I'm glad that you are so open to talk about your own toxicity. Usually streamers are 100% toxic or trying to be as positive as possible but they are dying inside because they can't vent. I can see how therapeutic this video can be for you and the viewers because you are relatable and open
I dont think its toxic to call a team member a piece of shit noob behind his back tho. As long as you dont say it in match it shouldn't effect the game at least.
@@Jebu911 Yeah, you have tendency to being toxic but you don't carry out. I'm sometimes toxic to my teammates but important is to be able to process your emotions. I have friend that all the time says "don't stress" when we play but he is all the time stressing. It is annoying and you can't really do anything about it because he doesn't understand his own feelings. If you mention that he is stressing while saying "don't stress", he takes it as a toxic gesture 😂
my strategy is, trashtalk people talking to myself, but in-game i give advice (which they can listen to or not listen to, whatever), and if they make a smart play, i compliment it.
Bad draft problem is just about having the later picks and not picking appropriately. If you just intend to play a hero no matter what , just first pick it.
I’m glad you took the time to do this, it was cathartic to see higher ranked players recognize and discuss common mistakes. Especially thankful you offered solutions and devil’s advocate on a lot of the points. Interesting how so much of success in Dota comes down to honing your communication skills.
"Some dude just got to beat the shit out of him" As a support player, I agree with this. Pos 1 players when given good laning/early stage tends to get overconfident to the point that they'll forget map awareness.
Stopped playing Dota 2 after TI6, but I can't stop myself from watching content from Slacks, Purge and other personalities in Dota community. It feels like I have aged a decade, but Slacks looks and sounds like he's getting younger by the year. And the aura of his is always awesome!
When carries ping to deward cause they just died in a very dangerous location and the reason you havent dewarded is cause you dont want to feed by going into that location alone.
For no BKB you just gotta farm up a glimmer or lotus depending on if they are getting nuked or stunned in their damage window and just accept your new role as a BKB from Temu
For real, I've been out of DotA for 2 years now, never once thought about getting back in, and this video popped up on my feed and I'm 1:20:00 in and thinking "man I should reinstall DotA...' And it's a video about toxic behaviour! But it's still just such a fun video that I'm remembering the good times! What the hell?
"Notail said 'Go with it, you gotta go with it' " I'm crying Slacks is referring to Notail's: "When the game starts going full retard, you have to go with it. If you start going against it, you start going half retard, you're done. The game is done right there. You can't go half retard, you better go full. If the game is going full you better follow." Legendary words from the legend himself.
Another way I recently found out a throw can happen: Team decides to split up and within the span of 30 seconds proceed to unceremoniously die one by one in completely disconnected places. Wasn't even mad, just baffled at what I was witnessing.
Thank you for hitting pretty much every single kind of grief I've experienced, i love how zq always tried to put a positive spin for a potential solution to try and salvage every single situation
I feel like we all just went through a bit of very needed therapy, just hearing it aired makes me feel better about my own frustrations, this was incredible I'm literally gonna re-watch it again.
That was honestly so good. Never expected to watch an 1.50 tier list video, but the combo of you and slacks worked so well. There was good advice coming from both the immortal and normal person perspective that ill definitely be able to use. Tbh I'd love to see more of this sort of content that is taking a step back and looking at the big picture principles of dota in a long form discussion. Grest background listening
This has been MOST salubrious! Cuz I have actually seen ALL OF THESE and tilt at the just the signs. Jungling and Never pushing are super common down here. But I do feel represented thru this vid. I may yet play a game after a week off. GOOD VID GUYS!!
SirActionSlacks truly is a gem and has been the biggest and best personality in Dota through the times. At least, to me! So much good content from this guy throughout the years. He has truly lifted the entertainment of the TI's and Majors he's been at. So happy to have him in the Dota community, wouldn't be the same without him. There are a lot of other talent I love as well, like Sunsfan and Synderen, ODpixel, Sheever, 2GD and many many more. But to me SirActionSlacks is at the top. Great video, hope to see some more colabs with you in the future, great vibes!
