When you talked about Sniper and Kotl, a minute in, being "backline cores" I misheard "Cores" as "Whores" and I was like damn, ZQ is feeling feisty today.
Fully agree with the video concept! Presenting yourself as a threat is not always about just running into the fight, esp with reactive spells like Nether Swap or Hand of God.
Just came in to comment because I love your method for teaching. Very calm with a focus on mindful learning and just pleasant to listen to. Keep up the good work!
What's even better about staying in the trees having your swap and blink dagger ready to cancel bh is you get to make the opponent team start blaming the enigma. And that is particularly true in lower skill brackets where players may not realise the threat you pose. They'd mad ping the 4 cores on your side that are standing next to each other and flame the Engima for not blinking in and using his ult. Sad but easily true LOL
As someone with the smallest amount of data skill someone is capable of having, this man is the goat and has made this game 10000000x easier to understand, hats off to you sir I wish you nothing but success 🎉
the nova at min eight was so much you could do. but didnt swap ether the sniper or enigma in like 2-3 secs before it implodes. you could get the kill noone afraid of a 1-2 second black hole as you would get the 2.4 sec stun on them both and kill them if he tried. alternatively your free to save kunka. it's great you think your useful staying back to cancel the blackhole thus making enigmas impact also 0 but you have so much potential your wasting and theres moments where blackhole isnt useful like that one. cant blackhole nova has to pick muerta/ vs gets stunned 2 secs later and is only stunning for a half dead sniper to attack into.. basically the blackhole would have the same impact as magic missile at that moment with the lineup there is several abilities they dont want to walk into/past nova arena muerta ghost ghost ship so you could utilise that to stand closer to use your wave and aura as long as you arent close enough for your cores to get blackholed with you. sure they could use bkb and go on you but you can risk it or itemise towards it like aeon disc. the recomended playstyle is too safe great for new supports and if you want to just blame your cores for losing but a good support would see there is alot more potential to your hero ps some of your points are wrong like linkens can be popped by magic missile or x marks etc to allow you to still swap through the bkb
Hoodwink has been guaranteed value at my rank. Still losing because i cant patch up all the roles, but hitting big cooldowns and having decent waveclear + escape gives me a lot of presence and uptime. Not really playing Dota rn because the positive impacts i have isnt adding up enough to move the needle. And its too unfun in guardian.
ZQ, love your content. Just letting you know, you actually can deal with enigma bkb + linkens by yourself. If he bkbs, you can cast missile and it’ll remove the linkens, then swap.
Cool video but i want another similar educational video this time of you playing enigma against vs or any hard counters. No high networth difference NA tier tilt wins or loss. Actually it doesnt have to be enigma it can be any hero in very hard countered situations and how do you position, itemize and what goes through your mind.
So what would you say the enemy team should have done here? More specifically, what should Enigma have done? Should they have just tried to find you and take you out or at least get the nether swap out before engaging your whole team?
This is a great video and I really love your channel! Do you think looking to build a solar crest rather than drums at the end would be preferable? Since you are just staying far back 95% of the time, I imagine it would be helpful to have solar crest on allies still. But I do get that would potentially lead to being out of position more often.
I think Solar is good when you get it early enough, but I don't really like getting it after the mid/late game. Drums does something similar in terms of movespeed/attack speed, but it's AOE so it would benefit more teammates. I think the slow immunity is also quite good for Muerta in the late game too so that she can get as much as possible done during her ult
the problem is not standing there for better positioning and impact at the right moment, the problem is you will get shouted at and reported because your team thinks you're just there watching a movie from the sidelines when they jump in and die.
