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Mastering Templar Assassin's Gameplay Strategies

uh let's check out Templar Assassin uh wagamama's gonna join in a couple of minutes he has over 2 000 games on Templar Assassin so I think it's safe to say that he enjoys the hero and knows a thing or two uh Templar Assassin becomes highly elusive avoiding damage and gaining a bonus to her damage the damage and avoidance effects are separate have a limited number of instances oh so it's like uh raindrops six instances of damage six instances of absorption does it block as much damage as it deals I'm under attack oh four block one two three four five six wow that's pretty good so you wanna poke through it quickly with small damages uh melt Templar Assassin conceals herself uh becoming invisible as long as she remains still oh Shadow mode if melt and visibility is broken by attacking an enemy Lanaya which is Templar Assassin will deal bonus damage to the it'd be funny if Lanaya is like her girlfriend and then suddenly like out of nowhere Nani but I'm assuming lanali Lanaya is a Templar Assassin the liar will deal bonus damage to the enemy and reduce their armor for 12 seconds melt is broken by any action other than staying in position is it also broken by yes I would assume yep Juggernauts and temper assassin have some love story lore white nice like uh sibling or love or then I will do bonus numbers to the enemy and reduce their armor for 12 seconds eight armor reduction armor reduction duration 12 seconds like mom and son nice bonus damage 200. but only if she attacks right from out of it ah wait is it pure damage did you see that it says 200 is that fake displayed physical damages before reduction same with crits really sideways pure damage uh Templar Assassin side blades slice through the attacked unit splitting and damaging enemy units directly behind it while gaining bonus attack range our standards attack range is 160 Plus 230. so we started we start at 160. oh a side blade range side blade range for each unit it damages the spill damage is reduced damaging units directly behind it ah that one ah this is like the Warcraft 2 red dragon and Griffin and Griffin Riders in Warcraft 3 [Music] it looks like they're taking the same damage but what happens if one of them is armor the same because it's pure what if he's the one in front oh okay it takes the Baseline armor and then does a full transition to the rest so it's best when you hit an unarmored Target and then it splashes to the armor Target okay uh and then psionic trap this is some kind of global teleport places mystical traps that invisibly monitor enemy movements when sprung at her command the exert a slowing influence of 30 in the area traps charge up to slow 60 after 4 seconds deals bonus damage when fully charged Max straps up to 11 slow 30 to 60 slow 5 bonus damage 350. psiotic projection allows Templar Assassin to teleport to any psionic trap after channeling for 1.5 seconds detonating it upon arrival channeling psionic projection does not break melt oh you can actually see she has travel time she's very fast you can see it only when you're very very nearby I saw I don't know how many you saw I saw four uh Templar assassins I saw four you sell zero really I think it's a bit rate thing with the stream I saw one here one here one here and one here roughly at the same time okay uh Shard and also why did they get silenced increases Max trap counts and trap Vision range when activated traps now also silence affected enemies wow okay so she's an agility hero that lays traps slows people gains vision and can zoom around the map with her scepter she does cleave damage in a straight line she benefits from armor reduction on enemies as the primary target is the reason is the total damage output she can lay traps with her old or with her W by staying still in a certain place and she has a self-armor reduction a talent to 12 via meld that's without desolator and then finally she's an agility hero with high armor and high attack speed so she'll benefit from damage items and she has high armor she's going to be weakest against Magic refraction helps with that so she's going to be stronger against burst magics the cooldown and the duration is the same so you can go into battle with an old refraction that you cast it 11 seconds ago or 13 seconds ago so you can have another refraction in the battle so you can block 12 instances and she's going to be weaker with refraction against slow damage sources like rot I mean sustained damage like poison takes venomancer cloud and the Pudge rod hello hey Walker what's up dude ah I'm good I'm good just been playing some grounded fun game are you streaming too what do you say are you streaming as well uh yeah I'm streaming right now cool what's grounded uh grounded it's like a crafting Survival game you're playing as miniature people you've been shrunk and you're fighting insects and ants and stuff like is it an arcade game in Dota or another game no no no no no it's it's a it's a game on Steam it's like 40 40 bucks or something okay it just had its full release oh nice nice uh but I need to get my daughter fixed for the day now as well so it was good time to go into dollar Island all right you're going in fresh so yeah ta uh ta is obviously here at um very happy with you can pick her uh at the screen here okay yeah I've heard you later before yeah uh I started playing her a lot already in daughter one so she's always a hero that I enjoyed um for for very many years but there's there's so much about this hero that is not necessarily beginner friendly um like she's very particular about positioning but there's something nice about her too though she has protection the refraction unless you already said something very nice as well I saw when you were uh you know thinking out loud a little bit reading the skills that you can pre-cast for a fraction before you go into a fight that's a huge thing definitely a very important thing that I would have told you uh had you not already mentioned it but that's completely correct and being able to foresee that all soon I'm gonna be fighting like I'm gonna go into this precasting it so that you have it with about six seconds or so uh until it times out when you start the fight that will be like sort of Ideal because you'll have basically 12 charges defensive and offensive that you can use okay um and so uh to begin with what is my role when I play Templar Assassin what is my overarching uh goal am I there to delete supports from the back yep that's pretty much what she's the best at she can dish out good damage on anyone of course but uh since she doesn't have any real good lockdown herself she's the best at killing support so you have no means of escaping um she's also very good with anyone in your team who's a disabler so if you have any stunner in your team uh working with them is very good um okay so uh I'm gonna just you can write gold like this and you just get the money uh the cheats are on in this Lobby okay so you can just buy um like power threads and dragon lands for me yeah these are two items that of course I generally think having magic wand is good and you can buy like one wraith band as well but these are the two big items someone else you get first okay um Dragon Lance has a really high percentual Improvement for her relatively short range yeah uh exactly Dragon lens is is very good for um for just being able to hit without getting too close and yeah I'm just gonna spawn in some boys here and so generally when playing ta a hard thing when you player um do um do this level up five for me uh right back to my knife okay so your skill build is generally gonna be first point in e uh that's very useful because then you get the ability to hit from far and you get to spill because otherwise ta is shorter range than melee Heroes until she has it so it really sucks to not have it well technically melee is 150 and she starts at 160. so yeah but there are some metal Heroes who are even 200 so some metal heroes are literally longer range than her okay um something like Mars you know without Ranger okay even while she's supposed to be arranged so yeah she's the shortest ranged ranged hero until she gets uh side blades can I also ask you first can I ask a few questions that are not necessarily related to Templar Assassin now that I have to hear anyway of course are you picking your first ability the moment you see your opponent's team and draft like is there a situation where you would not go for E immediately for instance you're going for your own safe bouncy Rune here but you realize that three people snuck up on you with smoke bombs so you hold until you see you're getting ganked and then you go refraction there's actually a lot to answer in that and I will say generally uh players in high level hold their skill points on almost every hero until they know that they want to skill something yeah um it's very common I tend to not skill something until I'm ready for instance something ta can do with meld you know the Bounty runes in the start you can skill meld run over there and meld immediately you can sit there and wait and then you're gonna have meld ready and meld Stacks with itself so if the enemy come up to take the Rune you're invisibly waiting for them you can give them -10 armor oh [ __ ] uh yeah so you can actually do first Blood attempts with this but but it's risky because if you skill meld level one it's a bit awkward to Lane with but it can be very good too if you're leaning against a melee hero um you know in any Lane melt can be very good if you're Landing against ax here for instance uh then melt striking him would be a great way to just make him back off because it does so much damage okay so that's a completely valid point and even Skilling refraction of course can be can be good but yeah uh holding skill points is fine okay um but uh let's say generally side Blitz level one then you go two points per fraction afterwards so you get the level three refraction is a very funny scaling I don't know if you uh I didn't listen to all of your talk about if you think about it uh because the damage increase is obviously quite nice but it also gets more instances yeah the ability gets you know kind of non-linearly stronger it becomes very powerful yeah level one refraction is literally just 75 bonus damage but already on level two you're looking at 180 bonus damage oh yeah so you're you're getting stronger faster than 2x then 325 and then for foreign it used to be easier they changed the numbers now now it looks weird uh it used to be just a 100 so then it was 600 but um but anyway you put two points in refraction and on level five or level four sorry you will put one in melt so that you have another spot okay yeah and then usually you would go another pointing queue right like