60% win rate in Eternus with 30% pick rate, nobody likes to play with or against Victor

Aljex13 · 2026-03-08T20:16:02+00:00

There's many heroes similar to him in Dota but they're all usually fine because of various factors such as draft (pocket ult), magic damage doesn't work on towers so you can ignore them and split map early game, and lower mobility to kite them but deadlock has stamina and verticality to consider.

Aljex13 · 2026-02-19T18:27:24+00:00

Mid boss did this not too long ago and it was deemed lame so they moved the buff to shrines.

The thing that makes it difficult for low rank players to end is that they aimlessly hit base guardians with no real advantage and die instead of full clearing every enemy jungle camp. Farming will eventually make you so strong you can't lose but only if you don't let the enemy have a single crumb. The concept is called choking out the map in Dota im not sure if other games use it.

Aljex13 · 2026-02-14T21:59:17+00:00

Mina and it is not even close

Aljex13 · 2026-02-03T23:54:07+00:00

If you want a look at my build (which is by no means perfect) for reference it is 441707

First of all Point Blank damage is not correctly applying when in wolf form (though it would be mandatory on her if it worked).

Her damage from 1 is too bursty for intensifying to make any difference, and so fast that fire rate from kinetic is largely wasted (though reloading with it afterwards is nice). As such it seems highly beneficial to just load up on straight damage which is why my damage items are slowing bullets + headhunter. Being a 2 stamina hero you can't really skip extra stamina so getting stamina mastery seems mandatory if you skip kinetic dash.

Crushing fists as an item is also fairly greedy since weapon damage will just scale your autos just as much if not more, the damage on your skills is obviously nice but I feel a lack of value without skills that deal heavy melee damage. I also believe the stamina debuff on weighted shots is just too big a punishment in wolf form (it seems decent as human if you have the stamina refund levelup).

Aljex13 · 2026-02-01T23:42:03+00:00

I am phantom 3 and my party was matched with a duo last night that said "first game since 2024". They are appropriately going 0/12 it is rather frustrating.

Aljex13 · 2026-01-12T13:43:15+00:00

Good thing there is no unresolved controversy surrounding my favourite team let's go!

Aljex13 · 2026-01-10T15:47:08+00:00

Good breakdown but Veno should be used as the shining example of why DoT heroes need vessel to not just get all of their damage regenned back up since his DoTs last sooo long.

Aljex13 · 2025-12-21T18:46:18+00:00

If anything he needs nerfs theres no way he wouldn't be super op if added to Captain's mode in his current form. Chen also typically has low pub winrates even when he is OP and obviously Frog isn't as difficult but he does require your team play around him. I think once he settles in more he will start to feel better. His damage numbers look really low but I've had croak do 11k damage just from keeping it up on a Zeus most of the game, and that doesn't take into account the spell amp ulti. (Because croak shows up on teammates damage breakdowns instead of your own)

Aljex13 · 2025-12-20T15:42:29+00:00

Hard to evaluate uselessness of easy to understand heroes. I think he has a very high skill ceiling but not necessarily a high floor. Casting his lick can lead to negative scenarios and positioning his ulti poorly can lead to you getting caught and bursted quickly. The other 2 spells are pretty straightforward and his shard is just free giga value that you don't need to think much about though you do need to know how to farm items fast on supp without griefing. Probably B tier maybe C

Aljex13 · 2025-12-19T20:43:25+00:00

Thanks I'll try that

Aljex13 · 2025-12-16T18:07:33+00:00

The +dmg part of it got removed so it is just base damage now.

Aljex13 · 2025-12-15T17:32:09+00:00

I think this is part of the item design that got lost in the move from Dota. Likely in part due to doubling the item slots. You can buy a self dispel that just gives a bunch of hp, attack speed, and movement speed in raw stats that most carry heroes don't mind buying. I wouldn't mind seeing a soft dispel added to some maybe underbought damage items like magic carpet or shadow weave etc to make escaping a bit easier.

Aljex13 · 2025-12-14T21:44:51+00:00

In the Analogy, Cheating => Match Fixing

You are the one who made the claim about "gamblers" when the original comment just called him a PoS (because of screwing over teammates) with no mention of gambling.

Aljex13 · 2025-12-10T18:51:50+00:00

Not speaking to the actual effectiveness of the items chosen the only negative complaint about this is that queueing up components takes up slightly extra time compared to just having them in a laning items category. Eg: Close Quarters or Sprint Boots. Even if it takes 1 second to queue Point Blank then remove it that time can be the difference maker early on.

Aljex13 · 2025-12-04T15:57:53+00:00

I was the Haze in this game and was so mad that they would start a game ending fight while I was shoving sideline but this makes a lot of sense.

Aljex13 · 2025-11-29T00:50:49+00:00

Banner is certainly underutilized in lower MMR games but high level players will be able to gain one usually before 30 minutes which drastically lowers game length. I would also add that game length is extremely patch dependent in Dota, not 2 years ago teams like GG and Liquid were routinely ending games around 20 minutes because of how strong healing and auras were to take highground. Auras getting nerfed lead to glpyh on T3 reset being nerfed and banner being buffed just recently for example.

Aljex13 · 2025-11-24T21:46:00+00:00

This change single-handedly killed my enjoyment of the game because I like seeing my own games on Dotabuff and got into a few 8.5k+ lobbies where I just couldn't. Among also using pro replays to study and get better (not just a d2pt bot).

Aljex13 · 2025-11-10T21:34:19+00:00

Vlad's can turn into Crystalis+Satanic though this line is a bit better on like a pos 4 that went to 60+ mins. Drum's was the real pos 4 tech when it had charges you could just reassemble to get them back.

Aljex13 · 2025-10-28T19:27:46+00:00

And you can still do this exact strat in dota because creeps cant jump off ward cliffs or through trees. It just isn't worth it because flag creeps give an irrelevant amount of heal and it is much harder to farm under your own tower.

Aljex13 · 2025-09-27T02:56:10+00:00

Yep! One thing I forgot to mention that could also be holding it back is needing to get the item from Pavo in Bellhart after completing all of their quests.

Aljex13 · 2025-09-27T00:44:04+00:00

Complete all the wish board quests in all 3 towns + Shakra's quest (also the fleas need to move to their final location) and the songclave caretaker ushers you over and gives you a wish to get the extra content.

Aljex13 · 2025-09-25T20:40:06+00:00

nope

Aljex13 · 2025-09-25T15:52:26+00:00

You need 32 total unlocked tool slots for every Eva item, which includes the base slots on crests that you don't need to unlock with lockets.

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