Hey guys! Take note that these are just your typical picks in pubs and just who you'd normally face in the midlane. These can vary depending on elo and region, and some picks that I may not have mentioned in this part or in the last part are perfectly viable midlaners if played well. Also, take note that I may have covered certain heroes as offlaners and I just don't want to repeat myself. Check out the offlaners videos if you haven't already: ua-cam.com/video/LQ-s-j4lEOs/v-deo.html And the supports too: ua-cam.com/video/cUO46DuDLaE/v-deo.html Carries (and the end of the Dota half of this project with them) are on their way so I hope you guys are excited for them!
Ace, if you're making a League version of this; if you need consultation on where to place Kayle and how newbies should play her, you have a 3.6m Mastery Point OTP available at your disposal
Ahhh Outsource Developer, my beloved. Outdoor Dining, my favorite hero. Obscure Demonstration is the Butterfield Cucumber of dota 2 Edit:that snapfire section lmao
Some extra Storm Spirit tips from a Storm main: 1. The pull remnant combo in lane is actually W -> walk forward -> auto -> q -> auto. This is because even with static slide, just standing in place means that your remnant can trigger on a nearer enemy creep before it even hits your target. The logic here is that the pull is only to give you an overload proc that slows, and that subsequent slow is what allows you to hit your next remnant + overload. You can also decide to pull -> walk forward -> auto -> auto -> remnant while auto is midair. This way you make use of getting a surprise overload proc and stack its damage instantly with your remnant, which is a good way to surprise enemy midlaners who are trying to hold out on using fairie fire / stick to survive, or on ekeing out the littlest amount of health by squeezing in a clutch salve/bottle charge in between the damage instances. 2. When assassinating someone in the sidelane/jungle or jumping a backliner in a teamfight, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T NEED TO INSTANTLY STUN THEM, you can hold off on using your pull, especially if you have Orchid. The max damage combo is Zip (on top) -> silence during jump -> auto during jump and before it ends -> remnant while they're slowed -> zip auto -> pull as silence ends -> auto -> q -> auto. 3. You don't always have to do the max combo, as stated in the previous example. If you need to pull immediately, just do that. Usually, these will be heroes who have or built dispels, and so just zip on top and pull immediately. Then again, these guys should never be your targets until they use it. 4. Storm has a lot of mana issues, but storm also builds an insane amount of int, and should always have either an orchid or a witch blade. This means that in fights, most of your damage is just pure right clicking and doing the midair overload trick from afar. In fact, unless you're specifically jumping someone to burst them, you should be using your jump to kite away at around your max auto attack range. Your damage is not from ult, and you should almost never use it as such in fights. You can, however, probably jump in and remnant to secure kills. Even in teamfight situations where you're jumping the backline, it might be wiser to jump from behind them away from the enemy team instead of on top of them. This way, you give yourself time to react with another jump if they turn, and your pull literally pulls them away from everyone else instead of in place. 5. Alt click the numbers on the right side of your portrait to display your attack range at the start of the game. 6. If in a pinch, remember where you're facing (just like puck and qop) and remember that ZIPPING THROUGH is the fastest way out, since zipping in any other direction requires Storm to turn first. He does have a fast turn rate though, and so if you watch a lot of Sumail and Abed clips, you'd probably see them zipping to side but angled a bit to the front, or to the side instead of backwards.
For anyone looking to pick up QoP, I recommend trying out the aghs build. It's reliably useful, and forces you to play on the outskirts of fights, whittling down foes, more, which in turn will help you improve on QoP. I always liked playing QoP, but going the old orchid build that required you to snowball hard made me a bit too yolo on the hero, and I was honestly pretty bad at her. Since picking up the aghs build I've improved a lot, and now feel like I can pick her more without potentially griefing my team. Also, my personal favorite iteration of the build is octarine into aghs. It's horribly greedy, but is just so much fun once it comes online. Also I wouldn't say Zeus is necessarily bad late (unless you are into unwavering condition, but that's a rare scenario). Usually as the game goes late bkb durations fall off, meanwhile the power of global abilities, and how they let you play the map, goes up. Also access to more survivability items makes zeus a nightmare to kill, and of course the classic aghs refresher combo gives you some mean burst damage you can use to explode some hapless fool a teammate gets the jump on (or even one you get the jump on in some cases if they blindly wander into W range).
