General DiscussionLinken sphere

It's best when the enemy has neither too many nor too few single-target spells, and when those spells are important. Maybe it's weak this patch though.

bkb is usually better and has better build up, I only get it if there's a beastmaster, or someone like a storm spirit with a hex in late-game.

i usually get it if I anticipate instant disables and need the extra second to be able to get out/ pop my bkb. I almost always go bkb first and will get linkens later as hexes are coming out/ nullifier

psa, don't get linkens if there is an enemy zeus, waste of gold

for split pushing when you don't want to waste waste bkb charges. or when most of the spells it will block are useful i.e. disables.

most of the time bkb probably is better but if you and your team can't take fights even with a bkb, being able to push out lanes more safely can help you delay the game until you do reach a point where you can.

usually bkb/manta/euls are alternatives, just try to figure out if they are better or not in your specific situation.
bkb - blocks more spells in teamfights
manta - can remove multiple debuffs at once, remove non-targettable debuffs, better dps
euls - also removes multiple debuffs, cheaper, also can be used as catch
sange/satanic - status resist works on almost all debuffs, more HP
et cetera

it really depends on the game. you can give examples of games where you were thinking whether or not to get linkens, or whether your choice of linkens in a game (and its timing) was good or not.

really depends on the line up. Bkb is great and all but if you are disable first you will never be able to activate bkb. With linkens just the pop sound is usually enough for you to react and get out of the gank.

Now that nullifier doesn't mute target anymore, carry will opt for hex more and linken sphere become meta again pog

Depends on the game, if you are a squishy int core like a QOP or Puck and the enemy has a Legion that just went 5-0 in hes lane. You can expect hes going to be blink duelling you all game. Or if you are natures prophet and they have a spirit breaker. These are just simple examples, every game is very situational for any item. Sometimes Linkens might seem good against a specific hero but render you useless in fights because you should have got BKB/euls/force or a different survival item.

With time you'll be able to analyze the current pace of a match and in seconds be able to analyze how much value you can get out of an item.

You are asking whether blonds or brunettes are better. It depends as with everything in dota.

No i am not, i am asking when brunettes are good in dota

if you had normal human being functioning brain instead of 2 thousand IQ one you could figure it out yourself buddy after 5k hours playing this game. its not that hard :)

Its not like i dont have my own opinion im rather fond of taking other peoples advice to widen my thoughts.
If u had eq above 0 u would somehow understand that u cant figure everything out yourself and asking of other peoples opinion on a complex problem can help alot.

linkens worst item in game probably worse than holy locket lol

owwwww, complex problem??????? you cant figure out yourself when to buy linken and when not? thats weird!!! i thought you are dota god when you were flaming teammates in this forum. how your 2 thousand IQ brain can handle this paradoxes ??? hmm i guess 99 percent of its capacity used for 2 numbers multiplication right now. go use calculator instead and u might end up being normal at least, genius!

btw the whole thing u said is already answered

its not that hard :)

When you're too vulnerable and need to keep the flow of the game

да не кукая ленка саберай радек броток топ айтем жжош врогов и ламага наносеца патом хоть можна павыпендреваца перид друзяшкоми

Uhh yeah its a complex matter, no right or wrong answer. If u had the absolute right answer of when a item should be made u wouldnt be adoring the admiral bulldog probably be advicing for a top tier team instead.
But since u have all the answers to every question the reason why u aint top tier player would probably be because u too not getting the best players on team right ;)

What is it with people outside scandinavia just have to spam ??? And !!!! Btw

there is no absolute right in this fucking world u dumbass. i thought you are educated, u claimed to be , didnt you?
the whole physics follow a simple rule, F = ma. is that absolute right? no but its good enough to move your fat ass around the world with low chance of putting your meaningless life in danger.

this game is not math or logic. you are competing with humans, you are not solving puzzles. there is no absolute right when you dealing with stochastic environment.

all of these aside nice to see your trash reasoning; bulldog? right answer? apple? orange?
i know all the answers cause i knew one? team? top tier? brain? retard?

an "i dont know starting mmr guy" who played 4k ranked games and reached 2k mmr calling
a 2k mmr one who played 2.4k ranked games and reached 5k mmr, you are not top tier player and you wont be. how retarded is that?
its like a guy who standing on mountain ridge calling ppl who are close to peak loser or they never reach, meanwhile himself will die from heart attack if go one more step up!

