On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi establish that there are no longer any 5’s, only 3.5’s and 4’s with the new Support changes working their way into changing the pub meta! Topics include: Void Spirit, Snapfire, PA being terrible, Pangolier, jungle items, Mask of Madness LD, 4 Luna, 3 Venge, and plenty more!
TcT: 7.23 Patch Review AKA Imp Claw Gaming
On this continuation of our review of the huge 7.23 patch notes Proud and Ursi get deeper into the patch after having played a whole lot of games! We’re covering the new heroes, new map, new items, new RNG components, specific heroes (notably the very-high-winrate-increase heroes like AM, CM, Venge, LD, etc.), Proud’s take on the new (very strong!) Lone Druid, Kunkka’s aghs, how supporting has changed already, item equity amongst teammates, and plenty, plenty more!
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TMT: KAYGON?!?! 7.23 Patch Predictions
On this week’s short Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi do their last Teach Me Tuesday of patch 7.22, make their predictions about 7.23 right before it comes out, and talk about other general Dota topics, as always! Other topics include: Butterflies, Dragon Knight as a 3, Techies, Comfort Heroes, Earthshaker, Cramming in a ton of Dota, Kaya item combinations, and more!
TcT: Goodbye 7.22! ft. Lifestealer & CM
On this week’s Theory Craft Thursday we rejoice in the coming of a new patch and say farewell to 7.22 and its various iterations! We’re chatting about our highlights from the patch, what we learned & took away from our experiences over the last 6 months or so, and plenty more before we play Lifestealer with 5 CM as our final combo of the patch! Other topics include: how much money Valve deserves as tithes, the stompiest heroes, Faceless Void builds, Underlord, Anti-Mage, Ursi’s encounter with a prophetic 11 year old, the development of the 4 position hero pool & game role, super-late-game decision making, and plenty more!
TmT: Offlane Extravaganza ft. Earthshaker
On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi embrace the wonderful land of the offlane, Bee’s new home! We get Hot Takes about pro dota, support Abaddon chat, Tidehunter, Earthshaker, courier sniping, the new Pokemon game, which names are the best, and plenty more!
TcT: 2 Cheese Gaming ft. KotL, Drow, & 4 Joeys
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi cover a whole lot, culminating in an extremely long (87 minute!) game for this week which gives us an opportunity to cover super late-game decision making and more! Topics include: 4 Luna, Luna counters, Ursi’s WLDL drafting experience, relaxing stack games, support Natures Prophet, 5 KotL, hero removals, hero fusions, 4 men named Joey, picking good heroes vs. picking good teams, CK losses, matchmaking changes, and more! Game Link: https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/5111945104
TcT: We’re a Cult Now ft. Clockwerk & Silencer
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi confirm what everyone has been thining: boy, this sure does seem like it’s gonna be a cult! In addition to affirming all those suspicions we cover: advanced farming patterns, Legion Commander, Lifestealer, Weaver, Spectre maybe being good again (or maybe not), navigating your mid game into a victory, win states vs. lose states, bad tower trades, Chaos Knight, PA, Ursi’s WLDL drafting experience, Zeus, the Monty Hall problem, cold brew, child fight clubs, and plenty, plenty more! For our game this week we played an offlane duolane of 3 Clockwerk with 4 Silencer!
TcT: LVL? DEATH? ft. Support Invoker
On this week’s Theorycraft Proud and Ursi console one another and prepare for another 3-4 weeks of this patch’s miserable lifespan. Due to this, we decide to get weird and try some new stuff in an effort to entertain our small brains and play carry Doom with support Invoker! Other topics include: the era of weird mids we are curretnyl in, lane domination, Alchemist rearing his head again, low player count, Ursi throwing LC games, how to properly utilize +dmg talents on supports, and plenty more!
TmT: Seasonal Dota & Tower Pressure
On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi cover a little bit of everything! Topics include: seasonal Dota habits, Lich, Venge, Snow, Silencer, Bee living in Italy this whole time, high school jobs for Dota heroes, tower pressure in laning phase & how to execute it properly, and plenty more!