Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

On this week's Thursday Show Proud, Zac, and Ursi run through the new New Player Experience patch that released mid-podcast and then play a game with a support tidehunter inspired by a couple pro games that makes for easy wins! Topics include: Grimstroke, Tusk, Slacks' tutorial, a very sad Alchemist, and so much more! Survey Link: https://forms.gle/RH61wYZtfJvn6s218

On this week's (Teach Me) Tuesday Show Bee and Ursi gather to make some exciting show announcements, talk about the Dota Tutorial that's now out, and a lot more! Topics include: Tsunami, Juggernaut being banned all the time, Clockwerk, playing with limited hero pools, ranked with stacks, Ursi's recent party wins, carry playstyles right now, Mirana, Phantom Assassin, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi try out a new format: developing new builds in real-time, batting around ideas, talking about the theorycrafting process itself, outlining a few heroes to test out over the next week, crossing potential theories off the list, and plenty more! Some topics include: Leshrac, Kunkka, Mars, Doom, Gyrocopter trends, Slark, which positions are more ripe for innovation than others, theorycrafting limitations, styles, and more! My audio got messed up at the end sorry friends I tried to fix it up

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday we learn about Beedub's great service to our Dota Society and some interesting updates to her hero pool! Topics include: Ursi winning again, Carry Feelings, tiktok recipes, Nyx, 4 Zeus, Shadow Shaman, Silencer, Bee as a burgeoning 4 player, Overwatch system results, Glimmer Cape, Force Staff, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are joined by a special guest, Zac, who introduces us to a numbers-based analysis of Dota in the past vs. Dota now and introduces us to an interesting new mid Dark Seer build he's been working on! Topics include: various Arcane Blink interactions, Ability Draft, Puck, 'Scarcity' as a Dota theme in the past, item balance over time, Tinker, 4 Invoker, Ursi winning again (huzzah), Dark Willow, Seximal systems, Dark Seer, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee bumble around in their regular style that you all know well by now. Topics include: hangovers, Techies (philosophically and otherwise), Ursi's inability to play Bloodseeker, OD, Puck as a 5, Tinker's aghs being fixed, Bee breaking Valheim, swift blink Juggernaut, couriers, cosmetics, the relic changes, Runescape, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi try their best to remain on-topic with Dota but can only control themselves so much before deviating to talk about 100 other things. Topics include: Bee's perspective on the Dota animation series, a quick 7.28c patch review, support mirana successes, VALHEIM, Ursi's success infecting Bee with the kdrama plague, solo ranked experiences, game quality overall, Dark Willow, Nyx, Sange & Yasha, and more!

On this week's show Proud and Ursi discuss the Dota Video Game Animation Series, whether it's an anime (spoiler: it's not), who they want to see in it, what effects they expect it to have on the overall game, and also all kinds of regular Dota conversation! Topics include: the Dota show, 4 Death Prophet, Puck without blink builds, smurfs, Overwatch, the new player experience, possible changes coming to the game in the next few months, 4 Sniper, unsatisfying differences within itemization on carries, Mirana, Spectre, Aghanim's Shards, a very questionable Axe build, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi discuss a bunch of their shared games, some of Bee's work expanding her hero pool, Ursi's frustrations with certain games/heroes, and more! Topics include: Weaver, Mirana, Maelstrom vs. Desolator, Hoodwink's ideal position, Ursi's KotL hate, Anti Mage, Omeleto, Shadow Shaman, stack games, Outworld Devourer (Destroyer? Demolisher? God only knows.), and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi get into a whole slew of different topics, mostly focusing on examining & expanding Bee's carry pool! Topics include: Earthshaker, Drow, Venge, autopiloting in games, driving, who can start with boots, Mirana, Weaver, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi chat about their recent dota games, some trends they're seeing, and end up playing Lycan & Disruptor due to a Jugg ban after a healthy conversation on Jugg builds. Topics include: Spiritbreaker, Nature's Prophet builds atm, Venomancer, Battlefury, role queue supremacy, Ursi returning to solo ranked, Lycan, ending games, hitting a wall, Mirana as a carry, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi talk about everything. Topics include: optimizing your play as a melee 4, Bee & Ursi's stack games, Riki, carry pool options, kill stealing (securing?!), Ursi rejoining solo ranked briefly, Nyx Assassin, and tons more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi theorycrafting many things, not just Dota! Topics include: ideal weapons for TV bullies, Hoodwink (still), 3 Wyvern, Silencer, Riki, the 3 role in its current iteration, Dazzle, Blind vs. Evasion, Warlock, Sand King, Lycan, Puck, and plenty more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi get together and Ursi converts Bee into the cult of Hoodwink Players. Topics include: Bee's truly incredible amount of Dota-playing recently, 5 stack mentalities, Juggernaut builds, learning new heroes as a concept, Hoodwink specifically, greedy supporting, witch blade, hard games, Nyx Assassin, and so much more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi evaluate quite a few different heroes, meta elements, and parse through them like archaeologists with brushes robbing tombs. Topics include: Swift Blink trending, Ursi's hot take about Force Staff, Timbersaw, team comp trends revolving around magic damage & fluidity-of-fighting, Crystal Maiden, Ancient Apparition, Proud's thesis on Necronomicon, a DK build question, OD meteor hammer trends & application, mid Hoodwink, Japanese dramas, and more!

