Welcome to the 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. Pain, but also…pain

Source: u/Plastmugg

This game sometimes wants you just to suffer. I refuse to believe that the fabled “forced 50” requires I lose 7 games in a day’s afternoon. And yet, I remember almost each and every instance of going 4:0 (rarely).

2. Holy collection 😲

Source: u/Ninjanghubo

Well done, good sir, keep it up!

3. He’s outta line but….

Source: u/Yelebear

Curious how now that everyone has money all of the time, thanks to abundance of creeps, runes and passive gold, that the game is somehow “better.” When before, you had to play your hero and play with your team to earn the benefits of more items for non-core positions. Which in turn made the need for a “rubber band” system to be in place so you don’t get stomped every 10 to 15 minutes. But hey, now you’ve got money to not buy a force staff or a glimmer but rush blink on CM and not once do the super cool blink into ultimate combo you saw your favorite streamer do.

Now everyone has money and that’s great, but have you considered they do not deserve to? 🤔

4. In his defense: they knew you were gonna do that

Source: u/That_Relar

Too simplistic to work in higher brackets. You need to try to win the first louts, and if you don’t, definitely trade with them a lot for the second, then either aggressively push the wave either through a pull, or just hitting them until they’re under tower or close to it. Then sneak off, if that’s how you wanna play it.

Other way would be if you have a capable pos 1 with teamfight potential, simply go through their tower to the rune. You have to tune the plan for you lane, of course.

5. Only two types of Kez player

Source: u/LargoTheEmbargo

With Tier 5 items on the table, a 4 moonshard(+1 eaten) + BKB + damage item of your choosing would unironically win a 70+ game in more than 60% of the time. This hero’s damage output is still insane.

6. Gandalf the Beaten(heh)

Source: u/shar0385

Pictured: Spellcasters having to endure 1% of what melee heroes have for the past 10 years 🙃

7. Betrayal of the highest orda!

Source: u/shar0385

Noooo, CM, don’t do it! 😢

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.