User:Wagonmastergeneralrunsimmon

Steam Name: Rakashakasulu

Real Name: Padraic

Feel free to ignore every below, it's stuff about me, if you don't want to know me, don't read it.

I like gaming. I like helping. I don't like when people insult me on the internet (who does?). If I do something wrong, please don't fly into a rage, I meant no harm, but if you keep that attitude, I will.

Just a little joke. Yes. A joke. Now, more about my love affair with Dota 2:

I didn't start very long ago, I've only been playing since January 2013, I didn't play the original DotA, I don't play any similar games, though I have been looking into the League of Legends recently, but I'm not too sure if I'll actually play it. I don't think any heroes are overpowered, merely easy to play effectively. Anything I say about any hero on this page is my opinion, I am entitled to it, just as you are entitled to disagree, you are not, however, entitled to abuse me for my opinion differing from yours (It has happened to us all).

Quotes:

On Professional Dota 2: "You can always tell a professional Dota player just by looking at their inventory. They WILL have a force staff."

On Winning: "Never let your head get too big when you win, or it won't be able to fit through the door to the next victory."

On Losing: "They say losing improves character, well this is not always the case. You must accept that losing is your fault if you are to learn from it."

10 Favourite Heroes to Play (And why):

1) Slark the Nightcrawler. "Alone is best but sometimes you need mates. Worst comes to worst you can always eat them" First, his accent reminds me of a London cabbie, which I love the idea of, also, I think what he says to Naga Siren is very sweet. He's also a difficult hero to kill, despite his natural fragility, due to his escape mechanisms being plentiful. I tend to build him durable so he can stay in the fight longer and steal more attributes for power.

2) Invoker. "Behold before you, the illustrious, the imperious, ingenious arch-mage… CARL." HOTKEY SPAM. I love the Invoker for that, as well as his difficultly, he is well worth learning to use and so much fun to play anyway. His arrogance knows no limit, but that just makes him all the funnier.

3) Gondar the Bounty Hunter. "You're wanted dead or alive, I don't know which you are but I'll collect your bounty all the same." For some reason, can't figure out why I love this hero, might be a number of things, I guess I like ganker heroes and Bounty is one of the best, I also like his Bio.

4) Balanar the Night Stalker. "You've reached the end of your days." The unsung carry, at least at Night, but I gear him towards maximizing his killing potential at night, which isn't really a new idea, but it's fun and effective. I think it's pretty cool the way he flies when Hastened or under the effect of Stampede.

5) Dazzle the Shadow Priest. "If killing you is wrong, I don't want to be right" Best support in the game, I don't care what the professionals say about Wisp, Dazzle can physically stop someone from dying. His own power isn't obvious but his right click attack is pretty good in conjunction with his ultimate, so I like to get Desolator and Assault Cuirass if I'm doing a solo lane. It isn't cheap, but I figure it works.

6) Rizzrack the Timbersaw "If you fall in the forest and I laugh, will anyone hear me?" A high damage output, massive mobility and durability, I love the way I can fly one thousand four hundred units in any direction there's a tree in, smashing anything I hit on the way with a chunk of pure damage. I think his paranoia is pitiable but amusing.

7) Morphling "Didn't you see me waving?" Morphling can be powerful at any point during the game, his Waveform deals good damage as well as giving him good mobility, it's probably my main killing tool for the earlier portion of the game, until I get a Heart of Tarrasque and put all of my natural strength into agility. I'm not too keen on the Ethereal Blade/Shotgun Combo business, I've tried it once or twice and it just seems a little too easy.

8) Sven the Rogue Knight "I would not kill a maiden, but you forced the issue!" A carry who's not given the credit for the killing ability he possesses, nor suggested to buy the one item that makes the most sense on him; Battle Fury. With it he gets 100% cleave; he can literally kill a team in a few swings.

9) Rattletrap the Clockwerk "If you come back, I'll kill you again." The can of "whoop-ass" that is Rattletrap is a highly surprising individual who specialises in killing heroes who don't like being near their enemies, like Sniper and Drow.

10) Zharvakko the Witch Doctor "Which Doctor you expecting?"

10 Least Favourite Heroes to Play (And why):

1) Shadow Demon Fairly useless at most points during the game. Good at harassing at the start. That's about it.

2) Skitskurr the Weaver It seems whenever I play him the enemy always know what they're doing and I don't.

3) Slithice the Naga Siren It's mainly her voice actually.

4) Black Arachnia the Broodmother Well...weak and complicated at the start, strong and complicated at the end. If you get there that is.

5) Undying the Almighty Dirge God he hits slowly. God he levels slowly. God he does everything at the speed at which he's decaying.

6) Ish'kafel the Dark Seer. I don't know, I'm definitely doing it wrong, I just don't like the fact that the enemy needs to be more powerful than him for him to win.

7) Io the Guardian Wisp. Despite being one of the 'best' supports in the game, he's a surprisingly bad support.

8) Akasha the Queen of Pain. I don't know, I get focused on because people think she's dangerous when really I've no idea what I'm doing.

9) Luna the Moon Rider. I don't know why, I just don't like her.

10) Puck the Faerie Dragon Timing is everything. Therein lies my problem.

10 Heroes I Hate Playing Against (And why):

1) Skitskurr the Weaver. Because he's powerful, which is annoying, and fragile but really hard to kill, which is annoying.

2) Rotund'jere the Necrolyte Because spending a bit more than a minute within a 1000 radius of him will kill you; needless to say he's impossible to lane against without massive regeneration.

3) Rikimaru the Stealth Assassin. You can't fight him with an autoattacker and you can't fight him with spells. Smoke screen is even more annoying than the fact that I can never see him coming.

4) Naix the Lifestealer The tougher you are to kill, the less likely you are to kill him; he turns the power of a team's tank against them.

5) Viper the Netherdrake. Impossible to escape, difficult to catch, surprisingly strong bite.

6) Nortrom the Silencer. Every spellcaster's worst nightmare.

7) Nyx Assassin One hit, stun, mana burn, dead. That's all I get from this guy.

8) Kardel Sharpeye the Sniper As Bounty Hunter once said "Only cowards hunt from a distance."

9) Anti-Mage. Ignorant and indignant, self-righteous and stupid, as well as a bitch to catch and kill.

10) Ostarion the Skeleton King "Alive or dead Skeleton King. Pick One" Most times he chooses the former.

How I counter certain heroes I hate:

Lifestealer: Shut him down early, if he is on the enemy team I'll take long lane, if he lanes I'll play hyper-aggressive harassment, if he's jungling I'll wait until level 3, buy some wards and take my partner to kill him, then take out all the jungle and ward to stop him from farming, later I'll do this for the ancients. Heroes to counter Naix: Most agility carries can outfight him due to their damage output being much higher than their health as well as having high armor due to their agility being high. If you need to shut him down at the start then Night Stalker is a good choice as he can easily gank the jungle Naix is in at level 3.

Necrolyte: By killing him at every given opportunity. Not that hard when it comes down to it, but he still pisses me off beyond imagining. A hero with high regeneration but low max health is good against this guy, like an Invoker with several instances of mid level Quas or someone with lifesteal.

Weaver: Doom.