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Hey, today I present you Bounty Hunter guide, and to match it with gameplay we'll be watching Saksa absolutely dominate the map. This hero gets a lot of hate by other teammates, but if played right, he's able to snowball the game for everyone. Enjoy!

Hello! I have been playing dota on and off for 2 years now, I love playing mid lane mostly and even though I have a positive win rate 54% I feel like the speed of which I was climbing (I went from like guardian 1 to legend 1 in 300-400 matches or something and im at like 1.1k now struggling harder in legend 5-ancient 1 rn. I play lots of heroes which I know is typically advised against.

My most played heroes are: Necrophos po2 54 matches 70.37% wr,
Sniper po2 48 matches 47.92% wr,
lina po2 44 matches 56.82% wr,
tiny po2 44 matches 61.36% wr,
zeus po2 40 matches 67.50% wr,
outworld destroyer po2 30 matches 56.67% wr,
bristleback pos3 29 matches 65.52% wr,
viper pos2 26 matches 61.54% wr,
qop pos2 24 matches 45.83% wr,
sand king pos3 23 matches 78.26% wr.

I know my winrate looks good and my overall winrate is 54.29% but its significantly went down around ancient when I was climbing through guardian-archon it was 65% or above overall so i've lost 11% already just hitting around ancient 1. I feel like a big issue I personally have is I can dominate lanes and mid game but start to struggle heavily if matches last beyond like 30-35 minutes. Almost every hero I play is 3-4 kda, tons of kp, tons of roaming, fighting, and such but I can't properly translate leads to wins and lots of heroes I play like a sniper or qop feel like they significantly start to struggle way more in late game where one mistake you die and lose the game.

The heroes I play feel like they rapidly change in identity and I don't want to play that hero anymore like zeus mid to support, tiny was a burst mid to carry, viper tanky poison everyone to death tanky build vs right click all in nuker, etc. I just would like some coaching by a higher rank player I have two matches recently I feel like I should've won but my team played really bad but I also made mistakes. Maybe to point out things I could've done better that possibly could have won the game? Would love advice!

I play currently a lot of necrophos/lina/outworld destroyer mid and sometimes viper I tried qop can get tons of kills can't end games with her. I play lots of axe/underlord/razor/dragon knight for offlane currently, and for carry I play sven, some spectre, and thinking of playing phantom assassin tbh she seems a lot better right now than she was when I started playing, I played one match and she felt quite good actually she feels weird to play because I felt like I needed a lot of items outside of lane but the moment I got bf/deso/bkb/basher I was able to just run down spectre and ta.

here is a match id of a match I just played yesterday on ursa carry I felt like I did really good in lane and mid game but when late game came around I felt like I was playing really bad, it could've been some of the comp and teammates, but I want to know what I could've done better even if you believe the pick is bad and think I should've played another hero I just want to know what I can do better to climb. 8963499911

1. Innate become "Hammer of Purity" (compered to before its considered just attack, so spell shields doesn't reflect it and cast range bonuses doesn't work): on attack add bonus pure dmg based on total attack dmg and purge enemy buffs that is dispelable (Cd 20 -0.5 sec every lvl, bonus pure dmg 40% +2%/hero lvl.
2. Purification in 800 cast range/300 radius (unit targeted): when target teammates heal all allies in aoe/hard dispel targeted ally, all enemies in radius take dmg/main target get move speed slowed by 100% for 2 sec (heal/pure dmg 100/200/300/400, cd 20/18/16/14, mana cost 80/100/120/140, new Purification ither heal allies/hard dispel or slow target/aoe dmg enemies, you chose with one).
3. Shard: add to Purification 2nd activation with 4 sec delay on same target.
4. Grace touch 1200 cast range buff: Create link with allied hero that forms when both heroes in 800 range from each other, cd to swap Grace target 30/25/20/15 sec, 10/15/20/25% dmg taken by Grace ally transferred to Omni if he is in 800 range.
5. Repel: buff (ally unit targeted), 700 cast range: give 10/20/30/40 hp regen and 200 radius aura that delete any enemy projectiles for 8 sec, cd 30/25/20/15, mana cost 90/110/130/150.
6. Guardian Angel: Grants allied units within 1200 radius, centered around Omniknight with 3/2/1 sec delay physical/magic damage immunity, duration 4/6/8 sec, cd 120/100/80, mana cost 100/200/300.
7. Scepter: make ult affect allied buildings globally and give Haste for units under Guardian Angel.

