Baumi is now canonically an adult mud golem

I think the values in Leshrac's abilities are there to signify imperfection or impurity.

I'd love to see the story of Lina the Slayer! She's been a support, and a mid, and a carry throughout her life time. And I think it's heroes like that that have the most interesting stories.

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I don't even play DOTA and have 5 total hours on Steam but am loving your videos. I know you specialize in hero stories but it would be interesting to see "Best Games of all time" or "Best series' of all time" talking about the narratives leading up to those games/series and analyzing the gameplay, picks/bans within those games. Keep up the great work!

It's so great revisiting these old TI games. LD and Lumi casting together..... it was a joyful time

Man, I played Dota 2 since 2016 and stopped at certain point and on and off until 2023. Watching your videos recently makes me want to play seriously again. I wish my favorite hero will be featured. Terrorblade. Thanks more power to you

The production value and information leeps betting better with each successive video! Keep it up!

Man I remember TI 2015 one of the craziest stories of all time and leshrac was right in tbe middle of it. A testament to straight forward caster design and power over complexity. Another fantastic video!

Can’t believe you didn’t mention the base defense of PSG LGD vs Secret when NTS Lesh would spam aghs shard Split Earth on his highground, making it nearly impossible to siege against

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Leshrac was a hero I did not know when I watched professional matches. I just knew him as the one everyone banned, and I did see him played a few times, but ended up dying rather fast.

The pick / ban phase from EG at TI5 was just masterful.

i remember getting my friend into Dota around this time. He had League experience and would feed badly in pretty much every game which is understandable being new to Dota. However he played 2 games as Leshrac and was beyond godlike against players with hundreds or thousands of hours

Yo, this baumi. The casual dota2 video maker. This dude was such a great dota2 representative. Man was an axtual normal person in the dota2 community. None of the salty sweatlord desperation to be as high MMR and high skill that most streamers and videomakers. This man paved the way for the dota2 meme channels.

I have watched nearly all of these videos in the span of a week, fantastic channel. I don’t even play Dota 2 but you put together a story so well anyone can follow.

55:26 mud golem baumi is the new best baumi in the baumiverse

These videos are so good man, watched almost all of the story videos in the span of 2-3 days. Thanks

This kind of channel and level of content content is the type tht reaches 300k+ subs. Its just a matter of time. INCREDIBLE stuff dude, keep it up!

I dont even play DOTA and these videos are just amazing to watch. Seriously great job and thank you!

I really enjoyed this episode, the theatrics were on point! Though I do miss the part where a pro/experienced player speaks about the situation too

I'm a league player and found these vids in my sidebar. The videos are so well this is my 3rd one.

Man, just found your channel here. And I'm stunned with how complete they are. It's very good if you had done a time skip, for example I played in 2015 and then coming back now in 2024. It's good to see aaaaall the updates.

I've watched every single one of these and I've been so excited for the episode on Leshrauc, because he's been talked about in every other episode.

I like this long-form stories about dota heroes. your dota content is dope. the fact that your voice reminds me of Internet Historian, makes me hooked. keep it up, man.

Love the videos just a thought for future videos. When you show the patch version maybe put the date. Dota always reminds us when we started and these videos remind me of all changes but I wonder what patch changes affected me and which ones were before my time. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Gotta say I really love this series! At first I thought I would lose interest at some point but these videos are so insightful while being super fun and obviously nostalgic. Keep it up!

1:53:40 should have been "A legend through and through, which has undoubtedly earned a spot as a king of dota 2" imo. Great video!

I just wanna say I remember when you said "lashrac is the only hero who can push after team fight". Now, my petty points please

extra points for the soundtrack fitting the hero meme so well

I haven't played much Dota but I've never seen Leshrac in a pub game. Learned a lot from this video

57:52 This is easily the most important part of the video and anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. I was a position 4 support among my friend groups (though I honestly should have been 5 with how/who I played), and I remember giving Leshrac a few attempts in public games but could never get a hang of his long windup animations for his spells. Seeing how polarizing he was in the Internationals was definitely interesting, he never would have lived up to his potential at the level I was playing at.

I’m loving this show, some of the best dota content out there. Just a suggestion, if you wanted to mix it up from focusing on heroes, I think episodes on players would be really interesting, like an episode on the history of puppey, fy, zai, kuroky etc

Just stumbled upon this video randomly and I immediately got familiarized with the narration to realize it was Baumi! I used to binge watch your old Dota 2 vids when I was in college :D learned a lot from them as well! Nice to see you doing well, subscribed. :D

My project can wait

man not banning leshrac in the grand finals so the enemy, who you know aren't used to playing leshrac, are forced to pick it to deny you from having it, is a real evil genius maneuver. true to their name

Those videos are fantastic. I love them so much. The work you put it shows at every level. Once I watched one of your videos, it become lore to sleep in my ears. Cheers!

Great video as expected. Just want to request an Earthshaker or Tiny story. Should be fun.

Let’s not forget the best Leshrac player the world has ever seen, Chi Long Qua. Showing us time and time again how to win games and dumpster the shitstains.

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When Leshrac is in the meta, hes REALLY in the meta. A toggled ultimate and its uniqueness i think plays a big factor.

