From lorewise that space-wizard-looking-guy-in-a-suit-of-armour 'The Arc Warden,Zet' is actually the Third Ancient,the two ancients are the dire and radiant
pros: "you see this carry? it's a support now" low prio: "you see this support? It's a carry now" both are equally legitimate at defining game winning metas.
The war between the ancients actually only happens once. Each game of dota is an alternate reality where the ancients each recruited five different heroes and a different battle occurred.
I'm pretty sure that universe just restarts when one of the ancients falls. Like it can't exist without one of the fundamentals because the balance gets ruined or something like that. And so dota is a tale of endless war between two sides happening across infinite timelines. With each timeline being different, with ancients "hiring" different heroes under different circumstances. And Arc Warden wants to stop that war and keep balance of power between ancients either by keeping them both alive or destroying them.
thank you for making a video covering dota 2, its been years since i played it and i just started playing it again and regretting doing so and yet again coming back for another match. At least turbo. You sound like a really cool and entertaining dude, at least i found your narration, voice and comments, really welcoming and joyful. The only thing i think it would have been nice to mention is the voice acting in this game, at least for me is so fucking unreal godlike and i hope one day i could make something like that, literally a source of inspiration. Anyway, thank you for this and thanks youtube for your algorithmical magic that brought me here. Best regards from Argentina
Thank you! I truly appreciate the kind words! And yeah the game can be rough, especially solo. You are right, the voice acting and direction is almost across the board amazing. I should have mentioned it but the script was already so long that it slipped through. I feel like Valve's writers always have a solid grip on believable dialogue. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
@@ShireJak not only voice acting, almost every skill sfx is different. Each skills are so unique that when you hear it enough, you can know what skill is being thrown in war without even looking
@@ShireJak idk if LoL has this, but in DotA 2 certain heroes will say different things if some specific hero is in their team or if they are killing that hero. Some of them are friends, some enemies or have some other common background story and they will reference it during gameplay, giving another layer of personality and lore
Watching you or your friend get tossed after the aegis steal reminds me why I love this game. League holds your hand and makes sure you can’t troll teammates, but dota is just like fuck it, have a force staff.
I miss the days you could buy blink on KotL and put griefing teammates in time out while the whole worked worked together to prevent the courier from delivering them TPs.
Remember when hou can eul team mates, me and my friend used to eul each other, leave one behind as tribute whenever we feels like we gonna lose the finght on the lanes 😂
Actually ancients are two large shards of the broken mook (Arc Warden being the third) and as they fell down, they corrupted every minor being and attracted heroes to fight for them. Also, each game of Dota is actuallly cannon, cause every time one of the ancients loses it rewinds the time, so all heroes are stuck in infinite war loop.
and then there's Arc Warden, the 3rd side of the coin who wants both Radiant and Dire dead and is also whispering sweet nothings into peoples ears to get their help hmmmmm...
Ok, I'm scared to imagine the horrors of LoL and how sick people are of it to come to Dota 2 and see that toxic rage-inducing insanity, addictive radioactive cave of a game and see it as "refreshing"
I have 1.5k hours in Dota. Its a cesspool of racial slurs, parental insults and toxicity. I have played like 30-40 matches of League and what can I say, its the same thing but anime. They are not as different as people think, Dota just got a bad rep
@@VasiliyOgniov Both are bad, but I'd say what makes Dota players slightly worse is the fact that it has voice chat which adds another layer of toxicity
@@Bee-cw9ho valid. On the other hand, I dare to say that it is not as bad as people say in both cases. Like, I met a lot of people who were genuinely nice. A lot of funny interactions and real advices from people I have never met before. However, when its bad, its really bad
Being honest with you, I always saw Dota 2 as the worst game, Im a grandmaster League player with over 10 years of experience, tried dota back in 2017 and I absolutely hated it. Then, since the last patches have been pure garbage, me and my friends wanted to play something different. Started playing Dota recently and oh my god, I got like 250 hours already and i've been enjoying it so much, its really refreshing as people might say. I'm honestly just wanting to learn all the mechanics needed so I can start ranking on my own (despite the toxicity, since I already have a strong mental from all those years trying to rank up in league) and, lets just say I love how Dota doesn't restrict ANY of his mechanics. It's SO FREAKING FREEING how I can do anything I want in the game without some company behind trying to ruin the fun.
