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Cost: 1900 gold Active: Berserk* Passive: Lifesteal Stats: -

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Common usage: in low level pubs, people tend to get it on carries with high damage ouput like Drow Ranger or Spirit Breaker to "double" the damage they can dish out and get more kills; the lifesteal is also useful. Talking about experienced people, they usually buy one on carries with evasion ( Faceless Void) or on carries with high health and/or armor that lack attack speed, usually STR-based (like Sven).

Hidden potential: while the 30% damage amplification is too high to be considered a good choice for increasing attack speed, the extra movement speed makes it a pretty good roaming tool especially on split pushers or carries that need to farm in the jungle. Talking about farming, the extra attack speed should also increase your gold income …
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For the second blog post regarding lineups that always stomp you, I'll show a loss of our team. While I thought we had the upper hand in the picking phase (and I'm pretty sure most of you will agree on that), we underestimated that cyrillic-writing team with a childish name and didn't pay much attention to our laning phase.

But anyway, we'll talk about what we did wrong later, after showing the draft:

Bear Grylls's Team of Survivors
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PWNZ*
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Let's start from the mistakes we (and them) made in the picking and banning phases:

• First stage: common bans from both sides. I was actually very surprised about the Furion ban though, that meant they

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First off, this blog post is not meant to show my flawless victories; in fact I'll post both games in which I stomp with my team and have a good laugh at the enemy team composition, and games in which I get easily stomped and think about what I did wrong. I'm actually planning to add one of my most one-sided losses in team matchmaking.

The goal of this series is to teach players how to deal with teams that tend to win with a huge advantage the majority of games: this time we'll talk about how to counter teamfight lineups.

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The first game I want to show you is a match I played yesterday with my team: first off, keep in mind that even though 3 of my teammates are good players and I can trust them, Black Rose - the Lycanthrope in this game - is pretty unexperienced and I let him play with us because he's a friend of mine in real lif…
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So, let's start. After watching different competitive games and seeing how the meta has changed in the past month or two (especially after the 6.79 patch), I'm wondering why some Heroes didn't get considered at all: we saw Hand of Midas on supports, a huge amount of Elder Titan picks for a (relatively) small amount of time, the fall of Batrider and Io and, also, the rebirth of Luna. Many Heroes including Bristleback, Mirana and Slark became the trend of this period, but some others with (in my opinion) big potential just passed through the patch - some of them even untouched - without seeing any increase in their pick ratio.

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The first Hero I want to talk about is Centaur Warrunner . …
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