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Previous thread:

>bkb

just fuck my shit up

>egg stuns in bkb
why is this allowed?

>no hero can hit the sun
top draft

Will there be a patch between this and major?

>le balanced screaming man of many animals

nth for Traxex is the best waifu

>pick PA
>lose

>tfw you have a quarry to settle

>EBIN SUNRAY

REMOVE PHOENIX REMOVE PHOENIX PHOENIX IS PIG DISGUSTING

Why is laser chicken so based?

>EG lost to this
>2-0

STRAYA

>buy bkb to counter one (invoker) hero
>lose

how is this balanced

Hello my fellow NA bulls.

this fat fuck is stealing millions

Are people actually confused as to why Newbee keep winning with picks like these?

>pick PA
>lose

why would ANYONE pick this WORTHLESS HERO?

CINAMAN SANSER RAAAAAAAAAYYYYYTYTTTT

This spell does 60% of the enemy's health while healing 30% of your team mate's health.

PHOENIX NEEDS SOME FUCKING NERFS ASAP.

>phoenix

Why don't teams pick Drow to counter Peenix?

How is Chaun so good?
Newbee's positioning is literally amazing right now.

>Kaka
what a god

EG loses 2-0 to everybody dude. There's a reason we call them trash

how will n0lans win without fly using the solarbeam on the enemy team?

did ferrari 430 retire

why don't they pick nyx to counter phoenix?
phoenix rarely builds bkb

m-muh pubs

Because the other 4 heroes would shit on her

>pick laser chick
>win

because then you have a Nyx?

>We are going to have a TI6 with this Phoenix.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS ICEFROG THINKING

Haha I love forced maymays! Just post it every thread and eventually people will spout it!

PA is trash. Why do so many pro players have a hardon for getting her to work / be viable?

Cant wait until Phoenix gets overnerfed into uselessness again next patch

>phoenix gets small buffs for a couple of patches
>suddenly OP
wew lads

>phoenix rarely builds bkb
you mean never
I bet no phoenix ever did bkb in a pro game

STOP SUCKING THE YELLOW DICK

>Building Drums on an agi hero
>In 6.87

They deserve to lose.

id say that newbee's drafts are always good but today CoL went full retard with their draft

picking PA into pheonix invoker and beastmaster

what the fuck really

Isn't that crystal maiden?

Is a Nerf for Phoenix needed? I surely hope and think so.

>3 (THREE) patches
>0 h@s
>no h@pass
DOTARDS?!

nyx is so underrated dude

how the fuck did eg lose to this?

>sunray movement reduced to 200
>health cost increased to 10% per second
>supernova cooldown increased to 130

dragonlance has SnY level stats.

>aui carry

eg would have been crushed even harder and faster by newbee than col is currently

>sunray is op
just buy blademail lmao

No that's Drow's harness.

sumail choke

pros are retards and build shit items like blink when they need to build good items like aether lens

Wow that image is now 800 times worse.

see

>Implying there won't be a patch after Manilla

this is honestly the stupidest thing I've ever read in /d2g/

>Bulba on the team
>AUI carry
>EG TIER 1
pick one

>start spamming phoenix the other day
>now its going to be dumpstered in a minor patch after epicentre

Reminder that EG actually lost to this.

i have a 50% winrate on nyx this patch at 4.6k mmr trust me i'm like 99th percentile with nyx

>EG lost to this
>shitrekt lost to cuckliance

memeteams btfo

Jeez, Axe, how come your mum allows you to have TWO armor suits?

I stand corrected

this is the stupidest thing I've ever read on /d2g/

I actually hope we get an oldschool number tweak patch instead of LUL SO RANDOM LETS JUST FUCK THIS SHIT UP F AM we've had the last few patches.

ZOZZLE

fucking bamby

>Swindlshits

>EG lost to this team

kek

how many of you are sucking chink dick?

remember that supports like phoenix cannot be OP

Guys, I know it goes against all immediate logic, but vanguard is a good first big item for slark.

Yes, his ult passive gives him amazing regen etc, but first of all, you get that at level 6. It's not all that common for slark to get an uncontested lane and smoothly reach level 6. If you do have that and you don't feel like you will want to jungle, then by all means skip vanguard(until you get an abyssal blade of course).

So vanguard isn't just for in lane it also has advantages in the jungle. Slark's passive gives you great immediate regen, while you are not detected by an agressive unit. What slark players usually do is they fight creeps using dark pact then when they reach a substantial health deficit they go hide somewhere or something. This hiding time is not humongous because of shadow dance, but it still adds up. On top of this, while you are at low health, a smoke gank could easily catch you off guard making you lose farming time. Vanguard helps you in both of these areas. Vanguard makes it possible for you to keep farming 100% of the time at near full health and be nearly ungankable at the same time. You might say that vanguard will slow down your farm ability, but this is incorrect since slark relies on dark pact more than anything to farm.

Next is the most obvious reason for early vanguard: survivability in early battles. The hero needs health in a fight, the continuous regen and damage block don't hurt either. The fact that the item builds into abyssal doesn't even need to be stated.

There may be obvious situations where you will have to use your judgement on this, but vanguard holds some important advantages for early game slark that can't be ignored.

I've missed you, Tony Rockman

>panicked looking
>with alarmed expressions

Why are animeNEETS so fucking dumb?

>Chessie

>le ebin sunray cd is now 60sec
Fixed?

>sunray kills the enemy carry

...

PHOENIX LMAO

but phoenix is an offlaner?

AUSTRALIAN SNAG MATE

>extra bit of humpf
USE PROPER WORDS YOU FUCKING MORON

vanguard can work as a 5-10 min item on most melee heroes

>phoenix literally soloed PA

Lul

>sunray kills the enemy carry with 2/5ths hp left

>le balanced lzers of optimum scaling

Not a carry = support

>What does this mean?

What did he mean by this?

sooo
will ench get mkb or moonshard?

>NA Smoke

you'll still get 2 off in a fight

how is newbee this good all of a sudden

newbee are so good

>Getting another orb when you already have HotD
>Buying diffusal on PA
?

>EG lost to this

to the daedalus hotd PL
post your fucking results

come on.
stop rusing

They got Kpii and Kaka