Atit is Back!



Studies, often the reason of retirement from Dota Scene, is all done.  And now, he's back!

Team ITSME was first lead by the most fun to watch Itsme player of all time, Francis Laurence 'itsme.titi' King.  Along with his great knowledge of the game and his unique skills in strategy games, he turned the team from an ordinary team to a feared and respected team.  Along with his aggressive strategic plans, he lead itsme to several victories against the feared kulet and xtract duo back then.  Koyz, who thought Naga was a farmland, met his maker when he came back here and atit was the reigning leader. Turtling is not an option with this hungry assassin.

After a long absence from Dota Scene, you can hear someone shouting, laughing and taking his clothes off after pawning opponents again.  Things people miss about titi, not to mention his aggressive play style that doesn't result to suicide, make him the most entertaining itsme of all time!

Now, itsme is looking forward to defeat top teams and avenge team LG against ROG.

Welcome Back itsme.titi!

itsme.Pro rosters:

itsme.kwKy - leader

itsme.xEt
itsme.DESO
itsme.watams
itsme.titi

~xO changes to iGk

After using ~xO tag for itsme.XO we are changing it to iGk(itsme.GameKings).  The main reason is the new rule of Garena - 'in creating new garena usernames only dot(.) and underscore( _) are allowed'.  We wouldn't want our new members to have different tag from us and the easiest way is for us all to change our tags.




itsme.GameKings


iGk Rosters:


Seth 'iGk.KingEx' Dialino - Leader
John 'iGk.RyUkEn' Agor
Kulaz 'iGk.kyin' Aguirre
Jake 'iGk.Papabur' Aro
Chill 'iGk.Chell' Bandales
Jeffrey 'iGk.JayFox' Bicaldo
Francis 'iGk.GotChoo' Largo
Jack 'iGk.Jakku' Rodriguez

38 Types of DotA Players

This is an article written by a funny and critical observer at dota-allstars.com. It shows some funny truths about most DotA players. Some qualities stated here are inspirational and most negative traits will make you aware not to be one. Enjoy reading and reflecting. ROFL


Here are the 38 Types of DotA Players

I. The Chinese Gold Farmer

First of all, this guy probably got into DotA from playing World of Warcraft and failing grades at school in order to play World of Warcraft. You will notice that whatever is happening whether your entire team is getting wiped out or your base is under attack, this guy will always do one thing.

Yep, that's farm up super-dooper-drop-your-pants-zomg-bbq items! Someone should tell him the game only lasts around 1 hour and after that everything he earns will be gone. Oh well I guess there's some sort of pleasure in amassing virtual goodies that don't exist in the real world. (PS. if you think I'm racist I'm Chinese myself.)
Strategy: Gank him. That's it. He'll be too busy pushing forward in the lane and won't be thinking about battles or ganks.

Preferred Heroes: Alchemist, Doom

II. The Wannabe Hero

Whether it be taking all the leavers items, farming up until late game and getting Beyond Godlike all of a sudden, or posting hundreds of replays on Dota-Allstars.com as hans2; this guy will go out of his way to get the phatest of lewt, highest amount of XP etc. He will probably not help you in a gank unless he's 100% sure he'll get a kill and make himself look good. Wait til late game and let him carry the team.

These guys could be a blessing come the 50th minute mark. Or if not then they're as useful to the team as 3 Lothar's Edge's on a Stealth Assassin.

Hey, what can I say? You play to win, you play to look good infront of everyone.

Strategy: Deny and harass until he gets pissed off and ragequits. If he stays then applaud the other players on his team and he'll also get pissed off.

Preferred Heroes: Clinkz, Clinkz, Clinkz, Naix

III. The Rambo

Ever seen guys who will rush into a fray of 5 enemy heroes and die and then start spamming words to the effect of "ZOMG NOOBS YOU DIDN'T HELP ME!!!! (Rambo has left the game). These guys have a seriously difficult time figuring out when a gank is coming, what minimap pings mean, why 5v1 is not odds to be proud of etc. My advice to these guys: "Stay the hell away from casinos." Often they're colorblind (I kid you not I got a friend on Bnet who is colorblind and gets confused when he sees the minimap) or they're still between being a noob and being an average player.

Strategy: Let him feed!

Preferred Heroes: Centaur, Bristleback

IV. The Newbie

A newb and a noob are too different things. A newb is a new player who will contribute to the team and follow orders and generally ask question which will make him a better player. A noob is someone who has played for over a year and still get owned by everyone and spams in chat and ragequits after dying. Newbies should be treated with care and caressed... Maybe not caressed but you should all help these people out and give them pointers.

Strategy: Tell him that to win the game all you have to do is reach the enemy fountain. (I ain't joking, it's actually worked for me once. Yes, I am slightly sadistic.)

Preferred Heroes: Stealth Assassin, Sniper

V. The Silent Veteran

These are the ones to watch out for. During pre-game chat they'll say very little. After getting a triple kill they'll say nothing. Even after getting Beyond Godlike they still won't gloat or show off the fact. Why don't they speak much? Because they're so good that they're used to owning and also they're too jaded to speak to random people off the internet.

Strategy: Either run or gank.

Preferred Heroes: Any

VI. The Leader

Usually a player will start pinging ganks and typing "b" or "push" into team chat. These people are the leaders and generally have a good strategic look on things. Leaders are vital to victory during a game.

Either that or they're power tripping. You be the judge.

Strategy: If you find out who's calling the shots on the enemy team, gank him while a lone hero on your team does a blind push and then retreats. He'll be too busy typing and signalling for everyone to gank that he'll be vulnerable for about 5 seconds. And if you actually believe this piece of advice then I recommend also getting Agannim's Sceptre on Naix.

