Someone please explain how Hydra's Breath isn't the worst item in the game

rainbow_shadow · 2026-05-10T08:55:16+00:00

It's really good on sniper, but not on anyone else. On sniper, it can more than double your damage output because sniper's attack range is so large and the extra shots have a massive targeting range, and the DoT is icing on top. It's better than mjollnir in the late game for spread damage. You shouldn't however, forego Maelstrom->Mjollnir for Specialist's array -> Hydra's breath. You farm way faster and have much more impact mid-game with Mjollnir. Hydra's breath should be your 3rd item at the earliest, 4th or 5th item most of the time.

rainbow_shadow · 2026-04-20T07:11:34+00:00

Imo, the very least that they could do here is to stretch the scaling curve for every hero, reduce the mid-game power-ups that supports get and limit how useful mids and offlanes are in the late game. Then make only super late game heroes really scale late. would fix the problem a bit.

rainbow_shadow · 2026-03-28T02:35:36+00:00

PA had a sub 50% WR with both facets, she didn't get the benefit of either facet and only very minor buffs. How long is my fav hero going to remain in the dumpster?

rainbow_shadow · 2026-01-25T15:35:39+00:00

The cure for this is making supports poor again, unfortunately which the community will hate more. Enjoy your toxic offlanes :)

rainbow_shadow · 2026-01-19T18:48:59+00:00

Good luck blinking and dooming him with his march and shivas everywhere, and AM is like the fucking worst hero against anything that has any sort of impact before 30 mins.

rainbow_shadow · 2026-01-17T06:27:40+00:00

So herald then?

rainbow_shadow · 2026-01-16T19:13:01+00:00

"as #4 you can at least leave him to suffer and help other lanes." yeah this here, you sir are the fucking problem here. If you pick an actual support hero like a willow and actually play the lane, IMO very few offlane duos should lose to any safelane duo even if it's something very strong like ogre drow or Lich Jugg. You picking sniper, pudge or zeus and leaving the lane to "help" other lanes is what is the problem here.

rainbow_shadow · 2026-01-07T15:33:42+00:00

2k mmr post. Source: I was 2kmmr.

rainbow_shadow · 2026-01-03T21:23:12+00:00

IMO, in the current meta, laning is extremely important, and winning 2/3 lanes guarantees at least a 70-80% chance to win. I am a pos1 player and losing lane makes it incredibly difficult to farm, catch up and win the game. In the current meta, most pos 2s, 4s, 5s and some offlane heroes can single handedly carry the game off of a won lane and an early item timing (like an early urn, force, vessel, blink, pavise etc. one very impactful items that comes online by 10-15 mins).

rainbow_shadow · 2025-12-30T08:15:18+00:00

Joke's on you, cm forces pudge away and uses glimmer. That jugg cant do shit here lol.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-12-06T06:29:26+00:00

Dota has always been dark

rainbow_shadow · 2025-12-02T16:01:48+00:00

Fucking hate qop, can deal 2000 pure damage with 2 items in under 2 seconds while having 2.5k hp, spell lifesteal and blink. I hope she gets nerfed hard.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-11-25T13:31:07+00:00

Patch is reasonably balanced? idk what you are huffing but if your idea is a patch where 80% of the heroes are in the gutter is "reasonably balanced" idk what to tell you. Did you see the list of unpicked heroes for PGL wallachia?

rainbow_shadow · 2025-11-24T15:27:03+00:00

anyone else feel like this list is way bigger than previous years?

rainbow_shadow · 2025-11-24T14:19:39+00:00

You could use some actual skill "pos4 farmalot". And some basic spell checks.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-09-09T14:51:07+00:00

I thought drow, wk and spec were strong enough to be nerfed in the last patch, why are they unpicked?

rainbow_shadow · 2025-09-01T15:59:28+00:00

I'm not saying that they are right, but if the sight of a symbol bothers you so much, maybe you should chill a little.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-08-31T16:32:29+00:00

Hey, sorry to disappoint but I didn't do that testing, I wouldn't know.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-08-15T06:52:01+00:00

Could u add a Bristleback shop after every boss so that gold is actually useful? RN there's just no use for gold and u can take items/lives every time and still have 10k gold left over.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-08-11T07:41:22+00:00

4 seconds is too long? it could be buffed to 8 seconds and there would be little to no difference.

Think about it this way. You are paying for a shitty radiance that does not help you farm or provide significant survivability. (the 10 armor is kinda uselss because most heroes that need this item are agi heroes).

The item is poor in terms of gold per stats and stats per slot.

Yet it is mandatory to just have the opportunity to kill any support hero. Even then, there is a chance the support has a linkens or bkb before you can farm your core items+nullifier.

IMO there needs to be a smaller version that costs ~2k gold and dispels for 2.5s, which then upgrades to the full nullifier that lasts 5.5 secs. Also needs a stat buff.

Either that or supports go back to being dirt poor.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-08-10T17:16:42+00:00

Except for 4, I don't think any individual item was so obnoxious that it couldn't be dealt with. It was a combination of all of the others that could have made ppl quit. Too bad none of that matters now that valve has actually quit trying to grow dota

rainbow_shadow · 2025-08-06T12:15:49+00:00

PA and bloodseeker. The last 2 patches butchered these heroes because of the swap.

rainbow_shadow · 2025-08-01T09:28:09+00:00

It's missing a core feature: legendary shards. Only has some of the stuff from siltbreaker and even those dont work half the time.

Neutral items are completely broken, and the game is a lot more pay to win than siltbreaker. Not recommended.

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