you don't generally like to go like two one two before your own yeah no I would say generally three one one ulti then final point in uh in refraction it's a very standard way to go about it okay um I would say that's the most generally good skill build but there are so many scalables you can do the most General thing though is side blades don't benefit from being leveled very early so this is just a tiny bit more range and the spill range does increase but it's not so important to get early yeah um in the mid game though that becomes tricky so if you uh you have a 3-1-1 now I can see on your screen yeah so I'm gonna walk at you with ax walk near you I want you to do something for me here okay um you know your attack range roughly now right you can hover over your stats if you see it uh 390. so I want you to meld strike him when he comes close to you mail this disability where if you click at all without attacking a hero right you break it so you're not allowed to move it has to be an attack command on him oh so you want me to Max attack melt hit and if I misjudge then I take a step and I don't get the effect exactly because if you try and do it now I'm out of range I think on your oh you're actually in range okay yeah it's because of the Dragons right I forgot I gave you that oh yeah for now yeah exactly so yeah so if you do it if you do it now you're gonna you're gonna miss it from there just 240 it won't work yeah yeah so that's your range you see like within here if you can do it but already there you're gonna miss it probably really yeah yeah try I I thought from here actually but let me just do what the [ __ ] and uh yeah you're right yeah exactly you can try it out understanding still Target yeah um do right what the [ __ ] as well yeah and then you you have um you don't have to refresh them okay from here I'm too far I see I see oh there you go so so that's the range that you have so let's say he comes walking at you just try to melt track him when he comes to walking this is just nice to try and do yeah you see that mist yeah you're actually too early this is just something nice to try and do before you go into a game because that is probably the hardest part about playing ta actually Landing Mel strikes you see it's so easy to fail so just getting to try that a little bit so I want you to get a chance to do it on on an actual you know uh non-hostile Target it's easier it feels like it goes from further when you're walking away yeah it might feel a little bit more forgiving and uh one thing you can do as well that I do uh so let's have you take the dragonlance again and have nice range um there can be another problematic scenario about Landing this and that is um like give me one second Chad told me my five minutes are up yeah yeah now we got more than five so another problem can be if the target is fast right if they come running quickly you can sometimes misclick it you can keep just hitting him if if they have a lot of speed you're Landing nicely one thing you can do if they are super fast say we had something like like this um uh uh just gonna drop down a Sentry here as well for you uh oh Weavers faster yeah exactly because Weavers I know nightmare from your um your Dazzle game yeah all my games again so yeah he's a frustrating hero it can be super frustrating for uh ta as well because Wendy's super quick if he's like zigging around like this yeah it can be hard to melt strike right yeah a trick you can do yeah is that you can actually attack move the ground if you're in range of a Target you can just attack move and you will attack so you can you can land it just by attack moving that's super neat to know yes it's nice to know only keep in mind though that if you see many targets is attacking you you might melt right to creep and stuff but if it's this one guy this is a super useful thing do you know we're making it easier do you know the priority rules is it just the nearest Target uh it it has to do with whether they are attacking you and how close they are so proximity and their Threat Level let's say so if they're attacking you they're higher Threat Level if they're just walking towards you or not attacking their lower threat levels you would be targeting the attacking guy same mistake it's obviously three then so are you saying that yeah yeah if there's four enemy Heroes nearby and I do an auto attack with or without meld and the nearest one and the two wingmen are attacking the furthest one and I'm in range of the furthest one like they're doing like a fake attack on their Ally like how you change Tower aggro that's the one I'm gonna attack yeah it could be yeah I think so I think if I'm understanding right yeah so let's say for instance if you um you can have if you're issuing commands with Weaver to attack your Crystal Maiden uh uh yeah oh sorry sorry uh is oh I select made them for some reason it's okay laughs some reason mating is selected quickly this is hard to do yeah it's because you're able to select both so that when you're left yeah yeah it's because they're not my hero so yeah it's annoying oh I can touch that another time but um okay that's uh but yeah it's just nice to know that if you're in a 1v1 somewhere and you know you want to mail track them you can actually just attack move the ground okay this is also useful if you have uh if you were to have uh like um blink dagger you can do item blink like this and you get blink Tech um okay uh if you were to Blink in and attack something and say that they're standing around like we know Weaver is over here right and we we can uh yeah we can see him but if you were to Blink in then you wouldn't know exactly where he is but with blingtagger you can blink in attack move the ground with melds yeah exactly exactly so it's a bit easier I use attack move ground a lot when I blink melt strike okay um anyway we got into into sort of deep mechanics on melt strike but a key thing I want to say here is that meld can be very easy to miss in the early game and it has a huge impact if you miss it or not I mean that five minus armor oh yeah uh with your refraction bonus damage you hit super hard so getting that minus armor on them is big so I would say ER on the side of caution and make sure they are really close enough or that you are really close enough to the Target when you want to melt strike someone okay um got it but generally you are a range hero you're not super tanky so more often than not you're just attacking from far away and uh you know like making sure to play on on your range and get value from it you're not really gonna be like a Sven running in and and front lining am I a finisher I'm not a finisher oh she can finish people in one hit so in a way she is she she generally doesn't initiate the fights ta tends to be you know when she sees a squishy Target she goes on that and kills it do I hide out of vision you you can if you have blink dagger hiding out of vision is definitely fine uh a lot of times you will do that when you have link and then you just see a chance to Blink in with your refraction on cooldown and about to come on called off cooldown you know you have your ideal timing to go in then you blink in mouth strike and and you're pretty fine a nice thing to know as well I don't know if you know this blink dagger is particularly nice item for you because even if this wasn't what the [ __ ] right now you would still be able to Blink right now yes because I didn't take that yes yeah exactly exactly so ta is very good blink user um yeah but uh you need to just prioritize blinking on the on the squishy guys that you can kill quickly um outside of that uh blink shouldn't necessarily be your second item though yeah I think Dragon land's power threads is great okay but then going into desolator is my right personal favorite item for ta it's an amazing item um that gets stronger as well as you kill people it actually gets more damage every time you kill someone yes um exactly and uh desso Works super well with all your damage because minus armor is this wonderful for ta um minus 11. yeah and that's that's nothing like she can minus armor so much since meld Stacks with itself this also means that you're one of the best in the game at taking Roshan not really solo but if you get to call your friends over you kill rosh very fast with this minor armor okay um am I position two or one she can be both I prefer playing her as Boss 2 but that's just her let's say call it traditional place right now she's more popular as a post one so she can definitely go safely she can definitely go mid lane both of them are fine okay um I think safe Lane is probably the easier one to get used to an easier one to play mid lane is a bit more technical because you rely so heavily on side blading uh which if we go to mid lane actually let's just uh walk over there okay I'll uh before I walk and we can dagger true true uh so if you're in the lane like this you have level one side list you can try and and hit on the creep and there you go like exactly there you're gonna hit the queen that's basically what you do during the landing stage you um let's kill these Crips come does it work on light grips it looks like it does yeah you can cyblade from the night so okay so when this creep wave comes you're always gonna try an angle a side blade and you get in this funny this funny thing where exactly good good you can do it from that one too yeah exactly you can deny analystic and that's also a nice thing you can if you see a creep that's low one of your creeps and the enemy creep is low you can get both oh the deny and the last it by going for the side blade um so that's super neat yeah yeah it's very satisfying um and yeah lining up so you hit the closest so you Splash on a lot of creeps it's good killing creeps fast is good I think we talked briefly about that when I was uh with you last time too yeah oh it gives you time to make you know more things happen um and uh and in general in general like trying to always land the side blade onto as many things as possible is a good thing to aim for um something worth also mentioning before you go and play her is if you follow uh Follow The Queen okay uh yeah like do you want to spend a lot of time getting these boys get the Ancients hell yeah um nice and ancients are T is arguably the best ancient clearer in the game uh arguably at least clearing Stack's early game she is fantastic at it uh uh people don't stack for me so I'm gonna have to stack it myself but I'm playing from safely and then they're far away so yes oh I'm I'm gonna say that there's um yeah people might not uh might not stack for you but uh in general once the laning stage you know after 10 minutes or so are over bottom making a move over you know Farm Through the Jungle Farm towards your your ancients form them and then go and push the enemy safely this