Chang'e with hunters being so strong.I did finally beat an
Ullr *success*. My build of 
Divine Ruin -> 
Breastplate of Valor -> 
Shoes of Focus -> 
Hide of the Nemean Lion -> 
Obsidian Shard -> 
Rod of Tahuti proved to deal enough damage to Ullr while making his basics hurt him rather than help him against me. That combined with obby's objective push secured the win (another thanks to Greenevers for that tip).Unfortunately my promo match ended on a bit of a sour note, despite it being a victory in a
Chang'e mirror match. I started a bit weak, having gone for red buff + power pot and dying with my opponent at a sliver of health ~3 min in, I went for the late game approach. My opponent did not take well to this. Once I started beating him in fights, he began claiming disbelief that "such a **** build" was better than his and sent me a nice string of angry messages, despite my trying my best to explain why I did indeed have advantage late game. *messages and game stats below, I didn't hide his name because there was a lot of messages, but don't go yelling at the guy just because he was a bit of a jerk. Leave him be.*
Haters gon' hateGame StatsJust to analyze,
My build:
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How the game went: We both started with
Vampiric Shroud, power pots and red buffs. Once in lane we traded for a bit, however after the first back I took a good deal of minion damage clearing the wave and he surprised me with an ult under tower giving him first blood. At a disadvantage, I sold my shroud for some early magic protection grabbing tier 2 of 
Pestilence and using that to safely clear. By the time I'm getting Shoes of Focus, he does succeed in catching me off guard with an ultimate and tower dives me to again slip away with a sliver of health (kudos to him, he played it well). We continue playing, he kills me again after I miss an ultimate (what can I say, I'm bad). Seeing that he's an aggressive player and that I was behind, I opted for 
Spear of the Magus to hopefully win 1v1 engages. Meanwhile, he opts for Obsidian Shard for objective pushing. We trade for a while in 1v1 engages, during which he does more immediate damage, but in the end we do roughly the same dps because of my spear vs his obby, because I have shorter cooldowns with 
Chronos' Pendant, and because I know to use 
Moonflower Dance -> 
Crescent Moon Dance giving me a shorter combo and thus an even smaller cooldown on said combo, while he opts more often for the reverse (thus we averaged the same dps on each other, despite my being 2 levels lower). We continue trading at which point I have to decide what I want for my 6th item. Seeing that I needed to survive his initial burst and that more protections would somewhat work against me with him possessing Obsidian Shard, I opted for warlock's sash despite being so late in the game. The way we were engaging, I knew I could stall if I needed to until it was fully stacked, and needed the health and power to compete with his fully stacked 
Book of Thoth. Having finally reached a point where he lacked red buff, we engage despite my being 2 levels lower. I surprise him with an ultimate at half health after juking his and finally secure a kill with my 3->1 combo. Now having enough money, I get the full warlock's sash, take down most of his tower and begin stacking. Now with a power pot and a red buff, I engage again, and again win, finishing him off with a basic and taking out the remains of his tower and phoenix before he gets back up (it was at this point he began to question how I was beating him with a 'trash' build). This was in part because he bought 
Soul Reaver, but failed to use it well. He'd poke me with it, and then I'd fall back, heal up and engage again, rendering its passive quite useless. We engage a final time, I do a classic combo while he's on cooldown for 
Moonlit Waltz going Moonflower Dance -> Crescent Moon Dance -> 
Waxing Moon -> 
Greater Purification -> Moonflower Dance -> Crescent Moon Dance which kills him, almost 100-0 without my taking almost any damage in return.So why did I win those engages? A number of factors.
1) More penetration. At 0 spear stacks he had 50 protections from his
Pestilence. At 2 stacks he had roughly 20 protections. I sat at about a constant 43 since he could go through 30% with Obsidian Shard. Considering I almost always did Moonflower Dance -> Crescent Moon Dance that meant that I was hitting my most damaging ability at 1 stack guaranteed, and using that combo followed by my ultimate guaranteed a huge amount of damage on my ult. 20 vs 43 protections is a HUGE difference. In the end I mitigated a lot more damage than him given how much damage I took (to put things in perspective, I also took 1.5 health bars of damage from the phoenix while pushing it down that went unmitigated, so if you check the stats I was actually mitigating a ton of his damage).2) More health. The most stacks I ever got was 50 but even so that was a huge extra 500 health, giving me 1.25x as much health as him. Given that I also had more penetration, that gave me a considerably larger amount of effective health.
3) More CDR. His 15% vs my 40% made a huge difference. I could use my
Crescent Moon Dance every 3 vs his every 4 seconds, and my Moonflower Dance every 6 vs his every 8. With Greater Purification on both sides, I could get my combos off faster greatly contributing to my out-dpsing him.4) Minimal power difference. During the first engage I won, he did have a considerable edge in power, but I juked his ultimate with
Moonlit Waltz so I was able to get away with that one (ironically the same way I had lost the prior two engages). The next two engages I had a red buff and a power pot, while he had solely a power pot for each. In this case, I had roughly 600 power, where he had 700. However, the cost of that extra 100 power was a significant amount of health, CDR and penetration, that ultimately cost him the game.In the end, all these combined led me to take the last two kills and win the game. I hope this helps others who are also dubious as to how my build ended up winning over his.
Keep on smiting guys
~Zilby
I'll probably try to scramble up the ranks again when S3 starts and everyone's confused what the meta is.
And yes, those people that circle around everything are so annoying to deal with!
As for aiming
Also, do you have any advice on aiming with
As for Warlock's Sash, if the match went differently and you knew that you couldn't stack, would have built
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3) Considering the factors above, I stick with my choice of
As for warlock's sash he did start
The idea is correct, but the numbers aren't.
At level 20, with his build,
So, with your
With 0 stack, thanks to the 15 penetration, he had 80 protections.
With 1 stack, he had 60 protections.
With 2 stacks, he had 41 protections.
You also had 95 base magical protections
So, with his
You always had 64 protections
As you can see, the result is the same, just numbers are different.
Also, we see that you are really more effective than him only at 2 stacks.
So, since your main combo only involves 2 abilities
compared to
you were more often than nothing at 0 or 1 stack.
Considering that, and the objective killing factor too, I personally think
You really took advantage on your spear only at the end, when you throw your full rotation (twice thanks to beads).
That was a risky move, but it paid well.
However, if you had missed your ult, or if he had his 2 available, it could have cost you the game
Also, the choice of Warlock's Sash over a second protection item was good idea, not only because of
I'm not sure if he was starting this item before you made your choice though.
I suppose he was expecting a good nuke to 100-0 you, but apparently he used it for pokes, which is weird.
I just enjoyed the fact that I was apparently an ******* because I decided to build certain items in a gametype where you're supposed to do whatever it takes to win a 1v1. Am I supposed to build inferior items out of courtesy? If I'm behind am I expected to run all around and die a bunch so that I'm not camping tower? Idk man.