The 4 worst heroes that people pick anyway

hello friends has eaten and pooped roughly 53 892 pounds of food here bringing you another dota 2 video on four heroes that are terrible but people pick them anyway number one lion statistically speaking if you click to a completely random game of dota 2 there is a 20 likelihood that lion is in that game what's even more surprising or less surprising depending on how much you love or hate this hero is that it has a 46 win rate lion is among the top five most picked heroes in average rated pubs but has the absolute lowest win rate out of all five of them by a large margin so if picking lion already makes you significantly weighted to lose then why on gaben's green dota do people do it anyway well for one it's a really easy generic stunning hero so that certainly helps but i think more importantly people are baited by this grand pipe dream idea of building up enough finger of death damage to eventually one hit people basically people want to be goku but then they end up being krillin and that brings me to the precise problem with this hero for the most part lion just feels outdated where other generic easy heroes like draw ranger got ability rework after rework until she eventually became broken really the only current feeling ability on lion is finger of death and that's because it has this hypothetically infinite scaling but that's just a bait because finger of death has nearly a 3 minute cooldown at level 1. if you get one kill literally every single time finger of death is off cooldown starting at 10 minutes you'll only have about 200 to 300 extra damage at 30 minutes basically one extra earth spike's worth of damage for 20 minutes of perfect play that is pretty damn bad on top of this the value of being a generic stunner guy has definitely degraded over the years of patches and dota back in the day when lion actually was viable status resistance wasn't in the game lotus orb wasn't in the game and lincoln's sphere cost significantly more essentially the game has moved forward but lion has stayed the same so other than waiting for the hero to get buffed how do you make it work in the current patch well once again my theory is that the only really new age thing about the hero is the damage stacking on his ultimate so i believe lion should probably be played in a core role so that you can get levels and lower the cooldown of the ultimate as soon as possible so offlane lion might actually be relatively viable my reasoning for this is that obviously lion isn't a carry and i don't think it's a great mid because he can't farm he's squishy and he's a weak ganker but offlane is the most common role to throw some generic stunning guy who needs xp if you run down a lane finger somebody then feed you can just call it space as an offlaner i see it as being fairly similar to zai's offlane silencer where you can solve some fundamental problems with the hero by throwing it in the offlane will i personally play it offlane no i would like to save the mmr that i have left but if i was forced to play lion this is definitely the role that i would play it in number two pudge this is the single most iconic hero in dota he is probably one of the most iconic characters in any game anywhere so there is no surprise that this guy is in 30 of dota games and his win rate in low rated games is surprisingly not that bad but the problem with this hero is that as you go up in mmr bracket by bracket the win rate drops until pro level pubs where pudge has an atrocious 40 win rate this places him as the single lowest win rate hero in the game with a statistically significant amount of picks so why do people subject themselves and their teammates to this torture well as a pudge spammer myself i can tell you it's strictly because he has the most satisfying skill shot in the entire game hitting a long ranged hook is like hitting a three-point shot in basketball except the basketball net doesn't turn around and immediately kill you when you hit it with the ball even though he is indeed awful pudge is still insanely fun because it feels like if you hit a solid enough hook you can always win the game and when you do hit a game-winning hook your team will praise you like you are a literal god because you just dragged the game back from the brink of losing with your god tier skill shot skills the problem is pudge is almost always the reason that the game is on the brink of losing in the first place why is this well essentially pudge has been nerfed or gotten irrelevant buffs for about 15 patches in a row and the unfortunate part is that this clearly hasn't even been intentional for example they've removed suiciding from the game this was a massive nerve to pudge because it took away pudge's main strength which was creating space they removed xp talents from the game this was once again a huge nerf to pudge because he is insanely exp dependent they removed gold talents from the game and once again this was a huge nerf to pudge because he doesn't farm at all and that was great for him to just get a little bit of extra gold so how do you make pudge work well my buddy newsham said this to me about a year ago and i have agreed with this wholeheartedly since then i don't see a point in playing pudge not as a crazy skillshare guy i don't see a reason to play the hero to do things that other heroes do but much worse if you play pudge i think that you should do it in a support role as to have the least negative impact on the game and tell your team to pick extremely independent heroes in the lane that you are supposed to be supporting then buy out smokes wards and go skillshot people across the map by blink force ether lens and snipe people with hooks this is the only way to play pudge where he does something uniquely well and it's really hard and really risky but i think it's just about the only way to make this hero work number three nature's profit this guy is about averagely picked but i still felt like i had to put this hero on the list because his win rate isn't just bad it is the literal worst in every bracket but immortal and in immortal it's still one of the worst i remember a couple of years back telling a friend of mine who is a league of legends fanatic about nature's prophet you know this hero that could click anywhere on the map and go there on a 