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666Ven

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Thought it would be cool to pull together small tips/tricks I've picked up over the years, many of which many of you will know already but hopefully a few that you don't, if you guys know of any small intricacies I've missed feel free to add them to the comments :)

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  • Timing Terror Blade Matemophosis end with his summon illusion can make a meta illusion that outlasts the duration of Matemophosis. With a little practice this can be done reliably.

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  • Axe is an amazing pick vs Morphling, an old counter that caught both casters and PSG offgaurd at TI8. Morphling wants to be at agi morph (low health pool, high right click) most of the time, with blademail call, it's a sure fire kill most of the time.

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  • Shadow Blade, Shadow Amulate, Glimmer Cape before after or during any channelled spell/item won't cancel the channel.

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  • You can creep aggro from other lanes if you cannot see the enemy in your own lane.

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  • Juggernaughts Omnislash will remove debuffs acting as a basic dispel, removing defuss like Banes Enfeeble.

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  • Soulbind, Dreamcoil and Leash ahtought undispellable, can be broken by Huskars Leap.

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  • You can traverse 'impassible' cliffs with tusk's Ice Shards - if you are facing the cliff, click the shards directly infront of your feet, this will springboard you forwards.

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  • Phenonix can use Sun Ray to go off the sides of the map, if you sunray>move>tp you are nearly impossible to target

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  • Clinkz Straife will dodge projectiles

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  • Lichs Sinister Gaze can pull units up/down cliffs

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  • In toruble being chased as Lion? Hex and instant TP - it's long enough that one hero can't do anything.

Posted Jan 22, 2019, 12:47 PM UTC

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Smoki_fox1337 at game, n00b at life. •

if you encounter a "mid or feed", make him feed. Negative reinforcement (he loses mmr) is a better way to drill behavioural patterns into animals than positive stimulation.

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darth_vladius•

What about Tiny airlines?

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bangyy•

Pick wr

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LostInCode404Reddit•

What's that?

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ApeGoesBananas•

Tiny Airlines

Joke about how your allied Tiny can make you "fly" (hence the "airlines" use) into some bad situations in order to feed the enemy team.

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austinllI suck•

Happened to me once. Didn't give him mid, he picked tiny, and constantly threw me into the opponent mid.

When laning was over he just followed me, and every time Id atack a camp he'd throw me into it to clear it.

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420gitgudorDIE•

Lol just disable ally help, after he threw u once. Wont be able to do that again. Also works with the retarded teammate kunka who x marks after my tinker tp to base.

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darth_vladius•

  • Omnislash is the only dispel that removes Heaven Halberds' disarm.

  • Jugg can tp during Omnislash.

  • Lotus orb completely counters Omnislash. Activate it before or during Omnislash and you'll take 0 damage from it.

  • Storm Spirit can tp during his ult, thus zipping through waves and tp-ing to the other side of the map with zero chance to be interrupted.

  • Backtrack is 100% damage reduction/migitation, not evasion.

  • If you play vs Riki you can Smoke and go to runes. If Riki is close enough to break the smoke, he's also close enough to be caught by dust.

  • Sniper's ult has a ministun. Channeling the ult is faster than channeling a tp.

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XentropeInvoker•

Slight correction about Jugger's Omnislash and disarm: It's not removed but the instant attacks completely ignore disarm status.

You can check this in a lobby/demo mode with a low HP enemy and Omnislashing it right after you disarm the Jugger. He will kill the enemy but disarm status will be still active until the duration of disarm is over.

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notamccallister•

Lotus Orb only reflects before Juggernaut goes into Omni, it doesn't do anything during.

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synrg18•

Backtrack is 100% damage reduction/mitigation, not evasion.

To explain further, this means that MKB does not affect backtrack and you can dodge spells, but any on-hit effects such as Skadi slow or bashes will still apply even if the attack is “evaded”.

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ywecurSpectre•

Jugg can tp during Omnislash.

Not since the latest patch

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Im_Unlucky•

It’s a void talent now. 25% backtrack at lvl 25

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l33t_p3n1sWhy did the pirate hate Dota? He was stuck in low MM arrrrr•

If you play vs Riki you can Smoke and go to runes. If Riki is close enough to break the smoke, he's also close enough to be caught by dust and then immediately ult and then blink away

couldn't leave it without that last part...

