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Varth
Profile Joined August 2010
United States426 Posts
April 04 2014 17:08 GMT
#321
IMO I go radiance only when I have uncontested freefarm, which is very rare but does happen, but generally I will go for treads PMS manta because the buildup is so very nice. I also really can't see ever going skadi before Manta, manta is more dps, dispels stuff on use, confuses the enemy, and is better for farming. All skadi does is give you a slow and a little more hp, which is much more useful later on
Laurens
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium4557 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-04 17:42:32
April 04 2014 17:42 GMT
#322
On April 05 2014 02:02 govie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2014 01:12 gaymon wrote:
Its still a miracle to me how beesa can defend the radiance build so valiantly even though the vast majority of people in high rated pubs (TB is not in CM, so this is the only basis) do not go for radiance. Of course you could argue that "in theory" blablaba.... but apparently noone really builds radiance. The fact that noone of the famous "tb abusers" go for radi kinda solidifies the point that in a pub, radiance is usually not the right itemchoice.


Maybe his playstyle and skill on TB is on a higher level (no joke). Ive read somewhere in this thread about how someone on TL farms, which is quite different from pubstreamers like dendi's and singsings, much more effective. He put TB in jungle and a illusion to farm the lane. Ofcourse this requires more skill then just farming a lane.

He got a radiance in the time i normally get ma boots and a wand if im lucky. If you see your pubstars farming jungle and lane during the laningstage at the same time, then u could be right. But for now, beesa could be right about most statements. That guy even backed up his farmingskills with dotabuff profile(=replays), u can check his builds there.


The guy you are referring to is Beesa :D. Chunderboy = Beesa.
govie
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
9334 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-04 18:13:45
April 04 2014 18:06 GMT
#323
On April 05 2014 02:42 Laurens wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2014 02:02 govie wrote:
On April 05 2014 01:12 gaymon wrote:
Its still a miracle to me how beesa can defend the radiance build so valiantly even though the vast majority of people in high rated pubs (TB is not in CM, so this is the only basis) do not go for radiance. Of course you could argue that "in theory" blablaba.... but apparently noone really builds radiance. The fact that noone of the famous "tb abusers" go for radi kinda solidifies the point that in a pub, radiance is usually not the right itemchoice.


Maybe his playstyle and skill on TB is on a higher level (no joke). Ive read somewhere in this thread about how someone on TL farms, which is quite different from pubstreamers like dendi's and singsings, much more effective. He put TB in jungle and a illusion to farm the lane. Ofcourse this requires more skill then just farming a lane.

He got a radiance in the time i normally get ma boots and a wand if im lucky. If you see your pubstars farming jungle and lane during the laningstage at the same time, then u could be right. But for now, beesa could be right about most statements. That guy even backed up his farmingskills with dotabuff profile(=replays), u can check his builds there.


The guy you are referring to is Beesa :D. Chunderboy = Beesa.


I know but i was too lazy to verify
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Vikeif
Profile Joined September 2009
126 Posts
April 04 2014 20:25 GMT
#324
On April 05 2014 00:42 Laurens wrote:
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On April 05 2014 00:11 Surprise.820 wrote:
On April 04 2014 22:06 Laurens wrote:Could you explain why you think Yasha -> Skadi -> Manta beats Yasha -> Manta -> Skadi?


More Agi, tankiness and a painfully strong slow that you're bound to kill a lot of people during metamorphosis I'd guess. In my experience the early Yasha outside of farming actually allows you to chase up and use the initial Q on a lot of enemy heroes. Correct me if I'm wrong but often you'd not care about leveling Q past level 1 for these builds and people prefer the stats if they're ahead of enemy right-clickers so I think you can't rely on Q all the time to shut someone down.


I get why Skadi is good.

It's just that you go:
1) Yasha
2) Ultimate orb

And then you can either:
a) use the next 900 gold and have a completed manta and all its benefits
b) farm an additional 3300 gold to complete the Skadi and have those benefits.

I would think path a) is the better option here, and I'm just curious why Beesa is so adamant about going Skadi first.