Some extra trivia: 1. OD's Scepter upgrade can be completely negated by anything that applies break, because it is tied to Essence Flux. As long as his passives are disabled, he will not benefit from the shield. Keep that in mind if you're having trouble. 2. To clarify, Void Spirit's innate does NOT give a passive 25% all stats increase. It only increases secondary bonuses, which include health regen (strength), armor (agility), mana regen and magic resistance (intelligence). Health, attack speed and mana are considered primary bonuses of each respective attribute and remain unchanged.
@@Acex2ron At the pre-nerf 33% it was one of those quiet innates that doesn't seem like much on paper but then you get into game and go "why is this guy so tanky with just an echo, manta, aghs?" I haven't seen it much post nerf, but extra benefit from building stats on a universal hero will probably never be bad. Oh, and for what it's worth a void spirit with 6 skadis becomes ridiculously tanky. I've never gone that route, cause there is no way its good, but it'd probably be pretty funny at least.
I kind of dislike the Tinker rework, it for other reason, but because the cannons on his left became just decoration. They used to shoot rockets. What is their purpose now?
Well done! Snapfire is genius explained🤣 Anyway he sees spiritbreaker as counter to anything… i mean sniper? Really? Since headshot stops charge i cannot agree on that at all.. As spiritbreaker player i gotta say, a good sniper is very very hard to kill… almost impossible… Its same as when you wanna kill a Medusa as antimage… on paper its easy, in reality impossible (well unless he buys a maelstrom aka he is bad…)
Looks like so many heroes are missing. Tiny is one of the strongest mid hero at this point, sand king and pangolier are also very popular mid at pro scene.
12:30 No comment there. I take the shrapnel cool reduction too. +50 range wouldn't make you beyond the enemy's reach but -30s cooldown allows more intel gathering. For a hero that is super squishy that is dead the moment enemy heroes are on top of you, you would want to know the situation ahead before moving anywhere.
OD does glass canon damage while being incredibly difficult to kill, he is also deceptively fast and he has one of the best AOE nukes in the game too :(. He is one of those heroes that require good team work to shut down, beating him solo is difficult because the player would have to be an idiot to die mid without ganks
Hey guys! Take note that these are just your typical picks in pubs and just who you'd normally face in the midlane. These can vary depending on elo and region, and some picks that I may not have mentioned in this part or in the last part are perfectly viable midlaners if played well.
Also, take note that I may have covered certain heroes as offlaners and I just don't want to repeat myself.
Check out the offlaners videos if you haven't already:
ua-cam.com/video/LQ-s-j4lEOs/v-deo.html
And the supports too:
ua-cam.com/video/cUO46DuDLaE/v-deo.html
Carries (and the end of the Dota half of this project with them) are on their way so I hope you guys are excited for them!
Ace, if you're making a League version of this; if you need consultation on where to place Kayle and how newbies should play her, you have a 3.6m Mastery Point OTP available at your disposal
i want pudge in every video and im NOT kidding
Just... Not pos 5. Please! I can't play like this no more.
