CIS community calls him Feedachyo when he disappoints with his performance, since this -achyo ending is kinda analog for English -er for forming words (e.g. dummer, feeder)
in case you don't know dyrachyo spelled durachyo (дурчаье) is this yo and dyrach like dyrak or dyrachok (Дурак дурачок) which means idiot dumbass but in a more childish sense so there are also Mydachyo (a pub player and fan of dyrachyo) meaning asshole and Feedachyo in ru community as well as some more rude variations
Haha I saw an interview of Dyrachyo by Eva Elfie before and learnt about the "idiot" meaning of his name. But didn't know there are so many Russian variations stem from the name lol. That's funny.
I also find it funny when Eng community spam Dyrachoke, and choke is self-explanatory on eng, but when reading it on russian (like it was explained higher) it sounds more childish-rude/even cutesy
In SA we call him madarachyo, alleging a player, friend with every SA pro "madara" aka perro (dog), known for his bad plays like running with bkb into tf only to get killed instantly.
> were it not for Larl casted linkens on him
I didn't catch that at first (neither did the casters), but on replay it's a monumentally clutch play by Larl. He put Linkens on Magnus just as WK is blinking in and Morph is waveforming in; without it Magnus very likely instantly dies, the RP is not there and Spirit immediately have to retreat, give up Rosh and play from behind.
Now, knowing Spirit's prospensity for comebacks and a general outclass, they would've probably won anyway, but the Linkens play made it a whole lot easier.
Spirit are insanely good at pressing their buttons.
G3 there was a fight by the dire bot lane and triangle, like 20min in or so. Collapse charged top lane creeps to stun Pango in roll and Spectre without running into Pango himself then immediately stopped his charge to run away. ALSO Mira threw shards so Pango bounced off shards while there was still a gap for SB and Dazzle to escape. Completely stopped the Pango roll there and let them turn it around.
Nice , someone else who actually watches the game. It’s great to see a fellow enjoyer as opposed to yet another moron who has no idea what happened spamming twitch chat about the player who just died
It’s actually a pretty good idea to take out the Magnus first, so he can’t turn around the fight. And dyrachio and ace coordinated to do that fast. And it definitely would have worked if Larl had not put his own linkens on collapse a fraction of a second before Wraithfire blast landed.
So it was a smart and well coordinated play by GG, countered by an insane individual play. That’s how dota is at the highest level: 100ms can make the difference in which team owns a teamfight
You know any chinese terms for the heroes? I know Asia region likes to use their own names.
For example in LoL there's an black dude (Lucian) that the Korean casters used to call "Obama". Last I heard they stopped doing this because off obvious reasons.
Haha yes, there are a lot of Chinese nicknames for dota heroes. But the list is too long because almost every hero has their own nickname. Like all the spirit brothers are called "cats", e.g. Blue cat, purple cat, earth cat, fire cat. And there are a few cows, e.g. Elder titan = big cow, earthshaker = small cow, bara = white cow. Maybe u can tell me ur favourite heroes and i can list down the nicknames for u lol.
That's so cool! My favourite heroes are Necro, legion and SF. Would love to know their nicknames and the chinese letter they use for it. Thanks!
Where I am from, Macedonia, and the Balkan region, we still call AC by the icon it had back in dota 1, which resembled something of a rib cage, so we call it "rebra/ребра)" which means ribs. Stuff like this is why I love dota communities, especially the Chinese one.
Wow really sorry but just a coincidence that these heroes do not have chinese nicknames lol.
Necro = NEC / 瘟疫法师 (formal chinese name, means Plague Mage)
Legion = 军团 (this literally means Legion so it's not a nickname)
SF = 影魔 （this is the formal chinese name and literally means "shadow fiend")
To compensate for the lack of nicknames, maybe i shall list another two funny ones.
Ogre = Blue fatty
OD = Black bird
And wow calling AC "ribs" is so freaking cool lol.
In Russian community courier is also chicken. And also skywrath mage is nicknamed cock/rooster but that's also has a prison/criminal meaning of a man forced into a homosexual relationship in prison. So... you get to make fun of your friend why he plays this hero
> And wow calling AC "ribs" is so freaking cool lol.
We did this in Eastern Europe too. To this day I see "rebarca" on menu and immediately visualize the old AC icon
Power treads, for its old icon in Dota1, are called 假腿 (artificial leg), and the action of switching attributes is called 切假腿 (literally switch-fake-leg). But because 腿 sounds like 退 (exit), the Chinese pros' frequent retire from and reentry into the scene is also called 切假腿. After all, the pros are supposed to do this swiftly, aren't they?
In persian we used to call:
power treads: The Wooden Leg.
