LOL yes bringing their hit points to zero would REALLY be good. Again Grubby I really enjoy your straight faced humour so thank you for bringing laughter into my day. Keep up the excellent work.
Leshrac is truly one of my favorite characters in Dota for years. The flexibility of delivering AoE damage is so rewarding when you pull it off. IIRC his Aghanim's Shard used to cause Q to erupt and grow multiple times. If it still does, that item helped me achieve that nice flexibility of dishing out AOE damage to full extent.
At 55:30 the non ult activation initially probably even helped Grubby, since the enemy thought they could outdamage his lifesteal and committed hard on him, only to get out healed after he activated his ult mid fight. Then they were like headless chickens.
Hey grubby, I am watching all your videos / replays in WC3 since 2005. I have a little hint for you. In dota the sound of skills is very important, eg the ultimate sound of lesh is very simple to distinguish from others :P thank you for entertaining me for decades.
Recognising the game by sounds before you've even seen every hero is quite unrealistic but grubster has the skills to go deep in Dota so this advice might seem trite one day
@@jamrollz no is not, you get it without even knowing. It's a human thing to do so, associate sounds, smells, feelings, to memories. It just comes with time, is not there for Grubby yet, but it will, given enough time.
As a Zagara main, it makes me really happy to see you enjoy these pushers like Leshrac and Prophet :D And they both have really great aesthetics as well!
Sumail is a big Leshrac player, he always goes with: Split Earth Radius, +100 Lightning Storm Damage, +40 Pulse Nova Damage and Lightning Storm Double jumps. The +100 LS Damage synergizes really well with the 25 Talent.
There was a time when you could hide behind the Dire Team trees next to the tower at level 3 to just sit there with W, and slowly take out the tower cause the special effect wasn’t very visible.
It's good to see his map awareness and team play is improving. I just hope he remember some of what SirActionsSlacks coaching. He baited his team to die most of the time. The next thing I think is how to communicate to his team whether the intention is pushing or ganking.
Chat spamming bkb is really good when they have literally no spell except sven stun and rubick lift.. What you wanted to do here since you play vs a+ click heroes is to get shiva for armor+attack speed slow aura and aghs. This would literally negate 3of them making you unhittable while dealing more damage at the same time. Also about neutral items aquila is really a carry item. its mostly for agility heroes like luna. you had your choice between Psychic Headband: +15% int and +100cast range and Quickening Charm: -10% cd for your spells and items. there is no world where you keep that aquila its one of the best starter to get if you carry doesnt whine to have it but late its useless compared to the t3 items literally all of them have way more impact.
Most of Lesh's spells have notoriously long cast point (animation). No matter how much you press "R" during those animation, it won't activate, that's why you thought you casted it during fights, but you never did have it up. At least I think that's what's happening. But still, GJ on your first try xD
Lore time : Leshrac, Tormented Soul, is an entity torn from the heart of nature, a liminal being that exists half in one plane of existence, half in another. His penetrating intelligence is such that he can never ignore for a moment the agonizing horror at the heart of all creation. Once a great philosopher who sought the meaning of existence, he plumbed the depths of nature with the haunted Chronoptic Crystals, and was forever altered by the hideous mysteries thereby revealed to him. Now the darkest depths of his enlightenment are illumined only by the fitful glare of his arrogance. Like other elemental characters, he is completely at one with nature, but in his case it is a nature lurid and vile. He alone sees the evil truth of reality, and has no use for those who believe the cosmos reserves a special reward for those who practice benevolence.
Very interesting perspective on DotA ranked I forgot that you could be "the next Topson" if you tried hard enough. Omg good lord Grubby I didn't know Leshrac could have a permanent satanic into a 5 man group. What a fun game to watch!
I believe Natures Prophet hasn't changed, Earth Shaker also.. Actually there would be quite a list of unchanged heroes, Lycan, Undying, Mirana, Enigma and some more
I think the lightning changed, back then it was only for damage dealing, now it has a slow but the burst damage is reduced. Even so, still the same spell but with a slow now.
@@Stforv huh, i remembered this trivia from a while ago but either the trivia was wrong or i misunderstood it. because earth shaker, mirana and enigma indeed have no recorded significant change to their skillset. the rest of the heroes you named do.
hey grubby, nice watch. just one tip, when you go for the runes, it's very risky to come back to lane by the river, specially vs huskar. he had tunnel vision and was most focused on hitting creeps, but he had two or three chances to kill you while doing that. also, maxing W early was kind of a waste, but you could do better with it. hide in the threes behind mid tower, unleash W
the Ult has a distinct sound from W, so maybe listen to the rythm and sound difference of the 2 skills to tell if they're on or not, so you can focus on other things with your eyes.