Leshrac was probably strong enough to be a consistent core pick during TI4, but the years of being a bad stun or push-centric support kept him down. And so he kept getting those little bitty buffs until he was dominant. The hilarious thing about his rise in 2015 was that he was tried out as a joke--in the wacky era of 2015-2017 when lots of new items, new crazy aghs abilities and then talents were introduced, players of all stripes spent lots of time brainstorming the wildest things you could do with the new content (ah, the good old joke of Aghs Lifestealer eating an ally then infesting another to make a 3-player stack, then relocating pretty much a whole team in by tethering the infested hero). So after Octarine Core was released, the brainstormers looked at that and said, 'You know, with Nova running on 5 heroes you were getting insane health regen from this new spell lifesteal", so they started trying it out...and quickly realized that, Octarine Core or no, Leshrac was the most busted hero of the era. A hero so good he had to be banned in almost 90% of the games and, in a weird way, was pretty much responsible for deciding the TI winner that year, I don't know we'll ever see such a dominant hero again.

You can feel the improvement of quality. Love the videos

Amazing video as always, loved the narration and the editing, keep it up guys!

Leshrac is such an amazing hero by virtue of it detracting from how conventional cores work. Unbelievable amount of pressure without the dependence to items and always impactful in the right hands. Such a cool hero. Sumail made the hero shine. Undisputed Lesh goat imo.

For anyone wondering the other popular hero mentioned in TI5 section was techies

What a fabulous video, I find these endlessly entertaining - more More MORE MOAR!

I know you probably have already chosen the next hero, but id love a video on a hero that is usually played as an offlaner. Tidehunter for example.

You wanna know why his spell progressions have no pattern? "All is chaos" - Leshrac

All your videos have been great but I agree the storyline aspect really took it up a notch!

i miss the old charges bloodstone that gave you xp after you died

Ive played lesh since 2002 when he was called the tormented soul! He has always been viable.

Just realized that this is Baumi. Used to watch your Dota 2 vids playing custom games.

"Collective braincell of the player base" is such a wonderfully acerbic fact.

Got me thinking about that dude on some ytb video saying that Leshrac was a support and people just kept forcing him mid. 18 picks, 145 bans and a 55℅ wr...

Hope medusa will have a story on its own one day. She was my favorite and i loved farming. I hope I will know what happened to her this years.

Sounds like Leshrac and I have something in common

the new hero we never knew about -lezz shark

Good job Boomi! 🙌

This is so detailed! baumi you absolute legend

Amazing analysis as always

I was Lesh carry in Dota 1. Boots/4 bracers/tp boots and than u have whatever you want before anyone else.

These videos are amazing, looking forward to more! Morphling would be great.

Leshrac preferred “STAYING ALIVE” … Well played you cheeky Baumi …..

hey baumi small typo on the top right corner when talking about CDEC, it's CDEC not CEDEC ;D

Great video and storytelling

I enjoyed the story/personification aspects, they were fun here

Mud golem Baumi is amazing, great job Tuzki

TI5 story was amazing... I was following TI back then, but not as closely... mainly youtube highlights. Therefore, I didn't knew about CDECs problem with leshrac

Very enjoy the content! Must be tons of work for high production value like this..

I can't wait to see the Sand King vídeo after The International 12 hahahah

LETS GOOOO THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY MONTH

gotta log back in to dota to vote for the short film contest lmao

Really curious to see if Leshrac makes a significant appearance in this next TI.

would love to see a video on some of the low pick-rate in casual heroes like brood, visage or chen, and their impacts on competitive

That’s really good note, CDEC can’t play Leshrac mid. Could be the mid laner hero pool. It was a gamble by PPD. Only puppey and him would be daring to do during that time.

55:01 mud golem Baumi got a lmao out of me

Definitely my second favorite behind witch doctor

I noticed the Dislyte soundtrack in the background at points !

cant believe bottle ferrying was a thing until TI5, it feels like forever since it was removed from the game, here in the Philippines, we call it the "bote crow" technique. haha

Leshrac will be my #1mid hero for all time

whats that song at 1:26:00 its from something ive heard it before i need to know!! rawr!!!

Disco music. Nice touch!

Baumi my love, I need my fav hero video. DAZZZZZZZZZZZLE!

i like how baumi was turned into a mud golem

Can you do a recap on all the internationals as a whole

this was great

another banger video

Can't fucking wait for u to do AM / Rubick, gonna be a good day.

3 days of Duration is OP indeed, Jokes aside nice video.

LE - SHRAC! I got you to make this video huh boy?

i would love to see an episode on a hero that was never OP, someone like BB maybe? or LC?

Made bloodstone perfect for Lesh while ruining it for storm

God i miss old school bloodstone....specially on medusa.

in all my 20,000 hours of playing dota, never have i ever played this hero or ever even intended to XDD i see like this hero like techies

Nice vid.

Thanks for the prediction, as an ex-Terrorblade user.

King of Miracle Injoker :D

This was great but I really can't wait for tiny the hero that got meta in all roles

I remember leshrac was one of the best heroes in the patch before they added nihilism. Also spring 2022 im pretty sure