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Dire Wolf

    The more they stay the same? check out most played 6.83c and 6.84.

    http://www.dotabuff.com/heroes/played?date=patch_6.83c
    http://www.dotabuff.com/heroes/played?date=patch_6.84

    Top 5 is same heroes just shuffled around a bit. Top 10 is almost same too, four heroes swapped spots, but not even that much. Troll dropped most from 5th to 18th, riki drops from 8th to 13th but really by only a handful of matches. Biggest jump is spirit breaker up from 18th to 8th. Lina from 14th to 7th. Windranger and storm spirit are still just outside top ten. Only other huge change is alchemist from a never played hero to a top 15 hero. Other than that it looks like same picks as ever.

    I mean really alchemist fotm replaces troll fotm and that seems like only change. Is it kind of sad? Or is it more bracket dependent with a huge number of 2k players still spamming snipers and shit? I mean I have only played like 7 matches since patch but I haven't seen a sniper picked yet. I'm 3500.

    Some of the positions might shift around a bit cus top 3 are all pretty close played game numbers and top 10 outside of that are, but I think the ratios are enough we can assume sniper and pudge will remain top 3 picks this entire patch.

    Do you find this refreshing or distressing? I mean ice frog really tries to provide us new ways to experience dota but it feels like vast majority want to pick the same boring heroes time and time again.

    Last picking is 4 pussies

      Surprised the biggest jump wasn't undying.

      Dire Wolf

        Well I didn't look at any jumps outside of like top 15 ish. I mean someone dropping from like 25 to 40 isn't that exiciting. But undying's pick rate went from 9.59 to 9.95. His win rate jumped a ton, but not picked any more. I think dota players just stuck in their ways.

        Pom Pom 🍕

          It's sad alchemist being so much popular since he's still normally a freebie for the enemy team of alch.

          I've not seen sniper either, surprised he's still top. His winrate has lowered greatly though, holy shit.

          Dire Wolf

            It dropped almost 7% from about 54 to 47, but it's not as drastic as that since his lifetime rate is 50% and he's always hovered right around 49-51% nearly every patch. Really the 54 was artificially high cus he was overbuffed.

            Androgynous

              he's prob only picked in the lower skill brackets frequently these days

              Ath[e]isT

                Shit stain 2k MMR scrubs have always spammed sniper and pa this is nothing new same shit even back in the day on dota 1...... Its just that they actually made sniper a decent pick now....