Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast

TmT: Knights & Knee Pits

 On today's episode of Teach me Thursday, Bee & Proud discuss their recent recalibration efforts, Dragon Knight items, Earthshaker's power, Silver Edge, when to smoke, the knack to split pushing and much more. If you'd like to ask a question about Dota (or anything else), please email your question to [email protected] or message Ursi or Bee!

TcT: Proud's Lesson Corner ft. WD / Mars

On this week's Theorycraft show Proud and Ursi sit everyone down to cover some common mistakes, how to identify them, how to fix them, and how to abuse enemy players who make them! We're also covering more calibration games, safelane ideas, 4 Mirana being undeniably strong, Ursi being tortured emotionally by a nameless coworker, warding nuance, gold rationing as a 5, optimizing starting items, and more! We played 2 games this week, the first one being 1 Mars with 5 Witch Doctor and the secon...

TmT: Barely Coherent Edition

On this week's Teach Me Thursday Bee and Ursi are doing their absolute darndest to discuss the video game Dota Two, but might die in the process. Topics include: New Valve conduct patch, Smurf Ethics 101, Kunkka mid, Legion Commander, Pick vs. Counterpick, Smoking when you're in solo queue, Drum, Valve communication improvement (?), and plenty, plenty more!    

TcT: Lycan Aghs Fan Club Meeting #1 ft. Tusk & Drow

On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi are revealing themselves as Lycan Aghs Appreciators(tm) and also discussing many other, but ultimately less significant, things. Some topics include: Nightstalker, Keeper of the Light, Ignuus Fatuus combos, Legion Commander, Witch Doctor lanes, resetting waves at-will, Enchantress 3 team comps, more developed analysis/theorizing around Freight Train Dota, Tusk, Drow, and plenty more!

TcT: Coursing With Ideas! Freight Train Dota! 7.22G Theorizing

On this week's Theorycraft episode Proud and Ursi get deep in the weeds of the seemingly-small-but-actually-huge 7.22G and how it's going to change the overall game as well as their personal picks! We're discussing new heroes we want to try, how we want to play them, what we want to play them with, and so, so much more. Other topics include: Legion Commander, Bristleback, Winter Wyvern, Gyrocopter being the only carry anymore, whether Alchemist is officially dead or not, Windrunner, Timbers...

TmT: Nope

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TcT: One Item Up! ft. Gyrocopter & WW

On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi barrel into the end-times of the current patch and forsee a bright future in which Alchemist is slightly less annoying, Enchantress is reworked, the Arctic ceases to melt, and we're all One Item Up on our opponents. Topics include: Patch predictions, Alchemist, Ursi picking Techies like the scum he is at heart, Winter Wyvern, 5 stack growth, map movements, shot calling, throwing games at Roshan, and plenty more!

TmT: Closetted Dota Players Anonymous

On this week's Teach Me Tues..Thur...Saturday Bee and Ursi talk about getting outed at work as Dota players, holiday Dota, Alchemist, Lifestealer, tilting in pubs for no reason, mixing-and-matching builds to optimize, OD, dealing with Medusa mid matchups, developing push comps and/or deciding whether your comp can push effectively (and how they may or may not do that), and plenty more!

The Underlords Underground: New Show?

Hello! We have a new fortnightly/monthly Underlords show! Bee & Proud play a game to chat about for this episode. Bee goes for Brawny, Warriors & Hunters with a dash of Warlock, Heartless & Troll on the side. Proud builds a Savage, Druid & Primordial team. They also discuss an item, a hero and an alliance as the second segment of the show, which this week is; Embarrassment of Riches, Tiny, & Scaled. Let us know what you think or if you have any suggestions!

TcT: EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INT

On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi break TI wide open, analyzing the drafts from the final three series and picking apart their nuances! We're also covering some of the general TI trends, hero choices, and more; in our Week in Dota segment we cover Kunkka, playing & improving with a new 5 stack team, OD safelane, draft traps, Alchemist, Tusk, mid matchup results, and plenty more!

TcT: Sifting for Clams ft. Carry Io

On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi are covering plenty of excitement from this past week in dota, including all the wildness TI brings this time of year! Our main segment is a feature on Midas' place on carries, and other topics include: Carry Io, some of our duo queue pubs, practicing team play, clams, witches, Tiny, Winter Wyvern, Puck, and plenty, plenty more!

TmT: It's Simple, Just Win!

On this week's Teach Me Thurs-Fri-day Bee and Ursi solve all of the world's problem, and then some! We're also covering the first day of TI group stages, an intensive explanation of warding metagame, and plenty, plenty more!

