Is Sniper an Underrated Mid hero?

So i have been only once trying this build, but!

Three shrapnels totally make mid hell, i assure you. He can now just own his lane (even thought it doesnt dmg building/s)

So i have been doing gimmick ***** on him, like EB sniper.

Thoughts? Mid sniper is rly strong. He can zone out anybody, really.

Will try ina game now...what build did you go? shrapnel and take aim?

Sniper is one of the worst mids in the game. Easily countered, and feeds free kills. He's extremely annoying, I'll give you that. But so easily countered it's not even funny.

- Roaming supports are absurdly buffed in the current patches with *infinite regen* and bonus gold/XP from Bottle. He will get ganked mid. Over and over again. 0-10 at 15 minutes, GG.
(Oh and who says ganking mid is limited to supports? Last time I was playing safe lane Chaos Knight and 7 minutes into the game I decided that the mid Sniper gave more gold than my lane creeps xD)

- Creep blocking makes his laning hell. When you lane mid against Sniper, if you have a good block (and control the creep equilibrium with denying and abusing creep aggro), he can't do anything by just sitting under his tower, he'll have to come near to get last hits. When he does, you can just kill him.

- Most solo mids can just kill him outright as many times as they want. Queen of Pain? Templar Assassin? Storm Spirit? Get to level 6, GG.

- Invis runes. haste runes. Even DD and illusion runes. All these runes are free kills on him essentially.

- everybody hates Sniper and counterpicks him. It's just so easy to do! Whenever there's a Sniper picked expect him to face a TA mid or something and the game be an autolose.

I don't know about the new Sniper yet, but the 6.82 one? Bleh. For the new Sniper 40 second replenish time on Shrapnel makes me think it's just going to be the same : you can't harass with it since it recharges so slowly.

Sniper should go...nowhere really. He shouldn't be picked. The "least bad" way to lane him is as a safe lane carry and get an early Hand of Midas to compensate for his garbage farming speed, and then join his team most of the time to avoid being killed over and over again while assisting with pushes and KS'ing with ult (while farming with midas). But even then...other heroes can do his job better.

Yea just get botle mid.

Get eb if u want for full nuker.

let us count.

How many nukes does sniper have? 1 nuke at a ridiculous mana cost. EB? ********.
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MAn DOtoforeos hate sniper IRL.

But yeah he NEEDS a rework, if there were a poll, he will come on top.

How about roaming sniper....3 shots of shrapnel at level is kinda good

Went unfair bots maxed shrapnel first.....28-1-13. MoM, Manta, MKB, DAedalus, Boots, Bottle.
Lets see actual pubs now.

Pretty much...he Farms slowly, he can't Gank, he has no Escape Mechanism, he needs Farm to be effective...and now he can't even melt the Tier 1 Towers... -_-

Well, not that bad, IMO

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