General DiscussionDo you theory craft doto when you're not playing? work, school or soc...

you can either look at overbuffed/new items (travels, solar crest, etc) and think of new ways to apply them, or look at an underplayed hero and try to find a better standard build

usually you'll be off the mark by quite a bit, but that's just the nature of the beast

example: moon shard instead of AC as the new extension on DK, maelstrom -> yasha medusa, skipping blink on brew/wk (disclaimer: awful), abyssal gyrocopter when vs troll

if i have time (i have a lot of time lately), i read up on interesting theories and try to understand them. I'm not good enough at dota to craft my own good builds, because a good build/guide from a superior player still teaches me a lot about a certain hero. But i realize since i am more active on this forum, i am actually learning a great deal about mechanics and playing styles. Also i profited so much from actually reading patchnotes in depth.

Theory helped me a lot lately i think. Since i started implementing the ideas into my practical gaming, I made huge jumps forward and filled some noobish gaps.

tl;dr if i dont play dota, i think about dota.

Yeah, pretty constantly tbh... I'd love to talk about my theories... but 2k strats ain't worth shit man :)

but morphling hybrid techies suicide is a funny thought haha. Quite a lot of my recent thinkings have been about the hybrid ability... offlane strength morph getting aghs is reasonable... but you would really need the team comp to pull it off... silly things like double tombstone, double bear, double netherblast, double riki etc... 20s is a surprisingly long amount of time to fuck with people before waveforming out of vision and tping away.

Glimmer cape on PL is sick, you should try it!

i hvae a very active brain...... so thing come into my head........ most of them a properly absolutely terrible ideas.......

sven battlefury comes to mind......... that ursa BF i havent tried yet

but yeah i think about playing dota and then i come up with bad ideas that no one in their right mind would actually try

anyone who theorycraft is always 2k-3k mmr

i wonder why xD

Because the top people know what works...... And generally stick to it?

Really the top players do more theorycrafting... a lot more. But they don't tell everybody about it. Why give away your advantage?

if im not playing im sleeping

I'm always thinking about Dota. How to change my existing builds, how I have an idea for an item thats "so OP on x hero" (Diffusal windrunner, never again).

Relentless I think part of that is higher level ayers are more confident in their judgements and play so they don't feel they need to ask for advice as much