He had ONE job | WFIIA #25

[@DrLizaroj]

I finally understand how my teammate can buy every single observer on cooldown and use every single one, yet we will have no vision of the map

[@sh3nnanigans79]

It’s called investing. Supports flood the market with obs to get other supports to do the same. Win win.

[@asd-dr9cf]

​@@sh3nnanigans79Ah of course. Silly me. This whole time I just wanted some functional vision, little did I know that my supp was doing financial engineering to outplay the enemy team. Silly me

[@sh3nnanigans79]

@@asd-dr9cf And the last obs/sent to go down is the only one on the map. Therefore vision advantage.

[@somethingsomething2541]

@@sh3nnanigans79 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mrquickey3731]

yea. classic core comment. maybe play support yourself once in a while

[@dnddmdb642]

Burning through all of Medusa's mana just to let her leave killed me.

[@gyudon9305]

Well they're definitely not killing her, that's for sure.

[@beneaththeveil]

As someone who mainly plays support: this was deeply painful to watch. Hilarious, but deeply painful

[@sunbro6998]

Not putting a sentry first, that is criminal.

[@sgtpatton]

'why are ya out here dazzle why didnt ya grave him... why are you actually out here' lolol that killed me

[@moonjellying697]

Observers are known to need friends 🧡

[@pcxxy]

This easily rivals Jenkins Herald reviews videos

[@elvis4868]

Its better

[@mateustormin3124]

Me on the mic as a support player as we're about to siege: "lets focus the buildings"; "if they buyback, lets leave"; "please, dont dive". Me 1 min later: "why?????????????????????????????????????" #supportlife

[@Cricket0021]

Me playing pugna 4 with aether lens and psychic headband: GUYS LET ME CHIP TOWER WITH BLAST AND SLOWLY SIEGE my sven: DID SOMEBODY SAY COIN FLIP THE SIEGE AND DIVE?????

[@Jeff-yj1jn]

how many times I have said that. plus: "I can't go that deep"

[@bluejay7058]

@@Cricket0021 Hurts as a carry player: I would RAVISH the opportunity to have my damn support Pugna take the risk of high ground off my shoulders. Simply: why make game hard?

[@somethingsomething2541]

Bro really unblocked opponent camp

[@logoo6196]

why did the opponent block it ?

[@xavierescano4559]

@@logoo6196 opponent was being dumb... should have allowed them to be dumb

[@Colopty]

@@xavierescano4559 "Opponent did a thing! I have to stop whatever it was at all cost!" -Player with not even surface level knowledge of Sun Tsu's Art of War.

[@somethingsomething2541]

@@Colopty 😂😂😂😂

[@JewTube001]

@@logoo6196 it's possible he liked to hang around there and didn't want to get hit by nuets. also probably wants that area to be ward free.

[@Alex-wh3zw]

That cliff is more desired than Iron Throne.

[@isaacramos6111]

This commentary is gold. I felt like you were judging me so thanks for the advise! haha

[@wszczeklypiesz]

It's amazing how many mistakes we low MMR players commit and don't even notice because our enemies are also bad and can't exploit them. I am pretty sure that I wouldn't see like 90% of those watching the same replays without your commentary because the enemy team's mistakes counteracted them and the outcome was good.

[@Cricket0021]

the positioning during high ground is pretty much the big, glaring mistake in this replay. dazzle with aether lens hitting the tower in melee range alongside riki.

[@bbear0_o]

the wards war and commentary gave me chuckles. this is great.

[@t.etelber8230]

keep this series up, really fun to watch

[@Zagryzaec]

It's not about the vision. It's about domination.

[@edgarf3152]

honestly all those dives are also about domination

[@samrossi2641]

The rant at the medusa burnt mana part came from the heart 😂😂

[@swayziekay]

This video taught me way more than I have learned in the last 6 years of playing.

