Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast
1,186 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsA DotA 2 Podcast for new and experienced player's alike. The hosts crack wise and talk the pains and triumphs of learning the ins and outs of the game as well as the meta behind it and offer educational information about the game from higher skill players.
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Episodes
Weekly Show: Theories & Predictions & Kayas
December 11, 2020 03:58 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBOn 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!
Weekly Show: 5 Stack Gamers
November 30, 2020 04:28 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBOn 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!
Weekly Show: Puzzle Piece Theory
November 11, 2020 08:10 - 1 hour - 64 MBOn 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!
Weekly Show: Kunkka, Captain of Dire Tides
November 06, 2020 10:18 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBOn 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!
Weekly Show: Dota News Update
October 27, 2020 06:23 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBOn this week's Weekly Show Proud, Ursi, and Bee chat about the new Dota community update blog post, and plenty more! Topics include: Proud's new form of poetry, Ursi & Bee's game, dota 2 pro player trends, recalibration changes, Dota's update schedule, new heroes, the new player experience, Silver Edge, Wait King, Dota Plus changes, Death Prophet, Naga SIren, and more!
Whatever Wednesday: Apocalypse Buddies Edition
October 15, 2020 07:29 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBOn this week's new weekly wednesday show Proud, Bee, and Ursi get together to talk about Dota & everything else! Topics include: ghost hunting in West Virginia, small rotwn living, how the Native Americans were the first Confederates, Genshin Impact, Dota games we played together, Dota Underlords, Bee's weird dreams, The Walking Dead, Ursi's bad relationship with Outworld Devourer, and more!
Podcast Update! Hex Codes for your Feelings
October 09, 2020 08:37 - 52 minutes - 43.6 MBUrsi and Proud are making a quick (well, not really) announcement of some temporary show changes for the time being given our recent disinterest with the current patch, personal schedules, and other factors. Simply put: we'll be moving to a once-a-week, 3-person podcast format instead of the long-running TcT/TMT split 2-person podcast format. All three of us think that this change will be the best way to make the best shows for everyone, rather than forcing out content that isn't up to our s...
TmT: Super Mega TI !?
October 06, 2020 09:39 - 1 hour - 64 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi get together to craft the next TI before finalizing it with Valve as the new creative leads. Please pay us, mr. gaben. Topics include: Ursi & Bee getting cheesed by a 5 Dagon comp, next TI predictions, COVID pro dota changes, battle pass retrospective, Alchemist, Phoenix, Genshin Impact, and plenty more! October 5, 2020
TcT: Patch Predictions & Hero Pools!
October 02, 2020 10:55 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to chat about various Dota things which leads them into a larger conversation about the potential for the next major patch, when it'll come, what changes we want to see, what changes we expect to see, and more! Topics include: Vengeful Spirit, Luna, Luna with a magic build (!), Genshin Impact, Hades, why blocking safelane is potentially lane losing from the get-go, hero pools, and plenty more!
TcT: Radicalized by Eul
September 24, 2020 03:53 - 1 hour - 71 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to bask in the glory of Eul. Topics include: Monkey King, Outworld Devourer, Snapfire mid, Snapfire support, Snapfire aghs, Snapfire lore, Snapfire's lizard, Eul's on carries, Batrider, laning dynamics, Hades, and plenty more!
TmT: A Dead Zeus is No Zeus
September 23, 2020 03:01 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee plays an 80 minute game and Ursi and her go through it, figuring out what went wrong, what went right, and more! Topics include: Zeus (surprise, surprise), Dune, dealing with smurfs, Invoker, Bee's upcoming charity PUBG tournament, Nyx, the nature of long games & why the end up as long games, and plenty more
TcT: Why Can't I Cast All These Limes? (Proud's back)
September 18, 2020 03:59 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBIn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi return to form, playing heroes they love, trying new builds, and thinking about Dota! Topics include: warding value in the current support meta, Hot Wheels, Monkey King, Rapier, Nyx Assassin, Diffusal Blade Winranger, Terrorblade, Mask of Madness carry trends, Dune, How to do literally anything on the map in a stalemate, and tons more! My external cooling fan was on during the recording so my audio is shit but I learned some neat new t...
