Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

Proud and Beedub answer some listener questions, discuss which heroes are good for new offlane players, talk about how to get out of a slump, and discuss possible new safelane carries for Beedub to experiment with. All this and more on this episode of Teach Me Tuesday!

On today's episode of Theory Craft Thursday Proud & Ursi delve into how best to set your priorities in team fights, how to best avoid panicking in hectic situations, Ursi's love of Soul Ring Shadow Fiend, and more before going into this week's combo: Shadow Demon and Morphling!

On today's episode of Teach Me Tuesday Ursi & Beedub explore Bee's experience calibrating and playing ranked for the first time before delving into the very robust but important topic of how to avoid dying in games of dota! We also cover why certain heroes like PA and AM are a scourge upon lower mmr pubs but a more manageable problem at higher mmrs, and how best to develop & grow as a team, how to be honest with your teammates, and why it's best to avoid playing with ringers on your team

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi delve into how they've changed and adjusted their mindsets so that they can succeed in the new ranked season! Both of them are making some notable changes to great success so far (knock on wood) including the official Proud Method of Supporting™ and Ursi's newfound love of Elder Titan. For the combo this week Proud is playing Gyrocopter and Ursi is playing Elder Titan as two thirds of a trilane, lets see if you guys finally get to hear the winning transition song!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday, Ursi and Beedub talk about the new ranked season system before going into all the ins-and-outs of how to play around invisibility; how best to use invisibility to your advantage, how best to counter invisibility, offensive counters vs. defensive counters, offensive play-making potential vs. defensive maneuvers, when to use dust vs. when to use sentries, the various power peaks of invisibility, and more! Also answering more listener questions. If you want to send in questions yourself you can DM any of the show hosts on Discord or you can send us an email to [email protected]

On this week's Theory Craft Thursday, Proud and Ursi go over the opening 5 minutes of a support in Dota 7.07, the new Ranked Match Making system, and go through a game with Wraith King and OD.

Proud is tired and Bee are jet-lagged as they endeavor to teach you mangy rascals how the goodnessgracious to highground cause golly gee wiz is that a tough one. Please listen to our shows we're dying each day and it's not getting any easier to see the light. Send help.

On today's episode of Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi set out to define what are achievable vs. unachievable goals for the new ranked season system started by 7.07 and how to go about accomplishing those goals as the season progresses! We also talk about our current Meepo frustrations, the sad state of Ursi's carry pool, and more before going on to play Tiny with Vengeful Spirit as a safelane combo!

This week's Teach Me Tuesday features Ursi and Beedub going through plenty of questions from both Bee and viewer submissions including their favorite supports in 7.07, how to climb from 2.5k up with the new ranked seasonal system as mid or carry, what role the 3, 4, and 5 have in a team comp, and more!

On today's Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi discuss the different ways to play around the new offlane from the offlaner's perspective including the advantages of duo-laning versus the advantages of more traditional solo offlanes! For the game they set out to play Pangolier and Skywrath Mage but end up playing Skywrath with Beastmaster against a Pangolier offlane from the enemy team! All this and more on the most recent TcT!

This week's TmT features Proud and Special guest Skrunk running through a brief review of 7.07b and discusses the hows and whys of safelane strategy in 7.07.

Proud and Ursi bring you their full, exhaustive (and exhausting!) 7.07 Dueling Fates patch notes review complete with all the info on the new heroes, their potential combinations, all the new items, old item changes, and the truly absurd amount of hero changes AKA why exp talents are godly, why health is better than damage, and how movement speed talents are awful in nearly all cases! On top of that we talk briefly about our official Fourth Spirit rebranding as this is our first episode as well as our partnership with Unikrn (https://unikrn.com/) which enables us to make all the content we love to make!

Cyphus is joined by EZ Mrcz for one final episode of Defense of the Patience. They talk Dota 2, the state of esports, their favorite moments with Defense of the Patience, the great DotPeeps, and more. Find Cyphus on twitter @TheRealCyphus to find out what's in store coming up with Dota Cinema and his future podcasting endeavors. Thank you all for the wild and amazing ride. I'm going to miss it more than you know. Good luck and godspeed! As promised, the link to DotP's original MS Paint logo: http://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/8/d/9/68d9a609edd5f27d/Basic_Log.jpg

Cyphus runs through an "almost" final episode of DotP that strolls down memory lane and reviews some of his favorite intros from the early days of Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast. He talks the stories that went into them, why they make him laugh, and more. Check out this next-to-last episode of Defense of the Patience, a Dota 2 Podcast.

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi go in depth on the different phases of drafting, how the guidelines for captains mode apply to pubs, what makes a weak draft versus what makes a strong draft, how to abuse a weak draft, how to accentuate your strengths, and more draft advice! Afterwards they go in detail about general rules for addressing the many common problems folks run into in any given game of dota, things like addressing lost lanes, countering enemy 5th picks like Broodmother, dealing with enemy cores that are snowballing, reclaiming map control, why Tien's Tri-Beam makes a square, and much more!

