This can be very efficient on one hand, or desastrous on the other if an enemy catches you off-guard and steals your boots, so only do this if you have rune-control (you know that no enemy picked up an invis rune) and view of every enemy hero with an invisibility ability. This gives you the option to drop your Tranqs, kill a jungle camp and pick them up again afterwards, without the counter being reset by your fighting. Broken Tranquils that you drop on the ground will still count down. This helps to jungle your most important item, the blink dagger, more efficiently. They also give you immense HP regeneration, if unbroken. Tranqs give you great movement speed which'll help you gank. That being said, you're still going to have an easier time jungling with two stouts, instead of going Stout + Ring of Protection immediately. In the jungle, damage ranges get much higher, which means that the positive effects of two stouts are reduced. This, however, is a very optimal situation for having 2 stouts as lane-creeps deal 21 damage, and stouts can block 20, resulting in nearly negated damage. I tested and timed this myself, ingame, using console commands to create lanecreeps. It takes three melee lane creeps ~45 seconds to kill a level 1 Axe with one stout shield AND a Ring of Protection (which you couldve bought instead) It takes three melee lane creeps ~2 minutes to kill a level 1 Axe with two stout shields. This results in an overall higher chance to block incoming damage. If the first shield didnt trigger on the attack it will give the second shield a chance to trigger. If the game realizes one shield effect has been triggered, it will ignore the other shield, but The early, usually uncontested gold in the jungle helps him jumpstart his farm. Axe needs his Blink dagger to be truly impactful, as early as possible. Axe is easy to read and to outplay if you see him coming, until you get your blink daggerĤ. You might get no gold if your enemy is ranged and plays well.ģ. The performance of Axe on the offlane depends highly on if your enemy laner is melee or ranged. The jungle gives me a semi-static (at least more so than a lane) environment, that enables me to perfect my early game.Ģ. I prefer the jungle instead of offlane, because:ġ. I play Axe in the jungle, and so at least the first part of this guide will focus on playing a jungle-Axe. This will not be a guide for the absolute newcomer to DotA 2, but for the person that already knows basic game mechanics and hero skills, and wants to improve their performance with Axe in particular. In this guide I'll first describe how I play Axe in a normal game and why, then I'll share all the general and situational information I have acquired over the many, many games I've played Axe. There's a certain magic to blinking next to an unsuspecting player, and Axe has it all. I love heroes that can blink/need a blink dagger, that can follow up with a stun. It looks flashy, feels satisfying, speeds up your team and therefore encourages further battle, and it has no cooldown, giving you the (admittedly rare) chance to completely obliterate the enemy team.ģ. For me, Culling Blade is the most fun skill in the game. You don't get much manlier than playing the Axe. I mention this so you can measure what level of experience you can expect.ġ. You can find more about Lyadov’s story below.I have, to this day (), played 707 games with Axe, not counting DotA 1 days. Ironically, it wasn’t North Korea but Belarus that proved to be the most dangerous one so far. While in custody, Demidovich met Anton Lyadov, a Russian journalist famous for reporting on the most oppressive governments. Three days later he got released, but he still had to face a trial yesterday. LastHero was later incarcerated and beaten a total of five times during that period. They asked us questions, like who we voted for. Then it turned out they just put us against the wall and we were like that for about 3 hours in the heat, they beat us again with batons on the back and neck several times. They put us in zip ties again, they were so tight that your hands would go numb. They mostly hit me on the back, on the liver, rarely on the head. That’s why they started hitting me I think. They asked me to unlock my phone and asked for the password. Here’s Oleg’s story in his own words from the podcast above: They just zip-tied our hands and threw us face-first in a police vehicle, I got kicked in the face once. If you have any additional information about Oleg's exact location or condition, please let us the moment, all the information we know is set out below. Some time later, his team tried to find more information about his location. Demidovich explained that he went out to see a friend, but both of them were captured by police officers.
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