TmT: Hot Takes Galore
September 16, 2020 14:18 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi offer up approximately 900 opinions, at least 3 of which are guaranteed to make you, specifically, unhappy with us. Topics include: Bee's Phoenix experiment continuing, Sniper, Ursi's vitriolic dislike of Zeus, various food opinions, what the hell Bovril is (?), which dota heroes would be picky eaters, deli sandwiches, what the best vegetable is, and tons more!
TcT: Failed Experiments ft. 3 Bloodseeker & Bee!
September 10, 2020 03:01 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Ursi is joined by Bee while Proud is on sabbatical, uncovering the mysteries of various tombs. Topics include: 3 position Bloodseeker trends, Bee learning Phoenix, Ursi's experiments with OD as both a 3 and a traditional mid, drafting around unique offlaners, the wonders of Snowdonia, and tons more!
TmT: Phoenix Phan Club
September 02, 2020 08:44 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi converts Bee into a Phoenix player, also we talk about other things. Topics include: MVP calculations, Venge's laning phase, regional bbq/party games, what heroes are the most universally fun for people, Dota peripherals, Sven issues, Ursi feeding on Axe, Sniper, and plenty more!
TcT: 7.27d Patch Review ft. Orly Erchids
August 27, 2020 04:22 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to do one thing and one thing only: talk about dota two. What else would we be doing, anyway? You should know what this podcast is by now everybody. Topics include: 7.27d mini patch, Faceless Collaborators, Drow, Dragon Knight, Magnus, experimenting with some Monkey King ideas, our highlights of the new patch, Arc Warden, and more!
TmT: Blue Hero Club
August 26, 2020 04:55 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi talk about Dota, as always; Ursi has some hot takes, Bee has some developments in her hero pool, and tons more! Topics include: Arc Warden, Venomancer (mid and support), Skywrath Mage, Grimstroke, dealing with Spectre & Sniper, communication nuance, Overwolf, Procrastination, Ursi testing out a few things to vartying degrees of success, and more!
TcT: Support Tinker Rockets No Holy Lockets
August 21, 2020 04:17 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get together to explore communication in Dota before playing a pub in which Ursi reaches his final form by playing 5 position Tinker. Topics include: Dragon Knight as a carry, Axe as a carry, Arc Warden, Leshrac 5, playing fully muted, All chat, balancing farm around the map, converting core heroes into support heroes, and more!
TcT: Managing Tiny's Refractory Period [BAD SOUND SORRY]
August 14, 2020 04:24 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBHEY FIRST TIME RECORDING AT THE NEW PLACE AND WOULDNT YA KNOW IT OUR AC IS REALLY LOUD BECAUSE OUR LANDLORD IS A PIECE OF SHIT GOD I FUCKING HATE THEM SO MUCH HOLY SHIT CANCEL THE RENT SO I CAN PUT THIS GODDAMN LEECH ON THE STREET I filtered most the noise out but as a result my voice has certain tones removed and it sounds bad but it's this or nothing so don't email my wife On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break into a whole bunch of games, topics, and more after thei...
TmT: Back to the Grind
August 12, 2020 06:46 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBIn which Bee and Ursi clock back into the podcasting mines and talk about their last 2 weeks of pubs, life, and everything else! Topics include: books (we're smart now!), Grimstroke, Windranger, magic damage juggernaut, Puck, Amish pretzels, Raddlers, Fall Guys, ranking our 3 Most Fun Supports, Silencer, a few duo queue games Bee and Ursi played together, and more!
TcT: Cookie Control ft. Sven/Snapfire
July 30, 2020 20:47 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get into details about salvaging bad lanes through jungling, jingling our way to victory, and plenty more! Topics include: Magnus mid, Sven, Snapfire, managing counters to various heroes during a draft, Drow wins for Ursi, Omniknight, Glimmer Cape on cores (?!), tangoes vs. salves, Elder Titan, PA as a mid, and more!
