do you guys like all the trilaning thats going on in competitive play?

im only a 1600 player so i dont see it much or at all in my actual games, but i think it makes the game somewhat boring/monotone

carries gets farmed as hell and then they start fighting, idk


And about pushing strats, do any of them work anymore? haven't seen one work well at all in competitve games

seems like every pure pushing team gets raped

trilane will be used until someone find the ultimate counter to trilaning

push strats are dead

too bad there is no real counter to ws+andro+panda in a lane, except for maybe a quad lane

well u can always just abandon the lane and go 2+2 other lanes and one roamer that keeps setting up kills
e: in pubs ofcourse, in competetive play they would react instantly and swap lanes lol

This post was edited by ImoK on Aug 29 2010 04:56am

Well, competitive play isn't about what is most exciting, it's about winning. At the moment the tri-lane strat doesn't have any reliable counters. Anything you can do to react to it will weaken your team in another regard. But, as is always the case with the meta game, a patch will hit or a team like LOAD will come up with a counter strat and everyone will copy it causing the meta to shift.

trilane counter?

http://hon.esportmedia.com/video/2010/08/30/gamereplays-invitational-semi-finals-load-vs-dwi-2

a lot of people try to copy what they see, and while it might be very effective, it's like trying to fight like jet li in an IRL fight when you'd be MUCH better off just swinging your fists around

i've faced and stomped MSI lineups (soulstealer, valk, FA, glacius, pharaoh), panda/mali/glacius tri lane, etc. with the most random hero lineups

imo trilane is gay but you've got good chances at beating it in pubs

people just copy what they see rather than doing what they're comfortable with

This post was edited by dude150 on Aug 31 2010 04:22pm

trilanes make for an awesome game if its trilane vs trilane because of the ganks that go on, so its really intense

push strats work if executed right

just played a game of bp where we let the other team get the best pushing heroes

polly, defiler, slither, hb, and fa

vs

me sb, ws, plague, elec, balph

they pushed 1st 3 towers fairly quickly, then they just failed.. i was hoping the push strat would actually work, it wasnt even close.