The Worst Hero in Dota? – DOTABUFF

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Silencer was the one hero that was utterly ignored within the Higher Divisions of all DPC areas. The hero who acquired a number of notable buffs within the final a number of patches remains to be largely thought-about unplayable within the skilled scene and we needed to determine why, whereas additionally discussing whether or not the hero must also be ignored in pubs.

Most heroes, Silencer included, are outlined by their final. World Silence is a fairly highly effective ability on paper. It theoretically nullifies many highly effective talents, particularly channeling ones and the way in which it counters issues like Black Gap or Mortimer Kisses shouldn’t be underestimated.

It additionally was very annoying for the enemy helps to play in opposition to. Whereas core heroes normally have Eul’s, Manta, BKB, Satanic, Lotus, or Greaves to take care of debuffs, helps, as soon as once more, ought to theoretically undergo from the flexibility: most of them are casters who depend on their crowd management to have an effect in a teamfight.

Whereas it’s nonetheless true, there are a number of issues. One among them is the sport’s economic system: even a place 5 hero ought to be capable to construct Eul’s or Lotus if deemed essential. That’s not an enormous drawback, as it’s an choice and it has an related alternative price, of not having Glimmer Cape, Pressure Workers, or another help merchandise.

The second drawback is impartial gadgets. Particularly, Tier 4 impartial gadgets, that make Silencer irrelevant after the 37-minute mark. Flicker, Minotaur Horn, and Stormcrafter all apply a fundamental dispel when used. Your group will most definitely have no less than a kind of. By this level your cores ought to positively have a dispel on demand, subsequently these impartial gadgets can go to your helps, making Silencer near ineffective, aside from channeling spell interruption.

The opposite two fundamental talents the hero has undergo from the identical actual drawback. They’re low influence dispellable results. Furthermore, Arcane Curse even acquired nerfed within the final patch when it comes to harm output, so not solely do most heroes have a capability to dispel it, half of the meta heroes will merely outregen it.

Maybe we’re wanting on the hero flawed? Maybe the hero shouldn’t be regarded as a utility character, however reasonably as a DPS one and it’s Glaives of Knowledge that outline Silencer, not his different talents.

Trying on the guides for Silencer, we are able to see that almost all devoted gamers now usually play Silencer as a core, with Safelane Carry being the most well-liked archetype. Pub gamers are additionally decently profitable in making Silencer work: the hero wins greater than 50% of his video games throughout all ability brackets. Does it imply DPS Silencer is sweet? We don’t suppose so.

Silencer can’t out-DPS or no less than be an equal to most Agility Carries, given equal Internet Value. BKB hard-counters the hero’s DPS. Furthermore, his Agility development, whereas respectable, shouldn’t be even on the extent of QoP or Puck. On a non-spell immune goal the harm could be large, being Pure it ignores all armor, however that can require initiating on and doubtless chain-stunning an enemy core, which wants fairly a little bit of coordination.

The opposite drawback is the “given equal Internet Value” half. Silencer can’t farm and he can’t even construct gadgets to farm a lot quicker. His Aghanim’s Shard does flip him right into a poor man’s Luna, however why be an affordable Luna knock-off, while you could be an precise Luna. Or a hero that counters Luna, if the enemy group picked her. The Shard turns into obtainable at minute 20, and by this level, a well-played Luna, or any flash farming hero for that matter, may have a one-and-a-half merchandise benefit over Silencer.

There are solely two choices to make DPS Silencer work. One is to depend on the enemy group being incompetent: one thing you’ll be able to’t do within the skilled scene and one thing ill-advised for anybody taking part in at or above Legend. Enemy gamers may have BKBs. They are going to have dispels. They are going to know that focusing Silencer, no matter whether or not he’s being performed as a help or a core, is a good suggestion. And Silencer is much from being tanky.

The opposite choice is dominating the lane and it’s one thing Silencer can truly do fairly nicely. Glaives of Knowledge are actually arduous to commerce into for one easy cause: Silencer received’t aggro creeps when attacking with Glaives by a separate command. Furthermore, the intelligence steal, particularly as soon as the period will get lengthy sufficient, could make the lane very one-sided: you get entry to your talents, whereas the enemy doesn’t.

Is that this skill to dominate the lane sufficient, although? Actually not within the skilled scene. Counting on a place one Silencer is an all-in tactic: to work, it assumes you win or break even in all three lanes and then you definately additionally want a pushing hero to translate this robust laning stage into an early map management or probably a victory. We aren’t saying it’s not possible to tug off, however why take the danger, when there are such a lot of completely different equal and even higher choices.

In pubs, the place a sport could be “solo carried” by a single robust participant with good decision-making Silencer could be extra interesting. Silencer could be this lane dominating menace that snowballs utterly uncontrolled, although Clinkz is a much better choice for this “lane dominance into map dominance” playstyle, each logically and statistically.

That stated, in sure matchups it won’t be clever to utterly disregard Silencer: there are numerous heroes that suffer from Silencer in lane as a result of having excessive armor, however low HP pool. Furthermore, as mentioned beforehand, there are heroes who received’t be capable to absolutely notice their potential due to the fixed World Silence menace. Lastly, there’s a fairly highly effective 30% cooldown discount expertise, and a 14-second cooldown Scythe and a 53-second cooldown BKB each sound very good.

Do you suppose Silencer is at present the least playable hero in Dota? Are there different causes professionals gamers utterly ignore him we forgot to say, or another redeeming qualities to play him in pubs? Share your ideas within the remark part beneath.