What is it with people outside scandinavia just have to spam ??? And !!!! Btw

If your kid is hanging with bad people from the hood and the police station calls you because he put someone in coma, you think telling him "What you did is bad !!!! bad kid !!! you won't have desert for dinner" would have some kind of impact compared to a real punishment ?

at least that mess quit spamming ???? and !!!! well for now

hahahaha
cant argue back but cant shut the fuck up either. typical behavior of miserable manchild
i think i do you a favor and leave you alone in your retarded life. there is no reason arguing with confirmed retards.

Im up at 2,9 now yo 5 out of 5 @ 7,25 :D

The fact Kowareta has not been banned from this page pretty much sums up DOTA. Someone with no life who literally goes to every thread and demeans the OP with or without reason and pretentiously presumes that he is somehow superior to them.... I’ve never seen a tournament game with Kowareta in it... which means he’s just as “brain dead 0 IQ” as everyone else here. Of course the presumption is that somehow the ability to play a teenagers video game has correlation to IQ to begin with. Interesting that right below where you write post it talks about DOTA buff code of conduct which is clearly not enforced.

i buy linkens sometimes on windranger with a lotus orb then u get level 25 cooldown reduction and basically no one will ever use a target speel again on u

wow angry crusader coming in, run!!!

I’ve never seen a tournament game with Kowareta in it... which means he’s just as “brain dead 0 IQ” as everyone else here.

fuck off Juliet

it's easy to see that your trying to grind behavior score on turbo atm, u too know its much harder to climb in low behavior score pool, where i have always remained until just recently.
You have 2k games hidden from dotabuff for some reason i dont know why?

dont bother your brain too much, you are hurting it.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/858685788/scenarios
:)

Then how come its not showing on top of your profile, why doesnt the wins and losses go up to those 5k?
You talk alot about others how bad it is being this mmr after this many games while ur were still in the normal skill bracket after 2k matches yourself

cause ur the retardest person alive who cant understnad dotabuff just shows SIGNIFICANT matches and not counting 1.7k turbo games, cause its so fuckign retarded (if u had any brain to realize that tho)

oh yeah? i have 2k games on normal skill?? buddy, its not my fault when i queue turbo i play with crusaders and ppl i used to party with where all normal skill players. if u use "ranked matchmaking" filter you might get better quality data :)

No check your games after about 2k games
Thats given this is ur first account aswell which i doubt who begins with invoker and wins in avout their first games? I suppose u didnt toggle on expose public info from start either too but as u can see ur stuck in normal skill bracket after 2k games

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/858685788/matches?enhance=overview&page=76

dude are u mentally ill? just filter the fucking data with "ranked" option and u will see how many games i played on normal skill. my data quality is A , so if u use "solo" option u will get valid results for it .
that link proves nothing. OH MY GOD. dude my majority of turbo games happened when i was normal skill. you can see it yourself in the page u mentioning most games are turbos and not ranked/normal!!!! i used to party with ppl and spam turbos and i thought behavior score is very important back then cause ppl used to say that to me.

i never claimed its my first account :/ my first account is on my friend list :/

I suppose u didnt toggle on expose public

P.S. im just put my #matches on my profile despite im turning expose off/on to find smart persons like you. congratz your application to NASA approved.

Then it sounds to me like you played before hitting off your current acc. You are still more likely to hit off a higher skill bracket aswell because u have a hidden non ranked mmr.

what are u even talking about are u drunk or sth?

