Slark=The Official Douchebag Hero?

Precisily this. Every role that promotes more independence and greedyness naturally is, by definition, more likely to be picked by people that don't care much about their teammates. Of course this is just a tendency, and I've been finding a lot of nice players out there in every single role.

Also not that being greedy with support doesn't mean playing higher risks, so the standing back saving is not a synomim of what Cuttle is talking about. For instance, I play high risk with Crystal Maiden most of the times as you know, but I still play it PPD #6 position style. Being greedy in support is spending way too much time farming to get your items instead of listening to the flow of the game and helping your team when needed + helping the other support getting consumables. In a team with more than one support, it gets way easier for both to have something, which will help the team as a whole; unfortunetelly, what happens sometimes is the #4 decides he doesn't need to help one ounce because he needs that Blink Dagger- Aghanim's Scepter, so you're stuck with a very poor #5 that's almost useless in the late game, which also affects everyone negatively.

Example: A very hard game we won yesterday (http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/2398524705). Almost in the end of the game the Winter Wyvern made fun of me, saying "such a late game and those items are all you've got"? Yes, here's why: https://yasp.co/matches/2398524705/vision (plus smokes). You see, I still think I did the right choice in not being greedy, because we had tough problems with map control since they bought two gems, but if someone else had helped me a bit, I would have more items, like Silencer and Winter Wyvern did sharing support, and therefore be more useful.

Slark in a sentence:
U havin a fookin giggle m8?

I wish he wasn't a meta hero, so I didn't have to feel bad when picking him now (and worse because I suck), when I finally felt like playing it cause it's so fun to jump and fish around ;_;

They should do something about the stat stealing. Maybe cut it by half? It would be weird to steal half a stat, not sure about the mechanics.

Perhaps you would need to attack twice to steal the current value. Goes kinda nicely with Echo Sabre.

That was a cool game tbqhfamlgbtq

Make Essence Shift steal 1 damage and 1 attack speed instead of 1 agility.

It shouldn't affect armor. Because there's no way you can kill that 55 armor Slark except with magic nukes like Necro ult.

I honestly don't think he needs a rework because I don't see him being overpowered in neither competitive nor pubs, but if people really think so then Hamster's idea could be a good one. A subtle nerf that could make a difference, I like it.

He gains 3 agi For every hit, that might be the objectionable part for you.

So?
Make him gain 3 damage and 3 attack speed instead?

How about intead of shifting all essence into agi, he shifts all corresponding to the stolen stats. 1 str 1 agi 1 int or
1 str 2 agi