He does fit every role
Ahhh Outsource Developer, my beloved. Outdoor Dining, my favorite hero. Obscure Demonstration is the Butterfield Cucumber of dota 2
Edit:that snapfire section lmao
Outhouse decorator has a pretty cool design tho all things considered
Even Valve jokes about him. Try to read the name of his innate inside the client by hovering on and off the innate, you will get a little surprise
orangutan dispenser
Some extra Storm Spirit tips from a Storm main:
1. The pull remnant combo in lane is actually W -> walk forward -> auto -> q -> auto. This is because even with static slide, just standing in place means that your remnant can trigger on a nearer enemy creep before it even hits your target. The logic here is that the pull is only to give you an overload proc that slows, and that subsequent slow is what allows you to hit your next remnant + overload. You can also decide to pull -> walk forward -> auto -> auto -> remnant while auto is midair. This way you make use of getting a surprise overload proc and stack its damage instantly with your remnant, which is a good way to surprise enemy midlaners who are trying to hold out on using fairie fire / stick to survive, or on ekeing out the littlest amount of health by squeezing in a clutch salve/bottle charge in between the damage instances.
2. When assassinating someone in the sidelane/jungle or jumping a backliner in a teamfight, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T NEED TO INSTANTLY STUN THEM, you can hold off on using your pull, especially if you have Orchid. The max damage combo is Zip (on top) -> silence during jump -> auto during jump and before it ends -> remnant while they're slowed -> zip auto -> pull as silence ends -> auto -> q -> auto.
3. You don't always have to do the max combo, as stated in the previous example. If you need to pull immediately, just do that. Usually, these will be heroes who have or built dispels, and so just zip on top and pull immediately. Then again, these guys should never be your targets until they use it.
4. Storm has a lot of mana issues, but storm also builds an insane amount of int, and should always have either an orchid or a witch blade. This means that in fights, most of your damage is just pure right clicking and doing the midair overload trick from afar. In fact, unless you're specifically jumping someone to burst them, you should be using your jump to kite away at around your max auto attack range. Your damage is not from ult, and you should almost never use it as such in fights. You can, however, probably jump in and remnant to secure kills. Even in teamfight situations where you're jumping the backline, it might be wiser to jump from behind them away from the enemy team instead of on top of them. This way, you give yourself time to react with another jump if they turn, and your pull literally pulls them away from everyone else instead of in place.
5. Alt click the numbers on the right side of your portrait to display your attack range at the start of the game.
6. If in a pinch, remember where you're facing (just like puck and qop) and remember that ZIPPING THROUGH is the fastest way out, since zipping in any other direction requires Storm to turn first. He does have a fast turn rate though, and so if you watch a lot of Sumail and Abed clips, you'd probably see them zipping to side but angled a bit to the front, or to the side instead of backwards.
Always nice to see my main girl Qop featured, honestly an underrated hero that can cause absolutely havoc if played well
I realized there are people watching this video who don't know what a Fus Roh Dah is
No clue what that is
@@ventu7907 jesus am I that old???
@@ventu7907how do you do, fellow kids
Understandable, it is a relatively old game. About 3 years or so.
@@Daz1One I think it's from Skyrim (arrow to the knee). Also, 3 years? Lmao
ah snapfire, the bane of all turbo games
For anyone looking to pick up QoP, I recommend trying out the aghs build. It's reliably useful, and forces you to play on the outskirts of fights, whittling down foes, more, which in turn will help you improve on QoP. I always liked playing QoP, but going the old orchid build that required you to snowball hard made me a bit too yolo on the hero, and I was honestly pretty bad at her. Since picking up the aghs build I've improved a lot, and now feel like I can pick her more without potentially griefing my team. Also, my personal favorite iteration of the build is octarine into aghs. It's horribly greedy, but is just so much fun once it comes online.
Also I wouldn't say Zeus is necessarily bad late (unless you are into unwavering condition, but that's a rare scenario). Usually as the game goes late bkb durations fall off, meanwhile the power of global abilities, and how they let you play the map, goes up. Also access to more survivability items makes zeus a nightmare to kill, and of course the classic aghs refresher combo gives you some mean burst damage you can use to explode some hapless fool a teammate gets the jump on (or even one you get the jump on in some cases if they blindly wander into W range).
or you can just build dagon and destroy sidelanes without repercussions (which is cheaper, shockingly)
Some extra trivia:
1. OD's Scepter upgrade can be completely negated by anything that applies break, because it is tied to Essence Flux. As long as his passives are disabled, he will not benefit from the shield. Keep that in mind if you're having trouble.