If you haven’t , you should try ability draft once you and your friends are more familiar with the game, the amount of different, weird and fun scenarios is infinite
"If everyone is op, then no one is" Thats pretty much dota's design philosophy, and thats why its so good because of that, with enough gold anything can work, thats why despite my friends playing league, i still play dota to this day, league just cant scratch that dota itch man
Honestly one of the best dota videos I have ever seen. Captured that fun energy of Dota which you don't see very often after you get past the honeymoon phase of the game.
its insane how valve managed to just flat steal half of their entire games list and people still regard them as an amazing studio . the games that valve ACTUALLY made themselfs were half lifes and portals . Counter strike was a mod of half life , team fortress was a mod of quake , dota was a mod of warcraft 3 and left 4 dead was a mod of counter strike . they did indeed make great games out of them like left 4 dead 2 basically invented the horde sub genre and i still regard dota 2 as the best moba ever , However that doesn't make them any less stolen IPs / ideas . Also its astonishing that nobody be giving credit to the KICK ASS editor that wc3 and sc2 had which without them Tower defenses , mobas , 4x , 2x genres would quite literally never exist . Besides people being dumb this was indeed an excellent video .
i mean valve didnt just outright steal the games though, the people who created the mods they took with them to work for them and turn it into a real game and keep it funded. it was a very positive thing for both the individual and the company, and to all of us consumers who enjoyed the mods & games that came from them. Sure, the games werent originally theirs, but the people who made the mods are at valve creating the actual game with much better funding than they had themselves. and i know in the case of warcraft and DoTA, the guy who made the dota mod originally tried to go with Blizzard, and it didnt work out so valve took it. good for them i say.
Great video.I've personally been playing Dota 2 for a decade at this point,got 1800+ hours in it(and plenty of money spent on it).Recently i figured out that there are VERY annoying heroes that i started to main,i can even solo the match on some of them,but that's as long as my teammates don't feed and my enemies don't play way better than me.Pugna?Pick mid,get lvl6 and do push speedruns while sucking the life outta enemies and obliterating them with Dagon.Treant Protector?Literally useful on any lane due to seed providing enough healing to revive a dying elephant,and then he evolves into an annoying rootspam machine.Ogre Magi?Fireblast and multicast,that's all i've said.But that's not all,because Dota 2 is TRULY unique,because it's one of the rare games that make me merge with the character i play as,starting to act like them,starting to feel big strong and tanky,or small and quick.Despite it having a very bad playerbase,i still cannot stop but keep playing Dota 2.
Its been a while since I see a video like this of Dota, I played since Dota 2 came out, more than 10 years ago, the last time I see a 'fun' video about Dota was when Dota WTF started (back then they were fun, now... lets not talk about this) all the videos about Dota 2 now are just meta and meta, this is a very good experience watching this video, I appreciate this a lot. And now you win a like and a sub
Wow, I'm so glad that YT recommended me this video! Apart from being a good content I truly enjoyed, author also mentioned what russians do to my Ukrainian land, and I'm thankful to hear the wise thoughts on this war from US, thank you!
this is probably a way better video than any "dota vs lol" i have ever seen. instead of using the word "harder and complicated", you explain why those harder parts made the game more fun without sounding like a circlejerk.
Only 16 upvotes when I saw this, I blame pre patch fatigue numbering the months. But this is a great video, I enjoyed watching it and I really appreciate your work. Nice one!! Deserves more recognition!
19:22 ngl, I feel like that was an entirely survivable even with a groin laceration and a bleeding forearm. Pretty sure you could still outwalk the zombies even with the reduced move speed from a groin laceration so if you just kept walking towards somewhere you could break LoS, you could feasibly bandage up and survive. That being said though, from the minimap, it did look kinda desolate but usually there's at least some forest nearby you can get into to lose some of the zombies.
