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![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/commons/images/5/5e/Dark_Willow_Large.png) Mireska Sunbreeze, the Dark Willow
Children love telling stories about the whimsical adventures of fairies... That's because children don't know that most fairies are spiteful jerks. And in the world of spiteful fairies there are few names spoken of with more contempt than Mireska Sunbreeze.
Born to a fae merchant king, Mireska grew up in Revtel; a cutthroat nation where manipulation and murder were the norm. But while she was quite adept at navigating the etiquette, unspoken laws, and social rituals that permeated every element of her life, she found the whole thing rather boring.
So, Mireska did what most rebellious children do: burn down her family estate and set off with her pet wisp Jex to live the life of a wandering grifter.
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/commons/images/3/3c/Dark_Willow_icon.png)  Dark Willow
Dark Willow discussion.
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Pros:
Nice control (fear, stun, root).
Conditionally good evade (W dodges projectiles, but not ground based abilities)
Sick damage from ulti on very short CD (Bedlam deals extremely hard damage. 3.2k on lvl 3).
Cons:
relatively low range and right click damage
No BKB piercing abilities
fragile (low HP, armor)
spells expensive (only Q and E)
no inherent gap closing (which you want to get in range for bedlam)
I like her, she is funny.
Isolated enemies are easy to kill with bedlam.
You can split teams with terrorize, keep them split with roots and delayed stun.
The shadow realm is kinda whack as a nuke, but a relatively short CD projectile dodge (beware of ground target abilities, they still hit you).
My current impression is:
invis is good (glimmer is very nice, SB an option but seems unnecessary).
Force staff (escape/isolate enemies) or Atos (HP+root+right clicks) are good.
Movement speed is good (she is relatively slow....)
Blink is good (who knew?)
Try to be annoying, stack camps, grab some farm with bedlam (when you can) and play from there.
Don't pick her against teams with lots of untargeted abilities.
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Well
I really like Dark Widow.
I play 4 times with her. 4 times supp.
My tough :
She will be nerfed.
Max 1st & 3rd spell : at level 3 you have 1/1/1. You have to use the second spell only for escape until he's max
Urn is really good on her. B/C u can help on so many kills even in the beginning of the game. Eveolve it asap, item is imba.
Then i like Glimmer a lot, it's like a must have. because the only ability missing on this hero is a way to heal/protect your mates.
My tip :
Fear is really powerfull if you can engage with it
dont rightclik with her > range is shot and low dps overall
you are not invulnerable when you use second spell > don't think its ok ! be attentive
AOE stun is really powerfull in teamfights > ppl dont know this hero well
put your 1st spell behind the T3 tower when you go highground > awesome
Bedlam > kill stacks. just do it
beware of nukers
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Can be a pretty good offlaner against some lineups as well. Terrorblade especially is sensitive to bedlam combined with your W. Can finish him off before the swap.
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I have played 4 games with her. all core mid. I find her to be pretty balanced but very good. Simply put for balancing, she is paper and she takes a little more skill than one would thought. In a game where I reached 25 against a team with two hc I was 6 slotted with +200 atk speed and just melted troll warlord, even if he would bkb. But in response to that I built nullifier. I was commended by the other team for my plays.
So I think if she would get nerfed it would be in the fashion of bedlam. other than that I think her abilities are, for the most part, balanced. Blade mail fucks her so bad.
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I dont think those nerfs are enough. This hero with 0 items can do up to 4k dmg in 3 sec to already stunned aoe which she has... Ulty needs to be at best 40sec cd not to mention the bolt with 700 magic dmg in 15 sec cd. I am betting at least 2 spells will receive nerfs next patch
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Necro doesnt like this hero.
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Ya I had a necro who kept ghost shrouding me haha. I think the range on her W could be nerfed. and that's all it needs because until 20? I think it is it gets +300 and before that its like any other intel spell for Damage. Her ult should have a static 40 sec I guess but even at 20 sec I only seeing it being spammed If the team fight is still going even then its not that great because of its short range and spread out team for dmg, like juggernaut.
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