Preferred Heroes: Techies

VII. The Quitter

These people are defeatist in nature. Your team may lose all its outer towers and one inner tower and these guys will be the first to say: "GG." They'll also be the first to quit after an entire lane full of rax has been owned. These people have lost the fight before it's even started so the best thing to do is to run back to fountain once they've just been owned and ragequitted. That way you can call first dibs on their nice items biggrin.gif

Strategy: Gank him a few times and it'll be 4v5.

Preferred Heroes: Any

VIII. The Never-Say-Die

Gotta love these guys. The exact opposite of the Quitter, these people will stay til the very bitter end and will often be seen defending the lone Throne all by himself against 5 enemy heroes. Give these people a compliment since they're a dying species. Heck give em a war medal since they probably fought in the trenches of World War 2 in a previous life.

Strategy: Poor lad. Go easy on him unless he's owning your entire team using the leavers items.

Preferred Heroes: Any

IX. The 12-Year Old

"ROFL PWNED LMAO!" Yep, these kids have just hit puberty and have raging hormones. They should probably be venting this rage on Counter-Strike but here they are on Dota. During pre-game chat they'll be saying all the stupid goofy stuff. The good thing about kids is they're easy to own due to their slower brains and bad judgement.

Strategy: Do what I do in real life. Ignore little kids. There are more productive ways to spend your time.

Preferred Heroes: Any

X. The Elitist

In every community, and the Dota community too, there will be elitists. These people look down on anyone slightly worse then them at Dota. They'll gaze at newbies with undisguised contempt and horde their knowledge from others like it's all they have. Elitists are everywhere and there's little you can do about them except get into name-calling competitions.

Strategy: Since elitists are a curse upon their own team, perhaps you should be encouraging him to further discourage his own team mates.

Preferred Heroes: Any

XI. The Coward

See trouble. Run to fountain.

These guys are as useful to your team as a chair is to a whale.

Need I say more?

Strategy: Gank them from behind. This confuses them as the fountain is also in the direction of danger for them.

Preferred Heroes: Stealth Assassin, Sniper, Clinkz

XII. The Casual Player


In the pre-game chat these people will be like: "Hi, how are you guys?" and usually be ignored. In real life they are a father of three and has just gotten home from his day job to play Dota. What do you do about these guys? Well give them pointers so they don't get killed too often.

Strategy: If you are pro then simply kill them be also tell them why they died and what they did wrong so they can improve and get deeper into the game.

Preferred Heroes: Sniper

XIII. The Mathemetician

Asian Dota players are renowned for their maths skills and will often rush their first item known as the Abacus of Doom which gives +100 to intelligence. But since this doesn't exist in game they'll use their maths skills to own everyone. Before battles they'll calculate how much mana they need to do how much dmg over how much time. They'll consult their Orb stacking charts and crit probability statistics etc. and have a tiny shriek of joy for beating their personal best -cs.

My advice is stick near these guys as they seldom screw up. Unless they get ganked that is... or unless their mother starts yelling at them in real life to go study. In that case they feed.

Strategy: Things like crits and evasion are a bane to the Mathematician since that makes the equations less certain. But nothing is more dangerous to them then their high expectations parents. Now you study hard and become a lawyer ya' hear!

Preferred Heroes: Lion, Lina, Crystal Maiden, Zeus

XIV. The Partially AFK

While you're working your butt off trying to secure victory for your team, these guys are munching on chips and cutting their nails and glancing at the screen every so often. These people don't really care and just play Dota because they have nothing else to do. You'll notice them sitting in the fountain for around 10 minutes while they go take a dump. Luckily these people are a dying breed since Banlists and ivory poaching is making them extinct.

Strategy: -

Preferred Heroes: Any

XV. The Know-nothing Know-it-all

"STFU NOOB. I know what I'm doing. Dagon on Juggernaught is the way to go."

Ok so they managed to own a noob using their lame build and from then on they stuck to it. No matter what you do, they'll still stick to their original decision and get their Agannim's Sceptre for Phantom Assassin or Eul's for Naix.

Strategy: Tell them that getting the Dagon for Juggernaught was a nice idea and also tell them they should get a Mystic Staff so they can spam Dagon.

Preferred Heroes: Any

XVI. The Donald Trump

"Lol I killed you dude." "BANNED!"

These guys have one rule that they follow: "Anyone piss you off, then omgz0r BANNED!!!!!!"

Why? Because Donald Trump plays Dota and there's no such thing as a FiredList. (Rosie_ODonnell has been banned for verbal abuse).

Strategy: Creating Bnet accounts > Banlist.

Preferred Heroes: Any

XVII. The Unaware

So you just got ganked by 2 enemy heroes while your ally is beside you creeping. They still don't know what happened. These players will frustrate you to no end. Their slow reflexes mixed with their lack of sight makes them a major liability.

Strategy: Blinks and stuns. They won't know what's going on.

Preferred Heroes: Any


XVIII. The Backdoor Bandit

Unlike normal Dota players, these guys are sneaky as hell. They'll wait for everyone on the enemy team to pick heroes before they pick so that they can choose a hero that counters all of them. While you guys are ganking, he'll sneak up on your towers and rax and own them with no resistance. You'll barely see him all game but by the time you do he's amassed a vast fortune, hasn't died at all and has owned the majority of your rax.

The fact is that these people are cowards. Cowards that are highly intelligent! (OMG NO!). And that mix by itself is dangerous.

One day you'll be off going to work with a family and kids by your side. The next day you'll come home and find the Backdoor Bandit has married your wife, your kids are calling him dad and somehow he's managed to get the lease on your house leaving you in the gutter with nothing. Sneaky bastards...

Strategy: Boots of Travel asap!

