The Daily Dota: 06/25/2013

Artwork is so good. I love Crispy's Rapier .

@zero_: It's what happens when you don't play regularly. You get rusty really quickly.

@allison: What's Lords Management?

#teampunderful nice artwork. also crispy stream was great. Daily Dota is great because of the group talk and how we cheer and cry (and curse) for and at brad. But the crisp stream was really insightful into the deeper parts of the game, and how to play.

"We need to play defensively."
*Brad runs in on his own against 3 heroes and dies*

Love it.

Thats a fine quality web programme GB, hehe jk, oh well at least Brad sounds like hes enjoying himself, er wait a sec...

My favourite thing on Giant Bomb... and I don't even play DOTA.

Keep it up!

Are you sure that's right? He's only holding one divine rapier :)

All right! They picked up aurahack's artwork.

That Necro game from Brad was... it was something. Puppies from all around the world cried when watching that game.

There are plenty on YouTube. You don't want to learn Dota 2 from Brad.

@zero_: lol yeah I felt like that too, he's got some slloooooooowwww reaction times and he's really pensive now and really cautious about going in to a fight which in some cases cause the fights to go bad, but hey I love watching these and I'm no dota experts #only34wins

thats really cool art to have for a dumb garbage show for babies

love this

Love the new artwork, amazing work @aurahack! I saw it break on twitter and was super excited to see it here today.

@crispy: Crispy whenever you feel like just streaming do it, I love it. Always need more dotes.

@illegalnull: Thank you! :D I am just as ecstatic to see it there. It feels really special to have it be on the front page.

@riboflavin: Awww.

brad is kinda bad at this game.

@birthwild: I may end up making it a more regular stream if people are interested. As for now, it's mainly just a "bonus episode" stream for DD.

@crispy: yeah crispy do more its great seeing your pov when playing

@crispy is the best.

There wasn't a Daily Dota today, so Pascual and I went ahead and did a Dota Daily! Check it out at http://www.twitch.tv/crispylovesyou/b/422185973

Prepare for feed.

Honestly you could read a short FAQ and get the basics. It would take you 10 minutes. You wouldn't get nearly all the nuance (this game has a steep learning curve), but at least you would understand the jargon and the basics of early game, mid game, late game strategies etc. Admittedly it would be less fun, but also a LOT less time consuming than watching Brad try to do a video about it.

i think theres a few pounds missing from Brads cartoon reimagining not thats theres anything wrong with a couple extra pounds im just saying........

The lack of Shagbark is why they keep losing.

So, as a non-DOTA player, what is Necro good at? Brad does a great job with this instructional video of showing what it's not good at.

@davivmcd:

Necro is a carry, Brad's just not that great. Also he should have got one point in Heartstopper Aura at level 2 to shutdown the enemy's regen allowing for better harass. Sadist isn't that great until you start using Death Pulse constantly once it's around level 3 or 4 to farm creep waves or jungle when changing lanes.

Also there was a bunch of times where Brad could have avoided dying if he ult'd first instead of just trying to run away. The stun goes off right when you ult allowing time to escape. Its not the greatest use of Necro's ult but it would have kept him alive and prevented feed to that Lifestealer for instance.

Only about 17 minutes into the match I'm guessing it gets worse over time.

Edit: First time using ult is for a ks! >_<

loving these... except the puns make it stop

Oh by the way @brad - that TP that didn't work? I think because you were mashing the key while it was on cooldown, you double-tapped it when it became active, which TPs you to the fountain (and thus the left-click didn't register). So you did TP, just to right were you were already standing. ^.^

That's what I've been saying!

Those puns! Love it! No not really ;D

@monkeysdad: false, you get rid of your nose so you can see the screen better

why am i watching still. oh god why

I wish I could get paid to be obsessed with something.

Brad make a Dota for noobs video. I feel you could explain this better than anyone to me.

I enjoy these. Don't know why. It's like reality TV where nothing is real.

How is brads background/loading screen into a match different?

@hef said:

If I had to wildly speculate, I think the guides, and playing with other young guys who understand the game much better and can just tell him what items and skills and positioning are appropriate for a given scenario, all end up being crutches and Brad isn't growing as a player. I know he plays games here and there without Crispy and Kessler and Pascual, but he doesn't seem to be learning much from them aside from remembering what various hero skills do.

His fundamentals still seem bad, and it's baffling when he is coming out of Starcraft II, where things like scouting take way more micro than "lay down some wards, hope you don't get counterwarded". Like, he'll still walk forward when there are clearly 3 enemy heroes right in front of him if he'd just scroll down or look at the minimap, then giant surprise, he is dead in seconds. At 28 minutes in the first game, he still had no concept of the short range on Death Pulse, and would pointlessly cast it and only get 1 or 2 hits with it. And in the second game, the guide specifically says you can basically use Soul Ring's active constantly, because Dragon Knight's health regen is godly, yet Brad never used it.

He's still terrible at not just spamming skills and ults when he is trouble, which you should pretty much just do when the alternative is certain death ("saving it for a rainy day" syndrome). The number of times it might've helped to desperation cast his ult, to at least help his time get a vengeance kill after Brad died, was just depressing. He alt tabs out of the game whenever he dies (I assume to check the stream or Twitter), but seriously, it's probably not helping his focus.

It just feels like Brad is constantly being babysat by his teammates.