Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursi are taking two of their favorite heroes to the lanes: Sven and Lina. I'm guessing this was just an excuse for Ursi to play Lina. And Proud was like, "k...well...I play Sven then." And Ursi was all like, "k, cool." Then Proud was all like, "So about this 7.03 Dota 2 thing...I love you." And Ursi was like, "I love you too. Roland is garbage." And then they cosplayed Lina and Sven at their wedding and totally lived happily ever after. The End. Story by Cyphus. Inspired by true events. #UrsiLinaCosplay2017

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast On this DotP One on One, we get in to a vast amount of details surrounding Complexity, and Kyle "melonzz" Freedman. Kyle talks becoming a pro-Dota player, what would have happened had he chose a different path. His relationship with his brother and the future of coL. This and more on Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity are tackling a ton of questions from the Dota 2 community this week. They talk how to nerf heroes, killing morale on the team, best heroes for each role, best path forward if you're new to Dota 2, and much, much more! Plus Roland touches himself. I mean. We knew that. But it's a thing. Just listen.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud is joined by Cyphus as Roland sleeps off the DotPatron stream hangover. They kick off the show by complaining about Roland, talk about Proud's adapted Sven build with the recent nerfs to Helm of the Dominator, Cyphus abuses the show to get a legit Faceless Void build out of Proud, how much Iron Fist sucks on Netflix, and finally they close out the show with a discussion about Lone Druid. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast! Plus, check out an awesome band Proud loves called I Hate Sex. He recommends the song San Francisco.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Roland and Cyphus discover what is weak and strong against DP and SS as they get stomped and try really hard not to flame their imbecile teammates. Cyphus plays the Shadow Shaman, while Roland fumbles mid passing the ball to the team over and over again. Tune in this week to see what you think Death Prophet and Shadow Shaman counter. This and much more on Counterattack - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity convened an emergency podcast to discuss the latest patch dropped for Dota 2: 7.03. The 7.03 patch includes a variety of gameplay updates and the long-awaited Juggernaut Arcana. Find out who the big winners and losers of 7.03 are and get a jump-start on the shifting Dota 2 meta with DotP's Dota 2 7.03 Patch Notes Analysis and Review.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus is joined by Tephus, staff for Liquipedia and manager for Team Liquid's Overwatch team. They talk the trials and tribulations of running liquipedia, the crazy things people try to do to liquipedia pages, his path forward into a career in esports, and how he came to manage the Team Liquid's pro Overwatch team. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity are joined this week by TehH4ck3r from the volunteer Liquipedia staff. They take listener questions about Liquipedia, the Dota 2 community and its general direction, the fourth spirit rumors, limits on hero numbers, and getting the shakes when you're gaming. All this and more in the latest Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week on Proudland, the hosts discuss a logical check-list on what to-do and what not do with your feet - rather what you put on them. This is the first endeavor into the vast pool of items and hero interactions being undertaken by this Dota 2 podcast. After thousands of hours, and even more losses, Roland realizes, he needs item help. Proud jumps in to the rescue to shine some light on some misconceptions and provide logic to those of us who don't use it. This and more on Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland tackle this week's round of Counterattack with the OP Necrophos and the kinda-P'd Bristleback...or something. Find out what led to those heroes being counterpicks, how the game went, and how the duo interpret the stats surrounding those two heroes. Are they just OP, or were they legitimate counters? They also read a listener email concerning Spectre ability builds and whether the max dagger build is truly the way to go based on stats? All this and more in the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Another round of Theorycraft Thursday is coming at ya. This week, Proud and Ursinity are taking Lycan and Centaur to the lanes. Find out how they're running the duo, where, what they're building and what they're skilling. All this and more on the Dota 2 theorycraft podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus is joined by co-founder of ELO Entertainment, the company responsible for the creation of Dotabuff.com. They talk her history with gaming, the inception of Dotabuff, the trials and tribulations she's faced along the way, what the future of the site and company look like and more! Check it out on the latest Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland tackle the latest round of listener-submitted questions on this week's DotP Q&A! Questions concern the worst supports to first-pick in Dota 2, what you tell yourself to recover from tilting, necessary communication, how to identify who and what lost your match, and much, much more! Check it all out on the latest Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast On this week's episode of Proudland, Proud explains, very, very thoroughly, base attack time (BAT). The hosts then dive in to the pit falls of higher than average MMR games, and when to