is a very natural like which level would I do that at farming uh or when you would move over to the enemy side yeah when do I leave a safe Lane to go as long as yeah as long as you feel happy in the lane and you're getting to farm the lane and farm the jungle you don't really need to leave but it feels like oh they're pressuring me a lot this is kind of hard Tia can jungle quite early okay at level seven I would say you can very comfortably like make the move through the jungle and farm your way you don't have to stress but you can go through okay what would your pattern be because like right now I kind of just randomly pick so like let's say if I somehow started with uh this one then I go to this I'm thinking like yeah it's on the way but it's kind of small you actually yeah this is this is a good thing to mention small camp can be tricky for ta um because you rely on your side blades in a small camp can break you yeah it's actually super annoying to farm sometimes because they break you and you can't live late and it takes a while yeah uh it can almost be more easy to clear the medium than big camps sometimes for ta uh at least when it comes to speed yes the the value you're getting for farming small camp on ta is kind of bad so generally if you're level seven move towards these all these camps are good all these camps are fine uh yeah so you can go through like that exactly move up here and anytime you have where you can stack pay attention to the clock if it's like you know 50 seconds is coming up pretty much anything you farm you can stack it and then keep farming it because as a range hero you can Farm camps without really taking damage right especially with a fraction you just pull it back and hit so if you form this camp now like exactly that would be sort of how you do it sorry I'm like in the way with clean taking aggro yeah but yeah you you just pull it hit it exactly like you're not gonna lose much HP so if this was a two-time stack you're probably not losing much more HP yeah exactly the efficiency comes in to chasing after them right where you're able to hit them run after them yeah yeah uh but yeah so anytime you have 50 seconds coming up make sure you stack that those can get you so much more gold they have ATA um and then uh yeah go ahead uh I was gonna say once you have dragonlance and power threads and a magic stick basically you know you have your basic items um also make sure you buy this early blightstone for the desolator the Blackstone is just good value on its own so you don't have to wait with buying that that can be a pretty early purchase oh yeah like once you have power threads you can buy a blightstone oh yeah it's just good um but once once you have uh Your Dragon lands and your power Cuts I would say that will sort of be the time that you want to pressure the enemy SafeLink Tower okay General um which one would be the neutral items I would be happiest with oh like on tier one or two um yeah let's go over a little bit so for for tier one uh there's actually quite a few good ones for tier one the processed mask and pink pull are probably two of the best ones yeah just stats so if yes that's I mean we like stats all stats is kind of nice too for us since we use so much Mana in refraction uh and occults bracelets you mean or uh you mean big ball yeah but um but yeah our cult bracelet is really good because once you get hit you get Mana region and it still gives you some steps do you know do you know if that works well this refraction still counts yeah yeah it counts as being it it's just them issuing an attack on you yeah um and even something like Arcane ring can be fine it just solves Mana issues a bit so I can find the items you don't really like shovel seeds uh yeah Lance and pursuit is not really good for us honestly it's it's cute but it's not really good yeah broom handle can be okay because it has damage we like damage yeah um and Tumblr story is pretty bad but it can be fun to jump on people and milk like them because you close the distance quicker right yeah it can be it can do something but it's not really great a fair trinket is garbage we do not want Fair trinket that's the worst one actually yeah because that's just that's just a bit of HP and Mana cost production we don't have any real spell damage until we get our ulti which OPI can be spell amped but it's not really a damage Source we want to count on a Specialists are very good for us at all um yeah especially if the ray is okay uh yeah for tier two uh the biggest items though is not specialist array it's grobo I will tell you is that that's what you're gonna have to look out for if see grobo you want that badly because it gives you range so careful holy [ __ ] oh boy yes what the [ __ ] mode that's why uh over there Aquila is of course good well you dropped here actually you just found one of the good neutral items yeah aquilized totally fine Robbo is best though I would say for tier two and brigan's blade is very strong um Brigham's blade does damage based on their missing HP and that damage is physical damage you have minus armor so you actually make that damage stronger um it used to be magical then they changed it so you would say brigan's blade is better than tiger Crystal uh yeah I would because dagger Bristol it's a bit of a tricky one it can be great for this short period of time but you're still paying a bit of HP and the passive gain on Dagger of Bristol is only 15 attack speed yeah like you have to use it to get anything beyond that and yeah 40 damage is nice but I would actually say briggans blade is more value overall because you have always 10 attack speed 10 damage yeah and you're always going to get a lot of extra damage from the HP that you missed um like when they're when they're down to 90 HP missing they're taking 90 extra damage right yeah in that one well it's good for finishing people off that's pretty sick um uh we haven't got to talents yet or how to use our uh yeah exactly so we can do talents uh towns first towns um is there is there any uh anything that's intuitive have you looked at her talents at all I know I I didn't look at it yet in the demo mode I'm looking now so the psionic traps deal damage if they've been fully armed they deal more damage and the deal takes four seconds for them to fully arm right so otherwise they don't do anything don't do anything okay so that seems okay but no damage I have no concept yet of how often we're going to be able to trap and damage people uh reflection damage seems better to me yes that that is the better one that's the one you should be taking uh Sonic trap damage is very strange to play around yeah you don't want to do that reflection damage it's straightforward it's easy you're pretty much always gonna have a refraction up so it's almost like a 25 damage Talent not really but you know it's close um you're gonna use refraction a lot um if you ever have Mana issues on this hero it's completely fine to buy because with this build I just realized going uh Power threads power threads Dragon lens and desolator you can struggle with Mana a lot it's completely fine if you want to go for a falcon blade for Mana as a safely in ta yeah that's a very good item I'm actually quite sure I would go for it um before my dragon lands if I played safely into you right now probably Falcon blade into Dragon man's just uh for more farming yeah it's great value it's it's buffed recently too so the item just feels good A lot of people are playing it now yeah it's a feel-good item and you don't have to worry so much about your Mana pools um but yeah back to talents refraction completely correct choice but that's the right one and then we get 120 range from e that's really nice yes very good so I'll probably get the range and then for level 20 more armor reduction you said itself Stacks it has a casting cool casting cooldown that is less than half of the armor reduction duration so you can have up to three yeah three armor therefore can mean six or nine melt dispels yeah so melt dispels is a self-dispelt not the target um I'd say the arms yeah you're probably I would say for you definitely go for the armor I more often than not go for male dispel when I play but it's also very useful to remove it's useful to know exactly all the things that you can dispel but something like dust can be dispelled oh uh and a lot of damage over times that eat your refraction charges if you're playing against jakiro for instance any dual breaths on you or anyone else kicking abilities they put on you hold on a sec sorry let me call you back yo yep sorry uh you became a bit robotic yeah I heard that on your end as well okay okay so any any fast damage taking abilities uh that you can dispel are super nice to get rid of because then you protect your refraction charges right so male dispel can save refraction charges you can see if if ax battle hungers you that ticks pretty fast I'm just gonna spawn in it like um if x cast your refraction no like this this is gonna take down your refraction very fast do you see that uh once per second yeah so and that's not even one of the fastest dps's uh that you can dispel but if you have that on you melt this spell would dispel that so if he casts it again now um then you melt ah refraction saved and now it can block more valuable you know big sources of damage from you like Queen coming in and you took nothing look at that oh yeah I like how you just killed him this way how did you die um you got an attack out because he got pushed by uh by Queen so you Auto attacked he just murdered him that's a weird level one man weird um oh he was level one okay yeah yeah it was it was weak uh but yeah that's I would say you can if you identify that hey there's something annoying in this game I want to dispel take the disc belt out come on okay but meld armor is more easy value you're guaranteed to get value out of it as long as you just use meld whereas male dispels takes a bit of knowing when it's good some games it's trash some games it's amazing I understood understood and then for level 25 one second melt hit Bash okay of course you what the seven refraction instances that's crazy one you think is better uh I'll go with the refraction I think yeah now that's that's your pick 95 of the time I will take that one as well that's gonna be five percent where I would say meld bash as if I'm against super elusive Heroes and I want to kill them they are running away from me I'm against like Puck and stuff and they they're super hard to catch or Spirit Heroes like storm and Ember uh but I would say for anyone except like very very very experienced here players take refraction every single time okay it's better okay um so yeah refraction talent and at that point you can already see if you Precast refraction and then go in with it you have 26 charges in one fight it's crazy