No way a patch is coming out during a big tournament

2:50:22 My hot take. Dota needs representation. It sounds like it would backfire becos Dota players are all racist sexist homophobes. But representation is how you cure prejudices. For example: Storm is a belovéd hero, and it was eluded that he is gay with some voice lines including a slur. But if the Arcana confirms he is gay and made him talk about his boyfriend as much as skywrath talks about his girlfriend. then the players, especially homophobic players would be presented with a dilemma, continue being homophobic and stop playing one of the best heroes? Or, continue playing Storm and confront their prejudices and fragile masculinity. I know it sounds stupid (to some of you), but stupid problem (prejudice) requires stupid solution. Similarly, make black characters, make brown characters make east asian characters, instead of making blue purple turquoise green red humanoids but ultimately Eurocentric white coded. Dota is not that kind of game, is not a valid argument. TA and Jugg, MK and Brood, Sky and Venge, DK and Mirana, are all confirmed couples, Valve and players aren't gonna lose a limb adding a gay couple, and not just a gorgelicious sexualised lesbian couple. In fact, an Arcana with representation, well-represented gay Storm, well-represented black humanoid, well-represented east asian humanoids will attract the represented group and their wallet. All while introducing the idea that: gay people are just as heroic, flawed and nuanced as any, black people are just as heroic, flawed and nuanced as any, etc. To start healing the toxicity of the community.

I really liked this video

KZbin streams are way better QoL wide than twitch streams. I would much prefer watch on youtube. Hope you keep the multistreaming up.

5:02:00 people ask for this stupid pick stuff because they want to play their main hero when they are out of role picks in low mmr. "Oh streamer man said this is viable" and they grief the entire game because they play their neiche pick the same way they would in their main role or the same way they would any other support and since it's an obscure, often targeted counter pick not meant for every game, they just grief from pick phase.

now do 8

Hey Zac, can you make a second video for getting out of herald? I recently made it to 1137k MMR, but there was a losing streak that was triggered and I didn't win a single ranked game until I reached 90 MMR. I am now 519 MMR without double down tokens, but I still think that I will never spend long enough time in high MMR enough for me to realize what I am missing to stay high MMR. Getting to guardian is not enough. I need to know what I need to STAY guardian and beyond. I know your first getting out of herald video is a masterpiece, but please understand. I am not CHALLENGING you, I need HELP. And I, only I, not other heralds, need to learn more, in order to never get stuck in low MMR ever again. If you don't have time for me, consider that this will be also invaluable to countless other heralds who are stuck, but have good potential. Please help. Help me obi wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. 😞

Idk how you had the mental resilience to do it without any upgrades, but THANK YOU SO MUCH for this build because I finally got it done right before it got removed! Was stuck with Kez but your build got me through to the end!

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The most annoying thing for me is when a 4 or 5 position stays in mid in the first 3 mins to try to get a kill. They don’t understand that they are leeching xp from their mid laner.

Insane

Wait... so you don't have hero icons on minimap? xD That is so noob.

It’s pretty disgusting how easily Kez can tower dive in the early game. That needs to get nerfed. Kez just walks into a tower and kills the Axe. How is this good gameplay?

Zeus is an s tier support. Riki is a good support if you want to achieve herald.

In crusader people will literally fight to the death 2v5 for bounty runes. Mental Disability rank

What’s really frustrating is when we need vision in a certain part of the map, you look in the shop for wards, and there’s none to buy, and they’re all scattered around the enemy jungle where nothing is happening at all because the other team is pressuring you on the side with no wards.

You should record the stream on your computer separately without music. That is what other streamers do. They don't release the raw stream version

This is so fantastic. Timestaps for each match 😍

14:10 no deadmau5 music pack? bro...

Bookmarks are very helpful

If you're worried about spoilers a nice middle ground would be just having all the heroes you play in the thumbnail. Might get a bit busy though if you play a lot of heroes.

of course bookmarks are good for vods. its usefull Zaq. i dont think the spoilers are that big of a deal, the educational part is more imporant from my point of view.

Can haz riki support replay analysis low guardian 1k: 8155768323

Great format, hope to see more of this. Only wish to include a few more non-meta picks as suggestions.

Liked this content

damn, it was hard even with upgrades.

Listen I understand why you guys say to get on mic, but... if you sound like anything other than a straight white guy voice chat is basically unusable lmfao Also "I like to go into unranked and be toxic" that's why people don't want to play dota lol. That's how the learning experience is and that's why they had to make the behavior system 💀

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It depends on what your strong sides are. If you are an above average early game player then support is better for you, if you are a stronger late game macro player then a carry role is preferable, and if you are a type of player that plays around 1st roshan, tormentor and t2 tower farming then off lane is the best since off laners usually just need 1 big item or 2 smaller ones to thrive like blink/blade mail.

Long time Watcher and listener and subscriber, probably my first comment. Please do more videos like these because I've been playing DOTA for over 20 years and draft Theory still eludes me, especially with the addition of facets and power creep or play a traditional mid like Zeus as a support and all that. Thanks

Man this may be the best dota contend I ever seen.

1 thing that improved my micro: camera grip

Good format want more

We have been waiting for this!

I love this idea - but I think you should take your structured thinking to the concept. Why is PA such a bad pick for Tide? Carry players obviously get this, but support players don't play core heros. So how do we know? "There are heros that just win the lane". Ok - who are the top 5 lane dominators? That kind of thing. Also, please share the game IDs so we can go and watch game itself please.

I would watch more of this. Moar drafting tutorials plz

Please talk why is's a good lane. How x hero counters y

Good concept, I watched the whole thing. I'd add - it would help a lot if you explained why specific heroes are bad. e.g. why is tide not supposed to be first picked, why is PA/tide a terrible match-up etc. Generally more 'showing your work' about the mids, I have no clue how the mid matchups work at all

Cool concept, hope this series is a hit.

Cool format, liked it

I love the absolute heck out of this series concept and want more, stuff like this is helpful for me as a support player and for linking to my core playing friends.

Just hit immortal !!

Please someone make a courier based on Z's cat

Damn this is clean, I wish for more dota contents like this

I see lina, i pick wk, venge I see my offlane can dagger, i pick ls

Draft 1: radiant last pick should have been timber. They have revealed 4 melee and 3 strength. Even if was carry, timber is still excellent into illusion heroes dire last pick should have been sniper. 4 beefy boys to protect a sniper, bloodlusted by ogre, and can be saved by dawn/pudge/TB. Draft 2: radiant last pick should be monkey king - good against pudge, NS, AM. Not much to steal from rubick, and if he can get on top of rubick it's over. Wukong's combo's well with SK and shaman and DK. Only problem is that if NS is ahead he can get on top of MK. Alt is put DK mid and go PA/slark. PA more favored vs AM dire should pick pango or OD. They have no hard CC against pango and nobody to hit the ball except DK. OD good for the saves + they are all low mana and DK susceptible to pure damage. Alt is timbersaw Draft 3: radiant should pick a support, phoenix would be great since zues can't do much, if he can survive nyx it's an easy egg, dominates lane vs PA. dire should go viper into two people she can break, windranger also good against all 4, or OD

Oh my god I love this format, I've searched for exactly this for a while now, goddamnit im happy, thx!

cool cool cool!

for draft 2 i think rkrypyic is really overestimating am vs slark, even on d2pt it's 59% in slark's favor across 66 games, blink ns seems more of an issue but he completely farms the other heroes with diffusal aghs build

Showing bans is probably important.