The Weekly CourierValve Releases 7.19c, Ranked Role Matchmaking Comes To Dota Plus, and Rosters Finalize Before Lock
Patch 7.19c Unleashes Nerfs On Meta Heroes
As the community continues to wait for a post-TI patch that would reset the meta, Valve released patch 7.19c. It may take some more time for the usual upheaval with a mega patch, but this minor one still doles out significant changes to a meta that sees nearly Wraith King or Spectre every other game. Those two heroes got the brunt of the nerfs, with their winrates dropping close to 5% in the days following the release. Grimstroke also had his Ink Swell reworked to be a more offensive spell. The consequences of those changes are still to be determined, and we'll be following up with a more extensive recap soon.
Ranked Role Matchmaking Comes to Dota Plus
In-game tipping, select Sound Effects, and Ranked Role Matchmaking--formerly Battle Pass features--have now moved over to Dota Plus. While Ranked Role increases queue times, mostly for position 1/2 players, the community has clamored for the feature to stay after the expiry of the Battle Pass. With Ranked Role being a paid feature, the paywall presumably deters smurfs, boosters, and toxic players--with nicknames like "mid or techies" or "offlane or riki jungle"--who wind up sabotaging their team when they don't get their desired roles.
The feature would aim to benefit players in the middle tier of MMR, when players don't necessarily fall into expected roles. A detriment to pre-determining roles is removing those opportunities where players learn something by moving out of their comfort zone. Playing a different role, sometimes by necessity of the team, creates a more versatile player base. Cores who play support, at lower tiers, can have greater empathy on the difficulty of warding. For now, the incentive to play support, for core players, is that queue times are significantly shorter. It wouldn't be surprising for Valve to throw in some shards in a future quest reward. Another reason, perhaps more virtuous, is that playing different roles creates better Dota players.
Rosters Finalize As The Next Dota Season Begins
This week marks the roster lock period before the beginning of Season 2. Some of the most recent developments include:
- NiP, Ninja in Pyjamas, comes back to the Dota scene with ppd and a few former Team Secret members. The final roster: Ace, Fata, 33, Saksa, and ppd.
- With Optic Gaming not picking up a roster yet for the season, Zai has returned to Team Secret. Their new roster; Nisha, MidOne, Zai , Yapzor, and Puppey
- EternalEnvy joins Complexity--this time as a support player. Rounding out the rest of the roster: Skem, Limmp, Sneyking, and Zfreek.
- Fnatic, with the departure of Envy, Universe, and pieliedie, pick up iceiceice and Jabz from Mineski and former MVP player, MP. Rounding out the last two spots are Dj and Abed from the previous lineup.
Such an interesting way to patch a game. They really went all out since the next big tournaments are far away and TI has ended!
Oh no, wait, they are doing the most lazy, boring updates.
when you already made a topic but you still want to whine like a little b***ch
I'm pretty sure a comment like "first lel" would have been more constructive.
And you are not being cool by writing in an edgy flaming manner, so you can just keep it shut too, if you can't stay on topic.
Don't say this of Grimm, he has half a dozen youtube subscribers and even features a cartoon avatar! He'll make short work of you.
AAAAH SKELETON KINGGG....
I am really happy with the inclusion of ranked roles especially to Dota plus, saves a lot of time on confusion about the roles, besides you have no idea how hard it is to supp those good for nothing carries who dies under our wards and then asks for more wards without even understanding how smoke works or even noticing the missing notification, in fact gold management is a huge plus in ranked roles and besides easy to boost using supps and offlaners, seriously I love this update.
I think they nerfed all the op heroes.
there was nothing good in this patch
at least we can watch some regional qualifiers in the meantime
Pay money. Again...
whats next? pay to get better behavior score? pay so that openai bot can raise your mmr for you? all with dota plus
oh yes, i bet you guy wish ranked roles would be free so trolls and stupid players could find on it normally. dota is free and just plays the ranked roles who wants to. do you want a game to survive by givivng the community only free content? lol. come on guys, i know y'all got a brain.
p2w in acSsion
Yeeeah
What do you expect from a Morphling spammer, only plays carries (even plays his earth spirit as core), cry baby? Literally the type of player I pray I don't run into every game.
Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh
at least those ruiners pays for ruining my game lol
what about D+ detection on accs in dbuff?
ranked roles is the best thing to happen to dota
click on support for faster queue time.
Then pick carry.
profit.
N0tail became support = win ti8
Envy became support = kappa
Не плохо