TmT: Glue Blow
July 29, 2020 05:43 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee is joined by Ursi to talk about her recent games, his recent games, your recent games, and everything else. Topics include: Immortal 2's, Pugna, Viper, Luna, Drow Ranger, Gyrocopter, Devolution by Max Brooks, Moths, Toxicity in pubs, core Silencer vs. support Silencer, pub team comps, irrational fears, making dumplings, and plenty more!
TcT: Theorycrafting Everything ft. Donnie from Dota Alchemy!
July 23, 2020 07:28 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are joined by Donnie, @ElevatedDota, formerly of Dota Alchemy and Pvgna, to talk a bit about everything Dota-related! Topics include: Viper, Heaven's Halberd's strength right now, Tinker, the updated/changed Bloodseeker, Dota burnout, bracers/wraiths/nulls, Spectre's many itemization options, Tusk as a 5, new Sven, Doom, the content creation process as it relates to Dota, and plenty more !
TmT: Cactus Jam
July 21, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi play around with the fun new roguelike game mode, Aghanim's Labyrinth, cover their new business ventures, and also talk a bunch about regular Dota also! Other topics include: a return to mid Juggernaut for Ursi, Aghanim's Labyrinth hero balancing, AL strategies, Void Spirit struggles, Cactus Facts, brains melting, 7.27c patch notes, Axe, and more!
Dota Patch 7.27b Full Review! New Mids? Old Supports? Midas Gaming!?
July 16, 2020 07:33 - 3 hours - 190 MBProud and Ursi pull apart the brand new patch 7.27b in typical Fourth Spirit fashion! There's a whole lot of math, a whole lot of new hero ideas, excitement for nerfs & buffs, and tons more in this very long, complicated new patch!
TcT: Mid Matchups ft. Arc Warden/Grimstroke
July 09, 2020 07:47 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi develop their understanding of different mid matchups, predict some changes in the next patch, and plenty more! Topic include: Spectre, Drums, Natures Prophet, Ursi gettingh back into Invoker, aggressive mid matchups vs. defensive ones vs. farming ones, playing against Kunkka lanes, item changes, more Tinker from Ursi, Monkey King, new Veil, and more!
TcT: Dominating Helms and Helming Dominators ft. 7.27
July 02, 2020 06:22 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi discuss their tons of games in the new patch, 7.27! Topics include: trendy items, trendy heroes, Spectre, Dark Willow, spell lifesteal, mid hero pools, carry Tusk, the new Anonymous feature, the new draft phase dynamics, Helm of the Dominator, Drum, Voodoo Mask, FLEX MONEY, and plenty more!
Dota 7.27 Patch Review! Triangles and Math and Blademails
June 29, 2020 05:25 - 2 hours - 143 MBIn which Ursi and Proud break apart all of the patch changes in 7.27, how they affect the state of the game, how they interplay with various heroes, what changes are most significant, and tons more! We also learn about exchange rates of attack speed to attack damage, which heroes would make the best vampires, which heroes are now dagon users (hint: none), and more.
Dynamics Are Important: A Reflection on Current Events
June 25, 2020 08:48 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBOn a special episode of the podcast Proud, Ursi, and Bee get together to talk about current events surrounding the overall Dota structure, how the community should hold people accountable, how different people have reacted to current events, how pro players factor into things, what the future holds for Dota as a scene, and other facets of the esports ecosystem. Other casual dota topics follow, including: Ember Spirit, Windranger, art restoration, adventures in the forest ft. gun, and a few o...
TcT: A Sweater For Every Breeze ft 5 Puck/1 MK
June 18, 2020 06:15 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi develop the idea between what makes a hero a 'good hero' vs. what makes a hero a 'bad hero' in a given metagame! Topics include: Monkey King, Puck as a support, Ursa, Ursi's Tinker experiment developments, Armor!!!, Anti-Mage, Naga Siren, and plenty more!
