Invoker as a Carry?

What do you guys think? Does invoker have potential to carry?
I know there are other carries out there that would have more output late game but just wanted to get some opinions.

Invoker has incredible carry potential, the key word there being potential.

He so many abilities for every type of situation that it really gives him a huge advantage over most heroes in the game. By my opinion, The two major limiting factors for invoker is how fast the player can use his abilities at the right moment, and his ult cooldown (before Scepter). The problem is that players either don't have fast enough reflexes and/or spell memorization or lack situational awareness to have the right spells ready for an encounter.

I agree there, in my invoker games I've found the QW build most effective into late game where maxing out extort = game. There's always the invoker trainer to get better at spells I suppose

I disagree with the comment about Invoker having "Incredible carry potential." He's a team fight based hero who can also clean up kills. He's there to cc AND deal aoe damage, not to try and carry so much as to help out the carry. You won't EVER see a professional team play Invoker as a hard carry. His skills do scale pretty well into the late game,but, not as well as most other carry heroes such as Anti-Mage or the seemingly forgotten Morphling.

well I already mentioned that in the first post briefy but I do agree that other carrys have more potential but the question being asked is "Do You think Invoker can Carry"

To add on I've recently tried my hand at the QE and pure E build to some success and found that Invoker really punishes hard mid game when he is well fed.

He can, not on the level of other carries but he does great right click damage early game, and if you are ahead of the enemy team with good items you can do quite a bit with just right click (exort of course) + cold snap. You'll usually see him go more attack speed if he's carrying, so his cold snap can proc often.

I think with alacrity @ lvl 25 Invoker is on par with drow in DPS?

Not quite. A Drow Ranger has that insane ult for attack speed among other things. If they were both maxed in items Drow would do much more damage.

interesting, even if invoker was say wex 3x and alacrity and maxed hyper stones?

Sure, he may hit as fast. The damage output would not be as high though. That's what you said. Not attack speed,but dps.