The Greatest Carry That Had Everything Taken From Him

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Chapters:
Intro - 00:00:00
Lore - 00:01:07
First Implementation - 00:01:34
The International 2011 - 00:05:38
The International 2012 - 00:07:19
The International 2013 - 00:13:49
The International 2014 - 00:17:13
The International 2015 - 00:18:16
The International 2016 - 00:21:21
The International 2017 - 00:25:35
The International 2018 - 00:27:49
The International 2019 - 00:34:04
The International 2021 - 00:39:24
The International 2022 - 00:45:16
The International 2023 - 00:50:52
Outro - 00:53:55
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[@mhz6687]

I wish this channel never stopped

[@lemonade2706]

Dota community ain't that giving sadly, passionate but they take things for granted... 😢 Good channel, love to baumi

[@kujo18]

Wait, it’s ending ? There’s still hundred+ hero

[@stefanudovcic5649]

@@kujo18yup he will make invoker as a last hero

[@EsordCZ]

​@@kujo18 Boomi had topics/heroes he wanted to cover, and that ran out, so he said he's gonna move onto other things he wants to do. It's fine for things to end, not everything has to be milked dry, as what the capitalist society is used to. (as he said in one of his videos)

[@kujo18]

@@EsordCZ damn that’s a bummer, but it is what it is

[@BillTheChill654]

I’m sad these are coming to an end, but I’m grateful for every one that we got. The amount of craft that goes into these videos rivals the most highly produced sports documentaries. That you for this wonderful gift you’ve given the Dota community. ❤

[@dontblattme7227]

How do you know theyre coming to and end???

[@DavidGlendaleArdenaso]

@@dontblattme7227 he said back in furion video it would he only had 3 videos left, now he only has 2 more

[@monogreen]

As someone mostly outside the community these have been amazing to watch too. My interest in dota only goes as far as having friends who sit in my lounge watching competitive dota and instilling a desire to understand the game more. This series has really helped me identify more of the heroes as well as have a better understanding of the game in general. Thank you very much for making these

[@Rippi__]

If baumi (channel creator) ever needs a lighter project, what about "the story of roshan"?

[@morfy2581]

or the story of the map

[@LemonWise]

thats a beautiful idea

[@henrik1743]

or of wc3 creators items (guinsoo etc)

[@loganmyall660]

​@@morfy2581that one would probably get pretty upsetting because it would be nearly 2 decades of trying to get the rosh spot balanced, finally getting a spot everyone and the stats show aren't too powerful for one or the other, than icefrog having a boomer moment and changing the game fundamentally, and for the worse.

[@toukaK]

It's worth mentioning during TI8 morph had a bug that causes losing stats gain while leveling up in morph form. In some games this bug caused losses of agility as high as 25 for carry. 30% win rate is definitely a result of this bug

[@Tasonir]

How sad that morphling is currently the #1 lowest winrate hero the day his story is posted. Fix morphling soon please!

[@Bernadottes777]

Awesome as always

[@manishpradhan660]

We love the videos. What a great series bro

[@tadeaslehky98]

Thank you for the series. I would like to ask if you could please make a video about your favorite matches in TI history since you had to watch so much in making these videos.

[@arigatameiwaku]

1 million echo slam or naga siren song into blackhole or "Lost bkbshechka"

[@TempestDacine]

Thanks for all of these well researched and presented historic videos. Its been a wonderful time. At least morph is back to using a facsimile of shotgun with Khanda burst rn if it lasts till TI13.

[@MKSiringOne]

Thank you for this amazing content as always

[@goink3368]

There actually was a brief period around 2015 when morphling was played as an utility hero for his 4 second stun. You’d go offlane and buy stuff like euls blink and blademail Also during TI2 (and for a few years after that) Ethereal Blade damage was based on the owner’s agility even if they were a strength or an int hero

[@BenDodson-id8em]

I remember that! People were going stun and support items in my pubs. It was kind of cool - probably not optimal but I was always playing at a trash enough level where the quality of heroes never really mattered 😅

[@TheGreatGritzy]

Was one of my favourites at the time, pre BKBs it was like having a 10s cooldown beastmaster ult with built in blink. Used to combo it with Undying for double tombstones

[@SKKaelth]

In pubs it is strong, because usually the enemy team isnt a coordinated pro team, so when you engaging with that 4~5k hp you might get some of them spend a long cooldown on you while you survive to make your escape, giving a good advantage to your next tf by simply existing. And can even steal some interesting skill with morph. Optimal? Nope, and your team will report you.

