Remember When: Patches

[@kakavanin]

The Leshrac patch was Arteezy's peak. He played like 200 Lesh games shamelessly on stream.

[@slowtyper95]

Shamelessly 😂

[@jonavlrt8013]

shamelessly 🤣🤣🤣

[@J4ckmaestro]

I miss his spamming Naga when she first got octarine core (shamelessly)

[@wew7736]

Shamelessly lmaoo

[@bachpham6862]

Yeah, but I was remembering Alch being even more busted back then: just farm rad manta octarine and in fight you are literally immortal.

[@spacet1me]

Love Pyrion for these, he's the one that fits perfectly for this role. Love the series and want even more content!!

[@lyonvensa]

I love Bulba's way of seeing the patches. It's true that despite some heroes being meta and such, they can still be beaten. Also, surprised the OD-Omni patch wasn't mentioned. That one is stuck in my brain until now when those two are picked literally every single game.

[@jean-baptistemas655]

Sounds more like it clearly shows his stubbornness which seems to keep costing EG in T.I.

[@bergerman487]

Or Huskar-Dazzle. Huskar back then really broken

[@charliekim3953]

I remember the broken OD😂😂

[@mochachino56]

6.86 OD + Omni monkaGiga

[@mirael1248]

Bro u forgot about arc warden's tempest double can carry divine rapier back in 6.86 people we're literally begging osfrog to nerf it

[@j-mc2144]

Glad these returned! As a newer lad, the history of Dota 2 is ever-interesting.

[@KidTrigger]

Who asked?

[@Daniel00232]

@@KidTrigger me

[@KenkenLH]

@@KidTrigger me

[@jackjulius4814]

@@KidTrigger me

[@FarazMazhar]

@@KidTrigger me

[@arseniipetrov5536]

What an outstanding perfomance by mr PyrionFlax. Hats off to you sir

[@obibrianhariman2139]

Necro disable buyback is the most iconic patch ever

[@ゆうや-i2r]

I think Necro already have that ability since WC3 mod

[@minsoochoi]

this was an amazingly well produced video! Good job production team!

[@Polored1066]

Bulba was indeed the march of the machine pioneer on Tinker, I remember when it happened. Back then it was standard to play tinker as a "ganker", maxing rocket and laser and just killing people left and right with the high burst damage. Bulba chose to max march of the machine and kill ancients and farm the map which was very unconventional. The rest is history

[@gabriellelingatong9765]

LOLOL stop it man. for all we know you dont even know how to play dota. Maybe you are just one of those nerds who remembers all the memes the faculty the staff and most of the team members. YOU ARE THERE FOR THE ARCHIVE .

[@renzrowendeleon8754]

We were doing it in SEA since dota 1

[@xchan3726]

5 mins b.o.t then farm the jungle to whole game using march

[@mmrwarden474]

Funny enough, when I first started playing Tinker maxing March of Machines was the optimal tinker build and I was completely oblivious to it, I kept maxing Laser and Rocket every single game.

[@notalkjustplay-]

merlini pioneered it on dota1

[@erka8032]

production, script and story telling is amazing on this one, please more of this stuff

[@darudemarc6114]

I love Bulba's enthusiasm about these broken patches, but he and his team definitely tunnel visioned in the main stage this TI straight to the airport.

[@protercool8474]

They just left early to beat the rush hour traffic

[@andharadesign8677]

Yeah, but always pick storm draft in every turney match. Hahahaha

[@JC-xi8ie]

Like how they tunnel vision with the Storm pick. Balance in all things

[@Pmon21]

the yin yang part of ceb. classic tunneling. his patch still on garena these days.

[@leonbishop7404]

oof

[@beauarroyo6590]

Remember the reduce death timer talents?

[@aeinyuki8415]

I member. Get Lina. Go bloodstone and travel. Get back into the fight within 5 sec even if you got popped at the beginning of the fight. Fun times.

[@CactusPhD]

Remember when Necro aghs made it take longer to respawn

[@aeinyuki8415]

@@CactusPhD Or when it blocked buy back?

[@lkcdarzadix6216]

@@aeinyuki8415 oh I remember that his delete doto ss

[@icariamcgordon358]

Let me have GPM talent back.

