Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast In honor of the two-year anniversary of DotP's inception (and maybe also a little because we're working on some new content for Wednesday episodes), DotP is re-releasing the very first episode with Cyphus, Wazoo and Roland. The sound quality may not be great, but we thought it might be fun to listen to the start of it. Hope you enjoy this classic episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Wazoo and Flubb tackle two big Dota 2 issues in today's episode of Tryhard Tuesdays. First they discuss how to spot draft strategies when playing as a team. Then they move in to a discussion on comfort heroes and how to draft around them. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Cyphus are kicking the week off with a tribute to everybody's favorite support: Crystal Maiden. Then they talk about the struggles of quitting smoking and playing Dota 2. Finally, the conversation turns cheesy as Roland explains the Vengeful Spirit, Abaddon, Witch Doctor, Nature's Prophet and Luna cheese draft: a five-man strategy that takes advantage of a level one Roshan. All this and more in the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Flubb and Wazoo are back and refreshed from TI6 and ready to Try hard again! They're tackling tryhard issues, talking their TI6 experience and more on this special Friday edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity are back to the Theorycrafting table with this week's combo: Ursa and Oracle. The two discuss the combo, how they'll build it, the strengths, and then they take it to the lanes for a trial! Find out how they did in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland sits down with DotP OG Blackheart who joined the DotP crew at TI6 for a talk about the event, what they did, what they liked and didn't, and more in the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast DotP is still getting settled again and releasing this classic DotP episode in its stead. Regular-scheduled programming resumes tomorrow! Enjoy this episode made right after we arrived back home from TI5 w/ Cyphus, Roland, Wazoo and EZ Mrcz! Back to the brand new Dota 2 podcasts tomorrow!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are together at last, live and in-person. They talk the heroes played at TI6, take questions from an immature audience at the house, try desperately to deal with Roland's random sound effects, and cope with having to look each other deep in the eyes as they record live together discussing the ins and outs of the game we all love so much: Dota 2. All this and more on the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland sit down for another live recording session at The Dota 2 International 2016 with the one and only Nahaz! He talks compLexity, coaching, how statisticians are aiding teams and even takes audience questions about topics from Techies and the current meta to draft analysis and neural network predictions. All this and more on the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Flubb and Wazoo record Tryhard Tuesdays live at Royal Gaming Cafe in Seattle, WA for the Dota 2 International 2016! Gorgon the Wonder Cow, working the event for The Score, is guesting tonight for all the DotPeeps gathered together for TI6 to talk the event so far, his work at TI6 and much, much more on the latest edition of the Live Dota 2 Podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland (and kinda Wazoo) record the Monday show from their hotel room discussing the upcoming Dota 2 International 2016, the journey to TI6, how tired they are from driving, and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud tackle Drow Ranger strategies in everybody's favorite something podcast about something. They talk the combo, test it out and report back. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland are joined by Kaci Aitchison, the host of Valve's TI6 and local personality/feature reporter for FOX Q13 in Seattle. She talks her history in broadcasting both with radio and television, starting to work for Valve, improv comedy, what it's like interviewing players and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Wazoo got a chance to sit down with Austin "Capitalist" Walsh last week before TI Invites had been announced and the event began to get Cap's thoughts on the game, his prep for TI, what teams he was expecting to see go deep in the tournament and more. Check out the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Flubb and Wazoo are joined once again by Ag47 to continue where they left off last week with a further discussion about team building in Dota 2. There's also some discussion of the Battle Cup game from the Monday episode. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland sit down for a talk about Dota 2 and gambling, recent legislation being proposed, what other models the game could take to stay afloat if similar legislation were passed in the U.S., playing in Battle Cup, and then...Roland gets triggered. Listen and wait for the fireworks to ignite in this latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Roland sit down for another noob-friendly educational episode about Dota 2. Join them for an interesting discussion to learn about interactions, concepts, strategies and more you may never have thought about as a noob like Roland.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Theorycraft Thursdays is offering a little romance advice today for a special listener. Plus they run a wicked combo that Cyphus unfortunately didn't get to listen to before posting this episode because it's like super late already cause Roland posted it late to the show drive and now like Cyphus is running around all crazy-like and just trying to get it uploaded before riots break loose in the proverbial DotP streets but at least he listened enough to figure out that they're offering the romantic advice for one lucky Dota 2 player which is pretty cool and totally serious-like stuff you know. Dota 2 podcast SEO phrases and stuff are going here. P.S. Sorry Ursinity and Proud. <3