Ursinity and Beedub discuss the mid position, covering matchups, item decisions, rotations, and Ursinity's affection for mid Necro. All this and more on today's Teach Me Tuesday!

Cyphus runs everyone through some changes regarding the DotP announcement from last week, what he'll be up to moving forward, and what the next week or two will look like on DotP. Thanks all!

On this weeks episode, Chessie, the carry for complexity sits down to talk about the recent success at Starladder, competing in the NA scene as well as how this new roster came about to start the season. Zrock then joins Breaky to discuss the minor events results so far and preview our first Major of the season with ESL Hamburg. All of this and more in this weeks episode of DotPro!

On today's episode of Theorycraft Thursday Ursi and Proud talk all about their new project Fourth Spirit, what that means for TcT (hint: nothing, its staying the same!), and more before going into their week in dota, how to identify and optimize your hero choices and item choices around your allies and more! This week's combination is a 4 position roaming Slardar paired with an offlane Underlord with particular emphasis on how the two compensate for the nuance of Underlord offlane versus many other common offlaners!

Major show announcements on today's episode. Cyphus talks about DotP coming to a close, when and how that will all happen and the timeline for it, where you will be able to continue listening to Teach Me Tuesdays and Theorycraft Thursdays w/ Proud, Ursinity and Beedub, why this is all happening and what to expect during the final weeks of Defense of the Patience.

BreakyCPK and zrock discuss recent roster changes and rumors, as well as preview the first minors of the season. All of this and more on this week's episode of the pro Dota 2 podcast.

On this episode of Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursinity delve into their week in Dota 2, Ursi's adventures carrying people as a support player, common mistakes among players in the low to mid 3k bracket, common support mistakes, and more. Later they go into the combination of Nyx and Zeus, exploring how they work together and itemization/skill-builds on both heroes! All this and more on today's episode!

Proud and LeafyPeachy dive deep into Doom's decision-making and how to recover as a struggling offlaner.

No new episode today! Big show announcements next Monday's episode though. Today: Dominik "Black^" Reitmeier joins Cyphus on today's DotP One on One to talk playing professional Dota 2 in all its various regions, his transition on Team Faceless from carry to mid lane, feeling disconnected from his family due to his decision to pursue a career in esports, and professional players' behavior in Dota 2 and the future of professionalism in the scene. All this and more on the latest Dota 2 interview podcast. Find Black @BlackDota2 on twitter or follow his stream at www.twitch.tv/blackdotatv.

On this week's episode of Theorycraft Thursday Proud & Ursi focus on how to get out a Dota rut, what effects the behavior patch may have on pubs, how hard Cuphead is, and more before going on to play support Silencer with a carry Ursa as an aggressive safelane duolane! All this and more on this week's episode!

Ursinity and Beedub try out a new one on one format of Teach Me Tuesdays where Beedub watched one of Ursi's carry games and then analyzed his decision making, why he cuts down so many trees, mistakes he made, how to steal roshan, when to draft troll vs. when not to draft troll, and much more!

Cyphus has a quick message about changes upcoming around DotP and introduces today's re-release of a One on One recorded w/ TrentPax back in May 2017! We hope you enjoy today's episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

PPD sits down with BreakyCPK to discuss the crazy roster shuffle that was, how the current roster came about, what he thinks about the NA Dota 2 scene and concerning the recent Optic Gaming Announcement. Zrock also joins to help recap the many qualifiers currently taking place as well as how each of the regions are looking. All of this and more on this weeks episode.

Proud and Ursinity are at it again with a brand new theorycrafted combo! This week, they're playing around with a Nature's Prophet offlane. Listen to find out what they ended up pairing it with in this week's edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

A solo episode with Roland. Roland discusses the last three years, his highest heights and what a wonderful time it's been with Defense of the Patience. Catch Roland's last episode here on Defense of the Patience

Proud schools LeafyPeachy and Cyphus on the interactions between safe lanes and offlanes. They talk what to do when you're a solo safe laner, proper goals for an offlaner, when to leave lane and where to go, offlane as Enigma, and much, much more. Plus a lot of Bloodseeker. Cause, you know...Proud. All on the Dota 2 podcast!

Cyphus fills us in on the latest info regarding the DotP studio transition. Then DotP provides a sample of the content available on the DotPatron exclusive podcast feed for your listening pleasure. Ursi and Proud bring you another casual DotPatron exclusive episode of the podcast talking Universal Mathematic Theory of Terry by Terrance Howard, Dota 2, Steam sales, cosmetics, bowling, and probably more nonsense than anyone can remember. Check out the latest Patron-exclusive Dota 2 podcast episode now!

BreakyCPK is joined by Zrock for a breakdown of the latest happenings in pro Dota 2. They talk Starladder qualifiers, King's Cup results, ESL Hamburg, WCA and much, much more. Check out the latest edition of the pro Dota 2 podcast.

