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Omni's buff is going to be pretty good in lane (radius for heal>damage is going to be fixed to max distance) but newer players tend to poorly time his ult as it doesn't defend against magic and well yeah, Lion still gonna finger you :( I'll add you tonight, I'm a bit busy with black ops 2 still but i should be around for some games over xmas.
 
Dont forget about the BR BR BR invasion. Brazillians can be as bad if not worse than Russians... although there are less of them I find.

Huehuehue, still nightmares from my HoN days.

Should seriously just ban Cyrillic from being typed on EU west servers or any server that isn't eastern europe.
 
new mode is fun/dumb

Went 12:1 in it last night by going Sven/Ursa/StormSpirit/Disruptor/<anything>. The only key thing is the timing of switching forms, i have a ridiculous grevil (PA blink, Pugna decrepify, Earthshaker echo slam) and my friends have ones with omni heal/blink so we usually just blink in, ult/heal, form change, Sven + Ursa death machine while under disruptor storm. Oh god, the moaning, the moaning.

There was also an awesome bug where juggs ult was oneshotting creeps (correct behaviour in stantard dota) including the things you're supposed to group kill but they fixed that within 2 hours.
 
Went 12:1 in it last night by going Sven/Ursa/StormSpirit/Disruptor/<anything>. The only key thing is the timing of switching forms, i have a ridiculous grevil (PA blink, Pugna decrepify, Earthshaker echo slam) and my friends have ones with omni heal/blink so we usually just blink in, ult/heal, form change, Sven + Ursa death machine while under disruptor storm. Oh god, the moaning, the moaning.

There was also an awesome bug where juggs ult was oneshotting creeps (correct behaviour in stantard dota) including the things you're supposed to group kill but they fixed that within 2 hours.

I dont even understand the xmas mode. In normal form i get derped by greevils, in greevil form i get derped.
 
Alright, here's a more compehsive version.

Goal - Get the FINAL hit on the big jungle camps which have a red minimap icon. Note - it is not always the big grevil, but the last one alive. So - you're level one, you opened your stocking and you found a set of boots. These boots will either be one of the standard 6 pairs or iceskates (100MS with better traction on the ice-rink that is now the river - only applies in human form).

you have 2 forms - grevil form with 2/3 spells and passives, no mana - but your spells run off cooldowns and standard char form. Grevil form has higher stats than human form - BE AWARE OF THIS, IT WILL SAVE YOU. Some heroes will need to make the most of this (mostly disablers). you have 2 health bars - human form and grevil form and morphing with the pipe takes 2 seconds and switches between them - this will save you, often.

So for example, we are 1 minute into the game and I'm Sven (because lets face it - Level 1 AoE stun rips people). I stay in human form until the inevitable first fight starts, land a stun then BAM - i start on my pipe and transfer to grevil form and start killing people.

OK - so we had the inevitable level 1 fight and now it's pittering out and it's onto the camps. These camps are TOUGH - do not solo them. you will probably fight over them with the enemy but remember - last hit is all that matters so dont wory if they get there first. lets pretend each team gets a camp each and you fight over the last camp, another fight breaks out, you use your transformation to save you and switch HP all the time and you notice the gift when you finally kill the camp. Getting a gift gives one random item to a person on each team. These items can be truely crap or truely amazing. Note - rapier can be an item here.

Once you've done 2/3 rotations there is a big pause - either fight or dodge, your choice. First to 11 big camps wins, you're done.

Other info -
Grevil camps have truesight. Picking riki and you'll have a bad time.
Do not pick anything squishy, I virtually guarantee you'll lose as you have no source of items and you need to survive while you transform often. If you don't pick tanky, pick disable and mobile. People vs us last night picked some really bad stuff that was mostly agi, we rolled them.
We often just sacrificed camps, you only need to win 2 out of 3 of them a few times, no point in going for a greedy all 3 unless you're experienced and can deal with respawns.
Pudge can hook creeps and steal them at low HP. Body block the hook, respawn timers are low.
Don't use the white default "I have no grevil", its awful. get an egg and fill it with cheap essence (i sell it on the market for 10p each when i have too much - you only need 9).
You can level 1 rosh with any 5 using grevil form. Use blinkbone on grevilform to get in from the dire wide without giving vision. Everyone knew this trick by the end of the night at our difficulty (highest) so just be careful without vision (as i had blink > echoslam, we did some horrible things to people who tried this on us).

If you want to see some example games from me you can see my games on dotabuff.com under Myshra. You'll have to excuse some of the smack talk though, my team like to rile people.
 
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I have just started playing this and am having a good time so far. I have now played quite a few coop matches against the bots and it seems to be going well in most cases. If anyone else that is just starting out wants a game some time then feel free to add me.
 
Am down for some more matches, sorry I missed your invite yesterday Sad - was in a bit of a cod fest.

Am getting back into Sandking/Omni again these last few days, I feel like they punish players extremely easily for small mistakes and both heroes can support extremely well into longer games vs some who pitter out a bit earlier. Thanks to randoming we made an Omni / Naga siren lane vs double ranged. For the first 3 levels we got slapped around like nothing else but after that we started killing anyone who dared turn up to the lane with Net > Heal + Riptide. I don't think anything other than a double stun combo could beat this, it was incredible. Makes me think back to the old days of Lina/SK and the like.
 
Is there an appeal system for penalty? I got a 24h penalty but I only disconnected from "safe to disconnect games" and didn't say anything mean in chat. I didn't do anything wrong and still got 24hour "ban"
 
Is there an appeal system for penalty? I got a 24h penalty but I only disconnected from "safe to disconnect games" and didn't say anything mean in chat. I didn't do anything wrong and still got 24hour "ban"

Might as well just ride it out its only 24 hour, I've had the same before you can still play its just with other people similar to you who have left a game recently.
 
Might as well just ride it out its only 24 hour, I've had the same before you can still play its just with other people similar to you who have left a game recently.

aww okay, thanks for the tip.

On the sidenote, game is quite fun, I never quite licked dota in WC3 but there are so many heroes in dota2 and it's quite polished, nice game.
 
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