TcT: Making Choices ft. Alchemist & Leshrac [FIXED]

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi collect cans, make decisions, and put in some hard work on the Aghanim's scepter farm, among other things. Topics included on today's show include: 1 Alchemist, 4 Leshrac, jungles filled with waste, diagnosing problems once you've observed that the problem exists, new ranked, Tiny's new set, Venge 5, and plenty more!

TcT: Making Choices ft. Alchemist & Leshrac

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi collect cans, make decisions, and put in some hard work on the Aghanim's scepter farm, among other things. Topics included on today's show include: 1 Alchemist, 4 Leshrac, jungles filled with waste, diagnosing problems once you've observed that the problem exists, new ranked, Tiny's new set, Venge 5, and plenty more!

TcT: Making Choices ft. Alchemist & Leshrac

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi collect cans, make decisions, and put in some hard work on the Aghanim's scepter farm, among other things. Topics included on today's show include: 1 Alchemist, 4 Leshrac, jungles filled with waste, diagnosing problems once you've observed that the problem exists, new ranked, Tiny's new set, Venge 5, and plenty more!

TmT: Gauging you Girth with Sir Knight Davion

On this week's TmT, Bee and Proud talk the new matchymatchmaking update, girthy dragon knight, monching trees, making sounds, restless cats, the plague that is techies, new hats and some other stufffffff.

TcT: Off the Rails ft. Bealuct

The Sound is so goddamn bad jesus christ On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi are joined by special guest Bealuct! We're covering all the regular stuff: our week in dota, new meta shifts regarding supports, the history of doorknobs, Jakiro as a mid, 4 suppoer & 5 support hero pools swapping around, Treant Protector trending, tempered chocolate, and plenty more! For the game this week we played 3 Sand King, 4 Phoenix, and 2 Alchemist!

TmT: Mid Pools & Techies Apologism

On this week's Teach Me Thursday Bee and Ursi are trying their absolute darndest to talk about Dota 2 despite an onslaught of fantastic tangents! For the bulk of the show we're covering Bee's continued experience as a blossoming mid player, building up her mid pool to be as robust as necessary but not spread too thin, and troubleshooting some of her troublesome match-ups! Then we're answering questions around Mjolnir's place in item builds, dealing with all those darn child Invokers, how to...

7.22F Patch Note Review: Leave Our Friends Alone

Patch 7.22F just came out so Ursi and Proud are doing our live first reactions and theorycrafting of all the changes, both big and small! We're going to go into hiding after the Tinker buffs so maybe this is our final show

TmT: Melting Minds & Melting Mids

TmT: Melting Minds & Mids On today's Teach Me Thursday (or Friday), Proud goes over Bee's recent dota games. After quite a long break, Bee has returned back to dota on the hottest day of the year, playing Bristleback & Queen of Pain rather than the usual support heroes. They discuss item builds on Bristle and how to generally be a tanky lad and then they go over a successful QoP mid game and discuss the entire laning phase and how it could have been improved.

TcT: DK is a Boomer ft. Magnus & Kunkka

On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi are talking about splitpushing, AM trending, new Ember Spirit builds, Invoker, learning complex heroes, core Silencer's potential, map/game changes that incentivize splitpushing, and plenty more! For the game this week Proud plays mid Kunkka for the first time while Ursi plays 5 support Magnus!

TcT: Thinking Man's Dota ft. 1 Slardar 3 Pangolier

On this week's Theorycraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi think deeply, or at least try to, about their preconceived notions regarding item builds, hero choices, and plenty more in light of their recent games and the new patch 7.22e! We also cover our personal patch highlights, our past Week in Dota as always, and plenty more! For the game we try out a super interesting 1 Slardar build Proud picked up and is working on while Ursi attempts to get back into his good pal Pangolier but is met with road...

TmT: The One Released 7/11/19

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TcT: Learning from Losses ft. Storm Spirit & Naga

On this week's Theorycraft Tues....day (?) Proud and Ursi are talking through their successful weeks in dota while learning from a loss in their game this week! Topics include: Magnus, new Slark builds, Dark Willow, Dazzle, Hats, What to do when your lane is going haywire, Ursi's hairbrained talent suggestions, and plenty more!

TcT: Item Rituals & Farm Plus ft. Bristleback & QoP

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi give you valuable dota advice and slightly-less-valuable-but-still-important life advice. Topics include: maximizing farm when you're already getting full lane farm, battlecup success, Proud's exploration of mid, what to do when you have too many itemization options, optimizing tankiness, and plenty more! Sorry this came out late, I decided to do nothing instead of do something so that's the reason. Also all the stuff we use to publish had...