HoN was the sole focus of like 7500 hours of my life but when the population started waning, I jumped ship and went to DotA 2. DotA is insanely better than League, but doesn't quite scratch the same itch that HoN did
Really cool video, definitely subbing. Btw, you should watch SirActionSlacks' Loregasm videos, especially the one about the ancients (i think it's the first one). Your arc warden plays a really big part in the grand scheme of dota's lore. The "Self" he always refers to is the entity that the dire, radiant, and Zet (arc warden) become when they're as one, as they were in the beginning. The dota Lore is REALLY fucking cool. You should also watch his spectre loregasm video, its quite the mindblower
I haven't played League in close to 7 years, maybe 8. I do know that Riot put their invasive anti-cheat into League and it's been fucking with a lot of people's computers. I wouldn't be surprised if that, plus a bunch of other stuff, was leading to people quitting LoL.
Been playing since the first version came out in warcraft, God I never get tired of this game unless im on a losing streak because of overconfidence that I can win 6 gAmes straight like what I did the other day that I am a God in this game now and that the pros ain’t sh8, till for some reason gaben paired me with bunch of *****, fu*****g c**k s****rs now im back to reality and ponder to myself why did I even play today I could’ve stayed in that rank now back to 2 stars sigh 🤦♂️such sadness Anyway you pretty much summed everything up on this game it was an awesome game
This is a very well made video, held back by it dragging a bit too long in each segment. I feel you would reach a much wider audience by cutting down on the length of each portion, just by a bit. Not from the end, but compressing it overall.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." -- Some french bastard I couldn't agree more! I'm always looking for things I could trim down. I cut 5ish minutes from the original script because it had two extra segments that ruined the pacing.
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"Controlling a single dude and a bank account" This is the only description of DotA 2 that I will be using from now on.
Meepo entered the chat
@@aznvirus lone druid entered the chat
arc warden just passed by
guys have u ever heard about CHEN?
From lorewise that space-wizard-looking-guy-in-a-suit-of-armour 'The Arc Warden,Zet' is actually the Third Ancient,the two ancients are the dire and radiant
Third*, but ye
Dota gives me the highest high and the lowest lows. Ill never stop
pros: "you see this carry? it's a support now"
low prio: "you see this support? It's a carry now"
both are equally legitimate at defining game winning metas.
The war between the ancients actually only happens once. Each game of dota is an alternate reality where the ancients each recruited five different heroes and a different battle occurred.
I'm pretty sure that universe just restarts when one of the ancients falls. Like it can't exist without one of the fundamentals because the balance gets ruined or something like that. And so dota is a tale of endless war between two sides happening across infinite timelines. With each timeline being different, with ancients "hiring" different heroes under different circumstances.
And Arc Warden wants to stop that war and keep balance of power between ancients either by keeping them both alive or destroying them.
The ancients love fighting, when one is destroyed the other uses their combined power to rewind time
One shot at a fate defining battle and you get the insta lock riki mid.
😊q@@Frozen_Hope
@@saveklaThey actually turn back time because they don't want to get trapped in a moon again by Arc Warden, after being weakened from the battle.
Incredibly underrated video.
What?? I actually finished this poetic soliloquy.
Thank you, means a lot!
asmongold cracking his head open, made me choke on my coffee
thank you for making a video covering dota 2, its been years since i played it and i just started playing it again and regretting doing so and yet again coming back for another match. At least turbo.
You sound like a really cool and entertaining dude, at least i found your narration, voice and comments, really welcoming and joyful.
The only thing i think it would have been nice to mention is the voice acting in this game, at least for me is so fucking unreal godlike and i hope one day i could make something like that, literally a source of inspiration.
Anyway, thank you for this and thanks youtube for your algorithmical magic that brought me here.
Best regards from Argentina
Thank you! I truly appreciate the kind words! And yeah the game can be rough, especially solo.
You are right, the voice acting and direction is almost across the board amazing. I should have mentioned it but the script was already so long that it slipped through.
