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gl0ryx64

    FIRST

    HerbyTheBird

      second?

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        Nice article

        kav

          4th??? nice article anyway

          JiroWaht

            5th. good good

            Doubledealer

              not this again...

              All in good time

                razor......

                So...as I pray

                  I just pick silencer and watch the BB rage.

                  0winrate

                    need new break item

                    O N N E T B O Y Z ™

                      Everyone is forgetting about all heroes' ultimate counter: Doom... if you are willing to pick him, but his ult disables BB for the entire fight, and even more if you build a Scepter.

                      Hunter

                        Bristleback's popularity is so high that they made another thread about that hero..

                        I never had an issue with him as support. Magic stick and silver edge should be enough to deal with him.

                        Zenith

                          Thats sad that nearly everyone forgets about Doom

                          (?)

                            DBuff forums already post this shit few days ago...

                            제니

                              Yowzieee!

                              Lee Geon

                                Silencer was so good vs bb

                                old man

                                  ranged heroes are good. melee heroes just asking to be blown by quill stacks

                                  I can play 4

                                    Bristleback is not as ridiculous as people claim he is. He gets extremely easy countered at high mmr (5k+) due to the fact that people know how to position themselves, zone out bristle early, harass him in jungle, block camps and most of all they have the coordination necessary to focus him down extremely fast, given a silver edge in their team. Hell, if you get him facing you in an average stun, you can delete him with enough focus.

                                    Speaking from experience at ~5.8k mmr.

                                    naavle

                                      You forgot Void (his W great against spell spam) and Silencer - (Cast Q and if he spams spells dot stays forever)

                                      nicely toasted.

                                        I'm not sure how effective Sanity's Eclipse really is. BB has the highest Int gain of any strength hero

                                        Z0mBi3

                                          Doom in 2017 lul

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                                            MiladRf

                                              How to deal with BristleBack? it's ez! just write an article about it in dotabuff, next couple patches BristleBack will be vanished from meta

                                              Brünk Hüll

                                                Feel like Nyx should also be on this list as he can more easily ensure his damage is dealt to the front as well as his mana burn.

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                                                  What about Brewmaster? He can cyclone bristle every fight until he gets bkb which is late because he won't get any kills.

                                                  brain damage

                                                    Pick faceless void...use time dialation.
                                                    Chrono, stand infront of bb, use bloodthorne.
                                                    Ez

                                                    jab

                                                      I RENEW MY OATH TO DEFEAT ALL SORCERY

                                                      bogey654

                                                        Nyx is very good as Carapace will almost always catch Bristle (due to having no control over Quill Sprays fired by the passive) and due to Bristle's insane intellect gain of 2.8 Nyx will burn so much mana so quickly that Bristle can be literally ignored.

                                                        哪吒

                                                          BUFF DOOM VALVE WE NEED TO ELIMINATE THE CANCER

                                                          ETd

                                                            BB solo offlane destroyed my team's defensive trilane before. Got 3 kills out of the lane. He's fun to use, walking up and spraying the opponents to death then walking away like a boss, but such a hassle to play against

                                                            sTuka*

                                                              I think Axe is a quiet good pick against BB

                                                              MIRACLE FATHER

                                                                if u use ranged also can kill it with aether lens

                                                                Brünk Hüll

                                                                  @time

                                                                  That's really not a sensible counter though. Faceless doesn't often face bristle in lane so it doesn't counter the advantages bristle gets in lane, and it takes a long time to get bloodthorne. It's eventually effective but it's still only a semi counter.

                                                                  ⊙ℤy-Ҝ∪ח ☕

                                                                    No silencer? no doom? WTF

                                                                    I Report Feeders and Non-...

                                                                      you forgot the mother of bb counter - dazzzzzzzzzzlllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeee

                                                                      R-y

                                                                        Necrophos??

                                                                        JAS!R

                                                                          Faceless void and elder titan are pretty good counters to bristle
                                                                          specially the 2nd skill of fv as bb wont be able to spam

                                                                          Tktoast

                                                                            No mention of Razor. Razor can easily solo and win the laning stage against bristle and remove him from the map at any stage of the match.

                                                                            Tower dive killing offlane bristle back solo with Razor. How hard he wrecks him. What bristle does to other heroes, Razor does that to him.

                                                                            Static Link, Unstable current and Eye of the storm all counter Bristle hard.

                                                                            HappySisyphus

                                                                              As someone who plays a lot of KotL, I feel like the old man isn't the same counter he used to be against the porcupine-pig.

                                                                              The more recent buff to BB's quill spray range means that harrying him in the laning phase is a slight bit more dangerous, and if you are solo zoning him, you cannot poke him down early game without taking several stationary quill sprays to the face, where as before I could weave in and out of quill range with greater reliability.

                                                                              If you have another support and/or a carry who are capable in harassing Bristleback out of lane, then mana leak can be a useful laning phase zoning tool against him.

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                                                                                <darth>

                                                                                  Huskar with scepter (Puts ult) Necro with Ez kill
                                                                                  Ps-Terrorblade can also be used

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                                                                                  Baked Bean Bandit

                                                                                    Assuming you don't want to solo deal with the problem use Terror or Pugna. Hell most teams can deal with him easily assuming you get your coordination or initiation right.

                                                                                    The Legendary Gideon of G...

                                                                                      The scrub who wrote this missed Brewmaster.

                                                                                      A Wild Pikachu Has Appeared!

                                                                                        Bristleback is a completely trash hero in higher brackets like 5k+, maybe pubs and 2k do not know how to play against it.
                                                                                        ~6.2k arc spammer

                                                                                        mxmtoon

                                                                                          pick kotl.. mana leak, force staff, blinding light .. then ignore bb with no mana and rekt his team mates = profit

                                                                                          Play game, not compete

                                                                                            Batrider can counter BB as well. Or Vengeful Spirit. Due to lasso and swap. If you can create the situation where you destroy him again and again, you win. BB is a bully. When you outfarm him by around 1k or 2k gold, he is not scary anymore. But if he has the same farm as you, you can't handle him. If he outfarms you, he is a demonic monster that you can't kill. The key is killing him 3 or 4 times until you have better items than him. Batrider and VS can setup team ganks to achieve this.

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                                                                                            ЛСные Свен и ВРка

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                                                                                              Play game, not compete

                                                                                                If you talk about laning, I think Bane and Lion are two better supports against him. Bane can use Brain Sap to trade damage with him efficiently. Lion can suck out his mana. Antimage is also a worthy note: he can take out BB's mana and just contest last hits like normal melee heroes (Antimage will need plenty of healing coz BB is tankier). There is also Warlock who can make BB suffer just from lvl 1 fatal bonds. Dazzle and Omni are not that good bcoz BB can quillspray away from their spell dmg range. CM and Lich are also quite effective: they have potent mana to repeatedly cast spells and force BB to buy consumables.

                                                                                                Brünk Hüll

                                                                                                  @Feeding Frenzy

                                                                                                  This is the right kind of thinking when it comes to drafting that rarely comes together in pubs. Batrider himself shouldn't be considered a direct counter to bristle, same with VS. But picking them allows your team to have a playstyle and comp goal that will counter a lineup that would use bristle, and that should be the goal of a draft. Often times picking hard counters to every hero on the other team ends up in a lineup that isn't cohesive and usually is overly greedy, resulting in a team that can't stay ahead.

                                                                                                  That being said, having a direct counter that fits your lineup is never unappreciated.

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