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On July 31 2013 09:04 jrkirby wrote:
How does the backdoor protection system work? I've seen it in action before, but I'm not sure what triggers it.

On July 31 2013 09:15 Targe wrote:

creeps have to be close to the tower.

On July 31 2013 09:39 jrkirby wrote:
So you could theoretically protect your towers by sneaking behind the enemy team and quickly killing their creeps when they want to push (if they are in front of their creeps, waiting for the next wave)? Is there a certain grace time after the creeps die where BD protection doesn't come back?

Can you give me approximate sizes for the region, like is it half the lane, or much smaller than that? Does BD protection ever work on T4 towers?

On July 31 2013 09:15 Targe wrote:

creeps have to be close to the tower.

On July 31 2013 09:15 Targe wrote:

creeps have to be close to the tower.

On July 31 2013 06:04 Andr3 wrote:

Early mek into blink, with PT's is super good for ganking. But it's situational, generally you just wanna go aghs->blink and then depending on the enemy lineup go for ac/heart/skadi. Heart if it's mostly magical dmg, AC if the enemy team has rly insane -armor and people on your team benefit from it a lot as well. Skadi is an item that's really good vs a lot of physical heroes as it gives the most EHP in that regard. Stacks with geostrike as well so it can be pretty powerful.

Ideally you want someone else to make a vlads/ac/mek but again it's situational and you gotta check the enemy lineup, your lineup and how the game is going on. Eblade can work sometimes too but it's kinda cheesey and I would only get it as a second major item after aghs/blink. It's pretty good vs heavy hitters like PA/void etc.

And you probably shouldn't start with a QB. Meepo does have terrible base dmg but not getting a stout will get you punished unless you have total freefarm. You have pretty good armor but you almost always want a stout or at least a RoP start into tranqs. One thing to note is that, you want to get PTs asap because tranqs when broken really suck with the terrible movement speed. But it's okay because RoR/RoP can be made into a vlads.

On July 31 2013 05:23 Whole wrote:

I don't think you need Mekanism. It is definitely good, but I think it delays Blink Aghs too much. Also you need to swap Aghs and Blink based on the game. If the enemy team is 5 manning, you'll want Aghs before Blink. If you can still blink gank before the enemy starts to 5 man, get the blink first. I think Aghs first is safer if you're unsure. Also I swap Tranquils for Treads after Aghs because it really helps jungling for farming up the Aghs (the Aghs is needed ASAP no matter what build you're doing).

After that just get Hearts and EBlades (most +stats) and a Vlads if you wanna hit a timing.

On July 31 2013 08:50 Targe wrote:




Thanks guys! I guess I'll swap to Tranquils -> Treads -> Aghs -> Blink as my default, I was finding my timing window for ganks to be quite small so that's great to know!

I'll drop the QB and move to a Stout as well, I thought his high starting armour would be enough.

Still don't think I'm quite ready to take him -cm yet though.