On this week's Teach Me (Wed)Tuesday Proud, Bee, and Ursi gather around a dumpster lit-aflame to talk about a variety of things which are mostly Dota! Topics include: DPC viewing changes, Ursi's Winter Wyvern mid spam, Riki, Bee's Dragon Knight struggles, stack games, Turbo, Techies, Pentaedged Sword-blade-thing, the Cenegenics man, Terrorblade, the wild world of phones, and more! guys going oooOOO weird brits

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi gather around the fireplace to tell a tale of glorious victory against the forces of evil. Topics include: Riki, Ursi's Void Spirit spam, Mirana, Nyx Assassin, Assault Cuirass, the process of 'Girth Leveraging', Proud's undying love of Heart, Dragon Knight, batarangs as a practical weapon, Bane, Lifestealer, and more!

On this week's return to Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to dive further into the new patch, develop some new projects, and more! This week's hero combo is a 3 Bristleback using some of the new items and support Lina taking advantage of Fluffy Hats! Topics include: Riki trends, Troll Warlord Aghanim's Scepter, Death Prophet, no stun offlaners, Abaddon, Shadow Shaman, Sven nerfs, Luna in various forms/positions, elevators, and plenty more!

On this return to Teach Me Tuesday Proud, Bee, and Ursi get together to jump around all their games from the patch and develop their theories on what to make of the patch! Topics Include: various Aghanim's Shards, Terrorblade, Phantom Lancer, Hoodwink, smooth brain positions, Dota Prom, Dota guide critiques, Ogre Magi, Weaver, developing an understanding of the mid pool between niche mids, traditional mids, and more!

In this lengthy segment of our 7.28 analysis, Proud and Ursi run through every single hero change, mostly focusing on the huge new introduction of Aghanim's Shards! We're ranking what is busted, what is situational, what is worthless, and everything in-between! You have no idea how much editing I did so we didn't talk over each other the whole time oh my god I'm gonna die it's like 8 AM here's our patreon pay me for my suffering: https://www.patreon.com/FourthSpirit

In this segment of our 7.28 analysis, Proud and Ursi delve into the new hero, Hoodwink, the small amount of General Changes, and the huge changes to various items, the introduction of new items, the re-orienting of tier lists within neutral tiers, and more!

On this edition of the Weekly Show Proud and Ursi get together to do their final patch predictions and do some theorizing on different concepts, suggest some hero changes, and more! Topics include: Sharpie Theory, Sven, Invoker, Kaya Manta variants, power creep & how to deal with it, the Bar Theory of Strength, Proud's first couple games back playing WLDL with Ursi, and more!

On this week's Weekly Show Ursi and Bee are playing a whole lot of Dota in a whole lot of different ways with a whole lot of different people! Topics include: 5 stack strategies, learning new heroes, teaching friends, Aghanims suggestions, judging game states, OD aghanims, Zeus with aether lens, Leshrac, Manta, WLDL, Dota For Kids, new announcements for Dota, and more!

On this week's so-far-unnamed Weekly Show Proud, Bee, and Ursi combine their brains to optimize their dota games! Topics include: Reintroducing people to Dota, Ursi's WLDL games as a carry, Weaver, Drow, What to do once you've taken the enemy mid tower early, Manta, Sven, Luna, Monkey King, Chess, RTS games, and more!

