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craz3d

Bulgaria856 Posts

January 12 2013 19:57 GMT

#37181

Yea it is a pain in the ass. I fail a lot with her but still have the urge to play her. Must be those eyes

Dattish

Sweden6297 Posts

January 12 2013 20:01 GMT

#37182

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Noocta

France12578 Posts

January 12 2013 20:09 GMT

#37183

People are discovering Medusa is actually pretty bad.
How funny.

Itsmedudeman

United States19229 Posts

January 12 2013 20:13 GMT

#37184

Difference between medusa and others is that you need like 5 items to be useful.

Solaris999

United Kingdom194 Posts

January 12 2013 20:18 GMT

#37185

On January 13 2013 04:25 Bouli wrote:
Is there a way to disable that other people can destroy your items? The disable help function doesnt work for it :/.

I don't think so, you just have to be really careful when you're transferring items across to and from a courier, maybe even buy your own if you're stuck with trolls

Incze

Romania2058 Posts

January 12 2013 20:25 GMT

#37186

I think Dusa's problem is that, in the meantime, everyone else got buffed really hard and she has fallen behind. She's still really good in the hands of a capable player, otherwise...look at her winrate.

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

January 12 2013 21:01 GMT

#37187

I have never in my life won a game as PA. (And we're talking even low level pub games). I can try and go standard bfury or I might go strange armlet builds, none of it works. I don't really have winning with PA as a personal life goal though, it's just when I random or am in a non-caring mood that I pick her anymore.

Incze

Romania2058 Posts

January 12 2013 21:05 GMT

#37188

The only reason to play PA is for those sweet 1k crits with barely an item in your inventory

ViZe

United States1513 Posts

January 12 2013 21:07 GMT

#37189

Well a lot of her losses should be attributed to her being a terrible hero for pubs in the first place (as a super lategame carry). I mean she is right behind Antimage and it's not like Antimage is a particularly weak hero. I doubt any reasonable change that IF could make to Medusa while maintaining her current design would do much to improve her winrate. Competitively I don't think she is antiquated in terms of power level but rather just as a style of carry.

Nevuk

United States16280 Posts

January 12 2013 21:08 GMT

#37190

I mean, I have no wins with medusa either. But that's like 1 game. With PA we're talking about being 0-15. My AM winrate is normal, around 47%

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Denmark14978 Posts

January 12 2013 21:12 GMT

#37191

You just need battlefury on medusa and gg, EGEL.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

January 12 2013 21:16 GMT

#37192

On January 13 2013 06:07 ViZe wrote:
Well a lot of her losses should be attributed to her being a terrible hero for pubs in the first place (as a super lategame carry). I mean she is right behind Antimage and it's not like Antimage is a particularly weak hero. I doubt any reasonable change that IF could make to Medusa while maintaining her current design would do much to improve her winrate. Competitively I don't think she is antiquated in terms of power level but rather just as a style of carry.

This.

The changes to the game from when she was strong has pushed her out of favor not because other heroes necessarily got much stronger (some did, some didn't), but because the pace of the game got much faster.

As it stands with how the game currently plays, even the slower to develop carries become teamfight-relevant before 25 minutes at the latest (BFury+Manta AM, BFury+BKB Void). Carries that develop slower than this don't get played (Spectre being another example of a slow-to-develop carry). The expectation is for carries to develop and become revelant quickly--facilitated in some cases by new itemization like Tranquil Boots. Medusa just isn't a hero that can meet that kind of rapid development and expect to be strong and stable.

KillerSOS

United States4207 Posts

January 12 2013 21:42 GMT

#37193

I finally won a legit match on Dusa.

Was far too much effort for a rather subpar carry atm.

hooahah

3752 Posts

January 12 2013 21:50 GMT

#37194

On January 13 2013 04:03 craz3d wrote:
How do you play Medusa well in pubs?

ez, you repick into someone good

BlitzerSC

Italy8800 Posts

January 12 2013 21:55 GMT

#37195

On January 13 2013 04:52 KillerSOS wrote:
Dusa just seems awful... good stuff releasing super hard carry when meta game hates carries.

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She has no ganking abilities, nor does she have... really anything until late.

She is just a worse version of Gyro.

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Denmark14978 Posts

January 12 2013 21:58 GMT

#37196

On January 13 2013 06:55 BlitzerSC wrote:

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She is just a worse version of Gyro.

That really depend on what aspect you judge them in.
Lategame potential? No, she's not worse than him there.
But i'll agree, he's much more suited for the current pace of the game.

TheAppetizer

United States146 Posts

January 12 2013 21:59 GMT

#37197

The thing I really like about Medusa is her ability to control a lane with snake. It does a ton of damage, forcing the opponent to use regen and allowing you to get free farm. Farming throughout the rest of the game is a different story though... Im also a low level player, so everything I've said may not be true.