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!
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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!
Theorycraft Thursday: The Art of the TP Scroll & Attempting to play SF + Luna
On this week’s episode of Theory Craft Thursday your hosts Proud and Ursi cover how best to use Teleport Scrolls, their hatred of techies spammers, Ursi’s weird love of Aeon Disk, Proud branching out his support pool, and more before they are driven to the edge of their wits after hours of attempting to playing this week’s combo: Luna and Shadow Fiend.
Teach Me Tuesday: Shaking the Slump, Safelane Carries and more!
Proud and Beedub answer some listener questions, discuss which heroes are good for new offlane players, talk about how to get out of a slump, and discuss possible new safelane carries for Beedub to experiment with. All this and more on this episode of Teach Me Tuesday!
Team Fight Priorities, Shadow Demon & Morphling in Dota
On today’s episode of Theory Craft Thursday Proud & Ursi delve into how best to set your priorities in team fights, how to best avoid panicking in hectic situations, Ursi’s love of Soul Ring Shadow Fiend, and more before going into this week’s combo: Shadow Demon and Morphling!
Teach Me Tuesday: Bee’s Calibration and Teamwork
On today’s episode of Teach Me Tuesday Ursi & Beedub explore Bee’s experience calibrating and playing ranked for the first time before delving into the very robust but important topic of how to avoid dying in games of dota! We also cover why certain heroes like PA and AM are a scourge upon lower mmr pubs but a more manageable problem at higher mmrs, and how best to develop & grow as a team, how to be honest with your teammates, and why it’s best to avoid playing with ringers on your team
Adjusting your Pub Mentality to Win Ranked Dota 2
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi delve into how they’ve changed and adjusted their mindsets so that they can succeed in the new ranked season! Both of them are making some notable changes to great success so far (knock on wood) including the official Proud Method of Supporting? and Ursi’s newfound love of Elder Titan. For the combo this week Proud is playing Gyrocopter and Ursi is playing Elder Titan as two thirds of a trilane, lets see if you guys finally get to hear the winning transition song!
Teach Me Tuesday: Abusing Invisibility in Dota 2 7.07
On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday, Ursi and Beedub talk about the new ranked season system before going into all the ins-and-outs of how to play around invisibility; how best to use invisibility to your advantage, how best to counter invisibility, offensive counters vs. defensive counters, offensive play-making potential vs. defensive maneuvers, when to use dust vs. when to use sentries, the various power peaks of invisibility, and more! Also answering more listener questions. If you want to send in questions yourself you can DM any of the show hosts on Discord or you can send us an email to show@fourthspirit.com