13:24 Grubby: "She would lifesteal from far, wouldn't she? I think she would." PA: "YES"

RNG in dota comes in two forms, true (which is completely random like Ogre's Multicast) and pseudo-random. In pseudo-random (PRNG), your initial starting chance is much lower than the listed value, however it increases each time you try for it and don't get an activation. So for the basher which is 25% listed, the actual chance for the first hit being a bash is actually ~8.5%, 2nd hit being ~17%, 3rd hit ~25.5% and so forth with each hit that does not bash. The chance resets back to the 8.5% upon getting a bash. PA's ability is also PRNG, and as such, you can "prime" a critical hit on your next attack. The longer it goes that you don't have a crit, the higher chance the next hit will cause a crit.

I think the big thing here is the fact that basically no one on your team tried to kill Medusa so Medusa just farmed freely for like, 30 minutes. Meanwhile everywhere you went there was a team waiting for you. Also you did try to chase down enemies a bit too much here. Both Windrunner and Hoodwink has great escape options, and without some kind of CC you couldn't catch them, as they could CC you and keep on running.

that dusa farming montage was very satisfying

Now this character is really what fulfills Grubby's farming habits imo. Awesome thumbnail btw ^^

Man I love following this series and see you're having fun with the game!

I keep seeing grubby blinking on his allies to get to an enemy, even though grubby is close enough to blink to his enemy. Doesn't get thr bonus at speed or lifestyle if he does that.

that zed's LoL quote on the thumbnail 🤣

Hey Grubby, here's some lore information: Spectre is the future Mortred, or rather, Phantom Assassin is what Mercurial used to be.

PA seems really suited for you Grubby. I was wondering why you're not using her these days when climbing ranked I think you would really own with her.

The biggest medusa smurf to get recorded through the A-to-Z challenge.

E is also good when someone chasing you since you can disjoint them and all target/vector spell will cancle so the caster has to find your hero icon and try to target you again. E can detect enemy invis or smoke nearby anytime there're and enemy nearby you 3rd will be cancled. E allows you to go jungle and farm without detect from creeps.

Grubby reminded me other music packs exist in dota. I've been using dire shred pack for years. Earlier this week I started just putting all my music packs (minus some bad ones) on shuffle. Much more enjoyable. Nemestice music pack and this years TI music pack are phenomenal.

When you were reviewing this character in demo mode, it reminded me more of Zeratul in HotS than Maiev or Illidan. But she combines traits from all of them.

Finally i was waiting for this

Stiffling dagger is treated as a attack with true stirke. That means battle furry works

I think that Medusa was a returning player. If you come back from long ago all your heroes are level 1, that system didn't exist when I played. Storm spirit was my best hero, 200+ games 68% winrate, and the hero is level 1 like I've never played him.

The dusa is not necessarily a smurf. Maybe he just watches lots of dota videos.

Probably the most perfect game of that medusa's career, it's like everyone on grubby's team forgot one of the most deadly pos 1 carries existed never heard spiritbreaker ult a single time that game lmao, if he'd ulted medusa at the end there she'd be dead, but whoops

"This game is over!" Lol

I was waiting for this moment and it was worth it~ sins get wins. Cant wait til grubby tries templar too ;)

So close to S and many fun heroes like space cow, Storm Spirit, Sven, or Shadow Demon

Fun fact, her skills used to be very basic warcraft 3 abilities, so it was pretty cut and paste. Q was simply shadow strike. E was simply evasion. R arguably still is a simple crit, but it used to have the exact values of blade master's crit.

won an 80 minute mega creep comeback with PA yesterday - you actually basically solo-kill an entire team if you ever get to Rapier+Aghs at 60mins

Stifling dagger is great for enemy range heroes so you can farm safely max stifling first then just farm battle fury early jungle mode or the build phase boots deso paper heroes

The thing is phantom assasin is dependant of items so you should farm in early help if needed badly but always farm first. When you have your items ready with bkb then go clashing. Support enemy heroes are squishy so you can get deso early and phase boots. You dont need threads you have second skill that gives you attckspd. Phase boots, deso bkb. And your choice just add damage damage damage you can 1 shot team with stiffling dagger

0:30 poor jakiro abuse

19:09 Esports headshake oh no!