[@kuroshinryu]

“Huh hoh, my favorite cliff doesn’t have an observer 🤡.” Lmao

[@-FermatsletzterSatz-]

And this is why MMR works. If a single player - core or support, doesn't matter - in that game would play better than a Crusader, they would be able to decide the game 20 min earlier in favor of their own team and quickly rank up.

[@Phike9391]

I got worried it was me playing my first Dazzle game ever a day or so ago when i saw the thumbnail 😆

[@-A.O-]

Basically, in crusader, WFIIA = everybody xD

[@rainbowskin3379]

These relentless uploads are doing wonders for my mental health.

[@pt8306]

As someone who is literally worse than this person at playing Dazzle, who is my main hero, this video absolutely hurts to watch. Now I understand why nobody wants to play with me. I'm sorry.

[@ZQuixotix]

Don't sweat it! The WFIIA series is meant to be a cheeky fun roasting that people volunteer for (especially for people who think it's not their fault). If you aren't great at the game, we all start there!

[@Henry_Jones_Jr]

Match id: 7847281214 I was the dusa. I should have gone mid after the AA last picked and didn't know where to go at beginning. I tried to stay back and farm up. Lich didn't unblock camp so wave was pushed. I asked him to unblock and pull,he did several minutes later. I tried to farm and participate in fights that I could help. End of game I bought back and hoped they would also but they didn't and I died. My mistake. Slardar gave up. Lich blamed me for him making bad choices. Undying pushed out and got caught too many times. I should have played better. P.s. These are some of the best learning content on youtube. I have learned so much from it. Please keep making them,you rock!

[@JoakimEngfors]

Absolutely amazing content! Love it :D

[@jdtrf1777]

Looks like they having a good time 🙃

[@mantistoboggan2676]

This is some next level warding.

[@odarkeq]

I loved the energy you brought to this one. It's like you channeled a little bit of Jenkins but not too much.

[@adamwilhelm1467]

Damn, QZ is in a mood on this one! Haha love the advice though super accurate

[@fraser1288]

the cliff ward jokes were hilarious

[@f1shze4lot]

This corner in first couple of minutes is the standard ward wars spot on the map in low mmr. Even bot lane cliff isn't contested that much.

[@Rockycm1]

I laughed throughout the duration.😂

[@kaidzz]

and this boi will be the one who always tell his friend "I should be at least divine bracket not here, I'm way above them"

[@sweep-]

The ward commentary… 😂💀🤣☠️

[@brennykalashnikov8021]

God dayum famalam, this is some next level war for vision😂

[@dragonarc_gaming]

I think the easiest thing to do in legend and lower (maybe even higher rank?) is that in the first 15 minutes, you don't need to hoard observer. Let your other lane get some observer as well. The early vision is there to see ganks and movement around trees which the support would make to ex: contest pull / setup stun.

[@JasonRennie]

Can't believe the top barracks were still alive at 66:21

[@Learnerofthe]

The lower ranks is honestly lose lose, it feels like if everyone takes responsibilities for their plays they'd improve, everyone would improve. Instead, people in the shit-tiers will place blame on everyone but themselves and then you have 1-4 other players (maybe including yourself) that hinder everyone on your team's chances of winning and gaining mmr.

[@florianju5638]

Hey! That's my favourite observer ward cliff too! xD

[@bondo8807]

love the humor used in the video. keep it up sir

[@ganaelschneider]

this serie is gold

[@jax-hy]

taking targeting lessons from the creeps

[@trarthas91]

thats basically me as the dazzle wondering what i did wrong with negative karma for the core decisions @26:00

[@Cryptisss]

I wonder sometimes if they know that wards are shared and if you take all. No one else gets to buy one.

