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True! It looks very good, although PL as a whole is very unpopular among the pros right now :(

No problem!

Welcome to dota! I would say in this patch most of the popular supports are fairly defensive laners (Like omniknight or abaddon), but if you want to put on a lot of early pressure, a hero like undying is a good pick right now. Getting a lot of mangos (for mana) is very strong on undying, especially in average/lower-mmrs. Other super-early-game items to get on support are magic stick and a lot of regen (both mana and health). On support, there usually aren't a lot of items that let you "snowball" and capitalize on winning the early game, so usually you just go a regular build no matter how strong you are super early (Like arcane boots/tranquill boots into forcestaff/solarcrest/glimmercape) Good luck! (Some strong early game heroes: Undying, clockwork, hoodwink, venomancer)

@@Arch3rDota thanks a lot, very insightful about items!

I thought the same at first, but I've seen some good players do cool plays like using his 'Q' to fear enemies into looking into his ult, so there's definitely potential

That's very valid, I think every players personal ability to use (and play around/strategise) around the neutral items can outway any common trends without a doubt!

I used to be a puff main and 90% of my matches have been on puff, but if (when) I return after my long break, I'm thinking of picking up a spacie :)

Oh wow, I didn't even see that when reading through the patch notes, that's a really cool change!

@@Arch3rDota I think it was like brought up I think since the start of 7.36(I think). Great content otherwise!

Working on it now!

I should have made that more clear, my bad! Core heroes (The hard carry, midlaner and offlaner) are the heroes that take last hits (minion kills and through that earns gold) at the start of the game (and usually throughout the entire game as well). The opposite of core heroes are the support heroes (the hard support and soft support), who don't take last hits at the start of the game and are generally a lot lower in networth and gold throughout the entire game.

Haha I'm glad you noticed, I agree it's unsettling

Thank you! Let's see who can get to 1k subs first ;)

Glad it helped!

You're completely right, thanks for letting me know!

@@Arch3rDota you have great content, keep up the good work <3

Understandable 👍

@@Arch3rDota im gonna come in here with some positivity, love the accent, gives alot of personality points to the channel!

@@Arch3rDota sry xD

THANK YOU!

Thanks! The neutral item video will be out soon!

Thank you!

Wow, I did not know that! Thanks for teaching me something new

True, I had to leave out a lot to make it concise. Great explaination!

@@Arch3rDota yeah... a lot of the archetypes do fit the corresponding attributes but there are also quite a few exceptions

I think an Axe is a great example for this. He's best upgraded blink is arcane one, and not Overwhelming one.He basically gets everything he needs from it. Mana,health regen, it has lower cd than his Q, I wish it was build more often.

True! I forgot about that (I also haven't messed around too much with this new agility/strength-core null thingy)

Thank you!!

Thanks a lot! I could without a doubt sit down and make a full thourough 1 hour video (although I would definitelly have to do a lot more research, items choices are complex haha), might be something I commit to in the future!

Noted!

Will do!

@@Arch3rDota thanks

Yea he should of mentioned the flavor text! It’s so insightful

And some small item is useful when bought at the right time.

What?

Oh holy shit I'm dumb

Thanks 👍!

I'm sorry 😔 (I actually enjoy both playing as and against ICs, just wanted to jump on the hate-bandwagon) In my mind at least (and I haven't played melee in probably almost a year now), IC's are the fun version of Luigi. All the fun sliding around but with an actually decent punish game (and a lot more interactive for both players)

I agree to a certain extent

All 13 of them.

True, that's honestly a big disadvantage that I forgot to mention

Haha thanks for the kind words! I made this video a WHILE back, but I'm getting back into making videos right now, will definitely try to make an advanced guide happen!

Oh I forgot, I already finished the advanced guide: czcams.com/video/mNgPL3sGOAg/video.html

You're completely right 👍

Thanks a lot!

Oh that would be really fun actually, will do! Maybe faucets as well :)

@@Arch3rDotathanks

@@G4MBIT I was almost done, then the new patch got released :( Will re-do it, should be out in a week or two :)

You will have to google around a bit, I cannot share my personal rom here.

@@Arch3rDota okay, i had found one that same day!

Thank you!

