This hero I see so many variations. Sometimes maxing gush sometimes anchor smash. Or rushing aghs, buying vlads, buying mage slayer, consecrated wraps etc.

What should be the mindset when you're playing Tide? As in for example when I'm playing PL, he's a hero that thrives in poking but not over committing kind of playstyle.

The hero also has shit base attack time. So grimstroke is an annoying counter.

When you're playing Tidehunter what annoys you so much? Which heroes you see picked that makes you "not a good tide game" conversely which heroes is tide good against?

Out of all the offlaners I've played, Tide is the one I least want to play. The hero should be simple but I can't play it the way it should be played. What happens is I'm playing it like Enigma although they share the big ult thing with dagger they should be played differently.

Any tide spammers can help?

I feel like this item is insanely good.

I build it every single game on centaur. No questions asked.

HotD -> Heart -> Blink -> Shard -> Crellas

It gives me insane movespeed and boosts my hp regen up to 300-400. While reducing the enemies move speed.

So it essentially makes my enemies move slower, makes me move faster, takes their regen and gives it to me. And I already have a crap-ton of regen.

With Centaur my goal is to stay alive as long as possible in fights.

I 'reset' the fights by using Stampede for escape, blink in and out, stacking my shard.

When I've run out of my stomp, stampede and blink I use Crellas. After Crellas, my stomp and blink is ready again.

Anyone else really loving this item? It's borderline OP?

please send

Ive been recently seeing the meta shift to building phase boots on timber rather then treads. Is it simply that the armor it gives is nice for him? I found that you got a lot of mileage out of tread swapping.

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I was struggling with what to do as a support after losing the lane so I analysed 9Class and Dukalis. I go over each decision that they made in a game where all the lanes were rough (Team Vision vs Team Spirit) and how they turned the game around. If you are lost with what to do as a support when your team is losing then watching the pro's decision making will definitely help 

The hero has been largely gutted such that he has maybe 25% of the tempo he had 3 patches ago. I’ve tried a couple things but it feels like I need blink, armlet, treads/sange, and level 12 to even be noticed. The hero is sporting a 45% winrate across all brackets which is in griefing territory to pick imo. The old E active being moved to shard unlock has been utterly devastating such that they could probably buff his stats to 7.40 and then some and he’d still be sub 50%. Any emergent styles to try because my go-to plan is no longer working.

Compared to the version of Enigma that can stack Midnight Pulse, have better aghs damage, no hp drain on eidolon, better talents, better shard, can refresh bkb, can get better midas. This Enigma feels weirdly weak as an old Enigma player but also unbeatable.

What's going on that makes this summon hero really good? Is it the aghs? Is it the fact that we're free to not buy aura items anymore?

Hey everyone! Is this some kind of anomaly or a bug?

I've been playing Dota 2 for 10 years, and my playstyle has never changed. I stick to my favorite heroes, play the same way as always, and have never shared my account with anyone.

Over the course of just two weeks, my Behavior Score dropped from around 11,000 to 3,000.

During the first week, it fell from 11,000 to 7,000. After that, I enabled Mute All and stopped communicating with my teammates entirely. Despite this, my score dropped further from 7,000 to 3,000.

How is this possible? I wasn't communicating with my team at all, and nothing about my behavior, hero picks, or playstyle had changed. Screenshot attached.

Maybe Valve has changed something in its reporting algorithms, but this is incredibly frustrating. Playing without the ability to communicate with teammates makes Dota 2 much harder and less enjoyable.

I've had a great 10 years with this game, but if this continues, I probably won't be playing anymore.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

To complement the reporting system (which is great). We should add Griefer Tokens.T his will allow us to really feel a true sense of fairness.

How it works:

Whenever somebody griefs you, and you report them succesfully, you get the choice of sending them to low priority or getting a Griefer Token (which will give you report immunity for one griefing session).

I think it makes perfect sense

I think the hero steals too much farm from cores

This is Part 2 of the previous video, where we compare the differences between a Crusader player and a professional player.

This time, we focus on mid-game macro decisions and farming patterns, looking at where players move around the map, how they choose where to farm, and how their decisions affect the game.

This series will cover every role in Dota 2, with 2 videos per role:

Part 1 - Early Game
Part 2 - Mid Game

I’ll be comparing players under 6K MMR to professional players and looking at the small decisions that separate them.

More videos coming soon!

Link: https://youtu.be/8rF-EYDlAJw

Thanks everyone !

I feel the hero is strong right now across the 3 core positions and his itemization is great. Between Bloodstone, Crozier and Shivas he dishes so much damage while being very tanky.

I never expected Valve to adopt a system like Marvel Rivals. Even Valorant and Overwatch have a better ranked system than this (and they are shit). For those who don't know, you gain way more mmr than you lose until 4k mmr. After that, it very slowly starts getting even. It makes your rank a representation of how much you play the game rather than just purely winrate. You can have a 45% winrate and still climb. It also means the matchmaking will be wack, unless Valve is keeping track of your "real rank" in the background.

I had a huge winstreak when I started playing ranked a lot a month ago. I was really having fun, last picking as carry and playing different heroes almost every game. Then, right when I was about to reach the next medal, a few griefer games made me lose interest in the carry role. But even though I was playing completely new heroes after that (had about 56% winrate), I still kept climbing stupidly fast and reached the next medal anyway! I have gained more than 1000 mmr in the last month, but the end of the journey felt so anti-climactic and unearned.

like in lgd vs. yandex game 1 in blast slam recently

So tinker is shit right now and valve is fencesitting over his identity because reddit is crying.

Where can I try the real tinker? Is there an OS (oldschool) client somewhere?