Ravenhook

Review

Ravenhook is a melee agility hero fitting the role of offlaner / roamer. Has a good carry potential.

Infobox

Abilities

Primal Fear details

• Cannot be cast while rooted.
• Does not pierce spell immunity.
• Primal Fear: Undispellable.
• Debuff Fear: Dispellable with any dispel.
• Uses Vector targeting. Upon left mouse key press, the blink point is determined, and upon release, the direction is determined.
• Provides shared vision over all hit enemies for its duration. Affects invisible units, but does not provide True Sight.

Chain of Greed details

• Chain of Greed: Undispellable.
• Chain of Greed Buff: Undispellable.
• Chain of Greed Vision: Undispellable.
• Chain of Greed Debuff: Undispellable.
• Blocked by Linken's Sphere.
• Pierces spell immunity.
• Chain of Greed is broken when either unit dies or the chain gets stretched more than 800 range. Nothing else can break the chain.
• Chain of Greed provides shared vision over the target while draining.

Raven Flair details

• Disabled by Break.
• Cannot be used by illusions.
• Pierces Spell Immunity.
• Raven Flair Vision: Undispellable.
• When an enemy heroes gains gold, Raven Flair applies True Sight and makes them visible through the Fog of War.

Ravenhook Mastery details

• Cannot be disjoined.
• Blocked by Linken's Sphere.
• Pierces spell immunity.
• Item Steal: Undispellable.
• The more expensive the item, the lower its steal chance.
• Cannot have more than 1 stolen item at a time.
• The stolen item is lost upon death.
• The stolen items have their own cooldowns.

Talent Tree

Annotation

English is foreign language for me, so I am sorry if you found some mistakes.

I got to say, Primal Fear is a unique way to utilize vector targeting. The design is great but it has major balance issues, especially early game. Compare it to Burrowstrike, at level 1, it's 350 ranged, 1.9s stun with 85 damage. Primal Fear is a 1000 ranged, 2s "directed motion"(we call it this for purposes) with 100 damage. The increase in cooldown does not justify the effects.

Directed Motion > Stun > Fear. The ability to completely disable an enemy for 2 seconds while simultaneously forcing them to move to disadvantageous positions is too powerful. TOO powerful in fact, you can make a 60s cooldown ultimate with this effect alone! (and that was only slightly exaggerated)

Chain of Greed is good. Heck as annoying to play against, but really good. The cooldown to prevent lane abuse and the fact that it has a neat play and counter-play is a thumbs-up from me.

But Raven Flair? The opposite. I don't like it design-wise. What was the idea when you designed this ability? So he can spot a jungler? So he jump into them with Primal Fear and... Chain of Greed him to... death..? Ability is only ever useful in smoke ganks, when you have allies.

Ravenhook Mastery. How does the "steal chance" work exactly? So enemy can just buy Iron Branch and it's useless until late late game? Is the stolen item simply muted or will all of its stats and passive transferred too? Needs more info.

As for the hero itself, you said he fits the role of an offlaner/roamer with good carry potential. I do not see this. Chain of Greed does not work well with Raven Flair. One forces you to lane and one forces you to roam, with the other getting 100% useless. He can't carry either. He relies on enemy farm to even GET farm, taken up to eleven by having 3 abilities that reflected this.

TLDR / CONCLUSION : Unique individual abilities but doesn't really work together to make a coherent whole. Playstyle is all over the place.