I especially love how all his abilities are very powerful when used correctly, but also give opponents an opportunity to counter them. I play pos1, and they aren’t the best in lane (at my MMR it’s really hard for them to hit Q and E correctly), but in game overall I really enjoy playing both with them and against them - beats boring one-dimensional Warlocks and Witch Doctors. I hope Grimstroke isn’t going back to 45% winrate, his usual place.
One of the few new heros I like even if hes a new age dota support that has to have slow stun silence everything all on the one hero.
With shard Ink Swell is most broken ability in the game. During the buff you can’t chain stun because Grim can just pop it whenever he wants, with other hard dispels like Abaddon, you can just stun after the dispel. Against Grim it doesn’t work because Grim can just hold the buff untill the final moment and once he pops it the core gets healed to full and you have wasted all your stuns for nothing.
The hero is mostly fine, but Ink Swell is just WAY overtuned.
With talents and shard it deals up to 1000 damage, heals for 400, gives 36% movement speed, stuns for 2.8 seconds, applies a hard dispel, and it has almost a 40% uptime. But does it require minute timing? No, you can cast it at any time and just instantly activate it for an interrupt or dispel. That spell does everything but suck your dick. You could probably win a game of Grimstroke by only pressing Ink Swell and nothing else.
Grimstroke is a cool hero, but his power really needs to be more evenly distributed across his entire kit.
I would like to see him nerfed.
Reasons are that hero is strong compared to hard supports and have annoying silence, ult that lock enemies between, and they eat spell twice. He has all type of abilities in hero which is stupid. Going well with most mele heroes and it is counter to heroes like broodmother, naga etc.
Valve kinda lost course that support should be support, not annoying carry in support body.
aoe stun, dmg, slience, slow and save. all in one, nicely design and balance. thanks icefrog valve.