take highground on this Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland tackle another round of Counterattack, the show where we force ourselves to play the best hero for every episode as determined by pure statistical counterpicking. This week, we counterattack the enemy team with Spectre and Treant Protector versus an Axe, Mirana, Riki, Bloodseeker and Faceless Void. Find out how they did, what they think the strengths and weaknesses were of their heroes versus the enemy team's lineup, and more! All this on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity get together for another round of theorycraft...or theorycrafting...or who knows...we still haven't figured it out after all this time ourselves it turns out. But they're back at it, whatever it is. They're tackling Abaddon and Morphling in the lanes of Dota 2 this week, but they're not running the combo how you might think. Find out what they're up to, how they build it, and if it worked! Also, there totally isn't a techno-remix ending to this episode sampling Ursi and Proud's chatter from the episode. I just went to bed on time and posted the show like normal. No staying up late messing with the show for Cyphus. No sir. Also, here's the match ID: https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3029472150

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus is joined by AnneeDroid, caster extraordinaire and member of the Moonduck crew! She talks how she came up as a Dota 2 caster, her big break and exciting moments along the way, how she got into Dota 2 (spoiler alert: it's a revenge tale!), and much, much more! Tune in to hear the story on the latest edition of the Dota 2 interview podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity take live listener calls about lane dominators and how to deal with them, efficient techniques for gaining MMR in Dota 2 with limited time, where their in-game names came from, and more listener questions about Dota 2. Check out the latest Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week on Proudland, Roland rejoins Proud as they discuss what to do in different MMR brackets. Proud, as always, brings up interesting discussion topics as he explains you can climb MMR and have fun. While Roland sits silently in the corner being wildly incompetent. This and much more on Proudland - a Dota 2 Podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland delve into the newest addition to the DotP network: Counterattack. They explain the premise of the show as a study in counterpicking and attempting to elucidate (DotP's new favorite word) the reasons for the strength of counterpicking strictly by the statistics and whether those relationships are occurring due to legitimate counters or are simply due to an individual hero's current power in the meta. Then they discuss their first attempt at counterpicking. They discuss why they picked Luna/Warlock into a draft of Dazzle, Mirana, Earthshaker, Phantom Assassin and Tinker, the strengths and weaknesses they noticed, and whether Tinker or Luna truly has the upper hand and why. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 counterpicking podcast: Counterattack! Match info: https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3017107813 Match replay available on Youtube sometime Friday afternoon!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Proud and Ursi discover the beautiful synergy between an elusive, monkey-king poser and that hero inspired from Disney's Orignal 'Frozen'. Listen to them dopple-walk away from bad information as they cool down the temperature on some heated topics. Make sure you get your fair share of this arcane podcast. This and more on Theorycrafting Thursday - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus is joined by Malystryx from JoinDota for a discussion about Maly's work at the website, the decline in /r/Dota2 page views and visitors, the health of e-sports, Team Secret and Team Liquid's performances and ability to be top tier teams moving forward, transparency pros and cons for Dota 2 pro players, the recent success of TNC, and just what Maly did with that DotP shirt we sent him so long ago. All this and more on the resurrected DotP One on One interview series of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland is back with Ursinity at his side tackling a new round of listener-submitted questions. This week, DotP tries to burn through some of the listener submitted write-in questions about how to make money podcasting (hint: we have no idea...yet...), removing items from the game and how that impacts balance/meta, laning against Sand King and his damned caustic finale, and more! They also take live listener questions about keybindings for micro-intensive heroes, the legitimacy of party MMR in Dota 2, and their favorite cosmetic items! All this and more in the latest Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland is still away so Proud is joined by Cyphus for a support-centric episode of Proudland. They talk recalibrating MMR for a bit at the top of the show, then flounder around trying to think about the best way to go about tackling the topic of supporting in Dota 2 7.02, and then finish out strong with a legit look at the function of a support in the various lanes in a Dota 2 pub match. All this and some D&D alignment talk in the latest edition of the Internet's best Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity fills in for Roland on the latest Friday edition of DotP and joins Cyphus for an in-depth discussion of a recent match Cyphus had on his re-calibration account. (Match ID for those interested: https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/3000431194 ). They talk about the beauty of lost games where at least you learned something, when to build BKB, carries without obvious counters that can be picked early on in a draft, whether S&Y is a decent item and who for (Gyrocopter!), and much, much more. They also talk a little gambling, drinking and driving (though not necessarily all at the same time...though...nah...don't do that). All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Ursi and Proud discover what may be the best duo yet: Sand King and Doom. Despite Ursinity thinking Doom is a flat-line, dumb hero with a lame concept. He's wrong - "Shut up, Okay, moving on." - Proud. Despite all the back-and-forth, they find that the best friendship is one that is made in lane. Enjoy this weeks Dota 2 Podcast with Prosinity.