Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

Proud is joined by Cyphus in lieu of Roland for a special episode of Proudland focusing on what every Dota 2 player should be looking for in every lane and position on the team. They look at how the meta is shifting hero selection trends for every lane, why that is, and who the best heroes are to pick in those situations. All this and more on the Dota 2 podcast!

Cyphus and Roland talk the latest with Cyphus' recalibration account, how Roland gave up on trying hard, and missing playing on a competitive team of Dota 2. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

BreakyCPK hosts a star-studded DotPro today featuring Synderen, Dakota "KotLGuy" Cox, and TrentPax! First, Breaky talks Starladder with KotLGuy. Then he discusses the newly formed team Crescendo featuring Babyknight, Xcalibur, EGM, Akke and Synderen. Synderen then joins Breaky for a talk about Crescendo and more. Then Breaky provides a quick rundown of roster updates before having TrentPax join him for a look at the upcoming Manilla Masters. All this and more on the latest pro Dota 2 podcast! Timestamps: KotLGuy - 26:50 Synderen - 49:09 Roster Changes - 1:10:45 TrentPax - 1:26:42 Competitive Surge - 1:45:02

Defense of the Patience This week on Theorycraft, Ursi and Proud find the strength to pick Tiny, and are smart enough to pair it with Jakiro. The hosts go over the importance of smoke, and why it's important! This and more on Theorycraft Thursday - A Dota 2 Podcast

Cyphus is joined by Lyrical to talk about his past, overcoming adversity with a positive outlook, the support he's had in his career pursuits, the health of the Dota 2 scene, how more tournaments is a good thing for building narratives in pro Dota 2, and much, much more! Check out the latest edition of the Dota 2 interview podcast!

Ursinity and Roland tackle another round of Dota 2 questions from DotP listeners! They take questions about 7.06 patch changes, Razor in the new meta, creating an opening in a game when you're behind, Shadow Shaman as a support and more! Check out the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Proud and Roland tackle the next group of utility items in Dota 2 on this week's Proudland. Join them on their tour through the items of the Dota 2 shop in this series that looks to explain when and why to buy the various items in Dota 2. All this and more on this week's Dota 2 podcast.

BreakyCPK is joined this week once again by Zrock to talk the latest happenings in pro Dota 2 before interviewing Melonzz about Dota 2 7.06 and the latest roster shuffles. Later in the show, Breaky gives an in-depth look at the roster shuffles shaping up before TI7 qualifiers and welcomes Handsken for more pro Dota 2 talk. Check out the latest episode of the pro Dota 2 podcast!

Ursinity and Proud talk their intense hatred of evasion, what's going to be happening in Dota 2 7.06 now that the patch has been released, their thoughts a few days into the patch, the reign of Sven and return of Lone Druid. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Cyphus is joined by the remaining member of the DotP lineup of show hosts yet to do a one-on-one: Ursinity. They talk Ursinity's home life, growing up as an insufferable child, being a debate kid, how he got into gaming and Dota 2, and the Dota 2 community at large. All this and more in the latest Dota 2 interview podcast.

Breaky and Ursi team up to tackle the latest big change to Dota 2: the 7.06 gameplay update. They talk all the changes, possible implications and try to forecast the shift the meta will take in pubs and pros alike! All this and more on the Dota 2 7.06 Patch Notes Analysis & Review episode!

This week on Proudland, the gang gets in to 'utility' items. Roland picks Proud's brain on why certain items are used when they're used, and the viability of the item itself. If you need to know what to buy and when to do it, tune in this week to Proudland - A Dota 2 Podcast

Cyphus and Roland talk the TI7 Battle Pass, Cyphus's recalibration progress, and then the conversation gets personal as they try to diagnose each other'/ Dota 2 difficulties. All this and more from the latest Dota 2 podcast.

BreakyCPK welcomes special guest Fly, fresh from his victory with OG at the Kiev Major, to the show to talk that victory and what's next. Later he talks with Milton from DreamHack. Plus the latest news in the professional Dota 2 scene. All this and more on the Dota 2 podcast!

