What a hypocrate, Jo!
You were overlooking so much our cuddly Veno!
Bst supp evr GG pwnr

(actually i'm a gank paranoid so i like to ward fo my safety)

@I LUV DOTA: Exactly

Jo, could you explain some of these dota jokes on the description ? Sometimes even on the comments i can't find the explanation on these :s

Yeah, so Veno builds Agility (=damage) rather well and can be played as a carry by outleveling the other team (support/semicarry-->carry). Soft carry Veno is actually the favored comp Veno build by far.

Also, free kills from wards on noobs. teehee

Keep Posting these funny comics :)

In short, I am in the "Let Nerf Now be Nerf Now" camp.

How many of you posting all the nasty childishness about "make more comics about x and less about x or I'll leave" have ever clicked through to Jo's advertisers once or supported him in any meaningful way?

@von Boomslang: And yet, because I don't play Team Fortress or care about it, I don't get half the jokes.

Do you know why I don't complain? Because 1) this is Jo's comic and not mine, and 2) I know how hard it is to DO a webcomic and put it up for free five days a week.

[url=#user_comment_252361]@Dri[/url] (the second one): Are you saying drawing comics for monetary interests is bad? Because that's silly. Even so, I'm pretty sure the point was "Jo doesn't owe you anything, and more people play DotA 2 anything, so drawing DotA comics is fine."

[url=#user_comment_252280]@Dri[/url] It's not hilarious, in fact your suggestion is downright offensive, you're suggesting Jo draws DOTA2 comics for monetary interests. I just think he has been playing it more than TF2 recently, also he might have just run out of TF2 jokes for the moment.

Wardmancer: ability to make all follow the spiritual liege, Rowboat Girlyman.

[url=#user_comment_252280]@dri[/url] i have to agree let him draw what he wants, besides he can't draw anything unless he has inspiration to draw it... btw i wonder if jo knows the mecha-engie was added to MVM in one of the latest updates?

It is hilarious to watch people whine about DOTA2 and then to see on Steam that it is the most played game by a ratio of 5:1 against the second most played game, TF2.

Warms my heart to finally realize the trolls are trying to compensate for something.

Let Jo draw whatever Jo wants, assholes.

where is meepoward ?

I'm getting Nemo-Gulls outta those things.

[url=#user_comment_252251]@Waffl3x[/url]: Not better than Crystal + Jugg at all.

>Warding pre-10
It's like you WANT to give them free money

this is why dota 2 suck....

Jugg + Veno BFF

Favorite combo honestly, so hilarious to get those level 1 first bloods.

Actually got this one first try. All you really need to know for the joke is that a ward is a thingy you can place.
Expectation->Lots of fighting other players
Reality->Lots of doing something that most certainly isn't fighting other players, and looks tedious.

All these bronze "carry" venomancers are so funny hohoho

this is why league sucks.

[url=#user_comment_252005]@arhiDavid[/url]: IKR? what people don't think dem wards are smexy, Every hard carry on my team owes his kills to MY wards.

> People complaining about DotA2 comics when Jo already made several LoL comics.

Reminds me of the first time I played Necrolyte and was told he was a support. I then proceeded to become hard-carry and become unkillable unless my team was completely absent and I was focused down by everybody on the enemy team, which only worked twice before they found the tactic no long worked.

Here's an amazing concept - play Dota2 *AND* TF2 :O :O :O and now stop your bitching. Awesome comic Jo!

@VON:
One additional problem is that TF2 classes are really intuitive (sniper snipies, engineer leaves machines, etc), Dota2's ? Not so much.
Stilll, Joe seems to like making DOTA2 comics, EVEN if it alienize a big part of it's audience, and he will not change it.

@Andrew Hall:

The initial comics required a passing knowledge of nine classes. The DotA ones require intimate knowledge of the metagame and the abilities of... how many characters?

T-T is true!!!

...reminds me of the day I realized that Veno is a support when I kept carrying as him in almost every game I played.

