4k gold item bruh. Not easy. Gets nerfed numerous times, too. The solution would've been to make stuns less overpowered to begin with, but that would make too much sense so instead we get the past 2+ years of balancing the game around a single item.
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The search radius is pretty small, roughly double melee range, shorter than TA base attack range and almost 50% smaller than Degen Aura radius. It's not actually hard to have it active on enemy heroes even in teamfights unless there's a crapton of (friendly) creeps around, and it's almost guaranteed to be up 100% of the time in skirmishes. For what should be obvious reasons, clumping up in teamfights is usually a very bad idea. I'd imagine a good Zet draft would include other heroes that specifically punish them for stacking up.
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Why is OD even in the game? Why did they utterly destroy that hero when he was already underperforming due to being nerfed when he didn't need nerfs?
I think I understand what they're going for, making him stronger late game... but he's going to be weak late game due to BKB making him useless no matter what. He has shit attack range, he's balanced around stealing INT which now requires a lot of IAS and time to attack people, and he no longer has lane dominance due to losing his INT steal on his W.
He now needs mobility items, attack speed, health, armor, and BKB just to be able to not die immediately in a teamfight, plus he needs a level advantage and preferably gold advantage (on a hero that sucks at farming) to be any good.
Like, holy fucking shit what a worthless fucking hero. This patch is seriously the worst they've done in years, how fucking hard is it to even just LOOK at the patch notes and understand that "wow, this will destroy this hero"? I mean, this is their game and the lead dev has been the more or less sole developer of it for the past, what, like 10 years?
I swear to god there's more and more evidence supporting the idea that Icefrog is either no longer the sole person in charge of designing the game, or apparently has suffered some sort of severe brain trauma or something.