2. To clarify, Void Spirit's innate does NOT give a passive 25% all stats increase. It only increases secondary bonuses, which include health regen (strength), armor (agility), mana regen and magic resistance (intelligence). Health, attack speed and mana are considered primary bonuses of each respective attribute and remain unchanged.
Wait that sounds even worse than I thought lmao (except maybe the armor and MR)
@@Acex2ron At the pre-nerf 33% it was one of those quiet innates that doesn't seem like much on paper but then you get into game and go "why is this guy so tanky with just an echo, manta, aghs?" I haven't seen it much post nerf, but extra benefit from building stats on a universal hero will probably never be bad. Oh, and for what it's worth a void spirit with 6 skadis becomes ridiculously tanky. I've never gone that route, cause there is no way its good, but it'd probably be pretty funny at least.
Why the fuck did i watch all of these i don't play the game
Outhouse Decorator
Well at least this video was accurate for 1 day before the patch dropped
darling wake up its time to watch a acex2ron hero guide even tho you know all hero inside out
Damn I'm way too early huh, nevertheless it's always a treat to watch these, despite me not playing dota 2 and only every played WoW.
I kind of dislike the Tinker rework, it for other reason, but because the cannons on his left became just decoration.
They used to shoot rockets. What is their purpose now?
That's a bummer, I haven't been playing for 6 years now and I wouldn't have known they removed rocket if I didn't watch this video.
Wait, is OD the only hero that just straight up changes his name? I swear he still outworld devourer 3 years ago.
Bro didn't even give snapfire a chance
Imagine Tinker in LoL, he would break league for sure
Bro snapfire 😂
Please make the Pos 1 video asap. Really like how you explain each heroes with memes. xD
grats on 10k subs
Thanks so much!
tinker is good for people that don't even know how to use it, just pick it, buy support gear and you heal 70k per match, out heal damage from enemies
Well done! Snapfire is genius explained🤣
Anyway he sees spiritbreaker as counter to anything… i mean sniper? Really?
Since headshot stops charge i cannot agree on that at all..
As spiritbreaker player i gotta say, a good sniper is very very hard to kill… almost impossible…
Its same as when you wanna kill a Medusa as antimage… on paper its easy, in reality impossible (well unless he buys a maelstrom aka he is bad…)
Hate that snapfire just like u do😂😂
according to people like Rizpol youtube channel (you know that guy) every single hero is midlaner 😂
That is crazy
Excuse me where is my tiny, 😢
Timbersaw is a midlaner
I love your videos but you are wrong about every talent on QOP
Just wanted to say you're one of my favorite content creators, I'm using your vids to convert my league friends
I knew you wouldnt be able to resist on the Puck segment
the low-hanging fruit was too juicy T.T
puck persona 5?
They removed tinker's rockets??
😮
Watched all your videos where is techies?
Looks like so many heroes are missing. Tiny is one of the strongest mid hero at this point, sand king and pangolier are also very popular mid at pro scene.
maybe the idea was heroes who are literally for mid role, not heroes players are also playing as a mid role
Ily
-Yelo
12:30 No comment there. I take the shrapnel cool reduction too. +50 range wouldn't make you beyond the enemy's reach but -30s cooldown allows more intel gathering. For a hero that is super squishy that is dead the moment enemy heroes are on top of you, you would want to know the situation ahead before moving anywhere.
OD does glass canon damage while being incredibly difficult to kill, he is also deceptively fast and he has one of the best AOE nukes in the game too :(. He is one of those heroes that require good team work to shut down, beating him solo is difficult because the player would have to be an idiot to die mid without ganks
Wow so much rework i cant even keep up
Bane Bane Bane
Pangolier is a way better midlaner than he is an offlaner, shame he didn't cover him here.