[@rajaganeshb.e628]

The oldest patch i remember is troll with perma bash. The patch i miss is abyssal mini blink.

[@VON_WA]

abyssal getting a blink was the worst when you're a supp. ursa rush abyssal and you just die instantly without the ability to do anything

[@arazakdistrict6711]

Nah bro the instant abyssal blink is one of the very few things Am has going for him.

[@gilvinzalsos8734]

those poor puck players never stood a fucking chance against an AM with abyssal blink

[@thebasedone2182]

@@arazakdistrict6711 Thanks to SF spammers using Abyssal to one shot requiem

[@lotusinframe]

@@VON_WA remember when sf used to get abyssal after euls? Yes fuck that shit, a total nightmare for any supp without aeon

[@Sensorium19]

Pflax at TI is the eye of stability in the hurricane of the world's woes.

[@silversix6ailver649]

bulba the patch god!

[@arkar4289]

The great MMR assassin

[@d1r3wolf8]

Surprised he didn't mention when he and s4 were spamming ET mid max aura build

[@tonythemadd]

rtz: "i don't care, i just go farm" HE ALWAYS DOES THIS LOL

[@johnericcago3783]

I also missed that Sven Helm of Dominator lifesteal build back in the days too. When the ancient creeps are still near the mid tower at radiant. You rush helm then stack neuts by yourself when you farm that youll have fast SnY basically outfarming enemy carry, got lots of mmr with that strat. 🤣

[@StereoxAS]

I played jugg back then and build also domi. The thing will later become satanic, so it never a dead item. Converting creep and pinging every :52 to stack ancients. My stack count was very high back then when it was still showed in your profile

[@kakavanin]

Sven with HOD picker here, loved that patch.

[@zyanidectrljrd2092]

That's quite busted,within just 30 mins and you almost filled your item slots,good old days

[@josecamilojimenez2784]

I got like 85% winrate with luna using that strat, i miss that hod

[@ThisisTMEGuy]

yea after that HoD change I stopped playing Sven. I had like 70+% WR at that time just stacking ancients and suddenly getting so much farm doing the stacks. But then they nerfed neutral creep gold and exp at some point as well and removed the lifesteal from domi :(

[@ayeemarquez5222]

the best patch for me was the disney major patch, the drow ranger marksmanship can one shot any creeps including neutral creeps, the most contested hero that time. the level 6 drow will leave the lane and the 5 minutes later she got manta dragon lance and one component of aghanims

[@azimkasyful9199]

This is what makes dota interesting

[@Daniel00232]

I remember the patch where huskar was pretty much unkillable if you just bought evasion as it stacked. Felt dirty but at the same time it felt so good.

[@RoalFlusher]

Great idea - amazing performance Love this series!

[@NakedGhost3234]

We need a 'remember when' with the map environments. The map has changed to being more open these days where as before the map was full of condensed corridors made of cliff and trees. This needs investigated please P Flax

[@BigChiefSkep]

There’s already one on the map changes I believe

[@Nppsol]

Last year boy

[@NakedGhost3234]

@@BigChiefSkep let me rephrase: one that isn't shit

[@scorpi8341]

we realy need a big map change

[@vainklutz3179]

I was searching for it too. The only one available is just the map additions, not map changes like the jungle spawns, path size etc

[@jaelanianton4438]

01:00 Arteezy defines himself lol

[@masip.]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@abedasmegenesis9810]

u got me there.

[@migs1204]

They forgot the patch where you can equip multiple neutral items. You can literally comeback by just farming neutrals and equipping 4-5 of those items on your huskar

[@georgeeast9271]

We don’t even speak of the Shanghai major , OD arc warden rapier meta. Invoked was so good, w33 carried eternal envy to win that tournament xp

[@mango8786]

man I had so many good and bad memories with the troll and sniper patch, loved that patch

[@softpool1286]

same, was the first patch I really remember because I was finally understanding what a meta was and why some picks were just better than others. troll sniper jugg running around with 30% move speed buff mask of madness is a thing of nightmares

[@alfanzain9031]

I really miss Tinker March ancient farm patch. Very fun and competitive. You are never resting even in 3k brackets with those picks.