I feel like Valve's writers always have a solid grip on believable dialogue.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
@@ShireJak not only voice acting, almost every skill sfx is different. Each skills are so unique that when you hear it enough, you can know what skill is being thrown in war without even looking
@@ShireJak idk if LoL has this, but in DotA 2 certain heroes will say different things if some specific hero is in their team or if they are killing that hero. Some of them are friends, some enemies or have some other common background story and they will reference it during gameplay, giving another layer of personality and lore
12k hours jesus christ. I've been playing dota since before dota allstars came out and I don't think I have anywhere near that much
Watching you or your friend get tossed after the aegis steal reminds me why I love this game. League holds your hand and makes sure you can’t troll teammates, but dota is just like fuck it, have a force staff.
I read this to my thief of a friend. We both agree.
At least they added disable help for when it does get toxic.
I miss the days you could buy blink on KotL and put griefing teammates in time out while the whole worked worked together to prevent the courier from delivering them TPs.
@maudiojunky can't disable help on tiny though. As it should be.
Remember when hou can eul team mates, me and my friend used to eul each other, leave one behind as tribute whenever we feels like we gonna lose the finght on the lanes 😂
Actually ancients are two large shards of the broken mook (Arc Warden being the third) and as they fell down, they corrupted every minor being and attracted heroes to fight for them. Also, each game of Dota is actuallly cannon, cause every time one of the ancients loses it rewinds the time, so all heroes are stuck in infinite war loop.
and then there's Arc Warden, the 3rd side of the coin who wants both Radiant and Dire dead and is also whispering sweet nothings into peoples ears to get their help
hmmmmm...
Ok, I'm scared to imagine the horrors of LoL and how sick people are of it to come to Dota 2 and see that toxic rage-inducing insanity, addictive radioactive cave of a game and see it as "refreshing"
I have 1.5k hours in Dota. Its a cesspool of racial slurs, parental insults and toxicity. I have played like 30-40 matches of League and what can I say, its the same thing but anime. They are not as different as people think, Dota just got a bad rep
@@VasiliyOgniov Both are bad, but I'd say what makes Dota players slightly worse is the fact that it has voice chat which adds another layer of toxicity
@@Bee-cw9ho valid. On the other hand, I dare to say that it is not as bad as people say in both cases. Like, I met a lot of people who were genuinely nice. A lot of funny interactions and real advices from people I have never met before.
However, when its bad, its really bad
Being honest with you, I always saw Dota 2 as the worst game, Im a grandmaster League player with over 10 years of experience, tried dota back in 2017 and I absolutely hated it. Then, since the last patches have been pure garbage, me and my friends wanted to play something different. Started playing Dota recently and oh my god, I got like 250 hours already and i've been enjoying it so much, its really refreshing as people might say. I'm honestly just wanting to learn all the mechanics needed so I can start ranking on my own (despite the toxicity, since I already have a strong mental from all those years trying to rank up in league) and, lets just say I love how Dota doesn't restrict ANY of his mechanics. It's SO FREAKING FREEING how I can do anything I want in the game without some company behind trying to ruin the fun.
@@VasiliyOgniov being insulted by the anime crowd and alphabet people is what makes it extra aggravating.
If you haven’t , you should try ability draft once you and your friends are more familiar with the game, the amount of different, weird and fun scenarios is infinite
Dota 2 is beautiful and I'm glad you got to find it again and share what you feel about it with this video. Cheers.
Cheers!
"If everyone is op, then no one is"
Thats pretty much dota's design philosophy, and thats why its so good because of that, with enough gold anything can work, thats why despite my friends playing league, i still play dota to this day, league just cant scratch that dota itch man
Honestly one of the best dota videos I have ever seen. Captured that fun energy of Dota which you don't see very often after you get past the honeymoon phase of the game.
Dota is literally a playable art.
Mind provoking realization, amazing video, please keep up the good work brother!
genuinely one of the best explanations of dota i've ever seen
You've fallen into the rabbit hole that is Dota 2, good luck brother.
Y'all sound like you're having a blast enjoy it for those gamer dad's that can no longer fight the good fight.