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland sit down with the young man behind the new Dota 2 Magazine: Feeders' Digest. Raigor talks getting the magazine started up and joins Cyphus and Roland for an update on State of Affairs.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Wazoo and Flubb tackle another Tryhard Tuesday by first talking about losing streaks before looking at building some various heroes and talking about Flubb's recent success in the Dota 2 Battle Cup.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud joins Cyphus and Roland once again to help them read the latest iTunes reviews of Defense of the Patience, talk the Dota 2 Battle Cup and crack wise on the latest edition of the Dota 2 Podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast DotP offers up a special edition Friday episode talking about being new in Dota 2. We offer up some advice from a variety of DotP hosts. Roland rolls through advice, history, lessons learned and more with Cyphus, Ursinity, Wazoo, Flubb and Proud all on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud and Ursinity are joined by Flubb to discuss aggressive tri-lanes in Dota 2. They discuss Visage and his potential in that position. And then they test out a theorycrafted combo with Visage, Vengeful Spirit and Juggernaut. Find out how they did on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland are joined by Steven "Toffees" Pierce for a new DotPro Show while KBBQ is palling around Disneyland with Wings. Toffees talks his GoFundMe for TI, staying with the DotP crew at the upcoming International, Summit 5 (or is it 2?), and who is looking strong going forward into TI6. All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 Podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Wazoo and Flubb are joined by Ag47 for another look at amateur team-building in Dota 2. They get Flubb's take on the topic and discuss it with Ag. They also discuss the upcoming TI6 and more in this episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Roland and Cyphus talk forming a new Amateur Dota 2 League team, how roles are shaking up, drafting, and playing in the first Dota 2 Battle Cup last Saturday. All this and more in the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Pokemon Go Podcast Ursinity, Cyphus and Proud get together for a talk about their experience playing Pokemon Go. They give their "state of affairs" for the game, give it a thorough review, talk about upcoming changes they've heard of and would like to see, gyms, pokestops, and more. Plus Proud issues a quick correction to some of his comments from Wednesday. The music featured at the beginning and end of this episode is from Dionte Helm, entitled 2phones, and can be found in its entirety on his YouTube channel here: http://youtu.be/jRQpwcH-pBw

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are theorycrafting once again. This week they're talking aggressive dual lanes in Dota 2 and have a new combo to propose: Weaver and Nyx Assassin. Find out how they're running it and what they think you should build on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast A special DotPro Show this week w/ Proud, Roland and Cyphus talking Dota 2 and getting life lessons and Dota 2 lessons from the Theorycraft Master himself. Plus Slark. Cause. Ya know. Roland loves Slark right now.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Wazoo is joined by his new cohost, Flubb! Flubb talks about his history with Dota 2 and Heroes of Newerth, then the duo moves into a discussion about new hero concepts for Dota 2 and talk their first item of the week: infused raindrops! All this and more on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland discuss the Pokemon Go craze at the top of the show. Cyphus is interested but Roland could care less. Then they move into the Dota with a lengthy, two-part State of Affairs discussing their MMR's, the heroes they're playing, and a major disagreement about Timbersaw. Also a lot of Slark talk. Like. A lot. Roland loves the Slark.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast DotP is wishing MistaBlue a fond farewell as he prepares to be a Dota Dad! Cyphus and Roland join Wazoo for Blue's final episode to reminisce about Blue's time with DotP, playing Dota 2 together, and a look ahead at Blue's impending fatherhood. Join us in sending Blue off in truly classy DotP style on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast! Listen to it here!