[@badrinath5306]

Ok to any player fortunately enough to not play during the comeback patch be happy. Especially actual kids. I was in college and I had sometimes maybe am hour and every damn game we would try to play the game and then the comeback would happen. Aaargh.... I remember more rage dcs than actual thrown and there were many many throws. My mom used to scream through the door cause we were both in our bases playing hotpockets w8ing for the others to die either by running up our hg or by natural causes. I think that's the point where I picked up supporting cause I realized in lower brackets having a support at that crucial timing had real value. For like 2 r 3 games. I lost those games too cause sure it was early value but no damn way in hell could we do anything. Abondon and u loose even if ur team wins. And well dcs made the hg even worse. I remeber thinking I was a good carry at that point before starting to support just cause I was able to use the rubberband by farming for almost 25 mins. Now it seems like a long lost nightmare. Miserable dota in what was otherwise a cherisable college life.......

[@shottadems]

Lol broo my old account had more low prio matches then normal matches 😂😂

[@theargentino4245]

That patch literally made me quit dota as a regular player. I now come back every patch, play for about a month and just quite again. God I fucking hated it, it was so fucking demoralizing.

[@mega00david00]

I loved the lone druid sniper patch. Was fun playing it.

[@softpool1286]

holy crap I forgot about that. each of druids talents had an option to buff him or the bear and the ones for him literally made him sniper. that brings back some trauma since i mostly play 3 and 4 so I never played it myself but played against it so much...

[@pemudabergairah]

My absolutely favorite Announcer! Love you PyrionFlax

[@phurbasherpa7441]

The good old spin to win meta was the best

[@firasabduldayem4265]

6:19 they actually showed the Janitor doing the balancing , ICANT🤣

[@chuchello9776]

Remember when Valve actually made patches...

[@thatfinnishdude9405]

haha even though bulba gets memed, it's funny to see him enjoy every single patch that many felt were annoying! true pma master haha

[@lyonvensa]

Honestly it's a nice change of pace from all the people always trying to look at the faults of every patch lol

[@yupjuliansje]

Stellar episode, he's still got it

[@akinaridate9233]

There is so many broken thing in dota every patch, and we love it

[@sunbro6998]

Remember when the Axe battle hunger did so much damage at level 1 that you could put it on a support and they would just die?

[@kenchicken7377]

Marches was a minice in warcraft 3. No one complains and deals with it

[@yasahiroitou1307]

As a core player i miss the patches where aeon wasn't released yet

[@ex.tremist]

Bring back our beloved TECHIES

[@stevenkurniawan6521]

Playing Dota is like opening pandora box You always discover something new

[@Todsor]

Remember old Sniper in dota 1? When headshot skill was mini-stun and you buy mkb which was also mini-stun.

[@omkarbharambe8673]

also abyssal on sniper in dota 1, when abyssal gave 100 damage. It was so broken, sniper owned carries purely based on damage as his attack speed gain per level was pretty good as well. No need to buy bkb on sniper, go full damage and satanic (dominator gave 20 damage and formed into satanic later, broken as well).

[@let_me_explain8572]

Gosh I miss the overhaul patches. Yes, current approach is more new players friendly because they now have a chance to adapt to the game without being afraid that it suddenly changes beyond recognition (and I believe there's even statistics confirming that people leave the game when Valve releases big patches), but as an old player I really miss the feeling of the upcoming major shift, when everything changes so drastically it's basically a new game at this point.

[@cykav-lot1639]

Anyone remember Necrophos ult with 18sec cd with additional 40seconds respawn time? Yup that was fun

[@leonbishop7404]

also GPM talents and respawn cooldown talents. especially lvl 10/25 ones. like warlock 40% XPM lvl 10 talent

[@mymusicplaylist2609]

dont forget the aghs upgrade to prevent buyback lol

[@darillbern4458]

"...i just go farm..." the design is very arteezy💀💀

[@hvermilion23kx]

man I remember the patch when Phaseboots was fucking passive lmfao but they suddenly change it back to active

[@superpenguil]

ahh yes. the time where bounty was temporarily a carry with passive phase boots giving u extra movement speed

[@wanman6379]

Bro you really sounded like my in-game announcer Pyrion Flax it's unbelievable! /s

[@neromah]

How can there be no mention of the Alchemist patch? The guy that enslaves an drugged out crackhead ogre was beyond crazy!

