Tip of the Week

Sensible Tip
* Let TJ rebut the oppositions abuse

General Tip
* Always carry a TP

Carry
* Nearly always in team fights, kill the character with crowd / map control first

Support
* Wards are more important than your boots

Strengths and Weaknesses

Now that we are getting to the higher levels of competition, we need to work on improving our areas of effectiveness. Can everyone please comment on what you think is your strengths and weaknesses. Here are a couple from my observation.

Strengths

• Broot - Good overall knowledge of strategy, excellent 1 v 1 or small group encounter, ganking and execution skills.
• Phil - Large & small team fight execution,(probably the best of us at this). Farming efficiency & tower destruction strategy.
• TJ - well rounded knowledge of heroes, outstanding farming efficiency, strong knowledge of game strategies, good fight execution.
• Nank - excellent technical knowledge, character knowledge, good idea of overall strategy.
• Dia - good overall strategy knowledge,

Weaknesses

• Broot - 5 v 5 team fight execution (Don't get lost in the clutter)
• Phil - Adapting style/meta game strategy based on enemy heroes abilities
• TJ - A little solo minded. You cant win the game against good opponents on your own. Share the wealth bro. ED TJ - I think this explains it all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxUA-n40PWo
• Nank - Heat of the moment execution & overall communication.
• Dia - Heat of the moment execution, not assuming the team know what I am thinking & farming efficiency, miss clicking God!

My largest weakness is getting frustrated very easily. I understand this is effecting my ability to play well and more importantly taking away from the enjoyment of the game for all the team. I am working on it and in the mean time happy for you guys to tell me to stfu when it is impacting your fun in the game.

Things we can do better as a team:

1. Set a team leader each match that we all abide by. I think rotation may cause problems but we can do this until a clear and obvious leader comes out of the trials. (Steve's idea and its brilliant)
2. Discuss when to dive and when to back out based on abilities. i.e watch out for WD ulti.
3. Set stun rotations, set enemy priority kill lists in team fights. Assign responsibilities. (i.e. Stun CM/WD during their ulti's.)

4. Watch replays of our fight encounters at .25 speed and see what was good and what could be done better next time. (I have been doing this with Storm Spirit and it has improved my farming efficiency and team fights immensely.(I now right click whilst zipping as SSpirit)

Heroes we should learn

Was thinking off the back of TJ's latest post of hero's we should be playing in our ranked games and who we should be playing in the fun/pub games.  We should also be thinking of heroes that we should learn (or more of us should learn). In all the roles.

Ones I'm thinking would be good additions:
3-5 spot
Sand King
Witch doctor (or more Witch Doctor!)
Earth Shaker
Necro
Ancient Apparition
Jakiro
Disruptor
Tidehunter
Enigma

1-3 spot
Tiny
Timbersaw
Sven
Storm Spirit
Brewmaster
Razor
Outworld Devourer
Slark

Any thoughts or additions.

Fun nights and try hard nights

We should till try out different combinations on fun nights and then when we get ranked Zen 5 try out our best combinations.
The addition of Windranger to our ranked has changes us from a team that is searching for team fights and defending to tower push team, able to extend into the end game with advantage!

Ranked hard core lategame sniper+void

Safelane core: Void (Diash)

Safelane support: Witch Doctor (Bishop)

Mid core: Sniper (TJ)

Offlane core: Spirit Breaker (Broot)

Offlane support: Lich (Nnank)

Ranked - hard carry, moderate tower push:

Safelane core:  Juggs (Phil)  [alt: Wrath King]
Mid core: Drow (TJ)  [alt: Troll Warlord]
Offlane core: Windranger (Broot) [alt: viper]
Offlane support: Mirana (Nnank)
Safelane support: Warlock (Diash)
Summary :
Disables:   OK
Tower Push: Great
Gank: OK
Team fight: OK
End game: Good
Mid game: Good

Ranked - hard carry, great tower push:

Safelane core:  Juggs (Phil)
Mid core: Drow (TJ)
Offlane core: Troll Warlord (Nnank)
Offlane support: Windranger (Broot)
Safelane support: Warlock (Diash)
Summary:
Increases tower push and mid-late game team presence

Pubmatch - ultimate tower push:

Jakiro
Warlock
Windranger
Shadow shaman

Pubmatch - stun smash, feed the storm:

Sven
Jakiro
Shadow Shaman
Earthshaker
Storm Spirit

Something funny to watch - guide to escaping MMR hell

http://youtu.be/_-J9mfcExhg

funny dude. not sure good the advice is but funny none the less.