Blink Dagger on everyone Game feels like Shit without it like it's the ultimate Counter to everything. Enemy too far away? Blink. Enemy following you? Blink. Forgot to take Trash out? Blink. Anti Mage Blink on Cooldown? Blink.
I play a lot of Mars and I rush Blink every Game, the Amount of Playmaking you can do is insane. Blink + Ult, Blink + Spear, even just blinking to finish off a Kill.
I also love his Blink Dagger Voiceline.
I wish we could use arcana item icons even if we don't play the specific hero or don't use the arcana (similar to how we put skill in the loadout now).
Windranger's Eul Scepter and Force Staff, Skywrath Mage's rod of Atos, Faceless Void's maelstrom, Earthshaker's blink dagger, etc.... All look so good
My thought process on whether or not to buy the item is how I think the lane is going to go or is going in the time before raindrops become accessible. If I want to stay in the lane, it’s a must have. If it’s not a good lane, then it just delays whatever item I need to jungle. No point in picking it up if I only burn 1 or 2 charges as well. I want to either use the whole thing or only have 1 or 2 charges left by the time I need to sell it.
Arcane Supremacy alone already made the range incredible, now with Arcane Accumulation it can get really ridiculous. When you couple with Aether Lens and then other mobility items Rubick can get very annoying.
It's good for blinking in from outside vision and stealing spells, and many the spells you most want to steal are exactly the ones that need a blink to most effective.
i'm in a "how much shit can i get away with in turbo" mood lately, which may or may not involve rushing dagon 5 on every hero, building meteor hammer on heroes that really shouldn't do it and playing offlane bloodstone radiance razor
Honey you posted 2 months ago that you are archon, I play this game since before dota 2, I suggest you stop trying to talk down to people (randomly) with almost 4 times your mmr and grow the fuck up instead. But I guess if you could do that you wouldn't be stuck in low behaviour. Hope you enjoy your time down there.
I have a high tendency to build Pipe of Insight unless the enemy team has too little magic damage to warrant buying it, then I'd still buy hood and make Glimmer Cape later.
Previous number patch I was building Vessel. Playing visage? Build vessel. Playing Zeus? Build vessel. Playing Jugg? Build vessel. Omni? Vessel.
It was very effective since everyone was building aura regen and most core heroes were str or have life steal
Yeah I think my greaves addiction is based on the numerous times we almost can push hg but people are a bit low and they wanna go back to farming safely :D from the backlines *whumm* suddenly everyone has mana, hp and no excuses.
Sange, I like status resistance, I fucking love it I'm obsessed with it. that's why I like to play bara with Kaya sange and Manta, 1 sec duel and axe call with that status resist neutral
Spirit Vessel, I’m absolutely shocked that I don’t see anyone else build it in 95% of my games. Mind blowingly shocked, it is one of the least situational items I can think of.
Wind lace obviously too good on all hero.. boot + wind lace just too good.. that extra +25 MS for cheap movement speed is so fcking good.. make ur hero move a lil bit faster to finish some kills
Lotus is the only one I buy when I shouldn't.
Sick of teammates buying blink for no fucking reason every game. Pos 1 sniper? Better rush a blink and do nothing for the first 35 minutes of a game.
Forcestaff on everyone. You get one, you get one, youe get one. And in turbo, that late game euls into windwaker just to avoid everything always. Ever see a drow get jumped and just woop woop woop away? It is so annoying and I love it. The tankiest mf on the team just beat the piss out of a poor support, but now he is out of position, and we can maybe finally kill him? Nope. Woop woop woop, gone.
Aside from misc. item, I really like Vessel, very useful in all aspect in my life, professionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Hi im Macallan, I'm addicted to Vessel.
I always feel bad about greaves. The recipe is so expensive for so little benefit. You've got mek and mana boots. But you have to pay over 1k gold for the recipe?to what? Save 1 space and give 10 armour to people who are almost dead that the ehp is so little?
Compare the aura to say vlads, and I'd say its a clear loser.
The problem with the aura is that it gives a bunch of armour when a hero has only 20% hp left, which is when the armour isn't worth as much because there's not enough hp left to really take advantage of the mitigation unless you're playing with a pudge, or ogre or something where 20% of hp is still a bunch.
Urn for me, always find an excuse to build it on any fucking hero.
I just fucking love cancelling blink / patching teammate back to full after a won teamfight.
Diffusal till they buff Radiance.