right like that is hard to go through they can hit you all they want they cannot stop you uh can you even die with that you can especially to illusion Heroes with a lot of units but but I mean queen here she she's not really doing much work right yeah so yeah once you have that Talent you're a lot stronger it's a big powerslide and of course you have much more damage output because it's not just a defensive one it's you now have a lot of charges to attack through as well yeah oh yeah that's crazy yeah so for talent that that's pretty much it um then you just take the rest when you want the refraction can can be cast while disabled sounds op to some people oh dreaming uh it sounds good to some people but the range is almost always better the side blade attack range yeah yeah that's pretty much it um let's talk a little bit about the Trap usage yeah um so obvious places to trap could be the Bounty runes yes any gold and any power runes you could check for Roshan I guess maybe check for secret shop enemy each and stack do they see the trap now they are invisible traps uh are visible when placed but become invisible uh very quickly after okay so they're visible until about two seconds in and then they're invisible oh they have a bit of a fade time and can you see them with true sight yes they can reveal them and they give 25 gold if they kill them so uh they got a bit of gold for for killing a trap um but um okay so yeah you're definitely right all those places are good I would also add any ramp is value okay any form of ramp because you're more likely to have enemies running on choke points in the map right instead of controlling this entire open area which would require you know 20 traps we just put one on that Ram one on the ramp over here maybe we can see when they enter the area um so any form of High Ground ramps you can also have a little bit of High Ground vision from them they give you a better Vision oh yeah um it's super nice but Roche 100 you should have one there um you can have 5 8 or 11 traps based on your level on ulti okay um and you can always see how many you have placed there's an indicator for you so that's a nice thing for um for being able to to tell okay and um generally the the traps you don't put a trap on an enemy and immediately pop it unless unless you have no better choice yeah I mean that's a very minor slow it's it if we bring uh if we bring over one of the one of the heroes here let me just blink over uh the Weaver here he is he's back uh if you put down a trap in insta slow him like let's see if we can even see his like the slowest there but let's give him power threads as well so he's like an average hero I think um yeah Bots item right okay that's pretty good so not 30 yeah yeah I mean by the way do you use D to explode them or do you click the Trap because that's the nearest trap yes I generally box select immediately after I put down the Trap and activate it yeah um sorry I put a trap as well it's bugging out a bit because we have two Tas uh but yeah it's gonna activate the closest trap the hotkey is nice if you're if you feel like it's weird to select the Trap but I avoid doing it because there's one downside about this and it might be a bit far-fetched but if you get silenced you can't activate this you should be able to because the traps are activatable the traps are not silenced yeah if you're stunned or you're silenced you can't use your hotkey for that so it's good to get used to selecting the traps just as a you know correct Behavior yes because once once you're disabled you you'll wish that you're used to always selecting them yes um okay um so yeah but generally you want to try and have the traps prepared and then if the enemy get baited to play to that area you activate that trap and once they're slowed you put a trap where you think they're gonna run right like you put something behind them and you start chasing them yeah they're slow apparently apparently you can pre-control group your traps yes you can um you can I I don't really play with my traps control group really uh unless there's a trap that I think then we are gonna go to I just like temporarily control group it oh yeah uh if I think like oh they're gonna go there and I want to be ready I control grip so I can even jump there okay um then finally one thing about the traps uh is that The Shard is quite good but should probably not be an early purchase for you uh yeah you get the you need to be um eggshard exactly uh so it's good but you don't want to get as early because it's going to affect your farm I think to get the most value out of it you need to play around it so much I don't recommend you getting it early uh because it's 1400 gold that could be spent on DPS could be you getting closer to uh black king bar which again I should mention is a huge item for you to buy next if your inventory looks like it does now you want the bqb 9 out of 10 cases okay you know I that's a TA item you blink in with bkb on and start murdering very hard to stop ta when she does that okay um so it's a it's it's a fantastic uh fantastic thing to have yeah I'm not sure yeah you got it exactly so like that you blink in with a fraction up they could be pop immediately and melt strike murder murder yeah uh you said it right when you uh were dimmering the hero she struggles against magic damage more than physical damage oh yeah because we're already an addy hero so our armor is decent she has pretty high HP for an edgy hero actually um yeah and we have a fraction which blocks damage so slow attacking physical dealers like Sven not that worrisome for us fast damage instances like venomancer Viper Oscar anything that's quick and Magic not fun how do we counter play those because chances are I'm gonna get some counter picks oh yeah pretty much the item you just activated there that bkb is gonna be the dream when you get it it's safe until then my refraction charges entirely from Magic yeah exactly you dispel a lot of stuff uh when you activate bkb and you can't get stuff applied to you right if you have a uh damage overtimes all new bkb can dispel the same way meld can Mel this Bell is again one way to counter this counter these things so level 20 you get a bit stronger against them uh but the biggest advice I have is try not to play towards the heroes that counter you oh jungle a lot this is a farming hero you farm quite fast okay get some item advantage and then when you feel comfortable like I have a you know I have my blink I have my desktop link power threads you know I got some murdering items you can think about fighting more okay pkb is going to be crucial for team fights ta is not very good in 5v5 fights because of how many things there might be that want to go on you like everyone wants to kill TA in the fight she gets targeted pretty high because uh she's so high damage yeah okay so let's let's get into a game soon but you you we still need to talk about scepter yes um yeah scepter scepter is an item that honestly most of the time you probably don't want to buy uh and you're not gonna use that much it's super fun though so if you find yourself kind of already winning the game and you want to have a fun item to experiment with Beyond them scepter is great okay but after I will say is an item that requires a lot of practice to be good at using I played it so much that I love scepter and I buy it a lot but it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy that scepter is a good item on ta the more you play it the better it will be and it will really start to feel amazing yeah but in the beginning oh my god dude there's a lot to think about because you gotta leave traps in places you want to go to yeah so leaving one trap in base always is pretty basic so you can always jump to Fountain oh yeah uh and then having traps on every lane so you can jump to every lane and take the farm uh but I would recommend not going for scepter in your in your learning of ta but if you find that you like the hero and want to play it more then scepter can be great to play around with but what about that trick you showed on streaming yeah that's a cool trick yeah exactly I want to see you too we can see if we can see if you can do it uh wait I did get it oh did you do you you quick and we don't have Global shop right now right no yeah you did it but it's weird you did it it only said that I bought it um when I when I um it only said I bought it by the time I arrived I thought I failed actually yeah yeah it yeah you did it though you were spamming the the buy button when you jump over yeah do it one more time okay do I I have a trap at the other okay yeah you need to be lined up think of a straight line between you and the shop and the trap of course is revealed okay shop is here his AOE is here yeah okay and then just Spam the spam the quick buy when you jump over it's a funny it's a funny bug that so many people don't know about yeah you did you did it very nice I'm very proud well you showed that trick I was like oh my God how often does he use that in a real game come on man I've literally done it once in my entire life this is the bit of useless knowledge every lesson needs to come with some useless knowledge uh you know this is useless knowledge 101 uh but and the other useless knowledge which you gave me I'm very eager to try it as well my eyes opened wide with Glee where you said first ability melt stand on a bounty Rune and then oh yeah yeah melting on melding on a bounty Rune I mean so generally uh I'm not sure how it is in in you know if all mmrs are similar but generally if we are radiant uh right yeah imagine we are radiant then then usually we get these two runes in high MMR like that's usually the really like we get these two the enemy get these two why it's usually how it goes because usually you move as a lot of people and people go and contest uh like oh your off laner tend to be stronger it's honestly the reason your offline heroes are usually stronger level one than a lot of safe Lane Heroes yeah like Faceless Void level one not the most impressive hero Mars level one you know with spear he can get some First Blood scoring because faceless wants to be on one of these two because he won't make it the Top Lane to block the creep sometime if he goes for this one you yeah yeah exactly yeah the carries usually don't want to come over all the way you can five men for you know the runes but yeah they don't want to start with like a a bad farming setup where they hurt so no faces void level one he's just gonna want to be here so yeah Harry's gonna carry yeah yeah they want to be close to their safe Lane so they farm so carries are usually not going to be down here because if they are here for the Rune if they're here when the Rune spawns they can't make it to top in time exactly they're literally too late so then you start leaving