Heroes that deserve to be played more?

Not everyone builds Black King Bar on her, especially in public matches.

In respect to what you said earlier about focusing her and not fleeing, I think its all about objectives. If a DP is just popping her ULT prior to a teamfight and there are no towers around, you should fall back, however if DP is making a move to take down a tower or a barracks then defending is definitely what you need to do but I don't think at any point she's going to be THE priority target, she'll always be lower down than someone with aggressive DPS.

Thing with DP is she's a great siege hero, she pretty much forces you to come out and fight or your base is going to take a ton of damage. Between Witchcraft and Phase Boots you can get out of trouble and kite around pretty effectively, even Eul's yourself to keep the ghosts attacking if you're low.

Dont forget to play naga siren, dark seer, keeper of the light, Storm and slardar

Spectre. Visage. Ogre. OD.

In the competitive scene I would really like to see some more games with Treant Protector, who got picked a few times already: his Living Armor makes you able to tower dive at level 1; he also has a gamebreaking ultimate that stops magic immunity, an AoE nuke that works wonders in trilanes and a tower regen skill with almost no mana cost. I would defintely play him in aggressive trilanes more often.

Another underrated Hero is Lich: I usually don't play him since he's a super easy Hero, but in a teamfight-oriented team (especially when the enemies have one big carry who needs farm) his Chain Frost and Ice Armor grant a lot of advantage. Plus, in aggressive trilanes he can deal a huge amount of nuke damage and deny his own creeps.


In pubs I just never see some OP Heroes like Batrider and a hard carry Gyrocopter, but it's ok I guess: nobody wants to play against them.

i just assume this is for pubs, so my opinion about underrated heroes (at least in my bracket)

Dark Seer - every one of his spells annoys the enemy team and contributes to yours.
Kunkka - very good lane control and powerful spells (if well placed]
Night Stalker - general good ganker. Aganims on him is so underrated IMO (again - in pubs).
and any sort of pusher - people in pubs usually have a hard time to recover when the enemy has an early advantage --> Death Prophet , Venomancer and Undying

Wow, I appreciate the huge response! I'm still going through and trying out a lot of these, thanks for all the suggestions!

More Riki!!!!

Death Prophet and Luna are HUGE!