[@SpentaofWater349]

Nice work Baumi.

[@sercho9499]

Very nice!!

[@kozzmin]

Very good!

[@KoopstaDhaggo]

Excellent video. Im sad to hear there are only two more. Will the channel still be up after so fans of the videos can rewatch them?

[@BringTOBIWANback]

Morph was, very briefly, played as support by PPD on a couple of games

[@Albert-bd4on]

You deserve more subs ! Great content

[@blast916]

One of the best channels in youtube history if you're a old school dota player. You have my respect!

[@vincent78433]

man playing morph with the shaker combo was so much fun i only got to do it a few times while it was in the game but damn was it good

[@ispilledmycoffeonkeyboard8839]

Great video, as always! Can you make history of Magnus next?

[@zenderas1434]

hello baumi i have watched your videos sporadically in your main channel, even though i have like 6 years without playing dota, and even though the mod gameplay is whatever for me, seeing your retrsopective on heroes i have played in days past brings me nostalgic joy (and anger) about those days of me 4 stacking with friends and experiencing all those highs and lows of the heroes mentined. Hope gyou do Luna someday, shes my favorite hero.

[@sirbolero]

I am gonna miss these videos. So much thought put into, topnotch quality

[@BertieJasokie]

I estimate at least 6-8 years worth of content if he goes through the entire hero pool, If he stops some other you tuber is gonna pick up on the existing viewer base and farm it.

[@DuckyVanya]

Thanks Baumi, i think this series is the best content you have ever produced. And as a GM Morph, I'm really glad you got around to waterboy❤

[@steeezy9585]

wellll done

[@emeraldwarden8018]

I think it would have been nice to take note on how dominating Morphling was during the Chengdu tournament when TNC used ES + Morph combo and won that tournament. One of the best displays of dominating carry I have seen.

[@SkullJr]

but Morphling has been buffed ever since last patch. Love it on this patch

[@koalatysleep]

Still rubbish. Barely over 40% wr. Other heroes are far stronger, some getting 2 skills level 1. Morph doesn't have much going for him.

[@nyavy]

wish i could travel down to whatever rank you're at, he's only 46% winrate on d2pt and its almost always the same rough item build

[@olgagaming5544]

@@nyavy you can, he's playing unranked

[@akrilla5929]

What an insanely wrong statement.😂

[@eoeaoe12e]

wait, why is Baumi gonna stop uploading videos? that sucks, i really enjoyed these DOTA 2 videos and learning about the game

[@zzarGrazz]

Also curious

[@ghostwalker435]

Probably due to lack of relevant and defining characters if i had to guess. Kinda already went over all of the major powerhouses for each TI.

[@KUNAIfever]

​@@ghostwalker435 dont forget old dota 2 content too

[@vjbd2757]

@@ghostwalker435 I wish he could make a Story for Shadow Fiend. That hero is one of the more iconic ones in Dota 2.

[@DragN_H3art]

he said in a stream that it's a lack of creative drive to continue doing it - having to rewatch the same TI games over and over to write new videos is not something he wants to do long term

[@ildar.ishalin.chelovek]

You gotta understand that Morphling came to d2 after some serious nerfs in d1. Chinese teams dominated games with him, because he could safely farm for 40 minutes and then destroy anybody with high attack and a low cd shotgun. Icefrog nerfed him hard. Also his third - Morph - gave him attributes which you could morph in d1, but couldn't in d2 because it wasn't base stats for some reason. It also had made him a tiny bit weaker (6 less agi to be precise)

[@BillTheChill654]

If you want to do a quick video, you could do The Story of Clinkz. “When this hero was first introduced, his kit was an unfocused mess. Valve did everything they could to fix him, and failed. The End.” ~kappa, no disrespect to the Clinkz Mains in the audience

[@ventu7907]

His kit is pretty good for a gank focused midlaner. Unfortunately he is very weak early game

[@stevendavidovici1765]

Time to lock in and enjoy

[@mdk064hernandez9]

Oh right Morph, time to see you waving

[@lucasrv2630]

YES MY HERO

[@HalIOfFamer]

Hey would you consider doing a video on one of the newer heroes to come to the roster? Or have you planned to cover the older ones 1st so the newcomers actually build up their portfolio 1st?

[@pawepaczek6653]

Appreciation comm

[@makovecek00]

its soo sad that morphilng still has the same amout of polygons as he did when implemented, wish they would do a reskin

[@kenolino1]

0:35 Morphling had never been anything other than a carry. Aged like milk with Boxi Morph. 😅

[@KiNG5493.]