early yeah yeah okay so but but yeah the Melt play is really funny uh if you expect the enemy will come and contest I mean it it here you're against some melee hero in the offline anyway then you're completely you know allowed to do this melt thing just go and sit on a room like this okay it's funny but it's uh it's also oh I should um have you do this actually wait um can you move this this hero uh or can you yes yeah okay good good good uh walk up and melt strike the crystal Maiden without Skilling anything now you have now you have no range so this is going to be very short range you need to be oh my God exactly it's a super short range okay so I'm teaching you something here for if you do the Melt thing yeah then you're gonna come to Lane with no point inside Blade no point refraction and you haven't helped yeah the way you do it is by literally running up and hugging the enemy melding them and hitting them and run away again all right so if you're against the melee hero you can't melt just make sure you're never ever gonna miss right you're literally like Place yourself on them to do it that's how you do it okay uh oh all right because bash yeah and that's probably one of the hard things about ta is that your your melt range is dynamic to your side blade and whether or not you have dragon lamps yeah I got it so being able to land build reliably is kind of hard at first but obviously now you have long range if you equip um let's can we get neutral items too yeah item and then the neutral item oh really it works oh yeah okay so yeah if you have equipped a global yeah like the range you have with this if you have dragon Lance grobo just to let you try it as well like melt tracking with this feels amazing you can hit people from so far away this is truly the reason why this item can be worth keeping even in like that's crazy even when there's a tier three item available you might still want to have this 760. what yeah yeah look at that range and you can of course meldstrike from anywhere you can hit from you can melt right from there so I mean now now you're very very comfortable yeah so getting Robo is a huge huge thing for you okay um let's jump into a game yeah let's go dude uh do you mind if I stay in the party as a coach yeah they'll be great it shouldn't affect anything let me see if I can change our server uh are you Us East uh or west uh no I'm not U.S I'm uh European oh sorry sorry okay I'm Swedish dude your accent is so good I lived in the US for a little bit okay I'm on the same time zone as you actually okay all right cool so I don't know why it's fair to assume that I'm American considering my [ __ ] up daily Rhythm you hosted me when you know like you're still online at 4am and then your accent is like perfect so I'll just see it as a compliment then but yeah um I'm here for any uh any moment that you have questions in the game all right guys just play it as you would um I have a crack doctor with me the witch doctor we're gonna be up against I'm guessing Warlock and Nature's profit um maybe they have a weird lineup because they have like two carries right yeah slark and Nature's profit maybe uh yeah could be could very well be I think Nature's profit is probably going to be up there that's just a matter of who is going with him they might have two safe name farmers who knows everything has happened to me already it seems like oh yeah okay so uh you said open with side blades yeah because it gives me the range and makes it easier to last hit and it's not even about the cleave is it uh a little bit especially in this game because you're gonna be against Nature's profit probably oh yeah and he has summoned so cleaving them can be useful or cleaving from them when he sends them at you oh yeah is there anything to do here with quilling blade like the position I take or uh not really you can just have fun cutting trees it's more more an ADHD thing for us we just Spam it off cooldown because yeah we like increase but there's not really a value to it you can get a bit of vision cutting some three bits well we see warlock bottom at least so he's not going to be on our lane yeah that situation you described is pretty uncommon as far as I'm concerned people roll the die where they go for the four Bounty runes I've had four I've had zero yeah generally the thing is when you see many people in one room spots you can try and be more aggressive on the other one yeah so maybe we can get two here at least we can see there's probably three dudes here to be fair you have a little little poke he's gonna run and run yeah and just run well that's nice okay we got one how did we get wait what all right do I eat Tango now or do I just rely on the tower and regen yeah you can eat one okay so you're thinking I'm probably gonna take damage again anyway no I would use it yeah exactly I would also take damage because we're gonna go to the Lane and get hit a bit Yeah while we start hitting slark and NP yeah so try to just hit the creeps a lot and and focus on farming don't think so much on the heroes do I want to hit the creeps um I think you can Auto attack your bits yeah because they're going to push a lot nice very nice and he's just giving us extra gold what's nice oh almost flawlessness very nice oh but yeah exactly you're you're doing the right thing just uh not even running up and making aggressive plays on them but you're Landing some damage to them even as you're just farming right this is the quality of life that is TA yeah just kidding creeps and you're already doing damage to this Lark and sometimes nature profit just to get it yeah you can cast it yeah especially since you have the mask we have a bit of Mana region yeah definitely get that out so now you hit pretty hard for two more oh yeah but now you're weak oh yeah so it's a lot of balancing like remembering that oh I have damage I don't have damage yeah but what do I buy boots uh yeah go power threads early oh she has really nice last setting you know because of the queue yeah the queue is amazing for farming and you only have level one on it yet when it's level two it's so much nicer yeah than uh then you're very hard so I'm always just trying to hit slark yes that's nice I mean uh when it gets close enough no okay that was good it's okay you got your boots before it died okay it's fine I totally didn't control it I just sent it to bring boots to me and that's about that so that kind of sucks yeah I thought it was a pretty heavy micro game might be might be tough actually oh wow many hours later so um now I just buy and save up at home yeah I would wait wait for the entire yeah exactly curious that I would wait until the entire power threads is done anyway with sending out because you're you're getting really nice Farm here um and uh yeah once you have uh departure is completed and career respawn you can ask which doctor to stack for you as well or like try to stack the big camp now yourself you can go there I think you can get it still um exactly because we clear Stacks so well empurion um give an attack command to if you're in right now go down oh so that the creeps become angry with me yeah yeah it's fine yeah okay I have to never use that in that manner before yeah exactly that's a way to stop those because you ran straight to the left yeah I uh that's fine you actually got one of the Creeps back so this might be handled just run away yeah when you stack as uh Dyer you gotta run up more than running straight left yeah because otherwise you always end up running into that um Green Wave yes I like the way you're like constantly sort of laying in attacks like this is very much how I would have played as well like just spamming uh spamming the auto attack more so than just last hitting a dude oh you should go on the tower go on the tower it's fine to try and poke them right yeah and also to not get overrun by the enemy having a lot of creeps you can already see they have quite a few use a refraction uh to get more damage ah it's actually connected but it's hit too late knives and power Partridge you can queue off a falcon blade or just uh have a falcon players to your next okay I don't know if you have items though oh yeah yeah it's it's a good next item here so now I'm gonna add something more for you to do while you play as well to make things harder yeah every time you want to cast refraction I want you to double tap your power Goods and then tap it once again afterwards and you go add you again make sense yeah it's just more refractions good enough times and you end up getting a free discount you know it's like saving coupons or something ah very close yeah witch doctor is a very conservative with a Mana usage so as opposed to you it's being efficient and getting value for your Mana your witch doctor has barely even cast a spell on this Lane is really not I had a second game ever invoker yesterday he was uh his first item was Midas he was mango AFK a tower and then straight Midas and at 2500 gold and then he saved up another 2500 gold second game ever he randomed in poker oh I mean Midas is actually a good item for invoker but uh but yeah sometimes you need my spoiler he wasn't using it hey oh boy it's so funny how you can hit Nature's profit with this stuff yeah it's so long right like they barely notice it because they don't know the hero or something yeah I didn't mention uh right now but you actually did the right thing even though it's uh not what we really talked about we said the 3-1-1 skill build but this is actually the better build for this Lane so you did the right thing subconsciously because you're not mil striking anyone anyway because if they're like fearing is so far away you said one point in melt yeah sorry yeah but but you don't actually want one point in melt here so this is actually the correct play you did the right thing anyway I think it's because Gavin told me like I'm following the valve assistant so I yeah that's completely yeah I mean you're you're getting really good value from the side blades too honest you're you're having fun landing it on mic yes it's a fun ability to use very frustrating to lean against too because you get in their heads like they have to dodge it all the time and those you can Farm easily those are actually you can you can refraction and kill those right now uh too late yeah it's pushing especially with Opie yeah just hit back yeah you should run a little bit more power strength oh I hit the wrong tree I have Falcon blade now nice so now maybe quick go for a quick or it's too late uh yeah you can go for them actually you have a gang coming in but you can't really help him so I would just kill those kill those small kids oh it's fast yeah you kill them those creeps you kill fast the break creeps take a little while yeah um but but yeah the storm harpies are very easy for you actually come to collectors