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Great guide i upvoted.anayway i did find litle trick yesterday and it does masive dmg in teamfigts.
i used to go blink and black hole in teamfigts but i found even better setup
I bound midnight pulse to a qickcast hotkey so blink in midnight pulse on the ground and in the same time cast black hole.
It does massive dmg and i can say its easy to execute i was wondering does scepter midnight pulse stack with the one you cast before blackhole.
also i find refresher combo realy devastating should go like bkb,blink in midnight pulse+blackhole
Refresh bkb blachole+midnight pulse again.
i couldn t beleve that six sloted medusa and sven were melting like nothing in that.
but i dont know does scepter upgrade stacks with casted midnight pulse before blackhole.
The downside is that these items cost a lot of money. It works really well but I still prefer to get a Mekansm so you are also usefull when Black Hole is off cooldown.
In general your way of playing Enigma is a bit more soloplay and mekanism is a bit more teamplay. If you think that one build suits your play style better than go for it.
Refresher Orb isn't teamplay? You what m8? Mekansm is when you plan on early pushing/deathballing otherwise it isn't too useful as it falls of rather hard in the late game.
If you get a Black King Bar with the Refresher Orb and the Aghanim's Scepter, you are perfectly able to teamfight and Enigma can farm rather fast so it is possible to get the Orb in a timely manner before proceeding to get an Aghanim's Scepter.
Mekansm is when you plan on early pushing/deathballing otherwise it isn't too useful
Essentially this. Mek is really core when you have a pushing / early 5 man team. However if you have AM, Furion and Tinker in your team, you probably won't do much of that and you don't lose anything by skipping it. Enigma is pretty versatile, he can adapt to your team's strategy.
Personally I'm actually a huge fan of Blink Dagger first Enigma when my team isn't pushing oriented. I know some don't like it but seriously you come out with a 6 minute blink + your 3 second stun, you become a ganking machine even when you don't have BH.
By the way if you intend to go for the YOLO Midnight Pulse into Black Hole play, be sure to shift-queue the combo and use quickcast. It'd be a shame to miss your BH just because you didn't use the fastest casting method the game gives you. If you do it right, the cast time of the pulse + BH combo is only 0.1 second, you can't really miss it.
I tested in the lobby casting my spells manualy is faster tho i find qickcast usefull for some heros like enigma third skill so i can follow up with bh after.
Shift queue is slow and inacurate i cast faster manualy.
I think ist cuz i used to pla a lot of invoker and remarkibale can still cast 10 spells in 5.5 sec.so shift queue just doesn t work for me i guess
Since Mekansm upgrades into Guardian Greaves is it always a good item also in the late game. But yes if you think that your team isn't going to fight or push at all than you are probably not going to get a mek. But if your team consists out of an am a furion and a thinker I don't think you will ever see farm again after the 10th minute mark. So getting aghs, bkb and refresher will be almost impossible to farm if you have 3 other heroes farming. Even when there are just 2 other farming heroes you won't see to much farm.
Average in my games of Enigma i get 150 lasthits in a 35 minute game. But I have 60-80 lasthits the first 10 minutes than I get a another 60 lasthits, so I have 120-140 lasthits at the 20th minute mark. But after the 20th minute every other hero in your team starts farming really hard so you can't just stay farming than. I don't like farming Enigma's at all because they focus to hard on getting that one dream Black Hole in the lategame and than gg pushing the enemy throne.
I found that the early game farm you get is enough to have a Mekansm at 6 minutes and a blink at 13. At last you get your blink at 20, because it is always possible you fail pushed or ganked and just end up dieing. But after getting your Blink Dagger the only farm you should be getting is from eidolons you send into a lane to push, like with an illusion. And the rest of the map is for your real cores, who are more garantied to have a good lategame presence because they don't need a perfect Black Hole that didn't got interupted by some silence or stun.
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i used to go blink and black hole in teamfigts but i found even better setup
I bound midnight pulse to a qickcast hotkey so blink in midnight pulse on the ground and in the same time cast black hole.
It does massive dmg and i can say its easy to execute i was wondering does scepter midnight pulse stack with the one you cast before blackhole.
also i find refresher combo realy devastating should go like bkb,blink in midnight pulse+blackhole
Refresh bkb blachole+midnight pulse again.
i couldn t beleve that six sloted medusa and sven were melting like nothing in that.
but i dont know does scepter upgrade stacks with casted midnight pulse before blackhole.
The downside is that these items cost a lot of money. It works really well but I still prefer to get a Mekansm so you are also usefull when Black Hole is off cooldown.
In general your way of playing Enigma is a bit more soloplay and mekanism is a bit more teamplay. If you think that one build suits your play style better than go for it.
Mekansm is when you plan on early pushing/deathballing otherwise it isn't too useful as it falls of rather hard in the late game.
If you get a Black King Bar with the Refresher Orb and the Aghanim's Scepter, you are perfectly able to teamfight and Enigma can farm rather fast so it is possible to get the Orb in a timely manner before proceeding to get an Aghanim's Scepter.
Mekansm is when you plan on early pushing/deathballing otherwise it isn't too useful
Essentially this. Mek is really core when you have a pushing / early 5 man team. However if you have AM, Furion and Tinker in your team, you probably won't do much of that and you don't lose anything by skipping it. Enigma is pretty versatile, he can adapt to your team's strategy.
Personally I'm actually a huge fan of Blink Dagger first Enigma when my team isn't pushing oriented. I know some don't like it but seriously you come out with a 6 minute blink + your 3 second stun, you become a ganking machine even when you don't have BH.
By the way if you intend to go for the YOLO Midnight Pulse into Black Hole play, be sure to shift-queue the combo and use quickcast. It'd be a shame to miss your BH just because you didn't use the fastest casting method the game gives you. If you do it right, the cast time of the pulse + BH combo is only 0.1 second, you can't really miss it.
Shift queue is slow and inacurate i cast faster manualy.
I think ist cuz i used to pla a lot of invoker and remarkibale can still cast 10 spells in 5.5 sec.so shift queue just doesn t work for me i guess
Average in my games of Enigma i get 150 lasthits in a 35 minute game. But I have 60-80 lasthits the first 10 minutes than I get a another 60 lasthits, so I have 120-140 lasthits at the 20th minute mark. But after the 20th minute every other hero in your team starts farming really hard so you can't just stay farming than. I don't like farming Enigma's at all because they focus to hard on getting that one dream Black Hole in the lategame and than gg pushing the enemy throne.
I found that the early game farm you get is enough to have a Mekansm at 6 minutes and a blink at 13. At last you get your blink at 20, because it is always possible you fail pushed or ganked and just end up dieing. But after getting your Blink Dagger the only farm you should be getting is from eidolons you send into a lane to push, like with an illusion. And the rest of the map is for your real cores, who are more garantied to have a good lategame presence because they don't need a perfect Black Hole that didn't got interupted by some silence or stun.
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