Preferred Heroes: Gondar, Clinkz, Stealth Assassin, Furion, Tinker

XIX. The Team Member

We love these guys. They will be the first to get wards, help in ganks, get gems, follow instructions and the like. They'll get an average score but will fetch and sit and keep your feet warm on lonely nights.

Strategy: They need to be killed off quickly and repeatedly so that your Stealth Assassin and your Clinkz can both run around and cause havoc.

Preferred Heroes: Treant, Tide, Keeper

XX. The Pitbull

As soon as they hit lvl 6, bam, it's hero killing time for them. Farming is for wusses. They'll either get first blood or be first blood and will typically go with heroes like Pudge and Balanar. Their ultra aggression mixed with their confidence makes them dangerous. If you ever end up in prison and sharing a cell with these guys then be prepared to have a new boyfriend.

Strategy: Run to fountain with 10 HP left. Pitbull chases and kills you. Towers own Pitbull. You'll give him a hearty LOL. Afterwards he'll say it was definitely worth it.

Preferred Heroes: Balanar, Pudge, Juggernaught

XXI. The Haxor

Haxors play for one reason only. To win no matter the cost whether it be their Bnet account... or their Soul! They are ungankable, know when to attack rax, will farm none stop until they are forced to retreat and will hunt you down while you are neutral creeping. But remember that deep down inside they just crave a bit of happiness which is missing in their life.

Strategy: Don't pick invisible heroes as they're useless against the Haxor. It's a never-ending war between the Trumps and the Haxor so leave them be.

Preferred Heroes: Stealth Assassin, Nevermore, Zeus, Nerubian, Furion

XXII. The Guide-Freak

After reading one strategy guide, they'll follow it to the letter. On the plus side this means that they'll be highly methodical and will usually make all the right decisions regarding purchasing items. On the downside they have zero flexibility and creativity. Might as well slap in a couple of AI opponents instead.

Beware if you choose one of their heroes and don't go by their strategy guide though. They'll start acting self-righteous.

Strategy: Take an educated guess what build they're going to create (won't be hard.) Then counter it!

Preferred Heroes: Any

XXIII. The Micromanager

With barely 100 HP left, they'll manage their hero so well they'll escape a gank, end up with a kill, return to fountain and still have enough time to do the laundry. These people will almost always get a chicken at the start which will become their secretary and manage their appointments for them while they calculate how much mana the enemy needs to kill them while they're leeching XP with only 20 HP left beside the tower.

But the scariest ability of these people above all is that they can rub their stomach while rubbing their head and counting backwards in odd numbers from 100.

Strategy: Any invisible heroes should foil their dastardly plans.

Preferred Heroes: Meepo, Chen, Chrow, Furion, Keeper of the Light

XXIV. The Role Player

In all your time playing Dota you might only see one of these guys. They are as rare as a dark albino. Also they're are as scary as one... Here's your basic conversation with a Role Player:

RolePlayer: Hush... I fear the enemies draw near these woods. A fell voice is heard in the air.
Player: OMG don't just stand there help me!
Enemy has owned Player's head for 275 gold!
Enemy has owned RolePlayer's head for 280 gold!
Enemy has just got a Double Kill!
RolePlayer: It is a dark day indeed. We have been vanquished but our souls will take their vengeance!
Player has left the game.

Oh and I often enjoy taking on this persona when I'm drunk. When I'm sober I'll watch the replay for some laughs.

Strategy: Since they're too busy typing to do much of anything, just kill them.

Preferred Heroes: Drow, Priestess of the Moon, Luna and any other Elvish based heroes.

XXV. The Afraid-to-Die

Sort of like the coward however with less running. Once again these people do little good for the team. However they do make good tanks late game as their usual item build is along the lines of: Vanguard, Aegis, Mek, Heart, Boots, Perserverance.

Can they get any kills? No. Can they survive getting ganked? No. Do they ever need to go back to fountain to heal? No.

Strategy: Most people don't realize that regeneration doesn't help much during battles since a battle is over in about 4 seconds. In that 4 seconds you might of gained about 40 HP from spending thousands of gold on regen items. Big whoop...

Preferred Heroes: Centaur, Tiny, Tide, Abaddon, Omniknight

XXVI. The Over-Achiever

Usually these guys will fight an enemy until the enemy is down to 20 HP, at that point the enemy will start running back to fountain. Overachievers will pursue them and put everything on the line in order to catch their target. These are the guys who will run into the enemy fountain for that last hit and subsequently get totally ripped up. Their scores will usually be along the lines of 12-12 since for every kill they make they will also get killed.

Strategy: Bait bait bait!

Preferred Heroes: Spectre, Phantom Assassin, Rikimaru, Antimage

XXVII. The Boba Fett

Just like Boba Fett, these players use lots of gadgets that make us go: "WTF?!" when they're used in battle. You'll be hitting these guys and they'll almost be dead and all of a sudden they'll go Mekansm, Manta Style, Hex, Dagon and own you up. Then when your allies arrive to try to finish him he'll go Blink Dagger, Lothar's Edge and then Boots of Travel back to fountain or something to that effect. If you've ever seen someone all of a sudden activate a Necronomicon in a pub game you know what I'm talking about.

Next thing you know they'll be flying around with a jetpack firing lasers at everyone.

Strategy: Be ready for the unexpected.

Preferred Heroes: Tinker, Techies, Inspector Gadget

XXVIII. The Assassin

If you are against these types of guys, RUN. These guys are gank leaders and some also fall into the Pitbull category. They have a strategic outlook on everything and use all their cunning and wisdom to demolish the enemy team because they know what works and what doesn't. They have a tendancy to be the guy that says the battle plan and the first to ping at the enemy. Silently they move in the shadows helping there team approach and assasinate you. After they are done, they tend to say little and frantically try to stop a push, organize another gank without acknowledging there heroic feat, if it is destroying the matrix or defeating the whole team by themselves.

