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[Dota 2] Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light, and Visage this week, and straight to CM.
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XBLGT:Banzeye SC2: Apollo.394
can you tether an opponent and then teleport them with you back into your fountain/nest of teammates?
Pretty sure tether only works on allies. But I was the CK so i dunno for sure.
that would be sweet if you could do teleport an enemy hero even if they nerfed it to be short distance
according to the wiki, its only allied units
This is pretty incredible.
It is awesome. Its just like "oh well you are fucked now squishy". We were trying to work on getting a second tether in place for a second stun.
Should not be too difficult considering Rift has a 6 second cooldown at rank 4. To be fair I feel that Chaos Knight works great with pretty much any other character with a stun, but that sounds like a particularly nice combo.
No the problem is tether only stuns a person once per instance of tether. So we are trying to get it to have him have a second tether up by the time my rift is on cooldown.
wisp, is a little different. he's really skill demanding in a hero specific way, whereas most support heroes are skill demanding in a support hero way. playing a roaming venge is almost 1 for 1 the same as a roaming earthshaker, for the most part. whereas wisp has a lot of little wisp intricacies between smart positioning to get tether pulls and stuns and smart teleports that i think it will be a while before he is really picked up en masse. i foresee someone like ns with dazzle having success with him and people then emulating accordingly.
its pretty cool that icefrog can still make strong and compelling supports, considering for the longest time you basically only saw the support heroes that have basically been dota standbys for years. cm, etc.
i hope wisp is a hero dendi picks up
his stream was hilarious, he kept telling sand king to ult every time it was up and he would teleport sand king mid channel into the enemy team or onto a single person
just fucking imagine that
you see sand king bot and you are top
and suddenly there is a fucking epicenter and burrowstrike on your noggin
i don't think dendi would ever play him (no solo mid no play) but lightofheaven is bound to eventually make some amazing plays with him, like he does on support windrunner. (its pretty hilarious sing calls crazy shackleshots as lightofheaven'd)
Who the heck plays CK as support? @_@
He's probably my new favorite of the heroes added in the last month though. The Wisp/CK lane really is insane.
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he's not a support in the sense of like, boots magic stick cm.
but he's definitely not a carry? i mean, his main utility is ensuring that whenever x violent action happens to the other team, they will lose the chase. i guess he functions similarly to brewmaster in this regard, but i feel that while he can definitely carry through armlet/crit shenanigans, in competitive dota he is usually played as a super agressive trilane hero or something.
i guess you could label that as a ganker, but really he's there for his stun and reality rift basically ensuring a shit ton of kills.
he's got 3x crit and his ult gives him three copies that deal full damage
he's not the hardest carry in the world, but he can potentially stun someone and deal 12*damage in the span of a second
I was radiant and went Rubick, went to the top rune spawn for 00.
Na'ix was sitting around there and going to presumably jungle after it. He dived in to try and be on top of the rune at 00 and I threw him to high ground. Instantly left the game, abandoned a minute and a half later.
Game is safe to leave, stats will not be recorded. I was really hoping he'd stay in the game and I'd get an easy win.
right, but that's akin to sven being a carry because he has an ult and cleave, whereas i think both are in the spot where they are seemingly best utilized in aggressive ganking and aggressive support, with ck coming out on top because he has a button that says "i am done chasing you, and you will die", which is tailor made for one of the obstacles in succeeding in that role (securing chases before they get out of hand). like i said, they can both easily deal out the damage -- but i think they are just slightly more towards the support side than the carry side. of course, sven is kind of meh regardless and ck is hot shit, so i think reality rift is ridiculous.
He's nothing like Sven because Sven needs tons and tons of farm to do anything but stun and get kited around.
it's also easier to initiate with blink + ult than with the orb + ult
Puck is an initiator and disabler, QoP is a damage dealer. They are both good gankers but for different reasons, and it is a lot harder to get good farm early game with puck.
The blink dagger is important on Puck to place that ulti well, the orb is simply too slow and allows people to disperse or get their BKBs ready. The standard way for puck to initiate a fight late game is spot 3 or more enemies in a group, blink in and use ult and silence, then throw your orb out and phase shift to avoid damage until it is far enough to let you get out. Then you can auto attack and use whatever CC or support items you have managed to pick up.
He's definitely a carry. He gets there by ganking, though, so I guess that makes him different that good ol' ricin' Antimage.
My rule of thumb so far is farm Bottle, Wand, and Treads. Keep farming for a bit, but as soon as you get a good rune / see someone out of position on the map, it's time to go a-murderin'. Next item is generally Heart, and if I get there, the game is practically over.
No business but war. No family but death. No mercy but the grave!
"Is he looking in my direction? Hahahaha that fucking retard."
my world
just got rocked
i think i could actually be more carry like with her than other carries.
"You can be yodeling bear without spending a dime if you get lucky." -> reVerse
"In the grim darkness of the future, we will all be nurses catering to the whims of terrible old people." -> Hacksaw
"In fact, our whole society will be oriented around caring for one very decrepit, very old man on total life support." -> SKFM
I mean, the first time I met a non-white person was when this Vietnamese kid tried to break my legs but that was entirely fair because he was a centreback, not because he was a subhuman beast in some zoo ->yotes
Though glaives are really buggy right now so it's hard to say how they'll end up.
No business but war. No family but death. No mercy but the grave!
I love Orb of Venom. I like to pick up on supports because it makes your lane harass that much more annoying.
Can anyone else not get into the game? I get stuck on 'connecting to the Dota 2 network'