Grub try Lone Druid ) this is a wc3 theme. Item ord: on bear Phase boots, fast mjolnir(upped). And then improvisation - you can collect a Lotus, Force staff on the main and accept paid sites or go to macro with aganim. You can also continue to dress Summon.
Hey Grubby, I have been enjoying your journey in learning dota as it reminds me of the reasons why I love this game all those years ago. I am just wondering if there's any reason your youtube videos are way behind in time compared to your livestream. I just can't wait for your next hero learning experience but I don't have the time to watch it on livestream
usually i dont write comments but now i have to...brother you are such a refreshment for the community, i enjoy like a baby in every video you make...living for the day when buldog will give you a coaching session
I've not played dota in years. After I finish the stint I have in my current game I think I will return. Lesh was one of my favorites too. You will be coming up on another of my favorites soon in Medusa. Though, everything seems a lot different than when I played back in warcraft 3.
Antimage does not counter Lesh at all. In fact Lesharac pos 1 or 2 counters Antimage hard by ending the game before AM can do anything. Lesh is hard countered by heroes like Lina and Drow that can kill him easily but he have troubles getting close to them and ofc by Pugna and Oracle.
He is countered by AM if his team isn’t stupid. His abilities do little damage against him and AM destroys his mana and burst with ult. If you have a team that can defend towers (am isn’t good with a team that can’t defend towers) then u counter
@@chickenwarrior3067 Yea, ofc if you have AM into Lesh, his team will be very into defending towers. Usually even if they succeed and still have all t3s around time AM farms his 3 item timing. Lesh's team will usually come ahead still in NW hard due to superior map control, allowing for itemization counters like force stave for AM jump, hex, silver edge or whatever. Unless team lesh makes some terrible blunder like getting 5 men echo you are still playing with huge advantage. As far as I know Lesh have positive winrate vs AM both in Divine+ pubs and pro games.
@@chickenwarrior3067 We used to pick it in scrims few years ago, now I can't really tell, I play low immortal 5v5 pubs mostly and we only had like two Lesh pos1 into AM pos 1 games and both felt good.
❤You should play Beast Master / Lycan / Nature's Prophet @ ranked ; you seem extremely natural at them as you are a WC3 pro. And if you could, maybe get MonkeysForever to coach you with Brood Mother; I feel like you can love that hero more too, esp. the way Monkey plays it!
The thing is, if people that are trying to climb the ranks start flaming other people for their playing, they're going to lower their chances of winning even further by tilting everyone else.
Ooof, this was a tough laning phase to watch. If you're going to use aoe spells to last hit, try to hit your opponent as well. You want to be super efficient with your mana. Also, you don't want your opponent healthy, especially after you've used your only cc spell. A good Huskar would've punished you after everytime you used your Q on minions instead of him. Probably a lot to think of when you're still learning, but keep it in the back of your mind.
As a divine player you’re great at this game for someone who just started playing. I’m intrigued and surprised 🎉. The mistake I see is item buying speed which is common for new players.
Can't wait till he gets to some of my favorite heroes, Rubick, Wraith King, and Undying. Unfortunately my favorites are all late in the alphabet so I'll be waiting for a while.
YOURE using my signature hero nice its soo strong you got ultra kill first time using him hahahah so oppp people dont know how lesh is soo good at pub i spam him ancient to divine 5, nice game grubby!!! wppp!!! MVP!! POG!!!!
Never played dota 2, but it reminds me of -easy mode in the original game because of how much gold and items you get. It's a bit too much, at least it got Leshrac!
Lesh is so strong late game that most pro teams run him in position 1 instead of going mid. He is quite item dependent but can also play as support if paired with someone with guaranteed stun
Grubby is such a nice guy but is so painful to watch the even tho I do the same and even worst mistakes with 7k hours... I kno I'm messed up, don't ever be like me Grubby :cry: But for the love get that Timeless Relic and press R ROFL X)
One piece missed mechanically is that you can toggle the ult every two pulses for more damage as you skip part of the delay between the second and third pulse. Drains the mana very quickly, but very useful for 3 ticks during a stun instead of 2.
55:27 In Grubby's defense, while he didn't activated his Ult for half the fight, for the first few seconds, everyone in the enemy team was also BKB'd
LOL yes bringing their hit points to zero would REALLY be good. Again Grubby I really enjoy your straight faced humour so thank you for bringing laughter into my day. Keep up the excellent work.
