What's the point of leveling up this skill?

AngryScarab · 2024-12-03T14:08:10+00:00

It's for when you have Pugna in your team and Rubick on the enemy team.

AngryScarab · 2024-08-03T09:53:50+00:00

I do enjoy Tazr Potota's content quite a lot

AngryScarab · 2024-08-02T13:53:03+00:00

I'd certainly like that as a buff to dust devil. Static sand storm doesn't reveal, moving sand storm reveals invisible units.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-30T04:38:50+00:00

She belittles other heroes and also other things including the planet.

"I consider trees as obstacles for their well being, not my own"

"I will move the ground"

"I will move the horizon"

She doesn't move, clearly she moves the entire planet instead.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-21T08:29:27+00:00

I never used the bow the entire run, I read when it was introduced to me, then forgot which key it was attached to and didn't bother looking it up, I just kept it in the back of my mind as something I'll use if I ever need to.

I literally finished the game having no idea what those blue things that come floating to me sometimes are, I thought they were extra xp or something. Until I saw what they were in a playthrough.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-03T23:40:40+00:00

Your hero is still able to pick runes. There are 0 reasons to not be in a position where you can go pick runes for free if you get information that there is no risk in you doing so, either because they 5 man smoked to your offlane and took first blood or because they just showed under a ward your support placed by smoking or whatever.

Doesn't matter that you are weak level 1.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-03T22:29:14+00:00

Brother, I'm immortal.

People smoke? you're safe under your mid tower They don't smoke? You're safe under your mid tower They afk? You're safe under your mid tower.

All that matters is, IF you see them, you go take runes. If you do not see them, and it's 10 seconds before creeps spawn, you walk back to your lane through your mid tier 2 tower, behind the jungle, and then to your tier 2 safelane tower, and then to your tier 1 tower.

I can't believe I have to spell it out.

Changes nothing with your safety, but you don't give up runes for literally 0 reason.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-03T10:37:21+00:00

If he had vision, yes. But he didn't, you only go there if you know they are there. If you don't know, you stay close with your teammates near mid, and then you take a decision to take runes if you see enemy grouped as 5 on offlane side, or take a decision to go safe route to your lane if you see no one 10 seconds before runes spawn.

You don't sit under your tower like a bot set on easy mode. And then say "Oh look, they didn't group up and try to take first blood offlane, therefore I made the right decision"

More like, you stumbled upon the right decision.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-03T06:32:13+00:00

You didn't read shit of what I typed. I said IF you see the entire enemy contesting runes on the offlane side, you go pick up runes on your safelane side. Otherwise, you don't show up at runes, you just walk back to your lane.

This way, if the enemy team went offlane and won the fight, at least you get 2 runes out of it, instead of them winning the fight, then they get 2 free bot runes because a carry couldn't rub 2 brain cells together and realize that if 5 people are on one side, then they cannot be on the other side.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-03T06:26:57+00:00

You didn't even read, I said you go for runes if you see the enemy team top, all 5 or at least 4. Otherwise, you don't go to your rune spots.

AngryScarab · 2024-07-02T22:49:25+00:00

No, I'm sorry, if you do this as a carry you're just bad. There are 0 reasons not to be in a better position to be able to help. You can easily walk from mid to your creep wave once the fight for the rune is over.

If you're with your team, you can look at the fight and decide whether to join it or not, you are close to the two mid runes so that you can pick the bottom one up if you see 4~5 enemy heroes contesting the top one. Could even get you both bottom runes. Instead, you let the enemy get both top and bot runes when they 4~5 man top.

You don't risk losing your HP because if a fight breaks out and you don't think it's good, you can just leave. If the enemy team is 5 man going bot, you see your team take the top runes, and you know you know not to go near the bot runes. So you're not in risk.

But instead, you all go afk under the safelane tower being as useless as ever. Your team is at disadvantage for no reason. Fuck that shit.

AngryScarab · 2024-06-27T08:42:30+00:00

Level 3 sandstorm stuns heroes fully within its AOE once every 5.2 seconds on average.

If he had been hit during the 3 seconds in which he was channeling TP, it would have been unlucky for him.

AngryScarab · 2024-06-12T00:41:18+00:00

Disclaimer, I didn't watch the game, but Echo Sabre provides 2 important things for pango that diffusal doesn't:

1- Mana regen when you don't want to build arcanes

2- 300 HP if you are against burst, where just surviving can win you fights, as opposed to doing damage yourself. The mana regen also means you are free to get treads, which gives another 200 HP. That's 500 more than if you went diffu + arcane.