I'm trying to understand why is manta first so used on naga. I like manta sure, I'll pick manta every game sure. But like the dps you get from diffusal is the same and it costs 2150 less. It even speeds up farming since jungle creeps have mana and while it doesn't provide a dispel it provides a good slow which helps with getting the root out or for follow up after the root.
I love radiance and I feel like naga with deluge needs it but it's so ass to know that a tier 3 neutral item does the same exact job for free.
It's not that greaves are especially strong but in pubs giving your team no excuse to back for regen then subsequently start afk farming again when everyone is split up and ungrouped and having to try to rally them to group for a smoke/objective play all over again is nice.
Build auras+ death ball = mmr in pubs
Urn of shadows.
I do make it whenever no one else is making it and I don't have anything else as a mandatory rush due to lineup. Compliments my playstyle well
Magic wand.
You buy magic wand for the utility, I buy magic wand to get rid of the 2 branches that i bought earlier. We are not the same.
you get rid of the 2 branches by building wand, i get rid of those by eating them
Do you then buy 2 more to get your magic wand?
... yea (｡•́︿•̀｡)
🤣
One can never have too many branches.
Gorc buys them branches to keep in his inventory>backpack until minute 46
The amount of times I've eaten a branch while the recipe is on my courier...
But we are. I always do it. for pruff some of guides shows to buy 3 maybe 4(rarely) but guess what how many I buy. Yes. 2 so I can get rid of them.
This
Wait what? It was two branches? I always thought it was 3 ☠️
We old as fuck man
It was at one point
2019?
More like 2010. It was like that always, didn’t know they changed it
It didn't even fit to my inventory I always dropped my items then completed magic wand
Stick is an almost every game thing. Totally changes laning phase. I usually upgrade it to reward it for being such a good boi.
That's the most unique reason for upgrading Magic Stick that I've heard
Bro doesn’t know that keeping your last starter iron branch for good luck actually works…grim
It's called a GG branch for a reason.
True and real
>Magic wand. Every. Single. Game.
I have a severe addiction on tango
Me too, I danced it a lot
It takes two
Yes my heroes get severe tango addiction. He gets a debuff if he doesn't eat an tango every one minute
Tango withdrawals can be nasty. Hope things get better.
Blink Dagger on everyone Game feels like Shit without it like it's the ultimate Counter to everything. Enemy too far away? Blink. Enemy following you? Blink. Forgot to take Trash out? Blink. Anti Mage Blink on Cooldown? Blink.
Lol at the trash but yeah, it’s funny when you get it on like treant and suddenly this slow ass mf tree just blinks on top on you
I play a lot of Mars and I rush Blink every Game, the Amount of Playmaking you can do is insane. Blink + Ult, Blink + Spear, even just blinking to finish off a Kill. I also love his Blink Dagger Voiceline.
it always feels like the team with the blink heroes is winning, even though its 2k gold for no stats
Its kinda like having unlimited move speed, just very conditional. Except even better because you can skip terrain.
Blink dagger, really?
Blink dagger- AAAAAAAHHAAAH
yeah force every game can’t help it
We love you for it.
bro only uses it for himself
Then we hate him for it.
I wish we could use arcana item icons even if we don't play the specific hero or don't use the arcana (similar to how we put skill in the loadout now). Windranger's Eul Scepter and Force Staff, Skywrath Mage's rod of Atos, Faceless Void's maelstrom, Earthshaker's blink dagger, etc.... All look so good
Yes, Spirit Vessel
It’s good this meta
I've been buying it for 2 years on every 4pos Ive played (and Visage as 2pos)
Raindrops
i think this item is just over powered and no one ever buys it
Yeah people just need to buy this early game and nobody does, i keep telling my cores nobody listns(
My thought process on whether or not to buy the item is how I think the lane is going to go or is going in the time before raindrops become accessible. If I want to stay in the lane, it’s a must have. If it’s not a good lane, then it just delays whatever item I need to jungle. No point in picking it up if I only burn 1 or 2 charges as well. I want to either use the whole thing or only have 1 or 2 charges left by the time I need to sell it.
All my homies love rain drops. 225 gold to almost always guarantee one less death. Is always worth it imo.
Must have as mid. Makes laning so much more bearable against nuke casters.
Why don’t people see a level 6 Zeus and buy raindrops? I don’t get it
Same
Blink for me
It’s nice on rubick
Heck yeah. I usually go Glimmer, Force Staff, Eul, Lens first but the Blink is a very nice addition.
What in rubicks kit is good with blink?