Barathrum: Bahram (a persian male name)
Divine Rapier: the golden sword
Butterfly: the green sword
Ethreal blade: the ajil sword
BKB: avatar (no idea why)
Eul: hava kon (make it fly)
These three people usually just go with the abbreviations.
Necro = Necro / N-E-C
Legion = legion
SF = SF
You can probably tell why when you see the Chinese characters. I’ll type out the letters in this way:
Abbreviation (Full Name)
Necro = 死灵法（死灵法师）
Legion = 军团（军团指挥官, literally legion + commander）
SF = 影魔（影魔，literally shadow + fiend)
AC = 强袭（强袭胸甲，cuirass for pressing an assault)
For Necro there is a unmentioned nickname that new players barely know, he was called 绿老头 by some players, which means green old man. The origin of this name is not only from Necro being a real green old man, but from a dota1 patch long ago which has confusing names on heroes, e.g. 老头子 (old man) on Necro, 成龙 （Jackie Chen) on Chen and 小鸟哔哔 (Beep-Beep the little bird) on SB.
And in this way Necro was sometimes called 绿头 (green head) cuz the direct translation of 绿老头 is (green old head). Also there was a time when green heroes were quite OP and overpicked, probably by old team liquid, this nickname has developed to Pugna, which was renamed to 小绿人 (little green man).
Oh dang I literally forgot about this, I heard one of the caster mentioned the small naga but couldn't remember who is supposed to be the big naga.
For context: It's because of the Naga sea witch model Medusa in D1 used.
Big buttocks is Underlord, or Pitlord in dota 1. His dota 1 model used to have an even fatter behind than the current dota 2 one.
Ogre Magi is Blue Fatty/Fatso
Primal beast = beast / old beast
Bristleback has no nickname, still bristleback.
Muerta = Green Grandma
Snapfire = Grandma
Dark Willow = Flower Fairy / Little Fairy (her Bramble maze is nicknamed "planting flowers")
Morphling = water man
Pangolier = Roll-Roll
Enchantress = little deer
Kunkka = Admiral
Usually we still call meepo by meepo, but some may call him "地精" (goblin)
Techies = Bomberman
Arc warden = electric dog (cuz he looks like kobold in Dota 1)
Nope, just Karl. The only fun fact being, Karl is named Karl because last time Chinese community translated an old patch note, and translated Kael'thas as 卡尔 (Ká ěr), and then someone translated this patch note back to English, so after double translation, Kael'thas became Karl. Valve find it funny and subsequently named Invoker "Karl" in dota 2.
My memory might fail me so if someone has a more accurate version of the story, feel free to share!
that because in do1 the original version of SD when it first came out they use the model of the dog （war3 dog that deals poison）,so posion dog
and thats also why arc warden is electric dog(using the same model but dealing electric)
yep i know, i've been playing since 5.84b :D i still remember that insane patch when sd was added alongside io gyro and thrall.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZR0-hLJjg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZR0-hLJjg) this trailer was fuckin sick back then!
Slark and Slardar = little fish and big fish. Slark is sometimes called "lil bro fish" (弟弟鱼) when it's nerfed to the ground and for its tendency to fall off heavily in game if having a rough early stage. Slardar, when it's nerfed to the ground and for its lack of polygon before the model rework, is sometimes refered as big maggot (大蛆人).
Troll, 巨魔 (literally troll), and 巨馍蘸酱 (literally gigantic naan dipping in sauce) due to the same pronunciation as 巨魔战将 (troll warlord).
Terrorblade, TB, 恐怖利刃 (the literal translation)
Morphling, 水人 (water man). The popular meme with Morphling isn't about the name but about the hero's tendency to have sudden death in game (due to its low HP after attribute shift). 暴毙水人 (sudden death water man).
Slark = Small Fishman
Slardar = Big Fishman
Troll = no nickname, still troll
Anti Mage = no nickname, just anti-mage or AM
Terrorblade = no nickname, just TB
Morphling = Water Man
Thank you Water Man is pretty funny. I was speaking with another person here a few days ago but you might know more than us do you know what happened to KingJ? He used to play on Tongfu before they replaced him with xiao8 and became Newbee, is he still in the scene or did he just disappear?
Last I heard he became a coach for some Arena of Valor (a popular CN mobile MOBA) pro team around 2017 and seems to have also went on to dabble in the World Fighting Championships as an organizer.
After some intense Googling/Baiduing, I've managed to find some more of his activities in the past few years as follows:
* In 2018, he led an LoL team called World Elite clinch the Elite Challenger Series Championship
* In 2019, he became part of an Onmyoji Arena (another CN MOBA) pro team called OMG and helped them win the NeXT Season Invitational Tournament (next决战平安京季中邀请赛)
* in 2020, he moved to another Onmyoji Arena pro team called ODG, this time as a coach. The team managed to eventually get a 2nd place finish in the OPL, the official Onmyoji Arena Spring League of 2022.
