Originally Posted by
Hermanni
It's called analysis. What he was asking was for you to bring examples of competitive use of Morphling and explain why it was Morphlings assumed imbalance that affected the result of the game and give us the opportunity to see your argument in action and refute it if we don't see it working. Your absolutely hilarious allcaps mock comments, on the other hand, don't really reinforce your credibility.
I've already raised a lot of what I believe to be good points in my previous posts which you've promptly ignored. Besides your strikingly accurate allcaps mock imitations of my manner of speaking, this argumentum ad populum seems to be the only grounds of your argument. Too bad it counts as a logical fallacy.
I already pointed out that the popular opinion in dota is greatly biased and usually - a more recent example would be of Sven, whom many now claim to be OP because of his recent surge in popularity in competitive and after Fear's performance last night. Yet as was pointed out, his winrate as of last night was 3-10 in DHW. Not a very large sample pool for a statistics, but it still has more credibility than the opinions of random stream viewers with unknown expertise.
And as I already pointed out - and what you chose to ignore - was that since his nerfs, which are mostly small number tweaks, he has been reduced to the lowest pub winrate in the history of Dota 2 and completely disappeared from competitive. Prior to the nerfs he was around 50% winrate in pub and 53%? winrate in competitive. Trying to look at this from a developer point of view, I'd doubt this is where this is where they want Morphling - or any hero for that matter - to be, so if I was in charge I wouldn't really call the latest patch a success from Morphlings part. What I very personally would have preferred to see was Morph changes from 6.74 reverted - but I thought those buffs weren't necessary in the first place.
So in my mind I imagine one of the following three things happened: Either he was fine then and was nerfed too hard, he was OP then and is now fine, or he was OP then and too weak now. Looking at the magnitude of his nerfs, I very much doubt the last one is entirely possible, and looking at where he is now, the second one doesn't seem too plausible - and this is why I find it very hard to believe that he was massively overpowered in the first place.
I'm going to go ahead and make my own counterargument here - as the competitive scene shifts rapidly, there's hard to tell where Morphlings true competitive potential is right now. However the fact that his pub winrate is very unhealthy still stands, which doesn't seem very good for a hero that - according to Lysah, at least - is supposed to be very easy to play.