Originally Posted by
Zalmoxis
Veno is fun but generally lacks sometimes due to the lack of disables.
yeah, but thats why there are 4 other heroes on your team.
Originally Posted by
Zalmoxis
Ds, don't see many of those. If you think about it, he's pretty great in team fights and overall, but as far as supports go, wd, disruptor or lock are more OP.
darkseer isnt a conventional support, hes an versatile offlaner, allows you to have a jungler or 2 other supports.
or even allows you to move to the jungle if lanes arent working out well.
i use him to get an early mek, shut down the melee safe lane carries, buff up the team fights and generally make the other supports lives easier, seeing as getting farm on darkseer is easy as, so you can afford to sponsor a ward or two, upgrade courier, take up the mek/pipe roles etc.
he synergises really well with melee carries/mid heroes, with ion shell +surge and vaccing people into aoe stuns etc.
Originally Posted by
Zalmoxis
I've tried weaver too but he's more of a risk hero. If you are shot down on the offlane early on you have no chance of recovery. Plus your hp is so low you can get 2 shot very easily by nukes.
the cool down on shikuchi (however you spell it) is like 5 seconds, so you can generally avoid most nukes, hes all about positioning. attack twice + double attack, go invis and deal some damage with that, attack again with cover from the bushes etc.
all he needs is 1 damage item and his damage output is ridiculous.
Originally Posted by
Zalmoxis
ranked needs OP heroes if you want to get high rating.
you place too much emphasis on
your definition of OP, with 3800+ ranking, your team mates, even in solo queue, SHOULD be picking reasonably balanced teams.
ranked is just about decision making, not OP heroes. at our level, we cant really exploit the OP factor of certain heroes, well enough for it to be THAT much of a factor.
Windrunner shackleshot just has a fairly high skill requirement to play well, the shackleshot can either make fights or break them. can be run as a conventional support, or offlaner or even mid. powershot allows her to always get farm, and the windrun is a really reliable escape mechanism and the evasion bonus in a team fight cannot be underestimated.
Originally Posted by
Zalmoxis
Also noticed that Slark is OP as fuck in ranked.
i dont think slark is OP at all, unless your skill level is high enough to dodge stuns with dark pact.
the stat drain thing is the only really cool thing about him, sure, if the games going well, the stat drain thing is ridiculous, but his HP gain and high risk movements make him... unreliable.
I would much prefer an early game undying or a support abbadon to drain stats and dodge stuns.
Last edited by BenDover; Jan 22, 2014 at 11:33 AM.