The Weekly Ward: Meme Vision - August 6 2025

Welcome to The Weekly Ward: Meme Vision, your weekly reconnaissance into the best Dota 2 community humor. Just like a well-placed ward reveals enemy movements, we're here to provide vision into the memes that defined the week. Every seven days, we'll highlight seven standout pieces of community gold that captured the Dota zeitgeist, made us laugh, or perfectly summed up the eternal struggle of Ancient bracket life.

1. Backbreaking work

Source: u/MrAzerGJR

In a 50+ minute game, sometimes it’s easy to forget how much supports do in the early game. So, on behalf of all carries that forgot: Thank you, dear supports! <3

2. Dota 2 players (post 2022) in a nutshell

Source: u/Kalokohan117

Getting patches and being happy about it is indeed a rare occurrence in the last few years, unfortunately.

3. Get the hint already

Source: u/AgroDota

Big patches are far and few between events. Almost as if priorities inside Valve have shifted 🤔

4. Go play (insert new game here)

Source: u/AgroDota

Wait a minute…that name…

Keep up the good work u/ArgoDota, and thanks for the laughs!

5. The troll tide keeps rising

Source: u/AgroDota

Making games is cool and all, but have you tried scuba diving and having a(recently purchased) yacht company???

Gaben’s doing his own thing, so we might have to temper our expectations.

6. Unattempted hooks are basically missed hooks 👍

Source: u/yorukmacto

Better to have hooked and missed than never to have hooked at all.

(Dota 2 poet, probably)

7. Art safe zone 🦺

Source: u/Impressive_Bad_6783

Welcome to the end of the memes. Take a while and detox from the compendium memes and trolling of Gabe Newell. Then feast your eyes on the amazing, original artwork by u/Impressive_Bad_6783 (more like, impressively not bad).

That's your meme vision for this week. The community never stops creating, and we'll never stop watching. See you next week for another round of The Weekly Ward, where we'll keep our eyes on the pulse of Dota's finest shitposters and meme artisans.