Strategy: Get a backup plan to escape eg. Blink Dagger or Lothars Edge.

Preferred Heroes: Morphling, Vengeful Spirit, Furion, Spirit Breaker, Queen of Pain, Phantom Assassin, Gondar

XXIX. The Mystic

These are the guys that will look for an illusion rune, pick it and fool you into thinking that the illusion is them and unload all your beautiful spells on the illusion. After that, theyll most likely come with a companion but sometimes prefer to come alone.

And the next moment you know, your HP is down to half, you have no mana, no spells to use and youre slowed to half! but wait thats not all of it. They also have a high sense of organisation, so your teammates will come to help only to realise that it was in fact an ILLUSION of the companion, that the mystic moved out of line of sight under your panic and replaced himself with an illusion... which in turn causes your friends to unleash hell on the illusions.

Next, the mystic and his companion (the companion is most likely an objective guy that follows orders, a team member and likely irl friend of the mystic, since mystics need a high level of competence and trust from their companions) ambush you, kill one guy with attacks and unleash their spells on the next. They run back, into thinking you can kill them, and then youre hit by an epicenter. Needless to say, these foes are hard to defeat, as they are usually very creative with everything from gameplay to items. No matter what you do, sometimes it seems you can never overcome them... mercifully, they are extremely rare

Strategy: Use observer wards to detect his plans. Disable him as this will piss him off, since it hinders him from performing the plan. Theres not much more to do other than be very, very careful, and perhaps pray youve got a Mystic of your own of higher quality than theirs.

Prefered Heroes: Morphling, PA and all those sneaky heroes and illusion bastards.

XXX. The Loyal Tiger

These guys are so nice to have as a mate that they could sell themselves on a market, kill their owner, come off with a good reputation and steal their own mother's secret pizza stack right before their eyes and be ignored. Fear em, I tell ya.

Ever seen someone stuck to someone else so much as to make it seem like the two are chained together invisibly? then one of them is likely a loyal tiger.

They generally perform commands unquestionably and ask for guidance. All of them perform commands with a startling efficiency and letter-following.

If you are turned into Ye Ol' Flander's BBQ Sauce by a pair of players all the time, you know for certainty that one of them is a tiger. Generally, they are quite cruel to their enemies, playing with them like hapless fatasses (no offense to you, fatasses) before ending their life very quickly.

Dont piss these guys off, because their motivation, will and energy has no limit. If they get owned, theyll own you next time, and if they dont, they will for sure own you next time. And if they after all dont, theyll go out of their way to antagonise you and come out alive.

Strategy: Kill the tiger's ''handler'', this will make the tiger's actions count for little. The handler will often play a more laid-back hero such as Furion, so its quite easy to detect. Make them think you are no match for him until its too late for him and youve won by pushing. If you are ever targeted by one of these, try to come of alive. Dont try to kill the tiger because you cant do it...

Prefered Heroes: Ursa, Strygeryger (aka. Strygwyr, but my mate calls him that tongue.gif), Razor, Balanar and many of those powerhouse-type heroes.


XXXI. The Retard

''OMGGG Y U KILL ME LOL OMFG IMBAAAAA I REPORT TO BLZARD WTFLOL''
''... I beat you fair and square, but 4 MKB recipes dont do shit''
''LOL NOOB!!! MKB BEST ITEM IN DOTA NOOB!! STFUNOOB L2P!!!!! BAN FOR BE NOOB''
''whatever''

After that, theyll continue getting raped with you likely not even using everything youve got and not going below 2/3 your HP. These people usually arent very skilled at understanding things, have no skills, judgement, anticipation and no you-name-it at all.

.... But well, if theres one thing they have its a reserved front-page spot in the newspaper for showing ''this is exactly what the human race cannot go back into being'' by the local science magazine.

Strategy: Just continue to feed of them, theyll eventually get so pissed off that theyll spew out racism and leave.

Telling him that dropping a Divine Rapier in front of one of your towers is an alternative, much easier way to win might actually work too, as these guys dont really care about having fun as long as they win and get to trash talk about it.

Prefered Heroes: Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz Clinkz


XXXII. The Consumer

Whether it be mass tangos, clarities, town portals, chickens or other crap that doesn't last very long, these guys will hoard these items like they're expecting a nuclear holocoust. Consumers seem to have little regard for long term reward and high regard for short term ownage.

Just when you think you're about to kill one of them suddenly they activate their empty bottle twice in a row, turn around, chew on a tango and then proceed to beat your ass into the ground. And then their chicken will come along and Dagon you.

Strategy: Make sure you can hit them when they're activiting their potions to cancel. Or just wait until late game and laugh and their consumable items.

Preferred Heroes: all

XXXIII. The Jackass

Obviously these guys don't play Dota to win. No no, they play Dota to be totally ridiculous. You'll often find these people eating their way into the enemy fountain using tangos, dropping a chicken there and then teleporting their entire team in and ganking the leavers.

Ever chased someone who keeps running back and forth towards you and back in such an unpredictable but dangerous manner that you can't hit them? Well it's called juking and these guys would risk juking themselves to death just for a laugh.

They'll go out of their way to refill that empty bottle at the enemy fountain or using Swap to get you onto a ledge you can't escape.

Strategy: none really since they'll usually get themselves killed in the process of having a laugh.

Preferred Heroes: Vengeful Spirit, Queen of Pain, Anti Mage.

