2013-05-16, 10:04 PM
Raul Wrote:I think I remember seeing a video of a necro3 warrior soloing Roshan with a nearby team of.. I think it was Invoker, Ogre Magi, Beastmaster, Lycan and Venge giving him massive, massive IAS/damage buffs. It took all of 7 seconds or so.
His shards look like they can be used pretty effectively in a 1v3 situation, which means that once (if) we see aggressive trilane play die down, he could perform well. They can hit up to 1700 units away which is less a skill for a 1v1 and more a skill for snipes and for ranged harass/farming. I probably wouldn't draft him with a mid like Beastmaster, Windrunner, Storm Spirit, Shadow Shaman, Puck, or anyone else who has good setup disables; I'd rather draft him with something like juggermid, TA, Queen of Pain, or Shadow Friend who has a ton of damage but needs setup to get their full damage off and doesn't have that inherently. I'm actually a bit scared about QoP and SF with WW... I'm cringing a bit imagining a level 9 Shadow Fiend going to town like that. Jesus. Especially against melees because of the clumping.
I don't think we'd see a regression to 2-1-2 play any time soon unless Icefraud does something weird with denying and exp gains. Currently he's in a much better position than Wisp as a solo long laner for getting 6 early (current level 6 timing is ~10 minutes for supports in trilane; even with good denying Auroth will hit 6 earlier than that as solo long lane.
edit:
gee, ain't this cool:
a first look at the TI3 HUD skin.
but that's not all:
Pyrion Flax announcer!
and more:
Smeevil mount added to schema (in test client)
and when you order now we'll throw in several new HUD's!
Was expecting more of a dark greenish, (since TI3 posters etc use green this year) but it looks better than the default one so I'll take it!
ps: 2-2-1 lanes have always worked great if you need to dodge the trilane and shut down the solo lanes. But if one of your 2 man lanes end up facing the trilane you will lose so much time on moving around the map which means you already lost one lane hard.