Positioning is a nightmare at my scrub ELO. You play vs a liche and your team sticks together like glue no matter how many times they get wiped by liche ult.
you clearly have never met my glimmer cape enigma the whole strategy you have for countering enigma is a tuesday for a 800 games engima as myself i will ''show'' myself on another lane just before i want to tp to a fight and leave the eidoleons pushing it, so the whole enemy team has the sense of safety of enigma not being there empowered by the sense of urgency because the eidoleons are pressuring a split pushed tower, so there is no place for doubt but a yolo lose aversion tunnel vision stance on the whole enemy team, jumping together whoever they first see see, the good thing about playing with 4k low behav morons, is I learned to make my own setups
Nope. I just hide w/ shadow amulet+smoke in the trees with aether lens, telescope, and blink waiting for you. I don't do anything until you blackhole. And on the very FRAME you blink blackhole I cancel with swap, golem, overgrowth, etc. I have been doing this to enigma players for years; I'm just waiting.
When you talked about Sniper and Kotl, a minute in, being "backline cores" I misheard "Cores" as "Whores" and I was like damn, ZQ is feeling feisty today.
1:10 Outdated information. If enigma builds bkb linkens, you can use your stun to remove linkens during bkb, and after use swap to stop the black hole
Forgot about that, thanks for the reminder!
only the cast range at the period of time will matter :D
Fully agree with the video concept! Presenting yourself as a threat is not always about just running into the fight, esp with reactive spells like Nether Swap or Hand of God.
Thanks for this video, super useful to hear your thought process and see how the different fights played out with your positioning. :)
Just came in to comment because I love your method for teaching. Very calm with a focus on mindful learning and just pleasant to listen to. Keep up the good work!
I just wanted to say you make some of the most educational dota content. Real in depth content, not just click bait low effort stuff. Keep it up man!
What's even better about staying in the trees having your swap and blink dagger ready to cancel bh is you get to make the opponent team start blaming the enigma. And that is particularly true in lower skill brackets where players may not realise the threat you pose. They'd mad ping the 4 cores on your side that are standing next to each other and flame the Engima for not blinking in and using his ult. Sad but easily true LOL
That Enigma must have been so frustrated lmao
Imagine you have a person in other team Just working so you cant play the game 😂
I was the enigma and I can confirm this
As someone with the smallest amount of data skill someone is capable of having, this man is the goat and has made this game 10000000x easier to understand, hats off to you sir I wish you nothing but success 🎉
thank you for all ya do for the community!
that emotion burning "i don't have swap" 19:18 😂😂
the nova at min eight was so much you could do. but didnt swap ether the sniper or enigma in like 2-3 secs before it implodes. you could get the kill noone afraid of a 1-2 second black hole as you would get the 2.4 sec stun on them both and kill them if he tried. alternatively your free to save kunka.
it's great you think your useful staying back to cancel the blackhole thus making enigmas impact also 0 but you have so much potential your wasting and theres moments where blackhole isnt useful like that one. cant blackhole nova has to pick muerta/ vs gets stunned 2 secs later and is only stunning for a half dead sniper to attack into.. basically the blackhole would have the same impact as magic missile at that moment
with the lineup there is several abilities they dont want to walk into/past nova arena muerta ghost ghost ship so you could utilise that to stand closer to use your wave and aura as long as you arent close enough for your cores to get blackholed with you. sure they could use bkb and go on you but you can risk it or itemise towards it like aeon disc.
the recomended playstyle is too safe great for new supports and if you want to just blame your cores for losing but a good support would see there is alot more potential to your hero
ps some of your points are wrong like linkens can be popped by magic missile or x marks etc to allow you to still swap through the bkb
wow venge can use dagger now
:p
Hoodwink has been guaranteed value at my rank. Still losing because i cant patch up all the roles, but hitting big cooldowns and having decent waveclear + escape gives me a lot of presence and uptime. Not really playing Dota rn because the positive impacts i have isnt adding up enough to move the needle. And its too unfun in guardian.
You deserve awards for your service to the Dota community
ZQ, love your content. Just letting you know, you actually can deal with enigma bkb + linkens by yourself. If he bkbs, you can cast missile and it’ll remove the linkens, then swap.
