Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

Zac and Proud are joined by guest and replacement-Sam Strilling7 to resurrect a dead format and theory craft some Thursdays. Topics include: battlefury abaddon, mechanical vs theoretical fun, multiplicative interactions, and useless bloodseekers!

In which Bee and Ursi discuss Bee's truly marathon Dota binge. Topics include: Winter Wyvern, Venomancer, Hoodwink, Primal Beast, Jakiro (mid and support), Business Proposal, a few questions, and much more!

On this episode Ursi runs a goofy segment entirely to its end. Afterwards Zac uncovers a full-blown conspiracy and we all become truly enlightened of the plight of the Agility core. Full Dota chat starts 16:45, if you are uninterested in Fun.

On this week's Tuesday Show Ursi, Bee, and Proud play a game. Topics include: Nature's Prophet, Tiny & his Agh's, Arc Warden, grouping up, Juggernaut, Winter Wyvern, learning from pros, horses, Elden Ring, Underlord, Orchestrions, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi, Zac, and Proud fight off three vicious Akitas. Topics include: reasons for the current pub meta, Undying, Tiny, Snapfire, Necrophos, Lone Druid, 'Algorithmic Dota', hard & fast rules, and much more!

On this week's Thursday (Friday, sorry!) show Zac and Ursi discuss the new patch and, in particular, the new 7.31b changes! Topics include: Burnout Mode, leading from the 5 position, Naga Siren, Ability draft, Tiny, Primal Beast, Hoodwink, Null talismans, Skywrath, Techies rework, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee, Zac, and Ursi discuss their experiences with the new patch! Topics include: patch bugs, Undying, Aghanims' shard changes, Necrophos, Primal Beast, Venomancer, Jakiro, stack games, Bee's EPIC LAN experience, and much more!

This is Part 2 of our complete, exhaustive (or, as exhaustive as possible) review of the huge new Patch 7.31! Part 1 is all of the general changes and can be found in the same feed! Techies:0-14:20 A:1420-4100 B:4100-10400 C:10400-12300 D:12200-12830 E:12830-13400 G:13430-13530 H:13530-13700 I:13700-14000 J:14000-14200 K:14200-14400 L:14400-15600 M:15600-20730 N:20730-21600 O:21600-22400 P:22400-23430 Q:23430-23500 R:23500-24400 S:24400-30300 T:30300-32330 U:32330-32800 V:32800-33300 W:33300-end

This is Part 1 of our complete, exhaustive (or, as exhaustive as possible) review of the huge new Patch 7.31! Part 2 is all of the hero changes and can be found in the same feed! Primal Beast:0-9:30 General: 22:13 Items: 1:17:00

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Proud balance their Gamer Budgets. Topics include: Obsolete mechanics, Break, Vision changes, ineffective items, strategies to balance mmr differentials, Elden Ring, Ursi winning the least surprising superlative at work, a few specific heroes/matchups, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Ursi, Bee, Zac, and Proud embrace fear and chaos within their small, petty lives. Topics include: 7.31 Fear Lists, a couple Valentines Day segments, Blademail, Radiance, Item upgrades/combos, Nullifier, Spell Lifesteal, Kaya Yasha, Bounty Hunter, Force Staff, and much more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Proud further embrace their intense, bizarre, and seductive dynamic. Topics include: I don't know because they didn't tell me. Enjoy!

On this week's Tuesday Show Proud, Bee, and Ursi lose their minds. Topics include: structural changes to Dota, TA safelane, Lost Ark, stack games with the hosts, delaying BKBs, 'Mea Koopa', an interesting question ABOUT questions, and much more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi develope a recipe for disaster. Topics include: our recent WLDL series, OD, Sand King, Mars, red flags, Marci, dreaming, Dawnbreaker, and much more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Ursi, Bee, and Proud pledge to a life of vampirism, never to see sunlight again. Topics include: the best question ever asked, Terrorblade, Pudge, Phantom Lancer, Viper, Clinkz, Butterfly, Enigma, Kunkka, Storm Spirit, general losing streaks, Witch Doctor, and much more!

On this episode of the Thursday show, Proud and Zac come together to absolutely butcher an opening, resist spending $200, subtly plug the patreon, and more! Topics include: Bristlefury, Arc Warden Carry with or without boots, Rubick 3, what makes a 3 a 3, and playing with people lower rank than you. EDITOR'S NOTE: I am afraid of the power this episode holds. Someone hold me.

