DotA2 - Original Thread

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.

SB bash has always been a special thing though, as i said, i am talking about the bash effects from skull basher and abyssal blade(Which is the upgraded skull basher so their mechanics are shared).

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.

I know he can trigger on hit effects, but when i say can't attack i mean that he wont deal any damage. Lifesteal procs too, but any % of 0 is still 0.

For SD, good tier support != S Tier which he is now. Really, he's one of the most contested picks right now.

Which he was in dota1 too, SD was always an absolutely top tier pick, but the way bans and picks works was changed, which changes when you pick what you pick. I don't consider this a change at all, some european teams might've started picking him slightly less(Some of the same european teams have problems handling wisp and still haven't figured out how to handle him it seems) but he was always valued highly by the chinese.

SD has a period(2 or so months) where barely anybody touched him(Even then he'd still pop up in 20%), for god knows what reason, because he was still an insanely strong pick.

In DotA1 he remained a top tier pick all along. Him and rubick are sick supports.

Warlock still has only seen minimal play besides the dig game with Spectre even in western games.

Dignitas picks him occasionally, and he still has massive problems, his laning is ass when it comes to being shut down, if you put him mid and he's shut down, he's near impossible to get back into the game and he'll become a wasted mid pick.

Omniknight suffers mainly from having godawful cast animations, he can play as an offlaner with soul ring if need be.

Yes, but omni's primary role when he was picked was support, because he's a god tier support as far as skills go, but all melee supports share the same flaws, if ogre was ranged he'd be amazingly insane.

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.

I still don't get why people considered the new silencer a top tier pick, people who got stomped by him might've thought so, but he's a bit weaker than OD in lane and has lower surviveability(Prison can buy you some time) and even as a support he has inherent flaws that the buffs he recieved didn't fix at all. Most people i talked with agreed, he's a strong 1v1 laner in a lot of match-ups, and CAN snowball. But apply pressure and contest him and he's near impossible to get back into the game as a carry or mid, and other supports outclass him.