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$wolE — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:18:56 +0000

Thanks again to everyone who shared my blog last week. As of this morning I'm now an official member of Gosugamer's DotA 2 Editorial team!

New Blog Post for the End of June Meta Standings

$wolE — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 01:42:27 +0000

https://8katheart.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/dota-2-end-of-junejuly-meta-update/

New Blog

$wolE — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:51:08 +0000

Hey Guys, I'm trying to get a job writing about, or possibly casting DotA, so I started a Blog/website for myself. If you would like to follow me and share it to your steam friends that might be interested, Ill be eternally greatful. Go check it out and tell me what you think. My Manila major predictions are currently posted up right now.

Blog url:
https://8katheart.wordpress.com/

Thanks Eveybody!

"Mortem in Tenebris" and stay frosty friends.

- ZM.SwolE

ZeroMeta CSGO Team

Tony Rigatoni — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 06:37:03 +0000

Good job tonight everyone, we played a great run. Keep it up, We will be climbing the boards in no time. I've seen everyone improve amazingly over the last few months, let's keep improving our game in every area we feel lacking. I want to get in some extra practices in the near future to build on our weakpoints. Practice isn't fun and I don't want people to feel like it's a waste of time. Already i've seen a huge difference to our strategies after we've practiced them over and over, and I know we will only get better after a practice session, so I will work to organize more. We have alot of strengths on this team, lets keep using them. The most important thing we can do right now is to keep our heads up after a loss. Relax, shake it off, and be ready to win the next. I love playing with you guys, by far the best people i've met so far here. Looking forward to hoppin on and dominating the next time. Till then, lets all practice our game, do what you can to be the best you can be.

BulletMagnet

Message to Everyone

FlashNBullet — Fri, 27 May 2016 01:22:24 +0000

DOTA: This weekend I'm going to spend a good chunk of time making some videos for our teams. For the Dota team i need to be sent clips or demos of highlights for you guys (Swole if you could get these for me that would be great). Otherwise send me links on discord to the clips, or get me a whole demo file. The first video will be like the one I previously made for CSGO, introducing the players with highlights and such.

CSGO: I'm gonna start working on a clip of the week to put up next week, and i also want to start doing player specific videos. So if you have a few good matches in the upcoming days or have some from the past week or so, link me to the demo on discord and tell me the round it was in.

I need these clips from everyone by the very latest Saturday if I want to finish these by the end of the weekend, but if we can't get it to happen ill work on it more.

If you guys have any questions feel free to shoot me a message on steam or discord, and ill reply when i can.

Go ZeroMeta
-Flash

Heroes to work on.

$wolE — Fri, 20 May 2016 05:42:19 +0000

Halim and Freequence, please start practicing the following heroes:

Dark Seer

Beastmaster

Ancient Apparition

Bat Rider

CSGO Team Spray Control Practice

FlashNBullet — Sat, 14 May 2016 08:56:46 +0000

Hey everyone, I want us to not only start practicing our strats for comp, but we also need to work on bettering our sprays. Whenever you guys have free time download the Recoil Master map from the workshop and start practicing our sprays. I want us all to practice with the AK, M4, and M4S , but any other weapons you normally use practice as well.

Practice Guidelines:

Do 3 sets of 10 total sprays(10 x clip size) with ghost dot on , then do 10 sprays without the dot for each gun you want to practice with.
Practice the sprays at close, medium, and long ranges (3 sets total)
The goals are to have 50% average accuracy at medium range with all 3 rifles. 30% at long range with AK and M4, 40% for M4S. Close range is up to you to decide, and decide for other weapons as well. (This is for sprays with Ghost Dot off)
Also try with the moving target equipped in the map.
The map will calculate accuracy, amount of bullets fired, etc.
Have Fun, practice doesn't have to be boring.

