The gameplay patch isn’t right here but, but it surely doesn’t imply we now have to sit down round and complain. It is rather unlikely anyone participant has exhausted the complete depth of what Dota has to supply even with none exterior modifications, so in the present day we want to spotlight some additional enjoyable concepts and interactions you can check out to combine up your pubs.
This can be a very enjoyable lane combo that may be very fashionable within the skilled scene. It creates a kind of “optimistic suggestions loop” that primarily makes each hero exceptionally arduous to kill, so long as they get to assault their opponents.
Tether supplies all of the therapeutic Io receives to a linked teammate. 
Sidekick provides Marci and her ally additional assault harm and in addition makes them share lifesteal. So, at any time when Marci assaults, she heals Io, which heals Marci again by way of Tether.
It absolutely works the opposite means as nicely, so maybe getting a 
Wraith Band or a 
Bracer on Io for the laning stage isn’t a foul thought. With each Sidekick and Tether at stage two, this duo is already very potent each when it comes to harm output and when it comes to their survivability. In a while they’re downright oppressive and possibly a tad overpowered, except the enemy commits critical assets in direction of itemising towards this duo particularly.
It needs to be famous that Marci doesn’t farm creeps rapidly sufficient and may must get a 
Battle Fury to remain related as a carry, which is a large tempo loss. Because of this we personally choose this duo within the offlane, the place Marci’s job is to run round and create house. With objects like 
Black King Bar and 
Cranium Basher she will be able to 2v2 towards most heroes, getting her gold by way of kills and assists.
This can be a very unreliable mixture, because it solely works in 1v1 situations, however the impact it supplies could be game-turning. When OD has his 
Aghanim’s Scepter, he will get a pseudo 
Aeon Disk that blocks one occasion of injury that might put OD under 20% HP, and as a substitute applies a powerful dispel and offers OD an HP barrier.
What it means is that when below the results of 
False Promise, any harm that OD takes turns into non-fatal, so long as he has his Aghanim’s improve off-cooldown. And so long as OD fights in a 1v1 situation, he can take as a lot harm as he needs and he’ll nonetheless find yourself alive after False Promise expires.
It really works as a result of False Promise sums up all harm dealt by a single goal into one occasion, an occasion that may be blocked by OD Aghanim’s after False Promise expires. For a similar purpose it doesn’t work constantly when OD is attacked by a number of completely different targets.
This idea, together with single harm supply interactions solely, could be utilized to Aeon Disk as nicely. The caveat is that you need to use False Promise fairly early, as Aeon Disk procs at 70% HP, somewhat than 20% HP. On the similar time, having 10 seconds of precise harm invulnerability, with out the draw back of not having the ability to deal harm your self, could be value it in some instances.
Earlier than you ask: we tried backpacking Aeon Disk and placing it into the principle stock when taking harm below the results of False Promise, in order that the backpack cooldown on Aeon Disk and it’s 2.5 seconds of invulnerability timed exactly with the top of False Promise and… the outcomes are disappointingly predictable: the goal nonetheless dies, even with the “Combo Breaker” buff nonetheless current.
It appears we must await the following gameplay patch for a while nonetheless, but it surely doesn’t imply our video games should all play out the identical. Be inventive and revolutionary, particularly since getting Crownfall tokens requires enjoying very completely different heroes.
Additionally don’t overlook to share your individual cool concepts and interactions within the remark part under. There are others we’re nonetheless testing out and theorycrafting, so we would make one other related weblog publish a while sooner or later.
