Okay, can a resident Storm Spirit expert here give me an analysis of this game?
Was it unsalvagable from the pick screen? (our greedy lineup)
I know I gave the FB mid to magnus (It looked like I was too far to the side for skewer, but whatever).
What else could I have done?
I always feel like anytime I participate in teamfights before BKB, I just die too easily. Then we've already lost, I can't farm anywhere safely AND the team is asking me to partake in fights, then cries "Where's your BKB?" when I've been trying to fight and shit always goes south.
The only games I ever get a BKB in are the ones where we somehow last long enough or are snowballing.
Yes, I'm aware we still won this game, but I feel I could have done better. I feel like we just got by by the skin of our teeth and kind of got lucky we made it to late game, because early to mid game looked bad.
http://dotabuff.com/matches/753122557
@Level 1: Wasted mana on odd remnant
@Level 2: Used remnant, did not try to hit mag with overload
First blood: You used remnant and stood on the wave waiting to last hit with overload while the mag walked from behind the creep wave to behind you. Regardless of skewer hitting on the edge of its horizontal range it was a terrible bit of positioning on your part to let that situation happen at all.
Laning pre-6 in general: You misuse remnant/overload completely. You seem to just nuke the wave and random and then last hit with the overload charge. Instead, only place remnant when there's a creep he wants to come hit or you want to push the wave, and make sure to use as many overloads as you can on your lane opponent rather than last hitting. A useful trick is throwing an attack, then placing a remnant while the attack is in air. This will trigger overload on that hit.
@635: You jump on mag with a DD rune, but you don't have enough mana for the kill effectively wasting the rune.
General note here: To succeed with storm you need to learn to count your mana better, it's really the key to the entire hero. Unfortunately there aren't any solid tips I can give you, I just learned it by feel. Make sure you have a enough mana to jump in, stun, remnant, and then jump again.
@16: Why man. There were 5 heroes there. You only have 65 cs at this point, farm more. You need to get that orchid at a timing where you can kill supports inside of the silence duration if you want to start snowballing.
@20: Suicide mission into 5 heroes again, you narrowly escape. If you're going to initiate you need to do so in such a way that you don't get shit on immediately. Storm needs a few seconds to make an impact after he gets in, so you can't just get stunned and have to fly away if you want to have meaningful impact. Luckily in this case you baited solo RP and didn't die. Ideally you want to engage after the fight starts so all the disable isn't focused on you. killing lion after his allies have cast some spells would be the ideal start to a fight for you this game.
@24: You jump on invoker, get hexed by lion and die horribly. As I said above I would've probably prioritized Lion above invoker just because of how good he is at messing you up, but the more important thing to take away from this engagement is that in teamfights you generally don't want to stun and orchid the same target. If you had silenced the mag you would've prevented him from rping your team and the invoker would've died. If you had silenced the lion you could have possibly finished the invoker yourself and lived. Maximize your teamfight utility by not stacking controlling abilities.
@2850: You again overextend your mana by jumping on a target that's too far away, and you stack orchid on the target you grab. The mag, whom you should've known was there as he was just in vision, RPs and kills your team. Pick your spots more carefully, the lion and mag were both in position to kill you after that jump, and you probably didn't have enough in the tank to finish the invoker anyway.
@3030: Ok jump here, you were a little inefficient killing the mag, but that's whatever.
@31: You pull one hero and silence another, good job.
@3240: You jumped in and lion shit on you again. Beware of strong disables, again, pick your places very carefully.
@3820: Mana management again on that jump
@4220: Mana management and decision making, don't spend all your mana diving base, should've stunned far earlier. You had no way out after and died.
Just more of the same from here.
