Theorycrafting: Ethereal Blade Drow Ranger

Kunkka doesn't need any buffs, his skills are insanely strong already, he just needs all these cancer long range spell spammers gone from mid.

So you are okay with x mark the spot? And how torrent damages the enemy?


OKAY!

What is not to be okay with about those in the first place?

Humm.
My thinking was more on the point how Torrent damaged the enemy. one big burst and then in small bursts.It is better if it were the other way around. Small bursts first ,then 50% of the damage in one instance.

About x mark?
Well I still think, there could be some better iteration around. We shall see.

Torrent damage is fine as long as there is DoT, the order is not important at all.

X is ******** as it is, it lets you completely restore Hp and Mana for only 100 g on 70 sec CD which makes him almost impossible to force out of the lane(unless you are an OP 4 second spell spammer or a 8 sec CD AOE stunner and nuker ofc), it lets yiou escape most melee heroes early on, safely get lh if you know enemy highground is camped, save allies, (preventively)yourself, and it is a great setup. Oh and it has 1000 range on max level.

Yeah, the only skill of Kunkka's that could be buffed is Tidebringer because it's technically the odd skill out. But none of his skills should be buffed, they are all really solid.

As is the hero tbh, but we all know how Icefrog loves to buff the Admiral. So here comes +5 movespeed/+1 armour/+ X INT/ + X INT gain

EDIT; Oh and E-Blade on Drow is legit because twoards the later stages of the game you just become a glorified aura, and this lets you live in fights longer to give the aura and is a tonne of AGI anyway

I forgot to mention the old/new Ethereal Blade/ Ghost Scepter + Town Portal Scroll trick.

Ok now folks, time for a Dota 101 class :

Every hero has 25% BASE MR
There are 2 ways to working around it,

A.) Magic Damage Amplification :

Magic Damage you do after reductions is amplified
For Example - 100 magic damage with 40% amp is 100*0.75*1.4 = 105

B.) Base MR Reduction ( AA's vortex ) :

1st the base resistance is reduced then damage is computed
For Example - 100 magic damage with 40% base reduction is 100*(1.4-0.25) = 115

Though mathematically writing it as -5% MR is fine, technically the target IS taking an extra 5% damage of your base magic damage, but terminology wise you leave it at 40% amp to distinguish the 2 forms of amplifictaion.

Well yes, I gave how much magic damage a normal hero would be taking and left it at that. Math on that is unnecessary unless they have weird magic resist. I really just looked at EBlade's notes.

Thanks guys! I never thought I'd get a serious answer on this!