2013-10-11, 01:34 PM
Raul Wrote: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.
Yea, I'm not surprised people tried it out on him. After all, the reason why the movespeed build got popular is because it helps him solve that problem of not being able to stick to people and getting kited.
Personally I don't do many unusual armlet pickups. PA is definitely one hero that is amazing with armlet (try it!). Orchid is almost always a situational thing for me unless I have some really good ganking hero with positioning skills (in which case it's standard; ie storm, qop, clinkz, etc). I usually get it when my team lacks disables or there are annoying heroes to kill.
Slark is a hero that can utilize both surprisingly well! Orchid obviously helps your ganking combo as well as his mana issues. Armlet is also good because he benefits from everything it gives pretty much + you can heal during ult, etc. Pretty unusual and really early-mid game/ganking oriented, but a nice snowballing build.