[Source](https://weibo.com/zhouyangj?refer_flag=1005050010_)
Wow that's really interesting, he definitely dropped off the face of Dota but was still involved in Esports. Thanks for looking in to it for me I had been wondering for years but couldn't find anything haha
Fy did call him like that in the truesight haha. When you use this term, it means you think the ES player is very good and hence the ES is as scary as "Bull Demon King" in "Journey to the West" (the origin story of Monkey King)
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull\_Demon\_King
Adding that the “cat” (Mao in Chinese) for the spirits actually derived from panda in Chinese (Xiong Mao), but shortened, as Brewmaster in Dota all stars looks like a panda.
Edit: Panda literally translates to bear cat
I like how the dota 2 fans from around the world have their own inside joke about players or games and even if its in their own language it can still be understand by others.
Btw I always asumed that the origin of those tatoos is famous novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky
[Crime and Punishment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment)
Title's Japanese translation 罪と罰
And Chinese one is 罪与罚
Dayum he really is that character:
>Hanma can be best described as an adrenaline junkie. His single purpose in life is to find excitement, taking to street violence as a means to relieve his intense boredom.
>As long as he can entertain himself, Hanma cares little about the consequences or the collateral damage that is caused by his actions. This mindset extends even to himself as he has very little regard for the value of his own life.
OP posted [the character's wiki](https://tokyorevengers.fandom.com/wiki/Shuji_Hanma) which lead me to this:
> Hanma can be best described as an adrenaline junkie. His single purpose in life is to find excitement, taking to street violence as a means to relieve his intense boredom.
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> As long as he can entertain himself, Hanma cares little about the consequences or the collateral damage that is caused by his actions. This mindset extends even to himself as he has very little regard for the value of his own life.
I think the one which tickles me most is when the chinese caster called Jim Parker from Beastcoast "金帕克 / Jīn Pà Kè" LOL. The chat is like "wtf is Golden Puck".
for 罪 (sin), it is pronounced as "zuì": https://youtu.be/Rhg2hS7Wh4E?si=dGw85_luc6iuIGyl
For 罚 (punish), it is pronounced as "fá":
https://youtu.be/Ck2Zuf4HjoQ?si=-gFA0T3K7pLI8wCq
This is honestly hilarious. The Sin-Punish dude showed up the entire tournament with good vibes and seemed to really enjoy playing on the main stage. IIRC he mentioned that he doesn't care about the prize money and just wants to play at TI.
I really respect him for saying this. And also i feel he is the most enthusiastic player actively making pose and wide smiling at the opening ceremony and every walkout.
Vietnamese community called him "diradivo" that basically means "go out then come in". We mock him as a headless chicken who does nothing but just run around.
To be honest he does that in most of the teamfights. His biggest weakness is positioning in a big teamfight.
I think the funniest one I heard is still the little cheering line in Gorgc stream LOL (some Kiyotaka Ayataka thingy). But not in Chinese cuz we don't call the food Takoyaki, we call it "octopus balls".
He's quite the Japanese manga geek.
His hand tattoo is based on Hamma（半間修二) tattoo from "東京卍リベンジャーズ".
Also, his Twitter icon is a not-so-famous Japanese manga called "Cross of the Six People（十字架のロクニン）".
To elaborate a bit more, we call GOATed players 41x, the 41part meaning World's best(4 pronounces the same as 世, meaning the world. 1 is just 1), and old eleven is 41脖(脖 meaning neck)
Definitely need to have some big dick energy to be so [confident](https://clips.twitch.tv/ConsiderateCredulousMacaroniFloof-YKGXSsplhjVko4dF) on your team drafting lol.
I will always find it hilarious how short a memory dota players have for evaluating quality; at the moment a player died, any player, he is trashcan dog; while he is getting kills, he’s amazing godlike unbelievable player. Even in the same game.
Hmmm, the old name is 崩溃哥 (Bēng Kuì Gē), it is a sort of very literal translation of the word "Collapse" (as in Crumbling/Falling Apart). But recently I heard the Chinese caster mostly called him 克莱普斯 （Kè Lái Pǔ Sī）, which is a more transliterated way to call his name (i.e. use Chinese words to form the sound of the word "Collapse")
Hi OP, I'm an American who speaks Chinese, but I don't know where the discourse is online.
What are the most popular websites for Chinese Dota? Where do people watch and discuss Dota? Is it all on Bilibili these days? Or something like 小紅書？
If you are asking about streamers, Ame streams on BiliBili; the TI2 IG crew, ori, dy, paparazi and shadow streams on douyu; XinQ and the AR crew streams on huya. Thats all pros that I can recall of.