Happy Training
- Flash

DotA 2 Week of 12 may METAgame rundown

$wolE — Fri, 13 May 2016 01:58:36 +0000

Hey guys, since I watch a vast majority of the pro DotA games each week, I thought I would begin to do a rundown of the heroes in the current pro meta at the end of each week. I cover each category of heroes (Carry, mid, and support) and talk about the heroes currently rising, in, and falling from the meta and why I think they are in their current state. Hopefully you all can take time to read this and it will help you in your games, as many parts of the pub meta tend to be influenced by professional DotA. I’m considering doing this meta review weekly, if you think I should and it will be beneficial to you all let me know!
- ZM.SwolE

Carry Heroes

Rising:

Lycan – After dropping off the last few weeks Lycan seems to be making a return to the safelane, for teams like Newbee, Virtus Pro, NaVI and Liquid. Usually being picked in conjunction with a natures prophet offlane for push linups.

Legion Commander – Not sure why, as her winrate is abysmal (every game I’ve watched this week she’s lost) but legion is starting to see some time in the safelane during Epicenter. EG and Virtus Pro picked her in the group stages.

Faceless Void – Starting to be picked as a safelane carry more and more with the radiance build

Meta:

Sven – somehow still in the meta even with buffs to other heroes, Sven’s flash farming potential and the introduction of the new echo sabre has kept him firmly in the meta, favored more by north American teams

Slardar – armlet has once again made this hero a tier one pick/ban safelane carry

Spectre – Still a solid pick for a lategame team fight strat even with slight nerfs, slightly decreased popularity due to teams favoring the new pushing linups, but still firmly in the meta.

Slark – Already in the meta before the new patch, echo sabre was made for slark and he got no noticeable nerfs in 6.87c

Mirana – if her team controls the jungles, an aghanims rush gives mirana alchemist radiance like farming potential, plus moonlight shadow plus starfall is a free gank kill at level 6

Falling:

Ursa – Picked only once last week, the days of Ursa being a tier one carry in the professional meta are over. Sven does everything the hero does only better and with better late game and pushing potential.

Natures Prophet - picked only once in the safelane last week. Unless you are Navi or OG, the nerfs to natures has moved him in the professional meta from a safelane carry to an offlane ganker/pusher.

Mid Heroes

Rising:

Storm Spirit – bloodstone buffs make storm viable situationally once again. He has been picked by Complexity once, Alliance once, and EG twice this week with a 50% win rate. The new build is to rush bloodstone forgetting orchids or going back for it later. Look to see if the hero continues in popularity or fades away next week.

Death Prophet – fell out of the meta completely with OD after the new patch dropped, now returning once people have begun to realize even with the nerfs to spirit siphon, her ultimate still rips through towers like they are paper. Picked in pushing linups frequently this week,

CSGO Team Scheduled Practice

Tony Rigatoni — Wed, 11 May 2016 23:43:48 +0000

This Thursday, 5/12/16, The Counter-Strike teem needs to get together to run through practice scenarios and strategies. Tomorrow, we will be focusing on ZeroMeta's default CT setup for Mirage, Dust 2, and Cache, as well as taking sites on T side for those three maps. This is a crucial step to moving forward and winning games, so please message me if you feel you are unable to attend. Please be prepared to be ready around 8pm CST or later if need be.

In the future, there will be a more coordinated effort to find a night everyone is available to go over certain strategies to use during comp.

Gameplan for the Next few weeks

$wolE — Wed, 11 May 2016 03:26:32 +0000

DotA 2 team,
If you are listed as a member or standin on the zero meta page for DotA 2. within the next 3 days, (preferably sooner than later) I need you all to PM me on discord a list of at least 5 no more than 10 heros you feel VERY comfortable playing in order of comfort/how good you are with them IN THE POSITIONS you play for the team. This is so Marti and I can start developing strats gameplans and assign you all new meta heroes to work on. Remember make your list for the position you play in the team please.

If you are serious about being on the team you need to do this within the timeline. Once i get everyones list, im going to post them all in a google doc we can all observe and edit hopefully.

Thanks all, We have some great things coming up this summer for Zero Meta!

- SwolE