I'm aching for ES to enter Captain's, man. All these patches moving his shit around show that IF is super-afraid of his utility, but even if pros and high-level pubbers think he's broke, I think he needs to enter CM for people to get real data on why that might be, beyond his early game being too good. Everyone's afraid of him getting in, but would he really be more broke than sniper and troll were in the last patch, or Lycan, or void and skywrath, or ember when he first entered CM?
TI season is probably not the place to do it, I guess, but 6.83 would have been a great time for him to enter comp without the stakes being too high. Even Batrider, who IF can't seem to figure out what to do with, is still in comp. People were saying How Meepo and slark are OP pub terrors and such, but in comp they're not as valuable, though ES is the kind of hero who benefits from teamwork. I just want him in CM.
Maybe remove the silence from his pull and up the damage in later levels, so it doesn't silence when pulling non-remnant objects. Lower his utility some. Make diving less safe. He might be good to go for the next patch, but that's not gonna be till September, and that's lame.