As part of our fulfillment of DotPatron-commissioned episodes, we present to you this addition: A Very Grouty Theorycraft. Grouty joins the Theorycraft Thursday crew for a three-way...combo that is. Sniper, Witch Doctor and Enigma are the DotPatron picks for this Dota 2 podcast episode. Grouty helps Ursinity and Proud discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the combo before taking it to the lanes for a trial run. Find out how they did on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Cyphus is joined by TrentPax on today's DotP One on One! They reminisce about the old days when DotP had just begun and Trent was still a Standard Deviant. Then they get into Trent's rise through the Dota 2 community, his work as a caster and panelist, working stats reports for Complexity Gaming, and joining up with Moonduck! All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Ursinity and Roland take Dota 2 questions about heroes with and without Aghanim's scepters, who is underrated and who should have one that doesn't, passing off your duties to another player in the game, if 2k MMR teams are viable and where to compete, which Dota 2 hero they'd spend the day with and countering and synergizing with Crystal Maiden. All this and more on the latest Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Proud and Roland are joined by Ursinity for a special edition of Proudland. Roland gives Proud and Ursinity a series of Dota 2 scenarios to run through to have them help him sort through in pursuit of being a better player and gaining MMR in Dota 2. Check out the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Cyphus and Roland join forces for a special Saturday casual show with Evanwood an ever-looming, "radiant" presence in the background. They talk about Dota 2 playstyles impacting hero pools, Cyphus' terrible driving in a dangerous Mustang, and how Roland kind of gave up hope on improving in Dota 2 after his big losing streak. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast BreakyCPK hosts another round of the DotPro Show focusing on the last week in the competitive Dota 2 scene now that the Kiev Major has wrapped up. The show's guests include zzrock and iNsania talking pro Dota 2 shakeups and changes! All this and more on the latest pro Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity tackle a new theorycrafted combo for Dota 2 this week with Templar Assassin and Legion Commander! They also discuss getting countered before dissecting the combo's strengths and what they intend to build. Then they take the combo to the lanes to see how it fares! Find out how it went on this week's edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus is joined by DotP's own Proud for today's Dota 2 podcast! Proud talks with Cyphus about growing up back east, moving to California, getting into Dota and Dota 2, his World of Warcraft days, struggling with depression, and the Dota 2 community at large. Find out more about one of your favorite DotP show hosts on today's edition of the Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity get a Kiev Major-themed Good or Garbage that provokes some conversation looking back at that tournament. Then they field questions about TI "access," Dota 2 heroes' possible music tastes, confessions or apologies they'd like to make about their pubs, advice about casting, and how to deal with long Dota 2 games. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Proud and Roland go over "durable's" more commonly referred to as tanks or the better way of saying it - frontliners. The hosts talk about the Kiev Major and what we saw from the 16 teams there using as for front-line. As well as other heroes out of meta or under valued. Proud educates Roland on Vanguard/Poor Man's Shield/ Stout Shield and Kraken Shell, and how Tidehunter can start with a stout in some cases, maybe even a Poor Man's Shield. This and more on Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud's Website Link: https://people.ucsc.edu/~gkleinbu/

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity bring home the week with another round of Theorycraft Thursday. This week they're tackling a new combo that's kind of hard to see: Clinkz and Riki. They also take an in-depth look at the meta heroes coming out of the Kiev Major, support movements at the tournament and how it's all evolved in Dota 2 7.05 pro Dota 2 play. Find out how the Clinkz/Riki combo fared and get your Kiev Major meta updates on this edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast BreakyCPK gives the latest updates on the Kiev Major Group Stages, predictions moving forward through the bracket, and is joined for updates by Peter Pan Dam (PPD), statsman Nahaz, and Kiev panelist Conrad Janzen! Check out the latest edition of DotPro w/ BreakyCPK, a pro-Dota 2 podcast! Time stamps: 44:11 PPD, 1:13:00 Nahaz, 1:37:08 Conrad.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus sits down with Conrad Jaznen, Partner Manager for Twitch and panelist at the Dota 2 Kiev Major, for a talk about his work with Twitch, segueing from the film industry into eSports, his time with Evil Geniuses and Cloud9, and heading to Kiev to be a panelist. All this and more on the latest Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast DotP is back in action with another round of Dota 2 live listener call-in and write-in questions! Questions deal with dealing with heavily farmed enemies, well-balanced heroes, our favorite lore, Nyx Assassin in the meta, Visage's place in the current patch and more! Check out the latest Q&A Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week on Proudland the hosts discuss old jungle, old old jungle, and new jungle and the differences that divide them. They go through what heroes are considered junglers by Dota 2 client standards and go over what can make or break a jungler. This and more on Proudland - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast BreakyCPK hosts his inaugural podcast with Defense of the Patience! DotPro w/ BreakyCPK provides an in-depth preview and analysis of the upcoming 2017 Dota 2 Kiev Major. Breaky is joined by ReDeYe to talk the Kiev Major's implementation of the Swiss Elimination structure. Later Capitalist joins to talk about top teams going into the Major, dark horses, and predictions. Finally Breaky wraps it up with The Surge! A quick look at all Dota 2 pro news headed into the Kiev Major! Check out the newest edition to the DotP network focusing on all you need to know in pro Dota 2 news!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are taking to the lanes with a theorycrafted combo of Terrorblade and Jakiro. They also offer a minute to honor Ursa, discuss the current meta, skirt around the issue of do-nothing heroes, and much, much more. They take the combo into a pub and test it out before reporting back. Find out how they did on this week's Dota 2 podcast!