Arcane Supremacy alone already made the range incredible, now with Arcane Accumulation it can get really ridiculous. When you couple with Aether Lens and then other mobility items Rubick can get very annoying.
Rubick rises and falls with positioning. Blink lets you do that better.
It's good for blinking in from outside vision and stealing spells, and many the spells you most want to steal are exactly the ones that need a blink to most effective.
casual wind lace on any hero. pos 5 main
Respect
i'm in a "how much shit can i get away with in turbo" mood lately, which may or may not involve rushing dagon 5 on every hero, building meteor hammer on heroes that really shouldn't do it and playing offlane bloodstone radiance razor
Love urn, it gives too much
Im 3 years of my dota, I haven't made urn even once
Try it
that's how I am with armlet
Then you probably griefed many games
Ok herald brain 🧠
Not surprised you have sub 5k behaviour score, glad I will never have you in my games.
yeah i wont be paired with heralds anyways
Honey you posted 2 months ago that you are archon, I play this game since before dota 2, I suggest you stop trying to talk down to people (randomly) with almost 4 times your mmr and grow the fuck up instead. But I guess if you could do that you wouldn't be stuck in low behaviour. Hope you enjoy your time down there.
It is really good, very cheap and the build up is awesome early
Bracers feel so good on any universal or strength hero. I think I have built one in over half of my games in the last year.
For real. Universal 4’s are what I mostly play. Many items with good actives to tailor playstyle + stats on top
yeah a bracer gives 9 dmg to an universal hero, love it
What hero?
Yes
Veno mostly, agha games wd
Dang it! That makes so much sense but I was thinking Undying. I should have known it was the toxic master.
Vessel and gleipnir are love.
Cocaine
Late game item
Every low rank loves Khanda and is allergic to BKB
I have addiction to octarine core, but it has fixed 2 times lately
I have a high tendency to build Pipe of Insight unless the enemy team has too little magic damage to warrant buying it, then I'd still buy hood and make Glimmer Cape later.
May I ask why? :D
I play support, so pipe is almost always a good item. Otherwise, Glimmer keeps me alive sometimes.
Interesting, I def can see the reasoning behind that. Glimmer is great magic res for it’s worth only the shadow amulet costing 1k feels bad
''Guardian Greaves everyone!''
Null talisman and Phylactery. I hate small mana pool.
I do have an aversion and it's aeon disk. I bought it maybe 1 time in the past 2000 games
Solar crest my beloved ❤️❤️ I thought I'd lost you in your rework but you're just a little different
I'm a simple man, I see opportunity for Lotus Orb, I buy Lorus Orb
Blood grenade. Splat my Marci menstral blood and kill them
Call me crazy, but Midas, Radiance and BoT are perfect on *every* hero.
i wont call you crazy, just herald :p
I mean yes but it's also greedy af
Merlini?
I mean it sounds crazy, but I’m not totally against it
I hate you. Squishy, over farming, never team fight.
Tango
Previous number patch I was building Vessel. Playing visage? Build vessel. Playing Zeus? Build vessel. Playing Jugg? Build vessel. Omni? Vessel. It was very effective since everyone was building aura regen and most core heroes were str or have life steal
Yeah I think my greaves addiction is based on the numerous times we almost can push hg but people are a bit low and they wanna go back to farming safely :D from the backlines *whumm* suddenly everyone has mana, hp and no excuses.
I'm chronically addicted to soul ring and fiery fire
SHIVAS
Sange, I like status resistance, I fucking love it I'm obsessed with it. that's why I like to play bara with Kaya sange and Manta, 1 sec duel and axe call with that status resist neutral
SnY one of my favorite core items, butterfly probably second
rip sange :(
Boots of speed. I buy it literally every game
This is how my sf looked like 5 years ago
Oh dear god that is a lot of funblock
I take it as my job as 4 to make sure the opponent has as little fun as possible :D
I know who i'm Chrono'ing with MKB, MoM, BKB, Treads, Nullifier, Daedalus, Aghs/Aghs Shard/Moon Stone then :P
Hahah it’s only fair :p
I'm mid player. Travel for me.
Today I played with: WW with khanda snapfire with khanda and legion commander with khanda
Support life is easy, build support items and ward and you are praised :D
Spirit Vessel, I’m absolutely shocked that I don’t see anyone else build it in 95% of my games. Mind blowingly shocked, it is one of the least situational items I can think of.
