Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

On this week's Thursday Show Proud, Zac, and Ursi run through the new New Player Experience patch that released mid-podcast and then play a game with a support tidehunter inspired by a couple pro games that makes for easy wins! Topics include: Grimstroke, Tusk, Slacks' tutorial, a very sad Alchemist, and so much more! Survey Link: https://forms.gle/RH61wYZtfJvn6s218

On this week's (Teach Me) Tuesday Show Bee and Ursi gather to make some exciting show announcements, talk about the Dota Tutorial that's now out, and a lot more! Topics include: Tsunami, Juggernaut being banned all the time, Clockwerk, playing with limited hero pools, ranked with stacks, Ursi's recent party wins, carry playstyles right now, Mirana, Phantom Assassin, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi try out a new format: developing new builds in real-time, batting around ideas, talking about the theorycrafting process itself, outlining a few heroes to test out over the next week, crossing potential theories off the list, and plenty more! Some topics include: Leshrac, Kunkka, Mars, Doom, Gyrocopter trends, Slark, which positions are more ripe...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday we learn about Beedub's great service to our Dota Society and some interesting updates to her hero pool! Topics include: Ursi winning again, Carry Feelings, tiktok recipes, Nyx, 4 Zeus, Shadow Shaman, Silencer, Bee as a burgeoning 4 player, Overwatch system results, Glimmer Cape, Force Staff, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are joined by a special guest, Zac, who introduces us to a numbers-based analysis of Dota in the past vs. Dota now and introduces us to an interesting new mid Dark Seer build he's been working on! Topics include: various Arcane Blink interactions, Ability Draft, Puck, 'Scarcity' as a Dota theme in the past, item balance over time, Tinker, 4 Invoke...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee bumble around in their regular style that you all know well by now. Topics include: hangovers, Techies (philosophically and otherwise), Ursi's inability to play Bloodseeker, OD, Puck as a 5, Tinker's aghs being fixed, Bee breaking Valheim, swift blink Juggernaut, couriers, cosmetics, the relic changes, Runescape, and more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi try their best to remain on-topic with Dota but can only control themselves so much before deviating to talk about 100 other things. Topics include: Bee's perspective on the Dota animation series, a quick 7.28c patch review, support mirana successes, VALHEIM, Ursi's success infecting Bee with the kdrama plague, solo ranked experiences, game quality over...

On this week's show Proud and Ursi discuss the Dota Video Game Animation Series, whether it's an anime (spoiler: it's not), who they want to see in it, what effects they expect it to have on the overall game, and also all kinds of regular Dota conversation! Topics include: the Dota show, 4 Death Prophet, Puck without blink builds, smurfs, Overwatch, the new player experience, possible changes comi...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi discuss a bunch of their shared games, some of Bee's work expanding her hero pool, Ursi's frustrations with certain games/heroes, and more! Topics include: Weaver, Mirana, Maelstrom vs. Desolator, Hoodwink's ideal position, Ursi's KotL hate, Anti Mage, Omeleto, Shadow Shaman, stack games, Outworld Devourer (Destroyer? Demolisher? God only knows.), and m...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi get into a whole slew of different topics, mostly focusing on examining & expanding Bee's carry pool! Topics include: Earthshaker, Drow, Venge, autopiloting in games, driving, who can start with boots, Mirana, Weaver, and more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi chat about their recent dota games, some trends they're seeing, and end up playing Lycan & Disruptor due to a Jugg ban after a healthy conversation on Jugg builds. Topics include: Spiritbreaker, Nature's Prophet builds atm, Venomancer, Battlefury, role queue supremacy, Ursi returning to solo ranked, Lycan, ending games, hitting a wall, Mirana as a...

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi talk about everything. Topics include: optimizing your play as a melee 4, Bee & Ursi's stack games, Riki, carry pool options, kill stealing (securing?!), Ursi rejoining solo ranked briefly, Nyx Assassin, and tons more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi theorycrafting many things, not just Dota! Topics include: ideal weapons for TV bullies, Hoodwink (still), 3 Wyvern, Silencer, Riki, the 3 role in its current iteration, Dazzle, Blind vs. Evasion, Warlock, Sand King, Lycan, Puck, and plenty more!

