Yeah I've been avoiding matchmaking most of the time, been sticking to alts, CM, inhouse.
It's a shame you know? At his best he's actually a brilliant hero for team fights, mid into bottle boots soul ring blink aghs whatever is fucking brilliant with his 6 second stun.
High damage output that includes extreme damage with aghs or good composite damage that's always useful vs squishy heroes all game round unless they stack shit like Rubick and Pipe, ethereal stops it too but you'll just use your ult to fuck that over.
His only real problem is that you need the blink or force to abuse his mines mid fight so you can pull off a combo including suicide. With bloodstone luxury suicide is either instant or near instant respawn so you can get back into fights so quickly!
But it's irrelevant that he has good team-fight when he makes the game he's in so boring. Even if you're ahead or losing hard as techies, you're gonna make pushing the tier 3 a stupid chore. Heroes who are also good anti-pushers like Ember Spirit, Gyro and arguably Medusa (split shot is pretty good at tier 3 tbh!!! despite her being a bit shit) have a great time under this turtle and can farm up come-back items. Without any effort needed on behalf of the Techies except to play Sim City!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kind of a joke that you need to literally wait for Roshan and get hearts almost every game if there's a Techies rather than only being cautious if the enemy team is similarly farmed to you.
Also the team-fight argument is kinda null because everyone is fucking bad at this game and Techies don't know what they're doing and just lay down traps or defend being useless pieces of shit. Or relying on gimmick combos, but mind you RP skewer or Venge swap is legit as fuck.
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On top of that we're dealing with 6.81 with the current Techies in, this includes:
- Heroes who can fit into any team like Enigma because of their poor strength and lack of counters because he has amazing push and team-fight from the ending stages of the laning phase.
- Heroes that do best supporting in greedy duo-lane line-ups with a Jungler like Shaman who got buffed with 10 wards and is press R to take a free tower in most games.
- Heroes who have strong mid/1v1 and huge press R to push potential when moderately farmed like Razor.
- Heroes who have strong off-lane or as a main core, strong all game and only need minimal items to do anything with their R to win hero skill like Void and Doom, the latter who can retreat to the jungle if he's behind and the former only needs Treads and 3 in Timelock to get kills on almost every hero at level 6. Hell Doom can start in the Jungle and even be a support boys.
- Heroes who have most of the above like Death Prophet.
- Heroes like Skywrath Mage whose ability to single handily kill cores is fine but he has bullshit spell range in laning and a 1 point wonder for a slow.
- Heroes that aren't exactly overpowered at all but making the meta stale with their small buffs that make them played a lot like Tidehunter.
- And heroes who are either just lame to deal with like Lycan's global, Brew's Drunken Brawler (ebin) and shift-queue blink after TP being instant without many flaws which Tinker abuses when he wanks off in trees doing safe March of the Machines all day and only a few heroes can reliably counter him when he's pushing like that (i.e. Storm or Earth Spirit with blink who isn't even in CM) .
Almost all of those heroes farm up a 7-9 minute mek every game and abuse their early burst and pushing strengths. Thank you Icefraud. On top of the 6.81 we have to deal with techies. Fuck me.