TmT: Optimizing the Mid Lane
June 16, 2020 10:49 - 1 hour - 65.1 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi cover a bunch of mid heroes they've been playing, a bunch they aren't, and discuss getting the most out of the lane! Topics include: scheduling Dota, Tinker, aggressive buybacks, smoking, lane swaps, Jakiro, Windranger, OD, Tinker, Cavern Crawl, and plenty more!
TcT: The Wonderful World of Battlefury ft. Ursa/Tusk
June 11, 2020 07:05 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi contemplate the value of a femur in a fight, the relative strength of New Jersians vs. Moose, and maybe even some Dota 2! Topics include: Mid lane maximization, Silencer as a 4 vs. Silencer as a 5, support duo synergy, Tusk, Ursa, Battlefury's transformative abilities, minus armor, Void Spirit, Jakiro, Wraith King, optimizing Clinkz for +dmg, Wand vs. casual stick, and plenty more!
TcT: All Slarks Are Bastards ft. CK/Lion
June 04, 2020 13:46 - 1 hour - 79.5 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi talk about a few mini-segments, a whole lot of week-in-dota, and end up playing a stun-heavy Chaos Knight + Lion lane! Topics include: Cavern Crawl experiences, how to learn a new hero efficiently, Luna, Helm of the Dominator, Drum, Warhammer, Raindrops, Natures Prophet, heavy harass offlanes & support duos, Zeus, Drow, Anti-Mage is a pox upon our society, 5 support rotation strategy, and plenty more!
TmT: Tranquil Boots Are Not Phase Boots
June 02, 2020 07:07 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBIn which Beedub and Ursi develop shoe-based strategy. Topics include: Lotus Orb, Weaver, Timbersaw, the value of creep cutting, solving lane issues when someone tries to contest your farm, chasing, Cavern Crawl, coming back to the game after a long break, Boots of Travel, regen sources, Windranger, and plenty more!
TcT: Poking & Prodding ft. Brew/Naix/Willow
May 28, 2020 06:21 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBOn this week's Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi chat about the developing Battle Pass and the trend of carries who excel at poking and prodding, rather than traditional bursty hard carries! Topics include: Personas vs. Arcanas, more Troll Warlord hate, Brewmaster, Venomancer, Ogre, Maneater, Dark Willow, Lifestealer, Clinkz, late game itemization, Sange & Yasha, and plenty more!
TmT: How to Train Your Battle Pass
May 27, 2020 05:49 - 59 minutes - 56.9 MBThis week on Teach Me Tuesday/Wednesday, Bee & Proud give their thoughts on everything in the Battle Pass! They also discuss a wild Lycan game & Bee's first attempt at playing Timbersaw and what items to get. Sound's a little fucked cause of trains and stuff, sorry friends I did my best.
TcT: More DotS ft. Veno/Doom
May 22, 2020 05:57 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi discuss a couple near-perfect team comps, a whole lot of reflection on the game right now, predictions for Battle Pass, Legion Commander, Clinkz, Lifestealer testing, why Ursi's CK experiment is done with, and plenty more!
TmT: Timbersaw, Ultimate Enemy of Bonsai
May 19, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBIn which Bee and Ursi pull apart a bunch of 3 vs. 1 matchups, learn to differentiate between agressive + defensive lanes, go on a bunch of tangents, and more! Topics include: Timbersaw, the Monster Effect, cooking muscles, Centaur Warrunner, Bane, relaxation in Dota, Bonsai, Brewmaster, and plenty more!
TcT: Sheep is Pig ft. Clinkz/Pudge
May 14, 2020 07:18 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Proud and Ursi talk about how Spell Prism outperforms every other neutral item, supporting is real weird, numbers are nonsense, and more! Topics include: Clinkz, Pudge, Illusionist's Cape, Spectre, Feeling behind when you're ahead, courier metagame, starting items, Orb of Venom, Void Spirit, Templar Assassin matchups, missing hooks, playing 'frontliners', and plenty more!