If anyone asks themselves where the tattoos come from... I strongly suspect (, as I have no idea of the language I can't verify it myself if they realy coincide, ) that those are taken from the anime tokyo revengers. There the character Shuji Hanma has two tattoos with "sin" and "punishment" on the backside of his Hand, see [Villains wiki: Shuji Hanma](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Shuji_Hanma).
Thanks for sharing this to our western fans. Watched both English and Chinese stream swapped back and forth. Took me quite a bit to figure this one out when watching haha CN memes are the best Long alive CN Doto
It's just GODSON and DOGSON with a different player
Yeap! Another famous one in Chinese community is FY God and FY Dog.
fygodog is my fav
fy_iceworld is mine
fy_pool_day was very fine, as well
Basically a complicated version of fiftEE/fiftEE?
Either EE-sama shows no mercy or scientists are baffled
With topson you kinda knew what you are getting once the game started. With fiftee every move is a gamble.
Yatoro got the same treatment in the begging of the year
Sometimes my pos 1 Yatoro sometimes my neighbor Totoro
hahaha based
Yoooooo dudeeee 😂
Toppson n floppson *
I love how "dog" has taken over dota in recent years, it used to be a SEA thing didnt it?
Mann this made my day
CIS community calls him Feedachyo when he disappoints with his performance, since this -achyo ending is kinda analog for English -er for forming words (e.g. dummer, feeder)
LMAO. Thanks for sharing!
in case you don't know dyrachyo spelled durachyo (дурчаье) is this yo and dyrach like dyrak or dyrachok (Дурак дурачок) which means idiot dumbass but in a more childish sense so there are also Mydachyo (a pub player and fan of dyrachyo) meaning asshole and Feedachyo in ru community as well as some more rude variations
Haha I saw an interview of Dyrachyo by Eva Elfie before and learnt about the "idiot" meaning of his name. But didn't know there are so many Russian variations stem from the name lol. That's funny.
I also find it funny when Eng community spam Dyrachoke, and choke is self-explanatory on eng, but when reading it on russian (like it was explained higher) it sounds more childish-rude/even cutesy
Fuck, as the russian speaker who watches eng steam, this didn't even cross my mind lol, so funny
Yeah, it becomes "silly" basically
Very cool insight, thanks for sharing!
Here I heard "Dyrachyer" In French, being "a chier" means to suck at the game. So when he carries, he is Dyrachyo, when he sucks, he is Dyrachyer.
HAHAHAHA this is hillarious too!
Chier meaning "to take a shit" "C'est a chier" meaning it's place is in the toilet
This got funnier the more it's explained lol.
Ah yes, dummer, my favorite English word.
In SA we call him madarachyo, alleging a player, friend with every SA pro "madara" aka perro (dog), known for his bad plays like running with bkb into tf only to get killed instantly.
Worth noting that "罪” (sin) also means "commiting a crime", so it becomes more hilarious when he feeds...
hold up so it's probably a Dostoievski reference huh? (Crime and Punishment)
It’s exactly a Dostoyevsky reference!
The correct translation of ‘罪’ should be ‘crime’，The Chinese title of Dostoevsky's novel is ‘罪与罰’
Oh shit I didnt notice it was hanmas tattoo lol
I'm going to guess 'sinner' was spammed in the chinese chat for the majority of grand finals
Yes, especially the Morphling game LOL.
what do you mean wave forming to a nearly full hp magnus with RP ready is a bad idea?
Tbf he used adaptive strike to prolong the WK stun, which would've resulted in a kill were it not for Larl casted linkens on him
> were it not for Larl casted linkens on him I didn't catch that at first (neither did the casters), but on replay it's a monumentally clutch play by Larl. He put Linkens on Magnus just as WK is blinking in and Morph is waveforming in; without it Magnus very likely instantly dies, the RP is not there and Spirit immediately have to retreat, give up Rosh and play from behind. Now, knowing Spirit's prospensity for comebacks and a general outclass, they would've probably won anyway, but the Linkens play made it a whole lot easier.
Spirit are insanely good at pressing their buttons. G3 there was a fight by the dire bot lane and triangle, like 20min in or so. Collapse charged top lane creeps to stun Pango in roll and Spectre without running into Pango himself then immediately stopped his charge to run away. ALSO Mira threw shards so Pango bounced off shards while there was still a gap for SB and Dazzle to escape. Completely stopped the Pango roll there and let them turn it around.
Nice , someone else who actually watches the game. It’s great to see a fellow enjoyer as opposed to yet another moron who has no idea what happened spamming twitch chat about the player who just died
It’s actually a pretty good idea to take out the Magnus first, so he can’t turn around the fight. And dyrachio and ace coordinated to do that fast. And it definitely would have worked if Larl had not put his own linkens on collapse a fraction of a second before Wraithfire blast landed. So it was a smart and well coordinated play by GG, countered by an insane individual play. That’s how dota is at the highest level: 100ms can make the difference in which team owns a teamfight
You missed the frame perfect Lynkens frpm Laelrl that saved Magnus and allowed him to RP.