TmT: Just Think About It

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TcT: Stop Buying Mask ft. Mid Ogre & SK

downbloadd On this week's Theorycraft Thuesday Proud and Ursi are testing out some new stuff! We're covering our last couple weeks in dota, our experiences with competitive 5 stack play, our thoughts on the current 1 pool of heroes and overall 1 experience, Proud's theory of support draft balancing, and plenty more! For our combo we end up playing mid Ogre Magi with a 3 Sand King !

TcT: Making Gods Bleed ft. PA and WD

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are dabbling in the dark, arcane arts and rending flesh from the mortal coil of God himself. Also, we talk about the Justice Friends.

TmT: 7.22C Patch Review ft. Bone Sonic [FIXED IT SORRY FRIENDS]

downbloadd On this week's TmT we're doing a thorough, exhaustive review of the seemingly-minor-but-actually-kinda-super-cool changes in patch 7.22C! I could add more sentences but uh... that's the whole show, it's really not that complicated.

TcT: Mendelian Dota ft. Grimstroke & MK

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are iterating on their own play and doing some problem-solving! We're chatting about our very varied week in dota, Dragon Knight Agh's & Radiance builds, Warlock's ridiculousness at the moment, core Silencer, and plenty more! For our game we ended up playing 5 Grimstroke with a 2 Clinkz for the main conversation, as well as another game that we briefly discuss in which we played 1 Monkey King with 5 Warlock.

TmT: ESL Was Quite Swell

On today's Teach Me Tuesday, Proud & Beedub talk all about ESL Birmingham; what was good, what didn't quite hit the mark and interesting drafting choices. They cover the surge in Sven picks, Death Prophet's success, questionable Io drafts, synergies with Shadow Demon, Warlock with Meteor Hammer and more!

TcT: Death Prophet is a Carry Now ft. Shadow Demon

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are deep in their 7.22 theorycrafting phases, testing out new heroes, new builds, and plenty more! The big hit so far is Proud's safelane core Death Prophet which he'll be playing this week, alongside Ursi's newfound/refound love Shadow Demon for a truly brutal lane combination! We're also chatting about all the meta stuff that's been popping off in this first week of 7.22 and a whole bunch else!

Patch 7.22 Full Review - A Fistful of Aghanims

On this special patch review episode Proud and Ursi dive into 7.22 and all of the loony Aghanim's additions that have been made; which upgrades are good, which are bad, which are surprising, which are situational, and which are just pointless! Looks like a super fun patch to us, though we're disappointed in a lack of nerfs on a couple fronts, and we look forward to covering how is progresses through the pub and pro meta!

TmT: Special Episode w/ Jim from We Like Dota!

On this week's special Teach me Tuesday, Jim from We Like Dota joins Bee & Proud to discuss the highs and the lows of being a Dota 2 player. They discuss over farming, hating on CM, Centaur strats & facts, chasing what feels good or whether anything in Dota feels good, and plenty more! You can find all the WeLikeDota podcasts on WeLikeDota.com or wherever you get your podcasts normally.

Growing as Players ft. A2K from WeLikeDota

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday (Monday) Proud and Ursi have Arian, A2K, from WeLikeDota on the show! Some topics include: Optimizing turbo dota, Learning new heroes, growing as players both mmr-wise and personal skill-cap wise, Arc Warden, Vengeful Spirit, learning new positions, burning through the compendium jungle challenges, ridiculous Medusa cheese comps, Snapple, and plenty more! For our match we ended up choosing 3 Pudge (A2K), 4 Lich (Ursi), and 1 Lycan (Proud) to play out of o...

TcT: Full Frontal Disclosure ft. WLD Charlene!

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday we're continuing the We Like Dota partnership project and having Charlene, BabyBokChoi, guest and help us out! We're talking all about her Dota philosophy, how she got started in podcast, and plenty more! Our palettes end up with us playing Aghs Luna, Axe, and Leshrac!

TmT: Special Episode w/ Sam from We Like Dota!

On this week's special Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi are joined by Sam, ThePlaidPirate, from We Like Dota! Other than our general dota chat, we're focusing on the transition phase from late-early game into mid game, our tumultuous relationships with Dota, Undying's existence, and plenty more! We also got a very interesting question about the back-end of podcasting that we dive into in detail! All this and more on this week's show!