Chronoptic energy bursts from one plane to the other, evaporating anything it touches
20:35 anxiety increases (ulti xd)
Leshrac is truly one of my favorite characters in Dota for years. The flexibility of delivering AoE damage is so rewarding when you pull it off. IIRC his Aghanim's Shard used to cause Q to erupt and grow multiple times. If it still does, that item helped me achieve that nice flexibility of dishing out AOE damage to full extent.
It's in the video lol, even at the start during the hero demo.
def a hero that forces bkb so if enemy picks a bunch of heroes that dont buy it typically, force it with lesh pick.
At 55:30 the non ult activation initially probably even helped Grubby, since the enemy thought they could outdamage his lifesteal and committed hard on him, only to get out healed after he activated his ult mid fight. Then they were like headless chickens.
Hey grubby, I am watching all your videos / replays in WC3 since 2005. I have a little hint for you. In dota the sound of skills is very important, eg the ultimate sound of lesh is very simple to distinguish from others :P thank you for entertaining me for decades.
Recognising the game by sounds before you've even seen every hero is quite unrealistic but grubster has the skills to go deep in Dota so this advice might seem trite one day
@@jamrollz no is not, you get it without even knowing. It's a human thing to do so, associate sounds, smells, feelings, to memories. It just comes with time, is not there for Grubby yet, but it will, given enough time.
@@bondedomao i think you completely missed what they said
As a Zagara main, it makes me really happy to see you enjoy these pushers like Leshrac and Prophet :D
And they both have really great aesthetics as well!
Sumail is a big Leshrac player, he always goes with:
Split Earth Radius, +100 Lightning Storm Damage, +40 Pulse Nova Damage and Lightning Storm Double jumps.
The +100 LS Damage synergizes really well with the 25 Talent.
There was a time when you could hide behind the Dire Team trees next to the tower at level 3 to just sit there with W, and slowly take out the tower cause the special effect wasn’t very visible.
I have never seen Grubby so hyped during WC3 streams
Discovered you after watching you play AOE with Viper, glad I stuck around to watch you paly dotes.
I discovered grubby almost 20 years ago when I was in high school. He was Warcraft 3 legend and probably still is.
It's good to see his map awareness and team play is improving. I just hope he remember some of what SirActionsSlacks coaching. He baited his team to die most of the time. The next thing I think is how to communicate to his team whether the intention is pushing or ganking.
The Slacks coaching was later than this video (see date bottom right always)
@@FollowGrubby Thanks big fan of your Dota 2 journey. Learning a lot especially those advance stuff from coaches. Keep it up.
Wow, your clutch plays with the disco horse is something else. Going toe to toe against bristleback with low health? what a gigachad.
"A thousand of your kinds have fallen before me"
Chat spamming bkb is really good when they have literally no spell except sven stun and rubick lift..
What you wanted to do here since you play vs a+ click heroes is to get shiva for armor+attack speed slow aura and aghs.
This would literally negate 3of them making you unhittable while dealing more damage at the same time.
Also about neutral items aquila is really a carry item. its mostly for agility heroes like luna. you had your choice between Psychic Headband: +15% int and +100cast range and Quickening Charm: -10% cd for your spells and items. there is no world where you keep that aquila its one of the best starter to get if you carry doesnt whine to have it but late its useless compared to the t3 items literally all of them have way more impact.
It's always fun when I person finds that character, or thing, that resonates with them the most.
Most of Lesh's spells have notoriously long cast point (animation). No matter how much you press "R" during those animation, it won't activate, that's why you thought you casted it during fights, but you never did have it up. At least I think that's what's happening. But still, GJ on your first try xD
I belive your next main will be "Natures Prophet"
They kinda killed the hero split-push potential when removed shard ents..
Lore time :
Leshrac, Tormented Soul, is an entity torn from the heart of nature, a liminal being that exists half in one plane of existence, half in another. His penetrating intelligence is such that he can never ignore for a moment the agonizing horror at the heart of all creation. Once a great philosopher who sought the meaning of existence, he plumbed the depths of nature with the haunted Chronoptic Crystals, and was forever altered by the hideous mysteries thereby revealed to him. Now the darkest depths of his enlightenment are illumined only by the fitful glare of his arrogance. Like other elemental characters, he is completely at one with nature, but in his case it is a nature lurid and vile. He alone sees the evil truth of reality, and has no use for those who believe the cosmos reserves a special reward for those who practice benevolence.
Grubby absolutely MORBIN it up with Leshrac! holy balls...
Yes. Finally my favorite tormented soul leshrac the malicious
I love grubby man damn. Everyday I watch your videos.
