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On February 23 2016 00:11 karazax wrote:
I'll try to go thru the guides this week and update or remove the outdated info.

Quickly wrote this up at work, sorry for any formatting errors.

Since the Gazlowe rework announcement I have read a lot of comments and a common opinion is that people don’t like his lazor and think it’s terrible. I couldn’t disagree more. Gazlowe is my 3rd most played hero and I have great success with him at the highest level in my region.

In my opinion the best build for high level play is a Lazor build as follows - http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/gazlowe#pFOC

Allow me to explain a few key parts of the playstyle and talent choices. Break it down at lvl 1 is integral to the playstyle with 3x faster cooldowns from scrap. This talent turns you into a long range, high dmg, high cc machine. Later game, you must constantly put down turrets and immediately scrap them to keep pumping out lazors from a safe/strong position with almost no cooldown. With the lazor talents each blast does massive dmg, slows and casts very quickly.

I take first aid most of the time since I don’t use my turrets for much more than being wards and being scrap machines.

Be smart with casting lazor, don’t stand in the middle of a lane or teamfight and expect to charge it up. Use bushes, use your teammates, and be smart about it. If they can see you charging, simply aim it away from them and turn it back just before firing (mainly for laning phase). For whatever reason if it isn’t pointing at them they don’t care and stay in range.

Gravo bomb. Break it down means your ult doesn’t have a cooldown. If you are always cycling scrap from your turrets the cooldown is tiny. This means when you’re just walking around, you’re spawning turrets and destroying them. When you are in fountain, spawn your 2 turrets just outside the fountain wall and scrap them when leaving (you can’t pick up scrap inside), which leads to 2-3 more turrets to scrap if you aren’t immediately needed at a fight/objective. Feel free to use your grav bomb for pick offs, since you have no cooldown it's an amazing way to seal in a quick kill.

Teamfighting with lazor/grav bomb. Once your lazor slows them enemies you can pull off the following, devastating combo. (this won’t always be the correct way, as opportunities for ult combo can present themselves without it) Lazor their team, hopefully 3~ people. Destroy a previously set up turret – place your xplodium charge, wait .5~ seconds then grav bomb on top of it and charge up another lazor (the scrapped turret puts it off cd).

What does this do? Late game, you hit hopefully 3 or more targets for close to 1000 dmg (can’t check numbers right now) and slow them all. You then xplodium charge/grav bomb combo the slowed targets who cannot escape the area. They are all stunned and hurting, once the stun is ending they get hit by another huge lazor and are slowed again.

The dmg and disruption of a properly played Gazlowe is immense. By no means is he top tier or anything, but in the right hands he is pretty damn useful. I hope this might help change the view of his lazor.

He still needs work, that’s for sure.

If you want some replays let me know and I’ll find a few.

Replay - http://www.hotslogs.com/Replays/ShareReplay?ReplayShareID=16186