The item's stat nerfs seriously hurt its viability on Sven. It gives +2 to all stats and 10 attack speed. That's it. MoM gives 110 attack speed in addition to movement speed for faster farming/not getting kited in teamfights. MoM can be disassembled into Satanic (And in the super-late game, butterfly to replace boots). Dominator also slows down Sven's teamfighting, as you are buying what basically amounts to a 2k gold farming item instead of a damage item. The negatives of this item are compounded because the meta is about fighting/getting online ASAP. And good teammates will stack ancients for you anyways.
Do I have a misconception on Sven itemization? If so, when should dominator be bought? I assume if it should be bought at all, it should be bought in long games, but I can't see a situation where buying SnY instead would be less efficient.
I guess if the supports stack very well like in 15 mins and both ancients are fully stacked, then domi is a trash item and sny would be the first mid game item over sng because of the stacks that was made. I just thought that the hp regen on the domi has a big impact on the team fight plus its dominate ability for big camp creeps for 2 disable and for stacking. But as you said the meta was about team fights, maybe there is a little chance that domi can be an early game item?
I suppose so, but I think its more important to hit your powerspike of blink+bkb than to help out in fights before 20 mins. SnY / Echo Sabre speeds that up, while helm provides at best a pretty hard to land stun to help out your team.
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Do some people still use hod on sven over mom?