DotA2 - Original Thread

Ooh, venge got a model remake. Looks really good.

Still always going to miss the original venge design too bad people whining made valve change it:

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Random thing, but I read things like Morphling and Naga went from god tier to crap with a few changes such as Morphling needing more mana to change AGI <-> STR, and apparently nerfing Naga's base damage by 12 was enough to make people not wanna use her as much. Any of this holding truth, or just people overreacting to hero nerfs??

Morph was strong because you could toss him solo mid and he'd have a huge impact by 20~25 minutes. Icefrog gave his laning the hammer. Morph could still be really strong, just not solo mid. His sole strength was the ability to solo and get out on top.
Naga was strong due to early game aggression and partly due to dark seer vaccum interaction. Her riptide had the cooldown scaling reworked and the base damage nerf meant that she could be contested for last hits plus didn't hit as hard. She's also still a viable pick, just not as strong. Not that naga was as strong as people make her out to be to begin with. And not being able to vaccum sleeping units also kind of sucked for her interaction with dark seer.

There were counters, most definitely:
[video=youtube;tDaJes0T1Ig]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDaJes0T1Ig[/video]
After this the chinese kind of just left her alone not really wanting to pick her.
Morphs nerfs were.. too harsh. But he was a bit too strong.