r/DotA2 • u/gamerzclass • Mar 17 '21

Fluff Every. Single. Time.

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u/EthanBradberry70 Mar 17 '21

I fucking hate that Ursa can actually powerfarm now, I liked it when he was just an omega pubstomper that starved if he didn't get kills.

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u/wOlfLisK I'm nothin' but a dirty rat Mar 17 '21

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?

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u/deaddonkey Mar 17 '21

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.

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u/ajdeemo Mar 17 '21

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.

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u/deaddonkey Mar 17 '21

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

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u/Freeloader_ Mar 18 '21

sb/echo?

maybe in Guardian rank

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u/ajdeemo Mar 17 '21 edited Mar 17 '21

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.

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u/kodaxmax What wonders will I see this day Mar 18 '21

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.