[@Draxximmon]

Hey man i wanted to tell you that your how to get out of herald guide helped me a lot and i got to the guardian. Waiting for the next part 😁

[@sakiranw]

Interesting🧐 very very interesting 🧐, bro fr got soo disappointed with the ward placement😂

[@sakiranw]

And same goes for the cliffs, nahh😂, im drop dead laughing at this shi,

[@atillafatihunver617]

10:10 maybe he was luring eneöy off their hg? since nyx showing bot

[@cubesquared2291]

RAVAGGEEEE! Dude you're hilarious

[@samuelwtw1]

i felt like i just lost all my brain cells after watching this

[@godofm3tal1]

In his defense, dude may have blocked his own camp but it's still a sentry in range of his that will allow the enemy to deward his wards. It's a strange circumstance and one I've not seen myself but I understand his reasoning. Why let an enemy ward live that you can take down?

[@deanoz3800]

I want to bust my rank down to crusader just to deward observers on cliffs. I am missing out on life

[@pt8306]

I feel like allowing Sentries and Observers to "stack" in the inventory was a bit of a mistake, in regards to how new players learn the game. By having them stack, it sort of implies that they should be used together, especially given how you can easily pick up 1 of each. It's therefore naturally intuitive to buy 1 of each, and quickly "smack them down" in the same place, even if it's actually really bad for the game itself. On a related note, I have a warding question. Sometimes when playing offlane support, I will use an observer instead of a sentry to block their pull camp. This is so I also have vision of the jungle, which can be important, especially given certain match ups. I have noticed the pro's will generally always place sentries to block camps. Is there a reason for this? I understand that if they unblock the camp, they get the free gold for dewarding, however I am of the understanding that sentries pay the same amount, so it ends up being the same. Is this horrendously bad play on my part, or is using obs to block camps okay?

[@KeoBrando]

32:40 LMAOOOO😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@f1shze4lot]

6:16 I think it's excusable if team plays super-passive. Sometimes you gotta force things to happen (probably not the case here and dazzle is a bad hero to do it but point still stands)

[@-FermatsletzterSatz-]

Nope, it is simply a big mistake. And a classic for low MMR as well. They are 4 vs an unknown amount of enemies (so the assumption should be 5). There is an LC in the game, so Dazzle may never, never, never show himself when there is a possibility for a teamfight. We even see OD walking towards the creep wave (which is a huge positioning mistake as well). What Dazzle should have been doing here if he wants to play aggressive is simply attack the wave so it aggros to him and therefore stops damaging the tower and then farm it. Even that is bad as it's obvious that the enemy team is looking for an opening - and Dazzle would be their best target.

[@jimmygreenspan8832]

Dazzle didn't play perfectly at all but neither did his team mates. They couldn't focus on objectives and they just kept diving.

[@You-fools]

The point of the video is to pick apart the things dazzle did wrong? Didn't play perfectly is an understatement, his gameplay was littered with so many mistakes that his team had almost nothing to work off. Yeah of course they played bad it's crusader, but they also had absolutely no useful vision for pretty much the entire game and couldn't rely on dazzle saving them in rough situations due to the dazzle being so cavalier with positioning. That's like the 2 things dazzle has going for him not being properly applied to the game.

[@jimmygreenspan8832]

​@@You-fools I thought the point of the video was to determine who's fault it was. If you ask me the most game-losing aspect of the game was the bungled attacks by daz's team. Too much dive not enough objective. Was it really dazzle who made them lose? I don't think so. Yeah he's a crusader and he goofs sometimes but they all do.

[@Gwgitu77]

@@jimmygreenspan8832 yea he said it in the end of the video that the lost is not on dazzle, but he focus on the things dazzle could improve because the dazzle submitted the match id

[@peropero2307]

TBH, he was not that bad... His team is overexcited for some reason and a bit dumb, :p Undying was terrible... If you gonna carry from pos4 then pick a hero that can do it...

[@maryclaris4762]

I hope I can get my replay reviewed as well haha

[@bikinglikebecker]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could upgrade our town/base & structures? maybe even ADD towers? Dota + Footies...