Man that earthsahaker morphling oneshot combo was op..... Damage was over 1500+.... Had fun times 😁

[@vaxfantomen]

The memories I had of this guy... the 6.83 patch notes. "Adaptive Strike stun max duration increased from 0.75/1.5/2.25/3 to 1.25/2.25/3.25/4.25" Even though I never played against it, I did go offlane Morphling a lot and even managed to get a 16 winstreek when looking back at the dotabuff(77141752) logs now. And I tell ya, that 4+ second stun was underestimated and it made many Antimages quit when they also had a replica hitting themself. Later on get an aganim, hybrid the carry, win. It was one of the best times I ever played dota, good old 2015

[@ObieFuscato]

i had to repeat the lore part 10 times, to hear what happened with morphling because i was just enjoying the storytelling voice/vibe

[@SamSGLM]

I can guess this one was on the works for a while, as you might not do them as you publish them exactly. But i think after 7.36, this one had to take a hold for after this TI. there is the potential to finally put support morph on the map for good. 60% cdr is a big number, that can be abused so easily

[@d312da1]

I remember he was a nightmare in TI 2. He was almost always banned first in TI 2.

[@ObieFuscato]

that lore inspired me to main him

[@Axaerys]

Now Morphling is being played as pos 4-5 more frequently using the Flow Facet. It gives Morphling 60% spell cooldown reduction when on 75% Agility Attribute Shift, the coooldown percentage goes down the more you Shift to Strength (0% at 75% Strength Attribute Shift). This makes his ultimate have zero second down-time when combined with his level 15 talent which is +16 Morph duration. Note that all abilities are effected by this CDR whether they are yours or the enemy's who you Morphed into.

[@SlycerZ]

at the end of the series id like a video comparing contest rate by tournament for all the heroes in this series just for funsies

[@Caseous703]

Series needs just one more episode, Lone Druid, the WIGAL champion!

[@Antifrost]

I'm reminded of a pub game where a Morphling on my team refused to level Morph. This was long before any reworks the skill had. I don't know if they were trolling or not, but they refused to listen to the rest of the team. That one person was so frustrating, that I've forgotten pretty much everything else about that match - what heroes were there, which side I was on, if we won or not, pretty much everything felt less important than asking why the hell someone would play MORPHling and not use the MORPH skill.

[@loandbaxhuku9617]

It's not a very noob-friendly skill. Also because of attribute shift, Morphling gets double the value out of leveling stats.

[@Antifrost]

@@loandbaxhuku9617 I don't doubt you, though this was before Morphling had Attribute Shift, back when Morph was still a skill and his ultimate was Replicate. It would be like using his modern skillset and not leveling Attribute Shift. I'm only realizing now that I could've made that clearer, since even the modern version of Morph has had reworks. My bad, I haven't had the chance to play Dota in a long time so I'm still used to how things were before.

[@fasiam2360]

​@@Antifrost im kind of and on-and-off dota player with very limited matches played per year. Your comment reminded me of the ONLY time i played morphling long ago, it was a legendary back and forth match between my morphling and enemy terrorblade. Basically i learned what a 'carry' truly is/does that match.

[@jessm.sandler7187]

Hi, this reminded me of morphling during dota 1 era. Where mana Regen was so much garbage. Only skilling waveform in lane + attributes. This would go on till morphling gets eth blade where he then puts a point in shift and maxes adaptive strike and one shot enemy on cooldown

[@arigatameiwaku]

Technically his old ult Replicate wasn't that useful,so it could be skipped till later levels

[@linsenexpander]

Is that HON's menu music in the last 8th of the video I'm hearing? Oh man throw back

[@wheatbreaddayz8394]

I can’t wait for Invoker 🗣️💯🗿

[@GamingPerks]

time to grief my herald games with supp morphling

[@mochammadfuadhakim7731]

Hero with tons of bug too always goes to morp and a new update reales to see what a new bug we could find

[@onethegogd5783]

I was scared that June 1 was the last vid

[@phyo.lin19]

Morphling .. the hero whose design is interesting but I just couldn’t play him well 😅

[@ciberwave320]

May i say that u forgot to mention how usefull was the talent that gave 2 charges to morfling wave form, that a part graet video, still hopeing to see huskar in a video like you did the sniper one.

[@iluha168]

new video? that's unexpected

[@iskander0725]

Ah man... i had like 4 heroes left i thought would make forngood vids. So, I'm thinking Gyro is for sure one of the last two. I cant think of a time when I seriously watched Dota, and he wasn't at least a little bit meta. Last part is hard, mate. I've got 3 good names that could go into it. I've got QOP, Ember Spirit, and SF. I'm pretty sure I called the last two here. Now, time to wonder if Baumi is gonna follow through with that Stories of League channel, next. Can't wait to see that first video on Azir.

