The Zen of Mindgames

[[E]FlamePhoenix]

but you said powersupply is the only item that instantly heals you

In deed, this information is wrong. Astrolabe (mekanism) also heals you instantly.
Please fix that section of the tutorial. There are 2 items that give you instant heal.

[blueseph]

Hey nice guide! I would like to add my story about mindgames.

I got the illusion rune ( there can be some many mindgames with that one :O) so yeah i throwed one of my illusion out there they killed it, nothing special, so there was the real me and my illusion and they found me ( near the rune, they were 3) and i knew i had nothing to escape them except... i backed the illusion and didn't even moved my hero, they all went for the illusion, because they though i backed the real, so yeah, that was really funny i escaped them doing this .

So just a personal experience , Thanks for the guide btw !

if you have the replay of it and it looks good, i'd include it as a gif in the section on illusions.

Nice thread, i loved the storm spirit idea with tb.

oh and btw just being nit picky, but you said powersupply is the only item that instantly heals you, well there is mekanism (ergh cant remember the hon name).

whoops! updated to be slightly biased to my standpoint.

[KADOONK]

very nice guide. the video examples are much more detailed and easier to get the gist of.

this guide has covered all the jukes and "mindgames" anyone could really think of.
<3

[blueseph]

i guess you could say it was a doozie of a guide! oh ho ho ho

oh man i crack myself up sometimes.

thank you for the positive feedback!

[Infigo]

may be the best guide i have ever seen. I learned from dying so much how to do this basically, but this improved it all.

[`Smite]

Excellent guide. nuff said

[Leoros]

This item has a disjoint built in, meaning if timed right you can avoid a killer stun, but it can also be used to dispel a deadly DoT.

How can you avoid a stun with Geometer's Bane? Also, does this mean Geometer's Bane can dispel Arachna's ult?

[blueseph]

you can't dispel her arachna's ult, but you can disjoint it.





please excuse the quality of these gifs. they aren't going in the guide. just for show.

[[E]FlamePhoenix]

The gifs are so awesome ....
So, the ONLY way to avoid that is using the illusions WHILE the projectile (comet or spider) is flying in your direction right?
This way the projectile will hit a random illusion right?

This is just ... WoW, I always thought illusions were useless (besides escaping from swift and MQ ulti) until now :P

[AusKipper]

You forgot the easiest mindgame of them all!! !! (being a retard and "accidentally" saying something in the "all" chat)

EG:

[Team]: Ok guys, ignore what i'm about to say next, lets gank witch then push bottom
[All]: Looks like 1/2 of us are low on mana and scouts nearly dead, lets go back to the fountain then push mid.

*your team mates
[All] kk

Or even better, when everyones full health and at the fountain and the enemy has a TB

[All] Scout stop farming with 100hp before someone sees you, if TB ulties your going to die even if you can outrun them

*Tb wastes ulti*

*you smile*

[[APL]Didiuz]

Purely brilliant. Just fukin awesome

[[REBL]Vulpes]

So, the ONLY way to avoid that is using the illusions WHILE the projectile (comet or spider) is flying in your direction right?

Yes.

This way the projectile will hit a random illusion right?

No, it will hit nothing at all. The Comet will just vaporate, the Spider sit there and do nothing.

I always thought illusions were useless

You know that they do 33% of your Damage as well, essentialy being a 66% Damage increase?!

Rereading what you said, I think you got something wrong.
These aren't Illusions from a Illusion Rune, it's Geometer's Bane.

[[E]FlamePhoenix]

Rereading what you said, I think you got something wrong.
These aren't Illusions from a Illusion Rune, it's Geometer's Bane.

Still, you can use a bottle to store the illusions. Will it work as well ?

[[PoTG]Zora]

This is a great post but sadly i cant utilize all of what has been said because of goddamn Aus latency. avg 250ms on a USW server ftw? Too many times have i tried to blink away from a gank, have the blink animation start then end up going nowhere >

WTB AUS SERVERS S2 THX.

[blueseph]

. i wish i could lend you my connection, my friend.

[[S2]ElementUser]

blueseph YOU'RE SLOWLY FADING AWAY!

(refers to grey name)

[blueseph]

=[

I MAY BE GONE BUT MY WORDS WILL NEVER FADE

[/cheesy]

[[E]FlamePhoenix]

Any answer to my question please?

[[MsG1]ObeseSheep]

Finaly someone does a guide on this. Nicely done. I played many games whos entire life centered on mindgames. SSBM, GunZ The Duel, etc. Gotta love juking. (lol magebane) =D

[It`sOver9000]

Ah so it's totallnewbie's guide. I remember I thought it was really cool back, some time ago which is not to say I think it's bad now but calling it the "Zen of Mindgames" is a bid of a pomposity given what the guide actually explains. That is, it's mostly just a guide to basics, though that's where I learned those basics (juking, disjoints, and not sucking) plus the art of exploiting greedy noobs (ie. baiting). Now it's not that there's anything wrong with being a 'greedy noob', well except for the noob part. I am a firm believer that greed is good, however I don't think most pros follow that mantra. Well it's understandable, when there's stuff on the line you don't want to risk yourself to get a frag when you can just ignore the low health baiter and just get stand on his side of the creeps, essentially getting a hero kill's worth of free farm. Oh and remove the runes of blight/logger's hatchet part, tango juking got completely raped in HoN because you can see the trees falling in the fog.