XXXIV. The Support Player

The support player... He'll be Omniknight, Chen or Abaddon, and use his heals on his lane-mates. He'll start the game with a chicken, make it into a Crow and then proceed to share control with his allies so they can use the Crow as well. He never solos, and always tries to get in a lane with an ally so he can buy 2 Flasks, or a few sets of Tangos, and always lend his RoR to the ally in his lane, to keep his teammate's HP full. He's such a good support hero that he knows how to 'rally point' his Crow, and send it to the team's soloing hero with a flask of saphire water, then returning the crow back to base ready to buy a new flask for any ally who needs the next heal.

Ever been in a situation where you're killing someone in a 1v1 situation and they're almost dead and boom! Omniknight rushes in and heals him and they proceed to totally kick your ass into the ground. Well thats what these guys do.

Strategy: gank em, that'll teach em to help their team!

Preferred Heroes: Omniknight, Chen, Abaddon, Pudge, Treant

XXXV. The Overlord

Ok so you're minding your own business farming and all of a sudden BAM! You're attacked by what seems to be a whole freakin army of summoned minions. Chen is hitting you with the aide of centaurs and satyrs and you're completely overwhelmed.

These guys will bring their entire family to pwn you from their uncles to their grandmothers and before you know it you'll see an Orc Barracks actually churning out units while you're trying to rax it!

Strategy: AoE on their asses!

Preferred Heroes: Chen, Dirge, Furion, Keeper of the Light, Naga Siren

XXXVI. The Pub Pro

A very rare breed, simply because they are one of the few that first started playing dota an eternity ago.

These guys are so experienced, they kick your ass whenever, wherever, with any hero (even KOTL)... But only if they feel like it. One of the defining characteristics of the Pub Pro is laziness. This is obvious because they never graduated to league play or high level play simply because last hitting takes way too much effort, something key to succeeding in high level play. They know everything. Team strat, item strat, skill strat. They'll immediately fill the role that gets rid of weaknesses on the team, pretty much by instinct- whether a massive farmer, hero killer or supporter. They take on many of the dota player forms, which makes it hard to know when you've come across them.

Strategy: Take out a can of Whoop Ass (if said can does not exist then hope for feeders).

Preferred hero: Doesnt matter.


XXXVII. The Dual Bracer Idiot

Start game. Buy two bracers. Repeat for every single game.Also known as the Quad Circlet Hobo or the Mass Branch Bandit.Be careful or else they will jump out at you with +8 DAMAGE!

Strategy: Beware early to mid game!

Preferred Heroes: Any

XXXVIII. The Power Tripper

Also known as the Pub Stomper. These guys are extremely pro that they're currently playing in leagues, inhouse leagues, etc. They know how to use every hero and every item in Dota and all the basics like last hitting and animation canceling and juking etc. and can do all that without any effort at all.

But when it's a full moon watchout! Out of nowhere they'll join a pub game or a noobs only game and use all their power and abilities to completely pwn everyone while juggling eggs at the same time.

Why? Because complete and utter domination makes them feel good. Bastards!

Strategy: Pray to god they have 4 feeders on their team.

Preferred Heroes: Any

Source: Dota-allstars.com

Dota Facts You Might Not Know Yet




For 68c
- Nevermore souls do not add for killing enemy with his ulti (Requiem of Souls).
- Diffusal’s Purge can be used to destroy Gyrocopter’s Homing Missile.
- Ghost Scepter, if activated after getting hit by Venomancer’s Poison Nova, removes it completely. If the Scepter was activated before getting hit by Poison Nova, the damage gets amplified.
- Enigma’s Black Hole can stop the enemy fountain.
- Ghost Form can avoid Techies’ land mines and suicide damage.
- Nortrom can steal enemy intelligence even when his opponent’s INT falls to zero. (thereby giving him -1, -2… INT)
- Rylai’s aura stops working when she is invisible.
- [Morphling] Right Clicking somewhere while in waveform distorts the waveform while elongating it.
- You can use items while in Omnislash. eg. dagon, orchid malevolance, healing salve, etc.
for 66b
- Nortrom’s Last Word gets disabled if he himself is silenced. In other words, if Nortrom is silenced, he won’t be able to silence other’s with his Last Word.
- Manually casting orb spells have greater range than auto-casting them.
- You can buy items while teleporting without breaking the channel.
- Assault Cuirass’s +/- armor aura works on buildings!
- You can use lothar’s edge while channeling spells without breaking the channel.
- Your allies can teleport on Undying’s Tombstone.
- Glyph works on Undying’s Tombstone. Fixed in 6.64
- While Glyph is activated every hit deals 1 dmg. to buildings
- Axe gets extra 0.01 mana regen because counter helix is based off brilliance aura.
- This can also be attributed as just a coincidence but the two heroes introduced in 6.66 were based off the Icefrogconcept… Ancient Apparition (Ice) + Slark (Frog) == Icefrog!

- Both the Illusion rune and the Double Damage rune will NOT affect your hero when you’re magic immune (beware BKB and N’aix users!)
- Zeus’ Thundergod’s Wrath does not damage isolated invisible enemies but you’ll gain the vision of them for a few seconds. [Vision of the place where the enemy was when spell was used]
- If a unit bottles a rune, and still has that rune 1:59 minutes after bottling, and becomes Doomed, Astral-Imprisoned or somehow paused, they will not use the rune and will instead drop it at their current position.
- When using Mirana’s leap there is a 0.001 second windwalk in the beginning of the animation, therefore it can be used to dodge any oncomming projectile if the enemy does not have true sight on you.
- Eye of Skadi, Quelling Blade, Stout Shield, and Poor Man’s Shield do a check to see if the carrying hero is ranged or melee at the moment the item is picked up/bought, and the item will be in either ranged or melee form. If a melee hero changes to ranged, or viceversa, the item will remain with it’s melee stats.This is not true for Cranium Basher thou, since the check is done at the moment of proc.
- Fog of war updates every .4 seconds. So if you blink into the fog and use echo slam/Qop scream/heat seeking missle too early, it you can miss due to the fact you haven’t seen the enemy yet.
- You are able to use Wind Walk while teleporting using Boots of Travel, and will show up at your destination invisible.
- Storm Spirit can use spells during Ball Lightning. This includes Static Remnant or you could even use Ball Lightning during Ball Lightning!
- Treant Protector is the only hero that can force towers/buildings to regenerate using living armor. It also gives extra armor to the building for the duration.