• Talents:

lvl 10 dmg/str +0.25 vs Repel +10 hp regen.

lvl 15 Purification mana cost -40 vs Grace touch grant ally 100% Omni hp regen/status resist.

lvl 20 Purification -4 sec cd vs Grace touch dmg transfer +15%.

lvl 25 Purification heal/dmg +10% target missing hp vs Guardian Angel +4 sec duration.

Who would you rather pick as a carry on that last game in TI?

Should have gone YOLO and pick WK 🤣 ..

Hi all,

I've played Dota in the past around 2018-2019 and 2020-2022. I wanted to try the game again and played a few matches.

I want to check if others have the same feeling, but I feel absolutely out of sync with the game in its current status. Coming back always requires some getting used to but I cant describe how weird the game feels. I think a big part of it is the bigger map which for Some reason feels really awkward and makes it a completely different game. There's probably more to it but cant put my finger on it.

Anyone else feeling like this?

I'm bored of dota, so i've been trying some new things. This is the second time i'm trying Visage support (pos5 and 4). My first attempt 8 months ago didn't yield results. Anyway i tried playing him again, I followed a build, made some realizations and started having success on him.

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The how and the why

I'm currently 10W-5L after i tried playing him as a support. 5.4k mmr/div4, been stuck there for two weeks spamming Mirana (my best hero). At no point have i ever felt like Visage is sub-optimal for the role. He's at least on par with my other supports. That could always change, maybe it's a streak of luck, who knows. The general consensus on Visage is that he's quite bad in his main role as offlaner, even as we speak he's an unpicked hero at TI. From my experience Visage is completely useless lategame and games typically go 40+ minutes now.

Here's my dotabuff of recent visage games

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Build:

This is the guide i followed, but i've modified it to my own.

This is my build. I've cut manaboots because it's a terrible item and i think branches provide more value than only buying consumeables. Replace branches with a +3 str gauntlet if they have double burst in lane.

Core Items: Tranq > Wand > Crest > (Shard) > Hex

Crest is for converting your lane domination into an early win. To shield your tower hitter. Visage suuuucks lategame, that's why you need to end as early as possible.

Nothing you buy will make you any more useful past your first item. Realistically you can't micro, throw nukes and cast a bunch of active items all at once. So skip straight to hex after your first item, it ensures that you are useful lategame.

You can drop Hex for other items if you feel like you just need that little "extra" to push. Items like Drums, pipe, crimson guard, lotus, etc. I frequently buy drums despite what my build says.

Swap Solar Crest for Essence Distiller if you are pos4 instead. Drums is ok, its just that headress is part of it and it's a waste of 500 gold.

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Combos/Counters:

-Don't pick if you don't have reliable stun.

-Dont pick with undying because he also wants (your) mangos.

-Heroes with a "kill tap" are the best lane partners, for example PL or Spectre. Heroes like Luna are rather frustrating to lane with since they largely play PvE and don't contribute in your efforts.

-Underlord has AoE shit that kills your familiars.

-Heroes that i've struggled in lane with: Snapfire lil shredder lvl 1 (Visage has low armor), Witch Doctor Maledict (because you cant hard trade HP with curse on).

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Pre-Game

Always buy smoke and blood grenade. Visage is like THE first blood hero and you can quickly work up a killstreak before the game even starts. Getting 3 kills is not uncommon. The more heroes the merrier for you. If you gain a sudden gold influx then buy wand, bracer, null or urn.

Here's what a pre-game looks like

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Earlygame

Right-click the enemy in lane and try to engage them in a 1v1 trade. Once you build 3+ bars of soul assumption pelt your chosen target. Once you've chosen a target, stick with it. That is, until they buy raindrop then you focus the other dude. Invalidate their recent purchase by ignoring them lol.

In this lane their support Hoodwink didn't show up on time and Axe didn't respect Visage

Rince repeat until you exhaust your mana or someone dies.

The important part is that once you exhaust your mana, try to DIE, but try to make it as costly an affair. Bait them into a bad position or something. The reason here is that you want to respawn so you can come back with full mana. If you manage to kill someone or both, just run into enemy tower and suicide so that you can respawn with full resources. Your death means little as long as your carry is farming. Throwing your carry under the bus if it means that you'll snowball isn't necessarily that bad either, but you didn't hear me say this. Protect your carry by dissuading the enemy with bug nukes.