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus, Proud, Roland and Ursinity team up for a special Wednesday episode (sorry...no DotPro Show today...we explain) talking about their latest round of DotP Stream Team Team Stream practice, how Roland and Cyphus can improve in the support role, how to communicate with one another and when there should be comm chatter on a good team, how a recent pro match between Complexity and Team NP elucidated (that's right, elucidated) some points made on the most recent Proudland, and much, much more. Check out the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland take listener questions about respecting those who climb traditionally in the MMR system versus those who smurf, Elimination Mode tournaments, how to counter/deal with Techies picks, favorite lanes and teamfight hero combos and more questions live from listeners, listener voice mails and email submissions! Check out the latest Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week Roland and Proud take on a the heady Dota 2 subject of fighting. First talking about initiating and counter-initiating, then into the subtle, yet definitive reasons behind why you win or lose. Proud breaks down over used terms, while Roland holds on for dear life, trying to keep up. Learn how to take a punch and throw one back, this week on Proudland.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland team up for the new Friday DotP timeslot to talk about versatility in Dota 2 hero selection, the best starting items for Luna, iron branches best branches, what a headdress takes, how OP Underlord was and now isn't in 7.02 Dota 2, and whether the Radiant advantage has been corrected by the recent changes in the latest patch. All this and more on the latest episode of the Internet's 33rd best video game podcast...for now.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity get together for an emergency podcast covering the latest Wednesday Night Surprise we all got in the Dota 2 world: the 7.02 patch update! They talk the 7.02 patch in thorough detail and what it may mean for the Dota 2 meta! All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Cyphus provide an update on the StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 3 qualifiers from last week. Then they turn to the Chinese qualifier results for the 2017 DAC and a preview of the other regional qualifiers for that tournament. They also talk Mushi's departure from Fnatic and read an iTunes review before closing out the show! All this and more on the pro Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland tackle another round of Good or Garbage submitted by a listener as well as a round of Dota 2 questions from live call-ins and write-in questions alike! Topics include: NA v EU server skills, top 5 generic support items, when to "smurf" to re-calibrate your MMR, show hosts' experience with Dungeons & Dragons, carrying your way out of the gutter and much, much more! Check it all out on the Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast On this Monday episode of Proudland power spikes get talked about a lot. Also, Roland's grandma calls - it's not an emergency. Learn about breakfast in a croc-pot, or about your favorite hero! Because this Dota 2 PS (power-spike) episode was so long, below are time stamps. Weave through the episode as we call out the waning rifts in power spikes between amping your play, or hooking your thoughts. Time Stamps: Ember Spirit: 19:30 - 42:15 Outworld Devourer: 42:16 : 1:05.26 Underlord: 1:05.27 - 1:31:38 Tidehunter: 1:30.39 - 138.40 Slardar: 1:41.36 - 1:54.39 Pudge: 1:54.40 - END

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2Podcast This week on Proudland a schedule change announcement is made, while Roland and Proud finish up discussion on the previous weeks mid talks. Power spikes are the topic of this show, while they discuss Luna and Spectre in the one position, and Rubick and Crystal Maiden in the five position. Proudland is moving to Monday's, so be sure to check out the second half of this Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2Podcast Proud and Ursinity are working on a new Lone Druid combo to go with Proud'/ favorite hero: Reinhardt! Nah. Just kidding it's Lone Druid. That should be evident right? I mean...contextually speaking it wasn't possible for it to be any other option than the two listed in the previous sentence. That was the source of the humor. Did I kill it by over explaining it. I do that sometimes. Oh yeah, listen to this Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Cyphus talk Lonely Druid at DotaPit, their latest Sunday practice, and then follow it all up with an in-depth conversation and update on the StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 3 open qualifiers. They also talk the new Escape/Ninjas In Pajamas (NiP) roster before they wrap the show and read a few fan reviews! All this and more on the latest