Random Dota 2 Rant

I like to play DOTA 2 once in a while. For those unfamiliar, it's a game where players choose a hero and fight each other to destroy the other team's ancient or throne or whatever.

I play with friends sometimes though I often play alone. I've been meaning to rant about this particular incident and kept this post in the drafts but it's time to let it out.

See this guy? Let me talk about this guy.

His name is Sylla the Lone Druid (used to be Syllabear) and that's his spirit bear (custom skin). He can summon the bear as his first ability and it's no fucking joke; the bear has hit points up to 1400 at level one and can root enemies later as an ability. His other abilities: Rabid and Synergy, increase their movement speed and abilities. His ultimate, True Form, turns him into a bear with toughness and damage to boot. His play style revolves around him and his bear. The spirit bear can entangle opponents and acts as a damage absorber and as another source of damage. It's like having two heroes for the price of one, really. Syllabear is a "carry" hero so he and his bear need a lot of items to be effective in the late game.

Now on to the misery.

So get this; this weirdo guy picks Lone Druid as our only late game carry and demands the middle lane. "Sure." we agreed since he could benefit greatly from the levels and gold in that lane. We trusted the guy and I guess that was our mistake. We should have looked at what he was doing to us. We should have paid attention...

When the mid-game rolled around we were getting pressured at the bottom lane. Just when all hope seemed lost, an orange pip on the minimap showed that Lone Druid was coming to our aid from the jungle! Except the bastard was alone and didn't have his spirit bear.

At first, me and my lane partner thought it was a mistake and he forgot to take his bear with him when he was farming jungle creeps. Alas, the minimap showed that there was no bear in the jungle. There was no bear anywhere at all.

"Oh, he's gonna summon it right now." I thought. No such luck.

My teammate died while LD was busy throwing his sickle shit pretending to do damage. The enemies got away and we lost the tower. I couldn't do anything since I was DAzzle and didn't have a snare and  the damage output of say, a BEAR?

As the game and momentum moved against us, we asked LD plainly, "WHY NO BEAR?"

He didn't answer. I vaguely remember him saying everything was alright. Lord, it wasn't. I looked at his skill build and he had points in everything but Spirit Bear. I know some skill orders are not set in stone and that some asshole probable has a "viable" no bear build or whatever but come on people. Why would you NOT get the goddamn bear? It's like playing Pudge without points in Meat Hook. It's like playing Soccer without kicking the ball. It's like playing Chess without moving your queen. YOU ARE KICKING YOURSELF IN THE ASS. I don't care what people say, not getting the Spirit Bear is a bad idea and this guy was the only late game carry we had. He went AFK too, the corn kernel topping of our shit cake.

I ragequitted. It was the very first time I did so in DOTA 2. I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination but I wish people who pick a hero have some idea of what they're getting into. I mean come on! All promotional material of Lone Druid show him with his bear. All pro games with Lone Druid have him rolling with his bear at level one. They should have kept the BEAR in SyllaBEAR so people could get a fucking clue!. He's all about bears Goddamnit. BEARS!

 

Fuck.