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.
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.