[@ichangiz]

Hilarious video zach 😂

[@Richard-ln6wu]

hahaha im only 5 mins in and having a good time listening to this ward commentary

[@Gwgitu77]

I love this series. Match ID: 7585067124, played with my friends I play BB. My supp left me to trilane, but i recovered. The terrorblade got fed early but we always failed to take barracks. 58 minutes game, we ended up winning, but almost got comebacked. The enemy has more networth towards the end of the game. I just want to know if we can siege better, thanks a lot. Me and my friends blame terrorblade xD. Much love

[@markr2609]

It hurts to watch as a Dazzle main xd

[@EliEdrianTan]

1) Match ID - 7657755568 2) Who you are playing - Omni 3) Explain why you think you're right and the team is wrong - I'm not sure where we went wrong. Maybe I wasted my damage on Pudge a bit too much and PA and Riki got out of hand. We got aegis at 35 mins and team wants to push, but I call to farm instead. They start to blame me and trashtalk me for not going with them because they want to push with aegis. However, I felt like we needed more farm (maybe the late Radiance was a wrong decision, I just thought I needed to give evasion chances). We proceeded to lose the game. Hope to get some insights from you sir.

[@osk4r99]

1) Match ID: 7671420311 2) Who you are playing: Warlock 3) Explain why you think you're right and the team is wrong: Am blamed me for losing the game when he tried to end the game without me, warlock is a slow hero and I wanted a refresher before the last push.

[@brendancoibion8122]

Match ID: 7694421202 I'm playing Chaos Knight I think I had a rough early game and had to compete with my support for farm to a degree. Once we started gaining momentum my teammates kept initiating fights on their own. I recognized a lot of my mistakes were trying to "save" allied heroes who were doomed anyway, and I would die for it too. Additionally, I felt like my callouts weren't being heard, despite us all chatting in voice. Lastly, I feel like some of my teammates didn't build the right items for the match.

[@AdventureClass42]

so many people sitting on 6k+ gold and not getting aghs blessings makes me sad inside

[@haski8604]

I love this series. I'm far from perfect so I am looking forward to some tips especially around mid game. Match ID: 7669048056 I play: Hoodwink Problem player: I have no clue what AM was doing, might be one of the worst players I have ever seen,. Didn't build battle fury and proceeded to ignore every objective in the game when we could push or get Rosha and opted to farm jungle on most occasions. Axe was not helping either but he was not the main issue though he also often decided to farm when we had an opportunity to get objectives.

[@Richard-ln6wu]

4:50 - 5-40 HAHAHAHAHA

[@Tosquerra]

oh the drama 😆

[@alexfraughton9938]

I wish every player below 3k MMR could see this video... I don't understand how these braindead cliff-warders never figure out basic warding strategy lol

[@GiraffeBlues]

me when i hit 3.1k mmr

[@kennethfernandes6927]

I play mainly support and believe me, this video was really painful to watch..... The positioning mann...!!!😖

[@natevv8380]

This was so painful to watch

[@sunbro6998]

Gold man!

[@meowikanz]

i love this shit

[@jeveetsoibam]

Classic support player, warding at the same place where it got dewarded... And some people like to lit up the whole map if possible, placed 3 wards top mid and bot still asking WE NEED WARDS

[@j_willis8577]

Match id 7652184790 Yo z, I gave you a gem of a clip with an ion shelled creep that killed the sniper a while back.. got another one with some absolute jack hole plays from my team.. I’m abbadon 3. my teammates really sucked, not saying I didn’t make mistakes. Just not on that level.. this all happens within 10-15mins. Worth a watch for a laugh at least. Notice the 1/4hp carry and the roaming NP

[@minhchipham8427]

Hi ZQuixotix, please help me review this game. Match Id: 7658440426 I play Treant Protector In this game, I and LS is in the same party. I felt we have good start, they took 3 bounty runes but we had 2 kills. In the mid game we played together and win some fights, but we lost the game. IMO, the main reason is Axe kept playing by himself, then we took some 4 vs 5 fight and lost. Also SF sometimes attempt to pick off an enemy hero but didn't have enough information about their heroes, and got killed instead. I also got killed while trying to help him. What should I do and what item should I buy to win game like this in the future? Thank you.

