GorgontheWonderCow

Freelance caster and statsman. Casual pinball enthusiast & retired musician. @TheWonderCow

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Learning

April 26th, 201643 Most Dota 2 players get excited about patch changes, but most Dota 2 players are also far from professional. It's about as reasonable to memorize novel-sized patch notes before playing Dota as it is to memorize the Kama Sutra before losing your virginity. Consider this your patch 6.87 equivalent of sex ed. It definitely isn't everything,...
Learning

December 18th, 201537 By now you’ve read the patch notes and seen some of the changes, but 6.86 is a massive patch. We’re going to be finding new game interactions for weeks, if not months, but I wanted to first look at one of the most impactful changes: the new offlane Hard camp. This camp exists by each team’s Secret Shop, both facing West (toward...
Learning

November 24th, 20154 Often the fastest way to estimate a tournament’s hero balance is to look at the most banned heroes rather than the most picked heroes. If few heroes were always banned, it generally means the patch is not well-balanced. If many heroes get banned more equally, it usually means that teams are diverse and trying to leverage metagame...
Stats

June 23rd, 201546 Recently I was checking out at the grocery store, a full assortment of rice, pizza rolls, and various canned beans (you know - a balanced diet) ready to be paid for when I made a terrifying realization: I had forgotten my wallet. I had a $20 bill on me, and I had to filter down everything I wanted to buy into quite a bit less. I...
Stats

June 6th, 201536 The last two months have been a busy time for the Internet’s favorite milliner. Although it may feel like Rome rose and fell in a shorter time than it's taking Valve to release the International immortals, in reality this newest patch has just begun to grow chest hair. Six weeks ago, analysts, fans and pro players speculated what...