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release phoenix

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looking at just the mechanical changes to the hero since his release in 6.70 is hilarious. No more magic immunity or disarm on Icarus Dive, and Fire Spirits can't heal and don't grow in power over time. Sun Ray got much better though. Not channeling, heals allies, doesn't drain %mana over time, but no more slow and it has a cooldown.

But man, if people think Treant has a weird relationship with Icefrog... Phoenix takes the cake.

also isn't Winter Wyvern the hero with 3 ults?
wait...
he's a support, right? I could actually see him played as an offlaner with the 1000 range attacks, the heal+invuln, and the 1200 range shards not to mention the ult which has to be great for setting up kills on trilanes.

He feels more like a wisp to me, needs lvl 6 to forfill his purpose. His ulti can almost ensure a kill on any enemy hero but his shards cant be used in a 1vs1 situation, which means his dmg will be greatly reduced if theres nobody around. I think he'll be used in competitive play for sure, but we might stage into 2-1-2 meta again with wyvern being long lane support with his heal and long range % harrass.

Edit: Arc Warden seem to be easy to lane against the first 3 lvls tho, his flux doesnt do much dmg if you just hug an ally creep and his base dmg along with stat gain will make it hard for him to lasthit. I dont see this guy being played as anything but a short lane support but in my pubs he will be mid and I will rush dagon for sure