Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee and Ursi spin yarns both true and untrue, wise and foolish, deep and shallow. Topics include: Pokemon Unite, Bee's Oracle homework, Ursi's Tesla Drow enthusiasm, patch predictions, quick Necrophos update, Cavern Crawl, which heroes have children, Flicker, Enigma, a new name for Ursi, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee and Ursi play a few games together, plan a few future games out, and solve problems. Topics include: Bee's Abaddon game, Necrophos, Ursi's continued SF success, a general guide to Oracle, thorough ice cream rankings, under-utilized spells on certain heroes, and much more!

Since Zac is on vacation and we're short on episodes I got together with Strilling from We Like Dota to cover Chen! 

On this week's episode of the Tuesday Show Bee and Ursi get to chatting whilst Zac is leisurely vacationing. Topics include: Shadow Fiend, Abaddon, reworking a few items & heroes that are bad/unpopular, Terrorblade, Graphs, Pokeclicker, Coffee, and so much more!

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Zac develop themselves as human beings for the betterment of society at-large. Topics include: Sharks, Snapfire, Shark Meals, Shadow Fiend, Man Eater, Item Paths/Timings, which sharks have the coolest fins, a Sven Theory by Zac, the tastiest kinds of chum, Gyrocopter, the Jaws franchise, all these trendy stat builds, pointy teeth maintenance, item paths/timing, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee, Ursi, and Zac chat about Dota! What a surprise! Topics include: Natures Prophet, Bee's Cavern Crawl, Necrophos, commitment issues, lower mmr games often skewing longer, the stat leveling trend, Sand King, Underlord's shard, Doom, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Zac develop an entire new game mechanic to fix Armlet instead of just, you know, modifying Armlet itself. Innovators, truly! Topics include: Echo Sabre, inability to pick supports in pubs, Armlet, alternative build paths (?!), Anti-Mage, changes to the carry archetype, Arc Warden counters, Phantom Lancer, Jared Walsh, Bloodseeker, the Pope's Secret Dota Notes, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee, Ursi, and Zac band together to solve the world's problems. Topics include: Natures Prophet, last week's micro homework, Enchantress, Arc Warden, Ursi's losing streak, SNKRX, Visage, out-of-role heroes, shadow amulet, a couple listener questions, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Zac do some theory-building about larger compositional ideas and more! Topics include: Oracle, homework results, the relative value of stuns in certain compositions, Kunkka, minor optimizations, Sniper Aghs, Cavern Crawl balance, Battle Pass economics, and more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Zac and Ursi chat about a whole bunch of different topics and answer a few interesting questions! Topics include: Troll Warlord, mid hero preferences for certain situations, Nemestice, Riki (sleeper good?), Pudge, Techies, Monkey King, segues, Cavern Crawl motivations, whether complex heroes are good for the game or not, the best/worst carries from behind, and more!

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi and Zac are greeted by the newly-released Nemestice patch! We discuss: the new game mode, the Spectre arcana, the DK persona, the economics of it all, alternative economic models, Valve (in general), Winter Wyvern, TI possibly being delayed, sardines, mustards, randoming, and more!

On this revitalization of the true Teach me Tuesday format, Zac and Bee mourn the cancellation of The International's Sweden venue, along with their impending homework assignments from the new Patreon tiers. Topics include: visa struggles in Sweden, the new executive producer tier, micro heroes, micro hotkeys, micro micro, reversing Beedub's losing streak, mid players giving up without last pick, why supports are played core more than cores are played support, favorite and least favorite spells, and the best (and silliest) Aghs upgrades, and no more!   EDITOR'S NOTE: I can't believe these cohosts of mine don't believe in Tidehunter Aghs.... I've failed as a friend & as a host of the podcast and I pledge to do better in the future.

On this week's Thursday Show Ursi, Zac, and Bee gather around the campfire to tell tales of Dota and answer a slew of listener questions! Topics include: Necrophos, Arc Warden's Aghanim's Scepter, Ursi's Kunkka mid games, developing collegiate Dota clubs, stack variety, Jakiro mid (?!), the Overwatch system currently, and more!

On a special Monday episode Zafc and Ursi cover tyhe recently-ended DPC Major and launch into a (surprisingly long & in-depth & maybe a little ranty) conversation about the current state of the game! Topics include: 7.30 predictions, DPC formatting, stun creep, mobility creep, Aeon Disk, the current state of neutral items, Mekansm, playoff structure, saves, healing, meta picks, unpicked heroes, and more!

LINK AT THE BOTTOM!!!  Proud returns (for his final retrospective episode) with Bee and Ursi! Topics include: a reflection on podcasting from our longest-running hosts, some Lone Druid history, DotP history/discussion, what we've learned from podcasting, Proud discovering the meaning of life, Dota reflections, a couple listener questions, a new shirt (!!!), and tons more! SO LONG SENATOR SCRUMPUS   GET "THE PROUD SPECIAL" HERE!!!   or here! https://fourth-spirit.creator-spring.com/listing/the-proud-special

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee, Ursi, and Zac gather in the dark basement of an illegal London bar-turned-rave to sit in the corner and discuss Dota. Topics include: getting real results out of your projects/experiments, when experimentation is dangerous for your growth vs. necessary for your growth, the ongoing Major, custom pick screens, Luna opinions from Aui, Ursi's super tilt game, Bee 'going through the motions', Sand King, stack meta, and plenty more!

On this week's Thursday we discuss a whole slew of different heroes and games, some of which are good, others of which are bad, and a few of which are simply unknowable. Topics include: Venerial sins, Faceless Void, which roles tilt the most (and in what ways), Arc Warden, Ursi hitting platinum on Tinker, a mid Kunkka game, Zac's ranked losing streak, player mentality types, 4 Lifestealer, Necrophos, Queen of Pain, and more!

Normally a Patron Exclusive, we're releasing this Deep Dive in place of the week's regular Tuesday show because of how happy we were with it! Topics include: Sniper, Chen, Clinkz, Silencer, Meepo, item balance, hero pool shifts, regional pro dota trends, and plenty more!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Zac and Ursi bring Ursi to the court of Dota 2 to decide his level of guilt for a particular Dota match. Topics include: Lion, Ursa, 7.29d, last week's project results, Arc Warden, Slark, Timbersaw, Winter Wyvern, Templar Assassin, streaming, Medusa, and much more!

On this week's Tuesday Show Bee, Ursi, and Zac break through a whole bunch of mini-segments, some listener questions, and more! Topics include: deriving fun from Dota (a video game, meant to be fun!), specific sources/kinds of tilt, play skill differentiation, Aghanim Shards, Arc Warden, Gleipnir, Juggernaut, mangoes, playing Dota with your real-life friends, and more!