@Viking ZX: BRO

Funnily enough, its the other way around for me. Panel 3 is what people expect from my Veno. Panel 2 is what they get. The finale is, provided my team can focus and play, a victory. Nothing says "Fear me" like a 27-10-20 Veno who's pentakilling. Skip the wards, they're worthless. Veno is a nuke.

TROLL!

[url=#user_comment_252145]@Cyriel[/url]: Ya, rly? Go back and read the initial comics again. I suspect what you mean to say is "I have the extensive background knowledge required to analyze Team Fortress comics and laugh hilariously at them, but I don't like MOBAs or comics about them so now I'm going to start whining."

this is the reason why dota 2 sucks

I remember a time when people came here and saw funny comics that didn't require extensive background knowledge.

Wait until techies got released. Good techies will use remote mines for... more wards. (Since it last for about 8 minutes and have farther sight than Lanaya's trap.)

Beastmaster's maphawk still the best for scouting hands down.

WHY NO CURRIER
GO AWAY SOLO HARD
I WILL NEVER TRUST NOT AS SUPPORT VENO

Jesus, instead of complaining so much, you could easily just leave, people.

And that's why I don't play ARTS.

Venomancer is usually played as a 'Support' hero, which means it's his job to help other heroes get gold. The implication is that the player wants to play offensively, but ends up getting Plague Wards (Venomancer skill) because putting down wards is a very important job for Support.

Screw dota/lol

Veno has 2 of the best level 1 abilities in the game. His passive gives a DoT and a slow for chasing, while the venom gale is a ridiculously powerful level 1 slow. If you get laned against melee heroes without stuns like bloodseeker, you've won the lane. Bonus points of you're with rubick or ursa.

Venomancer midwars... Oh the wards... =3

Quick ass venom.

Veno?

It is a complete and utter beast in low-lvl games before people have any idea who the Omni is.

Gale+rune=First blood for sure.
And after a few kills, someone leaves and you've won the game... at least in low-lvl games.

depends on what skill lvl you are playing i actually played a few carry veno games and i got fed onoly problem was that their team was better than my team....

Dude, that is EXACTLY what happened to me when I first played DotA2 for the first time! Picked the Venomancer because of poison, and got a not-so effective hero.
I suck at the game anyway, but that was the icing on the cake.

Hey Jo, just wanted to say I just watched the Fails of the week, and they did a small gag that looked familiar if you know what I mean :)
Apparently someone from Dotacinema read NerfNow :D

Venomacer is a offvencive champiogn that got a minion summon skill on of of it 4skill (i'm no dota player, so can be wrong).
So he probably will spam minion to us as ward.

Seriously Jo? What about Gale and Poison freakin' Nova?!

For the absolute no moba fans:
most of people see support player should put wards (totem that give limited sight for a temperary time, in a fog of war combat).

Sorry, this comic site is great, but lately I just come to read the comments. Now THAT's comedy gold ;3

@no understand: When people play that hero they expect to play as carry, but end playing as support because of one of his skills which can be used for warding.

is a ward

explain this comic please

[url=#user_comment_252036]@bery[/url]: cut the "I never" part, I just woke up >.> .

Screw that, I never you're oh so much potent with the gale+passive while actually buying wards.

I remember baiting a blood seeker with my wards once. While he was busy trying to kill my ward, our Pudge hooked him between us and we ate him for breakfast.

"another comic of that game that still is not released and nobody plays"

nobody plays... ok .. most played game on steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

And every player has 10+ invites they can send out. So it is availible to everyone who cares enough to search for a key.

I prefer Keeper.

yay! another comic of that game that still is not released and nobody plays! i don't get any of the jokes but im sure they are soooooooooooo funny!

Wardmancer! Mancing up some wards!

he's moe.

Carrymancer all-the-way!

Not a single "mine" was photo noted this day... I hope...
Nice comic btw. Good tactics against venomancers wards is just destroing them. It also gives you money.

wardb__ches unite!

AAAAAAAAAAAnd I dont get it.

Those warding things are oddly cute.