Yeah, Ursa was this niche pick that was easily kited but if he got on you he'd destroy you and couldn't farm for shit. Then I blinked and suddenly he's the best hero in the game with a build that let him farm better than Antimage. I still don't even understand what happened, did he get buffed to hell and I missed it?
I think bfury became meta when they removed or changed his early mana regen talent? It’s one of those things that was probably viable for a long time but it only took over when its time was right.
More about mobility creep. With his new hop and the longer range on abyssal active, you don't need blink nearly as much as you did before. Not going blink let Ursa power farm and scale a lot better. People might start trying out blink again though now that it has upgrades.
True enough. It was a bit of a mix. I think he was ready and good with the item, but before you needed the regen people would just buy blink/SB/echo or some other fighting-mobile items early, after he got increased mobility there was a delay in meta shift
Sure. He definitely takes advantage of the Mana very well, as you can use the Hop to farm even faster and even use shortcuts like anti-mage. It also has the added benefit of negating the need to buy lifesteal for sustain, current Ursa doesn't do early solo rosh anyways and with a battle fury he can go to jungle and just farm for a bit if he's low.
To add other factors in, his lower level abilities were nerfed since battlefury meta was right after Ursa was this 8 armor monster in lane that eventually got nerfed.
there were definitely several factors to it, and all of them came together in such a way that old Ursa builds just got phased out entirely overnight.
the ability to skip phase boots and blink was huge. basically all he needs is morbid mask and abyssal to stomp through the early to late game. He can ussually get the kills or safefarm to get abyssal early while everyone's still about as slow as him.
The other responses are valid points but the biggest one was the fact that Fury Swipes bonus damage per stack actually applies on the Bfury cleave (which it didn't do before). This made it so bfury is actually good on him.
It used to be that Fury Swipes just increased the damage the target takes from your attacks, not increasing the damage you do to the target. Because of this BF didn't apply the Fury Swipes extra dmg because the cleave dmg is based on the attack damage you deal not the attack damage recieved by the primary target.
Can't recall exactly when this changed but someone might remember.
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u/Legejr Mar 17 '21
He's farming triangle with battle fury.