[@mrsmile5009]

Oh yeah, I remember that time when his greavels greed gave 32 and at some point 36 gold plus, it's raining money Every time I play alch. As the old saying goes " if you can't out skill them, just out money them" 🤑🤑.

[@afebrian2037]

Remember Crystal Maiden is really broken..and till these that they kept Nerfing her..because they have no solution about this scary hero

[@sharzstudio4817]

the patch that i had most fun of... -morphling have 2 different hp pool -ember algh reduce mana cost -lc algh block outside damage -meepo geostrike -nullifier mute -high ground on rosh pit -kunkka splash ignore armor -invis broodmother -mkb ministun -fountain smoke worst patch -ballista dusa/sniper -7.00 mk --" -abbysal sf -1 courier only ( i didnt have a courier all game once because the enemy mk steal our cour ) thats all i can remember hahahaha

[@ryuu7733]

wait nullifier no longer mutes? what does it do now?

[@hartonosutrisno5452]

@Ryuu Only Silence your skill and dispel every buffs they have for entire duration, also slow enemies movement by 100% for 0.5 secs each time they get hit by heroes. The main reason why Nullifier broken nack then because it can dispel Eul Scepter and muted items as well, like how Doom ultimate did but with 12 secs cooldown and 5 secs duration. Every carry and offlaner buying it against Windranger, PA and Slark due their buffs are annoying as hell

[@levisamom5069]

​@@ryuu7733 it doesn't silence or mute but does apply a constant dispel on the target and slows 100% for 0.5 secs when being attacked it's not as good as before but only because the previous version was so broken... it's still very good still especially against enemies with buffs like ethereal or against supports like Omni who can stack buffs

[@sharzstudio4817]

@@levisamom5069 i used to buy diff bloodthorn into nullifier when im stomping... they cant do shit... slow plus silence and mute 😂😂😂

[@newbietricki239]

lc algh block outside damage that one was bit fun at least especially if its two heroes that can easily sustain themselves

[@vincey6158]

Most fun patch to me? Arc Warden can copy consumable and his clone can use DR. Farm a bit, get DR, and afk in base

[@pluto5076]

the only way to play AW back then

[@harshitnayan]

I hope this game never dies

[@tolgonqq]

Give this man an Emmy.

[@forever-yi6902]

I remember there was one patch that we name it as '3 man spin' in Chinese, referring to jugg, axe and troll being too OP. Sometime in 2014-2016.

[@TheZett]

"spin to win"

[@pr0gressd]

Always great to see these

[@ong5589]

My favourite patch when Riki 3rd is invi with health regen. Was spamming Riki during that patch.

[@jep4123]

Xinq sleeping while being interviewed

[@cebferrer3360]

Fountain hook patch is legend

[@kaungkhantlinn4538]

Always loved these series!

[@o_kamaras]

"You sicken me, good night"

[@RandomPerson-di6mn]

Bald guy sounds like Patchy the Pirate from Spongebob

[@prakashtiwari1058]

Dont forget the patch where Necro ult makes u cant even buyback even when u have gold to spend on it with adding the time on respawn.

[@LeinRa-Reaction]

only with aghanims, and there was -respawn timer talents back then so his buyback blocker and +respawn timer ability was pretty important

[@bahychairyhakim8535]

soo..... can we get archive about TI arena ?

[@MohammedSakinBelim]

Bulba is such an opportunist!

[@kleesparknight2113]

Bulba just agrees into Everything

[@AwesomeAxolotlt]

I liked the Sniper patch - had like 70% win rate as Spirit Breaker constantly disrupting the Sniper's game.

[@alZiiHardstylez]

Oh Bulba you cheeky boi.

[@AwfulGamersLtd]

God I loved the patch where you just fought over picking Lesh, Lina, Gyro, and WW. Played in an 80% winrate 5 stack a little while back then. Didn't really have the motivation to keep up with them and there were some awkward things, but that patch was fun. God I miss pre 7.00 dota.

[@Gabe-sp8ml]

Now we have Razor and Viper Raidboss meta

[@ddcts545]

I’m waiting for the set "wise tree" on the treant

[@wikygaming]

No Green Ranger meta? I'm actually astounded that is pretty bearable

[@mward5962]

Ugh. For me it was 7.00. Left DOTA for seven years after that patch. And before someone points out that 2016 was 6 years ago, I would remind you that one of those years was 2020, which was AT LEAST 2 years long.

