Quote (sMACKTRiCKz @ Dec 30 2011 10:03pm)
looking at what you said about that hero kind of reminded me of what madman can do, which makes me wonder why people don't rly play him as much
he has two spammable nukes, one with low mana cost / cd that guarantees you creeps early. has a good attack animation, good burst to ks, very good in teamfights with some items cuz of crit + attack speed + slow + mobility, and has the ability to farm very quickly
also you can put him any lane and he'll do well. solo/dual hard lane = stalk and get a few creep kills and levels, maybe some hero kills. dual lane eZ lane = get freefarm / kills. solo mid = get good farm + rune control + gank side lanes
fuck that hero is awesome
people don't play madman, because he's hard to play, people would rather side lane scout or night hound, or pick a 2 active skill hotbl hero
with scout or nh you can just sit back and let your team initiate, scout and nh don't have a cooldown on their invis skills, the scout/nh play style let you die less, i believe nh has the highest KD ratio among all heroes, scout can say he contributed by ulting someone from safety
and obviously picking a melee hero with hotbl is very easy to play and gives you a good chance to win the game since those types of heroes are hard to deny farm
i don't watch competitive hon anymore, so i can't give an accurate opinion as to why he's not used there, but i guess it's because if your melee heroes don't have hotbl you're going to lose, and hotbl sucks on madman, plus madman has a weaker early game than a lot of the heroes being used