allied towers. However, buildings are only debuffed when directly attacked.
• Successive hits do not stack, but refresh the duration.
• The attacks first apply the debuff, then their own attack damage. However, on secondary targets, it first applies the splash damage, then the debuff.
• When an attack misses or is disjointed, the debuff is not applied within the radius.

• Splash Attack: (Available for Level 2 and higher levels of Elder Dragon Form)
  • When an attack misses or is disjointed, no splash damage is dealt.
  • Splash damage physical damage, and is affected by Damage Block.
  • Does not work against wards or buildings.

• Frost Breath: (Available for Level 3 and higher levels of Elder Dragon Form)
  • Does not work against wards, buildings, or allied units.
  • Successive hits do not stack, but refresh the duration.
  • The attacks first apply the debuff, then their own attack damage. The splash damage is applied after the debuff as well.
  • When an attack misses or is disjointed, the slow is not applied within the radius.

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Skeleton King

Skeleton King
Level Base 1 15 25 Health 200 640 1440 2020 Health regen 0.25 2.45 6.51 9.41 Magic res. 25% 26.32% 28.76% 30.5% Mana 75 291 555 747 Mana regen 0.01 0.91 2.03 2.83 Spell dmg 0% 1.26% 2.83% 3.95% Armor 1 3.88 7.69 10.41 Att/sec 0.59 0.69 0.83 0.93 Move sp amp. 0% 0.9% 2.09% 2.94% Damage 32‒34 54‒56 94‒96 123‒125
Movement speed 300 Attack speed 100 Turn rate 0.4 Vision range 1800 / 800 Attack range 128 Projectile speed Instant Attack animation 0.56 + 0.44 Base attack time 1.7 Damage block 8 Collision size 24

Ostarion, the Skeleton King, is a powerful melee strength hero, capable of taking plenty of damage before dying. His ultimate allows him to rise again, acting like an Aegis of the Immortal, making him especially difficult to kill. He also has a nuke that deals reliable damage and stuns, and he is able to stay in his lane longer because of his passive lifesteal aura. Dota 2 the only king that matters He can become a hard carry in later stages of the game depending on his farm.

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Abilities

• Hellfire Blast travels at a speed of 1000.

• Deals the base damage instantly upon hitting, and the damage over time in 1 second intervals, starting immediately after the stun.

• Can deal up to 80/160/230/300 damage (before reductions).

• The lifesteal is not a Unique Attack Modifier, so it stacks additively with all other sources of lifesteal.

• Cannot lifesteal off of siege creeps, wards, buildings and allied units.

• The aura’s buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• Does not affect invulnerable allies.

• Unlike other critical strikes, this one also works against wards.

• Mortal Strike uses pseudo-random distribution.

• The sound and particles play upon start of the attack, not when the attack lands.

• Increases attack damage by an average of 7.5%/15%/22.5%/30%.

• Skeleton King does not revive if he does not have enough mana. Dota 2 the only king that matters

• If Skeleton King has an Aegis of the Immortal , Reincarnation triggers first, considering it is off cooldown and Skeleton King has sufficient mana. Dota 2 the only king that matters

• Reincarnation cannot be prevented in any way as long as Skeleton King has enough mana and the ability is off cooldown.

• Revives with full health and mana. Dota 2 the only king that matters Spells and items are not refreshed.

• Slow is applied at the beginning of the revival, not the end.

Recommended items

• Healing Salve or a tangoes prov >Clarity gives Ostarion more opportunities to set up kills early on with Hellfire Blast .
• Two Iron Branches give Skeleton King enough mana pool to cast Hellfire Blast two times at level 1.
• Quelling Blade is an excellent starting item for Ostarion as it allows him to get last hits easier. It also makes Mortal Strike hit harder against creeps and increases the effectiveness of Vampiric Aura when attacking creeps.

• Magic Stick can sometimes be the difference between a death and a kill. Its active usually grants enough mana to sustain Reincarnation .
• Boots of Speed prov >Helm of Iron Will can be built into an Armlet of Mordiggian later on and gives extra survivability in the form of armor and health regeneration.

• Magic Wand prov >Power Treads increases Ostarion’s damage per second; attribute switching can also make his limited mana pool go much further if the treads are switched to intelligence.
• Armlet of Mordiggian is Ostarion’s main DPS item. It is also easy to negate the health drain with the help of Vampiric Aura .

• Desolator makes Ostarion’s physical attacks to hit harder, especially against targets with already low armor. Vampiric Aura also benefits greatly from it, as it heals based on dealt damage after armor reduction.
• Black King Bar negates Ostarion’s main weakness: being chain-stunned and then burst down after Reincarnation . Furthermore, as long as he is not disabled, he can keep hitting enemies, healing himself up with his aura. Dota 2 the only king that matters
• Assault Cuirass increases Ostarion’s damage output by increasing his attack speed and further reducing enemy armor. The aura from this item also increases his team’s armor and attack speed. Since Skeleton King usually survives longer, the item’s aura prov >Abyssal Blade not only gives Ostarion some health and a decent attack damage boost, it also gives his attacks a chance to bash and, on top of Hellfire Blast , another active stun which also pierces spell immunity, which is very handy as he is easy to run away from if his own stun is on cooldown.
• Heart of Tarrasque gives Ostarion a great health, health regeneration and attack damage boost, making him even harder to kill and harder to ignore.
• Heaven’s Halberd gives Ostarion some evasion against enemies which rely on their physical attacks, and lets him cut off an enemy carry from their primary source of damage for a while.
• Monkey King Bar increases Ostarion’s attack damage, counters enemies with evasion abilities or items such as Butterfly or Heaven’s Halberd, and prov >Hellfire Blast is not an option.
• Divine Rapier is an excellent item for Ostarion to get due to it not dropping if Reincarnation activates upon death, thus making it less likely for him to lose it. When carrying the Aegis of the Immortal , Ostarion has to die 3 times to lose the Rapier. The great damage boost also increases his endurance by improving his lifesteal aura’s returns.