I feel this is a weird obsession on mana drain.

I have seen your rework. You have removed earth spike and hex, which is what originally made lion a good hard support. The mana drain was not meant to be OP to begin with. It just became more powerful after reworks, when people became less considerate and stopped carrying mangoes and clarities for their carries. Lion, like many supports, is not good at 1v1 manfighting. I think lion is a good hero, a good support and a good backlaner. when the two teams are committing gang violence lion can stay behind and disable 2 people, possibly interrupting two channels. Mana drain lets enemy walk away, true, but this should normally be a team fight. so the enemy is walking away from lion, and lions teammate core hero. And mana drain slows too.

And in your rework, the ult doesnt scale with feeding heroes. Existing lion grows stronger with each finger kill. There is a youtube video about lion pos3, with str blink and heart.

The passive manadrain in your rework makes lion a ranged antimage. Your lion is probably best used as a pos1 carry, with moonshard/maelstrom/desolator/hurricane pike/daedalus. Gain mana with rtclk and use mana with items. pike,madness,lotus,dagon.

This isn’t the lion I know. This is a completely different hero.

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90% of the time, 2 things happen. I trashtalk, or other people trashtalk. remaining 10% of the time, The game goes so well, that i dont even see the chat, so i don’t actually know if there is trashtalk.

I started playing dota in 2019. I guess by 2020 you must have already experienced the 5 couriers update. When I started playing dota, Couriers cost money, and there could be just one cour per team. now there are 5. and once killed, they respawn after a while.

Shrines used to heal allies in the triangle/jungle. no more shrines. Now there is one convertible outpost in the triangle, and one nonconvertible outpost at the extreme end of the safe lane.
techies has been reworked. atleast 3 times. cant explain. wont explain.
there is a skyscraper meepo. cant explain. wont explain.
Aghanim scepter can be upgraded to blessing to free the slot.
killing neutral creeps gives neutral items.

wisdom rune. spawns every 7 minutes. gives xp. No more tome of knowledge.

stout shield is gone. Enter blood granade.

many items recipies have been changed. e.g. rod of atos. Also, bkb seems to be pretty heavily nerfed in 2-3 years. bkb vs maledict. bkb vs mana drain. bkb is just sad. Rod of atos has an upgrade now. Eul’s scepter has an upgrade now. Too many changes to recount.

zeus is a usually played as a carry hero now. in herald-legend bracket. Aah yes. now there is no real difference between herald and legend. more griefers and feeders in herald. thats it.

jakiro is playable as a hard sup or as a mid semi-carry. watch dota channels on youtube for jukes.

Obs wards cost 0. sentries cost 50. If i remember, obs cost was 50 and sentry was 100, in 2019.

blink dagger has 3 possible upgrades. str/agi/int.

bloodstone reworked. bb + bloodstone juke. Also bb reworked. i think. I dont remember bb from 2020.

Aghanim’s shard. Like aghanim’s scepter, enhances an ability or gives a new ability. Unlike scpeter, it doesnt give stats or takeup slots. Good for many heroes including wd, medu.

Ogre Magi is now a core hero. pos1,2,3. OM has 0 intelligence. gains mana and mana regen from str, and items. right click triggers fireblast with a small probability. so.

new heroes added. snapfire. muerta. primal beast. marci. void spirit. maybe i missed 1 or 2 heroes. but they all pretty much have high mobility, either escape or initiate.

Map is 20% larger in length approx. so walking takes more time. And, more space also means more creep camps. so more gold to farm. and almost every hero can scale to late game. even hard supports. cm,wd,jakiro, rubik,sky,silencer,lion,shadow shaman,shadow demon, etc can all be played as soft/hard sup and after around 30-40 minutes, can start building 4k-5k gold items. Imagine sky with aeon disk, sange&kaya,octarine,strength blink, lotus. If enemy carry had a bad game, sky can actually survive 1v1 against enemy carry for 5-10 seconds.

In summary,… play a few unranked. Too much difference between then and now.

If i could, I would report an average of 7 people per game. We rarely get 10 people playing actual dota.

me too.

Gaben reads reddit. I just got an enemy hard sup drow. dc multiple times. i think this is the first time it happened to my enemies in months. Thanks Gaben.

Positive attitude. Looks like things are going well in your life. Good for you. Appreciate your reply.

I’ll be honest,…I am spitting curses in vc and typing things about allies families and biological anatomy. but this is after i get griefers. Take a recent example, I am sky hard sup (it works in herald guardian. anything works in this bracket. just read) carry drow and offlane huskar in party. i have my own partymate in mid. We ask why offlane huskar. carry drow throws 10 insults, says I will feed. this is before the first rune spawn. 10 minutes later, 3 ganks in mud, necro 2-8. then game proceeds to 70 minutes. huskar feeds for first 15 mins, then stays in base. not afk, we cant even sell his items. then in endgame, he dived enemy hg (we didnt take any tier 2 toewrs) feeds 3 times. SO…

My theory is not that payers get good teammates. My theory is that payers dont get griefers/leavers. My theory is that payers dota doesnt just hang midgame for no apparent reason. This happens so often to me and my friends who dont pay. dota just lags badly for no reason. restart router, reboot pc nothing works. Gaben wants to make me lose the game so payers may win.