On today’s episode, Bee & Proud discuss their recent games of Dota 2, Lich’s Sinister Gaze, 3 Sven, Lifestealer & his many teeth, support Naga Siren, Undying and how to stack Battlefuries and Daedali!
TcT: Dewy Shoes ft. Huskar & Roshan
On this week’s Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking about the new hotness: Dota Auto Chess! We’re also covering Ursi’s 3 exploration, all the components that go into Roshan fights/attempts, how to steal Aegis most effectively, counters to 3 Sven, and plenty more! For heroes we ended up playing mid Huskar and a casual first-pick-support 5 Rubick!
TmT: Filling Slots with Slot Fillers
On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi realize that they’re actually having a ton of fun in Dota these days! We chat about how exactly we’re having so much fun, what heroes we’re playing to have fun, and plenty other positive things! To mitigate all our fun we complain about how Wraith Bands are still a plague upon Dota 2, why Vlads is so good on 3’s, when to build Crimson Guard instead of flat armor items, what differentiates initiators vs. counter-initiators, and plenty more!
Waxing Ursi Waning Proud ft. Puck/Drow
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi cover Ursi’s transformation into an offlane player, his newfound love of Puck, and plenty more for our week in Dota! Our segment is all about how best to play around running a squishy team comp, which works alongside our hero pairing for the week: Drow mid with Puck offlane, a squishy set of cores!
TmT: Bad Lineups & Caustic Finales
On today’s episode of Teach Me Tuesday, Bee & Proud discuss how to win games when you have a rubbish draft, how to recognise what your team is good at & how to gank mid! They also answer some listener questions about fighting Meepo, whether Vlads is back, how to itemise on Underlord & cores, Dota abilities in real life & more!
Teach Me Thursday: Getting High Off Magic Wands
On this week’s Teach Me Thursday Beedub and Ursi are going over Bee’s trist with her project hero from last week, Shadow Shaman, and going over the learning and adapting process of picking up a new hero! On the question front we’re talking all about magic wand, salve optimization, starting items for various roles, telling middle schoolers not to do drugs, the proper pronunciation of things you don’t care about, Sisyphus, Cincinnatus, and plenty more!
Theorycraft Tuesday: New Years Edition ft. Pangolier & LD!
On this week’s special-edition Theorcraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi are ringing in the New Year with a reflection on 2018 and looking forward to 2019 with some goals and plans for how we’re going to grow as players moving forward! For our hero combo this week we covered Offlane Pangolier, one of Ursi’s current favorite heroes, and Proud takes another stab at playing Lone Druid in the mid lane since last time we had to play it safelane!
TcT: CS is(n’t) Your GPA ft. Sven/Shadow Shaman
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break down the core concepts of the offlane duo vs. safelane duo dynamic in our current metagame! On top of that main segment we’re chatting about the worst Slark build Ursi ever willed into existence and plenty more! Hero focuses for this week are Ursi’s Shadow Shaman and Proud trying his hand at Sven after some non-carry theorycrafting!
TcT: Project Heroes ft. 3 Sven & Shadow Shaman
On this week’s very festive Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee are covering all sorts of topics including: Ursi’s project heroes, why he thinks ‘project heroes’ are so beneficial to improving at dota, when to abandon a lane as a support to let your safelaner get solo exp, holiday dota trends, sniper builds, non-traditional 3’s, what hero abilities we would want to have in real life, and plenty more!
TcT: Deck The Halls With Balls of Skeletons ft. Rubick/Clinkz
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are in the holiday spirit playing Clinkz and (the newly arcana-d) Rubick! We brave the most dangerous of all hallways in our attempt to parse out, via metaphors and what very well may have been a fever dream, how to effectively lane as a squishy duo while still establishing and maintaining lane dominance, and plenty more!