[@bounphithakphithak6949]

Love how Valve and the gangs are now embracing the Bulba meme, dude is a now a full time jester KEKW

[@cloudstr15]

Surprised reaper's scythe blocking buyback with extended respawn was not mentioned lol

[@areyouwatching-_-]

6:42 That is Valve talking to us through P Flax You sicken me 😂

[@naveedc7]

I think bulba just really likes dota

[@chunyolo8490]

Bulba god. Broken patch enjoyer

[@saltedgerman]

You sicken me too, Pyrion.

[@strateg4play]

i'm surprised that they didn't mention monkey king patch 7.00 when he was insanely broken and alchemist with octarine+radiance+manta meta

[@Sayurawesome11]

i thnk because monkey king patch are merely because the hero is just come out so everyone know and expect it to be op

[@NakedGhost3234]

I remember that, illusions across the board from heroes to items were nerfed drastically. The only one unaffected was chaos knight illusion damage but that's part of the hero's personality

[@MsMin-gv9hm]

You mean the Alche + gold runes 10 mins radiance?

[@endyourway8751]

@@MsMin-gv9hm alche 400 initial dmg to Unstable Concoction was broken just use and throw immediately get free high damage.

[@johnericcago3783]

I remember the time when ward cliffs was still near nuetrals and you play mirana jungle lvl 1 leaping at that cliff farming freely. Even a hero like furion, medusa or any ranged hero as long as you do the ironwood branch trick. And By the time you show at the map you already got a big item and big level hahahahaha

[@tientruong6253]

All the "Remember When" episodes have been a blast. Keep it up!

[@allanyang21]

The Riki patch where he just get aghs and get unlimited trick of the trades

[@soulxcvzc1561]

we need more of this.

[@Ferret440]

This was hilarious, love TI content!

[@malokilitton2207]

you must imagine sisyphus happy

[@kuroboss]

warden with dr, ends games like its fucking 1 v 9

[@rajirino4949]

"I just go farm" - Arteezy

[@almost5198]

haha bulba approving all the patches lmao

[@ヘスティア-y9o]

Remember when the Blade Fury of Juggernaut is only lvl 1 throught the entire game? With items such as Mask of Madness, Manta Style & Eye of Skadi

[@charliekim3953]

The attack speed and physical damage meta😂😂

[@ヘスティア-y9o]

@@charliekim3953 & Mekanism on Shadow Fiend is normal for faster push & can gain an early advantage of teamfights? Still remember on a 10 plus winning streak with that build. Good times & God we're growing old.

[@enriquecruzjr.4663]

"Their abusing the bug." -Loda

[@danielcraciun4106]

6:18 am I the only one that noticed their "developer" is the janitor ? xD Love it

[@mjodyh]

I love the pangolier triple Javelin stack swashbuckle build Back then you'd just buy arcane boots and three Javelins until mid game, supports would just die with a single swash + crash then you could've build those Javelins into basher and MKB for late game

[@mirael1248]

plus heart pierce making your 0 armor

[@zevalastlegion4228]

3 jav into mjollnir, mkb, abyssal, with greaves, blink, and old spell lifesteal o core. These were the truly unkillable days.

[@TheZett]

That still works in the current patch. Javelins still fully stack and you can upgrade two of them into MKB + Mjöllnir.

[@sickofseeingjustsomeguywit8168]

The Lion mid patch traumatized me to this day.

[@Mr.2GD]

Bring back Necro adding Seconds to your death timer

[@faezismail8105]

that one patch where brood can go outside of the map using spin web.

[@PillowHeroReact]

I remember Midas meta. In every game both cores was buying it...

[@finnvongehr3892]

This would have been so based, if the name was: remember when, patches

[@Kryptnyt]

Really missing your Hero Guides for Dota 2, PFlax

[@junojuno3745]

Somehow seeing Bulba absolutely love it when there's a cheesy-pubstomper that everyone hates gives me closure and understanding of why EG's performance throughtout the year was shaky af.

[@ygalion]

3:04 having built in ultra wide monitors

[@The4321kp]

patches are nice. changes in the meta, new items, new spells.