So how the hell do I use invoker? He seems to NEED to be solo to be effective, since he needs levels mad fast. What spells should I be focusing on? The main ones seem to be Chaos Meteor/Blast/Tornado/EMP. Extort seems to be the best skill to level up, but how do I survive the early game? He has NO stats at all, and even with bracers has pathetic HP.
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He has very high range and insane last hitting/harassing. Bracers don’t matter when you can harass the person trying to stun you then run away when they get in range. I’ve never personally played him (too hard until I figure out every spell he has and quickly Invoke them and memorize all their hot keys etc :/)
The #1 thing you should probably know how to do is: Have 2 spells and your orbs ready for an Invoke for a 3rd spell.
Ya, extort gives invoker insane base damage, and he already has great projectile speed. But i dunno if he can beat other heroes in a solo. Qop, viper, silencer will just harass or orb his shitty life to death.
manta style is an ok item for techies also, it helps increase the mind games you can play agaist your opponent. I also like getting manta on centuar. i rather get craniums on Kardel than life steal.
my tinker build goes for manta, than i go increase his armor and life. Bots, bracers, manta, blademail, and heart, i go for curias afterwards.
Yeah, I figured out to have three extorts on invoker early game, and switch it up to quas’s when you need regen. I think i’m just too slow to use him, can’t change spells fast enough until I have the ones I want memorized.
StarvinMarvin, guinsoo is a MUST on tinker. Great team item, and you can solo absolutely anyone 1v1 with manta and guinsoo. Most of the time you can 1v2 and get away with it too.
Guinsoo is great because when you have a high mana pool, you can do Guinsoo Laser Rearm until you run out of mana lol
true. But in the new version, it’s too much of a hassal to go for ginso, you’ll need to reserve that later on - much later- and get other items to build him, such as manta, hearts, armor items, bots, etc… It was easier to get ginso before, now you’ll need to save for a ultimate orb, staff… w/c will delay your time in getting those other items tht will be needed when your opponents get fater, you need to be consistent as your opponents. it’s worth it, but you don’t need to stress yourself in getting ginso, just stay with euls. lately, i’ve been seeing players ignore ginso and just get difusal or euls.
Just go straight travel > euls > diffusal > (next 3 in whatever order you deem fit) manta > blink > guins.
Absolutely.
I also like it on Centaur just because. I dont know for sure if the thorns works on his images but if it does its pretty broken.
Its kind of useless and doesnt really benefit him much (although the purge charges are awesome for him), I just think its intimidating to have 3 of them with 3k hp coming at you in a push. Especially if hes the only tank on the team.
I just wanna clear up the whole Beast master necro book thing. I never said it was bad, I just said I liked getting MoM first. It doesnt mean you cant get a necro book after the fact or anything, I just dont get it at all, I’d rather get an Arcane ring on him if I’m gonna worry about my mana pool. Axes every 30seconds = rape. (unless they have invis heros).
I only got so heated over the whole debate because the douche bag calls me a fucking retard for getting a certain item when he never tried it himself.
Henaki:
The reason why I dont think life leech is any use to the sniper is because a pro sniper shouldnt even be getting hit in the first place. And if hes targetted, the life leech wont make up for how fast hes gonna get killed. I’d take any orb over leech any day and in any situation.
I played DotA back in the early stages, and just recently started again. I was never good and I’m still not, but I’m enjoying myself.
The biggest problems I have are judging how low I can stay (in terms of HP) and stay in the lane safely vs. what heroes. Even though we always play -ar, I still don’t know what a lot of heroes are capable of, and end up staying in the lane too long. Last hitting isn’t too bad, just depends on my heroes attack animation, and I’ve gotten fairly good at denying, so hoping to get at least to a pub stomp level before trying TDA.
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Does anyoen get tired of people going on about how 4vs5 is ok?
90% of the games, somebody leaves in the first 5 minutes. 90% of those games I have played, the team with 4 loses. I think having one more person is too big an advantage, especially when playing em.
As for em, I like normal myself. I think the towers should have some stopping power, and on em there are too many exploits to kill a lane before people are even lvl 8. Chen…lol. I dont know what do other people think about this?
no more em games
problem solved
em games are fun just to do crazy item combos and try shit out on heroes
em games are retarded.
lol i just played a game with 2 guys who ragged on about me being trash with enigma after i went like 9-4 and said i couldnt land an ult when i got 3 double kills with it, we lost but mostly because people wouldnt defend or let me wait to intitate etc.
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I feel you, and ^^ yes I agree.
my build for centuar is bots, HoD, Manta, vanguard or hood (depending), 2x Bracers… I later replace bracers with dagger, then Heart…