On this week's Tuesday Show Zac, Bee, and Ursi make lemons. Topics include: Bane, Broodmother, Tanky heroes in certain roles, Enchantress, Sniper, Bristleback, Lemons, and much more!

On this week's Thursday (Friday) show Zac and Ursi modify their behavior. Topics include: Zac's ranked progress, Arc Warden, Pudges, Ursi playing Invoker on ping with Bee, Negativity, Monkey King 4, Zac's application of theories for improvement, the Major replacements, season 2 of the anime, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Zac, Bee, and Ursi paint with all the colors of the palette. Topics include: balancing greed, Riki, Alchemist, Grimstroke, frisbee golf, lawn darts, Stromae, a recategorization of carries, Zac's winning streak, Ursi's lag, Bee's week, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show a vaguely-alive Ursinity and Zac gather to discuss the recent drama regarding the upcoming Major's cancellation and what that indicates for Dota as both an esport and a game. Topics include: Ursi joining the COVID club, player unions, Eternal Envy, the industry reaction to the major's cancellation, TI prizepool weighting, and more!

In this episode, Bee and Zac set out to truly disappoint and alienate their entire audience. Topics include: Bee's return to Dota, her curse, playing silencer, why games go so long, toothbrush preferences, beans, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi drink blood. Topics include: Playing against lane dominators, Sven, Ancient Apparition, Heart, 3 Kunkka, mid Kunkka, Lich, Bloodseeker, Batrider, hotkeys, an SF game, a few pubs, and much more!

On this year's first Tuesday show Zac and Ursi take a quiz. Topics include: a year-in-review for 2021, our personal 2021 records, goals for next year, and so much more!

On this episode of the Thursday Show Zac and Ursi get out all their bests & worsts from the last year in Dota and elsewhere! Topics include: Zac's viral strategy, Terrorblade, Katanagatari, strategic abandons, 6 platemail Nightstalker, Falcon Blades, Bristleback, Zac the Strategist, Necrophos, Arc Warden, Forsaking certain skills in favor of others, and much more!

Zac has contracted the novel coronavirus COVID-19 so I made him talk for 1 hour straight about Pangolier. It's a good podcast dedicated to a good hero, enjoy!

On this week's Tuesday Show Zac and Ursi discover the magical wonders of carry Zeus, and some other stuff or whatever. Topics include: the new Battle Pass, Aghanim's mode, WLDL series from this past week, Zac's segment 'The Courier and the Supernova', 'Threeable Heroes', flex heroes, Bloodseeker, what 5 heroes we would play if we could only play those 5 for a year, and more!

Ursi and Proud gesture, lunge, and suckle in this 90 minute masterpiece. Topics include: Experiential knowledge vs. specialized knowledge, Silver Edge, Tiny, Ursi's weird new Tinker idea, Aghanim's shards, power runes, Arc Warden, fountain farming, Dragons (and their associated knights), an interesting Drums idea, Faustulus vs. Flavian, and much more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi break things. Topics include: Climbing in sup-700 MMR, taunts, Cakes & Crullers, Shadow Fiend, Sand King, Silencer, Winter Wyvern, Spirit Breaker, always-relevant heroes, and much more

Zac and Bee are joined once again after long absence by prodigal son Proud, who has returned to our sweet bosom. Topics include: Proud's glorious 6 game return, Bee's lack of return, Zac's lack of wins, good heroes to lose and learn on, how to learn heroes, changes to the game, Skywrath Mage, Battlefury, and differences between ranks.

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi explore an exciting week! Topics include: Proud's return to Dota with Ursi, Zac's winning (losing) streak, Grimstroke, Brewmaster, a new Slark build, Aggravating heroes, 'Toot Toot', Tinker, and a segment on stat evaluations between different roles (and their relative values).

On this week's pre-Thanksgiving podcast Zac and Ursi get thankful. Topics include: Dazzle, Anti-Mage, WLDL scrims, Dawnbreaker balance, Ursi's mid drought, League comparisons, Timings, our least bought items, our most bought items, and much more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi win games, lose games, and litigate games. Topics include: Ursi's continued ranked play, Zac's addiction to changing his name (sorry Zac), Ursi getting gaslit by an elephant trainer, Pangolier, loss psychology, Naga Siren, a questionable Ursa build, Spirit Breaker, Non-Role Roles, and much more!

