Quote (Perseverance1 @ Nov 2 2015 08:12pm)
Gazlowe is an incredibly awesome lane pusher.....but with no escapes all that really does is set him up to get punished by a competent team in the form of constant lane harassment/ganks. He's also great at taking camps....but again, a competent team will always know where he's at and can still punish him. Aside from those two things he's really got nothing left to offer a team that other heroes can do better.
You might be thinking of his wombo combo but even that won't do much against a competent team since they won't bunch up vs that or fight in choke points.
He can be good in certain situations...no doubt about that...the only issue is that there's usually a "better" pick than gazlowe.
Speaking from idea/planning and not from experience
Of course plans don't always work perfect and we adjust accordingly
In theory, we could possibly take a couple seconds prefight to set up turrets to keep them in disarray and with the bombs having such a large aoe area we could use that to split the team in situations instead of actually trying to land it
Of course with what you said it seems gazlower would be optimized more in a team that is more organized and have a plan accommodating gaz
I really want to make him work but like you said it'll take some games to get a feel but I think I can find a proper style for him to work even against competent teams
There's better choices but I want to make him work so bad >.<