taxes okay yeah so yeah I really enjoyed uh the the Mana regen from The Mask I've never opened mask before it's it's not super common especially on uh oh I just learned something new yeah that refraction doesn't yeah you cannot use glyph for infinite refraction oh yeah yeah yeah sadly no makes sense also where does my first strap go you could put on one on the big Camp here uh put a trap on it because you can actually use it to farm too it does do damage and is very cheap uh so once it's active that's nice so you can actually use it on on the creeps to like finish them off or uh to use them to slow the creeps and more easily pull back and hit nice but then put some traps uh already just put one on a lane next to you um they're just safety right for now the traps are gonna help you stay alive so put them where you think the fury and might step also put them where he might step okay yeah the safety will be that you have them where he's gonna be so even where he is right now we would love to have a trap under him um and he might not kill it if we just put one he did see it though right and yeah he could have attacked it immediately he could have killed it but it's not sure that he's going to be doing that he has to be very quick Pokemon prep right where you are now like above the tower range but right there yeah that's a juicy one and then just back up back up don't don't fight here because now if he wants to come up on the lane there are traps right so now it's a little bit scary for him to come to his name he wanted me to it he's like I don't want to worry about this later just do it now I know it's there I've got the region yeah that's fine too I mean you get the the damage outputs just from using a trap it's 15 mana and it's 250 damage tell me one other hero that has that good of a damage though you know honestly it's a great damage spell if you always use it like that um I like how Bounty Hunter just showed up here the least stealthy gank ever yeah but um cool and it's maybe gonna work you forgot to activate your track I'm gonna slow him even though it was just replaced it still would have they would have killed a little bit there yeah yeah so in that scenario it's completely fine to activate it immediately but yeah but overall we want to wait once you kill these creeps uh oh you used to have bounty on Divine them yeah maybe we can push down the tower and be aggressive here okay all right we have Max for a fraction cast one now since you foresee that you're gonna be fighting right there was a warlock too though so there's four of the three of them nice we got his Sentry so the traps are still safe oh he puts a new one this is the lowest death ground Herald game I've ever played I was about to say I this is three deaths that minute 12. this doesn't look like you're you have a terrible games no normally by now he just keeps feeding me extra oh yeah he's giving you so many uh trees we can't kill him if he steps on the on the Trap actually we can run in I just hang him as well when you go if you go wow warlock is coming that's fine activate the traps when they run over like this it didn't hurt him oh it did it does it does it's a damage over time so it takes takes a few seconds for it to apply oh no yeah he did wow nice not perfect oh [ __ ] okay I just learned something new creeps can also kill them yeah that was great and this is the reason why we want to have the traps in the lane like that in positions where we think he's gonna walk up now I would totally start jungling and just leave this place okay because we've stayed here pretty long yeah but it's definitely time to leave very comfortably let's do ignore that camp those are bad creeps yeah the kill trolls they suck but kill all the jungle creeps now and make your way to the Ancients on the way there so yeah it's hard to like stack up two different camps okay both of them don't try I'm not not really worth uh you can but it's hard to get more value than just killing themselves um but I like that you're putting traps while farming that's good and using them to farm um how do you know when it's fully armed oh the color changes it changes color in the outside the outer ring becomes more pink I guess yeah and traps don't block creep spawns which is good to know so you can have a trap on the neutral Camp it will still spawn in creeps you don't block them you know if a unit is in the camp then it wouldn't form but yeah yeah that makes sense that will be LP would be a little bit Hopey yeah so something cool since you have time here just jungling and you know I let you focus on that I can tell you another useless not really useless mechanic but a bit uh overclass mechanic perhaps not necessary to learn but you can actually stack with traps and the way this works is the Trap steel damage if they're charged yeah and then they outgrow towards you wherever you are on the map or what almost you need to be within I believe it's like 1600 or 1800 range of the Creeps for them to understand that you're doing the damage you can stay here now you can stay here on this Farm again yeah um so if you're within 1600 1800 ish range yeah and you popped the trap on like mint on 51 seconds on ancients yeah then the Ancients will run towards you and you can stack uh but since they get slowed from the traps you wanna do it early oh yeah this is great you're using using traps pulling those creeps getting more form very good and I got the Bloodstone as well earlier which uh which was the plan too yeah oh there's a lot of people pressuring mid I think we actually want to go there they're pushing with golems immediately or finish this no no we can ignore it big big glyph they got it less is for me yeah we don't ideally wanna like that would offset our farming idea of going down here in farm right swap The Crawling yeah nice we have a catapult too is it too risky to be here no you can you can push you put the Trap too that's smart when you're pushing a tower always put a trap under the tower to keep yourself a bit safe if they go on you and now you can take the jungle here too uh go into the neutrals and just clean up okay how would I determine whether I'm gonna go for another deeper wave um that's just reading like where the enemy showed recently and what they have done so they use the Warlock golden mid that means they don't have that big spell so we're not super scared of him right now uh and most of them seem to not be around bottom so it just seems safe safe enough uh you can also use melt on the on the black dragon Lots because he's very tanky oh yeah he's always gonna die last so actually when you farm the dragons melt striking the the big dragon and hitting from him you'll kill the small ones before he dies anyway um nice you got this back this is very good farm for a minute 17. like you're you're playing exactly the way that I would uh play as in macro sense where you are playing how you're moving on the map it's the same way I would want to play except I exploded the track too soon so it did no damage yet yep I mean I have to make some mistakes or else you're gonna put me to shame here that's a great item for you wow lucky it's the safer area to be in right now top looks scary so let's just be down there and collect more gold and you get that juicy desolator her damage is gonna be great oh my God yeah yeah she Farms fast dude she Farms real fast when you have and you didn't even have desso yet do I uh join fights since I have this later now on your terms yes but this looks like a lot of work to run over there right now I'm this is pretty much how I would play it yeah but um yeah we want to watch out for orange he's scary peel has now we can run back here it's getting scary they're keeping in oh yeah how do you know run down run down and back out oh sorry I meant does yeah it's fine hey they're solid so it's worth it and now you got broken so you didn't get those creeps yeah you see no that's [ __ ] camp the brake only lasts like two seconds but it's enough to to Really infuriate you yeah you get the ancient Stacks are you in time I think if you just hit and run immediately I thought maybe I should do a long distance trap and you said that has to be 51. yeah it has to be triggered on 51 so you need to have placed it four seconds before that yeah oh so yeah that makes sense but leave a trapped on ancients now and you can have that via play if you're in a similar situation next time okay we put a pin in it yeah exactly uh I would go for a black king bar and once you have that you can go for every fight go bkb and then your next item after that is Blink and then you're completely good yeah you're averaging like 10 CS per minute almost this is very good ta Farm nice if I was on the enemy team I would be starting to say that we should be worried about ta we should be concerned this is growing if I was on my team and I was yesterday's my teammate I would have already been flaming PA for never joining five yeah of course the benefit of being the carry is that you're sort of expected to be farming as well yeah oh he's going away from that guy he he's he would burn all your Mana immediately because the diffusal blade oh do they always call your refractions do they always go diffuser blades or uh very often on Phantom Lancers let's see if they come for me oh yeah yeah we can go we can go uh start playing as long as we're not playing into phantom dancer we can fight stuff now we can be a bit more aggressive so just avoid orange and fight other things is fine tops now uh like these guys maybe yeah kill that guy hit him on your on you on you right next to you sorry yeah I was looking top uh I was like TV oh yeah map awareness a little yeah you had a you had a free warlock there he was asking for the for the hits fine we get some Farm over here extremely committed to not joining fight now I would actually definitely keep me away from a fight they're like how do we get this guy to be involved in fights maybe if we bring the fight to him TP out probably uh get this sour make sure you put traps so you're ready to run away here because if peel comes hey Tara didn't shoot that's agor for the tower oh my God there's so much damage oh yeah ta takes Towers very fast if she's ignored but now the tower is gonna see it because the creeps came up oh wait what that's where Tower doesn't have Vision because of the tree it doesn't have flying Vision oh that's why I put it behind the tree of course yes very smart I was like he knows my fault no that's my that's my trap spot right now it was a mistake it's a bit dangerous to stay here now okay we can probably run away because if they come with plus one hero um okay we could Tippy bottom right now I know it's orange but we have friends down there I'm here to help clings yeah okay we can't we don't want to fight now no you want clinks if you're gonna fight