Solo Queue Journey

No offence intended here, but have you been watching the pro scene at all since The Summit 3? Bounty Hunter is a fairly common pick-up, and at the very least gets a lot of ban potential. And that was the tourney I believe he started getting attention in.

In fact that specific cause was the reason the hero got shifted into the meta in the first place, because people wanted a counter pick to Chen, who was an extremely powerful hero at the time. Since then people realised how much the hero can do even at level 1-2, and how absurd Track gold can be right now after a decent team-fight (And since this is a skirmishing meta...) and is a pretty common support pick-up, even without a Chen to counter.

In fact, you'll be harder pressed to find a Bounty Hunter offlane game sooner than a Bounty Hunter support game.

EDIT; As for a match ID, as I said go back to the Summit 3 (I think it was), over the course of that tourney you so both a BH crippling Chen's, to a Chen that actually managed to force the BH out of his jungle, and still have the reguar impact (Which is an extremely hard thing to do)

If you already know the answer, why bother asking for a match ID? No, I don't watch competitive Dota that often because I play so many games at the same time that I don't have time to watch all. When Summit 3 was on, I was watching CS:GO ESL which was by far more interesting at that point in time.

If you already know the answer, why bother asking for a match ID? No, I don't watch competitive Dota that often because I play so many games at the same time that I don't have time to watch all. When Summit 3 was on, I was watching CS:GO ESL which was by far more interesting at that point in time.

I'm not the guy who asked for the match ID. We just have the same avi ^_^

And, I was just politely pointing out that since The Summit 3, there's been a lot of Bounty Hunter picks, so finding a BH match isn't hard. Finding one to counter Chen is a tad harder, because Chen has dropped off in usage a tad. I probably phrased it poorly, but that was my intention.

But like, if you don't watch that much competitive DOTA, there's nothing wrong with saying that and going 'As far as I know, X doesn't happen in pro games, or isn't ran ect ect, but I don't watch that much, so someone else can probably comment on it more' rather than making a blanket statement. Because a lot of stuff happens in the competitive scene that others.

I just got done playing a match with a Tidehunter and Earthshaker combo. I picked tidehunter to solo the offlane, and earthshaker as a support with stuns. I picked lycan for myself obviously. From that point, I was talking with my team about finding a good mid and a second carry, and we landed on meepo and necrophos. So let me know what you guys think. Match ID 1615072251.

Don't always pick Lycan.

There are a lot of games where there are better picks for the job. Perhaps you want a Naga, or a Lifestealer, or a Terrorblade... loljokes nobody picks terrorblade :(

Lycan fits well into deathball, which can be done this patch... but he is rather outdated.