tank tempest>>>

did it with 5 man stack yesterday, was playing tempest with

steamboots
chalice
helm
shamans headress
mighty blade
power supply

enemy team used everything + little more to kill me 2 fights in a row
both fights i bought back and we got 1 lane rax for it


gotta kill the guy with most hp

enigma is almost always built as tank in competitive dota after running him solo lane

see alot of hotbl / pipe / bkb / str treads on him. hardly ever see people just rushing blink dagger, in fact lots of games its not gotten at all.

gotta love when u meet people ingame who think you have to do the EXACT same item/skillbuild on every hero every game regardless of situation because Nome's guide says so.

for example, saw an arachna who refused to take an early level of carapace against something like slither/EW lane because "no i have to get precision/orb like nome says". yes more auto attack damage and harass ability is so fucking useful when you can't even get near the creeps/enemies because you suffer the full duration of slither slow and get raped

similarly when you're playing tempest against a team with a fuckload of burst / CC and noobs on team get mad because you went pure tank like steamboots / hotbl / headdress instead of portal key. yes its really fucking great that you can jump into enemy team and get full lenght ulti off one in 2000 times and then lose the game the remaining 1999 times because you are interrupted / die in under 1 second

the only good time to "rush" blink is when enemy team is going as 3-5 really often and you have big aoe team synergi and you will be able to get a 4 seconds ultimate off on 3-5 due to the surprise factor

but that situation rarely comes

yes but Nome lists it as a CORE ITEM so obviously you have to get it every game first.

what i find super annoying is people also never adjust their skill build. they skill a hero the same way every game

for example if you put some kid in a solo lane (like vs that smurf pebbles) as tempest, he would probably max the stun before elementals because that's "standard"

similar to how people always wait until 10 to get armor on plague rider, because its so much better to refill your mana pool 500 times over instead of getting an imba advantage versus melee heroes

why are you bads talking about strategy? you're awful
nome knows best, punch dagger and health pot daddy

y u report me homo

lol did you get warned for flaming me last night? i'd like to say it was me but it wasn't

you fucking take that back

no warn just suspension while i was sleeping, newb mods



i have to say, the emotions are strong with this one.

wow you're lucky, i get 10% warn if i so much as call someone the R word
what are you talking about? you're the one who got mad, i didn't have a catharsis lmaooo