7 kinds of players on the Dota 2 SEA server

If you play Dota 2 pubs on a regular basis, you probably know that you come across certain kinds of players. But did you know that there are seven kinds of players that you will only find if you queue on the Southeast Asia server? Setting aside general kinds of players such as the noobs, the know-it-all, the leader, the stay lane, the mid-or-feed, and the flame-it-all to name a few, here are the seven kinds of players in Dota 2 SEA pubs.

1. The guy who keeps talking in Chinese

Although the China has its own servers, there are still several nationalities in Southeast Asia who can speak Chinese. This is the person who has the tendency to type everything in Chinese, regardless of whether anyone understands him. If you don’t know anything about Chinese characters, you’re not sure whether or not he’s actually Chinese, so he might be saying something game-related or just talking gibberish. After all, isn’t it possible that he’s just typing those characters mindlessly to piss you off? Or to make it look like he’s Chinese?

2. The guy who keeps on calling everyone Pinoy

Pinoy is the slang term for Filipino. For some reason, if you have this guy in-game, whenever something goes wrong, you get blamed for being Pinoy as if you’re to be insulted by that. Never mind if you’re Malaysian or Singaporean or of whatever nationality. If you have this person in your team and happen to disagree with him, prepare to be called a “Pinoy”. Seriously, it isn’t insulting if you’re talking to an actual Pinoy, as most of them are quite proud — sometimes too proud. Also, for the record, not all Pinoys are horrible players who do not know how to speak English. There are those of us who know how to play this game in a non-Pinoy way (as most of you would put it). Oh, and be open to the possibility that this person pointing fingers is a Pinoy as well.

3. The guy who everyone assumes to be Pinoy

Of course, if there’s a guy who’s pointing fingers, there’s a guy who’s at the receiving end of that. And there are times when this person is alone and gets ganged up on by several people. Again, never mind if you’re not Pinoy or if the ones calling you Pinoy are Pinoys themselves. The idea here is that you did something wrong so therefore, you are Pinoy. End of story. Again, it probably won’t be insulting to a person who is actually Pinoy. Although they have a bad reputation in Dota 2, not all Pinoys are going to admit that. As I mentioned, they are very proud and pointing out their nationality will either make them prouder or more aggressive. So I guess you should focus more on what they did wrong instead of stating their nationality.

4. The guy who bottle crows so selfishly up until late game

Bottle crowing is a technique that is used to increase survivability, especially in mid lane. And that’s fine. Overdoing it is not. Do you really have to bottle crow selfishly early game, mid game, late game regardless of the lane? Why? Why do you have to do this? Even as a support, don’t you realize I need the courier, too? You know, for wards? And hopefully for the brown boots that I’ve been slave-supporting over the past few minutes if I’m lucky? Don’t you realize that there are four other people who need their items, too? If you’re crippling the whole team just because you need to bottle crow for dear life up until late game, I think you need to review how to play this game.

5. The guy from Europe or North America who is complaining about lag

There are dedicated servers. I know. However, sooner or later, you ­will come across people who decided to queue for games all the way from the other side of the globe. Now it isn’t entirely wrong since there is no rule to prohibit people from queuing in different servers. For the record, even I tried queuing in European servers to play with a friend over there. However, if you experience lag while playing on a server on another continent, please stop vehemently complaining about it in the game or worse, pausing the game in hopes that the lag will go away.