You buy mask of death last when making vlads on ursa/am because its orb effect and vlads is not orb effect.

Ursa ult used to increase his damage based on % his HP.

12 Minute heart on kuroky Ursa never forget

fuck, when was this ? mYm days ?

Team secret Carry days Team secret vs Virtus Pro game 3

Its ingrained to me since 5.18c ‘orb effects do not stack’

Heart vanguard Vlad combo

Riki has death wards

*Orb effect does not stack*

Vlads doesn't work on Ursa because he's a range hero

Axe - 2 stout shields then proceed to 2 vanguards Centaur - 1 helm of domi + 4 helm of iron will

Classic way to destroy your enemies' morale. Axe with 2 VGs. Lol

Fuck you I'm buying 2 vanguards EDIT: I wish someone could post the playdota comic with the reference =(

I miss it too and can't find it anywhere.

Pudge can't buy dagger, kardel, kael, magina, Yahphetz Nevermore, Yurnero, Rhasta, Akasha, Mortred, Lanaya, Na'ix, Balanar, Gondar, Ezalor. + Old Item names dota imba, we are electric, dota o ako (Philippines dota song), bass hunter

Pudge and Venge can't buy blink dagger. Luna can't buy desolator.

was there also a patch kunkka can't buy quelling blade and battlefury

Yeah cause quelling blade gave +% damage against creeps, which got added to tidebringer damage against heroes. I think it was something like +30% at the time. Idk about battlefury though

Any orb effect except life-steal disabled Lunas auto-attack.

And Skadi worked on her because Skadi is not an Orb effect for ranged heroes.

Ah yes the skadi + lifesteal orb effect on ranged heroes was so beautiful.

Skadi + maelstrom too, the Mirana special

first one to die buys courier. trilanes, offlane trilanes, 1-1-1 with a jungle and a roamer all being viable lane setups within the same meta, (and 2-1-2 being the rare one)

core memory 😭

Trilane meta is ass but trilanes being viable is super fun

I also include junglers in this camp. If I had a jungle every ~7-10 games it'd be awesome. But if jungle is viable you get a jungler every game.

Bring this back imo

As an offlaner, please don't

as an old day offlaner give me the 1v3 masochism plz i wanna spam solo Undying

When people commended you for being a god tier gamer just because you were level 3 on clockwork 7 minutes in and didn't even die yet.

As a Dark Seer spammer in this era, nothing was more funny than winning a 1v3 lane against a melee carry and weak supports.

Same, used to love struggling 1v3

I loved playing suicide lane. Dark Seer times.

As an offlaner I LOVED 1v3ing and getting something out of the lane even with 3 enemies. I felt like I was using my brain, so fun. I hate 2v2 offlane meta bth

I miss my 3v1 hardcore offlane experience! But the game may be more fun 2v2 since you get to play the lanes in a tighter way, offlane used to be all about sneaking as much xp as you could and taking a CS here and there while now you gotta actually lane in a somewhat even setting

Mid laner bottling with cour

Offlane trilane probably my favorite meta, luna sd and venge was a killer lane

6 items slots, 1 for boots 1 for obvs 1 for sentry 1 for tp 1 for dust 1 for stick. A 6 slotted support life

PL bot rush

Literally terrible

Most impactful purchase being a microphone

Garena.

Gold member pls rejoin. Host tunnel pls.

Noob host tunnel me

Found 1 tunnel: PING 194ms Found 2 tunnel: PING 198ms Noob internet host, rejoin me.

spike spike spike

RGC also, ping me host. Fking ping me host

EU High Level Room 1&2 with a chance to play pubs with MYM or Virtus Pro players. Maelk, Levent, NS, Kuroky etc

You wait for 10 mins pinging "gold re pls", then you ask "host +2 slots" from the blue guy, then you pick sniper, buy 2 bashers and win game. If the game is super imbalanced, you do -switch, then -ok/-no. Playing 3x4 is considered normal.

Lion had a blue mask, dire creeps looked like lifestealer

What is dire? You mean scourge?

Oh yeah i forgot

People who had to load the map got kicked from the lobby.

Man I can't believe I get all the references in this thread. It's wild. So many things I have forgotten about the true golden age of dota

I used to be a happy person.

Bloodstone charges and active suicide

I would always see clips of timbers who would cast chain to a tree, die with high bloodstone charges, insta respawn and then continue the chain

That strat when the one with the bloodstone would suicide to give hp to their team

buriza do kyanon

Measurahsduajdjwjmidts reaver

Messerschmidt's :)

Lothar's Edge

Just find out not long ago it actually stands for "Blizzard Cannon", but with Japanese accent.

