2013-10-11, 01:13 PM
Vanderlust Wrote:Tried out 10 lifestealer games yesterday in a row playing different builds. I was comparing phase drum armlet s&y vs phase drum mael/mjollnir basher. I ended up liking the latter build better in general (the less popular one) because you farm really fast with the early maelstrom or mjollnir. The armlet build is probably better for early fighting, but both builds are really good at early fighting, so IMO it's not that big of a deal.
If I have like a spirit breaker/bat/storm/some other blink hero on my team though I prefer armlet.
Also tried a trolly orchid one game because I was against a qop/windrunner/bat/pudge/rubick line up. Went well but was in a stack of friends who were pretty reliable, so not sure if I'll try that again.
orchid saw a bit of a vogue on lifestealer for a little while during the spring. haven't seen much of it since then but it's still a solid pickup. a lot of his problem is his inability to reliably stick to heroes even with a basher. especially against heroes like windrunner, qop, and batrider.
orchid and armlet are two really solid pickups on a LOT of heroes. I'm not saying that shadow blade+orchid, concoction-maxing alchemist is necessarily great but it's actually not bad. Based EE-Sama has tried out armlet on Anti-Mage in a competitive game; why not Morphling? I think orchid weaver used to be a thing as well. armlet PA, void... why the hell not?
the only thing is that armlet/orchid means no quick bkb and coming back for armlet or orchid is sub-par since they're really timing items.