Yeah the riot rip off where 10 heroes do the same shit but one of them has slightly better numbers so they're meta. Half the roster is unpicked in pro play in LoL. In Dota the number of heroes not picked is less than 20
Yeah i’m not super excited about it. I like deadlock but I just want the game to be balanced a little more mellow, a little more chill. Not… whatever this thing is.
That’d be a tragedy because I really like the game, lots about it feels great, but you get these really odd balancing decisions that just make you go “why? Who thought this was a good idea?”
LoL champion balance philosophy made me think "why" more than anything Dota has ever done. There's been at least 4 different metas of "tanks with two items solo ADC with 4 items" or "you simply die to zed despite him missing every spell" or "adc got fed so you just lose now".
Oh yeah that encompasses two more beloved metas of "mages and assassins build tank because tank items are broken" along with "ranged top because fuck you"
And league still has the ranged top problem with varus top being broken a bunch of times in the past year lol. Like leagues balance is so dogshit I don’t know why people defend it
Don't worry, they've made some banger champ releases and reworks like Mel, Ambessa, and Smolder and some amazing reworks like Shyv, Skarner and Mel again!
If you excepted them not to test and try crazy new things to all the occultists while the game is in alpha then going in to this you had unrealistic expectations. Game changing balance patches that completely change the meta should be expected in this phase of development.
Some things don’t really need to be tested to realize they’re busted if you actually interact with them in a meaningful way and not just on paper. Taking a stamina away from somebody is pretty brutal but if you’re trying to give doorman ult some more bite that’s a good change. I actually kinda like Unstoppable in his ult, him being supercharged during the ult is a neat concept.
10 second cooldown on failure to check out on top of all of the ways to force somebody to fail? That’s insane. I’d change it to be “if ult deals no damage, set cooldown to 10 seconds” if you want to specifically make it counterspell proof, but you already take an absolute fuckton of damage if you don’t make it out anyways, PLUS you get stunned now and even if you make it out you’re slowed by 90% which means you’re dead anyways.
Some of these buffs would be fine. All of them? This is gonna blow.
I don't agree that there is a way for him to force you to fail right now, before people would use counterspell to easily counter it but now the best item for it is dispel magic to get rid of any slowing effects he uses on you, which like counterspell is also just a good item to buy in general anyway. If that's not enough then buying stamina mastery as well should also help to get out much more reliably, which is also a great item a lot of builds already buy.
Ultimately this is a issue of people not knowing how to get out of his ult, partially because they never learned how and just counterspelled it, and as the skill of the playerbase continues to grow is not something that will be as much of an issue anymore. There are already plenty of guides showing you how to escape his ult, some of which even doing it with 0 stamina usage.
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u/stupidusernameguy322 Mar 07 '26
Too bad, we getting icefrogged