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"
i remember pretty powerfully when this hero was added to the game, because he felt like the same kind of "wtf, why did they do this" as playing 5.52 and .54 and seeing rikimaru and rylai every game. but he was ultimately a sort of knowledge check that felt very counterintuitive at the time, and i sort of doubt that he was otherwise actually more overtuned than the average new hero. which is to say, somewhat, but not unstoppably. these days i feel like he's tough to play...his skills certainly combo together but it's tricky to tell what you're supposed to be doing at many points in the game because he doesn't have a pronounced strength in farming nor ganking compared to most carries (who i think more obviously favor one or the other). i usually haven't had an easy time winning with this hero in recent years, but we got a super easy game where i think most of the enemy team had no idea what was going on. in general. not just with bloodseeker. i could've been playing anyone.