On this week of Proudland, Roland and Proud discuss what Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Dota 2 thinks are the best disabler's and how good Earthshaker is. Baffled by the machine, Roland and Proud quickly fiend- find their favorites disables whilst Roland plays devils-advocate for poor-ol' Bane. This and much, much more on Proudland - a Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland tackle a series of Dota 2 listener questions this week ranging from what they'd want in a new hero, who to pick if you're a safe lane carry and your team has a jungler, abilities that can target the courier, and much, much more! Check it all out on this week's edition of the Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Defense of the Patience is happy to announce the addition of Dota 2 caster BreakyCPK to its weekly lineup! BreakyCPK will be hosting the Friday show: DotPro w/ BreakyCPK. In today's episode, Cyphus sits down for a one-on-one look into Breaky's history with Heroes of Newerth, breaking into the eSports scene, transitioning to Dota 2 and much, much more! Get a sneak peek at the newest addition to the DotP Show Host lineup on today's episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Dark Souls III Podcast A special Saturday release from DotP with a Patron-commisioned episode. Proud sits down with Link's Clone for a talk about some non-Dota gaming in the form of Dark Souls III. Tune in to hear Proud wax philosophical about a game he truly enjoys!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland team back up for the final Counterattack episode this week with a support duo of Spirit Breaker and Vengeful Spirit. They talk how well the lineup did against a Slark, Pudge, Queen of Pain, Nature' Prophet and Silencer. They also make a big announcement regarding the future of the Friday slot on Defense of the Patience. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud take to the lanes with another specialty theorycraft combo for Dota 2: Abaddon and Crystal Maiden. They talk how they'll build em and some of the latest meta updates since 7.05's release. Then they take the combo out into the pubs to give a test drive. Find out how they did on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus sits down with Maut, Dota 2 caster extraordinaire from Moonduck Studios. Maut talks his casting career, how he came to join Moonduck and offers some great advice for those looking to make their way into Dota 2 content creation or casting! All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Proud and Roland read through the interesting tidbits of 7.05. They sing a song for Lina, and thank Gaben for +25 health. If you need a something refreshing and for your mind to respawn a few seconds earlier (45). Tune in this week to Proudland - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity try to leave all their Dota 2 knowledge behind them and utilize a counterpicking tool instead of their own wits, intuition and game sense. They wind up playing Shadow Fiend and Juggernaut to counter the enemy team. Find out what led to those counterpicks, how they felt about the process and how the game went. All this and more on the latest Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland tackle the greatest theorycrafted theorycraft in all of theorycrafting history: Meepo and Chaos Knight. They talk about what they're going to build, how they'll build it, how the hell Roland is gonna play Meepo, and then "cheat" (a.k.a. not cheat) by getting a DotP five-stack together so as not to subject random strangers to the madness that is this awesome safe lane combo. Find out what they planned to do and, more importantly, how they did, on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast In this episode Roland and Cyphus switch places for wonky week, and Roland interviews Cyphus. We get an in-depth look at Cyphus' early teens and how he ended up where he is now. This and more on this episode Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Cyphus take over the DotP Q&A this week and take listener questions about all things Dota 2! They talk Lotus Orb (what it does and when to build it), when to tank towers as Centaur, their favorite Kaiju movies and more Dota 2 goodness. All this and more on the latest Dota 2 Q&A podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Ursinity take over Proudland to kick off the switcharoo week to delve deep into some support-specific topics. First, they talk at length about playing a roaming support: who you should be playing, how you should play them, when and where to roam, and what your objectives are in Dota 2 as a roaming support. Then they switch gears a little and talk about Hand of Midas in post-7.00 Dota 2 and when you should build it, why you should build it and which heroes should and shouldn't be picking one up. Hint: it ain't Alchemist dammit. All this and more on the best episode of Proudland ever, errr...we mean Cyphinity...a Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland hit the lanes with one of their hardest-hitting counterpicks yet with Juggernaut/Disruptor. They talk the strengths of those two heroes versus an enemy draft of Crystal Maiden, Puck, Pudge, Bristleback and Slark. Find out how they did and what they thought the strengths of the counterpicks were.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Proud and Ursi find the delightful synergies between MK and Magnus, noting that Empower/Jingu is the bees knee's, and a lot of other fun things about the two heroes. This and more on Theorycraft Thursday - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus is joined by Dota 2 streamer and YouTube personality, Baumi! Baumi talks what he does on his stream and in his videos, how he got started, how he plays Dota 2, controversies he's faced along the way in his career regarding Dota Imba and his trip to Seattle, and offers some great advice for those looking to crack into content creation for the games they love as well! All this and more on the latest Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland take questions about how to get your teammates to take objectives, their favorite sets, how to let a teammate know they're doing something wrong, what goes on behind-the-scenes at DotP, and more! Check out the latest Q&A Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast On this week of Proudland - a Dota 2 Podcast - Roland and Proud get in to the subtle yet obvious nuances of large bursts of magical damage. Roland tries to box Proud in on the idea that Dota Developers categorized their heroes in ways he may or may not disagree with, ahem (Sandking), ahem. This several part series will be going over heroes to improve your hero pool, and help you attain MMR success. This and more on Proudland, a #1 Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland talk the latest 7.04 patch notes and give a cursory review of all the changes before delving into this week's Counterattack. They counterpick the enemy team with a Phoenix/Dazzle dual offlane in this week's edition of the show that seeks to tackle Dota 2 by the numbers. All this and more on the latest Dota 2 podcast.