 -if u use KUNKHA's x-marks on YURNERO and then he omnislash it will stop when u activate return.. 


-LICH's frost armor if used and then d user attack centaur(with return skill) will be slowed because of CENTAUR's return skill is like a melee attack.. 


-YURNERO's omnislash, RAIGOR's echoslam and AKASHA's scream of pain will not affect ethereal units(PUGNA's decrepify,ghost scepter)..

Smart or Skilled?

This is a blog post made by a pro dota player, Loda, that separates players into 2 categories.. the smart and the skilled.. both are good but the difference is too important to be taken for granted.






Ok so I had a pretty interesting discussion with bogdan the other day. Usually when the two of us get together to share some quality lovetime we end up discussing some part of DotA, and this time we discussed the kind of players there are, and the difference between some of the high lvl dotaplayers out there. We both agreed that there are two kind of players; Smart and Skilled.

Of course it's not that black and white with some players being only smart or only skilled, but it's easier to put them in two different groups. I will write down some stuff about each of the groups, but first I'll just list a couple of players that I think suits best in one or the other. Since I am not that into the asian scene I'll just list the ones from Europe and America that comes to mind, and maybe you guys can add some names of your own if you think im right in what I write.

So what deifnes a smart player? Well as the name states it's someone who's smart (No shit? :D), but what I mean is that they think through every move the make. Their farming, ganging and fighting is defined by what they know is the smartest in theory. A smart player is a person who skills a hero in a certain way just because it should be the best way to utilize the hero in the game. When it comes to itemchoices the smart player will go for what is absolutely the best for the hero and the team. For example a smart bm will always go for necro 3 since it works well with the pig/bird and then BoT to easier gang the lanes with ultimate. If you watch LightOfHeaven play Bm you will realise that when he throws axes to dmg heroes he often(if not always) also hits a couple of creeps or neutrals just to utilize the power of axes to its fullest. The smart player knows what is the best, but things doesn't come as easy for them. They often need play more to reach the same lvl as the skilled player but when they do it's a very scary player to face since they play it safe, smart and use each hero in the way that's right 90% of the time.

Maelk


Fear
Puppey
Skilled: The skilled player is the kind of guy that does not give a shit to what people say is the right build or in what kind of way you should play. These players are genuine players that has a love for the game and for them it's as easy to play dota as it is to ride a bike! Sometimes they know that in theory their choice is the wrong one, but it just feels right and usually pays off into a godlike moment :) Vigoss is the obvious choice as this kind of player. How many times didn't vigoss go on a suicide run just to grab that kill? Often he would even get out of an impossible position where no one even saw what happened ^^ Some players evolve into smart players just to better help the team, because you need to keep in mind that without a couple of smart players that reads the game in the right way to help you do those crazy moves it woldn't happen. I for one was never a big fan of Vigoss, more of those who played around him and made it all work out in the masterpiece that was their playstyle!
Vigoss
PGG
Kuroky
Dendi
Misery

Vigoss DotA Fun Facts



Vigoss can play a 60 minutes game for 20.

When MYM|H4nn1- goes to sleep, he checks for Vigoss in the closet.

When SK watched one of Vigoss' replays, they decided to forfeit just to be on the safe side.

It is rumoured that Vigoss is very strong 1v1. Unfortunately, there are no survivors to confirm this.

If, by some paradox of time and space, Vigoss plays against himself, Vigoss will win. Period.

If you have 1000 gold and Vigoss has 1000 gold, he has more gold than you.

Vigoss does not kill Roshan. He just stares him to death, breaks the Aegis because he doesn't need it, and gives the cheese to the enemy. After all, it's always more fun if they die slower.

You don't gang Vigoss. You just give him more gold from hero kills.

Vigoss can dodge Chain Lightning. Without moving.

LightOfHeaven is just another account of Vigoss - he uses it for casual, relax games.

Once, SK.Loda decided to play 1v1 against Vigoss. It took him only three weeks to get a hold on himself and stop crying.

Ice Frog made a special, customized version of dota especially for Vigoss. In the menu, he replaced "stop", "attack", "move" and "patrol" with "kill", "farm", "help teammates" and "destroy base".

Sometimes, Vigoss allows the enemy players to kill him, just to give them some hope. Unfortunately, it never works.

In one of these instances, when he decided to let the enemy team kill him, he had to chase all five of them to their fountain. It became a real problem, when the fountain was so scared that it forgot to attack. When they saw this, they forfeited the game.

Once, Vigoss sent an illusion to scout the enemy base. It almost destroyed the World Tree.

Vigoss can hook himself with Butcher - from maximum range. In fog of war.

Vigoss doesn't have to lasthit creeps. They die out of sheer respect.

According to legend, once the world's strongest players challenged Vigoss to play against them, controlling five different heroes on his own. He never did it again, claiming that it was too easy.

If you leave from a game against Vigoss, you are not a leaver. It's just common sense.

Vigoss does not get stunned. The stun gets Vigossed.

Once, Vigoss decided to play in the finals of MYM Prime defending blindfolded. He made only three triple kills. Later on, people accused him of using headphones. He apologized.