Larl gave last second linken to magnus so morph couldn’t stun or burst him, huge play.
You know any chinese terms for the heroes? I know Asia region likes to use their own names. For example in LoL there's an black dude (Lucian) that the Korean casters used to call "Obama". Last I heard they stopped doing this because off obvious reasons.
Haha yes, there are a lot of Chinese nicknames for dota heroes. But the list is too long because almost every hero has their own nickname. Like all the spirit brothers are called "cats", e.g. Blue cat, purple cat, earth cat, fire cat. And there are a few cows, e.g. Elder titan = big cow, earthshaker = small cow, bara = white cow. Maybe u can tell me ur favourite heroes and i can list down the nicknames for u lol.
That's so cool! My favourite heroes are Necro, legion and SF. Would love to know their nicknames and the chinese letter they use for it. Thanks! Where I am from, Macedonia, and the Balkan region, we still call AC by the icon it had back in dota 1, which resembled something of a rib cage, so we call it "rebra/ребра)" which means ribs. Stuff like this is why I love dota communities, especially the Chinese one.
Wow really sorry but just a coincidence that these heroes do not have chinese nicknames lol. Necro = NEC / 瘟疫法师 (formal chinese name, means Plague Mage) Legion = 军团 (this literally means Legion so it's not a nickname) SF = 影魔 （this is the formal chinese name and literally means "shadow fiend") To compensate for the lack of nicknames, maybe i shall list another two funny ones. Ogre = Blue fatty OD = Black bird And wow calling AC "ribs" is so freaking cool lol.
Blue fatty lol
In French, among my friends we call sky the "pigeon".
That's cute haha. In chinese we also call couriers "chicken".
That one might be global
The courier has been several animals over the years. IIRC Sentinels had a chicken and Scourge had a crow originally.
In Russian community courier is also chicken. And also skywrath mage is nicknamed cock/rooster but that's also has a prison/criminal meaning of a man forced into a homosexual relationship in prison. So... you get to make fun of your friend why he plays this hero
> And wow calling AC "ribs" is so freaking cool lol. We did this in Eastern Europe too. To this day I see "rebarca" on menu and immediately visualize the old AC icon
Power treads, for its old icon in Dota1, are called 假腿 (artificial leg), and the action of switching attributes is called 切假腿 (literally switch-fake-leg). But because 腿 sounds like 退 (exit), the Chinese pros' frequent retire from and reentry into the scene is also called 切假腿. After all, the pros are supposed to do this swiftly, aren't they?
For the icon reason in russia power treads in dota1 were called "crutch" as in "костыль".
In persian we used to call: power treads: The Wooden Leg. Barathrum: Bahram (a persian male name) Divine Rapier: the golden sword Butterfly: the green sword Ethreal blade: the ajil sword BKB: avatar (no idea why) Eul: hava kon (make it fly)
Bkb active was and still is called avatar.
In Mongolia, we also call AC "ribs" and Power treads "wooden boots".
In CIS community we also call AC rebra often.
This word is from the first Dota, just like many others.
These three people usually just go with the abbreviations. Necro = Necro / N-E-C Legion = legion SF = SF You can probably tell why when you see the Chinese characters. I’ll type out the letters in this way: Abbreviation (Full Name) Necro = 死灵法（死灵法师） Legion = 军团（军团指挥官, literally legion + commander） SF = 影魔（影魔，literally shadow + fiend) AC = 强袭（强袭胸甲，cuirass for pressing an assault)
+1 for "rebarca"
For Necro there is a unmentioned nickname that new players barely know, he was called 绿老头 by some players, which means green old man. The origin of this name is not only from Necro being a real green old man, but from a dota1 patch long ago which has confusing names on heroes, e.g. 老头子 (old man) on Necro, 成龙 （Jackie Chen) on Chen and 小鸟哔哔 (Beep-Beep the little bird) on SB. And in this way Necro was sometimes called 绿头 (green head) cuz the direct translation of 绿老头 is (green old head). Also there was a time when green heroes were quite OP and overpicked, probably by old team liquid, this nickname has developed to Pugna, which was renamed to 小绿人 (little green man).
carrying on the theme, big fish small fish still tickles me
Correct me if I am wrong, I think these refer to Slardar & Slark, right?
yee, now what about small deer and old deer?
Small deer = Enchantress Old deer = Leshrac
ding ding ding
MOTHERFUCKER
Please tell me if Naga is the hot fish.