pro Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland tackle the latest round of listener questions about Dota 2 this week with an array of questions involving playing with significant others, Treant support, Trump's immigration plans' potential impact on Dota 2 pro tournaments, and much, much more! Check out the latest edition of the Dota 2 Q&A podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Cyphus talk taking skills over talents, spamming Viper like a terrible human being, what roles they're going to play with Ursi and Proud, and more! Check out the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast In the middle of the night, Roland and Proud discuss the smaller things about the mid-lane. Touching on do's and do not's. In an attempt to bring the less thought-about concepts of what makes a good mid, good. Proud discusses the fundamentals, and Roland hangs on for dear life. Me midder's aside, this episode walks you through concepts that you may not know you already do. It's always good to know why you are a 'me mid.' This and more on Proudland: Fiddle my Middle.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud delve into the nitty gritty of the Radiant advantage in Dota 2 that so many community members have been discussing. Then they move on to this week's theorycrafted combo: Nightstalker and Sniper! They talk about how they'll build them, what to buy and what they think the synergy will be for these two heroes before taking the combo into the lanes for a test drive (against a listener of the show no less). Match ID below (and I swear I'll start including them from now on -Love, Cyphus). All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast! https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2939089672

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Proud talk about the latest results from Dota Pit League Season 5, the impact the radiant advantage might be having on the pro scene (or if it even has one), and then turn their attention to Proud's love of Bone7 and the Boneman's addition to Team NP as their new coach. They also read a listener email and discuss whether Roland or Cyphus will play the 5 on the upcoming DotP host streams every Sunday. All this and more on the latest edition of the pro Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity are taking your questions again this week about Dota 2, DotP, and even "Denny Defenders" as Roland calls those who try to stand up for poor Cyphus. They take questions on Lifestealer builds, playing against Monkey King, getting your friends into Dota 2 and where to direct them, the Dota Pit "fiasco," and so much more Dota 2 goodness it can't all be remembered here in this post and is best left unsaid. Tune in for one of the best Dota 2 Q&A's yet on the latest DotP episode!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week on the DotP Monday show Cyphus and Roland do the usual round and round. Proclaiming on one hand we're a Dota 2 podcast and then on another talking about how 'Elite' Cyphus is. They navigate through 15% increased magic damage, talked about HP removal and finally find there way back to bitching about the deathliest hero in the game: Necrophos. Why is his CD 25 seconds with Aghs? Why does he have a 60% win rate? This and more on Defense of the Patience -- A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast This week on Proudland, Proud and Roland try to understand the difference in win-rate between radiant and dire before delving in to a safe-lane discussion. Once they find their way to the inevitable, some insight is found in to why being a position 1 player in Dota 2 feels so much different. This and more on Proudland a Dota 2 Podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud tackle the latest theorycraft combo in Dota 2 7.01 this week: Pudge and Monkey King. They take the duo to the lanes and test it out after a thorough discussion of how they'll build it. They also talk the basics of building a build for a hero in Dota 2. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Cyphus talk the latest in pro Dota 2 news and coverage. they discuss the latest controversy with Beyond the Summit's Xyclopz casting Axx in a sexist manner, the DAC qualifiers, and the results from the WESG tournament. They also recommend a pro series/game to watch for those too busy to watch everything pro Dota 2 has to offer and Cyphus quizzes Proud on the top two countries in the Capcom World Tournament from 2016 and Street Fighter V. All this and more on the latest pro Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Ursinity are joined by caster-extraordinaire Lyrical! Lyrical takes questions about himself, his casting equipment specs, his casting career and more! Plus the gang addresses questions about Dota 2 regarding Ethereal Blade on Centaur, supports' new roles in Dota 7.01, when to value point a skill, the nature of tournament payouts in the professional Dota 2 scene, and much, much more! Check out the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Cyphus talk about their week in Dota 2, how much Roland hates Ember Spirit and his dumb magic amp talent tree, and they discuss the power of root! Roland discusses giving up his dreams of 4k MMR and Cyphus talks his latest round of re-calibration account games. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Roland start out strong, talking about absolute non-sense in their lives. Roland complains about annual obligatory dinners as Proud tries to recall that one movie with Tom Cruise in his underwear. Eventually, after a tantalizing labyrinth, they find themselves talking about the offlane in Dota 2. What has changed? Anything? Try and find the gems and throw-away the rest on this week of Proudland.