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Proud is happy this week on Theorycraft Thursdays because he gets to spend some time with his one true love: Ursinity. Just kidding. We really mean Lone Druid. Which is tough on Ursinity. Cause he has a thing with bears. This week they run the Proud Druid with Ursinity on a Vengeful Spirit. Find out how the combo did on the latest run of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus sits down with Reaves for a one-on-one interview. They talk Reaves background, his father's death and inspiration for pursuing Reaves' dreams for his career, his days at Dota Cinema, his departure from DC and regrets, and then look forward to the content Reaves is working on now and preparing to debut with Poor Pixels. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast. Listen to it here! *Note, we are having an issue with the Libsyn player. That feature will be restored on this post as soon as the issue is corrected. For now follow the 'Listen to it here!' link above!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are joined by Flubb for a talk about support duos, playing on a team, their TI Qualifier run and more! Then they tackle the lanes with a theorycrafted Bane/Elder Titan support duo to run with an Elder Titan/Bane combo. Find out how it did and what carry they ran it with on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast KBBQ and Shrew are almost back! But we've got one more killer release for you to check out if you've missed any of the DotPro Show content! This gem is an exclusive interview with Misery from Digital Chaos from before the Manila Major. He talks team shuffles, behind the scenes views as only a pro Dota 2 player could, and so much more. Be sure to check out this awesome edition from the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast MistaBlue is having a baby! Everyone here at DotP is wishing him the best, hoping for a happy and healthy baby, and going to miss Blue being part of the DotP lineup of shows. That being said, Blue needs to move on to other projects, namely his new addition to his family and his wife (a woman who agreed to marry a ginger, so she must be a saint!). Before Blue's big DotP send-off next week, we wanted to give you a taste of Blue's first appearance on DotP from May 2015.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland are joined by Evanwood for an outside-the-studio recording session to talk being new in Dota 2, Independence Day: Resurgence and just how shitty it is, sexism in gaming and team dynamics. All this and more in the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are back in action with an episode packed full of Dota 2 goodness. They tackle an interesting topic at the top of the show: draft budgeting in Dota 2. Then they introduce this week's theorycrafted combo: Shadow Demon and Terrorblade. They talk about their builds, items and then take the combo to the lanes! Find out how they did on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Blue and Wazoo talk item paths and stats as well as The International invites. Check out the Tryhards' takes in the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland pick up a Twitter conversation between Cyphus, MistaBlue and friend-of-the-show Fafnir about mainstreaming Dota 2 and how Roland feels it's beating a dead horse. Then they talk some of their Dota 2 state of affairs and Cyphus' delve into Elite: Dangerous with the Thrustmaster.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are trucking along in the new 6.88 meta with their first Theorycrafted combo in the new Dota 2 patch. They tackle Crystal Maiden and Troll Warlord in this latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast KBBQ and Woodshrew are away for one more week, so enjoy this DotPro Show classic episode featuring their in-depth interview with Kyle "Beef" Bautista from team compLexity on the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Blue and Wazoo are joined by Cyphus for a look at their 6.87 predictions, a review of the Manila Major and a look ahead at what 6.88 Dota 2 has to offer.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland release a super-late Monday recording this week for the Dota 2 podcast talking the Manila Major, their current state of affairs and MMR, and get into a discussion on the concept of trenching. All this and some possibly controversial cosplay discussion on the latest episode of the Dota 2 podcast!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are joined once again by a Theorycraft alumni: Flubb! Together, the trio tackle a tri-lane in this week's edition of the Dota 2 podcast. Up this time: Phoenix, Rubick and Juggernaut. Find out how they synergize and how the test game went on the latest episode of Theorycraft Thursday!

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Cyphus and Roland try, and fail, to fill the big shoes left by KBBQ and Woodshrew and discuss the first day of the playoffs at the Dota 2 Manila Major. They talk winners, losers, and their general thoughts about the games and who looks strong going forward. Check it out in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Blue and Wazoo are talking the only thing that matters in Dota 2 right now: the Manila Major. They analyze the group stage results and games, then move on to a preview of the playoffs to come. All this and more in the latest edition of the Dota 2 podcast.

Cyphus and Roland are reunited. They talk Cyphus' trip to Texas, Roland's new fence, the inhouses, the Manila Major and more. Check it out in the latest edition of the Dota 2 Podcast!