1minute in, we do know that the female version shown isnt an arcana... The beat arcana is there but its few years old and its pog

When against Axe and he marks you (Battle Hunger) try to last hit or deny creeps to remove effect immediately

*sees the thumbnail title* i see what you did there mr. editor xD nice touch

If you start losing lane as a core u better change item queue to cheaper item like wraith band for 1 or 2 to be durable in lane pahse and ask support to stack cuz you have to farm up or join other lane fight to get more gold and exp after tp to other lane you can clear the jungle while take your own way back to lane or even ganking other lane again. That medusa really know how strong he is when the time comes and items that required in team fight unless you dont need to pop up in team fight. It's really good thing to know when is your timing, when will your character will be strong especially with combination of items + teammates +enemy level + enemy items. Sometimes you dont have to finish the item like orb of corrosion its 800 gold you can get only 300 for-3 armor and get wraith band instead or even saving 875gold in early game just to get ring of health to get perma regen on your hero which lower the cost of cunsumption items.

how did he get in 30 miuntes demo mode the entire positioning, strategy and gameplan for pa right? grubby you are insane! not that its hard on paper but still, this took me years!

You should try to play like this dusa a couple of times, and see if this carry style fits you. PA is also a very farming heavy hero, but if you like to brawl more you should try bristle back, chaos knight, razor or slark as your go to carries after A to Z

With your fast & efficient button pressing with your spells, i would've reported you for smurfing. You are that good XD

basically in such matchups you need to know exactly when to stop farming, for pa its usually deso bkb 25 minutes then go win the game but learnin gthese power spikes takes alot of experience

The 3rd skill of P.A (Blur) when active makes she impossible to see even to Wards, and it keeps her invisible also when u are attacking non heroes units. When You have Aghanins, u can Spam ur E and keep invisible, making her almost impossible to Gank. She is my 2nd favorite hero (my 1st favorite hero is Sniper :) - My nickname in dota is Xerife Patinho, i'm Divine 5 playing almost only with sniper)

This should be a good diffu game for grubbs

This might be ur comfortable farming and suitable hero for you tbh grubby, if you play safelane and im pos 5 or 4 i would try to make space for you to farm Hope we could play together in some pubs 😊

OMG playing PA and this is the most team fighting I've seen grubby doing, more even then on pango and going for a Medusa he can't kill

1:35 excatly was i thought.

In dota1 her first item were battle fury if you ler her have it before minet 10 or even 15 there is no team can win against her! She can 1v3 or even 1v5 easily

Battlefury desolator abyssal bkb thats it. those 4 are core items for PA

You should switch PT to int before casting skills (you already know it). It helps to save a lot of mana. Esp when you're farming jungle and hve almost nothing to do but increase your efficiency

This game shows how big a difference good farming practice on a carry is. No matter how many kills you got as PA, it was not worth it, you could have went top and farmed as much as Dusa had and forced their enemy to rotate to deny you. Top lane was free for 30 minutes was very painful to watch, because those creeps dying without allied heroes around set your team back further than many deaths. In higher tiers of ranked you will see that it only matters more, If you win fights without taking objectives or creating space for your carry, you will ONLY lose matches.

Yup keep farming when enemies are near fighting your allies :D

You played with the mindset of a pos 3 or 4, you were looking to fight and make plays. When you play 1 prioritize your farm. Only fight if its a really good fight where you can get kills, and its close to you or a tower you can TP.

In Dota 1 PA shares the same model

Wait, is the hero persona voiced by generic young guy from Skyrim?

remmeber to tread swap, and if you're getting bf, get perseverance first. better for farming and laning

no perma invis for PA anymore? qq

You have to ask Nikobaby for some tips about PA.

Commentin here to reply to myself years later

another great vid! you are single-handedly restoring my faithin the dota community, :D

You should watch SirActionSlack's DotaLoregasm Video on Phantom Assassin.. i'm pretty sure you will like it..

Zed 👀

I personally love phase boots to pa

MOM is risky on her, it has always been like that since dota 1.

Would diffusal be good against Medusa?

Yeah I really reccomend farming more before you go and fight

its void sprit forced to become assasin

Dazzle supp hard lol

20 BF typical my kind of team PA, :C

that's 100% a smurf, with this farm pattern, while hitting all the right timings for stacks without losing 1 respawn, using manta, one time in ancients he was farming and he saw heroes on the map and stopped mid ancients to start pushing top, 5k at least player

Man i miss maiev❤

This games proves, that Dota 2 is a resources games. Imagine you all fighting but never get ahead in gold and xp. While medusa just farm lane creeps and jungle. If you just farm early grubby you have many items like him and this game should be even. Remember what Ceb told you, farm just farm until you hit your timing

My favorite hero since she has a scepter and shard

Dota plus suggesting basher instead of bkb against that line up is one of the many reason i dont trust it.

