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iamthelordhitman · **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:30 am

i just watch them in game. easier and can pause it if i want

misterme yea thats the point. although sumail plays like what, 4-5 heroes to fears 500000000000 to the infinite power?

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

To be fair the old man has bodaciously a decade of experience on him. I'm not sure I even want to see what kind of monster SumaiL will become in a few years.

iamthelordhitman · **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:19 pm

hes gonna be fear 2.0 if he can just curtail his youthful leroy jenkins side

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

TI5 Grand Final draft analysis by the mastermind himself.

Soapbar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 pm **Posts:** 488

So I'm about to get back into to Dota 2 (it's installing right now) and I'm wondering if Refresher Orb + Manta Style on Chaos Knight would be decent (I've been looking around on the wiki a bit). By my calcs that equals up to 12 Illusions which means 13 Chaos Knights running around

Edit: why did i say "by my calcs when it's basic addition lol.

Also that is factoring in me not getting an Illusion Rune before I pop it off

Misterme7 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:34 am

Aui has been kicked from EG. Defcon 2, war is imminent.

Apparently Fear is going back to the 4 role and they're bring back Arteezy again.

Maybe Aui will join another team and they'll win TI and then he'll be kicked again and the cycle will repeat itself.

BoompigXD The Ork wrote:

So I'm about to get back into to Dota 2 (it's installing right now) and I'm wondering if Refresher Orb + Manta Style on Chaos Knight would be decent (I've been looking around on the wiki a bit). By my calcs that equals up to 12 Illusions which means 13 Chaos Knights running around

Edit: why did i say "by my calcs when it's basic addition lol.

Also that is factoring in me not getting an Illusion Rune before I pop it off

Manta Style is great on Chaos Knight. Refresher not so much. Having more illusions and ones when you ult is on cooldown is good. If you can farm fast, get it. Chaos Knight is a very slow farmer though, so the Refresher pickup is really more of a super late game pickup that you keep on a courier or something so you can have two ults up. The stats don't synergize well enough for it to be a second big item. I don't play too much CK, but Heart is the optimal damage item for him because his illusions get 100% base damage and the +40 strength per adds a lot of base damage. Where this fits in the build exactly I'm not sure.

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Man, that sucks for Aui. His naga and techies is what won them TI by forcing CDEC to ban them. I guess they absolutely wanted RTZ back though, and he was the newest addition to the team. Also, C9 disbanded. Interesting times.

BoompigXD The Ork wrote:

So I'm about to get back into to Dota 2 (it's installing right now) and I'm wondering if Refresher Orb + Manta Style on Chaos Knight would be decent (I've been looking around on the wiki a bit). By my calcs that equals up to 12 Illusions which means 13 Chaos Knights running around

Edit: why did i say "by my calcs when it's basic addition lol.

Also that is factoring in me not getting an Illusion Rune before I pop it off

Manta is pretty much core, but I don't think refresher is worth it early on because it doesn't make your illusions any stronger. CK is already a very farm dependent hero who can't farm fast. You can use it as a 7th item by keeping it on a nearby courier though.

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t Heart is the optimal damage item for him because his illusions get 100% base damage and the +40 strength per adds a lot of base damage.

Eh, I usually prefer Satanic and/or Skadi over Heart. Your first item should usually be armlet, it's just so cost effective. If you're behind, halberd can work miracles. Or later on, if no one else on your team has evasion, butterfly is also daisies strong. Don't forget BKB if the enemy has something like an ES or Warlock.

Edit: Buy a second courier to do the refresher thing else your team will hate you.

Soapbar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 pm **Posts:** 488

OK, is everyone off playing the Reborn beta because it was taking forever to get a game on Dota 2 Vanilla.

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Probably. Reborn gives bonus compendium levels and coins.

Misterme7 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:39 am

Late game damage. Was just something that popped in. You're right though, Armlet is completely core. Make sure to turn it on before popping ult so they have it on too.

Soapbar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 pm **Posts:** 488

OK apparently casting Manta or CK's ult resets the illusions instead of casting more.

That makes me sad, I wanted to charge enemy rax with 11 CK's in tow.

iamthelordhitman · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:51 am

get bottle and find an illusion rune, pop manta, pop ult

you have 8 illusions if you are lucky with the +1 ult. any person you chaos reality will be completely body blocked and most likely murdered

also aui 2000 getting kicked is like...wow. the nerf now guy said it best i think

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I really wanted to talk about Aui_2000 being kicked from Ti5 champion EG, but I juuuust started this little arc and really don't want to break the flow so here is a double update.

If a team want to shuffle, now is the time. There is a good pool of players wanting to change home after subpar performance in the championship and after some months you can't swap players without losing your spot in the majors so the time for change is now.

Is kicking Aui_2000 the best course of action? Well, there is this popular saying which says "you don't change a winning team" however, EG current captain, Fear, is going to suffer a surgery on his arm and is stepping down the captain role to play support, thus opening a spot on the carry slot.

Now, EG has 3 options.

Keep the current team and shuffle players around in different positions.

Kick Fear.

Kick Aui and pick a new player to fill Fear spot, which is what they did.

EG manager said this was the players decision on "what was best for the team" but I disagree. This was the majority of the players wanted but I hardly believe EG will end up stronger with this new lineup.

Let me just say both Arteezy and Sumail are very much Dota players, with all the babyrage, mad and salt the title deserves. I expect lots of juicy drama about this new lineup on the coming months.

But hey, I may be wrong and the team end up being the most succesful dota team ever made, but I won't be betting my rares on it.

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

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EG current captain, Fear,

Uh, I thought ppd has been the captain for a while now. I don't think Fear's surgery is the main reason Aui was kicked, I think it was mostly because RTZ wanted back in. I agree this wasn't a wise decision though, I think this TI proved that team synergy is more important than individual skill.

Also wow, there is a lot of drama happening now with rtz accusing kuroky of being the problem in Secret.

iamthelordhitman · **Posted:** Sun Aug 16, 2015 12:52 pm

Come for the dota. Stay for the drama

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