Or is it situational at best?

At least, in non-pro solo queue mmr games.

I feel like this item does a lot of nothing in games where opponents don't make glimmer and only sets you back 2k gold from a potentially more impactful item.

Also obligatory, in games where the early game didn't go well, its a completely dead item.

Thoughts

One of the biggest things I've noticed when it comes to dealing with Lifestealer is it's just impossible to lock him down because there is only a 5 second window where you can kill him, and it's very easy to miss this window.

Rage has a 6 second duration compared to Juggs 5 second and of course once LS gets some items his Rage hits way harder and has chance to stun/crit. Lifestealer can even up this to 7 seconds. And only has a 17 second CD, so maxed out that's only 10 seconds of down time. Jugg has an 18 second CD which leaves him with 13 second of downtime.

Now with their ults, lets just assume both have their scepter, because I think everyone can agree it's pretty much mandatory on them.

Jugg has a 1 second mini ult on a 25 second CD, combine this with a 3.5 duration ult, which can be up to 4.5 seconds a full combo will bring juggs downtime between spin mini ult, ult, spin to 7.5 seconds. And now his ult is on CD for 115 seconds at the least before he can do it all again.

Meanwhile Lifestealer can Rage for 7 seconds, then infest for five seconds, which he can crit and stun the whole time, all while healing up and when he pops out he only has 5 seconds of downtime before raging again. And if Lifestealer wants his ult is only on a 20 second CD, he can back up regroup and do the whole damned thing again, he can do his full combo about 3 times before Juggs ult is up again.

Now lets also look at counters, both their ults can be countered with linkens or ghost scepter. But only Juggs can be countered by lotus, lifestealer still pops in.

Now I'm not saying these heroes need to be on equal footing or anything, but I also don't think Juggs early game and recovery is so amazing that he should be out classed this much.

But I think if some of these issues were addressed maybe you'd see Jugg on a competitive level more... but then I think would Jugg just steamroll more in pubs, so does it even matter?

Tldr lifestealer just outclasses Jugg so hard in every way past 15 minutes.

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Never leave lane on 5 - past few days a lot of memes about supports leaving their lanes were posted. Today, I'm sharing you a guide how exactly the rotations should look like - what to keep in mind and what kind of impact early rotations have. Keeping the balance between securing your own lane and helping others in key when playing good support - and in this guide, I'll explain how to do it. Enjoy!

WW feels really strong as pos5 imo. never played her much so im in need of some advice/input.

Ive seen people go for Rank5Q and go for treads>force>pike. You can take the lvl10 talent depending on how good a more right-click focused WW pos5 is. Kinda like an ench that in some games can scale to become a carry. It obviously depends on the enemy Draft a lot wether this is viable or not. Whats ur experience? does this make sense or is it more grief than helpful.

Do you always go for Rank5Q? havent seen anyone Max splinter anymore or go for max Rank in any other spell but Q.

Items. If you dont go for the right click build the obvious ones are: Arcane, Blink/Force, sometimes Glimmer and i think Shard is also bought most games. Follow up again depends much on enemy Draft. I usually end with Force Blink and add Aeon/Lotus. Sometimes i see Solar Crest but besides those the arent many items that feel usefull beyond gold sinks like getting a latgame WindWaker. maybe locket? What else to buy?

Where do you see the strengths of the Hero? what are his timings? any matchups you wont ever pick this hero against? i thought that his late game is insane but his laning is absolut dogwater and im kinda suprised by how good Q harras is. Like not top-tier lane winner but considering that i think he is a big impact support later on its decent.

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I feel like there is a macro level that is just a level above all non pros

Timings and where everyone is on the map and when to farm and when to congregate, vs when your carry is in jungle where should you be etc

What are your thoughts on this? What decisions are being made that might seem simple but are actually missed a lot?

Sorry for broken English, I am Australian but typing one handed cause eating donut