Totally forgot about that, thanks for the reminder!
You never mentioned Kunkka can just X you and go in and swap and X you back. Bet you nor kunnka thought of that.
Cool video but i want another similar educational video this time of you playing enigma against vs or any hard counters. No high networth difference NA tier tilt wins or loss. Actually it doesnt have to be enigma it can be any hero in very hard countered situations and how do you position, itemize and what goes through your mind.
Can you not build an item like rod of atos to pop the linkens bubble before swap? was gold too tight that game or something?
You can (and I even forgot I could just use Q due to the new BKB mechanics). I would maybe do Force or Euls since I want it to be instant
Nevermind he didnt even build it lmao
Going refresher when behind with 0 impact seems weird to me but i guess he is higher elo for a reason
great examples
"This is a funny draft" says the man describing a draft that looks like most of my games
So what would you say the enemy team should have done here? More specifically, what should Enigma have done? Should they have just tried to find you and take you out or at least get the nether swap out before engaging your whole team?
enigma needs linkens sphere and enigmas team need to gank their oppenent not fight straight on
If Enigma gets linkens you can magic missile then swap. P.s. great vid for positioning. I love playing position 5 venge
This is a great video and I really love your channel!
Do you think looking to build a solar crest rather than drums at the end would be preferable? Since you are just staying far back 95% of the time, I imagine it would be helpful to have solar crest on allies still. But I do get that would potentially lead to being out of position more often.
I think Solar is good when you get it early enough, but I don't really like getting it after the mid/late game. Drums does something similar in terms of movespeed/attack speed, but it's AOE so it would benefit more teammates. I think the slow immunity is also quite good for Muerta in the late game too so that she can get as much as possible done during her ult
underated response nice @@ZQuixotix, but i do agree it can be situational the exeception
This is great feedback! I totally see what you mean. Thanks for the reply :)@@ZQuixotix
Awesome video!!! make more videos like these!
incredible video
Poor enigma, getting flamed because you're a amazing player xD
Nice positioning
what is my purpose in life?
the problem is not standing there for better positioning and impact at the right moment, the problem is you will get shouted at and reported because your team thinks you're just there watching a movie from the sidelines when they jump in and die.
True 😂
i know what you mean.
makes sense for ranged heroes but when i play melee supports i have no idea XD
Positioning is a nightmare at my scrub ELO. You play vs a liche and your team sticks together like glue no matter how many times they get wiped by liche ult.
How do you feel about vlads on venge
It can be pretty good so long as your teammates will make use of it!
thank you
thanks zach :D
Poor enigma just wanted to play some dotes
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u give the guide or advice that u team lost...
bro gained 30k subs in 2 weeks
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Just get lotus.. it counters swap
doesn't stop the interrupt which is more important against enigma and snap
you clearly have never met my glimmer cape enigma
the whole strategy you have for countering enigma is a tuesday for a 800 games engima as myself
i will ''show'' myself on another lane just before i want to tp to a fight and leave the eidoleons pushing it, so the whole enemy team has the sense of safety of enigma not being there empowered by the sense of urgency because the eidoleons are pressuring a split pushed tower, so there is no place for doubt but a yolo lose aversion tunnel vision stance on the whole enemy team, jumping together whoever they first see
see, the good thing about playing with 4k low behav morons, is I learned to make my own setups
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Ok one hero spammer aka one trick pony
I'm sure this works really well in ancient and below
Nope. I just hide w/ shadow amulet+smoke in the trees with aether lens, telescope, and blink waiting for you. I don't do anything until you blackhole.
And on the very FRAME you blink blackhole I cancel with swap, golem, overgrowth, etc. I have been doing this to enigma players for years; I'm just waiting.
Great answers, 100% counter arguments
Unlike my 70% win rate on that hero
Hello
Carry me senpai
archon replay hahaha
Videos every week please
bump
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