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  1. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Dota is such an interesting game for deciding moment such as these. While ES is a great initiator, his force lies more in counter-initiation as many other heroes. It's amazing what smoke can do, and how little they are used in lower brackets. However, I do want to point out that smoke break at 1025 range (vision) and most heroes have 1800 Day / 800 Night. Add to that the unobstructed vision from NS/KotL Agh, and they can (if aware enough) prevent you from blinking forward. Nonetheless, one...
    Post by: Hawkin, Sep 15, 2017 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  2. Hawkin
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    ES is indeed hard to completely shut down, and a good ES will be a pain as soon as he gets a blink dagger. Lineup playing against one should try to favor 1-2 melee heroes max, and put the rest at range to reduce the chance of positioning issues and end up in a big echo slam. Additionally, proper vision (ward and sentries but also hero ability such as KotL Agh or NS Agh during day/time) will allow you to anticipate the ES initiation. I also like to play hero that can disrupt blink dagger when...
    Post by: Hawkin, Sep 14, 2017 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  3. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    From your post I'm assuming you are playing in between 2k-3k MMR because I have none of the issues you've mentioned above at 4k+. Necrophos: Easily dealt with aggressive right-clickers in the laning phase, and diffusal carrier in the late game. Sven: Bullied into oblivion; I barely see him at all. Veno: Strong, and annoying I'll admit, but I feel like he doesn't bring enough to the team. Earthshaker: Pretty much everywhere despite his recent nerf to Enchant Totem. He's a good hero, but...
    Post by: Hawkin, Sep 13, 2017 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  4. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Please, innovation is needed to keep a game like Dota2 to the forefront of free to play. You can't keep the game the same way it has been since Dota1. At some point you're going to have to change something.
    Post by: Hawkin, Dec 15, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  5. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Played three games with 7.00. Here are my thoughts: Map Changes are fine if confusing. I keep going somewhere expecting a jungle camp only to find a staircase. The whole High/Low ground variation throughout the jungle really changes the way fight work, but also the vision map. There's too many trees in the way to have very good vision from ground-level ward (as far as I know at the moment). I'm still uncertain about the Roshan location; it's certainly easier to contest from both side...
    Post by: Hawkin, Dec 14, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  6. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    DC was disappointing in the Grand Finals. Their draft was not up to Wings' nor was their execution as solid as it was in their previous matches. I think we can really see the pressure getting to them when they fought bot in the radiant jungle and missed like everything from arrow to burrowstrike. Nonetheless, it was a very good run for them, and for Wings too. Congrats to them both. And the tradition continues of alternating between a NA/EU winner, and a Asian team as TI winner! P.S. 9M...
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 14, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  7. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I'm an invoker player. Watching w33 play is humbling. His reaction time is so small, and his decision making so fast. I mean the speed at which he decides which spell to invoke, casts it, and then continue fucking everyone around him. It's astonishing. One hell of a game. I'm kind of sad that EG dropped to LB. Would've been nice to see a Grand Finals between two NA team, but Wings is a pretty solid team. I'm kind of hoping EG takes the Finals if only for setting the record of being the...
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 13, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  8. Hawkin
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    Newbee's phoenix was weak on that game. He gave off first blood cause he absolutely wanted the 2min bounty rune. I agree with you though, Phoenix does fall off at some point since he does so much magical damage. With the return of STR heroes, the BKB is one of the core item on many of them. But against core which do not prioritize it nor pipe, he's really really strong still. I so want my friend to play Io when we play in group but he refuses.
    Post by: Hawkin, Jun 11, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  9. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    It's all about the LS Bomb. Slardar is such a huge combo with LS being so strong at the moment. Phoenix is still pretty strong because the meta is seeing a lot of Str Hero and Sun Ray is soooooo strong with that. Just two points early on 20+2.5% of their HP damage per second for 6 seconds. I've been playing him a lot in pubs, and ranked; it's amazing how you can just zone out or get an early kill with this ability. I didn't see the whole of Game 2 of LGD/Liquid, had to leave in the middle,...
    Post by: Hawkin, Jun 11, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  10. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    QO armlet toggling = next level.
    Post by: Hawkin, Jun 9, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  11. Hawkin
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    For those who are watching the Manila Major: - Na'vi is back! - OG roflstomp MVP 24-0 - dat Reshuffle killed Secret, and EG (who finished last in a tournament for the first time since ppd took over capitaincy).
    Post by: Hawkin, Jun 9, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  12. Hawkin
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    Exactly my thoughts when he did that. Like come on, you're hosting a international event in China and you joke about pornography and masturbation, where such things are censored. I agree that his hosting was good nonetheless; there were a couple of neat ideas like the white board with discussion on each teams strength and weaknesses.
