What u told him is the true thing low ppl think running from battles and fights is weak thing to do thus rat i guess that guy was low ?
rat dota is when a teamfight starts that is 4 v 5, and whenit finishes enemy team realizez that there tower and 2 rax is gone
Rat means = i go for towers and rax and i dont care about how many deaths i will get
Lycan 3lvl necro yoloing with ulty
fura also with necro 3 ( or without ) is a annoying rat due to 20sec teleport cd..
Terrorblade can take up t3 and 2 rax if he dont participate in a teamfight
also rats are heroes that can push and have a good escape mechanism like Antimage ( i hate that bitch )
rat is for the weak :D
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/958322913
this is rat doto :D
basically, your team still wins the game even you arent winning all teamfights
rat doto = team who kills ancient first
^btw ur lycan was just like i was thinking above!
yolo towers/rax no matter deaths:D
rats are no weak, you can finish easily baldur's gate in rat form ^^
But yeah, they are for the weak, armor of faith + rat form = 120% damage reduction xD
@matrice
ahaha im happy when i win ratting and im sad when i lose to rats xDD
Rat dota is to avoid fights and focuse making trades instead of taking fights; Make enemy rotate inefficiently around the map
Common heroes for rat dots:
-Naga Siren
-Nature´s Prophet
-Terrorblade
Heroes that are unusual, but are decent cause of their kit:
-Centaur
-Ember
scchoolltimeboys
@FyyQ
It can be worse! Win every team fight for first 30 minutes, have all lanes pushed permanently and still lose the game: http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/977152486
We took our first tower at min 30, lol.
^ well i forgot about master cancerino lancer :D
look at this graph xD u were losing all game:D
dat comebacks lel
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/976198000
Rat doto in a fucking nutshell. My ass just napalmed after that match.
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/951230382
bananas
By the way, after that game, list of people who hate me has been increased by nine names.
People disassociate ratdota with objective gaming. Why waste time, risk dying, and giving away gold to the enemy if you can dodge fights and push. I have seen teams go 5 man push early and get called "GG rats" which is totally stupid.
Objective gaming: Team fight breaks out and you push their base solo.
Ratting: Single focus on split push and pressuring lanes, and back dooring towers that you're able.
I guess where the term comes from is the way rats appear somewhere and then scurry away and appear somewhere else but I honestly think that people are labeling this stuff wrong and there is nothing wrong with being objective focused.
Yeah but they aren't mutually exclusive. If you are a rat then you will be pushing their base solo when a team fight breaks out. So a rat does incorporate your objective gaming concept. Though obviously you could be any hero and avoid one particular fight to trade a rax or something.
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I can't remember the exact match but we were fighting like a slark or something and every time we killed him a guy on my team would taunt in all chat, get that rat doto out of here! And when we won taunted with rat doto best doto lol.
I told him that rat doto is avoiding fights to push lanes and take towers only and he said no, a rat is any hero who runs away after a fight. I explained to him that's not right, that slark is a ganker not a rat, rats avoid fights altogether.
So now I'm just confused and making sure I understand my dota lingo correctly.