Your Favorite hero

[Baz]

So who's your favorite hero (as of 6.01)

I usually say Drow ranger, simply because maxed out ice arrows are a bastard to meet up with if your below half health, and her Silence spell can remove many defensive aura's late game (esp Vs Medusa)

But Slithice just seems to be a very well balanced melee character, Critical, mirror images, and traps - shes a very competant hero killer

so whos your favorite character to play as?

[Lucifa]

hairnet!

Favourite Sent hero is easily the Centaur Warchief.
A little case of the glass jaw early game, but quickly ramps to up omfg diamond mithril admantinium jaw late game. With an end game weapon and a heart of tarrasque+ he can be pretty much unkillable.

Favourite scourge hero is Razor, Lightning Revenant.
Though he's not much of a hero killer, he can MINT the cash from level 14 onwards because at that point (and played correctly) you can get radiance and will be taking the kill for every creep in a standard wave.

[afty]

Oh there are SOOOO many to choose from. Pick one from:

Terrorblade
Crystal Maiden
Morphling
Brood Moother
Furion
Necrolyte

Havent played for weeks, cant even remember but its such a long list. So many sexy heroes!

[Baz]

brood mother?
but so weak!
and no nukes!
maybe if when hidden in her webs she gained Hp

or perhaps im just playing her like a n00b

oh, also pudge 2.0 - my favorite strength based hero. just utterly deadly all the way through the game, and just as much a tank as Centaur

plus if you farm well you have INSANE strength by the end of a game

[afty]

The Brood Mother indeed has weaknesses, and tbh players who are very good can nullify many of her advantages, however I have been BANNED from playing the Brood Mother by consensus at LANs. Aswell as the Panda, Centaur, Goblin Techies, Stealth Assassin and Terrorblade.

If I get them in AR then it's OK, unless enemies are sat near me, in which case they come and pin me to my seat while someone else types "-repick"

[her0n]

i <3 the OLD stealth assassin. The new one will need some getting used to :(

[afty]

Haven't played any 6.01 games, guess Im going to need to read the changelog and shiz before i23./

[Baz]

new SA is better her0n

backstab and smokebomb are bastards

you just need to get LOADS of kit to increase your movement speed (sasha and yashu, BoS, etc)

and you'll get plenty of kills

old SA was just death ward spam ho

[her0n]

sange and yasha you mean ;)

[Baz]

indeed

they are a nice mid game weapon combo to get, and the maim ability is rather handy. its a good choice item for characters like Terrorblade.

[andyf]

What's the Sand King like in 6.01 ? Any different to olde ?

[Baz]

think hes sorted as sent now, so he can use his dust trail whatever side

otherwise same as before

[Dan]

Razor :>

[Baz]

spam ho

spaff spaff spaff spaff

[Joey[kins]]

sentinel melee: gondar (bounty hunter)
having got him in about 3 -ar games in a row at i23 and consistantly 0wned with him (and then played him online and got a world of kills) i'm definitely a convert. get battle fury, treads, midas and sange and yasha and he's ridiculous - get a butterfly on him late game and it's as good as over. i played a game as him the other night and went for satanic - i was out-lifestealing naix the lifestealer!!!

sentinel ranged: rhasta (shadow shaman)
ridiculous with his hex/lightning/wards/shackles/lightning combo - i whored so much money the other day i was running round with the mystic staff at LEVEL 7, unfortunately due to clinkz i didn't complete my scepter until L13, but at least i've got an objective now :smokin:

scourge melee: crixalis (sand king)
simply brilliant, max out burrowstrike early game and don't get anything other than attributes and epicentre. guaranteed hero killer at L7 and also epicentre can generate masses of income from creeps.

scourge ranged: necrolyte
his "heal/death spaff" attack is very powerful, taking out waves of creeps at a similar rate to the sand king's epicentre. at the same time he NEVER runs out of mana thanks to 48 mana for every kill. his ulti is just great - late game with aganhim's scepter you can instagib any hero on 60% health or below - even pudge or the centaur aren't safe.

[afty]

Sentinel Melee : Centaur Warchief. "Oh, did you use your ulti on me? POW"

Sentinel Ranged : Crystal Maiden "I'll stop casting spells when my mana starts to drop from full"

Scourge Melee : Na'ix - if someone on your team is a decent ranged/healer hero, otherwise Brood Mother "Munch Munch Munch"

Scourge Ranged : Bone Clinkz "I could be anywhere in 10 seonds" or if the team already has assassin type chars then Necrolyte

Special Mention : Goblin Techies

[afty]

Oh, and the Blood Seeker now interests me - I want to play him again in a tight game.

[Joey[kins]]

they've removed him in 6.04(b) because they haven't been able to fix the bugs with bleed not crediting him with the kill and one of his other spells not working right

[afty]

NooooOOOooOOoo!

Hope they re-instate him, he had potential

[DaeMord]

Silencer is always fun for me, and no end of fun as you actually start taking out hero's with him, and im yet to find a hero late game who can flatten buildings as fast.
And of late have taken a large taste to the venommancer.

Oh and as for the broodmother, ive seen some people playing her online, and ive learnt not to get in the way of her once she starts roling, tallented players for her are very scary.

[Joey[kins]]

as much as it pains me to describe afty as "talented" that's why we banned him from playing as the broodmother in a mass hissy-fit session at stafflan

oh, and i've edited my list above

[Baz]

Leviathan is one of my favorite heros at the moment.

has a nice little harassing nuke, a farming abaility and a 500 damage ulti with SILLY aoe.

Kraken shell is also insanely useful for him, ebing able to walk into a crowd of creeps and take no damage at all rocks.

just need a better item build for him, as i find it hard to go godlike using him.

[afty]

Originally posted by Joey[kins]
as much as it pains me to describe afty as "talented" that's why we banned him from playing as the broodmother in a mass hissy-fit session at stafflanAfter the debacle that happened at StaffLAN over the Goblin Techies, am I officially banned from them, or was it a one-off? :)


(For those who weren't there, I got the techies in an -AR game, and 2 members of the opposite team held me down while a third typed "-repick" for me.)

[Aardvark]

I think that was a special case, done purely because you were cackling so madly at the time :)

[Baz]

i love the techies

but they are so so so easy to counter
one gem of true sight and suddenly they suck

[afty]

Originally posted by Baz
i love the techies

but they are so so so easy to counter
one gem of true sight and suddenly they suck Grab me at SL for a quick talk. GOTS does make them alot harder to use, but there are quite a few things the techies can still do when the enemy have GOTS to get the kill. And of course, you only need to get the kill once to cost them the gem :) Gems become costly when you need 1 every ten mins.

And you can also ask your team mates to concentrate ambushes on gem equipped opponents...