yeah I didn't see many trilanes when I was watching that 1 mil tourney a while back. I may have been gone from dota for a while but I'm no nub ; ). There will be a slight adjustment period when I go back to dota, but I retain the skills of my former dota play (including matchup knowledge, since that mostly hasnt changed aside from new/reworked heroes) along with applicable skills learned in LoL. I don't always pick top tier because I like to have fun and make creative teams and strats that work with good synergy. Of course tiers are important, but you can counterpick with silencer and disrupt a nuke heavy team. And THD has a slow, a stun, great early game dmg, and a good amount of AOE damage, with meki he can support and has good health for an int hero, I'm not sure why he isnt being played more.
Any tips for getting into the beta? I've contacted valve like 3 times, filled out the online app twice, entered all the contests with no luck =(