Mid tiers: B Tier * Ice Climbers, they are grapplers that fight on the ground. They have a unique combo game, instead of stringing hits together they do handoffs. Where you grab, hold them in place -> attack -> 2nd Icies grab them and repeat. Then you finish it with a smash attack. They are the 2nd hardest character to play in the game. Their cons are the fact they can be separated and aerial approaches. They beat Sheik, Pikachu and are close against Marth, Falco and Yoshi. They lose to Fox, Puff, Peach and Falcon. Luigi and Samus can give them a hard time. However, their damage output makes it where every MU besides Fox and Puff is doable because they can just kill off a few grabs. They are good on FD, Dreamland and Frozen stadium. Watch Slug and lots of tutorials. * Samus - She has great zoning, defense, recovery and many kill options. Her cons are her approaches, tether grab, missiles clank and has a few moves that don’t work. She does good against Fox, close to a 45-55. She can win against Falco, Puff, Marth and Yoshi. Peach, Falcon and Sheik are pretty tough. She is good on all stages except FD. I would watch a mix of all Samus like Morsecode. Then old plup, Duck and Hug$. Out of all the mid-tiers she is probably the closest to solo-viable. She has no invalidating MUs. Pikachu: He is a rushdown character with lighter damage than Fox and Falcon. He has the best recovery in the game and great edge guarding. His cons are his shield + defense, easy to combo and kill off the top, has 3 moves in neutral, and hard loses to crouch canceling. He does well against Falcon, Marth, Yoshi. And Luigi. He Losses but Sheik, Falco, Samus, Doc are manageable. Then hard loses to Icies, Peach, Puff and Fox. He has chaingrabs on fast fallers on FD, he is good on every stage but dreamland. Overall, he has real strengths but not solo mainable. Everyone under him 100% needs a secondary. * Luigi, he is the king of jank, fast ground movement, has good combos, can break out of combos. However, he is awful in the air, has short range and a weak recovery. His best MU is probably Falcon, Icies and Pikachu. Puff, Sheik camping Falcos and Marths is hard for him to deal with. His stages depend on the MUs, he has a lot of quirks but also has the wavedash that is hard to react too. Watch eddie mexico. * Doc he is kinda an all rounder character, a bit on the slower/heavier side but makes up for that with pills and strength. His weakness is recovery, range, air drift and easy to combo. His best MUs are Sheik, Peach and Puff. He loses to Spacies, Falcon and Marth. He does well against all mid tiers. He relies on fundamentals, brawler type of character, he is less explosive than Luigi making it easier for people to play better against without knowing the MU. Watch Franz

Mid tiers: C tier * Young Link, he sucks against spacies and Falcon but can do well against Floaties. The issue though is that camping is necessary, but also good fundamentals to make use of his speed. Watch Axe or Rocket. * DK - He pretty much is a linear grappler character. He uses bair, up air, grab and giant punch mostly. He can combo every character in the game besides, but can be combo’d just as hard. Watch Junebug. Mario - Weaker to crouch cancelling and less kill power. Just play Doc or Falcon. Watch A rookie * Gannon, just play Falcon literal clone. Watch n0ne or mekk. * Adult Link, he is good against Marth and Peach on non-triplats stages. He does well against Samus and can camp against other mid tiers. Everyone else bodies him just play Marth, Samus or Young Link instead. Watch Aklo or Savestate. Low tier: D tier * Mewtwo - he is probably the last character in the game worth touching on the tier list. He is a glass cannon, but you have to work extremely hard to even have the cannon. He does well against spacies, kinda has a punish game on all types of characters, good recovery. However, his hitbox, lack of cc breaking moves and defense is just too bad. Watch Leffen’s slippi mewtwo. Old Taj or Zoma maybe. Roy - Just play Marth, watch dont test me. Mr. G&W - if you are an aerial based G&W play puff, if you are more grounded/combo oriented play the marios. Watch Forrest or Qerb. Bottom tier D- : (LITERALLY USELESS DONT EVEN PLAY FOR FUN) * Pichu - just play pika or fox. Watch M2Ks. * Zelda - Just play Peach or Puff. Watch Jmook. * Ness - Just play anyone else. Watch Joe_ybats F tier: * Kirby - just play puff or doc. Watch Ginger or Triple R * Bowser - just dont. Watch DJ Nintendo

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Low Tiers but not written off as just bad *Ganondorf, hits like a truck but hard to move around with and slow move options, to play this character you absolutely need L cancels and heavy reads are a great tool with him *Game and watch, my main! hes a really fun character, unlike most low tiers his offensive game is one of the best, but he really struggles in the defensive game, his punish game is incredible, and he chaingrabs many top tiers to death. you do have to be careful, he has little defensive options, and if hit can be killed off only a few interactions, this does however make for fast and exciting games, where any hit can kill either player. *Roy, despite being a clone of marth he really doesnt play with him, hes a fast falling sword fighter who prefers to be right next to his opponent, you will have to work hard, but he can combo others like hell *Pichu, really theres not much reason to play him instead of pika, but he moves faster, if you enjoy his movement more than pichu and are willing to put up with being pika lite then use him. *Ness, a DJC character, he has the best F smash in game, able to be spammed in neutral against an opponent not ready for it, his aerials are very good to spam especially with his double jump cancel, spam djc up air and back air, and continue combos with high djc dairs. another glass cannon who can combo very well but his recovery stops him from living very long *Zelda, a slow character whos 2 main moves are fair and bair, id recommend trying to avoid them when starting off so that you can gain a better appreciation for her other moves *Kirby, of all the bottom tiers kirby has the most options, but none of them will be better than your opponents 5th best option, an interesting character whos not dogshit in anything, but not good in anything except tilts either *Bowser, expect to be chaingrabbed, you dont have many options, youre gonna wanna stay on ledge often as his options from ledge are pretty decent, he has no combo game but even a 2 or 3 hit string can do lots of damage, youre gonna also want to spam up b a lot.

Haha, I'm sure there is someone worse (maybe gorgc or admiral bulldog)

Please do, it makes me so happy to hear that!

Thanks for sharing, I haven't reflected about it a lot but things have gotten a lot better the past two years.