Battlefury is a perfectly fine item regardless of what Reddit might think of it.
Even the most successful Kunkka player in the world always goes Battlefury first item. It would have made Reddit's brains explode except for two things. One. It would imply they have brains. Two. They're so fickle and subservient to celebrities and incapable of forming their own opinions.
I go on /r/dota2 pretty regularly and I have no problem with battlefury. I remember someone posting a thread about !Attacker! and his build, and people generally found it sensible. It's not like anyone demonized him for it.
MKB was a nice addition, but PA maxed her blur last, which was one of the reasons I was getting it. The other, of course, was to be a mini-bash asshole
Headshot procs actually never miss due to evasion. (though they can miss via Backtrack.) MKB certainly helps a lot against PA, and it's a good item for sniper in any case, but I find it interesting that he's the hero who needs it the least to shut down PA. (Not that you should skip it!)
Does this game have any matchmaking? Elo or something?
Fairly sure it doesn't, since I've seen some retardedly one sided games where some of the players are clearly much much better than anyone else in the match.
It does. It just doesn't seem like it for about fifty games, and Valve has said that it's not even perfectly accurate until you're around 130 games in. Coincidentally, that is when the average player hits level 13 and unlocks Ranked matchmaking. This is mostly due to MMR (match making rating) uncertainty being very high when a player has few games. If someone creates a new account and obliterates their first 1-3 games, chances are they'll be thrown into the high end until they start losing and it'll put them right back where they belong. It's very good at getting people to
roughly the right place within about 10 games. But until you're 150 games in, you'll occasionally get that smurfing asshole who's just passing through on his way to games he belongs in.
Aside: I, for one, am glad Google won't be absorbing Twitch into the YouTube/G+ monstrosity.
I am on a winning trend as of late, and it's feeling pretty good. (This is my second Steam account, which I occasionally switch to. Started out as the account I used to play when Valve accidentally VAC banned me for a week, now I just use it whenever something goes wrong with my main account or I'm feeling bored and want to use a silly name. (I rarely change the other from Tyrannosaurus X.) Recently, my microphone has only been working on that account. On my main account, it plays back in-game noises when I press push-to-talk. Same settings on both accounts, pretty weird.
Anyhow, this winning trend really set off about a week ago when two of my internet buddies and I got into
this match. I only realized at the end of the game that the person in our game named Anuxi was, in fact, Anuxi. (Checked her steam profile link; workshop was linked and everything.) Curious, since the other team was a five stack, I checked dotabuff to find that we had actually just beaten Zephyr.Blitz and company. I have seen many good pudges, but I have only very rarely seen someone play Pudge quite like that guy can. I've had a lot of experience dodging hooks, positioning myself where I'm SURE I can't get hooked, and so forth. Blitz managed to take me out of every teamfight anyway. He had 30-something Flesh Heaps stacks by the end, and we could practically only kill him with the rest of his team dead. Our Brewmaster had a great head for knowing when we could push, and Sven went ham when it counted. It felt like our entire team was playing as well as possible that game, and it was truly a satisfying win once we found out what we'd done. (Though admittedly I could have tried harder to die less than 13 times, but holy hell I got focused in teamfights.)
This last week I've been tread swapping for maximum efficiency, I've been riding the edge of death to get kills where I don't think I would have before, my positioning has been better, my rotations seem to always work out, I haven't been missing as much cs when I'm farming a lane... I dunno. I feel like I just leveled up at dota. One of these days I want to seriously grind up the MMR on my ranked account to qualify for the NEL or something. I've really been enjoying playing dota these last few weeks. Almost everyone in each match knows their stuff, though some are still jackasses, people work as a team, and I haven't been getting curbstomped every third game. It only took me 2500 matches to get here.
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