DPC Tour One Meta Recap – DOTABUFF

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We all know that the DPC is technically not over, however with a possible patch coming a while quickly we would not have time for a recap at a later date. This DPC season was full of unusual new developments and at the moment we wish to spotlight crucial of them. Pleasant reminder: that is based mostly on Division One skilled video games and your expertise in pubs will certainly range.

An nearly 63% winrate throughout 50+ video games make Riki essentially the most profitable mainstream assist within the skilled scene. The idea is straightforward: take an overpowered Shard for setups, be sure you have a large uptime on a really annoying teamfight capacity by abilities and proceed to be a nuisance.

The hero’s Shard is certainly getting nerfed. The way in which it at the moment works simply leaves little or no room for counterplay. So long as the enemy has an excellent follow-up stun, each hero on the map is probably threatened.

Lina is certainly price mentioning on this class, however whereas within the latter half of the DPC the highlight was on her, Naga and Terrorblade completely dominated the start of the tour and are an excellent choose proper now as effectively.

It clearly reveals of their stats: ~60% winrate throughout ~40 video games is borderline overpowered territory, although we aren’t fully certain whether or not the heroes want some huge nerfs. Maybe they are going to naturally fall off if extra phantasm counters get some buffs or if jungle farming will get a slight nerf. At the moment Naga and Terrorblade merely farm manner too quick for anybody to catch up.

Their DPS is excessive, their development is sort of limitless and so they additionally present their crew with some teamfight utility, which is all the time a pleasant addition to a carry hero. On high of it, being phantasm heroes permits them to play a really annoying model of macro recreation that is just too good in a well-coordinated professional match.

Omniknight is certainly underrated. In a recreation the place most place one carries are both ranged or extremely impartial, Omniknight can undoubtedly shine. He has a number of sturdy saves, respectable lane strain and might scale effectively into the late recreation.

If something, the hero forces the enemy to go for Nullifier which isn’t essentially the perfect buy for lots of heroes. Even then, his capacity to burst heal teammates whereas offering sturdy dispel in opposition to probably game-breaking combos like the favored Riki + Mirana shouldn’t go unnoticed.

One of the best half is the hero will almost definitely be left as is. His winrate is extremely excessive, however he wasn’t significantly well-liked within the DPC and neither is he a high precedence choose in pubs. With a small “discover me” buff the hero can develop into the subsequent huge factor.

67% winrate throughout 20 video games is a fairly sturdy consequence, however we wouldn’t name the hero OP. He’s simply the product of the present meta: the hero does effectively in opposition to most melee helps and is totally superb laning in opposition to well-liked heroes like Lina or Nature’s Prophet.

The standard downside of lengthy cooldowns was additionally solved by a fairly sturdy Shard. It isn’t essentially the perfect initiation software within the recreation. The solid level is lengthy and the tendrils take some time to kind, however it’s nonetheless a manner for Tidehunter to be very helpful when Ravage is on cooldown.

Alternatively, Tidehunter can go for auras from Pipe of Insight and [item-guardian-greaves], making him a really powerful to cope with frontliner that additionally makes his crew considerably extra survivable.

Sixty eight video games with a sub-40% winrate shouldn’t be an excellent statistics. We are able to’t actually blame gamers for desirous to play Hoodwink or selecting her that a lot: it’s a hero with an excellent stun, good burst harm, probably excessive survivability and even a break built-in.

The issue is, she leaves loads of room for counterplay. Slicing down bushes whereas Bushwack is midair would possibly appear like black magic for many gamers, however for Division One professionals it’s nearly intuition. Even when it does join, there’s nearly all the time somebody close by to chop the tree, and the stun period quick.

The top result’s a really unreliable hero. She requires precision and good positioning to be efficient, however even when performed effectively, there are nonetheless methods for the enemy to reply.

Why are we not shocked? Virtually 50 video games and a sub-35% winrate on a hero we dubbed “the Pudge of the pro-scene”. Since then Pudge really grew to become a good hero for top degree play, whereas Mars continues to be Mars. Can he technically do so much? Positive. Does he ever dwell as much as expectations? Not for the final couple of huge patches.

The hero was nerfed so much and there have been good causes for that. He was an excellent DPS Offlaner, had some enjoyable gimmicks with the flexibility to lifesteal whereas arduous disabled, was oppressive in lane and simply usually good to play.

The issue is, the hero is at the moment on the backside of the underside tier when it comes to effectiveness: even in a patch the place he’s technically an excellent counter or an excellent protector for lots of ranged glass cannon heroes like Lina, SF, Sniper and Drow Ranger, Mars nonetheless fails to ship.

He even has good synergy with Riki: an excellent Sleeping Dart right into a assured Spearback can depart a goal remoted and really a lot out of place. However even the perfect assist within the pro-scene can’t make up for the way unplayable Mars at the moment is. Hopefully the hero will get ignored for some time: he desperately wants buffs, however due to his fixed excessive recognition they only by no means come.

What are your ideas on the primary Tour and its Meta? Do you agree with our hero evaluation or would somebody wish to try to defend a sub-35% winrate hero within the remark part as soon as once more?