• when he repeatedly tries to destroy the enemy's gold mine.

Your Erebus who is returning to heal from another stupid semi-suicide attempt succeeds in finishing himself off by accidently eating the -hp potion from his last death, <10 seconds before getting to the crystal.

When his ping says AI.

You know when you'd be better off with a Noob when;

   Your teammate fills the screen with posts dictating strategy, commentary, and critiquing your Rook build, while he racks up the largest number of deaths trying to show how his Regulus can "almost" kill 2 demigods . . .

Nearly every Reg i matched up the last days did it^^ was very funny espacially in a fortress match... we took out 3 fortress and the Reg just wanted to outlevel us with this... i laughed my ass of every time i took a look to the map^^

you know you have a noob partner when...

you get gratulations for capture locking in Domination and he never uses CLs.... I think he wanted me to suicede

you know when you have a noob partner when...

your team mate doesnt get bite as erebus.

When he picks Squirtle over Charmander for his first Pokemon... I mean seriously... what kind of pansy walks around with something named Squirtle in his pokeball?

A noob.. that's who.

When your partner walks into 3v1 gank situations despite knowing he won't get help.

If by "alternative builds" you mean "choosing all the broken lame ass abilities of your class and trying to win with them", then yes.

Actually, literally all the Reg did the whole game was snipe. Wasn't really an issue until mid-late game where snipe no longer did all that much to my 4,000 hp+ opponents. He didn't bother trying something else, just happily kept sniping, and the enemy team kept happily absorbing them with minimal damage. Useless.

And as it stands, going yetis for Sedna or non tower spec for Rook is nonsensical. It's like refusing to take Spit as UB.

I wouldn't have a problem with alternative builds if they actually work, but when they're as effective as a Yeti's path finding... You get the idea.

See, this is why I play almost only single player. No one in my games is absolutely and solely obsessed by winning. So anyone can play any build he likes, just so he can have some fun! (I know, it's unreal, someone playing for the fun, and not to win).

No wonder ppl want more demigods, they only play one build. I haven't even played all of them yet (builds).

twifight: If by fun you mean "losing the game for my team every time because I just want to mess around", then yeah.

Spe: You can do the ooze spec thing, but imho there really isn't a reason not to take spit. It's an incredible ranged ability that rivals (if not surpasses) ranged spec DG abilities like the TB's rain of ice (who is a RANGED centric hero). Ooze can work, so I'm not complaining about it. Prancing around with Yetis that are stuck on a corner three miles behind you doesn't work, so I do have a problem with it.

If you want to mess around just for fun in a private custom game, that's fine. But if you get matched with me in Panth and then quit after doing stupid things the whole match, I do have a problem with that. Sorry.

Well if people suck they suck, that is pretty straight forward. But people do not suck because they have an alternative build. Think outside the box. If you would only allow teammates to play a certain build then they could have just removed all demigods except one with a perfect build. But how much fun would that be?

Remember, a big part of the competition and fun in the games comes from different people playing it in a different manner. You never know what to expect. It wouldn't be the first time for me to laugh at somebody's build but then get absolutely slaughtered by him.

It's a bit offtopic, but I see this alot.  You can do things with skilled allies that work because they back you up and when you try them with an average pickup group they end up killing you and making you look like the worst kind of noob..