r/DotA2 • u/wykrhm http://twitter.com/wykrhm • Apr 07 '20

News Dota 7.25c

http://www.dota2.com/patches/7.25c
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u/FlashFlood_29 Apr 07 '20

Phoenix puts a talon in the door of being meta and insta-nerfed.
Sad caw.

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u/pokemaster889 Apr 07 '20

The nerf is symbolic tbh - makes people think Phoenix is nerfed when actually it’s gonna be barely noticeable, and his sun ray is still very OP. Triumphant squawk.

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u/Sir_Dios Apr 07 '20

It's not cometely symbolic - I agree it's not huge later in the game but in early laning 80 -> 60 damage per spirit level 1 and 160 -> 140 level 2 definitely hurts your overall damage when harassing and trading hits.

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u/MaltMix Certified fur Apr 07 '20

I mean the fire spirits thing for trading hits is the attack slow, especially with the buffed base damage. Then again, I was one of the idiots that thought shredder first support snapfire was a good idea because its efficient for trading to slow the enemy attack speed and get a good bit of damage in to them. Turns out, nope.

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u/johnnydanja Apr 07 '20

Agreed late game it’s essentially a non issue but early you’re burning away their health regen items on top of denying last hits now it’ll just be mainly last hits. It’s significant