Glad to see Grubby enjoy this hero. Lesh is a guilty pleasure of mine. It feels really good to pop off in a teamfight like a walking chernobyl
Very interesting perspective on DotA ranked I forgot that you could be "the next Topson" if you tried hard enough.
Omg good lord Grubby I didn't know Leshrac could have a permanent satanic into a 5 man group.
What a fun game to watch!
the power of bloodstone LOL
my favorite hero, excel at anything,
disabler, pusher, quick wave clear, low cd
travel>snk>bkb burning that damned slark never felt this good.
Seeing Grubby finding mains remind me when I found my favs heroes years ago ! Thanks for the video :)
fun fact, leshrac is the only hero from dota 1 that never had any of his skills fundamentally changed since he was put in the game.
I believe Natures Prophet hasn't changed, Earth Shaker also.. Actually there would be quite a list of unchanged heroes, Lycan, Undying, Mirana, Enigma and some more
I think the lightning changed, back then it was only for damage dealing, now it has a slow but the burst damage is reduced. Even so, still the same spell but with a slow now.
@@Stforv huh, i remembered this trivia from a while ago but either the trivia was wrong or i misunderstood it. because earth shaker, mirana and enigma indeed have no recorded significant change to their skillset. the rest of the heroes you named do.
Honestly he has really good Laning skills, really impressive GG man 👍
lol the hero keep answering Grubby
hey grubby, nice watch. just one tip, when you go for the runes, it's very risky to come back to lane by the river, specially vs huskar. he had tunnel vision and was most focused on hitting creeps, but he had two or three chances to kill you while doing that. also, maxing W early was kind of a waste, but you could do better with it. hide in the threes behind mid tower, unleash W
leshrac is my favorite pusher, and when he has shard, zone denier. He makes it very hard for enemies to initiate unless they have bkb.
55:21 the leadup to a big teamfight that won them the game and netted Grubby with a clutch Ultra kill.
the Ult has a distinct sound from W, so maybe listen to the rythm and sound difference of the 2 skills to tell if they're on or not, so you can focus on other things with your eyes.
The tf with no Ult hurt my eyes but still fun to watch xD
You should live stream during the international matches
Grub try Lone Druid ) this is a wc3 theme. Item ord: on bear Phase boots, fast mjolnir(upped). And then improvisation - you can collect a Lotus, Force staff on the main and accept paid sites or go to macro with aganim. You can also continue to dress Summon.
Hey Grubby, I have been enjoying your journey in learning dota as it reminds me of the reasons why I love this game all those years ago. I am just wondering if there's any reason your youtube videos are way behind in time compared to your livestream. I just can't wait for your next hero learning experience but I don't have the time to watch it on livestream
usually i dont write comments but now i have to...brother you are such a refreshment for the community, i enjoy like a baby in every video you make...living for the day when buldog will give you a coaching session
I've not played dota in years. After I finish the stint I have in my current game I think I will return. Lesh was one of my favorites too. You will be coming up on another of my favorites soon in Medusa. Though, everything seems a lot different than when I played back in warcraft 3.
Leshrac looks like Grubby
The Disco Pony is here! Thanks for the upload man. ^^
Enjoy!
That was an epic disco pony
OG Grubby mark my words xd
This hero is more broken than faceless void lol
Antimage does not counter Lesh at all. In fact Lesharac pos 1 or 2 counters Antimage hard by ending the game before AM can do anything. Lesh is hard countered by heroes like Lina and Drow that can kill him easily but he have troubles getting close to them and ofc by Pugna and Oracle.
He is countered by AM if his team isn’t stupid. His abilities do little damage against him and AM destroys his mana and burst with ult. If you have a team that can defend towers (am isn’t good with a team that can’t defend towers) then u counter
@@chickenwarrior3067 Yea, ofc if you have AM into Lesh, his team will be very into defending towers. Usually even if they succeed and still have all t3s around time AM farms his 3 item timing. Lesh's team will usually come ahead still in NW hard due to superior map control, allowing for itemization counters like force stave for AM jump, hex, silver edge or whatever. Unless team lesh makes some terrible blunder like getting 5 men echo you are still playing with huge advantage. As far as I know Lesh have positive winrate vs AM both in Divine+ pubs and pro games.
@@romancisar7593 idk I’m divine and I play both these hero’s and I think am counters lesh.
@@chickenwarrior3067 We used to pick it in scrims few years ago, now I can't really tell, I play low immortal 5v5 pubs mostly and we only had like two Lesh pos1 into AM pos 1 games and both felt good.