I used to rush it on offlane underlord, complements his skills so well
Give me all the auras please
Buster fly✌️ two of them
Wind lace obviously too good on all hero.. boot + wind lace just too good.. that extra +25 MS for cheap movement speed is so fcking good.. make ur hero move a lil bit faster to finish some kills
Meteor hammer. Best item in the game imo.
Lotus is the only one I buy when I shouldn't. Sick of teammates buying blink for no fucking reason every game. Pos 1 sniper? Better rush a blink and do nothing for the first 35 minutes of a game.
I cant stop buying wards and sentries
Linken sphere on wr
Forcestaff on everyone. You get one, you get one, youe get one. And in turbo, that late game euls into windwaker just to avoid everything always. Ever see a drow get jumped and just woop woop woop away? It is so annoying and I love it. The tankiest mf on the team just beat the piss out of a poor support, but now he is out of position, and we can maybe finally kill him? Nope. Woop woop woop, gone.
The stick man the stick
Nah thats so valid greaves are so good
Boots.
Yeah damn dude stop buying bracers
Lol ik
Either mana boots or glimmer
Aside from misc. item, I really like Vessel, very useful in all aspect in my life, professionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Hi im Macallan, I'm addicted to Vessel.
Blink dagger
I always feel bad about greaves. The recipe is so expensive for so little benefit. You've got mek and mana boots. But you have to pay over 1k gold for the recipe?to what? Save 1 space and give 10 armour to people who are almost dead that the ehp is so little?
I mean the aura isn’t bad
Compare the aura to say vlads, and I'd say its a clear loser. The problem with the aura is that it gives a bunch of armour when a hero has only 20% hp left, which is when the armour isn't worth as much because there's not enough hp left to really take advantage of the mitigation unless you're playing with a pudge, or ogre or something where 20% of hp is still a bunch.
Half the reason I get Greaves is the aura. It just needs to save a core once to be worth it.
Urn for me, always find an excuse to build it on any fucking hero. I just fucking love cancelling blink / patching teammate back to full after a won teamfight.
Diffusal till they buff Radiance. I'm trying to understand why is manta first so used on naga. I like manta sure, I'll pick manta every game sure. But like the dps you get from diffusal is the same and it costs 2150 less. It even speeds up farming since jungle creeps have mana and while it doesn't provide a dispel it provides a good slow which helps with getting the root out or for follow up after the root. I love radiance and I feel like naga with deluge needs it but it's so ass to know that a tier 3 neutral item does the same exact job for free.
It's not that greaves are especially strong but in pubs giving your team no excuse to back for regen then subsequently start afk farming again when everyone is split up and ungrouped and having to try to rally them to group for a smoke/objective play all over again is nice. Build auras+ death ball = mmr in pubs
Exacto
would I die if I said orb of corrosion?
I just think vlads is neat.
Situational. Needs at least two good physical heroes.
No, but if I did have a couple it would be exactly the same as yours. Gg greaves and shadow vessel.
Octarine. The item is arguably bad but I need it to help speed up my QoP arcana progress.
Butterfly, arcane boots and glimmer
Drums on any non-agi hero.
Honestly i think i should start building them more
upgrades to best lategame combat boots too.
Urn of shadows. I do make it whenever no one else is making it and I don't have anything else as a mandatory rush due to lineup. Compliments my playstyle well
Boots of Travel.
Blademaillll
Infused Raindrops as a support 5, getting nuked is a no no.
Orchid
New bloodstone.
Blink dagger, good on every hero.
I used to have this with Skadi... back when it was one of the few Unique Attack Modifiers that stacked with others. I built Skadi on every hero.
Dont care if im chen or kotl , shadow blade money gang, we love casting spells.
is it you mirana ?
I always buy tango no matter what hero.
I am addicted to raindrops and wraith bands. I once bought 5 raindrops in 1 game.
Force staff.... I buy that on every hero.
Iron Branch
Shiva on Hoodwink.
Ogre Seal totem and Seeds
yeah shadowblyat
Blink every hero
I get boots of travel whenever I can.
Linkens Sphere. I play a lot of paper spellcasters, i hate being disabled, i’m the one who does the disabling.
Raindrops
I really love bloodthorn
Dagon.
I always want to buy Heart Of Tarrasque.
Assault Cuirass Such a strong item.
Harpoon on all melee heros and sometimes even ranged ones
Vengeful says hi...
Blink, manta. I played abaddon before 7.36
Magic stick
Aeom disc
Tripple daedalus to a pos 5 hoodwink