Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 Podcast
1,192 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 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
TcT: Stealing Valor with Oracle & Mars
March 14, 2019 11:11 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi do all the regular stuff! We're covering our week in dota on both familiar and unfamiliar heroes, leading up to a segment all about the do's and dont's of playing unfamiliar heroes for the first time, and plenty more! Our hero combo this week is Oracle support paired with Proud's newly refined Mars build!
TmT: The Ballad of Sad Neil
March 12, 2019 14:20 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee is still dota-deprived so we do a mix between a Dota show for the first half(ish) and a casual show for the second half! Other than Dota, our casual show topics include: how none of us know how plants work, Bee's new job, Cats & Ladders (the alternative to Chutes and Ladders), Al Gore inventing the internet (which is a series of tubes), an incredible tale of Proud's Kenshi storyline, boogie boards, and plenty more!
TcT: Mars, The God of Dentistry
March 07, 2019 14:03 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are exploring the wide new world of Mars, with its rugged landscape, cartoonish muscles, dead rovers, and beautiful pearly whites. We're covering first impressions, builds, trends we're seeing so far, what his ideal role is vs. what he's passably playable in, and plenty more! Some regular dota conversation as well after an exciting week for both of us!
TmT: 7.21c Patch Note Review
March 05, 2019 14:11 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee attempt to return to normalcy but are interrupted by a surprise patch note release and do a review of that instead! We're covering the major buffs, major nerfs, trends, our deep-seated personal problems, our hopes, dreams, why movespeed is king, solving world hunger, and everything else in the course of just 80 minutes.
Title: Learning by Losing ft. Viper, Midases, and 3 BH
February 28, 2019 14:31 - 1 hour - 38.7 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi set out to do one thing, and end up learning a whole lot about something completely different! Our segment revolves around the prevalence of midas, why you're seeing it so often, when it's strong vs. when it's not, and the math behind it all! For heroes we played support Phoenix with mid DK, but we end up focusing on the mid Viper we ran into for the most part, because their build and play was a real treat to learn from!
WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME SO HERE'S PART OF A PATREON EPISODE WE LIKED
February 26, 2019 09:06 - 36 minutes - 23.1 MBSORRY
TcT: Better Bug Society ft. Weaver & Nyx
February 21, 2019 14:21 - 1 hour - 49 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi gain a whole bunch of legs, encase themselves in chitin, and consume their young piece by piece to survive winter. Anyway, we talk about a whole bunch of heroes and topics including our reactions to 7.21b, and all of the different archetypes of invisibility that we see in Dota and how to deal with each one most effectively!
TcT: Mad Respect for 12 Year Olds ft. Nightstalker Mid
February 14, 2019 09:05 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi join together to broadcast words about the video game dota two and how to play it. Some topics from this week include: support Shadow Fiend (???), how best to use bottle, who actually buys bottle, Apex Legends, the difference between satisfying game mechanics in different games, and plenty more! For our hero combo Proud played mid Nightstalker and Ursi played a 5 Lina!
TmT: Calibration Woes & Lion Carry
February 12, 2019 10:47 - 1 hour - 39 MBToday's Teach Me Tuesday is a real variety of topics! Proud & Bee ramble about some non-Dota stuff including Kenshi, then discuss the woes of calibration and loss of motivation, Lion safe carry, why everyone should play Vengeful Spirit more, Doom builds, Jugg & Lich lanes, Jinada vs Shuriken, Arcane Boots and what they should have been called & more. Want to ask us a question? Send it over! Email them to [email protected] or message Bee or Ursi to have it answered on the show.
TcT: Everything is Chaotic with CK and QoP
February 07, 2019 12:32 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBOn this week's Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking all about their experiences playing a ton of dota this week in our ever-changing pub meta! We're talking about common hero picks we're seeing, how the hell you deal with Bloodseeker, all these super fast strength heroes, and how to pivoting towards new heroes after a patch! We're playing 1 Chaos Knight and 3 Queen of Pain for the game this week and seeing how each hero works out!
TmT: We Hate Trees Edition
February 05, 2019 09:44 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi are doing their first lesson of 7.21! We're covering Ursi's time calibrating, some of the mentalities which effect calibration in different ways, and more from an overall early-experience perspective of 7.21! For our main segment we're covering unusual support picks, like Luna or Magnus, and how to work around them and make them shine! We also answer questions surrounding which Dota heroes would be the best at drinking games, what place Faerie...
TcT: 7.21 Reactions and Going All-In with Chen & LD
January 31, 2019 10:12 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are covering their first couple days of 7.21 excitement and experimentation! Ursi's making some changes to his support pool and working through his calibration, among other things! For our combo we're playing Chen support with Lone Druid in the safelane, which we theorycrafted initially during the patch review show, and seeing how it goes!
