Hero Discussion : Lone druid

This guy used to be a force to be reckoned with.

Now, he's just a joke.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1270339293

What.the.****.

at first sight you think, "CYKA BLYAT FEEDER DRUID"

let me explain. The mirana sucked ***.she landed maybe 2-3 arrows in the whole game.She ****ed up as the mid and let storm roll.

The techies just planted mines and got kills. he had a euls, but didn't use it in teamfights. Hell he wasn't even there in team-fights.I WAS.

somebody was needed, some soft target that the enemies needed to maul instead of tiny, and that had to be me.

The thing is, the lack of a second support meant that i could not rat effectively.There was NOTHING i could do other than take my rad bear (gotten at 22 minutes even though i had enough gold to get it at minute 17 as i was continually ganked by clinkz,ss and morphling.


The absence of a hero in all of our team-fights meant that we really weren't putting in our 100 %, and SS didn't even pickup a BKB, so Techies would have had ****ed him up pretty royally.Our fights were also very very long, implying that the stun mine would have been invaluable.

I just was not able to push as effectively with the bear due to our unavailability of a backup pusher/carry which meant that i could not invest in a blink dagger, with whose help i could have pushed pretty effectively.Even that wouldn't help due to there being storm spirit and morphling in the opposite team.


But still, i think that the meta just does not favor the sylla and this is another hero, along with Sniper which might need some buffs/reworks.Opinions?

He's just so farm dependant early on. He needs to much to be viable in the current meta.

All that I see is that you just got Storm'd. And then Morphling got huge and then he unleashed the hurricane.

Which is why meepwn picked him and won them the game. W33 ans his crazy farming skills.

This.

Lone Druid cannot deal with high mobility heroes because they can escape his root. So he sucks against Storm Spirit and Morphling. He was a bad pick this game.

Your team had no lockdown against their heroes. Your team had good push though (LD and Tiny just melt towers), so you could win by pushing. But...you had Techies, so you're 4 vs 5, and you had no mid. So you're screwed.

Storm Spirit is completely broken unless counterpicked in the current patch. So bring out your Anti-Mages, Disruptors, Dooms, Nyx Assassins, Skywrath Mages, Night Stalkers and Rikis whenever you see this hero pop up otherwise you're ****ed.

LD is completely viable but he only works against low mobility heroes. That's why my suggestion for next patch is that roots should disable all mobility skills and not just blinks.

He is just a pushing hero these days. Get that quick Radiance and then push, push, push. Unless you snowball and get a good level/gold advantage he will not be able to stand up in manfights (unless you get CRAZY rnjesus with roots).

Even AdmiralBulldog say's the hero is trash these days, and that's a man who is only known because of his Druid play.

Don't forget AdmiralBulldog's Nature's Prophet play. Also his interviews are hilarious...Kappa

which match?

Vs empire game 1 I believe, or game 2, I really am not sure