Brannigan

While I'm sure the pros will have some influence, it's not really a factor for me. I played the crap out of LoL and love dota, but I could not care less about the pro-gaming scene.

16/2/14 lich, ridiculous. Makes up for our crappy game earlier where I was dc'd most of the match!

That was pretty great

Peer pressure is fun! Guy I was playing LoL with keeps giving me crap about playing dota 2 instead and constantly telling me how dumb it is, heh.

LoL's barrier for entry is most definitely lower and that is really appealing if you know you're not spending much time with it. For me it eventually just wasn't enough game, but having played LoL gave me a great leg up when I got my dota 2 invite since I had some idea of basic tactics. That said it still ultimately amounts to learning what every single lord does, it's just dota has a lot more complexity in the general sense of the game and can be a little overwhelming if you're going in alone.

woah, alchemist is great....at running away from a team fight because your team lost because you're alchemist, but you get away because you're alchemist

Somehow went 12/4 as shadowfiend. Surprised me both because I never see him do well and because I hate with a passion how his QWE ability works.

I agree in some ways, with LoL I do like how they occasionally streamline some mechanics/abilities/controls but I got really, really bored with it. To the point where I can pick up any champion and do well without ever reading anything on the champ. With dota 2 there's a lot of freshness and complexity for me, plenty of lords I haven't played and the strategy of it is FAR more diverse, a lot of LoL's strat is very etched in stone.

I'd throw ursa in there for easy jungle too. Also if you're not familiar with dota, naix = lifestealer

17/5/14 game as phantom lancer, we won 4 v 5 too, silly game. As for characters from lol that are similar, drow is a lot like ashe, mirana has her stun arrow too. Uhh...there's not alot of straight copies as much as lol characters took certain aspects of dota champs and mish-mashed abilities. I'd just play a few all pick games maybe to get used to the more complex mechanics then hit single draft so you're forced into trying things. The only character I find you seriously need to read a guide for is invoker, he's the one lord i'll never go near because i'm too lazy to read up on him.

Well I guess Chris gets his wizard, Keeper of the Light seriously looks like Gandalf the White

Well it took me 2 hours, but I figured out how to equip the hatchet. Once I did that I did survive for about an hour, much of it spent dizzy from blood loss and dehydration. Ran into a friendly who took to covering me, but he didn't speak english so I couldn't ask him for water. Not sure if he knew why I passed out every couple minutes, but I'd always wake up to him lying next to me. And then some jerk teleported the entire server to the same spot and loaded everybody with guns, ruined my fun.

Meld saved me like once, but yea, that's exactly how I leveled up, refraction then meld. Most of my deaths were from that lane, just got lucky later in the game and would meld just long enough for them to switch targets, then I'd pop out and murder someone. She vaguely reminds me of akali from LoL, when playing like that.

Judging from how I did early, a ranged character can push her around pretty hard. I could not farm at all with veno's harass and the ever present danger of being stunned by ES

well, templar assassin was fun, took a bit to get used to the ult. Started off really badly against ES/veno lane, but ended up 18/5 somehow.

Exuberant

Well, he does have a super long wrist when he shoots his hand out, gotta keep it covered

They're just rubbing each other's bellys, that's totally fine

Yea I really liked Brink in a lot of ways, but the buggy launch and some of the maps are just poorly designed. Most of the indoor maps are just giant chokepoint fodder. The first section of the junkyard map is also a little silly. I really enjoyed my time with it but the bugs/lack of people tired me out. I really had some spectacular moments with the parkour.

I'm amazed there's anyone still playing it, the playerbase took a nosedive pretty hard and fast shortly after it came out

no!

Well, never playing a Mario game again

You haven't lived until you play captain's mode with 4 man premade and get a captain who doesn't speak your language. Who also makes terrible choices.

Pretty much what happened to me when it first aired. God I need to keep up with it more.

Make it a weirdly specific and wildly deviant behavior! Like you said, anal sex isn't a strictly homosexual thing, nor do all homosexuals engage in it(if i remember right it's actually a relatively low percentage). Doesn't seem that offensive to me, but different things offend different people. You'll never please everyone.