So, I decided that I want to play Meepo...
What do I need to know? ;p
I guess the most important thing is to get actual experience playing him and how to micro all the different characters, but aside from that? as far as items go, I understand that Blink, Heart and Aghanim's Scepter are the most common ones? do people often get a Mek on Meepo as well?
I know about the Poof + Blink combo and have managed pull it off, but no in an actual game..
What do you do when you get the first Meepo? Do you just send him to jungle while you are still in lane > send him home when he's low on health > poof back to you > back to jungle?
Mek and Vlads are bad items on Meepo. In most games your build should be tranquils->poor man's shield->scepter->blink->eye of skadi->ethereal blade. You can substitute the skadi for a sheep stick if you are up against a good split pusher with an escape like PL or antimage, or someone like enigma or magnus that will lock down all your Meepos after you blink in. A heart is overkill and really doesn't give you that much more HP than a skadi, and the skadi gives you extra attack speed and armor from the agility.
After you get level 6, send the second meepo into the jungle. Clear the easy camp, stack the hard camp at :53. When the hard camp has 3 or 4 stacks, bring both Meepos to clear the hard camp with poof (make sure they both poof in range of the camp so you get the full damage). You really shouldn't need to send the jungle meepo back to fountain since you'll have tranquils.
Once you have 2 Meepos, you're actually fairly strong in lane. Net with the lane meepo, poof the 2nd meepo to 1 while he walks up to the enemy, then poof the first meepo and net with the 2nd meepo. You'll have them slowed a bit with geostrike (and an orb of venom if you buy it), so you have a decent chance of getting the kill.
Max poof and put points into net and geostrike equally when that's done. Smoke into rosh the first chance you get once you're 16 with aghs. Break your 4 secondary meepos into groups of 2 and clear the jungle camps two at a time while using your primary meepo to be with your team if necessary.
Get used to using hotkeys. Put primary Meepo on 1, all other meepos on 2, all meepos on 3. If you want to get fancy, put groups of 2 meepos on 4 and 5 so you can easily micro them in the jungle. Turn on quick cast or auto cast, whatever it's called, if you can't get the poof tabbing down. There's nothing worse than poofing out of a shitty spot then realizing you misclicked and left one behind.
Meepo is fantastic at split pushing, even without BoTs. You can push other lanes with poof while keeping your primary meepo near your team in case a fight breaks out. Just ask if you have other questions. It takes a lot of games before you have any idea what your doing, and even more before you feel comfortable.
Also, go mid with him. The solo exp really gives you the best chance to snowball around 25 or 30 minutes and he's honestly not that bad unless you're up against one of the top tier mids like Qop. Playing him as the farming hero in a trilane isn't bad either.