20-second cooldown with one of his abilities he couldn't believe it he was convinced that this hero must be stupidly broken and i think that's actually a big reason why people play nature's prophet you can completely ignore one of the most complicated and most stressful concepts in the game where your hero is positioned on the map you can blatantly waste your teepee scroll just to sit and farm your triangle and then still show up to every single team fight hell you can lane with literally no regen and not get punished for it because you can simply tp scroll back to base and then teleport back to the lane so essentially nature's profit is a hero that has a lot of very convenient crutches for things that most other heroes don't and that can be a pretty tantalizing proposition especially when those crutches open the hero up to being able to build in basically any playstyle you can carry the game you can split push you can team fight you can do damage you can be tanky and so forth but the problem is he does all of these things but not very well a while ago i was watching brax cast a game and he said something along the lines of nature's prophet is a complementary hero and i thought that was a really beautiful and accurate way to describe his impact if a game is going well he can make it better if you want to gank he can make the gank better by teeping in and sprouting if you want to take a tower he can make the push stronger with triance but nature's profit complements all of these things he doesn't make these things happen himself and that is precisely why his pub win rate is a low 40 percent in most brackets so how do you make it work well in the case of nature's profit i'd say that the most important thing is probably drafting make sure to only pick this hero in games where your team is highlighting some extremely well-rounded heroes if you lack something in a draft such as team fight pick off or whatever nature's profit is often not enough to make up for anything that you don't have on his own the language that you'll often hear in pro level pubs is that people say that if nature's profit is on your team your other heroes need to be douche heroes heroes that go in get [ __ ] started and brawl on top of this changing itemization depending on what is needed in the game is really important for maximizing impact on this hero if you have no pipe and aura builder be that guy if you lack disable get an orchid hell i've even seen people go yule scepter on this hero because of lack of teepee disabled number four sniper where do i even start with this hero the only hero who has a worse win rate in pro level pubs than pudge is sniper who is sitting at a 37 percent win rate and i'd like to pretend to be shocked by that fact but it's just not shocking sniper feels like an absolute meme possibly the worst hero in dota but there's no real way of verifying that because so few people pick it in pro level pubs that its low win rate could mean basically anything so why do sick twisted masochists pick this hero anyway well i think sniper's pick rate actually tells this story better than i do in crusader and lower level pubs sniper is in 20 of games in arkon 13 of games legend 9 ancient 5.5 percent and divine 1.72 people play this hero when they first start getting into dota because it's easy to do well with and it feels good when people don't focus you but the better and better people get they realize how easy it is to jump this little bastard instead of letting him peep you from a distance so what can you do to solve this problem on sniper absolutely nothing draw ranger has this exact same problem but she has a blind knock back and silence as well as an aoe nuke and slow on top of way more damage than a sniper can do and the sad thing is that this isn't even a new problem the only reason sniper was recently viable was because people were playing him as a magic damage disabling 4 position but all of his abilities and talents were swiftly nerfed to completely neuter that playstyle soon after so with that being said how do you make sniper work realistically as unachievable as this isn't pubs i think the best way to make sniper work is as a mid lane carry similar to arc warden and medusa basically you build the lineup around him using him as a turret to slow siege towers while your team groups up around him and buffs him to all hell i think that sniper can't do anything about people going on him but a coordinated team could throw a solar crest on him maybe a blood rage maybe an alacrity and go to town on the enemy tier 3s unfortunately this is relatively unachievable in pubs even if you're in a decent bracket because people will just not do a good job protecting you because in any bracket people hate each other and don't trust their teammates so if you want to play sniper my first suggestion is just to not do it just don't but my second suggestion is to play it as a position for with a veil into an eventual ags but then just like pudge you need heroes that are very effective in the early game because sniper provides almost nothing to laning and early team fights anyway that's it for this video thank you so much for watching before i go there were some people in my last video asking jenkins i haven't been seeing the videos with the hobo situation and can you explain what's going on with the hobo situation and so i can give you a quick little recap basically in the city that i live in uh there are these dumpsters filled with very delicious fantastic pizza crusts for papa john's and dominoes and there are very visceral violent hobos that there's actually a hobo wars going on between these two pizza crust dumpster hobo situations and unfortunately both groups think that i'm the leader of the other group and so they've carried out significant ferret attacks significant gerbil attacks and hornet's nest wasp attacks on me um as well as on each other but i'm taking it from both sides which is a big problem and so if you could like comment and subscribe that boosts me up in the youtube algorithm and it puts me higher than game leap speed dota aka ccnc so please make sure to do that i appreciate it and i hope to see you in another video

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Id: suh7_Vv0t5s

Length: 12min 51sec (771 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 31 2020