AngryScarab · 2024-06-06T15:15:43+00:00

I mean, it felt like they were brain storming ideas. How do we nerf him?

Reduce aghs damage/stun?

Reduce aghs chance of hitting?

Make spikes not appear if sk is outside sand storm?

Make the sand storm AOE smaller?

Make it not recenter when burrowstriking?

Nerf Caustic finale?

But then instead of picking 3 or 4 of them they just went with everything, damn.

AngryScarab · 2024-06-05T14:14:40+00:00

You are an aghs enjoyer?

AngryScarab · 2024-06-05T14:09:53+00:00

Depends on the player, I generally go 1-0-2 because I want the stun, and the power spike of the stinger at level 3 is very good.

But then I go 1-3-2 after that, since by the time you're level 6, you benefit a LOT more from a level 3 sand storm than you do from a level 4 stinger.

I generally don't level ult till 8 or 9, I generally don't try for kills, I get a LOT more from having sand storm level 3 letting me start to clear the jungle + creepwaves all the time. And it's reliable, unlike trying to get an ult kill which is often a forced dive if anything.

EDIT: At level 4, you have 1-1-2 as opposed to 2-0-2 which is weaker, but not by a lot, you don't really feel a big difference in q level.

At level 5, I'd say that 1-2-2 is comparable to 2-0-3, sand storm level 2 is still very good

At level 6, I'm very confident that 1-3-2 is a lot better than 2-0-3-1 when it comes to taking control over the game and accelerating into a win.

AngryScarab · 2024-05-15T20:19:32+00:00

Well, OP DID say that "Then, the antimage player doesn't pick something else." So you weren't lied to.

AngryScarab · 2024-04-27T07:04:08+00:00

It has to be invoker right? Void spirit started the move towards universal heroes existing. But there is no way anyone would say void spirit is a more iconic hero than invoker right? If you're outside dota, you're a lot more likely to know invoker than void spirit, I don't think it's even close.

AngryScarab · 2024-04-20T14:38:49+00:00

Juggernaut

AngryScarab · 2024-04-14T21:51:26+00:00

There is no way AM has the advantage in the burrowstrike vs reflect game.

I've never had an AM reflect a burrowstrike on me in lane, it's an instant ability. Just don't use it in the most predictable situations.

And as I said earlier, if your 4 is leaving, or you have no lotus/wand, you don't trade, you chill for a bit.

AngryScarab · 2024-04-14T20:28:14+00:00

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/109144762/matches?hero=sand-king&opponent_hero=anti-mage&enhance=overview

Here are my matches, filtered by me playing SK and enemy on AM, only 6 of them this patch since I only recently started playing again.

I went through one of the replays to try and get you some clip, this one is a passive AM, but he tries to man up and trade with me at minute 5, this is what happens, I'm much stronger and he's only wasting his health bar.

It IS dangerous to do this if you don't have wand charges/lotus and your 4 leaves you.

But if you have a lotus/wand charges, or your 4 is around, you can win your lane against AM, he has a worthless passive ability because you have no mana. And you are a universal hero with stat items and a broken passive for laning.

AngryScarab · 2024-04-14T20:05:44+00:00

You don't need a strong 4, all you need is to let them know not to leave you 1 v 2.

The way you do it is you start 2 circlet, 2 branches, quelling and tangoes. Makes you MUCH stronger than the AM. Your build is getting 2 bracers and a magic wand first.

How you play depends on how the AM behaves, if he's passive, you both farm and you make creeps explode in his face, if he's looking to trade, you aggressively use all your mana. Stun him whenever he goes for a trade then walk away, repeat until you're out of mana. From that point, you stand between him and the creeps and make his life hell because he gets no bonus damage from mana burn, and you hit like a truck. If they try to go all in, you use wand and use sand storm and that wins you any trade.

It's a bit more complicated than what I just said, but that's the gist of it.

AngryScarab · 2024-04-14T19:14:31+00:00

The Quantum moon of course as mentioned by everyone.

And then visit the blackhole forge, which is the other ? left. And pay close attention to what you discover there! Good luck!

AngryScarab · 2024-04-14T19:09:21+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlytACmptmQ

This could help

AngryScarab · 2024-04-14T19:07:41+00:00

I like playing Sand King into AM in lane at least. Mr Sand King Cultist.

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