another excellent game

[Joey[kins]]

i'd like to thank everyone for the 2h epic last night, although i'm emotionally exhausted from it now!

i'm also very surprised and relieved that my "we've lost this" instinct was wrong, despite my dying 18 times as rhasta (the crystal maiden/tinker combo was particularly harsh, especially after the random b.net support in my lane was a DIRTY LEAVER)

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was a great game, really good fun

[afty]

Crystal Maiden/Tinker was indeed incredibly harsh, but the Tinkers usual late game shartness frustrated me no end.

Never underestimate the POWAH of the troll (and Clinkz' backdooring).

[Joey[kins]]

i've always found that tinker gets even more harsh late game once you buy a dagon, a refresher orb and a skadi...

[afty]

Skadi would have helped, but getting that kind of money with Clinkz/Troll around will never happen.


His low speed, low agil and low HP are a bane, and despite a reasonable amount of early cash from killing Rhasta and Nevermore, it took forever to get to Dagon because of the deaths.

The fact his Laser, Missile and the Dagon are all "number" based damage doesn't help... at most you can do about 1100 damage from them which is laughable when you're facing down someone with 2.5k hitpoints, 23% lifesteal and 200+ damage per attack several times per second. Oh and bash :)

So yeah, the Tinker can be a PITA to face, but he's easily bullied and very hard to keep alive.

[C4Ninja_Pig]

Yup it was gg, the 2 games we pld was very nice. I luvd my rhasta :D

[C4Ninja_Pig]

damn that tinker was annoying ,;) damn artillararay form the back

[afty]

Ay, I was loving that game until we had the backdooring.

The game was so even, and the heros so maxed out that we reached a stage I've never seen in a DOTA game before - our entire team would assemble JUST on our side of the river and wait... and wait...

Like an army.... we slapped wards around the place so we knew who was coming, and I could sit at the back, and soon as we started seeing heroes I would spaff my mana away on rockets every couple of seconds... Amazing fun if a bit ineffective once ppl gained health faster than I could dish it out :)

[Joey[kins]]

I was particularly enjoying rhasta with guinsoo's scythe of vyse - i may have been the only char on my team with any disablers but i could stop 3 of you in your tracks!

sheep, voodoo, shackles = 0 kills, 3 assists