It's situational depending on the game obviously, but on a more tactical level it is based on farming ability. If you feel that you can farm 3300 fairly safely and/or quickly then why not go for skadi? If you can farm that much then 900 is pretty effortless to farm. Chunder is apparently a farming monster so why wouldn't he just go for the more expensive/harder thing to build first if he has the opporturnity?
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
April 05 2014 03:49 GMT
#325
On April 05 2014 05:25 Vikeif wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2014 00:42 Laurens wrote:
On April 05 2014 00:11 Surprise.820 wrote:
On April 04 2014 22:06 Laurens wrote:Could you explain why you think Yasha -> Skadi -> Manta beats Yasha -> Manta -> Skadi?


More Agi, tankiness and a painfully strong slow that you're bound to kill a lot of people during metamorphosis I'd guess. In my experience the early Yasha outside of farming actually allows you to chase up and use the initial Q on a lot of enemy heroes. Correct me if I'm wrong but often you'd not care about leveling Q past level 1 for these builds and people prefer the stats if they're ahead of enemy right-clickers so I think you can't rely on Q all the time to shut someone down.


I get why Skadi is good.

It's just that you go:
1) Yasha
2) Ultimate orb

And then you can either:
a) use the next 900 gold and have a completed manta and all its benefits
b) farm an additional 3300 gold to complete the Skadi and have those benefits.

I would think path a) is the better option here, and I'm just curious why Beesa is so adamant about going Skadi first.


It's situational depending on the game obviously, but on a more tactical level it is based on farming ability. If you feel that you can farm 3300 fairly safely and/or quickly then why not go for skadi? If you can farm that much then 900 is pretty effortless to farm. Chunder is apparently a farming monster so why wouldn't he just go for the more expensive/harder thing to build first if he has the opporturnity?

Because Manta actually has a timing where it's a strong item for taking all the outer towers?
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Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18919 Posts
April 05 2014 03:51 GMT
#326
Beesa also builds refresher second on Spectre, so there's that.

But yeah radiance TB is really strong.
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rob.au
Profile Joined May 2010
1087 Posts
April 05 2014 07:52 GMT
#327
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
April 05 2014 08:13 GMT
#328
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.


I agree with this post. Manta is generally a terrible first item to get.
ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
April 05 2014 11:30 GMT
#329
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.

^
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LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-06 00:22:03
April 06 2014 00:17 GMT
#330
treads
mask
yasha/hotd
manta
skadi+ butterfly +satanic depending on le game

pew pew

how I always played this bad boy in Dota1


Then start replacing items with rapiers, not sure which ones are best?
apem ftw xD They kept changing him btw I played him back when he had weaker moving version of pugna's ultimate as one of basic skills
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
April 06 2014 07:45 GMT
#331
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.

How is skadi significantly better for teamfighting than manta? In terms of stats both are about equal cost efficiency wise and I think mantas ability is far more useful than skadis.
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ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-06 09:41:20
April 06 2014 09:40 GMT
#332
On April 06 2014 16:45 Pokebunny wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.

How is skadi significantly better for teamfighting than manta? In terms of stats both are about equal cost efficiency wise and I think mantas ability is far more useful than skadis.

it gives 725 hp, manta gives 190
manta illu are so bad and weak compared to ur other ones. they do 25% dmg and die in 1-2 aoe nukes
atleast melee manta illu are stronger and has a shorter cd which means can farm better with them.
im #1 tb dotabuff XD
"mmr is a social construct" - tumblr
govie
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
9334 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-06 09:45:32
April 06 2014 09:45 GMT
#333
On April 06 2014 18:40 ChunderBoy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2014 16:45 Pokebunny wrote:
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.

How is skadi significantly better for teamfighting than manta? In terms of stats both are about equal cost efficiency wise and I think mantas ability is far more useful than skadis.

it gives 725 hp, manta gives 190
manta illu are so bad and weak compared to ur other ones. they do 25% dmg and die in 1-2 aoe nukes
atleast melee manta illu are stronger and has a shorter cd which means can farm better with them.
im #1 tb dotabuff XD


Maybe frogster should nerf you
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zelphin
Profile Joined April 2014
47 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-07 03:14:12
April 07 2014 03:12 GMT
#334
On April 06 2014 18:40 ChunderBoy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2014 16:45 Pokebunny wrote:
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.