Really well made! Insightful, funny and most of all passionate. Would love to see more Dota content from you!
its insane how valve managed to just flat steal half of their entire games list and people still regard them as an amazing studio . the games that valve ACTUALLY made themselfs were half lifes and portals . Counter strike was a mod of half life , team fortress was a mod of quake , dota was a mod of warcraft 3 and left 4 dead was a mod of counter strike . they did indeed make great games out of them like left 4 dead 2 basically invented the horde sub genre and i still regard dota 2 as the best moba ever , However that doesn't make them any less stolen IPs / ideas . Also its astonishing that nobody be giving credit to the KICK ASS editor that wc3 and sc2 had which without them Tower defenses , mobas , 4x , 2x genres would quite literally never exist . Besides people being dumb this was indeed an excellent video .
i mean valve didnt just outright steal the games though, the people who created the mods they took with them to work for them and turn it into a real game and keep it funded. it was a very positive thing for both the individual and the company, and to all of us consumers who enjoyed the mods & games that came from them. Sure, the games werent originally theirs, but the people who made the mods are at valve creating the actual game with much better funding than they had themselves. and i know in the case of warcraft and DoTA, the guy who made the dota mod originally tried to go with Blizzard, and it didnt work out so valve took it. good for them i say.
every hero is op, that the Concept of dota
Arc warden is so broken
When everyone's OP, balance is achieved.
Until it's not and they have to patch it.
Hey man, this is a great video! I can feel that it was written with love for the game. Very creative!
I wish I didn't have to uninstall after 15 years and 10k hours, I miss old Dota.
"dota… is an RPG. league… is a mobile game"
YES. That's what I've always thought.
Dota feels so much like a mini-rpg campaign. The journey is so good
Great video.I've personally been playing Dota 2 for a decade at this point,got 1800+ hours in it(and plenty of money spent on it).Recently i figured out that there are VERY annoying heroes that i started to main,i can even solo the match on some of them,but that's as long as my teammates don't feed and my enemies don't play way better than me.Pugna?Pick mid,get lvl6 and do push speedruns while sucking the life outta enemies and obliterating them with Dagon.Treant Protector?Literally useful on any lane due to seed providing enough healing to revive a dying elephant,and then he evolves into an annoying rootspam machine.Ogre Magi?Fireblast and multicast,that's all i've said.But that's not all,because Dota 2 is TRULY unique,because it's one of the rare games that make me merge with the character i play as,starting to act like them,starting to feel big strong and tanky,or small and quick.Despite it having a very bad playerbase,i still cannot stop but keep playing Dota 2.
Its been a while since I see a video like this of Dota, I played since Dota 2 came out, more than 10 years ago, the last time I see a 'fun' video about Dota was when Dota WTF started (back then they were fun, now... lets not talk about this) all the videos about Dota 2 now are just meta and meta, this is a very good experience watching this video, I appreciate this a lot. And now you win a like and a sub
This was the best video I’ve seen on UA-cam in a long time. Thank you
literal underrated content, i couldn't believe the subs count with this quality not match
subbed, waiting for that project zomboid shenanigans
dota is a game for sure
0:18 That Enchantress Portrait lol
i cant believe that you only have 80 subs good job bruh
Wow, I'm so glad that YT recommended me this video! Apart from being a good content I truly enjoyed, author also mentioned what russians do to my Ukrainian land, and I'm thankful to hear the wise thoughts on this war from US, thank you!
0:21 wiped bro out of existence
2:30 that "oh no" 😂😂😂😂
Insane UA-cam recommendation pull, big ups
this is probably a way better video than any "dota vs lol" i have ever seen.
instead of using the word "harder and complicated", you explain why those harder parts made the game more fun without sounding like a circlejerk.
The bristleback prediction voiceline is one of my favourite lines in videogames
HoN was absolutely amazing
perfectly captured the charm of dota! lovely video
This is the best explanation of dota I have ever heard xd
Only 16 upvotes when I saw this, I blame pre patch fatigue numbering the months. But this is a great video, I enjoyed watching it and I really appreciate your work. Nice one!! Deserves more recognition!
Please - more Dota videos! Awesome production. Thanks for your insight!
