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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On January 24 2013 12:03 tauon wrote: You need to be watching live. When a team, for which you own a pennant, does something noteworthy, you have a chance to receive a cosmetic items. Works for all tournaments iirc You don't need a pendant anymore. You just have to be a live spectator. | ||
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BeanerBurrito
1010 Posts
On January 24 2013 12:08 tauon wrote: I think it is a combination of the face that he is relatively squishy, has a very long cast duration (like lesh if i remember correctly) and he is fairly easy to kite. I think it is mainly the same reasons that Ursa isn't picked at competitive level. That's what i'm saying about him in dota 2 being much much better. His mechanics are so responsive you cannot be kited, you can switch to ranged literally as they exit melee, and back to melee as they enter melee again. His ultimate got buffed a lot, 10 seconds of +60/120/180% attack speed globally on a 20 second cooldown, imagine your whole team pushing a tower every 20 seconds, or dominating a team fight. Squishy maybe, kiteable? not anymore, he has a freaking ranged aoe slow and ranged attack, he can kite people if he wants. | ||
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ControlMonkey
Australia3109 Posts
Wow. Why? | ||
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tauon
Australia1278 Posts
http://www.wowpedia.org/Bristleback_Hunter blizzard IP  Bristleback is a much cooler name tham Bristlebog | ||
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lazyitachi
1043 Posts
But as a true carry.. pales in comparison to many other heores. As I said, super pub stomper for those noobs who stray away from their team but in a real team fight.. his contribution is not that strong.. the nukes are not going to hit that much cos you are not likely to get into that kind of position. The ult is mainly to benefit himself to get the passive going to proc more bashes... Well.. guess I ll go try him tonight on the test client just to see how he feels.. | ||
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BeanerBurrito
1010 Posts
On January 24 2013 12:24 lazyitachi wrote: Think troll might work in a push lineup for that extra cheese.. But as a true carry.. pales in comparison to many other heores. As I said, super pub stomper for those noobs who stray away from their team but in a real team fight.. his contribution is not that strong.. the nukes are not going to hit that much cos you are not likely to get into that kind of position. The ult is mainly to benefit himself to get the passive going to proc more bashes... Well.. guess I ll go try him tonight on the test client just to see how he feels.. I personally didn't have a problem landing my nukes, huge aoe, and when i was even close to melee range my melee axes hit. I even felt like the melee axes were reliable, and the ranged axes I think i might've missed one, but that was more user error and i believe you can be pretty much perfect with them. The ult is huge on all heroes seriously, if you have any type of carry teammate, or even a few non carry teammates the dps is enormous really. Someone wanna do some math to say how much exactly? | ||
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
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tauon
Australia1278 Posts
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Shaella
United States14828 Posts
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tauon
Australia1278 Posts
On January 24 2013 13:28 Shaella wrote: I can see him ran as like a 3rd position, build the standard cheap build, phase drums, you'll contribute a fair amount of damage while buffing your carry, his slow/blind is pretty decent to boot. He can't jungle or offlane and he's a mediocre solo mid if I remember correctly. I'm not sure where you could run him if not the protected farmer on the safe lane. | ||
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Bswhunter
Australia954 Posts
From the little I saw of him in dota 1, he seemed like a weaker version of outworld destoryer. Carry int, relying on mana/skills to do stuff. He just seems weaker then OD and countered harder by BKB/magic resist. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On January 24 2013 13:32 Bswhunter wrote: Can someone tell me how Skywrath mage is played? From the little I saw of him in dota 1, he seemed like a weaker version of outworld destoryer. Carry int, relying on mana/skills to do stuff. He just seems weaker then OD and countered harder by BKB/magic resist. It's actually better to compare him to Zeus--except instead of being a mediocre solo laner, he's one of the best laners in the game (often top ban in 1v1 tournaments). He has the potential to be quite good as a solo mid gank/teamfight hero. OD isn't an appropriate comparison because OD's baseline damage is weaker--OD is far more dependent on levels/items to get his damage to strong levels, whereas Skywrath Mage's baseline damage is high enough to secure his midgame fighting/ganking ability (again, like Zeus). | ||
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tauon
Australia1278 Posts
On January 24 2013 13:32 Bswhunter wrote: Can someone tell me how Skywrath mage is played? From the little I saw of him in dota 1, he seemed like a weaker version of outworld destoryer. Carry int, relying on mana/skills to do stuff. He just seems weaker then OD and countered harder by BKB/magic resist. I saw him played a little bit in the GEST. The two games that I remember he was played once in a trilane and once solo mid. Can't remember much else | ||
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Shaella
United States14828 Posts
On January 24 2013 13:31 tauon wrote: He can't jungle or offlane and he's a mediocre solo mid if I remember correctly. I'm not sure where you could run him if not the protected farmer on the safe lane. I think the two axes skills combined with all the bonus stats on his Q he gets from just one level of it, he could put up a pretty decent toplane. His manacosts for both are cheap cheap, and his base MS is like 320 with Q, pretty high. On the other hand, he does lack a good escape | ||
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
On January 24 2013 12:16 tauon wrote: http://www.wowpedia.org/Bristleback_Hunter blizzard IP Bristleback is a much cooler name tham Bristlebog well i can imagine some kind of community initiative for a better name coming soon | ||
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FinestHour
United States18466 Posts
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BeanerBurrito
1010 Posts
On January 24 2013 13:43 Shaella wrote: I think the two axes skills combined with all the bonus stats on his Q he gets from just one level of it, he could put up a pretty decent toplane. His manacosts for both are cheap cheap, and his base MS is like 320 with Q, pretty high. On the other hand, he does lack a good escape try safe lane with a support? or trilane even You can farm any opposing hero, while giving a free farm lane to troll and push with his ultimate and fervor on towers and his aoe nuke that clears creep waves. | ||
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Nilrem
United States3684 Posts
On January 24 2013 13:48 rabidch wrote: well i can imagine some kind of community initiative for a better name coming soon Valve can always change the name down the road--nothing is stopping them from doing so. If it is very hated than they could change it, but I do not see it as such a problem but that is just me. | ||
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Stancel
Singapore15360 Posts
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Mithhaike
Singapore2759 Posts
On January 24 2013 14:07 DoNotDisturb wrote: let's be honest, bristlebog sounds awful It is awful. Who came up with that name. | ||
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