[@sytrax7363]

Match ID: 7785038711 I am playing Pugna We destroyed lane, Troll had twice the net value of the enemy offlane combined at 8 minutes. He refuses to group, and wants to continue farming one more item. I try to rally the troops multiple times to try and push with our MASSIVE advantage, but fail to do so. Troll spent the entire game in vc saying that he needs to farm out Battle fury, then BKB and after that he needs MKB, and after he has MKB he needs rosh and THEN he can fight.. But at that point the enemy team has already caught up, and it is too late. I am relatively new to dota, but I have played 5k hours in League. I am currently Legend 1. I know that I am not flawless, and I only have 200 games so my game knowledge is still lacking in many aspects. Hope you take a look, the game is the biggest throw I've ever had in any of my games.

[@therewronill]

I have headache watching this game and what they did. They need to watch your livestream how to play supp role and your content more.

[@edgarf3152]

Thanks, I had a lot of fun watching this :D

[@amberswilddiaries2831]

No way these are crusaders and I can't get out of herald lol

[@elvis4868]

Send a recebt match id i want to see

[@amberswilddiaries2831]

@@elvis4868 match ID of what? One game wont say much for better or worse. I could send one where I play really well or very poorly. From what I see, I get too long of streaks both winning and losing for it to be reasonable.

[@elvis4868]

@@amberswilddiaries2831 even games where you play "really well" will be riddled with mistakes

[@amberswilddiaries2831]

@@elvis4868 ofc there are tones of mistakes, Im not an idiot. I miss a lot of cs, I choose stupid fights, I don't push well, I build items in wrong order or even useless to the game. But after saying all of that, I feel that matchmaking is kinda whack. It cannot be possible that I stop 30 games then get stomped 30 games all the time. I will send two ID's one bad and one good Good one: 7696161862 Bad one: 7687570963 Both games I played AM

[@clarkmeyer7211]

I don't see anything wrong with high cliff wards tbh. People just use them at the wrong time. If your carry is farming defensively and you just need to know if someone is coming for him then the high cliff will give the most vision. If they are going to smoke for a gank then at best it can be predicted due to a lack of enemy heroes showing on the map for quite some time. But even then no vision would save you from a smoke gank if it's done correctly. I also believe high cliff wards are best used in an area you control. If you are strong in your own jungle but still need time to farm defensively you should use the highcliff. If you are strong as a team a high cliff ward is also great in their triangle or their jungle as long as your team defends the ward which will more often than not give you more kills on supports trying to be smart and ward up the area. I think the only time high cliffs are a no no is when it's a desperation for vision and they have a great chance of dewarding you with out much to respond to it. That's why I get pissed off at midlaners that over rotate and lose mid tower only to complain later that there is no vision when we have no control over the map

[@f1shze4lot]

Cliff wards are bad because they are obvious and ideally you want your ward to stand as long as possible(unless you placing them to see in a fight). Wards are needed mostly to scout/spot rotations and you don't need to have full vision for that. Also carry should know themselves where to farm safely (and you don't need to wipe their asses placing wards for them)

[@ZQuixotix]

It's not that they're wrong, it's like you said, there's a time and place for them. In my opinion, the majority of wards should not be on cliffs, especially once they've been killed before. There needs to be a mix of 'short-term' cliff wards and 'long-term' other wards throughout the map. My main issue in this game is the amount of cliff wards all on the same part of the map making them extremely redundant and frequently dewarded. You can't always spot smokes, but the value of deep wards is that sometimes you will and occasionally avoiding a big death can build a lead in Dota. You definitely will NOT spot a smoke if you only have defensive wards.