On this week's Weekly Show Proud and Ursi are at it again doing whatever it is they do. Topics include: the long-awaited Diretide event, cosmetic overload, a Kunkka guide request from a listener, interview shows, the next Dota patch's approximate timing, Ursi getting back into playing more Dota thanks to the WLDL, stupid sexy boats, and more!

On this week's Weekly Show Proud, Ursi, and Bee chat about the new Dota community update blog post, and plenty more! Topics include: Proud's new form of poetry, Ursi & Bee's game, dota 2 pro player trends, recalibration changes, Dota's update schedule, new heroes, the new player experience, Silver Edge, Wait King, Dota Plus changes, Death Prophet, Naga SIren, and more!

On this week's new weekly wednesday show Proud, Bee, and Ursi get together to talk about Dota & everything else! Topics include: ghost hunting in West Virginia, small rotwn living, how the Native Americans were the first Confederates, Genshin Impact, Dota games we played together, Dota Underlords, Bee's weird dreams, The Walking Dead, Ursi's bad relationship with Outworld Devourer, and more!

Ursi and Proud are making a quick (well, not really) announcement of some temporary show changes for the time being given our recent disinterest with the current patch, personal schedules, and other factors. Simply put: we'll be moving to a once-a-week, 3-person podcast format instead of the long-running TcT/TMT split 2-person podcast format. All three of us think that this change will be the best way to make the best shows for everyone, rather than forcing out content that isn't up to our standards. We also talk casually about our gaming philosophies, go a bit more into detail about Dota specifically, talk about other games (Hades, Genshin Impact, Baldur's Gate 3), and some more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi get together to craft the next TI before finalizing it with Valve as the new creative leads. Please pay us, mr. gaben. Topics include: Ursi & Bee getting cheesed by a 5 Dagon comp, next TI predictions, COVID pro dota changes, battle pass retrospective, Alchemist, Phoenix, Genshin Impact, and plenty more! October 5, 2020

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to chat about various Dota things which leads them into a larger conversation about the potential for the next major patch, when it'll come, what changes we want to see, what changes we expect to see, and more! Topics include: Vengeful Spirit, Luna, Luna with a magic build (!), Genshin Impact, Hades, why blocking safelane is potentially lane losing from the get-go, hero pools, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to bask in the glory of Eul. Topics include: Monkey King, Outworld Devourer, Snapfire mid, Snapfire support, Snapfire aghs, Snapfire lore, Snapfire's lizard, Eul's on carries, Batrider, laning dynamics, Hades, and plenty more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee plays an 80 minute game and Ursi and her go through it, figuring out what went wrong, what went right, and more! Topics include: Zeus (surprise, surprise), Dune, dealing with smurfs, Invoker, Bee's upcoming charity PUBG tournament, Nyx, the nature of long games & why the end up as long games, and plenty more

In this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi return to form, playing heroes they love, trying new builds, and thinking about Dota! Topics include: warding value in the current support meta, Hot Wheels, Monkey King, Rapier, Nyx Assassin, Diffusal Blade Winranger, Terrorblade, Mask of Madness carry trends, Dune, How to do literally anything on the map in a stalemate, and tons more! My external cooling fan was on during the recording so my audio is shit but I learned some neat new tricks and got it listenable because that's just how much I care about you ;)

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi offer up approximately 900 opinions, at least 3 of which are guaranteed to make you, specifically, unhappy with us. Topics include: Bee's Phoenix experiment continuing, Sniper, Ursi's vitriolic dislike of Zeus, various food opinions, what the hell Bovril is (?), which dota heroes would be picky eaters, deli sandwiches, what the best vegetable is, and tons more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Ursi is joined by Bee while Proud is on sabbatical, uncovering the mysteries of various tombs. Topics include: 3 position Bloodseeker trends, Bee learning Phoenix, Ursi's experiments with OD as both a 3 and a traditional mid, drafting around unique offlaners, the wonders of Snowdonia, and tons more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi converts Bee into a Phoenix player, also we talk about other things. Topics include: MVP calculations, Venge's laning phase, regional bbq/party games, what heroes are the most universally fun for people, Dota peripherals, Sven issues, Ursi feeding on Axe, Sniper, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to do one thing and one thing only: talk about dota two. What else would we be doing, anyway? You should know what this podcast is by now everybody. Topics include: 7.27d mini patch, Faceless Collaborators, Drow, Dragon Knight, Magnus, experimenting with some Monkey King ideas, our highlights of the new patch, Arc Warden, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi talk about Dota, as always; Ursi has some hot takes, Bee has some developments in her hero pool, and tons more! Topics include: Arc Warden, Venomancer (mid and support), Skywrath Mage, Grimstroke, dealing with Spectre & Sniper, communication nuance, Overwolf, Procrastination, Ursi testing out a few things to vartying degrees of success, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to explore communication in Dota before playing a pub in which Ursi reaches his final form by playing 5 position Tinker. Topics include: Dragon Knight as a carry, Axe as a carry, Arc Warden, Leshrac 5, playing fully muted, All chat, balancing farm around the map, converting core heroes into support heroes, and more!