Im glad i watched this, amazing conversation about struggle in dota but with ways to deal with it in positive way. Thanks! ps: Warding cliffs over and over again should earn a spot in the list :P
People whose only communication is their hero laughing voice line, especially teammates. No matter what happens, they spam that after anything. Get a kill, *laugh*; one of our teammates dies, *laugh*; communicate our next play, *laugh*; they die, *laugh*. Tilts me super hard and I wish the chat wheel was mutable. Definitely A tier or above.
Good content. What I really hate on being support is having a bad draft and you can't control what to counter or adjust on your team because SUPPORT ARE FIRST PHASE PICK, and then you see your core picking something that does not make sense! At that moment my head really hurts on how I can contribute to win this game with a really BAD DRAFT!
16:56 Remember playing a game where our hard carry said he only knows how to play support hero cause he need role token and picked all roles and landed at carry. He picked jakrio Safe Lane and completely dominate the game from start to finish
Going off 53:25 my favourite line to say in the game is "Wait? There was a ___ (insert heros name) in that game?!" and for extra you can also add "Wtf, were they like AFK jungling?" So it goes: Wait? There was a Puck in that game?! Wtf? were they like AFK jungling?
Awesome content ! Btw, i had a game yesterday, where WD escaped the ban phase somehow. And my mid wanted me to pick it to deny them the option. Problem is I never played WD before ! Granted it's a super meta hero, very strong at the moment. But i fed all the game, because of wrong positioning since i didn't know the range of the spells, and so on ... It happened several times, either for me, or with a teammate picking a hero to "deny" it, even though they can't play it.
Hell yeah love people are starting to give you the credit you deserve. Your old support guide was seriously a monumental achievement so glad if not subs you are getting recognition.
The communication thing definitely varies depending on the server/region. I have played with russian players and they are toxic but they will communicate, however in the sea region most players tend to play with speakers and no headsets, so they tend to mute you the moment you start speaking in mic. I have lived in the Philippines, and you don't want to play with a headset on for 2-3 hours because of the added heat, and you dont want your family to hear you talking on the pc, or they live in apartments that it would be weird to hear screaming in the middle of the night.
One very important that is missing, probably because of your high level but is supports that keep walking around not doing anything at all, especially the pudges and miranas that just sit there looking around trying to hit a hook or arrow while your bleeding in the lane or while the enemy support hits you to death, your RANGED support is back there looking around doing nothing lol
Personal S-tier is when I make BIG STACKs and NOBODY FREAKING FARMS THEM?!??!?!?!?!?!? And then the enemy invades our jungle once and steals all my stacks and now they're rich and I'm poor for nothing.
I got burned too hard by that. Now I stack only if I can take em myself when nobody wants it. Techies is very good for that. Or THD or something. OR even a CM ult =)
As a offlaner that doesn’t pick axe. I fucking hate it when enemy first pick dazzle. My team knows it. I know it. We all know it’s a axe game. But I go ahead and pick necrophos and get reported xD
wow unexpected collab, love to see this!!
Loved doing it, it was tons of fun. Glad you like it!
I love slacks energy throughout this vid lmao, blends well with the calm yet crazy vibe of ZQ.
When crazy meets quirky
This is the bromance we needed!!! Omg y’all are perfect together. ❤
Slacks imo was actually rather quite tempered in this duo, perhaps vibing off the chill energies of ZQ.
Not giving your carry "too good" of a lane is a hilarious concept 😂
hilarious but there's a lot of truth in that.
as a support player. It's absolutely truth. If you give carry too good lane, they will 100% throw.
@@raymonddicksen2043 theyre gonna be too dependeable on you. once the other lanes need you, he just dies lmfao
@@knkaitlog They will underestimate opponent and just dive in without bkb. If they lose early they will just farm like good boys
Just always claim we are weak early game so they will think about farming
I'm glad that you are so open to talk about your own toxicity. Usually streamers are 100% toxic or trying to be as positive as possible but they are dying inside because they can't vent.
I can see how therapeutic this video can be for you and the viewers because you are relatable and open
I dont think its toxic to call a team member a piece of shit noob behind his back tho. As long as you dont say it in match it shouldn't effect the game at least.
