General DiscussionRosh before first rune

mostly too risky
it's very easy to see what lineups are capable of lv1 roshing and punish them

rosh can be taken with 2-3 players, how is that an obvious line up? Do you mean that any urza pick will be cause enemy to check rosh before minute 0?

as long as you have a lineup that's even slightly capable of lv1 roshing, it's customary for the enemies to check the pit min0

before : all 5 get lvl 2

now : ???? , too much risk

There's just too much shit to do in pre-game to make rosh worth the risk nowadays. Smoke warding, defending bounty runes, stealing bounty runes. People often scout out the enemy's side bounty rune sides and it's very easy to get your smoke disabled.

idk, OP. Try it 10 games in a row and come back to tell us how those 10 games went.

Doesn't give you xp.

It is doable.. we sometimes did duo rosh at min 0 with ursa - io, you basicly need only bunch of salves.. when rosh is almost dead, let the ursa take full xp and he hits lvl 5 if i remember correctly..
with lvl 5, boots, aegis and io support you can easily stomp any lane..

It always worked and we stomped the game after giving zero chance to enemy team.

edit: damn, it has been much longer than i thought
- https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/835275135
- https://www.dotabuff.com/matches/863728171

but imo that strat would still work today

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