How is skadi significantly better for teamfighting than manta? In terms of stats both are about equal cost efficiency wise and I think mantas ability is far more useful than skadis.

it gives 725 hp, manta gives 190
manta illu are so bad and weak compared to ur other ones. they do 25% dmg and die in 1-2 aoe nukes
atleast melee manta illu are stronger and has a shorter cd which means can farm better with them.
im #1 tb dotabuff XD

do you see any merit in getting manta as ur first big item assuming you forsee a chance to take t1 and t2s with them, get ult orb pb oov into disassemble manta => skadi => another ulti orb =>manta?
Noya
Profile Joined April 2013
Uruguay11223 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-07 04:26:56
April 07 2014 04:20 GMT
#335
Manta can be disassembled, TIL.

I did EB disassemble into Butterfly once and it felt cool. Gotta try that Manta into 1200g "cheaper" Skadi (as you save one 2100 UO but have to "waste" a Manta recipe until you finish it).


Also to be fair on the Yasha into Skadi vs Manta discussion, Skadi is actually 345 HP over a Manta+Ultimate Orb (which cost 600g less). It't not 725 vs 190.
ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
April 07 2014 11:32 GMT
#336
On April 07 2014 12:12 zelphin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2014 18:40 ChunderBoy wrote:
On April 06 2014 16:45 Pokebunny wrote:
On April 05 2014 16:52 rob.au wrote:
I'm not sure manta rush actually allows you to do anything special with TB that he can't already do. You already melt towers without manta, and getting a manta doesn't let you teamfight much better IMO since you are just going to melt to nukes.

That 2.5k is almost a BKB or half your Skadi which are both items I'm normally desperate for on TB if I want to teamfight.

How is skadi significantly better for teamfighting than manta? In terms of stats both are about equal cost efficiency wise and I think mantas ability is far more useful than skadis.

it gives 725 hp, manta gives 190
manta illu are so bad and weak compared to ur other ones. they do 25% dmg and die in 1-2 aoe nukes
atleast melee manta illu are stronger and has a shorter cd which means can farm better with them.
im #1 tb dotabuff XD

do you see any merit in getting manta as ur first big item assuming you forsee a chance to take t1 and t2s with them, get ult orb pb oov into disassemble manta => skadi => another ulti orb =>manta?

ive probably already taken the towers during the first 10min long before anyone can get manta
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ZerG~LegenD
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Sweden1179 Posts
April 08 2014 10:14 GMT
#337
Some variations that haven't been discussed a lot in this thread are SnY and BoTs. Matrice and Kaibutsu are two 6k players that pick TB a lot (they are also #2 and #7 on Dotabuff). Matrice goes 3xWraith->Yasha->BoTs->Sange->Skadi and Kaibutsu similarly plays Aquila->Yasha->BoTs->Sange->Diffu. And Jukes Master Kermit (#2 on Dotabuff) goes PT->SnY->Skadi.

Personally I like BoTs a lot in solo queue as they make coordinating things easier but I dunno about SnY over Manta. Maybe situationally if u have to fight a lot?
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
DucK-
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Singapore11447 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-08 10:31:46
April 08 2014 10:30 GMT
#338
The risk/advantage of early BoT on tb is the same as with most carries. Its nothing special on TB, and you should get it on a case by case basis as per normal.

I personally find sange a waste of gold. Its kind of a dead end item when you want manta butterfly eventually.

I'm not sure how optimal it is to get early conjure, but I play TB by going stats heavy with 1 point refraction. I get conjure at like level 10 onwards or something. Stats is how I bulk up early on without purchasing HP items.

Ay tb is so powerful that just about any dps item works with him.
Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34502 Posts
April 08 2014 11:11 GMT
#339
Nice thing about Conjure is it allows you to reliably last hit creeps with illusions while you're in the jungle with your main hero.
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Laurens
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium4557 Posts
April 08 2014 11:32 GMT
#340
Reliably lasthitting with a 30% damage illusion is pretty hard though, for scrubs like me at least.

At what point do you guys start jungling like this? As soon as you have treads completed?
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