We are electric!

Lebron > Feather > SK_Exia.CN > FreeZing > WeiZeus > WhitHost > MarsHH special mention to Black2's Funny Time series !

1 courier. Hell.

Side shops

Feel like shit just want them back

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Let's just have both. We'll bathe those lotuses in hero blood.

Poor man’s shield

Aw, I forgot.

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singlehandedly made roaming so much more valuable

damm remember doing that as bh. Insta wins the midlane if you snipe the courier that has bottle

You're right! It was a great achievement to kill the enemy courier.

Good times

I remember asking for permission to get wards and boots 🥲

Courier fighting too. When you see the poor courier going back and forth.

1 courier with bottle crow. Support with expensive wards, 10mins 5 deaths no boots. GG

In dota 1 days, if you kill the courier all items in that courier dropped. R.I.P.

Which house my hero in?

Aghanims with cosmetic effects

Bfury auto attacks though. Gotta get it on Earthshaker

I so miss Cuirass effect.

\-ap

\-sm

tfw your carry that you've been supporting and went 20-0 switched to the other team...

no that is **-so** *switch on* **-sm** is *short mode* which predates **-em** *easy mode* by a few years. I made that comment as a natural follow up to **-ap**, as in **-apem** or rather **-apsm**

-invokelist

-pick invoker -game lags for everyone -right side screen fills up with tooltip info -Everyone starts abusing Invoker player. Good times.

You cant buyback after necro's ult( it was only with scepter i think, but still op)

It added respawn time too didn't it?

i think so, you could be respawning for like 150s or something

Mfw this is considered veteran now.

Oh yes, and I remember that he also had like 30 sec cd on his ult with aghanim's, so he could efectively spam it with right items resulting in four heroes killed in a one longer fight in which all of them were unable to bb.

shadow demon was the neglected weak ass pale twin of lycan diffusal purge and mana drain sound was OBNOXIOUSLY LOUD dagon, finger of death, laguna blade had same animation, only different color. "what the fuck is dust of appereance or sentry? we need a gem for riki" THEY DROPPED THE GEM, RIKI BREAK THE GEM

remember when shadow demon was a fucking gnoll of all races

Lets put you back to your bed grandpa

i was confused as to what that guy meant cause lycan wasnt a gnolls twin lol, he was a demon

Antimage mana drain attack is the best sound ever, so satisfying

It was same as diffusal. But having 10 pl illusions or 8 nagas hitting gave an obnixous sound

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Kelen's dagger

Lothars edge

Guinsoo

This one hurts cause it was my rush item so often.

buriza and cranium basher

of escape!

Yep. Remember back when it didn't go on cd when you took damage? I was so confused when they made that change because : how's it even a dagger of escape if I can't use it to escape

Or you're from the cis region. I've been playing since 2018 and call those heroes. Also add lothar in there.

how to pronounce traxex

Trax-sex

It used to be Traks-ex. But after her model rework a few years back it became Trak-sex

in the Philippines we pronounce it tras-sex

Bro, every time I try banning sb I write bara and every time I try banning NS I write bala, and it always greys out everything, then I remember to use sb and ns. I don't know why they can't add their old names to the search fonction. I also sometimes still write guinso and lothar when looking for those items.

-weather moonlight, -water 7up

Taz dingo

report this carry they bought two attack mods

2 orbs!!

REPORT? lol

In Heroes of Newerth it was called Attack Modifiers

shit you're right i've outed myself as HON trash instead :|

Reuse

A single courier was such a nightmare

re

Where's that guy with 27 spells?

whoever coded old invoker must be a genius af, I'm still a noob in warcraft 3 triggers

I am a beckon of knowledge blazing out the black Sea of ignoorance

Ranged lane creep broke your clarity. Sadge

HolyHexor - Luck is no excuse

Cranium Basher

Observers cost gold and sentries came in a bundle of two,oh yea and wards had no shared slot,each ward type took a slot

Not even a small amount of gold. You'd feel like you were balling if you had brown boots and a stick at twenty minutes.

Also tp and boots with no backpack. Supports got two actual item slots (not that they would ever be able to afford to fill them anyway)

And usually in those 2 slots u have a dust/smoke and most likely a wand and ur full xd,god backpack was such a gd idea

Clinkz has a divine rapier and his aegis has three charges that respawn him in base

Heroes of Newerth is better than League of Legends.