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darth_vladius•

Honestly, I learned this from SirActionSlacks back in 6.8* days, when Riki's ult was different.

Fully applies pre-level 6, though.

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Taciturn_desultory•

You can refill your Drum charges by purchasing just the recipe again. And if you know you’ll be doing a slow siege where you might need the extra attack speed over a long period of time even though you still have one or two charges, buy the recipe and lock it before it gets to you and you can unlock it from your backpack without the backpack cool down.

edit: spelling error

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jayboosh•

TIL

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eddey1999Taste my blade!•

Axe is an amazing pick vs Morphling, an old counter that caught both casters and PSG offgaurd at TI8. Morphling wants to be at agi morph (low health pool, high right click) most of the time, with blademail call, it's a sure fire kill most of the time.

Level 25 Axe here. This statement is true but go in lane with a plan to move to jungle after your level 5 (3 points in Heliux). Once morph has a few levels, you can't lane anymore (agi denies + shot spam + morph). Go to jungle, get your blink and bm asap.

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prashanthvsdvn•

But won’t you make his life hell in laning stage. I used to go 1-2-2 and spam the shit Out of battle hunger and he can’t contest me coz he will take helix damage as well. I remember that he had only 2 wraith bands at the end of 11 minutes when I went away from lane after we took his tower and went to gank.

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eddey1999Taste my blade!•

A good morph would get rid of hunger immediately with either shot or full agi deny. Most frustrating thing is he can get full agi, use stick, get to full health then morph back.

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scantierTimbersaw•

You can kill fortified creeps with doom's devour and Miranda's arrow!

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1K_MMR_NOOB•

And midas

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RahnDotaNaga Siren•

Let's see;

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- Spectre's Desolate procs can never miss, so keep swinging at that windrunning Windranger.

- Don't forget that you can now use items while Omnislashing. I lost a game the other day because I forgot that I could have blinked to safety while ulting after buyback.

- While Ember Spirit's Sleight of Fist doesn't explicitly disjoint projectiles, if you time it just as the projectile leaves the enemy's model, you can do it. This is easiest done with slow-moving, telegraphed projectiles like Venge or Wraith King's stuns.

- You can attack during the fade-time of Bounty Hunter's Shadow Walk. Abuse this in lane to get two Jinada procs off per cast of invis.

- Enchant Totem has true strike.

- When playing Phantom Lancer, make sure you control bind the discoloured, 100%-damage Doppelganger. The bind will persist between games.

- Torrent actually lifts units into the air - meaning you can use it to stack camps, and even run underneath units blocking you.

- Jakiro's Ice Path damage and stun is applied in ticks, meaning you can actually blink out of it before the first tick procs. You used to be able to spam blink (in the direction you were facing only) to avoid getting stuck in a Euls -> Ice Path combo. These days, due to Euls applying a small amount of magic damage upon landing, this can still be acheived with a Hood or Pipe, as the active of these items will absorb the damage, allowing you to blink out of the combo.

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Hope that last one made sense lol

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darth_vladius•

Slight correction - Jugg always had the ability to use items during Omnislash, Blink included. The new addition is using TP during Omnislash.

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RahnDotaNaga Siren•

Thanks!

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420gitgudorDIE•

Ember can also dodge laguna blade and lions finger. Feels very good if manage to pull that off.

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ArgebtCrusader•

Wouldnt eul dispell the hood's spell shield and still apply dmg?

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RahnDotaNaga Siren•

You can cast it while tornadoed. Try it in demo mode; all you need to do while being euls'd is press your Hood hotkey then spam blink.

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NCFYY•

Faceless void is invulnerable during timewalk, so you can actually dodge projectiles by timewalking towards it, with a good timing. In fact not only projectiles but also stuff like lion ult.

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TheRealHaHe•

Two typos real quick. In the Jug one defuss instead of debuff. In the leash one although instead of whatever is there.

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666VenOPLD2L Champion•

I'm lazy XD

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MaukkaNamski•

In same vein as tusk's ice shard, you can use a branch to get out of Disruptor's kinetic field.

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666VenOPLD2L Champion•

Wow really? I'm gonna have to play about with this now!

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