Old player of dota 1. Played SCII unseriously as well as some other strategy loose games. I was a religious player of dota1 for a while but was never into pro gaming or even getting into too many details about dota. Since dota 2 came out I feel much more addicted. I decided to join here to meet some other players at my skill level who will enjoy playing to get better but without any serious raging. I have been playing with friends, but not usually a full team... and Man do those who didn't join with us like (tend) to ruin the game by either feeding, being out of position, generally bad, or communication is bad... even if they are bad I don't mind them as much as the people who rage about picks or something, dont play to win, rage their faces off etc.

Well that is enough of my qq for now. Look forward to meeting some great people.

My name is Josh by the way. Seriouspokemonfan on steam but I play by first name.

I am having this problem game after game. I play with 1-3 friends, and we try not to pick carries since we pick last and well... everyone picks carries... So we usually go support or initiator/tank type roles. This is all good and fun but we really struggle in organizing our team into team fights especially. I think it is due to a lack of communication on a couple different parts. Let me know what you think first about imrpoveing this situation generally, and here is where I think we are struggling:

1) We don't try to boss carries around, and they end up doing their own thing despite pings and efforts to call them to team fight
2) Any team member seems to be confused about who to target or whether to fight or not... one example I can think of is yesterday my bud played panda and I was WD. Panda would initiate and I would stun etc, but the carries got scared of the damage panda took and never helped... as if he cant ult or some crap.
3) supports seem confused about their roles. I end up buying a courier as spectre when i do get a chance to play him... Then during an encounter they just use their spells to nuke for kills rather than stun to slow damage and control etc...

So whats up, is this because of a skill bracket we are in, is this because of us not tellin people who could be less dot educated, are people too self centered, or is this universal in dota 2 pubs? Some of the best dota 2 friends I have added are people who know what they are doing mainly supports who i saw support, carries do their job right, and initiators initiate correctly... I usually get added when I have a lot of kills...

how to stop centaur: no

he has no hard counter anymore. I like naga since net can hold him still for a sec while not being too squishy herself as wel as sleep can stop a team from getting away or engaging you with that hard advantage. heros that can banish him are nice too since he is a hero who is not a good target bc of his massive hp pool.

Thanks for the advice. One thing I took from this is more or less get to know our pubs. I have a lot of friends that play from highschool and a good group of online friends, the timing for login usually splits groups... I'm sure you can relate. No one but me seems to voice communicate (often times), I wish there was more I could do on that end.

My problem is we start games, and our carry will basically have an attitude. The attitude is sometimes we're screwed, you guys suck (usually for a reason that is just plain wrong), or otherwise negative. I can't seem to get a carry that wants to play to win, what a joke. We have lost like 8/10 games this past week we played together and it seems like the same story every game.

And lastly, I will take the advice to finish building a group of friends... It is such a fact that if you have fun and learn losing it isn't such a loss at all.

It definitely depends on how niax and centaur are being played. If a centaur knows he is against a niax and simply saves his ult for mid fight or post initiation (which centaur has the life to do) then he has nothing to fear. Can't stun, ult. Can stun? Stun. Derp.

I can see tidehunter working just because... who screen smash... but even he may have to blink in to avoid stun, stun, DE, any support stun... he should be dead by then. Other good initiators, panda comes to mind, should work pretty well as long as he takes the beating and your team focuses the other carries and supports and worries about centaur last.

So all in all, I agree but with a warning that you will have to be very careful and if you aren't an initiator with blink you will likely need massive hp spare a few hero choices/team compositions. <_< <_<