Long Hours at the Factory ft. Naga & Leshrac

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are jumping right into the new compendium, basking in its glory, and enjoying those sweet rewards! We're also covering our last week in dota, as usual, and establishing some new pick palettes to work off of! For the game we played 5 Leshrac with 1 Naga and had a great game with a really excellent team comp! We're also announcing an upcoming special program with We Like Dota where we guest on their shows and they guest on ours for the upcom...

TcT: Sack Boy and Lava Girl ft. Drow Ranger

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are winning Dota 2 and figuring out why! Proud's super hype on Drow Ranger and is teaching us all the nuances he's figured out in the last week of playing her and teaching us how to establish our current state of farm and judge where to go from there itemization and strategy-wise! Ursi is playing Winter Wyvern and Witch Doctor in our games tonight and chatting over who he thinks is the worst hero in Dota right now (it's PA)! All this and mo...

TcT: Annoyed to Death ft. 3 Wraith King

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi get all tangled up with a bunch of noble, brave skeletons. For our Week in Dota we talk about Battlecup blunders, Sven carry, Mars' overpowered-ness, Jenkins killing our pubs with 4 Sniper videos, and plenty more! On a rare pro-Dota segment we cover the whole T2/T3 caster controversy as well as the recent EternalEnvy drama! All this and more on this week's show! (Trying to fix our website uploading issue so apologies if this one comes out ...

TmT: The Bee's Greaves

This week on Teach Me Tuesday, Bee has actually been playing dota! Proud sheds his wisdom on her recent games & itemisation choices. They also discuss why Guardian Greaves have become so popular & which heroes they're best on. Other topics covered this episode are Urn vs Vessel, Doom's favourite creeps to much on, how to build a Skywrath Mage mid, Queen of Pain & Brewmaster counters, offlane Enchantress, rat Wraith King, courier efficiency and more!

TcT: Thank You China Edition ft. 5 Abaddon & DK

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking through their million recent games of Dota 2! We're covering all sorts of heroes, concepts, and trends we're seeing before breaking into our Pick Palette choices which ended up with us playing 5 Abaddon and 2 Dragon Knight! Some heroes covered include: Weaver, Faceless Void, Monkey King, Doom, Ember Spirit, and more!

TmT: 『BEEDUB'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN』: Strawberry Ice Cream is Nonsense

On this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Beedub cheer on Bee's newfound internet, what she's going to do now that she has regained 21st-Century capabilities, and more! Some topics include, but are not limited to: an assessment of the current metagame & hero pool, Assault Cuirass vs. Crimson Guard, ice cream hierarchy, versatility, and plenty more!    I uploaded an unrendered file by accident please 4give and dl this one

TcT: Pick Palettes ft. Omniknight & Nyx

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are covering their long, educational, complicated Week in Dota where we both played tons of Dota! We also establish, and name, the hero-picking concept we're running with at the moment, Pick Palettes! For the game we ended up playing 3 Omniknight and 4 Nyx Assassin. Heroes and concepts discussed also include: Magnus, Leshrac, Spectre, Naga Siren (carry), Abaddon, Sniper, Lion, dynamic skills, and plenty more!

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TcT: Schrodinger's Highground ft. Dark Willow & Ursa

downbloadd On this week's Theoyrcraft Thursday Proud and Ursi do all the regular things we do, including chatting about our Weeks in Dota, a segment on the current Carry pool, and a combination of Dark Willow with a hero of Proud's choosing which ended up being Ursa! Some other miscellaneous topics include: Kunkka, Omniknight, Juggernaut, Weaver, 4 Leshrac, and Ursi's Battlecup with the We Like Dota folks!

Title: TcT: Patch 7.21d ft. Snapple Facts & Bloodseeker

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break into the 7.12d patch notes, their experiences with Dota recently, Ursi throwing a battlecup, and plenty more! For our heroes we chose based on the game and ended up playing Bloodseeker and Pangolier!

Title: TcT: Patch 7.21d ft. Snapple Facts & Bloodseeker

On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break into the 7.12d patch notes, their experiences with Dota recently, Ursi throwing a battlecup, and plenty more! For our heroes we chose based on the game and ended up playing Bloodseeker and Pangolier!

TmT: The Internet is Just Smoke Edition

Translator's note: this was recorded saturday so patch discussion will come thursday, ya mook.     It's a return to form for Teach Me Tuesday with Beedub and Ursi! This week we're chatting about Bee's short-term return to Dota despite her complete lack of internet at the moment, Ursi's ups-and-downs in Dota, flirting in Assassin's Creed, how the internet actually works, attack speed vs. attack damage, when to buy small items on supports, how to get back into a hero you think is bad, Kor...

TcT: Literally Nothing Edition