[@thiag0d]

Defensive wards (from the river to your base) can have impact if you are predicting some rotations, like wards in portals or in the entrances of jungles, but deep in your own jungle will never have impact: you are not spotting any rotation, you only giving a false sensation of safe to your carry, whose farm pattern should cover him by itself, no need to sacrifice a scarce resource. Offensive ward (from enemy base to the river) will give you the best information, because you will have time to react or to organize a smoke gank for example. Yes, cliff ward give the best vision of course, but they are so common that you are guaranteed to get dewarded, so you should only put them if you are fighting, then it doesn’t matter if they know you have a ward there (good supports will even risk their life to deward these wards, because they can turn a teamfight) or if you are pushing their t2 and you want to pressure them, so you are putting high cliff wards to not allow them to access their own triangle or jungle for example, but the moment you are not there anymore (for example, you are now going for roshan) you will lose the ward.

[@maxogge]

@@ZQuixotixgame theory says you have to place more of the suboptimal wards than of the perfect wards such that the enemies get equal value from checking a cliff or a more hidden position.

[@Twinsen764]

Who ever the dazzle is really shouldn't be playing dota support. I'd yell at him in lane.

[@randomhandle721]

I don't know man... dota is not about common sense. You see the enemy you dive and die and then blame the team.

[@dimbisyllas]

I can not understand how i am on guardian and can not go up... Those mistakes are so HUGE!!! I am not good yet on dota but i am not THAT bad...the whole team are doing so many mistakes...tide has 8K and not using that gold to do MORE on enemies. Its like watching low heralds with technical skills

[@elvis4868]

Send a match id of your games then

[@JoestarFGC]

Hi Zach could you please review this game Match id:7658663245 The problem is that my team were severely under leveled my pos 1 didn't farm pos 2 wasn't really ganking the kotl was kinda just throwing out spells and I was the ES pos 3 and i understand i did somethings wrong like solo pushing and stuff like that but my teammates weren't able to help get kills of echo slams the kotl wouldn't ward and the team was just very un coordinated and there was a lot of pausing for some reason and the doom wouldn't build regular items and the rest of my team kinda gave up and doom and kotl both ended at lvl 15 meanwhile I'm like 22 and alot was going wrong with the team would be much appreciated if you watched

[@sirganjagaming4283]

Match id:7657800668 - Lifestealer - carry - this game i felt left alone pretty much all the game. I have many games like this where i feel abbandoned and don't know how to make team follow my timings as carry. I use microphone to make calls but it doesen't provide any results.. This game a number of times 1 or both supports weren't even close or them decide to go push other lanes/towers while cores kept fighting. (supports oracle and silencer) Hope you choose this for next episode. thank you for good content anyway

[@lucasyujiogawa]

Match ID: 7655404079 Playing Carry PL I'm wondering if we lost the game because of my itemization

[@solowolo-d8h]

Hello ZQ, I am in herald (this match was solo) and this is my match ID please point out the mistakes i and my teammates made (as Pugna pos 5). Match ID: 7658682118

[@hoseinshabani5140]

ID 7655047532 Playing as templar assassin Long game which we ended up losing despite having advantage and the opportunity to win the match

[@BlackSmithWolves]

Hello! I left a comment in your discord about maybe having a replay reviewed, I won this game but the laning stage went poorly, I am playing the drow and my support was playing the AA who became very toxic very quickly when I asked him if he would please stop holding my hand in the lane. But WFIIA? Match ID: 7717574310

[@xxxPinochio]

Match ID: 7655357126 Playing as Drow Ranger We are at the losing position all the time from the beginning to the end, but we (or I) managed to hold off the game quite long and even get 20/3 for K/D. My Net Worth is even higher than the enemies even in the losing position. Please tell me how I can do better to carry such games. I know I probably messed up on the last Cyrstalys purchase (should have bought BKB instead) and some out of position thing that force me to die (2nd death probably)

[@Dan-bd6my]

I try to recommend your channel to my friends but after a couple of attempts are pronouncing the name i give up