On this week's Tuesday Show (released actually on a Tuesday! What a concept!) Ursi, Bee, and Zac discuss 20,000 various leagues. Topics include: Arcane, Zeus, Ursi & Zac's WLDL update, Bee's recent games, Personality-based roles, Ability draft (and Purge's AD tournament), Dota Math, and much more!

On this week's Thursday (woops, Friday) show Zac and Ursi fix Marci and a slew of other heroes. Topics include: camera control optimization, Marci, Juggernaut, Terrorblade, Carry archetypes, a few game reviews, and much more!

On this week's Tuesday (woops, Wednesday) show Bee, Ursi, and Zac present a vision of the world that is new, beautiful, and revolutionary. Topics include: the Herald smurfing into Immortal top-100 games, Ursi & Zac's WLDL so far, team play & dynamics, setting goals, Ursi's ranked commitment, a couple questions, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi chat about their WLDL team, progress, and finally cover the big smurfing topic we've been meaning to cover in length!

In which Ursi and Zac review the new Dota patch 7.30e, the changes within, and their implications!

In this short episode Ursi and Zac cover the new hero: Marci! Topics include: Marci, Dota trends, carries, role philosophy, the growth of the game, and more!

In which Ursi and Bee talk, sometimes about Dota other times about not-Dota. Topics include: Jakiro, Legion Commander, Silly Story Time, Groupwork, self-centered Dota, Egomaniacal gaming, TI timing, Valorant, Teaching new people the game, Dota Notions, and much more!

On this week's Thursday Show Zac and Ursi discuss, theorize, predict, and other verbs. Topics include: diminishing returns, damage creep, patch predictions, patch timing, CM aghs, Necrophos changes, Marci, healing vs. saves, Tiny, damage dealing vectors, defensive vectors, and much more!

Wee Woo Wee Woo It's a Podcast! Bee, Ursi, and Zac do their exhaustive post-TI review! Topics include: TI drafts, ban phase changes coming, teamfights, what the easiest & hardest jobs at TI might've been, Halloween outfits, the TI viewing experience, menu mishaps, highlights, TI hero pool, Spectre aghs and much more!

On the eve of the most hype day of any Dota player's year, the TI Top Up returns with a vengeance! Guest host A2K joins Zac to go over their expectations for the finals, their feelings about each of the 3 teams, their experience with the tournament so far, and their hopes moving forward. Please don't get mad at me if there are audio issues ursi was gone so I had to try and edit for the first time and my dog refused to shut up. I did my best ok

In which we discuss the most controversial TI question: are the teams that win actually the better teams? Other topics include: Mars trends, loser interview, media training, esports in general, DPC structure, 'pop off potential', Razor, OD, and more!

Zac and Ursi bring home a very scatter-brained, relaxed, TI-filled tuesday show this week. Topics include: TI team opinions, Zac's losing streak, Ursi's hot takes, Ursi's return to Tinker, Arc Warden, linguistics & affirmative statements, panel thoughts, and more!

On today's TI recap show, Ursi comes crashing in to derail this good thing we have going. He joins Zac to chat over results of the Group Stage, hero preferences, games to look forward to, and even make a few predictions on games that you'll definitely want to steal for your compendium.

TI recap: standout games, narratives, and heroes for the third day of TI! Eliminations begin, picks diversify, and more!

TI Top-Up 2: It's Electric On this second episode of the new TI recap show, Zac goes over some of the standout games, narratives, and heroes for the second day of TI group stages.

On this episode of the new TI recap show, Zac goes over some of the standout games, narratives, and heroes for the first day of TI group stages. If you had trouble keeping up with Day 1, this show should help you get your bearings as day 2 comes, and point your focus towards the series most worth watching.

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Zac differentiate between cooks & chefs. Topics include: Razor, lots more Falcon Blade theorycrafting based on some results, Venomancer, Tinker, Elder Titan, 'Hero Knowledge Heroes', Visage, Lina, OD, Brewmaster, Anti Mage Aghanim's Scepter, and much more!

On this week's Tuesday (just kidding, Wednesday) show Ursi and Bee go over some TI predictions with varying degrees of certainty, cover Bee's new love of Shadow Shaman, Ursi playing hardly any dota, TI updates, and much more!