@@Jebu911 Yeah, you have tendency to being toxic but you don't carry out. I'm sometimes toxic to my teammates but important is to be able to process your emotions.
I have friend that all the time says "don't stress" when we play but he is all the time stressing. It is annoying and you can't really do anything about it because he doesn't understand his own feelings. If you mention that he is stressing while saying "don't stress", he takes it as a toxic gesture 😂
my strategy is, trashtalk people talking to myself, but in-game i give advice (which they can listen to or not listen to, whatever), and if they make a smart play, i compliment it.
Bad draft problem is just about having the later picks and not picking appropriately. If you just intend to play a hero no matter what , just first pick it.
Literally this. It's okay to be an auto-picker, just go first
"me pudge"
Broke me so hard
I’m glad you took the time to do this, it was cathartic to see higher ranked players recognize and discuss common mistakes. Especially thankful you offered solutions and devil’s advocate on a lot of the points.
Interesting how so much of success in Dota comes down to honing your communication skills.
"Some dude just got to beat the shit out of him"
As a support player, I agree with this. Pos 1 players when given good laning/early stage tends to get overconfident to the point that they'll forget map awareness.
Stopped playing Dota 2 after TI6, but I can't stop myself from watching content from Slacks, Purge and other personalities in Dota community.
It feels like I have aged a decade, but Slacks looks and sounds like he's getting younger by the year. And the aura of his is always awesome!
Thanks for uploading the whole 2 hour experience! I didn't see a single part that I would have cut, this was such a blast!
When carries ping to deward cause they just died in a very dangerous location and the reason you havent dewarded is cause you dont want to feed by going into that location alone.
Then u tell them “group up and come with me so i can deward” but they ignore u and keep farming lol
@@MrVaDeluxhaha
For no BKB you just gotta farm up a glimmer or lotus depending on if they are getting nuked or stunned in their damage window and just accept your new role as a BKB from Temu
I can't believe I'm already an hour and a half in... this feels like it's going to be one of the all-time great Dota videos
For real, I've been out of DotA for 2 years now, never once thought about getting back in, and this video popped up on my feed and I'm 1:20:00 in and thinking "man I should reinstall DotA...'
And it's a video about toxic behaviour! But it's still just such a fun video that I'm remembering the good times! What the hell?
Facts dude video flew by that’s how u know it’s a good video
I was kinda worried when i saw the duration, but you seemed to have great chemistry and it was a blast to watch
"Notail said 'Go with it, you gotta go with it' " I'm crying Slacks is referring to Notail's: "When the game starts going full retard, you have to go with it. If you start going against it, you start going half retard, you're done. The game is done right there. You can't go half retard, you better go full. If the game is going full you better follow." Legendary words from the legend himself.
Another way I recently found out a throw can happen: Team decides to split up and within the span of 30 seconds proceed to unceremoniously die one by one in completely disconnected places.
Wasn't even mad, just baffled at what I was witnessing.
to add to that, calling for a teamfight but actually just dying one by one instead.
Ignoring the entire game to jungle for 30 minutes, then show up underleveled to the ancient defense and start complaining about how bad the team is.
I got into Dota because I started watching fails of the week. I love SirActionSlarks, awesome collaboration.
Thank you for hitting pretty much every single kind of grief I've experienced, i love how zq always tried to put a positive spin for a potential solution to try and salvage every single situation
No way! Hoping ZQuixotix is the one to finally teach Slacks how to really play his favorite hero: Windranger.
It's so funny since she's actually really solid now, but the memes have taken his brain!
Low-key glad about your goof and that we get to see the full version! You guys are both great!
"Listen Anakin Skywalker, the pod-race has begun". LOL
I feel like we all just went through a bit of very needed therapy, just hearing it aired makes me feel better about my own frustrations, this was incredible I'm literally gonna re-watch it again.
