On today’s episode Proud and Ursi are joined by special guest Donnie from Pvgna to talk all about the best ways to learn from pro games and then how you can implement & apply what you’ve learned most effectively! For the combo this week, Proud is focusing on a new Radiance Ursa build that he’s testing out and Ursi ends up playing Magnus as a reactionary pick to the game drafts! All this and more on today’s show!
Category: Dota
Teach Me Tuesday: PA, DK, Doom, Shaman Goals
Proud and Bee discuss the goals and techniques of Phantom Assassin, Dragon Knight, Doom, and Shadow Shaman that give you that sweet sweet W. Listener questions include a conclusion on the Double Stout trend, whether anyone is allowed to jungle WK under any circumstance, and probably some other stuff.
Theorycraft Thursday: Lycan, Beastmaster, and Mirroring Support Movements
Teach Me Tuesday: Special Guest LeafyPeachy!
On this episode of Teach Me Tuesday Ursi is joined by former teachling and current-special-guest Leafy Peachy to chat about a variety of different topics! Our focuses today include Spectre’s itemization, talent choices on Spectre, how both Dark Willow and Pangolier have settled now that they’ve been released for a while, transformative items vs. reinforcing items on carries, how to improve the overall Dota community and maintain the longevity of the game, how to play Legion Commander in the midgame, the value of peoples’ win rates on heroes as a judge of their skill, and more!
Theorycraft Thursday: Offlane Pulling, Witch Doctor & Dragon Knight
On today’s episode of Theorycraft Thursday your hosts Proud and Ursi are going in-depth on the new trend of pulling the enemy’s initial minute-zero creep wave as the offlaner to build and maintain a strong lane advantage for you as the offlaner! We’re also going to be playing Witch Doctor and Dragon Knight together and going into some of the advantages and disadvantages of running jack-of-all-trades supports like Witch Doctor and talking about what makes a good DK game vs. a weak DK game! All this and more on this week’s Theorycraft Thursday!
Teach Me Tuesday: New Year’s Dota Resolutions
On today’s show Beedub and Ursi are working to improve their play for the upcoming 2018 year of Dota with their own new year’s resolutions! We’re also chatting all about how to play around detection as an invisible hero, what makes a good trilane composition, how to deal with aggressive duolanes as a safelane support, how much money spent countering an opponent is too much money, and much more on today’s Teach Me Tuesday!
Theorycraft Thursday: Blame The Shapes
On today’s episode of Theorycraft Thursday Proud embraces his inner math teacher and teaches us all about the geometry of team compositions in Dota; what makes a strong team shape versus a weak team shape, how certain heroes contribute to a team via their shapes, and why certain types of heroes synergize well with one another and make the entire team composition into a strong, winning shape! In the game we went in specifically to pick heroes to illustrate this concept and came out with Queen of Pain (played by QoP-hater Ursi) and Monkey King! All this and more on this week’s TcT!
Teach Me Tuesday: Bee and Proud have a late night chat about Dota stuff
Bee attempts to maintain consciousness as Proud outlines Crystal Maiden’s weaknesses and some other stuff probably, I don’t know, I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet…
Theorycraft Thursday: Last Hitting Under Tower, Queen of Pain, and Skywrath
On today’s episode of Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi audit Ursi’s last hitting segment from this week’s Teach Me Tuesday and chat about their last week in Dota 2 before getting into a thorough analysis of Queen of Pain’s excellent place as a mid in the current patch, QoP builds, and then play her paired with a Skywrath Mage support for this week’s game!
Teach Me Tuesday: Roaming in 7.07, Using BKBs, and Mobility Items
On today’s show your host Beedub is joined by Ursi to get into the nitty-gritty about how best to roam and defining the different types of roamers who often are grouped together despite functioning very differently in the actual game! We also chatted about how valuable it is to memorize Dota minutia, study methods that may or may not be pointless, and answered a bunch of listener questions regarding BKBs, Jungling, Blink vs. Force, the virtues of picking tanky heroes, and more!