Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi open their minds' eye by claiming outposts near and far. Our combo we analyze and play this week is carry Tiny with 5 Dark Willow, who complement eachother swimmingly! Topics include: Ursa, Treant Protector, 3 Venomancer, weird hero choices (especially 4's), hero picking order changes, the value of support counterpicks & carry counterpicks, Slardar, Pugna, underplayed heroes, mango tree placement, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi establish that there are no longer any 5's, only 3.5's and 4's with the new Support changes working their way into changing the pub meta! Topics include: Void Spirit, Snapfire, PA being terrible, Pangolier, jungle items, Mask of Madness LD, 4 Luna, 3 Venge, and plenty more!

On this continuation of our review of the huge 7.23 patch notes Proud and Ursi get deeper into the patch after having played a whole lot of games! We're covering the new heroes, new map, new items, new RNG components, specific heroes (notably the very-high-winrate-increase heroes like AM, CM, Venge, LD, etc.), Proud's take on the new (very strong!) Lone Druid, Kunkka's aghs, how supporting has changed already, item equity amongst teammates, and plenty, plenty more!

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On this week's short Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi do their last Teach Me Tuesday of patch 7.22, make their predictions about 7.23 right before it comes out, and talk about other general Dota topics, as always! Other topics include: Butterflies, Dragon Knight as a 3, Techies, Comfort Heroes, Earthshaker, Cramming in a ton of Dota, Kaya item combinations, and more!

On this week's Theory Craft Thursday we rejoice in the coming of a new patch and say farewell to 7.22 and its various iterations! We're chatting about our highlights from the patch, what we learned & took away from our experiences over the last 6 months or so, and plenty more before we play Lifestealer with 5 CM as our final combo of the patch! Other topics include: how much money Valve deserves as tithes, the stompiest heroes, Faceless Void builds, Underlord, Anti-Mage, Ursi's encounter...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi embrace the wonderful land of the offlane, Bee's new home! We get Hot Takes about pro dota, support Abaddon chat, Tidehunter, Earthshaker, courier sniping, the new Pokemon game, which names are the best, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi cover a whole lot, culminating in an extremely long (87 minute!) game for this week which gives us an opportunity to cover super late-game decision making and more! Topics include: 4 Luna, Luna counters, Ursi's WLDL drafting experience, relaxing stack games, support Natures Prophet, 5 KotL, hero removals, hero fusions, 4 men named Joey, picking good heroes vs. picking good teams, CK losses, matchmaking changes, and more! Game Link:...

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On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi confirm what everyone has been thining: boy, this sure does seem like it's gonna be a cult! In addition to affirming all those suspicions we cover: advanced farming patterns, Legion Commander, Lifestealer, Weaver, Spectre maybe being good again (or maybe not), navigating your mid game into a victory, win states vs. lose states, bad tower trades, Chaos Knight, PA, Ursi's WLDL drafting experience, Zeus, the Monty Hall problem, cold brew, child...

On this week's Theorycraft Proud and Ursi console one another and prepare for another 3-4 weeks of this patch's miserable lifespan. Due to this, we decide to get weird and try some new stuff in an effort to entertain our small brains and play carry Doom with support Invoker! Other topics include: the era of weird mids we are curretnyl in, lane domination, Alchemist rearing his head again, low player count, Ursi throwing LC games, how to properly utilize +dmg talents on supports, and plenty...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi cover a little bit of everything! Topics include: seasonal Dota habits, Lich, Venge, Snow, Silencer, Bee living in Italy this whole time, high school jobs for Dota heroes, tower pressure in laning phase & how to execute it properly, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday we're back to our original day and Proud is teaching Ursi the most important points of drafting in this current era of Dota drafting! We're simplifying the daunting process of drafting a full team comp, balancing hero picks at different phases of the draft, and outlining simple guidelines to pick an effective team. Other topics include Skywrath Mage, Phantom Lancer Aghs, mid lion, Chaos Knight itemization, strong offlane duos, Satanic, Dynasty Warriors 8,...

Teach Me Tuesday returns! Proud & Beedub discuss their recent dota games & everyone's favourite skeleman, Clinkz, and what items to build on him, how to use his abilities effectively and how to work with Burning Army. They also chat about why they play dota, when to rotate into other lanes, how to fight a Medusa & predictions on when the next patch will be. Got a question? Send them over to show@fourthspirit.com!

On this week's (final!) Teach Me Thursday Beedub and Ursi talk about their recent successes, plan for the success of their future, and plenty more! Topics include Ursi being punished for his abandonment of his trendy new Jugg build, Bee embracing full-on tech bro life hacking for Dota success, DotP Deep Lore(tm), 5 Stacking and its effects on your play, a whole lot of Terrorblade chat, Anti-Mage, Legion Commander being the absolute GOAT, Morphling tips & picking apart a game, and plenty...

On this week's Theory Craft Proud and Ursi tool around with breaking out from itemization ruts and opening their minds, except 'opening their minds' leads to simplifying every build to 'lets just build a basher'. Other topics include: Lycan, support Puck, Monkey King love, Ursi's recent battlecup, more Juggernaut love, Dark Willow, Drow, and plenty, plenty more!

On this week's Theory Craft Proud and Ursi tool around with breaking out from itemization ruts and opening their minds, except 'opening their minds' leads to simplifying every build to 'lets just build a basher'. Other topics include: Lycan, support Puck, Monkey King love, Ursi's recent battlecup, more Juggernaut love, Dark Willow, Drow, and plenty, plenty more!

On this week's Teach me Thursday, beedub confesses to Proud about her most embarrassing dota habit to date. This episode is all about how to itemize - predominantly in the mid lane. Any questions please email them over to show@fourthspirit.com!

On this week's Theorycraft Proud and Ursi are boarding a train to the nearest village, taking it over, teaching their people to do crimes, and then installing fiber-optic cable to play Dota Two on. Also, we play carry Riki and 5 support Zeus, which is a trip. Other topics include: 3 Lycan, Splitpushing, effective lane farming, clockwork, Phantom Lancer, Spectre, super long games becoming more common, and plenty more!

On this week's Teach Me Thursday Beedub and Ursi create a wild ride of an episode in which, among other things, Beedub gets officially Knighted by the Queen! We're mostly covering the most adult topic: trying to find time to actually play Dota when you're busy as knobs all the time, plus answering a whole slew of questions and bouncing around between topics as usual!