Oh, the fights. My favourite part of dota game. The moment that completely uncoordinated farmfest pub converges into 5 heroes in a team meeting in some place for apparently no reason at all, there goes one ping, "Attack now!" chatwheel, smoke pops and tension raises. Every uphill you challenge, every tree giving a shadow itches the trigger finger. And there it goes - ALONE enemy hero! You smash that button, initiate on it, team follows, you feel the rush, you did a good play!

And then mayhem starts. Enemy was not alone. Disables from left, nukes from the right, some assasin from behind. Cores clash, everybody finds their targets, focus on a small part of the fight. Sounds blast around, flashes of lights make you constantly rethink your next move and in a spur of a second you try to think of the best of the best possible plays. Heroes start to die, other live on fighting to the bitter end. You feel like you lose the fight and then BAM some wild hex comes from a Lion that dies immediately, but it's enough to turn the tide. Fight is not yet lost. You break ankles trying to use trees/hills to your advantage as a support, or just utilize your 20 minutes of farming to maximize your damage output as a core. Buybacks come in, you have to again reevaluate everything that is happening. Another clash after another and another... And then, suddenly, you realize fight is won. Enemy supports are dead. Cores are fleeing. You chase them down one after another and finish the job. Enemy is dead. Their base is open.

You shake down the excitement and are ready to take objectives. You proudly step forward, chatwheel spins "Push now.", and your fucking team goes to farm safeset of the safest neutrals ignoring objectives completely, enemy respawns, your team dies 1 by 1, you lose the game and you see "gg ez" on allchat.