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Jinxed
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States6450 Posts
November 12 2014 00:49 GMT
#19701
Short answer is that pros are very adverse to change until someone comes along and smashes in their face with a new idea.

Long answer is that Bat still gives a lot to a team, and with big ganks creating big swings he can still be very useful. Even if he can't lane well and can't farm as fast, his ultimate plus a blink and a force can change games entirely. It's an extreme amount of lockdown, even if you have to be sub melee range to use it.
LiquidDota Staff"LeLoup is a great name pls undo." -Liquid`Nazgul
Joni_
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany352 Posts
November 12 2014 14:10 GMT
#19702
Not mentioning the fact that Bat is one of the best non-carry lategame heroes. There are so many good things about Bat:
Vision generated by firefly, scouting with napalm and nuke are just amazing around rosh (and a lot of lategame comes down to fighting around rosh), he is strong against bkbs, very mobile (heroes that synergize with BoT are very valuable lategame imo), his itemization is somewhat flexible after dagger, force and bkb so he is a decent hex carrier with potential for hex+refresher,.... just to name a few.

Additionally it is very hard to shut a bat down so badly that it won't have any impact on the game anymore, esp if you dont happen to have some amazing counter hero like Venge, SD, LC or something like that.
BluemoonSC
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
SoCal8910 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-12 15:07:33
November 12 2014 15:06 GMT
#19703
to add onto what the past couple posters said..games are going a lot longer than the previous patch...long games tend to favor the team with batrider.

just because a particular play doesn't work out in a given scenario doesn't mean it was the wrong choice..it simply didn't work out this time around. with so many hero combinations, its hard to say that the batrider is a bad pick unless you look at a much larger sample size.
LiquidDota Staff@BluemoonGG_
Comeh
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States18918 Posts
November 12 2014 17:06 GMT
#19704
Batrider essentially wins lategame because no matter how good your positioning is, this hero can kill you for free. He can destroy teams that want to turtle high ground, and if you buy back? Okay fine we'll back off for 60 seconds. Of course, thats assuming the batrider is a good player.
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Birdie
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
New Zealand4438 Posts
November 14 2014 01:26 GMT
#19705
If you cast, say, ember spirit's flame guard and then get a level up while it's still running and level up your flame guard, will it increase the strength of the guard? Or only the next one?
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Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
November 14 2014 01:39 GMT
#19706
Only next one. You're casting the lower lvl flame guard.
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
November 14 2014 02:09 GMT
#19707
On November 13 2014 02:06 Comeh wrote:
Batrider essentially wins lategame because no matter how good your positioning is, this hero can kill you for free. He can destroy teams that want to turtle high ground, and if you buy back? Okay fine we'll back off for 60 seconds. Of course, thats assuming the batrider is a good player.

linkens forces bat to waste force on linkens, vs swap / sd disruption / lc press the attack can all counterinitiate

bat is good but not unbeatable
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Jinxed
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States6450 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-14 04:49:02
November 14 2014 04:48 GMT
#19708
On November 14 2014 11:09 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 13 2014 02:06 Comeh wrote:
Batrider essentially wins lategame because no matter how good your positioning is, this hero can kill you for free. He can destroy teams that want to turtle high ground, and if you buy back? Okay fine we'll back off for 60 seconds. Of course, thats assuming the batrider is a good player.

linkens forces bat to waste force on linkens, vs swap / sd disruption / lc press the attack can all counterinitiate

bat is good but not unbeatable

-_- .... 5 players are not going to all get linkens in a game. There will always be a target for a Batrider to go on. That's the strength of his kit.
LiquidDota Staff"LeLoup is a great name pls undo." -Liquid`Nazgul
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
November 14 2014 05:47 GMT
#19709
not all 5 players are going to be worth blowing lasso on lategame either...
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Buckyman
Profile Joined May 2014
1364 Posts
November 14 2014 07:21 GMT
#19710
If mass Linkens really becomes a problem late game, Batrider can eventually get Euls and/or Scythe.
BluemoonSC
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
SoCal8910 Posts
November 14 2014 12:01 GMT
#19711
by the time mass linkens becomes a problem, the bat probably already has a bkb and travels, possibly a eul's if the game demands it. he's still a strong hero.
LiquidDota Staff@BluemoonGG_
Surprise.820
Profile Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1276 Posts
November 14 2014 12:09 GMT
#19712
RE: new Bloodseeker jungling meme with new bloodrage; what are some good timings for items? (phase/treads into blademail/dagon etc)
Erase and improve
Wrath 2.1
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany880 Posts
November 14 2014 15:48 GMT
#19713
Is there a way to disable the chat ? (and I don't mean the allchat or muting every player every time..)
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-14 16:16:48
November 14 2014 16:16 GMT
#19714
then what do you mean?
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Excludos
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway8046 Posts
November 14 2014 16:50 GMT
#19715
On November 15 2014 00:48 Wrath 2.1 wrote:
Is there a way to disable the chat ? (and I don't mean the allchat or muting every player every time..)


You mean steam chat? You can turn that to not pop up while playing in steam settings, or turn it off completely.

I cant think of any other chat that doesn't include allchat or players
ChunderBoy
Profile Joined August 2011
3242 Posts
November 14 2014 18:39 GMT
#19716
On November 14 2014 21:09 Surprise.820 wrote:
RE: new Bloodseeker jungling meme with new bloodrage; what are some good timings for items? (phase/treads into blademail/dagon etc)

idk about item timings, but there is this 6.8k? guy that gets lvl 6 at around 4:20
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Surprise.820
Profile Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1276 Posts
November 14 2014 19:26 GMT
#19717
If you aren't busy can you please forward the guy's details to this thread? Thank you in advance.
Erase and improve
unkkz
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Norway2196 Posts
November 14 2014 19:55 GMT
#19718
Does aghanims doom disable stuff thats already active via toggling? Aka dusa manashield?
BoZiffer
Profile Joined November 2011
United States1841 Posts
November 14 2014 20:44 GMT
#19719
Looking for some good support Ogre Magi or Sand King replays - does anybody know of a pubstar or something I can download some replays of?
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14893 Posts
November 14 2014 21:15 GMT
#19720
On November 15 2014 04:55 unkkz wrote:
Does aghanims doom disable stuff thats already active via toggling? Aka dusa manashield?


with or without it will still be active, you just can't turn it off. For example, if morphling toggles on morph before he gets doomed, he will keep pumping up his str until doom runs out or he dies. same with rot and pudge, WD with heal etc
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