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Mek is also extremely situational. If you buy it to boost your meepos, a simple ultimate orb gives you 190 hp and also boosts other stats, also can be upgraded to skadi.
One good item to be mentioned is
In my opinion, best option is to stack ultimate orbs after you get your aghanims and blink dagger untill you're out of space, then upgrade it to skadi, (maybe buy ethereal blade after 2 or even 1 orb). Its better to buy a skadi then a reaver + eaglesong.
I would prefer some Item Build explanations, because I don't understand a lot.
Good build and informative guide, but the items confuse me, but take what I say with a grain of salt, as I only have about 15 games of experience with Meepo.
As another Meepo player, and a guide-writer, Ethereal Blade is NOT a luxury item on Meepo. It's a CORE item. The blade is not bought for the interaction with Poof and other magical damage nukes alone, it's bought because it adds +40 Agility as well as the same amount of strength and intelligence as another Aghanim's Scepter. On an agility hero like Meepo, +40 Agility is the same as +40 damage. Unlike other agility heroes, Meepo magnifies this because the 40 agility carries over to the clones and thus you get five times the benefit from a single massive +agility item like this. For pure autoattack considerations, an ethereal blade on Meepo is more DPS than a Divine Rapier, and it doesn't feed the enemy a powerful item if/when you die.
Butterfly has the second-best +agility on an item in the game, but is a WORSE item on Meepo since it only gives +30 agility to the clones, and +30 damage on the main Meepo. Someone that only looks at that thinks it's good, but you're actually LOSING damage by buying butterfly over Eblade since each clone gets 10 less agility and thus 10 less damage, meaning a net loss of 20 damage overall. Not much in pure numbers, but since agility is also armor and attack speed...
Rapier is useless, and stupid for Meepo to consider buying in the first place. Pick it up if an enemy drops it and immediately send the main Meepo to your fountain. Once he's there and safe, suicide the other four so that the rapier drops in your fountain and the enemy has almost no chance of taking it back.
Eye of Skadi is an awesome late-game purchase on Meepo. Consider the math here, and realize that it is purchased as a dual survivability and damage item. Meepo doesn't need the move speed slow from the orb, but the attack slow helps. Then look at the stats, +25 all. That's +25 damage, +3 armor, and +whatever increased attack speed from agility alone. The point Booster may only benefit the main Meepo, but the +25 str propagates approximately 500 health to each clone. This can occasionally be the difference between surviving an Echo Slam or not. For pure survivability; a second HoT is better, but EoS effectively gives you a Reaver, Eaglesong, and Mystic Staff (or whatever the damn +25 int item is) in one item slot along with an attack speed slow on the main that stacks with Geostrike from the clones, effectively making the main Meepo's Geostrike just slightly better.
I would prefer some Item Build explanations, because I don't understand a lot.
Yes you are right taht at that point you will be doing a lot of auto attack damage. But not that much. You will be doing (140*2*5 + 375)*1.4 = 2485 damage in 3 seconds when poofing 5 meepos on an ethereal target (375 is an estimate of the item nuke with 150 agility). And if that is another hard carry that relies solely on auto attack damage he will not be doing any damage for those three seconds. That's a huge amount of damage going in your favour.
It actually gives great stats form meepo. Though the slow is not needed when you have five meepos whacking away on the same target, this might not always be the case. And the 20% decreased attack speed for your target isn't bad either. I've yet to try this item myself but on paper it looks great.
Good guide, even though the
Btw, add some colors and formatting to the guide, to make it more than just a wall of text.
So, let's discuss this thought of stopping at the reaver. Reaver gives 25 strength for 3200 gold a return of .78 strength points per 100 gold, not bad right. HoT... gives .72 strength per 100 gold(40 strength for the full heart)... and 300 HP(Yes only on the main meepo) and mad health regen(..again only on the main meepo), so is it worth getting the full HoT? Absolutely, since every meepo player that I know, including myself, has a control group set for the main meepo, and then one for the clones... many times you will be running for your life with most of the meepos... (oP Echo slam O_o).. and leaving one to try to body block the rest to safety... guess which meepo this will always be if you have a full HoT? Das right, the main man.. the man with the mech, the man with the blink dagger, and the man with the mad regen.. and the man with that 300 extra HP. Also lets not forget that meepo is never really strapped for cash... past lvl 6 that is, I mean come on.. its two-for-one tuesday all day with this cat... gettin' money. Only limitation is usually that pesky buy back timer >=(... Any who.. HoT--> Hellz ya.. andmatter of fact.. Make it two.. Dendi style.
Good build and informative guide, but the items confuse me, but take what I say with a grain of salt, as I only have about 15 games of experience with Meepo.