Best collaboration ever
It was a blast! It ended up being 2 hours of just laughing the whole time
Easily S+ tier content right here
Oh my god what a treat of a video
That was honestly so good. Never expected to watch an 1.50 tier list video, but the combo of you and slacks worked so well. There was good advice coming from both the immortal and normal person perspective that ill definitely be able to use.
Tbh I'd love to see more of this sort of content that is taking a step back and looking at the big picture principles of dota in a long form discussion. Grest background listening
This has been MOST salubrious! Cuz I have actually seen ALL OF THESE and tilt at the just the signs. Jungling and Never pushing are super common down here.
But I do feel represented thru this vid. I may yet play a game after a week off.
GOOD VID GUYS!!
Top tier content. You can watch this more than one time. So many real emotions here 😂
Love this update and love Sir Slacks you the most honest and open person in this Dota Universe.
Hilarious video!! You guys have a lot of synergy, for sure!
wow, a theatrical cut of dota lessons and lectures! this is going to be great!
This video is just amazing, fun, and one of my new favorites.
Slacks is such a comedic genius it makes me sad that he rarely uploades.
"BKB is for tryhards"
In my head - "It's over"
ACCURATE LOL (except turbos)
I loved this video, thank you! I definitely should work on my communication skills on game, it really does make a huge difference
Wow, you were able to get Action Slacks on the show!! This is so cool!! 🔥🔥🔥
What a great vid! Hilarious from beginning to end for every Dota fan!😂
1:36:00 I died at "Listen, Anakin Skywalker, a pod race has began"🤣
I enjoyed this. Was watching as im playing and three of them was actually happening in two of my games while im watching
i didnt feel the two hours, you and slacks are a great duo, like the good and the bad cop ^^
I had a guy come in a ranked game and click sniper. Sniper was banned and waited out the draft long enough to abandon.
thank you for making this video. i realise i do about 6 of these things in any given game. lots to think about.
SirActionSlacks truly is a gem and has been the biggest and best personality in Dota through the times. At least, to me! So much good content from this guy throughout the years. He has truly lifted the entertainment of the TI's and Majors he's been at.
So happy to have him in the Dota community, wouldn't be the same without him. There are a lot of other talent I love as well, like Sunsfan and Synderen, ODpixel, Sheever, 2GD and many many more. But to me SirActionSlacks is at the top.
Great video, hope to see some more colabs with you in the future, great vibes!
I laughed, I cryed, I liked the video
I wish I could forget this video so I can watch it again and again
So good and so true.
we need more for SLACKS the great!
love this!
Im glad i watched this, amazing conversation about struggle in dota but with ways to deal with it in positive way. Thanks!
ps: Warding cliffs over and over again should earn a spot in the list :P
Was like a hella good dota podcast
Best dota content ever. Loved every second of it.
Thanks a lot for this!
People whose only communication is their hero laughing voice line, especially teammates. No matter what happens, they spam that after anything. Get a kill, *laugh*; one of our teammates dies, *laugh*; communicate our next play, *laugh*; they die, *laugh*. Tilts me super hard and I wish the chat wheel was mutable. Definitely A tier or above.
Dude I have that same Pikachu. Great video as well :)
Awesome video. Very entertaining and educational. Keep it up, boys.
Yeeeeeees. Excellent video. Congrats to Zach, he needs all the subs
fun idea for a video, love your choice of collaborator haha
Great video!
Petition to give Slacks all rights to dota and let him do whatever he wants with it
So true about the moving couriers slightly out of the fountain, when 4 other people do that you know it'll be an ez game. Such a vibe haha
WOW this is awesome. I was not expecting to see slacks here!!!
loved the plan "we'll do this so we can do this" !!
thank you slacks and thank you this guy for collabing with slacks
Good content. What I really hate on being support is having a bad draft and you can't control what to counter or adjust on your team because SUPPORT ARE FIRST PHASE PICK, and then you see your core picking something that does not make sense! At that moment my head really hurts on how I can contribute to win this game with a really BAD DRAFT!
i love how during the jungling section both of you were obviously talking about two entirely different problems
Big things big things man! Such a talent bud glad to see this collab
16:56 Remember playing a game where our hard carry said he only knows how to play support hero cause he need role token and picked all roles and landed at carry. He picked jakrio Safe Lane and completely dominate the game from start to finish
Hahaha - the subtle purge roasts from Slacks. That relationship is like a marriage 😂
I feel like such a dork for enjoying this video so much.