Dota Patch 7.21 Full Review with Proud & Ursi!
January 30, 2019 07:54Patch 7.21 just hit so Proud and Ursi are going into detail on all the big changes you noticed, the small changes you didn't, and everything in between! Also, we crack the code on how all heroes run with max movement speed, why Brewmaster is a real jerk, how LD's Spirit Bear would fare in the circus, and plenty more!
Dota Patch 7.21 Full Review with Proud & Ursi!
January 30, 2019 07:54Patch 7.21 just hit so Proud and Ursi are going into detail on all the big changes you noticed, the small changes you didn't, and everything in between! Also, we crack the code on how all heroes run with max movement speed, why Brewmaster is a real jerk, how LD's Spirit Bear would fare in the circus, and plenty more!
TmT: Too Many Teeth & Thicc Tails
January 22, 2019 10:40 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBOn today's episode, Bee & Proud discuss their recent games of Dota 2, Lich's Sinister Gaze, 3 Sven, Lifestealer & his many teeth, support Naga Siren, Undying and how to stack Battlefuries and Daedali!
TcT: Dewy Shoes ft. Huskar & Roshan
January 17, 2019 09:07 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBOn this week's Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking about the new hotness: Dota Auto Chess! We're also covering Ursi's 3 exploration, all the components that go into Roshan fights/attempts, how to steal Aegis most effectively, counters to 3 Sven, and plenty more! For heroes we ended up playing mid Huskar and a casual first-pick-support 5 Rubick!
TmT: Filling Slots with Slot Fillers
January 14, 2019 08:24 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi realize that they're actually having a ton of fun in Dota these days! We chat about how exactly we're having so much fun, what heroes we're playing to have fun, and plenty other positive things! To mitigate all our fun we complain about how Wraith Bands are still a plague upon Dota 2, why Vlads is so good on 3's, when to build Crimson Guard instead of flat armor items, what differentiates initiators vs. counter-initiators, and plenty more!
Waxing Ursi Waning Proud ft. Puck/Drow
January 10, 2019 09:39 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi cover Ursi's transformation into an offlane player, his newfound love of Puck, and plenty more for our week in Dota! Our segment is all about how best to play around running a squishy team comp, which works alongside our hero pairing for the week: Drow mid with Puck offlane, a squishy set of cores!
TmT: Bad Lineups & Caustic Finales
January 09, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBOn today's episode of Teach Me Tuesday, Bee & Proud discuss how to win games when you have a rubbish draft, how to recognise what your team is good at & how to gank mid! They also answer some listener questions about fighting Meepo, whether Vlads is back, how to itemise on Underlord & cores, Dota abilities in real life & more!
Teach Me Thursday: Getting High Off Magic Wands
January 03, 2019 16:38 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBOn this week's Teach Me Thursday Beedub and Ursi are going over Bee's trist with her project hero from last week, Shadow Shaman, and going over the learning and adapting process of picking up a new hero! On the question front we're talking all about magic wand, salve optimization, starting items for various roles, telling middle schoolers not to do drugs, the proper pronunciation of things you don't care about, Sisyphus, Cincinnatus, and plenty more!
Theorycraft Thuesday: New Years Edition ft. Pangolier & LD!
January 01, 2019 11:33 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBOn this week's special-edition Theorcraft Tuesday Proud and Ursi are ringing in the New Year with a reflection on 2018 and looking forward to 2019 with some goals and plans for how we're going to grow as players moving forward! For our hero combo this week we covered Offlane Pangolier, one of Ursi's current favorite heroes, and Proud takes another stab at playing Lone Druid in the mid lane since last time we had to play it safelane!
TcT: CS is(n't) Your GPA ft. Sven/Shadow Shaman
December 27, 2018 10:15 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi break down the core concepts of the offlane duo vs. safelane duo dynamic in our current metagame! On top of that main segment we're chatting about the worst Slark build Ursi ever willed into existence and plenty more! Hero focuses for this week are Ursi's Shadow Shaman and Proud trying his hand at Sven after some non-carry theorycrafting!
TcT: Project Heroes ft. 3 Sven & Shadow Shaman
December 25, 2018 06:18 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBOn this week's very festive Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Bee are covering all sorts of topics including: Ursi's project heroes, why he thinks 'project heroes' are so beneficial to improving at dota, when to abandon a lane as a support to let your safelaner get solo exp, holiday dota trends, sniper builds, non-traditional 3's, what hero abilities we would want to have in real life, and plenty more!
TcT: Deck The Halls With Balls of Skeletons ft. Rubick/Clinkz
December 20, 2018 12:12 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are in the holiday spirit playing Clinkz and (the newly arcana-d) Rubick! We brave the most dangerous of all hallways in our attempt to parse out, via metaphors and what very well may have been a fever dream, how to effectively lane as a squishy duo while still establishing and maintaining lane dominance, and plenty more!