0:16 this was really funny 😂
this is such a well made video Wow. just wow I love arc warden DX
Bro your story telling is inaneeee please make more videos on other games like this and you'll make it big one day for sureee
A well deserved sub and like, that Video made my evening! Thank you very much for 20 mins of great entertainment
Techies introduction got me good
11:49 "lunar sunburns".....he said
this video is goated, nice informative and comedy right in the feels
19:22 ngl, I feel like that was an entirely survivable even with a groin laceration and a bleeding forearm. Pretty sure you could still outwalk the zombies even with the reduced move speed from a groin laceration so if you just kept walking towards somewhere you could break LoS, you could feasibly bandage up and survive. That being said though, from the minimap, it did look kinda desolate but usually there's at least some forest nearby you can get into to lose some of the zombies.
what game is that
also being night people as we are, the heroes get bonus movespeed during the night.
Underrated video.
Insane production quality from a smalish channel. I hope you keep it up, this shit is gold
HoN was the sole focus of like 7500 hours of my life but when the population started waning, I jumped ship and went to DotA 2. DotA is insanely better than League, but doesn't quite scratch the same itch that HoN did
that's the best video about dota 2 i've ever seen!
Dota is a great game! Happy to see more people get into it!
Map on right side says it all
He will never forget that theft
May the algorithm bless this video. Had a good laugh out of it haha
14:10 seeing funny bald man in a dota video wasn't really expected tbh
You're not even pregnant and you still delivered!
Really cool video, definitely subbing. Btw, you should watch SirActionSlacks' Loregasm videos, especially the one about the ancients (i think it's the first one). Your arc warden plays a really big part in the grand scheme of dota's lore. The "Self" he always refers to is the entity that the dire, radiant, and Zet (arc warden) become when they're as one, as they were in the beginning. The dota Lore is REALLY fucking cool. You should also watch his spectre loregasm video, its quite the mindblower
i had fun watching, nice vid!
best explanation fr
Man, I wish I had friends to enjoy this game with
this video convince me to install dota again
Id been playing this hellhole of a game for 11 years now
He has been enlightened
Dota only for mentally stable and emotionally secure individuals.
Love and blessings!
And now 7.36 is out.
Lord have mercy upon us
shoutout algorithm for this video
HON game is one of the biggest Moba game in South east Asia man
My bro Arc Warden getting recognition
great video man! subbed!
its aways cool to see new players enjoying dota!
XD whats with a sudden influx of so many league player coming to dota
It's funny
I haven't played League in close to 7 years, maybe 8. I do know that Riot put their invasive anti-cheat into League and it's been fucking with a lot of people's computers.
I wouldn't be surprised if that, plus a bunch of other stuff, was leading to people quitting LoL.
Amazing video my man. How do you only have 173 subs 😭
I love new players videos so much man.
League players beginning dota is the best genre
Since I am subscribed, you are now obligated to become a dota content creator
15:36 that windlace buy. Still gotta get the courier sent over bud
No way ! New dota2 content creator, cant wait to see how long this guy'll remember his account password
Bruh, why is this viideo so good.
even in dota 1 zet the arc warden was a gnoll wizard
Absolutely loved this vid ❤
Unlike you I am an actual giant space crab.
Been playing since the first version came out in warcraft, God I never get tired of this game unless im on a losing streak because of overconfidence that I can win 6 gAmes straight like what I did the other day that I am a God in this game now and that the pros ain’t sh8, till for some reason gaben paired me with bunch of *****, fu*****g c**k s****rs now im back to reality and ponder to myself why did I even play today I could’ve stayed in that rank now back to 2 stars sigh 🤦♂️such sadness
Anyway you pretty much summed everything up on this game it was an awesome game
"I don't know how much longer I can stretch this video out, so uh... I'm going to leave now."
i swear i can hear deadpool sometimes from your voice LMAO
Nice video. Welcome to Dota.
I’m trying to get my buddy to play dots2 this was good
great video about this new game, make more!!
I have a theory that agility heroes are all based off of how much APM or reaction speed you need on the keyboard.
oh I felt that pz death, im sorry sir
I love it so much I hate it.
Top tier content
This is a very well made video, held back by it dragging a bit too long in each segment. I feel you would reach a much wider audience by cutting down on the length of each portion, just by a bit. Not from the end, but compressing it overall.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." -- Some french bastard
I couldn't agree more! I'm always looking for things I could trim down. I cut 5ish minutes from the original script because it had two extra segments that ruined the pacing.