On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi are jumping into their pre-patch plans, their top hopes they’re looking for in the patch we expect to come out this week or next, our hero/role focuses for the upcoming patch, pivoting to other roles maybe, and plenty more! For questions we cover utility item prioritization for 4’s/5’s, which heroes each host should get paired with on (potentially disastrous) blind dates, what heroes wouldn’t get Ursi fired if he brought them in as guest speakers at his school, the ethics of dating pugna, and more! Pick/Counterpick also is covering Dazzle and Bounty Hunter this week!
TcT: Big Piles of Triangles Edition
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are wading through a whole slew of topics to cover some listener questions that were eating away at us! Topics include: gauging core strength, magic ember spirit, the 4 primary carry archetypes, pick order in pubs, Puck’s current place in the meta, Bounty Hunter’s current place in the meta, regen pooling, what roaming looks like at the moment in the meta, grimstroke’s best comboes and best counters, and plenty more!
TmT: haha sorry xd
win some you lose some
TcT: Focused Brain, Unfocused Hands ft. Sven/Lina
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking all about that awkward situation where you pick heroes for the safelane but have your lane stolen and are forced to cobble together some sort of alternative plan in the offlane! We’re playing Sven and Lina to cover this topic and seeing how it goes! All this and plenty more on today’s show!
TmT: 7.19d Pa Analysis
This week on Teach Me Tuesday, Bee & Proud go over the most recent mini patch, 7.19d, and all the nerfs it brings. The Pick vs Counter Pick today is with Windranger and Elder Titan and then a multitude of listener questions are answered; how to use Moonlight Shadow, playing around a farmed tanky hero, courier sniping, getting rid of stout/quell and more!
TcT: Necrobook is My Wife
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are learning new heroes they’ve never played before: Ursi’s learning Arc Warden and Proud’s learning Templar Assassin! We’re covering our plans & attitudes going into our first time playing each hero and then reflecting on the experience in our post-game segment to see what went wrong, what went right, and whether we’ll actually be playing these heroes in the future! We also establish family lore for Arc Warden, a vital part of the learning experience.
TmT: Your Questions, Our Answers, Proud’s Cat Edition
On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Proud and Ursi are burning through even more of our never-ending pile of questions we’ve gotten recently! Some topics include, but are not limited to: the confusing details behind long range kills, Natures Prophet support, how to highground when your team sucks at it, dealing with creep cutting enemies, armor vs. HP, Aquila on Intelligence mids, how to read a draft quickly after draft phase, whether coaching is actually worth it, and plenty more!
TcT: Global Presence ft. Arc Warden & Juggernaut
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are dreading the next month without a patch after Wyrkhm’s update on the 7.20 release schedule but having a lot of fun playing Arc Warden and Juggernaut to soothe their souls! For our main segment we’re covering how to balance a global presence on heroes like Tinker or Natures Prophet or Arc Warden with still being an active contributor to your team when it’s necessary! All this and plenty more tangents on this week’s show!
TmT: Q&A Extravaganza Edition
On this week’s Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi are jamming in a ton of questions after you overachievers sent in approximately 1 million of them! Some of the topics include: when to get bottle, how quas/wex invoker works (or doesn’t work), slardar’s state in the current game, the value of your safelane tower, Enchantress builds/strengths, Offlane hero pools, how much regen is too much regen, and plenty more!
TcT: Dota is Fun Again Edition ft. Riki & Rapiers
On this week’s Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi bask in the glory of rapier gaming and have a great time for the first time in a while with this recent patch! Proud is playing offlane Magnus with a rapier built pretty early and Ursi’s playing 4 Riki! In our Week in Dota segment we talked about seeing tons of Juggernaut recently, Role Queue population, Ranked vs. Unranked game quality, and more! The full segment this week was all about how we like to play late in a patch when we’re very bored: Ursi’s learning brand new heroes he rarely plays, and Proud’s working on honing his main few heroes he loves!