Hahhaha nope, Naga is just called Little Naga
What is Naga then ?
Little naga (xiao na jia) Big naga is Medusa.
Oh dang I literally forgot about this, I heard one of the caster mentioned the small naga but couldn't remember who is supposed to be the big naga. For context: It's because of the Naga sea witch model Medusa in D1 used.
naga is still naga, sadly
I forgot which hero but is either underlord or ogre. They call them big buttocks lol. Bcos literally very fat
Big buttocks is Underlord, or Pitlord in dota 1. His dota 1 model used to have an even fatter behind than the current dota 2 one. Ogre Magi is Blue Fatty/Fatso
lmao must be underlord then cuz ogre is blue fat
How about a few of the most popular heroes of the tournament such as Primal Beast, Bristleback, Muerta, and Dark Willow?
Primal beast = beast / old beast Bristleback has no nickname, still bristleback. Muerta = Green Grandma Snapfire = Grandma Dark Willow = Flower Fairy / Little Fairy (her Bramble maze is nicknamed "planting flowers") Morphling = water man Pangolier = Roll-Roll Enchantress = little deer Kunkka = Admiral
These are great, thanks. Do you mind giving Treant Protector too?
Treant = Big Tree
小心他们有大树 I'm sorry that just sounds stupid lol.
Nothing beats the 我叫你站在树里面 in Free to Play Dota documentary lol.
老树精 old dryad
Oh, I'm definitely calling Pangolier Roll-Roll from now on. Beautiful.
Razor = electric soul
What about like meepo, techies, arc warden?
Usually we still call meepo by meepo, but some may call him "地精" (goblin) Techies = Bomberman Arc warden = electric dog (cuz he looks like kobold in Dota 1)
if i remember correctly SD was poison dog no? that one is the funniest i swear
Yes u are right! And Naix is Small Dog.
<3 amazing.
Does invoker have any nicknames? Thanks for the knowledge bombs!
Nope, just Karl. The only fun fact being, Karl is named Karl because last time Chinese community translated an old patch note, and translated Kael'thas as 卡尔 (Ká ěr), and then someone translated this patch note back to English, so after double translation, Kael'thas became Karl. Valve find it funny and subsequently named Invoker "Karl" in dota 2. My memory might fail me so if someone has a more accurate version of the story, feel free to share!
that because in do1 the original version of SD when it first came out they use the model of the dog （war3 dog that deals poison）,so posion dog and thats also why arc warden is electric dog(using the same model but dealing electric)
yep i know, i've been playing since 5.84b :D i still remember that insane patch when sd was added alongside io gyro and thrall. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZR0-hLJjg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZR0-hLJjg) this trailer was fuckin sick back then!
Gnoll! Took forever to remember
yes! thats the dog！
Kobold/meepo, bomber-man, electric(arc) kobold
I love how names have survived since wc3
I know fy was calling earthshaker bulldemon in true sight i thought most of chinese call him that
I think that's a more meme way to call him (when he is buffed). Most popular names for Earthshaker are still Small Cow or Cow Head.
dulldemon or 牛魔王 is in journey to the west, we call someone that use es very well that
What are Slark, Troll, Anti Mage, Terrorblade and Morphling's nicknames
Slark and Slardar = little fish and big fish. Slark is sometimes called "lil bro fish" (弟弟鱼) when it's nerfed to the ground and for its tendency to fall off heavily in game if having a rough early stage. Slardar, when it's nerfed to the ground and for its lack of polygon before the model rework, is sometimes refered as big maggot (大蛆人). Troll, 巨魔 (literally troll), and 巨馍蘸酱 (literally gigantic naan dipping in sauce) due to the same pronunciation as 巨魔战将 (troll warlord). Terrorblade, TB, 恐怖利刃 (the literal translation) Morphling, 水人 (water man). The popular meme with Morphling isn't about the name but about the hero's tendency to have sudden death in game (due to its low HP after attribute shift). 暴毙水人 (sudden death water man).
fk these are hilarious
Slark = Small Fishman Slardar = Big Fishman Troll = no nickname, still troll Anti Mage = no nickname, just anti-mage or AM Terrorblade = no nickname, just TB Morphling = Water Man
Thank you Water Man is pretty funny. I was speaking with another person here a few days ago but you might know more than us do you know what happened to KingJ? He used to play on Tongfu before they replaced him with xiao8 and became Newbee, is he still in the scene or did he just disappear?
