7.28 The Return of Zoo. Why Beastmaster, Lycan, and Visage Are OP. Reviewing Micro Heroes in 7.28.
The Mistwoods Update has been out for two days now, so it's time to take stock of how 7.28 affected our beloved micro heroes such as Chen, Beastmaster, Lycan, and Visage. We'll go through all the most important changes that affect micro heroes and as you'll see, the Frog has been kind to the zoo this time. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Beastmaster guide for 7.29d, featuring OG.Ceb. The surprising answer to how to play Beastmaster in 7.29d turns out to be rushing Helm of the Dominator into Helm of the Overlord. For the longest time, I thought those items were rubbish, but then Ceb has two more TI wins than I do, so we should probably trust him.
This guide covers skill builds, item builds, laning, pushing, HotD creep selection, micro and control groups, farming, roshing, and pushing high ground.
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Lone Druid finally makes a triumphant return to the offlane. With the recent buffs LD is now one of the strongest offlaners in DotA. In this video we take a look at 33 playing LD in a game between Tundra and Entity from Dream League Season 21.
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7.27c offlane Lycan replay analysis featuring Faith_bian. The rumours of the zoo's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Dominator and Necro might have been nerfed, but Lycan is still the hero with the highest winrate in pro level pubs.
Who even needs Necronomicon if you can just have an unslowable Wolf-Luna with 650 MS, 2600 night vision, 40% crit and 30% lifesteal? It even fits thematically!
Intro by Twelve Sevven
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Arc Warden 7.27: farm your way to victory with the right farm patterns and locations. Arc Warden is one of the strongest mids/carries of 7.27c with a win rate of 59% in Divine and Immortal level games in the past week. If you want to gain MMR with Arc Warden at the lower ranks, the most important thing you need to figure out is how to farm as Arc Warden in a safe and efficient way and which items to build. That is exactly what I discuss in this replay analysis taken from my stream.
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Lycan has one of the highest win rates in high level pubs in 7.23 and Lycan can be played in mid, safelane or offlane. Despite losing his mid lane and not getting anything done with his first two Shapeshifts, 33 comes back and easily carries the game, using simple tactics which we'll discuss in this video.
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A Dota 2 Beastmaster game featuring Moo in a 10.6k average NA pub. The standard Beastmaster build these days is to ignore Wild Axes, max Call of the Wild and Inner Beast aura while rushing Helm of the Dominator into Helm of the Overlord. But are there still situations where it is better to go for the magic damage Beastmaster build with an early Aghanim?
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A DotA 2 Visage carry guide featuring Matumbaman on Visage, playing alongside his new captain Puppey on Nature's Prophet. Visage is barely picked in 7.23 and the introduction of innate damage block for melee heroes certainly didn't help, but at least they reversed the disastrous new Stone Form helper ability that was inflicted on Visage in 7.23. While the hero isn't exactly strong, it can be the right bird for the job in certain games.
In this game Matu shows how to deal with a tough lane and how to recover from a poor early game. Most importantly, we'll see how you can have impact and win games with Visage even if you're underfarmed by carry standards.
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7.29b patch review focused on Lycan and other zoo/micro heroes.
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Chen 7.27 pos 5 replay analysis featuring yours truly. This game was originally played on my stream last Monday. Here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/754688062
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