2013-03-24, 12:03 PM
Dusk Wrote:I'm also terrible at Morphling but one thing you can do with low level Replicate is to clone an ally while your team is pushing and go farm in another lane. Keep the clone with the team and farm or split push another lane. Another use is to send a clone to a lane where you're planning to farm next. Quickly clear whatever lane you're in and teleport out. You can choose to farm dangerously close to the enemy and bait ganks if you want. The best thing about Morphling is basically that he can pretty much be wherever he wants on the map, so you can be farming non-stop and join in teamfights when needed.
Also, the shotgun build isn't always the best way to build him. It murders supports, but it doesn't give you that many stats for cost. If you want more carry potential, look into building items like Heart, Manta, and Butterfly.
Yeah but clone seems to last such a short time at rank 1, it's only 30 seconds. I just don't feel like it's long enough to get anything important done while remaining safe.
Shotgun is so fun though. I'm consistently the only one putting out significant damage and it's usually against a team of 4 carries so I feel like Eblade is actually the best pickup most of the time. I'm usually building Ring of Aquila into treads into linken's and eblade, it varies which I get first but I'm usually getting both, then manta then whatever (games usually don't go past 350 or so CS). I feel like Heart isn't something I really need since I have str morph which gives me ~4.4k HP with manta eblade linken's RoA and treads and waveform usually comes back up in time to get out of a disastrous fight if I started with shotgunning someone (which, since there's usually not too many supports at my level of play, is usually done on a right-clicking carry to take them out of the fight).
Also, [MENTION=3175]IllegallySane[/MENTION]; just push people out of lane. You take like half their health with a right-click at level 1. Treant kinda sucks in pubs where people don't know how to use Nature's Guise or Living Armor.
That's a really good comp they had though. Drags out teamfights amazingly well and Omni can repel on Witch Doctor for free BKB. Lacks a proper carry though (it seems).