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HEY FIRST TIME RECORDING AT THE NEW PLACE AND WOULDNT YA KNOW IT OUR AC IS REALLY LOUD BECAUSE OUR LANDLORD IS A PIECE OF SHIT GOD I FUCKING HATE THEM SO MUCH HOLY SHIT CANCEL THE RENT SO I CAN PUT THIS GODDAMN LEECH ON THE STREET I filtered most the noise out but as a result my voice has certain tones removed and it sounds bad but it's this or nothing so don't email my wife On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break into a whole bunch of games, topics, and more after their hurricane-forced week off! Topics Include: Tiny mid builds by Topson, Horizon Zero Dawn, a math-filled evaluation of bottle, Spectre, Sven, Daedalus, Ursi abandoning games, Puck as a 3, Luna, bad support movements being worse than no support movements, and more.

In which Bee and Ursi clock back into the podcasting mines and talk about their last 2 weeks of pubs, life, and everything else! Topics include: books (we're smart now!), Grimstroke, Windranger, magic damage juggernaut, Puck, Amish pretzels, Raddlers, Fall Guys, ranking our 3 Most Fun Supports, Silencer, a few duo queue games Bee and Ursi played together, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get into details about salvaging bad lanes through jungling, jingling our way to victory, and plenty more! Topics include: Magnus mid, Sven, Snapfire, managing counters to various heroes during a draft, Drow wins for Ursi, Omniknight, Glimmer Cape on cores (?!), tangoes vs. salves, Elder Titan, PA as a mid, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee is joined by Ursi to talk about her recent games, his recent games, your recent games, and everything else. Topics include: Immortal 2's, Pugna, Viper, Luna, Drow Ranger, Gyrocopter, Devolution by Max Brooks, Moths, Toxicity in pubs, core Silencer vs. support Silencer, pub team comps, irrational fears, making dumplings, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are joined by Donnie, @ElevatedDota, formerly of Dota Alchemy and Pvgna, to talk a bit about everything Dota-related! Topics include: Viper, Heaven's Halberd's strength right now, Tinker, the updated/changed Bloodseeker, Dota burnout, bracers/wraiths/nulls, Spectre's many itemization options, Tusk as a 5, new Sven, Doom, the content creation process as it relates to Dota, and plenty more !

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi play around with the fun new roguelike game mode, Aghanim's Labyrinth, cover their new business ventures, and also talk a bunch about regular Dota also! Other topics include: a return to mid Juggernaut for Ursi, Aghanim's Labyrinth hero balancing, AL strategies, Void Spirit struggles, Cactus Facts, brains melting, 7.27c patch notes, Axe, and more!

Proud and Ursi pull apart the brand new patch 7.27b in typical Fourth Spirit fashion! There's a whole lot of math, a whole lot of new hero ideas, excitement for nerfs & buffs, and tons more in this very long, complicated new patch!

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On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi develop their understanding of different mid matchups, predict some changes in the next patch, and plenty more! Topic include: Spectre, Drums, Natures Prophet, Ursi gettingh back into Invoker, aggressive mid matchups vs. defensive ones vs. farming ones, playing against Kunkka lanes, item changes, more Tinker from Ursi, Monkey King, new Veil, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi discuss their tons of games in the new patch, 7.27! Topics include: trendy items, trendy heroes, Spectre, Dark Willow, spell lifesteal, mid hero pools, carry Tusk, the new Anonymous feature, the new draft phase dynamics, Helm of the Dominator, Drum, Voodoo Mask, FLEX MONEY, and plenty more!