Yet another rework to Phantom (MMR) Assassin

No, no. That would be OP and it's not what I made. What I made is an active, it doesn't trigger automatically like linkens does. That's a big difference. It also doesn't do anything against instant skills like Hex or Reaper's Scythe unlike linkens.

See it more like a weaker version of Dark Pact with a much longer cooldown. Linkens PA would be like Linkens Slark...without the other escape skills Slark has.

My new Blur simply has an active that disjoints everything thrown at you when you activate it. Like Windrun does. Or like Blink does - except you don't move.

See it more like activating a deflector shield XD

Do you think she need it on top of having a magic evasion ? i mean the frog introduced us the meme infused raindrop, and we already build BKB, sure she needs another magic defense(if is that so, then why not just give her a dispell at W) ? :0P

Now PA: I do think she's almost fine, she just needs more practise and new builds (you never commented on the actual winrate of the hero that I told you above, btw, at the level of a Nature's Prophet).

These are the numbers across all MMR brackets, of course

My comparison with TA was not considering patches, look at it more as "where the hero stands now", after all the patches she was subjected to, including the latest one, which nerfed and at the same time buffed or, let's just call it changed her. Another example that might help: Sniper. He has low pick rate, lower winrate than normal, we virtually don't see him in competitive, still no one complains, and why is that? I think it's because most people find the hero boring and don't want to see the return of a meta where he is strong, like the one we had with him and Troll.

Now PA: I do think she's almost fine, she just needs more practise and new builds (you never commented on the actual winrate of the hero that I told you above, btw, at the level of a Nature's Prophet).

But you do have convinced me of something: since the hero right now feels limited and the community would like it to be more flexible, why not. And some of these ideas suggested might be interesting, although I really don't like the concept of giving her lifesteal (because of it being too good like I explained above and doesn't suit the hero concept). The rest I'm ok with, at least in abstract - I still would prefer one change to be implemented at a time, carefully, to indeed make sure not to create a meta monster, which is always a risk when we want to buff and alter a hero. So for instance maybe only start with either the change to Blur or to Coup de Grace. I also like to maintain the idea of the hero fighting early, that's nice about her and it makes sense as it is, IMO.

I don't agree with Michi here, and not because I'm not a "support activist" :P but because supports are already supposed to be focused down by any good cores in teamfights. That doesn't change with Hamster's idea, it's just something innerent to the game and ok, and that makes support positioning so much more important in the early to mid game (where most of the times, contrary to Hamster says, they still don't have those defensive items farmed).