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Yes it is!!!

maybe you could have mentioned some heroes on the role you were talking. dont know. talking about why those specific heroes are laning better after the changes

I feel like it is a universal meta shift that made Offlane feel much better in 7.41f. Theoretically, it should have made most Offlane heroes better off and since there is an Offlane hero on each team it's not like it's going to result in massive statistical changes.

It's just generally a less frustrating experience, which I am trying to highlight. While also reminding everyone that maybe... just maybe... Sniper and Zeus are shit pos4 and respective players should take at least 33% of the blame for why Offlane became a high-demand role.

I actually didnt remember vanguard was disassemblable, and itd certainly never crossed my mind that you can make khanda out of it. Top notch advice!

Just to be clear: that wasn't an advice, just a cool bit of info)

I do not advise for people to go into games with the idea of "I will disassemble Vanguard into Khanda". Just something that is, surprisingly, an option

i queue offlane/mid and the best thing about playing offlane is the diversity of viable heroes and play styles, i don't need to play blink stun every game

I really liked the idea of using Vanguard for later items. Thanks for that. I usually build wraps right away, but other suggestions were useful. I would also add Aeon Disk to the list.

Other than that, I saw some Hoodwink four, but Lion could do real dmg from there.

Thanks for the linguistical correction my dear and favourite dota blogger, that was indeed what I meant. In many games, a break is necessary when you need to counter 2+ passives, and it can often be an option on an axe, bristle etc etc who like to build a vang in the first place

Initiators, counter - initiators, utility heroes and "carry-from-the-offlane" heroes, thats how I would classify offlaners

Very true and also thank you for VG love. Coupled with Soul Ring you get infinite sustain on all Offlaners. And of course you can upgrade it when you need to help your team tank.

Offlane is the least popular lane, due to carry heroes currently have a lot of their passive skills ( that they needed to put points into) rotated to a passive slot and got either new abilities or some stat/ dmg buffs, making them a lot stronger than they used to be, in earlier levels. Additionally, pos 4 players in general tend to pick a lot of greedy heroes and simply play like they are second core, or on the other hand due to positions multiple choices, tend to not do anything for the lane, or game, and simply farm the lane once offlaner gives up on it and goes to jungle. In general, if you pick a strong meta hero, even if your pos 4 has little to no impact, you can manage, if you are playing offlaner who is reliant on pos 4, you are going to have a miserable expiriance.

it has always been fun :)

I report every pos 4 sniper

Nowadays I win a lot so yeah fun role again xD

My main bugbear with pos 3 right now is those who pick heros who like to join a fight after it's started rather than initiate a fight, Dawnbreaker and Earthshaker being good examples, when there is no one else on the team to tank the damage while we wait on their ultimate.

I feel this meta, at least in my bracket, is all about initiation: Ive had matches where 8 of 10 heroes had either a blink ability or a blink and it feels like the team wins that initiates first onto the other. I think that fact makes the meta very boring and stale for me.

recommending vanguard is terrible youre terrible at this game

There is like a handful of people who aren't so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Offlane remains the least fun and most demanding role.

I disagree about it being the most demanding role

Depends heavily on the type of offlaner

Positions 1 to 2, depending on the game, are more demanding imo

Position 1 is a survival game for the first 15 minutes mostly (other than current iteration of strong safelane combos), everybody wants to gank YOU first and foremost and shut you down; you are expected to be the main man an win the game later on or you are blamed

Position 2 has to rely only on himself most of the time, but has to care about ganks from other lanes, is expected to set the tempo of the game and snowball, and is the primary carry from minute 15 - 30/35, often the most blamed role if you lose

On to the next post kawaii, im ready

I was thinking of changing the schedule to Wed or Thu lately. Just an overall better day for posting content for some reason, as in it does better viewership-wise. Any thoughts?

Whatever suits the artist shall suit those consuming the art.

We will get used to it, though it did make for a fine monday morning motivation

There is an added benefit of being the day after updates to Dota itself. Most of them come on Tue night for me, so if I switch to Wed, I'd be ready to talk about the update ASAP

Khanda on centaur late is good when playing vs something like bristle, and having vanguard on that hero is also nice.

The worst time to play offlane. Slightly better than the beginning of the patch but still terrible.