TmT: Skipping Creeps & Other Stuff
May 13, 2020 04:51 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday/Wednesday, Proud & Bee delve into the concept of creep skipping and how to pull it off when you're having a rough offlane. They also discuss how caring about dota is hard, Spider Legs are actually boots, how to counter Snapfire, Bane & Winter Wyvern things, and whether drinking caffeine makes you win.
TcT: Ability Draft Will Get Us To 6k ft. 3 WK/4 Tiny
May 08, 2020 03:30 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBIn which Ursi and Proud cover all the recent meta developments, their reignited love of Ability Draft, and try out Wraith King 3 alongside 4 Tiny! Topics include: Lone Druid, Ursi throwing Sven games, how impossible it is to push a tier 2, Lone Druid, Monkey King, mid Dazzle, ability draft, long games, Wraith King's differing function as a 3 or a 1, Clinkz, and plenty more!
TmT: 7.26c, Laning Changes, and 4 Sniper!? ft. Migs
May 06, 2020 02:02 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBIn which Ursi is joined by semi-regular-but-still-special guest Migs to meander about a few highlights from 7.26c, a few misconceptions, larger laning changes developing after deny changes, and the weird reality of 4 Sniper being trendy in pubs! Other topics include: PA Coup de Grace talent, evasion talents, core Sniper builds, Juggernaut, new player adjustments, quarantine haircuts, World of the Married, Windrangers with bashers, and more!
TcT: Proud is the Unabomber (but for rulers)
April 30, 2020 07:31 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud has some hot takes which Ursi convinced him to make into a manifesto that will surely prevent both of us from getting jobs in the future. Topics include: Patch 7.26b, Lone Druid, Deny changes, the talent fiasco, tower regen changes, item drop timings, Bounty Hunter's existence, how the dota changes affect new people, overall feelings, Winter Wyvern, winning games where you lack a clear win condition, and more!
TcT: 7.26a Review & Rubick/Luna
April 23, 2020 20:21 - 1 hour - 80.3 MBIn which Ursi and Proud discuss the abundance of changes in 7.26a, some of which don't matter, others of which matter a lot! Topics inculde: the biggest winners & losers of 7.26 & 7.26a, Proud's newfound appreciation for MKB as a damage item, last hitting efficiency, Lone Druid, Dignitas, Clinkz' big buffs, Alchemist's big nersf, Troll Warlord's existence, Necrophos 3, Sekiro, and more!
TMT: Offlane Farming: Lemme Get Summa That
April 21, 2020 17:07 - 56 minutes - 55.3 MBThis week on Teach Me Tuesday, Proud & Bee discuss how and when to farm as an offlaner. Also on the agenda; MMR histories, pesky Pudges & neutral items as cosmetics.
TcT: Picking Fights ft. Ember/KotL
April 16, 2020 05:57 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBIn which Proud and Ursi discuss many things, as always. You should be used to this by now, seriously. Topics include: XCOM, Drow, Slark, Monkey King detox, Nyx Assassin, Ursi's encounter with a 4 Weaver, Crystal Maiden maybe being good, how to pick fights, the idea of 'miscellaneous damage', Ember, KotL, and more!
TmT: Reflecting and Retaliating
April 14, 2020 22:45 - 58 minutes - 60.3 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee get deeper into Bee's transition into an offlane player and answer a listener question on improving when you're newer to the game! Topics include: Centaur Warrunner, Dragon Knight, Sven, Crystal Maiden, how the heck Retaliate actually works, denying for lane advantages, Phantom Lancer, Nyx Assassin, and more!
TcT: Playing Awful Heroes ft. Dazzle/Clinkz
April 09, 2020 07:54 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi try desperately to make heroes that are bad into heroes that are good, but it is a fool's errand. We also discuss a new theory of drafting which helps to visualize the value of certain hero picks (see below for a visual representation made by Proud), and plenty more topics as always! CHEXIMAGE