It would be too strong. Scythe is already a lock down item used to burst people, and it does that very well. Taking away passives which often gives survivability on top of that would make it extremely strong for that specific purpose.
Not to mention that if you buy Scythe to counter a hero’s passive, you also counter every other hero in the game because Scythe is already a really good item overall.
Nature’s Prophet. His ult is still strong, especially with aghs, but his main threat still comes from his base stats along with sprout and teleport. In a game where no one has ult, he would would probably be high on top.
I think there is a good argument for Grimstroke as well, Soulbind is good, but you still mainly pick him for Ink Swell. He does just fine without an ult.
There isn’t really any true anti tank tech in dota the same way there is in HotS. The best counters right now I would say is Necro and AA. Necro has %damage aura and also later a antiheal talent, and most importantly is as basically as tanky as the tanks he counters. AA ult stops all healing and also has %damage.
Anti heal is often a as good if not better solution than %damage to tanks, as it stops their sustain and makes them easier to burst. You can also use minus armor because it will reduce their physical effective HP by a lot, such as Weaver, Dazzle, TA, Slardar or bypass armor completely with Muerta.
If you are a true Spirit Breaker enjoyer, you will keep playing him even after the nerf
And if you will seriously miss Spirit Breaker in the current state that he is in: please get help
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.
It’s a reason for many Dota players’ PTSD. A reminder of terrible terrible times now long gone.
But in all seriousness that’s Wraith Pact, an old now removed Vlads upgrade that created a ward on the ground that reduced everyone’s damage to a point where whatever teams pos 3 got it first basically won, leading to one of the most boring metas of all time
I have no idea why people think Disruptor shard is bad. It’s 50% more damage and duration, 100% more cast range, and you can hit people in fog and invis with it. Because it reaches farther and the vision duration is longer, it enables you to get Glimpses you would not otherwise get. The reason you don’t buy it is simply that you need other items more, most notably aghs, on top of other support items. But if you get it from tormentor it’s pretty good, not amazing by any means but not anywhere close to being bad.
I’d say DK, Tinker, Mirana are all pretty underwhelming. Clinkz doesnt get much use the way he is usually played. KotL is really hard to get value from since it requires you to be in ult to be used. Spectre is honestly pretty bad, it gets ok if you have the 25 talent. The LD bear shard is also pretty bad, haven’t seen it picked up once.
I think valve needs to fix this ASAP. There is no way the coffee spilled due to you being clumsy, it must be the system being bugged somehow tipping your coffee cup over. Just keep making reddit posts about it and whatever you do don’t claim responsibility for the consequences of your own actions
I don’t know dude, I’ve been on a lot of losing streaks and I haven’t managed to get below 12k for it.
Everyone loses games, everyone gets losing streaks, because they are statistically bound to happen. And still most people stay at 12k without even putting in any effort. Do you really think that you lost 2000 behavior score because you lost games, or… do you think that maybe you are the issue here? And maybe you should go take a hard look in the mirror instead of going on reddit and crying about how your actions have consequences.
But hey maybe I’m being presumptuous here, maybe you really are a really nice guy that is just unfairly targeted by an unjust system. I guess we’ll never know since you wont post replays.
People really need to stop asking for these two items to combine.
Phylactery is already a massive early game power spike, it does not need an upgrade. And the heroes that already get phylactery certainly do not need to get extra cast range without having to commit a slot to it.