I have trust issues in Dota. I hate supporting a carry I don't trust, and I sometimes find support to be plain old boring. I like playing highly mobile heroes that can gank hard and fast and then get the hell out of the lane. Natures Prophet has become a favorite of mine because of his ability to hit any lane at any time and help out the team with extra damage/lockdown. I really love diving after couriers. Anyway, back to the topic.
It's been a while since I've played with a five stack. I usually solo que or play with my best friend JT or a guy I know named Reed. Yesterday that changed. We got 5 people in the mumble server we invade and played a few games. JT has decided his niche is hard support and a gent named Gork liked to support too. This allowed for Reed to go hard carry, myself to take mid, and our fifth, Reptar, to play solo offlane. We pretty much rolled.
Anywho, a couple hours later we played another set of games, except I played a hero I wasn't comfortable with and it basically cost us the game. However, after that we played two more finishing with an hour long game where I played bear and ate things. Lots of things. I had a beyond godlike streak of 14 kills. However, their PL was able to farm in the window of us pushing down top and middle and managed to extend the game a good thirty minutes. We had two sets of barracks, but could not for the life of us catch the PL. He had decent micro skills and got an early heart so it was hard to tell which PL was the real one and the illusions kept splitting and acting like they were dopple-walking. At first our supports were to scared to get a gem and our Pudge was dealing with 600 ping, but because our lanes were constantly pushed Pudge got a heart fairly easily and managed to acquire flesh heap stacks slowly but surely as we ganked everyone besides PL. At one point, we had 20-30 sentry wards across our side of the map, which made us realize a gem was much more practical. They couldn't kill pudge anyway. My bear couldn't do much in the late game, nor could venge. We could get kills, but catching PL was so time consuming and I was so afraid of not having buyback that my items descaled. I should have gotten a skadi when I had 6000 gold but I went for the cheaper buy of satanic and saved for buyback. After we got the gem, however, we killed PL 4 times before we could end it. He bought back twice, and we got the last tier 4 with 3 seconds left on his respawn. After that it was BKB pops and whack the ancient and hope enough of us stayed alive. It was a damn good game.
I guess the overarching point of this was that I had more fun in 4 games of Dota, playing as a five stack, than I have in all my other games. The gents I played with were cool, didn't mind my picks, were open to anything, and polite. I feel like I'm the douche bag because the one game I played support I fucked up. If you are frustrated with Dota, make friends. Find a group of people who play often, are fun to play with, and don't mind playing any role. You'll have a shit ton of fun.
That's all for now on Dota. I've been home for the last two weeks, my plans for going cross country have fallen through because JT won't be able to get is license in time for us to make it to Colorado. I'm a bit sad about that, but it is what it is. I'll be getting a job at the elementary school until camp starts, because they need substitutes for the last few weeks. It'll be weird, but it pays well.
Adios.
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