Quote (TheDutchMan1443 @ Mar 27 2016 08:33am)

Falstad with hammer build can be pretty heavy burst damage. Sometimes I lob a hammer (with level 7 BOOMerang) and pop it on like Li-ming + Medic and it literally wipes out like 1/2 of their life on level 15-20 with 120 ish stacks. Get a lot of kills from players walking behind their wall to grab a health pool thinking that no one can burst them for 500-600 damage from that far away.

The thing I like about Falstad for solo queue is he requires less tank baby-sitting than someone like Ming. If Ming gets caught out and the tank isn't peeling it's pretty much GG ming (unless it is a 1v1 she can teleport away from). If Falstad gets caught out he has enough tools to escape. Roll, fly, gust, and the slow from throwing a hammer backwards are all nice.


IDK. Kind of a pick your poison thing when soloQ at ranks 5-15.

Quote (Perseverance1 @ Mar 27 2016 11:13am)

when u gonna grow a pair of balls and pay me to boost you to eloheaven?

Quote (Perseverance1 @ Mar 27 2016 09:56am)

have u played falstad since the buffs? hes retarded now.

Quote (Mystic_Bardock @ Mar 27 2016 10:45am)

he's still not capable of wiping 1v5 like old KT/Thrall/Li-Ming/Nazeebo/Tychus even if you chunk entire enemy team 90% with an overdrive boomerang hinterland blast you're still gonna lose team fight with the worst team mates ever. gust is also kinda shitty when your team sucks and doesn't capitalize. although I suppose at super low elo you can just take epic mount and split push your way to victory or gust people off mercs for free cap. if you're low elo though just play zeratul/nova for free mmr. not quite 1v5ers but you can 1v1 5 times.

Quote (Mystic_Bardock @ Mar 27 2016 12:45pm)

he's still not capable of wiping 1v5 like old KT/Thrall/Li-Ming/Nazeebo/Tychus even if you chunk entire enemy team 90% with an overdrive boomerang hinterland blast you're still gonna lose team fight with the worst team mates ever. gust is also kinda shitty when your team sucks and doesn't capitalize. although I suppose at super low elo you can just take epic mount and split push your way to victory or gust people off mercs for free cap. if you're low elo though just play zeratul/nova for free mmr. not quite 1v5ers but you can 1v1 5 times.

Quote (TheDutchMan1443 @ Mar 27 2016 11:15am)

I only ever take gust. Just too much utility on such a short cooldown.

Plus there is literally no better feeling in the game than having Epic Mount and seeing an enemy team start to run away from a fight and going behind them and feeding them back to your team. I love it :P

I'm not going to sit here and say Falstad is the best hero in the game. But I would rank him top 4-5 OVERALL for assassins. I mean he can't out burst a KT/Jaina combo, but he can 1v1 them and win, especially if hammer hits them coming and going. Lot of it is a preference thing. I just love his global on maps like Cursed/Blackhearts/Towers. His ability to kill an enemy 1v1 in lane and then be down on an objective in 3-4 seconds is just awesome.

But then again I'm at rank 5-15 where people don't realize how bad it is late game to let Falstad's hammer hit them 20-30 times in 4-5 mins in a lane. There are some games where the objectives force you to bunch up (like Infernal Shrines) where my hammer literally has 350-400 bonus damage by the end of the game.

Very few heroes can make plays late game like falstad can.

Li Ming is obviously insane late game as well but she requires enemies to be dumb enough to stick around on low health and let her just LOLSTOMP the entire team with 3 beams in a row + slow.


Either way, it's nice that the game is slowly having a wider and wider META pool. I remember when I first started playing in late summer/early fall and it was basically "Whoever gets KT wins"

Quote (TheDutchMan1443 @ Mar 27 2016 12:57pm)

Was just in a game where our Li Ming went 0-3-8....

At one point our tank, healer and Xul were dead and it was just me and her up vs all 5 of them (with a Lunara + stitches + Jaina) and she chased them into a bush and died.... Then blamed me for not committing to the 2v5 while I pinged for her to retreat.


She had plant 3 times and I ended up with more siege dmg than her without ever having the plant.


I hate when people pick META heroes just cuz they're tier 1 and have no clue what to do with them. She didn't even get Dominance.

In the draft he said "I don't own any healers". Checked his profile and he actually didn't. He bought 8 assassins and 2 tanks on his smurf....