Sniper Re-Work Idea(s)

It will take some time.
But it's inevitable

Has anyone noticed that Kyphoid and Fedorable always have the same profile pic? Like, it was Lich before, then both Void, and now both Lich again. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

Ergo Kyphoid = Fedorable.

****! They're onto us!

Actually I have an idea for Sniper.

Q : As usual, the tower pushing effect is really good but too bad it's removed in recent patch, give it a stacking effect would be better and the stacking effect will have diminishing effect. (e.g. movement speed slowed by 30% -> 50% -> 60%)

W : New skill - Camouflage : Upon activation, Sniper will be invisible for 20 seconds, he will be revealed if he attacks, cast a spell or moved more than 800 units in 5 seconds (a meter is shown on how far have you traveled since last 5 seconds). His invisibility cannot be revealed by any other sources ( like Slark's Shadow Dance). Has an activation delay of 3 seconds and cannot be used if Sniper is under attack by enemy hero with cooldown of 3 seconds. Sniper remains invisible even after 20 seconds but the invisibility now is reveal-able by any source of invi-detection and invisibility is lost if Sniper move, attack or cast a spell(like Meld).

E : New skill - Sharp Eye : With years of hunting experiences, Sniper is able to detect any enemy that dare to sneak around him and take that enemy out. If an enemy hero remains at least 5 seconds within 1200 units around him, that target will be revealed until that target moved out at least 1800 units from sniper. Takes 10 seconds to detect invisible enemy hero.

R : Take aim : Passively increase sniper's attack range by 300/400/500. If Sniper is attacking an enemy hero who is being revealed by sharp eye, Sniper is not visible if he is staying in fog, if the attack target is outside of Sniper's attack range, sniper will then cast Assassinate (sub-skill of take aim) if the target is under killing threshold of 280/390/500 HP (note that the damage is similar as old Assassinate under normal magic resistance) and land a killing blow upon success.

W and E are only shown in max level, while R is fully shown ( level 1~3 ).

Nice signature you got there, bro.

so your W and E is like having a Shadow Amulet and Gem of True Sight on him.

Partially, yes.
This idea is to give sniper more roles instead of being only a ranged creep who walk and right-click away everyone he saw.

Q gives him an instant scouting power, but that will warn his target and eventually let his target back to his safety, so W will let sniper walk into enemy side of the map to scout and find his prey and cannot be spotted by anyway, downside is he have to walk slowly and it's an unreliable escape because he will need a total of 6 seconds to turn into invisible if he was attacked by his enemy, even if he successfully turned into invisible, his enemies still can nuke him with AoE nukes.

E allows him to spot any heroes that wandering around, e.g. jungler or roamer, thus allows sniper to become a ganker or roamer, and probably enemy jungle sweeper. It's no way the same as Gem of True Sight because he needs 10 seconds to reveal that invisible enemy hero and 10 seconds is totally enough for anyone to move away from sniper.

His playstyle:
Activate W and walk slowly into enemies' side of the map, jungle or lane alike, once he has his target lock-on with E, he can slow his target with Q and hit his target with extended attack range from R, best thing here is enemy will never know where he is while he staying behind trees or fog, if his target run away with low hp, sniper will kill him with his sub-skill Assassinate from his R.

This is exactly the same as real life, where commonly sniper/sharpshooter will walk silently into a dark spot and lock-on his target, and then snipe him. Mission accomplished.

sniper needs to be removed from the game kappa.Such waste of a very good opportunity :c