Abaddon is always my go-to hero when I'm not sure what to play. An easy right-click hero with two lives to work with when necessary. The early game was hell in this one though since we were against a trilane which always make things a little bit harder than usual. Honestly I'm never a fan when I'm against an Anti-Mage since those games can always get so hard and difficult to deal with. He got some pretty decent free farm in this game, but we manage to kill the rest of his team quite often which made the game quite fine after all.
This game was pretty surprising on the damage output side. I didn't expect that Necrophos/Venge dual lane would do so much damage, but it really did. I mean would definitely play this match-up again in the future. Heartstopper Aura and the Venge passive made the lane really easy to harass and the kills were just going on and on lol. I recommend this dual lane for sure!
The classic Doom/Lich dual lane in the offlane. It worked like a charm in this game. A lot of way to not die and enough stuffs to harass the enemy carry to get some pretty early kill potential on them. Doom is not the most popular hero in pubs at the moment, but I was glad to have one in this game and it was really amazing. It's definitely one of my lane partner favorite with Lich.
In this one I was solo laning in the offlane against Rubick and Faceless Void. It was not too bad, I got the regen creep early so I was able to survive the laning stage just fine I'll say. The overall was still as enjoyable as ever with Wicket! kicking the mid-lane ass with a mid Ogre Magi LUL. I'm still waiting for that 6.87 patch to see if I can still spam some of that sweet Doom hero!
The overall of this game was pretty damn hard. I think I should have went Blink Dagger at some point as well, but I wanted to get my other items first xD ... We had Wicket! on Earthshaker so we could deal with PL easily and it worked out perfectly. The laning phase was a bit hard since we were double melee, but we manage to catch really fast in the mid-game so it's all good.
I had quite a decent time dual offlane with the Undying. Once we got our early levels, it was pretty easy to dive in the tower and get some kills which was satisfying as hell lol. Tombstone slow them and I can chase them with Doom with ease most of the time. Since Doom got back in the pro scene, it been really nice playing him again. Lucy is literally the king with this early build (Tranquil/Drums)
Necrophos always been one of my niche heroes. Both his passives make him so good and fun to play in my opinion. There is also many ways to itemize him to play a more supporting role or a straight up carry. His Aghanim's Scepter Ultimate is just godlike I just love it. (Increases damage per health missing, decreases mana cost for level 1, and decreases cooldown for levels 1 and 2. Disables Buyback for killed heroes.)
The No Buyback thing is just great on the later stage of the game and it increases the threshold of Reaper's Scythe which I don't mind at all to be honest ayyy. I'm pretty sure I should have got myself a Refresher Orb in this game though. It feels like it could have turned things around even more. I need to binge some more Necrophos this hero so entertaining. Give it a try!
Achievement: swindlemelonzz's personal best Aghanim's Scepter timing of 6.86 on Abaddon
Tournament: ESL One Manila Americas Qualifiers
Date: 10/02/2016