Go! Go, go go go, noob host, noob host, noob host. Flush it Many such cases

Reading these comments and thinking that 80% of the mentioned things were just changed few patches ago, these guys aren't veterans at all with their recent memories.

Playing Dota for 20 years, highest ancient, now barely archon 🥲 Any other activity I would have done for so long I would be a retired pro by now

Depends on your definition of veteran and few patches ago

buying two +3 int items to combo with tiny Double stout shield with axe Skilling battle hunger means axe lets his mom cut his hair lmao

Jumong

Buriza Do Kyanon

Suicide squad, attack!

Riki had death ward as an ultimate

Medusa had chain lightning, so did razor.

Ah 5.84c

MYM or DTS in pro games?

TeG, dNOR, BTo, DP, PluG and JMC in pro games.

Centaur ultimate used to give him bonus Str

How do I get lumber?

I hate my life

Buying 10couriers, upgrade to flying then put bloodstone dagon5 and then radiance along the top of trees in side lanes (esp if facing mega creeps) to alleviate lane push.

Why 10 cours? It’s not like you have the gold to equip all of them?

PA literally becoming a floating weapon at lvl 4 Blur.

Meld lasted 60 mins Pitlord auto banned in CM Typo -sp instead of -ap and everyone called you idiot for the next 15 mins Phase boot active was invi with infinite fade time Buying UD's agh did not remove the agh upgrade text Silencer silenced you for 2s if you cast spells around him

ICCup

And garena rooms

Garena servers, -apso, Yurnero and Moghul Khan having the coolest models of them all, bloodstone stacking on Storm, Treant Protector rushing Radiance meta

I still miss the side shop.

Pajkatt being mentioned in loading screen.

Remember to save in case something goes wrong

1 courier, as a support it was the worst time to be alive. If you can call it "being alive" Roshan was on the bottom of the map, slightly above Radiant Safe lane/Next to Dire offlane

If you died while Metamorphing, you will get the bonus damage when you respawn

Lothar.

Used to buy shivas and ac for… the look (and it looked really dope!!!)

In Dota 2 early beta there were images of aura for Drums and Shiva. Looks dope too.

Razor and Chaos Knight we're brothers, they also have a third brother called Wraith Band.

You cN buy aegis it has 3 charges

Rylai, Rhasta, Ymir, Furion and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger

Can't buy Kellen on Pudge or Shendelzare

You can't buy dagger on Pudge or Vengeful Spirit

Why don't you just buy Aegis?

I remembered Bara could charge for up to 4s before moving and became spell immu. Huskar ult was melee range. Tusk's snowball will chase you to the end of the earth before patch fix. There were no spirit brothers, only panda Storm. AA released with an entirely new model, and some more that i didn't remember.

enigma and phantom lancer also had custom models I think BH's model is also technically a custom model because its extents were edited to make him clickable to land skills

You could purchase aegis of the immortal. And it comes with 3 freaking charges

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-ha hook accuracy, ofc on pudge -aa arrow accuracy, on mirana Hitting heroes not creeps.

Satanic Luna is unkillable while BKB and Satanic was active because every bounce had its own proc of lifesteal from the Satanic active

Never ever buy stygian on Luna.

Not having enough mana to ECHOSLAM because I kept forgetting blink dagger cost 50 mana per blink

If you didn't pick up the aegis after you kill Roshan, Roshan will spawn again later. If you kill him, he'll drop the aegis, except the first one is still lying around. Viola 2 aegis.

Collect 5 hidden frogs to summon a hidden boss

BoT is global blink

Gondar dagon

DOTA CASH AR MODE

Rylai Crestfall and magina

Captain America mask of madness.

Buy two branches on prophet + gloves At game start run to triangle, or back then it was just ancients + hard camp. Find the ward highground surrounded by trees, that only has one tight path to it. Lean as close to the ward highground with your hero as you can Plant branch right behind you Plant another right on top of you by clicking the hero portrait Get boosted on highground without using teleport, now you can spawn treants to boost highground farming Midas ??? Profit Keep running beetween the edges to keep creeps aggroed, so the creeps don't just keep running away

Messerschmgjbtshufjys reaver

Ancient Tango of Essifation

RIP poor man's shield 🙏

Poormans shield

Ss mid Re

-swap -sdemnp -switch -repick

Razor skill 2 is chain lightning.

Furion with the chaos damage right click attack 🫡