i think i decided on my goal for dota 2. i want to finish the all hero challenge one time. raising mmr is a lame goal and one that just makes you mad at everything. the all hero challenge is an incentive to sincerely try and learn a bit about everything while utilizing your fundamentals in the game. you get assigned heroes in order. when you finish one the game tells you your next one. i'm probably going to write a bit about each one (or most of them) since it'll be a fun way to talk about the game and the heroes. gonna make each post a reply to this one and also tag it with "d2ahc" and "[hero name] (dota)" in case anyone wants to find these later for some reason. technically i started this years ago and forgot about a couple of the early ones...
i'll probably also try and get in some games with my favs from time to time in the middle still. especially bc i've still gotta figure out how you can win with morphling. i think he's the #1 hardest hero in the game to play...
i've always liked playing everything, in fighting games too. being so close to competitive scenes kinda beats that out of you unless you really play only one game and are really smart, which does not describe how i feel about myself in fighting games. but maybe this'll teach me something about that. i'd like if it did. but the first one i got...is "wisp"
wisp/io is one of the greatest heroes in dota. probably the closest to the total gimmick guys in hots, and certainly something i feel like you'd never see in league of legends. three of its spells are based around playing next to somebody for basically the whole game, buffing them up so they become about twice as good (while you're about 40% of a real hero or so). on one hand, this means you have no choice but to go down with the ship. on the other hand, when you have a good game, you get to enable your buddy to enact the ultimate beatdowns. there's some meme builds that have arisen in recent years where you make your buddy a neutral enemy during the midgame instead so you can farm up and become unkillable while vomiting disgusting amounts of spell damage on enemies and then link up with one of your teammates later so both of you are stupid strong, but that takes a lot more learning than just waiting till you get a game where your carry isn't an idiot.
and frankly, i think it's fun. i like dota healers more than i like final fantasy 14 healers these days, and pushing down the game super quick because your carry is twice as strong as he's supposed to be is super fun. io is a relatively easy hero to mess up with, though you can mostly avoid that by just not clicking on relocate (its ult, where you and the person you're attached to teleport somewhere else; you get yanked back after a bit) unless it's a total slam dunk or a "well i can't make it worse" save opportunity
not much to say about the games though. after a couple losses i got one where i combined with a troll and we killed everyone. wow.