If Vigoss had a little sister, she would be better at dota than you are.

Vigoss isn't God, but God isn't Vigoss either.

Vigoss can maim with yasha.

Some days ago ARS-ART said to Vigoss: "Dude i think you need to...". The same minute, ARS-ART moved to SK.

When Vigoss picks up rune, it lasts for the whole game.

Vigoss doesn't need warcraft to play dota.
When Vigoss buys Kelen's, it's not Dagger of Escape - it's Dagger of Attack.
Vigoss plays Butcher with Basher and owns MYM players. (fact!)
In the morning, Vigoss gets up, eats breakfast, wins MYM Prime Defending and a couple of other tournaments, then he goes for a walk in the park.
Once upon a time, Vigoss made Burize and MKB with Zeus and the enemy players laughed at him. They stopped laughing when he began to crit them.
Originally, the item Aegis of the Immortal was named Aegis of the Vigoss. They decided it would be too imba, nerfed it and changed the name.
Rumour has it that Vigoss has a microchip in his brain, which allows him to give telepathic commands to his PC.
When they asked Vigoss about these rumours, he laughed and said "I don't need a microchip to do this."
Vigoss receives money from leading hardware companies, as he is the second main cause for damaged keyboards after spilled coffee.
Vigoss can kill a dead hero. 
Vigoss is so fast, he can run around the whole map and hit himself in the back.

Vigoss is so good that his skill often causes paradoxes, leaving scientists baffled. Because of this, they created a special branch of physics, called "Vigossdynamics". We already wrote some of its principles, here are the others:

Vigoss, multiplied by time, equals destruction.
Vigoss, divided by games played, equals N gallons of gamer tears.
The fabric of the time-space continuum can only sustain one Vigoss (barely).
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. However, if Vigoss is one of the parts, he is greater than the whole.
The damage, dealt by Vigoss in a battle, amounts to infinity plus one.
Vigoss, multiplied by zero, equals Vigoss, because nothing can nerf Vigoss. 
Vigoss, multiplied by infinity, equals Vigoss, because nothing is bigger than Vigoss.
According to Newton's Law, every action has an equal by strength and opposite by direction reaction. Vigoss proved this wrong, because when he attacks someone, there is never a reaction. Dead heroes don't react.
Vigoss can divide by zero. 
Vigoss has counted to infinity - twice.

Here is the replay for Pudge with Basher on MYM Nations

- http://www.mymym.com/en/demos/11769.html

P.S. this was written only for fun, and I had no intention of questioning anyone's skills. Please do not take it seriously.

Source: dota-allstars.com,chucknorrisfacts.com,mymym.com

Dota History in Naga City

Legendary Team Inzane


In the year 2007, when DotA was still fresh and is in it's earliest version, a group of skilled players led by a very intelligent player--Ivan Deterala manifest strategical way of playing this game.  They were the Legendary and most respected Team Inzane.  They exhibited perfect execution of combo strategies that wipes out the entire enemy with a single blow.  They have themselves fighting and winning DotA tournaments back then.  Experiencing defeats make them better because they have the incredible talent of formulating and implementing new strategies to avenge themselves.  They have a perfect chemistry as players and individuals.  After replay sessions and having battle plans, they go out and face anyone.  They became the image of unstoppable force in the region.


inz.vanz
Rosters:

Team A
Ivan 'Vanz' Deterala(Leader)
John Rey 'JR' Valerio
Jonathan 'Jojo' Azaña
Oliver 'Pamentz' Pormento
Mark 'oOpz' Bernardo

Team B
Chawie Rosales
Elton 'Watams' Lacson
Jadelson 'Smiley' Calleja
Kel Maninang
Mcdon Fernandez


Mejai the Legend Slayer
Legendary Mejai

While Team Inzane is considered to be the scariest team in the region, a chinese guy named Jaime Concepcion came from Manila to Naga.  He started showing great skills in the game.  Because of his love for the game, he went to many computer shops to play.  Players in Naga City was so amazed with his ability to carry a team singlehandedly to victory.  I heard people giggling upon seeing this chinese fat guy.  The weird thing is they're all guys.  He even had a record of winning a 1v5 match.

Then he entered JTSI, the shop where Team Inzane are playing.  He was brought by Codz Dy here and introduced him to team Inzane.  Then, game time.  Mejai with random players vs Team Inzane.  He picked Necrolyte.  His team mates, random players in the shop, picked their best heroes too.  Then the legendary Team Inzane played with combo strategy.  Then, Mejai finally lost.  He didn't even have the chance to show his skills because of the great strategy and team work of Team Inzane.

Nobody knows that this Chinese Fat Guy is the Armageddon sent to put an end to Team Inzane.  Mejai, who was challenged because of his despicable defeat, planned to form a team with Codz.  Codz being a very friendly person knew players who have potencial at the game.  Tan-tan Osea, my idol in CD6 when I was still noob, joined forces with the chinese team.  Then, it didn't take long to form a group of 5.  Thanks to Codz, TJ was born.

Team TJ
Jaime 'Mejai' Concepcion (Leader)
Christian Oliver 'Codz' Dy
Christian 'Tan-tan' Osea
Mark Louie 'Maloy' Viñaz
John 'Jobo' Llaguno

The Historical Match Inzane vs TJ

Mejai, now having the power to lead his team mates, shows his strategical hero picking.  He countered the Remarkable Chen of inz.Vanz with Codz's Earthshaker.  It was the first time Earthshaker was introduced with blink dagger here.  Mejai used Queen of Pain to escape the deadly combo of Inzane and for greater clash damage too.  Though Mejai's team mates were considered to be underdogs back then, Mejai brought confidence to his team.  He farmed so fast.  He got his Eyes of Skadi so quickly that made him carry his team easier.  I was so amazed how he blinks behind the 5 Inzane to confuse them. He is so brave that his team mates got confidence to perfectly set up their clash fights.  Then at the end of the game, TJ defeated Inzane.