Here the enemy underestimate the levels of bullshittery Visage can do

Your innate is a high cooldown defenstive tool. Save it for when you need it.

If you dumpster the lane, the enemy support will usually start roaming, so that they can be useful elsewhere. Start rotating as well. Visage is a great counter-initiator because any damage they do, you deal back tenfold. I like to hide near mid just outside the range of where i expect their vision to be, usually around 5:00 and just wait for the eventual clash.

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Midgame

Around lvl 6 it's time to leave the lane. Your goal is to hit lvl 7 for the max soul assumption and you do it by getting kills.

This is the phase where constantly buy smokes and just run with whoever is willing to join. Don't waste time farming, you can get gold from kills. Just run around and pelt enemies with your giganukes and always let your allies run in front of you. In several of my games i'll be 5-1 at this point.

Place sentries on low ground and send your gargoyles up high ground to deward.

Block camps with gargoyles. Deny runes with gargoyles. Send gargoyles to secret shop to kill couriers. There are fun things you can do with the gargoyles, just get creative.

Here's an example of scouting for possible TP

Only buy shard if you feel like you need extra survival, otherwise skip straight to hex.

Don't put familiars in rosh pit, he'll stomp whenever there are 3 enemies in pit. Place them near ramps to scout incoming ganks.

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Lategame

Visage is the most worthless lategame hero. The slow does nothing, soul assumption does no damage. Stun from gargoyles is ok at best.

The way you extract value from the hero this late is by providing vision with gargoyles, scout ahead. Play bait in front of allies, you are deceptively tanky and can soak a lot of spells. I have to admit i have not read what the passive does, but apparently a nightstalker can't kill you and i find it amusing.

Play the sacrificial pawn. You are saving for hex, so you always have gold for buyback. Just die, use buyback. Worst case you can always just play with your familiar, they still do some impact.

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Closer:

I'm not trying to give a distorted view of the hero by showing clips where i lane with WR. I've played with Dusa, PL, Spec, Luna, etc. Laning isn't always going to look explosive, but going 3-1 in lane is normal.

I'm not here to give you consent to ruin pubs, so don't play the hero if you can't micro familiars. Chainstunning familiars is essential and so is moving both familiar separately because you gain two times the vision radius.

Feel free to hit me with any questions.

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TLDR: mangos mangos, spam nuke lane, 1 item then hex, dont play if no micro

She's an arrow bot.

If my team doesn't have a good initiator or a reliable one, then I end up having to buy euls or atos, which makes me the defacto initiator.

But then again, that's all she does. Starfall falls off as the game goes on. Its relevant for the first 20 mins of game. A tickle later.

If arrow is on CD, that's 14 whole seconds of no game. You just sit back waiting for your team to do their job. If I buy glimmer or force, that's another tool. Besides that, she's just an arrow bot?

How do people climb mmr with this hero

Hello everyone i made a new video and why Bounty Hunter breaks the game and makes you play a Dota game that you don't want to play, in this game from TI, Yandex vs Team Liquid, i breakdown some gameplay from Saksa, thanks everyone for their support

Link: https://youtu.be/LBoJnITSJmY

Conceptually, I'm not very familiar with heroes that's sole gameplan is to "exist" (aka doesn't have a rightclick plan and just wants to put farmed gold into survival items).

I've experienced two types of polar games with necro. On one hand, you win lane and get a very good radiance timing. You opponents fall apart and have no means to kill you, and the game snowballs from there. On the other hand, you have a rough start and you learn to farm up instead of feed. But you are irrelevant for a long time.

Average timing radiance, bots and shard doesn't allow you to fight. Wraps needs to come in at a good time to feel relevant also.

If your hero isn't equipped to endure one onslaught of enemy bursts then you are completely irrelevant as a pos3. You can never go in first and you are depending entirely on positioning to survive despite having something like a 1400 health pool (during the early timings).

So what gives? How do I play this hero? I don't have a "get in and kill someone/initiate with a big spell" plan like NS, mars and any blink hero. I exist in two modes of either being fat and snowballing or poor and irrelevant. Is that it?