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On June 18 2014 09:08 icystorage wrote:

you forgot i can counter you with TP

On June 18 2014 10:17 govie wrote:


Bountyhunter is countered with wards, so what. Wagamama is highest mmr players in that period by far >7000, you saying he dumb? haha

Below are the stats from all his bloodseeker matches on dotabuff, maybe helpfull :

http://dotabuff.com/players/32995405/matches?date=&faction=&hero=bloodseeker&lobby_type=&game_mode=&region=&duration=

On June 18 2014 08:33 Ayaz2810 wrote:
I recall seeing a discussion somewhere about how bad Lina's animation is. But that's never made much sense to me. All you have to do is time your attacks to compensate. And I guess you telegraph your attack to the opponent mid who might be able to deny you more frequently. But Ina. Low tier MMR game, I really don't see people capitalizing on her attack animation in a meaningful way

On June 18 2014 05:29 schmitty9800 wrote:

Viper, Wraith King, Ember Spirit (if you're good)

On June 18 2014 12:34 Excalibur_Z wrote:


I notice he doesn't go Blademail in all his games, and he opts to go Treads in more games than I would have expected. Personally I like Phase a lot more on Bloodseeker because the active when you have a lot of Thirst stacks can be immensely helpful. Unfortunately I can't view any of these replays since they've expired, but are you convinced that he goes Drums->Blademail->S&Y?

On June 18 2014 19:18 Aikin wrote:


Lone Druid off lane can easily solo snow ball games. You should crush most dual lanes and people on my MMR(~4k) seem to misplay tri lanes horrible all the time.

On June 18 2014 23:13 Comeh wrote:

Lone Druid is one of the best pub heroes in that level. It hilarious how bad people are at dealing with him in pubs - they usually just let me casually sit in lane for some reason.

On June 19 2014 03:38 KOFgokuon wrote:
troll lately has been built for utility, you get him to complement a team that takes advantage of his ult. A few pros have recently gone mid and done something like bottle phase mek into team fight and push, but that only works with coordinated game play.

Beast master is awesome, he's a very solid mid with his high base armor and axes for clearing, plus hawk for rune control. Also a great offlaner with his base armor and ms, plus he can clear ancients with his axes.

For bear, radiance is great for pushing, but the bear really destroys towers because of demolish (extra 50%? damage to towers) To siege you need to be near your bear, but the bear can solo farm while you''re safe somewhere else (albeit somewhat slowly since he can't attack)

On June 19 2014 04:08 Ayaz2810 wrote:


I didn't realize he did extra tower damage. I can see how that would help. Do people build necrobook on lone druid for pushing? I don't think I've ever seen it but I would imagine its good. As for beastmaster, I've watched people clear jungle stacks with his axes, but it doesn't look like they do a whole lot to heroes. And after you throw the axes, you don't seem to have much follow up. This coming from my super limited experience of course.

On June 19 2014 02:23 Ayaz2810 wrote:


Beyond getting a radiance on your bear, I have no idea how lone druid is played. Is the whole point for the bear to do all the work for you while you farm or something? He seems like a good hero, I just don't know how he works. Kind of the same thing with troll warlord and beastmaster. They seem useless to me but obviously are not.

On June 19 2014 05:48 Comeh wrote:
I dont even get radiance more often than not (unless i"m safelane, which never happens). Typically I'll get a phase late midas into maelstrom, and I've found it very effective.

On June 19 2014 05:53 TheYango wrote:

Honestly, smaller fighting items in general make more sense on a pub LD. This includes common stuff like Phase, Mael, Basher, but even more controversial stuff like an earlier Vlad's or a Yasha on your hero.

LD in competitive games is a very timing-dependent hero--the hero's strength largely rests on the team as a whole abusing the hero's strong timings to mount game-winning pushes (Radiance, AC). Pub games are never going to involve that coordination around a single hero's timings, so you inevitably have to make concessions for item choices that have an overall smoother, incremental tempo.