TmT: Spam Silencer Become The Highlandcer or something
December 19, 2018 09:03 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBI forgot my push to talk this took so long t o edit i hope you're happy
TcT: Middle Child Items ft. Lone Druid & KotL
December 13, 2018 23:22 - 1 hour - 53 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi breka through the hierarchy of items, cover their weeks in dota, and learn about the ultimate futility of life in a world owned and ruled by Clinkz and his skeleton army enforcers. We also attempt to play Lone Druid and KotL and do our best, which is what counts (right?!?)
TmT: 7.20e Patch Review ft. Dota Taxes
December 11, 2018 08:24 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Ursi and Beedub break through all the 7.20e patch changes in not-quite-agonizing-but-still-long detail! We also learn about how Wraith Bands are a bad influence on their peers, Tony Hawk Pro Dota Player, the ultimate April Fools play for Valve, why Magnus is so strong and how his nerfs will affect him and others, whether Death Prophet is an actual hero, and plenty more!
TcT: 7.20 Carry Pool ft. Lycan & Omniknight
December 06, 2018 06:03 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi cover their exciting last week in dota filled with all of the trials and tribulations a proper week in dota should! For our main segment we're covering the current 7.20d carry pool of 6 main carries that are really shining at the moment (Jugg, PA, Monkey King, Faceless Void, Slark, and most recently Anti-Mage)! On the hero-front Proud is playing a carry Lycan while Ursi tests out a 4 position support Omniknight! Proud's LD: https://st...
TEACH ME WEDNESDAY SORRY INTERNET WAS DOWN YESRTRDAYY
December 05, 2018 07:59 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBHERE IT IS
Patch 7.20d Review w/ Proud & Ursi
December 01, 2018 10:38 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBTonight Valve dropped a surprise 7.20d mini-patch with a slew of nerfs, changes, buffs, and other things to talk about so we're doing a patch review ASAP! Join us as we do math (sometimes well, sometimes poorly), establish Dota 3's ability system, and plenty more!
TcT: 7.20 Meta Pacing ft. OD and Doom
November 29, 2018 11:27 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBIn this week's episode of Theory Craft Thursday Proud and Ursi are explaining how the meta has shaped up to be in this first chunk of 7.20, with all the various item, stat, and hero changes! We're covering why games feel hectic and fast, what items are shining, what hero archetypes are popular, and plenty more! For our hero combo Proud is playing a mid lane Outworld Devourer with the brand new Kayasha, Tranquil Boots, and a Shadow Blade while Ursi attempts to learn a 3 Doom, for better or...
TmT: 7.20c Review & Countering Slark and PA
November 27, 2018 07:24 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Proud and Ursi are doing a complete review of 7.20c, the newest iteration of 7.20, followed by a simple explanation of how best to deal with the current pub pests: Slark and Phantom Assassin! We're also covering a bunch of 7.20-specific questions so look out for those!
TcT: Viva La Wraith Band ft. Tidehunter & Bounty
November 22, 2018 08:13 - 1 hour - 51 MBOn this week's Theory Craft Thursday we are basking in the glory of 7.20's changes and our ability to once again enjoy theorycrafting dota two concepts! We're going over all our big take-a-ways from our first couple days playing the patch including: what seems busted strong, what met expectations, whatt exceeded expectations, what needs fixing, what we thought would be strong but actually wasn't, how wraith bands got stupid strong, and plenty more! For the hero combo we tested our 3 Tideh...
Patch 7.20 and 7.20b Full Length Review w/ Proud & Ursi!
November 21, 2018 10:02 - 5 hours - 205 MBAll our blood sacrifices have done their job at long last and we were blessed by the heavens with not only a bonkers wild patch 7.20 but also a 7.20b, which was released around 4 hours into this recording and we cover at around 4hrs 14min if you're particularly interested in skipping to that new bit. Theorycraft Thursday upcoming tomorrow also! Enjoy!
TmT: 7.20 GENERAL PATCH REVIEW
November 20, 2018 08:37 - 1 hour - 65 MBNEWPATCHNEWPATCHNEWPATCHNEWPATCHNEWPATCH THE 8 HOUR ONE IS COMMIN UP TOMORROW MY SWEET BABBIES
TmT: Things We Learned from 7.19
November 13, 2018 09:25 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi are doing their full patch reflection & wrap-up, covering all the things they learned and reflected on from this long, long patch! Some topics include: resolutions for 7.20, the effect of duolanes on our thinking about hero viability, commitment to new roles, balancing role queue when exploring new roles, tower hitters, pub innovation vs. pro innovation, and plenty more!
