In that case, let me correct you.

The sequence of pictures display how a trilane is supposed to make use of the adjacent jungle on the Radiant safelane. As you know, there tend to be two supports in a trilane - the 4th and 5th position. The 4th executes the pulls while the 5th zones out the offlaner and protects the pull from being contested. After the pull is contested, the supports either contest the bottom rune (and possibly rotate to another lane) or flank the offlaner to try land a kill. Rinse and repeat until the laning stage is over.

Things to remember:
1. Since a couple of patches back, the experience gained by killing neutrals is shared by both friendly and enemy heroes, so it's now extra important to zone out the offlaner.
2. You must either stack/double pull. If you do a single pull, it'll result in the lane being pushed out further as your second wave of creeps will combine with the leftover from the first wave.
3. The 4th position executes the pull and gains the gold from it. The 5th position stays on the outskirts of exp range to sap exp while denying the offlaner a chance to contest the pull. You can alternate who pulls/zones if you're running greedy supports (eg: ES & Lina).

Don't worry, lower 5k is no different.

babycry123 You complain about the bad behavior of others in pubs but then you turn around and to the same thing? ROFL! Don't try to justify your mistakes.

"It's just a game," is nothing but an excuse, the same kind of one that gets thrown around when people deny runes to allies, feed intentionally, and toss allies to their death. Understand that your idea of "fun" is resulting in someone else's time being wasted. If you recall, Valve split the queue into ranked an unranked for a reason - because many players were getting annoyed with randoms spoiling their games with childish acts like these.

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

I like this lol.

funnyTONE If you really want to learn positioning, play CM. Low move speed, squishy as a ripe banana - perfect for teaching you where to stand.

This is the last game I played as CM, the replay should still be available:
http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1165806909

Tuan, tolong jangan berikan ajaran sesat. You only aim a support first if it's a free kill or he's particularly disruptive in teamfights and you have no counter for his spells (WD and Silencer are excellent examples).

I didn't. In that game, the other support (VS) was a new player who was using his friend's account. He had no idea how to transfer wards, and he tried passing them without using CTRL+click.

Most people CTRL+click to share wards/tangos, but sometimes you can just pass the entire ward bundle to your offlaner if you're confident that you don't need to ward the portion of the map closer to the safelane.

That Pudge was good, but a little careless later on. There were quite a few times where he got cocky and overextended. Losing a godlike streak awards the opponent who killed you with about 1k gold, which is HUGE.

I don't think you can read the party chat, even if you're on Dotabuff Plus.

I alternate between the mic/typing/using the chat wheel. Pinging is useful but be careful where you ping. When I want to alert an ally to a rotation, I use the warning ping and signal the direction the rotation is coming from. I also have hotkeys mapped to type the following lines:
1. top rune
2. bottom rune
3. top missing
4. mid missing
5. mid missing

Most of these commands are now obsolete because the chat wheel has been improved, but I've kept them as I'm too used to them already.

The ranked AP style of sequential hero picks does not guarantee there won't be potato lineups. There are many players who just play what they want without regard for team composition. It's currently at the stage where if you care about your lineup, you have to be the last to pick.

The original idea behind introducing the idea of ranked matchmaking was to provide an environment where serious players could play without having to endure the "just a game" mentality, and track their improvement using the rating system. Valve has failed on both accounts as there are still many trolls in ranked, and the improvement tracked is artificial due to account boosting and smurfing.

Very true. I've not actually tried playing the max stun build, but I've seen a friend do it successfully:
http://www.dotabuff.com/players/115162773

This guy climbed to 5k by playing exclusively on the offlane.

You can play with me if you want to, I'm not fussy about my party rating. My Steam profile is cartographer, you can just drop me a PM to let me know you're from LYN.


P.S. I sincerely hope you're not the type who likes to troll or flame for no reason. I already deleted a couple of people from here because they behave like major @$$holes. Imagine my shock when I saw one 2k guy trash talking the opponent after winning when he got carried hard.

Party rating is inaccurate. Of the leaderboard players on my buddy list, those who don't insist on playing with players in their bracket (5k/6k) have a party rating of almost 1k lower.

Solo rating at the moment is a little off because Valve now allows solos to be matched with parties of 2. When this is removed (and I think it will be because a lot of people are already complaining about this), expect your solo rating to move up/down by a small margin.

I used to have you, but I think I've deleted you (possibly because we rarely get to play together). I tend to clean up my buddy list frequently. I'll add you again the next I'm on.

No problem, I'll approve it the next I'm on. Not sure when that'll be though, it's a busy week for me.

My apologies to those who've added me as I've not had the time to go online and approve your requests yet. I'll do so sometime this week.

Don't forget BF on PotM. Back then it was considered cheap damage + regen.

Not really. He's melee - easily kited, and gets shut down hard if he can't get his spells off. Drow and Sniper own his ass provided he can't get near enough to omni/bash/crit them.

The biggest problem I see in pubs is teams don't share his omni damage in the early game. When someone gets hit, they all run away. Wrong! Run close together, share the slashes. You can tank the damage together before he gets his core dps items up. Mid game get a ghost scepter/use automatic targeting to your advantage.

Welcome to the club!

Accepted all pending buddy requests. Look forward to seeing you guys in-game!

Furion. Lone Druid. Lycan. Basically any hero with summons will do.

Wagamama.