In an ideal game you go for travels every time. Unfortunately in many games you won't be free to just afk farm and splitpush. In this scenario treads attack speed and stat switching helps a lot when you join early-midgame fights and skirmishes.
Boots of travel is always best.
If you are behind , boots of travel let's you make the game last longer by split pushing, and it helps you farm faster.
If you are ahead, you just get 6 slotted faster and you pressure enemy.
Power treads from behind is actualy so bad on this hero cause you will be out of mana alot and morphling is NOT MEANT TO FIGHT EARLY unlless he joins fight in the end to pick off fleeing or low HP HEROES.
Morphling is like anti mage, aside from his Q , his early game fights are so terrible, unless he can just tank damage and let ur team get the kills.
Boots of travel ALWAYS
Boots > Ring of health / RIng of Aquila > boots of travel > linkens > eblade > Manta / BKB > Skadi >
u can switch around items if the game calls for it.
Dragon lance is also good on the hero if you can get it fast
What is scarier, if your teammate pings morphling and it says
"Enemy Morphling has power treads"
or
"Enemy Morphling has Boots Of Travel"
Morph wth treads can right click u faster..
Morph with travels can farm, split push, escape, will always have mana, and he will get his items faster which puts pressure on your ENTIRE TEAM , to end the game fast or you lose.
if the enemy team is trying to push rax at 20-25 minutes and you can either have travels or treads +800 gold ur gonna want treads
the enemy team isn't going to be pushing rax at 20-25 minutes in pubs unless u already fucking lost
Thanks guys! i usually go boots > aquila > preservance > BoT > linkens unless linken is badly needed... then i go linkens > BoT... preservance is must in laning phase.. the regen is very very useful!
morph with tread cann't benifit from the as, he is way too slow to follow his target arround. the int / str is the only benefit from it.
If you did went for ultimate for (~twice the cost) you'll have both the str and the int (so same efficiency, but you go toward your lategame build faster)
If you really don't have the time, go for ogre axe, you'll need bkb later anyway.
Tread is bad, it doesn't bring much compare to brown boot.
Edit: Morphling's early fighting isn't as horrible as some people above wrote, juste tweak your build and don't take more than 2 lvl in "morph" pre level 11. Adaptative strike is a nice spell even early on.
By lvl 11, it's super easy to have 100+ agi as morph, even a lvl 3 adaptative strike is already 250 damage with that, combine it to the 325 from wave form and tada, its nearly like slark with pounce unnerfed in terms of burst. (exept you hit harder)
you are not very open-minded to the ideas that do not coincide with ur personal view of dota, are you
more like i know/have spoken to pretty much all of the best morphlings in the west (matumba ritsu beesa etc) and theyv all made it pretty clear wat the morph build is same reason i use their item build which most ppl dont do for some reason
morph is what gives morphling his ability to fight and splitpush, if you can keep yourself on max agi all the time or near max agi you do so much damage and you cant ever get gone on because u heal 320 hp/sec or something. adaptive does almost nothing early on since ur stats kinda suck and u cant even go on max agi all the time cuz u can get bursted at lvl 2 morph and even lvl 3 in a lot of cases
and then u watch ti and all of a sudden ppl play differently to each other, and in the aame time all of them are good
playing differently is done for a reason and i can guarantee u theres 0 morphlings that go for adaptive strike past lvl 1 for the interrupt
i wasnt even talking about morphling, i got no clue which skillbuild pros recently use.
just, like, believing that there is one best skillbuild for a hero, and then when seing other good players doing it differently, assuming they are the ones to suck, is a fucked up way of thinking.
you shall not only adapt ur skillbuild to the game which is obvious, but u also HAVE to adapt ur skillbuild to your playstyle, and thats even more important, i believe.
I'm sure if you aren't maxing morph you are playing the hero wrong. I basically sit at 1 agi most of the game and if you don't have maxed morph you can't do that safely, so you have to morph strength so you farm slower/do less dps/push slower. Especially because there is a massive xp cliff at level 11 there is a big imperative to do so.
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i have seen pros make both... and i have tried both.. and personally, i prefer BoT because i can farm all around the map and regenerate instantly with ult + tp as it saves tp cost and less cd... it also gives much needed move speed.. what do u guys prefer ? i struggle to farm with morphling and thats what lead to me trying out BoT and it worked out really well as compared to treads!