it's the pl for sure links would be great against peel uh because he has Glade near and the brush uh does a lot of damage I remember in your Dazzle game you played you had a clinks doing some big barrage damages yeah um yeah clings is good against summons oh uh he's just ignoring us kind of rude yeah yes yes we can be careful about that warlock can die warlock can die [ __ ] Spark see if he sticks around yeah warlock is always free he has no mobility and nothing to protect him against you so if he's close he dies um Lark and void Spirit are a bit more Elusive and peel is super elusive okay okay we have vkb um now you can go blink dagger next okay since top Tower was so low it would be nice to try and pressure the top Lane again in again okay finish off the power really nice uh damage yeah yeah she's she's super convenient here to to farm with because of her Splash side blades skyblades is also an amazing Splash because it hits no matter if the enemy is Ghost scepter or should be does not matter um wait it works oh because it's pure it yeah it's because it's pure and also it just it just works like you can't can't hide from it that easily so uh so obviously you can't hit someone who is go sceptered but a most satisfying play on ta is to cyblade onto our ghosted targets and kill them oh this this guy is this guy's trying to style on us yeah we can go mid after this since that guy died King the mid Tower once okay and try and get people to take that Tower I think it was yep exactly it just puts the idea there you know people are like yeah yeah gentle suggestion yeah doing that when you try and go for a kill too that guy can die when he walks up like that he uh takes a lot of damage I know it looks scary when it walks up like that but he actually is it's just food ah Golem the Golem it dies fast too yeah that is ulti gone in three hits that's crazy um yeah normally it's quite tanky but not for yes not now no I got the 48 ability to deal damage on terrorists is crazy yes yes I mean the the brigands blade is also helping you here and you have a lot of items so yeah yeah you kill Tower is super hard huh okay okay we we can uh Pink rosh and go to Roche like now no one ever joins no one ever joins Russia yeah okay we'll see we'll see okay if nobody joins we can we can skip this idea too but melt strike meldern oh I think I killed after melt strike yeah not just just back they didn't come with links this is more like if everyone comes you can commit if you want you can definitely solo kill it um it's yeah impressive actually but uh it's they might come here with a PL though don't show yourself to him just stay in the pits he doesn't know you're here melt and don't hit oh man you actually sit and wait so then you're gonna stack up two melts yeah oh I like it I like it yeah this was actually uh we're a little bit too far now see oh we are close nice okay move your circuits so you can take ages the amount of times I've killed Roshan had a full inventory only to stand there like an idiot always good to uh um I would honestly swap my bkb right now in my blink yes this is gonna sound crazy but you have ages right oh when you die and the moment you die grubby I want you to swap in blocking bar where Ages was I always swap for ages when I die but I also always use my bkb before ages so now I can't make that mistake GS this is yeah so now um the reason I wanted you to keep your Falcon blade over bkb is actually because the Mana region is very quality of life here okay he's dangerous um you shouldn't uh practice okay he's he's probably gonna win this by part swap in the Aegis and try to Blink oh nice okay that's fine you gotta kill I mean yeah we lost ages but Aegis is a resource deal was honestly in danger he could maybe have been killed if we blinked aggressively but it was hard to make the call there we don't have any Vision yeah honestly creating a kill for ages it's it's not the best perhaps but it's definitely not the worst yeah I I know it's not the best but here's the thing you know what usually happens with Aegis I asked to push the twice what's that die twice I asked to push somewhere and then what happens instead is uh one or two people joined and with three before or something okay so I would say they only have one thing in this game that can stop B could be TP out right you remember when I talked to you about Juggernaut and how jug can always spin TP yeah identify that in this game they only have one thing that stops your B could be TP so you can be very aggressive pushing this Tower okay only Golan from warlock can stop you from ever getting out if you want to get out unless there is perfection yeah unless they play uh Basher for some reason exactly unless they get a Basher appeal is dead oh we're in we're in Gold town we can just go blink on that guy you can be early yeah yeah that's fine they're not going to have the DPS he tries to use you yeah B2B is a very big like get out of deal for your card you can sell your excess items now you're yeah you're trash uh all right you know what by um buy shard you get to have Chardonnay I think okay a nice item to have at this point you can buy it don't buy it like before around here so now your traps are gonna silence as well and that makes it much more dangerous for stuff like slark or void if they're on top of your trap you can actually kill them so I can have 12 wait I can have now you can have 15 traps yes and they silence and they have more Vision okay yep [Applause] and they silence even if it's an insta break but the silence duration is very short and the silence charges what do you mean but it's a very short duration then oh yeah okay it's based on how long yeah Bounty Hunter died a little bit the traps are great for killing um peel and void Spirits in this game the okay orange orange is hard to kill but it can't double walk if you silence him with the traps uh double walk yeah that's when he disappears and makes even more Illusions is that they need us yeah you want quiver quiver is one of the best items for TN amazing items okay no strike from far away now um four second cooldown and you have of course 225 magical damage imbued into that attack as well right so it's a good one the side blade damage does not add the magical damage from quiver though it was kind of broken it's only uh it says it only works now on um it only works on the main target yeah the quiver yeah it also gives you two strikes so you won't miss if they have any sort of innovation oh they're coming you should get out you can blink into tree line or even just run TP TP out just TP anywhere okay actually the the slark might be chasing you he has a shot of late on Clark so he can uh I gotta be careful on you but he has no items he doesn't really do damage on his own what do I buy next there's a question um usually Daedalus becomes a very good option just a super big damage item but since you're against PL are you okay with me giving you a peel specific thing here yeah this is this is actually because of Revelation yes exactly mjolnir get mjolnir uh queue it up as your next oh we want to go and fight this has been a very cruising farming game but at this stage we're starting to look for okay uh okay we don't we don't want to fight anymore there because we're out with links um okay clinks is key for me he's key if we're gonna kill orange orange doesn't die to us alone right now without me on there and he honestly doesn't die to anyone but clings clings and you kill him uh things on his own can maybe kill him but yeah your job is not really cleaning the orange anyway it's not killing anyone else oh furion is great like teal yellow and uh I mean purple if you ever see purple he should die he's he's food okay Warlock yeah warlock is food um the others they can all die to you uh except for PL is a bit more difficult yeah but your silence can be a key thing for killing people so putting the traps down in fights and using that as well okay but uh yes now um at this stage we're less interested in farming and more interested in going together with clinks and going together with Team okay um because we sort of you know finished farming to a degree already not really we're not really done I mean we have more to purchase but okay um but we wanna we wanna use how strong we are you're currently the strongest player on the field yeah for sure you're you're the strongest uh so getting some action to happen is good yeah maybe we can uh find the pl he's on the lane with everyone here we can we go we go super aggressive just in and fine which one is real I think you're next to everyone but maybe not maybe yeah you're right it was the one on my left yeah he was trying to be sneaky by microing a different one next on you yeah but he died so we have 60 seconds we want to go push push bottom okay uh but there's a creep wave you need to catch because I'm very on point already mjolnir completes basically it's really cool yeah and from there um I would say we upgrade our blink dagger okay yeah yeah oh blink on that guy and hit him and hit him uh he he linked me yeah like I said anytime you see purple he's pooped oh he's still in there he's hiding you can go okay where is it in the tree line you gotta find him for yourself oh there he is that's fine the amount of people who forget to activate mjolnir by the way it has to be the most forgotten item to use the active on on the entire game especially for race Heroes right yeah we can be a bit careful we have no clings next to us and peel again we need clings this is just uh yeah you're gonna see this will be a bit tough okay maybe we can witch doctor with a big play okay now we can fight this looks clean there's still a b can be too yeah wow yeah we can just blink in there's nothing that can kill you no I feel like a god okay yeah yeah that that's pH that's easy right there what you did right there that's what ta is known for literally just blinking in and killing someone in two or three hits maybe one hit sometimes Crystal Maiden it's one hit W doesn't work on buildings right you can go mid too right now you can take a mid lane it's exposed okay so uh you don't need to push back you can just go and hit the mid tier three already oh okay it's the uh since the creeps have entered bottom mid Tower is not protected kill the kill the creeps because we hate creeps hating us they kill refractions oh yeah they're annoying so we never want creeps to take that that could be six Tower hits that we tank instead of uh you know six creep hits that's true oh can you go bottom and help yeah he listed dead for a while you can look for something here you can still get him nice and maybe kicking chat clinks you helped yeah I got confused now PLS respawned again so we always keep track of the most dangerous enemy you always want to keep track of what he's doing like the hero that's most problematic