New Patch

If you Sacrifice out of exp range, then it should still deny exp.

Rubick mid coming back :-D
That aghs upgrade for him is mental.

That upgrade for Axe means he can use culling blade on everything!!

So many people will miss Nyx Assassin's stun now, gonna be annoying. :p

Pudge blink dagger =-D

Lol, something I found on PlayDota, view at your own discretion.

All you guys saying pudge blink is op need to know that the guys gets 5 secs of passing through unpassable terrain if hooked to a ledge like that so meh you would need something like an euls for it to work

You don't need an euls, the reason why this might be considered OP is because Pudge can just blink inside an area with trees and no paths then wait for the perfect moment to hook. Even if the hero gains a buff to pass through unpassable terrain, that's meh compared to Pudge being a ninja and have an ally with him ready to assist like a jungle Batrider.

Pudge can also just buy a Quelling Blade, open up some space and boom, no unpassable terrain buff for a moment.

People seem to be forgetting that Pudge has an ult that locks them in place for 3 seconds.

People also seem to forget that it's going to be super duper easy to just Blink > Ult > Hook now. Blink isn't really going to be OP on him, no more than it is on any other hero. It opens up new possibilities like it does with a Blink on any other hero.

I like the idea of trolling with riki and orchid, Dagon, Eblade without leaving invis :)

Riki + Dagon = #killsecure

But in all seriousness, I'm not too fussed apart from the jungling (ICEFROG HOW COULD YOU!) and other mechanics changes. There will ALWAYS be an overpowered hero, even if you only nerf one guy it's gonna increase his counter's strength. In other words, there's always a subtle buff with every nerf and vice versa.

The way I read it, jungling will be a lot easier early game, however you will have to find xp elsewhere once you're up and running.

With night coming at minute 4 instead of 6, smokes not being spotted by sentries, pulling giving less xp all opens up roaming to a whole new level.

I think this whole update is a lot for pro games, to make them a whole lot more exciting!

I understand people will cry about riki being buffed however it's just to make him more viable, icefrog / valve probably considers the pro level more important than your average pub. Anyone with a brain will just get some dust, him getting a dagon wouldn't even be smart. Smoke while maintaining invis is cool though.

My personal favourites are Rubick's aghs buff, literally what I've been wanting ever since I started playing him however it makes him less of a probable 5-role. And Disruptor, he's never really had a spot neither in pro games or pubs but now his aghs gets him an AoE doom for gods sake, it's crazy <3
But just like rubick he can't exactly be the hard support in order to get it, and while I'm no expert on him, he's sorta so-so mid, for me at least.

I'm fairly sad about pudge getting a blink though. He is a snowball hero and is pretty useless if he doesn't get to snowball, being careful and just knowing where he was used to be all you needed. Now he's got a guaranteed disable that goes through bkb along with a pure nuke and great survivability which is pretty good on it's own, even if he doesn't snowball. This coming from someone not playing pudge of course, I'm sure there are people very happy about the blink :-)

Sorry for the wall of text haha, I love changes like this!

I'm waiting for Pu12e to read the Riki changelog.