Quote (prickster @ Dec 31 2011 12:31pm)
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
madman quite simply gets raped by well placed revel wards / bound eye. he also has alot of trouble against strong ranged carries and coordinated teams.
but in pubs its a whole different story