I'd like to join up with you for this. Will you be in mumble?

Hoping its not in poor taste to add myself, but...

Name: Love is Dead
Age: 26
Role: Support
Experience: Got in sometime around January, played strategy games since C&C 1, but no other MOBA experience.

1. Farmville
2. Peggle Extreme
4. Bejeweled

I have actually spent an embarrassing amount of time playing each game.

I like the game where you identify voice actors playing as various characters. Here's what I've got so far:

Pudge - Sniper from TF2
Tinker - Scientist from Half-Life


Also, found a few quotes taken from TF2

Sniper:
Dota 2 - Thanks for standing still, ganker
TF2 - Thanks for standing still, wanker

Riki:
Dota 2 - Cloaked and Daggered
TF2 - One of the Spy's cloaking watches is called the Cloak and Dagger

That's all I can remember off the top of my head. Anyone else find some other references?

I just want to point out that counter-picking is not simply about picking one hero against another, but properly setting up an entire team to work against the opposing team. The counter to AM is to stop his farm, not just picking a hero that works well against him. Keep in mind that a lot of items can makeup for an effective counter if you don't have the right team setup. For instance, SENTRY WARDS AND DUST OF APPEARANCE.

Shallow grave takes a good amount of practice, and its only 5 seconds, and its wasted if you cast it on the 5 seconds before he is in danger of dying, so you have to make sure that whatever fight you are in Huskar is the last one standing at the end of those 5 seconds or he'll just go down.

I just want to make sure, even if its above their heads in terms of skill level, that players realize X + Y = Z strategies are inherently flawed in that they are not dynamic and can be capitalized on if not done properly, and that there is no single or best ABSOLUTE answer to any situation. This is why heroes go through fads in pro leagues. If there was a definite answer that added up to the best team picks, there would be no change in hero selection.

Windrunner/Vengeful Spirit - Shackle/powershot followed by Magic Missle is a ton of stun and damage early levels.

Trying to think of more...

What about Zeus/Kunka? Frigging chain lighting plus that god-damn sword-shot means you get no where close to the creeps as a melee.

I need to compile a list of essential terminology for new players, and I need some help with it. Could you guys help me build it? I'll start:

Farm - The gathering of either gold, experience, or both.

Last hit, Coin shot (LH,CS) - The final attack by a hero on a neutral or enemy creep which yields gold to the hero.

Deny - The final attack by a hero on a friendly creep which yields half of the normal experience for the kill to the enemy team

Creep stacking - Pulling a neutral creep camp at the :53 second mark away, so that at the 1:00 mark another set of neutral creeps has spawned, and the original creeps stack on top of the new ones.

Creep blocking - Using your hero to block the first creep wave walking down the lane thereby slowing their approach and pulling the front-line closer to your tower.

The rough draft of the intro section is complete, aside from the terminology which we will build over time. Now I need to reread, edit, add pictures, and then its ready to be published.

I had some limited access before, but I think its now fully there. How do you want me to add these? Do you want me to just put them in a new category?

Picture isn't coming up. Is that D3?

I only have the authority to make posts, and not pages. You aren't referring to posts, right?

Chemist. Artist.

Complimentary color to green is red, so we can work with that and either a black, grey, or brown background. I'll see if I can throw somethign together, but I'm terrible at design.

I'm going to make a thread where everyone can post their replays. I haven't had many to work with recently, but if you upload it, I'll do it.

Awesome. I'll work on this as soon as the item database is finished.

I have a guide already. Replay number doesn't work for non-MM games. I'll post the instructions along with the thread.

EDIT: From a while ago: http://board.dotanoobs.com/thread.php?id=28