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i never been a SS fan, only play him like once every 100 game or so and then i just go for pubstomping build aka shroud and frostwolf geo and then more dps stuffs, so no blink/bkb just for the reason not needed
and it works like a charm ( this is be4 the nerf )


and then i tryed him after the nerf
and holy fuck people might think 0.6 seconds is nothing but really it have a huge fucking impact
i'd say his ulti is close to completely useless unless you have like tempest+kraken + kotf to hold them in place

Soulstealer
- Cast time for Soul Burst increased from 1s to 1.4s

source:
http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=157238

This post was edited by prickster on Aug 17 2010 01:11pm

oh 1.4 or whatever

i cant rly see any reason why the fuck it is nerfed in the first place

DotA has a 1 second cast time, and a .65 second back swing, so it takes 1.65 seconds to cast it in DotA (too lazy to find the quote for that).

This post was edited by prickster on Aug 17 2010 01:31pm

You can animationcancel the backswing so effectively it's a 1.1-1.2 second casttime to be on the safeside.

well his ulti isnt THE ONLY reason he is good..

But it is very usefull..

Before you could initiate with ss, now you have to wait for another initiation, that the change i believe

Just gotta get used to it

you can still initiate but with a shrunken or you sir r dead
your now just forced to build with more brainz imho

i rather see them nerf the damage instead of the castime

I don't get why people use the shroud. :/ All it's good is for escapes, but it's easy to notice for initiations.

He's still good if you go the damage build like you were saying.

Just shrunken head is a must now to use the ult correctly in team fights.