April 26th, 201624Most 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,...
December 18th, 201534By 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...
November 24th, 20154Often 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...
November 14th, 20150Overlapping matches will mark the group stages of the world’s first-ever Dota Major in Frankfurt, tomorrow. Which do you watch if you can only watch one?
November 13th, 20150Overlapping matches will mark the group stages of the world's first-ever Dota Major in Frankfurt tomorrow. Which do you watch if you can only watch one?
September 28th, 201576Every Jim and his manager has put out a patch analysis of some kind. Most of them are very specialized or many hours long. This is not that. This is a patch note look for people who want to understand patch changes and not just people who want to know them.
June 23rd, 201542Recently 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...
June 6th, 201527The 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...