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Bounty Hunter or Gondar if you prefer is a very versatile hero. He can track you and give his team extra gold and movement speed, he can stealth for a quick get-away, or he can even throw a mini metal windmill at you. All of these together make him very devastating in the grand scheme of things, however, how devastating exactly? This is the question I asked myself when looking into stealth based carries. Granted he's not a hard carry like Anti-mage I feel he has his pro's. A few of his simple and easy to spot pro's are his mobility, gold contribution from his ult, burst damage, and uhm, oh yeah gold from his ult. If you don't get the picture already, what I'm trying to say is that he gives huge gold with that single spell and I'm not sure that any team compilation will be able to stand up against his team if he gets track kills on all 5 of them in a team fight more than once. That amount of gold hurts and it hurts bad. You may think that your one or two levels over him gives you an advantage ,but, you take a look at his items and you realize,"Holy hell this guy has a Desolator,MKB,Butterfly,Power Treads, and a BKB at the 35 minute mark." When I honestly take a look at him I see nothing but possible wins. You either have to set up ganks about every 2-3 minutes on him early game with wards or face the wrath of him and his farm in a team fight later where you have no choice but to run in with negative armor and the possibility of giving up an extra 150 gold to each person on the other team. Overall I find him to be more successful as far as helping his team to an easy win than the average Clinkz or Riki. Quite honestly his gold bonus just ends all debates. It's so hard to overcome mid-late game that I don't care how farmed you are he's gonna out farm you.

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BH will never be a hard carry, he will get destroyed by any other semi-farmed hard carry, he has 0 Survivability and other than his stealth ( which, dust, wards and gem make useless), he has 0 escapes. The ability to get fed easily doesn't make you a carry, the ability to have the power to get early game kills.. makes you a semi-carry, unless he gets changed to have a steroid ability, he will never come close to a hard carry. You are however, very right on his absolute usefulness to his team, but you are very stubborn in thinking that he can out farm anybody with his ult, that's a very "new-player" look on things, there are several heroes who can outfarm a ganking BH. Also, if you are allowing yourself and your team to get every player tracked before a teamfight happens, then getting wiped, then shame on you, or the team you're facing is a very smart team ( or already at a distinct advantage)and your defeat is inevitable. Comparing him to Clinkz or Riki is also wrong, other than their Ganker Potential, they have different roles in higher-skill gameplay, not to mention both Clinkz and Riki are unarguably, harder carries than BH.

But yes he is a great ganker, and a great asset to a lot of team compositions, but he will always remain a semi-carry, semi-carry-support if anything, because his most fundamental use, is his ability to get the hard carry on his team even more farmed.

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I feel he can actually be a really hard carry. The ability to get fed easily kind of makes you a carry. He has an escape mechanism, extra gold, and a mini-stun. He's right on the verge of being a carry at all times I would say. But for right now I will agree with you and say he's a semi-carry. The ganker part is for sure true though.

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Bounty hunter isn't a carry. More likely a ganker / semi-carry. But you got the right points there. He doesn't need farming just levels and tracks. A very great solo hero due to invisibility and the fact that he doesn't need farm.

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