When you lost but still had fun

i agree that mek is core on him and should be bought first. its just that if you are playing in scrub tier you CAN go blink first to rek fools, although this kinda falls under the arguement of ITS PUB DO WHATEVER TEH FEK.

Simply, a 12 minute Mekansm is always better than a 12 minute Blink Dagger: you're already forcing your team into having one support, if you don't get utility items you're just a walking ulti with no other purpose but "stealing" jungle farm. To me, an early Mek turns fights much more efficiently than an early Blink.

Getting Blink after Mek is fine, but it really depends on the enemy team composition and their skill level/positioning (i.e. if they're pro players you'll have to go BKB after Mek most of the time).

No.

Seriously now, I get mad after losing a game only if I'm expecting something from my teammates (especially friends on Steam) and they play a below-average game. The lost games I enjoy the most are the ones where a teammate of mine is winning with a mediocre skill/item build and by insulting all game long, and then - all of a sudden - the comback mechanics start working and we get wrecked. If we deserve a loss, I actually feel bad as a winner.

http://www.dotabuff.com/matches/1033739691
The Shadow Shaman, our only support, rushed a Midas and refused to buy Wards all game long, so I had to buy them as OD every single time; the funny thing is that he didn't even buy a Blink Dagger with all that gold. At one point of the game we had a huge lead, but then things started going wrong and we lost. I felt really satisfied after that game because that SS might have learned that if you don't help your team you aren't supporting


Enigma is probably the fastest jungle farmer in the game: do you really need a 12 minute Blink Dagger on him? I prefer rushing a Mekansm and then going for a Black King Bar, after which I can pick up the Dagger; sometimes I go Blink before BKB, but the Mek is definitely the main priority. A Blink is kind of useless until all the tier 1 towers fall down, as you won't be able to initiate offensively in such positions.