❤You should play Beast Master / Lycan / Nature's Prophet @ ranked ; you seem extremely natural at them as you are a WC3 pro. And if you could, maybe get MonkeysForever to coach you with Brood Mother; I feel like you can love that hero more too, esp. the way Monkey plays it!
damn you really stepped up in the late game
The thing is, if people that are trying to climb the ranks start flaming other people for their playing, they're going to lower their chances of winning even further by tilting everyone else.
Waw man, you catch up and learn really fast, impressive!
Thanks!
shadow blade is really good on low bracket, press r and w then invisible
Ooof, this was a tough laning phase to watch. If you're going to use aoe spells to last hit, try to hit your opponent as well. You want to be super efficient with your mana. Also, you don't want your opponent healthy, especially after you've used your only cc spell. A good Huskar would've punished you after everytime you used your Q on minions instead of him. Probably a lot to think of when you're still learning, but keep it in the back of your mind.
I haven't played dota since like 2014 but I have 2k hours and I don't ever remember seeing a Leshrac abuse ult like that for S-tier farm.
Nice one!🎉
He also got the last hit on the ancient nice
Why do these take so long to come up? This game was played on the 11th.
Keeper of the grove! 😄
My patiently waiting for grubby rubick
As a divine player you’re great at this game for someone who just started playing. I’m intrigued and surprised 🎉. The mistake I see is item buying speed which is common for new players.
DESPAIR
DESOLATION
TWO LEGGED FREAKS
Can't wait till he gets to some of my favorite heroes, Rubick, Wraith King, and Undying. Unfortunately my favorites are all late in the alphabet so I'll be waiting for a while.
We're getting there! :D
YOURE using my signature hero nice its soo strong you got ultra kill first time using him hahahah so oppp people dont know how lesh is soo good at pub i spam him ancient to divine 5, nice game grubby!!! wppp!!! MVP!! POG!!!!
My favorite hero from the time I played. He's very op
top cutting material
when is bulldog ld coahcing happening though fr
You can play Leshrac in the offlane too Grubby!! Quite tanky
Leshrac is french for the Shrac
But he is so good at micro i thought his best character would be chen or beastmaster
best tip for ranked, mute all and enjoy the game, because it is just a game :)
Never played dota 2, but it reminds me of -easy mode in the original game because of how much gold and items you get. It's a bit too much, at least it got Leshrac!
Try it - it is quite different and more dynamic than the old one
Assive Pult!
Incredible
Waiting for Lone Druid )))
i was praying u ult on all those times in early game . ult is so strong but u never did 😭
How did he get this terrain?
where is that wow voiceline from
This was my main back when I played dota1 over 10years ago, if you know what your doing he’s deadly
Wow, OG Leshrac player!
@@FollowGrubby this character has an answer for pretty much any situation
It is a solid aghs game tbh
Beautiful
Oh leshrac, I remember the day when my team picked 5 int heroes and said,
'I'll be your damn tank' then miraculously won the game.
That sounds hilarious xD
Lesh is so strong late game that most pro teams run him in position 1 instead of going mid. He is quite item dependent but can also play as support if paired with someone with guaranteed stun
hoooooooooly god i have 5k hours on dota, and i just learnt from Grubby how to see backswing!!
And turbo is soooo fun. Faster
Its Meepo soon PepeLaugh
Been playing 10 years, almost NEVER play ranked, it didnt exist the first couple of years so I dont really care about it
Grubby is such a nice guy but is so painful to watch the even tho I do the same and even worst mistakes with 7k hours... I kno I'm messed up, don't ever be like me Grubby :cry: But for the love get that Timeless Relic and press R ROFL X)
I dono if its you or youtube but thats entirely WAY too many ads man come on
17-8-17 first time as lesh ....
Buy shiva , drow ult pierce base armor
One piece missed mechanically is that you can toggle the ult every two pulses for more damage as you skip part of the delay between the second and third pulse. Drains the mana very quickly, but very useful for 3 ticks during a stun instead of 2.
Dota 2 streaming is about its ups and downs, one second you're CS Pog, the next, CS Lul
Grubby is valve sponsoring you? I just don't see how a new player has the best things and crazy BP levels.
Wtf is a shard
Is like an Aghs upgrade, but it costs 1400 gold, you need to wait to 15 min to buy it and doesn't take a slot.
nice 2 c u like lesh :))
gg
Hi Grubby 👋.
Hey there!
Day 4 of asking grubby to watch dotaology
i second this
I AM EARLY LESGOOOO
why he playing alone all the time
Chronoptic energy bursts from one plane to the other, evaporating anything it touches.