Uhh i’m not speaking for anyone else, but obviously blink is a situational item. Nobody said shit about getting it on nerub or razor. Christ, how much more of a condescending jackass can you get. BloodyStag, now do you see how annoying it is :lovin:?
And I think Level 4 Bear is at least top 3 in terms of lowest BAT in the game…second only to level 3 chem rage alche and maybe magina.
http://forums.dota-allstars.com/index.php?showtopic=189479
Look at # of Warlock picks in the strongest league tourney to date.
The fan on my memory card wont stop making a whirring noise.
Which hero is “Bear?” I’m a dota noob ;x
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Interesting, Lycan is faster than Magina, never knew that.
I’ve gotten blink on the anti mage before and its so rape. No one ever gets away from you.
Not many get away anyways, but i cant take pubs seriously.
ddc and g3nn need to play again, I’m getting lonely here :sad:
School and guitar are owning me right now, and if I play a game it’s orange box… i’ll definitely play DOTA sometime soon though. Wish I had known about the Lanaya mass damage bug…
They fixed the bug in version C I think. It was some cheese! GGXX Destoryer!
any1 still play?
I do.
Question, why not choose Lothar’s over blink Dagger? I know the obvious answer is “uh… cuz one blinks and the other doesn’t?” but seriously, windwalk is just as effective a getaway tool and can be used for some awesome gankage as well. For instance, whenever I get ursa it’s time for Lothar’s. Get 1 screen away, pop both overpower and ultimate, pop lothars, run in, stomp the fucker and go to town. Usually dies before he even knows he was being attacked…
But then I’m still new when it comes to the usefullness of blink dagger. I mean I just learned yesterday that Sand King can pop his ulti and blink into you…
Anyone wanna play I’m Galactic_Dude on East. Add me! But I only play Pubs cuz I really really dislike WC3 as a game and never bothered to get an icon. I only bought FT for DotA…
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One issue is that with Lothar’s AoE shit can still hit you while you’re trying to escape. Also, smart opponents will get wards/a gem to counter it.
The blink dagger is good for heros with AOE ultimates (ES, CM, Magnus). HOWEVER. I personally hate using it on sk.
Reasoning:
unless you time the blink with the ult perfectly, you’re gonna lose 2 pulses of the ultimate. Most people don’t know the secret to buffer or chain spells, and I’m not about to reveal it, so its not as good as it looks.
I prefer to just get a bkb with Boots of Travel, Avatar, stun and ult. They’re going nowhere, especially in a team fight. My sk is pretty badass too, but I’m sure some know nothing know it all is gonna argue with me on this one.
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Blink dagger is also good on heros you would never expect it to be good on until you’ve tried it. Its pretty sick on drow ranger, you can harass them for free and when they try to run, blink in, silence and just let loose, they’re going nowhere.
I like getting it on Sven, just because when you activate god strength, people always run. … well they cant run when you blink in on their face and stun their ass.
Lothar’s isn’t bad but sometimes there are heros in the game that counter it badly (bounty hunter, slardar)
Yeah, blink is just too nice. Lothars is counterable with wards/bh/slardar/gem/AOE. Blink is absolutely not counterable except by mana burn.
The best part about blink however is that you can blink up/down cliffs, making chasing and getting away completely awesome. Blink also COVERS GROUND. If you’re chasing someone, and you have an aoe stun, wtf is Lothars gonna do? Slight ms increase? Blink lets you get right up next to them.
Blink is like Lothars but 1000 times more awesome. The only person I might consider getting it on is SF, since positioning on his ulti is so important.
At Krasshole: WTF, Blink was made for SK. Why is this such a big secret, just queue the ultimate with the SHIFT key, so you don’t waste any pulses. Fuck, I knew that even when I was a massive noob. Blink is pretty much the best item on SK ever.
One of SK’s roles is to INITIATE. Walking into a bunch of heroes with avatar on and activating is the noobest shit ever. Everyone will just scatter, wasting pulses anyway. With blink, you can time it so that you can dive into all of them at the optimal time, and you can’t stop the pulses once they’ve begun anyway.
I dont just walk in and activate. I stun them, they cannot get away or scatter since I only stun when I’m going to hit 2 heros at once, and people always run back to base before they realize to run in diff directions.
Plus if theyre running, they arent attacking. leaving them wide open to get merc’d by the rest of your team.
And by the time blink dagger + bkb is farmed, most str heros can stand there and tank it. IF any sk tries to fight me without a bkb theyre getting instantly disabled.
If you’re ognna be the #1 target, why the fuck do u wanna be blinking in to die?
Also SK finishes the fight. He’s not suppose to iniate anything. Everyone is always aware of the sk when a fights about to start so why waste your ultimate taking heros to half life, and not being able to get at them? How is blink gonna magically bring all the enemy heros into one spot? only works against newbs.
Wards/gem is a good counter to lothar’s obviously, but I only play pubs and I notice that if I don’t have a stealth char on my team at all, NO ONE buys gem/wards unless I go on a dominating streak, but by then I’m already strong/fed as fuck so I don’t care. Is it different in TDA games? If people see just one person with a lothar’s they buy gem/wards? I’ve pulled off some nasty shit with lothar’s and Magina as well as QoP.
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Hence a TIMED team attack. SK doesn’t fucking finish the fight. Nig/Treant/Mags etc ulties just before you. SK is all about that positioning and opening the damage. It doesn’t fucking matter if you die, that’s your role. Once you blink in, your job is pretty much done. Just unload that AOE damage and let better damagers than you finish the fight.
Honestly I think it’s just a question of different playstyles, there’s no point arguing. You like going in pretty much solo, while I like playing with teamwork.
In TDA games it all depends on how important you are really. I’ve rarely seen Lothars in TDA games, except sometimes on Ursa, Shadowfiend, and Drow. Wards are definitely bought before a push, and usually someone with a free slot will carry two at all times.
I think Lothars on Sniper isn’t a bad idea either if you find yourself being targeted for ganks a lot.