    Post by: Hawkin, Mar 10, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  13. Hawkin
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    Yeah, he had to pause multiple time during one of his game because his eyes would go dry as fuck in those booths. What are your thoughts on G2D being fired from the event? Personally, I was kind of glad. His opening with a masturbation and pornography joke was just over the top for me. I really liked him at previous event, but this time I couldn't stand him. However, I don't really like Sheever as a host, KotL Guy isn't too bad. I'm wondering what Manila will look like. I think they need...
    Post by: Hawkin, Mar 10, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  14. Hawkin
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    Yeah, the whole thing was a mess. As if it wasn't enough, a couple of players got robbed when the hotel went to clean the practice room without notice and discarded their personal items.
    Post by: Hawkin, Mar 9, 2016 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  15. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Just finished a 87:02 min game against a medusa rapier. I think we got mega at 45 min or so and she rushed rapier at 49. From then it was a game of farming buyback, suicide trying to break T4. Rinse and repeat with a rosh once in a while. She got a second rapier. Ended up winnig after they killed my shadow fiend and started chasing a bit outside their base. Instant buyback - BoT to their base and break ancient while they were trying to make their way back. God that was exhausting.
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 15, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  16. Hawkin
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    I was really pissed by the technical bugs all throughout the tournament. Very annoying.
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 1, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  17. Hawkin
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    About fucking time. I've been saying they should let go of the team since Puppey left. Xboct is one of the worst character ever and Dendi needs a good captain to direct his awesomeness, which there never was in Na'vi after Puppey's departure. Hope to see Soneiko with some badass team, that guy got some serious potential.
    Post by: Hawkin, Oct 17, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  18. Hawkin
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    Can you quote where you got that s4 was leaving Secret? Because Secret has announced zai retiring for studies and RTZ leaving for EG, but nothing about s4.
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 15, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  19. Hawkin
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    Meh, Secret acted like douche. Really overconfident and cocky. s4 played and drafted like crap. I'm kind of glad that they got knocked off TI, perhaps it will shake them enough to review their attitude concerning tournaments and preparation.
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 9, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  20. Hawkin
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    God I hate Redeye as a caster/panel thing. Anyway, as far as game went, god that Na'vi vs. VG game was amazing. Lot of good decision making by Xboct. I'm not a big fan of him, I felt a lot of time that Xboct had been the reason Na'vi was throwing some game, but in this one he stepped up and did what he had to do. A pathetic performance by Artstyle though. Empire vs. LGD was a very interesting match up as well. That Silent AM was one of a kind.
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 4, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  21. Hawkin
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    Complexity Gaming did very well as well and surprise a lot of player by snatching 3rd place I believe. Overall, it was a very interesting group stage. P.S. I did end up watching the zai mid brood game...WoW, well worth the time haha!
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 1, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  22. Hawkin
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    I'm feeling like s4 is not performing very well when he's playing mid these last few matches. I've just watched their matches against MVP and his gyro (match 2) lost his lane so badly it wasn't even funny. They were lucky they managed a couple of team fights that put them back on track. Damn CoL, I didn't watch that one yet. I'll get back to it. Didn't they lose one to CoL? That combo ES+Lesh is devastating. Such a long range stun to insure Lesh lands his...I'm looking forward to trying...
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 1, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  23. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I haven't checked the EG games yet, but I did get the impression that Secret was testing out stuff and applying old strategy most of the time in the group stage. And it works still as clearly demonstrate by their 2nd place (I think they are like 13-0 with a s4 - QoP). I'm guessing we'll see more interesting match and draft when the stakes are higher for Secret, for now I'm guessing it didn't bother them to be anywhere in the top4.
    Post by: Hawkin, Jul 31, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  24. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    He wasn't actually a very determining factor in that last game. I believe it was gainst C9? C9 pretty much managed to counter the techies with Sven armor bonus and dazzle. The tusk/techies combo was relatively useless. The problem they stumble into is they didn't anticipate the pick and ended having not enough aggression to shut down RTZ farm while kky and zai were running around just buying time, not even getting kill most of the time.
    Post by: Hawkin, Jul 29, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  25. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Secret vs. iG saw some nice plays with classic QoP s4 and a nice TA RTZ.
    Post by: Hawkin, Jul 27, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  26. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I've been following the dota scene and I got surprise by that. Hell, even Synderen had Alliance pegged has the winner of those qualifiers and they got rekt with 0 victory.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 31, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  27. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    If you guys want to see a good game: Game 2 Na'vi vs. Vega. Yeah Lesh is very strong right now. Pro players changed his build, they don't level up his 2nd spell until much later, instead putting points into 1-3 and stats which makes him a lot tankier early game and increases his mana pool for his ult. Lot more burst damage and Octarine is basically a satanic for him.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 29, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  28. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Gyro is just insanely strong since they buff his barrage. Basically the character doesn't stop moving when you cast it, which means it's almost impossible to actually flee from him. So strong in early game. Plus, it's the best counter to Undying tombstone (which is a strong hero still current meta). QoP is the only hero with 100% pick/ban rate at the moment. She's strong early in the lane and mid game. Those two heroes pretty much kills any chance of wisp being ban first phase. There's...