It was a good thing though because Inzane would be challenged to be become better. TJ became the strongest team in Naga City.

Sean: Mejai's Worst Nightmare
Mejai Slayer Sean
Sean Ronan is really the worst nightmare of Mejai.  Sean was just a normal player.  He wasn't even part of Inzane.  But Mejai's Era didn't last long because of this clever player.  Sean doesn't farm fast like Mejai.  He doesn't kill 3 to 5 heroes in one clash.  He simple gangs.  In the tournaments where TJ would defeat Inzane, Sean would always be there to beat TJ.  Soon I found out that Sean joined Mejai's team.  I don't know what happened but I guess it's the best choice for Mejai to join him because he can't beat him. (lol).  So I guess Mejai recruited sean offering sean a burger.  TJ disbanded and became Team Mej.


Team Mej 

Rosters
Jaime 'Mejai' Concepcion (Leader)
Christian Oliver 'Codz' Dy
Christian 'Tan-tan' Osea
Sean Joshua Ronan
Kenneth Taiño

Now Team Mej became a stronger team with Sean, a deadly ganker, on the team.

Team Neydz
Neydz-Jack
Team Neydz was led by me.  It was a team me and my josephean friends to join Rockstah Tournament.  We knew we had no chance against top teams but we wanted to get better so we joined.  I was a student of the Inzane, inz.oOpz.  He taught me not by teaching me everything step by step.  He always bring me to JTSI where skilled players are playing.  So I tried to develop a team of my own.

Rosters
Jack 'JAK' Rodriguez
Seth 'xEt' Dialino
John 'jan' Agor
Mathew 'Pangkoi' Largo
Yit 'Crasher' Chua (Rockstah Tournament)
Adonis 'Heaven' Cecillo (Command Center tournament)

We joined tournaments having hero picks based on what was strong during our pub games.  I don't want to copy other teams' hero picks so we fought them with our own strats.  I have players with great potentials but
we lack experience because we were shy to play at JTSI.

Team XO
xo.xet, xo.jak, xo.atit
This is the team that destroyed Team Mej.  Not by another 'Dota Pro' but by teamwork.  Team XO was formed after team Neydz was disbanded.  Mathew 'Pangkoi' Largo changed his heart to the game Perfect World.  Adonis disappeared for unknown reason.  Ramaida Computer Shop with more than 40 computers brought all teams together in one place but we were down to 3 members.  Me, xet, and jan.  We tried fighting Team Mej, having 2 random players.  We were raped so hard.  We found Jestoni 'Jes' Bamba, a good farmer.  We tried facing team Mej again, we were raped again.  Then, we found the Almighty Francis 'Atit' King.

King of Clash Atit
Rosters
Jack 'JAK' Rodriguez (Leader)
Seth 'Xet' Dialino
John 'Jan' Agor
Francis 'Atit' King
Jestoni 'Jes' Bamba

We faced team Mej with our complete rosters.  The 4 of us was intimidated by thinking that we are facing a strong team.  We were fighting like cowards.  Atit speaks words that made us fight.  We still lost but it was starting to be a good fight. 2nd and 3rd game we lost again but on the 4th game, XO defeated Team Mej.  Then we win most of the games against them, inzane and any other teams. We have great potencials but we just lacked confidence before.  Jan is a great ganker with perfect timing skills.  Xet has a very quick hands and mind.  Jes is a very fast famer.  Atit has great clash ability.  XO was unstoppable because of team play.

Team ITSME
itsme won 2nd spot at Netopia Nationwide Tournament


XO disbanded because of these reasons:  I got my own internet connection at home.  I don't go out anymore I just play DotA at home using Garena.  Xet doesn't want to play garena because of quitters.  Jan focused on studies.  When garena was accepted by people in Naga, they started using it.  Alton 'kwKy' Aguilar started to play with some of ex team Mej and ex team XO.  Then they dominated the bayantel rooms.  I was playing at pldt room but I told them that I am going to make a clan in garena.  Let's change our gg ID's.  I named it ITSME based from Atit's playmate in starcraft.




ITSME is a clan of friends.  Any of our friends are part the team.

We formed a team to participate in Netopia Tournament and ended up 2nd place nationwide.

ITSME rosters for netopia

Alton 'kwKy' Aguilar
Francis 'Atit' King
Christian Oliver 'Codz' Dy
Jestoni 'Jes' Bamba
Eldrige 'Ldrige' Lim
Jack 'JAK' Rodriguez

After that game, many of us, including myself, retired and will just play the game when we have free time.  kwkY was training in Manila so I gave the leadership to DESO who was a new member of itsme back then.  I saw great potential in him but he doesn't have that much experience leading a team so ITSME was on its way being disbanded.  But kwKy came back, revive and improved ITSME to being a PRO team.  Being a complete player and leader, kwKy proved to the people that ITSME is the best team in Naga City.

2010's Team itsme 

2010 Team Itsme

Alton 'Kwky' Aguilar (Leader)
Mark Joseph 'DESO' Abasolo
Seth 'KingEx' Dialino
Elton 'Watams' Lacson
Sean 'Nahs' Ronan

2011's Team Itsme for Netopia



Team iDota

Alton 'Kwky' Aguilar (Leader)
Mark Joseph 'DESO' Abasolo
Nico 'JAM' Bautista
Seth 'KingEx' Dialino
Eldrige 'Ldrige' Lim

 
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