General DiscussionHow to stop a roaming tusk?

dont show yourself

I was at mid, so I called all the misses, but he'd go behind the tier 1 , and he snowballed legion in, so insta hit and then legion would duel them.

map awareness, just dont show yourself

Thats for me, if he's farming kills on team, how do I stop him once he starts snowballing (metaphorically)

he wont start snowballing if people hide and dont give him ez gold and exp every time he tries something

idk how old you are but its basic math!

hes a ganker, he gets nothing if he cant do shit if theres no one around, you also lose shit but your teammates get this, repeat and repeat on ther lanes and the only one not getting old/xp is tuskar and the more you delay it the easier it is to deal with him

Can you link the game btw?

He eats up players who have bad positioning and map awareness for breakfast. Just stay close to towers when you get the feeling he's around, or farm in a warded area, maybe get some ancients, i dunno. But just ask yourself " Okay i see tusk. Am i in snowball range? Does he have a team mate near him who he can put inside his snow ball? Is his body language obvious, and does something seem fishy, like he's waiting for a teammate to come so they can go on me? what items does he have?"

Benao the jerk is right, there's nothing else you can do to get away from his snow ball besides map awareness and good positioning aka not being out in the open. Lots of Tusk end up really under leveled cause they can't find anything.

@benao

You haven't seen the last of me ! Our paths will cross again you bastard! O_O

I've been on complete tilt so I'm just grinding out these games with dotabuff hidden. Ill find the ID once dotabuff stops not working for me. It's weird, everything is white, no background and just hyperlinks everywhere

Bait him

Get 2 teammates to wait near tower and wait for him to snowball then run to your teammates. Since he can't stop the snowball you can get him out of position and burst him pretty easily. If you have shitty teammates all you can do is farm and hope you can make the game long enough for him to become irrelevant.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1628500674

This game, I decided to go mid, and asked for it and fucking drow just decided to dual lane. She left after a minute tho.

next game I got malaysians in SEA who were just pinging me nonstop and kept taking my farm. After I was farming top and they missed a kill on invo, they called me noob so I was done, just decided to afk farm jungle till game was lost.

I'll probably switch dotabuff on on tuesday, my friends from uni comeback and by then i should've played out my tilt games

Benao: I died 1 time to tusk that game, it wasn't me who kept getting killed.

First 15 minutes i think LD died 3 times and lycan died 4 times to tusk

Ok if tusk has little kills you tp in when he dives a lane (ideally under tower) and stun him -> turn the gank around

If he has a lothar you need to get ur team to 5 man, rosh, etc (only works if teamfights are winnable)

If he has a lothar and teamfights aren't winnable you need to 5 man sit in base, farm incoming creeps, smoke for 1 pickoff then rosh

Obviously all of this is not always possible so the solution is to rape him in lane and pick heroes that heavily punish early dives

He got a 14 minute deso IIRC

If you're anywhere near a tower or teammate tusk by himself shouldn't be able to instagib you. tusk players are super predictable, with a decent amount of warding you'll either starve him of kills or keep it to a minimum.

if he does manage to get so far a ahead that he's 1 shotting cores, you'll just have to group up

14 min deso ontop of boots still only about 350gpm, if your other lanes arent completely rekt you can just tp and kill him. otherwise just give up towers/map area until you have numbers advantage again.

Yeah that's what I was doing at mid, I kept farming and i got the tier 1, but they kept getting fucked by tusk :/

One tip is that Tusk falls of hard late, so you have that going for you.

LOL maybe need to take a break, every time i call mid, theres always one other person who acknowledges it , but still says "fuck it dual lane my mid" so im done.

I'm not backing down id lose idgaf anymore xD

gonna lose most of my games anyways

^ Tilt mode activated, don't give in

yeah i try to be nice every game and not let it carry over.

I called mid, instant pudge picker says im dendi i mid

decides to dual lane, i say fuck this give him lane, hes like i dont want anymore and goes offlane, and thats how we dont have a mid lane for 10 minutes

and ofcourse hes not dendi, he hit 6 hooks in the entire game

dual lane mid w pudge workeda few times for me. most of the time pudges dont do anything in mid except sit back and try to hook anywaY

This one tried, but he also kept fucking up my last hits, and top with axe undying looked promising and went well early on, we got a few kills

Winter Wyvern is probably good too

its so much better when he roams mid with cm and slard + enemy sf and youre 4v1, die 3 times because hell, i died almost near t2 without vision since min 0 and all team go "ez mid gg wp ff"

I've disliked playing against wyvern's , even the most brain dead wyvern's know to heal the carry, and my team lineups are generally very physical dmg based, so we can't kill them off.

But yeah tilt mode overdrive lately.

lmao clearly u haven't seen the wyvern that traps u with his heal and enemies end up catching up to u

I rarely support but when I do it's usually cm , I may have to give Wyvern a shot.

i hate when im playing vs wr and i get away with low hp, i can escape, and ww "heals" me, then wr powershots me. a very easy powershot that i could dodge ez. this is annoying. and happens way too often. every game with wr and ww.

The most broken hero in current patch. It's really hard to play against him. Retardly broken shit.

tp support

Just counter gank him using your teammates as bait. I just duo mid if someone wont give it up and just out last hit him. If he is good we get kills and if he sucks I just farm and prevent him from feeding