    Post by: Hawkin, May 29, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  29. Hawkin
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    The way they drafted changed as well. s4 is now the captain and drafter and I think he plays on his strength and RTZ better than Puppey was.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 17, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  30. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Zai was just crazy on that clockwerk and Puppey's chen is always amazing and allows secret to push so fast. They can't let the chen go through against secret, especially with BH ban.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 17, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  31. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    The first team fight at roshan pretty much secured their win. The second just nail the coffin. They played exceptionally well against Dazzle's grave and DS position control. But I agree with you, s4 gave them the little push they needed to get some more control on their lanes by forcing rotations from EG and opening the safe lane for RTZ and Kky.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 16, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  32. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Visage first pick for secret both game, but drow denied by EG. I'm kind of thinking s4 is baiting them to choose the drow by first picking visage and forcing them into a core they absolutely have to protect.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 16, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  33. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    It also relies heavily on reaching level 6 for Drow and Visage. Considering that, the enemy can punish them early because visage is not a lane dominator against everything.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 16, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  34. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I love the casters during that match (BigDaddy, EE and Fata + b0ne7). It was very interesting to hear their input during the game but you could also see how they probably act during a game (BigDaddy: OMG! He used mek, he used mek, they need to backoff! Ooooh! CLAP BY KURO!). That play was indeed one of the best of day. Imagine if s4 scream had hit the 3 hero at the same time after instead of only 1. Would've been even more beautiful. Dazzle has always been a very strong hero. People...
    Post by: Hawkin, May 15, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  35. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    EU qualifiers is really hard to predict. NiP, Na'Vi and Alliance are solid teams. Plus the others are pretty good too. The new patch is going to make things very interesting. So far the tendency has been for early teamfights and less farming in the early game since they changed the bounty from creeps (less) and increased the bounty from hero kills. I'm afraid the increase bounty from barracks and buff to Nature's Prophet will result in more rat dota, which is the less interesting to watch.
    Post by: Hawkin, May 8, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  36. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Yup, looking forward to this. We're planning on inviting people to the flat and listen to the matches here. We're pretty big fans :P I'd like to see secret perform well, I really like Puppey and s4. EG is also one very interesting team to see play. I'd like for the winner to be something other than an asian team. We've seen them dominate in the recent tournament. Let's hope western teams have some tricks ready for ti5. The new open qualifiers format is going to be awesome, we might see...
    Post by: Hawkin, May 7, 2015 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  37. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I didn't like the finals much this time around. I'm not exactly sure how. Maybe because I watched a lot of game and there wasn't anything new during the finals? Always Doom, NP, Brew and Skywrath being picked. But either way, when I watched the TI3 finals I was on the edge of my seat. Monday, bah. The finalist didn't even try until their ancients was under assault, they just gg before even losing a T3. Disappointing.
    Post by: Hawkin, Jul 23, 2014 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  38. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I just like to go invoker against him. Cold Snap just gives me enough time to burst him down with the fire golem armor reduction and deafening blast. But yeah, Blademail is pretty funny too.
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 27, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  39. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    What do you have in mind to counter Huskar actually?
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 27, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  40. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    I was watching the semi-finals before I had to go to work. Managed to watch the end of the 2nd game. Divine Rapier was amazing :P
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 25, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  41. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Xorlev, [DLP]Middy and Surrarin are the admin. You have more chance with Middy, he's online a lot compared to the other two I think!
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 24, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  42. Hawkin
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    DOTA 2

    Add me on up on steam. I think I did add pretty much anyone in the DLP group who I saw playing and I'm playing a lot with friends so we could do a 5v5 match up at some point. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198056083730
    Post by: Hawkin, Nov 21, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  43. Hawkin
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    So, still looking for people to play DOTA2 with. Hit me up on Steam. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198056083730
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 16, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  44. Hawkin
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    Anyone watched the LGD/Alliance game? Lasted 61 minutes and so close. Seriously, great watch!
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 8, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  45. Hawkin
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    Western are picking first? As for the DLP guild; do we have to decide which timezone it's in or anyone can join it's just when matchmaking? Cause I could do one I guess...if I find the right option and there's not one up yet. EDIT: My question is actually a question. Thought it might sounds sarcastic or something following Esper's post.
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 6, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
  46. Hawkin
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    Is there a clan/team (w/e it's called) in DOTA2 for DLP? I've been playing a bit and I like it so far, but I'm sure it would be more fun with people working in team. Plus, I'd probably get a bit (a bit eh!) less bashing if I make an error!
    Post by: Hawkin, Aug 4, 2013 in forum: Gaming and PC Discussion
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