No minor patch before TI?
Are we really going to have a TI where the team that picks DP/Enigma/FV/Chen/Pudge/Batrider/Undying etc automatically win?
Posted Sep 26, 2022, 3:22 PM UTC
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You can’t just list off 7 strong heroes and call them auto win lmao.
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To be fair, you can still ban 6 of them across the 2 teams before picking phase letting one and only one of them go lmao
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Funny thing is they missed Marci
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What else do you expect? No matter the patch, TI becomes extremely narrowly defined by the middle of the tournament, if not the first couple of games. Pros are pretty quick to catch onto any powerful strategies. Patching the game a day in advance really will not make the game more broad, unless the patch specifically makes it broad, which doesn’t really happen often. Pick any Dota patch, and the patch has a niche, we just may not know it yet because not enough time has passed for the data to be clear.
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we just may not know it yet because not enough time has passed for the data to be clear.
What? How the hell are the dozens of matches in the qualifiers "not enough data" to show that there are heroes that are way above average in terms of effectiveness?
TIs define their own metas, true, but that's only because teams are forced to draft around these outlier OP picks. I don't remember a single TI in recent memory where it has been so obvious what the meta heroes are.
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Hahaha tell him mate every ti there are those handful of heroes that are contested in 90%+ games this year is no different.
But that being said the map changes are bigger than people realize dire is winning 57% of pro games last I checked that is a staggering number. I will have to go back and check the heroes in those games but regardless, I can't think of a patch that the rad vs dire has been so skewed since rosh was on dire side
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also Leshrac at TI4 is almost always banned
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Do you remember Luna, shadow demon patch? Do you remember hohohaha patch? Or even worse, please Lord Gaben, don't let this return. Do you remember the am vs morph 4 protect 1 patch?
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That's why I said "recent memory". Most of these are at least 5 years ago.
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What we really need to look at is why is dire winning 58% of pro games thats a HUGE adv. The small camp removal on radiant side is a massive nerf compared to the dire side. If anything I'd like to see something done about the map if no heros are tweaked.
Let me know what y'all think.
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last year we saw tiny lycan in TI, lets see what they come up with this time
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Don’t be shocked if we see a pushing strat come in in TI 11. With the one glyph per level of towers and the strength of Chen / Krobs it’s likely teams could jump on it
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Dont forget Marci, shes more broken that all of those combined
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I'm glad we're seeing less Puck. Getting rid of Marci means we might have a really entertaining TI to watch.
Who doesn't want to see Pudge at TI?
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As a Faceless Void and Pudge spammer I just want to say hehe
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I mean. A single team can't pick 7 heroes, so they can just ban them and pick something else. That's how captain's mode works.
i think ur confusing the “/“ with a “,” my friend
Sorry, I didn't quite get what you were trying to say.
/ Means or , means and
What?