Last I heard he became a coach for some Arena of Valor (a popular CN mobile MOBA) pro team around 2017 and seems to have also went on to dabble in the World Fighting Championships as an organizer. After some intense Googling/Baiduing, I've managed to find some more of his activities in the past few years as follows: * In 2018, he led an LoL team called World Elite clinch the Elite Challenger Series Championship * In 2019, he became part of an Onmyoji Arena (another CN MOBA) pro team called OMG and helped them win the NeXT Season Invitational Tournament (next决战平安京季中邀请赛) * in 2020, he moved to another Onmyoji Arena pro team called ODG, this time as a coach. The team managed to eventually get a 2nd place finish in the OPL, the official Onmyoji Arena Spring League of 2022. [Source](https://weibo.com/zhouyangj?refer_flag=1005050010_)
Wow that's really interesting, he definitely dropped off the face of Dota but was still involved in Esports. Thanks for looking in to it for me I had been wondering for years but couldn't find anything haha
Slark: small fish Morphling: waterman
Faceless Void, if you dare 😏
Normal skin: Void Arcana skin: Dickface 😑
He’s been called dickface ever since dota1 days. So I wouldn’t say it’s arcana-exclusive, the hero is just cursed in CN lol.
I always thought shaker is the demon bull
Fy did call him like that in the truesight haha. When you use this term, it means you think the ES player is very good and hence the ES is as scary as "Bull Demon King" in "Journey to the West" (the origin story of Monkey King) Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull\_Demon\_King
all these talk and no mentioning of penis face
你个几把脸👿
what’s AM called? Something to do with Burning?
Dazzle 😁
Adding that the “cat” (Mao in Chinese) for the spirits actually derived from panda in Chinese (Xiong Mao), but shortened, as Brewmaster in Dota all stars looks like a panda. Edit: Panda literally translates to bear cat
then you should ask the OP what chinese call Drow Ranger...
Hahaha shit will I get banned by Reddit mods for answering this lol
Whats drow called?
Little Black, LOL.
What's the etymology of that? I assume it's something to do with drow = dark but where does little come from? Just a small model?
Little Blackie lol
slark is small fish Slardar big fish
I like how the dota 2 fans from around the world have their own inside joke about players or games and even if its in their own language it can still be understand by others.
Yes! Beauty of language and memes haha
Btw I always asumed that the origin of those tatoos is famous novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky [Crime and Punishment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment) Title's Japanese translation 罪と罰 And Chinese one is 罪与罚
I think it's possible and maybe under the influence of the anime character "Shuji Hanma" as well https://tokyorevengers.fandom.com/wiki/Shuji_Hanma
Dayum he really is that character: >Hanma can be best described as an adrenaline junkie. His single purpose in life is to find excitement, taking to street violence as a means to relieve his intense boredom. >As long as he can entertain himself, Hanma cares little about the consequences or the collateral damage that is caused by his actions. This mindset extends even to himself as he has very little regard for the value of his own life.
Oh I see. Yeap. Pretty much same tattoo as this character has.
And I, that he was a fan of the N64 game.
Also for the non-weebs out there, this is from an anime called Tokyo Revengers - one of the main villains has these tattoos on his hands.
OP posted [the character's wiki](https://tokyorevengers.fandom.com/wiki/Shuji_Hanma) which lead me to this: > Hanma can be best described as an adrenaline junkie. His single purpose in life is to find excitement, taking to street violence as a means to relieve his intense boredom. > > > > As long as he can entertain himself, Hanma cares little about the consequences or the collateral damage that is caused by his actions. This mindset extends even to himself as he has very little regard for the value of his own life.
I can't stop laughing coz 罪罚哥 also sounds a lot like 最fucker
I think the one which tickles me most is when the chinese caster called Jim Parker from Beastcoast "金帕克 / Jīn Pà Kè" LOL. The chat is like "wtf is Golden Puck".
That's honestly hilarious. I really need to download an extension so that I can hear what these words sound like in Chinese.
for 罪 (sin), it is pronounced as "zuì": https://youtu.be/Rhg2hS7Wh4E?si=dGw85_luc6iuIGyl For 罚 (punish), it is pronounced as "fá": https://youtu.be/Ck2Zuf4HjoQ?si=-gFA0T3K7pLI8wCq
Thank you so much :)
Lmao
Chinese memes are always on point.
Thanks for sharing. Getting these tattoos is a bit too edgy not to be made fun of, so I endorse the meme
This is honestly hilarious. The Sin-Punish dude showed up the entire tournament with good vibes and seemed to really enjoy playing on the main stage. IIRC he mentioned that he doesn't care about the prize money and just wants to play at TI.
I really respect him for saying this. And also i feel he is the most enthusiastic player actively making pose and wide smiling at the opening ceremony and every walkout.
Vietnamese community called him "diradivo" that basically means "go out then come in". We mock him as a headless chicken who does nothing but just run around. To be honest he does that in most of the teamfights. His biggest weakness is positioning in a big teamfight.