"Employing a griefer" strat is the most amazing and positive thing I have heard in my life
made my day. thanks bros. super relatable to SEA
This is really fun to watch, hope you do more collabs!
Maaan i knew i wouldnt regret subscribing to you. Any man who appreciates Siractionslacks is my friend and comrade without further introduction.
Collab we were hoping for! Good job !
I have too say, you work soooo damn well together, i would listen to your podcast, dont waste time, start one up, you can post on youtube too
They balance each other quite well
Great video, returning from a 2year break. A lot of good tips to maintain my sanity
Great video! :D Very nice. Learned a lot!
Hot damn! Way to go man, cool Collab!
"lotta magic damage" got me so good
Shit was hilarious. Didn't expect a podcast but stayed for it!
This is an amazing video, great collab
I really liked this video, I would love if you discussed more parts of dota 2 like this, you guys are a great combo.
Seen second time. This is gold :) So much fun and relatable. "Hey my baby, are you lost??!!" :D
Probably the best advice for pub gamers.
Going off 53:25 my favourite line to say in the game is "Wait? There was a ___ (insert heros name) in that game?!" and for extra you can also add "Wtf, were they like AFK jungling?"
So it goes: Wait? There was a Puck in that game?! Wtf? were they like AFK jungling?
Awesome content ! Btw, i had a game yesterday, where WD escaped the ban phase somehow. And my mid wanted me to pick it to deny them the option. Problem is I never played WD before ! Granted it's a super meta hero, very strong at the moment. But i fed all the game, because of wrong positioning since i didn't know the range of the spells, and so on ...
It happened several times, either for me, or with a teammate picking a hero to "deny" it, even though they can't play it.
only option there is to spam "feelin good man" all game xD
the solution to this is practicing meta heroes
A throw tierlist is a incredible good idea, very entertaining :)
Its so frustrating to see the same mistakes in every single game....
slacks is such a fun player just to listen to, hearing him with his interesting takes is always hilarious. I never thought about griefers like that
Great dota video!
no bkb c tier, cant wait for rest of video
Such a good fun video! I really enjoyed that 😂
Hell yeah love people are starting to give you the credit you deserve. Your old support guide was seriously a monumental achievement so glad if not subs you are getting recognition.
The communication thing definitely varies depending on the server/region. I have played with russian players and they are toxic but they will communicate, however in the sea region most players tend to play with speakers and no headsets, so they tend to mute you the moment you start speaking in mic. I have lived in the Philippines, and you don't want to play with a headset on for 2-3 hours because of the added heat, and you dont want your family to hear you talking on the pc, or they live in apartments that it would be weird to hear screaming in the middle of the night.
Slacks “I just mock people until they come” I bet you do…
3:00 lowering slacks's volume slightly lmao
One very important that is missing, probably because of your high level but is supports that keep walking around not doing anything at all, especially the pudges and miranas that just sit there looking around trying to hit a hook or arrow while your bleeding in the lane or while the enemy support hits you to death, your RANGED support is back there looking around doing nothing lol
I lol’d at the 1000% accuracy of “ME WANT PUDGE…” mon Dieu…
surprise cat snipe 3:16
Personal S-tier is when I make BIG STACKs and NOBODY FREAKING FARMS THEM?!??!?!?!?!?!? And then the enemy invades our jungle once and steals all my stacks and now they're rich and I'm poor for nothing.
I got burned too hard by that. Now I stack only if I can take em myself when nobody wants it. Techies is very good for that. Or THD or something. OR even a CM ult =)
"we need wards" when there are wards all over the map.
I watched the first storytelling like ... three times xD everything about it is perfect
As a offlaner that doesn’t pick axe. I fucking hate it when enemy first pick dazzle. My team knows it. I know it. We all know it’s a axe game. But I go ahead and pick necrophos and get reported xD