As you cab se when u queue your turbo games ur mainly nowadays on higher skill brackets because ur acc is set on higher mmr. If u look back then after around 2k games ur mainly only on the normal skill bracket. This is because ur level after about 2k games is still normal skilled.
The reason why i have very few turbo games is because there was no turbo game at the point when i started to play dota.
It seems to me that u think that u are the only one not trying to grind mmr initially on dota.
And im pretty positive u played at least another moba or had an othe account before hitting your current

hidden mmr is not a thing after u calibrated your account already. playing turbos wont change your hidden mmr you dumbass.
https://www.dotabuff.com/players/858685788/scenarios?lobby_type=ranked_matchmaking&metric=all
it took me 790 games to reach high skill from 2.1k mmr. thats all. now go play with my profile page and numbers to find sth fooling your self. fucking disgusting manchild.

from the first day i played dota i wanted to raise mmr cause playing with noobs is not enjoyable. thats my only reason why i want to win nowadays too. i dont enjoy playing with ppl lower skilled than myself. as i said i only spammed turbo to raise behavior score cause ppl said that matters.

i had only 5 months experience with ww3 dota map before i install dota2. first two month i even didnt know there is a hidden shop in map and i thought items drop randomly in shops so u cant buy some of them sometimes =)), in the last 2 months my friend after saw im using inventory items with mouse like a retard gave me Garena hotkey tool so i bind hotkeys to my inventory items!!! yeah obviously i had 10 years experience in moba

this is just embarrassing buddy. your sub 50% winrate on archon, your play time and 2k mmr, your stupid blaming teammate behavior while u cant even reach 200 gpm on higher mmr games and u are below 50% winrate player; nothing can change them, even if i played 20 years starcraft before, they are still there buddy. if you are bad its ok. nobody expect everybody be good at everything. but stop fucking blame others and deny that. your delusional and denial behavior is DISGUSTING!

Not aware of the secret shop yet buying etheral blade on morphling second day of playing. https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3760354367

I just started climbing again im back on a computrr with sound actually. Hoping im back at legend in two weeks and aiming for ancient this time

Did u mean u got high skill bracket after 790 RANKED games as if normal games arent pratice aswell?

im talking about ww3 u dumb mongolian retard. jesus fucking christ what a miserable manchild you are.
and its not even second day of playing cause i told u about my first account already u fuckign dumbass
>> but but but i can add 1235 and 2346 in my head mom, i must be smart , right?

jesus how can ppl even bare you? a fucking stupidest person alive who think he is smartass. oh w8 ppl PICKING their friends, they must be as dumb as you are !

Turboa wont change hidden mmr? Ive seen vhs accounts playing only turbos

How many game do u have on your other accounts?

Turboa wont change hidden mmr? Ive seen vhs accounts playing only turbos

hidden mmr is not a thing after u calibrated your account already.

How many game do u have on your other accounts?

So let me get this straight u played 1k games on first acc then about 2,5k games including those 800 ranked games to hit the high skill bracket? Hitting the high skill bracket in about 3,5k games?

Did u mean u got high skill bracket after 790 RANKED games as if normal games arent pratice aswell?

So what ur basically doing is talking down people who almost only played ranked and not turbo saying they are useless arter x games when u got to hs after 3,5k games.
So if someone played 5k games unranked finally starting ranked calibrated hs hes progressing better than you because he have so few ranked games?

talking down to ppl =)))
do i need to do that when im talking to you, fucking scrub?? you are the lowest of the low. you try so fucking hard to sum up numbers to reach your desire number meanwhile if anybody just hit your fucking profile link can laugh and move on buddy =)))

buddy i dont care about stupid numbers you talking about. im not talking down to everybody have a X number of games and Y mmr. there are special mentally challenged cases like you who come here stort blaming team, talking nonsense and spread their disease; i use that playtime and winrate and mmr to show them how stupid they are.

and for your concerns, i am following 1 mmr per hour rule like every other normal player. if i sum up my ww3 play time and my first accounts before this i almost played 2k hours and i calibrated 2.1k on this account. after 2.5k games consisting 900 normal and 1.6k turbos (1.6k * 20 + 900 * 40) /60 ~= 1.1k hours i reached HS, 3.3k mmr after the 2.5k rest which most of them are ranked this time i got 3k * 40/60 ~= 2k mmr and now im 5.3k .

simple as that :) i cant believe all the fucking math is correct and i dont need make them up to support my stupid ideas :))