[@Loongguy]

And yet, the remnant of Shotgun Morphling remains: the Khanda-philing

[@silverloop9029]

Hoped to see batraider someday

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

I do not approve of covering a total of 17 heroes, but it is your chanel.

[@arreng2364]

Morphling is the only hero who repeatedly breaks the game every game patch 😂

[@tvftw1]

God bless Wings, I've always preferred Stun Gun to Shotgun

[@someoneinthesky9784]

wait what he's not coming back?

[@P4TR1Kv]

ohhhh

[@UCeagle79]

Yes my fav champ. because he is every champ. hardest to learn. best to learn the game on

[@KiNG5493.]

Now can we get the story of arc warden pls

[@Nizav-qu5zt]

i think the popularity of these videos doesn't have anything to do with the quality or anything about the video. Since it is basically a youtube and youtube is "content" and not "media/movie/video", it lacks the marketing creativity and genuinely feels like they put their effort more on the quality of the video rather than the effort of marketing it. Like for example changing thumbnail and A/B testing, or maybe have some more shorts form content. It doesn't require them to be this amazing quality, just purely ideas of content making. Although I said that, I saw they changed the title more than once one a single video (maybe even more than I expected). So I can't say the don't do anything to make the videos reach more audience.

[@ssjgoku276]

Sad that this is ending soon. Will be extra sad if the special video is not on Faceless Void.

[@cryoneir4296]

Riki still powerful against morphling, specially old style riki...

[@ericnawamusic]

the best carry with the least poly counts

[@SamSGLM]

ofc the new morf ult 2x hp bar was a problem. i had seen newer games create that problem and solve it faster than valve did.

[@oxxybeastgaming5936]

Sand king story pls

[@iPlayForFriend]

We need at least Faceless Void before it's all over 😢

[@noaheash6312]

I still have that question unanswered.. :is morphling the forgotten Water Spirit?"

[@krnzzang84]

My No1 hero morph

[@eisabaig]

Arc warden please

[@TheGwenewier]

for me morphling always was the hardest hero in the game (apart from maybe meepo)

[@DuckyVanya]

Interesting, I'm a grandmaster morphling and I've never been able to play Arc Warden, he's by far the hardest hero for me!

[@lorenzozinna4700]

He's basically a carry version of rubick. Hardest carry besides meepo imo

[@phyo.lin19]

he is right, but a small joke. remember when DK and some teams ran Morphling support with 5 second max str stun lol

[@lamthewpeshia9945]

Add a doom triology

[@TheVaultDescendant]

What do you mean "and then we are done"?

[@iliyasmaksat5098]

Bro u missed the stun gun meta😂 when adaptive strike was an instant ability) 10 sec cd 4 sec instant stun

[@matheuscomparini1663]

Really wish there was the intention of a Faceless void video ...

[@gindotes491]

Morp was so good that pinoy win 1 major

[@CultKosmosa]

is this baumi??

[@markperalta4831]

For the algorithm

[@user-wg1fp4zn6s]

Busted mechanic

[@FAKPARTYY]

bro pls URSA !

[@jedrzejkonopnicki]

Where is TB?!

[@Ampheras]

Plase do Invoker

[@sebastianquake8519]

Do a video on tinker? He doesn't even has rockets now. Like come on dude..

[@strygwr]

U mean op carry?

[@SFTaYZa]

"impactful"

[@menowno3122]

This channel is nice, but soon needs to change its position of view. Would be cool if it has a black horse hero at each ti as a finaly

[@mercadorodriguezgerson3549]

why are you mofos not giving a like to the video???? its 12k vs 1.2k likes, come on!

[@goink3368]

Baumi, you can’t stop this channel before making a video about Batrider, it would just be incomplete without him I don’t need to tell you just how relevant he’s been throughout the years

[@Name-wy5zj]

So true!!!! I second this

[@APEXYOTA]

Is anyone else depressed

[@briebrown6818]

:0

[@envyjen6915]

Wish they did invoker

[@SamDorj]

57min is too long too watch

[@Apocalypse-hh4om]

I wish dota wasnt dying nd more ppl watched this materpiece channel

[@ultra1000]

God bless America 🫡

[@LionsOfTheDesert]

No

[@tobykenoby3502]

Why lmao

[@rmac02]

America needs less god and less ego