DotA2 - Original Thread

Skadhi actually works with ranged as far as lifesteal goes, it also worked with clinkz orb as an exception. It working with melee attacks in Dota2 is so far... unconfirmed if it is intentional. A lot of interactions in DotA2 aren't the way they should be yet.

The ingame description is actually also:

IIRC. But it works with melee too for some reason, and intentionally works with searing arrows.

The way bash works both damage and the stun aren't like dota1 either, ranged bash is physical damage and magical stun(Blocked by BKB) in Dota1 (Talking about skull basher here) but in DotA2 unless they fixed it lately it's always magical damage and physical stun for both ranged and melee.

Also dota is a game of exception, i still learn new things occasionally (Juggernaut spin allows him to attack towers whilst active, but it doesn't allow him to attack other units, but siege units are an exception, so you can spin and attack siege units and cleave around it. Pretty funny)


Also small rant(Not really a rant) regarding the guy predicting stuff:

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SD has always been a top tier support since he was added to CM in DotA1, honestly no predictions here.
And tusk is an amazing hero in DotA1 and Warlock finally had his skills fixed, warlock still has some key flaws that make him weak against teams like the chinese, who will instantly abuse his flaws(Same reason why bounty hunter and wisp wont work well against the chinese, too easy to shut down because of key flaws)
Gyro also recieved a huge buff and almost immediately after saw play, that's again not really a prediction. Both 6.75 and 6.76 showered gyro with buffs.
Slark could see play but again, suffers from one key flaw, his laning is ass and his teamfight contribution is also equally bad. In teamfights pounce isn't the best especially not later on, you'll rarely be able to hit the same target repeteadly without it dying fast due to allies hitting it too, and if you're attacking the enemy carry for a prolonged amount of time you'd probably have won the fight regardless. Abaddon has a remake on his way IIRC and in his current state he's just a bad version of omniknight(More or lses) and omniknight already has keyflaws that he shares with abaddon. Zeus could see play but again, key flaws in regards to laning handicaps him against top tier teams. It's the same reason why a monster laner in 1v1 scenario like OD isn't picked, laning him is horrible since his vulnerability to ganks is high. Zeus with bottle crowing would get farm, but any smoke ganks would set him out of play and he'd be a bad pick, Dragonus is a zeus that trades global ulti for more damage, a silencer and even better laning and they share equally horribly surviveability. I could however see him(zeus) be picked for a trilane involving something like visage where quick burst leads to big soul assumption damage. Alchemist is another hero that ALSO recieved buffs up the ass, 1.0 BAT and even quicker farming than what was already the quickest farmer in the game isn't anything to scoff at. Also necrolyte has always been a situational pick for the chinese, really strong hero, just very situational in which situations he can be picked.

Honestly most of his predictions are just logic. Also timbersaw has potential to be picked as a solo laner against an enemy solo laner, granted that the enemy isn't bat rider or syllabear(Or something with equally insane laning, put him against a solo Luna or something and he could do alright) since they'll zone him out completely since they have nearly all advantages possibly against him.

Spirit Breaker's bash got changed to pierce bkb in 6.75 along with a host of other buffs including removing the indicator visible to the enemy hero that the rape train had left the station.
You can actually attack any magic immune unit during spin, not just mechanical units like catapults. Actually, you can attack any unit it just won't do damage if you're hitting them with spin. But with something like a Maelstrom or Mjolnir, that means you can get free procs off during your spin. I think you can even get basher procs or diffusal manaburn during spin. You can also TP during spin, which Juggernaut even has special VO lines for.

For SD, good tier support != S Tier which he is now. Really, he's one of the most contested picks right now.
Warlock still has only seen minimal play besides the dig game with Spectre even in western games.
Omniknight suffers mainly from having godawful cast animations, he can play as an offlaner with soul ring if need be.
And I'm pretty sure the thing about it was that he called all of this way before it happened.
Most of his predictions are just logic but so was the prediction that Silencer would be a top pick/ban and look how that turned out.