no, it's just the easiest one to make fun of because it's usually divorced from the rest of the sentence.
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no, it's just the easiest one to make fun of because it's usually divorced from the rest of the sentence.
hes good
Atrophy is an aura and cant be silver edged
pit of malice piercing spell immunity is insanely good
Also firestorm burns up to 21% of max HP +420 dmg at lvl 4
hes got such a sick toolkit
nekros was great back when i still played. just stand around generating loot and reanimating dead things. almost as fun as swinging around excalibur's laser sword
gotta make that gold somehow
Ya. Also his blades lights up the more dmg stacks you have. And he has different animations when using phase boots as well
Its a animation for when his speed is increased, he does the same animation when using mask of madness.
misses bull
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wtf....
Got in two Underlord games tonight.
Verdict: Pretty fucking sick.
He's an offlaner for sure. In my head I thought position 4 might work, but I'm not really seeing it in practice now.
Pit is super strong, like others have said, since it goes through BKB. That's huge. I played against an Omniknight and it really crippled Repel's usefulness.
Firestorm is great just because of the large AoE, but cast range can leave something to be desired. I feel like blink might be necessary because of his cast ranges. I got Blink in both matches I played (one lost, the other won) and it worked out well. As for other items I got stuff like Crimson Guard, Mek, Pipe, AC, etc.
Aura is really fucking good. I tested some stuff about it. First of all, it does NOT work on Tombstone zombies. I think the best feature about Aura though, is the post teamfight: You get so much damage, that you can get your team to knock down towers like nobody's business. There was a time I had +200 damage from it, and my team was like "There's still 2 left, maybe we should back" and I was like "No, their carry is down, I have +200 damage, let's take the rax." and we got the rax.
I didn't realize until now that Dark Portal wasn't channeled, so you can use it and walk. There were a couple of teamfights where we had to cut our losses and leave, so I took two of my teammates back to fountain. This is only really good in a pinch of you want to get away from something quickly, but otherwise you need to use it ahead of a fight to get your team into position. It's a very good ultimate though, especially since it was buffed since Dota 1: It used to be only on lane creeps, but now it can be any allied unit that you can use BoTs on normally.
Verdict: Pretty fucking sick.
He's an offlaner for sure. In my head I thought position 4 might work, but I'm not really seeing it in practice now.
Pit is super strong, like others have said, since it goes through BKB. That's huge. I played against an Omniknight and it really crippled Repel's usefulness.
Firestorm is great just because of the large AoE, but cast range can leave something to be desired. I feel like blink might be necessary because of his cast ranges. I got Blink in both matches I played (one lost, the other won) and it worked out well. As for other items I got stuff like Crimson Guard, Mek, Pipe, AC, etc.
Aura is really fucking good. I tested some stuff about it. First of all, it does NOT work on Tombstone zombies. I think the best feature about Aura though, is the post teamfight: You get so much damage, that you can get your team to knock down towers like nobody's business. There was a time I had +200 damage from it, and my team was like "There's still 2 left, maybe we should back" and I was like "No, their carry is down, I have +200 damage, let's take the rax." and we got the rax.
I didn't realize until now that Dark Portal wasn't channeled, so you can use it and walk. There were a couple of teamfights where we had to cut our losses and leave, so I took two of my teammates back to fountain. This is only really good in a pinch of you want to get away from something quickly, but otherwise you need to use it ahead of a fight to get your team into position. It's a very good ultimate though, especially since it was buffed since Dota 1: It used to be only on lane creeps, but now it can be any allied unit that you can use BoTs on normally.
shira
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misses bull
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Notail and fly bromance continues I guess
my tentative pit build (still a lot of work to be done refinining aka need more games rather than just theorycraft)
max firestorm
one point in pit of malice @ 4 (or earlier if really needed)
max atrophy after firestorm
dont pick up ulti until 10 or 11
currently i think guardian greaves->crimson guard gives your team godly teamfight power and practical immunity to rightclicks, from here you can go pipe, ac, vlad or w/e your team needs
i think octarine is also very strong on him just because pit of malice is such a short cooldown and so, so powerful. firestorm also does a shocking amount of dmg/zoning as well. you become a hero that can't be killed, but if you're not focused first then you heavily diminish the enemies dmg output.
i'd like to test shivas, blink, and radi as well
max firestorm
one point in pit of malice @ 4 (or earlier if really needed)
max atrophy after firestorm
dont pick up ulti until 10 or 11
currently i think guardian greaves->crimson guard gives your team godly teamfight power and practical immunity to rightclicks, from here you can go pipe, ac, vlad or w/e your team needs
i think octarine is also very strong on him just because pit of malice is such a short cooldown and so, so powerful. firestorm also does a shocking amount of dmg/zoning as well. you become a hero that can't be killed, but if you're not focused first then you heavily diminish the enemies dmg output.
i'd like to test shivas, blink, and radi as well
Yeah I was thinking of octarine as well from watching draskyl play pitlord
I think his aura will get a minor nerf, either less bonus damage or shorter duration
Sigismundo
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Hey, Sib, how does -FATA +Miracle sound?
Sigismundo
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They L I T E R A L L Y just stole the HotS new hero menu intro
Not that im complaining
manfestival
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I would fucking love to see Moon in DC. Up until TI I was hoping they would replace Moo with someone else, now I'm not sure. I really doubt anyone on that team will get replaced. I'd rather not see any player I like on coL. haha. Is Brax not good enough to get on a better team?
Moon mentioned Khezzu while talking about teamless offlaners on stream. Is ESC making changes? I wonder if C9 will finally pick up a SEA team
StrongArmSteady
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neurosisxeno
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No it isn't. EE left Team Secret on the official DotA 2 site (as did Aui and 1437). He will not be playing with them--RTZ on the other hand is still in there.
StrongArmSteady
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oh my mistake... i thought the drop dealine was sept 1st...
subs/coaches get auto dropped apparently
edit: yeah they do
neurosisxeno
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http://www.dota2.com/majorsregistration/list
It tells you whether they left, were removed (kicked), or Auto-dropped. EE was listed as "Left", and it was pretty early in the first day the list was active. He jumped ship very fast. Aui and 1437 left shortly after, also listed as left rather than auto-dropped.
StrongArmSteady
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?
what does that prove? aui and tea bun are rumoured to have their own stack...
I would take the word of a dota insider (who is right most of the time) over looking at when ppl are leaving from the major registration site, for instance its been widely rumoured bulba left secret (yarwar tweet then resos then vlats) before Jacky Mao formerly left....yet he is still on secret...also i wouldnt look at moon's recent comments as trolling.
Edit: lets just wait and see...
StrongArmSteady
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neurosisxeno
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I'm just saying he actively left the team--pretty quickly. That's not the sign of somebody who wants to play with Team Secret. Funny you should mention Moon as he also claimed EE was forming his own team, but as we saw with Team Secret, unless RTZ and EE are literally in love with each other, there's no way in hell they end up on the same team (short of EE moving to offlane or a support role). I think it's more likely Secret reforms around RTZ (much like OG built around Miracle and DC around Reso) than they both leave and form a new team together.
StrongArmSteady
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neurosisxeno
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I don't consider statements that end in question marks on Twitter to be facts.
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Sigismundo
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He's not too bad although you do need to be quite careful as it's 300 gold on death with a significant cooldown/health loss. Savage Roar is a good panic button if nothing else.