Today on Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursinity talk all about communication in pubs, productive communication and negative communication, pet peeves, and their personal attitudes towards communicating in Dota 2 pubs. Later they take Phantom Lancer and Disruptor to the lanes where Proud tries a PL build without Manta Style in an effort to breathe life into the hero we've all been lukewarm on build-wise for a while. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

From brown boots Earth Shaker to mango PA, Ursi tutors leafypeachy and beedub on decisions in the early game. How do you lane versus a Dark Seer with Soul Ring? Why Blink and Force Staff? All this and more on the learning Dota 2 podcast!

Roland is away and Cyphus is instead joined by Ursinity and Proud. They talk feeling stagnant in Dota 2, wonder what changes may come in 7.07, and who plays ranked Dota 2 properly. Hint: Ursi thinks it's him. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Breaky continues his look at the shuffles and shakeups in the world of professional Dota 2 this week as well as what's in store in the upcoming year. He welcomes special guest Black^ to talk Black^'s upcoming year, who he'll be playing with, and what he thinks of the roster news we've gotten so far. Later Zrock joins Breaky for a look at the latest news in pro Dota 2. All this and more on the Dota 2 podcast!

Proud and Ursinity tackle a new theorycrafted combo this week with Oracle and Necrophos. Find out how they built them, what they skilled and if the theorycrafted Dota 2 combo worked in the lanes. Plus they talk at length about winning from behind. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Proud gets a new combo of students this week for Teach Me Tuesdays: Beedub and Cyphus. With both the "teachlings" focusing on safe lane cores, this episode focuses heavily on safe lane carry play. Beedub asks about pushing high ground and which cores are best at it before delving into alternative Monkey King carry builds. Plus Proud schools Cyphus on his recent Spectre play, a Viper misconception Cyphus holds, and helps Cyphus try to determine if he's farming too much. Beedub poses a few questions about Bloodseeker much to Proud's delight, and they close with another look at the issues with replacing Manta Style in Phantom Lancer's build. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 learning podcast!

Roland talks his lack of satisfaction playing in the mid 2k's MMR bracket of Dota 2, how he regrets his massive MMR loss, why the loss occurred, and how he might fix it. He also tries to talk himself into and then out of paying someone to boost him to 3k. They discuss at length the pros and cons of playing a limited hero pool and expanding that pool in ranked v. unranked Dota 2. Plus a little Patron gushing and iTunes reviews! All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

BreakyCPK is joined this week by special guest: EternaLEnVyy. EE talks with Breaky all about the behind-the-scenes roster drama, where everyone wound up, and his take on the scene at large moving forward this year in Dota 2. All this and more on the latest pro Dota 2 podcast!

Proud and Ursinity are tackling the concept of a meta hero in this week's episode of the Dota 2 podcast. They also talk about a Windranger/Bloodseeker combo for this week's game. They talk extensively about Windranger as both a core and support, Disruptor's strengths, building items around the enemy team comp, and cast points. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Ursinity sits down for a lesson with Cyphus and newest addition to the DotP roster: LeafyPeachy. They talk their goals for the next year in Dota 2, the positions they're focused on, effective offlaners in the current meta, when to farm aggressively in the enemy jungle, and how to make Clockwerk more viable. All this and more on the learning Dota 2 podcast!

Cyphus and Roland talk their latest solo queue experiences in Dota 2. They talk the biggest throw Cyphus has made in some time, difficulties with drafting/laning on their AD2L team, Cyphus' first negative conduct report, how Roland hates the beach and much, much more! Check out the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast now!

BreakyCPK is joined by Timado and Banana Slam Jamma on today's DotPro Show! They talk the latest happenings in the pro Dota 2 scene, discuss the latest roster shuffle news, and what their plans are moving forward in professional Dota 2. All this and more in the latest edition of the pro Dota 2 podcast! Timestamps: Timado - 14:10 BSJ - 33:40

On this week's show Ursinity and Proud are talking all about their approach to developing a new hero build in Dota 2, troubleshooting existing builds, and identifying how to fix problems and gradually personalize an item build to your liking. For today's game they discussed in-depth the value (or lack thereof) of starting with ironwood branches on supports and go all into Mirana's new physical damage mid build, with some discussion of Windranger support, before eventually playing Mirana with a safelane Drow for the actual game. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 Podcast!

Proud and Roland introduce the spiritual successor to Proudland with the help of a new DotP show host: Beedub! They talk their goals for the show, how the format will work and vary from week to week, and what Dota 2 listeners have to look forward to! Today's specific topics focus on efficiency as a core and how to be a better safe lane carry as DotP looks to improve their Dota 2 capabilities. All this and more on the latest edition to the Dota 2 podcast!

Cyphus gets heated and Roland antagonizes him on about junglers in Dota 2. After a brief discussion of Cyphus's struggles learning Drow Ranger, he explains to Roland that the root cause of the majority of his recent losses have been junglers. Learn the truth from General Denny on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Breakycpk is joined by GranDGranT to talk the rumors of possible roster shuffles within the North and South American regions. They also dissect the Infamous drama and new ppd team. Zrock later sits in to discuss the DreamLeague Major announcement and what we can learn from it. All of this and more on this weeks episode of the pro Dota 2 podcast. Timestamp: GrandGrant - 20:47