TcT: Muggle Normative Politics ft. Jaden Smith & Drow Ranger
November 08, 2018 07:56 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi form a suppport group to survive the next 2 weeks before 7.20's release on November 19th, right alongside the Artifact beta which also starts on the exact same day for some ungodly reason. We played a great game this week and cover Drow Ranger's aghs & maelstrom style as well as support abaddon's strengths and weaknesses, among other things!
TmT: Where is the Patch Please & Dota Lore
November 06, 2018 10:38 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBToday's Teach Me Tuesday is a little different than usual! The patch STILL hasn't emerged so Proud teaches Bee about the origins of Dota. They also ramble about favourite hero lore and sandwiches. Please give us the patch. ᶦᵗˢ ᵏᶦˡˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵘˢ
TcTis The Season
November 01, 2018 07:52 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi usher in the beginning of Big Boy Season, the best time of year. Please give us 7.20 we are dying over here mr. valve
TmT: Pre-Patch Planning & Dota Dates
October 30, 2018 07:49 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Beedub and Ursi are jumping into their pre-patch plans, their top hopes they're looking for in the patch we expect to come out this week or next, our hero/role focuses for the upcoming patch, pivoting to other roles maybe, and plenty more! For questions we cover utility item prioritization for 4's/5's, which heroes each host should get paired with on (potentially disastrous) blind dates, what heroes wouldn't get Ursi fired if he brought them in as guest speak...
TcT: Big Piles of Triangles Edition
October 25, 2018 07:41 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are wading through a whole slew of topics to cover some listener questions that were eating away at us! Topics include: gauging core strength, magic ember spirit, the 4 primary carry archetypes, pick order in pubs, Puck's current place in the meta, Bounty Hunter's current place in the meta, regen pooling, what roaming looks like at the moment in the meta, grimstroke's best comboes and best counters, and plenty more!
TcT: Focused Brain, Unfocused Hands ft. Sven/Lina
October 18, 2018 08:09 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are talking all about that awkward situation where you pick heroes for the safelane but have your lane stolen and are forced to cobble together some sort of alternative plan in the offlane! We're playing Sven and Lina to cover this topic and seeing how it goes! All this and plenty more on today's show!
TmT: 7.19d Pa Analysis
October 16, 2018 10:21 - 1 hour - 38.7 MBThis week on Teach Me Tuesday, Bee & Proud go over the most recent mini patch, 7.19d, and all the nerfs it brings. The Pick vs Counter Pick today is with Windranger and Elder Titan and then a multitude of listener questions are answered; how to use Moonlight Shadow, playing around a farmed tanky hero, courier sniping, getting rid of stout/quell and more!
TcT: Necrobook is My Wife
October 11, 2018 08:33 - 1 hour - 40 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are learning new heroes they've never played before: Ursi's learning Arc Warden and Proud's learning Templar Assassin! We're covering our plans & attitudes going into our first time playing each hero and then reflecting on the experience in our post-game segment to see what went wrong, what went right, and whether we'll actually be playing these heroes in the future! We also establish family lore for Arc Warden, a vital part of the learni...
TmT: Your Questions, Our Answers, Proud's Cat Edition
October 09, 2018 07:15 - 1 hour - 39.9 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Proud and Ursi are burning through even more of our never-ending pile of questions we've gotten recently! Some topics include, but are not limited to: the confusing details behind long range kills, Natures Prophet support, how to highground when your team sucks at it, dealing with creep cutting enemies, armor vs. HP, Aquila on Intelligence mids, how to read a draft quickly after draft phase, whether coaching is actually worth it, and plenty more!
TcT: Global Presence ft. Arc Warden & Juggernaut
October 04, 2018 08:08 - 1 hour - 51 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are dreading the next month without a patch after Wyrkhm's update on the 7.20 release schedule but having a lot of fun playing Arc Warden and Juggernaut to soothe their souls! For our main segment we're covering how to balance a global presence on heroes like Tinker or Natures Prophet or Arc Warden with still being an active contributor to your team when it's necessary! All this and plenty more tangents on this week's show!
TmT: Q&A Extravaganza Edition
October 02, 2018 07:22 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday Bee and Ursi are jamming in a ton of questions after you overachievers sent in approximately 1 million of them! Some of the topics include: when to get bottle, how quas/wex invoker works (or doesn't work), slardar's state in the current game, the value of your safelane tower, Enchantress builds/strengths, Offlane hero pools, how much regen is too much regen, and plenty more!
TcT: Dota is Fun Again Edition ft. Riki & Rapiers
September 27, 2018 21:51 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi bask in the glory of rapier gaming and have a great time for the first time in a while with this recent patch! Proud is playing offlane Magnus with a rapier built pretty early and Ursi's playing 4 Riki! In our Week in Dota segment we talked about seeing tons of Juggernaut recently, Role Queue population, Ranked vs. Unranked game quality, and more! The full segment this week was all about how we like to play late in a patch when we're very...