You forgot to mention the source hero.. Maiev the Warden!

I never understood the phase boots on PA and some other carries that depend heavily on attack speed. If someone can clarify I would be grateful.

Grubby needs to go bkb first rather than basher. They have too many disabler and stunner.

Medusa plays how carry is meant to be played. Dodge fights, leave Lane early when Sup is griefing you with EP, know hero and power spikes. You'll get that down too, and then you are easily out of the bracket in the future.

report spirit braker xD

Deep in their jungle with NO vision Calling team for help Yeah you've truly turned into a real Dota player

You are farming waaay too many neutrals when lanes are pushed in and safe to farm.

Medusa is a smurf, Since grubby perform better than guardian on many heroes specially Nagasiren, he will be matched with similar skilled enemy carries, Unfortunately people with that micro skills are usually Smurfs!

u killed their courier and still stand in their jungle... lucky u didn't get punished. joined fights that you shouldn't have joined and didn't get punished... u positioned yourself badly so many times and got punished very few times, and u were screaming team... u should acknowledge when bad positioning is your fault and no expect any help.

This game was winnable, only if this was like your 20th PA game and understand how to farm with her, what items to rush, where to be at certain parts of the game. But that dusa was likely a smurf or sniper trying to counter you. Team was decent, you had a pretty good impact, dusa just ruined the game.

That statement at the very last seconds of the video that you needed to "avoid all fights" is not true. Dusa didnt avoided fighting, she was trying to get kills whenever possible in early game. The difference is that because you are playing those heroes 1st time you dont know what are the limits and you overextend a lot on every single hero you play and that result in your deaths. Dusa didnt died single time in this game, you had 3 deaths by minute 10. Thats at least 2 deaths too much at that point for pos 1 and thats not becase you fight too much but because you dont know limits of your hero.

If this was in SEA innumerable profanities would've been raining left and right, from enemies and teammates alike. SEA doto best doto

No offense to grubby but pa is the perfect hero for the extreme tunnel vision he has. Whole team fighting? Grubby is creeping. Barracks dying? Grubby stealing their ancient camp. The lack of awareness and positioning usually triggers me but on pa that doesnt apply lol

One of the worst hard carry imo The damage output is not that high

Grubby whats ur dota id? Can we party? . Im 900mmr. Lol.

Every game he’s dominating in he goes for bkb and loses right after. Like every time he gets 1 core item, goes for bkb while enemies are getting more items for AA damage... Bro get your dps you’re carry bro

Maybe if grubby turn down the greediness to chase for a kill abit...he would be fine 😁

she is maiev

Grubby, you spent 15 minutes without going to the free farm top lane after t1 got destroyed. It is not optimum to do that. You should always look for safe places to farm before bf, deso and bkb.

Hi

Terror Blade>> Medusa

you need second item diffusal blade for Medusa

man, this game got so visually polluted since i stopped playing it. can barely tell what some of these heroes are under all those fugly overelaborated skins

your team composition was really bad for mid game team fighting as much as you guys did, not good magic damage burst, kinda of a greedy comp. their draft was much more cohesive. also, take a look how much sense medusa's farming pattern makes. shove waves, clear neutrals, shove wave, clear neutral. Pos1 players do best not playing the reaction game and more the "item timing" game

That Medusa looks like a smurf

PA Q does a small amount of damage to enemies, W increases your damage slightly, E does nothing, and R does a moderate amount of damage to enemies some of the time. There aren't heroes in the game that rely more on items than pa in order to have an impact in the game. if you gave every hero in the game 1000g and level 6 they would all be stronger than level 12 pa with 4000g.

sorry that you had to face a smurf

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Thankfully we didn't watch the game from the Medusa pov, would've been the most boring game ever. The rest of the match was pretty entertaining, the game just ended early by a ddoser.

Shame, another game ruined by a smurf.

medusa 170 cs more than your entire team. You said she is obvious smurf yet you don't report her as a smurf. This is why dota is dying - smurfs ruin games more than 50% of the time.

lol dusa most obvious smurf. Probably legend smurf.