for you yeah big being I would say and just cprs yeah you can always blink out of this too no detection I forgot oh and your mjolnir active is very good against people oh yeah very very good because anytime he sends illusions on you that's of course gonna trigger it fast so you're that makes you a bit better against peel than you would be otherwise oh yeah the reason I said mjolnir in this game is only that he's so bad against it generally it's not an item for ta right that I I buy it against PL and otherwise I don't buy it okay that's pretty much what about Naga siren not really worth it honestly Naga I don't counter her enough because her Illusions are fewer and stronger than heels uh PL has a lot of really weak Illusions so they die fast to lightning Naga has a few but very strong illusions the game feels very different when you don't unless you farm so fast like it feels so nice like you can go kill uh my mouse and keyboard are not different it's all decision making and knowledge like what's your yeah I mean you you've uh you've achieved some some really solid form here 424 CS in 38 minutes um this ain't bad you're pretty big and oh he's running away wow he's not and you almost have the 25 talents the juicy Talent oh so again peel Dead with no buyback you're basically God right now you cannot die like almost just that should be your thinking yeah B could be ready use it you speak you you can die okay okay yeah you see though oh yeah yeah that's great though that's right like that level of aggression is what you should have when when peel is dead in this game with with the refraction actually I live uh you actually live there you had a refraction ready at the very end so even with you holding the eqb until like last second uh you still would have lived there if you just I took your challenge uh Seb tried to give me the same challenge I was like I'm committed with tarasque on this Tower against like three opponents he's like I think you can just hit the tower with the three of them hitting you and they can't do anything and he became unsure halfway through I tried to follow you literally too but you assumed I will use pkb almost immediately after taking fire oh pretty early when they start Manning up on you is when you want to do it that's also a good thing to get used to for ta so when they choose to not run away from you if you blink in okay you want to fight you know that that's when you go okay you want to fight you use your bkb okay and keep hitting them but what uh like so often I'll just uh use bkb too early because I think like I don't know they might have something and by the time that I have to make the decision I didn't check if they have blink dagger inside of ice in which case I can never delay the decision right my advice would be this if you're playing ta and you're blinging blinking into multiple Heroes and fighting always just use B could be immediately like almost unless you feel super safe yeah uh but yeah dkb it's fine to try min max and like not use it in a bad way like oh I could use it two seconds later or whatever yeah but it's worse to not use it when you needed it than to have used it slightly too early yeah if you used it slightly too early that was still an 8 second bkb like it's better to just uh pop it okay and and honestly currently BTD only goes down to six second minimum duration that's still a long time did it used to be worse used to be four seconds long enough ago ah then it was really short it went from ten to four instead of nine to six so you were really punished if you used it badly awesome there was a lot of minus armor too clinks is hitting pretty hard right now that's who are you yeah don't forget for fraction I didn't get my w F where do you go okay so those are interesting they're Illusions because they couldn't really be there that way but yeah oh yeah good yeah you see how he's annoying though like you have way more items but still the peel is very hard to fight into yeah very hard actually oh wow that was a boy where did he come from yeah I don't know do I buy back no yeah you can buy it back you have mega creeps for fun right the game might end you know might as well go and join it is very low risk to this buyback I would say yeah the reason I wasn't sure I had a sniper game well it's probably best enough to tell you about it but there's always some grief of bad decisions you made in the past don't forget refraction cast it before that looks like food three hits wow they're never real no never nothing is real Has Fallen I'm under attack nice Dad cool all right performance first ta game not bad dude not a bad coach uh honestly that was not bad your farming was really clean the first uh I won't say the first 20 minutes you're really on point with like where to go and what to do you gave me the only reason yeah the only reason I would like say that experienced players have much more form is just the the Min maxing of things that comes with time but your decision making overall there following that pattern resulted in you becoming so big so the Min maxing would include like the mine at the 51 seconds that pulls the ancient maybe sometimes teammates stuck for you but you would say even by yourself yeah I would probably have stacked quite a few more times by myself and then also just how efficiently you line up for the side blades with the jungle camps and making sure you're attacking of cooldown right when your spellcaster you have a cool down on your spells but as a TA I think of my auto attacking you know do you have an attack rate you want to attack every time you can when you jungle as soon as possible what did you notice in my play what did you notice in particular to this while jungling like you just saw that I was taking like a lot of footsteps between in order to line up properly like Steps where I wasn't attacking a bit overall I would say you got the hang of it whether intentional or not you did the key thing which I would summarize as this for ta to farm fast in Jungle you hit the creeps and walk backwards in a straight line that lines up all the creeps nicely always yeah so the more you run you know sideways the more difficult it is to side blade but if you run straight back you're always going to force the creeps to follow you in a straight line yeah so one time uh at the at the Outpost at the top I pulled the pumpkins or the pineapples around the tree which made me lose vision and it made them curve so that it's like not ideal you want to walk straight away yeah I was thinking of that same same timing there and also you try to do like pulling pulling creeps to one Camp from another in front of them first try to get back to that it's not a bad play if you had had a trap prepared at the camp that you're pulling them to oh so yeah I played them there yeah so you pulled him there and then when they turned around and want to run back you slow them first now all the creeps are close to each other and very slow easy you know uh easy targets for side blading so then you can actually do what you did there but without perhaps you're never gonna be able to get like value out of it but uh with traps you can do it sick yeah no so how did you like the hero how do you like tea yeah really fun because it feels so good when you've got stacked cams and waves and you're just physical attacking them you can save a lot of Mana you've got a lot of vision everywhere with the with the traps and then yeah you do a lot of you do a lot of farming you've got the survivability from high armor and refraction I think I used melt the least and worst even though it's a Super Key ability for her like it was often the afterthoughts as I was focusing on the rest and I also of course haven't been tested if I get bullied in the safe Lane so that's uh there's there's whole dimensions of pain waiting for me no doubt in the future but as a first game obviously fantastic uh guidance uh felt really good and yeah the hero seems a lot of fun very creative with all the vision and the slows that you can set up and prepare for the future yeah she has she has an incredibly High skill cap to play her like at her Peak for being just a right clicker which you know she is she has an incredible skill cap for how you can do things better and I think you landed a lot of your melt strikes honestly even with that so I think I'm happy that we talked a little bit about Mel then its range and how how it's an easy ability to miss if you're not close enough because I really saw you Landing a lot of them in fights that a lot of people could easily miss them I guess in theory if you wanted to be more sure you could just yeah yeah exactly yeah one hit on the enemy first you know you're in range and then then you can melt strike after yeah if you're not laying an ambush let's say from the Ambush you better be sure the downside is you're paying you're actively playing damage for that because that first hit could have been with -8 extra armor yeah true worth knowing uh is that meld hits before your attack yeah I know the smell does a separate damage instance so it will always be before the first hit too yeah so you get so much extra damage already on your first hit yeah but no that that was I mean if you were pressured more in the safe Lane though if there were people running up on you then the melds could have been a good tool to slap them and make them go away it's like they come close email do you hit them but the way the lane played out you were just cyblading the fury and cyblading his Lark slark didn't even stay in the lane he got really tired of what you were doing he dropped to like 30 life so here uh would you say that she's better against uh melee because you're more likely to hit but uh or not I would say she's better against melee heroes in Lane quite often but she's better at murdering a lot of range Heroes because range Heroes tend to be squishier a lot of range Heroes especially the ranged support Heroes oh my god dude they die in in no you saw what happened to warlock right yeah exactly um so yeah mostly mostly I like range Heroes because those are the ones I go after a lot of them cool super uh super interesting also on a general macro perspective nice to get a refresher on position once selfishness which becomes altruism considering that's how you're going to be able to help the team yes cool awesome thanks a lot that was uh that was fun but uh thank you for having me and good luck with your uh other games thanks as always I uh I wouldn't mind joining again if you have uh Curious questions about anything else though yeah I'd love that and bye chat thanks for putting up with me I'll prepare some questions for next time uh maybe some general micro and macro questions for troubles that I may have had or things that I can't get you're a great teacher good luck on your stream thanks for joining us here man