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On December 20 2013 01:18 danl9rm wrote:


I player Sniper fairly often. Grabbing him means you will always be balancing your steps on a sharp knife. One step forward could mean death... or it could mean a kill. Likewise, one step backward (in a fight or otherwise) could mean survival and a kill, whereas standing still gets you killed. Sometimes, just standing still and holding your ground pays huge dividends. These are the keys to Sniper. Having a keen sense of positioning is crucial.

Now to your question about items. I like to mid with him. Against almost any solo mid, you can get all the last hits you want. When you get good, you can have treads and a deso around 17-18 mins. If I can obtain treads/deso by that time, I know the game is already over. It's only a matter of team-pushing at that point. Sometimes I will pick up (1) wraith band inbetween, situationally. After the deso, I like to grab a yasha. The extra run and atk speed is just what Sniper needs at that point to get in position and turret. Remember, every second you're running to get in position, is a second you're not dps'ing. Let someone else get drums, you need to craft the big items. Because, once you get powerful enough, there isn't a hero in the game you should give 2 craps about. Not even void.

If the game isn't over, you can go anywhere from there. I've been known to finish the yasha into manta usually, but sometimes the sny is just too good to pass up. Don't underestimate the effect a few extra points of run speed and maim can have on the enemy carry. You'll be 3-shotting the supports at this point, so who cares about them.

At this point, get whatever you want. Monkey King Bar if the enemy has a Butterfly, Daedelus for max damage, Butterfly for a little bit of survivability. Sometimes you'll even want to back pedal and grab a Shadowblade. I don't usually recommend it, because if you have to grab one, 1 of 2 things is happening. 1, your team isn't fighting as a team and not warding/defending you/being aware AND/OR 2, you haven't ascertained that keen sense of positioning you must have as Sniper. Why ever SB? The Shadowblade can be good for those times when the only possible way you could lose at this point is if their Void pops in, ulti's, and kills you before you can do anything. In that scenario, pop the SB as he flies in and he will be a lonely Void in his bubble. If he has treads/mask of madness/butterfly and a gem, well, I don't know what you've been doing all game because all his towers should be down and he should not have those items. Sniper farms much, much faster than Void in my opinion.

If you've read this far, I expect people to disagree with me, because they usually do in Sniper, but I've played him many times and if I go mid with him, I always feel confident that we will win. He's just such a good mid and it's almost impossible for the enemy to keep you from farming. There's just too much more to say, so I'll end here, hah.

On December 18 2013 08:24 Whole wrote:
Any general tips on Storm Spirit (items and gameplay)? I almost never play mid, and I want to start playing him to learn the mid lane in general.

On December 18 2013 10:09 Darkren wrote:


This is how i play him

Starting tango + 3x branch

into bottle, into boots, into magic wand

Then u can go 2 direction bloodstone or orchids

For orchids, complete threads go into orchids

For bloodstone go for mana boots then buy all components for bloodstone and disasemble boots to complete it.

For mid you generatly want to go 1-3-1-0 by level 5 and then u can either max the first skill or the third one (try both ways they play a bit differently but are both viable)

U keep ur pull at lv 3, because that is the magic lv were u can remnant + attack + pull + attack + remnant + attack and the pull duration is long enough to get everything unloaded on ennemy hero ( This is by far storm best combo and what separates good players from wannabe scrubs, practice it as it is your bread and butter combo)

Other than that everything else comes from practice, u have to learn when is a good time to jump, how to effective juke and bait the ennemy team and general movement (U will eventually get good at calculating how big a mana pools allows u to do what)

Last thing for storm mid is try to play passive from 1-4 and get your bottle up from lv 5 you can try and make openings. Also past lv 7-8 dont stick mid too much unless you can continuously kill the other mid as your job is to snowball and hamper the ennemy team

On December 21 2013 06:10 Logo wrote:
So would shielding someone in a duel let them crit?

On December 21 2013 06:10 Logo wrote:
What about instant cast items that generally wouldn't be interrupted by the act of attacking?