At 37:26, Alch starts swinging so fast you can't even see the swords. Classic anime ending.

Saaaame

that was really something after all

Literally *gold*

Gotta say, I didn't see ICBM Alchemist coming, but I guess neither did Dire

The alch was actually waiting for a fourth moonshard on his courier, which he instantly ate before he finally popped out. Absolutely wild.

that was absolute filth

Alch: This is the power of my stand [M O O N S H A R D] *screams*

1 parallel universe for each moon shard

He refused to go for the Ancient before destroying the ones in other parallel universes first - that's what the delay at 37:10 was.

Someone told me once you can't backdoor in DOTA2, that you need creeps in the base or you can't damage the buildings. Was I misinformed?

@@ArlanKels Yes. There's something called backdoor protection, a unique status effect for buildings. It regenerates their health at a significant rate if no enemy creeps are around. Only certain heroes or in certain late game situations is someone able to just tear through the protection like the Alchemist did this episode.

@@gunnar1746 and in this case.. Alchemist was the living picture of a tower-clicking glass-cannon machine gun

@@ArlanKels you definitely can. You normally can't this fast. But a good agi hero with regular items can do the same thing.

Come on it was 4 v 4 all game. That tide was nonexistent, i counted one ravage?!

I can only hope he was gaming at the time.

And even using his items. Madness

I had to get dota to really satisfy my need to know the item powers. I think the best way aside from that would be to watch the scrubcasts he does on wednesdays on twitch. pflax hosts them and twitch has a plugin that lets you hover your mouse over the icons to get info on skills and items and stuff. it's very cool. daf plays in them sometimes too.

As a fellow filthy league player it's strange hearing pyriom discuss timing dives with taking towers as if its something new - I'd love to hear more about nuances of dota meta

Hey dude don't call yourself a dirty league player, I play both quite often and comparing the two really doesn't prove anything because they are marginally different games. Enjoy Dota dude, you'll start realising that there's a lot less bullshit here, and don't be scared from the learning curve!

@@1love3forever i've been watching the scrubcast vods and the casual disregard for towers is a huge difference

I used to play a bunch of League while my mates played dota. Honestly if you can try dota, especially if you can get some decent people to play with! The game has such a slicker feel to it, just my opinion but at the very least try it out!

Impossible.

I’ve never laughed this hard at a Scrubcast before. Truly fucking amazing!

He probably loses way more than he wins lol. That requires you to have a team that can win effectively a man down. cause in most cases his team probably dies they tp back and stunlock him

i was just about to say that

I'm glad :)

You can consume moonshard to gain half its effect :) and you can only consume one

Ah, thanks! Only played a few games so I wasn't sure what it did

Ahhh and I just got to the part of the video where they cover that

yah they would have won like 15 minutes earlier if he'd participated

yeah this is the kind of player that infuriates me and ruins my games, win or lose. Its a team game, I didn't queue into a potentially hour long game to witness your 1v9. Its disrespectful to other players. The big exception is if its communicated beforehand at the game's start. I'm all down for goofy meme strats if they're communicated and played around

Basically because if his team weren't good enough to win 4v5, he costs them the game - and yet he probably considers himself mvp for nrly throwing it xD

He's got one strat, a gimmick, and he's doing it no matter what. Does the enemy teleport back and kill him every single time? He'll just do it again and again forever

Safe lane / off lane is the geography. The horizontal creep path lane (bot for radiant) puts the creeps in a safer location for farming in relation to the jungle so it's called safe and the carry usually tries to farm there. Off lane is the opposite lane. Pos 1-5 is role based on position in that lane geography (from radiant pov, left to right). Pos1 and 2 share top lane trying to interfere with opponent pos 4/5. Pos 3 is mid. Pos 4 is your carry in bot lane and pos 5 is support for that carry. It's relatively new terminology in the grand scheme of dota but it works pretty well. Clearly people don't follow it too well in this level of play lol

That description of the positions is completely wrong. The positions from 1-5 denote farm priority. Pos1 is the safelane carry, pos 2 is the midlaner, pos 3 is the offlaner, pos 4 is the support (goes offlane with pos3), and pos 5 is the hard support (goes safelane with pos1). If two teammates approach the same camp to farm, usually the higher priority farmer will be given the creeps since they're more reliant on items to be effective.

@@treemeister2616 I've been playing dota for years and never heard anyone use it like that

Was uncoached

nice

@@paulajacinto4280 thank

Bring em on!

I don't want to get into the argument over DD runes. They do seem like they swing the games a lot, but I haven't played in a long time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ As for the effects you listed, many of them (including bash, crit, evasion, uphill miss, or (bear) root --- take a look at the wiki, it lists them all) use pseudo-random distribution (PRD). What it does is that the actual probability is much lower than what's listed but is increased every time the effect doesn't proc, e.g.: * While Basher says it has 25% chance to proc, the base probability is actually about 8.5%. However, each time it doesn't proc that chance gets increased by the base amount so you get ~8.5% on the 1st hit, ~17% on the 2nd hit, ~25.5% on the 3rd, etc. until it procs. When it does the probability gets reset back to the base amount. This way you have randomness but lower its impact as it's unlikely (but not impossible, of course) that people will proc or not proc something several times in a row.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbqKlrpp3NPRn2g.html

I mean, not noticing that your base is being soloed I guess is one of the worst things I've ever seen in Dota, but it was over so quickly that alch could have gotten in some amazing damage (like destroying all barracks) before they could have TP'd.

yare yare daze...