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi get together and Ursi converts Bee into the cult of Hoodwink Players. Topics include: Bee's truly incredible amount of Dota-playing recently, 5 stack mentalities, Juggernaut builds, learning new heroes as a concept, Hoodwink specifically, greedy supporting, witch blade, hard games, Nyx Assassin, and so much more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi evaluate quite a few different heroes, meta elements, and parse through them like archaeologists with brushes robbing tombs. Topics include: Swift Blink trending, Ursi's hot take about Force Staff, Timbersaw, team comp trends revolving around magic damage & fluidity-of-fighting, Crystal Maiden, Ancient Apparition, Proud's thesis on Necronomicon, a...

On this week's Teach Me (Wed)Tuesday Proud, Bee, and Ursi gather around a dumpster lit-aflame to talk about a variety of things which are mostly Dota! Topics include: DPC viewing changes, Ursi's Winter Wyvern mid spam, Riki, Bee's Dragon Knight struggles, stack games, Turbo, Techies, Pentaedged Sword-blade-thing, the Cenegenics man, Terrorblade, the wild world of phones, and more! guys going oooOO...

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi gather around the fireplace to tell a tale of glorious victory against the forces of evil. Topics include: Riki, Ursi's Void Spirit spam, Mirana, Nyx Assassin, Assault Cuirass, the process of 'Girth Leveraging', Proud's undying love of Heart, Dragon Knight, batarangs as a practical weapon, Bane, Lifestealer, and more!

On this week's return to Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to dive further into the new patch, develop some new projects, and more! This week's hero combo is a 3 Bristleback using some of the new items and support Lina taking advantage of Fluffy Hats! Topics include: Riki trends, Troll Warlord Aghanim's Scepter, Death Prophet, no stun offlaners, Abaddon, Shadow Shaman, Sven nerfs, L...

On this return to Teach Me Tuesday Proud, Bee, and Ursi get together to jump around all their games from the patch and develop their theories on what to make of the patch! Topics Include: various Aghanim's Shards, Terrorblade, Phantom Lancer, Hoodwink, smooth brain positions, Dota Prom, Dota guide critiques, Ogre Magi, Weaver, developing an understanding of the mid pool between niche mids, traditi...

In this lengthy segment of our 7.28 analysis, Proud and Ursi run through every single hero change, mostly focusing on the huge new introduction of Aghanim's Shards! We're ranking what is busted, what is situational, what is worthless, and everything in-between!   You have no idea how much editing I did so we didn't talk over  each other the whole time oh my god I'm gonna die it's like 8 AM here's...

In this segment of our 7.28 analysis, Proud and Ursi delve into the new hero, Hoodwink, the small amount of General Changes, and the huge changes to various items, the introduction of new items, the re-orienting of tier lists within neutral tiers, and more!

On this edition of the Weekly Show Proud and Ursi get together to do their final patch predictions and do some theorizing on different concepts, suggest some hero changes, and more! Topics include: Sharpie Theory, Sven, Invoker, Kaya Manta variants, power creep & how to deal with it, the Bar Theory of Strength, Proud's first couple games back playing WLDL with Ursi, and more!

On this week's Weekly Show Ursi and Bee are playing a whole lot of Dota in a whole lot of different ways with a whole lot of different people! Topics include: 5 stack strategies, learning new heroes, teaching friends, Aghanims suggestions, judging game states, OD aghanims, Zeus with aether lens, Leshrac, Manta, WLDL, Dota For Kids, new announcements for Dota, and more!

On this week's so-far-unnamed Weekly Show Proud, Bee, and Ursi combine their brains to optimize their dota games! Topics include: Reintroducing people to Dota, Ursi's WLDL games as a carry, Weaver, Drow, What to do once you've taken the enemy mid tower early, Manta, Sven, Luna, Monkey King, Chess, RTS games, and more!

On this week's Weekly Show Proud and Ursi are at it again doing whatever it is they do. Topics include: the long-awaited Diretide event, cosmetic overload, a Kunkka guide request from a listener, interview shows, the next Dota patch's approximate timing, Ursi getting back into playing more Dota thanks to the WLDL, stupid sexy boats, and more!