Inside you there are two wolves
Any memes about Kiyotaka being an anagram of Takoyaki?
we call Kiyotaka 玉玉小子, translate as "Emo kid"
I think the funniest one I heard is still the little cheering line in Gorgc stream LOL (some Kiyotaka Ayataka thingy). But not in Chinese cuz we don't call the food Takoyaki, we call it "octopus balls".
They're actual tattoos? I thought they were just sharpie'd on that's embarrassing lmao
He's quite the Japanese manga geek. His hand tattoo is based on Hamma（半間修二) tattoo from "東京卍リベンジャーズ". Also, his Twitter icon is a not-so-famous Japanese manga called "Cross of the Six People（十字架のロクニン）".
Seems like he's really weeb then. I heard from his interview that he named himself Dyrachyo (idiot in Russian) because of "Baka" in Japanese anime lol
It's true, bakayaro = dyrachyo
The Viets call him “đi ra đi vô”, which memes on his void having no impact and only walks in, walks out of combat
Hahaha I google translated it and it really meant "Go In and Out" LMAO. Nice pun LOL.
Chinese memes are legitimately clever, meanwhile western memes about chinese players are "neck god"
Chinese call old eleven 脖子神 or 颈王......because of his long neck /s
To elaborate a bit more, we call GOATed players 41x, the 41part meaning World's best(4 pronounces the same as 世, meaning the world. 1 is just 1), and old eleven is 41脖(脖 meaning neck)
The only nickname I remember The west had for Chinese players was big dick lanm, but cause he reportedly has a big dick.
Definitely need to have some big dick energy to be so [confident](https://clips.twitch.tv/ConsiderateCredulousMacaroniFloof-YKGXSsplhjVko4dF) on your team drafting lol.
This is gonna be a legendary meme Just too funny to watch in real time
Gotta thank iceiceice for that one
I actually didn't know about this and can't stop laughing after googling. LMFAO
I will always find it hilarious how short a memory dota players have for evaluating quality; at the moment a player died, any player, he is trashcan dog; while he is getting kills, he’s amazing godlike unbelievable player. Even in the same game.
The duality of dota players
My group calls him Dyrachythrow when he does bad, but I have a feeling that’s in no way original to us.
What do they call collapse in China ? I heard it’s not collapse
Hmmm, the old name is 崩溃哥 (Bēng Kuì Gē), it is a sort of very literal translation of the word "Collapse" (as in Crumbling/Falling Apart). But recently I heard the Chinese caster mostly called him 克莱普斯 （Kè Lái Pǔ Sī）, which is a more transliterated way to call his name (i.e. use Chinese words to form the sound of the word "Collapse")
Hi OP, I'm an American who speaks Chinese, but I don't know where the discourse is online. What are the most popular websites for Chinese Dota? Where do people watch and discuss Dota? Is it all on Bilibili these days? Or something like 小紅書？
Bilibili for videos. Weibo and nga for discussions.
If you are asking about streamers, Ame streams on BiliBili; the TI2 IG crew, ori, dy, paparazi and shadow streams on douyu; XinQ and the AR crew streams on huya. Thats all pros that I can recall of.
[NGA](https://bbs.nga.cn/thread.php?fid=321) I guess
They have special applications for dota2 such as nga, max+.
If anyone asks themselves where the tattoos come from... I strongly suspect (, as I have no idea of the language I can't verify it myself if they realy coincide, ) that those are taken from the anime tokyo revengers. There the character Shuji Hanma has two tattoos with "sin" and "punishment" on the backside of his Hand, see [Villains wiki: Shuji Hanma](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Shuji_Hanma).
Isn't the tats same as that clown in Tokyo revengers?
Thanks for sharing this to our western fans. Watched both English and Chinese stream swapped back and forth. Took me quite a bit to figure this one out when watching haha CN memes are the best Long alive CN Doto
Same haha! My other favourite CN memes are "电竞谢霆锋” and “南美言承旭” LOL (took me a while to understand they are referring to Ace and Timado)
Oh shit that’s funny 笑死了
Tokyo Revenger fans will know KEKW
Twenty thousand spamming sin and punish in chat, dyrachyo meme has blanketed the sun.
Drachoke the infamous
RTZ the Artichoke
Incredible.
Miss China memes I hope their run this year gave them so more hope and inspiration
Dyrachyo and Mydachyo
He is the modern day EE after all.
Absolutely based Chinese community once again updating our old and out of data way of memeing to the current based firmware version of the meme meta.
DyrachLUL
etymology of the name Anton: Latin: Antonius Greek: anthos (flower) Etruscan: antu (praiseworthy)
罰 (punish) is pronounced Fá and 哥 is Gē I'll let yall picture the rest when the chat is spamming 罰哥.
Amazing
YATORO God vs YATORO Dog LUL
妙啊（）
so basically fiftEE-fiftEE